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The History and Implications of Journalism
by Charlotte Megan Howes on March 3, 2015 in Uncategorized, Year 1
In a sense journalism has always been present in human societies. Even before print, news was passed around in the form of storytelling. Slowly people began to refine forms of communication and by 131 BC regular publications informed the public. The Acta Diurna and The Acta Senatus were official weekly news carved in stone or metal and presented in public forums during Roman societies. First operating underground, the Acta Senatus began to record public news and legal proceedings in the senate. It was Julius Caesar that eventually legalised these notices around the year 59 BC.
During the Dark Ages technology failed to move forward, people where informed through official proclamations released from high profile rulers, monks or scholars only. However, during this time there where significant advances in movable type technology in Asia. Individual sheets of paper where pressed into wooden blocks with text and illustrations carved into them. (Pan, 1997) Similar methods triggered further development, by 1425 paper was manufactured regularly and by 1480 there where an estimated 87 printing presses across Europe.
This progress lead to the manufacture and sale of news pamphlets and books, most significantly, Bibles. From 1556 to 1690 the first regular monthly newspapers where coming into circulation around Europe and the USA. Better printing technology meant that publications where of higher quality and could be produced daily.
As technology developed further, newspapers could be produced on a mass scale. As well as this many new ways to access media began to be produced that aided in the retrieval and forming of news. Fast-forward to the modern era and audiences are consuming the majority of their content online or on devices. A reliability to devices has created a huge market in the form of leasing transponder space and a dependency on platforms owned by technology companies.
However, this power shift away from the press could propose a few dilemmas. A large realm of the public sphere, the internet, was established without interference from large corporations and government law. As a result of this the online network has grown to challenge ideas and be a place for freedom of speech.
There are two main theories to the future of human technology:
Some believe that technology will not affect us as much as suggested. It is possible that the problem does not lie in the amount of information we receive and process, but the tools we have to manage it. We may be at the infancy of our capacity for technologies, only the future will tell what lies ahead for news and journalism.
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There was no specific contest for the May 2013 NJIPMS meeting, resulting in an open contest, which we'll have the results of next month.
We were all saddened to learn of the passing of club member Rich Zaris, who passed away unexpectedly after a short battle with cancer on May 15th. Rich's 1/72 Heller Javelin was on the table, along with a photo of him. He will be missed.
In what is becoming an NJIPMS tradition, the club will be setting up a model display on the battleship USS New Jersey in Camden, on Saturday, May 18th, 2013. Full details will be given at the May 17th meeting, but since that is just the day prior to the visit, please Contact Us for any questions on exact times, parking, and what to bring (basically any models are welcome). This exhibit has had great turnout in the past, and the museum is always extremely welcoming and grateful for out efforts. Hope to see you there.


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Handball national goalkeeper Johannes Bitter (TVB Stuttgart) has positioned himself in the discussion about the World Cup in Egypt in January for an event. © Provided by sport1.de Handball: Bitter currently per World Cup event - Infection "totally inexplicable" Cologne (SID) - The national handball goalkeeper Johannes Bitter (TVB Stuttgart), who suffered from Corona, has spoken out in the discussion about the World Cup Egypt positioned to host in January.
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After a positive corona test with the Romanian handball players, the EM kick-off game of the German team on Thursday is on the brink.
Two days before the start of the EM adventure in Denmark, the Romanian Laura Moisa was found to be infected with the coronavirus. It was initially unclear whether the game would take place on Thursday (6 p.m.).
"We will now quickly seek contact with the EHF and are open to all solutions - up to and including a postponement of the game," said DHB sports director Axel Kromer of the SID .
Moisa has gone into isolation, this also applies to her roommate Denisa Dedu to be on the safe side. All Romanian players should be tested again.
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No Kingmaker—and No King Following Israel's Latest Election
By Paul Scham
This article was first published by the Middle East Institute.
In my last article, written immediately before Tuesday's Israeli election, I noted that three right-wing rivals of Prime Minister Benjamin ("Bibi") Netanyahu, having already realized that none of them was likely to become prime minister in this election cycle, were instead desperately trying to be kingmaker. Now, with virtually all of the vote in and results unlikely to change, it is clear: Not only will there be no kingmaker, there will probably be no king. Though parties likely to support Netanyahu do have 63 seats, that count includes a very far-right, Kahanist party ("Religious Zionism") and an Arab party (Ra'am/United Arab List, or UAL), both of which have made it clear they would not sit in a government with each other — and each is essential for a Netanyahu majority. Thus, unless the tallies shift (conceivable), or several members of an anti-Bibi party break ranks (possible), or an attempt to disqualify Bibi from running by passing a law in the next few weeks barring indicted members of the Knesset from serving as prime minister succeeds (unlikely but possible), Israel is headed for its fifth election in two and a half years (probable), most likely in early October (summer is usually out and September is filled with holidays). It could be noted in passing that Bibi's son, Yair, is organizing a "stop the steal" campaign on social media, which is no more likely to succeed than its American predecessor.
It's all about Bibi
While these four elections have been unfolding, however, Israel has careened from early successful pandemic precautions to a premature opening up that briefly gave it the worst infection stats in the world, to anger at widespread ultra-orthodox flouting of lockdowns to, now, having vaccinated a higher percentage of its population than any other country in the world, and almost all sectors of society reopening, conveniently right before the election. All of this was unquestionably due to Netanyahu.
Netanyahu has also been credited, even by his political enemies, with obtaining unheard-of largesse from a Trump administration falling over itself to support Israel. The U.S. recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moved its capital there, to the applause of most Israelis. In the last year, four Arab states recognized Israel, thanks to Donald Trump's prodding and diplomatic gifts, again chalked up to Bibi. Israel has greatly expanded its diplomatic presence, especially in Africa, under Bibi's watch. For a country whose Jewish inhabitants still feel that the world is lined up against them, these are powerful accomplishments. Why is Bibi not reaping the political benefits?
In some ways, he has. He has now served appreciably longer than any other Israeli prime minister: one term in the 1990s and 12 years consecutively now, for a total of 15 years, even beating out Israel's legendary founding father and first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. In the process he has instituted policies of attacking the "elites," who allegedly run the country. He calls out Ashkenazim (like him) who are dominant in culture, business, universities, media, and the courts, a political strategy that should sound familiar to Americans. He actually preceded by a few years the wave of populism shaking democratic countries around the world — some now "previously democratic" — and has formed close personal and political bonds with the leaders of India, Poland, Hungary, and even Russia, besides the U.S.
Domestically, Bibi has railed increasingly against "leftists," a term that now seems to encompass all his opponents, even those generally considered to his right. He has also, until recently, railed similarly against Israel's 1.9 million Arab citizens (21% of the country's population), especially through passage of the 2018 "nation-state law," enshrining in semi-constitutional status that only the Jewish people has a national right to the Land of Israel, also known historically as Palestine.
A dramatic shift among Israeli Arabs
Meanwhile, however, things have been shifting dramatically within Israel's Arab communities: politically, socially, and economically. Netanyahu's government has quietly been very good for them, transferring unprecedented funds to Arab municipalities. These and demographic changes are altering their structure, especially with many more women receiving higher education, having fewer children, and their families joining a new and growing Arab middle class. It is these developments (and some political ones as well) that first helped cement the Joint List, an unprecedented alliance of four highly disparate Arab parties, which ran together in two of the last four elections. In the latest one, the UAL ran on its own, with its leader, Mansour Abbas, asserting that its voters, largely poor, religious Bedouin, have more in common with the Sephardi Haredi party, Shas, than with the secular Chadash, the dominant party in the Joint List. The gambit partially paid off, with UAL having passed the 3.25% threshold for parliamentary representation to gain four seats and about to sit in the Knesset. However, it will not join a government that contains Kahanists, so Bibi is therefore denied a government.
The most important shift is that we see Israeli Arabs voting their social, economic, and religious values, instead of solely according to their Arab identity. If this trend continues, and it probably will, we are likely to see more Arabs appearing in the Knesset representing mainstream right-wing parties such as Likud, and even Arab parties like the UAL participating in future governments. This would be the Israeli domestic equivalent of the Nixon in China syndrome, in which the right ends up breaking a taboo they themselves have championed for decades.
Alternative paths
There is another route already being actively pursued by some in the anti-Netanyahu camp, namely, a new law that would effectively bar him from being chosen as prime minister as long as he is under indictment. This is the result of the fact that the anti-Netanyahu parties, which are leftist, rightist, centrist, Arab, and anti religious, all agree on one thing only, that is, bringing Netanyahu down. They have a bare majority of 61 seats in the new Knesset, which will probably convene in early April. If they are successful, then the whole dynamic changes, with a right-wing government likely.
However, that is exactly why such a measure will probably not succeed. Much as the left may desperately wish Bibi gone, why should they clear the way for a right-wing government? Moreover, they have an ace up their sleeve, or at least a knave. According to the coalition agreement that established the current (now interim) government, Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party is scheduled to become prime minister this November under a rotatzia, or rotation, provision. Gantz now has eight seats in the new Knesset, a respectable showing, given that he seemed down and out only a few months ago. This would presumably be after a new (fifth) election but before a new government could form, unless the right manages to form one in record time to forestall this.
It must be emphasized that Israel appears to have moved decisively to the right. Right-wing parties received either 79 or 83 seats, depending on whether UAL is considered "right wing." Exploiting this strength is prevented primarily by the divisive figure of the current prime minister, who, although going strong, is 71 years old and can't continue forever. My own guess is that once he is eventually removed from the equation and the left can find a leader and a set of popular policies (admittedly, neither is an easy task), Israeli politics will resume a more normal left-right orientation. The left's holy grail is formation of an "Arab-Jewish party," drawing support from both ethnicities. That remains elusive.
Amid all this politicking, it seems to have been forgotten that the purpose of any election is to generate a government that will actually produce and implement policy. An interim government is prohibited by law from taking new initiatives except in an emergency. As has frequently been pointed out, the current series of campaigns has completely ignored Israel's main existential concern, namely the Occupation and the Israeli Palestinian conflict, which are not going to be resolved no matter how many Arab states Israel signs treaties with. The left sees a serious erosion of democratic norms, while the right decries legal, educational, and financial elitism. Inequality is a major issue, with Israel having gone from being one of the world's most economically egalitarian countries to one of the most unequal, with more billionaires per capita than anywhere else. Israel is also staunchly against resumption of both the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran and movement on the two-state solution, both of which are declared priorities of the Biden administration. Biden has not yet pressured Israel or brought up these issues, presumably waiting until a new government is formed, but it will not wait forever. None of these issues are being addressed while the political class — and much of the country at large — is consumed by political maneuvering.
The future is not determined — and perhaps even these results could produce something other than a stalemate and a new election. Israel seems to have emerged successfully from the pandemic and is managing to function even without a normal government, but cannot do so forever. However, the country enters its spring holiday season on Saturday night with the beginning of Passover, followed by Memorial Day, Independence Day, and continuing until the religious holiday of Shavuot on May 17. Between holidays and a long pent-up need for travel and vacation, the political class will try to form a new government within about two months. My guess is they will fail.
See you in October.
Paul Scham is President of Partners for Progressive Israel, a scholar at MEI and the director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland, where he teaches courses on the history of Israel and of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The opinions expressed in this piece are his own.
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For retest the bug I have created a RETEST task and link it to the bug. When I rerun the testcase I would like to add the passed test result to the RETEST task. How can I do? Or what is the best workflow?

A: You don't need to create a retest task for this case.
You could directly customize a workflow using States and Reasons for the Bug work item. Such as adding a state "Ready to Retest" for a Bug. And then assign this work item to the tester or tester group.  Suggest you to use the Process Editor, available with the download of TFS Power Tools. The Process Template Editor provides a graphical user interface for customizing work items (field, workflow and the form) and process templates.
More ways for customize the workflow for a process please refer the tutorial from MSDN:

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Then you just need to directly link test result to the bug workitem. And in a Bug work item, you can click the HISTORY--ALL CAHNGES to track the history and process.

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Dog-gone-it!! Let The Big Cat Eat!!
Bobby Hurricane Spencer - Call Your Dogs Off from Unleased 2014 (3:39)
Ron Tanski, Noah Tanski, Ron Finn, Mark "Pocket" Goldberg - Never Pet A Burning Dog from Never Pet A Burning Dog (4:22)
Stevie DuPree & The Delta Flyers - Ain't Gonna Be Your Dog from Dr. DuPree's Love Shop 2012 (3:01)
Otis Clay and Johnny Rawls - Road Dog from Soul Brothers 2014 (3:19)
Billy Hector - Stop Doggin' Me Round from Out Of Order - The Stone Pony Sessions 1999 (4:57)
Jimmy Smith - The Cat from The Cat 1964 (3:26)
Ms. Jody - Your Dog's About to Kill My Cat from What You Gonna Do When The Rent Is Due? 2006 (4:53)
Tampa Red - Let Me Play With Your Poodle [1942] from Rude Dudes 2003 (2:37)
The Legendary Shack Shakers - Creek Cats from Believe 2004 (3:20)
Andy Santana - Give A Dog a Bone from Take Me With you 2007 (3:55)
Mud Morganfield / Kim Wilson - My Dog Can't Bark from For Pops (A Tribute to Muddy Waters) 2014 (3:28)
Big Guitars From Texas - Bulldoggin' Boogie from Big Guitars From Texas (2:43)
Elvin Bishop - My Dog from Big Fun 1988 (3:34)
Scott Henderson - Dog Party from Dog Party 1994 (2:45)
Amos Garrett - 05 - Hair Of The Dog from I Make My Home In My Shoes 1989 (3:17)
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lonesome Dog Blues from Blue Lightnin' 1965 (2:38)
De Luxe Blues Band - Dead Cat On the Line from The De Luxe Blues Band 1994 (4:13)
Jan Akkerman - Revival of the Cat from Talent For Sale 1968 (2:53)
Metropolitan Blues Allstars - Don't Dog My Cat from Trying Times 1988 (2:50)
Phil Berkowitz - Cat Scratchin' from Louis' Blues 2005 (2:51)
Angela Strehli - I Wouldn't Treat a Dog from Soul Shake 1987 (3:47)
ZZ Top - Nasty Dogs And Funky Kings from Fandango 1975 (2:46)
Biscuit Miller - Sleepin' In The Dog House from Blues With A Smile 2010 (3:34)
Anni Piper - Watchdog from Two's Company 2009 (3:32)
Bobby Radcliff - Dog House from Natural Ball 2004 (2:25)
Honeyboy Edwards - Low Down Dog from Roamin' and Ramblin' 2008 (1:43)
Bradley's Circus - Pussycat from Bang Bang Wa Wee's 2011 (3:02)
Gary Primich - Wild Cat Tamer from Travelin' Mood 1994 (4:27)
Marvin Pontiac - I'm a Doggy from The Legendary Marvin Pontiac Greatest Hits 1999 (3:30)
Harry Roy & His Bat Club Boys - My Girl's Pussy from 78 RPM Single 1931 (3:15)
Hash Brown And The Browntones - Hot Dog from Have Some Fun! 2002 (4:25)
Jeff Turmes - Everybody Hates My Dog from Every Day's My Lucky Day 2002 (3:00)
John Hiatt - My Dog and Me from Beneath This Gruff Exterior 2003 (3:15)
Johnny Dyer - Little Dog from Shake It! 1995 (2:32)
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Arno - Hey Sister from Arno Charles Ernest [Bonus Tracks] 2004 (3:21)
Buddy Miller - Draggin' the River from Poison Love 1997 (3:38)
Asylum Street Spankers - Wade In the Water from God's Favorite Band 2010 (3:18)
Bonerama - Helter Skelter from Bring It Home 2007 (5:45)
Chickenfoot - Soap on a Rope from Chickenfoot 2009 (5:32)
Danny Barnes - Bone from Pizza Box 2010 (4:36)
Dikki DU - dont you mess wit it from straighten it out (2:43)
Drive-By Truckers - Hell No, I Ain't Happy from Decoration Day 2003 (4:38)
Duke Robillard - I'll Do Anything but Work from Guitar Groove a Rama 2006 (3:05)
Erin McKeown - Envelopes of Glassine from Grand 2003 (2:53)
Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk from Malt Shop Memories - Top Down Convertible Sound (2:22)
Jonny Cash - Man In Black from University of Texas, Austin - 1994 (2:37)
Keith Sykes - Old Rock N Roller from Let It Roll 2006 (3:53)
Eddie Cochrane - Summertime Blues from Malt Shop Memories - Top Down Convertible Sound (1:58)
The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) from Malt Shop Memories - Jukebox Jems (2:39)
Time-Life Music - Get A Job from Street Corner Symphonies (2:48)
Page County Ramblers - Choking The Strings from HAving Fun at Marriott Ranch, Hume, Va. (2:28)
The Soul Rebels - Disco Tech from Rebelution 2004 (5:26)
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth II from Katy Lied 1975 (4:10)
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues from Transcendental Blues 2000 (4:13)
Stevie Vai - Treasure Island from Where The Wild Things Are 2009 (1:54)
The Rolling Stones - Walking The Dog from The Rolling Stones 1964 (3:09)
Firesign Theatre - Vacancy- No Vacancy from How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All 1969 (1:34)
Kevin Coyne - America from In Living Black And White 1976 (5:11)
Todd Snider - Late Last Night from Step Right Up (3:09)
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Announcement | The 'Roots Guide: The Dutch Stories' project receives a National Geographic Society grant
Haarlem, 18 June 2019. The National Geographic Society has awarded a grant to Roots Guide: The Dutch Stories, an educational social inclusion project taking the form of an interactive travel guidebook.
Roots Guide is based on the 'Travel Faraway at Home' concept developed in 2015 byPocket Stories, a non-profit organisation which aims to broaden our understanding of human migration and celebrate cultural diversity through storytelling projects. Pocket Stories' founder Ingi Mehus and visual storytellerRehab Eldalil, both Changemakerxchange alumni, met in 2016 and bonded through their common passion for storytelling and social inclusion. Together, they founded the Roots Guide project. Soon after, co-writer/editor Daan Wurpel and designer Hamzah Kashash joined the project.
They embarked on a journey to collect and document over 60 written and visual stories from people with very different migration backgrounds from across the 12 Dutch provinces. The book's storytellers, which include a Dutch international truck driver, a Syrian student who came as a refugee and a Dutch Afro-Curaçaoan dance instructor, share their own diverse perspectives and experiences to guide readers around the Netherlands. "Despite all our differences, stories enable us to realise how we are — and remain — connected through struggle, migration, love and compassion. These stories show how interconnected people in the Netherlands are with the rest of the world, not only today but also throughout the past," notes project leader Ingi Mehus. Recognising the far-reaching potential of the work the Roots Guideteam had begun, Meghann Ormond, Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at Wageningen University and Research Centre, joined their initiative in 2018 as the project's curator, helping to strengthen the Roots Guide's message and impact for different audiences.
With its members coming from different corners of the world and with a diverse array of experience, the Roots Guide team's collaboration was born out of a desire to respond to growing populist 'us-versus-them' attitudes with a more inclusive narrative on migration. "The power of visual storytelling has previously been used to influence and enforce the 'us-versus-them' narratives. Our inclusive approach in visual and co-written storytelling provides a platform for collaborative representations of people that encourages communication, interaction and connection," reflects Rehab Eldalil. The Roots Guide team does so by bringing together personal stories and images in the format of a novel interactive travel guide book. So many of us love to travel, in fact, over 80% of people in the Netherlands travel for leisure at least once per year. When travelling, we often open ourselves up to the cultural differences and diversity around us. Along the same lines, the Roots Guide enables readers to undertake both physical and inner journeys to revisit what we know about the Netherlands, for example, by learning about the journeys the diverse storytellers have undertaken within and outside the Netherlands, reflecting upon our own journeys and engaging in interactive activities that stimulate readers to experience the world around them differently. "I myself never realised how culturally rich the Netherlands was until I returned to the country after six years living abroad" says Daan Wurpel, who sees his involvement in Roots Guide as his own re-integration project.
The National Geographic Society supports the Roots Guide team's mission to, in Meghann Ormond's words, "advance the simple yet extraordinarily powerful idea that migrants actively contribute to the places in which they live and are themselves also locals." Over the next 10 months, the team will use the grant to hone the transformative potential of the Roots Guide's rich textual and visual material to make it the most engaging and impactful educational tool possible.
For more information about Roots Guide, please visit: www.facebook.com/rootsguide–www.instagram.com/rootsguide
Photo from left to right: Dr. Daniel Wurpel, Rehab Eldalil, Ingi Mehus, Hamzah Kashash and Dr. Meghann Ormond.
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Q: IISExpress process is blurred out while trying to attach to process in Visual Studio 2015 I've started the app without Debug and then I started the app in debugging mode. I am trying to attach the debugger to the existing process but it's blurred out.

A: You need to run VS with administrator privileges. Right-click Visual Studio, and select Run as an administrator.
You can also configure VS so that it always opens with admin privileges. See this answer.


Something had gutted the whale in the night.
Yet in the dawn, the leviathan was still strangely beautiful, its muscles jeweled with tiny crabs, a glimmering carpet of life gorging itself on the still-warm flesh. Soon, however, the offal would be eaten, and the sun would bake the bones to ivory, would burnish it with a colder splendor, pale as the children of deep water.
The town found the discovery alarming. But it was not the sight of the dead whale that disturbed the denizens, nor even its careful disembowelment. They were used to it. For years, all manner of monstrosities have washed onto their shores: tentacled beasts and things that were almost human, tendrils cancerous with human mouths, forever frozen in triumphant grins.
It was what they found inside the whale that shocked the little coastal settlement.
They didn't find it on the first search. They did not find on the second either, too preoccupied with extricating the bones of old James the Fisherman from between immense vilia, each fleshy nub as large as a man was tall.
They might have not found it at all, if it weren't for the sound that wretched toy made, a small red train tortured into a voice.
A dry, sick fear washed over the skins of the search party, like the drought they'd bartered away. They recognized the fingermarks notched on the train's wooden sides, the name rolling under its wheels. More importantly, they recognized what this meant.
From somewhere in the darkness, a small figure staggered forward.


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ASUU and Govt meeting ends in deadlock as their demands are not met
Home - Local News - ASUU and Govt meeting ends in deadlock as their demands are not met
A meeting between the Federal government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU ended in a deadlock on Tuesday August 16, with no end in sight to the lingering strike by the academic union.
The striking lecturers met with the Professor Nimi Briggs committee today for about three hours at the National University Commission in Abuja in a bid to resolve the issues that led to the six-month and counting strike.
According to the striking lecturers who attended the meeting, the Federal government delegation did not come with any new offer to the table except to beg the lecturers to call off the strike with promises that their demands will be included in the 2023 budget.
Emmanuel Osodeke, President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the union has reached an agreement with the government to adopt the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as the payment platform of lecturers.
While disclosing this during an interview with Channels Television, Osodeke said the federal government invited ASUU for a meeting on Tuesday on the issue of renegotiation to call off the ongoing strike action.
According to him, ASUU will suspend the strike if the federal government agrees to its demands at the meeting.
He said, "We have not had any serious communication though they have invited us for a meeting on one issue, tomorrow (referring to Tuesday), which is the issue of renegotiation.
"You know that there are seven issues why we are on strike. They are inviting us for discussion on the issue of renegotiation, tomorrow, which is renegotiation of the 2009 agreement.
"The issues of IPPIS and UTAS has been put to rest because the test has been done and it has been agreed with the chief of staff, UTAS will be implemented to cover the university.
"Two, if this government is serious, this strike will not last more than two weeks. If you recall we were supposed to go on strike in November, we didn't start it because NIREC came in and intervened. We conceded to them.
"They met with the president, he set up a committee headed by the chief of staff that should resolve this quickly, the world saw it in the press, they did nothing. The president set up the Munzali committee, we met them , nothing, they didn't come back.
"They set up the Nimi Briggs committee, it's now been more than three months, two months we finished negotiating with them, they didn't come back. The president directed the Ministry of Education to finish within two weeks, two weeks has passed, they didn't come back.
"If we go into that meeting tomorrow and the government says what we have negotiated, we are willing to sign, the strike will be called off."
ASUU had on February 14, 2022, embarked on a 4-week total and comprehensive strike to press home their unresolved demands on the federal government. As of Tuesday, the strike embarked by ASUU has entered 183 days
Some of the lecturers' demands include funding for the revitalisation of public universities, payment of earned academic allowances, and adoption of the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as a preferred payment option, instead of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and payment of promotion arrears.
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Average weather in August in Parañaque (Luzon), Philippines
The average minimum temperature (usually the minimum temperature is noted during the night) in Parañaque in August is 25.6°C (78.08°F). August falls in the rainy season with an average precipitation of 433mm (17.0in). This makes it the wettest month of the year. It rains on average a total of 22 days. The average maximum daytime temperature lies around 31.0°C (87.8°F). The sun will occasionally show itself with 135 hours of sunshine during the whole month.
So what to wear in August? Visitors traveling to Parañaque should plan on bringing a totally waterproof rain jacket since it will often be raining. Also bring your shorts or a skirt because it can be very warm or even hot.
For other monthly average weather and what to do in August look at the numbers below.
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Weather and Climate provides you with all the information you need about the climate in Parañaque.
Our site offers climate and forecast data for almost all countries in the world. Are you going to Philippines? On this website you can find historical weather averages for many cities in Philippines. Not sure yet where to go? We now have a tool which suggests which destination suits your ideal climate conditions. Find out where to go with our weather planner.
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Siquijor island, the island of magic, fireflies, small breathtaking bays and so much more
All the islands of the Philippines are beautiful, however Siquijor island stands out. It is the island of magic, fireflies, small breathtaking bays and so much more.
Swimming with sharks in Donsol
Every year people can snorkel in Donsol in the Philippines between February and May among the biggest fish in the world. Especially in the months March and April the animals are spotted here almost daily.
Stay at a 100% self-sustaining island resort
Coron was one of our favorite destinations in the world. The beauty of this island combined with the amazing hospitality and smiles of the Filipinos is a golden combination.
Sabah, one of the most biodiverse regions in Malaysia
Sabah is one of the most biodiverse areas in the entire region. You will find some of the world's oldest rain forests full of rare animals and spectacular natural phenomena. For lovers of nature and wildlife this place is paradise.


SEATTLE (AP) — Two Seattle police officers who shot and killed a 30-year-old pregnant woman each say they fired their weapons after the woman suddenly pulled a knife and came after them.
The Seattle Times reports that the Seattle Police Department late Friday released transcripts of interviews with the officers involved the June 18 fatal shooting of Charleena Lyles.
The two officers say they had no choice but to use lethal force after Lyles tried to stab Officer Jason Anderson in the stomach and cornered Officer Steven McNew in the kitchen.
The officers responded to the apartment after Lyles reported a burglary.
Family members, who previously expressed concerns about her mental health, question why the officers didn't use nonlethal methods to subdue the petite woman and have suggested race played a role. Lyles was black; the officers were white.


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As a KOTO DJ for over twenty years my motto is "It's gotta have a beat and you gotta be able to dance to it." There is a lot of disco on my show because I learned to like dance music while roller skating in Central Park NY, and in the roller discos of the NY 80's scene. If you don't hear something from SOS Band, Madonna, Carl Carlton, Kim Carnes, Kylie Minogue, David Bowie, Steve Winwood, Commodores, Evelyn "Champagne" King, or Atlanta Rhythm Section, then you are not listening to "The Luci Show". As two time winner of KOTO's Lip Sync Contest, I am living proof that us volunteer DJs will do anything for the station up to and including taking it all off for a good cause.
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When President Barack Obama comes to Colorado on Wednesday to praise state lawmakers for taking a tough stance on gun control — an example that he hopes Congress will follow — it will be to a backdrop of a changing economic landscape brought on by the new laws.
Because of strict new gun bills signed recently by Gov. John Hickenlooper that ban high-capacity magazines and require universal background checks on gun transfers, hunting groups are organizing boycotts, shooting competitions are being canceled and more and more businesses that serve the gun industry are announcing that they're taking their companies — and the jobs they provide — to more Second Amendment-friendly locales.
On Monday, organizers for the Rocky Mountain Western States Regional IDPA Championship shooting competition canceled their July 4-6 event because the new laws will go into effect on July 1. Organizers expected 300 out-of-state shooters to come to Montrose for the weekend.
"With these new Colorado laws going into effect July 1, and based on the ambiguous way in which they were written, we have decided to cancel the Rocky Mountain Western States Regional IDPA Championship," said event organizer Walt Proulx in a press release.
This is the second competition to cancel. Earlier, the 2013 Ruger Rimfire Challenge World Championship, to be held in Byers, Colo. July 19-21, was canceled and has yet to be rescheduled "outside of Colorado," according to the Ruger website.
Hunters may also make good on their threat to avoid the state.
Hunting is big business in Colorado. Non-resident hunters accounted for $195 million in retails sales in Colorado in 2011, according to research by the National Shooting Sports Association. Colorado is the third most popular hunting destination for out-of-state hunters, behind only South Dakota and Wisconsin.
While the impact of a potential hunting boycott has yet to be measured, impacts from losing jobs and businesses will likely be felt sooner.
Magpul Industries, which makes the sorts of magazines that will become illegal as of July 1, is making good on its promise to relocate.
Magpul has not said where it is moving, but noted in an earlier post that it could have operations in several states.
"We will likely become a multi-state operation as a result of this move, and not all locations have been selected," the company wrote.
Magpul employs 200 people and accounts for $85 million to the Colorado economy.
Other companies are following Magpul's lead. Lawrence Tool & Molding, which makes parts used by Magpul, said it will follow the company out of state so that it can continue to be a supplier. That company employs 82 people.
Five-person company Carbon Arms also told the Denver Post that they would consider moving.
"We cannot in clear conscience support with our taxes a state that has proven through recent legislation a willingness to infringe upon the constitutional rights of our customer base," said president and CEO Phillip Howe.
Obama will use his appearance in Denver to "continue to ask the American people to join him in calling on Congress to pass common-sense measures to reduce gun violence," deputy press secretary Josh Earnest told Politico.


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Daniel Horlaville (22 September 1945 – 28 April 2019) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder. He was the only post-World War II amateur player to be capped for France.

Personal life
He was the father of former professional footballer Christophe Horlaville.

Horlaville died on 28 April 2019.

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Profile on French federation official site
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1945 births
2019 deaths
French footballers
France international footballers
Association football midfielders
Paris Saint-Germain F.C. players
Paris FC players
FC Rouen players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of France
Competitors at the 1967 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for France
US Quevilly-Rouen Métropole players
Footballers from Normandy
Sportspeople from Seine-Maritime
Mediterranean Games medalists in football

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Archaeologists May Have Found the Oldest Known Mummy in Egypt
Mamma Andersson at David Zwirner
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April 27, 2015 9:30am
Mamma Andersson, The Uninvited, 2014, oil on panel, 43⅝" x 65⅝" x ⅜".
COURTESY DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK AND LONDON
At once sensual and restrained, the paintings in Swedish artist Mamma Andersson's show "Behind the Curtain" were beautifully rendered. There were eerie surrealist-tinged interiors with objects and furnishings from the 18th century to the present. Lightly brushed-over areas of thick impasto were juxtaposed with stained sections. The rich browns playing off glowing whites created surfaces that were satisfyingly tactile, yet never overworked.
The titles set up menacing implications for ostensibly innocent subjects. A theatrical domestic setting was implied in some paintings, with allusions to costume changes. But the mise-en-scène was lifeless and silent. Even the two women dancing in Ceremony (2014) seemed lost in a trance. The compact black feline in Lyckokatt (2014), however, looks back at the viewer with steadfast golden eyes.
In Hangman (2014), a figurine suspended by his hands from a horizontal pole supported by ornamental columns casts a threatening shadow on an invisible wall. The same image gained even more drama blown up in a monumental mural painted on a wall in a dimly lit second gallery. A second mural featured an enormous female mannequin in an antique gown, while three more intimate paintings redoubled the contrast in scale. Andersson's serenely spooky images are enthralling whatever their size.
A version of this story originally appeared in the May 2015 issue of ARTnews on page 107.
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A closer look at one of the most delicious charcuterie specialities: salami. Why is it so irresistible? Science answers.
The flavour of salami, according to its more expert enthusiasts, eludes any precise definition: spicy, sweet, hot and savoury. What can be defined without any shadow of a doubt is the satisfying sensation perceived by our taste buds when we pop a slice of it into our mouths. What is the secret behind so much enjoyment if we are not even able to describe its flavour accurately?
First of all, salami owes its wide spectrum of flavours to the way it is made, which consists of minced pork mixed with sugar, spices and saltpeter. The latter ingredient is a compound that was known long ago to the ancient Chinese and Greek populations, even though its use in food only became widespread in the Middle Ages. It is actually Potassium Nitrate (KNO3) and in charcuterie products it acts as a preservative, as well as enhancing the processes and flavours of "curing". Apart from that, it prevents unwanted microorganisms from spoiling the taste of preserved meat.
The rest, of course, depends on the other ingredients. At the INRA (National Institute of Agronomic Research) laboratory of Clermont-Ferrand, scientits have been interested in salami from an analytical point of view and, after carrying out various tests, they have discovered that its complex taste derives from at least one hundred organic substances, largely attributable to the enzymes of the minced meat and to the bacteria making it ferment.
For this precise reason, the quantity of fats greatly impacts the final taste of the salami, since it is the oxidation of lipids which determines most of the aroma. If something goes wrong in the process of lipid oxidation, for instance, salami has a peculiar rancid aftertaste which causes discerning palates (and not only) to bin it immediately. This is why, to reduce the risk of failure, many producers tend to go overboard with the sugar content.
In fact, the degradation of sugar could lead to acetic acid being released and, in this case, the taste would tend to be vinegary, or 2.3-butanedione which offers a softer buttery flavour. In either case, the flavour is sufficiently pronounced to cover the rancid taste. Quality salami made from a well-balanced mixture of prime materials subjected to a long slow curing process obviously does not require the addition of too much sugar.
On the subject of curing, it is incorrect to think that salami reacts in the same way as ham. Neither is it true to say that the longer it is cured, the better it is. Excessive curing, in fact, tends to dry the salami and much of its aroma evaporates with the moisture. So, here is a useful tip for preserving the fragrance of salami and facilitating the formation of butanedione, making the flavour of your salami even more buttery: simply store it wrapped in cellophane. It may seem heretical but this will slow down the evaporation of moisture and "surgically" prevent the degradation of its sugar content.
Now if you are wondering if it is better "with or without garlic", it is useful to know that, personal tastes apart, garlic confers sulphate molecules which also enhance its other flavours. So, generally speaking, it is better with garlic.
Finally, if you wish to use salami in your recipes, remember that this type of charcuterie, contrary to what most people believe, does not take kindly to being cooked. The meat hardens, the fats separate and the experience is not a particularly memorable one. It is preferable therefore to use it in fillings.
Have you ever tried making salami fritters for instance? Cut some salami into fairly thick slices and prepare a batter using 150 grams of flour, 200 ml of milk, 1 egg, and a pinch of salt. Dip the salami slices in the batter and fry them for one minute. The result is amazing.


Why is it that Joe DiMaggio did not get into the HOF in his first year of eligibility?
Good question, but you're thinking of it in modern terms. In our era, baseball players retire and they are basically only competing against other guys from their own era. In the early 50s, there were still all-time greats in the backlog, but the voting procedure essentially the same as now – a player had to appear on 75% of the ballots to make the hall. There were so many great players eligible that it was almost impossible to get in.
There were many more greats below them, so many of 'em that none could get the required 75%. Double X retired in 1945 and didn't make it until 1951, his sixth year on the ballot! Hornsby got in in his fifth year on the ballot. Even Lefty Grove, who has a very strong case as the best pitcher of all time, missed his first two times! Ed Delahanty, probably the greatest player of all time before Cobb/Wagner/Lajoie came along, never got in at all. He was on the ballot for six unsuccessful years, came close but no cigar, and was finally admitted through the back door by a special Old-Timer's Committee. You probably remember that a couple of fairly good guys named Cy Young and Nap Lajoie got in on their second try.
You may be wondering how 1951 could have been Jimmy Foxx's sixth year on the ballot when he had retired after the 1945 season. Actually, Foxx had received ballots as far back as 1936, nine years before he retired! That's because there was no five-year waiting period until 1954. Most people don't realize that the waiting period has evolved over time. In the first Hall of Fame vote in 1936, there was no waiting period at all. Babe Ruth, who had retired just the year before, was elected, and active players such as Lou Gehrig and Foxx got many votes. Voters were discouraged from voting for active players after the 1936 election, but the practice was not actually forbidden by the rules, so a small trickle of votes continued to come in for players who were still in uniform. In fact, DiMaggio himself was the last active player to get a vote, having received one in 1945. There was no official waiting rule at all until 1946, when a "one year after retirement" rule was adopted. That stayed in place for only eight years until the modern "five year rule" was adopted in 1954. DiMaggio originally became eligible during that brief period when eligibility was determined by the one-year rule, and since he had retired after the 1951 season, he was therefore not on the 1952 ballot.
That raised him to the top of the non-inductees, which meant he was a lock in 1955, since there were no significant new additions to the ballot.
There was no disrespect for DiMaggio. Quite to the contrary, there was a special "DiMaggio rule" provision passed just so DiMaggio would get in early. In 1954, the rules committee passed the modern "five year rule" – therefore making DiMaggio technically ineligible in 1955 since he had played in 1951. However, since he had already been on the 1953 and 1954 ballots, and was obviously a lock for election in 1955, they specifically excluded him from the new rule!! In essence, the 1954 rule said "everyone has to wait five years except the great DiMag!" Technically this rule also applied to any others who had been on previous ballots, but let's not kid ourselves. DiMaggio was the only man genuinely affected, and the rule was passed just for him. No other players who retired in the 50s were even close to consideration. In fact, The Clipper is the only guy in the Hall of Fame who played in the 1950s and was elected in the 50s. He remained the sole 50s man for seven more ballots, until Feller and Jackie Robinson made it together in 1962. Teddy Ballgame made it in 1966, Musial and Campy not until 1969. As of 1970, those were the only six players in the HOF who had played in the 50s, and DiMaggio had beaten the others by a mile.
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Геракли́д — в древней Греции человек, ведущий свой род от Геракла.

Имя
 Гераклид Понтийский — философ, ученик Платона и Аристотеля.
 Гераклид Лемб — древнегреческий чиновник, дипломат, историк и философ, во II веке до н. э. живший и работавший в Египте.
 Гераклид Миласский — древнегреческий полководец и флотоводец VI—V веков до н. э.
 Гераклид Понтийский Младший (I в. до н. э.—I в. н. э.) — греческий учёный (грамматик, историк, поэт, теоретик музыки).
 Гераклид — полководец Дионисия Младшего сиракузского.
 Гераклид — греко-македонский флотоводец, живший в IV веке до н. э.
 Гераклиды — потомки легендарного древнегреческого героя Геракла.

Фамилия
 Гераклид, Иоан Якоб — имя господаря Молдавского княжества с 1561 по 1563 год, известного как Деспот Водэ.

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\section{Introduction}
In the $p\bar{p} \to q\bar{q}$ process, the quarks that are produced are
unpolarized, but their spins are correlated.  This is required by angular
momentum conservation in the strong interaction.  In general, this
correlation is unobservable, as the hadronization process involves the
emission of gluons that can flip the spins of the quarks.  But the top
quark provides a laboratory for studying the correlation.  The short
lifetime of top, about $5 \times 10^{-25}$~s, is shorter than the timescale
for strong processes, so top decays before fragmentation and spin flips can
occur.  Thus, the original spin orientation is preserved, and is passed to
the decay products.  It should then be observable through a study of the
kinematics of the decay products.

A measurement of top-quark spin correlation is a test of top-quark
properties and also a probe of new physics.  The very observation of the
correlation could in principle be used to set an upper limit on the top
lifetime.  Should top have a non-standard decay (such as $t \to H^+ b$), or
non-standard production mechanism (through decays of stop pairs, or a $Z'$
resonance), a non-standard correlation would be observed.  The correlation
is ultimately a subtle effect -- the theme of this presentation -- but
there is now enough Tevatron data to explore it.

\section{About correlation}
At the Tevatron, the primary production mode of $t\bar{t}$ is through
$q\bar q \to t\bar t$ with an $s$-channel gluon.  (This is in contrast to
the LHC, where the initial state is primarily $gg$).  The $q$ and $\bar q$
must have opposite helicity to couple to that gluon, and that forces the
$t$ and $\bar t$ to have their spins pointing along the beamline.  A
correlation strength can be defined based on the number of $t\bar{t}$ pairs
with their spins pointing in the same direction,
\begin{equation}
A = \frac
{N_{\uparrow\uparrow} + N_{\downarrow\downarrow} -
 N_{\uparrow\downarrow} - N_{\downarrow\uparrow}}
{N_{\uparrow\uparrow} + N_{\downarrow\downarrow} +
 N_{\uparrow\downarrow} + N_{\downarrow\uparrow}}.
\end{equation}

But the spin orientation must be defined with respect to a quantization
axis.  In the measurements described here, the beamline axis, defined as
the direction of the colliding hadrons in the zero-momentum frame of the
$t\bar{t}$ system, is used.  This choice is intuitive, easy to construct,
and optimal for $t\bar{t}$ produced at threshold.  With this choice of
quantization axis, next-to-leading order QCD calculations predict $A =
0.777^{+0.027}_{-0.042}$~\cite{bib:Avalue}.

The spin orientation of the top is then passed to its decay products.  The
differential angular decay distributions of the top daughters is given by
\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\Gamma}\frac{d\Gamma}{d\cos \theta_i} = \frac{1}{2}(1 + \alpha_i
\cos\theta_i),
\end{equation}
where $\cos\theta_i$ is the angle between the $i$th top daughter and the
spin of the top.  Different decay products have different correlation
strengths, as indicated by $\alpha_i$.  This is illustrated in
Figure~\ref{fig:angles}.  In the case of a leptonic $W$ decay, the lepton
has the greatest analyzing power, and for a hadronic $W$ decay it is the
down-type quark\footnote{In the original observation of parity violation,
  it was the angular distribution of electrons from nuclear beta decay that
  were observed.  What would the history of our understanding of the weak
  interaction have been had the correlation with the nuclear spin direction
  not been so strong?}.  In both cases, $\alpha \simeq 1$.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=135mm]{figure1}
\caption{Illustration of the top decay angles (left) and dependence of the
  decay rate on the angles (right)~\cite{bib:mahlon}.} \label{fig:angles}
\end{figure*}

Thus, the doubly-differential cross section as a function of the decay
angles of decay products from two different quarks in $t\bar{t}$ is given
by
\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\sigma}\frac{d^2\sigma}{d\cos\theta_1 d\cos\theta_2} =
\frac{1}{4} (1 - A\alpha_1\alpha_2 \cos\theta_1 \cos\theta_2).
\end{equation}
To study the spin correlation, one looks for correlation between the
directions of decay products from the two different top decays.  In the
case of both tops decaying leptonically, $\alpha_1\alpha_1 \simeq 1$, and
we write $A\alpha_1\alpha_2 \equiv C \simeq A$.

\section{Experimental situation\protect\footnote{This presentation was given at the
    very end of a long day of top-physics talks, and by unanimous consent
    of the audience most of the material in this section was not presented, as it
    was deemed redunant.}}
The measurements described below were performed at the Fermilab Tevatron, a
$p\bar{p}$ collider operating at $\sqrt{s}=1.96$~TeV.  Run~II of the
collider has been in progress since 2001, with almost 12~fb$^{-1}$ of
integrated luminosity delivered.  The spin-correlation measurements make
use of 5.4~fb$^{-1}$.  The data was recorded by the D0 detector, which
consists of silicon and fiber trackers inside a 2~T solenoid, a liquid
argon-uranium calorimeter, and muon trackers and scintillators inside
toroids.

At the Tevatron, 85\% of $t\bar{t}$ production arises from $q\bar{q}$
annihilation and the remaining 15\% from $gg$ interactions.  Each top quark
decays to $Wb$ nearly 100\% of the time, and the final states are
characterized by the $W$ decay modes.  The three final states are
all-hadronic, lepton plus jets and dilepton.  In the order listed, the
final states have decreasing rate and increasing number of neutrinos and
signal purity.

The dilepton state in particular is characterized by two high-$p_T$
leptons, missing momentum due to the escaping neutrinos, two hadronic jets
from $b$ decays, and perhaps additional jets due to initial- and
final-state radiation.  For the purpose of the spin-correlation
measurements, the dilepton state has the best analyzing power and most
accurate measurement of the decay-product (lepton) directions, but the
worst statistical power, compared to other final states that could be
considered.

\section{Event selection}
The two measurements described have the same event selection.  A
$t\bar{t}$-enriched sample is chosen by selecting events with two
high-$p_T$, isolated, opposite-charge leptons.  Only electrons and muons
are considered as leptons, so the dilepton pairs can be either $ee$, $e\mu$
or $\mu\mu$..  There must also be at least two high-$p_T$ jets.  To
suppress backgrounds, a large scalar sum of the lepton and jet $p_T$ values
is required in the $e\mu$ channel, and significant missing energy in the
$ee$ and $\mu\mu$ channels.  Backgrounds from $Z/\gamma^*$ (diboson) events
are modeled by leading-order Monte Carlo samples, and normalized to
next-to-next-to-leading (next-to-leading) order cross sections.
Instrumental backgrounds arise from misidentified $\pi^0$ and $\eta$ decays
in electron samples and real muons in jets that appear to be isolated in
muon samples; both of these are modeled with complementary data samples.
The selected data sample is about 70\% pure in $t\bar{t}$ events, as shown
in Table~\ref{tab:events}.

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{Estimates of contributions of various physics processes to the
  selected dilepton sample.}
\begin{tabular}{cccccc}\hline
$t\bar{t}$ & $Z/\gamma^*$ & Diboson & Instrumental & Total & Observed\\
$341 \pm 30$ & $93 \pm 15$ & $19 \pm 3$ & $28 \pm 5$ & $481 \pm 39$ & 485\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:events}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\section{Analysis I: Template-based}
D0 has performed two different measurements of the spin correlation with
this event sample.  The first is template-based, in which the decay angles
are calculated in each event, and the distribution of angles is modeled
by a sum of templates representing the distributions for correlated and
uncorrelated spins~\cite{bib:meas1}.  This technique has been used
before~\cite{bib:old1}, but with a much smaller data sample.

To observe the correlation, one must measure the angle between the lepton
and the beamline (which is used as the top spin quantization axis) in the
zero-momentum frame of the $t\bar{t}$ system, which requires a full
reconstruction of the decay.  A total of eighteen quantities are needed to
specify the final-state configuration, but because of the two undetected
neutrinos only twelve are measured.  Constraining the decay kinematics to
the values of the top and $W$ masses provides four additional pieces of
information, but that still leaves two missing.

The ``neutrino weighting'' technique is used to solve the remaining
kinematics.  Two values of the neutrino $\eta$ (where $\eta =
-\ln\tan(\theta/2)$ and $\theta$ is the polar angle measured from the
beamline) are randomly sampled from the neutrino $\eta$ distribution as
predicted from $t\bar{t}$ Monte Carlo simulations.  These values are then
used to solve for the implied $t\bar{t}$ kinematics.  This allows a
determination of the product of decay angles $\cos\theta_1\cos\theta_2$ and
of the neutrino momenta.  The $\cos\theta_1\cos\theta_2$ value is then
weighted by the consistency of the determined neutrino momenta with the
measured missing transverse energy in the event.  The sampling is repeated
many times, and weighted mean of all solutions obtained is then used as the
estimator of $\cos\theta_1\cos\theta_2$.

$t\bar{t}$ events are simulated using the MC@NLO
generator~\cite{bib:MCNLO}, in which the spin correlation can be turned on
or off straightforwardly.  Then, with the appropriate weighting of simulated
samples, $\cos\theta_1\cos\theta_2$ distributions for any value of $C$ can
be generated.  The left panel of Figure~\ref{fig:template} shows the
expected distribution of $\cos\theta_1 \cos\theta_2$ at parton level for
$t\bar{t}$ with no spin correlation ($C = 0$) and standard-model (SM) spin
correlation ($C = 0.78$).  The distribution is symmetric when there is no
correlation, and shifted slightly towards negative values of $\cos\theta_1
\cos\theta_2$ when there is correlation.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{figure2a}
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{figure2b}
\caption{Left: The distribution in $\cos\theta_1\cos\theta_2$ for a  sample
  including the NLO QCD spin correlation (C = 0.78) (red dashed line) and
  with no spin correlation (C = 0) (blue solid line) at the parton level,
  generated using MC@NLO.  Right: The distribution in $\cos\theta_1\cos\theta_2$ for the entire dilepton event sample. The summed  signal, including NLO QCD spin correlation (C = 0.78) (red) and all backgrounds (blue) are compared to data. The open histogram is the  prediction without spin correlation (C = 0).} \label{fig:template}
\end{figure*}

The right panel of Figure~\ref{fig:template} shows the distribution
observed in the data, along with the appropriately-normalized background
distribution and the distributions expected for the cases of no
correlation and SM correlation.  On the face of it, it seems
hard to distinguish the two cases.  To make a quantitative statement, the
most likely value of $C$ is obtained with a binned maximum-likelihood fit.
Systematic uncertainties are incorporated to the fit as nuisance
parameters, and the overall $t\bar{t}$ cross section is treated as a free
parameter to avoid biases.

A Feldman-Cousins-based frequentist approach~\cite{bib:FC} is used to set
confidence limits on $C$ as a function of the measured value.  These are
shown in Figure~\ref{fig:templateFC}.  The measured value is
$C_{\mathrm{meas}} = 0.10 \pm 0.45$, which can be compared with the
expected value of $C = 0.78$.  We find $-0.66 < C < 0.81$ at 95\%
confidence level.  Uncertainties on the central value are shown in
Table~\ref{tab:template_errors}.  Statistical uncertainties dominate by
far; the leading systematic uncertainty arises from the limited Monte Carlo
statistics in generating the templates.  This can obviously be remedied
when statistical uncertainties are reduced with more data.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{figure3}
\caption{The 68\% (inner), 95\% (middle), and 99\% (outer)
C.L. bands of $C$ as a function of $C_{\mathrm{meas}}$ from likelihood
fits to MC events for all channels combined.  The yellow line
indicates the most probable value of $C$ as a function of
$C_{\mathrm{meas}}$, and represents the calibration of the method.
The vertical dashed black line depicts the measured value
$C_{\mathrm{meas}}=0.10$. The horizontal band indicates the NLO QCD
prediction of $C=0.777^{+0.027}_{-0.042}$.}
\label{fig:templateFC}
\end{figure*}

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{Summary of uncertainties on $C_{\mathrm{meas}}$.}
\begin{tabular}{ccc} \hline \hline
 Source  &        $+$SD    &   $-$SD   \\ \hline
                   Muon identification & 0.01 & $-0.01$ \\
              Electron identification and smearing & 0.01 & $-0.01$ \\
                                     PDF & 0.02 & $-0.01$ \\
                                   Top Mass & 0.01 & $-0.01$ \\
                                          Triggers & 0.02 & $-0.02$ \\
                       Opposite charge requirement & 0.00 & $-0.00$ \\
                                  Jet energy scale & 0.01 & $-0.01$ \\
                Jet reconstruction and identification & 0.06 & $-0.06$ \\
                                    Normalization & 0.02 & $-0.02$ \\
                            Monte Carlo statistics & 0.02 & $-0.02$ \\
                Instrumental background & 0.00 & $-0.00$ \\
                              Background Model for Spin & 0.03 & $-0.04$ \\
                                    Luminosity & 0.03 & $-0.03$ \\
                                             Other & 0.01 & $-0.01$ \\
                 Template statistics for template fits & 0.07 & $-0.07$ \\
                                 \hline
                   Total systematic uncertainty & 0.11 & $-0.11$ \\ \hline
   Statistical uncertainty    & 0.38 & $-0.40$  \\ \hline \hline
 \end{tabular}
\label{tab:template_errors}
\end{center}
\end{table}

While the measured value of $C$ agrees with the predicted value within two
standard deviations, it is also consistent with no spin correlation at
all.  A more powerful technique is required to observe the effect with the
data sample in hand.

\section{Analysis II: Matrix-element-based}
The second measurement makes use of the leading-order matrix element for
$t\bar{t}$ production and decay, using the full event kinematics to
determine the fraction of $t\bar{t}$ events in the sample that the spin
correlation that is expected in the SM~\cite{bib:meas2}.  Matrix
elements have never been used in spin-correlation measurements before, and
their implementation leads to a significant improvement in sensitivity.

On an event by event basis, we can characterize whether the kinematics are
consistent with the SM or with no correlation at all.  This is done by
calculating a probability for consistency of the event with spin
correlation or non-correlation. The probability is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eq:psgn}  \nonumber
P_{\rm sgn}(x;H) & & \hspace{-0.3cm}= \frac{1}{\sigma_{\rm obs}} \int
~f_{\rm PDF}(q_1)~f_{\rm PDF}(q_2)
{\rm d}q_1 {\rm d}q_2 \\
&\cdot & \frac{(2 \pi)^{4} \left|{\cal M}(y,H)\right|^{2}}
       {q_1q_2 s}
  ~ W(x,y)
~     {\rm d}\Phi_{6}.
\end{eqnarray}
Here, $\sigma_{\rm obs}$ denotes the leading order cross section including
selection efficiency, $q_1$ and $q_2$ the energy fraction of the incoming
quarks from the proton and antiproton, respectively, $f_{\rm PDF}$ the
parton distribution function, $s$ the center-of-mass energy squared of the
$p\bar{p}$ system and ${\rm d}\Phi_{6}$ the infinitesimal volume element of
the 6-body phase space.  The detector resolution is taken into account
through a transfer function $W(x,y)$ that describes the probability of a
partonic final state $y$ to be measured as $x =
(\tilde{p}_1,\dots,\tilde{p}_n)$, where $\tilde{p}_i$ denotes the measured
four-momenta of the final state particles.  $H$ represents the correlation
hypothesis -- $H=c$ corresponds to SM correlation and $H=u$ corresponds to
no correlation.  The appropriate matrix element is used for each case.  In
contrast to the template measurement, the full event kinematics plus
theoretical models of $t\bar{t}$ production and decay are used, not just
the lepton angles, and by adding this information, the sensitivity of the
measurement is increased.

For each event, we compute
\begin{equation}
R = \frac{P_{\rm sgn} (H=c)}{P_{\rm sgn}(H=u) + P_{\rm sgn} (H=c)}\,,
\label{eq:discr}
\end{equation}
Events more consistent with having SM spin correlation will tend to have
$R$ close to one, while those less consistent will have $R$ closer to zero.
A value of $R \simeq 0.5$ implies that it is is difficult to tell which
hypothesis is more likely.  The left panel of Figure~\ref{fig:matrix} shows
the expected distribution of $R$ for MC@NLO $t\bar{t}$ events generated
with and without spin correlation.  In fact, $R \simeq 0.5$ is quite
common; the correlation is still a small effect.  But there is some
separation between the two distributions.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{figure4a}
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{figure4b}
\caption{Left: Comparison of the discriminant $R$ between SM spin
  correlation $H=c$ and no spin correlation $H=u$ at parton level.  The
  first and last bin include also the contributions from $R<0.29$ and
  $R>0.63$.  Right: The predicted discriminant distribution $R$ for the
  combined dilepton event sample for the fitted $\sigma_{t\bar{t}}$ and
  $f_{\mathrm{meas}}$ compared to the data.  The prediction with spin
  correlation ($f=1$) and without spin correlation ($f=0$) is shown
  including background.} \label{fig:matrix}
\end{figure*}

The right panel of Figure~\ref{fig:matrix} shows the distribution in $R$
observed in the data, along with the distribution expected for the
background events and those for $t\bar{t}$ with and without spin
correlation.  By eye, one can see that the data are more consistent with
the hypothesis of correlation.

The fraction of events that are consistent with SM spin correlation, $f$,
is obtained from a binned likelihood fit that is very similar to that of
Analysis~I.  This fraction is of course expected to be 100\%.  The
confidence bands are shown in Figure~\ref{fig:matrixFC}.  We find $f =
0.74^{+0.40}_{-0.41}$, which is consistent with the SM.  A value of $f=0$
is excluded at the 97.7\% confidence level.  (From ensemble testing, the
measurement was expected to exclude $f=0$ at the 99.6\% confidence level;
if the correlation exists as expected in the SM, this measurement was
``unlucky'' in finding a value less than 100\%.)  The uncertainties on the
measured value of $f$ are listed in Table~\ref{tab:matrix_errors}; once
again, statistical uncertainties greatly dominate.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{figure5}
\caption{The 68.0\% (inner), 95.0\% (central), and 99.7\% (outer)
  C.L. bands of $f$ as a function of $f_{\mathrm{meas}}$ from likelihood
  fits to MC events.  The thin yellow line indicates the most probable
  value of $f$ as a function of $f_{\mathrm{meas}}$, and therefore
  represents the calibration of the method.  The vertical dashed black line
  indicates the measured value $f_{\mathrm{meas}}=0.74$.}
\label{fig:matrixFC}
\end{figure*}

\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{Summary of uncertainties on $f_{\mathrm{meas}}$.}
\begin{tabular}{ccc} \hline \hline
 Source  &        $+$SD    &   $-$SD   \\ \hline
                 Muon identification & 0.01 & -0.01 \\
              Electron identification and smearing & 0.02 & -0.02 \\
                                   PDF & 0.06 & -0.05 \\
                                       $m_t$ & 0.04 & -0.06 \\
                                          Triggers & 0.02 & -0.02 \\
                       Opposite charge selection & 0.01 & -0.01 \\
                                       Jet energy scale & 0.01 & -0.04 \\
            Jet reconstruction and identification & 0.02 & -0.06 \\
                                     Background normalization & 0.07 & -0.08 \\
                            MC statistics & 0.03 & -0.03 \\
                    Instrumental background & 0.01 & -0.01 \\
                                    Integrated luminosity & 0.04 & -0.04 \\
                                             Other & 0.02 & -0.02 \\
            MC statistics for template fits & 0.10 & -0.10 \\
                                 \hline
                    Total systematic uncertainty & 0.15 & -0.18 \\
\hline
  Statistical uncertainty &       0.33 &   -0.35  \\ \hline \hline
\end{tabular}
\label{tab:matrix_errors}
\end{center}
\end{table}

\section{Summary}
Quark spin correlation is a phenomenon that can only be seen in $t\bar{t}$
production, thanks to the short top lifetime.  However, it is a subtle
effect that requires large data samples and sophisticated analysis
techniques to observe.  Indeed, the matrix-element technology is perhaps
the most powerful, and most complex, analysis tool that is currently
available for Tevatron data analyses, and it was required here to have the
hope of observing the effects of interest.  Two analyses of $t\bar{t}$
dilepton events at D0 have been performed.  One was a template-based
analysis using full reconstruction of top decays, giving a result within
two standard deviations of the NLO QCD prediction, but also compatible with
the no-correlation hypothesis.  The other one was a matrix-element-based
analysis that gives a result consistent with the SM hypothesis, and
powerful enough to exclude the no-correlation hypothesis for the first time
ever.  Both analyses are statistics limited, with only about half of the
final D0 Run~II data sample analyzed so far.  Thus, there is great
potential for improving the precision of the measurements in the near
future.

\begin{acknowledgments}
I thank the D0 ``spinners'' (Alexander Grohsjean, Tim Head, Yvonne Peters
and Christian Schwanenberger) for their advice while I was preparing this
presentation, and the D0 Collaboration for giving me the opportunity to
present these interesting results.  I also thank the organizers of the DPF
2011 conference for an engaging and enjoyable week.
\end{acknowledgments}

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