NAME YamlTime - YAML-based Personal Time Tracking App SYNOPSIS > yt help DESCRIPTION YamlTime is an application that allows you do your personal project time tracking from the command line. It saves your data in plain text YAML files. You can use a version control system (like git) to back up the data. YamlTime can supports multiple customers, multiple projects and multiple rates. It has reporting, spreadsheets, tagging, time/tag selection and 3rd party plugin modules. YamlTime comes with a command line app called "yt" that does everything. COMMAND LINE USAGE The following commands are supported. yt - Show current yt status of today's tasks yt help - Get help yt help - Get help for a specific command yt init - Create a new YamlTime store yt new - Start a new task yt stop - Stop the current task yt go - Restart the current task yt create - Create a new task for a specific date/time yt edit - Edit a task's yaml file in $EDITOR yt dump - Read a task file and print to STDOUT yt delete - Delete a task file yt check - Check the data in the range for errors yt status - Show the current yt status yt report - Create a report for a time period using a certain reporting style The command will prompt you for some information. You can use tab completion for many of the fields. The values that you put in your config files are the values that are offered (and the only ones you can use). Some of the fields may be left blank. You can use "yt edit" to fix up any task, later on. Options yt commands have the following options: --from= Commands that need a time range, use this to set the start time. The default is the previous midnight. A human friendly string can be used, like: '3 days ago'. --to= Commands that need a time range, use this to set the end time. The default is now. --tag= A comma separated list of tags. Matches tasks the match all the tags. You can specify more than once to combine ('or' logig) groups. --style= This names a YamlTime reporting style. The default is CSV, which can be used as a spreadsheet. KUDOS Many thanks to the good people of Strategic Data in Melbourne Victoria Australia, for supporting me and this project. \o/ SEE ALSO * YAML AUTHOR Ingy döt Net COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (c) 2011. Ingy döt Net. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See


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Computes and Transmits Meaningful Data
- Computes and sends 6 running dynamics metrics to your compatible device
- Battery life: replaceable battery lasts up to 1 year (assuming 1 hour daily use)
- Automatically turns itself on and off
- Tiny size: at less than 0.5 ounces, you'll forget it's there
- Compatible devices connect with the Garmin Connect Mobile app to automatically sync your data and connect with others
Train Hard, Run Free
The Running Dynamics Pod easily clips onto your waistband to measure the running dynamics you need to beat yesterday. It gives you the option to run without a heart rate monitor chest strap. Once paired with your compatible smartwatch, just clip it to the back and center of your waistband and start your run.
Review Your Form
View and analyze important running metrics such as your cadence, stride length, ground contact time and balance, vertical oscillation and vertical ratio. These biomechanical measurements can help you understand your running form so you can perform better on race day.
How It Works:
The Running Dynamics Pod has an accelerometer in the module that measures torso movement to calculate these 6 running metrics:
- Cadence is the number of steps per minute. It displays the total steps (right and left combined).
- Ground contact time balance displays the left/right balance of your ground contact time while running. It displays a percentage. For example, 53.2 with an arrow pointing left or right.
- Stride length is the length of your stride from 1 footfall to the next. It is measured in meters.
- Vertical oscillation is your bounce while running. It displays the vertical motion of your torso, measured in centimeters for each step.
- Vertical ratio is the ratio of vertical oscillation to stride length. It displays a percentage. A lower number typically indicates better running form.
- Ground contact time is the amount of time in each step that you spend on the ground while running. It is measured in milliseconds.

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text: Mesoporous silica MCM-41 was prepared by classical and ultrasound methods as an adsorbent for the removal of Sr2+ from aqueous solution. The physical properties of the synthesized materials were investigated by X-ray diffraction and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller analysis. The results showed that MCM-41 prepared by the classical method had higher specific surface area and pore volume than those prepared by the ultrasound method. Therefore, it was selected as an adsorbent for the investigation of adsorption isotherms and kinetics. Adsorption of Sr2+ to MCM-41 was strongly dependent on pH values. Three two-parameter (Langmuir, Freundlich, and Temkin) and two three-parameter (Redlich-Peterson and Koble-Corrigan) adsorption isotherms were employed to model the equilibrium data of Sr2+ on the mesoporous adsorbent. The results indicated that the adsorption isotherm data fitted better to the Freundlich isotherm than to the Langmuir, Temkin, Redlich-Peterson, and Koble-Corrigan isotherms. The experimental data was described very well by the pseudo-second-order kinetic model.


April 1, 2002 - Register-Guardian: Friendship reaches across the ocean
Peace Corps Online: Directory: Sierra Leone: Peace Corps Sierra Leone : The Peace Corps in Sierra Leone: April 1, 2002 - Register-Guardian: Friendship reaches across the ocean
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Friendship reaches across the ocean
Read and comment on this story from the Register-Guardian on the friendship developed over 20 years between Timothy Meinzen of Eugene, OR and Bai Edward Fornah of Sierra Leone (shown above 20 years ago and below this year) at:
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Friendship reaches across the ocean
By REBECCA NOLAN The Register-Guard
The story of Bai Edward Fornah's journey from war-torn Sierra Leone to a secluded Eugene cul-de-sac is a story of survival, courage, unrelenting optimism and the goodness and generosity of the human heart.
It is also a story about a friendship, a bond 20 years in the making, between Fornah and a one-time Peace Corps volunteer turned high school teacher, Timothy Meinzen of Eugene, who answered an old friend's call for help from half a world away.
Fornah, 31, survived being abandoned by his parents, drug and alcohol addiction and a brush with death when rebels swept through his village, raping, killing and maiming its occupants.
But it took an act of kindness from Meinzen and members of Eugene's Our Redeemer Lutheran Church to help him escape the violent African nation, travel to America and eventually win the chance to study at Eugene Bible College.
The beginning
In 1983, at the age of 22, Tim Meinzen moved into an 8-by-10-foot room on the back porch of a house in Gerihun, in southern Sierra Leone. A recent college grad from Illinois, he and 30 other Peace Corps volunteers were undergoing six weeks of language training before they were released out into the country.
The village children were attracted to the strangers, and Meinzen noticed one boy in particular, a small boy, about 12 or 13 years old, who went by the nickname Edison Dee. It was Edward Fornah. The pair became fast friends.
"He exuded this boyish joy," said Meinzen. "And he had just a little bit of mischief in him."
When the time came for Meinzen to move to his permanent post in Kwellu Junction, he asked Fornah to come along as his translator and cultural guide. In exchange, Meinzen would pay his school fees.
"I was happy to go," said Fornah, whose mother had disappeared and whose father had left the children with their grandmother to seek work in the diamond mines.
"In Africa, people have dreams for their children, but they can't make them come true because of financial handicap," he said. A lucky few are "adopted" by wealthy relatives or friends who give them a push toward a better, more secure life.
When Meinzen and Fornah arrived at the five-room house where they would live for the next two years, two other boys joined them. They formed a family of sorts, sharing chores, meager meals of rice and sauce, and stories about life in their respective cultures.
During the day, Meinzen taught agricultural science and Bible class to students who had no books. As a Peace Corps volunteer, he helped build a school library and started a rabbitry to add protein to the local diet.
He considered the boys family, but Fornah was always his "No. 1 son" and younger brother.
The dark years
When Meinzen returned to the United States in 1985, he delivered Fornah back to his grandmother. The teen was devastated at the departure of his friend.
"That was the worst part of my life," he said. "I had nobody to love me or to care for me. I became involved in some bad games."
He started dancing at nightclubs, drinking and smoking marijuana.
He wrote to Meinzen often, but never spoke of his troubles or his dangerous lifestyle.
Then, in 1990, he had a revelation.
"Someone told me about Jesus," Fornah said. He converted from his native Islam to Christianity. "I wrote to Tim that I was saved."
Three years later, he enrolled in Bible college in the coastal city of Freetown, where his desire to serve others led him to wash the clothing of the pastors and professors. His earlier life of frivolity had left him penniless, so he slept in a classroom and wore the same shirt and trousers every day.
When government officials learned Fornah had not paid his school fees, he was forced out of the college. But the pastors and professors whose clothing he had washed lobbied the college board to waive his tuition. They agreed.
Three years later, he graduated and became a youth pastor and musician in Bo, an inland village where his sister lived with her family.
He helped counsel other young people trapped in a cycle of addiction and poverty.
A brutal war
Sandwiched between Guinea and Liberia on the West African coast, Sierra Leone is one of the world's poorest countries. Life is often brutal in a country, about the size of North Carolina, where 68 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and the average life expectancy is 45.6 years.
Civil war broke out in 1991 between the government and the rebel Revolutionary United Front, or RUF. In the ensuing years of violence, tens of thousands were killed, and fully one-third of the country's population fled to neighboring nations.
In the chaos, rebels roamed the country, abducting, raping and killing civilians. A favored technique of terror was to amputate the limbs of villagers with axes and machetes.
"They would ask if you want long sleeve or short sleeve," Fornah said, and the amputation would be at the wrist or above the elbow.
Fornah's father, who had abandoned the family for the diamond mines, was murdered by rebels who cut him limb by limb.
On Jan. 6, 1999, the rebels arrived in Bo. They forced their way into the home of Fornah's sister, where they terrorized the children and threatened to kill her husband. Four men raped Fornah's sister.
Fornah led the family into the bush, where they hid from the rebels for days. But Fornah's responsibilities as a pastor forced him to return the next day.
He scraped together some money in the hopes that, should the rebels return, he could buy his life.
They did return, but the money was not enough to appease the rebel leader. He ordered Fornah to stand and cocked a G3 automatic combat rifle at him. He told Fornah, "You're going to die."
"I was speechless," Fornah said. "I started praying."
But for unexplained reasons, the man did not shoot Fornah. He gestured at the other men and said, "Let's go."
Escape from hell
After two days of traveling by truck and by boat, seeing dead bodies everywhere, he arrived in Freetown and called Meinzen.
"I said, 'You have to get me out of this country, man,' " Fornah said. He needed $400 to get to Ghana, where he had family.
Meinzen, by then a husband, father and a teacher at Pleasant Hill High School, had been following the conflict in the news and on the Internet. With the help of his brother and his friend Pat Anderson, Meinzen wired the money to Sierra Leone.
Fornah traveled by sea and road to Ghana, somehow avoiding the armed bandits who roamed the countryside robbing travelers. When he arrived after three days, he immediately registered in a missionary training program.
He paid only a fraction of the fees upfront.
He called Meinzen again. This time, the congregation at Our Redeemer raised more than $500 to pay the tuition.
A year later, Fornah asked Meinzen to bring him to America.
At first, Meinzen was pessimistic about the chances, but Fornah knew it could happen. He was right.
The congregation came through once again, raising $1,000 through church activities. Another group, the Aid Association for Lutherans, matched the amount. Congregant Gayle Dorn volunteered to pay a year's tuition at Eugene Bible College.
Fornah, a single male with no marketable skills, managed to get a three-year student visa after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
He landed in Portland last Monday night. The journey was his first by plane.
"If I go to Bible college, I can do for myself," Fornah said. "If I don't go home with money, I want to bring something else. I can speak to the government if I am intellectually sound.
"My home is full of crooks. There is nobody who can stand and say, 'This is no good,' " he said.
On Easter Sunday, Bai Edward Fornah addressed the congregation at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, thanking them for the "smiles and your welcome and your financial support."
"I am happy that I am here with you," he told the crowd. "You've done so much that you think you have not done."
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We have found that there is a 500 request item limit when generating requests from JSON payload. We have developed a process to loop through the request items and generate multiple payloads when there are 500+ items. This however does create a few pain points that we have found (below).
- Large dimension import processes are not uncommon, sometimes requiring the generation of 20+ payloads. From a technical perspective this is not an issue, however it does create pain points for application admins when attempting to troubleshoot import issues. Each payload generates its own request file, so when attempting to troubleshoot an issue you need to weed through many request files to see the source data that the import process is loading.


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Canadians on welfare have significantly higher odds of reporting poor physical and mental health, finds a University of Toronto study.
Statistical analysis of data from the 1996-97 National Population Health Survey revealed that welfare recipients were more likely to report poor or fair health, depression and distress than people not on welfare as well as fewer social supports. The study, published in the March/April issue of the Canadian Journal of Public Health, also found that welfare recipients whose activity was not restricted by long-term disability had greater odds of reporting heart disease than non-welfare recipients.
"These findings indicate that adults on welfare struggle with a broad spectrum of health problems," says the study's senior author, nutritional sciences professor Valerie Tarasuk. "I believe the increasing inadequacy of welfare benefits in many provinces may put them at even greater health risk. The impact of welfare program reforms on the health and well-being of recipients must be assessed and monitored."
The finding that welfare recipients were more likely to report heart disease is of concern because this condition can be prevented or managed, at least in part, by lifestyle modifications, says the study's lead author, U of T medical student Nicholas Vozoris. "Affording special diets, exercise, medications and medical supplies not covered by government programs may be problematic for welfare recipients since many of these healthy lifestyle choices are associated with increased costs," he says.
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Jet Fuel Mixture Activity
In this activity you will learn how to use a JAVA 3D Slicer to analyze 3D scientific data sets. This HDF three dimensional data set represents the concentration of a fuel/air mixture in a closed container for an instant in time (750 units of time) after the fuel was injected into the container. The data is from an experiment that simulated the injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of a jet engine. Each fuel concentration value is represented by the combination of the x, y, and z coordinates which define the dimensions of the box. The purpose of the experiment was to test different shapes of fuel injection ports to derive the best shape for achieving the optimal fuel/air mix. In the concentration diagram below you can see the elliptical injection port on the left; this is where the fuel is injected into the chamber. Next, the fuel flows to the right and forms an elliptical cloud of fuel and air.
In this activity you will use the JAVA 3D Slicer to view the three dimensional data set. While "slicing" through the x, y, and z planes you will observe trends in the fuel concentrations. As you move the slice through the data the observed colors will change; red stands for the highest concentration and purple for the lowest concentration.
To perform this activity you will use the first data set in the brown.hdf file (although it should already be selected, you can make sure by selecting the drop down menu from the upper right hand corner of the JAVA applet). The data set exists in the JAVA 3D Slicer's folder; it is named brown.hdf. To access the file you select the drop down menu on the top of the JAVA applet and select "Open URL", then type "brown.hdf" (without the quotes). The data set will then load on the screen and you can move the "slice" through the data to observe certain trends and concentration levels.
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Mount Union Students Face Their Fears
October 18, 2012
ALLIANCE, Ohio — For the third year in a row, University of Mount Union students enrolled in assistant professor of psychology Dr. Kevin Meyers' abnormal psychology course had the opportunity to overcome a specific phobia at Cedar Point Amusement Park.
Students learned to overcome their phobias through a process known as "exposure therapy." This year's 'Face your Fears' project was held at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. Students explored and overcame the "roller coaster phobia" which falls into the category of anxiety disorders known as specific phobias.
Specific phobias can be focused on certain objects or certain environments and their impact on the individual. A person with a specific phobia disorder is commonly diagnosed with behavioral disorders and the individual can suffer from anxiety attacks, persistent fear and the action of avoiding the object or environment to which their fear stems from.
This is where the concept of exposure therapy comes into play. Exposure therapy is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy in which the individual is gradually exposed to their fear over time. According to Meyer, Cedar Point is a prime location to expose students to their roller coaster fears since Cedar Point has moderate to medium to extreme roller coaster varieties available.
The overall goal of the 'Face your Fear' project is to expose students to a real-world application of how a specific therapeutic method can be applied to successfully treat a behavioral disorder. Students were active in collecting various types of data, serving as an active sample in a real-time working study, and will have the opportunity to integrate what they learn into a course project. Through this process, several individuals will in fact overcome their roller coaster phobia, opening up a previously inaccessible source of fun and excitement they can now be free to explore.Back to Previous Page


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Time-saving goods are defined as market goods that reduce home labor requirements (e.g. restaurants; washing machines). Assuming that time savings are costly, this paper shows that lower-income individuals can purchase fewer time savings and enjoy less leisure time. Commodity tax rates affecting low-income individuals should depend more on time savings, and less on the classic Corlett and Hague rule. The related literature suggests to impose lower tax rates on goods that require less home labor. This paper shows that goods that offer greater time savings with respect to their more affordable substitutes should also receive favorable tax treatment.


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Date: around 1500 BC
Bread was a main food of ancient Egypt. Dozens of different shapes and names are known for loaves of bread, which shows how important it was. This loaf is flat and triangular, but some loaves were round, others tall and cone-shaped.
Much Egyptian bread was made from wheat. Growing grain was one of the main farming activities in Egypt, and is shown in pictures on tomb walls. This loaf was perhaps placed in a tomb to feed the dead person on their journey through the Underworld. In the model granary in the picture below, you can see a woman kneading bread in the courtyard.


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Cass Gilbert was a well-known American Architect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Gilbert was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on November 24, 1859. His father died in 1868, and Gilbert found a job working as a surveyor in a local architect's office. It was there that he gained an interest in architecture. He studied for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before traveling to Europe to obtain additional training.
Gilbert began to make a name for himself as an architect after designing Minnesota's new state capitol building in 1896. His design was chosen for a new United States Customs building in New York City, and he designed the Woolworth Building as well. In 1908, Gilbert was elected president of the American Institute of Architects. Later in his career, he was chosen to be president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a member of the French Legion of Honor. He also served on the National Commission of Fine Arts. Gilbert's best-known design was the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, DC.
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- Close the properties window, and right click on the drive letter again.
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Hetty Howland Robinson Green (_PHONE_), America's first great female financier, is a largely forgotten figure in the annals of enterprise. Born into a wealthy Quaker family, Green inherited one million dollars from the deaths of her father and aunt, yet carried a grudge for both her entire lifetime. Setting out to prove her financial acumen, Green, through sound investing and pathological thrift, parlayed her inheritance into $100 million (over $2 billion in today's dollars), becoming the richest woman in America. While accumulating her vast fortune during the Gilded Age and into the twentieth century, Green exhibited numerous eccentricities, sensationalized by the media of the day and further embellished by posthumous biographies of her. This Dig Into The Archives will peel away the myth to reveal an underappreciated, yet deeply troubled woman, whose financial genius and misunderstood character earned her the title of the Witch of Wall Street.
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I recently blogged that you can now play Angry Birds in your web browser. This opens up all sorts of video analysis possibilities for physics lessons and assessment. Students can easily make their own videos or you can pre-record your own. Videos can be recorded using Jing, Screencast-O-Matic, or Camtasia Studio. Analysis can be done in Logger Pro or Tracker.
Here are some possible investigations to carry out (shared by Michael Magnuson on the WNYPTA email list):
1. Make a reasonable estimate for the size of an angry bird, and determine the value of g in Angry Bird World. Why would the game designer want to have g be different than 9.8 m/s²? Download Angry Birds video.
2. Does the blue angry bird conserve momentum during its split into three? Download Red and Blue Birds video.
3. Does the white bird conserve momentum when it drops its bomb? Why would the game designer want the white bird to drop its bomb the way that it does? Download White Bird video.
4. Describe in detail how the yellow bird changes velocity. You will need to analyze more than one flight path to answer this question. Download Yellow Birds video.
5. Shoot an angry bird so that it bounces off one of the blocks. Determine the coefficient of restitution and the mass of the angry bird. Download Red Birds and Falling Block video.
You can download each video using the links above or get them all here.
Other posts with ideas about how to use Angry Birds in physics class:
- Rhett Allain's analysis of The Physics of Angry Birds.
- John Burk's post Introducing projectile motion using Angry Birds
- Peter Kupfer's post Angry Birds and Physics
How have you used (or will use) Angry Birds in the classroom?
UPDATE 12-28-2011: Our class has been featured on CUNY-TV's "Science and U!" Jump to 10:25 in the video below:


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Shorter school year
In Tennessee, Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman approved all of the requests from 42 of the state's 136 school districts this year to shorten their school calendars because of natural disasters. The waivers varied from one to seven days and in Southeast Tennessee included:
- Bradley County, seven days
- Cleveland City Schools, two days
- Hamilton County, two days
- Sequatchie County, two days
- Rhea County, two days
- Bledsoe County, two days
- Grundy County, one day
In Georgia, the Department of Education allows school districts to use four emergency days for school closings below the 180-day state minimum for the year. Additionally, six school districts were granted waivers to operate fewer than 176 days, including:
- Catoosa County, four days
- Walker County, three days
- Dade County, four days
Sources: Tennessee Department of Education, Georgia Department of Education
Meeting the standard
In Hamilton County, the school system met the state's overall requirement for 180 days of annual instruction with fewer days by extending the school day, counting partial days and getting a state waiver from minimum standards:
- Thirteen days were credited below the 180-day minimum by adding 30 minutes to the school day, expanding the typical school day to seven hours from the state minimum of 6.5 hours.
- Two additional days lost because of bad weather were waived from the state standard by the Tennessee Department of Education after the school board requested the waiver because of tornado damage in April.
- Two days were counted as instructional days when students registered for classes on Aug. 4, 2010, and when students picked up report cards on May 24. There was no actual classroom instruction on either day.
- Four days were scheduled half-days for parent-teacher conferences and for professional development days.
- Four or more days were shortened by delayed openings or early dismissals because of bad weather, tornado cleanup, school building problems or special events at individual schools. The state allows school districts to count any day as an instructional day when the school is open at least 3.5 hours.
Sources: Hamilton County School System calendar for 2010-11, Tennessee Department of Education
Tennessee public schools may need to lengthen their school year in the future to help students from the Volunteer State compete in a global market where most students study longer each year, Gov. Bill Haslam said.
But meanwhile, Haslam said more than a third of the state's school systems hard hit by snowstorms, flooding or tornadoes were granted waivers from minimum calendar requirements in the past year.
"Due to the storms this year and due to the budget, I think it was going to be hard to go back and force the folks there [to meet the state standard]," Haslam said in a recent interview as the school year ended across Tennessee. "I think you're looking at a unique situation this year with all of the storms and the flooding."
Many districts in Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia had at least a week less of school in the past year than they did a year ago.
In Hamilton County, for instance, most schools operated complete seven-hour instructional days only 155 days in the school year that ended May 24 — nine days less than the previous year.
Schools in Hamilton County were open 165 days in the past year, but that included two weeks of days cut short for teacher-parent conferences, professional development, registration and report card pickups and weather-related delays or early dismissals.
Haslam said schools need to be going in the other direction to keep pace with some foreign countries that require as many as 50 more days of classroom instruction a year.
"If you look at the success of education in other countries or in charter school environments, a lot of it is tied to just going to school longer," Haslam said. "I know a lot of kids and some parents may not want to hear that, but if we're going to compete we can't be playing half a schedule."
Shorter calendar in U.S.
According to the National Center on Time & Learning, a Boston research group that advocates a longer school year, China, Japan, Korea and a half-dozen other countries have minimum school years longer than 200 days a year. The United States average school year ranked 39th among the world's 49 biggest countries and in the past year many Tennessee and Georgia schools had shorter school calendars than the U.S. average of just under 180 days.
Haslam said he hopes to look at Tennessee's education system over the summer, though he said changing the calendar and the way teachers are paid is "changing the very fabric of education, and we won't do any such changes lightly."
In a recent meeting with editors at The Tennessean newspaper in Nashville, state Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman said the state should consider adding more time to the school calendar, although his department has no specific recommendations as yet.
"We have a calendar in Tennessee not based on the modern world," he said.
States OK shorter schedule
Nonetheless, Huffman's office granted 42 waivers to school districts this year to allow the school systems to complete their school year without meeting the state standard for 180 days of instruction averaging 6.5 hours a day.
In Georgia, the state allows individual school districts to decide to drop four days below the state's 180-day school calendar for emergency reasons. A half-dozen school districts, including Catoosa, Walker and Dade, still had to get additional waivers to cut their school years even shorter after storms damaged schools in their districts.
In Hamilton County, the school system met state standards by operating most days for an extra 30 minutes beyond the state minimum school day of 6.5 hours. That allowed the school system to make up 13 days lost for bad weather this year. When repeated snowstorms and tornadoes ripped through the region in the past year, the state granted a waiver to allow the school system to give up another two days from its calendar rather than make up the lost school days.
"It would be very difficult and create a lot of confusion to add more time on at the end of the school year after many students have already graduated," said Danielle Clark, director of communications for Hamilton County Schools.
Hamilton County school administrators say they complied with the state guidelines and only asked for a waiver after students missed two days because of the April 27 tornadoes.
"The power was out and conditions just weren't good enough to report to class," said Kirk Kelly, Hamilton County Schools' director of accountability and testing.
The school board view
Hamilton County school board Chairman Jeffrey Wilson said the lost days from this year's storms couldn't be avoided. But over time, Wilson said Tennessee schools need to look at longer school calendars to stay competitive with foreign schools.
"I think we need to find a way to make the school year longer, but there are a lot of challenges and I don't know how we as a community will get there in the near future," he said.
Citing China's 12-hour, year-round school days, Hamilton County school board member Linda Mosley said U.S. schools must look at their schedules as a means to stay competitive.
"We know that the more time [students] spend away from school, the more they forget," Mosley said. "A longer schedule is something that would take a lot of planning and debate and community buy-in, but it would benefit our students."
Starting in 2004, Hamilton County attempted a year-round schedule at Hardy Elementary School. The seven-year experiment ended this year after school officials said parents and teachers lost enthusiasm.
Mosley said that if Hamilton County tries such a plan again, it needs to be a widespread effort.
"I think if we were to do it, we should spread it over a whole district," said Mosley, adding that such an effort would take years of planning and gradual implementation.
But with the typical American student in class less than half the year, Jennifer Davis, president of the National Center on Time & Learning, said U.S. schools need to lengthen their school year.
"Our current school schedule is based on the 19th-century agrarian calendar of 180, six-hour days, which does not offer the time necessary to prepare children for today's competitive world," she said.
As the state looks to reshape education, all options should be on the table, Haslam said.
"I think what we have to do with education is to take a whole, fresh new look at everything, from how long students go to school to how do we compensate teachers to make sure that we are rewarding them," he said.
"We spent a lot of time in this session talking about teacher tenure and collective bargaining. But the next piece that we need to discuss if we are really going to have a great education system is how do we attract and keep the very best people in education."
Adam Crisp covers education issues for the Times Free Press. He joined the paper's staff in 2007 and initially covered crime, public safety, courts and general assignment topics. Prior to Chattanooga, Crisp was a crime reporter at the Savannah Morning News and has been a reporter and editor at community newspapers in southeast Georgia. In college, he led his student paper to a first-place general excellence award from the Georgia College Press Association. He earned...


What is the opening on the NAOS side for?
We have designed a large opening on the side of NAOS, to allow you the following uses:
- drop off and pick up your child from the side in an ergonomic position (straight back and knees bent) and thus avoid back pain caused by repeated poor postures
- allow you to go to bed near your children and reassure them while they fall asleep. No need to hold her hand from the top of the bed. And you also avoid waking him up when you put him down when he is asleep...
- If you wish, you can secure the room where NAOS is located, and let your child get out of his bed according to his will, guiding him towards autonomy (Montessori). This is possible thanks to its mattress structure placed on the floor


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|Better Farming Series 32. Biogas 2: Building a Better Biogas Unit (FAO Better Farming Series, 1986)|
110. Sometimes a hard layer of scum may form on top of the waste mixture in your biogas unit. If this happens, less gas will be made and gas will not collect in the inner tube.
111. If the waste is well mixed before it is put into unit, there will be less chance for scum to form and your biogas unit will make gas well.
112. Scum is more likely to form if you use plant materials than if you use only animal waste.
113. To keep scum from forming, shake your biogas unit from time to time. The drawing below shows you how.


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The Triple-S Learning Approach
Making positive changes in rural water sector performance means influencing actors to move from building infrastructure to building services. Triple-S seeks to learn and share lessons on how actors can coordinate and harmonise with one another and support the shift from focusing on stand-alone infrastructure projects to delivering sustainable services.
Understanding how to improve rural water service delivery requires Triple-S to follow a unique, two-pronged approach to learning. First, Triple-S seeks lessons from changes in the rural water sector over time: What are the sector specific changes for sustainable service delivery at scale? How are development partners influencing rural water policies, practice, and financing strategies? Second, Triple-S endeavours to learn how to improve as a change agent: Are we using the right methods for enabling change? How can we improve?
The purpose of learning activities in Triple-S
The Triple-S learning is guided by the Principles Framework— eight principles describing essential conditions for delivering sustainable water services at scale. The framework supports Triple-S and partners' learning about the rural water sector and also influences Triple-S' strategy as a change agent.
To support the learning process, Triple-S continuously looks for internal and external lessons about changes in the rural water sector over time. Triple-S uses a continuous feedback loop (Figure 1) to design its learning activities and to find lessons for improvement.
The six purposes of Triple-S learning activities are to:
- Support joint learning in the sector.
- Provide evidence of locally inspired and validated solutions for service delivery, a learning sector, and harmonisation.
- Provide strategic guidance for Triple-S teams in Ghana, Uganda, Burkina Faso and internationally.
- Generate a critical account of the approach used in Triple-S to enable change.
- Track progress towards achieving activities and producing outputs.
- Inform stakeholders about Triple-S progress, and adaptations in strategy or approach.
What makes the Triple-S learning approach unique and what can we learn from it?
Triple-S staff, partner organisations, and target audiences are encouraged to learn through constant feedback loops. Continuous reflection on how activities are performing allows Triple-S staff and partners to strengthen activities that are going well and to adjust activities that are not working properly. The International work stream of Triple-S meets biannually to analyse progress towards influencing the policy, practice and financing strategies of development partners related to sustainable rural water services. Triple-S learning meetings focus on two important points:
Narrative 1: The extent to which progress is being achieved in influencing such policy and practice.
Narrative 2: How effective the strategies adopted by Triple-S are encouraging change in the sector.
Understanding the two narratives critically requires Triple-S staff and partners to dedicate as much attention to the content of the initiative—changing the sector to apply sustainable service delivery, as to the process—are we changing the sector in the correct way? Making learning the critical mirror to assess the overall progress of Triple-S allows for more effective improvements throughout the lifespan of the initiative.
By following the two-pronged approach to learning: understanding how the water sector is changing to provide sustainable services at scale, and understanding how an organisation is working as a change agent, Triple-S staff, along with current and potential new partners can understand mutually what is working and what is not for rural water supply. Together we can learn how to make water services last for rural populations.


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Parachute Jumper Gives Imitation of a Flying Squirrel (Sep, 1930)
Parachute Jumper Gives Imitation of a Flying Squirrel
IN a startling imitation of a flying squirrel, Rex G. Finney, parachute juniper of the Curtiss-Wright Flying Service, demonstrated his stunt of becoming a human glider before the public recently with great success.
A triangular piece of sail cloth sewn between the legs of his flying suit acts upon the air in the same manner as the membranes of the flying squirrel, enabling him to perform thrilling glides and stalls while in the air.
As he jumps from the plane, Finney stretches his legs apart, and the wind, acting upon the web between his outstretched legs in much the same manner as it acts. upon the elevators of a plane, enables him to glide a steep angle. By doubling his knees he is thrown into a climbing stall.


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- Coccinia grandis is a perennial herbaceous vine. Also known as baby watermelon, it can grow up to 9 ft. (2.7 m) in length. In one day, it can grow up to 4 in. (10.2 cm).
- The stems are mostly glabrous and produced annually from a tuberous rootstock. The tendrils are simple and axillary. The alternate leaves are simple with the blade broadly ovate, 5-lobed, 2-3.5 in. (5-9 cm) x 1.6-3.5 in. (4-9 cm). Foliar surfaces are glabrous or scaly.
- The five petaled white flowers are about 1.2-1.8 in. (3-4.5 cm) long. They bloom from August-September.
- The fruit are smooth, bright red and ovoid to ellipsoid berries about 1-2.4 in. (2.5-6 cm) long.
- Ecological Threat
- Coccinia grandis vines grow over and smother vegetation, and cover fences and power lines. Infestations of Coccinia grandis threatens both natural and managed areas. It is difficult to control because plants regrow from deep roots, even after treatment with herbicide. It is native to Africa and Asia.
- Global Invasive Species Database. 2011. Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the IUCN Species Survival Commission
- Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Flora of China, _URL_
- USDA NRCS PLANTS
- USDA ARS GRIN


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The flag of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was adopted in July 1985, by the Second Northern Marianas Constitution. The NMI flag was originally designed by Taga during the year 1985. Later during that year, they finalized the draft of the flag in the last CNMI constitutional convention. This was the most symbolic moment of the annexation of the CNMI.
The flag consists of three symbols: a star representing the United States, a latte stone representing the Chamorros, and a mwarmwar (decorative wreath) representing the Carolinians; the blue background represents the ocean and the Mariana Trench. (source: wikipedia)


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text: To determine whether the parietal lobes contribute to the selection of nonspatial features known to be processed in the ventral stream, the current study examined the effect of chronic unilateral parietal lobe lesions in humans on color and location priming. Patients and normal controls performed a go/no-go color discrimination task in which either the same color and different color pairs of stimuli (prime and probe) were projected sequentially either in the same hemifield or in opposite hemifields. Control subjects and patients both showed independent effects of color and location priming. In the patients, primes in either field produced color priming for target probes in the ipsilesional field but not for probes in the contralesional field. This observation implicates the parietal cortex in processing activated codes of stimulus attributes not only for spatial information but also for visual features processed in the ventral visual pathways.


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My honey, in buckets, is crystalizing sooner than in years past. I thought maybe it wasn't heated as much as in the past during the extracting process. Now I am wondering about the conditions underwhich the honey was produced by the bees. Droughty conditions.
Theory: Honey produced under drought conditions will crystalize sooner after extraction than honey produced under normal climate conditions.
I didn't check moisture content during or after extracting, not having a refractometer. So I don't know if the honey is low moisture content or not. Amongst other factors, I wonder if low moisture content honey naturally crystalizes sooner than higher moisture content honey. What role does moisture content play? And does drought factor into making low moisture honey?


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Suppose $F$ is a field s.t $\left|F\right|=q$. Take $p$ to be some prime. How many monic irreducible polynomials of degree $p$ can exist over $F$?
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What have you tried? (Think about subextensions of $\mathbb{F}_{q^p}$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$.) – Qiaochu Yuan May 23 '11 at 9:31
_USER_: Thanks, got the idea and found the answer... will write it down here soon! – IBS May 23 '11 at 13:25
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The number of such polynomials is exactly $\displaystyle \frac{q^{p}-q}{p}$ and this is the proof:
The two main facts which we use (and which I will not prove here) are that $\mathbb{F}_{q^{p}}$ is the splitting field of the polynomial $g\left(x\right)=x^{q^{p}}-x$,
and that every monic irreducible polynomial of degree $p$ divides $g$.
Now: $\left|\mathbb{F}_{q^{p}}:\mathbb{F}_{q}\right|=p$ and therefore there could be no sub-extensions. Therefore, every irreducible polynomial that divides $g$ must be of degree $p$ or 1. Since each linear polynomial over $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ divides $g$ (since for each $a\in \mathbb{F}_{q}$, $g(a)=0$), and from the fact that $g$ has distinct roots, we have exactly $q$ different linear polynomials that divide $g$.
Multiplying all the irreducible monic polynomials that divide $g$ will give us $g$, and therefore summing up their degrees will give us $q^{p}$.
So, if we denote the number of monic irreducible polynomials of degree $p$ by $k$ (which is the number we want), we get that $kp+q=q^{p}$, i.e $\displaystyle k=\frac{q^{p}-q}{p}$.
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Nice answer and question as well! +1 for both... Btw, you can accept your own answers? – Kugelblitz Mar 10 at 13:40
the number of monic irreducible polynomials of degree $n$ over the ﬁnite ﬁeld $\mathbb{F}_{q}$ is given by Gauss's formula $$\frac{1}{n}\sum\limits_{d \mid n} \ \mu(n/d) \cdot q^{d}$$
For a complete proof : Please refer
 - Abstract Algebra: Dummit and Foote, Chapter 14, Galois theory, Pages $567-568$.
 - You might also want to see this paper, which actually presents a new idea of counting irreducible polynomials using Inclusion - Exclusion Principle. Link: _URL_
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Just knowing the answer is not useful to anybody. I also suspect that this is a homework problem based on the condition on degrees, so please don't give answers like that. – Qiaochu Yuan May 23 '11 at 9:40
_USER_: Ok... – user9413 May 23 '11 at 11:20
_USER_: the proof presented in that paper is not new; it is equivalent to the classical proof by Mobius inversion. Inclusion-exclusion is a special case of Mobius inversion on a poset. – Qiaochu Yuan May 23 '11 at 11:24
_USER_: i hope you don't mind, but Qiaochu is right and this was a homework qeustion about the extension $\mathbb{F}_{q^{p}}\geq\mathbb{F}_{q}$. I actually used Quaochu's comment to find the answer myself... appreciate the help. – IBS May 23 '11 at 13:24
_USER_: Hey no problem. I never thought about it. Anyhow good that you got the answer. That is important. – user9413 May 23 '11 at 13:25
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Letter-writing saves history
Letter-writing saves history!
In 1863, 1944 and 1961, three people each wrote one letter and thereby saved history for the fourth-graders in November 2013 who were attending a hands-on career day at Jackson's Northview Elementary.
The Civil War era letter in cursive, the WWII typewritten letter and the 1961 hand-printed letter from New York City rocked the Common Core Standards approach!
We used writing letters as a guide to life skills. I illustrated the ways science, math, social studies and reading are all a part of my job as Director at the Jones Museum as seen through the preservation and use of those letters written during the past 150 years. Also, we worked at reaching conclusions about the letters and the situations of the letter writers as related to Jackson County history.
For 20 minutes, history was alive in that school library through those letters.
Remember, no matter the date or topic, every letter is valuable because it tells a story and contributes to lifelong learning.
So be a superhero and save history.
Hurry and write at least one letter in 2013 and beyond!
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Long Term Stability Assessment and Monitoring of Flooded Shafts
The main objective of the EU project STAMS is to develop robotic inspection technologies to monitor and assess the stability of flooded shafts over 2 km deep during long periods of time. This objective will be achieved taking periodic and continuous measurements.
For the continuous measures, a sensor network will be installed along the shaft, and a robot for fixing the sensors will be developed. All the changes and measures will be analyzed in real time, and in situ with a software control


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Handbag technology and method
Handbag technology and method
Section 1: Analysis of the overall structure of handbags
In terms of market conditions, the handbags we see are complex and varied, and formally. If you analyze them comprehensively, it is not difficult to find that most handbags have such a structural commonality: there are front, back, and Tai Wai; left, right, and Tai Wai; front, back, and bottom materials. It consists of three basic components. For some handbags, the front panel is composed of a few pieces of different poses and flowery materials. The front panel is also equipped with a flat or three-dimensional front outer bag; the rear panel is also installed; the big Wai is divided into a bottom and a zipper. Two symmetrical side bags are installed on both sides of Da Wai. According to the consumer's use, the top three basic components are increased or decreased, so that the overall shape of the handbag changes and is complicated.
However, no matter how complicated the handbags we encounter, it is hard to stop us out of the ordinary. Complex handbags only increase our exceptional workload, but not the technical difficulty of our exceptional. Changes in the shape of handbags, it is difficult to overcome the commonality in the structure of handbags, as long as we can clearly see the structure of handbags, it provides us with the conditions for exceptional.
The structural commonality of handbags is abstracted by inductive summarization after viewing many handbags with naked eyes. If you are a wise man, you will also find that the structure of the handbag also has rules that are invisible to the naked eye. The perimeter of the width is equal to the total length of the corresponding circumference; the perimeter of the bottom material is the same as the connecting element. Are equal in length.
If any set of paper grids violates the above rules, it cannot be used as a bag. As for the structure of the handbags, we will choose a large number of handbags according to the type of handbags, which will be discussed in the internship class.
Section II. Shape analysis of handbag components
The shape of the handbag component (hereinafter referred to as the component of the handle component) is rectangular, square, triangular, trapezoidal, prismatic, circular, elliptic, or regular polygonal. These are what we call regular shapes; there are also convex and concave shapes. A mixture of several shapes, and other shapes that are difficult to name, are called irregular shapes. In order to determine the shape of regular components, or to connect with mathematical knowledge. Rectangular, you only need to measure the length and width to get its shape; the square is shaped by the length of the side; the trapezoid is shaped by the upper, lower bottom and height; the prism is shaped by two diagonal lines; the perfect circle is shaped by diameter or radius; the ellipse is Large and small diameter setting. For those irregular figures, the fourth section of Chapter 4 has already been described. The coordinates can be legally shaped. Although the shape of the handbag component is diverse, it has the following characteristics:
1. All are flat graphics.
2. Mostly axisymmetric figures.
What is an axisymmetric figure?
Fold a figure along a straight line, if it can coincide with the other half of the figure, then this figure is called an axisymmetric figure, and this line is called the axis of symmetry. Because the shapes of handbag components are mostly axisymmetric figures, when we draw out the paper grid, we only need to half out the shape of the component, and the other half can be drawn out by folding in half along the axis of symmetry. This saves us a lot of work and time for the paper grid.
Section three, out of order
The order of the handbags is: first out of the main case (also called the positive case), then out of the second case (out of the secondary case). What is a nobility? The paper grid that can determine the shape or size of other paper grids is called the main grid. What is sub-frame? The paper shape whose size or shape depends on other paper shapes.
The combination of several sub-cells, either shape or length, has a certain relationship with the shape or size of the main cell. In general handbags, the width is the main grid and the circumference is the secondary grid; the back width is the main grid of the front pocket; the front pocket is the main grid of the front pocket; the side pocket is the main grid of the side pocket. Therefore, the general order of handbags is arranged as follows: back width, front width, large bottom zipper circumference, front pocket width, front pocket circumference, side pocket width and side pocket circumference. The order in which handbags are out of order is precisely determined by the rules of the handbag structure mentioned in the first section of this chapter.
Section 4: Outliers
The outsourcing method is the comprehensive use of all the above knowledge (in this example, first out of the main case and then the width).
1. The first piece of paper (the piece of paper is marked with a knife) and the next piece of paper that is larger than the length and width of the latter.
2. In the center of the paper, a straight line is used as a number axis (can not be interrupted, you can fold it in half), fold it in half, and then just above the number axis, make a roar with an iron foot of the garden gauge, and then introduce a straight line (not possible (Interruption) as the second number axis, so that two number axes perpendicular to each other appear on the paper.
3. Fold in half along the second number axis and roar on the first axis. If the roar position is also on the axis of the other half of the folding surface, the coordinate system is qualified. This piece of paper can be used to inherit the grid, such as the divergence of the coordinate system., This piece of paper can be removed (vertical inspection of coordinate system).
4. Measure the surface length and width of the back panel of the handbag, and take half of it and add the length of the paper mouth as coordinates. The surface of the web is long as measured.
5. In the coordinate system, find the point with (129/16, 107/16) as the coordinate, and roar through the half-coordinate axis to find the point (-129/16, 107/16) (-129/16, -107/16) (129/16, -107/16) There are three points. After removing the excess paper along these points, a rectangular shape with a back width of (129/16)× (107/16×2) or 251/8×211/8 is obtained. This specification of SG is compared with its surface specification of 24T/2×201/4, and the length and width are each 5/8 more, that is, the length of the two paper ports. If the four corners of the back panel are curved, you can use a compass to find out its arc. Any other shape can be solved by the coordinate method.
Sixth, according to the shape of the back panel, according to the triangle gap and roaring position of the handbag, write all the text marks on the back panel, and the end of the back panel will be announced.
Seven, use the main form and then come out of the front of the second form and Tai Wai.
Many front panels are a combination of several pieces of material, and the shape and size of the rear panel are the same. Therefore, the rear width can be used to mold the shape of the front width combined material, but its structural law is: the rear width perimeter = the total circumference of the large circle. Once the rear width is determined, the total width of the large circle should be measured using the rear width. The width of the Dawei can only be determined by measuring the handbag. The total length of the Dawei = bottom circumference + zipper circumference; bottom width = zipper circumference × 2. In this way, the paper grid is measured with the paper grid according to the order of the grids, and the shape of each paper grid is drawn out, and the various marks of the paper grid are marked until the paper grid is finished.
The handbag is three-dimensional, and the components can't be taken down to touch the paper grid. The good paper grid can be picked up and compared with the original one, but it is in the paper outlet than the surface of the corresponding handbag component. In order to compare the two with each other, we can first compare the size of the surface component of the handbag, and compare the edge with the surface component of the handbag, until the shape and size are the same as the surface shape of the component, then use a paper mouth length as the unit. The compass to enlarge the paper grid, this method of making the grid, is more practical and easily accepted.


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- Admiral William Smyth's Sailor's Word Book, 1867
Ullage of a cask is what such a vessel wants of being full.
- Edward Phillips' New World of English Words, 1706
The quantity of liquor contained in a cask partially filled, and the cpacity of the portion which is empty, are termed respectively the wet and dry ullage.
- Encylopedia Britannica, 1883
To Calculate the amount of ullage in a cask. To fill up again an ullaged cask.
- Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1926


In this article we will walk through working with an already created People Flow. First, we will talk through adding people to a People Flow and then about how to add and editing the steps of the flow.
There are a number of ways to add people to people flows.
 1. From within the People Flow itself
 2. From a person's profile
 3. Using Mass Manage, a form, or another People Flow
From within the People Flow
To add people to a People Flow from within a particular flow, you first need to click into a particular step of the flow.
This will take you to a screen such as the one below. To add a person, simply press the 'Add Person to This Step' button and search for their name.
From their Profile
To add someone to a People Flow from within their profile, simply click 'Add to People Flow' in the blue sidebar.
This will bring up an 'Add to people flow' window. Simply select the flow you want to add them to.
Then simply the step, or steps you want to add them to, and assign an administrator.
Using Mass Manage, Forms or other People Flow steps
To add an individual or a group of people to a flow using the Mass Manage or Forms features, simply select the option of 'Add to People Flow' in the first action dropdown. Select the People Flow you want to add them to, and then assign which step and administrator.
That's it! Just follow the directions above and you will be able to add people into an already created People Flow.
Adding/Editing a new People Flow Step
To add a step to a People Flow from within the flow, press the 'Add Step' button.
Editing an existing People Flow step
To edit an existing People Flow step, simply select 'Edit' next to the step.
Both of these options bring up the same window. From this window you can edit a number of settings.
Some of the more important areas to pay attention to:
Due Date
This setting changes when a person is 'due' to be completed from the step. For instance, you may want someone to be processed immediately when added to a step, or the step might require that they are processed a set number of days after being added. There are a number of settings available – most of them are relative to the date they were added to the people flow step.
Hide Pending
This setting changes when people due within the flow will appear on the assigned administrator's dashboard, relative to when the person is due. For instance, if 'John Bubble' is due to be actioned on the 15th of March, and the 'Hide Pending' setting is set to 4 days, John won't appear on the dashboard until the 11th of March.
This setting changes if you want an email to be sent to the administrators of the People Flow step when someone is added to the step. If this option is selected and a person is added to the People Flow step without being assigned to an administrator, an email will be sent out to all administrators. If they have been assigned to an administrator, only the assigned administrator will receive the email.
These settings allow you to define the People Flow actions that are to be made upon completion of a step. You can choose from a range of actions, allowing you to change people's information, people categories, groups etc.
The 'Automated' setting for actions allows you to define whether you want the action to be applied to every person that goes through the step.
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text: Mimbres ware, David Muench/Corbispre-Columbian North American Indian pottery of the Mogollon culture of what is present-day southwestern New Mexico, U.S., in the Mimbres period (900–1150). It is named for the Mimbres people who created it. The characteristic vessel of Mimbres ware is the decorated bowl. The interiors of these vessels are decorated with recognizable human and animal forms and geometric designs painted in black on a white ground. The sophisticated fish, bird, insect, and animal designs are usually depicted fancifully.


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We apply the Wigner function formalism to partial Bell-state analysis using polarization entanglement produced in parametric down conversion. Two-photon statistics at a beam-splitter are reproduced by a wave-like description with zeropoint fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. In particular, the fermionic behaviour of two photons in the singlet state is explained from the invariance on the correlation properties of two light beams going through a balanced beam-splitter. Moreover, we show that a Bell-state measurement introduces some fundamental noise at the idle channels of the analyzers. As a consequence, the consideration of more independent sets of vacuum modes entering the crystal appears as a need for a complete Bell-state analysis.


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Homemade plates are typically made from pottery clay and fired in a kiln to ensure long-term strength and durability. Decorations for homemade plates vary, depending on whether the plates are designed to be purely decorative, or if they are intended for practical, everyday use. For homemade plates that will be used as serving dishes, select only decorating materials that are clearly marked as being safe for food.
- Skill level:
- Moderately Easy
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Things you need
- Homemade plates
- Food-safe glazes and paints
- Pottery kiln
- Paint brushes
- Potter's wax
Select a food-safe glaze or glazes to decorate homemade plates. Glaze can be applied to homemade plates once they have been kiln fired. Use paint brushes, stencils, sponges or other faux finishing tools, like brushes and combs, to create unusual and organic patterns, such as waves, stripes or curls. Fire the homemade plates again following the glaze manufacturer's guidelines.
Allow glazed, fired plates to fully cool before removing them from the kiln. Further embellish by applying glaze-resistant waxes and additional layers of glaze, or by painting designs on the surfaces. Ideas for designs include scrolls or floral patterns around the rim of the plate or a floral or geometrical pattern on the centre of the plate. Re-fire the homemade plates again and repeat the reglazing process as often as necessary to achieve the desired design.
After cooling, add additional clay embellishments, if desired. Consider gluing raised elements around the rim of the plates, such as glazed pieces of clay sculpted into decorative balls, or premade pressed or stamped decorative clay pieces.
Add finishing touches to homemade plates by trimming and highlighting various design elements with food-safe decorative paints. Consider adding gold or silver flourishes around the rim of the plates. Or paint delicate scrolls around the centre of the plates.
Allow homemade plates to dry completely and seal with a food-safe spray sealant, if desired.
Tips and warnings
- If homemade plates are to be used for decorative purposes only, add wall-hanging hardware to the backs of the plates so they can be displayed.
- Some pottery glazes have texturising elements that create a somewhat rough surface, which some people may find to be undesirable when used for serving food.
- Wash handmade decorated plates carefully after use. For best results, hand wash in warm, soapy water using a mild detergent and a non-abrasive cloth.
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Thursday, March 02, 2006
"The Oldest Road In St. Louis County"
"St. Charles Rock Road, the first road through St. Louis County, was laid out in 1772 as "The Road to St. Charles" by the Spanish. The road began in St. Louis (where it was called "Kings Road"), followed in a general direction the route now used and led to the bank of the Missouri River opposite St. Charles. In 1819, St. Charles Road was established as a post and stage road; in 1837 it was first incorporated as a turnpike. In 1865, St. Charles Road was rebuilt with macadam (successive layers of small broken stones) and renamed St. Charles Rock Road. In 1921, it became the first concrete state highway in St. Louis County."
Excerpted from the official website for the City of St. John, St. Louis County, Missouri.


Beams > Theory for the Beam User Interface > Strain-Displacement/Rotation Relation
Strain-Displacement/Rotation Relation
The axial strain depends on the rotation derivative and axial displacement derivative defined by the shape function and the transversal coordinate in the beam. For the 3D case it becomes
The coordinates from the beam center line in the local transversal directions are denoted zl and yl respectively. In the 2D case, the second term is omitted, and the local z direction is always directed out of the plane.
The total strain ε consists of thermal (εth), initial (εi), and elastic strains(εel)


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Adjective: alloyed 'a,loyd
 1. (used of metals) debased by mixture with an inferior element
 2. (used of metals) blended to obtain a desired property
Verb: alloy 'a,loy
 1. (metallurgy) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
 - debase
 2. (metallurgy) make an alloy of
See also: blended, impure
Type of: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, devalue, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix
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The momentum distribution of positronium (Ps) in BaF2 single crystal has been investigated in a temperature range from 10 to 297K. The existence of the delocalized and localized Ps has been confirmed. The momentum distribution of the delocalized Ps, a central peak at zero momentum and satellite peaks at the momenta corresponding to the reciprocal lattice vectors, has a large width even at 10K. The width is almost independent of temperature. The behavior is different from that of the delocalized Ps in other ionic crystals. This indicates that the delocalized Ps in BaF2 is strongly coupled to the phonon field.
- Angular correlation of positron annihilation radiation
- Delocalized state
- Momentum distribution
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- Physics and Astronomy(all)


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| Southern Red Cedar, Sand Cedar, Coast Juniper|
Southern red cedar grows near water or in areas with a very shallow water table. It is found in southeastern Texas in moist, sandy soils. It has slender, pendulous branches and most often a single trunk. Southern red cedar is closely related to eastern red cedar, but it can sometimes have a more open habit, and the bright blue cones of southern red cedar are much smaller.
Plant Habit or Use: medium tree
Exposure: sun partial sun
Flower Color: small cone
Blooming Period: spring
Fruit Characteristics: blue cones
Height: to 30 ft.
Width: to 15 ft.
Plant Character: evergreen
Heat Tolerance: high
Water Requirements: high medium
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Extreme reading among the zoo animals
Thursday 23 October 2008
Two schoolgirl bookworms found some novel places to browse, by taking their homework to ZSL Whipsnade Zoo for some 'extreme reading'.
Jessica Ackers and Francesca Cross, both 10, let their imagination run riot when their school asked pupils to think of 'unusual, funny or surprising' locations for reading a book, to celebrate Children's Book Week.
The pair, from Oakwood Primary School in St Albans, wrote to ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and initially asked to read while sitting on an elephant or giraffe. 'If our thoughts are too dangerous to carry out we would love it if you could suggest something else for us to do', they asked.
Whipsnade were happy to oblige with the latter option and keepers allowed the girls to test their nerve by reading among the lively lemurs on lemur island, while being watched over by our female giraffe Savannah and sitting in the elephant paddock.
The girls found the experience amazing and had to use all their concentration skills to keep their eyes on the books and not the animals.
Jessica said: 'We found the giraffe quite easy as she was eating the leaves but the lemurs were hard!'
'There were so many of them and they were all around you with their paws on the books!' added Francesca. Both girls love reading and enjoy fiction books. Francesca had just read an appropriate book called 'White Giraffe' by Lauren St John.


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This study explored the gendered nature of STEM higher education institution through a feminist critical discourse analysis of STEM course syllabi from a Midwest research university. I explored STEM syllabi to understand how linguistic features such as stance and interdiscursivity are used in the syllabus and how language and discourses used in the syllabus replicate the masculine nature of STEM education. Findings suggest that the discourses identified in the syllabi reinforce traditional STEM academic roles, and that power and gender in the STEM syllabi are revealed through exploration of the themes of knowledge, learning, and the teaching and learning environment created by the language used in the syllabus. These findings inform and extend understanding of the STEM syllabus and the STEM higher education institution and lead to recommendations about how to make the STEM syllabus more inclusive for women.
Critical Discourse Analysis, Feminist Research Methods, Poststructuralism, Syllabus, Syllabi, STEM Education
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Parson, L. (2016). Are STEM Syllabi Gendered? A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. The Qualitative Report, 21(1), 102-116. Retrieved from _URL_


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Are Grades 10-12 physical sciences teachers equipped to teach physics?
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South African schools have been confronted with educational reform since the mid-nineties and the process is still continuing. The concomitant changes put a very high demand on physical sciences teachers and also have an impact on teacher behaviour. The purpose of this study was to probe whether teachers could be considered equipped to teach the physics part of the FET physical sciences curriculum. A revised framework on teacher behaviour, which includes three factors, namely teacher knowledge, teacher views and beliefs, and teacher attitudes, was used in conjunction with a questionnaire and a survey to analyse the data from individual and focus group interviews. A total of 68 FET physical sciences teachers from urban, township and rural schools participated in the research. Our findings indicate that teachers are positive about the curriculum. However, the problems identified with training, support and resources as well as the lack of teachers' subject content knowledge, particularly in rural and township schools, cannot be blamed on the curriculum and therefore cannot be fixed by curriculum changes.


California Tort Claims Act 2017
California's Tort Claims Act (CTCA) includes the rules and regulations that govern how claims are filed against a government entity. If the government is to be named in a lawsuit, the claim must fall within the guidelines of the California Tort Claims Act.
Situations wherein your claim will fall under the Act include:
 - You trip and fall in a government building
 - A county vehicle is involved in a motor vehicle accident with you
If a government employee or agency was negligent in some way, you'll need to follow the guidelines of the California Tort Claims Act. But if the government was not involved in any way leading up to your injury, a personal injury lawsuit can be filed.
Timely Written Claims: 6 Months to File
A public entity can only be sued if the plaintiff:
 - Provides a written claim for damages
 - Provides the written claim within 6 months of the incident
Unlike personal injury claims which have a two-year period to file a lawsuit, you must file a lawsuit against a governmental entity, or public entity, within a six-month period. Failure to make your claim within this time, which will be presented to the entity in question, will void your ability to file a claim.
The time starts to tick once the incident occurs – when you're filled with medical urgencies, financial issues and life-changing events.
If you've made your claim in accordance to the government code, you'll need to wait.
Public Entity Responsibility
If you've provided your written claim, the public entity must respond in a 45-day period after being served. The public entity will respond with the entity's action on the claim. The entity has four main options at this point in the claim process:
 1. Reject the claim
 2. Accept the claim
 3. Reject in part
 4. Compromise
Reject in part and compromise are the two options that provide the most concern. An entity has the legal right to reject in part, but accept the balance of the claim. A compromise will be a negotiation wherein you'll need to go back and forth with the entity.
What happens if you don't receive a response?
 1. If no response is given to your claim, the court will view this as a rejection. A rejected claim can be beneficial because a claim that's rejected provides a 2-year period from the date of the injury to file suit.
 2. If a proper response is given, you as the claimant, have just six months to file suit.
You have just six months to file suit, so it's imperative to file within the statute of limitations or lose your right to file. Government agencies and employees often respond to written notices. It's very unlikely that the notice will go unanswered, although it can and does occur.
Limitations and Expectations Under the California Tort Claims Act
CTCA encompasses all civil liability for money and damages. You can follow the Act when you're in a car accident with a government employee or you fall in a government building due to a negligent act that failed to make an essential repair.
Negligence of a government employee must fall within:
 - The scope of employment
 - In the course of a government function
For example, if a government employee was out on the weekend, enjoying a day off and was in a car accident, they cannot be sued as a government employee. A personal injury claim would need to be filed instead.
And if the employee decided to go to the bar when they were in the middle of work, the government agency can argue that the accident was caused by actions not within the scope of the employee's job.
Under the CTCA, you cannot file a claim against the negligent person directly.
So, if you can file a claim against the local government, you cannot target the employee directly in a separate case. This provides protection for employees and ensures that multiple cases for the same circumstance are not filed.
Public entitles are liable for injuries that are a result of the entity's failure to carry out their duty.
In essence, this means that if a public entity is tasked with protecting the public in some way and doesn't carry out their duty, they may face legal action. A fire department is a great example of a public entity that has a duty to the public.
If the fire department failed to respond to a call, the person injured in the fire can seek damages against the fire department.
But there are some exceptions to the law, too, such as:
 - Injuries related to failed or passed legislation
 - Injuries sustained by the National Guard
 - Injuries due to the issuing of a permit, license or order
 - Injuries due to failing to enforce the law
 - Injuries due to misrepresentation
You cannot sue the government for their failure to pass a legislation. You can also not sue the government because they supplied a driver with a license and said driver caused a motor vehicle accident.
The CTCA requires that the government or the employee had to act in some negligent manner to be held responsible under the CTCA.
Filing a Claim
If you plan to file a claim against a county, state or government entity or agency in California, you must provide a written notice with the following information:
 - Name and mailing address of the claimant
 - Mailing address where notices are to be mailed
 - Date of the incident
 - Location of the incident
 - Detailed description of the incident
 - Name of government entity or employees that caused the injury (when possible)
You'll also need to claim losses. If the losses are under $10,000, you must list the claim and note how the figure was calculated. If the claim of losses is more than $10,000, you'll need to determine if the case is a limited civil case, or a case where you're seeking less than $25,000 in damages.
Many municipalities in California offer a free form that will act as a written notice. I recommend searching for and using one of these forms when available. The forms streamline the notice process and ensure that you provide all necessary information to move forward with your claim.
If you or a loved one has been injured and it was not your fault you shouldn't hesitate to contact Hamparyan Injury Lawyers to arrange a free consultation to assess whether you are eligible to file a personal injury claim.
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"golden thread moss"–family Ditrichaceae
How to recognize golden thread moss: Ditrichum pallidum is a densely tufted cushion moss with 3-5 mm lanceolate leaves, that are narrowly ovate at their base. These leaves have a long excurrent costa that forms a subula. There are no differentiated alar cells from the rectangular cells found in the leaf. The plants have male and female organs on the same plant so capsules are common; the sprorophytes are strikingly tall with bright yellow seta, and the sporangia (capsules) are narrowly cylindrical. The spores are 16-29 microns and densely papillose. The peristome teeth are often divided to their base; Dicranella peristome teeth are divided only halfway down.
Where to find golden thread moss: Ditrichum pallidum grows on the ground in dry wooded areas. It is fairly common across Ohio.


HRLN files Amicus in before Republic of Uganda for establishing food reserves
MIsc Appeal in CIVIL APPEAL N0.______OF 2020 AND 1. CENTER FOR FOOD AND ADEQUATE LIVING RIGHTS (CEFROHT) 2. ATTORNEY GENERAL | Court of Appeal of Uganda | Status: Pending | |
The High court of Uganda at Kampala brushed away the claim of CEROHT on access to food from government strategic food reserves to stabilize the rising food prices
on the market and enable easy access to food by all and declaring that the Country is a violation of and threat to rights guaranteed under the National Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy No.XXII, XXIII, Article 20, 8A and 45 of the Constitution of Uganda (as amended).
The SECR Net members including HRLN intervened by way Amicus in Appeal to the aforementioned proceedings by mainly summarising the following -
Established international, regional, and comparative right to food standards inform and reinforce the Ugandan State's human rights duties to respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by:
1) recognizing and enforcing the right to food within the domestic legal order;
2) appropriately providing for all necessary food distribution during the pandemic;
3) establishing and maintaining food reserves;
4) ensuring economic accessibility of food and food price stabilization;
5) ensuring food safety; and
6) utilizing maximum available resources in the face of the food emergency.
 It was argued that vis a vis Constitutional law of India the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Conventions of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognize the needs which include right to food, clothing, housing, education, right to work, leisure, fair wages, decent working conditions, social security, right to physical or mental health, protection of their families as an integral part of the right to life.
It was further stated that the PUCL v Union of India, the Supreme Court of India recognized Right to food was envisaged as being a component of the right to life and the Court issued a continuing mandamus to monitor the overall implementation.
It was stated that, the timeout, nonrestrictive, nonarbitrary compliance with international standards, focus on disadvantaged and marginalized, and grave and risky situations can effect in maximum realization in minimum available resorces.


Why Do People Enjoy Q?
Why do people like mathematics?
This can be a question that has puzzled mathematicians and researchers. No body has come up with a definitive answer yet, although All of them think they have the clear answer. There really are some matters we could study on the study of why folks like math.
To begin with, they enjoy mathematics, should you inquire a math student, they are going to essay paper ordinarily say that it is just plain pleasure. countless skilled mathematicians who've studied math for years have impressed students. It creates them feel as they are doing some thing that makes a gap in modern society.
Some students also love math because it helps them to discover the beauty of numbers. They have found that if they can find connections between different numbers, then they can connect things like colors, numbers, relationships and more. They use numbers to connect to the world around them. Numbers also make them feel like pay for essay they are on the right track.
If a student will not be able to explain what makes them like mathematics, then they may think that they are not good at it. Some pupils take extra lessons to get better grades. Other individuals elect to perform mathematics or other courses simply to impress their educators. Some college students come to be fanatical about making certain that they're good at all they do, including the things that they do not enjoy.
Finally, some students love math because it helps them learn what they need to know for life. If they don't like math, then they might not know what they need to know. Math helps students _URL_ to understand how to balance their lives and lead a fulfilled life.
Is the fact that mathematics is loved by every one, however some such as it others. Because they enjoy looking at amounts, some are like me and enjoy mathematics. The others just love numbers and their perfect variety.
If you find you like mathematics instead of just numbers, then you'll like it. Make sure you believe about why you like math therefore that you are able to improve at it.
The answer to the inquiry,"Why would people enjoy mathematics?" Could surprise you.


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Working with Macromedia Fireworks MX buttons and navigation bars
Macromedia Fireworks MX is the ideal tool for creating and maintaining navigation bars. Using instance-level properties, you can define a number of characteristics for individual buttons without affecting other buttons. Instance-level properties also enable you to make modifications to a button without breaking the link between the button instance and the original button symbol. This simplifies the web design workflow by saving time and gives you great flexibility when designing navigation.
Instance-level properties eliminate the difficulty you might have experienced if you used previous versions of Fireworks to create navigation bars. Whenever you made any instance different from the others (by defining different text on each button, for example), a message box appeared that asked if you wanted to break the link between the instance and its button symbol or if you wanted to make the change to all instances. While breaking the link between instance and symbol gave you flexibility in the design of your buttons, it made maintenance difficult because no longer could you make a global change using the button symbol.
By completing this tutorial, you'll learn about instance-level and symbol-level properties for Fireworks MX buttons. You will create and modify a navigation bar, export it, and then test it in a web browser. If you have a copy of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, you'll also explore what happens to a Fireworks navigation bar when opened from within Dreamweaver MX.
Before you begin, preview the file that you will create.
To complete the tutorial, you'll need the following source file:
Download the Windows source file (112K)
Download the Macintosh source file (116K)
When the file decompresses, a folder named nav_buttons is created on your system.
If you have trouble downloading or decompressing the file, see TechNote 13686.
Note: If you plan to perform the optional, last procedure in this tutorial (to examine the end result in Dreamweaver), it's best to copy the nav_buttons folder into a Dreamweaver site folder on your system, to ensure that Fireworks and Dreamweaver integration will function properly. See Dreamweaver Help for information about creating a site folder.
About button symbols and instances
Create a button symbol
Create a navigation bar
Modify the navigation bar
Export the navigation bar
Examine the navigation bar in Dreamweaver
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Tonya Estes writes documentation and tutorials for Fireworks and FreeHand.
6 June 2002
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Job Title: Admissions Specialist I - 997198
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Essential Job Functions: 1. Provides assistance in completing application and enrollment documents.
2. Reviews student applications by analyzing credentials, computing GPAs, reviewing support documents such as transcripts, and preparing application packages for admissions decisions.
3. Collaborates with admissions colleagues, academic advisers, financial aid officers, and residential life personnel to create an effective yield team and ensure a smooth transition from inquiry to enrolled student status.
4. Participates in promotional activities, including educational fairs, career days, open houses, or special events to present programs to prospective students.
5. Inputs status of significant admission decisions into database.
6. Maintains student data integrity and confidentiality.
7. Sorts or classifies information according to guidelines, such as content, purpose, user criteria, or chronological, alphabetical, or numerical order.
8. Compiles, sorts and verifies the accuracy of data before it is entered.
9. Compares data with source documents, or re-enters data in verification format to detect errors.
10. Stores completed documents in appropriate locations.
12. Locates and corrects data entry errors, or reports them to supervisors.
13. Answers questions about records or files.
14. Keeps records of materials filed or removed, using logbooks or computers and generate computerized reports.
15. Answers telephones, directs calls, and takes messages.
16. Greets persons entering establishment, determines nature and purpose of visit, and directs or escorts them to specific destinations.
17. Provides information about establishment, such as location of departments or offices, employees within the organization, or services provided.
18. Collects, sorts, distributes, or prepares mail, messages, or courier deliveries.
19. Orders and dispenses supplies.
21. Uses computers for various applications, such as database management or word processing.
22. Performs administrative support tasks, such as proofreading, transcribing handwritten information, or operating calculators or computers.
23. Completes special projects as assigned.
24. Performs other duties as assigned or required.
Marginal Job Functions:
Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Knowledge:
1. Basic knowledge of MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word and Excel).
2. Clerical - Working knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
3. Customer and Personal Service - Working knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of user satisfaction.
4. English Language - Working knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
1. Speaking - Basic skills in talking to others to convey information effectively.
2. Service Orientation - Basic skills in actively looking for ways to help people.
3. Social Perceptiveness - Basic skills in being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
4. Reading Comprehension - Basic understanding of written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
5. Active Listening - Basic skills in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
6. Critical Thinking - Basic skills in using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
7. Time Management - Basic skills in managing one's own time and the time of others.
8. Writing - Basic skills in communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
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4. May be required to work nights or weekends.
6. May be required to accomplish job duties using various types of equipment/supplies, to include but not limited to pens, pencils, mobile devices, and computer keyboards.
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Required Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent
Major (if required):
Required Experience: High School Diploma and one (1) year of service-related experience
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