Dusty "twilight rays" sketched by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972.
Every lunarmorning, when the sun first peeks over the dusty soil of the moon after twoweeks of frigid lunar night, a strange storm stirs the surface.
The next timeyou see the moon, trace your finger along the terminator, the dividing linebetween lunar night and day. That's where the storm is. It's a long and skinnydust storm, stretching all the way from the north poleto the south pole, swirling across the surface, following the terminator assunrise ceaselessly sweeps around the moon.
Never heard ofit? Few have. But scientists are increasingly confident that the storm is real.
The evidencecomes from an old Apollo experiment called LEAM, short for Lunar Ejecta and Meteorites. "Apollo 17 astronauts installedLEAM on the moon in 1972," explains Timothy Stubbs of the Solar SystemExploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "It wasdesigned to look for dust kicked up by small meteoroids hitting the moon'ssurface."
Billions ofyears ago, meteoroids hit the moon almost constantly, pulverizing rocks andcoating the moon's surface with their dusty debris. Indeed, this is the reasonwhy the moon is so dusty. Today these impacts happen less often, but they stillhappen.
Apollo-erascientists wanted to know, how much dust is ejected by daily impacts? And whatare the properties of that dust? LEAM was to answer these questions using threesensors that could record the speed, energy, and direction of tiny particles:one each pointing up, east, and west.
"Toeveryone's surprise," says Olhoeft, "LEAMsaw a large number of particles every morning, mostly coming from the east orwest--rather than above or below--and mostly slower than speeds expected forlunar ejecta."
Whatcould cause this? Stubbs has an idea: "The dayside of the moon ispositively charged; the nightside is negativelycharged." At the interface between night and day, he explains, "electrostatically charged dust would be pushed across theterminator sideways," by horizontal electric fields.
Even moresurprising, Olhoeft continues, a few hours afterevery lunar sunrise, the experiment's temperature rocketed so high--near thatof boiling water--that "LEAM had to be turned offbecause it was overheating."
Those strangeobservations could mean that "electrically-charged moondustwas sticking to LEAM, darkening its surface so the experiment package absorbedrather than reflected sunlight," speculates Olhoeft.
But nobodyknows for sure. LEAM operated for a very short time: only 620 hours of datawere gathered during the icy lunar night and a mere 150 hours of data from theblazing lunar day before its sensors were turned off and the Apollo programended.
Astronauts mayhave seen the storms, too. While orbiting the Moon, the crews of Apollo 8, 10,12, and 17 sketched "bands" or "twilight rays" wheresunlight was apparently filtering through dust above the moon's surface. Thishappened before each lunar sunrise and just after each lunar sunset. NASA'sSurveyor spacecraft also photographed twilight "horizon glows," muchlike what the astronauts saw.
It's evenpossible that these storms have been spotted from Earth: For centuries, therehave been reports of strange glowing lights on the moon, known as "lunartransient phenomena" or LTPs. Some LTPs have been observed as momentary flashes--now generallyaccepted to be visible evidence of meteoroids impacting the lunar surface. Butothers have appeared as amorphous reddish or whitish glows or even as duskyhazy regions that change shape or disappear over seconds or minutes. Earlyexplanations, never satisfactory, ranged from volcanic gases to observers'overactive imaginations (including visiting extraterrestrials).
Now a newscientific explanation is gaining traction. "It may be that LTPs are caused by sunlight reflecting off rising plumes ofelectrostatically lofted lunar dust," Olhoeft suggests.
All thismatters to NASA because, by 2018 or so, astronauts are returning to the Moon.Unlike Apollo astronauts, who never experienced lunar sunrise, the nextexplorers are going to establish a permanent outpost. They'll be there in themorning when the storm sweeps by.
The wall ofdust, if it exists, might be diaphanous, invisible, harmless.Or it could be a real problem, clogging spacesuits, coating surfaces andcausing hardware to overheat.
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Simon and Garfunkel were eternally immortalized alongside the vocal genius of the band Disturbed when they delivered a version of 'The Sound of Silence' that's become as iconic and recognizable as the original. David Draiman lets loose his rich voice on the Conan O'Brien Show, showcasing the unbelievable range and richness he has to offer.
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Five years ago Bec Oates had four children, one husband and practically nothing else. The family had sold the block of land where they planned to build their dream home. They had sold most of their possessions. Bec had also sold her very successful hairdressing business in their home city of Perth.
They weren't bankrupt, nor were they in debt. Instead, they had deliberately chosen to walk away from everything.
But things didn't turn out quite as they planned, as Bec shares with Eternity from the Sydney office of international development organisation Baptist World Aid Australia (BWA), where she is now Director of Marketing and Communication.
However, that's a story we'll get to shortly. First, we need to start with what inspired the Oates family to let go of everything they owned.
A growing desire
At age 34, Bec's hairdressing salon was ten years old and business was booming. She loved the creativity of the job and its relational nature, as she shared in-depth conversations with clients all day long. And yet, Bec – who grew up in a Christian household with her Baptist pastor father and hairdresser mother – couldn't quench her desire to do something more to help those living in poverty.
"My husband and I both really wrestled with understanding poverty and, as Christians, what our response should be to that. And so we tried multiple times to engage with work related to that, but we kept hitting a dead end. So we ended up just staying in the trades and careers that we were in," she explains.
But then in 2006, Bec set off on a one-week trip to Bangladesh to "explore the idea of doing hairdressing training there" in order to equip local women with an income-generating trade.
"On that trip, we went to a rural part of the north of Bangladesh to visit some local people. Not many foreigners go there and they didn't speak English, so we had an interpreter," Bec recalls.
"They showed us around their village and it was an incredible experience. When we left, one of the elders of that community shook my hand, which in itself was culturally important, I guess. He held my hand and rubbed it. And he said, 'Remember me.'
"When I got in the car, I realised that he didn't speak English," Bec says. She pauses, unable to explain how this man could suddenly pronounce these two English words.
She continues: "I haven't forgotten him. That was a pretty powerful moment."
Bec was greatly impacted by the trip and so years later, when she came across a couple from New Zealand running a business in Kolkata, India, she was again struck by the need to go and serve the poor.
"Six months before that happened, we had bought a piece of land near the school where our kids went, that we'd actually tried to purchase a couple of times before.
"We finally got it and we had an architect design the dream home, with the perfect kitchen with the right outlook. But for whatever reason, we just started to feel like God was saying that we shouldn't be building this house. We both ignored it at first, but … we just couldn't sleep. And so my husband had to go to the builder and tell the truth. We had signed a contract, but he let us out of it – with a hefty fee.
"So then after we met this couple [who they heard speak at a conference], we started to think, is this why we're not building a house?"
Meeting Meena
In 2014, the Oates family sold their block of land, along with all their furniture and other belongings. With the four kids in tow (now aged 6 to 14), they went to Kolkota. And this is where Bec met Meena – in Sonagachi, Asia's largest red-light district, which is home to around 10,000 women trapped in prostitution.
Meena was one of the lucky ones, having gained employment in the micro-enterprise organisation which Bec had connected with back in Australia.
"Her story is one of incredible leadership and resilience," Bec begins, when asked to share about the meeting.
"She lives in the red light area of Kolkata, because the business itself is about transforming that area. So they don't pull people out; they change the lives of people in there, in terms of work and employment. And they're trying to sort of "re-take" that area with healthy employment options.
"So I went there one night. It was steaming with rain, which happens in India because it's very hot. The main street is just absolute chaos – cows and goats and children and buses with funny horns and trucks and shouting and people making dinner, squatting, and it's just all happening on the street.
"In this one square mile, there's 10,000 girls every night waiting to be chosen." – Bec Oates
"There's lots of big multi-storey buildings, built by the British. They're beautiful buildings in one way, but also really run-down at the same time.
"And so we're walking along the main street and we came to a corner where there was a bunch of men yelling and shouting. I didn't know what they were saying, but it sounded full-on. And then I realised that they were selling girls …
"These beautiful young girls were lining up in their saris, shoulder to shoulder, along the side of the road – that's what it's called 'the line', where they line up every evening waiting for customers. And in this one square mile, there's 10,000 girls every night waiting to be chosen.
"The horrible truth [for the girls] is that 'If I do get chosen, I might eat, but then I'm chosen. But if I'm not chosen, I don't eat'.
"I stood there thinking 'What do I do? Do you look at someone when they're 'the line' or do I turn away? Is that worse? This is awkward. This is so confronting. I feel like dry retching.'
"One of the girls could see that I was clearly struggling. So she came up to me and she comforted me. And that's when I realised that I wasn't bringing Jesus here, he was already here.
"She knew that I was coming to see Meena, because why else would this strange, Australian, white woman be walking through Sonagachi? So she patted my hand, as if [to say] 'It's OK.'
"Then she led me through the winding streets to meet Meena. There's no electricity in the area because its poor.
"She led me up a multi-storey building to the very rooftop where Meena lives in a house that would probably be about one third the size of this room," says Bec, indicating the ordinary-sized meeting room in which we sit at BWA.
"It was just big enough to fit her lying down. She invited me to sit and she made me a cup of chai in these little, clay cups.
'So, if all these people are following Jesus and they know what's happening, then where are his people? Why aren't they here?'
"Through an interpreter, she was telling me a bit of her story. She's from Bangladesh, but she found herself in Sonagachi with no way home. She didn't even know where she was for many years. She'd been in living a life she didn't choose there for 30 years before she met the founders of [this business]. Now, she is the one of the leaders of a business that screen-prints t-shirts and makes retail bags for the West, and employs over 250 women."
"Meena took the risk of joining them as a startup business, to see if they could find a way to employ people [in Sonagachi] that was healthy. Meena is kind of a matriarch if you like, and she has stayed living in the red-light district to meet girls and build community, and tell them that there's potentially other ways they can find employment."
But it wasn't just Meena's life and work in Sonagachi that struck such a chord with Bec. It was the questions Meena put to her about the response of Western Christians to the plight of women in her city.
"She was very generous in talking with me," Bec continues. "She asked me about myself, and she said, 'Oh, you're one of those Christians. A lot of Christians come here. They tell me about Jesus and they say that Jesus loves me.'
"She was asking about Christians around the world, saying 'I've met a few, but how many of you are there?' I was very happy to tell her that there's sort of an army of people that follow Jesus around the world.
"And she said, 'Well, people say Jesus loves me. And people say that Jesus is here in Sonagachi. And people come and they see, they know what's going on here in Sonagachi. It's well known to be one of the largest red-light districts in the world. It's not a secret what's happening there.
"So, if all these people are following Jesus and they know what's happening, then where are his people? If they're following him, why aren't they here?'
"I didn't have a very good answer," Bec confesses. "Well, I did have an answer, but it wasn't one I wanted to tell her – I was thinking 'where have I been?'
"I knew that this was happening and I followed Jesus. But I'd been in the supermarket, enjoying an ergonomically-designed shopping trolley handle and having a mechanism in the back of my kitchen drawers to make sure they don't bang when I shut them!
"I couldn't tell her that. So we just had to cry. Mine were tears of repentance, really. We also prayed. It was raining at the time, and we prayed that God would bring down freedom like rain on Sonagachi and on his people around the world – that they would let go of whatever was stopping them from following him wherever he wanted them to be."
The unexpected twist
"It was the best time we'd ever had," says Bec about their family's time in India. "We learned so much in that time of being there. We were only there for a couple of months, but it was incredible. When we were there, we felt like we were made for this.
"I mean, it was incredibly difficult because it was physically very demanding to live there – it's pretty hot and uncomfortable and confronting, but we didn't want to go back to Australia. We didn't want to leave. But we ended up having to."
Upon their return to Perth, Bec says they began planning for another, longer-term trip to India. And so two years later, in 2016, the family sold their last remaining financial tie to Australia – Bec's hairdressing business. Then they prepared to return to India in January 2017.
"But about a month before we were due to leave, we got a knock-out punch to our plans," says Bec, reluctant to divulge the details but simply stating this meant they couldn't go.
The blow was devastating at first, but eventually Bec was able to view it pragmatically.
"We learnt, and I guess demonstrated to our kids, that following God is a relationship and it's not a nicely-wrapped, everything-makes-sense thing. And really all we were saying is these women have a need and we've got a pair of hands, we can help.
"But having tried for five years and literally giving everything we could to it, we couldn't do it. So we had to let it go at that point."
Bec Oates
And so, after giving up their dream – along with everything else – the Oates family found themselves a long way from where they hoped to be.
"We needed a job and there was one advertised in Sydney for my husband's work … He didn't expect him to get it, but then he did," says Bec.
"So basically, instead of moving to India, we moved to Sydney, which is the opposite of where we thought we were going to be."
When asked how she ended up at BWA (commonly known for its Ethical Fashion Guide), Bec shares: "I pounded the door down until they gave me a job, basically!
"I applied for three jobs. I said, 'I know I look ridiculous on paper as I'm a hairdresser. But I know you do want me.' So eventually they gave me a job.
Since then Bec has had eight roles in her two-and-a-half years at BWA, which, she says, "has been good because I could learn all different parts of the organisation."
So what lessons has Bec taken from all these challenging and rather surprising life experiences?
"One thing I did learn through seeing the suffering and unfairness in other parts of our world, is that God doesn't owe me an explanation," she reflects, referring to their failed dream to move to India.
"I think my culture will tell me I'm entitled to a good life. I'm entitled to be healthy and happy and have a family and have resources. And when God doesn't deliver that, then God, isn't good. Whereas actually, life is hard and challenging, but in all of that, God is good.
"Even when there are girls trapped in a room for 20 years, he's still good. So if that's true, then we [in the West] might need to examine our thinking about God's goodness in our culture."
"I would encourage people to just ask God 'what part do you want me to play in this story?' – Bec Oates
The second lesson Bec learnt from women like Meena is what true resilience looks like – a lesson that informs her work at BWA, especially in relation to its projects to alleviate poverty in countries like Nepal, Bangladesh and Cambodia.
"Their story is one of perseverance and beauty, actually," she says.
This led her to reflect on what the Western church should be doing in response to the desperate situations many such women find themselves in as a result of poverty.
"I would encourage people to just ask God 'what part do you want me to play in this story?' I wouldn't say that we need to or can restore their dignity. I would say they have dignity in spite of their circumstances, so it's not about how to we restore that. It's about how do we repent for choosing not to look at them or for the part that we may play in the realities of people's suffering.
"As a global citizen, we contribute to the suffering of other people all the time. So repentance is really the starting point for the church in the West. But to see that as an act of freedom, not out of guilt."
As for whether or not the Oates family will ever revisit their dream of living and serving people in India, Bec answers: "I don't know. All I know is that I want to know as many Meenas as I can."
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Hoogeveen nears end of sixth teaching year at Nicaragua Christian Academy
Nearly six years have passed since Amy Hoogeveen first stepped foot in Nicaragua to begin her international teaching adventure there. In that time, the daughter of Phil and Barb Hoogeveen of Sully has become more accustomed to the Nicaraguan culture and grown in many ways as a teacher.
For Hoogeveen's first three years in Nicaragua, she was a fourth-grade teacher at Nicaragua Christian Academy (NCA) in the capital city of Managua. NCA is an English-speaking school and all classes, except Span-ish, are taught in English. The regular classroom teachers are all from the U.S. or Canada, and the majority of students are Nicaraguan English language learners, though there are a few missionary kids as well. All students have one hour of Spanish class each day where they learn Spanish language arts and Nicaraguan history.
Three years ago, after three years teaching fourth grade at NCA, a learning resources position opened up, and Hoogeveen decided to make the switch.
"I had been doing a lot of after-school tutoring and working one-on-one with different students, and I really came to enjoy that and saw a lot of the individual needs our students have," Hoogeveen said. "Now, I work with students from kindergarten all the way through 12th grade."
Amy Hoogeveen (far left) is pictured with two of her good friends who used to teach at Nicaragua Christian Academy and Leo, one of the school's maids. "She has become like a mom/grandma to many of us girls here," Hoogeveen said.
Hoogeveen pours herself into her students, helping the younger ones learn to read and build math skills and the older ones with their homework, organization, and study skills. While she misses the fun things she could do in the fourth-grade classroom, Hoogeveen loves the variety of her current position and working with all different ages.
Since 2014, the small-town Iowa girl has definitely become more "at home" in Nicaragua and is more familiar with the Nicaraguan culture and language. She's been getting to know more of the Nicaraguan staff at the school, and like her students, Hoogeveen has dedicated time to her own learning journey by taking Spanish classes.
One of the biggest highlights for Hoogeveen as she looks back at the last six years is the many ways she has grown as a teacher. "Each year is different, and each student is unique," she said, "so I am continually learning new things and trying new strategies with them."
Another highlight for her has been being one of the directors of the middle/high school musical. This year, grades 7-12 performed "Annie," putting on three excellent shows the first full weekend in March. "We had 31 cast members, plus about 20 more students involved in other ways," Hoogeveen said. "It's a lot of work, but the results were worth it."
Of course, while there have been many highlights for Hoog-eveen, her six years in a foreign country haven't been without its challenges. The biggest of which was the civil unrest Nicaragua experienced in 2018.
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In April 2018, Hoogeveen explained, the government made some social security policy changes that sparked a series of violent protests where over 300 people were killed and many more were injured or imprisoned. After about a month of going to school maybe once or twice a week, the NCA administration decided to close school about a month earlier than normal and finish the year with online classes.
"The area where I live and where the school is located remained relatively safe and away from the violence, but I did fly back home (to Sully) early that May," Hoogeveen said. "Since then, the situation has calmed considerably, but tensions between the government and the people still remain high."
One change for Hoogeveen since living in Nicaragua has been moving into a small house that is a little farther from the school. "It is in a nice area with lots of shade trees that keep things cooler (no air conditioning!)," she said.
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In California, the "Gropenator" is up for re-election. Democrat Phil Angelides is taking on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the polls have been swinging back and forth. The latest one from Rasmussen shows Arnie up 47-41, but a poll taken a few weeks earlier had Angelides up by 2 points. Part of this is due to the ad blitz Schwarzenegger has been airing ever since the primary (he had no real primary challenger, so he was able to save his money for general election campaign ads).
But now the California Democratic Party has struck back. They recently started airing an ad in heavy rotation that is blunt, to the point, and memorable.
[Click here to see the ad, then click on "You: The Bush-Arnold Connection"]
The ad opens with text which reads: "Bush and Schwarzenegger, Ohio 2004," then shows a video of the two onstage together, with Arnie yelling to a Bush '04 campaign rally: "Let's go out and re-elect President George W. Bush!" The rest of the ad alternates Arnie bellowing "George W. Bush!" over and over, with voice-over and text of the following messages between each repetition:
"130,000 American troops remain in Iraq under George W. Bush."
"Gasoline prices were up 135% under George W. Bush."
"Our national debt is up three trillion dollars under George W. Bush."
It closes with: "Arnold Schwarzenegger's for George W. Bush. Is he for YOU?"
Just in case you didn't get the point, every time Arnie's face is on the screen, in the lower corner is a blue logo: "Arnold For Bush."
Now, you can argue that this is a sledgehammer and that it's too overdone to be effective, but I would disagree. Sure, it's simplistic. Sure, it's corny. Sure, it's repetitive and annoying. Sure, it's obvious. That's what makes it a good campaign ad. People will remember it.
Schwarzenegger, after all, went to the most important electoral state (Ohio) very late in the 2004 campaign—and drew an enormous crowd campaigning for Bush. It's impossible to guess what would have happened in Ohio if Arnold hadn't made the trip, but it is definitely a valid issue to bring up during his own campaign. Arnold, it should be noted, doesn't exactly brag about being Republican. He hopes voters will overlook that minor fact in this extremely blue state. Reminding everyone he supported Bush is a good way to get through to voters that normally don't pay much attention to politics.
The second bit of good news is a tactic dreamed up by Larry Kissell, a Democratic House candidate taking on Republican Robin Hayes in North Carolina. He's running a longshot campaign, but his stunt is a beauty. At the beginning of August, he campaigned at a gas station that he paid to sell gas for $1.22 a gallon—the price of gas when his opponent took office. His campaign made up the difference in price to the station, and over 500 voters filled up. Comments from customers, according to a report in the Charlotte Observer included: "It's the best thing since peanut butter," and (from a Republican, no less): "That's the way to campaign."
Democratic House candidate Mike Weaver has held a similar event in Kentucky. So has John Cranley, running for the House in Ohio. A trio of Democratic hopefuls in Arizona weren't as bold (no cheap gas provided), but they did hold a campaign event in front of a gas station. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee recently sent out a memo urging other candidates to do the same:
"Demonstrate your dedication to fighting for middleclass families by clearly explaining how you will work to keep down the price of gas if elected to Congress. Hold an event at a gas station or other logical location where you call for a real commitment to bringing down gas prices and pledge that, as a member of Congress, you will fight for families in your district, not the oil and gas executives for which this Republican Congress has fought so hard."
This is a brilliant tactic which should be repeated immediately nationwide. The upcoming Labor Day weekend would be the perfect time to stage these events. Not everybody pays attention to politics, but almost everybody buys gas. And nobody's happy with the current price.
There are only three possible downsides to this stunt. The first is being accused of buying votes, but legally that's not going to go anywhere, as it's not technically any sort of quid-pro-quo for anyone's vote. Republican voters are free to fill up at the cheap price, too. The second possible problem is that Republicans running against sitting Democrats could actually pick up the tactic, but it's a much harder case to make against Democrats, since Republicans control both houses of Congress. The third problem is a long-term one, the fact that there really is no "magic bullet" to make prices come down at the pump, so voters might be disappointed if Congress goes Democratic and gas prices stay high.
Democrats could live with that problem, though, since they would be much more likely to pass legislation to attack the long-term problem: higher fuel economy (CAFE) standards for cars, and muscular development of alternative energy sources. If voters see Democrats moving forward towards freeing America from foreign oil, they'll be less upset that they can't get gas for a buck a gallon anymore.
So Democratic candidates should take note of both of these campaign tactics. Link sitting congressional Republicans to Bush every chance you get. A good rule of thumb: never say your opponent's name in a sentence without also mentioning Bush's failures. And hold cheap gas frenzies at your local gas station—it's a stone cold guarantee of good (and free) local media coverage.
Both of these are encouraging signs that Democrats are rediscovering how to run a good campaign. It's true that two vertebræ do not a backbone make; but it is indeed a step in the right direction.
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Chairman Howard Dean (Democratic National Committee)
Representative Rahm Emanuel (Chairman of the House's Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee)
Senator Charles Schumer (Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee)
[Note: I'll be on vacation next week, so my column will appear on Thursday rather than the usual Wednesday.]
—Published 8/30/06


The idea for Jimmy Neutron was first created by Davis in the 1980s, in which he wrote a script for a short film titled Runaway Rocketboy and starring a prototype character for Jimmy named Johnny Quasar. After coming across the abandoned script several years later, Davis decided that it would be a good idea to revisit it and retool it as a computer animated short and potential TV series. A 40-second demo was animated using LightWave 3D and gained popularity at the 1995 SIGGRAPH convention where it was shown off, grabbing the attention of Oedekerk and leading DNA Productions to develop an extended TV Pilot. After a successful pitch to Nickelodeon, a 13-minute-long TV episode was developed, and Nickelodeon, impressed with both the character and the 3D technology, raised the possibility making both a TV series and a full-length feature film. Davis, in turn, suggested that the film be made first, so that the development team could create the assets at theatrical quality and reuse them in the TV series. Production officially began in early 2000, and was completed in roughly 24 months, with DNA Productions considerably raising its staff count and expanding its studio space. Animation was done entirely using commercial software, including Lightwave and project:messiah.


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Hervé Tullet turned the world on its ear with Press Here. It was executed with such genius simplicity, that we all wondered why it had never been done before. With Mix It Up!, he holds to that simplicity and does for color what Press Here did for gravity.
Mo Willems (l.) and Herve Tullet in Bryant Park
Photo: Meg Parsont/Phaidon Press
The way Tullet plays with cause and effect is eye-opening for any child--from 1 to 92. And "play" is the key word. "Play is the work of childhood," wrote Jean Piaget in his Dreams, and Imitation in Childhood (W. W. Norton, 1962). Through play, a child learns how to resolve conflict, how to negotiate, when to lead and when to step back.
Tullet teaches, through play, what happens when you mix two colors (a new hue emerges), turn a book on its side (the paint runs down the page), and when the child places a hand on the page (you leave an impression). When Tullet and Mo Willems spoke together at New York's Books of Wonder in April 2013, they talked about the importance of play in their own work. "I want my books to be played, not to be read," said Willems, best known for his Pigeon picture books and his Elephant and Piggie beginning readers.
Both author-artists said they draw in order to free themselves. Isn't that play? Neither author admitted to getting stuck ever, nor are they afraid of getting stuck. Tullet quoted a jazz musician who once said that improvisation feels like falling, but you never actually fall. Willems said that each evening, he and his family and any dinner guests on hand all gather around the dining room table where they stretch a giant piece of paper and draw. His dining room walls have a chalkboard surface so they can draw there, too.
Tullet and Willems prove that the best work comes out of play. It's true for children; why shouldn't it be true for adults?
Posted by twentybyjenny at 7:48 AM
Labels: creativity, Elephant and Piggie, Herve Tullet, imagination, Jean Piaget, Mix It Up, Mo Willems, play, Press Here
Elizabeth Rose Stanton September 19, 2014 at 9:24 AM
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Popularly known for its premium business networking services, LinkedIn has decided to shut down its recently launched ad network program in order to focus more on expanding its Sponsored Content Business.
Following the likes of Google, Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn had launched its ad networking program last February to target users outside its own community, by using its own data. But the company had its plate full due to the Bizo Deal which grew out of proportions; so much so, that it made the company rethink about its Lead Accelerator plans.
Owing to the lack of resources, the company was forced to take a call on this matter. Let's see what LinkedIn's CFO, Steve Sordello wrote in LinkedIn's Quarterly Earnings statement.
As a result, we will phase out selling Lead Accelerator in the first half and incorporate the key technology into Sponsored Content throughout 2016. We will also deprecate Network Display through this process. In the short-term, the trade-off is roughly $50 million in potential revenue, but we believe this is the best long-term decision.
Amongst the two options, it was obvious for the company to place its bets on Sponsored Content, which Sordello says is the company's fastest-growing and most profitable venture. And going by its Quarterly stats, Sponsored Updates registered 85% growth, which for the first time accounted for more than half of the revenue generated by LinkedIn's marketing solutions.
However, the company made it clear that it will continue to offer ad support through other programs, which it initiated in the last quarter.
As per the Quarterly stats, the company's advertising revenue margin slipped to 21% as compared to the 24% it managed last year. While the company's Q4 ad revenue grew by 20%, which is nearly $183 million, on the year over year basis, its display ad revenue fell over 30%.
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[GAME MODE] Add 1v1 PVP with your opponent being a ghost car
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I'm really shocked this feature doesn't exist in Dirt rally. Is it because it's hard to implement? I remember playing this mode in first Colin McRae rally. Me and my friend would connect directly via modem and play a stage together. Currently the only true PVP we have is Rallycross, but what about ordinary rally stages for a 1v1 go? How it works: you drive your car and your opponent is driving his, on the same stage, at the same time, but he's shown to you as a ghost car, and vice versa. So, you're basically playing together without getting in the way of each other. Please make this happen, I hope it's not a big deal :blush:


Friends, families, and supporters walked an inspirational 1 mile with over 40 All-Stars to spread GiGi's Playhouse mission: "To change the way the world views Down syndrome and send a global message of acceptance for all".
There were 800 registered guests, plus hundreds of event day participants who joined us for our sixth Annual Walk & Fest at Scheels Arena!! Thank you to our sponsors and community for your donations. You helped GiGi's Playhouse in Fargo raise over $54,000!
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Kozhikode: A man stabbed to death a stranger in front of the City Police Commissioner's ..
Balussery: Three persons have been arrested for printing fake Indian currency notes from a house here. Acting on information, the police team reached the house around 1 am on Tuesday.
The arrested were identified as house owner Rajesh Kumar (45) aka Maninjery Muthu of Balussery, Wilbert (43) of Vytila and Vaisakh (24) of Nallalam.
Police seized counterfeit currency and machines used for printing from the first floor of the house. They also seized 74 bundles of printing papers from beneath a cot, each bundle has 200 sheets. The gang had printed currency in the denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 2,000. Investigations are on to find out the exact amount of counterfeit currency printed and circulated, said police.
Sophisticated machines were used for printing the fake currency. The arrested were involved in other cases and were imprisoned previously. They became friends while in prison. It is learned that Wilbert and Vaisakh had been staying at Rajesh's house for a long time. Crime branch official seized the machines and sealed the house.
With the arrest of the counterfeit currency gang in Balussery, the suspicion about similar local rackets is getting stronger. The friendship between the trio began while serving time at Kozhikode district prison.
Incidentally, Wilbert was serving time in a counterfeit currency printing case. Rajesh was serving time for possessing venison (deer meat). He was nabbed by forest officials from Wayanad. Vaisakh was imprisoned in connection with the Nadapuram bomb blast.
It is learned that after being released from jail six months ago, the trio remained in touch and hatched plans for printing counterfeit currency. Police suspect that Wilbert was the key cog in the case. The machines were brought to Balussery with the help of Wilbert.
According to the information received by police, the accused have been active in the area for over a month. Primary investigations suggested that the illegal currency notes were not circulated.


P&G's cologne and deo brand 'Old Spice' has launched a campaign, titled 'Smell Mantastic' with model Milind Soman as #MrMantastic.
What is really interesting about this campaign is the cheeky Twitter conversations with #MrMantastic, complete with personalised banner responses, which has struck a chord with people on Twitter.
Now check out this take on 'Times Now' anchor Arnab Goswami. Judging by some of the answers, Old Spice does not shy away from addressing any comment, giving as good as it gets.
Patterned on the international campaign which also ran in India (minus the shower scene!), it's nice to see an Indian campaign using Twitter so creatively.
The Aam Admi Party may or may not win many seats during the coming Delhi elections; but their aggressive PR drive has certainly struck a chord with the non-resident Indian community. As part of the Aam Admi Party's, "Adopt a constituency", groups of Indians from as far as South Korea, Washington, France, New Zealand, UK, Singapore and Seattle are working with various constituencies in Delhi to help out with the elections. This, inspite of the fact that the NRIs can't actually cast a vote, can only support the process.
From the Anna Hazare phase and the mass demonstrations in Delhi to today's high decibel radio and outdoor campaign, the Aam Admi Party certainly uses PR well to create its plank of being a corruption free party riding on the urban voter's support. Over the weekend, the Aam Admi Party was trending in the top ten with two different hashtags!
If they do well in the Delhi state elections, always a symbolically important victory, it will be in no small measure to a concerted and well planned political PR drive.
A self proclaimed sage, Shobhan Sarkar, claimed that gold treasure was buried at Daudiya Kheda in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh. This "great revelation" came to him in a dream. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has been excavating at the same spot after Shobhan Sarkar wrote to several government ministers and officials about his dream.
While the ASI denies that it is hunting for gold on the basis of a dream, the incident has hardly put a shine on the image of the country's premier archaeological body.
So far the ASI has said they have discovered glass bangles, shards of pottery and toys and a part of a wall that could be around 300 years old.
With literally thousands of monuments in India in poor condition, many significantly older than 300 years, the ASI would perhaps be better occupied in spending tax-payers' money in maintaining our rich and glorious archaeological past.


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Mignon Faget's Gulf Coast Jewelry Collection raises awareness and funds for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. The proceeds benefit the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.
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Panic Transmit 4 ~ my favorite FTP client for Mac OSX gets a slick major upgrade!
Definitely eye-catching Salsa packaging for an unknown brand to establish credibility & distinguish itself from the rest. Designed by Moxie Sozo, the packaging hand-drawn illustration is inspired by Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada.
VIDEOMassive Attack's 'Saturday Come Slow' video- Amazing sound generated visuals recorded at Cambridge University's audio labs.
Ambigram master John Langdon explains the "Illuminati Diamond" process for Angels and Demons.
Asics worked with Barcelona based boutique 24 Kilates on a special sneaker pack - the outcome is simply beautiful, especially the packaging and gadgets that come along with the sneaker.
Martin Wilson's photograph compositions are painstakingly created frame by frame in a certain order on 35mm film. Not a single shot wasted and no Photoshop.
A celebration of Louis Vuitton by stylist Katie Grand and photographer David Hughes.
Getting closer to Augmented Reality as intended with Laster's 'Smart Vision' spectacles.Currently being tested in the real world.
VIDEOCool indents created by Universal Everything's Matt Pyke and MTV WDS Milan.
In Spain, Nike installed a digital pinball for the new campaign "Write the Future".
Ernesto Neto is considered one of the absolute leaders of Brazil's contemporary art scene. These great installations are at the Park Avenue Armory.
'The Optimist' cool cast iron toaster by RCA students designed to age gracefully/own it for life.
Slick set of high end DJ-desks by Berlin's Metrofarm Studio.
38 of the UK's top authors have come together to create Ox-Tales, a four-book collection of short stories and extracts, with the book cover are designed based on the elements of Earth, Air, Fire & Water.
Beautiful design and concept by Jeremy Scott, for this new pair of Adidas Leather Wings 2.0.
Wattson by DIY Kyoto is an award-winning way to help you save money and do some good for the environment.
Brilliant, inexpensive design for potato, onion, and garlic storage from Orka.
A glimpse into the magic that took place at the Wish Come True Festival during Luminato from June 10 to 20, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario.
Naama Hofman's nice LED 001 desk lamp. Place it on a table, lean against a wall, or even just hang it on a wall. Available in any color.
Wonderful, limited edition jars from Stumptown Coffee Roasters. Designed by Duane Sorenson, founder and owner of Stumptown with the help of Jessie Whipple Vickery.
Naço Architectures was chosen to give a new look and create a new draw to Bar Rouge: A dazzling gem-studded interior design by the French agency based in China with its structures carved from taut lines and sharp edges.
A luxurious, yet intriguingly edgy addition to the world of jewellery, 'Violet Darkling' is the alter ego of New Zealand born designer Louisa Richwhite and a clever combination of wit, imagination and sophistication.
The original snowboard lamps! From Linus and Niklas Linder. Mounted with halogen bulbs, their Originals collection uses used boards, complete with scratches.
Bottle-shaped installation filled with junk autos to discourage drunk driving in Odintsovo, Russia. Commissioned by the Russian consulting agency Zavod collaborated and the Russian Union of Auto Insurers.
Christopher J. Raxworthy, a herpetologist with the American Museum of Natural History discovers some incredible creatures in Madagascar, like this Betsch's dwarf chameleon.
The NYtimes go inside Peter Buchanan-Smith's Tribeca Design Studio to discover the urban ax and other products and inspirations from the designer. Nice article on the story of Best Made Co.
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It isn't just the clothing that's a piece of art in this boutique- the Runway boutique in Ho Chi Minh City designed by CLS Architetti is dedicated solely to LUXURY and this interior almost puts the clothing itself to shame.
In addition to running HungerGatherer, NY designer Todd St. John has some really amazing experimental & non-commercial work on his personal site.
Sound Activated Drum Light by 326. Where music meets function. Utilising the classic lines of drum stand and snare. One tap of the drum activates a set of LED lights within the snare and one further tap turns them off.
A rhizome is a kind of root stalk. The Rhizome chair by Pratt students FI Outdoor, a division of Fabric Images, Inc. and T.E.N.T — Katherine Kania, Michael Dalotowski, Isobel Herbold, and Dave Irwin, Mark Parsons and Dragana Zoric.
This Transparent DSLR Camera bag let you take pictures in the rainy day, comes from Japan.
This bathroom design is the design of Duravit AG, Hornberg. This bathroom is equipped with facilities such as Spa and ac.


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Comment on the State and Religion-BECKER
I will follow Posner and try to discuss the general principles concerning the State and religion rather than the details of these Ten Commandment cases. To me, the overriding reason why the State should not make any law respecting the establishment of religion is the case for competition and against monopoly. Competition allows for entry of producers, including new religious ideologies, such as scientology and bahaism, or new forms of atheism, that cater better to the preferences and needs of people, be they spiritual needs or materialistic ones. Monopolies restrict entry, and hence preclude the entrance of producers with new ideas, including religious ones. Throughout history, religions have tried to use the State to give them a privileged and protected position, and in this regard have been no different than telephone companies and airlines that have used government power to keep out competition. This use of the State to foster particular religions is found in many Islamic societies that subsidize teachings and practices of Islam, the Israeli State that subsidizes Judaism, or some Christian nations that use taxes to pay the ministers' salaries. As Posner recognizes, many other groups also succeed in getting the State to support their activities, but two wrongs do not make a right. Governments should not support particular religions, or other groups that feed off the State. Competition usually increases the demand for a product compared to monopoly. As Posner indicates, this is one of the arguments Hume made against State-supported religion. Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations made a similar argument, and a quantitative study by Lawrence Iannoccone tested Smith's claim. He found some support for the conclusion that religions flourished more when competition among religions is greater. The US stands out in this regard, for it has several thousand "different" religions competing for members, and it is more religious than other wealthy countries. However, fundamentalist Islamic countries and Christian countries like Ireland and Poland do actively support a particular religion, and they also have relatively high participation in religious activities. So they are counterexamples to the Hume-Smith-Iannoccone thesis. Moreover, as Posner indicates, large state subsidies to one particular religion could lead to greater demand for religion than in an unsubsidized competitive environment. That is why I believe the case for free competition among religions comes mainly from competition providing opportunities for new religious belief systems, including atheistic beliefs, to cater better to people's desires. To repeat, the case for competition among religions is the same as the case for competition in other industries: to allow entrants with different ideas and points of view to compete for consumer time, money, and other support without any government favoritism. I support government-financed school vouchers for various reasons that I have discussed elsewhere. That includes support for vouchers for religious denominated schools, as long as they are available on equal terms to all groups, including explicitly atheistic ones. The State does have the right to exert control over the curriculums of schools taking government aid in one form or another. This control can include sharp limits on how much time a school can spend teaching religious doctrines, including doctrines against organized religions. I am not competent to discuss the legal aspects of the two Ten Commandment cases, but where does this analysis of the case for competition and a level playing field among religious doctrines come out on the issues raised by these cases? As Posner indicates, most of the Commandments deal with ethical issues that would be supported by all groups, and are not really controversial. Those that are sectarian--say to worship only one God--can be opposed on grounds that they support certain religions against atheistic groups, or even other religions. Consequently, I believe the principle of a level playing field argues against allowing religious displays, and many of the other displays on public property mentioned by Posner and in the Court's decisions. Still, these displays, including the Ten Commandments, are far more innocuous then the many laws that give monopoly powers to telecommunication companies, domestic airlines, farm products, and various other industries. So relative to the harm caused by laws that rig the playing field in these industries, the extensive agitation over the display of the Ten Commandments seems like a tempest in a teapot.
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Telecom Infra Project recruits Microsoft, BT, Airtel and more
While Voyager switch gets some new users
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With Facebook's Telecom Infra Project (TIP) now just over a year old, the open source initiative has added a bunch of new members.
Afrimax, Airtel, BT, Dish, Etisalat, Microsoft, Millicom, Nextel, Reliance Jio, TIM and Zain join more than 450 organizations that work together on advancing telecommunications network infrastructure with a model similar to that of the Open Compute Project.
Happy birthday, TIP
– Telcom Infra Project
"We know from our experience with the Open Compute Project that the best way to accelerate the pace of innovation is for companies to collaborate and to work in the open," Jay Parikh, global head of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook, said when the project was launched last year.
"To kick-start this work, TIP members such as Facebook, Intel, and Nokia have pledged to contribute an initial suite of reference designs, while other members such as operators Deutsche Telekom and SK Telecom will help define and deploy the technology as it fits their needs."
Since then, the initiative has expanded and evolved, with its most notable achievement being the Facebook-designed Voyager switch that Equinix tested late last year.
At Mobile World Congress this week, TIP offered an update on the roll-out of Voyager, with Telia and Orange confirming they plan to trial the switch.
The project also revealed that it has added Caroline Chan, VP and GM of the 5G Infrastructure Division at Intel, to its board of directors, replacing Lynn Comp, director of Intel's Market Development Organization.
New member BT plans to launch TIP Ecosystem Acceleration Center programs in London and Adastral Park in the UK this year, coming after SK Telecom and Facebook opened a similar center in Seoul.
London will additionally see a $170m investment fund for startups focused on telecom infrastructure, with investors including Atlantic Bridge, Capital Enterprise, Downing Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Episode 1 Ventures, IP Group plc, Oxford Sciences Innovation and Touchstone Innovations all involved.
On top of OCP and TIP, Facebook is supporting the OpenCellular project, an open source wireless access platform. At MWC, the group revealed that it is working with Cavium to create a 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced base station hardware and software platform.
As for Facebook's original open source project, OCP, things are still progressing swiftly. Next week, the Open Compute Project will hold its annual summit to show what it has achieved over the last year. DCD will be in attendance, reporting from the show floor.
Microsoft, AWS, Equinix, QTS & more criticize Dominion's fossil fuel plans in Virginia
Sony and Microsoft explore cloud gaming, AI partnership
Oracle loses DoD court challenge, $10bn Pentagon cloud contract to go to AWS or Microsoft
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Ultima Forever not exactly a Ultima IV remake
It seems that Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar isn't a simple Ultima IV remake, according to new info. The new game will actually take place 21 years after Ultima IV. There's still no sign of Lord British though, so we're safe there.
Lead designer Kate Flack told Joystiq that the team is still deciding on some details during the alpha, but she mentioned the following:
"Ultima 5, 6, 7, 8 haven't happened yet. Lord British is among the stars; he's no longer there. Lady British has now taken the throne and we've found that one Avatar isn't going to do it this time round, we need multiple Avatars and multiple people coming to try and repair the land."
The game will feature quest logs and a map to keep up with the times, but the goal is to maintain the spirit of the original [Ultima IV]. BioWare still didn't unveil any details on the cross-platform and how iPad and PC players will specifically interact.


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Policy Alert
Saudi Arabia's Soccer Setback
Riyadh's failed attempt to buy a high-profile English Premier League club will be examined closely by foreign investors and regional competitors alike.
On July 30, a consortium dominated by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced that it was ending its bid to buy Newcastle United Football Club for $390 million. When the consortium's interest in the sale was first revealed late last year, it represented both an investment prospect for the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and a way to encourage sport in the kingdom—a key feature of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman's "Vision 2030" plan for moving the economy away from oil dependence. Yet even before the coronavirus pandemic began raising questions about the long-term commercial viability of mass spectator sports, the proposed sale met with a chorus of opposition.
On the political front, Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of the late Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, campaigned loudly against the deal because the PIF is chaired by the crown prince, the man many hold responsible for Khashoggi's 2018 murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. (By contrast, the local Newcastle fan base seemed keen for the club to acquire a new owner willing to invest in top-flight players.)
On the commercial front, other Premier League clubs were concerned because they felt Riyadh owed them for lost revenues stemming from the activities of satellite broadcaster beoutQ. This shadowy, Saudi-based firm has been known to pirate the transmissions of the Qatar-based network beIN Sports, with which the league signed a licensing agreement for broadcasting games in the Middle East.
Perhaps the main sticking point, however, was the "owners and directors test," which gives the league final say on any club purchase. The essence of the test is that all owners, directors, and officers of league teams have to meet standards greater than those required under law so as to protect the game's reputation and image. Thus, despite Saudi media predicting for weeks that the deal was close to final, it became increasingly apparent that the PIF-led ownership group might not pass this test.
In its July 30 statement, the consortium explained its decision to withdraw as follows: "Unfortunately, the prolonged process under the current circumstances coupled with global uncertainty has rendered the potential investment no longer commercially viable." The "prolonged process" has also been accompanied by an odd string of legal developments. Two days ago, Riyadh formally appealed the World Trade Organization's past ruling that Saudi Arabia had facilitated the pirating of Premier League broadcasts. Confusingly, when Saudi media first commented on the ruling in June, they reacted as if the WTO had decided in the kingdom's favor. Around the same time, the Saudi government submitted a candidate for the ongoing selection process to replace the WTO director-general, who will soon step down. More recently, Saudi Arabia banned beIN Sports earlier this month, effectively making it illegal for anyone in the kingdom to watch top English soccer matches.
Despite all the controversy, the British government reportedly approved of the sale, and foreign ownership of English football clubs is well-established. Manchester City is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed, the brother of Crown Prince Muhammad bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi. And the American-owned club Arsenal plays in Emirates Stadium, a London edifice whose naming rights were sold to the state-owned UAE airline for a generous sum. Yet the Newcastle sale still fell through, reminding prospective foreign investors of the extent to which reputational risk can affect business deals with Saudi Arabia—and of the new economic circumstances that are defining the COVID-19 era.
Regionally, the story will likely prompt much gossip, especially since soccer remains the dominant sport in the Middle East. In addition to the UAE-owned Manchester City, Qatar owns a top French club, Paris Saint-Germain; Newcastle United would have been seen as Crown Prince Muhammad's club (previously, he showed interest in buying the storied Manchester United club, but he was rebuffed there as well).
Scandal aside, the PIF's withdrawal from the sale is probably a wise decision in financial terms, at least compared to its recent investments in other pandemic-shaken industries (e.g., cruise liners, foreign oil companies). Yet near-term judgments may be harsher in the sports media, which tends to view such outcomes through the lens of "winners and losers."
Simon Henderson is the Baker Fellow and director of the Bernstein Program on Gulf and Energy Policy at The Washington Institute.
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Having trouble with your iPhone is not common to many, but some people may encounter issues here and there. In trying to fix them, factory resetting an iPhone is usually the last option that one should attempt as it leads to a complete erasure of all your data and settings, and many users may want to factory reset iPhone without computer.
Part 3: Can Data from A Factory Reset iPhone Be Recovered?
One can never at any one time be careless about his/her iPhone privacy especially in case one wants to recycle resell or donate it. Hard resetting an iPhone directly from iPhone settings compromises the privacy part as it leaves traces of your private data which can be recovered using third party tools.
Anyone who considers privacy as a priority can consider using the iMyFone Umate Pro or iMyFone Umate Pro for Mac. However, this method calls for a computer.
iMyFone Umate Pro has the capability of keeping your personal files and data secure by erasing all your private files and information and leaving a zero chance of recovery by any tool or organization, including the FBI! It weeds out all the private fragments ensuring that the recipients of your iPhone can never retrieve the data.
Permanently wipe your iPhone's iOS data including messages, contacts, notes, reminders, pictures, and videos etc., with no chance of recoverability.
Erase private data for third-party apps such as WhatsApp, WeChat, Kik, Viber among others which might leak your accounts information if not wiped out altogether.
Erase also previously deleted files to make sure all your infos is totally secure.
Step 4.	Once the process finishes, all your iPhone data will have been erased and will be 100% unrecoverable.
Can Data from A Factory Reset iPhone Be Recovered?
This is a question that many who want to recycle, resell or donate their iPhones to new owners ask themselves. Privacy is a major concern as there are tons of sensitive data and personal information (contacts, notes, reminders, pictures, and videos) that are very relevant to our daily lives, which we would not want to be compromised.
Well, there is a possibility of recovering that data especially if you reset your iPhone directly from iPhone settings. This method wipes data only ones and never overwrites on it ending up leaving private fragments that can be recovered using the right recovery tools such as third-party applications.
However, all is not lost. For those whom privacy is a primary concern, there is a way of ensuring that the private data can never be retrieved by anyone using the iMyFone Umate Pro. Factory resetting your iPhone will be much safer using the Umate Pro as it erases all kinds of iOS data multiple times and even overwrites on it, leaving no possibility of recovery even by the right recovery tools.
All in all, one should be very careful when choosing the method to use when hard resetting your iPhone so that you can sell or recycle your iPhone securely, without worrying about exposing your personal information.


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Q: Yacc- Struct as incomplete or unknown type Here is my top of yacc file.y
%code requires {

    struct Id {
        char *var;
    };

    struct Commds;

    struct Commd {
        struct Id lhs;
    };

    struct Commds {
        struct Commd commd;
        struct Commds *next;
    };
}

I used this code in my %union to defined new types for parser.
%union {
    char *id;
    long long integer;
    struct Id Identifier;
    struct Commd Command;
    struct Commds *Commands;
}
....
%type <Command> command
%type <Commands> commands

I have no problem in using it with $$-dollars attributes while parse tree is building up while evaluating tokens from my lexer. Unfortunately I would like to use my structures which are defined in the beginning of the file in other methods in %{ codes %} section. Unfortunately whenever I define function  like this:
void add(struct Commd cmd) {...};

I am getting an error: unknown type! I would be grateful for telling me how to make this structs visible to my entire parser.

A: This error occurs usually because you have your union, tokens and types:
%union {
    char *id;
    long long integer;
    struct Id Identifier;
    struct Commd Command;
    struct Commds *Commands;
}
....
%type <Command> command
%type <Commands> commands

before C code in {% %} braces. You need to put this after {% %}. Basically you're saying that your terminal or non terminal has type struct Commd, but yacc doesn't know what struct Commd is because you included it underneath union code.
You didn't write whole code so I can only assume you've done this. If that is the case, this is your answer.

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President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has "volunteered" to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee about his dealings with Russian Federation, part of the committee's probe into that country's interference with the USA presidential election.
The letter comes the same day the House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Devin Nunes announced Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has also agreed to come talk to the committee. Schiff called the postponement a cancellation.
Nunes had said he'd canceled the public hearing so that Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey and the director of the National Security Agency, Adm. Mike Rogers, could testify behind closed doors about topics they'd said Monday they could not answer in public.
"I have seen intelligence reports that clearly show the president elect and his team were at least monitored and disseminated out", Nunes said.
Nunes told the press in his announcement Friday that it is up to Manafort to decide whether or not his testimony will be in an open hearing. It seems that maybe President Trump is having too much influence on Mr. Nunes as chair.
Nunes said the intercepted messages included foreigners talking to foreigners and did not involve Russian Federation.
In the wake of Nunes' actions, Schiff called for an independent commission to take over the investigation into President Trump's wiretapping claims.
Democrats said Nunes may have revealed classified information with his comments to reporters but the congressman's spokesman said that he did not. "Hey, look, I can't be doing so badly, because I'm president and you're not".
"He (Nunes) said he'll have to get all the documents he requested from the IC (intelligence community) about this before he knows for sure".
It also may mean that Nunes is just trying to make House Democrats sweat, particularly Rep. Adam Schiff, who has been out front and center, ragging on Nunes all week for telling the President about Obama's super-secret surveillance plans before Nunes told the committee's Democrats.
Page, who the White House has said was only loosely connected to the Trump campaign, emphasized he was not a campaign insider.
The scheduled witnesses, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, were in office when the purported hacking and disinformation by Russian Federation to influence the election took place.
Between the two men, there were more than 50 questions they declined to answer during the almost six-hour-long hearing. It is unclear whether the communications directly involved a Trump associate, or whether they featured two foreign individuals discussing a Trump associate.
Trump and his team's alleged ties to Russian Federation would "inevitably" be made public due to the FBI investigation, actions by Congress and a possible independent inquiry.
The Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee has nixed a public hearing on Russia's alleged involvement in the United States election.
Nunes said he was contacted by Manafort's lawyers.
Other media reports said he was a married father of three and a former English teacher who was into bodybuilding. Masood was known to police and MI5 but was a "peripheral figure" who was not implicated in any current probe.
He also sold off 58 businesses that lawyers identified as posing potential conflicts of interests, the documents state. The Kushner Companies have separately acknowledged "long-standing" dealings with two other Israeli banks.
In a speech in the Senate, Schumer cited the Gorsuch's "lack of candor" in the hearings and a "deep-seated conservative ideology". Schumer has previously said his party will oppose any choice not considered "mainstream" by the Democrats.
The company has been embroiled in a long standing tax dispute of over $2 billion that remains the subject of global arbitration. The tie-up is largely considered a reaction to the launch of Mukesh Ambania's Reliance Jio.


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Rookie Mistakes (Ethan Addie / PBH's Free Fringe)
By Paige Wilson | Published on Friday 31 August 2012
Ethan Addie is a young homosexual Australian who insists on calling himself a "faggot". I'm not sure whether this is reappropriation or a cheap attempt at laughs, but if doing this has a point, then it's not especially well conveyed; in fact it just seems ineffectual and derogatory. In a jumbled stand-up set, he jokes a lot about the rookie mistakes he made in his early days of being 'out'. Whilst one or two of the anecdotes work, the routine in general seems fragmented, disordered and messy; some stories come with too much detail, stifling the pace, while the constant fixing of hair and an unwillingness to make eye-contact is distracting and disengaging. There are glimmers of potential here and there which might mean there is a future for this young stand-up, but this show is a fitting example of one more rookie mistake.
The Street, 15-25 Aug, 6.30pm.
tw rating 2/5 | [Paige Wilson]
READ MORE ABOUT: Ethan Addie | PBH's Free Fringe


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Money promised for P.E.I. seniors housing after Fiona exposed issues
Opposition leader says response to seniors after the post-tropical storm was 'entirely inadequate'
Alison Jenkins · Journalist | Posted: Oct. 7, 2022, 6:47 a.m. | Updated: Oct. 7, 2022, 8:10 a.m. | 9 Min Read
The seniors living in this provincially owned building on 28 Hunt Ave. in Charlottetown had no electricity for 10 days and there was no back up generator. - Alison Jenkins
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The leader of P.E.I.'s Opposition party said the emergency response to seniors in provincially-owned housing after post-tropical storm Fiona was "entirely inadequate."
"The oversight of these homes needs to be improved dramatically," said Peter Bevan-Baker, when he spoke to SaltWire Network on Oct. 5. "I think we need to fund them better so the living conditions of the folks who live there are improved."
UPDATED: P.E.I. Marathon route changing after Fiona
Bevan-Baker toured Huntingdon Court in Charlottetown on Oct. 3, a complex that went 10 days in all with no electricity.
"They had not been checked, they had a generator that was operating some emergency lights in some common areas …, but no units had power at all and so, of course, no hot water, no lights, no telephone recharging capability," he said.
He said meals had been delivered, but not with any predictability. One resident told Bevan-Baker they had been promised food one evening, but none arrived.
"They were pretty dejected and concerned about being cold," said Bevan-Baker. "Just that level of abandonment … is utterly unacceptable, for any population, but particularly for an elderly, vulnerable, frail population."
Green Opposition Leader Peter Bevan-Baker said the emergency response to seniors in provincially-owned housing after post-tropical storm Fiona was "entirely inadequate." - Stu Neatby/SaltWire Network File Photo
Bevan-Baker said he toured a number of provincially owned seniors' housing units last year and noted "some pretty shocking deficiencies in the quality of the housing" that was "pretty universal throughout government-owned housing complexes."
"Leaking roofs, mould on walls, security systems that were not secure, issues with people coming into the buildings and sleeping on the couches in the common areas who were not residents there – there were some very serious issues outside of the lack of response after Fiona, which we have talked about many times in the house," he said.
"They were pretty dejected and concerned about being cold. Just that level of abandonment … is utterly unacceptable, for any population, but particularly for an elderly, vulnerable, frail population." – Peter Bevan-Baker
A household generator runs outside 34 Hunt Ave. on Oct. 3, providing hot water to one of two seniors' apartment buildings in the Huntingdon Court complex. Both Opposition and government MLAs say post-tropical storm Fiona has exposed the need for a wide range of improvements in these facilities. - Alison Jenkins
The Department of Social Development and Housing oversees the 104 buildings with 1,113 units of affordable seniors housing in 32 communities across P.E.I. Minister Matthew MacKay said they're working through the issues.
"We knew the storm was coming, to what extent, we didn't know, obviously. We didn't have a playbook to see the worst storm ever in Canadian history hit us the way it did, but it did," he said in an interview with SaltWire on Oct. 5.
He said his staff were "all hands on deck" and worked up to 100 hours a week to check on all the units and help out where they could. MacKay has a list of notes from these checks, and they include comments on the spirits of the residents if emergency lights were working and any storm damage to the interior.
Housing Minister Matthew MacKay said there are concerns with the buildings that have come to light after post-tropical storm Fiona. - Stu Neatby/SaltWire Network File Photo
MacKay said there are concerns with the buildings that have come to light after the storm.
"Some of the buildings are so old that we couldn't get generators hooked up into them, (the fire marshal) just wouldn't allow it," he said. "So that's one thing that we need to address immediately."
He also said many of the buildings need a lot of infrastructure upgrades.
"It's probably going to be the biggest budget capital ask for these seniors' units ever in the history of the province. We know they need work," he said. "These are all issues that we knew existed but at the same time, after the storm, it's created the desire to make sure that we do whatever we can to improve these units."
MacKay said there are a lot of issues, and the buildings need to be brought up to be safe for residents.
"We know the storms are going to get worse," he said. It's a thing that's happening with climate change, and we gotta make sure our buildings are ready and have another source of electricity and heat when needed."
A non-functioning generator sits outside the provincial seniors' apartment building at 28 Hunt Ave. on Oct. 3. Residents got their electricity back later that day — 10 days after post-tropical storm Fiona hit P.E.I. knocking out power to tens of thousands of Islanders. - Alison Jenkins
SaltWire Network has heard from at least one resident of a provincially owned complex who lost all their possessions that were in storage in the building, as well as their food in the fridge.
"We had no power, water, elevator for five days," they wrote in a message to the reporter.
"We were using flashlights to help less mobile people up and down the dark stairwells. (There was) water up to our ankles in the basement where our storage units were. No one came near us to help. I don't think it was much different in any of the seniors' low-income buildings."
This person wasn't willing to speak on the record for fear of losing their home.
"Absolutely not," said MacKay, when SaltWire put those concerns to him. "You can't fix anything if you don't know where the problems are at. … I hope they do speak out. We want to make these buildings better, we want to make them safe and we need to know – and the staff need to know – where the issues are. … I hope people feel comfortable to speak out."
MacKay said he's always available to hear concerns. Anyone who wishes to report an issue – either with or without their name – can contact housing services at 902-368-5770 to leave a message. There is also a toll-free line at 1-877-368-5770.
Alison Jenkins is a health reporter with the SaltWire Network in Prince Edward Island. She can be reached by email at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @ReporterAlison.
'It's been a little tough by times:' Some P.E.I. seniors in provincial complexes went without power for at least 10 days after Fiona
Bell Aliant blames 911 failure across Maritimes on software upgrade


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