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Starting in iOS 11, Apple introduced PDFKit, a framework that encapsulates PDF-related functionality in a more abstract manner
Why Is the PDF Format So Well Supported on Apple Platforms? | Inside PSPDFKit
pspdfkit.com
One line I heard often on the range this summer was that there are only three types of pro—those who’ve taken Saudi money, those who are thinking about taking Saudi money, and those who aren’t good enough to be offered Saudi money.
Will the Saudis and Donald Trump Save Golf—or Wreck It?
newyorker.com
By demystifying Ross and Shawn, I hope to reveal the nature of the critical biases that argue against the notion that the upper middle class can enjoy a genuine, affective, affirming connection with the pieces of literary mass culture marketed to them. Present in both popular and academic criticism, these biases privilege a narrow ideal of cultural agency, articulated either as autonomous artistic production or heroically subversive consumption. Until we are willing to elide the stark divisions between those categories, and to broaden the cramped idea of what counts as “resistance” that arises from them, we will be unable to come to terms with the complex realities of how upper-middle-class men and women make meaning within mass culture.
Project MUSE - What We Talk About; When We Talk About: The New Yorker
muse-jhu-edu.alumniproxy.library.upenn.edu
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