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There are several components to our timing equipment. Equipment Description Purpose Batteries Wand The device with a numeric pad The athletes ‘break’ the wand as they ski through, and this starts the timer counting for their run 🟢 3x AA (Alkaline) Photocell The device at the bottom of the slope with an antenna To stop timing once the athlete passes the finish line 🟢 3x AA (Alkaline) Infrared Receiver (IRE) The device at the bottom of the slope without an antenna To stop timing once the athlete passes the finish line 🟣 3x AAA (Alkaline) Timer The screen that is split into four segments It is used to configure the wand and photocell equipment, it also displays the race time for athletes 🟦 1x 9v (Alkaline) Batteries Ensure that there is a spare set of batteries for every device Use Energizer batteries for the 9V (🟦) timer battery....

Sometimes PDFs must be redacted before submitting them externally for things like fundraising applications. To redact a PDF on Linux follow the steps below. First Time Configuration Click the down arrow next to ‘Yellow Highlighter’ Click ‘Configure Annotations…’ Click the ‘+ Add…’ button. Call the annotation ‘Redact’ Change the type to ‘Text Markup’ Set the appearance type to ‘Highlight’ Set the colour to black Ensure the opacity is set to 100% Click ‘OK’ to close the creation pop-up Click ‘OK’ to close the configure annotations pop-up Redacting PDFs Making the selection Open Okular Press F6 to open the annotations bar (also accessible via Tools > Annotations) Click the down arrow next to ‘Yellow Highlighter’ Click ‘Redact’ (the custom annotation setup earlier) Highlight the text you wish to redact Generating the PDF Go to File > Print Click the ....