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class ModalWaitingDemo {
    private _view: fgui.GComponent;
    private _testWin: TestWin;

    public async start() {
        await fgui.UIPackage.loadPackage("ModalWaiting");

        fgui.UIConfig.globalModalWaiting = "ui://ModalWaiting/GlobalModalWaiting";
        fgui.UIConfig.windowModalWaiting = "ui://ModalWaiting/WindowModalWaiting";

        this._view = fgui.UIPackage.createObject("ModalWaiting", "Main").asCom;
        this._view.setSize(fgui.GRoot.inst.width, fgui.GRoot.inst.height);
        fgui.GRoot.inst.addChild(this._view);

        this._testWin = new TestWin();
        this._view.getChild("n0").addClickListener(function (): void { this._testWin.show(); }, this);

        //这里模拟一个要锁住全屏的等待过程
        fgui.GRoot.inst.showModalWait();
        fgui.GTimers.inst.add(3000, 1, function (): void {
            fgui.GRoot.inst.closeModalWait();
        }, this);
    }
}

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By Margot Roosevelt/Picher, Okla. Monday, Apr. 19, 2004
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LEAD'S LEGACY: Who is going to pay to remove these poison mountains?
To get a better view of the situation, John Sparkman guns his flame-red truck up a massive pile of gravel. From the summit, a lifeless brown wasteland stretches to the horizon, like a scene from a science-fiction movie. Mountains of mine tailings, some as tall as 13-story buildings, others as wide as four football fields, loom over streets, homes, churches and schools. Dust, laced with lead, cadmium and other poisonous metals, blows off the man-made hills and 800 acres of dry settling ponds. "It gets in your teeth," says Sparkman, head of a local citizens' group. "It cakes in your ears and hair. It's like we've been environmentally raped."
Hyperbole? Drive through the desolate towns around Picher, Okla., and you might think differently. This is eco-assault on an epic scale. The prairie here in the northeast corner of the state is punctured with 480 open mine shafts and 30,000 drill holes. Little League fields have been built over an immense underground cavity that could collapse at any time. Acid mine waste flushes into drinking wells. When the water rises in Tar Creek, which runs through the site, a neon-orange scum oozes onto the roadside. Wild onions, a regional delicacy tossed into scrambled eggs, are saturated with cadmium — which may explain, local doctors say, why three different kidney dialysis centers have opened here to serve a population of only 30,000.
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But the grimmest legacy of a century of intensive lead and zinc mining are the "lead heads," or "chat rats," as the kids who grew up around here are known. As toddlers, they played in sandboxes of chat — the powdery output of mills after ore is extracted from rock. As preteens, they rode their bikes across the gravel mounds and swam in lime-green sinkholes. Their parents used mine tailings to make driveways and foundations, never thinking that contaminated dust might blow through the heating ducts of their ranch houses. In the past decade, studies have shown that up to 38% of local children have had high levels of lead in their blood — an exposure that can cause permanent neurological damage and learning disabilities. "Our kids hit a brick wall," says Kim Pace, principal of the Picher-Cardin Elementary School. "Their eyes skip and jump. It takes them 100 repetitions to learn a sound."
At her kitchen table, Evona Moss helps her son Michael, 10, with his homework. Michael grew up across the street from a chat pile, and at one point the third-grader's lead levels measured 40% above the Centers for Disease Control's danger level. He repeated kindergarten. "I used to think he was lazy," says his mother, "but he tries so hard. One minute he knows the words, and a half-hour later he doesn't. Every night he kneels down and prays to be a better reader."
It wasn't supposed to be like this. In 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act — commonly known as the Superfund law — one of the boldest environmental statutes in U.S. history. It was a law designed to fit all circumstances. It covered existing plants whose owners could be forced to clean up their dumps. It covered polluted sites long since abandoned by their owners: defunct factories, refineries and mines. Even when companies followed the standard, if dubious, practices of the day — dumping toxic waste in rivers, burying it in leaky drums or just leaving it, as in Oklahoma, to blow in the wind — they would be held accountable. And if they refused to clean up their messes, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would do so for them and charge treble damages for its trouble. In the event that the perpetrators had disappeared or gone out of business, a general tax on polluting industries — a "Superfund"--would pay to fix the damage.
But today Superfund is a program under siege, plagued by partisan politics, industry stonewalling and bureaucratic inertia. The U.S. government has spent $27 billion on the effort and forced individual polluters to spend an additional $21 billion. Love Canal, the deadly dump in New York State that spurred the law's passage, has been capped with a layer of clay, and the EPA proposed last month to take it off the list. So far, 278 sites have been delisted. But there are thousands more out there. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), 1 out of 4 Americans still lives within four miles of a Superfund site — many of them killing fields saturated with cancer-causing chemicals and other toxins.
The GAO reports that the program's budget fell 35% in inflation-adjusted dollars over the past decade. And environmentalists say that Bush appointees are slowing the pace of cleanups and failing to list potential new sites. According to the EPA's inspector general, 29 projects in 17 states were underfunded last year. The Administration, charges New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat, has "allowed — deliberately — these sites to rot where they are."

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The fact is, cash is anonymous — and humans love anonymity. It's not that we require it all the time, but a free society demands that the option is there. Whether you're paying for something embarrassing, like a prostitute, or privately funneling money to a charity, it's nice to have the option of paying with a currency that cannot be directly tracked back to you.
On the flip side, though, corruption, tax avoidance, and many other crimes are all linked to the fact that cash is very hard to track. Taking Sweden as an example again, in 2008 there were 110 bank robberies; in 2011, there was just 16, the lowest since records began 30 years ago. In Italy, where cash is alive and kicking and graft and tax evasion are rife, the Prime Minister recently announced that he plans to limit cash payments to 1000 euros ($1300), down from 2500 euros. It is not a coincidence that Italy and Greece, two of the most volatile economies in Europe, both have strong cash cultures.
It would seem that you can't have your cake and eat it too. Money is either accounted for by a central authority (electronic transactions), or it isn't (cash). You are either protected (and snooped on) by the auspices of governments and mega corporations, or you're not. There is another option, however.
The important thing to remember is that untraceable, anonymous cash isn't dead yet. Bills and coins might be on the way out, but that doesn't mean that they can't be replaced by an electronic equivalent. If Bitcoin has proved anything it's that you don't need a central authority to manage electronic trades — and just look at iTunes gift cards and pre-paid Visa and MasterCard credit cards; they're not quite as anonymous as cash, but they're close.
Bitcoin has failed because it doesn't have the backing of a central bank, but there's nothing to prevent national governments from issuing irreversible, cryptographic cash that could then be stored on "credit chips" (i.e. your smartphone, or even a coin-sized piece of solid-state memory). This digital cash would act just like its physical counterpart: You could deposit it in your bank, pay for groceries, or even lose it down the back of your sofa. You could pay people by physically giving them a credit chip, or by transferring them via smartphone. Digital cash would still have the same issues as normal cash — graft, tax evasion, robbery — but that's the price we pay for freedom.
The benefits of a purely digital economy are massive. If you think about it, dealing with physical cash is incredibly difficult. You need cash registers (which aren't cheap); you have to constantly monitor employees for theft; you need a safe to keep the money in between collections, and collections themselves are expensive too. A whole industry revolves around the safe handling, transportation, and counting of coins and bills. With digital currency, all of those difficulties disappear. With PayPal, you can set up an online business in minutes. With Square, your iPhone or Android smartphone becomes a point of sale.
And then there's the analytics! If you think you have problems managing your money, imagine if you could plug your credit chip into your computer at the end of the month and find out exactly how you spent (and wasted) money. You wouldn't have to give up this info to a third party — but if you did, there would be even more advantages. Imagine a group buying website (like Groupon) that analyzes your credit chip and matches you to 10 other local Coke drinkers; instead of each buying a 12-pack from the supermarket, you could club together and buy a case from the wholesaler.
Anonymous, digital cash isn't a given, though. We will probably have to fight for it. Conspiracy theorists are exceptionally talented at conflating fact and fiction, but they're not wrong when they say that totalitarian governments and megacorps really want monitor our every move. The demise of physical cash is the perfect opportunity for governments, under the sway of powerful lobby groups, to transition to trackable currencies that are governed by a central computer. This will probably be one of the biggest hurdles that we will face in the twenty-first century.
Swedes, when the referendum to abolish paper money finally rolls around, be sure to vote for the creation of a digital, anonymous equivalent. The rest of the world will watch and take its cues from you.


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Q: dynamically allocating memory to save user input in it I'm trying to write this simple code which takes the user input message, saves it on the stack, and then shows it back to the user.
I don't want to limit the number of characters the user can type in, so I used dynamic memory allocation each time the user enters a new character.
The code runs well if the user entered a small no. of characters, but it doesn't work if the user typed in a big no. of characters
for example: if I entered "Ahmed" it will show it back to me, but if I typed something with more characters it doesn't.
this is my code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    char *UserInput;
    UserInput=(char *)calloc(1,sizeof(char));
    int i=0,ii=0;
    printf("Enter a message! \n");
    while(*(UserInput+ii)!='\n'){
        scanf("%c",(UserInput+i));
        ii=i;
        i++;
        UserInput=realloc(UserInput,i*sizeof(char));
    }
    for(i=0;i<=ii;i++){
        printf("%c",*(UserInput+i));
    }

    return 0;
}

A: Changes to be made in your program to run properly:
UserInput = realloc(UserInput, ((i + 1) * sizeof(char)));

Explanation:
When you are accepting input by scanf, you are taking in a sequence of characters (including '\n'). As your format specifier is %c it is supposed to take in only a single character. The input is not a single character, but a character sequence. Also %c does not filter out '\n'. The extra characters get stored into the buffer of scanf. Next time when scanf is called, it takes the input from the buffer.
By using calloc, you are allocating the UserInput 1 byte of space in the beginning, but when you are calling scanf in each iteration the character is stored in UserInput + 1th location, which has not been allocated to your variable by calloc, but which is still in the buffer of calloc i.e. it still has not touched system memory/heap. you are reallocating your memory at end of iteration. i.e. you are using unallocated memory and after that you are allocating it to UserInput.
For small character sequences, this will not give any errors as the buffer of calloc is not that small, but for large character sequences, you will get a error - "corrupted size vs. prev_size" - which is an indicator of heap attack/exploitation.
This happened because the calloc buffer is now exhausted, and you are using the memory from system heap, which sends the system into frenzy. You modify memory outside the range that was allocated for you to use, and the system finds that its control data has been corrupted, and is not really happy with that.
also don't forget to free(UserInput);
Prost !

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From boutiques to markets to one-of-a-kind specialty stores, The Texas Hill Country is filled to the brim with retail versions of local charm. Here are some of the best local shops in each of the regions of the Hill Country so you can make a plan to stop in next time you pass through town.
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Paper Bear is a fun store to go into on days you need something to cheer you up. From goofy items like puppets and silly socks to jewelry, incense, and nice fabrics, Paper Bear is an excellent store for both gifts and paper products. It is located in a very walkable area of San Marcos known as "The Square," which is a great area to spend a full day walking around, checking out cool shops, and eating delicious food.
Solstice Outdoors is a premier yard art and sculpture venue in the Hill Country town of Dripping Springs. There are many features on the lot including a gallery of local art, yard decor, sculptures, and landscape design with a focus on native plants to the local area. There is a full-service nursery on site with a lot of low-maintenance plants for purchase. Note: Solstice Outdoors even offers installation services for anyone who wants to transform their home garden!
Some might say that Der Kuchen Laden is the Disneyworld of kitchen stores. This specialty shop carries tons of name brand items like Cuisinart, Kitchen Aid, and Nespresso, as well as an array of small specialty items for both gourmet chefs and amateurs.
Whittington's Jerky and General Store carries loads of Texas-style gourmet goods like traditional and specialty beef jerky, sauces, spice mixes, Texan chili, apple butter spread, salsas, jellies and jams, and so much more. Whittington's has all the simple pleasures a Hill Country resident could want.
Lavender Lane Farms was revitalized by Mitch and Keely Symons, and they have now opened the farm to be enjoyed by the public. It is located on a terrace overlooking the Blanco River just down the street from the courthouse. Lavender has a pleasant smell and soothing properties often used for calming and de-stressing after a long day. Lavender Lane Farms sells products like teas, lotions, sprays, and soaps to help you get in that peaceful state of mind.
The Alley on Main is a fun little boutique shop on the main street of downtown Boerne. This shop includes stylish clothing and accessories options for the ladies, as well as great home decor at affordable prices. There are always unique selections available to check out!
Pookie Jane's has a cute name and cute products to boot! This small boutique features a great selection of style and trends in clothing, accessories, shoes, jewelry, and much more. This shop is a favorite for male tag-along shoppers, as they can grab a complimentary cold beer and head into the "man cave" so the ladies can take their time shopping.
The Texas Hill Country is known for many things: gorgeous landscapes, spring-fed waterways, cowboy nights under the stars, and boot-stomping music. And along with the culture of Texas friendship and hospitality comes small businesses hoping to attract new customers. Make a point to venture out in your neighborhood or take a day trip to visit some of these amazing places!


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Online to Mass Media like Novel Series to Short Stories
By JAdP on January 8th, 2007
In Current Affairs, Entertainment
It struck me that the mass media attempts to leverage the web are akin to short stories filling in the background for book series, while I was reading "Social Networking and Breaking the Fourth Wall" by Steve Portigal.
The Chart, so the story goes, is a new online social networking site that leverages the graphic device they've used for several seasons, in which sexual contact between different characters are charted on a large whiteboard in Alice's home
-- Steve Portigal in "Social Networking and Breaking the Fourth Wall" on All this Chittah Chittah
Steve also points to "'The L Word' Spins Off Its Chart" in the New York Times, which discusses OurChart.com, a web site tied into Showtime's "The L Word" series.
I've seen many examples of this recently. Mass Media is trying all sorts of experiments to tie into newer and converged media| communications | computing technology, from voting on reality shows using SMS, or getting show updates via SMS/MMS, character blogs and webisodes.
All of this has a slight reek of desperation to it. Whatever the motive, and whatever comes out of old line media attempting to leverage the tools allowing everyone with a computer and broadband connection to be a content creator and publisher, it is interesting.
Part of what's happening is reminiscent of something I've seen in science fiction serial novels all of my life. Short stories and fan written stories filling in the background of those fictional universes. You can find this all over Science Fiction and Fantasy. Two that come immediately to mind that have built large communities with community generated content are Anne McCaffrey's "The Dragon Riders of Pern" and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series.
Compare how those authors and communities have developed and the rich tapestries of work that have been created with things like
the "The Resistance" webisodes for Battlestar Galactica that gave the back story for what happened between the end of last season and the beginning of the current season
CBS' InnerTube
the cancellation of Vanished as a TV series followed by continuation through MySpace
the site, WhoDroppedTheBomb.com, for the show Jericho, which is basically part of InnerTube
TV shows on iTunes for your iPod
And many, many more. These are just the few I found in some quick searches. Many, if not most, TV shows have background support from the web.
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Blue Light Observations Indicate Water-Rich Atmosphere of Super-Earth
Artist's rendition of a transit of GJ 1214 b in blue light. The blue sphere represents the host star GJ 1214, and the black ball in front of it on the right is GJ 1214 b. (Credit: NAOJ)
A Japanese research team of astronomers and planetary scientists has used Subaru Telescope's two optical cameras, Suprime-Cam and the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph (FOCAS), with a blue transmission filter to observe planetary transits of super-Earth GJ 1214 b (Gilese 1214 b). The team investigated whether this planet has an atmosphere rich in water or hydrogen. The Subaru observations show that the sky of this planet does not show a strong Rayleigh scattering feature, which a cloudless hydrogen-dominated atmosphere would predict. When combined with the findings of previous observations in other colors, this new observational result implies that GJ 1214 b is likely to have a water-rich atmosphere….
… Read more at www.sciencedaily.com
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Categories: ASTROPHYSICS	Tags: exoplanets, GJ 1214 b
Astronomers Image Lowest-mass Exoplanet Around a Sun-like Star
Using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, an international team of astronomers has imaged a giant planet around the bright star GJ 504. Several times the mass of Jupiter and similar in size, the new world, dubbed GJ 504b, is the lowest-mass planet ever detected around a star like the sun using direct imaging techniques.
"If we could travel to this giant planet, we would see a world still glowing from the heat of its formation with a color reminiscent of a dark cherry blossom, a dull magenta," said Michael McElwain, a member of the discovery team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Our near-infrared camera reveals that its color is much more blue than other imaged planets, which may indicate that its atmosphere has fewer clouds."
GJ 504b orbits its star at nearly nine times the distance Jupiter orbits the sun, which poses a challenge to theoretical ideas of how giant planets form.
This composite combines Subaru images of GJ 504 using two near-infrared wavelengths (orange, 1.6 micrometers, taken in May 2011; blue, 1.2 micrometers, April 2012). Once processed to remove scattered starlight, the images reveal the orbiting planet, GJ 504b. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/NOAJ
According to the most widely accepted picture, called the core-accretion model, Jupiter-like planets get their start in the gas-rich debris disk that surrounds a young star. A core produced by collisions among asteroids and comets provides a seed, and when this core reaches sufficient mass, its gravitational pull rapidly attracts gas from the disk to form the planet.
While this model works fine for planets out to where Neptune orbits, about 30 times Earth's average distance from the sun (30 astronomical units, or AU), it's more problematic for worlds located farther from their stars. GJ 504b lies at a projected distance of 43.5 AU from its star; the actual distance depends on how the system tips to our line of sight, which is not precisely known.
"This is among the hardest planets to explain in a traditional planet-formation framework," explained team member Markus Janson, a Hubble postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in New Jersey. "Its discovery implies that we need to seriously consider alternative formation theories, or perhaps to reassess some of the basic assumptions in the core-accretion theory."
The research is part of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS), a project to directly image extrasolar planets and protoplanetary disks around several hundred nearby stars using the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The five-year project began in 2009 and is led by Motohide Tamura at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
This chart locates the fifth-magnitude star GJ 504, also known as 59 Virginis, which is visible to the unaided eye from suburban skies. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
While direct imaging is arguably the most important technique for observing planets around other stars, it is also the most challenging.
"Imaging provides information about the planet's luminosity, temperature, atmosphere and orbit, but because planets are so faint and so close to their host stars, it's like trying to take a picture of a firefly near a searchlight," explained Masayuki Kuzuhara at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, who led the discovery team.
The SEEDS project images at near-infrared wavelengths with the help of the telescope's novel adaptive optics system, which compensates for the smearing effects of Earth's atmosphere, and two instruments: the High Contrast Instrument for the Subaru Next Generation Adaptive Optics and the InfraRed Camera and Spectrograph. The combination allows the team to push the boundary of direct imaging toward fainter planets.
A paper describing the results has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and will appear in a future issue.
The researchers find that GJ 504b is about four times more massive than Jupiter and has an effective temperature of about 460 degrees Fahrenheit (237 Celsius).
It orbits the G0-type star GJ 504, which is slightly hotter than the sun and is faintly visible to the unaided eye in the constellation Virgo. The star lies 57 light-years away and the team estimates the systems is about 160 million years, based on methods that link the star's color and rotation period to it age.
Young star systems are the most attractive targets for direct exoplanet imaging because their planets have not existed long enough to lose much of the heat from their formation, which enhances their infrared brightness.
"Our sun is about halfway through its energy-producing life, but GJ504 is only one-thirtieth its age," added McElwain. "Studying these systems is a little like seeing our own planetary system in its youth."
Read more at http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/astronomers-image-lowest-mass-exoplanet-around-a-sun-like-star/#.UgDv0dJ7Lbx
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Categories: ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS	Tags: exoplanets, GJ 504b, Subaru
First Planet Discovered Orbiting a Brown Dwarf
Astronomers have long supposed that planets can form around brown dwarfs just as they do around ordinary stars. Now they've found the first example
Geometry of the lens system. The closed figures composed concave curves represent the caustic and the line with an arrow is the source trajectory. M1 and M2 represent the binary lens components, where M1 is the heavier one. Greyscale represents the lensing magnification where brighter tone denotes higher magnifications. All lengths are scaled by the Einstein radius corresponding to the total mass of the binary lens (http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6335)
Astrophysical calculations show that any star that is smaller than about 1/10th of the mass of the sun cannot sustain hydrogen fusion reactions at its core. These failed stars never light up. Instead they wander the galaxy as warm, dark balls of hydrogen known as brown dwarfs.
Brown dwarfs probably form through the same process that lead to ordinary stars but merely on a smaller scale. If that's correct, planets should also form in the protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around brown dwarfs. Indeed, astronomers have seen a number of protoplanetary disks of this type.
Until now, however, they've never seen a planet orbiting a brown dwarf. That's not really surprising.
The standard methods for detecting planets look for the way a star wobbles as a planet orbits or at how its magnitude changes as a planet passes in front. But given that brown dwarfs are dim and difficult to see, these methods have yet to produce fruit.
All that changes today with the announcement by an international team of astronomers that they've discovered a planet orbiting a brown dwarf the first time. These guys have made their discovery using an entirely different method of detection called gravitational lensing. This occurs when one body passes in front of another and its gravity focuses light from the more distant object towards Earth. That works regardless of the brightnesses involved.
The brown dwarf in question is almost 6000 light years from Earth in the Fish Hook constellation. Astronomers first noticed an unusual change in its brightness in April 2012. Further investigation showed that this was indeed a lensing event.
These guys conclude that the brown dwarf is being orbited by a planet about twice the mass of Jupiter at a distance of just under one astronomical unit. The brown dwarf itself is about 10 times larger than its companion.
That's the first time astronomers have found an object orbiting a brown dwarf that can be truly described as a planet. The technical definition of a planet is that it must have formed in the parent object's protoplanetary disk.
Astronomers have seen other planet-sized objects orbiting brown dwarfs but only at distances of several tens of astronomical units. That's too far to have been part of the protoplanetary disk. "Thus,…,they are not bona fide planets," say the team.
So that's a modest first for this team. It raises the question of what kind of conditions exist on such a planet and, of course, whether these could support life.
This planet almost certainly does not fall into that category but where there is one planet, there are almost certainly others. Astronomers can now have some fun speculating on the Goldilocks zones around brown dwarfs where conditions are just right for life and how to spot the interesting planets inside them.
Read more at http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517556/
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Categories: ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS	Tags: Brown dwarf, exoplanets
A Warmer Planetary Haven Around Cool Stars …
… as Ice Warms Rather Than Cools
n a bit of cosmic irony, planets orbiting cooler stars may be more likely to remain ice-free than planets around hotter stars. This artist's concept illustrates a planet orbiting a red dwarf star. (Credit: NASA)
In a bit of cosmic irony, planets orbiting cooler stars may be more likely to remain ice-free than planets around hotter stars. This is due to the interaction of a star's light with ice and snow on the planet's surface.
Stars emit different types of light. Hotter stars emit high-energy visible and ultraviolet light, and cooler stars give off infrared and near-infrared light, which has a much lower energy.
It seems logical that the warmth of terrestrial or rocky planets should depend on the amount of light they get from their stars, all other things being equal. But new climate model research led by Aomawa Shields, a doctoral student in the University of Washington astronomy department, has added a surprising new twist to the story: Planets orbiting cool stars actually may be much warmer and less icy than their counterparts orbiting much hotter stars, even though they receive the same amount of light.
That's because the ice absorbs much of the longer wavelength, near-infrared light predominantly emitted by these cooler stars. This is counter to what we experience on Earth, where ice and snow strongly reflect the visible light emitted by the Sun.
Around a cooler (M-dwarf) star, the more light the ice absorbs, the warmer the planet gets. The planet's atmospheric greenhouse gases also absorb this near-infrared light, compounding the warming effect….
… Read more at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130719103151.htm
Categories: ASTRONOMY	Tags: exoplanets
NASA's Kepler Discovers its Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets to Date
Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of April 18, 2013. Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists' renditions). Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.
The Kepler-62 system has five planets; 62b, 62c, 62d, 62e and 62f. The Kepler-69 system has two planets; 69b and 69c. Kepler-62e, 62f and 69c are the super-Earth-sized planets.
Two of the newly discovered planets orbit a star smaller and cooler than the sun. Kepler-62f is only 40 percent larger than Earth, making it the exoplanet closest to the size of our planet known in the habitable zone of another star. Kepler-62f is likely to have a rocky composition. Kepler-62e, orbits on the inner edge of the habitable zone and is roughly 60 percent larger than Earth.
The third planet, Kepler-69c, is 70 percent larger than the size of Earth, and orbits in the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. Astronomers are uncertain about the composition of Kepler-69c, but its orbit of 242 days around a sun-like star resembles that of our neighboring planet Venus.
Scientists do not know whether life could exist on the newfound planets, but their discovery signals we are another step closer to finding a world similar to Earth around a star like our sun….
…. Read more: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-62-kepler-69.html
April 18, 2013 physicsgg	1 Comment
Categories: ASTROBIOLOGY, ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS	Tags: exoplanets, Kepler
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More planets could harbour life
Scientists should not exclude planets that reside in colder regions
By Jonathan Ball
New computer models suggest there could be many more habitable planets out there than previously thought.
Scientists have developed models to help them identify planets in far-away solar systems that are capable of supporting life.
Estimates of habitable planet numbers have been based on the likelihood of them having surface water.
But a new model allows scientists to identify planets with underground water kept liquid by planetary heat.
The research was presented at the British Science Festival in Aberdeen.
Water is fundamental for life as we know it.
Planets too close to their sun lose surface water to the atmosphere through evaporation.
Surface water on planets located in the more frigid distant reaches from their sun is locked away as ice.
The dogma was, for water to exist in its life-giving liquid form, a planet had to be the right distance from its sun – in the habitable zone.
As Sean McMahon, the PhD student from Aberdeen University who is carrying out the work explained: "It's the idea of a range of distances from a star within which the surface of an Earth-like planet is not too hot or too cold for water to be liquid.
"So traditionally people have said that if a planet is in this Goldilocks zone – not too hot and not too cold – then it can have liquid water on its surface and be a habitable planet"
But researchers are starting to think that the Goldilocks theory is far too simple.
Planets can receive two sources of heat – heat direct from the star and heat generated deep inside the planet.
As you descend through the crust of the Earth, the temperature gets higher and higher. Even when the surface is frozen, water can exist below ground.
Immense quantities of water in fact – teeming with primitive life.
As Prof John Parnell, also from Aberdeen University said: "There is a significant habitat for microorganisms below the surface of the Earth, extending down several kilometres.
"And some workers believe that the bulk of life on Earth could even reside in this deep biosphere."
So the Aberdeen team are developing models to predict which far-flung planets might harbour underground reservoirs of liquid water with the possibility of alien life.
Explaining their rationale, Mr McMahon said: "If you take into account the possibility of deep biospheres, then you have a problem reconciling that with the idea of a narrow habitable zone defined only by conditions at the surface."
As you move away from the star the amount of heat a planet receives from the star decreases and the surface water freezes – but any water held deep inside will stay liquid if the internal heat is high enough – and that water could support life.
Even a planet so far from the star that it receives almost no solar heat could still maintain underground liquid water.
According to Mr McMahon, "There will be several times more [habitable] planets".
Read more: www.bbc.co.uk
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Grupa LOTOS Gdansk Oil Refinery Expansions - EPC
Fluor has carried out 18 successful projects for the Gdańsk refinery since beginning studies for modernization and upgrades in 1994. The most recent was a contract for utilities and offsites at a total installed cost of $333,6 million, completed in 2010.
Client's Challenge
Grupa LOTOS (formerly Rafineria Gdańska S.A.) operates in both processing and selling petroleum products in Eastern and Central Europe. Poland's second-largest oil refiner and supplier, and one of the biggest retailers has sought to consistently upgrade and revamp the Gdańsk refinery, increasing its nameplate capacity from ca.3 million tpa (as built in 1973 / 1974) to over 10 million tpa (2011).
The investment projects at the Gdańsk refinery have been generally focused on improvement of LOTOS' competitiveness in the market.
Other main goals were to meet European legislation requirements for low-sulfur diesel and gasoline and to allow processing of new feedstocks.
In 2007, LOTOS began its largest investment project: "10+ Programme" with the target to expand refinery capacity, increase efficiency, and reduce the impact of the refinery onto the environment. Also, "10+" helped LOTOS to comply with European Union requirements for diesel specification (10 ppm sulfur), which entered in force in 2009. At the completion of the "10+ Programme", in December 2010, the processing capacity of crude oil increased by 75% (from 6 mln tpa to 10.5 tpa), and diesel oil production achieved more than .5 million tonnes per year.
The company is a leading European producer of bitumens, lubricating oils, and paraffins. It is also involved in offshore oil exploration and production in the Baltic Sea and the Norwegian seashore.
Fluor's Solution
Fluor has completed numerous projects for the Gdansk refinery, as summarized below with the year of contract award:
Studies to increase refinery capacity from 2.8 to 3.5 million tpa and then to 4.5 million tpa, and to broaden product slate and reduce environmental impact (1996–1999).
Managing contractor and construction management contractor – refinery modernization and revamp (capacity increase from 3.5 mln tpa to 4.5 mln tpa) including new units and systems: Hydrocracker, Hydrogen Plant, Sulfur Complex; Naphtha Reformer; Naphtha Isomerisation Offsites and Utilities. The project achieved 2 million safe work hours and was completed on time and 10 percent under budget (1996).
FEED and lump-sum engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) for refinery expansion to implement residue upgrading project, with new facilities: CDU/VDU; Solvent Deasphalting unit; world-scale Mild Hydrocracker; Gasification unit, Rectisol®, CO-shift and methanation (to produce hydrogen for the refinery and syngas for new integrated combined cycle – IGCC). Four Fluor offices were involved in the project (2006).
Engineering, procurement, and construction management for new or revamped utilities and offsites. Goal: increasing refinery capacity by 75 percent, to 10.5 million tpa of crude oil and achieving higher conversion ratio. Part of "10+ Programme" Received award for quality and 'Una Pro Posteritate" mention, for exceptional cooperation with the client. $333,6 million. The project achieved 1 million safe work hours in 17 months (2007).
Grupa LOTOS recognized full Fluor's commitment to a safe workplace and rewarded it. Fluor extended its reputation in Eastern Europe for quality engineering, procurement, and construction management services. In addition, managing more than 1,100 employees with 58 management personnel, Fluor achieved 1 million safe work hours through training, incentives, awards, and a "zero tolerance" approach.
Fluor's consecutive projects for Grupa LOTOS have proven the stability and sustainability of Fluor's quality of work with the Client and with other companies working at construction site.
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Dr. Eva Liang, MD
Center For Sight
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Get to Know Dr. Eva Liang, MD
Temple University School of Medicine
University Hawaii 1996
University Of Nevada School Of Medicine 1995
Dr. Eva Liang, MD's Experience
Anterior Segment Surgery
Cornea & Refractive Surgery
Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Removal of Foreign Body from External Eye
Aphakia and Other Disorders of Lens
Benign Neoplasm of Choroid
Benign Neoplasm of Eye
Corneal Abrasion or Laceration
Ectropion of Eyelid
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Monofixation Syndrome
Pinguecula
Retinal Detachment and Retinal Tear
Retinal Dystrophy
Senile Cataracts
Trichiasis
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Dr. Liang is a board-certified ophthalmologist and refractive surgeon as well as the founder of Center For Sight – Las Vegas. During her career, she has surgically preserved and enhanced the sight of more than 20,000 patients (and counting!). Dr. Liang considers it a privilege to care for her patients' vision for a lifetime. She also feels as at home in a surgical suite as she does in the clinic developing lifelong relationship with her patients. "I am drawn to the precision, the optics and the math involved in microsurgery," said Dr. Liang. "But I also love helping people see better every day. Your sight impacts everything you do for the rest of your life. Seeing that transformation in people's sight is extremely satisfying." Dr. Liang founded "Sight for Life", a non-profit organization who assists underprivileged individuals suffering from sight-threatening disease to receive extraordinary medical and surgical eye care. Born in Taiwan and raised in Hawaii and Nevada, Dr. Liang couldn't wait to establish her private practice in the Las Vegas area that she has called home for many years. She earned her medical degree from the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Her post-graduate training included an internship at the University of Hawaii followed by an ophthalmology residency at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. She opened the doors to Center For Sight in 2015. Today, the comprehensive eye care practice has four thriving locations, including the state-of-the-art flagship location in Tivoli Village, which opened in 2017. "I am very proud of the culture we have built here at Center For Sight," said Dr. Liang. It is very patient-centric. 20/Happy is not just something we say; you can feel it in our offices every day. We are committed to that." Personal Life Dr. Liang is married to healthcare executive Anthony Ausband and, together, they have three sons. Their life outside of work revolves around all the sports their sons participate in, working out, skiing as a family (when time permits!) as well as enjoying friends and concerts. Dr. Liang is an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and the American College of Surgeons.
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One of the recent updates for GmsCore — a Google Play Services Framework implementation — ships with the option of pausing over-the-air (OTA) updates, some users have noticed. The functionality was initially spotted on Saturday, with first sightings being attributed to the new update for the second developer preview of Android O, though that notion was promptly dispelled by a Google engineer Elliott Hughes who took to Google+ to clarify that the feature is integrated into GmsCore. The ability to pause and resume Android system updates also wasn't introduced with the latest GmsCore build and was instead launched with one of the earlier versions of the service, though Hughes didn't clarify which one.
The feature itself is available for updates of all sizes, though users likely won't notice it unless they're downloading larger software packages. Hughes revealed that even internal Android testers didn't observe the functionality at first as larger updates not only became faster in the last 12 months but were also being distributed to them overnight. Finally, the same source confirmed that both paused and interrupted system updates should continue where they left off after they are resumed, noting that he has never seen any bug reports that point to the contrary. Regardless, users who are conservative with their data plans and only download software packages over Wi-Fi networks will likely find the newly introduced functionality useful.
Though it wasn't supported by any stock variant of the operating system until now, the ability to pause and resume system updates is not a complete novelty in the world of Android as Samsung already introduced the same functionality to its proprietary user interface a while back. Still, the rollout of the new GmsCore feature will now provide more users with the same luxury and it may even signal that Google is considering adding the ability to pause Android app updates in the future. Regardless of whether the Mountain View-based tech giant decides to expand on this option or not, an update on its Android-related development efforts will likely follow soon, especially as Android O gets closer to hitting the stable channel and new Google Play Services builds are rolled out.


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package se.claremont.taf.eyeautomatesupport.gui;

import se.claremont.taf.core.gui.Gui;
import se.claremont.taf.core.gui.guistyle.AppFont;
import se.claremont.taf.core.gui.guistyle.TafHeadline;
import se.claremont.taf.core.gui.guistyle.TafLabel;
import se.claremont.taf.core.gui.guistyle.TafPanel;
import se.claremont.taf.core.gui.plugins.IGuiTab;

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.HyperlinkEvent;
import javax.swing.event.HyperlinkListener;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;

public class SmartImageRecognitionSupportTabPanel implements IGuiTab {
    TafPanel panel = null;
    TafHeadline headline = new TafHeadline("Smart image recognition support");
    TafLabel textParagraph1 = new TafLabel("Smart image recognition utilizes the libraries from EyeAutomate to identify and " +
            "interact with GUI elements based on their appearance.");
    TafLabel textParagraph2 = new TafLabel("The algorithms compensate for resolution, " +
            "color depth and normal font deviations.");
    TafLabel textParagraph3 = new TafLabel("Smart image recognition is supported through code, or from " +
            "EyeAutomate capturemanagers, for now.");

    public SmartImageRecognitionSupportTabPanel() {
        panel = new TafPanel("SmartImageRecognitionSupportTabPanel");

        GroupLayout groupLayout = new GroupLayout(panel);
        panel.setLayout(groupLayout);

        JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
        textPane.setName("AboutTextPane");
        textPane.setContentType("text/html");
        textPane.setForeground(Gui.colorTheme.textColor);
        textPane.setBackground(Gui.colorTheme.backgroundColor);
        textPane.setFont(AppFont.getInstance());
        textPane.setEditable(false);
        textPane.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkListener() {
            public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent e) {
                if (e.getEventType() == HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED) {
                    if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) {
                        try {
                            Desktop.getDesktop().browse(e.getURL().toURI());
                        } catch (IOException e1) {
                            e1.printStackTrace();
                        } catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
                            e1.printStackTrace();
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        });
        textPane.setText(getBriefText());

        groupLayout.setAutoCreateGaps(true);
        groupLayout.setAutoCreateContainerGaps(true);
        groupLayout.setHorizontalGroup(
                groupLayout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addGroup(groupLayout.createParallelGroup()
                                .addComponent(headline)
                                .addComponent(textParagraph1)
                                .addComponent(textParagraph2)
                                .addComponent(textParagraph3)
                                .addComponent(textPane)
                        )
        );
        groupLayout.setVerticalGroup(
                groupLayout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addComponent(headline)
                        .addComponent(textParagraph1)
                        .addComponent(textParagraph2)
                        .addComponent(textParagraph3)
                        .addComponent(textPane)
        );

    }

    private String getBriefText() {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("");
        sb.append("");
        sb.append("
More info about EyeAutomate tool can be found at the product site for EyeAutomate.
");
        sb.append("");
        sb.append("");
        return sb.toString();
    }

    @Override
    public JPanel getPanel() {
        if (panel == null) return new SmartImageRecognitionSupportTabPanel().panel;
        return panel;
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return "Smart image recognition";
    }
}


We regularly get asked about the plastic wrap that we use to mail out for our customers. With the massive increase in public awareness regarding single use packaging we have seen a tremendous increase in the number of customer or other party enquiries regarding our use of film. Rather than go through naked mailing and other methods of sealing each printed product for delivery we have produced a short pro and con list for the two types of plastic film that we use.
At this moment in time we can only produce the two options, Polywrap and biodegradable wrap.
We are always looking into alternatives and ways that our production offering can be improved. We are continuously evaluating our business practices and work to both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards.