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\section{Introduction}

~~~ In the past few years, BaBar and Belle have measured several charmless $B$ decay modes involving light tensor mesons in the final states \cite{PDG}. These decays play a complementary role, compared with $e.g.$, $B\to VV,VA,AA$ channels ($V$ is a vector and $A$ is an axial-vector meson) \cite{BenekeVV,Cheng:2008gxa},  since the tensor meson $T$ can be produced neither from the local (axial-)vector current nor from the local tensor current which is relevant only to new physics. The polarization studies for $B\to TV, TA, TT$ decays can further shed light on the underlying helicity structure of the decay mechanism, recalling that the longitudinal polarization dominance observed in the decay $B^+\to \phi K_2^*(1430)^+$ is quite different from the polarization measurement in $B\to \phi K^*$ which indicates a large fraction of transverse polarization \cite{:2008zzd}.

In the quark model, the $J^{PC}=2^{++}$ tensor meson can be modeled as a constituent quark-antiquark pair with the angular momentum $L=1$ and total spin $S=1$. The observed tensor mesons $f_2(1270)$, $f_2'(1525)$, $a_2(1320)$ and $K_2^*(1430)$ form an SU(3) $1\,^3P_2$ nonet.  The $q\bar q$ content for isodoublet and isovector tensor resonances are obvious.  \footnote{Just as the $\eta$-$\eta'$ mixing in the pseudoscalar case, the isoscalar tensor states $f_2(1270)$ and $f'_2(1525)$ also have a mixing, and their wave functions are defined by
 \begin{eqnarray}
 f_2(1270) &=&
{1\over\sqrt{2}}(f_2^u+f_2^d)\cos\theta_{f_2} + f_2^s\sin\theta_{f_2} ~, \quad
 f'_2(1525) =
{1\over\sqrt{2}}(f_2^u+f_2^d)\sin\theta_{f_2} - f_2^s\cos\theta_{f_2} ~, \nonumber
 \end{eqnarray}
with $f_2^q\equiv q\bar q$.  Since $\pi\pi$ is the dominant decay mode of $f_2(1270)$ whereas $f_2'(1525)$ decays predominantly into $K\bar K$ (see Ref.~\cite{PDG}), it is obvious that this mixing angle should be small.  More precisely, it is found that $\theta_{f_2}=7.8^\circ$ \cite{Li} and $(9\pm1)^\circ$ \cite{PDG}.  Therefore, $f_2(1270)$ is primarily a $(u\bar u+d\bar d)/\sqrt{2}$ state, while $f'_2(1525)$ is dominantly $s\bar s$.
}
Nevertheless, in full QCD field theory, the tensor meson is represented by a set of Fock states, each of which has the same quantum number as the meson. In this work, we present the study for two-parton asymptotic light-cone distribution amplitudes (LCDAs) of lowest-lying tensor mesons with quantum numbers $J^{PC}=2^{++}$ because, in the treatment of exclusive $B$ decay processes in QCD, the Fock states of the energetic meson can be further represented in terms of LCDAs. The LCDAs are governed by the special collinear subgroup $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$ of the conformal group \cite{BF2,Braun:2003rp} and can be expanded as a series of partial waves, where the rotational invariance is characterized by the conformal spin $j$ and the concept of ``collinear twist'' is
equivalent to the ``eigen-energy" in quantum mechanics.

Due to the $G$-parity of the tensor meson, according to our definition, both the chiral-even and chiral-odd two-parton LCDAs of the tensor meson are antisymmetric under the interchange of momentum fractions of the $quark$ and $anti$-$quark$ in the SU(3) limit. The asymptotic LCDAs are relevant to the first Gegenbauer moment of the leading twist distribution amplitudes, $\phi_\parallel$ and $\phi_\perp$. In analogy to the cases of axial-vector mesons \cite{Cheng:2008gxa,Yang:2005tv}, the sizable Gegenbauer term containing the first Gegenbauer moment could have a large impact on $B$ decays involving a tensor meson.

The present paper is organized as follows. In Sec.~\ref{sec:DEF} we define the LCDAs for the tensor mesons. A slightly different definition for chiral-even LCDAs is given in \cite{Braun:2000cs}. The detailed properties of  LCDAs are given in Sec. \ref{sec:PRO}. Results for the decay constants
are presented in Sec.~\ref{sec:DC}. Sec.~\ref{sec:sum} comes to our conclusion.

\section{Definition}\label{sec:DEF}

~~~ For a tensor meson, the polarization tensors $\epsilon_{(\lambda)}^{\mu\nu}$ with helicity $\lambda$ can be constructed in terms of the polarization vectors of a massive vector state moving along the $z$-axis \cite{Berger:2000wt}
\begin{eqnarray}
\varepsilon(0)^{*\mu} = (P_3,0,0,E)/m_T,
\quad
\varepsilon(\pm1)^{*\mu} = (0,\mp1,+i,0)/\sqrt{2},
\end{eqnarray}and are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
\epsilon^{\mu\nu}_{(\pm2)} &\equiv& \varepsilon(\pm1)^\mu \varepsilon(\pm1)^\nu,
\\
\epsilon^{\mu\nu}_{(\pm1)} &\equiv& \sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}
[\varepsilon(\pm1)^\mu \varepsilon(0)^\nu + \varepsilon(0)^\mu \varepsilon(\pm1)^\nu],
\\
\epsilon^{\mu\nu}_{(0)} &\equiv& \sqrt{\frac{1}{6}}
 [\varepsilon(+1)^\mu \varepsilon(-1)^\nu + \varepsilon(-1)^\mu \varepsilon(+1)^\nu]
 + \sqrt{\frac{2}{3}}  \varepsilon(0)^\mu \varepsilon(0)^\nu.
\end{eqnarray}
The polarization $\epsilon_{\mu\nu}^{(\lambda)}$ can be
decomposed in the frame formed by the two light-like vectors, $z_\mu$ and $p_\nu\equiv P_\nu - z_\nu m_T^2/(2pz)$ with $P_\nu$ and $m_T$ being the momentum and the mass of the tensor meson, respectively, and their orthogonal plane~\cite{Ball:1998sk,Ball:1998ff}. The transverse component that we use thus reads
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:polprojectiors}
 && \epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\perp\, \mu\nu} z^\nu
 =\epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\mu\nu} z^\nu-\epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\parallel\mu\nu} z^\nu
        = \epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\mu\nu} z^\nu -
     \frac{\epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\alpha\nu} z^\alpha z^\nu }{p z} \left( p_\mu-\frac{m_T^2}{2 p z} \,z_\mu\right)\,.
\end{eqnarray}
The polarization tensor $\epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\alpha\beta}$, which is symmetric and
traceless, satisfies the divergence-free condition $\epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\alpha\beta} P^\beta=0$ and the orthonormal condition $\epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\mu\nu}\big(\epsilon^{(\lambda') \mu\nu}\big)^*=\delta_{\lambda\lambda'}$. Therefore,
\begin{eqnarray}
 \langle T(P, \lambda)|V_\mu|0\rangle &=&
 a\epsilon^{*(\lambda)}_{\mu\nu}P^\nu+b\epsilon^{*(\lambda)\nu}_{~\nu} P_\mu=0, \\
 \langle T(P,\lambda)|A_\mu |0\rangle &=& \varepsilon_{\mu\nu\rho\sigma} P^\nu \epsilon_{(\lambda)}^{\rho\sigma *}=0,
\end{eqnarray}
and hence the tensor meson cannot be produced from the local $V-A$ current and likewise from the tensor current.
The completeness relation reads
\begin{eqnarray} \label{eq:polarization}
 \sum_\lambda \epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\mu\nu}\left(\epsilon^{(\lambda)}_{\rho\sigma}\right)^\ast
  = \frac12 M_{\mu\rho} M_{\nu\sigma}+\frac12 M_{\mu\sigma} M_{\nu\rho}
  -\frac13 M_{\mu\nu} M_{\rho\sigma}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
where $M_{\mu\nu} = g_{\mu\nu} - P_\mu P_\nu/m_T^2$.

In what follows, we consider matrix elements of bilocal quark-antiquark operators at a light-like separation, $2z_\mu$, with $z^2=0$. In analogy with those of vector and
axial-vector mesons \cite{Ball:1998sk,Ball:1998ff,Yang:2005gk,Yang:2007zt}, we can define chiral-even
light-cone distribution amplitudes of a tensor meson:\footnote{Our LCDA $g_a$ differs from that defined by Braun and Kivel \cite{Braun:2000cs}:
\begin{eqnarray}
 \langle T(P,\lambda)|\bar q_1(z)\gamma_\mu\gamma_5 q_2 (-z)|0\rangle
 =
 f_{T} m_T^2
  \int\limits_{0}^1 \! du\,e^{i(u-\bar u)pz} \varepsilon_{\mu\nu\alpha\beta} {z^\nu p^\alpha} \epsilon_{(\lambda)}^{*\beta\delta}z_\delta\,{1\over (pz)^2}\, {g}^{\rm BK}_a(u)\,. \nonumber
  \end{eqnarray}
They are related by $g_a(u) =2 \int_0^u {g}^{\rm BK}_a(v) dv\,.$ Note that the variable $t$ used in \cite{Braun:2000cs} is related to $u$ through the relation $t=2u-1$.
Our $g_a$ is defined in the same manner as the LCDA $g_\bot^{(a)}$ in the vector meson case or $g_\bot^{(v)}$ as in the case of the axial-vector meson. This definition is more convenient for studying the relevant Wandzura-Wilczek relation and the helicity projection operator.
}
\begin{eqnarray} \label{eq:chial-even-LCDAs}
 \langle T(P,\lambda)|\bar q_1(z)\gamma_\mu {q_2}(-z)|0\rangle
 &=&
   f_{T} m^2_T
  \int\limits_{0}^1 \! du\,e^{i(u-\bar u)pz} \Bigg\{ p_\mu \frac{\epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\alpha\beta}z^\alpha z^\beta}
{(pz)^2} \,\phi_\parallel(u)
\nonumber\\
&+& \frac{\epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\perp\mu\alpha} z^\alpha }{pz}\, g_v(u)
 - \frac{1}{2} z_\mu \frac{\epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\alpha\beta}z^\alpha z^\beta}{(pz)^3} m_T^2 \,g_3(u)
\Bigg\}\,, \\
 \langle T(P,\lambda)|\bar q_1(z)\gamma_\mu\gamma_5 q_2 (-z)|0\rangle
 &=&
 f_{T} m_T^2
  \int\limits_{0}^1 \! du\,e^{i(u-\bar u)pz} \varepsilon_{\mu\nu\alpha\beta} {z^\nu p^\alpha} \epsilon_{(\lambda)}^{*\beta\delta}z_\delta\,{1\over pz}\, g_a(u)\,,
\end{eqnarray}
and chiral-odd LCDAs to be
\begin{eqnarray}
 \langle T(P,\lambda)|\bar q_1(z)\sigma_{\mu\nu}  q_2(-z)|0\rangle
 &=&
 -i f_{T}^\perp m_T
  \int\limits_{0}^1 \! du\,e^{i(u-\bar u)pz} \Bigg\{\left[\epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\perp\mu\alpha} z^\alpha p_\nu
 - \epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\perp\nu\alpha} z^\alpha p_\mu\right] \frac{1}{pz} \phi_\perp(u) \nonumber\\
 &+&  (p_\mu z_\nu - p_\nu z_\mu)
 \frac{ m_T^2\epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\alpha\beta}z^\alpha z^\beta}{(pz)^3} h_t(u) \nonumber  \\
 &+&
   \frac{1}{2} \left[\epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\perp\mu\alpha} z^\alpha z_\nu
 - \epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\perp\nu\alpha} z^\alpha z_\mu\right] \frac{m_T^2}{(pz)^2} h_3(u)
  \Bigg\} \,,\\
 \langle T(P,\lambda)|\bar q_1(z)  q_2(-z)|0\rangle
 &=&
-i f_{T}^\perp m_T^3
  \int\limits_{0}^1 \! du\,e^{i(u-\bar u)pz} \frac{\epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\alpha\beta}z^\alpha z^\beta}{pz}h_s(u)\,,  \label{eq:chial-odd-LCDAs}
\end{eqnarray}
where $u$ and $\bar u\equiv 1-u$ are the respective momentum fractions carried by $q_1$
and $\bar q_2$ in the tensor meson.
For non-local operators on the lightcone, the path-ordered gauge factor connecting the points $z$ and $-z$ is not explicitly shown here.

In Eqs. (\ref{eq:chial-even-LCDAs})-({\ref{eq:chial-odd-LCDAs}),
$\phi_\parallel, \phi_\perp$ are leading twist-2 LCDAs, and
$g_v, g_a, h_t, h_s$ are twist-3 ones, while $g_3$ and $h_3$, which will not be considered further in this paper, are of twist-4. Throughout the paper we have adopted the conventions
$D_\alpha=\partial_\alpha +ig_s A^a_\alpha \lambda^a/2$ and $\epsilon^{0123}=-1$.

\section{Properties}\label{sec:PRO}

~~~ In SU(3) limit, due to the $G$-parity of the tensor meson, $\phi_\parallel, \phi_\perp, g_v, g_a, h_t, h_s, g_3$ and $h_3$ are antisymmetric under the replacement $u\to 1-u$. Let us take the case of the $a_2$ tensor meson to illustrate the properties of LCDAs. The $G$-parity operator for SU(2) symmetric cases is $\hat{G}=\hat{C}i\tau_2$, where $\hat{C}$ is a charge-conjugation operator and $\tau_2$ the Pauli spinor acting on the isospin space. Because, under the $G$-party transformations
\begin{eqnarray}
      \hat{G} \bar{u}(z)\gamma_\mu d(-z) \hat{G}^\dag
 &=& -\hat{C} \bar{d}(z)\gamma_\mu u(-z) \hat{C}^\dag
  =           \bar{u}(-z)\gamma_\mu d(z) \,, \\
      \hat{G} \bar{u}(z)\gamma_\mu \gamma_5 d(-z) \hat{G}^\dag
  &=&        -\bar{u}(-z)\gamma_\mu \gamma_5 d(z) \,, \\
      \hat{G} \bar{u}(z)\sigma_{\mu\nu} d(-z) \hat{G}^\dag
  &=&         \bar{u}(-z)\sigma_{\mu\nu} d(z) \,, \\
      \hat{G} \bar{u}(z)   d(-z) \hat{G}^\dag
  &=&        -\bar{u}(-z)  d(z) \,,
\end{eqnarray}
for the nonlocal operators and
\begin{equation}
\langle a_2| \hat{G}^\dag = \langle a_2| (-1) \,,
\end{equation}
for the state, we therefore have,
\begin{eqnarray}
 \langle a_2| \bar{u}(z)\gamma_\mu d(-z) |0\rangle
 &=&  \langle a_2| \hat{G}^\dag \hat{G}\bar{u}(z)\gamma_\mu d(-z)\hat{G}^\dag\hat{G} |0\rangle \nonumber\\
 &=& -\langle a_2| \bar{u}(-z)\gamma_\mu  d(z) |0\rangle\,, \\
 \langle a_2| \bar{u}(z)\gamma_\mu \gamma_5 d(-z) |0\rangle
 &=& \langle a_2| \bar{u}(-z)\gamma_\mu \gamma_5 d(z) |0\rangle\,, \\
 \langle a_2| \bar{u}(z)\sigma_{\mu\nu}  d(-z) |0\rangle
 &=& -\langle a_2| \bar{u}(-z)\sigma_{\mu\nu} d(z) |0\rangle\,, \\
 \langle a_2| \bar{u}(z) d(-z) |0\rangle
 &=& \langle a_2| \bar{u}(-z)  d(z) |0\rangle\,.
\end{eqnarray}
Notice that on the right-hand side of equations, the momentum fraction carried by the up quark given by ``$1-u$"  is equivalent to the momentum fraction carried by the anti-down quark on the left-hand side. Therefore, in the SU(2) limit we have $\phi_{\parallel,\perp}(u) =-\phi_{\parallel,\perp}(\bar{u}), g_{v,a,3}(u) = -g_{v,a,3}(\bar{u})$, and $h_{t,s,3}(u) = -h_{t,s,3}(\bar{u})$. This is also true for the isosinglets $f_2(1270)$ and $f'_2(1525)$ which have even $G$-parity quantum numbers and for the isodoublet $K_2^*(1430)$ which is odd under the $G$-parity transformation in SU(3) limit.

Using the QCD equations of motion~\cite{Ball:1998sk,Ball:1998ff}, the two-parton distribution amplitudes $g_v, g_a, h_t$ and $h_s$ can be represented in terms of
$\phi_{\parallel,\perp}$ and three-parton distribution amplitudes. Neglecting the three-parton distribution amplitudes containing gluons and terms proportional to light quark masses, twist-3 LCDAs $g_a,g_v,h_t$ and $h_s$ are related to twist-2 ones through the Wandzura-Wilczek relations:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:WW}
    g_v^{WW}(u) &=& \int\limits_{0}^u dv\, \frac{\phi_\parallel(v)}{\bar v}+
                  \int\limits_{u}^1 dv\, \frac{\phi_\parallel(v)}{v}\,,
\nonumber\\
    g_a^{WW}(u) &=& 2\bar{u}\int\limits_{0}^u dv\, \frac{\phi_\parallel(v)}{\bar v}+
                  2u\int\limits_{u}^1 dv\, \frac{\phi_\parallel(v)}{v}\,,
\nonumber\\
 h_t^{WW}(u) &=& \frac{3}{2} (2u-1)\left(\int\limits_{0}^u dv\, \frac{\phi_\perp(v)}{\bar v} -
                  \int\limits_{u}^1 dv\, \frac{\phi_\perp(v)}{v}\right)\,,
\nonumber\\
    h_s^{WW}(u) &=& 3 \left( \bar{u}\int\limits_{0}^u dv\, \frac{\phi_\perp(v)}{\bar v}+
                  u\int\limits_{u}^1 dv\, \frac{\phi_\perp(v)}{v} \right)\,.
\end{eqnarray}

The leading-twist LCDAs $\phi_{\parallel,\perp}(u,\mu)$ can be expanded as
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:conformal-partial-wave-t2}
\phi_{\parallel,\perp}(u,\mu)=6u(1-u)
\sum_{\ell=1}^\infty a_\ell^{\parallel,\perp}(\mu) C^{3/2}_\ell(2u-1),
\end{eqnarray}
where $\mu$ is the normalization scale and the multiplicatively renormalizable
coefficients (or the so-called Gegenbauer moments) are:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:Gegenbauer-moments-t2}
a_\ell^{\parallel,\perp}(\mu) = \frac{2(2\ell+3)}{3(\ell+1)(\ell+2)} \int_0^1
du\, C^{3/2}_\ell (2u-1) \phi_{\parallel,\perp}(u,\mu),
\end{eqnarray}
which vanish with even $\ell$ in the SU(3) limit due to $G$-parity invariance. The Gegenbauer moments $a_l^{\parallel}$ renormalize multiplicatively:
  \begin{equation}
     \left( f^{(\perp)} a_\ell^{\parallel\,(\perp)} \right) (\mu) =
     \left( f^{(\perp)} a_\ell^{\parallel\,(\perp)} \right) (\mu_0)
  \left(\frac{\alpha_s(\mu_0)}{\alpha_s(\mu)}\right)^{-\gamma_{\ell}^{\parallel\,(\perp)}/{b}},
  \label{eq:RGparallel}
   \end{equation}
where $b=(11 N_c -2n_f)/3$ and the one-loop anomalous dimensions are \cite{GW}
  \begin{eqnarray}
  \gamma_{\ell}^\parallel  = C_F
  \left(1-\frac{2}{(\ell+1)(\ell+2)}+4 \sum_{j=2}^{\ell+1} \frac{1}{j}\right),
  \label{eq:1loopandim}
  \end{eqnarray}
\begin{eqnarray}
  \gamma_{\ell}^\perp  = C_F
  \left(1+4 \sum_{j=2}^{\ell+1} \frac{1}{j}\right),
  \label{eq:gamma_perp}
  \end{eqnarray}
with $C_F=(N_c^2-1)/(2N_c )$.

In the present study, the distribution amplitudes are normalized to be
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:norm1}
  \int\limits_{0}^{1} du\, (2u-1)\,\phi_{\parallel}(u)
  = \int\limits_{0}^{1} du\, (2u-1)\,\phi_{\perp}(u) = 1 \,.
\end{eqnarray}
Consequently, the first Gegenbauer moments are fixed to be $a_1^\parallel=a_1^\perp={5\over 3}$. Moreover, we have
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:norm}
  3 \int\limits_{0}^{1} du\, (2u-1)\,g_a(u) &=&
  \int\limits_{0}^{1} du\, (2u-1)\,g_v(u) = 1\,,\\
  2 \int\limits_{0}^{1} du\, (2u-1)\,h_s(u) &=&
  \int\limits_{0}^{1} du\, (2u-1)\,h_t(u) = 1\,,
\end{eqnarray}
which hold even if the complete leading twist DAs and corrections from the three-parton distribution amplitudes containing gluons are taken into account. The asymptotic wave function is therefore
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:phi-as}
    \phi_{\parallel,\perp}^{\rm as}(u) = 30 u(1-u)(2u-1),
\end{eqnarray}
and the corresponding expressions for the twist-3 distributions are
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:g-h-as}
 g_v^{\rm as}(u) &=& 5 (2u-1)^3\,,\qquad g_a^{\rm as}(u) =
    10 u(1-u) (2u-1) \,,\nonumber\\
 h_t^{\rm as}(u) &=& \frac{15}{2} (2u-1) (1-6u+6u^2)\,,
 \qquad h_s^{\rm as}(u) = 15 u(1-u) (2u-1)\,.
\end{eqnarray}

\section{Decay constants}\label{sec:DC}

A tensor meson cannot be produced through the usual local $V-A$ and tensor currents, but it can be created through these currents with covariant derivatives (see below). This feature allows us to study its decay constants $f_T$ and $f^\bot_T$.

\subsection{$f_{T}$}
~~~ The decay constant $f_{T}$, which itself involves the Gegenbauer first moment, can be defined through the matrix element of the following operator \footnote{The dimensionless decay constant $f_T$ defined in \cite{Aliev:1981ju,Aliev:2009nn} differs from ours by a factor of $2m_T$. The factor of 2 comes from a different definition of $\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_\mu$ there.}
\begin{eqnarray} \label{eq:decay-constant}
 \langle T (P,\lambda)|j_{\mu\nu}(0)|0\rangle
 = f_{T} m_T^2 \epsilon^{(\lambda)*}_{\mu\nu},
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{equation}
j_{\mu\nu}(0)=\frac{1}{2}
\left( \bar q_1(0)\gamma_\mu i\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_\nu q_2(0)
     + \bar q_1(0)\gamma_\nu i\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_\mu q_2(0) \right),
\end{equation}
and $\stackrel {\leftrightarrow}{D}_\mu=\stackrel {\rightarrow}{D}_\mu-\stackrel {\leftarrow}{D}_\mu$ with $\stackrel{\rightarrow}{D}_\mu=\stackrel{\rightarrow}\partial_\mu +ig_s A^a_\alpha \lambda^a/2$ and $\stackrel{\leftarrow}{D}_\mu=\stackrel{\leftarrow}\partial_\mu -ig_s A^a_\alpha \lambda^a/2$.
Its value has been estimated using QCD sum rules for the tensor mesons $f_2(1270)$ \cite{Aliev:1981ju} and $K^*_2(1430)$ \cite{Aliev:2009nn} : \footnote{The decay constants for $f_2(1270)$ and $f'_2(1525)$ had also been estimated in \cite{Bagan:1988ay} using QCD sum rules. The results quoted from \cite{Narison} are:
$f_{f_2(1270)}=(132\sim 184)$ MeV and $f_{f'_2(1525)}=(112\sim 152)$ MeV.}
}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:f-value-1}
    f_{f_2(1270)}(\mu = 1~{\rm GeV}) & \simeq & 0.08\,m_{f_2(1270)}=102~{\rm MeV}\,, \nonumber\\
    f_{K^*_2(1430)}(\mu = 1~{\rm GeV}) & \simeq & (0.10\pm0.01)\,m_{K^*_2(1430)}=(143\pm14)\,{\rm MeV}\,.
\end{eqnarray}
We shall re-analyze the $f_T$ sum rules in the next subsection.

Several authors \cite{Aliev:1981ju,Terazawa:1990es,Suzuki:1993zs} have extracted $f_{f_2(1270)}$ from the measurement of $\Gamma(f_2\to \pi\pi)$
by assuming that the matrix element $\langle\pi^+\pi^-|\Theta_{\mu\nu}|0\rangle$ with $\Theta_{\mu\nu}$ being the energy-momentum tensor is saturated by the $f_2$ meson under the tensor-meson-dominance hypothesis, namely,
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle\pi^+(p)\pi^-(p')|\Theta_{\mu\nu}|0\rangle &\approx& \langle\pi^+(p)\pi^-(p')|f_2\rangle\langle f_2|\Theta_{\mu\nu}|0\rangle \nonumber\\
&=& {f_{f_2}\,g_{f_2\pi\pi}m_{f_2}\over (p+p')^2-m^2_{f_2}}(p-p')_\mu (p-p')_\nu,
\end{eqnarray}
where $g_{f_2\pi\pi}$ is the coupling constant defined by
\begin{eqnarray}
\langle\pi^+(p)\pi^-(p')|f_2\rangle ={g_{f_2\pi\pi}\over m_{f_2}}\epsilon^{\mu\nu}_{(\lambda)}(p-p')_\mu (p-p')_\nu\,.
\end{eqnarray}
The decay rate reads
\begin{eqnarray}
\Gamma(f_2\to \pi^+\pi^-) ={4\over 15\pi m^2_{f_2}}\,\left({g_{f_2\pi\pi}\over m_{f_2}}\right)^2p_c^5,
\end{eqnarray}
with $p_c$ being the center-of-mass momentum of the pion.
From the measured width $\Gamma(f_2\to \pi\pi)=(156.9^{+4.0}_{-1.2})$ MeV \cite{PDG} and the normalization condition $\langle \pi(p)|\Theta_{00}|\pi(p)\rangle=2m_\pi^2$ \cite{Terazawa:1990es}, we obtain
\begin{eqnarray}
    f_{f_2(1270)} \simeq (0.085\pm 0.001) m_{f_2(1270)}=(108\pm1)\,{\rm MeV}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
which is in agreement with \cite{Suzuki:1993zs}. By the same token, if the matrix element $\langle K^+K^-|\Theta_{\mu\nu}|0\rangle$ is assumed to be saturated by $f'_2(1525)$ which is $s\bar s$ dominated, we will have
\begin{eqnarray}
    f_{f'_2(1525)} \simeq (0.089\pm 0.003) m_{f'_2(1525)}=(136\pm5)\,{\rm MeV}\,,
\end{eqnarray}
where use of the experimental value $\Gamma(f'_2\to K\bar K)=(65^{+5}_{-4})$ MeV \cite{PDG} has been made.

\subsection{$f_{T}^\perp$}

~~~ Using the QCD sum rule technique, we proceed to estimate the value of $f_T^\perp$ \cite{SVZ}. To determine the magnitude and the relative sign of $f_{T}^\perp$ with respect to $f_T$, we consider the non-diagonal two-point correlation function,
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:decay-const-2pt}
i (2\pi)^4 \delta^4(q-p)\Pi_{\mu\nu\delta\alpha\beta} (q) &=&
 i^2\int d^4x d^4 y e^{i(qx-py)}
 \langle 0|{\rm T} [j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(x) \, j_{\alpha\beta}(y)]|0\rangle\,,
\end{eqnarray}
with
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:Pi}
\Pi_{\mu\nu\delta\alpha\beta} (q)
 &=& \frac{i}{2}\left[(g_{\alpha\mu} g_{\beta\delta} + g_{\alpha\delta} g_{\beta\mu}) q_\nu
               - (g_{\alpha\nu} g_{\beta\delta} + g_{\alpha\delta} g_{\beta\nu}) q_\mu \right]\Pi(q^2) + \dots  \,.
\end{eqnarray}
The interpolating current $j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(0)=\bar q_2(0) \sigma_{\mu\nu} i\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_{_\delta}(0) q_1(0)$ satisfies the relation
 \begin{eqnarray}
    \langle 0 |j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(0) |T(P,\lambda) \rangle
 =i  f_{T}^\perp m_T
 (\epsilon_{\mu\delta}^{(\lambda)*} P_\nu-\epsilon_{\nu\delta}^{(\lambda)*} P_\mu ) .
  \label{eq:tensor-decayconstant}
 \end{eqnarray}
Here we are only interested in the Lorentz invariant constant $\Pi(q^2)$ which receives the contribution from tensor mesons but not from vector or scalar mesons.

To simply the calculation of $\Pi(q^2)$, we will apply the translation transformation to the current $j_{\alpha\beta}(y)$
\begin{eqnarray}
j_{\alpha\beta}(y)=e^{i\hat{P}(y-z)} j_{\alpha\beta}(z) e^{-i\hat{P}(y-z)} ,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\hat{P}$ is a translation operator, and then recast Eq. (\ref{eq:decay-const-2pt}) to
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:decay-const-2pt-2}
i (2\pi)^4 \delta^4(q-p)\Pi_{\mu\nu\delta\alpha\beta} (q) &=&
 i^2 (2\pi)^4 \delta^4(q-p) \int d^4 x^\prime e^{iq(x^\prime -z)}
 \langle 0|{\rm T} [j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(x^\prime) \, j_{\alpha\beta}(z)]|0\rangle \vert_{z\to 0}\,. \nonumber \\
\end{eqnarray}
The covariant derivative $\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_{\beta}(z)$ in $\bar q_1(0)\gamma_\alpha i\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_\beta q_2(z)$
then becomes
\begin{eqnarray}
   \stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_{\beta}(z)
 &=& \frac{\stackrel{\rightarrow}{\partial}}{\partial z^\beta}
 -\frac{\stackrel{\leftarrow}{\partial}}{\partial z^\beta}
 +  i g_s \lambda^a A^a_\beta(z) \nonumber \\
 &=& \frac{\stackrel{\rightarrow}{\partial}}{\partial z^\beta}
 -\frac{\stackrel{\leftarrow}{\partial}}{\partial z^\beta}
 + {1\over 2}i g_s \lambda^a z^\lambda G^a_{\lambda\beta}(z) +\cdots \,,
\end{eqnarray}
in the fixed-point gauge (or the so-called Schwinger-Fock gauge) \cite{SVZ}
\begin{equation}\label{eq:fix-point-gauge}
z^\beta A^a_\beta(z)=0~~{\rm with}~~A_\beta^a (z) =\int_0^1 dt\, t z^\lambda G_{\lambda\beta}(tz)\,.
\end{equation}
Consequently, $\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{D}_{\beta}(z)$ is reduced to the usual derivative
$\stackrel{\rightarrow}{\partial}/\partial z^\beta- \stackrel{\leftarrow}{\partial}/\partial z^\beta$ in the $z \to 0$ limit and hence the contributions from the diagrams in Fig.~\ref{fig:OPE} with the soft gluons emerging from the left vertex vanish. Likewise, the uses of the translation transformation for $j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(x)$
\begin{eqnarray}
j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(x)=e^{i\hat{P}(x-z)} j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(z) e^{-i\hat{P}(x-z)} ,
\end{eqnarray}
and the corresponding relation for the non-diagonal two-point correlation function
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:decay-const-2pt-3}
i (2\pi)^4 \delta^4(q-p)\Pi_{\mu\nu\delta\alpha\beta} (q) &=&
 i^2 (2\pi)^4 \delta^4(q-p) \int d^4 y^\prime e^{-iq(y^\prime -z)}
 \langle 0|{\rm T} [j^{\perp\dag}_{\mu\nu\delta}(z) \, j_{\alpha\beta}(y^\prime)]|0\rangle \vert_{z\to 0}\, \nonumber\\
\end{eqnarray}
will imply that the diagrams with the soft gluons emerging from the right vertex vanish. Note that one can apply either Eq. (\ref{eq:decay-const-2pt-2}) or (\ref{eq:decay-const-2pt-3}) to compute the two-point correlation function $\Pi(q^2)$; the results should be the same. In this work we shall use the former to evaluate the operator-product expansion (OPE) of $\Pi(q^2)$.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=12cm]{tensordecay.eps}
\vspace{0.0cm}
\caption{Diagrams contributing to the OPE expansion of the two-point correlation function $\Pi(q^2)$ defined in Eqs. (\ref{eq:decay-const-2pt-2}) and (\ref{eq:Pi}). Diagrams (c), (f) and the left diagrams of (g), (h) , (i) and (j) involving a soft gluon emitted from the left vertex do not contribute to $\Pi_{\mu\nu\delta\alpha\beta}(q)$, while both diagrams in (e) also make no conributions to the invariant structure of $\Pi(q^2)$. The cross signs in Fig. (l) denote a mass insertion.} \label{fig:OPE} \end{center}
\end{figure}

The resulting $\Pi^{\rm OPE}$, which is the OPE
result of $\Pi(q^2)$ up to dimension-7 at the quark-gluon level (see Fig. \ref{fig:OPE}), reads
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:OPE}
   \Pi^{\rm OPE} (q^2)
  &\cong&  -\frac{1}{4} (\langle \bar q_1 q_1\rangle + \langle \bar q_2 q_2\rangle)
           -\frac{7}{12q^2}
             (\langle \bar q_1 g_s \sigma G q_1\rangle + \langle \bar q_2 g_s \sigma G q_2\rangle) \nonumber\\
  & + & \frac{1}{96 q^4}
        (\langle \bar q_1 q_1\rangle + \langle \bar q_2 q_2\rangle)\langle g_s^2 G^2\rangle
 -\frac{m_{q_1} +m_{q_2}}{32\pi^2} q^2 [\ln (-{q^2/ \mu^2})-1],
\end{eqnarray}
where $\mu$ is the renormalization scale, the first term on the right-hand side of the above equation arises from Fig. 1({\it a}), the second from 1({\it b}) and 1({\it d}), the third from 1({\it k}) and the right diagrams of 1({\it g}), 1({\it h}), 1({\it i}) and 1({\it j}), and the fourth from 1({\it l}). We have adopted the shorthand notation $\langle \dots \rangle \equiv \langle 0|: \dots :|0 \rangle$ for vacuum condensates. In the calculation the ultraviolet divergence is regularized by using the modified minimal substraction ($\overline{\rm MS}$) scheme.

To suppress the non-resonant background in the sum rules, we take into account the dispersion relation with
a subtraction. This method was first introduced in Refs.~\cite{Balitsky:1982dt,Braun:1985ah}. Considering $\tilde
\Pi(q^2)= \Pi(q^2)- \Pi^{\rm pert}(q^2)$, which is finite in the limit $-q^2\to \infty$,  we then
get
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:ope-2}
\tilde\Pi (q^2) &=& \tilde
\Pi(0)+\frac{q^2}{\pi}\int_0^\infty\frac{ds}{s(s-q^2)}
 [\rho_{phys} (s) - {\rm Im}\Pi^{\rm pert}(s)] \,,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\rho_{phys}$ and $\rho_{tensor}$ are the total physical and lowest-lying tensor meson spectral
densities, respectively, which can be modeled as
 \begin{eqnarray}
 \rho_{phys}(s)&=& \rho_{tensor} (s) +\theta(s-s_0){\rm Im}\Pi^{\rm pert}(s) \nonumber \\
 &=&f_T f_T^\perp m_T^3 \pi \delta(s-m_T^2) +\theta(s-s_0){\rm Im}\Pi^{\rm pert}(s)\,.
 \end{eqnarray}
Here $s_0$ is the excited threshold and the imaginary part of $\Pi^{\rm pert}(s)$ is
\begin{equation}\label{imPi-OPE}
{\rm Im} \Pi^{\rm pert}(s)=\frac{m_{q_1} +m_{q_2}}{32\pi^2}s.
\end{equation}
Taking the limit $-q^2\to \infty$ in Eq. (\ref{eq:ope-2}), we obtain the following relation:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:Pi(0)}
\tilde\Pi (0) &=& -\frac{1}{4} (\langle \bar q_1q_1\rangle + \langle \bar q_2q_2\rangle) +
 f_T f_T^\perp m_T   - \frac{1}{\pi}
 \int_0^{s_0}\frac{ds}{s}{\rm Im}\Pi^{\rm pert}(s) \,.
\end{eqnarray}
After performing the Borel transformation \cite{SVZ,Yang:2007zt} and taking into account scale-dependence of each quantities, we arrive at the sum rule:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:SR2}
 f_T f_T^\perp &\cong&  \frac{1}{(e^{-m_T^2/M^2}-1)m_T }
   \left[-\frac{7}{12} \frac{\langle \bar q_1 g_s \sigma G q_1\rangle
 + \langle \bar q_2 g_s \sigma G q_2 \rangle}{ M^2}  \right. \nonumber\\
 & & - \frac{\pi}{48 M^4}
        (\langle \bar q_1 q_1\rangle + \langle \bar q_2 q_2\rangle)\langle \alpha_s G^2\rangle
         \left. +\frac{m_{q_1} +m_{q_2}}{32\pi^2}M^2 \left( 1-e^{-s_0/M^2} -\frac{s_0}{M^2} \right)
   \right] .
\end{eqnarray}
In the numerical analysis, we shall use the following  input parameters at the scale 1~GeV \cite{Yang:2007zt}:
\begin{eqnarray}
\begin{array}{lcl}
 \alpha_s(1~{\rm GeV})=0.497\pm 0.005 \,, & &  m_s(1~{\rm GeV})=(140\pm 20)~ {\rm MeV}, \\
 \langle \bar uu \rangle \cong \langle \bar dd \rangle =-(0.240\pm 0.010)^3~ {\rm GeV}^3 \,,
  &   & \langle \bar ss \rangle = (0.8\pm 0.1) \langle \bar uu \rangle \,, \\
 \langle g_s \bar u\sigma Gu \rangle \cong
  \langle g_s\bar d\sigma Gd \rangle =-(0.8\pm 0.1)\,{\rm GeV}^2\langle \bar uu \rangle, & &
  \langle g_s \bar s\sigma Gs \rangle = (0.8\pm 0.1) \langle g_s\bar u\sigma Gu \rangle, \\
 \langle \alpha_s G_{\mu\nu}^a G^{a\mu\nu} \rangle =(0.474\pm 0.120)\ {\rm GeV}^4/(4\pi)\,. &  &
\end{array}\label{eq:parameters}
 \end{eqnarray}
The masses of $u$- and $d$-quarks can be numerically neglected.
For the separate determination of $f_T$ and $f_T^\perp$,
we next proceed to re-analyze the $f_T$ sum rule which is given by \cite{Aliev:1981ju,Aliev:2009nn}
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:SR3}
 & &f_T^2 e^{-m_T^2/M^2} \cong  \frac{1}{m_T^4}
 \left\{ \frac{3}{20\pi^2}M^6 \left[1-\left( 1+\frac{s_0}{M^2}+ \frac{s_0^2}{2M^4}\right)e^{-s_0/M^2}\right]
 - \frac{2M^2}{9\pi} \langle\alpha_s^2 G^2\rangle  \right.
        \nonumber\\
 & & ~~~~~~~ \left. + \frac{32\pi\alpha_s}{9} \langle \bar q_1 q_1\rangle \langle \bar q_2 q_2\rangle
 + \frac{m_{q_2}\langle \bar q_1 g_s \sigma G q_1\rangle
 +       m_{q_1}\langle \bar q_2 g_s \sigma G q_2 \rangle}{ 6} \right\}
  \,.
\end{eqnarray}
For the sum rule calculation, the decay constants and parameters are evaluated at $\mu=1~{\rm GeV}$. Changing the scale within the range $\mu^2=(1-2)\,{\rm GeV}^2$ does not cause any noticeable effect, provided that the decay constants are also rescaled according to the renormalization group equation.
Applying the differential operator $M^4\partial/ \partial M^2$ to the above equation, we  obtain the mass sum rule for the tensor meson, from which we can determine (i) the excited threshold $s_0$ and (ii) the working Borel window $M^2$ where the resulting tensor mass is well stable and in agreement with the data. However, we note that the contribution originating from modelling higher resonances defined by
\begin{eqnarray}\label{eq:resonance}
 & & \left[ \frac{3}{20\pi^2}M^6 \left( 1+\frac{s_0}{M^2}+ \frac{s_0^2}{2M^4}\right)e^{-s_0/M^2} \right] \Bigg{/}
 \left[ \frac{3}{20\pi^2}M^6
 - \frac{2M^2}{9\pi} \langle\alpha_s^2 G^2\rangle  \right.
        \nonumber\\
 & & ~~~~~~~ \left. + \frac{32\pi\alpha_s}{9} \langle \bar q_1 q_1\rangle \langle \bar q_2 q_2\rangle
 + \frac{m_{q_2}\langle \bar q_1 g_s \sigma G q_1\rangle
 +       m_{q_1}\langle \bar q_2 g_s \sigma G q_2 \rangle}{ 6} \right]
  \,
\end{eqnarray}
is about 60\% for $M^2=1.0$ GeV$^2$ and 80\% for $M^2=1.6$ GeV$^2$. The higher resonance corrections may be a bit too large but still controllable. On the other hand, when $M^2> 1.0$ GeV$^2$, the highest OPE term at the quark-gluon level is no more than 8\% which is relatively small.

\begin{table}[t]
\caption[]{Sum rule results for the decay constants $f_T$ and $f_T^\bot$ of various tensor mesons at the scale $\mu=1$~GeV. The results for the excited threshold $s_0$, masses of the tensor mesons, Borel windows $M^2$ (in units of GeV$^2$), and $f_T$ are obtained from Eq. (\ref{eq:SR3}), $f_T f_T^\perp$ from Eq. (\ref{eq:SR2}) and $f_T^\perp$ from the combination of $f_T$ and $f_Tf_T^\perp$. The error for $f_T$ is due mainly to the uncertainties in vacuum condensates, while the first error in $f_T f_T^\bot$ arises from the Borel mass and the second error from the rest of other input parameters.
}
\label{tab:decay-constant}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\addtolength{\arraycolsep}{0pt}
$$
\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline
  {\rm State} & s_0\ ({\rm GeV}^2) &  {\rm Range\ of}~ M^2 & {\rm Mass\ (GeV)}
&  f_T\ ({\rm MeV}) & f_{T} f_T^\perp\ ({\rm MeV}^2) &  f_T^\perp\ ({\rm MeV})
 \\ \hline
\begin{array}{c} f_2(1270)   \\ f_2^\prime(1525) \\ a_2(1320) \\ K_{2}^*(1430) \end{array}&
\begin{array}{c} 2.53 \\ 3.49 \\  2.70 \\ 3.13   \end{array} &
\begin{array}{c} (1.0,1.4) \\ (1.3,1.7)\\  (1.0,1.4) \\ (1.2,1.6)   \end{array} &
\begin{array}{c} 1.27\pm0.01 \\ 1.52\pm0.02 \\ 1.31\pm0.01 \\ 1.43\pm0.01   \end{array} &
\begin{array}{c} 102\pm 6 \\ 126\pm4 \\  107\pm6 \\ 118\pm5   \end{array}&
\begin{array}{c} 11900\pm700\pm1600 \\ 8200\pm300\pm1100 \\  11200\pm600\pm1500 \\ 9100\pm500\pm1200   \end{array} &
\begin{array}{c} 117\pm 25 \\ 65\pm12 \\  105\pm21 \\ 77\pm14   \end{array}
\\ \hline
\end{array}
$$
\end{table}

We then estimate $f_T$ and $f_T^\perp$ from Eqs. (\ref{eq:SR3}) and (\ref{eq:SR2}), respectively. All the numerical results are collected in Table \ref{tab:decay-constant}. Here we have assumed that the obtained $s_0$ and corresponding Borel window are applicable to both $f_T$ and $f_T f_T^\perp$ sum rules.  The theoretical
errors are due to the variation of the Borel mass, quark masses, and vacuum condensates, which are then added in quadrature. For simplicity, we do not take into account the uncertainty in $s_0$.
In the analysis, we have neglected the possible mixture of the quark and gluon currents for $f_2(1270)$ and $f_2^\prime(1525)$ mesons. As noticed in the Introduction, we assume that $f_2(1270)$ is a $(u\bar u+d\bar d)/\sqrt{2}$ state, while $f'_2(1525)$ is predominantly made of $s\bar s$. Our results are in good agreement with \cite{Aliev:1981ju} for $f_{f_2(1270)}$, but smaller than that of \cite{Aliev:2009nn} for $f_{K_2^*(1430)}$. We should note that our $f_T f_T^\perp$ is obtained from the non-diagonal sum rule and hence it is insensitive to $s_0$. For the non-diagonal sum rule, one possible error may arise from the radiative corrections, which are at about  10\% level for each OPE term and partly contribute to higher resonances, and can be lumped into the uncertainties of the input parameters given in Eq. (\ref{eq:parameters}).

\section{Conclusion}\label{sec:sum}

~~~ We have systematically studied the two-parton light-cone distribution amplitudes for $1\,^3P_2$ nonet tensor mesons. The light-cone distribution amplitudes can be presented by using QCD conformal partial wave expansion. We have obtained the asymptotic two-parton distribution amplitudes of twist-2 and twist-3. The relevant decay constants have been estimated using the QCD sum rule techniques. We have also studied the decay constants for $f_2(1270)$ and $f_2^\prime(1525)$ based on the hypothesis of tensor meson dominance together with the data of $\Gamma(f_2\to \pi\pi)$ and $\Gamma(f'_2\to K\bar K)$. The results are in accordance with the sum rule predictions.

\subsection*{Acknowledgements}
One of us (H.Y.C.) wishes to thank C.N. Yang
Institute for Theoretical Physics at SUNY Stony Brook for its
hospitality. This work was supported in part by the National Center for Theoretical Sciences and the National Science Council of R.O.C. under Grant Nos. NSC96-2112-M-033-004-MY3,
NSC97-2112-M-008-002-MY3 and NSC99-2112-M-003-005-MY3.

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"Oregon" is the fifth episode of the American police procedural drama television series Awake. The episode first premiered on March 29, 2012 in the United States on NBC, was simultaneously broadcast on Global in Canada, and was subsequently aired on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2012. It was written by consulting producer Lisa Zwerling, and directed by Aaron Lipstadt. "Oregon" was well received by television critics, who praised its storylines. Commentators noted that the script was well written and that the episode was the "strongest outing" since "Pilot" broadcast on March 1, 2012. Upon airing, the episode garnered 3.18 million viewers in the United States and a 1.0/3 rating-share in the 18–49 demographic, according to Nielsen ratings. It ranked second in its timeslot, behind The Mentalist on CBS.

The show centers on Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs), a police detective living in two separate realities after a car accident. In this episode, Michael deals with a case involving a serial killer Gemini, who had killed another person in the "green reality". FBI agent Elizabeth Santoro (Megan Dodds) insists that he is dead, as she killed him herself after he had committed a huge crime. Gemini pretends to be a police officer, and frames Michael, pretending that he was with him. Agent Santoro thinks that he is involved in the case due to this frame, and other reasons. Gemini injects Santoro, and then takes her to a place outside. He starts to cut Santoro's wrist off, and Michael and his partner in the "green reality", Isaiah "Bird" Freeman (Steve Harris) get her. Meanwhile, in the "red reality", Dr. Jonathan Lee (BD Wong) states that Michael and his wife Hannah Britten (Laura Allen)'s marriage is falling apart. However, Hannah admits that she was "embarrassed" about wanting to move to Oregon.

Plot
The episode opens in the "red reality" (where Hannah is alive and Rex is not from the car accident), and Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) is jogging around Los Angeles. When Michael gets home, he talks to his wife Hannah (Laura Allen), who is in Oregon looking at a university. Later in the "green reality" (where Rex is alive and Hannah is not), Michael and Rex (Dylan Minnette) are stuck in traffic, and Michael is later called into work. His partner in the "green reality", Isaiah "Bird" Freeman (Steve Harris) talks to Michael, then Michael goes for a run at the Griffith Park. He goes to the top of a hill overlooking the city, while a dog appears from behind a bush and barks at him. Michael notices human flesh in him, and goes to investigate, where he finds a corpse sitting against a tree. Michael goes to the police station, and shows Captain Harper similar cases starting in 1999. In each case, a killer, nicknamed Gemini (Salvator Xuereb), vertically slashed the victim's wrists and carved a Roman numeral in their chests. The murders have taken place all across the United States, but everyone believes that Gemini is dead after an FBI agent Elizabeth Santoro (Megan Dodds) had shot him. Michael wants to cover the area as much as they can and Captain Tricia Harper (Laura Innes) agrees, telling Michael to pick up the profiler that the FBI has sent. Michael goes to Brentwood and meets with FBI agent Elizabeth Santoro. They discuss his history and she admits that she has been focused solely on the "Gemini Killer" for the last 12 years. Michael confirms that they did not find one on the body, so she figures that it is a copycat. Michael goes to the crime scene, while Bird is already there. The partners go over the hillside and find the dog. They take him to Dr. Banks (Chris McGarry) and have him check his stomach, where he finds a United States two-dollar bill in it. When Michael takes the evidence to Harper and Santoro, Santoro insists that it only means that someone with classified information to the case is involved. She suggests they check anyone who has recently laid off law enforcement officers with psych problems. Bird and Santoro create a database if the killer is alive. Santoro lets Harper decide and she tells the detectives to pull the files on law officers. As Santoro leaves, Michael approaches her and says that he understands the implications if the man she shot was Gemini. Meanwhile, the killer prepares a set of medical tools, a wad of two-dollar bills, and a syringe.

Later in the "green reality", Michael suggests they check cheap motels in the area, since Gemini set up base a couple miles from the sites of his murders. Later, Michael talks to the manager at one hotel. After he leaves the hotel, Michael sees a secret place closed and Michael breaks in, drawing his gun. He spots the "Gemini Killer" inside, but he ran away when Michael identified himself as a police officer. Soon after, the CSI team investigates, and Harper and Santoro wonder why Michael was there. He says that he was checking out motels and thought the building looked suspicious, and Santoro claimed that Michael is a "suspect". They are unaware that the killer is listening to them from a nearby vent. Michael leaves the investigation, and as he goes to his car, the killer is seen dressed in a police uniform, as he is starting at him. Later at the station, Harper tells him that they got a call from someone claiming to be their guy. She plays a recording and Gemini addresses Michael as his friend. Harper tells Michael that they traced the call to his home phone. Later, Michael meets with Bird and the two find out that the killer was going to eject and then murder Agent Santoro. Later, the "Gemini Killer" begins to cut the FBI agent's wrist. Minutes later, Michael and Bird try to find the killer, and the agent. They find her and she is taken to the hospital. Her family comes and sees her. Later, Michael tells Hannah what he's learned about the movers and Oregon. She shares her secrets, claimed that she was "embarrassed", and they talk.

Michael's shrink in the "green reality", Dr. Judith Evans (Cherry Jones), cites that one reality will begin the scene as a fantasy. As Michael leaves in the car, Gemini calls Michael and explains that he was intrigued by Michael's success in tracking him down. He broke into Evans' office, read her files, and asks Michael if he is awake or asleep. However, Gemini says that the world needs people like him and Michael; people who can see it sideways. As he takes a flight to Portland, Gemini says that he hopes Michael doesn't wake up and then hangs up.

Production

The episode was written by consulting producer Lisa Zwerling, and directed by Aaron Lipstadt; it was Zwerling and Lipstadt's first writing credit, and was Lipstadt's first directing credit on the series. This is the second episode that was not written by series creator and executive producer Kyle Killen, with the last episode he wrote being "Guilty". Although it was the fifth broadcast episode, it was originally scheduled to be the fourth episode of the season, with the production code being "1ATR03" due to NBC's decision to change the broadcasting order.

Casting

The episode featured guest performances from many actors including Laura Innes as Tricia Harper, Michael's captain officer in the series, Chris McGarry as Dr. Banks, a doctor working at the Los Angeles Police Department, Salvator Xuereb as Gemini, and Megan Dodds as Elizabeth Santoro, an FBI agent. Frank Gallegos was cast as DaSalva, Hal Havins was cast as hotel manager Brett London, and Erin Woods was cast as Santoro's daughter. Damian Poitier also appeared, but as a police uniform officer.

Reception

Ratings
"Oregon" was originally broadcast on March 29, 2012 in the United States on NBC between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m., preceded by Up All Night. Upon airing, the episode garnered 3.18 million viewers in the United States, and ranked second in its timeslot despite airing simultaneously with The Mentalist on CBS, and a rerun of Private Practice on ABC. It acquired a 1.0/3 rating-share in the 18–49 demographic, meaning that it was seen by 1.0% of all 18- to 49-year-olds, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode's ratings had dropped from the previous episode, "Kate Is Enough", which obtained one million less in viewers. It was simultaneously broadcast on Global in Canada, and was subsequently aired on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom on June 1, 2012. The episode obtained 228,000 million viewers in the United Kingdom, making it the fourth most-watched program for that week on the channel behind Smash, Hit & Miss, and Game of Thrones. The episode's ratings had slightly dropped from the previous episode.

Critical response
"Oregon" was well received by most television commentators, who praised its storylines. Matt Fowler of IGN gave the episode a good review. He claimed that the episode "felt like a bit of a stand-alone story focusing on Britten's heightened anxiety over Rex's grief", and that the episode also "stepped in and launched the series forward, introducing one of Britten's worlds to a rather apropos serial killer". He also liked the episode's "ambition". Fowler concluded his review by giving the episode an "8.5 out of 10", classifying it as "great". Nick McHatton from TV Fanatic also praised the episode. He claimed that the Britten family will not move to Oregon in the "red reality", as it is "already complex enough as it is". McHatton concluded his review by giving the episode a score of "4.8 out of 5". Caroline Preece from Den of Geek gave praise in the episode. She claimed that the episode was the "strongest outing" since "Pilot" broadcast on March 1, 2012. Preece wrote that the episode "used interesting story ideas, [meaning] the writers have bigger plans for the weeks ahead". HitFix's Alan Sepinwall gave many notes on the episode. He claimed that NBC's decision to change the broadcasting order was "probably for the best, in that doing back-to-back episodes where Britten's son was kidnapped in the first and Britten attracted the personal interest of a serial killer in the second would have felt like too much". He criticized parts of the episode writing that the episode "seemed too much like a conventional cop show". Screen Rant's Kevin Yeoman said that the episode "works best when its procedural elements take on a sort of background essence". He also wrote that as a series it is "becoming a sustainable program". Zack Handlen from The A.V. Club enjoyed "Oregon". In his "B" review, he stated that he enjoyed the "impressionistic approach, scenes of emotional connection and growth".

References

External links

 "Oregon" at NBC.com

2012 American television episodes
Awake (TV series) episodes

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The governor, who gave the directive while on an on-the-spot assessment of the flood-affected areas of Ibadan said that the measure would help prevent perennial flood disaster in the state.
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The governor, on a tour of the areas including Oke- Omi, Ikumapayi, Olodo and Onipepeye Bridges at Sawmill all in Ibadan on Wednesday, added that he has directed the Local Chairmen in the areas to begin work on the affected bridges immediately.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Makinde, Mr Taiwo Adisa, quoted the governor as further declaring that the Ministry of Environment should enumerate the properties affected by the flood at Olodo area with a view to relocating some of the residents to other areas.
He said: "As we can see out there, the bridge is undersized. There is a drainage master plan for Oyo State under the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (IUFMP), this has been identified and I think we have to keep taking them out one at a time. So, I have asked the local government chairman to write for approval, and work will start immediately on it.
"IUFMP is already dredging the river. The remaining thing is just to put a properly sized bridge across it and we will do that.
"By the time we are able to get all the projects under the IUFMP executed, the issues of the flood will be dealt with and it is only then that the rainy season will not be any problem for us. It is work in progress and I believe that, in the next 18 months, there will be an appreciable improvement and our people can sleep with their eyes closed even if it is raining heavily.
"On structures obstructing the waterways, we will have to take some of them out. At the main road at Olodo, some people already moved out by themselves. So, the government will enumerate such properties and then see how we can relocate people there."
The governor also enjoined the people to desist from actions capable of aggravating flooding, including the dumping of wastes in river channels and waterways, which he said may result in the blockage of drainage and river channels.
He urged people living close to flood-prone areas to vacate the areas to avoid loss of lives and valuable properties to the flood, promising that his administration will continue to give succour to those affected by flooding.
He said: "Palliative is general. We are faced with a pandemic and we are also faced with an economic meltdown. So, palliative is something that is continuous for all the people," he said.
Some of the places visited by the governor included Garage Olodo, Ikumapayi, Oke Omi, Omi River, Under Bridge Onipepeye and Sawmill, all within the Ibadan metropolis.
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I was perusing some blogs recently and saw some pictures of this combination and fell in love. Months ago I received the Models Own in Red Sea nail polish from Ipsy and just kind of stuck it on the shelf and forgot about it. It was a glitter topper of what looked like red flakes, but it's anything but just that! Who knew that such a basic looking nail polish could have such a dynamite effect! Basically when you layer it over black nail polish you get this gorgeous iridescent rainbow glitter effect and I'm obsessed. If you're curious I'm using the Rimmel Lasting Pro in Black Satin as my black base, but any black nail polish will achieve this for you. There are four more shades in this collection and now I'm mildly obsessed with hunting down the other ones so I can have a whole collection of gorgeous jewel toned glitters!
The formula is a little thick but the flakes are pretty densely packed in there so about two coats will give you full coverage on your nails. I did some googling and stumbled over this blog post that showed a bunch of swatches of all the colors, plus over different base coats. Go check it out, it's soo gorgeous and I just need them all!! Especially the pink and purple one!


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The Fjords – All In (Music Video)
There are times when all it takes for a talented, relatively under-recognized band to break out is a perfect music video. "All In" is one of those videos and should ensure that The Fjords name is firmly on the map. It wasn't the only music video to impress over the past week or so, though, so, before heaping the necessary praise on that particular clip that it deserves, it's time to give some others their due. Mark Ronson's collaboration with Mystikal, "Feel Right", was given an additional burst of unexpected energy through an unbelievably fierce performance from an unlikely star, White Poppy catered to their haziest impulses with "Confusion", Buildings embraced lo-fi in "Watershed", Short Skirts went the visual collage route with "Far Side of Mexico", Jose Gonzalez continued one of 2015's most unconventional visual narratives in "Open Book", and Birdskulls found the perfect visual aesthetic for their 90's-grunge worship with "Good Enough". All of those are worth multiple watches, which also holds true for the title in this post's headline.
As far as thesis shots go, opening on a machine designed to blur the gap between technology and reality tends to yield strong results. "All In" is no exception and winds up taking a startling route to a fiery, hyper-violent finish. After establishing the protagonist of "All In" has all the trappings of an outcast (a video game addiction, model trains, an artistic mind), the plot eventually reveals itself while steadily accumulating compelling subtext. In some extremely strong visual work, we see the protagonist (a young, unnamed boy) construct a backpack for his vintage video game system and fashion a belt for some of his more violently-minded game cartridges before walking over to confront a large gang of older oppressors loitering outside of a hot dog stand. He collects himself, calmly confronts their leader- one who laughs when he's suddenly face to face with a plastic gun controller- and, after a brief moment of eerie silence, pulls the trigger.
What follows is an extraordinarily violent bloodbath that could be seen as a cautionary tale for technological advancements (in a manner that's not entirely dissimilar from Alex Garland's excellent Ex Machina) or a concerned treatsie on evolution. It's jarring imagery with a heavy concept, to be sure, but it's pulled off in a manner that feels more grounded than bombastic, lending it an overlying sense of genuine horror. A child is forced into gradually losing the remainder of his innocence, one murder victim at a time, without ever being portrayed as anything other than coldly detached in the process. "All In", an extremely strong piece of heavily atmospheric electro-pop, provides the perfect soundtrack for the incredibly disconcerting sequence. As people are gunned down in what feels less like a revenge fantasy and more like a pointed statement, The Fjords found a perfect vehicle to act as an introduction-at-large for their shadowy, foreboding soundscapes. The song and the clip complement each other to a startling perfection, right down to the closing shot that preserves a sliver of the protagonist's humanity. Brilliantly edited, superbly directed, and gorgeously lensed, it's another clip for the ages- and it's the new standard-holder for how to make an entrance.
Watch "All In" below and order All In here.
White Reaper – I Don't Think She Cares (Stream)
It's been a while since regular coverage of new releases cropped up on this site (part of which was due to other obligations), which is why the majority of tonight will feature an influx of posts touching on some of the pieces of art that made the past week so great. For this post and the majority of the posts that will be following this entry, the focus will remain on songs. All of them are songs worth adding to your collection and the first of which, Jason Isbell's breathtaking "24 Frames", boasts a lyric set so tremendous that it's difficult not to expect his forthcoming record will be a critical darling. Dignan Porch's "Out of the Picture" continued Art Is Hard's white-hot winning streak, Sam Evian's "Cherry Tree" further illustrated the respective individual talents that Celestial Shore's been producing, Angelic Milk put the listening world on notice with the razor-sharp shard of basement pop in "IDK How", and A$AP Rocky furthered his case to be considered one of rap's most compelling acts with an unlikely collaboration that features Rod Stewart, Miguel, and Mark Ronson (the endlessly smooth "Everyday"). Public Access T.V.'s tantalizingly light "All We Want", Envy's sprawling "Footsteps in the Distance", Dikembe's slow-burning "Surfed in the Loft", and Magic Potion's endearing basement pop tune "Booored" round off the first featured set. As always, I wish I could devote more than just a few words to each title but there simply isn't enough time to cover everything in more exhaustive detail. At this point in time, the system in which the headline is determined is nearing a lottery system- and White Reaper beat the odds this time out.
"Make Me Wanna Die" had already made a sizable impression and stoked the fires of anticipation for White Reaper's upcoming full-length; "I Don't Think She Cares" ensures that trajectory continues its ascension. "I Don't Think She Cares" is another furious burst of basement punk with strong pop sensibilities coated in layers of fuzz, providing the song an even stronger punch. Incendiary riffing, absurdly melodic synth lines, and a vocal take so impassioned you can practically feel Tony Esposito violently shaking, it's another perfect representation of the band's supercharged aesthetic. Clocking in at a precise two minutes, it makes the most out of every single second, expanding the song into something surprisingly dynamic for such an abbreviated running time. Decades worth of punk cornerstones, past and present, collide in an exhilarating, celebratory whirlwind. Now two songs into their rollout campaign, White Reaper Does It Again is shaping up to be a potential career-maker for the emerging upstarts. All that's left is to see if the main course can live up to the appetizers.
Listen to "I Don't Think She Cares" below and pre-order White Reaper Does It Again from Polyvinyl.


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Letters + Opinion » The Week in Weed
Poo-pooing Pot Ads
by Grant Scott-Goforth
The National Guard has been called in to assist a massive bust on Yurok Tribal lands.
Seventy marijuana grows are being targeted for "eradication," according to a press release from the tribe, in response to concerns about widespread environmental and cultural damage caused by the grows.
A Los Angeles Times reporter has been following the raids from Weitchpec, and noted that four of 43 search warrants obtained for the raid were served Monday. The multiagency effort seized nearly 4,000 plants, with an estimated 100,000 total plants expected to be found.
The operation has been in the planning stage since April.
The tribe has a zero-tolerance policy for drugs, meaning that even medical marijuana grown in accordance with California law is illegal on the reservation.
According to the LA Times, Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O'Rourke told officers gathered pre-raid, "We can't ... make it into our dance places, our women and children can't leave the road to gather. We can't hunt. We can't live the life we've lived for thousands of years."
Washington City Paper is offering to pay the $25 fine for anyone caught smoking pot in Washington, D.C. The capital's city council essentially decriminalized marijuana, reducing the sentence for being caught in possession of bud from six months and $1,000 to just a $25 citation.
The alt-weekly, curious to discover how the citations will be issued in a city that overwhelmingly arrests black people on marijuana charges (91 percent of marijuana arrests in 2007), has told the public it will pay citations in exchange for details about how the citation was issued.
The decriminalization itself has been the subject of some controversy. As D.C. is the seat of our national government (which forbids just about everything regarding marijuana), some think it's unconscionable that possessing weed there should be considered so benign. A Maryland congressman amended a House budget bill to stop the district from funding enforcement of decriminalization (wrap your head around that), but, according to Newsweek, the law is unlikely to pass the Senate. Also, the prez told Congress not to pick on D.C.
There's also the risk of wandering onto federal land in D.C. (there's lots of it around there). Showing up at the Lincoln Memorial with a joint in your pocket can get you six months and a $5,000 fine, and some are worried that people will not be able to tell the difference between city and federal jurisdictions, putting possessors at risk.
Pot shops in Colorado and Washington are running into a uniquely modern problem: Social media sites — Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. — are refusing to advertise their products.
In an article last month, Chronicle writer Joe Garofoli spoke with several weed-marketing insiders who lamented the difficulty in getting today's Internet-savvy eyeballs on dispensaries and products.
Those three major social media sites have policies against advertising drug- and tobacco-related products. That limits entrepreneurs to direct mailers and print advertising (wink), Garofoli writes, although Colorado's legalization prohibits pot shops from print advertising in publications whose readership is more than 30 percent under the legal pot-smoking age of 21. •


The recent selection of architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle to oversee a plan for rebuilding Lower Manhattan has spurred a heady public debate. New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp warned New Yorkers to expect the worst from the firm, saying that its proven strengths in renovation projects do not carry over to its original work. The firms' original buildings often blend in with their surroundings, prompting colleagues to call the firm "Blah Blah and Blah," wrote Muschamp. New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo in turn called the firms' critics high-brow intellectuals putting aesthetics before all else. "What they really crave are the far-fetched fantasies that clog the pages of unreadable design magazines Ð not precisely the thing for the Financial District," he wrote, saying that a practical plan for the space needs to be in place before any creative building design is drawn.
It is no wonder that Beyer Blinder Belle is under intense scrutiny. Rebuilding at Ground Zero is perhaps the most important design project in New York's history, and New Yorkers have called for what is built to be at once awe-inspriring, respectful, safe and accessible. "There is no precedent for a project like this," said Lance Jay Brown, chair of City College's school of architecture. For some, it is hard to escape the persistent worry that the site will end up as a group of mediocre, mid-sized buildings.
In their application for the $3 million World Trade Center site contract, Beyer Blinder Belle referred to the complexity of the project, saying, "The successful resolution of an urban design plan for the WTC site will greatly depend upon an open collaboration. The challenge will be to do it with the right touch of respect and invention. Exploring ways to reinvent the fabric of this tragic site and give it a new purpose becomes the goal to drive us." Along with engineering firm Parsons Brinckerhoff, Beyer Blinder Belle will develop an overall plan for new structures, transit connections, and streets. They will not, at this stage, design specific buildings. Beyer Blinder Belle associate partner Maxine Leighton said that the firm would not speak about the World Trade Center project until after they hold their first meeting with the Port Authority and Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.
The New York-based firm was launched in 1968 and has grown to 125 employees. On its website, Beyer Blinder Belle states that its mission is to unite "the old with the new Ð classic historic preservation meshed with the creative contemporary design of new construction." In 1988, Metro-North chose Beyer Blinder Belle, already known for restoring the Ellis Island U.S. Immigration Station, to lead the restoration of Grand Central Station. This celebrated project became the firm's best known work. As part of the 12-year project, the firm restored the sky ceiling and redesigned much of the space within the terminal. The award-winning project inspired founding partner John Belle, a former president of the New York City Landmarks Conservancy, and Leighton to write a book about Grand Central.
In sharp contrast with Muschamp, Rick Bell, executive director of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, said that the firm's experience at Grand Central is a good sign for Ground Zero's future. The firm brought together many different urban design projects-such as improving transportation and including commercial space- in the Grand Central renovation. "Their past projects are a great indication that they can create places that synthesize people's different needs," said Bell.
The firm's other projects include the restoration of the Hoboken, NJ train station waiting room and the New York Hall of Science in Queens. Fred Kent, the director of the urban planning policy institute Project for Public Spaces, said that the firm's past work has left it well equipped to work within the context of existing neighborhoods and buildings. When Beyer Blinder Belle designed the Mark Morris Dance Group's headquarters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, partner Fred Bland said the building was planned as a "phoenix rising" to revitalize the neighborhood. The firm kept the street level of an existing building and added a new exterior. The light, nearly white building was celebrated by Morris, who told his guests at the 2001 opening ceremony to enjoy the "wonderful dignity" of the space.
The different reactions to Beyer Blinder Belle's selection point to an underlying conflict of opinion about architecture's place at Ground Zero. The guidelines that the Port Authority and Lower Manhattan Development Corporation used to select Beyer Blinder Belle gave weight to firms that have experience bringing large urban planning and transportation projects to completion, instead of a firm with an outstanding design vision. In his column, Muschamp said that by following this process, the authorities will bring a design architect to the project when it is already too late to save it from mediocrity.
Mediocrity really isn't what New Yorkers have in mind. "We're waiting for perfection," said Stanley Moses, chair of urban studies at Hunter College.


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modi: India upset at 'unnecessary' reference to Modi by US official
India is upset at a reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by a US State Department official while defending the immunity it had extended to Saudi Arabia's crown prince Mohammed bin Sultan, who is facing allegations of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
"Frankly, I fail to understand how the comment on Prime Minister Modi was either relevant, necessary or contextual," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said responding to questions about a US official referring to Modi while explaining the reasons for granting immunity to the Saudi ruler.
"Our two countries enjoy a very special relationship which is growing from strength to strength and we look forward to working with the US to further deepen it," he said, referring to the bilateral ties between India and the US.
When asked about giving immunity to the Saudi Crown Prince over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, US State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a briefing last Friday that this is not the first time that the US has done this and it has been applied to a number of heads of state previously, including PM Modi, according to reports.
Bagchi also said reports about the prime minister's visit to the US in December were incorrect.
"No proposal for a visit by the Prime Minister to the US in December has been made by our side. Media reports in this regard are incorrect," Bagchi said.
He also dismissed social media posts about "false comments" attributed to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and White House spokesperson with regard to the brief bilateral meeting between Modi and US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the recent G-20 summit in Bali.
"We have seen some incorrect social media posts which attribute false statements to the External Affairs Minister, who has not made any comment on this to the press or on social media. It also attributes false statements to the White House press secretary. So, I would request you all not to lend credence to such incorrect information," Bagchi said.
He said the prime minister met Biden on a number of occasions in the course of the Bali Summit, including a brief bilateral meeting and a trilateral meeting that involved Indonesian President Joko Widodo.
"During these interactions, they exchanged views on a number of issues. Our press releases and tweets as well as the foreign secretary's briefing in Bali encapsulates all these conversations.
"The US side has also issued its readout of the trilateral meeting and also separately indicated that a brief bilateral meeting did take place between the two leaders," Bagchi said.
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The last of the "Ruby Marie Trilogy".
I have my doubts if it's gonna be just a trilogy.
Probably not. That beautiful girl will be there for me when I need a quick post of just her face sometime later this month.


Discussion in 'Help Wanted (PAID ONLY)' started by Josimar, Feb 14, 2018.
I'm looking for some Unity programming help to finish my mobile puzzle game.
My good friend/German programmer recently got a job at Rockstar North here in Edinburgh so contractually cannot help me complete 'Loopi'! I worked at Rockstar North for 10 years eventually as Lead Graphic Designer so managed to get him an interview and ultimately a job too. (my bad!!! doh!! etc) It kinda leaves me requiring your help now.
The game is in a fairly good state but the 'coin/credit' system needs work and as does the 'character customisation'. Both are underway code-wise however and just need a little finesse!
I have a budget set aside to complete the game so I'm looking to pay an agreed weekly rate for the appropriate person.
Timescale: I am suggesting 8 weeks, 16 hours per week as a guideline to what I am looking for.
Ideally, you would be based in close proximity to me here in Edinburgh but it's not essential.
If you want I could help do you mind me dm'ing You?


Churrascaria Plataforma Brazilian Steakhouse is a Rodizio style restaurant. Rodizio is a method of serving meat that originated in the south of Brazil in the early 1800's. The concept is to serve a wide variety of different cuts of beef, pork, chicken,lamb, fish, etc. in succession, to each diner individually right at their table. A meal typically begins with a trip to the gourmet salad bar, which features a variety of vegetables and composed salads in addition to four hot dishes. We also serve a selection of side dishes at your table. The main course, the highlight of the meal, will start when you flip your coaster-sized "chip" from the red side to the green side, signaling the meat cutters you're ready to be served.


Organisations from diverse industries participated in the final placement for the first batch (2015-17) of Post Graduate Diploma in Business Analytics at the Indian Institute of Management – Calcutta (IIM-C).
The graduating batch consisting 51 students received 52 offers, of which, 49 were domestic and 3 international. The placement process witnessed 38 firms including Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Walmart, UnitedHealth Group (UHG) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM). The inaugural batch were offered an average annual compensation, including the international offers, of Rs 18.07 lakh. The batch received the highest package of Rs 33.67 lakh.
Three premier institutes — IIM-C, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Indian Institutes of Technology, Kharagpur — collaborated to develop the diploma programme. IIM-C dean Uttam Kumar Sarkar said, "From day one we were optimistic about this tri-institute diploma programme designed with inputs from analytics experts from industry and the institutes. The industry's positive response and stakeholders' feedback have exceeded expectations.
Companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers US Advisory, Deloitte, Alvarez & Marsal and EXL Service hired candidates for consultant positions in analytics. While American Express and MasterCard recruited applicants in their payment analytics division, Dunia Finance, Edelweiss Financial Services and Societe Generale offered financial analytics roles. In other domains, Walmart Labs hired in retail analytics, UHG in health care analytics and Rediff and Ittiam Systems offered analytics and data science roles in digital media. Mitsubishi Fuso, Mahindra and Mahindra, Larsen and Toubro and Cummins hired in the supply chain, business intelligence and internet of things domains. International offers came from Mitsubishi Fuso, Tokyo and Dunia Finance, Dubai. Microsoft, JPM and Directi also participated in the process.


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Q: How do I encrypt individual folders and files in an autonomous manner? I want to encrypt individual files and folders to backup them on DVD. So far, I only made password-protected .zip files, but I doubt that the security is very strong and I presume they are easy to crack, even with a long password.
Hence, I would like to know if there is a software that allows to put a password prompt when opening files/folders (instead of having to copy PGP keys, which themselves must be stored somewhere else...), even if I move the files outside of my computer (on DVD, USB, etc.).
So not just create an encrypted partition on folder inside my computer, but encrypt files and folders in an autonomous so that I can easily transfer them, just like making password-protected .zip files but with stronger security.
Thanks!

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How can I sync all of my Email addresses (including Gmail addresses) using iCloud?
I just got an iPad and I'm trying to sync all of my Email addresses across all of my devices, including my iMac and iPhone.
I already had an Apple ID and had iCloud set up for my iPhone and iMac, but when I went to set up my Email on my iPad it prompted me to create an @me Email address. So I did. But none of my Emails are syncing up with my iMac, and I thought the whole purpose of creating an @me account was so that all of my Emails would sync up through iCloud.
What I have is a couple of different Gmail accounts that I would like to sync up using iCloud. Is there any way to do this?
Practically speaking, the answer would be no - iCloud doesn't "sync" multiple email accounts (this is built into iOS). @me.com email address is just like gmail - it is just another email account. If you really wanted to, you could have all your gmail forward to iCloud's @me.com email account, but that wouldn't be practical.
First, you can sync google's calendar/contacts/mail throughout all apple devices just like you can with iCloud.
Select the Accounts section and add your preferred service.
The easiest way to simplify and centralize your email services is to forward all the mail to just one address.
This address you can then setup with all your devices to sync in the settings preferences.
iCloud doesn't sync your email accounts, only your me.com account.
To truly sync the others you should have IMAP or Exchange accounts. You can then sync these with your devices, you can't do it with pop mail accounts.
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Nha Mor is a well-prepared Thai Café with variety of Thai foods. We select the best quality of ingredient, prepare and serve our foods to customers accordingly to their requirement. We have well-managed delivery system, customers can get our foods quickly.
Nha Mor has qualified inspectors who emphasize on good hygienic and safety of all equipment in the shop. Our staffs get service mind attitude, be friendly together with providing customers fast service. Customers are certainly served with the best service in every branch.
The company updates the information technology (IT system) focusing on branches sale system in order to make sure that we are prompt to expand new branches at anytime. Customers can order and get food quickly and accurately in many areas. Basic sale information from different branches helps us to analyse and conduct proper sale strategy through different branches' promotions. We also, moreover, connect the branches sale system to other support systems in the main office in order to manage the whole system efficiently and highly response to customers requirement.
Nha Mor aims to give customers friendly service. Our staffs learn and understand the art of service which is the most important part for shops in café style. We, moreover, always improve new creative ways to serve and satisfy customers. Our service nicely response customers requirement, as you can see from numbers of our customers, it also saves customers' time and well keeps the quality of foods.
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A George III giltwood mirror from the White Drawing Room by Thomas Chippendale. This mirror, a remarkable discovery, is identical in many carved elements and in construction to a pair of mirrors sold from Harewood House in 1987. That pair, now in a private collection, differs in not having sphinx platforms.
It was evident that our mirror had lost its ribbon tied roundel, and we were fortunate enough to be able to use photographic evidence and the experience of Carvers & Gilders Ltd. of London to reinstate it. The mercury silvered mirror plate is a replacement.
Thomas Chippendale was first recorded working for Edwin Lascelles of Harewood House as early as 1767, and after Chippendale's death the documented commission continued with his son, also Thomas, until the late 1770s. This remarkable commission may, however, have spanned almost thirty years, furnishing Harewood and other Lascelles family homes, including their house in London.
Many of the Harewood papers relating to Chippendale's work have been preserved, making it possible to identify some of the pieces by the master at Harewood. There are some gaps, however, and records of Chippendale's early work at Harewood and the other houses have been lost.
Harewood House underwent extensive refurbishment in the 19th century under Charles Barry, and many Chippendale features and fittings including the sphinx mirrors were removed, dismantled and stored in the attic of the house. Entire walls were removed, and the layout of rooms was changed drastically. The furniture was moved around the house over the years, making it almost impossible to ascertain which piece originally belonged where.
Christopher Gilbert, whilst researching Chippendale for his seminal work on the master cabinet-maker, visited Harewood in the late 1970s and photographed the storage boxes containing Chippendale fragments. It was not until the late 1980s that the boxes were emptied and recorded systematically, and some mirrors were re-assembled where possible by Carvers & Gilders Ltd.
Circular mirrors are exceptionally rare, and no other Chippendale commission for the supply of circular mirrors is known.
A platform of identical size and design has been found in the store rooms at Harewood House. Identical sphinx carvings can be found surmounted on later pier mirrors in the Cinnamon Drawing Room (formerly the White and then the Green Drawing Room), where the mirror had originally been installed. This evidence links the mirror unequivocally to the other pair of circular mirrors and to Chippendale's work at Harewood House.
Research within the Harewood archives has revealed that this circular mirror was in fact originally one of a set of four mirrors. Two from the set were removed following Barry's refurbishment of the house in the 19th century, but the other two, including our mirror, had been removed from the room much earlier, when wall space was needed to hang two large portraits. The whereabouts of the fourth circular mirror is not known.
Literature: Christopher Gilbert, 'Chippendale's Harewood Commission', Furniture History, 1973, vol. 9, pp. 27-31.
Ronald Phillips Ltd., catalogue, 2017, pp. 6–9.
Collection of Chalmers Benedict Wood, US Foreign Service Officer and Ambassador, Wellington, New Zealand (1972–1974), USA.


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Q: i'm trying to run this program in Python, but i'm not able to execute def i'm trying to run this program in Python, but i'm not able to execute def. this is an assistant who shuold be able to catch words from the users and execute orders accordingly
the main question is:

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*how can I built an run more actions. example:
user said: stevens, what do you think about sports?
the IA (Steven) should be able to catch this string as an input order and execute a function and/or reply accordingly (based upon a pre-existing command line). Possible outputs should be: a. run a mp3 file, print a sentence, run a program

*how can I execute def greeting?
this is the whole code:

import gtts
from gtts import gTTS
import warnings
import speech_recognition as sr
import os
import google
import random

warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

def record_audio():
   r = sr.Recognizer()
   global data

   with sr.Microphone() as source:
       print('Say something! ')
       audio = r.listen(source)

   try:
       data = r.recognize_google(audio)
       print(data)
   except sr.UnknownValueError:
       print('I am waiting for your orders')
   except sr.RequestError as e:
       print('Google speech rec error')
   return data

def assistant_responses(text):

   print(text)

   myobj = gTTS(text= text, lang= 'en', slow=False)

   myobj.save('assistant_response.mp3')

   os.system('start assistant_response.mp3')

def wake_words(text):

   WAKE_WORDS = ['stevens', 'hi stevens']

   text = text.lower()

   for phrase in WAKE_WORDS:
       if phrase in text:
           return True

   return False

def greeting(text):

   GREETING_INPUTS = ['hi', 'hey', 'hola', 'ciao', 'hello', 'good morning']
   GREETING_RESPONSES = ['hello sir', 'good morning sir', 'how can i help you sir?']

   for word in text.split():
       if word.lower() in GREETING_INPUTS:
           return random.choice(GREETING_RESPONSES) +'.'

   return ''

while True:
   text = record_audio()
   response = greeting(text)
   if wake_words(text) == True:
       print('Good day sir')
   elif greeting(text) == True:
       print('Hello sir')

A: The issue is that you want to have the result of greeting be displayed, but you're not displaying the result anywhere. This is how you currently call greeting:
response = greeting(text)

All this is doing is setting the variable response to something from GREETING_RESPONSES. It's not telling Python to display anything. You have to actually print the response (or do something else with it besides nothing):
response = greeting(text)
print(response)

Or just:
print(greeting(text))


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Der Eisenbahnunfall von Lac-Mégantic ereignete sich in der Kleinstadt Lac-Mégantic in der kanadischen Provinz Québec, als am 6. Juli 2013 gegen 01:15 Uhr ein führerloser Güterzug der Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) auf der Bahnstrecke Brookport–Mattawamkeag entgleiste. Der Zug transportierte Rohöl aus Nord-Dakota zu einer Raffinerie der Irving Oil in New Brunswick. Das aus den zerstörten Kesselwagen auslaufende Rohöl geriet teilweise explosionsartig in Brand, wobei mindestens 47 Menschen starben und 40 Gebäude zerstört wurden.

Ausgangslage

Der mit Rohöl beladene Güterzug MMA 2 war von Montreal in Richtung Osten nach Saint John (New Brunswick) unterwegs. Fünf Diesellokomotiven zogen den 1433 Meter langen und 9330 Tonnen schweren Zug. Zwischen der ersten und zweiten Lokomotive war ein Güterzugbegleitwagen mit Funkfernsteuerungs-Empfänger eingereiht. Hinter den Lokomotiven folgten ein gedeckter Güterwagen als Schutzwagen und die 72 Kesselwagen. Die Kesselwagen waren eine ältere Variante der sogenannten Baureihe 111, einer nordamerikanischen Standard-Kesselwagen-Baureihe für den Transport von nicht unter Druck stehenden Flüssigkeiten. Sie waren mit jeweils 113.000 Litern (ca. 25.000 Imp.gal.) Rohöl gefüllt. Die Kesselwagen sind wegen ihrer geringeren Wandstärke bei Unfällen empfindlicher als modernere Fahrzeuge mit dickeren Wandungen, standen aber 2013 immer noch in Betrieb und bildeten über 70 % der nordamerikanischen Tankwagen-Flotte.

Am 5. Juli 2013 gegen 23 Uhr EST hielt der Zug in Nantes, wo der Lokführer zur Übernachtung den Zug verließ. Da das Überholungsgleis, das durch eine Schutzweiche gesichert war, planmäßig von einem anderen Zug belegt war, stellte er seinen Zug auf dem durchgehenden Hauptgleis ab, das ein Gefälle von 12 Promille aufwies. Er schaltete vier der fünf Lokomotiven ab, die führende Lokomotive blieb zur Versorgung der Druckluftbremsen des Zuges in Betrieb. Weiter zog er nach Angaben von MMA die Handbremsen an den fünf Lokomotiven und weiteren zehn Wagen an, führte aber den Handbremsen-Wirksamkeitstest nicht richtig durch. Entgegen den Vorschriften löste er nur die Automatische Bremse des Zuges, nicht aber die Direkte Bremse der Lokomotiven, um festzustellen, ob der Zug von den angelegten Handbremsen auf dem Gefälle gehalten werden könnte. Der Zug blieb unbewacht und die Lokomotiven waren unverschlossen, während der Lokführer sich im Hotel aufhielt.

Um 23:50 Uhr wurde von einem Bewohner von Nantes ein Feuer gemeldet, das an der in Betrieb befindlichen Lok ausgebrochen sei. Die eintreffende lokale Feuerwehr betätigte die Notabschaltung der Treibstoffzufuhr (engl. Emergency fuel cut-off) und schaltete, um Zündquellen zu vermeiden, alle Leitungsschutzschalter in der Führerstandrückwand aus. Der Fahrdienstleiter konnte zuerst keinen Lokführer oder Mechaniker erreichen, weshalb er einen Gleisbaumeister zum Zug schickte. Nachdem der Lokführer des Zuges doch noch über den Brand informiert wurde, fragte er den Fahrdienstleiter, ob er nach Nantes fahren solle, um eine andere Lokomotive zu starten. Dieser verneinte und meinte, dass bereits der Gleisbaumeister zum Zug unterwegs wäre und die Loks erst am nächsten Morgen gestartet werden sollten.

Nachdem die Feuerwehr und der Gleisbaumeister festgestellt hatten, dass der Brand gelöscht war und alle Lokomotiven ausgeschaltet waren, verließen alle Beteiligten den Ort und ließen den Zug wieder unbewacht. Keiner der Beteiligten dachte daran, eine Lokomotive wieder in Gang zu setzen, um die Druckluftbremsen betriebsbereit zu halten.

Brandursache Diesellokomotive
Der Brand in der führenden Diesellokomotive wurde durch die mangelhafte Reparatur eines Nockenwellenlagers im Motor verursacht. Nachdem der Außenring des Lagers gebrochen war, weil die Schrauben zu stark angezogen waren, wurde dieser behelfsmäßig mithilfe eines Polymer-Klebstoffs abgedichtet. Das Lager konnte den mechanischen Beanspruchungen nicht standhalten, so dass es ausfiel. Dies bewirkte eine mangelhafte Schmierstoffzufuhr zu den Ventilen des entsprechenden Zylinders, was wiederum zu einer Überhitzung der Ventile und wahrscheinlich zu Löchern im Kolbenboden führte. Dadurch konnte Schmierstoff aus dem Ölsumpf in die Ansaug- und Abgaskanäle gelangen. Ein Teil davon sammelte sich im Gehäuse des Turboladers und entzündete sich.

Unfallhergang
Die Handbremsen reichten nicht aus, um das Gewicht des Zuges gegen das Gefälle zu halten. Der führerlose Zug setzte sich auf der geneigten Strecke gegen 00:56 Uhr in Bewegung und entgleiste nach 11 Kilometern in der 100 Meter tiefer gelegenen Kleinstadt Lac-Mégantic, als er dort eine scharfe Kurve, die für eine Höchstgeschwindigkeit von nur 16 km/h (10 mph) zugelassen war, mit etwa 100 km/h durchfuhr, nach einem Bahnübergang an der nördlichen Bahnhofseinfahrt. Dabei wurden die fünf Lokomotiven vom Zug getrennt und kamen erst 800 Meter weiter östlich zum Stehen. 63 Kesselwagen und der Schutzwagen entgleisten, wobei sie teilweise umkippten und ineinander geschoben wurden. Lediglich die neun letzten Wagen blieben im Gleis.

Auslaufendes Öl fing Feuer und floss zunächst mit der Fahrgeschwindigkeit des Zuges in die Ortschaft, auch brennend in die Kanalisation, wo es sich ausbreitete und an anderen Stellen der Stadt als Stichflamme aus Kanalöffnungen hervortrat. Es setzte zahlreiche Gebäude in Brand, in denen die Bewohner schliefen. Einige der Kesselwagen explodierten. Die neun am Zugende nicht entgleisten Kesselwagen wurden, bevor sie Feuer fangen konnten, von Eisenbahnmitarbeitern abgezogen. Etwa 120 Feuerwehrleute aus Lac-Mégantic, benachbarten Orten, auch aus den Vereinigten Staaten, bekämpften den Brand, der erst nach mehr als 48 Stunden gelöscht werden konnte.

Folgen
42 Leichen wurden geborgen, von denen 34 unmittelbar identifiziert werden konnten. Weitere fünf Menschen blieben vermisst. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass sie so weit verbrannten, dass es keine identifizierbaren Reste mehr von ihnen gibt. Die bestätigte Anzahl der Toten wurde so am 26. Juli 2013 mit 47 beziffert.

Etwa 30 Gebäude im Stadtkern wurden zerstört und 2000 Bewohner vorübergehend evakuiert. Nachdem etwa 100.000 Liter Rohöl in den Rivière Chaudière geflossen sind, drohte eine Ölpest.

Die Premierministerin von Québec, Pauline Marois, besuchte den Ort noch am Tag des Unglücks. Am folgenden Tag besuchte auch der kanadische Premierminister Stephen Harper Lac-Mégantic.

Die kanadische Transportsicherheitsbehörde (Transportation Safety Board of Canada) hat am 19. Juli 2013 zwei Sicherheitshinweise für die Eisenbahngesellschaften herausgegeben:
 Zum einen empfiehlt sie, dass Züge mit Gefahrgut nicht unbewacht auf dem Hauptgleis abgestellt werden sollen.
 Zum anderen soll eine Sicherheitsrichtlinie überarbeitet werden, die sich mit dem Anlegen von Handbremsen an unbewachten Zügen beschäftigt, nachdem festgestellt wurde, dass die am verunfallten Güterzug angelegte Bremskraft zu gering war, um ihn am Wegrollen zu hindern. Bisher liegt es im Ermessen des Lokpersonals, die notwendige Bremskraft und die sich daraus ergebende Zahl anzulegender Handbremsen festzulegen.

Die Kosten für die Beseitigung der Schäden auf der zwei Quadratkilometer großen betroffenen Fläche durch die Stadt Lac-Mégantic beliefen sich auf 8 Millionen CAD. Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) schätzte die gesamte Schadenshöhe auf 200 Millionen CAD (144 Mio. EUR). Infolgedessen überstiegen die Verbindlichkeiten von MMA das Anlagevermögen, so dass sowohl die in Kanada (Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Canada Co. - MMA Canada) als auch die in den USA (Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, Ltd. - MMAR) registrierten Eisenbahngesellschaften am 7. August 2013 Insolvenz anmelden mussten. Da die Haftpflichtversicherung von MMA nur Schäden bis zu 25 Millionen CAD abdeckt, entzog die kanadische Transportbehörde (Canadian Transportation Agency, CTA) mit Wirkung zum 20. August 2013 den beiden MMA-Gesellschaften die Lizenz in Kanada.

Unfallaufarbeitung
Durch die Auswertung des Fahrtenschreibers erhoffte sich die TSB weitere Erkenntnisse darüber, wie es zu diesem Unfall kommen konnte.

Im Zeitraum zwischen November 2012 und Juli 2013 konnten der kanadischen Erdölfirma Irving Oil 34 Verstöße gegen das Gefahrguttransportgesetz beim Rohöltransport nachgewiesen werden, die als Straftaten geahndet werden. Im vorliegenden Fall war das transportierte Rohöl nicht als Gefahrgut gekennzeichnet, was gegen die geltenden Sicherheitsbestimmungen verstieß. Ende Oktober 2017 wurde Irving Oil deshalb zu einer Strafzahlung von vier Millionen Kanadischen Dollar verurteilt. Der größte Teil des Geldes soll in Forschungsprogramme zur Transportsicherung fließen. Das Unternehmen will seine Mitarbeiter im Umgang mit dem Transport von gefährlichen Gütern besser schulen.

Am 2. Oktober 2017 wurde der Prozess gegen den Lokführer, den Fahrdienstleiter und den vorgesetzten Betriebsdirektor der ehemaligen MMA wegen krimineller Fahrlässigkeit in 47 Fällen vor einem 12-köpfigen Geschworenengericht (Jury) in Sherbrooke eröffnet. Nach der Anklagebegründung durch die Staatsanwaltschaft, wobei 31 Zeugen zu Wort kamen, machte die Verteidigung am 12. Dezember 2017 geltend, dass die Anklage die Schuld der Angeklagten nicht in ausreichendem Maß dargelegt habe und verzichtete auf den Aufruf der Zeugen der Verteidigung. Daraufhin wurde das Verfahren bis zum 3. Januar 2018 vertagt. Am 19. Januar 2018 sprach die Jury die Angeklagten nach neuntägiger Beratung frei.

Im Oktober 2019 wurde ein Projekt zur Umfahrung von Lac-Mégantic auf einer 12,8 Kilometer langen Neubaustrecke vorgestellt, der Baubeginn war für 2020 vorgesehen, 2022 waren jedoch noch öffentliche Anhörungen notwendig.

Siehe auch
 Liste von Eisenbahnunfällen in Kanada

Weblinks

 Railway investigation R13D0054 – Major rail accident in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec auf der offiziellen Internetseite des Transportation Safety Board of Canada (englisch)
 Lac-Mégantic timeline auf der Internetseite der Montreal Gazette (englisch)

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