Global 3D Camera Market report aims at estimating the market size and future growth potential of the ceramic tiles market across different segments, namely, application, end-use sector, construction type, and region. It also provides detailed information regarding the major factors influencing the growth of the market (drivers, restraints, opportunities, and industry-specific challenges). The report further aims to study individual growth trends, future prospects, and contribution of various segments to the overall market. The study also analyzes the opportunities in the market for stakeholders and provides details of the competitive landscape for market leaders. It strategically profiles key players and comprehensively analyzes their core competencies.
A 3D camera is primarily used to capture three-dimensional view of an environment. It enables the perception of depth in images to replicate three dimensions as experienced through human binocular vision. A person can visualize the environment easily if he has a three-dimensional view of an image which help in analyzing numerous scenarios. The 3D camera captures objects and scenes in their spatial dimensions. When compared to laser scanners it does not require moving components and is robust and wear-free. It measures the distance between the sensor and the nearest surface point by point using the time-of-flight principle.


Some wine decisions are conscious: like when we opened a bottle of a 2013 bottle of Upperton Alia recently having put an offer on a house. Others seem to fall together serendipitously.
The last few weeks have included a surprising number of chenin blancs almost entirely by chance. This join the dots trip started a with a friend's birthday at Westerns Laundry, via The Coach in Farringdon and ended up a celebratory bottle following the England Sweden game on Saturday.
It felt like a good opportunity therefore to have a chenin-focused issue. As a note, selections this week include some higher-priced examples than usual: but are highlighted for interesting comparison.
At Westerns Laundry, we drank the Clos des Trielles (available for £25 here). It's a low intervention wine that's wild but refreshing, with crisp, green fruit aromas on the nose. Perfect with the seafood lunch it was served with.
Domaine Jousset's Premier Rendes-Vous (Winemaker's Club, £29) is a treat of a special wine, and one we drank this weekend to celebrate England's advancement to the semi-finals. This is juicy and full-bodied, with a seemingly contrasting mix of butteriness and tanginess on the nose and palate. There's lemons, apples, nettles, and even a hint of banana there. This is a very nicely complex wine.
Down a price bracket, the Vouvray Sec Silex Vigneau-Chevreau 2016 (£16 from Solent) was salty and floral, a really lovely combination enjoyed while eating half a pint of prawns and some steak tartare.
As for the supermarkets, Tesco Finest Fairtrade Chenin (£7) is a very affordable quaffer too. Green fruit is here again, this time with some spicy and honey flavours to give a bit of depth. Why not try this typical South African display, alongside the Vourvray for an interesting chenin comparison?
You might know chenin blanc either from South Africa, or under it's French heritage region of Loire. Chenin is a versatile grape producing dry and sweet wines, as well as sparkling.
Well-ripened, it is aromatic and might smell and taste of peach and other stone fruits. The less-ripened it is, the greener those aromas: think apples and pears.
The Loire has three parts to it, Upper, Middle and Lower. The Middle Loire is where chenin thrives, with notable regions including Touraine, Vouvray, and Saumur. Loire chenin is floral, flinty, and honeyed, with big acidity.
South African chenin, where most of it is made, can be fuller with the peachy stone fruit flavours dominating.
Like chardonnay, chenin can be oak-aged bringing with it nutty, toasty, honey aromas.
It has fallen in and out of vogue over the centuries. There are highly commercial displays out there, typically crisp, bland and anonymous. But dig deeper and you should be able to find some real delights.
Surely all wines that have a smell are aromatic, right? Well actually no. 'Aromatic' refers to a floral composition in the nose that's usually highly complex. Prominent aromas might include rose, orange blossom, jasmine or geranium. It's almost always used to describe white wine.
For the sciencey among you, aromatic white wines appear due to the high level of monoterpenes.


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Home Car News Motorsports Pole streak continues: Porsche locks out first grid row at Long Beach.
Pole streak continues: Porsche locks out first grid row at Long Beach.
Three pole positions from three events in the 2019 season: Works drivers Nick Tandy and Patrick Pilet have planted their No. 911 Porsche 911 RSR on the first grid spot for round three of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Long Beach (USA).
Laurens Vanthoor from Belgium and Earl Bamber from New Zealand complete the first grid row in their ca. 510 hp racer with the starting number 912. So far this season, the Porsche GT Team remains unbeaten in the hunt for top qualifying times.
The Porsche GT Team tackles round three of the IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Championship season at Long Beach (USA) as the leader of the manufacturer and team classifications. After a hard-fought victory at the 12 Hours of Sebring in Florida, the two ca. 510 hp Porsche 911 RSR start under very different conditions at the Pacific coast. Contested over just 100 minutes, the so-called Sports Car Grand Prix in Long Beach is the shortest race of the season. Five kilometres of fencing and around 1,400 concrete blocks are needed for the construction of the 3.167-kilometre street circuit in the port area of Long Beach, California. The race is regarded as the American equivalent to the Monaco Grand Prix. In fact, the street course, which features only eleven turns, was the venue for the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix from 1976 to 1983. A popular photo motif along the racetrack is the decommissioned British passenger ship, the RMS Queen Mary. Today, the ocean liner serves as a floating hotel. A round of the popular IndyCar Series is also contested as part of the Grand Prix of Long Beach weekend.
The race takes off on Saturday, 13 April, at 14.05 hrs local time (23:05 hrs CEST) and can be viewed live outside the USA and Canada on www.imsa.com.
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Tales from the paddock – Luca Stolz: "We proved last year that we are a race-winning trio".
Comeback on the Norisring: the BMW M1 Procar Revival in the warm-up programme for the German Touring Car Masters (DTM).


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Part-time jobs are quite usual these days. Employers can hire part time employees whenever there is a need instead by paying more to a full time employee. The reasons for hiring part-time employees are plentiful. Since, the reasons are innumerable, we often tend to hire average or unsound people who lack in the minimum requirements, that are necessary for a good part time employees.
When recruiters do not focus on the job hiring division, they have to face the consequences which show up in the quality of work. It's also important to understand that the candidate selected is both skillful and also reliable in terms of work. Few minutes of conversation with the candidate, might not be sufficient, to analyze and draw a conclusion whether the particular candidate is worthy for the position.
The hiring process is considered to be the most challenging and crucial part. The quality of the output is determined by the skill of an employee. The recruiter should be able to review the candidates and choose the right candidate with the right profile. Here are few exceptional points to be considered to accomplish the hiring task with ease.
The following mentioned are few employee hiring tips to find employees who are looking for a part-time job offer.
Questions are the only way to judge a candidate's profile. Recruiters generally skip this phase and ask most common questions which do not accurately help you, to check the caliber and potential of a person. Prepare meaningful questions, that helps to understand about the employee's proficiency and accomplishments.
Background check for employees is usually been overlooked by most of the employers when it comes to part-time job recruitment. The hiring division doesn't focus on this issue due to few reasons such as less time, recruitment through referrals or sometimes due to their ignorance. This may lead to problems that makes employers regret later.
Background check is a primary thing which has to be taken into thought. Frequently people misrepresent fraudulent data by giving false credentials and fake endorsements. Due to the fraudulent data presented, the quality of the work submitted would probably decline than expected. Sometimes, the business dealt might contain confidential information which has to be protected by the workers who are working with it. Thus, it is really mandatory to perform a background check on the employees before recruiting them.
This background check can be done in many ways. Here are the two methods which are commonly used to check the background of a person.
The verification of educational records is considered as the most basic way of checking a candidate. It's important to consider this check, as more number of applicants try to falsify their resumes, to have an edge over other employees. Driving records are required to understand that the candidate doesn't possess an immoral and illegitimate profile. In this check if you find the candidate is suspicious then you further go for criminal record check, if necessary.
Social networking can benefit us to a larger extent by helping us track accounts. We have the technology with enormous number of users and fastest exchange of text, photos and videos. There are many social networking sites, where the information and the work experience of the user will be easily available. Try to use the information for the business purpose but do not misuse it.
The knowledge obtained from books is never sufficient. Knowing is different from understanding and learning is different from implementing. Always take time to check the experience of the employee as experience gives the competitive edge. Considering experience is also one of the best ways to check the caliber of a candidate. Candidates with work experience can be hugely beneficial to the business as they have faced the practicality and dealt with complications in advance. Therefore, the work experience of the candidate, helps us understand that the employee is ready to face the real world of work without much difficulty.
Sometimes, you may find people without an educational background but still you can consider their application if they have a previous work experience. The previous works of the employee should be reviewed properly. There is also a chance that the employee misrepresents his work. It is important to ask the previous works of the employee and even question about them. Questioning about their previous task is vital and also valuable because questions could be answered by the candidate only when he has put his knowledge and efforts into it. Any person who has given fake work experience could be easily found out and can be eliminated without a second thought. When a person has strive hard and placed his efforts, he would be able to answer about his previous works.
Experience is required but at the same time it is important to provide job opportunities to new ones. Technology is evolving at a breath-taking speed and new people can easily adapt themselves to the new technologies. An inexpert doesn't demand you for the compensation and they are the ones who work for you for a cheaper price reducing your labor cost. A fresher can be more energetic and also enthusiastic towards work. Since, they do not have work experience, they tend to work harder to meet the deadlines and complete the task given.
Therefore, it is good giving opportunities to new employees and it's also equally important to have experienced people to guide the new ones. It would be a good combination to have both new employees and also experienced.
Understand the interest of the candidate. It's a well-known fact that people who work in project which interests them produces better results. Candidates who are passionate and eager to work are the ones who can fulfill the given task. It is the work of the recruiter to understand the interest of the employee and assign the task related to the interest of the employee.
Part-time workers generally choose a specific area which relates to their interest and hope to earn and there are also other kinds of people who work just for the sake of earning extra. Understand the difference between the two. If your work is related to creativity, money alone can't drive the candidate to work.
Person who works with passion and interest is required to complete the work assigned. If your business is not related to creativity and doesn't require much passion towards work then money alone can make the person complete the job.
Therefore, select a candidate who suits better to your requirements.
The person might not always have the necessary knowledge required to complete the given task. In such case the person has to learn more in order to complete the task. Analyze the candidate's potential and also analyze the candidate's interest to learn new things. Most of the people like to do the same work which they are good at and comfortable with. They do not just want to adapt to new ones and strain themselves learning new things. Differentiate such people from the others, if your business is related to the knowledge of the subject which keeps on updating.
When the candidate is not willing to learn extra, then the organization faces problems in losing their valuable resources like time and money. Do not regret later by choosing the candidates who do not want to leave their comfort zone.
Communication also plays a vital role in hiring an employee. If the employee is capable of doing an assignment but incapable of understanding the instructions given by the instructor, then it's no use of hiring such employee. Communication is equally important with the required skill set, when hiring employees. Since this a part-time job and there is limited amount of time, time cannot be wasted by clearing petty issues which are faced due to miscommunication and misinterpretation and lack of basic communication skills.
Though your business contains major part of communication or no part of communication, make sure that the employee is able to communicate properly and understands the requirements provided to complete the task.
Listening is an art. Listening skills are considered essential as it eliminates the misinterpretation of message. The person who is not willing to listen is also not willing to learn. The person doesn't listen to other person, when he feels he knows it before. This attitude of a candidate will never help to learn anything because the person is already in an illusion that he knows everything.
Therefore, it's important to check the listening skills of a person. This can be done by carefully observing the answers given by the person to a particular question. The person who do not posses listening skills will always try to interrupt while speaking and tries to answer the question, before it's completion.
Due to interruption, candidate misses a lot of information and misinterprets the provided information. The result of this would be a low-quality output and time of the organization is wasted due to failing in simple listening skills.
Application filtration is considered as a stressing task. There might be many irrelevant applications and it takes a lot of time for you to choose the right ones. In this case, you can make your job much simple by setting up an automated application system that can be used to filter the applications. You can filter the applications based on all criterion such as age, gender, qualification and even experience. Applicants who do not satisfy the required criterion will be dumped out and only the required ones would be shown. This would be helpful when you have heaps of applications and you need to select a few.
There might be many people who are willing to work but they do not have enough time to spare in their schedule. People might be occupied with their full-time work and are exhausted when it comes to part-time. As they do not have abundant time to complete the assigned task, they rush up to complete the task. Trying to do things good but doing it within the required time, shows impact on the quality of the product. Their main focus would be on completion of the task rather than the quality of the task. This would produce low quality result and shows a lot of impact in the growth of the company.
In order to avoid such mistakes, help the employee to understand the load of work and the amount of time given. Ask them questions, about time management. Explain them the consequences that will be faced due to the low quality products delivered by the employee. By explaining, the employee tries to think whether he can really manage all the things together or should quit and give chance to another employee.
Candidates tend to be more reliable when recruiters explain the disadvantages, that the candidate and the company could face due to lack of time management.
Thus, the schedule of the employee also plays an important role for the success of the organization.
All of us have read many stories on positive attitude and all of know how positive attitude impacts our work and behavior. Though many people are quite serious in part-time jobs at the beginning, the interest gradually decreases day after day.
Part-time job is always an optional job to all and whenever the difficulty in job increase people tend to stop working as they will be unable to work in the tedious tasks. This attitude of people is quite common and should be recognized before in hand. This can be recognized by giving a sample task for the person, without any payment. This is going to help the candidates understand the workflow of the job.
Once they experience the difficulty in work, they will be able to make a decision. The one's with positive attitude would step further and prepare themselves to take much more challenges and the people with negative attitude would step out silently.
All the mentioned points give you a clear description of how to hire reliable part time workers. Hope this is beneficial to you.


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The Food and Drug Administration has proposed better warnings for women considering breast implants spelling out the risk of serious complications.
The new rules are for both surgeons and manufacturers, however, some of those involved don't think they go far enough.
Marge Swanson of Strathmere, New Jersey, first got silicone implants in her 20s.
Her problems started shortly afterward: first, a build-up of scar tissue around the implants, then one began to leak.
"My breast shape started to get very distorted," Marge recalls, adding, "I was really frightened."
Swanson had the leaking one replaced, but never felt completely at ease.
When she had Dr. Kirk Brandow of the Brandow Clinic in Bala Cynwyd, exchange them for saline implants a few years ago, he discovered another silicone leak.
"This is the silicone, right here," he says, showing Action News pictures he took of the implants.
"They were sticky, gooey, and you look at it and think - that was in my body!" she recalls of first seeing the pictures.
In July, Allergan recalled its Biocell textured silicone implants over concerns about a rare cancer called ALCL.
New guidelines on genetic testing for breast cancer
Today's FDA action is aimed at complaints it isn't adequately protecting the millions of women with silicone or saline implants.
The agency says manufacturers should add a warning highlighted by a box - the most serious type - to the information given to women considering implants.
And an ingredients list in simple language, so patients know about any chemicals and heavy metals.
The FDA is also recommending patients complete a checklist to make sure they understand all the possible side effects of the implants, such as scarring, pain, rupture and even a rare form of cancer.
It also wants women with silicone implants screened for ruptures five years after surgery and every two years after that.
Dr. Brandow says with a 60% rupture rate after 15 years, that's too little.
"They shouldn't be on the market," he says clearly.
And the proposed guidelines aren't mandatory.
Textured breast implants recalled after stronger link to rare cancer
In a statement detailing the recommendations, the FDA says, "We have heard from many women that they are not fully informed of the risks when considering breast implants," the agency said in a statement detailing the recommendations.
The agency also wants companies to explain that breast implants often require repeat surgeries and they should not be considered lifelong devices. About 1 in 5 women who get implants for cosmetic reasons need to have them removed within 8 to 10 years, according to the FDA.
Swanson says previous doctors never told her about risks, screenings, or the limited life of her implants.
"People think that once they get them, they're set, and that is not the case at all. It took me many years to learn that," says Marge.
"If you have a (silicone) implant in your body, and it ruptures, that silicone can go throughout your body. But if you have a saline solution, which is purified water, your body can absorb that and it won't harm it," she notes.
Roughly 400,000 women get implants each year; 100,000 after cancer surgery.
In a separate issue, the FDA has received thousands of reports from women who blame their implants for a host of health problems including rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue and muscle pain.
Earlier this year, the FDA held a meeting at which dozens of women urged the agency to place new warnings and restrictions on implants.
Dr. Brandow says in the last three months, he's had eight women ask to have their implants removed permanently. In 25 years before that, he only had 2 requests.
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/***
{
        Module:     photocrati-nextgen_basic_singlepic,
        Depends:    { photocrati-nextgen_gallery_display }
}
 ***/

define('NGG_BASIC_SINGLEPIC', 'photocrati-nextgen_basic_singlepic');

class M_NextGen_Basic_Singlepic extends C_Base_Module
{
    function define()
    {
        parent::define(
            NGG_BASIC_SINGLEPIC,
            'NextGen Basic Singlepic',
            'Provides a singlepic gallery for NextGEN Gallery',
            '0.11',
            'http://www.photocrati.com',
            'Photocrati Media',
            'http://www.photocrati.com'
        );

		C_Photocrati_Installer::add_handler($this->module_id, 'C_NextGen_Basic_SinglePic_Installer');
    }

    function initialize()
    {
        parent::initialize();
        if (is_admin()) {
            $forms = C_Form_Manager::get_instance();
            $forms->add_form(
                NGG_DISPLAY_SETTINGS_SLUG, NGG_BASIC_SINGLEPIC
            );
        }
    }

    function _register_adapters()
    {
		// Provides default values for the display type
		$this->get_registry()->add_adapter(
			'I_Display_Type_Mapper',
			'A_NextGen_Basic_Singlepic_Mapper'
		);

        if (M_Attach_To_Post::is_atp_url() || is_admin())
        {
            // Provides the display settings form for the SinglePic display type
            $this->get_registry()->add_adapter(
                'I_Form',
                'A_NextGen_Basic_SinglePic_Form',
                $this->module_id
            );
        }

        if (apply_filters('ngg_load_frontend_logic', TRUE, $this->module_id))
        {
            // Provides settings fields and frontend rendering
            $this->get_registry()->add_adapter(
                'I_Display_Type_Controller',
                'A_NextGen_Basic_Singlepic_Controller',
                $this->module_id
            );
        }
    }

	function _register_hooks()
	{
        if (apply_filters('ngg_load_frontend_logic', TRUE, $this->module_id)
        && (!defined('NGG_DISABLE_LEGACY_SHORTCODES') || !NGG_DISABLE_LEGACY_SHORTCODES))
        {
            C_NextGen_Shortcode_Manager::add('singlepic', array(&$this, 'render_singlepic'));
            C_NextGen_Shortcode_Manager::add('nggsinglepic', array(&$this, 'render_singlepic'));

            // enqueue the singlepic CSS if an inline image has the ngg-singlepic class
            add_filter('the_content', array(&$this, 'enqueue_singlepic_css'), PHP_INT_MAX, 1);
        }
	}

    /**
     * Examines 'the_content' string for img.ngg-singlepic and enqueues styling when found
     *
     * @param string $content
     * @return string $content
     */
    function enqueue_singlepic_css($content)
    {
        if (preg_match("#<img.*ngg-singlepic.*>#", $content, $matches)) {
            $router = C_Router::get_instance();
            wp_enqueue_style(
                'nextgen_basic_singlepic_style',
                $router->get_static_url(NGG_BASIC_SINGLEPIC . '#nextgen_basic_singlepic.css')
            );
        }

        return $content;
    }

    /**
     * Gets a value from the parameter array, and if not available, uses the default value
     *
     * @param string $name
     * @param mixed $default
     * @param array $params
     * @return mixed
     */
    function _get_param($name, $default, $params)
    {
        return (isset($params[$name])) ? $params[$name] : $default;
    }

	function render_singlepic($params, $inner_content=NULL)
	{
		$params['display_type'] = $this->_get_param('display_type', NGG_BASIC_SINGLEPIC, $params);
        $params['image_ids'] = $this->_get_param('id', NULL, $params);
        unset($params['id']);

		$renderer = C_Displayed_Gallery_Renderer::get_instance();
        return $renderer->display_images($params, $inner_content);
	}

    function get_type_list()
    {
        return array(
            'A_Nextgen_Basic_Singlepic' => 'adapter.nextgen_basic_singlepic.php',
            'A_Nextgen_Basic_Singlepic_Controller' => 'adapter.nextgen_basic_singlepic_controller.php',
            'A_Nextgen_Basic_Singlepic_Form' => 'adapter.nextgen_basic_singlepic_form.php',
            'C_NextGen_Basic_SinglePic_Installer' => 'class.nextgen_basic_singlepic_installer.php',
            'A_Nextgen_Basic_Singlepic_Mapper' => 'adapter.nextgen_basic_singlepic_mapper.php'
        );
    }
}

class C_NextGen_Basic_SinglePic_Installer extends C_Gallery_Display_Installer
{
	function install()
	{
		$this->install_display_type(
			NGG_BASIC_SINGLEPIC, array(
				'title'					=>	__('NextGEN Basic SinglePic', 'nggallery'),
				'entity_types'			=>	array('image'),
				'preview_image_relpath'	=>	'photocrati-nextgen_basic_singlepic#preview.gif',
				'default_source'		=>	'galleries',
				'view_order' => NGG_DISPLAY_PRIORITY_BASE + 60,
				'hidden_from_ui'        =>  TRUE
			));
	}
}

new M_NextGen_Basic_Singlepic();

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Avoid using hand rails on stairs or escalators whenever possible. Studies done by the University of Arizona Environmental Microbiology Department found all manner of nasty bacteria including flora responsible for respiratory illness all over escalator hand rails. Why? Because most people cough into their hands to be polite, problem is they then grab hold of a handrail and their germs find a new home. When it is necessary to use handrails in the mall remember to immediately disinfect with hand sanitizer or a quick trip to the rest room before you have a chance to absentmindedly touch your face.
And while we are on the topic of rest rooms, here is a fun little fact you may not have known: the filthiest part of the restroom that your hand will come in contact with isn't the door knob or even the toilet handle but rather the sink. This is because people touch the sink faucet or handles before washing their hands and since sinks are moist this allows various bacteria and germs to survive longer then they would on other surfaces. Always wash your hands thoroughly, using plenty of soap and lathering for at least 20 seconds. When done remember to use a paper towel to turn off the faucet so that you don't undo all that scrubbing.
While it may seem a little overly paranoid, and you may get a few people mistaking your for an OCD sufferer, it will be worth your while to bring your own disinfectant wipes to wipe off that food court table before sitting down for a mid-shopping snack. The reason for this is those cloths that food service workers use to clean the table in between each sitting can often do more harm then good, especially at a busy time of year like the holidays, because if the cloth is not cleaned frequently it can end up transferring germs from one table to another. We know, you weren't planning on eating right off the table, that's what plates are for; but next time you sit down to a meal take note of how many times your hands touch that table top.
Chinese researchers tested 38 ATMs in downtown Taipei and found that on average each ATM key was home to around 1,200 germs. So either make sure to disinfect after each time your punch in your pin or at least use your knuckles to hit the keys rather than your finger tips. This will help because you are far less likely to touch your face, or worse yet your mouth, with your knuckles than you are with your fingers.
"After people try on clothing, skin cells and perspiration can accumulate on the inside, both can serve as food for bacterial growth" says Philip Tierno Director of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at New York University's Langone Medical Center. The best way to avoid a nasty bacterial infection is to wear underwear that offers maximum protection or better yet a base layer if you plan on trying things on, and please remember to properly cover up any cuts or scrapes as open wounds are the best point of entry for an infection. Also, if you hadn't already guessed, doctors recommend washing any new purchases before you wear them, because who knows if anyone tried it on before you bought it.
A medical study conducted back in 2005 found that between 67% and 100% of makeup-counter testers were contaminated with bacteria such as staph, strep, E. coli and worse of all the super-bug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). So if you insist on seeing how that shade of eyeliner or lipstick looks on you, we suggest settling for the back of your hand rather then letting any of these nasty little guys near your face. Most doctors will tell you that the "buy then try" method is the only surefire way to be certain there is no contaminating germs. Returning makeup may be a hassle, but anyone whose ever had one will tell you that it doesn't even hold a candle to a bad staph infection.


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Energy data availability: The good, the bad and the ugly
Published: Friday, 6 November 2020
Open access to energy data is currently high on the agenda. Quoting from the Energy Data Task Force : "In all these [government, industry and societal energy] strategies and ambitions, data is recognised as crucial to building a smart system that supports achieving decarbonisation objectives and creates significant economic opportunities." Data can support all aspects of energy system operation and planning, from how local and national levels can be coordinated in operation, through the longest term policy questions around the mix of resources we need. This agenda is being taken forward by the Modernising Energy Data Access (MEDA) innovation programme, which is developing the necessary technical platforms and governance for data sharing.
This article examines the range of reasons why data might currently be unavailable, and proposes possible ways forward where this is not covered by EDTF and successor activity. It is structured into two broad categories of data: those which do exist, and those which do not - clearly these bring quite different issues!
1. Energy data which already exist
a. Data which are, and should remain, non-discloseable
Data might be classified as non-discloseable due to established principles regarding commercial sensitivity and/or national security. While on a case-by-case basis such classification might be revisited, if it is in the public interest for such data not to be openly available, then it should remain confidential to the organisation which holds it.
b. Data which cannot be published openly, but for which limited disclosure is in the public interest
This is a very important category in which data cannot be published openly, but where there is a significant public interest in data being shared in confidence with relevant bodies, e.g. for system operation or regulatory purposes. Where relevant, it may be that aggregated summary statistics might be published openly - a good example of this is the component availability databases coordinated by the North American Electricity Reliability Corporation.
c. Data which are regarded as non-discloseable, without adequate reason
Data in this category might arise when the appropriate balance between commercial and public interest has not been reached, or where the statutory framework was developed before the public interest in data availability was widely recognised. For some data it would be very difficult to persuade individual companies one by one to publish openly, but it might be much more acceptable to companies if they all published that data.
d. Data where there are no significant sensitivities, but which are not published
This is a significant category, particularly in the regulated network sector where commercial sensitivity issues are reduced by the absence of direct competition. I expect that making more network data available will be one of the major early consequences of the EDTF agenda.
e. Data which are published but not in a useful format
This frustrating category covers issues such as poor web archiving (e.g. not having good batch download functions), and poor metadata (making it difficult to identify what datasets exist or what fields within a dataset mean). The EDTF and MEDA activities should help spread good practice here, and regulatory bodies might also consider what quality of presentation of data is required to satisfy statutory responsibilities.
2. Energy data which do not yet exist
This is another category of frustrating circumstances, where a dataset would have great value, but does not exist anywhere in a useful form. This category is less directly the business of the EDTF and direct successor activity, but should still be part of research, innovation and policy agendas. Here, I address this largely through illustrative examples:
a. The dataset has never been created at all
Throughout the last 15 years of intensive activity in the areas of renewables deployment and integration, there has not been a widely available and well calibrated spatially disaggregated dataset of historic renewable resource for the UK. There have been some significant efforts on smaller scale, e.g. Renewables Ninja, and open data releases following EDTF might contribute further valuable source data. However, the combination of producing a very high quality dataset and providing ongoing updating/curation would need to be a national strategic project.
b. Issues of design experiment
There have been numerous surveys of smart meter data or other forms of consumer/network trial in the UK, but many have not followed good practice in design of the statistical sampling - and without good sampling design it can be impossible to do useful ex post analysis (or, possibly worse, people might think there are useful conclusions to be drawn when actually there are not).
c. Existing datasets are incomplete
Generally, datasets associated with larger scale components or systems are of high quality and are reasonably complete - this is simply a consequence of economies of scale. However, data on smaller components (e.g. domestic voltage electricity networks, or domestic pressure gas networks) may be much less comprehensive, or lack appropriate metadata. While the cost-benefit trade-off may be against very widespread universal data collection at more local level, this balance might be explored more carefully, or the benefits of improved sampling practice might be investigated.
One complication in the UK is that in some cases we do not have a body which can naturally take on the ongoing curation and updating of models and datasets. In the USA, for instance, this function might naturally sit with the Department of Energy National Laboratories, or, within its technical scope, the North American Electricity Reliability Corporation. It usually does not work for universities to do this, and while working out how to carry out data projects might be bona fide basic research, carrying them out is typically not. We also in this country have a tendency to fund such work as a series of fixed term projects, rather than the more natural funding structure of a long-term ongoing activity.
There is clearly great value in wider sharing of energy data for coordinated operation and planning of systems, and to enable analysis by a wider range of stakeholders. For data which already exist, the Energy Data Task Force and Modernising Energy Data Access activities are already developing necessary technical capabilities and governance structures - though beyond simply making numerical data available, there are wider issues such as providing important context (e.g. How were data collected? Are there measurement uncertainties?) which need to be addressed.
Where datasets do not already exist, there would be benefit in a more strategic view of where a national effort to produce datasets would add value, and what kind of bodies would be best placed to create and curate datasets. There would also be great benefit in coordination between energy analysts and other relevant communities - for data technology and applied statistics - to ensure that appropriate combinations of professional skills are available.
All of this does of course need to be motivated by use cases, which is for instance the philosophy of the National Digital Twin Programme - and a forthcoming article in his series will unpick the meanings of "digital twin" and "artificial intelligence", two terms which are in common use, but which lack commonly agreed definitions.
Acknowledgments: The author acknowledges collaboration with Paul Plumptre on an earlier unpublished version of the article, and valuable advice from Matt Hastings and Sue Chadwick in the preparation of this version.
Chris Dent is Professor of Industrial Mathematics; Director of the Statistical Consulting Unit at the University of Edinburgh; and a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute.


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Luca Brasi to release third album this April
Tasmania's hardest working and most endearing melodic punks Luca Brasi step up their game with third LP If This Is All We're Going To Be, due out Friday 29th April.
In just the last six months the intrepid, ever passionate quartet have nailed a wall to wall sold out out national single tour, seen two new singles scoop up triple j, community radio and media adoration alike, and brought their most energetic performances to The Hills Are Alive, Party in the Paddock and NYE on the Hill Festivals. Hell, they even found time to book and host their own music festival and tee up a split release with the UK's Apologies I Have None. Luca Brasi are the archetype of a band on the up and up, and they're taking it all in their stride with customary charm and ease.
The next feel-good gem from the record is build-then-burst new single Anything Near Conviction, which has just premiered on triple j's lunch. Frontman Tyler Richardson describes this tune as "The song that centres around giving yourself a kick in the arse to do better in life and for those you love. A not-so-gentle reminder that you gotta give everything you can."
If preceding LP's Extended Family and By A Thread sound like a young band experimenting excitingly with the elements of punk rock, If This Is All We're Going To Be sees the band nail their unique, cracking formula. They've perfectly married melody, their trademark meandering guitar lines, big drum sounds and self-examining lyrical content with the foundational punk and rock ideals that inspired the band. It is cohesive, powerful and moving, packing a dynamism no better reflected in the contrast of first two singles Aeroplane and Cascade Blues.
If This Is All We're Going To Be was written over a couple of years amidst a demanding touring schedule and a period where the band were living in different parts of Tasmania. Keeping things close to home (as always), the band recorded at Red Planet in Hobart with Adelaide producer Jimmy Balderston, with US producer Brian McTernan (Hot Water Music, Circa Survive, Converge) taking the mixing helm. The result is bright but punchy, a no-frills good time that deftly challenges mid-twenties thought processes and hometown mentalities.
Furthering their long-term relationship with hallmark Melbourne indie label Poison City Records (who have handled all of the band's releases), If This Is All We're Going To Be is now available to preorder on LP/CD & Limited Edition bundle packs via Poison City Records' E-Store. If This Is All We're Going To B' is officially out Friday 29th April on LP/CD/Digital. No doubt it will be a springboard to further frivolity.


A new airline has taken to the skies in Europe, flying from Venice Marco Polo. Volotea is the brainchild of Carlos Muñoz and Lázaro Ros, the creators of Vueling, and looks to be a contendor as one of Europe's new metropolitan-style airlines, much like Vueling, serving main airports around the European network at convenient times with convenient schedules. One of the only airlines in Europe to use the 717, they've really tried to give themselves an image on convenience and European cool.
In fact, their logo and tail fin treatment is super hip, and created by Saffron, the very same team that branded Vueling. It's almost guaranteed to be a sure fire hit. It's graphical element reminds me of a detail of an Italian restaurant's table cloth, perhaps something they were aiming at. It is familiar, trendy, and young. The colours used are bold and easily identifiable and supremely marketable.
Their website, literature, advertising campaigns and liveries are all seamless, and real consideration has been put into the brand, something which a lot of legacy carriers have only recently invested into, realising the potential behind creating an emotional attachment to their airline.
The launch of a whopping 53 destinations is a brave move, giving them instant network appeal but also giving a huge cost base to service this amount of routes.
When listening to Mr Munoz at the Airline Retail Conference 2010, there was a mention of Vueling starting up a few new initiatives such as browsing duty free at the gate on mobile trolleys only to be purchased and delivered on-board to reduce the need to carry stock and make use of the waiting time that most people endure at gates. I hope to see some of these initiatives launched on this airline. Fingers crossed it will ride the crest of the current European economic crisis!
Let's hope Saffron get involved with their in-flight magazine too.
Interestingly enough, the pattern reminds me personally of none of the things mentioned… it reminds me of grandmas tablecloth. I am not sure if I am target audience though.


The WhisperPhone Element is a handheld WhisperPhone which is ideal for helping young learners develop their reading and new language skills.
Perfect for early learners and the tactilely sensitive who prefer to hold their WhisperPhone.
Our WhisperPhone is an acoustic voice feedback headset that enables learners of all ages. It helps to focus and hear the sounds that make up words (phonemes) more clearly as they learn to read, spell or process language aloud. WhisperPhone is fun and easy to use. Research has proven that users can hear phonemes ten times more clearly when they are wearing the WhisperPhone! That means that they can hear themselves better over background noise, and they can focus better on what they're learning.


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/*******************************************************************************
 *
 *  Filename    : RooFit_SimFit.cc
 *  Description : Making simultaneous fit objects
 *  Author      : Yi-Mu "Enoch" Chen [ ensc@hep1.phys.ntu.edu.tw ]
 *
*******************************************************************************/
#include "TstarAnalysis/CompareDataMC/interface/SampleRooFitMgr.hh"
#include "TstarAnalysis/CompareDataMC/interface/VarMgr.hh"
#include "TstarAnalysis/CompareDataMC/interface/MakePDF.hh"
#include "TstarAnalysis/CompareDataMC/interface/PlotConfig.hh"
#include "TstarAnalysis/CompareDataMC/interface/FileNames.hh"
#include "TstarAnalysis/Utils/interface/RooFitUtils.hh"

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fstream>

#include "RooWorkspace.h"
#include "RooRealVar.h"
#include "RooAddPdf.h"
#include "RooKeysPdf.h"
#include "RooGenericPdf.h"
#include "RooFitResult.h"

#include "TAxis.h"
#include "TFile.h"
#include "TCanvas.h"
#include "TLegend.h"
#include "TLatex.h"

using namespace std;

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   Static helper variables
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
static const string ws_name = "wspace";

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   Helper static functions
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
namespace smft {
   RooFitResult* FitPDFs( SampleRooFitMgr*, SampleRooFitMgr* );
   void MakeValidationPlot( SampleRooFitMgr*, SampleRooFitMgr*, RooFitResult* );
   void MakeCardFile( SampleRooFitMgr*, SampleRooFitMgr* );
   void SaveRooWorkSpace(SampleRooFitMgr*,vector<SampleRooFitMgr*>&, vector<RooFitResult*>& );
};

void MakeSimFit( SampleRooFitMgr* data, vector<SampleRooFitMgr*>& signal_list )
{
   using namespace smft;
   vector<RooFitResult*> results_list;
   for( auto& signal : signal_list ){
      RooFitResult* err = FitPDFs( data, signal );
      MakeValidationPlot( data, signal, err );
      MakeCardFile( data,signal);
      results_list.push_back( err );
   }
   SaveRooWorkSpace(data,signal_list,results_list);
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   RooFit control flow
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RooFitResult* smft::FitPDFs( SampleRooFitMgr* data , SampleRooFitMgr* sig )
{
   const string model_name = data->MakePdfAlias( sig->Name() );
   RooGenericPdf* bg_pdf   = NULL;
   RooKeysPdf*    sig_pdf  = MakeKeysPdf( sig, "key" );
   RooRealVar*    nb       = var_mgr.NewVar("nb"+sig->Name(), 4500, 0,    10000);
   RooRealVar*    ns       = var_mgr.NewVar("ns"+sig->Name(), 10,   0,    10000);

   if( GetFitFunc() == "Exo" ){
      bg_pdf = MakeExo( data, "bg" +sig->Name() );
   } else if( GetFitFunc() == "Fermi" ){
      bg_pdf = MakeFermi( data, "bg" + sig->Name() );
   } else {
      bg_pdf = MakeFermi( data, "bg" + sig->Name() );
      fprintf( stderr, "Warning! Unrecognized Fitting function [%s], using fermi...\n" , GetFitFunc().c_str() );
      fflush( stderr );
   }

   RooAddPdf* model = new RooAddPdf(
      model_name.c_str(), model_name.c_str(),
      RooArgList(*bg_pdf,*sig_pdf),
      RooArgList(*nb,*ns)
   );

   RooDataSet* data_to_fit = data->GetDataFromAlias( GetDataSetName() );

   RooFitResult* err = model->fitTo(
      *(data_to_fit),
      RooFit::Range("FitRange"),
      RooFit::Minos(kTRUE),
      RooFit::Save(),
      RooFit::Verbose(kFALSE),
      RooFit::PrintLevel(-1)
   );
   err->SetName( ("results_"+sig->Name()).c_str() );
   data->AddPdf( model );
   var_mgr.SetConstant();
   return err;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   Making data card
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void smft::MakeCardFile( SampleRooFitMgr* data, SampleRooFitMgr* sig )
{
   RooAddPdf* model  = (RooAddPdf*)(data->GetPdfFromAlias( sig->Name() )) ;
   const Parameter bg_strength = Parameter(
      ((RooRealVar*)(model->coefList().at(0)))->getVal(),
      ((RooRealVar*)(model->coefList().at(0)))->getErrorHi(),
      ((RooRealVar*)(model->coefList().at(0)))->getErrorLo()
   );
   const Parameter sig_strength = sig->Sample().ExpectedYield();

   RooDataSet* data_obs    = data->GetReduceDataSet( GetDataSetName() );
   RooAbsPdf*  bg_pdf      = data->GetPdfFromAlias("bg"+sig->Name());
   RooAbsPdf*  signal_pdf  = sig->GetPdfFromAlias("key");

   FILE* cardfile = fopen( GetCardFile(sig->Name()).c_str() , "w" );

   // Priting header
   fprintf( cardfile , "imax 1\n" );
   fprintf( cardfile , "jmax *\n" );
   fprintf( cardfile , "kmax *\n" );
   fprintf( cardfile , "----------------------------------------\n" );

   // Printing objects
   fprintf( cardfile , "shapes %10s %15s %30s %s:%s\n" ,
      "bg",
      GetChannel().c_str() ,
      GetRooObjFile().c_str() ,
      ws_name.c_str(),
      bg_pdf->GetName()
   );
   fprintf( cardfile , "shapes %10s %15s %30s %s:%s\n" ,
      "sig",
      GetChannel().c_str() ,
      GetRooObjFile().c_str() ,
      ws_name.c_str(),
      signal_pdf->GetName()
   );
   fprintf( cardfile , "shapes %10s %15s %30s %s:%s\n" ,
      "data_obs",
      GetChannel().c_str() ,
      GetRooObjFile().c_str() ,
      ws_name.c_str(),
      data_obs->GetName()
   );
   fprintf( cardfile , "----------------------------------------\n" );

   // Printing data correspondence
   fprintf( cardfile , "%12s %s\n" , "bin" , GetChannel().c_str() );
   fprintf( cardfile , "%12s %lg\n" , "observation" , data_obs->sumEntries() );
   fprintf( cardfile , "----------------------------------------\n" );

   // Printing expected
   fprintf( cardfile , "%12s %15s %15s\n" , "bin"     , GetChannel().c_str(), GetChannel().c_str() );
   fprintf( cardfile , "%12s %15s %15s\n" , "process" , "sig", "bg" );
   fprintf( cardfile , "%12s %15s %15s\n" , "process" , "-1" , "1" );
   fprintf( cardfile , "%12s %15lf %15lf\n" , "rate",
      sig_strength.CentralValue() ,
      bg_strength.CentralValue()
   );

   // Listing Nuisance parameters
   char sig_unc[1024];
   char bg_unc[1024];
   sprintf( sig_unc , "%lf/%lf" , 1+sig_strength.RelUpperError(),1-sig_strength.RelLowerError() );
   sprintf( bg_unc  , "%lf/%lf" , 1+bg_strength.RelUpperError(),1-bg_strength.RelLowerError() );

   fprintf( cardfile , "----------------------------------------\n" );
   fprintf( cardfile, "%8s lnN %15s %15s\n" , "Lumi"   , "1.05" , "1.05" );
   fprintf( cardfile, "%8s lnN %15s %15s\n" , "sig_unc", sig_unc, "--"   );
   fprintf( cardfile, "%8s lnN %15s %15s\n" , "bg_unc" , "--"   , bg_unc );

   fclose( cardfile );
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   Making validation plots
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void smft::MakeValidationPlot( SampleRooFitMgr* data, SampleRooFitMgr* sig, RooFitResult* err )
{
   TCanvas* c = new TCanvas("c","c", CANVAS_WIDTH, CANVAS_HEIGHT );
   RooPlot* frame = SampleRooFitMgr::x().frame();

   RooAddPdf*  model   = (RooAddPdf*)data->GetPdfFromAlias( sig->Name() );
   RooAbsPdf*  bg_pdf  = data->GetPdfFromAlias("bg"+sig->Name() );
   RooAbsPdf*  sig_pdf = sig->GetPdfFromAlias("key");
   RooRealVar* bg_var  = (RooRealVar*)(model->coefList().at(0));
   const double bg_strength  = bg_var->getVal();
   const double bg_err       = bg_var->getError();
   const double sig_strength = sig->Sample().ExpectedYield();

   TGraph* bg_err_plot = PlotOn( frame, bg_pdf,
      RooFit::VisualizeError(*err, 1 ),
      RooFit::Normalization(bg_strength,RooAbsReal::NumEvent)
   );
   TGraph* bg_plot = PlotOn( frame, bg_pdf,
      RooFit::Normalization(bg_strength,RooAbsReal::NumEvent)
   );
   TGraph* sig_plot  = PlotOn( frame, sig_pdf,
      RooFit::Normalization(sig_strength,RooAbsReal::NumEvent),
      RooFit::DrawOption("LB")
   );
   TGraph* data_plot = PlotOn(frame, data->GetDataFromAlias( GetDataSetName() ) );

   frame->Draw();
   frame->SetMinimum(0.3);
   SetFrame(frame,FONT_SIZE); // see Utils/src/RooFitUtils.cc
   frame->GetYaxis()->SetTitle( data_plot->GetYaxis()->GetTitle() );

   bg_err_plot->SetFillColor(kCyan);
   bg_plot->SetFillColor(kCyan);

   sig_plot->SetLineColor(kRed);
   sig_plot->SetFillStyle(3004);
   sig_plot->SetFillColor(kRed);

   TLegend* leg = new TLegend(0.6,0.7,0.9,0.9);
   char data_entry[1024];
   char sig_entry[1024];
   sprintf( data_entry, "Data (%.3lf fb^{-1})", SampleRooFitMgr::TotalLuminosity()/1000. );
   sprintf( sig_entry,  "t^{*} {}_{M_{t^{*}}=%dGeV} (%.1lf pb)", GetSignalMass(sig->Name()), sig->Sample().CrossSection().CentralValue() );
   leg->AddEntry( data_plot, data_entry , "lp" );
   leg->AddEntry( bg_plot  , "Fitted Background" , "l" );
   leg->AddEntry( bg_err_plot, "Fit Error(1#sigma)" , "f");
   leg->AddEntry( sig_plot , sig_entry , "lf" );
   leg->Draw();
   leg->SetTextSizePixels(FONT_SIZE);

   TLatex* tl = new TLatex();
   tl->SetNDC(kTRUE);
   tl->SetTextFont(43);
   tl->SetTextSize( FONT_SIZE + 4 );
   tl->SetTextAlign(11);
   tl->DrawLatex( 0.1, 0.93, "CMS at #sqrt{s} = 13TeV");
   tl->SetTextAlign(31);
   tl->DrawLatex( 0.9, 0.93 , GetChannelPlotLabel().c_str() );
   tl->SetTextSize( FONT_SIZE );
   tl->SetTextAlign(33);
   tl->DrawLatex(0.60,0.85 , GetFitFuncFormula().c_str() );

   unsigned obs = data->GetDataFromAlias(GetDataSetName())->sumEntries();
   char obs_yield[1024];
   char exp_yield[1024];
   char delta[1024];
   sprintf( obs_yield, "Observed Yield: %d", obs );
   sprintf( exp_yield, "Expected Yield: %.2lf #pm %.2lf" , bg_strength, bg_err );
   sprintf( delta    , "#Delta: %.3lf%%", 100.* (bg_strength-obs)/obs );
   tl->DrawLatex(0.85,0.65 , obs_yield );
   tl->DrawLatex(0.85,0.60 , exp_yield );
   tl->DrawLatex(0.85,0.55 , delta );

   // Saving and cleaning up
   c->SaveAs( GetRooObjPlot( sig->Name() ).c_str() );
   c->SetLogy(kTRUE);
   c->SaveAs( GetRooObjPlot(sig->Name() + "_log").c_str() );
   delete leg;
   delete tl;
   delete c;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//   Save everything to RooWorkspace
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void smft::SaveRooWorkSpace( SampleRooFitMgr* data, vector<SampleRooFitMgr*>& signal_list, vector<RooFitResult*>& results_list )
{
   const string roofit_file = GetRooObjFile();
   cout << "Saving RooFit objects to " << roofit_file << endl;
   RooWorkspace ws( ws_name.c_str() , ws_name.c_str() );
   ws.import( *(data->GetReduceDataSet(GetDataSetName())) );
   for( auto& signal : signal_list ){
      ws.import( *(data->GetPdfFromAlias("bg"+signal->Name())) );
      ws.import( *(signal->GetPdfFromAlias("key")) );
   }
   ws.writeToFile( roofit_file.c_str() );

   TFile* fit_file = TFile::Open( GetFitResults().c_str() , "RECREATE" );
   for( auto& result : results_list ){
      cout << "Adding results " << result->GetName() << " " << result << endl;
      result->Write( result->GetName() );
   }
   fit_file->Close();
   delete fit_file;
}


Last weekend on April 19th, we attended the Eco-mmunity Space Celebration event held at Frog Hollow Neighborhood House. It was a children's event organized by the youth in the community. We got to learn about recycling and reusing materials to make new things. It wasn't very busy as there were only a few kids. It was fun though.
The adults got free Starbucks coffee. Good for me to keep me awake.
Brandon had fun with the egg hunt in the playground.
Making things from recycled materials we picked out from the boxes.
We still had a lot of tickets left. We could've used it and made more recycled crafts.


No, I tried that, doesn't work.
Copy prx into plugins folder and pops.txt into root.
POPSloader doesn't work on the Vita's PSPemu, It not only needs a version specific to it but it needs one specific to Adrenaline which has not been made.
Even if it did run Adrenaline doesn't run PS1 games yet so this is useless to it.


Due to dealer agreements and competitor complaints many companies won't allow me to print my LOW prices.
This policy extends over to written Email quotes that can be used at another dealers store as a price wedge.
Please call me if you need a price on a new guitar. I will beat most all prices quoted by any authorized dealer on new merchandise.
NOS New Old Stock. Might be something that I purchased from another dealer that he could not sell it may even still have hang tags on it.
NFG Sadder shape, crappy looking and playability blows.
I always try to be honest and fair when I rate guitars, It usually pays off in repeat business and less return problems. I hate returns so I tend to be a little heavy handed with my descriptions. I may rate a guitar "Good" that a competitor may rate "Very Good". It is possible for me to make a mistake, contrary to popular belief I am not infallible. If you disagree with my assessment, I will take the guitar back no questions asked.
DC Double Cut, Double cutaway pertaining to the New Gibson Models.
PAF Patent Applied For "Sly Crafty, Larry Dimarzio trademarked this abbreviation. Gibson can't even use it."
I believed that the guitars should have an identifying name that people could remember. I didn't become completely fluent on Steinberger nomenclature till about 6 months after I picked up all the merchandise in their closed warehouse sometime in early 1998. I know when I worked there there were always naming conflicts going on all the time and 95% of the employees didn't know the actual names of all the models. It's very confusing to say the least.


text:
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Tar
{
	/// <summary>
	/// The TarOutputStream writes a UNIX tar archive as an OutputStream.
	/// Methods are provided to put entries, and then write their contents
	/// by writing to this stream using write().
	/// </summary>
	/// public
	public class TarOutputStream : Stream
	{
		#region Constructors
		/// <summary>
		/// Construct TarOutputStream using default block factor
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="outputStream">stream to write to</param>
		public TarOutputStream(Stream outputStream)
			: this(outputStream, TarBuffer.DefaultBlockFactor)
		{
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Construct TarOutputStream with user specified block factor
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="outputStream">stream to write to</param>
		/// <param name="blockFactor">blocking factor</param>
		public TarOutputStream(Stream outputStream, int blockFactor)
		{
			if (outputStream == null) {
				throw new ArgumentNullException("nameof(outputStream)");
			}

			this.outputStream = outputStream;
			buffer = TarBuffer.CreateOutputTarBuffer(outputStream, blockFactor);

			assemblyBuffer = new byte[TarBuffer.BlockSize];
			blockBuffer = new byte[TarBuffer.BlockSize];
		}
		#endregion

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets or sets a flag indicating ownership of underlying stream.
		/// When the flag is true <see cref="Stream.Dispose()" /> will close the underlying stream also.
		/// </summary>
		/// <remarks>The default value is true.</remarks>
		public bool IsStreamOwner {
			get { return buffer.IsStreamOwner; }
			set { buffer.IsStreamOwner = value; }
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// true if the stream supports reading; otherwise, false.
		/// </summary>
		public override bool CanRead {
			get {
				return outputStream.CanRead;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// true if the stream supports seeking; otherwise, false.
		/// </summary>
		public override bool CanSeek {
			get {
				return outputStream.CanSeek;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// true if stream supports writing; otherwise, false.
		/// </summary>
		public override bool CanWrite {
			get {
				return outputStream.CanWrite;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// length of stream in bytes
		/// </summary>
		public override long Length {
			get {
				return outputStream.Length;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// gets or sets the position within the current stream.
		/// </summary>
		public override long Position {
			get {
				return outputStream.Position;
			}
			set {
				outputStream.Position = value;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// set the position within the current stream
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="offset">The offset relative to the <paramref name="origin"/> to seek to</param>
		/// <param name="origin">The <see cref="SeekOrigin"/> to seek from.</param>
		/// <returns>The new position in the stream.</returns>
		public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
		{
			return outputStream.Seek(offset, origin);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Set the length of the current stream
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="value">The new stream length.</param>
		public override void SetLength(long value)
		{
			outputStream.SetLength(value);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Read a byte from the stream and advance the position within the stream
		/// by one byte or returns -1 if at the end of the stream.
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns>The byte value or -1 if at end of stream</returns>
		public override int ReadByte()
		{
			return outputStream.ReadByte();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// read bytes from the current stream and advance the position within the
		/// stream by the number of bytes read.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="buffer">The buffer to store read bytes in.</param>
		/// <param name="offset">The index into the buffer to being storing bytes at.</param>
		/// <param name="count">The desired number of bytes to read.</param>
		/// <returns>The total number of bytes read, or zero if at the end of the stream.
		/// The number of bytes may be less than the <paramref name="count">count</paramref>
		/// requested if data is not avialable.</returns>
		public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
		{
			return outputStream.Read(buffer, offset, count);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// All buffered data is written to destination
		/// </summary>
		public override void Flush()
		{
			outputStream.Flush();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Ends the TAR archive without closing the underlying OutputStream.
		/// The result is that the EOF block of nulls is written.
		/// </summary>
		public void Finish()
		{
			if (IsEntryOpen) {
				CloseEntry();
			}
			WriteEofBlock();
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Ends the TAR archive and closes the underlying OutputStream.
		/// </summary>
		/// <remarks>This means that Finish() is called followed by calling the
		/// TarBuffer's Close().</remarks>
		protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
		{
			if (!isClosed) {
				isClosed = true;
				Finish();
				buffer.Close();
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Get the record size being used by this stream's TarBuffer.
		/// </summary>
		public int RecordSize {
			get { return buffer.RecordSize; }
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Get the record size being used by this stream's TarBuffer.
		/// </summary>
		/// <returns>
		/// The TarBuffer record size.
		/// </returns>
		[Obsolete("Use RecordSize property instead")]
		public int GetRecordSize()
		{
			return buffer.RecordSize;
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Get a value indicating wether an entry is open, requiring more data to be written.
		/// </summary>
		bool IsEntryOpen {
			get { return (currBytes < currSize); }

		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Put an entry on the output stream. This writes the entry's
		/// header and positions the output stream for writing
		/// the contents of the entry. Once this method is called, the
		/// stream is ready for calls to write() to write the entry's
		/// contents. Once the contents are written, closeEntry()
		/// <B>MUST</B> be called to ensure that all buffered data
		/// is completely written to the output stream.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="entry">
		/// The TarEntry to be written to the archive.
		/// </param>
		public void PutNextEntry(TarEntry entry)
		{
			if (entry == null) {
				throw new ArgumentNullException("nameof(entry)");
			}

			if (entry.TarHeader.Name.Length > TarHeader.NAMELEN) {
				var longHeader = new TarHeader();
				longHeader.TypeFlag = TarHeader.LF_GNU_LONGNAME;
				longHeader.Name = longHeader.Name + "././@LongLink";
				longHeader.Mode = 420;//644 by default
				longHeader.UserId = entry.UserId;
				longHeader.GroupId = entry.GroupId;
				longHeader.GroupName = entry.GroupName;
				longHeader.UserName = entry.UserName;
				longHeader.LinkName = "";
				longHeader.Size = entry.TarHeader.Name.Length + 1;  // Plus one to avoid dropping last char

				longHeader.WriteHeader(blockBuffer);
				buffer.WriteBlock(blockBuffer);  // Add special long filename header block

				int nameCharIndex = 0;

				while (nameCharIndex < entry.TarHeader.Name.Length + 1 /* we've allocated one for the null char, now we must make sure it gets written out */) {
					Array.Clear(blockBuffer, 0, blockBuffer.Length);
					TarHeader.GetAsciiBytes(entry.TarHeader.Name, nameCharIndex, this.blockBuffer, 0, TarBuffer.BlockSize); // This func handles OK the extra char out of string length
					nameCharIndex += TarBuffer.BlockSize;
					buffer.WriteBlock(blockBuffer);
				}
			}

			entry.WriteEntryHeader(blockBuffer);
			buffer.WriteBlock(blockBuffer);

			currBytes = 0;

			currSize = entry.IsDirectory ? 0 : entry.Size;
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Close an entry. This method MUST be called for all file
		/// entries that contain data. The reason is that we must
		/// buffer data written to the stream in order to satisfy
		/// the buffer's block based writes. Thus, there may be
		/// data fragments still being assembled that must be written
		/// to the output stream before this entry is closed and the
		/// next entry written.
		/// </summary>
		public void CloseEntry()
		{
			if (assemblyBufferLength > 0) {
				Array.Clear(assemblyBuffer, assemblyBufferLength, assemblyBuffer.Length - assemblyBufferLength);

				buffer.WriteBlock(assemblyBuffer);

				currBytes += assemblyBufferLength;
				assemblyBufferLength = 0;
			}

			if (currBytes < currSize) {
				string errorText = string.Format(
					"Entry closed at '{0}' before the '{1}' bytes specified in the header were written",
					currBytes, currSize);
				throw new TarException(errorText);
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Writes a byte to the current tar archive entry.
		/// This method simply calls Write(byte[], int, int).
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="value">
		/// The byte to be written.
		/// </param>
		public override void WriteByte(byte value)
		{
			Write(new byte[] { value }, 0, 1);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Writes bytes to the current tar archive entry. This method
		/// is aware of the current entry and will throw an exception if
		/// you attempt to write bytes past the length specified for the
		/// current entry. The method is also (painfully) aware of the
		/// record buffering required by TarBuffer, and manages buffers
		/// that are not a multiple of recordsize in length, including
		/// assembling records from small buffers.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name = "buffer">
		/// The buffer to write to the archive.
		/// </param>
		/// <param name = "offset">
		/// The offset in the buffer from which to get bytes.
		/// </param>
		/// <param name = "count">
		/// The number of bytes to write.
		/// </param>
		public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
		{
			if (buffer == null) {
				throw new ArgumentNullException("nameof(buffer)");
			}

			if (offset < 0) {
				throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("nameof(offset)", "Cannot be negative");
			}

			if (buffer.Length - offset < count) {
				throw new ArgumentException("offset and count combination is invalid");
			}

			if (count < 0) {
				throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("nameof(count)", "Cannot be negative");
			}

			if ((currBytes + count) > currSize) {
				string errorText = string.Format("request to write '{0}' bytes exceeds size in header of '{1}' bytes",
					count, this.currSize);
				throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("nameof(count)", errorText);
			}

			//
			// We have to deal with assembly!!!
			// The programmer can be writing little 32 byte chunks for all
			// we know, and we must assemble complete blocks for writing.
			// TODO  REVIEW Maybe this should be in TarBuffer? Could that help to
			//        eliminate some of the buffer copying.
			//
			if (assemblyBufferLength > 0) {
				if ((assemblyBufferLength + count) >= blockBuffer.Length) {
					int aLen = blockBuffer.Length - assemblyBufferLength;

					Array.Copy(assemblyBuffer, 0, blockBuffer, 0, assemblyBufferLength);
					Array.Copy(buffer, offset, blockBuffer, assemblyBufferLength, aLen);

					this.buffer.WriteBlock(blockBuffer);

					currBytes += blockBuffer.Length;

					offset += aLen;
					count -= aLen;

					assemblyBufferLength = 0;
				} else {
					Array.Copy(buffer, offset, assemblyBuffer, assemblyBufferLength, count);
					offset += count;
					assemblyBufferLength += count;
					count -= count;
				}
			}

			//
			// When we get here we have EITHER:
			//   o An empty "assembly" buffer.
			//   o No bytes to write (count == 0)
			//
			while (count > 0) {
				if (count < blockBuffer.Length) {
					Array.Copy(buffer, offset, assemblyBuffer, assemblyBufferLength, count);
					assemblyBufferLength += count;
					break;
				}

				this.buffer.WriteBlock(buffer, offset);

				int bufferLength = blockBuffer.Length;
				currBytes += bufferLength;
				count -= bufferLength;
				offset += bufferLength;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Write an EOF (end of archive) block to the tar archive.
		/// The	end of the archive is indicated	by two blocks consisting entirely of zero bytes.
		/// </summary>
		void WriteEofBlock()
		{
			Array.Clear(blockBuffer, 0, blockBuffer.Length);
			buffer.WriteBlock(blockBuffer);
			buffer.WriteBlock(blockBuffer);
		}

		#region Instance Fields
		/// <summary>
		/// bytes written for this entry so far
		/// </summary>
		long currBytes;

		/// <summary>
		/// current 'Assembly' buffer length
		/// </summary>
		int assemblyBufferLength;

		/// <summary>
		/// Flag indicating wether this instance has been closed or not.
		/// </summary>
		bool isClosed;

		/// <summary>
		/// Size for the current entry
		/// </summary>
		protected long currSize;

		/// <summary>
		/// single block working buffer
		/// </summary>
		protected byte[] blockBuffer;

		/// <summary>
		/// 'Assembly' buffer used to assemble data before writing
		/// </summary>
		protected byte[] assemblyBuffer;

		/// <summary>
		/// TarBuffer used to provide correct blocking factor
		/// </summary>
		protected TarBuffer buffer;

		/// <summary>
		/// the destination stream for the archive contents
		/// </summary>
		protected Stream outputStream;
		#endregion
	}
}


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