99.4 F To C

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TomGarfinkel remembers sitting in awe and disbelief as he watched the 60 Minutes special on plastic pollution. The vice chairman, president and CEO of the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium was taken aback by the seemingly endless amount of plastic floating in the oceans, congregating at the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Garfinkel decided to take action, creating an internal committee in August to devise a strategy to reduce the amount of single-use plastics used at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The venue will proudly phase out 99.4% of single-use plastics by 2020, including for Super Bowl LIV.

The proactive measures taken by the Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium will eliminate more than 2.8 million plastic items annually including cups, bottles, cutlery, stirrers and spoons as well as all plastic disposable packaging accompanying these items. Garfinkel said the venue utilizes approximately 678,000 plastic bottles and 525,000 plastic cups each year.

On December 22 as the Dolphins host the Cincinnati Bengals, Hard Rock Stadium will become the first venue in the NFL to feature 20-ounce sustainable aluminum cups by Ball Corporation; items which can be recycled an unlimited amount of times unlike plastic.

All stadium employees have also been given reusable water bottles. Aquafina is now sold in aluminum cans. The only remaining fan-facing plastic at the venue will be souvenir soda cups and ice cream sold in collectable football helmets.

Eliminating more than 99% of its single-use plastics is just another example of green and sustainability efforts at Hard Rock Stadium. As a member of the Green Sports Alliance, the venue could host the Super Bowl with the lowest carbon footprint. Hard Rock Stadium already actively composts waste, donates excess food to local missions, has a no plastic straw policy, and utilizes waterless urinals, energy-efficient LED lighting and mobile tickets and payments.

The latest report from market research firm Gartner suggests that mobile apps are big business, and that business should only grow in the next few years. According to Gartner's numbers and those reported by Apple, Apple completely owns this market, likely grabbing almost every one of the 4.2 billion dollars spent on mobile apps in 2009. Based on Gartner's estimates and our own analysis, Apple could hold on to at least two-thirds of the market if current sales trends hold for 2010.

Apple first opened the App Store in July 2008, along with the launch of the iPhone 3G and the release of iPhone OS 2.0. Sales were brisk, with 300 million apps sold by December. After the holidays, that number had jumped to 500 million. Earlier this month, Apple announced that sales had topped 3 billion; that means iPhone users downloaded 2.5 billion apps in 2009 alone. Gartner's figures show another 16 million apps that could come from other platform's recently opened app stores, giving Apple at least 99.4 percent of all mobile apps sold for the year.

"As smartphones grow in popularity and application stores become the focus for several players in the value chain, more consumers will experiment with application downloads," Stephanie Baghdassarian, research director at Gartner, said in a statement. "Games remain the number one application, and mobile shopping, social networking, utilities and productivity tools continue to grow and attract increasing amounts of money."

The App Store model has become de rigueur on all the smartphone platforms, with RIM, Microsoft, Palm, and Google each building a similar way for developers to make apps available, and for users to find them and pay for them. Gartner warns that developers will have to carefully consider which platform's app store is best to promote their app. Even with the hundreds of thousands of options that vie for users in the iPhone App Store, the numbers suggest that Apple remains most developers' best bet.

UPDATE: A number of people have expressed concern that Gartner's figure only count apps sold, and not free apps. Gartner's press release indicated otherwise, and we verified with Baghdassarian that the figures include all apps, free or otherwise, distributed from every app store. According to Apple, it moved 2.5 billion apps, free or otherwise. We contend that the 99.4 percent figure is accurate.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --STAAR Surgical Company (Nasdaq: STAA) today reported that Stephen G. Slade,M.D., an investigator of STAAR Surgical's Implantable Contact Lens (ICL), haspresented the first three year follow up interim results of the ICL at theAmerican Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery symposium being held here.The results represented 36-month follow up after the ICL was implanted into369 eyes.

According to Dr. Slade, the results were exceptional. The mean level ofmyopia for the 369 eyes was minus 10.12 diopters. Dr. Slade reported that95% of the patients with good pre-operative visual acuity targeted foremmetropia (zero postoperative correction) had uncorrected visual acuities of20/40 or better and that 57% had uncorrected visual acuities better than theirbest corrected visual acuity preoperatively. In addition, 38% gained one lineon a standard eye chart of BSCVA (Best Corrected Visual Acuity) and10.8% gained two or more lines on a standard eye chart of BSCVA.

Stability of the procedure was well demonstrated with less than0.1 diopter change in result from one week postoperative to 36 monthspostoperative as well as predictability with 68% within 0.5 diopter ofattempted correction, 88% within one diopter and 98% within two diopter.Complication rates were extremely low with three cataract extractions(0.6%) and two clinically significant anterior subcapsular opacities (0.4%).One of the most exciting findings, according to Dr. Slade, was that 99.4% ofthe patients were satisfied with their ICLs three years after implantation.

"The quality of vision and patient satisfaction levels we have seen inthis study clearly position the ICL as a compelling choice for a wide range ofmyopes. In addition the low complication rate after three years of follow upin a controlled trial establishes a new standard for phakic implants," saidDr. Slade.

In addition to the three year data presentation, the ICL is receiving ahigh level of exposure at this year's ASCRS meeting as evidenced by17 scientific presentations from around the world ranging from favorablecomparisons to LASIK to ICL follow up with ten year post operative results.This increased activity is a direct result of the high patient satisfactionachieved with the lens as well as improved physician confidence in the productand procedure. An upcoming publication, approved for May 2003 issue of Cornea,The Journal of Cornea and External Disease, "Comparison of the ImplantableContact Lens with Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis for Moderate to HighMyopia" continues to support the desirable patient outcomes experienced withICL.

"We are clearly very pleased with the three year outcomes reported byDr. Slade. These unprecedented patient satisfaction levels underline ourbelief that the ICL represents the next paradigm shift in refractive surgery,"said David Bailey, President & CEO of STAAR Surgical.

STAAR Surgical will host a presentation for the investment community todayat the ASCRS symposium. David Bailey and John Bily, CFO, will review recentICL developments and Dr. John Vukich, Dr. R. Gale Martin and Dr. Slade willprovide an overview of their clinical experiences with the ICL during aroundtable discussion. Interested parties may access the presentation via awebcast beginning at 3 p.m. PT. The webcast is available at www.staar.com,select financials, select conference calls. The webcast will be archived atthe same website address through the end of April.

STAAR Surgical is a leader in the development, manufacture and marketingof minimally invasive ophthalmic products employing proprietary technologies.STAAR's products are used by ophthalmic surgeons and include the revolutionaryImplantable Contact Lens as well as innovative products designed to improvepatient outcomes for cataracts and glaucoma.

If you need to convert 99.4 Fahrenheit to Celsius, the precise answer is 37.44C. This article provides an insight into the conversion process, the formula used, and further applications of this temperature conversion in everyday life, specifically focusing on 99.4 F to C. Expect a guide to using the formula and avoiding common pitfalls, ensuring you can handle similar conversions confidently.

Both the Fahrenheit and Celsius temperature scales have unique origins and methods to quantify temperature. The Fahrenheit scale is predominantly used in the United States. In contrast, Celsius, also known as centigrade, is used in most other regions globally. For instance, converting 99 Fahrenheit to Celsius results in 37.22C, demonstrating the practical application of these scales.

Anders Celsius created the Celsius scale, initially setting 0 degrees to mark the boiling point of water and 100 degrees for the freezing point. However, Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, later reversed the scale. Now, 0 degrees represents the freezing point of water, and 100 degrees represents the boiling point of water.

The formula C = 5/9 x (F-32) is the standard method for temperature conversion formula from Fahrenheit to Celsius. This formula helps find the Celsius equivalent of a Fahrenheit temperature. The formula derives from the relationship between the freezing and boiling points of water, set at 0 and 100 degrees Celsius, respectively. For example, converting 99 Fahrenheit using this formula results in 37.22C.

The subtraction of 32 in the formula compensates for the offset in the Fahrenheit scale, which starts at 32 degrees for the freezing point of water. In contrast, Celsius starts at 0. This formula is commonly used in weather forecasts, cooking recipes, and scientific experiments to ensure precision and universal understanding.

The rationale behind these steps lies in the structure of the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales. Subtracting 32 accounts for the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit, while multiplying by 5/9 serves as the conversion factor that accommodates the different scales of the two temperature systems.

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