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Afghanistan's Corruption
Of 180 countries that Transparency International gauges on a 'corruption index,' only Somalia is worse than number 179: Afghanistan. Pratap Chatterjee describes how it works.
Wednesday, November 18,2009 23:31
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Among the dozens of businesses dispatching these trucks are two extremely well-connected companies -- Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid -- that helped to swell the election coffers of President Hamid Karzai as well as the family business of his running mate, the country's new vice president, warlord Mohammed Qasim Fahim.
Some of the trucks are on their way to two power stations in the northern part of the capital: a recently refurbished, if inefficient, plant that has served Kabul for a little more than a quarter of a century, and a brand new facility scheduled for completion next year and built with money from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Afghan political analysts observe that Ghazanfar and Zahid Walid are striking examples of the multimillion-dollar business conglomerates, financed by American as well as Afghan tax dollars and connected to powerful political figures, that have, since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, emerged as part of a pervasive culture of corruption here. Nasrullah Stanikzai, a professor of law and political science at Kabul University, says of the companies in the pocket of the vice-president: "Everybody knows who is Ghazanfar. Everybody knows who is Zahid Walid. The [government elite] directly or indirectly have companies, licenses, and sign contracts. But corruption is not confined just to the Afghans. The international community bears a share of this blame."
Indeed, the tale of the "reconstruction" of Kabul's electricity supply is a classic story of how foreign aid has often served to line the pockets of both international contractors from the donor countries and the local political elite. Unfortunately, these aid-financed projects also generally fail -- as the Kabul diesel plants appear destined to -- because of a lack of planning and the hard cash to keep them operating.
The Rise of a Power Broker
Abdul Hasin and his brother, the vice-president, offer a perfect exemplar of the new business elite. The two men are half-brothers, born to the two wives of a well-respected religious cleric from the village of Marz in the Panjshir valley north of Kabul.
In the early 1980s, Fahim, the older brother, joined the mujahedeen forces of Ahmed Shah Massoud in the struggle against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. In 1992, three years after the Soviet army withdrew in defeat, Fahim was appointed head of intelligence in Afghanistan by the new president Burhanuddin Rabbani in the midst of a fierce and destructive civil war among the victors. When the Taliban took control of the country a few years later, Fahim became the intelligence chief for the Northern Alliance, also led by Massoud, which controlled less than a third of the country. On September 9, 2001, two days before the World Trade Center was attacked, Massoud was assassinated by al-Qaeda operatives and Fahim took control of the Northern Alliance, which the United States would soon finance and support in its "invasion" of Afghanistan.
A number of popular accounts of that invasion, such as Bob Woodward's book Bush at War, suggest that the Central Intelligence Agency directly gave Northern Alliance warlords like Fahim millions of dollars in cold, hard cash to help fight the Taliban in the run-up to the U.S. invasion. "I can take Kabul, I can take Kunduz if you break the [Taliban front] line for me. My guys are ready," Woodward quotes Fahim telling a CIA agent named Gary after pocketing a million dollars in $100 bills.
Once the Taliban was defeated, Fahim was invited to become vice president in the transitional government led by Hamid Karzai, a position he held for two years. It was at this juncture that Fahim's brothers, notably Abdul Hasin, started to build a business empire -- and not long after, good fortune began to rain down on the family in the form of lucrative "reconstruction" contracts.
In January 2002, while Fahim took whirlwind tours of Washington and London, meeting General Tommy Franks, who had commanded U.S. forces during the invasion, and taking the salute from the Coldstream Guards, his younger brother was putting together a business plan. Soon thereafter, Zahid Walid, a company named after Abdul Hasin's older sons, not so surprisingly won a series of lucrative contracts to pour concrete for a NATO base as well as portions of the U.S. embassy being rebuilt in Kabul and that city's airport, which was in a state of disrepair.
On a plot of land in downtown Kabul reportedly "seized" for a song by Fahim, Abdul Hasin also financed the construction of a high-rise building dubbed "Goldpoint," which now houses dozens of jewelry shops. Soon, the company was importing Russian gas, and not long after that, Abdul Hasin set up the Gas Group, a company which ran a plant in the industrial suburb of Tarakhil that marketed bottled gas to households and small businesses.
In the winter of 2006, Zahid Walid won a $12 million dollar contract from the Afghan ministry of energy and water to supply fuel to the old diesel plant in northwest Kabul, according to data published on the website of the government's central procurement agency, Afghanistan Reconstruction and Development Services. In the summer of 2007, the company won another $40 million diesel-supply contract, and last winter it took on a third contract worth $22 million.
On October 19, I visited Zahid Walid's heavily guarded headquarters in the wealthy Kabul neighborhood of Wazir Akbar Khan, not far from the even more heavily fortified U.S. embassy. There, Ramin Seddiqui, the managing director of the company's diesel-import business, filled me in on another exclusive contract the company had secured from the Afghan government only days before for an additional $17 million. Zahid Walid is now to supply diesel fuel to the new 100 megawatt diesel power plant being built by Black & Veatch, a Kansas construction company, with money from USAID.
Most senior Afghan government officials and political figures are loath to discuss how Zahid Walid has won all these contracts -- at least publicly. On a recent visit to the Ministry of Commerce, I asked Noor Mohammed Wafa, the general director of oil products and liquid gas, about them. He promptly claimed that he had never even heard of the company. He then shot a glance at my Afghan assistant and said in Dari: "That's Marshal Fahim's company, isn't it?" When I asked whether the rules were different for powerful political figures -- as everyone in Kabul knows is the case -- Wafa politely denied any suggestion of favoritism in the awarding of import licenses.
In fact, dozens of people assured me in private on my most recent visit to Kabul that favoritism and corruption are the essence of the Karzai government the United States has helped "reconstruct" over the last eight years.
A White Elephant Power Plant in Kabul
While Zahid Walid has won close to $100 million in diesel contracts from the Afghan government in these years, there is hard evidence that the money for this once-needed fuel is now essentially being squandered. Earlier this year, KEC, an Indian company, completed the first of two high voltage power lines from neighboring Central Asian countries that will bring cheap and reliable electricity into the capital.
The initial 220 kilovolt power line from Uzbekistan -- a $35 million project -- follows the same path as Zahid Walid's diesel trucks over the Hindu Kush. The comparison, however, ends there. True, the Indian engineers who constructed it had to survive the brutal snows in the Salang pass, but they are now done. On the other hand, the truckers continue to take the treacherous daily drive through the tunnel that connects northern Afghanistan to the south, bringing Turkmen diesel to Kabul at 22 cents a kilowatt hour. Meanwhile, the Uzbek electricity, traveling effortlessly through KEC's transmission lines, costs the Afghan taxpayer a mere six cents a kilowatt hour.
To add insult to injury, much of the diesel is meant for the USAID power plant at Tarakhil that has become a symbol of the sort of massive and widespread reconstruction waste and abuse that has gone on in this country for years. The plant, built by Black & Veatch, is now projected to cost $300 million, three times the price of similar plants in neighboring Pakistan. In addition, it will only be capable of supplying one-third of the power the Uzbek power line can deliver far less expensively. Nor will the Uzbek line be the only source of cheap electricity. KEC's engineers have broken ground on a second power line -- this one from Tajikistan -- that will supply 300 megawatts of electricity to Kabul, three times what the Tarakhil plant will produce at a bargain basement construction cost of $28 million.
"At full capacity, we burn 600,000 liters a day," Jack Currie, the Scottish manager of the Tarakhil plant told me as I toured it in late October. "And just how much will that cost the Afghan taxpayer?" I asked. "Well," replied Currie, "you can assume a dollar a liter of diesel." I quickly calculated and arrived at an annual total of $219 million per year, not including the plant's maintenance costs (estimated at another $60 million a year). Currie looked astonished when I mentioned the figure.
I took these numbers to Mohammed Khan, a member of the Afghan parliament and chair of its energy committee. "Will you approve the funds for this diesel power plant?" I asked. The soft-spoken Khan, a trained electrical engineer who worked for many years in the Kabul Electricity Department, answered simply: "No. Not unless we have an emergency."
So why build a power plant that, in terms of kilowatt hours made available, costs 26 times as much as the Indian-built power line? Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, Afghan's former finance minister, recalls the process. The idea, he says, originally came from then-U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald Neumann, who dreamed it up in April 2007 shortly before he left the country. He apparently envisioned it as a strategic alternative to the Uzbek power line. After all, at that time the repressive Uzbek regime had denied Washington the use of what was seen as a key military base in Central Asia, Karshi-Khanabad, and so functionally kicked U.S. troops out of the country. Naturally, then, it was also seen as an unreliable political partner for the U.S.-backed regime of Hamid Karzai.
Following up, USAID officials told the Karzai government that they could build a diesel plant in Kabul in just over two years for $120 million. It would, the ambassador indicated, be functional just in time for the 2009 elections, allowing Karzai to claim that he had provided power to the electricity-starved capital. The Afghan president readily agreed to the plan, instructing anxious officials at the ministry of finance to approve the scheme in early 2007. He even agreed to put $20 million of Afghan funds into the project -- after being assured that the United States would pay for the rest.
Over the next two years, while Indian engineers raced the Americans to provide power to Kabul (ultimately winning handily), the ministry of energy and water was having a hard time keeping the lights on during Kabul's harsh winters. And while the city waited for these promised sources of power to come on line, the new political-business elite, with its specially set up companies like Zahid Walid, was winning government-issued contracts to supply diesel to the old Kabul power plant -- and making money hand over fist.
Zahid Walid was hardly the only politically well-connected business to clean up: Ghazanfar, a company from Mazar-i-Sharif, also won $17 million in diesel-supply contracts in the winter of 2006-2007, and then an astonishing $78 million in new contracts for 2008-early 2009. Not surprisingly, Ghazanfar turns out to be run by a family that is very close to President Karzai. (One sister, Hosn Banu Ghazanfar, is the women's minister and a brother is a member of parliament.)
In March 2009, the Ghazanfars opened a new bank in the capital, plastering the city with giant billboard advertisements featuring a cascade of gold coins. Less than six months later, the bank wrote out a two million dollar interest-free loan to Karzai for his election campaign, paying back the favors his government had done for them over the previous three years.
Afghanistan as a Patronage Machine
This week, Mohammed Qasim Fahim will be sworn in as the next vice-president of the new government of Afghanistan. Under an agreement with USAID, this new government is required to spend Afghan money to buy yet more diesel for the Tarakhil power plant, which in turn will put money exclusively and directly into the vice president's brother's pocket.
Hamid Jalil, the aid coordinator for the Ministry of Finance, points out that wasting money on unnecessary projects like Tarakhil has helped to hobble Afghanistan's progress in the last eight years. "The donor projects undermine the legitimacy of the government and do not allow us to build capacity," he says, adding in the weary tone you often hear in Kabul today, "corruption is everywhere in post-conflict countries like ours."
Former Afghan finance minister Ashraf Ghani summed up the whole profitably corrupt system that has run Afghanistan into a cul-de-sac this way. "It's not crazy, it's absurd," he says. "Crazy is when you don't know what you're doing. Absurd is when you don't provide a sense of ownership and a sense of sustainability."
Pratap Chatterjee is an investigative journalist and senior editor at CorpWatch. He is the author of Halliburton's Army: How A Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War (Nation Books, 2009) and Iraq, Inc. (Seven Stories Press, 2004). Dr Ali Safi contributed to research and reporting for this article -- which first appeared at Tomdispatch.com
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Carrick Knowe clinch fifth Top Five title success
Carrick Knowe's Top Five 'champions, from left, Paul O'Donnell, James Hogg, 'Darren Hush, Richard Tough and Colin Mitchell
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Published: 12:00 Thursday 20 August 2015
CARRICK KNOWE have captured the Edinburgh & Leith Top Five Singles title for a record-extending fifth time – doing so at the 4-1 expense of three-times champions Craigentinny in the final at Mayfield.
The latest Carrick Knowe triumph was a particularly memorable one for Darren Hush as his name is now etched on the Ian McFarlane Trophy on all five occasions – starting with the inaugural success achieved in 2000.
Colin Mitchell and Richard Tough also played in the first-ever final of the event – at which stage James Hogg and Paul O'Donnell of this year's line-up were members of other clubs.
Wins for Tough, Hush, Mitchell and Hogg triggered the latest celebrations in a final that saw Gordon Bold register Craigentinny's sole success at the expense of O'Donnell.
"We felt we had let the club down when making an early exit in the Top Ten but bouncing back to win the Top Five by beating first-class opposition in the shape of Craigentinny is the perfect response," said Hush.
Hush made his contribution a telling one with the match score standing at 1-1 before he tipped the scales in the direction of Carrick Knowe with a 21-14 win over Andrew Caldwell. Ding-dong exchanges in the first half of the tie saw Hush nosing a 10-9 lead after 11 ends before a spell that yielded counts of 3, 2, 2, 1 accelerated him into the driving seat at 18-9. And, five ends later, it was all over for Caldwell.
First blood in the final had gone to Carrick Knowe through Tough throwing down the challenge in aggressive fashion as he powered to a 21-14 win over Daniel Gormley in 18 ends, having stunned his opponent with a blitz 4, 2 finish.
Bold brought Craigentinny back into the picture with a commanding 21-10 win over O'Donnell in 19 ends, breaking from 6-7 to 19-7 with an explosive run of 4, 2, 2, 1, 4.
Former Scotland captain Colin Mitchell bagged win No.3 at the 21-19 expense of Kevin Hunter in a 20-end thriller.
Mitchell had made a spectacular start to lead 19-5 after 11 ends but came under immense pressure as Hunter peeled at 19 with an amazing 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 4 fightback. However, after that eight-end nightmare, he ended the menace with a double to 21.
Hogg led Josh Spalding 9-0 and 13-5 and remained in total command to win 21-11 in 20 ends.
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Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad (1992)
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UK Release Date - 31st August 1992.
US Release Date - 4th August 1992.
Format - 7/12 Inch/CD/CASS.
Producer - Mike Shipley/Def Leppard.
Tracks 02/03/04 - Live acoustic songs recorded with Hothouse Flowers members.
UK Record Label - Bludgeon Riffola/Phonogram.
US Record Label - Mercury.
Special Formats - Picture Disc CD Single - part three of 'Let's Get Rocked' boxed set.
Special Formats - Numbered Limited Edition 12 Inch Picture Disc.
Special Formats - US Picture Disc Gatefold Card Sleeve Promo CD.
Special Formats - French Limited Edition three-pack 7 Inch Coloured Vinyl/T-Shirt set (Blue/Red/Yellow).
UK Chart - 16 (26th September 1992/5 weeks on chart)
US Chart - 12 (31st October 1992/20 weeks on chart)
News Link - 28 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD's HAVE YOU EVER At Number 16 In The UK
News Link - 28 Years Ago DEF LEPPARD Release HAVE YOU EVER NEEDED SOMEONE SO BAD Single
News Link - 31st October 2019 (27th Anniversary-US Chart Peak)
From The Album - Adrenalize
Lead Vocals - Joe Elliott
Bass - Rick Savage
Guitars - Phil Collen
Drums - Rick Allen
Guitars - Vivian Campbell - (Tracks 02/03/04 only)
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The third single from 'Adrenalize' was released in August 1992. 'Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad' was the first ballad released from the album and another major hit. It reached number 16 on the UK Top 40 chart and 12 on the US Billboard chart. The band later said it was the biggest selling US single in their career.
The UK single saw the third disc of the CD Single box set and another 12" picture disc this time with Vivian on the back. Three acoustic songs recorded with the Hothouse Flowers were also included featuring a new song by Joe.
The French release had a unique limited edition set of three coloured vinyl singles in transparent picture sleeves and matching t-shirts. An edit version appears on some of the promo singles.
CD Single Band Message
"Here's our 3rd single from Adrenalize - 'Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad'. We've searched far and wide for the appropriate performances to go along with it and we came across these recordings by a group known only as 'The Acoustic Hippies From Hell'. In a raging 3 hour late night session, the Hippies (comprised of various Defs and 3 Hothouse Flowers) knocked off versions of a track Joe had lying around, 'From The Inside' as well as the Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' and Hendrix's 'Little Wing'. So lay back and let your mind do the rest."
US 'From The Inside' Promo CD Single Message
"Recorded during a three-song late night jamming session with three Hothouse Flowers. This song originally surfaced on a British TV series called "Friday At The Dome" when Joe was asked to perform with an artist from a different music field. Liam O Maonlai was the chosen victim for the song which tackles addiction from the drugs' point of view. This version was recorded during the "Adrenalize" B-Side sessions."
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01 - Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad
02 - From The Inside
04 - Little Wing
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05 - Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad (Edit)
06 - Elected (Live Tilburg 1987)


I hope the colour-coding is pretty self-explanatory. Green is for new races for 2016, yellow is for races that were smaller than first announced, red is for races that were cancelled after they were announced last October (or that came onto the calendar after October, but were never raced), and blue are for the big competitions to take into account. Races in italics were added or changed between the initial announcement and actually being raced.
I get my information about what was raced from the UCI results pages. If you're not sure what the rankings mean, I have an explanation of how races work over here.
I'm used to the calendar changing a lot, but this feels like more than normal – an incredible 45 races that changed between the calendar being announced in October 2015, and of those, 22 were races that were added after October (7 of these came onto the calendar late, but were never actually run). 9 races were moved from their slots on the calendar published last October, and 8 other races that were on the original October calendar were also cancelled.
One obvious change would be for the UCI to have a solid cut-off date, where if a race hasn't been accredited by a certain time (ideally when the calendar is published) they can't be added to the following year's calendar, and must wait for the following year. And then, when there are changes made to the published calendar, these should be relayed to the teams, and definitely published on the UCI website – maybe in a monthly bulletin. It seems really inefficient for the teams and media to have to keep checking the calendar themselves.
And the number of new races allowed onto the calendar that are never actually run suggests that the UCI needs to have another look at the criteria for giving races ranking. It is a huge disadvantage to the new races that have good organisers behind them, but I can see why a lot of teams might decide not to race something in the first year, because there's such a record of new races falling apart before they've even begun.
I should add a caveat here, that part of the problem is that 2016 was an Olympic year, and there are some Federations that are notorious for allowing "pop up" races that are only planned to run in the Olympic qualifying period. A cynical person might see it as an advantage for this kind of race to be added onto the calendar late, and so have fewer entries from the big international teams, so more opportunities for domestic riders to grab those UCI points. I will be showing this in diagram form later in the week.
How does the 2017 calendar compare to 2016?
Another set of tables! In this one, green indicates a new race for 2017, red is a race that was run in 2016 but isn't on the calendar for 2017, and yellow is a race that has reduced between years. This year, the biggest change has been giving UCI ranking to women's crit races (45min-1 hour-long multi-lap races around a very short circuit) for the first time. These are pretty much all existing Crits, mostly in the USA and the Netherlands, and I've coloured them cyan, so they don't get confused with the road races.
We've lost a big chunk of the "pre-season" races – the hilly Tour de San Luís in Argentina, which is a real shame, as it had live streaming and amazing social media; the races in Thailand and Israel, which were less of a surprise, as they were added late to last year's calendar, and felt like "pop-up" races, as did the Mexican race. It frustrates me that the races in the "non-traditional" cycling nations tend to only happen in Olympic years, because of course it'll be so much harder for women in those countries to gain the skills needed to win them.
But the biggest early race to be cancelled was just announced yesterday, the Ladies Tour of Qatar, and this is big news.
But on the other hand, it's in Qatar, with all the human rights abuses that go with that, so I've always felt guilty enjoying the race. And the 2016 Road World Championships, with the weird dystopian vibe, the difficulties of getting water to the riders, vehicles in the road and the truly awful story of junior Susanne Andersen being deliberately knocked off her bike by a Police officer, has soured me to it.
The organisers are the ASO, who of course run the Tour de France, and many more important races, but it's been bankrolled by the Qatari government, with a strong suspicion that it was there to help them with their Olympic bid. The official reason for it being cancelled is lack of sponsorship, but my personal theory is that it's because the Qataris have realised they won't get the Olympics, with a side-order of pique about the (justified) criticisms of Road Worlds.. I'm gutted for the riders, because it was a great start to the season, but for everything else, I think it's right that it's gone.
The Ronde van Gelderland and the Boels Rental Hills Classic have both gone as a result of the new Amstel Gold Race: the Boels Classic because it was basically the same race as Amstel, just different organisers and later in the season; and I'm pretty sure the fact Boels Rental is a sponsor of Amstel put pressure on the race organisers to put the women's race back on the programme again, and make it a Monument. Gelderland, on the other hand, was unlucky to be on the same day as Amstel, and so didn't really have a choice, though I hope we see it re-emerge, because it was a good race.
Some of the Venezuelan races have a history of only running in the Olympic qualifying period, but with the civil unrest there, I can give them a break for not running next year. The Finnish race, .4 NEA, clashed with so many other races, I can understand why it struggled for teams this year, so I'm not surprised it's gone – as did Auensteiner-Radsporttage. All of these races suffer from there not being a development level of UCI races for the women, like the men have, so they're all chasing a finite number of big teams.
The Tour de Pologne also struggled for big teams, as it also clashed with some big races – and being part of the men's race, it can't move to try to help itself, though I'd love to see some more UCI-ranked women's racing in Poland.
The French races? I just don't know. Last year, Tour de Bretagne, Tour de l'Ardèche and Chrono des Nations weren't on the calendar when it was published, but they still managed to run, but they both struggle year after year. Some people excuse this by saying run by volunteer committees; but the same goes for the majority of women's races, who get sponsors and media, and are run like clockwork. Will they come back? I hope so, because we need the races in France.
Update! A couple of people have told me that the Tour de l'Ardèche is definitely going ahead, and that the UCI has confirmed this – BUT it's not on the calendar. Apparently it's to do with the French Federation not sending in the paperwork? The race website hasn't been updated with any 2017 information, and it seems ridiculous that if this is the case, it' not been dealt with, as the calendar was published nearly two months ago – and it's also ridiculous that teams can't trust the calendar when they're making decisions. It's bad enough that the women's calendar is published so late in the year (the men's comes out earlier) – and last year I talked to two team DSs to ask them about the impact the calendar problems have on their decision making: ORICA-AIS' Marv Barras, for the bigger team perspective, and Matrix Procycling's Stefan Wyman for the small team PoV.
Finally, the South African races. The UCI have the ones that ran in 2016 listed on the 2017 calendar, but in a really odd way, so I don't know if this is some policy that the "year" runs from November now? It could be anything with those, but if they are counted as the 2018 season, that's hard – and I feel for them, because while they're not on the calendar, it'll be harder to attract big teams, many of whom, unless they have South African connections, will see the season as closed after Worlds already.
So what about the new races?
The biggest impact on the calendar are the addition of the Crits. There have been UCI-ranked men's Crits since 2012, but this is a first for the women's races, and it's been a "quick win" that makes it look like we've not lost so many races in 2017. In terms of the numbers, we had 95 races last year, with 203 racing days, and in 2017 it will be 215 racing days over 107 races. But that 2017 figure includes 32 new Crits, and because some of them have multiple days racing, 45 race days. Remove them from the total, and we're looking at a significant reduction in women's road racing next year, and that's a real issue.
I'll come back to how this fits into the history of women's racing, and talk about the problems, and the impact of the Olympics on the women's calendar, in Part 2, but I wanted to mention it here as a detail that adding the Crits could mask.
Then there's the interesting set of Crits that have UCI status. The USA has a strong Crit culture (with all kinds of unique additions, especially the many in-race cash prizes for laps that can make them more profitable to race for the money than for the overall win) but they're not the only ones, even though they're the biggest block of new 2017 races.
I'm wondering why, for example, the Mitchelton Bay Crits, which are UCI-ranked for the men as CRT haven't added the women's? And why none of the UK Crits have been added? Is it because they didn't see the point, or because they didn't know it was possible? I totally missed that this was a new thing for next season, so I'd be very interested if anyone knows more.
And then there's the interesting question of whether having UCI status will make a difference to the Crits. It's hard to say – for example, the Winston-Salem Crit already gets the riders from the Road Race on the same weekend, so I don't see it adding incentive for teams to race them, especially as it seems the CRT races don't give riders, teams or nations points in the various UCI rankings. It's great that this is another step to giving the women parity with the men, but I wish it had been a more meaningful structural change.
Amstel Gold and Liège-Bastogne-Liège are well known to fans of men's cycling, and I'm always happy that the women get to ride the big Spring Classics, especially the Monuments like Liège. Peter van der Veen blogged about the negative side of Amstel, but overall I'm happy about having them there. I'm especially interested in Liège, as that's run by the ASO, who don't seen very interested in women's racing – so I really hope this helps change their mind, especially with the loss of Qatar, and I really hope that we see a women's Paris-Roubaix in the future (and of course a multi-stage Tour de France).
Of course the addition of these to the Women's World Tour is interesting, as the parameters for the 2016 WWT included already being a .1 race, and having significant tv/streaming. I'm guessing the UCI will keep bending these rules for races with big names (we didn't get great coverage of Flèche Wallonne this year, eg) so if really hope we get to see these ones live.
And two existing races have taken a step up to WWT – the Ladies Tour of Norway and the Boels Rental Ladies Tour, which are races I really love. I'd love to see them joined by Thüringen Rundfahrt and the Emakumeen Bira next year (both of which have struggled with being expected to move for WWT races) – and of course I'm very disappointed that La Course has actually reduced in length for 2017, rather than expand into even a two-day race.
Dwars door de Vlaanderen is a fun race that's taking a step up from domestic to UCI after 5 years, and of course I'll love more racing in Flanders! It's run by Flanders Classics, who also run the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Gent-Wevelgem and Omloop het Nieuwsblad, and this leaves only Scheldeprijs and Brabantse Pijl as races in their stable without UCI women's races.
The Semana Ciclista Valenciana is a brand-new race that I can't find much information about (there's no website yet), but it's great to see more racing in Spain, one of the heartlands of cycling.
The GP of Boise is a stand-alone ITT, the only UCI-registered one in the USA. It's aka the Chrono Kristin Armstrong, named after the triple Olympic ITT Champion, and it will have races for men and women.
So overall, fewer new races this year – but having seen how many "new" races last year never made it to actually running, and how many of the new 2016 races aren't running in 2017, this isn't necessarily a bad thing – though the overall net loss of races and racing days is worrying.
I'll be back with more analysis very soon – taking a closer look at the shape of the 2017 season, and how 2016 and 2017 fit into the patterns of the last ten years.
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As ever a brilliant and comprehensive analysis Sarah. I'm obsessive enough (as Twitter followers know) to be really interested in this topic too – particularly as a newbie to pro women's cycling. I find the comings and goings in the calendar completely bizarre. Can you imagine a tennis player or a track & field athlete starting the year not knowing which tournaments were going to happen and which weren't? It seems to me that the UCI have essentially failed to take a sensible overview of this. The calendar has evolved rather than being created to deliver a rational programme of x.WWT and x.1 events for the top riders, and x.2 events for the next tier. That development tier, both in terms of national events and x.2 events is critical for the future health of the sport, and is not being given enough attention.
The introduction of the crits is interesting. I've been following racing in Australia closely this winter and have enjoyed the crits there (the Launceston event had great live streaming coverage, the St Kilda Shimano Supercrit somewhat less good coverage). I agree that it seems bizarre that the Michelton Bay women's race hasn't applied for UCI recognition – I suspect they didn't because they didn't know they could. Crits definitely have a place – but the huge number of American races that just seem to have been dumped into the calendar without obvious planning as to how they may affect other races… that's an issue.
1. Ridiculous clashes. For example, at the end of April we have Elsy Jacobs, Tour de Yorkshire, Gracia Orlova and Zhoushan Island all running simultaneously. Certainly Elsy Jacobs and Tour de Yorkshire are competing for the same riders. The year after clashing with the Olympics, Route de France is going to be even more inconvenienced by clashing with the road race in the European Championships. Chrono Champenois is a race that should get a big boost as the best standalone ITT in Europe – but it clashes with Madrid. (Fortunately this year it isn't also clashing with Toscana). Arranging the calendar to avoid such daft clashes is not rocket science, frankly. It just needs someone logical and thorough at the UCI to sit down for a day or two and sort it out.
2. The awarding of WWT status seems to be more related to whether your face fits than how good your race is. What Tour of Norway and Boels Rentals Ladies Tour have done right that Bira and Thuringen Rundfahrt haven't is beyond me. The Bira organisers must have really irritated the UCI – there was that crazy suggestion at one point that the race would be run in February. Which as Yolanda Alvarez pointed out on Twitter is rather interesting now we know what has happened to Qatar. Personally I'd have liked Lotto Belgium Tour to be WWT too, but I am biased and I guess a step up from 2.2 to 2.1 is going in the right direction.
Couple of other things. Paris Roubaix would be great (and there's not much happening that weekend) – but so would a women's Milan San Remo (tricky as this is the same weekend as Trofee Alfredo Binda) and a women's Il Lombardia (Elle Lombardia maybe? – the week after Giro dell'Emilia and Bruno Beghelli is perfect). And good riddance to Qatar frankly – after the Susanne Andersen incident I don't want any of my favourite riders anywhere near the place.
This is all so complicated. There needs to be a school for following women's pro cycling.
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Few bowlers can thank Sachin Tendulkar for making them look good but Aaron Phangiso, an unassuming left-arm spinner from Garankuwa, could. In the 2012 edition of the Champions League T20, Tendulkar was among the 10 wickets Phangiso claimed to finish third on the overall wicket-takers' list and, after eight years as a domestic workhorse, caught the attention of the global cricket world.
That summer, Phangiso was rewarded with a call-up to South Africa's limited-overs' squads and made his T20 and ODI debut in a series against New Zealand. Being neither a great turner of the ball nor a master of variations, Phangiso uses what his coach Grant Morgan called a "natural pause" in his action to operate primarily as a containing bowler. Phangiso essentially stops for a millisecond mid-stride before delivering the ball which makes him more difficult to pick.
His bowling technique was honed during his five-season stint at Northerns, after which he moved to North West. At his provincial side, Phangiso played in all formats but when he earned promotion to the franchise team, the Lions, he was primarily used in limited-overs cricket. His economy of under five runs an over in List A cricket and under seven runs an over in T20s is testament to his strangling style.
Where Phangiso was unlucky was that his rise coincided with that of other spinners turning heads both at his franchise and in the country. At the Lions, Phangiso competed with his international team-mate Imran Tahir for a regular place as well as with younger players such as Dale Deeb and Eddie Leie. Despite the tough competition, Phangiso carved a niche as the first-choice spinner for the Lions in shorter formats but struggled to do the same at international level.
Phangiso was part of South Africa's squad at the 2015 World Cup but was the only player in the 15-man traveling party who did not play a game. His year improved when he was named in all three South African squads to tour Bangladesh in July 2015, which included a maiden call-up to the Test team.
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I only wore it there one time. Almost everyone there gave me a dirty look. One woman did a drive by shaming with a "don't ever wear that shirt here again," walking off before I could respond. A former grand exhaulted ruler or whatever they call the main guy had a conversation with me. We knew eachother from a mutual interest in karaoke. He was cool with it after hearing the explaination; anyone who bothered to talk to me came to understand the meaning. Not many people bothered to talk though; they are mostly cowards. There would be murmuring and gossip behind my back. One guy almost mustered the nerve to tell me off with a "I want to talk to you outside," but never followed up on it. Big whoop though, I kept showing up most Saturdays to sing. Months went by.
One night, I'm sitting outside The Deckiv smoking a cigarette, waiting for a friend. The place had just made last call, and everyone was pouring out the doors. A girl comes up to me and asks, "hey aren't you that guy who sings at the Elk's Club?" Yeah, that's me. "Oh, well I work there and they just had a vote tonight about you. Members aren't allowed to sign you in anymore." Oho! Took them long enough.
The Elk's Club is a half-assed cult, with a false religion to boot. In order to be a member, you must affirm a belief in some sort of God. It's kinda like Alcoholic's Anonymous actually. Well the idiots there, without ever talking to me about it, assumed my 9/11 shirt was some sort of atheist statement. I was banned on the grounds that I don't believe in God! What a sweet ending. I had a good long laugh.


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One of the grand chapters in the history of audio was the BBC research program some decades ago into how to make speakers with a truthful sound. The BBC had the worthy idea that it would be good to know exactly what its broadcasts actually sounded like, and it undertook to develop speakers that would do the job, commercial models not being sufficiently accurate nor reliably identical. The BBC was in effect seeking the absolute sound before there was The Absolute Sound. The most famous speaker to come out of this program was the popular LS3/5a. At least this was the most famous in the U.S., where it joined the Volkswagen as something to show that one was European-with-it. But the best speaker that came out of the BBC program in those days—the late 1960s and early 1970s— was the LS3/6, the BBC version of the speaker marketed to begin with as the Spendor BC-1.
The detailed history is a bit convoluted. In summary, Spencer Hughes, who was working in the mid -1960s for the BBC research program, developed vacuum-formed Bextrene cone drivers and designed the BC-1 speaker around one of them as a bass/mid driver. (The company name Spendor comes from Spencer plus Dorothy, his wife's name.) The BBC refused the speaker at first, this being a time when, in looking for loudness for rock, it was losing its otherwise mostly good sense. (The BC1 was not a large-signal speaker.) But respect for quality prevailed and the BBC decided to offer for license in their LS series their own version of the BC-1, the LS3/6. The LS3/6 was essentially the same speaker as the BC-1. You can find Spencer Hughes' own description of the history at http://www.cicable.de/pdf/ bc1story.pdf. Long time passing!
When TAS started up in 1973, attention was naturally drawn to the BC-1, with HP calling it "the one and only." On a personal note, I bought a pair of BC-1s not long afterwards—my first really serious speakers, and my reference when I joined the TAS staff.
The BC-1 and thus by implication the LS3/6 acquired an almost legendary status. Later speakers from Spendor also earned rave reviews and high reputations. But somewhere in the back of the mind's ear, to borrow HP's phrase, the midrange in particular of the BC-1 remained something of a standard—to this day.
Now, Stirling Broadcast, well known already for reissuing the LS3/5a, has undertaken to reissue a modern LS3/6. Almost poetically, it asked Derek Hughes, Spencer and Dorothy's son and a distinguished speaker designer in his own right, auteur in particular of the remarkable Spendor SP1/2, to undertake the design work. And design work was required since the drivers of the original BC-1 are no longer available and have not been for some time. This was more than a touching gesture. Derek Hughes is in a unique position to understand what was involved in making a speaker to match the LS3/6 specifications. And match it it does. The Stirling Broadcast LS3/6, in fact, earned on test by the BBC an official license, all these decades later, as meeting the specifications of the original licensing of LS3/6. (The BBC policy was and is to offer its models under license to any manufacturer who will undertake to produce the speaker as specified.)
Of course the question uppermost in mind must be whether this is just a charming exercise in nostalgia, a Proustian remembrance of things past, or whether it is a loudspeaker of excellence and vitality in today's world. I say with no hesitation at all that it is the latter. No speaker today could be the unprecedented phenomenon that the BC-1/LS3/6 was when it first appeared, redefining as it did what was possible in low coloration for box speakers. But the Stirling Broadcast LS3/6 is a great speaker without question in my mind by contemporary standards, as well as a worthy tribute and successor to the original. (Hereafter, I shall just call the speaker the LS3/6 since historical discussion is now largely concluded.)


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Tesco with FitOut UK
In April 2020, Tesco opened a pop-up store at London ExCel to allow Nightingale Hospital staff to buy food and other essentials with ease. The 24-hour shop was set up in response to Public Health England's desire for shops catering to NHS staff during the Covid-19 crisis.
There were many challenges from the outset, which fell to Tesco Group Property Procurement to resolve, working in collaboration with Head of Procurement UK and ROI, Clare Gregorio. First and foremost, the store had to be delivered very quickly, and the site was already busy with multiple contractors and suppliers, there were many restrictions to contend with, and also a need to limit people on site and achieve social distancing.
Innovation was needed for every element of the project, from supply chain assembly, sourcing and procurement. The team exceeded every expectation of what could be done, with success driven by a strategy that brought together innovation, efficiency, consolidation and control, while driving value, reducing costs and delivering sustainably.
The judges said that the entry was "impressive" that showed working "dynamically with a large group".
Simply Supply Chain
Before the existence of the collaborative workgroup pioneered by Simply Supply Chain, drop and drive unsubstantiated discrepancies were costing UK chilled suppliers millions (for the 20 original group members, c£15M p/a). Depot errors, poorly labelled goods plus lack of any auditable retailer systems led to tens of thousands of cases of food/drink items being claimed as short delivered every week.
With no way of proving otherwise, suppliers ended up facing endless calls and paperwork, just to be left unpaid for goods they had delivered.
Six years of collaboration and the Drop & Drive Claims Workgroup has delivered an 85% reduction in these unsubstantiated claims through process improvement, with numerous positive impacts on workload, stress and job satisfaction too.
The initiative has achieved this huge saving by working with suppliers and retailers alike to deliver innovative win-win solutions across the board, from simple and effective labelling, GFR (Good Faith Receipting) and independent auditing.
With many members reporting their losses reducing by 90%+ ─ it's clear to see the tactics deployed are working.
Member satisfaction demonstrates just how worthwhile participation is: members gave the working group an average score of 9.7 out of 10 for likelihood to recommend in a 2020 survey.
The judges said that the programme solved a problem that needed to be fixed and they were impressed by the collaboration developed between retailers.
#RoadtoZero" is an internal campaign at plaids which aims to reduce pladis UK's supply chain waste sub 2% by 2021. The project sets out to tackle the 18,000 tonnes of gross loss waste per annum across a network of eight sites. #RoadtoZero is a collaborative effort across every function involving senior leaders, excellence leads, graduates and manufacturing colleagues. It's one of several 'Planet' initiatives at plaids demonstrating its sustainability commitments.
Since its launch, employees have adopted innovative solutions and engineering techniques to reduce the company's impact on the planet. Pladis UK has set the ambitious target to make all plastic packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025. But, in the meantime, it is ensuring that all its packaging can be recycled through its continued partnership with TerraCycle and it is improving its labelling to ensure consumers can easily determine how and where to recycle their packaging.
The judges said that this was a company that is thinking ahead in its supply chain and is changing its culture and the way it is doing business
Ella's Kitchen and Wincanton
Wincanton and Ella's Kitchen, have collaborated to find the most environmentally friendly, sustainable means to service their customers. Working with supply chain stakeholders we have sought to reduce the logistics carbon footprint from one of Ella's largest suppliers based in Northern Ireland into the Wigan NDC.
Ella's stock is very light, so inbound pallets have always been built high to the limitations of the automated warehouse in which they would be stored and picked. However, this means that the ex-factory trailers neither cube or weigh-out and more loads are shipped than would be possible if the trailer fill was also optimised.
A working party was assembled consisting of key supply chain stakeholders to evaluate options. The Ella's product portfolio was reviewed and a short-list of critical sku's was identified for which a change to the pallet build specification could facilitate double stacking and potentially halve the number of loads shipped whilst not compromising product quality or warehouse efficiencies.
Packaging and transit trials have confirmed that a modification to just 25% of the SKUs has facilitated a disproportionate 48% reduction in loads shipped, and will save 115 tCO2e pa.
The judges praised a "well structured plan" between both parties.
The Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2020 are sponsored by Clipper Logistics; DP World; Geek + and Unipart Logistics.
IKEA partners with Bolt to deploy one of Canada's largest 'zero emission' fleets
Nike is transforming its supply chain
Stena Line and Associated British Ports sign £100m deal for new ferry terminal


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GSP- Learning from the Best #3 – Celebrating 50 years of DPS RK Puram
"Success consists of stumbling from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
The Think Club of Delhi Public School, RK Puram hosted a Guest Speaker Programme on 27th November 2021 for classes IX & XI, the third in its series "Learning from the Best." The programme was organised with the aim of providing the students of the school with the opportunity to interact with and learn from the experiences of our distinguished alums.
The respected Principal Ms. Padma Srinivasan, class representatives, teachers, and students of classes IX and XI attended the programme.
Learning from the Best #3 featured Mr. Tanmay Gupta and Ms. Adhya Sharma.
Mr. Tanmay Gupta achieved All India Rank 1 in NEET 2021, with a perfect score of 720/720. He has been a distinguished part of the DPS RK Puram family ever since he joined the school in 2019. He managed an incredible 97.6% in his CBSE Board Examinations. During his time in the school, he was also a part of various clubs and extracurricular activities, like Think Club, which helped him achieve great heights. Currently, he has plans to attend the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, commonly known as AIIMS, to pursue his further medical education.
Ms. Adhya Sharma, batch of 2019, is currently a Junior at Yale University, where she is majoring in Computer Science and Economics. She has continued in her dynamic spirit from DPS RK Puram to Yale where she is the President of [email protected], an undergraduate organisation which shares Indian culture with the student body. She has also held the position of Vice President of the Global Research and Consulting Group, along with having spent time serving on the boards of the Women's Leadership Initiative and Yale Daily News. Adhya will be interning at Meta, formerly known as Facebook, as a software engineer next summer in New York City.
The comperes, Samyak Kapoor and Divyansh Nayan, enthusiastically welcomed the audience and the Guest Speakers, and presented them with a virtual token of appreciation. This was followed by the honourable Principal Ms. Padma Srinivasan's address to the gathering, in which she expressed her gratitude to both guest speakers for being there as a mentor to the aspiring students of classes IX and XI, and congratulated them on their respective successes. She highlighted the importance of such programmes and urged Adhya and Tanmay to inspire the budding students of DPS RK Puram and provide them with insightful tips.
The Question and Answer session was conducted by Divyansh Nayan and Sneha Chandra. Students, as well as teachers, asked their questions to both speakers.
Mr. Tanmay Gupta gave intensive and patient responses to all questions, emphasising the importance of school and teachers in achieving an excellent score in competitive exams as he did. He encouraged the students to practice self-discipline and consistency during their preparation times, while also keeping time for extracurricular activities as stress busters and meaningful time to interact with family and peers. He also recommended study techniques, books, revision tricks and such to the attendees.
Ms. Adhya Sharma gave elaborate and helpful answers, coupled with insightful anecdotes, to respond to the audience's questions. She went over the process of filling out applications, appearing for standardised tests, applying for financial aid, and writing essays in detail to help the students out, and also gave accounts of her personal experience during the same. She talked about cultural differences between India and the US, instances of homesickness, network making friends, and how she dealt with them as a first-year. Her elaborate accounts were incredibly helpful to the students who hope to follow in her footsteps.
The session was concluded by Sahana Agarwal on a high note, who left the audience with inspiring words. The event was organised by Ms. Shelly Malhotra and Ms. Archna Deepak, with technical support from Mr. Mukesh Kumar and his team.
Guest Speaker Programme - Learning from the Best #2 - Celebrating 50 years of DPS RK Puram


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What instruction would you give to someone who wanted to know how to kiss?
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Eleanor_W-15 17 April 2022 08:25 #1
It's funny how there are certain things humans are just expected to know how to do. First time I kissed someone my aim was literally awful and it still can be so here are some tips.
Make sure you're both calm and ready
Lightly hold their face
Try not to just go in fast like how they do in the movies you'll probably end up kissing to the side of their lip if you do this
If you don't know how to aim let them lead, if they don't know either, trial and error
Obviously, these aren't rules! Everybody probably has a way that works for them and some people probably don't even think of this too much
@Discussions what instruction would you give?
If you have ever kissed someone what would you have liked to know beforehand?
Meekepeek 17 April 2022 08:26 #2
I'd probably go with:
Just go with the moment and don't think too much.
True but me and quite a few people can't really turn off their brain and it can be nice to calm yourself by thinking of something but yeah there's nothing rigid, the most important thing is to relax.
For me I can't turn of my brain, but with him, I just felt relaxed because it was him.
Yeah it's the same with my boyfriend, kisses aren't a giant huge must get this right thing by any stretch but with my boyfriend it's just fun and completely pressure free. I don't feel like we have to do it because "that's what couples do"
I remember my ex being so cute the first time, he was so careful and hasitent. He is one of those sweet, pokemon fanboys who loves comics and cares about people's feelings more than his own and so when we kissed for the first time.
It was during new year and as we were doing the 'new years dutch kisses', and everyone was already outside setting off fireworks, he shrugged, asked 'shall we?' and kissed me.
Make out:
He brought me home and my parents were already asleep and we stopped at my front door and said he wanted to try it and just gently kissed me.
So for me it really helped to have him as my first experience but as I didn't feel the appeal of it all, it didn't have the wanted effect while kissing
astralis 17 April 2022 17:53 #7
nah cause i promise its really simple just relax
Jass 17 April 2022 18:37 #8
Honestly, I would give myself the advice to just relax about it. It really isn't a that big deal. I wanted my first kiss to be super special and with someone I loved, but it ended up being so random with a person I barely even liked Still rad memories regardless…
Some practical tips:
Do it while standing, makes it easier
Lol, don't wear heels. Let me explain this, my first kiss was quite a bit taller than me so even in heels I still had to stand on my toes and let's just say I almost broke an ankle (Ended up being quite a cute moment where I sort of had to grab him and we laughed about it)
Be in a location that feels safe to you
Pretty obvious, but have some mints on you. Can definitely make the experience a lot better for both of you.
It's not just about the kiss, build up to the moment a bit. Eye contact, little touches ect.
Might not work for everyone and in every situation, but it can be helpful to sort of just mirror whatever the person you are kissing is doing. Especially if you know that person has experience.
celestialkitten 6 August 2022 02:36 #9
Who invented kissing? Sucking peoples faces off with affection??
Kiwii 6 August 2022 04:03 #10
This one's for you, @Kiaaa.
Just go with the flow. A kiss doesn't need to be perfect.
Love can be expressed in everything you do
celestialkitten 6 August 2022 04:42 #11
Kiaaa 6 August 2022 09:44 #12
Stinky breath
Who are u calling stinky
Obv you, can't you read it-
Ouijaloveletters 7 August 2022 05:16 #16
Pucker, you derp nugget.
Ouijaloveletters 5 October 2022 04:20 #17
Derp nugget. I actually said that. Previous advice still stands.
Ouijaloveletters 25 January 2023 05:42 #18
Please don't be slobbery.


Unfortunately, this site has been closed for some time. The woman who used to run it, Sharon Gammell, a psychic, died a few years ago and she had put the building up for sale before she passed. My husband and I stayed there back in May, 2009. I believe it was haunted. We were the only guests there. The door to our room slammed shut by itself–hard!–twice with no open windows and no one near by it. That was enough for me! It's sad that it's no longer open. Ms. Gammell had renovated it and it was beautiful, besides being spooky.
This place has reopened with a restaurant and in 2 weeks hotel will also have rooms for rent again!


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Dependence of surface resistance in HTS thin films on a dc magnetic field
A. Saito, M. Shirakawa, K. Kitamura, Y. Noguchi, M. Mukaida, H. Yamasaki, Y. Nakagawa, S. Ohshima
We investigated the behavior of the surface resistance (Rs) of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) thin films exposed to a dc magnetic field (parallel to the c-axis). Measurements were done using the dielectric resonator method and superconducting magnet system. The DyBa2Cu 3O7-δ (DyBCO) and YBa2Cu 3O7-δ (YBCO) thin films (produced by THEVA GmbH) were prepared through a thermal co-evaporation method. The resonant frequency of the TE011 mode in the resonator was approximately 22 GHz. A dc magnetic field of up to 5 T was applied vertically to two parallel superconducting thin films placed into a closed-type Cu cavity. Rs of the DyBCO and YBCO thin films increased as the applied dc magnetic field increased. The Rs ratio (defined as Rs(5 T)/R s(0 T)) of the DyBCO and YBCO thin films at 4.5 K was approximately 5 and 50, respectively. These results indicate that the DyBCO thin film may be better for use in low-temperature nuclear magnetic resonance applications.
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Saito, A., Shirakawa, M., Kitamura, K., Noguchi, Y., Mukaida, M., Yamasaki, H., Nakagawa, Y., & Ohshima, S. (2005). Dependence of surface resistance in HTS thin films on a dc magnetic field. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, 15(2 PART III), 3692-3695. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2005.849394
Dependence of surface resistance in HTS thin films on a dc magnetic field. / Saito, A.; Shirakawa, M.; Kitamura, K.; Noguchi, Y.; Mukaida, M.; Yamasaki, H.; Nakagawa, Y.; Ohshima, S.
In: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, Vol. 15, No. 2 PART III, 06.2005, p. 3692-3695.
Saito, A, Shirakawa, M, Kitamura, K, Noguchi, Y, Mukaida, M, Yamasaki, H, Nakagawa, Y & Ohshima, S 2005, 'Dependence of surface resistance in HTS thin films on a dc magnetic field', IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity, vol. 15, no. 2 PART III, pp. 3692-3695. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2005.849394
Saito A, Shirakawa M, Kitamura K, Noguchi Y, Mukaida M, Yamasaki H et al. Dependence of surface resistance in HTS thin films on a dc magnetic field. IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 2005 6;15(2 PART III):3692-3695. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASC.2005.849394
Saito, A. ; Shirakawa, M. ; Kitamura, K. ; Noguchi, Y. ; Mukaida, M. ; Yamasaki, H. ; Nakagawa, Y. ; Ohshima, S. / Dependence of surface resistance in HTS thin films on a dc magnetic field. In: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. 2005 ; Vol. 15, No. 2 PART III. pp. 3692-3695.
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Apple has just rolled out a new program to repair iPhone 6 Plus units affected by the so-called "touch disease." The issue came to light earlier this year after a class-action suit was filed in California.
A gray bar on top of a touchscreen is a symptom of the issue.
Any handset showing the issues will be repaired by Apple for $149 as long as the iPhone is working and the screen isn't cracked or broken.
Apple is also planning to contact customers who previously paid a repair fee because of the issue to arrange a reimbursement.
More about the program can be found on Apple's site.


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In the morning of July 14, 2021, the Can Tho City Department of Science and Technology held a ceremony to hand over the Sars-Cov-2 Virus testing system to the Can Tho city's health sector to serve Sars-CoV-2 virus testing for people in the city when there are epidemiological factors suspected of having Covid-19. Attending the ceremony, there were Mr. Tran Viet Truong - Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Can Tho City People's Committee; Mr. Nguyen Phuoc Ton - Deputy Director of Can Tho City Health Department; Mr. Huynh Minh Truc - Director of Can Tho CDC; Mr. Nguyen Trung Kien - Rector of Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy; Mr. Lai Minh Long - Director of Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital; Mr. Chau Chieu Hoa - Director of Can Tho Ear - Nose - Throat Hospital. On the side of Phu Sa One Member Limited Company, there was Ms. Le Thi Mai Trinh – Deputy Director of the Company. On the side of the Department of Science and Technology, there was Mr. Ngo Anh Tin – Member of the Party Committee, Director of the Department.
Leader of the Can Tho City People's Committee presented 600 Sars-Cov-2 rapid test kits to the Can Tho City Department of Health, Can Tho City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Can Tho City Ear - Nose - Throat Hospital.
Mr. Tran Viet Truong - Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Can Tho City People's Committee gave the Decision on the issuance of 02 lists of medical equipment for SARS-CoV-2 testing to Phu Sa One Member Limited Company.
The Sars-Cov-2 Virus testing system was developed by Can tho City Department of Science and Technology cooperated with the Paster Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, and Phu Sa Biochemistry One Member Limited Company to implement it from the beginning of 2020. The system has been appraised by the Ministry of Health and licensed to circulate in the market in Decision No. No. 3410/QD-BYT on July 13, 2021. The function of this system is to detect Sars-Cov-2 in upper respiratory tract specimens that synthesize pharyngeal and lower respiratory tract secretions (sputum, bronchial fluid, endotracheal fluid, pleural fluid) based on the basic Realtime PCR technique, the Spotcheck system reads amplified products within 2 hours, saving time and costs, regardless of imported biological products.
Mr. Tran Viet Truong - Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Can Tho City People's Committee delivered a speech at the ceremony
Mr. Ngo Anh Tin - Director of Can Tho City Department of Science and Technology spoke at the ceremony
Mr. Ngo Anh Tin - Director of Can Tho City Department of Science and Technology said that after more than a year of active support for research from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho City Department of Science and Technology and Phu Sa One Member Limited Company always accompany in this passionate research. The Department of Science and Technology has supported Phu Sa One Member Limited Company in research and production of kits and products that have been licensed for circulation.
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Tran Viet Truong - Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee appreciated the efforts of the city's Science and Technology Department, especially with the Sars-CoV-2 Virus testing system, which will contribute to the city's capacity to successfully screen and control the disease.


Lustica Bay, a unique and pioneering lifestyle and residential development, hidden within the dramatic landscape of the Montenegrin coast, has appointed 11K Consulting, an independent full-service UK-Asia/China luxury PR and communications agency, to drive its brand awareness with Chinese HNWIs, investors, travellers and key influencers in China and the UK.
The only Greenfield investment in Montenegro and the largest one in this part of Europe, Luštica Bay is a €1.1 billion luxury residential development. With favourable tax laws, 270 sunny days a year, and a location in the immediate vicinity of three international airports – there is virtually unlimited potential for investors.
11K's activity includes over-arching Chinese media strategy, media support around the Luxury Property Show in Shanghai, media familiarisation tours, bespoke events, thought leadership profiling and business development support in China and the UK in the next 12 months.
The project is envisaged to comprise a mix of real estate offerings (apartments, townhomes & villas), hotels, a golf course, the first in the country, two marinas, retail, recreational and leisure space, and is developed by Orascom Development, a developer with a track record in Egypt, Oman, and Switzerland in developing self-sufficient towns.
Lustica Bay is exhibiting at the Luxury Property Show, a leading luxury real estate exhibition which will showcase hundreds of luxury real estate companies around the world to a discerning audience of Chinese luxury home buyers, at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre in Shanghai on 7-9 December 2018. Do come to visit it at the stand. If you're interested in meeting them while they are in Shanghai, please email at sally@11kconsulting.com to arrange a possible meeting.


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After you setup a yeoman project, you may need to change two things in **Gruntfile.js**:

+   Comment out *test* task for normal build - Chrome does not seem to be available on this Ubuntu box. It is at the real end as part of default task's dependencies
+   Grunt needs to listen on **0.0.0.0**  or __*__, not just **localhost** - the instructions are in the Gruntfile.js itself, just search for **localhost**


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Nokia Asha 501 Dual SIM: Fast & Fun Mobile Experience
Nokia launches the newest addition to the Asha family, the Nokia Asha 501 Dual SiM, the first smartphone built on the new Asha platform, will give people a cool fast and fun mobile experience.Nokia Asha 501 Dual SIM features high-end design that comes in different colors –initially in bright red, yellow & classic black, and later in white, bright green & cyan-, at a recommended retail price of PhP 4,490 (including VAT).
It will be available in the Philippines starting today in the retail and coming soon with operators' postpaid plans.
This smartphone features the durable and removable Nokia shell and a Gorilla Glass scratch-resistant three-inch capacitive touchscreen. Its unprecedented battery life keeps users connected with up to 26 days of standby time and up to 17 hours of talk time. These highlights make the Nokia Asha 501 Dual SIM a great option for young people that really need to be connected on the go.
The Nokia Asha 501 Dual SIM also comes with WLAN that easily connects to hotspots in malls, schools and at home. The built in Facebook and Twitter apps and the 3.2MP camera with 5-in-1 filters app enable creative posts and updates.
It also comes with a 4GB memory card gives you lots of space to store pictures, videos & MP3 playlists, and you can easily upgrade to 32GB to save even more memories."Undoubtedly, the Nokia Asha 501 is a smartphone that combines an enticing design with performance and a totally new way to stay mobile with Fastlane", highlighted Karel Holub, General Manager of Nokia in Philippines. "Its exclusive Fastlane view provides a timeline of activities and events in the recent past, present and near future. This innovative feature makes it easier to start where you left off and plan ahead with just a simple swipe".
Adding Super Pocket value to the great design
Weighting only 98 grams, Nokia Asha 501 DS comes with Facebook, Twitter and The Weather Channel preloaded. Also there are many entertaining games like World Zoo, Fashion Icon, Little Big City, Real Football, Bubble Bash, preinstalled. And there are 40 free EA games available through the Nokia Gift app like Bejeweled,Tetris, Revolution FiFA, Sims 3, Need for Speed: Undercover and Plants vs. Zombies, among others.
The Nokia Asha 501 also comes with the latest version of Nokia Xpress Browser. This Nokia exclusive browser enables faster and more affordable browsing by compressing web pages by up to 90%, even when multiple pages are open.
The Nokia Xpress lets you surf further than other standard smartphone browsers.With the innovative Fastlane, exclusive apps and games, as well as its cool and eye-popping design, and affordability, Nokia Asha 501 Dual SIM is truly a smartphone with a super pocket power.