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Der TUL-Cup ist ein seit 1920 mit Unterbrechungen ausgetragener Fußballwettbewerb des Arbeitersportverbandes TUL (Suomen Työväen Urheiluliitto). Der Sieger des TUL-Cups ist finnischer Meister des Arbeitersportverbandes, jedoch spielen seit 1949 alle TUL-Vereine im Ligensystem der SPL (Suomen Palloliitto), dem finnischen Fußballverband. Deshalb wird der TUL-Cup seit 1949 nur noch im Pokalformat ausgespielt.

Rekordsieger ist der FC KooTeePee aus Kotka, der aus dem Verein Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat hervorgegangen ist. Zusammen gewannen die Spieler Kotkas den TUL-Cup 13-mal, zuletzt 2012.(Stand 2018)

Geschichte
Die Suomen Työväen Urheiluliitto wurde 1919 gegründet. Bereits 1920 wurde die erste Fußballmeisterschaft dieses Verbandes ausgespielt. Helsingin Kullervo gewann im Finale des Pokals gegen Kuopion Riento mit 13:1. Bis 1932 sollte der Wettbewerb im Pokalmodus ausgetragen werden. Danach wurde der TUL-Meister in einer Liga ausgespielt. Während des Kriegs kehrte man wieder zum Pokalmodus zurück. 1948 fand eine Vereinigungsrunde mit den Mannschaften des nationalen Sportverbandes statt. Die Mannschaften, die sich sportlich qualifiziert hatten, nahmen an der Mestaruussarja 1949 teil, in der dann erstmals Vereine beider Verbände zusammen spielen sollten.

Von 1956 bis 1972 wurde das Turnier ganz ausgesetzt. Die TUL besann sich jedoch auf ihre Tradition und führte 1973 den TUL-Cup wieder ein, der bis heute auch nach der Einführung eines neuen Dachverbandes im finnischen Sport Mitte der 1990er-Jahre ausgespielt wird.

Siegerliste

Weblinks
 Website der TUL www.tul.fi
 Siegerliste auf www.rsssf.com

Fußballwettbewerb in Finnland


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Q: Remove vertical spacing between normal text line and loop made with tikzcd I want to delete this vertical spacing that appears everytime I draw a loop using tikzcd-  This vertical spacing only appears when I draw a loop, so I don't want to modify the normal spacing of all the document, just the spacing of that line. Any idea?? Thank you

 La necesidad de que $Q$ no tenga ciclos dirigidos es para que los
 espacios vectoriales tengan dimensión finita en cada vértice. Por
 ejemplo, si $\mathbb{L} =$  \quad \begin{tikzcd}[cramped] 1
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A: You probably want to use a smaller loop.  Also your math spacing and choice of delimiters is a brutal abomination, I fixed it.
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\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{tikz}
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La necesidad de que $Q$ no tenga ciclos dirigidos es para que los
espacios vectoriales tengan dimensión finita en cada vértice. Por
ejemplo, si $\mathbb{L} = \begin{tikzcd}[cramped] 1
  \arrow[loop right, "\alpha"]\end{tikzcd}$ entonces $S(1) = \langle\{
\alpha ^n : \alpha \in \mathbb{N}_0 \}\rangle = k^{\mathbb{N}}$

\end{document}

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-- ChaoWang1 - 16 Jun 2014
1 Cross section.
The nuclear cross section of a nucleus is used to characterize the probability that a nuclear reaction will occur. The concept of a nuclear cross section can be quantified physically in terms of "characteristic area" where a larger area means a larger probability of interaction. The standard unit for measuring a nuclear cross section (denoted as σ) is the barn, which is equal to 10−28 m² or 10−24 cm². Cross sections can be measured for all possible interaction processes together, in which case they are called total cross sections, or for specific processes, distinguishing elastic scattering and inelastic scattering; of the latter, amongst neutron cross sections the absorption cross sections are of particular interest.
We then have as the definition of differential cross section
This has the simple interpretation of the probability of finding a scattered particle within a given solid angle.
A cross section is therefore a measure of the effective surface area seen by the impinging particles, and as such is expressed in units of area. Usual units are the cm2, the barn (1 b = 10−28 m2) and the corresponding submultiples: the millibarn (1 mb = 10−3 b), the microbarn (1 b = 10−6 b), the nanobarn ( 1 nb = 10−9 b), the picobarn (1 pb = 10−12 b), and the shed (1 shed = 10−24 b). The cross section of two particles (i.e. observed when the two particles are colliding with each other) is a measure of the interaction event between the two particles. The cross section is proportional to the probability that an interaction will occur;
The production occurs via the creation of a quark loop, like the triangle shown in the graph on the right. Any quark may run in the loop, but the top quark dominates the proceedings, because quarks couple to the Higgs boson proportionally to their mass squared, and the square of the top quark mass is ten thousand times larger than that of the next-in-line, the bottom quark.
Fiducial cross section, in particle physics experiments, a cross section for the subset of a process in which the distinctive process signatures are visible within the sensitive regions of the detector volume. The definition now commonly means a cross section with kinematic and other selection cuts consistent with the sensitive detector acceptance applied, but in which detector inefficiencies are corrected for within that volume. These corrections are typically derived by applying the fiducial cuts on collections of simulated collision events, with and without detector simulation, and inverting the resulting detector transfer function. Fiducial cross sections are favoured for many purposes because they minimise extrapolation into experimentally invisible phase space, and are hence maximally model-independent.
In theories beyond the SM, the properties of the 125 GeV Higgs boson may not be determined only by a simple scaling of couplings. Instead, the kinematic distributions in the various Higgs production and decay channels may be sensitively modified by BSM (incl. EFT) effects. Fiducial cross sections (FXS), i.e. cross sections, whether total or differential, for specific states within the phase space defined by experimental selection and acceptance cuts, provide a largely model-independent way to test for such deviations in kinematic distributions. In particular, differential FXS are a powerful for scrutinizing the SM Lagrangian structure of the Higgs boson interactions, including tests for new tensorial couplings, non-standard production modes, determination of effective form factors, etc.
The measurement of Higgs FXS was already strongly advocated in Section 6 of On the presentation of the LHC Higgs Results arXiv:1307.5865 . There are, however, several questions to address on both, the experimental and the theoretical sides, for making most out of FXS measurements. On the experimental side these include, for example, the definition of the fiducial volumes and the unfolding procedure. On the theory side, important issues include the precision of Monte Carlo simulations, the expected BSM effects, and whether some BSM effects might affect the unfolding. The aim of this group is to investigate these questions and provide a coherent view of the state of the art in YR4.
2. ww zz bb br
The dip of the ZZ branching ratio - and all other branching ratios except for the WW branching ratio - near 170 GeV is caused by the increase of the total width (decay rate) at those masses. And the total width (decay rate) around 170 GeV increases exactly because the Higgs decays to the WW final states start to become possible. Because the total width goes up, the ratio of a (non-WW) partial width and the total width goes down - and this ratio is what we call the branching ratio.
But I want to emphasize a subtle point: note that in your graph, the branching ratio to WW is nonzero already from Higgs masses at 80 GeV or so. Similarly, the branching ratio to ZZ is nonzero from 90 GeV. How can a 90 GeV Higgs decay to two Z's, each of which has mass close to 90 GeV? Doesn't it violate energy conservation?
The answer is that the graph shows the decays to off-shell particles, not the final states. A Higgs boson may decay to one virtual and one real Z-boson. The virtual particle continues in its decay. To check this hypothesis, note that all decay channels in the graph are composed out of two particles. The actual final states of the decay will often include (many) more than two particles.
When the Higgs mass exceeds two times the mass of the W-bosons, the total width genuinely goes up because there's suddenly a lot of new "phase space" of the final states.
Therefore, around 170 GeV you are below the threshold for ZZ, but above the threshold for WW.
But I also think that this dip tends to be overemphasised on such a graph. First because of the logarithmic scale, and also since the branching ratio is the relative to the full width.
3. why two higgs
As you know, we are search for new particle whose mass was not known, so we will search it at any mass points. Now we found one with 125 GeV, then this particle only has one mass, but we still can search for the other new particles at any mass point.
4. Pileup, luminosity?
Out of time pile-up:
This is due to the superimposition of signals in the detector that come from different bunch crossings (collisions). The most important example is pile-up of calorimeter signals.
In time pile-up:
Particles emerging from "secondary" vertices constitutes pile-up signals to the interesting event within the same bunch crossing. All the tracks, the energy deposit in the calorimeter of those particle is a source of in time pile-up. A direct measure of the in time pile-up contribution to the event is the number of reconstructed vertices in the event (all the vertices with at least two tracks).
More collision energy means more pileup interactions; these occur when our detector can not distinguish between two separate collision events and thus considers them part of the same collision. We need to disentangle the pileup contribution to look at the real single collision event, and while a lot of work has been done in this direction, an increase in pileup is always a cause for concern. However, as someone working closely with Monte-Carlo tuning and production, I know firsthand how big of an issue this is going to be for us.
Pile-up occurs when the readout of a particle detector includes information from more than one primary beam particle interaction - these multiple interactions are said to be "piling-up".
The LHC has had it's instantaneous luminosity increase to a point where they are getting many collisions per bunch crossing which complicates the job of the trackers in finding the vertices of all the events. They will use luminosity levelling to reduce the lumi at the beginning of the run by changing the crossing angle at the interaction points to reduce pileup when the beams are fresh then slowly bring the beams tighter as they loose protons to collisions and collimation to keep the number of interactions relatively constant over the length of a run, hopefully improving the amount of time taking data verses set up.
Pile-up occurs when the readout of a particle detector includes information from more than one primary beam particle interaction - these multiple interactions are said to be "piling-up". At the LHC design luminosity of 1.0 x 1034 cm-2s-1 pile-up is a major issue for ATLAS detector because the LHC beams will produce an average of 23 interactions each time they cross and the ATLAS detector is sensitive to tracks from more than one bunch crossing (the beams cross every 25 ns). This means that in addition to the hits of the physics event that triggers the detector readout, hits caused by many other interactions are recorded in the readout. The hits from these other interactions are not related to the physics event and represent a serious background. The number of interactions that will occur when the beams cross follows a Poisson distribution with an expected mean value of 23 interactions at design luminosity. The Poisson distribution has a long tail above the most probable value, so a substantial fraction of the bunch crossings will have more than the average number of interactions. The average number of interactions created in a bunch crossing scales linearly with luminosity. For example, at half design luminosity there will be have an average of 11.5 interactions per bunch crossing and at twice design luminosity will be an average of 46. In addition, most of the ATLAS sub detectors are sensitive to tracks produced in bunch crossings both before and after the bunch crossing containing the physics event. The sub detectors vary greatly in how many additional bunch crossings they are sensitive to. In this document the bunch crossings before the crossing containing the physics event are counted as being negative (-1, -2, -3, etc.), the crossing containing the physics event is 0, and the crossings after the physics event are positive (+1, +2, +3, etc.).
This is a pile-up event, in which four separate collisions occurred (vertices at the red dots) when two bunches of LHC protons crossed each other inside ATLAS. There are about 100 billion protons in a bunch, so four collisions is not all that many--except that protons are incredibly small. In fact, most protons miss each other in a bunch crossing. Currently, there are about four million bunch crossings per second and this is being increased the LHC ramps up. Even four collisions per crossing are quite enough for now.
In high-luminosity colliders, there is a non-negligible probability that one single bunch crossing may produce several separate events, so-called pile-up events. This in particular applies to future pp colliders like LHC, but one could also consider e.g. ee colliders with high rates of gamma gamma collisions. The program therefore contains an option, currently only applicable to hadron-hadron collisions, wherein several events may be generated and put one after the other in the event record, to simulate the full amount of particle production a detector might be facing.
In scattering theory and accelerator physics, luminosity is the number of particles per unit area per unit time times the opacity of the target, usually expressed in either the cgs units cm−2 s−1 or b−1 s−1. The integrated luminosity is the integral of the luminosity with respect to time. The luminosity is an important value to characterize the performance of an accelerator.
Rather than continuous beams, the protons will be bunched together, into 2,808 bunches, 115 billion protons in each bunch so that interactions between the two beams will take place at discrete intervals never shorter than25 nanoseconds (ns) apart. However it will be operated with fewer bunches when it is first commissioned, giving it a bunch crossing interval of 75 ns. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#cite_note-commissioning-36][[36]]] The design luminosity of the LHC is 1034 cm−2s−1, providing a bunch collision rate of 40 MHz
5. Br
In particle physics and nuclear physics, the branching fraction for a decay is the fraction of particles which decay by an individual decay mode with respect to the total number of particles which decay. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching_fraction#cite_note-1][[1]]] It is equal to the ratio of the partial decay constant to the overall decay constant. Sometimes a partial half-life is given, but this term is misleading; due to competing modes it is not true that half of the particles will decay through a particular decay mode after its partial half-life. The partial half-life is merely an alternate way to specify the partial decay constant λ, the two being related through:
6. event number.
In particle physics, an event refers to the results just after a fundamental interaction took place between subatomic particles, occurring in a very short time span, at a well-localized region of space. Because of the quantum uncertainty principle, an event in particle physics does not have quite the same meaning as it does in the theory of relativity, in which an "event" is an point inspacetime which can be known exactly, i.e. a spacetime coordinate.
In a typical particle physics event, the incoming particles are scattered or destroyed and up to hundreds of particles can be produced, although few are likely to be new particles not discovered before.
At modern particle accelerators, events are the result of the interactions which occur from a beam crossing inside a particle detector.
Physical quantities used to analyze events include the differential cross section, the flux of the beams (which in turn depends on the number density of the particles in the beam and their average velocity), and the rate and luminosity of the experiment.
Individual particle physics events are modeled by scattering theory based on an underlying quantum field theory of the particles and their interactions. The S-matrix is used to characterize the probability of various event outgoing particle states given the incoming particle states. For suitable quantum field theories, the S-matrix may be calculated by a perturbative expansion in terms of Feynman diagrams. At the level of a single Feynman diagram, an "event" occurs when particles and antiparticles emerge from an interaction vertex forwards in time.
Events occur naturally in astrophysics and geophysics, such as subatomic particle showers produced from cosmic ray scattering events
7. Drell-yan
The Drell–Yan process occurs in high energy hadron–hadron scattering. It takes place when a quark of one hadron and an antiquark of another hadron annihilate, creating a virtual photon or Z boson which then decays into a pair of oppositely-charged leptons. This process was first suggested by Sidney Drell and Tung-Mow Yanin 1970 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drell–Yan_process#cite_note-DrellYan-1][[1]]] to describe the production of lepton–antilepton pairs in high-energy hadron collisions. Experimentally, this process was first observed by J.H. Christenson et al. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drell–Yan_process#cite_note-Christenson-2][[2]]] in proton–uranium collisions at the Alternating Gradient Synchrotron. The Drell–Yan process is studied both in fixed-target and collider experiments. It provides valuable information about the parton distribution functions (PDFs) which describe the way the momentum of an incoming high-energy nucleon is partitioned among its constituent partons. These PDFs are basic ingredients for calculating essentially all processes at hadron colliders. Although PDFs should be derivable in principle, current ignorance of some aspects of the strong force prevents this. Instead, the forms of the PDFs are deduced from experimental data. The production of Z bosons through the Drell–Yan process affords the opportunity to study the couplings of the Z boson to quarks. The main observable is the forward–backward asymmetry in the angular distribution of the two leptons in their center-of-mass frame.
If heavier neutral gauge bosons exist (see Z' boson), they might be discovered as a peak in the dilepton invariant mass spectrum in much the same way that the standard Z boson appears by virtue of the Drell–Yan process.
8. local p0 goes down.
The p-value is the probability of observing data at least as extreme as that observed, given that the null hypothesis is true. is the p-value where the null hypothesis is "the signal is random background noise" and the x-axis is the mass of the Higgs boson.
9. why pp.???
10. Jet
A jet is a narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of aquark or gluon in a particle physics or heavy ion experiment. Because of QCD confinement, particles carrying a color charge, such as quarks, cannot exist in free form. Therefore they fragment into hadrons before they can be directly detected, becoming jets. These jets must be measured in a particle detector and studied in order to determine the properties of the original quark.
In relativistic heavy ion physics, jets are important because the originating hard scattering is a natural probe for the QCD matter created in the collision, and indicate its phase. When the QCD matter undergoes a phase crossover into quark gluon plasma, the energy loss in the medium grows significantly, effectively quenching the outgoing jet.
Caption for Figure B
This plot shows hypothetical data and expectations that could be used in setting the limits shown in Figure A.
The green curve shows (fictional) predicted results if there were a Higgs boson in addition to all the usual backgrounds. It could also represent the predictions of some other new physics. The dashed black curve shows what is expected from all background processes without a Higgs or some new physics. The black points show the hypothetical data.
In this case, the data points are too low to explain the Higgs boson hypothesis (or whatever new physics the green curve represents), so we can rule out that hypothesis.
Nonetheless the data points are higher than the expectations for the background processes. This could yield an excess such as shown on the left in Figure A. There are three possible explanations for this excess:
It is a statistical fluctuation above the expected background processes.
It is a systematic problem due to an imperfect understanding of the background processes.
The excess is due to some different new physics (than that hypothesized) that would predict a smaller excess.
If instead, the black points lay close to the green curve, that could be evidence for the discovery of the Higgs boson (if it were statistically significant).
If the black points lay on or below the dashed black curve (the expected background), then there is no evidence for a Higgs boson and depending on the statistical significance, the Higgs boson might be ruled out at the corresponding mass.
Instead the detectors register all the decay products (the decay signature) and from the data the decay process is reconstructed. If the observed decay products match a possible decay process (known as a decay channel) of a Higgs boson, this indicates that a Higgs boson may have been created. In practice, many processes may produce similar decay signatures. Fortunately, the Standard Model precisely predicts the likelihood of each of these, and each known process, occurring. So, if the detector detects more decay signatures consistently matching a Higgs boson than would otherwise be expected if Higgs bosons did not exist, then this would be strong evidence that the Higgs boson exists.
11 Prompt lepton
Prompt Lepton: Lepton that originates from primary interaction vertex from interesting physics (EWK or BSM)
Fake Leptons include: Leptons from meson decays in Jets Cosmic rays Jets that punch through to the muon chambers
12 Isolation:
Sum of PT of objects in a cone around the lepton divided by the PT of the lepton. Lower values of isolation means that the particle is more isolated.
Muon isolation variables are used to calculate the energy surrounding the muon along its trajectory released from other particles. Those variables are useful for distinguishing muons from hadron decays and muons from decays of resonances. In ATLAS there are two independent approaches, a calorimeter based and a tracking based method, both define a cone around the muon trajectory in which the energy deposit is calculated. Different cone size are available, respectively ΔR < 0.4, 0.3 and 0.2 Calorimeter based muon isolation variable. This represent the sum of the calorimeter cluster energy in a cone around the muon trajectory of the sizes defined above (ET ΔR < 0.X). A narrow core cone is subtracted to take into account the muon energy deposit. Only calorimeter signals 3.6 σ above noise are considered. Track based muon isolation variable.This is the sum of the transverse momenta (PT) of all the tracks in a cone around the muon trajectory (PT ΔR < 0.X ). Tracks are required to have a small impact parameter with respect to the primary vertex and PT > 1 GeV. The first cuts reduces enormously contributions from pile-up vertices tracks.
13 The transverse (d0) and longitudinal (z0) impactparameters
please take the reference of this slide :
https://indico.cern.ch/event/96989/contributions/2124495/attachments/1114189/1589705/WellsTracking.pdf
http://www.hep.lu.se/atlas/thesis/egede/thesis-node81.html
14 Why high pt
It's importance arises because momentum along the beamline may just be left over from the beam particles, while the transverse momentum is always associated with whatever physics happened at the vertex.
That is, when two protons collide, they each come with three valence quarks and a indeterminate number of sea quarks and gluons. All of those that don't interact keep speeding down the pipe (modulo Fermi motion and final state interaction).
But the partons that react do so on average{*} at rest in the lab frame, and so will on average spray the resulting junk evenly in every direction. By looking at the transverse momentum you get a fairly clean sample of "stuff resulting from interacting partons" and not "stuff resulting from non-interacting partons".
The collisions of protons are complicated, because the proton has a big mess inside. In order to see simple collisions, you want to find those cases where a single quark or gluon, a single parton scattered off another parton in a nearly direct collision. Such collisions are relatively rare, most proton proton collisions are diffractive collective motions of the whole proton, but every once in a while, you see a hard collision.
The characteristic of a hard collision is that you get particles whose momentum is very far off the beam line direction. This is a "high P_T" event. A high P_T electron usually means that an electrically charged parton (a quark) collided with some other parton, and emitted a hard photon or a Z which then produced an electron and a positron. Alternatively, it could mean that a W boson was emitted by the quark, and this produced an electron and a neutrino. Alternatively, it could be a higher order process in the strong interaction, where two gluons produced a quark-antiquark, and one of the quark lines then emitted an electroweak boson, which decayed leptonically.
The point is that any way it happened, the event indicates that a clean hard collision happened between two partons, and this is a useful indication that the event was an interesting one, which will give useful clues about new physics if similar events are isolated and counted.
The reason P_T is important is because when the actual collision event is a short distance collision dominated by perturbative QCD, the outgoing particles are almost always away from the beam-line by a significant amount. Even in interesting events, when the outgoing particles are near the direction of the beam, it is hard to distinguish this from the much more common case of a near glancing collision, which lead to diffractive scattering.
Diffractive scattering is the dominant mechanism of proton proton scattering (or proton antiproton scattering) at high energies. The cross section for diffractive events are calculated by Regge theory, using the Pomeron trajectory. This type of physics has not been so interesting to physicists since the mid 70s, but more for political reasons. It is difficult to calculate, and has little connection with the field theory you are trying to find. But Regge theory is mathematically intimately related to string theory, and perhaps it will be back in fasion again.
Why is an isolated neutron unstable?
Both protons and neutrons are hadrons consisting of quarks, which are held by gluons. Then how is an isolated proton stable while an isolated neutron isn't?
A free neutron, composed of two down quarks and one up quark, can decay into a proton (two ups and a down), an antineutrino, and an electron through the W- boson, since a down quark is more massive than the resulting up quark.
However, when a neutron is bound in a stable nucleus, the proton that's left behind by this decay finds itself in an extremely positively charged environment, and is not happy to be there. At all. In fact, the extreme energy cost of swapping a proton in for a neutron in the extreme positive charge environment of a nucleus costs more energy than the neutron releases by converting a down quark into an up quark.
Then why aren't all nuclei composed exclusively of neutrons? Well, let's think about a nucleus with two neutrons and no protons. One of the neutrons can freely decay into a proton without seeing any positive charge. It thinks of itself as a free neutron, and decays straight away into a proton, creating deuterium.
Okay, so clearly we can't have just neutrons. We need to have some protons around to keep the other neutrons from wanting to be protons. What if we have one proton and three neutrons?
These cases, some neutrons and some protons, are more complicated because of the energy shell structure of the nucleus and the Pauli exclusion principle forcing protons and neutrons into high energy states, but suffice to say that a neutron in this scenario prefers to decay to a proton, not remain a neutron, thus creating helium-4. The repulsion of a single extra proton is not sufficient to counteract the neutron's natural inclination to decay, combined with the Pauli exclusion principle forcing the third neutron into a higher energy state, whereas a second proton could sit in the lowest energy state.
I hope I've convinced you that it's a non-trivial question whether it's "better" for a neutron in a given nucleus to decay to a proton or not. We need enough protons around to "convince" the neutrons that it's better not to decay.
So why can't a free proton decay? Well, there are no baryons lighter than the proton, so the proton, if it decays, must do so in a way that converts two quarks to an antilepton and antiquark or something equally bizarre (notice the potential for an attractive matter/antimatter asymmetry explanation). No interactions that can accomplish this are known to exist.
A proton in a nucleus can decay, because the huge electromagnetic repulsion can make it more favorable for a proton to convert to a neutron than to endure the enormous repulsion. In this case, we just run the above diagram in reverse, swapping the W- for a W+, the electron for a positron, and the antineutrino for a neutrino.
Because in case of a neutron there exists a lower-energy state (it is the state consisting a proton, an electron, and an antineutrino), into which it can decay without violation of any conservation laws. In case of a proton no such state exists - proton is the lightest barion, so any decay into lighter particles would have to violate the barion number conservation.
Strictly speaking we are not sure that the barion number is conserved in all processes, and therefore we are not sure, that proton is completely stable. We know however, that it if decays, its lifetime must be very long (well over 1030 years), therefore the eventual barion number violating interactions must be very weak at the energies we are observing.
Overview of jet energy calibration at the LHC
The purpose of the jet energy calibration is twofold. First, the energy scale of reconstructed jets does not correspond to the truth-particle jetenergy scale (JES),defined as the energy of jets built from all stable Monte Carlo particles from the hard interaction only, including the underlying event (UE) activity. A dedicated jet energy calibration is then needed to calibrate, on average, the reconstructed jet energy to that of the corresponding truth-particle jet. The energy scale calibration needs to also correct for the e ect of pileup. Second, the jet energy calibration has to bring the energy scale of jets in data and simulation to the same footing.
Overlap Removal
'Overlap removal' summarises two aspects of the object selection that are similar in their implementation but are performed for different reasons. One of the aspects is the removal of objects that are overlapping due to a double counting of objects by the reconstruction algorithms. In this case only one of the two objects is an actual object while the other is an artefact of the reconstruction mechanism. This concerns electrons and jets, that are both reconstructed as jets by the jet algorithms. Therefore, any
jet that is found to be closer than DR(e;jet)<0: 2 to an electron after applying the object selection criteria is discarded. It can also happen that an electron is erroneously reconstructed twice. In order to reject the second electron, whenever two electrons are found within DR(e1;e2)<0:1, the electron with the lower energy is discarded
The other aspect is the spatial separation of two objects. Leptons can arise from the semileptonic decay of b or c quarks inside a jet. These leptons should in general be re-
jected by the isolation requirements, but a sizeable contribution of leptons inside jets passing the isolation requirements can be seen. Electrons and muons are thus required to be separated from jets by more than DR(lep;jet) =0:4. Muons and electrons are also seen to overlap in the detector when a muon emits bremsstrahlung and the resulting photon is misidentified as an electron. Both objects are rejected in this case if they overlap within DR(μ;e)<0:1 as both are likely to be badly reconstructed.
Trigger matching
For plots shown in Figure 2 so called trigger matching was applied. This procedure drops electrons which did not trigger the event, e.g. gammas that were misidentified
as electrons during the reconstruction process. The idea is to match offline electrons to trigger objects with pTover given trigger threshold using minimization of the ∆R distance, defined by Equation 2. Only offline electrons with a trigger object matched in ∆R <0.2 cone were considered.One can see the effect of the trigger matching in Figure 3. After applying trigger matching there is no artifact in the low-pT region that is caused by fake electrons. The efficiency in general is a little bit lower, but comparing the mean plateau efficiencies the efficiencies are the same when taking into account the statistical uncertainity (without trigger matching (0.993 ± 0.005), with trigger matching (0.992 ±0.005)).
QCD Background
In simple terms QCD as a "background" usually refers to LHC research where hadronic jets create a lot of particles that clutter up the results you're trying to see. I think it has become a slang term and the use is discouraged.
ABCD method is a tool used to separate the particles of interest (signal) from the "other stuff" (background) made by the jets. It is a set of boundaries that relies on the fact that you have two independent distributions to distinguish between signal and background. See section 5.3 here http://dare.uva.nl/document/221955
CalibrationDataInterface (CDI)
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/BTaggingCalibrationDataInterface#Basic_interface
he Asimov data set
To estimate median value of -2lnλ(μ), consider special data set where all statistical fluctuations suppressed and ni,mi are replaced by their expectation values (the "Asimov" data set):
The name of the Asimov data set is inspired by the short story Franchise, by Isaac Asimov [1]. In it, elections are held by selecting a single voter to represent the entire
electorate.
The "Asimov" Representative Data-set for Estimating Median Sensitivities with the
Profile Likelihood G. Cowan, K. Cranmer, E. Gross , O. Vitells
[1] Isaac Asimov, Franchise, in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1, Broadway Books, 1990.
A useful element of the method involves estimation of the median significance by replacing the ensemble of simulated data sets by a single representative one, referred to here as the "Asimov" data set.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.1727.pdf
http://e-pepys.livejournal.com/47526.html
22 beam spot
Using charged-particle tracks emerging from pp collisions and measured by the ATLAS Inner Detector we reconstruct vertices on an event-by-event basis within the HLT. The three-dimensional distribution of these vertices reflects that of the luminosity and can be parametrized by a three-dimensional Gaussian whose paramters are sometimes referred to as the luminous ellipsoid, or also as the "beam spot". The coordinates of its luminous centroid determine, in the ATLAS coordinate system, the position of the average collision point; the orientation of the luminous ellipsoid in the horizontal (x-z) and vertical (y-z) planes is determined by the angles and relative transverse sizes of the two beams at the IP; and the transverse and longitudinal dimensions of the luminous region, quantified in terms of the luminous sizes , are related to the corresponding IP sizes of the two beams.
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Anonymous Benefactors Donate Cherished Bridal Jewelry to Support Salvation Army's Efforts
Bridal jewelry donations are making the holiday bright for Salvation Army chapters throughout the country.
The Salvation Army's bell ringing season starts each November and runs through Christmas Eve. While the bulk of donations come in the form of coins and paper money, the most meaningful (and valuable) ones contain a bit of bling.
Earlier this month in Billerica, Mass., an anonymous donor dropped a diamond engagement ring and wedding band into a Salvation Army Red Kettle outside of a local grocery store. The bridal set was valued at $3,500.
"We're excited and incredibly grateful to the individual who made such a generous and kind donation," Major David B. Davis, divisional commander of the Massachusetts Salvation Army, said in a press release. "Our Red Kettles represent the spirit of giving, and this incredible gift will ensure that local children will have a brighter Christmas and that families and seniors will get the resources they need all year round."
The proceeds from the donation will be used to provide services for thousands of children, families and seniors in the local area. This includes meals, toys and other holiday support for those in need, along with funding for food pantries, soup kitchens, social services and education programs.
Last year, we wrote about an anonymous widow, whose donation of her wedding ring and diamond engagement ring in nearby Boston made headlines across the country. The widow included a note that said she was making the donation in honor of her late husband's joy of Christmastime gift giving.
She wrote, "I've dropped my wedding ring in your Red Kettle knowing that the money from its sale will buy toys for needy children. In all seasons, my husband was a giver. I especially remember his joy in giving at Christmastime, especially to those in need. To honor his memory, I donate this ring."
So touched by the widow's generosity, a second benefactor pledged $21,000 to The Salvation Army to have the rings reunited with their original owner.
This year, social media is filled with accounts of bridal jewelry being dropped into Red Kettles across the country. Typically, The Salvation Army will hold the rings for a week or longer, just in case they were dropped into the kettles by mistake.
• In Miami, a frequent Secret Santa and Salvation Army benefactor dropped a platinum and diamond ring appraised at $3,000 into a Salvation Army Red Kettle outside a Winn-Dixie store. The ring was wrapped in a $20 bill and included a note that read, "There are so many who need help. Keep doing good! God bless The Salvation Army. A friend."
This is the sixth year in a row that the anonymous benefactor has contributed valuable items. Previous gifts have included a gold nugget, an emerald and diamond necklace, and a diamond ring. Each year, the Secret Santa leaves a voice mail alerting The Salvation Army to be on the lookout for a special gift.
• In Wilson County, Tenn., an anonymous donor dropped three rings, including a wedding set, into a Salvation Army Red Kettle. The rings were wrapped neatly inside a dollar bill and then placed in a plastic bag. Their combined value was estimated to be $1,100.
• In Fayetteville, N.C., a bell ringer for The Salvation Army was surprised by the sound of an odd "clank" at the bottom of her donation kettle. The items making the unusual sound turned out to be a bridal set, which was later appraised at $1,770.
• In Durham, N.C., an anonymous person placed two crumpled dollar bills into a kettle at a local Walmart. The dollars hid a diamond ring.
• In Sheboygan, Wis., volunteer bell ringers at a Festival Foods found a one-carat diamond ring at the bottom of their Red Kettle. The diamond was wrapped in its original receipt that dated back to 1996. It was purchased at that time for $2,200. Salvation Army representatives are currently having the ring appraised to determine its current value.
Credits: Red Kettle via Facebook/SalvationArmyUSA; screen captures via WCVB.com; ring photos courtesy of Salvation Army.


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Oct 11, 2017 Charity
eBay Announces 'NINJAGO' Lego Charity Auction
With the much-anticipated Lego Ninjago movie making its way onto the silver screen this week (13th October), eBay has teamed up with the UK's most beloved construction toy company for a charity auction in aid of Sebastian's Action Trust, which offers support to families of seriously ill children.
Indeed, with the 'NINJAGO Charity Case', 'Lightning Jet' and 'Water Strider' featured in the film, already set to be high on Christmas lists, Lego has donated one of each of the new toys to the auction via their nominated eBay seller, The Biggest Toy Store. The auction will take place between 12th – 20th October when fans can bid to win and recreate adventures from the movie.
According to the online marketplace sales of Lego have continued to capture the nation's imagination, piecing together to become the UK's third most-wanted item of the past year, with over 4.4 million total searches on site and a peak in November ahead of the Christmas period, with five searches every second[1].
And with more than two 'Lego' related items sold every 30 minutes in the last week[2] alone, the demand lives on so Brits need to bid in it to win it this October.
For more information visit: https://www.ebay.co.uk/rpp/entertainment/ninjago-event
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is a global commerce leader including the Marketplace, StubHub and Classifieds platforms. Collectively, we connect millions of buyers and sellers around the world, empowering people and creating opportunity through Connected Commerce. Founded in 1995 in San Jose, Calif., eBay is one of the world's largest and most vibrant marketplaces for discovering great value and unique selection. In 2016, eBay enabled $84 billion of gross merchandise volume.
[1] Data taken from eBay's Retail Report
[2] Data taken from 14.09.17 – 20.09.17
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In this video we will go chair side with Dr. Brady as she walks us through a joint exam. You will learn how to assess the joint and use those findings to develop a differential diagnosis. Dr. Brady will demonstrate the use of palpation, a stabilization test, a load test, a cotton roll test and doppler auscultation to assess the joint.
Learn how to use joint palpation.
Understand the use of a stabilization test, load test and cotton roll test.
State how to perform doppler auscultation in a joint assessment.
Begin to interpret the findings of the combined assessment.
Dr. Brady demonstrates different palpation techniques to assess the temporal mandibular joint.
Dr. Brady discusses and demonstrates a stabilization test.
Dr. Brady discusses and demonstrates the use of a roll test and an anterior deprogrammer.
Dr. Brady describes why ausculatation of the joint is an important part of joint assessment and then demonstrates the use of a doppler.
This course demonstrates the clinical techniques in completing a muscle and joint examination.
A review of the underling anatomy of the Temporalmandibular joint and how to understand the sounds you hear.
Dr. Brady reviews a step by step technique to fabricate an anterior bite plane appliance.


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Video Review: Blondie "Atomic"
February 2, 2018 January 26, 2018 / by Pam Avoledo
Standing on the porch in the ruins of his neighborhood, a young man stands advertises Blondie's show with a hand painted sign for 25 units. The color on the screen blurs into a watery blend of sea green and blood red while as a second young man gets off his horse.
A singed orange explosion of smoke erupts in a field.
Blondie perform on stage somewhere in the city. Metal squares sway in the center of the stage. Debbie wears a black garbage bag as a jacket. She holds the microphone up as she sings.
A kelly green explosion of smoke erupts in the same field.
People jump and bounce around as they listen to Blondie's music. One young woman wears circular wires around her arms. Debbie moves her arms back and forth as she performs. A second young woman with a bruised eye lifts her hand up, her mouth open in awe. A man wearing a black robot hat joins Debbie on stage.
A tangerine blast goes off in the same field.
The nuclear blast was quick. People huddled inside their basements and closets for shelter, crying and hugging one another. It halved the population of the state within several minutes.
Those who survived rummaged through garbage, hunting for food and whatever objects they could find. The radioactive air caused strange behavior in people. Some people were fascinated with spells. Others wore robot heads, believing they had turned into a mechanical being. Although Blondie were some distance away, they had suffered some side effects. Their movements were choppy and robotic at times.
Nonetheless, metal and garbage bags were being traded in several states as clothes shortages continued. People designed their own outfits with protective rings in order to fight off the burgeoning criminal element. Music was the only reminder of the world that once was.
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Take a look back at the championship round of the 2019 Florida Winter Tour in Ocala, Florida. The event featured Vortex ROK categories, as well as both Vortex/IAME 100cc and Briggs and Stratton LO206.
A number of championships were decided on the final day, which you can read about on our event stream: https://kart360.com/2019/live-fwt-round-3-ocala.
We shortened the race down to only the highlights onboard Brazilian racing icon Rubens Barrichello's NF Sport/Tony Kart.
Highlights from the second round and its return to Miami.
Witness the sights and sounds from South Florida and Hard Rock Stadium.
Brooks and Formal chat after the conclusion of their heat races.
A cinematic look at the Florida Winter Tour Round 2 event.
Experience the atmosphere in Palm Beach at Round 1.


So . . . this is the plan!
Here goes with the first post and I thought I would give you an overview of the plan we are undertaking and an insight in to the planning process . . . or at least our planning process.
We are heading off on the 7th January 2017 first of all stopping in Dubai for a couple of nights to break up the flight lengths and hopefully to minimise any jet-lag for both us and the kids. Then it's on to Bangkok for a few nights again to break up the journey, but we have a few more nights in Bangkok to soak up a bit of local culture. Then it's the big one . . . off to Christchurch in New Zealand.
We are spending around 5 weeks traveling around New Zealand, starting on the South Island and heading (roughly) north and ending in Aukland.
Then it is on to Australia, again for about 5 weeks. We are travelling around from Sydney to Adelaide via Melbourne and a few other places along the way.
At the end of our travels in Australia it is time to head for home . . . but we are not quite done yet. We head to Tokyo first for several nights in the hope of catching the famous Cherry Blossom and then finally home via Dubai again as a pit stop to minimise those flight lengths and jet-lag.
So that is the plan. At the beginning of this post I said I would give an insight in to the planning process, and I would, but if I am really honest, I have done almost none of the planning. This is firmly Averil's domain and something that I find a chore and Averil finds a pleasure . . . so I am more than happy to leave this to her. For that reason I really should let her tell you about the planning preparations.
Hope you enjoy keeping up with our travels . . .


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Consumer Banking in Lima (Peru)
In the theory of economic development, one approach is to invest in large projects or corporations and hope that the benefits in their development will trickle down to the population at large. This would be the rationale for setting up all the maquiladoras that lined up the US-Mexican border where US manufacturers can take advantage of the lower wages paid to the Mexican workers. However, history has shown that the benefits are slow to trickle down. Another approach is to assist small business entrepreneurs through micro-loans to develop their own enterprises, thus creating profits and expansion. While international loan organizations can contribute some capital, the private sector has many more capital assets for this application. However, private banks are reluctant to issue loans unless the applicants are suitably qualified. Therein lies the rub: banks will not issue loans to consumers who do not have tangible assets and/or have established credit histories.
The following article appeared in the Miami Herald on lending practices in Lima, Peru:
That the lack of land titles could play a strong role in discouraging economic development may seem unthinkable in the United States, where stable land registries have existed since the 19th century land rushes. But the lack of clarity over land exists throughout Latin America and is a major contributor to poverty in the region.
Without land titles, poor families cannot obtain mortgages to upgrade their homes, start small businesses or pay for their children's schooling -- the primary means by which most Americans move up the economic ladder.
Without clear land titles, people kill each other in ownership disputes, particularly in rural areas, and governments cannot collect property taxes for badly needed schools or healthcare.
Without land titles, squatters must stay home more often to prevent someone else from seizing their illegal holdings, and their children are less likely to go to school.
And without legal titles to adequate parcels of farm lands, millions of peasants have migrated to Latin American cities, usually ending up in crowded, crime-ridden shantytowns. Handing out land titles as a poverty-fighting measure is the brainchild of Peruvian economic theorist Hernando de Soto, who says that doing so turns ''dead capital'' -- the potential worth of land and home -- into working capital. In 2000, he estimated, Peru had $74.2 billion worth of real estate in dead capital -- twice the total assets of the country's 1,000 largest private firms.
In all, Peru's government awarded nearly 1.4 million urban property titles in Lima and other cities from 1996 through February -- the most ambitious program in Latin America, although it still has nearly a million families to go.
The program has shortcomings. Most commercial banks remain reluctant to lend to shantytown dwellers, thinking they can make little money on micro-loans, said Donald F. Terry, a senior official at the Inter-American Development Bank, which is also helping to put de Soto's theories into practice. Only 14 percent of Saúl Cantoral's residents have used the banking system.
Marcelina Punto said she opted not to seek a loan and instead turned the front part of her home into Saúl Cantoral's only restaurant, waking up at 5 a.m. to sell soup to workers heading out to their jobs and then serving up $1 lunches of soup, broiled chicken, rice and beans. ''It's too risky to borrow money. . . . If you don't make a payment, you can lose your home,'' Punto, 47, said before acknowledging the positive side of having a title. ``We were afraid that any moment we could be kicked out of our home, . . . but now I feel sure that it's my property.''
Hilaria Huallpa, 32, lives down the street from Girón, in a one-room plywood house with a dirt floor, and her three children sleep in a single bed wedged into a corner. She said she can't afford even a small mortgage. ''I'd like to get a loan to fix it up,'' said Huallpa, pregnant with her fourth child. ''But they ask for 700 soles [$202] as a down payment. We could only give 400 to 500 soles.'' Her husband is a street cleaner who earns $115 a month.
Recognizing that commercial mortgages are difficult to obtain, the government's Commission to Formalize Informal Property established a new program that pairs titleholders with lenders that can make small loans at low rates. About 296,000 new titleholders have received a total of $728 million in loans since 2000, a spokeswoman for the agency said. But such amounts are small ''compared to the amount of dead assets,'' de Soto said. Nonetheless, before the government agency came to Saúl Cantoral, 75 percent of its residents lived in cardboard or straw houses. Today, 80 percent of the houses are brick.
We will now cite some survey data from the 2003 TGI Peru study. This is a survey of 3,002 persons between the ages of 12 to 64 years old in Lima, Peru during 2003. For our purposes here, we will restrict ourselves to the subsample of 901 persons who are the heads of their respective household. This is the person who is most likely to have any banking activities in the household (as opposed to the 12-year-old child or the 64-year-old grandmother).
Within this sub-sample, 40.2% of them have a relationship with a bank, which may be anything from savings accounts, checking accounts, ATM cards, debit cards, CDTs, mortgage loans, car loans, student loans, etc. The following chart shows the breakdown by socio-economic level, employment status, occupation, education and a question on financial securitiy (specifically, completely agreeing with the statement "I fell financially secure"). Access to banking is therefore not universal; it is also uneven in the sense that those with financial histories and demonstratable assets have greater access to banking services.
(source: 2003 TGI Peru)
Of all the banking activities, the most popular one is the savings account. Of these survey respondents, 31.8% have one or more savings account at a bank. The following chart shows the breakdown analysis. Since more than three-quarters of banking customers have savings accounts, the pattern here follows the overall bank customers.
The thrust of the Miami Herald article is on the power of the mortgage loan that is secured on real estate property. Amongst these survey respondents, only 1.1% have existing mortgage loans. The breakdown in the next chart shows that it is in fact much more exclusive than bank access or savings account. Access to mortgage loans through the private sector is still quite limited at this point.


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Cards lose thriller to Clemson
Louisville's last-minute drive stalls at Clemson 3-yard line
Cards lose thriller to Clemson Louisville's last-minute drive stalls at Clemson 3-yard line Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/2dxLlqS
Steve Jones, @stevejones_cj Published 12:12 a.m. ET Oct. 2, 2016 | Updated 8:52 a.m. ET Oct. 2, 2016
Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson speaks following the 42-36 loss to Clemson. Scott Utterback/CJ
Clemson celebrates after picking off Louisville's Lamar Jackson. Oct. 1, 2016(Photo: Scott Utterback/ CJ)Buy Photo
CLEMSON, S.C. - The University of Louisville's rapid rise toward the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference was put to a sudden halt, 42-36, Saturday night by third-ranked Clemson, a defending league champion that showed no willingness to relinquish its reign.
Lamar Jackson's fourth-and-12 completion to James Quick with 33 seconds left came up one yard short of a first down at Clemson's 3-yard line as the Tigers prevailed in a thriller that surely will rank among the best games in college football this season.
Deshaun Watson threw five touchdown passes, including a 31-yarder to Jordan Leggett with 3:14 left, to help Clemson rally from a nine-point fourth-quarter deficit, and the crowd rushed the field after the final whistle.
"That's a tough loss," said U of L coach Bobby Petrino, whose Cards rallied from an 18-point halftime deficit before giving up their own late lead. "I'm very proud of our team and the way we competed, how we came back in the second half. There were a lot of guys out there who were out there were really playing very, very hard. We got back in the game, took the lead then weren't able to finish it. It's a real tough loss, but we'll come back, though. We'll be all right."
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Playing before a raucous, hostile crowd of 83,362 at Death Valley, fourth-ranked U of L made more mistakes than it had all season – three turnovers and 11 penalties, including a false start before that final fourth down – and saw its high-powered offense challenged by Clemson's big athletic defensive front.
Still, Louisville (4-1, 2-1 ACC) rallied from a 28-10 halftime deficit to take a 36-28 lead midway through the fourth quarter. But a long Artavis Scott kickoff return set up a quick Clemson touchdown, and Watson later connected with Leggett on the go-ahead score and two-point conversion.
Louisville scored the 26 straight points behind a brilliant second half from Jackson, who ran for 125 of his 162 yards and two touchdowns and threw for 184 of his 295 yards with another score. Excluding yards he lost on Louisville's season-high five sacks, Jackson had 184 rushing yards.
"It's a shame we came up a yard short," Petrino said, "because I thought he did a great job of leading and competing, and I thought it elevated the guys around him."
Down 42-36, Louisville's offense drove 72 yards but stalled in Clemson territory at game's end for the third season in a row.
Louisville now is behind the 8-ball in its hopes of winning the Atlantic Division. Thanks to North Carolina's victory over Florida State, Clemson could lose to FSU later this month and still hold a head-to-head tiebreaker over the Cards. U of L will have to run the table and hope Clemson loses two league games.
The Cards' chances to make the College Football Playoff are not dead, but they're clearly diminished by the defeat.
Louisville still will have a chance for a high-profile victory against Houston on Nov. 17, and an 11-1 U of L team could have a case for a playoff berth. But given the position of Clemson, as well as any Coastal Division contenders, it's not likely Louisville be the first choice among ACC teams and might have to hope the selection committee takes two from the league.
"We've got a lot of games left," Petrino said. "Obviously we had a very difficult schedule, playing two of the best teams in the conference (Florida State and Clemson) in back-to-back conference games. So what we need to do is just come back and regroup. We do have a bye, so that will help us, but then we play on a Friday night (Oct. 14 against Duke). I'm proud of how our guys handled it, preparing and getting ready for the schedule that we were presented with.
Death Valley was rocking at the outset, and the noise surely contributed to a slow start for the Cards. They were flagged for false starts on the first two snaps of the game and then a third time on U of L's second possession.
In their first four games, Louisville never failed to score on either its first or second possession. Against Clemson, the Cards started with unsuccessful drives of negative-5, 18 and 2 yards.
But U of L's defense and a couple long punts by Mason King kept Clemson's offense at bay to start. The Tigers punted on their first three series, and U of L broke through on the Cards' fourth.
Brandon Radcliff and Jackson had back-to-back long runs, and Jackson hit Cole Hikutini for a 28-yard gain down to Clemson's 1-yard line on the final play of the first quarter. Jeremy Smith plowed in after that for the touchdown and 7-0 lead.
Gallery | Cards lose to Clemson 42-36
Louisville loses to Clemson 42-36. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Lamar Jackson celebrates with his team after rushing for a touchdown. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Clemson's Artavis Scott celebrates after scoring a touchdown. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Clemson celebrates after picking off Louisville's Lamar Jackson. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Khalil Hunter celebrates after a Cards touchdown. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Jeremy Smith powers in for a touchdown. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Clemson fans go crazy after the Tigers score another touchdown against Louisville. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Jamari Staples tries to catch a deep ball while Clemson's Cordrea Tankersley defends. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Jamari Staples takes off his helmet in disbelief that no flag was thrown for pass interference. Oct. 1, 2016] Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Jamari Staples gets flagged for taking off his helmet after a play. Oct. 1, 2016] Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's James Quick with the touchdown. Oct. 1, 2016] Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Cole Hikutini makes a big gain after the catch against Clemson's Marcus Edmund. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Lamar Jackson splits Clemson defenders to score a touchdown. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Lamar Jackson gets ready to make a move on Clemson's Jadar Johnson. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Clemson's Jadar Johnson breaks up a pass intended for Louisville's Reggie Bonnafon. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's Lamar Jackson looks to pass down the field. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Louisville's James Quick is just short of the first down against Clemson's Marcus Edmund. Oct. 1, 2016 Scott Utterback/ CJ
Turnovers by Louisville gave the Tigers a chance to pounce.
After Jaire Alexander saved a Clemson touchdown with an interception in the end zone, U of L appeared to have momentum as it started driving. But Jackson failed to handle a shotgun snap – Bobby Petrino's displeasure with Tobijah Hughley afterward indicated it was a mistake by the center – and Clemson recovered at midfield. Two plays later, Watson threw a 33-yard touchdown pass to Deon Cain, who'd gotten behind the U of L secondary.
Then there was another rapid succession of turnovers. Jackson was intercepted at midfield on a long third-and-long throw. Then Watson fumbled it away right back to Louisville. Then Radcliff fumbled it right back away when he appeared to accidentally run into his own man.
After a pass interference flag on Louisville, Wayne Gallman ran for a 24-yard touchdown.
The Cards had to punt, and Watson and Cain struck again on a 37-yard TD, giving Clemson a 21-7 lead and Louisville its first dose of real adversity this season.
Louisville responded with a drive before half that resulted in a 26-yard field goal by Blanton Creque. It was a chippy atmosphere as both teams were flagged for personal fouls during the series. On another play, Clemson linebacker Ben Boulware appeared to keep his arm wrapped around Jackson's neck after tackling him.
The Tigers raced back down the field rapidly, going 73 yards in four plays and 26 seconds as Watson capped it with a 5-yard TD pass to Artavis Scott for a 28-10 lead.
The halftime score and statistics were a stunning reversal from the Cards' fortunes in the first month of the season when they built huge leads in every game.
After Louisville allowed only seven total tackles for loss and three sacks in the first four games, Clemson's defense recorded seven negative plays, including four sacks in the first half alone.
Clemson racked up 28 points and 250 total yards in the second quarter, and Louisville dug a hole by having nine penalties for 94 yards and turning it over three times.
"It was a very good football game," Petrino said. "Somebody had to win, and somebody had to lose. I wish we were the one that came out with the win."
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Wolfowitz Resignation Deal in the Works
Steve Clemons - April 30, 2007
Behind the scenes of the gladiatorial battle that will take place between Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank Board today are efforts by his lawyer, Robert Bennett, and the Bank staff to negotiate terms of Wolfowitz's departure.
According to some insiders, Wolfowitz wants "some acknowledgment" of the Bank Board's complicity in the messy circumstances surrounding his and Shaha Riza's situation.
Secondly, allegedly on June 1st, Wolfowitz becomes eligible for some large financial bonus — for performance and time on the job. One estimate puts this figure at about $400,000. Wolfowitz wants to make sure those funds are credited to his private bank account before saying farewell to an institution that has come to despise him.
Both sides have threatened each other with slow, painful, drip-drip approach to the release of damaging information that each side has about the other.
One blast in the battle are revelations that it costs the Bank a whopping $5 million per year to pay for Wolfowitz's security detail. Others have told me of Wolfowitz's failure to discipline aide Kevin Kellems for equally whopping violations of Bank protocol — particularly while traveling on Bank business.
Wolfowitz is angry at the Bank at all those other than his closest spear-carriers. At one level, he does not want to resign and wants to tear the World Bank apart by forcing escalation in this war. But others — particularly Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson — have made it clear behind the scenes that a negotiated outcome that saves some face for Wolfowitz will give all sides an opportunity to push what one Paulson insider calls "the reset button."
What's up with Andrew Young's Groveling for Wolfowitz?
Wolfowitz on Trial Today


My 10-ingredient PROBAR hack is a big hit in our house. Have any of you tried a batch of your own? I've been experimenting with different ingredients and ratios and I must share this version – Dark Chocolate Sea Salt & Fig Bars. The salty-sweet comination is a winner!
Salty sweet whole food fuel for a fraction of the price.
Preheat oven to 350F and lightly grease or line a 9" x 7" baking dish with parchment paper.
Soak dates and figs in a bowl of water.
Grind flax seeds in coffee grinder.
Combine almonds, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, oats into a food processor. Pulse until almonds are mostly chopped in quarters. Pour the mixture into a large mixing bowl.
Combine dates and figs into the food processor. Process until the mixture turns into a paste.
Add fruit mixture and brown rice syrup to the large mixing bowl. Mix until brown rice syrup is evenly distributed to bind all ingredients together. I've found that this step is best done with your hands!
Firmly press mixture into pan/baking dish.
When cool, cut into bars.
Looks great, but where to buy Brown Rice Syrup in St. Louis area?
Whole Foods sells brown rice syrup. You'll find it in a jar near other sweeteners like honey and maple syrup. I have seen it at Schnuck's before too. Come back to let us know if you make the bars!
I've tried making energy bars several times and they have never turned out anywhere near this good. This recipe is a winner. Well done Team Dice!
Ross – thanks for the awesome feedback. I felt the same way about homemade bars before I made these, too. Glad you like them!
Hi! Is it possible to substitute honey for brown rice syrup? I'm having some trouble finding it. Worried though that honey will make the bars too sticky/difficult to eat. Either way, I'm looking forward to trying the recipe! Thanks!
Hi Alison! It should work, but will probably require less honey than the amount of brown rice syrup it calls for. We'd suggest adding half the amount and slowly increasing from there as needed until a sticky (but not too sticky) mixture forms.
Thank you! I think I'm going to make a batch today!
-while choc. chips and sea salt are listed as ingredients, it is never stated when to add them. Fairly easy to figure out, but could be helpful.
Hi Laura! Thanks for the feedback. And great questions.
Yes, drain the fig/date mixture. Add the chocolate chips in step 6 with the fruit mixture. Sprinkle the sea salt on top after you press them into the pan in step 7. Hope that helps.
Enjoy your time on the trail – we love hiking in CO.


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Sex Column: Going for the 'DO'
By Marshal Staggs Apr 13, 2009 12:00 AM
The female orgasm is a topic that I think should never be closed for discussion. So when I received a set of DVDs to review from a sex research company that had read my column about the female orgasm, I was excited to see another take on the subject
The Welcomed Consensus has been around for about 15 years and puts out several videos about female masturbation and the female orgasm. They sent me instructional videos about the three-minute orgasm, which can be achieved simply by taking three minutes to relax and allowing yourself to experience pleasure. The concept they introduce, the deliberate orgasm, is not so much a specific technique as it is a philosophy, consisting of focusing on pleasurable and sensual activities.
After a quick and essential anatomy lesson, the first video ("A 3 Minute Orgasm: Introducing the Deliberate Orgasm") gives a demonstration of how the deliberate orgasm (or DO) can be achieved through direct stimulation. In a lot of sexual encounters, people are so eager to rush to the sex that they sometimes forget that orgasm can be reached quickly if you concentrate on it, and this video shows how that's possible.
The first video also gives an interesting redefinition of the word orgasm, which focuses not on the climax, but the idea of stimulation to achieve any kind of sexual pleasure. Adjusting the definition is a helpful idea, if only to take the stress off climax and allow women to enjoy non-orgasmic sexual pleasure.
The second video, "Orgasm at the First Touch," delves deeper into the concepts introduced in the first video. It also features a discussion of the history of research about the female orgasm, which contained a lot of great information. There is another demonstration of a different technique and testimonials from couples about how they've used it to increase their sexual pleasure.
I have only one complaint and it pertains to the demonstrations. Although the narrator of the video refers them to as clinical demonstrations, they seemed to lack too much emotion. I would have gotten a better idea about what techniques the woman in the video was receiving pleasure from if she had been more vocal. However, the demonstrations get their point across very well, so they achieve the objective they set out for.
Overall, these videos were very informative. The Welcomed Consensus also sells several different videos about female masturbation, which (judging by the quality of the videos I saw) would probably be helpful for women who were nervous about the subject or wanted to learn how to do it better.
But back to the female orgasm, The Welcomed Consensus approaches the subject through an engaging lens and their videos would be helpful to anyone who wants to learn more about it.
Check out The Welcomed Consensus' Web site at www.welcomed.com to find these videos and more.
This article appeared in the April 13, 2009 issue of the Hatchet.
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The British Standard Institute (BSI) has published the long-awaited amended version of the construction industry standard qualification questionnaire, PAS 91:2013.
PAS 91:2013+A1:2017 is now available to download free from the BSI shop - click here to download.
The amendments have been made to ensure that the PAS aligns with new legislation, in particular the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
The publication of PAS 91:2013+A1:2017 is a welcome development in the procurement of works contracts.
Prior to publication of PAS 91:2013+A1:2017 contracting authorities were required to "pick and mix" from the standard Selection Questionnaire and PAS 91:2013, to produce a standard selection/pre-qualification document for procuring works contracts. This was because PAS 91:2013 was out of date. In particular, it still referred to the grounds for exclusion set out in the 2006 Public Contracts Regulations and it was not aligned with the requirements of the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD). Guidance issued by Crown Commercial Service confirmed that contracting authorities should use Parts 1 and 2 of the Standard Selection and relevant selection questions from PAS 91:2013, pending updating of PAS 91:2013.
PAS 91:2013+A1:2017 is an updated version more closely aligned with the standard Selection Questionnaire and ESPD. Updating has included amendments to questions about supplier identity and financial information which reflect the approach of Part 1 of the SQ. New tables, for use by public sector purchasers, list the mandatory and discretionary grounds for exclusion set out in the 2015 Public Contracts Regulations with suppliers required to self-declare compliance.
The intention appears to be that PAS 91:2013+A1:2017 is used as the standard questionnaire for procurement of works contracts over the relevant thresholds, without the need to mix and match with the standard Selection Questionnaire published by Crown Commercial Service.
The foreword to PAS 91:2013+A1:2017 states that "Its use in relation to procurement for works contracts (including the procurement of supplies and services subject to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and needed in relation to the works) in the scope of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 is confirmed in a Procurement Policy Note issued by the Crown Commercial Service in November 2017." (our emphasis).
We have not yet been able to track down this PPN but we assume it is in the pipeline.
If you would like any more information please contact Emily Heard or a member of the Procurement Team.


Today was supposed to be Melissa's very first post all about helping us get our homes organized. Unfortunately, Melissa has had a family emergency and cannot be with us today so I'm going to take over the spot of "organizing guru" and share with you some great sites around the web to help you get organized.
You should be able to find loads of fantastic organizing ideas from these great blogs. Melissa should be back next week to help you in your quest for organization.


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Conditions We Treat Our Technology and Expertise Preparing For Your Visit Our Experts Research and Clinical Trials Residencies and Fellowships Making an Appointment Contact Us
UPMC's Endocrine program is nationally recognized for clinical and basic research.
Our work has been reported in the following journals: Surgical Oncology, Thyroid, Advances in Surgery, Surgery, World Journal of Surgery, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Oncogene, and Neoplasia.
We have ongoing clinical research projects in detection of MEN syndromes, radiologic evaluation of adrenal tumors, and improvement of obstructive sleep apnea symptoms after thyroidectomy for goiter.
Our extensive prospective parathyroid database includes more than 2500 patients with parathyroid disease.
For Patients:
Our mission is to develop new treatments for cancer. We currently have seven full-time and ten part-time basic research faculty within the Division of Surgical Oncology working to develop novel therapies for cancer. This includes the development of biologic therapies (immunotherapy, gene therapy) for cancer.
Many exciting advances in this field have come from within the division. The division is ideally structured to translate our basic research findings in to the clinics.
Our active clinical practices yield numerous instances where standard therapies are inadequate. In these cases patients are encouraged to consider clinical trials of novel therapies.
You may be asked to participate in these trials during your appointments.
For Clinicians and Other Health Care Providers:
The principal theme of our overall research involves defining the underlying immunobiology of cancer in order to design and implement more effective preventive, adjunctive and therapeutic clinical regimens. With these objectives in mind, our efforts in research are comprehensive.
Effective use of cytokines in the biologic therapeutics, implemented either as recombinant proteins applied systemically or via gene therapy applied locally are studied intensely. Likewise, considerable efforts are invested in the development of vaccines that are capable of stimulating cellular anti-tumor immunity.
Much of our research is also focused on delineating mechanisms of immune-mediated killing of tumor cells and means by which tumors may evade immune clearance. In aggregate, these investigative conclusions help us to define important elements of combinational cancer therapies that we currently believe will prove most effective in the clinical setting.
Translational research in the Division of Surgical Oncology is well supported by numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute, as well as by a number of investigator-initiated grants from private foundation and industry.
For further information regarding individual research, please call 412-383-8603.


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The course details the hardware implementation of the STR91x microcontrollers.
The course focuses on the low level programming of the ARM966 CPU.
Practical labs on integrated peripherals are based on I/O functions provided by ST.
Note that ACSYS does not sell emulation probes and IDEs. Consequently this course has not been designed to convince attendees to buy a particular IDE. The unique objective consists in providing sufficient knowledge to attendees so that they can successfully design a system based on STR9.
This course has been delivered several times to companies developing embedded systems, such as industrial equipments.
This course provides an overview of the ARM966 core. Our course reference cours R1 - ARM7/9 implementation details the operation of this core.


Deputy Constable Charles Stanner and Deputy Constable Robert Brown were shot and killed from ambush at a dance hall approximately three miles west of Brownsville.
He was speaking to a patron outside of the dance hall when several men appeared and opened fire on him from behind, shooting him 14 times. The men then shot and fatally wounded Deputy Constable Stanner as he came to assist.
Deputy Constable Brown died after being taken to Mercy Hospital. Deputy Constable Stanner succumbed to his wounds five days later.
A suspect in their murders was arrested on June 16th, 1929. He confessed to being paid 15 pesos to murder Deputy Constable Brown. He plead guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Deputy Constable Stanner was survived by his wife.


We live in a broken world, Lord.
we are the cause of this brokenness.
There is hate and there is fear.
There is anger and there is guilt.
There is injustice and there is shame.
each of us a child of God, your child, made in your image.
And we thank you for your gift of grace.
we ask that you guide us back to your teachings.
we ask that you open our hearts with compassion.
each of us is a child of God, your child, made in your image.
Our world is broken, and yet there is still joy in the world.
We are not a hopeless people.
for our justification by your grace through our faith in you.
by sharing your love and showing us how to live.
feed the hungry, tend to the sick and comfort the grieving.
especially be with those we know are in pain or in need of healing.
knowing that we are each made in your image.
we lift up our hearts to you, God.
we ask you to be with us, Gracious God.
just as the sound of rushing water calms our senses.
we ask that you quiet our anxious thoughts.
so do we place our trust in you.
we ask you to open our hearts to you and to your teachings.
to understand their story and their needs.
as they are and as we are.
give us the strength to follow her example.
the obstacles before us that keep us from peace and justice.
remind us of the midwives who followed your teachings.
putting their needs and their safety last, trusting in you.
we lift up to you those among us in need of special support and care.
Help us to see those among us who we have not named.
because of our false assumptions and misunderstandings.
Open our hearts, our eyes and our ears to those around us, Gracious God.
As your followers, we ask that you use us to fulfill your plan here on earth.
Gracious God, we cling to you and we fight you.
but we also wrestle with having to follow them.
when you told us to love one another as we love ourselves.
to find hope and grace in your spiritual salvation.
Ok, maybe you really did mean it.
Give us the strength to really follow in your teachings.
But you don't let go. You hold onto us tightly.
you receive us with favor and grace.
Your embrace shelters us and protects us.
Don't let us go. Continue to hold onto us.
Open our hearts to your teachings and guidance.
Open our eyes to see your image in the faces of those around us.
As each new dawn appears, use us that day to fulfill your plan here on earth.
In our world today, we allow little things to divide us.
Remind us that we are your community.
to love one another as we would want to be loved.
help us to hold tight to your teachings.
to those among us who are hurting and in need of healing and comfort.
that you also celebrate our joys and good news.
Through your embrace, give us the strength to really follow in your teachings.
We thank you for never letting go of us.
to use us to fulfill your plan here on earth.
Jacob cheated his brother and then was deceived by Laban.
We confess we sometimes work in ways that serve our own self interests.
we know that we should work for the good of all.
to be faithful and to act in peace with one another.
Gracious God, work with us and use us to fulfill your plan here on earth.
We ask that you work with us to build and reinforce your community.
those who believe as we do and those who hold different beliefs.
to provide justice for all.
and help us to share our best with others.
each of us deeply loved and uniquely cherished.
As your children, we ask that you shape us and mold us.
Make us the people you want us to be.
Give us the strength and the wisdom to make the right choices.
and strength. We ask that you be with _____.
Gracious God, we trust in your promises.
We ask that you be with us and fill our hearts with your peace.
We ask that you be with us and open our eyes to your plans.
We ask that you be with us and open our ears to the cries to those around us.
to build this world into your world.


Cultural barriers: Many finance departments are dominated by different cultural groups. This can make any operational and structural improvements tricky to implement out.
Avoiding confrontation. Some Finance Heads don't want to challenge the owners or CEO for additional budget to improve processes in the finance function. Simply satisfied with just maintaining.
Resistance to Change. "Its always been done like this so why change it?" . Lack of awareness in technological advancements in invoice processing and being unaware of potential savings they offer.
Time and Resources: "I don't have the time and human resources available to execute a finance improvement project…" In fact, its through automation that Finance Heads will be able to free up more time and human resource.
How does our market leading Invoice Processing solution work?
All invoices are instantly captured from a variety of mediums (Email, Fax, Mobile, Web, Scanner, Disk, etc.) when they first come into the business. A digital image of the invoice is created, which immediately reduces paper circulating around the office and is then stored to your ECM or Backend system.
The Capture software reads and automatically extracts the supplier name, Purchase order number, the total amount, the invoice number and line items of the invoice. No manual entry required.
After the AP clerk has validated the batch of invoices, the extracted invoice information is then sent to your existing ERP or Accounts Payable Application. (SAP, Oracle, MS Dynamics, etc.) Software we provide has full integration, even with In-house AP solutions.
This solution also provides Finance Department Heads with excellent visibility and control tools such as Spending approval limits, Approval hierarchies, segregation of duties and Audit Trails.
Increasing ACCURACY and SPEED. For many companies, the current Accounts Payable (AP) system is very labour intensive, slow and prone to human error. Errors in invoice entry and misplaced invoices cause late payments, incorrect payments and duplicate payments. AP automation can resolve this.
Decreasing COST. Comprehensive studies have shown that the ROI (Return on Investment) on our Invoice ans AP automation process can be achieved within 2 years. Unnecessary overstaffing within a function and continual correcting of human error costs money, which most companies are looking to avoid.
Eliminate the PAPER heavy process that exist. Many companies in the region still have heavy reliance on paper and sending invoices all over the office for approval. This can be easily changed by simply reviewing and approving the invoice online. Making a move towards a Paperless office.
Improved STAFF morale and EFFICIENCY. Current Accounts Payable staff will receive training on the automated AP solution and will learn new skills. Reporting tools within the solution help management monitor invoice processing better.


I learnt this title of Jesus very early on in my life as a Christian – probably before I associated it with this Scriptural passage. As an altar server I'd not only hear the phrase "Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, have mercy on us" at every Sunday mass I attended but also at the weekday masses where I'd serve during the school holidays. The liturgical sequence, is used in many churches before the distribution of Holy Communion. We have it in Rejoice and Sing at 14, 15 and 16 and it's in the Church of Scotland's Church Hymnary 4 at 653. For me, therefore, it's a title I associate with the reception of Holy Communion.
The editor of John's Gospel probably associated the title with Jesus' sacrificial death. Mute as lamb before its shearers Jesus didn't argue with Pilate, or Herod, and accepted all that was to follow. Calvin argued that before all eternity Jesus chose to offer himself for our sins and so this title has something to do with his death on the Cross.
In Revelation, however, there are 29 references to a Lion like Lamb that is slain but stands. The writer here clearly is associating the Lamb with the resurrected Christ.
So this title has layers of meaning – Jesus who accepted his unjust trial, torture and death knowing that in doing so he broke the power of evil; the risen Christ who defeated death and sin; the Christ who gathers us to himself in bread and wine when we share in Communion together.