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Looking for Dunedin's future in the past
Artbeat column no 460 by Peter Entwisle
Published in the Otago Daily Times, 2.11.09
Can the arts and heritage save Dunedin? Dunedin doesn't need saving I hear you mutter and neither it does. Nevertheless demographic anxiety, sometimes demographic panic, continues to gnaw the city and move it to folly. Both the attempt to build a smelter and the push to build the stadium illustrate the point. Nevertheless there are sober reasons for concern and intelligent things which might be done to bolster the city's future. Dr Rodney Wilson's report on our museums and built heritage illuminates one of these. It should be taken seriously.
Dunedin's population growth or lack of it has long been a touchy subject. That is apparent in K.C. McDonald's centennial history of the city council published in 1965. He wrote some wise words which have mostly been ignored by civic leaders. My attempt to publish an analysis of some relevant figures in the early 1980s met with a blank refusal from the Otago Daily Times,basically because acknowledgement of the city's then declining population was too painful to put into print. Nevertheless some of my accompanying advice was published and heeded.
Until the demise of the smelter the city's political and business leaders had been inclined to see its future as an enlarged manufacturing or commercial centre. I pointed to the limitations of that and said more would come from cultivating the university and tourism, especially cultural tourism. Despite some confused thinking about the university's place in the local and national economies the civic leadership did enter into a new and more engaged relationship with the university although its embrace of tourism remained very spotty.
The university grew and from that the city's population decline was halted and reversed. This was only partly because of the city's efforts, more because of government policy – its move to the "bums on seats" funding model. In the early 2000s I stated publicly this was nearing its limits, that the city couldn't comfortably accommodate many more students. In 2007 the government changed its funding model so the next 20 years won't see comparable growth anyway.
Even so it's important to realise the present roll is large enough to support academic excellence. Its necessary faculty buildings are endangering the built environment with its distinctive residential component while congestion contributes to declining standards of student behaviour. The city's further growth should not come from university expansion. Nor should it be focused in north Dunedin. There are alternatives.
Dr Wilson's report called on the city council to explore with government a special status for Dunedin as a national heritage city. This is premised on the view Dunedin's historic architecture is better and better preserved than any other New Zealand city's, as indeed our museums, libraries and galleries and their collections are also exceptional. This is true and I have said as much before.
But Dr Wilson went on to say this distinction extends to Australia as well as New Zealand. I have heard some question this but think it is not implausible. However that may be it is beyond argument that Dunedin is New Zealand's best built and best preserved colonial city which should be enough for any New Zealand government. Redevelopment on this basis could make the city a star tourist attraction.
Will Dr Wilson's advice be heeded? At first sight it seems unlikely. The city council buried his report. It took the Otago Daily Times' request for it under the official information act to get it released. Clearly some in the council don't want the public to hear about such things. But the Otago Daily Times made it the subject of a generally supportive editorial, which is significant, because previously the paper has been inclined to dismiss such suggestions. (ODT 24/10/2009.)
The editorial contained signs of lingering incredulity. It said "it is hard to imagine [Dunedin's heritage buildings and precincts] ever having the pulling power of centuries-old heritage like Prague, Bath, Istanbul or Quito for that matter."
This is just a problem of imagination. It isn't age as such which signifies. So long as the structures in question are old enough to read as old to most people, that is old enough. That is now true of Victorian and Edwardian things, in fact of things built in the interwar period too. But a repaired and restored Dunedin would indeed have far more "pulling power" than it does at present. Many had difficulty seeing the potential of the Municipal Chambers before it was restored. It's that sort of transformation, on a much larger scale, we could have here if we were determined.
The editorial also thought albatrosses and penguins might have more appeal than stone, although international tourist statistics show otherwise. No matter. It sounded the right note. All we need now is for our civic leaders to start doing something about it. Maybe this time they will.
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27.23 Pyrimidines and Purines
Pyrimidines and Purines In order to understand the structure and properties of DNA and RNA, we need to look at their structural components. We begin with certain heterocyclic aromatic compounds called pyrimidines and purines.
Pyrimidines and Purines Pyrimidine and purine are the names of the parent compounds of two types of nitrogen- containing heterocyclic aromatic compounds. N N N N N NH PyrimidinePurine
Important Pyrimidines Pyrimidines that occur in DNA are cytosine and thymine. Cytosine and uracil are the pyrimidines in RNA. HNHNHNHN NHNHNHNHOO Uracil HNHNHNHN NHNHNHNHOO CH 3 Thymine HNHNHNHN NHNHNHNH NH2NH2NH2NH2 O Cytosine
Important Purines Adenine and guanine are the principal purines of both DNA and RNA. Adenine N N NH2NH2NH2NH2N NHNHNHNH GuanineO HNHNHNHN NHNHNHNH N N H2NH2NH2NH2N
Caffeine and Theobromine Caffeine (coffee) and theobromine (coffee and tea) are naturally occurring purines. Caffeine N NON N H3CH3CH3CH3C O CH 3 TheobromineO HNHNHNHN N N N O
27.24 Nucleosides
Nucleosides The classical structural definition is that a nucleoside is a pyrimidine or purine N-glycoside of D -ribofuranose or 2-deoxy- D -ribofuranose. Informal use has extended this definition to apply to purine or pyrimidine N-glycosides of almost any carbohydrate. The purine or pyrimidine part of a nucleoside is referred to as a purine or pyrimidine base.
Uridine and Adenosine Uridine and adenosine are pyrimidine and purine nucleosides respectively of D -ribofuranose. Uridine (a pyrimidine nucleoside) Adenosine (a purine nucleoside) ON HOCH 2 HNHNHNHN O OHHO O N N N N O OHHO NH2NH2NH2NH2
27.25 Nucleotides
Nucleotides Nucleotides are phosphoric acid esters of nucleosides.
Adenosine 5'-Monophosphate (AMP) Adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP) is also called 5'- adenylic acid. N N N N O OHHO NH2NH2NH2NH2 OCH 2 P HO O HO
Adenosine 5'-Monophosphate (AMP) Adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP) is also called 5'- adenylic acid. N N N N O OHHO NH2NH2NH2NH2 OCH 2 P HO O HO 1' 2'3' 4' 5'
Adenosine Diphosphate (ADP) N N N N O OHHO NH2NH2NH2NH2 OCH 2 P O O HO P O HO HO
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) N N N N O OHHO NH2NH2NH2NH2 OCH 2 P O O HO P O HO O P O HO HO
ATP Stores Energy AMP ADP ATP Each step is endothermic. Energy for each step comes from carbohydrate metabolism (glycolysis). Reverse process is exothermic and is the source of biological energy. G° for hydrolysis of ATP to ADP is –35 kJ/mol
Adenosine 3'-5'-Cyclic Monophosphate (cAMP) Cyclic AMP is an important regulator of many biological processes. N N N N O OHO NH2NH2NH2NH2 CH 2 P O HO O
27.26 Nucleic Acids
Nucleic Acids Nucleic acids are polymeric nucleotides (polynucleotides). 5' Oxygen of one nucleotide is linked to the 3' oxygen of another.
Fig. 27.22 A section of a polynucleotide chain.
27.27 Structure and Replication of DNA: The Double Helix
Composition of DNA Erwin Chargaff (Columbia Univ.) studied DNAs from various sources and analyzed the distribution of purines and pyrimidines in them. The distribution of the bases adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), and cytosine (C) varied among species. But the total purines (A and G) and the total pyrimidines (T and C) were always equal. Moreover: %A = %T, and %G = %C
Composition of Human DNA Adenine (A) 30.3%Thymine (T) 30.3% Guanine (G) 19.5%Cytosine (C) 19.9% Total purines: 49.8%Total pyrimidines: 50.1% For example: PurinePyrimidine
Base Pairing Watson and Crick proposed that A and T were equal because of complementary hydrogen bonding. 2-deoxyribose 2-deoxyribose AT
Base Pairing Likewise, the amounts of G and C were equal because of complementary hydrogen bonding. 2-deoxyribose 2-deoxyribose GC
The DNA Duplex Watson and Crick proposed a double-stranded structure for DNA in which a purine or pyrimidine base in one chain is hydrogen bonded to its complement in the other.
Fig. 27.24 Two antiparallel strands of DNA are paired by hydrogen bonds between purine and pyrimidine bases.
Fig. 27.25 Helical structure of DNA. The purine and pyrimidine bases are on the inside, sugars and phosphates on the outside.
Fig. 27.26 DNA Replication C G T A As the double helix unwinds, each strand acts as a template upon which its complement is constructed.
Fig. 27.26 DNA Replication A C G T T' A' G' C'
27.28 DNA-Directed Protein Biosynthesis
DNA and Protein Biosynthesis According to Crick, the "central dogma" of molecular biology is: "DNA makes RNA makes protein." Three kinds of RNA are involved. messenger RNA (mRNA) transfer RNA (tRNA) ribosomal RNA (rRNA) There are two main stages. transcription translation
Transcription Transcription is the formation of a strand of mRNA using one of the DNA strands as a template. The nucleotide sequence of the mRNA is complementary to the nucleotide sequence of the DNA template. Transcription begins at the 5' end of DNA and is catalyzed by the enzyme RNA polymerase.
Transcription AGGTCACTG TCCAGTGAC A T G C T T T T T T C C C C C A A A A A G G A G G G As double-stranded DNA unwinds, a complementary strand of mRNA forms at the 5' end. 5' 3'
Transcription AGGTCACTG TCCAGTGAC A T G C T T T T T T C C C C C A A A A A G G A G G G A A G G U C 5' 3' Uracil is incorporated in RNA instead of thymine.
Translation The nucleotide sequence of mRNA codes for the different amino acids found in proteins. There are three nucleotides per codon. There are 64 possible combinations of A, U, G, and C. The genetic code is redundant. Some proteins are coded for by more than one codon.
Table 27.4: mRNA Codons AlanineArginineAsparagineAspartic AcidCysteine GCUGCACGUCGA AAUGAU UGU GCCGCGAGACGC AACGACUGC CGGAGG Glutamic acidGlutamineGlycineHistidineIsoleucine GAACAAGGUGGACAUAUUAUA GAGCAGGGCGGGCACAUC LeucineLysineMethioninePhenylalanineProline UUACUUAAAAUGUUUCCUCCA CUAUUGAAGUUCCCC CG CUCCUG SerineThreonineTryptophanTyrosineValine UCUUCA ACUACAUGGUAUGUUGUA AGUUCC ACCACGUACGUC GUG UCGAGC
Transfer tRNA There are 20 different tRNAs, one for each amino acid. Each tRNA is single stranded with a CCA triplet at its 3' end. A particular amino acid is attached to the tRNA by an ester linkage involving the carboxyl group of the amino acid and the 3' oxygen of the tRNA.
Phenylalanine tRNA
OCCHCH 2 C 6 H 5 NH 3 +O A C C A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A C C C C C C C C CC C C U U U U U U U U U U U G G G GG G G G G G G G U GG G G C This AAA triplet is complementary to a UUU triplet of mRNA; it is an anticodon.
27.29 DNA Sequencing
DNA Sequencing Restriction enzymes cleave the polynucleotide to smaller fragments. These smaller fragments (100-200 base pairs) are sequenced. The two strands are separated.
DNA Sequencing Single stranded DNA divided in four portions. Each tube contains adenosine, thymidine, guanosine, and cytidine plus the triphosphates of their 2'-deoxy analogs. POCH 2 OHO O OOHP O OH P O HO base H HOHOHOHO O
DNA Sequencing The first tube also contains the 2,'3'-dideoxy analog of adenosine triphosphate (ddATP); the second tube the 2,'3'-dideoxy analog of thymidine triphosphate (ddTTP), the third contains ddGTP, and the fourth ddCTP. POCH 2 OHO O OOHP O OH P O HO base HH O
DNA Sequencing Each tube also contains a "primer," a short section of the complementary DNA strand, labeled with radioactive phosphorus ( 32 P). DNA synthesis takes place, producing a complementary strand of the DNA strand used as a template. DNA synthesis stops when a dideoxynucleotide is incorporated into the growing chain.
DNA Sequencing The contents of each tube are separated by electrophoresis and analyzed by autoradiography. There are four lanes on the electrophoresis gel. Each DNA fragment will be one nucleotide longer than the previous one.
Figure 27.29 T TGTGTGTG TGATGATGATGA TGACTGACTGACTGAC TGACATGACATGACATGACA TGACATTGACATTGACATTGACAT TGACATATGACATATGACATATGACATA TGACATACTGACATACTGACATACTGACATAC TGACATACGTGACATACGTGACATACGTGACATACG TGACATACGTTGACATACGTTGACATACGTTGACATACGT ddAddTddGddC Sequence of fragment
Figure 27.29 T TGTGTGTG TGATGATGATGA TGACTGACTGACTGAC TGACATGACATGACATGACA TGACATTGACATTGACATTGACAT TGACATATGACATATGACATATGACATA TGACATACTGACATACTGACATACTGACATAC TGACATACGTGACATACGTGACATACGTGACATACG TGACATACGTTGACATACGTTGACATACGTTGACATACGT ddAddTddGddC A ACACACAC ACTACTACTACT ACTGACTGACTGACTG ACTGTACTGTACTGTACTGT ACTGTAACTGTAACTGTAACTGTA ACTGTATACTGTATACTGTATACTGTAT ACTGTATGACTGTATGACTGTATGACTGTATG ACTGTATGCACTGTATGCACTGTATGCACTGTATGC ACTGTATGCAACTGTATGCAACTGTATGCAACTGTATGCA Sequence of fragment Sequence of original DNA
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Bold Title: Allen POV
Normal Title: Kanda POV
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Music Box
Broken color
Everything in the ark was white. Even the black uniform of the Order appeared as if it was losing its color. It was as if the sunlight was washing everything away. As if and it was trying to erase existence itself.
The city of the ark itself was making him uneasy, almost nervous. It was too lifeless, too perfect, and too white. Just like who he tried to be. Allen tried to be as quiet as he could, as kind and as white, outside and inside as well.
But he was too loud, too twisted and too black. He was an arrangement of black and white fragments. Broken colors that can't - won't- mess together. That weren't mend to mess.
Inside the 14th's room—his, Allen's room—that feeling was increasing greatly. The room itself, whiter than even white, amplified that impression of breaking colors—minds—apart. It was a matter of time till he lost himself. If that black shadow, slowly but surely, replacing his reflection was anything to go by.
His only hope was that someone would care enough to search for him when that came to be. Not that he thought that anyone would.
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Kanda couldn't keep the frown from his face. That idiotic Moyashi had escaped from the nurse again and he was forced to look for him. He tried everything to avoid going into the ark but in the end he had to ender it.
The Japanese exorcist greatly disliked it. This city of the ark. It's peacefulness was getting him off guard, it was forcing him to let down his defenses. While just beyond the edge of his senses he could feel a madness that with every second was drowning him in even more.
He knew, it was a sound. A broken sound that kept that place in existence. A sound that that freaking brat was emitting, singing or not. He knew 'cause Marie himself made Kanda aware of it.
Suddenly a gentle sound could be heard from the depths of the ark. 'Nani?' Kanda was on guard at once. 'That sound…. It's the same as that time! '
Many would call the song calming and charming. A true masterpiece. A song complete in every way. A solid sound. Everyone would call it as such. But the sound Moyashi was playing was broken. It was made by fragments of countless memories. Most of them blurred and out of focus, creating a most unpleasant vision.
It was the same song that brought them back when the ark collapsed on them. The same song that controlled all in this time and space, and perhaps even them.
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Again and again the sound echoed inside that white prison. Allen felt that he couldn't for the life of him find the end of the song. Or better yet, that the song had no ending.
Over and over and over. An endless melody; an unstoppable music box, and a broken one at that. He hated that sound. He hated it so much that he loved it. The sound was haunted, it was broken. It sounded all wrong! It was awful! Despicable and ugly! Just like him. Just like Allen had always been.
Maybe that was why he loved/hated it so much. Because the sound of the song was like him: broken. And yet….. he couldn't stop playing it, for it was all that he had left. So he kept playing on and on. For he was the gears in this white music box, called the Ark of Noah. He kept playing his song.
That song, that sound of his, was almost too painful to hear, the sound of his soul underneath the lies, smiles and masks.
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Over and over the song seemed to be getting stronger as time went by.
The door to the mad-house-room, as Kanda had came to call the piano room in his mind because of its witness, was wide open. That both pleased him and unnerved him greatly. Aside from their casual spares the darkness that Moyashi hide underneath that annoying smile was intimidating him greatly. 'Hell, I bet that even the brat himself doesn't know how deep his malice is.'
Stopping for a minute or so to collect his bearings he neared the door only to stop in his tracks again. That sound he was hearing all this time was not produced by the piano as he first—hoped— thought. No, the sound was coming straight from the brats' throat. He didn't know how such a sound could be produced. It didn't seem like any human could do it. But then again, he wasn't sure that Moyashi was human either.
That kind of sound had to be painful. Human vocal cords weren't meant to make such high or such low notes, if they could be called as such. And Moyashi kept going at it! Repeating those inhuman sounds over and over.
Repeating over
It was Allen's own bless and curse. It was the path Mana had left him. Over and over and over and over. Fall and stand and walk, and repeat. That was all his life. There was no end.
Over and over repeating without an end in sight. But it was all right, really ok with him, for he was not worthy of a stop, a rest in his suffering. For he killed Mana! For he was a to-be traitor of the Order! For he was so cursed that his hand of greeting was not worth greeting.
Inside this walls –his mind—there was no one to ridicule or judge him. No kind—foolish—Leenalee. No funny—fake—Lavi. No cruel—handsome—Kanda. No one. This place was his own, existing according to his rules. Supported and expanding according to his endless song alone.
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The shuttle Endeavor flies over the Johnson Space Center in this photo from 2008. The Johnson Space Center Engineering Directorate's Software, Robotics and Simulation Division is one of the key NASA programs that the SSTC contract supports. (NASA photo)
NASA's Simulation and Software Technology Contract (SSTC) provides a slew of services to the space agency, but its pending September expiration has NASA seeking new procurement approaches as it develops a follow-on contract potentially worth $132 million.
The contract, currently held by L-3 Communications, plays an integral role in NASA's simulation and robotics divisions and its ground and space flight applications.
A recent request for information shows the agency is examining procurement approaches, small business requirements and organizational conflicts of interest as it develops the follow-up to SSTC, according to FCW's sister publication, Washington Technology.
The RFI explains that the current iteration of SSTC is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, but the agency wants to explore whether portions of it can be firm-fixed price, in which an agency sets a ceiling for a specific service and the contractor agrees to meet it.
In addition, the RFI looks to determine how small business goals can be met through the contract, and requests comments and mitigation plans from industry on organizational conflicts of interest that could arise from the contract.
Formal responses to the RFI are due May 30.
Currently, SSTC supports many NASA programs, including the Johnson Space Center Engineering Directorate's Software, Robotics and Simulation Division, the International Space Station, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the Training Systems for the 21st Century and other space exploration programs.
SSTC is also the exclusive contract for the Trick Simulation Environment, the architecture used by astronauts to train for the International Space Station.
The RFI states SSTC also provides engineering in the areas of automation, intelligent systems, telerobotics and autonomous robotic systems for ground and space flight applications.
The SSTC also provides support for other areas, including software design, prototyping, systems engineering, software integration, software life-cycle management, requirements analysis, systems management and system architecture analysis in each of the software functional domains.
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The nails are an important part of our bodies as they show a lot of symptoms of different diseases, including cancer. Talking about nails, do you know what does the name Lunula mean? The crescent-shaped white area at the end of a fingernail is a highly sensitive area which mustn't get damaged.
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These are 10 facts that you need to know about the Lunula:
- Sensitive part which mustn't get damaged, as previously mentioned.
- The half-moon part is named the Lunula which means small moon in Latin.
- It is white because it is the fifth basal layer of the epidermis and it 'hides' the blood vessels underneath.
- Not everyone's Lunula is visible. Sometimes, the thickened layer of the skin around the fingernails and toenails may completely or partially cover the Lunula.
- When damaged, there can be permanent damages to the entire nail.
- According to traditional Chinese medicine, the lack of Lunula may be a sign of anemia and malnutrition, whereas a pale or bluish Lunula could be a potential sign of diabetes. When a Lunula has red smudges, the person may be suffering from heart diseases.
- A small Lunula could be a symptom of indigestion which occurs as a result of slow metabolism and too much toxins in the body.
- Having 8 to 10 lunulas with ivory color on both hands means that everything is alright with your health. Hence, the whiter the Lunula, the stronger the person.
- A normal fingernail is ruddy, tough, restrained, smooth, and glossy with a clearly visible Lunula. This means that the person is energetic and healthy.
- The less Lunulae a person has, the lower the energy and overall health. If you have Lunulae on the thumbs only, you lack physical energy and you may get sick.
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Keep your dresser drawers and closets smelling great.
Put a few drops of your favorite essential oils on cotton wool balls and place them in your closets and drawers. I like to use lavender and lemon because it also helps to keep the moths away!
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Cotton Wool Balls can also be used in the dryer. Have ever used Tennis balls in the dryer to fluff a comforter well its the same concept, they work by bouncing around in the dryer, reducing static cling and literally "beating" your clothes. The balls shorten drying time by wicking moisture away from your clothes. Adding essential oils gently scents your clothes with aromatherapy benefits. They last a very long time with no need to wash (Unless your dog gets a hold of them, LOL )! You can reapply the essential oils every 3-4 use. I like to use Lavender & Ylang Ylang or Orange and Peppermint.
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Mac OS X Development Tutorial for Beginners Part 2: OS X App Anatomy
Welcome back to our 3-part Mac OS X Development tutorial for beginner series!
- In part 1 you first learned how to obtain the tools you need to develop for OS X. Then, using an app you downloaded as an example, you took a tour of Xcode, discovering how to run an app, edit code, design the UI and debug it.
- In this second part, you'll take a step back from Xcode to learn about the components that make up an OS X app. From how an app starts, through how the UI is constructed all the way to handling user interaction.
- You'll get your hands dirty in the final part – building your first ever OS X app. Starting from nothing, you'll soon have a simple app up and running on your mac!
This article is aimed at developers who have either completed part one of the series, or have experience with Xcode. It assumes little or no knowledge of OS X apps, and if you're already familiar with the architecture of OS X apps, you might like to skim through before skipping right on to the final part.
By the end of this article you'll have a good grounding in how the different parts of an OS X app fit together, although not necessarily a wide-ranging understanding of how each of them works.
Note: This part of the series is just background information that you need to know about how OS X apps work; there is no coding involved.
Just sit back, relax, and learn – you'll get back to coding and make your first OS X app in the next and final part of the series!
How Does an OS X App Start?
Your journey through an OS X app starts right at the beginning – looking at how an app actually starts.
There are three components that you need to be aware of when considering the OS X app start process:
- App Delegate: The entry point for code. The App Delegate provides methods associated with both the lifecycle of the app, and its interaction with the operating system. This is your first opportunity to run code, and provides you with notifications from OS X, such as Handoff requests, command line arguments and push notifications.
- Storyboard: Storyboards have a designated "entry point", and this allows the system to construct the UI at app launch. The entrypoint looks like an arrow on the left hand side of a scene:
This denotes which of the scenes in the storyboard will form the initial UI of your app.
- Info.plist: You can have multiple storyboards within your app, so how does OS X know which one it should use as the initial UI? This information (and a load of other useful things) is stored inside the Info.plist file. You can see the relevant entry below:
This file contains lots of useful app configuration options, many of which are exposed through the target configuration screen in Xcode. The image below shows the same storyboard setting in a more user-friendly location:
Starting an app is slightly more complicated than this, but these three places explain where you can interact and configure your app's startup. Now that you've got your app up and running it's time to take a look at a very important aspect – its User Interface.
User interface
You're already aware of the fact that the UI can be provided by a storyboard, but what does this actually mean? In this section you'll cover the different UI components – what they represent and how they fit together.
The UI for your app will be contained within one or more window objects. These represent an area of the screen for which your app is responsible for providing the UI. The operating system runs a window manager that handles the moving and resizing of these windows, updating your app as the user makes these changes.
In addition to representing the visualization of your app, the window object also handles passing user events triggered by user interaction with the mouse and keyboard into your app.
Although you can interact directly with a window object, often they're managed by window controllers – especially when used in conjunction with storyboards.
A window controller is responsible for the loading of the window itself, and allows you to hook into different events throughout the lifecycle of the window.
A storyboard would contain at least one window controller, which is represented as follows:
Window controllers are represented by the
NSWindowController class, and as you configure your different windows, you would normally create different subclasses to manage their individual behavior.
The window specifies the area of the screen that your app is responsible for drawing on, but not what to draw. This is one of the primary responsibilities of the view – providing you with functionality to draw on the screen.
Views are rectangular in shape, and are represented by the
NSView class. Views exist within a hierarchy – i.e. any view can contain zero or more subviews – allowing you to construct a complex layout using much simpler, reusable view components.
View Controllers
In the same way that windows are managed by a window controller in storyboards, views are managed by a view controller class. This links the view hierarchy in with the the model layer, either by manipulating properties directly, or through Cocoa bindings.
In a typical application, a view controller is a reusable component that, when provided a model object of a particular type, would update all of its constituent views to represent the values of its associated model object.
For example, in the previous tutorial you poked around the HubEvent app.
In the above screenshot, you can see that it is made up of two major view controllers – one managing the table view on the top, and the other the detail text view. When you select a row in the table view, it sets the model object on the lower detail view controller, which then updates the text view to display the correct JSON.
View controllers are represented by
NSViewController, which provides a full range of lifecycle events – allowing you to perform custom actions at different times. For example you can fire animation as the view is about to appear on the screen with
viewWillAppear(), or populate relevant views with data once the view hierarchy has correctly loaded with
Your app is likely to be formed from a selection of custom subclasses of
NSViewController, each responsible for a different section of a window. They're an incredibly important aspect of an app – forming the link that allows you to display the underlying data to the user.
View components
You've discovered that views are used to draw on the screen – but how is that actually achieved? At the lowest level you can create a custom subclass of
NSView and override the
drawRect() method to manually draw the content of your view.
This is extremely powerful – allowing you to create completely custom views, but would be arduous if you had to do this to draw some text on the screen!
Luckily, you don't have to. AppKit contains a large selection of commonly used
NSView subclasses that you can use to display content on the screen.
Some of the most useful examples are:
- Label: Displays static text. Configurable font and appearance
- Text Field: User-editable text control. Used to collect a string from the user.
- Image View: Draws an image – provided by an
- Push Button: One of the many button types – each of which respond to a user's mouse click.
- Table View: An example of one of the many view subclasses used for showing not just one data object, but rather a collection of them.
These are just a few of the different view subclasses available to you as you build up the user interface of your app. You can discover the entire range in the object library within Interface Builder:
The raywenderlich.com OS X tutorial team will also be putting together a quick reference guide to different UI components over the coming months – so be sure to check back for that.
Viewing collections
Often you'll want your app to display UI for multiple model objects at the same time – for example showing a list of upcoming appointments, or a set of photos in an album.
OS X provides two different views that are designed to show collections of model objects – in the form of table views and collection views.
As their name suggests, table views are used to show tabular data, with rows representing individual model objects, and the columns representing attributes on those objects.
Table views are made up of cells that can be recycled as they scroll on and off screen. Data can be provided either via a data source protocol or using Cocoa Bindings.
Tables support sorting, editing and custom cells, giving you a very powerful view for displaying data.
The more generic collection view is also comprised of a collection of cells, but this time, each cell represents the entire model object. The layout of these cells is completely customizable.
Similarly to the table view, the data for a collection view can be provided either via a data source protocol, or through Cocoa Bindings. Cells are also recycled as they disappear out of the view, reducing the memory footprint.
Collection views have built in support for cell selection, animated re-ordering and grouping cells into sections.
Handling user interaction
A key part of any OS X is allowing user interaction through the mouse, trackpad, keyboard and any other of a number of input devices. To assist with designing user input to your app, OS X provides a unified event dispatch model, built around the concept of a responder chain.
Events generated from a keyboard are known as Key Events, and these follow quite a complicated path to arrive at your app. Some key presses don't event make it to your app – as they are intercepted at the OS level (e.g. power button, screen brightness, volume).
Key events can represents a single key, or a key combination – and when they arrive at your app, they are first checked to see whether they are a keyboard shortcut that's bound to a menu item.
If not, they are checked to see whether the are used to navigate around the user interface of your app – e.g. tabbing between input fields. If this isn't the case, then the window works out which of its views is currently "active" (so-called first responder) before passing it the key events. These can either be interpreted as per-view commands or as characters to insert.
Keyboard input is really quite complicated, since it can affect many levels of the system and app architecture, but OS X goes a long way to assist with this processing. In many cases, you'll find that it behaves as you would expect it out of the box.
Mouse-like events are passed to your application, which establishes which window and hence view they were performed on, before passing them to your custom subclass to allow you to handle them appropriately. The responder class (which views inherit from) includes methods you can override which get called when a clicks and moves the mouse.
Trackpads offer lots of additional gestures to a traditional mouse, so the concept of gesture recognizers has been borrowed from iOS. These can be use to interpret a sequence of multi-finger touches into a semantic action – such as a pan or rotation.
Gesture recognizers offer a much higher level of interpretation of mouse-like events, and they're associated with views and can intercept all the mouse-like events associated with that view.
The event handling architecture in OS X is quite complicated, but the defaults go a long way to handling many common cases. The power of the responder chain makes it easy to handle events at the highest level possible.
Menus are collections of different actions that you can associate with your app. Menus can appear in different places, including:
- Menu Bar this is bar along the top of the screen
- Context Menus appear when the user right clicks
- Dock Menu when the user long-presses the dock icon
All of these menus can be configured in Interface Builder, allowing you to configure their appearance, the hierarchy they appear in and to associate actions with each item.
Data Layer
The user interface is an enormously important part of your OS X app, but it's probably not the entirety of your app. Most apps provide a user interface so that users can interact with an underlying data model.
Data models depend heavily on the domain in which your app exists – there's no magical solution to building a data layer. In fact, it's often the case that you'll use the object oriented language features available in Swift to create a set of objects that model the domain of your app.
It's extremely important that the data layer should be separated out from the user interface, making your software your software more maintainable and less error-prone. OS X supports this architecture through Cocoa Bindings – a technology that wires up model objects to the UI and ensures that they are automatically kept in sync with each other.
You can create a completely separate dynamic framework to contain your data layer – completely separating it from the UI layer. This can allow the same data layer to be used in multiple apps – possibly even shared between an OS X and an iOS app, and increases testability.
Although you can create your own data layer, Apple provides a framework called Core Data. This is a comprehensive framework for creating an object graph to completely model your entire data layer. It supports persistence to disk, data validation, undo and much more.
Core Data has great support for Cocoa Bindings, meaning that it's really easy to integrate your model editing UI with a Core Data backend to build the bulk of your app really quickly.
Other useful Cocoa functionality
This article has given you a very brief overview of some of the Cocoa concepts that are likely to be used in every single OS X app. This barely scrapes the surface of what is a very rich platform.
Some highlights of other parts of Cocoa that are extremely useful when building powerful OS X apps:
- Networking: In addition to access to the very lowest level of networking functionality, OS X provides a much higher-level API for handling HTTP requests. The networking model is built around an asynchronous session – seamlessly handling uploads and downloads as a list of tasks.
- Location: You might associate location-based services primarily with mobile devices, but you have full access to a lot of powerful functionality both about location through Core Location, and for mapping using MapKit.
- WebKit: Safari is one of the top web browsers, and you can integrate the powerful rendering engine into your own app via WebKit. It also includes the ability to interact with the content, and to render HTML content from a selection of sources.
Where to go from here?
This article has given you an overview of how Cocoa apps for OS X fit together, but it hasn't given you a great idea of how you can actually use this to get started creating apps. Fear not – for that is the purpose of the next article in this introductory series.
If you'd like to learn more about the theoretical side of building OS X apps then Apple has provided a good guide to Cocoa apps as part of the documentation guides. It's not especially helpful at the practical aspects of building apps, but if you read it in its entirety then you'll know an awful lot about Cocoa!
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. Working out at the team's facilities, Minnesota Vikings receiver Greg Childs smiles widely, displaying a supreme confidence and looking nothing like a player in the midst of an intense rehab from a potentially career-ending injury. Childs has always had that swagger, that confidence in himself and his physical gifts. It's one reason that he never doubted he'd be back to play for Minnesota, even after suffering torn patellar tendons in both of his knees in training camp last season. Childs has been running for about three months. He says he can run routes, though he doesn't run through them full speed with his teammates yet. He's done some cutting on those two surgically-repaired knees, even jumping on the knees that have let him down too many times in his career. "I'm doing all the things I was doing before," Childs said earlier this month while working out during the team's offseason conditioning program. "I'm pretty much able to do all my drills, all the wide receiver drills as of right now." Some wondered if Childs would ever get back to doing receiver drills. Some still wonder if he'll be able to regain the athleticism required to make it in the NFL. Childs is waiting for his chance to prove it. In fact, he's still waiting for his chance to prove to the NFL he can return from his first patellar tendon injury, which came to his right knee in his junior season at Arkansas. He returned as a senior, but wasn't the same. The Vikings believed in him and drafted him in the fourth round. Then in training camp last year as a rookie, he went up for pass during the team's annual night scrimmage and fell awkwardly, tearing the tendons in both knees. He said he went to work as soon as possible after surgery. "I stayed up here the entire time," Childs said. "I might have went home a week and a half since I got hurt. So the rest of the time I've been doing my rehab here with (head athletic trainer Eric Sugarman) and them. I've got a great training staff. They've got me on schedule. They've got treatments, we do. We're taking it slow but also we're getting the most work we can." Though its two rare injuries, Childs said his knees aren't susceptible to the injury and he's working on getting his legs strong to avoid another tear. "Basically, I just have to keep getting my quad strong," Childs said. "And also when (Dr. Joel Boyd) went in, he did a great job. He went in and repaired both my knees for me. So basically he did something a little different than I had done the first time, which basically tightens it up and strengthens my knee. So I'm not really worried about it." And going through the rehabilitation previously, has aided Childs this time around. Even with the injuries to both knees this time, he said he feels he's recovering quicker this time. "Especially with two of them, I'm doing a lot of things that when I had my first one that I wouldn't even be doing right now," Childs said. "So it's definitely coming back quicker. We've got a great strength staff. Come in here and work. Doing my upper body some days, the rest of the days I'm doing my lower, doing leg presses, things like that. Then go in with Suge and them and do my treatment. I come in early every morning. So really it's seven days a week type thing. Not four. Not five." Childs gives off the appearance that he wants to be back to action for this season, that he believes he will be ready. But with the doctors and athletic trainers leading the way, he's staying cautious and not declaring a return date. "I'm always trying to get on the field as soon as I can," Childs said. "But also when I get back everyone down here including myself wants to make sure I'm 100 percent. No sense coming back 80, 90 percent. That's not really going to help the team out. And that's what we're trying to do now. Get me back on the field so I can help the team." Childs helping the team seemed like a long shot back in August, but while his return isn't imminent, the potential seems more real. Childs always believed it. Others are seeing the possibility as well.Minnesota signed Greg Jennings, re-signed Jerome Simpson and drafted Cordarrelle Patterson. Combined with second-year receiver Jarius Wright, Childs' childhood friend, the Vikings seemed to have address the position. Childs likely isn't in those plans, yet. The team's coaches have noticed Child's work. Receivers coach George Stewart is keeping an eye on Childs, who he offered an encouraging word to recently. "He was telling me how he's proud of the way I've worked," Childs said. "Because I'm down here every day. I'm giving it my all with everything I do. He just told me that people take notice. If you work hard, come down here with a smile on your face and do what you've got to do, people will notice. That's a great thing." His rehab and those around him are just giving Childs more reason to be confident. Follow Brian Hall on Twitter.
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- Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:22:33 -0800
A quick flip thru MIL-HDBK-5A yielded thermal expansion for: low carbon 1025 6.78 (68F to 212F); 7.00 (68F to 392F) alloy steel 4130/4340 6.3 (0F to 200F)The units are 10E-06 in/in/F. The length of the assembly would determine the absolute differential growth. Since the CoTE is smaller for the alloy steel heating would actually increase the bolt prestress. If the assembly or rod length was about 10" the differential growth would be about .0007" or an increase of about 2000 psi in the bolt. Robert Kazanjy, PE **Disclaimer: I speak for myself not UC-Irvine** Senior Development Engineer Civil & Environmental Engineering UC Irvine E4130 EG, Zot: 2175 rkazanjy(--nospam--at)uci.edu > Dave Meney wrote: > <SNIP> > Does anyone know whether the thermal coefficient of expansion for a > high > tensile bolt (UTS=1050 MPa, yield stress = 945 MPa) is any different > to that > for mild steel? > > I have a problem where an argument has been raised regarding the loss > of > pre-tension in a torqued screw, where the screw is high tensile and > the > components are mild steel. The claim is that after heating the > assembly to > 130°C (266°F) for a couple of hours, the thermal differences in the > two > steels causes significant loss of prestress. > > Any comments? > > Thanks, > Dave Meney > Structural Engineer
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Dating is hard. Online dating is even harder. But it's an increasingly common and less socially-weird-than-it-used-to-be way of meeting potential mates. I've done my fair share of it. I've tried OKCupid, eHarmony, and Match to name but a few of the cyber romantic walkways I have stumbled down. I haven't found love yet (call me, Michael Keaton). And while I might every so often shut down every single account and vow never to do it again, I always come back for more.
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Hahaha this was hilarious! I have to say that I agree, online dating has changed! I met my husband back in 2003 on blackplanet.com and we've been married for 8 years. I have a girlfriend who has tried a few different sites and the stories she shares with me are similar to your post. Good read! #BLMGirl
I always love hearing about people who met their spouse online but like you said, things have certainly changed. It is certainly a different time!
I've been married since I was 19 so I've never experienced online dating HOWEVER one of my closest friends married a guy and they found each other on FB and she ALWAYS talks about how things have changed. #BLMGirls
Adrienne, it is a MESS!!! I can't do it anymore!
Tried online dating a couple of times and came away of it very disappoint. Yes, disappoint. All I kept encountering were The Two-Letter Lover and Captain Overshare. And don't get me started on when I thought Tinder was a legit online dating site only to find out (a little too 'can we cuddle?' late) that it was a hook-up site.
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Three well-regarded business development companies, Ares Capital (ARCC), Hercules Capital (HTGC) and TPG Specialty Lending (TSLX) issued convertibles in the past week with fixed rates between 3.75% and 4.5%.
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Former major league pitcher Paul Giel, a two-sport star at the University of Minnesota who later became the school's athletics director, died Wednesday after collapsing in his car. He was 69.
Giel was returning to his Minnetonka home after attending the Minnesota Twins-Texas Rangers game at the Metrodome. He collapsed and died around 4:25 p.m., according to his wife, Nancy. The cause of death had not been determined Wednesday night.
Giel was a two-time All-American in football and finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting to Notre Dame's Johnny Lattner in 1953. He was also Big Ten MVP.
He also earned All-America honors in baseball and pitched for four major league teams from 1954-1961.
``I'm sick. It's a sad day for Minnesotans,'' said current Golden Gophers athletics director Tom Moe.
``I don't think I've ever known anyone who cared more or who was more loyal to the University of Minnesota than Paul Giel,'' Moe said. ``He was a tremendous friend. I just had tremendous admiration for him.''
Giel was athletics director for 18 years, starting in January 1972. Early on, Giel hired Cal Stoll to succeed Murray Warmath as football coach and hired Herb Brooks to succeed Glen Sonmor as hockey coach.
In his first six years as athletics director, the Gophers won two NCAA hockey titles, three Big Ten baseball titles, three gymnastics titles and finished second in Big Ten basketball in 1977 and '78.
Giel ran or passed for 35 touchdowns and 4,110 yards in his three-year career and is a member of the National Football Foundation's College Hall of Fame.
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