Listening to Tavis Smiley’s show tonight, and the segment My America where they talked about gun violence.   You got people that just ain’t gonna be right, man.
Tavis Smiley: So you take that, you put guns into the equation, that changes mediation efforts dramatically.
Several times they talk about how small matters of respect lead to violence. The conclusion is that guns are the problem.
I don’t really know what to do with this. In my life (and I suspect all of your lives) issues of respect do not lead to violence. As a result I have a hard time thinking of this as a gun problem.
OK, so it’s a violence problem. The other thing that gets me is there’s this strong undertone to this conversation that "we aren’t doing enough." This attitude is of course the norm for an NPR show. But it’s not we — I, and everyone I know is not part of this we. My "we" does not resort to violence. My "we" does not project respect into minor social interactions. When I say it’s not "we", I don’t think it’s just that I tuned into the wrong radio show — am I being recruited into this "we"? Do they really think listeners are part of this "we"?
There is no reflection in these shows about why this (whatever the issue of the show) is a general problem. Of course most talk shows tend to generalize wildly, to turn every anecdote into a sign of some change in culture, some disease of our society, something more than just an anecdote. (Though some good NPR shows do not attempt to generalize anecdotes at all.)
There’s a strong attitude, in this show and others, that this is a problem for us all to solve. Why exactly is this a problem for me to solve? Why is this a problem for government to solve? (I’m not a conservative, but I feel it’s unfair that only conservatives seem to be able to ask that question: why should government solve this?)
I don’t ask these questions rhetorically (and maybe that makes me different from the conservatives, who tend to only ask questions rhetorically). There may be a good answer to these questions. But it’s far too easy to say "we must do something about this" without saying who and why. We (especially those of us who listen to NPR) are all far too fatigued with the constant admonitions that not enough is being done, and something has to change. This kind of approach is not an effective call to action.
And it’s yet another thing trying to make me feel bad for something that’s not my fault. And dammit, it really isn’t my fault!
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You actually pay attention to what they say on TV? I stopped doing that years ago. The reason you feel emotion is you take what they say as being representative of what people really think, when in reality all they are trying to do is push your buttons. If you really want to know what people think go converse with them, don’t watch TV and think this is real. With your conversation you will work out whether people are thinking deeply about an issue or just thinking shallowly.
This was actually on the radio. And it’s not all bad.

Why is there a problem with violence? Is there a problem with violence? The USA is portrayed as a violent gun toting society but is that the truth?
In Australia after a few incidents with gun violence the government cracked down on guns. Did this solve our problem with violence? No I believe it did not it just transferred the problem so it is different.
In the many incidents of violence cited by modern Australian media there is always talk of a cultural difference. Muslims are called intolerant because they don’t fit our cultural ideal. Somalian refugees cause problems because they don’t properly integrate with our society.
So we seem to have transferred the blame of societal violence from weapons to cultural differences. This is no different from gun control. We have no ability to affect cultural differences so therefore there is no solution to the problem.
It is closer to the truth but still walking a big wide circle around it. A clever trick to make us feel guilty for something we really have no control over. As if the violence in society is somehow the responsibility of certain members of society alone and not the responsibility of those actually committing the violence.
 I don’t know but I think that is a more interesting story than gun control or water.
“There’s a strong attitude, in this show and others, that this is a problem for us all to solve. Why exactly is this a problem for me to solve? Why is this a problem for government to solve?”
I think that social problems like these are best addressed through better education, because education is, after all, about giving children the tools they need to be able to live decent lives in a modern, well-functioning society. Of course, this doesn’t provide a quick solution or seem like a timely reaction when one is apparently needed, so there will always be the temptation to take other action, but regardless of whether such other action is beneficial, if the underlying, long-term factors aren’t addressed then any action will have a limited impact.
Naturally, saying that education needs to be improved doesn’t “inspire” voters, but that’s where society in general gets caught up in the matters described, regardless of whether anyone feels that they identify with a particular group of people or not (and such groups have to be part of the wider society, or you’ve just created a parallel society with all the dangers and disadvantages that this carries with it). The voters choose their government who in turn gets to set the priorities in society. Sadly, recalling some electioneering in the United Kingdom a few years ago, things like education are “expensive” and any small increase in taxation to pay for it is thus “unpopular”. Of course, waging war is also expensive – much more so than previous funding proposals for improving the education system – and it’s only after certain countries have accumulated huge debts that the investments in education and other areas start to appear rather modest.
Perhaps there’s scope for some kind of slogan where you replace the neglected area of public policy as appropriate: “Education – expensive, yes, but surprisingly affordable compared to war.”
@richard: “Did this solve our problem with violence? No I believe it did not it just transferred the problem so it is different.”
Not being either American or Australian I follow the lengthy discussions of gun control trying not to take sides, but I feel a question should be asked here: isn’t “transferring the problem” exactly the desired effect? You can’t stop people from resorting to violence as means of dealing with conflicts, but you can – or you can try, with various levels of success – stop them from shooting each other.
In response I say people are still being killed just not by the same methods. If I look at the massacres in Rawanda I don’t see a lot of shots being fired but I do see a lot of people being killed. In Australia I don’t think the murder rate dropped by much. Many anti-gun fanatics (myself included) like to say we are less violent than America due to our stricter gun laws but that doesn’t take into consideration other factors such as lower population density, lower difference between the poor and rich, different cultural mixes etc. It looks nice on paper but reality I fear is not much different than from before the laws were implemented.  Just as suicide is not stopped by the removal of guns murder is not stopped either. You might chip away at certain types of crime by such a method but you won’t eliminate it all.
Plus it is disingenuous to say that actually lowers violence. People are still motivated to do harm even if they find it hard to do the act. We have many cases come through the courts that involve murder just without the guns.
@richard: my point is, basically, that it is easier to kill with a gun than by other means. I’m not saying gun control lowers violence. I’m saying I would expect that, all other things being equal, the same violent people would kill more other people with guns than without them. I’m not a scientist, and if there’s evidence to the contrary I’ll call it counter-intuitive, but I’ll accept it.  In some areas everybody is happy to just reduce the death toll by a margin. I can’t see what’s so special about gun control (leaving aside for a moment the USA and their constitution).
For those lives it does save it does make sense. However you can’t extrapolate that by saying eliminating guns eliminates violence. There are other weapons that kill better than guns and we keep very tight lids on them, so yes having some sanity in gun control makes sense and saves lives.
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@richard
your logic is very confusing. It is not a clear way of thinking.
Violence, in the context of gun control, is normally understood to be referring to crime or assault conducted with the use of firearm. But you have somehow introduced a context of violence as a state of mind, as a kind of hostility. Then you assert that this violence (hostility) has been “transferred” to another area, namely xenophobia. It is not easy to follow this sort of argument.
Anyway, it is a lot safer on Sydney streets then anywhere in USA (although stabbing is a new trend here in Sydney. Usually fatal.) But American believe gun deters crime. So be it.
i think it is “everyones” problem to some degree (in the united states, anyway) because issues like these are greatly impacted by government. The incarceration rate of black men in their 20′s is something like 20% (just googled), largely due to things like the “war on drugs”, which is entirely a government initiative (and incarceration itself as well as its terms are entirely mandated by government as well). When 20% of your friends get hauled off to jail on a regular basis, things like that just don’t have a positive effect on the development of a community. So I think even the attitudes and voting patterns of places as far removed from urban violence as nebraska and oklahoma ultimately have an effect on the issue through channels such as this one.
It’s not your fault, but maybe it’s your concern.
If you walk by a pond and see two kids flailing away, drowning, it’s also not your fault, but I hope it’s your concern.
As a society, we have the option to be concerned enough to want to do something about it, even if the pond isn’t in our neighborhood. Maybe we’ll require the abutters to put up a fence, or require schools to teach swimming, or we’ll jail the parents. Or, we could just blame the kids who ignored the sign.
I think most of us would agree that something should be done to prevent more deaths. Discussing these concerns publicly is one step in coming to consensus about what should be done.
(I wandered in here from your Plone links. I hope you’ll adjust your RSS feed.)
Well sure, it’d be nice to do something about gun violence. I don’t disagree with this. That doesn’t actually mean there is something to be done, at least in any generic sense. This is a specific problem in specific communities. While these are areas with poverty, I would be surprised if this violence actually correlated with poverty. And yes, there are a variety of problems, including a very high rate of incarceration among black men. But looking for underlying reasons can itself be a means of avoidance. In part because those underlying reasons are hard to fix. If this really is an important issue, then it’s worth fixing directly, as presumably the symptom is itself damaging.
Then the question: how direct do you want to be? Guns kill people, get rid of guns? Or, bullets kill people, get rid of ammunition (one technique that actually was proposed is making ammunition harder to acquire). Of course people are most likely to be killed by someone they know. Stop the right to assembly! Well, that’s silly, but ostracism is not so silly. But it only works when there is a small number of disfunctional people — what if violence (most of it non-fatal of course) is widespread? Then we’re just circling back to the segregation and high incarceration rates that themselves add to the problem.
Another technique people take up personally is simply to leave these communities. And for any one family, this is a very sensible approach. But this evaporation of people from a community is itself a part of the problem. And are these small-scale choices analogous of the large-scale choices society and government makes?
I was answering your question “Why bring this up if it’s not my fault?”
Well, if the direct solution is ridiculous (ostracize people before they commit a crime), maybe the indirect solution is worth looking at.
I googled up a couple papers. The first looks at rural youth violence causes:
The second, urban violence:
This is probably as much as I have time to discuss this. There’s real science out there that has been done and still needs to be done to understand the causes and suggest real solutions. The rest is a never-ending discussion on whether we want to try.
If they are poor how can they afford guns? If you are that poor other things are far more important to you. I know because I sit at the poverty threshold.
Maybe they are a) Not poor b) Get the guns from elsewhere c) Save up to buy guns d) Guns are cheaper than food, or the cost of bills, if a gun cost me only AUD20 then I could afford it.
I’m glad that “we” don’t have a problem with this. Because otherwise it’d make volunteering to work on the network when we outsource it so much more exciting.
Sean
Ian, the major problem, I think, with what we might call the “NPR approach” towards problems of violence is the implicit assumption that killing a man for a minor offense is aberrant, and therefore that we have to conjure up some great malignant force that must have produced it. Thus all of the bogeys that have been trotted out over the years, from blaming the evils inherent in private property (Marx) to blaming the inability of teenage boys to have sex whenever they want (Carl Sagan in Cosmos, which I read as a teenage boy, and, boy, was I a fan).
But, in fact, retaliating with overwhelming force against even perceived slights is the normal way that males of our species defend territory — so, NPR should be looking and digging for explanations of you and your friends and why you behave non-violently, and ask how on earth people like you came about through world history, rather than wringing their hands over perfectly reasonable primate behavior among gun-toting club-goers.
You have chosen a perfect time to ask this question: just in the last few weeks, two superb articles have come out addressing this very issue. I suggest that you start with Jared Diamond’s recent article in the New Yorker, and move on from there to the excellent review in the Weekly Standard (yes, I know, they are conservatives; try reading the article anyway!) about Stanley Kurtz’s recent book about what we might call conflict problem-solving skills on the local level in the Middle East.
Both of them use plenty of examples which I think you will find deeply illuminate the situations they were addressing on NPR. Let me know what you think.
There is a base level of criminality and violence in the human condition but some cultures make it worse. The black economist Thomas Sowell blames such “honor” cultures in America on the Scotch-Irish who were largely Southerners in his book Black Rednecks and White Liberals (that isn’t a recommendation, I haven’t read it). There are many causes of poverty but all honor cultures are poor or would be if they weren’t sitting on oil wells. Honor subcultures in otherwise Western/protestant countries (e.g. gangs and the mafia) are also poor and violent. I can’t find a link but gangs and the mafia (and the KKK!) are known as “tournament” economies. Very few of the members make much money and the lowest members participate at great risk to themselves. They take the risk because the few top dogs make decent cash and more importantly are feted by everyone below them. All the participants delude themselves that they will make it to the top (see also: waiters who are going to be rock stars/models/writers). It is easy to see how tournament economies thrive in honor cultures.
The easiest way to win is not to play. People who don’t know criminals generally don’t get shot, stabbed, or raped. The statistics are true: people who get shot are likely to get shot by someone they know (and possibly with their own gun!) but what that stat leaves out is that the shooter already has a criminal record. If you are a 25 year old male without a criminal record the chances of you ever having one are vanishingly close to zero.
All of the above is why this isn’t a problem for you, me, and “we.” We’re not playing that game. For the same reason the government can’t really solve the problem: culture is local and pervasive. The government can stop exacerbating the problem though, and has; the housing projects which concentrated violent honor/tournament cultures have mostly been torn down.
An aside about gun stats: don’t trust them. In Anglo countries there is little difference in violent crime despite widely varying levels of gun control though some specific categories vary (the UK has a high home invasion rate, the US has a higher murder rate). Gun stats that cite “children” include 19 year old “children” to capture young males at their violent best. Be suspicious of the phrase “gun deaths” because it includes suicide; the US rate for “gun deaths” is quite high because it includes suicide-by-gun. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the US suicide rate is nestled in between cold Canada and sunny Australia – men [and they are overwhelmingly men] find a way.
Jack:
http://www.gun-control-network.org/GF01.htm
You are correct, suicide rate by gun in the US is high.
However, homicide rate is also high: 4 in 100,000 in the US, under 1 in 100,000 everywhere else.
Regarding the original topic, it’s the “monkeysphere” in action again. We find it very hard to care about people not in our own social network. “Society” in terms of cities and nations is not one cohesive community, it’s thousands of them crammed in together.
People who commit violence have social and/or mental problems. Easy access to lethal weapons increases the risk that these people commit violence with a lethal outcome. End of story.
It’s interesting that you included This American Life as an example. Here’s [an excerpt of an interview with Ira Glass](http://blog.phiffer.org/post/19567157/the-sound-of-young-america-interviews-ira-glass) where he’s taken to task a bit on the narrowness of his subject matter. Here’s the [full interview](http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2007/11/podcast-ira-glass-of-this-american-life.html).
The touchy feely liberalism of NPR likes to take the easy route in such complex issues as gun control. Some of the posts here do as well ;). For instance, I can assume that the murder rate and violent crime are tied to the level of access that the mentally unstable and poor have to firearms, and I would be right! The problem is that this doesn’t look critically at what constitutes the murder rate, violent crime, and mental instability. Violent crime is perpetrated most often by a poor person with a gun. Violent crime is not, as in the case of the Ford Pinto, a business making the decision that recalling a car with a faulty gas tank is less cost effective than dealing with lawsuits that occur due to preventable deaths. Furthermore, why should a murderous law enforcement agency(see Sean Bell case among others) have access to firearms while I do not? The right to bear arms means equal access.
Also, I’m not a conservative.
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Put the pigeons in a bowl and add the Marsala, half the garlic and the thyme. Cover and marinade in the fridge for 1 hour.
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In RxJava an object that implements the Observer interface subscribes to an object of the Observable class. Then that subscriber reacts to whatever item or sequence of items the Observable object emits. This pattern facilitates concurrent operations because it does not need to block while waiting for the Observable to emit objects, but instead it creates a sentry in the form of a subscriber that stands ready to react appropriately at whatever future time the Observable does so.
This page explains what the reactive pattern is and what Observables and observers are (and how observers subscribe to Observables). Subsequent child pages (as shown in sidebar) show how you use the variety of Observable operators to link Observables together and change their behaviors.
This documentation accompanies its explanations with "marble diagrams." Here is how marble diagrams represent Observables and transformations of Observables:
In many software programming tasks, you more or less expect that the instructions you write will execute and complete incrementally, one-at-a-time, in order as you have written them. But in the Rx paradigm, many instructions execute in parallel and their results are later captured, in arbitrary order, by “observers.” In these cases, rather than calling a method, you define a mechanism for retrieving and transforming the data, in the form of an “Observable,” and then subscribe an observer to it, at which point the previously-defined mechanism fires into action with the observer standing sentry to capture and respond to its emissions whenever they arrive.
An advantage of this approach is that when you have a bunch of tasks to do that are not dependent on each other, you can start them all at the same time rather than waiting for each one to finish before starting the next one --- that way, your entire bundle of tasks only takes as long to complete as the longest task in the bundle.
There are many terms used to describe this model of asynchronous programming and design. This document will use the following terms: A Subscriber (or sometimes Observer) subscribes to an object of the Observable class; that is, you subscribe a Subscriber to an Observable. An Observable emits items or sends notifications to its Subscribers by invoking the Subscribers’ methods.
In other documents and other contexts, what we are calling a “Subscriber” (or sometimes “Observer”) is sometimes called a “watcher” or “reactor.” This model in general is often referred to as the “reactor pattern”.
This document usually uses Groovy for code examples, but you can use RxJava in any JVM language — such as Clojure, Scala, or JRuby, or in Java itself.
In an ordinary method call — that is, not the sort of asynchronous, parallel calls typical in reactive programming — the flow is something like this:
Or, something like this:
// make the call, assign its return value to `returnVal`
returnVal = someMethod(itsParameters);
// do something useful with returnVal
In the asynchronous model the flow goes more like this:
Which looks something like this:
// defines, but does not invoke, the Subscriber's onNext handler
// (in this example, the Subscriber is very simple and has only an onNext handler)
def myOnNext = { it -> do something useful with it };
// defines, but does not invoke, the Observable
def myObservable = someObservable(itsParameters);
// subscribes the Subscriber to the Observable, and invokes the Observable
myObservable.subscribe(myOnNext);
// go on about my business
The subscribe()
method may accept one to three methods, or it may accept a Subscriber
object or any other object that implements the Observer
interface (which includes these three methods):
onNext: An Observable will call this method of its Subscribers whenever the Observable emits an item. This method takes as a parameter the item emitted by the Observable.
onError: An Observable will call this method of its Subscribers to indicate that it has failed to generate the expected data or has encountered some other error. This stops the Observable and it will not make further calls to onNext
or onCompleted
. The onError
method takes as its parameter the Throwable
that caused the error (or a CompositeException
in those cases where there may have been multiple errors).
onCompleted: An Observable will invoke this method of its Subscribers after it has called onNext
for the final time, if it has not encountered any errors.
A more complete subscribe()
example would therefore look like this:
def myOnNext = { item -> /* do something useful with item */ };
def myError = { throwable -> /* react sensibly to a failed call */ };
def myComplete = { /* clean up after the final response */ };
def myObservable = someMethod(itsParameters);
myObservable.subscribe(myOnNext, myError, myComplete);
// go on about my business
An object of the Subscriber
class also implements the unsubscribe()
method (this method is not part of the Observer
interface, so objects that implement that interface may or may not implement this method). You can call this method to indicate that the Subscriber is no longer interested in any of the Observables it is currently subscribed to. Those Observables can then (if they have no other interested subscribers) choose to stop generating new items to emit.
The results of this unsubscription will cascade back through the chain of operators that applies to the Observable that the Subscriber subscribed to, and this will cause each link in the chain to stop emitting items. This is not guaranteed to happen immediately, however, and it is possible for an Observable to generate and attempt to emit items for a while even after no Subscribers remain to observe these emissions.
The names of methods and classes in RxJava hew close to those in Microsoft’s Reactive Extensions. This has led to some confusion, as some of these names have different implications in other contexts, or seem awkward in the idiom of a particular implementing language.
For example there is the onEvent
naming pattern (e.g. onNext
, onCompleted
, onError
). In many contexts such names would indicate methods by means of which event handlers are registered. In the RxJava Subscriber context, however, they name the event handlers themselves.
When does an Observable begin emitting its sequence of items? It depends on the Observable. A “hot” Observable may begin emitting items as soon as it is created, and so any observer who subscribes to that Observable may start observing the sequence somewhere in the middle. A “cold” Observable, on the other hand, waits until an observer subscribes to it before it begins to emit items, and so such an observer is guaranteed to see the whole sequence from the beginning.
In RxJava, there is also something called a “Connectable” Observable. Such an Observable does not begin emitting items until its connect( )
method is called, whether or not any observers have subscribed to it.
The Observable
/Subscriber
/Observer
classes along with onNext
/onError
/onCompleted
are only the start of RxJava. By themselves they’d be nothing more than a slight extension of the standard observer pattern, better suited to handling a sequence of events rather than a single callback.
The real power comes with the “reactive extensions” (hence “Rx”) — operators that allow you to transform, combine, manipulate, and work with the sequences of items emitted by Observables.
These Rx operators allow you to compose asynchronous sequences together in a declarative manner with all the efficiency benefits of callbacks but without the drawbacks of nesting callback handlers that are typically associated with asynchronous systems.
This documentation groups information about the various operators and examples of their usage into the following pages (these are also listed in the sidebar):
These pages include information about some operators that are not part of the core of RxJava but are implemented in a variety of contributed modules that you must include separately as part of your project.


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| In the first tutorial I taught you
how to create an OpenGL Window. In this tutorial I will teach you how to
create both Triangles and Quads. We will create a triangle using
GL_TRIANGLES, and a square using GL_QUADS. Using the code from the first tutorial, we will be adding to the DrawGLScene() procedure. I will rewrite the entire procedure below. If you plan to modify the last lesson, you can replace the DrawGLScene() procedure with the code below, or just add the lines of code below that do not exist in the last tutorial. |
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int DrawGLScene(GLvoid) // Here's Where We Do All The Drawing { glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT); // Clear The Screen And The Depth Buffer glLoadIdentity(); // Reset The View
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what you are doing is moving back to the center of the screen with the X
axis running left to right, the Y axis moving up and down, and the Z axis
moving into, and out of the screen. The center of an OpenGL screen is 0.0f
on the X and Y axis. To the left of center would be a negative number. To
the right would be a positive number. Moving towards the top of the screen
would be a positive number, moving to the bottom of the screen would be a
negative number. Moving deeper into the screen is a negative number,
moving towards the viewer would be a positive number.
glTranslatef(x, y, z) moves along the X, Y and Z axis, in that order. The line of code below moves left on the X axis 1.5 units. It does not move on the Y axis at all (0.0), and it moves into the screen 6.0 units. When you translate, you are not moving a set amount from the center of the screen, you are moving a set amount from wherever you currently were on the screen. |
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glTranslatef(-1.5f,0.0f,-6.0f); // Move Left 1.5 Units And Into The Screen 6.0
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half of the screen, and we've set the view deep enough into the screen
(-6.0) that we can see our entire scene we will create the Triangle.
glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES) means we want to start drawing a triangle, and
glEnd() tells OpenGL we are done creating the triangle. Typically if you
want 3 points, use GL_TRIANGLES. Drawing triangles is fairly fast on most
video cards. If you want 4 points use GL_QUADS to make life easier. From
what I've heard, most video cards render objects as triangles anyways.
Finally if you want more than 4 points, use GL_POLYGON. In our simple program, we draw just one triangle. If we wanted to draw a second triangle, we could include another 3 lines of code (3 points) right after the first three. All six lines of code would be between glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES) and glEnd(). There's no point in putting a glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES) and a glEnd() around every group of 3 points. This applies to quads as well. If you know you're drawing all quads, you can include the second group of four lines of code right after the first four lines. A polygon on the other hand (GL_POLYGON) can be made up of any amount of point so it doesn't matter how many lines you have between glBegin(GL_POLYGON) and glEnd(). The first line after glBegin, sets the first point of our polygon. The first number of glVertex is for the X axis, the second number is for the Y axis, and the third number is for the Z axis. So in the first line, we don't move on the X axis. We move up one unit on the Y axis, and we don't move on the Z axis. This gives us the top point of the triangle. The second glVertex moves left one unit on the X axis and down one unit on the Y axis. This gives us the bottom left point of the triangle. The third glVertex moves right one unit, and down one unit. This gives us the bottom right point of the triangle. glEnd() tells OpenGL there are no more points. The filled triangle will be displayed. |
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glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES); // Drawing Using Triangles glVertex3f( 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Top glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Left glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Right glEnd(); // Finished Drawing The Triangle
| Now that we have the triangle displayed on the left half of the screen, we need to move to the right half of the screen to display the square. In order to do this we use glTranslate again. This time we must move to the right, so X must be a positive value. Because we've already moved left 1.5 units, to get to the center we have to move right 1.5 units. After we reach the center we have to move another 1.5 units to the right of center. So in total we need to move 3.0 units to the right. | ||
glTranslatef(3.0f,0.0f,0.0f); // Move Right 3 Units
| Now we create the square. We'll do this using GL_QUADS. A quad is basically a 4 sided polygon. Perfect for making a square. The code for creating a square is very similar to the code we used to create a triangle. The only difference is the use of GL_QUADS instead of GL_TRIANGLES, and an extra glVertex3f for the 4th point of the square. We'll draw the square top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left (clockwise). By drawing in a clockwise order, the square will be drawn as a back face. Meaning the side of the quad we see is actually the back. Objects drawn in a counter clockwise order will be facing us. Not important at the moment, but later on you will need to know this. | ||
glBegin(GL_QUADS); // Draw A Quad glVertex3f(-1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Top Left glVertex3f( 1.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f); // Top Right glVertex3f( 1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Right glVertex3f(-1.0f,-1.0f, 0.0f); // Bottom Left glEnd(); // Done Drawing The Quad return TRUE; // Keep Going }
| Finally change the code to toggle window / fullscreen mode so that the title at the top of the window is proper. | ||
if (keys[VK_F1]) // Is F1 Being Pressed? { keys[VK_F1]=FALSE; // If So Make Key FALSE KillGLWindow(); // Kill Our Current Window fullscreen=!fullscreen; // Toggle Fullscreen / Windowed Mode // Recreate Our OpenGL Window ( Modified ) if (!CreateGLWindow("NeHe's First Polygon Tutorial",640,480,16,fullscreen)) { return 0; // Quit If Window Was Not Created } }
| Markus Knauer
Adds: In the book ("OpenGL Programming Guide:
The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL, Release 1", J. Neider, T. Davis, M.
Woo, Addison-Wesley, 1993) the following paragraph will clearly explain
what NeHe means when he refers to movement by units in OpenGL:
"[I mentioned] inches and millimeters - do these really have anything to do with OpenGL? The answer is, in a word, no. The projection and other transformations are inheritly unitless. If you want to think of the near and far clipping planes as located at 1.0 and 20.0 meters, inches, kilometers, or leagues, it's up to you. The only rule is that you have to use consistent unit of measurement." In this tutorial I have tried to explain in as much detail, every step involved in drawing polygons, and quads on the screen using OpenGL. If you have comments or questions please email me. If you feel I have incorrectly commented something or that the code could be done better in some sections, please let me know. I want to make the best OpenGL tutorials I can. I'm interested in hearing your feedback. Jeff Molofee (NeHe) * DOWNLOAD Visual C++ Code For This Lesson. * DOWNLOAD Visual Basic Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Ross Dawson ) * DOWNLOAD GLUT Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Andy Restad ) * DOWNLOAD Cygwin (FREE Language) Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Stephan Ferraro ) * DOWNLOAD Delphi Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Peter De Jaegher ) * DOWNLOAD MacOS X/GLUT Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Raal Goff ) * DOWNLOAD Code Warrior 5 Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by David Dolinar ) * DOWNLOAD Linux/GLX Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Mihael Vrbanec ) * DOWNLOAD MASM Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Nico (Scalp) ) * DOWNLOAD ASM Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Foolman ) * DOWNLOAD Visual Fortran Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Jean-Philippe Perois ) * DOWNLOAD Linux Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Richard Campbell ) * DOWNLOAD Irix Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Lakmal Gunasekara ) * DOWNLOAD Solaris Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Lakmal Gunasekara ) * DOWNLOAD Mac OS Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Anthony Parker ) * DOWNLOAD Power Basic Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Angus Law ) * DOWNLOAD BeOS Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Chris Herborth ) * DOWNLOAD Java Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Darren Hodges ) * DOWNLOAD Borland C++ Builder 4.0 Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Patrick Salmons ) * DOWNLOAD MingW32 & Allegro Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by Peter Puck ) * DOWNLOAD Python Code For This Lesson. ( Conversion by John ) |
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WITNESS LIST Public Information (Interim) Committee January 21, 1998-10:00A A. SB 1069 - INVITED Against: MOORE, ROBERT (EL PASO TIMES, FOIFT), EL PASO On: HENGEN, ELAINE (ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY), EL PASO MCNABB, CHARLES (CITY ATTORNEY), EL PASO Registering, but not testifying: Against: JENSEN, CHRIS (EL PASO TIMES, TDNA TPA), EL PASO B. ACCESSIBILITY - INVITED For: BRIONES-SOSA, ANGIE (PASO D NORTE PUB POL IN), EL PASO HUDSON, WILMA (YWCA), EL PASO RODRIGUEZ, JOSE R. (COUNTY ATTORNEY), EL PASO WEVER, FRANCIS (FED OF TEACH & SUPP PER), EL PASO C. ACCESSIBILITY - PUBLIC For: MUNOZ, LOUIS (HIMSELF), EL PASO STRAUS, MELVIN P. (COMMON CAUSE TEXAS), EL PASO On: JIMENEZ, JOSE (SUN CITY ANALYTICAL), EL PASO D. TECHNOLOGY - INVITED For: FURTH, DON (RIO GRANDE FREENET), EL PASO RAMOS-DAVIDSON (GREATER E.P. CHAMBER), EL PASO E. COMMITTEE CHARGES - PUBLIC On: CARDONE, KATHLEEN (TX JUDICIAL COUNCIL), EL PASO DAVIS, DENISE (TX JUDICIAL COUNCIL), AUSTIN HOTHAM, TED (THE POLK COMPANY), SOUTHFIELD, MO SCHLOSS, HADASSAH (GEN SERVICES COMMISSION), AUSTIN SERNA, EDWARD (TX DEPT OF INFO RESOURC), AUSTIN


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Plain of Tears [as35], plain, in Mandoria, peasants: 141
Last updated Turn #126
Plain of Tears [as35], plain, in Mandoria, peasants: 141
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1: Band of thieves [gv4x], bandits, number: 76, arrived from the west.
3: Band of thieves [gv4x], bandits, number: 76, went east.
4: Pack of wolves [io0q], wolves, number: 5, arrived from the east.
5: Pack of wolves [fn5h], wolves, number: 9, arrived from the west.
5: Hammad [j1s], refugee, with one peasant, arrived from the west.
7: Pack of wolves [fn5h], wolves, number: 9, went east.
8: Hammad [j1s], refugee, with one peasant, went east.
14: Pack of wolves [io0q], wolves, number: 6, went west.
19: Wild men [ag0y], savages, number: 31, arrived from the west.
21: Wild men [ag0y], savages, number: 31, went east.
22: Pack of wolves [io0q], wolves, number: 6, arrived from the west.
22: Hammad [j1s], refugee, with one peasant, arrived from the east.
23: Pack of wolves [fn5h], wolves, number: 9, arrived from the east.
24: Pack of wolves [io0q], wolves, number: 6, went east.
24: Hammad [j1s], refugee, with one peasant, went west.
25: Pack of wolves [fn5h], wolves, number: 9, went west.
25: Band of thieves [gv4x], bandits, number: 76, arrived from the east.
30: The population grows by one peasant.
Routes leaving Plain of Tears:
North, plain, to Plain of Tears [ar35], 7 days
East, plain, to Plain of Tears [as36], 7 days
South, plain, to Plain of Tears [at35], 7 days
Garrison [cw5f], garrison, uncontrolled, with five soldiers
West, plain, to Plain of Tears [as34], 7 days
Inner locations:
Pasture [ae0q], pasture, 1 day
Seen here:
Band of thieves [gv4x], bandits, number: 76


Stonehenge –One of It's Purposes
I have this ability to travel out of the body and circumvent all places.
On this occasion I traveled through dreamscape (leaving the body while asleep).
I saw in the night Stonehenge, complete with all three rings finished.
Walking through the first ring then the second and then the third which was completely enclosed except for on one end was an opening about six feet across. I could see a bright
light inside the center.
Part of the second ring hid the opening. I traversed two of the rings and entered the third. There was a man in a robe with hood guiding me.
As I entered the center the light became very apparent. It was a bluish white light pointing skyward from a large stone on the ground. There were about six robed and hooded men standing in front of an upright stone abought waist high. The leader there started talking to me explaining things. I too was hooded and wore a robe like the others. He explained that it was a device when one would enter the light, he would be transported to another place off planet. I stayed there and watched as someone left this world. I understood then. Afterward I left Stonehenge. As I say Stonehenge was completed and it was on a very dark night. I could not tell if this was in another dimension or this one, but I believe it was in the next one above this one.


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Id: 131
Name: Gar Gloonch
Status: Dead
Species: Alien
Type: Zombodian
Gender: Male
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LocationUrl: https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/location/13
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Episode: ['https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/episode/13', 'https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/episode/18', 'https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/episode/21']
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Internally, all w2ui widgets call trigger to execute event listeners. You can add your own events and trigger them with the
trigger function. The trigger function should be called twice. First time before the default behavior is processed and the
second time after it it processed. This is needed to accomplish the functionality provided by the event flow.
Here is an example how widgets trigger events:
As you see from the example above, the default action can be cancelled by event handler calling
event.preventDefault(). There is no need to return event
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Tweets. Likes. Check-ins. Steps. Photos. Links. We emit a constant stream of content into the sites we use everyday. Is it ours? Well, it feels like it. And according to the terms of service, it kind of belongs to us. Sometimes. Maybe. I don't know, honestly. I don't read those, and likely you don't either. If you fully parse every TOS you encounter, you can stop reading right now, go straight to the nearest IHOP and have some pancakes.
Groups like IndieWeb are tackling data ownership issues - experimenting with ways of creating and managing content in a way that bakes in data ownership and removes the need for massive corporate services to achieve Web scale interactions. It's fun and interesting and useful... we meet every two weeks, come check it out! But an IndieWeb world is a long way off. Especially for non-geeks.
All the companies providing you services today have little interest or incentive to make ownership clear or to make your data portable - the fact that you can't easily move your data around is partially what keeps Google, Facebook, Whatsapp and Pinterest running.
Sure, lots of these services have APIs, through which you could access your data (or at least some of it). But regular users can't really move data around between competing services through APIs. Some of these companies have data export options, where you can download your data in a zip file, but it's not like you're doing that every day. What if today you get banned from Gmail because some process hit a false-positive while enforcing some usage policy? And when was the last time you downloaded all your stuff? Did you ever?
I've always wanted to move to a model where I only participate in services through my own website first, and then send a copy of my activity to Twitter, Foursquare, Bit.ly through their APIs (including in each request an extra HTTP header containing the URL to the UELA that my content is covered by!). But that will take a while to build, and won't work for devices like my Jawbone UP24 which syncs over a proprietary protocol to native apps only, finally letting me access a subset of my data through their API once it's already on their servers first.
So, back to the point of this post: What can you do now?
I've started by attempting to own a copy of as much of my internet output as possible.
Here's how I do it:
- Create a Google account, and install the Google Drive app. This will keep a local copy of all of your Google Docs on your computer.
- Create an IFTTT account. IFTTT is a fantastic service that allows a large number of apps, websites, services, devices and all kinds of stuff to interact with each other.
- Set up recipes for everything you do online that's supported by IFTTT which all add to a Google Docs spreadsheet. I have recipes for Tumblr, Twitter, Bit.ly, Soundcloud and a ton more. I was very surprised by how many services have some bits of my daily personal activity. That's it. The IFTTT triggers will start firing, the spreadsheets will start filling, and the files will be copied to your local hard drive. You'll now have both an online copy and a local backup of all the stuff you do online.
Here's what some of my IFTTT recipes look like:
IFTTT will save it all in Google docs folder hierarchy for each service:
I'll be honest - it takes a little while. It's annoying to set up, even with IFTTT's excellently simple user interface. But in the end I own a copy of any new content I post to the services I use. What do I do with it? Nothing at all, right now. But someday maybe those services will shut down, or I'll get banned, or poorly implemented IT backup strategies will wipe it all out. I'll have lost nothing except the time I spent setting this up.
Is it real data portability? Nope. Is it true ownership? No. Hell, "my" content might even be under some crazy license restrictions that I agreed to before putting it up on Pocket or Evernote! But it's always running, and someday my personal weak-AI agent will be able to do something with it.
PS: Do you use Gmail? Do you only use the web interface or Android/iOS apps? Then you probably don't have a backup of your email. I run an IMAP mail client (Thunderbird) periodically to get an updated offline copy of my Gmail in an open format.


Allows you to make clean, good-looking scatter plots with the option to easily add marginal density or box plots on the axes. It is also available as a module for 'jamovi' (see <https://www.jamovi.org> for more information). 'Scatr' is based on the 'cowplot' package by Claus O. Wilke and the 'ggplot2' package by Hadley Wickham.
| Version: | 1.0.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.2) |
| Imports: | jmvcore (≥ 0.8.0), R6, ggplot2, cowplot, ggstance, ggridges |
| Published: | 2017-12-05 |
| Author: | Ravi Selker |
| Maintainer: | Ravi Selker <selker.ravi at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/raviselker/scatr/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: | https://github.com/raviselker/scatr |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| CRAN checks: | scatr results |
| Reference manual: | scatr.pdf |
| Package source: | scatr_1.0.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: scatr_1.0.1.zip, r-release: scatr_1.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: scatr_1.0.1.zip |
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| nidiformis nidiformis nidiforme | nest shaped | |||
| nidus | nid | noun/m | a nest; a dwelling | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| formis | form | adj | in botanical Latin a substantive suffix for nouns derived from 'forma': to be in the form or shape of... | |
| nidus nidi | bird's nest | |||
| nidus | nid | noun/m | a nest; a dwelling | |
| Asplenium nidus L. | ||||
| niger nigra nigrum | black | |||
| niger | nigr | adj | black | |
| Helleborus niger L. Pinus nigra Arnold Allium nigrum All. | ||||
| nigerrimus nigerrima nigerrimum | blackest | |||
| superlative of niger | niger | adj | black | |
| rimus | rim | adj | superlative suffix; most so, to the greatest degree; most-, -est (e.g. largest, prettiest, whitest) | |
| nigrescens nigrescens nigrescens | blackish | |||
| niger | nigr | adj | black | |
| escens | escent | adj | adjective suffix for nouns or adjectives: becoming like, incomplete resemblance -ish | |
| Oxytropis nigrescens (Pallas) Fisch. ex DC. | ||||
| nigricans nigricans nigricans | blackish | |||
| niger | nigr | adj | black | |
| icans | icans | adj | adjective suffix for nouns: becoming or closely resembling | |
| Hedyotis nigricans (Lam.) Fosberg | ||||
| nigropunctatus nigropunctata nigropunctatum | black spotted | |||
| niger | nigr | adj | black | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| punctum | punct | noun/n | something that is pricked; a puncture; a spot; a small portion | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| niphophilus niphophila niphophilum | snow loving | |||
| nipha | niph | noun/n | νιφα snow | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| philus | phil | adj | philos φιλοσ, ε, ον loved; loving, friendly, fond | |
| us Latinizing suffix | ||||
| Eucalyptus niphophila Maiden & Blakely | ||||
| nitidulus nitidula nitidulum | somewhat shiny | |||
| nitidus | nitid | adj | shining, bright, polished | |
| ulus | ul | adj | adjective suffix for adjectives: diminutive | |
| Alectoria nitidula (Th. Fr.) Vainio Asplenium nitidulum Hbd., non Moore | ||||
| nivalis nivalis nivale | of the snow | |||
| nivalis | nival | adj | of the snow | |
| Erysimum nivale (Greene) Rydb. Douglasia nivalis Lindl. | ||||
| niveus nivea niveum | snow white | |||
| niveus | nive | adj | of the snow; snow white | |
| Castilleja nivea Pennell & Ownbey Eriogonum niveum Dougl. ex Benth. Andropogon niveus Swallen | ||||
| nivicolus nivicola nivicolum | living in the snow | |||
| nix | niv | noun/f | snow | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| colus | col | adj | incola dweller, inhabitant -> -cola/-colus suffix | |
| nivosus nivosa nivosum | snow white | |||
| nivosus | nivos | adj | full of snow, snowy | |
| Breynia nivosa (Bull) Small Phyllanthus nivosus Bull | ||||
| nobilis nobilis nobile | notable, famous | |||
| nobilis | nobil | adj | well-known, famous; noble | |
| Chamaemelum nobile (L.) All. Hepatica nobilis Schreber | ||||
| nobilissimus nobilissima nobilissimum | most notable | |||
| superlative of nobilis | nobil | adj | well-known, famous; noble | |
| issimus | issim | adj | superlative suffix; most so, to the greatest degree; most-, -est (e.g. largest, prettiest, whitest) | |
| Lilium nobilissimum Makino | ||||
| nocturnus nocturna nocturnum | by night | |||
| nocturnus | nocturn | adj | of night, by night, nocturnal | |
| Amphiglottis nocturna (Jacq.) Britt. Cestrum nocturnum L. |


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Duration
5 minutes
Goals
The primary goal of this lab is to define a custom element for a drawing surface in our shared Xamarin.Forms code.
This exercise includes steps for all platforms supported by Xamarin.Forms.
You're not required to complete the steps for every platform but it's recommend you run the exercises on at least 2.
Required assets
This exercise is a continuation of the previous exercise. You can use your existing solution or start from the Completed solution in the Part 02 Resources folder. The provided Part 03 Resources folder contains a subfolder named Completed with a solution you can use to check your work. Please make sure you have this folder before you begin.
Challenge
- In the XFDraw shared project, create a new class named SketchView that derives from View.
- Add a bindable color property named InkColor.
- Open MainPage.xaml.cs and add a SketchView to mainLayout.
- Assign a color to the InkColor property.
Steps
Create a custom element
- In the XFDraw shared project, create a new class named SketchView that derives from View.
- Create a
BindableProperty
named InkColorProperty. Set the propertyName as "InkColor", the return type asColor
and the declaring type as the new element - SketchView. - Create
Color
property named InkColor for the bindable property. Call theGetValue
andSetValue
methods, passing in InkColorProperty, in the getter/setter.
Consume the custom element
We'll add the custom element to our visual content page. However, we haven't yet added any platform-specific rendering code so the view will be blank.
- Open MainPage.xaml in the shared project.
- Add a
SketchView
to the mainLayoutGrid
. You can use the same xmlns you defined for the hyperlink label. - Give it a name of sketchView so we can reach the control in the code-behind.
- Set the
HorizontalOptions
andVerticalOptions
toFillAndExpand
. - Set the
InkColor
property to a default color, the code below uses green.
Summary
In this exercise, you created a custom element in Xamarin.Forms and added a bindable property to the element.


Origin Article: “When you want something, the whole universe conspires in order for you to achieve it” — The Alchemist
If life were a game of hide and seek, our minds would be the ones hiding and our hearts would be the ones seeking. There is no practical or mindful method as to how we go about accomplishing our dreams, because the truth is all we have to do is listen to our heart and our intuitions. Paulo Coelho's ‘The Alchemist' a novel written with magic, does a stellar job at repainting the intuition of following your heart constantly with the recurrence of a particular saying, “when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.” To me, the narrative is a soul searching journey for the reader as much as it is about Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy travelling from Spain to the Sahara desert in his quest for finding the treasure hidden beneath the majestic Pyramids. He encounters a Gypsy woman, the King of Salem, the crystal merchant, Fatima, and the alchemist, who bring him closer to discovering the treasure that lies within. I chose this story because Santiago's journey carries a universal message for us all, that (the treasure) in life is our ability to listen to our hearts. When you give your heart a chance to speak, its words contain within them the language of the soul, which I believe is the only means of communication to the soul of the world. Your heart calls out to the spirit of the universe and the universe immediately responds as if it were waiting for you to call. The answers of the world are endless for they can take many shapes and forms but it all starts with your heart. In this reflection, I will be sharing key lessons in the form of quotes embroidered within the tapestry of the novel that I feel make the core of its main message, following your heart.
To me ‘The Alchemist' is the secret to understanding life. Like Santiago's journey, “Every search begins with beginner's luck and ends with the victors being severely tested.” (Coelho, 1988, pg. 134). This signifies the recurring idea of us wanting something and universe aligning things for you to achieve it. It explains that when we first realize our dream, everything falls into place and works out for us; but as we trek further in our journey, we face challenges that can be manifested through both internal and external forces. This is an important step everyone must go through because a journey is all about learning, just like learning in the classroom that is also a journey. We learn valuable lessons from the experiences these journeys bring us and the only way to test our knowledge is through obstacles; where we must put fear aside and let courage guide us, for instance exams or projects they are a challenge but we have the power to overcome them with our knowledge. Coelho points out that initially the Soul of the World works with you, then eventually it works against you; only to make you a better person, to turn silver into gold. With this the book teach readers about the alchemy behind pursuing our “personal legend” or dream.
Something that resonated deeply with me as a habit we must all practice in life was when “The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying one another.”(Coelho, 1988, pg. 135). You must befriend your heart by listening to it then you understand why it is behaving a certain way or why it is telling you to do a certain thing. With this practice, you feel happy and complete; you feel these emotions because you pursued what your heart spoke.  In addition, not listening to your heart will never stop it from beating, it will always tell you; about everything that surrounds you. Avoiding it will only make the load heavier and one day the washer will just explode. So, once you seek your heart, you will have found the meaning to your life because your heart is a safe that stores all your priceless treasures (memories, feelings, dreams), that make up what you seek and value in life. In the novel, a relatable situation, Santiago reached a point where he was questioning himself and fearing his journey's outcome that was far-fetched. His heart is deceitful because at times it tells to continue the venture and other times to get back to security and familiarity. The alchemist explains Santiago to continue listening to it despite what it says otherwise his heart will not speak but whisper its words in hopes that they will not be heard; this will prevent us from suffering, but if our heart is reminded somehow of the dreams it wishes to fulfill then it will suffer unimaginably, so it is best to befriend it and listen to it. Coelho explains through the alchemist, the importance of one's heart, that it will always be there for you, and that you should never break its trust for it will never break yours, it will be always be truthful.
We all want a dream to come true, ‘The Alchemist' reveals “there is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”(Coelho, 1988, pg. 143) This spoke to me because it teaches us that the only thing that stops us from fulfilling our dream is our fear of never being able live up to its expectations and encounter failure instead. The fear of failure is an assumption and it is in human nature to assume literally anything. I know I myself am very guilty of this! I wanted to go into medicine but my fear of failure in calculus shut that dream. An assumption eventually turns into a belief and you can never truly believe unless you have experienced it. Thus, before turning away from your dreams, you should try to live them instead of fearing a loss, that is non-existent and is hindering the pursuit of your dreams.
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.”(Coelho, 2014, pg.24). This is a highly significant motif in the novel, summarizing the author's intent in the entire novel, just like the emerald tablet in the works of alchemy. When you wish to accomplish whatever it is you want, all you have to do is realize or try to realize it; the rest is for the world to take care of.  It is the King of Salem who speaks such words in the story and he adds on that “the Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness, envy, and jealousy.” Realizing personal legends is a benefit not only to yourself but also the world, because if everyone realizes their dreams and aspirations, the spirit of happiness and wholesomeness will cover the world making it a much happier place rather than the calamitous spirit that comes into presence as a result of regret and jealousy.
“When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.”(Coelho, 2014, pg. 80) The world interprets one's heart and the world being identical because they both long for one thing: happiness. Your heart and the world speak the same language because they both want your prosperity. The way everything connects is like this, the world observes how much you want something, wanting something requires passion, passion needs energy; energy is a force in this case, positive because it involves completing your dream. You are closest to the world because you are happy and optimistic about your passion, this connects you further to the world and it plays a part in your success. This makes me think of the Dalai Lama, a pure soul with such a powerful desire in creating world peace. His connection with the universe is a strong and positive force.
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”(Coelho, 2014, pg. 13). ‘The Alchemist' underlines to the readers that it is the thrill, the “what ifs” in your life's journey that make it exciting. We resemble the sheep in the context of the novel, we are all used to living our monotonous life, valuing comfort and safety. We are not willing to test the waters and shift boundaries because we are too absorbed in our daily routine. Santiago thinks of this as he is on his way to Tarifa, he thinks that we are indeed like his flock of sheep who only follow what is in front of us and cannot think outside the box. It is then, that the boy realizes that having a dream means having something to live for; they give our lives a purpose, a meaning that we all want to find because we ourselves do not know what it truly is, until we discover it. This is when he starts to question his way of life and begins to explore the intent of dreams. In addition, this thought of his, lays the foundation for the book and reveals to the reader the vitality role dreams play in our lives.
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”(Coelho, 2014, pg.151). The novel proposes to the reader a similar idea to the “Law of Attraction” in Rhonda Byrne's, The Secret. The law of attraction is a philosophy that states, thinking positive and better thoughts brings positive and better experiences in a person's life. The positive thoughts can define dreams, desires, anything! When we try to improve ourselves, our will and positivity radiate throughout our surroundings, attracting and inspiring others around us to pursue their better selves.
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”(Coelho, 2014, pg.117) “Your treasure” is a metaphor for what you as a person wish most for. To know what you want most, listen to your heart, that is why Coelho states that in order to know where your treasure lies, you must see where your heart lies. Your treasure can be anything, the person you love most, family; it does not have to be literal treasure, in fact a lot of the times the treasure one seeks is figurative. After encountering the power of love, security of the oasis, and materialistic possessions such as the money from the crystal merchant as well as the fifty gold pieces from the tribal chieftain; Santiago was reconsidering his journey towards the pyramids. This relates to this notion that often we as people get so attached to material things and comfort, that we fail to meet the needs of our heart and welcome challenges. The alchemist speaks such words to remind the boy of what he is here for and not to get carried away with other pursuits, such as the quest for love; if Fatima and Santiago are meant to be then the universe will make a way for them to be together eventually much like anything else in life; if other desires unrelated to our purpose in life are important the universe will bring them but at the right time in our lives. “There is only one way to learn… it's through action. Everything you need to know you have to learn through journey. You only need to learn one thing more.”(Coelho, 2014, pg. 127). This is highly applicable within any learning environment, be it the classroom or the workplace, explaining a basic principle of life, that you will never know or learn unless you try. People can give a shot at explaining beliefs, ideals, philosophies etc. but you will never understand them because it is their own personal interpretations and understandings of them. The key in learning is application, and in order for you to learn, you have to venture out and gain experience. For instance, experiential learning occurring within our classrooms involving co-op placements in order to equip students with skills that they will only be able to grasp by being immersed in workplaces centred around their desired career is a great example.
‘The Alchemist' teaches us “the secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never forget the drop of oil on the spoon.” (Coelho, 2014, pg. 34). To remain humble in life is what this teaches us. While we may enjoy the opportunity of living our dreams, along with the riches and the success that our world has to offer; we must remember to never let our selflessness turn into selfishness. We should chase our dream, but also remember the struggles we face in its journey, where we come from, and the people who have helped us in order to achieve it. For example, my parents have shaped the person I am today and will continue to in the near future because they are my support and well of wisdom. I will never abandon them for my own egocentric motives. We faced hardships as immigrants in a new country and and adjusting but now even though we have been accustomed to its ways, I have not forgotten where I come from and never will. Just the way my parents and my experiences are a part of me, they will be a part of my yet to be discovered dream as well.
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”(Coelho, 2014, pg. 123) There is no practicality or logic behind love. You can't possibly explain someone why you love them? You can go on listing things about them, that make you love them but if you have a fight or if you separate, that does not stop you from loving them does it? For me this is my family, particularly my little sister, she is definitely not the nicest and doesn't always appreciate the things I do for her; but I just love her so much. I want be around her every second of the day, so much so that having her come back from school a couple minutes later than her standard time worries me. Similarly, even though my parents are divorced, they still love each other and are there for each other as friends; love is not always romantic and is infinite. “If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.”
“Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we're living now.”(Coelho, 2014, pg. 86). This is something my dear mother, father, my sister, my close friends; basically anyone who is close to me always tell me to do. My mother at the end of every mother and daughter talks always says, “How many times do I have to remind you, live in the present, Kashish!” I have a really bad habit of remembering the past, as if it were the only means of happiness and certainty in my life. What I forget is that the past was at one point the present! For example, my parents are divorced; my mother lives in Toronto and my sister and I live with our father in Milton. I never thought I would separate with my mom and only get to see her on the weekends, but all I did when I was with her was throw tantrums. I never lived in the present and appreciated what I had, and now that time is a bunch of memories from the past that I would give anything up for just to relive once again. I will not lose more precious time by regretting my present, therefore this quote is a lesson that really needs to be hammered down into my brain; because if time never stops moving then why should I? I have to learn to accept my present because everything has perils but also has good, so I should embrace my present and add on to my treasured memories of the past. In essence, The Alchemist teaches us valuable lessons all catering to our heart's calling. These are lessons any one, old or young, student or worker, essentially any human can apply for the betterment in every aspect of their lives. It is a universally rich and magical anecdote that carries with it the secret in comprehending the meaning of life.
Some Quote Analysis for Further Reading If Interested :)
“It is said that all people who are happy have God within them.”(Coelho, 2014, 132)
I believe in God and am certainly not discounting the chances of the universe having some form of higher power looking after all of us; however claiming that people who have God in their lives are happy and hinting that people who do not, aren't entitled to happiness is extremely subjective.  A good example of this is my father, he was born into a very religious family, then as he got older and developed a sense of self, he found he could not connect with God. He is now an agnostic, his principle belief is that if he can't see something then will not believe in it. He is a practical man who values logic, but that does not make him right nor does it make him any less happier. On the contrary, he is very content with a family who loves him a lot, he is a very caring and supportive father, and respects my beliefs enough to not interfere with my devotion towards God.
“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.” (Coelho, 2014, pg. 20)
I found this saying to be contradictory to what the majority of the novel had to say about fate and this idea of “Maktub” (It is written). The novel constantly points out throughout, that whatever you do in life is written, it is the works of fate, and the whole universe conspires to make it come true because it is meant to be. This quote presents that we can control fate and that fate is a lie, yet Coelho continues to emphasize on the important role it plays in finding our destiny throughout the novel with the concept of “Maktub”. It states that fate is something that cannot be changed and I firmly believe in this idea, when something is meant to be, it is meant to be, whether we like it or not; we all see the dark in different capacities but sooner or later daylight has to break, right? Take for example, the Syrian civilians who are victims of the terrors of war day and night. How can they lose control when they never had control of fate in the first place?
“You must always know what it is that you want.” (Coelho, 2014, pg. 56)
It is not true that we must always know what we want, part of finding yourself is being confused and willing to be disturbed. If you always know what it is you want from life, then life will have no purpose because its job is to give you experiences that help define what you want to gain out of them. Knowing what you want narrows your mindset and blocks the production of creativity, because a big chunk of being creative comes from the art of discovering. For example, I took Writer's Craft in grade 12 and we got assignments that were very broad with minimal instructions. At first, I was complaining and panicking because I did not know what my teacher was expecting. But as I worked on the assignments, I got the chance to be creative and explore various outlets to express my thoughts. I would have not been able to do this if I had been given a specific criteria, that limits my abilities; this is what knowing what you want does, it hinders the ability to embark on journeys. In the end, it is not knowing what you want, that helps you identify what it is that you want. Another example is my degree at UTM, not knowing specifically what I want to pursue as a future career, my program isa flexible one where I can customize my own degree with specialist, majors, and, minors of my own choice to discover what I truly want.


Heatmap showing number of movies around sightings!
Legend - Each sighting is a hexagon. Darker sightings implies more movies released in context!
Heatmaps showing distribution of sci-fi movies realeased within a week of the sighted date for sightings after 2010
Heatmaps showing distribution of sci-fi movies realeased within a week of the reported date for sightings after 2010


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Mackie's is an American inspired cafe and restaurant where one's eyes willalways find something new to look at while food is being prepared. Come in and enjoy the good food and atmosphere in one Mickey's lifetime collection of rock legends, movie stars, football star, American Indian, the Buddha and our sweet staff.


My wife and I procured a supply of 4 bottles of 'Strong Czech Absinth' via European mail order for $150. Both of us being veterans of the underground of American culture were eager to experience the unique concoction.
Setting: We spent the evening at home in our living room. Most of the time we listened to music, a mix of The Cure, The The, Live, and Sarah McLachlan, stopping at one point to watch Stargate SG1 and half of Letterman. We both had not eaten anything in at least several hours.
Method: We began with two champagne glasses mostly full of straight absinthe. Using short salad forks in lieu of the appropriate slotted absinthe spoon we first tried burning sugar cubes over the liquid. Igniting the cubes was much easier after briefly soaking the cubes in the liquid. This practice did little more that provide ritual and entertainment, as the cubes did not caramelize as we expected. We drank half of our glasses after going through two cubes each. We then moved to dripping cold water over the cubes with a spoon until each glass was again full. I later diluted my remaining drink further finding it much easier to imbibe.
Experience: At first the flavor of the straight absinth tasted like Licorice flavored rubbing alcohol, but began to take on a more sinister flavor as my wife read about the history of the primary herbal ingredient Wormwood. Each sip was uniquely bitter and had a earthy medicinal quality. I found it difficult to drink quickly or more than in small sips.
After getting through half a glass in about 20 minutes, I noticed that while talking about the drink I was fixated on the alcohol clinging to the sides of the glass, as I swirled the mixture trying to dissolve the settled sugar. I them experienced an odd hallucination of the finger shaped streaks of alcohol on the side of glass appearing to be reaching up from the absinthe freely into the air. This startled me briefly as my brain locked back into the conventional perception of the liquid in the glass. Later I also notice some trailers when moving the spoon back and forth between the absinth glass and the water I was drawing from.
I noticed that I felt somewhat out of sorts and a bit fuzzy after the half glass (2oz) drunk straight. My partner was a bit jealous, as she was more eager to get altered on the substance. I tend to be very sensitive to mind altering substances and generally take things slow and light, and was not surprised to get a buzz sooner.
After taking a short break to tend to a neighbor’s cat we were charged with watching, we changed to drinking the absinth diluted about 50/50 with water. This made the drink somewhat more palatable though I still snorted, as I tend to do when drinking harsh liquor straight. I later found that mixing it 1 part to 4 parts water made it much more drinkable, while she proceeded to drink her next two glasses at about half strength. She found that she developed a taste for it as she drank more.
We both found the absinth resulted in a mild buzz but neither of us felt overtly altered by the drink. We have mild tolerances due to occasional wine consumption, and thus did not get particularly inebriated from the alcohol. Interestingly the buzz did not seem to get noticeably stronger after the initial onset. I became sleepy soon after finishing my 4oz portion, as I tend to after drinking more than two drinks, while she became more animated and talkative as she does while drinking (nothing unusual there). She ended up drinking approximately 7oz. total before spending the rest of the night chatting online as she usually does in the evening.
The next morning she felt much more hung over than did I, and complained of pain in her calves and ankles. She slept in somewhat more than me.
We are thinking of giving the remaining bottles away as gifts while retaining a small supply for novelty and entertaining guests. However we did not find the drink as mind altering and creativity enhancing as the legends purport.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


The Blade Runner intro but it's actually Los Angeles in November 2019
by Rob BeschizzaI noticed that it was that time of the century and made a mashup up the film's legendary intro, complete with Vangelis's soundtrack, with real contemporary footage of LA. The main difference is, of course, what's on fire. LA, November 2019: smoking hot, yes, flying cars, no.


TMBUserParams
@interface TMBUserParams : NSObject <TMBObjectEncodable>
An object representing parameters used to make user commands. Not all parameters are needed for all requests. - see: https://tamber.com/docs/api/#user
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Initialize empty user. TMBClient uses default user id when making relevant requests.
Declaration
Objective-C
+ (nullable instancetype)defaultUser;
Swift
class func defaultUser() -> Self?
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Initialize user with id.
Declaration
Objective-C
+ (nullable instancetype)userWithId:(nonnull NSString *)userId;
Swift
class func user(withId userId: String) -> Self?
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Initialize user with metadata (TMBClient uses default user id when making relevant requests).
Declaration
Objective-C
+ (nullable instancetype)userWithMetadata:(nullable NSDictionary *)metadata;
Swift
class func user(withMetadata metadata: [AnyHashable : Any]?) -> Self?
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Initialize user with metadata and events (array of TMBEventParams - user field should be empty or set to id of the given user). TMBClient uses default user id when making relevant requests.
Declaration
Objective-C
+ (nullable instancetype)userWithMetadata:(nullable NSDictionary *)metadata events:(nullable NSArray *)events;
Swift
class func user(withMetadata metadata: [AnyHashable : Any]?, events: [Any]?) -> Self?
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Initialize user with id and metadata (TMBClient uses default user id when making relevant requests).
Declaration
Objective-C
+ (nullable instancetype)userWithId:(nonnull NSString *)userId metadata:(nullable NSDictionary *)metadata;
Swift
class func user(withId userId: String, metadata: [AnyHashable : Any]?) -> Self?
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Initialize user with id, metadata, and events (TMBClient uses default user id when making relevant requests).
Declaration
Objective-C
+ (nullable instancetype)userWithId:(nonnull NSString *)userId metadata:(nullable NSDictionary *)metadata events:(nullable NSArray *)events;
Swift
class func user(withId userId: String, metadata: [AnyHashable : Any]?, events: [Any]?) -> Self?
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Adds additional api parameter for the mode when saving a user (“merge” or “replace”).
Declaration
Objective-C
- (void)setSaveMode:(nullable NSString *)mode;
Swift
func setSaveMode(_ mode: String?)
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Unique ID associated with the user.
Declaration
Objective-C
@property (nonatomic, copy, nullable) NSString *ID;
Swift
var id: String? { get set }
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List of all of the events (TMBEventParams) that are associated with the user (i.e. all passed user-item interactions).
Declaration
Objective-C
@property (nonatomic, copy, nullable) NSArray *events;
Swift
var events: [Any]? { get set }
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Data associated with the user.
Declaration
Objective-C
@property (nonatomic, copy, nullable) NSDictionary *metadata;
Swift
var metadata: [AnyHashable : Any]? { get set }
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If you would like to return new recommendations for the user, set getRecs (accepts number, page, and filter params). Note that all fields are optional, and an initialized, non-NULL TMBDiscoverParams instance (even if no properties/fields are set) will return recommendations.
Declaration
Objective-C
@property (nonatomic, copy, nullable) TMBDiscoverParams *getRecs;
Swift
@NSCopying var getRecs: TMBDiscoverParams? { get set }


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