At least five Indian fishermen belonging to Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu were apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy from Neduntheevu in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
The navy authorities also recovered a mechanised boat from the fishermen.
According to media reports, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami last week wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to secure the release of eight fishermen from Tamil Nadu lodged in Sri Lankan prisons.


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# BugHerd Client

This is a Rest Client for the BugHerd API.

**features:**

* Threadsafe
* Full V1 API support
* Full V2 API support

**ruby support:**

* JRuby
* Rubinius 2+
* MRI >= 1.9.3

## Installation

    $ gem install bugherd_client

## Basic Usage

For usage look in the examples folders. Examples are only kept for the latest
version of the API so if you really want to use older versions you'll have to
look at the source.

* [Setup](examples/initialization.rb)
* [Projects](examples/projects.rb)
* [Users & Organization](examples/users_and_organization.rb)
* [Task & Comments](examples/tasks_and_comments.rb)
* [Attachments](examples/attachments.rb)
* [Webhooks](examples/webhooks.rb)

## Contributing

Please note that all contributions require tests.

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/<my-github-username>/bugherd_client/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Write some tests.
6. Create new Pull Request

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Documentary/photojournalism of the Homelessness in Manchester - 'Home Sweet Home.'
An editorial, for the Fashion collection COURBE AW/19
An experiential, multimedia project (film) communicating life with learning difficulties - 'Off Spectrum.'
Is currently waiting, diligently for lockdown to end; then he can continue volunteering at Red Eye (the photography network) and attending South Manchester Photography club. When Matthew isn't talking about himself in the third person, he enjoys running up mountains, falling off boulders and writing poetry…about falling off boulders.
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Q: Invalid numeric literal with jq I have a large amount of JSON from a 3rd party system which I would like to pre-process with jq, but I am having difficulty composing the query, test case follows:
$ cat test.json
{
  "a": "b",
  "c": "d",
  "e": {
         "1": {
            "f": "g",
            "h": "i"
          }
       }
}
$ cat test.json|jq .e.1.f
jq: error: Invalid numeric literal at EOF at line 1, column 3 (while parsing '.1.') at <top-level>, line 1:
.e.1.f

How would I get "g" as my output here? Or how do I cast that 1 to a "1" so it is handled correctly?

A: From jq manual :

You can also look up fields of an object using syntax like .["foo"]
  (.foo above is a shorthand version of this, but only for
  identifier-like strings).

You also need quotes and use -r if you want raw output :
jq -r '.e["1"].f' test.json

A: I wrote a shell script function that calls the curl command, and pipes it into the jq command.
function getName {
  curl http://localhost:123/getname/$1 | jq;
}
export -f getName

When I ran this from the CLI,
getName jarvis

I was getting this response:

parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 72

I tried removing the | jq from the curl command, and I got back the result without jq parsing:
<Map><timestamp>1234567890</timestamp><status>404</status><error>Not Found</error><message>....

I first thought that I had a bad character in the curl command, or that I was using the function param $1 wrong.
Then I counted the number of chars in the result string, and I noticed that the 72nd char in that string was the empty space between "Not Found".
The underlying issue was that I didn't have a method named getname yet in my spring REST controller, so the response was coming back 404 Not Found.  But in addition, jq wasn't handling the empty space in the response except by outputting the error message.
I'm new to jq so maybe there is a way to get around the empty space issue, but that's for another day.

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Gallifrey or Karn
Main Actor:
The Visionary was a Time Lady who predicted the annihilation of Gallifrey on the final day of the Last Great Time War.
Like all Time Lords, the Visionary was taken from her family at the age of eight for the selection process in the Drylands. Staring into the Untempered Schism as part of a Time Lord initiation, the Visionary was driven mad by what she saw in the Schism. (A Brief History of Time Lords)
She was present at a High Council meeting presided over by Lord President Rassilon during the war. She foretold that Gallifrey would burn, as she wrote Gallifreyan symbols onto a piece of paper with an ink pen.
She screamed "Gallifrey falling…Gallifrey falls!" as Rassilon's plan to bring Gallifrey back failed at the hands of the Tenth Doctor, sending the planet back into the last day of the Time War. (The End of Time).
By the end of the war, she was showing signs of insanity and constantly in a frantic state, spouting puzzling words and phrases which alluded to events due to happen in the future. (The End of Time).
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The hero must face his weakness and be heroic once again. I was unsure what to expect, however I ended up leaving the cinema extremely satisfied with the film, and tellingly, unable to stop discussing it long after the ride home. You are going to face many challenges which will really test your nerves. So, overall, this was worthy of an 8. You have the exotic magical abilities and different superpowers. The second is the 3D projection.
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This is a cracking film and I highly recommend everyone goes to the cinema to see it it's a cinema experience for sure! Grendell would have truly terrified me as a child. Long a mainstay of English Literature 101 courses at universities around the world, it is not only one of the oldest, but one of the most exciting English folktales ever invented. The eyes were static throughout and it is the little details that make the difference when trying to make something as uber-realistic as this, such as the fact that the pupils didn't react to light. In his new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work which is both true, line by line, to the original poem, and an expression, in its language and music, of something fundamental to his own creative gift. Download Beowulf movie in :.
. This new edition features an updated introduction and an expanded section of material on Christianity and paganism. For reasons best known to studio executives we're all meant to get very excited by 3D all over again. Beowulf the man could have been written as a cookie-cutter hero, but fortunately he's something else - fallible and not yet the hero he must become later in the movie. Minor variations of B are not usually noted. Click below Button and Wait For Few Seconds On Next Page.
Only one man dares to stand up to Grendel's fury --Beowulf. The violence, as well as bawdiness, does not make it a family film for young children although having said that the lewd references do provide good humour and balances out the movie. But it also transcends such considerations, telling us psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and liberating. For me the most disappointing part of the film was actually Ray Winstone as the titular character - he was fantastic when talking in a low growl, however the film really suffers when he shouts in full cockney accent. Generally the men are better done than the women, with Queen Wealthow the spitting image of Julie Andrew's queen in Shrek 2.
The Gnomic Verses are proverbs on the natural order of life, and the Exeter Riddles are witty linguistic puzzles. Beowulf sets aside his armor and awaits the monster; a fierce battle ensues that leads to Beowolf's entering the watery lair of Grendel's mother, where a devil's bargain awaits. A special mention also to Crispin Glover's Grendel. It is released on 13 th November 2007 and published this game. But who will guard the great hall he has built, where so many men have lost their lives to the monster while keeping watch? Beowulf returns to Herot, the castle, and becomes king. Beowulf returns to Herot, the castle, and becomes king. There are only two areas that let Beowulf down aesthetically: the eyes and the mouth.
He offers rewards for the death of Grendel, so Beowulf, a great and boastful Geat warrior, arrives with his thanes. It is full and complete game. Installation Guide Video is also on bottom of Next page. When he leaves, a trail of blood is all that remains. We have provided direct link full setup of the game. The animation is the talking point of this movie, and its a real step on from the zombified performance of 'Polar Express'.
Set against the coming of Christianity, this is the story of the last hero: in 507, a monstrous troll wreaks havoc in the mead hall of the Danish king, Hrothgar. You play the role of the king of your kingdom. I half expected Grendell's head to be smashed between a car and it's door. Oh dear god in heaven above what were they thinking - this is a treasure house of appalling voices, Irish ish , Scottish ish , Welsh ish are all thrown into the mix, but the standout horrors are Jon Malkovich's take on Danish which might have been inspired by the Muppets and Angelina Jolie dusting off her accent from 'Alexander'. Occasionally the odd shot appears where the impression is that it was set up solely to emphasise the 3D e.


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It's all about the build at Drexel University. Drexel has become the first university in the country to require the use of Green Globes independent environmental impact monitoring software for all new construction projects. The LEED Gold-certified Constantine N. Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) is home to North America's largest living biofiler wall: a five-story living wall of vegetation through which air intakes and outputs are filtered, with the goal of improving energy efficiency and indoor air quality. The Recreation Center is the first building in Philadelphia to have total storm water management, collecting and using rainwater in the building's toilets. The ISB, the Recreation Center, and the new home of the LeBow College of Business all received a rating of three Green Globes from the Green Building Initiative. Millennium Hall, a $42 million residence hall, spans seventeen stories and 102,680 square feet, and incorporates many sustainability-focused features, including a green roof. Drexel has also committed to purchasing 100 percent renewable wind and solar energy to offset its electric energy use, reducing the university's operations carbon footprint by 81 percent. Hydration stations, designed to encourage members of the Drexel community to fill reusable containers instead of using bottled water, are plentiful on campus, with more on the way. Up to thirty percent of food expenditures go toward local or organic food, and the school boasts an overall waste-diversion rate of 33 percent. Drexel offers plenty of environmentally focused programs, including environmental policy, environmental science and environmental engineering. Student initiatives include the Smart House, a project to renovate an urban home that will serve as a "living laboratory" for exploring sustainable design and technology. The Steinbright Career Development Center assists in placing students into co-op jobs based on their education program and career interests.
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The drive from Philadelphia International Airport to campus is 20 minutes (but it could be much longer if traffic is heavy, which isn't unusual). SEPTA (the public transportation system) regional rail trains run hourly from the airport to 30th St. Station, leaving you only 2 blocks from campus. Taxis are also available. Amtrak trains from all parts of the country and SEPTA commuter trains stop at 30th St. Station, 2 blocks from campus. Greyhound bus lines serve Philadelphia from the depot in center city; from there, you can take a SEPTA bus or commuter train (from Jefferson Station to 30th St. Station) to campus.
From Princeton, Trenton and points North: Take 95 south to 676/Central Philadelphia exit. Then take 676 west to 76 east exit. Follow 76 east exit under railroad bridge and proceed into right lane as soon as it is safe to do so. Follow the sign for exit 39 (do not continue following 76 east). Go around the 30th St. train station. From New York and northern New Jersey: Take New Jersey Tpke. south to exit 4 (Camden/Philadelphia). Follow Rte. 73 north to Rte. 38 west. Travel 4.7 miles past Flower World and merge right onto Route 30 west. Follow 2.6 miles to the Ben Franklin Bridge. Cross bridge and stay in left lanes. Follow signs for 676 west. Follow 676 for 1 mile and take 76 east exit. Go under bridge and get into the right lane as soon as it is safe to do so and follow signs for Exit 39 (do not continue following 76 east). Go up ramp and around 30th Street Station to first light and make a right.
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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo set an ambitious target of vaccinating as many as 7.5 million residents in Jakarta by the end of August to achieve herd immunity.
Jakarta, where the first two confirmed cases were detected in March 2020, is currently the largest epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia.
Despite the ambitious target, Jokowi wants it to be realized because the sooner herd immunity is formed, hopefully, the pandemic will end soon.
Also read: Indonesias Covid-19 Task Force Concerned As Daily Covid-19 Cases Near 9,000
"I have also told the Jakarta Governor that by the end of August, 7.5 million residents in Jakarta must be vaccinated. This is indeed an ambitious target," said Jokowi when visiting a vaccination center in Tanah Tinggi low-cost apartment in Central Jakarta on Monday, June 14.
Accompanying him were Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, and Central Jakarta Mayor Dhany Sukma.
To achieve the target, the president has instructed the local administrations of all levels to work hard. This program must also be supported by all public health centers and hospitals in the capital city.
"The people interaction in Jakarta is high so is the people mobility, therefore the speed of mass vaccination program will help stem the spread of the Covid-19," he said.
The Covid-19 vaccination held at Tanah Tinggi, one of the crowded areas in Jakarta capital, was intended for the general public and people with disabilities. The people interaction in the area is very high so that the vaccination program must be prioritized.
Also read: Indonesia Highlights: 70,000 Doses of Chinas Sinopharm Vaccine Distributed for Private Vaccination in Indonesia | Indonesia Sends Second Shipment of 2.000 Oxygen Tanks to India | Covid-19: Jakarta Se
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Alternative Assets and the "Average" Accredited Investor Installment #11: Investment in Hedge Funds
/ Investors
/ By Jonathan Friedland
Tags: Accredited Investors, Alternative Assets, Hedge Funds,
What is a Hedge Fund?
Current securities laws do not provide a precise definition of the term "hedge fund." At the most fundamental level, a hedge fund is a private investment pool for wealthy, financially sophisticated investors. Hedge funds have been historically organized as partnerships, with the general partner (or managing member of an LLC) –the hedge fund manager – managing the fund's portfolio and making investment decisions.
In concept, an investment in a hedge fund was originally intended to be a hedge against risk. However, at the same time, investing in a hedge fund is often considered a "high risk, high reward" approach to investing. Seems pretty contradictory, right? Let me explain.
Hedge fund managers typically seek either to manage risk or to achieve a specific range of performance—or both — regardless of market trends. They do this by using sophisticated strategies and techniques.
Many hedge funds employ an investment strategy that is specifically uncorrelated (though the level of correlation is always a matter of degree; that is, most asset classes have at least some correlation) with short-term market movements. This enables a fund to keep its capital fully invested, make money, and minimize volatility of returns whether the market booms, crashes, or flattens.
Opportunistic Strategies
Other hedge funds are more aggressively growth-oriented, using sophisticated strategies to take advantage of diverse and, in some cases, event-driven, contrarian or ultra-short-term investment opportunities.
An Historical Overview
Here is a brief overview of significant moments in the history of hedge funds:
1949: Alfred Winslow Jones' Innovations
Fortune magazine reporter Alfred Winslow Jones became the "father" of the hedge fund industry when, in 1949, he committed $40,000 of his own money, raised an additional $60,000, and began investing in stocks for long-term holding while, at the same time, short selling other stocks. This innovation is now known as the classic long/short equities model.
1952: Jones and General Partnerships
Initially Jones' hedge fund model was executed through a general partnership. Changes made in 1952 included the formation of limited partnerships and the establishment of a 20% compensation fee structure (based on profits) to incentivize the fund's managing partner to enhance the fund's performance. With these changes in place, together with the long/short equities model and the use of leverage, Jones etched his name into investment history as the father of the hedge fund.
The 1960s: Outperforming Mutual Funds
The hedge approach was a major contender right out of the gate and out-performed mutual funds by 85% from 1962 to 1966, attracting the attention of high net worth individuals. By 1968, at least 140 hedge funds had sprung up in the U.S. Additionally, high profile money managers moved into the space because of the compensation structure.
The Early 1970s: Heightened Risk, Heightened Loss
The boom didn't last, however, as hedge funds began moving away from Jones' model and toward using long-term leverage methods rather than choosing stocks and hedging them against risk. As a result, many hedge funds had little protection against market fluctuations. The industry began seeing losses, particularly during the bear market of 1973-74, which led to many funds closing permanently.
The Late 1970s & Beyond
Toward the end of that same decade, however, hedge funds began again to thrive, albeit quietly, as only a handful were still active. New firms did form, of course. One of the more well-known hedge funds, Tiger Management Group, was formed in 1980 by stock broker Julian Robertson. No one could touch him for stock-picking acumen. Robertson's Midas touch grew Tiger to $7.2 billion by 1996 and led the hedge fund industry comeback.
However, Robertson's play-it-safe approach kept him from investing in the technology boom of the 1990's and consequently Tiger dwindled until the fund was finally closed in 2000. Ironically enough, the internet bubble (and additionally the equity bubble) burst in 2000, damaging many of the more aggressive firms that had outperformed Tiger.
The financial and housing crisis of 2008 came after the merger-and-acquisitions market had rebounded nicely in the years following the bursting of the internet bubble, though merger arbitrage (a strategy practiced by many hedge funds) has still not recovered. Hedge funds, today, have grown to be one of the largest segments of the investment management industry, with more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Yet, this could be just the beginning of something much larger, as investing in hedge funds has opened up to a wider range of investors.
According to Todd Lashway, managing director of Fairfield, Iowa-based Capital Management Partners Inc, "Potentially, one of the most significant changes in the hedge fund industry is occurring right now with the ability of hedge funds to publicly advertise. In the past, hedge funds were offered as private placements only. Now, the new SEC rules for the marketing of hedge funds are expected to lead to an even faster expansion of the industry."
More about Hedge Fund Strategies
As noted above, the specific investment strategies employed by hedge funds vary greatly from one hedge fund to another. Common strategies include the following:
a. Equity Hedge
Equity hedge strategies keep long and short positions in equity and equity derivative securities. Investment decisions are driven by quantitative and fundamental techniques. A portfolio built on equity hedge strategies can be very diverse or uniform in terms of sector penetration. It can also differ in terms of holding period, leverage and much more.
b. Event – Driven
These strategies focus on companies that are or will be undergo a restructuring process or other corporate transition. This investment can include all types of securities and derivative securities. A 2009 survey by Greenwich Associates found that hedge funds made up 90% of trading volume in distressed debt.
c. Relative Value
This strategy focuses on comparing the financial statements of competing companies to assess a stock's value relative to its peers.
d. Global Macro
This strategy focuses primarily on the overall economic and political situation in various countries.
Understanding your investment in hedge funds
The "market" (i.e. industry standard) of what investors can expect to pay hedge fund managers, just like private equity and venture capital, starts from a baseline employ a "2 and 20" fee structure. Some funds charge more or less, and some investors (i.e. very large ones) may pay less.
Warren Buffet has criticized the hedge fund industry for its high fees, arguing that high fees are the reason hedge funds don't typically perform well against the market. Houman Shadab, Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School authored a paper called "Hedge Fund Governance," in which he asserts that:
Since the financial crisis, concerns about hedge fund governance have focused on transparency, operational practices, and the growing view that fund directors do not effectively monitor fund managers… The areas in which hedge fund governance needs the most improvement are performance reporting (valuation) and the timing of performance-fee calculations.
Unfortunately, there is no real industry standard for defining how expenses are reported. However, investors can and should ask questions about where their money is going. Fees for regulatory compliance, fund management, legal issues, and other expenses should be within industry standards. Questionable fees should be questioned.
The Risks of Investing in Hedge Funds
Hedge funds have earned a grandiose reputation, thanks to the spectacular success of some funds and the tumescent wealth of some fund managers, together with the equally spectacular failures of some other (and even some of the same) hedge funds and the humiliations that followed. Some high-profile hedge funds grew so large in the 1990s that they could disrupt markets and even whole economies. The catastrophic failure of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1997-98 nearly caused a global crisis. The opacity and relative freedom from regulation, plus "black box" investment strategies, enhanced the mystique of the hedge fund industry.
Summarized in plain English, the risks associated with hedge funds include:
Leverage. Unless highly leveraged bets are effectively hedged, they can result in catastrophic losses. According to a report by the National Bureau of Economic Research, the average leverage for hedge funds is between 1.5 to 2.5 percent.
Short risk. Taking short positions in equities may help to hedge a portfolio, but it also creates the potential for unlimited downside (because prices can rise without limit).
Non-disclosure and fraud. Because hedge funds are lightly regulated, there is a greater chance of fraud than in the tightly regulated securities markets.
Investment in risky assets. Opportunistic fund managers may invest in almost any asset, anywhere.
Agency risk. When a manager approaches the end of the year and has failed to reach the benchmark level above which she earns incentive compensation, she has an incentive to take large, even desperate risks to surpass the benchmark in a very short period.
Benefits and Rewards of Investing in Hedge Funds
Allocating a portion of your investment capital to hedge funds can be quite beneficial because of:
Absolute return. Conservative hedge funds, which invest in alternative assets (uncorrelated with stock and bond markets) and/or take offsetting short and long equity positions, aim to make money from falling as well as rising markets. By and large, hedge funds do succeed at this, according to the Hedge Fund Research index, from 1990 to 2010, there have been only two negative years for the average hedge fund. See Philip Coggan, Guide to Hedge Funds, Wiley, 2011, pg. 8.
Shelter from volatility. Many hedge funds aim to provide diversification for portfolios dominated by traditional investments, moderating risk and volatility. Not all hedge funds aim to reduce volatility, however; some, like those that place large, highly leveraged directional bets, aim aggressively for monster returns. According to the Hennessee Group, hedge funds were approximately one-third less volatile than the S&P 500 between 1993 and 2010. See Hennessee, Protecting Capital During Market Downturns," Hedge Fund Journal, 22 July 2010)
Superior management talent. High management fees attract experienced, successful investment talent from large banking and money management firms to the hedge fund industry.
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a short note to a long story: i386 and later have an i/o permission bitmap for supposedly fine grained i/o permission control, also modern hardware is anyway not using classic i/o ports, with (nearly) everything memory mapped ring 3 drivers can drive the hardware just fine without any extra i/o context switching. Also QNX is quite fast, even was a decade ago, so it is not like it is impossible to do. Also more elegant architecture and algorithms can vastly improve performance, e.g. look at the current graphic subsystem performance.
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Lately, all times a certain someone stated it there was someone else posting a benchmark where Linux either trades blows or destroys BSD on networking with 10Gbit cards.


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New elective gives students preview of the ups and downs of critical care transport nursing
AUG 14, 2018 | Diana LaChance
Undergraduate students in Ron Bolen's critical care transport nursing course learn how to stabilize and care for patients in the air, land, and sea transport environment.
Lori Lioce | College of Nursing
If the idea of trying to save someone's life isn't panic-inducing enough, try doing it in mid-air with limited room to maneuver and the whir of helicopter blades drowning out any chance of direct communication. For Ron Bolen (MSN, RN, CCRN, CEN, CFRN), however, it's all in a day's work. As a combat veteran, Navy reservist, and long-time critical care transport nurse, he knows what it takes to overcome those challenges and save lives. And now he's imparting that knowledge to a new generation of nursing students in his undergraduate-level Critical Care Transport Nursing course at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). "People look at the glory and the excitement, but there's an element of danger," he says. "We need to show nursing students the different things involved and expose them early on, so they can decide if it's right for them."
Bolen (far right) is imparting his knowledge as a combat veteran, Navy reservist, and long-time critical care transport nurse.
Bolen, who joined the faculty of UAH's College of Nursing last year, initially proposed the course as three-day review for students taking the critical care nursing board certifications. But at the urging of Dr. Marsha Howell Adams, dean of the College, it was expanded to a five-week summer elective designed to help students build on the concepts of health assessment, pathophysiology, and critical care nursing and apply them in the stabilization and care of patients in the air, land, and sea transport environment. "As a new faculty member, I didn't think I'd have the opportunity to do it so soon, but the support from the dean and the administration has been phenomenal," he says. "We're now one of the few universities – if not the only one – to offer a critical care transport nursing course to undergraduate students."
After receiving "a good amount of interest" from the students, Bolen enrolled nine, all of whom had already completed the course prerequisite, medical surgical nursing. "The main focus was to improve their critical-thinking skills," he says. But he also wanted them to learn the tangible skills related to critical care transport nursing, including formulating a plan of care, demonstrating a patient assessment, and safely managing a patient by applying the principles of transport physiology to their pathophysiology. "The idea was for them to explore the implications of altitude and atmospheric changes on the pathophysiology of the critical care patient," says Bolen, "and learn how to mitigate those implications through didactic and patient-simulation labs."
We introduced them to operating in a confined space with stressors.
Ron Bolen
Each day's class comprised a mix of lectures and presentations followed by an opportunity for the students to apply and assess their hands-on skills. "We had a simulator set up in the College's Learning and Technology Resource Center where we introduced them to operating in a confined space with stressors," says Bolen. "I played an audio recording of the aircraft starting up and air traffic control speaking in the background." A few weeks later, they tested those skills in an actual H-60 Black Hawk courtesy of PEO Aviation and defense contractor Yulista Aviation Inc. "We ran through scenarios with the power on in which the students had to communicate through headsets," he says. "It was intense but also confidence building for them. They were like, 'Ok, this is how it is.' Now they'll have that muscle memory and exposure to specific clinical situations."
But while it would be easy for Bolen to take credit for the students' success as their instructor, he instead points to the strong educational foundation they've received as a result of the College's commitment to concept-based pedagogy. "I knew they'd do well, but the eagerness of these nursing students and their willingness to learn was incredible – they took it to the next level," he says. "For them to be able to take the concepts and apply them to something they'd never been exposed to before was phenomenal, and it wouldn't have been possible without that concept-based training. It affirmed for me that it's the right way to teach."
Students put the skills they learned into practice in an actual H-60 Black Hawk, which tested their ability to operate in a confined space with stressors.
UAH College of Nursing
Ronald.Bolen@uah.edu


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Boat Tours Boat tours of the Los Angeles harbor leave from Ports O' Call Marketplace while narrated cruises of Long Beach harbor leave from Aquarium of the Pacific. Farther south in Orange County, tour boats make the rounds in Newport Bay, departing from the Balboa Pavilion. Vessels going to Santa Catalina Island, a serene coastal destination, depart San Pedro, Marina Del Rey, Long Beach, Newport Beach and Dana Point.
Bus and Trolley ToursGet to know the lay of the land by bus and discover fun places to go in the city while on vacation. Ask your local AAA travel agency about group travel rates.
Amazing LA Tours see Santa Monica
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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has commissioned more than 300 artists to create original works since 1989. Free 2-hour, round-trip Metro Art Moves tours are offered by docents, providing insight into the art, its creators and the communities they enhance. Tours meet the first Saturday of the month at the street level entrance to Metro Red Line's Hollywood/Highland Station; first Sunday tours meet at the information booth inside the entrance to Union Station. Tours start promptly at 10 a.m. A Union Station tour departs from the information booth inside Alameda Street Station the second Sunday of the month at 10:30. For more information phone (213) 922-2738.
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Walking tours of El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument depart Tuesday through Saturday on the hour 10-noon on the south side of the Plaza between the Firehouse and the Hellman-Quon building. The free tours last about an hour; phone (213) 628-1274. Guided walking tours of Chinatown are sponsored by the L.A. Chinatown Business Improvement District. Reservations are required; phone (213) 680-0243.
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The Los Angeles area is served by several airports with cheap airline flights including Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), which is about 20 miles southwest of downtown L.A. Several other airports serve the area.
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It's almost worth traveling by train just to experience Union Station, the combination Spanish Revival-Art Deco-Streamline Moderne-style terminal at 800 N. Alameda St., near Olvera Street and Chinatown. Amtrak trains, (800) 872-7245, use the station, as well as depots scattered throughout the region.
Greyhound Lines Inc., (800) 231-2222, has a terminal at 1716 E. 7th St., near Alameda Street, about 1.5 miles south of Union Station. Caveat emptor: ticket purchase does not guarantee a seat on the bus.
Taxis are plentiful downtown and at major tourist sites. They can be hailed or boarded from stalls found at the airport, Union Station and major hotels. The base rate is $2.85 at flag drop and $2.70 per mile. The fixed fare between the airport and downtown is $46.50 plus a $4 surcharge for fares originating from the airport. Some large companies are Checker, (800) 300-5007; Independent (800) 521-8294; United Independent, (213) 483-7660 or (800) 892-8294; and Yellow Cab, (424) 222-2222 or (800) 200-1085.
Transportation by bus, minibus shuttle, light-rail and subway is available in Los Angeles.


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Q: Big Text Corpus breaks tm_map I have been breaking my head over this one over the last few days. I searched all the SO archives and tried the suggested solutions but just can't seem to get this to work. I have sets of txt documents in folders such as 2000 06, 1995 -99 etc, and want to run some basic text mining operations such as creating document term matrix and term document matrix and doing some operations based co-locations of words. My script works on a smaller corpus, however, when I try it with the bigger corpus, it fails me. I have pasted in the code for one such folder operation.
library(tm) # Framework for text mining.
library(SnowballC) # Provides wordStem() for stemming.
library(RColorBrewer) # Generate palette of colours for plots.
library(ggplot2) # Plot word frequencies.
library(magrittr)
library(Rgraphviz)
library(directlabels)

setwd("/ConvertedText")
txt <- file.path("2000 -06")

docs<-VCorpus(DirSource(txt, encoding = "UTF-8"),readerControl = list(language = "UTF-8"))
docs <- tm_map(docs, content_transformer(tolower), mc.cores=1)
docs <- tm_map(docs, removeNumbers, mc.cores=1)
docs <- tm_map(docs, removePunctuation, mc.cores=1)
docs <- tm_map(docs, stripWhitespace, mc.cores=1)
docs <- tm_map(docs, removeWords, stopwords("SMART"), mc.cores=1)
docs <- tm_map(docs, removeWords, stopwords("en"), mc.cores=1)
#corpus creation complete

setwd("/ConvertedText/output")
dtm<-DocumentTermMatrix(docs)
tdm<-TermDocumentMatrix(docs)
m<-as.matrix(dtm)
write.csv(m, file="dtm.csv")
dtms<-removeSparseTerms(dtm, 0.2)
m1<-as.matrix(dtms)
write.csv(m1, file="dtms.csv")
# matrix creation/storage complete

freq <- sort(colSums(as.matrix(dtm)), decreasing=TRUE)
wf <- data.frame(word=names(freq), freq=freq)
freq[1:50]
#adjust freq score in next line
p <- ggplot(subset(wf, freq>100), aes(word, freq))+ geom_bar(stat="identity")+ theme(axis.text.x=element_text(angle=45, hjust=1))
ggsave("frequency2000-06.png", height=12,width=17, dpi=72)
# frequency graph generated

x<-as.matrix(findFreqTerms(dtm, lowfreq=1000))
write.csv(x, file="freqterms00-06.csv")
png("correlation2000-06.png", width=12, height=12, units="in", res=900)
graph.par(list(edges=list(col="lightblue", lty="solid", lwd=0.3)))
graph.par(list(nodes=list(col="darkgreen", lty="dotted", lwd=2, fontsize=50)))
plot(dtm, terms=findFreqTerms(dtm, lowfreq=1000)[1:50],corThreshold=0.7)
dev.off()

When I use the mc.cores=1 argument in tm_map, the operation continues indefinitely. However, if I use the lazy=TRUE argument in tm_map, it seemingly goes well, but subsequent operations give this error.
Error in UseMethod("meta", x) :
  no applicable method for 'meta' applied to an object of class "try-error"
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In mclapply(x$content[i], function(d) tm_reduce(d, x$lazy$maps)) :
  all scheduled cores encountered errors in user code
2: In mclapply(unname(content(x)), termFreq, control) :
  all scheduled cores encountered errors in user code

I have been looking all over for a solution but have failed consistently. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Best!
k

A: I found a solution that works.
Background/Debugging Steps
I tried several things that did not work:

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*Adding "content_transformer" to some tm_map, to all, to one(totower)

*Adding "lazy = T" to tm_map

*Tried some parallel computing packages

While it isn't working for 2 of my scripts, it works every time for a third script. But the code of all three scripts is the same only the size of the .rda file I am loading is different. The data structure is also identical for all three.

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*Dataset 1: Size - 493.3KB = error

*Dataset 2: Size - 630.6KB = error

*Dataset 3: Size - 300.2KB = works!

Just weird.
My sessionInfo() output:
R version 3.1.2 (2014-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] snowfall_1.84-6    snow_0.3-13        Snowball_0.0-11    RWekajars_3.7.11-1 rJava_0.9-6              RWeka_0.4-23
[7] slam_0.1-32        SnowballC_0.5.1    tm_0.6             NLP_0.1-5          twitteR_1.1.8      devtools_1.6

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] bit_1.1-12     bit64_0.9-4    grid_3.1.2     httr_0.5       parallel_3.1.2 RCurl_1.95-4.3    rjson_0.2.14   stringr_0.6.2
[9] tools_3.1.2

Solution
I just added this line after loading the data and everything works now:
MyCorpus <- tm_map(MyCorpus,
                     content_transformer(function(x) iconv(x, to='UTF-8-MAC', sub='byte')),
                     mc.cores=1)

Found the hint here: http://davetang.org/muse/2013/04/06/using-the-r_twitter-package/ (The author has updated his code due to the error on November 26, 2014.)


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NTSB Prelim: Beech K35
About Eight Minutes After Takeoff… The Engine Started To Run Rough And Lose Power
Location: Temecula, CA Accident Number: WPR22LA062
Date & Time: December 11, 2021, 14:55 Local Registration: N654HR
Aircraft: Beech K35 Injuries: 1 None
Flight Conducted Under: Part 91: General aviation – Personal
On December 11, 2021, about 1455 Pacific standard time, a Beech K35 airplane, N654HR, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Temecula, California. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 personal flight.
The pilot reported that about eight minutes after takeoff, while at a cruise altitude about 3,000 ft mean sea level, the engine started to run rough and lose power. He was operating off the left fuel tank and therefore activated the fuel pump and switched to the right fuel tank but that did not resolve the issue. The engine continued to lose power until the pilot said that it was not producing any power.
The pilot maneuvered the airplane to land on a golf course fairway but had to abort the approach due to individuals on the fairway. Subsequently, the pilot elected to make a force landing in a nearby grape vineyard. He intentionally kept the landing gear retracted to minimize any entanglement with the wire that was used to support growing the grape vines. During the landing sequence, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the fuselage and wings when it struck posts that supported the wire used to grow the grapes.
The airplane was recovered to a secure location for future examination.
FMI: www.ntsb.gov
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