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You can find me easily in google searches, as jcomeau, jcomeau_ictx, or jcomeauictx. There are lots of other jcomeaus, but AFAIK I'm the only jcomeau_ictx out there so far.
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cleaned off the rest of the adhesive left after removing the protective plastic from the glass table top, using the peel from a single grapefruit. the first, largest removal job was a week or three ago using 4 orange peels.
checked my distillation experiment after having forgotten about it for a few days. there was about two tablesppons worth of water in the cup.
with a #6 by 3/4" flathead screw, I mounted a Gillette Fusion blade set on the other end of my sawed-off toothbrush. a minor space- and weight-saver, but every little bit helps. [comment]
yesterday, among other things, I learned to identify guamúchil, one species of Damiana (probably not T. diffusa as its flowers look like asters), and Mexican oregano. [comment]
jogging along the malecon last night, didn't see the iron bench I was approaching. whack! my right hand hit it hard. just a tiny bruise on the outside, but it did some internal damage. hurts to grip anything.
amaranth kraut still very slow forming, so added another lump of sea salt, bringing the total to about 1.5tsp so far.
steeped a scoop of ground espresso roast in about an ounce of rum overnight, and just topped up the glass with water. hopefully the grounds will settle out in time for dinner. [comment]
a couple of experiments are showing some promise. the batch of native amaranth I'm attempting to brine pickle hasn't spoiled, and if my taste buds don't deceive me, is starting to taste a little sour.
the other is a simple water distillation setup. I placed a coffee cup in the center of a pot, filled the pot partway with nonpotable water, and inverted the lid so that the lid handle acts as the drip point for the condensate. collected maybe a little less than a teaspoon with only the afternoon sun. up on the roof it may get twice as much. and there's room for hundreds of these. [comment]
here's the patch if you're interested in debugging a similar problem. so far I still haven't figured out how to make it build with the right header files. [comment]
pretty sure I figured it out... rebuilding now. my own damned fault: I had the -I options in the wrong order, and it was finding the bdb4.8 includes before the version 5.1 header files. so it had the wrong value for DB_NOTFOUND. [comment]
downloaded dogecoin-1.8.1-beta-1 and built it on my server. I get "Wallet corrupted" errors when running, but db_dump doesn't give any errors. I added some debugging output to walletdb.cpp and now get the error code and proof that the entire (new, empty) wallet is read correctly:
jcomeau@hetzner2:~/src/dogecoin-1.8.1-beta-1/src$ grep -C3 LoadWallet ~/.dogecoin/debug.log
2014-11-24 19:11:57 init message: Loading wallet...
2014-11-24 19:11:57 LoadWallet() starting
2014-11-24 19:11:57 LoadWallet() successfully read record 0776657273696f6e: 247b1000
2014-11-24 19:11:57 LoadWallet() successfully read record 0962657374626c6f636b: 247b1000019156352c1818b32e90c9e792efd6a11a82fe7956a630f03bbee236cedae3911a
2014-11-24 19:11:57 Error -30987 reading next record from wallet database
2014-11-24 19:11:57 Error loading wallet.dat: Wallet corrupted
2014-11-24 19:11:57 wallet 67ms
jcomeau@hetzner2:~/src/dogecoin-1.8.1-beta-1/src$ ~/bdb5.1/bin/db_dump ~/.dogecoin/wallet.dat
yeah, open source for the win and all that, but how could this have ever made it to release? I'll probably figure this out today and get it running, but I found by Googling many others had this error and couldn't find an answer. [comment]
it was maybe the best damned seafood dinner I've ever cooked. I had 3 helpings.
note that, except for the errors/omissions listed in the previous post, I doubled the recipe, which means I used about a quarter cup of soy sauce (4 tbsp). it wasn't too much! [comment]
trying a shrimp pasta recipe with a half kilo of shrimp and a half kilo of callos de almeja, clam muscles, similar to bay scallops. added almost 3 times as much soy sauce than called for, misreading tsp as tbsp, and left out the brown sugar, but hoping for the best. had to throw away a few of the shrimp, some were stinky with ammonia and others didn't smell too bad but were soft and falling apart. best to stick with the local seafood here, apparently. [comment]
yesterday or, more likely, the day before, I cleaned most of the leaves off a native amaranth, packed them into a jar, and added about a teaspoon of sea salt. want to see if I have any luck brine-pickling it. [comment]
here is the script, shellbot, that was uploaded to my server using vulnerabilities in my Bash CGI scripts, mostly failure to sanitize REQUEST_URI when interpolating it. posting it here for reference, since searching for various words in it doesn't bring up any Google hits on the actual source.
from my logs, I gather they backticked wget calls into the request, which fetched the above script into /tmp/bbr, then backticked the call to /tmp/bbr. that's all it took.
and all it hopefully takes to fix it is to use Bash's pattern substitution: ${REQUEST_URI//[^A-Za-z0-9\/.-]/} instead of $REQUEST_URI. [comment]
if parts of my website aren't working right, I disabled all of my CGI scripts except for those that I sanitized today. let me know if something you need is broken and I will bump its priority.
I killed the processes started by the intruder, after chmod'ing -x the scripts he used to break in with. got to keep checking in case he left some backdoors. and got to go through the logs and make sure I understand the vulnerabilities he used, and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. [comment]
arggh! left some ancient CGI scripts in plain sight on my server, executable by anybody. who knows what the crackers managed to do with them. found and killed one listening process, but the file itself was apparently removed and I can't find any other obvious problems. dumb, dumb, dumb! [comment]
no more useless exim4 installation on my netbook. configuring it to use my server as smarthost was too much work and a year later I still hadn't accomplished it. one single line in my /etc/inittab allows me to mail from the commandline.
exim:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/ssh -p2345 -n -N -T -L 25:localhost:25 root@mailserver
where 2345 is the root ssh port (not really! you'll have to nmap it to find the real one) and mailserver is, of course, the server that runs exim4, to which I'm connecting. [comment]
/usr/bin/ar: creating libleveldb.a
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jcomeau/src/bitcoin/src/leveldb'
CXXLD bitcoind
libtool: link: warning: library `//home/jcomeau/lib/libdb_cxx-4.8.la' was moved.
libtool: link: warning: library `//home/jcomeau/lib/libdb_cxx-4.8.la' was moved.
/usr/bin/ld: //home/jcomeau/lib/libssl.a(s2_meth.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
//home/jcomeau/lib/libssl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [bitcoind] Error 1
got configure to run at least, latest bitcoin on my 64-bit Debian box: jcomeau@hetzner2:~/src/bitcoin$ CPPFLAGS="-I$HOME/include" LDFLAGS="-L/$HOME/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,$HOME/lib" ./configure --prefix=$HOME --with-boost=$HOME --with-sysroot=$HOME [comment]
to all my fellow gun nuts who are looking forward to war with the government, blacks, and muslims all at the same time: maybe better narrow it down to one front. there are plenty of blacks and muslims on the side of freedom. remember Arab Spring? remember the Deacons of Defense and Justice, and their modern day counterparts such as the Huey P. Newton Gun Club? these are not our enemies. the politicians are, as are the police who do their evil bidding. sure, there are individual muslims and individual blacks who are against freedom, as there are individuals of all races and religions who are antithetical to our cause. keep it simple, please. the whole world is counting on us to win this. [comment]
"If someone's open carrying, I don't know as a mom whether that person has passed a background check, whether they have any training," said Turner. "Basically, I don't know if they're a good guy with a gun or a bad guy with a gun."
Angela Turner is a "gun owner and volunteer for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America" according to the article. Austin Police chief Art "Oathbreaker" Acevedo also spouted some inanities, but let's just deal with Turner's for now.
sorry, Angela: you cannot know. neither can you know if that truck driver is about to swerve into a head-on collision with you, either due to some homicidal whim or just failure to change his bald front tires, of which the left is about to rupture. you don't know if that approaching jogger plans to throw you out into traffic or off the Golden Gate bridge.
what you can do is analyze the situation, check your options, determine the threat level if any, and act accordingly, all the time. your beloved universal background checks can only analyze past behavior, and are subject to all kinds of errors, particularly same-name conflation, which deprives rights of the innocent.
perhaps you'd be happy in a world where everyone is microchipped with a kill switch, so that a bureaucrat monitoring your thought patterns can see every little crazy thought that goes through your mind and shut you down if it looks like you might hurt someone. perhaps you'd trust Obama, or Acevedo, or the guy in the car behind you with that kind of power.
if so, please feel free to go land on a comet somewhere and get that world going. but leave this one alone. thanks. [comment]
walked the arroyo across from Marina Palmyra earlier today. lush and green. spent maybe a half hour picking grass stickers out of my socks afterwards. [comment]
I was only going to have a liter at El Parnazo, but made the mistake of sitting at a table of Canucks. Terry was buying, and if I'd stayed I'm sure I'd have had at least a gallon and would have had to crawl home. thanks Terry, Michael, John "JB" and Barry for the beer and pleasant company. cooked up some sesame-crusted jurel (yellowtail) with onions, peppers, bean sprouts, and white rice for dinner and, despite my drunkenness, it came out great, moist and delicious. [comment]
hauled the spent motor oil to the marina, walked all the way to the back and, sure enough, there's a tank in which to dump it. climb the stairs and pour it into the hopper. got home just in time, Mother Nature was being rather insistent.
back from the beer store with a Ballena, and am enjoying my first glass of the day. [comment]
want to look into the possibility of implementing the W.A.S.T.E. mail delivery system, using the Bitcoin blockchain or Etherium, such that everybody along the route gets paid, and nobody has to travel more than a few miles a day. [comment]
at Asupmatoma, eating a dinner of fish soup and rice after the clusterfuck of releasing the baby turtles, which were disoriented and confused by being held captive until all the visitors had pawed and photographed them to their hearts' content. many of them were tired already, and wandering back and forth along the beach instead of heading directly towards the water. my cynical take is that this is all an exercise in futility; the sea turtles will become extinct anyway, and these people will not experience the pleasure of eating them.
there was a baby rabbit, earlier today, hiding in plain sight next to a granite rock along the trail to the beach. another thing that wouldn't otherwise have survived. [comment]
2 humpbacks breaching offshore. beautiful. [comment]
little yellow butterflies or moths have been multiplying by the thousands here in La Paz. I've seen them clustering at night in alcoves and around streetlamps.
that idea of squirting Dr. Bronner's under each arm every now and then is working great. it partly masks, partly kills the odors, and when I get a chance to wash the shirts, the soap is already in them.
I drank almost 3 liters of Pacifico yesterday evening with only gas as the side effect; no hangover, no GI problems today as a result. I don't know any other beer that agrees so well with me. [comment]
last night's diarrhea was way worse than the night before's, it went on all night long and into the morning hours 'til about noon. hopefully that's it. my guess is that it was due to the Indio beer. that stuff from the Cuauhtemoc-Moctezuma brewing company seems to live up to its name, that tag team wreaking revenge upon all the non-native inhabitants of Mexico. I'd better stick to the Modelo brands, which seem to be more forgiving. [comment]
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About 3 weeks ago, I think Google Drive tried to update itself and broke itself. This happened on multiple computers running at one of our client's businesses. These were Windows XP Pro computers, in Workgroup mode, and the users are running in Limited User accounts. I'm not 100% what the trigger to the problem was – it didn't seem to be a wide spread problem, since, my brief web searches on the topic didn't turn up anything recent.
I tried an uninstall and re-install of Google Drive, but that didn't work. In hindsight, I should have tried disconnecting the drive from a Google user account, and then re-connecting it.
What I actually did was to delete the Google Drive user level files (and, as it turns out, the settings). As far as I can tell, this seems to reset the software. It looks like Google Drive doesn't really use the Windows Registry – this makes sense, it makes it easier share code across platforms like OSX or Linux (if such clients exist).
So, I renamed this folder, to "break" Google Drive:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Drive
I think Windows Vista and later would have it here: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Google\Drive
Upon re-opening the Google Drive client, I was prompted to do the initial setup. And after entering the Google Account username and password, and pointing to the original drive folder, it started to work. There was an initial sync check, where all the files were compared to the cloud copy, and then a prompt to correct any discrepancies.
I'm not impressed that this happened, it makes me wonder about all these automatically updating programs, like Chrome (which has also caused me grief after an automatic update).

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Audio Evolution Mobile 1.7.2 is a powerful multitrack audio recorder for Android that is somewhat reminiscent of Adobe Audition 1.5 in both form and function. Priced at $7.45 US, the app is a real bargain for anyone looking to do serious multitrack audio recording and editing on an Android tablet or smartphone.
Back a few years ago I switched from Windows to Mac, and Adobe Audition 1.5 is one of the pieces of software I had to let go of on a day-to-day basis in order to end the endless frustration of dealing with Windows. Newer versions of Adobe Audition have never struck me as having the same appeal of Adobe Audition 1.5.
It might be just me and the way I relate to software interfaces, but I've never had much use for Garageband on either the Mac or on my iPad. I was able to make use of Apple's Soundtrack app, but it was just never as quick or as easy as Adobe Audition 1.5 was in quickly cranking out a tightly-edited piece of audio.
Audio Evolution Mobile 1.7.2 was easy for me to instantly make use of. The software maker suggests that you download the trial version to try on your particular Android hardware before you buy it, to make sure it will work for you. I downloaded the trial version onto my Galaxy S3 smartphone, and quickly determined that it would not only work but that I really liked the software and the way it worked. I uninstalled the trial version and purchased the full paid version and was able to crank out an hour-long edited recording quite easily with a minimum of confusion.
The software vendor makes it very clear that Audio Evolution Mobile 1.7.2 cannot directly output into the MP3 audio file format because of MP3 file format licensing issues. The app can output mixdown files to WAV, AIFF, FLAC or OGG file formats.
Of course the podcast file format standard is MP3, so in order to be able to convert the mixdown files to the MP3 file format, I downloaded the free MediaConverter app that converts files using the open-source FFMPEG libraries from many different file formats to MP3.
To add ID3 tags to the converted MP3 files, I installed the free MP3dit app that is able to edit ID3 tags for many different audio file formats.
To upload the MP3 file to my podcast server, I use the free ANDftp FTP client for Android.
Finally, to make the WordPress post I simply go to a browser such as Firefox for Android to the regular full browser view, log in and make the post as I would on a regular desktop or laptop computer.
To be honest, the last step is the hardest to accomplish on a tablet device. WordPress just isn't laid out in a very touchscreen-friendly manner, but it can be made to work in a pinch.
From a podcaster standpoint, the mobile device recording, editing and posting software is slowly getting there.


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What does it mean to live at the end of the largest proposed tar sands pipeline in North America?
I recently spent some time trying to answer this question. I visited Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada and spoke with several people about the proposed Energy East pipeline. I heard from residents, First Nations, and fishermen that would be impacted by this mega project.
With the cancellation of the deep sea port connection in Cacouna, Quebec, many are starting to ask one simple question. If threats to the St. Lawrence, organized citizen action, and an endangered Beluga whale can stop a deep sea terminal, why can't the same happen in the Bay of Fundy? Tens of thousands of jobs in tourism and fisheries are supported by the Bay and it is home to the critically endangered Right Whale. The people of Saint John have been in the shadow of fossil fuel development for decades with little to show economically. Is enough enough?
The following are three stories from three different individuals in New Brunswick.


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We're going to try and do another Galway Pub Scrawlbook! If you want to get involved, check out the Facebook event or email me, donalfall *at* gmail.com. For the Art of last year's Scrawlbook, check it out here.
Katie is looking for a third person to co-rent their city centre office space - weekly rent, internet & heating & etc included. You can find Katie's contact details on Scruffy Morris. The phone no. is in the top right.
I have third-hand word that a local Galway restaurant is looking for someone to paint a wall mural for them. If you are a PubScrawler who wants to go make enquiries, email me (donalfall *at* gmail.com ) or PM me on Facebook and I will supply the phone no. for you.
Patrick found you some nude people to draw.
We have to try the Police Sketch Artist game at Pub Scrawl some night.
There are so many cool types of Sketchbooks around, but magnetic spines and interchangeable pages? Pretty dope!
Obviously Fallout was on our minds a lot. Here's the story of Concept Artist Adam Adamowicz (and here's a Flickr account with a ton of his concepts).
Skin tones have different hues on your face.
The Sidebar Nation Podcast has wrapped up. You can get all the episodes off their archive section for now, but they're closing shop soon. Grab them while you can!
Anita was thinking you should enjoy The Prince & The Sea as much as she did.
Art History in Modern Life is a series by Alexey Kondalov that is pretty great.
We all liked the video by Biboun.
Un petit "Timelapse" d'un des personnages de NIET édité par IELLO, qui est dispo dès aujourd'hui dans vos boutique!!!---------------------------------------------------------------------Timelapse of Nyet character!!The Cardgame is available today !! #Boardgames #Boardgame #jeu #jeux #jeuxdesociété #iello #russia #card #cardgame #cardgames #animals #animal #russia #video #tuto #tutorial #tutoriel #digitalpainting
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Jun-Pierre has some of his works hanging in the Secret Garden.
Ruth spotted Sketch This over on DeviantArt.
Gluten Free Art! No wheat to be seen.
Xenomorph/Cenobite mash-ups? The Stan Winston Character Art school has you sorted.
There is always great techniques to be found in Fashion Illustration. Here's 10 great Fashion Illustrators.
This is a great blog showing that - and it's true - Anyone Can Improve at Drawing.
"Last Rebel" is a new Cork comic with a cool cover by our friend, Eva Widermann.
You can find us on Monday the 7th of December in McSwiggans for the next Galway Pub Scrawl #149 - Bulletproof Spider Goats!
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Free Fight
The historic UFC on FOX event is in the books...Michael DiSanto breaks it down...
Junior dos Santos is the 13th man to hold the UFC Heavyweight Championship, if we exclude interim champions. The others didn't have much luck hanging on to it. Will he be different?
The current record for most successful heavyweight title defenses is three. Two men accomplished that feat: Randy Couture and Tim Sylvia. Brock Lesnar and Andrei Arlovski both defended the title successfully on two occasions, while the rest lost it in their first or second defense, including Cain Velasquez. That is the absurd reality of the heavyweight division.
It is absurd because no other sport has such parity. The concept of dominance is a pipe dream because there are so many different variables that affect each bout. And all it takes is one small mistake to bring the fight to an instant end.
Sooner or later, though, someone will come along and dominate the heavyweight division. Maybe he won't last quite as long as Anderson Silva's current annihilation of the middleweight division or Georges St-Pierre's iron-fisted rule over the land of the welterweights. But it is going to happen at some point. The question, of course, is whether Junior is the man to do just that.
It is impossible to predict. History suggests that Junior will likely drop the title to the winner of the upcoming title eliminator between Lesnar and Alistair Overeem. If not then, then certainly in his second defense, if we are going by statistics.
In looking objectively at dos Santos, he actually seems to posses the goods to put together a decent run. He has exceptional takedown defense and arguably the best boxing in the division. Sound familiar? Wait for it. Just a little longer. Can you say Chuck Liddell?
Liddell's skill set was remarkably similar to what dos Santos brings into the Octagon. He was a standup-first fighter, whose greatest weapon was his right hand. Sure, he had a pretty good left hook, too. But nobody really laid awake at night worrying about that shot. They certainly lost sleep over his right hand.
Liddell's takedown defense was legendary. Nobody, other than Randy Couture and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson had much success taking down Liddell. Fewer kept him on the ground for any length of time, due to his insane scrambling ability.
Sounds like dos Santos, doesn't it. Of course it does. It sounds exactly like him.
Whether he will put together a Liddell-like run, however, remains to be seen.
The world finds out exactly what a fighter is made of when he loses his first professional fight. In a sport where parity is the name of the game, most fighters learn whether they have the chops to bounce back from a loss long before they sign with the UFC. Others figure it out during the early part of their UFC career.
Cain Velasquez will now face that very question for the very first time, despite the fact that he has been competing against the best in the world for years. Will the knockout make him question his chin? Was he fully recovered from the shoulder surgery? Did cage rust play a role?
Maybe he just got caught with a great shot. Only Velasquez knows the answers to those questions. Honestly, though, the answer is almost irrelevant. The highly respected former champion should not waste time trying to figure out why he lost. He should spend time making sure that there are no lingering mental issues (such as a lack of confidence) from the loss. That means jumping right back on the horse, so that he can rid his mind of the bitter taste of defeat.
For the record, I thought his game plan was excellent. Leg kicks were his biggest key to victory, in my opinion. Coming out and quickly shooting for a takedown wasn't going to be successful, because that is exactly what dos Santos expected. Cain was doing just fine, until he got caught, and that, my friends, is the reality of making a living in the UFC heavyweight division.
Benson Henderson has long wanted to prove to the world that he is, indeed, one of the very best lightweights in the world. He paid his dues in mid-major shows for the first few years of his career, just like most fighters. Then he toiled in the shadow of the UFC as the lightweight champion in the WEC.
After handing Clay Guida a whuppin' on the undercard of Velasquez-dos Santos, Henderson proved that he is, without any question, one of the best lightweights in the world. In his next fight, he will find out if he is THE best.
Yep, you read that correctly. Henderson's next fight will occur in early 2012 when he steps into the cage to face UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. We will breakdown the fight six ways from Sunday before it happens, but the short version is I like the matchup for Henderson. In fact, I like it a lot.
I'm sure there are lots of haters out there who are complaining about how the UFC's debut went down. A fight that was built up as a crazy slugfest turned out to be a Mike Tyson-esque knockout in a mere 64 seconds. Sure, a distance war, a la Forrest Griffin versus Stephan Bonnar, would have been better. A two round war ending with a dramatic knockout would have been better. But a 64-second, one-punch (for all intents and purposes) knockout was just fine.
I thought the production was excellent—and I'm not just writing that because I happen to pen articles for UFC.com. I thought Fox did a spectacular job of blending the UFC with the NFL, MLB, Daytona 500, and other elite sporting events. I felt like I was watching championship boxing matches on Wide World of Sports three decades ago.
Wow. I'm old. Talk about dating myself. I digress.
The UFC absolutely seemed at home on Fox. It was a natural broadcast. Joe Rogan was exceptional, as always. UFC President Dana White and former heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar were great during the pre-fight. And the vignettes, while a bit basic for hardcore fans, were perfect for first-time viewers.
Saturday night was the start of something great. Really great. I fully expect the UFC to become water cooler conversation at major corporations around the world in 2012. Major UFC broadcasts, both on Fox and pay per view, will generate Floyd Mayweather-like talk or NFL playoff-like talk. Yes, I wrote that. It's going to happen, and I cannot wait.


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Dendrobium Primulinum Var Laos
Dendrobium Primulinum Var Laos is a species. It is a large-sized and warm growing, pendant epiphyte. It can reach a height of about 55 cm. Flowers are 4 to 8 cm in diameter and are fragrant in nature. The lips of the flowers are large and fluffy in nature with a sunny center. It blooms in the winter through summer on a short inflorescence with minute bracts and 1 to 2 fragrant flowers that arise from nodes along the leafless cane. The narrow petals of both whorls may be purple, purple, pink or white with pink tips.
CARE key
500 to 1600 M
DECODING FOOT CANDLES(fc):
A foot-candle, is a measurement of light intensity. One foot-candle is defined as enough light to saturate a one-foot square with one lumen of light. Rather than measuring the amount of light that leaves a light source (lumen output), foot-candle measurements focus on the amount of light that reaches a surface area. Well, lets not get too much technical.
Let's understand it quickly with some comparisons,
Typical foot-candle reading for unobstructed sunlight - 10,000 fc ( imagine you are at the beach under clear sky )
Sunshine on a cloudy day - 100 fc ( imagine a day when you feel its about to rain but there is diffused sunshine )
Residential space (living) - 5-40 fc ( when your doors and windows are shut as you are using air conditioner )
That means, when we use a 50% shade net under the clear sky conditions, it is around 5000 fc that the surface receives. Under all weather conditions the 50% shade net on an average will allow 2500 - 3000 fc to fall on a square-foot of surface area.
And for those who have a lux meter (light meter) at home, remember that One foot-candle equals 10.76 lumens/lux.
Relative humidity is the ratio of how much water vapour is in the air and how much water vapour the air could potentially contain at a given temperature. It varies with the temperature of the air: colder air can hold less vapour. So changing the temperature of air can change the relative humidity.
Relative humidity is normally expressed as a percentage; a higher percentage means that the air–water mixture is more humid. At 100% relative humidity, the air is saturated.
Relative humidity only considers the invisible water vapour. Mists, clouds, fogs and aerosols of water do not count towards the measure of relative humidity of the air.
The factual information given on dynamic variable such as watering is irrespective of the media used for planting the orchid. That is, Imagine that the watering frequency given above is for a bare rooted specimen of this variety. Therefore, this watering frequency varies and has to be followed in accordance with the media used. More the quick drying tendency of the media more frequent the watering shall be. For example, charcoal/wood dries quicker than coconut husk/sphagnum Moss.
The elevation (above sea level) provided is to understand the level of Humidity available at the original natural habitat of the particular Species or Hybrid. Generally, higher the altitude, lesser will be the natural levels of relative humidity available for your plant to utilise. Thus, there might be a need to improve humidity artificially.
The best things about orchids are, these wonders are capable of adapting to any extreme changes in weather conditions provided their time, energy and initial support to assimilate to the new growing conditions. Thus there is no universal care guide for Orchid care. Their potency cannot be contained within these generalisations and the factual information. But we hope these details help you understand the basic requirements and natural demand of a particular Species or Hybrid.
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As the lights went out on the National Restaurant Association's Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show (NRA Show) in Chicago on Tuesday, there was plenty to consider about the future of the industry.
The show featured no shortage of technological advancements, not just in computing hardware and software, but also in equipment and food-safety solutions.
Refrigeration units, ovens, grills, and lighting are increasingly more energy efficient and green. Thermometers are smaller, lighter, and more accurate. Juicers are more productive. Chefs may even see some of their beloved knives being replaced with lasers and other precise and effective cutting tools.
Meanwhile, the food and beverages on display at the NRA Show keep expanding. For instance, long-time show veteran and favorite Vienna Beef, which serves traditional Chicago hot dogs and other goodies to hordes at its large booth, taste-tested a new sweet and spicy pickle.
At the same time, the grub and drinks are largely getting more nutritious. More companies are offering organic, allergen-free, lower-fat, and lower-calorie items.
"There are so many new, exciting things," says Derrek Hull, the show's communications manager. The event "continues to be on trend, and it gives a sneak peak into the future of what the industry will be."
The NRA is saying that the show had more than 2,000 exhibitors, up about 5 percent from 2012, while attendance was at or slightly above last year's 60,000 figure.
It's health care, stupid
Despite the optimism on the exhibit floor, one big issue lurked over this year's show: how restaurants are going to deal with health care and the Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare."
The NRA took the unusual step of twice offering a two-part health care–focused educational session—sort of Health-Care Legislation 101 and 201 (tailored to an operator's size)—during the show.
"This is all quite complex," said Michelle Neblett, the NRA's director of labor and workforce policy, to more than 150 people attending one session. She discussed issues ranging from calculating the number of full-time employees to dealing with insurance exchanges.
Hull says he could not remember an educational session being repeated during the same NRA Show, but the intent was to give all attendees a chance to get the information. "There is a lot of uncertainty" among restaurant operators, he says.
The NRA also created a Health Care Knowledge Center at the show that gave restaurant owners and executives the chance to talk one-on-one with one of several restaurant health-care consultants.
About 200 operators took advantage of the center, with the meetings lasting anywhere from a few minutes for simple questions to 90 minutes for more complex ones.
Chefs galore
The show tends to be a busy event for folks wearing chef's coats.
In addition to 18 celebrity chefs—Rick Bayless and Lorena Garcia among them—showing their techniques at the show's World Culinary Showcase, or those taking part in educational sessions—as Stephanie Izard and Anne Burrell did for Food News Media's "Women in Foodservice" panel—hundreds more were cooking and slicing at exhibitor booths.
Three World Culinary Showcase chefs—Cat Cora, Marcus Samuelsson, and Aaron Sanchez—spent time at the MOZO Shoes booth talking about their footwear collaboration with the shoe company. Meanwhile, Izard and Brian Malarkey talked shoes at the Dansko booth. And at the booth for fusionchef by Julabo, which provides precision fluid temperature control equipment for sous vide cooking, James Beard Award winner Jason Wilson held infused cocktail demonstrations.
Eye toward innovation
Several new ideas were on display at the NRA Show. Among those was Perfect Clime from German-based Burda Worldwide, an electric misting heater that combines a radiant heater and a mister to provide relief in hot or cold weather. There was also Vollrath Products' Mirage induction soup rethermalizer, which is a quick and efficient induction heater used to rethermalize soups or sauces from 40 to 165 F in less than an hour. It was one of the winners of the NRA Kitchen Innovations Awards.
Ecolab's booth featured an antimicrobial fruit and vegetable treatment that eliminates E. coli, listeria, and salmonella from the surface of fresh-cut produce and in wash water.
Taste of the unusual
The Marinara Tower turned some heads at the NRA Show. Developed over the past year by a small company in Steamwood, Illinois, the Tower is an Italian interpretation of the chocolate fountain that spews marinara sauce instead of chocolate. It can be used with bread, meatballs, sausage, and other foods on a fondue-like stick.
"We've received quite a bit of interest from all kinds of people" at the show, said Robert DeHaven, who helped develop the tower with founder Samantha De Maria Ribaritis. "It would be great for all kinds of events and even buffets."


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Air Potato Leaf Beetle (Suggested Common Name), Lilioceris cheni Gressitt and Kimoto (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Criocerinae)
The Featured Creatures collection provides in-depth profiles of insects, nematodes, arachnids and other organisms relevant to Florida. These profiles are intended for the use of interested laypersons with some knowledge of biology as well as academic audiences.
Air potato (Dioscorea bulbifera L., Dioscoreaceae) is a herbaceous, perennial twining vine that attains lengths of 20 m or more, rendering it capable of climbing over and smothering native vegetation (Schmitz et al. 1997; Overholt et al. 2008, Figure 1).
The native range of air potato includes much of Asia and Africa, and recent molecular evidence suggests that air potato in Florida originated from China (Croxton et al. 2011). Air potato was introduced to Florida in 1905 when it was sent to the USDA by Henry Nehrling, who later noted its invasive potential (Morton 1976). It has since become extremely aggressive (Hammer 1998). By the 1980s, air potato vines were growing in thickets, waste areas, and hedges or fencerows in many parts of south and central Florida (Bell and Taylor 1982). By 1999, air potato was recognized as an invasive exotic that alters plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structure, and disrupting ecological functions (FLEPPC 2023). A leaf feeding beetle, Lilioceris cheni, was recently introduced into Florida from China for biological control of air potato. This article provides information on the distribution, appearance, life cycle, host range and importance of the beetle.
The air potato leaf beetle is native to Asia. Country records include China, India, Nepal, Laos, and Thailand (Kimoto and Gressitt 1979; Tishechkin et al. 2011). The beetle was first released in Florida in 2012 for biological control of air potato.
Lilioceris cheni adults are about 9 mm long and 4 mm wide. The color of the elytra ranges from brown to orange or red, and the abdomen, thorax, head, and legs are black. The beetle is elongate, with a rectangular-shaped abdomen, a thorax about half as wide as the abdomen, and a narrow head with bulging eyes. The shape somewhat resembles a square violin with a short neck (Figure 2).
Pale white, oblong and about 1 mm in length. Eggs become yellowish as the embryo develops (Figure 3) and hatch after four days.
There are four larval instars. First instars are yellowish to reddish (Figure 4), and later instars are grayish to reddish, with black legs, head capsule, and prothoracic shield (Figure 5). Larvae are often covered with a sticky secretion to which fecal material adheres.
Fully grown larvae enter the soil and produce a whitish oral secretion that hardens into a foam-like cocoon that is about 7 mm in length. Pupation occurs gregariously, often with several pupae clumped together within a matrix of the foam-like material that becomes covered with soil and other substances (Figures 6 and 7).
Life Cycle and Biology
Females deposit pale white, oblong eggs in loosely aggregated clusters on the undersides of young, expanding leaves of air potato. The process of oviposition apparently deforms the expanding leaf causing it to curl at the edges becoming cup-like around the eggs (Figure 8).
Females deposit more than 1200 eggs on average during their lifetime. The eggs become yellowish as the embryo develops, and dark reddish eye spots appear mid-way through the incubation period. Embryonic development requires about four days. Larvae feed gregariously and skeletonize the leaves from the underside (Figure 9).
Young tender leaves are preferred but they also consume older, tougher leaves and are able to feed on the aerial bulbils. Complete development of the four instars requires about eight days, with each stage lasting about two days. When fully grown, larvae descend from the host plant and enter the soil where they produce a whitish oral secretion that hardens into a foam-like cocoon. Pupation occurs gregariously, often with several pupae clumped together within a matrix of this material. Adults emerge in 12 to 16 days, begin mating after about 10 days, and initiate oviposition five days later. The adults live for five months or longer. Both adults and larvae feed on the foliage.
Larvae can often be found in aggregations on the growing tips of air potato vines. The host plant senesces during the winter, forcing the adult beetles to go several months without food, presumably in diapause beneath leaf litter and other debris. The overwintered adults emerge in the spring, and females begin laying eggs.
Extensive host range testing by scientists at the USDA/ARS Invasive Plant Research Laboratory in Fort Lauderdale demonstrated that the air potato leaf beetle is a specialist feeder on air potato. It will not complete development on any other plant found in Florida and is only known to feed on Dioscorea bulbifera in its native range (Pemberton and Witkus 2010).
Larvae and adults of the air potato leaf beetle consume leaf tissue and occasionally feed on bulbils, thereby negatively affecting plant growth and reproduction. Damage to growing tips inhibits vine elongation and may reduce the ability of air potato to climb vertical structures. At initial release sites, extensive damage to air potato was evident within three months after the first release.
Although it is too early to determine the long-term impacts of the beetle on air potato, initial results are very promising. If you think you have found this beetle in your area, please send a photograph for identification along with locality data (GPS coordinates preferred) to Min Rayamajhi (firstname.lastname@example.com) and we will add this information to our locality map.
Selected References
Bell CR, Taylor BJ. 1982. Florida Wild Flowers and Roadside Plants. Laurel Hill Press, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Croxton MD, Andreu MA, Williams DA, Overholt WA, Smith JA. 2011. Geographic origins and genetic diversity of air-potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) in Florida. Invasive Plant Science and Management 4: 22-30.
FLEPPC Plant List Committee. 2023. Noxious Weed List. 992909, 5B-57.007 - Florida Administrative Rules, Law, Code, Register - FAC, FAR, eRulemaking (flrules.org). (April 2024).
Hammer RL. 1998. Diognosis: Dioscorea. Wildland Weeds 2: 8–10.
Kimoto S, Gressitt JL. 1979. Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietman. I. Sagrinae, Donaciinae, Zeugophorinae, Melapodinae and Criocerinae. Pacific Insects 20: 191–256.
Morton JF. 1976. Pestiferous spread of many ornamental and fruit species in south Florida. Proceedings Florida State Horticultural Society 89: 348–353.
Overholt WA, Markle L, Meisenburg M, Raz L, Wheeler G, Pemberton R, Taylor J, King M, Schmitz D, Parks GR, Rayamajhi M, Rohrig E, Lake E, Smith, M, Hibbard K, Center TD, Manrique V, Diaz R, Dray FA. 2014. Air Potato Management Plan for Florida. Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council. (April 2024).
Pemberton RW, Witkus GL. 2010. Laboratory host range testing of Lilioceris sp. near impressa (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) - a potential biological control agent of air potato, Dioscorea bulbifera (Dioscoreaceae). Biocontrol Science and Technology 20: 567–587.
Schmitz DC, Simberloff D, Hofstetter RL, Haller WT, Sutton D. 1997. The ecological impact of nonindigenous plants, pp. 39-61. In Simberloff D, Schmitz DC, Brown TC (editors), Strangers in Paradise: Impact and Management of Nonindigenous Species in Florida. Island Press, Washington, D.C. 467 pp.
Tishechkin AK, Konstantinov AS, Bista S, Pemberton RW, Center TD. 2011. Review of the continental Oriental species of Lilioceris Reitter (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae) closely related to Liliocerisimpressa (F.). ZooKeys 103: 63–83.


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ARM Enhances IP Suite for 2015 Mid-Range Mobile and Consumer Markets
- Highlights:
- Latest suite of ARM® IP delivers today's premium user experience in the mid-range mobile and consumer devices for 2015
- ARM Cortex®-A17 processor delivers better efficiency and 60 percent more performance than the ARM Cortex-A9 processor, which is the current market leader by volume shipped
- The ARM Mali-T720 GPU and ARM Mali-V500 video processor bring scalable, energy-efficient compact multimedia solutions to mid-range devices and are complemented by the ARM Mali™-DP500 display processor.
CAMBRIDGE, UK, FEB 11, 2014 – ARM today announced an enhanced suite of higher performance and more energy-efficient products specifically designed for the rapidly growing mid-range mobile and consumer electronics markets. The suite, comprised of processor, graphics processor and physical IP, is an update to ARM's mid-range IP offering targeting devices for production in 2015 and beyond. The combination of the ARM Cortex-A17 processor and the ARM Mali-T720 GPU gives an enriched offering for mid-range mobile and other consumer applications such as smart TVs and Over-the-Top media devices.
"We expect to see a rich set of innovation in the mid-range mobile phone segment which is forecast to become a half a billion unit market annually from 2015 and the Cortex-A17 processor will be a key component in that growth," said Ian Ferguson, vice president of segment marketing, ARM. "To date, the ARM Partnership has shipped more than 50 billion ARM-based chips and the continued broadening of our processor family will enable our partners to further optimize their offerings in existing and new product categories."
More Performance, Greater Efficiency
The Cortex-A17 processor offers a 60 percent performance improvement over Cortex-A9 processors, enabling better power and area efficiency while supporting full-system coherency for ARM big.LITTLE™ processing using the CoreLink™ CCI-400 Cache Coherent Interconnect. Additional information on the Cortex-A17 processor can be found here.
The Mali-T720 GPU is a cost-optimized graphics solution targeted at entry-level Android devices developed to reduce an OEM's manufacturing complexities and time-to-market. It supports the latest graphics and GPU computing APIs, including Open GL ES 3.0, OpenCL and RenderScript, extending the rich visual experience previously found only on today's high-end smartphones and tablets. More detail on the Mali-T720 GPU can be found here. Additionally, the mid-range IP suite includes the Mali-V500 video solution, a very efficient and compact video processor delivering up to 4K resolutions and when combined with the new Mali-DP500 display controller, enables security from content to the glass.
Faster Time-To-Market Support
To enable SoC designers to combine their own IP in the most efficient and effective manner, ARM provides ARM POP™ IP implementation solutions on 28nm process technology. POP IP for the Cortex-A17 processor includes core-hardening acceleration technology and delivers 2.0+ GHz implementations. POP IP for the Mali-T720 GPU enables best-in-class area efficiency (fps/mm2) and market-leading power efficiency (fps/mW). It includes a proven RTL-GDS flow to easily reproduce complex implementations for a faster time to market. More information on POP IP featuring ARM Artisan® Physical IP can be found here.
Partner Quotes
"MediaTek is committed to providing the world's most compelling SoC solutions, and ARM technology builds the ideal foundation for fully integrated platforms with rich feature sets. The new ARM Cortex-A17 processor combines high performance with cost and efficiency, delivering an excellent user experience and a premium feature set, making it the best processing option available to continue our success in the mobile market," said Johan Lodenius, chief marketing officer, MediaTek.
"As a leader in multimedia SoC solutions, Realtek sees the Cortex-A17 processor as continuing the ARM track record of delivering the right balance of performance and power to address the demand for new products," said Jessy Chen, Executive Vice President of Realtek.
"Our rich experience and expertise in ARM SoC architectures, including Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A12, combined with our core strengths in advanced wireless telecommunications technologies makes VIA well-positioned to leverage the mid-range mobile devices opportunity with the ARM Cortex-A17 processor," said Ker Zhang, Chief Executive Officer of VIA Telecom.
About ARM
ARM® designs the semiconductor intellectual property and enabling technology at the heart of the world's advanced digital products. Our energy efficient and scalable processors deliver the intelligence which is transforming society; from smartphones and wearable devices, to enterprise infrastructure and servers, to embedded technology in automotive, industrial applications and the 'Internet of Things'.
Our technology is licensed by partners who have now shipped more than 50 billion microchips containing ARM processors since the company was founded in 1990. Together with our Connected Community, we are breaking down barriers to innovation for developers, designers and engineers, ensuring a fast, reliable route to market for leading electronics companies. Join the conversation at http://community.arm.com.
ARM, Artisan and Cortex are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. big.LITTLE, Mali and POP are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Limited.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; ARM Norway, AS and ARM Sweden AB.
About Arm
Arm technology is building the future of computing. Our energy-efficient processor designs and software platforms have enabled advanced computing in more than 250 billion chips and our technologies securely power products from the sensor to the smartphone and the supercomputer. Together with 1,000+ technology partners, we are enabling artificial intelligence to work everywhere, and in cybersecurity, we are delivering the foundation for trust in the digital world – from chip to cloud. The future is being built on Arm.
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Dearborn, Mich., May 8, 2014 — Today, CAM Logic is scanning the Spirit of Detroit Statue in front of the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center to create a miniature-size statue using 3D printing. These one-of-a-kind statues will be given out to a select group of people at SME's THE BIG M event, June 9 to 12 at Cobo Center.
"There is so much buzz about 3D printing in the manufacturing world today," said Debbie Holton, director of events, industry strategy at SME. "This is a great opportunity to show the public how 3D printing works and the benefits of the technology. It's all about on-demand manufacturing of customized products."
For the 3D printing, a laser scanner will be used to create a digital model without having to touch the statue.
"CAM Logic is excited about this opportunity to debut two emerging technologies, 3D printing and 3D scanning, and the advancements in this technology. It's exciting that technology is at a point where we can scan and reverse engineer something as large as the Spirit of Detroit and have printed replicas within a couple of days. This technology is at the forefront of changing "just-in-time" manufacturing, and we are thrilled to be a part of it," said Ian Scribner, 3D printing and 3D scanning manager.
The scanner is composed of two pieces of equipment — the tracker and the scanner. To scan the Spirit of Detroit, CAM Logic has placed the tracker at different locations around the statue. The tracker, which detects where the laser scanner is located, "spray paints" the statue with the laser scanner until the image is captured in its entirety. Total estimated time of the process, from start to finish, is approximately five to six hours.
CAM Logic will then create about 500 miniature statues of the Spirit of Detroit to be distributed at THE BIG M and related events. CAM Logic will be an exhibitor at RAPID, SME's authoritative event on 3D printing, scanning and additive manufacturing, co-located with THE BIG M.
To learn more about THE BIG M, view full conference and exhibit details or register for any of the event's offerings, visit BigMEvent.com or follow @bigmevent on Twitter or facebook.com/bigmevent.
About THE BIG M
SME's THE BIG M initiative is years in the making ― designed to convene manufacturers around industry's most vital issues and leverage the power of industry leaders to collaborate and address them. This event demonstrates that manufacturing professionals and companies can shape the future by creating a strong path forward together, connecting people with technology and expertise, affirming the importance of manufacturing, speaking in a unified voice to policymakers, and proving that manufacturing is a knowledge industry where creativity is sought and valued.
Highlights will include Innovation Factories featuring live presentations of the latest technologies; exhibit floor "tech talks" and Q&A sessions with industry experts who will provide the knowledge and insight manufacturers need most. Featured technologies include smart manufacturing, modeling and simulation, digital manufacturing, advanced materials and lightweighting, cybersecurity and more. THE BIG M is the umbrella pulling together several co-located events including: SME's RAPID Conference & Exposition, the North American Manufacturing Research Conference, the ISA Cybersecurity Conference the MMTC Proud to Manufacture in Michigan Conference, the Great Lakes Manufacturing Council Manufacturing Forum and the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0 National Meeting.
THE BIG M event sponsors have invested time and resources to the conference and the future of the manufacturing industry. Among the organizations that have contributed to the event include MEDC, Autodesk, Dow Chemical, Kelly Engineering, GE and Dell.
About RAPID
For nearly 25 years, the RAPID Conference & Exposition, produced by SME, has defined the crucial role of additive manufacturing and empowered the establishment of an industry that continues to conceive, test, improve and manufacture new products at a faster, more cost-efficient pace. As the leader and authority figure in additive manufacturing, RAPID attracts buyers, sellers and end-users of design, prototyping, tooling and direct digital technologies to a world-class event for discovery, innovation and networking. For more information, please visit sme.org/rapid.
About SME
SME connects all those who are passionate about making things that improve our world. As a nonprofit organization, SME has served practitioners, companies, educators, government and communities across the manufacturing spectrum for more than 80 years. Through its strategic areas of events, media, membership, training and development, and the SME Education Foundation, SME is uniquely dedicated to advancing manufacturing by addressing both knowledge and skill needs for industry. Follow @sme_mfg on Twitter or facebook.com/smemfg.
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Swing this many times and you get some electricity to charge your iPhone. This time, its motion censor sends your form data to your iPhone so that you can see your own golf swing animated.
Compare your form with that of Tiger Woods?
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Finance Minister Kevin Falcon's speaking tour took him to the Victoria Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, telling business leaders they can "unashamedly" advocate for a harmonized sales tax with a lower rate.
Business people reminded Falcon that not all of them support the HST, and asked why the rate reduction from 12 to 10 per cent can't take place right away. Falcon replied that the loss of that much revenue has to be phased in over three years, as the federal government did when it lowered the goods and services tax.
Reducing it faster would risk downgrading the province's triple-A credit rating, Falcon said, so the B.C. government chose to offer $200 million worth of transition payments to families with children and seniors with income less than $40,000 a year instead.
Speaking to reporters after the speech, Falcon said he believes about 20 per cent of people are still undecided about the HST. Referendum ballots have been distributed to parts of the province, but most remained hung up by a labour dispute at Canada Post.
He denied that his ministry is using its advertising campaign to persuade people to vote "no" in the referendum and keep the HST, saying the ads are all factual information.
"We support HST, we think it is the right public tax policy," Falcon said. "But I think that information campaign is about saying to the public, get informed."
Premier Christy Clark met with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Thursday, but she said afterwards she did not discuss the possible repayment of a $1.6 billion federal transition payment if voters reject the HST.
There will be no negotiations until the province knows the fate of the HST, which won't be until August, Clark said.


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USDT Is A Game Changer For Online Poker
USDT Is A Game Changer For Online Poker
28.09.2020 published by Freecoins24
3 min read
CoinPoker – the flagman of the industry, the biggest and the oldest pure crypto poker room is the first to introduce USDT as the in-game currency, solving the ever prevailing volatility issues and creating grounds for accelerated growth. Alongside launches two promotions giving away 100,000 GTD in prizes.
The changes will finally allow the poker community to play using chips pegged to dollar value, while at the same time offering the lowest rake in the industry and verifiably fair decentralised card shuffling mechanism – a trio never seen in the history of online poker.
Choosing the coin
With expert advisors, poker elite and community supporting the need for a change, USDT was an obvious choice as it matched the high criteria the room had for the coin: stability, transaction speed, and the overall reliability.
In addition, USDT is simple to use when it comes to crypto newbies: going from fiat on users' bank account to USDT on a poker account and vice versa can be done in a matter of hours. CoinPoker also allows its users to deposit and withdraw in BTC and ETH making the most out of the in-app currency conversion tool.
Better for a player
Looking from a player's side USDT has the obvious superiority when it comes to providing liquidity and a hedge against crypto market volatility. The tokens are pegged to a fiat money making this stablecoin less risky than typical cryptocurrencies therefore safe for both newcomers to the poker app and poker pros who will always know their bankroll in terms of fiat value.
Unique bonus system
USDT will work in perfect balance with CHP token, a predecessor in-game currency of CoinPoker, which won't be a must for playing, however will guarantee exclusive privileges and perks for its users and holders: rakeback, extra leaderboard points, exclusive access to the sportsbook section and discounts on withdrawal fees. Reportedly more benefits to come in the nearest future.
A room providing more possibilities to win
It's worth noting that CoinPoker is a crypto poker room with the lowest rake in the industry and huge promotions giving away thousands in fiat value each week. This is also the first poker room that returns 100% of the rake back to players in various shapes and forms.
Seeing what's on the table makes it obvious that the combination of the stablecoin USDT as an in-game currency and CHP as a bonusing fuel is set for a long term success which is a must to take advantage of as a player.
Best time to join is now
USDT will become the official CoinPoker in-game currency on the 1st, October. The room is marking this significant date by giving away 100,000 GTD in prizes.
Players will be invited to enjoy 'Crypto Series of Poker' – the biggest series of crypto poker tournaments that have already become a tradition on CoinPoker, while Cash players will be treated to a two week Leaderboard rewarding a total of 100 places!
Once registered don't forget to invite your friends to do the same since CoinPoker referral program awards 30% of what the referrals rake.


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Healthcare Industry News: linaclotide
News Release - April 20, 2011
Mersana Therapeutics Appoints Michael A. Metzger as EVP & COO
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 20, 2011 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Mersana Therapeutics, a platform-based cancer therapeutics company, today announced that Michael A. Metzger has joined the company as Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer. In this role, he will oversee corporate and business development strategy and planning, as well as finance and other business operations of the company. Mr. Metzger was previously a senior member of the business development team at Forest Laboratories, Inc., where he led the company's M&A activities."We are very pleased to welcome Michael to the management team at Mersana," said Nicholas Bacopoulos, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of Mersana. "His broad experience in all aspects of corporate and business development and successful M&A track record will be extremely valuable to Mersana as we continue to advance our drug pipeline and Fleximer®-based platform initiatives both internally and through collaborations."
"I am excited to join Mersana as it is poised to exploit its unique Fleximer polymer platform into next-generation oncology products," said Mr. Metzger. "As the Fleximer platform has already led to the development of two clinical-stage oncology compounds and has demonstrated proof-of-concept with other therapeutic approaches such as peptides, antibody drug conjugates and RNAi delivery, the potential for significant corporate partnerships is especially promising."
Mr. Metzger brings to Mersana nearly 20 years of experience within the life sciences and pharmaceuticals industries. At Forest Laboratories, he spearheaded the mergers and acquisitions function and most recently led the successful acquisition of Clinical Data, Inc. for $1.2 billion. During his tenure at Forest, Mr. Metzger also completed transformative deals with Cerexa, which was acquired in 2007 for $482 million, and Novexel, which together formed the cornerstone of Forest's hospital antibiotic franchise. He also led the US co-development and co-promotion deal with Ironwood Pharmaceuticals for linaclotide. Prior to Forest, Mr. Metzger was Vice President of Corporate Development at Onconova Therapeutics, where he was responsible for the company's business development and financial initiatives. He also served as Managing Director at MESA Partners, a venture capital firm focused on healthcare and IT companies. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Finance Committee of Response Genetics, Inc., a company focused on the development and commercialization of molecular diagnostic tests for cancer. Mr. Metzger earned his BA from George Washington University and an MBA in Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business.
About Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.
Mersana, a privately held, venture backed company, utilizes its proprietary polymer conjugate platform, called Fleximer®, to transform existing and experimental anti-cancer agents into new, patentable drugs with superior pharmaceutical properties. The key component of Mersana's Fleximer platform is a novel, biodegradable and bio-inert material that can be chemically linked to small molecules and biologics. Mersana's clinical pipeline includes XMT-1001, a Fleximer-camptothecin conjugate, which is currently in Phase 1b clinical trials, as well as XMT-1107, a conjugate of Fleximer and a novel analog of fumagillin, which is currently in Phase 1 clinical trials and partnered on a worldwide basis with Teva Pharmaceuticals. Mersana's investors include Fidelity Biosciences, ProQuest Investments, Rho Ventures, Harris & Harris Group and PureTech Ventures.
Fleximer® is a trademark of Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.
Source: Mersana Therapeutics
Issuer of this News Release is solely responsible for its
Please address inquiries directly to the issuing company.


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What I find interesting about the CFO job is that you can make of it what you want.
People power
In total, Sweet has spent more than two decades with Dell Inc. and Dell Technologies, a period that he describes as an "extraordinary learning experience." He joined the company as Finance Director for its education sales segment in 1997 and has held a number of finance positions over the years, including that of Chief Accounting Officer. Since 2014 he has been CFO, a role he thinks of "as all-round enabling the vision for the company."
He explains: "That enablement includes ensuring that we're executing the business model, and that we are driving the appropriate financial reporting and tax compliance. So it's not just about me adding up the numbers at the end of the quarter. It's about being at the forefront of aiding Michael as he drives the company forward."
Sweet is focused on enabling the teams who work for him. In fact, he's very clear that the merger with EMC would not even have been possible had he not had "great people" in his teams who were able to free him up to focus on helping to close the transaction. So his advice for other CFOs about to take on a mega-merger is to find talented people and empower them, while establishing monitoring capabilities to ensure everyone stays aligned.
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As CFO, Sweet played a key role in the integration team that brought Dell and EMC together. Naturally, he concentrated largely on the financial structuring of the transaction, which took more than a year to arrange and involved bank loans, as well as the issuance of bonds and equities. Additionally, he was involved in setting the future strategic direction for the enlarged business.
The premise for the merger was that it would combine Dell's expertise in enterprise servers, personal computers and mobile devices with EMC's storage capabilities.
"The vision was there," says Sweet, "so then the question was, how do we build out that premise in more depth? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the respective companies? What's the competitive reaction? What's the customer receptivity? Lots of work was done around those aspects of putting the two companies together to ensure we had the merger positioned properly, or at least understood where friction points might arise."
Cost synergies
Sweet went into the merger believing that it could also drive cost synergies through the rationalization of core capabilities, support functions and supply chains. "What we found when we got into it was that we mostly got the cost synergies we were expecting, with the exception of one area: sales," he says. "But we also realized that much more reinvestment in the business needed to happen."
As a result, much of the money saved went back into the business to build additional capability. And sales, an area where Sweet had expected to find redundant capacity, actually secured additional investment because the sales teams needed extra resources. "It was the right investment to make," Sweet explains. "I remember sitting down with Michael and the sales leadership team and saying, 'Look, I'm not a fan of spending money per se, but in this case it's the right thing to do.'"
While the cost synergies didn't turn out as anticipated, compensation came in the form of better-than-expected revenue synergies. Only about 20% of the combined customer base of the enlarged company already used both Dell and EMC. As a result, the sales teams had a strong opportunity to sell into the other 80% – an opportunity they seized.
It's not just about me adding up the numbers at the end of the quarter. It's about being at the forefront of aiding Michael as he drives the company forward.
Today, Dell Technologies' strategic priority is to be an infrastructure company that will help customers to realize their digital future.
"If you think about technology trends, and the transformation that's happening in the business environment, it's no longer about customers buying IT infrastructure because otherwise their back office won't work effectively," says Sweet. "Today, technology is an enabler. It's about the differentiation that technology provides to help businesses become successful."
It is clear that Dell Technologies is not a company that likes to stand still. In fact, it was only a couple of years before the EMC merger was announced that Dell Inc. was taken private in a US$24.4b deal. So what will happen next?
"There will be another act," Sweet predicts confidently. And that next act is bound to present him with more exciting opportunities to help shape the future of the business. As he says of his role: "What I find interesting about the CFO job is that you can make of it whatever you want."
The views of third parties set out in this article are not necessarily the views of the global EY organization or its member firms. Moreover, they should be seen in the context of the time they were made.
In 2016, Dell Inc. merged with EMC. As CFO of Dell, Tom Sweet was responsible for the financial structuring of the deal. In this article, Tom explains how it worked and what he learned from the process.


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Login to your Health PortalTelehealth visits now available!
This online patient portal can be easily accessed from your desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone. With the ability to schedule appointments, request prescription refills, view your lab results and send your doctor messages, managing your healthcare and communicating with your doctor's office has never been easier.


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Based on some tests, I found these important traits of the function. (These would
be nice to see documented as part of its spec, e.g. for confirmation. Without that,
this is just experimental curiosity. Still better than guesswork, though! ;) )
1. Changes cascade over a subject across callbacks, i.e. a change made to a
subject by a callback will be seen by the next callback, if its pattern matches
the changed subject.
(But a change made by a previous call of the *same* callback (on any subject)
will not be seen by that callback again.)
2. The pattern + callback pairs will be applied in the order of their appearance
in $patterns_and_callbacks.
3. The callback can't be null (or '') for a quick shortcut for empty replacements.
4. Overall, the algorithm starts iterating over $patterns_and_callbacks, and then
feeds each $subject to the current callback, repeatedly for every single match
of its pattern on the current subject (unlike "preg_match_all", that is, which
can do the same in one go, returning the accumulated results in an array).
This basically means that the "crown jewel", an even more efficient function:
"preg_replace_all_callback_array" is still missing from the collection.
(Of course, that would better fit a new design of the regex API, where one
API could flexibly handle various different modes via some $flags = [] array.)
5. (This last one is not specific to this function, but inherent to regexes, OTOH,
it's probably more relevant here than anywhere else in PHP's regex support.)
Even apparently simple cases can generate a crazy (and difficult-to-predict)
number of matches, and therefore callback invokations, so remember the set
$limit, where affordable. But, of course, try to sharpen your patterns first!
E.g. use ^...$ anchoring to avoid unintended extra calls on matching substrings
of a subject, (I.e. '/.*/', without anchoring, would match twice: once for the
whole subject, and then for a trailing empty substring -- but I'm not quite sure
this should actually be correct behavior, though.)