Eighth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
26-Oct-02 — original report
The Secretariat presented a scoping paper on cross-cutting thematic areas under the UNFCCC, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), and presented WSSD outcomes on synergies between these conventions.
Parties discussed thematic areas, diverging on the terms of reference for a workshop.
Chair Thorgeirsson requested a contact group, co-chaired by Jimena Nieto (Colombia) and Outi Berghäll (Finland), to resolve outstanding issues and prepare draft conclusions.
Croatian proposal: Delegates requested the SBSTA informal group, chaired by Jim Penman (UK), to also consider the Croatian proposal regarding its cap for forest management.
The group will prepare draft conclusions.
Executive Secretary Joke Waller-Hunter reported on the outcomes of the WSSD.
She noted that the Summit reaffirmed sustainable development's central place on the international agenda and recognized climate change as an important development issue.
She highlighted that the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation called for: greenhouse gas emission reductions; ratification of the Kyoto Protocol; provision of technical and financial support and capacity building; increase of energy access and the share of renewable energy resources; and enhancement of synergies between the CBD, UNCCD and UNFCCC.
The COP took note of the report of the Executive Secretary.
CDM Executive Board chair John Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) introduced the Board's first report.
He noted that it addresses, inter alia: the implementation of work plan tasks; financial and operational procedures; communication between the Board and stakeholders; and the draft rules of procedure.
He identified issues requiring a COP decision, emphasizing the rules and modalities for small-scale CDM projects and the draft rules of procedure.
He announced the resignation of a Board member from the Asia region.
The EU said that further guidance on standards and procedures is necessary.
The RUSSIAN FEDERATION supported small-scale projects.
The US, with ARGENTINA, CHILE, COLOMBIA, and VENEZUELA, argued for transparent rules of procedure.
ARGENTINA noted that some Parties hold unrealistic expectations about the CDM.
AUSTRALIA and CANADA urged Parties to reach agreement on the rules.
INDIA, with SRI LANKA, proposed developing country concessions for accreditation of operational entities.
COP-8 President Baalu invited Parties to discuss the Delhi Declaration informally.
Numerous speakers supported the Chair's proposal for an implementation-oriented declaration focusing on climate change and sustainable development, building on the WSSD outcome.
Several Parties proposed urging the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, and emphasized a focus on adaptation and poverty eradication.
Many argued for a two-pronged approach that would stress mitigation and adaptation.
Several Annex I countries supported a forward-looking declaration that would emphasize the need to broaden and deepen commitments globally in preparation for the second commitment period and beyond. Stressing the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, a number of developing country representatives said Annex I Parties must take the lead, and opposed any process that would lead to new developing country commitments.
One Annex I Party stressed economic growth as the key to environmental progress, and the right of all to prosperity, cautioning against burdensome targets for developing countries.
Many countries supported an emphasis on renewable energy.
Others stressed energy efficiency and advanced fossil-fuel technologies.
Some delegations called for a spirit of cooperation in the process of drafting the Declaration.
Consultations will continue informally.
Chair José Romero said that new texts on improving the guidelines had been received from the EU and from AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN and the US.
Parties agreed to delete several provisions in the chair's text in accordance with a G-77/China proposal.
Co-Chairs Gaye and van Ypersele convened this group in the evening.
CHINA, supported by BOTSWANA and SENEGAL, and opposed by the EU and SRI LANKA, proposed that NGOs only be allowed to make submissions on the work programme if requested to do so by their national focal points.
NAMIBIA stressed the importance of tertiary level training for scientists and researchers and proposed that the Secretariat prepare a registry of available training resources.
The Group heard divergent views on designating an international climate change day.
Parties addressed the issue of non- permanence.
The G-77/CHINA delivered a proposal that focused on: principles; elements; and cross-cutting issues relating to non- permanence.
The EU proposed a system for accounting that relies on Temporary Certified Emissions Reduction Units (TCERs).
Parties discussed issues relating to risk, insurance, liability, and carbon rights.
They agreed on the need for formal economic analysis of potential accounting systems.
Co-Chair Sach introduced the issue of baseline methodologies and discussions continued late into the night.
Delegates were overheard discussing the future of the regime Friday evening.
The informal exchange of views on the Delhi Declaration held earlier in the day was marked by emotional posturing on developing country commitments, the like of which was last seen in Buenos Aires.
Rumours flew about the possibility that some developing countries might prevent mention of non-Annex I commitments in the Declaration by demanding a new instrument on adaptation.
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and UNEP outlined their activities related to the implementation of Article 6.

BELGIUM offered to host a regional workshop on Article 6 in 2003.
The US cautioned against linking discussion on Article 6 to reporting and financing issues.
A contact group will be convened by Fatu Gaye (Gambia) and Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Belgium).
Cleaner or less greenhouse gas-emitting energy: CANADA introduced draft decision text supported by NEW ZEALAND, POLAND, the RUSSIAN FEDERATION and SLOVENIA, and opposed by SAUDI ARABIA for the G-77/CHINA, SWITZERLAND, and the US.
The text requests the Secretariat to ask competent organizations to analyze the role of trade in cleaner energy in meeting the objective of the UNFCCC and the Protocol, and to report back to SBSTA-21.
Several Parties reaffirmed their objection to Canada's original proposal on accounting for cleaner energy exports.
The EU said that only generic issues relating to trade in cleaner energy should be discussed.
Chair Thorgeirsson will undertake consultations on this issue.
Parties discussed issues relating to possible workshops.
SAUDI ARABIA argued for a draft decision requesting the Secretariat to analyse the adverse effects of P&Ms on developing countries.
Chair Thorgeirsson said he would undertake consultations on this issue.
Progress on implementation of activities under decision 5/CP.7: Parties discussed implementation issues on adverse effects, as well as outcomes of a workshop on modeling held in Bonn in May 2002, and arrangements for workshops on insurance and risk assessment. The G-77/CHINA expressed concern about the lack of financial support for the implementation of the decision.
Addressing the lack of funding for the workshops on insurance and risk assessment, she called for a mechanism to finance the workshops and proposed creating an expert group on adaptation.
CANADA expressed interest in supporting the workshops.
Several Parties stressed the importance of insurance related issues.
SAMOA highlighted two reports indicating that nearly all losses in developing countries due to extreme events are not covered by insurance.
JAPAN and others cautioned against holding too many workshops.
IRAN stressed that the workshops should also address adaptation to the impact of response measures.
Chair Estrada called on Daniela Stoytcheva (Bulgaria) and Enele Sopoaga (Tuvalu) to conduct informal consultations with Parties on the terms of reference for the workshops. On modeling, Parties noted that additional efforts are required.
SAMOA said current models do not provide a solid basis for policy- making.
LDC Expert Group (LEG) chair Bubu Jallow (Gambia) reported on the second meeting of the Group and on progress in implementing the LEG work programme.
He highlighted a workshop held in Dhaka that aimed to develop national capacity for national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs).
He noted that the Group had decided against revising NAPA guidelines at COP-8, preferring to do this at COP-9.
The EU commended the work of the LEG, and underscored the importance of adaptation for sustainable development and poverty eradication. CANADA noted that his country's adaptation support prioritizes LDCs.
The G-77/CHINA said several activities related to LDCs outlined in decision 2/CP.7 (capacity building in developing countries) could be undertaken before completing NAPAs.
TUVALU noted difficulty in seeking funding for NAPAs from the GEF.
Chair Estrada will draft conclusions.
Effective participation in the UNFCCC process: The Secretariat outlined options and proposals for the effective participation of observers in the UNFCCC and Protocol intersessional workshops and meetings of limited membership bodies.
CANADA, with AUSTRALIA and the EU, advocated transparency while recognizing financial realities.
The US supported participation through new approaches, including a constituency system.
The Secretariat presented a paper on the arrangements, proposing an integrated approach.
The EU, CANADA, AUSTRALIA and JAPAN, opposed by SLOVENIA, supported one combined session for the sake of efficiency, noting some details need to be clarified.
The US stressed the need to work on budgetary issues to ensure that its contributions are used to support the UNFCCC process.
Chair Estrada said the Secretariat would prepare conclusions on this item.
In the absence of an offer from the Eastern European regional group, ITALY offered to host COP-9.
The COP President would be elected from the Eastern European region.
Delegates decided to authorize the Bureau to decide on the venue.


| CS 371 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
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Presented with the unifying theme of constructing intelligent software agents, we survey an interesting variety of research problems and modern problem solving techniques. Topics we cover may include search, game-tree search, stochastic local search, constraint satisfaction, knowledge representation and reasoning, reasoning under uncertainty, data mining, robotics, and philosophical foundations.
| Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd ed. Prentice Hall; ISBN-10:<PHONE_NUMBER>, ISBN-13:<PHONE_NUMBER>594 |
You are responsible to know the material from each lecture and reading assignment before the start of the next class. Homework is due at the beginning of lecture on the due date. Late homework will not necessarily be accepted. Code must be a legal program in the relevant language in order to be graded. (It need not be free from logic errors.)
You are required to attend 2 colloquia or approved departmental events over the course of the semester.
Class attendance and participation is required. If you attend all classes and are willing to participate, you'll get 100% for this part of your grade. Even if you know enough to give a particular lecture, please consider the value of helping your peers during in-class exercises.
Woody Allen is quoted as saying "80% of success is just showing up." While our class attendance/participation grade is not 80% of the final grade, it is critical that late arrivals and unexcused absences are not excessive. Missing more than half of class unexcused is considered being absent. An unexcused late arrival is counted as a half absence. If the total number of absences counted this way exceeds 20% of class meetings, i.e. 6 absences or more, the student will have failed the course.
You are expected to work an average of 9 hours per week beyond class time. Gettysburg College policy, in accordance with federal and state standards, equates 1 credit unit with an average of 12 hours of work per week with 50 minute classes counting as 1 full hour of work. During these remaining 9 hours beyond class, a student is expected to learn from assigned readings, complete exercises related to such readings, attend required colloquia, and complete assignments.
Think of your college studies as a more-than-full-time job, and engage in it with passion. After all, you get out of it what you put into it, and it is my hope that you'll gain much from your investment in this course. If you'd like to learn more about how to better track tasks and manage time as a student, consider watching my short tutorial on getting things done.
What is permitted:
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Put simply, students may discuss assignments at an abstract level (e.g. specifications, algorithm pseudocode), but must actually implement solutions independently or in permitted groups. Credit should be given where credit is due. Let your conscience be your guide. Do not merely focus on the result; learn from the process.


North_Wind:N=北風 and Sun
North_Wind and Sun dispute which stronger.
A traveler came wear a cloak.
They agreed who take_off:V=脫 traveler's cloak is stronger.
North_Wind hardly:v=盡力 blew:V=吹
Traveler catch his cloak;
North_Wind gave_up:V=放棄.
Sun shined warmly, the traveler take_off his cloak.
Sun win.


Hush has been building the first ever open source private messenger service based on Zcash technology. Hush & Komodo not only share core developers, but coinciding views on the importance of independent right to privacy.
100 messages
Before 05-Dec-19 12:00 AM
GatewayBOT21-Jun-19 05:51 PM
[dscrd-hush] <Moeen> lol
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> Are you in college ahaha
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> Does that come with Hulu as well?
[dscrd-hush] <Moeen> no
[dscrd-hush] <Moeen> I sell the account
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> aaaah
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> I don't even have a smartphone
[dscrd-hush] <Moeen> you can use on pc
[dscrd-hush] <ǝpᴉolᴉx> Also selling spotify account is against tos thus against discord guidelines aswell
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> Please also keep any off-topic discussion like selling accounts or whatever in the #off_topic section
[dscrd-hush] <Moeen> ok
[dscrd-hush] <ǝpᴉolᴉx> @Berg more like allowing such a behavior might lead to the server ban from discord trust and security staff
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> Ok Don't do anything stupid then guys
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> Why doesn't it recognize it anymore
[dscrd-hush] <Moeen> !monikers
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> Not sure what's going on with the monikers right now
[dscrd-hush] <Moeen> tip him manually
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> I don't actually have any HUSH in my wallet right now after tipping out our recent graphic design contest winner 300 HUSH
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> I'm sure one of my colleagues will reward his work once they come online
[dscrd-hush] <Berg> I'll be replenishing my funds in the next few days if not
GatewayBOT21-Jun-19 06:49 PM
[dscrd-hush] <ǝpᴉolᴉx> @Berg monikers got unloaded from the db happens from times to times if the bot restarts give him some time he will load it eventually.
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @gilardh your app server is not responding back to cloudflare in time
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> maybe just restart
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh> @dukeleto I restart but it's not OK
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @gilardh also, we could give people instructions how to download the web wallet, and how to use a few different insight servers, right? That would avoid everybody relying one website
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @gilardh check the haproxy/nginx logs
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh> I can't connect to the server
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh> I did not touch the server and I did not have a maintenance message from the host.
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh>
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh> I can try to put the webwallet on github. Forr example at this address : https://myhush.org/webwallet/ @dukeleto
GatewayBOT21-Jun-19 11:27 PM
[dscrd-hush] <dukeleto> @CHMEX is the insight api down?
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh> No it's my server.
GatewayBOT22-Jun-19 12:27 AM
[dscrd-hush] <ITM> WE DID IT! BTC broke $10000(edited)
[dscrd-hush] <RK> @dukeleto thanks but I don't know
[dscrd-hush] <ITM> Website
Explorer
Web Wallet
Silent Dragon (edited)
GatewayBOT22-Jun-19 01:06 AM
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh> I sent a message to the support so that it corrects the dysfunction of the server hosting our walletweb. In Europe, it's night. Thank you for your patience.
[dscrd-hush] <gilardh> We need to configure web wallets on multiple servers and connected to different Insight api. You are right @dukeleto
GatewayBOT22-Jun-19 01:22 AM
[dscrd-hush] <dragon3766> I was wondering!
GatewayBOT22-Jun-19 02:04 AM
[dscrd-hush] <KillahJon> wow
[dscrd-hush] <KillahJon> the most popular altcoin is mooning
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GatewayBOT22-Jun-19 11:13 AM
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> a crypto exchange site can't stake users coins, only the amount they have made from trade percentage fee and withdrawals transactions.
That's a complete fallacy
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> he who owns the keys is he who can stake the coins
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> not your key = not your coin
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> @Robert Garcia are you affiliated with hazelmagazine and/or Julia Chang?
[dscrd-hush] <ComputerGenie - MineHush.com> If so, I want to know why my comment was deleted
GatewayBOT22-Jun-19 03:28 PM
[dscrd-hush] <ITM> @ComputerGenie - MineHush.com Agreed. Not ur key not your coins.
I feel exchange can stake coins. Lot people thing exchanges work for free, they margins are small yet need to keep up with security updates + 1000 checks.
They need to make a living.  But I still say the community should have use the transfer function and get out the coins. There devs(Tradesatoshi) are not smart people/ lazy, if wallet don't compile, they don't care to find out how. Crex24 still way better, lot scam coins they list but user responsibility to research.
The devs leaves default settings (Staking on), so I cannot really accused TS for stealing. So on TS am neutral still. Will love to hear TS comment about the above. Will I trade on TS, limited, I don't trust them with my money.(edited)


Michael Anti: Behind the GFW of China
FILMED JUN 2012 • POSTED JUL 2012 • TEDGlobal 2012
有机会的话，翻翻这篇TALK
附讲稿：
In the past several days, I heard people talking about China. And also I talked to friends about China and Chinese Internet. Something is very challenging to me. I want to make my friends understand: China is complicated. So I always want to tell the story, like, one hand it is that, the other hand is that. You can’t just tell one side’s story. I’ll give an example. China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy. But at the same time, on the other hand, China is a SICK country, the terminology coined by Facebook IPO papers — file. He said the SICK country means Syria, Iran, China and North Korea. The four countries have no access to Facebook. So basically, China is a SICK BRIC country.
(Laughter)
Another project was built up to watch China and Chinese Internet. And now, today I want to tell you my personal observation in the past several years, from that wall. So, if you are a fan of the Game of Thrones, you definitely know how important a big wall is for an old kingdom. It prevents weird things from the north.
Same was true for China. In the north, there was a great wall, Chang Cheng. It protected China from invaders for 2,000 years. But China also has a great firewall. That’s the biggest digital boundary in the whole world. It’s not only to defend the Chinese regime from overseas, from the universal values, but also to prevent China’s own citizens to access the global free Internet, and even separate themselves into blocks, not united.
So, basically the “Internet” has two Internets. One is the Internet, the other is the Chinanet.But if you think the Chinanet is something like a deadland, wasteland, I think it’s wrong.But we also use a very simple metaphor, the cat and the mouse game, to describe in the past 15 years the continuing fight between Chinese censorship, government censorship, the cat, and the Chinese Internet users. That means us, the mouse. But sometimes this kind of a metaphor is too simple.
So today I want to upgrade it to 2.0 version. In China, we have 500 million Internet users.That’s the biggest population of Netizens, Internet users, in the whole world. So even though China’s is a totally censored Internet, but still, Chinese Internet society is really booming. How to make it? It’s simple. You have Google, we have Baidu. You have Twitter, we have Weibo. You have Facebook, we have Renren. You have YouTube, we have Youku and Tudou. The Chinese government blocked every single international Web 2.0 service, and we Chinese copycat every one.
 That’s not only to censor you.Sometimes this Chinese national Internet policy is very simple: Block and clone. On the one hand, he wants to satisfy people’s need of a social network, which is very important; people really love social networking. But on the other hand, they want to keep the server in Beijing so they can access the data any time they want. That’s also the reason Google was pulled out from China, because they can’t accept the fact that Chinese government wants to keep the server.
Sometimes the Arab dictators didn’t understand these two hands.  He wanted to prevent the Netizens [from criticizing] him. But once Netizens can’t go online, they go in the street. And now the result is very simple. We all know Mubarak is technically dead. But also, Ben Ali, Tunisian president, didn’t follow the second rule. That means keep the server in your hands. He allowed Facebook, a U.S.-based service, to continue to stay on inside of Tunisia. So he can’t prevent it, his own citizens to post critical videos against his corruption. The same thing happend. He was the first to topple during the Arab Spring.
But those two very smart international censorship policies didn’t prevent Chinese social media [from] becoming a really public sphere, a pathway of public opinion and the nightmare of Chinese officials. Because we have 300 million microbloggers in China. It’s the entire population of the United States. So when these 300 million people, microbloggers, even they block the tweet in our censored platform. But itself — the Chinanet — but itself can create very powerful energy, which has never happened in the Chinese history.
2011, in July, two [unclear] trains crashed, in Wenzhou, a southern city. Right after the train crash, authorities literally wanted to cover up the train, bury the train. So it angered the Chinese Netizens. The first five days after the train crash, there were 10 million criticisms of the posting on social media, which never happened in Chinese history. And later this year, the rail minister was sacked and sentenced to jail for 10 years.
And also, recently, very funny debate between the Beijing Environment Ministry and the American Embassy in Beijing because the Ministry blamed the American Embassy for intervening in Chinese internal politics by disclosing the air quality data of Beijing. So, the up is the Embassy data, the PM 2.5. He showed 148, they showed it’s dangerous for the sensitive group. So a suggestion, it’s not good to go outside. But that is the Ministry’s data. He shows 50. He says it’s good. It’s good to go outside. But 99 percent of Chinese microbloggers stand firmly on the Embassy’s side. I live in Beijing. Every day, I just watchthe American Embassy’s data to decide whether I should open my window.
Why is Chinese social networking, even within the censorship, so booming? Part of the reason is Chinese languages. You know, Twitter and Twitter clones have a kind of a limitation of 140 characters. But in English it’s 20 words or a sentence with a short link.Maybe in Germany, in German language, it may be just “Aha!”
(Laughter)
But in Chinese language, it’s really about 140 characters, means a paragraph, a story. You can almost have all the journalistic elements there. For example, this is Hamlet, of Shakespeare. It’s the same content. One, you can see exactly one Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. Chinese is always cheating, right? So because of this, the Chinese really regard this microblogging as a media, not only a headline to media.
And also, the clone, Sina company is the guy who cloned Twitter. It even has its own name, with Weibo. “Weibo” is the Chinese translation for “microblog.” It has its own innovation. At the commenting area, [it makes] the Chinese Weibo more like Facebook, rather than the original Twitter. So these innovations and clones, as the Weibo and microblogging, when it came to China in 2009, it immediately became a media platform itself. It became the media platform of 300 million readers. It became the media. Anything not mentioned in Weibo, it does not appear to exist for the Chinese public.
But also, Chinese social media is really changing Chinese mindsets and Chinese life. For example, they give the voiceless people a channel to make your voice heard. We had a petition system. It’s a remedy outside the judicial system, because the Chinese central government wants to keep amiss, the emperor is good. The old local officials are thugs. So that’s why the petitioner, the victims, the peasants, want to take the train to Beijing to petition to the central government, they want the emperor to settle the problem. But when more and more people go to Beijing, they also cause the risk of a revolution. So they send them back in recent years. And even some of them were put into black jails. But now we have Weibo, so I call it the Weibo petition. People just use their cell phones to tweet.
So your sad stories, by some chance your story will be picked up by reporters, professors or celebrities. One of them is Yao Chen, she is the most popular microblogger in China,who has about 21 million followers. They’re almost like a national TV station. If you — so a sad story will be picked up by her. So this Weibo social media, even in the censorship, still gave the Chinese a real chance for 300 million people every day chatting together, talking together. It’s like a big TED, right? But also, it is like the first time a public spherehappened in China. Chinese people start to learn how to negotiate and talk to people.
But also, the cat, the censorship, is not sleeping. It’s so hard to post some sensitive words on the Chinese Weibo. For example, you can’t post the name of the president, Hu Jintao, and also you can’t post the city of Chongqing, the name, and until recently, you can’t search the surname of top leaders. So, the Chinese are very good at these puns and alternative wording and even memes. They even [use] names of — you know, use the name of this world-changing battle between the grass-mud horse and the river crab. The grass-mud horse is caoníma, is the phonogram for motherfucker, the Netizens call themselves. River crab is héxiè, is the phonogram for harmonization, for censorship. So that’s kind of a caoníma versus the héxiè, that’s very good. So, when some very political, exciting moments happened, you can see on Weibo, you see another very weird story happened. Weird phrases and words, even if you have a PhD of Chinese language, you can’t understand them.
But you can’t even expand more, no, because Chinese Sina Weibo, when it was foundedwas exactly one month after the official blocking of Twitter.com. That means from the very beginning, Weibo has already convinced the Chinese government, we will not become the stage for any kind of a threat to the regime. For example, anything you want to post, like “get together” or “meet up” or “walk,” it is automatically recorded and data mined and reported to a poll for further political analyzing. Even if you want to have some gathering,before you go there, the police are already waiting for you. Why? Because they have the data. They have everything in their hands. So they can use the 1984 scenario data mining of the dissident. So the crackdown is very serious.
But I want you to notice a very funny thing during the process of the cat-and-mouse. The cat is the censorship, but Chinese is not only one cat, but also has local cats. Central cat and local cats.
(Laughter)
You know, the server is in the local cats’ hands, so even that — when the Netizens criticize the local government, the local government has not any access to the data in Beijing.Without bribing the central cats, he can do nothing, only apologize.
So these three years, in the past three years, social movements about microblogging really changed local government, became more and more transparent, because they can’t access the data. The server is in Beijing. The story about the train crash, maybe the question is not about why 10 million criticisms in five days, but why the Chinese central governmentallowed the five days of freedom of speech online. It’s never happened before. And so it’s very simple, because even the top leaders were fed up with this guy, this independent kingdom. So they want an excuse — public opinion is a very good excuse to punish him.
But also, the Bo Xilai case recently, very big news, he’s a princeling. But from February to April this year, Weibo really became a marketplace of rumors. You can almost joke everything about these princelings, everything! It’s almost like you’re living in the United States. But if you dare to retweet or mention any fake coup about Beijing, you definitely will be arrested. So this kind of freedom is a targeted and precise window.
So Chinese in China, censorship is normal. Something you find is, freedom is weird.Something will happen behind it. Because he was a very popular Leftist leader, so the central government wanted to purge him, and he was very cute, he convinced all the Chinese people, why he is so bad. So Weibo, the 300 million public sphere, became a very good, convenient tool for a political fight.
But this technology is very new, but technically is very old. It was made famous by Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong, because he mobilized millions of Chinese people in the Cultural Revolution to destroy every local government. It’s very simple, because Chinese central government doesn’t need to even lead the public opinion. They just give them a target window to not censor people.
So that’s the update about this game, cat-and-mouse. Social media changed Chinese mindset. More and more Chinese intend to embrace freedom of speech and human rights as their birthright, not some imported American privilege. But also, it gave the Chinese a national public sphere for people to, it’s like a training of their citizenship, preparing for future democracy. But it didn’t change the Chinese political system, and also the Chinese central government utilized this centralized server structure to strengthen its power to counter the local government and the different factions.
So, what’s the future? After all, we are the mouse. Whatever the future is, we should fight against the mouse. There is not only in China, but also in the United States there are some very small, cute but bad cats.
(Laughter)
SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, TPP and ITU. And also, like Facebook and Google, they claim they are friends of the mouse, but sometimes we see them dating the cats. So my conclusion is very simple. We Chinese fight for our freedom, you just watch your bad cats. Don’t let them hook [up] with the Chinese cats. Only in this, in the future, we will achieve the dreams of the mouse: that we can tweet anytime, anywhere, without fear.
(Applause)
Thank you.
(Applause)


Otmar Szafnauer looking for Racing Point to "seize opportunity" in final two races
by Tom MasonFollowing some strong performances in the past couple of races, Racing Point has moved up to the sixth position in the constructors' championship and the team are targeting to move up even further in the last couple of races.
Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll have managed to score in six of the last seven races to put them 18 points behind Renault.
"Brazil presents us with another good opportunity to score points. The car has been working well on a variety of different tracks and I am sure we can be just as competitive this weekend," Otmar Szafnauer told caranddriver.com.
"It is difficult to judge our performance in the last race in the US because it was compromised by several factors, but there is no doubt that we do not show our true potential.
"The point we scored in the United States helped us climb to sixth place in the championship and mathematically we can still aspire to fifth place There is a lot at stake and a lot to fight for, so we need to maximize the opportunities this weekend."


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This is a Monte Carlo Simulation Programm (Fortran implementation) to compute the
Note:
Written by: M. Theiss
To-Do's:
The implementation aligns with the following literature.
[1] Theiss, M. & Gross, J., Dipolar Hard Spheres: Comprehensive Data from Monte Carlo Simulations, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 64 (2), 827-832 (2019)
[2] Theiss, M. & Gross, J., Nonprimitive Model Electrolyte Solutions: Comprehensive Data from Monte Carlo Simulations, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, 65 (2), 634-639 (2020)


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| Class and Description |
|---|
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
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| LogicalPlanData
This class provides information regarding the LogicalPlan.
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| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
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| LogicalSchema.LogicalFieldSchema |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOForEach |
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOJoin.JOINTYPE
Enum for the type of join
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOForEach |
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
|
| LogicalSchema.LogicalFieldSchema |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| LogicalSchema.LogicalFieldSchema |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOCogroup |
| LOCross |
| LOCube
CUBE operator implementation for data cube computation.
|
| LODistinct |
| LOFilter |
| LOForEach |
| LOGenerate |
| LogicalRelationalNodesVisitor
A visitor for logical plans.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
|
| LOInnerLoad
Operator to map the data into the inner plan of LOForEach
It can only be used in the inner plan of LOForEach
|
| LOJoin |
| LOLimit |
| LOLoad |
| LONative |
| LORank
RANK operator implementation.
|
| LOSort |
| LOSplit |
| LOSplitOutput |
| LOStore |
| LOStream |
| LOUnion |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOCogroup |
| LOCogroup.GROUPTYPE
Enum for the type of group
|
| LOCross |
| LOCube
CUBE operator implementation for data cube computation.
|
| LODistinct |
| LOFilter |
| LOForEach |
| LOGenerate |
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| LogicalRelationalNodesVisitor
A visitor for logical plans.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
|
| LogicalSchema.LogicalFieldSchema |
| LogicalSchema.MergeMode |
| LOInnerLoad
Operator to map the data into the inner plan of LOForEach
It can only be used in the inner plan of LOForEach
|
| LOJoin |
| LOJoin.JOINTYPE
Enum for the type of join
|
| LOLimit |
| LOLoad |
| LOLoad.CastState |
| LONative |
| LORank
RANK operator implementation.
|
| LOSort |
| LOSplit |
| LOSplitOutput |
| LOStore |
| LOStream |
| LOStream.CastState |
| LOUnion |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOCogroup |
| LOCross |
| LOFilter |
| LOForEach |
| LOGenerate |
| LogicalRelationalNodesVisitor
A visitor for logical plans.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
|
| LOJoin |
| LOLimit |
| LOLoad |
| LORank
RANK operator implementation.
|
| LOSort |
| LOSplit |
| LOSplitOutput |
| LOStore |
| LOUnion |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOCogroup |
| LOCross |
| LOCube
CUBE operator implementation for data cube computation.
|
| LODistinct |
| LOFilter |
| LOForEach |
| LOGenerate |
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| LogicalRelationalNodesVisitor
A visitor for logical plans.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| LOInnerLoad
Operator to map the data into the inner plan of LOForEach
It can only be used in the inner plan of LOForEach
|
| LOJoin |
| LOLimit |
| LOLoad |
| LONative |
| LORank
RANK operator implementation.
|
| LOSort |
| LOSplit |
| LOSplitOutput |
| LOStore |
| LOStream |
| LOUnion |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOCogroup |
| LOCross |
| LODistinct |
| LOFilter |
| LOForEach |
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| LogicalRelationalNodesVisitor
A visitor for logical plans.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| LogicalSchema
Schema, from a logical perspective.
|
| LOJoin |
| LOLimit |
| LOLoad |
| LOSort |
| LOSplit |
| LOSplitOutput |
| LOStore |
| LOUnion |
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LOForEach |
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| LogicalRelationalOperator
Logical representation of relational operators.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| LogicalPlan
LogicalPlan is the logical view of relational operations Pig will execute
for a given script.
|
Copyright © 2007-2017 The Apache Software Foundation


@(userName: String, studyNo: Int, arms: Map[Int,String], gender: List[String], age : List[String])(implicit request: RequestHeader) @import helper._
Please wait.....your file structure is being created
Please wait, study is being created


First session script.
Folders:
- BBOB2009rawdata/BIPOP-CMA-ES_hansen_noiseless,
- BBOB2009pythondata/BIPOP-CMA-ES,
- BBOB2009pythondata/NEWUOA
need to be in the current working directory. Otherwise, data will be collected automatically online.
The corresponding archives of these folders can be found at http://coco.lri.fr/BBOB2009/
| Variable | archivefile |
Undocumented |
| Variable | budgets |
Undocumented |
| Variable | budgets1 |
Undocumented |
| Variable | d |
Undocumented |
| Variable | d1 |
Undocumented |
| Variable | dataurl |
Undocumented |
| Variable | ds |
Undocumented |
| Variable | ds1 |
Undocumented |
| Variable | evals |
Undocumented |
| Variable | filename |
Undocumented |
| Variable | funvals |
Undocumented |
| Variable | funvals1 |
Undocumented |
| Variable | headers |
Undocumented |
| Variable | nbrows |
Undocumented |
| Variable | nbruns |
Undocumented |
| Variable | q |
Undocumented |
| Variable | targets |
Undocumented |
| Variable | xerr |
Undocumented |
| Variable | xhig |
Undocumented |
| Variable | xlow |
Undocumented |
| Variable | xmed |
Undocumented |


Sorting. Using custom sorting functions
Click on the 'Title' header, to sort the grid by length of the title.
Click on the 'Votes' header, to sort the grid by parameter 'rank'.


You may use regular expressions in the path.
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Class SerializerFeature
Contains metadata about serializers and serialization types.
Inheritance
System.Object
SerializerFeature
Namespace: Orleans.Serialization
Assembly: Orleans.Core.Abstractions.dll
Syntax
public class SerializerFeature : object
Properties
| Improve this Doc View SourceKnownTypes
Gets a collection of metadata about types which may be serializable.
Declaration
public IList<SerializerKnownTypeMetadata> KnownTypes { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| IList<SerializerKnownTypeMetadata> |
SerializerDelegates
Gets a collection of metadata about delegates used to serialize individual types.
Declaration
public IList<SerializerDelegateMetadata> SerializerDelegates { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| IList<SerializerDelegateMetadata> |
Remarks
This collection is intended to hold information about built-in serializers which are represented as a collection of delegates.
SerializerTypes
Gets a collection of metadata about types which contain serializer methods for individual types.
Declaration
public IList<SerializerTypeMetadata> SerializerTypes { get; }
Property Value
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| IList<SerializerTypeMetadata> |
Remarks
This collection corresponds to the SerializerAttribute attribute as well as types which are self-serializing.
Methods
| Improve this Doc View SourceAddKnownType(String, String)
Adds a known type to the KnownTypes property.
Declaration
public void AddKnownType(string fullyQualifiedTypeName, string typeKey)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| System.String | fullyQualifiedTypeName | the fully-qualified type name. |
| System.String | typeKey | The orleans type key. |
AddSerializerType(Type, Type)
Adds a serializer type
Declaration
public void AddSerializerType(Type targetType, Type serializerType)
Parameters
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Type | targetType | |
| Type | serializerType |


Ben Stoltz
`const` creates a constant that cannot be redefined.
`let` can be redefined.
Both `const` and `let` are block scoped instead of simply being function scoped.
They are not hoisted (Very important if you are aware of variable hoisting)
const book = 'The Lord of the Rings';
let title = 'The Sound of Music';
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
console.log(i);
}
console.log(i); // Much error!
Shorter, more terse syntax. Lexically binds `this` (No more need for `var self = this;`)
Always anonymous. Best suited to non-method functions and cannot be used as constructors
const multiply = (x, y) => x * y;
console.log(multiply(2, 3));
In computer science, function composition (not to be confused with object composition) is an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones. Like the usual composition of functions in mathematics, the result of each function is passed as the argument of the next, and the result of the last one is the result of the whole.
Functions must be stateless and data must be immutable.
const sampleArr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
const map = (f, ary) => {
return ary.map(f);
};
const multiplyByNumber = (x) => {
return (y) => {
return x * y;
};
};
const doubleItem = multiplyByNumber(2);
const finalArr = map(doubleItem, sampleArr);
console.log(finalArr);
Treat functions like any object.
Functions can be assigned to variables, passed to other functions, have methods attached.
let double = x => {
return x * 2;
};
double.sing = () => console.log('This is me singing!');
double.sing();
const doubledArray = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].map(double);
console.log(doubledArray);
Encapsulate logic. Partial applications (currying). Private methods.
const addByNumber = (x) => { return (y) => { return x + y; }};
let addTen = addByNumber(10);
console.log(addTen(10));
const counter = (function() {
let privateCounter = 0;
function changeBy(val) {
return privateCounter += val;
}
return {
incrementBy: function(num = 1) {
changeBy(num);
},
decrementBy: function(num = -1) {
changeBy(num);
},
value: function() {
return privateCounter;
}
};
})();
A pure function is a function that, given the same input, will always return the same output and does not have any observable side effects.
let xs = [1,2,3,4,5];
xs.splice(0, 3);
xs.splice(0, 3);
xs.splice(0, 3);
console.log(xs);
let xs = [1,2,3,4,5];
xs.slice(0, 3);
xs.slice(0, 3);
xs.slice(0, 3);
console.log(xs);
const minAge = 21;
const checkAge = (age) => {
return age >= minAge;
};
const checkAgePure = (age) => {
const minimum = 21;
return age >= minimum;
};
const checkAgeBest = (min) => { return (age) => { return age >= min; }};
const usDrinkingAge = checkAgeBest(21);
const ukDrinkingAge = checkAgeBest(18);
console.log(usDrinkingAge(15));
console.log(ukDrinkingAge(19));
You can call a function with fewer arguments than it expects. It returns a function that takes the remaining arguments
function add(x) {
return function(y) {
return x + y;
};
};
const increment = add(1);
const addTen = add(10);
const match = _.curry((what, str) => {
return str.match(what);
});
match(/\s+/g, 'hello world');
match(/\s+/g)('hello world');
const hasSpaces = match(/\s+/g);
hasSpaces('hello world');
hasSpaces('spaceless');
const compose = (f, g) => {
return (x) => {
return f(g(x));
};
};
With which we can do things like....
const compose = (f, g) => {
return (x) => {
return f(g(x));
};
};
const toUpperCase = (x) => { return x.toUpperCase(); };
const exclaim = (x) => { return `${x}!`; };
const shout = compose(exclaim, toUpperCase);
console.log(shout('send in the clowns'));
const Flock = function(n) {
this.seagulls = n;
};
Flock.prototype.conjoin = function(other) {
this.seagulls += other.seagulls;
return this;
};
Flock.prototype.breed = function(other) {
this.seagulls = this.seagulls * other.seagulls;
return this;
};
let flock_a = new Flock(4);
let flock_b = new Flock(2);
let flock_c = new Flock(0);
let result = flock_a.conjoin(flock_c)
.breed(flock_b)
.conjoin(flock_a.breed(flock_b))
.seagulls;
console.log(result);
const add = (x, y) => { return x + y; };
const multiply = (x, y) => { return x * y; };
let flock_a = 4;
let flock_b = 2;
let flock_c = 0;
let result = add(
multiply(flock_b, add(flock_a, flock_c)),
multiply(flock_a, flock_b));
console.log(result);


The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) 148m.
I was mightily impressed with Robert Aldrich's enthralling story when I was a youngster and was glad to see none of its power had been diminished upon viewing it again as an adult. James Stewart is a pilot for an oil company whose cargo plane crashes 130 miles off course in the Libyan Desert. It soon becomes apparent to the small contingent of survivors that they are beyond any hope of rescue. When it appears they have no other choice, Stewart reluctantly agrees to go ahead with aviation designer Hardy Kruger's bold idea to construct a new plane by cannibalizing parts of the old one - if they can stay alive long enough to see their project through.
Absorbing study of men under pressure never flags: there is no wasted dialogue, no maudlin 'I got a gal back home' or 'I was gonna open my own business' soliloquies. There is always a conflict, a new plot turn, a grim revelation. It's grueling just watching the men in their despair, knowing that a stroll from the shade of their wrecked plane can mean death. The friction and tension between members of the group only exacerbates their situation (it's fun watching Aldrich's sweaty, confrontational closeups - you can almost see the testostersone dehydrating off them in the desert heat). There is no bonding of survivors here - if anything, they split apart and dislike each other even more intensely than when they were airborne. Stewart isn't interested in having us sympathise with his character - he's short tempered and stubborn - but some viewers may prefer him to Hardy Kruger's self-possessed designer (my favorite performance in the film). Their conflict is the hinge of the story, in which the need for leadership within the group is eventually distilled down to these two protagonists. Within the group two camps emerge, those who want to organize and assume some form of control, and those who are unwilling to do anything unless ordered (and even then do it begrudgingly). This highlights an interesting human/animal trait (is it purely masculine?), namely the automatic higher positioning of any one individual within a group and the behavior system's subsequent pecking orders and heirarchies. And in FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX's case, survival isn't necessarily only for the fittest.
Acting performances all around are magnificent. You'll admire Peter Finch's captain, one of the few truly likable characters. He's ably supported by Richard Attenborough, Dan Duryea, Ernest Borgnine, Christian Marquand, Ronald Fraser, and Ian Bannen. Who survives and who doesn't is almost abitrary by the film's end - you'll be more concerned about the progress of their rebuilt plane than the passengers themselves, especially at the heartpounding climax. Tragically, stunt pilot Paul Mantz was killed during these final scenes. Prolific novelist Elleston Trevor wrote the source novel, Lukas Heller the sharp screenplay.
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Citation: N.E. '
Salvia Divinorum Entities'.
The Entheogen Review. Vernal Equinox 1998;7(1):3.
I just recently had the opportunity to try
Salvia divinorum, and have found it to be the only entheogen that consistently propels me into entity-contact experiences after smoking.
First Attempt: Drank two quarts of kava drink (about a 1/2 cup powdered
waka-grade root). I decided that the relaxed state would be a good launchpad for the
Salvia divinorum. I tried to smoke 1.75 grams of dried leaf in a gravity-type bong (bucket bong). The bong was too much trouble to operate smoothly enough to smoke the
S. divinorum effectively, but I caught a glimpse of the experience.
Three entities, maybe more. One was a woman, and the others don't stand out as well. They said my name and then something like, 'What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here (now?).' Then they were like, 'Oh well, let's just do it!' and they began pulling and stretching me into three sheets of color, side-by-side; red, orange, and yellow. There was a unique vibration as it came on, and during the experience.
Second Attempt: Used a water pipe, trying to consume and hold as much smoke as possible. There was no pins-and-needles feeling like the first time. I felt two helping hands, two separate human-like (African American?) entities laid me down and helped lay the pipe and lighter down. They knew me and my name. There were also these entities (not human?) made of color doing something together and pushing me away from the area--like I wasn't supposed to be there or see what I was seeing. They kept trying to convince me to not pay attention (I felt as if something important was going on and I was being made to sit back in the corner so I wouldn't see too much).
Second bowl: Immediately after coming out of the trance. I'm in a different world and body, not clear. There is a woman in the room with me who is talking, but I can't remember her words. The whole place just starts spinning (gyroscopically?); spinning and turning inside-out, always at 90 degree angles to each other.
Doors open into rooms into more doors into more rooms; insanity--pure madness!!!! Will I ever get back to where I was? The room is alive; things that are inanimate and flat take on life. Two dimensional life--Disney-like where a whole house is a living being made up of lots of separate living parts.
I came out of the trance still unsure where I was or who I was and flung my bedroom door open screaming out loud, 'Is this it? Is this the real room?' I thought the whole place was going to turn inside-out again, but soon realized I was back in my usual mind-set and coming down very fast as one does from a good hit of smoked
Salvia divinorum. -- N.E.
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Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


UK police charge man with human trafficking offenses in Vietnamese truck deaths inquiry
LONDON (Reuters) - British police have charged a 23-year-old man from Northern Ireland with human trafficking offenses as part of their inquiry into the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found in the back of a truck near London last month.
The police said in a statement that Christopher Kennedy was arrested on Friday, Nov. 22, and that he is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court in England on Monday.
The Crown Prosecution Service has authorized charges of conspiracy to arrange or facilitate the travel of people with a view to exploitation and conspiracy to facilitate the commission of a breach of UK immigration law, it said.
The victims, 31 males and eight women, were found in a truck container on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex, not far from docks on the River Thames, on Oct. 23.
The truck driver, who is also from Northern Ireland, has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people, and money laundering.


The Merry Milk Makers company buys milk from farmers, packages it into attractive 1- and 2-Unit bottles, and then sells that milk to grocery stores so we can each start our day with delicious cereal and milk.
Since milk packaging is such a difficult business in which to make money, it is important to keep the costs as low as possible. Help Merry Milk Makers purchase the farmers' milk in the cheapest possible manner. The MMM company has an extraordinarily talented marketing department and knows precisely how much milk they need each day to package for their customers.
The company has contracts with several farmers from whom they may purchase milk, and each farmer has a (potentially) different price at which they sell milk to the packing plant. Of course, a herd of cows can only produce so much milk each day, so the farmers already know how much milk they will have available.
Each day, Merry Milk Makers can purchase an integer number of units of milk from each farmer, a number that is always less than or equal to the farmer's limit (and might be the entire production from that farmer, none of the production, or any integer in between).
Given:
calculate the minimum amount of money that Merry Milk Makers must spend to meet their daily need for milk.
Note: The total milk produced per day by the farmers will always be sufficient to meet the demands of the Merry Milk Makers even if the prices are high.
|
Line 1: |
Two integers, N and M. The first value, N, (0 <= N <= 2,000,000) is the amount of milk that Merry Milk Makers wants per day. The second, M, (0 <= M <= 5,000) is the number of farmers that they may buy from. |
|
Lines 2 through M+1: |
The next M lines each contain two integers: Pi and Ai. Pi (0 <= Pi <= 1,000) is price in cents that farmer i charges. Ai (0 <= Ai <= 2,000,000) is the amount of milk that farmer i can sell to Merry Milk Makers per day. |
100 5
5 20
9 40
3 10
8 80
6 30
100 5 -- MMM wants 100 units of milk from 5 farmers
5 20 -- Farmer 1 says, "I can sell you 20 units at 5 cents per unit"
9 40 etc.
3 10 -- Farmer 3 says, "I can sell you 10 units at 3 cents per unit"
8 80 etc.
6 30 -- Farmer 5 says, "I can sell you 30 units at 6 cents per unit"
A single line with a single integer that is the minimum cost that Merry Milk Makers must pay for one day's milk.
630
Here's how the MMM company spent only 630 cents to purchase 100 units of milk:
|
Price per unit |
Units available |
Units bought |
Price * # units |
Total cost |
Notes |
|
5 |
20 |
20 |
5*20 |
100 |
|
|
9 |
40 |
0 |
|
|
Bought no milk from farmer 2 |
|
3 |
10 |
10 |
3*10 |
30 |
|
|
8 |
80 |
40 |
8*40 |
320 |
Did not buy all 80 units! |
|
6 |
30 |
30 |
6*30 |
180 |
|
|
Total |
180 |
100 |
|
630 |
Cheapest total cost |


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Starting out on my Software Engineering course. Someday would like to be working somewhere in the Video Game Industry.


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Av: F/3.5; Tv:1/250; f:72mm (35mm-equiv: 454mm)
I have not done much post-editing for this - save for the cropping. And of course, the minor color and lighting adjustments with GIMP2 (and frankly, I think I should have left the lighting and color untouched - it would have given the snap a more authentic feel!)
What I like about this photo:
What I'd like to improve?


Videogames for a living or
living for videogames?
Sanvito Stefano
Class: 5^C
A.Y. 2015/2016
Brief videogame history
From 1974 to today
Creating videogames
- Audio Programmer
- Graphics Programmer
- A.I. Programmer
- Game Tester
Creating videogames
Indie games
Videogames out of necessity
Simulators
Videogames out of necessity
Videogame therapy
The end
Presentation and website created by Stefano Sanvito
Utilized framework and plug-ins:


This section is a workout in finding expectation and variance by conditioning.
Let $X$ have mean $\mu_X$ and SD $\sigma_X$. Let $Y$ have mean $\mu_Y$ and SD $\sigma_Y$. Now let $p$ be a number between 0 and 1, and define the random variable $M$ as follows.
$$ M = \begin{cases} X ~~ \text{with probability } p \\ Y ~~ \text{with probability } q = 1 - p \\ \end{cases} $$The distribution of $M$ is called a mixture of the distributions of $X$ and $Y$.
One way to express the definition of $M$ compactly is to let $I_H$ be the indicator of heads in one toss of a $p$-coin; then
$$ M = XI_H + Y(1 - I_H) $$To find the expectation of $M$ we can use the expression above, but here we will condition on $I_H$ because we can continue with that method to find $Var(M)$.
The distribution table of the random variable $E(M \mid I_H)$ is
| Value | $\mu_X$ | $\mu_Y$ |
|---|---|---|
| Probability | $p$ | $q$ |
The distribution table of the random variable $Var(M \mid I_H)$ is
| Value | $\sigma_X^2$ | $\sigma_Y^2$ |
|---|---|---|
| Probability | $p$ | $q$ |
So $$ E(M) ~ = ~ E(E(M \mid I_H)) ~ = ~ \mu_Xp + \mu_Yq $$ and
\begin{align*} Var(M) ~ &= ~ E(Var(M \mid I_H)) + Var(E(M \mid I_H)) \\ &= ~ \sigma_X^2p + \sigma_Y^2q + \big{(} \mu_X^2p + \mu_Y^2q - (E(M))^2 \big{)} \end{align*}This is true no matter what the distributions of $X$ and $Y$ are.
Notice also that the answer for the variance can be written as
$$ Var(M) ~ = ~ (\mu_X^2 + \sigma_X^2)p + (\mu_Y^2 + \sigma_Y^2)q - (E(M))^2 $$That's what you would have got had you first found $E(M^2)$ by conditioning on $I_H$.
We have managed to come quite far into the course without deriving the variance of the geometric distribution. Let's find it now by using the results about mixtures derived above.
Toss a coin that lands heads with probability $p$ and stop when you see a head. The number of tosses $X$ has the geometric $(p)$ distribution on $\{ 1, 2, \ldots \}$. Let $E(X) = \mu$ and $Var(X) = \sigma^2$. We will use conditioning to confirm that $E(X) = 1/p$ and also to find $Var(X)$.
Now
$$ X = \begin{cases} 1 ~~~ \text{with probability } p \\ 1 + X^* ~~~ \text{with probability } q = 1-p \end{cases} $$where $X^*$ is an independent copy of $X$. By the previous example,
$$ \mu ~ = ~ E(X) ~ = ~ 1p + (1+\mu)q $$So $\mu = 1/p$ as we have known for some time.
By the variance formula of the previous example,
$$ \sigma^2 = Var(X) = 0^2p + \sigma^2q + \big{(}1^2p + (1+\frac{1}{p})^2q - \frac{1}{p^2}\big{)} $$So $$ \sigma^2p ~ = ~ \frac{p^3 + (p+1)^2q - 1}{p^2} ~ = ~ \frac{p^3 + (1+p)(1-p^2) - 1}{p^2} ~ = ~ \frac{p(1-p)}{p^2} $$ and so $Var(X) = \sigma = q/p^2$.
Let $M$ be normal $(\mu, \sigma_M^2)$, and given $M = m$, let $X$ be normal $(m, \sigma_X^2)$.
Then $$ E(X \mid M) ~ = ~ M, ~~~~~~ Var(X \mid M) ~ = ~ \sigma_X^2 $$
Notice that the conditional variance is a constant; it is the same no matter what the value of $M$ turns out to be.
So $E(X) = E(M) = \mu$ and $$ Var(X) ~ = ~ E(\sigma_X^2) + Var(M) ~ = ~ \sigma_X^2 + \sigma_M^2 $$
Let $N$ be a random variable with values $0, 1, 2, \ldots$, mean $\mu_N$, and SD $\sigma_N$. Let $X_1, X_2, \ldots $ be i.i.d. with mean $\mu_X$ and SD $\sigma_X$, independent of $N$.
Define the random sum $S_N$ as $$ S_N = \begin{cases} 0 ~~ \text{if } N = 0 \\ X_1 + X_2 + \cdots + X_n ~~ \text{if } N = n > 0 \end{cases} $$
Then as we have seen before, $E(S_N \mid N = n) = n\mu_X$ for all $n$ (including $n = 0$) and so
$$ E(S_N \mid N) ~ = ~ N\mu_X $$Also $$ Var(S_N \mid N) ~ = ~ N\sigma_X^2 $$ So $$ E(S_N) ~ = ~ E(N\mu_X) ~ = ~ \mu_XE(N) ~ = ~ \mu_N\mu_X $$
This is consistent with intuition: you expect to be adding $\mu_N$ i.i.d. random variables, each with mean $\mu_X$. For the variance, intuition needs some guidance.
$$ Var(S_N) ~ = ~ E(N\sigma_X^2) + Var(N\mu_X) ~ = ~ \mu_N\sigma_X^2 + \mu_X^2\sigma_N^2 $$


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WAKE! For the Sun behind yon Eastern height
Has chased the Session of the Stars from Night;
And to the field of Heav’n ascending, strikes
The Sulta´n’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.
Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
“When all the Temple is prepared within,
Why lags the drowsy Worshipper outside?”
And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before
The Tavern shouted—“Open then the Door!
You know how little while we have to stay,
And, once departed, may return no more.”
Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose,
And Jamshy´d’s Sev’n-ring’d Cup where no one knows;
But still a Ruby gushes from the Vine,
And many a Garden by the Water blows.
And David’s lips are lockt; but in divine
High-piping Pe´hlevi, with “Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red Wine!”—the Nightingale cries to the Rose
That sallow cheek of hers to incarnadine.
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing.
Whether at Naisha´pu´r or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Morning a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
And this first Summer month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshy´d and Kaikoba´d away.
Well, let it take them! What have we to do
With Kaikoba´d the Great, or Kaikhosru´?
Let Rustum cry “To Battle!” as he likes,
Or Ha´tim Tai “To supper!”—heed not you.
With me along the strip of Herbage strown
That just divides the desert from the sown,
Where name of Slave and Sulta´n is forgot—
And Peace to Ma´hmu´d on his golden Throne!
Here with a little Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet’s Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Promise go,
Nor heed the music of a distant Drum!
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present Life away to win—
What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall
Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!
Look to the blowing Rose about us—“Lo,
Laughing,” she says, “into the world I blow,
At once the silken tassel of my Purse
Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.”
For those who husbanded the Golden grain,
And those who flung it to the winds like Rain,
Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn’d
As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes—or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face,
Lighting a little hour or two—was gone.
Think, in this batter’d Caravanserai
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sulta´n after Sulta´n with his Pomp
Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The Courts where Jamshy´d gloried and drank deep:
And Bahra´m, that great Hunter—the Wild Ass
Stamps o’er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.
The Palace that to Heav’n his pillars threw,
And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew—
I saw the solitary Ringdove there,
And “Coo, coo, coo,” she cried; and “Coo, coo, coo.”
Ah, my Belove´d, fill the Cup that clears
TO-DAY of past Regret and Future Fears:
To-morrow!—Why, To-morrow I may be
Myself with Yesterday’s Sev’n thousand Years.
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best
That from his Vintage rolling Time has prest,
Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to rest.
And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom,
Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth
Descend—ourselves to make a Couch—for whom?
I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
And this delightful Herb whose living Green
Fledges the River’s Lip on which we lean—
Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows
From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen!
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!
Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzi´n from the Tower of Darkness cries,
“Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!”
Another Voice, when I am sleeping, cries,
“The Flower should open with the Morning skies.”
And a retreating Whisper, as I wake—
“The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.”

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same door as in I went.
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap’d—
“I came like Water, and like Wind I go.”
Into this Universe, and Why not knowing
Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;
And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,
I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
What, without asking, hither hurried Whence?
And, without asking, Whither hurried hence!
Ah, contrite Heav’n endowed us with the Vine
To drug the memory of that insolence!
Up from Earth’s Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate;
And many Knots unravel’d by the Road;
But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
There was the Door to which I found no Key:
There was the Veil through which I could not see:
Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE
There was—and then no more of THEE and ME.
Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn
In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn;
Nor Heaven, with those eternal Signs reveal’d
And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn.
Then of the THEE IN ME who works behind
The Veil of Universe I cried to find
A Lamp to guide me through the Darkness; and
Something then said—“An Understanding blind.”
Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn
I lean’d, the secret Well of Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur’d—“While you live,
Drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return.”
I think the Vessel, that with fugitive
Articulation answer’d, once did live,
And drink; and that impassive Lip I kiss’d,
How many Kisses might it take—and give!
For I remember stopping by the way
To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay:
And with its all-obliterated Tongue
It murmur’d—“Gently, Brother, gently, pray!”
For has not such a Story from of Old
Down Man’s successive generations roll’d
Of such a clod of saturated Earth
Cast by the Maker into Human mould?
And not a drop that from our Cups we throw
On the parcht herbage, but may steal below
To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye
There hidden—far beneath, and long ago.
As then the Tulip for her wonted sup
Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her chalice up,
Do you, twin offspring of the soil, till Heav’n
To Earth invert you like an empty Cup.

So when at last the Angel of the Drink
Of Darkness finds you by the river-brink,
And, proffering his Cup, invites your Soul
Forth to your Lips to quaff it—do not shrink.
And fear not lest Existence closing your
Account, should lose, or know the type no more;
The Eternal Sa´kì from that Bowl has pour’d
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long long while the World shall last,
Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
As much as Ocean of a pebble-cast.
One Moment in Annihilation’s Waste,
One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste—
The Stars are setting, and the Caravan
Draws to the Dawn of Nothing—Oh make haste.
Would you that spangle of Existence spend
About THE SECRET—quick about it, Friend!
A Hair, they say, divides the False and True—
And upon what, prithee, does Life depend?
A Hair, they say, divides the False and True;
Yes; and a single Alif were the clue—
Could you but find it—to the Treasure-house,
And peradventure to THE MASTER too;
Whose secret Presence, through Creation’s veins
Running, Quicksilver-like eludes your pains;
Taking all shapes from Ma´h to Ma´hi; and
They change and perish all-but He remains;
A moment guess’d—then back behind the Fold
Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll’d
Which, for the Pastime of Eternity,
He does Himself contrive, enact, behold.

Oh, plagued no more with Human or Divine,
To-morrow’s tangle to itself resign,
And lose your fingers in the tresses of
The Cypress-slender Minister of Wine.
Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and dispute;
Better be merry with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
You know, my Friends, how bravely in my House
For a new Marriage I did make Carouse;
Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,
And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.
For “IS” and “IS-NOT” though with Rule and Line
And “UP-AND-DOWN” by Logic I define,
Of all that one should care to fathom, I
Was never deep in anything but—Wine.
Ah, but my Computations, People say,
Have squared the Year to human compass, eh?
If so, by striking from the Calendar
Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday.
And lately, by the Tavern Door agape,
Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape
Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and
He bid me taste of it; and ’twas—the Grape!
The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice
Life’s leaden metal into Gold transmute:
The mighty Mahmu´d, Allah-breathing Lord,
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare
Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare?
A Blessing, we should use it, should we not?
And if a Curse—why, then, Who set it there?
I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must,
Scared by some After-reckoning ta’en on trust,
Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink,
When the frail Cup is crumbled into Dust!
If but the Vine and Love-abjuring Band
Are in the Prophet’s Paradise to stand,
Alack, I doubt the Prophet’s Paradise
Were empty as the hollow of one’s Hand.
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain—This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;
The Flower that once is blown for ever dies.
Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who
Before us pass’d the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the Road,
Which to discover we must travel too.
The Revelations of Devout and Learn’d
Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn’d,
Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep
They told their fellows, and to Sleep return’d.
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Is’t not a Shame—is’t not a Shame for him
So long in this Clay Suburb to abide?
But that is but a Tent wherein may rest
A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest;
The Sulta´n rises, and the dark Ferra´sh
Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And after many days my Soul return’d,
And said, “Behold, Myself am Heav’n and Hell:”
Heav’n but the Vision of fulfill’d Desire,
And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire,
Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,
So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
We are no other than a moving row
Of visionary Shapes that come and go
Round with this Sun-illumin’d Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;
Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss’d you down into the Field,
He knows about it all—HE knows—HE knows!
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
For let Philosopher and Doctor preach
Of what they will, and what they will not—each
Is but one Link in an eternal Chain
That none can slip, nor break, nor over-reach.
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop’d we live and die,
Lift not your hands to It for help—for It
As impotently rolls as you or I.
With Earth’s first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And there of the Last Harvest sow’d the Seed:
And the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
YESTERDAY This Day’s Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW’S Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
I tell you this—When, started from the Goal,
Over the flaming shoulders of the Foal
Of Heav’n Parwi´n and Mushtari they flung,
In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul.
The Vine had struck a fibre: which about
If clings my being—let the Dervish flout;
Of my Base metal may be filed a Key,
That shall unlock the Door he howls without.
And this I know: whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite,
One Flash of It within the Tavern caught
Better than in the Temple lost outright.
What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke
A conscious Something to resent the yoke
Of unpermitted Pleasure, under pain
Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke!
What! from his helpless Creature be repaid
Pure Gold for what he lent us dross-allay’d
Sue for a Debt we never did contract,
And cannot answer—Oh the sorry trade!
Nay, but, for terror of his wrathful Face,
I swear I will not call Injustice Grace;
Not one Good Fellow of the Tavern but
Would kick so poor a Coward from the place.
Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round
Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!
Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev’n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin the Face of wretched Man
Is black with—Man’s Forgiveness give—and take!
As under cover of departing Day
Slunk hunger-stricken Ramaza´n away,
Once more within the Potter’s house alone
I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.
And once again there gather’d a scarce heard
Whisper among them; as it were, the stirr’d
Ashes of some all but extinguisht Tongue,
Which mine ear kindled into living Word.
Said one among them—“Surely not in vain
My substance from the common Earth was ta’en
That he who subtly wrought me into Shape
Should stamp me back to shapeless Earth again?”
Another said—“Why, ne’er a peevish Boy
Would break the Cup from which he drank in Joy;
Shall He that of His own free Fancy made
The Vessel, in an after-rage destroy!”
None answer’d this; but after silence spake
Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make;
“They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?”
Thus with the Dead as with the Living, What?
And Why? so ready, but the Wherefor not,
One on a sudden peevishly exclaim’d,
“Which is the Potter, pray, and which the Pot?”
Said one—“Folks of a surly Master tell,
And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell;
They talk of some sharp Trial of us—Pish!
He’s a Good Fellow, and ’twill all be well.”
“Well,” said another, “Whoso will, let try,
My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry:
But fill me with the old familiar Juice,
Methinks I might recover by and by.”
So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,
One spied the little Crescent all were seeking:
And then they jogg’d each other, “Brother! Brother!
Now for the Porter’s shoulder-knot a-creaking!”
Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide,
And wash my Body whence the Life has died,
And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,
By some not unfrequented Garden-side.
Whither resorting from the vernal Heat
Shall Old Acquaintance Old Acquaintance greet,
Under the Branch that leans above the Wall
To shed his Blossom over head and feet.
Then ev’n my buried Ashes such a snare
Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air
As not a True-believer passing by
But shall be overtaken unaware.
Indeed the Idols I have loved so long
Have done my credit in Men’s eyes much wrong:
Have drown’d my Glory in a shallow Cup
And sold my Reputation for a Song.
Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before
I swore—but was I sober when I swore?
And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand
My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
And much as Wine has play’d the Infidel,
And robb’d me of my Robe of Honour—Well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the ware they sell.
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth’s sweet-scented manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the branches sang,
Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield
One glimpse—if dimly, yet indeed, reveal’d,
Toward which the fainting Traveller might spring,
As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
Oh if the World were but to re-create,
That we might catch ere closed the Book of Fate,
And make The Writer on a fairer leaf
Inscribe our names, or quite obliterate!
Better, oh better, cancel from the Scroll
Of Universe one luckless Human Soul,
Than drop by drop enlarge the Flood that rolls
Hoarser with Anguish as the Ages roll.
Ah Love! could you and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits—and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!
But see! The rising Moon of Heav’n again
Looks for us, Sweet-heart, through the quivering Plane:
How oft hereafter rising will she look
Among those leaves—for one of us in vain!
And when Yourself with silver Foot shall pass
Among the Guests Star-scatter’d on the Grass,
And in your joyous errand reach the spot
Where I made One—turn down an empty Glass!


TOP 10 SONGS OF ALL TIME
By number of times sung
"Build My Life" by Housefires comes out on top: we've sung it 25 times since September 2017! "Glorious Day" from Passion isn't far behind with 21 plays. "Spirit Move" by Bethel rounds out the top 3 with 18 plays.
"Good Grace" from Hillsong UNITED manages to crack the top ten with 12 plays - an impressive number given that it's the most recent song on this list: it was released in 2019!
TOP 10 SONGS BY EVENT
EXP NGHT (2018 - Present)
Ever since EXP NGHT started up in 2018, it's been bringing all the hype with songs like "This is Living", "Wake", and "Real Love" by Hillsong Young & Free.
That isn't to say we don't have our quieter and contemplative moments, though! Songs like "Spirit Move" and "Reckless Love" are also clear favourites.
YA Worship (2018 - Present)
YA Worship nights tend to be a bit more on the chill side, compared to EXP NGHT.
Once again, "Good Grace" has strong representation when it comes to being sung at YA Worship nights with 8 plays in total. "Build My Life" is a steadfast favourite, coming in with 7 plays, right behind our top song.
Choose an event!
Click on the choices below to see the most popular songs by event.
* Numbers do not account for spontaneous songs or songs that were cut or changed last-minute. But one-off events like Team Night, Family Ministries Conference, and Cambodia are included in "All events".


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This town in the Languedoc region is famous for the production of muscat wine. It lies just 3nm NE of Sete.
Position 43° 25'46"N, 03° 46'36"E (entrance to the channel)
The arrivals quay is to port in the narrow channel between the outer and inner parts of the harbour.
Do not attempt to enter in easterly winds of F7 or more.
Last updated March 2015.


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This demo represents using the branch in swap mode. This works best with shift_larger_widgets_down set to "false". However, smaller widgets do not displace larger ones.


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{% extends "base.html" %} {% load wagtailcore_tags event_tags %} ` {% block title %}UWCS | Events overview {% endblock %} {% block content %} {{ self.title }} {% sidebar show_sponsor=True display_first=True show_archive_link=True %} {% if weeks %} {% for week in weeks %} Week beginning {{ week.0.start|first_monday|date:'jS F Y' }} {% for event in week %} {{ event.title }} {% if event.is_ongoing %} Event is in progress {% elif event.cancelled %} Event has been cancelled {% endif %} {% if event.signup_limit > 0 %} Signups: {{ event.signups.count }}/{{ event.signup_limit }} {% endif %} {{ event.start|date:'D jS F H:i' }} - {{ event.finish|date:'D jS F H:i' }} Location: {{ event.location }} {{ event.description }} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} {% else %} There are no upcoming events {% endif %} {% endblock content %}
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