NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 17 – Emerging Stars head coach Francis Kimanzi says he will mix up his squad on Sunday when the team goes down against Mauritius in the return leg of the first round 2020 Tokyo Olympics Qualifier in Port Louis.
Carrying a 5-0 advantage from the first leg, Kimanzi will be tempted to play around with the squad and give playing time to players who did not have a chance on Wednesday in Nairobi.
"We had a camp of 22 players and we are only allowed to have 18 on the game. We have a few who did not get a chance to play, not because they are not good but because there are rules. We are not giving presents to anyone but at 5-0, they stand a chance to play and also build their confidence," Kimanzi said.
The tactician though has made two changes to his squad, the Mathare United duo of Ahmed Ahmad and Lennox Ogutu being named in the team while there's no place for the England-based duo of Jonah Ayunga and Henry Ochieng.
Ochieng came on as a second half substitute in the first leg while Ayunga was not part of the 18. Kimanzi says the two players have good quality but notes he will take time integrating them into the team.
"When you have a lot of new players from a different culture, it is usually tricky for them in the first time and as a coach you have to be clever when introducing them. They have great quality but you have to build a foundation first before bringing them in," Kimanzi added.
Among the players likely to be rested include defender and skipper Joseph Okumu who picked up an ankle knock in the first leg and Kimanzi might be tempted to rest him for either Mike Kibwage or Ogutu.
The tactician was impressed with the huge 5-0 win in the first leg that more or less earns them a ticket into the second round of qualification where they will meet the winner between Sudan and Seychelles.
"I think it was a wonderful performance especially because this is a new initiative. When you play the first match and you get the confidence to play the way they did and get a huge win, then it is impressive. They did their best and showed they are ready to play," Kimanzi further stated.
Meanwhile, Harambee Stars head coach who has been part of the Under-23 technical bench says he has been impressed with some of the players and they stand a chance of making it into the senior team, singling out defender Okumu.
"I like to mix some experience and young players and I think some of them show the quality. They stand a chance to be in the team for AFCON, but they have to work hard. It is good some of them they are very interesting, but in the high level, you have to repeat your performance or even better," the tactician said.
Meanwhile, he has also stated that if the team makes it to the third round of qualification, he will not call any of them for the AFCON qualifier against Ghana next March as the two tournaments clash dates.


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FairPoint Reaches Agreement with Staff of the New Hampshire Public Utilities CommissionCHARLOTTE, NC (PRNewswire-FirstCall) — FairPoint Communications, Inc. today (January 24, 2008) announced an agreement has been reached between FairPoint, Verizon and the staff of the Hampshire Public Utilities Commission (PUC) regarding FairPoint's proposed acquisition of Verizon's wireline operations in New Hampshire. The settlement agreement in New Hampshire is consistent with material terms of the amended stipulation agreement with the Maine PUC and the settlement agreement with the Vermont Department of Public Service and contains other terms and conditions specific to New Hampshire. In the agreement, FairPoint, Verizon, and the staff of the PUC recommend the New Hampshire PUC approve the settlement agreement.FairPoint's acquisition of Verizon's wireline operations in New Hampshire is part of a larger, previously announced transaction in which FairPoint would also acquire Verizon's wireline operations in Maine and Vermont. The license transfers in connection with the transaction have been approved by the Federal Communications Commission and the transaction has been approved by the Maine PUC, subject to receipt of a written order from the Maine PUC. The Public Service Board in Vermont has yet to rule on the settlement agreement entered into by FairPoint, Verizon and the Vermont Department of Public Service."We are pleased at the thoughtful approach by the staff of the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission and believe this agreement appropriately addresses important public interest issues in the state. We look forward to serving the people of New Hampshire," said Gene Johnson, chairman and CEO of FairPoint.In addition to the key financial conditions in the amended stipulation in Maine and the key conditions in the settlement agreement with the Vermont Department of Public Service, FairPoint committed to additional conditions in New Hampshire which address capital expenditures, network and service quality improvement plans, broadband expansion and assurances of financial viability that will benefit the state.Vermont reaches tentative deal with FairPoint to buy VerizonlandlinesIn early January, the Vermont Department of Public Service reached agreement with FairPoint Communications on its $2.7 billion deal to buy Verizon Communications 1.6 million landlines in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.The new deal, as in New Hampshire, mimics the plan approved in Maine last week, which includes a steep reduction in FairPoint's shareholder dividend (35 percent, resulting in a $50 million per year savings) and what is a de facto reduction in the price of the sale by $235.5 million. The financial moves were considered important in ensuring that FairPoint would be financially able to consumate the deal and live up to other provisions in the agreement, including extension of DSL service and other service and reliability guarantees. FairPoint had reported that to make the deal it would have to borrow $2.5 billion.The deal also includes penalties up to $12.5 million if goals are not met. The Vermont agreement states that FairPoint must invest at least $40 million each year for the first three years and starting in 2009 spend at least $35 million to reduce debt.The entire deal still needs final approval by the Vermont Public Service Board, and by the regulatory body in New Hampshire.The Vermont Public Service Board previously rejected, on December 21, 2007,the application of FairPoint Communications to buy Verizon's Vermontlandlines. The docket was not closed, however, allowing FairPoint to rework the deal. The PSB said the deal requires the company to carry toomuch debt to be financially sound.FairPoint has also agreed to make broadband Internet access available to all of its customers in at least half its exchanges by 2010.Even if FairPoint ultimately gains approval, discrepancies in thefinal rulings among the three states would have to be dealt with byeach state's regulatory board.By the middle of December, anyway, it seemed like thedisagreements and conflict over the decision to approve FairPointCommunications $2.7 billion dollar acquisition were finally coming toan end, after the Maine Office of the Public Advocate and the stateadvocate staff at the Public Utility Commission finally agreed toconditions of the settlement on December 12. The agreement comesafter months of opposition from Consumer Advocates and labor unions that stalled thestate's PUC decision to accept or reject the sale.In December, consumer advocates in Maine and New Hampshirereleased reports urging their state Public Utilities Commissions toreject Verizon's sale. FairPoint, a North Carolina phone companythat is one-sixth the size of Verizon. Buying Verizon's northern New England phone lines would make it the eighthlargest communications company in the nation. The settlement, whichwould affect virtually every person with a phone in New Hampshire,Maine and Vermont, needs final approval from all three states utilityregulators before it takes effect.Vermont has focused mainly on how the settlement will affectconsumer-related issues, such as the extension of DSL service areasand reliability. Staff from boards in Maine and New Hampshire,however, initially released reports urging their state's PUC to full-out reject theproposal. Advocates said they are against the merger because theyfear that FairPoint is not financially capable of making infrastructureimprovements and service commitments without hiking rates, cuttingemployees, or going out of business altogether."FairPoint and Verizonhave not met their burden of showing that the transaction is in thepublic interest," explained Meredith A. Hatfield, a consumer advocatefrom New Hampshire. The Maine Public Utilities commission echoedthese sentiments in a report they released in November."Theproposed transaction subjects both ratepayers and shareholders tosubstantial risks and harms that are not outweighed by any of thepotential benefits of the transaction."FairPoint has 975 employees in contrast to Verizon's3,000. FairPoint's 2006 revenues were at $270 million while Verizon'swere $88 billion. The acquisition would force FairPoint into a $30million dollar a year debt agreement to repay their $2 billion dollardebt. Critics believe these numbers indicate that the settlement willgive FairPoint a financial burden they can't handle.Despite their outright refusal of the merger, the reports did listterms and conditions for the acquisition if it were approved. Reportsreleased from the Maine Public Utilities Commission ordered that threemain conditions be met for their approval. First, FairPoint must submitto the PUC a plan to deal with expected loss of workers. As part of thedeal, Verizon was also recommended to cut its $2.7 billion dollar pricetag by $600 million. If they do not follow this suggestion, the companymust set aside significant funds for infrastructure upgrades withinFairPoint. As of the December 12 agreement, The company was alsorequired to make minimum capital investments of $47 million in Maineover the next three years, and will reduce dividend levels by 35percent. PUC staff in New Hampshire were not as flexible. They listedeleven conditions in their report that need to be met by bothcompanies for the acquisition to be approved. One of their conditionsalso addressed the issue of Verizon's price tag, and the debt it willcause FairPoint. The report specifically suggested that Verizon cutFairPoint's acquisition cost by $200 million with no cost to thecompany. To further address its $30 million dollar debt issue, FairPointwas also urged to cut its dividends by 20 percent. The commission alsowants to have say in fixing the companies transition serviceagreement, or TSA. The briefing says that the price of the TSA exceedsthe costs of services, which gives Verizon and unnecessarily largeprofit. The report suggested that FairPoint have a third party monitorto judge the company's cutover readiness criteria-or the time whenFairPoint could fully separate from all Verizon systems.
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Written in 1861 and published eight years later, this influential essay by the great English philosopher and economist is still relevant and its arguments significant. Believing that the subjugation of women was primarily political and psychological in origin, Mill urged the establishment of "complete equality in all legal, political, social, and domestic relations between men and women."
Arguing for both legal reforms and a social revolution, he focuses on women's exclusion from the political process, their lack of any rights in marriage, and the benefits to be obtained by their liberation. Moreover, if they are to share the freedoms enjoyed by men, equal opportunities for employment and education for women are also necessary.
For its time, the work was radical and far-reaching in its demands; but despite its repeated emphasis on forms of oppression and recognition of the difficulties endured by women, it is essentially an optimistic work maintaining a firm belief that increased equality and liberty for women were inevitable.
Carefully researched and clearly expressed with great logic and consistency, the book remains a landmark in the struggle for human rights. In this inexpensive edition, it will certainly be welcomed by feminists but will also appeal to anyone interested in the philosophical, human, and social issues underlying the idea of freedom and equality for all people, regardless of gender.
Written in 1861 and published eight years later, this influential essay by the great English philosopher and economist is still relevant and its arguments significant. Believing that the subjugation of women was primarily political and psychological in origin, Mill urged the establishment of 'complete equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations' between men and women.
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Every Operations team has a long list of things they would accomplish if they only had the time.
From paying down technical debt, to improving infrastructure, to help the business — there is no end in sight to what you could be doing.
What stops you? A lack of time. You have to prioritize the limited amount you have.
Self-Service Operations should be a top priority because it turns a small upfront investment into a self-propelling, time-recovery machine.
Excessive interruptions and waiting have long plagued Operations organizations. If we can minimize interruptions and waiting, we can recover a tremendous amount of time that can be applied elsewhere.
Many interruptions can be traced back to the fact that Operations is one of the few disciplines where planned and unplanned work co-exist by design. So while some interruptions are inevitable, we have to control the "blast radius" of the disruptions by cutting down on escalations.
Because of the specialized nature of operations work, the industry has traditionally designed functionally-aligned organizations (e.g., Linux admin teams, Windows admin teams, firewall teams, storage teams, network teams, DBA teams, platform engineering teams, and more).
Since very little work takes place in isolation, requests (planned or unplanned) frequently cross team boundaries. For the people making the requests, this means a lot of waiting. For those fielding the requests, this means a lot of interruptions.
Analyze the most frequent and the most impactful interruptions and waiting. Your ticket system is a great place to start. In the early stages, an informal survey of your colleagues is often helpful.
Look for a handful of use cases to get some quick wins. It helps to pick some interruptions or waiting that are well-known in your organization. You'll likely find in the early stages that the 80/20 rule applies (probably more like 90/10). You'll probably quickly discover some low hanging fruit that will serve as excellent proof of concept.
The key to a self-propelling improvement program is to get teams enthusiastic about furthering the improvement. On each side of a request queue, there is a party that is either waiting or being interrupted. If you make it easy enough for them to do it, you can leverage both of their interest in replacing that queue with self-service. Of course, this means you need a Self-Service Operations platform that makes it as easy as possible to set up.
This is where Rundeck's ease-of-use shines. Rundeck allows you to quickly drop in any existing scripts or tools to create standard operating procedures. All of the features that would be difficult to build on your own are a simple configuration in Rundeck — workflow control, access control, notifications, error-handling, data passing, secrets management, user input management, logging, and interfaces (GUI, API, CLI).


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Detroit Survival Depends of Speed of Destruction (Bloomberg)
William Pulte says the only way to truly save Detroit and get the housing market functioning properly again is to destroy large swaths of the city as quickly as possible.
Pulte, a scion of the family that created PulteGroup Inc. (PHM), the largest U.S. homebuilder by revenue, has already knocked down 10 blocks on Detroit's Southeast as part of the proposed nonprofit Detroit Blight Authority program. It's a preview of the effort he says is needed to get ahead of the metal strippers and arsonists devastating the city's property values.
"We're trying to do total blight elimination," Pulte said, standing in the middle of the blocks his group cleared in February. "You can go tear down one home here and then tear down one in another area, but if you go into one area and take down everything, that's what really makes a difference."
Housing markets in Detroit and other rustbelt cities such as Cleveland and Buffalo are hampered by decaying, vacant homes even as sales of existing homes hover around a three-year high nationally. Pilfering of vacant units in urban areas cut the number of U.S. homes with complete plumbing by about 10.4 percent from 2008 to 2011, according to U.S. Census data compiled by Bloomberg, including 66,722 such homes alone in Detroit.
Unmanageable City
Blight has made Detroit unmanageable. As the tax base shrinks, the cost of municipal services such as police and fire protection, bus service and garbage collection, stays the same or even rises. Sparsely populated neighborhoods see increases in crime and fires, including arsons. The state has appointed bankruptcy attorneyKevyn Orr as emergency financial manager to take over the city finances and he has said bankruptcy is an option to lessen the burden of about $15 billion in debt.
"We have a city built for 2 million and only 700,000 people living here," said John George, who has run the grassroots Motor City Blight Busters organization for the last quarter century, tearing down about 300 dwellings mostly by hand in the city's impoverished Brightmoor neighborhood. "We have to get rid of what we don't want, don't need and can't use."
On some streets in Brightmoor, just one or two houses per block are occupied, with another two or three fire-damaged, while the rest stand open to the elements, stripped of anything of value.
Blight Authority
Pulte, managing partner at Pulte Capital Partners LLC, a fund that invests in building products businesses, said he wants to prove the expertise his family has gained building homes can help the city knock down 13,000 vacant homes a year — about the size of Paducah, Kentucky, or Juneau, Alaska, and clear brush and other debris from hundreds of other lots.
A demolition project on the scale of the Detroit Blight Authority would be a welcome relief, said George.
"To target 10 to 15 blocks at a time is genius," said George, pausing for an interview during the demolition of a house last week. "Property values and spirits would soar. It's hard to get people to make an investment in a war zone."
Attention is shifting to the role that demolishing buildings can play in bolstering the value of the remaining dwellings, said Nigel Griswold, principal at Griswold Consulting LLC in Stockbridge,Michigan. His 2007 study of Flint, Michigan, determined that the demolition of 435 structures there increased real estate values surrounding those sites by about $112 million, he said.
Rustbelt Research
"There is tons of this research happening because of the foreclosure crisis," he said. "The post-industrial, rustbelt cities are having their day, kind of."
A similar 2007 study in the New Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia found that vacant land improvements increase the value of surrounding homes by as much as 30 percent, or by about $12 million in the area studied, said Susan Wachter, a professor of real estate and finance and co-director of the Institute for Urban Research at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
A similar push to knock down abandoned structures in the South Bronx area of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s was a big part of New York's eventual rebound, she said.
"So although it looks hopeless in many of these cities, there is hope if you can get ahead of the problem," she said.
The Detroit Blight Authority group already has funding for its next demolition demonstration area and is waiting for the proper permission from the city to proceed, Pulte said. The group plans to clear out 15 blocks as early as next month in another area of Detroit plagued by blight, he said. Because the project is not yet approved, he declined to identify the area.
Pulte, who worked in the family house-building business during the summers when he was in high school, is relying on the expertise of his grandfather and namesake, the founder and chairman emeritus of the home-building company. The elder Pulte built his first home in Detroit in 1950, which his grandson says is still standing. PulteGroup, which last year built more than 5,000 new homes, isn't involved.
For the first project, crews with 30 to 40 pieces of heavy equipment took 10 days and four waves of work to demolish 10 blocks and clear all the brush and debris, he said. The non-profit was able to clear the area for about $5,000 a building, or about half the market rate, Pulte said. About 94 percent of the material was recycled, he said.
The scale of the project would be beyond anything underway in the U.S., said Alan Mallach, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington who has published research supporting demolishing homes in blighted areas to improve conditions.
"Nobody has done homes in the volume of 10,000 or more, there's been nothing of that scale," he said.
Most Ambitious
The most ambitious project underway elsewhere in the U.S. is the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp. in the Cleveland area, Mallach and other researchers said.
That group has spent about $20 million in federal and local funding since 2009 to demolish 2,000 vacant homes, said William Whitney, chief operating officer for the Cuyahoga County organization. He estimates that another 20,000 properties still need to be knocked down.
"It's making a huge difference to the neighbors," Whitney said in a telephone interview. "Some of the land is able to be reimagined and reused into green space and fairly sophisticated gardens and parks."
The group, which has another $5 million of funding, is acquiring 100 properties a month and demolishing about 900 of them a year, he said.
Population Loss
While other cities aren't demolishing as many homes as Detroit and Cleveland, it's a relatively common practice in places that are experiencing population loss, said Michael Brady, vice president of policy at the Washington-based Center for Community Progress, a non-profit group that advises communities on returning abandoned properties to productive use.
Communities that have demolished homes include Flint, Youngstown, Ohio, the southside ofChicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, Louisville, Kentucky and Buffalo, New York, he said.
The scale of demolition in some areas is limited by funding, not need, he said. In other cities, the housing market is strong enough to take care of the vacancy problems, he said.
"You'd be hard pressed to find the scale of demolition in Detroit or Cleveland," Brady said. "There are other places doing it, but nothing close."
Pulte said he's collaborating with the Detroit Future City plan, an effort to transform Detroit into a sustainable city by 2030 by focusing on increasing the density and improving city services in healthy residential areas. Less stable areas of the city, such as those where Pulte would like to level blocks of dwellings, are converted to other uses such as parks or open spaces, according to the plan.
Actively Lobbying
The group is actively lobbying for funding and support from foundations, the city and the state and hopes to use the pilot areas to win approval for a formal project and move up to full scale, he said.
"Blight is a cancer," he said. "We have to have all hands on deck on this."
The city's decline predates the housing crisis. Jobs left Detroit as auto plants moved to the suburbs and to other countries with the globalization of the industry. Manufacturing jobs in the city fell to fewer than 27,000 in 2011 from about 296,000 in 1950.
Detroit now has eight people per acre, down from 21 per acre in 1950. The city, which peaked at 1.85 million residents in 1950, has lost a quarter of its residents since 2000. The population fell to 701,475 people last year, according to U.S. Census estimates released last week.
Property prices in the city fell as much as 50 percent from their peak at the end of 2005, hitting bottom in April 2011, according to an S&P/Case-Shiller Index (SPCSDET). Since then, they've recovered by about 25 percent.
A total of 413,146 properties in Detroit had at least one foreclosure filing in the seven years from 2006 through 2012, representing 22 percent of all households in the metropolitan area, according to RealtyTrac. Foreclosures made up 30 percent of the sales in the Detroit area in the first quarter, a RealtyTrac report released today shows. That trails only Atlanta, Riverside-San Bernardino in Southern California and Chicago.
There were just 578 mortgages for purchases last year, according to RealtyTrac. In Pittsburgh, which has less than half the population but healthier finances, there were 5,513 mortgages, figures from the Irvine, California-based data provider show.
Coordinated Efforts
The best way for the project to succeed is for it to be coordinated with other efforts to revitalize the city to reduce unintended consequences, Brookings' Mallach said.
Dan Gilbert, the founder of mortgage lender Quicken Loans Inc., and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, is leading an effort to encourage development in Detroit's downtown, buying up buildings and moving thousands of jobs and new ventures to the area. That's also increasing demand for downtown housing.
The city may also benefit from the rising fortunes of the Big Three automakers. General Motors Co. (GM), Ford Motor Co. (F) and Chrysler Group LLC have seen rising revenue and profit in the wake of wrenching bankruptcies and restructurings, earning a combined $13.5 billion last year. The Detroit area automakers all gained market share in the first quarter for the first time in 20 years.
Broader Solution
Blight busting may be most effective when it's part of a broader solution and can be counterproductive in isolation.
As an example, a study of Buffalo, where 2,814 buildings were knocked down in a five-year span from September 2007 through August 2012, crime simply shifted away from areas that were cleaned up to less stable areas nearby, a University of Buffalo-State University of New York study released this year showed.
In the end, a more aggressive effort is needed nationally to fight the problem, Mallach said, citing data that from 2000 to 2010, the total number of vacant housing units in the U.S. increased by 44 percent to 4.5 million, with a concentration in older, rustbelt cities.
"It's certainly worth trying," Mallach said. "Very recently people have started to get the idea that demolition in these cities isn't just a desperate last resort for the worst properties. It's something you can really use to help stabilize the market and neighborhoods."


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Jimmie Allen to Sing National Anthem as Fans Return to Indy 500
Holly G Published: May 21, 2021
Jimmie Allen will spend Memorial Day Weekend in Indianapolis, Ind., for the 2021 Indy 500. He'll be performing the National Anthem ahead of the 105th running of the car race.
As per tradition, Allen will deliver a performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the IndyCar drivers called to their cars to begin the race. The singer follows Sheryl Crow, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Antebellum, Thomas Rhett, Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, Brett Young, Carly Pearce, the Eli Young Band's Mike Eli and Danielle Bradbery, all of whom -- along with a few others, all from Nashville's Big Machine Label Group -- came together to perform the National Anthem at 2020's Indy 500.
"The National Anthem is a signature pre-race moment," says IMS President J. Douglas Boles, "and this year's rendition carries extra meaning as we prepare to welcome fans back to the Indy 500 and honor our frontline heroes." Indeed, 2020's race was run without fans in attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2021 Indy 500 will take place on May 30. Tickets for the race are still available, and NBC will be broadcasting the event beginning at 11AM ET.
Allen's mainstream country music career began with an historic feat -- he was the first Black artist to launch a career in country music with two consecutive No. 1 hits -- and he has continued to deliver. In April, Allen won New Male Artist of the Year at the 2021 ACM Awards, and he's still going full-speed ahead. He's announced a picture book, My Voice Is a Trumpet, which is due out in July, and a brand-new festival in his hometown, Bettie James Fest, set for August.
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In 2010, the first year of the College Rugby Championship (CRC) held in the Columbus Crew MLS stadium, there were few people in the stands to watch the inaugural event. By 2014, the fifth tournament, Saturday's crowd at PPL Park, Chester, Pa., reached almost 10,000, a positive outcome for the hosts, United World Sports LLC.
In addition to this significant increase in attendance, another welcome change for rugby in the United States, has been the dynamic and visible improvement in sevens play, particularly, at the college level. A handful of the 16 teams in Columbus had ever contested sevens, the novice performances glaringly evident on the NBC broadcast.
The second year in 2011 produced a surprise result when well-drilled Dartmouth won the championship with a 12-man squad, playing at a skill level that resembled experienced national sides. Other invited colleges took notice of the Big Green's cohesiveness, and the fact that the coach, Eagle Alex Magleby, was a knowledgeable seven's specialist.
By the third year of the CRC, the play of the teams improved dramatically from the scheduling of more sevens events annually, and the increase in training and strategy. When Dartmouth won for the second year, it reinforced the notion that a special sevens program, guided by a coach proficient in the game, could achieve a high CRC standing.
Cal won the CRC in 2013 and repeated in 2014, both years demonstrating a clean passing, team-play mentality. But this year, all of the other invitees confirmed that they had started or continued programs dedicated to the faster, open game.
Conversions: An improvement in two-point scoring, especially, on the long, steep angles. Many more kickers cleared the goal posts or came close, a noticeable difference from earlier years. Practice making perfect.
The restart: A downturn in the start of play, the kicks either not finding 10 meters, going out of bounds, or being kicked backwards. These poor beginnings handed the ball over at midfield and offered the opposition scoring possibilities. More practice needed.
Passing: The one area where all the teams showed marked progress. These spin laterals were crisp, on the mark, and some almost 20 meters for all sides.
Final note: CRC 2014 generated many more competitive games from a greater number of entrants. Not only did the big four sevens colleges (Cal, Life, Kutztown, Dartmouth) play spirited games, but also witnessed UCLA, Maryland, Michigan, and Notre Dame on the rise. The CRC anticipates that 2015 will showcase the highest performance standards of college sevens.
As an attendee and Life fan, I was still disappointed that arguably the best team in College 7's is not in attendance, Arkansas State; and that four other significant teams are not included either, St. Mary's, BYU, Lindenwood and Davenport. It is hard to accept this as the College Championship with them missing. It is a wonderful invitational tournament but can not be a College Championship without Ark. State the winner of the USA College 7's for the last 2 years. Again division brings questions about the quality of the win. It was a good win for Cal and they are the CRC Invitational Winner but not national Collegiate Champions, that honor goes to Ark. State.
it is an icnvitational. it's about making money. not there fualt rugby does not have a big fan based in America like NFL NBA MLB. they are trying to grow the game as well by showing people in the seats.
Quality rugby will fill seats and viewership and make money. You don't have to dilute the competition to turn a profit.
Ultimately, its about putting butts in seats or having a huge alumni base who could support the sponsors through increased TV viewership. Of course, that may not be what folks want to hear but it's the reality of a successful commercial venture running the event. I'm not complaining since its not my $ and if we were in their shoes we'd probably do the same thing.
Having been at the event both days the rugby I saw was outstanding and continues to improve kudo's to St Joe's, Drexel, and Temple - get no support from schools yet somehow managed to be competitive on the field kept minimal point differentials all while selling tickets to earn their way in. This is what rugby players do best thrive under adversity. Rugby players are well rounded individuals who are attracted to the universities by virtue of their excellence in academics, sport and leadership. If you want a technical National Championship watch Basketball. I will take my underdog rugby team (loaded up with a good dose of character and integrity) up against a powerhouse anyday. How can you not like Kutztown? bringing all those fans and attitude from seemingly nowhere well near Harrisburg Pa and take Cal to the absolute limit Jack Clark admitted after the game Cal was lucky and Kutztown had size. I bet Coach Tolkin has his eye on Mike Lawrenson already.
I agree with everything said. I believe in the sport, I understand the financials and fan base, though I doubt Ark State would have less than some of the teams at the CRC. They are close enough to do what Life did and charter a bus for fans/students to pay a nominal amount and go to Philly for a weekend. Philly is a desirable destination for these teams/students from the mid-west. The Life students which was either the number one or number two fan base traveled 14 hours by bus. So the excuse only goes so far.
Quality rugby always wins and is what is best for growing the sport here in the USA. NBC may prefer brand names like Notre Dame, Arizona and Ohio State but the reality is Notre Dame College, AIC and Arkansas State (not to mention St. Mary's, BYU, Utah, Davenport and others that could compete) would throttle them and there is no proof it would hurt TV ratings. After day 1 I watched every local team from Philadelphia lose...by a lot (winless and almost a -100 point differential). How is that good for the game and viewership? Bottom line, this is not a championship, it is an invitational with some quality teams and some pretty weak sides. Good, quality rugby- regardless of school brand, will always win and I'd love to see the CRC stop diluting the quality.


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Q: Wait 60 Seconds to Run Cron Job After Reboot Then Run Job Every 10 Minutes I have a script that I would like to run 60 seconds after initial system reboot and then every 10 minutes after that.  I currently need two cron job listings to achieve this:
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The first listing will run my cron job immediately after system boot and so I need to have the second listing to account for the on start wait time.
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Traditionally, the basal ganglia have been considered the main brain region implicated in Parkinson's disease. This single area perspective gives a restricted clinical picture and limits therapeutic approaches because it ignores the influence of altered interactions between the basal ganglia and other cerebral components on Parkinsonian symptoms. In particular, the basal ganglia work closely in concert with cortex and cerebellum to support motor and cognitive functions. This article proposes a theoretical framework for understanding Parkinson's disease as caused by the dysfunction of the entire basal ganglia-cortex-cerebellum system rather than by the basal ganglia in isolation. In particular, building on recent evidence, we propose that the three key symptoms of tremor, freezing, and impairments in action sequencing may be explained by considering partially overlapping neural circuits including basal ganglia, cortical and cerebellar areas. Studying the involvement of this system in Parkinson's disease is a crucial step for devising innovative therapeutic approaches targeting it rather than only the basal ganglia. Possible future therapies based on this different view of the disease are discussed.


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\section{Introduction}\label{sec:intro}

The yield of high-energy muons in air showers induced by cosmic rays interacting near the top of the atmosphere is relevant for understanding event rates and properties of muon bundles in underground detectors. The following formula, originally proposed by Elbert~\cite{Elbert:1979abc}, has been used to estimate the average multiplicity $\langle N_\mu \rangle$ of muons above a certain energy $E_\mu$:
\begin{equation}
\langle N_\mu(>E_\mu, E_0, A, \theta)\rangle\;\approx\;A\times\frac{K}{ E_\mu\,\cos\theta}\,\left (
\frac{E_0}{ A\,E_\mu}\right )^{\alpha_1}\,
\left (1\,-\,\frac{A\,E_\mu}{E_0}\right)^{\alpha_2},
\label{eq:ElbertFormula}
\end{equation}
where $E_0$, $A$, and $\theta$ are respectively the energy, mass number, and zenith of the primary cosmic ray nucleus. The normalization constant $K$ and exponents $\alpha_1$ and $\alpha_2$ are to be derived from simulations. The scaling with $AE_\mu / E_0$ follows from the superposition approximation, which assumes that an incident nucleus of mass $A$ and energy $E_0$ can be treated as $A$ independent nucleons of energy $E_0/A$.

The Elbert formula does not describe the fact that muon production depends on the density (or temperature) of the atmosphere through the competition between re-interaction and decay of the parent mesons. In summer, when the atmosphere is warmer and less dense, more mesons will decay to muons rather than interact, and the number of high-energy muons in the shower will be larger. In this work, we present a generalization of the Elbert formula describing the production of muons above some energy threshold as a function of slant depth in the atmosphere, based on a parameterization of simulations, and including factors taking into account the atmospheric temperature (\refsec{sec:param}). This parameterization allows one to estimate not only the multiplicity of muon bundles in air showers but also its transverse size and the seasonal variations of both these properties, which we illustrate for the case of IceCube~\cite{Aartsen:2016nxy} in \refsec{sec:seasonal}.

Other applications include the calculation of event rates of single- and multiple-muon events in underground detectors, where one integrates over the spectrum of primary nucleons~\cite{gaisser2021profiles}, but are not discussed here.

\section{Muon production profiles}\label{sec:param}

The production of muons above a certain energy threshold, differential in slant depth throughout the atmosphere along the shower axis, is referred to as the longitudinal production profile. The idea is to perform a large number of air-shower simulations and to obtain the average muon production profile for primary cosmic rays with energy $E_0$, mass number $A$, zenith angle $\theta$, and for muons with energy above $E_\mu$. We have used CORSIKA v7.7100~\cite{CORSIKA_Heck} using Sibyll 2.3c~\cite{Riehn:2019jet} as the high-energy interaction model, and an atmospheric profile describing the average South Pole atmosphere in April between 2007 and 2011~\cite{DeRidder:2019}. To the average profiles obtained from simulation, we fit a function of the following form, which we explain below,
\begin{align}
\begin{split}
&\left\langle\frac{\mathrm{d}N}{\mathrm{d}X}(>E_\mu, X, T, E_0, A, \theta)\right\rangle =\\
&\qquad\qquad N_{max} \times \exp \left((X_{max} - X)/\lambda\right) \times \left(\frac{X_0 - X}{X_0 - X_{max}}\right)^{(X_{max}-X_0)/\lambda} \times \frac{X_{max}-X}{ \lambda(X-X_0)} \\
&\qquad\qquad\times \left[ 0.92 \times \frac{r_\pi \lambda_\pi \epsilon_\pi}{fE_\mu \cos(\theta) X} \times \frac{1}{1+\frac{r_\pi \lambda_\pi \epsilon_\pi}{fE_\mu \cos(\theta) X}} + 0.08 \times \frac{r_K \lambda_K \epsilon_K}{fE_\mu \cos(\theta) X} \times \frac{1}{1+\frac{r_K \lambda_K \epsilon_K}{fE_\mu \cos(\theta) X}}\right] \\
&\qquad\qquad \times \left(1 - \frac{A E_\mu}{E_0}\right)^{5.99},
\end{split}
\label{eq:formula}
\end{align}
where $T$ is the temperature at a slant depth $X$.

The first line on the right-hand side is the derivative of the Gaisser-Hillas (G-H) function~\cite{GaisserHillasabc}, which we interpret as the rate of production of charged mesons per d$X$ (\si{\g \per \cm \squared}). The parameters of number of particles at shower maximum ($N_\mathrm{max}$), depth of shower maximum ($X_\mathrm{max}$), depth of first interaction ($X_0$), and interaction length ($\lambda$) are the free parameters during the fit and, as they are applied here to the charged mesons in the hadronic cascade, their numerical values are quite different from those of the original G-H function.

In the second line of \refeq{eq:formula}, we multiply by the probability for mesons to decay to a muon relative to the total rate of decay and re-interaction. We consider two channels for muon production, namely decay of charged pions and kaons $\pi^\pm/ K^\pm \rightarrow \mu + \nu_\mu$, with branching ratios of 100\% and 63.5\% respectively. The decay fraction for charged pions with interaction length $\lambda_\pi$ and decay length $d_\pi$ is
\begin{equation}
    \frac{1/d_\pi}{1/d_\pi + 1/\lambda_\pi}.
\end{equation}
The decay length is given by~\cite{Gaisser:2016uoy}
\begin{equation}
    \frac{1}{d_\pi} = \frac{\epsilon_\pi}{E_\pi \cos \theta X},
\end{equation}
where $E_\pi$ is the energy of the pion and $\epsilon_\pi$ the pion critical energy given by
\begin{equation}
    \epsilon_\pi = \frac{m_\pi c^2}{c \tau_\pi} \frac{RT}{Mg} \approx \SI{115}{\GeV} \times \frac{T}{\SI{220}{\K}},
\end{equation}
with $c$ the speed of light in vacuum, $m_\pi$ and $\tau_\pi$ the pion mass and lifetime, R the molar gas constant, M the molar mass of the atmosphere, and $g$ the gravitional constant. On average, the muon that results from pion decay has an energy $E_\mu = r_\pi \times E_\pi$ with $r_\pi \approx 0.79$. For kaons, the critical energy is larger by a factor of 7.45 because of its larger mass and shorter decay length, and the muon energy in this case is defined by $r_K \approx 0.52$. The factors of 0.92 and 0.08 preceding the pion and kaon terms are the relative fractions of momentum carried by charged pions and kaons after taking into account the branching ratios. The momentum fraction carried by charged pions and kaons in p-air interactions is given by Fig.~5.2 of Ref.~\cite{Gaisser:2016uoy} as 0.29 and 0.040 respectively. Combined with the branching ratios, this gives $0.29 / (1\times0.29 + 0.635\times0.04) = 0.92$ for charged pions and 0.08 for charged kaons. To take into account the fact that the mean energy of muons is larger than the threshold muon energy itself, we replace $E_\mu$ by $f E_\mu$, where the factor $f$ gives the ratio between the mean energy of muons above the threshold energy and the threshold energy $E_\mu$. Its behaviour can be derived from simulations and is shown in \reffig{fig:factor} for the muon energy range we consider. It has a piecewise behaviour parametrized by the black line, with the parameters included in \reftab{tab:params}.
\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figures/f_factor.pdf}
    \caption{Ratio between the mean energy of muons above the threshold and the muon threshold energy $E_\mu$. Markers are derived from vertical proton and iron shower simulations. Our approximation of $f$ used in \refeq{eq:formula} is given by the black line.}
    \label{fig:factor}
\end{figure}

The third line of \refeq{eq:formula} is the threshold factor from the Elbert formula \refeq{eq:ElbertFormula}, with an exponent fitted to our simulations. It describes the suppression in muon multiplicity when the energy per nucleon is close to the minimum muon energy.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figures/profiles_300GeV.pdf}
    \caption{Normalized muon production profiles for vertical showers with $E_\mu > \SI{300}{\GeV}$. The markers show the average profiles obtained from simulations, the lines are the fits of \refeq{eq:formula} to the simulation results.}
    \label{fig:profiles}
\end{figure}

Examples of the formula of \refeq{eq:formula} fit to production profiles derived from CORSIKA simulations are shown in \reffig{fig:profiles} for $E_\mu > \SI{300}{\GeV}$. We have repeated this procedure for muon threshold energies of 300, 400, 500, 700, and \SI{1000}{\GeV} and a large range of primary energies. The optimized values of $N_{\mathrm{max}}$, $X_{\mathrm{max}}$, $\lambda$, and $X_0$ for vertical proton showers are shown in \reffig{fig:params}. We observe that their behaviour depends in leading order on $E_0/AE_\mu$, and parametrize it with the following functions,
\begin{align}
\begin{split}
\label{eq:params}
N_{\rm max}&= c_i\times A \times \left(\frac{E_0}{AE_\mu}\right)^{p_i}\\
X_{\rm max}, \lambda, X_0&=a_i + b_i\times \log_{10}\left(\frac{E_0}{AE_\mu}\right),
\end{split}
\end{align}
where $c_i$, $p_i$, $a_i$, and $b_i$ are defined for each function separately and have two regimes with a break
at $R_b = \frac{E_0}{A E_\mu} = 10^{q}$ and parameters $(a_i,b_i)$ with $i=1$
below the break and $i=2$ above. The resulting parameters are listed in \reftab{tab:params}. A simple Python implementation of this parameterization is made available on Github\footnote{\url{https://github.com/verpoest/muon-profile-parameterization}}. Note that the scaling with $E_0/AE_\mu$ is not perfect; a remaining dependence on $E_\mu$ can be observed in \reffig{fig:params}. It is therefore recommended to optimize the simulations and fits to the energy regime relevant for the application or detector that is studied.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=.9\textwidth]{figures/GH_parameters_2by2.pdf}
    \caption{Optimal values of the fit parameters $N_{max}$, $X_{max}$, $\lambda$, and $X_0$ of Eq.~\ref{eq:formula}, as obtained from fits to vertical proton showers for various minimum muon energies $E_\mu$ over a large range of primary energies. The black lines are fits to these results with the functions of \refeq{eq:params}, resulting in the parameters given in \reftab{tab:params}.}
    \label{fig:params}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}[htb]
\begin{center}
\caption{Parameter values for \refeq{eq:params} for $\SI{300}{\GeV} \lesssim E_\mu \lesssim \SI{1}{\tera \eV}$.}
\begin{tabular}{lr|r|r|r}
\hline \hline
&$i$& $c_i$ & $p_i$ & $q$\\
\hline \hline
$N_{\rm max}$ &1&0.124&1.012&2.677 \\
&2&0.244&0.902& \\
\hline \hline
& $i$ & $a_i$ (g/cm$^2$)& $b_i$ (g/cm$^2$)& $q$ \\
\hline \hline
$X_{\rm max}$ &1& 366.2 & 139.5 & 3.117 \\
&2& 642.2 & 51.0 & \\
\hline
$\lambda$ &1& 266.0 & 42.1 & 2.074 \\
&2& 398.8 & -21.9 & \\
\hline
$X_0$ & 1& -2.9 & -2.6 & 4.025 \\
&2& -15.8 & 0.6 & \\
\hline
$f$ & 1 & 1 & 0.53 & 2.72 \\
& 2 & 2.45 & - \\
\hline \hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:params}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\section{Seasonal variations of muon bundle properties}\label{sec:seasonal}

As an example of the application of the parameterization of \refsec{sec:param}, we will examine the case where muon bundles are observed in an underground detector and the primary cosmic ray energy is determined independently by a surface detector. We will use values relevant for air showers detected coincident between the surface array IceTop~\cite{IceCube:2012nn}, located at the South Pole, which detects air showers with primary energies between \SI{1}{\peta \eV} and \SI{1}{\exa \eV} at an atmospheric depth of roughly \SI{700}{\g \per \cm \squared}, and IceCube\cite{Aartsen:2016nxy}, which sits vertically below IceTop buried under \SI{1.5}{\km} of ice and allows for the detection of muons above approximately \SI{400}{\GeV}. The calculations are performed using atmospheric data for the South Pole obtained from the AIRS satellite~\cite{NASA:2018abc}, which provides the temperature at different, unevenly spaced, atmospheric pressure levels between \SI{1}{\hecto \Pa} and \SI{700}{\hecto \Pa}. These pressures are converted to atmospheric depth and interpolated to a regular grid.

Using the temperature profiles together with the parameterization, we obtain muon production profiles which can be integrated to find the expected muon multiplicity. \reffig{fig:mult_var} shows the expected multiplicity of muons above \SI{400}{\GeV} in \SI{10}{\peta \eV} vertical showers throughout the year 2017, as well as the integral profiles for three days corresponding roughly to the days with minimal, average, and maximal multiplicity. It can be seen that the multiplicity is maximal in the austral summer, when temperatures are highest. The calculation predicts a seasonal variation of about 6\% around the mean. This may be an important uncertainty to consider in cosmic-ray composition analyses based on muon bundle measurements~\cite{IceCube:2019hmk}.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figures/integral_profile.pdf}\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figures/yearly_variation.pdf}
    \caption{Left: Integral production profiles for \SI{10}{\peta\eV} proton and iron showers for three days in 2017 at the South Pole where the expected muon multiplicity is approximately minimal, maximal and average. Right: Variation of the expected multiplicity throughout the year for vertical \SI{10}{\peta\eV} showers from five primary mass groups.}
    \label{fig:mult_var}
\end{figure}

Because the parameterization describes the muon production as function of slant depth in the atmosphere, it is also possible to extract information about the altitude of production and to estimate the transverse size of a muon bundle. A muon with energy $E_\mu$ produced at an altitude $h$ with a transverse momentum $p_T$ will have a transverse distance from the shower axis given by

\begin{equation}
    r_T = \frac{p_T}{E_\mu} \times \frac{h}{\cos \theta},
    \label{eq:transverse_dist}
\end{equation}
where $\theta$ is the zenith angle of the primary. At a vertical depth $X_v$ the atmospheric pressure is $P = gX_v$ and the density is given by $\rho = -\mathrm{d}X_v/\mathrm{d}h$. Assuming the ideal gas law, one can calculate the altitude corresponding to vertical depth $X_v$ as
\begin{equation}
    h(X_v) = \frac{RT}{Mg} \ln \frac{X_0}{X_v},
\end{equation}
where $X_0$ is the vertical depth at $h=0$. Using this, we will perform a simple estimate of the expected bundle size, assuming a mean value of transverse momentum for the muons of $\langle p_T \rangle \approx \SI{350}{\mega \eV}$~\cite{Alper:1974xp}. As zero-point $h=0$ for the altitude we use the surface above the IceCube detector, located at an elevation of \SI{2835}{\m} with an atmospheric depth $X_0 \approx \SI{700}{\g \per \cm \squared}$. The left panel of \reffig{fig:size} shows the differential muon production as function of altitude for vertical proton and iron showers at three different days corresponding again roughly to the yearly average and two extremal days. It is clear that muons are produced higher in the atmosphere for heavier nuclei. For a given primary mass, production happens at higher altitude in the summer compared to colder days because of the thermal expansion of the atmosphere. An estimate of the expected bundle size $\langle r_T \rangle$ is obtained by taking the weighted average of the transverse distance for a muon with $\langle p_T \rangle$ at a depth $X$ using \refeq{eq:transverse_dist}, multiplying it with the production profile and integrating over depth. The result is shown in the right panel of \reffig{fig:size}, where we see that the muon bundle has the largest spread in the warmest months, corresponding to the higher production altitude. The magnitude of the seasonal variations is roughly 10\% around the average value.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figures/profile_altitude.pdf}\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figures/yearly_variation_R.pdf}
    \caption{Left: Differential muon production versus altitude for three different days at the South Pole, measured relative to the surface above IceCube, in vertical \SI{10}{\peta\eV} showers. Right: Seasonal variation of the estimated transverse size of the muon bundle (altitude effect only) for five mass groups.}
    \label{fig:size}
\end{figure}

Note that we report the multiplicity and transverse size of the muon bundle at the surface above the IceCube detector. The estimate of the transverse size is also limited to the geometrical effect. A full estimate of the muon bundle properties in the detector needs to take into account propagation through the overburden, where multiple scattering of the muons will further increase the spread of the muons~\cite{Lipari:1991ut}. Also separation of muons by bending in the geomagnetic field before they reach the surface can be important, especially for inclined showers~\cite{Abreu:2011ki}.

\section{Summary}\label{sec:summary}

We have presented a parameterization of muon production profiles in cosmic-ray air showers based on fits to air-shower simulations. The production profile for a certain primary cosmic ray and a muon energy threshold can be obtained for realistic atmospheres to estimate the muon multiplicity and the transverse size of the muon bundle caused by the geometrical separation related to the muon production altitude. Because the temperature dependence of the decay probability of parent mesons is included in \refeq{eq:formula}, the seasonal variations of these quantities can be determined. An estimate performed at fixed primary energy relevant for the case of IceCube shows that the multiplicity and the transverse size are maximal when the atmosphere is at its warmest, consistent with the increased decay rate and higher muon production altitude resulting from the thermal expansion of the atmosphere, and vice-versa when the atmosphere is colder. Because the parameterization does not scale perfectly with the ratio of the muon energy and primary nucleon energy, it should be optimized for detectors with different conditions, e.g. the overburden.

Further applications of the parameterization exist but are not included here. One example is the calculation of rates of events of single and multiple muons in underground detectors, as discussed in \refref{gaisser2021profiles}.

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Biografia e carriera
Katie Stevens è cresciuta a Middlebury, con i genitori Mark e Clara Stevens. Nel giugno 2010 si è diplomata alla Pomperaug High School di Southbury. La Stevens ha origini portoghesi da parte di madre e parla portoghese.

Nel 2009 partecipa alle audizioni di American Idol cantando "At Last" di Etta James. Ottiene l'ottavo posto e, dopo la sua eliminazione, partecipa a diversi talk show, tra cui l'Ellen Degeneres Show, dove canta "Over the Rainbow", e il David Letterman Show. Ha ottenuto il ruolo di Karma Ashcroft nella serie tv Faking It di MTV, in onda dal 22 aprile 2014. Nel 2017 prende parte a "The Bold Type" nel ruolo di Jane.
Ha recitato anche in alcuni musical, tra cui High School Musical, The Wizard of Oz e Bare.

Nel 2015, ha recitato in CSI: Immortality interpretando la figlia di Catherine, Lindsay Willows.

Filmografia

Cinema
Bare: A Pop Opera (2013)
Friends and Romans (2014)
Polaroid, regia di Lars Klevberg (2019)
Haunt - (La casa del terrore), regia di Scott Beck e Bryan Woods (2019)

Televisione
Faking It - Più che amiche (Faking It) – serie TV, 38 episodi (2014–2016)
I'll Bring the Awkward – serie TV, 1 episodio (2015)
CSI- scena del crimine – serie TV, 1 episodio (2015)
The Bold Type – serie TV, 52 episodi (2017–2021)
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings – serie TV, 1 episodio (2019)
The Disney Family Singalong: Volume II – speciale TV (2020)
Celebrity Family Feud – serie TV, episodio: The Bold Type vs. RuPaul's Drag Race (2020)

Programmi TV

 American Idol (stagione 9 – 2010), ottavo posto

Videoclip

 "How Not To", di Dan + Shay (2017)

Doppiatrici Italiane
Nelle versioni in italiano dei suoi lavori, Katie Stevens è stata doppiata da:
 Gea Riva in Faking It - Più che amiche
 Gemma Donati in CSI: Immortality
 Rossa Caputo in The Bold Type
 Giulia Franceschetti in Polaroid

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Cantanti da musical


Jane Kilcher, born on September 14, 1975 is one of the characters of the TV show 'Alaska: The Last Frontier'. Originally from the town of Homer, Alaska, she was a commercial fishing woman. She is married to Atz Lee Kilcher, and lives in their homestead 11 miles outside of Homer. After her marriage, she left commercial fishing. Her unique knowledge of the seas has a sustenance value for her family. She provides fish for the Kilcher family in the summer season, which lasts them throughout the long winter season. Jane targets all the available fish in Southern Alaska, including halibut, silver salmon, king salmon, cod, trout and more. Apart from being a fishing woman and a reality TV star, she is also a musician and can play the piano. If she hadn't married Atz lee, she would have pursued her career in music.
Jane met Atz Lee in the early 2000s and they got married in 2005. Her husband Atz Lee Kilcher is also one of the main characters of the show. He hails from a musical background and Jane shares his love for music. Due to their similar interests and mutual interest in music, Jane and Atz Lee got married and Jane moved to the homestead. Kilcher family belongs to Homer from the early 40's, when Atz Lee's grandparents Yule and Ruth emigrated there from Switzerland. He gets his musical traits from her grandmother Ruth who was a trained classical singer. Atz Lee Kilcher, 40, is the son of one of the main cast of series Atz Kilcher and Bonnie Kilcher. He is the brother of the famous singer Jewel Kilcher and his other siblings are Nikos Kilcher and Shane Kilcher.
The couple spends most of their time hunting and fishing. Together they have two children, a son Etienne and a daughter Piper. Their children are not featured on the show because the couple has decided to keep their lives private. The couple is protective of their children because they believe it is best that they are shielded from any negative influence that may result if their personal life is exposed to the world at this young age.
Jane was a fishing woman before her marriage, and she had a good income to add to her net worth before she came to fame as a reality TV star. As of 2017, Jane Kilcher's net worth is estimated to be around $500,000. Her husband stars with her as a main character on the show, and combined, their net worth closes in on 2 million dollars. The couple has low expenses, so most of what they earn is added to their net worth. The Kilcher family owns vast areas of land in Homer, summing up to whooping 613 acres. Records even show that they have claims to another 200 acres in the greater Homer area. The real estate holdings are valued at approximately 3.6 million dollars, of which the homestead is only a small fraction.
Their TV show 'Alaska: The Last Frontier' runs on the Discovery Channel. It details the day-to-day activities going on to the Kilcher family and their frontier homestead. Kilcher family lives outside of Homer, Alaska with no modern tools, surviving harsh winters. The first season aired on December 29, 2011 and had 3 episodes. Currently, the show is running its 7Th Season. The show was started by brothers Atz and Otto Kilcher, the children of Yule and Ruth. Atz Kilcher is the father of Jane's husband, Atz Lee Kilcher. The show documents how the family lives off the land much in the same way that their father Yule did. Yule was a native of Switzerland, however in 1940s he migrated to Alaska to escape the difficult living situation in his hometown. He was granted with 160 acres of land by Alaska, near Kachemack Bay. He started living there along with his wife, and the two of them had 8 childeren while living without modern facilities in this remote area.
The show documents the Kilcher family as they live in the homestead, surviving without modern facilities like electricity in harsh conditions. They live off what they cultivate and store the food in summers, which sustains them in winters. Jane Kilcher plays an important part and she catches plenty of fish for the family to live off the harsh winter weather.
The cast of the show includes the two Kilcher brothers, Atz and Otto. Atz along with his wife Bonnie has 4 children. He is the oldest of the 8 children of Yule and Ruth and considers himself the protector of the family. Atz Kilcher is the provider of the family, and he leads them in gathering supplies, hunting and fishing. He is married to Bonnie, with whom he has 4 children. She is usually seen working with her husband and has embraced the wilderness of the Kilcher family. Their children Shane, Jewel, Atz Lee and Nikos are part of the cast.
Otto was Yule and Ruth's 6th child. Since his childhood, he took interest in fiddling with all the household items, exploring and discovering how they worked. His keen interest made him able to fix anything that needed to be fixed in the Kilcher household, gaining the official status of the problem solver of the family. Otto is married to Charlotte Kilcher. Their offspring includes Eivin Kilcher, Levi Kilcher and August Kilcher.
The show is critically acclaimed and has received numerous awards and nominations, including three Primetime Emmy nominations.
Jane Kilcher and her husband were brought to spotlight in 2015 when they were charged with illegally hunting prey using a helicopter for their show. Using any kind of aircraft to spot or hunt prey is illegal in Alaska, and therefore the couple, along with the production company was faced with charges, however all of them pleaded not guilty. Due to Atz Lee being in a serious accident during hiking, the case was delayed, but eventually the charges against the couple were dropped. The production company 'Wilma TV' had to pay a fine.


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Empire of Huai Siao Mueang District capital
Formed 14 Apr 2021
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The Courts of Justice(Thai:ศาลยุติธรรม)are the courts having the power to try and adjudicate all cases except those provided by the Constitution or the law to be within the jurisdiction of other courts. There are three levels of the Court of Justice: the Court of First Instance, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court, unless otherwise provided in the Constitution or other laws.
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The Court of First Instance: Provincial Court.
The Court of Appeal is the Appeal Court and the Court of Appeal.
Supreme Court, the highest court of justice There is only one court.
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Office of the Court of Justice It is an independent organization that oversees the administrative work of the Court of Justice. Have a corporate status Freedom of personnel administration, budgeting and other operations As provided by law With the Secretary-General of the Office of the Courts of Justice as the supervisor directly to the President of the Supreme Court.
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It's the beginning of a new year and many people are working on resolutions to eat better and lose weight. The first thought is that eating less will help them lose weight.
But did you know that eating often, i.e. snacking between meals, actually helps with weight loss? This is because eating often regulates your blood sugar, which can help stave off unwanted fat storage and cravings.
If you go too long without eating (over 3-5 hours, depending on your current health and diet), your blood sugar falls and your body believes it's starving. You may feel dizzy, nauseous, anxious, tired or may experience headaches, vision changes and mood swings. Starvation is stressful—as you'd imagine—so your body responds by releasing hormones.
First, these hormones break down energy stores to raise blood sugar quickly. Second, they convert what you next eat into fat and store it for later "starvation" periods. Storing nutrients in fat cells deprives the rest of your body cells of fuel, making you feel sluggish and crave carbs and sugar.
If not eating often enough leads to weight gain and cravings, it's key to snack throughout the day, before you feel "hangry," tired or spacey. It's easy to do this if you always keep healthy snacks on hand.
A healthy snack has a mix of protein, fat and fiber. Fat and fiber slow digestion, keeping your blood sugar stable and your energy sustained. While carbohydrates may seem satisfying, they're digested rapidly, so try to pair them with fat and fiber.
For fiber: nuts, dates and cacao nibs. For fat and protein: nuts.
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Sources: Rolfes, S. R., Pinna, K. & Whitney, E. (2009). Understanding normal and clinical nutrition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Taubes, G. (2010). Why we get fat. New York: Anchor Books.


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Полиэн из Лампсака (340-285 гг. до н.э.) — древнегреческий математик, философ, ученик и последователь Эпикура.

Жизнь
Дружба Полиэна с Эпикуром началась после вынужденного переезда последнего из Митилены в 307 или 306 году до н.э. в Лампсак, где сразу же была открыта новая философская школа, в которую вступил Полиэн. Связав себя в рамках новой школы с другими гражданами города, такими, как Метродор, Пифокл, Идоменей и рядом других, Полиэн вместе с Эпикуром и новыми учениками переехал в Афины, где они вместе основали философскую школу "Сад" во главе с Эпикуром, носящим титул гегемона; в то время как Полиэн, Гермарх и Метродор именовались kathegemones (фактически заместители главы).

Как говорит Филодем, Полиэн был человеком мягких и дружелюбных манер, он полностью принял философскую систему своего друга и, хотя ранее он приобрел большую репутацию математика, теперь вместе с Эпикуром он утверждал, что геометрия не имеет ценности. Но в этом утверждении можно, по крайней мере, сомневаться, поскольку несомненно то, что Полиэн написал математический труд «Пазлы» (греч. Aπoρίαι), в котором всё ещё сохраняется серьезное отношение к геометрии. Против этого трактата, выступил позже (прим. II век до н.э.)  другой эпикуреец-математик по имени Деметрий из Лаконии в работе «Нерешенные вопросы Полиэна» (греч. Πρὸς τὰς Πoλυαίνoυ ἀπoρίας). Полиэну приписывалось значительное количество фальшивых произведений, ровно как и Эпикуру; одно из них - «Против ораторов», подлинность которого подверглась сомнению и критике как Зеноном Сидонским, так и его учеником Филодемом.

Название сочинения «На луне» может намекать на разработку утопических или фантастических сюжетов. По крайней мере, близкий к эпикуреизму французский писатель XVII века Сирано де Бержерак отметился в этом жанре, равно как и близкий к эпикуреизму Вольтер в сочинении «Микромегас». Утопическая тематика не чужда античному эпикуреизму, судя по настенной надписи, оставленной Диогеном из Эноанды, в которой рисовалось общество, построенное на анархо-коммунистических началах.

Сочинения
Работы, которые присваивают Полиэну, включают:

 Об определениях
 О философии
 Против Аристона (ученик стоика Зенона, отступник в рамках школы)
 Пазлы
 На луне
 Против ораторов
 Собрание писем

Примечания

Литература

 Polyaenus, Polieno. Frammenti, A. Tepedino Guerra (Italian translation), Napoli, (1991)
 Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Polyaenus (2)", Boston, (1867)

Эллинистические философы
Эпикурейцы


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The All-New Erogenous Zones
By Marcelle Perks
Want to know the latest orgasmic hotspots? "These four zones are often overlooked in favour of more obvious body parts, but they have major potential," says Marcelle Perks, author of Incredible Orgasms: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yesss! Find these sensitive spots tonight... The E-Spot: Your Eyes Experiments conducted by the University of Alabama discovered 44% of women could experience orgasms from visual aids alone. "Choose positions where you see parts of his body that turn you on. Put a pillow under you head while he is on top so you can get a better view of him," says Perks. The H-spot: Your Head "Stimulating the scalp's numerous nerve endings through a head massage can make you feel aroused," says psychosexual therapist Julia Cole, co-founder of Emotionalbliss.com. "He should focus on your temples and behind your ears, gliding his hands all the way down to your collarbone to induce strong sexual arousal in you." The K-spot: Your Knees Stimulating the knees causes an increase in muscle tension that stretches upward to trigger an orgasm. "Pay attention to the backs of the knees, which have intense nerve endings," says Perks. "Have your man tickle there lightly, while stroking your leg with varying degrees of pressure. Nuzzling a vibrator under the knee will kick-start sensations across your body." The F-spot: Your Feet Padded with sensitive nerve endings, the feet connect directly to the sexual organs, and massaging them can unlock a wave of sensations. "Take a leaf out of the Kama Sutra and get him to massage your feet during sex," says Perks. Lie on your back and get him to kneel with his knees open around your thighs, so your feet are against his chest. Then ask him to caress them as you have sex.
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KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_X)
Completeness of information about child's age and date of birth
KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) variables are 2-digit variables.
1 = Month, year, and day complete
2 = Month and year complete
3 = Year and season
4 = Year, season, and age - month imputed
5 = Year and age - month imputed
6 = Year and age - year ignored
7 = Month and age - year imputed
8 = Year - age calculated, month imputed
9 = Year - age and month imputed
10 = Age - year calculated, month imputed
11 = Age - year and month imputed
12 = Month - age, year imputed
13 = None - all imputed
96 = Inconsistent
KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) reports the completeness of information about the child's age and date of birth.
KIDAGEINFO_ALL consists of a set of twenty separate variables, covering the most recent birth (KIDAGEINFO_01) up to the twentieth-most-recent birth (KIDAGEINFO_20) for a female respondent of childbearing age. If KIDAGEINFO_ALL is included in a data extract, all these separate variables are included in a researcher's data file.
Information for this variable was collected on all births for a woman, up to a maximum of twenty births. In many cases, data were hypothetically collected on up to twenty births, but no women in the survey had so many births (e.g., no woman had 19 or 20 births). If, for example, no woman in a survey had 20 births and only blank values were included in the original DHS file, then KIDAGEINFO_20 would not be available for that survey in IPUMS-DHS.
Along with universe differences, KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) differs across samples in the degree of detail in the responses. See the Codes tab for more information.
KIDAGEINFO_ALL (B10_x) is a standard recode variable included in every phase of the DHS data.
Comparability — Liberia [top]
In the 1986 Liberia sample, "Inconsistent" in IPUMS-DHS was labeled as "Handplaced" in the original DHS data. According to the Individual Recode Documentation for the 1986 Liberia sample, this code was used to "record cases in which the date of birth of a child was manually placed during the editing process."
Afghanistan 2015: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Angola 2015: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Bangladesh 1994: Ever-married women age 10-49 with at least one birth.
Benin 1996: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Burkina Faso 1993: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Burundi 1987: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Cameroon 1991: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Cameroon 2018:
Central African Republic 1995:
Chad 1996: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Congo (Democratic Republic) 2007: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Congo Brazzaville 2005:
Cote d'Ivoire 1994: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Egypt 1988: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Egypt 2003: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Eswatini (Swaziland) 2006:
Ethiopia 2000: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Ethiopia 2019:
Ghana 1988: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Ghana 2016: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth in the last 5 years.
Guinea 1999: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
India 1992: Ever-married women age 13-49 with at least one birth.
India 2005: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Jordan 1990: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Kenya 1989: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Lesotho 2004: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Liberia 1986: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Madagascar 1992: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Malawi 1992: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Mali 1987: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Morocco 1987: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Morocco 1992: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Mozambique 1997: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Myanmar 2015: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Namibia 1992: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Nepal 1996: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Nepal 2006: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Niger 1992: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Nigeria 1990: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Pakistan 1991: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Rwanda 1992: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Senegal 1986: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
South Africa 1998: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Sri Lanka 1987: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Sudan 1989: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Tanzania 1991: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Togo 1988:
Tunisia 1988: Ever-married women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Uganda 1988: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Yemen 1991: Ever-married women age 15-54 with at least one birth.
Zambia 1992: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Zimbabwe 1988: Women age 15-49 with at least one birth.
Bangladesh: 1994-W, 1994-W, 1997-W, 1997-W, 2000-W, 2000-W, 2004-W, 2004-W, 2007-W, 2007-W, 2011-W, 2011-W, 2014-W, 2014-W
Benin: 1996-W, 2001-W, 2006-W, 2006-W, 2011-W, 2011-W, 2017-W, 2017-W
Burkina Faso: 1993-W, 1998-W, 2003-W, 2003-W, 2010-W, 2010-W
Burundi: 1987-W, 2010-W, 2010-W, 2016-W, 2016-W
Cameroon: 1991-W, 1998-W, 2004-W, 2011-W, 2018-W
Central African Republic: 1995-W
Chad: 1996-W, 2004-W, 2014-W
Cote d'Ivoire: 1994-W, 1998-W, 2011-W
Egypt: 1988-W, 1992-W, 1992-W, 1995-W, 1995-W, 2000-W, 2000-W, 2003-W, 2003-W, 2005-W, 2005-W, 2008-W, 2008-W, 2014-W, 2014-W
Eswatini (Swaziland): 2006-W
Ethiopia: 2000-W, 2005-W, 2005-W, 2011-W, 2011-W, 2016-W, 2016-W, 2019-W
Ghana: 1988-W, 1993-W, 1998-W, 2003-W, 2003-W, 2008-W, 2008-W, 2014-W, 2014-W, 2016-W
Guinea: 1999-W, 2005-W, 2005-W, 2012-W, 2018-W, 2018-W
India: 1992-W, 1998-W, 2005-W, 2005-W, 2015-W, 2015-W
Jordan: 1990-W, 1990-W, 1997-W, 1997-W, 2002-W, 2002-W, 2007-W, 2007-W, 2009-W, 2009-W, 2012-W, 2012-W, 2017-W, 2017-W
Kenya: 1989-W, 1993-W, 1998-W, 1998-W, 2003-W, 2003-W, 2008-W, 2008-W, 2014-W, 2014-W
Liberia: 1986-W, 2007-W, 2013-W, 2013-W
Madagascar: 1992-W, 1997-W, 2003-W, 2003-W, 2008-W, 2008-W
Malawi: 1992-W, 2000-W, 2000-W, 2004-W, 2004-W, 2010-W, 2010-W, 2016-W, 2016-W
Mali: 1987-W, 1995-W, 2001-W, 2001-W, 2006-W, 2006-W, 2012-W, 2012-W, 2018-W, 2018-W
Morocco: 1987-W, 1992-W, 1992-W, 2003-W, 2003-W
Mozambique: 1997-W, 2003-W, 2003-W, 2011-W, 2011-W
Namibia: 1992-W, 2000-W, 2006-W, 2006-W, 2013-W, 2013-W
Nepal: 1996-W, 2001-W, 2006-W, 2006-W, 2011-W, 2011-W, 2016-W, 2016-W
Niger: 1992-W, 1998-W, 2006-W, 2006-W, 2012-W, 2012-W
Nigeria: 1990-W, 1999-W, 2003-W, 2008-W, 2008-W, 2013-W, 2013-W, 2018-W, 2018-W
Pakistan: 1991-W, 2006-W, 2012-W, 2012-W, 2017-W, 2017-W
Rwanda: 1992-W, 2000-W, 2000-W, 2005-W, 2005-W, 2008-W, 2010-W, 2010-W, 2014-W, 2014-W
Senegal: 1986-W, 1992-W, 1997-W, 2005-W, 2005-W, 2010-W, 2010-W, 2012-W, 2012-W, 2014-W, 2014-W, 2015-W, 2015-W, 2016-W, 2016-W, 2017-W, 2017-W
South Africa: 1998-W, 2016-W, 2016-W
Sri Lanka: 1987-W
Sudan: 1989-W
Tanzania: 1991-W, 1996-W, 1999-W, 2004-W, 2004-W, 2010-W, 2010-W, 2015-W, 2015-W
Togo: 1988-W, 1998-W, 2013-W
Tunisia: 1988-W
Uganda: 1988-W, 1995-W, 2001-W, 2001-W, 2006-W, 2006-W, 2011-W, 2011-W, 2016-W, 2016-W
Yemen: 1991-W, 2013-W, 2013-W
Zambia: 1992-W, 1996-W, 2001-W, 2007-W, 2007-W, 2013-W, 2013-W, 2018-W, 2018-W
Zimbabwe: 1988-W, 1994-W, 1994-W, 1999-W, 1999-W, 2005-W, 2005-W, 2010-W, 2010-W, 2015-W, 2015-W


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Q: Angular Select ng-model doesnt bind to scope I have the following form:
    <form role="form" class="form-validation" ng-submit="profilCtrl.saveProfile()">

        Fornavn
        <input type="text" placeholder="John Hansen" class="form-control" ng-model="profile.firstname" name="name" value="{{profilCtrl.profile.firstname}}" required>

        Efternavn
        <input type="text" placeholder="John Hansen" class="form-control" ng-model="profile.lastname" name="name" value="{{profilCtrl.profile.lastname}}" required>

        Addresse
        <input type="text" placeholder="Mosebakken 12 2830 virum" class="form-control" ng-model="profile.address" name="address" value="{{profilCtrl.profile.address}}" required>

        Jobprofil
        <select class="form-control" ng-model="selectedTitle" ng-options="item as item.name for item in titles"></select>

        Telefon Number
        <input type="text" placeholder="12345678" class="form-control" name="phone" value="{{profilCtrl.profile.phone}}" required ng-model="profile.phone">

        Afdeling
        <select class="form-control" ng-model="selectedDivision" ng-options="division as division.name for division in divisions" required>
        </select>

        Fødselsdag
        <input type="text"  placeholder="04-04-1989" class="form-control" name="cpr" ng-model="profile.cpr" value="{{profilCtrl.profile.cpr}}" required>

        Vigtig information
        <textarea class="form-control" rows="3" placeholder="Dette er vigtigt for min leder at vide!" name="info" ng-model="profile.description">{{profile.description}}</textarea>

        <button type="submit" href="#" class="btn green-haze">

        </button>

</form>

Everything in this form works expect the two selects:
<select class="form-control" ng-model="selectedTitle" ng-options="item as item.name for item in titles"></select>

And:
<select class="form-control" ng-model="selectedDivision" ng-options="division as division.name for division in divisions" required>

Unlike the others are these not linked to the profile object and should instead be saved in $scope.selectedTitle and $scope.selectedDivision
However once i submit the form both of these are undefined.
Can anyone tell me why this might be happening


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Richard Hunter December 17, 2017
Happy Holidays everybody! (And no, that is NOT a political statement.) I'm still working on the sounds to go with the songs for the upcoming recording sessions for my next…
Audio/Video / Blog / Blue Future / Hunter's Effects / Recommended Gear
More Hot RP500 Sounds With the Lucky 13, Plus a Gift for RP500 Patchset Licensees
By Richard Hunter - December 17, 2017
Happy Holidays everybody! (And no, that is NOT a political statement.)
I'm still working on the sounds to go with the songs for the upcoming recording sessions for my next record, "Blue Future." My favorite tool for making orchestral sketches ("orchestral" used here in a very broad sense) is the looper. I put the loop linked below together with two Digitech RP500 patches, a Digitech Jamman Solo XT looper, a Lucky 13 D harp re-tuned (by me) to a Country tuning (draw 5 reed sharped by 1/2 step), and an Audix Fireball mic, with a Peavey KB2 keyboard amp at the end of the signal chain. I recorded the loop playing with a Zoom H4 recorder placed on a stand directly in front of the KB2's speaker. I normalized the audio file (in Audacity, of course, a really nice tool for quick jobs like that) and edited for length. Otherwise the original recording is unaltered.
The setup in the studio for "The Lucky One" and (soon) for "Blue Future."
Fat, Fat, Fat
The first RP500 patch is one I put together using the Digitech Blackbass amp model with a Bassman cabinet model and a pitch shifter set to move the pitch up by a minor third, and 100% wet. With the pitch shifter inactive, this patch sounds like a very big Chicago-style blues harp; with the shifter on, it sounds like a slide guitar. I laid down two layers on the loop with this sound, one with a full-throated tone for the foreground, one with a scratchy chug at much lower volume behind it. Whenever you double a harp part, especially when you play the harmonica at two different volume levels, you get minor variations in pitch that produce a really fat sound. And THIS sound is fat, fat, fat, one of the closest approximations of a heavily amped guitar that I've ever produced.
The second RP500 patch is a simple bass sound, created with the pitch shifter set to drop the pitch by an octave, again 100% wet. Usually I'd set it to drop the pitch by 2 octaves, but the Lucky 13 already has a low end that's an octave lower than a standard harp. (It just occurred to me that if I set the pitch shifter to two octaves down, I could play the part in the second octave of the Lucky 13 and get a lot more flexibility and power on the bends. Hmmm.)
Put those two sounds together, and you have a very punchy ensemble sound with a lot of depth. I'm going to use this setup for my new song "Paint This Town," an ode to not worrying, at the sessions for "Blue Future."
Here's the clip, short but powerful. Dig.
https://www.hunterharp.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Minor-slide.mp3
RP500 Patchset Licensees Delight!
As of this morning (18 December 2017), I've sent every one of my RP500 patchset licensees a bulk load file containing all of the RP500 patches I used to record "The Lucky One." Thanks to my licensees for your support, and Merry Christmas! (ALSO not a political statement.) One caveat: we won't have access to the gear required to make a Mac version of this set until after Christmas. In the meantime, if you're an RP500 patchset licensee and you use a Mac, or you haven't received our email (I'm looking at you, klassick) because your email addy has changed, let us know.
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HomeA High Holy Day Story: Reward for No Temptation?
A High Holy Day Story: Reward for No Temptation?
Ted RobertsSep 12, 2007
My rabbi loves challenges, so he loves my halachic questions. "So, Ted," he says, "any arcane questions today?"
We go to his office, where he keeps, in a secret drawer, his wife's delicious plum cake.
Now that I've got him in a mellow mood, I begin. "Okay, here's a tough one tailored for Yom Kippur."
"I'm ready," he says.
"Picture an evil man. Not a Hitler, not a Haman, not an Arafat, not a thug — just a consistent louse. This no-goodnik keeps none of the mitzvahs. He loves pork roast; he works on his lawn on the Sabbath; he drives to the neighborhood bar three times a week, including Friday night, where he takes the name of the Lord in vain for three or four hours. And if the bartender gives him change for a 20 instead of a 10, he gloats and keeps it. He cheats on his wife and on his business associates, and has no time for his kids."
My rabbi nods. "One day," I continue, "this ethically imperfect Jew takes a cruise with several of his fellow devils where they plan to gamble, drink, violate the Sabbath, chase women and toss around the name of the Lord like a $5 poker chip. But Rabbi — as you know — man proposes to play golf, but God disposes of sunshine and sends the storm. The cruise ship hits a Caribbean iceberg… okay, another ship. Our sinner is shipwrecked. For one year he sits on a rock pile and exists on raw fish as his entree and palm leaves for salad. He can't even make a fire. He mistreats nobody, since there's nobody to mistreat. He cheats not on his wife, since there's no one to cheat with. He doesn't even curse. What fun is it? Who's to hear?
"He keeps Sabbath; no car, no fire, no TV. He doesn't muzzle his ox, since he has no ox. He doesn't sow his field with two kinds of seeds, since he has no seeds, no fields.
"Our ex-unethical thug, as Yom Kippur rolls around, is now a tzadik. So, here's my question: Is he inscribed in the Book of Life? Does he get a gold star from the judge of all mankind, even though his past record is as crummy as stale pound cake? And please, Rabbi, don't tell me that nothing has changed, that he's still propelled by an evil heart, because you explained late one night, remember, that Judaism is a religion of deeds, not intentions. Nobody has a pure heart; it's how we control those evil inclinations that spring from our human heart. That's what counts. Action. So, Rabbi, what's your answer? Has our protagonist redeemed himself?" Dear Reader, why don't you ask your rabbi?
Ted Roberts is a writer living in Huntsville, Ala.
Ted Roberts