Chapter 3 - The White Bear - "40 – The Six Guardians"
Jar-eels shadow reminds me of Wakboth on the plates.
Belintar is also in big trouble, and it is amazing that the red "shadow" of Jar-eel causes no alarm for him. Seemingly Harrek is such a consuming threat that the impending opportunity attack by the Razoress is masked (I'll admit to rampant speculation). Perhaps Belintar could take the White Bear, but I don't think we can ever know given what looks like some impending Lunar intervention.
This is gorgeous. Very inspiring!
I guess by calling on all the elements, Jar-eel manages to get real close to Belintar when he is most vulnerable.
Who are the 6 guardians?
But dunno. Maybe they are something much more deep that my pity knowledge dosen´t grasp.
¡Stop your moaning about the Lunar heroine: Jar-eel! You Orlanthis always shouting and making noises… ITS ALL YOUR FAULT. But anyway: we are all US.
Wow, I REALLY hope we get all of these plates in their orginal, non-word-ballooned state someday. Beautiful.
The wee "Chuck Berry" spirit on Belintar's arm is looking a bit agitated as well.
I recently discovered Price of Sartar and now I've caught up. Wow. This is amazing. The artwork all along is beautiful. I love the way that it looks elegant but simple at first, and then as you look closer you see more and more detail. Fantastic. Great work Kalin!
Gorgeous page! Splendid artwork! I've been delaying looking until there was a whole bunch to see at once, but the richness of the work is letting me spend a long time enjoying all the small touches.
I know I am late to comment, but while I am not that keen on the artistic style of this comic in the character-heavy panels or action scenes, when it comes to mythological beings and powers this comic is one of the best, most awe-inspiring things I have seen!
Wouldn't "I call upon the Mer-people to scuttle their boats" be slightly more appropriate?
Although a good in principle, Harrek as the Polar Bear God can swim… ?
Just wanted to comment that the art is marvelous and wondrous. Great work!


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El tambor akan es un tambor que se fabricó en África Occidental y luego se encontró en la colonia de Virginia en América del Norte. Ahora es el objeto afroamericano más antiguo del Museo Británico y posiblemente el más antiguo que sobrevive en cualquier lugar. El tambor es un recordatorio de la participación de los tres continentes en los aproximadamente doce millones de personas transportadas a través del Océano Atlántico como parte de la trata transatlántica de esclavos. El tambor se exhibe normalmente en la Sala 26 —la galería de América del Norte— en el Museo Británico.

Descripción
El tambor está hecho de dos especies de madera que son nativas del África subsahariana, Baphia y Cordia africana. Esta última madera dura de grano fino es conocida por su capacidad de tallado y su resonancia, lo que la hace especialmente adecuada para la elaboración de instrumentos musicales. El parche de tambor procedía de un cuero de ciervo y se tensaba sobre la estructura de madera con fibra vegetal.

Procedencia

El tambor se fabricó en la región de Ghana, en África Occidental, entre 1700 y 1745, y se presume que viajó a América a bordo de un barco negrero. Como las personas esclavizadas habían sido prisioneros de guerra o secuestrados de sus hogares, no habrían podido llevar ninguna posesión personal. Por lo tanto, se supone que el tambor fue traído por un miembro de la tripulación o posiblemente por un hijo del jefe africano que había vendido a los esclavos para su transporte. Para ejercer su propiedad humana, los traficantes de esclavos «bailaban a los esclavos». Se supone que fue por eso por lo que se transportó el tambor. La palabra Akan se refiere a la cultura de lo que hoy es Ghana e incluye a los pueblos Fante, Asante y Akuapem.

Este tambor en particular fue obtenido en Virginia por el reverendo Clerk en nombre del científico angloirlandés Sir Hans Sloane. Sloane había viajado por Jamaica y había observado de primera mano a personas esclavizadas tocando instrumentos, incluidos los que posteriormente se convertirían en el banyo. Sloane reunió ejemplos de las herramientas de la esclavitud y otros artefactos que incluían este tambor. Clerk y Sloane pensaron erróneamente que este tambor había sido fabricado por nativos americanos, sin embargo su viaje a Jamaica confirmó que efectivamente no solo era «africano» sino del pueblo Akan de Ghana, donde el instrumento abundaba entre otros del Akan como el arpa Seperewa. La colección de Sloane es una colección fundacional del Museo Británico, su colección fue comprada por el gobierno británico en 1753. El tambor todavía se exhibe en el Museo Británico como parte de la «colección Sloane». El catálogo de Sloane registra este artículo como «tambor hecho de un árbol hueco tallado en la parte superior con clavijas y correas con la parte inferior hueca de Virginia».

En 1906, los conservadores del Museo Británico se dieron cuenta de que el tambor no podía haber sido creado por los nativos americanos, sino que debía haber sido fabricado en África. En la década de 1970, fue posible utilizar la experiencia de Kew Gardens para determinar que la madera se cultivaba en África. Se cree que el tambor se hizo originalmente para un músico en la orquesta de un jefe africano.

Importancia
Este es el objeto afroamericano más antiguo del Museo Británico y formó parte de su colección fundacional. Este tambor fue elegido para aparecer en Una historia del mundo en cien objetos, una serie de programas de radio que comenzó en 2010 como una colaboración entre la BBC y el Museo Británico.

El tambor también se ha utilizado como objeto principal en una exhibición especial en el Museo Británico en 2010 titulada «De África a América: tambores, esclavitud, música». La exposición analizó cómo se utilizó este tambor en la «danza de los esclavos», pero también como un ejemplo de la colisión de culturas creada por la trata de esclavos que finalmente condujo al jazz y al rock and roll. Los dueños de esclavos no estaban seguros de cómo debían tratar la música africana por lo que en algunas plantaciones se prohibieron los tambores.

En septiembre de 2020, el tambor Akan fue seleccionado para aparecer en la serie «Objects of Crisis» del Museo Británico en YouTube por la ex vicepresidenta de los fideicomisarios del Museo, Bonnie Greer. La serie, presentada por Hartwig Fischer, pretendía resaltar objetos de la colección del Museo Británico que muestran cómo la gente del pasado se ha enfrentado a grandes desafíos.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Colecciones del Museo Británico
Artefactos arqueológicos
Instrumentos de percusión
Instrumentos musicales de África
Esclavitud en Estados Unidos

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PerspectiveStructural Biology
Learning to Speak the Language of Proteins
David T. Jones*
The author is in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-mail: dtj{at}cs.ucl.ac.uk
David T. Jones
The author is in the Department of Computer Science and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-mail: dtj@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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is a geographical region within Niigata Prefecture, Japan.  It includes of the cities of Jōetsu, Itoigawa and Myōkō.

History
The historical Jōetsu region is in the area of the old provinces of Kōzuke and Echigo.  The region is traditionally known as a less developed area of Japan.

The Joetsu area is a strategic hub in the larger regional transport network.

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Though significantly younger than his predecessor, 46-year-old Igor Shchyogolev, Nikiforov has already spent more time in the Internet industry and telecom regulation than Shchyogolev had by the end of his term.
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\section{INTRODUCTION}
\label{sec:Introduction}

Measurements of time-dependent \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace\ asymmetries in \ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ meson decays through
a Cabibbo-Kobaya\-shi-Maskawa (CKM) favored $b \ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace c \bar{c} s$ amplitude
\cite{s2b,belles2b} have firmly established that \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace\ symmetry is not
conserved in the neutral $B$ meson system.
The effect, arising from the interference between mixing and decay
proportional to the \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace-violating phase $\beta = \arg{(-V_{cd} V^*_{cb}/
V_{td} V^*_{tb})}$ of the CKM mixing matrix \cite{SM},
manifests itself as an asymmetry in the time evolution of the $\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ensuremath{\Bbar^0}\xspace$ pair.

In the Standard Model, decays of $B^0$ mesons to charmless hadronic final states
such as $\omega\ensuremath{K^0}\xspace$ proceed mostly via a single loop (penguin)
amplitude with the same weak phase as the $b \ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace c \bar{c} s$
transition \cite{Penguin}, but
CKM-suppressed amplitudes and multiple particles in the loop introduce
additional weak phases whose contribution may not be negligible;
see Refs. \cite{Gross,BN} for early quantitative work in
addressing the size of these effects.  We define \ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}S}\xspace\ as the difference
between the magnitude of the time-dependent \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace-violating parameter $S$
(given in detail below)
measured in these decays and $S=\ensuremath{\sin\! 2 \beta   }\xspace$ measured in decays to
charmonium and a neutral kaon.
For the decay \ensuremath{\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\fomegaKz}, these additional contributions are expected to
give $\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}S}\xspace\sim$ 0.1 \cite{beneke,CCS}, although this increase may be
nullified when final-state interactions are included \cite{CCS}.
A value of \ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}S}\xspace\ inconsistent with this expectation could be an indication
of new physics \cite{lonsoni}.

We present an improved preliminary measurement of the time-dependent
\ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace-violating asymmetry in the decay \ensuremath{\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\fomegaKs}, previously reported by the
\mbox{\sl B\hspace{-0.4em} {\small\sl A}\hspace{-0.37em} \sl B\hspace{-0.4em} {\small\sl A\hspace{-0.02em}R}}\ and Belle Collaborations~\cite{BABAR, BELLE}. Charge-conjugate decay
modes are implied throughout.

\section{THE \mbox{\sl B\hspace{-0.4em} {\small\sl A}\hspace{-0.37em} \sl B\hspace{-0.4em} {\small\sl A\hspace{-0.02em}R}}\ DETECTOR AND DATASET}
\label{sec:babar}

The data were collected with the
\mbox{\sl B\hspace{-0.4em} {\small\sl A}\hspace{-0.37em} \sl B\hspace{-0.4em} {\small\sl A\hspace{-0.02em}R}}\ detector~\cite{BABARNIM} at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy
 $e^+e^-$ collider.
An integrated luminosity of 316~fb$^{-1}$, corresponding to
347 million \BB\ pairs, was recorded at the $\Upsilon (4S)$
resonance (center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s}=10.58\ \ensuremath{\mathrm{\,Ge\kern -0.1em V}}\xspace$).
Charged particles are detected and their momenta measured by the
combination of a silicon vertex tracker (SVT), consisting of five layers
of double-sided detectors, and a 40-layer central drift chamber,
both operating in a 1.5 T axial magnetic field.  Charged-particle
identification
is provided by the energy loss in the tracking devices and by the
measured Cherenkov angle from an internally reflecting ring-imaging
Cherenkov detector covering the central region.
Photons and electrons are detected by a CsI(Tl) electromagnetic calorimeter.
The instrumented flux return  of the magnet allows discrimination of
muons from pions.

\section{ANALYSIS METHOD}
\label{sec:Analysis}

From a $\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ensuremath{\Bbar^0}\xspace$ pair produced in an \ensuremath{\Upsilon(4S)}\ decay, we reconstruct one
of the $B$ mesons in the final state $f = \ensuremath{\omega\KS}$, a \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace\ eigenstate
with eigenvalue $-1$.  For the time evolution measurement, we also
identify (tag) the flavor (\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ or \ensuremath{\Bbar^0}\xspace) and reconstruct the
decay vertex of the other $B$.
The asymmetric beam configuration in the laboratory frame
provides a boost of $\beta\gamma = 0.56$ to the center-of-mass in the lab
frame, which
allows the determination of the proper decay time difference $\dt \equiv
t_f-\ensuremath{t_{\rm tag}}$ from the vertex separation of the two $B$ meson candidates.
Ignoring the \dt\ resolution (about 0.5 ps), the distribution of \dt\ is
\begin{equation}
   \label{eq:FCPdef}
  F(\dt) =
        \frac{e^{-\left|\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}t}\xspace\right|/\tau}}{4\tau} [1 \mp\Delta w \pm
   (1-2w)\left( S\sin(\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}m_d}\xspace\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}t}\xspace) -
C\cos(\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}m_d}\xspace\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}t}\xspace)\right)].
\end{equation}
The upper (lower) sign denotes a decay accompanied by a \ensuremath{B^0}\xspace (\ensuremath{\Bbar^0}\xspace) tag,
$\tau$ is the mean $\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace$ lifetime, $\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}m_d}\xspace$ is the mixing
frequency, and the mistag parameters $w$ and
$\Delta w$ are the average and difference, respectively, of the probabilities
that a true $\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace$\,($\ensuremath{\Bbar^0}\xspace$) meson is mistagged as a $\ensuremath{\Bbar^0}\xspace$\,($\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace$).
The parameter $C$ measures direct \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace\ violation.

The flavor-tagging algorithm \cite{s2b} has seven mutually exclusive tagging categories
of differing purities, including one for untagged events that we
retain for yield determinations.  The measured analyzing power, defined as
efficiency times $(1-2w)^2$ summed over all categories, is $( 30.4\pm 0.3)\%$,
as determined from a large sample
of $B$ decays to fully reconstructed flavor eigenstates (\ensuremath{B_{\rm flav}}).

We reconstruct a $B$ meson candidate by combining a \KS\ with an
\ensuremath{{\omega\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\ensuremath{\pi^+}\xspace\ensuremath{\pi^-}\xspace\ensuremath{\pi^0}\xspace}}\ candidate.  We select $\KS\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\pi^+\pi^-$ decays by requiring
the $\pi^+\pi^-$
invariant mass to be within 12 \ensuremath{\mathrm{\,Me\kern -0.1em V}}\xspace\ ($\sim$4$\sigma$) of the
nominal \ensuremath{K^0}\xspace\ mass and by
requiring a flight length greater than three times its error.
We require the
$\ensuremath{\pi^+}\xspace\ensuremath{\pi^-}\xspace\ensuremath{\pi^0}\xspace$ invariant mass (\ensuremath{m_{\rm res}}) to be between 735 and 825 \ensuremath{\mathrm{\,Me\kern -0.1em V}}\xspace.  Distributions
from the data and from Monte Carlo (MC) simulations \cite{geant}\ guide the
choice of these selection criteria.  We retain regions adequate to
characterize the background as well as the signal for those quantities taken
subsequently as observables for fitting.  We also use the angle
$\theta_H$, defined in the $\omega$ rest frame as the angle of the
direction of the boost from the $B$ rest frame with respect to the normal to
the $\omega$ decay plane.  The quantity $\ensuremath{{\cal H}}\equiv|\cos{\theta_H}|$ is
approximately flat for background decays and distributed as
$\cos^2{\theta_H}$ for signal decays.

A $B$ meson candidate is characterized kinematically by the energy-substituted mass
$\mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace \equiv  \sqrt{(\ensuremath{{1\over2}} s + {\bf p}_0\cdot {\bf p}_B)^2/E_0^2 - {\bf p}_B^2}$ and the
energy difference
$\ensuremath{\Delta E} \equiv E_B^*-\sqrt{s}/2$, where
$(E_0,{\bf p}_0)$ and $(E_B,{\bf p}_B)$ are four-momenta of
the \ensuremath{\Upsilon(4S)}\ and the $B$ candidate, respectively, and the asterisk
denotes the center-of-mass rest frame.  We require
$|\ensuremath{\Delta E}|\le0.2$ GeV, $5.25\le\mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace\le5.29\ \ensuremath{\mathrm{\,Ge\kern -0.1em V}}\xspace$, $|\dt|<20$ ps and $\sigdt<2.5$ ps.

To help reject the dominant background from continuum $\ensuremath{e^+e^-}\xspace\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace$ events
($q=u,d,s,c$), we use
the angle $\theta_T$ between the thrust axis of the $B$ candidate and
that of
the rest of the tracks and neutral clusters in the event, calculated in
the  \ensuremath{\Upsilon(4S)}\ rest frame.  The distribution of $\cos{\theta_T}$ is
sharply peaked near $\pm1$ for jet-like $q\bar q$
pairs and is nearly uniform for the isotropic $B$ decays; we require
$|\cos{\theta_T}|<0.9$ .

From MC simulations of \ensuremath{\Bz {\kern -0.16em \Bzb}}\xspace\ and \ensuremath{\Bu {\kern -0.16em \Bub}}\xspace\ events, we find evidence
for a small (0.3\% of the total sample) \BB\ background contribution.
We have therefore added a \BB\ component to the fit described below.

We use an unbinned, multivariate maximum-likelihood fit to extract
signal yields and \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace-violation parameters.  We use the discriminating
variables \mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace, \ensuremath{\Delta E}, \ensuremath{m_{\rm res}}, \ensuremath{{\cal H}}, and a Fisher
discriminant \ensuremath{{\cal F}}\ \cite{PRD}. The Fisher discriminant combines five
variables: the polar angles with respect to the beam axis in the
\ensuremath{\Upsilon(4S)}\ frame of the $B$ candidate momentum and of the $B$ thrust axis;
the tagging category; and the zeroth and second
angular moments of the energy flow, excluding the $B$ candidate, about the
$B$ thrust axis \cite{PRD}.  We use \dt to extract the \ensuremath{C\!P}\xspace-violation parameters,
$S$ and $C$.

We define the probability density function
(PDF) for each event $i$, hypothesis $j$ (signal, \BB\ background
and \ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace\ background), and tagging category $c$:
\begin{equation}
\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_{j,c}^i  \equiv \ensuremath{{\cal P}}_j (\mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace^i) \ensuremath{{\cal P}}_j (\ensuremath{\Delta E}^i) \ensuremath{{\cal P}}_j(\ensuremath{{\cal F}}^i, c)
\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_j (\ensuremath{m_{\rm res}}^i)
\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_j(\ensuremath{{\cal H}}^i) \ensuremath{{\cal P}}_j (\dt^i, \sigdt^i, c)\,,
\end{equation}
where $\sigdt^i$ is the error on \dt\ for event $i$.
We write the extended likelihood function as
\begin{equation}
{\cal L} = \prod_{c} \exp{(-\sum_j Y_{j} f_{j,c})}
\prod_i^{N_c}\left[\sum_j Y_j f_{j,c} {\cal P}^i_{j,c}\right]\,,
\end{equation}
where $Y_j$ is the fitted yield of events of species $j$, $f_{j,c}$ is the
fraction of events of species $j$ for each category $c$,
and $N_c$ is the number of events of category $c$ in the sample.
We fix $f_{{\rm sig},c}$ and $f_{\BB,c}$
to $f_{\ensuremath{B_{\rm flav}},c}$, the values measured with the large
\ensuremath{B_{\rm flav}}\ sample  \cite{s2b}.

The PDF $\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_{\rm sig}(\dt,\, \sigdt, c)$ is given by
$F(\dt)$ (Eq.\ \ref{eq:FCPdef}) with tag category ($c$) dependent mistag
parameters convolved with the
signal resolution function (a sum of three Gaussians) determined from the
\ensuremath{B_{\rm flav}}\ sample.
The other PDF forms are: the sum of two Gaussians for all signal shapes
except \ensuremath{{\cal H}}, and for the peaking component of the \ensuremath{m_{\rm res}}\ background;
the sum of three Gaussians for
$\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_{\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace}(\dt, c)$ and $\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_{\BB}(\dt, c)$; an asymmetric Gaussian
with different
widths below and above the peak for $\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_j(\ensuremath{{\cal F}})$ (a small ``tail"
Gaussian is added for $\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_{\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace}(\ensuremath{{\cal F}})$); Chebyshev functions of
second to fourth order for the \ensuremath{{\cal H}}\ distribution for signal and the
slowly-varying shapes of the \ensuremath{\Delta E},
\ensuremath{m_{\rm res}}, and \ensuremath{{\cal H}}\ distributions for backgrounds; and, for
$\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_{\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace}(\mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace)$, a
phase-space-motivated empirical function \cite{argus}, with a small Gaussian
added for $\ensuremath{{\cal P}}_{\BB}(\mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace)$.

We determine the PDF parameters from simulation for the signal and \BB\
background components.  We study large control samples of $B\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace D\pi$ decays
of similar topology to verify the simulated
resolutions in \ensuremath{\Delta E}\ and \mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace, adjusting the PDFs to account for any
differences found.  For the \ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace\ background we use
(\mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace,\,\ensuremath{\Delta E}) sideband data to obtain initial PDF-parameter values, but ultimately
leave many of them free to vary in the final fit.

\section{RESULTS}
\label{sec:Physics}

The free parameters in the fit are
the following: the signal, \BB\ background, and \ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace\ background yields;
the three shape parameters of
${\cal P}_{\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace}(\ensuremath{{\cal F}})$; the slopes of ${\cal P}_{\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace}(\ensuremath{\Delta E})$ and
${\cal P}_{\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace}(\ensuremath{m_{\rm res}})$; the fraction of the peaking component of
${\cal P}_{\ensuremath{q\overline q}\xspace}(\ensuremath{m_{\rm res}})$; the \mbox{$m_{\rm ES}$}\xspace\ background shape parameter
$\xi$ \cite{argus}; $S$; $C$;
 the fraction of background events in each
tagging category; and the six primary parameters describing the \dt\
background shape.  The parameters $\tau$ and
$\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}m_d}\xspace$ are fixed to world-average values \cite{PDG2006}.
Table \ref{tab:results} shows the results of the fit.
The errors have been scaled by $\sim$1.10 to account for a slight
underestimate of the fit errors predicted by our simulations when the
number of signal events is small.

\begin{table}[ht]
\caption{
Total sample size, detection efficiency, signal yield, \BB\ background
yield and $CP$-asymmetry parameters $S$ and $C$ from the fit.}
\label{tab:results}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{lccc}
\dbline
Quantity	    & \ensuremath{\omega\KS}\ \\
\sgline
Total fit sample  &     12636     \\
Eff. (\%) & 23.0   \\
Fit signal yield  & $142^{+17}_{-16}$  \\
\BB\ yield        & $38^{+25}_{-22}$  \\
$S$                 &\ensuremath{\phantom{-}}$0.62^{+0.25}_{-0.30}$ \\
$C$              &  $-0.43^{+0.25}_{-0.23}$ \\
\dbline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\vspace*{-0.5cm}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\begin{center}
 \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.7]{projPlot_omks.eps}
\vspace{-.4cm}
 \caption{\label{fig:projMbDE}
$B$ candidate projections for \ensuremath{\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\fomegaKs}\ of (a) \ensuremath{m_{\rm ES}}, (b) \ensuremath{\Delta E},
(c) \ensuremath{{\cal F}}, (d) \ensuremath{{\cal H}}, and (e) \ensuremath{m_{\rm res}}, shown for a
signal-enhanced subset of the data (points with error bars), with
the fit function (solid line), and the background components (dashed line)
overlaid.}
\vspace{-.4cm}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

Fig.\ \ref{fig:projMbDE}\ shows projections onto the fit variables for
a subset of the data (including 45--65\% of signal events)
for which the signal likelihood
(computed without the variable plotted) exceeds a
threshold that optimizes the sensitivity. Fig.~\ref{fig:dtproj} shows the
$\Delta t$ projections and asymmetry of the time-dependent fit applying the
same event selection criteria as for Fig.~\ref{fig:projMbDE}. Based on
explicit variation of $C$ with $S$ allowed to float, we find the
correlation between $S$ and $C$ to be negligible.

\begin{figure}[!tbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{projPlot_omks_dt.eps}
\end{center}
\vspace{-.3cm}
\caption{Projections onto \ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}t}\xspace\ for \ensuremath{\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\fomegaKs}, where $t_{CP}$ is the
decay time for the signal $B$ meson.  Data (points with errors),
the fit function (solid line), background component (dashed line),
and signal component (dotted line) are shown for
events in which the tag meson is
(a) \ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ and (b) \ensuremath{\Bbar^0}\xspace, and the
asymmetry $(N_{B^0}-N_{\kern 0.18em\overline{\kern -0.18em B}{}\xspace^0})/(N_{B^0}+N_{\kern 0.18em\overline{\kern -0.18em B}{}\xspace^0})$ is shown in (c),
where $N$ indicates the total number of events passing the same cuts as for
Fig.~\ref{fig:projMbDE}.}
\label{fig:dtproj}
\vspace{-0.4cm}
\end{figure}

\section{SYSTEMATIC UNCERTAINTIES}

We estimate systematic uncertainties in $S$ and $C$ from the following
sources: potential dilution
due to \BB\ background (0.01); variation of the PDF shapes used in the
fit (0.01); knowledge of the parameters used to model the signal
\dt\ distribution (0.02); and interference between the
CKM-suppressed $\bar{b}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\bar{u} c\bar{d}$ amplitude and the favored
$b\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace c\bar{u}d$ amplitude for some tag-side $B$ decays \cite{dcsd}
(0.02 for $C$, negligible for $S$), where the value in parentheses is the
size of the estimated systematic uncertainty.
By applying distortions to MC samples
and refitting all tracks, we find that the uncertainty due
to possible SVT misalignment and position and size of the beam spot
are negligible.  The uncertainties in the parameters of fits to the \ensuremath{B_{\rm flav}}\
sample are used for the uncertainties in the signal
PDF parameters: \dt\ resolutions, tagging efficiencies, and mistag rates.
Published measurements \cite{PDG2006} are used for $\tau_B$ and \ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}m_d}\xspace.
Summing all systematic uncertainties in quadrature, we obtain 0.02 for $S$ and
0.03 for $C$.

\section{SUMMARY}
\label{sec:Summary}

In conclusion, we have presented preliminary results for
the time-dependent asymmetry parameters for the decay \ensuremath{\ensuremath{B^0}\xspace\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\xspace\fomegaKs},
$\skz = \ensuremath{0.xx^{+0.xx}_{-0.xx}\pm zz}$ and $\ckz = \ensuremath{-0.xx^{+0.xx}_{-0.xx}\pm zz}$, where the first uncertainty is
statistical and the second systematic.  If we fix
$C=0$, we find $S=0.63^{+0.28}_{-0.33}$, where the uncertainty is statistical
only.
This value of $\skz$ and the world-average value of
\ensuremath{\sin\! 2 \beta   }\xspace\ \cite{s2b,belles2b} yield a value of $\ensuremath{{\rm \Delta}S}\xspace=-0.09\pm0.31$, in
good agreement with the Standard Model expectation near zero.

\section{ACKNOWLEDGMENTS}
\label{sec:Acknowledgments}

\input pubboard/acknowledgements

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By Jeremy Clarkson
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The Clarkson review: BMW M4 (2014)
Call up the old gang, Mr T - this paint job needs attention
IT'S ALWAYS been said that technology and ideas developed in Formula One motor racing improve the cars we drive to work every day. Er, right. I see, so does your Nissan Juke have tyres that lose their ability to grip after 24 miles? Does your Toyota GT86 crash if the rear spoiler falls off? Can your Audi A3 be serviced as you drive it down the A38?
You do, of course, have antilock brakes, rain-sensing wipers, automatic headlights, inertia-reel seatbelts and a starter motor. But none of that lot — nothing that really matters — came from F1. And there's more. If F1 really were developing technology that eventually filtered down into road cars, then you would expect Renault, Ferrari and Mercedes to be at the forefront of hybrid technology. And they're not.
The car company that is at the forefront of hybrid technology right now is BMW, which isn't involved in F1. Its little i3 is intriguing, and, as I mentioned last week, the car I'm most looking forward to driving this year is the i8, which by all accounts is comparable to the Porsche 911. Except that it does 134.5mpg.
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My worry — and I mentioned this too — is that BMW, like every other company in the world, has a limited pool of talent. And if the brightest and the best have been drafted into the hybrid projects, we have to assume it's the B-team that is charged with developing the car you see photographed on this page — the new M4. So does that mean it's not as good as it could have been?
My initial reaction when the car was delivered was to feel slightly sick. That is because it had been painted in quite the most revolting colour I've seen. BMW calls it Austin Yellow, suggesting that it would have suited an Allegro back in the day. And it would. But Baby Diarrhoea is nearer the mark.
My initial reaction when the car was delivered was to feel slightly sick. That is because it had been painted in quite the most revolting colour I've seen.
It's hard really to judge a car when it is such a horrible colour. It is like trying to learn to understand the moods of a bald dog. And to make matters worse, the other colours on offer are not much better. Best, I think, to go for black.
There's another advantage to this. If the car is black, you don't notice quite so quickly that the stylists simply didn't know when the time was right to step away from the drawing board. Every detail is garnished with yet more detail, and the end result is fussy. The door mirrors are especially annoying. Possibly the company has done this to make the two-door M4 coupé stand out more from the four-door M3 saloon, but I'm really not sure it was necessary.
Eventually, though, I was able to put the styling and the colour out of my mind and concentrate on the car, which — on paper at least — looks a step back from its predecessor, which was called the M3 coupé. That car had a glorious V8 that screamed and hollered as the revs rose and then howled in an orgy of what sounded like BDSM ecstasy as it neared the red line.
Well, you can forget all that. The new car is fitted with a turbocharged straight six. Turbocharging? In an M car? That's like putting gravy on an ice cream. However, this and the electric power steering are necessary these days if a car is to meet EU emissions regulations. It's not the end of the world, because you get even more power than you did from the old V8, and a huge spread of torque. On the downside you lose those top-end shenanigans. And the throttle response is a little more squidgy, a problem that's made worse by a seven-speed flappy-paddle gearbox that offers no creep. Unlike a standard automatic, the car won't move until you put your foot on the accelerator. Which makes parking a jerky bloody nightmare.
And while we are on the subject of the gearbox, I was forever being told by bongs and rude messages that I might not turn off the ignition until I had put the gearlever into Park. But as far as I could see, there was no Park. What you have to do to solve the problem is to slam the lever this way and that while swearing.
So, to recap, the colours are awful, the styling is blingtastic, the door mirrors are annoying, the gearbox is flawed, the engine is a step backwards and parking is hard. It sounds, then, as though BMW's B-team hasn't been able to overcome the emissions regulations, and as a result the car is not as good as the previous model. Yes, and there's more.
The M4 is not a particularly heavy car. Much plastic and carbon fibre is used to keep the weight, and therefore the fuel consumption, down. But it feels, as you potter about, as if it weighs more than a football stadium. You really do have to manhandle the wheel, and when you run over a bump, there's a sense it is simply being squashed.
There are, however, some good points. It's a very easy car to use: all the command systems are as natural as breathing. It is also fitted with fabulous seats. And I loved being able to select tracks on my iPod from a list shown on the head-up display. Oh, and I nearly forgot: it is truly marvellous to drive.
Yes, the engine is different in character from the old V8, but if you sit in the big meat pie of torque rather than at the summit of the power, you find you get all the oomph you want and total control over what the rear wheels are doing. Millimetric movements of your right foot are translated instantly into shifts in how the car behaves, and you can feel it all through the steering wheel, even though it's not really connected to the car.
The differential is fantastic, the brakes are wondrous, the antilock system is spot-on and the noise is a big bass-baritone that comes from the engine, not some laptop-activated exhaust valve.
It's fast too. The figures don't tell you all the story, because when you put everything in Sport Plus mode and plant your foot into the carpet, the car sets off like a disturbed shark. I honestly haven't enjoyed driving a vehicle as much as this for months.
I honestly haven't enjoyed driving a vehicle as much as this for months.
There was a time, of course, when the M3 was hijacked by the nation's squash-playing dealmakers. People in braces who didn't really know what it was; only that it made them look good. It was an accessory, like Oakley sunglasses.
Today these people are driving fast Audis and, to a certain extent, Mercedes AMGs. Which means the M3 and the M4 can be bought once more by people who simply want a seriously good car.
I just wish BMW's A-team had been involved in its design, though. Because I feel sure the stylists would have fitted less stupid door mirrors and made certain that some of the colours at least didn't leave you feeling physically ill.
Clarkson's verdict ★★★★☆
Not bad for the B-team
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Power 425bhp @ 5500rpm
Torque 405 lb ft @ 1850rpm
Transmission 7-speed dual-clutch sequential/automatic
Acceleration 0-62mph in 4.1sec
Fuel 34mpg
CO2 194g/km
Road tax band J
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Douglas Drysdale Marnie was born on 5 June 1900 at Denniston, Glasgow, Scotland. He was the elder son of clothier's assistant James Adam Marnie (1873-1937) and Alice née Drysdale (b1873).
At some point, Douglas moved to Yeovil and became a pupil at the works of the Goldcroft Glove Company in Eastland Road.
Douglas enlisted on 10 May 1918, giving his occupation as a glove manufacturer. He became a Private 2nd Class at the Royal Air Force Recruits Depot with the Service Number 176104.
The Royal Air Force was founded on 1 April 1918, towards the end of the Great War by merging the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
Sadly, at the training depot in Kent, Douglas caught influenza which developed into acute pneumonia. He died at St John's Hospital, Hastings, on 4 July 1918. He was 18½ years old.
The Glasgow Herald reported on 8 July 1918 in its 'Deaths on Service' section "MARNIE.- At St John's Hospital, Hastings, on 4th July, of acute pneumonia, Cadet Douglas Drysdale Marnie, R.A.F., aged 18, elder son of James A and Alice Marnie, 16 Morley Street, Langside. Funeral to-morrow (Tuesday), at 3pm to Cathcart Cemetery; friends desirous of attending kindly intimate to Messrs Wylie & Lochhead, Union Street."
In its edition of 12 July 1918 the Western Gazette reported "News has been received with regret by his many friends in the town of the death of Cadet Douglas Marnie, R.A.F., whose parents reside in Scotland, and which took place at a training centre from pneumonia following influenza. The late Mr Marnie, who was 181/2 years of age, had lived in the town for some time, and was a pupil at the works of the Goldcroft Glove Company. He was actively connected with the Congregational Church, having been assistant secretary to the Sunday School and a lieutenant in the Cadet Company.
The following week the Western Gazette reported "A memorial service to the late Cadet Douglas Marnie, R.A.F., was held in the Princes Street Congregational Church on Sunday morning. The deceased was a keen worker with the B.B. Cadets as a lieutenant of the Company, and was also the Sunday School assistant secretary and a Worker in the Young People's Society. There was a large and sympathetic congregation, including the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Yeovil Boys' Brigade Companies, the Baptist Girls' Life Brigade and the Girl Guides. Appropriate music was played and suitable hymns sung, and during the service the Rev. R Newell feelingly alluded to the following who had been associated with the Boys' Brigade, and who had given their lives for their country:- Bert Norman, Harry White (lieutenant of the Company), Clarence Tucker, Harry Holland, Stanley Purchase, Ernest Gatehouse and Frank Ostler. Brought up in the home of the Boys' Brigade movement - he had been member of one of the largest companies in Glasgow - and valued it very much, not only because of the drill, but because it was of a religious foundation and character, and aimed to make strong Christian men of the boys who were associated with it. He (the rev. gentleman) was sorry that the Boys' Brigade had changed its name to become the Cadet Corps, but he hoped that the Cadet Corps would never change its character, but that it would always remain a religious movement, and so long as the churches appointed its officers it would be so.
Douglas Marnie was interred in Cathcart Cemetery, Glasgow - Grave Q.618 - and his name is recorded on the War Memorial in the Borough.


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package org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.ver12;

import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.action.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.actionid.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.bsntlv.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.errormsg.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.meterband.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.instruction.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.instructionid.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.match.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.oxm.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.queueprop.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.types.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.util.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.exceptions.*;
import org.projectfloodlight.openflow.protocol.OFFlowModCommand;
import org.jboss.netty.buffer.ChannelBuffer;
import com.google.common.hash.PrimitiveSink;

public class OFFlowModCommandSerializerVer12 {

    public final static byte ADD_VAL = (byte) 0x0;
    public final static byte MODIFY_VAL = (byte) 0x1;
    public final static byte MODIFY_STRICT_VAL = (byte) 0x2;
    public final static byte DELETE_VAL = (byte) 0x3;
    public final static byte DELETE_STRICT_VAL = (byte) 0x4;

    public static OFFlowModCommand readFrom(ChannelBuffer bb) throws OFParseError {
        try {
            return ofWireValue(bb.readByte());
        } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
            throw new OFParseError(e);
        }
    }

    public static void writeTo(ChannelBuffer bb, OFFlowModCommand e) {
        bb.writeByte(toWireValue(e));
    }

    public static void putTo(OFFlowModCommand e, PrimitiveSink sink) {
        sink.putByte(toWireValue(e));
    }

    public static OFFlowModCommand ofWireValue(byte val) {
        switch(val) {
            case ADD_VAL:
                return OFFlowModCommand.ADD;
            case MODIFY_VAL:
                return OFFlowModCommand.MODIFY;
            case MODIFY_STRICT_VAL:
                return OFFlowModCommand.MODIFY_STRICT;
            case DELETE_VAL:
                return OFFlowModCommand.DELETE;
            case DELETE_STRICT_VAL:
                return OFFlowModCommand.DELETE_STRICT;
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal wire value for type OFFlowModCommand in version 1.2: " + val);
        }
    }

    public static byte toWireValue(OFFlowModCommand e) {
        switch(e) {
            case ADD:
                return ADD_VAL;
            case MODIFY:
                return MODIFY_VAL;
            case MODIFY_STRICT:
                return MODIFY_STRICT_VAL;
            case DELETE:
                return DELETE_VAL;
            case DELETE_STRICT:
                return DELETE_STRICT_VAL;
            default:
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal enum value for type OFFlowModCommand in version 1.2: " + e);
        }
    }

}