AVE1).get(WaveConst.FREQUENCY));
double freq2 = (double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.WAVE2).get(WaveConst.FREQUENCY);
double phase = (double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.WAVE2).get(WaveConst.PHASE);
String waveType1 = WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.WAVE1).get(WaveConst.WAVETYPE) == SIN? "sine" : "tria";
String waveType2 = WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.WAVE2).get(WaveConst.WAVETYPE) == SIN? "sine" : "tria";
timestamp = System.currentTimeMillis();
String timeData = timestamp + "," + CSVLogger.FILE_NAME_FORMAT.format(new Date(timestamp));
String locationData = lat + "," + lon;
Next, in the function we get currently set Frequency for both analog waves and phase in the variables. We also store the selected wave shape for each of the waves. Since each entry in the csv file is required to have a timestamp and a location stamp,here we create common stamps of both types and will append it to each entry further in the function.
else if (data.getMode().equals(MODE_PWM)) {
 WaveGeneratorCommon.mode_selected = WaveConst.PWM;
 switch (data.getWave()) {
 case "Sq1":
 WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR1).put(WaveConst.FREQUENCY, Double.valueOf(data.getFreq()).intValue());
 WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR1).put(WaveConst.DUTY, ((Double) (Double.valueOf(data.getDuty()) * 100)).intValue());
Here we check whether the currently selected mode is Analog(Square) or Digital (PWM). Above code snippet is for the SQUARE mode block. We create WaveGeneratorData object for both SI1 and SI2 waves based on the parameters we stored earlier. We also append the data to a string, data. Which we will later use to write the log into a csv file.
else {
 double freqSqr1 = (double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR1).get(WaveConst.FREQUENCY);
 double dutySqr1 = (double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR1).get(WaveConst.DUTY) / 100;
 double dutySqr2 = ((double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR2).get(WaveConst.DUTY)) / 100;
 double phaseSqr2 = (double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR2).get(WaveConst.PHASE) / 360;
 double dutySqr3 = ((double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR3).get(WaveConst.DUTY)) / 100;
 double phaseSqr3 = (double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR3).get(WaveConst.PHASE) / 360;
 double dutySqr4 = ((double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR4).get(WaveConst.DUTY)) / 100;
 double phaseSqr4 = (double) WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.SQR4).get(WaveConst.PHASE) / 360;
 data += timeData + ",PWM,Sq1,PWM," + String.valueOf(freqSqr1) + ",0," + String.valueOf(dutySqr1) + "," + locationData + "\n";
 recordSensorData(new WaveGeneratorData(timestamp, block, "PWM", "Sq1", "PWM", String.valueOf(freqSqr1), "0", String.valueOf(dutySqr1), lat, lon));
The above code snippet shows a block of the condition when the selected mode is PWM. Here we store the set values of Freq, Phase and Duty for each SQ1, SQ2, SQ3 and SQ4 waves into variables. Once we store the values we create WaveGeneratorData objects for each of the waves and also append the data to the data string to write to the csv. The code above includes details only for SQ1, but exact same procedure is followed for SQ2, SQ3, and SQ4. One we have all the data appended to the string we call the following function to write the data to csv file.
We can see that this function basically stores the current set values of different params into a WaveData object. For each of the waveforms in selected mode (analog/digital), a new instance of WaveData object is created and stored into realm.
When the user opens one of the logs, setReceivedData() function is called in WaveGeneratorActivity. This function iterates on the received realm objects and based on the attributes of each object the data is set in the UI automatically. The implementation of this function is given below,
public void setReceivedData() {
 for (WaveGeneratorData data : recordedWaveData) {
 Log.d("data", data.toString());
 if (data.getMode().equals(MODE_SQUARE)) {
 WaveGeneratorCommon.mode_selected = WaveConst.SQUARE;
 switch (data.getWave()) {
 case "Wave1":
 if (data.getShape().equals("sine")) {
 WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.WAVE1).put(WaveConst.WAVETYPE, SIN);
 } else {
 WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.WAVE1).put(WaveConst.WAVETYPE, TRIANGULAR);
 WaveGeneratorCommon.wave.get(WaveConst.WAVE1).put(WaveConst.FREQUENCY, Double.valueOf(data.getFreq()).intValue());
This function iterates over the received WaveGeneratorData objects. For each object we check what is the mode of the waveData. The above code snippet is used when the mode is SQUARE. We get the waveType from the object, and since for SQUARE mode there are only 2 types : Wave1 and Wave2, we set the attributes for each wave as we get them from the objects using WaveGeneratorCommon
 WaveGeneratorCommon.mode_selected = WaveConst.PWM;
 switch (data.getWave()) {
 case "Sq1":
Same as before if the mode of the object is PWM, there will be 4 cases : SQ1, SQ2, SQ3 and SQ4. And depending on the data stored in the received objects.
In a nutshell this features enables to save and reuse wave configuration with ease.
A small video to explain the whole functionality of this feature can be found here.
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Creating Activity for Visualizing Recorded Sensor Data from List Items
 - How can the user export that data?
The layout contains three views:-
But now the question arises:-
 SensorLogged temp = getItem(position);
 Date date = new Date(temp.getDateTimeStart());
 holder.cardView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
 public void onClick(View view) {
and inside the click listener I performed following three steps:-
 int positionVar = holder.getAdapterPosition();
 int positionVar = holder.getAdapterPosition();
 Intent intent = new Intent(context, SensorGraphViewActivity.class);
 intent.putExtra(SensorGraphViewActivity.TYPE_SENSOR, item.getSensor());
 intent.putExtra(SensorGraphViewActivity.DATA_FOREIGN_KEY, item.getUniqueRef());
Long foreignKey = intent.getLongExtra(DATA_FOREIGN_KEY, -1);
Realm realm = Realm.getDefaultInstance();
entries = new ArrayList<>();
for (LuxData item : results) {
Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
 public void run() {
 IMapController mapController = map.getController();
 mapController.setZoom((double) 9);
 GeoPoint startPoint = new GeoPoint(latitude, latitude);
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How to pass data between fragments of an Activity in Android app
How to pass data between fragments?
 Fragment1.firstValue = one;
 Fragment1.secondValue = two;
 Fragment1.thirdValue = three;
 public void onDestroyView() {
 highValue = getValueFromText(highLimit, 0, highLimitMax);
 Fragment1.setParameters(selectedSensor, highValue, updatePeriodValue);
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Prevent Android Activity from Operating while using Bottom Sheet in PSLab App
Why prevent the Activity from operating?
Figure 1. Accelerometer Instrument in PSLab Android app
How to prevent the Activity from operating?
Follow the below steps to get the desired results:
view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
 Float value = (float) MathUtils.map((double) slideOffset, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.8);
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Objective: This study extends previous research by exploring the association between mood states (i.e., positive and negative affect) and fixation in practicing anesthetists using a realistic medical simulation. Background: The impact of practitioner emotional states on fixation is a neglected area of research. Emerging evidence is demonstrating the role of positive affect in facilitating problem solving and innovation, with demonstrated implications for practitioner fixation. Method: Twelve practicing anesthetists (4 females; Mage= 39 years; SD = 6.71) were involved in a medical simulation. Prior to the simulation, practitioners rated the frequency they had experienced various positive and negative emotions in the previous three days. During the simulation, the patient deteriorated rapidly, and anesthetists were observed for their degree of fixation. After the simulation, practitioners indicated the frequency of these same emotions during the simulation. Results: Nonparametric correlations were used to explore the independent relationships between positive and negative affect and the behavioral measures. Only positive affect impacted the likelihood of fixation. Anesthetists who reported more frequent recent positive affect in the three days prior to the simulation and during the simulation tended to be less fixated as judged by independent raters, identified a decline in patient oxygen saturation more quickly, and more rapidly implemented the necessary intervention (surgical cricothyroidotomy). Conclusion: These findings have some real-world implications for positive affect in patient safety. Application: This research has broad implications for professions where fixation may impair practice. This research suggests that professional training should teach practitioners to identify their emotions and understand the role of these emotions in fixation.
- anesthesiology and perioperative care
- patient safety
- skilled performance

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A growing number of sales leaders are aware of the benefits social selling can bring their organization, but many have yet to incorporate social media into their team's strategy. Meanwhile, more buyers now rely on social media to research and make decisions about vendors, leaving those who haven't adopted social selling behind.
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can we measure TTL output using a multimeter
Discussion in 'The Projects Forum' started by rudy123, Aug 6, 2014.
 1. rudy123
 Thread Starter New Member
 Mar 24, 2014
 Hi, i am working on a pen wand scanner (MSH-119) project. The output of the scanner is TTL data. My question is: can we measure the TTL output using a multimeter? I tried it but the output is always 5v (because I connect a pull up resistor 5.1k between the power and the TTL output) no matter where I place the tip of the pen on.
 2. Papabravo
 Feb 24, 2006
 It is better to use an oscilloscope. That way you can measure the on and off times of the signals and actually see the bits. A multimeter can tell you if the output is beating up and down or it is fixed at a high or low level.
 3. DickCappels
 Aug 21, 2008
 Yes, I used to do this regularly before I bought a scope for my second home. I still do it occasionally because its often more convenient than waiting for the scope to boot up.
 If the logic signal is faster than the meter's response time (usually on the order of half a second, depending upon the particular meter) the voltage you measure will be the logic high voltage times the duty cycle. In your present case, this applies if the pullup resistor has a low enough resistance for the signal to faithfully switch while driving the capacitance of the meter leads and meter input.


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Economic Report of the President
The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices. The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. Information provided includes current and foreseeable trends and numerical goals concerning topics such as employment, production, real income and Federal budget outlays, employment objectives for significant groups of the labor force, annual numeric goals, and a program for carrying out program objectives. The report has been published since 1947.
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Electronic communications, postal services and media in the Brussels-Capital Region are BIPT's main fields of activity. For each of them, the regulatory action of BIPT is based on six basic objectives:
- fostering healthy competition and maintaining market access;
- contributing to the development of a domestic market of efficient networks and services;
- protecting the users' interests while taking account of social inclusion, a high level of protection, clear information and transparency;
- managing scarce resources such as radio frequencies and numbering resources;
- ensuring network security;
- The new European electronic communications code (EECC) has added an additional objective. This code has not been transposed into Belgian law yet, but it will naturally influence the Council's actions for the next three years. The new and sixth objective is the following:
Concerning electronic communications, the Institute promotes connectivity and access to very high capacity networks, including fixed, mobile and wireless networks, as well as the take-up of such networks.


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Physical activity during life course and bone mass: a systematic review of methods and findings from cohort studies with young adults
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1 Post-Graduate Program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
2 Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013, 14:77 doi:10.1186/_PHONE_-77Published: 4 March 2013
The purpose of this paper was to review the literature of the cohort studies which evaluated the association between physical activity during the life course and bone mineral content or density in young adults.
Prospective cohort studies with bone mineral density or content measured in the whole body, lumbar spine and femoral neck by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry as outcome and physical activity as exposure were searched. Two independent reviewers selected studies retrieved from electronic databases (Medline, Lilacs, Web of Science and Scielo) and reviewed references of all selected full text articles. Downs & Black criterion was used in the quality assessment of these studies.
Nineteen manuscripts met inclusion criteria. Lumbar spine was the skeletal site most studied (n = 15). Different questionnaires were used for physical activity evaluation. Peak strain score was also used to evaluate physical activity in 5 manuscripts. Lack of statistical power calculation was the main problem found in the quality assessment. Positive associations between physical activity and bone mass were found more in males than in females; in weight bearing anatomical sites (lumbar spine and femoral neck) than in total body and when physical activity measurements were done from adolescence to adulthood – than when evaluated in only one period. Physical activity during growth period was associated with greater bone mass in males. It was not possible to conduct pooled analyses due to the heterogeneity of the studies, considering mainly the different instruments used for physical activity measurements.
Physical activity seems to be important for bone mass in all periods of life, but especially the growth period should be taking into account due to its important direct effect on bone mass and its influence in physical activity practice in later life. Low participation in peak strain activities may also explain the lower number of associations found in females.


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Would there be a possibility that there is lead paint in birdfeeders and bird baths, manufactured in China. If so, how do birds and animals react to lead?
Considering the recent publicity about high levels of lead in toys imported from China, you are wise to be concerned. A 2006 study from the University of Cincinnati determined that India, China and Malaysia produce consumer paints with dangerously high lead levels; these paints are used in a variety of products intended for export. The United States banned leaded paint in 1978 as it was linked to developmental problems in children. Lead paint affects birds and other wildlife as well. Burger and Gochfeld's 2000 study, published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, confirmed that even low-levels of lead affected growth, locomotion, balance, food begging, feeding, thermoregulation, depth perception, and individual recognition in birds. Young birds affected by lead may not recognize their siblings or parents due to impaired cognitive ability and tend to wander from their nests. Higher levels of lead can lead to death.
Paint issues aside, the wood China uses to construct bird houses as well as other products is a source of concern. China does not harvest its own forests for the majority of the products manufactured in that country. Russia, Malaysia and Indonesia are the three largest suppliers of timber to China. These countries have limited forest management, and much of the wood China uses is actually obtained illegally from threatened forests. The forests in Indonesia, in particular, are home to many species of birds which are threatened by the rampant deforestation. To ensure that wood products you buy are from reputable sources, look for Forest Stewardship Certified (FSC) wood. The concerned consumer should ask questions about the source of any wood product, such as furniture or paper, to make sure your purchase doesn't encourage the deforestation of threatened areas.


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Implications of Ohio's Third Grade Reading Guarantee
The General Assembly and Governor Kasich pushed through a set of laws requiring the retention of students who fail to demonstrate an established level of mastery in reading by the third grade. This requirement is accompanied by several other mandates affecting teacher assignments and the nature of reading instruction.
This document is designed to present each section of the Third Grade Guarantee as it pertains to retention of students. Guiding questions are presented to help initiate discussions as to the possible classroom effects for students, teachers and families.
This graphics presents teacher qualification options, as set forth in Ohio law and ODE guidance and based upon the implementation years of the Third Grade Guarantee. Updated in June 2013 to reflect Senate Bill 21 as signed by Governor Kasich.


Battle of Leipzig
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Battle of Leipzig
Part of the War of the Sixth Coalition
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The Battle of Leipzig by Vladimir Moshkov (1815)
Date 16–19 October 1813
Location Leipzig, Saxony
Result Decisive coalition victory
France French Empire Russia Russia
Austria Austrian Empire
Kingdom of Prussia Prussia
Sweden Sweden
Saxony Saxony[1]
Commanders and leaders
France Napoleon I
Józef Antoni Poniatowski
Saxony Frederick Augustus
Russia Barclay De Tolly
Russia Count Benningsen
Austria Prince of Schwarzenberg
Sweden Crown Prince Charles John
Kingdom of Prussia Gebhard von Blücher
700 guns [3]
1,500 guns [3]
Casualties and losses
38,000 dead or wounded
20,000 captured
54,000 dead or wounded[2]
The Battle of Leipzig was a battle between Napoleon I and his army and an allied force of several nations. It happened on October 16-19 on 1813. Napoleon I was defeated. It was the largest battle before World War I. It involved about 600,000 soldiers. It was part of the War of the Sixth Coalition. After this battle, Napoleon was taken to the island of Elba.
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- Historic Sites
Fort Mulligan At Petersburg
Federal or Confederate troops occupied this hill and its surrounding area beginning at least as early as August 1861, and were on the ground for at least part of every year of the war. Federal forces time and again tried to use this strategic point as a choke hold against raids on the B&O to the north, and as a "jumping-off" point for their own raids further south. The reasoning is clear and is twofold: First, the intersection of the road network at Petersburg and Moorefield and second, the support of the civilian population and Homeguard units in the ridges to the west and north provided a sharp counterpoint to the hostility of the civilians in Petersburg and Moorefield and areas east and south. The Fort as it exists today, was constructed August-December 1863, by troops under the command of Colonel James A. Mulligan, from Chicago, Illinois. Infantry, cavalry and artillery from West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Illinois carried out the backbreaking labor. The rugged earthworks bear silent witness to the sacrifices of the thousands of Americans who marched, dug, fought, froze and died here during the war. The tide of war ebbed and waned across the South during the war, but when troops were in the South Branch, they were always "at the front."


to buy these things (such as gem stones, planks of wood etc.) from stores.
Once you have decided whether to buy them or gather them yourself, you must decide what types you are going to use. I will begin with wood. If you choose tree branches, you must decide what trees, all the same or different ones, and whether to break off live ones or dead ones. It is generally believed that dead wood provides for dead runes, but this view differs. If you choose fruit trees, you must now decide what fruit tree (apple, orange etc.) and whether to take it while the tree is still bearing fruit or not. The same applies to tree trunks (same or different; dead or alive), and bark. Obviously, if you choose to buy wood, you won't be able to use branches, or choose to get the wood from a fruit tree. Considerations with stone are whether to get all the same types or different types, whether to make sure they are all the same size and shape or different shapes and sizes, and where to gather them from (if you decide to gather them). Buying them from a store has one other consideration, and that is that they may be unnaturally polished or varnished.
Choosing a Method
You're almost ready to get started, you just need to choose how to go about making them now. There three ways to do this:
This is really just personal preference here, carving them makes it no stronger or better than painting them, just as carving and painting makes it no stronger than doing one or the other. If you've chosen stone, carving may be difficult. The best method there is using an engraving drill with a diamond bit, but even with that it may be blunted, and diamond bits are expensive. Wood and bone is a whole lot easier, so it may be better off choosing both methods.
If you choose painting, you must choose what you are going to use:
 - Type: Will it stick to my medium? Will it last?
 - Colour: Do I want to use traditional ochre red? What colour feels right?
 - Bond: Do I mix my blood in with it to bond it to me?
Making the Set
 1. First take your medium. If it needs cutting, cut it into as many segments as there are runes in your system. You should have already made up your mind as to whether or not they will be equal segments by now. It is best to cut them into small pieces (about 3cm high, 2cm wide is perfect, but it is up to you).
 2. Spread your medium out across the table and have a sheet with your rune system nearby (the best site to print a reliable list from is _URL_ Clear your mind, mutter thanks to your God(s), pray to them, toast them, whatever - so long as you acknowledge their workings in this process.
 3. Look at the first rune in your system, then carefully choose your first medium. It doesn't have to be the left most one, the right most one, the upper or lower, just choose the one you feel is right for it (this matter less if all your mediums are the same).
 a. If you not carving skip to 3b. Carve the rune into your medium. Repeat step 3 until all runes in your set have been carved.
 b. If you are not painting skip to 4. Depending on the size of your mediums, it is best to use a thin brush. Paint the rune on your medium. Repeat step 3 until all runes in your set have been painted.
 4. If you did not paint, skip to step 5. Leave the runes to dry (time will vary depending what you used to paint them).
 5. Put your runes in a pouch and carry them around with you for the next week. Don't allow them to be too far away from you at any time during this week. After the week they will be sufficiently bonded to you, and ready for use.
Practicing Runic Magic
As I mentioned earlier, there are two ways to practice Runic Magic, Runecasting and Runescribing. The two go hand in hand, but that does not mean you cannot specialize in one or the other. I shall now describe the practices of these seperately.
Runecasting is the practice of using runes for divination. This does not mean fortune telling, clairvoyance or seeing the future in any way. According to our religion, such a thing is impossible. However, we can analyse the occurances of the past, the happenings of the present and the possibilites of the future. This works on a deep psychological and mystical level, using religious and metaphysical concepts. The best way to explain this is with the Asatru concept of the universe and the actions we take within it.
Wyrd, roughly translated, means universe. In Asatru, the Wyrd is like a huge spider web, and we are all spiders on this web, crawling across it. Even the Gods are spiders on this web, and each movement we make - each action - send a ripple across the spider web, not only affecting us, but others around us. Yes: this does mean that we mortal men can affect the Gods, just as they can affect us. Why then do the Gods affect us so much? Well, they are much bigger spiders, and send off much bigger ripples than us.
In Asatru, fate is not a simple pre-determined destiny; fate is the path that we choose to take. Sometimes our fate will be altered as we catch the ripple of another's action, but we can always regain control of our fate and steer it back on the path that we choose. We are never in bondage, we are never controlled by anyone else, we are where we want to be. Why then, you may ask, is Ragnarok all pre-determined? Because the Gods know their fate, and they choose not to stop walking that path.
Using Runecasting with Wyrd and Fate
We cannot see the future, because the future is muteable. If someone were to tell you that tomorrow you would win a million dollars off the lottery, what happens if you choose not to buy that ticket? Do you still win? Of course not. You cannot see the future, but you can see where your path, your fate, is leading you at a given time. This is what Runecasting is about, it allows you to see what path you have taken to this point in life, what path you are currently walking, and what may happen in the future if you remain on this path. If this is a negative thing, you may choose to alter your path, alter your fate.
Thus, if you were to Runecast on a subject today, and it told you that this would lead to unhappiness, you may choose to alter your fate. If you do so choose, the next day, were you to Runecast on the same subject, it would tell you that your fate would lead to something new. Runecasting is not about seeing the future, it is about understanding your fate and guiding your fate. Of course, as I mentioned earlier, others, especially Gods, can alter your fate, but with Runecasting you can identify these changes and correct it. It may not be simple, it may not be easy, but our religion is not for the weak. You must persevere to reach your goals. Now that you understand the concepts, you may begin Runecasting.
Methods of Runecasting
There is no one way to Runecast, and Runecasters usually don't learn one and stick with it. Each method has its own strengths and weaknesses; some are better for a certain subject than others; some you will find yourself more comfortable with than others. Regardless, all should be learnt and practiced if you wish to get the most of of Runecasting. There are two types (unordered {Cast} and ordered {Layout}) and a total of eight methods.
Simple Cast
This is the simplest method, and can be used for moderately broad or simple questions. Think of a question, keep it in your mind and reach into your pouch and grab a handful of runes, then cast them onto a small white cloth. Ignore any that lay on their side or land outside of the cloth. Those facing towards you are working with you, or are currently in effect, those facing down are working against you, or are no longer in effect/not yet in effect. You must interpret these runes yourself, it is completely subjective. The meanings of the runes are important, and you must learn them well, but their meaning in relation to the question you asked must be discovered for yourself.
Norns Cast
This method calls specifically on the Norns, the three minor Godesses Urdh, Godess of the Past, Verdhandi, Godess of the Present, and Skuld, Godess of the Future (these Goddesses are not Aesir or Vanir, and are relatively obscure). This is a fairly simple method also and can only answer fairly simple questions. Close your eyes and hold your question in your mind, then draw a rune from your pouch. Do not open your eyes, and place the rune on your white cloth. Repeat another two times, then, leaving your eyes closed, choose a rune and place it to the left of your cloth, choose another and place it next to the first, then place the last next to this.
Open your eyes and look at the order you placed them in. The first rune is Urdh's,


We already showed that Iml = pl.B, which establishes the second equality in (1). As for the first, we note that by Theorem 4.2.3, E() is defined for z0 e Z. To prove the equality, we R+ note first, that by Theorem 4.2.2 there exists a stochastic measure m: M + L(E,Z') corresponding to B satisfying = E(). (Note that since Z' is the dual of a Banach space, m has values in the same space of operators as B; cf. statement (3a) of this theorem.) We shall show that m m; as both are o-additive it will suffice, as above, to prove for sets of the form M [O,z]xA, A E F. Let M = [O,z]xA, A E F; let x E E, z E Z (which is a norming subspace of (Z')'). We have = E(() = E(fIMd) (by 4.1.3) = E(1A) 0 =E(A ) =. Then, for x c E, z0 E Z = ; hence m(M) = m(M) for M = [0,z]xA. As 2 before, we conclude that m = m on all of B(R )xF. Then for X E LE(m) we have = = E(), which completes the proof of (1). Proof of (2): If Bx is separably valued for x E E, then Bx is measurable for x E E since it is weakly measurable by (ii). If B is separably valued, then B is measurable since is measurable for all x E E, z0 E Z, by (11) [6, Proposition 24, p. 106]. Proof of (4): If p is a lifting of P, we can choose B uniquely a.s. for all z; n particular, outside an evanescent set for uniquely a.s. for all z; in particular, outside an evanescent set for


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CCS Presents 12 Days of Reading and Math Challenge
Winter break is a great time to encourage students love of reading and writing at home. The activities in the 12 Days of Reading provide literacy experiences for children and their families that can be completed daily during the December 19th through January 3rd Winter Break. The activities and resources will provide children and families with opportunities to read together, have conversations about books and writing and have experiences that make the books they read come alive.
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In the 12 Days of Math, children in Kindergarten through 5th grade will have the opportunity to experience math challenges during Winter Break. These challenges are activities that children can engage in daily with family and friends. Engaging children in math discussions is an essential component of a child's mathematical learning. Not only can kids talk about math when completing the math challenges, they can discuss math concepts that are in books. When children are reading, look for ways that math is involved in the story. For example, in the Columbus Metropolitan Library Reading Challenge, when reading about a dinosaur, go outside with a family member and measure the size of the dinosaur by walking the distance. Families can engage in discussions about measuring, strategies used when measuring, and other opportunities we have to measure in our daily lives. Math is all around us, we just need to be on the lookout.


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With the development of society, there are more and more kinds of supplies that depend on electricity, and the installation of power systems is inconvenient to maintain due to long-term power supply. At the same time, due to cable aging, environmental corrosion, loosening of tightening bolts, etc., the cable joints or power equipment heat Cause safety hazards and seriously threaten the safety of people's lives and property. How to detect abnormalities early in the occurrence of dangers and avoid the occurrence of dangers has become the primary consideration of modern power managers. Due to the electrical characteristics of the power industry, common active temperature monitoring equipment often fails to achieve the effect and even causes more problems. The research and development of passive temperature monitoring systems has become the best way to monitor the current deadlock.
The fire caused by the heat of electricity and IT equipment room is shocking
The implementation method of temperature monitoring system based on RFID UHF passive chip technology is: adding a temperature sensor to the UHF RFID chip, customizing the electronic tags suitable for various environments and pasting it to the power transmission high voltage substation and medium and low voltage power distribution The surface of the key nodes of the facility that are easy to generate heat, or embedded in the conductor joint, adopts the RFID UHF reader with Android system to read the temperature data in the electronic tag in real time and analyze it, and set it according to the actual temperature value that needs to be monitored The warning line, when the temperature is higher or lower than the warning line, sound and light alarm, take pictures, and transmit the information to the cloud system to remind the power maintenance personnel to follow up.
Related application case: RFID is applied to power cabinets
Related application case: RFID used in power ring cabinet
Features of the scheme: 1. The use of passive RFID UHF electronic tags has little effect on the monitoring target and good consistency; 2. The temperature measurement stability is good, the temperature sensor chip and the RFID chip are combined into one, which prevents the latter The performance deviation in the package; 3. There is a digital ID, and each temperature monitoring label has its own EPCID, which guarantees the uniqueness among many nodes; 4. Strong anti-interference, the electronic label is specially packaged and is subject to on-site interference Small damage, and wireless transmission, has strong anti-interference ability; 5. Easy installation and debugging, the power temperature monitoring label is developed for the industry, small and durable, easy to install and debug; 6, wide temperature measurement range, strong applicability, different packages The temperature monitoring label can adapt to the use environment of -40~250℃.
Related application case: RFID applied to power connector temperature
Related application case: RFID applied to liquid temperature detection
Main applications: power industry: real-time online temperature monitoring of key nodes of high and low voltage power transmission and transformation facilities; intelligent manufacturing: process temperature monitoring of production workpiece paint, vulcanization, aging test, heating, etc.; instrumentation monitoring: high-load IT equipment status monitoring, Including IDC computer room server fever status tracking; cold chain logistics: drugs, blood, vaccines, fresh cold chain transportation, storage temperature monitoring; human body temperature monitoring: campus, enterprises and other personnel temperature monitoring.
Related solutions: electricity, high-speed rail, aircraft manufacturing, etc.
Related solutions: RFID fixed asset life cycle management


Jan Rothuizen: Why is it so quiet here?
By: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Publication date: 27 Jun 2012
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Jan Rothuizen draws a visit to the museum
Why is it so quiet here? takes you on a visit to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen through the eyes and thoughts of the artist Jan Rothuizen. Jan Rothuizen is a draughtsman. He is famous for his drawings in the daily newspaper De Volkskrant and elsewhere, in which he records his detailed observations of a particular place in words and images. Why is it so quiet here? is his first animated film.
This film is made possible by the VSB Fund, partner in education.
Jan Rothuizen
Amsterdam 1968
Producers: Bruno Felix & Femke Wolting
Line producer: Ilja Roomans
Animations: Stein Louisse, Niels van Herk
Editing: Christiaan Grammer
Sound design: Raoul Matheron


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Plush toys are beloved by children and adults alike, but they require proper maintenance to keep them in good condition. Here are some tips to help you care for your plush toys:
1.Keep the room neat,and avoid dust as little as possible, use clean, dry, soft tools to clean the surface of toys frequently.
2.Avoid sun expose for a long time, and air dry the toys inside and outside.
3.Cover the high possible worn place of parts with tape,soft wash by washing machine,sun dry,and hang out.meanwhile,slap slightly the toys,make it soft and fluffy.Find out the filling seam for large size plush toys,cut the seam thread,take out the stuffed cotton,clean the plush cover,air dry it,and refill the cotton into the plush skin,reshape,sew the seams.
4.Fetch out the batteries,any electric components,prevent water damaging as for electronic plush toy,intelligence toy.
5.Comb the fur along with one side,make the plush toy smooth and good shape.
6.Check if the stuffed cotton is clean,inferior quality filling cotton can cause harzards,spread bacteria.
7.Twist the eyes,nose,mouth,check whether they are sturdy,and comply with for the quality regulation,through the pull force test,make sure without falling off the small parts.
8.Disinfectand and clean the plush toys periodically.
9.Use the large power steam iron to press the plush skin softly repeatedly,reduce the stain and eliminate germs.
10.Washing tips,hand wash or machine wash the small toys,while dipping into 30-40℃ warm water,it is better to with neutral detergent.The cashmere detergent is suitable for long plush toys.Spot clean the big size plush toys such like giant teddy bear with small brush.
11.Do not discard the box or plastic bag when you receive the plush toys,which can be for storage with function of dustproof.In wet regions,Put the dry agent to prevent toys against moisture,Store the stuffed toys avoid overloading,deformation damage.


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From pv magazine USA
Quanex has released a new product, the SolarGain Edge Sealant, which is a rubberized sealant for PV modules to protect against degradation due to moisture. The Edge Sealant is a polyisobutylene butyl rubber adhesive with integrated desiccant that has been designed to improve longevity, durability, and power retention over time.
Quanex said the sealant can prevent moisture ingress in modules, while also protecting cells, connections, and conductive coatings. The company said it can delay loss of power over a module's lifetime by significantly delaying any degradation mechanisms activated by moisture, and that it can extend the useful life of a module by 10 to 15 years.
Quanex said emerging trends in the PV module market are driving the importance of moisture sealing. New technologies like perovskite solar cells and heterojunction (HTJ) cells have shown higher module efficiency, but they have also shown greater moisture sensitivity.
While it is commonly assumed that crystalline silicon panels are not sensitive to moisture ingress over the long term, recent testing by the company has shown SolarGain Edge Sealant's ability to provide high levels of moisture protection in c-Si panels, extending lifetime power output.
Traditional ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) encapsulants have the potential to generate acid that can sap a panel of its power, due to the corrosiveness of the acid when exposed to moisture over time. Alternative encapsulants like thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) and polyvinyl butyral (PVB) have demonstrated higher potential to resist moisture ingress versus EVA, but are considerably more expensive and difficult to handle during the assembly process.
The sealant product is backed by Quanex's 50 years of experience. Its various solutions demonstrate many of the same attributes required in solar module sealants, including UV resistance, flexibility through a wide range of temperatures, and the ability to delay the migration of moisture.
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
Timber be, according to L&M Large Glossary : Wood for the frame of a ship( as distinct from planks, cabins, gun platforms, etc.)
Planks: sawn wood 2 - 8 inches thick but at least 11 inches in width(cf. Deals), used for the outer skin and decks, mostly of Baltic or English oak, sometimes elm, beech or fir.wood be also for Planks for cooperage for pipe cask [Pipestaves]
ME for structure wooden;standing trees ;lumber timber : (shipbuilding) a wooden rib.Another term: lands (shipbuilding) framing members running fore and aft and scarf into ribs.
modern Timber be: Timber -General term applied to forests and their products.-Sawed lumber more than 4 by 4 inches in breadth and thickness (24).Glossary of Terms Used in Timber Harvesting and Forest Engineering _URL_
from the Glossaryplank(e): vi. 185 sawn wood 2-8 inches thick but at least n inches in width (cf. Deals), used for outer skin and decks of ships, mostly Baltic or English oak, sometimes elm, beech or fir
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Weathering the Storm: Adolescent Girls and Climate Change
This report calls for better integration of adolescent girls' needs in climate change adaptation and disaster risk management policies and programmes, based on interviews with girls involved in Plan's programmes in Ethiopia and Bangladesh.
The impacts of climate change are different for different populations. While inevitably children everywhere are badly affected, the report illustrates how girls, in particular, are bearing the greatest burden. The report describes how increased climate stresses are exposing a growing number of adolescent girls to very specific risks:
- more girls and women are dying during disasters
- an increasing number are enduring early and forced marriages
- more girls are being exposed to sexual violence and the curtailment of their education.
The girls were clear on where they felt that policy priorities should be targeted. They want:
- greater access to quality education where they can learn skills to improve their adaptive capacity
- greater protection from violence, especially early forced marriage, sexual violence and forced labour
- they want their concerns to be heard and acted upon by policy makers.


Can a Regulatory Budget Trim Red Tape?
| Aug 28, 2013 | Opinion
The idea of a regulatory budget has been around for decades. Unfortunately, given the current political environment, the idea of placing a budgetary cap on the overall costs of regulation will likely remain for some time just an idea that regulatory scholars will continue to debate without any practical results. However, a more achievable goal would be to adopt a modified regulatory budget that targets government paperwork requirements. Such a paperwork budget could reduce red tape while leaving current health protections unchanged, thereby generating bipartisan support.
Unlike total regulatory costs and benefits in our economy, we already have a tally of the active collections of information and the total amount of time it takes annually to complete federal paperwork. Although the figure changes daily, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) reports approximately 9,100 collections of information (essentially government forms) and more than 10.3 billion hours of paperwork.
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If trimming this large burden seems impossible, it isn't. While the overall trend has been toward more paperwork throughout the years, the accompanying graph does show that there have been deceases at times. (Because Treasury is 75 percent of all paperwork, any single tax collection can drastically affect total numbers; the graph therefore displays collections of information without Treasury, better demonstrating the growth rate of typical regulatory agencies – and the possibility of reductions.)
A paperwork budget could be set up to function much like the United Kingdom's "one-in, one-out" system for regulation, which recently expanded to "one-in, two-out." A U.S. version of "one-in, one-out" for paperwork would cap the overall number of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) paperwork approvals and the overall number of hours associated with them.
The budget would operate by agency. For instance, if the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) wanted to require an additional form, it would have to consolidate or eliminate one of its nearly 1,200 existing forms and ensure the resulting swap would not increase its current 644 million hour paperwork burden.
HHS provides an example of the explosive growth of paperwork—but it also illustrates the feasibility of restraining paperwork. The agency's total paperwork burdens grew fourfold since 1995. But in 2008 and 2011, the agency did reduce its total burden. In 2012, HHS also finalized a rule to save hospitals $940 million annually by cutting paperwork requirements.
A paperwork budget, of course, would not solve every perceived regulatory problem, but it would reduce the red tape that most citizens and businesses encounter. It would also achieve cost-savings without reducing current health and safety protections. Assuming an hour of regulatory paperwork time is worth $31.23 (the median wage for a regulatory compliance officer), a 100 million hour reduction could save $3.1 billion.
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If 100 million hours sounds fanciful, the Department of Transportation (DOT) just proposed to eliminate 46.7 million hours of compliance time, roughly 15 percent of its overall budget. That's just one rule from one agency. Last year the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed to merge several existing collections to eliminate 8.4 million hours of paperwork, or 21 percent of the Bureau's total.
The goal of a paperwork budget would be to give teeth to the "Paperwork Reduction Act." Instead of just tracking paperwork, agencies would be compelled to keep their burdens neutral. The returns could be tremendous. In FY 2011, the government added 355 million hours of paperwork burdens. An effective budget would have prevented this expansion and saved $11.8 billion (again assuming a cost of $31.23 an hour). To put that in perspective, OIRA has reported high-end costs of $12 billion in FY 2010 for all the major rules it reviewed.
Although a comprehensive regulatory budget is likely a non-starter politically, a paperwork budget could garner bipartisan support because it will save time and money while doing nothing to alter fundamental health and safety protections. Of course, if in the end Congress cannot pass such a reform, the President could still issue an executive order implementing a paperwork budget for cabinet-level agencies.
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skin tone meaning, skin tone definition | English Cobuild dictionary
 ( skins plural & 3rd person present) ( skinning present participle) ( skinned past tense & past participle )
1 n-var Your skin is the natural covering of your body.
His skin is clear and smooth..., There are three major types of skin cancer..., The only difference between us is the colour of our skins.
2 n-var An animal skin is skin which has been removed from a dead animal. Skins are used to make things such as coats and rugs.
usu supp N
That was real crocodile skin.
3 n-var The skin of a fruit or vegetable is its outer layer or covering.
The outer skin of the orange is called the 'zest'.,...banana skins.
4 n-sing If a skin forms on the surface of a liquid, a thin, fairly solid layer forms on it.
Stir the custard occasionally to prevent a skin forming.
5 verb If you skin a dead animal, you remove its skin.
...with the expertise of a chef skinning a rabbit. V n
 banana skin
7 If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you just manage to do it.
by the skin of one's teeth phrase PHR with cl
He won, but only by the skin of his teeth.
8 If you say that someone has a thick skin, you mean that they are able to listen to criticism about themselves without becoming offended.
a thick skin phrase N inflects, usu v PHR
You need a thick skin to be a headmaster.
 to make your skin crawl
banana skin ( banana skins plural )
1 n-count The thick yellow or green covering of a banana is called a banana skin.
in AM, use banana peel
2 n-count If an important or famous person slips on a banana skin, they say or do something that makes them look stupid and causes them problems.
 (mainly BRIT, JOURNALISM)
...waiting for the government to slip on this week's banana skin.
in AM, use banana peel
skin care , skincare
Skin care involves keeping your skin clean, healthy-looking, and attractive. n-uncount oft N n
...a unique range of natural skincare products.
skin deep , skin-deep
Something that is only skin deep is not a major or important feature of something, although it may appear to be. adj usu v-link ADJ
Beauty is only skin deep...
skin-tight , skintight
Skin-tight clothes fit very tightly so that they show the shape of your body. adj usu ADJ n
...the youth with the slicked down hair and skin-tight trousers.
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caressing someone by touching his/her skin with the eyelashes
crust; epicarp; husk; integument; outer layer; peel; skin
a round and sweet fruit with pale, orange-colored skin that comes from a tree of the same name
agneau en peau de tigre craint encore le loup
c'est le ton qui fait la chanson
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Definition - What does Macronutrients mean?
In cannabis cultivation, macronutrients refers to the three plant nutrients that the marijuana plants require in much higher doses (quantities) than micronutrients.
There are three macronutrients, which are sometimes referred to as primary macronutrients, are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Their chemical elements, N, P, and K, are often expressed on fertilizer and nutrient packages as the product's N-P-K value.
In addition to the three primary macronutrients cannabis requires, there are three secondary macronutrients that are required (in lesser quantities than primary macronutrients, but still higher amounts than micronutrients). The secondary macronutrients are calcium, magnesium, and sulfur. Many plant scientists believe silicon to be a secondary macronutrient as well.
Hydrolife explains Macronutrients
In doesn't matter what strain of cannabis one is growing, all types of cannabis require the same quantities of macronutrients.
Each macronutrient has a particular benefit or function in the garden. For example, nitrogen is essential for building proteins and producing carbohydrates; it is also essential for plant cell division (growth). Phosphorus helps with root growth, seed formation, and plant maturity. Finally, potassium is important for disease resistance and boosting flowering.
As for the secondary macronutrients, sulfur helps develop vitamins, aids in seed production, and is important for forming amino acids. Magnesium is the key to chlorophyll production and helps plants to take in phosphorus and iron. Calcium helps in respiration and cell division, while silicon is said to strength plant cell walls.
Cannabis plants are considered hungry plants; they need a constant supply of nutrients practically at all times. They key to successful cultivation is matching your plant's feeding schedule with their stage of growth. For example, seedlings require a lot less nutrients than larger adult plants preparing to set flowers.
While not as essential to plant growth as macronutrients, there are micronutrients cannabis plants require as well. They include chlorine, molybdenum, copper, iron, manganese, zinc, and boron.


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Azimuthally Differential Pion Femtoscopy in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV
ALICE Collaboration. (2017). Azimuthally Differential Pion Femtoscopy in Pb-Pb Collisions at √sNN = 2.76 TeV. Physical Review Letters, 118 (22), 222301. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.222301
Published inPhysical Review Letters
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© 2017 CERN, for the ALICE Collaboration. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
We present the first azimuthally differential measurements of the pion source size relative to the second harmonic event plane in Pb-Pb collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon-nucleon pair of √ s N N = 2.76 TeV. The measurements have been performed in the centrality range 0%–50% and for pion pair transverse momenta 0.2 < k T < 0.7 GeV / c. We find that the R side and R out radii, which characterize the pion source size in the directions perpendicular and parallel to the pion transverse momentum, oscillate out of phase, similar to what was observed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The final-state source eccentricity, estimated via R side oscillations, is found to be significantly smaller than the initial-state source eccentricity, but remains positive—indicating that even after a stronger expansion in the in-plane direction, the pion source at the freeze-out is still elongated in the out-of-plane direction. The 3 + 1 D hydrodynamic calculations are in qualitative agreement with observed centrality and transverse momentum R side oscillations, but systematically underestimate the oscillation magnitude....


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Astronomy - Why Marathons' Skies Are So Special!
Marathon is a Scale 1 on the Bortle Light Pollution Scale. What does that mean? It's dark! As a matter of fact, as dark as it gets without going to space!
Bortle Scale 1 properties:
Title:Excellent dark-sky site
Naked-eye limiting magnitude:7.6 - 8.0
Stellar limiting magnitude (with 12.5" reflector):17.5
- the Zodiacal light (sunlight reflecting off space dust and comet debris after sunset) is visible
- the gegenschein is visible
- the zodiacal band is visible
- M33 is a direct vision naked-eye object
- Scorpius and Sagittarius regions of the Milky Way cast obvious shadows on the ground
- airglow is readily visible
- Jupiter and Venus affect dark adaptation
- surroundings are basically invisible.
Southwest Texas Light Pollution Map:
NOAA Water Vapor (Updated every 30 minutes) - Courtesy of NOAA.GOV:
Marathon Clear Sky Chart:
Current Weather in Marathon, Texas


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ADDING IN TELLAGMI/CHATTERPIX TO YOUR GOOGLE SLIDES PRESENTATION
Creating a tellagmi or chatterpix
To SPICE UP your Google Slideshow you can create a Tellagami or Chatterpix to add in.
INSERTING TELLAGMI OR CHATTERPIX INTO SLIDES
1. Save the video from either application to your camera roll
2. Upload the video to your Google Drive
3. Rename the video: YOUR LAST NAME, DESCRIPTION (Sloan, Lincoln Chatterpix)
4. Move the video to the Google Folder shared with you (Homeroom Teacher, SS Videos)
5. Go to the Google Shared Folder and find your video. Select "GET LINK". This will automatically copy the link to your iPad.
You may either insert the link as text or link the video to an image in your slideshow.


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How To Resolve QuickBooks Error 1625
QuickBooks Error 1625 usually Occurs when the user tries to access the tool or feature that the user with admin rights can access.
It is very important to have Admin Credentials:
- When the program is not refreshed due to the presence of the Windows Installer Framework.
- The corrupted or damaged download of the Windows Installer
- When Windows Registry is not installed properly or found corrupted after installation.
- The functioning has been interrupted by the presence of any virus or malware.
- When the interference of some other program takes place that erases the record.
Causes Of QuickBooks Error 1625
- If you are not signed in your system as administrator.
- The system's Windows Installer framework is keeping you from refreshed programming.
- A virus or malware has entered your system and corrupted the Windows framework records or other programs related to Windows Installer.
- If you have seen a corrupt download or error in Windows Installer programming.
Steps To Fix The QuickBooks Error 1625
Perform the solutions given below for fixing the QuickBooks Error 1625 or get in touch with the QuickBooks Tech Support Department for instant assistance. Be extra careful while applying the steps as even a tiny mistake can cost you a lot.
- Hit Windows+R keys on your keyboard simultaneously to open the Run dialogue box.
- Now, click on the text field in front of Open and type Hit Enter on your keyboard.
- Take a look at the Local Computer Policy.
- Moving forward, open the Computer Configuration.
- Tap in the Administrative templates option and then head to Windows Components.
- Tap on the Windows Installer
- Tap on the Prohibit non-administrators button in the Applying Vendor-signed Updates window.
- Tap on the Disabled button and then choose OK to complete the process.
- Now, go back and reopen your QuickBooks to check if this solution got rid of QB Error 1625. In case you are still facing this error then try the next solution.
- To start the process, firstly, open the Start menu.
- Tap on the search field and type MSCONFIG.
- Hit the Enter key on your keyboard.
- Tap on the Continue button in the UAC tab.
- Head to Tools then Highlight Change UAC Settings
- Hit the Launch
- Select Never Notify.
- Go back to your QB and check if the error 1625 still pops-up on your desktop screen. If it does then either try the next solution or get in touch with our QuickBooks Support Team.
- To start the troubleshooting process, open the Control Panel, and click on Administrative Tools.
- Now, open Local Security Settings.
- Moving forward, tap on the Software Restriction Policies
- Go through the details to make sure if any software is restricted or not.
- Tap on the New Software Restriction Policy
- Choose Enforcement
- Now, you have to choose All Users with the exception of Local Administrator.
- Click on the OK button.
- Reboot your desktop to roll out the changes and check if the solution has resolved the QuickBooks Error Code 1625 or not.


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In the evolving world of design, Figma has emerged as a powerhouse. With its collaborative capabilities and robust features, it's no surprise that Figma has become the go-to tool for many web designers. However, due to some limitations of the tool, designers often find themselves creating artworks outside of Figma, typically in software like Adobe Illustrator CC or Affinity Designer. This then requires the artwork to be imported back into Figma, making the seamless compatibility of these platforms crucial.
Round 01: Vector Objects with Gradient Color
The process of transferring vector objects adorned with gradient colors across these platforms is straightforward and accurate. Whether moving from Adobe Illustrator CC to Affinity Designer or Figma, the fidelity of the gradients, including the color codes, is impeccably maintained. Similarly, Affinity Designer proves its compatibility with Figma in this regard.
However, an interesting observation is the difference in layer complexity when importing from Adobe Illustrator CC and Affinity Designer into Figma. It seems that Affinity Designer tends to generate slightly more intricate layer structures.
Round 02: Live Text
When it comes to live text, Adobe Illustrator CC and Affinity Designer have proved to be compatible. However, if you're copying live text from Adobe Illustrator CC to Figma, the text converts into a bitmap image, making it uneditable in Figma. Conversely, copying live text from Affinity Designer to Figma poses no such issue.
Round 03: Stroke with Different Weights
The compatibility of stroke weights across these platforms is excellent. Whether you're copying and pasting from Adobe Illustrator CC to Affinity Designer or Figma, or from Affinity Designer to Figma, the color and stroke weight remain exactly the same.
Important Points to Note
Unfortunately, it's currently not possible to copy anything from Figma to Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer. This is a limitation that hopefully will be addressed in future updates.
The compatibility between Figma, Adobe Illustrator CC, and Affinity Designer plays a significant role in the design process, and understanding these nuances can aid in a smoother, more efficient workflow. With continuous software updates and improvements, we can look forward to even more seamless design collaborations in the future.


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The spectacular Grand Hall offers an introduction to the history, cultures and beliefs of the First Peoples of Canada's Pacific Coast. With its curving, six-storey window wall and unrivalled view of Parliament Hill, the Grand Hall is one of the country's most impressive indoor public spaces and the Museum's architectural centrepiece.
Visitors will discover six iconic Native houses connected by a Pacific Coast shoreline and boardwalk, magnificent totem poles, the original plaster pattern for Spirit of Haida Gwaii by celebrated Haida artist Bill Reid, and Raven Bringing Light to the World, a gold-on-bronze sculpture by Robert Davidson.
Behind the house facades and boardwalk are two exhibitions: First Peoples of the Northwest Coast and From Time Immemorial – Tsimshian Prehistory.
First Peoples of the Northwest Coast offers a fascinating look at this renowned culture — a culture that is firmly rooted in history, but continues to thrive and evolve in the 21st century. Recently redesigned, the exhibition is organized by themes and offers a selection of historic and contemporary artifacts from the Museum's pre-eminent collection.
From Time Immemorial – Tsimshian Prehistory reproduces the archaeological excavations carried out from 1966 to 1978 in the Prince Rupert region of British Columbia. In an ancient forest setting, the exhibition presents the way of life of the Tsimshian nation in prehistoric times and the role of the archaeologist in bringing the past to light.
Top left: Grand Hall
CMC, photo Steven Darby, IMG2009-0096-0003-Dm
Top right: Spirit of Haida Gwaii by Bill Reid
CMC, photo Steven Darby, IMG2009-0111-0001-Dm
Bottom left: Raven Bringing Light to the World by Robert Davidson
CMC, photo Harry Foster, S89-1738
Bottom right: Morning Star by Alex Janvier
CMC, photo Steven Darby, IMG2010-0133-0004-Dm


Photos, images, and video can be added — easily and productively — to any iWork for iPad document. There are two ways to insert photos and video into an iWork document: Use the Insert button at the right of the toolbar or use a template that includes a placeholder image. Because using a template with a placeholder image requires one more step than the Insert button, that's the technique described here.
Create a document based on a template that includes a placeholder image.
Some templates have several placeholder images on various pages, slides, or spreadsheets. Notice in the lower-right corner of the image that there's a button that matches the Insert button on the right side of the toolbar. This indicates that the image is a placeholder.
Tap the placeholder button to open a list of your photo albums.
You can browse photos you have saved on your iPad as well as albums you have created in iPhoto and synchronized to your iPad. Select the image you want to use instead of the placeholder.
Double-tap the image to show the masking control.
The masking control lets you resize the image.
Adjust the slider to change the image mask.
The slider adjusts the size of the image. It starts being the same size as the frame, but if you move it all the way to the right, the image is shown dimly filling the entire screen. You can drag the image around so that the part you want is inside the frame. You can also use the eight handles on the frame to change its size and shape.


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Background: In schools, a major obstacle to drawing on emergent bilingual students' knowledge and skills in their first language is a widespread lack of awareness about language use among adolescent English learners, including how peer talk can connect knowledge and abilities in both languages to school-based learning. Although research often acknowledges the importance of engaging students' home language and culture to bridge to academic literacies in English, few have explicitly examined bilingual peer talk as a resource for language learning during adolescence.
Purpose: This study explores how emergent bilinguals engaged multiple linguistic codes to scaffold their own academic language development with peer support.
Research Design: Ethnography and discourse analysis of student interactions were used to contextualize and analyze the academic language use of four Spanish-speaking adolescent immigrant students, taking into account the affordances of classroom discourse structures and peer talk.
Conclusions: The study describes the linguistic resources available to Spanish-speaking adolescent immigrant students through their peers and shows that emergent bilingual youth used academic language in both Spanish and English most frequently—and in more elaborated interactions—while off-task or in less supervised spaces. Classroom discourse structures often limited student participation, particularly when students used nonstandard linguistic codes.


To explore 'being' verbs
In this lesson, children will be given a definition of 'being' verbs. First, they will identify the forms of the verb 'to be' in sentences. Then, they will look at plural and singular forms of the verb 'to be'. After that, they will look at past/present tense forms of the verb 'to be' and finally, they will complete a task where they need to choose the correct verb for each sentence.
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Motivation Letter Example: Bachelor of Science in Mathematics. While, Motivation Letter Examples are presented by Ask Scholars. So, For more Examples, Just subscribe to our Blog and you will not miss all important notifications.
A Motivation letter is an important document for students who want to apply for admission to any course. Many universities ask for a Motivation letter along with other documents.
Difference between BA Mathematics & BS Mathematics:
The Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics provides a strong general mathematics background while still allowing students to create a program tailored to their interests. This is extremely useful for students pursuing careers in teaching or in the actuarial profession. Because the BA in Mathematics degree offers more free electives, students who are interested in another field of study are able to pursue a second major.
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The code samples are from our headless and UI sample applications. They show you how to use the Push Service APIs of the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK to do the following:
- Create a PushService object so that your application can create a push session and perform push-related operations. The push session is required to establish communication with the PNS agent. The PNS agent is a software component that maintains a connection with the PPG, and forwards push notifications that it receives from the PPG to the appropriate application instance.
- Start running your headless application in the background if it isn't already running when a push message arrives.
- Create a push channel to the PPG and subscribe with the Push Initiator. The Push Initiator uses the push channel to send push notifications to our sample application.
- Receive a push message.
- Acknowledge the receipt of a push message.
- Handle notifications in the BlackBerry Hub.
- Destroy a push channel and unsubscribe from the Push Initiator.
- Automatically detect a changed SIM card and stop receiving push messages on the device.
- Handle a push transport error and a PPG server error.
- Handle a lost connection with the PNS agent.
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« Volume 3, Nomor 1,April 2014
PENERAPAN METODE COOPERATIVE LEARNING TIPE STAD UNTUK MENINGKATKAN KETERAMPILAN SOSIAL SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SEJARAHDinan Afifah Firdaus
AbstrakKata kunci : Keyword: Cooperative Learning, STAD, social skill, action research method
This research begins with a problem that occurs in XI IPS 3 SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung. Based on the observation that the social skill of the students in XI IPS 3 on the learning of history is still relatively low. To solve the problem, researcher use action research method by Kemmis & Taggart model. The main problem in this research is "How the application of Cooperative Learning method STAD type to enhance student's social skill in the learning of history in XI IPS 3 SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung?". So the problem is not widespread,researcher focusused into four questions, 1) How teacher plans learning of History by appliying cooperative learning method STAD type to enhance social skill of students in XI IPS 3 SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung?, 2) How is developing steps of the application cooperative learning method STAD type to enhance social skill of students in XI IPS 3 SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung? 3) How the result of student's social skill enhancement role in the learning of History by applying cooperative larning method STAD type in XI IPS 3 SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung? 4) How the solution to face dificulity when applying cooperative learning method STAD type to enhance social skill of students in XI IPS 3 SMA Pasundan 1 Bandung? Based on the research for four cycles, can be obtained from the data that the application of cooperative learning method STAD type can increase student's social skill in XI IPS 3 succesfully. But, at 2nd cycle to 3rd do not change at all. Researcher then change the member of the group, so that aspect of social skill increase. Salient aspect of social skill in every cycle is search, select, and process information skill. Students are able to filter out information relate to the material before using it in doing worksheet. Expected for the next researcher to constantly form new group in the STAD at about 2-3 SAD period in order to increase students'social skill well.
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"The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business. The purpose is to facilitate unambiguous electronic communication of quantities together with their units. The focus is on electronic communication, as opposed to communication between humans. A typical application of The Unified Code for Units of Measure are electronic data interchange (EDI) protocols, but there is nothing that prevents it from being used in other types of machine communication."
The National Library of Medicine provides several resources for working with UCUM:
- Online validation & conversion of UCUM units. Users can enter UCUM expressions on the page and validate them or convert them to other expressions.
- Batch validation of UCUM units. Users can submit a CSV (a spreadsheet format) file with a column of UCUM unit expressions, and the validator will return another CSV file with the addition of a column that reports on the validity of each unit expression.
- Examples of commonly used UCUM codes. This document is based on real-world usage of UCUM in data from Intermountain Healthcare.
- Validation and Conversion: A web service for validating and convertng UCUM units, and also for obtaining base unit information.
- Autocompletion and searching: A web service for searching the UCUM unit data. Includes synonomy.
- ucum-lhc: A library providing APIs for validating and converting UCUM units as a downloadable package. Includes a suggestion feature for incorrectly typed units.


Maze Master Games
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Print Customized Trivia
Corn mazes are lots of fun, but if all you do is wander for an hour looking for the exit they can get a little boring. With trivia, your maze adventure can be more fun. Plus, you can have an adventure that is specifically tailored to your group. Here's how trivia works.
Trivia Card
 1. Let's say you already have your trivia card. You arrive at the corn maze and begin walking through. Scattered throughout the maze are checkpoints. You come to the first checkpoint which is a sign with a #1.
 2. Now, you need to look at your maze trivia card. Read question #1 on your card along with the possible answers.
 3. Select what you think the correct answer is, and go in that direction. If you are right, you will be headed towards the next checkpoint. But if you are wrong, you might be headed towards a dead end or completely in the wrong direction.
 4. Once you find the next checkpoint, you will read that question and continue through the rest of the corn maze.
Your Trivia for Your Group
Trivia Setup
Wouldn't it be great if the trivia questions were specially written for your group? Now, Maze Master Trivia lets you fully customize your maze experience when you write you own questions for your group. Whether you are a school, church group, scouts, company, or any other type of group, you can easily write your own questions. Just fill out an online form, print, and bring copies for your group.
 1. Fill in the form online with your very own questions,right and wrong answers. Or, select from more than 60 pre-made categories.
 2. Let the Maze Master automatically make your card with all the right answers heading the correct way in the maze. Just click 'Go' and like magic your card is made.
 3. Hit print and bring a copy for each person in your group. No downloading and no special software needed!
In-Maze Smartphone Games
Trivia Card
Bring along your smartphone for the most advanced smartphone experience and play along with a variety of smartphone based maze games!
Smartphone Trivia Cards
Stop being stuck to choosing from only a few categories of preprinted trivia questions when you visit a corn maze. Now, use your smartphone to get access to more than 60 categories right on your phone so that you always play with a category you like. Trivia is now integrated with your smartphone punch card to give you the entire experience all at once.
Smartphone Checkpoint Punch Cards
Skip that paper punch card and play the interactive QR Checkpoint Hunt. Try to find the hidden checkpoints in the maze and keep track on your digital punch card.
Sample Maze Sign
 1. Start Game: Visit or scan a QR code at the maze entrance to get started. You digital punch card will be activated and loaded right in your web browser. No need to download any apps! Why?
 2. Digital Punch: At each checkpoint in the maze you will find a QR code. Scan it with your favorite QR scanner app, or simply type a 5 digit code into the game box in your web browser. Your code will automatically be marked off.
 3. Maze Success: Once you find all the checkpoints, find the exit and you will then be entered in a contest, get a special coupon from the farm, or even get the chance to compare your maze time to other visitors!
Phone Map
Digital Maze Maps
What happens if your navigation skills just are not quite what you thought they would be? It might be time to check your map. Now you can get your map right on your phone to help you along the way. Even if you think you can dominate the maze without it, you will always have peace of mind knowing that it is there just in case.
Please note that some options are not available at every farm. Check with your favorite farm for more details.
Smartphone Maze GPS
Phone Map
Possibly the coolest advancement in corn mazes since those first paths were cut more than 20 years ago, Smartphone GPS is here. Turn your phone into a fully functioning GPS map of the maze that shows your exact position. While we will not give you turn-by-turn directions to take all the fun out of the maze, you can choose from one of 10 fun characters to see your progress.
Will GPS ruin the challenge?
Every visitor has a different level of comfort entering a corn maze. Some visitors pride themselves on never using a map to get out while other visitors will never enter a maze with fear of being lost forever. With maze GPS you can have a backup or full control.
 - Check your position at any time when you need a little help getting relocated.
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 - If you want the corn maze experience but fear getting lost forever, use your GPS to track your instant progress continually.
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 - Are you someone who dominates corn mazes? We won't tell if you try out the GPS just for a minute because face it, it's really cool.
While the GPS feature like our other smartphone features are specifically designed for mobile use and data, please note that GPS features inherently use more device data and battery. Use is typically comparable to use of other smartphone GPS navigation uses.
GPS accuracy can vary by device and is only is as accurate as your device's hardware. Some iOS devices are known to have only approximate accuracy (25 ft+).
Smartphone GPS is not intended as an emergency safety device. Always follow local maze rules, and know how to exit a maze safely without relying on technology.
Please note that Smartphone GPS is not available at every farm. Check with your favorite farm for more details.
While most visitors just want to play the game, we do want to explain to all our tech geek users out there why we use a web app vs. a native app. Just in case you are interested in our reasoning, read on.
Web apps vs. Native Apps
Apps for your phone or tablet are divided into two categories:
Our App is a Web App
Web apps sometimes get a bad reputation because they are viewed as not having as many features, but sometimes there are many other advantages. Here's why were choose our maze games to be web based:
 1. Device Independent: You can access our games from any device with a web browser. While we test on the most popular iOS and Android devices, you should be able to play from any device with a web browser such as Windows 8, Palm, Blackberry, Kindle, Nook, or even a desktop computer.
 2. One Time Use: Chances are you will only be using our app for a single day while you visit the maze. Why download a big app that you will only delete a few hours later or forget to delete at all? Even if you did save it for next year, chances are you would need to update then anyway.
 3. Fast Start and Easy to Use: While you might be awesome with your phone, believe it or not there are tons of smartphone users that do not really understand how to download an app (we were surprised too, but our testing confirmed this). With a web app there is no searching in app stores for the right app, and you can start the game as fast as you can open your web browser and type a short address.
 4. Always Current: Corn maze season is short. If we catch an error in the programming we can make any changes immediately for all users. If we used a native app it might take days for these fixes to appear in the app store for certain devices.
But, but, a Native App can...
Ok, we know there are a few cool things that a native app could do. Our biggest sacrifice is that we are unable to provide an integrated QR code scanner right within our web app. Hopefully in the next few years HTML5 or HTML6 will provide support in our web browsers for our device's cameras much like the GPS is supported today. But for now, you can either manually type a 5 digit code at each checkpoint or download any QR reader from your device's app store. Many QR readers are free in most stores. If you really want a built in QR scanner, you could try downloading a QR addon for your mobile browser if that option exists on your device.
While we know a large number of apps benefit from being native, we think you will find that our web app is the best choice for this unique type of app. Enjoy!


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Wisconsin honors Hoard
Wisconsin honors Hoard
Sunday, October 10, 2010, marked the first official observance of W. D. Hoard Day in the State of Wisconsin. Although this is the first official recognition of W.D. Hoard Day, in reality, Wisconsin residents have been observing this holiday for many decades as dairy continues to be a major economic driver in the Badger state's economy. Agriculture accounts for 12.5 percent of the state's economy, representing $59.16 billion and dairy accounts for $26.5 billion of that total or nearly 45 percent of agriculture's economic activity.
"Governor Hoard was a great champion of our dairy industry, and his hard work helped make Wisconsin the dairy leader it is today," said Governor Jim Doyle. "I am proud to sign this bill into law to establish Governor Hoard's birthday as a holiday," Doyle said at the bill signing earlier this year.
William Dempster Hoard was born in Stockbridge, N.Y., October 10, 1836, and he migrated to Wisconsin in 1857. An admirer of Lincoln, he traveled far to hear him debate and was among the first in his community to respond to Lincoln's call for troops in 1861. After joining the 4th Wisconsin Infantry (later cavalry), he was stricken with break-bone fever in 1862 and was forced to leave the service but re-enlisted in 1864 and served through to the end of the Civil War.
After several minor business ventures, he launched a weekly newspaper, the Jefferson County Union, at Lake Mills, in 1870. Three years later, he moved to Fort Atkinson where the newspaper has since been published. One year later, in order to combat the depletion and erosion of soil resources brought about by a one-crop system of agriculture, W. D. Hoard founded the first dairymen's association in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. One year later, he led the "seven wise men" in founding the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association. Through it the dairy industry became the backbone of a permanent, soil-building and conserving type of agriculture.
In 1873, W.D. Hoard secured a reduction in freight rates and obtained the first refrigerator car ever to ship Wisconsin cheese to eastern markets. And Wisconsin has been shipping cheese out of state ever since with 90 percent of Wisconsin's milk being turned into cheese to this very day.
In 1885, his crusading for a prosperous, soil-building agriculture prompted the founding of Hoard's Dairyman, the national dairy farm magazine. His qualities of leadership were quickly recognized by his state and the nation.
Upon being elected Governor of Wisconsin in 1888, he pioneered in the fight against food adulteration which was commonplace throughout the nation. The nation's first Dairy and Food Commission, which he created, became a defender in the public interest against the rapidly spreading malignancy of misbranding and adulteration of human food.


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This very bright "localized" sundog was formed in ice fog among trees along the Bow River in Calgary on a very cold winter day recently. The remarkable feature of this sundog is that trees are profiled against it. The equivalent sundog on the opposite side of the Sun was almost as bright. These sundogs varied in brightness as ice-fog density varied. Individual ice crystals show up as transient bright points.
Author: Alan Clark, Canada


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History of Annuities
Reviews the evolution of annuities. This article starts with the earliest annuities, in Roman times, and takes you up to their use in the Great Depression.
Annuity and Insurance Advertisements
Highlights the early use of direct mail advertising for annuities and insurance in 1840s England, with examples of rare Mulready lettersheets and envelopes.
Annuity Certificates of the Bank of England
Presents a concise history of Bank of England annuities, a special type of government bond issued from the late 1600s through 1888 to finance wars, stipends for royalty, and major public projects.


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Energy Industry Skill StandardsThe goal of the Energy Industry Skill Standards Project is to specify the critical work functions, key activities, performance indicators and knowledge, skills, and abilities an individual needs to succeed in certain energy-related occupations. The result of this project will support the development of new curriculum and the strengthening of existing curriculum in programs leading to certain careers in the energy industry.
Power Generation Skill StandardsThe Power Generation Skill Standards were made available by the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board for Industry Skill Panels. For more information or to download the complete manual, go to the Washington State Skill Standards Energy Industry Web site.
Wind Technician Skill StandardsSkills Standards for Wind Turbine Technicians (2009) | pdf
Skill Panel Publications
- Evaluating Industry Skill Panels: a Model Framework
(June 2008) | pdf
What is a skill panel?A skill panel is a group of skilled workers who have in-depth knowledge of the hands-on skills required to perform the job tasks in a technical position. The skills required to perform the job tasks are identified by the skill panel as the skill standards.
How are skill standards used?
- Industry: Recruiting, hiring, training and promoting employees
- Incumbent Workforce: Advancing careers and/or reentering the workforce
- Future Workforce/Students: Understanding and acquiring skills needed to attain high wage jobs
- Labor: Ensuring employees benefit from high paying career opportunities
- Government: Linking education reform initiatives, workforce training and economic development
- Educators and Trainers: Developing curriculum and teaching to the required skills sets
Have skill standards been developed for the energy industry?Yes, Walla Walla Community College developed skill standards with industry support for the following positions:
- Instrument/Control/Relay/Meter Technician
Skill Standards for the Energy Industry-2006 ProjectAlan Hardcastle, WSU Research Analyst
Skills Standards for Operators and MechanicsSkill Standards are the industry-defined skills, knowledge and abilities required for individuals to succeed in the workplace. The standards specify what students, job seekers and current employees must know and be able to do within a particular industry and occupation, including the required levels of performance.
The standards can be used by colleges, high schools and training organizations to make sure that their programs are up-to-date, to attract students to careers in the industry, and to ensure that students and workers get high quality training. The standards can also be used as the basis for awarding college credit for prior learning. Employers and Labor can use the results to better understand the foundational skills workers need to do their jobs effectively, to design or improve training programs, and as a precursor to existing programs like apprenticeship.
Who Participates? Employees are the ExpertsSkill standards are defined through focus groups of employees who actually work in the occupations being studied. The focus groups will consist of 12 front-line employees who represent similar kinds of occupations, from many different companies and energy sectors (hyrdo, thermal). The group may also contain managers or other knowledgeable persons with extensive, current knowledge about those occupations.
How Industry Can Contribute - Recruiting ParticipantsOur goal is to recruit 12 participants for each two-day focus group meeting: one group for operators, and one for mechanics. We need employers and labor partners to identify and support employees to participate in the meetings. It is imperative that we have an adequate number of knowledgeable employees from each occupation participate so the standards will be valid for the industry. Each 12-person focus group should have a roughly equal number of participants from each sector: Hydro and thermal. We also want employees from many different organizations to ensure that a range of work environments is represented.
Responding to Surveys: Written surveys will be used to supplement data collection from industry about foundation skills required for these occupations.
The ProcessThe focus group meeting will last two consecutive days. A facilitator with experience in developing skill standards leads the meeting. There is a set agenda, but the format is very interactive and discussion-based. Getting input from all participants about their work functions, activities, knowledge and skills is one key goal. Reaching agreement about the scope and content of the information is another. The process includes fast-paced and intensive discussions about work functions, activities and skills, but it is also a fun and rewarding experience for participants. Draft copies of the standards will be reviewed by industry before a final document is produced this summer.
Questions and ContactsBarbara Hins-Turner
Pacific Northwest Center of Excellence for Clean Energy
600 Centralia College Blvd
Centralia WA 98531
_PHONE_, ext. 477


What is the meaning of Rayfield?
Rayfield \ray-fiel(d), ra-yfie-ld\ is a boy's name. It consists of 8 letters and 2 syllables.
The baby boy name Rayfield is pronounced REYFIYLD (*). Rayfield is of English origin. The name's meaning is'stream in the field'. A variant transcription of Rayfield is Rayfeld.
The name Rayfield in reverse order is "Dleifyar".
(*) English pronunciation for Rayfield: R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; F as in "fee (F.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)"
List of baby names Rayfield:
Rayfeld and Roosvelt.
The baby name Rayfield fun facts:
The numerological value of the name Rayfield is number 8.
Number 8
English is origin of the name Rayfield
English is origin of the name Rayfield


English version
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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flowerpotflow‧er‧pot /ˈflaʊəpɒt $ -ərpɑːt/ noun [countable] flowerpot.jpg DLGa plastic or clay pot in which you grow plants
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flowerpotIt had shutters and a flowerpot on a fake sill painted right on it.The key, here, was not kept under a flowerpot or stone but in a more foolproof and elaborate hiding-place.These pieces can also be cultivated in flowerpots where they develop very well if lighted properly.Although growing well under water, they adapt to normal soil conditions and can be cultivated in flowerpots as indoor plants.So letters were left under large stones, wedged firmly in flowerpots or slipped under the door.Place a large coffee filter in the bottom of flowerpot before adding soil.Perhaps you should conceal some small flowerpots under the wood.In the harsh air she poked around in the flowerpots and bushes by the front door.
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