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NEW YORK On the day that thousands protested in Islamabad, led by vocal cleric Tahirul Qadri, and a roadside bomb killed more than two dozen Pakistani soldiers in North Waziristan, Pakistan's outspoken Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, was still able to smile in an interview with CBS News at the U.N. headquarters.
Khar, who will preside over the Open Debate of the Security Council on counterterrorism, said the Pakistani government, which had clearly been rattled by the large demonstration in Islamabad, turned off the ubiquitous cell phones in parts of the city as a security measure.
They were concerned the demonstrations would get out of hand. Qadri apparently hopes they will create a Pakistani version of Egypt's Tahrir Square. Cleric Qadri's supporters, who began in Lahore on a 400-mile march to revolutionize the Pakistani system, want a postponement of national elections, among other things.
The Foreign Minister smiled when asked about the cleric, saying: "The reason I smile is because this is a person who, until a few weeks back, was enjoying a comfortable life in Canada, oblivious to the many demands of the weakening of the political system that he now feels so heartedly and passionately for. And then he arrives on the Pakistani scene."
He is not eligible, she said, to contest the elections in Pakistan because he is a dual national, according to the Constitution.
It is the cleric's popularity and demands for a fundamental change that appears to receive Khar's scorn: "He comes in and creates demands, which are in some ways against the constitutional fabric of Pakistan. He wants a role for the judiciary and the military in the political disposition. That is preposterous. It can be called many words, which I will not like to use. You have to have a credibility or a legitimacy and make legitimate demands. We all know Pakistan has its challenges. I am aware as much as he is of the challenge that corruption presents. But what is the way, can you circumvent those challenges?"
The cleric is not all that is troubling Pakistan. In recent months, Pakistan has had more suicide attacks, now targeting Shiite Muslims. It is trying to calm tensions with India that have flared up over the Kashmir region. It is dealing with what might happen when U.S. and international forces leave Afghanistan. It is also responding to a growing number of protests against the U.S. drone attacks against militants.
What surprises the foreign minister are the divisions in the country that were not present before, between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
"Interestingly, Pakistan, unlike many other countries in the Muslim world, is a country where being Shia or Sunni does not define you. When I went to school, I did not know which girl in my school or which boy in my school was Shia or Sunni," Khar said. "In the workplace you typically do not know who is Shia and who is Sunni, so we are a country that is a melting pot of all ethnicities."
The continued U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan spark Khar's anger: "They have no legality, they are completely unlawful, and we also believe on top of everything else, they are counterproductive. Because you see, when drone strikes take place, you take the war away from a Pakistani war against terrorism to being a U.S. war on terrorism, which is enforced on Pakistan. And secondly, you give the ideological space for these people to dance around it and to ruin. There is now evidence - not collected by Pakistanis, but by British and Americans - that there is a fair degree of civilian casualties."


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It's always a treat to go to the Open Air Theatre, particularly on a warm, fine summer evening. In this case, although we may not have got Mr Darcy in a wet shirt, the full house were given Simon Reade's take on Pride and Prejudice.
There's a question-mark over the point of reviving or adapting something that's been done as many times as Austen's classic. Reade presents Pride and Prejudice as a farce; he explains in the programme notes that he sees it partly as a Restoration comedy, one of those glorious trouser-dropping precursors to the modern-day Carry On films.
And so while the play certainly gets the laughs - Rebecca Lacey is marvellously over-the-top as Mrs Bennet, fretting about how to get her daughters married off - it loses much of Austen's bite and subtlety.
The broadness of characterisation and the paring-down of the plot mean that we get a Darcy (David Oakes) taciturn in the background, pacing up and down like a security guard, without ever having chance to explore his personality; and a Lizzy (Jennifer Kirby) who is vivacious and sisterly but never seems to have much interest in the menfolk - her sudden profession of feeling for the cad Wickham is out of the blue. It's a shame - both actors playing the duelling lovers offer glimpses of much potential, but have little chance to develop much chemistry.
Rob Heaps plays Mr Bingley nicely as a none-too-bright, good-hearted creature, making his reliance on his old friend Darcy much more understandable; and Ed Birch, the grotesque Mr Collins, is delicious as the pompous young parson.
As the play draws to a close, the moral of the tale on the importance of picking an appropriate life partner is reinforced (over and over again); and Mrs Bennet gets the last word by repeating her ever-so-famous, ever-so-cliched opening line once more - "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
The fact that this scathing line twice comes from a woman who's been shown throughout to be silly, feather-headed and ridiculous - rather than from an arch observant narrator - shows that this is a crowd-pleasing Pride and Prejudice, with all the famous lines included, but perhaps not one that Austen devotees might recognise as a faithful interpretation.
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Awaiting the Next Roberto
I tend to be unimpressed with other people's babies, marriages, and fantasy teams. Hearing about any of the foregoing is much like listening to someone prattle on about their dreams: this imaginary experience may have great personal meaning to you, but by its very nature it is solipsistic and difficult to translate to others in a way that inspires empathy. Everyone has a special anniversary—special to them and not anyone else, no matter how passionately they may feel about it.
As such, I don't expect anyone to note a special baseball tenth anniversary this year, that of the last season in which a player hit .330 or more with 10 or more triples. The last hitter to accomplish this feat was, appropriately, newly minted Hall of Famer Roberto Alomar. In 2001, in what was both his last season with the Cleveland Indians and final productive year, Alomar hit .336/.415/.541 with 12 triples, also throwing in 34 doubles, 20 home runs, and 30 stolen bases for good measure.
Alomar was one of those rare players who could do a bit of everything on the baseball field—hit for average, hit for power, run. Seasons like his have become rare; over the last 30 years, just 11 players have hit .330 with double-figures in triples and just six of those have also hit 10 or more home runs. Those five who preceded Alomar:
At one time, seasons like this were common. The so-called triple-double (double-digit figures in doubles, triples, and home runs) plus an average of .330 or more was achieved 91 times between 1901 and 1945, with players such as Ty Cobb, Kiki Cuyler, and Goose Goslin leading the way. In all the years since, there have been just 27 such seasons, including those mentioned above. Now the species seems nearly extinct.
There are no doubt some conservative, Chass-ian types who might like to use this sort of information to proclaim that the players have lost something since the days of yore, or at least since the 1970s and '80s, or that today's muscle-bound, chemically-enhanced ballplayer is not as lithe and speedy as his predecessors, and are too focused on the home run. Shockingly, I find myself inclined to agree, if only about the game having lost something in recent decades. There is a reason the triple is called the most exciting play in baseball. It involves every aspect of the game in one play—hitting, speed, and, in the scramble to hold the runner to second base, defense. Home runs, as wonderful as they are, involve a lot of standing around followed by a slow trot around the bases. The decisive swing is exhilarating. The aftermath is tedious; baseball at its best involves running in some form, not jogging.
It's not just the players, of course, nor their approach to hitting or bodybuilding, or even an evolution in scouting preferences that has in some cases de-emphasized the skinny, speedy gap hitters of yesteryear for burly mashers—there was a time when a player like Brett Gardner would have been as attractive a prospect as an Adam Dunn. That day is gone, but a larger cause is that the ballpark-building boom has brought home run-friendly stadia that tend to lack the large gaps that are required for both high averages and triples. Newer parks such as Citi Field and Target Field may restore some three-baggers to the big leagues when both the Mets and Twins are appropriately staffed to take advantage of their ballparks' features.
Still, even if triples are not being hit the way they used to, they have still been swatted in sufficient numbers that there have been 90 seasons of double-figure doubles, triples, and home runs since 1980, and if you want quadruple-doubles, with 10 or more stolen bases added to the menu, there have been 79 of those, most recently last season by brand-new Red Sox left fielder Carl Crawford, who hit .307/.356/.495 with 30 doubles, 13 triples, 19 home runs, and 47 steals. It is only when you ask for players who can go 200-for-600 on the season while doing those things that the numbers stop coming. Consider the number of players who hit the .330/quadruple mark in each decade:
That solitary "1" on the bottom there is Alomar again, the Lone Ranger, the last thylacine. It is to be hoped that this is not the case. That is why, although I am well aware of the limitations of major leaguers such as Crawford and Ichiro Suzuki, as well as prospects like Ben Revere and Mike Trout, I find myself excited each time I consider their possibilities. It's not so much that they might possess the capability of checking off each column on their baseball cards (Revere seems unlikely to ever muster enough power to reach ten home runs in a season), but that in their ability to knock base hits and run, almost any outcome is possible when they step to the plate. Don't get me wrong—I love your basic sabermetric, Three True Outcomes model as much as anyone, but let's face it—the whole point of those guys is that they don't put the ball in play. They turn the game into a static affair involving the pitcher, hitter, and catcher. The fielders and the spaces between bases are unlikely to be employed.
I very much doubt that Alomar will go into Cooperstown as the true last of his kind, but we have been waiting a long time for his heir to come along. People are also searching for that thylacine and for the ivory-billed woodpecker as well, and perhaps Steller's sea cow for all I know, but they never will find them—perhaps they should accept, mourn, and move on. Conditions change, or we change them, and species that once thrived fade and die.
Fade and die—that describes my kind of anniversary. I don't expect you to empathize; you may be happy with the way things are, and like I said, anniversaries, no matter how special we think they are, don't translate. Our feelings about the things we love cannot be universalized, being too personal and ineffable. Otherwise, we might commonly trade wives and children, like Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich. Fortunately, that's not the way we work. I love my children and find your kids kind of boring, and I'm not really sure what you see in your girlfriend or wife.
As such, I don't necessarily expect those of you who came to baseball in 2000 or later necessarily to identify with my sadness at the loss of the high-average slashers, but take my word for it—they were wonderful.
Steven Goldman is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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Brian Cartwright
I finished the article, and was going back to the main page, still thinking "He titled the piece The Next Roberto" but then never said a word about Clemente...then it hit me, that Roberto, Alomar.
Feb 11, 2011 05:59 AM
Would be interesting to know the number of triples that were hit in each decade, given that they are (I think) very much park-dependent. Also, I'd like to know how many players managed to hit .330 over a season in each decade.
Feb 11, 2011 06:59 AM
Additionally, is outfield defense (positioning, arms, athleticism, putting the right guys in the right spots) getting better?
Feb 11, 2011 09:51 AM
Two Tassie Tiger references in as many weeks? Really? And I. like Brian, also expected a Clemente oriented article when I first clicked on it.
Feb 11, 2011 11:53 AM
Great article. If I had to place a bet on any major leaguer to hit those marks again I'd wager on Matt Kemp. Fast, strong, aggressive on the bases. His batting average was problematic last year, but if he puts it all together in 2011...
Feb 11, 2011 14:53 PM
I would think both Dustin Pedroia and Robinson Cano have such seasons in them.
Feb 12, 2011 05:34 AM
.330 seems like an awful arbitrary (and awfully high) cutoff number to me.
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UAE defence industries show significant progress
Abu Dhabi: The UAE's defence industry has achieved significant progress over the past few years and can now compete at a global level, a top official said.
Tareq Al Bannay, Staff Colonel Pilot at the UAE Armed Forces, told Gulf News that the achievements are a result of the guidance and directives from the country's leadership to diversify its economic resources and reduce dependence on oil by 2030. The development of the defence industry is part of that wider vision.
"The UAE is at the forefront of defence and military industries in the region which will reduce the country's dependence on oil and on imports from foreign countries of such weapons," Al Bannay said.
He pointed out the UAE's military industries had established international reputation with capabilities ranging from air to land to maritime and manufacturing. "Our military Industries have pursued more sophisticated, high tech capabilities, benefitting from joint ventures with major international companies that has led to technology transfer and helped increase Emirati experience and skills," said Al Bannay.
He said the objective of the UAE is to be self sufficient in the defence industry. "We are doing our best to be self-sufficient through joint ventures that provide our national cadres with sufficient knowhow and knowledge to invent equipment and devices that meet our future needs," he added.
Commenting on the UAE Armed Forces contracts with many local firms, Al Bannay said that the aim is to increase job opportunities for Emiratis. "Within three days, the UAE Armed Forces inked deals worth Dh14.1 billion to purchase weapons and equipment. More than 70 per cent of the amount has been awarded to local companies," Al Bannay said.
The UAE defence industries cover the production of a wide range of products including portable arms, ammunition, naval vessels (construction and repair) and inflatable boats, aircraft systems (unmanned, structural parts, spare parts, engine maintenance and repair, ground support equipment), vehicles and vehicle superstructures.
Referring to Idex 2013, he pointed out that this year's expo had helped create partnerships without running into too many bureaucratic hurdles. "Sellers and buyers meet directly and they finalise the deals on spot. In other words, the line of communication is direct — between vendors and buyers."
With regard to fighters' deal with France and the UK, Al Bannay said that talks are underway with both sides. "We are in talks and our teams are negotiating with both countries. What is important for us is the quality as all our equipment in the army are state of the art and any aircraft that would be bought from any country should meet our quality systems and that meets our future requirements. In other words, aircraft capabilities are priority to price," he added.


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The Jefferson County Conservation Department put the program together; and those that participated in the class had an opportunity to be apart of something that has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
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COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 31, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSIR), a leading regenerative medicine company focused on developing and marketing products for wound care, orthopaedics and sports medicine, announced today that a new peer-reviewed manuscript by Kazu Suzuki, DPM, CWS, Surgeon, Certified Wound Care Specialist, "Viable intact cryopreserved human placental membrane for a non-surgical approach to closure in complex wounds" has been published in the Journal of Wound Care and available on line
A 10-month, single-center effectiveness review was conducted on the clinical outcomes in patients treated with Grafix® for complex wounds characterized by exposed bone, tendon, muscle, or hardware. Wounds were managed with routine standard of care in addition to serial applications of Grafix®. Wound types included chronic wounds, surgical dehiscences and pressure ulcers. The average baseline wound area and duration at presentation were 17.5 cm2 and 11.2 weeks, respectively.
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Dr. Suzuki remarked, "This shows that complex wounds with exposed bone, tendon, joint, and hardware can be reliably managed with this viable cryopreserved amniotic membrane graft, allowing patients to achieve wound closure on an outpatient basis. This is in contrast to the more invasive surgical methods requiring inpatient hospitalization and donor site morbidity, such of autologous skin grafting and flap procedures. I believe that it is beneficial for both patients and providers to have multiple treatment options."
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Grafix is a cryopreserved placental membrane comprised of an extracellular matrix (ECM) rich in collagen, growth factors and viable cells native to the tissue. Grafix is processed using Osiris' proprietary BioSmart™ technology; it is flexible and conforming and designed for application directly to hard-to-treat acute and chronic wounds, including but not limited to diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers and thermal burns.
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Osiris Therapeutics, Inc., based in Columbia, Maryland, a world leader in researching, developing and marketing regenerative medicine products that improve health and lives of patients and lower overall healthcare costs. Having developed the world's first approved stem cell drug, the company continues to advance its research and development in biotechnology by focusing on innovation in regenerative medicine – including bioengineering, stem cell research and viable tissue based products. Osiris has achieved commercial success with products in orthopaedics, sports medicine and wound care, including BIO4 ™, Cartiform®, Grafix®, TruSkin ™ and Stravix™.
Osiris, Grafix, Cartiform, TruSkin and Stravix are registered trademarks of Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. and BIO4 is a trademark of Howmedica Osteonics Corp. More information can be found on the company's website, www.Osiris.com.
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a lot of people on here may be former military, so youre probably going to get a larger number of people preferring the AR15, theyre used to its known issues... anyway, im incredibly biased, both have their flaws and advantages
neither the AR15 nor the AK is perfect... for the AR15 i dislike the spring next to my ear, i dislike the magazine issues due to the rifle designed with a straight magwell requiring the top third of the mag to be straight while feeding a tapered cartridge, or the face you have a hard steel bolt riding inside a soft aluminum upper... when you have a hard metal on a soft surface it generates a lot of friction requiring regular lubrication, and if lubricated too much its a dust magnet
for the AK, its not a very expandable or customizable platform, its nowhere near as easy to swap barrels, change calibers, you cant have a seperate upper for different cartridges which has its benefits, and the best optics platform adds weight (side mount).. and the ergonomics are awful as theres no thumb actuated safety, the grip feels like holding a pencil and the stock is a bit short, and the sight danging off the end of the barrel makes it easier to bump, and the top cover can be VERY annoying to get back on on some AKs
the AR15 is easier to expand on, easier to repair, better optics platform, and more accessories with better ergonomics while the AK has a better design in magazines, better gas system (ill take a direct impinged AR15 over a piston AR any day) and for the receiver rails, magazines, and more rearward moving mass, the AK is much more reliable
so which do i prefer?.. none of them to be honest... which do i own? the AK-74, as its flaws are easier to overcome than those of the AR15 as i can add a side mount, add a better grip, longer stock.. i cant add rails to an ar15, i cant change the magazines, i cant remove the buffer spring next to my ear
my preferred rifle is actually what id consider to be a combination of the two... the sig-551 which combines the ergonomics, optics platform, and better sights of the AR15, with the magazines, gas system, and better reliability of the AK... essentially combining the best of both designs
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Why are these taliban fucktards engaging from such far distances? The Us forces have significant advanatges at longer ranges including air and artillery assets. Why dont they take a page from the vietnamees? Get as close to the enemy as possible to neutralize it's air and artillery assets. the Us wont bomb their own troops. Close down to a 100 meter if possible or closer. damn. Just pointing it out btw God bless and kick some arab ass.
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@Bremsy Well, consider who you're talking about though. Something like 80% of the people in that country are illiterate. You ever see the videos of them attempting to do pushups and jumping-jacks? Incompetence does not begin to describe it. Look how they live. They've been living there for many many thousands of years longer than people in any western country. So, why isn't Afghanistan a high-tech space-age civilization?
This is what happens when the ONLY book anyone in your village has ever op More..ened, is the Quran. They're all illiterate, but they can recite the Quran from memory when they're children.
It's why the only successful tactic they've been able to manage is IEDs. It requires no thinking. Assemble a bomb according to plans that someone gave you, using materials provided by the outside world, and dig a hole and hope somebody wanders by. It's why they're reduced to suicide-bombings. Which is an inherently desperate act, and last resort, of people can't come up with ANY better way. Anything else, is too complicated for them.
They have tried assaulting these bases and outposts in force, trying to get close and overrun them. They tried early in the war, plenty of times. They stopped, because they were simply wiped out. They're not bright enough to coordinate anything strategic, so they would just gather in to a group, and sprint toward the base spraying AK fire from the hip and asking allah to grant them victory the whole way. Every time they tried it, they're mowed down (hundreds at a time), and turned back.
Remember that Gurkha who was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross? A tiny little guy, alone in the dark, surrounded by 30 or more Taliban, and he fought them off single handedly. Ran out of ammo and beat one guy with a machine-gun tripod or something if I remember right.
The fact is that the legendary strength of the Afghan warrior, lies in absolutely nothing but their willingness to continue blindly flinging themselves in to the meat grinder. Less..
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My take on it is, given the terrain they are fighting in it's a lot easier to sneak up on someone when you have jungle cover versus trying to sneak up in them from an open field or on the side of a mountain. Mainly you are more exposed in Afganistan if you try a frontal assault. Where Afghanistan has an advantage is the mountains provide the cover that the forest provided for the Viet Cong but they are not as densely situated as trees would be, so even that advantage has it's limitat More..ions due to the nature of a mountainous terrain. That's my .$02 on it Less..
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"Gay Samurai? Never seen that before."
The above are my words, and probably the words of countless people upon discovering "Gohatto" (aka "Taboo"), a tale of homosexuality within a Samurai training camp during Japan 's Shogun era.
The plotting is minimal, so much so that at times you wonder if something is actually going to happen. The film boils down to a lot of interpersonal conflicts within the camp, all centred around young Samurai Sozaburo Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda), the object of everyone's desires. The conflicts and difficulties come out during training and sparring sessions that exposes the homosexual nature of a number of the students to stern leader Toshizo Hijikata (Takeshi Kitano, "Blood and Bones"), who can choose to intervene or let the Samurai in question go on with their own path.
"Gohatto" is a film for those with patience. A lot of patience. It is purposely slow in terms of storytelling and development, allowing the characters to unfold gradually in front of our eyes. This is the case for a lot of Japanese films (most notably Takashi Miike's "Audition") and, whilst not necessarily a bad thing, is certainly enough to turn away a large number of potential viewers. Even for those with more patience, "Gohatto" can still be a little frustrating, if it were not for the fact that the whole thing is so well acted.
Takeshi Kitano is brilliant as always, his Shakespearian inspired soliloquy at the end of the film being a high point . Young Ryuhei Matsuda is equally good as the effeminate and withdrawn Kano , and convinces with his character's complexity. The rest of the supporting cast are also up to the task, in particular Shinji Takeda as Soji Okita, who is debatably the only actual gay man in the camp.
Where "Gohatto" falls short is that it fails to fulfil its own premise. Despite my initial interest in the existence of gay Samurai, what is shown onscreen is disappointing, with the film's only gay sex scene being short and unrealistic. As well, if you're expecting a lot of lightening-quick swordplay, the kind usually found in movies about the Samurai, you'll be disappointed. The film's fights consist of either sparring in training using wooden swords, or actual combat that are over in seconds.
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Besides the beautiful scenery and interesting premise, "Gohatto" is a good example of how the Japanese like it slow. The film won't change your life, but it does give you something to mull over, and is an aesthetically Japanese experience as you'll likely to find anywhere.
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Ed Balls' ministerial office spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money on fine-dining at smart hotels and restaurants, £150-worth of takeaways from Domino's pizza and shopping at department store chain John Lewis.
Spending on Mr Balls' office credit card has been released covering the period when he was Schools secretary from 28 June 2007 to 11 May 2010.
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The details of the spending on the government procurement card were released following a Freedom of Information request from Tom Watson MP, the Labour party's deputy chairman.
Mr Watson had asked for the spending for the past two years – covering Michael Gove's time as education secretary – however the Coalition decided to release credit card spending figures going back to April 2006.
In all the disclosures showed that Mr Balls' office spent around £9,000 during his three years in office, with most of the cash going on travel receipts.
However Mr Ball's staff also charged a £1,480 jaunt to New York, comprising more than £600 at the sumptuous Benjamin Hotel in Manhattan. The 90-year old hotel boasts on its website how it "remains a beloved Midtown fixture that continues to exude modern elegance.
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Its guests are treated to an "in-room sleep menu, dedicated Sleep Concierge, Egyptian linens by Anichini and 12-Choice Pillow selection are just a few of our sleep strategies for helping you make the most of your six to eight hours of rest".
The New York trip, for three nights in April 2009, also included a bill for more than £820 to eat at the 200-seat Bar Americain, Typical dishes include Shrimp-Tomatillo, Crab-Coconut and Lobster-Avocado Shellfish Cocktails.
The receipts for spending on the Government Procurement Card also include a couple of orders from Domino's Pizza, totalling over £150, in December 2008, as well a single meal costing £450 at the Cinnamon Club, an upmarket Indian restaurant.
Other sums include £165 on two occasions at John Lewis, and £420 at La Maison du Cygne, a restaurant in Brussels.
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The Russian Federal Space Agency says the next manned trip to the International Space Station will be extended from the usual six hours to two days.
The Russian Federal Space Agency says the next manned trip to the International Space Station will be extended from the usual six hours to two days.
Three astronauts left the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday for a return to Earth that had been delayed for a month by a rocket failure.
Russia's space agency said on Tuesday the next manned mission to the International Space Station would blast off between July 23 and 25, after it delayed the launch due to a rocket failure.
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Russia will continue using the International Space Station along with NASA until 2024, its space agency said, after Moscow had threatened to stop financing it in 2020.
After a 24-hour delay due to bad weather, the first test launch of the Orion spacecraft by NASA is underway with the ultimate goal of putting human beings on Mars.
(Phys.org) —Genetically engineered microbes could help make manned missions to Mars, the moon and other planets more practical, according to a new analysis by UC Berkeley and NASA scientists.
Six astronaut-like crew members have embarked on the longest dedicated space travel simulation ever conducted on U.S. soil.
The price of space junk inched closer to the moon on Friday after a hand controller from the Apollo 15 mission sold at auction for $610,063—an apparent new record.
To say space research is a waste of money is wrong. For every US$1 put into US space agency, its citizens get US$10 as payback; in Japan and the European Union that amount is more than US$3.


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Five is Alexandra Kinova's lucky number.
The Czech woman, 23, gave birth to her country's first recorded case of quintuplets on Sunday, the BBC reports.
Conceived naturally, the babies arrived 31 weeks into her pregnancy "without any complications," say doctors at Prague's Institute for the Care of Mother and Child. Kinova, who originally was told she was carrying twins, had a Cesarean section.
The babies' weights ranged from 2.3 lbs. to 3 lbs. Forty doctors attended to the delivery, say reports.
"The girl is named Tereza, the identical twins Michael and Deniel and we also have Alex and Martin," their father, Antonin Kroscen, 26, told reporters. "I'm very happy."
The couple already have a young son, and the family lives in the town of Milovice, about 12 miles northeast of Prague.
"I was crying all the way, since I feared I would not manage it," said the father, who was present at the delivery – despite a late train.


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4633 comments found.
I'm writing to ask about customizing the contact form's contact us button. The default is a rounded rectangle and we'd like to use a regular rectangle. Please advise.
Hi,Add this to Extra CSS in Brankic Panel
input.submit, input.submit:focus, input.submit:active { border-radius: 2px 2px 2px 2px; }
Had a quick question.. The blog is abled to go full width, correct? Basically I'm looking for a template where I don't have the sidebar in the blog.
You can choose full page / sidebar layout for blog page and for blog single page…
One more question! How do I disable the "0 COMMENTS" in the blog section? I eliminated the comments all together – I wonder how to remove this. Thanks for the help!
Brankic Panel -> Blog -> "Hide number of comments if there are no comments"
There is no option for this. I have Brankic Panel -> Blog Page and there's no option for hide number of comments… can you please help me?
Do you have latest version of our theme?
1: I need to add this meta tag <meta name="p:domain_verify" content="b5e064e1981b4372ea15be3ec329d05e" > to the <head> of my index.html file or equivalent. Can you please direct me as to how I can find the index.html file within Wordpress and where I need to update it?
2: Also, I can't seem to get the widgets placed in the footer to properly display on http://lapakko.com/ any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks and I love the theme so far, Bjorn
1. Open header.php (Appearance -> Editor) and add this code.
2. Add widgets to footer sidebars (Appearance -> Widgets)
Hi, I installed this theme the other day and love it very much. However, I'm having some teething problems with the blog element. I notice that in the preview version, you can have the feature image for a blog to be the video embedded itself and play straight from the main page…however for mine it shows up as a static screenshot of the video, and then when i click the link…it shows a massive version of the screenshot followed by the embedded file further down. What is the cause of this problem?
Also, on a similar note, the gallery function of the blog doesn't seem to be working for me. As it just shows the gallery as a series of thumbnails within the blog text.
Any help on this will be much appreciated. I'm assuming that it requires some formatting of how the blog is categorized but I have no idea what it is..
Thanks! Gau
May I see the URL of your blog?
To have video preview you have to use Brankic Custom Field (below the editor) Video URL (in help file it's described how to use this field)
The Video URL custom field works if I start a new blog post, HOWEVER it doesnt seem to work with my existing posts..does it have something to do with me importing them from Tumblr? I really don't want to have to redo all those posts again…
Secondly, I can't for the life of me get the sliders to work on my posts. The older posts taken from Tumblr have them as thumbnails. When i tried to create a new post using the Extra Images as mentioned in your Help file, they don't even show up. Please help!
Hi Gau,
Really don't know what's the problem. Try to disable all plugins and install latest version of BigBangWP.http://themeforest.net/item/bigbang-responsive-wordpress-template/2826493/faqs
Tried that. Disabled all my plugins and installed BigBangWP again. Same issue. For example:
I had imported a blog post previously with a youtube video. Before it was embedded into the post itself, therefore appearing below the title. Now based on Blog Template 6, I wanted the video to play above the main text. So I removed the embedded code, and instead placed the FULL Youtube link into the VideoURL Custom Fields. How no video appears at all.
FYI, I used the same link to create a new post and did the same thing and it worked fine. If you go to my Blog section, you will see both posts displayed.
This is driving me nuts! Please help…I'll be willing to give you access if it means that you can find the main problem…
Thanks again, Gau
Hello Brankic,
I'm new in wordpres. I don't know how to do the slide home in the bigban theme
Thank you
Hi Marta,
Slider is made of Extra images (on the right hand side of page editor, below featured image)
You can add slider to page/post/portfolio post and you can set any page as home page (Settings -> Reading)
Hi brankic, thanks for your help so far, I'm enjoying using the bigbang theme but would like to have the portfolio thumbnails show without the bottom banner with text/title on each one (so just an image that you click on to see it display larger). Is there a way to remove the bit at the bottom of the thumbnails but still have the title show when it enlarges the image after clicking on it?
thanks wendy
Hi Wendy,Add this to Extra CSS in Brankic Panel
.item-info {display:none;}
splendid! Can I also remove the white block from underneath each of the thumbnails?
Hi Brankic – I added this to the css .portfolio-grid ul li {background-color: transparent;}
which seems to work but now the spacing between each row of thumbnails is too big compared to the space in between. How can I make the space around each thumbnail the same?
.item-info {display:none;}
Hi, I have a couple questions on your Big Bang theme. I had started developing a site for a client using the theme, and now after waiting a month for the client to get my the content it seems like the portfolio hover is no longer working in Chrome (works in IE). So you have to click on the image for the overlay with project title and description to pop up. Is there any fix for that? Also you noted a new portfolio type in the latest update "Another portfolio without hover option (pop-up image)" – how can that be implemented?
In my Chrome it's working just fine. All Chrome related problems were due some specific Chrome setting.
Update the theme and in the portfolio shortcode pop-up window you'll be able to choose new hover option…
Hey there, Having used the CONTACT US form, the following message appears once clicking SEND – 'Email Server Error'. The email message is still coming through to us so the form is working. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
There is workaround for this (not that smart, but it's working)
Open page-contact(-2).php and replace "Email server error" message with "Thank you message"
To edit that file go to Appearance -> Editor…
I found the fix to my font issue in Chrome. I had the font locally installed since I was doing artwork, and found that it only affects the PC viewing the website:http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/issues/detail?id=152
Fix was to uninstall the font locally.
I hope this will be helpful for others…
Is there a way to make the portfolio item hover an entire link instead of just linking from the title and link icon? I still want the hover overlay action. ie. I want to be able to click anywhere when hovering over the item, and be taken to the link.
Sorry, but no.
You can use no hover option if you want to have bigger click area…
1. What's the font name and how can I change different type for the page title?
2.I tried to block the slider but it turned out no images showing up at all. Could you please figure out?
Please see my question before regarding to question 2:Hello Brankic, Could you please let me know how to change the featured slide show to a normal scroll down images on the single portfolio page? This is the demo of your page, the right side is like a slide show: http://demo.brankic.net/bigbangwp/portfolio/carum-rarum/ Here is a example that what I want: http://www.iameinar.com/47933/432161/work/logos I really just want the folio images show up vertically one by one. Would you be able to show me how to change the code? Thanks.
Brankic1979 AUTHOR 26 days ago Hi, Try to delete from slider.inc.php (Appearance -> Editor) /* ADDITIONAL CODE FOR PORTFOLIO SLIDER */ jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $('#portfolio-slider').flexslider({ animation: "slide", slideDirection: "horizontal", slideshow: true, slideshowSpeed: 3500, animationDuration: 500, directionNav: true, controlNav: false }); });
I see you're not using our theme anymore
Changing Google Web Fonts is explained in the help file (it's in Brankic Panel)
On firefox on my PC all the heading are cut in half. This seems to be ok on my mac however. Do you know why this is?
May I see the URL?
Hi Brankic, Questions about the slider:
- can I start the slider with a different image than 'extra image 1', e.g. 'extra image 5'? - can I 'fill' the slider automatically with all images in a directory?
I try to make slideshows while keeping the design of your theme, that's why I am asking.
Regards, Roger
Hi Roger,
You can control slider images only through Extra Images (no feeling from specific directory).
Check startAt parameter in http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/ and edit slider.inc.php near the end of the file (to edit this file go to Appearance -> Editor)
I hope this helps…
Hi Brankic, Thanks for your help. I have found an acceptable solution for my problem with a plugin (Slideshow Gallery)... but unfortunately without your theme design.
What's best for you…
I tried installing the XML for the same look as the demo.
I have the latest version of wordpress & the importer (just downloaded it) It doens't give an error, but it only downloads the images to media tab, no posts, nothing else.
What happened?
Do you get the message that everything is done or you don't get any message?
If you don't get any message it's due some low timeout setting on your server. Ask your hosting support about this issue…
Hello! How could I display the social buttons of your theme next to the menu? I tried to add a menu item but it doesn't work. Maybe changing the "header" file? Thanks!
We don't have header sidebar so only way is to tweak (yourself) header.php file…
How do you get the social icon sites to open in a new tab? Thanks
We don't use anything. May I see the URL of your website (or the page with icons)
Again, you are helping me with one other issue I have. I can give you the login credentials if its easier
jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $(".social-bookmarks a").attr("target", "_blank") })
that still isn't fixing it… here is the page with the codehttp://mckenziesmithstudio.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=brankic_admin_1
You have to add that code to Extra JavaScript, not Extra CSS (sorry for not being precise)
Hi, I have been having an issue with the contact form. I haven't received any of the emails sent from it. It says that the emails have been sent successfully, but I never see them in my inbox or spam folder. My URL is EmmaDorothyConley.com.
Thanks for your help!
Try to open http://emmadorothyconley.com/wp-content/themes/bigbangwp/includes/ajax.recaptcha.php You should see "success" text and empty email should cometo your inbox of the email you've defined in Brankic Panel -> Contact.
I cannot see the picture when I use the team member shortcode. I was having trouble with it before and you send me a link to a test page where it all looked correct, i pasted the code directly from this and the picture still didn't appear. I tried using the shortcode button in the post but nothing happens when I click it. How can I fix this? Thanks
May I see the URL of your page with team member shortcode?
Hi, like a poster above I'm not receiving emails from my contact form. The form appears to be working correctly and I don't see any errors but I'm just not receiving anything. For reference my URL is acalla.com
Do you get empty email to the email address specified in Brankic Panel -> Contact page when you visit http://www.acalla.com/wp-content/themes/bigbangwp/includes/ajax.recaptcha.php
What are the values in the Brankic Panel -> Contact for "Email from field" and "Insert the number of email field below" ?


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UPDATED: Owner of recovered trailer found
BEMIDJI -- The Beltrami County Sheriff's Office said Thursday evening that the owner of a tralier recovered as part of an ongoing investigation into thefts and burglaries from the area has been located, officials said Thursday.
Earlier, the sheriff's office said that the trailer was taken without the permission or knowledge of the owner, but they didn't know where and from whom the trailer was taken. The trailer's license and vehicle identification number were removed.


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NEC has sold its Packard Bell BV unit to companies controlled by John Hui, the former owner of eMachines.
Packard Bell markets and sells PCs and other consumer electronics products in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South America. The company that has been sold was created last year from what was left after the enterprise PC business was spun out of NEC Computers International BV to NEC Computers SAS, a French unit of NEC.
NEC's links with the Packard Bell brand name date back to July 1995, when it paid $170m (about £91m) for a 19.9 percent stake in US PC maker Packard Bell Electronics.
Its revenue in the year from April 2005 to March 2006 was €1.3bn (£875m).
"NEC's focus has been going more towards the enterprise market so we decided it's in the best interests of Packard Bell and NEC to sell the company," said Diane Foley, an NEC spokeswoman in Tokyo.
The value of the deal was not disclosed.


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Scrolling through photography websites I found this awesome cake. Please bake me one when you get a chance! ha ha:P
Cake by: BethAnn, owner of Studio Cake; photo on the back of the cake/camera by: Apertura Photography
I found this posted on PetaPixel. Thanks! :)
I bet it was delicious too! Mmmmm… :)


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jossyd's review of Clinique Stay-Matte Sheer Pressed Powder
372 reviews
57% would repurchase
Package Quality: 3.9
Price: $$$
Package Quality: 3.9
Price: $$$
INGREDIENTSINGREDIENTS: Kaolin, Silica, Zinc Laurate, Polydecene, Magnesium, Phenyl Trimethicone, Lauroyl Lysine, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Tocopheryl Acetate, Cholesterol, Linoleic Acid, Lecithin, Methylparaben, Ethylparaben, Propylparaben, Butylparaben. May Also Contain: Mica, Bismouth Oxychloride, Iron Oxides, Titanium Dioxide, and Ultramarines......... (Jan 2010 )......... Ingredient list: Talc, hdi/trimethylol hexyllactone crosspolymer, lauroyl lysine, phenyl trimethicone, zinc stearate, dimethicone, calcium silicate, silica, hydroxyapatite, isostearol neopentanoate, trimethylsiloxysilicate, triethoxycaprylylsilane, sorbitan sesquioleate, tetrasodium edta, chlorphenesin, potassium sorbate, mica, iron oxides.
Age: 25-29
Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Warm
Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Other
Eyes: Blue
I usually buy this in Stay Neutral, but recently picked up Invisible Matte at the CCO. Generally, it's a pretty good product; I have used up & repurchased Stay Neutral several times. I am NC20-25ish, very warm tones, with normal/combo skin. Stay Neutral is a perfect match, while I find Invisible Matte to be too yellow toned (and that's saying something since I'm pretty yellow toned myself.) This compact includes a nice big mirror, a generous amount of product & I don't mind the green packaging. I use this powder for touchups throughout the day or with a big fluffy brush as a finishing powder over foundation. It keeps the oilies away pretty well, usually only needing 1 touch-up after several hours of wear. Oily-skinned reviewers seem to have a very different experience, so this is probably best for normal to slightly oily skins. I haven't had any problems with it oxidzing. Stay Neutral leaves a nice "finished" look, not chalky or over-powdered, just a natural not too matte finish. Doesn't look chalky after touch-ups either. On the other hand, Invisible Matte goes on very differently; any more than just a light dusting on my t-zone leaves a very unnatural overpowdered look that settles into my pores & smile lines which aren't noticeable to begin with. Stay Neutral I will repurchase, Inivisble Matte I will not.
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Friday, September 22, 2017
Newborn and Infant Care
Umbilical granuloma question
At 3 months of age, my daughter had an irritated belly button. The skin around it was raw, it was discharging some liquid. Her doctor continued to clean it, told us just to keep cleaning it w/alcohol. From 5 months to now 8 months, we`ve tried all kinds of ointments, steroid creams, and oral antibiotics. Her culture came back with 2 different types of bacteria, and it was in fact resistant to any medication. Last month, we were referred to a pediatric surgeon who told us our daughter had an umbilical granuloma, and she underwent surgery to have it removed. One month after surgery, she still has a red, irritated belly button, and it is still discharging a clear odorous liquid. Her pediatric surgeon doesn`t know what this is!! It looks like we`re back where we started and her belly button looks the same as it did when I first noticed her irritated skin,etc. at 2 months......Any ideas what this could be?
Your child's doctors have pursued the most common causes of umbilical drainage. Other likely problems whose hallmark sign is umbilical drainage stem from a problem with the urachus (yur-a-kus). Before the baby is born, this tube connects the bladder to the umbilicus. The top part of it becomes the bladder and the lower part becomes the urethra that carries urine from the bladder to outside the body. Typically it becomes a fibrous cord between 4-5 months gestation. However, it is not all that uncommon for a small opening to remain allowing urine to leak out of the umbilicus and irritating the skin on the abdomen. It also increases the risk for bladder infections in the baby.
The best way to diagnose it is with a computed tomography scan or CT scan of the abdomen. Other diagnostic tests may include an abdominal ultrasound and a voiding cystourethrogram or VCUG for short. All of these tests aim to provide images of the baby's anatomy so that the surgeon understands the extent of any problems prior to going to surgery.
The problem requires a surgical correction that is usually uncomplicated and successful. Consultation with a urologist and/or a gastrointestinal specialist at a major children's Medical Center may be helpful in identifying any problem involving the urinary tract system. Major Children's Medical centers in Ohio are in Columbus, Cincinnati and Cleveland. I hope this information helps.
Mary M Gottesman, PhD, RN, CPNP, FAAN
Professor of Clinical Nursing
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14 Sep
Posted by: chaosben in: JEDI Windows API Headers
With Windows Vista we got a new tool for communicating over multiple threads: condition variables. I'll try to give you a short overview, tell you, why it is better then events and illustrate the whole theory with some code snippets. Hopefully it will be funny. :)
What is a conditional variable?
Condition variables are nothing new. They are alread long known in the Unix world, and there are some thread frameworks already offering that feature. But since Windows Vista we have native support for them from the API.
Condition variables are a combination of an event and a corresponding lock. And that's where their big advantage lies: With their help you can wait for an event and enter a critical section for example in one atomic operation. This avoids race conditions. At the same time condition variables save resources. In contrast to wait-for procedures they try to avoid trips to kernel mode when possible.
Usage of condition variables is relatively simple. There are just five functions you have to use. Additionally they follow the new course that they don't have to be freed by the application. But foremost they have to be initialized. And that's quite straight forward:
You need not be irritated by the content of the TConditionVariable record. In most cases the Ptr variable is nil after initialization. It works nonetheless.
A word of caution (born out of painful experience): TConditionVariable is a record. But it is not the content of the variable that is important but its address in memory. Therefore a simple assignment of CondVar2:=CondVar is no usable condition variable anymore.
Now imagine two threads which work in the same list. One is the producer filling the list. The other one is the consumer taking the items out again.
procedure TProducer.Execute;
while not Terminated do
Sleep(500); //simulate some work
procedure TConsumer.Execute;
while not Terminated do
while CommonList.Count = 0 do
SleepConditionVariableCS(cvListFilled, ListLock, INFINITE);
Sleep(100); //simulate some work
The TProducer's code ist not really surprising. The only really interesting point is WakeConditionVariable(cvListFilled); which wakes the next thread which listens to cvListFilled.
TConsumer is much more interesting. After entering the critical section it checks whether there are items that have to be processed at all. If not SleepConditionVariableCS is called. This call leaves the CriticalSection and puts the thread in sleeping state until the timeout is reached or someone calls a wake procedure. After the sleep call the CriticalSection is entered automatically again. At this point the condition should be checked again since the wake-up call could have caused other threads to do work and change the condition. In our example this could happen if there are more than one consumer and WakeAllConditionVariable is used.
But what happens when there are more than one TConsumer but you only call WakeConditionVariable. Each call of WakeConditionVariable will wake the next thread in line until all TConsumer threads are called. Then a new round starts. As its name says WakeAllConditionVariable will wake up all threads in line at once.
And now?
All neccessary types and functions are available in the Jedi API svn-trunk. An usage example is TWaitList.
Thus it remains only to say: Do it!
Mike15|Sep|2011 1
Thats actually also the functionality TMonitor provides though TMonitor is quite buggy (until 2010)
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Taipei, Taiwan, 2013/03/14 - QNAP® Systems, Inc. released the new Video Wall Controller model, iS-2840, supporting 3840 x 2160 high resolution videos to enhance video wall display quality. The iS-2840 supports 4K high resolution to deliver videos with a clear, sharp image - QNAP.com.
The iS-2840 offers four outputs of DisplayPort, allowing users to combine four TV screens as one big 4K video wall and supporting all-vertical or all-horizontal arrangements. The new technique of bezel compensation maintains the video displayed in proportion, even if the distance between the screens is set further apart. Moreover, each screen can show its distinct content respectively. This new feature provides more flexibility for the display of high definition videos and the layout of screens. On the other hand, featuring the powerful iSignager software, the iS-2840 enables users to edit 2 x 2 display content remotely.
Although 4K resolution TV is not popularized in home environments yet, businesses users are starting to utilize 4K high resolution videos on video wall systems," said Sam Wang, product manager of QNAP. The big TV wall with 3840 x 2160 resolution allows clear video display in long-distance playback applications. For example, in spacious environments crowded with people, iS-2840 Video Wall Controller can demonstrate high resolution content to bring forth fantastic and stunning visual expression, added Wang.
The availability of QNAP iS-2840 Video Wall Controller will be announced separately. For more information about QNAP Video Wall Controller, please visit qnap.com/.
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QNAP Systems, Inc. (qnap.com), as its brand promise "Quality Network Appliance Provider", aims to deliver comprehensive offerings of cutting edge network attached storage (NAS) and network video recorder (NVR) solutions featured with ease-of-use, robust operation, large storage capacity, and trustworthy reliability. QNAP integrates technologies and designs to bring forth quality products that effectively improve business efficiency on file sharing, virtualization applications, storage management and surveillance in the business environments, as well as enrich entertainment life for home users with the offering of a fun multimedia center experience. Headquartered in Taipei, QNAP delivers its solutions to the global market with nonstop innovation and passion.
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Electronics or E-Scrap Recycling
For Electronic Recycling Drop Off Locations visit the Westmoreland Cleanways Recycling Guide
The intent of Pennsylvania's Covered Devices Recycling Act (CDRA) of 2010 is to initiate a disposal ban on covered devices, wherein no person may dispose of a covered device or any of its components with their municipal waste. Effective January 24, 2013, covered devices (televisions, computers, computer monitors, and computer peripherals) will be banned from landfill disposal. The PA DEP has been working with trade groups, electronics de-manufacturers, and recycling professionals since 2010 to manage the volume of e-scrap expected to be generated once the full ban goes into effect. The key components of the act:
- 1. Define covered devices (computers, monitors, peripherals, and TVs)
- 2. Define manufacturer responsibility to pay for the e-scrap recycling programs
- 3. Requires that consumers and small businesses have access to FREE e-scrap recycling programs
- 4. Outline the procedure for developing and implementing e-scrap recycling programs
- 5. Sets certification standards for e-scrap de-manufacturers
Simply put, after January 24, 2013, all consumers, and all businesses with less than 50 employees, must be able to recycle covered devices at no cost. Larger commercial businesses must recycle the covered devices but at their own expense.
What's covered under the Covered Devices Recycling Act of 2010 (CDRA)?
The CDRA actually only mandates the recycling of certain categories of e-scrap: computers, peripherals, monitors (anything directly connected to a computer system), and televisions as follows:
• CPUs/Towers
• Laptops
• Computer monitors—CRT and LED/LCD
• Peripherals (mice, keyboards, speakers)
• Printers
• Copiers (desktop and stand-alone)
• TVs—all types and sizes
What's NOT covered under the Covered Devices Recycling Act of 2010 (CDRA)?
Almost all of the programs designed to collect covered devices will also accept ALL electronic scrap, categorized as "non-covered" devices, at no cost to the consumer. The simplest description for what is recyclable is "anything with a cord":
• Answering Machines
• Telephone systems
• Camcorders
• Cell phones
• Cameras
• Docking Stations
• Electric typewriters
• Pagers
• Radios
• Remote Controls
• Stereos/tape/CD players
• Microwaves
• VCR/DVD players
• Medical equipment
• Rechargeable batteries
• Toner/ink cartridges
• Testing equipment
• Fax/copy machines/duplicators
• Gaming consoles/controllers
• Digital media (VCR tapes/CDs/cassette tapes, etc.)
What About Electronics Retailers and Repair Shops
According to the CDRA, all electronics retails such as Sears, Walmart, Best Buy, etc. must either provide recycling of covered electronic devices to their customers, or provide information on where such e-scrap can be recycled. Best Buy has been recycling consumer electronics from its customers for a while now; it is not known if other large retailers will follow suit. These large retail operations are geared primarily toward the consumer market.
Small retailers, repair shops, professional offices, and other businesses with less than 50 employees fall into the consumer category, and must also be able to recycle their e-scrap at no charge. However, the large retail store programs are not designed to accept small business e-scrap. Westmoreland Cleanways' e-scrap Recycling Program is designed to serve the small business community. This should be a great opportunity to allow local retailers to remain competitive in the marketplace, serve their customers well, and comply with requirements of the CDRA.
For more details, refer to the CDRA Q&A prepared by the PA DEP.


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Bike Ride
5812 ft
- Begins in:
- Pickens, SC, United States
- Created By:
- Kurt Erickson Best Time: 3:19:40
- Description:
- This is a 53.55 mi Bike Ride in Pickens, SC, United States. The Bike Ride has a total ascent of 5812.27 ft and has a maximum elevation of 3,155.38 ft. This route was created by KurtE10 on 03/08/2014. View other Bike Rides that KurtE10 has done or find similar maps.
- Type:
- Bike Ride