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BridgeClimb Sydney
Marvel at the Uninterrupted Panoramic Views of Sydney with the Iconic BridgeClimb Plus Receive up to $100 in Luxury Escapes Credit! Spend 3.5 Hours Climbing the Exquisite Sydney Harbour Bridge and Enjoy a Group Photo, Climb Cap, Certificate of Achievement and Pylon Lookout Pass. A Bucket-List Experience Not to be Missed, it's Tripadvisor's #1 Rated Activity in Sydney! From Only $163 Per Child and $238 Per Adult
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BridgeClimb Sydney
Prepare to be in awe with an unforgettable Sydney experience waiting for you at BridgeClimb Sydney in the Rocks
Choose and adult voucher and receive a $100 Luxury Escapes credit or opt for a child voucher and receive a $50 Luxury Escapes credit
Day Climb: $278 for a weekday for one adult, $183 for a weekday for one child, $293 for a weekend for one adult, $198 for a weekend for one child
Night Climb: $238 for a weekday for one adult, $163 for a weekday for one child, $253 for a weekend for one adult, $178 for a weekend for one child
Twilight Climb: $343 for a weekday for one adult, $238 for a weekday for one child, $363 for a weekend for one adult, $258 for a weekend for one child
An iconic and world-renowned symbol of Australia, the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been a celebrated icon since its opening during the Great Depression in 1932
Since opening to the public in 1998, BridgeClimb Sydney has welcomed over 3 million local and international visitors and is rated #1 on Tripadvisor out of 300 tours and activities in Sydney
An intimate experience with a maximum of 14 people per Climb group
Offer is also valid during Sydney's famous Vivid Festival - an incredible outdoor lighting extravaganza showcasing some of the Harbour City's most iconic buildings and there's no better vantage point to take in the sights than atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge
A 3.5-hour Harbour BridgeClimb experience including pre Climb prep with an experienced Climb Leader who will get you into your safety gear and run through all you need to know before you begin your ascent to the summit which sits 134m above sea level
A group photo and an official certificate of achievement
Your Climb cap to take home as a momento
A complimentary pass to the Pylon Lookout and Pylon Lookout Museum which contains a comprehensive collection of displays that celebrate the construction of the Bridge, and shares the challenges of our forefathers
Plus a $100 Luxury Escapes credit per adult purchase or $50 Luxury Escapes credit per child purchase
You drive or jog across it all the time, but have you ever wondered about the view from the top? Conquer the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge in all its world-famous, historic and majestic glory when you head for the summit thanks to BridgeClimb Sydney.
Join the many locals, tourists and celebrities who have made the climb including Heidi Klum, Jamie Oliver, Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Bill Gates, Kevin Spacey, Hilary Duff, Eva Longoria and more.
As if the views weren't enough, your Climb Leader will keep you extra entertained all the way with interesting stories of the bridge and what you can see as you make your way up. And as for what you'll see from the top… Ahh. Words just can't describe it. You'll have to see for yourself!
Must-do in Sydney, for locals and tourists alike! Check out more about the experience here
Got a question about the Climb? Check out the FAQs here
What We Like
A whopping 75,000+ fans on Facebook
Great gift shop to peruse after the climb – take home a keepsake!
Treat your friends from out of town, or "up" your knowledge of your city
Check out the 'Fine Print' tab for all the terms and conditions that apply to this deal
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Voucher must be redeemed and climb undertaken by 30th November 2016
We strongly encourage bookings to be made by 15 October 2016
Advanced bookings are essential. Reservations are for a specific time (Climb Time), date and product, and are a non-refundable purchase. Customers must arrive at BridgeClimb premises and check-in at reception 15 minutes prior to their Climb Time
Valid for participants aged 8 years and older. Children aged 8-15 must be accompanied by an adult on the Climb. A maximum of three children per adult. Participants must be more than 1.2 metres in height
To complete the climb, participants must have a reasonable level of fitness and strength, full body control hand-eye-foot co-ordination and the ability to climb independently (unsupported by walking aids)
All climbers must sign a BridgeClimb Declaration Form (http://bit.ly/1T0BhX3) prior to participating. The climb is not suitable for participants with: heart conditions, respiratory conditions, physical injuries, learning difficulties, visual impairment (except wearing prescription glasses or contact lenses), vertigo, more than 24 weeks pregnant, limited limb function or limb loss, recent broken bones, surgery in the past six months, or a fit or seizure in the past six months
Alcohol should not be consumed prior to the Climb. You must have an alcohol-blood reading below .05 to climb. Everyone is breathalysed by our staff and anyone over the limit cannot continue
Women who are less than 24 weeks pregnant can climb with clearance from their medical practitioner. The medical practitioner must sign a BridgeClimb certificate of fitness form prior to your climb. See http://bit.ly/1NlN8Ld
At BridgeClimb's discretion, essential medication may be taken on the Climb (For example, asthma inhalers or diabetic medication). Please speak with a BridgeClimb Team Member on the day
Other pre-climb conditions apply for health reasons. If you have any questions, or are concerned about your ability to climb, please check out the FAQs or speak to the staff for advice before booking. We recommend all participants read the certificate of fitness form prior to purchasing http://bit.ly/1NlN8Ld
Even if a potential customer feels able to climb, BridgeClimb may still decline participation and provide a refund
All Customers must wear suitable enclosed rubber soled shoes such as runners, track or hiking shoes. PVC and leather soled shoes are not suitable. Customers should be ready to wear a BridgeSuit over their existing clothing
Lockers are provided as loose objects, including but not limited to cameras, video cameras, audio, pagers, mobile phones, handbags, and any other personal items, cannot be taken onto the Bridge
BridgeClimb operates in all weather conditions with the exception of extreme weather (e.g. electrical storms). If your climb is cancelled due to weather, BridgeClimb will contact you to advise of the next suitable date. refunds will not be provided
You will receive a $50 Luxury escapes credit per child voucher purchased and a $100 Luxury Escapes credit per adult voucher purchased. Please note that you must hold onto your redemption code in order to redeem your credit
Please note, your Luxury Escapes credit will be valid for 12 months from date of purchase. Credit may only be redeemed on purchases of $300 or more. Credit cannot be combined, used in conjunction with any other offer or redeemed for cash. Credit cannot be used on Brdigeclimb purchases
Members can purchase one voucher for themselves and multiple as gifts for different recipients
Cancellation policy applies. Please refer to BridgeClimb standard terms of trade at www.bridgeclimb.com/terms
Not valid in conjunction with any other offer and not redeemable for cash
Redemption instructions can be found on the voucher
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Please see BridgeClimb's FAQ's below
(NB. FAQ's taken from BridgeClimb website)
- Can children climb? Yes. To participate you must be 8 years and over 1.2 metres tall. Children aged 8 to 15 must be accompanied by an adult, with a maximum of three children per adult.
- What can I expect when I climb with my children (8 to 15 years)? Safety is, and always will be, our number one priority for all of our Climbers; We will equip kids of this age in smaller BridgeSuits, belts, mittens, or fleeces based on the day's weather conditions;Climbing the Bridge is an all-age experience. The stories our Climb Leaders share during the experience is appropriate for a broad age range; Children will be required to climb with and next to their parent/guardian; To climb the Bridge, children must be 8 years old and 120cm tall to participate; Parents/guardians must remain with their children throughout the Climb experience, and must assist BridgeClimb staff by managing their equipment preparation and behaviour; To find out more, please visit Pre-Climb Checklist or speak to our staff for advice
- Can seniors climb? Yes. Anyone who can sustain moderate physical exertion up to 3½ hours over 1.75km should find the BridgeClimb exhilarating. Our oldest climber, Mrs Chris Muller, reached the summit at 100 years old. If you have any queries or concerns, please speak to our staff for advice.
- Can people with a fear of heights climb? In most cases, yes. We have helped thousands of people challenge their fear of heights by climbing to the top of the Bridge. Head over to our Face Your Fear section for more information about how you can prepare for the challenge ahead. If you have any queries or concerns, please speak to our staff.
- Can pregnant women climb? If you are less than 24 weeks pregnant, you can participate with a signed Certificate of Fitness Form from your GP. If you are over 24 weeks pregnant you cannot climb.
- Can hearing-impaired people climb? Yes. We encourage climbers who wear hearing aids to leave them safely in their lockers to prevent damage or loss while they are on the Bridge. We have a variety of headsets available and many of our hearing impaired climbers have agreed that these allowed them to enjoy the commentary delivered by their Climb Leader.
- We also offer Auslan Climbs. On an Auslan Climb you'll be accompanied by an Australian Sign Language interpreter who will interpret the commentary about Sydney and its world famous Bridge. These Climbs occur twice a month. Please get in touch with our team to find out more or to make a booking.
- Can people with a disability or medical condition climb? We do our best to help everyone climb. To participate you need to have a general level of health and fitness, and the ability to climb independently. To find out more, please visit Pre-Climb Checklist or speak to our staff for advice.
- Can people with injuries climb? We do our best to help everyone climb. To participate you need to have a general level of health and fitness, and the ability to climb independently. To find out more, please visit Pre-Climb Checklist or speak to our staff for advice.
- How long will my Climb take? Our Climb times range from 1.5 to 3.5 hours depending on the Climb type you choose. We ask that Climbers allow a 15 minute provision to collect photos and depart. This applies to all Climbs.
- What are the climbing conditions on the Bridge? The conditions vary based on the day's weather and the Climb you choose. You can expect to possibly: Climb ladders and walk on catwalks; Participate in prolonged stair climbing; Walk along uneven surfaces and via narrow passageways; Be exposed to all weather conditions
- Can I bring glasses or sunglasses? Yes. Please bring your own glasses or sunglasses to wear on the day of your Climb. (No DVR – digital video recorder – glasses thank you.) For more information please visit Pre-Climb Checklist or speak to our staff.
- Can I take a camera or video camera? No, unfortunately not. Climbers cannot take loose objects, including cameras, phones or GoPros, on the Bridge. This is to safeguard against anything falling from the Bridge. We provide secure lockers for you to keep your camera or any loose objects in during your Climb. Our photographically-trained Climb Leaders will capture photos of you during your Climb. Each climber receives one free group photo as part of the experience. Additional photos are available for pre-purchase with your booking, or from our Photographics Team after your Climb.
- Can I bring medication? Essential medication, like inhalers or diabetic medication, can be taken on the Climb. Please speak to our staff on the day.
- What kind of shoes should I wear? Please wear comfortable, enclosed rubber-soled shoes such as running, sport or hiking shoes. PVC and leather-soled shoes are not ideal.
- Where can I leave my belongings while I'm climbing? We provide secure lockers for you to keep any loose objects in, including phones and cameras, during your Climb. The key to your locker will be securely attached to you at all times.
- How long does it take to reach the top of the Bridge from the time of check-in? It takes approximately 2 hours to reach the summit on BridgeClimb, and 1 ¼ hours for BridgeClimb Express and BridgeClimb Mandarin. This includes time to suit-up and complete your pre-climb preparation. The descent takes about an hour.
- How long is it between bathroom breaks? On BridgeClimb, it is approximately 2 hours 40 minutes. On BridgeClimb Express it is approximately 1 hour 40 minutes.
- Where does the climb start and finish? At our Climb Base which is located at 3 Cumberland St, The Rocks, Sydney. See map.
- What do I need to wear on the day of my climb? We equip you in all the outdoor gear you'll need for your Climb based on the day's weather conditions and our health & safety essentials. Please wear comfortable clothing on the day of your Climb in case you need to wear it under your suit for warmth. If you have any questions or concerns, please speak to our staff.
- Is the Online Booking System secure? Yes. Your privacy and security is our priority. Our online booking system is operated by Jewel Reservation Systems (JRS). All transferred data is encrypted and the JRS system is ranked among the best online security systems available.
- Can I change my booking? It's a bit like booking an airline flight ticket. BridgeClimb tickets are a non-refundable purchase for a specific time and date. Changes can only be made more than seven days in advance of your Climb.
- Can I propose to my partner at the summit of the Sydney Harbour Bridge? Yes. The key to a smooth proposal at the summit is to notify us at the time of your booking. We are experienced at discretely helping many couples become engaged at the top thanks to a special ring safety attachment. Please speak to our staff for more information.
This has to be one of the most amazing experiences ever. The staff were superb, helpful, knowledgeable and operated like a well oiled machine! Good preparation and instruction for the climb with structured kitting out and instruction. Felt safe the whole time I was up there."Facebook
Loved every second of it. It was on my bucket list ever since I first heard of it. The views from the bridge are spectacular and the whole experience was completely exhilarating"Facebook


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(WZZM) - Peach season in Michigan is still a few months away, but there's a reason you may want to stock up. Doctor Giuliana Noratto with the University of Washington discovered the cancer-fighting potential of the peach.
Dr. Noratto began the work because of her mother's fight with breast cancer. She found when she gave the fruit's extract to mice, it caused the most aggressive cancer cells to die. The peach extract also limited the growth of breast cancer tumors and prevented the disease from spreading.
"Yes, I was surprised. Everybody was surprised," said Dr. Noratto. "Just by giving the mice the peach extract, the tumor didn't grow."
The study showed the reddest peaches contained the most cancer-fighting compounds. Canned peaches don't offer the same benefit. People can get the same dose as the mice in the study by eating two to three peaches a day.
Dr. Noratto also says her study shows the value of good nutrition in preventing cancer.
"Having enough fruits and vegetables that can provide these compounds in our diet, we might have a similar preventive effect," she said.
To read more about the study, click here.

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Today, he would be happy with a fair but profitable share of the all-important health maintenance organization prescription contracts. Instead, he is struggling to keep from joining the small independent druggists who are going out of business--done in, they say, by the loss of HMO business to the big drug chains.


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Columbiana Women's Club is sponsoring its Christmas brunch and house tour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 7 and 8.
The Clubhouse, 121 N. Main St., will offer brunch for $15. Stocking stuffers, homemade jellies, breads and goodies will be for sale.
Homes featured are: William and Kay Quirk, Royal Birkdale in Firestone Links; Maria Green on Brenda Lane; Hubert and Pat Keylor on Kingwood; and Brad and Pat Tingle in the Retreat on Spring Hill Drive.
Tickets are $15 and will be sold at Vivian's, 24 S. Main St., and at the homes the day of the tour.
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Miami (Fla.) Miami Palmetto cornerback Javon Hadley reports that he picked up a new offer on Wednesday evening.
"Mississippi State offered me tonight," Hadley said. "That is my second offer."
The Bulldogs join Western Kentucky in offering the 5-foot-11, 170-pound defensive back. Hadley spoke about what he heard from Dan Mullen and his staff on Wednesday.
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"They just said that they wanted to offer me a full scholarship," Hadley said. "They said they have seen my film. They checked my background. They said they just liked me, they like my technique on the field."
Hadley said he spoke with assistant coach Angelo Mirando for a majority of the call.
"He was just telling me that he is going to come down and see me during spring football," Hadley said.
The South Florida prospect says he knows a little about the SEC squad.
"I know a bit about them," Hadley said. "I know they have a strong defense. I also know the division that they play in."
In addition to his two offers, Hadley also reports interest from Florida International, Iowa State, Northwestern, and South Florida. He recently visited Florida International for their spring game. He plans to take a number of visits during the summer but said specific destinations haven't been determined yet.
At this stage of the process, Hadley isn't sure what he is looking for in a school.
"I am just looking right now," Hadley said. "I don't know what direction I am going to go in."
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by Charles Sizemore | October 14, 2013 11:13 am
If there were ever a familiar name left for dead by Wall Street, it would be Bank of America (BAC[1]). It has been nearly seven years since Bank of America's stock price has seen a new high.
Sure, the stock has more than quadrupled from its early 2009 lows. But nearly all of those gains happened in the second and third quarters of 2009. Bank of America stock has drifted lower in the years that have followed, and BAC's current price is down by nearly a quarter since early 2010.
The reasons for lack of investor enthusiasm are well known.Banks were at the center of the 2008-09 crisis, and Bank of America's mortgage portfolio was one of the largest and weakest of any major bank and the most at risk for claims from distressed borrowers. New curbs on proprietary trading and higher capital requirements would be a drag on future earnings growth. And higher interest rates would crimp demand for new loans.
But at what price are all of these negatives baked in?
Let's take a look at the numbers. Bank of America stock is trading for about 10 times earnings and 0.68 times book value. Using the more stringent metric of price-to-tangible book[3], which excludes intangible assets such as goodwill, we get a multiple of 1.1 times.
This means Bank of America is worth nearly as much dead as alive, and that investors are assigning virtually no value at all to the bank's continuing operations. That seems a little harsh given the progress the bank has made in cleaning up its loan book and given the nationwide improvement in home prices. The S&P Case-Shiller 20-City Home Price Index is up about 12% during the past 12 months alone.
And what about the bank's outlook? Bank of America isn't due to report its third-quarter results until Wednesday, but we can look to the last release for guidance.
Bank of America's net charge-offs and provisions for credit losses continue to trend down, from Q2 2012's $3.6 billion and $1.8 billion, respectively, to $2.1 billion and $1.2 billion in the second quarter of 2013. The number of mortgage loans 60-plus days delinquent has been cut by more than half in the past year, from 1.1 million loans in the second quarter of 2012 to 492,000 last quarter. Management expects this to fall to 375,000 by year end.
Overall leverage continues to shrink. And the bank's Basel III tier 1 capital ratio[4] — at 9.6% as of last quarter — ranks Bank of America ahead of JPMorgan (JPM[5]), U.S. Bancorp (USB[6]), and even Warren Buffett's favorite, Wells Fargo (WFC[7]).
All of this points to a bank that, while still a mess, is cleaning up its act in a hurry. Meanwhile, Bank of America is showing modest growth in its consumer credit card and auto loan businesses, and its client brokerage assets are up 17% year over year.
With all of this said, what is Bank of America stock worth?
In the eight years preceding the crisis, shares fetched 2 to 5 times tangible book value. Given the bank's diminished earnings potential in these more sober of days, I would use the lower end of that range as the target. A price-to-tangible-book ratio of 1.5 to 2 would put Bank of America stock's price at $18.90 to $25.20, giving an upside of 36% to 81% from current prices.
Mohnish Pabrai[8] and Bruce Berkowitz[9] would appear to find value in the stock. Pabrai — a respected value investor known for making concentrated bets — has 22.9% of his funds invested in Bank of America. Berkowitz, manager of the Fairholm Fund and another respected value investor with a reputation for making large, concentrated bets, has 16.9% of his funds invested in Bank of America.
It might not be pretty. But Bank of America stock is dirt-cheap, and it is the largest single holding of two well-respected value investors with phenomenal long-term track records.
This article first appeared on [10]MarketWatch[11].
Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA, is the chief investment officer of the investment firm Sizemore Capital Management. As of this writing, he had no position in any security mentioned. Click here[12] to receive his FREE 8-part investing series that will not only show you which sectors will soar but also which stocks will deliver the highest returns. The series starts November 5 and includes a FREE copy of his 2014 Macro Trend Profit Report.
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Why Don't You...Keep Your Sheets Tidy?We learned how to fold a fitted sheet this spring. Whew. Now that my sheets are all neatly folded, I noticed the pillowcases often get separated from the sheet set. Sometimes, they slide around in the linen closet and fall down in the cracks and I have to search.
So, why not use one of the pillowcases to store the set? They will stay neat and tidy and all in one spot until you are ready to use them. This is also a great way to transport sheet sets on vacation.
Ta da!
See? A little sheet-set pouch!
There is still time to link up with Tutorial Tuesday - scroll down and join in the fun! Teach me stuff!
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You know what's funny? I totally got onto my mom (in a joking way of course) for never teaching me how to fold a fitted sheet. I was all, I had to learn from a blog friend, for cripes sake! We still laugh about that today. :)ReplyDelete
Seriously, this is one of those ideas where I want to smack myself in the forehead for not thinking of it myself. Duh! Pillowcase to keep the sheets together neatly. Genius!!! :)ReplyDelete
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I've been doing this for years. It really helps.ReplyDelete
That is seriously one of the greatest tips I've ever seen! Thank you!ReplyDelete
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Heck, I don't even fold my sheets...just shove them in the pillowcase. I don't care if they're wrinkled. No one but me sees them anyway.ReplyDelete
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I've done that forever! It's great to just grab the pillowcase with everything nice and clean inside.ReplyDelete


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What Is the Difference Between Whiteness and Brightness?
It was one of those "a picture is worth a thousand words" moments. It all started off innocently enough.
"So is 'brightness' a guide for white paper worldwide?" Matthew was curious and rightfully so. He was fairly new to the world of commercial printing, eager to get it right, and wanted to learn. Kudos to him. What startled us, though, was his follow-up question: "So what does brightness tell me about the shade of the paper?"
Try as I may, my verbal explanations did not make too much sense to him...or so I suspected. So I rummaged through my hard drive and came up with a simple chart about whiteness versus brightness that I use when giving talks and teaching classes. And yep, the penny dropped after I emailed it to Matthew...
Confused about Whiteness and Brightness?
Brightness is a traditional measure that still appears on most packaging in the United States. The TAPPI standard (GE brightness) measures the ability of a paper to reflect blue light. On a scale of 0 to 100, the higher the number, the brighter the sheet.
Whiteness measures paper in the same way the eye sees it. Light is actually made up of all colors combined. When light strikes an object, the object absorbs some colors and reflects others. (Think of the blue ocean...that is not really blue, is it?)
CIE Whiteness, developed by the France-based International Commission on Illumination (aka CIE), is the most commonly used whiteness index. It normally refers to measurements made under D65 illumination, which is a standard representation of outdoor daylight. For a perfect reflecting, nonfluorescent white material, the CIE Whiteness would be 100. Papers containing fluorescent additives such as Optical Brightening Agents (OBA) will also measure well above 100.
Whiteness is really the absence of color. The CIE index has been devised so that most people will agree that the higher the whiteness, the whiter the material.
Sabine Lenz is the founder of PaperSpecs.com, the first online paper database and community specifically designed for paper specifiers.
Growing up in Germany, Sabine started her design career in Frankfurt, before moving to Australia and then the United States. She has worked on design projects ranging from corporate identities to major road shows and product launches. From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, her list of clients included Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Deutsche Bank, IBM and KPMG.
Seeing designers struggle worldwide to stay current with new papers and paper trends inspired Sabine to create PaperSpecs, an independent and comprehensive Web-based paper database and weekly e-newsletter. She is also a speaker on paper issues and the paper industry. Some refer to her lovingly as the "paper queen" who combines her passion for this wonderful substrate called paper with a hands-on approach to sharing her knowledge.
A nice explanation of the difference between whiteness and brightness when discussing paper.
Marcio Ferreira
Clarity and objectivity to explain the matter.
Marcio Ferreira
Hexacolor Consulting
Benton Jacks
The chart is akin to the CRI (Color Rendering Index) where 100 CRI indicates a lamp lighting source optimun ability to show colors accurately. Any CRI over 80 reflects the natural vibrancy of an illuminated colored surface. The function of exposure factors for fluorescent lamp spectral wavelengths the eye can perceive, ranges from IR 700 nm to UV 420 nm due to rare earth coating masked phosphors in the glass tubing. (soft white 82 CRI, cool white 62 CRI, etc…the highest being cool white deluxe of 87 CRI).*Thank you for the brightness-whiteness exlpanation.
*Source credit: ELECTRICAL TERMINATOR, Dwelling Wiring lighting efficiency of surface illumination.
Sabine Lenz
Thanks guys. I am always for making things clear and easy to understand 😉


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This patent application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/051,649 filed Feb. 4, 2005 entitled "Medical/Dental Suction Nozzle Holster."
1. Field of the Invention
This invention is generally concerned with holsters for the nozzle components of medical/dental suction devices such as so-called Yankauer suction tubes. The use of Applicant's holsters serves to maintain aseptic conditions and convenient human hand access to such suction devices during medical/dental procedures. This invention is also particularly concerned with providing a means whereby a hose that services suction devices of this type can be pinched off (constricted) to such an extent that the partial vacuum conditions that exist in the hose during medical/dental procedures are substantially curtailed or even completely shut off.
2. Discussion of the Background
A wide variety of prior art medical suction nozzle holsters are disclosed in the patent literature. Such holsters have many different features that perform various distinct technical functions as well as various convenience-in-use functions. These convenience-in-use functions often involve the methods and mechanical devices used to temporarily attach such nozzle holsters to a bedrail or operating table rail for ease and/or convenience of use during medical/dental procedures wherein the medical/dental practitioner's attention is often urgently directed away from such holsters. None of these prior art medical suction nozzle holsters, however, provide a device and/or method for readily curtailing, shutting off, etc. those partial vacuum conditions extant in a flexible hose that leads from the suction device (e.g., a Yankauer suction tube) to a waste fluid disposal container.
For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,367,110 B1 ("the '110 patent") teaches a holster for an electrocautery tip. The holster is attached to an operating table, Mayo instrument table, etc. by a temporary attachment means such as a spring-loaded, wide-base C-clamp (see
U.S. Pat. No. 5,752,286 ("the '286 patent") discloses a cleaning and storage device for an aspirator instrument such as a Yankauer suction tube. The device has a holder that can be attached to a bedrail by opposing adhesive surfaces or by a C-shaped clamp. Here again, no suction hose pinching apparatus is disclosed.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,806,822 ("the '822 patent") discloses a wall mounted holder for a Yankauer suction instrument. The holder has a base and two spaced supports respectively extending substantially horizontally from the upper end of the vertically mounted base and from the lower end of said base. The upper support may comprise, for example, a continuous rim that forms an annular ring that defines an opening for receiving the forward end of the suction instrument and thereby preventing it from tipping laterally. The lower support preferably has two spaced support arms that define a substantially horizontal slot. In effect an upper end of the suction device resides in the ring while the handle portion of the suction device rests on the support arms above the slot while a suction hose portion of the suction device extends through the horizontal slot defined by the two spaced apart support arms. No hose pinching device is taught or suggested.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,077,074 ("the '074 patent") discloses a sleeve-type holder for a suction device such as a Yankauer suction tube. One end of a sleeve component of this holder is provided with a frame that can be slidably mounted to a C-shaped frame track having a compatible C-shaped channel configuration. The opposing end of the sleeve is provided with a hole for receiving a hook of a body member bar. The body member bar is attached to a clamp that attaches the bar, frame and sleeve assembly to a bedrail. Thus, the sleeve that holds the suction tube can not be rotated once the frame is inserted into the channel portion of the C-shaped frame track. No hose pinching apparatus is disclosed.
The teachings of U.S. Pat. No. 5,927,974 ("the '974 patent") are quite similar to those of the '074 patent. It does, however, contain the added feature (see
The teachings of U.S. Pat. No. 5,915,963 ("the '963 patent") are similar to those of the '974 patent. The main difference between these two patent references is depicted in
U.S. Pat. No. 5,224,679 ("the '679 patent") teaches a holster for a hand-held instrument such as an intake nozzle of an operating room suction device. The '679 patent suggests several ways the holster may be attached to an operating table (see
It might also be noted that not only do these prior art devices fail to provide a convenient means of curtailing the suction conditions in their respective suction tubes, none of them allow for variation in the vertical orientation of the handle of the suction nozzles held in such holsters. The hereinafter described medical/dental suction nozzle holsters of this patent disclosure not only provide a means for curtailing suction conditions in a suction tube, they also address the need for variation in the vertical orientation of a nozzle handle. They do this by providing three separate and distinct vertical orientations for the holster.
The medical/dental suction nozzle holster devices of this patent disclosure are particularly characterized by the fact that they have at least one vertical constriction such as a Y-shaped notch or V-shaped notch in the upper rim of their holster component. The top of a given notch will be wide enough (e.g., from about 0.5 to about 2.0 inches) to accept the outside diameter of commonly available suction hoses and then generally get progressively more narrow as they descend downward in the body of a holster. In effect, such a notch will provide a generally Y-shaped or V-shaped configuration that progressively becomes more and more narrow or constricted in its lower regions. That is to say that the upper regions of these notches should readily admit the outside diameter of such hoses while the lower regions of said notches will be constricted to a degree that the inside diameter region of a flexible and compressible hose will be substantially pinched together as the hose is forced downward in the notch and thereby curtail air/fluid flow through the hose. Generally speaking, the vertical depth of the notch generally should not exceed more than about one fourth of the vertical depth of the holster body. Notches having vertical depths of from about 1.0 inches to about 3.0 inches will generally suffice.
The ability of a medical/dental practitioner to curtail the suction action at the holster—as opposed to turning a shut off valve on a vacuum creating device (aspirator) that is typically located much further away from the patient—has a great deal of convenience-in-use value. That is to say that the notch in the holster enables the practitioner to more conveniently shut off the suction action while said practitioner's attention is still directed toward a nearby patient. There also may be times during the course of an operation that the medical staff need to converse in a relatively calm, quiet atmosphere. Because suction tubes make clearly discernable sucking or aspirating sounds that are annoying, distracting and/or not conducive to quiet conversations, it is of considerable advantage to have the ability to temporarily eliminate such sounds without having to leave the immediate vicinity of the patient to turn a shut off valve at the aspirator device.
Next, it should be noted that Applicant's notched holster can be attached to a convenient anchor point (e.g., an operating table rail, bed rail, stand, wall attachment, etc.) by anchor devices (e.g., c-clamps, alligator clips, set screws, etc.) such as those disclosed in the previously discussed prior art patents. However, notched holster devices that have three separate and distinct operating positions will provide certain added advantages. For example, each different operating position will provide a means for placing the holster device—and hence, the medical/dental suction nozzle that the device holds—in an operating position that a medical/dental practitioner may find relatively more convenient and/or practical. They can be, for example, more readily adapted for use by left-handed as well as right-handed practitioners. Moreover, such holster devices can be readily changed back and forth between their three possible operating positions without the use of hand tools or hand tightening knobs that operate bolts and the like—that sometimes unexpectedly loosen during use in medical/dental operations.
These three positions are made possible through selective use of two main components. The first main component is a holster component that in addition to having at least one notch in its upper rim also have a holster mounting mechanism that further comprises a rear plate having a keyway slot/nub receiver opening system. The second main component is a mounting channel component. The mounting channel component provides the means by which the operating position of the holster component can be initially selected and/or changed. To these ends, the face side of a front vertical plate of the mounting channel is provided with three separate and distinct key plate/key nub systems. Each of these key plate/key nub system may be readily inserted into (or removed from) the keyway slot/nub receiver opening system located in the rear plate of the holster mounting mechanism.
For example, insertion of a left key plate/key nub system into the keyway slot/nub receiver opening system in the rear plate of the holster mounting mechanism causes the holster to be firmly held in a leftward tilting operating position. Thus, the handle of a suction nozzle placed in the holster also has a leftward tilting orientation. Conversely, insertion of a right key plate/key nub system into the keyway slot/nub receiver opening system in the rear plate of the holster mounting mechanism causes the holster (and hence the nozzle it holds) to be held in a rightward tilting operating position. Placement of the center key plate/key nub system in the rear plate's keyway slot/nub receiver opening system will cause the holster (and nozzle handle) to hang in a substantially vertical orientation.
Applicants' suction nozzle holster device has various other features of note. For example, the mounting channel component further comprises a rear vertical plate that is attached to the rear side of the front vertical plate by means of a horizontal ledge that connects the two vertical plates. This horizontal ledge also serves as the top surface of a bottom mounting channel region in which a rail (e.g., an operating table rail) resides. The rear side of the vertical channel forms one side wall of the bottom mounting channel region while the front side of the rear vertical plate forms the other side wall of the bottom mounting channel region.
Next, it should be noted that an upper part of the rear vertical plate projects above the intersection of the horizontal ledge with the rear vertical plate while a lower part of the rear vertical plate projects below the horizontal ledge/rear vertical plate intersection. In effect, the inside surface of the upper part of the rear vertical wall serves as the front side of the rear vertical plate that forms the other side wall of the bottom mounting channel region. As will be better seen in
The top lip 12A of the holster 12 is shown provided with two separate and distinct notches 12G and 12H. These notches are shown having a generally Y-shaped configuration (a V-shaped notch also may be employed). In either case, the depth 12I of notch 12G (as well as the depth of notch 12H) will generally be less than one quarter of the depth 12D of the holster. For example, depth 12I will generally be from about 1.0 to 3.0 inches. The width 12J of the top of the notch will generally be from about 0.5 to about 2.0 inches.
In this view the rim 12A of the holster is shown provided with a single, Y-shaped, notch 12G. Again, a V-shaped constriction can also be employed to constrict a suction hose. A portion of the hose 15 is shown pushed downward into the lower regions of such a notch 15. This action serves to create a constricted region 15A in the hose and thereby curtailing, shutting off, etc. the vacuum conditions in the hose—and hence in the suction tube serviced by that hose. By way of example only, this particular holster is shown attached to a rail 20 by means of a C-clamp 17 such as that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,367,110 B1.
The mounting channel 18 is also shown in perspective in
As will be better illustrated in
Next, it should be noted that the face side 43 of the vertical plate 32 is shown provided with a right side key plate 56 (again, as seen from the front of the holster, as in
Placement of the center key plate 58 and its associated nub 58′ in the key slot 22A/nub receiver 30 opening system will cause the resulting key/opening system (and hence the holster component 12) to be in a substantially vertical orientation such as that depicted in
The third possible operating position of this holster device 10 is achieved when the right key plate 56 and its associate nub 56′ are inserted into the key slot 22A/nub receiver 30 opening system in the rear plate 22 of the holster mounting channel 16. In this third operating position, a contact region 58B of the nub 58′ of the center key plate 58 will collide with a contact region 28CR of the left separation rib 28. This arrangement will cause the holster to be oriented at an angle comparable to angle θ1 of the right key plate 56. This orientation is, in effect, the opposite orientation to that illustrated in
Those skilled in this art will appreciate that many other features can be employed in the practice of this invention; consequently the preceding patent disclosure should be regarded as illustrating, but not limiting, the scope of the following claims.
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Hearing Taro and Hiro's voices guided him to them. He pushed back the hood and said, "Taro, Hiro. It is good to see you." Then he added, "I have had a very long walk." For a moment there was nothing but astonished silence as Shusaku had known there would be. Then Hiro spoke.
"Shusaku." The name was breathed in disbelief and then uttered again with more confidence. "Shusaku, what happened to you skin? I can't believe you're alive."
"Wait," Taro said. "You can see him too?" That made Shusaku wonder what exactly had happened to Taro to make him ask that. He wished he could see so he could tell what Taro's expression looked like.
"What?" Hiro asked. "Of course. He's right there. I just can't believe it. We thought you were dead Shusaku."
"I can see him as well." That soothing voice could only come from Lady Hana. It seemed that she had grown quite fond of Taro as well and seemed to understand what Taro had meant earlier. "We met in the woods," she added. "When you saved me from the bandits."
"I remember. Well met Lady Hana," Shusaku said. Then what Taro had meant earlier sunk int. Taro must have thought he was ghost. "I'm not a ghost," he told Taro. "The sun burned me but it couldn't kill me."
He felt a cool hand touch his face and then Hana said, "Those burns… It must have been terrible." Her voice was touched with sympathy. Shusaku simply shrugged.
"It was. Lots of things are." Being away from Taro had been one of them. Lord Tokugawa's son had grown on him.
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"Yes. It's me. I'm sorry I didn't find you sooner." And he really was. He wished he could have been there sooner to help Taro. He was startled moments later when Taro flung his arms around him. Shusaku hugged the boy back and lifted him easily, spinning him through the air. Then he released Taro and let out a half embarrassed laugh. "It's good to see you too. I have thought of you every day." He coughed and then continued. "Those I train do not usually occupy my thoughts so much." Taro was different though. Shusaku wasn't sure how but he was. He had the unwavering loyalty of a friend, he had captured the heart of Oda's precious daughter, and he had somehow captured the friendship and trust of Shusaku himself. Yes Taro was going special and he was going to be a great man one day; and a respected shogun.


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The Milanofiori housing complex is characterized by a series of functions (offices, hotels, restaurants, cinemas, leisure and residences) that define together a cluster whose elements appear to follow the characteristics of the surrounding landscape, creating a public park as the extension of the existing forest.
The design seeks the symbiosis between architecture and landscape, so that the synthesis of artificial and natural elements can define the quality of living and the sense of belonging by the inhabitants. The interface between the building and the garden becomes the field where interaction between man and environment takes place.
This interface is defined by the 'C' form of the complex which encompasses the public park, and by the porosity from interior to exterior that characterizes all 107 apartments. The two facades are designed differently: the one facing the street outside is more urban, and the one towards the inner park is more organic. The design of the urban facade stimulates a sense of belonging thanks to the composition of white frames which identify separately the units.
These frames include vertical wooden panels of different widths which can slide across the frames and control the inner light as necessary. The organic facade overlooking the garden features double glazed bioclimatic greenhouses. The co-planarity between the glass of the greenhouse and the glass guardrail covering the string-course creates an effect where the shape of the construction and the background merge and reverse their roles constantly, producing kaleidoscopic effects overlapping the reflection of the public garden outside with the transparency of the private garden inside.
The geometry of the building is shaped by translation of the upper levels in line with positions of optimum solar exposure and by tapering of the external terraces in order to increase introspection among residents. The winter garden has a double value: an environmental value in providing a buffer zone which allows thermal regulation, and an architectural value in allowing extension of the interior living space towards the exterior landscape (and vice versa), permitting different uses from summer to winter.
Through the overlap of different natural layers (the public park, the open terraces and the winter gardens) the project seeks a kind of holism of nature, where various personal interactions of these natural layers create an intensive landscape that is directly and personally customized by each resident. In line with ever changing developments in contemporary living, the porosity of the architecture makes Milanofiori residential complex an evolving organism, in perpetual change, preferring the dynamic exchange between architecture and nature and stimulating the interaction between man and environment.
The Milanofiori project investigates new ways of contemporary living by developing two themes: nomadic and sedentary. Contemporary life brings each of us to live in a house as a place where you come from and where you come back to, in a continuous alternation of time and space. This means that sedentary and nomadic attitudes coexist in our every day living experience.
To express this duality it is not enough to think just in terms of housing types that meet the most varied requirements of all possible users. What is needed instead is a paradigm shift that lies in reversing the direction of the discussion: from the house as an object to the inhabitant as the subject. Living in the garden. Breaking free from the presence of the hypertrophic 'house', the dwelling is thought more as the expression of the site as a whole, rather than a physical place.
This is not simply blurring the distinction between inside / outside, but finding the continuum in which space and time are unified in one entity that cannot be separated. To do this we need to think of an opportunity: the garden. In the garden space and time are unified, they become continuous, recovering - evoking - the essential meaning of living in the sense of 'taking care'.
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The transparency studied on the project enhances the porosity between inside and outside, extending the outside garden into the apartments and vice versa, becoming also an opportunity for exchange between people, creating effectively a new way of living based on a new community value.
A few months ago, the architects themselves went there for a site visiting and were delighted to see that people living there feel as if they are living in a large family or community. Inhabitants have begun to accrue interest in the social aspects of living and to seek building a solid community, taking care of neighbours.
In this sense it is interesting to notice that the inhabitants have created a Facebook account for the entire 'building-community' and would like to make a film documentary on how the neighbours' lives have been changing thanks to architecture.
Through this design, the very idea of neighbourhood has changed, moving from a civic duty to a pleasant aim to work together. The Milanofiori housing complex has improved life both within the building and in the wider community, highlighting how architecture can have a direct and measurable impact on those who live within it.
The project involves a series of open spaces for social interaction in synergy with the other parts of the cluster. In this sense, the typical user takes a 'life interconnected', with frequent travel even within the same cluster. We try to overcome the concept of 'Unity' (d'Habitation) in favour of a polyvalent system released by the behaviour of the typical nuclear family and the separation of housing and workplace imposed by industrial civilisation, towards new models of mutual relations, trade and transversality.
The relationship with the park is enhanced by an architectural device defined by a set of internal private gardens that characterize the facade of the housing complex overlooking the park.
All apartments are equipped with a hybrid environment with a double task: to blur the line between inside and outside and, simultaneously, to define areas filtering the intimate housing spaces.
Such environments are a buffer zone which also have a high environmental value. During the winter months - thanks to a double glazed window - it creates a greenhouse air chamber with a temperature control function that allows one side to preheat the interiors and the other to dissipate less heat, with benefits in terms of energy saving and emission reduction. During the summer months - opening the window casing - this buffer zone creates an open and shady lodge where the slab projecting above the inner glass creates shadow that reduces exposure to direct sunlight and produce natural ventilation.
This façade system of double windows (outer open joint and inner thermal break) produces a particular dematerialization effect of the building front, merging the mirrored image of the outer common park with the image of the internal private gardens, reviewing the results defined by the artistic research of Dan Graham, working upon transparent and reflective properties of glass through which to create a continuum between internal-external, content-container, object-subject.
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Biomed Inform Insights 5:51-60. 2012..The precision and recall of these classifiers related strongly with the number of occurrences of each emotion in the training data. Evaluating on previously unseen test data, our best system achieved an F(1) score of 0.534...
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Junior Jena Stukerjurgen unleashes a pitch during the regional semifinals Monday night against Fairfield. The game originally began on Saturday evening but was suspended due to a thunderstorm. Fairfield was leading 5-0 in the fourth inning when the rain came. The Trojans gained a 9-1 victory and move within a game of the state Class 4A softball tournament.


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CP World Report: Mahmoud Abbas, Syria, Paypal, Pope Benedict
A senior Palestinian official says President Mahmoud Abbas will formally ask the U.N. Security Council today….to recognize Palestine as a full member of the U.N.. U.S. President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the move and Canada is in opposition to it. In an address to the U.N., Obama highlighted threats to Israel…..
Let's be honest: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel's citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel's children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, looks out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map. The Jewish people carry the burden of centuries of exile, persecution, and the fresh memory of knowing that six million people were killed simply because of who they were.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian leadership is now showing readiness to compromise. Its now willing to delay a Security Council vote on its bid for statehood by several months if necessary to avert a major confrontation with Israel and the United States.
The uprisings in Syria was an item at the UN General Assembly. According to the UN Commissioner for Human Rights: over 26-hundred people have been killed since Mid-march at the hands of President Assad's brutal regime. It could be even more as Syria has restricted access into the country, making it difficult to confirm numbers. U.S. President Obama called for stiff action against the regime……
Pay-pal is in the hotseat for cutting service to a Christian activist and writer and closely watching other traditional Christian groups. Under pressure from the gay activist group "All Out", PayPal decided to deny service to famed Brazilian pro-life and pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo. "All out" claims Severo along with organizations like: "Tradition, Family, and Property", and "Americans for Truth About Homosexuality" …promote hate, violence, and intolerance. These groups remain under investigation by PayPal and may also lose the service.
The Evangelical Alliance in Britain has added its voice to concerns about the Government's plans to legalize marriage for gay couples. Under current law, gay couples may enter into civil partnerships but not marry. Conversely heterosexual couples may marry but not enter into legalized civil partnerships.
The complicated relationship between the United States and Pakistan remains difficult, as both countries participate in the United Nations General Assembly.
Take a look at a description of this messy relationship and its role in the war on terror.
Meanwhile…International Christian Concern has announced that a Christian man accused of blasphemy has died in a Pakistani prison. Aslam Masih died of the treatable disease…...dengue….due to neglect. "International Christian Concern" urged the international community to put pressure on Pakistan to protect the rights of Christians and other religious minority groups in the country.
On his first state visit to his homeland Germany, Pope Benedict used Nazism as a model of when power is corrupted. He told German parliament that politicians must not sacrifice ethics for power. He said there is ultimately nothing else we could wish for but: a listening heart, the capacity to discern between good and evil, and…. establish true law, justice and peace. Although the Pope was well received, he was also met with protests and opposition to his appearance, for violating the principles of separation of Church and State.
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So you tell the salesman, "I'm sorry but we're happy with our systems." He draws your attention to something out the window and when you look back at your desk there's a hunk of Jarlsberg sitting there that wasn't there before. "Not mine," he says. "Must be yours. Looks like it's just a wedge too, so there's probably plenty more where that came from." You love Jarlsberg, but you also love your job. But seriously, you like really love Jarlsberg. "Maybe our systems could use some updating," you say as you hide the cheese under some papers. Flash-forward six months and you're sobbing naked in a jail cell while a white supremacist brushes your hair and calls you Sharon. WAS THE CHEESE WORTH IT?!
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India urges faster quake help
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has called for relief work to be speeded up following the country's devastating earthquake, as several more survivors were dramatically rescued from ruined buildings.
Mr Vajpayee, speaking after touring wreckage in the western state of Gujarat, announced federal aid worth five billion rupees ($107.6m).
So far about 6,200 bodies have been pulled from the rubble, and hopes of finding many more survivors are dwindling rapidly, according to rescuers.
The earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck on Friday morning in the wealthy industrial state of Gujarat, flattening whole villages and toppling high-rise blocks in cities.
Visiting the devastated city of Bhuj, Mr Vajpayee renewed an appeal for $1.5 billion in aid from international banks - a fifth of which the World Bank has pledged to release forthwith.
The Indian army says it has now sent extra troops to help rescuers in remote areas.
'Miraculous survival'
At least four people were found alive on Monday, including an eight-month-old boy in Bhuj, and a seven-month-old girl dug from the rubble of her home in the nearby town of Bhachau.
In the case of the "miracle boy", as he is being called, doctors said the warmth of his dead mother's body helped him survive three days in the ruins of a collapsed building in Bhuj's Kansara Market.
The baby girl was reunited with her delighted mother and father who had been outside their home when the earthquake struck.
But much of the work was excavating the dead, and emergency workers point out that any more rescues will be nothing short of miraculous.
"Chances of finding people are dimming by the hour," said Michelle Mercier, a member of a Swiss rescue team.
Mr Vajpayee toured the devastated areas by helicopter, as the focus shifted to rehabilitation and rebuilding operations.
He called on Indians to donate to a government fund for the victims.
Pakistan has said a special flight carrying relief goods will leave on Tuesday - after earlier confusion about whether or not the Indian Government would accept it.
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A BBC correspondent says India's public finances were not prepared for a shock like this, and reconstruction will be a huge task.
Survivors have complained of confusion surrounding the rescue and relief operations.
Aid is trickling in, but in some outlying areas villagers waited for relief trucks to reach them.
"We've got no food, no water," truck driver Yadav Raja Bhai said in a village 30 km (20 miles) from Bhuj.
In Bhuj, where at least 10,000 are thought to have died, there is no running water, no electricity, no shelter and limited food.
Many survivors are simply fleeing the city, taking with them whatever belongings they can carry.
On Monday, many residents of the south-eastern Pakistan city of Hyderabad - some 300km (180 miles) northwest of Bhuj - fled their homes in panic, terrified that another earthquake was about to strike.
There were no injuries.
There have been an estimated 200 aftershocks - including one measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale - since the main earthquake last Friday.
The initial quake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, was felt in neighbouring Pakistan, where authorities said 12 people had died, and as far away as Nepal and Bangladesh.
It was the most powerful quake to strike India since 1950, when one with a magnitude of 8.5 killed 1,538 people in north-eastern Assam state.
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Pirates to minimize distractions for Cole
Pirates to minimize distractions for Cole
CHICAGO -- Anticipation for Gerrit Cole's Major League debut will naturally grow until he delivers that first pitch from the PNC Park mound at 7:05 p.m. ET on Tuesday.
However, the build-up will be all "external," as Pirates manager Clint Hurdle likes to refer to the noise outside of his team's clubhouse.
The Pirates are ensuring that Cole's big league entry will be as muted and calming as possible.
The top overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft will be in-house Monday to check out his PNC Park locker and try on his new No. 45 uniform.
But Monday is a break in the Pirates' schedule, and the team will not hold any media events involving Cole. Thus, given starting pitchers' pregame routines, Cole will not get to meet with reporters until after his debut outing.
Hurdle does plan to share a quiet moment with the right-hander on Monday.
"I'll be interested to get his feedback on how he feels the progression of his season has gone," the manager said. "I'll ask him about what areas he feels he nailed down, and the things in front of him he thinks he still has to master."
Otherwise, Cole's entrance will be kept as low key as plausible. Just another one of 162.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Al Jazeera Media Networks is still studying an investment in the Mediaset Premium pay-TV arm of Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset, Rapid TV News has reported. "Mediaset is a big company and a great opportunity for us … we're evaluating the possibility in different ways," Sheikh Ali Bin Thamer al Thani, a member of the Qatari ruling family, told reporters at an event in Palermo. "Anything is possible," he added. The debt-ridden MediaSet Premium, which is owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, currently serves just over two million subscribers. Mediaset also owns 22% of Spanish pay-TV platform Digital+.
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"Lavishly imagined . . . Wagner [dares] his readers to be so callous as to question fiction's ability to imagine the impossible."—The Boston Globe
"Wagner's astute portrayal of the follies of the rich is exceeded by his skill at rendering the lives of the poor. The chapters on Amaryllis . . . are worthy of a latter-day Dickens."—The Washington Post
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REMNANTS remain from previous coaches Ernie Merrick and Ange Postecoglou, but Besart Berisha's arrival next season will hail the commencement of the Kevin Muscat era at Melbourne Victory.
While Muscat took over in October after Postecoglou was appointed Socceroos coach, the latter's fingerprints remained all over the club.
Tom Rogic's loan would have been rubberstamped by the Socceroos boss while Muscat would have leaned on his mentor before luring Jean-Paul de Marigny as assistant.
Muscat would have counselled Postecoglou before deciding to lodge an offer for Berisha, but it's unlikely he would have signed his former Brisbane Roar sharpshooter.
Postecoglou played without a centre-forward (No. 9), opting for a 4-2-2-2 formation where his two highest forwards were the wide players — usually Archie Thompson and Kosta Barbarouses this season.
While Berisha has played on a wing, he's made his name as a goalscoring No. 9 and Muscat will tweak the formation to accommodate the club's new marquee.
The band is back together for a grand final edition of the Fox Football Podcast — with a few special guests dropping in as well. Adam Peacock, Simon Hill and Brenton Speed are in the studio, where they are joined by Wanderers fanatic Ian 'Dicko' Dickson, who dropped by for a chat too, and on the line by Brisbane Roar defender Jade North. Daniel Garb is on deck again to talk Mourinho, Liverpool, City and all things EPL & Socceroos.
"You can obviously see why we've signed him. I haven't spoken to him (recently). I spoke to him once and obviously wish him well for next week,'' Muscat said.
A 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1 formation is most likely with Thompson and Barbarouses likely to remain wide, albeit deeper, with one of the No. 10s sacrificed.
If Gui Finkler stays on he's the man, with Mark Milligan and Leigh Broxham able to play as the two holders with additional defensive support.
Victory will try and keep James Troisi, who was on loan from Italian duo Atalanta and Juventus, but any deal may hinge on the future of Finkler.
Adama Traore's future hangs in the balance with rival A-League clubs likely to come in now that he's an Australian citizen, although the Ivorian-born left-back is considering continuing his career in Europe.
Should Traore leave, Scott Galloway has played plenty of football there while teen Dylan Murnane showed enough to suggest he can challenge for a permanent role.
There were preliminary talks with Chilean Pablo Contreras about continuing on, albeit within the salary cap, but should he leave Victory will have to go sign a quality stopper to offer competition to Adrian Leijer and Nick Ansell.
12 wins, 8 draws, 9 losses
44 scored, 45 conceded
Finished 4th and eliminated in the semi finals
2 wins, 2 draws, 2 losses
9 scored, 9 conceded
Finished third in a group of four
1 James Troisi
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4 Mark Milligan
5 Leigh Broxham
Jesse Makarounas
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Besart Berisha (Brisbane)
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Adama Traore and Gui Finkler to re-sign, because if they don't they'll have to go shopping for a quality no. 10 if James Troisi returns to Italy with Tom Rogic destined to return to Celtic. Thereafter there's no glaring holes, just more depth required.
Top scorer: James Troisi 12
Assists: James Troisi 9
Intercepts: Adama Traore 143
Tackles: Adama Traore 104
Victory's season threatened to derail but Asian Champions League qualification coincided with a revival and a new-found sturdiness after becoming defensively frail. Kevin Muscat deserves huge praise for performing admirably in difficult circumstances after replacing Ange Postecoglou a month in.
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The App::Cache module lets an application cache data locally. There are a
few times an application would need to cache data: when it is retrieving
information from the network or when it has to complete a large
For example, the Parse::BACKPAN::Packages module downloads a file off the
net and parses it, creating a data structure. Only then can it actually
provide any useful information for the programmer.
Parse::BACKPAN::Packages uses App::Cache to cache both the file download
and data structures, providing much faster use when the data is cached.
This module stores data in the home directory of the user, in a dot
directory. For example, the Parse::BACKPAN::Packages cache is actually
stored underneath "~/.parse_backpan_packages/cache/". This is so that
permissions are not a problem - it is a per-user, per-application cache.
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Cache/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-App-Cache/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-App-Cache
cd /usr/ports/devel/p5-App-Cache/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-App-Cache
PKGNAME: p5-App-Cache
SHA256 (App-Cache-0.37.tar.gz) = 59f261815f7c7eb160053a96715e96d68569e4e4f3b05453e7c24d58bd458c96
SIZE (App-Cache-0.37.tar.gz) = 5690
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
This port is required by:
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 23
- Fix trailing whitespace in pkg-descrs, categories [a-f]*
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories d, e, f, and g.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Change the way Perl modules are installed, update the default Perl to 5.18.
Before, we had:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18
site_perl/perl_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/5.18/man/man3
Now we have:
site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
Cleanup plist
support STAGEDIR.
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
devel part 3)
- Add WWW
- Use single space after WWW:
- Remove Author line
- Convert to new perl framework
- Trim Makefile header
- Remove MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes, it's the default.
- Convert all remaining instances of BUILD_DEPENDS=${RUN_DEPENDS} or
RUN_DEPENDS=${BUILD_DEPENDS} to use := which portlint has warned
about for a while.
PR: ports/168208
Approved by: portmgr (miwi)
The vast majority of pkg-descr files had the following format when they
had both lines:
Author: ...
So standardize on that, and move them to the end of the file when necessary.
Also fix some more whitespace, and remove more "signature tags" of varying
forms, like -- name, etc.
A few other various formatting issues
- Cleaning MD5 in perl@'s ports.
Approved by: erwin@ (portmgr)
- Update to 0.37
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Cache/Changes
- lang/perl5.6 is dead, remove PERL_LEVEL/PERL_VERSION < 500801 checks
PR: ports/135398
Tested by: 2 -exp runs by pav
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Update to 0.36
- update dependency
- bump PORTREVISION
- Update to 0.35
- Update to 0.34
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/App-Cache/Changes
Hunt for typos in devel/p5-*.
Reset aaron's port maintainerships due to many maintainer-timeouts.
- Take advantage of CPAN macro from bsd.sites.mk, change
${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN} to CPAN.
PR: ports/122674
Submitted by: Philip M. Gollucci <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Reworked by: araujo (myself)
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
Update to 0.33
Submitted by: Felippe de Meirelles Motta <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Approved by: maintainer timeout
Welcome bsd.perl.mk. Add support for constructs such as USE_PERL5=5.8.0+.
Drop support for antique perl.
Work done by: gabor
Sponsored by: Google Summer of Code 2007
Hat: portmgr
Adding port devel/p5-App-Cache, an Easy application-level caching library
approved by: tobez (implicit)
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