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PHILADELPHIA (February 21, 2013) – Einstein Healthcare Network is one of 27 healthcare providers nationwide, and the only one in Philadelphia, to win a Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns award from the Department of Health and Human Services, announced HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Einstein will use its $675,000 share of the award to expand and improve care at its two prenatal clinics.
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Einstein will use the federal funds to implement a group care model at its two clinics, in Philadelphia and Montgomery County. The Centering Pregnancy Model provides prenatal care in a group setting with 10 or 12 other women at a similar stage of pregnancy. The funding will allow Einstein to provide care for 1,500 women over the three years of the award.
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More than half a million infants are born prematurely in America each year. Costs associated with preterm births are around $26 billion a year. Children born preterm require costly medical attention, often require early intervention services and special education, and can develop conditions that may affect their health and productivity as adults.
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The Strong Start for Mothers and Newborns initiative is an effort by HHS to reduce preterm births and improve outcomes for newborns and pregnant women. This initiative is a joint effort between the CMS, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the Administration on Children and Families (ACF) and is also supported by various programs across the multiple agencies of HHS. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMS Innovation Center) will administer these awards through cooperative agreements over four years.
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Jacques-Alexandre Law de Lauriston
Jacques-Alexandre Law de Lauriston was born in Pondichery (India) on 1 February, 1768. He was the grandnephew of the infamous Scotsman John Law, who was the short-lived Contrôleur Général des Finances under Philippe d'Orléans. Jacques-Alexandre's father was Jacques-François, a French General sometime Governor General of a French trading post in India and author of État politique de l'Inde en 1777. Lauriston fils was a student in Paris at the College des Grassins, and he continued his studies at the Ecole Militaire de Paris and was a supporter of the French Revolution.
The beginnings of a military career during the French Revolution
In 1791, Alexandre de Lauriston was ADC of General Beauvoir and served in the Armée du Nord. Further postings were in the armies of Moselle, Sambre and Meuse from 1792 to 1796. He was noted for his leadership at the Siege of Maastricht in 1794 and then at the Siege of Valenciennes, and was elevated to the rank of Chef de Brigade of the horse artillery in 1795. He left the army in 1796 and did not resume service until 1800 at the request of Bonaparte, for whom he was an ADC.
Bonaparte's Aide-de-Camp and then the Emperor's Diplomat
He therefore followed the First Consul to Italy and was present at the Battle of Marengo. He was subsequently ordered to organise the armament of the isles and ports of France. In April 1801 his military career took on a new path, as he was sent on mission to Copenhagen to help defend the town against the English. On the 11 October Lauriston was given the responsibility of bringing the preliminaries of the Treaty of Amiens to Great Britain. There here received a triumphant welcome and was carried by the crowd all the way to the French embassy. His military career then proceeded by leaps and bounds, as he became Général de Brigade in 1802 and General de Division in 1805, receiving the title of commander of the Légion d'Honneur in 1804 on the way. In this same year he was appointed commander of the troops destined for Batavia (Indonesia) but which in the end were sent on ships under Admiral Villeneuve to Martinique in the run up to the failed invasion of Britain. On arriving on the Caribbean island Lauriston captured HMS Diamond Rock (in fact a fortified rock south of Fort de France on Martinique) from the British on the 25 May, 1805. On his return to Europe, he was made governor of various different cities in the southern reaches of the Empire, namely: General of Braunau; Imperial Commissioner in Ragusa; Governor of Ragusa and Bouches-du-Cattaro; and finally Governor of Venice in 1807. He was elevated to the rank of Comte de l'Empire in June, 1808. He distinguished himself in the 1809 Campaign and, after Wagram, became dignitary of the Order of the Iron Crown. Among his missions as Colonel General of the Imperial Guard, he escorted Marie-Louise to France for the imperial marriage. After Louis Bonaparte King of Holland's abdication, Lauriston accompanied the former's children to France. On the 5 February, 1811 Lauriston replaced Caulaincourt as ambassador in Russia. When war broke out between the two Empires he joined the Grande Armée at Smolensk and once again took on his role as Emperor's ADC. During the occupation of Moscow he was made responsible for the agreement of an armistice with General Kutuzov. Contemporary accounts record how Lauriston's mission almost succeeded. However in the end Napoleon was forced to leave Moscow and Lauriston joined the rear guard of the Grande Armée for the retreat. After reaching Magdeburg he was appointed Commander in Chief of the Corps de l'Observation de l'Elbe in January 1813, and towards the end of the month he was given charge of organising the 5th Corps d'Armée, which served in the 1813 Campaign.
From Leipzig to the Restoration
Lauriston fought in many encounters in the spring and summer campaigns of 1813 notably at Weissig Bautzen, Wurschen, Neukirch, Lowenberg, Goldberg and Katzbach. Present at the Battle of Leipzig, he was taken prisoner on 19 October and taken to Berlin. He was not to return to France until after the Treaty of Paris in 1814 when he became ADC to the Comte d'Artois. Louis XVIII appointed him as Captain of the Company of Mousquetaires de la Maison du Roi "Les Mousquetaires Gris" ("The Grey Musketeers"). During the Hundred Days, Lauriston followed the king to Bethune, and after the Second Abdication he was elevated to the rank of Pair de France and became commander of the First Infantry Division of the Garde Royale. Further appointments included commander of Saint-Louis in 1816, Marquis in 1817, Ministre de la Maison du Roi in 1820 and finally Maréchal de France in 1823. He died in Paris on 10 June 1828.
- Jean Tulard (ed), Dictionnaire Napoléon, Fayard: Paris, 1999 (second edition), p. 162, s.v., 'Lauriston'- The Catalogue historique des généraux français, connétables, maréchaux de France, lieutenants généraux, maréchaux de camp. Maréchaux de France. Restauration. Monarchie de Juillet. Second Empire, M. Louis de La Roque, éd. A. Desaide (Paris), 1896-1902
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Making music easy to find, preview and acquire are all themes that today's libraries are focusing on. Powerful search engines are key in enabling users to find exactly what they are looking for, without jumping through hoops. But that's just the beginning. Each of the libraries we spoke with this month mentioned their goal of making music readily available and easy to access.
Consumers are quite comfortable with making purchases online — and without the need for any human interaction. This trend is carrying over to the business of sound libraries, where clients can find what they are looking for and download it instantly — in any variety of audio formats. For those that require guidance — or "hand holding" — library professionals offer their expertise and familiarity with their offerings, which can help save valuable time when trying to assemble playlists.
And one other trend is that toward the use of lyric-driven music, which is finding its way into reality programming, network series, cable programs and feature films. These titles are easier to license and much less expensive than those offered through major labels.
Here's a look at what's going on in the sound library space.
New York-based MasterSource (www.mastersource.com) is a Universal Music Publishing Company that specializes in vocal-based tracks. The company has been in operation for 18 years and has had a Web presence for several years now.
Josh Kessler, senior director, creative for MasterSource Music Catalog, says the site's search engine makes up in efficiency what it might be lacking in aesthetics. Visitors to the MasterSource site can immediately start browsing the catalog without first having to register. Drop-down menus help define searches and narrow selections, and choices go well beyond styles and instrumentation to include eras (say 1940s) and even language.
"We have music in about 20 different languages," notes Kessler. "If you want a French jazz song or a Japanese pop song or a traditional Russian song, you can search that way. You can also search by the key of a song. We are answering to a lot of the music editors that are working within the confines of what the composers give them, and they can search and find material relatively easily that way."
MasterSource has over 7,500 cues, all song-based. The library recently put out a Hawaiian disc full of traditional music, as well as a new gospel CD. They have a huge collection of reality TV score music, which Kessler says has been very successful. And last year, MasterSource released a CD of 1950's pop music. With each lyric-driven track also comes a full instrumental track, along with :60, :30 and :10 edits.
Visitors to the site can preview cuts and download them instantly as 192k MP3s or 48k AIFs. All of the music is metatagged, so when tracks are opened in iTunes, all attached metadata is revealed.
Pricing varies based on usage. Clients that might be working on a 13-episode reality show, notes Kessler, might opt for a blanket license, where they would pay a one-time fee and then have access to the entire catalog for the course of the series.
"It does vary substantially," says Kessler of the pricing. "It's not necessarily the magnitude of the project, it's based on the rights that somebody needs to acquire. If you are acquiring for non-broadcast industrial use and are using it in a classroom, I can't possibly charge you what I would if you were asking for all media and DVD, theatrical, in-context promotion and things like that."
The benefit to producers is the ease of licensing. "No matter what the fee is, they know they can make a call and get the song — no matter what — and we're not going to be as expensive as the major labels."
MasterSource has two songs in the film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and another two in the Sacha Baron Cohen film, Bruno. Kessler says the company contributes to between 30 and 40 major motion pictures each year. MasterSource tracks also show up in television content, and the company's New York location helps it secure advertising work too.
5 Alarm Music (www.5alarmmusic.com) in Pasadena, CA, is one of the biggest independent music libraries in the field, representing 40 different collections from the US and abroad. At press time, the company had just returned from the annual NAB show in Las Vegas, where they introduced the implementation of SonicFire Pro 5's editing abilities within the First Degree Music library.
"We introduced it at the NAB, and what's so great about it is that it gives the user such flexibility," explains Cassie Lord, 5 Alarm Music's GM/executive producer. "If [users] get a :17 YouTube video, they just put in :17 and boom, it's scored — beginning, middle and end. If they want to take out the drums they can, and if they want to pump up the drums, they can. It's all really automated."
Users would need the SonicFire Pro 5 application, but 5 Alarm makes it available for free through its Website. And, there's a Final Cut Pro plug-in that's available for video editors looking to easily score their projects.
"We provide the software for free and [clients] just pay for what they use when they use it," she says.
Three hundred tracks from the First Degree library are now "enabled" for use with the SonicFire Pro editor. 5 Alarm's other libraries are also in the process of being enabled, but it's not a quick procedure. Lord estimates the process taking eight to 10 hours per track. That being the case, she's had four staffers trained in the enabling process.
In addition to the 5 Alarm releases, Lord says many of the other libraries she represents recognize the power the editing program provides, and are now having their titles enabled too.
The company recently took on representation for Boost TV!, a UK-based library consisting of orchestral music and sound design. Pennybank Tunes is a small library from France that Lord says has "very interesting accordion music, and things to fill in [what] I didn't have with other libraries."
Integration is also a new offering and includes tracks by the composer of the classic cartoon Tom and Jerry. And the 24/7 library is a collection from composer David Vanacore, whose music is featured in shows such as Survivor and The Apprentice.
5 Alarm has 100,000 tracks online for review. The company's search engine is powered by Soundminer, and its Website is open for browsing once users complete a simple registration form that asks for their name and email address.
"Everybody has the ability to search on our search engine," says Lord. "They just register and they're in. They don't have the ability to download until we know who they are — that they are a bonafide user and someone who would pay a needledrop fee. But, if you're a student and want to see what's out there professionally, we'll let you check out our store."
Clients can download cues in the AIFF, WAV or MP3 format. They can also send playlists to members of their production team with links to their selections. This eliminates them from having to attach song files that might clog up email accounts.
Most of 5 Alarm Music's libraries are instrumental. Music from the library has been featured in the films The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and 17 Again, as well as in TV shows such as Saturday Night Live, In the Motherhood, the updated Biography special on Charles Manson, and Food Network's Unwrapped.
For producers looking for lyric-driven tracks, the company has an indie artist label called Rescue Records. Music from it was recently featured in the TV series The Unusuals. Lord says she is seeing a trend toward e-commerce for clients, and the company will be addressing it more with the next revision of its Website. But some still need hand holding and human interaction, and for those clients, 5 Alarm Music wants to be a "music concierge."
"The people who generally want their hand held are film and television people," notes Lord. "Post houses and people doing things on the Internet, they just want to get on your search engine and download. Film and television supervisors will call and say, 'Put in my basket some Mexican music, orchestral, drama and send it to me.'"
Sherman Oaks, CA-based AudioMicro (www.audiomicro.com) came online in June of 2008 as a Web platform that would allow content creators to upload to it and find distribution.
According to founder Ryan Born, AudioMicro's "real niche is that we have expertise in search engine optimization — showing up in Google results. If you Google 'stock music,' we are the number two organic result, which means we don't pay for those clicks. We show up organically and drive traffic to the site by optimizing for over 16,000 different terms."
Since its launch, AudioMicro has built a library of 18,000 music tracks and nearly 100,000 sound effects. And submissions come from artists all over the world, who upload directly to the library. According to Born, an AudioMicro music editor or sound editor reviews each submission based on quality and it is then accepted or rejected. "Once we accept it, it goes right into the library for licensing."
Visitors to the AudioMicro site can browse cues as 64kbps MP3 files.
"If the artist uploads an MP3, we allow the download to be an MP3," explains Born. "If the artist uploads a WAV, we have an option for it to be downloaded as an MP3, WAV or AIF. And if it's uploaded as an AIF, we have the option for it to be downloaded as an MP3, WAV or AIF."
The submissions come from a range of sound professionals. "We have independents producing their first collection or making their first few effects, looking for a place to put it and make a few dollars on the side, and we also have music publishing libraries that come to us and have entire catalogues with various composers under their wings," says Born. "We also have individual composers who do publishing and songwriting that come to us. It's all non-exclusive when it comes to AudioMicro. They are using us as an additional outlet. We're garnering traffic month after month and they are seeing us as an additional place to put their content."
Music cues range from bumpers and stingers to :30, :60 and full-length versions. Sound effects can include half-second explosions all the way up to longer soundscape-types of recordings.
"When you purchase a track from AudioMicro, you can use it over and over in your productions," says Born. "That term is sometimes thrown around as buy-out, but by all means, the person doesn't own that content."
It is royalty free, he notes, but on the music side, if a cue does make a broadcast performance, producers need to fill out that information so that artists can get paid.
Also unique to AudioMicro is its pricing and purchase policy. Credits — like in an arcade — are used for purchases. Born calls it "MicroStock."
"The pricing is as little as $1 per minute," he notes. "We price everything at one credit per minute. When you come to AudioMicro, you've got to buy credits. Credits unlock music and the sounds."
AudioMicro recently introduced an iPhone app that lets users have over 500 high-quality sound effects available at their fingertips. And the "Sneak Attack" function is a playful setting that triggers funny sound effects when the iPhone is picked up by an unsuspecting subject.
VideoHelper has an office and studio space in New York City. The company was recently at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, where it showed off its new "Modules 4" narrative sound design CD. The show was also an opportunity for the production music provider to maintain existing relationships and get a bird's-eye-view of the industry as a whole.
Connecting by phone shortly after the NAB show, VideoHelper's Joe Saba and Stewart Winter said that in addition to using NAB to promote one or two of its new discs, the team also uses it as "an opportunity to meet people, because we don't have sales people. We are probably the only company in our field that does not have a sales force. We rely only on the five to 10 ads that we run, and word of mouth."
Saba and Winter are co-owners and composers. The company also has an additional three composers who provide creative input.
In their New York office are five studios, outfitted with MOTU Digital Performer and Digidesign Pro Tools.
"We all compose," notes the duo. "We have a workshop here where all the composers get together one day a week and present stuff they are working on. We shoot down or fix things we don't like and applaud the stuff that we do like. And we shape the library that way."
To date, VideoHelper has 3,500 unique titles — some with various cut downs and others without. Each of the company's discs features representation from all five composers, providing a healthy mix for customers to choose from.
Discs are both a practical and conceptual term at VideoHelper. Saba and Winter say they refer to discs in terms of how they organize the library. And while they do offer CDs as a form of delivery, over 60 percent of VideoHelper's clients use the company's Website or hard drive offerings.
The principals admit that their catalog is not the cheapest out there, but they are forthright with their pricing — making rates public.
"We're not the cheapest," agrees the duo, "but we are competitive with the other high-end [libraries]. We don't really compete on price. On that level it's usually more about who has the more appropriate music for what the client wants. With Universal and Warner, there are these mega libraries that have 100,000 tracks. There's a lot of good music out there and we never want to compete on volume, or be the WalMart of production music."
VideoHelper cues appear often in movie trailers, including the new Star Trek, as well as in broadcast promos for ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Sci-Fi and HBO. And, original cues have been created for World News Tonight and The Suzy Orman Show. But their music, which tends to be a bit more "in-your-face," isn't suitable for all broadcasters. The "yoga" channel, laugh Saba and Winter, would find their music "woefully inappropriate."
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Home Made LCM Bars...I haven't blogged for ages. As I said to a friend the other day, I am working myself to the bone on family, friends, work and home. And I'm happy about that.
But another friend put a call out for ideas for her Sunday bake fest - and I was making these today, for the return to school lunch boxes, and so I promised her I'd blog the very simple and easy recipe for home made LCM bars.
These are no healthier than the sugar filled packaged bars you buy at the shops, but they are certainly easy and cheap and popular, so I tend to make them for my three lovely kids on occasion.
I can also lay no claim to the recipe - I suspect these have morphed from a back of the cereal box recipe.
1 heaped tablespoon butter
125g Jersey Caramels
300g Marshmallows
6 cups Rice Bubbles
Chocolate sprinkles
~ Line a lamington tin with foil and spray lightly with spray oil
~ Use a large pan and melt the butter
~ Over a low heat, add the Jersey Caramels and the Marshmallows and stir to melt them into the butter - this takes for ages by the way - just keep the temp low and keep stirring
~ Working quickly, add the Rice Bubbles and stir in really well to combine - it's a sticky mess of spun sugar by this stage
~ Remove from heat
~ Dump the whole lot into the lined lamington pan and press down firmly using a sheet of baking paper, so that the whole lot is even and compressed
~ Top with a handful of sprinkles and chill in the fridge for a few hours
~Cut into squares or bars and wrap for lunchboxes.


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The Problem of Terminological Equivalence in International Maritime Law
Author: Gemma Capellas-Espuny
Gemma Capellas-Espuny was born in Sabadell (Barcelona) in 1973. She graduated in translation into Spanish by the Universidad Aut�noma of Barcelona (English and Japanese) and the University of Geneva (English and French), specializing in legal and economic texts. She also holds two postgraduate diplomas from the University of Geneva in computer-assisted translation and in terminology. Ms. Capellas is registered as an official translator appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at present she is working as a temporary translator in various international organizations seated in Geneva. Publications and conferences include articles on legal translation and computer-assisted translation within international organizations.
By Gemma Capellas-Espuny
Published on 06/5/2005
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I recently bought a used landshark steel track frame. It came with some rigged up road cranks, that didn't clear the chainstay when I installed them. rather than screw around with them, I bit the bullet and ordered a new set of sram omniums. I just installed them, and they don't clear the chainstay either! It's not by much, just on the end of the cranks 5 "spokes" where the bolts go through.
so.. should I put a dimple in the frame so it clears, file down the cranks, or put a spacer in and try to adjust my chainline accordingly?


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"Her First and Only Airplane Ride" — An Excerpt from Cleared for Takeoff, by Bob Griffin
A special supplement to Joe Godfrey's profile of Bob Griffin.
When the rickety bus screeched to a stop behind the hangar, I didn't even look up. My early morning attention was totally caught up in a careful preflight inspection of the Helio Courier before starting the day's flying. It promised to be a busy day.
The crunch of shoes on gravel and a cheery greeting broke my concentration. "Hola, don Roberto, would it be possible for you to carry us to Arapicos?" I glanced up, irritated with the interruption, them smiled a welcome. Miguel was a friend I had flown before. "So you want a ride to Arapicos?" I responded.
Two years earlier Miguel and his friends, along with their families, had moved across the Andes to carve farms from the isolation of eastern Ecuador's jungle. Several months earlier they had come to me begging for help. The knew my missionary plane could whisk them in minutes over a mucky, muddy trail that on foot that would normally cost them three days of agonizing slogging.
I was glad to help. That's why I was in Ecuador. I wanted to be a servant to any and all in every way I could. But I never could have guessed what this morning's offer to help would lead to. "We'll have to hurry," I urged.
Short minutes later, after a hasty weighing and loading up, we were off, and soon bouncing down at Arapicos. Again I urged Miguel to hurry as we dragged cargo to the side, out of the way. I couldn't afford to waste time on the ground. Back in the cockpit, I jammed my seatbelt home and was just settling the earphones on my head when I heard a shout. A boy had burst from the jungle at the far end of the strip. Seeing me already in the cockpit, he started running and shouting "Espere, espere, wait, wait!"
What was this all about? I waited while he sprinted the couple hundred yards to the plane. "Can you carry out a load of meat?" he gasped. "They're bringing it already."
That was a normal request, and no surprise. I had flown many loads of fresh meat from Arapicos, but I did wonder how they had butchered it so quickly. I didn't have long to wonder. They hadn't bothered. This meat was still on the hoof. Waddling slowly my way was a big sow -- and I mean a big one -- about to become a passenger in my airplane. Why not, they reasoned. Live people ride in the airplane, so why not a live pig?
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Faces fell. What to do now? They couldn't carry the meat out; it would spoil. Nor could that portly pig endure the rigors of the trail's knee-deep mud. Nope, I knew if this pig was going to market, she had to fly. And guess who was going to be the pilot on this adventure?
"OK," I agreed. "Get some vine from the jungle. Hurry, let's tie her up tight and I'll fly her out alive." But that sow had a thing about flying. Right up front, she let everyone know she didn't want to be a part of such foolishness. Furthermore, she didn't want her legs tied and she told the whole world about it.
But who cares what pigs do or don't like? The fellows bound her legs like Houdini, grabbed all the handles available, ears, tail and legs, and unceremoniously dumped her in where I tied her down as best I could. Then, belted in again and earphones on, I could hardly hear the answer to my "ready for takeoff" call. The whole airplane was reverberating with that pig's squeals. Even the bellowing engine on takeoff couldn't drown her protests.
But leveling off in cruise, I suddenly realized she must be overcome with the joys of flight; no more squeals. Good, I thought. She's going to enjoy her first and only airplane ride. Then, looking back to see how she was doing, I looked her right in the eye. Feet loose and standing with legs splayed out for balance, she was quietly oinking her contentment, the picture of a happy pig.
Lord, I breathed, don't let her try for the co-pilot's job. Just keep her happy and quiet until I can get this airplane on the ground. He did. She did. And I did. And, I'll tell you, this pilot was never happier to discharge a passenger. It doesn't take much to make me a happy servant.


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April 29, 2016
A new study suggests drugs may be a factor in as many as a quarter of fatal car crashes.
Researchers examined government data on car accidents where there was drug-test information on the drivers. Of the drivers who died in accidents, about 25-percent tested positive for drugs. Marijuana and stimulant drugs, including cocaine and meth, were the most common.
Experts say some drugs can linger in a person's body for several days.
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However, as USD/JPY has been rejected several times on approaches to 100.00, market hopes of further advances were limited, helping the panic dollar buying across the board. Currently, the pair is trading at 100.60 and closing Thursday with 1.55% daily gains. According to the FXstreet.com trend index, the USD/JPY is slightly bullish in the 1-hour chart. Indicators such as MACD, CCI and Momentum are pointing to the north while the Stochastic is bearish.
As for US stocks, American indexes remain near their all-time highs with DJIA and S&P hitting a fresh all-time highs Thursday before closing a bit lower, while the Nasdaq touched its highest levels since November 2000 before shedding 0.1%. Step back come after rumors' Fed will start tapering bond-buying, although finally nothing was confirmed. Anyway, indexes are up over 12% since the start of the year, another strong support for USD/JPY gains.
What now?
With the USD/JPY leaving behind the 100.00 mark, the first Abe milestone, and the pair reaching fresh 4-year highs at 100.77, FXstreet.com chief strategist Valeria Bednarik states that the pair, "trades above 100.70, establishing a fresh high since May 2009, and with no aims of retreating any. Market players are now eying 101.44, April 2009 monthly high, and dips towards 99.70/100.00 if any, will be seen as strong buying opportunities."
"Although be aware, pullbacks are highly unlikely in yen crosses," Bednarik points. While when looking at EUR/JPY she adds: "former high around 130.40 is the level to watch as dips towards that area should see late buyers jumping into the bullish party. In bigger time frames, the upside is still favored with 133.60 now at sight."
Speaking about the EUR/JPY, Forex.com's analyst Chris Tevere comments that the pair broke a triangle pattern fueled by the USD/JPY uptrend movement. "The triangle pattern is now confirmed, which projects a measured move objective of ~600 pips."


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Indiana State University: LPN to RN Program Overview
Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, is a small college with a student-teacher ratio of just 20:1 which is ideal for experiential learning and individual attention. Through on-campus and online programs, the University offers accredited associate's, bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. The most popular programs are elementary/early childhood education, criminology, communications, and systems & decision sciences.
The university is broken up into five colleges
- College of Arts and Science
- Donald W. Scott College of Business
- Bayh College of Education
- College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services
- College of Technology
Quick Facts about Indiana State University
- Founded in 1865
- Location: Terre Haute, Indiana
- Current total enrollment: 12,448 (as of Fall 2013)
- Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission since 1915
- Over 100 majors to choose from
- Academic calendar is separated into 2 semester with some summer classes available
- School colors: Blue and White
- Team: Sycamores
- Mascot: Sycamore Sam
LPN to RN bridge program
The College of Nursing's LPN to RN program can be completed on campus or online. The Department of Baccalaureate Nursing Completion handles students on the distance education tracks, while the Department of Baccalaureate Nursing is in charge of on-campus nursing students. Programs prepare students to communicate, educate, and advocate effectively within their nursing roles. By the end of the program, LPNs or LVNs in the LPN to RN degree program will meet the requirements to take the RN licensure exam. Most states recognize the LPN to RN track, including Florida, Illinois, and Colorado.
Students entering with an LPN or LVN must have already taken courses in mental health, nursing care of adults, children and families, in addition to courses in basic microbiology, communication, and general psychology. Once accepted into the LPN to RN major, students must complete 41 credits in classes like Nursing in Mental Illness, Nursing Care of Families in Stress and Crisis, and Population-Focused Community Health Nursing.
Most classes are a combination of in-class study (or online study) and hours spent in health facilities. Although much of the coursework can be taught out of books, emphasis is placed on students learning from professionals currently working in the field by working alongside them.
Quick Facts about the LPN to RN program
- Designed for: Licensed Vocational Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses
- Nursing prerequisites: Mental Health Aspects of Nursing Practice, Nursing Care of Adults, Nursing Care of the Child and Family, Nursing Care of the Childbearing Family (15 credits total)
- Other prerequisites: Introductory Microbiology and Microbiology Laboratory, Introduction to Public Communication, Rhetoric and Writing, Psychology, Quantitative Literacy, Information Technology (25 credits)
- All prerequisites can be completed through examination
- Typical program outcome: Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and eligibility to apply to take the R.N. licensure examination
- Program length: 3 to 4 years (120 credits)
- Classes available online and at the campuses
- Financial aid and scholarships are available for those who are eligible and apply


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NFP Announces Strategic Relationship With CEFEX
NEW YORK, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- National Financial Partners Corp. (NYSE: NFP), a leading provider of benefits, insurance and wealth management services, today announced the establishment of an innovative strategic relationship between its broker/dealer and investment advisor and the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence, LLC ("CEFEX"). Through this alliance -- the first of its kind between CEFEX and an independent broker/dealer -- NFP will provide advisors with access to resources and tools to support the process of becoming a CEFEX certified investment fiduciary. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100920/NY67494LOGO )CEFEX is an independent organization that assesses the trustworthiness of investment fiduciaries. Certification by CEFEX is a demonstration of adherence to all fiduciary practices as defined by an independent accreditation process. A CEFEX certified Investment Advisory firm is an acknowledged fiduciary to its clients, including retirement plans. James Poer, President, NFP Advisor Services Group, commented, "We recognize the value proposition for advisors that choose to act as a fiduciary, particularly given the growing industry demand for more holistic financial guidance. Today's announcement is an extension of our commitment to helping our advisors evolve their businesses into multidiscipline practices so they are better able to serve clients. We are extremely pleased to be able to provide our advisors with the tools and resources needed to facilitate the process of pursuing the CEFEX certification." Carlos Panksep, General Manager of CEFEX, commented, "CEFEX completed the assessment of NFP's role in supporting the Investment Advisor certification process. Through our independent assessment, the certification provides assurance to clients that participating advisors are demonstrating adherence to the industry's best fiduciary practices." Edward O'Malley, President, NFP Corporate Client Group, commented, "Establishing trust with clients is paramount, and certification by CEFEX signifies an advisor's commitment to providing sound and objective financial advice held to the highest professional standards. As more advisors become certified as fiduciaries, we believe our corporate clients will benefit from access to the enhanced services that accredited financial advisors on the NFP platform will now be able to provide. We look forward to working with CEFEX to assist our advisors in pursuing and maintaining this important recognition."
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NEW Empirical Development Economics, the new textbook I have contributed to is now published and available from Routledge and standard retailers. All the examples in the book can be replicated, with data and do-files available on a dedicated website: www.empiricalde.com.
NEW I've added the regife command by Matthieu Gomez and the xtpedroni and xtcce commands by Tim Neal.
Panel Time Series Tools
Estimating panel time series models with heterogeneous slopes - ado, help, Stata Journal article, applicationVersion: 1.0.2 - 4th January 2012 - in Stata: -ssc install xtmg- (Using SSC will get you the previous version for the time being; use the above download links for the latest version)
This command implements the Pesaran and Smith (1995) Mean Group (MG) estimator, the Pesaran (2006) Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG) estimator and the Augmented Mean Group (AMG) estimator introduced here and discussed and tested here. For these macro panel estimators the cross-panel average estimates can be reported as unweighted or outlier-robust means, where the latter is implemented via the rreg command. Optionally the routine reports the group-specific regression results and produces residuals and predicted values based on these. The example in the helpfile links to a dataset (+ related working paper) and goes through all the options of the command. This code is applied in our REStat paper on R&D spillovers. Other illustrations with data (including a Stata Journal article) can be found here.
NEW Since it was uploaded to SSC in February 2011 xtmg has been downloaded over 10,400 times (Nov 2015).
Investigating variable nonstationarity in macro panels - ado, helpVersion: 1.0.1 - 8th February 2011 - in Stata: -ssc install multipurt-
This command runs the Maddala and Wu (1999) as well as the Pesaran (2007) panel unit root tests for multiple variables and lags. This is not a new command for these panel unit root tests but a convenient tool using the existing xtfisher and pescadf commands written by Scott Merryman and Piotr Lewandowski respectively (both commands need to be installed for multipurt to work). In the future this will hopefully also include the CIPSM panel unit root test by Pesaran, Smith and Yamagata (2009). The example in the helpfile links to a dataset (+ related working paper) and goes through all the options of the command. Further illustrations with data can be found here.
Investigating variable and residual cross-section dependence in macro panels - ado, helpVersion: 1.0.0 - 5th February 2011
This command implements the Pesaran (2004) CD test for cross-section dependence in panel time-series data. The routine builds on the xtcsd command by De Hoyos and Sarafidis (2006) but is not a post-estimation command: xtcd can be applied to variables as well as to residuals, provided the latter have been previously computed as a separate variable series (using for instance the xtmg command). Furthermore, in the multipurt spirit up to 9 variable or residuals series can be tested together. Further illustrations with data can be found here.
Please note: This version and the one on SSC has a bug whereby the average number of observations per correlation as well as the balancedness/unbalancedness of the panel are wrong. This will be corrected in the forthcoming Mata version of the routine.
Investigating heterogeneous panel cointegration with an error correction test - ado-file, help-fileVersion: 1.0.0 still in planning
This command implements the error correction based cointegration test by Gengenbach, Urbain and Westerlund (2009), which builds on earlier work by Westerlund (2007). The test investigates error correction at the group-level (e.g. country) and can account for cross-section dependence. A rough an ready approach is described here.
xtcipsmInvestigating variable nonstationarity in macro panels with multiple unobserved factors - ado-file, help-file
Version: 1.0.0 still in planning
This command implements the Pesaran, Smith and Yamagata (2009) panel unit root test. It extends the cross sectionally augmented panel unit root test proposed by Pesaran (2007) to the case of a multifactor error structure. The basic idea is to exploit information regarding the unobserved factors that are shared by other time series in addition to the variable under consideration. The test procedure only requires specification of the maximum number of factors, in contrast to other panel unit root tests based on principal components that require in addition the estimation of the number of factors as well as the factors themselves. A rough an ready approach is described here.
This commands implements the panel cointegration test by Banerjee and Carrion-i-Silvestre (2011). This runs a standard CIPS panel unit root test on some 'residuals' from a Pesaran (2006) CCEP model. A rough an ready approach is described here.
xtbcisTesting for Panel Cointegration Using Common Correlated Effects Estimators - ado-file, help-file
Version: 1.0.0 still in planning
Already coded by others
Useful tools (not just for macro panels)* Nick Cox has written xtpatternvar which gives you insights into the unbalancedness of the panel and which observations are missing. Missing observations are a common feature of macro panel data, so maybe also have a look at the paper by Ron Smith and Ali Tasiran on 'Random coefficients models of arms imports' in Economic Modelling, 2010, Vol.27(6).
Panel Unit Root Testing (PURT)* The Breitung (2000) panel unit root/stationarity test (xtunitroot breitung) is implemented in Stata 11; requires a strongly balanced panel. Note that the help file for xtunitroot provides a nice overview of all the tests.
* The Hadri (2000) panel unit root/stationarity test (xtunitroot hadri) is implemented in Stata 11; requires a strongly balanced panel. Prior to this version you can use the command written by Kit Baum (hadrilm).
* The Harris & Tzavalis (1999) panel unit root/stationarity test (xtunitroot ht) is implemented in Stata 11; requires a balanced panel.
* The Im, Pesaran & Shin (1997, 2003) panel unit root/stationarity test (ipshin) was coded by Fabian Bornhorst and Kit Baum; country series cannot have gaps. This is also implement in Stata 11 (xtunitroot ips).
* The Levin, Lin & Chu (1992, 2002) panel unit root/stationarity test (levinlin) was coded by Fabian Bornhorst and Kit Baum; country series cannot have gaps. This is also implement in Stata 11 (xtunitroot llc).
* The Maddala & Wu (1999) panel unit root/stationarity test (xtfisher) was coded by Scott Merryman. The option 'pp' implements the Phillips and Perron (1988) test at the country-level instead. Both of these options are also implement in Stata 11 (xtunitroot fisher).
* The Pesaran (2006) CIPS panel unit root/stationarity test (pescadf) was coded by Piotr Lewandowski.
Cointegration Testing
* The seven Pedroni (1999) residual based cointegration tests (first generation, i.e. limited allowance made for cross-section dependence, unless you assume [getting technical] that the unobservables are identical in thei impact across countries) was recently coded by Timothy Neal of UNSW as xtpedroni (link is for the Stata Journal article [subscription required], but of course you can install xtpedroni from within Stata by typing - findit xtpedroni -). Consult the help files in Stata after installation for further details. Tim's got a nice paper in the Economic Record (subscription required) where he applies these and the estimators also included in the routine (see below).* The Westerlund (2007) error-correction/cointegration test (xtwest) was coded by Damiaan Persyn; it requires that the country series do not have gaps but as a very useful feature tells the user which country series violate this requirement.
Cross-section Dependence Testing* The Pesaran (2004) CD test for cross-section dependence was coded by Rafael E. De Hoyos and Vasilis Sarafidis (xtcsd). This command operates as a post-estimation command following xtreg, fe or re. See xtcd above for a more flexible procedure.
* A number of tools for spatial econometric analysis including Moran's (1950) I statistic were written by Maurizio Pisati (this covers a number of commands, most conveniently found via -findit spatial- or for a description the Stata Bulletin 60, sg162). A new set of spatial estimators for Stata (spmlreg) has been developed by P. Wilner Jeanty, with David Drukker et al also chipping in rather substantially for cross-section analysis (sppack). Note that for all spatial econometric analysis it is required that you specify a spatial weight matrix. The Pisati commands allow you to do so provided you have relevant data.
Spatial Econometric Methods* A number of tools for spatial econometric analysis including
Moran's (1950) I statistic were written by Maurizio Pisati (this covers a
number of commands, most conveniently found via -findit spatial-; for
a description see Stata Bulletin 60, sg162, free access). A new set of spatial estimators for Stata (spmlreg)
has recently been created by P. Wilner Jeanty, with Stata's David Drukker et al also
chipping in rather substantially for cross-section analysis (sppack).
Note that for all spatial econometric analysis it is required that you
specify a spatial weight matrix. The Pisati commands allow you to do so
provided you have relevant data. Further spatial commands in Stata include spagg (something to do with dyadic data), spautoc (Moran and Geary measures of spatial correlation), spgrid (creating two-dimensional grids), sphdist (spherical distance), splagvar (create spatial lags and other tools), spmon (monadic data), spseudor2 (create measure for goodness-of-fit), spspc and spundir (more dyadic data tools), spwmatfill and spwmatrix (tools for creation/import/export of spatial weight matrices). Franzese, Hays and Kachi (2010) also have code for their m-star estimator (multiparametric spatiotemporal autoregressive model).
* There are some new resources for spatial econometrics provided in the form of a talk by Maurizio Pisati at the 2012 German Stata Users Group, as well as two talks to be given at the Spanish Stata User Group meeting later this year (September 2012). In general it's worth your time looking through the materials for past meetings.
* Tim Conley at Western Ontario provides detailed code for his work on GMM estimation with cross-sectional dependence.
* Federico Belotti, Gordon Hughes and Andrea Piano Mortari have created a suite of fixed and random-effects spatial models for balanced panel data in form of the xsmle command. This includes Spatial Autoregressive Model (SAR), Spatial Error Model (SEM), Spatial Durbin Model (SDM), Spatial Autoregressive Model with Autoregressive Disturbances (SAC), Generalized Spatial Random-effects Model (GSPRE). The command can compute direct, indirect and total spatial effects (LeSage, 2008) and can also transform the data to accommodate fixed effects. With the -mi- prefix command this estimator can also be used for unbalanced panels.
NEW * Marinho Bertanha and Petra Moser have developed a methodology to allow for spatial dependence (defined via a weight matrix/coordinates) in the analysis of count data. Their paper 'Spatial Errors in Count Data Regressions' is available here, Stata and Matlab code can be downloaded as well.
Panel Time Series Estimators* The Kao & Chiang (2000) Dynamic OLS (DOLS) estimator for Cointegrated Panel Data with homogeneous covariance structure was recently coded in Stata by Diallo Ibrahima Amadou (CERDI) as xtdolshm; you will also need to install ltimbimata. Both can be found via -ssc install- or -findit- in Stata. Make sure you have the latest version of this command, since Diallo has recently ironed out a bug related to the computation of the confidence intervals. Also: email him rather than me if you have any questions about this command!
* The Swamy (1970) Random Coefficient Model (RCM) estimator is implemented in Stata (xtrc). The special edition of Economic Modelling on P.A.V.B Swamy should be useful for anybody using the RCM estimator: Volume 27, Issue 6, November 2010.
NEW * Timothy Neal of UNSW has coded xtpedroni (link is for the Stata Journal article [subscription required], but of course you can install xtpedroni from within Stata by typing - findit xtpedroni -), which implements the Pedroni (2001) Group Mean DOLS estimator. Tim's got a nice paper in the Economic Record (subscription required) where he applies this estimator.
NEW * Tim Neal has also coded xtcce, which provides not just the static Pesaran (2006) CCE estimator but also the dynamic version(s) (Chudik and Pesaran, 2015) as well as IV/GMM-versions Tim developed as part of his PhD. Although we did not use Tim's code as part of the empirics for the paper (all the data and code are provided at the below link), an application of the dynamic CCE can be found in my recent JIE paper on debt and growth with Andrea Presbitero (IMF).
NEW * Matthieu Gomez of Princeton has coded regife, which implements the Bai (2009) interactive fixed effects estimator. To the best of my knowledge this is the first time one of the various estimators which compute factors and factor loadings as part of the estimation procedure has been coded in Stata.
Firm-level Productivity Analysis'Untested Assumptions and Data Slicing: A Critical Review of Firm-Level Production Function Estimators' with Christian Helmers. The Stata and R code for this paper will be posted here in due course. Since we're working on a book manuscript on firm-level productivity analysis (with Ralf Martin) there'll be a dedicated website with all the code through the publishers Oxford University Press, most likely some time after Summer 2013. If you're keen to use our ACF code... read the paper and/or wait till then.


text: 2005-12-20 om: Observations and Measurements OGC Document; In the comments the following "namespaces" were used to indicate author or source of the comment: fp: Florian Probst; ag: Andrew Gordon; mw: Merian-Webster Online (http://www.m-w.com); aw: Answer.com (http://answer.com); wp: Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org); seegrid:(https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/twiki/bin/view/Xmml/ObservationsAndMeasurements); ISO 19###: International Organization for Standardizationt; om: (Section 6.4) ResultMeasure is a variation of the standard Measure, which is a number with a scale [ISO 19103, ISO 19136]. fp: Renamed vom Observation to SimpleObservation. This allows to rename AbstractObservation to Observation. --> The notion "abstract" is useful in UML to denote classes with no instances. Classes with no instances are not usefull in ontologies om: (Section 6.6.2) A CommonObservation is an alternative to ComplexObservation, using the "Data" components from SensorML for its result type and resultDefinition. om: (Listing 33 - note) CommonObservation is a specialized observation type in which the value of the result property is a DataValue from the SWE Common components. seegrid: Generic concrete observation type in which the result is a tuple or record, and the record schema is provided in a adjacent result definition property. 1 0 om: (Listing 23) A definition of how to unpack an array and assign atomic values to components of map vectors. The array must correspond with an N-dimensional grid. Each map describes the values of the independent variable for one axis of the grid. The order of maps defines the iteration sequence within the grid, i.e. the rule for assigning the control variables to the items in an ordered list corresponding with a grid. fp: changed super class from SimpleProcedure to Object -> if an instrument is seen as procedure, it is ontologically problematic to assign a reference number to it. (--> datatype property "hasSerialNumber) om: (Section 6.5.3) Instrument adds a serialNumber denoting the instrument instance. 1 fp: renamed from ProcedurePackeage om: (Section 6.5.3) A ProcedurePackage is a single procedure composed of elements each responsible for a different observed property. A ProcedurePackage generates a complex observation representing a compound phenomenon. om: (Section 6.6.3) An array not tied to a conceptual object. om: (Section 6.5.3) SurveyProcedure carries a set of properties related to geodesy om: (Section 6.5.2) A CompoundPhenomenon has several components, whose count is indicated by the dimension. CompoundPhenomenon is an abstract class. Two concrete specializations are provided. fp: in this ontology, there are no sub classes of stereotype, but five individuals. fp: (?) A stereotype represents a variation of an existing model element with the same form (such as attributes and relationships) but with different intent. Generally a stereotype represents a usage distinction. A stereotyped element may have additional constraints, beyond those of the base element, as well as a distinct visual image. ISO19107: (Page 17) Most entities in a UML model can be described by a "stereotype" which is included near the name of the object and enclosed in guillemets "«" and "»". The stereotype allows the model to extend UML to include descriptions of elements of the model. fp: Changed Measurement to SimpleMeasurement in order to shift the class Measurement as intermediate class between Observation and all other XMeasurement classes. om: (Section 4.17) An observation whose result is a measure, a single number with a scale (ResultMeasure) om: (Section 6.2) While the term "observation" is used here for the general concept, Measurement is reserved for cases where the result is a numeric quantity. om: (Section 6.5.3) CalculationProcedure uses the inherited description, remarks and method properties to give details. fp: class Location was renamed to LocationDestription. The sub classes are EX_GeographicDescription and GN_Object. Both can be understood as descriptions / representations and not as real word entites. om: (Section 6.3) A location value is a spatial object described using coordinates (GM_Object) or a named place (EX_GeographicDescription). The location will normally refer to the location of the instrument or observer at the time of the observation. fp: Is a collection a sub class of event? A collection is a social object -->non-physical object --> non-physical endurant om: (Page_12) ObservationCollection is specialized from Event, being a collection of member observations. There are no constraints on the relationships between member observations. om: (Section 6.6.2) The most general way to combine observations where the result is split between component observations. Each component of the result is modelled as a separate observation. om: (Section 6.4) ObservationCollection is specialized from Event, being a collection of member observations. There are no constraints on the relationships between member observations. 1 om: (Section 6.3) A named place. om: (Listing 33) DataValue is the value of the result property. om: (Section 6.6.1) ScopedName is the result of a CategoryObservation, it is a term scoped by a vocabulary or authority. wp: In computer programming in general, a scope is an enclosing context. Scopes have contents which are associated with them. om: (Section 6.6.2) A CompositeObservation is a specialization of ObservationCollection, with the constraint that at least one of featureOfInterest, time or phenomenon is constant across all members. om: (Listing 32) Functionally equivalent to ComplexObservation. om: (Section 6.6.2) An ordered list of atomic values. om: (Section 6.6.2) The result of a ComplexMeasurement is a NumericRecord, which is an ordered set of numbers each with a scale. ISO 19103: (Page 18) Arrays used in programming languages are sequences that can be directly indexed by an offset from the beginning of the sequence. A Sequence is a Bag-like structure that orders the element instances. fp: Renamed the class Phenomenon with ObservedProperty --> in an DOLCE alignment the super class will be Quality. ag: "the observed property is usually a phenomenon" the word usually is not very precise. Are there any examples of observed properties that are not phenomena? om: (Section 6.3) The value that identifies or describes the Phenomenon for which the observation result provides an estimate of its value that is the primary result of observation. om: (Section 6.5.2) The observed property is usually a phenomenon, the estimate of whose value is the primary result of the observation. om: (Section 6.5.2) The basic Phenomenon class is a definition with an identifier. The description property may be used to hold a textual definition, or to carry a pointer to a more authoritative source. fp: introduced class Measurements and SimpleMeasurements in oder to extent the taxonomic structure and thus increase distinction between kinds of measurement and kinds of observations. 2 om: (Section 6.6.1) A RangeMeasurement is a variant measurement with two results describing an interval or range. Both results are RelativeMeasureType. om: (Section 6.3) Temporal Object that includes both temporal primitives and aggregates. om: (Section 6.3) A spatial object described using coordinates. 1 1 1 0 1 fp: changed from AbstractObservation to Observation see comment for the class Feature. om: (Listing 31) Basic type for observations. Concrete observations must extend this type with a "result" of the appropriate type. 1 om: (Section 6.6.3) Describes a single item in a record and it is characterized by property (indicated by an association with a Phenomenon), representation (how the item is encoded) and optional quality and procedure properties allow item-specific metadata to be provided. om: (Listing 23) Description of a scalar property with its representation and scale and (optional) quality indicators. om:(Section 6.61) An observation with a result that a ScopedName, which is a term scoped by a vocabulary or authority. ISO 19136 p356: UML classes with stereotype <<FeatureType>> derive directly or indirectly from gml:AbstractFeatureType. If the class is a class without supertype, it extends directly gml:AbstractFeatureType; otherwise it extends its supertype which shall be derived from gml:AbstractFeatureType (again, directly or indirectly). fp: This class was renamed from Abstract Feature to Feature. In software engineering it is a useful modeling construct to have "abstract" classes, which have no instances. In DL-based ontology engineering it is not possible to have "abstract" classes without instances which in turn have "concrete" sub classes which do have instances. The only explicit sub class relation in the O&M UML diagrams is to the class Station. For all other Feature (Types) this relation is implicitly assumes (?). ISO 19136: (Page 336) An abstract feature provides a set of common properties, including id, metaDataProperty, name and description inherited from AbstractGMLType, plus boundedBy. A concrete feature type must derive from this type and specify additional properties in an application schema. A feature must possess an identifying attribute ('id' - 'fid' has been deprecated). ISO 19136: (Page 32) The content model for gml:AbstractFeatureType adds two specific properties suitable for geographic features to the content model defined in gml:AbstractGMLType. The value of the gml:boundedBy property describes an envelope that encloses the entire feature instance, and is primarily useful for supporting rapid searching for features that occur in a particular location. om: (Section 8.1) A feature type is defined in terms of its set of properties, including attributes, association roles, and behaviors, as well as generalization and fp: this class was renamed from abstract feature to feature. In software engineering the notion of "abstract" provides a useful modelling construct. In ontology engineering ist is rather problematic to use the notion "abstract". Especially if the abstract class (no instances) has concrete sub classes (with instances). specialization relationships, and constraints (ISO 19109). ISO19101: (Page_3) Abstraction of real world phenomena. ISO19101: (Page_3) A feature may occur as a type or an instance. Feature type or feature instance shall be used when only one is meant. ISO19107: (Page_143) A feature may occur as a type or an instance. Feature type or feature instance should be used when only one is meant. ISO19110: (Page_2) Abstraction of real world phenomena with common properties. ISO 119103: (Page 18) Arrays used in programming languages are sequences that can be directly indexed by an offset from the beginning of the sequence. fp: renamed from Procedure Sequence om: (Section 6.5.3) A ProcedureSequence is a single procedure composed of an ordered set of processingSteps, the value of each being a Procedure. A ProcedureSequence generates a single observation. 1 om: (Section 6.6.3) RecordDefinition describes a record of the specified recordLength, in terms of an explicit set of ordered components. 1 om: (Section 6.3) A procedure is used to generate the observation. om: (Section 6.5.3) The value of the procedure property is the description of a procedure. This may be quite elaborate, and may involve the description of multiple processing steps, with various inputs, calibrations, and predecessor observations used in particular stages. om: (Section 6.5.3) A "procedure" is generally an abstraction, for which the description or catalogue entry provides the canonical object. Hence, the abstract superclass Procedure is stereotyped <<ObjectType>>, and in the model shown here is derived from the GML Definition class. 0 om: (Section 6.6.2) Its result is a Record, which is an ordered list of atomic values. A record instance should provide a means of obtaining a description of its structure, but in the context of the ComplexObservation feature type a resultDefinition property provides a slot where the RecordSchema may be given explicitly. The RecordSchema must provide the meaning (name) of elements in the record, their order, and scale (for numbers) or scope (for terms). TODO: this class seems to have many possible super classes. TODO: get defintion GML 3.1. p.530 "F.2.3.3 GML Object Types Every GML object type shall be mapped to a UML class. If the object type directly or indirectly derives from gml:AbstractFeatureType, the stereotype of the class shall be <<FeatureType>>, otherwise the stereotype shall be <<ObjectType>>. The name of the class shall be the same as the name of the global element of the GML object type. The class shall be abstract, if and only if the GML object type is abstract. If the GML object type is derived from another GML object type, then the class inherits from the corresponding superclass. If the base type is defined in the GML application schema or another imported GML application schema, then the superclass is the class corresponding to this GML object type. If the base type is defined in the GML namespace, then the superclass is determined by Table 21. ISO 19103: (Page 6) Object is a entity with a well-defined boundary and identity that encapsulates state and behaviour. State is represented by attributes and relationships, behaviour is represented by operations, methods, and state machines. An object is an instance of a class. See: class, instance. 1 om: (Section 7.3.1) "...an observation station, which is a simple point-located feature used for observations" om: (Listing 30) A "Station" is an identified position (0-D geospatial feature). It may be revisited for various purposes, in particular to retrieve multiple specimens or make repeated or complementary observations. The position property of the station provides the value of the position property of observations an specimens associated with the station. The procedureHosted property allows the user to point to one or more sensors or other procedures that are relevant to this station. By using the Station feature, this position information and any metadata associated with it may be encoded in one place, i.e. normalised, and then re-used _by reference_ on other feature instances associated with it. om: (Section 6.6.2) An ordered set of numbers each with a scale. om: (Section 6.3) A number of persons or organisations that may be identified as responsible for the Event. om: (Listing 23) Abstract element used as head of a substitution group for axis and record definitions. ag: Temporaray superclass of all result types (basically a container until the hierarchy of result types is determined) om: (Section 6.3) The type of the result is variable and distinguish observation types according to the result type. In order to avoid some practical difficulaties associated with derivation by restriction, the result attribute does not appear directly on the abstract superclass AbstractObservation, but all concrete observation classes derived from AbstractObservation MUST add an attribute called result, having an appropriate type. mw: Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin resultare, from Latin, to rebound, from re- + saltare to leap; to proceed or arise as a consequence, effect, or conclusion; to have an issue or result. aw: To come about as a consequence; in mathematics is the quantity or expression obtained by calculation. om: (Section 6.5.3) A SimpleProcedure is characterized by a method, and the resultQuality associated systematically with the results of observation made using this procedure. The "method" will typically be a code from some catalogue. 0 0 om: (Section 6.3) Feature type characterized by a time whose value is a temporal object (TM_Object), a location whose value is either a spatial object described using coordinates (GM_Object) or a named place (EX_GeographicDesription). 0 om: (Section 6.6.3) Each member of an ObjectArray is (a pointer to) an object described elsewhere, such as elements of a station array, or elements of a temporal aggregate. 1 om: (Section 6.5.2) A ConstrainedPhenomenon modifies a base phenomenon by adding singleConstraints, each specifying a value on some secondary axis. fp: this indicates an understanding of Phenomenon in terms of a quality space! If this is intended, then the definitions in the O&M text are much too broad. fp: the class PhenomenonSeries was renamed to MulitPhenomenon. --> there is not kind-of relationship between series and phenomenon! om: (Section 6.5.2) A PhenomenonSeries applies one or more constraintLists to the base phenomenon, each providing a set of values for a single secondary axis. 1 om: (Section 6.5.2) A CompositePhenomenon is composed of a set of component phenomena. The components may not be related to each other, though useful compound phenomena would usually have some semantic coherence. The optional base phenomenon allows for the CompositePhenomenon to be generated by adding components to a base. 1 1 0 om: (Section 1) Observation is an event with a result which has a value describing some phenomenon. An observation uses a procedure to determine the value, which may involve a sensor or observer, analytical procedure, simulation or other numerical process. The observation pattern and feature is primarily useful for capturing metadata associated with data capture. om: (Section 6.4) Observation is a generic concrete class for observations where the result type is shown as anyType. mw: Etymology: Middle French, from Latin observation-, observatio, from observare. An act or instance of observing a custom, rule, or law: an act of recognizing and noting a fact or occurrence often involving measurement with instruments; a record or description so obtained. A judgment on or inference from what one has observed; broadly. aw: An inference or a judgment that is acquired from or based on observing. wp: Observation basically means watching something and taking note of anything it does. om:(Section 6.6.3) ItemSeriesDefinition describes a record of the specified recordLength, in which all items share the same representation, quality and procedure. om:(Listing 23) Description of a series of scalar properties with a common representation and scale and (optional) quality indicators. Controls the number of procedures used in a procedure package. Contorls the number of CI_ResponsiblesParties that are responsible for an Event. Controls the number of AbstractObservations that are part of an ObservationCollection Controls the type of result a specific observation may have. Determines the number of events taking place after a given event (as determined by the Event's time property.) Determines the position of a Station Determines the Abstarct Feature that is the target of an Abstract Observation Controls the number of Arrays mapped to a GridDefinition. Controls the number of AbstarctObservations generated by a Procedure. Determines the Location of an event. Determines which procedure is used to generate an observation. Contaols the number and order of Procedures that compose a ProcedureSequence Controls the number of phenomena that compose a specialized phenomenon An indication of an observations event-specific quality (optional.) fp: new O&M version: rename quality --> resultQaulity Determines what coordinate system is used to locate an event. Controls the number of phenomena that may compose a composite phenomenon Controls the number of procedures hsoted by a Station. original O&M name: procedureHosted Determines the Phenomenon observed by an AbstractObservation. Determines the number of events taking place after a given event (as determined by the Event's time property.) Controls which property of a phenomenon is described by an ItemDefinition.


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Ryan Briscoe pips Danica to Texas win
6 June 2010
Ryan Briscoe lost his early lead with a sluggish pit stop on lap 47, during a pit stop under yellow for debris. That dropped him down four places and allowed Dario Franchitti, who had been running in second, to take to the front ahead of Will Power, Danica Patrick, Scott Dixon and Briscoe now in 5th. Danica in particular had been eye-catching good, surging past the likes of Dixon and Tony Kanaan during the opening stint with blistering ease. Considering that she's had a lacklustre season to date and was virtually anonymous at the Indy 500, this was an unexpected and welcome return to form.
Another caution came out on lap 57 after Takuma Sato looked to have a puncture or suspension problem that put him into the wall, the car skidding the length of the circuit before finally coming to rest. After this, there was a good 30 laps of green flag racing before the third caution of the night, caused by Simona de Silvestro making hard contact with the wall between turns 3 and 4 on lap 99.
Unusually for an IndyCar, the flames from broken fuel lines appeared to set fire to de Silvestro's car itself and resulted in a major blaze along the right hand side. The race marshalls seemed wrong footed and unaware of the urgency of the problem, taking an age to deploy hand-held extinguishers after the water supply to the hoses on the first response safety vehicle failed to operate. All the time the blaze was getting stronger and closing on the driver cockpit, and a brave marshall had to dive in to the flames to undo the safety restraints and then helped manhandle her free. It meant de Silvestro was in the flames for almost 30s, an eternity in such a situation and unacceptably poor in the 21st century safety standards.
"The safety crew should be ashamed of themselves," said HVM Racing Team Principal Keith Wiggins, while Team Stargate Worlds principal added: "I am completely speechless on what transpired after our car hit the wall. I am just glad Simona is okay despite that circus we saw."
Fortunately, for all the heart-stopping drama, de Silvestro herself was okay - her worst injuries coming on her right hand from where she had to leverage herself on the burning cockpit siding to get out of the car. "My hand is a little bit burned, I couldn't get out quickly enough," she confirmed. "The car caught on fire and it wasn't really extinguishing." No kidding.
The crash had consequences for Will Power, who had been running strongly up with the leaders all evening till this point but who found some debris from de Silvestro's wreck lodged under his car, requiring a lengthy pit stop and some touch-and-go running repairs. He tried a different fuel strategy in response, but didn't get the late yellow he needed and ended up having to make a costly late splash and go under green.
The biggest crash of the evening was on lap 129, when Helio Castroneves came up fast on the back of Mario Moraes and went to overtake on the outside. Moraes, however, wasn't aware of him and drifted up the track, leaving Castroneves no time to break and no room to get through between Moraes and the wall. The cars touched and wrecked, sliding down the track again and into the path of the hapless Bertrand Baguette who tried to squeeze through the middle but found that the gap suddenly closed before his eyes, leaving him running into the back of Castroneves' car and wrecking his own front left suspension in the process. Helio was furious was Mario and practically climbed into the Moraes' cockpit to voice his thoughts before being pulled away by the safety crew; asked later, Helio declined to repeat his comments on air, deeming them unsuitable for a network TV broadcast; we can imagine.
After pit stops, Dario Franchitti found himself behind Alex Tagliani and Will Power who were out of sync and didn't stop. Losing the clear air in the front seemed to have a seriously deleterious effect on the number 10, and he faded for the remaining laps and fell back as far as 13th at one point, finally recovering late in the evening to reclaim 5th - which, thanks to Will Power's own problems, was enough to give the Indy 500 champion the lead in the IRL championship points.
Once Tagliani and Power cleared the scene, and with Franchitti suddenly going backwards, Ryan Briscoe popped up in the lead on lap 170, with Danica Patrick still impressively strong in second ahead of her Andretti Autosports team mate Marco Andretti. These three kept the top spots for the remaining 58 laps of the race even through green flag pit stops: Patrick came in a lap earlier and briefly led the race after putting in a superb outlap, which meant Briscoe came back out behind her. But he was able to swiftly put the move on her to take the lead back and thereafter there was no more changing of position, Andretti able to hold off a big challenge from Scott Dixon for third.
Alex Lloyd had continued a strong run of form off the back of his fourth place last week in the Indy 500, but botched his pit box entry during the first round of stops and hit a tyre, dropping him down the running order which meant all his efforts went into recovering to 8th place for the rest of the evening.
Lloyd's pit stop troubles were just one of several during the evening: at a subsequent stop, Ryan Hunter-Reay almost missed his pit box, turned in too late and came in at too deep an angle, hitting the wall and having to be picked up and moved back into position by the crew. Alex Tagliani had a scare late in the race when he tried moving off before his final refuelling was complete, knocking over the hoseman and spilling fuel in the pit box - both fortunately attended to without any major problem, but Tagliani was inevitably penalized with a drivethrough for leaving with equipment attached.


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Water Resources
About 88 percent of Southern Nevada's water comes
from Lake Mead, which is fed by the Colorado River. The remaining 12 percent
comes from groundwater.
In 1922, the Colorado River
Compact, also known as the Law
of the River, was created. The compact divided the Colorado River among
the seven western states according to their population size. In 1944,
the compact was amended to include an allocation designated for Mexico.
Lake Mead is a giant reservoir filled with Colorado
River water. The man-made lake formed in the 1930s after the completion
of Hoover Dam, which sits in Black Canyon on the Nevada-Arizona border.
It regulates the flow of water to prevent flooding during wet years and
to provide adequate water during droughts. Lake Mead can store
up to 26 million acre-feet
of water.
comes from the principal or deep water aquifer
(underground rock or sediment that is permeable and can conduct water)
generally located from 200 to 1,500 feet below land surface. This
drinking-water supply is protected by a layer of clay and fine-grained
sediments throughout most of the Las Vegas Valley.


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