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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}

Theories with weak scale supersymmetry represent the most complete and
cherished vision of physics beyond the Standard Model.  Their
many successes include stabilization of the electroweak scale with
respect to high-scale physics, improvement of the convergence of
couplings necessary for Grand Unification, possible electroweak
baryogenesis to explain the matter-anti-matter asymmetry of the
Universe, and (with $R$ parity) relatively mild contributions to
precision electroweak data and a successful dark matter
candidate.\medskip

However, none of those successes rest crucially on the minimal
realization of the supersymmetric Standard Model~\cite{Kribs:2007ac}.  In fact, there are
features of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) which are
somewhat at odds with the MSSM as a completely natural theory of the
electroweak scale.  The $\mu$ or $B\mu$ problem indicates that the
supersymmetric $\mu$ term must be roughly of the same size as the
supersymmetry-breaking parameters, and yet the MSSM offers no
explanation for why this should be the case. The lightest Higgs mass
in the MSSM is, at tree-level, less than the $Z$ boson mass, and even
including radiative corrections typically in conflict with the LEP-II
bound~\cite{RuhlmannKleider:2007zz}. The model survives based on large radiative
corrections from scalar top quarks, but in turn this requires the stops to be so
heavy that the Higgs soft masses end up fine-tuned to the per-cent
level.

Perhaps the most disturbing feature of the MSSM is the fact that if
one naively assumes a general spectrum of supersymmetry-breaking
parameters, it is simply ruled out.  If there are large mixings
among the squarks and among the sleptons, flavor-violating processes such as
$K$-$\overline{K}$ mixing, $\mu \rightarrow e \gamma$, and others, can
be enhanced by orders of magnitude with respect to Standard Model
predictions, in obvious contradiction to experimental data.  The
traditional solution (of which gauge mediation is the prototype) is to
engineer supersymmetry breaking such that the soft-breaking mass
parameters are highly flavor diagonal~\cite{susy_flavor}.  This
controls flavor violation to an acceptable level at a given energy
scale, but continues to be challenged by natural electroweak symmetry
breaking, the Higgs mass, and cosmology.\medskip

An alternative is to alter the low energy structure of the model such that the
supersymmetric solution to the hierarchy problem is preserved, but flavor
violation is ameliorated.  A recent elegant solution imposes a continuous $R$
symmetry~\cite{Hall:1990hq}, to form the minimal $R$-symmetric supersymmetric Standard Model
(MRSSM)~\cite{Kribs:2007ac}.  This model invokes the $R$ symmetry to forbid
the potentially flavor-violating left-right mixing $A$-terms, and to guarantee
(at least largely in light of anomaly-mediated contributions) Dirac gaugino
masses. This Dirac nature often leads to an additional suppression in
flavor-violating processes from gauginos running in the loops, which causes
many contributions to scale with large gaugino mass as $1 / m_{\tilde{g}}^2$ instead of
the Majorana scaling, $1/m_{\tilde{g}}$ ~\cite{Kribs:2007ac,Blechman:2008gu}.  The
model has additional interesting features, such as UV finite scalar masses due
to the super-soft feature of Dirac gauginos~\cite{Fox:2002bu}, and additional
matter content at the electroweak scale. For example, if the gluino is a Dirac
particle, the two on-shell degrees of freedom from the gluon are not
sufficient to construct a supersymmetric four-spinor. To provide the two
additional bosonic degrees of freedom, the MRSSM adds a complex scalar
partner. An unbroken $R$ symmetry is also a generic feature of simple models
of meta-stable supersymmetry breaking~\cite{Amigo:2008rc}.\medskip

In this article we consider the phenomenology of the scalar partner of the
Dirac gluino, a color adjoint scalar --- the sgluon.  As a colored particle,
it couples to a gluon and will have large pair-production rates at the
Tevatron and LHC. It interacts with quarks at the one-loop level proportional
to the quark masses. Thanks to the large mixing naturally expected in the
MRSSM's squark sector, it will readily decay into flavor violating channels.
Previous studies have considered scalar color octets with either decays into
missing energy~\cite{Dobrescu:2007xf}, with electroweak as well as $SU(3)$
charges~\cite{Gerbush:2007fe}, or purely flavor diagonal
couplings~\cite{Dobrescu:2007yp}, which all lead to very different
phenomena.\medskip

Our work is organized as follows.
In Section~\ref{sec:sgluons} we show how sgluons arise in a model with
Dirac gluinos, examine their soft masses, and derive their
interactions including the one-loop contribution to the
$G$--$q$--$\bar{q}'$ and $G$--$g$--$g$
vertices. In Section~\ref{sec:fcnc} we
examine the flavor-violating effects mediated by sgluons and
derive some mild constraints from $K$-$\bar{K}$ mixing.
In Section~\ref{sec:search} we discuss the production of a
pair of sgluons through the strong interaction, and examine the decay
of the pair into like-sign tops. This distinctive signature provides
bounds on the sgluon mass at the Tevatron and will easily be
discovered at the LHC for a wide range of masses. We particularly
focus on the proper treatment of the jet activity in such events.

\section{Sgluons}
\label{sec:sgluons}

Scalar gluons are contained in a chiral superfield $\Phi^a$ which is a
color adjoint carrying $R$ charge zero.  The fermionic component
$\psi^a$ is married through $D$--term
supersymmetry breaking to the ordinary gluino $\lambda^a$. The
lowest component $G^a$ is a complex color adjoint scalar.
Supersymmetry breaking will generally split this into two real scalar
states which are admixtures of the real and imaginary parts of $G$.
We discuss the spectrum below.\medskip

Kinetic terms for the sgluons are contained in canonical K\"{a}hler
potential terms for $\Phi$,
\begin{equation}
 \int d^4 \theta  ~~ \Phi^\dagger e^{-V} \Phi
\end{equation}
where $V$ is the vector superfield containing the gluon and the $SU(3)_C$
gauge indices are implied.  The kinetic terms include the coupling of the
sgluon $G$ to the gluons from the covariant derivative, a $G$-$\psi$-$\lambda$
coupling of strength $g_s$ required by supersymmetry, and $D$--term
contributions to the scalar potential that are of the form
$G^*$-$G$-$\tilde{q}^*$-$\tilde{q}$ which will not be important for our purposes.  There
are no renormalizable gauge invariant terms through which $\Phi$ interacts
with matter superfields in either the K\"{a}hler potential or in the
super-potential, and the assumed $R$ symmetry is incompatible with $\Phi^2$ or
$\Phi^3$ interactions in the super-potential.  Thus, the tree-level
supersymmetric interactions of $G$ are determined entirely by supersymmetric
QCD,
\begin{equation}
 {\cal L}_{\rm SQCD} = \left( D_\mu G \right)^*
            \left( D^\mu G \right)
          + i \sqrt{2} \; g_s f_{abc} \;
            \bar{\tilde{g}}^b \left( G^a P_L + G^{a*} P_R \right) \tilde{g}^c
\label{eq:susy_qcd}
\end{equation}
where $D^\mu$ is the usual covariant derivative for a color adjoint,
$\tilde{g}$ is the (four-component) gluino, and $f_{abc}$ are the
structure constants of $SU(3)$ .

\subsection{Supersymmetry breaking and masses}

Soft mass terms for the sgluons can arise from either $F$--term
($\langle X \rangle = \theta^2 F$) or $D$--term ($\langle W^\prime
\rangle = \theta D^\prime$) spurions of supersymmetry breaking,
\begin{equation}
  \int d^4 \theta \left\{ \frac{1}{M_1^2} X^\dagger X \Phi^\dagger \Phi
                        + \frac{1}{M_2^2} X^\dagger X \mathop{\rm Tr} \Phi^2
                  \right\}
+ \int d^2 \theta \frac{1}{M_3^2} \;
           W^\prime_\alpha W^{\prime \alpha} \mathop{\rm Tr} \Phi^2 + \text{H.c.}
\end{equation}
and also are generated by the term responsible for the Dirac gluino
mass~\cite{Fox:2002bu},
\begin{equation}
  \int d^2 \theta \; \frac{\sqrt{2}}{M_4}
                 \; W^{\prime \alpha} W^{a}_{3 \alpha} \; \Phi^a
\end{equation}
where $W^{a}_{3 \alpha}$ is the usual superfield $SU(3)_C$ field strength.
This super-potential term, along with the usual MSSM $SU(3)_C$ $D$-terms,
lead to terms in the Lagrangian,
\begin{equation}
-m_{\tilde{g}} \lambda^a \psi^a - \sqrt{2} \left( m_{\tilde{g}} G^a + m_{\tilde{g}}^* G^{a *} \right) D^a
- g_s D^a  \sum_{\tilde{q}_L}  \tilde{q}_L^{*} T^a \tilde{q}_L
+ g_s D^a  \sum_{\tilde{q}_R}  \tilde{q}_R T^a \tilde{q}_R^{*}
-\frac{1}{2} D^a D^a
\end{equation}
where $m_{\tilde{g}} = D^\prime / M_4$ is the Dirac gluino mass,
and $T^a$ are the generators
of $SU(3)_C$ in the fundamental representation.
Replacing the $SU(3)$ auxiliary field $D^a$ through its
equation of motion leads to terms proportional to
$m_{\tilde{g}}^2 G^2$ and $m_{\tilde{g}}^{*2} G^{* 2}$
as well as $|m_{\tilde{g}}|^2 |G^2|$~\cite{Kribs:2007ac}.  It also induces
tri-linear interactions of $G$ with squarks, somewhat analogous to
the $A$ terms in the usual MSSM.  Altogether, the
supersymmetry-breaking Lagrangian for $G$ reads
\begin{equation}
{\cal L}_{\rm soft} = m_1^2~ | G^a |^2
                  + \frac{1}{2} m_2^2~ G^{a 2}
                  + \frac{1}{2} m_2^{* 2}~ G^{a * 2}
                  - \sqrt{2} g_s \left( m_{\tilde{g}} G^a
                                       +m_{\tilde{g}}^* G^{a *} \right)
                    \;
                    \left( \sum_{\tilde{q}_L}  \tilde{q}^{*}_L T^a \tilde{q}_L - \sum_{\tilde{q}_R} \tilde{q}_R T^a \tilde{q}_R^{*}  \right)
\label{eq:soft}
\end{equation}
where $m^2_1$ is a real parameter and $m^2_2$ may be complex.
The mass eigenstates are two real color adjoint scalars which can be
labelled as $G_1$ and $G_2$.  The mass-squared
eigenvalues are given by,
\begin{equation}
 m^2_{G_1,G_2} = m^2_1 \mp | m^2_2 | ~,
\end{equation}
and clearly we must have $m^2_1 > | m^2_2 |$ or run the risk of a
color-breaking vacuum.  There will be a non-trivial mixing angle when
$m^2_2$ is complex.  When we write $m^2_2$ in terms of its phase
$m^2_2 = |m^2_2| e^{i \gamma}$, the mass eigenstates are
\begin{alignat}{5}
G^a_1   = & \sin \frac{\gamma}{2}~G^a
             + \cos \frac{\gamma}{2}~G^{a *} ~, \notag \\
G^a_2   = & \cos \frac{\gamma}{2}~G^a
             - \sin \frac{\gamma}{2}~G^{a *} ~.
\end{alignat}
For simplicity we will assume $m_{\tilde{g}}$ and $m^2_2$ are
real, and thus there is no non-trivial mixing from here on.
In that case both sgluons are either a pure scalar or a pure pseudoscalar,
which is equivalent as long as we combine them with massless QCD, the
theory relevant for LHC.

All tree-level interactions of the sgluon with Standard Model and MSSM
states we can read off $\mathcal{L}_{\rm SQCD}$ and
$\mathcal{L}_{\rm soft}$. The coupling of two sgluon to gluons is
simply a result of its adjoint color charge and arises from the
kinetic term. The coupling to two gluinos is the supersymmetric
partner of the gluon couplings, while the couplings to two squarks
arise from $D$ terms. Note in particular  that the Dirac gluino mass
sets the size of the squark-squark-sgluon coupling.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.25]{sqqfig1.eps} \hspace*{1.5cm}
  \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.25]{sqqfig2.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:qvertex} Feynman diagrams for sgluon interactions
  with quarks.}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Loop-induced coupling to quarks}
\label{sec:qvertex}

If we insert the squark and gluino couplings to a sgluon shown in
eq.(\ref{eq:susy_qcd}) and in eq.(\ref{eq:soft}) into one-loop diagrams,
the sgluon will couple to quarks. There are
two Feynman graphs responsible for this interaction induced by gluinos
and squarks, shown in Figure~\ref{fig:qvertex}.
For each of the two sgluon states the effective action
after electroweak symmetry breaking contains a dimension-4 operator of the
form,
\begin{equation}
 G^a \; \left[ \, \bar{q}^j \; T^a \, \left( g^{ij}_L P_L
                                              + g^{ij}_R P_R \right)
                    q^i \, \right] + \text{H.c.}
\end{equation}
where $i$ and $j$ are quark flavor indices.
The couplings may be expressed as
\begin{equation}
g^{ij}_{(L/R)}  =
 \frac{g_s^3 \widetilde{\delta}^{(L/R)}_{ij}}{16 \pi^2} \frac{m_{\tilde{g}}}{m_G^2}
  \left( m_i f^{(L/R)}_{q,i}
       - m_j f^{(L/R)}_{q,j} \right)
\label{eq:qvertex}
\end{equation}
where $\widetilde{\delta}_{ij}$ is the relevant squark mixing
parameter, $m_{i,j}$ are the quark masses, and the dimensionless $f_q$s
are functions of the heavy sgluon, gluino, and the squark
masses. Their form is given in the Appendix.  It is important to
notice that in the MRSSM these couplings come out
automatically proportional to
quark masses, which mitigates their contribution to
flavor-violating observables. In contrast, for
example, the $A$ terms in the MSSM have to be {\em defined} to appear
proportionally with the quark masses, \ie as $m_q A_q$, which is an
additional assumption on the flavor structure of the general MSSM.  In
the limit of degenerate squarks, this source of flavor violation in the MRSSM
will switch off through a super-GIM mechanism. In the limit of large squark,
gluino, or sgluon masses the quark-quark-sgluon coupling will be suppressed by
$m_{\tilde{g}} / m_{\tilde{q}}^2$, $1 / m_{\tilde{g}}$, or $m_{\tilde{g}} / m_G^2$, respectively.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.25]{sggfig1.eps} \hspace*{0cm}
  \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.25]{sggfig2.eps} \hspace*{0cm}
  \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.25]{sggfig3.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:gvertex} Feynman diagrams for single sgluon
  interactions with gluons.}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Sgluon-gluon-gluon Coupling}

Pairs of sgluons interact with one or two gluons as a consequence of the fact
that the sgluons are adjoints of $SU(3)$.  There is also a single
sgluon-gluon-gluon interaction mediated by squarks, as shown in
Figure~\ref{fig:gvertex}.  The effective action contains a dimension-five
operator generated at one loop
\begin{equation}
 \frac{g_s^3}{16 \pi^2} \; \frac{m_{\tilde{g}}}{m_G^2} \; d^{abc} \;
 \lambda_g \; G^a F^b_{\mu \nu} F^{c \mu \nu} + \text{H.c.}
 \label{eq:sggg}
\end{equation}
where $d^{abc}$ is the symmetric gauge-invariant combination of three
$SU(3)$ adjoints and the dimensionless form factor $\lambda_g$ is
given in the Appendix.  A similar contribution mediated by gluinos
vanishes at one loop, due to the symmetry structure of the (asymmetric)
color factor and the (symmetric) loop contribution. In the limit of
heavy squarks the coupling $\lambda_g$ will vanish proportionally to
$1/m_{\tilde{q}}^2$.

\section{Sgluon-mediated flavor violation}
\label{sec:fcnc}

Through its flavor-violating couplings to quarks, the sgluon can also
mediate flavor-changing processes.  At energies far below the sgluon
mass, these interactions look like $\Delta F=2$ four fermion
interactions.  Using the $s$-$d$ transition operators relevant for
$K$-$\overline{K}$ mixing we can illustrate the terms left behind when
the sgluon is integrated out:
\begin{equation}
-\frac{1}{2 m_G^2} \left\{ \left( g^{sd~2}_L + g^{sd~2}_R \right)
                            \left[ Q^{sd}_5 - \frac{1}{3} Q^{sd}_4 \right]
                  + g^{sd}_R g^{sd}_L \left[   Q^{sd}_3
                                           + \widetilde{Q}^{sd}_3
                                           -\frac{1}{3} Q^{sd}_2
                                           - \frac{1}{3} \widetilde{Q}^{sd}_2
                                    \right]
                    \right\}
\end{equation}
where the $Q^{ij}_i$ are the four fermion interactions defined in
Ref.~\cite{Bona:2007vi}. Comparing to eq.(\ref{eq:qvertex}) we know that the
couplings $g$ are proportional to $\widetilde{\delta}$, so the relevant
parameters which will be constrained are $\widetilde{\delta}/m_G$.  Analogous
expressions describe $b$-$d$, $b$-$s$, and $c$-$u$ mixing.  We compute the
coefficients of each of these operators and compare with the global fit by the
UT$fit$ collaboration~\cite{Bona:2007vi} to obtain bounds on the sgluon mass,
for a given choice of gluino mass, average squark masses, and squark flavor
mixing parameters $\widetilde{\delta}$.\medskip

In Fig.~\ref{fig:fcnc}, we present the scale of the most constraining of the
four fermion operators, expressed as the effective scale $\Lambda /
\widetilde{\delta}^{ij}$.  Since mixing effects will only raise the effective
scale of the four fermion interactions, the curves are the minimum possible
effective scales for a given choice of sgluon, gluino, and average squark
masses.  In other words, a realistic choice of mixing parameters will increase
the effective scales which suppress the FCNC operators and thus result in less
constraints from flavor violation mediated by sgluons.  We also show the
bounds on the corresponding scales from Ref.~\cite{Bona:2007vi}. Bounds from
$B$-$\bar{B}$ and $D$-$\bar{D}$ mixing are mild enough as to basically provide
no constraint. The $K$-$\bar{K}$ mixing bound is more severe, but the plotted
bound is on the imaginary part of $\tilde{\delta}$, and thus can be avoided if
there is no large $CP$-violating phase in the down-strange squark mixing
element.  In any case, sgluon masses above 600 GeV or so are compatible with
measurement, regardless of mixing.  Note also that the constraints on
down-type mixing do not in any way preclude the sgluon flavor-violating decays
into up-type quarks which we consider below.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=7cm]{fcnc.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{Solid lines: effective scales characterizing the four fermion
  operators mediated by sgluons
  contributing to (bottom to top) $B_d$ mixing (2 curves), $D$ mixing,
  $K$ mixing with $m_{\tilde{g}} = 1$~TeV and an average $m_{\tilde{q}} = 500$~GeV, and
  $K$ mixing with $m_{\tilde{g}} = m_{\tilde{q}} = 1$~TeV.  Dashed lines: current bounds
  on the operators (bottom to top), $Q_5^{bd}$, $Q_4^{bd}$,
  $Q^{cu}_4$, and $Q^{sd}_5$ (imaginary part),
  obtained from the global fit  \protect{\cite{Bona:2007vi}}.
\label{fig:fcnc}}
\end{figure}

\section{Sgluons at colliders}
\label{sec:search}

As discussed in Section~\ref{sec:sgluons}, we expect the
$R$--symmetric supersymmetric theory to include a pair of sgluons
whose mass is split by something of order the gluino mass. There will
thus be two sgluon states which we can search for at hadron colliders.
Since the masses are not typically degenerate, the results in this
section are presented for a single sgluon state, and apply equally to
the lighter or the heavier sgluon.
The couplings to quarks and single sgluon coupling to gluons will
depend on the mixing between the two states, but tree level pair
production of sgluons involves only the strong coupling, as these
interactions are protected by $SU(3)_C$ gauge invariance.  The
resulting pair cross sections thus only depend on the sgluon mass, similar
to, for example, the case of scalar leptoquark pairs.\medskip

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=8cm]{versus_mg.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{Inclusive production cross sections for sgluons at the
  Tevatron and at the LHC. For the LHC we show pair production (solid)
  and single production (dashed) as a function of the sgluon mass. The
  two curves for single sgluon production assume a gluino mass of
  1~TeV and squark masses of 500~GeV (upper curve) and 1~TeV
  (lower curve).
\label{fig:xsec}}
\end{figure}

In Figure~\ref{fig:xsec}, we present the leading order cross section
for pair production of sgluons as a function of their mass at the
Tevatron and LHC~\cite{Alwall:2007st}. For masses around 250~GeV, the
production rate of the order of 200~fb at the Tevatron would correspond
to a few hundred sgluon pair events in the currently available CDF and
DZero data, depending on the decays and triggers.  As expected, the
production rate at the Tevatron drops below the femtobarn level for
sgluon masses around 400~GeV, thanks to the limited center-of-mass
energy and $p$--wave suppression of the dominant subprocess $q \bar{q}
\rightarrow G G$. From a dedicated analysis we could expect
sgluon mass bounds similar to squark mass bounds in the limit of
large gluino mass.\medskip

At the LHC, the dominant subprocess is $gg \rightarrow G G^*$ with large cross
sections, falling from around 400~pb for masses around 250~GeV to 2~fb for
masses around 1.5~TeV. For sgluon masses in the TeV range, the LHC will rely
on its sea-quark suppressed $q \bar{q}$ luminosity which leads to a rapid drop
of the cross section above 1.8~TeV.  With an appreciable LHC luminosity these
rates correspond to several hundred to a few million events available for
analyses.

For the LHC we also present the single production rate from gluon
fusion~\cite{Spira:1995mt}, for two choices of squark and gluino masses.
Through the one-loop diagrams discussed in Sec.~\ref{sec:sgluons} there can be
appreciable single sgluon production through $gg \rightarrow G$, which can
dominate for large sgluon masses because of the phase space suppression of the
pair production and threshold effects. For small sgluon masses the LHC is not energy limited, so the
single production channel is suppressed by a loop factor $\alpha_s/(4 \pi)$
squared. The problem of single production will be challenging backgrounds
discussed below.  The sgluon interaction with quarks typically results in a
negligible single sgluon production rate, because the leading contribution is
one loop and the suppression by the light quark masses.\medskip

Sgluons can also be produced at the LHC in cascade decays involving squarks,
through the soft breaking interaction of eq.(\ref{eq:soft}).  Production of
pairs of heavier squarks can thus cascade down through sgluons into lighter
squarks, leaving behind either light jets which reconstruct the sgluon mass,
or events enriched with top quarks.  Either of these possibilities is rather
exotic from the point of view of the standard MSSM, and we leave their
detailed exploration for future work.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.33]{br1.eps} \hspace*{1.5cm}
  \includegraphics[angle=0,scale=0.33]{br2.eps}
\end{center}
\caption{\label{fig:br}Branching ratios for sgluon decays into $gg$,
  $t\bar{t}$, $\bar{q}t+\bar{t}q$ for $q=u,c$ and $\tilde{q}
  \tilde{q}^*$ as a function of sgluon mass and for two choices of
  left-handed squark and gluino masses.  Right-handed squark masses
  are set to $90\%$ of the left-handed squark masses.
  We assume maximal up-squark
  mixing.}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Sgluon decays --- like-sign tops}
\label{sec:decays}

If heavy enough, sgluons will decay at tree level into pairs of
gluinos and/or squarks.  If these decay channels are closed, the
sgluon has to decay through its loop-induced couplings into quarks and
gluons. In the case of decays into quarks, the $G$-$q$-$\bar{q}$
interaction is proportional to the heavier of the two quark masses, so one
can expect that decays including at least one top quark to dominate.

If the mixing in the up-type squark sector is large (as is the point of the
MRSSM), we therefore expect large and comparable branching ratios into $t
\bar{u}$, $t \bar{c}$, and $t \bar{t}$. The specifics of the branching ratios
are a window into the details of the squark mixing matrices. In
Figure~\ref{fig:br} we present the branching ratios as a function of the
sgluon mass for two sets of average squark and gluino masses, and assuming
maximal mixing in the up-squark sector.  The mixed
heavy--light quark decays can dominate the sgluon decays for small
masses and decreases with larger sgluon masses.  For the maximal mixing
considered here, the decay into $t \bar{t}$ is roughly comparable to any
single one of the heavy-light decays.  Thus, combing channels together, the
branching ratio into one top (or anti-top) and a light quark are a factor of a
few times larger than that into a top pair.  For heavier squarks the
supersymmetric decay channels are typically closed in the region accessible to
the LHC. Again, the decay to one heavy and one light quark typically
dominates.  At large sgluon masses decays into gluons dominate because the
$G$--$g$--$g$ coupling is a dimension five operator which grows with the
invariant mass of the sgluon, \ie the only scale in the process, while the
decay to quarks will be suppressed by a relative factor $m_t/m_G$.\medskip

When sgluons are pair-produced, each sgluon is as likely to decay into
a top as an anti-top.  Thus, half of the decays where both sgluons
decay into a top and a light-quark initiated jet will have same sign
tops ($tt$ or $\bar{t}\bar{t}$).  When both tops decay leptonically we
have a final state containing two light jets and either $b \ell^+ \nu
~ b \ell^{\prime+} \nu$ or a $\bar{b} \ell^- \bar{\nu} ~ \bar{b}
\ell^- \bar{\nu}$ (where $\ell$ is an electron or muon) - a striking
signature of physics beyond the Standard Model
that also arises in the context of models of top
compositeness~\cite{Lillie:2007hd}.\medskip

Reference~\cite{BarShalom:2008fq} has considered
a search for like-sign tops at the Tevatron in the
context of a model of maximal flavor violation. The authors perform a
sophisticated treatment of the backgrounds and the CDF detector
efficiencies.  While the maximal flavor violation model signal is the
result of a mixture of pair and single production of a neutral color
singlet scalar $\eta$ which interacts moderately strongly with top and
charm, the analysis only requires a pair of like sign leptons, a
$b$-tagged jet, and missing energy. Thus, our signal events are
expected to have a high efficiency with respect to the analysis
cuts, and one could get a Tevatron bound on the sgluon mass
from a similar analysis.\medskip

A single sgluon produced at the LHC can decay through its
flavor-violating interactions into a single top quark and a light jet,
similar in topology to the $s$-channel mode of single top production.
Even in the Standard model, this mode is challenging at the LHC
because of large backgrounds from $t \bar{t}$ and $t$-channel single
top~\cite{Harris:2002md}. Therefore, single sgluon production is
unlikely to be phenomenologically relevant after considering QCD
effects and backgrounds.  However, if the sgluon is heavy enough it
may be possible to use the peak in the top plus light jet invariant
mass to isolate a signal~\cite{Tait:2000sh}.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{signal.eps}
\caption{Transverse momentum spectra from sgluon pair production at
  the parton level on a linear scale. We show the harder/softer
  light-flavor jets, bottoms and leptons as well as the missing
  transverse momentum due to neutrinos from purely leptonic sgluon
  pairs. The sgluon masses are 300 and 600~GeV.
\label{fig:signal}}
\end{figure}

\subsection{LHC signatures}
\label{sec:lhc}

From the discussion above we are immediately lead to study in more detail
sgluon pair production with a subsequent decay into two like-sign tops with
leptonic decays. With sizeable production rates and branching ratios above
10\% the question remains if this channel survives the LHC triggers and
acceptance cuts. In Fig.~\ref{fig:signal} we show the normalized transverse
momentum distributions of all sgluon decay particles. For both sgluon masses
of 300 and 600~GeV the light-flavor jet and bottom transverse momenta peak
above $p_T = 50$~GeV, which indicates that observing four jets and tagging two
bottoms should not be a problem. For a 300~GeV sgluon the harder jet has a
typical transverse momentum around $p_{T,j} \sim m_G - m_t \sim 120$~GeV.
Similarly, the harder bottom can acquire $p_{T,b} \sim m_t - m_W \sim
100$~GeV. For a heavier sgluon we see that the bottom distributions hardly
change, since they are mostly determined by the top and $W$ masses. The two
light-flavor jets from the sgluon decay become significantly harder and peak
around $p_{T,j} \sim 180$~GeV and 280~GeV, respectively. As we will see later, in
particular for heavier sgluons the decay jet can be identified unambiguously
even in the presence of QCD jets.\medskip

On the lepton side of Fig.~\ref{fig:signal} we see that the harder
lepton with a typical transverse momentum close to 100~GeV guarantees
the triggering of sgluon pair production. Moreover, such a large
transverse momentum might be useful to distinguish the sgluon pairs
from the Standard Model backgrounds, even in the same-sign lepton
case. The second lepton is comparably soft, and the missing transverse
momentum peaking around 70~GeV is unlikely to contribute to the
smoking-gun signature.\medskip

Nevertheless, from the distributions in Fig.~\ref{fig:signal} we can
see that triggering and acceptance cuts will not be a problem for the
largely background-free like-sign tops signature. Moreover, both hard
light-flavor decay jets as well as the relatively hard lepton spectrum
should help to reconstruct the sgluon mass scale, which would allow us
to gain information on the branching ratio and thereby on the flavor
structure of the MRSSM.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=5.2cm]{jets_pt30.eps} \hspace*{-0.1cm}
\includegraphics[width=5.2cm]{jets_pt50.eps} \hspace*{-0.1cm}
\includegraphics[width=5.2cm]{jets_pt100.eps}
\caption{Number of jets produced in QCD jet radiation in addition to
  the sgluon or top decay jets. We use MLM merging as implemented in
  MadEvent and apply $p_{T,j} > 30, 50, 100$~GeV and $\Delta R_{jj} >
  0.4$ on the parton level.
\label{fig:jets}}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Sgluons and QCD jets}
\label{sec:qcd}

Because the light-flavor decay jets from the sgluons are crucial for the
analysis described above, we have to answer the question if this jet can be
identified in the jet-rich LHC environment. This question becomes even more
relevant once we try to search for the opposite-sign lepton channel or attempt
to determine the sgluon mass from hadronic top decays. Recently, there have
been theoretical developments which allow us to simulate QCD jet radiation
over the entire transverse momentum range of these additional jets and
including high jet multiplicities.\medskip

We simulate additional QCD jets in the signal process $pp \to GG+X$ using the
MadEvent~\cite{mlm_me} implementation of the MLM scheme. In particular because
the sgluons in the final state provide a hard scale for the process we do not
expect the MLM results to differ from a corresponding CKKW
analysis~\cite{ckkw,compare_them,my_tasi}. In particular for heavier sgluon
masses the QCD activity should be dominated by collinear parton-shower
effects~\cite{skands}, but the MLM scheme now allows us to consistently treat
top backgrounds and the sgluon signal for different masses. For this
simulation we avoid introducing a supersymmetric shower including sgluon
splittings, which would be required to include final-state radiation. Because
of the lack of a collinear enhancement we know that final-state radiation will
not contribute strongly to QCD jet radiation. Therefore, we only include
initial-state radiation which is universal for different heavy new-physics
states produced at the LHC.\medskip

In Fig.~\ref{fig:jets} we show the number of QCD jets in sgluon pair events at
the LHC. Apart from a crucial minimal jet separation of $R_{jj} > 0.4$ we
apply only a varying transverse momentum cut of 30, 50 and 100~GeV on the
radiated jets. In the left panel we see that while top quarks most likely come
with no additional jet from initial-state radiation, a 300~GeV sgluon will
most likely be accompanied by one and a 600~GeV sgluon by two additional QCD
jets. This is an effect of the hard factorization scale in the process which
determines the size and the maximum range of the collinear enhancement of
initial-state radiation. When we increase the minimum $p_{T,j}$ to 50~GeV the
typical number of additional jets drops by roughly one, but in particularly
heavy states still come with zero, one, or two jets at roughly the same rate.
Only the three additional jets channel is suppressed to the 10\% level, where
this quantitative result should be taken with a grain of salt without a tuned
parton shower for the LHC. Finally, a cut of at least $p_{T,j} > 100$~GeV gets
rid of additional jets in roughly two thirds of the events and allows us to
use light-flavor decay jets in the analysis.\medskip

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{merged.eps}
\caption{Transverse momentum of the leading and the three sub-leading
  QCD jets radiated in sgluon and top pair production. The different
  curves are normalized according to the relative rates in
  Fig.~\ref{fig:jets}. The leading jets is shown as a solid line.
\label{fig:merging}}
\end{figure}

The normalized transverse momentum distributions for the radiated jets are shown
in Fig.~\ref{fig:merging}. The different areas under the curves for the four
leading jets reflect the fact that only a fraction of events actually show
such jets. Again, we see that from the top pairs to the 600~GeV sgluons the
situation changes qualitatively: in the bottom panel the
curves for the leading and the sub-leading are similar, and as long as we stay
below $p_{T,j}$ even a third QCD jet is very likely to appear. In a way, the
crossing point between the two hardest jet indicates a $p_{T,j}$ range below
which we should not rely on QCD jets being rare or suppressed. In other words,
50~GeV jets should not be used as part of the signal unless we have a way to
identify decay jets, while jets with $p_{T,j} > 100$~GeV are comparably safe. Of
course, this insight is not new --- for example, careful squark and gluino
analyses for the LHC have always been designed that
way~\cite{sq_go,osland}.\medskip

The good news of this QCD analysis is that jet activity will actually be
helpful to distinguish sgluon pairs from $t\bar{t}$ backgrounds. First, top
pair events are quite unlikely to come with a QCD jet of $p_{T,j} > 100$~GeV,
which we have seen in Sec.~\ref{sec:lhc} is typical for the signal's decay
jets. Secondly, as long as we require $p_{T,j} > 100$~GeV for the decay jets,
even a 600~GeV sgluon will hardly come with such hard QCD jets. In general, if
we consider something like the total visible mass as an observable to
distinguish the sgluon-pair signal from top pairs, Fig.~\ref{fig:jets} shows
that QCD radiation will improve this handle. Based on these results, we can
estimate that for sgluon branching ratios into $t\bar{q}$ of order 10\%, we
can expect an LHC discovery reach of up to roughly $m_G \sim 1$~TeV.\medskip

The bad news is that for the reconstruction of the sgluon mass we
could utilize the semileptonic sample. From Fig.~\ref{fig:signal} we
can guess that the jet from the hadronic top decay should be
comparable to the lepton spectrum, which does not guarantee that both
of them even lie above $p_{T,j} > 50$~GeV, where the safe region would
really only start at $p_{T,j} > 100$~GeV, as seen in
Fig.~\ref{fig:jets}. Reconstructing the sgluon including a hadronic
top decay is unlikely to succeed in a realistic QCD environment. As mentioned
above, single sgluon production might rely on such a reconstruction for a
side-bin analysis against the theoretically notorious single-top background,
so QCD effects are unlikely to help with this problem.

\section{Conclusions}
\label{sec:conclusions}

The MRSSM, with a continuous $R$ symmetry,
is an interesting alternative to the MSSM, which provides a novel
solution to the tension between supersymmetry at the TeV scale
and measurements from the flavor sector.  A key feature of any
$R$--symmetric model is the promotion of gauginos to Dirac fermions,
which automatically implies the existence of an additional color-octet
scalar with Standard-Model type $R$ charge, the sgluon.  Sgluons
necessarily have tree-level couplings to gluons, gluinos, and squarks,
which further induce couplings to quarks and (single sgluon coupling to)
gluons through loops.\medskip

Sgluons have a large color charge and can be copiously produced at the
LHC.  Their decays can include squarks, gluinos, gluons, and quarks.
This last decay, through the large squark mixing which is the hallmark of
the MRSSM, can violate flavor, leading to large branching ratios into
a top and a light quark.
Pair production with a subsequent decay to
light-sign top quarks appears to be the most promising search channel
at the LHC. We have computed the relevant LHC cross sections and
branching ratios, with special focus on jet activity in this
essentially background-free signature.\medskip

Properly simulated QCD effects turn out to be helpful with regard to
the sgluon pair analysis: additional jet radiation in the signal will
typically create more hard jets, adding to the two hard decay jets
from the sgluon pair. While the QCD jets are too soft to be mistaken
for decay jets they create a generally harder signal event, while jet
radiation for the already softer top-pair background makes this
general feature even more prominent. In the light of this result, a
search for sgluon pairs with a $t\bar{t}$ final state might be
feasible.

For single sgluon production the QCD-induced background uncertainty is
potentially dangerous. The obvious way to tell apart signal and
background would be to look for a peak in the top--jet invariant mass,
with a hadronically decaying top quark. However, QCD jet radiation can
be expected to lead to a sizeable combinatorical background to the $W$
decay jets, which is worsened by the generically higher scale of the
signal process.

\section*{Acknowledgments}

The authors are grateful for conversations with Beate Heinemann, Ben
Kilminster, Charles Plager, Dave Rainwater, and Daniel Whiteson. For
the QCD simulations we are hugely grateful to Johan Alwall for
teaching us Madevent and jet merging. We also would like to thank the
Aspen Center for Physics for providing such a stimulating environment
which inspired this study.
We thank Claude Duhr and Fabio Maltoni for helping us implement the correct
color structure for the $G$-$G$-$g$-$g$ vertex in MadEvent,
which is not properly gauge invariant by default.
We are grateful to the authors of \cite{Choi:2008ub} for detailed comparisons
with part of our results and
correcting a sign error in our original Feynman rules.  Our phenomenological
results have not changed significantly.
Research at Argonne National Laboratory is
supported in part by the Department of Energy under contract
DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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#define INCLUDE_KDTREE_ALLOCATOR_HPP

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namespace KDTree
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    class _Alloc_base
    {
    public:
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HomeSportsTafoya, Snyder, and Curtiss Shine at Senior Day
Tafoya, Snyder, and Curtiss Shine at Senior Day
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Jamie Tafoya - Courtesy of Gordon Athletics
The Gordon College women's volleyball team got a home win versus the Nichols College Bison last Saturday. It was Senior Day and all three seniors, Jamie Tafoya, Amanda Snyder, and Jenny Curtiss, were recognized and honored after the game for their commitment and dedication to the team.
The Scots won the first three sets and swept the Bison in a spirited and impressive victory. In the first set, seniors Amanda Snyder and Jamie Tafoya combined for 7 kills and led the team to their largest set win of the season by a score of 25-5.
The Bison came out stronger for the second and third sets, but it didn't matter. The Scots kept up the intensity and forced a sweep.
Jennifer Curtiss – Courtesy of Gordon Athletics
Gordon ended the game with an impressive 39 kills and 37 assists. Seniors Amanda Snyder and Jamie Tafoya led the game in kills with 12 and 8, respectively. All three seniors led the game in aces for a combined 8 between them.
Between sets, the students and parents chanted the seniors' names. One enthusiastic audience member started an "I say Gordon, you say seniors" chant. After the game, the seniors took photos with their families and were congratulated by the students and fans who came out to watch the game.
"I would say that this is the way you would want a senior to finish. They're all playing at the peak of their abilities," said Coach Sue Kelly. "So Jenny set a school record, Jamie and Amanda both set career highs on Wednesday, so you just can't ask for better from them."
Amanda Snyder – Courtesy of Gordon Athletics
Coach Kelly also said: " The fact that all three of them basically started all four years is pretty memorable. A lot of times you'll have a senior that comes on their junior year or when they are an upperclassman but they all have been a crucial part of the team for the last four years."
Their achievements didn't just occur on the court either.
"So I would say each of them were amazing leaders and role models not only on the court but spiritually and just being remarkable young women" said Coach Kelly.
The Scots will soon finish up their regular season and head to the Commonwealth Coast Conference playoffs.
Jamie Tafoya prepares to serve – Courtesy of Gordon Athletics
"I'm excited by the way this team is finishing. We're playing our best volleyball heading into the playoffs, which is what every coach hopes for, so I'm excited" Coach Kelly says.
The women's volleyball team has two more regular season games and then they head to their first playoff game on November 5th.

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J McCormick
Biography Matches
Joseph McCormick (later Reverend Canon J McCormick)
Born 29 October 1834, Liverpool
Died 9 April 1914, Westminster
Educated Liverpool College, Bingley Grammar School, Cambridge University
Occupation Anglican Clergyman. Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V
Debut 10 September 1855 v Gentlemem of England at Phoenix CC, Phoenix Park
Cap Number 7
Style Right hand bat, slow right arm round arm
Teams Cambridge University, I Zingari, Phoenix, United Ireland XI, United England XI, Gentlemen of England, MCC, North of the Thames, Gentlemen of the MCC, Stanley Club.
Joseph McCormick - always known as Joe by his friends - stood six feet three inches in height, and, weighting 12 stone 3 in his playing days, was broad shouldered and powefully built. He used his height and reach to be a powerful front foot player. Arthur Haygarth, in Scores and Biographies, thought him one of the most dangerous hitters the game had seen.
He received no formal instruction in cricket until he went to Cambridge. He was also an excellent roundarm leg break bowler, having learned his trade from the great Billy Buttress, who helped out in the nets at Cambridge, and on whose style McCormick's bowling style was based. It is to be hoped that, as a future pillar of the Anglican Church, bowling was the only part of Billy's life that the undergraduate Joseph took a lead from. Billy was denied a lasting career in the first class game, as he was frequently the worse for drink, once being found up a tree, singing, when supposed to be batting, at Lord's.
Though born and educated in Liverpool, McCormick's Irish connections were strong. His father was, at one time, MP for Londonderry. Further Joseph was unable to play in the 1855 University Match as he had to go to Ireland for, unspecified, family reasons. The bulk of his schooldays were spent at Liverpool College, whose first Blue he was to become in 1854. The school had to wait until JAD Hobbs, the Oxford opener of 1957, for another.
Its most famous cricketer, however, was neither McCormick nor Hobbs, but the Lancashire dentist Ken Cranston who opened the bowling for, and captained, both his county and country (once), in 1947-1948. McCormick is also referred to, in the list of Cambridge Blues, as having been at Bingley. This is assumed to have been Bingley Grammar School, a venerable institution, which counts scientist Sir Fred Hoyle and the soap actor Derek Benfield amongst its alumni, but does not mention its only Double Blue.
McCormick's cricket career had two distinct parts. From 1854 to 1857 he was regularly seen in English cricket, gaining his Blue, playing for MCC and in the 1857 Gentlemen v Players Match. During this time he also played for Ireland. However in 1858, he was ordained and, though he continued to play in Irish Cricket for a further two years, often using the name J Bingley, which suggests an affection for his second school, he was not seen in major cricket in England until the late 1860s. This was because, as he explained in a Wisden article in 1895, clergy were thought, "to have deserted their cloth by appearing on the tented field."
For Cambridge he scored 195 runs at 12.18 and took 39 wickets at a low cost, full detais are not available. Fenner's had only recently become the University's ground, it had no pavilion until 1856 and, in McCormick's own words, "It lacked a mowing machine but was well kept and sheep eaten." Though he wrote that wicket was true, his highest score was 52* against The Cambridge Town Club, complete with Buttress, in 1856, the year of his captaincy. He also had 5 wickets in the match, so contributed well to a 2 wicket win.
The previous year the University had collapsed for a second innings 61 but he was easily top score with 34, only RA Fitzgerald (14) also reaching double figures. His low scores may partly be explained by his comment in the article that in those days batting all day was considered bad form, batsmen were expected to go for their shots after reaching 30. In that year, an eight year old boy was already showing the talent, in his Gloucestershire garden, for doing both. McCormick showed greater talents with the ball. For example against MCC at Fenners in 1855 he took 13 wickets in the match to gain an 8 wicket victory. His best bowling feat in a first clas match was for MCC v Sussex at Lord's in 1856. He took 9-26 in the match when, as he recalled 57 years later, "Sussex were about the best county in England."
He failed in his two University Matches aggregating only 17 runs and taking only two wickets. He did however have the satisfaction of leading Cambridge to what was, at that time, a rare victory. His team included, as a last minute substitute the Australian TW Wills, who had no real qualification to play. Wills, the founder of Australian Rules Football, and the first man to teach cricket to the Aborigines, despite his family having been killled in a massacre which he narrowly escaped, was also an alcoholic depressive, was destined to take his own life. That year he opposed McCormick for the Gentlemen of England v Ireland in Phoenix Park and played for Charles Lawrence's United Ireland XI.
McCormick was also to fail on his one appearance for Gentlemen v Players. With the ball he took 1-33 and 1-2, but opening the batting with future Irish batsman and MCC President, Spencer Ponsoby (later Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane), he was out for 4 and 1. He described the 4 in Wisden 1913, in some recollections of the Almanacs founder, "Wisden bowled at the pavilion end at Lord's. The second ball I cut for four, the third was a leg stump shooter and hit my wicket."
McCormick played five times for Ireland betweeen 1855 and 1858. The match that he reserved his best performance for was against the United England XI, as this involved Ireland fielding more than 11 players his statistics from it do not appear on ths site. In all but one of the matches his batting failed to live up to expectations.He managed only 115 runs - including the odds match - with a highest score of 56 v the Gentlemen of England in 1856. His bowling was a different matter.
He never failed to take wicket and for XXII Ireland v the United England XI at Phoenix CC in the same year, he played a major part in a famous victory. He made a pair opening the innings, being bowled by Wisden in the first innings and giving "Terrible Billy" Caffyn a return catch in the second. However with the ball he had 11 for 71 in the match, sweeping away the top order in each innings, as Ireland won by 6 runs. He also helped Ireland to a good win over MCC on the occasion of the first Irish visit to Lord's in 1858. The wicket was very muddy and McCormick and Charles Lawrence bowled unchanged throiughout the match. Lawrence was almost unplayable in the first innings with 8-32, however, they needed 63, 4 ball, overs to dispose of the hosts in the second with McCormick claiming 5-27 as Ireland won by an innings and 10 runs.
He appeared in other Irish cricket at this time also. In 1856, after the Gentlemen of England had played Ireland, they transformed themselves into MCC, added him to their number, and played XVI of the Vice Regal Lodge. He made 20 and 0, besides taking two wickets. His best performance with the bat in Ireland came in 1857 when he turned out for Lawrence's United Ireland XI v XXII of Dublin. The Citizens were swamped with McCormick, living up to his reputation for big hitting, striking a powerful 75, as well as taking 11 wickets. He also played in a number of minor matches in Ireland, often turning out for an XI raised by his friend Fred Ponsonby. on one such occasion, against the Officers of the Clonmel Garrison, he performed the hat trick, against a somewhat weak batting side.
After each wicket, he turned to Ponsonby, who was umpiring, and said, "That is about the rottenist ball I have ever bowled.
In 1856, he was ordained and thus his final Irish cricket was played under the alias of J Bingley. These were for I Zingari against Ireland in 1859 and 1860. In the former year he took 7 wickets in the match to see his former colleagues to an innings defeat. The following year, when he also helped IZ defeat Phoenix by an innings, he had a good all round match. He took 6 wickets in the second innings as Ireland collapsed for 94 to set IZ only 78 to win. Wickets fell, but "Bingley", who had made 12 in the first innings, held the side together with 32 to gain a four wicket win.
He now dropped out of cricket for almost ten years. First as Rector of Dunmore East, and then in various posts in England, he had little time to play, though his interest remained as keen as ever. Then in 1866 he returned to the first class scene and was a regular in the annual Canterbury Festival for the next three years.
Batting did not prove easy at first and he frequently fell to the medium pace roundarmer, the famous oarsman, William Lipscomb. McCormick's bowling remained as useful as ever as 5-32 for Gentlemen of the MCC v Kent in 1867 testifies. In his last season he finally found his batting form, playing what Wisden', the Almanac not the bowler, was later to call, "The innings of his life." Opening the batting he hit a magnificent 137 for North of the Thames v South of the Thames which was widely praised. His dominanc eof the match, though, wa short lived. A young 20 year old from Gloucestershire, sporting a shiny new black beard, was even then, being second to no one. WG scored a century in each innings, avenging McCormicks dismissal of him in an IZ match two years before. .
Ten years later McCormick played two matches for the Stanley Club of Liverpool v Dave Gregory's Australian toutists. He failed in both, but at least his wicket was claimed by "The Demon" Spofforth and by Frank Allan, "the Bowler of the Century", who had, earlier that year, turned down his his invitation to play in the First Test Match of all to attend an agricultural show.
Away from Cricket, McCormick was distiguished in other sports. He rowed in the Cambridge Boat in March 1856, helping to defeat Oxford in 22 minutes 45 seconds. He was also, as his physique might suggest, an excellent boxer. In the Church he became a Canon and Chaplain to three Monarchs. He also published a collection of sermons entitled "What is Sin?" This writer has been unable to find a copy but feels that McCormick, as an old Cantab, may have gained some pleasure from delivering the sermons at Oxfod!
His two sons resembled him in build and both followed him into the Church. Joseph Gough McCormick (1874 - 1924) became Dean of Manchester. He played with distinction for Norfolk 1899 to 1909, scoring 4 hundreds. William Patrick Glyn McCormick played for Devon and had one first class match for MCC in 1907. He also played Rugby for Transvaal. In old age their father retained all his cricket interest, remaining a regular at Lord's for the University match until 1913. He wrote two articles for Wisden, the first of which in 1895 seemed to suggest that the players of the day, apart from WG, were no match for those of his playing days! Yet we can leave him with a quotation from that article, which, even if it seems to contain a statistical exaggeration, is well deserved, "When I could play I was admitted to the best matches and made my century, while my bowling for such seasons as I could obbtain stood at the top with about nine runs per wicket."
His obituary will be found in Wisden 1915 and his biograbhy is in Scores and Biographies Volume 4 with an addendum in Volume 6. He is also featured in Talks with old English Cricketers by WA Bettesworth (1900).
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Thomas Porostocky/More Party Animals A piece of the More Party Animals logo that was misappropriated for the group No Labels.
O.K., so it wasn't an amazing coincidence after all.
The advertising agency veteran whose firm designed the graphic for the fledgling centrist political organization No Labels acknowledged Tuesday morning that his design was taken whole cloth from the logo of another political group.
The ad man, Dave Warren, said this morning that a designer he hired had grabbed the logo featuring red-white-and-blue animals from the Web site of the group More Party Animals and incorporated it in the design. Mr. Warren had insisted Monday that he had come up with the design independently.
On Tuesday, Mr. Warren apologized to the designer of the More Party Animals logo, Thomas Porostocky, and accepted responsibility for the theft, writing in an e-mail message to Mr. Porostocky:
Late last night, after I got home and finally saw the nearly identical figures and arrangements between your designs and ours, I realized we could not have gotten our designs from clip art. I confirmed that fact later on last night with my staff. So I totally understand your anger — especially considering the quality of your work. There's no excuse for this. I take full responsibility for it. And I'm sorry.
Mr. Porostocky said in an e-mail message Tuesday morning: "I haven't had a chance to speak to Dave or No Labels (they both reached out this morning), but will hopefully soon. While an apology might not be the only step, it's not a bad place to start."
Jamie December 14, 2010 · 10:56 am
Oh! I win! I predicted yesterday he'd change his explanation to "blame the assistant." See comment 8.
Darn I wish there had been a contest.
Kimiko December 14, 2010 · 10:59 am
ah, the old "blame the assistant" for your failure
Eric December 14, 2010 · 11:01 am
first he lied. no labels, one label sums this phony movement, liars!
BicyclesOnly December 14, 2010 · 11:14 am
Last night, Warren's arrogant response to the plagiarism charge was "check my resume" and "I'm a professional."
So how's business, Dave?
JG December 14, 2010 · 11:20 am
This reads as too little, too late.
To steal, vehemently and brusquely deny stealing while boasting of one's own seeming accomplishments, and then blame "a designer we hired" after checking with one's staff is true A-holery.
The only upside is that this Dave Warren fraud was fingered as such. Too often, plagiarism is just the way things go.
Yesterday, plagiarist Dave Warren had this to say:
"While I'd rather not wade in on this too much at the moment, let me just clarify that my work does not contain any clip-art whatsoever. The animals were all original illustrated by myself."
So either the thieving Dave Warren lied yesterday or he's lying today, when he chooses to blame "a designer we hired".
Either way: liar.
Lita December 14, 2010 · 11:39 am
Good to see the apology but this should never have happened from someone who is a professional like you, as per google.
Shaking my head December 14, 2010 · 11:49 am
I find this whole mess hilarious but also painful to watch. Dave, would you like some water to wash down that crow?
Pinner December 14, 2010 · 11:51 am
What ever Warren's firm was paid for the art should be paid to the real artist for starters.
Jesse Willmon December 14, 2010 · 11:56 am
lets call this what it is… it's not that he is a liar. It's that Dave Warren is a thief. He stole from Thomas Porostocky and is now trying to get out of it.
If you steal a car then sell it to someone else and then say "oh I'm sorry i didn't know i was stealing" You still stole a car. This is no different. He took art created by Thomas without payment and compensation and sold it to No Labels, he is a thief. No if's, ands or buts. A thief is a thief.
Ed Larch December 14, 2010 · 12:02 pm
Only Dave Warren I can find anything about is some guy who was a footballer for League of Ireland.
George December 14, 2010 · 12:07 pm
In other words, caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Mr. Warren 'fessed up to the expropriation.
Kind of a rueful start to a would-be political movement that claims it is above-the-fray of everyday partisan politics.
In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned the American people not to divide into political factions (i.e. parties). They promptly ignored him and did so.
This group will enjoy no greater success than did Washington — and, frankly, that will be a good thing. You ultimately won't get very far trying to ignore the imperative of Hegel's dialectic…..
dd December 14, 2010 · 12:13 pm
I have always said that if a person comes up with an idea there is probably someone elsewhere who has already thought of it, but -no doubt- this is a blatant case of plagiarism. Shame on you Dave Warren.
Pride Goeth December 14, 2010 · 12:20 pm
"I do my own thinking, man," he said. "Feel free to come to one of my classes at Parsons."
He added: "I have a long and storied history on Madison Avenue [see note below]. I'm not stupid enough to steal anybody's work; I have too much faith to come up with my own ideas."
As for Mr. Porostocky, Mr. Warren said, "Tell the other guy to Google my name.
[He's 30.]
Amy December 14, 2010 · 12:22 pm
@10: Agree with you, Jesse. A person who steals the fruit of someone else's labor is a thief no matter what profession they're in. You steal a cow from a rancher, you're a cattle thief. You steal an idea from an artist, you are an intellectual property thief. Except it's way worse, because people who make a living from the ideas they think up also depend on the originality of their ideas. So by stealing their ideas you dilute their value in the marketplace, and you diminish the person's portfolio for the next potential job.
I'm glad Warren confessed, but now what? Is he going to pay reparation for damages, perform community service, get rehabilitated, all of the above, or something? The story seems to lack a conclusion as of now…
daveesh December 14, 2010 · 12:47 pm
So much for Dave Warren's "long and storied history on Madison Avenue." In a display of classic creative director arrogance, he takes complete ownership of "his own thinking, man," defending "his own ideas." Then when the plagiarism becomes impossible to defend, he blames his staff. Dave Warren is a blight on our profession.
Dan December 14, 2010 · 12:50 pm
Hopefully Mr. Warren is driving a nice big novelty cheque over to Thomas' home right now.
gluepet December 14, 2010 · 1:41 pm
Tell the other guy to Google my name. Priceless!
Betty December 14, 2010 · 2:11 pm
Not often do you get to quote Bugs Bunny, but
"What a maroon. What a phony baloney maroon."
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MST December 14, 2010 · 2:16 pm
"Came up with it completely independently." -Lie.
"Clip-art animal shapes." – Lie
Conceptually, I was…" -Lie
"I do my own thinking, man." – Lie
"I'm not stupid enough to steal…" Lie
"when I got home [and actually checked the facts]…" Weasel
"Confirmed with my staff…" Back-stabbing weasel.
Someone with that many details built into what was unquestionably a known huge lie, spiced with arrogance and haughty self regard is not just a liar, but a pathological liar. And then to throw "the staff" under the bus, means pathological liar and a sociopath to boot. And a weasel. In about a year, let's see what the punch-line is to that Madison Av. Career Story. Unless, of course, all the Manhattanites give him a pass because he's "on the right side."
Kenno December 14, 2010 · 2:23 pm
"Tell the other guy to Google my name."
The modern version of "do you know who I am?"
Stephen orona December 14, 2010 · 3:00 pm
It's not what label I wear, its what I do that counts
Propagandist December 14, 2010 · 3:10 pm
I love the idea that Warren's so smug about his plagiarism that he was bragging how famous he is in the design world, then, when completely and irrevocably busted, he blames it on an assistant. So which is it? He does his own thinking (man), or he assigns assistants to do his own thinking and then is surprised and embarrassed when they plagiarize and he passes off their work as his own thinking?
Either way, it's not HIS thinking, man.
I definitely do NOT want to come check out one of his classes at Parsons, and frankly, I doubt Parsons really wants him teaching classes there after today. The idiot
Oh, and is THIS denial: "I have too much faith to come up with my own ideas" a Freudian slip, or what? Because it reads to me that he CAN'T come up with his own ideas because of his faith. He has too much faith to come up with his own ideas: he pretty much admitted he stole it right there.
I hope soon what comes up first when you Google "Dave Warren" is "plagiarist scumbag"
jaime December 14, 2010 · 3:28 pm
He should apologies to Parsons also, since he used the school's name on behave of his "greatness" on the first interview.
Shame on you Mr. Warren!
Tobias December 14, 2010 · 4:03 pm
I wonder if his "unique and powerful agency" stole designs from others. The arrogance emanating from the firm's website is palpable.
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Kurdish protesters throw stones as the police resorts to tear gas and water cannons in Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakır on Oct. 8. REUTERS Photo / Sertaç Kayar
The government has vowed to advance Turkey's stalled the peace process – its self-declared "unique brainchild" – while also pledging to empower security forces in the aftermath of recent violent demonstrations in predominantly Kurdish eastern and southeastern Anatolia.
In doing so, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government pointed the finger at the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), a key actor in the Kurdish political movement represented in Parliament, accusing it of provoking the demonstrations by Kurdish citizens against Ankara's perceived inaction toward Syrian Kurds besieged by jihadists in the Syrian border town of Kobane.
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The parties traded the severe accusations yesterday amid the government's declaration of tougher security measures, although the HDP announced as recently as Oct. 13 that the government had "partially shared" a long-awaited draft roadmap aimed at accelerating the peace process.
The HDP argued that it was its call for demonstrations that prevented Kobane from falling into the hands of jihadists, because the U.S.-led coalition carried out its first air strike targeting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants approaching Kobane only after the protest call.
Parliamentary delegations from the HDP have been speaking to imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, in line with his central role in the peace process, over the past two years, and the party accused the government of "hypocrisy" for declaring that it considered the PKK and ISIL to be the same.
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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, addressing his parliamentary group yesterday, said he had warned HDP co-leader Selahattin Demirtaş during an Oct. 1 meeting not to link the Kobane issue with the process and not to "sabotage" the talks.
"The resolution process had already begun before the Kobane incident and is not related to any external issue. But while saying this, we are not saying that 'Kobane is insignificant,'" Davutoğlu said. "Look at what the HDP did, they tried to blackmail us by linking the resolution process to Kobane. We will not let the resolution process be used as a tool for blackmail."
Interpreting the recent protests as a "provocation" to destroy public order ahead of the 2015 parliamentary elections, the prime minister vowed zero tolerance for any similar incidents in the future.
"Public order in Turkey is under our guarantee. We will buy five or 10 TOMAs for each TOMA destroyed," Davutoğlu said, referring to the infamous armored water cannon vehicles, known as "Mass Incident Intervention Vehicles" (TOMA) in Turkish.
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Davutoğlu also pledged to further empower the security forces in Turkey in order to not permit similar instances of vandalism and street violence, saying the government was studying models in Germany and the U.K. in order to avoid criticism that Turkey was becoming "police state."
Earlier, emerging from a Cabinet meeting late on Oct. 13, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç announced that the government would look at Germany's criminal code as a template when carrying out plans to empower security forces.
Arınç also stressed that the ruling AKP, in power since 2002, has always attached importance to harmonizing with the European Union acquis in implementing new legislation.
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"It has been decided to adopt their practices to Turkey's conditions by perhaps taking their authorities as a basis, perhaps giving priority to Germany," he said.
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Not caving in to the government's interpretation of the Kobane issue, HDP co-leader Demirtaş said his party's call on people to take to the streets stemmed from concerns that the Mürşitpınar border gate near Kobane was set to fall. While giving this call, the party also contacted the government for aid, he said.
"We have displayed the most honorable stance that an honorable party should display and we took the streets along with our people. This is what we have done and we are still behind that call," Demirtaş said yesterday during his party's parliamentary group meeting.
Kobane did not emerge as an issue just a few days ago, Demirtaş said, noting that the HDP has been warning the government about the battle against jihadists in Rojava, the Kurdish northern part of Syria, for the past two years.
"The Middle East cannot be learned by penning thick books," Demirtaş said, apparently addressing academic-turned-politician Davutoğlu and accusing him of acting in an "authoritarian" manner.
"You are about to get drowned in the depth that you wrote," he added, referring to Davutoğlu's book published in 2001, "Strategic Depth."
Still, the HDP co-head left the door open to dialogue, albeit on the condition that the government alter its attitude, which he described as "patronizing."
"We state that in any case, we will not be giving up the resolution and negotiation process based on dialogue based on this understanding," he said, urging the government to approach the issue while recognizing their own mistakes "objectively."
If the government insists on continuing its patronizing attitude, the HDP will go its own way, he added.
What German criminal code grants to its police
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Under Germany's federal system, state governments implement different criminal codes, yet freedom of assembly, thus political demonstrations, is a constitutional right.
Police can take demonstrators into custody and use force and tools, like water cannons, only if protesters resort to violent actions. Demonstrators under custody should be taken to court no longer than 24 hours after being taken into custody.
A demonstration can be banned if it is arranged at a location allocated for the memory of victims of the Nazi era or if it directly endangers public order and security.
An anti-terrorism legislation adopted in 2008 expanded the powers of the federal police to gather information from the computers, telephone lines and homes of suspected terrorists to conduct "preemptive investigations" in the event of terrorism cases.
The Turkish government has particularly cited German practice as a model for its plans to draft a new homeland security law.
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At Storm Island, Nikalys, Kenders, and Jak are adjusting to their new lives as leader, mage, and soldier. In the nation's capital, nobles spar, some conspiring with the enemy while others ally together to halt Chaos' advance. New friends will be made, old rivals rediscovered, and secrets revealed.
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The more I delve into this series, the more I feel like I'm reading a contemporary rendering of Lord of the Rings. This book didn't quite move at the same pace as Progeny, but I did really enjoy seeing the characters grow. Kaelin's style of writing is like a breath of fresh air every time; smooth and detailed. He clearly thinks through his characters, settings, and storyline rather than simply scratching the surface.
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We discover there is a prophecy that gives us a glimpse of the future, setting the stage for the rest of the series.
We are also introduced to more characters, which, as long as you keep up with it, is an extra feat to the work.
Although at times it was a little harder to get through the extreme detail in this book, I'm finding myself falling in love with this series. One day, when it's finished in its entirety and is available as a set, I'll be one of the first to get it for my bookshelf. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Lord of the Rings or Eragon. I've even been pushing for my husband to read these novels because I think he'd really like them, too.
As always, I'm looking forward to book 3 to see what happens with our beloved heroes and the future of the Oaken Dutchies. Also, be sure to grab your copies of The Terrene Chronicles that accompany this series (I actually still need to read these...)!


We are excited to include young people in our prayers for Hollywood! Join us in praying for those who influence kids in film, television and music. Just print out whichever calendar pertains to you and/or your children and pass it on to your families, friends, youth group leaders, and Bible study leaders, so that our young people will be praying for their peers as they watch and listen to their favorite films, TV shows and songs. Email us if you'd like to be added to next month's calendars at info@hpnemail.org.
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using Axiom.Core;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;

namespace Multiverse.Movie.Codecs
{
    public class Movie : IMovie
    {
        private static readonly log4net.ILog log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(Movie));

        protected int id;
        protected string name, path, textureName;
        protected Texture texture;
        protected Size videoSize, textureSize;
        public enum PLAY_STATE
        {
            INIT,
            BUFFERING,
            RUNNING,
            PAUSED,
            STOPPED,
            UNLOADED,
        }
        protected PLAY_STATE ps;
        protected string altImage;
        protected bool altImageShown;

        public Movie()
        {
            id = Manager.GetNewIdentifier();
            name = null;
            path = null;
            textureName = null;
            texture = null;
            videoSize = Size.Empty;
            textureSize = Size.Empty;
            ps = PLAY_STATE.INIT;
            altImage = null;
            altImageShown = false;
        }

        ~Movie()
        {
            Unload();
        }

        #region IMovie methods
        public virtual string CodecName()
        {
            // override me
            return null;
        }
        public virtual string Name()
        {
            return name;
        }
        public virtual string Path()
        {
            return path;
        }
        public virtual string TextureName()
        {
            return textureName;
        }
        public virtual int ID()
        {
            return id;
        }
        public virtual Size VideoSize()
        {
            return videoSize;
        }
        public virtual Size TextureSize()
        {
            return textureSize;
        }
        public virtual Texture Texture()
        {
            return texture;
        }
        public virtual string AltImage()
        {
            return altImage;
        }
        public virtual void SetAltImage(string image)
        {
            altImage = image;
        }
        public virtual bool ShowAltImage()
        {
            bool ans = false;
            if (!altImageShown && (altImage != null))
            {
                Manager.ShowAltImage(TextureName(), altImage);
                ans = true;
            }
            altImageShown = true;
            return ans;
        }
        public virtual bool HideAltImage()
        {
            bool ans = false;
            if (altImageShown)
            {
                Manager.HideAltImage(TextureName());
                ans = true;
            }
            altImageShown = false;
            return ans;
        }
        public virtual bool ReplaceWorldObject(string name)
        {
            return Manager.ReplaceWorldObject(this, name);
        }
        public virtual bool SetTextureCoordinates(string material)
        {
            return Manager.SetTextureCoordinates(this, material);
        }
        public virtual bool Play()
        {
            ps = PLAY_STATE.RUNNING;
            return true;
        }
        public virtual bool Pause()
        {
            ps = PLAY_STATE.PAUSED;
            return true;
        }
        public virtual bool Stop()
        {
            ps = PLAY_STATE.STOPPED;
            return true;
        }
        public virtual void Unload()
        {
            ps = PLAY_STATE.UNLOADED;
            return;
        }
        public virtual bool SetParameter(string name, string val)
        {
            ICodec codec = Manager.Instance.FindCodec(CodecName());
            if ((codec != null) && (!codec.ValidateParameter(name, val)))
            {
                log.ErrorFormat("Parameter '{0}' is not valid with value '{1}' (did you override ICodec.ValidateParameter()?)",
                                name, val);
            }
            return false;
        }
        #endregion
    }
}


Cute and cozy describes this riverfront cottage on the banks of the West Kettle River. The house nestled in the woods was built from trees cleared off the land. This would make a great summer cottage or retirement home. There are lots of outbuildings and wood stove for those cool winter evenings. Carmi is only 40 minutes from Kelowna and an increasing number are finding this a commutable distance for a country home at an affordable price.