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TIME TO BOARD THE DIGITAL EXPRESS
What hardware and software do you need to get started in digital imaging? Our whistle-stop tour of computers, peripherals and programs will put you on the right track.
Over the years, many innovations have been received with mixed reaction. The typewriter: "I can write by hand." The telephone: "It's better to meet people." The calculator: "Mental arithmetic exercises my brain." The Cellphone: "Damn yuppie phone." The computer: "I've got no use for them." The eMail: "It can be there by Airmail in only three days." The camera: "Nothing wrong with paint and canvas."
Throughout the years of technological development there have been the early adopters and the doubters. It must now be clear that digital imaging is here to stay. Maybe you blame Chip Shop for that? If so, I'm flattered. But how many of you don't have uses for most of these innovations today? No one - though there are still those who have yet to buy their first computer.
Digital imaging is like a train - it's easy to get on at the station but if you are late you have to sprint along the platform. Miss the train and you have to take a fast car to catch it up at the next station. Sounds like bad news, eh?
That particular train might not have been the right train for you - too early a departure, or not going in the right direction.
There's always another train - maybe this is it?
WHY DO WE NEED DIGITAL IMAGING?
William Henry Fox Talbot's negative/positive method has seen a hundred and sixty years of refinement. A frame of film is a superb, economical device which both acquires and stores an image. In some cases - transparency in a projector - it trebles as the output device. So why bother with digital imaging?
If you want to manipulate, repair, restore or apply special effects to a photograph it is much easier to do this in the digital domain. And images are following typesetting and design onto the desktop. If you produce images for reproduction they will all be digitised at some stage. No more use of process cameras.
If you are a social photographer, taking images on film and producing large prints by the long-established photographic methods is still better, easier and cheaper. Yet many social photographers are already using digital imaging to offer a service of restoration of old faded and torn photographs and to experiment with creative new tools, winning for them coveted awards.
If there isn't enough of this kind of work to keep the equipment fully occupied, no matter: the computer can also do the accounts, run a customer database, print price lists and letters and keep them up to date and in touch through the Internet. Your colour processor can't do all that. These days, multi-tasking is the name of the game. Like it or not, there is a great buzz about digital imaging, especially in the amateur photographic press. Your customers are hearing about it in magazines and newspapers and on radio and television. Offering new high-tech services is bound to promote the image of your company at the leading edge of photography. You could even offer a design service incorporating photographs - or maybe you'd prefer to wait for the local copy shop to offer photography with their design service. It will not be a long wait, so get in there - soon.
Bear in mind also that the worldwide trend is to distribute pictures and sound as bits instead of atoms. For this it has to be digital.
MY FIRST COMPUTER
When we are new to a subject, one of the major turn-offs is the jargon. Those who are 'in' bandy buzz-words around with assured abandon. The rest might as well be lost in Tokyo - everyone seems to be talking a language we don't understand. If you haven't taken the plunge into computers they might seem daunting. The important thing is, don't panic.
I well remember the first computer we bought. It was magic but really scared me. I thought, "Oh, heck, I'm past it. I'll never understand this thing." I bought a computer magazine to see if that would help. Was it written in English? Well the gibberish was interspersed with words such as 'the', 'a', 'it', 'and', 'to' - maybe it was English, I thought, as I dropped it into the bin. Then someone gave me the most useful piece of computer advice I have ever received. Until then it was all I could do to turn the darned thing on, type 'The cat sat on the mat' and watch in amazement as the printer spewed those words out onto a piece of paper with green lines and lots of holes down each side.
The advice I was given was, of course, extremely valuable. Yet, like so much sensible advice, it was basic and 'obvious': "If you can switch the computer on, save your work to disc and print it out, that's all you need to know. After that you can experiment - you can't break it!"
This was enough to give me the confidence to try things out. And then the fun really started. I could get to a safe point in my work, save it away from harms way, then start to experiment. If I liked it, I could save it again - a different version with a different name. Now I had two versions: one the safe option, the other more adventurous. At this point that the late nights started! There was no stopping me now.
If you are thinking of buying a computer for the first time, make yourself familiar with just a few key words and heed my definition of a digital imaging expert carefully:
Digital - Something represented by, or using, numbers - digits. In the case of digital images this usually means an unbelievably long string of millions of '0's and '1's. These days you can hardly go wrong describing something as 'digital', it's synonymous with 'of today'.
Computer - 'Hardware' which makes calculations using all those digits. Usually a rather boring box with a few slots to stick things into, lots of plug holes and a fan which whirrs away. This box is the essential hub of a digital photography system.
Monitor - A piece of hardware which displays pictures. It looks like a television set, though the images it displays are usually of much higher quality.
Program or Application - 'Software', the really clever bit which tells the computer how to calculate and present the digits to us in a way we can understand, such as words or pictures on the monitor.
RAM (Random Access Memory) - Memory used by the computer to hold its calculations temporarily, until the power is shut off. Measured in megabytes (about a million bytes), abbreviated to MB. The more the better - but watch out for the cost.
Hard Disc - A memory device, usually fixed inside the computer, which has a spinning disc used to record the strings of digits and store them, even after the power is turned off. Also referred to as Hard Drive.
Floppy Disk - A memory device which can be removed from the computer. Originally they were eight or ten inches across and bendy - hence the name. Now they are three and a quarter inches across, with stiff cases - though the disk inside is floppy. Spelled with a 'k' because 'disk' is a shortening of 'diskette'.
File - A package of related digits, which may represent just one digital image or document.
Scanner - An input device used to transmute pictures from a form we understand into the form only computers can understand: digital.
CD-ROM (Compact Disc-Read Only Memory) - Another acronym which appears to have been invented by an engineer. The 'seedy' part is the same as in the discs which replaced 'LP' records (Long Playing - for those too young to remember), 'ROM' means simply that you can't record on them.
Modem (MOdulator/DEModulator) - A device which enables your computer to connect and talk to other computers all around the World for the price of a local telephone call. Connects to your computer and plugs into a normal telephone socket.
Those few words will empower you, so that you can bandy jargon around with the confidence of a veteran. Oh, I almost forgot the definition of a Digital Imaging Expert - someone who manages to convince you that they know just one thing more about the subject than you do. You have been warned. Get advice from a recognised expert or well-established company which specialises in the field. Ask them for the names and phone numbers of clients they have done work for. Ring up some of them and ask what the service was like.
WHICH COMPUTER?
If you already have a computer and are wondering about its suitability for digital imaging, you may be in luck if you bought it in the last year or two.
Does it have a CD-ROM drive? Enough RAM? Can it display 24-bit colour? Is the hard drive big enough? Even if the answer to some of these questions turns out to be 'no', you may be able to upgrade it.
The computer is the hub of your digital lightroom - yet it is the one thing which no photographic manufacturer makes.
Whether buying new or upgrading, computer specifications can be bewildering. Don't just go down to your friendly neighbourhood computer superstore. Go to a supplier who understands the requirements for graphics and digital imaging. Be prepared to pay just a little more for this advice - unless you enjoy risk.
WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM?
First you must decide which system to go for. Here brand (or system) loyalty is at its best, prejudice at its worst.
Many DOS PC users can't stand the thought of Macintosh, delighting in Apple's recent difficulties, conveniently forgetting IBM's past problems. Apple, who make the Macintosh, kept their operating system to themselves until recently. This helped maintain high prices and produced good margins for Apple. IBM, on the other hand, invented the PC but allowed anyone and everyone to produce clones. This competition resulted in lower prices. Today the difference in price is minimal, if any, especially when you take into account the 'extras', such as sound card, SCSI (linking for scanners and printers) and Ethernet (networking - interconnecting computers) which Apple include as standard. And, finally Apple have begun to license their operating system to other manufacturers - including IBM!
For digital imaging the choice used to be simple. Macintosh. The Mac was adopted by designers and pre-press folk over ten years ago, when the PC gave you nothing more than a defiant 'C' prompt flashing away in the top left of an otherwise blank screen. At that time, the Mac already offered an intuitive interface. Understandably, this was loved by creative folk. That's why the Mac dominates the graphics world.
Today you will rarely see the 'C' prompt on a PC. Almost everyone uses Windows - or Windows 95, which makes a PC almost as graceful as a Mac. The difference is that Windows 95 is still an interface sitting on top of DOS, which actually drives the computer. The Mac interface, on the other hand, is the operating system. One of the major limitations of DOS is the limitation of using eight character filenames, plus three character extensions. Macintosh allows up to 31 characters. Thus, 'Girl on beach in red hat' would have to be 'GOBIRH' on a DOS machine. Not very descriptive. Windows 95, however, now beats Mac at its own game, providing file names up to 256 characters long. You get the idea, 'Girl on beach in red hat and yellow polka-dot bikini and a bright blue beach ball' - and that's less than one third the maximum length.
There are other differences. Floppy disks - even from a PC - automatically appear on the 'desktop', the screen, of a Mac. (The 'desktop' is your virtual desktop - on the computer screen.) Exchanging files used to be a problem but now it's easy in the Mac direction. Windows 95 has multi-tasking abilities, enabling it to do more than one job at once. Sounds great but you'd better buy plenty of expensive RAM or things slow down unbearably.
Perhaps as a result of its long dominance, imaging software tends to be available for the Mac first. Superb applications such as Live Picture are still only available for the Mac. A few years ago I had to change to Macintosh to be able to use Adobe Photoshop. After years of editing DOS's AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files the change to Mac was a rest cure. How could it be so easy, I wondered? I still use both DOS and Mac, which puts me in a neutral position, though I prefer the ease and elegance of the Mac. It's like the difference between two makes of cars - they feel different but eventually get you to the same place.
WHAT FACILITIES?
More important than which operating system you adopt are the facilities the particular model has.
As a photographer you will be fussy about image quality. A 24-bit display which gives you 'millions' of colours is the optimum for displaying photographic quality. You can get away with 16-bit - 'thousands' of colour - at a pinch but nothing less. Upgrading in this area may mean buying extra VRAM (Video RAM), though this is not very expensive.
Go for as large and as high quality a monitor as possible. A fourteen inch involves a great deal of moving things around the screen and finding things which get covered up. Seventeen inch monitors are very reasonably priced these days and a good compromise. Nineteen to twenty one inch monitors are a good deal more expensive, though they save time and workflow interruptions by virtue of their sheer screen acreage. Bear in mind that you may need an extra graphics card to drive a large monitor. These can be more expensive than the monitor itself.
A good tip is to use two monitors, feeding a second (smaller) monitor via an additional video card. You can drag things from one monitor to the other, as though their screens were joined. This way you could buy a cheap monitor and eight bit (256 colour) card, using it to store all the Photoshop toolboxes, leaving your main screen free for images. A black and white monitor would suffice but, if you buy a small colour monitor, you can always substitute it for your main monitor in an emergency. The main video card will drive the monitor in at least as many colours as it drove the larger monitor.
Although we spend a great deal of time configuring our computers, it's a sad fact that most computer monitors are not adjusted to view all the detail in the images displayed upon them. This is hardly surprising when computer manuals ignore this important area, leaving users to set Brightness and Contrast using nothing more than guesstimation. Correct monitor adjustment is a neglected area of computer setup. Be sure to line up your monitor carefully. Two years ago we offered a 'Chip Shop Chip Charts' disk for £5, to help you achieve this. Now the advice is freely available here at our Website.
You must have a CD-ROM drive. A lot of software comes on CD these days and you need to be able to take advantage of using Photo-CD - not to mention all the 'free' discs stuck to magazine covers.
Get one which runs as fast as possible - 4x or 6x means that many times faster than the basic speed. You will appreciate a fast drive as your life slips away waiting for large images to load from CD.
Modems start at about £100. These days a modem and Internet access account is essential. It's a convenient way to get new scanner or printer driver software, information about new products and communicate with the world via eMail. You can look at your own page at the BIPP Website and see how it compares with that of other photographers. You can also send and receive faxes. Get a 28,800bps fax/modem - nothing slower or you'll spend the difference on higher telephone charges. I use a Global Village TelePort Platinum. Remember, your biggest future clients could be looking for you on the World Wide Web right now.
RAM IT UP
You need lots of RAM for digital imaging, in order to make applications such as Adobe Photoshop work at an acceptable speed. How much RAM you need depends on what kind of images you are dealing with.
I have used Macintosh LC475 machines (now obsolete but still good) running Photoshop on just 8MB but would not recommend it. We have now upped the RAM in these machines to 20MB and this should be regarded as the minimum. Go for 32MB or 64MB if possible - up to 256MB if you will be dealing with large image files. RAM has never been cheaper than now. Performance Direct (01784 477 477) are currently offering 16MB of RAM at prices starting from £139. These prices are a fraction of what RAM cost a year or two ago - but they might not stay so low for very long.
Murphy's law of Hard Drives seems to say that, whatever size of hard drive you buy, you'll soon be within 10% of its total capacity. Go for at least a 1GB drive - up to 2GB if possible. You can easily expand, adding an external drive later.
The industry standard is Adobe Photoshop. It is, after all, the program that started the desktop imaging revolution, though worthy challengers such as Macromedia's xRes and Live Picture are now hot on its tail. The full version of Photoshop is now down to as low as £250. There is also Photoshop LE, a slightly de-featured version, which is cheaper. You may get either 'bundled' 'free' when buying a scanner.
There are many types of scanner but flatbed scanners are inexpensive and versatile and should be high on your list. I use Agfa and Nikon flatbed scanners (note the photographic names) but there are plenty of inexpensive scanners to chose from.
Ignore impressive sounding resolutions, such as 2400x2400, which are interpolated up. Ask for the true optical resolution. MacLine (0181 401 1111) are offering the Microtek ScanMaker E3 for £279, or £324 and £428 with Photoshop LE, and full Photoshop respectively. The E3 has an optical resolution of 300x600, which means that it analyses you images into 300 parts for every inch, by up to 600 steps per inch as scans across a print. Spend another £279 and you can get the transparency hood, enabling you to scan transparencies too. But don't expect full repro quality from a low cost scanner.
Pay more and you will get a superb flatbed scanner. The Agfa DuoScan is a 1000x2000 scanner with a density range of over 3.0 - 10 -stops or a 1024 to 1 contrast range - which has a street price of around £3,000 but is in short supply at the moment. The DuoScan features a separate tray for transparencies, which may be loaded while reflective material is being scanned.
Other scanners take transmissive material - negative or transparency, colour or monochrome - and digitise it. These tend to do a better job of digitising transparencies but be

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Alberta Giorgi completed her PhD at the Graduate School in Social, Economic and Political Sciences (University of Milan) with a dissertation on Politicians' discourses about political secularism in Italy. Since then, Alberta held research positions at University of Milan-Bicocca and the Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES, Coimbra) – with a comparative research project on 'Political secularism in a Multilevel Governance Perspective' –, and she was adjunct professor of Methods of Political research at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento.
She is a member of the research groups POLICREDOS (CES Coimbra), Polislombardia and Sui Generis (University of Milan-Bicocca), and she is associated post-doc at the Groupe Societés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL – CNRS-EPHE, Paris). Alberta co-chairs the Italian Society of Political Science (SISP) standing group 'Religion and Politics', and she is a member of the ECPR standing group 'Religion and Politics' and SISP standing group 'Participation and Social Movements'. She has participated as a researcher in national and local research projects on topics related to public discourse, local politics, governance, and political participation.
Alberta's research interests lie at the intersection between religion and politics, and her research topics focus on: political secularism and its territorial dimension in a cross-country and within-country comparative perspective; public and political controversies on religion and religion-related issues, and political debates; political participation and territorial differences. Among her recent publications: 'Paths of Research in Religion and Politics' (2014), special issue of Partecipazione e Conflitto – [PACO] The open journal of socio-political studies, co-edited with E. Polizzi; 'Ahab and the white whale: the contemporary debate around the forms of Catholic political commitment in Italy', Democratization (2013); 'The Debate on the Crucifix in Public Spaces in Twenty-First Century Italy', Mediterranean Politics (2013), with L. Ozzano; 'European Culture wars and the Italian Case: Which side are you on?', with L. Ozzano, Routledge (2015).


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--King County is reporting that their pilot project which entailed providing transportation to trailheads was a success. "Hikers boarded Trailhead Direct for more than 10,000 round trips during the first full season of the transit-to-trails service, increasing the number of people who explored King County's mountain forests without having to drive or park." To read more, click here.
--There at it again. The developers continue to do whatever they can to try to develop Blue Diamond Hill across the street from Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Las Vegas. This world class climbing area has been under threat for nearly two decades now. A group of Clark County commissioners promised to protect the Conservation Area. It now looks like they may have reneged on that promise. To learn more and to sign a petition to save Red Rock, click here.
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--Speaking of Red Rock, it was pretty busy there over the weekend. Black Friday was Red Rock Friday for many. To read more, click here.
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--This is spooky. A woman was ripping down the side of a Mexican volcano, sliding on her back, headfirst, when a dude tackled her to stop the fall. Had she slid into the rocks, she certainly would have been killed. To see dramatic video and to read more, click here.
--Here's a cool story about a legally blind climber from Oklahoma who has done extremely well in the world of competition climbing.
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--Patagonia is donating the 10 million dollars they saved in President Trump's tax cuts to programs that are on the front line of fighting climate change! To read more, click here.
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As Rushonrock's WWE Week gathers pace, our King Of The Ring Andy Spoors catches up with more global Superstars. The Judgment Day talk in-ring action, feuds and musical treats.
Rushonrock: Damian, how was your introduction to life in the UK when filming the BT Sport advert for Clash At The Castle?
Damian Priest: That was a trip! I had a really good time filming that. I learned quite a bit, especially on the sheep farm. That was by far one of the coolest things I've done when working for the company you know? Getting to come to Cardiff ahead of time and seeing the city and getting to learn some customary traditions. It was cool, I really enjoyed that.
Rushonrock: At Clash you faced off against two legends and Hall Of Famers in Edge and Rey, what is it like to stand across the ring from them?
Damian Priest: It's awesome man. The fan in me is going crazy, this is wild you know. You think things are going to be a certain way, and you hope, but you never really know. And then you get to have these awesome experiences and it's like this is wild and I can't believe this is real. So yeah, getting to step into the ring with those guys is extremely special.
Rushonrock: Rhea, you've been pretty hard on Dominik (Mysterio) in this feud. Do you enjoy the memes that come out on Twitter and other socials?
Rhea Ripley: Haha yeah some people are very creative! And some people just think of so many different things I don't even think about while doing whatever it is I'm doing out there with Dom. So they sort of make their own stories in a way as well, which is really cool to see and read. Sometimes I'm like 'woah you guys are going very far with that' but I kind of like it at the same time and it's just funny. I've seen some of the memes where I've replaced Eddie (Guerrero) and I love it. I love it so much!
Rushonrock: Damian, now that Triple H is head of creative, will you be looking to celebrate your next title ring with another picture in a hot tub?
Damian Priest: Aww yeah man. Let's get a new and improved hot tub pic! That sounds good to me…
Rushonrock: Rhea, you recently had a stare down with Beth Phoenix, what were you thinking when that happened?
Rhea Ripley: Insane! She's always who I say I want my dream match against. To be out there in front of everyone, it felt so surreal and cool. If the boys didn't drag me away, I would have loved to have fought her. Hopefully WWE make the match, because at some point in my life I would love to have a match with her maybe at Survivor Series…my fingers are crossed.
Rushonrock: Would it be fair to say the reception to The Judgment Day was a little slow to get going? Did it take the likes of Rhea Ripley and Finn Balor to join to really get things moving in the right direction?
Damian Priest: Yeah we just needed time. People just needed to see where we were headed, you know? Obviously it's just the way society is now, everybody needs to know everything right away. Needs to have everything right away and we didn't give them that. It's been a process and I think people are like 'Ohh now we get it!'. But we are getting to where we want to be, which is showing that the three of us can be on a level like anyone else. On a top level. It was just about raising our own stock within the company and I think we are getting there and people are seeing that.
Rushonrock: Talk to us about what you guys are listening to?
Finn Balor: I'm listening to this guy right now called BONES and he's part of this sort of stable called TeamSESH. That's what I'm listening to when I work out and it's kind of like trappy, like a heavy trap sound, but I'd encourage you to check that guy out. The other guy I'm listening to right now is called Murkage Dave, he's from England, I think it's London. He reminds me of Mike Skinner from The Streets. So that's what I'm listening to right now.
Rushonrock: Any Sam Fender finding its way on the playlist?
Finn Balor: Sam Fender I listen to yeah. I like his covers, I think he did a great cover of Bruce Springsteen. So yeah, I like Sam Fender and I've been listening to a little bit of The Kooks, as I hadn't listened to them in a while, I like those guys. I actually saw them live in Tokyo and that was a great show. It's mainly that TeamSESH, a lot of UK grime as well. So a lot of those guys as well!
Rhea Ripley: Of course it's Motionless In White! They are my number one band and I listen to them on repeat all the time. I love those boys! Apart from that, I've been trying to venture out and listen to different music and different bands. I've got a bit of Beartooth on my playlist, I don't really know the other bands as I haven't memorised their names yet. I listen to a lot of New Years Day, Suicide Silence, Of Mice And Men. I've just started listening to Sleeping With Sirens again — I used to listen to them when I was younger and Pierce The Veil. I just listen to the same bands that I did in high school pretty much!
Rushonrock: Motionless and Sleeping With Sirens? That's like NXT Takeover black and gold era all over again…
Rhea Ripley: Oh dude, it was so good! I remember even for the Randy Orton thing we did on Raw for his anniversary, they had Voices by Motionless In White and I was out there like 'awww this is so cool'. Just jamming out!
Damian Priest: It's funny, I go through phases of music and what I listen to. These days I'm listening to a lot of Soilwork, Killswitch Engage, Metallica. My thrash metal is always on my playlist ready to go, I'm a big metal guy obviously. It changes when you have your "go-to's" in the moment. Like I said, Soilwork is probably my go-to right now, but I go in and out of stuff. Tomorrow it could be Mötley Crüe, it just depends how I feel!
Rushonrock: If you had the opportunity to pick a band to play you to the ring at a Premium Live Event, any song and band, who are you picking?
Rhea Ripley: Again of course it has to be Motionless In White! What song? Hmmm that's a good question. I would have said Voices, that would be my first pick just because I love that song. But they've already done it for Randy. I feel like…wow…I don't know! They have so many good songs! I really love Slaughterhouse. I feel like that would probably be my choice right now because it's so heavy. I could really get in the zone and just obliterate anyone I get in the ring with, because I'd be so fired up!
(Just a couple of weeks after this interview, Rhea received new entrance music by none other than Motionless In White! Check it out here…
Damian Priest: It would have to be Metallica because they are the biggest metal band ever right? But what song? See now that is a tough one! Maybe The Four Horsemen? I would say For Whom The Bell Tolls, but the Hell In The Cell that Undertaker had with Triple H, the cell itself had that as its theme song! I was like how does the cell itself have a theme song!? So I can't pick that one. I'll go with The Four Horsemen.
Rushonrock: Well Taker got Metallica to play his entrance for his Graveyard Match against AJ…
Damian Priest: Oh yeah that's right. So there's a chance…
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What Does Modified NRTL-Listed Equipment Mean?
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The term "NRTL-listed equipment" is used to describe any piece of electrical equipment that has been tested by a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and certified as safe for use in the workplace. The designation is specific to America, although other jurisdictions have similar programs. The NRTL program was developed by OSHA, and OSHA remains the organization responsible for deciding whether a laboratory can be approved as an NRTL.
The term "modified NRTL-listed equipment" pertains to NRTL-listed equipment that has been altered somehow. As the NRTL's safety tests only certify unmodified equipment, the modification of NRTL-listed equipment is usually considered to void any safety certifications it possesses.
The NRTL-listing program provides a way for OSHA to ensure that the organizations that certify the safety of electrical equipment actually possess the capabilities to do so. The program has been in effect since 1989 and has since become an integral part of OSHA's product safety enforcement regime.
Prominent NRTLs include UL (Underwriters Laboratories), CSA Group and TUV. Note that the latter two organizations are Canadian and German, respectively — although the program is American, a laboratory does not have to be based in the United States for OSHA to recognize it as an NRTL.
Besides OSHA, the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) electrical safety standards (NFPA 70, also known as the National Electrical Code) and workplace electrical safety standards (NFPA 70e) both include requirements mandating that NRTL-listed equipment be used whenever possible. Other US agencies, such as the Department of Energy, may also mandate their use in certain contexts.
In general, these organizations require non-NRTL-listed equipment to be inspected by a certified electrical professional to ensure that it can be used safely. This inspection is required before the equipment can be used safely within the workplace.
For safety purposes, NRTL-listed equipment is considered to lose its listed status once modified, which means that it cannot be used until it is first inspected by a qualified professional. The modification of equipment can be an issue in workplaces such as laboratories, where workers may find it necessary to modify a piece of equipment to better suit their needs.
Many organizations use NRTL listings as part of their own internal safety standards. For instance, the US government's National Laboratories all have policies that require workers to refrain from using modified NRTL-listed equipment if it has not first been assessed by a qualified inspector.
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Lockout/Tagout Procedures for Chemical Plants
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Well, in my childhood, at times, I can't remember exact days...but estimates of time or age. This is one of those instances.
Warning: There will be a bit of back story before you get to the meat (lol), so I guess think of it as two memorables in one.
I developed a love for dolls when I was rather young. My grandma liked going to garage sales and when she saw a doll she thought I would like, she would get it. I was always grateful for whatever Grandma got me.
True, the dolls had been used a lot.
There was one doll whose arm kept falling off and had a cut in her upper arm. I guess whoever was playing with it was trying to amputate her. I would wrap the arm with tape to try and keep it secure. I never tried to cover up the cut. I just loved the doll the way she was. I named her Barbara. She also had hands that could move by themselves as well as flat feet, similar to me because my arch is almost nonexistent.
I also had Stacy (she was brunette), Jasmine (dark hair but had real lashes—not painted on), Scarlet (she had short hair) and Jennifer (she had very hard to style hair).
I also got a guy who had flat feet who I named Steven. He was solid all the way around, not like the Ken they had where there were some parts soft and the rest of the torso hard. He was just hard all around—period.
There was a period of time where my grandparents did allow the other little kids to visit. However, those weren't as careful with toys nor were they as trustworthy. Plus, a couple of them were mean and didn't want to play with my dolls. They said my dolls didn't look like "real Barbie dolls". The ones you find in the store—with the Barbie name on them. Plus, they didn't look almost new.
It's laughable because the ones who were saying it broke their toys almost every month.
The final straw, which caused my grandparents not to have any more kids come to the house, was when I discovered that one of my toys was over at another girl's house. It was an electronic toy, and with my electronic toys, I would always use the Dymo tape to label it and stick it somewhere on there.
She had taken it but forgotten to take the Dymo tape off there.
When I tried to retrieve my property, the girl accused me of trying to steal "her toy", and her mom took her side of the story and threw me out of their house.
Of course I told my grandparents. They know I'm not a thief, and they had noticed my toy was missing. Grandpa was hot as a firecracker. Grandma said she would handle it.
Grandma and I came over there, and Grandma explained the situation. When the girl handed her mom the toy, her mom said, "I don't know what you are talking about; there's no label in the back." But I could see the residue from the tape where the girl had ripped off the label. My grandma noticed it, too, and pointed it out to the mom.
The mom had that look. I mean, she had to know that her kid stole from me, but to save her ego, she acted like she didn't see what we both meant.
Then, I noticed the remnants of the label on the carpet, and grabbed it.
She got angry and told us to get out.
That was the end of my having company over at the house.
I definitely needed more dolls. I had enough imaginary friends.
There were these two Barbie dolls I had my eyes on for the longest. The majority of the dolls my Grandma had given me, with the exception of Scarlet and Jennifer, were black. However, the kids were right—the dolls I had weren't the real McCoy.
One of the dolls I was fascinated by because she had a switch and could move her arms. She could push her hair back, come and brush her hair. She didn't need any batteries. She was adorned in this fuzzy multifunctional coat and a long flowing gown. She looked like glamour, and she immediately caught my eye. Her skin was rich and dark. She was a beauty. She was Magic Moves.
The other doll I wanted because you could do things with her hair. I always wondered how they got the barrette to stay in place in the center. She had on a 70's type jumpsuit, which I thought was rad. Her skin wasn't as dark as the other, but I really dug that her hair wasn't the typical black, but it was a brownish type color. She was Super Hair.
I guess my Grandparents noticed I had been eyeing them.
Around my birthday, I got such a wonderful surprise. The very dolls I had my eyes on I did receive them (clapped for joy).
Also around this time, we had a dog. Her name was Beautie. She had the coloring of a golden retriever, but she was a straight mutt.
At the time, she was an indoor dog and hadn't given us any trouble, but in one day, many lives were changed.
I was playing with Magic and Super Hair, thinking later on, I would introduce them to the rest of the dolls. Nature called so I went to use the restroom.
When I came out, I let out a scream that sent Grandma and Grandpa running.
In the time it had taken me to tinkle, Beautie had mistaken one of Super Hair's arms as well as her foot as food. On one foot, Super Hair's toes were gone. From her upper arm to her fingertips, Super Hair had a permanent tattoo of teeth marks.
Beautie whimpered. She knew she had done a bad thing, giving that very sad look.
My Grandpa went into action, yielding his switch and yelling.
WHAP, WHAP, WHAP….right on Beautie's bum.
Beautie ran and howled. When Grandpa opened the back door, Beautie was happy to make her retreat. What she didn't realize was that the outdoors would be her new home permanently.
Grandma asked me if I wanted her to get me a new doll, since Beautie had destroyed part of Super Hair. I knew it took a lot for Grandma and Grandpa to get both dolls for me.
Most kids probably would have taken Grandma up on her offer to get me a brand new doll.
However, I wasn't most kids.
Besides, Super Hair liked wearing long sleeves anyway, and thank goodness Beautie didn't eat her hair or get to Magic Moves.
Sure I got a few more black Barbie dolls after that, but none meant as much to me as my first two "authentic" ones—Magic Moves and Super Hair.
Food for Thought: One time when I was at home—back in 2008, I took out Magic to see if she still moves. After all these years, she was still able to get her move on.
Day 20, that's a wrap!
You know it's funny, how quickly girls move on from dolls to shoes so damned quickly.
I have 2 Cabbage Patch kids. One had no hair. The other one had the hair you could comb and style. They are still sitting at my grandma's house, chilling.
That is Pretty Dang Cool!!


Sometimes life gives you lemons and you have to make lemonade. Sometimes the unthinkable happens and you need to become unsinkable. I don't mean to be trite but as catchy as these phrases are, sometimes you do just have to "do it", to put one foot ahead of the other, to move on.
This blog has changed, for those who may read it. You should be aware of an absence. I will leave it at that. Yes, there has been a loss, an absence, a gap, a hiccup… It is never any fun when life blows you in another direction. It may be fun once you arrive but you rarely have the assurance of fun as you travel. Instead, it is a test of faith, a limbo, a process to endure and overcome. Thus.
I have no simple solution. There are, there will be, good days and bad. Happy and sad.
So how do you go on when all you expected and planned is suddenly gone? Well you reach for, you grasp, you clutch and cling to, all that it is good, all that you can love unconditionally, without fear. These include your children, your health, your home, your family, your talent. Anything and everything you hold dear, you hold it now.
I can say life has, indeed, surprised me yet again, and I feel tossed by the wind, a bit weathered, but not beaten, not fallen to the ground. I can say wholeheartedly that I love so much about my life that as much as that one part was, it is not all, it will not take me with it. So I, instead, celebrate what I do love and that is… my home, small though it may be, I am slowly but surely, weeding it down and making it right… the island, yes island, that I live on that gives me a boost whenever I enter it… my children of course who are maddening and inspiring at the same time… my health being vibrant so I can enjoy both my kids and my location… and lastly my art which fuels my passion and gives me an outlet for all that I go through and more.
So this is my simple message. In life, which can be blessed and turbulent at the same time, one must love and cherish the good. There is so much we can not control, can not change but we can choose to be in this life, on this earth, in love no matter what.
When I was a baby I loved lemons. My father took a video of me at about 1 year old eating lemon after lemon. I would put the lemon in my mouth and squint and squeeze my mouth into contortions from the bitterness. Then I would pause, put one lemon down, grin broadly and pick up another, repeating the scene. Yes, that is life, we must embrace the bitter, the part which contorts us and keep going.


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Chas Roberts is unique in the market given its longevity as a trusted family-owned business. As the leader in the new construction market, Chas already had relationships with many homeowners. The strategy was to offer those homeowners service and replacement. Despite the downturn, Chas Roberts' replacement division increased revenues, grew market share and increased appointments by 32%. The marketing effort was a fully integrated approach from traditional media and advertising, and new customer service initiatives; to the development of a new web site and implementation of social media strategies. Today Chas Roberts continues to build its success of the replacement division, building brand awareness and customer loyalty.


Airborne bacteria and also viruses which could trigger many ailments as well as infections. Microorganisms and also viruses remain to breed as well as thrive in moist, damp and also stagnant environments.
Hazardous Chemicals that come to be vapors from paint, house cleaners as well as solvents, glues as well as adhesives discovered in any number of things in the residence or company, aerosols, paint, pesticides, as well as chemicals used in some carpeting and also upholstery materials.
Allergens consisting of family pet dander, dust mites, and also pollen.
It's the water you can not see that can ruin your foundation! Pitch or tar utilized to water-proof outside walls at the time of original building and construction usually weaken in as little as 3 to 5 years leaving the walls unprotected versus the remarkable hydrostatic pressure of a high water table, underground streams or veins.
An extra of water around grounds may undermine them triggering harmful settlement of the foundation.
Imagine exactly what will certainly take place to a block of sand in a pool of water. The erosion of concrete happens the same way, over time with the structure slowly softening, then deteriorating till it provides way, bringing water right into the cellar or even worse.


No wine, no sight, no new light to calm you here.
Imagine, nothing. Just nothing. Just rocks and sand.
How beautiful that is? That no one is around?
I wish I lived there. No more drama. No more rife.
All I need is the rocks and sand.
Spare me the heat, for I am but heated mind beheld.
So, the answer is clear: a train to Mars.
Nor did he not sing from whence he were.
Nor did he climb so high to fall so well.
Nor did he walk through hills and cried.
Nor did he sign his heart to greater foe.
Nor did he look towards the Sun in awe.
Nor did he breathe the evening air so smooth.
Nor did he take himself to still and utter light.
Nor did he not pain himself to greater pleasure.
Nor did he write his purpose etched on heart.
Nor did he seal his bonds to the stars at night.
Nor did he say never shall he try again.
Whomever called, was but whisper to glide.


There are two responses to global climate change. First, mitigation, which actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and sequester or store carbon in the short-term, and make development choices that will lead to low emissions in the long-term. Second, adaptation, which involves adjustments in natural or human systems and behaviours that reduce the risks posed by climate change to people's lives and livelihoods. While the two are conceptually distinct, in practice they are very much interdependent, and both are equally urgent from a healthy population perspective. To define the policies to mitigate and to adapt to global climate change, data and information at all scales are the basic requirement for both developed and developing countries. However, as compared to mitigation, adaptation is an immediate concern for low-income countries and for small islands states, where the reduction of the emissions from greenhouse gases is not among their priorities. Adaptation is also highly location specific and the required ground data to assess the impacts of climate change on human health are not available. Climate data at high spatial resolution can be derived by various downscaling methods using historical and real-time meteorological observations but, particularly in low-income countries, the outputs are limited by the lack of ground data at the local level. In many of these countries, a negative trend in the number of meteorological stations as compared as to before 2000 is evident, while remotelysensed imagery becomes more and more available at high spatial and temporal resolution. The final consequence is that climate change policy options in the developing world are greatly jeopardized.


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Home Game The First Tree – Full Game Walkthrough Gameplay & Ending (No Commentary)...
The First Tree – Full Game Walkthrough Gameplay & Ending (No Commentary) (Indie Adventure Game 2017)
The First Tree – Full Game Walkthrough Playthrough Gameplay Part 1 and Ending (No Commentary Longplay Let's Play) (Steam Indie Atmospheric Adventure Game 2017)
This full game complete walkthrough includes a review, all puzzle solution guides, all chapters and levels, secrets and easter eggs, main story line, all cutscenes game movie cinematics, ending of the single player game for PC.
A beautiful, 3rd-person exploration game centered around two parallel stories: a fox trying to find her missing family, and a son reconnecting with his estranged father in Alaska. Uncover artifacts from the son's life as he becomes intertwined in the fox's journey towards The First Tree.
The First Tree on Steam –
Gaming system:
Video Card – ASUS ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1080 Ti OC 11GB GDDR5X
CPU – Intel Core i7 7700k – 4.2 GHz (4.5 GHz boost)
RAM – 32GB DDR4
Video is recorded with nvidia Shadowplay software.
Video settings used in game: 1920×1080 1080p, Ultra Settings
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NURUL AMIN July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
No commentary but loads of ads
OOOHBILLY July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Game Dev Unlocked created this game. Go check him out on YT.
Spades dragonwolf July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
When I got this game I cried
Brandon Jefferson July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
you guys are funny! you all no nothing about game design!! you are all impressed with trees painted on terrain? and a fox with an animation? imdeaddd!!!!!!!…………….
Anialator July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
LM22102 July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Just finished on the switch, and my tree said "It's not your fault"
MoonMayham83 July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
My tree said "It is not the destination that defines us, but the journey. I'll never forget you."
Snowy Wolf July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Agh! My heart and the feels!!😭
Reane 27 July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Tbh i want to play this game because i want to know what message i will get, but i didn't see anyone sold it yettt
issa pk July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
WTF I DONT KNOW WHAT PEOPLE FIND IN THIS GAME!
I THINK THIS IS GOOD FOR BLM PROTESTERS AFTER ALL THEY GOT NOTHING GOOD GOING ON THEIR LIVES
Goober Man July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
The audio cutting out was annoying, yeah it's been 2 years since but I haven't seen anyone mention it much.
BoiBoi800 July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
This guy got a million dollars from making this game
Hunter zac July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
1:08:18 song name please.♥♥♥♥♥
perigrinefalcon10 July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
39:48 (dont mind this)
Seph Studio July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
When i saw the video of the one who develop this. And his story, made me inspire to dream again. Thank you for this game.
Allan Shoval July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Luke i'm your father
Father i'm your Father
No way Norway July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
For me the tree said "get off YouTube and do something"
Ankit Rawat July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Reading the comment and thinking how unrealistic you all are.
Yes human is emotional but we cannot deny that it's all a plot.
A better story, more realistic graphic and gripping music can make you slave.
I can definately see your future.
Be realistic, enhance your spiritual level not your imagination level.
Be a Buddha or Jesus may be.
But not a slave🙏
Adam Towns July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
How many adds do you want wtf
Jean-Paul Rustom July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
was this really created by a single person?
Oussam Dz July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Why is everybody loving this? It is like the worst game I ever seen
Jared Boiii Developer July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Its like the graphic of Legend of Zelda
Samuel Gibbs July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
makes a whole game but can't you use a pop filter so we don't have to hear his saliva talk
Vanessa Trottier July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Oh man… I wanna play this but I don't want to be a cry baby😭 this looks so beautiful and such an affordable game atm
Realm Royale Mania July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
Meanwhile unreal fanboys says unity graphic sucks
Emma July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
I'm sad I can't remember what it said on my tree, gives me the excuse to replay this game, even if the experience won't be as emotional as the first one was.
ℝ𝕆ℂ𝕂𝔼𝕋ℂℍ𝕀ℙ July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
When I played this game the tree said
"I will never forget you." ^^//
NoSkill July 12, 2020 At 8:22 pm
There was nothing on the tree for me :l


Last night, I gardened until post sunset. I didn't put much effort into the flower garden before our vacation to Iowa, but now home, I went to work. At the garden store in late-July, flowers are begging to leave the shelves. Their blossoms – if any – are stretching high, competing with the others in their crazy small dirt compound. I found chock-full pots of purple cone flowers and brown-eyed Susans. They were in the big pots. Normally I wouldn't pay for those, but I was desperate and noticed they were so big that I could split them before I put them in the ground.
At home, Liam helped dig the holes in my ledge-filled land. This was good division work for Liam. "If I paid $9 for this big pot and split the big plant into three plants, how much did each plant cost?" I realized over the summer that the lines of multiplication and division had become blurry. Note to self: Come August, encourage more than reading books and drawing.
With my garden gloves dirty and my back aching, I shoved off for the night, looking forward to seeing my work in the clean morning light. A friend picked up the boys for an overnight and Bill was traveling, so I had the house to myself. A bath? Shall I have a quiet bath? With bubbles? With candles? And a book? And the book light that I adopted from Will? Ohhh, yes.
"Give them a bath before you get in the tub!" Well, that's ridiculous. You don't wash before you have a bath! My current parenting line, "Be kind to one another" washed over the negative comment. I ignored the complaints and dropped my dirty feet into the tub, despite the protests from the upper majority.
This was one of those soaking baths. After reading for a half hour, I felt well-rinsed, perhaps even clean. I finished the last few chapters of my book, drenched my hair, and escaped from the tub. When I'm done in the tub, I'm done.
Drying my feet, I noticed dark dirt shadows on all of my toes. Well, I had two choices: scrub them tonight or buy more plants tomorrow morning.
It's tomorrow morning and the plant store opens in 20 minutes.


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Create a LCMBIAR file using either Promotion Management Wizard or LCM CLI tool. It will end up with "Unable to save job" error.
|Fatal| | | |PromotionManagementWizard| 3120| 334|ModalContext | ||||||||||||||||||||com.businessobjects.lcm.utilities.LCMLogger||A general exception occurred in Promotion management. Please refer to the stack trace for more information.(PRS 00022)com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKServerException: File frs://Input/a_180/015/000/4020/lcm.global.config-guid[3d493a50-dd70-4260-92cb-712d0befa0131].properties not found on File Repository Server.
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For anyone not familiar with "hibachi" restaurants, this is basically where several guests sit around an open cooktop, and their food is cooked in front of them (though those of you who are familiar with the concept may not have known that the type of cooktop we see in hibachi restaurants is really a teppenyaki grill… but I digress).
The food cooked quickly, and the chef put on quite a show. I ordered steak, which was good, and my husband ordered steak and lobster tails, which were also good.
Note that I said the food was good. In fact, it was very good.
I even ate some of the noodles and fried rice that were heaped on my plate, because they were cooked in front of me, for me (typically I don't eat foods that are high in starch, since I underwent a lifestyle makeover, primal style, a while back).
But if I weren't sitting at that table, watching my food being cooked in front of me – for me – would I have raved about the food?
Probably not… and even now, as you notice, I'm not really raving about the food.
This is what we're up against all the time. The knack of making how people experience what we do… special.
Frankly, I don't think it matters what we do. Because whatever it is we do, we have to do it in a way that makes others feel special.
As PR pros, we have to find ways to make our clients feel special, the communities we build feel special, the media, bloggers & influencers we reach out to feel special, and so on.
Business owners have to find ways to make their customers feel special, their partners and vendors feel special, their employees feel special, and so on.
Politicians and governments have to find ways to make their constituents feel special, and ideally, they should be doing this all the time, not just when it's time for them to get elected, or re-elected.
And so on, and so forth, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
And social media gives us the perfect platform to do this… because of the myriad ways it lets us communicate with each other.
– make it a habit of replying to each @ reply I get on Twitter (unless they're from spammers or trolls, in which case I don't), when I'm tagged on Facebook, in Google Plus, etc.
And as businesses, you can… do pretty much the same.
c. They are terrified by all the tools out there, and get so lost in trying to figure out which tool to use, that they take forever to get started… and by the time they do, they are so far behind their peers, it makes them even more terrified. And so on, and so forth, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
So we end up with a handful of businesses that do social well, and "the rest," who by now know they have to be on social, but still don't know how to be social.
I have 70 words for them.
It's not that difficult. Really. You just have to remember that social media is just another way for people to connect. So use it to do just that. Connect, as the human being(s) that you are.
Because by doing so, you will start to make those you come into contact with feel special.
And that's the most important thing you can do as a business. Make your customers feel special.
That's what I think. What about you? And yes, I really want to know, because to me, each and everyone of you is special. Unless you're a spammer or troll… ha!


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function RegionError(message) {
	this.message = (this.name = "RegionError") + ": " + message;
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	stackPieces.shift();
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};
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/**
 * Region1D objects are semi-opaque data structures that represent a 1-dimensional
 * set on the number line, described using "spans" of included points.
 *
 * ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * Each span in the region has an inclusive start and an exclusive end.  Spans may
 * not overlap, and always must appear in sorted order.  So, for example, consider
 * this set:
 *
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 *
 * This set (inclusively) contains the numbers 3-7, 10-13, 20-30, 38-41, and 47.
 * Its Region1D representation (using only integer values) would therefore
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 *
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 *
 * And thus the resulting data array stored by the Region1D object would be:
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 * Note that when you construct a Region1D, you *must* provide the data array
 * in sorted order, or the Region1D's constraints will be violated.
 *
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 *
 * Region1Ds provide many operations that can be used to manipulate their
 * data as formal sets, including:
 *
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 *   result = a.intersect(b);       // Return a new set that is the logical intersection of the two sets.
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 *   result = a.xor(b);             // Return the exclusive-or of the two sets, i.e., those ranges
 *                                  //   which exist in one set or the other but not both.
 *   result = a.not();              // Return the logical complement of the set (which may include infinity).
 *   result = a.isEmpty();          // Return true/false if the set is empty.
 *   result = a.isPointIn(x);       // Return true if the given coordinate is contained within the set.
 *   result = a.doesIntersect(b);   // Return true if the logical intersection of the two sets is nonempty.  This is
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 *   result = a.equals(b);          // Return true if the sets are identical.
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	//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// Global constants.

	// Precache positive/negative infinity locally.
	pInf = Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY,
	nInf = Number.NEGATIVE_INFINITY,

	regionError = RegionError,

	//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// Helper functions.

	/**
	 * Construct a wrapper around the given private data that makes it opaque except for
	 * those with access to the 'expectedKey'.
	 */
	makeProtectedData = function(protectedData, expectedKey) {
		return function(actualKey) {
			if (actualKey === expectedKey) return protectedData;
			else throw new regionError("Illegal access");
		};
	},

	/**
	 * Determine if the given object is an array. This is provided in newer JavaScript environs,
	 * but is notably lacking in older ones.  We avoid a dependency on a huge package like CoreJS
	 * by just defining the shim here.
	 */
	isArray = function(o) {
		return Array.isArray ? Array.isArray(o) : o instanceof Array;
	},

	//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// 1-D raw-data-manipulation functions.

	/**
	 * Make a function that generates successive lowest values from each of the two given arrays.
	 */
	makeCoordinateGenerator = function(array1, array2) {
		let i1 = 0, i2 = 0;

		// Get the next coordinate with the lowest value from either array, keeping
		// track of whether it is a begin (+1) or end (-1) coordinate of its span.  O(1).
		return function() {
			if (i1 >= array1.length && i2 >= array2.length)
				return null;
			else if (i1 >= array1.length)
				return { x: array2[i2], kind: i2++ & 1 ? -1 : +1, src: 2 };
			else if (i2 >= array2.length || array1[i1] < array2[i2])
				return { x: array1[i1], kind: i1++ & 1 ? -1 : +1, src: 1 };
			else
				return { x: array2[i2], kind: i2++ & 1 ? -1 : +1, src: 2 };
		};
	},

	/**
	 * Calculate the combination of the given (sorted!) arrays of 1-D region data.
	 * Returns a new array that contains the 1-D combination.
	 */
	combineData = function(array1, array2, op) {

		// Special case: Nothin' from nothin' gives nothin'.
		if (!array1.length && !array2.length)
			return [];

		// Get the next coordinate with the lowest value from either array, keeping
		// track of whether it is a begin (+1) or end (-1) coordinate of its span.  O(1).
		const getNext = makeCoordinateGenerator(array1, array2);

		let depth1 = 0, depth2 = 0;
		let state = 0, lastState = 0;

		// Do whatever needs to happen at the very first coordinate.
		let coord = getNext();

		// Process all of the coordinates until both arrays are empty, collecting
		// new spans in the 'result' array.  O(n+m).
		const result = [];
		do {
			// Do whatever happens at this coordinate.
			if (coord.src === 1) depth1 += coord.kind;
			else depth2 += coord.kind;

			// Process any subsequent coordinates at the same 'x' offset,
			// also collecting the one after it.
			let nextCoord;
			while ((nextCoord = getNext()) && nextCoord.x === coord.x) {
				if (nextCoord.src === 1) depth1 += nextCoord.kind;
				else depth2 += nextCoord.kind;
			}

			// Change the state to match whatever happened here.
			lastState = state;
			state = op(depth1, depth2);

			// If we entered/exited a new span, emit a start/end X value.
			if (state !== lastState) {
				result.push(coord.x);
			}

			coord = nextCoord;
		} while (coord);

		return result;
	},

	/**
	 * Calculate the union of the given arrays of 1-D region data.
	 * Returns a new array that contains the 1-D union.
	 */
	unionData = (array1, array2) => combineData(array1, array2,
		(depth1, depth2) => (depth1 | depth2)
	),

	/**
	 * Calculate the intersection of the given arrays of 1-D region data.
	 * Returns a new array that contains the 1-D intersection.
	 */
	intersectData = (array1, array2) => combineData(array1, array2,
		(depth1, depth2) => (depth1 & depth2)
	),

	/**
	 * Calculate the exclusive-or of the given arrays of 1-D region data.
	 * Returns a new array that contains the 1-D exclusive-or.
	 */
	xorData = (array1, array2) => combineData(array1, array2,
		(depth1, depth2) => (depth1 ^ depth2)
	),

	/**
	 * Calculate the difference of the given arrays of 1-D region data.
	 * Returns a new array that contains the 1-D difference.
	 */
	subtractData = (array1, array2) => combineData(array1, array2,
		(depth1, depth2) => (depth1 & ~depth2)
	),

	/**
	 * Calculate whether the given arrays of 1-D region data intersect, and
	 * if so, how.  This requires constant memory, but it may take O(n+m) time.
	 *
	 * If 'earlyOut' is true, this will return only '' or 'intersects', and
	 * it will return that answer as soon as it possibly can, skipping testing
	 * successive data if possible.
	 *
	 * Returns one of:
	 *    '': no intersection
	 *    'intersect': there is at least some kind of intersection
	 *    'a-contain-b': array1 is a proper superset of array2
	 *    'b-contain-a': array2 is a proper superset of array1
	 *    'equal': array1 and array2 represent the same exact region
	 */
	relateData = function(array1, array2, earlyOut) {

		// If either is empty, there's no intersection.
		if (!array1.length || !array2.length) return '';

		// If all of the spans of one are before all of the spans of another, there's no intersection.
		if (array1[array1.length - 1] < array2[0]
			|| array2[array2.length - 1] < array1[0]) return '';

		// Test all the spans against each other.
		let depth1 = 0, depth2 = 0;
		const getNext = makeCoordinateGenerator(array1, array2);

		// Do whatever needs to happen at the very first coordinate.
		let coord = getNext();

		// Bit flags:  We start out assuming A and B both contain each other, but there
		// is not yet an intersection.  It's weird, but go with it.
		let result = 3;

		do {
			// Do whatever happens at this coordinate.
			if (coord.src === 1) depth1 += coord.kind;
			else depth2 += coord.kind;

			// Process any subsequent coordinates at the same 'x' offset,
			// also collecting the one after it.
			let nextCoord;
			while ((nextCoord = getNext()) && nextCoord.x === coord.x) {
				if (nextCoord.src === 1) depth1 += nextCoord.kind;
				else depth2 += nextCoord.kind;
			}

			// Change the state to match whatever happened here.
			if (depth1 & depth2) {
				// Got an intersection.
				result |= 4;
				if (earlyOut) return 'intersect';
			}
			else if (depth2 & ~depth1) {
				// A does not contain B.
				result &= ~1;
			}
			else if (depth1 & ~depth2) {
				// B does not contain A.
				result &= ~2;
			}

			coord = nextCoord;
		} while (coord);

		// Choose an answer based on the resulting flag bits.
		switch (result) {
			case 4: return 'intersect';		// 1 0 0
			case 5: return 'a-contain-b';	// 1 0 1
			case 6: return 'b-contain-a';	// 1 1 0
			case 7: return 'equal';			// 1 1 1
			default: return '';				// 0 * *
		}
	},

	/**
	 * Determine whether the given point lies within the spans of the Region1D data.
	 */
	isPointInData = function(array, x) {
		// It can't be in the empty set.
		if (!array.length) return false;

		// If it's outside the bounds, it's not anywhere within any of the spans.
		if (x < array[0] || x > array[array.length - 1]) return false;

		if (array.length <= 8) {
			// Spin over all the spans in a simple linear search.
			for (let i = 0, l = array.length; i < l; i += 2) {
				if (x >= array[i] && x < array[i+1]) return true;
			}
			return false;
		}
		else {
			// Binary search to find the array index that x is either after or at.
			let start = 0, end = array.length;
			let index = 0;
			while (start < end) {
				const midpt = ((start + end) / 2) & ~0;
				const value = array[midpt];
				if (x === value) {
					index = midpt;
					break;
				}
				else if (x < value) {
					end = midpt;
				}
				else {
					index = midpt;
					start = midpt + 1;
				}
			}

			// 'index' now is the closest value at or before 'x', so we just need to see if
			// it's an odd or even array index to know if 'x' is inside the span or outside it.
			return !(index & 1);
		}
	},

	/**
	 * Calculate a complement of the 1-D (sorted!) region data.
	 * This is easy:
	 *    If it starts with -Inf, remove that; otherwise, prepend -Inf.
	 *    If it ends with +Inf, remove that; otherwise, append +Inf.
	 * Returns a new array that contains the 1D complement.
	 */
	notData = function(array) {
		const newArray = [];

		let src = 0;

		if (!array.length) {
			newArray.push(nInf);
			newArray.push(pInf);
			return newArray;
		}
		else {
			if (array[src] != nInf) newArray.push(nInf);
			else src++;
		}

		while (src < array.length - 1) {
			newArray.push(array[src++]);
		}

		if (array[src] != pInf) {
			newArray.push(array[src++]);
			newArray.push(pInf);
		}

		return newArray;
	},

	/**
	 * Calculate a new region whose coordinates have all been translated/scaled by the given amounts.
	 */
	transformData = function(array, ratio, delta) {
		delta = Number(delta);
		if (!(nInf < delta && delta < pInf))	// Catches other NaNs as well as infinities.
			throw new regionError("Invalid translation delta");
		ratio = Number(ratio);
		if (!(nInf < ratio && ratio < pInf) || ratio === 0)		// Catches other NaNs as well as infinities.
			throw new regionError("Invalid scale ratio");

		const newArray = [];
		for (let i = 0, l = array.length; i < l; i++) {
			newArray[i] = array[i] * ratio + delta;
		}

		return newArray;
	},

	/**
	 * Determine if two arrays of (sorted!) 1-D region data are equivalent.
	 * Returns true if they are the same, false if they are different.
	 */
	arrayEquals = function(array1, array2) {
		if (array1.length !== array2.length) return false;
		for (let i = 0, l = array1.length; i < l; i++) {
			if (array1[i] !== array2[i]) return false;
		}
		return true;
	},

	/**
	 * Transform a set of 1-D region data into an array of rectangles with
	 * the given same y and height values.
	 *
	 * Returns a new array that contains rectangles of the form { x:, y:, width:, height:, left:, top:, right:, bottom: }.
	 */
	makeRects = function(array, minY, maxY, result) {
		const height = maxY - minY;

		for (let i = 0, l = array.length; i < l; i += 2) {
			const minX = array[i  ];
			const maxX = array[i+1];
			result.push({
				x: minX, y: minY, width: maxX - minX, height:height,
				left: minX, top: minY, right: maxX, bottom: maxY
			});
		}

		return result;
	},

	/**
	 * Clone a set of 1-D region data into a raw array.
	 * Returns a new array that contains pairs of points.
	 */
	makeRawSpans = function(array) {
		const result = [];
		for (let i = 0, l = array.length; i < l; i += 2) {
			result.push(array[i  ]);
			result.push(array[i+1]);
		}
		return result;
	},

	/**
	 * Calculate a hash that (loosely) describes the given Region1D of data, so that we
	 * can readily tell whether it is different from another.
	 */
	makeHashCode = function(array) {
		let hash = 0;
		for (let i = 0, l = array.length; i < l; i++) {
			hash *= 23;
			hash += array[i] | 0;
			hash &= ~0;
		}
		return hash;
	},

	/**
	 * Check to ensure that the given object is actually a Region1D, and abort if it is not.
	 */
	verifyRegion1DType = function(obj) {
		if (!(obj instanceof Region1D)) {
			throw new regionError("Object must be a Region1D instance.");
		}
	},

	/**
	 * Check the given data to make sure that it consists of an array of ordered pairs
	 * of span start/end points.
	 */
	validateData = function(array) {

		const typeErrorMsg = "Expected an ordered array of numeric start/end pairs.";
		const dataErrorMsg = "Array start/end pairs are not in strictly ascending order.";

		// Make sure it's an array of even length.
		if (!isArray(array) || (array.length & 1)) {
			throw new regionError(typeErrorMsg);
		}

		// Empty array is always valid.
		if (array.length == 0) return;

		// Get the first entry, and make sure it's a number.
		let prev = array[0];
		if (typeof prev !== 'number') {
			throw new regionError(typeErrorMsg);
		}

		// Check each successive entry to make sure that it's (A) a number and (B) strictly
		// greater than the entry before it.
		for (let i = 1, l = array.length; i < l; i++) {
			let cur = array[i];
			if (typeof cur !== 'number') {
				throw new regionError(typeErrorMsg);
			}
			if (cur <= prev) {
				throw new regionError(dataErrorMsg);
			}
			prev = cur;
		}
	},

	//---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	// Public interface.

	/**
	 * A special private object used to flag internal constructions in such a way that
	 * external callers' data must be validated, but internal data can skip those checks.
	 */
	privateKey = {},

	/**
	 * Access the internal data, if this is an allowed thing to do.
	 */
	getData = function(region) {
		return region._opaque(privateKey);
	};

	/**
	 * Construct a 1-D region from the given array of start/end X coordinates.  This is a
	 * proper object, with prototype methods for performing operations like
	 * union/intersect/subtract/xor.
	 *
	 * Usage:  new Region1D(array)
	 *
	 * @param array {Array} - The array of span endpoints, in pairs of start (inclusive)
	 *        and end (exclusive) X-coordinates.
	 */
	function Region1D(array, key, hash) {

		// Internal-only second parameter: A 'key' flag, indicating this data came from an
		// internal operation and does not require validation for correctness.
		if (key === privateKey) {

			// Internal-only third parameter: A hash for comparisons.
			if (typeof hash !== 'number')
				hash = makeHashCode(array);
		}
		else if (typeof key !== 'undefined' || typeof hash !== 'undefined') {
			// You're not allowed to specify a key unless it's the right one.
			throw new regionError("Illegal access");
		}
		else {
			// Verify that the user passed us data that makes sense.
			validateData(array);
			hash = makeHashCode(array);
		}

		this._opaque = makeProtectedData({
			array: array,
			min: array.length ? array[0] : pInf,
			max: array.length ? array[array.length - 1] : nInf,
			hash: hash
		}, privateKey);
	};

	/**
	 * The row's prototype contains helpers that simply invoke the private operations
	 * to do all the hard work.
	 */
	Region1D.prototype = {
		union: function(other) {
			verifyRegion1DType(other);
			const data = getData(this), otherData = getData(other);
			return new Region1D(unionData(data.array, otherData.array), privateKey);
		},
		intersect: function(other) {
			verifyRegion1DType(other);
			const data = getData(this), otherData = getData(other);
			return new Region1D(intersectData(data.array, otherData.array), privateKey);
		},
		subtract: function(other) {
			verifyRegion1DType(other);
			const data = getData(this), otherData = getData(other);
			return new Region1D(subtractData(data.array, otherData.array), privateKey);
		},
		xor: function(other) {
			verifyRegion1DType(other);
			const data = getData(this), otherData = getData(other);
			return new Region1D(xorData(data.array, otherData.array), privateKey);
		},
		not: function() {
			const data = getData(this);
			return new Region1D(notData(data.array), privateKey);
		},
		transform: function(scale, offset) {
			const data = getData(this);
			return new Region1D(transformData(data.array, scale, offset));		// No privateKey forces a data check, since we could have lost precision.
		},
		translate: function(offset) {
			const data = getData(this);
			return new Region1D(transformData(data.array, 1.0, offset));		// No privateKey forces a data check, since we could have lost precision.
		},
		scale: function(scale) {
			const data = getData(this);
			return new Region1D(transformData(data.array, scale, 0));		// No privateKey forces a data check, since we could have lost precision.
		},
		isEmpty: function() {
			return !getData(this).array.length;
		},
		getCount: function() {
			return getData(this).array.length >> 1;
		},
		doesIntersect: function(other) {
			verifyRegion1DType(other);
			return !!relateData(getData(this).array, getData(other).array, true);
		},
		relate: function(other) {
			verifyRegion1DType(other);
			return relateData(getData(this).array, getData(other).array, false);
		},
		isPointIn: function(x) {
			return isPointInData(getData(this).array, Number(x));
		},
		equals: function(other) {
			verifyRegion1DType(other);
			const data = getData(this), otherData = getData(other);
			if (data === otherData) return true;
			if (data.hash !== otherData.hash) return false;
			return arrayEquals(data.array, otherData.array);
		},
		getRawSpans: function() {
			const data = getData(this);
			return makeRawSpans(data.array);
		},
		getAsRects: function(minY, maxY, destArray) {
			const data = getData(this);
			return makeRects(data.array, minY, maxY, destArray || []);
		},
		getBounds: function() {
			const data = getData(this);
			return { min: data.min, max: data.max };
		},
		getHashCode: function() {
			return getData(this).hash;
		}
	};

	// Construct a convenient shareable 'empty' instance.
	Region1D.empty = new Region1D([], privateKey, 0);

	return Region1D;

})();

export default Region1D;
export { RegionError, Region1D };


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Aug 01, 2018, 13:15 ET
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- An inventor from Springfield, Ma., has developed the ICE DAM PREVENTION, a heated gutter and downspout system designed to prevent ice from damming.
"I was inspired to develop my idea after chipping ice out of my gutter one day. I thought of a system that could heat the gutter and prevent ice from clogging it," said the inventor. The ICE DAM PREVENTION offers a complete ice prevention solution. This system will prevent ice dams and water damage to buildings in cold weather climates. It will also prevent potential falls off of slippery ladders when trying to remove ice. In addition, it eliminates the need to use melt-chemical to melt ice accumulations. This safe and reliable system will effectively and efficiently melt ice. This system is also easy to operate.
The original design was submitted to the National Sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 17-AVZ-1696, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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