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Buddhacarita
By Aśvaghoṣa
Creation of machine-readable version: Peter Schreiner
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Title: The Buddhacarita: Or, Acts of the Buddha. Part I -- Sanskrit Text
Editor: E. H. Johnston
Publisher: Baptist Mission Press
Place of Publication: Calcutta
Series: Panjab University Oriental Publications No. 31
Title: The Buddha--Karita or Live of Buddha by Asvaghosha, Indian poet of the early second century after Christ. Sanskrit text, edited from a Devanagari and two Nepalese manuscripts with variant readings, a preface, notes and in index of names.
Editor: Edward B. Cowell
Place of Publication: Amsterdam
Series: Anecdota Oxoniensia, Aryan Series,Part VII
Note: First published in Oxford, 1893
The text of the Johnston edition was transliterated on the basis of a cursory reading; the typed input was compared with the edition by Cowell, partly as a routine of proof--reading, partly in order to be able to add variant readings from the older edition. (The conventions for inputting variants are described below.) Proof--reading and insertion of variants was done "manually" and I (Peter Schreiner) do not guarantee completeness. The additional passages in Cowell at the beginning of the poem were not transliterated completely, and the additional chapters at the end were not transliterated at all.
The published edition from which this e-text was transcribed is printed in the Devanāgarī script. The electronic text below is in a lossless transliteration using the Latin alphabet. The transliteration scheme used is the IAST (The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration). IAST differs in small ways from ISO 15919, but is preferred by most working Sanskrit scholars. Conversion of this file to ISO 15919 can be achieved by performing the following replacements throughout the file: ṛ -> r̥ and ṃ -> ṁ
Annotations, remarks etc. by the editor of the transliteration are enclosed in square brackets.
Annotations by the editor(s) of the edition which served as source of the transliteration (e..g. conjectures, markers for lacunae etc.) which are part of the printed edition are enclosed in pointed parentheses.
Colophons which are part of the printed edition are enclosed by double square brackets.
Sandhi
The "principle of transliteration" has been that the input format should reproduce the letters of the printed text as closely as possible, i.e., that one types what one sees. However, markers are added (in the transliteration) to what is printed (in Devanāgarī) to indicate that fact that a printed (and consequently typed) letter has undergone some sandhi change.
A sandhi change is defined with regard to the "pausa form" of a word, i..e. the form a word would take at the end of a line or out of context (vigraha). Note that this pausa form need not be identical with the stem which would be entered in a dictionary.
Thus, (final and initial) consonants which have undergone a sandhi change in the text are marked by "*". Similarly, final vowels which have changed due to sandhi are marked by "*" (e.g., "āsīd* rājā nalo* nāma").
In case of vowel sandhi the sandhi is dissolved and marked (e.g., na*asti, ca*eva). Similarly, avagraha is reconstituted, the originally omitted initial "a" being marked as sandhi vowel (e.g., devo* *api).
In some special cases the marking of sandhi has to be extended to include some disambiguating information:
-- to half--vowels which substitute for a long vowel the diacritic for "long vowel" (-) is added (e.g., devy-* api);
-- if final -ā in sandhi does not stand for -āḥ (with visarga), then the original vowel which has been substituted by the -ā is added (e.g., lokae* eva, where "loka eva" is printed, which is the sandhi form for "loke eva").
In case of "double sandhi" the sandhi is marked by double "**", e.g., sa**eva in case of "saiva" instead of "sa* eva").
Blank is inserted between words wherever this is possible in transliteration (though not necessarily in Devanāgarī), e.g., "hy* api", "nalo* *api".
Another feature which exceeds what might be expected from a straightforward transliteration is the separation of nominal compounds. Separation of compounds is marked by inserting + between the members of a compound (e.g., brahma+purāṇa, buddha+carita). In case of sandhi, the + functions also as sa.mdhi--marker, i..e. no additional sandhi--marker is added (e.g., tapo+vane, mahā+ātmanaḥ).
Separation of compounds is restricted to nominal compounds (including upapāda--compounds like ura+ga, go+pī) and does not include grammatical analysis. For details, special cases etc. see the introduction to Sanskrit Indices and Text of the Brahmapurāṇa, Wiesbaden 1987, p. xvi--xvii, by P. Schreiner and R. So"hnen.
Variae lectiones
The beginning of the passage for which a variant exists is marked by opening parenthesis. In deciding about the extension of the text thus marked, the changes generated for the text format had to be taken into consideration. This meant that occasionally words which are identical in the base text and in the variant are included in the parentheses, since in the text format (sa.mhita) the beginning of a variant could not be printed if that word is joined to the preceding word in vowel sandhi. Thus we write "... (mahā+ātmā Xmahā+puruṣaḥ) ...", even though the "mahā+" is identical in both versions.
The beginning of the variant is marked by a siglum, viz. by a single capital letter (capital letters are used exclusively for that purpose in the transliteration). Several sigla are separated by a comma (no blank) -- which does not occur in this file of course. There is no blank between the siglum and the variant.
If there are several variants for the same passage of the base text, they are listed sequentially. The variant (or the last variant if there is more than one) is closed by the closing parenthesis. The blank before the next word is considered to belong to the variant and is put inside the parentheses. The continuation of the base text follows without intermediate blank.
Schematic pattern:
(... A... )...
(... A,B... )...
(... A... B... )...
Interpolations
Interpolations are treated as "variants without base text", i..e. siglum follows immediately upon the opening parenthesis. The siglum is repeated before the closing parenthesis which marks the end of the interpolation. This allows for the input of variants within interpolations which are attested in more than one source.
Long interpolations may be entered as a sequence of separate interpolations (e.g., verse by verse). Interpolated lines are (may be) marked by "X" at the beginning of the line (which is meant to mark "star"--passages as e.g., in the criticial edition of the MBh).
Omissions
Passages from the base text which are omitted in any of the variant texts are marked by double parentheses plus siglum enclosing the omitted passage (which may also be individual words).
Schematic patterns:
((S... S))
... ((S... S))...
The full reference (chapter and verse) is given at the end of the verse to which it refers. (While transliterating the full reference needs to be typed only for the first verse of each chapter.) The reference consists of two figures separated by a (single) dot. The first number refers to the chapter, the second number refers to the verse--number within the chapter.
The beginning of references is marked by double exclamation mark (i..e. daṇḍa) and the end is marked by a single exclamation mark. Always after a reference a new line begins.
The input and processing of the transliterated text has been done with TUSTEP, the Tuebingen System of Text--Processing Programs.
The TUSTEP format includes a reference number in front of every record; this machine reference has been calculated in such a way that it agrees with the textual reference. In the ASCII--format of the input file this machine reference is lost.
Some of the tools for textual analysis which can be produced from the input format have been published for the Brahmapurāṇa: Peter Schreiner, Renate Soehnen: Sanskrit Indices and Text of the Brahmapurāṇa. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1987.
The following list gives a survey of programs (German names in parentheses) developed for the processing of our input:
Any of the transliterated versions (i..e. ed. Johnston or ed. Cowell) can be extracted (GRUNDTEXTKOP, VARTEXTKOP)
The machine references in TUSTEP are calculated from the references in the text (REFRECHNEN).
The text format (i..e. the conventionally transliterated text without markers; with compounds and sandhis reconstituted) can be generated (TEXTFORM). This version can be processed for output in Devanāgarī with programs which work on the basis of transliterated input (e.g., TeX).
The pausa format of the text is generated by changing all the characters marked by * or + according to the sandhi rules of Sanskrit grammar. Each word appears in the phonetic form which it would assume at the end of a line (e.g., ādibhir*, ādibhiṣ*, ādibhiś*, ādhibhis* all become ādibhiḥ). Members of compounds are separated. (PAUSAFORM)
-- KWIC-Index (from modified input format)
-- Pāda-Index (from modified text format) -- wordforms (from pausa format)
-- reverse index of wordforms (from pausa format)
All indexes are sorted according to the Devanāgarī alphabet and may include frequencies (absolute and relative) and formatting commands for the output.
Those interested in any version or output other than the transliterated input format with variants may contact:
Peter Schreiner, Indologisches Seminar, Universität Zürich, Rämistr. 68, CH--8001 Zürich, Switzerland.
I would appreciate if those who in using this electronic text change it or add to it would inform me about their views and intentions and methods and results; those who use this text for their research while preparing a publication should feel morally obliged to send me an offprint. (I hope I am not asking too much!)
2009-02-01: Completed the first TEI version of this text between October 1989 and February 1990, with ransliteration, entry of variants; cursory proof--reading. By Peter Schreiner
2017-01-14: Updated the file to conform with the SARIT guidelines. By Dominik Wujastyk
2017-01-15Added div-, head-. trailer, and lg-elements. Wrapped notes in note-elements and added an xml:lang-attribute. By https://viaf.org/viaf/308710472/
1: prathamaḥ sargaḥ |1|
2: dvitīyaḥ sargaḥ |2|
3: tṛtīyaḥ sargaḥ |3|
4: caturthaḥ sargaḥ |4|
5: pañcamaḥ sargaḥ |5|
6: ṣaṣṭhaḥ sargaḥ |6|
7: saptamaḥ sargaḥ |7|
8: aṣṭamaḥ sargaḥ |8|
9: navamaḥ sargaḥ |9|
10: daśamaḥ sargaḥ |10|
11: ekā+daśaḥ sargaḥ |11|
12: dvā+daśaḥ sargaḥ |12|
13: trayo+daśaḥ sargaḥ |13|
14: caturdaśaḥ sargaḥ |14|

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Todd Gingrich
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Todd Gingrich is a Physics of Living Systems Fellow at MIT in the Department of Physics. He is interested in statistical fluctuations in biophysical dynamical processes. In particular, he studies fluctuations away from the mean dynamical behavior in out-of-equilibrium driven processes. He recently accepted an assistant professorship in Northwestern's Department of Chemistry to study the out-of-equilibrium chemical kinetics, starting in Summer 2018.
With his Hertz Foundation Fellowship, Todd completed his PhD in chemistry at UC Berkeley, supervised by Professor Phill Geissler. During his graduate work, he was recognized as the top first year physical chemistry graduate student with the Dan Lucas Memorial Book Prize and received the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award for his work teaching undergraduate statistical mechanics. Todd's work on large deviations and dynamics phase transitions appeared in Physical Review Letters, PNAS, and others. Prior to studying at Berkeley, he obtained a BS in chemistry, with honors, from the California Institute of Technology. At Caltech, Todd studied the photocatalytic behavior of mixed metal oxides with Professor Nate Lewis and received the Schuster Prize for undergraduate chemistry research. Todd also received a MSc in theoretical chemistry from University College, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar with Dr. Mark Wilson.
Thesis:
2015 - Two Paths Diverged: Exploring Trajectories, Protocols, and Dynamic Phases
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Bharat Ram (Mahesh Babu) has an appetite for knowledge and studies in Oxford University, London pursuing multiple degrees. The sudden demise of his father and Chief Minister of the state Raghava (R. Sarath Kumar) lands him in a political chaos. The party chief and a close friend of his father, Varada Rajulu (Prakash Raj) requests Bharat to take up the place of his father. Bharat initially resists, but eventually agrees to become the next Chief Minister. What happens next forms the crux of the story.
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Apart from all these issues, the film discusses a lot of real world problems. The rule breaking citizens, education as a business, Factionists and hooligans affecting politics, the villages and farmers being ignored, the TRP frenzy media, power hungry politicians, nepotism in politics etc. Above all the soul of the film is the message, 'A true gentleman has to abide by his words.
This is undoubtedly the career best performance of Mahesh Babu. His earlier films like Srimanthudu, Brahmotsavam, Spyder etc had a linear characterization for majority of the movie. But 'Bharat Ane Nenu' has a character that has to evolve with time. He is a simple, down to earth youngster at the beginning of the movie. He learns and understands circumstances faster while correcting his mistakes. The performance of Mahesh in media conference scene is exceptional. Kaira Advani had a limited role, but she gave a good performance. Prakash Raj had a role with a scope for performance and he gave another remarkable performance. The other actors have done justice to their roles.
Koratala Siva delivers another simple story with a powerful execution. The story structure is linear without unnecessary twists and turns. The characterization of hero is elevated through morals and values instead of regular action and punch dialogues. The low angle shots and closeups are extraordinary. The production values of D.V.V. Danayya are great. The film looks classy with rich visuals. The art design is remarkable.
The assembly and temple sets gave a rich look and ambiance. The Music by Devi Sri Prasad is already successful, and the BGM too doesn't disappoint. Stunts are good, but nothing great about them.
The screenplay and dialogues provide the elevation to enhance the stunts. Editing is fine, but the placement of scenes could have been better. Cinematography by Ravi K. Chandran and Tirru is remarkable. The lighting in some scenes is outstanding.


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It is a common question – I see in Lync Response Groups the option to use a pre-configured hour set but I don't see an interface to create them…how do I add them to Response Groups? Creating pre-configured hours for Business Hours is convenient when creating multiple Response Groups and a requirement when you want to set Holiday Hours. The trick – Lync Management Shell is required.
The process is not difficult and requires limited skills to complete. We start by building a variable of dates and times and then apply the variable to a new Hours of Business or Holiday object.
$weekday = New-CsRgsTimeRange -Name "Weekday Hours" -OpenTime "8:00" -CloseTime "17:00"
As we can see, the options listed indicate the application pool where we are creating the object. The Name is the display name as we would see it when creating the Response Group; the MondayHours1, TuesdayHours1, etc. indicate the time block we are associating the previously defined variable. There is also a '2' option for all days – helpful if your day is split such as open 8am – noon, closed for one hour, and then open from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.
$newyearsDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "1/2/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "1/3/2012 12: 00 AM" -Name "New Year's Day"
$civilRightsDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "1/16/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "1/17/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Civil Rights Day "
$presidentsDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "2/20/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "2/21/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "President's Day"
$memorialDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "5/28/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "5/29/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Memorial Day"
$independenceDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "7/4/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "7/5/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Independence Day"
$laborDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "9/3/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "9/4/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Labor Day"
$columbusDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "10/8/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "10/9/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Columbus Day"
$veteransDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "11/12/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "11/13/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Veteran's Day"
$thanksgivingDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "11/22/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "11/24/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Thanksgiving Day"
$christmasEve = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "12/24/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "12/25/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Christmas Eve"
$christmasDay = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "12/25/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "12/26/2012 12:00 AM" -Name "Christmas Day"
In this command you can see we are calling the variable previously set and adding them to the holiday set list named 2012 Holidays.
By creating the Business and Holiday sets we can now reference them when creating or modifying a Response Group. It also means, with a simply update to either set all Response Groups referencing the time and date sets take on the new schedule (preventing us from needing to update all Response Groups one-by-one which would be a tedious task if there were numerous Response Groups).
To modify a holiday set we would set a variable and then apply the variable to the holiday set. This is a multiple step process and starts with defining the variables.
$y = Get-CsRgsHolidaySet -Identity "service:ApplicationServer:lyncpool.domain.com" -Name "2012 Holidays"
$newyearsEve = New-CsRgsHoliday -StartDate "12/31/2012 12:00 AM" -EndDate "1/1/2013 12: 00 AM" -Name "New Year's Eve"
The first variable calls the Holiday Set in we wish to modify. The second variable defines the holiday times just as we did when we were creating the holiday set originally (in this case we decided to be closed the day before New Years 2013 or December 31, 2012). We then build the command and commit it using the last two PowerShell statements.


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SRINAGAR: Authorities on Saturday disallowed the executive council meeting called by Syed Ali Geelani-led Hurriyat Conference at Hyderpora headquarters.
The amalgam in a statement said police during raid arrested several leaders including the chief spokesperson Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar, Mohammad Ashraf Laya, Bilal Sidiqee and detained many others in police stations.
"A posse of police personnel were posted outside Geelani's residence at Hyderpora where the resistance leaders from various constituent parties were to hold a meeting. Forces did not allow anybody to enter the residence," the spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, Hurriyat while lashing out at authorities said they are "playing with fire". "The despotic attitude is the root cause of uncertainty and horrendous situations in state," it said.
Terming the curbs as "unjustified and unconstitutional", Hurriyat said the "anti-Kashmiri" state resorted to its usual tactic of curbing the leadership and gagging voices.
He said the government once again showed that Kashmir is ruled by the forces' might. "The restrictions are open demonstration of state terrorism," Hurriyat said, adding, the ''Battle of Ideas' and all other slogans and tall claims proved fraud and hoax.


Is there any aptitude test for school-going kids, which can help parents decide what is the best career path for the child? At what age can such tests be taken? Can the aptitude clearly lay down an appropriate career like medical, engineering, management, civil services, etc? Or is the test general in nature? Also, apropos the article on homeopathy in May issue, what is the duration of BHMS? What is the maximum age at which one can take admission to a BHMS course?
Yes, school students are being administered a psychometric test, to help them realize their true potential. In classes IX and X, usually the level at which schools and counseling groups start administrating the test, the objective is to guide a student about the stream he should choose after class X, so that a student who is just not fit for sciences and is under peer and family influence, does not end up taking physics or biology that will ruin his studies. In class XI and XII the psychometric test guides a student about what types of career/jobs is the person suited for. The tests ask a whole lot of questions, and accordingly assess a person's interest, aptitude and personality. They go a step ahead in preparing a road map for students – that is, what subject they should pursue after XII to fulfill their dream. These tests, rather than pinpointing a specific career, point a range of allied fields one can take up. Say, creative writing, journalism, advertising and electronic media are good options for those with strong linguistic skills.
Regarding your second question, the bachelor's course in homeopathy is a 5 ½ year course, including one-year internship.
I have appeared for the standard X Board exams and hope to study science and clear the MBBS entrance exam. Please tell me how to prepare for the various prestigious medical entrance exams. Should I join a NEET preparatory coaching class?
Start preparing for the medical entrance examination right after standard X. you need to equip yourself with the textbooks of classes XI and XII, a few extra theory books (for that extra edge)and MCQ (multiple choice questions) books. Students worry about studying simultaneously for medicine and the Board exams will harm their Board results. These fears are unfounded. After all, mastering the CBSE course means that you have cracked 70 to 80 per cent of the NEET. It is only the remaining 20 to 30 per cent that requires extra work through the help of additional books. So how do you go about preparing for a medical entrance exam? Well, choose a topic. Read about it in the CBSE textbook. Then study the topic with the help of additional theory books to enlarge your knowledge base.
At the end of the exercise, solve the multiple choice questions. Even if you have perfected the standard XI fundamentals, revise them during the summer holidays preceding class XII and during all holidays. This will reduce the pressure in the crucial last one month between the class XII exams and the NEET. Don't start off with the additional theory books. Self-study is advocated to avoid wastage of time and energy. In case you feel the need for extra coaching either through regular class or correspondence, choose the institute with care and caution. Enquire about the institute's faculty and performance and speak to former and current students of that institute.
Adopt a systematic and rigorous study regime. What is needed is a virtual combing operation. Leave nothing to doubt or luck. Leave no topic untouched and no MCQ unsolved.


SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shares of Asian video game companies such as Tencent Holdings <0700.HK>, Nexon <3659.T> and Nintendo <7974.T> tumbled on Wednesday due to concerns over delays in new games releases in China, as Beijing halted approvals for game licenses.
Many firms have been awaiting games sales licenses since March after Beijing reformed and reorganized the government bodies that oversee the sectors earlier this year, industry executives told Reuters on Tuesday.
China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
Chinese technology giant Tencent led the losses, shedding nearly 4 percent and extending a 3.4 percent drop a day earlier, after Chinese regulators blocked the sale of one of its blockbuster titles, "Monster Hunter: World."
Shares of Nexon fell more than 8 percent while Japan's Square Enix <9684.T> and Nintendo fell about 5 percent and 4 percent, respectively.
Shares of Japan's Capcom Co Ltd <9697.T>, which developed "Monster Hunter: World," slid more than 5 percent.


Chime In! Music With a Mission, Inc. members and Board of Directors are grateful to the many patrons who join us for our events and for those who provide financial support.
We are also indebted to several organizations for their support.
Argall Hull grew up in the Bellamy-Ferriday House at the head of the green in Bethlehem in the late 1800s. Upon his death in 1977. the First Church of Bethlehem became the beneficiary of his bequest. The Anna & Argall Hull Fund is administered by the Community Foundation of New Haven and the First Church of Bethlehem distributes the proceeds as Grants to local organizations.
For many years, Anna & Argall Hull Fund grants to the Handbell Choirs of First Church, and now to Chime In! Music With a Mission, have provided scholarships for ringers to attend the Handbell Musicians of America Area 1 Handbell Festival and funds to assist in the purchase of our digital stage piano.
The Bethlehem Community Fund is a local organization dedicated to providing support for individuals, families, and organizations in Bethlehem, Connecticut.
In 2014, the Fund provided a grant to Chime In! for the purpose of purchasing new foam for our ringing tables to replace the 20-year-old pads.
This grant will provide a safe and musically superior ringing surface for many years to come.
The Connecticut Community Foundation raises and manages funds for charitable organizations throughout north western Connecticut.
Chime In! participates in the annual GiveLocal campaign in which contributions made to Chime In! during the GiveLocal event are boosted by Bonus Funds. Chime In! has won a number of prizes over the years through the help of our patrons.
The Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation provides grants to organizations in many towns in north western Connecticut.
In 2014, the Foundation provided a grant to Chime In! toward the purchase of a second set of handchimes for use in our outreach to schools, nursing homes, other care facilities, and the elderly.
The Woodbury Bethlehem Community Music Foundation seeks to enhance community consciousness and enthusiasm for music activities and experiences to provide our community (Woodbury/Bethlehem) with valuable life learning and appreciation of music.
The Foundation has provided grants in to Chime In! in support of our Community Music Days.


More material on this web site related to Johnson and Let's Go Play at the Adams' (LGPATA) Book listing for Mendal Johnson My essay: The "Abyss" Connection... About the Book. A disturbing tale of childhood cruelty. Barbara is babysitting a family of children while their parents are away for a week. However, the children instead turn the tables and take her captive.
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18/08/2009 · Never Let Go by Bryan Adams. "Never look back, never look down, and never let go." I DO NOT OWN THE SONG OR THE PICTURE USED IN THIS VIDEO!!!
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I pray that you will be able to let go & really experience the love & mercy, the peace & joy of God. He wants you to be free & to trust in his goodness & mercy.


One of the difficult, but thrilling, aspects of modern social science research is the exploration of how new internet-affiliated sources of data can inform traditional social science questions. A group of Georgetown faculty, partnering with counterparts at the University of Michigan, have been working together in this area over the past three years or so. Recently, they have come to refer to their group as the Social Science Social Media Collaborative (see collaborator list below). They collectively were awarded a multi-year Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) research grant to investigate how traditional social science surveys could be blended with social media data. The McCourt School's Massive Data Institute is a key home for the Georgetown work.
The two data worlds (survey data and social media data) have fundamental differences. First, surveys are slow to be designed, collected, and analyzed. Social media data are being emitted second-by-second. Second, surveys usually measure many attributes on the respondents. Social media data tend to be quite lean in measures from any one platform at any one time (a tweet contains words produced by a subscriber at a specific moment). Increasingly, social science analysis uses many attributes to discover the important predictors of some phenomenon. Third, survey data are designed by researchers to answer specific research questions, each respondent is given the same question to answer. Much social media data are generated without any researchers involved; they are organic to the day-to-day lives of individual subscribers; they are often unstructured text, not numerical data. Fourth, the percentage of the human population covered by social media is highly variable across platforms, unmeasured, and thus problematic for use in inference to the larger population. In short, whether social media data are relevant to important social science questions is one of the current puzzles of the field.
Despite these unknowns, there is great hope that combining social media data with traditional survey data can provide new insights for the social sciences. This is relevant to the work of the Collaborative. It is an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, communication scholars, developmental psychologists, political scientists, statisticians, and survey methodologists. Thus far, they are working on two domains – 1) the process of public opinion formation and 2) parental decision-making.
One metaphor for these first social science uses of social media data is the first use of a microscope by scientists in the 1600's – seeing for the first time, aspects of physical entities that the human eye could previously not detect. Sometimes it's not even clear what one is looking at. The immediate question is how does the new, more granular view integrates with the traditional more highly aggregated view.
Regarding political attitude formation, the group is comparing tweets by journalists and the general public during the 2016 election season to concurrent Gallup polling, news coverage, and other event measurements. They have taken all these data sources to pose a variety of questions – how do the issues of importance to survey respondents compare to the tweets of Twitter subscribers over the weeks of the campaign? How do key phrases of journalists to describe events get transmitted among them, what are the patterns of influence among them? Do survey respondents use similar phrases as Twitter subscribers to describe election events?
Regarding the parenting decisions and learning processes, surveys, blogs, parenting websites, and tweets are the data sources simultaneously examined. How do parents gain their information about how to parent? The initial findings are that Mom-focused behaviors in the social media data tend to concern health of the child; Dad-focused, about how to behave as a parent. Using network analysis (who follows whom), the gender of the parent was the key driver (e.g., Mom-focused accounts tend to follow other Mom-focused). Finally, it appears that Dads retweet more frequently than Moms. No survey has provided insights into Internet sources of parenting information in this way.
These are first looks from the new microscope. These scientists are asking the basic questions of how they compare to the traditional measurements. Without this basic understanding, we will make little progress at using this new data world to understand society. Kudos to the Social Science Social Media Collaborative!
Important although very complicated topic. Glad I wasn't the first one looking thru that microscope! Good hunting !


In this message Pastor Jay will share that no matter how big your dream is, God is bigger. There is nothing that you can dream that God is not able to bring to past in your life. The question that we have to ask, is the dream from God? If it is then He will bring it to past in your life. In this message, you will find how God will make big dreams come true.


Public consultation process in response to new laws and regulations.
Fairtrade International has launched a public consultation on its Standard for Gold and Associated Precious Metals for Artisanal and Small-scale Mining to explore how it can best tackle new international regulations and legislation in the gold industry.
The overall aim is for Fairtrade to offer a small, but scalable solution to companies looking to source gold from artisanal and small-scale miners that can demonstrate conformance with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.
The consultation period will run until October 17 2014 and the revisions to Fairtrade's Standard will be published in December.
The process will give the industry a chance to input their views on what options should be included in the document.
Fairtrade International's Gold and Precious Metals Programme Coordinator Greg Valerio, said: "This process will ensure that the Fairtrade Standard for Gold, will become even stronger, deeper and more aligned to international conflict-free sourcing protocols, the outcome of which will create more positive opportunities for artisanal and small scale miners and their communities globally and give gold buyers and the jewellery industry the reassurances it needs when it comes to conflict free sourcing regulations.
"This is a significant development for Fairtrade gold and will further strengthen our offering, enabling producers in situations of political and economic turbulence to provide buyers with the information and assurances they need to maintain their commercial relationships.
"It is vital that we are nimble and able to adapt Fairtrade Standard to this evolving and complex legal context so that we can enable much-needed systemic change in the gold industry".
The consultation will cover a number of topics, including the new requirements which relate to the Dodd-Frank Act, Section 1502; draft EU Regulation incentivising self-certification for importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold who choose to import responsibly into the EU; and the OECD DDG (Due Diligence Guidance) – referred to by both the US law and draft EU law; the increased participation of workers in the governance of mining organisations; the management and eradication of toxic substances and the protection of human rights.


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Marine Released from Hospital After Deadly Midair Collision
A KC-130J Hercules with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 152, takes off during the 41st Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force – Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Friendship Day at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, May 5, 2017. (U.S. Marine Corps photo/Aaron Henson)
Stars and Stripes | By James Bolinger and Hana Kusumoto
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan -- The search continued Monday for five Marines who went missing last week after their KC-130 Hercules collided midair with an F/A-18 Hornet off the coast of southern Japan.
Seven Marines initially went missing after the collision just before 2 a.m. Thursday during "regularly scheduled training" that included aerial refueling south of Muroto Cape on Shikoku Island, U.S. and Japanese officials said.
The two Marines aboard the Hornet were recovered the day of the accident. The first, who was picked up that morning by a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter, has been released from the hospital, III Marine Expeditionary Force spokesman 2nd Lt. Ryan Bruce told Stars and Stripes in an email Monday.
Marine Corps Identifies Pilot Killed in Midair Collision Off Japan
One Marine Killed, Another Rescued After Midair Collision During Refueling
1 Rescued, 6 Missing After F/A-18 Fighter, Refueling Tanker Crash Off Japan
The second, Capt. Jahmar Resilard, 28, was pronounced dead after being found just after noon by the JMSDF ship JS Setoyuki.
The size of the team looking for the five Marines from MCAS Iwakuni's Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 152 has shrunk since Sunday, according to a spokesman from the Japanese Defense Ministry's Joint Staff.
A pair of Japan Air-Self Defense Force aircraft -- a UH-60 Black Hawk and an E-767 AWACS -- were searching for the missing crew Monday, a Defense Ministry statement said.
U.S. aircraft participating in the search include Air Force CV-22 Osprey, MC-130J, C-130J Super Hercules, RC-135 reconnaissance aircraft, KC-135 Stratotanker, RQ-4 Global Hawk, and Navy P-8 Poseidon, Bruce said. An Australian P-8 was also aiding the effort.
Search-and-rescue personnel from the 320th Special Tactics Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, were also on scene Monday searching for survivors, said 1st Lt. Renee Douglas, a spokeswoman for the Air Force's 353rd Special Operations Group.
How much longer the effort would continue was unknown, the Defense Ministry spokesman said.
Going into the weekend, the multinational, multiservice effort involved JASDF aircraft, Japan Coast Guard, and JMSDF and U.S. Navy ships.
III MEF has declared the incident a "Class A" mishap, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported Monday. These involve total property damage of "$2 million or more and/or aircraft destroyed" and "fatality or permanent disability."
Marine officials are still investigating the cause of the collision.
MCAS Iwakuni is home to Marine Air Craft Group 12 and the Navy's Carrier Air Wing 5. It is one of the Pacific's largest air stations.
Military Headlines Marine Corps Topics Aviation Accidents Japan Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni F-18 Hornet/Super Hornet C-130 Hercules
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Ousting Turkey from F-35 Program Will Cost US Hundreds of Millions, Officials Say
The Pentagon says it will cost $500 million to $600 million to find new suppliers for F-35 parts produced by Turkey.
Latest Benefits Info
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Specially Adapted Housing Program Must Expand to Meet Disabled Vets' Needs
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Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has no choice but to manufacture missiles for defense purposes.
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Q: view centered above in between weight distributed views in linear layout I am trying to achieve a layout as follows:

Two views with weight 2(green View) & 1(blue View) in a linear layout. And a floating button centered in between those views infront of them. But it is not possible using linear layout. Can anyone give a little help here
Update:
Here is what I have done
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="2"
        android:background="#22B14C" />

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
        android:text="To be a floating button" />

    <View
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="#00A2E8" />
</LinearLayout>

And what  I got is

A: Thanks to CoordinatorLayout in the Design Support Library this problem can be solved.
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:orientation="vertical">

        <View
            android:id="@+id/top"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="2"
            android:background="#22B14C" />

        <View
            android:id="@+id/bottom"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:background="#00A2E8" />
    </LinearLayout>

    <android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="@dimen/fab_margin"
        app:backgroundTint="#a349a4"
        app:fabSize="normal"
        app:layout_anchor="@id/top"
        app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end" />

</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

You have to anchor the FloatingActionButton to the top view using layout_anchor attribute and then set anchor gravity using layout_anchorGravity
And here is what you get:

A: The only way you can do this if you want to use the LinearLayout the way you use it is to define fixed height for the button. You can then achieve the overlay like this
<Button
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="48dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="-24dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="-24dp"
    android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
    android:text="To be a floating button"/>

But since it is not a good practice to use layout weights I would suggest to switch to RelativeLayout.

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Former English Defence League (EDL) leader Tommy Robinson attended a media law training session with London law firm Kingsley Napley, it emerged yesterday. News of Robinson's attendance at the media skills course came as three judges heard his appeal against a 13-month prison sentence for contempt of court.
Robinson, who appeared under his real name of Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, was jailed in May after he filmed outside a criminal trial and broadcast the footage online. The clip was watched about 250,000 times within hours of being posted on social media.
The Court of Appeal heard yesterday how Robinson — along with members of the Canadian-based news website, The Rebel Media — attended a "rigorous" media law training session hosted by Kingsley Napley. The session, which is understood to have taken place in June 2017, was brought to the court's attention by Robinson's barrister, 25 Bedford Row's Jeremy Dein QC.
Dein refers to a legal seminar that we at @therebeltv set up for Tommy at a leading law firm, Kingsley Napley, where Tommy was given a deep briefing on how to stay on the right side of the law. Dein mentions this as an indication of Tommy's good faith conduct.
Kingsley Napley didn't respond to Legal Cheek's requests for comment.
Elsewhere during the hearing, Dein QC urged the Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and two other judges to release Robinson, submitting that procedural "deficiencies" had given rise to "prejudice". He further argued that Robinson's 13-month sentence was "manifestly excessive" and claimed "insufficient weight" had been given to personal mitigation.
Reserving judgment, Burnett said that the court would do its "level best" to give a decision before the end of the month.
The post Tommy Robinson attended media law 'training session' at Kingsley Napley appeared first on Legal Cheek.


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date = "2015-06-06T21:10:30-04:00"
title = "Tales of a Part-time Sysadmin: Dogfooding Docker to test Docker"
author = "Jessica Frazelle"
description = "How to we test docker by running all the docker core infrastucture with Docker."
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This is a tale about how we use Docker to test Docker. Yes, I am familiar with
the meme. Puhlease.

Many of you are familiar with the fact I work on the Docker core team. Which
consists of fixing bugs, doing releases, reviewing PRs, hanging out on IRC,
mailing lists etc etc etc. But what you may not know is that in addition to all
these things I also manage our testing infrastructure. Now really this in
itself could be a fulltime job. However it is not _my_ fulltime job, nor would
I _ever_ want it to be. [insert gif about yak shaving here]

This blog post is going to be about how I manage ~50 servers but don't do
anything at all. Of course, I have my angry sysadmin moments when everything
breaks and I could punch a whole in a wall... but who doesn't?

## Our CI

First let me take a chance to familiarize you with how we test Docker. Docker's
tests run in a Docker container. We use Jenkins as our CI mostly because we
needed a lot of flexibility and control.

Obviously everything in our infrastructure runs in Docker, so that even goes
for Jenkins. We use the [official
image](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/library/jenkins/) for our Jenkins container.

Docker itself has 6 different storage driver options. These are `aufs`,
`btrfs`, `devmapper`, `overlay`, `vfs`, and `zfs`. We have servers that use
each of these hooked up to our Jenkins instance for testing.

Along with all the storage driver options, Docker also runs on any linux
distro and a world of different linux kernel versions. In order to be able
to try and test all this differentiation, each server runs a different kernel
and all major linux distros are accounted for.

With every push to master on the docker/docker repo, we run tests on the entire
storage driver matrix. We also trigger builds to test the unsupported `lxc`
execdriver for Docker. _And_ we trigger builds to test the Docker Windows
client. Right there is three different jobs running on 8 different servers just
for 1 push to master.

Did I mention we have 9 Windows servers and 9 linux remote hosts paired with
those servers for testing Docker on Windows?

With every pull request to Docker we kick off 3 builds on 3 different servers.
We have 8 linux Docker nodes reserved exclusively for testing PRs. These run
the Docker tests and the new "Experimental Tests". The last of the 3 is the
Windows client test.

Considering the Docker project gets over 100 pull requests a week, with
multiple revision cycles you can only imagine the number of builds we process
in a day.

The manager for the PR builds is a small service called
[leeroy](https://github.com/jessfraz/leeroy) which also makes
sure every PR has been signed with the Docker DCO before it even triggers
a build. This of course also runs in a container.

Now of course not every build is perfect, sometimes you have to rebuild. To
make this easy for all maintainers of the project we have an IRC bot, named
lovingly after Docker's turtle Gordon. The
[gordonbot](https://github.com/jessfraz/gordon-bot) runs in a container _duh_, and can
kick off a rebuild on any of our bajillion servers.

Now I know what you are thinking, thats a lot of servers, how do you manage to
know when _heaven forbid_ one of them goes down.

## Consul

We have consul running **in a container** on all 50 servers in our
infrastructure. This is AMAZING. We use a sweet project, [consul
alerts](https://github.com/AcalephStorage/consul-alerts), also running in a
container, to let us know when a node or service on a node goes down.

I would honestly be lost without consul. It keeps track via tags of the kernel
version, storage driver, linux distro, etc of the server. When a server goes
down I can decifer if it is a bug with any of those things.

A great example of this is we recently merged the awesome changes to the
container network stack via [libnetwork](https://github.com/docker/libnetwork).
However, I noticed after the merge the servers with kernels 3.19.x and 3.18.x
were acting funny. We were able to fix kernel bugs that were
specific to those versions related to networking before an RC was even cut.

## Github Hooks for the Github Hooks Throne

We trigger a lot of cool things with every push to master. We use nsq to
collect the hooks and then pass the messages to all the consumers. Oh and
obviously nsq runs in a container, as well as the [hooks
service](https://github.com/crosbymichael/hooks).

### Master Binaries

With every push to master we push new binaries to
[master.dockerproject.org](https://master.dockerproject.org). This way people
can easily try out new features.

The [docker-bb service](https://github.com/jessfraz/docker-bb) is run in
a container ;). Hopefully you are catching on to a theme here...

### Master Docs

What good would being able to try new features be, if you didn't have docs for
how to use them?

With every push to master, we deploy new docs to
[docs.master.dockerproject.org](http://docs.master.dockerproject.org).

This is done with a [nsqexec service](https://github.com/jessfraz/nsqexec),
wait for it.... RUNNING IN A CONTAINER.

## Always Testing

The greatest thing about all these services, which I so subtly mentioned,
running in containers is that we can always be dogfooding and testing Docker.
Right now we are getting ready to release Docker v1.7.0 and with every RC that
is built I upgrade the servers so we can catch bugs.

On the off season, I will randomly upgrade all the servers to the Docker master
binaries mentioned previously. This way we can catch things long before they
even hit an RC.

All this is so seamless and runs so well that I have time to do my actual job
of being a Docker core maintainer, occasionally fix some servers, spin up new
servers if we add storage drivers, upgrade servers' kernels, and write this blog
post.

Hope you enjoyed, also help us test RC's and Docker master! Also thanks to
DigitalOcean and Azure for hosting our infrastructure.

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