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The state Legislature has passed a home-rule petition that would remove the Massachusetts Historical Commission's authority to oversee the excavation of land targeted for a new Meditech facility. But the action isn't likely to revive the company's plans.
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arXiv:0810.1952v3 [hep-ph] 21 Jul 2009
Deciphering the spin of new resonances in Higgsless models
Alexandre Alves∗and O. J. P.´Eboli†
Instituto de F´ ısica, Universidade de S˜ ao Paulo, S˜ ao Paulo – SP, Brazil.
M. C. Gonzalez–Garcia‡
Instituci´ o Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avan¸ cats (ICREA),
Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Mat` eria,
Universitat de Barcelona, 647 Diagonal, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain and
C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3840, USA
J. K. Mizukoshi§
Centro de Ciˆ encias Naturais e Humanas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Santo Andr´ e – SP, Brazil.
We study the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to probe the spin of new
massive vector boson resonances predicted by Higgsless models. We consider its production via
weak boson fusion which relies only on the coupling between the new resonances and the weak
gauge bosons. We show that the LHC will be able to unravel the spin of the particles associated
with the partial restoration of unitarity in vector boson scattering for integrated luminosities of
150–560 fb−1, depending on the new state mass and on the method used in the analyses.
PACS numbers: 12.60.Fr, 14.70.Pw
Despite the success of the Standard Model (SM) of
particle physics in describing electroweak physics below
∼ 100 GeV in terms of a non-abelian gauge theory with
spontaneously broken SU(2)L×U(1)Y gauge group, the
gauge symmetry does not predict the precise mechanism
of the electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB). Indeed,
up to this moment, there is no direct experimental signal
of the mechanism of EWSB, being its search one of the
main goals of the LHC.
The EWSB mechanism plays an important role in the
high energy electroweak gauge boson scattering which
violates partial wave unitarity or becomes strongly inter-
acting at energies of the order of E ∼ 2 TeV, if there is
no new state to cut off its growth [1, 2]. In the context
of the SM, as well as in its supersymmetric realization,
electroweak symmetry is broken by the vacuum expecta-
tion value of some weakly coupled neutral scalar state(s),
the Higgs boson(s), which will contribute to electroweak
gauge boson scattering, preventing the unitarity violation
of the process.
Alternatively, Higgsless extensions of the SM [3, 4, 5]
have been proposed in which the electroweak symmetry
is broken without involving a fundamental Higgs field.
Generically on these models, the electroweak symmetry
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is broken by boundary conditions in a higher dimensional
space.The originally proposed Higgsless models gave
large contributions to precision electroweak observables,
in particular to the S parameter [6] (ǫ3[7]) [8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13]. Such problems could be overcome, for example,
by appropriate modifications of the fermion sector. In
this way, a variety of Higgsless models have been con-
structed [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24] which
ensure agreement with electroweak precision data.
From the point of view of unitarity, all Higgsless mod-
els share the common feature that new weakly interact-
ing spin-1 gauge bosons particles with the same quan-
tum numbers as the SM gauge bosons appear and they
are responsible for the partial restoration of unitarity
in vector boson scattering and for rendering a theory
weakly coupled to energies well above 2 TeV [25, 26, 27].
This property allows for an almost model independent
search for the lightest charged resonance V±
LHC through pp → V±
pp → V±
onance. The LHC experiments will be able to unravel the
existence of the charged state via these processes with
modest integrated luminosities of 10–60 fb−1. On the
contrary, the corresponding search for the neutral vector
resonance in gauge boson fusion is expected to be very
difficult, since a generic feature of this class of models
is the absence of coupling between the neutral resonance
and ZZ pairs. Reconstructing the heavy neutral vec-
tor resonance decaying into W+W−requires at least one
hadronic W decay, posing the challenge to dig it out from
the large SM backgrounds.
Once a clear signal of the charged resonance is observed
in the above channels, it is mandatory to study its spin
at the
1W∓or via weak boson fusion
1qq [28, 29], as long as V±
1remains a narrow res-
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to confirm that the new state is indeed a vector particle.
In this work, our goal is to probe the V±
study of weak boson fusion production of V±
subsequent decay into leptons, i.e.
spin via the
with its
pp → V±
1jj → ℓ±νℓ′+ℓ′−jj (1)
with ℓ and ℓ′= e or µ, considering final states where the
W's and Z's decay into different and same flavor charged
leptons.To determine the spin of the state decaying
into W±Z we contrast the final state distributions aris-
ing from the production and decay of the vector charged
state with the ones stemming from the decay of a scalar
state; i.e. we work in the framework commonly used
to analyze the spin of supersymmetric particles [30, 31].
Here we show that it is possible to determine the spin of
a new heavy resonance decaying into W±Z at the LHC
with 99% CL for luminosities of ∼ 150–560 fb−1, de-
pending on the particle mass and the method used in the
The restoration of partial wave unitarity in Higgsless
models is due to new Kaluza–Klein resonances V±
(i).The couplings V+
same Lorentz structure of the SM W+W−Z vertex with
a coupling constant g(i)
the dangerous terms in the scattering WZ → WZ that
depend on E2and E4, where E is the energy of the in-
coming W and Z in the center–of-mass system, the new
vector state coupling constants must satisfy the following
(i)W−Z (V0
(i)W−W+) have the
V WZ(g(i)
V WW). In order to cancel
gWWZZ= g2
2?gWWZZ− g2
Eqs. (2) and (3) constrain the couplings of the lightest
charged Kaluza-Klein state to WZ pairs,
?+ g2
. (3)
In our analysis we assume that this bound is satu-
rated [32], which leads to the largest allowed value for
VWZ, and we evaluate the quartic coupling gWWZZus-
ing Eq. (2). Moreover, we assume that the V±
to fermions are small and that the V±
into WZ pairs. This hypothesis is, in fact, realized in
some higgsless models [24].
Our study of the V±
1spin was carried out by comparing
the kinematic distributions of its decay products with
1 couplings
1's mainly decay
the predictions for the production of a spin-0 resonance.
Since the signal for the new charged state is characterized
by peak in the WZ invariant mass distribution, we use
as template the kinematic distributions in a model which
is the SM without a Higgs plus a scalar charged state,
H±, with an interaction H±ZµW∓
cross section is equal to the one for V±
also set the H±width equal to the V±
We performed a parton level study using the full tree
level amplitude for the final state processes in order to
keep track of spin correlations. The matrix elements were
generated using the package MADGRAPH [33], where
we included the higgsless (and template) model parti-
cles and interactions. We employed the CTEQ6L par-
ton distribution functions [34] with the factorization scale
momenta of the tagging jets. For the QCD backgrounds
we chose the renormalization scale µR = µF.
der to have a crude simulation of the detector perfor-
mance we smeared energies, but not directions, of all fi-
nal state partons with a Gaussian error. For the jets,
we assumed a resolution ∆E/E = 0.5/√E ⊕ 0.03, if
|ηj| ≤ 3, and ∆E/E = 1/√E ⊕ 0.07, if |ηj| > 3 (E
in GeV), while for charged leptons we used a resolution
∆E/E = 0.1/√E ⊕ 0.01. Furthermore, we considered
the jet tagging efficiency to be 0.75 × 0.75 = 0.56, while
the lepton detection efficiency is taken to be 0.93= 0.73.
µ. The coupling of the
µvertex is chosen such that the H±production
1after all cuts. We
1 one.
T j1+ p2
T j2)/2, where pT jiare the transverse
In or-
We analyzed the process
pp → ℓ±ℓ′+ℓ′−jj + / ET
with ℓ, ℓ′= e, µ
which contains the contribution of the vector boson fu-
sion production of new charged resonances decaying into
leptons; see Eq. (1). This process possesses a significant
irreducible background originating from electroweak and
QCD WZjj production. Moreover, the production of t¯t
pair in association with a jet exhibits a large cross sec-
tion after we demand the presence of two tagging jets [35]
and can lead to trilepton events when both t's decay semi-
leptonically and the decay of one of the b's leads to an
isolated lepton1.
Initially we imposed the following jet acceptance cuts
designed to enhance events produced by vector boson
T> 20 GeV
|ηj1− ηj2| > 3.8 ,
,|ηj| < 4.9 ,
ηj1· ηj2< 0 .
1We considered a lepton to be isolated if the hadronic energy
deposited in a cone of size ∆R < 0.4 is smaller than 10 GeV
Page 3
cuts (5)–(6) cuts (5)–(7) cuts (5)–(8) cuts (5)–(10)
EW WZjj
= 500 GeV
= 700 GeV0.360.320.30 0.25
TABLE I: SM background and signal cross sections after different set of cuts in fb. In the last column the top/bottom results
is obtained applying the top/bottom cut in Eq. (10).
We also applied lepton acceptance and isolation cuts
|ηℓ| ≤ 2.5
∆Rℓj≥ 0.4
∆Rℓℓ≥ 0.4 .
T≥ 10 GeV
As we can see from Table I the SM background is still
quite large after these cuts with the t¯tj production be-
ing the dominant contribution. In order to reduce this
background we explore two features of the signal and
backgrounds. First of all, in the t¯tj production the lep-
ton coming from the b semi-leptonic decay is quite soft,
therefore, it can be reduced by imposing an additional
lepton transverse momentum cut:
T> 25 GeV.(7)
Moreover, two of the leptons in the signal come from a
Z decay, consequently we also required that the events
present a pair of same flavor opposite charge leptons
(SFOC) with an invariant mass in a window around the
Z mass. Thus we further demanded
− MZ|< 10 GeV.(8)
The presence of just one neutrino in the signal final
state, Eq. (1), allows for full reconstruction of the neu-
trino momentum – up to a twofold ambiguity on its longi-
tudinal component – by imposing the transverse momen-
tum conservation and requiring that the invariant mass
of the neutrino–ℓ±pair, where ℓ is the charged lepton
not identified as coming from the Z decay, is compatible
with the W mass:
W+ 2(?pl
W+ 2(?pl
T·?/ pT)?pl
T·?/ pT)?2|? pl|2− 4(pl
TEl/ ET)2
Consequently, there are two distinct estimates for the
WZ invariant mass which we label Mrec,max
the maximum and minimum reconstructed values, re-
spectively. We show in left panel of Fig. 1 the Mrec,max
and Mrec,min
, as well as the true MWZ invariant mass
distributions for MV±
= 500 GeV. As seen in the fig-
ure, both reconstructed distributions present a clear peak
associated to the presence of a new charged resonance.
Moreover, the maximum (minimum) reconstructed WZ
and Mrec,min
invariant mass is a reasonable estimator of the true dis-
tribution for WZ invariant masses smaller (larger) than
the position of the resonance.
In order to isolate the contribution of the new charged
states, we imposed a cut on Mrec,min
400 GeV ≤ Mrec, min
≤ 550 GeV,for MV±
= 500 GeV
600 GeV ≤ Mrec, min
,for MV±
= 700 GeV
The effect of these cuts on the WZ invariant mass
spectrum can be seen in the right panel of Fig. 1 for
= 500 GeV and 700 GeV. As seen in the figure af-
ter these cuts, a good fraction of the peak signal events
are retained.
The predicted cross sections for the signal and SM
backgrounds after cuts (5)–(10) are listed in Table I.
From these numbers we conclude that the above cuts lead
to a good signal to background ratio of ≃ 2.4 (1.5) for
= 500 (700) GeV. Thus, a clear observation (5σ)
of the new charged resonances V±
mass in the leptonic channel requires a modest integrated
luminosity of 15 (66) fb−1, which can be achieved in the
low luminosity run of the LHC or in the early stages of
the high luminosity run.
Similar sensitivity could be obtained by cutting, in-
stead, on Mrec,max
, though in general the cuts have to
be chosen tighter and dependent on the MV±
This is so because the SM background is a decreasing
function of the WZ mass, therefore when cutting on
the maximum reconstructed WZ mass, the number of
miss–reconstructed background events in the signal re-
gion tends to be larger.
After the new state coupled to WZ is discovered, it is
important to probe its spin. The best way to accomplish
that is to study angular correlations of the final state par-
ticles. In principle, useful information on the spin could
be also extracted from the production cross section, how-
ever, at the LHC one measures the production cross sec-
tion times the decay branching ratio, requiring additional
information to disentangle these quantities. Here we em-
1with a 500 (700) GeV
Page 4
MV1±=500 GeV
MV1±=500 GeV
MV1±=700 GeV
FIG. 1: Left : WZ invariant mass distribution reconstructed
using the largest (dash-dotted line) and smallest (full line) es-
timate [see Eq. (9)], as well as the true distribution (shadowed
region) for two values of MV±
and minimum (line) reconstructed WZ invariant mass distri-
butions after the cuts in Eq. (10).
1. Right: The true (shadow)
ploy two methods to unravel the spin of the new charged
state based exclusively on the kinematic distribution of
the final state particles. In the first method, we contrast
the kinematic distributions of the charged leptons pro-
duced in the decay of vector and scalar charged states,
much in the spirit of the analysis carried out to study
the spin of supersymmetric particles at the LHC [30, 31].
A virtue of this method is that it does not rely on the
reconstruction of the neutrino momentum (besides the
invariant mass cut). In our second analysis, we used the
reconstructed neutrino momentum to obtain the polar
angle of the produced Z's in the WZ center–of–mass sys-
In order to contrast the spin-0 and spin-1 resonances,
we focused on the leptons whose momenta can be well
determined. In previous studies [30], it has been shown
that a convenient variable for such analysis is
ℓℓ≡ tanh
, (11)
where ∆ηℓℓ is the rapidity difference between the same
charge leptons. Notice that this quantity is invariant un-
der longitudinal boosts. We plot in Fig. 2 the expected
ℓℓdistributions for the SM background and the pro-
duction of scalar and vector resonances with mass 500
(700) GeV in the left (right) panel after cuts (5)–(10). In
obtaining this figure, we imposed that the cross section
for the production of spin-0 resonances is the same of the
one for spin-1 states. We also display the SM background
alone to show its impact on the distributions.
These figures clearly show that the cosθ∗
for spin-1 and and spin-0 resonances are quite different
and they can be used to quantify the required integrated
luminosity needed to discriminate between them at a
given CL. A simple χ2analysis of the distributions shown
in Fig. 2 yields a 99% CL discrimination between spin-0
and spin-1 resonances of mass 500 (700) GeV for an in-
tegrated luminosity of 170 (215) fb−1, considering only
the statistical errors.
In order to eliminate possible normalization systemat-
ics in the angular distributions, we have also estimated
the integrated luminosity needed to decipher the spin of
the new charged state by constructing an angular asym-
Considering only the statistical errors, this asymmetry
allows a 99% CL distinction between spin-0 and spin-
1 resonances of mass 500 (700) GeV for an integrated
luminosity of 440 (560) fb−1. With these choices of inte-
grated luminosities, we have Aℓℓ(scalar) = +0.104±0.05
and Aℓℓ(vector) = −0.07 ± 0.05, for MV±
and Aℓℓ(scalar) = −0.036 ± 0.06 and Aℓℓ(vector) =
−0.27±0.06, for MV±
only the statistical errors.
We also studied the resolving power of the recon-
structed Z polar angle (θWZ) distribution evaluated in
the WZ center–of–mass frame. We display in Fig. 3 the
cosθWZ distribution for spin-1 charged states after cuts
(5)–(10). Since the reconstructed neutrino momentum
has a twofold ambiguity, there is also a twofold ambiguity
in the reconstructed Z polar angle in the WZ center–of–
mass frame which lead to the two distributions shown in
the figure. The dashed (dotted) lines correspond to the
reconstructed Z polar angle distribution using the neu-
trino momentum that leads to the maximum (minimum)
WZ invariant mass. As we can see, the two distributions
differ appreciably for cosθWZ close to zero. However, as
shown in the figure, the average of the two distributions
has a better behavior in the central region of the detec-
tor and resembles the true distribution. Consequently,
we have considered the average of the two reconstructed
distributions as discriminating observable.
Fig. 4 depicts such averaged distributions for charged
vector and scalar resonances, where we are included the
SM background prediction for assessment of its impact
on the spin determination. Clearly, the production of V±
leads to more WZ pairs produced at small polar angles
while the scalar resonance leads to more central events,
as expected. As above, in order to quantify the discrimi-
nating power between the scalar and vector productions
we constructed the asymmetry
ℓℓ| < 0.5) − σ(|cosθ∗
ℓℓ| < 0.5) + σ(|cosθ∗
ℓℓ| > 0.5)
ℓℓ| > 0.5).(12)
= 500 GeV,
= 700 GeV, where we have quoted
AWZ=σ(|cosθWZ| < 0.5) − σ(|cosθWZ| > 0.5)
σ(|cosθWZ| < 0.5) + σ(|cosθWZ| > 0.5).
We find that for the new state mass of 500 (700) GeV,
it is necessary 400 (550) fb−1to separate the two pos-
sibilities at 99% CL. With these choices of integrated
luminosities, we have AWZ(scalar) = +0.057 ± 0.05 and
AWZ(vector) = −0.125 ± 0.05, for MV±
= 500 GeV,
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SM background
L=300 fb-1
MV1±=500 GeV
SM background
MV1±=700 GeV
L=300 fb-1
FIG. 2: cosθ∗
error bars), and the production of charged scalars (solid line). In the left (right) panel the mass of the new resonance is 500
(700) GeV and we considered an integrated luminosity of 300 fb−1.
ℓℓdistribution for the SM background (dashed line), the production of a vector charged resonance (solid line with
and AWZ(scalar) = −0.04 ± 0.06 and AWZ(vector) =
−0.28±0.06, for MV±
quoted only the statistical errors. Furthermore the use of
a χ2analysis of the cosθWZdistribution is able to reveal
the spin of the new state at 99% CL for an integrated
luminosity of 150 (220) fb−1, for MV±
= 700 GeV, where we have again
= 500 (700) GeV.
The observation of new charged vector resonances in
Higgsless models decaying into WZ pairs can be carried
out via weak boson production at the LHC and their
subsequent decays into charged leptons [28, 29]. Here
we show how the LHC will be able to determine the
spin of these new states using two different methodolo-
gies. In the first method, only the observed charged lep-
tons are used to discriminate between spin-0 and spin-
1 resonances using the variable defined in Eq. (11). In
this case, an integrated luminosity of 170 (215) fb−1is
needed to establish the spin of the 500 (700) GeV reso-
nance at 99% CL via a χ2analysis of the cosθ∗
bution. On the other hand, the use of the asymmetry
given by Eq. (12) requires 440 (560) fb−1to determine
the new resonance spin for a mass 500 (700) GeV. The
second method is based on the two–folded reconstruction
of the escaping neutrino momentum to obtain the WZ
polar angle distribution in its center–of–mass frame. This
procedure requires a good understanding and calibration
of the hadronic calorimeters, therefore, being subject to
larger systematic uncertainties. We determined that the
later method can distinguish between spin-1 and spin-0
states at 99% CL for integrated luminosities of 150 (220)
fb−1for MV±
= 500 (700) GeV, respectively, when we
perform a χ2fit of the cosθWZdistribution. If we use the
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the integrated luminosities are 400 and 550 fb−1, respec-
tively. All results above only account for statistical errors
and the inclusion of systematic uncertainties may render
the efficiencies of the two methods rather similar.
We thank G. Burdman for a careful reading of the
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Star Trek Online (not the be all and end all of course) makes it the same size as a Miranda class. in fact it's more or less a modernized variation of the Miranda.
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On reread, Snuff wasn't as bad as I remembered, although that's not saying a whole lot. Its the 39th Discworld novel, and the series has definitely descended in quality for various reasons. If you're interested in the Discworld series, try earlier novels such as Going Postal, Guards! Guards!, Monstrous Regiment, or The Wee Free Men.
In Snuff, Vimes is forced to take a holiday to the country. Of course, where ever a policeman goes, he will inevitably discover a crime.
Unfortunately, it takes over a hundred pages for the body to turn up and the first goblins to be introduced. For a novel that's largely about the treatment of goblins on the Disc, that's a very slow start.
My biggest problem with Snuff is that the writing isn't as good. The voice feels off in a way that's hard to explain. Normally when reading a Discworld novel I find myself savoring lines. This time, I found myself skimming. The writing's less snappy and multiple scenes fall flat.
That being said, there were some interesting ideas at work. Goblins are treated as vermin by most of the other sentient races, but they're shown to have their own culture and to create exquisitely beautiful art that humans steal, even as they deride the creators as inferior. What's more, there's this a subtle underlying idea about holding on to your cultural heritage. To be respected by the other species on the Disc, will the goblins have to lose all parts of their culture?
"Billy Slick doesn't sound much like a goblin name?"
"Billy made a face. "Too right! Granny calls me Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. What kind of name is that, I ask you? Who's going to take you seriously with a name like that? This is modern times, right?" He looked at her defiantly, and she thought: and so one at a time we all become human – human werewolves, human dwarfs, human trolls… the melting pot melts in one direction only, and so we make progress."
I was also sad that Snuff took Vimes away from his supporting cast of the Ankh-Morpork watch. Vimes by himself can work wonderfully, as in Night Watch, but it just didn't work as well here. Possibly because there wasn't a tightly woven plot to make up for it?
At heart, Snuff is a sweet, earnest book. While it's far from the best of Discworld novels, I wouldn't say it's the worst either. Still, I would recommend this one only for people who are already fans of the series.
Originally posted on The Illustrated Page.
Snuff is a very funny book. On the one hand this should come as no surprise, given that it's part of the late Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, which is chock full of funny books. On the other hand it is kind of surprising because it is book 39 in the series (released only four years ago) and, at that point, one wouldn't be surprised if Pratchett had shifted into coasting mode, resting on his laurels. Most long book series start off with a bang and slowly peter out. That Discworld didn't is one of Pratchett's many achievements.
Additionally, by this point Pratchett knew how not to play by the rules, if it suited his purpose. "Rules" tell writers that the inciting incident – the thing that drives the plot – should happen as early as possible in the book. It grabs the reader and focuses attention on what's going on. But Snuff takes its leisurely time before things really get rolling, which allows Pratchett to do a lot of fun scene setting as his hero is transplanted from his familiar environment to something totally alien.
In this case, the hero is uber-cop Sam Vimes, head of the Ankh-Morpork city watch. Being a child of the Ankh-Morpork streets and a self-made man, Vimes is thrown into completely foreign territory when he and his family relocates to his wife's family's country home for a holiday. Awash in a world of rural oddities, rigid class barriers with matching rules of behavior, and the potential of not being a cop for a while, Vimes is completely, utterly, and hilariously at sea. In fact, I think I'd read a whole book of Vimes navigating this high society minefield.
But, this being a book about a cop on vacation, there is criminality afoot and it arrives in the form of the murder and mistreatment of goblins. Goblins are treated as vermin, killed or enslaved without thought, which rubs Vimes's general egalitarian ideals the wrong way (in much the same way attitudes toward other non-humans did in Men At Arms). Vimes eventually gets his man, in rip snorting adventuring fashion, of course.
A large part of Vimes is that, regardless of where he is, mentally he's always a cop. Similarly, just about wherever I am, I'm a public defender. That means that I can't help but be troubled by Vimes as a cop. He's given several chances to expound on law enforcement because he takes a young local constable under his wing and educates him. In particular, he excoriates the young constable for swearing allegiance to the local coven of magistrates who run the rural area rather than "the law." It's kind of inspiring, shot through with the idea that the law isn't what men make it out of convenience and that all men are subject to it.
But Vimes then goes forth and makes the law whatever he wants it to be in order to get the bad guy. Most obviously, Vimes is a cop from Ankh-Morpork and has no jurisdiction outside the city walls. Several people mention this, but it doesn't stop Vimes, who gets wishy washy about how some crimes are so horrible that jurisdiction is a technical issue to be dealt with later. He repeatedly uses threats of private violence (at the hands of his butler) to coerce information from people. He approves of vigilantes, noting that the law tends to deal with the lightly, if at all. He also shows no qualms about enforcing laws that aren't even laws yet (involving goblin rights) – so much for ex post facto! To be fair, Lord Vetinari calls Vimes on this eventually, but it's clear from the context that he's throwing up a technical legalism (he cops to being the "local tyrant") that the powerful hide behind.
To be fair, Vimes worries a bit about all this. Not a lot, but enough to recognize that his playing fast and loose with the law is something other people could do, too, and that might make it bad. But his wife shuts down those thoughts pretty quickly, countering that that it's not so bad so long as it's a good man doing it for a noble purpose.
Of course, that's the problem. As I've noted before our culture loves stories about cops who work outside the confines of the law to get the bad guy. But bad cops do the same and – guess what? – they mostly think they're doing it for the right reasons. Law places limits on behavior to prevent that from happening. Benevolent despots might not be that bad, but most despots aren't benevolent, so that kind of unchecked power isn't a good thing.
None of that should take away from the fact that Snuff is a fun, quick read. Pratchett was a master of language, puns, and quick jokes that land when you least expect them, yet manages deep sympathy with his characters. And Vimes really is a good guy, which makes his squishy relationship with the law so troubling. I wonder if characters like him contribute to the general idea that anything is OK in pursuit of the bad guy, whatever that might entail.
Snuff was my first Terry Pratchett book, and thus my introduction to the Discworld series which I had heard a lot about before. At first, I enjoyed Pratchett's eloquent writing and was happy that I didn't seem to need any prior knowledge about the characters in the book.
After a while though, the story failed to interest me and the second half of the book was a struggle to get through. Many new characters were added at a fast rate, and I had the feeling that I was supposed to know these characters (mainly Vimes' colleagues from the Ankh-Morpork city watch) and their history with commands Vimes.
I honestly skipped most of the last pages. The story just wouldn't end!
I don't think it's too bad a book, but I guess I should have started with an earlier issue of the Discworld series instead of this last one. Too bad!
They crunched onwards for a while, and Vimes said, 'Tell me, Willikins. If a man had arranged to meet another man at midnight in a place with a name like Dead Man's Copse, on Hangman's Hill, what would you consider to be his most sensible course of action, given that his wife had forbidden him to bring weapons to his country house?'
Willikins nodded. 'Why, sir, given your maxim that everything is a weapon if you choose to think of it as such, I would advise said man to see whether he has a compatriot what has, for example, acquired the keys to a cabinet that contains a number of superbly made carving knives, ideal for close fighting; and I personally would include a side order of cheesewire, sir, in conformance with my belief that the only important thing in a fight to the death is that the death should not be yours.'
'Can't carry cheesewire, man! Not the Commander of the Watch!'
'Quite so, commander, and may I therefore advise your brass knuckles — the gentleman's alternative? I know you never travel without them, sir. There's some vicious people around and I know you have to be among them.'
When Sam Vimes is persuaded to go on holiday with his family to Lady Sibyl's country estate, he soon finds himself embroiled in a case involving smuggling, murder, goblins and people who think that the law does not apply to them.
What I like best about the City Watch books is that the themes are as serious as the books are funny.
A bit of a Curate's Egg. Parts of this book are very good. The real problem is that the pacing is all wrong. It's going great until the crime is solved and then it starts to feel like a massive epilogue that doesn't really fit with the rest of the story.
Also, the sub-lot with Fred Colon gets almost no coverage at all - and it could have been really interesting.
The high spot is probably young Sam and his interest in poo.
Every Discworld race has to have its personal redemption and recognition and this time it's the turn of Goblins - the trouble is that this theme, while a worthy one, has been a bit overdone in the Discworld books.
Pratchett is a master storyteller. He is endlessly inventive, even when telling a routine kind of tale. He gives you more information and more story than you need, just because he can, and this is completely satisfying. He is a master of complex jokes, good bad jokes, good dreadful jokes and a kind of insidious wisdom about human nature (and other forms of alien nature). I think his mad footnotes are there because he can't stop his mind whirring, and our whirring minds go with him. I read his books at a gallop and then reread them every time I am ill or exhausted.
With its blend of high fantasy, social commentary, and comedy, Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel, Snuff, is a worthy addition to the internationally bestselling series.
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The mid-tempo rhythm at first fools you into believing your dancing to a feel good record until you focus on why Anthony David is "So Jaded."
Anthony David - 4evermore Feat. Phonte of Little Brother
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Anthony David - Words Feat. India Arie
Mon, Mar 31, 2008 in Music
New music from Anthony David performing Words Feat. India Arie. Album: Acey Deucey Label: SoulBird Music/Universal Republic


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Taking the temperature of the anti-choice movement post-Hobby Lobby, one thing becomes clear: Its members are getting braver all the time about admitting out loud that they're just anti-sex and out to get your birth control.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced a bill Wednesday that would expand reproductive health-care coverage for women in the military and their families.
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After a U.S. Senate bill proposing to clarify that corporations cannot use religious belief as a justification to opt out of certain kinds of insurance was blocked on the Senate floor this week, state senates are now picking up efforts to curtail the effects of the ruling.


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Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.
Freedom Planet's Kickstarter page is now live! We're raising money to port the game to other platforms and commission more awesome artwork. **UPDATE: We're also on Greenlight!**
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Our goal is to raise $2000 in one month. We'll be spending the money on artwork, sound effects, Steam Greenlight's entry fee, and software to help us export the game to other platforms besides PC.
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We have some other cool pledge rewards lined up as well, including closed beta access, the complete soundtrack in digital or CD format, and the ability to work with us to design custom graphics, characters or enemies!
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