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Over a century ago, Tanganyika had virtually no port facility. Though there was the Indian Ocean, indigenous Tanganyikans used the waters specifically for fishing with extremely low technology. Other uses were slave trade from mainland to Zanzibar.
In Tanga, for example, the area where the present port is was initially a military base during the German colonial era. In course of time, it was decided that a port facility be built in 1889 to serve the local economy, particularly sisal, brought to the colony several years earlier.
From then on, Tanga grew rapidly. It was at this time that a railway line was built with Tanga, which later earned township status in 1891, established as railway terminus far the Usambara railway line, then stretching from Tanga to Moshi.
A few years that followed, Tanga Port was handling agricultural exports -- sisal, coffee and tea -- from estates primarily owned by settlers.
The commodities were loaded into railway wagons at various rail heads and railed downwards to the port. But a few decades later, it was discovered that congestion at the port was the order of the day as traffic, mainly imports, choked the maritime facility.
The other reason was the onset of the era of containerization -- a preferred mode of transport which was moving very fast -- compared with the traditional modal, when bulk transport was commonplace.
Noticing the seemingly turn of events, Tanga Ports Authority (TPA) embarked on an ambitious programme to expand the container stacking yard to counter the growing demand of containerised traffic.
Under the programme, old warehouses not in use would be demolished to pave way for extension of the port yard.
At a forum where two consultants presented an interim report of the feasibility study for development of the new Mwambani Port recently, the stakeholders were told that expansion of present port programme notwithstanding, the port would be congested by around 2016.
The consultants, Alan Stacey and Christopher Fewtrell from the UK-based United Research Services (URS), whose specialist is in Ports Engineering and Environment, said in the report that soda ash exports from Lake Natron in Manyara region, would only be possible with the new port facilities.
"The new port should be predominantly relocated to a new development at Mwambani bay, the existing fishing activities remaining at Tanga," according to the report.
"The port will not be connected to the rail network until the Natron Soda Ash project is confirmed," says the report, adding that the rail will handle all soda ash traffic but is also likely to be used for other cargoes such as containers from land-locked countries.
According to the report, the proposed development provides a total of 800m of quay length allowing for three berths, nominally one container, one general cargo and one bulk.
The consultants recommend that the port should be operated on a public sector port management model, unless TPA/government prefer to attract some private sector funding.
Contributing to the experts' submission, stakeholders had mixed feelings on the proposed construction of the new port.
"Construction of the port would be an inhibitor to the government's endeavour to maintain the Marine Park along the Tanga south coast, stretching from Tanga Bay to Kigombe, a fishing village," said a Tanga-based investor who opted for anonymity.
"The park was gazetted in 2009. This is the place where coelacanth fishes -- a critically endangered species with enormous scientific interest -- live. They are among the oldest fish on earth – found over 300 million years ago," said the investor.
The park covers Toten Island, Mwambani Bay, Yambe and Karange Islands -- all of them coelacanth Marine Park protected areas. Coelacanth fishes were only found in the Comoros and very few in South Africa and Indonesia.
Another contributor, Richard Sanga, a Tanga-based businessman said "presently the new port is unnecessary considering that the old port has potential for expansion."
"Ideally, the old port should be rehabilitated, with the proposed area of the new port serving as an Inland Container Depot (ICD)," he said.
Mohamed Hussein, a businessman from Zambia told this writer at the meeting that construction of the new port would considerably revamp the country's economy.
"The new port will enable imports coming straight to Tanga instead of Mombasa, hence cutting down on various costs, reducing production costs in the process., ultimately pushing down prices of fished goods and services," he said.
"Tanzania is lucky in that it has port facilities unlike land-locked Zambia. In Zambia the cost of products is very high because its imports have to pass through Dar es Salaam Port.
Then raw materials are transported all the way to Zambia through Tunduma and Nakonda (on the Zambia border), a situation which elevates consumer prices of finished goods," Hussein said.
Chiku Gallawa, Tanga Regional Commissioner, is convinced that the project would be an economically viable venture.
"Construction of the new port is inevitable. The port shall create massive employment and revamp the economy. The present port has short berth. Shortly, "It will fail to cope with the ever increasing flow of traffic," she said.
Gallawa who was Chief guest at the meeting said Tanga has plenty of investment opportunities, which needed to be tapped.
"If opportunities are there but are not used, they become meaningless," she said.
TPA Director General Ephraim Mgawe said in a speech read by his deputy, Julius Mfuko, that the authority is faced with several challenges, including the existing shallow depth of the quay that cannot accommodate bigger vessels, necessitating the vessels to anchor outside the port.
He said the use of lighters and bardges has resulted into high operational costs due to double handling.
He cited another challenge as limited space for future expansion of the port.
"Cargo traffic destined for Tanga has been increasing at an annual average growth rate of 16 percent. The rate is expected to grow at a higher pace considering governments plan in collaboration with Uganda government to link the Tanga port with Port Bell in Uganda, via Lake Victoria," Mgawe said.
"Tanga port can not be expanded further due to its proximity to the city centre. It is anticipated that completion of the new port shall attract bigger ships, transshipment of cargo and traffic from congested ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, hence providing cost-effective transport," he explained.


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MARONDERA, Zimbabwe, 2 November 2011 — In a move to revitalise Zimbabwe's ailing health system, the Government, in partnership with UNICEF and international donors, has launched the Health Transition Fund to reduce the country's high maternal and child mortality rates.
|VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Anja Baron reports on a new Health Transition Fund created by the Government of Zimbabwe in partnership with UNICEF, which aims to revitalize the national health care system and integrate maternal and child survival programmes. Watch in RealPlayer|
The fund will strengthen health systems and help abolish healthcare user fees for children and women, saving tens of thousands of lives and accelerating progress on the health-related Millennium Development Goals.
A dramatic decline in services
In the last decade, Zimbabwe has witnessed a dramatic decline in health service delivery, resulting in a devastating increase in child and maternal mortality.
Currently, one in three children is stunted and nearly 100 children die every day from preventable diseases. At least eight women die every day due to pregnancy-related complications, the majority in rural areas where health facilities are not easily accessible.
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|Children from Dombotombo Primary School in Marondera taking part in the celebrations to launch the Health Transition Fund in Marondera.|
The unregulated use of patient fees has contributed to these tragic numbers. While Zimbabwe's health policy calls for free care for pregnant women and children under five, lack of sufficient funding has forced many health institutions to charge for even basic services. Pregnant women pay between US$3 and US$50 to deliver in a government or municipal facility and, because the country lacks a functional ambulance system, they may also incur transportation fees. These costs are often prohibitive, leaving poor women to give birth outside the health system, in the absence of skilled birth attendants, where both mothers and children are vulnerable to complications.
Removing barriers to care
The Health Transition Fund aims to halt this disastrous trend, setting a five-year plan to improve maternal, newborn and child survival.
"The issue of user fees is one of the biggest barriers to poor women and children's access to life-saving and critical health care in Zimbabwe," said UNICEF Representative in Zimbabwe Dr. Peter Salama at the launch of the Health Transition Fund. "I would like to congratulate the Inclusive Government of Zimbabwe, with the support of the international donor community, for making this bold commitment to removing user fees for the most vulnerable in our society."
|© UNICEF Zimbabwe/2011/Chikerema|
|(From left) UNAIDS Country Director Dr. Tatiana Shoumilana, Health Advisor in the office of the President Dr. Timothy Stamps, UNICEF Country Representative Dr. Peter Salama, and World Health Organization Representative Dr. Custodia Mandhlate attend the launch of the Health Transition Fund.|
The Health Transition Fund will additionally support improvements in the quality of maternal and child health and nutrition services. It will also fund medicines, equipment and personnel, and assist in the development of health policy and planning.
Prime Minister Morgan Richard Tsvangirai emphasized the Government's commitment to improving the health sector. "The Inclusive Government of Zimbabwe remains committed to achieving its health-related Millennium Development Goals," he said. "There is a need for a unified, national effort towards improving access to quality health care, especially for women and children."
Progress is being made
While the challenges are daunting, progress has been made in the past few years. Since a 2008 cholera outbreak claimed the lives of more than 4,000 people, UNICEF has been working with the Government and various partners to rehabilitate water and sanitation infrastructure in 20 major cities and towns. This investment has helped prevent other water-borne diseases and outbreaks.
The Health Transition Fund will keep this momentum going.
"With the Health Transition Fund, we have an opportunity to accelerate our efforts to bring the Zimbabwe Health Sector back on its feet," said Dr. Henry Madzorera, Minister of Health and Child Welfare.
Dr. Custodia Mandhlate, World Health Organization Country Representative echoed this sentiment. "I have confidence that this investment in Zimbabwe's health sector will make a huge difference in the lives of women and children and save hundreds of lives," she said.

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At least a thousand years before the Jewish concept of humans being made in the image of God (Genesis 1, 27), African Sages said the sanctity of life is the central pillar inside each human being. This concept was introduced in the Sebait of Kheti for his son Meritkara in the First Intermediate Period, more specifically in the 9th Dynasty (c. 4042-3633 BCE). Kheti's comments not only provide the earliest known concept of humans as the images of God, but they also pose them as the children or offspring of God (Karenga, Maat, p. 225, 318). Out of this evolved concepts of the sanctity of human life and humans as the bearers of Dignity and Divinity—both characterizing what it means to be Human— and both constituting the source of Good Character. Thus, ones Dignity is the absolute reality and significance of ones Selfhood and ones Divinity is the subtle and hidden qualities of God's Consciousness that requires cultivation throughout ones lifetime. By being of a spiritual nature both are without degrees.
This Ancient Africans belief in man being made in the image of God (Snn NTr; Imago Dei) became the spiritual grounding or meaning for human Dignity and Divinity; for the sacredness of life; and for moral responsibility. Hence it followed that the moral relationship between one human and another ought to be that of Acknowledgement of the Dignity and Divinity bestowed on every person and the Appreciation of whatever flows out of and/or contributes to either or both. To Appreciate ones Dignity demands the acquisition of African-type moral character. African-type Moral character is fashioned around the spark of the divine presence within each human being. This means that whereas Dignity and Divinity are birth gifts, ones Dignity must be displayed around ones Divinity while ones Divinity must be cultivated into Enlightenment. When one esteems who one is, based upon ones Dignity, and then attaches to ones dignity the tasks one does in life and carries those tasks to completion, one exhibits Self-Respect. Selfhood Mastery means one maintains moral character every time one is being severely tested.
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this. This information is gleaned from people who have
done this and report good results. How long the crown will stay after you do this is not certain.
Down bearing is the force of the strings pushing downward on the bridge top. Crown is the curvature of the sound board upward across the board in all directions. The crown should be 3/8 to 7/8 inch if you were to use a straight edge underneath the sound board, holding the ends of the straight edge at opposite sides of the edge of the sound board. This is impossible to do, so the bearing is measured from above.
You must first use a straight edge or a Bearing Gauge to determine if you have any crown, or down bearing. The strings must technically go uphill from both the top and bottom edge to the bridges. The easy bridge to check is the bass bridge. It is out in the open. Any amount of bearing is usually satisfactory, but no bearing, or worse, negative bearing, means the strings are trying to ride up away from the bridge and simply vibrate in the air instead of transferring the sound into the sound board.
Use the Bearing Gauge, placing it on the top of the bridge along a string. The outer ends of the gauge should have a slight open space between them and the string.
This gets weird. You must have let ALL the tension off the piano harp. This means this technique is ONLY to be tried on pianos under restoration of some sort. You may leave the harp, the metal plate, in the piano, but the tension must be taken off the harp completely. This is done by letting off the tension of all the strings by using the tuning pins. Do this in at least three steps, letting the tension off the whole scale in stages. The ideal is to have the strings out of the piano.
This instruction is for grand pianos, but it can be adapted to uprights if you raise the upright off the floor on heavy saw horses. This is dangerous though without the right equipment to raise an upright into the air.
REMOVE THE DAMPERS AND THE DAMPER ACTION INSIDE THE PIANO. If you do not do this, these parts could be damaged by the humidity added later to bend the sound board. See Chapter Five for instructions to remove the action.
REMOVE THE TOP, OR LID, OF THE PIANO, AND THE LID PROP. You want to be down to the cabinet, harp, and sound board only.
DO NOT REMOVE THE HARP. In fact, tighten the large screws around the edge of the harp if they are loose.
With the tension off the strings, find a humidifier, and place it under the piano. Secure or weight down a block of wood about 12 inches square to the floor as a point of reference. If you have carpet, you need to weight the board down so that it cannot raise later. It you have a late era home with a hard surface floor, forget the block of wood and measure from the floor.
You will now stack small blocks of wood and a wedge between the ribs of the sound board and the heavy structural wood beams below the sound board. Do this at every point where a rib and heavy wooden beam intersect.
DO NOT DRIVE WEDGES BETWEEN THE LARGE WOOD MEMBERS AND the sound board itself. This could destroy the sound board. Only put wedges between the ribs and the beams.
Do this wedge routine in a circle about midway between the edge of the sound board and the center of the sound board.
Do not drive the wedges any tighter at this time.
Get all the wedges snug in about a circle under the sound board, and take measurements.
Measure VERY CAREFULLY the distance from the block of wood on the floor (or measure from the hard floor surface) to a point at the center of the sound board. Mark that point clearly.
Tack a string to the extreme edges of the sound board, possibly on a rib, secured at both ends and crossing the center point you marked. This will be a second point of reference. Make sure the string is level with all the ribs across the sound board.
Measure in 64ths of an inch from the string to your mark in the center of the sound board.
Write down both reference measurements you now have.
Tap in the wedges around the circle of wedge points over and over in stages and measure frequently until the center of the sound board is 1/2" raised higher than when you started. Measure over and over so that you raise the board evenly all around. Do this in several modest trips around the circle of wedges.
Once you have the center of the sound board at 1/2" higher than when you started, you are ready to do the heat and humidity treatment.
Secure a home humidifier and a space heater.
Turn on the humidifier for three hours. ALSO, place a space heater under the piano on low, and cover the piano with a trap. You want the under area of the piano to get up to around 90 degrees F. So, set the space heater for this temperature, or use a thermometer to check it. This step will expand and bend the sound board upward. Wood is bent with moisture and heat.
WARNING: This process could damage the outer cabinet of the piano if it is old and weak already. YOU decide if you want to take the risk. If you are not sure of yourself, you should have a new sound board installed.
You now want to set the wood so it keeps its crown you have restored. LEAVE THE WEDGES IN PLACE SO THAT THE SOUND BOARD IS UNDER TENSION UPWARD. You are now going to dry the sound board out completely.
Remove the humidifier and heater. Place a dehumidifier under the piano, and you now want to dry it WITH THE TENSION STILL ON THE BOARD. Dry it for 24 hours with only the dehumidifier-- NO HEATER. If you can set the humidity level on the dehumidifier, set it at the low setting so it will keep the humidity at 30% under the piano. Do this again with the tarp over the piano.
After the 24 hours of drying, remove the dehumidifier and tarp, and remove wedges and blocks and see if the crown was restored by measuring again by both measuring options.
What you see is what you get. If you did not gain much then your piano is not going to respond to this technique. I would not try a second treatment.
This is an act of desperation, but it is a secret used in many restoration shops. If you determine that you have added crown to the board, you may go on with restoration. Measure again after all the tension is back if you want to, but you may find that you have gained only a little crown, or you may find the restored crown has stayed well. If you have ANY crown, do not go back and do it again.
One last suggestion. Do NOT be reluctant to call an older experienced piano technician and compare notes. This is a bit of a crazy sounding technique, and it is always good to listen to all the voices you can get to help.
With the strings and harp out of the piano, you can put tension upward on the sound board. Then make groves in the top of the board across the center and possibly to the right an left of the center IN THE SAME DIRECTION WITH the grain of the wood. Tap shims into the grooves with Elmer's Carpenter's Glue, which you can buy from us, and then tool off the wood of the shim sticking up with a plane or other wood working tool. The grooving tool and angled shims are available from us so that the groove is at the same angle of the shims.
Once the tension is let off the underside of the sound board, a certain amount of crown will be restored as the shims prevent the board from returning to level. How much grooving, and how much tension on the underside of the board, is up to you. It is done in some restoration shops though.
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Why to choose Cloud Run instead of GCP App Engine
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 3. Finally, you will deploy your application to Cloud Run
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What is a GCP Cloud Run?
 - In Cloud Run, you begin from a "container image" to a fully managed application which auto-scales with requests using a single command. You only pay when a request is handled.
 - Cloud Run - Managed: By default, It allows 5 minutes timeout, can be configured up to 15 min.
 - Cloud run utilizes stateless applications inside Docker containers. The service can scale up and down automatically and will scale to 0 when not in use whereas the App Engine cannot scale down to 0.
 - In Cloud Run, you are only paying when you are processing requests, and the billing granularity is 0.1 seconds.
 - In Cloud Run, based on "time serving requests" on each instance. If your service handles multiple requests simultaneously, you do not pay for them separately. (This is a cost saver!)
How is it different than App Engine Flexible?
 - App Engine can allow up to 24hours timeout based on the various factors like auto-scaling, manual scaling.
 - In Google App Engine, There is always running at least 1 instance at all times, even if your application is not getting any requests, you will be still paying for that instance.
 - The minimum Billing time is 1 minute.
 - App Engine is always a fully managed service, with auto-scaling features.
 - The drawback is, App Engine Flexible is running on VMs, that's why it is a bit slower than Cloud Run to deploy a new revision of your app and scale-up. Cloud Run deployments are faster as they are not running on VMs.
 - Google App Engine Flexible and Cloud Run have a lot of similarities also. They both accept container images as the deployment input, they both auto-scales, and manage your infrastructure.
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the alternative hypothesis.
The null hypothesis says that no new effect exists - everything is explained by the old theories that have been temporarily established and any pattern is due to chance. When I say "chance", it's important to realize that one must specify the exact character of the "random generator" that produces these random data, including the deviations, correlations, autocorrelations, persistence, color of the noise etc. There's not just one "chance": there are infinitely many "chances" given by "statistical distributions" and we must be damn accurate about what the null hypothesis actually says. (Often, we mean the "white noise" and "independent random numbers" etc.)
The alternative hypothesis says that a new effect is needed: the old explanations and the null hypothesis is not enough.
How do you decide in between these two? Well, you calculate the probability that the apparently observed "pattern" could have occurred by chance assuming the null hypothesis. If the probability of something like that were sufficiently high, e.g. 1% or 5%, you say that your data don't contain evidence for the alternative hypothesis.
If the calculated probability that the "pattern" in the data could have been explained by chance - and by the null hypothesis - is really tiny, e.g. 10^{-6}, then your data give you a strong evidence that the null hypothesis is wrong. If you say that it's wrong, your risk of having made a wrong conclusion - the so-called "false positive" or "type I error" - is only 10^{-6}. So it's sensible to take this risk. In my example, we falsified the null hypothesis at the 99.9999% level. It's very likely that a new effect has to exist.
You're expected to have an alternative hypothesis that actually describes the data more accurately and gives a higher probability that the data could have occurred according to the alternative hypothesis, with its new understanding of "chance".
However, if the probability of getting the pattern by chance, from the null hypothesis, is substantial, e.g. 10%, then your data only provide you with a very weak hint that a new effect could exist. If you use the standards of hard sciences, you should say that your data can't settle the question in either way.
Of course, it is always possible that if you make such a conclusion, you have made another kind of error, the "type II error", also known as the false negative. But what Tom Siegfried seems to misunderstand is that this is a common situation that you simply can't avoid in most cases. The data, with their limited volume and limited accuracy (and assuming a small size of the new effect), simply can't settle the question in either way.
So when you say that you don't have enough evidence to confirm the "pattern", i.e. that the data don't contain a statistically significant evidence for the alternative hypothesis i.e. the new effect, it is not the ultimate proof that the alternative hypothesis is wrong. It is not the final proof that the new effect can't exist.
It's just evidence that the new effect is small and unimportant enough so that it couldn't have been detected in the particular sample or experiment. You can't make a final decision here. While hypotheses can be kind of "completely killed" in science, they can never be "completely proved". Even though the null hypothesis can be pretty much safely killed, no one can ever guarantee to you that your particular generalization, your alternative hypothesis, is the most correct one. It could have been better than the null hypothesis in passing this particular test but the next one may falsify your alternative hypothesis, too.
There's no straightforward way to construct better hypotheses! Creativity and intuition is needed before your viable attempts are tested against the data.
And quite often, your data simply don't contain enough information to decide. This is not a bug that you should blame on the statistical method. The statistical method is innocent. It is telling you the truth and the truth is that we don't know. The laymen may often be scared by the idea that we don't know something - and they often prefer fake and wrong knowledge over admitting that we don't know - but it's their vice, their inability to live with what the actual science is telling us (or not telling us, in this case), not a bug of the statistical method.
Misinterpretations, errors, lousy scientists
Of course, the picture above assumes that one actually learns how the statistical method works and what it exactly allows us to claim in particular situations. That has nothing to do with the journalists' or laymen's interpretations. The journalists and other laymen usually don't understand statistics well - and sometimes they want to mislead others deliberately.
But again, it would be ludicrous to blame this fact on the statistical method.
Analogously, bad scientists may calculate confidence levels incorrectly. They may choose unrealistic null and/or alternative hypotheses: in systems theory, a wrong choice of the null hypothesis is sometimes referred to as the "type III error". And they may misinterpret what their test has really demonstrated and what it hasn't. They may hold completely unrealistic beliefs about the odds that a "generic" hypothesis would pass a similar test so they can't place their calculation in any proper context. Sometimes, they think that by falsifying the null hypothesis, they're proving the first alternative hypothesis that they find convenient to believe (one can't prove it in such a way, you would have to falsify all other possible alternative theories first!). Quite typically, such people only blindly follow some statistical recipes that they don't quite understand. So it's not shocking that they can end up with mistakes.
This fact is not specific to statistics. People who are lousy scientists often make errors in non-statistical scientific methodologies, too. That's not a reason to abandon science, is it?
The proper statistical method gives us the best tool to study the incomplete or inaccurate empirical information - and in the real world, every empirical information is incomplete or inaccurate, at least to some extent. And one can actually prove that the probability of a "false positive" is as small as the significance level: it's true pretty much by definition. Well, the p-value is not quite the same thing as the probability of a "false positive" i.e. as the confidence level but it's pretty close: if a calculated p-value is at most equal to the required significance level, the test may be used to reject the null hypothesis.
But "false negatives" can never be reliably cured. Whenever your experiment is not accurate enough, it will simply say "no pattern seen" even though a better experiment could see it.
The solution to fight against the widespread errors is to require the soft disciplines to become harder - to calculate the confidence levels properly and to require higher confidence levels than those that have been enough for a "discovery" in the recent decades. This recommendation follows from common sense. If your field has been flooded by lots of beliefs in correlations and mechanisms that often turned out to be incorrect or non-existent, it's clear that you should make your standards more stringent.
Scientists, journalists, and laymen should do their best to be accurate and to learn what various tests actually imply.
But it will still be true that no science can be done "quite" without any statistical reasoning. And it's still true that the datasets and experiments will continue to be unable to give the "final answer" to many questions we would like to be answered. These are just facts. You may dislike them but that's the only thing you can do against facts.
So I would urge everyone to try to avoid bombshell statements such as "statistics is a dirty core of science that doesn't work and has to be abandoned". Lousy work of some people can't ever justify such far-reaching claims.
After all, much of the lousy work - and lousy presentation in the media - emerges because the people want to claim that the relevant research is "less statistical" in character than it actually is. In most cases, weak statistical signals are being promoted to a kind of "near certainty". So the right solution is for everyone to be more appreciative of the statistical method, not less so!
And that's the memo.
Tamino and 5 sigma
Tamino claims that "requiring five sigma is preposterous". Well, it's not. It's what disciplines of hard sciences require as a criterion for a discovery. See five sigma discovery at Google (2000 pages). In particular, discoveries of new particles by colliders do require 5 sigma. No one would have claimed a discovery of a top quark at 3 sigma - which would only be viewed as a suggestive yet vague hint.
Once again, this increase is needed because people often cook their results to make "discovery claims" that are bogus: it's easy to "improve" the tests. If you try 10 variations of the same test, one of them will show a (fake) effect at a 90% confidence level: that's what the 90% confidence level means, by definition. Unfortunately, many researchers are approaching the things in this way.
With a 5-sigma discovery, such cheating becomes virtually impossible because you would need a million of variations of your paper - and only one of them would show a fake positive. On the other hand, it's not "infinitely more difficult" to get 5-sigma results relatively to 3-sigma results. Because the relative errors go like "1/sqrt(N)" where N is the number of events (whose average you're calculating, in a way), you only need to increase the number of events by a factor of "(5/3)^2 = 2.7778" to go from 3


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Did you know that the number of high schools offering introductory computer science education courses dropped from 78 percent to 65 percent from 2005 to 2009? Or that women and African American students are under-represented in AP computer science classes, even though computer science is expected to generate 800,000 new, good-paying jobs by 2016?
If your knowledge of the current state of computer science in our schools could use, well, an upgrade, this is the week to do it.
From December 5-11, schools across America are celebrating Computer Science Education Week. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution endorsing this week as Computer Science Education Week in the hopes of generating discussion on improving access to quality computer science instruction in America's schools.
Computer Science Education Week is being chaired by Debra J. Richardson, who is the founding dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. The staff of the National Center for Women and Information Technology are also lending support.
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You would expect the Web site for Computer Science Education Week to be cool, and this site doesn't disappoint. There are resources for students, parents, teachers, administrators, higher education, and business leaders. You can take a pledge to get involved, or find an event happening near you.
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Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 13, _PHONE_ 14 July 2009
Mechanical Forces of Fission Yeast Growth
Supplemental Data for Minc et al.
- Document S1. Detailed Description of the Theoretical Model, Four Figures, and One Table (PDF 844 kb)
- Movie S1. Fission Yeast Cells Growing in Very Large PDMS Chambers (MOV 4748 kb)
- Control experiment showing wild-type cells growing without constraint (strain NM11).
- Movie S2. Repeated Bending of a Fission Yeast Cell (MOV 6703 kb)
- A single cell is repeatedly pushed and bent into a microchamber by overfocusing the objective. When popping out of the hole, the cell immediately recovers its straight shape, illustrating the elasticity of the cell wall (strain NM11).
- Movie S3. Establishing the Force-Velocity of a Single Fission Yeast Cell (MOV 1790 kb)
- A single cell grows and deforms a soft chamber (Ech=0.16MPa). The deformation of the chamber provides a dynamic measurement of the force (strain NM11).
- Movie S4. Cell Buckling under the Force of the Deformed Chamber (MOV 2900 kb)
- A single cell grows and deforms a chamber of intermediate stiffness (Ech=0.35 MPa), then buckles when reaching the threshold buckling force (strain NM11).
- Movie S5. Wild-Type Cells Recover Their Initial Turgor after Osmotic Shock (MOV 6807 kb)
- Wild-type cells immobilized in a microfluidic flow chamber are first grown in media without sorbitol and then exposed to media containing 1M sorbitol. The cells shrivel, then recover their initial volumes within 10–20 min by upregulating internal turgor (strain NM11).
- Movie S6. gpd1Δ Cells Fail to Recover Turgor after Osmotic Shock (MOV 7092 kb)
- gpd1Δ cells immobilized in a microfluidic flow chamber are first grown in media without sorbitol and then exposed to media containing 1M sorbitol. The cells shrivel and fail to recover their initial volumes, even after 90 min, illustrating a failure in turgor regulation (strain NM183).
- Movie S7. Cells Buckling under the Force of Their Own Growth (MOV 2785 kb)
- Cells in stiff chambers (Ech=1.5 MPa) grow and begin to buckle under their own pushing force when they contact the chamber wall (strain NM11).
- Movie S8. Cell Buckling and Dividing (MOV 3983 kb)
- A single cell in a stiff chamber (Ech=1.5 MPa) grows, buckles, then divides. Upon septation, the daughter cells recover their initial straight shape, illustrating that bending of the cells induced by cell growth is reversible (strain NM11).


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Winter at the Springfield zoo can be a slow time, and the animals were feeling lazy and bored. One day, a young hippo and kangaroo decided to break up the monotony by creating a hip-hoppity beat that soon had all the animals singing and dancing. They decided to stage a musical production, called a "ZooZical," to showcase all of the animals' unique talents. The animals sang their own versions of popular tot songs, such as "it's a tall world after all...", sung by the giraffes, and "for he's a jolly gorilla...", sung by the gorillas, of course. Once word got out, crowds of people started coming back to the zoo and the mid-winter doldrums disappeared for all.
Why It's Fun
The winter "doldrums" tend to set in during February, even though most parts of the country haven't had a harsh season. What better way to add some joy to the day than with music? Judy Sierra's rhyming verse is a smooth read that begs the reader to build excitement using different voice tones. Parents and kids will have a ball singing lines of the "adapted" songs, such as "the seals on the bus go 'round and 'round" and "oh my darling porcupine," among other childhood classics. While Ms. Sierra just gives us one line of these tunes, she opens the door for readers to explore their creative side and make up additional lines and verses. The illustrations, by Arthur creator Marc Brown, provide the perfect backdrop for the story with brilliant coloration, and are fun to look at again and again.
Who's Going To Love It
This is a fun read for toddlers, preschoolers and those on the younger end of the publisher's recommended age range. Older kids may prefer more modern tunes and might see the story as "babyish." But for the younger set, the whimsical story and musical fun make this an ideal picture book for beating the winter blues or any time of year.
About 4 minutes
9 out of 10
Written by: Judy Sierra; Pictures by Marc Brown
Published by: Alfred A. Knopf (2011)
Approximate retail price: $17.99
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A newly ancient vision of the English landscape from one of its most revered mythographers.
In an age of ecological turbulence, our understanding of the hills, rivers and fields we live among is more critical than ever. But what might the academic study of geography fail to teach us, and what relationships to the land might be revealed by reinvestigating the neglected knowledge practices of myth, history and legend?
Michael Dames sets out to reconnect with the hallowed landscapes of Britain and Ireland, and finds them populated by ancient goddesses, strange rites, and embedded energies. As he voyages beneath the Neolithic immensity of Silbury Hill, past the chalk horses of Uffington, and the ravaged cliffs of Land's End peninsular, Dames meets a wild community of holy cows, industrious bees, Sheila-naGigs, and Salmon women, channeling the peculiar folk tales they have to tell.
Presented as a series of insightful and lyrical vignettes beautifully illustrated by artist Natalie Kay-Thatcher, each chapter of this far-roaming book conducts a pilgrimage along the tracks and byways of dimly remembered lore, renewing connections with customs that underscore our relationship to the lands we inhabit. It offers a pagan's progress towards re-enchanting and deepening our sense of belonging to a landscape both strange and sacred.


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This post started as notes in preparation for a talk I was planning for the seers group in my tradition. I decided to share it with some modifications to make it more broadly applicable. The following points are offered to encourage mindfulness and dialogue regarding the ethics and best practices for divination, oracular work, and allied disciplines. They do not cover all possible situations and differences in applications or doctrines, so change and adapt what is here to match your needs. I think that it is important for your sake and the sake of those lives that you touch to be clear on your ethical guidelines if you offer readings or oracular sessions of any kind. If you do not agree with any or all of these suggestions, I hope you will work to create your own or consider these a template that you can adjust.
1. Ethics & Morals
Whatever system of ethics and morals you use in other contexts of your life should also be applied in doing readings and offering guidance. Bring your inner compass for right and wrong into play before beginning. Doing divination and/or oracular work is an act of service for both the people to whom it is provided and whatever spirits or divine beings sponsor the work. As a starting point, consider the nature of the social contract involved in both the giving and the receiving of a reading or a consultation.
2. Are You Fit To Provide The Guidance?
Before doing divination or seers' work of any kind, check in with yourself. Do you have the emotional, physical, and spiritual energy to proceed? If illness, exhaustion, life circumstances, or other matter have worn you down, you may not be able to offer your best. Is the nature of the question or the guidance that is being sought pushing your buttons or triggering you in some way? It may be better to refer the person to someone else if your own emotions, memories, or judgments cloud the reading. Additionally, doing too many readings in a short span of time or doing ones whose content and themes are particularly draining can damage your capacity as a reader or oracle. Allow recovery and rebalancing time for yourself.
3. Rules Of Confidentiality Must Be Followed
There is a great deal of personal information that is exposed by this work in both the questions and the answers. People often reveal private details of their lives, details which should be kept in confidence. Often readings will involve other people in the querent's life so the information that you provide may speak of them. The confidentiality and privacy needs of those that are not present but mentioned in a session also matter. If the session has multiple attendees, as in a group channelling, mediumship, oracular ritual, or such, try to impress upon those present the need for confidentiality. If you distrust the ability of some of those present to maintain confidentiality, you may need to modify what you are doing, end the session, or follow-up privately. Depending on the situation, if there is certain danger to others or the person asking the question, you may have to consider whether confidentiality is the highest good or not.
4. People Looking For Guidance Are Often Vulnerable
Many, possibly the majority of people coming to you for guidance are doing so because they are confused, uncertain, under pressure, and so on. It is crucial that you offer compassion, remain present and listen carefully, and foster a sense of serenity. As you listen to their questions and concerns, allow your rational mind and instincts to sort through what is real, what is imagined, and what is skewed. Even if they are fully sincere and forthright, the stress of their circumstances will introduce some distortions to their account. Strive to give answers to the questions they cannot fully form.
There is a danger that some people will become dependent upon readings and consultations. If you did your job well, and gave them relief and useful guidance they may wish to continue to rely upon you. Addiction to getting readings and divination is a real thing. Consider setting firm boundaries on how often they are allowed to seek you out. Also be wary if they keep returning after a reasonable gap in sessions with the same question.
5. Ask For Higher Guidance
Part of the work is science, part of it is art, but deep insight often comes from the unseen if it is asked for. Seek your Higher Self, the other person's Higher Self, and your concept of the Divine in offering guidance. If you work with spirits or other entities, commune with them as well. Be sensitive and aware of their belief system and include it in the work if it is practical to do so. In the end you are accountable for the guidance you offer, regardless of the complexities of the sources of that information.
6. Know The Limits Of Your Knowledge
What you know or don't know about the world can have a powerful impact on the validity and utility of the guidance you offer. How well you can interpret and relay your conclusions and summaries to the querent will depend as much, if not more, on your knowledge of the content material as your spiritual skills. For example, unless you are a health care professional, you may not have the language or the understanding to give good advice even if your divinatory skills are working well on a health related question. Make it clear whether or not you have formal training in the fields discussed during a reading. Also make it clear when you make a statement if you are using divination or if it is a professional opinion if you are qualified to give one.
Sometimes the most important counsel you will give is a referral to a professional in a field in line with the needs of the state of affairs.
7. Be True To What You See In A Reading
It is valuable to communicate the full range of gentle and harsh forces at play in a consultation. Don't sugar-coat and don't scare people when doing a reading lest you become entangled in their choices by providing them with skewed information. Honesty also means admitting when you aren't getting anything useful or need to take some time to process what you are seeing. There are many levels to each reading so different readers will focus on different things in accordance with their training and personalities. You are only responsible for seeing and expressing your truth as clearly and fully as you are able.
8. A Tool For Empowerment
Each session reveals opportunities for growth and the exercise of free will. Try to empower people to seek their personal best and best possible outcomes. Encourage people to talk and to think out loud during a reading so that they take an active role in exploring the possibilities and problem solving. There are many possible futures and the goal is ever to make it possible for the querent to choose between the available options. The goal is for the querent to feel that they have the power to make their own choices.
9. A Commitment To Self-Improvement As A Seer
In addition to a commitment to learn more and to strive for a better command of your preferred methods of divination, work towards understanding other methods as well. Study is good, but regular practice of your skills is necessary to maintain or improve the quality of your efforts. Self-care is also a part of self-improvement.
10. Context Specific Rules And Choices.
Depending upon whether or not you are a solo practitioner, part of an organization, or a business, you may need to create or adopt rules and guidelines specific to your context. For example, I won't do readings for people under 18 without verified parental consent. There may be regulations or policies associated with your geographical location or your organizational affiliation. If there are fees for services provided there should also be guidelines on what is fair and appropriate. If you are working as a part of a collective in service to a community or to members of an organization, there may be differences in how you work in-house rather than the general public. As you can see there are many other considerations beyond the points discussed here.
It is my hope that these points will stimulate further explorations of your approach and principles for not only divinatory work, but other facets of your magickal and spiritual praxis.
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Harm None: Reaching Deeper b2ap3_thumbnail_web3_sm.jpgAny discussion of the meaning of "Harm none" can - and should – generate plenty of questions. That's the nature of determining our ethical behavior: our perspective shifts as we circle the problem at hand. This is necessary. The reason for ethics is to determine how to minimize damage to others, and unless we try to walk for a while in their shoes, to empathize with their viewpoint, its almost impossible to do that. This includes our own viewpoint. If we didn't need to consider our own desire in any given matter, there would be no need for ethics. Which means we need to be very clear about why we want something, and ideally be aware of the consequences of that desire.
We might call this being good neighbors. How would you treat your neighbor if you want to continue – or create – a good relationship? That in no way means that you must be friends with this person, it only means that when you see them in person, that a smile and a wave is easily done. It might be faked, this person may have done something to mildly annoy you, but the fake is easy, and can eventually become a genuine smile if the offense is not repeated.
Lets take the analogy a bit further. If your


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Cold fronts are well-known for their transitions from one air mass (warm and humid) to another (cold and dry). In addition to a drop in temperature and dew point with frontal passage, winds shift from southwest before the front to northwest after frontal passage, showers and thunderstorms (sometimes severe) accompany the front and atmospheric pressure falls as the front approaches and rises following frontal passage. When an arctic cold front plows into an unseasonably warm and humid air mass, the transition is often dramatic.
Take a look at this image (Fig. 1) and you can see the spatial variations associated with the arctic front that is currently moving across the central U.S. Further north and west (where the air mass ahead of the front was not as warm and humid), and during nighttime hours, the transition was significant, but not dramatic. Consider Oklahoma City, OK where the front passed late on Friday night into early Saturday morning. The temperature just fell steadily with frontal passage; however, the dew point tumbled about 17 degrees in an hour (Fig. 2).
At Memphis, TN, where the front passed through shortly after midnight Sunday, the pre-frontal air mass was much more tropical. Thus, the temperature and dew point tumbled 18 degrees (70 degrees to 52 degrees) from around 1:30 a.m. C.S.T. to 2:45 a.m. C.S.T. (Fig. 3). The biggest drop occurred from 1:31 a.m. C.S.T. to 1:39 a.m. C.S.T. when the mercury fell 9 degrees. That translates into a computed rate of minus 67.5 degrees per hour.
Houston, TX saw a 16-degree tumble between 2:27am C.S.T. and 3:53 a.m. C.S.T. on Sunday morning (Fig. 4). During midday Sunday, Baton Rouge, LA (Fig. 5) saw the temperature drop from 75 degrees at 12:53 p.m. C.S.T. to 63 degrees a scant 29 minutes later. Between 2:22 p.m. C.S.T. and 2:24 p.m. C.S.T. the temperature dropped another 6 degrees. That secondary temperature tumble translates into a drop of 180 degrees per hour.
There is no way that temperatures would fall like this for an entire hour (thank goodness!). I merely determined the computational hourly rates to highlight just how dramatic the temperature tumble really was.
Dr. Ken Dewey, a meteorology faculty member at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, provided another look at the front. Driving north from Austin (site of last week's Annual American Meteorological Society conference), Dewey passed through the front and shared the following observation. "It was 71 degrees F last evening as we drove north of Dallas…at 75 mph it only took 3 exits to hit the snow squalls. I love these sharp temperature gradients."
I have to agree with Dewey. When frontal transitions are this dramatic, it makes explaining cold fronts a lot easier.
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Objective of ASP Project on School Registration System
The main objective of the ASP Project on School Registration System is to manage the details of Schools, Teachers, Registrations, Cources, Classes. It manages all the information about Schools, Students, Classes, Schools. The project is totally built at administrative end and thus only the administrator is guaranteed the access. The purpose of the project is to build an application program to reduce the manual work for managing the Schools, Teachers, Students, Registrations. It tracks all the details about the Registrations, Cources, Classes.
Functionalities provided by ASP Project on School Registration System are as follows:
- Provides the searching facilities based on various factors. Such as Schools, Registrations, Cources, Classes
- College Management System also sells the employees details online for students details, employees details, courses.
- It tracks all the information of Teachers, Students, Cources ect
- Manage the information of Teachers
- Shows the information and description of the Schools, Registrations
- To increase efficiency of managing the Schools, Teachers
- It deals with monitoring the information and transactions of Cources.
- Manage the information of Schools
- Editing, adding and updating of Records is improved which results in proper resource management of Schools data.
- Manage the information of Cources
- Integration of all records of Classes.
- It generates the report on Schools, Teachers, Students
- Provide filter reports on Registrations, Cources, Classes
- You can easily export PDF for the Schools, Students, Cources
- Application also provides excel export for Teachers, Registrations, Classes
- You can also export the report into csv format for Schools, Teachers, Classes
Limitation of ASP Project on School Registration System
- Excel export has not been developed for Students, Cources due to some criticality.
- The transactions are executed in off-line mode, hence on-line data for Schools, Teachers capture and modification is not possible.
- Off-line reports of Schools, Registrations, Classes cannot be generated due to batch mode execution.
Input Data and Validation of ASP Project on School Registration System
- All the fields such as Schools, Registrations, Classes are validated and does not take invalid values
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I keep a list of books I read each year, by month. In 2019, I read 19 books. Some were great, some were mediocre, some I read because I was tired of hearing about them.
Recommended books are denoted with *. Audible books are denoted with ^.
- The Magic of Thinking Big, by David J. Schwartz.
- Smart Retirement, by Matt Zagula
- The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months, by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington.
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg. *
- Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, by Cal Newport. *
- The Dichotomy of Leadership, by Jocko Willink *
- Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great, by Jim Collins
- Lead Yourself First:Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude, by Michael S. Sorensent and Raymond M. Kethledge
- Frederick Douglass: The Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight ^
- The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts – Vol. 1, by Shane Parish. ^ *
- The Odyssey, by Homer translated by Emily Wilson. ^ *
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, by Dr. Joe Dispenza. ^
- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway. ^ *
- Grit, by Angela Duckworth *
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Jeff Cox and Eliyahu M. Goldraft
- The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets a to a Healthy, Long Life, by Dr. Jason Fungoes and Dr. James Dinicolantonio. *
- Work The System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less, 3rd Edition, by Sam Carpenter
- The Lessons of History, by Ariel Durant and Will Durant.
- I Hear You, by Michael S. Sorensen. ^


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UCI Libraries Strategic Plan and Resource Requirements
As part of the campus planning process, the UCI Libraries have prepared a summary of our strategic plan and our predicted resource requirements. The UCI Libraries Strategic Plan 2005–2014 articulates the Libraries' vision, mission, and values and presents goals and objectives for the level of service that we will provide in support of a distinguished research university growing to 32,000 students. The UCI Libraries Projected Resource Requirements through 2015–2016 presents the resources needed to meet these goals and to fulfill our assessment of the demands of new programs and campus growth.
UCI Libraries Strategic Plan 2005–2014
The UCI Libraries have conducted extensive planning over the years, both for new initiatives and to improve existing programs, including collections, services, computing, budgets, staffing, and space. The UCI Libraries Strategic Plan 2005–2014 has been developed within the context of the campus plan and priorities, focusing on services to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the community, and covering the same time period, up to 2014.
Vision, Mission and Values
The UCI Libraries provide vital leadership in UCI's quest for increasing distinction as a premier research university. As the intellectual crossroads of the campus, the Libraries are essential to its academic life, and inspire members of UCI's diverse community to discover, create, and share knowledge.
- The Libraries proactively assist UCI's students, faculty, and staff in fulfilling the education, scholarship, patient care, and research goals of the University.
- We provide superior user–focused services, accurate and unbiased assistance, and easy–to–use access to outstanding research collections.
- We deliver our services in physical spaces and online environments that are conducive to study, learning, and discovery.
- We preserve our collections to ensure their availability for use and their survival as valuable cultural assets.
- As a major information resource for UCI and its local community, we contribute to creating and sustaining a well–informed and educated society.
- We enable our staff to excel and innovate in support of our mission.
- We value our users, and we demonstrate this by our responsiveness to user needs through continuous improvement, strong teamwork, and open communication.
- We value our talented, informed, and diverse staff for their excellent contributions to the development and delivery of innovative services, programs, and collections of outstanding quality.
- We subscribe to campus–wide statements of values and principles of community and strive to uphold, incorporate, and exemplify these values in all our actions.
Goals & Objectives
As leaders and partners in the educational mission of the University, we provide user–focused services that facilitate access to the information resources critical to learning, teaching, and research. In collaboration with educators on campus, we provide leadership in developing information literacy and outreach programs to foster lifelong learning skills.
- Increase campus awareness of the information services provided by the Libraries through effective marketing strategies.
- Develop a culture of assessment in which user feedback is continually solicited and applied to the ongoing development and enhancement of library services.
- Apply the highest quality standards of customer service so that all interactions with users are professional, respectful, and rewarding.
- Promote and develop the Libraries as centers for independent and collaborative learning, research, and creativity.
- Provide easy access to online resources and physical collections through thoughtfully organized online tools and library spaces.
- Enhance users' access to global scholarship through resource sharing and collaboration with other libraries and organizations at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels.
- Expand the Libraries' education and outreach efforts and collaborate with faculty to make information literacy instruction an integral part of all campus academic programs.
We develop, deliver, and preserve the Libraries' collection of significant and diverse research resources in all formats, whether owned, shared, or accessed, that further the University's goals. The Libraries' staff are valuable research resources due to their expertise, knowledge, and skills.
- Select and provide effective access to research resources and global scholarship that support existing and emerging educational and research interests of UCI's academic programs and centers.
- Ensure long–term access to research resources of all types, such as print, online, multimedia, data sources, images, maps, and microforms.
- Collaborate with other institutions within the UC system to create shared collections (both print and online) that minimize duplication of effort, preserve materials, and ensure that the greatest possible number of scholarly resources is accessible to our users.
- Manage digital resources so that they are easily accessible to users, with a focus on simplification and integration of user interfaces.
- Adopt or develop discovery and authoring tools that will enable users to access, share, and transform content that results in new scholarly output.
- Develop projects that explore the UCI Libraries' role in the creation, enhancement, publication, or distribution of new research content. Continue partnerships with faculty, students, staff, and colleagues within the UC system (UC campuses and California Digital Library) and beyond.
- Continue to take a leadership role in campus, system–wide and national initiatives to support and improve scholarly communication for the benefit of the academy and society.
Library as Place
We expand, maintain, and promote the Libraries' facilities as the intellectual crossroads of UCI's learning and discovery environment. We provide an atmosphere that fosters the University's goals.
- Expand and renovate existing library space to meet the needs of 32,000 students by 2014 and to maximize use of space for learning, teaching, expanding and preserving collections, and hosting events.
- Create a welcoming, safe, and secure learning environment that improves accessibility to collections and services for all users.
- Provide flexible space and comfortable furnishings that offer a variety of learning and study environments, both quiet and active, to support the needs of users.
- Host events, both cultural and scholarly, that draw new users and feature the Library as an intellectual and social center of the campus.
Information Technology (IT)
We provide information technology infrastructure and services that proactively support the robust and secure delivery of the Libraries' resources and services to our users and seamlessly connect UCI to global scholarship. We promote the exploration of new and emerging technologies that benefit users and staff.
- Coordinate short– and long–term planning of information technology and communication to ensure uninterrupted operation of our information technology infrastructure and services.
- Update all hardware and software in a timely manner in keeping with changing needs, expectations, and standards.
- Develop and maintain a robust, secure, scalable, and fault–tolerant infrastructure for applications, databases, and storage servers.
- Collaborate with Campus IT to provide a robust wired and wireless network; user–friendly, secure authentication mechanisms; and tools for users to create, use, and experiment with digital learning resources and new scholarship.
- Develop infrastructure, tools, and services to support the Libraries' local digital initiatives. Collaborate within UC to develop and share digital infrastructure, tools and services.
- Provide an information technology infrastructure that enables the efficient management of internal operations throughout the Libraries and that continues to emphasize superior customer service.
We cultivate a dynamic environment that attracts, retains, and values highly competent and creative employees. We foster collaboration and consultation throughout the organization.
- Hire and retain a well qualified, talented, diverse and resilient staff, compensated competitively for their skills and knowledge.
- Support and motivate staff by providing a positive and productive workplace where they feel empowered to provide excellent professional service to support the goals of the University and the Libraries, and where they are recognized for their achievements.
- Provide enriched training and professional development opportunities for all staff to enable them to provide excellent service.
- Practice, promote, and reward effective work performance, communication and civility throughout the Libraries.
- Assess workloads and workplace conditions continually in order to determine the allocation of staff resources required to fulfill the Libraries' goals.
- Enhance productivity and quality of work life by providing staff with ergonomic furnishings, state–of–the–art technology, and appropriate functional space.
We manage financial resources to support the attainment of the Libraries' goals.
- Develop appropriate financial plans.
- Appropriate and reallocate existing resources as needed.
- Identify new sources of funding from both internal and external sources.
- Provide accurate and meaningful financial information that allows us to assess, improve, and cost–effectively manage our funding.
UCI Libraries Projected Resource Requirements through 2015–2016
The UCI Libraries Projected Resource Requirements through 2015–2016 presents the resources needed to meet the above goals and to fulfill our assessment of the demands of new programs and campus growth. The quality of the Libraries will play an important role in attracting and retaining outstanding faculty and students, and substantial investment will be needed to ensure that library services and resources are in place to support their success.
These projections are conservative and represent our assessment of what is needed to provide a quality library that can sustain UC Irvine's academic goals. Benchmark comparisons to other leading universities substantiate these assessments.
Structure, Staffing, and Services
Currently, UCI Libraries consist of four divisions with the following librarian and staff FTE:
- Collections: 18
- Public Services: 87
- Technical Services: 70
- Administrative Services: 20
- Library administration: 8
- Total librarian and support staff FTE: 203
- The Libraries employ approximately 240 students for 70 FTEs.
In the future, increased investment in the Libraries will be necessary to hire the expert staff and build the collections that will be required to support the growing number of students and faculty, and the development of new academic programs. We will actively engage with the campus to plan for the development of library services and resources to support new academic programs and evolving needs, and we will continue to recruit high quality professionals with the skills to support the changing needs of the university.
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Long-Term Drug Rehab
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The Importance of Long-Term Residential Drug Rehab
Overcoming addiction is a complex and challenging journey that requires a comprehensive approach. While short-term treatment programs can provide initial support, long-term residential drug rehab offers a more intensive and immersive experience that significantly increases the chances of successful recovery.
In La Quinta, California, individuals struggling with addiction have access to exceptional long-term drug rehab facilities. These residential addiction treatment centers provide a structured and supportive environment where individuals can focus solely on their recovery without the distractions and temptations of the outside world.
Benefits of Addiction Recovery Residences
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Living in an addiction recovery residence allows individuals to gradually reintegrate into society while still receiving support and guidance. These residences often have house rules, mandatory meetings, and drug testing to ensure a drug-free environment. They also offer peer support and accountability, promoting a sense of community and camaraderie among residents.
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These programs provide ongoing therapy, counseling, and support groups to help individuals maintain their sobriety and develop crucial coping mechanisms. Extended care addiction treatment in La Quinta ensures a smooth transition from residential rehab to independent living, reducing the risk of relapse and supporting long-term recovery.
Residential Addiction Treatment in La Quinta
La Quinta is home to renowned residential addiction treatment centers that offer personalized and evidence-based programs. These facilities provide a comprehensive range of services, including individual therapy, group counseling, holistic treatments, and educational workshops.
Residential addiction treatment in La Quinta focuses on addressing the underlying causes of addiction, such as trauma, co-occurring mental health disorders, and unhealthy coping mechanisms. Through a combination of therapy modalities and specialized treatment plans, individuals can gain a deeper understanding of their addiction and develop the necessary skills to maintain long-term sobriety.
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Therapeutic communities for addiction are immersive and highly structured treatment environments that promote personal growth and accountability. La Quinta offers therapeutic communities that emphasize community living, peer support, and shared responsibility.
In these communities, individuals actively participate in their recovery journey by engaging in therapeutic activities, vocational training, and life skills development. Therapeutic communities provide a supportive and empowering environment that fosters personal responsibility and helps individuals build a strong foundation for lasting recovery.
Long-term residential drug rehab in La Quinta, California, offers individuals struggling with addiction a transformative path to lasting recovery. With addiction recovery residences, extended care addiction treatment, residential addiction treatment, and therapeutic communities available in this city, individuals can find the support and resources they need to overcome addiction and build a brighter future.
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The Florida drivers handbook is your guide to getting a Florida drivers license. Inside the drivers manual you will find driving laws, explanations of how to get your drivers license, and details of the different types of drivers licenses Florida offers.
Chapter 3 - Speed Limits
This section of the Florida Driver Handbook covers Speed Limits on Florida highways, the Florida Turnkpike, Interstates, and other roads.
Topics Addressed in Chapter 3 of the Florida Driver Handbook include:
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Speed causes many crashes. More drivers are convicted of speeding than any other offense. To avoid being fined or involved in a crash, obey the speed limits.
Speed is very important in a collision. If you double the speed of a car, you increase its force of impact four times. If you triple the speed, the impact is nine times as great.
70 Does Not Always Mean 70
Remember that speed limits show the fastest speed you may drive under good conditions. You are responsible for adjusting your driving speed to the road conditions. For example, if the weather is bad or there is a lot of traffic, you must drive more slowly than the posted speed. The safe speed is the one that allows you to have complete control of your vehicle.
Florida "Standard" Speed Limits
- Municipal Speed Areas... 30
- Business or Residential Area... 30
- Rural Interstate... 70*
- Limited Access Highways... 70
- All Other Roads and Highways... 55*
- School Zones... 20
*The 55 MPH maximum speed limit is still in effect in Florida except where otherwise posted. *Speed limits are 70 MPH on some rural interstate highways. Speed limits may be changed on other multi-lane highways and in areas where the conditions require lower speeds. Drivers should not assume because the area appears to be a particular urban, municipality, business or highway area that the speed is the standard or expected speed zone. Observe and obey the posted speed signs as there may be frequent changes from area to area along the selected roads or highways.
Driving Too Slowly is also Against the Law
Drive with the flow of traffic (within the speed limit). You should not drive so slowly that you block other vehicles moving at normal, safe speeds. You can be issued a ticket for driving too slowly. When the posted speed limit is 70 mph, the minimum speed limit is 50 mph.
Following Officer's and Fireman's Instructions
If you are stopped by a law enforcement officer, pull off immediately to the extreme right, clear of traffic when possible. Turn off your engine. Reduce your headlights to the parking light position at night. Sit calmly and follow the instructions of the officer. You must follow any lawful order or direction of (1) any law enforcement officer or (2) any fireman at the scene of a fire who is directing traffic. If a law enforcement officer is directing traffic where there are signal lights, obey the officer - not the signals.
More crashes happen at intersections than any other place. Be very careful when approaching any intersection or driveway.
- Look both ways and be ready to brake or stop.
- Drive at the slowest speed just before entering the intersection, not while crossing.
- Do not pass or change lanes.
- Be aware of vehicles behind you. Will they be able to stop if necessary?
If you are stopped, look for bicyclists and pedestrians who may be crossing the intersection from either direction.
Disclaimer: Please get an official copy of the Florida Driver Handbook by visiting your local DMV Office. While we try, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the online verison provided here.


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Bringing hope to families with autistic children, 11 countries from the WHO Southeast Asian Region, at a recent meeting, adopted a resolution on the distinct brain damage disorder that produces a range of behavioural abnormalities. The countries resolved to strengthen national capacities and help mobilise resources in Southeast Asia to address this issue.
Autism is a severely-incapacitating developmental disability that happens in the first three years of life, but can be better dealt with, if detected early. Statistics show that one in every 150 births is autistic. India has more than one crore autistic children, but treatment and rehabilitation facilities are virtually non-existent.
The resolution impressed upon the member states to give appropriate recognition to autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and developmental disabilities in policies and programmes related to early childhood development, and asked them to develop and implement policies and plans — including public awareness, stigma removal campaigns, supported with adequate human, financial and technical resources — to address the issue.
The meeting called for development of strategies for early detection and community-based interventions for such children, thereby leading to the creation of appropriate infrastructure for care, support, intervention, service and rehabilitation.
The WHO expressed deep concern on the dramatic rise in the number of children with autism and developmental disabilities, and the growing cost involved in managing such disabilities in addition to the challenges of stigma, isolation, and discrimination faced by families dealing with autism.
To begin with, the 11 countries have agreed to support the activities of autism-related networks, including the South Asia Network (SAAN) — a concept that emerged from the Dhaka Declaration on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities, adopted at the end of a conference organised last year by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's daughter, Saima Hossain, to discuss the needs and challenges of the autism community in Bangladesh and South Asia. The conference was attended by United Progressive Alliance chairperson, Sonia Gandhi.
In addition to the 11 countries from Southeast Asia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Bahamas, United Kingdom and the United States of America participated in the WHO conference.
Taking up the cause of autistic children, India has now decided to hold the first 'Annual SAAN Regional Networking Meeting' in January next year.


Salinity and periodic inundation controls on the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum of gray mangroves
Leonardo Noto, Francesco Viola, Saverio Perri, Annalisa Molini
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Salinity and periodic inundation are both known to have a major role in shaping the ecohydrology of mangroves through their controls on water uptake, photosynthesis, stomatal conductance, gas exchanges, and nutrient availability. Salinity, in particular, can be considered one of the main abiotic regulating factors for halophytes and salt-tolerant species, due to its influence on water use patterns and growth rate. Ecohydrological literature has rarely focused on the effects of salinity on plant transpiration, based on the fact that the terrestrial plants mostly thrive in low-saline, unsaturated soils where the role of osmotic potential can be considered negligible. However, the effect of salinity cannot be neglected in the case of tidal species like mangroves, which have to cope with hyperosmotic conditions and waterlogging. We introduce here a first-order ecohydrological model of the soil/plant-atmosphere continuum of Avicennia marinaâalso known as gray mangroveâa highly salt-tolerant pioneer species able to adapt to hyperarid intertidal zones and characterized by unique morphological and ecophysiological traits. The A.Â marina's soil-plant-atmosphere continuum takes explicitly into account the role of water head, osmotic water potential, and water salinity in governing plant water fluxes. A.Â marina's transpiration is thus modeled as a function of salinity based on a simple parameterization of salt exclusion mechanisms at the root level and a modified Jarvis' expression accounting for the effects of salinity on stomatal conductance. Consistently with previous studies investigating the physiology of mangroves in response to different environmental drivers, our results highlight the major influence of salinity on mangrove transpiration when contrasted with other potential stressors such as waterlogging and water stress.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1271-1282
Number of pages12
JournalHydrological Processes
Publication statusPublished - 2017
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
 - Water Science and Technology
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Indigenous community liaison officers liaise with Indigenous communities and the state or territory police forces in order to establish and maintain positive relationships. Indigenous community liaison officers usually have limited police powers, although in certain circumstances they may assist police officers with law enforcement tasks such as arrest, search and detainment. This type of position will involve shift work, weekend and public holiday work, with positions in urban and rural communities. Having an Aboriginal or Torres Straight Islander background is encouraged. The number of positions available is growing, but is dependant on the number of Indigenous Australians and police in an area, as well as community funding.
Roles of an Indigenous Community Liaison Officer include:
- Developing and maintaining contacts between the police and the local Indigenous communities to strengthen cooperation and communication between the parties
- Improving community knowledge about police services and law and order issues
- To advise, assist and educate police officers on cross-cultural awareness, potential crime and disorder areas and how to address these issues in order to improve relations
- Represent and advocate for Indigenous people at committee meetings and juvenile hearings
- Aid Indigenous recruitment, retention, career management and development strategies
Due to the level of involvement with police and the power bestowed on an individual by the role, it is essential that a person in this position have a sound character, an acceptable traffic/criminal record, be medically fit, have good communication skills, understanding of Indigenous cultures, and enjoy working with people.


where our limits of ink and screams are set up and broken down" (381).
Both Place and Collis see the entire field of textuality as undifferentiated in its presence. Both ask what of the material language is in fact the poet's to "own" under the banner of her "authorship?" Place asks from a place of thinking the guerilla snapshot and the crop; Collis asks from a place of thinking an anarchy of lineages and this moment's history of leftist anti-homage investments of avant-gardes. If Collis, Kootenay Old School style, might support a manifesto of poetic:ethic:poetic:ethic, is that the same as aesthetic:ethical:aesthetic:ethical?
In Place's poem, at least, the tones of its dissonances are dependent on the contiguities and discontiguities of discourses from which the "appropriated" language is taken with frames of poetry. The enclosures matter. The thicker the thicket of tonal and proprietary lines "crossed" to be brought to a centre of framed [poeticized] attention, the stronger the offensive charge. Dear reader, I ask:
what work
this poem would do
appropriated by a Black
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on a page of Callaloo
Collis wonders.
Enclosures matter.
 One. Point. Too.
* you are here and now