The American Translators Association offers generalized certification programs for translators and is widely recognized, both nationally and internationally. You can obtain a qualification for translating into English and for translating from English into your target language. Certification is available for translating into English from Arabic, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Certification is also available in translating from English into Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian. The ATA has strict eligibility requirements which must be met. The ATA website explains the system and requirements in more detail but there are two core criteria which must be met prior to making your application. You must be a member of the ATA to apply for certification but you can become a member at the same time as making your test application. You must provide a reading proficiency test in both your source and target languages from the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.) Eligibility requirements for becoming certified by the ATA are a combination of education, experience, and assessed proficiency. To be eligible to apply you must meet one of the following criteria: To be currently certified by the Federation Internationale des Traducteurs. To hold a bachelor's degree from an approved translation and interpretation institute which is on the approved list of the ATA Education and Pedagogy Committee. To hold a bachelor's degree and two years proven work experience as a translator. To have at least five years proven work experience as a translator. This is a challenging three-hour exam that will cover: comprehension of the source-language, translation techniques, and writing in your target language. You will be graded on your grammar and choice of words as well as the overall quality and accuracy of your translation. To give yourself the best chance of success on the ATA test, make sure you have hit the level of at least 'Advanced-Low' on the ACTFL scale before attempting the ATA certification examination. Take advantage of the practice tests which are available from the ATA website. Candidates are provided with three passages. Passage A might be a newspaper editorial, an essay, a non-fiction book. Passage B may be technical, scientific or medical in content. Passage C may be a financial, business or legal document. Candidates must translate two written passages. A is compulsory and candidates can choose either B or C. Once you receive your certification you will also receive an ATA-certified translator seal, and a professional services listing in the ATA Directory of Translation and Interpreting Services. This will enable you to market yourself to employers as a professional who is approved to industry standards. The ATA seal will document your certification number which you can use on your documents. Once your name is listed on the ATA Directory of Translators and Interpreters any individual or company seeking a professional translator will be able to find you and see your contact details.
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One-sentence summary -- Check the languages on offer. Check that you meet their preliminary requirements. Fulfill the conditions for accreditation. Take the Test. Use your accredited status to progress your career.

Use a recipe that you have already tested and that you trust. Place the ingredients into the bread bucket in the correct order, as described above. Walk away now, and let it do its magic.
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One-sentence summary -- Put your ingredients in the bread pan and snap the bread pan into place. Select the cycle you prefer. Using math, figure out how much time before you want the loaf to be finished baking. Use the arrow buttons to adjust the time on the display screen to match the number of hours you figured out above. Close everything up and press Start.

Once you have carved a small hole, you can use your drill to make this into a better shape to create friction and fire. You can do this by drilling into the hole and burning it with friction. Once you have made this hole, you will be able to re-use it in the future when you want to start a fire with sticks. Note that the following steps are written from the perspective of a right-handed person or "rightie"; it would be the reverse for "lefties". Put the fire board on the ground. Put your left foot on the fire board about one inch to the left of the crater. The arch of your foot (not the ball or the heel) should be over the fireboard. Make sure the ground is pretty flat or bed the fire board into the ground. You don't want it to wiggle or rock much, if at all. Kneel on your right knee. Make sure that your right knee is far enough behind your left foot that you make all 90-degree angles. (More about that later.) Hold the bow in your right hand and the drill in your left. Put the drill on top of the string with the pencil-sharp end pointing right, and twist it into the bow. You can loosen the string a bit if it's too hard to do, but the string must not slip once wrapped around the drill. Put the blunt end of the drill on the crater. Put the socket on the drill. Grab as close to the end of the bow as you can. Put some downward pressure on the socket and start to pull back and forth on the bow. It's a delicate balance between putting too much and not enough pressure on the drill, and having the bow string too tight and not tight enough. Saw back and forth with the bow faster and faster, and put more and more pressure on the socket. Eventually, you'll get some black powder and smoke around the bottom of the drill. This is a good sign! Stop and pick up the fire board. Use your cutting device to make a V-shaped notch that reaches from the edge of the fireboard almost to the center of the hole you just burned in the fireboard. The most important thing is to make sure that it's not so wide that when you start spinning the drill in the hole again it just slips out through the notch. The notch should be the size of about 1/8 of a pie slice. The narrow end of the slice should meet the center of the hole you have burned into the wood. The wide end should face outwards away from the hole. The notch and the drill end that goes into it should both be rough, not shiny and smooth. The roughness promotes friction. If they get shiny, put a little sand in the notch. You need something to catch the coal that's created, keep it insulated from the cold ground and carry it from the ground to the tinder. This can be a dry leaf, sliver of wood, piece of paper or bark, among other options. Whatever it is, make sure you can pick it up without fumbling around and dropping it. Place it directly under the notch you have cut in the fire board before you try to make coal.
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One-sentence summary -- Use the bow drill to burn the hole. Cut a chimney notch. Position a coal catcher.

The unit for capacitance is the farad, which is abbreviated with a capital "F." You may also see the Greek letter mu (), which looks like a lowercase "u" with a tail in front of it. (Because the farad is a large unit, most capacitors measure capacitance in microfarads; a microfarad is a millionth of a farad.) Connect the positive (red) multimeter lead to the capacitor anode lead and the negative (black) lead to the capacitor cathode lead. (On most capacitors, especially electrolytic capacitors, the anode lead is longer than the cathode lead.) If the capacitance reading on the multimeter is close to the value printed on the capacitor itself, the capacitor is good. If it's significantly less than the value printed on the capacitor, or zero, the capacitor is dead.
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Disconnect the capacitor from the circuit it is part of. Read the capacitance value on the outside of the capacitor. Set your multimeter to its capacitance setting. Connect the multimeter leads to the capacitor terminals. Check the multimeter reading.