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Around the ACC: Week 15 (Football)
Story posted December 9, 2020 in Sports, CommRadio by Logan Bourandas
Even with the rematch of Clemson and Notre Dame set for the ACC conference championship game, there are still some great matchups to finish out the season.
Two of the other ranked teams that play in the ACC face off, as North Carolina takes on Miami. North Carolina comes into the matchup ranked 17th in the country, as the Tar Heels have signature wins against NC State and Virginia Tech. The Tar Heels won their last game, as they destroyed Western Carolina 49-9. Sam Howell threw only three incompletions all game. The defense also allowed just 116 passing yards.
On the other side, Miami is the only non-Clemson/non-Notre Dame team in the ACC to be ranked in the top 10. The Hurricanes' only loss on the year was actually against Clemson, as they lost that game 42-17. In the last game, Miami got a shutout win over Duke 48-0. A major reason why was that the Canes defense forced five turnovers in the game. On the offensive side, D'Eriq King scored four total touchdowns while throwing for 248 yards.
While that game is definitely the best matchup in the ACC this week, there are some other interesting games to look at as well.
Wake Forest is set to take on Louisville after missing most of the past month due to COVID-19 concerns. The Demon Deacons last played on Nov. 14, when they narrowly lost to North Carolina. That game was an offensive showdown, as the final score was 59-53. Sam Hartman threw for 429 yards and four touchdowns in the loss but was outmatched by Howell and his six touchdown passes.
Louisville comes into the game off of a close loss to Boston College. Malik Cunningham turned into a star, as he had 294 passing yards and 133 rushing yards. The Cardinals started the season ranked before losing two close games against Miami and Pitt. After those two losses, the Cardinals haven't been able to recover, as they now sit with a 3-7 record.
An in-state matchup sees Virginia taking on Virginia Tech. While neither team is near the top of the conference, they both have been decent all year. Virginia does have a quality win over North Carolina but has been smoked by almost every other team in the ACC. In the Cavaliers' last game, they beat Boston College with a great all-around performance from Brennan Armstrong, as he had 287 passing yards and 130 rushing yards with two total touchdowns.
Virginia Tech, meanwhile, hasn't won since Halloween, as the Hokies are on a four-game losing streak. Two of those losses included a 35-point drubbing to Clemson and a one-point loss to Miami. The Hokies do have quality wins against Louisville and NC State, though. In last week's game against Clemson, Virginia Tech did a decent job pressuring Trevor Lawrence, as he had less than 200 passing yards. However, the Hokies gave up 238 rushing yards while also turning the ball over three times.
Logan Bourandas is a sophomore majoring in broadcast journalism. To contact him, email lxb5412@psu.edu.
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Q: All possible combinations of 1 to 9 in the same cells without repetition As a way to improve my VBA understanding, I'm attempting to build a cross sum solver.  A cross sum, for those who don't know being the below.  Each blank cell can contain a number 1 - 9, but the number can only be in the grid once and all sums must reconcile.

I've got some code with nested for and if statements that does put in all possible variations in the cells but it take forever and I'm sure it's a highly inefficient way of doing it.
Sub Test()
 Dim StartTime As Double
 Dim SecondsElapsed As Double

 StartTime = Timer

 Dim wb As Workbook
 Dim ws As Worksheet

 Set wb = ThisWorkbook
 Set ws = wb.Worksheets("Sheet1")

 Application.ScreenUpdating = False

 Dim i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q As Integer

 For i = 1 To 9
  ws.Range("A1").Value = i

  For j = 1 To 9
   If j <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
    ws.Range("C1").Value = j
   End If

   For k = 1 To 9
    If k <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
     If k <> ws.Range("C1").Value Then
      ws.Range("E1").Value = k
     End If
    End If

    For l = 1 To 9
     If l <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
      If l <> ws.Range("C1").Value Then
       If l <> ws.Range("E1").Value Then
        ws.Range("A3").Value = l
       End If
      End If
     End If

     For m = 1 To 9
      If m <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
       If m <> ws.Range("C1").Value Then
        If m <> ws.Range("E1").Value Then
         If m <> ws.Range("A3").Value Then
          ws.Range("B3").Value = m
         End If
        End If
       End If
      End If

      For n = 1 To 9
       If n <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
        If n <> ws.Range("C1").Value Then
         If n <> ws.Range("E1").Value Then
          If n <> ws.Range("A3").Value Then
           If n <> ws.Range("C3").Value Then
            ws.Range("E3").Value = n
           End If
          End If
         End If
        End If
       End If

       For o = 1 To 9
        If o <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
         If o <> ws.Range("C1").Value Then
          If o <> ws.Range("E1").Value Then
           If o <> ws.Range("A3").Value Then
            If o <> ws.Range("C3").Value Then
             If o <> ws.Range("E3").Value Then
              ws.Range("A5").Value = o
             End If
            End If
           End If
          End If
         End If
        End If

        For p = 1 To 9
         If p <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
          If p <> ws.Range("C1").Value Then
           If p <> ws.Range("E1").Value Then
            If p <> ws.Range("A3").Value Then
             If p <> ws.Range("C3").Value Then
              If p <> ws.Range("E3").Value Then
               If p <> ws.Range("A3").Value Then
                ws.Range("C5").Value = p
               End If
              End If
             End If
            End If
           End If
          End If
         End If

         For q = 1 To 9
          If q <> ws.Range("A1").Value Then
           If q <> ws.Range("C1").Value Then
            If q <> ws.Range("E1").Value Then
             If q <> ws.Range("A3").Value Then
              If q <> ws.Range("C3").Value Then
               If q <> ws.Range("E3").Value Then
                If q <> ws.Range("A5").Value Then
                 If q <> ws.Range("C5").Value Then
                  ws.Range("E5").Value = q
                 End If
                End If
               End If
              End If
             End If
            End If
           End If
          End If
         Next q
        Next p
       Next o
      Next n
     Next m
    Next l
   Next k
  Next j
 Next i

 Application.ScreenUpdating = True

 SecondsElapsed = Round(Timer - StartTime, 2)

 MsgBox "This code ran successfully in " & SecondsElapsed & " seconds", vbInformation
End Sub

Is there a more sensible way to achieve the putting the numbers in the cells?  I've got the evaluate part to do the sums dependent upon the operators and the answer already working, so once I've got this working I'd not put it in the cell every time, but just pass to a variable.  I'm just putting the value in a cell for the sake of testing.
Many thanks

A: You could put the numbers into an Array - working with Arrays is faster than working with Ranges, and you can use IsError(Application.Match(Value,Array,0)) to test if the number Value has been used anywhere in Array.
Once you find a "valid" solution, you can stop the loops (unless you want to check how many valid solutions there are) - I may get shouted down and vilified by some for this, but GoTo is a quick, dirty and simple solution
Beyond that, I'm going to use several CodeGolf tricks to make the code visually shorter, such as using Type Characters to simplify the Dim statements, or a chained Next statement - and instead of checking if the output is still valid after generating each number, I will do it once after generating all 9.
Sub CrossSumSolver()

    Dim StartTime As Double
    Dim SecondsElapsed As Double

    StartTime = Timer

    Dim wb As Workbook
    Dim ws As Worksheet

    Set wb = ThisWorkbook
    Set ws = wb.Worksheets("Sheet1")

    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

    Dim OutputArray(1 To 9) As Long, IsValid As Boolean, CheckLoop As Long
    Dim a&, b&, c&, d&, e&, f&, g&, h&, i& 'All "As Long"

    For a = 1 To 9
        OutputArray(1) = a
        For b = 1 To 9
            OutputArray(2) = b
            For c = 1 To 9
                OutputArray(3) = c
                For d = 1 To 9
                    OutputArray(4) = d
                    For e = 1 To 9
                        OutputArray(5) = e
                        For f = 1 To 9
                            OutputArray(6) = f
                            For g = 1 To 9
                                OutputArray(7) = g
                                For h = 1 To 9
                                    OutputArray(8) = h
                                    For i = 1 To 9
                                        OutputArray(9) = i
                                        'Array is populated - is it valid?
                                        IsValid = True
                                        'Are all 9 numbers used once?
                                        For CheckLoop = 1 To 9
                                            If IsError(Application.Match(CheckLoop, OutputArray, 0)) Then
                                                IsValid = False 'A number is missing!
                                                Exit For 'Only need to find 1 error
                                            End If
                                        Next CheckLoop
                                        If IsValid Then
                                            'Populate sheet
                                            ws.Range("A1").Value = OutputArray(1)
                                            ws.Range("C1").Value = OutputArray(2)
                                            ws.Range("E1").Value = OutputArray(3)
                                            ws.Range("A3").Value = OutputArray(4)
                                            ws.Range("C3").Value = OutputArray(5)
                                            ws.Range("E3").Value = OutputArray(6)
                                            ws.Range("A5").Value = OutputArray(7)
                                            ws.Range("C5").Value = OutputArray(8)
                                            ws.Range("E5").Value = OutputArray(9)
                                            'Calculate sheet
                                            ws.Calculate
                                            'Check if your output is correct
                                            If (False) Then GoTo QuickExit 'Replace (False) with your check!
                                        End If
    Next i, h, g, f, e, d, c, b, a 'No need for a Wall of "Next"

QuickExit:
    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

    SecondsElapsed = Round(Timer - StartTime, 2)

    MsgBox "This code ran successfully in " & SecondsElapsed & " seconds", vbInformation
End Sub

Alternatively, you could use the evils of a recursive subroutine (i.e. a subroutine that calls itself) to loop through the numbers for each item in an array in turn.  (Powerful when used right, but get it wrong and you will end up with your computer locked in a permanent loop and Excel/VBA eating more and more memory)
Option Explicit

Private ValueArray(1 To 9) As Long
Private wb As Workbook
Private ws As Worksheet

Public Sub ControlLoop()
    Dim StartTime As Double
    Dim SecondsElapsed As Double

    StartTime = Timer

    Set wb = ThisWorkbook
    Set ws = wb.Worksheets("Sheet1")

    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationManual
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

    Dim OutermostLoop As Long

    For OutermostLoop = 1 To 9
        ClearArrayAbove 1
        RecursiveArrayLoop 1, OutermostLoop
    Next OutermostLoop

    Application.Calculation = xlCalculationAutomatic
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True

    SecondsElapsed = Round(Timer - StartTime, 2)

    MsgBox "This code ran successfully in " & SecondsElapsed & " seconds", vbInformation
End Sub

Private Sub ClearArrayAbove(ArrayItem As Long)
    If ArrayItem >= 9 Then Exit Sub 'Safety check
    Dim InnerLoop As Long

    For InnerLoop = ArrayItem To 9
        ValueArray(InnerLoop) = 0
    Next InnerLoop
End Sub

Private Sub RecursiveArrayLoop(ArrayItem As Long, NewValue As Long)
    Dim InnerLoop As Long

    'Number is not already in the array
    If IsError(Application.Match(NewValue, ValueArray, 0)) Then
        'Add number to array
        ValueArray(ArrayItem) = NewValue
        If ArrayItem < 9 Then
            'Go up a level, and loop again
            For InnerLoop = 1 To 9
                ClearArrayAbove ArrayItem
                RecursiveArrayLoop ArrayItem + 1, InnerLoop
            Next InnerLoop
        Else
            'All numbers filled!
            TestValidNumbers
        End If
    End If
End Sub

Private Sub TestValidNumbers()
    'Populate sheet
    ws.Range("A1").Value = ValueArray(1)
    ws.Range("C1").Value = ValueArray(2)
    ws.Range("E1").Value = ValueArray(3)
    ws.Range("A3").Value = ValueArray(4)
    ws.Range("C3").Value = ValueArray(5)
    ws.Range("E3").Value = ValueArray(6)
    ws.Range("A5").Value = ValueArray(7)
    ws.Range("C5").Value = ValueArray(8)
    ws.Range("E5").Value = ValueArray(9)
    'Calculate sheet
    ws.Calculate
    'Check if your output is correct
    'Do stuff here?
End Sub

A: I'd advise you the following way to work for such a kind of problem:
Give the variables some clear names, like a1, a2, ..., as follows:
first row  :  a1  a2  a3
second row :  b1  b2  b3
third row  :  c1  c2  c3

Your algorithm then might look like the following (pseudo-code):
for a1 = 0 to 9:
  for a2 = 0 to 9:
    if (a1 <> a2) // all have to be different
    then:
      for a3 = 0 to 9:
      if ((a1 <> a3) and (a2 <> a3)) and // all have to be different
         (a1 - a2 / a3 = 1)              // start checking if the first row is correct,
                                         // otherwise it makes no sense to continue.
      then:
      ...

Good luck

A: To generate a random permutation of the digits 1 through 9 without repeats, pick a cell, say G1 and enter:
=RANDBETWEEN(1,9)

then in G2 enter:
=LARGE(IF(ISNA(MATCH({1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9},G$1:G1,0)),{1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9}),RANDBETWEEN(1,9-ROWS(G$2:G2)))

and copy downwards.

Each time the worksheet is re-calculated, a new permutation will be calculated.
Once the column has been filled, it can be mapped into any rectangular array with formulas like:
=G1

A: The brute force method that processes the puzzle in memory takes 588.03  Seconds(s) to process your puzzle and 212.79  Seconds(s) for a this puzzle.  My gaming computer would probably process in less than half the time.
Sub SolveCrossSum()
    Dim t As Double: t = Timer

    Dim n1 As Long, n2 As Long, n3 As Long, n4 As Long, n5 As Long, n6 As Long, n7 As Long, n8 As Long, n9 As Long
    Dim Data() As Variant
    Dim result As String

    With Worksheets("Sheet3")
        Data = .Range("A1:G7").Value
        For n1 = 1 To 9
            For n2 = 1 To 9
                For n3 = 1 To 9
                    For n4 = 1 To 9
                        For n5 = 1 To 9
                            For n6 = 1 To 9
                                For n7 = 1 To 9
                                    For n8 = 1 To 9
                                        For n9 = 1 To 9
                                            If Solved(Data, t, n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n6, n7, n8, n9) Then
                                                .Range("A1:E5").Value = Data
                                                Debug.Print "Cross Sum was solved in: "; Round((Timer - t), 2); " Seconds(s)"
                                                Exit Sub
                                            End If
                                        Next
                                    Next
                                Next
                            Next
                        Next
                    Next
                Next
            Next
        Next
    End With
    Debug.Print "No Answer Found for Cross Sum.  Execution Time: "; Round((Timer - t) / 60, 2); " Minutes(s)"
    Debug.Print n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n6, n7, n8, n9
End Sub

Function Solved(ByRef Data() As Variant, t As Double, n1 As Long, n2 As Long, n3 As Long, n4 As Long, n5 As Long, n6 As Long, n7 As Long, n8 As Long, n9 As Long) As Boolean
    If hasDuplicates(n1, n2, n3, n4, n5, n6, n7, n8, n9) Then Exit Function

    If ev(ev(n1, n2, Data(1, 2)), n3, Data(1, 4)) <> Data(1, 7) Then Exit Function
    If ev(ev(n4, n5, Data(3, 2)), n6, Data(3, 4)) <> Data(3, 7) Then Exit Function
    If ev(ev(n7, n8, Data(5, 2)), n9, Data(5, 4)) <> Data(5, 7) Then Exit Function

    If ev(ev(n1, n4, Data(2, 1)), n7, Data(4, 1)) <> Data(7, 1) Then Exit Function
    If ev(ev(n2, n5, Data(2, 3)), n8, Data(4, 3)) <> Data(7, 3) Then Exit Function
    If ev(ev(n3, n6, Data(2, 5)), n9, Data(4, 5)) <> Data(7, 5) Then Exit Function

    Data(1, 1) = n1
    Data(1, 3) = n2
    Data(1, 5) = n3
    Data(3, 1) = n4
    Data(3, 3) = n5
    Data(3, 5) = n6
    Data(5, 1) = n7
    Data(5, 3) = n8
    Data(5, 5) = n9
    Solved = True
End Function

Function ev(v1 As Long, v2 As Long, operator As Variant) As Long
    Select Case operator
        Case "+"
            ev = v1 + v2
        Case "-"
            ev = v1 - v2
        Case "/"
            ev = v1 / v2
        Case "*"
            ev = v1 * v2
    End Select
End Function

Function hasDuplicates(ParamArray Args() As Variant) As Boolean
    Dim n1 As Long, n2 As Long
    For n1 = 0 To UBound(Args)
        If Args(n1) = 10 Then Exit Function
        For n2 = 0 To UBound(Args)
            If n1 <> n2 Then
                If Args(n1) = Args(n2) Then
                    hasDuplicates = True
                    Exit Function
                End If
            End If
        Next
    Next
End Function

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Clear a path behind the ride-on toy: children push backward before they move forward.
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Clap or sing along to encourage your child; you may even want to accompany him on another instrument. These "I can" play activities get filed away in your child's memory bank and boost self-confidence.
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Accountability and Rights Protections
In parallel, a number of questions are raised concerning the accountability of private industry when abuse against migrants is committed. The functions of deterring migration at the border, interning migrants in detention centers, and deporting migrants have each been partially or fully privatized. A number of abuses involving private contractors have been recorded in detention centers (e.g. Yarl's Wood in the UK) and during deportation (the case of Jimmy Mubenga and G4S).
Militarizing and privatizing EU borders has little effect in deterring migration, but has important consequences for human rights. In an environment of limited transparency and emerging legal norms, it may be difficult to hold abusive actors accountable for abuse. The privatization of migration control means distancing the state from liability for harms and abuse against those subject to control functions. "Lifting the corporate veil," by creating institutions tasked with monitoring corporations and holding them to account for human rights abuses, may provide us a first step at increasing accountability for harms and abuse.5
Other abuses may occur at the border – such as push-backs and violations of the principle of non-refoulement – which may involve technologies or practices of military defence firms – raising questions about the accountability of private companies who produce technology for border control but may be distant from abuse at the border. Recent missions in the Mediterranean (such as Mare Nostrum or Operation Triton) and ongoing anti-human smuggling operations raise some of these questions.
Militarizing the Prohibition of Migrant Smuggling
In early May 2015 the European Union asked the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) to approve a multi-phase military mission to 'combat' migrant smuggling networks in Libya. The so-called EUNAVFOR Med mission is modelled on anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Aden, which is a strategic error: migrant smugglers are not pirates, and are not organized nor act as such. Both of Libya's competing governments (the Tripoli-based General National Congress and the Tobruk-based Council of Deputies) are opposed to the EU's proposal. The Libyan Air Force (controlled by the internationally recognized government in Tobruk) has even warned that EU vessels entering Libyan waters will be targeted by airstrikes.6 Rather than search for protection solutions or peaceful alternatives to migration, the EU is trying to heat things up through aggression.
In mid-June 2015 the EU launched the first phase of EUNAVFOR Med, which involves surveillance and does not need approval from the UNSC, but sets the stage for future combat. The shared costs of EUNAVFOR Med are around 12 million EUR for the first two months and lasting for a 12 month mandate.7 A number of military assets will be used, including five warships, two submarines, three reconnaissance planes, three helicopters, and two drones.8 Militarizing anti-smuggling operations is unprecedented, as most anti-smuggling operations are led by civilian police forces. Actively engaging smugglers with military practices and technologies will have unknown and paradoxical effects which will likely be harmful to migrants and local fishing communities on the Libyan coast, and may escalate into outright conflict with the two Libyan governments.
Resisting the EU Border Security Industrial Complex
The EU's response to increased migration in the Mediterranean has been to prevent migration and attack migrant smugglers with the support of technologies and systems designed by a robust and growing border security industry. However, those displaced by conflict or climate change will continue to be forced to migrate to safer areas, and the militarization of migration control will only serve to exacerbate problems of forced displacement rather than ameliorate them. Rather than investing in new security and surveillance technologies or taking an aggressive, militant stance against migrant smugglers, the EU should devise new legal avenues for migration and create innovations in protection solutions which value human dignity, rights, and sustainability over surveillance, industrialized control, and aggression.
Theodore Baird is a postdoc at VU University Amsterdam. He currently researches issues of border security and surveillance in Europe as part of the project "The Human Costs of Border Control." You can read his current commentaries published at openDemocracy here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/theodore-baird
1 Some parts of this article will appear in Italian in inTrasformazione in October 2015. http://www.intrasformazione.com/index.php/intrasformazione
2 Frost & Sullivan (2014) Global Border and Maritime Security Market Assessment, by Frost & Sullivan. M965-16, February 2014. Available online at: http://images.discover.frost.com/Web/FrostSullivan/GlobalBorderandMaritimeSecurity.pdf. [Last accessed 27.05.2015]
3 Ecorys Research and Consulting (2009) Study on the Competitiveness of the EU security industry, Framework Contract for Sectoral Competitiveness Studies – ENTR/06/054, Client: Directorate-General Enterprise & Industry, Brussels, 15 November 2009. Available online at: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/security/files/study_on_the_competitiveness_of_the_eu_security_industry_en.pdf. [Last accessed 27.05.2015]
4 Frost & Sullivan, supra
5 Gammeltoft-Hansen, T. (2013) "The rise of the private border guard: Accountability and responsibility in the migration control industry," in T. Gammeltoft-Hansen & N. N. Sorensen (eds.) The Migration Industry and the Commercialization of International Migration, Routledge: Abingdon and New York.
6 Reuters (2015) "Libya's air force warns Europe over naval plan for migrants," Reuters, 23 June 2015. Available online at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/23/us-europe-migrants-libya-idUSKBN0P312B20150623. [Last Accessed 24.06.2015]
7 Council of the European Union (2015) "Council launches EU naval operation to disrupt human smugglers and traffickers in the Mediterranean," Press release 482/15, 22 June 2015. Available online at: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/06/22-fac-naval-operation/. [Last accessed 24.06.2015]
8 Neuger, J. (2015) "EU to Deploy Drones, Warships Against Human Traffickers," BloombergBusiness, 22 June 2015. Available online at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-22/eu-to-deploy-drones-warships-against-mediterranean-traffickers. [Last accessed 24.06.2015
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import (
  xtc_asm "bitbucket.org/yyuu/xtc/asm"
)

type VirtualStack struct {
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}

func NewVirtualStack(naturalType int) *VirtualStack {
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}

func (self *VirtualStack) Reset() {
  self.offset = 0
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  self.memrefs = []*xtc_asm.IndirectMemoryReference { }
}

func (self *VirtualStack) MaxSize() int64 {
  return self.max
}

func (self *VirtualStack) Extend(n int64) {
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}

func (self *VirtualStack) Rewind(n int64) {
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}

func (self *VirtualStack) Top() *xtc_asm.IndirectMemoryReference {
  mem := self.relocatableMem(-self.offset, self.bp())
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}

func (self *VirtualStack) relocatableMem(offset int64, base *Register) *xtc_asm.IndirectMemoryReference {
  return xtc_asm.NewIndirectMemoryReference(xtc_asm.NewIntegerLiteral(offset), base, false)
}

func (self *VirtualStack) bp() *Register {
  return NewRegister(BP, self.naturalType)
}

func (self *VirtualStack) FixOffset(diff int64) {
  for i := range self.memrefs {
    self.memrefs[i].FixOffset(diff)
  }
}

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SALISBURY, England — The initial plan was a Cold War classic — brutal yet simple. Two Russian agents would slip onto the property of a turncoat spy in Britain and daub his front door with a rare military-grade poison designed to produce an agonizing and untraceable death.
But when the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal was botched, the mission quickly shifted. Within hours, according to British and U.S. officials who closely followed the events, a very different kind of intelligence operation was underway, this one involving scores of operatives and accomplices and a scheme straight out of the Kremlin's 21st-century communications playbook — the construction of an elaborate fog machine to make the initial crime disappear.
Dozens of false narratives and conspiracy theories began popping up almost immediately, the first of 46 bogus story lines put out by Russian-controlled media and Twitter accounts and even by senior Russian officials, according to a tabulation by The Washington Post — all of them sowing doubt about Russia's involvement in the March 4 assassination attempt. Ranging from the plausible to the fantastical, the stories blamed a toxic spill, Ukrainian activists, the CIA, British Prime Minister Theresa May and even Skripal himself.
The brazenness of the attempt to kill a Russian defector turned British citizen at his home in southwest England outraged Western governments and led to the expulsion of some 150 Russian diplomats by more than two dozen countries, including the United States. Yet, more than eight months later, analysts see a potential for greater harm in the kind of heavily coordinated propaganda barrage Russia launched after the assassination attempt failed.
Intelligence agencies have tracked at least a half-dozen such distortion campaigns since 2014, each aimed, officials say, at undermining Western and international investigative bodies and making it harder for ordinary citizens to separate fact from falsehood. They say such disinformation operations are now an integral part of Russia's arsenal — both foreign policy tool and asymmetrical weapon, one that Western institutions and technology companies are struggling to counter.
"Dismissing it as fake news misses the point," said a Western security official who requested anonymity in discussing ongoing investigations into the Russian campaign. "It's about undermining key pillars of democracy and the rule of law."
Variations on the technique existed during the Cold War, when the Soviet Union used propaganda to create alternative realities. In the early years of President Vladimir Putin's rule, Russian officials and state-owned broadcasters promoted false narratives to explain the death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian security official who died in 2006 after being exposed to a radioactive toxin in London.
But the disinformation campaigns now emanating from Russia are of a different breed, said intelligence officials and analysts. Engineered for the social media age, they fling up swarms of falsehoods, concocted theories and red herrings, intended not so much to persuade people as to bewilder them.
"The mission seems to be to confuse, to muddy the waters," said Peter Pomerantsev, a former Russian-television producer and author of "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible," a memoir that describes the Kremlin's efforts to manipulate the news. The ultimate aim, he said, is to foster an environment in which "people begin giving up on the facts."
Moscow has repeatedly rejected such accusations, while suggesting that Britain is responsible for any confusion over what happened in the Skripal case. "Nine months has passed and so far we have not been presented with any official results of the investigation," Russia's London Embassy said in a statement to The Post. "The Embassy still has no access to our Russian citizens," a reference to Skripal and his Russian daughter, Yulia Skripal, who was also sickened in the attack.
Yet the same tactics that were observed in the wake of the Skripal poisoning have been employed multiple times since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, in each case following roughly the same script. When pro-Russian separatists shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and crew members, Russian officials and media outlets sought to pin the blame on the Ukrainian government, suggesting at one point that corpses had been trucked to the crash site to make the death toll appear higher.
State-controlled Russian media unleashed a fusillade of falsehoods after the 2015 assassination of reformist politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow and after at least three deadly chemical weapons attacks against civilians by Syria's pro-Russian government.
And apart from these concerted campaigns, there is a daily churn of false or distorted reports that seem designed to exploit the divisions in Western society and politics, especially on issues such as race, violence and sexual rights, and that are pushed by droves of operatives posing as ordinary citizens on social media accounts.
While many of the individual stories are easily debunked, the campaigns have had a discernible impact, as measured by opinion polls and, occasionally, public statements by Western politicians casting doubt on the findings of the intelligence agencies of their own governments. In October 2015, months after U.S. and European investigators concluded that Flight 17 had been brought down by a Russian missile fired by separatists, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump told CNN that the culprit was "probably Russia" but suggested that the truth was unknowable.
"To be honest with you, you'll probably never know for sure," he said.
Results such as these have encouraged what private groups say is a massive and ever-increasing investment by Moscow, which has placed numerous news outlets fully or partly on its payroll and operates at least one troll factory in which scores of employees disseminate pro-Kremlin messages using thousands of fake social media accounts.
The cost of this matrix is about $1.3 billion a year, according to Russian budget documents - a modest sum, considering the benefits, said Jakub Kalensky, until recently an official with the East StratCom Task Force, a rapid-response team created by the European Union to counter Russian disinformation. Unlike the covert operations used by Russia to influence foreign elections, Russia's distortion campaigns rarely invite retaliation, he said.
"For Russia, they are a cost-effective method for disrupting and undermining us," Kalensky said. "You can have quite a good result for the money spent."
By any objective measure, the assassination attempt on Sergei Skripal was an unalloyed disaster, the kind of intelligence-agency face plant that might have toppled a government if the operation had been carried out by a Western democracy. For the Kremlin, however, the bungled killing was quickly seized on as a public-relations opportunity.
A Russian military intelligence officer who was released to Britain as part of a spy swap in 2010, Skripal was the object of special scorn for Putin, who would publicly deride him as a traitor and a "scumbag." Skripal had been convicted in Russia in 2006 of treason for spying for Britain and was serving a 13-year sentence at the time of the swap.
British investigators say two operatives from the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, were dispatched to Skripal's adopted hometown with a perfume bottle filled with Novichok, a deadly nerve agent developed by Soviet scientists in the 1980s, with the aim of quietly poisoning the 67-year-old pensioner.
Almost nothing went according to plan. The operatives came up short in their quest to kill Skripal. He fell gravely ill along with his daughter, but both recovered after being aggressively treated by doctors for exposure to a suspected nerve agent. Moreover, investigators say, the Russian agents compounded their failure with the inadvertent death of a British woman who became ill after her boyfriend stumbled upon a discarded vial of Novichok and gave it to her, thinking it was perfume.
British investigators quickly identified the toxin as a Russian nerve agent and then publicly identified the suspected hit men, who were caught on camera repeatedly on March 4 as they wandered around Salisbury. Their cover story — the two claimed to be tourists visiting the city's 13th-century cathedral — was riddled with holes. Surveillance camera footage showed the men walking not toward the cathedral but in the opposite direction, toward the residential neighborhood where Skripal lived. The exiled Russian was poisoned the same day.
"They failed to kill their target, and they failed to be covert," said retired Rear Adm. John Gower, who oversaw nuclear, chemical and biological defense policy for Britain's Defense Ministry. "Because of those failures, Russia had to pivot really quickly."
And so when the real facts became problematic, Gower said, Russia quickly manufactured new ones. Dozens of them.
The Kremlin's propaganda machine swung into action in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt. Following a playbook already honed in response to events in Syria and Ukraine, Kremlin-controlled outlets produced a plethora of possible explanations. On March 6, two days after the poisoning, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti was already quoting an anesthesiologist saying that the manner of Skripal's poisoning suggested he was a drug addict and had overdosed.
On March 8 alone, pro-Kremlin news outlets published five phony narratives about the events in Salisbury, offering explanations for Skripal's illness that included an attempted suicide by Skripal and his daughter and a chemical-weapons leak at the nearby military laboratory at Porton Down.
Dmitry Kiselyov - the host of the program "Vesti Nedeli" ("News of the Week") on the Rossiya 1 network and a leading figure in the country's propaganda hierarchy - picked up the baton on March 11. He said that because Skripal was already "completely wrung out and of little interest" as a source, his poisoning was only advantageous to the British to "nourish their Russophobia" and organize a boycott of the summer's World Cup soccer tournament in Russia.
Then it was the Skripals' pets' turn in the spotlight - two guinea pigs and a fluffy Persian cat named Nesh Van Drake. The lack of information about their condition, Russian officials said in remarks that were broadcast on state TV, showed the British were surely covering something up.
"Where are these pets now?" Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vasily Nebenzya, asked at a Security Council meeting on April 5. "What has happened to them? Why has nobody said anything about them? Their condition is very important evidence."
The theories kept coming: Was it someone from the Baltics? Was Skripal poisoned on MI5-sponsored trips to chemical labs in the Czech Republic and Spain? Could it be a British government plot to distract attention from Brexit - or even from a pedophilia scandal in the western English town of Telford?
The Skripal affair, RIA Novosti columnist Ivan Danilov wrote, "will continue as long as the government of Theresa May needs it to resolve its own internal problems."
British officials and experts who studied the events say the false narratives emerged from a Russian information ecosystem in which news outlets and social media networks are increasingly intertwined with the country's intelligence apparatus and official communications organs. While independent media voices flourished briefly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Putin years have been marked by assassinations of prominent journalists and the silencing or muting of dissent. In recent years, the control over many of the largest news outlets has become nearly absolute, officials and analysts say.
Putin brought Russia's privately owned, freewheeling TV networks to heel in one of his first major moves as president. The Kremlin now controls all of Russia's main national television channels - and half of all Russians say television is their most trusted source of news. The channels deliver a strident, conspiratorial, pro-Kremlin message in hours of lavishly produced talk shows and newsmagazine programs every night.
That domestic propaganda machine is backed up by state-owned news agencies, RIA Novosti and Tass, and a stable of pro-Kremlin newspapers and websites. Russia's state media financing hit a record of 85 billion rubles, or $1.3 billion, for 2018. The government expects to spend $303 million on state broadcaster VGTRK and $293 million on RT, the international broadcaster, this year, according to the latest official figures.
Although the Internet in Russia is mostly uncensored and reporting critical of Putin is widely available in print, online and on the radio, the government's voice is by far the loudest in Russia's media landscape.
Providing further amplification are social media "troll" factories, including one in St. Petersburg known as the Internet Research Agency, described in a Justice Department indictment earlier this year, where hundreds of workers are paid to disseminate false stories on the Internet, under official direction, U.S. officials said. After a crisis, Russia's information network lurches into action, promoting stories and theories favored by the Kremlin, often with remarkable creativity, say officials and analysts.
"Different parts of the system echo each other, so the stories build momentum," said Ben Nimmo, a British-based researcher with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which analyzes government disinformation campaigns.
Russian politicians and diplomats then chime in, often ridiculing any official investigation and denouncing claims of Russian involvement, Nimmo said. Russian diplomats - and on multiple occasions, Putin himself - publicly scoffed at Britain's claims that Russian operatives were behind the Skripal poisoning. The Twitter account of the Russian Embassy in London echoed several of the false stories from social media, suggesting that Skripal was a British spy and theorizing that British military scientists had synthesized their own batch of Novichok, with help from a Soviet chemist who defected to the West.
"In absence of evidence, we definitely need Poirot in Salisbury," the embassy tweeted, in an allusion to Hercule Poirot, the fictional detective created by novelist Agatha Christie. Some British officials regard such denials as beyond cynical, as the use of Novichok in the poisoning was widely seen as deliberate - a subtle, unspoken claim of responsibility intended to warn other dissidents not to cross Moscow.
Some of the attempts to reshape the Skripal narrative backfired. After British officials on Sept. 5 released surveillance photographs of a pair of Russians suspected of carrying out the plot, RT aired an interview in which the two men claimed that they had been mere tourists in Britain. Their story began to unravel days later when a report by the investigative news site Bellingcat assembled compelling evidence that both men were GRU officers.
The men made no effort in the RT interview to explain the traces of Novichok police discovered in their hotel room and instead made an awkward attempt to explain why they made two quick trips to Salisbury over a wintry March weekend. One of them described a desire to see the Salisbury cathedral's "123-meter spire" and ancient clock, two features that appear on the cathedral's Wikipedia entry.
Pro-Kremlin media also started pushing the story line that the two men might be gay - and, by implication, could not possibly be part of Russia's military intelligence service. The "Vesti" news show ran a segment depicting Salisbury as imbued with a spirit of "modern European tolerance" and full of gay bars. In fact, a local newspaper said the town's sole gay bar had closed three months before the Skripal poisoning.
Yet, even as the alibi attempt turned into farce, Russia's Foreign Ministry continued to claim that Britain had concocted evidence to frame the men for a crime they could not possibly have committed. "There is no proof," spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in a Facebook posting on Sept. 26, asserting that Britain was seeking to divert the public's attention from the real story of "what happened in Salisbury."
As the false stories began to be picked apart, Russia responded with "a mixture of defiance and desperation," Nimmo said. "You can see the Russian propaganda machine struggling over what to do."
And yet by then, it no longer mattered. By multiple measures, Moscow had mostly succeeded in achieving the outcome it wanted most — doubt.
Last month, an independent pollster set out to measure how ordinary Russians viewed the events in Salisbury. The result: Despite lab reports, surveillance photographs and a detailed criminal complaint by British investigators, Russians overwhelmingly rejected the notion that their government was involved in the attack.
Nearly three in 10 of the Russians surveyed said they believed Britain was behind the poisoning, while 56 percent agreed with the comment "It could have been anyone," according to the Levada Center poll, conducted during the third week of October. Only 3 percent were willing to attribute the assassination attempt to Russia's intelligence agencies.
Indeed, the Kremlin managed to turn the botched assassination and the ensuing Western uproar to Putin's political advantage. The Russian presidential election was on March 18, and Putin was looking for high voter turnout to legitimize another six-year term. The Skripal affair allowed the Kremlin to turn the public's attention away from domestic problems and back to the confrontation between Russia and the West, a winning issue for Putin.
By quickly accusing Russia of being behind the poisoning, Britain's May gave Putin a "pre-election present," Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Kremlin adviser turned prominent Putin critic, said at the time. "She angered the voters a little bit and gave him another three to five percentage points of turnout."
Levada sociologist Denis Volkov said the result showed the compelling nature of the us-vs.-them narrative constructed by the Kremlin and state media over the past two decades. In that reality, the West is bent on stopping Russia from returning to great-power status after it brought the country to its knees in the 1990s. The story line builds on many Russians' memories of chaos, violence and poverty in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In focus groups, Volkov said, people sometimes acknowledged the likelihood of Russian involvement in the Skripal poisoning after initially rejecting it. After all, the respondents said, Russia was in a new Cold War with the West, and since the United States and its allies were lying, cheating and killing, Russia had to as well.
"They'll say, 'Sure, yeah, we might've done it,' " Volkov said. " 'But what's the problem? Everyone's doing it. There's a war going on, even if it's a cold war, between Russia and the West. So it's OK to do it. The main thing is to deny everything.' "
Russia's propaganda organs targeting foreign audiences— the television network RT and the web of radio stations and websites called Sputnik — also promote an anti-American narrative. While Russia's domestic messaging builds on Russians' bitterness stemming from the instability after the Soviet collapse, Moscow's foreign propaganda message capitalizes on an aversion to what is seen as U.S. hegemony and hypocrisy in many parts of the world.
It's less clear how effective RT and Sputnik are in pushing Russia's message abroad. In Britain, the Kremlin's version of the events in Salisbury has been widely debunked by independent news media. But in central and eastern Europe, where Russian channels in multiple languages are part of the standard cable-TV lineup, the contradictory claims have left viewers confused and bewildered - precisely what the designers of the propaganda campaign intended, said Kalensky, the former E.U. investigator.
"The strategy is to spread as many versions of events as possible and don't worry that they sometimes contradict themselves," Kalensky said. "It's not the purpose to persuade someone with one version of events. The goal for Russia is achieve a state in which the average media consumer says, 'There are too many versions of events, and I'll never know the truth.' "
Even in the West, government agencies fear that Russia's efforts are contributing to a growing distrust in traditional sources of information and blurring the line between fact and fiction. While RT's viewership is relatively small in the West, its stories are frequently recycled on right-wing websites and media outlets.
Just as often, the stream flows in the opposite direction. False stories that first appear on obscure conservative news sites become fodder for Russian TV talk shows. Since the start of the Trump era, Russian channels regularly echo the U.S. president's allegations about an American "deep state" and his depictions of the mainstream media as "fake news."
The resulting muddle was highlighted by Putin himself, who, while standing next to President Trump during their July summit in Helsinki, seemed to distill the Kremlin's approach to the news while responding to a question about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
"As for who to believe, who you can't believe, can you believe at all?" Putin mused, before answering his own questions: "You can't believe anyone."
- - - Troianovski reported from Moscow. The Washington Post's Natalia Abbakumova and Amie Ferris-Rotman in Moscow contributed to this report.


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Brownsboro is an unincorporated community in Caldwell County, in the U.S. state of Texas. The community had a population of 50 in 2000.  It is located within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.

History
The area in what is known as Brownsboro today was first settled in the 1850s. This community grew up around Clear Fork Baptist Church and was named after R.A. Brown. The discovery of oil in nearby fields gave the community's economy a large boost in the 1920s. There was a store and a gin, including the church, all serving about 50 families. By the 1930s it also had its own baseball team, but the community's population had fallen to 25 by the 1940s and only a few scattered houses remained in Brownsboro by the 1980s. By 2000, its population had risen to 50 people.

Geography
Brownsboro is located along Farm to Market Road 1322,  southeast of Lockhart in south-central Caldwell County.

Education
Brownsboro had its own school in the 1920s. Children in the area attended Oakland School until it became a part of the Lockhart Independent School District in 1949. The Lockhart Independent School District still serves the community.

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Witold Krassowski (né le 10 avril 1956 à Varsovie) est un photographe polonais, lauréat de plusieurs prix.

Formation
Autodidacte en photographie, il  a étudié de 1975 à 1980 à l'Institut de linguistique appliquée de l'Université de Varsovie (spécialité : langue et littérature française) et a fait des études post diplôme à l'Institut de linguistique générale et appliquée de l'Université de Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Il a obtenu en 2009 un doctorat à l'Université de Silésie au Wydział Radia i Telewizji im. Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego Uniwersytetu Śląskiego.

Carrière professionnelle

Witold Krassowski, connu aussi sous le nom de Witek Krassowski, a commencé sa carrière de photographe comme reporter pour l'hebdomadaire catholique "Przegląd Katolicki" et pour l'agence Network Photographers.

Il collabore régulièrement avec les journaux et magazines "Der Spiegel", "The Observer", "The Independent", "New Yorker", "National Geographic" et "Gazeta Wyborcza".

Il a été tour à tour lauréat (deux fois) et membre (1999) du jury du World Press Photo.

Il a remporté à plusieurs reprises un prix au Concours de la photographie de presse polonaise (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003).

Il a à son compte de nombreuses expositions collectives ou personnelles par lesquelles "Powidoki z Polski" sur les transformations sociales en Pologne dans les années 1987-1997.

Il est membre actif et a été vice-président de l'Association des artistes photographes polonais (ZAPF) (en polonais : Związek Polskich Artystów Fotografików).

Il est depuis 2009 professeur à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Varsovie (faculté des arts des médias et de scénographie) et la Warszawska Szkoła Fotografii (École varsovienne de photographie).

Publications
Les photographies de Witold Krassowski ont été publiées dans de nombreuses publications européennes et américaines.
On peut relever, en dehors de ses contributions régulières à des magazines et à des quotidiens polonais :
The Independent Magazine
75 Years of Leica,
The Hope Project,
The Inferno-Paradiso Project,
Magic Moments II - contribution
 Livres
"Visages de l'Est", préface de Frédéric Dard, Paris, Nathan, 1991, 1997.
 "Powidoki z Polski", Album de photos, 224 p., 101 photos (noir et blanc), textes polonais : Sławomir Mizerski (Polityka), textes allemands : Thomas Urban (Süddeutsche Zeitung), préface de Jacek Żakowski, EK Pictures, Varsovie, 2009
 Pieśń na wyjście… ostatni mistrzowie sceny Witold Krassowski, EK Pictures, 2011

Expositions
1988 - Freightdoors Gallery, Santa Clara, Californie, USA
1989-1992 - Photographers Gallery, Londres et autres villes de Grande-Bretagne
1991 - Kaboul, Caracas
1992 - Perpignan, exposition collective
1997 - "British Pastimes" dans diverses villes de Pologne
1999 - "After-images of Poland" (Powidoki z Polski) dans diverses villes de Pologne
2000 - Varsovie ; participation à Magic Moments II dans diverses villes de Pologne
2001 - Munich, Cologne
2002 - Bielsko-Biała
2006 - Lisbonne, Portugal
2007 - Budapest, Hongrie

Récompenses et distinctions
1992 - World Press Photo -  dans la catégorie "Images de la vie quotidienne"
1994, 95 - Konkurs Polskiej Fotografii Prasowej, Concours de la photographie de presse polonaise -  dans la catégorie "Images de la vie quotidienne"
1996 - Konkurs Polskiej Fotografii Prasowej, Concours de la photographie de presse polonaise -  prix dans la catégorie "Images de la vie quotidienne"
1997 - Konkurs Polskiej Fotografii Prasowej, Concours de la photographie de presse polonaise -  et 2nd prix dans la catégorie "Images de la vie quotidienne"
2000 - Konkurs Polskiej Fotografii Prasowej, Concours de la photographie de presse polonaise -  dans la catégorie "Arts et Culture"
2001 - The British Design & Art Direction "Yellow Pencil" Award (silver)
2003 - World Press Photo -  dans la catégorie "Science et Technologie"
2003 - Konkurs Polskiej Fotografii Prasowej, Concours de la photographie de presse polonaise -  prix dans la catégorie "Images de la vie quotidienne"
2005 - Art & Worship Award, , Téhéran
2007 - Prix du CICR

Liens externes
   Site officiel de Witold Krassowski
   Witold Krassowski sur le site de son éditeur
  Entretien vidéo et diaporama commenté par l'auteur, 5 min 26
  Witold Krassowski sur le site officiel du World Press Photo
  Notice sur le site Culture.pl de l'Instytut Adama Mickiewicza ()

Notes et références

Naissance à Varsovie
Photographe polonais du XXe siècle
Photographe polonais du XXIe siècle
Étudiant de l'université de Varsovie
Étudiant de l'université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Naissance en 1956
Collaborateur du New Yorker


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Q: "Taxes and Option Prices" (question about Derivatives Markets by McDonald) Thanks in advance for any help, and please tell me if there's anything I can do to make things clearer.
I am having trouble understanding appendix 10.A to Derivatives Markets by Robert L. McDonald. This book is the primary recommended study material for the Society of Actuaries Exam MFE. My own attempts to resolve this issue follow, but any justification for the computations on the above page would be appreciated.
My misunderstanding is probably due to an algebra mistake, but I may be messing up notation or "problem set-up." In addition to the definitions and assumptions given in the above page, I am concluding the following:
(1) $[S_1 -\tau_g (S_1-S_0) + \delta S_1(1-\tau_d)]\Delta \\ + [1+r_h(1-\tau_i)]B\\ = \phi_1 (S_1) - \tau_O [\phi_1 (S_1) - \phi_0 (S_0)]$,
both when ($S_1=S_1^+, \phi_1=\phi_1^+$) and when ($S_1=S_1^-, \phi_1=\phi_1^-$).
(2) $\phi_0 (S_0) = B + \Delta \cdot S_0$.
I am not finding much help in the book in understanding the notation, but I hope that most of it is fairly self-explanatory (with $\phi$ representing an option with an underlying asset whose price is S, and which can take one of two values in period 1).
On the basis of these assumptions, I did the following:
-used Cramer's rule on the pair of equations specified in (1) above (equation 10.25 in the above appendix), solving for $\Delta$ and $B$;
-substituted (2) into the resulting equation for $B$;
-got the following variant of McDonald's conclusion:
$\Delta = \frac{1-\tau_O}{1-\tau_g} \frac{\phi_1^+ (S_1^+)-\phi_1^- (S_1^-)}{S_1^+ - S_1^-} $;
$B=\frac{1}{1+r_h\frac{1-\tau_i}{1-\tau_O}} (\frac{u\phi_1 (S_1^-)-d\phi_1 (S_1^+)}{u-d} - \frac{\Delta}{1-\tau_O} S_0 [\tau_g-\tau_O +\delta(1-\tau_d)])$.
Can someone show me the error of my ways?


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BNL mourns death of particle-physics pioneer Ozaki
In memoriam: Satoshi Ozaki, particle accelerator pioneer.
Satoshi Ozaki, a world-renowned physicist who helped design and build numerous particle accelerators for scientific research on two continents, died July 22, according to a statement from Brookhaven National Laboratory. He was 88.
Ozaki, a BNL senior scientist emeritus, was a key driver of international collaborations in high-energy and nuclear physics, including highly regarded work at Brookhaven Lab's Alternating Gradient Synchrotron and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
Calling him "one of the world's foremost accelerator builders," BNL Director Doon Gibbs said Ozaki – who first joined Brookhaven Lab in 1959, after earning a master's degree in physics from Japan's Osaka University and a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – "had a tremendous impact on Brookhaven's science."
"His contributions to Brookhaven Lab were numerous, wide-ranging and always characterized by his wisdom," Gibbs said in a statement. "The success of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider stands as a monument to his leadership, but he also left an indelible mark on the National Synchrotron Light Source II.
"He was a wonderful mentor to many at Brookhaven and beyond, and he was a true friend."
Upon joining BNL, Ozaki worked in a group he eventually co-led with Samuel Lindenbaum, focused on experiments at the AGS, including the development of state-of-the-art electronic detectors and an online data facility for monitoring detector performance – the first system of its kind, according to the Upton-based laboratory.
The Ozaki-Lindenbaum group also developed a "multiparticle spectrometer" that served many BNL experiments and collaborating universities.
The celebrated scientist's work in experimental particle physics included the development of detectors for ISABELLE, BNL's first crack at a dual-ring superconducting collider. He would later lead the development of RHIC, Brookhaven Lab's 2.4 mile-circumference ion collider. The giant machine smashes together atomic particles at nearly the speed of light, offering an unprecedented glimpse at the building blocks of visible matter.
In between ISABELLE and RHIC, Ozaki returned to his native Japan to direct construction of TRISTAN, the Asian nation's first high-energy particle collider.
"It was a pleasure to welcome Satoshi and his wife, Yoko, back to Brookhaven National Laboratory," noted Nicholas Samios, who was BNL director when the scientist returned to head up RHIC in 1989. "The timing was auspicious: The construction of TRISTAN was successfully completed and RHIC was ready to be launched.
"Satoshi was the right man, at the right place, at the right time to head the RHIC construction project."
In 2005, Ozaki joined the NSLS-II project, once again leading construction of a world-class facility. As the initial head of the NSLS-II Accelerator Division, he built the group from the ground up, attracting staff and leading development of the facility's conceptual design.
In addition to securing Japanese support for RHIC-related projects, Ozaki played a key role in establishing partnership between BNL and RIKEN, Japan's leading institute of physical and chemical research.
He also spent decades providing oversight of an agreement on high-energy physics between the Japanese and U.S. governments, laying the groundwork for several large-scale collaborations, and chaired the Accelerator System Advisory Committee for the DOE's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, currently under construction at Michigan State University.
Ozaki's many accomplishments have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the 2007 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Accelerator Science and Technology Award, which he shared with Michael Harrison for leadership in the successful design and construction of RHIC.
He also received the 2009 Robert R. Wilson Prize of the American Physical Society for his contributions to accelerator science and technology on two continents and his promotion of international collaboration.
In 2012, he received a commendation from the Consul General of Japan, followed in 2013 by Japan's prestigious Order of the Sacred Treasure. And In 2016, he received a Distinguished Science Award from Brookhaven Science Associates, the company that manages BNL for the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
Ozaki was pre-deceased by his wife, Yoko, and is survived by their two children, Keiko Simon and Tsuyoshi Ozaki, as well as their spouses and four grandchildren.
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Revenge of the Auteur: "Child of Eden" debuts at #1 on Amazon
Posted by Evan Narcisse on July 1st
Look, I can't pretend to be objective about Tetsuya Mizuguchi's work. Lots of people like "Rez," but I'm the guy who trumpets his more obscure work like "Every Extend Extra" the inverse shooter he re-crafted for PSP. The man's game design seeks to work on your senses first, then your heart and then your brain. In true auteur fashion, he's got a definite approach that carries over from game to game.
My regard to Mizuguchi as a genius notwithstanding, I didn't have high hopes for "Child of Eden" as far as sales were concerned. Sure, it's playable with a standard controller, but it's being marketed as a Kinect experience. Sentiment around the motion-sensing camera and the games built for it is generally lukewarm and that, combined with the fact that "Rez" never made tons of money, seemed to destine "Child of Eden" for the "good reviews + modest sales = cult hit" formula all over again.
But, word started to bubble over Twitter last night that "Child of Eden" was popping up as the number one game overall at Amazon's U.S. websites. An article at gaming industry site Gamasutra backs up the chatter. I'm realistic as the fact that an Amazon #1 may not equal the chart-busting numbers of a "Call of Duty" or a "Halo." And some may chide that it took a promotional sale for "Eden" to hit the summit. But, what buoys me most about this news is the idea that people are playing a visionary game with unique design sensibilities. Moreover, the combination of Kinect and Mizuguchi's efforts can help broaden the idea of what people think about when they think about what a video game can be.
Like "Rez" before it, "Child of Eden" makes you feel like you're living in and interacting with a piece of art or, more specifically, with a piece of an artist's soul. It delivers visual wonder after visual wonder and invites you to interact with them, with that interaction changing the very thing you're looking at. Because the game doesn't shy away from being hard at points, the challenge of the play experience crests into little consciousness-raising epiphany bubbles where–and I know this sounds corny–you see the interconnectedness of everything. It's a perceptual shift you can take away from the game and out into the world with you. In short, it makes you feel.
Video games aren't quite like movies yet, where a creative work has more freedom to exist outside of commercial considerations. The video game distribution equivalent of art-house movie theatres-Kongregate, TIGsource, Xbox Live Indie Games and, to an extent, even Android Market and Apple's App Store-don't benefit from the kind of goodwill that their filmic counterparts do. Video games live in ecosystems where they need to financially justify their existence and experimentation or art-for-art's-sake just isn't marketable. That's what makes this week's Supreme Court decision so culturally important; it's the kind of thing that can shift perceptions of video games from being 'product' to being 'art.' Of course, the industry itself has to follow suit. (No doubt, the continuing rise of well-made indie games like "Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP" and films like "Indie Game the Movie"will help.) Here's hoping "Child of Eden" enjoys more sales success and that that success points the way forward.


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Did You See That Seablite Video?
May 21, 2019 nathan.lankford Leave a comment
Last week I shared another track from the forthcoming Seablite LP along with news of the Pre-Order, but just a day later they dropped another tune and this video. I had to wait a bit to post it because I know you guys are fickle, and need some Seablite space…but now I'm ready to get back at it. This track pulls away from the jangling pop side of things and moves into the shimmering realm of dream pop. I think the rhythm section still holds things really tight, propelling the tune forward while the guitars seem to swirl and dip in and out of your ear holes. I love how you can sort of tie the album title into the two sides of the band, with their jangling leaning towards the more playful "Grass Stains" and this track here bending towards "Novocaine." Grass Stains and Novocaine is out June 7th via Emotional Response.
Bouncy Pop Number from Neutrals
If that bobbing bass line that opens up this new single from Neutrals doesn't get you, then I think you might want to call a doctor. That didn't work? Well, maybe take into account the group features members of Terry Malts, Cocktails and Giant Haysticks? That should do the trick. But, if you're still struggling, then let the rhythm push you on, then await those circular guitar lines that up the ante on the songs natural enemy. You might get a little offset with the deadpan delivery of the vocals, but those of you with punk rock in your veins should be more than ok. With only a handful of demos to their name, Kebab Disco aims to be a pretty powerful debut; it's available for pre-order from Emotional Response.
Seablite Share House of Papercuts
Seablite aren't strangers to this site, but it had been a minute since we'd heard the name until our friend pointed out that their new album is now up for pre-order! And, it's possible I've completely missed this, but there's this bubbling pop number that comes with that announcement. Opening up with those ringing jangle guitars is a sure-fire way to catch my attention, especially when the rhythm section kicks in a toe-tapping bounce. Vocals are hitting just the right note, aided by these delighting backing notes, purifying the harmony. Some fuzz kicks in around the 2 minute mark, just in case you weren't aware of the band's ability to rock…which I'm pretty sure ties into the album title, Grass Stains and Novocaine…you can get down and dirty and still be really sweet; it's out June 7th via Emotional Response.
Grass Stains and Novocaine by SEABLITE
Stream Summer of the Mosquito from Monnone Alone
May 9, 2019 nathan.lankford Leave a comment
In quiet circles around the Internet, folks are on the edge of their seats waiting to hear the new Monnone Alone LP; the former Lucksmiths guitarist is held in high regard, and Summer of the Mosquito largely lives up to those expectations. The record is fill with mostly sunny numbers, apt for an LP with such a title…though you might find a melancholy tune hanging about. Regardless…people will fawn over this for some time, so I wanted you to be one of the first to hear it all the way through. Stream it or Buy it from these folks: Lost and Lonesome (Australia), Meritorio (Spain), Emotional Response (US), and Royal Mint (Finland). For an added bonus…you can click after the jump and read my thoughts on each track!
More New Monnone Alone
April 26, 2019 nathan.lankford Leave a comment
Mark Monnone's been teasing us with a single here and a single there, but now we finally have what we knew was coming, the announcement of the second Monnone Alone LP. It takes just 8 seconds for the song to hit you smack in your pop face, dropping this huge riff to match Monotone's voice. Interestingly, the delivery here of those vocals almost has a snarky punk attitude to it, which for me, bridges the gap between power-pop and indiepop, making the song all the more appealing in my ears. Summer of the Mosquito will be out on May 10th via all your favorite pop labels (too many to name).
Casual Pop from No Local
I spent a lot of time listening to the latest single from No Local, a band comprised of Snowy and Zac D (who passed away before his time) from the Ocean Party. Part of that was nostalgia, but a great deal had to do with just how great this simple song is; I think it's a testament to Denton and Snowy's writing partnership. It's a song mostly worked around keys and soft drum work, while the vocals sit back casually, repeating the the line "I've got nothing more to give" as the song draws to a close. The End Again will be out at the end of April courtesy of Osborne Again and Emotional Response.
Hear Brand New Boyracer
After a brief period of radio silence, Boyracer is going to return this year with a brand new LP; the band admit to recording over 20 brand new ditties to better your life…and today they've shared one of these tracks. It's a short fuzzed out ripper that begs the question, why haven't more people fallen in love with the group over the year? It's catchy, making it memorable; it's upbeat, thus perfect for jamming in the morning, on the drive down the sunny highway, or just when you want to rock out with your friends. This song will be on a hyper-limited 7′ lathe cut, with word that there's a similar Monnone Alone you can read about right HERE. All these great things courtesy of Emotional Response.
One Last Ocean Party Release
February 6, 2019 nathan.lankford One comment
Tragedy struck the Ocean Party late last year, with the passing of Zac Denton. But, before that, the band, who had typically written all their songs together, suggested the idea they should all write their own EPs, to spotlight their various songwriting talents. Zac went home to record his, encouraging the others to add to it as they saw fit, though there was no hurried schedule. When he passed, the band went to add their parts, to add to the storied life of an incredible songwriter gone too young. Nothing Grows marks what is the last Ocean Party release, dropping in a limited quantity on Emotional Response here in the States.
Nothing Grows by THE OCEAN PARTY
Small Labels and the Side Hustle Pt. 3
It's been a great few days reading over the responses from the various labels who've been so kind to share a quick thought on who they are and why they do what they do. It's a great view at all the hard-working individuals putting their life into music. Today we've got Forged Artifacts, Emotional Response, Spare the Rock, My Little Empire and Dadstache.
Stunning New Track from The Ocean Party
I've made no secret of my adoration for The Ocean Party over the years, but every time I feel like I've peaked, they go off and release something incredible. Their latest single teases you, sliding in ever so quietly…touch of electronic atmosphere and voice opens; then guitar and gang vocals join before the beat kicks the track forward. The forlorn keyboards and meandering guitar would be enough, but suddenly the tune bursts forth, slide guitar and full band working away. It creates one of those magical moments you get so rarely in pop music, the sort that makes you feel lucky to even be here listening. Their new LP, The Oddfellows Hall, drops on November 9th via Emotional Response/Spunk Records.