Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved. The very fact that we are individuals, with different talents, predispositions, and backgrounds makes this inevitable.
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Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women’s movement is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not). As long as the structure of the group is informal, the rules of how decisions are made are known only to a few and awareness of power is limited to those who know the rules. Those who do not know the rules and are not chosen for initiation must remain in confusion, or suffer from paranoid delusions that something is happening of which they are not quite aware.
When you first create / get a reference to the navigation controller, set a global custom back image (replaces the chevron) with:
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackIndicatorImage:
[UIImage imageNamed:@"CustomerBackImage"]];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackIndicatorTransitionMaskImage:
[UIImage imageNamed:@"CustomerBackImage"]];
The title of the back button is owned by the view that it points to, not the current view. You can make it blank by calling
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithTitle:@""
style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
target:nil
action:nil];
in the view that the back button points to. So call it in prepareForSegue or before pushViewController:animated: or something. Setting a view controller’s title programmatically seems to reset it, so set it after setting the title.
You’ll see lots of advice to set self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems (which breaks swipe-to-go-back) then mess with interactivePopGestureRecognizer to fix swipe-to-go-back (which has some exciting doesn’t quite work right edge case problems). Don’t do that. Do this.
Like all of us, I strive to balance addObserver/removeObserver calls in my app to prevent crashes [..] iOS 7 has complicated this pattern. I can no longer rely on a view controller being torn down when viewWillDisappear is called. I have to expect that it might turn around, yell “just kidding,” and proceed to call viewWillAppear/viewDidAppear all over again.
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.
If you’re talking to a google calendar on an iOS device (using the “Gmail account” setting rather than the deprecated “Exchange account”) and you want to see shared calendars, this is the page you should go to.
Apple makes money on hardware. It’s in their interest that said hardware be sold for as much of a premium as the market will bear. However, it’s equally in their interest that the complements to that hardware are sold as cheaply as possible, and are preferably free.
The phrase “the empire on which the sun never sets” has been used with variations to describe certain global empires that were so extensive that there was always at least one part of their territory in daylight. [..] originally used for the Spanish Empire, mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries, and for the British Empire, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The empire on which the sun never sets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Never perfect. Perfection goal that changes. Never stops moving. Can chase cannot catch.