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"Never Thought I'd Fall in Love" by The Spinners
Pop Bits: The Spinners has a late-career resurgence in the early 80s thanks to a couple of medleys that reached the Top 10. But their output after those hits started them on a chart descent from which they would not recover. After a pair of lowly R&B chart singles from their album "Can't Shake This Feelin'," this third single somehow got on the pop chart for a couple of weeks while missing the R&B chart completely.
ReduxReview: This is not the most memorable or exciting single from the group, but it's not too bad either. It takes a while for the song to really rev up and the last minute or so is worthy of a listen. The remainder is just pleasant album fodder. They have had far, far better material than this.
Trivia: The group's first single for the Tri-Phi label was 1961's "That's What Girls Are Made For," which reached #5 at R&B. After that, they continued to record for the label with little success. Tri-Phi was bought by Motown and the group found a home there. But not much changed. With little in the way of hits, Motown kind of used members of the group in other capacities while on the label (i.e., road managers, chauffeurs, etc.). Aretha Franklin stepped in and encouraged the group to make a move to Atlantic. They did in 1972 and the success was immediate with three straight R&B #1's and two pop Top 10's. Their hit streak would continue throughout the 70s with their biggest pop hit being the #1 duet with Dionne Warwick, "Then Came You."
"Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk" by Dr. Hook
Pop Bits: After changing to a smooth rock sound in the late-70s and scoring three Top 10 hits, their 1980 album "Rising" found the group floundering. With no major hits, the album failed to chart. They tried to turn things around with their next studio album, "Players in the Dark." This first single started off quite well (it was the week's top debut), but then petered out after reaching the Top 30.
ReduxReview: This is kind of like an early country-rock version of "Baby Got Back," no? Dr. Hook sheds some of the disco-ish pop they were doing (ala "Sexy Eyes") and moved back towards a more country-rock feel. I guess it's not bad but I was just never a fan of this song. I ignored it back then and will probably continue to do so.
Trivia: You never know where a song might become a hit. It is strange how a song will not be popular in one country, but yet be a big hit somewhere else. That is basically what happened with this song. While not a major hit in the US, UK, or other European countries, for whatever reason, it caught on in South Africa and became a #1 single.
"'65 Love Affair" by Paul Davis
Top 10 Alert!
Pop Bits: Moving to the Arista label was good and bad for Davis. Good because his album for them, "Cool Night," already yielded the #11 title track and this second single became his biggest pop hit. Bad because the marrying of his earlier soft rock/country sound with Clive Davis' hit-making ways was not a match made in heaven. The album was a career high for Paul Davis, but the pop push didn't sit well with him. It would end up being his only LP for Arista. In the meantime, this reflective ode lit up pop radio and got into the Top 10.
ReduxReview: It's a shame that Davis ended up not really liking this song. I think it is a wonderful piece of pop and I played it quite a bit back in the day. The production is a bit dated now, but it is still enjoyable and brings back waves of nostalgia. It's just plain fun.
Trivia: It's been said that Davis originally wrote this tune as "'55 Love Affair." This would seem to fit as the song references 50's pop culture points like doo-wop music and car hops. However, Arista balked that '55 was too old, even for Davis to sing about, and to appeal to a younger demo they wanted it as '65. Davis obliged, but the whole commercialization of his music soured him and he took off from Arista and never looked back.
"Don't Let Me In" by Sneaker
Genre: Soft Rock
Pop Bits: Having taken their name from Steely Dan's song "Bad Sneakers," it seemed fitting that these fans of that duo would also cover one of their songs. This second single from Sneaker's self-titled debut album couldn't get close to their first single "More Than Just the Two of Us" (#34), but it helped give them the opportunity to record a second album. "Loose in the World" came out later in the year, but no singles were able to reach the chart and that was pretty much the end of the band.
ReduxReview: Had I not known about the Steely Dan connection, I'm not sure I would have pegged this as one of their tunes. After knowing that fact, I could hear a bit of that Steely Dan sound in the tune. This is quite different from the AC balladry of Sneaker's first single and I'd never think the songs were by the same artist. Not sure if that is a good thing. You need some kind of cohesive sound to declare an identity. As-is, the song is a nice slice of West Coast soft rock and good homage to one of their influences.
Trivia: This song, written by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, was recorded by the Steely Dan duo prior to the release of their debut LP in 1972. It didn't make it onto any of their proper albums, but the original demo version has surfaced on a couple of "early years" compilations. Sneaker's version seems to be the first official release of the song.
"Sleepwalk" by Larry Carlton
Genre: Smooth Jazz
Pop Bits: Carlton was one of the most prolific session guitarists of the 70s and 80s performing on hundreds of tracks by major artists from Joni Mitchell to Michael Jackson. Along the way he got signed to Warner Bros. for a solo deal and released albums for them and other labels over the years. His solo peak began with his credited guest spot on Mike Post's "The Theme from Hill Street Blues," which hit #10 late the previous year. Carlton then issued his LP "Sleepwalk" and this title track single lead the way. It would be his only solo chart song and it helped make the album his highest peaking reaching #99. Carlton's work on the "Hill Street" single would garner him a Grammy award and over the years he would receive three more.
ReduxReview: Carlton is a brilliant musician, but I don't think this is his finest moment. The production is so dated and it's lazy, sleepy approach almost did make me fall asleep. The original (see below) was a dreamy old tune with a different style of guitar work. It's a late-50s classic. Carlton's too-smooth take could have been used in an ad for Sominex...or actually in place of taking it. Yaaawwwnn....
Trivia: Double Shot! 1) This song is a remake of the original by Santo & Johnny. The Farina brothers, who co-wrote the song with sister Ann, took the song to #1 in 1959. It has been covered by many artists, but Carlton is the only other to reach the chart with the song. Brian Setzer's 1998 version did not chart, but it did win a Grammy award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. 2) Carlton is sometimes known as Mr. 335, which was the name of his studio in California (Room 335). In 1988, he was a victim of a random crime and shot in the throat just outside of his studio. He recovered and returned to the studio to complete the album he had been recording prior to the shooting.
"Get Down on It" by Kool & the Gang
Pop Bits: The band's album "Something Special" didn't get off to a great start at pop with "Take My Heart (You Can Have It If You Want It)" hitting #17 and the follow-up "Steppin' Out" barely making the chart at #89. Two weeks after "Steppin' Out" debuted, it seemed the label knew they needed a better song to revive the album. This third single was rushed out and it did indeed help as it became the album's biggest hit and the group's sixth Top 10 gold record. The single helped push the LP to platinum status.
ReduxReview: While the previous two singles were good, this one easily eclipses them. Why this wasn't issued as the first single is a true mystery. It is catchy and memorable with a cool groove and nice horn pops. This is what I expect from this era of the band.
Trivia: In 2012, Kool & the Gang set out on tour as the opening act for...Van Halen? Yup. David Lee Roth caught the band's show the previous year at the Glastonbury Festival and loved them. He then pursued getting them as the opener on Van Halen's reunion tour. The odd pairing proved to be successful and returned Kool & the Gang to the spotlight.
"Memories of Days Gone By" by Fred Parris & the Five Satins
Pop Bits: The medley craze had all sorts of acts coming out of the woodwork to cash in on the fad. Producer Marty Markiewicz was no exception and his idea for a medley involved his old friend Fred Parris, who was still performing around with a version of his doo-wop group The Five Satins. The Five Satins had a hit in 1956 with "In the Still of the Nite" (#3 R&B, #24 pop), which was written by Parris. Markiewicz thought a medley of classic tunes from the era with the vocal group would work. He arranged the song, got the group in the studio, and got this single issued. Although not a major hit in any way, the song got Parris and the Satins on the chart one last time.
ReduxReview: You know, I think you could easily torture someone and make them talk just by locking them in a room and playing all these medleys one after the other for hours on end. I was ready to spill the beans just after one listen to this! Oh how I wish I could say this was the last one, but I know it's not. Someone help...please! As Cartman might say, "Nuuh...muuh...mehhhhdleeeeezzzz!"
Trivia: The Five Satins' "In the Still of the Nite" remains the only song to have charted three different times with the same artist and recording. The song initially reached #24 in 1956, then it charted again in 1960 reaching #81, and once again in 1961 where it appeared for a week at #99. A few other artists have reached the chart with the song, but the only artist to have a Top 10 pop hit with it was Boyz II Men. Their a cappella version reached #3 in 1992.
"Memories of Days Gone By" by Fred Parris & the Fi...


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package model

import (
	"errors"
	"regexp"
)

type DeviceType string

const (
	IOS     DeviceType = "IOS"
	ANDROID DeviceType = "ANDROID"
	KINDLE  DeviceType = "KINDLE"
)

//TODO: constants for locale and timezone
type Device struct {
	id         		string
	userAlias  		string
	appId      		string
	platformAppId 	string
	deviceType 		DeviceType
	arn        		string
	token      		string
	locale     		string
	timezone   		string
	enabled    		bool
}

func NewDevice(id string, userAlias string, appId string, pappId string, dt DeviceType, arn string, token string, locale string, timezone string, enabled bool) (*Device, error) {
	device := &Device{id: id, userAlias: userAlias, appId: appId, platformAppId: pappId, arn: arn, token: token, enabled: enabled}
	if err := device.SetDeviceType(dt); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if err := device.SetLocale(locale); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	//TODO validate
	device.SetTimezone(timezone)
	return device, nil
}

func (device Device) Id() string {
	return device.id
}

func (device Device) UserAlias() string {
	return device.userAlias
}

func (device Device) AppId() string {
	return device.appId
}

func (device Device) PlatformAppId() string {
	return device.platformAppId
}

func (device Device) Locale() string {
	return device.locale
}

func (device Device) DeviceType() DeviceType {
	return device.deviceType
}

func (device Device) Arn() string {
	return device.arn
}

func (device Device) Token() string {
	return device.token
}

func (device Device) Enabled() bool {
	return device.enabled
}

func (device Device) Timezone() string {
	return device.timezone
}

func (device Device) Platform() Platform {
	if device.deviceType == IOS {
		return APNS
	} else if device.deviceType == ANDROID {
		return GCM
	} else if device.deviceType == KINDLE {
		return ADM
	}
	return UNKNOWN
}

func (device *Device) SetId(id string) {
	device.id = id
}

func (device *Device) SetUserAlias(id string) {
	device.userAlias = id
}

func (device *Device) SetAppId(id string) {
	device.appId = id
}

func (device *Device) SetPlatformAppId(papp string) {
	device.platformAppId = papp
}

func (device *Device) SetLocale(locale string) error {
	if err := ValidateLocale(locale); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	device.locale = locale
	return nil
}

func (device *Device) SetTimezone(timezone string) {
	device.timezone = timezone
}

func (device *Device) SetDeviceType(dt DeviceType) error {
	if err := ValidateDeviceType(dt); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	device.deviceType = dt
	return nil
}

func (device *Device) SetArn(arn string) {
	device.arn = arn
}

func (device *Device) SetToken(token string) {
	device.token = token
}

func (device *Device) SetEnabled(enabled bool) {
	device.enabled = enabled
}

var localRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`^[A-Za-z]{2,3}_[A-Za-z]{2,3}$`)

func ValidateLocale(locale string) error {
	if !localRegex.MatchString(locale) {
		return errors.New("Invalid locale, should be of the form US_en.")
	}

	return nil
}

var deviceTypeRegex = regexp.MustCompile("^(" + string(ANDROID) + "|" + string(IOS) + "|" + string(KINDLE) + ")$")

func ValidateDeviceType(dt DeviceType) error {
	if !deviceTypeRegex.MatchString(string(dt)) {
		return errors.New("Invalid device type, valid values: " + string(ANDROID) + "," + string(IOS) + " or " + string(KINDLE))
	}

	return nil
}

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Marriage Is The Great Equalizer For Blacks
By Roland Warren
As a happily married man, I have been troubled by the oft-stated myth that the institution of wedlock has never been central to the African-American heritage.
Unfortunately, this view has permeated the African-American community and society at large. Now, it may be single-handedly holding back blacks in their pursuit of social, economic and educational progress.
According to testimony given last fall to a Senate subcommittee by Ron Haskins of The Brookings Institution, from 1970 to 2001, the overall marriage rate declined 17% but 34% for blacks. The overall rate for out-of-wedlock births is 33% compared with 70% for blacks.
These disappointing trends are critical because research has shown that marriage provides significant benefits for men and women. Most important, children who are raised by their married, biological parents do better across every measure of economic, social, health and educational well-being than children raised in other family arrangements. In fact, when comparing families of similar socioeconomic status, these black children have similar outcomes as their white counterparts. Marriage is the great equalizer.
Alex Haley wrote Roots based on the belief that he was the descendant of an African slave named Kunta Kinte. Roots tells the story of his family, starting with Kunta's birth. Although some of Haley's research has been contested, Roots can teach us some valuable lessons, including one that few seem to discuss.
Kunta Kinte escaped his master several times only to be caught each time. But one thing finally caused him to change course: his marriage and the birth of his daughter. Kunta "jumped the broom" with Bell, the plantation's cook. The ritual was used to formalize the husband-wife bond, since slaves could not legally marry. Bell soon gave birth to their first daughter, named Kizzy, an African word for "stay put." Kunta decided that creating a legacy of hope for his family was more important than escape.
Kinte's dedication to his family is not unique. In 1890, 80% of black families with children were headed by married couples, according to sociologist Andrew Billingsley. That figure has dropped to 39%. In 1950, 64% of black males older than 15 were married compared with 68% of white males. By 1998, only 41% of black males were married. From 1950 to '98, the percentage of never-married black women doubled.
This divergence in black and white marriage rates is not the legacy that Kunta Kinte left for us. It is time for African-Americans to change the path that is holding our children and families back so that we can rediscover the "roots" of marriage.
Roland Warren is the president of the National Fatherhood Initiative.
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Presumably there's no surer sign then the whole industry is about to melt down than the increasing talk about businesses that don't have any plan to move to profit being bought or re-financed with millions of dollars of pension fund money. There's a horrible sense of deja-vu from the 90s.
Antony reports on this sort of behavior here, with Twitter funder Umair Haque suggesting that traditional business plans are no longer relevant, and the seductive although meaningless quote, 'Spreadsheets aren't strategy'.
Well Twitter's obviously an interesting example. A lot of people have asked how they can afford to continue to fund the volume of SMS traffic without any inbound revenue streams. Did they have a secret plan? Or will this be reminiscent of the brilliant 'underpant gnomes' strategy in Southpark captured by Richard at AdLiterate?
Well I, for one, am not delighted to hear that they don't know either!
Bill Gates pointed out recently that Google's record of monetising products is actually fairly poor. It's just that their biggest product is a barn-stormer so they get almost infinite R&D money to play around with. Microsoft has been doing the same, working on a "get it out first, monetise it later" approach; and all the talk now is of failing fast. Obviously Microsoft and Google can now afford to do that for a while. Can Twitter?
Old style, 5-year business plans may be obsolete, if only because looking five years into the future is becoming harder and harder, but that does not mean that you don't need constantly understand what you are in business for and how it is sustainable. The market (in the capitalist sense) is not a pure abstraction, it is by definition the reason you are in business.
Can we take ideas from the world of Lean to apply to the purpose of a while business? What would Shingo and Ohno say? Should the business plan be allowed to iterate? Monthly? Presumably the whole company (and as far as we could take this) its customers should be involved and take responsibility for the plan; should be rewarded for its success or failure.
But, to take the analogy more into Agile, what should happen when the business plan doesn't build, when the numbers don't add up (even after a hefty dose of 2.0 or 3.0 futurecasting)? It is important too that, the business be able to change course. How many companies are truly willing to close down or to re-invent themselves because they have become obsolete, ?


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cool, I'll be in touch. I sure know how to get there!!!
I did RawHyde Adventures Next Step this past February. I can help any Sunday. By the way I only dapped twice in "The Garage." Had to toot my own horn for a minute. Seriously I can can set up The Garage if that is what you want. Secondly the logs should also be for the big bikes, done right they should have no problem. I can PM my number if you like.
Right on, that would be great to connect and talk through some options. I did a couple of quick Youtube's on RawHyde, very cool place, we don't have that much land, but I am sure we can come up with some fun and challenging sections.
I am going to have to cancel. My heart cath discovered that the blockages (4) require bypass surgery and the doctor also found a leaky valve that needs to be surgically repaired as well. So I will be releasing my room at Junction. No riding for a while. Surgery next week or the week after that one.
This^. Hope you can come out and visit.
I'm sorry to hear of your troubles, but glad you have a diagnosis and a treatment plan. This is likely but a temporary delay in your riding plan. Prayers and best wishes for a complete recovery.
Maybe the time change will allow an extra hour to drink ?
I also want to work on laying out some type of slow speed obstacle course that will be a little challenging for the bigger bikes then some things like log jumping for the smaller bikes. If anybody wants to help one of these weekends that would be great. I have a lot of railroad ties and a couple of downed trees I have been saving for this purpose.
There was someone on this site that attended the BMW Adventure training class and had the specs on how to lay it out, would be fun to see what they did.
I'm "local" and might be able to help set up the course, let me know.
I am gonna plan a winter ride, somewhere, anywhere to make up for me missing the last 4 months of the year of riding. Maybe the BBNP, or maybe South Texas. Just somewhere. I have had to clear my August, then September, and now October and November and I have a goal to ride on my birthday Dec 10th.
I just checked the registration page, we are up to 60 riders signed up, amazing !!! I also just discovered that there is a tee shirt available from a link within the registration page, great work, that is so cool.
If you have not seen the news, Junction has been flooded out. May be ok by the ride. I wish I could be with ya'll, but big surgery is Thursday, 4 bypasses and a heart valve. I'll be back riding soon , well when I feel better.
I think the water can drain off in 3 1/2 weeks. Hope the rain ends soon or I may be buying a boat to get to work!
Since it was decided last week that the Friday night camp out will be catered, and that it should likely be gun free due to the size, can we get the first post edited? Also, I took the liberty of creating a FB event, and linked it to here. Feel free to share it.
last time I rode the ET500 it was called the ET450!! Would love to ride it this year, but we will be exchanging contracts on our new house that weekend!! Hope to make it next year and maybe see some old faces from the Austin/Houston area!! Will probably drag the wife and her bike along as well!!
Looks like I won't make the 500 afterall - going to do some riding at Barnwell for the weekend. That said a friend and I rode parts of Day 1 route then carved off to Comfort. - pavement with fun twisties. Stayed at Garner State Park and got woken up at 4:30 AM by the Park Rangers that we had to move to higher ground since we were tent camping along the lower level by the FRIO river. Come to find out the water was only 16 yards away from our bikes. Was all normal the evening before. Needless to say this was a crazy experience. I decided worst case I'd ride the bikes to higher ground and let all my camping gear go if I could not make it intime. We were packing like crazy. The Park Ranger came by 30 minutes later and said they believe the water peaked so that was encouraging. In anycase we kept packing up and left at 8:00 AM. We had plans to ride the 3 sisters but they were all shut down due to flooding. We decided to head to Utopia, Vanderpool, then took 87 past Lost Maples up to 39, then to Kerville (nice ride on 39 thru Hunt. Stopped for photo at Stone Henge 2 at Ingram). When we left Vanderpool the heavens open and it was a massive downpour all the way to Hunt. Soaked to say the least. Put the 1090r in Rain Mode and ole "snoopy" did great. Turned on the grip warmers since it was starting to get cold w/ soaked gloves (I really need to find a nice set of water proof gloves). Oh well. Always an adventure. Gave me a new respect for rain storms upstream. When we crossed the Frio on the way out to Utopia it was like a raging river and very wide w/ a ton of debris. Total opposite the day before where we were taking to tubers casually floating along the river. Ya'll have fun on the 500. I don't think you'll have any issues with dust.
Gang, I was just wondering for all of those planning to camp on Saturday night in Junction, what is the state of the facilities after the recent storm? From what I understand they took the worst hit from this past storm and the RV park is just gone from what I hear.
I just booked tent space at this place for the 3rd - they seemed open and operational.


text:
\section{Breaking of heavy quark spin symmetry in

A heavy quarkonium is a system consisting of a heavy quark
and a heavy antiquark.
The ground states and low-lying excited states below the open-flavor
thresholds were well described in terms of potential quark models, e.g., the
Godfrey--Isgur quark model~\cite{Godfrey:1985xj}, while the higher excited
states are more complicated. The complexity comes from, e.g., the nearby
strongly coupled thresholds, the existence of many new quarkonium-like states
discovered in the last decade and so on.
Because the heavy quark mass $m_Q$ is much larger than the
scale of quantum
chromodynamics (QCD), $\Lambda_\text{QCD}$, the amplitude of changing the spin
orientation of a heavy quark by interacting with soft gluons is small,
suppressed by $\order{\Lambda_\text{QCD}/m_Q}$ relative to the spin-conserving
case~\cite{Caswell:1985ui}. The resulting heavy quark spin symmetry
(HQSS)~\cite{Isgur:1989vq} can lead to important observable
consequences. On the one hand, heavy quarkonium states are organized into spin
multiplets; on the other hand, the decay or production rate involving
one heavy quarkonium can often be related to the one of its spin partners in the
leading approximation. Breaking of HQSS is typically of the order of
$\order{\Lambda_\text{QCD}/m_Q}$ or even higher. In this paper, we will argue that the
HQSS breaking could be much larger in certain processes.
To be specific, we will show that a small mixing of $S$- and $D$-wave heavy
quarkonia could result in a
significant breaking of the spin symmetry relations when the decay amplitude of the $D$-wave component is enhanced. As an example,
we will calculate the processes $\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{bJ}\omega\,
(J=0,1,2)$. Measurements for these transitions were done by the Belle
Collaboration very recently, and the results for
the branching fractions are~\cite{He:2014sqj}
\begin{eqnarray}
    \br{\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b0}\omega} &<& 3.9\times 10^{-3}, \nonumber\\
    \br{\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b1}\omega} &=&
    (1.57\pm0.22_\text{stat.}\pm0.21_\text{sys.})\times 10^{-3}, \nonumber\\
    \br{\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b2}\omega} &=&
    (0.60\pm0.23_\text{stat.}\pm0.15_\text{sys.})\times 10^{-3}.
    \label{eq:belle}
\end{eqnarray}
One sees that the branching fraction for the $\chi_{b1}\omega$ mode is larger
than that for the $\chi_{b2}\omega$.  Comparing
the HQSS prediction on the ratio $\br{\Upsilon(5S)\to\chi_{b1}\omega}/
\br{\Upsilon(5S)\to\chi_{b2}\omega}=0.63$
assuming the $\Upsilon(10860)$ to be the $5S$ bottomonium state,
see Eq.~\eqref{eq:Sratio_PS} below, with the observed value $2.62\pm1.30$, the
breaking is more than 100\%. This  is a very large spin symmetry
breaking.
As we will show later, a small mixture of a $D$-wave $\bar b b$ component
in the $\Upsilon(10860)$ is able to cause the
ratios of $\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{bJ}\omega)$ to be very different from the
spin symmetry relations as observed.

Consequences of HQSS can be easily analyzed using heavy meson effective
field theory (for a review, see Ref.~\cite{Casalbuoni:1996pg}).
Let us take the transitions from a vector heavy quarkonium into the
$\chi_J\omega$ as an example, where $\chi_J$ is a $P$-wave heavy quarkonium
with quantum numbers $J^{PC}=J^{++}$.
Here we will use the two-component notation in Ref.~\cite{Hu:2005gf} which is
convenient for nonrelativistic processes with negligible recoil effect.
The fields for the $S$-wave, $P$-wave and $D$-wave heavy quarkonium states are
denoted by $J$, $\chi^i$ and $J^{ij}$, respectively, which
are
$J = \vec{ \psi}\cdot \vec{\sigma}$,
$\chi^i = \sigma^j \left( \delta^{ij} \chi_0/\sqrt{3}   -
  \epsilon^{ijk} \chi_1^k /\sqrt{2} -\chi_2^{ij} \right)$,
$ J^{ij} = \frac{3}{2\sqrt{15} } \left( \psi_D^i \sigma^j +
\psi_D^j\sigma^i \right) - \frac1{\sqrt{15} }\delta^{ij}\vec{\psi}_D\cdot \vec \sigma
$~\cite{Casalbuoni:1996pg,Fleming:2008yn,Guo:2010ak,Margaryan:2013tta},
where $\vec\sigma$ are the Pauli matrices, and $\psi$, $\chi_J$ and $\psi_D$
annihilate the $S$-, $P$- and $D$-wave heavy quarkonia, respectively. The
states included in the above expressions have other spin partners which can be
included as well, however, only the fields relevant for our discussion are
shown.

Since the heavy quarkonia can be treated nonrelativistically, an expansion
over low momenta can be done. To leading order of such an expansion, the
Lagrangian for the decays of an $S$-wave or a $D$-wave heavy quarkonium into
$\chi_J\omega$ reads
\begin{equation}
    \mathcal{L}_{\chi\omega} = \frac{c_S}{2} \left\langle \chi^{i\,\dag} J
\right\rangle \omega^i +
\frac{c_D}{4} \left(  \left\langle \chi^{i\,\dag} J^{ij}
\right\rangle \omega^j +  \left\langle \chi^{j\,\dag} J^{ij}
\right\rangle \omega^i \right),
\end{equation}
where $\langle\,\rangle$ denotes the trace over the spinor space.
With this Lagrangian,  one is ready to obtain the ratios of decay widths of
an excited $ S $-wave heavy quarkonium into the $\chi_J\omega$ when
the difference in phase space is neglected
\begin{eqnarray}
\Gamma(\psi\to\chi_0\omega) : \Gamma(\psi\to\chi_1\omega) :
\Gamma(\psi\to\chi_2\omega)  = 1:3:5.
\label{eq:Sratio_noPS}
\end{eqnarray}
The ratios are completely different if the initial state is a $D$-wave heavy
quarkonium. In this case, one obtains
\begin{eqnarray}
 \Gamma(\psi_D\to\chi_0\omega) : \Gamma(\psi_D\to\chi_1\omega) :
\Gamma(\psi_D\to\chi_2\omega)
 = 20:15:1,
\label{eq:Dratio_noPS}
\end{eqnarray}
Therefore, the ratios of the decay widths of
an excited heavy quarkonium into the $\chi_{J}\omega$ can be used to probe the
spin structure of the initial state.

Replacing the $\omega$ by a photon, the above analysis still applies if we
change the widths on the left side of Eqs.~\eqref{eq:Sratio_noPS} and
\eqref{eq:Dratio_noPS} by $\Gamma/E_\gamma^3$ with $E_\gamma$ the photon
energy in the rest frame of the initial state. The factor of the photon energy is
required by gauge symmetry. As was shown
long time ago in Ref.~\cite{Cho:1994ih}, the spin symmetry
relations for the radiative transitions are generally in a quite good
agreement with the experimental data, and the breaking of
the spin symmetry relations is at the order of
$\order{\Lambda_\text{QCD}/m_Q}$.

However, HQSS breaking for near-threshold vector quarkonium states could be
enhanced due to the coupling to heavy meson pairs in a
$P$-wave~\cite{Voloshin:2012dk}. In the following, we will explore a different
mechanism, and show that a small $S$-$D$ mixing \footnote{In our
case of the decays $\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{bJ}\omega$, as will be shown later a
mixing angle of $\order{\Lambda_\text{QCD}^2/m_b^2}\sim 1^\circ$ is not sufficient. However,
if the mixing angle can be enhanced to around $5^\circ$, which is
still small, or larger, the huge HQSS breaking observed by the Belle
Collaboration can be explained by the mechanism proposed here.
Phenomenologically, the mixing angle for the $\Upsilon(10860)$ could be larger
than $20^\circ$~\cite{Badalian:2009bu}. } could result in a significant spin
symmetry breaking
 if the decays of the $D$-wave component are enhanced by, for
instance, coupled-channel effect as will be considered in the following.

Let us take the decays of the $\Upsilon(10860)$ into the $\chi_{bJ}\omega$ as
a specific example. The $\Upsilon(10860)$ is often considered as the $5S$
vector bottomonium. It was argued that the HQSS breaking in the
$\Upsilon(10860)$ decays into open-bottom mesons could be as large as
10\% to 20\%~\cite{Voloshin:2013ez} (see also discussions in
Ref.~\cite{Mehen:2013mva}). It is thus reasonable to assume that the wave
function of the $\Upsilon(10860)$ contains a small mixture of a $D$-wave
component, $\Upsilon_D$. The decay amplitude  can be written as
\begin{equation}
    \mathcal{A}(\Upsilon(10860)\to \chi_{bJ}\omega ) = \cos\theta\,\mathcal{A}_S +
\sin\theta\,\mathcal{A}_D,
\label{eq:sdmixing}
\end{equation}
where $\theta$ is the mixing angle, and $\mathcal{A}_{S}$ and $\mathcal{A}_D$ are the decay
amplitudes from the the $S$-wave and $D$-wave components, respectively. One
sees from Eqs.~\eqref{eq:Sratio_noPS} and \eqref{eq:Dratio_noPS} that the
ratios of the partial widths of the $S$-wave and $D$-wave components are
distinct. When the phase space is taken into account, the corresponding ratios
for the $\Upsilon(10860)$ decays in question are
\begin{equation}
    \Gamma_0^S:\Gamma_1^S:\Gamma_2^S=1:2.8:4.4,
    \label{eq:Sratio_PS}
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
    \Gamma_0^D:\Gamma_1^D:\Gamma_2^D=22.9:15.8:1
    \label{eq:Dratio_ps}
\end{equation}
respectively, where $\Gamma_J$ represents
$\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{bJ}\omega)$, and the index $S(D)$ means that
only the $S(D)$-wave component is considered.

Thus, if there is a mechanism to enhance the decay amplitude of the
$D$-wave component relative to one of the $S$-wave component, a relatively
small $D$-wave admixture can induce a sizable breaking of HQSS. In the
following, we will assume that the decay width from the $S$-wave component is
very small, and investigate the possibility of enhancing HQSS breaking due
to such a mixing.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{triangle_THH}
    \caption{The dominant decay mechanism for the $D$-wave component of the
$\Upsilon(10860)$ into the $\chi_{bJ}\omega $. Here, $\Upsilon_D$ denotes the
$D$-wave component, and $T$ and $H(\bar H)$ represent the bottom mesons with
$s_\ell^P=\frac32^+$ and $\frac12^-$, respectively. The charge conjugated
diagram is not shown but taken into account in the calculations.
The vertical dashed lines indicate the two cuts operative in the process. }
\label{fig:triangle}
\end{figure}

As analyzed in details in Ref.~\cite{Guo:2010ak} for the transitions between two
charmonium states with the emission of a pion or $\eta$-meson, some decay
processes could be dominated by coupled-channel effects due to the coupling to
the intermediate virtual heavy and anti-heavy mesons. Especially, the
coupled-channel effect is the most important when both the vertices involving
heavy quarkonia are in an $S$-wave. The mass of the $\Upsilon(10860)$ is only
about 120~MeV below the threshold of the $B_1(5721)\bar B$. Thus, the decays of
the $D$-wave component of the $\Upsilon(10860) $ could be dominated by meson
loops as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle}. This is analogous to the radiative
decays of the $D$-wave charmonia into the $X(3872)$~\cite{Guo:2013zbw}. The
hypothesis is based on a nonrelativistic power counting in terms of the velocity
of the intermediate heavy mesons, denoted by $v$.
Because both the initial and final heavy quarkonia are not far from the
thresholds of the coupled heavy mesons, the intermediate heavy mesons are
nonrelativistic with a velocity $v\ll1$.  For the diagram shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle}, all three vertices are $S$-wave, and thus the loop
amplitude is of the order $\mathcal{O}(v^5/(v^2)^3) = \mathcal{O}(v^{-1})$,
where $v^5$ and $(v^2)^3$ account for the measure of the loop integral and three
nonrelativistic propagators, respectively.
Since the both the initial and final bottomonia are not far away from the
threshold of the bottom meson pair, two unitary cuts are operative in this
diagram, shown by the dashed vertical lines in Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle}. Each cut
corresponds to a momentum, and therefore a velocity. As discussed in
Appendix~\ref{app:loop}, the velocity in the power counting corresponds to the
average of the two velocities.
\begin{figure}
\centering
  \includegraphics[height=5.3cm]{pc}\hfill
  \includegraphics[height=5.3cm]{cusp}
  \caption{ (a) Illustration of the $v^{-1}$ scaling of the scalar
  three-point loop function. The solid curve represents
  $|I(m_{B_1},m_B,m_B,q)|$, see Eq.~\eqref{eq:nrloop}, with
  $M=M_{\Upsilon(10860)}$, and the dashed curve gives the inverse of the
  averaged velocity defined as $(v_1+v_2)/2$ with $v_1=\sqrt{ 2 \mu_1(
  m_{B_1}+m_B -M_{\Upsilon(10860)} )}/\bar m_1$, where $\mu_1$ and $\bar m_1$
  are the reduced and averaged masses of the $B_1$ and $B$, respectively, and
  $v_2=\sqrt{ ( 2 m_B - M_\chi )/m_B }$.
  For comparison, both the loop function and $1/v$ are normalized at
  $M_\chi=M_{\chi_{b0}}$. (b) Dependence of $|I(m_{B_1},m_B,m_B,q)|$ evaluated
  at $M_\chi=2M_B$ on the mass of the initial state $M$. }
  \label{fig:pc}
\end{figure}
 This can be seen from a comparison of the scalar
three-point loop function and the inverse of the averaged velocity as shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:pc}(a). Notice that although the loop function scales as $v^{-1}$,
it does not diverge even when both masses of the initial and final heavy
quarkonium states are located at the corresponding thresholds. In
Fig.~\ref{fig:pc}(b), we show $|I(m_{B_1},m_B,m_B,q)|$ evaluated at
$M_\chi=2M_B$ as a function of $M$. One sees that at threshold $M=m_{B_1}+m_B$,
there is a cusp which is due to square-root singularity at the
threshold; the sharp peak below the cusp is due to the Landau singularity
discussed in Appendix~\ref{app:loop}. For the processes in question, we have
the averaged
velocity $v\approx 0.26$.
Therefore, the negative power of the small velocity provides an enhancement
to the coupled-channel amplitudes. Thus, it is reasonable to assume
that the decays of the $D$-wave component into the $\chi_{bJ}\omega$ are
dominated by the loop diagrams as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle}, and the
partial widths are not small. For more discussion of the power counting, we
refer to
Refs.~\cite{Guo:2009wr,Guo:2010ak,Guo:2012tg,Cleven:2011gp,Cleven:2013sq}.
Next, we will perform an explicit calculation of the coupled-channel effect
based on the mechanism shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle}.

In the two-component notation, the fields for the $S$-wave
($s_\ell^P=\frac12^-$) and $P$-wave
($s_\ell=\frac32^+$) heavy mesons read
$    H_a = \vec{V}_a\cdot \vec{\sigma} + P_a$, and $
    T_a^i = P_{2a}^{ij} \sigma^j + \sqrt{2/3}\, P_{1a}^i + i
\sqrt{1/6}\, \epsilon_{ijk} P_{1a}^j \sigma^k$,
where $P_a$ and $V_a$ annihilate the pseudoscalar and vector heavy mesons,
respectively, with $a=u,d$ labeling the light flavors, and $P_{1a}$ and
$P_{2a}$ annihilate the axial and tensor heavy mesons, respectively. The fields
annihilating their anti-particles are
  $\bar H_a = -\vec{\bar V}_a\cdot \vec{\sigma} + \bar P_a$,
  $\bar T_a^i = -\bar P_{2a}^{ij} \sigma^j + \sqrt{2/3}\, \bar
  P_{1a}^i - i \sqrt{1/6}\, \epsilon_{ijk} \bar P_{1a}^j \sigma^k$.
The properties of these fields under symmetry transformations can be found in
Refs.~\cite{Fleming:2008yn,Guo:2013zbw}.

The Lagrangian, which is invariant under transformations of parity, charge
conjugation, HQSS and Galilean invariance, for the coupling of the $P$-wave and
$D$-wave heavy quarkonia to the $s_\ell=\frac12^-$ and $s_\ell=\frac32^+$ heavy
mesons to leading order of the nonrelativistic expansion can be written
as~\cite{Colangelo:2003sa,Fleming:2008yn,Guo:2013zbw}
\begin{eqnarray}
  \label{eq:lagPD}
  \mathcal{L}_{PD} = \frac{g_4}{2} \left \langle
\left( \bar{T}^{j\,\dag}_a\, \sigma^i H^\dag_a - \bar{H}^\dag_a \,\sigma^i
T^{j\,\dag}_a \right) J^{ij} \right \rangle
 + \frac{g_1}{2} \left\langle \chi^{i\dag} H_a\sigma^i \bar
H_a \right\rangle + \text{H.c.}\,.
\end{eqnarray}
The $S$-wave coupling of the $\omega$-meson to the $S$-wave and $P$-wave heavy
mesons can be described by
\begin{equation}
    \label{eq:lagomega}
    \mathcal{L}_{\omega} = \frac{c_\omega}{2} \left\langle H_a^\dag T_a^i -
\bar H_a^\dag \bar T_a^i \right\rangle \omega^i + \text{H.c.}\, ,
\end{equation}
where isospin symmetry is assumed.

\begin{table*}[tb]
\begin{center}
\begin{ruledtabular}
   \caption{ Heavy meson loops contributing to the decays of
the vector $D$-wave bottomonium into the $\chi_{bJ}\omega$. Here the charge
conjugated ones are not listed but considered in the calculation. }
\label{tab:loops}
   \begin{tabular}{| l | c c c|}
      Processes &  $\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{b0}\omega $  &
$\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{b1}\omega $ & $\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{b2}\omega $ \\ \hline
      Loops & $[B_1\bar B B], [B_1\bar B^* B^*], [B_2\bar B^* B^*]$
			&  $[B_1\bar B B^*], [B_1\bar B^* B]$
			&  $[B_1\bar B^* B^*], [B_2\bar B^* B^*]$
            \\
   \end{tabular}
   \end{ruledtabular}
\end{center}
\end{table*}
Denoting the diagram shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle} by $[T\bar H
H]$, the loops contributing to the processes $\Upsilon_D\to \chi_{bJ}\omega$
are listed in Tab.~\ref{tab:loops}.
Using the Lagrangians given in Eqs.~\eqref{eq:lagPD} and \eqref{eq:lagomega},
the decay amplitudes can be easily obtained, and the explicit
expressions are given in Appendix~\ref{app:loop}.
It is interesting to notice that if we take the same mass for the heavy mesons
in the same spin multiplet, the spin symmetry relations are kept even if
coupled channels are considered, that is, one would get the same ratios
$20:15:1$ for
$\left|\mathcal{A}_{\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{bJ}\omega}^\text{loop}\right|^2$ as the
ones in Eq.~\eqref{eq:Dratio_noPS}.
This can be understood because the  Lagrangians respect spin symmetry, and
if we use degenerate masses, there will be no source for symmetry
breaking.~\footnote{This provides a simple method to calculate the HQSS
relations for partial decay widths of processes involving hadronic molecules
of a pair of heavy mesons, and the results in, e.g., Ref.~\cite{Ma:2014ofa}
calculated using 6-$j$ and 9-$j$ symbols can be checked in this way. Without
taking into account the phase space factors which include $E_\gamma^3$ for the
radiative decays and setting mesons in the same spin multiplet to be
degenerate, the ratios for the decay widths, $\Gamma_J^\text{hm}$, of a
$1^{--}$ bottomonium-like hadronic molecule into $\chi_{bJ}\omega/\gamma$ are
as follows: $\Gamma_0^\text{hm}:\Gamma_1^\text{hm}:\Gamma_2^\text{hm}=3:1:0$
(for $B_1\bar B$), $1:12:5$ (for $B_1\bar B^*$), and $5:0:1$  (for $B_2\bar
B^*$). }
When the physical masses for all the mesons are used, and the phase space
difference is taken into account, the loop amplitudes will result in ratios
slightly different from Eq.~\eqref{eq:Dratio_ps}
\begin{equation}
    \Gamma_0^\text{loop}:\Gamma_1^\text{loop}:\Gamma_2^\text{loop}=24.4:16.7:1.
\label{eq:ratio_loop}
\end{equation}
One sees that the decays into the $\chi_{b0}\omega$ and $\chi_{b1}\omega$ are
more enhanced than that into the $\chi_{b2}\omega$. The reason is that the
$\Upsilon(10860)$ mass is closer to the $B_1\bar B$ threshold than to the
$B_1\bar B^*$ one, cf. Table~\ref{tab:loops}. If we put the initial state
at the mass of the $\Upsilon(11020)$, the heaviest known bottomonium, the
ratios will be even larger, $27.5:18.4:1$.

With the above preparation, we can now show quantitatively how a significant
HQSS breaking effect can be obtained from a small $S$-$D$ mixing.
In the following, we will assume that the decays of the $D$-wave component into
the $\chi_{bJ}\omega$ are saturated by the triangle diagrams as discussed above.
Because the $S$-$D$ mixing is due to the tensor force between the heavy quark
and antiquark, it is of $\order{\Lambda_\text{QCD}^2/m_b^2}$, which corresponds to the mixing
angle $\lesssim1^\circ$ if $\Lambda_\text{QCD}$ is taken to be of the order of a few hundreds
MeV. However, as pointed out in Ref.~\cite{Badalian:2009bu}, for highly excited
bottomonia, the mass difference between the $(n+1)S$ and the $nD$ states is
small so that the mixing could be much larger. The phenomenological value for
the $\Upsilon(4S)$-$\Upsilon(3D)$ mixing angle extracted from the dielectron
width is as large as $27^\circ\pm4^\circ$, and the $5S$-$4D$ mixing angle is of
a similar size~\cite{Badalian:2009bu}.
Indeed, if we take $\theta=1^\circ$ and adjust the strength of the decay
amplitudes of the $S$-wave and $D$-wave components to get the central values of
$\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b1}\omega)=(86\pm47)$~keV  and
$\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b2}\omega)=(33\pm23)$~keV, one would get an
unreasonably large width for the $D$-wave component: two solutions are obtained
for $\Gamma_{D0}\equiv\Gamma(\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{b0}\omega)=604$~MeV or $75$~MeV.
These two values correspond to the ratio of the decay amplitude of the $S$-wave
component over that of the $D$-wave component $|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|=0.002$ and 0.011,
respectively.
These widths seem too large for an OZI-suppressed transition.
Increasing the angle to $5^\circ$, they become much more
reasonable---$\Gamma_{D0}=24$~MeV or $3$~MeV corresponding to
$|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|=0.008$ and 0.055, respectively. For a mixing angle as large as
$20^\circ$, one gets $\Gamma_{D0}=1.6$~MeV or 0.2~MeV corresponding to
$|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|=0.034$ and 0.23, respectively. In this regard, our explanation
of the large HQSS breaking in the partial decay widths in Eq.~\eqref{eq:belle}
requires the mixing angle between the $5S$ and the $4D$ states to be at least
around $5^\circ$.  One should also notice that
according to the power counting of nonrelativistic QCD, the mixing is
of the order $v_b^2\approx0.1$~\cite{Bodwin:1994jh}, where $v_b$ is the velocity
of the bottom
quark in bottomonium. In this sense, a mixing angle of $\mathcal{O}(10^\circ)$
is natural.
To be specific, let us take the mixing angle  $\theta=5^\circ$ for
instance, which corresponds to $\sin\theta=0.087$ and an $S$-wave dominance in
the wave function. In Fig.~\ref{fig:dependence}~(a), we show the dependence of
the ratios defined as
\begin{equation}
     R_{02} = \frac{\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b0}\omega)}
     {\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b2}\omega)}, \qquad
     R_{12} = \frac{\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b1}\omega)}
      {\Gamma(\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{b2}\omega)} \label{eq:r0212}
\end{equation}
on $|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|$ for $\theta=5^\circ$. Because the interference between the
$S$-wave and $D$-wave components can be either constructive or destructive,
there are two possible solutions for each ratio. It is obvious that the
variation is dramatic at small values of $|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|$ due to interference.
This is because the contribution of the $D$-wave component is suppressed by the
small mixing angle, and the $S$-$D$ interference controls the results. Increasing
$|\mathcal{A}_S|$, the contribution from the $D$-wave
component diminishes, and the ratios approach those given in
Eq.~\eqref{eq:Sratio_PS}.
We thus
expect that  for small values of $| \mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D |$ the ratios
would be very different from spin symmetry ones for the $\Upsilon(5S)$ given in Eq.~\eqref{eq:Sratio_PS}.
Figure~\ref{fig:dependence}~(b) shows the dependence on $\cos\theta$ for fixed
$|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|=0.05$.

\begin{figure*}[tb]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.496\textwidth]{AsAd}\hfill

    \includegraphics[width=0.496\textwidth]{costheta}
    \caption{Dependence of the ratios $R_{02}$ and $R_{12}$ defined in
    Eq.~\eqref{eq:r0212} on $|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|$ for $\theta=5^\circ$ (a),
and on $\cos\theta$ for $|\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D|=0.05$ (b).
}
\label{fig:dependence}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure}[tb]
   \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{R02prediction}
   \caption{ Prediction of $R_{02}$ for a given value of $R_{12}$. The shaded
   area corresponds to the range reported by the Belle
   Collaboration~\cite{He:2014sqj}. }
\label{fig:r02}
\end{figure}

We want to emphasize that the mixing angle and $\mathcal{A}_S/\mathcal{A}_D$ always appear
together, and thus cannot be fixed from the measured branching fractions.
However, when one of the ratios $R_{02}$ or $R_{12}$ is measured, the other can
be predicted as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:r02}, and the uncertainty should be of $\order{v}$.
In the figure, the Belle results $R_{12}=2.62\pm1.30$ and $R_{02}<13.3$ obtained
from Eq.~\eqref{eq:belle} are shown as the shaded area. Fixing $R_{12}$ to the
measured range, we predict two possible ranges for $R_{02}$,
\begin{equation}
    R_{02} = 7.1\pm2.1\pm1.8, \quad \text{or} \quad R_{02} = 0.19\pm0.17\pm0.05,
\end{equation}
where the first uncertainty is propagated from the measured uncertainty of
$R_{12}$, and the second one from $v=0.26$ is inherent in our nonrelativistic
framework. Both ranges are consistent with the Belle upper limit, and an
examination of the HQSS breaking mechanism proposed here urges an improved
measurement, especially for the $R_{02}$. This can be done at the future
super-$B$ factory. Similarly, we can make predictions for the decays
$\Upsilon(11020)\to\chi_{bJ}\omega$. The curves are similar with slightly larger values.

To summarize, we have discussed a new mechanism to produce a sizable breaking
of HQSS. We showed that a small $S$-$D$ mixing for
the vector heavy quarkonium could result in a much larger spin symmetry
breaking effect.  In order for this mechanism to work, the decays
of the $D$-wave component should be enhanced in comparison with that of the
$S$-wave one. As an example, we studied the decays
$\Upsilon(10860)\to\chi_{bJ}\omega$ in details. The decays of the $D$-wave
component of the $\Upsilon(10860)$ are assumed to be dominated by the
coupled-channel effects due to $S$-wave coupling to nearby thresholds of a
 $P$-wave and an $S$-wave heavy meson pair. It was found that a mixing angle of
 $\order{1^\circ}$ would result in a too large width for the $D$-wave component,
 and $\theta\gtrsim5^\circ$, i.e. $\sin\theta\gtrsim0.087$, is needed
 to explain the observed widths of the decays into the $\chi_{b1}\omega$
 and $\chi_{b2}\omega$. It is noticeable that
 a $\order{10\%}$ $D$-wave component, though needs an additional explanation
 for bottomonium states~\cite{Badalian:2009bu}, is sufficient to
 explain an HQSS breaking $\gtrsim100\%$ in the ratios of the partial decay
widths.
In particular, when one of the ratios of branching fractions for the processes $\Upsilon(10860,11020)\to
\chi_{bJ}\omega$ is measured, the other can be predicted
independent of the mixing angle.
Using the Belle measurement for $R_{12}$, two possible ranges of $R_{02}$ were
predicted. The
prediction can be examined at the future super-$B$ factory. Such measurements
will be important to better understand the spin symmetry breaking
as well as the nature of the $\Upsilon(10860)$ and $\Upsilon(11020)$.

\medskip

\section*{Acknowledgments}

We are grateful to the referee for her/his valuable
comments on the first version of this paper. We would like to thank Bastian
Kubis for useful discussions. This work is supported in part by the DFG and the
NSFC through funds provided to the Sino--German CRC 110 ``Symmetries and the
Emergence of Structure in QCD'' (NSFC Grant No. 11261130311), by the EPOS
network of the European Community
Research Infrastructure Integrating Activity ``Study of Strongly Interacting
Matter'' (HadronPhysics3, Grant No. 283286), by the NSFC (Grant No. 11165005),
and by the
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No.
YWF-14-WLXY-013) and CAS center for Excellence in Particle Physics (China).

\begin{appendix}

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\section{Decay amplitudes and Landau singularities of the three-point loop
function}
\label{app:loop}
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The explicit expressions for the decay amplitudes for the $D$-wave component
through the $[T\bar HH]$ triangle diagrams are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
   \mathcal{A}_{\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{b0}\omega } ^\text{loop} &=&
-N\frac{2\sqrt{5}}{3}  g_1
g_4 c_{\omega }  \vec\varepsilon_{\Upsilon_D}\cdot \vec\varepsilon_\omega
\big[6 I\left(m_{B_1},m_{B},m_{B},{q} \right) +
I\left(m_{B_1},m_{B^*},m_{B^*},{q}\right) \nonumber\\
&\al + I\left(m_{B_2},m_{B^*},m_{B^*}, {q} \right) \big],
 \nonumber\\
  \mathcal{A}_{\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{b1}\omega }^\text{loop} &=& 2N
\sqrt{\frac{10}{3}} g_1
g_4 c_{\omega } \epsilon_{ijk} \varepsilon ^i_{\Upsilon_D} \varepsilon
^j_{\omega}
\varepsilon^k_{\chi_{c1}}
   \left[ I\left(m_{B_1},m_{B},m_{B^*},{q} \right) +
   I\left(m_{B_1},m_{B^*},m_{B},{q} \right) \right], \nonumber\\
    \mathcal{A}_{\Upsilon_D\to\chi_{b2}\omega }^\text{loop} &=&
N\frac{2}{\sqrt{15}} g_1
g_4 c_{\omega } \varepsilon^{ij}_{\chi_{b2}} \varepsilon ^i_{\Upsilon_D}
\varepsilon
^j_\omega \left[  5 I\left(m_{B_1},m_{B^*},m_{B^*},{q}
\right) - I\left(m_{B_2},m_{B^*},m_{B^*},{q} \right) \right].
\label{eq:loopamp}
\end{eqnarray}
where  $N=\sqrt{M M_{\chi} } $, with $M$ and $M_\chi$ the masses of the initial
and final heavy particles, respectively, accounts for the nonrelativistic
normalization, $q$ is the magnitude of the three-momentum of the $\omega$ in the
rest-frame of the initial particle,
and $I(m_1,m_2,m_3,q)$ is the scalar three-point nonrelativistic loop integral,
the expression of which can be found in Refs.~\cite{Guo:2010ak,Guo:2013zbw}
\begin{eqnarray}
   \label{eq:nrloop}
   I(m_1,m_2,m_3,q)
   =\frac{\mu_{12}\mu_{23}}{16\pi\,m_1m_2m_3} \frac{1}{\sqrt{a}} \left[
   \arctan\frac{c'-c}{2\sqrt{a(c-i\epsilon)}} +
   \arctan\frac{2a+c-c'}{2\sqrt{a(c'-a-i\epsilon)}} \right],
\end{eqnarray}
with
\begin{equation}
     a = \left(\frac{\mu_{23}}{m_3} q\right)^2, \qquad
     c = 2\mu_{12}b_{12}, \qquad
     c'=2\mu_{23}b_{23}+ \frac{\mu_{23}}{m_3} q^2,
\end{equation}
where $\mu_{ij}=m_im_j/(m_i+m_j)$, $b_{12} = m_1+m_2-M$,
$b_{23}=m_2+m_3+E_\omega-M$, with $M$ the mass of the initial particle and
$E_\omega=(M^2-M_\chi^2+m_\omega^2)/(2M)$ the energy of the $\omega$-meson.

The meaning of the velocity $v$ in the power counting can be seen from expanding
the loop function around $a=0$~\cite{Guo:2012tg}
\begin{equation}
    I(m_1,m_2,m_3,q) = \frac{\mu_{12} \mu_{23}}{16\pi m_1m_2m_3}
    \frac{2}{\sqrt{c}+\sqrt{c'}} + \ldots,
\end{equation}
where only the leading order term is kept. Notice that the two square roots
inside the arctan functions in Eq.~\eqref{eq:nrloop} correspond to the two cuts
in Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle}. The one containing $\sqrt{c-i\epsilon}$ is
connected to the initial heavy quarkonium and cuts the intermediate states with masses
$m_1$ and $m_2$; the other, connected to the final heavy quarkonium, contains
$\sqrt{c'-a-i\epsilon}$ and cuts the intermediate states with masses $m_2$ and
$m_3$ and the light particle in the final state. It is thus clear that $v$ in
the power counting is the average of the two velocities defined through these
cuts.

Therefore, although the power counting of this scalar triangle loop is given by
$\order{v^{-1}}$, the loop function does not diverge even if $M=m_1+m_2$.
Indeed, the triangle loop integral has singularities in addition to the normal
thresholds which correspond to the branching points of the cuts. This has been
known for a long time~\cite{Landau:1959fi}, and such singularities are called
Landau singularities. Landau singularities for a given loop diagram are
determined by the solutions of the Landau equations. For the triangle diagram shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:triangle}, the leading singularities are determined by the
following equation~\cite{Landau:1959fi}
\begin{equation}
    1 + 2\, y_{12}\, y_{23}\, y_{13} = y_{12}^2 + y_{23}^2 + y_{13}^2,
    \label{eq:Landau}
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
    y_{ij} = \frac{m_i^2 + m_j^2 - p_{ij}^2}{2\,m_i\,m_j}.
\end{equation}
In our case, we have $p_{12}^2=M^2$, $p_{23}^2 = M_\chi^2$ and $p_{13}^2 =
m_\omega^2$.

\begin{figure}[tb]
   \centering
   \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{landausingularity}
   \caption{ The Landau singularity of the scalar triangle loop
   function for the intermediate mesons being $[B_1, \bar B,B]$. Here, $M$ and $M_\chi$ are
   the masses of the initial and final heavy quarkonia, and the light particle
   mass is $m_\omega$. The solid and dashed curves represent the trajectories
   for the solutions of the Landau equation, Eq.~\eqref{eq:Landau}, and the
   nonrelativistic equation, Eq.~\eqref{eq:NRsingularity}, respectively. The
   shaded area given by $M\geq M_\chi+m_\omega$ is the physically allowed
   region. The star marks the point with $M=M_{\Upsilon(10860)}$ and $M_\chi =
   M_{\chi_{b0}}$.}
\label{fig:singularity}
\end{figure}
As for the nonrelativistic triangle loop function in Eq.~\eqref{eq:nrloop},
the triangle singularity occurs when the arguments of the $\arctan$ functions take a value of $\pm i$. We find that the singularity equations from
both $\arctan$ functions are the same, which is
\begin{equation}
    (c'-c)^2 + 4 a c = 0.
    \label{eq:NRsingularity}
\end{equation}
Notice that this equation is of eighth order in the masses of the initial and
final heavy particles. Given a value of the initial mass, one gets eight
solutions for the mass of the final heavy particle $M_\chi$. However, since
Eq.~\eqref{eq:nrloop} is the expression for the nonrelativistic
three-point scalar loop integral, only those solutions of $M_\chi$ within the
vicinity of $m_2+m_3$ are valid. The solutions of interest of
Eq.~\eqref{eq:NRsingularity} are very close to those of Eq.~\eqref{eq:Landau}
as can be seen explicitly from Fig.~\ref{fig:singularity}.
They are not exactly the same because the Landau equations and thus
Eq.~\eqref{eq:Landau} are derived for relativistic propagators, while
Eq.~\eqref{eq:NRsingularity} is obtained from the nonrelativistic loop integral.
When the particle masses are real, Eq.~\eqref{eq:NRsingularity} can only be
satisfied when either $a$ or $c$ is non-positive, i.e. $q^2\leq0$ or $M\leq
m_1+m_2$.
As a result, the Landau singularity is located outside the physical region, as can be seen from
Fig.~\ref{fig:singularity}. The $\Upsilon(10860)\to\omega\chi_{b0}$
process, denoted by a star in the plot, is not far from the singularity
trajectory. However, for $M=M_{\Upsilon(10860)}$, the loop function does not
diverge at the solutions of Eq.~\eqref{eq:NRsingularity} because the divergences
from both arctan functions cancel with each other in this case.

\end{appendix}

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The 1984 Olympics weren't a success for Los Angeles just because of the profit they turned. L.A. proved to the rest of the world that smart logistics planning and financial foresight could, indeed, make for a great Olympic experience that not only showcases the host city on a global stage, but also creates a lasting impact on the city's culture and urban core.
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7 Television Commercials är en samling musikvideor av det brittiska bandet Radiohead utgiven på VHS i maj 1998 och på DVD i augusti 2003.

Låtlista
"Paranoid Android"
"Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
"No Surprises"
"Just"
"High and Dry" (U.S. version)
"Karma Police"
"Fake Plastic Trees"

Referenser

Album av Radiohead
Musikvideoalbum 1998
Musikvideoalbum 2003

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A week ago, an investigation into the accused $100 million money laundering scandal in the Philippines, specifically targeting three casinos in Macau. This would be devastating to the economy as it seems that a large amount of money was funneled through the Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) and was allegedly used to "buy chips" or "pay for casino losses", however, the bank denies their involvement with anything related to gambling.
As the banks stance is that they do not deal with casinos, it would serve as a loophole for criminals.
Seeing as how the RCBC does not get involved with casinos as part of its corporate good governance, they have stated that they have no connection to the three accused establishments, making it impossible for the money to have gone from their bank and into the casinos. Cesar Virata, vice chairman of RCBC, reinforced that idea by stating that they do not do business with casinos.
The banks policies exclude doing business with the casinos, as well as having limited transactions with tobacco and liquor companies. He went on to say that the $100 million was transferred to an individual account that was more than a year old.
Even Cristino Nagulat, chairman of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), mentioned that laundering money through casinos is very risky and hard to do and that the authorities should look elsewhere, like the bank that funneled the money. This has allowed the three accused casinos to get off the hook, for now. The Anti-Money Laundering Council will still have their eyes on the casino operations as they could still be suspects.


Thank you for the book recommendations, and for juxtaposing your reading and thinking with photos of the concrete components of your work. It's a good reminder that creativity requires two parts: the thinking and the doing.
I've been dipping into Folk Fashion for a few months now--so interesting and revelatory! And THANK YOU for the heads up on Growing Gills--within a few pages I had a major aha moment about the direction I'm going and the reason why I get so trapped with multiple fantastic ideas at once.
You and I, on this subject of clothes, are just the same. I know what I like too and I will never see what I really want in the ready-made, badly-made, chemically-made, commercial fabrics world we live in. I began this very quest right after I learned how to make yarn, ( we call it spinning) I knew I wanted my own clothes. That was confirmed for me in a concrete way when I began inspecting commercially made clothes from overseas for an online woman's fashion company. Bleeding dye, horrendous construction, stains, smells, itchy skin from said bleeding dyes, incorrect sizing and the list gets scarier. I have not spent hard earned cash on commercially made clothing since and it has been nearly 7 years now. Am making my very first shirt from hand-spun, hand woven cloth for the first time this year. Am a novice seamstress, so it is slow going. My sewing machine and I are still introducing ourselves to each other and it knows me better than I know it. But, we will get along. We have to. I want my own clothes. May be time to get that Folk Fashion book!
Oh, so the Dark Forest has a name!
As always, Sarah, you inspire and educate! Thank you so much for recommending these books.


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Jan Ernst Matzeliger (Paramaribo, 15 de setembro de 1852 – Lynn, 24 de agosto de 1889) foi um inventor nascido no Suriname, que revolucionou a indústria de calçados.

Biografia
Matzeliger nasceu em Paramaribo (então Guiana Holandesa, hoje Suriname). Seu pai era um engenheiro holandês e sua mãe, uma escrava negra do Suriname. Enquanto em seu país de origem mostrou algum interesse em mecânica, seus esforços para inventar uma máquina para montar sapatos começaram quando ele se mudou para os Estados Unidos, onde trabalhou em uma oficina mecânica. Aos 19 anos ele se mudou para a cidade de Filadélfia, no estado da Pensilvânia, tendo trabalhado como marinheiro. Em 1877 já domina o perfeitamente inglês, e se mudou para o estado de Massachusetts. Em 1883, após cinco anos de trabalho, patenteou sua invento

Sua máquina permitiu aumentar substancialmente a produção de sapatos. Anteriormente, trabalhando com a mão, um operador poderia produzir cinqüenta sapatos em um dia de trabalho, mas a sua máquina conseguia produzir entre 150-700 pares de sapatos por dia. Seu engenho reduziu em cinqüenta por cento o preço dos sapatos nos Estados Unidos. No entanto, por causa de sua morte prematura, em Lynn, Massachusetts, de tuberculose e outros fatores, ele não pode aproveitar os lucros de sua invenção.

Reconhecimento
Em reconhecimento à sua contribuição, dedicou um serviço postal selo dos Estados Unidos em 15 setembro de 1991.

Ligações externas
 Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Black History
 Profile of Jan Matzeliger - The Black Inventor Online Museum

Naturais de Paramaribo
Norte-americanos de ascendência neerlandesa
Mortes por tuberculose em Massachusetts
Inventores dos Estados Unidos
Inventores afro-americanos
Mortes por tuberculose no século XIX


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CHARLES FUSSELL (b.1938): Wilde - Symphony for Baritone and Orchestra, High Bridge Prelude.
Label: Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Reference: BMOP/sound 1005
Description: High Bridge is a musical portrait of tragic poet Hart Crane, and appropriately enough the music is mercurial and self-contradictory, rapidly changing mood from abrasive to tenderly lyrical to violent to fragile in short measure. In both this and the more extended portrait of Wilde, Fussell's idiom remains thoroughly tonal. Wild' is based on the poet's correspondence with Alfred Douglas, depicting his life in London in the first movement, his tragic post-imprisonment wanderings in Europe in the orchestral episode that forms the second movement, and his death in Paris (the final moment depicted by a detached and inexpressive 12-tone chord, static amid the surrounding turmoil; the culmination of an intensely moving quasi-operatic soliloquy) in the desolate third movement. Both of these ultimately unfulfilled and tormented creative characters are sympathetically depicted in music that portrays their essential humanity in the face of circumstances that their unique psychology never equipped them fully to comprehend or overcome. Texts included. Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose.


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