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See more from this Session: General Seed Physiology, Production, & Technology: I/Div. C04 Business Meeting
Monday, November 1, 2010: 2:30 PM
Long Beach Convention Center, Room 103B, First Floor
Carrot seed is produced in central Oregon by planting seed in late-summer, 13 months before harvest. Seedling carrot growth and development is sometimes poor possibly because of nematodes, herbicide carryover, or allelopathy from wheat straw. Frost-heaving is a risk factor that strongly influences winter survival of seedling carrot in the region. Frost-heaving occurs when freezing and thawing soil pushes seedling carrots up out of the soil, which results in plant mortality. Two field trials were conducted to evaluate the influence of wheat straw management on seedling carrot injury and the potential for herbicide carryover from wheat. Two additional field trials were conducted to evaluate mulch products to prevent frost-heaving. Wheat straw management practices influenced carrot establishment and seedling carrot survival over the winter. Seedbed preparation strongly influenced carrot establishment and winter survival. Biomass mulches were all equally effective in preventing frost-heaving.


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Note: if you cannot remember the formulas for the surface area and volume of common shapes, revise notes for 1.1 Surface Area of Common Shapes and 1.2 Volume of Common Shapes.
Guide to Finding the Surface Area of a Composite Shape
Read More »1.3 Surface Area and Volume of Composite Shapes
- Composite shapes are shapes that are created by merging multiple simple shapes.
- Due to the large amount of combinations possible, it is not possible to derive formulas for each.
- To find the surface area of a composite shape, you need to first identify the simple shapes it is made up of. The surface area of the composite shape is equal to the sum of each shape, minus the surface area which has been removed to merge it into the shape:

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 21:30 in Earth & Climate
Rock climbers are having a negative impact on rare cliff-dwelling plants, ecologists have found. In areas popular with climbers, conservation management plans should be drawn up so that some cliffs are protected from climbers, experts urge.
- Climbers leave rare plants' genetic variation on the rocksTue, 3 May 2011, 22:32:08 EDT
- How high can a climber go?Fri, 8 Jan 2010, 10:58:15 EST
- Mountaineers measure lowest human blood oxygen levels on recordWed, 7 Jan 2009, 17:36:38 EST
- Taking dex can improve high altitude exercise capacity in certain climbersTue, 11 Aug 2009, 12:50:25 EDT
- When cancer cells can't let goMon, 13 Apr 2009, 8:56:50 EDT

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MSc in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
The MSc in Industrial and Organizational Psychology is a program which is designed for recent graduates with a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent qualification) in any field who aspire to a broad range of career opportunities in business, industry, public administration, consultancy, and other organizations. There is no requirement for professional work experience following the Bachelor's degree (or equivalent qualification). Applicants who have successfully completed the CASS Europe GDBM are eligible for admission with advanced credit in some of the core modules of the program.
The objective of the program is to provide students with the essential functional and managerial expertise and to develop the skills they'll need to understand and shape the many factors and mechanisms at work in an organization. Students will be able to use the practice-oriented expertise and acquire the skills that are relevant in successfully managing a modern organization.
Upon successful completion of the program student will be able to:
- Acquire fundamental knowledge of psychology as a discipline. This will include: knowledge of both the history and current developments of the field, its theoretical and methodological perspectives, its professional practice, and so on.
- Become proficient academic researchers in the field of psychology. This will involve becoming skillful in developing theoretical and conceptual frameworks as well as methodologies for undertaking rigorous academic research in the field. Students will also become proficient in developing testable hypotheses, research design, methods of data collection and data analysis, interpreting the analyzed data and drawing conclusions. This will necessarily include both classroom didactic training and conducting empirically based thesis research.
- Be proficient in the domains that are core to Industrial/Organizational (I-O) Psychology, which include: 1. ethical, legal, and professional contexts, 2. measurement of individual differences, 3. criterion theory and development, 4. job and task analysis, 5. employee selection, 6. performance appraisal, 7. training and development, 8. work motivation, and 9. attitude theories.
- Be knowledgeable in the practice of Industrial/Organizational Psychology by applying relevant concepts and theories to study practical I-O issues in a modern organization.
- Acquire skills in qualitative and quantitative research methodology and apply these in successfully carrying out a major piece of research leading to the MSc I-O Psychology thesis.


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This is a joint Research Project within the European Metrology Research Programme EMPIR
Traceable mechanical and electrical power measurement for efficiency determination of wind turbines
This Research Project will End on August, 31st. 2023
Standardising efficiency determination methods for wind turbines on test benches to ensure innovation and performance improvement
New technologies for wind turbines are currently assessed in the field, are time-consuming to perform and highly affected by wind conditions. Shortening the time to market for these tests is one way to reduce costs and increase performance for this form of renewable energy. Indoor test benches can rapidly record a wide range of data but require accurate torque and rotational speed measurements which currently lack traceability to national standards and are difficult to realise for torque measurements above 1.1 NM m.
Another important aspect is the measurement of electrical measurands that are affected by harmonics with the lowest possible uncertainty. The time synchronisation of the electrical and mechanical power measurement is a basic requirement for the exact determination of the efficiency.
The project will assess current methods and develop traceable methodology for torque measurements up to 5 MN m and rotational speeds up to 20 and 1600 revolutions per minute which covers the operational speeds on low-speed and high-speed shafts respectively. Standardised guidelines for traceably determining turbine efficiency on test benches will be developed along with new power measurement methods for the electrical components of wind turbines. Project outputs will give a better prediction of the energy output of proposed wind parks, provide greater certainty in investment opportunities and help accelerate the transition towards cleaner energy sources.


It sounds like Classical Conversations is more supportive of concurrent enrollment than Dual Enrollment. Is that true?
When talking about college credits for our high school Challenge students, we are often asked to explain the difference between dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment. There is also some confusion about how these models work. We are also asked why we prefer one model over the other. We prefer the Classical Conversations Plus concurrent credit program because it honors our Challenge programs and allows parents to remain the students' primary mentors and teachers while the student earns college credit.


Apocrine chromhidrosis
Author: Dr Duncan Lyons, Resident Medical Officer, Gold Coast University Hospital, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Medical Editor: Dr Helen Gordon, Dermatology Registrar, Auckland, New Zealand. DermNet NZ Editor in Chief: Adjunct A/Prof Amanda Oakley, Dermatologist, Hamilton, New Zealand. Copy edited by Gus Mitchell. July 2020.
Apocrine chromhidrosis — codes and concepts
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What is apocrine chromhidrosis?
Apocrine chromhidrosis is the production of coloured sweat by apocrine sweat glands.
Apocrine chromhidrosis
Who gets apocrine chromhidrosis?
Apocrine chromhidrosis is rare. It usually starts after puberty once the apocrine glands have matured, but has also been reported in infants. Chromhidrosis occurs in both sexes.
What causes apocrine chromhidrosis?
Apocrine chromhidrosis is due to lipofuscin granules in the apocrine sweat glands. It is thought that lipofuscin is produced from the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids within the gland. Higher levels of oxidation result in darker colours. It is unknown why this happens.
What are the clinical features of apocrine chromhidrosis?
Apocrine chromhidrosis presents with coloured sweat localised to the distribution of the apocrine glands in the axillae, on the face (particularly the cheeks), breast areolae, and anogenital regions.
Sweat may be coloured blue, black, green, brown, or yellow, depending on the oxidation state of the lipofuscin, staining the skin and clothing. It is noticed by the patient particularly after exercise or emotional stress, and can result in having to change clothing multiple times each day.
The secretion of coloured sweat can be preceded by a prickly sensation or warmth on the affected skin.
What is the differential diagnosis of apocrine chromhidrosis?
Apocrine chromhidrosis must be distinguished from pseudochromhidrosis and eccrine chromhidrosis.
Pseudochromhidrosis is sweat that becomes discolored after it has been secreted. It is more common than chromhidrosis.
Eccrine chromhidrosis
Eccrine chromhidrosis is the production of coloured sweat from the eccrine sweat glands.
How is apocrine chromhidrosis diagnosed?
Apocrine chromhidrosis is usually diagnosed clinically. The following may be used to confirm the diagnosis:
 - Expression of sweat from the affected site may reveal coloured sweat that quickly dries
 - Wood lamp examination may show yellow fluorescence
 - Microscopy of freshly-expressed discolored sweat demonstrates the lipofuscin granules
 - A skin biopsy confirms the diagnosis if PAS-positive lipofuscin pigment granules are found within the apical cells of apocrine glands.
Other tests may include:
 - A skin scraping and culture to exclude the chromogenic bacteria of pseudochromhidrosis
 - Liver function and kidney function tests to exclude hyperbilirubinaemia and uraemia.
What is the treatment of apocrine chromhidrosis?
Treatments that have had some success in apocrine chromhidrosis include:
 - Topical capsaicin cream, which reduces substance P (a neurotransmitter important in the production of sweat in apocrine sweat glands)
 - Botulinum toxin type A injections.
These treatments temporarily reduce apocrine sweating and the discoloration recurs as the effects on sweating wear off.
What is the outcome for apocrine chromhidrosis?
Apocrine chromhidrosis is a benign chronic condition. It slowly regresses with advancing age as the apocrine glands gradually become less active.
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 3. Yöntem A, Kör D, Hızlı-Karabacak B, Karakaş M, Önenli-Mungan N. Blue-colored sweating: four infants with apocrine chromhidrosis. Turk J Pediatr. 2015;57(3):290–3. PubMed
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Configuring a database user by running ocsetup on Windows
You can run the ocsetup file on the OnCommand Unified Manager server to configure read-only access of the OnCommand Unified Manager database to OnCommand Workflow Automation.
 1. Download the wfa_ocsetup.exe file to a directory in the OnCommand Unified Manager server from the following location: https://WFA_Server_IP/download/wfa_ocsetup.exe.
 WFA_Server_IP is the IP address (IPv4 or IPv6 address) of your WFA server.
 If you have specified a non-default port for WFA, you must include the port number as follows: https://wfa_server_ip:port/download/wfa_ocsetup.exe.
 port is the TCP port number that you have used for the WFA server during installation.
 If you are specifying an IPv6 address, you must enclose it with square brackets.
 2. Double-click the wfa_ocsetup.exe file.
 3. Read the information in the setup wizard and click Next.
 4. Browse or type the JRE location and click Next.
 5. Enter a user name and password to override the default credentials.
 A new database user account is created with access to the OnCommand Unified Manager database.
 Note: If you do not create a user account, the default credentials are used. You must create a user account for security purposes.
 6. Click Next and review the results.
 7. Click Next, and then click Finish to complete the wizard.


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Game of Names
The children sits in a circle, with outstretched legs and feet toward the middle. A person is placed in the center with a glove in his hand. It is now his task to beat the feet of the person whose name is said. The person whose name is mentioned can avoid getting in the middle if he says a name of one of the other children in the circle before his feet are hit. If the name is wrong or not said before you get hit over the feet you swap space with this person in the middle.


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Many support organizations have started to align their support model with Knowledge Centered Support (KCS) as their methodology for working effectively with knowledge. In this article we reply to the most commonly asked questions related to the adoption of KCS.
New challenges for the service desk
The service desk is responsible for more tasks than ever before. Service desk analysts are expected to understand much more than in the past, deliver better service more quickly, and at a lower cost. It is very challenging to keep up with the demand for new knowledge, and there is a great need to structure and reuse an organization's existing knowledge.
Most support organizations are familiar with KCS and how it meets many of the above mentioned challenges. During the Fusion Conference we received many important questions about adopting KCS as a methodology, and below are our suggestions:
1. How do we get the most use out of our existing knowledge base?
Search the knowledge base every time the service desk receives a request. Create relevant articles immediately by improving the content, adding meta data, and linking solutions to the related articles. This process will help the database become relevant and updated.
2. How do we find the time to create knowledge articles initially when working with a self-service solution?
Use a pre-populated knowledge base solution that contains knowledge articles for standard office applications and popular software programs. We strongly believe that an intuitive and easy-to-use knowledge tool will encourage the creation and improvement of knowledge articles by the IT support organization.
3. How do we get the agents to support the idea of creating content as part of the problem solving process?
Encourage the most enthusiastic support agents to work according to KCS principles and they will quickly discover the advantages of creating articles based on demand and usage. With the adoption of KCS principles the service desk agents will no longer waste their time creating articles that no one uses.
4. How does incident management and Knowledge Management integrate?
Some knowledge management solutions integrate seamlessly with incident management systems and ITSM tools. With a strong integration, knowledge articles are made available to the users via the incident management system. Ideally when an end user begins to type their issue into the description field suggested knowledge articles will appear. The end user now has the ability to resolve their issue before they need to create a service request.
If you have any questions on the adoption of KCS, don't hesitate to contact our Knowledge Specialist.
Heléne Källgården, Marketing & Events, ComAround


U.S. Ordered to Disclose Border Fence Landowners
 WASHINGTON (CN) - A professor won her bid for government records revealing the names and addresses of landowners whose properties might be affected by the Texas-Mexico border fence.
 "Revealing the identities of landowners in the wall's planned construction site may shed light on the impact on indigenous communities, the disparate impact on lower-income minority communities, and the practices of private contractors," U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled Friday.
 The information was requested by Denise Gilman, a clinical professor at the University of Texas-Austin School of Law researching the human-rights impact of the border fence.
 A federal law passed in 2006 ordered the construction of a fence or wall along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border. It mandated reinforced fencing along at least 700 miles of the southwest border, but left the specific location up to the Department of Homeland Security.
 In 2009, Gilman filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records detailing where the government planned to build parts of the wall and what information it was using to decide where to build.
 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released thousands of documents, but redacted certain information, including the names and addresses of landowners.
 Gilman challenged the government's redactions, arguing that the public interest in how the wall would impact landowners outweighed any privacy concerns of private landowners.
 She said the information would help the public understand the size of the wall and the agency's decisions about where to place it, including whether U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was treating property owners fairly.
 The CBP insisted that disclosure put the landowners' privacy rights at risk, and they faced unwanted contact from "the media, other members of the public, including other landowners involved in a similar process, and potential harassment."
 Howell agreed with Gilman that "the public interest in learning how CBP negotiated with private citizens regarding the planning and construction of the border wall is significant."
 "This public interest outweighs the privacy interest in landowners' names and addresses in CBP emails," she wrote.
 However, she said the agency doesn't have to disclose emails relating to its assessment of the need for fencing, as information in the emails reveals areas that are patrolled by fewer Border Patrol agents due to their difficulty to patrol.
 "Such information discloses the CBP's operations and vulnerabilities, which are not readily-accessible public information, the disclosure of which could risk appropriation to circumvent the law," Howell wrote.
 Also, if Gilman seeks email attachments excluded from the records she received, she must file a new Freedom of Information Act request to receive them, the judge concluded.
 "The schedule on which CBP was required to release records to the plaintiff is set out in the second clause and was thus a separate requirement from the scope of the responsive records set out in the first clause," Howell wrote.


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Faculty and staff affiliated with the Bioethics Research Center (BRC) are available to facilitate narrative ethics discussion groups. In these groups, participants discuss stories published in the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB). NIB publishes personal stories from patients, family members, and healthcare professionals on socially important topics in healthcare. For purposes of discussion, BRC faculty have organized these narratives around shared themes such as stigma and bias in healthcare, moral distress among healthcare workers, and communicating what matters most to patients.
Narrative ethics discussion groups typically meet for approximately one hour. BRC faculty can facilitate discussion groups of any size.
- Gain insight regarding stakeholders' needs and preferences and explore how professional practice might respond to these
- Understand the multiple, and at times conflicting, perspectives of all parties involved in healthcare encounters and decisions
- Recognize how narratives may represent a call for recognition (e.g., of suffering or distress), offer guidance to others, or appeal for change
Current Topics Offered:
Exploring Moral Distress: Stories from Healthcare Providers
Moral distress occurs when a healthcare professional is constrained from taking what they believe to be an ethically correct course of action. These constraints are often hierarchical or institutional, leaving a healthcare professional feeling powerless to take a particular action. This session explores stories of moral distress from various healthcare professionals.
Exploring Stigma and Bias in the Care of Patients: Stories from Patients
Stigma and bias in healthcare can have a negative impact on patients and healthcare professionals. Biases are often unconscious and unintentional but can still impact patient care, adherence, and outcomes. This session uses patient stories to develop an understanding of how stigma and bias can affect patients and the care they receive, and is essential to identifying and overcoming these issues.
Communicating What Matters Most to Patients
Ideally communication is a two-way dialogue between patient and clinician. However, clinicians may not always know what is most important to communicate. Patients may also be resistant to talking about certain issues. This session uses patient stories to illustrate examples of communicating what matters most to patients. The themes addressed in these handouts include stories of providing the information that is most relevant to patients, enabling truly informed decision making, dealing with uncertainty, and engaging in difficult conversations.
Communicating Respectfully: Stories from Patients
Communication between clinician and patient is an essential aspect of ensuring a positive relationship. Communication is complex and multifaceted involving more than a mere exchange of information. Communication includes subtle signs, body language, and the language we use. When communication fails or breaks down, patients and clinicians may be negatively affected. The themes addressed in these handouts focus on how to communicate. Stories from patients address effective and failed communication, repairing trust, the importance of language and words, and apologies.
Exploring the Dignity of Patients in Healthcare
Healthcare providers encounter patients of varied and diverse backgrounds on some of the most challenging and significant days of their lives, as well as for routine check-ups or long-term care. All patients, regardless of race, gender, nationality, birth, wealth, or sexual orientation, expect to be treated with dignity—their words, desires, and personhood deemed worthy of respect. This session examines narratives through the lens of "dignity," and includes an organ donor's experience of care after surgery, a mother who advocates for her adult autistic daughter, and an Alzheimer patient's choice to legally end his life, among other stories.
BRC anticipates adding new topics on an ongoing basis.
These events are made possible through the support of the The Dr. Daniel Bisno Ethics in Medicine Fund.
To request a narrative discussion group session, please complete the following request form:


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One of the most unique biomes is found in the Arctic Ocean and the water around Antarctica. The Polar Ice biome
is a marine biome that is rich in nutrients from the land around them, and contain ice. This makes the perfect environment
for plankton, and plankton fuel the surrounding ecosystem.
Very, very, very few aquatic plants can live in this biome.
ANIMALS AND ORGANISMS
Plankton, which provide food for an extremely diverse group of organisms. Sea lions, penguins, many species of
fish and birds, and other mammals all enjoy this biome.
There are hundreds of gatherings of literally thousands of penguins every year to lay eggs. After laying the eggs,
the female leaves to go fish, and the male does most of the incubating.


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- Approx Cost:
- $30.00 this covers the cost of some craft materials, sewing notions and patterns during the course. The fabric for the pyjamas is purchased separately and is an additional cost.
- Technology Requirements:
- A laptop is essential for this course
- Course Outline:
In this course you can:
- Explore given contexts to solve problems and come up with solutions.
- Be inspired by other designs to show their own creativity in a range of ideas that meet a brief.
- Become designers and develop an outcome for a client.
- Learn how to project manage an outcome by planning time and resource requirements.
- Discover how materials and processes are used in order to create a successful outcome.
- Be involved in hands on projects including making bags, PJ shorts and a toy for a given person.
- Class maximum 28.
Knowing how to write a simple brief.
Planning and designing an outcome
- Exploring a range of materials and processes
- Learning practical skills
- Where Does It Lead:
This course leads to Year 10 Materials Technology - Textile based and thereafter to Senior Technology courses at NCEA Levels 1, 2 and 3.
- For further information see:
- Mrs E Paterson.


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There are six types of meetings - regular, committee, special, joint, annual, and public input meetings. The following describes the purposes of each of these meeting types.
The Board of Education schedules a regular meeting on the third Thursday of each month, and further special meetings may be called as necessary. The regular place of meeting is the boardroom of the Administration Building. Any change in the date or place requires the unanimous approval of the board.
Every so often the School Board will appoint persons to function as a committee to discuss or investigate specific issues. These committees do not necessarily contain board members. Often times, the School Board will appoint interested community members to participate on these committess. An example of a committee is one regarding board policies or to investigate alternatives for staff insurance policies. These committee meetings occur only when needed and are usually posted in the newspaper or on this website.
In a special meeting, the board would discuss special issues not pertaining to regular business. An example of a special meeting would be one where redistricting or referendum issues would be discussed. The public may or may not be invited to attend certain special meetings due to the nature of the proceedings. The meetings where the public is not invited could be called closed sessions. Examples of closed sesssions would be ones where salary negotiations, student or staff disciplinary actions are discussed.
The School Board meets with the Chippewa Area Catholic Schools (CACS) to discuss issues such as bus transportation, calendar, distance learning, special classes, or any other type of shared services. These joint meetings occur only once per school year.
Typically during an annual meeting, new board members will be seated and officers elected. Annual meetings generally occur on the fourth Monday in April unless otherwise noted.
Public Input Meeting
A public input meeting is one that focuses on specific issues whereby the School Board wants input from the public. An example of a public input meeting would be one where the issue of funding is discussed.


text: Nuclotron-based Ion Collider state-of-art design involves innovative solutions in superconductive applied technology. Thanks to its consolidated experience, ASG has been directly involved into the program by providing to Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) a large 0.5 T Nb-Ti superconductive magnet equipped with an active (resistive) modulation system. Typical solutions have been specifically optimized in order to guarantee the maximum flexibility in all operative conditions. ASG has been involved in the whole design of magnetic, structural, thermal and protection systems. Magnetic configurations meeting optimized field requirements have been identified also accounting in detail the expected significant technological deviations. The two resistive coils, forming the active modulation system, principally perform the identification of the optimized magnetic configurations. Lorentz forces and coil interactions produced by the system have been calculated in order to verify mechanical structure and stresses on the coils. The protection system of the magnet in case of quench has been designed in order to minimize thermal stresses on the cold mass components. The electromagnetic interactions between components, during dynamic events, have been evaluated in order to verify the cryogenic and structural stability of the system. Manufacturing phase is ready to start. Main results will be presented to illustrate the adopted process and technological solutions.


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Why is the ASAP implementation methodology critical for ECC?
Unlike the Agile approach of project management with its shorter timelines, the Waterfall approach of project management for SAP ECC takes a longer approach to ensure success.
ASAP stands for Accelerated SAP, and the ASAP implementation methodology is intended to optimize the implementation...
of SAP software.
Implementing SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) is a major undertaking and requires an SAP-focused project implementation methodology to ensure the success of the ECC project. ASAP is the de facto methodology used for SAP ECC and follows the Waterfall approach to project management.
Here are the five phases of the ASAP implementation methodology.
Project preparation
Using the ASAP implementation methodology, in this SAP ECC implementation phase, SAP consultants give initial training to the new SAP ECC business users to give them an overarching view of how SAP ECC works. The business users explain their existing business processes (known as as-is), the business pains they suffer and the current gaps and shortcomings that they'd like SAP ECC to address.
Business blueprint
In this phase of the SAP ECC implementation project, a detailed documentation of the business requirements takes place. The as-is processes are remodeled to fit SAP ECC processes (known as to-be), and a gap analysis helps to evaluate the gaps between the current as-is and SAP ECC's to-be and how best to address these gaps. Some ways to fill the gaps are to develop customized solutions or connect the existing solutions with SAP ECC through an interface. There is also an option to continue certain processes as they are currently being done.
In this phase using the ASAP implementation methodology, the configuration and development of ECC occur using the documented blueprint of business requirements (the second phase of ASAP) and any functional specifications for customizations.
Final preparation
In this phase with the ASAP implementation methodology, the appropriate players conduct the detailed steps required prior to the system going live. These steps include transporting the configured objects, performing data conversion and upload and handling other manual processes, such as cutover of inventory and financial balance uploads. All these activities and steps take place in the ECC system that the business users will rely on for performing their day-to-day business functions.
Go-live and support
SAP ECC is now live, and business users begin performing business transactions, such as creating sales and purchase orders and receiving goods in the warehouse, and do so in a completely integrated environment. In other words, when a sales order is created, it is followed by delivery of products to the customer and, finally, billing the customer for the delivered products.
The figure below lists the five sequential phases of the ASAP methodology for SAP ECC implementation.
The five stages of ASAP implementation methodology for SAP ECC
The five stages of the ASAP implementation methodology for SAP ECC
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Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa: a report by Tony Read
An extract from the foreword by Peter Nicolas Materu, Practice Manager, Education Global Practice, World Bank (GEDDR), is given below.
This study was commissioned as part of the World Bank's effort to support universal availability of textbooks in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It examines the cost and financing barriers to universal textbook provision in the region, and
is a compilation of the author's rich and multifaceted experience, across several decades working in the education sector in Africa. It covers a wide range of education issues including curriculum development and review, teaching and learning materials (TLM) provision, literacy and numeracy, language of instruction policy, procurement systems, distribution challenges, print manufacturing, materials development and design, and TLM management and usage in schools. Recent issues raised by attempts to embed information and communications technology (ICT) and other educational technologies within national education systems are also covered, as is the growing recognition that improved TLM system management is a critical component in achieving affordable and sustainable TLM provision
to all students.
The study will be particularly useful for policy makers, development partners, and other stakeholders attempting to understand the wide range of issues surrounding the complexity of textbook provision in SSA (Sub-Saharan Africa).
The complete report on 'Where Have All the Textbooks Gone? Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa' is available at the link below.


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Accommodation, a word that transcends its literal meaning, embodies the essence of comfort, hospitality, and the art of making a temporary space feel like home. In an era where travel is a ubiquitous part of our lives, the significance of accommodation accommodation perisher goes beyond providing shelter; it shapes the way we experience and remember our journeys. This article delves into the multifaceted world of accommodation, exploring its evolution, trends, and the pivotal role it plays in enhancing the overall travel experience.
- The Evolution of Accommodation:
Accommodation has come a long way from the humble inns of yesteryears. Today, it spans a spectrum of options, ranging from traditional hotels and motels to boutique inns, vacation rentals, and futuristic pods. The evolution is not just in terms of aesthetics and amenities but also in the way accommodation providers adapt to the changing preferences of modern travelers.
- Hospitality as an Art Form:
At its core, accommodation is an art form mastered by those in the hospitality industry. The warmth of a welcoming smile, attention to detail, and personalized service can transform a place to stay into a memorable experience. Many establishments go beyond the basics, curating unique offerings such as themed rooms, local experiences, and culinary delights to leave a lasting impression on their guests.
- The Rise of Alternative Accommodations:
The advent of technology has given rise to the sharing economy, changing the landscape of accommodation. Platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo have empowered homeowners to share their spaces with travelers, offering a more personalized and often cost-effective alternative to traditional hotels. This shift has not only expanded options for travelers but also created opportunities for individuals to become hosts.
- Sustainability in Accommodation:
With an increasing awareness of environmental issues, the accommodation industry is embracing sustainability. Green building practices, energy-efficient technologies, and eco-friendly amenities are becoming standard in many accommodations. Travelers are now seeking stays that align with their values, prompting accommodations to implement sustainable practices and contribute to the global effort to reduce environmental impact.
- Technology and Smart Accommodations:
The integration of technology has transformed the way we book, experience, and interact with accommodations. Mobile check-ins, smart room controls, and virtual concierge services have become commonplace, providing convenience and enhancing the overall guest experience. Technology is not just a tool but a facilitator that enables accommodations to stay connected with their guests throughout their stay.
- Adapting to Changing Travel Trends:
The travel landscape is constantly evolving, and accommodations must adapt to changing trends. The rise of remote work has given birth to the concept of "workations," where accommodations cater to individuals seeking a blend of work and leisure. Flexible cancellation policies, wellness amenities, and enhanced hygiene protocols have become pivotal in accommodating the evolving needs of travelers.
Accommodation, once viewed merely as a place to rest, has evolved into a cornerstone of the travel experience. From the charm of boutique hotels to the coziness of vacation rentals, the choices available today cater to the diverse preferences of travelers. As the world continues to change, accommodation providers who understand and embrace the evolving needs of their guests will stand out in an industry that is as much about creating memories as it is about providing a place to stay. In the realm of accommodation, it's not just about four walls; it's about creating a home away from home.


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Medium Merkaba measures 2 inches square and is polished.
- It is a mineral whose deposits are only found in Karelia Russia
- A natural antioxidant that can enhance human immunity against many serious diseases
- Sorbent for purifying water and air from many organic and inorganic compounds
- Support a wide range of trace elements and of biologically active substances intensifying biological processes in humans and animals
- Material, actively interacting with electromagnetic fields of different nature (man-made high-frequency, solar, geopathogenic, biological) and neutralizing their negative impact
Aids in ensuring human health
And what is a Merkaba?
From ancient mysticism the word literally means "a thing to ride in" Ezekiel wrote of it and his vision consists of a chariot made of many heavenly beings driven by the "Likeness of a Man." The base structure of the chariot is composed of four beings. These beings are called the "living creatures". There is quite a bit more to the story but you get the idea.


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Pearl River Church was built in 1833 as a school near the Natchez Trace in Madison County and school and church shared the facility. It has been used as a Methodist church throughout its history, although it is no longer used except for special occasions. The building was remodeled in 1889 to its present form. It is noted for its role in the history of the Lambuth family particulary. From this church in 1854 Rev. and Mrs. James William Lambuth went as missionaries to China where their descendants continued to labor long afterward. On a return trip to Mississippi and a stay of two years, daughter Nettie died and is buried in the adjacent cemetery. In honor of the Lambuths, each third Thursday of October there is a memorial service known now as Lambuth Day: The service has been essentially continuous since its beginning 1900. A monument in front of the church memorializing the Lambuths was installed at that time.
Source: The Mississippi Methodist Advocate. December 2, 1959. Supplemented by other sources. (This title is available in the J.B. Cain Archives.)
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Butte Digital Image Project: Shifting Focus From Collection to Community
The Butte Free Public Library was established in 1894. At that time, head librarian J. Davies published a catalog of the opening collection. Two fires and one flood later, many of the monographs from that original collection list have, remarkably, survived. Because of this, in part, the library, now known as the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library (BSBPL), launched the Butte Digital Image Project (BDIP) in July 2009. This is an initiative to create digital surrogates of monographs and pamphlets in the library collection dating from the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th century. Even though the collection—focused on Butte, mining, labor, Montana, and Western history—no longer circulates, BSBPL wanted to both preserve and provide access to these items.
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digitization process, we were able to shift our
goals to meet community interests.
Grants from the Montana Cultural Trust, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Butte's Urban Revitalization Agency provided funding for equipment and staffing for the BDIP. The funding provided for a new full-time digital collections librarian position, and this is the position I now hold.
Digitizing the Library's Collection
Monographs and pamphlets in the library's collection are prioritized for digitization, with fragile items and those focused on Butte given the highest priority. Scanned items and their metadata are uploaded to the Montana Memory Project (MMP), a statewide online resource providing access to digital content that relates to Montana's cultural heritage and operated by the Montana State Library (_URL_). All items in the BDIP are hosted on the MMP site. Digital items are cataloged, and access is provided through both OCLC's WorldCat and BSBPL's Koha ILS. The library maintains a Flickr pro account (_URL_ posting historic photographs and their metadata. Links to both the library's Flickr page and the MMP are located on the library's webpage (_URL_) for easy community access.
Refocusing Our Digitization Efforts
When the BDIP was launched, the expectation was that the library would digitize and make available physical items from the library collection. As the project was promoted to the community, though, an interesting thing happened. Not only did community members support the project, they began to ask about digital preservation of their personal images and documents. While they were interested in sharing their personal, historic items, however, they did not want to give up ownership to do so.
In thinking about the situation, BSBPL could see the benefits to the community in providing access to privately held pieces of community history. Personal items such as these are typically accessible only to family members and can, without the memories and stories that go with them, lose the narrative explanation that gives them historical context. In providing preservation and access for personal photographs and documents, BSBPL would be helping to save pieces of community history that had the greatest potential for being lost.
Electronic resources have set a precedent for providing access to collections that the library does not own. Libraries have had to shift focus from building a solely physical collection owned by the library to providing access to resources owned by others. In some ways, providing access to historic content that we didn't own was simply continuing to follow the path toward access-centered collections.
Issues Surrounding Private Collections
While the library could see the benefit in digitizing and providing access to the community to privately held items, there were many questions to answer before launching such a project. How would this fit into the existing project? How would the library protect itself legally? What about copyright issues? How would participants be chosen? What sorts of items would the library digitize? How would they be prioritized? How would items be accessed—through MMP, WorldCat, the library catalog? Would this service be promoted? If so, how? What about hosting and storage? How could the project be funded?
While the BDIP continued to operate under the original scope of the project, discussions began regarding what community-contributed content might look like for the BDIP. In the discussions, legal and copyright issues were the biggest concerns. How could the library preserve and provide access to privately held material legally without requiring the patron to give up ownership?
To resolve this issue, BSBPL investigated liability and copyright issues and developed a release form that would give the library ownership of a digital copy while allowing the community member to retain ownership of the original item. With this hurdle out of the way, the field was open to try a test project.
The Test Project
For the test, several local historians were contacted in hopes that they might know of someone who had strong ties to the community and items of historical interest. From these sources, a small pool of people was created and contacted. The selection process at this point was to accept the first person who agreed to be a guinea pig. Louis Fontana, 89, a longtime Butte resident, graciously agreed to contribute items to the test project.
Having selected the candidate, the next step was to meet with Fontana to evaluate his items. He had family photographs, old Butte photographs, and a commemorative booklet for a local volunteer fire department (the Meaderville Volunteer Fire Department, or MVFD). After discussing the background of the items, some photographs were rejected because of copyright issues—these photographs had been taken by a professional photographer. The photographer's son still owned the business and the copyrights to his father's photographs. The commemorative booklet was technically in the public domain because it was published in 1960 without copyright notice. However, because members of the MVFD potentially were still part of the community, BSBPL tracked down the former fire chief and obtained permission to digitize this item.
The rest of Fontana's photographs, along with the booklet, were scanned and uploaded to the MMP with their metadata.
BSBPL wanted the same access to these items as the rest of the items scanned for the BDIP. This meant original MARC records would need to be created. MMP, through OCLC, offers a feature to CONTENTdm users in which metadata is crosswalked to MARC records created in WorldCat. Once OCLC created records for these items, BSBPL's test of digitizing privately held items would be successfully completed.
Lessons Learned From the Test Case
Provenance and copyright. Because potential community-contributed content would become part of the BDIP and would be uploaded to the MMP, it would need to be accompanied by as much information as possible to allow creation of the best possible metadata and MARC records. While Fontana's items proved a valuable contribution to the community's history, we weren't always able to get all the traditional elements of metadata/catalog records. For those items, consideration had to be given to the potential contribution of the item and to how much information was enough.
Knowing the creator of an item is important to both metadata and MARC records and can shed light on potential copyright issues. Some of Fontana's photographs were excluded because of a clear copyright issue. With others, that distinction wasn't as obvious. For example, Fontana couldn't remember the photographer of a picture taken at Sam's Club. BSBPL felt the photograph was important to the community—it had been taken in the Butte neighborhood of Meaderville, a neighborhood that was demolished as open pit mining expanded. Clearly, the importance of preserving this information overrode the potential copyright risk. The metadata for the photograph on the MMP asks the photographer to contact the library. The decision was that if contacted, BSBPL would be willing to remove the photograph from the website.
In another instance, we received a group of scanned photographs from a community member, but the photos lacked any kind of provenance or description. Some of the photographs appeared to be from books or newspapers; some were old postcards. None of them had been taken by the person who donated them. The risk of copyright issues in this case proved too high.
This did point to the need for a way to prescreen submissions in the case of a full-fledged effort to solicit contributions from the community. This prescreening needed to be easy, short, and friendly. We're exploring the use of a short form to include a couple of questions about where the photographs came from and who took them. This might help to point out potential issues and to prioritize those submissions that might be digitized most easily.
Access and promotion. We want to provide access to items in the BDIP through as many discovery points as possible. To do this, we provide a link to the MMP on the library website. In addition, we provide links to the MMP in our Koha catalog and also in the WorldCat record. On our Flickr page, we provide links to both our catalog and MMP in the metadata under each photo. These provide multiple discovery points for each item.
When I took over as digital collections librarian, the Fontana photographs had been uploaded to the MMP, but the MARC record had not been created. In tracking the creation of these records (it took several months), I decided it took less time to create original MARC records than it did to wait for the crosswalk to happen. At this point, we are creating our own records. As it turns out, a glitch in the system was responsible for the delay, and this has since been corrected. If we become inundated with contributions in the future, the crosswalk process might be an option to reconsider. MARC records provide an important source of discovery, but original cataloging takes staff time. With community-based content, copy


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Home / Browse / Category / Land and Resources / Cherokee Boundary Line
The Old Cherokee Boundary Line served as the eastern border of the first land set aside for Native Americans in Arkansas. The Treaty of the Cherokee Agency of 1817 created the definition for the line as beginning at the confluence of Point Remove Creek and the Arkansas River near present-day Morrilton (Conway County). The line was then to be marked in a northeasterly direction to Shields Ferry on the White River. General William Rector, along with commissioners appointed by the Cherokee, conducted the original survey and filed a report with the Government Land Office in 1819. Rector reported a distance of seventy-one miles and fifty-five chains.
Rector's survey and report were intended to satisfy both some Cherokee residents and some residents of Arkansas Territory who did not accept the language of the treaty and sought adjustments to the line. In 1819, a second treaty was intended to meet concerns of both parties. A part of the problem involved the removal of white settlers from the described Cherokee lands.
The term "Old Cherokee Boundary Line" reflects the eastern line that remains in the U.S. Geological Quadrangle maps and other prominent maps. The counties and their approximate miles of boundary line are: Conway (twenty), Faulkner (six), Van Buren (nine), Cleburne (thirty-one), and Independence (five). The line lies diagonally across Greers Ferry Lake in Cleburne County. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed a campground and park on the northeastern portion of the lake to commemorate the significance of the boundary line and the lake. It also developed and operates a large RV park on the Arkansas River that recognizes the beginning point near Point Remove Creek.
While the surveys for sections and townships were completed after the Cherokee had given up their land in Arkansas in 1828, the boundary was a prominent marker and was frequently used in early land descriptions. The marker has shown continued and even increased significance over the years. Surveyors in the counties that the boundary line impacts have long encountered language about the line in legal descriptions and have worked to resolve disputes that relate to the "exact" location of the line. These incidences have increased as the area experienced the Fayetteville Shale natural gas development beginning in 2004. The boundary line aligns, in part, with this important economic development. Thus, a new generation of surveyors was required to cope with the peculiarities associated with the Old Cherokee Boundary Line.
While the Treaty of 1817 gave specific points of origin and termination, those persons involved in marking the boundary line faced obstacles associated with uncharted wilderness terrains. Surveying techniques of the time were rudimentary and certainly inadequate by modern standards. They predated full understanding of the concept of magnetic variation (declination). These included the effects caused by local soils that contain notable amounts of iron and other magnetic compounds. It is now recognized that even the original surveyors' metal surveying equipment may have had significantly impacted the magnetic behavior of their compass readings as reported by General Rector.
Numerous mile markers and other monuments have been placed along the line. Over the years, many of these markers have been identified by surveyors and recognized by historical groups. Representative of the confusion that has surrounded this important boundary, the Arkansas History Commission, during the state's centennial celebration in 1936, placed a monument on Cherokee Street in Morrilton that, in an elaborate inscription, erroneously states that the line runs "in a Northwesterly direction."
For additional information:Bolton, S. Charles. Arkansas, 1800–1860: Remote and Restless. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998.
Shinn, Josiah H. Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas. Chicago: Genealogical and Historical Publishing Company, 1908.
"Treaty with the Cherokee: July 8, 1817." _URL_ (accessed December 8, 2010).
Larry TaylorSpringfield, Arkansas
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We are excited that you are pursuing a secondary teaching degree. At PFW, we offer secondary teaching licenses in collaboration with several different content areas. We do this through a Dual Degree program. This means that each student earns a degree in the content area as well as a separate degree in Secondary Education. Because it is a dual degree program, we accept all 60 credits from the Ivy Tech Community College or Vincennes University TSAP program but require more than 60 credits at PFW to complete both degrees.
At the time you are admitted to PFW, you will declare your majors with the Department of Biology and the School of Education.
- Completion of the TSAP in Secondary Education - BIology A.S. degree is required for admission to the TSAP dual degree.
- No courses beyond the requirements for TSAP A.S. degree are required for admission to the B.S. in Biology program. For admission to professional education, a minimum 2.70 cumulative GPA (PFW) as well as a 2.70 cumulative GPA in your major course work with at least 50% completed in major is required.
- For graduation, a 3.00 cumulative GPA and 3.00 major GPA are required.
- All students in the B.S. with majors in Biology and Secondary Education are expected to meet the same student learning outcomes and program requirements. Additional program requirements exist for all students in the B.S. with a major in Biology and the B.S.Ed in Secondary Education. Please see program pages for additional details.
- You are responsible for satisfying the graduation requirements specified for each degree program. Thus, it is essential that you develop a thorough understanding of the required courses, academic policies and procedures governing your academic career. All requests for exceptions to specific requirements must be made in writing and may be granted only by written approval from the appropriate chairs or deans.
- List of Major courses and supporting courses required at PFW; total credits in program = 128.
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- BIOL 49100 Senior Biology Seminar (counts as Gen Ed C.8) (3 cr)
- Biology electives with labs (8 cr)
- Biology electives (6 cr)
Guidelines for BIology electives:
- Take at least one course with a laboratory from each of the A and B elective courses.
- The A elective courses focus on topics regarding the intact organism and its interaction with the environment, and so are organismal, population, community, and ecosystem in nature.
- The B elective courses focus on processes acting within the organism, and thus detail molecular, cellular, and organ-system mechanisms.
- See Biology Program Description for a complete list of A-Electives and B-Electives and how they connect to the three optional Concentration areas.
Supporting Courses: Credits 18
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- EDU 30600 Teaching Students with Special Needs in the Secondary Classroom (3 cr)
- EDU 40500 The Middle and Junior HIgh School (3 cr) and EDU 30100 Laboratory/Field Experience (0 cr)
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SEATTLE — Regular yoga practice may help prevent middle-age spread in normal-weight people and may promote weight loss in those who are overweight, according to a study in the July/August issue of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.
Funded by the National Cancer Institute, the study involved 15,500 healthy, middle-aged men and women who were asked to complete a written survey recalling their physical activity (including yoga) and weight history between the ages of 45 and 55. The study measured the effect of yoga on weight change, independent of other factors such as diet or other types of physical activity. For the study, regular yoga practice was defined as practicing at least 30 minutes once a week for four or more years.
The researchers found that between the ages of 45 and 55, most people gained about a pound a year, which is a common pattern as people age and do not adjust their caloric intake to their declining energy needs.
However, men and women who were of normal weight at age 45 and regularly practiced yoga gained about 3 fewer pounds during that 10-year period than those who didn't practice yoga, said Alan R. Kristal, Dr.P.H., the study's lead author.


So, the main reason I took the time to explain how the Auto Filter's envelope section works was so I could move into talking about the Auto Filter's sidechain capabilities as I did yesterday. If you're new to this, the important thing to understand is that the sidechain section of the Auto Filter works with the envelope. It can use the volume of any track to automatically adjust the filter's cutoff frequency.
There are lots of fun creative uses for this. For example, take a look at the following setup:
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Imagine that this filter is inserted on a shaker track playing a steady rhythm. Every time the snare drum hits, the shaker will get darker as the band pass filter is shifted into a lower frequency range (notice the negative Envelope value). Also make note of the longer Release time. This controls the length of time it will take the filter to return to it's original frequency after each snare hit. Due to the relatively long release time seen above, there will be an audible sweep in the shaker after each snare hit.


A cylinder of gas used for welding contains helium at 3000 psig and room temperature. The cylinder is knocked over, its valve is broken off, and gas escapes through a converging passage. The minimum flow area is 0.10 in2 at the outlet section where the gas flow is uniform. Find (a) the mass flow rate at which gas leaves the cylinder and (b) the instantaneous acceleration of the cylinder (assume the cylinder axis is horizontal and its mass is 125 lb).
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The average cost of shipping coal by railroad to power plants increased almost 50 percent in the United States from 2001 to 2010, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration Power Plant Operations Report (EIA-923) and U.S. Surface Transportation Board's Confidential Waybill Sample.
Railroad transport accounts for more than 70 percent of U.S. coal destined to the electric power sector, so changes in rail rates can have an important impact on the cost of coal delivered to power plants, the report said.
"Though they vary significantly, transportation costs accounted for 40 percent of the average overall cost of coal delivered at electric power plants in 2010," it was stated in the report.
On average, nominal U.S. rail rates for shipping coal grew from $11.83 to $17.25 per short ton from 2001 to 2010.
Rates grew slowly in the beginning of the decade before increasing almost 11 percent in 2005, then continuing to grow at a relatively robust pace until the recession, the report said.
"However, the impact of the recession on transportation rates was short-lived as rates grew more than 9 percent in 2010," it said.
National numbers can be misleading, however, as regional dynamics tend to vary considerably among the six major coal basins, the report added.
"For example, Southern Appalachian coal costs increased more than 10 percent annually in 2001-10, while Powder River Basin (PRB) rates grew 1.5 percent over the same period. For a few PRB destination states, rates fell during this period," the report stated. "The wide range in minemouth coal prices and transportation distances across the United States create significant variation in the impact of transportation rates on overall coal costs, with different basins affected to significantly differing degrees."
While rail transportation costs for Appalachian and Illinois Basin coals as a percent of total delivered cost fall in the low 20 percent range, the relatively low commodity cost of PRB coal, and the long distances it travels, results in transportation costs that averaged almost 60 percent of the total delivered cost in 2010—more than the commodity itself, according to the report.
State-level data show further variation in rate changes over 2001-2010. At the high and low ends, Virginia-to-Tennessee rates grew 83 percent, while Wyoming-to-Kansas rates fell 23 percent — a 106 percentage point swing, the report concluded.


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After second MN cold weather drinking-related incident, UND examines dangers, student safetyTwo incidents involving Minnesota college students found outdoors in sub-zero temperatures in recent days have alerted officials to the dangers of drinking and cold weather. One student died. The other may lose her hands. The incidents have led people to examine student safety at the University of North Dakota during cold weather.
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Department of Education Issues Third Letter on Title IV Changes
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Several revisions to the statutory language governing the return of Title IV funds rules are addressed in the latest Department of Education Dear Colleague letter. The letter (GEN-06-05), the final in a series of three detailing changes to the Title IV student aid programs enacted as part of the Higher Education Reconciliation Act, covers changes to student and institutional eligibility and the Student Assistance General Provisions.
Although Congress has not completed the long-delayed reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a number of amendments to the HEA were included in the budget reconciliation bill that was enacted in early February. Several changes were made to the return of Title IV funds, or R2T4 as the rules governing the treatment of federal student aid when students withdraw during a term have come to be known. These include:
- easing the timely repayment requirements to allow institutions 45 days rather than 30 days to return unearned funds,
- limiting student repayments to the amount by which the overpayment exceeds one-half of the original grant amount,
- forgiving repayment obligations by students of $50 or less,
- requiring institutions to contact students who have withdrawn before making a post-withdrawal disbursement of a loan, and
- restricting applicability of the R2T4 requirements to the Pell, FSEOG, Federal Direct Loan, FFEL, and Perkins Loan programs, as well as the two new grant programs (Academic Competitiveness and SMART grants).
Other topics covered in the letter include a clarification of the restrictions on Title IV aid for students convicted of drug offenses, changes to needs analysis, and modification of the 50 percent rule relating to distance education.
The NACUBO contact for student aid issues is Anne Gross, vice president, regulatory affairs.
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The ability of birds resting on telephone wires to stand in balance without difficulty must have called the attention of many people. Neither the continuously shifting wind nor the wires vibrating by force of the wind disturbs this balance.
When we think of the acrobats who work in circuses, only then we can understand how superior the ability of birds to stand in balance is. For instance, an acrobat who tries to walk on a steel tightrope has to use a long stick made up of special substances in order to poise.
This stick gives the acrobat a sort of balance mechanism and helps him stand on the rope without falling down. Birds, on the other hand, do not use any kind of equipment to poise but they are more talented than even the best acrobat: They can dive floating on air when stand on the wire and can enable their balance in less than a second.
Prof. Reinhold Necker, a German scientist, has carried out a four-year research in order to find how birds that behave like a superior acrobat can stand on a thin wire without falling down. The researcher, who worked in the University of Bochum Ruhr, discovered that birds are equipped with a very special balance mechanism. According to this research, two different organs took part in this balance mechanism.
One of these organs is the inner ear, which is also seen in other vertebrates. This organ helps when the bird is flying and prevents it to turn upside down when flapping its wings.
The other organ is in the pelvic cavity of the bird. This organ that works perfectly is composed of the semicircular canals on the left and right hand-sides of the spinal cord. These symmetrical canals tied to the spinal cord are filled with a special liquid. Prof. Necker explains how this system works:
"These semicircular canals work like a pair of scales. This liquid moves in the same direction as the bird's body and goes to this canal or the other one.1
This system works by means of the nerve cells that work very much like a computer system. The nerve cells in the lobes that are mechanically stimulated, sends the signal to the leg of the cerebellum. Necker says, "The muscles control the movement in such a good way that birds can enable balance perfectly."
The scientist who tested the role of this organ plays on balance, also observed that birds with imperfect organs in the pelvic area cannot maintain balance and that they fall down."
Without the existence of these outstanding balance organs of birds, found as a result of research, birds would fall down a wire or a wig in the face of a mild wind blowing.
When the features of the organs are examined, it is understood that the canals are specially created and then filled with a liquid with a specially adjusted fluidity. Of course, such an organ cannot come into existence on its own. In addition, muscle and nerve cells made up of blind atoms cannot 'want' to hold the bird in balance or 'calculate' the required specifications.
These balanced movements seen in birds occur by the leave of Almighty Allah Who holds everything He created under His control:
"Have they not looked at the birds above them, with wings outspread and folded back? Nothing holds them up but the All-Merciful. He sees all things." (Surat al-Mulk)
1- "Neurobiologie: Warum Vögel nicht umfallen", Geo, January 2003


IELTS Cue Card Sample 132 - Describe a course you would like to take if you have time
Describe a course you would like to take if you have time.
You should say:
 - what kind of course it is
 - where you would do this course
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If I get time I would like to learn the computer graphics designing course. It is a combination of learning some theoretical aspect of graphics designing and then hands on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. These two are widely used image editing and graphics designing tools that emphasising on computer design and website designing.
I would like to get admitted in (...say an institution name...) who offers a professional course on graphics designing. They have a good reputation of teaching the course participants accurately and effectively. Since I have offices/ classes till the evening, I would like to enrol in the evening course that starts after 7.00 pm. The course fee is reasonable and I would have the option to pay the fees in 3-4 installments and that would be very convenient for me.
This should not be a very difficult course for me as I already have some background on computing and graphics designing. But I will have to concentrate on the course and maintain the regularity. This course would be a 6 months course and that's why I will have to adjust my time during this 6 months period. Another thing that required a course participant is to practice a lot. Since this is a creative task and the course teacher would show us how to do something, the course takers have to work hard to improve their skills and creativity.
This course would be helpful for me to do better in my career. Graphics design is required for many jobs and knowing it would be a great advantage for me. Besides, If I can become a prominent graphics designer, I would be able to work for clients from different countries as a freelancer beside my day job.
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Learn Cued Speech!
* Cued speech provides families and professionals with a tool for complete and accurate communication with the deaf in English and MANY other spoken languages
* Combines hand "Cues" with the natural mouth movements of speech, providing 100% visual confirmation of every sound being spoken
* Is easy to learn: the average person needs 10-20 hours of instruction and a few weeks to a few months of practice (to develop fluency)
* Enables a deaf child to achieve AGE-APPROPRIATE language and literacy levels, from infancy through high school, college, and beyond.
Please see the attached flyer for more details:
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What is Cued Speech?
Cued Speech is a visual communication system — mouth movements of speech combine with "cues" (hand shapes and locations) to make all the sounds (phonemes) of spoken language look different.
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Siemens use case
SIEMENS is deploying a Smart City platform in the urban development area of "Seestadt Aspern" in the municipality of Vienna, where efficient buildings, a reliable power grid and capable mobility solutions are being developed for contributing in improving the residents' quality of life and city sustainability. This platform can easily integrate heterogeneous devices, such as sensors (e.g. temperature, humidity) and energy readings from smart meters.
SEnerCon use case
SEnerCon is mainly developing web-applications for end-users in the domain of energy efficiency management. These applications fall into two categories. The first one includes applications that enable endusers to monitor and analyse their energy consumption, while applications from the second category guide/advise end-users on how to save energy in every day's life, through behavioural or technical changes. Usability and capability of the applications to provide clear explanations of the proposed advices are crucial to increase end-user acceptance of SEnerCon applications.
Atos use case
ATOS provides a platform for live webcasting of sport events such as Masters Tennis. Webcasting of sport events is far more automated and dynamic than in the past and currently end-user feedback and interaction in real time are an integral part of the system.


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How Coronary Angiography Is Used
Clinical Determinants of Appropriateness
This Note uses ratings of appropriateness derived from an expert physician panel to measure how appropriately physicians in 1981 performed coronary angiography in a randomly selected, community-based sample of cases in the Medicare population. The authors studied three large geographic areas in three states, representing regions of high and low use. The high-use site had fewer procedures classified as appropriate (72 percent) than either low-use site (77 percent and 81 percent). Over all sites, 17 percent of procedures were classified as inappropriate. Patients in the high-use site were older, had less severe angina, and were less intensively medically treated than patients in either of the low-use sites. Patients without angina who had not undergone exercise testing constituted the most common subgroup of inappropriate cases. Although overall differences in appropriateness were not large, practice differences do exist. The analysis of practice differences among study sites provides the clinical basis for understanding the small, but significant, differences in the appropriateness of use of coronary angiography. The finding of 17 percent inappropriate use may be cause for concern.


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Ibanic (Malayic Dayak)
The Malayic languages
The Ibanic languages (orange) are found mostly inland in western Kalimantan, perhaps the homeland of the Malayic peoples, and across Sarawak. The Malayan languages and Banjar (dark red) range from central Sumatra (their homeland), across Malaya, and throughout coastal Kalimantan. Banjar is the red area of the south coast of Borneo. The excluded area in northwest Kalimantan (between the orange and red) is the Land Dayak languages, which are not closely related.
The Malayic languages are a branch of the Sunda–Sulawesi languages of the Austronesian family. They include Malay, the national language of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei; Minangkabau in central Sumatra; and Iban in northern Borneo.
It is thought that the homeland of the Malayic languages is in western Borneo, where the Ibanic languages remain. Then Malayan branch represents a secondary dispersal, probably from central Sumatra but possibly also from Borneo.
For some time there was confusion as to the placement of various languages called Dayak; it is now apparent that some of these are Malayic and some are not. The Malayic Dayak languages include Iban; the term Ibanic sometimes applies to the whole or sometimes to a smaller group of Sea Dayak peoples, or Ibanic proper. Other Dayak languages, called Land Dayak, are found in the northwest corner of Kalimantan, between Ibanic and Malayan.
- Malayan languages (Minangkabau, Malay)
- Ibanic languages, or Malayic Dayak (Iban and related tongues)
- Banjarese (incl. Bukit Malay)
- Urak Lawoi'
Although Banjarese, with six million speakers, is commonly considered "local Malay", a 2008 analysis of the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database was not able to verify that it is even Malayic. The study was only able to determine with 80% confidence that Banjar is closer to Malayan and Ibanic than it is to other Malayo-Sumbawan languages. It does appear that it is the most divergent Malayic language included in the study.
Several of the Ibanic languages are also sometimes placed separately in Malayic.
Adelaar (1993) classifies the Malayic languages as follows.
- (Main branch)
- Standard Malay
- Middle Malay
Nothofer (1988), however, gives the following classification for the Malayic branch.
Proto-Malayic has a total of 19 consonants and 4 vowels (Adelaar 1992:102).
|Close||i /i/||u /u/|
There are 2 diphthongs:
Proto-Malayic syllables are mostly disyllabic and have the following syllable structure (Adelaar 1992:102):
* [C V (N)] [C V (N)] [C V (N)] C V C
- Note: C = consonant, V = vowel, N = nasal
Notes and references
- The Austronesians: historical and comparative perspectives. Peter Bellwood, James J. Fox, Darrell Tryon. ANU E Press, 2006. ISBN 1-920942-85-8, ISBN 978-1-920942-85-4
- 'Banjar' at Ethnologue
- Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database
- Adelaar, K. Alexander. 1993. The Internal Classification of the Malayic Subgroup. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 56, No. 3 (1993), pp. 566-581.
- /t/ is listed as dental by Adelaar (1992).
- Adelaar, K. Alexander. 1992. Proto-Malayic: The Reconstruction of its Phonology and Parts of its Lexicon and Morphology. Pacific Linguistics, Series C, no. 119. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, the Australian National University.
- Adelaar, K. Alexander. 1993. The Internal Classification of the Malayic Subgroup. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 56, No. 3 (1993), pp. 566–581.
- Nothofer, Bernd. 1975. The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic. (Verhandelingen van het KITLV, 73.) The Hague: Nijhoff.
- Nothofer, Bernd. 1988. "A discussion of two Austronesian subgroups: Proto-Malay and Proto-Malayic." In Mohd. Thani Ahmad and Zaini Mohamed Zain (eds.) 1988. Rekonstruksi dan cabang-cabang Bahasa Melayu induk, pp. 34–58. Siri monograf sejarah bahasa Melayu. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.


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$ pip install virtualenvwrapper-win
In Windows, the default path for WORKON_HOME is %USERPROFILE%\Envs
Basic Usage
 1. Create a virtual environment:
$ mkvirtualenv project_folder
This creates the project_folder folder inside ~/Envs.
 1. Work on a virtual environment:
$ workon project_folder
Alternatively, you can make a project, which creates the virtual environment, and also a project directory inside $WORKON_HOME, which is cd-ed into when you workon project_folder.
$ mkproject project_folder
virtualenvwrapper provides tab-completion on environment names. It really helps when you have a lot of environments and have trouble remembering their names.
workon also deactivates whatever environment you are currently in, so you can quickly switch between environments.
 1. Deactivating is still the same:
$ deactivate
 1. To delete:
$ rmvirtualenv venv
Other useful commands
List all of the environments.
Navigate into the directory of the currently activated virtual environment, so you can browse its site-packages, for example.
Like the above, but directly into site-packages directory.
Shows contents of site-packages directory.
Full list of virtualenvwrapper commands.
With virtualenv-burrito, you can have a working virtualenv + virtualenvwrapper environment in a single command.
When you cd into a directory containing a.env, direnv automagically activates the environment.
Install it on Mac OS X using brew:
$ brew install direnv
On Linux follow the instructions at direnv.net


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- To facilitate contacts with international bodies of psychology and related disciplines and to be an important source of advice to institutions, government departments and to political and social organizations.
- To promote social responsibility in the practice of psychology.
PsySR and similar groups in Finland and Germany are founding members of the network, but we hope that during 2018 it will grow to include large and small organizations from every continent. To apply for membership, please complete and submit our Membership Form.


How To Play Call Three Darts
How To Play Pick 3 Darts
Call 3 darts is one of the few games that is different every time you play. Sure the rules are the same but from round to round, game to game, the targets are made up on the fly.
You will need at least two players to get started but as with most games, the more the merrier. So how do you play call three darts?
To play call three darts each player takes turns calling out targets for the active player to hit. If their dart hits they are awarded a point. The player with the most points at the end of ten rounds wins.
It is actually way more fun than it sounds and as with most games, there is a little more to it than just throwing at random targets, so let take a closer look at the full rules.
Call Three Darts Rules
Once the first player reaches the oche, it is up to the person who plays next to call three targets on the board, they can be any number 1-20 or the bullseye.
That player who is up must now try to hit those targets in order with their 3 darts. They get one dart per number, So the first dart must be thrown at the first number called, the 2nd dart will go to the next number and the last dart will go to the 3rd number that was called.
A dart only counts if it hits the correct number that the thrower was aiming for. So if the second dart hits the 3rd number that was called, it does not count.
Each time the correct number is hit, it is worth one point, a double is worth two points and a triple is worth three. The outer ring of the bullseye is worth two points and the middle is worth three.
The player with the highest score at the end of ten rounds wins.
Scoring Call Three Darts
To score call three darts, you can write the player's names across the top of the board, then write the number 1-10 down the left-hand side to signify the 10 rounds.
After a player has thrown the darts you can write their points total for that round under their name. Remember doubles are worth two points and triples are worth three.
At the end of the game, you can add each column up and the player with the highest total wins.
Alternatively, you can make 2 columns for each player. In the first column, you would mark the score for the round and the second column will be a running total (sum of all rounds played so far).
In the event of a tie, additional rounds are added until there is a clear winner.
Call Three Tips & Strategies
Calling numbers all around the board will keep your opponents on their toes. Going from 6 to 13 to 17 is not fun.
If you know the numbers your opponent is weak at, make them go for those.
Call Three Darts Variations
Instead of making one dart per number called you can have it so that the thrower must hit the first number before they can move to the second, and second before they can go for the third.
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Barking owl
Barking owl (Ninox connivens)Scientific name: Ninox connivens
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description: The barking owl is a medium-sized bird of prey that has a characteristic voice with calls ranging from a barking dog noise to a shrill human-like howl of a screaming woman. This owl is brown with white spots on its wings and a vertically streaked chest. It has large eyes that have a yellow iris.
Distribution: Although still common in parts of northern Australia, in NSW, the barking owl occurs in wide but sparse locations around the western slopes and plains and in some northeast coastal and escarpment forests.
Habitat and ecology: They prefer to live in forests or woodland areas often near river, swamp or creek beds. Although barking owls are uncommon and sometimes even rare in many suburban areas, they occasionally may start to nest in streets or near farmhouses. Barking owls are monogamous and form strong pair bonds that last for life.
Threats: The main threat to barking owls is the loss of habitat, particularly the deterioration or loss of the large, hollow-bearing trees on which these birds depend for nesting. Hollows suitable for nesting for owls do not form in eucalypts until they are at least 150–200 years old.
What is SoS doing? SoS is addressing the loss and degradation of barking owl habitat by promoting the retention of large old trees. In regions where high priority barking owl populations can be increased and stabilised, improving habitat quality and installing nest boxes to create more barking owl sheltering sites is another key action.
Broad-headed snake
Broad-headed snake (Hoplocephalus bungaroides)Scientific name: Hoplocephalus bungaroides
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Description: The broad-headed snake is black with numerous yellow markings arranged in irregular, narrow crossbands. It is a nocturnal animal and feeds on lizards and frogs.
Distribution: The broad-headed snake is found in the Sydney Basin and throughout a 250km radius from Sydney. The snake is quite sedentary and during winter, when it lives under bush rock or in crevices, it doesn't move much at all and waits for food to come to it.
Habitat and ecology: The broad-headed snake spends most of its life near the rocks, especially sandstone rocks, and may give birth to 8–20 live young at a time.
Threats: Bush rock removal and disturbance severely impacts on sheltering and foraging sites for the snake and results in loss of habitat.
What is SoS doing: SoS has an active project in place to help educate the local Sydney community about the importance of bush rock to help maintain key habitat for the snake. Rocks are homes to a range of wildlife and should be left untouched.
Broad-toothed rat
Broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus)Scientific name: Mastacomys fuscus
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description: A compact rodent, chubby-cheeked, with a short, wide face and ears, and long, dense, fine fur. Who said rats couldn't be cute?!
Distribution: In NSW the broad-toothed rat occurs in 2 widely separated areas: the wet alpine and subalpine heaths and woodlands in Kosciuszko National Park, adjacent nature reserves (Bimberi NR and Scabby NR) and State Forest (Buccleuch SF) in the south of the State; and on the Barrington Tops, north-west of Newcastle.
Habitat and ecology: The broad-toothed rat lives in a complex of constructed vegetation runways through the dense grass, sedge or heath environments and under the snow at higher elevations. This relatively warm under-snow space enables it to be active throughout winter.
Threats: Foxes, introduced herbivores, altered fire regimes, ski resort development and the impacts of climate change pose key threats to the habitat and survival of the broad-toothed rat.
What is SoS doing? SoS is undertaking a fox and feral cat control program targeting known high-quality habitat and recently disturbed potential habitat to help the survival of the broad-toothed rat. Management programs are also being undertaken to reduce the impacts of feral pigs and deer in habitat areas.
Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
Brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) in mid leapScientific name: Petrogale penicillata
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Description: The brush-tailed rock-wallaby has a characteristic long and bushy, dark rufous-brown tail that is bushier towards its tip. This wallaby is highly agile and can move swiftly and confidently through rugged areas, helped by their compact, muscular build, long and flexible tail that is used for balance and their well-padded and rough textured feet that provide excellent traction.
Distribution: In NSW, they occur from the Queensland border in the north to the Shoalhaven in the south, with the population in the Warrumbungle Ranges being the western limit.
Habitat and ecology: Occupy rocky escarpments, outcrops and cliffs and shelter or bask during the day in rock crevices, caves and overhangs and are most active at night when foraging. Females settle in or near their mother's range, while males mainly disperse between female groups within colonies, and less commonly between colonies. You can watch this wallaby in action on our brush-tailed rock-wallaby cam.
Threats: Include predation by foxes and wild dogs; competition for forage and refuge areas with feral goats; loss, degradation and fragmentation of habitat; fire regimes that reduce the abundance and diversity of ground forage; and infestation by invasive weeds causing loss and degradation of foraging habitat.
What is SoS doing? To lend a much-needed hand to this wallaby after the devastating 2019–20 bushfires, SoS, NPWS rangers and partners delivered more than three tonnes of sweet potatoes, carrots and lucerne to colonies across NSW. Monitoring cameras and GPS collars confirmed the entire colony of brush-tailed rock-wallabies in Kangaroo Valley survived the bushfires, with expert assessment showing the wallabies were in good health. SoS and NPWS are also working to control foxes, feral herbivores and weeds to help protect the wallaby and its habitat.
Cumberland Plain land snail
Cumberland Plain land snail (Meridolum corneovirens)Scientific name: Meridolum corneovirens
Conservation status in NSW: Endangered
Description: Superficially similar to the familiar garden Snail, the Cumberland Plain land snail differs as this snail is a fungi specialist and unlike the garden snail, it will not eat the lettuce in your garden!
Distribution: Lives in fragmented bushland on the Cumberland Plain west of Sydney, from Richmond and Windsor south to Picton and from Liverpool west to the Hawkesbury and Nepean Rivers at the base of the Blue Mountains.
Habitat and ecology: Lives under litter of bark, leaves and logs, or shelters in loose soil around grass clumps and can dig several centimetres into soil to escape drought. It is most active at night.
Threats: Removal of leaf litter, logs and spraying herbicide chemicals in native bushland for weed control can negatively impact the Cumberland Plain land snails' sheltering sites.
What is SoS doing? A large conservation project is in place to protect the whole Cumberland Plain and as part of that, actions and protections are in place for the Cumberland Plain land snail so their habitat is maintained and enhanced and the surrounding community are aware and understand about the importance of this snail.
Dusky woodswallow
Dusky woodswallow (Artamus cyanopterus cyanopterus)Scientific name: Artamus cyanopterus cyanopterus
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description: The dusky woodswallow is a smoky deep brown to grey bird. This species roosts communally and sometimes migrates in groups (like birds of a feather, they stick together!), however they for


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The use of matched filters in digital communication and in RADAR systems. We will be using matched filters to detect binary symbols in the presence of noise and then identifying the 7bit ASCII character that was transmitted over a noisy channel.
Based on below Fig, we will determine the energy E of a symbol waveform representing a binary '1'. What is the energy of symbol waveform representing binary '0'?
Derive a general expression for the frequency response Hopt(f) of the matched filter receiver, matched to a signal s1(t), in terms of the frequency response of the input S1(f). Hence, determine the frequency response of the matched filter Hopt(f) for the matched filter designed in part (b) for Fig. Compare this with the frequency spectrum S1(f) of waveform s1(t) representing the binary symbol '1".
Assuming that the waveform s1(t) for symbol '1' appears at the input of the matched filter you have designed above, without any noise or distortion (ie: the channel is ideal). Sketch the output y1(t) of the matched filter
Express y1(t) in terms of s1(t) and hopt(t). Express the spectrum Y1(f) of the output y1(t) of the matched filter in terms of the input spectrum S1(f). What has the matched filter done to the magnitude spectrum of the input signal s1(t) in producing the output y1(t)?
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Due to high data volumes and unpredictable arrival rates, continuous query systems processing expensive queries in real-time may fail to keep up with the input data streams - resulting in buffer overflow and uncontrolled loss of data. In this work, we explore join direction adaptation (JDA) to tackle resource-limited processing of multi-join stream queries. While the existing JDA solutions allocate the scarce CPU resources to the most productive half-way join within a single operator, we instead leverage the operator interdependencies to optimize the overall query throughput. We identify result staleness as an impending issue in resource-limited processing, which gets further aggravated if throughput optimizing techniques are employed. For throughput optimization we propose the pathproductivity model and further extend it for fulfilling the Freshness tolerance. Our proposed JAQPOT approach is the first integrated solution to achieve near optimal query throughput while also guaranteeing fulfillment of the desired result freshness. JAQPOT runs in quadratic time of the number of streams irrespective of the query plan shape. Our experimental study, using both synthetic and real data sets, demonstrates the superiority of JAQPOT in achieving higher throughput than the state-oftheart strategies while, unlike the other methods, also fulfilling freshness predicates.