Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot produced a dominant front-running display to win the Great South Run, an IAAF Gold Label Road Race, on Sunday (25).
In near perfect conditions, the world 10,000m champion clocked 51:17 for 10 miles in Portsmouth on the English south coast, beating Britain's European 10,000m champion Jo Pavey by one minute and 27 seconds.
On a relatively windless day on a course notorious for the strong headwinds in the final two miles, Cheruiyot, who was making her debut appearance over 10 miles and racing seriously at a distance farther than 12km for the first time in an illustrious career, moved to fifth on the world all-time list behind Linet Masai, Lornah Kiplagat, Sonia O'Sullivan and Paula Radcliffe, the latter two having set their best times on the Great South Run course.
After two steady opening miles in which the leading group comprising Cheruiyot, Pavey, Britain's European cross country champion Gemma Steel and the Kenyan duo Betsy Saina and Doris Changeiywo stuck closely together, the 32-year-old Olympic silver medallist then made her move.
Of the others, only Changeiywo tried to maintain the searing pace, but soon fell back, especially when Cheruiyot clocked 4:53 for the fifth mile.
That left a close battle for podium positions, which the 42-year-old Pavey won, taking second place with a sprint finish in 52:44, a world W40 best performance, with Changeiywo seven seconds behind.
With a huge lead and the race effectively won, Cheruiyot could afford to maintain a steady pace for the second half of the race and was understandably delighted with her performance, her first outing since running 3000m at the IAAF Diamond League final in Zurich in early September.
With the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the horizon, she has her sights set on at least one more track season before turning her attention to the roads full time.
In a competitive and entertaining men's race, pre-event favourite Moses Kipsiro clocked 46:00, prevailing over Kenya's Emmanuel Kipsang and 2013 winner Emmanuel Bett, with a total of seven men running under 47 minutes.
As perhaps was to be expected with such a closely matched field, the first seven miles saw all of the main contenders – including 2013 world cross country champion Japhet Korir, 2007 world 10,000m bronze medallist Martin Mathathi, Evans Kirui and 2015 San Diego Half Marathon winner Kevin Kosgei – closely bunched.
In the end it was Bett, winner of the Great South Run in considerably worse conditions two years ago, who tried to make a break, but Uganda's Kipsiro and Bett's Kenyan countrymen Kipsang, Kirui, Mathathi and Korir soon joined him again at the front.
In the closing stages, Commonwealth 10,000m champion Kipsiro finally pulled clear to take a hard-earned win, with Kipsang and Bett eight and 11 seconds adrift respectively.
After a track season hit by injury, the 29-year-old Kipsiro was pleased to continue his fine form on the roads, adding to his victory at the Great Scottish Run half marathon earlier this month.
"It was a nice race and I enjoyed it," he smiled. "The course is flat and the weather is ok, and it was good to run in a group.
Like Cheruiyot in the women's race, it was Kipsiro's first attempt at the 10 miles distance and offered him a glimpse of the future.
"I have the New Delhi Half Marathon next month, so that's the race I am targeting now," he said. "The roads are where I am heading to.
"I've been having problems with running on the track and wearing spikes; it's giving me difficulty," he added. "When I put on racing shoes, I feel some relief, so I need to move to the road now. Hopefully I will run the marathon at the Olympic Games."


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Rising Electricity Bills Compel Korean Solar Panel Producers to Leave Korea
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Manufacturers' Exodus from Korea
By Jung Min-hee
March 27, 2019, 10:54
Leading Korean solar panel manufacturers including OCI and Hanwha Chemical are considering relocating production plants overseas due to an increase in electricity charges and operational costs.
Despite growing demand for polysilicon, leading Korean solar panel manufacturers including OCI and Hanwha Chemical have announced their intention to reduce or give up domestic production due to an increase in electricity charges. Industry analysts say that these companies are weighed down by a gradual hike in electricity bills that amount to hundreds of billions of won a year. They also face rising costs due to a lack of subsidies and the imposition of a carbon tax.
"It is difficult to pay up to 300 billion won in electricity charges a year," OCI vice chairman Lee Ki-woo said in a meeting with reporters after the regular general shareholders meeting on March 26. "We need to consider closing our factories in Korea and moving them to Malaysia." Lee clearly stated that it was difficult to do business in Korea due to cost problems. OCI had a sluggish year in 2018 due to a sudden change in China's photovoltaic policy and a gas leakage accident at its Gunsan plant in Korea.
Lee noted the business upturn at OCI's overseas plants at the regular general shareholders meeting, as he did at the company's IR show at the beginning of this year. He explained that the company would gradually expand its overseas plants, including the capacity expansion of 10,000 tons in OCIMSB, a polysilicon plant in Malaysia that the company acquired in 2017 to overcome the growing domestic operation costs.
OCI's annual electricity bill is about 300 billion won a year. A 5 percent increase in electricity price would lower its profit by 15 billion won.
Kim Chang-bum, CEO of Hanwha Chemical, said in a general shareholders' meeting on March 26 that the company would choose overseas, not Korea, for the expansion of facilities for polysilicon, the basic material for solar cells. Kim predicted that the Korean photovoltaic (PV) market would steadily grow to 2 GW this year. He emphasized that he would continue to invest in protecting the Korean market out of concerns that the proportion of Chinese solar products in the Korean market will expand.
Hanwha Chemical's affiliate Hanwha Q CELLS ranks first in the global solar cell module market. If Hanwha Chemical or Hanwha Q CELLS does not invest in the photovoltaic business, Chinese products will surely replace Korean products in the Korean market. "There is no plan to expand polysilicon facilities in Korea where electric bills are high," Kim said.


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It's been over 3 years since Drake fans have impatiently waited for the Canadian superstar to release a proper follow-up to his lengthy and fretful 2018 album 'Scorpion.' With his latest release, 'Certified Lover Boy,' Drake manages to give his audience nothing but the same.
For the last decade, Drizzy has shared with the world his heartache and shame when it comes to his love life and fame. Truth be told, this is why many of us Drizzy fans have a crazy amount of adoration for him in the first place. Whether we want to admit it or not, we see a piece of ourselves in him. This is especially true when he dives into the weight of dealing with an assortment of relationships from lovers to friends to foes (in addition to mommy and daddy issues and fatherhood). What makes Drake stand out from many of his contemporaries is his ability to say the things we are too ashamed to say out loud for fear of seeming overly emotional. This is why his reach stretches the globe, we are hypnotized by The Boy's vulnerable side.
However, the question remains: how much longer will we allow Heartbreak Drake to play with our emotions?
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On this sixth album, we find Drake trapped somewhere between the past and present with no clear plan for the future all the while leaning more towards being a boy than a man. The 34-year-old pop star is unwilling to leave the comforts of his award-winning formula to take on new risks. He takes us on an all too familiar journey dragging us along for the ride as he shares his struggles with intimacy, ambitions, and insecurity. However, these are all stories we have heard rehashed relentlessly as far back as his 2009 mixtape, 'So Far Gone.'
Quite frankly, the underdog/playboy tales are played out.
As a once hardcore Drizzy fan I'm wondering if Drake has anything else left in his arsenal. We know he possesses that ability to craft instant Tiktok dance hits like Toosie Slide, flex his bravado on tracks like Energy, and still finds a way to dive into his feelings on songs like Marvin's room. There is no denying 6 God is gifted, but with Certified Lover Boy, Drake relies too heavily on his past success and delivers an album that is filled with unresolved issues that leave the listener underwhelmed and fatigued.
Simply put, the monotonous 21 track effort showcases more lows than highs for the lover boy and lacks the quality and variety of the criminally underrated 'Views' or the monumental 'Nothing Was The Same.' There seems to be no clear flow or vision. Throughout the album, the tone takes on the disposition of a man exhausted from living two lives. Drake is not only the person doing the playing and he is also the person being played, whether in his personal life, in the music industry, or both.
On the stand-out cut 'Love All' featuring a flawless verse from Jay-Z, Drizzy details his current frustrations in the hook "People never care 'til it's R.I.P. / N****s turned they back on me for no good reason / Loyalty is priceless and it's all I need." Drake also touches on disrespect in "Pipe Down" and "7 am on Bridle Path," which is a popular theme throughout all of his projects and remains the case once again on Certified Lover Boy.
Besides the aforementioned Love All, and an impressive verse by Lil Wayne on "You Only Live Twice" (A song reminiscent of his MIxtape Weezy's days), Drake outshines his guests to no one's surprise. Toronto's finest is at his best on the highlight 'Race My Mind' in which Drake's signature crooning and slick wordplay are on full display. Occasionally the lover boy gives us a glimpse into his evolution with the confessional "Fucking Fans" where he reveals, "Most times it was my selfishness and your helplessness that I took advantage of" and digs a bit deeper on "Get Along Better," pleading for love as he sings, "Hold me closer in these / Trying times, supposed to be mine Baby / I need some help just like anyone else."
Hopefully, the 6 God will bless us with more of these types of vibes in the future. Maybe an entire R&B project in the same vein as his friend/nemesis Kanye West's '808s & Heartbreaks' to add to his already outstanding catalog.
If there is one thing Drake has been good at during the past 10 years is being himself. However, with Certified Lover Boy it truly is just more of the same. Drake the rapper is stuck. The former actor is typecast in a character that he created ironically, lethargic and unsure of what role in the industry he should play next.
If we're being honest, Certified Lover Boy is good but nothing special. The entirety of this album is him just going through the motions. It's Drake playing Drake, half-ass at best, and relying on his jockish good looks, money, and popularity to keep us tuned in. He has repackaged the same player lines and braggadocious rhymes over uninspired beats for the umpteen time.
For Certified Lover Boy, Drake's gift is his curse. He is so great at what he does (and he knows it) that the challenge becomes how to give his fans more of what he thinks they want.
Unfortunately, there is only so much of the same ol' Drake we can take.
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Abe	on September 25, 2021 at 5:55 am
Phenomenal review and spot on. This album was good but not great. Nothing special unfortunately.
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Home Tech Review WhatsApp Launches Desktop App for Mac and Windows
WhatsApp Launches Desktop App for Mac and Windows
Good news for Mac and Windows users as Social networking application WhatsApp had launched its desktop client. It will be available for download at the official website of the company. The Facebook-owned Application is extending its base at a good pace by releasing continuous updates.
Last year it had launched the voice call feature which received a positive response from all the users around the globe. There are speculations that the instant messaging service would be starting the video calling option and testing the same on the beta version of iPhone.
WhatsApp comes closer to Video-call Update
WhatsApp announced that their active users' number rocketed from 700 million to 1 billion within one year. The messaging service also introduced end-to-end encryption which would secure the data exchanged between the users. No third party application, even WhatsApp can't access or track the data such as messages, calls, videos and images.
Brian Acton, the founder of WhatsApp, opined that "building secure products makes for a safer world."The inclusion of this security feature is also tempting others and it can be a huge selling point for the service.
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The new desktop App would be featuring new options including all the current characteristics of the mobile client. For Mac users, it can be the best substitute to message for communicating with users of other platforms. Even though OS X is providing a text message forwarding service for communication with non-I Message users but a centralized service would be a better option.
The instant messaging service mobile version is available for IOS, Android and Windows users. The new web client of WhatsApp is available for both Mac's OS X and Windows at the official website. After downloading the client on your desktop platform, synchronize it with the mobile app by the scanning the QR code on the desktop. This will enable the user to use the social networking application from the PC itself.
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1. Big Data [sorry] Data Science:What Does a Data Scientist Do?	Carlos Somohano	Founder Data Science London	@ds_ldn	datasciencelondon.org	The Cloud and Big Data: HDInsight on Azure London 25/01/13
2. Man on the Moon – 1,969
3. Man on the Moon – Small Data! Computer Program	Apollo X1	Man on the Moon	Date: 1,969	Speed: 3,500 km/hour	Distance: 356,000 Km	64 Kb, 2Kb RAM, Fortran	Weight: 13,500 kg	Never been there before	Must work 1st time	Lots of complex data	Must return to Earth
4. Apollo XI, 1969	SkyDive Stratos, 2012	64 Kb	Tens of Gigabytes	Think About It – We live in Crazy Times!
5. Big Data is not about Data Volume
6. What is Big Data? IT mumbo-jumbo	A fashionable term typically used by some IT vendors to remarket old fashioned software hardware
7. What is Big Data? The n-Vs	Volume …	Variety …	Velocity …	(add your own V here…)	So What?
8. Change! Water Cooler Chat	We need to parallelize data operations but it's too costly complex …	The business can't get access to all the relevant data, we need external data…	We can't match customer master data to live customer interactions…	We can't just force everything into a star-schema…	These BI reports and charts don't tell us anything we didn't know…	We are missing the ETL window, the data we needed didn't arrive on time…	We can't predict with confidence if we can't explore data develop our own models
9. What is Big Data? Force of Change	Big Data forces you to change the way you collect, store, manage, analyze and visualize data
10. Crude Oil
11. Big Data = Crude Oil [not New Oil]	Think data as 'crude oil.'	Big Data is about extracting the 'crude oil,'transporting it in 'mega-tankers,' siphoning it through'pipelines,' and storing it in massive 'silos'… All 'this' is about IT Big Data… fine and well…	… BUT
12. You need to refine the 'crude oil'	Enter Data Science…
13. The Science [and Art] of… Discovering what we don't know from data	Obtaining predictive, actionable insight from data	Creating Data Products that have business impact now	Communicating relevant business stories from data	Building confidence in decisions that drive business value
14. Brief History of Data Science	6th C BC - 1st C BC – The Greeks! Pyrrhonism, Skepticism Empiricism… 1974 – Peter Naur @UoC Datalogy Data Science	2001 – William S. Cleveland @CSU Data Science: An Action Plan …: 2002 – Committee on Data for Science Technology (CODATA) 2003 – Journal of Data Science 2009 – Jeff Hammerbacher @ Facebook What does a Data Scientist Do? 2010 – Drew Conway @NYU The Data Science Venn Diagram	2010 – Hillary Mason Chris Wiggins @Dataists "	2010 – Mike Loukadis @O'Reilly "What is Data Science?" 2011 – DJ Patil @LinkedIn data scientist vs. data analyst
15. Jeff Hammerbacher, 2009	"... on any given day, a team member could author amultistage processing pipeline in Python, design a hypothesis test, perform a regression analysisover data samples with R, design and implement an algorithm for some data-intensive product or service in Hadoop, orcommunicate the results of our analyses to othermembers of the organization.
16. Mike Loukides, 2010	Data science enables the creation of dataproducts.	Whether... data is search terms, voice samples, orproduct reviews,... users are in a feedback loop inwhich they contribute to the products they use. Thats the beginning of data science.
17. Hilary Mason Chris Wiggins,2010	Data science is clearly a blend of the hackers' arts, statistics and machine learning...; and the expertise in mathematics and the domain of the data for the analysis to be interpretable... It requires creative decisions and open-mindedness in a scientific context.
18. Drew Conway, 2010
19. DJ Patil, 2011	"We realized that as our organizations grew, we both had to figure outwhat to call the people on our teams. Business analyst" and Data analyst"seemed too limiting. The focus of our teams was to work on data applications that would havean immediate and massive impact on the business. The term that seemed to fit best was data scientist: those who use bothdata and science to create something new"
20. What is a Data Scientist?
21. The Duck – Billed Platypus	The Data Scientist – Billed Platypus
22. The Platypus – Billed Data Scientist	Machine Learning	Hacking	Statistics	Math	Visualization	Science	Programming	Data Mining	The Data Scientist – Billed Platypus
23. Josh Wills, 2012
24. Class DataScientist {	Is skeptical, curious. Has inquisitive mind Knows Machine Learning, Statistics, Probability	Applies Scientific Method. Runs Experiments	Is good at Coding Hacking	Able to deal with IT Data Engineering	Knows how to build data products	Able to find answers to known unknowns	Tells relevant business stories from data	Has Domain Knowledge }
25. What Does a Data Scientist Do?
26. 10 Things [most] Data Scientists Do	1  Ask Good Questions. What is What… …we don't know?	…we'd like to know?	2  Define and Test an Hypothesis. Run experiments	3  Scoop, Scrap, Sink, Sample Business Relevant Data	4  Munge and Wrestle Data. Tame Data	5  Explore Data, Discover Data Playfully. Discover unknowns.	6  Model Data. Model Algorithms.	7  Understand Data Relationships	8  Tell the Machine How to Learn from Data	9  Create Data Products that Deliver Actionable Insight 10  Tell Relevant Business Stories from Data
27. [Sort of a] Data Scientist Toolkit	§  Java, R, Python… (bonus: Clojure, Haskell, Scala)	§  Hadoop, HDFS MapReduce… (bonus: Spark, Storm)	§  HBase, Pig Hive… (bonus: Shark, Impala, Cascalog)	§  ETL, Webscrapers,Flume, Sqoop… (bonus: Hume) §  SQL, RDBMS, DW, OLAP…	§  Knime, Weka, RapidMiner…(bonus: SciPy, NumPy, scikit-learn, pandas)	§  D3.js, Gephi, ggplot2, Tableu, Flare, Shiny…	§  SPSS, Matlab, SAS… (the enterprise man)	§  NoSQL, Mongo DB, Couchbase, Cassandra…	§  And Yes! … MS-Excel: the most used, most underrated DS tool
28. Foundations of Data Science
29. [Some] Data Science Principles	1  Socio-Technical Systems (STS) are complex!	2  Data is never at rest	3  Data is dirty, deal with it	4  SVoT = LOL!	5  Data munging data wrestling 70% time	6  Simplification. Reduction. Distillation	7  Curiosity. Empiricism. Skepticism
30. Knowns Unknowns	There are known knowns. These are things we knowthat we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there arethings that we know we dont know.	But there are also unknown unknowns. There arethings we dont know we dont know	Donald Rumsfeld
31. DIKUW FTW!	D I K U W Data Information Knowledge Understanding Wisdom PAST FUTUREData Engineer	Data Analyst	Data Miner	Data Scientist	Raw What How to Why When Numbers Description Experience Cause Effect Prediction Letters Context Tested Proven What's best Known Unknown Symbols Relationship Instruction Unknowns	Unknowns	Known Knowns	Signals Reports Programs models
32. Data Discovery	Data Analyst	Data Scientist	The new reality for Business Intelligence and Big Data, Applied Data Labs
33. Data Models vs. Algorithmic Models	Data Modeling	VS.	Algorithmic Modeling	Y ß F( X, random noise, parameters) Y ß Black Box	ß X	Random Forests	We understand the world	We don't understand the world	How well 'my data model' works	The world produces data in a black-box Statisticians, Data Analysts, Data Miners	Data Scientists	Linear Regression	Machine Learning, AI Neural Nets	Logistic Regression	Random Forests, SVM, GBT	Known Distributions	Unknown Multivariate Distributions	Confidence Intervals	Iterative	Predictor Variables Goodness of Fit	Predictive Accuracy	"Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures" Leo Breiman, 2001
34. Learning from Data is Tricky	Statistical vs. Machine Learning	Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning	Induction vs. Deduction	Sampling Confidence Intervals Probability Distribution	Deviation Variance	Correlation vs. Causation	Causation Prediction
35. More Data or Better Models?	More Data Beats Better Algorithms, Omar Tawakoi @BlueKai	Better Algorithms Beat More Data, Mark Torrance @RocketFuel	More Data or Better Models, Xavier Armitrain @Netflix	On Chomsky 2 Cultures of Statistical Learning, Peter Norvig @Google Specialist Knowledge is Useless Unhelpful, Jeremy Howard @Kaggle
36. Data Science Process – An approach
37. Data Science Process - 1	1  Known Unknowns? 2  We'd like to know…?	3  Outcomes?	4  What Data?	5  Hypothesis?	The World Ingest Raw Data	Munch Data	The Dataset	Product Manufactured	Transactions	MapReduce	Independency?	Goods shipped	Web-Scraping	ETL, ELT	Correlation?	Product purchased	Web-clicks logs	Data Wrangle Covariance?	Phone Calls Made	Sensor Data	Data Cleansing	Causality?	Energy Consumed Mobile Data	Data Jujitsu	Dimensionality?	Fraud Committed	Docs, Emails, XLS	Dim Reduction	Missing Values?	Repair Requested	Social Feeds, RSS	Sample	Relevant?	System Flume Sink HDFS	Select, Join, Bind
38. Data Science Process - II	The Dataset	Explore Data	Represent Data	Discover Data	Deliver Insight Learn From Data	Data Product	Visualize Insight Description Inference	Objectives	Data Algorithm Models	Levers	Actionable	Machine Learning	Modeling	Predictive	Networks Graphs	Simulation	Immediate Impact	Regression Prediction	Optimization	Business Value	Classification Clustering	Visualization	Easy to explain	Experiments Iteration
39. What is a Data Product?
40. A Data Product Is… … Curated and crafted from raw data	… A result of exploration and iterations	… A machine that learns from data … An answer to known unknowns or unknown unknowns	… A mechanism that triggers immediate business value	… A probabilistic window of future events or behavior
41. Data Jiu-Jitsu	Data	Jiu Jitsu Fight $$$$	Data Product	Data Scientist	Data Jiu-Jitsu: ability to turn big data into data products that generate immediate business value	(DJ Patil @LinkedIn)
42. Developing Data Products	Objectives	Levers	Data	Models	What Outcome What Inputs Can What Data Can How the Levers Am I Trying to We Control?	We Collect?	Influence the Achieve?	Objectives	Adapted from "Designing Great Data Products. The Drivetrain Approach: A Four Step Approach to Building Data Products"	Jeremy Howard, Margit Zwemer, Mike Loukides, 2012
43. Objective-Based Data Products	What Outcome Am I ActionableTrying to Achieve?	Outcome	Data Modeler	Simulator	Optimizer	The Model Assembly Line Adapted from "Designing Great Data Products. The Drivetrain Approach: A Four Step Approach to Building Data Products"	Jeremy Howard, Margit Zwemer, Mike Loukides, 2012
44. 5 Great Data Products
45. Customer Lifecycle Value	Optimize CLV	Product Recommendations	Visualizer	Data Modeler	Simulator	Optimizer	1  Products the customer may like	2  Price Elasticity	3  Probability of Purchase w/o Recommendation	4  Purchase Sequence	5  Causality Model	6  Patience Model	Adapted from "Designing Great Data Products. The Drivetrain Approach: A Four Step Approach to Building Data Products"	Jeremy Howard, Margit Zwemer, Mike Loukides, 2012
46. Automated Fruits Procurement	Confirm Purchase Orders	In less than 2 hours	Safety Stock levels?	Demand vs Stock?	Price vs. Demand?	12,000 stores	Anomalies?	300 Fruits	Fruit Shortages?	Avg. Shelf life 3 days Fruit Write-offs?	Adapted from Blueyonder
47. Strawberries the Weather	No sales vs X,XXX sales predicted	Why these huge stock write-offs?	A Predictive Model that calculates strawberry purchases based on	Weather forecast	Sudden increase in temperature	Store temperature	Freezer sensor data	Remaining stock per shelf live	Sales TPoS feeds	Web searches, social mentions Adapted from Blueyonder
48. Personalized Social Recommendations	Collaborative Filtering: Matching Skills to People	Prediction: Personalized Skills Recommendation	Adapted from "Developing Data Products" by Peter Skomoroch 5 Dec, 2012 Copyright LinkedIn
49. Colas- In Which US State I Invest Mktg. $? What the Business Analyst Sent	What the Data Scientist did…
50. The Great Pop vs. Soda Page	http://www.popvssoda.com/
51. Pop vs. Soda vs. Coke
52. Raw Data Will Drive You Car
53. Interested in Data Science?	Join our community	http://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-London/	Follow us on Twitter @ds_ldn	Check out our blog	http://datasciencelondon.org
54. Thanks for your time
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\section{Introduction}
The discovery of a scalar boson at the LHC experiments ATLAS \cite{Aad:2012tfa} and CMS \cite{Chatrchyan:2012xdj} with properties remarkably close to the one proposed as agent of
electroweak symmetry breaking in 1964 \cite{BEH} has explained the origin of elementary particle masses (with maybe neutrinos aside) within the Standard Model (SM). Despite the
extraordinary success of this theory, there remain some unanswered questions within the SM, such as the origin of dark matter or the explanation of the baryon asymmetry of the universe.
These and other puzzles motivate the scrutiny of the SM predictions against measurements in the search for new physics.\\
One way to do this is to take advantage of observables where both sharp predictions and accurate measurements are possible, in such a way that tiny deviations between them can become
statistically significant and hint at the new dynamics. An alternative is to search for forbidden processes in the SM, where an observation must be due to new phenomena. Lepton flavor
violating (LFV) processes are practically forbidden in the minimal extension of the SM with right-handed neutrinos, where the large suppression given by the ratio between the neutrino
masses and electroweak scale makes them undetectable \cite{Petcov:1976ff}.\\
Although currently well compatible with the SM, the uncertainties associated to Higgs physics still leave room for sizable non-standard decays, such as invisible modes \cite{invisibles}
or LFV decays. In the latter case, which we consider in this letter, direct searches for $H\to\tau\mu$ decays have been performed by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations. The CMS result
\cite{Khachatryan:2015kon}, $BR(H\to\tau\mu)=\left(0.84^{+0.39}_{-0.37}\right)\%$ ($<1.51\%$ at $95 \%$ CL) caused a big excitement in the community, although ATLAS \cite{Aad:2015gha} did not
confirm it a few months later, setting the bound $BR(H\to\tau\mu)<1.85\%$ at the same confidence level \footnote{Here, and throughout the letter, the notation $BR(H\to\tau\mu)$ implies
$BR(H\to\tau^-\mu^+)+BR(H\to\tau^+\mu^-)$.} \footnote{CMS has just presented their update including 13 TeV data \cite{Cepeda}, $BR(H\to\tau\mu)=\left(-0.76\pm0.81\right)\%$,
which lowers the combined significance of the hint at the two sigma level.}.\\
The possibility that this branching fraction could be measurable was put forward much early in diverse SM extensions \cite{earlypapers}, typically including several scalar doublets
\cite{Bjorken:1977vt}, and reanalyzed including the limits on $L\to\ell\gamma$ decays and other low-energy processes in forthcoming years \cite{LowE}. The CMS hint was the object of
several devoted studies which could find regions of their parameter space explaining the anomaly \cite{explanations}. However, some other analyses either found difficult to produce such a
strong signal in well-motivated extensions of the SM or pinpointed tensions with other precision measurements \cite{noexplanations, Yang:2016hrh}.\\
It is well known that the hierarchy problem in the Higgs mass arises whenever heavy new particles are introduced without a mechanism devised to cancel or effectively suppress the corresponding
radiative corrections. One such mechanism assumes that the Higgs boson is a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of a spontaneously broken (larger than in the SM) electroweak symmetry group, in
the so-called Little Higgs models \cite{LH}. Simplest Little Higgs (SLH) model \cite{SLH} is a concrete realization of this idea that we employed in our study of LFV semileptonic tau
decays recently \cite{Lami:2016vrs}. Our main conclusion was that the observation of LFV semileptonic tau decays at Belle-II \cite{Wang:2015kmm} would (using reasonable approximations)
rule out this model, as it predicts
decay rates four to five orders of magnitude smaller than current bounds. According to LHC results, $H\to \ell\ell'$ decays are allowed at a rate of about $1\%$. However, the severe
limits on $\mu\to e\gamma$ constrain $BR(H\to \mu e)\lesssim10^{-8}$ \cite{LowE} and a strong suppression on $BR(H\to \tau \mu)$ is also expected from the
$\tau\to \mu\gamma$ bounds \cite{Yang:2016hrh}. Since the SLH model does not violate lepton universality (LU), confirmation of the CMS hint in
$H\to \tau\mu$ decays would therefore falsify the (S)LH Models. On the contrary, if no LFV Higgs decays are confirmed at the LHC and recent LU breaking hints are refuted, these
models with collective electroweak symmetry breaking will remain to be a promising alternative for the ultraviolet (UV) completion of the SM. Our aim in this paper is to make the above
considerations precise, keeping in mind that current LHC analyses using LH models \cite{LHanalyses} do not show noticeable deviations.\\
In the next section we outline the main features of the SLH model, referring to our earlier work \cite{Lami:2016vrs} for an extended discussion. In section \ref{Results} we compute
the leading contributions to the $H\to \ell\ell'$ decays within this model explaining our expansion in powers of the electroweak symmetry breaking scale ($v$) over that of the new particles
of the extended model ($f$). We also confront the predictions of the SLH model for the considered decays to the current bounds, employing a parameter space of the SLH
model which is consistent with current data and in section \ref{conclusions} we state our conclusions.\\

\section{The Simplest Little Higgs Model}
We reviewed in some detail the SLH model in our previous work \cite{Lami:2016vrs}. Here we will only recall its main features for the reader's convenience, but refer to
\cite{Lami:2016vrs} and references therein for an expanded account.\\
The SLH model extends the SM electroweak gauge group $SU(2)_L\otimes U(1)_Y$ to $SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X$ in a minimal way. Correspondingly, the $SU(2)_L$ SM fermion doublets are enlarged to
$SU(3)_L$ triplets and five extra weak gauge bosons are added (three neutral and two of opposite unit charges which, after diagonalization, give rise to heavy copies of the $W$ bosons that
we call $W'^\pm$). $SU(3)$ invariant interactions are written so as to reproduce all the SM dynamics when restricted to the SM fields. Among the new particles, only the heavy quasi-Dirac
neutrinos $N_k$ ($k=1,2,3$ is the family index), which allow the LFV transitions, and the $W'^\pm$ bosons play a role in our study. Within the SLH model, LFV is achieved because of the
misalignment between the SM down-type lepton and the new heavy neutrino mass matrices.\\
The starting global symmetry of the model, $\left[SU(3)\otimes U(1)\right]_1\otimes\left[SU(3)\otimes U(1)\right]_2$, is spontaneously broken down to $\left[SU(2)\otimes U(1)\right]_1\otimes
\left[SU(2)\otimes U(1)\right]_2$ by the non-vanishing aligned vacuum expectation values (vevs) acquired by the two scalar triplets of the model \footnote{In simple group models (like SLH),
where the SM gauge group emerges from the diagonal breaking of a larger simple group, at least two sigma-model multiplets are required \cite{SLH}.} (the scalar sector is a non-linear sigma
model). These transform as $(3,1)$ and $(1,3)$ under $SU(3)_1\otimes SU(3)_2$, respectively, and include the SM Higgs doublets as well as new pseudo-Goldstone bosons (pGbs). Both vevs,
$f_1$ and $f_2$, are of order TeV and determine the high-energy scale of the model, $f$, through $f_1^2+f_2^2=f^2$. The gauged diagonal subgroup, $SU(3)_L\otimes U(1)_X$, breaks down to the
$SM$ electroweak gauge group via these scalar vacuum condensates. The gauge interactions of the model are fixed by gauge invariance and given in terms of the SM couplings.\\
The spontaneous symmetry breaking produces 5 pGbs for each scalar. Since one $SU(3)$ is weakly gauged, 5 pGbs give -through the Higgs mechanism- masses of $\mathcal{O}(f)$ to the new
gauge bosons, while the 5 orthogonal combinations are pGbs (including the Higgs boson and, particularly, alleviating the hierarchy problem on its mass, $M_H\sim\mathcal{O}(v)$, due to
the structure of the SLH model).
Since the mass of the new gauge bosons is proportional to the high scale, $f$: $M_{W'}=\frac{gf}{\sqrt{2}}\left(1+\mathcal{O}\left(\frac{v^2}{f^2}\right)\right)$, this suppresses their
contribution at low energies. Light and the new heavy neutrinos do mix as regulated by the small parameter $\delta_\nu=\frac{-1}{\sqrt{2}\mathrm{tan}\beta}\frac{v}{f}$, where
$\mathrm{tan}\beta=f_1/f_2$ is the ratio between both vevs, and heavy neutrino masses are also set by the large scale $f$. In our computation we will exploit the fact that the ratio
$v/f$ is small ($\lesssim0.1$ \cite{smallratio}) to expand our amplitudes in it and keep only the leading contribution.\\

\section{Results}\label{Results}
LFV Higgs decays arise at one-loop level in the SLH model and are possible because the ``little`` heavy neutrinos $N_k$ couple to either charged lepton, $\ell_i$, irrespective of its flavor.
In the considered $H\to \ell\ell'$ decays only the topologies sketched in Fig. \ref{FeynmanDiagrams} contribute at this order. Since the Higgs boson couples not only to a pair of
$W^{(')}$ but also to $WW'$, the first topology gives rise to four different diagrams \footnote{We point out that exchanging $W\leftrightarrow W'$ in the diagrams built with the $HWW'$ vertex
yields two different results, as can easily be shown.}. In the second topology, the loop mediating the LFV transition may as well be placed in the $\ell'$ leg, and in the last one the
exchange $N_i\leftrightarrow\nu$ yields an inequivalent contribution. In all, this makes 12 different diagrams at this order working in the unitary gauge, where only physical degrees of
freedom appear and the number of diagrams is reduced. Although each diagram diverges stronger in this gauge than in that of 't Hooft-Feynman, the individual divergences cancel, as they must,
to ensure a finite result.\\
The contributions of self-energy type (second diagram) are proportional to $m_\ell$ and will thus be neglected for $\ell=e,\,\mu$. Along the computation we have neglected powers of the
ratios of lepton masses over gauge boson ($W,W'$) and heavy neutrino ($N$) masses. For definiteness we include our results for the $H\to \tau\ell$ decay. There is an overall dependence on
the heaviest final-state lepton mass, which shows that the decay rate $H\to \ell\ell'$ vanishes in the limit of massless decay products. Therefore, and in absence of a mechanism of LU
violation in the SLH model, we will have $BR(H\to \tau\mu)=BR(H\to \tau e)=\frac{m_\tau^2}{m_\mu^2}BR(H\to \mu e)$, which suppresses the latter decay rate by a factor $\sim283$. Given this
trivial proportionality, we will only be plotting $BR(H\to \tau\ell)$ in figs.~\ref{plot1}-\ref{plot4}.\\
Within this setting, there are two different mass scales in the problem: those of $\mathcal{O}(v)$ ($M_W$ and $M_H$) and those of $\mathcal{O}(f)$ ($M_N$ and $M_{W'}$). In Ref.~\cite{Lami:2016vrs}
we used $\omega=\frac{M_W^2}{M_{W'}^2}\sim\frac{v^2}{f^2}<<1$ to characterize the ratio between two separated scales and $\chi_j=\frac{M_{N_j}^2}{M_{W'}^2}\sim\mathcal{O}(1)$ for that of two high scales.
Since there were only three mass scales in the study of semileptonic LFV tau decays within this model, all mass ratios could be expressed in terms of $\omega$ and $\chi_j$ (unless there
is a very strong hierarchy between the different heavy neutrino flavors). In the present study, there is $M_H$, as well. This entails the appearance of four small ratios between a
light and a heavy particle mass: $\frac{M_H^2}{M_{N_j}^2}\sim\frac{M_W^2}{M_{N_j}^2}\sim\frac{M_H^2}{M_{W'}^2}\sim\frac{M_W^2}{M_{W'}^2}=\omega\sim\frac{v^2}{f^2}<<1$ (we recall that
$\delta_\nu\sim\frac{v}{f}$ as well) and two involving particles with similar masses: $\frac{M_W^2}{M_H^2}\sim\frac{M_{N_j}^2}{M_{W'}^2}=\chi_j\sim\mathcal{O}(1)$.\\

\begin{figure}[t]\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{Htaumu.eps}
\caption{\small }
\label{FeynmanDiagrams} Feynman diagrams for $H \to \ell \ell'$ decays in the SLH model.
\end{figure}

Our analytical expressions are simplified in the limit of only two heavy neutrinos that we follow \cite{Lami:2016vrs}. We will however, consider also the case with three
heavy neutrinos for completeness after eq.~(\ref{BR}).
Let us discuss our choices for defining the parameter space of the model before presenting our expressions. In the numerical analysis we have stick to the choices argued in our previous work
\cite{Lami:2016vrs}, in such a way that a considerable portion of the points generated randomly in the ranges fixed \textit{a priori} fulfils the constraints coming from
$\mu\to e\gamma$, $\mu\to e e e$ and $\mu-e$ conversion in nuclei \cite{delAguila:2011wk} and also those on $\tau\to \mu\gamma$ \cite{Lami:2016vrs}.

We recall in the following the \textit{a priori} range of variation that we are allowing for the independent model parameters in our parameter space scan:
\begin{itemize}
 \item We have varied the scale of compositeness between 2 and 10 TeVs. Lower values are in tension with electroweak precision observables and larger figures enter the region where a UV
 completion of the SLH model (that would become strongly coupled) starts to be expected \cite{smallratio}.
 \item The LFV processes are possible in the SLH model because of the presence of the heavy neutrinos. The dependence of the amplitude on their contribution is
 \begin{equation} \label{eq:sumneu}
{\cal T} \, = \, \sum_{j} V_{\ell}^{j \mu *} V_{\ell}^{j \tau} \, A \left(\chi_j \right)\,.
\end{equation}
Assuming two families and one mixing angle, this can be written
\begin{equation} \label{eq:sumneu2}
{\cal T} \, = \, \frac{\sin 2\theta}{2}  \, \left[ A(\chi_1) - A(\chi_2) \right] \, .
\end{equation}
This simplification will be used to write eq.(\ref{BR}) below. Particularly, since the terms with $\log(\omega)$ are independent on $\chi_j$, they do not contribute in this limit (see, however, eq.~(\ref{replacement3Ns})).
This, by the way, prevents the appearance of a moderately large log, $\log(\chi_j/\omega)$, in the two heavy neutrino scenario. In the numerics, we will use the limits $0\leq \chi_1\leq0.25$ and
$1.1\chi_1\leq \chi_2\leq 10\chi_1$ and $\sin 2 \theta \leq 0.25$, consistent with current data~\cite{delAguila:2011wk,heavyneutrinos}.
\item Finally, the ratio of the two vevs in the model, $\tan\beta$, is also a free parameter of the SLH model. We will take the range $ 1 < \tan \beta < 10$ for it,
consistent with the known limits for the mixing between a 'little' and a light neutrino encoded in $\delta_\nu$, which should be $\lesssim 0.05$ \cite{delAguila:2011wk,heavyneutrinos}.
\end{itemize}

In these LFV Higgs decays there is at least a lepton which can be considered massless and, thus, with fixed helicity. Then, the matrix element for the $H\to \tau\ell$ decays can be
written as

\begin{equation}\label{m.e.}
\mathcal{M}_{H}=-\frac{i v \alpha^2 \delta_\nu m_\tau\sum_j V_{\tau j} V_{\mu j}^* }{s_w^3 M_W^2}\left[O\log\chi_j-P(\chi_j)\right]\bar{u}(p') P_R u(q,m_\tau)\,,
\end{equation}
\\
where:

\begin{equation}
O=\frac{\delta_\nu}{16}\frac{M_H^2-13M_W^2}{M_W^2}
\end{equation}
\\
and

\begin{eqnarray}
P(\chi_j)&=&\mathrm{cot}\left(2\beta\right)\frac{M_H^2\left(3\chi_j^3-9\chi_j^2+8\chi_j-2\right)+M_W^2\chi_j\left(12\chi_j^2-23\chi_j+10\right)}{8M_{W'}M_W\chi_j\left(\chi_j-1\right)}
+\frac{\omega\left(2\chi_j^4+20\chi_j^3-74\chi_j^2+35\chi_j-1\right)}{48\left(\chi_j-1\right)^2}\nonumber\\
&+&\frac{\delta_\nu \chi_j}{24M_W^2\sin^2\left(2\beta\right)}\left[-5M_H^2+3\cos\left(4\beta\right)\left(4M_W^2-M_H^2\right)\right]\,.
\end{eqnarray}

In our computation we kept terms of subleading order ($v^3/f^3$) and check for accidental numerical enhancements of these before neglecting them. After checking its irrelevance, we
omitted one such a term in $O$ and another one in $P(\chi_j)$.

The corresponding branching ratio is \footnote{The assumption of two heavy neutrinos has already been used.}

\begin{eqnarray}\label{BR}
BR\left(H\rightarrow\tau\mu\right)=\frac{(M_H^2-m_\tau^2)^2\alpha^4v^2\delta_\nu^2m_\tau^2}{16\pi M_H^3\Gamma_HM_W^4s_w^6}\left(\frac{\mathrm{sin}2\theta}{2}\right)^2\left[O
\log\left(\frac{\chi_1}{\chi_2}\right)+P(\chi_2)-P(\chi_1)\right]^2\,.
\end{eqnarray}
\\

We have performed a scan of the parameter space limited by the above \textit{a priori} restrictions verifying that the constraints from low-energy
processes are respected and plotted $BR(H\to\tau\ell)$ ($\%$) as a function of one parameter in turn ($f$, $M_{N_1}$, $\tan \beta$ and $\sin 2 \theta$) in the left pannel
of figs. \ref{plot1}-\ref{plot4}. Roughly $23\%$ of the $5\cdot10^4$ randomly generated points satisfied the low-energy restrictions.

Since these branching fractions are very suppressed, we have considered next the case with three heavy neutrinos, $N_k$, expecting that the increase of degrees of freedom allows to satisfy the low-energy contraints on LFV processes
and, at the same time, yield $H\to\ell\ell'$ with larger decay rates. In this general case we have considered the PDG \cite{pdg} parametrization for the mixing between charged leptons and heavy neutrinos assuming only a vanishing CP violating phase
for simplicity.
Therefore

\begin{equation}
 V_{\ell}^{if}\,=\,\left(
 \begin{array}{ccc}
  c_{12}c_{13} & s_{12}c_{13} & s_{13} \\
  -s_{12}c_{23}-c_{12}s_{23}s_{13} & c_{12}c_{23}-s_{12}s_{23}s_{13} & s_{23}c_{13} \\
  s_{12}s_{23}-c_{12}c_{23}s_{13} & -c_{12}s_{23}-s_{12}c_{23}s_{13} & c_{23}c_{13}
 \end{array}
 \right)\,,
\end{equation}
where we have employed the usual notation $c_{ij}\,\equiv$ cos$\theta_{ij}$, $s_{ij}\,\equiv$ sin$\theta_{ij}$, $i\,=\,1,\,2,\,3$ and $f\,=\,e,\,\mu,\,\tau$. In this case the replacement
needed in eq.~(\ref{BR}) is
\begin{equation} \label{replacement3Ns}
 \left(\frac{\mathrm{sin}2\theta}{2}\right)^2\left[O \log\left(\frac{\chi_1}{\chi_2}\right)+P(\chi_2)-P(\chi_1)\right]^2 \to \sum_{i=1}^3 V_\ell^{i\mu}V_\ell^{i\tau}\left[O\log\left(\frac{\chi_i}{\omega}
 \right)+P(\chi_i)\right]^2\,,
\end{equation}
where the assumed CP conservation of $V_{\ell}^{if}$ was used.

We have
verified that restricting the maximum values of $|V_\ell^{i f} V_\ell^{i f^\prime}|$ to reasonable upper limits does not yield additional constraints than requiring the fulfilment of the
experimental bounds on low-energy LFV processes. Consequently, we have scanned over $-1\leq s_{ij}\leq 1$ ensuring the low-energy restrictions. Constraints in the case with three heavy neutrinos are milder than in the previous case where two
heavy neutral leptons were considered \cite{heavyneutrinos}. We take advantage of that to slightly modify our choices of their parameters aiming to increase the predicted $H\to\ell\ell'$ branching ratios. For the masses of the three heavy neutrinos
we have followed the educated guess $0.1\leq\chi_1\leq0.25$, $1.1\chi_1\leq\chi_2\leq100\chi_1$ and $1.1\chi_2\leq\chi_3\leq100\chi_2$ (we recall that $\chi_i$ depends quadratically on the $N_i$ mass), while $f$ and tan$(\beta)$ have been varied
in the same way as in the two heavy neutrino scenario. In this way we have obtained the plots depicted on the right pannels of figures \ref{plot1}-\ref{plot4}. The comparison of the left and right plots of these figures shows that, indeed, allowing
for an extra heavy neutrino gives us enough freedom to increase the predicted decay rates by some four orders of magnitude. However, these still remain well below the CMS hint on $H\to\tau\mu$ and the detectability level at LHC.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\vspace*{2.0cm}
\begin{center}
$ \begin{array}{cc}
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt1.eps}&
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt1_3.eps}
 \end{array}$
 \end{center}
\caption{\label{plot1} Dependence of the scale of compositeness, $f$, of the branching ratio ($\%$) of the $H\to\tau\ell$ decays in the SLH model with two (left) and three (right) heavy neutrinos.
The red line shows the 95$\%$ CL upper bound by CMS.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\vspace*{2.0cm}
\begin{center}
$ \begin{array}{cc}
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt4.eps}&
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt4_3.eps}
 \end{array}$
 \end{center}
\caption{\label{plot2} Dependence on the lightest mass of the heavy neutrinos, $M_{N_1}$, of the branching ratio ($\%$) of the $H\to\tau\ell$ decays in the SLH model with two (left) and three (right)
heavy neutrinos. The red line shows the 95$\%$ CL upper bound by CMS.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\vspace*{2.0cm}
\begin{center}
$ \begin{array}{cc}
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt2.eps}&
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt2_3.eps}
 \end{array}$
 \end{center}
\caption{\label{plot3} Dependence on the ratio of the two vevs, $\tan \beta$, of the branching ratio ($\%$) of the $H\to\tau\ell$ decays in the SLH model with two (left) and three (right) heavy neutrinos.
The red line shows the 95$\%$ CL upper bound by CMS.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\vspace*{2.0cm}
\begin{center}
$ \begin{array}{cc}
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt3.eps}&
\includegraphics[scale=0.33, angle=-90]{Hscatt3_3.eps}
 \end{array}$
 \end{center}
\caption{\label{plot4} Left plot: Dependence of the mixing angle between the two heavy leptons, $\sin 2 \theta$, of the branching ratio ($\%$) of the $H\to\tau\ell$ decays in the SLH model. The red line
shows the 95$\%$ CL upper bound by CMS. Right plot: Analogous representation for the largest mixing among heavy neutrinos, $|V_\ell^{i\mu} V_\ell^{i\tau}|$.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\vspace*{2.0cm}
\includegraphics[scale=0.6, angle=-90]{Hscatt5_3.eps}
\caption{\label{plot5} The correlation between the $H\to\tau\ell$ and $\mu\to e \gamma$ decays is illustrated within the SLH model in the case with three heavy neutrinos, $N_k$. The
x-axis is cut at the current upper limit (UL) at 90$\%$ C.L. of $BR(\mu\to e\gamma)$, $5.7\cdot10^{-13}$~\cite{pdg}.}
\end{figure}

The general trend is that the SLH model produces $H\to\tau\ell$ decay widths which are at least six orders of magnitude smaller than the $BR\sim\mathcal{O}(\%)$ hinted
by CMS (see also figure \ref{plot5}). A similarly strong suppression of $BR(H\to\tau\ell)$ is also found in a recent analysis within the Little Higgs Model with T-parity including
constraints from other charged lepton flavor violating processes~\cite{Yang:2016hrh}. Finally, in figure \ref{plot5} we show that there is basically no correlation between $BR(H\to\tau\ell)$ and
$BR(\mu\to e\gamma)$ (the most restrictive low-energy search) in the case with three heavy neutrinos. There are not sizable correlations between the pairs $BR(H\to\tau\ell)$, $BR(\tau\to\ell\gamma)$ and $BR(H\to\mu e)$, $BR(\mu\to e\gamma)$ either.

As expected, if the SLH model is to satisfy the bounds on $H\to\mu e$ set by $\mu\to e\gamma$ ($BR(H\to \mu e)\lesssim10^{-8}$ \cite{LowE})
-as it does-, it must fall way too short to
explain the CMS hint, as a consequence of its LU. It must be pointed out, however, that we restricted the Yukawa interactions in the lepton sector up to operators of dimension 5. Given
our ignorance of the flavor structure of the theory at its cut-off, it could be possible that the contribution of higher-dimensional operators (see, e.g. Harnik \textit{et. al.} in
\cite{LowE}) could change the results we presented. Finally, we point out that very mild variations are appreciated in figs. \ref{plot1}-\ref{plot4} with respect to the independent variables. Decay
probabilities are slightly larger for smaller $f$ and $M_{N_1}$ and for larger $\tan\beta$ and $\sin2\theta$ (max$|V_\ell^{i\mu} V_\ell^{i\tau}|$).\\

\section{Conclusions}\label{conclusions}
Flavor violation has shown up in the quark and neutrino sectors. Although extremely suppressed in the SM extended with right-handed neutrinos, it may appear at measurable rates in several
well-motivated new physics models. On the other hand, the discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC has brought a new scenario to search for LFV in the decays of this scalar. An elegant
solution to the hierarchy problem on the Higgs mass is provided by the LH models. Here, we have considered the SLH model (one of the simplest realizations of these ideas) against the
ATLAS and CMS limits on $BR(H\to\tau\mu)$, of order percent. Given the LU of the SLH model, it is not surprising that the model cannot simultaneously account for the tiny rate at which
the $H\to\mu e$ decays must proceed ($\lesssim10^{-8}$) and also for a measurable signal at LHC. We have found that a $BR(H\to\mu e)$ as low as $10^{-10}$ is obtained naturally (even allowing for three
heavy neutrinos, which increases the predicted decay rates with respect to the scenario with two heavy neutral leptons), with $BR(H\to\tau\ell)$ only enhanced by a factor of order $300$. Thus, the confirmation of the CMS
hint would disfavor the SLH model, as it will do a measurement at Belle-II of semileptonic LFV tau decays \cite{Lami:2016vrs}.

\vspace*{0.25cm}
\section*{Acknowledgements}
We both thank Jorge Portol\'es for drawing our interest to charged lepton flavor violation and for valuable suggestions on this study. This research has been supported in part by the
Spanish Government, Generalitat Valenciana and ERDF funds from the EU Commission [grants FPA2011-23778, FPA2014-53631-C2-1-P, PROMETEOII/2013/007, SEV-2014-0398]. A. L. also acknowledges
Generalitat Valenciana for a Grisol\'{\i}a scholarship. P. R. benefited from the financial support of projects 296 ('Fronteras de la Ciencia'), 236394, 250628 ('Ciencia B\'asica') and
SNI (Conacyt, Mexico), and from the hospitality of IFIC, where part of this work was done. P. R. is also indebted for a useful discussion on this topic with Juanjo Sanz Cillero.

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Comprehensive analysis of global nebulizer market provides an overview of the market and its key concerns. Market dynamics covers market drivers, restrains and opportunities which would help simplify market behavior. Market segmentation section provides an in-depth study of the products and geographic segments which would be helpful in understanding current market trends. Porter's Five Force analysis would be helpful for strategists to determine market profitability. Buyers' switching cost for a nebulizer product is low and hence, the bargaining power of the supplier is low. Nebulizer products are less varied which tends to increase the threat new entrants. Low consumer switching cost and availability of alternative therapies increase the threat of substitute products. Industrial rivalry is intense due to numerous competitors present in to the market.
The global nebulizer market is segmented into two major categories: Product Type and geography.


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Many companies are operating in a business context which is more volatile than ever. Uncertainties of market dynamics have been boosted through America's steps towards trade wars. With all the complexity we face in a global economy and the inherent ambiguity leaders face challenge like never before. This world has truly become a VUCA world.
Do you wonder what this four letter acronym means? If you know what it is, just skip the following paragraph and continue reading further down.
The usage of the term VUCA began in 1987s. It originates from military vocabulary and has been subsequently used in emerging ideas related to strategic leadership thinking. VUCA is often used to describe how people view the conditions under which they make decisions, plan forward, manage risk, foster change and solve problems. Read more about it here.
Considering all these aspects it becomes very clear that one of the key success factors for a leader working in a VUCA environment is the person's and the organisation's agility. Here, agility means the power of moving quickly and easily, taking decisions on the fly and operating with high flexibility in order to adjust to rapid changes of the context. This requires a new set of competencies and skills!
So, what are these skills and competencies? Rather then reinventing the wheel I have decided to present in this blog post a book about Leadership Agility which describes exactly what I consider important for leaders who want to become skilful when operating in a VUCA world.
The title of the book is "Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change". It was written by William B. Joiner and Stephen A. Josephs.
The authors describe an agile leader as fully present "in the moment," with the ability to engage with events, yet at the same time being able to step back and see problems from different perspectives.
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All aspects of the book are built on two corner stones.
The first of these is that Joiner and Stephens approach Leadership Agility and its development through an integral approach. One part is the classical 'Outside In' competency development and the second more integrative part is the 'Inside Out' development of deeper mental and emotional capacities.
The second corner stone is the theory of stage development of human beings when growing up, which emerged in the late 1950s from Erik Erikson et al.. Joiner and Stephens relate their Leadership Agility levels, described later, relatively close to these development stages.
The authors describe a piece of research which involved more than 600 managers. In this study they analysed the agility and its quality demonstrated by the participating candidates in connection to three critical areas of leadership effectiveness which they classify as. 'Pivotal Conversations', Team initiatives ' and 'Organisational initiatives'.
The second level is described as the "Achiever". Leaders at the Achiever level – about 35% of all– are more reflective than those at the Expert level, having grown beyond the level of knowledge based behaviour.
The third level is specified as the "Catalyst". Those on this level are sufficiently agile to succeed over the long term; only about 5% of all leaders reach this stage.
The fourth level is labelled as the "Co-Creator". Co-Creators – roughly 4% of all leaders – gain a profound understanding of all the connections between the business environment and everything else that makes up life.
The highest level, level 5, is called the "Synergist". At this highest level of agility, the person has developed extraordinary qualities of sustained awareness of the whole context and present moment. Based on the author's analysis only 1% of all leaders have reached the stage of the Synergist.
You may wonder how this could help you in your day-to-day life as a leader of an organisation where being more or less constantly at the brink of turmoil requires quick action and flexibility in thinking and doing. I consider the above-described levels of agility quite helpful in order to determine at what level your current agility is and to reflect at what level you would want to be considering the challenges you face within your organisation. Hence, it helps to map the territory for your journey of leadership development.
So, what do the authors offer as advice regarding the development of Leadership Agility?
In the above-mentioned study they also determined that in order to move forward in your levels of agility you should concentrate on four competency areas within which to develop the skills driven by your mental and emotional capacities.
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Octavio José Obregón Díaz (Ciudad de México, 19 de diciembre de 1945) es un físico, investigador, catedrático y académico mexicano. Se ha especializado en el estudio e investigación de la gravitación, la astrofísica relativista, la supergravitación, la teoría de campos y la teoría de cuerdas.

Estudios y docencia
Realizó la licenciatura en Física en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) cuyo título obtuvo en 1969 y un doctorado en la Universität Konstanz en Alemania que obtuvo en 1973.

Entre 1973 y 1974 perteneció al Instituto de Astronomía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. En 1974 ingresó a la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAM-I) en donde permaneció hasta 1991, y donde fundó el área de Gravitación y Astrofísica del Departamento de Física. Desde 1992 a la fecha es profesor-investigador en la División de Ciencias e Ingenierías (anteriormente Instituto de Física) del Campus León de la Universidad de Guanajuato. De 1992 a 2002 fue director de esta misma institución.

Investigador y académico
En la década de 1980 realizó estudios sobre las aplicaciones de la supergravedad en la cosmología cuántica, sus investigaciones despertaron el interés de Stephen Hawking, con quien realizó trabajos en coautoría. Posteriormente realizó investigaciones sobre modelos cosmológicos cuánticos supersimétricos cuyos primeros resultados mostraron que el método no selecciona un estado preferente del Universo. A finales de la década de 1990 y principios de la de 2000 se especializó en el estudio de los modelos cuánticos de la materia y su evolución en el Universo. Junto con sus colaboradores mostró modelos en los que se propone la dualidad-S en teorías de norma de la gravitación y supergravitación. Posteriormente realizó estudios sobre modelos de cosmología cuántica no conmutativa proponiendo además una generalización no conmutativa de la gravedad. En 2010 propuso una generalización de la entropía que depende solo de la probabilidad y la ha explorado en conexión con holografía y gravedad.

Es investigador emérito del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores y miembro del Consejo Consultivo de Ciencias de la Presidencia de la República. Ha sido formador de instituciones y de grupos de investigación en México. Tiene más de ciento cincuenta artículos de investigación.

Entre sus colaboradores destacan figuras de la física teórica como Stephen Hawking, Jerzy Plebański, Jorge Pullin, Rodolfo Gambini, Juan José Giambiagi entre otros.

Premios y distinciones
 Premio de la Investigación Científica por la Sociedad Mexicana de Física en 1995.
 Mención honorífica de la Gravity Research Foundation en 1997.
 Fellow de la American Physical Society en 1999.
 Premio Estatal de Ciencias "Alfredo Duges" por el Gobierno del Estado de Guanajuato en 1999.
 Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes en el área de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas y Naturales por la Presidencia de la República (México) en 1999.
 Miembro e la Academia de Ciencias de América Latina (ACAL) desde 2004.
 Premio Elsevier en 2009.
 Investigador Emérito por el Sistema Nacional de Investigadores desde 2011.
 Miembro titular de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias desde 2012.
 Premio Nacional a la Investigación Socio Humanística, Científica y Tecnológica de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, 2011.
 Premio al Desarrollo de la Física en México por la Sociedad Mexicana de Física en 2012.
 Doctor honoris causa por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana en 2012.
 Premio Crónica a la Ciencia y Tecnología por el Grupo Editorial Crónica en 2015.
 Doctor honoris causa por la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla en 2016.
 Doctor honoris causa por la Universidad de Guanajuato en 2018

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Alumnado de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Astrofísicos de México
Académicos e investigadores de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Académicos e investigadores de la Universidad de Guanajuato
Premio Nacional de Ciencias y Artes (México)
Doctores honoris causa de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Miembros de la Academia de Ciencias de América Latina
Investigadores del Instituto de Astronomía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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Q: Problem integrating web3j into maven clean install I have a multi-module maven project where I want to generate java wrappers from .sol files, to achieve this I'm using web3j's maven plugin. Here are the (relevant sections of the) poms:
main pom.xml:
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.web3j</groupId>
            <artifactId>web3j-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>4.9.4</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>generate-sources</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

child pom.xml:
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.web3j</groupId>
            <artifactId>web3j-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>generate-sources</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
            <configuration>
                <soliditySourceFiles>
                    <directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/solidity</directory>
                    <includes>
                        <include>**/*.sol</include>
                    </includes>
                </soliditySourceFiles>
                <packageName>org.example.project-name.wrappers</packageName>
                <outputDirectory>
                    <java>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/web3j/java</java>
                </outputDirectory>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

I'm build the project with maven with the following command: call mvn clean -U install.
The files do generate, and in the correct location, but when maven begins the compile phase of install it runs into the following error:
Compilation failure
[ERROR] /C:/source/project/project-name/src/main/java/org/example/child/TestFile.java:[4,51]
package org.example.project-name.wrappers does not exist

TestFile is an empty file that tries to import one of the generated files.
I also have an openapi code generator plugin, it does generate files properly, and I run into no issues when importing those.
I didn't find any configuration options in the web3j plugin that I missed and I also didn't find any way to help mvn install or mvn compile consider the directory in which the wrappers are generated.
I tried manually extracting the bundled calls that install makes and manually interjecting the web3j:generate-sources:
 call mvn clean
 call mvn web3j:generate-sources
 call mvn process-resources
 call mvn compile
 call mvn process-test-resources
 call mvn test
 call mvn package
 call mvn install
 call mvn deploy

But this too fails at compile. I'm assuming that the web3j plugin doesn't update a variable storing all generated sources, but that's just a guess and I don't know how I would fix that.

A: I managed to solve the issue using org.codehaus:build-helper-maven-plugin.
I added the plugin to the dependencies of my main pom and the relevant child (I use dependency management), then added the plugin to the child's pom:
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>add-source</id>
            <phase>generate-sources</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>add-source</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <sources>
                    <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/web3j</source>
                </sources>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

I also figured out that my assumption was correct: web3j's plugin does not update the project's sources directory.

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Category Archives: Covers
Covers, Music
Muse is Hungry LIke the Wolf
January 22, 2019 Daily Duranie	1 Comment
Give me a sign
Has anyone noticed that DDHQ has been promoting a cover of Hungry Like the Wolf performed by Muse lately? I did – and filed the information in my head for later.
Today was that day, my friends. I had to mentally prepare myself. I would not only be listening to Hungry Like the Wolf, but sitting through an actual cover of it. Doesn't everyone do that???
In touch with the ground
In full disclosure, I've liked Muse for a long time. They've been on my radar since the soundtrack for the first Twilight was released with "Supermassive Black Hole". (Yes, I did actually read the books and go to the movies with my oldest. I'm a mom. It's what we do.) I was a little surprised they decided to do a cover of a Duran Duran song, much less HLTW. It seems to be one that many bands choose for their cover. I was curious to see what Muse would do with it.
Covers usually take one of two basic routes: either they are rearranged to the point where they are almost unrecognizable, or they hold true to the spirit of the original. Maybe they have a little flair here and there, but the spirit of the song holds on faithfully. I really wasn't sure which way Muse would go. I figured it would be a little different, yet recognizable.
I'm on the hunt
Clearly, DDHQ has been promoting the song to some extent – so I wanted to hear what it had to offer! I sat down with my coffee this morning, and clicked play, hoping I wouldn't be completely disappointed or put off. (one never knows!)
Here is the link if you want to see and hear it for yourself! Muse is Hungry Like the Wolf.
The first thing I can tell you is that Muse held true to Duran Duran. I don't even know if they changed a single drum beat, which surprised me. Obviously, I could tell it was Muse playing the song, but I don't think they took much in the way of poetic license with the arrangement or even the rhythm. It sounded like Muse playing Duran Duran, and while that was comforting, it was also strange.
I think that bands are in a no-win situation with covers much of the time. If they take too much liberty – fans will hate it because the original is what they fell in love with, or what they know. If they don't take enough, then they've got yahoos like me saying "Hey, how come you didn't get more creative with it?"
Straddle the line
In my own defense, I like to see a band choose a song that inspires them, and pushes them to do more with it. Take the song to a different level, or a different place. Explore the sound, create a new environment – that sort of thing. That doesn't necessarily mean that I want to hear HLTW sound like a ballad, but I want to hear them create something fresh.
In my opinion, the song was good. They didn't perform it to make fun of it or to change it from pop to classical jazz. They wanted to perform in tribute to a band that they apparently respect and admire, and they were absolutely successful in doing so. I think Muse could have done more with it on a creative level, to be sure, but they chose not to – and I have to respect that because the song was performed incredibly well. Obviously they felt it is amazing as is, and you know, that speaks to Duran Duran's own songwriting genius. I can't argue with that!
Discord & Rhyme (my favorite line!!)
I did rather enjoy the end of it, as Matt Bellamy began to launch into a very familiar guitar riff/solo that Dom likes to do during the live shows…and I thought it was an interesting spin to have that part end the song rather than act as the bridge. So in that aspect, they did assert some creativity with the arrangement.
Overall, I enjoyed it, and I still say that "Hungry Like the Wolf" is indeed the song that will outlive all of us.
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If We're All of the Same Stuff
January 19, 2019 Daily Duranie	2 Comments
I apologize for not having a blog post yesterday. I would like to say that this won't happen again, but I cannot. Before I even say what I'm about to say, I can already hearing some comments. You all thought my campaign work was done in November, right? Well…not so much. I had a three week break before I took on a new role, which is a campaign manager for a local race, which will be decided in the first week in April. This combined with the end of the semester at work means that things are pretty intense with me right now. I'm so tired that I feel like crying, which doesn't mean that I'm not enjoying the new work but wish that I had more hours in my day. Anyway, my apologizes for yesterday's lack of a blog and any in the future.
Despite my busy schedule this past week, I did one task just for fun, which was to contact a fandom group of friends. No, this group is not connected to Duran Duran or Duran fandom. These women are people I met when I was really into the TV show, Roswell, back in the early 2000s. Back then, we reached out to each other after discovering that we all lived in the Midwest on a message board. The first get together led to lots more even though the show hasn't seen a new episode in 17 years until now…sort of.
This week, a reboot of the original series, premiered. I felt compelled to reach out to my little group of friends to see what they thought, if they were planning to watch, etc. As we shared our thoughts, one thing became extremely obvious. All of us are assuming the worst about the series with comments like, "They will never be the real characters." As I read more and more messages like this, I found myself snorting and thinking about whether or not there is, has been or could be something similar to this in the Duran fandom.
First, I considered cover songs. Is this similar to when a band covers a Duran Duran song? I don't really think so. A whole show is a much bigger deal. Could it be a whole album of covers? That definitely seems like a closer comparison. After all, it might be that some songs of an entire cover album might get Duran Duran's music more than others as some elements of a reboot might get it right. If we assume that these are comparable situations, I'm not surprised that my Roswell friends responded in the way they did. After all, this was a show that they loved. It is hard to imagine that any reboot could create the same sort of love and devotion even with elements that are very similar. Likewise, I have seen a lot of Duran fans reject any covers of Duran's music. They love the originals so much that any aspect that is different makes it feels dramatically different and bad to many of the hardcore fans.
Then, of course, comes the question of how similar should the cover be. Should covers try to match the original as much as possible or would it be better if it creates a completely new version or interpretation while keeping key elements like lyrics? I can see both. On one hand, if the cover is alike in style to the original, it could feel comforting. It could also feature the best elements of the original. On the other hand, if the cover sounds really different, that might be less problematic to hardcore fans. A new interpretation could be judged not based on the original but completely on its own.
True confession time. I have not watched the first episode yet. The reason is simple as I want to be able to take it all in when I am not super duper tired or stressed. I'm wondering if this cover of sorts could actually make me appreciate the original show more, not because it sucks but because it shines a light on what make the show so awesome to me. Could it renew my interest in the show or the fandom? Maybe. It certainly got my Roswell group of friends to be chatty all week, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. To me, that makes the reboot worth it. Besides, as I told them, if it really sucks, then we should watch and make a drinking game out o it.
So, what do the rest of you think of covers? Reboots? Are they good and valuable or annoying and dumb?
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Covers, Duran Duran
Help Needed: Duran Covers Others!
October 16, 2016 Daily Duranie	2 Comments
I'm sure that many of you are aware that I am responsible for the daily question. Over the years, I have asked about many different Duran Duran related questions. Some of them include: Favorite song, Favorite album, Favorite song on each album, Favorite b-side, Favorite piece of merchandise, Favorite video, Favorite album cover, Favorite side project, Favorite song from each side/solo project, Favorite pictures of individual members and group, and more. Lately, I have focused the questions on the setlist after it became a very frequent topic among fans. I'm reaching the end of that set of questions. Thus, I need and want to move on.
In thinking about the questions I have asked about, I decided that it would be fun to talk about songs that Duran Duran has covered. (By the way, if you have a suggestion for a set of questions for the question of the day, do let me know! I'm sure that many of you are more creative than I am). Anyway, back to the next set of questions, Duran Duran has covered a LOT of songs over the course of their career. Some of these songs were featured on Thank You, the album of all covers. Others were on singles while some were only played live.
I have come up with an initial list of songs that I know that Duran Duran has covered at some point. Here's the thing. I'm SURE that I'm missing many of them. Thus, I need your help to complete the list of songs Duran has covered. Here is what I have so far, in alphabetical order:
Ball of Confusion
Boys Keep Swinging
Come Up and See Me (Make Me Smile)
Crystal Ship
If She Knew What She Wants
I Wanna Take You Higher
I Wanna Take You Higher Again
Lay Lady Lay
Needle and the Damage Done
911 Is a Joke
Rebel Rebel
Staman
Sweet Jane
Virginia Plain
When I Was a Little Boy
What songs did I miss? On top of that, I would love to know when Duran Duran covered the songs. It gives me a chance to try to search for them online because I would love to be able to link to them so that others who might not have heard those covers can. It makes for better voting, too. So, will all of you help me out? What songs did Duran Duran cover that I missed??? Thank you in advance.
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Covers, David Bowie
Duran Duran Celebrating David Bowie
It has been a week. My thoughts and feelings mirror many of the posts, tweets, messages I have seen, sent, and read since Monday. I'm exhausted. Mentally. Certainly emotionally. I feel very heavy and like I'm struggling to swim upstream. This, of course, is common when is grieving, even if that person or persons are not known to us, personally. This week, the world lost two greats in David Bowie and Alan Rickman due to the horrific disease of cancer and many of us are truly still mourning the loss. Yesterday, Rhonda blogged about her emotional connection to Alan Rickman and the Harry Potter fandom. While I do not share that specific fandom, I still get it. I truly get it. I understand how tough it is to lose someone who is a significant focus of a fandom one belongs to. While David Bowie might not have been the focus of Duran Duran fandom. He certainly had a direct connection. Since after all, it is probably safe to say that if there was no David Bowie, there would be no Duran Duran. He inspired them. He motivated them to not only form a band but to form the kind of band they are. His influence cannot be measured. Yet, it remains so evident, so clear in so much of what Duran has done and continues to do.
The love that Duran Duran has for David Bowie is so strong that they have covered his music more than anyone else, I believe. They love the music so much that they wanted to recreate it for themselves, to show the world how much the songs meant to them, or at least this is how I'm interpreting their choice to cover Bowie music. Over Duran's career, they have, in fact, covered 5 David Bowie songs. One thing I have learned in my life is how important it is to celebrate someone you have lost. Thus, it seems fitting to me to celebrate David Bowie and his influence on Duran Duran by checking out those 5 cover songs.
Duran Duran included their cover of the song, Fame, as the b-side to their second single, Careless Memories, in 1981.
While they did, indeed, play this song live. I could not find a live clip of it. Therefore, I chose a montage video.
Duran Duran released this cover on the Japanese version of their Thank You album in 1995.
I do not believe that they ever played this song live.
This cover was played live and during TV/promotional appearances during the Thank You era of 1995. It never appeared on an official release, which is really unfortunate.
This clip is from 1995 at a Hard Rock Live performance.
After the Thank You era, which focused on cover songs, Duran Duran seemed to take a very long break from covering other artists' work. They broke out from this break to record Boys Keep Swinging for the album, We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie, released in 2010. This song was available as a limited edition 7″ vinyl single as well as a download.
They did not play it live much, but they did play it for the Fendi private party in 2010 as seen above.
Here is the recorded version as well:
Duran Duran played this song live in Greece in the summer of 2012 to commemorate Bowie's first performance of the song on the UK's Top of the Pops TV show in 1972.
Personally, I would love to see them perform this one live…perhaps in..say..the summer of 2016!!
The loss of David Bowie is immeasurable. I, for one, am thankful that his work, his music lives on and that we can all celebrate him forever.
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Lesser Known Songs Duran Duran Covered
July 6, 2015 Daily Duranie	5 Comments
About a month ago, I posted a blog about Duran Duran demos that people might not know about. People seemed to enjoy the post and I promised more. Well, today, I'm finally fulfilling that obligation in a way. Today's post will be about songs that Duran Duran has covered. Now, we know that they recorded a whole album of covers, Thank You. Today's covers are ones that might have ended up on b-sides or on bootlegs or something similar. These songs were often ones that Duran covered live, meaning that the only time they never got played by Duran Duran was on stage, in front of a live audience. As with the demos, I tried to choose ones from different eras.
Fame – Originally Written by David Bowie, John Lennon and Carlos Alomar. Released on David Bowie's album, Young Americans.
Duran Duran covered this one and released it on the 12 inch version of Careless Memories, way back in 1981. If you don't have the 12 inch, you could also own a copy from the Singles Box Set.
Gimme Some Truth – Written by John Lennon and released on his Imagine album.
Duran Duran performed this one live in 1991 at the Jerusalem for Reconciliation Concert in London. For those unfamiliar with the message of the song, it was a protest song in which Lennon was frustrated by the Vietnam War and politicians like President Nixon. Duran's cover was included on bootlegs entitled Didn't Anybody Tell You and Money or Reputation.
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie song from his album, Diamond Dogs.
This song is a well-known for its gender-bending lyrics like, "She's not sure if you're a boy or a girl." Duran Duran performed during promotional activities during the Thank You era. This performance is from the Hard Rock Live in 1995. This song is included on a number of bootlegs, including Thank You Demos, Rebel Rebel – Rarities Live, Boyz on the Side and many more.
House of the Rising Sun – Traditional folk song
This song is said to be a traditional folk song adapted to New Orleans. It was successfully recorded by The Animals in 1964. Duran Duran played this song at the Voodoo Music Festival in New Orleans in October of 2006 as it seemed appropriate to describe a city returning to life after the devastating Hurricane Katrina of 2005.
Showroom Dummies – Originally done by Kraftwerk
During the promotional Broadway shows for the Red Carpet Massacre album as well as the first leg of the tour supporting that album, Duran Duran performed an electro set as seen as the video above. During the Broadway shows, they opened up the electro set with this song. This makes sense since Kraftwerk is an electronic band.
What other cover songs can you think of that Duran Duran has performed? There are certainly plenty more lesser known Duran Duran "songs" that I can share. Perhaps, you would prefer more live songs. Maybe, demos are more your thing. For some people, the preference might be more an era thing. If so, is there a specific era you would like me to focus on? Let me know! I'll do what I can!
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