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The iPhone 11 Pro (l) and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Christoph Dernbach / picture alliance via Getty Images
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Skip the iPhone 11, but don't do it for the planet
By Zoya Teirstein on Sep 17, 2019
On Tuesday, the New York Times sent out a curious push notification to millions of subscribers: "This is not your typical gadget review. That's because it is time to rethink when to upgrade your iPhone."
Brian X. Chen, one of the Times' veteran tech reporters, has long been tasked with reviewing the newest iPhone. In past years, he has dutifully done so, testing new features and recommending upgrades. Cause that's what people want, right? A new iPhone comes out, you read the reviews, and you get an upgrade. Apple — and the entire capitalist machine, if you think about it — operates under the premise that the consumer wants the newest, shiniest, and best product available (in that order).
Apple released the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro on Tuesday. Why would Chen tell us to just … sit this one out?
In short, Chen thinks it's high time we "reset our upgrade criteria." We've entered an iPhone "golden age" of sorts. The latest features aren't all that different from the capabilities of a phone purchased in 2016. Yes, your screen won't extend to the furthest reaches of your case, and your camera might not recognize your face (kind of creepy anyway, if you ask me). But when it comes down to it, "devices that debuted three years ago remain zippy and more than capable," says the expert. The iPhone 11 and 11 Pro might be the newest and shiniest products out there, but the best? Not measurably.
If you're a Grist fan and read Chen's latest review, you probably had your ears perked for a hint of green. After all, multiple news outlets, including this one, have written extensively about the negative effects of the first world's smartphone addiction on the planet. IPhones, in particular, rely on mining for precious metals, require significant amounts of CO2 to produce and transport, and end up scattered all over the world when we inevitably discard them. Not to mention Apple's rampant violations of labor laws and ethics.
But the fact that Chen's article doesn't mention climate change or environmentalism isn't necessarily an oversight or a net negative. In fact, the absence of climate from this particular conversation may actually be a good thing. Let me explain.
Chen's argument, that you don't need to upgrade your iPhone every two years, is based solely on the merits of the newest iPhone. In the early days of the iPhone's evolution, technology was moving at light speed, and each new model quickly became outdated, but Chen argues that that's no longer necessarily true. He's not making a case for conserving resources in order to save the planet, he's telling you that getting the iPhone 11 just … isn't worth it.
For a pretty significant portion of humankind, the environment doesn't really factor into consumption choices. (Even the climate-conscious among us aren't champing at the bit to downgrade to brick phones and sacrifice our Amazon Prime subscriptions for the cause.) If more product reviewers went the Chen route, it might be more effective at reducing consumption than trying to guilt readers into curbing their appetites for new, shiny stuff.
So, yeah, skip that upgrade. But don't do it for the planet (wink), do it because shelling out a grand for an iPhone you basically already own is dumb as hell.
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Toronto, ON – Canada's foremost mentalist, magician and psychological entertainer, Mysterion The Mind Reader, is bringing his dynamic Mental Magic and Spookshow to the Revue Theatre on Tuesday, October 23.The 90-minute performance features a vast array of magic acts including a daring gallows escape, levitating tables, a parlour séance and more. Tickets are currently on sale at The Revue box office, Hells Belles Clothing and Eventbrite.com. For full show details and ticket information, see below.
In the Mental Magic and Spookshow, Mysterion creates an interactive environment where the audience participates in each act featuring a variety of different magic techniques including illusion, psychokinesis, hypnotism and telepathy. Mysterion's unique brand of magic and his uncanny ability to read minds has made him one of the country's most sought-after mentalists.
The enigmatic performer has entertained audiences all over the world and has been featured on various television networks including MTV, Global, CITY TV and Discovery. Currently, Mysterion can be seen on HGTV's hit show Four Houses. He was also prominently featured on Showcase's Kenny vs. Spenny and has been a guest on a number of radio programs such as 103.9 Proud FM and The Dean Blundell Show on 102.1 FM.
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Arkansas State-SMU Game Notes
By ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION
GAME 1: Arkansas State (0-0) hosts SMU (0-0)
Aug. 31, 2019 | Allison Field at Centennial Bank Stadium Jonesboro | 6 p.m.
Radio: EAB Red Wolves Sports Network (107.9 FM, flagship)Matt Stolz (pxp), Tim Allison (analyst), Brad Bobo (sideline)
Television: ESPN+Roger Twibell (pxp), Pete Cordelli (analyst), Rich Zvosec (sideline)
Live Stats: AStateStats.com
Live Game Notes: twitter.com/AStateGameDay
ON TAP: Arkansas State will open its season at home for the fifth time over the last seven seasons, hosting SMU at Centennial Bank Stadium this Saturday, Aug. 31. The game will appear on ESPN+, and every Red Wolves football game can be heard live on 107.9 FM in the Northeast Arkansas area. The live radio broadcast can also be accessed on the official A-State Athletics web site (AStateRedWolves.com) and the A-State Athletics app.
THE PRINCIPALS: The Red Wolves play both their home and season opener Saturday against American Athletic Conference member SMU. A-State was picked in the Sun Belt Conference preseason coaches' poll to finish second in the league's west division. SMU, coming off a 5-7 season, was picked to finish fourth in the AAC's west division in the league's preseason media poll.
HEAD COACH BLAKE ANDERSON: Blake Anderson, a 19-year coaching veteran at the NCAA FBS level who also coached in an NJCAA National Championship game, was named the Red Wolves' 30th all-time head coach on Dec. 19, 2013. Anderson led the Red Wolves to Sun Belt Conference championships in 2015 and 2016, as well as five consecutive winning seasons and five bowl-game appearances (2018 Arizona Bowl, 2017 Camellia Bowl, 2016 Cure Bowl, 2015 New Orleans Bowl, 2014 GoDaddy Bowl) during his first five seasons leading the program. Under his direction, the Red Wolves have set nine new single-season records, including average yards total offense (494.8 ypg in 2017), total offense (6,174 yards in 2014) and points scored (520 in 2015).
FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS: The Arkansas State Athletics Department family was saddened to learn of the passing late Monday night, Aug. 19, of Wendy Anderson, wife of sixth-year head football coach Blake Anderson. Wendy's courageous battle with cancer will continue to serve as an inspiration to many across the nation, and the outpouring of support far and wide for the Andersons and the A-State family has been overwhelming. Coach Anderson has taken a leave of absence to be with his family during this difficult time.
DUGGAN NAMED INTERIM HEAD COACH: Assistant head coach and defensive coordinator David Duggan was named A-State's interim head coach on Monday, Aug. 19, until Blake Anderson decides to resume his activities as head coach. A-State Vice Chancellor for Intercollegiate Athletics Terry Mohajir remains in communication with Coach Anderson both on a personal and professional level and has stated that A-State "will obviously respect and honor any amount of time he needs before he feels he can return."
INTERIM HEAD COACH DAVID DUGGAN: Currently serving in the interim head coach role at A-State, assistant head coach and defensive coordinator David Duggan is in his first season with the Red Wolves. While he holds a 10-9 all-time record as a head coach in NFL Europe and possesses 26 years of collegiate coaching experience, he will be the acting head coach in a college football game for the first time when A-State plays SMU Aug. 31 in its season opener. He came to the Red Wolves after spending the previous three seasons at Western Michigan, where he helped lead the program to a pair of bowl games, a Mid-American Conference championship and a combined 26-13 record. His initial year saw the Broncos post an undefeated 13-0 regular-season record, a final No. 12 ranking and a berth in the Cotton Bowl, where it dropped a narrow 24-16 decision to Wisconsin.
THE ARKANSAS STATE-SMU SERIES: The Red Wolves and Mustangs have met just three times before, playing a home-and-home series in 2006 and 2007 as well as the first contest of the current home-and-home arrangement in 2017. SMU leads the series 2-1 after claiming 55-9 and 44-21 victories in Dallas in 2006 and 2017, respectively. The Red Wolves' picked up their lone win in the series in 2007, when it defeated the Mustangs 45-28 in Jonesboro.
A-STATE vs AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE: Arkansas State holds an all-time 29-37-5 record against current members of the American Athletic Conference. While the Red Wolves are set to face a team competing as a member of the league at the time of the game for just the fifth time in school history, this will be third consecutive season they have played an AAC foe. Their four previous games against the AAC came in 2013 when they fell 31-7 at Memphis, 2016 when they defeated UCF 31-13 in the Cure Bowl, 2017 when they dropped a 44-21 decision at SMU and last season when they topped Tulsa 29-20 on the road. A-State has also played the following current AAC teams, although they weren't members of the league at the time of the games: Cincinnati (1-1), East Carolina (0-2) and Navy (0-1). The Red Wolves hold an all-time 3-2 record versus Tulsa and 23-29-5 record against Memphis.
FOR STARTERS: A-State snapped a three-year skid in season openers last year when they defeated Southeast Missouri State 48-21. Since moving to FBS status in 1992, the Red Wolves have posted just a 6-21 record in season openers. In addition to its 2018 season-opening win, A-State began the 2014 (37-10 vs Montana State), 2013 (62-11 vs. UAPB), 2008 (18-14 at Texas A&M), 2006 (14-6 vs. Army) and 1995 (21-17 vs. Utah State) campaigns with wins.
HOME OPENERS: Arkansas State claimed a 48-21 win over Southeast Missouri State last season in its home opener and has won its first game at Centennial Bank Stadium in 12 of the last 14 seasons dating back to 2005. The Red Wolves stand 32-13 all-time in home openers at the stadium and are also 18-8 in such games since moving to FBS status in 1992.
HOME SWEET HOME: Arkansas State has strung together 14 consecutive years (2005-18) with a winning record at Centennial Bank Stadium dating back to 2005. The Red Wolves are now 64-15 (.810 winning percentage) since the 2005 season and have won 39 of their last 47 home outings. The Red Wolves actual on-field record all-time at Centennial Bank Stadium is 156-78-1 since it opened in 1974. A-State's six home wins in 2011 were its most since 1985. The 2011 season also marked the last time the Red Wolves went undefeated at Centennial Bank Stadium.
AN A-STATE VICTORY WOULD . . . : even its all-time record vs. SMU to 2-2 . . . mark the 13th time over the last 15 seasons it has won its home opener . . . give the Red Wolves a win in their season opener in back-to-back years for the first time since 2013 and 2014 . . . move its all-time record vs the American Athletic Conference to 3-2 . . . give David Duggan his first collegiate victory as a head coach.
PRESEASON ALL-SUN BELT: Including five first-team and six second-team selections, the Arkansas State placed a league-high 11 different players on the 2019 Preseason All-Sun Belt Conference Team. Representing Arkansas State on the first team were senior wide receiver Kirk Merritt, junior tight end Javonis Isaac, junior defensive end William Bradley-King, junior defensive lineman Forrest Merrill and junior cornerback Jerry Jacobs. Earning a spot on the second team for the Red Wolves were senior wideout Omar Bayless, junior center Jacob Still, senior defensive lineman Kevin Thurmon, senior safeties Darreon Jackson and B.J. Edmonds and senior punter Cody Grace. A-State's 11 selections tied Appalachian State, which had 10 players comprise its 11 picks, for the most in the conference. The Red Wolves' 11 players on the preseason all-conference team are their most since 2016, when they also had 11. They have now earned at least 11 selections four of the last six seasons as well.
WATCH ME, WATCH ME: A-State has 10 players on at least one major watch list for the 2019 season, including six who play on the offensive side of the ball (Logan Bonner, Dahu Green, Javonis Isaac, Kirk Merritt, Marcel Murray, Jacob Still), three on the defensive (Tajhea Chambers, Darreon Jackson, Jerry Jacobs) and one on special teams (Cody Grace). The Red Wolves have at least one player on 11 different watch lists.
EIGHT STRAIGHT: Arkansas State has secured a winning record in a school-record eight consecutive seasons (2011-18). The next longest streak was six straight seasons from 1912-17. The Red Wolves have piled up 67 victories from 2011-18 for its most over an eight-year span in the program's 105-year history.
ELITE COMPANY: Arkansas State is one of just four teams in the nation to win five conference titles and appear in eight bowl games since 2011, joining Alabama, Clemson and Oklahoma. The Red Wolves won the Sun Belt title in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016 and hold the 15th longest active streak in the nation for bowl game appearances with eight.
105TH SEASON: Arkansas State will kick off its 105th season of football Aug. 31 at home against SMU. A-State holds a 473-487-37 record since the inaugural season and has played in 16 bowl games. A-State did not field a team from 1942-44 due to World War II. Arkansas State also didn't have a team in 1918 as World War I was ending.
A-STATE vs THE SUN BELT: Arkansas State has won 51 of its last 63 Sun Belt Conference games (.810 winning percentage) to run its all-time record in the league to 83-48. The Red Wolves hold their most all-time victories against ULM with 26. A-State has defeated every team in the conference since the football league was formed in 2001. Along with ULM and Louisiana, A-State is one of three teams that have been a part of the conference since its inaugural football season.
SUN BELT CHAMPS (5 of 8): While Arkansas State last won the Sun Belt in 2016, it is still the only Group of 5 program and one of just four FBS programs in the nation to win five conference championships over the last eight years (2011-18). The only other teams to do so are Alabama (SEC), Clemson (ACC) and Oklahoma (Big 12). The Red Wolves most recently won back-to-back Sun Belt titles in 2015 and 2016, compiling a 15-1 league record over that span. A-State also won the league title 2011-13, making it one of just two programs in league history with at least five SBC titles.
BOWL ELIGIBLE: Arkansas State has obtained bowl eligibility status each of the last eight years (2011-18) and 11 times over the last 14 seasons. Arkansas State has become bowl eligible in 10 games or less each of those seasons. Since moving to FBS status in 1992, the earliest A-State ever became bowl eligible was in 2011 when it was 6-2 through eight games.
BOWL STREAK: Arkansas State has made a school-record eight consecutive bowl-game appearances (2011-18), which is the third longest streak in the Group of 5 and ranks 15th in the nation among all FBS programs.
A LOOK BACK: With a 3-1 record, Arkansas State secured a winning record last season against non-conference opponents for the first time since 1995, when it went 3-2. Additional, with wins against Tulsa and UNLV, the Red Wolves won back-to-back non-conference games against FBS opponents for the first time ever since moving to FBS status in 1992.300-PLUS: Dating back to the 2010 season, Arkansas State has posted at least 300 yards total offense in 104 of its last 115 games (.904 percentage). A-State has produced 300 yards in 59 of 64 games during the Blake Anderson era, including the last 25 in a row.400-PLUS: Arkansas State has hit the 400-yard total offense mark 43 times over its last 64 games (67 percent) since 2014, which was Blake Anderson's first season as head coach. The Red Wolves have posted 400 or more yards total offense in each of their last seven games.
LIGHTING UP THE SCOREBOARD: Including 20 of their last 39 contests, the Red Wolves have posted at least 30 points in 61 of their last 94 regular-season games (65 percent) dating back to the 2011 season. The Red Wolves have won 48 of their last 54 games when scoring at least 30 points.
A LOSS ON THE PLAY: Dating back to the 2015 season, the Red Wolves have posted at least five stops behind the line of scrimmage in 39 of their last 42 games. A-State has ranked among the top 20 teams in the nation each of the last three seasons in tackles for loss.
GETTING TO THE QUARTERBACK: A-State has ranked among the top 27 teams in the nation in sacks four of the last five years, posting a combined 177 sacks over that span. The Red Wolves have recorded at least one sack in 36 of their last 37 games dating back to the 2016 season.
Author Philip SeatonPosted on August 31, 2019 Categories College Football, FootballTags Allison Field, Arkansas State University, ASU, August 31 2019, B.J. Edmonds, Blake Anderson, Centennial Bank Stadium, Cody Grace, Dahu Green, Darreon Jackson, David Duggan, Forrest Merrill, Jacob Still, Javonis Isaac, Jerry Jacobs, Kevin Thurmon, Kirk Merritt, Logan Bonner, Marcel Murray, Omar Bayless, Pete Cordelli, Rich Zvosec, Roger Twibell, SMU, Southern Methodist University, Tajhea Chambers, Terry Mohajir, Wendy Anderson, William Bradley-King
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I have a very simple tab.Panel widget.
Here is the config code for it. Dynamically I create tabs by getting the object and calling the add function on it. At the start there is one non-closeable tab present.
The problem is when I start opening many tabs...the tab panel scroll appears...but appears late...it does not appear when there is no space to create any more tabs. once there is no more space left...the tab start to compress. After opening a couple of more extra tabs , the scroll arrows appear and the tabs do not compress anymore. Also after the tabs have been compressed and Is tart closing tabs, the compressed tabs do not expand out to the original size.
The images attached show all three states. Am I missing some obvious configuration? I did a bunch of experiments with the various config options on the tab.Panel and tab.Tab object. Also this doesnt appear to happen with the example extjs provides..but that is of course a much simpler setup.
Allowing a user to open that many tabs is probably not a good design decision. The more tabs you open, the harder it becomes to read the tab titles.
That is circumventing the actual problem. Business is not going to allow me to change that design. The scroll for the tabs is essentially designed to allow this. In all reality users probably will never open those many tabs..but that does not mean we do not account for it.
I think this is a bug. Basically after a lot of trial and error setting the property minTabWidth on the tab.Panel class causes this issues.
Taking that out makes the tab scroller work fine.


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Samsung Plans to Launch Tizen Smartphone in Russia, India – Sources
Jonathan Cheng and Olga Razumovskaya were first to report that Samsung is planning to launch smartphones loaded with its own Tizen operating system in India and Russia as part of a calibrated push to compete more directly with Google and Apple.
The article as it appeared on Dow Jones:
19:41 HKT: *Samsung Plans to Launch Tizen Smartphone in Russia, India –Sources
19:41 HKT: *Samsung to Unveil Plans for New Tizen Smartphone Around June –Sources
19:41 HKT: Samsung Plans to Launch Tizen Smartphone in Russia, India
By Jonathan Cheng and Olga Razumovskaya
Samsung Electronics Co. is preparing to launch a new smartphone in Russia and India based on its homegrown operating system Tizen, people familiar with the matter say, the latest step in its push to compete more directly in mobile software and services with Google Inc. and Apple Inc.
The South Korean technology giant is planning an event in Moscow in the coming weeks to introduce a smartphone running on the Tizen operating system, according to these people. The launch in Russia would be presented at an "Unpacked" event, similar to the format that Samsung uses to unveil its flagship devices, one person said.
The event will be timed to take place around a developer's conference that Tizen's backers have organized for early June in San Francisco.
Samsung is also close to the launch of a Tizen smartphone in India, one of these people said, while working on extending the operating system's reach to include televisions.
But this person said that there was no firm timeline for the rollout of a Tizen TV product.
A spokesman for Samsung didn't respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the Tizen Association, which oversees development of the operating system, declined to comment.
While Samsung makes billions of dollars manufacturing and selling smartphones, TVs and refrigerators, it has yet to make major inroads in software and services that increasingly define the user experience on these devices. To help the upstart operating system make headway with consumers, Samsung and partner Intel Corp. are pitching Tizen as a platform built for connecting a range of devices. Samsung has already released several cameras and a smartwatch, the Gear 2, running on Tizen.
In a related development, JaguarLand Rover has begun hiring full-time Tizen developers to create software and services such as mapping and entertainment for use in its vehicles, in a partnership with Intel centered around a new Jaguar research facility in Portland, Oregon.
But the most closely watched part of the Tizen effort is the smartphone, a key battleground in the fight for user loyalty in the mobile age.
There, despite recent setbacks, Samsung appears to be tweaking its strategy to avoid a direct confrontation with Google and Apple in major markets such as the U.S. Instead, it is targeting its efforts at emerging markets such as Russia and India, where Samsung already has more of a grip on the mobile-phone market.
Samsung is betting that in emerging markets, consumers don't really mind what operating system runs on their phones, as long as it is affordable and offers many of the same apps and features as a phone running Google's Android operating system–the platform that powers the vast majority of Samsung phones today.
Samsung and Intel have used previous developer conferences to try and persuade third-party app makers to build their software and services for the upstart OS.
To be sure, plans for previous Tizen smartphones have run aground. As early as the fall of 2011, Samsung said that a Tizen device would be released by the first quarter of 2012. That didn't happen.
More recently, a plan to release a Tizen smartphone in January was scuttled at the last minute, thanks to cold feet among the operating system's carrier partners, including Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc., France's Orange SA and Spain's Telefonica SA.
But Tizen has remained a top priority for Samsung, executives have said. Because all of Samsung's flagship smartphones including the latest Galaxy S5 run on Android, Google is able to control the user experience and the majority of the revenue generated by sales of software and services on the South Korean company's hardware.
Write to Jonathan Cheng at jonathan.cheng@wsj.com and Olga Razumovskaya at olga.razumovskaya@wsj.com


IBMers from a number of different divisions of the IT giant say that the company initiated another round of "resource actions" on Monday, with somewhere north of 1,600 people estimated to have lost their jobs.
The message board at Alliance@IBM, the local branch of the Communications Workers of America union headquartered in Endicott, New York (where IBM was originally founded nearly 100 years ago), lit up with people saying they'd been laid off starting yesterday morning.
Alliance@IBM has been trying to unionize Big Blue's US workers for decades, without very much success, but does a great job of keeping track of IBM layoffs in a world where companies keep the layoffs small and nearly continuous in an effort to elude state and federal reporting requirements.
As of today, Alliance@IBM has identified 1,614 job cuts, with 104 coming from its Systems and Technology Group, which makes servers, storage, chips and systems software, 149 in its Software Group, 205 in Global Services, and 996 in its Integrated Technology Delivery division (part of Global Services that has already been largely offshored to India in the past several years).
As usual, IBM refused to comment on the layoffs.
IBM has over 400,000 employees worldwide and had an estimated 105,000 workers in the United States. The layoffs appear to have hit the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, IBM facilities especially hard, as the Local Tech Wire business website from the RTP area reports.
IBM has about 10,000 employees in North Carolina. As the site points out in another post, IBM's layoffs have been deep in its home country (if a multinational can be said to have one), with an estimated 10,000 layoffs in 2009 and some 30,000 over the past four years.
Moreover, IBM has been very acquisitive in the US in the past several years, and those net job counts that get to 103,400 jobs today in the States include untold thousands, possibly tens of thousands (IBM never says, and is not required to, as it makes deals) of additional workers that came to Big Blue as part of acquisitions. So the cuts among IBM staff have been deeper than they appear.


Nell Gennaio del 2015 sono stato tre settimane con mia madre per aiutarla a passare un difficile momento di salute. Durante quelle lunghe chiacchierate ho registrato la sua voce mentre ricordava episodi di quando era ragazzina durante la guerra a Canazei. In occasione del terzo anniversario della sua morte ho montato alcuni programmi ... See More radiofonici con musiche che lei amava e una selezione di questi racconti.
Una serie di readings di poesie e testi inediti che metto a dispisizione di radio e musicisti con la visione di iniziare collaborazioni nel prossimo futuro.
Experimental radio program on the go. It's a combination of a music radio program and sound installations recorded on locations. Includes spoken word performance with music.
Latin Quarter Radio Show, a program of 'imaginary soundscapes and other incidents', takes the name from the famous area in Paris. The program was ... See More born in Penryn, Cornwall in 2009 in occasion of the opening of the new Community Radio The Source FM which was based right into the heart of Penryn University. Latin Quarter therefore, doesn't necessary mean the program is about Latin Music, in fact the name was chosen because it evokes images of bohemian Paris at its height. The daedal of streets surrounding what was the left bank's true student and intellectual center continues to attract people that hope to discover, or possibly resurrect, a little of that electric sense of change. In this sense the show, following a format designed for the 'aspirations, inspirations and perspiration of communities of listeners', oozes out inventiveness and through poetry, world music, lateral thinking and other features takes the listener into a parallel dimension where anything is possible including floating in the air or broadcasting straight from the 'holo-deck'.


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Ms. Representation: The Oviya phenomenon
This weekly column is a rumination on how women are portrayed in cinema and this week we take a look at Oviya and Bigg Boss Tamil
Krupa Ge
Published: 03rd October 2017
This last week has seen the resurgence of #OviyaArmy in full force as the actress graced the Bigg Boss Season finale. The fans of the actress and wildly popular Bigg Boss Tamil contestant, have been waiting patiently, ever since her terribly upsetting exit from the show, for their new found hero to claim her rightful space in the limelight so they can shower her with adoration.
For her part, Oviya has been immensely original and respectful of her fans, while being typically assertive. Like that phrase she made popular, the one that catapulted her to fame, 'Neenga Shut Up Pannunga', Oviya too knows where lines are drawn. She is firm but polite. She stands up for herself, wears her heart on her sleeve and seemed to be falling off the rails briefly. It was not easy to watch her towards the end of her stint in Bigg Boss; even fans will attest to this. Her self-awareness came in handy and she exited, albeit only after trying to hold her breath in a pool in the Bigg Boss house. It was a cruel move on the part of the television channel to actually show her, as she was so very obviously not in a sound space during those last days.
Once out, Oviya didn't jump up to lap up all the limelight and milk it. She took time off, mingled with fans, took photos with them, got a cool haircut and then she made a comeback. She released a video where she spoke directly to fans, addressing their concerns, telling them about her life, etc. She then told them to watch her movies only if they liked it and to totally feel free to critique her if the movie was bad. At a time when fan armies of trolls on the internet rise up in arms to condemn anyone critical of their hero, here was a newly super famous woman who was yet to sign new movies telling her fans to treat her as an artiste, first. Here's something else other 'mass' heroes don't do that Oviya did that day. She took on trolls who were harassing other participants head on. She told them to not 'corner' others because she knows how that felt and then said, she did not need fans who were making others' lives miserable by abusing them. This, from a woman who had received adoration to the level of having her own 'army' of fans, who put up flex banners and released songs in her honour, was thoroughly interesting and amazing to watch.
Meanwhile a movie was rechristened as Oviyava vitta Yaaru. Movies in which she was considered second lead before her stint in Bigg Boss were quickly recast by makers as 'extended cameo'. There are reports that she has signed on three movies and has been turning down offers as well.
I cannot wait to see what Oviya, who was earlier seen in films like Kalavaani and Kalakappu, brings to Tamil screens now. What I am really hopeful for is a role that captures the spirit Oviya embodies for young Tamil audiences. A carefree woman who does and speaks as she wishes. Oviya is the antithesis of what Tamil cinema women are on screen and audiences love her. Fans are calling her 'mass' and 'thalaivi', and unwittingly, Oviya is rewriting what 'mass' means in Tamil cinema. Hope this shows our filmmakers that the audience is ready, has always been ready for real women. Women who laugh, cry, fight, stand up for themselves, fall in love, have their heart broken, heal, rise up to the occasion and deserve to be 'mass'.
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The culture of East African Baluchis has undergone quite a metamorphosis from the 1700s to the present day. With time traditional Baluchi lifestyle gradually eroded and a more Swahili one took its place. Our ancestors interacted with the local people and assimilated to become part and parcel of the social life of the region. As the Baluchi language gave way to Kiswahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, so too did a lot of our traditional cultural norms. It must be noted however, that at no time did we ever lose our identity.
Language apart, the Baluchis here have always maintained a separate identity from the rest of the people. The use of Baluchi names and the continuous narration of our culture and Iranian history has kept the awareness of our roots still fresh in our minds, and our yearning for self- preservation still very much alive. Some families have successfully resisted the change of language and still proudly speak good Baluchi, albeit diluted in grammar and vocabulary, but fluent. We have also managed to maintain strong social cohesion amongst ourselves. For a very long time, families strictly married only from each other, perhaps in an effort to preserve the tribe. Although this provision is no longer strictly followed, it is still highly preferred.
Today the Baluchis of East Africa can be said to have inter-married with almost every other local community. Despite the observable diversity, we have remained essentially close knit. Perhaps what has remained more or less unchanged culture-wise is the way we celebrate our weddings. The ceremonies have remained the same, made even more pronounced by the bride, who can still be seen on her wedding day in full Baluchi regalia. The younger Baluchi population of Mombasa can be said to be developing an impressive impetus on self-awareness.
The Baluchi language, which was slowly fading away from the society, is gradually finding its way back with new awakened interest. The recent contacts with the Baluchis of Iran, Muscat and Quetta will perhaps help build an exchange of information, which should help us revive our culture.
Education Most of East African Baluchis are literate. Education in schools is secular with English as the medium of instruction. Mombasa Baluchi youth have attained High School education and almost all of the younger generation are advancing towards universities and colleges. One of Kenya's top surgeons is Baluchi. The Mombasa and Nairobi communities have produced several young doctors, architects, aviation engineers, bankers, pilots, accountants and lawyers. Baluchis can also be found in respectable positions within Kenya's tourism industry, Tanzania's politics, the banking sector, and of course the various businesses Baluchis have done remarkably well in.
Religious education, however, is not so well developed, and in most cases it has taken a backhand to the secular one. Apart from one Quran school in Makadara run by a Baluchi mullah, there are literally no Baluchi institutions for Quranic instruction. However since the East African coast is predominantly Muslim, parents send their children to the various madrassas for Islamic lessons. There is the Baluchi Mosque that stands at the junction of Baluchi Street and Makadara Road in Mombasa, that was first built in 1865, and has since undergone two renovations, one in 1964 and another one recently in 2005.
Present day In Mombasa, Baluchis have successfully launched a community committee whose main aim is to promote social welfare, self-awareness and the propagation of culture. Mombasa now has a Baluchi Centre on Makadara Road. The Baluchi Centre's most prominent function is the getting together of the Baluchis on various occasions and the running of the Baluchi mosque and the Mbaruk mosque, a local sunni mosque whose maintenance and welfare has been adopted by the Baluchi Community.
Presently, Mombasa Baluchis portray more as part of the modern Kenyan social life with hints of western urbanism. However the families in Mbeya and Rujewa are still admirably traditional. Despite rare inter-mingling, East African Baluchis are well aware of each other's existence and all Baluchis, even of mixed race, hold a tremendous pride in being Baluchi. Mombasa's Baluchi youth have moved on to establish communities as far off as in London in the UK, and Toronto in Canada.
Our hope now is to be able to establish a productive relationship with the Baluchis in Iranian Baluchistan, and help create, through medium like the internet, a cultural forum in which all Baluchis, those "back home", and those of us in the diaspora, can engage in, to enable the Baluchi Nation of the world keep links with each other. As I said, we sailed here in armoured dhows three centuries ago to settle in this part of the world where in time we absorbed part of its culture into ourselves, and given a part of ours to the land. But despite the influence of the years and the erosion of time, we still hold dear in our hearts the richness of our heritage and the memory of our distant home in the vast mountains of Baluchistan.
The Baluchis of East Africa We came in armoured dhows; three hundred years ago as soldiers of fortune, sent to the east coast of Africa to build an empire for the Sultan of Oman, perhaps without quite realizing the impact that fateful journey down the Indian Ocean would have on our future, or how lasting its effects would be. The first Baluchis to set foot in East Africa were the mercenaries who were deployed in the Sultan's army to first, flush out the Portuguese from the east coast of Africa and consolidate the Sultan's control of the region, and later to quash the Mazrui uprising against the Busaidi Sultan. The loyalty these Baluchi soldiers had for the Busaidi royal family at a time when there was much anarchy amongst the tribes of Oman, each eyeing the royal seat, earned them lasting trust with the Sultan who deployed them to guard all his palaces and interests in the region. (Interests, if I dare say, that included the grabbing of land and an inhuman slave trade.) There is no existing record of the exact numbers of these early soldiers. All there is, is the remarkable story of how these brave men from the Makran coast laid siege on the Fort Jesus in Mombasa, and how they wrested the Fort from the Portuguese and drove them out of East Africa for good. That is the legend. The truth of course is that the Portuguese sources of food and water was depleted by the siege, and they died slowly, from hunger and disease.
Settlements Makadara, the Old Town area of Mombasa historically with the largest Baluch population, though this fact has lately been changing. This is a picture from the 1920s. The first settlers were the soldiers, who until the formal establishment of the Sultanate in the 1840s, maintained army posts in the major centers of Mombasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar and Pemba. These men inter-married with the local Arabs and Waswahili and were quickly assimilated into their society. They were later followed by whole families who left Baluchistan in the hope of finding a better life in East Africa, which was at the time the hub of international maritime trade with Asia. Most of the emigrants came from Nikshahr and Kaserkand in Southern Iran, although their brothers and sisters later followed them in from Sarbaz, Lur and Muscat (Muttrah, actually).
The life and times of these Baluchis in East Africa around the 1800s is obscure, as there is little documentation of it. It seems however that at all times, Mombasa was the major Baluchi settlement of the time, followed by Dar-es-Salaam. As the population grew, the younger Baluchis ventured the African hinterland in their pursuit to satisfy the Baluchi wanderlust. The stories of the people of those times differ, and they are as varied as they are interesting.
It is believed that the first non-African to go into Maasailand was a Baluchi, so too was the first non-African to be welcomed into the royal court of the Kabaka of Buganda. As they moved inland, the Baluchis founded cluster communities in Djugu and Bunia in the Congo; Soroti, Arua and Kampala in Uganda; and Iringa, Tabora, Bagamoyo, Mbeya and Rujewa in Tanzania. In time there was probably a Baluchi family in almost every major East African town.


What is it about fire that draws us in?
I currently have my living room set up so that two of the chairs face away from the fireplace, and this being California, we rarely need (or want) the extra heat a fireplace brings anyway. I like candles, but one or two scattered around the room just doesn't cut it for a drama-seeking gal such as myself.
So, I came up with a way to maximize the sparkle of little candles placed together.
Here's how I did it: I took (incredibly cheap) 8X10 frames with glass and took off the backs. I crumpled up aluminum foil (fun!) and covered those backs with it, then popped them back on the glass.
I actually did five of the frames so I could line them up on my long dining room table for dramatic effect. I like the square shape four of them make when they are on my coffee table. I think it looks a little more like a communal fire this way.
Normally, I have books and magazines on the table, so I store the frames on the shelf just underneath the table. This makes it really easy to pull out and set up.
The other night we had friends over and after a rousing round of board games at the dining room table, we needed to calm down, so we adjourned to the library with glasses of wine. I got out the frames, and set a great, late night, gather-around-the-campfire Kumbayah kind of atmosphere. I put on a little soothing music and soon my guests forgot all about the crushing defeat I had handed each of them via the board games.
Mine are just plain frames, but you could get even cool, fancy frames with higher sides and just do one or two for a dresser top.
Try it! Take that frame that holds the picture of terrible old Aunt Hilda and put it to good use finally.
You (and lots of candles) light up my life!
Clever idea. If they were permanent, as in sat on the table all the time, you could add sand for a zen feel.
And I dig your living room!
I like it! The candles in frames, a great idea!! I love the shelves!
LOVE that room of yours.
What a great idea. And I also like how you've hung a couple of frames on the diagonal.
Great idea! I'm still so impressed with your bookcases.
That is a very clever idea! I bet that looks really pretty when the candles are all lit.
Such a lovely idea, and I have about a kazillion votive holders I can use to do something like this!


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"Next year will be the 20th anniversary of the festival," said Mike Castino, vice-president of the Little Italy Lodge of the Order Sons of Italy, an Italian heritage organization that recently resumed responsibility for running the event. "We are committed to doing what we need to do to get the film festival together for next year. It's too big and too important to this neighborhood to just let it die."
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Энн Смит Бэдсол (англ. Ann Smith Bedsole, имя при рождении Маргарет Анна Смит, 7 января 1930 года) — американский политик, бизнес-леди, общественный и благотворительный деятель. Она была первой женщиной-республиканцем, работавшей в Палате представителей Алабамы, и первой женщиной, работавшей в Сенате Алабамы. В 2002 году она была принята в Академию почета Алабамы.

Ранний период жизни
Маргарет Анна Смит родилась 7 января 1930 года в Селме, штат Алабама, в семье Малкольма Уайта Смита и Сибил Хьюи Смит. У нее есть одна сестра. Когда девочке было пять лет, отец перевез семью в Джексон, штат Алабама, где купил лесопилку. Энн окончила государственную среднюю школу в Уэйнсборо, штат Виргиния, а затем училась в Алабамском университете и Денверском университете.

Политическая карьера
Во время президентских праймериз от Республиканской партии 1964 Бэдсол была заместителем делегата Национального съезда Республиканской партии. В 1966 году она работала в Государственном исполнительном комитете штата Алабама. Во время президентских праймериз от Республиканской партии в 1972 году она была делегатом Национального съезда Республиканской партии, вице-председателем делегации штата Алабама на Национальном съезде Республиканской партии, а также одним из двух республиканских избирателей в общем собрании вместе с представителем штата Дагом Хейлом. Позже Бэдсол занимала должность главы Республиканской партии в Мобиле, штат Алабама.

Законодательный орган штата Алабама

В 1978 году Сонни Каллахан, член Палаты представителей Алабамы от 101-го округа, объявил, что будет баллотироваться в Сенат Алабамы. Бэдсол, как кандидат от республиканцев, победила кандидата от демократов Джима Джонстона на всеобщих выборах, став первой женщиной-республиканцем — членом Палаты представителей Алабамы. В 1982 году Каллахан, член Сената Алабамы от 34-го округа, освободил свой пост. Бэдсол баллотировалась от республиканцев и победила кандидата от демократов Джона Саада на всеобщих выборах, став первой женщиной, занимающей должность в Сенате Алабамы. Во время своей первой предвыборной кампании в Сенат она напечатала предвыборные листовки, на обороте которых размещалось расписание сезона охоты в штате. Ее трижды переизбирали в Сенат штата Алабама, где работала до 1995 года. Бэдсол была членом Комитета по образованию в Сенате Алабамы в 1983 г.В 1987 году она была членом комитетов юстиции, образования и здравоохранения, а также председателем комитета сельского хозяйства, охраны природы и лесного хозяйства.

Губернаторская кампания
1 ноября 1993 года Бэдсол объявила, что будет добиваться выдвижения от республиканцев на пост губернатора штата Алабамы в 1994 году. Она заняла второе место на республиканских предварительных выборах, но потерпела поражение во втором туре от Фоба Джеймса. Во время губернаторских выборов 1998 года в Алабаме Бэдсол поддержала кандидата от демократов Дона Сигельмана против губернатора Фоба Джеймса. В 2005 году она безуспешно баллотировалась на пост мэра города Мобил.

Другие виды деятельности

В конце 1980-х Бэдсол была одной из соучредителей Алабамской школы математики и естественных наук. Позже в школе открыли библиотеку, названную в ее честь. Бэдсол также основала ферму в Пердью-Хилл в 2008 году.

Членство
Бэдсол участвовала в многочисленных образовательных и благотворительных инициативах. Она входила в совет директоров Алабамской школы математики и естественных наук. Она была в попечительском совете колледжа Спринг-Хилл и колледжа Хантингдона. Она возглавляла комитет Благотворительного фонда Сибил Х. Смит (позже переименованного в Фонд Сибил и Уайт Смит), а также была членом правления фонда Дж. Л. Бэдсола, который выдавал гранты на образовательные проекты.

Бэдсол также участвует в популяризации местной истории. Она основала компанию «Mobile Historic Home Tours» и была членом комиссии исторического развития Алабамы. В 1999 году она вошла в Комитет по планированию празднования трехсотлетия города Мобил. Она также является основателем и президентом Центра лесных ресурсов Алабамы.

Награды и отличия
Бэдсол была отмечена за свою деловую и благотворительную деятельность, получив звание Первой леди Мобила в 1972, 1993 годах и филантроп года в 1998 году. В 2002 году она была зачислена в Академию почета штата Алабама. Она также имеет почетные степени доктора юридических наук колледжа Спринг-Хилл и коллежда Хантингдона.

Личная жизнь
В 1958 году она вышла замуж за Мэсси Палмера Бэдсола-младшего, от которого родила троих детей. Бэдсол-младший умер в 2006 году. В 2014 году она снова вышла замуж за Николаса Хэнсона Холмса-младшего, который умер в 2016 году. Энн Бэдсол — член волонтерской организации Молодёжной лиги. В январе 2020 года Энн Бедсол вместе со студентами Школы математики и естественных наук Алабамы отметила свое 90-летие.

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Q: Is this a bug in python 2 functions? So I created a transpose function that has an option of adding column headers and I believe I came across a bug in python and using *args:
>>> def transpose(*args,header=None):
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    def transpose(*args,header=None):
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

so yes, since *args is for an arbitrary number of values, you can't put anything after it, but you should be able to put variable=value because then that variable has an automatic assignment making it separate from *args since you would call it with header=['col1','col2','col3'] etc.
The following will not make an error:
def transpose(header=None,*args):
    #code goes here

The only issue with this is that this makes the first input to the function be assigned to the header without needing to do header=value, making header a required input, which is not what I want and I am sure not what many people who create functions using an arbitrary number of values want.
With this error it makes it seem impossible to have a function that uses *args and have inputs that are not requirements. Is this a bug in python?
note: I am using python2.7, so it very well could only be a bug in that version if it is a bug

A: The short python 2.x answer is "don't do that". :-)  (As @Bakurui noted it's built in to Python 3.x.)
If you really want to do that anyway, here's how (just the args part):
def transpose(*args, **kwargs):
    header = kwargs.pop('header', None)
    if kwargs:
        raise TypeError('unexpected keyword args to transpose()')
    print 'transpose: args:', args
    print 'transpose: header:', header

A: In python 2 the are no keyword only arguments. All arguments are positional and you may assign a default value to them. This means that for any function, you must be able to specify any argument using only positional arguments. In your definition you cannot give a value to header since *args consumes all the positional arguments, hence it is not a valid function definition.
In python3 there are keyword only arguments:
$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 19:53:57)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> def transpose(*args, header=None): pass
...
>>>

Note that you can also do:
>>> def transpose(*args, header): pass
...
>>> transpose(1,2,3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: transpose() needs keyword-only argument header

As you can see this is not a matter of having a default value or not. The syntax and semantics has changed with python3.

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Can anyone remember a time when streaming video was awful? Seriously awful, as in having to install Real Player or some other now obscure software to watch video over the Internet, streamed to your screen in crappy resolution? I do. Granted, streaming video has come a long way. We only need a FLASH supporting web browser to view any sort of video stream. Indeed, the whole technology has come along way, and much like the VCR and radio, has become loved by many, yet hated by those who'd refuse to adapt unless it saved them from bankruptcy.
There are scores of websites dedicated to streaming video, ones that thrive on the success of streaming video and use this technology to generate revenue. It goes way beyond sites like YouTube or Vimeo. Services like Skype have been used by families of soldiers serving in "conflicts" by allowing the troops to see their loved ones while they talk to them and have been invaluable in that sense of preserving one's senses while fighting for one's nation.
Video streaming has been advantageous for movie studios as well. How many trailers have they pushed out onto YouTube, skirting the everyday user agreement the rest of us have to agree to, while holding onto the rights to the content of their trailers? How many subscribers are there that use Netflix or Hulu to watch movies and TV shows, streaming them to their laptops, computers, and video game consoles? We're all still sitting through advertisements and trailers before watching what we set out to see. On top of that, studios act like services like Netflix don't pay them for the content before distributing it.
Streaming video is also important to the Internet radio end of the spectrum; with users who know what they're doing able to provide a live stream of content to friends and occasional strangers at the cost of eating up their own bandwidth—which we don't get much of in the U.S. How many people have more than one megabit of bandwidth to use? I know Hollywood would like to sell a tale about how we're all copyright pirates, and that we all have enough bandwidth to stream a copy of the latest blockbuster to everyone in the world, but most of us have barely enough bandwidth to stream a decent quality video channel to one person—and the quality would go down severely if you wanted to stream the same video feed to multiple people.
Which brings me to the arguments of why you need video streaming to remain legal. One, Hollywood can't do the math properly without lying. Two, It's for our troops; you want to be a good patriotic American, right? Three, we all love seeing the President make his regular YouTube address to the public. If streaming was illegal, we'd all have to rely on networks like Fox News, which in the previous decade secured the right to lie to the American public through an Appellate court. There are numerous reasons to side with new technology while telling the Beatles to adapt or become so obscure that only hipsters would know who they were 50 years from now.
This improving technology has allowed obscure individuals to become big-name stars. The technology supplements or generates income for many average people. It's so rapid that the economic models have become outdated. A lot of smalltime game developers have seen huge success in the sales department after fans recorded video of gameplay and uploaded to their favorite video streaming websites (case in point: part of Minecraft's success comes from this). Soon Congress will begin discussing an existent bill that would make video streaming a felony. People abroad would no longer be able to see their loved ones in the States. A lot of people would have to seek new employment, sponsors, and partners or affiliates. The government would steal the chance to censor current events further before the people are allowed to see them.
But haven't we always supported copyright protection? Not true: in fact, when Hollywood complained about the VCR, Congress told Hollywood to adapt or perish. That wasn't the first time. Congress has a long history of siding with new technology and innovation. What this current bill does is an about face from the direction Congress used to take. Streaming video technology hasn't gone far enough, and yet is already a valuable tool for education, communication, and entertainment. The criminalization of streaming video would not only be disastrous for those who need it, but would kill off thousands of the start-ups that are synonymous with the American Dream; start-ups that could become the next Yahoo or Google.
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£1.6m POCA order for Operation Gleam
A Cheshire-based family who sold illegal tooth-whitening products across more than 150 venues in the UK and from a website were ordered to pay back £1.6m at a Proceeds of Crime Hearing on May 24.
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With the skills that the officers have, we can detect quite sizeable criminality and take it down
Powys County Council Trading Standards began an investigation into the Hargreaves family – Matthew (47) and his parents John (71) and Jean (72) – in 2013 when they were found to be selling tooth-whitening products at the Royal Welsh Show containing more than 110 times the legal limit of hydrogen peroxide. Their advertising materials also made misleading claims about the product, including that it was safe for use by any age group.
The trading standards investigation – codenamed Operation Gleam – took three years, at a cost of £400,000. It identified more than 30 victims of the scam, including one who was hospitalised after suffering from burns as a result of using the harmful bleaching product.
The law states that tooth whiteners containing between 0.1% and 6% hydrogen peroxide should not be made directly available to the consumer, other than through treatment by a General Dental Council-registered dentist – the 'White Again' products sold by the Hargreaves contained 11% hydrogen peroxide.
Numerous trading standards authorities were involved in Operation Gleam, along with Scambusters Wales, the GDC, and Dyfed Powys and Greater Manchester Police.
"On occasions like this, we can start with quite a small enquiry at a local event, but if the evidence comes together, the connections and the gel between trading standards authorities can make quite a small enquiry into a substantial investigation," said Clive Jones, Powys County Council's Professional lead for Trading Standards, Community Safety and Emergency Planning. "With the skills that the officers have, we can detect quite sizeable criminality and take it down."
'Systematic fraud'
Over a period of at least eight years, the Hargreaves had set up 20 different companies in an attempt to evade detection while raking in earnings of up to £2.5m, paying no tax and endangering public safety. The various companies were used to deflect the attention of the authorities and avoid product seizures – they had even signed a caution in 2007 admitting the sale of unsafe products, but had continued trading under different company names.
In September 2016, upon the conclusion of Operation Gleam, Matthew and John Hargreaves were both jailed for 18 months. Jean Hargreaves was given a six-month suspended sentence after admitting engaging in an unfair commercial practice.
According to Jones, "What was paramount was getting back to the source of an unsafe product, which was quite difficult because the trader didn't cooperate and was clearly of a criminal fraternity. They hid behind dissolved companies and made a lot of money. Dissolving companies was part of the criminal method they adopted. It was a systematic fraud – a smokescreen to the way they operated."
At the Proceeds of Crime Hearing in May, Judge Philip Harris-Jenkins stated that the defence argument that the earnings from the Hargreaves' business came to less than £5,000 was "not credible in the slightest" and that the defendants were guilty of a "very deliberate and very calculated fraud".
Matthew Hargreaves eventually admitted that he knew the product the family was selling was unlawful and that their business was fraudulent.
The family has now been ordered to sell six of the seven properties they own in order to pay the £1.6m fine – failure to do so within three months could result in longer jail terms.
Six hallmarks of a scam
There were six specific features of the Hargreaves' dishonest trade that formed trading standards' prosecution against them.
They knowingly sold a harmful product in a deceptive way, issuing no receipts and using 'switcheroo' under-the-counter methods to mislead consumers.
They conducted their business over a sustained period of time with no regard for public safety or the consistency of the product they were selling – the idea that they had unwittingly sold a one-off 'bad batch' was unfeasible.
The Hargreaves' assertion that they were unaware of the dangers of the product they were selling was proven to be untrue by documents found during a raid of one of their properties, including a letter of complaint from a customer who had managed to track them down.
They formed and disbanded a series of 'phoenix' companies in an attempt to avoid attention from trading standards and other authorities over a period of at least eight years.
They deployed complicated technical arguments when confronted by trading standards in an attempt to shake off scrutiny and continue trading, in full knowledge that their activities were illegal.
The proceeds of their trade were handled in an irregular and dishonest manner, with clandestine and anonymous trading accounts being used to avoid paying tax.
Jones believes there are key lessons to be taken away from Operation Gleam. "We worked with the GDC to promote knowledge and awareness in this area, and were careful to assist authorities that encountered similar problems, at a national and regional level," he said.
"With teeth-whitening products, you've got to look at the safety considerations. Are you dealing with a legal product with a very small level of peroxide? It may be worth interrogation as to the strength of the product. It's certainly a risk product, and if the chain of supply looks quite suspicious, then it probably is."
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Having collaborated with Korg on the Monologue synth, Richard D James (AKA Aphex Twin) has now released a track that was created exclusively using the Japanese company's gear.
Korg Funk 5, as its known, features three Monologues, an MS-20 Kit, a Poly-61M, three Volcas (Keys, Beats and Sample) and a Minilogue. Oh, and James' son also makes an appearance on vocals.
The track has been released to coincide with an interview that's been published on the Warp (Aphex Twin's record label) website. This features James talking to ex-Korg engineer Tatsuya Takahashi - the man credit with inspiring Korg's synth renaissance over the past few years - about a range of subjects, including the Monologue's microtuning capabilities.


Drugs and alcohol have become a major problem in Winnipeg, the capital and largest city in Manitoba throughout the last 20 years.
Winnipeg has one of the fastest population growth rates in Canada and also has a drug use rate that has increased over 100% in the last 10 years. Police say drug use in schools in Manitoba have increased over 20% in the last few years and the city is now being considered the Aboriginal street gang capital of Canada.
There have been more overdose-related deaths in 2016 & 2017 in the province than ever reported in Manitoba's history.
Heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl, and morphine are some of the biggest drugs on the streets of Winnipeg right now. First responders all over the province are dealing with overdoses due to the new fentanyl crisis that's happening in Manitoba. Winnipeg's homeless shelters are packed with addicts struggling to get into detox and drug and alcohol treatment centres in the surrounding areas.
Andy Bhatti Interventions and Addiction Services offer emergency drug and alcohol interventions all over Manitoba. Our team of professional drug and alcohol interventionists will help guide your family in the right direction to help get your loved one into a public or private drug and alcohol treatment centre anywhere in Canada.
Andy's intervention approach to helping addicts get into a drug and alcohol treatment program is highly successful. Andy's substance abuse education, street life experience, and intervention training, has made him one of the most successful drug and alcohol interventionists in Canada.
Our local professional interventionists offer drug and alcohol interventions, recovery coaching, sober coaching, detox supervision, travel companions, personal 1 on 1 counselling, drug and alcohol treatment referrals, drug testing and 1 on 1 personalized recovery plans.
In Winnipeg, drug and alcohol interventions are more common now than ever. Families that are in a crisis of needing help to deal with their addicted or alcoholic family members that are in denial of their drug or alcohol problem can call our emergency 24-hour intervention phone line at 1-888-963-9116 or call Andy Bhatti directly at 1-604-309-1573.
Many clients seeking treatment from Winnipeg have gone out of province to seek private and public addiction treatment.
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Curbed Inside: The Roosevelt Lofts, Part 1
By jwilliams Nov 13, 2008, 1:30pm PST
Somehow through a friend of a friend we got an invite to last night's exclusive showing of the still under construction Roosevelt Lofts at 7th and Flower, Downtown. The 222-unit adaptive reuse project is opening in phases, with move-ins supposedly starting near the end of November. We shall see. The interiors were fairly standard apartment/loft design. The units we saw featured unfinished ceilings, faux wood flooring (one lady yelled at us when we asked if it was real wood, "Of course it's not real wood!"), and some sort of marble composite material (not real marble) in the kitchens. Four of the buildings units were open for viewing and many of the people traipsing through were real estate agents and for whatever reason, French people. Lots and lots of French people. No explanation why - we even asked a French woman, and she said she had no idea there were other French people there.
The units shown were attractive - square footages were slightly below or above 1,000 square feet, and they felt roomy enough. One of the floor plans was really squirrely, with a winding hallway leading to and from one unit's bathroom. Another unit had its kitchen sited on a diagonal which created a bit of a fun house effect. The rooftop deck was nice, although one of our loft-tour companions noted the loud HVAC rooftop equipment from an adjacent building across the street that provided a constant buzzing sound. Still, the three-foot deep pool looked especially refreshing.
In Part 2, we'll give you what you really want - floor plans and prices.
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Play 'Hitman Go' on Gear VR and Oculus Rift tomorrow
The stripped-down minimalistic 'Hitman' will offer a VR experience with seamless head tracking.
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Hitman Go is a smart reimagining of a languishing franchise that lit up mobile devices when it first launched in 2014. It took the painstaking stealth assassinations of the original Hitman series and transformed them into a minimalistic board game. Now it's headed to VR by way of the Gear VR and Oculus Rift tomorrow, May 12th.If you're picking up the Gear VR version you'll pay $7.99 and if you own an Oculus Rift you'll pay $9.99 for the updated and expanded Hitman Go, which developer Square Enix advises will feature 90 FPS and "seamless head tracking."
The VR version will include 91 different levels ranging from classics taken from Hitman: Blood Money and Hitman: Silent Assassin. If you've already played through those titles during their initial release, it's worth going through them again for the new VR perspective as well as their new aesthetic, done up in crisp Hitman Go style.
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Here at Brandamos we always love a good logo conspiracy. Now this isn't as racy or heart pounding as the latest Dan Brown novel, but it does hit home for any of us in the digital marketing space.
Below we dive into some of the current theories surrounding the White House's latest logo changes and overall brand identity. Keep reading, things are about to heat up!
The White House logo has undergone a series of facelifts throughout the years. The story of the White House logo goes all the way back to the original printing of the $20 bill, which showcases the same view of the White House that's used today. However, the online version of the White House logo didn't appear until 2007.
Design Agency, Hello Monday, was called in to give their logo an overhaul back in 2009. But, when they began their initial design consult they noticed some things were awry.
The main point of contention being the arch that had somehow morphed into a pyramid in their logo.
The pyramid is a well-known conspiracy symbol and springs up in almost every single conspiracy theory related to the US and our government.
It's hard to figure out where the arch mistake actually occurred, especially since the White House doesn't publish anything about their logo, or their online brand. All of these changes were occurring under the radar.
Hello Monday then went on to create two different version of the logo.
The first changed the mistaken pyramid back to an arch to mirror the way the White House actually looks. The second got rid of the arches and pyramids entirely, so we could finally sweep this whole debacle under the rug. For reasons unbeknownst to us common folk, the White House decided not to move forward with the project, which left the unused logos floating around cyberspace.
Until earlier this year with the unveiling of their latest redesign.
The latest version of the White House logo was brought into existence sometime this year. I guess the White House doesn't care much for big brand reveals. There's one thing you'll notice in the latest iteration of their logo—the pyramid has been changed into an arch. Finally!
But, the alternating pyramids and arches are now all wrong. They're in complete misalignment with the way the White House looks. But, looking back at the logos that Hello Monday introduced back in 2009, you'll see that they're the ones who put the error in place.
Which brings certain questions to light: did the White House lie about wanting to continue the project? Did they decide to use the original designs provided by Hello Monday? Why does the White House logo continue to have so many mistakes?
Unfortunately, this is something we'll never quite know the full truth about.
But, it's fun to speculate about why an institution like the White House has so many glaring errors. Are the errors intentional? Do they mean something larger than meets the eye? Is there actually a connection to the illuminati pyramids?
Now over to you. What do you think about the continuing debate over the White House logo? Is it a meaningless discussion, or is there truly something more than meets the eye? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
David Shiffman is Co-Founder and Brand Elevater at Brandamos. A creative strategist with over 10 years of experience developing marketing strategies and guiding business development. An expert at translating brand objectives into creative strategies. Shiffman has worked with companies such as Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Absolut Vodka and Bed Bath & Beyond.. His internet marketing strategies and execution have resulted in millions of dollars in revenue for clients and his personal experience gives an advantage in elevating brands both offline and online.
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Photo credit: Ohio EPA
 Laurie Stevenson '88 is the director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. She is standing atop the agency's headquarters, which has a 'green roof,' in downtown Columbus.

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Laurie Stevenson '88 is the director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. She is standing atop the agency's headquarters, which has a 'green roof,' in downtown Columbus.
Ohio EPA director's environmental roots took hold at BGSU
Laurie Stevenson '88 now leads the agency in which she has dedicated her 30-year career
By Bob Cunningham '18
When Laurie Stevenson graduated from Bowling Green State University in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in environmental health, she had several job offers to choose from in an emerging field.
Stevenson took a position as a hazardous waste field inspector with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, and three decades later she now leads the agency.
In January, Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Stevenson as director of the Ohio EPA. She most recently served as deputy director for business relations, where she served as a primary contact for regulated entities to help coordinate permitting activities within the agency. She also served as chief of Ohio EPA's Division of Environmental and Financial Assistance.
A public servant of more than 30 years, she previously served as the industrial liaison in the director's office and managed Ohio EPA's small business assistance office. She held previous positions in the agency's division of hazardous waste management.
"As you can imagine, after spending 30 years here at the EPA, it was a huge honor just to be considered and an even bigger honor to be selected," said Stevenson, who also holds a master's degree in public health from Ohio State University. "I think what's really interesting and exciting to me is, I came from within the agency. I think the governor has selected a great team of cabinet directors to lead our agencies and move Ohio forward in positive ways.
"I'll be honest; this is something I never really expected. If you would have told me when I started off as a field inspector that 30 years later I would be the director of the agency, I would not have believed you. I've had such a great experience here. There have been so many great opportunities to grow and to expand and learn and work with a fantastic team. Chances like this don't come around but once in a lifetime. I'm excited and just want to do my best and leave a good legacy here and get my team prepared for what's happening now and for future challenges."
The Ohio EPA director's office is charged with upholding the agency's mission of protecting human health and the environment. The office directs all activities of the agency, including policy development and rule making, enforcement, strategic planning, coordinating state and federal initiatives, as well as providing outreach, education and assistance to the regulated community and citizens.
She wants her legacy at the Ohio EPA to be to continue setting the stage for the agency to be a leader on issues that affect Ohio and the country as a whole. She hopes to succeed by helping to make a substantive, positive and measurable impact on improving Lake Erie and the state's rivers and streams.
"Making our mark on improving water quality is a major cornerstone and will be part of my focus as director," said Stevenson, who grew up in Findlay, Ohio. "Improving water quality throughout Ohio, including Lake Erie, is one of the governor's top environmental priorities. His expectation is for the EPA and the Departments of Natural Resources and Agriculture to work together to come up with a comprehensive, statewide plan of action."
That plan is called the H2Ohio water quality initiative, which was introduced by the governor in the state budget bill. It will create a fund that will be used to protect Ohio's water quality for water programs across the state, including Lake Erie and other lakes, rivers and waterways.
She also recognized the role of universities in important research related to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie and other areas of the state. BGSU, funded by a $5.2 million grant, recently created the Great Lakes Center for Fresh Waters and Human Health.
"Here at the agency, we certainly are relying on partnerships with a lot of people," Stevenson said. "It's a matter of the scientific and academic communities and the government coming together to work on solutions. There are a lot of stakeholders who are very vested in this issue and are devoting a lot of time and energy and resources to it. It requires a multifaceted approach with a lot of people rolling up their sleeves, including universities and researchers. It's an important issue for all of us."
In addition to water quality, there are other emerging environmental issues in Ohio.
"We always are working to address air quality to make sue that we have strong regulatory programs in place that we're diligent about maintaining air quality standards," Stevenson said. "We also have aging infrastructure across the board, so we're working with a lot of communities right now to make sure that they're drinking water and waste water infrastructure is maintained. Sustainability is another major issue, so enhancing markets for recyclable material and life cycle analysis to figure out how we can be better stewards and be more sustainable is also a big part of our focus."
Due to environmental issues such as air pollution and toxic waste as well as conservation efforts to save natural habitats were major influences as Stevenson was deciding on a college and a major.
"I felt like I wanted to be in the environmental field," she said. "Energy conservation was a big thing in the '70s and '80s with some pretty significant pollution events. Not that I was super knowledgeable at the time, but I knew I could make some kind of difference. Once I arrived at Bowling Green, I drove my path toward environmental science and environmental health.
There were just a lot of experiences and opportunities that were provided to me through Bowling Green that really helped reinforce that 'this was the right path for me.' My advisers were great. I worked closely with Dr. Gary Silverman, who was the head of the program at the time. He was very influential for me and guided me through my college experience."
"Laurie was very impressive as one of the very first students in the newly developed environmental health program," said Silverman, who taught at BGSU from 1986 to 2012. "She showed great ability and a deep commitment to protecting the environment and human health. She will do fabulously as the new director of Ohio EPA."
Stevenson said she was able to hit the ground running once she started at the Ohio EPA, thanks to BGSU.
"The field was pretty open when I stepped into it in the late '80s in terms of jobs," she said. "I got offers immediately after I graduated. I had two positions within the EPA offered to me and I ended up choosing the one focused on overseeing hazardous waste requirements as a field inspector. I really feel that the internships I had while attending Bowling Green were instrumental in finding employment after graduation."
One of her internships was with the company Brush-Wellman, a manufacturing facility located outside of Elmore, Ohio. During her internship, she helping the company with environmental compliance work and air monitoring. Stevenson also had an internship with the Wood County Health Department, where she worked with their environmental heath team, shadowing one of its inspectors.
"It was a good taste of what I could expect from both the private and public sectors," she said. "Both were great opportunities for me."
Stevenson wants current and prospective students to know that they should be willing and ready to take full advantage of all the experiences and opportunities that are offered at college.
"I love BGSU — Bowling Green is near and dear to my heart," she said. "I encourage students to diversify your experience and really get as much as you can out of your academic experience. Take advantage of all of those opportunities that are out there, including internships and projects. That's the only thing I would communicate to them: Take advantage of what's in front of you and never underestimate the potential that you have."


You'll keep going back to both of these very different collections once you've read them the first time. They're both unique and informative and, even though you'll enjoy jumping around to find entries or essays that pique a specific interest, either book holds up to a straight-through reading like a novel. The title of Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives (Texas A&M University Press, 270 pages $19.95, softcover) implies that it's a collection of first-hand oral histories from Native American informants. It's not, but that's OK. In his preface, David La Vere explains how the collection grew into the eclectic mix of stories from whites, blacks and Indians, as well as "soldiers, cowboys, ranchers, settlers, former slaves, preachers, teachers, Indian agents, government officials" as well as "a host of Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, Cheyennes, Delawares" who came in contact with Texas Indians. And he explains that he made no effort to censor the informants' points of view. Even though some of these personal points of view are alarming (and the stories they tell, horrifying) they are what make the stories so engaging. In one brief account, a white missionary to the Kiowa and Comanche describes an incident in which the school superintendent sent students home with smallpox to help spread the epidemic throughout the tribes.
Hunting and Fishing in Texas by Hart Stilwell (Collectors Covey, 287 pages, $29.95, cloth) is considered a classic of outdoors writing, and now, thanks to this reprint (first released last year), it's not so hard to find.
This collection of essays and photographs was first published in 1946. Stilwell's independent spirit and joy in the outdoors infuse his writing with a compelling energy that will make you feel like you're along on the adventure.
Now if Collectors Covey will just reprint Hunting and Fishing in Mexico.