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\section{Introduction}

The hadron colliders, due to the biggest center-of-mass energy and
their relatively compact sizes, still remain a main tool for
discoveries of very heavy particles. Thus, in 1983 the two dedicated
experiments UA1~\cite{UA1} and UA2~\cite{UA2} discovered the
intermediate vector bosons at the CERN SPS Collider. One faces,
however, a very large background from the strong interactions.

In any case, besides the simple manifestation of the existence of
the weak bosons, one needs a precise study of their properties
following from the Standard Model (SM). This task has been
excellently fulfilled by the Large Electron-Positron (LEP) storage
ring at CERN and the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) at SLAC.
However, the masses of the $t$ quark and the undiscovered yet Higgs
boson happened to be too high to be discovered at these colliders.

I remember the words by Samuel Ting at one of the LEP meetings in
defence of continuation of the LEP running: ``Each collision at the
lepton colliders is an event, while it is a background at the hadron
colliders''. So, the precision of the electroweak measurements at
the lepton colliders was so high, that the predicted from the
radiative loop corrections mass of the top-quark
$m_t=180\,^{+8}_{-9}\;^{+17}_{-20}$~GeV~\cite{LEPEWG} has been found
in agreement and with a comparable accuracy of its first direct
measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron by the CDF~\cite{tCDF}
$m_t=176\pm 8\pm 10$~GeV and the D0~\cite{tD0}
$m_t=199\,^{+19}_{-21}\pm 22$~GeV collaborations.

Nevertheless, in spite of the overwhelming background for the
top-quark pair production by the strong interactions at the hadron
collider, the uncertainty of the top-quark mass $m_t=170.9\pm 1.1\pm
1.5$~GeV~\cite{mt} is considerably reduced at present. Moreover,
recently, the evidence for a single top-quark
production~\cite{singleTop} through the weak interactions and the
direct measurement of $|V_{tb}|$ at the Fermilab Tevatron hadron
collider became possible. Another achievement in precise
measurements at the hadron collider is the $W$-mass measurement
$m_W=80.413\pm 0.048$~GeV~\cite{CDFmW} by the CDF collaboration at a
comparable with the LEP experiments accuracy, which represents the
single most precise measurement to date. All these measurements will
allow to constrain further the mass of the Higgs particle, which
discovery is a priority task of the running Tevatron and the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC).

The discovery of the theoretically predicted heavy particles and the
establishment of the SM without any surprises are characteristic for
the experimental high energy physics during the last thirty years.
Therefore, the LHC construction is connected not only with the Higgs
discovery, but with the hope to find the physics beyond the SM. Up
to now it is not clear what kind of physics it will be. Therefore,
any inputs like constraints on the new physics from low-energy
precise experiments or from the presently most powerful Tevatron
collider at FNAL are badly needed when discussing the properties of
future colliders, in particular, the International Linear Collider
(ILC).

This talk is dedicated to the energy requirements for the future
lepton colliders, which follow from the constraints on the new boson
production at the Tevatron. In order to investigate the properties
of the new bosons and eventually to distinguish among different
models of the new physics, the energy of the future ICL should be
enough to produce them. Although it is still possible to investigate
some properties of the new bosons at low-energy, we will consider
the case of their resonance or threshold production, as an optimal
possibility.

In the second part of the talk we will consider one of the possible
scenarios of new physics in the boson sector, for which some
confirmation from the Tevatron data already exists. A quantitative
model of such a new physics will be very valuable in interpreting
the data from the hadron colliders, Tevatron and LHC, that presents
concrete requirements for the ILC energy design.

\section{Tevatron constraints}

Let us start with the case of new neutral massive bosons, $Z'$,
which can be produced at the lepton colliders as resonances. Such a
type of bosons is very difficult to detect in the low-energy
experiments due to the huge background from the electromagnetic
interactions. Some guiding principle is necessary to distinguish
them from the known interactions. For example, the neutral weak
currents were detected in the deep-inelastic electron scattering
through the measurements of $P$-odd quantities. Therefore, we expect
that direct constraints from the high-energy hadron colliders should
be more restrictive.

Moreover, up to now, the Drell-Yan process with high-energy
invariant mass of the lepton pairs remains the most clear indication
of the heavy boson production at the hadron colliders. Therefore,
the constraints from these investigations can be directly applied to
the resonance boson production at the lepton colliders. So, using
only a modest integrated luminosity of 200 pb$^{-1}$ collected
during RUN~II, the D0 Collaboration puts tight restrictions on the
$Z'$ masses for the different models from the di-electron
events~\cite{D0_4375}: $M_{Z'_{SM}} < 780$~GeV, $M_{Z'_\eta} <
680$~GeV, $M_{Z'_\psi} < 650$~GeV, $M_{Z'_\chi} < 640$~GeV and
$M_{Z'_I} < 575$~GeV. A comparable statistics in the di-muon channel
leads approximately to the same constraint $M_{Z'_{SM}} <
680$~GeV~\cite{D0_4577}. The CDF constraints from the di-electron
channel are based on more data, 1.3 fb$^{-1}$, which lead to tighter
restrictions~\cite{CDF_8694}: $M_{Z'_{SM}} < 923$~GeV, $M_{Z'_\eta}
< 891$~GeV, $M_{Z'_\psi} < 822$~GeV, $M_{Z'_\chi} < 822$~GeV and
$M_{Z'_I} < 729$~GeV.

Another possible channel, which can indicate the production of the
neutral heavy bosons, is their hadronic decay into $t\bar{t}$ pairs.
While the light quark decay channels are swamped by multijet
background, the $t\bar{t}$ pairs can be detected, for example,
through their decays into two energetic $b$-jets and two $W$'s,
where one $W$ boson decays hadronically and one leptonically.
Although the constraints from this channel cannot be applied
directly to the energy requirements for the lepton collider due to
the possible leptophobic character of the bosons, it is interesting
to detect the eventual peaks in the Tevatron data. So the latest
results both of the D0~\cite{D0ttbar} and of the CDF~\cite{CDFttbar}
Collaborations show some excess in the invariant mass distributions
around 700~GeV (Fig.~\ref{Fig:Mttbar}). A possible explanation of
this excess will be discussed in the next section.
\begin{figure}[ht]
\hspace{1cm}\includegraphics[width=0.5\columnwidth]{Chizhov_Mihail.fig1L.eps}
\includegraphics[width=0.36\columnwidth]{Chizhov_Mihail.fig1R.eps}
\caption{Expected and observed 95\% C.L. upper limits on
$\sigma_X\times{\cal B}(X\to t\bar{t})$ in comparison with the
predicted leptophobic topcolor $Z'$ cross section (left panel from
\cite{D0ttbar} -- D0 data, right panel from \cite{CDFttbar} -- CDF
data of 680 pb$^{-1}$).}\label{Fig:Mttbar}
\end{figure}

Let us consider the case of the new heavy charged bosons,
generically noted by $W'$. They could be produced at the lepton
colliders only in pairs or in association with other charged boson,
like $W$. Therefore, restrictions on their masses lead to the
following energy requirements for their threshold production $E >
M_{W'}+M_W$ at the lepton colliders. Here again we will consider
leptonic and hadronic channels of their decays.

The leptonic decay of the new heavy charged boson into high-energy
pair of a lepton and a corresponding antineutrino is the most clear
signature of its production at the hadron colliders. So, already
from 205 pb$^{-1}$ of RUN~II data, the CDF Collaboration obtained a
tight constraint on possible $W'$ mass $M_{W'} >
788$~GeV~\cite{WpCDFlepton}. The most rigid constraint comes from
the D0 Collaboration~\cite{WpD0lepton} $M_{W'} > 965$~GeV, based on
bigger statistics, 900 pb$^{-1}$, and better calorimetry than the
CDF detector.

The hadronic decay of the new heavy charged boson into a $t\bar{b}$
pair of a heavy $b$ quark and a short living $t$ quark with its
subsequent decay to $Wb$ pair allows to make jet $b$-tagging, where
one of the jets must have a displaced secondary vertex. A search for
the intermediate heavy bosons in this channel has been fulfilled by
both the D0 and CDF collaborations, and for this purpose the part of
the same data sets of the single top production analysis has been
used. Owing to boson high masses this analysis is even simpler than
the single top production searches, because at such energies the
background is considerably reduced.

So the D0 Collaboration, based on 230 pb$^{-1}$ of integrated
luminosity, puts the following constraints on the $W'$ mass
depending on the model: $M_{W'_{SM}} > 610$~GeV,
$M_{W'_R(\to\,\ell~{\rm and}~q)} > 630$~GeV, and $M_{W'_R(\to\,
q~{\rm only})} > 670$~GeV~\cite{WpD0quark}. The CDF constraints are
tighter (Fig.~\ref{Fig:23j_obs}): $M_{W'} > 760$~GeV for $M_{W'} >
M_{\nu_R}$ and $M_{W'} > 790$~GeV for $M_{W'} < M_{\nu_R}$, since
they are
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.42\columnwidth]{Chizhov_Mihail.fig2.eps}}
\caption{Observed limits from \cite{WpCDFquark}.}\label{Fig:23j_obs}
\end{wrapfigure}
based on 955 pb$^{-1}$~\cite{WpCDFquark}.

Taking into account the most stringent constraints from the Tevatron
data, we can conclude, that in order to produce the heavy charged
boson in association with the $W$ boson or the heavy neutral boson a
lepton collider with energy above 1~TeV is necessary. Also it is
interesting to note the presence of some excesses in the observed
data in Figs.~\ref{Fig:Mttbar} and \ref{Fig:23j_obs}, which we will
discuss in the next section.

\section{New spin-1 chiral bosons}

Additional chiral bosons, which have anomalous interactions with
fermions, were proposed in \cite{MPL}. An exchange through these
bosons leads to effective tensor interactions with the coupling
constant by two orders of magnitude smaller than $G_F$. This follows
from the precise low-energy experiments of the radiative pion
decay~\cite{RPD}. Assuming the universality of these interactions we
can explain the long standing discrepancy between the two pion
production in the $e^+e^-$ annihilation and the $\tau$
decay~\cite{tau}, which now reaches 4.5$\,\sigma$~\cite{Davier}.

The universality of the interactions of the new bosons and the
hypothesis about a dynamical generation of their kinetic terms allow
to predict their masses~\cite{production}. Due to the mixing between
two charged chiral bosons the lightest state corresponds to
$U^\pm$-boson with a mass $M_L\approx 509$~GeV and the heaviest one
is $T^\pm$-boson with a mass $M_H\approx 1137$~GeV. The neutral
physical states come as $CP$-even $U^R$ and $CP$-odd $U^I$ bosons
with approximately
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.42\columnwidth]{Chizhov_Mihail.fig3.eps}}
\caption{The distributions for the gauge $W'$ (dashed) and for the
chiral $U^\pm$ (solid) bosons as functions of the lepton transfers
momentum.}\label{Fig:3}
\end{wrapfigure}
the same masses $M_U\approx 719$~GeV, which couple only to the up
fermions, and analogous but heavier bosons $T^R$ and $T^I$ with a
common mass $M_T\approx 1017$~GeV, coupling to the down fermions.

Due to the anomalous interactions the angular distribution of the
chiral boson decays differs drastically from the analogous
distribution of the gauge bosons. This leads to a specific
transverse momentum distribution~\cite{TevLHC}, which has a broad
smooth bump with a maximum below the kinematical endpoint $p_T=M/2$,
instead of a sharp Jacobian peak (Fig.~\ref{Fig:3}). The form of the
decay distribution for the chiral bosons resembles the bump
anomalies in the inclusive jet $E_T$ distribution
(Fig.~\ref{Fig:4}), reported by the CDF Collaboration~\cite{CDFjet}
many years ago.

Analysing the bumps in the jet transverse energy distribution in
Fig.~\ref{Fig:4}, we can find the endpoint of the first bump at
250~GeV and guess about the second bump endpoint from the minimum
around 350~GeV. If we assign the first bump to the hadron decay
products of the lightest charged bosons, which exactly corresponds
to the estimated mass, the second endpoint hints to a mass around
700~GeV, which is also in a quantitative agreement with our
estimations for the mass of the lightest neutral boson. However,
taking into account the large systematic uncertainties in jet
production, these conclusions may be premature, unless they are
confirmed in other channels.
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\columnwidth}
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.42\columnwidth]{Chizhov_Mihail.fig4.eps}}
\caption{The Fig.~1 from \cite{CDFjet}}\label{Fig:4}
\end{wrapfigure}

Indeed, an excess about 2$\sigma$ in the lepton channel has been
pointed out recently by the CDF Collaboraion~\cite{WpCDFlepton} in
the region $350$~GeV $<M_T\simeq 2p_T<500$ GeV. At the same time the
same collaboration, however, denies the peak in the quark channel in
the same region (Fig.~\ref{Fig:23j_obs}), claiming that ``since the
predictions in {\em the neighboring bins} agree with the
observation, and since {\em the three jet bin} does not show a
similar excess, we anticipate that the excess in this region is a
statistical fluctuation''. But this signature means just a resonance
and this excess is in some sense a confirmation of the excess in the
leptonic channel!

Therefore, the independent result from the D0 collaboration is very
important. Their published result~\cite{WpD0quark} is based on 230
pb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity and does not show any excess in
the histogram with the bin's width of 50 GeV. However, it should
always be taken into account that the narrow peak could be missed
due to the smearing effect of the detector resolution or an
insufficient statistics. Indeed, the right histogram in the Fig.~3
of the conference paper \cite{WpD0quarkNote} of the same
collaboration with the bin's width of the 45 GeV reveals,
nevertheless, the weak peak in the same region of the 500 GeV. All
these not statistically significant results for the separated
analyses may give a more conclusive answer after their combination
and an additional investigation of the angular distributions of the
events in this region.

The small excess in the $t\bar{t}$ channel around 700~GeV
(Fig.~\ref{Fig:Mttbar}) can be explained in the framework of our
model by the production and the decay of the lightest neutral chiral
boson. The latter shows `leptophobic' property, since it decays to
`invisible' $\nu\bar{\nu}$ leptonic channel, and can be detected
only through its decay into a pair of up quarks. The D0
Collaboration even superimposed its plot of the $t\bar{t}$ invariant
mass distribution with the expected signal for a topcolor-assisted
technicolor $Z'$ with $M_{Z'} = 750$~GeV, which perfectly agrees
with the data.

\section{Conclusions}

There are some hints for the existence of a lightest charged chiral
boson with a mass around 500~GeV and a lightest neutral
`leptophobic' chiral boson with a mass around 700~GeV in the
Tevatron data. In the positive case the LHC would be able to
discover all predicted charged and neutral chiral bosons spanning in
mass up to around 1 TeV (see their leptonic decay distributions in
the Fig.~\ref{Fig:LHC}). The ILC with such energy would be an ideal
place to produce and to study these particles.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\hspace{0.5cm}\includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{Chizhov_Mihail.fig5L.eps}
\includegraphics[width=0.45\columnwidth]{Chizhov_Mihail.fig5R.eps}
\caption{The distributions in the lepton channels at the LHC, namely
$pp\to eE\!\!\!\!/_T$ (left) and $pp\to e^+ e^-$
(right).}\label{Fig:LHC}
\end{figure}

\begin{footnotesize}

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Book Review: The Olympic Charioteer
Summary from GoodReads: Antyllus of Tegea had everything—wealth, power and respect—until his son was killed defending Tegea against Sparta. Now Tegea is on the rise, but Antyllus can find pleasure in nothing—not even his magnificent racehorses. While all Tegea believes Antyllus' chariot could bring Tegea an unprecedented Olympic victory, Antyllus knows that he lacks a driver capable of coaxing the best out of his team. More disturbing, Antyllus worries that Tegea's victory over Sparta is being used by certain radicals to undermine the democratic constitution. The Strategos that won the decisive victory is a demagogue—and he wants to extend the franchise to landless men. Out of spontaneous pity, Antyllus purchases an abused quarry slave. The slave not only carries the seemingly prophetic name of "Philip", (Lover of Horses) but has an uncanny affinity for horses as well. While Tegea slips into tyranny, Antyllus turns his back on politics and focuses his hopes and dreams on an Olympic Victory.
This is the story of a slave and a charioteer in Archaic Greece. Based on Ancient sources but using predominantly fictional characters, The Olympic Charioteer describes the events that led to the establishment of the first "non-aggression pact" in recorded history.
My Review: This is a great read for the history buff. This is well researched. Two wonderfully laid out books with well researched history in one week. I'm in heaven.
This brings to light the Sparta and Tegea war in 6th century BC. Lysandradis, {main character} is sold as a slave after Sparta is defeated by Tegea. The characters come alive in this book. There are adventures and so much more. It's almost like being there. There's so much within the book, it's difficult to not want to give away most of it. There are three distinct parts to this book, all will keep you wanting more.
Any lover of history will enjoy this...especially those who enjoy Greek history. This is a real page turner as you try to see if he will return to his beloved Sparta or remain in a land that enslaved him. Another wonderfully written book that will get many re-reads.
RATING: ♥♥♥♥♥
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This sounds wonderful. I enjoy historical books when they're accurate. I* have to pick this up.
I'm getting ready to read this one myself and looking forward to it. Your review makes me want to hurry up and get to it immediately. Thanks.

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As I sat there on the beach, crisping to lobster redness, drinking my sixth drink in the past hour…I realized I had never taken a vacation. Like an actual vacation. When I leave the country, I *travel*. I go from place to place, barely breathing, soaking up every experience possible. Sometimes I need a vacation from my vacation. Not this time. This time…I wanted to relax.
1. EVERYONE IS SO NICE. I spoke Spanish for the both of us (a necessity in a small little town where tourism has only just begun) and didn't realize for two days, TWO DAYS, I was confusing the verbs Tomar (to take) and Beber (to drink). So drunkenly, I was telling people, "Me Gusta Tomar." They just smiled, not telling me I was basically telling everyone I liked to steal. Whoops. I need to work on my Spanish apparently.
2. THE FOOD IS AMAZING. No seriously. We didn't eat anything bad. Brianna learned what perfectly cooked chicken tasted like, because every bit of chicken we got was cooked to perfection. I mean, soft and juicy. Not a dry piece of meat to be had.
3. It's SO safe. Poor Brianna had her phone stolen in the Bogota airport but to be fair, she walked away from it. LOL Otherwise, when keeping to safe traveler rules, we were very safe.
4. I wish we had stayed more by the beach honestly. Goddess, I miss the ocean. I am so so so burned right now but I don't even care. We did the jetski at Playa Blanca, my first time as an adult and then couldn't walk for two days because I was so sore.
5. A LOT of chauvinism. We literally stopped traffic one day in our bikinis, the men unable to drive away without honking, giving us the thumbs up, trying to talk to us. I was irritated at first and then realized, in 15 years I'll never stop traffic again. So instead, I swaggered around the streets, enjoying the attention only youth experiences.
I am so happy to have gone to Colombia. While I'm sure that there are different experiences to be had in the bigger cities, Cartagena was delightfully sleep and provided plenty to do or not do for the six days we were there. I can't wait to plan another adventure with Brianna!!! If you're looking for your Cartagena wedding photographer, please make sure to contact me!


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Fakrul Alam is Professor of English at the University of Dhaka and currently a member of the Dhaka University Teacher's Association and the Dhaka University Senate. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Visiting Associate Professor at Clemson University, USA, and has also been Visiting Professor at India's Jadavpur University and Visva-Bharati. He was a member of the jury of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for 2003 (Eurasia region) and was an adjudicator for the DSC South Asian Prize for Literature, 2011.
He is also the author of Imperial Entanglements and Literature in English (Dhaka: writer's ink, 2007); South Asian Writers in English (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2006); Jibananada Das: Selected Poems (Dhaka: UPL, 199); Bharati Mukherjee (Boston: Twayne's Contemporary United States Authors, 1996) and Daniel Defoe: Colonial Propagandist (Dhaka: University of Dhaka Publications, 1989). He has been editor of Dhaka University Studies, Part A (Humanities) and the Asiatic Society Journal. His most recent work, which he has co-authored with Radha Chakravarty, is The Essential Tagore (Boston, Mass.: Harvard UP, April 2011 and Kolkata, Visva-Bharati, September, 2011). His translations of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Unfinished Memoirs will be published in May 2012 by University Press Ltd. in Bangladesh and Penguin Books elsewhere. Forthcoming in 2012 also are collections of essays entitled Rabindranath Tagore and Bangladeshi National Identity Formation to be published by Bangla Academy and a special issue of the online journal Asiatic on South Asian diasporic writing that he will be guest-editing.


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Syria: Western Aid Too Little, Too Late — Again
March 7, 2013 Wayne White
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Amidst rumors that Washington finally decided to provide arms at least to selected Syrian opposition fighters, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the US would do little more than increase its non-lethal aid to the opposition. Rebel disappointment has been intense, and such limited assistance will not have a major impact on the military effectiveness of the opposition or hasten an end to the fighting.
Last week Secretary Kerry said there would be an increase in non-lethal aid to the opposition, with rebel fighters gaining access to military rations and medical supplies. A US official clarified that this aid would only go to carefully vetted rebel groups, with Kerry emphasizing that opposition elements "sharing our values must set an example" by avoiding regime-like brutality and Islamic extremism. In defense of this limited assistance, the US Central Command's General James Mattis told the Senate this week that the situation inside Syria is currently too complicated for the provision of lethal aid. Finally, earlier this week in a news conference in Qatar (which is believed to be providing munitions to the rebels), Kerry acknowledged that others are doing so, but with "greater guarantees" that arms and ammunition are reaching only moderate groups.
Meanwhile, the European Union upped the ante a bit more than the US by allowing its Syria sanctions to permit the supply of armored vehicles and non-lethal military equipment to opposition combatants if the aim is to protect civilians. Likewise, just yesterday the British seemed to move in step with the EU in saying the UK would provide armored vehicles, body armor and training, though still deeming this assistance as non-lethal.
In parallel to recent Western decisions related to such aid, UN Syrian peace envoy Lahkdar Brahimi, the French, the Russians and the US, have been discussing various seemingly vague notions of bringing representatives of the opposition together with those of the regime in an attempt to end the fighting. The regime now says it is willing to do so, but the rebels, overall, have held back. A pro-Assad Russia clearly views any Western aid to the rebels as disruptive in this context, but efforts aimed at some sort of negotiated solution have been going on for quite some time without any tangible progress.
Predictably, with far higher expectations of Western aid, the opposition has been appalled. In a news conference in Rome with Kerry, the embittered president of the Syrian opposition's Syrian National Coalition, Moaz al-Khatib, said: "Many sides…focus (more) on the length of the rebel fighter's beard than the blood of the children being killed." A rebel commander in the battered northern city of Aleppo also said that lack of arms was the main obstacle to victory over the regime, but rebel fighters had to go on fighting without waiting for such assistance.
Ironically, had there been a decision by the US, the UK and the EU to provide arms to selected, relatively more moderate opposition combatants, even that might not have provided the rebels with a decisive military boost. After over two years of regime brutality, heavy fighting and widespread destruction, large numbers of opposition fighters have been radicalized and many extremist jihadists have entered Syria to join the fight against the Assad regime. For some time now, Muslim extremist rebel groups have been leading the fight and inflicting the most damage on the regime. So supplying moderates exclusively might do little to assist those who have become the proverbial "tip of the spear" in the uprising's most important battles.
Even prior to this disappointment opposition leaders in exile — but especially rebel fighters and Syrian civilians supporting the uprising inside the country — had become steadily more embittered by two years of Western hand-wringing over providing military help. And no wonder: while caution and indecision has reigned in Western capitals, the death toll in Syria has reportedly reached 70,000 and the number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries reportedly just topped one million.
Regime forces continue to fight back desperately (and with characteristic brutality) despite assaults by rebel groups in every Syrian province. And, making this violence more like the civil war it has been labeled as by many, the Assad regime still may retain the loyalty of a substantial slice of the population. Of the estimated 12-13% of the populace that is Alawite (Assad's own community) or vaguely similar Shi'a, most back the regime. Likewise, a large majority of the 10% of Syrians who are Christian have stood by the regime in fear of Muslim extremism. Ethnic Kurds — around 8-9% of the population — have been wary of both sides, providing rebels with only limited help. And, finally, even a minority of Syria's large Sunni Arab majority is too vested in the regime militarily, in its security services, various businesses, or like-mindedly secular to break with it in the face of a potential Islamist takeover.
So it is possible that maybe as much as 40-45% of the population either has not joined the opposition or potentially represents a pool of manpower and support for Assad's forces. Continued support for the regime in some important quarters remains a daunting challenge for the rebels, especially since many within pro-regime constituencies are fighting hard alongside the regime because they believe — perhaps with good reason at this point — that they would suffer greatly if the rebels prevail.
The upshot of the latest decision on the part of the US and the West to hold back on precisely what rebels battling inside Syria need most (whether justified or not) is the inevitable prolongation of the mayhem that has been progressively destroying Syria.
Photo: Women walk past destoryed shops in Al Qusayr, Syria. Credit: Sam Tarling/IPS.
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Wayne White is a former Deputy Director of the State Department's Middle East/South Asia Intelligence Office (INR/NESA). Earlier in the Foreign Service and later in the INR he served in Niger, Israel, Egypt, the Sinai and Iraq as an intelligence briefer to senior officials of many Middle East countries and as the State Department's representative to NATO Middle East Working Groups in Brussels. Now a Scholar with the Middle East Institute, Mr. White has written numerous articles, been cited in scores of publications, and made numerous TV and radio appearances.
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With low vaccination rates and an increasing prevalence of Covid-19, the country is falling behind in the pandemic and hospitalization rates are reaching wintertime levels.
According to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services, more than 50,000 Covid-19 patients were hospitalized on Monday, marking the first time since February 27 that this has occurred. As of this month, there were more than 50,625 fewer hospitalizations than a month earlier, making the increase more than trifecta. A herd immunity might not be achievable at this point, said the director of the National Institutes of Health. The current pace of vaccinations will not result in all eligible people receiving at least one dose of the vaccine by mid-February, CNN predicts based on its analysis of CDC data.
According to Dr. Francis Collins, the goal of ensuring that 80% of the general public can't harbor the Delta variant of the virus may not be attainable. It's not a sure thing that the pandemic will never come to a place where people will no longer feel threatened by it. Vaccinating everyone is the best way to mitigate the pandemic, Collins told CNN. Vaccination greatly reduces the risk of getting infected and spreading this virus, according to the doctor.
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Cox: It is our intention to purchase these now and make them available to schools so that parents and children who wish to mask their child will be able to do so at no cost to them.
According to the governor, neither he nor the schools have the authority to implement mask mandates. Instead, local health departments and county elected officials can decide whether to implement mask mandates for their schools for 30 consecutive days.
According to Cox, the virus pandemic is driven by unvaccinated people, a sentiment that the CDC official has also echoed. Gov. Rick Snyder expressed frustration over unvaccinated people having to wear masks while helping the vaccinated. In a statement, Governor Rick Scott asks that those of you vaccinated, once again, act as a team player to protect those who have not been vaccinated but can do so. He said that the whole thing makes him tired. Plus, he is not excited about having to sacrifice his life to protect someone who doesn't seem to care.
The care we are providing to anyone is no longer adequate.
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There were 36 Covid-19 patients at the hospital about two weeks ago. At the end of Monday, there were 155. In O'Neal's opinion, no single diagnosis should consume a quarter of a hospital. As the worst days of the pandemic approach, he no longer believes they're offering adequate care to anyone. O'Neal stressed the importance of more people getting vaccinated. In addition, because the vaccines aren't fully effective for two weeks after a final dose, she suggests wearing a mask for that entire period.
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Who gives the A If there is no Oboe?
December 5, 2018, 9:15 PM · I'll be concertmaster of my school symphony. We have every band instrument but the oboe, contrabassoon and English horn. Who gives the first and second A for the band?
December 5, 2018, 9:36 PM · Most likely either the principal clarinet, or you.
December 5, 2018, 10:36 PM · Y'all tune beforehand, off stage, using phone apps. Then the CM "tunes" the orchestra on stage as a quaint and very fake ritual.
December 6, 2018, 12:03 AM · Probably you as concertmaster like Mary Ellen said, unless there's a piano or some fixed pitch instrument, in which case you get the A from piano, and then orchestra gets A from you, or everyone gets the A from the piano directly.
Actually, it's not always entirely fake. I've had situations where I've gestured for the oboe to give another A and a section to retune again because I can hear an instrument that isn't actually dialed into the right A.
December 6, 2018, 2:41 AM · No contrabassoon? You must be really threadbare!
December 6, 2018, 4:07 AM · Phone app???
or preferably the same one again.
"There you are, gentlemen. Take your pick"
December 6, 2018, 4:33 AM · In one 50-piece community orchestra I play in, the start-up tuning protocol is a B-flat by the oboe for the brass and woodwind, followed by an oboe A for the cellos and violas, and then the upper strings last. The double basses apparently make their own arrangements. Later re-tunes during rehearsal or a performance are by the orchestra as a whole.
Other orchestras, such as the chamber orchestra, tune as one from an A provided by the CM or oboe, as appropriate.
December 6, 2018, 5:15 AM · In both of the orchestras I play in, the first substitute if no oboist is present is a clarinet, and if no clarinets are present then the concertmaster is next in line.
Edited: December 6, 2018, 5:26 AM · Oh, and I've played in one of those bad orchestras Dorian refers to. They weren't not fake-tuning... in fact, tuning often took up to 15 minutes because each instrument in the winds and brass got a separate A, each string section had a separate A, the second violin and cello sections would tune one stand at a time because it was the only way to get them in tune, and the concertmaster would direct individuals to tune up or down in almost every rehearsal.
If you think it sounds excruciating... it was.
Edited: December 6, 2018, 5:29 AM · Once upon a time at our uke group a pro violist (who is now my violin teacher) turned up to slum it. We two were early and she wanted to tune her uke to mine. I told her it would be better to wait until a few more people arrived and then take an average.
Edited: December 6, 2018, 6:37 AM · Malcolm said he uses a tuning fork. Well, the OP is in a school orchestra. I have NEVER seen a teenager use a tuning fork. Andrew H's situation is not that uncommon. A lot of community orchestras have elderly players whose hands have long since lost the ability to wrestle with their tuning pegs. But the solution is to find a room offstage where you can form a "tuning line" where there is an electronic tuner and someone sitting there to help. Why they don't get gear pegs I'll never know.
December 6, 2018, 10:57 AM · I say, have someone with perfect pitch hum an A.
December 6, 2018, 11:23 AM · Never seen a teenager use a tuning fork? I can record a video and send it to you, if you want. It's rare, but not very interesting.
December 6, 2018, 11:57 AM · I've given an A, but never given a F.
Edited: December 6, 2018, 12:04 PM · I've still got the Hohner A440 tuning fork I bought in 1974 as a 14-year-old oboist.
In serious answer to the question, I really don't have a clue. But a possible answer is the leader of the orchestra (if there's no piano). I have zero idea what a "concert-master" is. Is it an American thing? Do you know what the leader of the orchestra is? It's the head of the first violin section.
As concertmaster you'll probably do it.
December 6, 2018, 3:39 PM · Cotton thanks for the offer but my own kids know how to use tuning forks. However when they go to rehearsals they use phone or tuner.
December 6, 2018, 8:48 PM · The community orchestra I am in rehearses once a week without the brass and wood winds.
December 7, 2018, 6:11 PM · In my community orchestra, the conductor said the same as Paul; tune beforehand using a phone app, all four strings. The final tuning to the oboe is mostly, mostly, for show.
December 8, 2018, 12:00 AM · Tune the A to the phone app.
Then tune the other strings by fifths, starting with tuning the D to the A.
December 8, 2018, 4:00 AM · I bought a few A440 tuning forks recently on Amazon. Two (Planet Waves and a dirt-cheap Chinese Kasstino) were perfect. The third, a Sodial, was 450Hz according to my Snark! I don't own a smartphone.
Edited: December 8, 2018, 9:47 AM · David Finckel, former cellist with the Emerson Quartet, and currently co-director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has written that the Emerson used to tune to a tuner - it avoided arguments. But I did not learn what "tuning system" they used.
There are problems if strings tune to "perfect" fifths and then play with a piano tuned in equal temperament. (G strings seem close enough in fifths to the 440 based A, but the viola and cello C strings are off enough to be noticed. It all comes down to whether or not the violas or cellos ever have to play their open C string.
December 8, 2018, 10:24 AM · For chamber music, my usual solution is to tune my D and G strings in perfect 5ths so they are in tune with the violins, and then use a phone app to tune my C string to an equal-temperament 5th below the G string.
Edited: December 8, 2018, 11:12 AM · shoot the pianist.
December 8, 2018, 12:49 PM · Actually I agree with Mary Ellen. It's how I do it, but it's not what the conductor recommended. It's an equal temperament issue. Tuning the other strings by ear gives you perfect fifths, a bit wider than what the app will give you. So if you use open strings and you've tuned all four by the app maybe you'll be better in tune with the winds than if you tuned perfect fifths. Same with a piano tuned in equal temperament.
Edited: December 8, 2018, 2:27 PM · If a viola (and cello for that matter) are tuned in perfect fifths in a string quartet environment the E harmonics of the C strings of those instruments will clash with the open E of the violins.
Applying a little bit of math to this (no apology for that, folks!) the frequency of a violin's open E tuned in perfect 5ths is 660Hz, and the frequency of the corresponding E harmonic from a viola that is also tuned in perfect 5ths is 652Hz. On good instruments the clash between the two will be audible. The answer is to tune the C-strings of the viola and cello just a shade sharp. The easy way to do this is to play the E harmonic on the C and tune the string up until the harmonic coincides with the violin open E.
Similarly on a violin tuned precisely in perfect 5ths, the B harmonic on the G string is slightly flatter than the B harmonic of the E string, so it may be advisable in some pieces to tune the G slightly sharp (from 195.6Hz to 198Hz) to give the correct resonance with the E's B harmonic.
It is noticeable that players with good ears will naturally play the major third (the B) in the key of G on the E string slightly flatter than the position of the B harmonic, but when playing in the key of A on the E string they will play the B coincident with the position of the B harmonic.
Edited: December 9, 2018, 6:10 AM · Some years ago, when on holiday in Ireland, I attended the finals of an important harp competition. I think the 1st prize was €6000, so it was not inconsiderable.
There were 6 finalists and they all tuned and warmed up off-stage before they came on to play their individual pieces. Five of them checked their tuning by ear when they came on stage, and the sound they were producing sounded pretty good. The sixth harpist came on and checked her tuning as did the others, but with an electronic tuner and not by ear. People in the audience turned to each other, whispers went round the hall, and the adjudicator's face turned to stone.
Because of that electronic tuning the sound of that player's harp lost a lot of its resonance and its intonation was dreadful compared with the smoothness of the others. It was no surprise to us when the unfortunate lady received the lowest marks of the competition and did not stay for the awards ceremony.


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Will get to it though, maybe sooner rather than later after reading your post.
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The RoKit Williams F1 team have hit a snag in terms of their 2019 car. The Grove-based team unveiled a sky blue and white livery for the 2019 season. The FW42 will be piloted by returning F1 driver, Robert Kubica and Mercedes junior, George Russell.
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The team, were plonked on the bottom end of the constructors' championship last year. The initial plan was to aim for a "filming day" in Barcelona on Sunday. According to Williams, they are trying to maximise development time on the car.
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F1 teams are allowed a limited number of filming days each year, when mileage is limited to 100km and the car must run on non-race tyres.
As of now, six teams have showcased their 2019 cars, with Racing Point expected to unveil their car soon. On the following day, it will be McLaren's turn, followed by Ferrari a day later. Finally, Alfa Romeo will close out the launch week on the 18th of February.


The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports, cemeteries, parks, schools, and churches and other religious institutions. The Census Bureau added landmark features to MTDB on an as-needed basis and made no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included. The presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration. The Area Landmark Shapefile does not include military installations or water bodies because they each appear in their own separate shapefiles, MIL.shp and AREAWATER.shp respectively.


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Цахкуняц, также Мисханский хребет, — горный хребет в Армении, в Арагацотнской области; водораздел бассейнов рек Касах (на западе) и Раздан (на востоке). С севера к хребту примыкает Памбакский хребет, с юга-запада — Техеняц, с юго-востока — хребет Зинджерлы.

Хребет сложен изверженными породами. Безлесный по всей линии водораздела, однако в срединно-южной половине покрыт от основания до высоты 2500 м лиственными лесами и кустарниками. На этом же отрезке, выше 2500 м горные степи, которые в крайних четвертях хребта тянутся от подножия до водораздела. Протяж`нность хребта составляет около 25 км, высшая точка расположена на высоте свыше 2800 метров. Северные склоны хребты включены в заказник «Сосны Банкса»; здесь произрастают сосновые леса.

См. также
 Горные хребты Армении

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Горные хребты Армении

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