The new Apple speaker, the HomePod, is not available in Ireland just yet, but I drove up to Northern Ireland to pick one up on the weekend of its launch. I had some ideas and limits on what to expect- I did not want an Amazon Echo. The Echo is a great product but it simply wasn't for me; I wouldn't use an audio assistant for information, I wanted a good music system in my kitchen, and so the HomePod was the right fit. I think many people see these two products as being in the same category, whereas I see two types of customers with different needs.
So in the end the HomePod fits my views and needs, and to that end it has fitted perfectly into my home setup. I placed it in the kitchen, on my wooden kitchen counter, and can report that I have had no issues related to marks on the surface! The setup was incredibly simple with my iPhone recognising the HomePod close.by and asking me a few questions- almost identical to the setup of the Apple AirPods. When I think back to the voice recognition training required for Dragon Dictate (and years ago with IBM ViaVoice!), the technology has come so far. Yes it still has its quirks, but the improvements are incredible.
The main headline here is the sound- it sounds great. After a few days I began to wonder just how different it was as I had become used to the new sound, I turned on my old Beats speaker to compare- and this is when you realise just how good it is. My poor Beats Pill is really no rival and very outclassed, so the test is unfair, but I did think it was a good speaker to use in the kicthen. I am no audio expert but the sound quality on the HomePod is strong and clear and any speaker I had used in the past sounded boxy and mono by comparison.
When it comes to interaction with the HomePod, Siri is a mixed bag. I can see why people would get frustrated with it, or possibly with any speech control system. Most of the time it plays what I ask for, but with so many mixes of songs, it can easily play a version of what you asked for, but not THE version you were after. For example I asked it for "Duel of the Fates by John Williams", from the Star Wars soundtrack, as this is a strong classical piece and tests the speakers nicely! But John Williams is not the artist, he is the composer and so Siri did not seem to understand and played other tracks with "Duels" and "Fates" in the title. It got there when I asked for "Star Wars Duel of the Fates" and so there is a bit of adjusting involved where you adapt to Siri, possibly even more than Siri adapts to you. Overall my interaction makes me feel it is adequate to good, if not by any means perfect. Sometimes I reach for my iPhone and just Airplay sound to the HomePod, simply because I can't think of the name of the track I want and find it easier to browse on my phone screen. There is also an element of not wanting to speak out loud to it- I find tapping on the phone easier. So I probably use Siri 50% of the time to start music and AirPlay the other 50%.
But I now regularly ask Siri for a playlist which I have setup in Apple Music and off it goes- perfect each time. My kids have had fun asking for songs and they too know how to ask, adapting the structure of their sentences to gain better accuracy. It is like Siri has rules for manners- you must ask the right way.
It does also have some nice touches- asking for the news headlines gives a BBC news summary for the day, which is a handy way to get up to date when arrriving home. The ability to ask Siri to set a timer is invaluable in the kitchen and items such as weather reports are nice touches, if things I use quite infrequently.
Lastly, the microphone in the HomePod does an amazing job in recognising speech despite the din! I can have the cooker extractor fan on next to the HomePod, with the kids chatting away, and Siri will still be able to recognise my "Hey Siri" request and interpret the instructions through the noise. Same for music; if a track is playing I can speak to Siri to change to a new song and it recognises my instruction as if the room was silent.
This week I have had the opportunity to try CarPlay, Apple's version of iOS for your car. It was remarkably easy to setup and use, and a major improvement to any in-car entertainment system. I was driving a 2018 Ford car (in Ireland) which comes with CarPlay compatibility.
The iPhone will ask you if you wish to accept the link (this question appears automatically) and then the CarPlay Home screen appears on the car touchscreen. In the future, plugging in the phone to the USB port always takes you to this Home screen.
Given its position in the car, this is far better than using your phone on the passenger seat, or using a phone holder attached to your air vent!
I found that using CarPlay was easy- there was almost no learning involved as the icons match the iOS experience. My seven-year-old immediately took to it when she sat into the car- she tapped and scrolled with ease, rarely stopping to consider how to use the system.
This is what you see when you exit out of CarPlay- a typical car manufacturer's UI. For me the contrast was remarkable. I have been using the older Ford Sync menus in my 2013 Ford for the last few years and the contrast is a leap from analogue to digital. This system just works; it is friendly, familiar and easy to navigate.
However the relationship with the car is transformed, and I can see why car manufacturers would be uneasy. The driver's connection with the car moves in Apple's direction- this feels like an Apple experience, not a Ford experience. It is still a Ford Car, but your relationship with the Ford brand is pushed aside. When you get into the car you plug your iPhone in and you touch the Apple iOS-driven screen. Apple is riding on top of Ford technology- this is a remarkable leap for the driver and one that I love. But Ford have surrendered their ground to a third-party invader and that is both welcome and curious.


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package org.drools.workbench.screens.guided.rule.backend.server;

import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;

import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
import org.drools.core.base.evaluators.Operator;
import org.drools.workbench.models.datamodel.rule.ConnectiveConstraint;
import org.drools.workbench.models.datamodel.rule.FactPattern;
import org.drools.workbench.models.datamodel.rule.RuleModel;
import org.drools.workbench.models.datamodel.rule.SingleFieldConstraint;
import org.drools.workbench.screens.guided.rule.model.GuidedEditorContent;
import org.drools.workbench.screens.guided.rule.service.GuidedRuleEditorService;
import org.guvnor.common.services.shared.validation.model.ValidationMessage;
import org.guvnor.test.CDITestSetup;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.uberfire.backend.server.util.Paths;
import org.uberfire.backend.vfs.Path;

public class GuidedRuleEditorServiceImplCDITest extends CDITestSetup {

    private static final String RULES_ROOT = "rules/src/main/resources/guvnor/feature/rules/";
    private static final String NON_EXISTING_PARENT = "Unable to resolve parent rule, please check that both rules are in the same package";

    private GuidedRuleEditorService guidedRuleService;

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        super.setUp();

        guidedRuleService = getReference(GuidedRuleEditorService.class);
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() throws Exception {
        super.cleanup();
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidateRuleThatInherit() throws Exception {
        final String resourcePath = RULES_ROOT + "sendElectionInvitation.rdrl";
        final List<ValidationMessage> messages = validateResource(resourcePath);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).hasSize(0);
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidateRuleThatInheritNonExistingRule() throws Exception {
        final String resourcePath = RULES_ROOT + "sendElectionInvitationNonExisting.rdrl";
        final List<ValidationMessage> messages = validateResource(resourcePath);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).isNotEmpty();
        messages.forEach(message -> Assertions.assertThat(message.getText()).contains(NON_EXISTING_PARENT));
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidateRuleAlphabeticallyComparesStrings() throws Exception {
        final String resourcePath = RULES_ROOT + "nameOrderingRule.rdrl";
        final List<ValidationMessage> messages = validateResource(resourcePath);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).isEmpty();
    }

    @Test
    public void testAbbreviatedCondition() throws Exception {
        final String resourcePath = RULES_ROOT + "matchPeopleAbbreviatedCondition.rdrl";
        final GuidedEditorContent content = guidedRuleService.loadContent(getPath(resourcePath));
        final RuleModel model = content.getModel();
        Assertions.assertThat(model.lhs.length).isEqualTo(1);
        final FactPattern pattern = (FactPattern) model.lhs[0];
        final SingleFieldConstraint fieldConstraintOne = (SingleFieldConstraint) pattern.getConstraint(0);
        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintOne.getConnectives()).hasSize(2);
        final ConnectiveConstraint fieldConstraintTwo = fieldConstraintOne.getConnectives()[0];
        final ConnectiveConstraint fieldConstraintThree = fieldConstraintOne.getConnectives()[1];

        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintOne.getFieldName()).isEqualTo("age");
        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintOne.getOperator()).isEqualTo(Operator.NOT_EQUAL.getOperatorString());
        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintOne.getValue()).isEqualTo("18");

        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintTwo.getFieldName()).isEqualTo("age");
        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintTwo.getOperator()).isEqualTo("&& " + Operator.LESS.getOperatorString());
        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintTwo.getValue()).isEqualTo("25");

        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintThree.getFieldName()).isEqualTo("age");
        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintThree.getOperator()).isEqualTo("&& " + Operator.GREATER.getOperatorString());
        Assertions.assertThat(fieldConstraintThree.getValue()).isEqualTo("15");

        final List<ValidationMessage> messages = validateResource(resourcePath);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).isEmpty();
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidateTimeSpecificAttributes() throws Exception {
        final String resourcePath = RULES_ROOT + "timeSpecificAttributes.rdrl";
        final List<ValidationMessage> messages = validateResource(resourcePath);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).isEmpty();
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidateTimeSpecificAttributesCron() throws Exception {
        final String resourcePath = RULES_ROOT + "timeSpecificAttributesCron.rdrl";
        final List<ValidationMessage> messages = validateResource(resourcePath);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).isEmpty();
    }

    @Test
    public void testValidateTimeSpecificAttributesInvalidTimer() throws Exception {
        final String resourcePath = RULES_ROOT + "timeSpecificAttributesInvalidTimer.rdrl";
        final String expectedError = "Incorrect number of arguments for interval timer 'x x x'";
        final List<ValidationMessage> messages = validateResource(resourcePath);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).hasSize(2);
        Assertions.assertThat(messages).allMatch(m -> m.getText().contains(expectedError));
    }

    private List<ValidationMessage> validateResource(final String resource) throws Exception {
        final Path resourcePath = getPath(resource);
        return guidedRuleService.validate(resourcePath, guidedRuleService.load(resourcePath));
    }

    private Path getPath(String resource) throws URISyntaxException {
        final URL resourceURL = getClass().getResource(resource);
        final org.uberfire.java.nio.file.Path resourceNioPath = fileSystemProvider.getPath(resourceURL.toURI());
        return Paths.convert(resourceNioPath);
    }
}

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2012 was quite a busy year for Messy Church! Not that we did any more than in 2011 but it just seemed that the 3rd Tuesday in each month came about more quickly each time!!
We looked at the church year, celebrated the Jubilee with a party, took part in some "Olympics", had a wonderful Christmas in November and generally had a good messy and fun time together.
Our "craft & activity" volunteers are fabulous – Messy Church in Petersfield really would not happen without them; that's from what Emma Dean and I do in preparation beforehand, to the team who turn up faithfully each month and have a go at teaching the children skills and crafts.
Our kitchen team regularly feed 80 plus people, and we are starting to get the Dads popping in for tea on the way home! The "door-keepers" are amazingly gracious and kind when the children find things tricky or picking up the adults who are struggling; and finally what can I say about the folk who lead the worship time? A huge thank you to Keith & Lyndsey (now Jez & Lyndsey) for leading the singing, and a massive thank you to all the church leaders who have given the talk – you are all AMAZING and we seriously couldn't do this time without us all working together. In completing our small individual parts we have created a monthly encounter for all who live in Petersfield.
Emma & I are always on the look-out for more helpers – especially after 5pm when the kitchen staff need help to wash & clear up – so please let us know if you are interested in helping in any way.


New professional logo for lighting design company that specialises in energy efficient solutions.
It seems that the contest holder has no conceptual sense. The logo that he selected has nothing to do with the nature of business. I have seen a lot of very good designs better than mine but he was stuck with one very from the first day.
what a contest... the contest holder don't have taste... this is a waste of time.
Please check #339, best regards!
please check on num 292.
Hey brian #156 , No worries if you don't like it, i will keep on trying.
Kindly check and comment on #153. Thank you.
I have submitted my design (#234) which is textual so please check it.
Waiting for your feedback regarding the design.
Any rating for designs or feedback?


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Listen to this NEW SONG by Indian Idol singer, Devender Pal Singh!
Back by popular demand! Devender Pal Singh, a young Punjabi artist, who gained world recognition as a contestant on Indian Idol at the age of 18, will be returning to perform at this year's EcoSikh benefit gala on June 21st. As a talented and environmentally conscious singer, he has proven to be a wonderful role model for Sikh youth across the globe. Devender Pal Singh will be performing at the EcoSikh event following performances in several other North American cities.
Don't miss your chance to see this performer UP CLOSE and LIVE!
Mohanbir Sawhney, a widely accredited business consultant for many of the world's top companies.
Dr. Mohanbir Singh Sawhney is world-renowned scholar, teacher, innovator and pioneer. His research and teaching currently focuses on advanced digital marketing, engagement marketing, business innovation and enterprise analytics. He has developed concepts like the Innovation Radar, e-Hubs, Innomediation and the Sentient Enterprise. Dr. Sawhney is also a prolific author, having penned several books on economic development and building more efficient business models, and a book of poems on his personal journeys.
Be sure to purchase your tickets now to hear Dr. Sawhney's thoughts on how technology and innovation will help improve the life and environment we live in.
Don't miss this inspiring speech!
Come to Support Sikh Environmental Action and Make the World a Better Place for Future Generations!
To volunteer and to join the team, please contact any of the team members in the right column.
Let's join hands in making Mata Dharat livable and lovable for future generations.
You are cordially invited for a fun-filled and inspiring evening to connect on shared values, beliefs and the environmental issues facing our world.


Francis Chan speaks to pastors, realising there is an urgency at this time to challenge leaders of the need to be courageous and fearless, and to prepare their flock for the coming of the Lord. Of the need to stay on course, despite the tragic end times events that are unfolding. Don't judge those outside the church, but we do need to judge those inside the church.
He takes us to 2 Timothy 3. In the last days there will come times of great difficulty, people will be lovers of self, "lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God", even having the appearance of godliness.
about loving their flock, as Jesus prayed to His Father that they would be one as we are one. Why? So that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
about teaching the truth of God's Word.
about the truth of what can be achieved with the Holy Spirit.


The great role of tenant improvements is to offer a chance to boost your facility, increase its value as well as make better use of space. A general contractor ought to be the number one consideration to take into, whenever you want to carry out tenants improvements like, build-out, addition, as well as renovations among many more.
The task of picking a well-certified general contractor is tough. Nonetheless, it is simply what you are required to be looking. You require a contractor that provides one point of contact, a bid that is competitive, ability to be done projects on time, references that prove they are capable of satisfying their clients with high-quality project that was done on time as well as on budget.
Finding a reputable firm to carry out your tenants improvements task is a crucial thing you cannot overlook when searching for a general contractor. It is the reason why you are recommended to ask for references any moment you want to work with a general contractor. It is recommendable that the firm that you choose to carry out the tenant improvements project to be in a perfect state to offer a host of several other satisfied customers you can reach to help you learn more about their worth ethics, together with their quality of workmanship.
When selecting a general contractor for tenants improvements you are also required to look out for is the ability to provide unique solutions. it is required that the general contractor to give his idea about the project irrespective of whether you are directly upon your direction or working with your improvement expert. It is only possible for a project to enhance when insight comes from a wide range of skills in renovation, performing build-outs as well as additions even if there is a set of eyes on tenant improvement project. Due to the thing that the general contractor has been exposed to, they have experience that is worth your little time to pay attention to.
As you seek for the best expert to handle the projects that are aimed at improving the tenants, it is advisable to look of one with on target estimates. There is nothing that can set back the project aimed at enhancing the tenant like an expense that has not been planned. A sure way through which the general contractor is in a position of giving estimates correctly I by having an understanding of each field of a subcontractor. Among the many things that you do not want to contend with is losing in essential deadlines as well as being excessively over budget. One more thing you are advised to look out for in a general contractor for tenant improvement is proven leadership.


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Motivational Speaker Beaten For Saying He started his Restaurant With One Tin Tomatoes and A Plate
Aishaman boys in Ghana could not hide their anger after a young Entrepreneur who is also a motivational speaker was slapped and whipped for declaring his methodology for setting up his business.
It is reported that most successful people do not reveal their plans in making money but rather, stories which looks like myth.
According to the guys who whipped and slapped the Motivational Speaker, their quest for starting up a business on their own came to a stop after an impossible lie.
The guys were angered simply because a man cannot start a restaurant with a plate and tin tomatoes.
This situation angered these new business starters to the extent that, the young motivational speaker was whipped and slapped.


Some of the projects available on Mozilla Webmaker.
Mozilla, the software community that produces free Web browser Firefox has a pretty cool new(ish) website, Mozilla Webmaker. It has a collection of tools and resources, including an entire section geared towards education, meant to help people become more Web-literate. This is part three of my three-part series on Mozilla Webmaker, and in it I'll talk about a few of the already-available projects, and how to go about creating your own. If you haven't seen them yet, here's the first post in the series, about assigning a Web-based project here, and the second, about Mozilla's Web tools here.
But first, to use the Webmaker Projects, you'll have to sign in to their site. You can easily do this with any existing email address, and if you have a Gmail or Yahoo! account, you don't even need to enter a new password, you just use that account to log in. Once logged in, you can save projects that you see and like, as well as save your own remixed projects and projects you've made from scratch. Since you can log in to Webmaker with Gmail, all W&M students, whose email is Google-based, can easily sign in with their W&M email addresses. This makes assigning Webmaker projects even easier for W&M instructors.
Some projects are more like tutorials, while others are more involved. Learning by working on a project is key to learning development skills, and many of the projects on Webmaker are designed for beginners just learning. Many of the projects also require no special knowledge of the Web in order to assign and teach them, so that you can jump in with your students and learn something new yourself. They are all also open resources, which means that you can remix and modify them to fit your teaching needs. Below are two projects that I thought might work in a future course.
These are just a couple of examples of the projects available on Webmaker, and there are lots of others that might fit your needs, either with or without remixing them.
At W&M in particular, I think that doing a Web-based project (either a whole-class project, or individual projects) would be great for a freshman seminar. Not only would freshmen get a taste of some Web skills, but also a class-project would work well in helping students develop relationships with each other, get practice working collaboratively, and be invested in the project of the course iteslf.
While all the existing projects already available provide a good start, the real strength of the Webmaker projects is in how easy it is to make one yourself. There's a project available on Mozilla Webmaker's projects page that helps you build your own teaching kit and one that helps you make your own teaching activity. Both of these projects have broken down the process for thinking through a Web-based assignment, so they're good guidance for doing so if you're new to Web stuff yourself. You can also use these projects as templates for your own project (or any other project on the site, for that matter).
This is the "Teaching Activity" project inside the Thimble Web editor. Within this window, you can make changes to the webpage, and save it as your own project. As you can see, the html for the webpage appears on the lefthand side, and the webpage as it will appear in a browser appears on the righthand side.
If you want to create a new project based on an existing one, like the Teaching Activity project, just click on the green "Remix" button on the upper right corner of the window when you're on the teaching activity page. This will open up the webpage into a Thimble Web editor. If you don't know html, don't fear, Thimble was designed by Mozilla to help you learn the basics of Web editing.
As you can see in the image to the right, Thimble shows you the webpage as viewers will see it in their browsers on the right, and the html code on the left. As you make changes to the code, you can see the "live" effects of those changes on the webpage itself.
Even if you don't know html, if you're doing a "Remix" of a project, like the remix of the Teaching Activity project (pictured right), you don't need to know html. The code on the left-hand side has tips and instructions built into it — it's the black text, which tells you things like "What is needed to run this activity? Replace the example materials with those your activity needs!" or "Add a description here." The best part is that you can't "break" anything or mess up an existing website, since you're working on your own copy of the webpage. There's also large, unmistakable "undo" and "redo" buttons on the editing window. This means you're free to experiment with the html, figure out what it does, all while developing a Web project for your students.


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Alex Purves
Acumen Publishing Ltd
Serie: Senses in Antiquity
Touch and the Ancient Senses
Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as it also provides a primary point of contact between the individual and the outside world. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which touch plays a defining role in science, art, philosophy, and medicine, and shapes our understanding of topics ranging from aesthetics and poetics to various religious and ritual practices. Whether we locate the sense of touch on the surface of the skin, within the body or - less tangibly still - within the emotions, the sensory impact of touching raises a broad range of interpretive and phenomenological questions.
This is the first volume of its kind to explore the sense of touch in antiquity, bringing a variety of disciplinary approaches to bear on the sense that is usually disregarded as the most base and obvious of the five. In these pages, by contrast, we find in touch a complex and fascinating indicator of the body's relation to object, environment, and self.
Allmän historia, världshistoria
Antikens historia / klassisk kultur
Dodbf - Känsel (taktil)
D - Filosofi och psykologi
J - Arkeologi
Av redaktör:Alex Purves
Av förlag: Acumen Publishing Ltd
I samma serie: Senses in Antiquity


Escape from the Hair Salon - Play The Best Free Online Games at Dozengames.
Escape from the Hair Salon is another Japanese point and click ,room escape game. Try to escape by finding items and clue's and solving puzzles.


Oregon possesses an elite defense that is 8.7 points per game better than average (65.5 points per game to teams that would combine to average 74.2 points per game). Teams are shooting just 40.6% from the field against the Ducks, which ranks 23rd nationally in field goal percentage defense.
Oregon shuts down its opponents without committing personal fouls, ranking 13th in the country in personal fouls per game (15.7). Oregon also ranks 2nd in the country in blocked shots per game this season (6.3), although the loss of Chris Boucher certainly hurts the Ducks' rim defense (Boucher averaged 2.5 blocks per game).
The Ducks possess one of the most disruptive defenders in the nation in Jordan Bell, whose versatility is unmatched by any of the remaining teams in the Tournament. While Bell averaged 10.8 points during the regular season, his presence at the defensive end of the floor cannot be overstated.
He collected eight blocks against Kansas in the Elite Eight, establishing an NCAA Tournament record for a Pac-12 player. The Jayhawks were just 5-for-19 on contested shots in the paint because Bell did an outstanding job in protecting the rim. The UNDER is 5-2 in Oregon's last seven NCAA Tournament games and 4-1 in its last five games as an underdog.
Meanwhile, North Carolina enters the Final Four for the 20th time in program history and possesses an underrated defense. The Tar Heels are allowing just 70.6 points per game to teams that would combine to average 75.3 points per game against a mediocre defense.
North Carolina dominates the boards and prevents teams from getting second-chance opportunities, ranking 21st nationally in defensive rebounds per game (27.95).
What makes the Tar Heels so dangerous is that they can win games both offensively (see Butler in Sweet 16) and defensively (see Kentucky in Elite Eight). Against Kentucky, the Tar Heels limited the trio of De'Aaron Fox, Malik Monk and Edrice Adebayo to just 0.99 points per possession.
The Wildcats' star trio of freshmen controlled 54% of the team's possessions between them during the regular season, generating 1.15 points per possession.
Defense has been the trademark of each team in the Final Four. Oregon, North Carolina, South Carolina and Gonzaga combined to allow 0.95 points per possession during their Elite Eight games.
What makes that figure so remarkable is that their opponents averaged 1.12 points per possession during the 2016-17 campaign, a gap of 18 points per 100 possessions!
Let's also note that each of the four teams in this year's NCAA Tournament Final Four are ranked in the top 20 in Ken Pomeroy's defensive efficiency ratings.
Take the UNDER in the Oregon/North Carolina NCAA Tournament game as Oskeim Sports' Free Pick for Saturday, April 1!


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Q: Xcode storyboard outlet for navigation controller I am trying to implement what I found in this tutorial myself, so I downloaded the project used in the tutorial from github (here)
The project has a storyboard with three ViewControllers: a navigation controller, the root view controller and a third ViewController. There is a push segue between the root ViewController and the third ViewController, the purpose of the tutorial is creating a custom transition animation.
The NavigationController is set as an outlet property in the NavigationControllerDelegate class:
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UINavigationController *navigationController;

Also, the delegate of the navigationController is also set to the NavigationControllerDelegate class.
My question is how was this achieved using IB and Xcode?
In my project I tried pulling an outlet from the storyboard to a property in my own NavigationControllerDelegate class without success. And I also can't find a way to set the delegate of the NavigationController to my NavigationControllerDelegate class using the Xcode interface.
Here's a print screen of how that looks in the project:

Can someone please explain how this can be done using the Xcode gui?

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FROM ubuntu:16.10

MAINTAINER yoshitake.hamano "oed0cow6oy5@gmail.com"

RUN apt-get update -qq
RUN apt-get upgrade -qq

ENV HOME /root
RUN apt-get install -y texlive
RUN apt-get install -y texlive-lang-japanese
RUN apt-get install -y texlive-luatex
RUN apt-get install -y texlive-latex-extra
RUN apt-get install -y fontforge
RUN apt-get install -y wget
RUN apt-get install -y git

# fonts
RUN mkdir -p ~/.fonts
RUN git clone git://github.com/google/fonts.git
RUN cp fonts/ofl/inconsolata/*.ttf ~/.fonts
RUN wget 'https://osdn.net/frs/redir.php?m=jaist&f=%2Fmix-mplus-ipa%2F63545%2Fmigu-1m-20150712.zip' -O migu-1m-20150712.zip
RUN unzip migu-1m-20150712.zip
RUN cp migu-1m-20150712/*.ttf ~/.fonts
RUN git clone git://github.com/chitoku-k/Ricty.git
RUN cd Ricty; sh ricty_generator.sh auto
RUN cp Ricty/*.ttf ~/.fonts

# pandoc
RUN apt-get install -y pandoc pandoc-citeproc python-pandocfilters
RUN apt-get install -y python-pygraphviz
RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-common
RUN apt-get install -y plantuml
RUN add-apt-repository 'deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kbonne/pandoc-plantuml-filter/ubuntu utopic main'
RUN apt-get update -qq
RUN apt-get install -y --allow-unauthenticated pandoc-plantuml-filter

# Cleaning
RUN apt-get clean

VOLUME /workspace
WORKDIR /workspace


AUSTIN - Deer Park's first trip to the softball state tournament came in record-setting fashion.
The Deer set a tournament record by scoring 10 runs in the top of the fifth inning Friday, then finished off San Antonio O'Connor in the bottom half for the 13-2 win in the Class 5A semifinals at Red McCombs Field.
"We were peaking at the best time ever and I'm just so glad that it's now," said winning pitcher Kristen Davenport, who shut out O'Connor in five innings of work to go with three hits and four RBI at the plate.
The win also tied 5A records for most runs in a game by one team and most runs scored by both. Angleton set the old mark in 1994. Deer Park coach Carrie Austgen led that Angleton team to the 5A championship and has her current squad one way away from doing just that.
"You could see it in their eyes," Austgen said. "When we hit batting practice this morning, it was good. Then we hit batting practice again here.
Deer Park Head Coach Carrie Austgen, center, leads her team's post-game chat after the Lady Deer's run-rule win over Northside O'Connor during their Class 5A state softball semifinal matchup at Red & Charline McCombs Field in Austin on Friday.
Deer Park (30-8) faces Klein Collins (31-4) at 4 p.m. Saturday for the title. It's the fourth Houston-area final and first since Elkins beat Tomball in 2004.
Down 3-1 after the second inning, O'Connor was able to keep it close with good defensive play. The Panthers outfield ended the third and fourth on diving catches.
The wheels fell off in the fifth. Deer Park's first 10 batters reached base, which included Haley Harrison twice (walk and error). The walk and singles from Lindsey Warburton and Caitlin Plocheck loaded the bases, with six of the next seven at bats resulting in runs scored. The Deer scored 10 runs off seven hits, two errors, two hit batsmen and a walk.
"Everybody goes crazy. It's - for lack of a better word - crunk, and we're doing our spirit cheer that we do every time we score," said Davenport, who drove in three runs in the fifth. "We're all loud and excited, which makes us score more runs."
All nine Deer scored with eight combining for 14 hits. Davenport and Plocheck had three hits each, while Harrison scored three times.


Mr Corbyn today used a speech in Wakefield to call for a General Election if Theresa May's Brexit deal is defeated in the Commons, but admitted for the first time that this could result in the UK's Brexit date of March 29 being delayed.
Jeremy Corbyn, speaking in Wakefield today. Picture: Getty.
He then went onto Guiseley, in the Pudsey constituency where Labour's left-wing candidate Jane Aitchison is hoping to overturn the razor-thin majority of 331 held by Conservative Stuart Andrew.
And he was later due to visit the Morley and Outwood constituency, where sitting Tory Andrea Jenkyns will defend a majority of 2,104 against Labour's Deanne Fergusson.
Yesterday a survey of 2,000 people in Yorkshire by YouGov, commissioned by the People's Vote, suggested that declining support among Remainers meant Labour may slip behind the Conservatives as the region's biggest party.
But speaking to The Yorkshire Post, Mr Corbyn dismissed the suggestion that Remain voters in his party, which represent around three-quarters of the total, would be put off by his pro-Brexit position.
He said: "No, not at all. We have set out very clearly the issues of poverty and injustice in this country and I set out this morning in my speech in Wakefield about the demands we are making on the Government, which is about to take us into either a no deal or a very bad deal situation.
"We will vote against both of those and say they have got to negotiate something better, which is a customs union with the EU, which I set out in my speech in Coventry last year.
"It is also what we then put into a General Election. Our conference motion, carried unanimously, included a sequencing of events, opposing the Government's deal, calling for a General Election and then after that go into that General Election campaign, and our party policy will be decided in advance of the General Election."
Asked if there was a risk that a General Election would result in the Government still not having a majority to deliver Brexit, he said: "We will fight the election as the Labour Party, we will hope to govern as the Labour Party and we will govern as a Labour government. We will put our policies to the people that way."
Ms Aitchison added: "I am very confident here. Stuart Andrew is the Conservative MP, he has already said he is going to vote for Theresa's deal next week.
"Now whether people in this constituency voted leave or remain, none of them voted for that. I am very confident about our stance compared to theirs."
Earlier, Mr Corbyn said, the UK's Brexit date of March 29 could be delayed if Labour forces a general election.
He dismissed the Government's offer to consider new safeguards for workers as part of the Brexit package, backing a trade union assessment that "it simply doesn't guarantee the protections that we are seeking".
Mr Corbyn confirmed that Labour would go into any early election on a platform of opening new negotiations with Brussels on a Brexit deal involving a customs union, single market relationship and a guarantee to keep pace with EU rights and standards.
And he said that "time" would be needed to complete these talks.
Mr Corbyn said there was "no split" between him and shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, who suggested on Wednesday that an extension of the two-year period for negotiations set out in Article 50 of the EU treaties may now be "inevitable".
Asked if he agreed, the Labour leader said: "Quite clearly, moving into office at a period right up against the clock, there would need to be time for that negotiation.
"What Keir was doing was reflecting the practicalities of how that negotiation would be undertaken ... An extension would be a possibility because clearly there would have to be time to negotiate."


In the command-line shell, and the ".binary" command and additional C-style backslash escapes.
".clone NEWDB           Clone data into NEWDB from the existing database\n"
# Test the output of ".mode tcl"
catchcmd test.db ".mode insert t1\n.headers on\nselect * from t1;"
catchcmd test.db ".mode insert t3\nselect * from t3;"
catchcmd test.db ".mode insert t3\n.headers on\nselect * from t3;"
# Test using arbitrary byte data with the shell via standard input/output.
#       cannot be used here.
#       the SQLite shell itself.
#       and those with special meaning to the SQLite shell itself.
error "failed with error: $res"
error "failed with byte $hex mismatch"
set line "exec $CLI $db < cmds.txt"
set line "exec -keepnewline -- $CLI $db < cmds.txt"


Turn on some music. Hit shuffle. Close your eyes. Think back. Now, can you find a memory? The Nostalgia Mixtape is an intimate look at the universal experience of music and the way it's connected to our memories. Notable figures from different fields take host Sama'an Ashrawi back in time to revisit poignant moments in their lives that will forever be linked with a song and/or album.


Leaving a gift in your will is a wonderful way to remember the causes you care about, and is a much appreciated donation to the Winchester Hospice Appeal.
Whilst people, understandably, do not like to think of their own passing, it is very important that everyone has a valid will to ensure that money, property and possessions are distributed in the way that was intended and that loved ones are provided for. It is also important for you to update your will as soon as your personal circumstances change.
We understand that your will is a private matter, but by letting us know that you've included us, you can help us better plan for the future and we'd love the chance to say thank you.
Please call the fundraising department on 01962 828353 or email judith.charmer@hhft.nhs.uk if you have any questions.


This handcrafted beaded Botswana agate bracelet measures approximately 7.5 inches long. It is made of 6mm Botswana agate beads and a variety of antique brass pewter castings. This bracelet has a strong antique brass magnetic clasp.
Botswana agate is said to help the wearer focus on solutions instead of problems. It is believed to relieve depression and ease stress. It derives its name from Botswana, a country in Southern Africa, where it is mined. Agate is believed to bring protection to its wearer, increase courage and strength, relieve stress, balance emotions, alleviate insomnia, and bring about pleasant dreams. It is said to increase self-confidence, enhance concentration, improve memory, help with communication and public speaking, and fight addictions. It is reputed to foster honesty and trust. Agate is associated with the Zodiac signs of Capricorn, Aquarius, Gemini, and Libra. It is the mystical birthstone for the month of September, and one of the birthstones for the months of May and June. Agate is also given as a gift for the 12th wedding anniversary.


With this Friday marking the second in the month of May the Jamaica Association Of Young Professionals (JAYP) is back yet again for another staging of its Corporate Business Mixer at the Fiction Lounge located in Kingston and this time around the entertainment package will come from some of Dancehall's young front runners.
Artists slated to perform at the event this Friday include Alliance deejay Eric Sommers more popularly known as Iyara, one time hot shot deejay Colly C who is now making a return to the music fraternity, Exile Di Brave who is currently blazing radio airwaves with his hit single "All Of Me" featuring Freeze as well as a host of other special guest performers.
The Mixer which is geared towards bring young professionals together ton mix and mingle with the hope of further developing them for the business world will have on display the brand new IPAD from APPLE as well as a number of boothe from some of Jamaica's leading corporate establishments. The event is sponsored by JN, Johnnie Walker, RJR, Lime, Arcor, The Gleaner, Sagicor, GM Challenger, 40AMAZINGUNDER40, Premiumstuffz Graphics, Uber Fashion, JB, Reggae Jammin, H.D. Hopwood and Icey Jace Film Factory.


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text:
local lexer = require('lexer')
local token, word_match = lexer.token, lexer.word_match
local P, R, S = lpeg.P, lpeg.R, lpeg.S

local lex = lexer.new('erlang')

-- Whitespace.
lex:add_rule('whitespace', token(lexer.WHITESPACE, lexer.space^1))

-- Keywords.
lex:add_rule('keyword', token(lexer.KEYWORD, word_match[[
  after begin case catch cond end fun if let of query receive try when
  -- Operators.
  div rem or xor bor bxor bsl bsr and band not bnot badarg nocookie orelse
  andalso false true
]]))

-- Functions.
lex:add_rule('function', token(lexer.FUNCTION, word_match[[
  abs alive apply atom_to_list binary_to_list binary_to_term concat_binary date
  disconnect_node element erase exit float float_to_list get get_keys
  group_leader halt hd integer_to_list is_alive is_record length link
  list_to_atom list_to_binary list_to_float list_to_integer list_to_pid
  list_to_tuple load_module make_ref monitor_node node nodes now open_port
  pid_to_list process_flag process_info process put register registered round
  self setelement size spawn spawn_link split_binary statistics term_to_binary
  throw time tl trunc tuple_to_list unlink unregister whereis
  -- Others.
  any atom binary bitstring byte constant function integer list map mfa
  non_neg_integer number pid ports port_close port_info pos_integer reference
  record
  -- Erlang.
  check_process_code delete_module get_cookie hash math module_loaded preloaded
  processes purge_module set_cookie set_node
  -- Math.
  acos asin atan atan2 cos cosh exp log log10 min max pi pow power sin sinh sqrt
  tan tanh
]]))

-- Identifiers.
lex:add_rule('identifier', token(lexer.IDENTIFIER, lexer.lower *
                                                   ('_' + lexer.alnum)^0))

-- Variables.
lex:add_rule('variable', token(lexer.VARIABLE, P('_')^0 * lexer.upper *
                                               ('_' + lexer.alnum)^0))

-- Directives.
lex:add_rule('directive', token('directive', '-' * word_match[[
  author behaviour behavior compile copyright define doc else endif export file
  ifdef ifndef import include include_lib module record spec type undef
]]))
lex:add_style('directive', lexer.STYLE_PREPROCESSOR)

-- Strings.
lex:add_rule('string', token(lexer.STRING, lexer.delimited_range("'", true) +
                                           lexer.delimited_range('"') +
                                           '$' * lexer.any * lexer.alnum^0))

-- Comments.
lex:add_rule('comment', token(lexer.COMMENT, '%' * lexer.nonnewline^0))

-- Numbers.
lex:add_rule('number', token(lexer.NUMBER, lexer.float + lexer.integer))

-- Operators.
lex:add_rule('operator', token(lexer.OPERATOR, S('-<>.;=/|+*:,!()[]{}')))

-- Preprocessor.
lex:add_rule('preprocessor', token(lexer.TYPE, '?' * lexer.word))

-- Records.
lex:add_rule('type', token(lexer.TYPE, '#' * lexer.word))

-- Fold points.
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.KEYWORD, 'case', 'end')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.KEYWORD, 'fun', 'end')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.KEYWORD, 'if', 'end')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.KEYWORD, 'query', 'end')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.KEYWORD, 'receive', 'end')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.OPERATOR, '(', ')')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.OPERATOR, '[', ']')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.OPERATOR, '{', '}')
lex:add_fold_point(lexer.COMMENT, '%', lexer.fold_line_comments('%'))

return lex


I thought, it being Thanksgiving week, that I would ask my cat Luna about her gratitude list. Abstract concepts like gratitude can be difficult to convey to animals, so I started by asking what she likes most about her life.
Luna is a slightly skittish cat, leery of loud noises and unexpected activity. She is also extremely sweet-natured and at the same time is very vocal and expressive. She loves to talk and is never shy of voicing her opinions about anything. She's also a big purr-bunny, with a purr for every occasion. Cats, like most non-human animals, tend to be very much in the present moment so her immediate response to my question was that she likes the warm, soft spot she's found on the bed to nap and the fact that it's quiet this morning.
Wanting a little more from her, I thought about all her many different purrs. There is the one that she uses to soothe herself or me, when either of us is in need of comfort. There's the complex purr she uses when she wants to encourage me to do something, like rub her tummy or adjust my position to make her more comfortable. There's her warm, sleepy purr, and then there's the purr that expresses pure contentment. That was the feeling I offered to her when I asked what makes you purr the most?
Thinking it might be a little off topic, but wanting to continue while we had the conversation going, I asked her how she felt about what I sometimes perceive as the relative sameness of her days. To my surprise — and bringing us right back on topic after all — she gave me a happy purr. Her routine makes her feel safe and comfortable. She appreciates and relies on it.
So, for Thanksgiving, my light-bringer, Luna, offers food for thought about the little things that we can all be grateful for in every moment. Appreciation and gratitude is where Luna resides. What might your beloved animal companion be grateful for right now?
With our warmest wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving and for the giving of thanks and happy purrs for families and beings of all species.
She loves it when I "listen" to her. I know I don't do that as often as she would like, and I'm not sure I could ever do it often enough to please her. So, naturally, I thought she'd be happy when I asked her if she had any wisdom she'd like to share with people on the Internet. I figured she'd jump at the chance.
What I neglected to calculate was having to explain about the Internet. Don't cats know all about it by now? After all they're all over it everywhere. I mean, don't cats pretty much rule the internet? What a shock that a flesh and blood cat wouldn't immediately understand the question. By way of explanation, I started sending her images of people looking at their computer screens and seeing her.
Immediately I started receiving images back. The first was of Rune politely putting out a paw to tap my keyboard, then of her walking across the keyboard in front of the monitor, followed by an image of her trying to get in my lap and finding the computer in the way. Is this sounding familiar to anyone? Feelings of increasing annoyance and frustration accompanied these images. The final picture she showed me is one that most cat lovers will be very familiar with. I call it "the back." It's one of the strongest expressions of complete feline disapproval.


Tumblr has successfully built a cool reputation around their social media service. This is mainly because Tumblr is filled with funny or informative rich media like GIFs and videos.
It's certainly funny to scroll through all those interesting things, but if you spend some time with this service, you'll find that Tumblr doesn't have a built-in download feature for videos and GIFs.
The good news is we're going to present you with a tool capable of downloading any Tumblr media. Find out all about it down below.
1. First make sure you use the official Tumblr app and sign-in with your account.
2. Download & install Timbloader from Google Play Store.
3. To download a video, tap the send button in Tumblr and select Timbloader.
4. Open Timbloader and hit the download button at the bottom of the screen.
5. You can see all of your downloads from Tumblr if you tap the save icon.


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Dark Academia, the "Western Canon," and the Decline of the Humanities
by Spencer McDaniel
In around mid-July, I found out that there is apparently a huge internet "aesthetic" movement called "dark academia" that centers around a highly romanticized impression of what humanities scholars and students—especially those in the fields of classics, English, history, and philosophy—dressed and lived like in the twentieth century. Aspects of the aesthetic include wearing old-fashioned, dark-colored, stereotypically "academic" clothing and appreciating "classic" literature, art, and music.
For those who aren't already aware, I am currently about to enter my senior year at Indiana University Bloomington double-majoring in history and classical studies (i.e., Ancient Greek and Latin), with honors in history. My current plan is to apply to graduate programs in ancient history later this year. Even though I don't deliberately dress in a dark academia style and I don't identify with the aesthetic in any particular way, being a humanities student does make me feel like I have a connection to it.
I was so struck by my surprise discovery of dark academia's apparent popularity that I've spent a good part of the past two weeks researching it and its history. Naturally, I have a lot of thoughts, especially about how the current popularity of the aesthetic seems to be at least in part a reaction to the slow ongoing decline of the academic humanities.
Three major inspirations of "dark academia"
Before I talk about what dark academia is, I think I should mention a few of the media sources that have inspired it. The aesthetic draws inspiration from a wide array of different works of literature, film, and television. You can read a long list of works of media that are associated with dark academia on the fandom page about it, but I think that three specific works of media have played especially influential roles in shaping the aesthetic as it exists online today.
The earliest of these is the 1989 teen drama film Dead Poets Society, which is set in the year 1959 and is about a group of students at the fictional elite, all-male boarding school Welton Academy who are inspired by a charismatic English literature teacher named John Keating (who is played by Robin Williams) to form a secret, illicit club known as the "Dead Poets Society." The members of the club meet in a cave, where they read works of poetry together, including works by famous poets as well as their own original compositions.
Many of the most prominent themes of dark academia are already fully present in Dead Poets Society. First, there are the visual themes; the film is set at an elite boarding school during the mid-twentieth century, so, naturally, all the characters dress in boarding school uniforms. Most of the film was shot on location at St. Andrew's School, a private Episcopal boarding school in Middletown, Delaware, which is built from gray brick, with colonnades and Gothic Revival elements.
The film also, however, captures a lot of the other themes of dark academia, including the value of "classic" literature and a humanistic education, forbidden activities, rebellion against authority, secret societies, existentialism, death, and emotional trauma.
Scene from the 1989 teen drama film Dead Poets Society of the boys meeting in the cave where they discuss poetry and literature together
The second earliest of the three works of media that seem to have played the most influential role in inspiring dark academia is the novel The Secret History by Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. This book has earned a reputation as the definitive dark academia novel because it so thoroughly encapsulates so many of the themes associated with the aesthetic. At 576 pages, it's a rather thick volume, but the writing style is very engaging and I was able to speed through it fairly quickly.
The narrator of the novel is a classics student named Richard Papen who transfers to Hampden College, a fictional elite liberal arts college in Vermont. After moving to the college, Richard finds that he is not allowed to take any classes with the Ancient Greek professor Dr. Julian Morrow, because the only people Dr. Marrow allows to take his classes are a hand-picked clique of five students who have little interaction with anyone else at the college, all of whom but one are soon revealed to be extraordinarily wealthy. The first chapter of the novel describes the appearance and clothing of each of the five students in great detail.
Richard manages to ingratiate himself with Dr. Morrow's favorites by helping a few of them with their Greek homework. The students give him tips for how to win the professor's favor and Dr. Morrow allows him to start taking his classes. He spends more time with Dr. Morrow's other students and, in time, he becomes the sixth member of the clique.
The plot thickens when the other students in the clique attempt to recreate a Dionysian Bacchanalia in the woods without inviting Richard and end up murdering a farmer. (At first, the murder is claimed to be accident, but this is later called into question.) The murder leads to a downward spiral that results in one member of the clique getting murdered by the others, another member of the clique committing suicide, and the clique itself disintegrating.
The Secret History is clearly intended as a biting critique of elite values and education and, by the end of the novel, all of the main characters are exposed as truly horrible people. Nonetheless, it portrays this world of erudition and decadence with such aesthetic richness that many readers have simply fallen in love with it. This novel is generally seen as having had a greater role in shaping the dark academia aesthetic than any other individual work.
The third major influence on the dark academia aesthetic are the Harry Potter series of children's fantasy novels written by J. K. Rowling, which were originally published from 1997 through 2007, and the films based on them, which were released from 2001 through 2011. I imagine that most of my readers are well aware of the Harry Potter series, but, for those who are not, I will summarize.
The series is about a boy named Harry Potter who finds out that he is a wizard and goes to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a boarding school for the magical arts. The school is housed in a magnificent castle and all the students wear a set of black robes as their school uniform. Each book is centered around Harry and his friends trying to solve some sort of mystery and they often find clues in old books that they find in Hogwarts' vast library.
Many of the people involved in dark academia today probably read the Harry Potter books and watched the movies when they were younger and have since been influenced by them. The series includes many major themes that have become part of dark academia, including mystery, secrecy, dangerous or forbidden knowledge that can be found in books, death, mental and emotional trauma, and forbidden activities.
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Q: Creating Emails with PHP 7.2 Script on cPanel I'm trying to create email accounts in cPanel with a PHP 7.2 script.
I looked into a lot of different methods posted here on stackoverflow and other guides. What I've found are these 2 different fopen() methods. Both of them direct me to the cpanel website with some errors.
I'm trying to test the methods by typing the url into a browser window and seeing the response.
I'm using hosting24 as you can see on the 2. line of code.
I'm also replacing all the variables with the correct regex input, as well as the USER_CODE & CPSESSCODE.
First line of code tells me: Invalid Security Token
Second line tells me: The security token is missing from your request.
fopen("https://$cpuser:$cppass@$cpdomain:2083/frontend/$cpskin/mail/doaddpop.html?email=$emailname&domain=$emaildomain&password=$emailpass&quota=$quota", "r");

fopen("USER_CODE.hosting24.com:2083/cpsessCPSESSCODE/frontend/paper_lantern/mail/doaddpop.html?email=$emailname&domain=$emaildomain&password=$emailpass&quota=100", "r");

All hints are appriciated.

A: Solution:
Either turn of Security Tokens in cPanel or use an API to generate them.


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#define DRIVE_A "\\\\.\\A:"

FloppyWriter::FloppyWriter()
{
	file=CreateFile(DRIVE_A, GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ, 0, OPEN_EXISTING, 0, 0);

	if(file==INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
		throw ::GetLastError();
}

FloppyWriter::~FloppyWriter()
{
	CloseHandle(file);
}

bool FloppyWriter::Write(BYTE* data, DWORD size)
{
	DWORD bytes_read;
	return WriteFile(file, data, size, &bytes_read, 0);
}


"Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit." The Private Lives of Albert Einstein (1993), p. 79.
"Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve." Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam (2000), p. 235.
"… politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever." Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (1958), p. 249.
"I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly." The ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm of Albert Einstein, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, 170 (5): 455-8.


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est une ancienne province du Japon qui se trouvait dans une région qui est aujourd'hui la préfecture de Kanagawa, en excluant Yokohama et Kawasaki. La province de Sagami était entourée par les provinces d'Izu, Kai, Musashi et Suruga, et baignée par la baie de Sagami.

L'ancienne capitale provinciale était située près de la ville actuelle d'Hiratsuka. Pendant la période Sengoku, le château le plus important de la province se trouvait à Odawara. La province était souvent dirigée par les seigneurs de la province voisine de Musashi.

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Super Mario Bros. Crossover Final Character Voting (Poll)
Discussion in 'Characters' started by Captain Knight, Mar 27, 2011.
Which of these characters would you want the most in the next version of SMBC?
Poll closed Apr 26, 2011.
Kirby (Kirby's Adventure)
Rash (Battletoads + Battletoads & Double Dragon)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Pit (Kid Icarus)
Scrooge McDuck (DuckTales + DuckTales 2)
Protoman (Mega Man 3-10)
Sir Arthur (Ghosts N' Goblins)
Luigi (Super Mario Bros. 2 The Lost Levels)
Rad(d) Spencer (Bionic Commando)
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 + 2 + 3)
Alright, now since we have the results over with, let's get onto the final chapter of the character voting, the poll.
The rules are simple :
Pick the character THAT YOU WANT MOST in the next update of Super Mario Bros. Crossover.
You can discuss, don't worry. Just don't make alternate accounts just to increase your favorite character's vote, that's stupid.
The only change you will notice from the results is that there will be no Bass but is replaced with the Turtles from TMNT. This is because the TMNTs would be more revolutionary then Bass and that you can't do 11 people in a poll.
This poll ends in 30 days.
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTERS WISELY!!!
Captain Knight, Mar 27, 2011
bnjay29 Level 4: Buzzy Beetle
Well I voted for Rash. After all that effort put into him, (music, abilities, damage level of attacks on enemies and F*****G CHARTS!) he had BETTER make it into this game! LOL
bnjay29, Mar 27, 2011
I want 'em all! But as it's "you want the most", I can only choose Kirby.
I really wanted Rash, Pit, Sonic, but Kirby is the most classic 8-bit character that hasn't joined yet.
World 1-1, Mar 27, 2011
I can't believe Rash is competing with Kirby.
aliceandsven, Mar 27, 2011
I on the other hand CAN :-P
Waaah!! Why nobody pays attention to Weegee?!
Sergy92, Mar 28, 2011
Urutsune Level 6: Lakitu
This would be clearly Arthur and Kirby for me. I mean they are true classic video game heroes. Since Kirby is more problematic to do I choose Arthur.
Urutsune, Mar 28, 2011
At this point, I guess my preference among all the characters in the poll is Kirby. He is a great character, he'd be unique, and he is a very iconic Nintendo character.
sbq92, Mar 28, 2011
MDK Level 1: Goomba
I went with Pit, simply because despite his recent spike in popularity, he and his games still need more love than any other on the list - he still has only three games to his name total.
I'm aware that on the basic level, he is essentially a shorter Samus without the morph ball or bombs, so he'd pretty much need his flight mode from the final level of Kid Icarus implemented in some way to stand out, which could not only be difficult to implement, but could essentially break him. Still, it's all about choice - if he's too broken, you don't have to use him.
MDK, Mar 28, 2011
Ganymede Level 5: Spiny
I chose Kirby. The efforts of the Rash group are really admirable, but I just see myself having more fun with Kirby.
Ganymede, Mar 29, 2011
Ganymede said: ↑
If I could have a second pick, it would be Kirby as well. Too bad we can't have both in there! But then again, who can tell....
Wow... Either a bunch of people haven't voted yet, or Rash lost a bunch of support once Kirby was in the picture. Crazy.
Kirby would bring more to the game.
aliceandsven said: ↑
Is there any indication whatsoever that Jay has been following this poll and will for sure add the winning character, or is it more to simply reveal to him the interest of the community so he'll have a better feel for who would be the best to add next?
Wow! Most of the characters are ones I want to make it almost equally. Truly, iconic status and playability are the deciding factors to me. So I'm gonna have to think about it for a while.
Mitewing, Mar 29, 2011
I'm pretty sure Jay is not following the poll. Prospects for future characters are "Something no one is ever going to expect, it's not on the poll" (next character) and "it's something people have wanted since the beginning" (a future character)
Rash, yeah call me crazy but Rash would be the first character to actully fight WITHOUT weapons. But I'm not gonna get into this now I have more work to do with Rash. But I am willing to wait for a double character addition if it happened.
Still sure go ahead and troll me but I just don't see this whole game play thing with Kirby... I dunno. Just seems like he would make the game too easy with his 50 jumps or so.
Captain Rizer, Mar 29, 2011
The game is already really easy, I think that's out of the window by now.
Jay has made changes to certain characters, If Kirby's infinite flight is too much, then I don't see why he couldn't tone it down somehow.
No one is trying to troll you and no one wants to troll you, btw.
Well extreme isn't easy, but yeah I know there are no trolls on this forum (yay ) but Thats one of the other things Kirby is known for: Jumping A LOT.
Like I said I'm not gonna get into a huge debate right now. I'm writing poems! ^_^
Kirby Level 4: Buzzy Beetle
I voted Kirby, because hes made of awesome. and pink stuff. but mostly awesome. but yeah kirby shouldnt have infinite flight. maybe he can do that thing where he boosts himself in the air when flying like twice or maybe three times. HOWEVAR I WILL NOT SETTLE UNTIL THAT MARSHMALLOW IS IN THE GAME. I like rash, he would be number 3 on my list for people to be in game (after kirby and pit), but since kirby is on the list to vote for, im voting kirby
EDIT:OHHH MYYY GOOOD, THIS POLL ENDS ON THE DAY SUPER MARIO BROS CROSSOVER WAS RELEASED
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INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS ON PALESTINE 1969 Part 1 of 2 (PDF)
THE INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES
2016 • 450 Pages • 44.43 MB • English
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Summary of INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS ON PALESTINE 1969 Part 1 of 2
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS ON PALESTINE 1969 Edited by WALID KHADDURI With the assistance of Walid Qaziha, George Dib, George K. Nasrallah and Husain Sirriya THE INSTITUTE THE UNIVERSITY FOR OF PALESTINE STUDIES KUWAIT BEIRUT KUWAIT 1972
>. 1H te"S'it- The Institute for Palestine Studies is an independent non-profit Arab research organisation not affiliated to any government, political party or group, devoted to a better understanding of the Palestine problem. Books in the Institute series are published in the interest of public information. They represent the free expression of their authors and do not necessarily indicate the judgement or opinions of the Institute. INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTS ON PALESTINE, 1969 Copyright © , 1972, hy The Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut. All rights reserved, including rights to reproduce this book or any portion thereof in any form. THE INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES Ashqar Building, Rue Clemenceau - P. O. Box 7164 Beirut, Lebanon
THE INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES Founded 1963 BOARD OF TRUSTEES H.E. Charles Helou Adib al-Jader Isam Ashour (Treasurer) Abdul-Muhsin Kattan Najla Abou Izzedin Walid Khalidi (Secretary) Saleh Massoud Abouyseer Hisham Nachabeh Muhammad Marsi Ahmad Edmond Naim Sami Alami Edmond Rabbath As'ad al-As5ad Taher Radwan Ahmad Baha ed-Din Farid Saad Wadad Cortas Abdul Aziz al-Hamad as-Saqr Burhan Dajani Fuad Sarrouf Pierre Edde Shams ed-Din Wakil Abdel Latif al-Hamad Abdel Hasan Zalzalah Said Himadeh Constantine Zurayk (Chairman)
ERRATA Page Column Line for read 8 2 8 Untied United 33 1 12 aksed asked 42 1 8 yo usaid you said 102 1 19 Head Spokesman 113 1 19 Hanon Hamon 147 2 9 international intentional 173 2 5 request respect 183 1 11 assissination assassination 190 1 49 and 50 1968 1969 215 1 47 Officiers Officers 219 1 14 th-rough through 240 2 49 resolution 256 resolution 265 245 1 26 th-rough through 292 1 50 egarding regarding 299 2 47 Furthers Further 379 1 24 Ameican American 404 1 3 4 January 1 April 410 2 36 aginst against 472 2 22 Jenius Jenin 486 2 24 1968 1967 497 2 7 shatterd shattered 504 1 16 Sofano Solano 517 2 18-19 Law, its operations Law, continue its operations 517 2 19 monhts months 563 1 12 Premediated Premeditated 566 2 35 Commissioner Commissioner 577 2 42 others. others, 595 1 16 1967 1968 648 2 27 consoldating consolidating 657 1 25 199 194 699 1 19 Lufti Lutfi 701 1 44 in is 719 1 14 coonected connected 721 1 35 of or 780 2 1 American America 833 2 6 Poeple People
CONTENTS Page PREFACE . ix LIST OF SOURCES . xi LIST OF DOCUMENTS . xv DOCUMENTS International. 1 United Nations . 187 Arab World . 573 INDEX 837
PREFACE This is the third volume of the International Documents on Palestine, published by the Institute for Palestine Studies. It is a collection whose aim is to record the policies of the international community towards the Palestine question. The collection is divided into three sections: International (including Israel), the United Nations and the Arab World. The documents focus principally on the development of the Arab-Israeli conflict, including attempts to achieve a settlement, during 1969. The contents of the International and Arab World sections have been selected from among government reports, parliamentary debates, position papers issued by political organisations, joint communiques, addresses, messages of greetings and support, resolutions of meetings and congresses, and articles and editorials which express official policy. Special attention has been paid this year, as before, to the role of the Big Powers — particularly the United States and the Soviet Union. At the same time, an attempt has been made to broaden the Documents5 coverage of the policies and positions of small states not directly involved in the conflict. As to the Arab world, the policies of all the Arab states, as well as major parties and non-governmental organisations, have been presented. Particular attention has been paid, however, to the role of the United Arab Republic and Jordan and to the Palestinian liberation movement. The United Nations section has been reorganised and expanded. Structurally, it follows as closely as possible the divisions of the inter¬ national organisation and its various organs. The material selected in¬ cludes resolutions and reports of UN organs; and speeches, statements, and letters by representatives of member states and international officials. Besides debates on such subjects as violations of the cease-fire and the treatment of the Arab population in the occupied territories, the section also includes the most important United Nations material on the socio-economic conditions of the Palestinian refugees. Finally, included this year is the annual Report of the Security Council, which IX
X PREFACE delineates in a comprehensive way the work of that body concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict. The documents are arranged chronologically, with a name and subject index at the end of the volume. The word "excerpt/s" is used to indicate that only the part or parts of the text related to the Palestine question and the Arab-Israeli conflict have been repro¬ duced. The spelling of names of persons and places is left unchanged in texts which appear in their original, untranslated version. In documents translated from Arabic, names already familiar to the reader appear as they are generally printed in the English language press; others are transliterated according to a system which, while avoiding diacritical marks, reflects the Arabic spelling as closely as possible. The Institute for Palestine Studies expresses its gratitude to the University of Kuwait, and particularly to its President, and its Secretary-General, for invaluable aid towards the publication of this volume. The Institute further expresses its gratitude to Dr. George J. Tomeh, Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic at the United Nations, for his valuable assistance in the compilation of the United Nations Documents, as well as in the organisation of that section. Special thanks are also extended to the United Nations Informa¬ tion Centre in Beirut and especially to its librarian, Mrs. M. Husn, for the kind assistance which she provided. The International section was compiled by Dr. Walid Qaziha, the United Nations section by Dr. George Dib and Husain Sirriya, and the Arab World section by George K. Nasrallah. Translations from Arabic to English were done by Dr. Tarif Khalidi, Muhammad J. Tutunji, Muhammad Umairi, Ian Howard and Meric Dobson, who was also English language editor for the entire manuscript. The volume was printed with the technical advice of Mrs. Suha Tuqan. The index was prepared by Mrs. Eileen Olmsted.
LIST OF SOURCES Below is a list of the parliamentary records, documentary series, annual reports, radio monitoring services, newspapers and periodicals consulted in the compilation of this book, with their place of publi¬ cation and frequency: al-Ahram Cairo Daily al-Ahrar Beirut Weekly al-Akhbar Beirut Weekly al-Alam Tripoli (Libya) Daily al-Amal Tunis Daily al-Anba Rabat Daily Annual Report (Canada, Department of External Affairs) Ottawa Yearly al-Anwar Beirut Daily Asian Recorder New Delhi Weekly al-Ba'th Damascus Daily al-Bilad Jedda Daily B.B.C. Summary of World Broadcasts London Daily Canadian Weekly Bulletin Ottawa Weekly Congressional Record Washington, D.C. Daily Current Notes on International Affairs (Australia, Department Canberra Monthly of External Affairs) Daily Bulletin (Lebanon, Beirut Daily Ministry of Information; Lebanese National News Agency) Daily Star Beirut Daily Davar Tel Aviv Daily Dawn Karachi Daily Department of State Bulletin Washington, D.C. Weekly Digest of Israeli News Tel Aviv Monthly Documents on Palestine (UAR., Ministry of Guidance) Cairo Yearly aUDustur Amman Daily
xii LIST OF SOURCES External Affairs (Canada, Department of External Affairs) Ottawa Monthly Fateh Annual Yearbook Beirut Yearly Foreign Affairs Bulletin Berlin (GDR) Weekly Foreign Ministry Bulletin Ankara Monthly Free Palestine London Monthly al-Hadaf Beirut Weekly Hansard's Parliamentary Debates London Monthly al-Hayat Beirut Daily Hayom Tel Aviv Daily Heilbronner Bonn Daily Herald Tribune Paris Daily al-Hurriyya Beirut Weekly al-Ittihad Tel Aviv Twice a week al- Jarida Beirut Daily Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Daily Jewish Observer and Middle East Review London Weekly al- Jumhuriyya Baghdad Daily Kabul Times Kabul Daily Kommunist Moscow Semi-Monthly Moscow News Moscow Weekly al-Muharrir Beirut Daily al-Nahar Beirut Daily Newsweek New York Weekly New York Times New York Daily al-Nida Beirut Daily U Orient Beirut Daily Pakistan Documents Series (Embassy of Pakistan, Washington, D.C.) Washington, D.C. Monthly Peking Review Peking Weekly Pravda Moscow Daily Review of International Affairs Belgrade Bi-Weekly
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Michal Šmíd (* 20. října 1986 v Praze) je český fotbalový obránce, od července 2012 působící v Bohemians Praha 1905. Je bývalým mládežnickým reprezentantem Česka.

Klubová kariéra
Svoji fotbalovou kariéru začal v pražské Slavii, odkud ještě jako dorostenec zamířil v roce 2002 do Libuše. V zimním přestupovém období sezony 2003–2004 se vrátil do Slavie, kde nastupoval pouze za B-mužstvo. V létě 2007 přestoupil do Dynama České Budějovice, odkud v roce 2009 zamířil na hostování do Dukly Praha po roce do týmu přestoupil. Před sezonou 2012–2013 zamířil na roční hostování s opcí do Bohemians Praha 1905 a před následujícím ročníkem do mužstva přestoupil.

Reprezentační kariéra
Michal Šmíd je bývalým mládežnickým reprezentantem Česka. V minulosti nastupoval za kategorie do 15 a 16 let.

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 Oficiální stránky Bohemians Praha 1905 - Michal Šmíd

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Fotbalisté FK Dukla Praha
Fotbalisté Bohemians Praha 1905
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Narození v Praze
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ENGIE Inaugurates Singapore Research Project to Make Net Zero Carbon Happen
Industry News – Monday, November 30, 2020
ENGIE inaugurates a SPORE (Sustainable Power for Offgrid REgions) platform on an island off the coast of Singapore. The lab will be used by ENGIE and its partners, Nanyang Technological University and Schneider Electric to test different renewable technologies including green hydrogen, provide training and demonstrate that a 100% renewable microgrid is possible.
Realized under the local "Renewable Energy Integration Demonstrator" (REIDS) initiative, the project consists of a state-of-the-art, multi-fluid microgrid solution that generates 650 kW of electricity. The Semakau project will be the first of a series of R&D test-beds that will be set up by ENGIE across Southeast Asia.
Located on an island, ENGIE's REIDS-SPORE is an energy self-sufficient platform with different renewable energy sources and storage solutions integrated together. It boasts the largest wind turbine in Singapore, as well as a hydrogen full chain for electricity and mobility.
This SPORE platform will further test and develop different kinds of low carbon solutions in real, tropical conditions, and prepare their deployment to remote areas at a larger scale. Moving forward, it could serve as a learning center for industry and professionals to learn about these new technologies.
Shankar Krishnamoorthy, ENGIE's Executive Vice President in charge of Strategy & Innovation, Industrial Development, Research & Technology, and Procurement said: "This REIDS-SPORE platform lies at the heart of the energy transition that ENGIE is leading. It is a tangible demonstration of how we can accelerate our energy transition via smarter, greener and more accessible grid solutions, and demonstrates the relevance of a renewable and self-sufficient energy system, capable of satisfying electricity needs everywhere in the world."
Source: ENGIE | www.engie.com
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The ees International Magazine is specialized on the future-oriented market of electrical energy storage systems, not only from a technological-, but also a financial and application-oriented point-of-view. In cooperation with ees Global, the ees International Magazine informs the energy industry about current progress and the latest market innovations.
In its new lab, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE is now able to test how CHP plants, heat pumps, batteries and charging stations affect grid stability and how these communicate with each other in a smart grid.


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American football is a tough and physically demanding sport. Roots of the game can be traced to rugby and association football played in the UK and brought to the States by immigrants. Walter Camp initiated major rule changes, introducing the down and distance rule and the line of scrimmage with further modifications by notable coaches like Eddie Cochems and others that helped players benefit by the forward pass.
Professional football in the US goes back to 1892. The Ohio League was the first professional league to come into existence in 1903 going on to become the National Football League. The memorable 1958 championship game contributed greatly to the popularity of the game and the League. 1920 saw the formation of the American Football Association and rivals American Football League started in 1960 but the two merged into the Super Bowl, the most watched annual football event in the States.
The present day version of American football has two teams, each with eleven players, that compete to score points. Unlike soccer, players advance by either carrying it while running or throwing it to a teammate.
While the field measures are in yards, inches determine a win or a loss. Success is determined by the yards a team accumulates or lets the opponents gain into its territory. The two teams battle it out to take the maximum from the opponent while defending its territory, progressing towards scoring a goal or a touchdown. Players specialize and play an offensive line, as quarterbacks, running backs, halfback or fullbacks while wide receivers operate close to the sidelines and their job is to catch the ball and block opponents. Tight end players play close to the offensive line. Seven players line up for the scrimmage with the other players behind the line. The defense line has three to six players across the offensive line with the purpose of tackling the running back of the opponent. Linebackers form the second line of defense and rush quarterbacks or cover receivers. The last line of defense is made up of defensive backs whose job is to stop the opponents from completing passes. Central to the game is the ball, an oblong sphere of leather covering a polyurethane bladder, measuring 11 to 11.5 inches in length and weighing between 14 and 15 ounces.
Professional football is overseen by the National Football League in a regular season lasting seventeen weeks at the end of which six teams get to play in the NFL Playoffs, an elimination tournament ending with the championship game known as the Super Bowl.
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David Hammons, Day's End, 2014–21. Stainless steel and precast concrete, overall: 52 x 65 x 325 feet. © David Hammons. Photo: Timothy Schenck.
The Whitney Museum Of American Art & Hudson River Park
In the fall of 2017, the Whitney Museum announced that David Hammons would create a permanent, large-scale public work for a new park on the redeveloped Gansevoort Peninsula just to the west of the museum. Hammons, who has spent over 50 years creating works whose unprepossessing materials and occasional ephemerality place them in defiant dialogue with modern art and its institutions, was a somewhat surprising candidate for such a commission. The artist has willfully positioned himself as something of an outsider, turning down invitations for major museum retrospectives, eschewing gallery representation, and generally looking askance on the art world establishment. During the opening of the 1993 Whitney Biennial, for example, he reportedly stood across the street from the museum, paradoxically performing his refusal to participate in what became known as the "Multicultural Biennial." In 1991 Hammons had rejected an invitation to participate in that year's biennial as well, telling the critic Amie Wallach, "I couldn't wait to tell 'em no," going on to add that "their relationship with black artists has been negative since Day 1."1
If the Whitney commission reflects the institution's increased commitment to Black artists, which is evident in the current shows on view by Dawoud Bey, Dave McKenzie, and Julie Mehretu, it also suggests Hammons's sustained if wary relationship to the museum. Like a number of Hammons's works—most notably Pissed Off (1981), where he urinated onto Richard Serra's large public sculpture T.W.U. (1980), thus reversing Marcel Duchamp's designation of a urinal as a sculpture—the new commission slyly recodes the work of another artist. In this instance Hammons's piece summons and appropriates the title of Gordon Matta-Clark's Day's End (1975), a work in which the artist made five large cuts into the floor, ceiling, and walls of an abandoned shed on the now-destroyed Pier 52.
Hammons's original sketch for the work, purportedly mailed unprompted and unsigned to Whitney Director Adam Weinberg in 2014, designated the proposed structure as a monument to Matta-Clark. Yet by tracing the dimensions and siting of the original shed in stainless steel rods, Hammons's work eliminates signs of Matta-Clark's cuts and, for that matter, the dilapidated industrial ruin that served as their material basis. Rather, Hammons's Day's End, which was officially opened last month (although the ultimate development of the adjacent park will not be completed until 2023) resembles a three-dimensional architectural diagram, the scaffolding for a construction site, or the internal bracing of an unfinished building. On one level the difference between these two Day's Ends can be seen as registering the changing character of the west end of Manhattan, from a waterfront port for the city's manufacturing base, to, at the moment of Matta-Clark's intervention, a postindustrial playground for various forms of intoxication and sexual activity, to its current incarnation of haute-couture boutiques and high-end real estate, which the presence of the new Whitney exemplifies and exacerbates. Indeed, it is not hard to imagine how some viewers, particularly those unfamiliar with Matta-Clark, could misconstrue Hammons's work as a Postmodern recreation of some earlier pier, like the "ghost" reconstructions of colonial buildings in Franklin Court in downtown Philadelphia. It could similarly be mistaken for the latest instance of land reclamation and urban renewal along the Hudson River, a project akin to Barry Diller's recently-opened folly just north of Gansevoort Peninsula. Considering that Hammons prefers working outside of established art spaces and is most interested in non-art audiences, one might argue that this is precisely the intended effect of the work.
David Hammons, Day's End, 2014. Graphite on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Gift of the artist.
Hammons's remake of Day's End offers a sleek, streamlined reminder of a grittier New York, its open transparent forms precluding the sort of illicit behavior that once took place around the piers, as well as the commercial activity before that. In this regard it seems quite different than the artist's last major public art commission in lower Manhattan: Delta Spirit, a small, funky house that the artist constructed as part of Creative Time's "Art on The Beach" program in 1985, which was notably sited on an as-yet-undeveloped landfill peninsula produced by the construction of the World Trade Center. In an interview with Kellie Jones, Hammons's described that work as an example of the sort of "Negritude architecture" found in the American South, a kind of building which "doesn't have that neatness about it, the way white people put things together."2 Day's End, with its crisp geometric linearity, seems the antithesis to such vernacular untidiness, implying different sources and suggesting different audiences.
Matta-Clark ironically described his Day's End as a "renovation" of a "decaying sad reminder of a previous industrial era."3 He went on to contemplate how the ultimate destruction of his interventions could paradoxically complete them. Matta-Clark's critique of the progressive ideals associated with urban development has been an influential model for contemporary artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija and Lucy Raven, and Hammons's appropriation of Day's End draws upon these currents in similar fashion. If Matta-Clark's work produced, as Dan Graham wrote, a form of "instant ruins," Hammons's reiteration, which seems to hover in a state of incompletion, suggests Robert Smithson's concept of "ruins in reverse." Here, a structure, like a building under construction, points to a future state of completion. This Janus-faced temporality, commemorating a past moment in time while, through its permanence, pointing to an unknown but hopefully distant future, marks Day's End's monumentality. That said, this is a monument for an increasingly homogenized future, where the clandestine chance encounters that once took place in the abandoned piers are replaced with the eversame comforts of what used to be called late capitalism.
Situated upon and framing an artificial shoreline that currently consists of large boulders and slabs of concrete strewn with trash but is slated to be sanitized and made safe for park-goers, Day's End invites viewers to contemplate even more expansive temporal registers. The sound of the tide lapping against the rocks, and the concrete pilasters which will in time become beds for native mussels, summon the slow geological processes that signal both a posthuman future and a past prior to the European colonization of Manhattan. Such a vision is arguably present in Hammons's original sketch, which seems to position the structure entirely over the water, indicating perhaps a potential movement of the shoreline caused by rising sea levels. (This is a future that the Whitney has already prepared for, devising a strategy to protect its collection from flooding by buttressing the glass façade of the building with stacks of aluminum "logs.") One imagines that Hammons, an artist who has dabbled in various forms of forecasting and who once memorably sold perfectly rounded but materially impermanent snowballs at an outdoor flea market in Cooper Square, had these broader and more evanescent horizons of time in mind when he chose to recycle the title of Matta-Clark's work. Paradoxically making its short-lived predecessor permanent, this new Day's End is a monument for a precarious present whose days, as the saying goes, are numbered.
David Hammons, quoted in Amei Wallach, "ART: Rubble-Rouser," Los Angeles Times (18 August 1991). https://www.latimes.com/arvhives/la-xpm-1991-08-18-ca-1418-story.html. Accessed 18 May 2021.
David Hammons, in Kellie Jones, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 256.
Quoted in Thomas Crow, "Gordon Matta Clark," in Corrine Diserens, ed. Gordon Matta Clark (Phaidon, 2001), 12.
Robert Slifkin
Robert Slifkin is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His most recent book is The New Monuments and the End of Man: U.S. Sculpture Between War and Peace, 1945-1975 (Princeton University Press, 2019).