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Coco Lounge Tasting
5640 Spring Garden Rd, Lower Level, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3M7 , Canada
YOUR INVITED TO A FOOD TASTING! Jericoe States has planing and cooking for years now, all in hopes to start his own Lounge/Bar here in Halifax! "
When Sun From 01/26/2020 to 01/26/2020 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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The Sand Hill Historic Walking Trail Map Exhibit (AMHERST)
150 Church Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia , Canada
The Exhibit features a full color self-guided visual map and promo material that will take you past the homes of politicians, preachers, midwives, merchants, stone masons, sports figures and a stage coach Inn...
When Sat From 02/01/2020 to 02/01/2020
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Young African Nova Scotians Leading Through Excellence
2285 Gottingen Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada
The upcoming African Heritage Month event combines the opportunity to mingle, network and hear from young African Nova Scotians paving the way in their professional fields.
When Sat From 02/01/2020 to 02/01/2020 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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Small Business Café Networking: TK Manyimo
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada
Meet, learn, and share your experiences and issues with other small business owners like yourself. Bring your business cards and get ready to connect.
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The Black Hair-Story of Nova Scotia: What's Your Hair Story?
51 Forest Hills Parkway, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia B2W 6C6 , Canada
Hairstyling has always been a tool for cultural expression. Prior to the 1940s, the uniqueness of Black hair care and its cultural importance had not been recognized or appreciated in Nova Scotia.
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A Walk Through Africville
147 North Foord Street, Stellarton, Nova Scotia B0K 1S0 , Canada
The official opening of "A Walk Through Africville"
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Exhibition Opening: Jamaican Nova Scotian Connections
1055 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia , Canada
Join us for the opening to see the new exhibition, enjoy presentations about the history of the Jamaican community in Nova Scotia, sample Jamaican food and hear musical performances.
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Black Is The New Black
1496 Lower Water St, Halifax, Nova Scotia NS B3J 3R5 , Canada
Networking - Panel discussion & full meal - Free event for young women age 19 - 35 - Black, Indigenous, People of colour (BIPOC) women
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119 Birchtown Road, Shelburne, Nova Scotia B0T 1W0 , Canada
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5795 Africville Rd, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3K 2R9 , Canada
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African-American Read In
22756 Highway 7, Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia B0J 3B0 , Canada
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4th Annual African Heritage Festival 2020: F.A.M.E
16 Sussex Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3R 1N9 , Canada
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That coffee stain? That's a deliberate part of the cover.
If you're my about my age and you were into comics in the 70s and 80s you no doubt remember where you were the first time you saw this cover.
Arrggggh.... I'm doing it again, I can feel myself getting tetchy and irritable and I haven't even started reading my comic stash for this week... and that pisses me off at myself, Lord only knows what it does to others..
So, as is my wont in such cases, I will make a conscious effort to accentuate the positive... and how better to start that than with the comic book equivalent of "Stupid Pet Tricks"?
Four pages from LOSH #21, "Endings: Part One," or, the battle of Metropolis.
I won't keep you in suspense: As of this issue, the Fatal Five are still the Fatal Four (three if you don't count Validus, who's floating in orbit where the Sorcerors' World used to be). This had better be the reveal to end all reveals after this buildup.
Art on this issue is by Jeff Johnson, who I don't believe has a tag.
Current Music: Doors, "This Is the End"
Sorry I'm so late with this gang, had minor surgery this week that's slowed me down. However, here's 4 pages from LOSH #20, "Vanishing World," the latest installment of the Fatal Five saga.
The plan, it seems to me, is not exactly coming together. Yet.
Tag notes: Mods, I accidentally clicked creator: francis manapul as well as actual artist Francis Portela's tag, can you delete? Also, I could've sworn we had a White Witch tag already?
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Hitler's British Love Child
HITLER'S lovechild could be alive and well and living in Britain.
That is the incredible possibility raised about Unity Mitford – an English aristocrat who was infatuated with the Fuhrer.
Torn between love for her homeland and dedication to Hitler, Unity – who was 25 and living in Munich at the time – shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany in 1939.
She is then said to have lived as an invalid with her mother in the Cotswolds, moved to a Scottish island in 1944 and died as a result of her brain injury aged 33 in 1948.
But Martin Bright, writing in New Statesman magazine, has told of a phone call from a woman called Val Hann, suggesting more of a story.
"Her aunt, Betty Norton, had run a maternity home in Oxfordshire during the war and said that Unity Mitford had been one of her clients," wrote Bright.
"Her aunt's business, in the tiny village of Wigginton, had depended on discretion and she had told no one except her sister that Unity had a baby. Her sister had passed the story on to her daughter, Val."
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Author: Gwenyth Dobie
A creator, director, teacher.
Expansive Thinking in Nature
October 16, 2017 Gwenyth DobieLeave a comment
Co-investigators: Gwenyth Dobie & William J Mackwood
Across our nation, and around the world, one can find artist residencies offering natural settings: forests, deserts, beaches, or ocean vistas. The implication being, these wide-open, sparsely populated spaces, free the mind for expansive, uninterrupted thought process. While there are studies indicating that an immersion in nature can improve higher-order cognitive performance (Atchley et al. plos.org), the conditions under which those benefits were achieved were unique, and rarely found in current artist retreats (ie. complete immersion in nature for four days without interruption). In addition, the quantitative-measurement of creativity, indeed even defining, "what creativity is, and what it is not, hangs as the mythical albatross around the neck of scientific research on creativity" (Prentky 97). This, together with identifying, isolating and quantifying the multitude of psychological and causal factors influencing creativity has proved to be challenging.
Though we are aware of the difficulties, the benefits are too great to ignore. A recent study commissioned by the Government of Canada entitled Innovation for a Better Canada (2016) reports that "Innovation starts with the creativity and ingenuity of people" (10). Our proposed research study agrees with this premise and posits that more conversation and opportunities are necessary in Canada for creative, innovative thought both within and outside the arts. For as the Innovation for a Better Canada study warns, "other countries are doing more and moving faster to spur innovation" (1).
We have historical precedence, a preponderance of anecdotal evidence, and the prima facie reality of a multitude of artist residencies situated and promoted around the idea that access to nature benefits creativity. However, if we accept those benefits as a fait accompli, we, as researchers, are driven to ask, what elements of a natural surrounding are the most effective for the creative thinker? How do managers of residencies balance the benefits of nature with the realities of participant's familial and professional responsibilities, or the need for creature comfort and relaxation with the rigors of the great outdoors? Is it the removal of distraction, or immersion in nature that benefits creativity, and if both, in what balance? Through a qualitative research methodology, this investigation will seek answers to the preceding questions.
This investigation is the first step in the long-term objective of developing a new centre for innovation on the west coast of Canada, will offer the co-applicants an opportunity to investigate existing artist residency facilities situated in natural surroundings within Canada. We aim to search out how, precisely, nature, or natural surroundings promotes creativity and innovative thinking. This new knowledge will, in turn, increase the understanding of those offering support to interdisciplinary researchers, contributing new perspectives on the efficacy of their facilities and methods.
Artists seeking inspiration through nature is certainly not a new phenomenon. In his book Artists on the Edge: the Rise of Coastal Artists' Colonies, 1880-1920, Brian Barrett explains that the coastal settings offered artists "freedoms to explore new avenues of interest, personally, and away from the narrow confines of the academic curriculum" (Barrett 104). The artist colony movement (that eventually spawned the Arts and Crafts Movement) in the United States was born out of an "underlying utopian theme: preservation of the simple life, nostalgia, and set of values threatened by industrialization" (Aldrich ii). It may still be true that artists seeking residencies outside urban areas are pushing away from the distractions and interruptions of modern life as much as being drawn to the natural settings.
Today, the organization ResArtis, promotes just under six hundred artist residence centers in over seventy countries around the world, with almost half of those being in a rural setting, while a further ninety boast nature, or a natural setting (res artis). The Alliance of Artists Communities lists fifteen hundred programs worldwide, with sixty percent of those in rural settings. The listed residencies are not only for artists as they list twenty "Arts + Ecology Residency Programs" offering programs: "engaging the public with environmental themes", "fostering rich collaborations between artists and scientists" and "supporting residencies that welcome leaders across fields and disciplines" (Alliance). In our own creative work with Out of the Box Productions we have always searched out nature settings such as Long Beach, Vancouver Island, or rural Salt Spring Island to hold our 'new work' development retreats. The connection and benefit between a natural setting and the effect on creative, innovative thought, for us, has always been self-evident.
While others have studied, for example, the effects of walking on creativity (Oppezzo et al), or the effects of interruptions on creativity (Wang et al), or the restorative benefits of nature (Kaplan), this unique study will investigate the synthesized factors that lead to increased creativity in a natural setting through a qualitative methodology. Our investigation will first attempt to resolve the overall question, why do creative people seek natural settings to enhance their creativity?
In his article, "The Restorative Benefits of Nature: Toward an Integrative Framework", Stephen Kaplan points to the "significant role that directed attention, a key psychological resource, plays in coping with challenges. In this perspective the role that natural environments play is a powerful one. Experience in natural environments can not only help mitigate stress; it can also prevent it through aiding in the recovery of this essential resource." His argument would indicate that people heading for residencies in natural settings may be doing so because they are tired or stressed, which may not necessarily be the case, though it is a factor worth exploring.
In a study on the "Effects of Interruptions on Creative Thinking" the investigators found that "one's creative thinking could profit from intermittent interruptions of low- cognitive resource requirements. However, when encountering interruptions that consumed excessive cognitive resources, one's creativity was hindered" (Wang et al. 7). And so, if a participant in a residency manages to avoid the moment-to-moment interruptions of modern life and technology (i.e. cellphones and internet distractions), this study would indicate an increase in creativity might result, and perhaps that may indeed be one of the major benefits of the residency the getting away. How realistic it is for participants to withdraw from their lives, given the ubiquitous and unrelenting pressure to stay in contact will be another area of investigation.
If restoration were the sole objective, the conditions would be easier to quantify as there are, in fact, identifiable criteria we seek for a restoration. For example, Kaplan identifies four components of a restorative environment[1] (174):
-'Being away', most often meaning a natural setting, even if that natural setting is found locally.
-'Fascination', in particular, soft fascinations (clouds, sunsets etc.) that hold attention but leave ample room for other thoughts.
-'Extent', a restorative environment must be of sufficient scope to engage the mind, to take up a substantial portion of the available room in a one's head. Even a small area, well-designed, can provide a sense of extent.
-'Compatibility', for many people, the natural environment is experienced as high compatibility, as if there is special resonance between a natural setting and human inclinations.
Still, at the very root of it, as we begin to measure the effects of a restorative natural setting, or the removal of interruptions that consume excessive cognitive resources on the creative process, the challenges mount, for the very task of defining creativity is problematic for quantitative research. In his article 'Quantifying Creativity: can measures span the spectrum?' Dean Simonton points out, somewhat tongue-in-cheek I assume, "Unfortunately, researchers have been somewhat too creative in their definitions, with over a dozen possibilities being suggested in the literature". He goes on determinedly to forge a three-part definition: (i) novel or original; and (ii) useful, adaptive, or functional (iii), surprising or "nonobvious". However, as he turns his attention to the measurement of creativity as defined, he states "it turns out that the options are, if anything, too numerous" and in regards to a comprehensive, cross-domain test for creativity, he concludes that "no such instrument exists", though he does offer suggestions for future research (100-101). We will therefore take a qualitative approach.
We aim to identify the various benefits sought after and possibly realized by the participants of creativity residencies set in natural surroundings. We will then synthesize the findings to offer qualitative evidence regarding the efficacy of strategies found in these types of residencies. The findings will benefit those who offer nature residencies and those who attend them, plus academics, non-academics, artists and innovators. At the very least, it will encourage a comprehensive discourse and exchange of research knowledge on the effects of nature on creativity and innovative thinking within and beyond the arts sector. We will enhance the profile of creative spaces and current practices of innovation in Canada.
[1] a condensed and/or paraphrased version of the list.
October 16, 2017 October 16, 2017 Gwenyth DobieLeave a comment
I'm privileged to be a member of the Acting Conservatory in the Theatre Department at York University, Toronto, Canada. It's a strong training program with a wide range of physical training methodologies, excellent voice work, acting classes and numerous devising opportunities. Some of the major tenets of our curriculum are: Actors need to be "real people in real situations" (often telling our young passionate students to please stop "acting" and just "be"); that acting is truly playing in the moment with the scene partner in front of you—allowing yourself to affect and be affected; that you must have the courage to reveal yourself: your dreams, your fears; your hopes, your vulnerabilities; to live truthfully.
However, with our company Out of the Box Productions www.outoftheboxproductions we have been extensively using intermedial and interactive technologies and critical questions have emerged: How do these tenets apply for the actor if their scene partner is Virtual? What if the performers are trying to affect a Kinect Camera? Do traditional training and creation processes support an interactive stage?
Susan Broadhurst wrote in her article Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance "I believe that new liminal spaces exist where there is a potential for a diverse creativity and experimentation. These spaces are located on the 'threshold' of the physical and virtual, and as a result tensions exist […] I suggest it is within these tension-filled spaces that opportunities arise for new experimental forms and practices." I believe it is our obligation to explore amid the human and technological exchange, to train our actors to work within the tensions between the flesh and the virtual; to embrace new staging modalities and new aesthetics.
During our research project Butterfly- a study interactive, we developed the term Animator to better describe the blend of knowledge, interests and investment needed of all participants for a successful outcome. Therefore we use the terms Animator Performer (AP) and Animator Technician (AT) when working in the world of intermedial and interactive performance.
This past month, on the creation and build of our most recent piece Rallentando- a restoration, I focused on new modalities necessary where technology creation is integral, and practice is acknowledged as intimately involved with conceptualization.
The following suggestions specifically address the needs and responsibilities of the Animator Performer (AP).
The AP must be an active consultant during the developmental process of intermedial performance. This demands that, for an integrated outcome, the AP stays in the room and in conversation with the ATs and with the technology. An increased understanding of what the AT is doing allows the AP to ask informed questions and actively feed into the project. Katja Kwastek in Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art articulates this as "Learning the Rules of the Game".
As we discovered during The Butterfly- A Study Interactive, there must be a fluidity of process. During the Rallentando creation/build the talented AP
Katelyn McCulloch worked extensively with the Kinect Camera to control discrete light and video events during Rallentando. In our debrief she reflected "The Animator Performer must remain in a place of "ready" while kinks are worked out which can be very tiring. You must stay present, keep your body warm and energy levels up so that when your Animator Technicians are ready you can jump in and do your job."
Equally, the Animator Technician must place himself in the role of the Animator Performer to understand the required embodied skills.
The use of intermedial and interactive technologies demands specificity and rigor in the physical training of the AP. Our training curriculum for actors at York University engages extensive and rigorous corporeal proprioception training so that the Animator Performer can perform with accuracy and repeatability.
The Animator Performer must become a scene partner with technology; establishing relationship with the virtual body. Earlier I mentioned Susan Broadhurst who spoke about tension-filled spaces that opportunities arise for new experimental forms and practices. In working with the Kinect camera, Ms. McCulloch stated "To work with a scene partner such as this you must stay open and not be thrown off when what you've planned in your head doesn't work out. It is a dance where no one person is leading."
The AP must learn to play with technology. Robert Wechsler stated in his article Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide "The best interactive performers we know are those with a sense of play. They have the attitude: 'If the machine is going to talk back to me, then I'll talk back to it.'" Again Ms. McCulloch reflected, "If you try too hard to control it, it will inevitably change its mind so you must find playfulness, an improvisational spirit and ease when working with new technologies."
For the Animator Performer, emerging interactive modalities require rigor, specificity, patience and a keen underlying sense of play. Kwastek states "Play cannot be pinned down in terms of fixed characteristics, but rather constantly oscillates between material and form, seriousness and pleasure, reality and artificiality, rules and chance, nature and intellect"
This text was my contribution to presentation that William Mackwood, Don Sinclair and I gave at the Conference Bodies on Stage: Acting Confronted by Technology, in Paris in June 2015. Our paper was entitled The Animator-Performer: emerging interactive modalities
October 9, 2017 October 16, 2017 Gwenyth DobieLeave a comment


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Major employer AkzoNobel secures 150 jobs after opening world's most advanced paint factory
The new manufacturing plant will make Dulux paint and has a carbon footprint 50% less than its old facility
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Manufacturing giant AkzoNobel has opened the world's most advanced paint factory in Ashington, securing 150 jobs.
The Northumberland plant cost more than £100m to build and contains state-of-the-art robots on their production lines which will be used predominantly to make Dulux paint.
To honour the North East's industrial heritage, each of the robots is named after one of the region's collieries, and many of the staff are ex-mine workers.
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Matt Pullen, AkzoNobel managing director for the UK and Ireland, said: "We have had a long history of association in the North East. We have a marine and protective coating site in Felling, which employs around 650 people, so we have a long history here.
"We needed a big site and a big space - one that is about 14 football pitches in size - and Ashington was perfect from that point of view. We also wanted to create a legacy and a community and Ashington was one of those places that needed employment for the future."
The new AkzoNobel manufacturing plant in Ashington, Northumberland (Image: Akzo Nobel)
The new facility is capable of doubling the company's UK production levels to 200 million litres of paint of year, the equivalent of 80 million 2.5 litre cans, which is enough to redecorate every living room, bathroom, and kitchen in the UK.
It has also been designed to be the most sustainable plant of its kind in the world. Along with reusing 100% of its waste water, AkzoNobel estimates that the new plant's carbon footprint will be 50% less than the facilities it is replacing.
While the investment at the plant has already secured 150 jobs in the region, officials at AkzoNobel suggested that more jobs could be created in the future.
Shirley Spoors, whose role as production manager involves overseeing a team of 75 staff, said: "At the moment we employ 150 people in Ashington and in the future the plant is designed to grow. It is the most sustainable plant in the world.
"The plan is that Ashington will grow and there is space for an additional two more filling lines."
Major North East employer AkzoNobel posts disappointing second-quarter results
The investment in the site shows a major commitment from AkzoNobel to remain in the North East, and has helped calm concerns that major manufacturers could consider leaving the UK after Brexit.
CEO Thierry Vanlancker said that the plant would be unaffected by Brexit as its major focus was on the UK market, although it would also export to Europe on a smaller scale.
He said: "Brexit is a major event in the UK, but for the plant in Ashington the key market served is the UK.
"As we have been indicating this is an investment in the long term.
"We are the big dog in the UK market for decorative paint. Whatever happens with Brexit, life goes on."
Ashington will also have a second Dulux Academy, a training centre for painters and decorators to provide them with the expertise they need, following on the from the success of the first £1.4m academy in Slough, Berkshire, which has trained 1,600 people in its first year.
Ashington is AkzoNobel's second major investment in the North East, alongside its Performance Coatings plant at Felling, Gateshead, which employs more than 800 people, out of a total UK workforce of more than 3,500.
The company is investing £11.5m in the creation of a technical innovation hub at the Felling site, work which involves a raft of local construction contractors.
£30m research facility places Gateshead at heart of UK's battle for clean energy
AkzoNobel made the investment in Ashington after making the decision to close two of its other UK sites in Slough and Prudhoe. While the Slough site is being slowly closed down by the paint giant, its Prudhoe facility has been sold off allowing many of its workers to remain employed.
In total AkzoNobel employs more than 1,000 people in the North East, but earlier in the year there were concerns that some of these roles would be cut if the firm was taken over by US rival PPG Industries. AkzoNobel survived the takeover after fending off three multi-billion pound bids.
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In the light of the insights Athanasius has given us in those posts, we can see that there is a close identity between that mission and the Logos himself, the One who proceeds from the Father to express his love, wisdom and purpose. Not that by this we should exclude the Spirit, who also proceeds from God. This Mission, in Christ and through the Spirit, unites not only our creation and salvation, but our own participation in the eternal outreach of God – there is an inherent call to action in the idea.
A few years ago (like eighteen – ouch), in completing an assignment for a theology course, I decided to buck the system by cramming the whole of Missio Dei, creation and salvation history into a three minute pop song. Songs are akin to Japanese haiku poetry in some ways – you can put a whole world into a small space, and in this case I tried it with an entire Universe, though it stretched to four minutes with the repeats.
Destroying the beauty nature gives us freely.
Each family can grow with health and vitality.
Destroys the family, alienates children, and oppresses women.
Suffering anxiety, neurosis, and insecurity.
Deluding man's heart, destroying his sense.
The spirit within him is un-nourished, imprisoned.
Whose will is for mankind to live and be free.
Into the resurrection and the Way of Life.
Thanks for posting those words GD. I did a darker version of my own, in a different style, about the application of intelligence without wisdom. Link to Clever Fellow. Enough lyrics already on this page, so you'll have to use your ears!
Jon: some time, you might like to discuss the difference between "to create all things from nothing" and "to create all things". After all, from nothing comes nothing.
I'll have to wait till unti I can crib what Ted Davis has to say on ex nihilo creation via Ted Peters over at BioLogos: a good series so far.
My first reaction, though, is that the axiom follows the logic of efficient material causation. Material things are caused, and that trail can't end in complete non-existence. So Krauss's "nothing" is, in fact, something, but not matter (although it is the kind of quantum vacuum that itself requires explanation). Analogously, "nothing" in Christian theology isn't strictly "no thing", but God alone, who doesn't require explanation and so breaks the regression.
Just as the endless regression of causality ends in him – whose causelessness we can't really comprehend – so, I guess, the ability to make matter-energy-information from nothing is equally in a realm to which we have no access. After all, we have no real idea of what matter and energy are in their own right, let alone their relationship to God. Can I phone-a-physicist?
Jon: you remind us that: "nothing" in Christian theology isn't strictly "no thing", but God alone.
How can anyone ever mistake God for 'no thing'? Or even say it?
Language fails at that point – God is not no thing, nor is he a thing, now is he (strictly) a person. And of course he is the Creator, not the stuff from which he creates (from nothing…).
It is very difficulty to discussing 'something from nothing' and in fact scientific terminology is more likely to use words that can be meaningful to science (as these may be observed in some manner) such as a vacuum, or to use terms that mean an absence of all matter, energy, time and space.
Our language problem is compounded by the way we link or equate a term with its meaning. Thus theologically I am inclined to think in terms of what has been revealed to us in language that is meaningful within the context of the particular revelation, and then it is up to me on how I reason on the matter, within my own limitations.
"How did God create out of nothing," is a incorrect use of words. What we would understand is that all that we can comprehend as the creation, or all that we may, or will ever know as existing, is because God as Creator has brought it into existence, or created it as such. Our limited capacities would reason that nothing can be contemplated by human beings outside of all that we know or can possibly know – it is this negation of everything that we would understand as nothing. I thing the Gospel according to John makes this clear.
A common scriptural justification for creation ex nihilo is Heb 11:3. It does not present the idea in any pristine philosophical sense. It says that what is seen was not created out of what is visible. There are various directions in which that statement might be taken. There is a kind of quasi-Platonism in Hebrews (as in other places in the NT), most easily seen in 8:5, where it recalls that Moses was told to create the visible, material tabernacle according to the pattern shown him on Mt. Sinai–God's plan for the temple as a visible representation of preexisting, invisible spiritual realities (cf. 2 Cor 4:18).
The notion (faith .. so that..) is that things that are seen were NOT made of things which do appear, which I suggest equates with a negation of what we understand on the material world in time and space.
I remember reading something to the effect that "visible" in Heb 11 was as close to "existent" as Greek could get – and maybe had some kind of technical, philosophical meaning to that purpose. I may have put it in a post, but I can't find it to check it out just now.
In any case, I don't think it could bear the sense of merely "stuff you can't see", like primal matter for example. So it's either "nothing" or "only in the mind of God", both of which seem to be consistent with the busual Christian understanding of ex nihilo.
The linkage with creation "by the word of God" points toward God's "thinking" the creation into being. In the OT and NT, acts of speaking and thinking are not sharply distinguished. Let me be clear that I make no brief for the eternity of matter; quite the opposite. However, it is also true that in Genesis, when God begins speaking creatively there is already an unformed earthly creation in view. I think that reason must supplement Scripture in this area.
I go with Walton on thinking that the Genesis 1 account simply adopts the kind of questions its readers were interested in, that is "How was the cosmos brought to order?" Since the origin of matter was of relative indifference in that whole ANE culture, it's part of the background rather than the subject matter.
So the question of ex nihilo belongs, possibly, to a later set of enquiries, but certainly to a different literary context.
As you say "Logos" is part of a mindset in which divine thought and speech (not to mention action) are closely connected. To me that counters the idea I've sometimes heard fielded to the effect that God simply said, "Do me a world" and, as it were, left the details up to the world, as a President might leave the details to his staff.
Rather one has to consider that, unlike an earthly ruler, God's word of command contains in it the whole content of causation. If I make a decision to pick up a pen, most of the necessary efficient causes – from individual nerve and muscle potentials to the underlying physics – are unconscious, though I actually execute them towards my primary goal.
So however the metaphysics of concept/actuality works out, reality is in totality, a reflection of what is already complete in God's mind.
This discussion is interesting, but I would add this: ONLY the Holy Spirit knows the 'things' (using human language) of God – thinking and speaking are words we use to each other. While I also 'think' in thus way, I am conscious that if I discuss what God may say or think, then my meaning is (obviously) limited and thus insufficient.
Nonetheless a really interesting topic to think on and discuss. I esp. like the approach in Gosp John, where the Word is discussed as both God, speaking, reason, creative act, and so on……, but it is always ONE and is GOD.
I was aware, using the term, "mind of God", of the need to hedge everything around with analogical warnings. The mediaeval insistence that what we know of God intellectually is principally from what he is not.
On your last point, I'm also often impressed with the way John also blurs the distinction between Christ the Word and the word of the gospel, on Jesus's own or on the disciples' lips.
In salvation, as in creation, God's plan, his purpose personified in the Son, its declaration in speech and its effectual fulfilment in the world are all encompassed in that "Logos" concept.
It is the case the "Logos" is all encompassing – thus even though I appear somewhat harsh on the BioLogos site, I must say that at times I despair when I seriously think on their discussions – even using Bio with Logos should make them stop and think (?). If it is the Logos that they are interested in, then IT IS ALL ENCOMPASSING to a Christian. I am sure they do not think otherwise (except for those who waffle about Christ, but then so what); however, people such as Dennis (and some others) who think that once we accept Darwin we are all good, seem to have developed a blind spot to the LOGOS.
I will add this – even though I have been a Chemist from the first day I held a test tube (very young), I have NEVER expressed a reverence, nor a dogmatic position, on anything in Chemistry. I thus remain astonished on the attitudes I have encountered regarding Darwin and his ideas.


He comments: "All my life I've been obsessed with planes, trains and automobiles"
Sir David Jason is to travel the US Pacific coast for a new transport-themed TV travel series.
Channel Gold has ordered David Jason: Planes, Trains & Automobiles, a five-part series, to broadcast next year.
Each of the hour long episodes will see the Only Fools And Horses star "exploring both the rich heritage of iconic American transport and glimpsing the high-tech future on offer" as he travels the US west coast by road, rail and air.
Producers explain: "Train buff, one-time mechanic and pilot Sir David Jason will embark on an epic month-long journey in this special UKTV Original travel documentary series. It will take him north to south, from Seattle to Los Angeles, travelling on the iconic Amtrak Coast Starlight train. It's the biggest and best train he's ever been on, hugging the majestic west coast of the USA in all its 28-stop, 1,300-mile glory; truly the realisation of his lifelong ambition."
David Jason says: "All my life I've been obsessed with planes, trains and automobiles. And, of course, I'm well known for my association with the odd motor (including a certain three-wheeler). The west coast of America has seen - and is still witnessing - some of the greatest innovations in transport history - I can't wait to find out for myself how they do things over there. It's going to be fun, it's going to be entertaining, and I get the feeling I'm going to learn a great deal about this part of the world on my journey too."
The channel explains: "This all-American travel experience captures numerous pit stops and excursions along the way as David disembarks for a series of encounters discovering the unique, pioneering history of the West Coast.
"A huge fan of all things mechanical, David also time travels between experiencing astonishing feats of engineering of the past to cutting edge technology of the near-future - everything from riding 100-year-old cable cars and Harley Davidson motorbikes, to flying on a legendary DC3 vintage airliner, driving the latest American Super Truck and investigating the prospect of sub-orbital space flight."
Last year, Gold celebrated 25 years on air with the documentaries David Jason: My Life On Screen and The Story Of Only Fools And Horses. They will work with production company Shiver again on this new project.
UKTV's Iain Coyle says: "I'm so delighted to be working with Sir David again. I'm sure he, and the good people at Shiver, are going to take us on a fascinating journey, as he has the energy and inquisitiveness of a man half my age."
Gerald Casey, channel director for Gold, comments: "It's a privilege for us to be working with Sir David Jason again and I'm delighted we'll get to share his passion for all things automotive. I can't think of anyone better to take the Gold viewers on a long vacation Stateside."
Executive producer Mike Blair adds: "This is a route that not only takes in some of the must-do 'bucket list' all-American travel experiences, but also reveals just how this part of the world has led the way in innovation. Everything there is bigger, better, faster... we're so looking forward to going with David on this journey of a lifetime."
David Jason: Planes, Trains & Automobiles will air on Gold in 2019.


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初学iOS编程,没仔细考虑就决定用Swift语言进行开发的确欠妥,不过事已至此,也不能给自己不学OC找借口,不管怎么说,自己就是菜鸟一枚,Android学了点皮毛就转战iOS了,希望今后能多写点东西,加深自己的印象并且更好地理解。

开发中不可避免的需要在页面间传值。在Android开发中自己最常使用的是在Intent中传递值,当然这种情况是有页面跳转时用的,还有就是对应的startActivityForResult, 而平常存储少量简易数据时可使用SharedPreference的存取随时来进行访问。再来就是BroadCast和Receiver了。那么iOS呢?今天参阅了许多文章,以下大多摘自
http://blog.shinetech.com/2011/06/14/delegation-notification-and-observation/

iOS中的相关机制有以下三种:

1. Delegation

2. Notification Center

3. Key Value Obesering

首先介绍一下这三种机制是什么:

上述的三种机制都是两两对象不需要耦合而进行相互通信的方式, 即controller之间不需要相互依赖就能知道自己需要的消息、事件的发生。

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September (Early December) 2015
• Sat., Dec. 19: Away Mission: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Away Mission to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
7:30 p.m., Saturday, December 19, 2015
Regal Hollywood 24 @ North I-85
3265 NE Expressway Access Rd
Chamblee GA 30341
It's almost finally here! The long-awaited seventh Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens, directed by former Star Trek film director J. J. Abrams, finally hits the theaters on Friday, December 18. And while there is no doubt that some of our members and friends will insist on seeing it on Friday—or possibly even late Thursday night—the Republic hopes you'll join us for this very special away mission on Saturday, December 19, in order to avoid what is sure to be huge crowds on Friday. A discussion about what day to see this movie on was held at our Early Fall Dinner Meeting in October and the overwhelming consensus was that Saturday the 19th was preferred over Friday the 18th, so if you'd like to join us for your first viewing of this movie... great! If you can't wait and must see it on Friday, and would like to join us on Saturday for your second (or third... or fourth...) viewing, that's great, too! In either event, it would be great for the USS Republic to make a strong showing, either in costume or not. Please join us!
Please join us for the 7:30 p.m. showing of the 2-D format on Saturday, December 19, at the Regal Hollywood 24 in Chamblee. The ticket price for adults is $13.05 each, which is only two dollars more than the last matinee-priced screening at 1:30 p.m. but still four dollars less than the 3-D format screening at 8:00 p.m. As of press time, Regal management assures us that there are still plenty of seats available for that particular screening, but as we get closer to the weekend, they might go fast, so please go ahead and purchase your ticket(s) NOW by clicking the handy blue "Buy Tickets Now" button to be taken to that screening's Fandango order page. After the movie, please assemble in the lobby for our traditional group photo! We'll see you there!
USS Republic Holiday Potluck Party, Member of the Year Award Ceremony & Star Trek Concert Ticket Giveaway
8:00 p.m., Sunday, December 20, 2015
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North DeKalb Mall, Westside Entrance
2050 Lawrenceville Hwy, Decatur GA 30033
It's one of the most important occasions of the year! Make plans to attend the USS Republic's annual Holiday Potluck Party on Sunday, December 20, at Challenges Games & Comics in North DeKalb Mall in Decatur! All members and friends of the USS Republic are cordially invited to attend!
Has it been a year already? Look who came to last year's party! Seated: ENS1 Richard Tucker, CDT4 Zarena Nova Tucker, ENS1 Zannetta Law Tucker. Standing: Ens Tina Louise Jones, Eric Jones, Ens Vicki Greve, Ens Gaylen Greve, ENS1 Tracey S. Harwell, Ens John May, Ens Carly May, Adm Kelly Hilliard, XO Adm Mike Henigan, ENS1 Sue Lin Lange, "Ensign Wolfy," CO FCapt Eric L. Watts, Chris Jones.
Our Annual Holiday Potluck Dinner
FCapt Eric L. Watts will once again be cooking a turkey for all to enjoy, so please bring your own favorite side dish or dessert to help make this a holiday feast! The Republic will also be providing a selection of adult libations, but feel free to BYOB and enjoy yourselves responsibly. Please plan to come for an evening of fun, festivity and friendship!
Member of the Year Award
Around 9:00 or so, Captain Eric will present the USS Republic's Member of the Year award to someone whose service to the chapter in 2015 deserves special recognition. Please plan to attend, bring a couple of friends and a side dish or two, and spend an evening with your friends and shipmates aboard the USS Republic!
Star Trek Ultimate Voyage Concert Ticket Giveaway
At the end of the evening, we'll be giving away to a lucky individual a FREE pair of tickets to the Star Trek Ultimate Voyage concert at the Fabulous Fox Theater on January 30! YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN! So please plan to attend, bring a couple of friends and a side dish or two, and spend an evening with your friends and shipmates aboard the USS Republic!
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Away Mission to Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage Concert
8:00 p.m., Saturday, January 30, 2016
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Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage brings five decades of Star Trek to concert halls for the first time in this galaxy or any other.
This lavish production includes an impressive live symphony orchestra and international solo instruments. People of all ages and backgrounds will experience the franchise's groundbreaking and wildly popular musical achievements while the most iconic Star Trek film and TV footage is simultaneously beamed in high definition to a 40-foot-wide screen.
The concert will feature some of the greatest music written for the franchise including music from Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and much more. This never-before-seen concert event is perfect for music lovers, filmgoers, science fiction fans and anyone looking for an exciting and unique concert experience.
USS Republic Away Mission!
Save the date and make plans now to join your friends and fellow Republic crewmates for this awesome once-in-a-lifetime musical event! But don't buy your ticket yet! The Republic has been working to secure a group discount on tickets for our crew but we'll need to collect payment for a minimum of ten tickets in advance. We're still working with the Fox on the exact price of the tickets, so please stand by and hopefully we'll have all details confirmed and announced by next issue. In the meantime, it would be helpful to know who's planning to attend this concert so we can give the Fox an idea of how many tickets we'll be buying... obviously, the larger our group, the greater our discount is likely to be. At the moment, the price of tickets will likely be somewhere in the high 20s. So if you're planning to join us, please contact the Captain and let him know to put you on the list! Thank you!
Four additions to Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards panel of judges
Treklanta is pleased to announce that Matthew M. Foster, Robert Greenberger, Lawrence M. Schoen and Bjo Trimble have joined our panel of judges for the 2016 Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards. Treklanta is the annual Star Trek and space opera convention hosted by the USS Republic, and the Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards were introduced at this past year's convention.
Matthew M. Foster has been the director of the Dragon Con Independent Film Festival for the last decade, bringing the best in genre short film to Atlanta. Naturally, this has meant fan films where he's encouraged the filmmakers to go beyond fun videos into real art. Through no desire of his own, he's become adept in the legal aspects of fan films and has worked with filmmakers on the reality of operating with intellectual properties held by others. Mr. Foster is a fixture on the con and festival circuit, acting repeatedly as judge, speaker and even the Master of Ceremonies at TromaDance. Recently, he's spoken at the Nebula Award Weekend as part of a course on copyright law for lawyers, and is working on the literary estate of his wife, author Eugie Foster.
Robert Greenberger is a writer and editor. A lifelong fan of comic books, comic strips, science fiction and Star Trek, he drifted towards writing and editing, encouraged by his father and inspired by Superman's alter ego, Clark Kent. He is the sole author of four Star Trek paperback novels (The Romulan Stratagem, Doors into Chaos, A Time to Love, A Time to Hate) and the coauthor, with Michael Jan Friedman, Peter David and/or Carmen Carter, of three more (Doomsday World, The Disinherited, Wrath of the Prophets). He is also the author of ten additional Star Trek short stories and novellas published in various paperback anthologies and the coauthor, with Michael Jan Friedman, of Q's Guide to the Universe, a Star Trek reference book. Mr. Greenberger wrote the script for DC Comics' Star Trek #28 (1986) and served as editor of the monthly series for three years.
Lawrence M. Schoen holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology, with a special focus in psycholinguistics. He spent ten years as a college professor and has done extensive research in the areas of human memory and language. His background in the study of human behavior and the mind provide a principal metaphor for his fiction. He currently works as the director of research and chief compliance officer for a series of mental health and addiction recovery facilities in Philadelphia. Dr. Schoen is also one of the world's foremost authorities on the Klingon language. He founded the Klingon Language Institute in 1992 and since then, has championed the exploration of this constructed tongue and lectured on this unique topic throughout the world.
Bjo Trimble is a significant figure in the history of science fiction fandom in general and Star Trek in particular. She and her husband John launched the successful "Save Star Trek" campaign, generally credited with allowing the original series to run for a third season rather than being canceled after two. They also ran the campaign to have the first of NASA's space shuttles named Enterprise. Mrs. Trimble's efforts earned her an uncredited role as a crew member in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, in the Recreation Deck scene. Mrs. Trimble authored the first encyclopedic collection of data for Star Trek, The Star Trek Concordance, which contains cross-referenced details on every character, setting, event and device in every episode of the original Star Trek, its animated incarnation and, in later editions of the book, the Star Trek films. The Concordance was used as a primary source of official canon by writers of the Star Trek universe when he first started working at Paramount. Mrs. Trimble and her husband John have been previously announced as our special Fan Guests of Honor at the 2016 Treklanta convention.
Foster, Greenberger, Schoen and Trimble join previously seated judges Diana Dru Botsford, Keith R. A. DeCandido and Rick Sternbach. The Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards Ceremony will be held on Sunday, April 17, 2016, at Treklanta. Memberships to Treklanta are currently only $35 for adults until the end of December. Please visit www.treklanta.org for more information about Treklanta and the Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards.
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USS Republic & Treklanta Dinner Meeting || October 17, 2015
ENS1 Richard Tucker, CDT4 Zarena Tucker, ENS1 Zannetta Tucker, Ens Jeff Jansen, Matt Steinberg, FCapt Eric L. Watts, Ens Gaylen Greve, Ens Vicki Greve, Lt. JG Tiffany Johnson, Lt. JG Lee Johnson and Kathy Wynn discuss chapter and convention business at Marlow's Tavern in the DoubleTree by Hilton Atlanta Northlake hotel
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The USS Republic NCC-1371 was originally commissioned as a chapter of STARFLEET International on May 14, 1988, at the Dixie-Trek convention in Atlanta, Georgia. As of December 14, 2015, the Republic crew includes 35 members who are active members of STARFLEET in good standing.
The Republic plans and coordinates an active schedule of events for its members, but does not hold meetings on a consistently fixed date each month.
Because the USS Republic is a duly commissioned chapter of STARFLEET International and is bound and governed by its Constitution and By-Laws, membership in STARFLEET is a prerequisite for membership in the Republic. STARFLEET dues for one person are $20 for a "Standard Membership" or $10 for an "E-Membership" and chapter dues are $10 per person for either membership option. A combined payment for all dues is collected by the Republic (family discounts are available with certain conditions and restrictions). Additional information about the two STARFLEET membership options, amounts due for additional family members, payment options and payment instructions is on the "How to Join" page of our award-winning web site.
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New Star Trek series premieres January 2017
By StarTrek.com Staff
CBS Television Studios announced today it will launch a totally new Star Trek television series in January 2017. The new series will blast off with a special preview broadcast on the CBS television network. The premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the United States on CBS All Access, the network's digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service.
The next chapter of the Star Trek franchise will also be distributed concurrently for television and multiple platforms around the world by CBS Studios International.
The new program will be the first original series developed specifically for U.S. audiences for CBS All Access, a cross-platform streaming service that brings viewers thousands of episodes from CBS's current and past seasons on demand, plus the ability to stream their local CBS television station live for $5.99 per month. CBS All Access already offers every episode of all previous Star Trek television series.
The brand-new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966.
Alex Kurtzman will serve as executive producer for the new Star Trek TV series. Kurtzman co-wrote and produced the blockbuster films Star Trek (2009) with Roberto Orci, and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) with Orci and Damon Lindelof. Both films were produced and directed by J. J. Abrams.
The new series will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Kurtzman's Secret Hideout. Kurtzman and Heather Kadin will serve as executive producers. Kurtzman is also an executive producer for the hit CBS television series Scorpion and Limitless, along with Kadin and Orci, and for Hawaii Five-0 with Orci.
Star Trek, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016, is one of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time. The original Star Trek spawned a dozen feature films and five successful television series. Almost half a century later, the Star Trek television series are licensed on a variety of different platforms in more than 190 countries, and the franchise still generates more than a billion social media impressions every month.
Born from the mind of Gene Roddenberry, the original Star Trek series debuted on September 8, 1966, and aired for three seasons—a short run that belied the influence it would have for generations. The series also broke new ground in storytelling and cultural mores, providing a progressive look at topics including race relations, global politics and the environment.
"There is no better time to give Star Trek fans a new series than on the heels of the original show's 50th anniversary celebration," said David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios. "Everyone here has great respect for this storied franchise, and we're excited to launch its next television chapter in the creative mind and skilled hands of Alex Kurtzman, someone who knows this world and its audience intimately."
"This new series will premiere to the national CBS audience, then boldly go where no first-run Star Trek series has gone before—directly to its millions of fans through CBS All Access," said Marc DeBevoise, Executive Vice President/General Manager, CBS Digital Media. "We've experienced terrific growth for CBS All Access, expanding the service across affiliates and devices in a very short time. We now have an incredible opportunity to accelerate this growth with the iconic Star Trek, and its devoted and passionate fan base, as our first original series."
"Every day, an episode of the Star Trek franchise is seen in almost every country in the world," said Armando Nuñez, President and CEO, CBS Global Distribution Group. "We can't wait to introduce Star Trek's next voyage on television to its vast global fan base."
CBS All Access offers its customers more than 7,500 episodes from the current television season, previous seasons and classic shows on demand nationwide, as well as the ability to stream local CBS stations live in more than 110 markets. Subscribers can use the service online and across devices via CBS.com, the CBS App for iOS, Android and Windows 10, as well as on connected devices such as Apple TV, Android TV, Chromecast, Roku players and Roku TV, with more connected devices to come.
The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond, to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016.
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Star Trek 4 is happening, which is great news financially for its stars
By Sean O'Connell
Paramount has made a move that solidifies the franchise for the future... and made the two centerpiece actors of the series a lot richer.
Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, who play Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock respectively, have renegotiated their deals to now include Star Trek 4. With the move comes raises, with new salaries of about $6 million for each actor—significant increases of what they made for Star Trek and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. Pine earned $600,000 for his role in the initial Trek movie, primarily because no one knew if J. J. Abrams' timeline reset would work. He was paid $1.5 million for Into Darkness and will make an alleged $3M for Star Trek Beyond. The number just keeps climbing as the franchise soldiers on.
Paramount was in a tough spot because the members of its Star Trek cast are only getting more successful and, as a result, more expensive. Aside from Pine, who has appeared in Jack Ryan reboots and Horrible Bosses 2, the new Trek family has to eventually afford Karl Urban, Simon Pegg (who is co-writing Star Trek Beyond), John Cho, Anton Yelchin and–wait for it—Zoe Saldana, who has Marvel and James Cameron vying for her time. The actress has roles in James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and multiple Avatar sequels that will be demanind her time. If Paramount wants her to keep playing Uhura, they are going to have to pay her in similar ways to how they are paying Pine and Quinto.
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Build the project. After it completes, in the project navigator, open the Products folder and right-click on appledoc, and Show In Finder. Copy that file to your /usr/bin folder. (There is some discussion over which folder, read here. Ultimately it 'just works' in /usr/bin) Do this every time you update the appledoc project.
Documentation is generated in your project by creating a target designed to do this task.
Click on your project name at the top of the Project Navigator in Xcode, and you should see the settings screen in the main panel. Add a Target, of type Aggregate. Call it Documentation.
This target basically needs to do one thing: Run a Script. So, add a build Phase of type Run Script. We will come back to this later.
So now that you've created that, import it into your Xcode project for easy editing. Don't add it to any target because it's just to be visible to us in Xcode, not packaged in any bundle.
You should read up on what the different parameters do, and you can add further parameters that you need by running appledoc –help from the terminal. Hopefully you should see how these command line args translate to this .plist file.
NOTE: "PathToSourceFiles" is really the path to where you have the source with the documentation you want to have generated. So this will be specific to your Codebase.
What just happened? We told appledoc to run with the settings provided in the .plist, and generate documentation for any source located in PathToSourceFiles. Note in the .plist file above I have the argument "ignore .m" set to YES, since this is private. If you've done your job right (see my posts on the importance of Encapsulation!!) you won't need to document this source – your comments should hopefully be enough.
Build the Documentation target, you'll see in the Xcode Organizer that your source has been added to the Xcode documentation library. Awesome!
There are two things that will help you writing Documentation formatted correctly for appledoc. Oliver Drobnik over at Cocoanetics provides an excellent tutorial on this. (Search for Commenting Correctly).
Using those examples, I would also recommend you create some Code Snippets for Xcode so that you can easily just drop in a template to document a method or a property or whatever. Here is a link for setting up documentation Code Snippets in Xcode. With the examples at Cocoanetics, you could create a few snippets for different situations (Method, Property, Class Description, etc) in no time!
I also suggest looking at the AFNetworking Docset in Xcode, and if you want your documentation to look like theirs, just go to that relevant source file to see how they formatted it. AFNetworking is really well documented!
If you look in the appledoc folder where I asked you to place your AppledocSettings.plist, whenever your Documentation is generated, appledoc places a file there telling you where it placed the docset. You can navigate there and delete any docsets you don't want to appear in Xcode anymore. Restart Xcode and this will be up-to-date!
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Q: nodejs/express - play/stream MP3 but restrict download I am trying to build a media player similar to Soundcloud's, where you can stream the music but direct access to the MP3 is hidden and restricted to prevent song ripping.
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