Happy New Year, big one tonight. I cannot wait bangles and the bills who I love as well. So we will hear from since he's lying back or Logan Wilson ahead of tonight's bills. Bangles game spoke to him recently and the playoff picture, conjecture, conchequeure. It's all over and rounding into beautiful form. Some teams eliminated and we had answers for week 18 and for the playoffs plus 14 year NFL veteran at quarterback Matt Castle joining us. Are the paths making the playoffs? I don't know about that, but the stealers might. Let's do it 2023. Are the stealers going to make the playoffs? How fun is this? The Packers definitely are. They might win the Super Bowl. How wild was season finale part one, aka week 17? Q, the playoff picture. It's what we do here on the Up and Atom show as we take a look at the NFC. The Eagles, let's set the table here. They're still atop at 13 of three. The one seed and the entire NFC East title still up for grabs after the loss to the Saints who are playing great football at the M&M and it doesn't matter. That is two shots, two shots that Eagles had at locking it up that failed. Oof, they miss Jalen, they need him back and they've got decisions to make in Philly. The Niners, as you can see, they move up to the two seed after beating the Raiders in overtime to capture their ninth straight win and they can take the one seed with the win and if the Eagles lose in week 18 and Bosa by the way runs the world, Vikings, woof, they drop down to the three seed. You couldn't do it Vikings. You had to be so excited, hopped up on everything. All these close games, you get blown out and killed by the Packers. They're the three seed now, the Bucks.  What did you do here? The Buccaneers wrap up the South division title, 30 to 24, come back from behind win over the Panthers. They lock up the four and they host a team in the first round, probably this one, the Cowboys. They're in the five seed. They can still win the NFC East, wow. They gotta beat the commanders week 18 and have the Eagles lose to the Giants. They're also still alive for the one seed if both the Eagles and the Niners lose. Ipso facto carry the one, we're on a roll here on a Monday. The Giants, as you can see here, they clinched their first playoff birth since 2016. The infamous boat pictures, the Timbalands, all of it. They took down the Colts 38 to 10 yesterday afternoon and they're locked in. They cannot move from that six seed and that's important. Stay tuned. We'll tell you why. And the final wild card spot, still completely up for grabs. I mean, the Packers take it with a win over a feisty Lions team. And week 18, a team running through the wall for Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell's like, you are on the right. You are on the right to play in a meaningful game. And the Seahawks, they get the wild card and they'd win and be in if they get a W and the Packers lose. The Lions still somehow can grab that spot if they win and the Seahawks lose to the Rams. Sean McVeigh, think about this. Sean McVeigh may have the final say in whether or not Jared Goff takes this Detroit team, not just the team, the city, the entire Midwest, all of Michigan on his back into the playoffs. That is a twist of fate. I mean, give it to him, McVeigh. You gotta give it to him. What are we doing here? Tweet the show, add up an Adams show. And let's move on to the AFC side of things. All right. As you can see, Chiefs move up. They get the one seed. Oh boy, with their probable MVP with a win over the Broncos yesterday. But tonight, the game bangles Bills. The Bills can snatch that right back with a win over the three seeded Cincinnati squad. That's the Bengals. They can clinch the AFC North if they win tonight over the Bills. And they're in play still people. The Bengals are in play for the one seed as well. The Jags lead, oh, let's do it. Where are we at here? I think the Jags, I don't know what happened. But the Jags lead the AFC South at eight and eight following their 31 to three win over the Texans. The winner takes on, I believe, the Titans next week. And then they can earn that four seed. Now let me look at here. The Chargers, they move up to the five seed. They beat the Rams yesterday in our backyard here. The Ravens, what are we doing? What are we doing? They drop to the six after losing to the Steelers, but they can still win the North if the Bengals lose tonight and they're able to beat Sinsi next week. The Patriots, they're in the wildcard spot. That final wildcard spot, and they can lock it up if they beat the Bills next week. The Dolphins can snag it if they beat the Jets and the Pats losing the Steelers. Like I said, last week, credit to Tomlin. Some noise for Tomlin here. They're very much alive. It was about a 2% chance at some point last week while I was in Cabo drinking coconut water just for the hell of it, just for the Gram, I'll admit it. But that's wild, and we'll get to that in a moment. If they beat the Browns next week and the Patriots and the Dolphins both lose, Pittsburgh would be in. So there you have it. Sorry about the snafu there in the middle of it. I think it happened because it's crazy that the Jags and the Titans somehow are in it and can earn a four seed in this situation. I think my mind glitched on that one. So the table is officially set, guys, for week 18. As I bring in Matthew Hamilton. Hamilton, did I miss anything egregious? No, I think he hit it all on the head that Jags-Titans game is gonna be big. And there's actually still a weird scenario where both of those teams can get in. If the Titans beat the Jaguars and then the Patriots, Dolphins and Steelers all lose, then the Titans would be AFC South Champs and the Jaguars would get that last wild card spot. So there's still a little bit of a weirdness that we can see play out, but it's gonna be interesting. We did, we're still waiting on the Sunday slate of games and how that's all gonna shake out schedule-wise, but we did get the Saturday schedule released late last night. We're getting Chiefs Raiders at 4.30 on Saturday. And then that Titans, that aforementioned Titans Jaguars game is gonna be at 8.15, the de facto AFC South Championship game. So it's gonna be a lot of fun next week. It certainly will. So last year, I remember being like, I don't wanna like this 18, week 18 thing. And it actually mattered and it made the games and the playoffs all that better. Do you think it's shaping up that way this year? I think so. I think we could see some strange things happen. If the Chiefs are able to lock up the one seed on Saturday night, that could make the Bills potentially not have a lot to play for in that game against the Patriots and maybe the Bills rest some guys in the Patriots get an edge in that game, but which would be kind of catastrophic, but we'll see how that plays out. But I'm interested to see what they do with the Sunday night football game. I think everybody kind of thinks it's gonna be Packers Lions as of right now. I think that would be the natural choice, but there is a little bit of concern because if they make that the Sunday night game and the Seahawks win against the Rams earlier in the day, then the Lions would already be eliminated by the time we get to Sunday night football. That's the risk you run by making that move, but I think that has to be the game, right? Well, we were stewing over other options. This is like nerd stuff. Like this is a nerd, but we're like who's getting flexed? Who's trying to go into the beautiful minds of these schedule makers who are insanely intelligent and have all the algorithms and all of that, but you have to think the only other option would be Bangles Ravens, right? Yeah, and that really only comes into play if the Bangles lose tonight because if the Bangles beat the Bills tonight, that AFC North title's already decided, so that game kind of loses some of its luster because it'll only really be meaningful for the Bangles, maybe potentially being able to get the one seed, but I just can't see any game having more meaning than Lions Pack. Because even if the Lions are eliminated, you know that game is gonna mean a ton to that fan base to keep Aaron Rodgers out, especially. That was so true. He talked a lot of trash about the Lions over the last couple of weeks. Even after that first loss to Detroit, he was like, the Lions didn't beat me. I beat myself, so. You listened to his entire 15 minute post game. What were your thoughts? Aaron Rodgers. I did.   Well, to do something and I'm like, that sounds like something Aaron would do. And so maybe I want to do, but I was like, but he didn't have a great season. He's probably not making the playoffs. And then this game yesterday, taking down the NFC New York champions, I'm like, give me the frog venom. I'm not saying he did frog venom. Or if that's okay, or like on some sort of list that's gonna get him popped for something. Is that what I'm saying? But it just seemed like something very Aaron Rodgers E to get frog venom put into your veins. No? Yeah, and he was talking a lot yesterday about the power of manifestation and how he believes in all that. And, you know, he, he's definitely enjoying the moment right now, I think. And well, I know you're gonna get into a little bit of that a little bit later and show some of that, but he's, he's, he's reveling in this right now, but there's still work to be done because the Lions are not just gonna roll over for this backer squad either. And it's so true, so we've got this Saturday thing where the Jags and Titans can both get in and they're fighting for the four seed and it's the AFC South championship. I admitted to you something before the show that I'm just gonna tell everybody. Up until I was like 14, maybe 15, maybe 17. I don't know, who's counting? I thought it was seat, like the one seat, not the one seed. Doesn't it make more sense?  Why do they call it a seed? It does. Like they got the two seed, the chiefs got the two, that means the second fiddle, the second seat in the NFL orchestra. That does make sense. But as we were talking about it this morning, I, you know, I kind of guess I was like, mate, it sounds like something tennis related. Like, I feel like the British came up with this in some form. It just seems very British to me. Conrad's making fun of me. I think I'm gonna call them six. There you go. You're just gonna do it, you're gonna change it. The one seat, what does a seed have to do with it? I don't know. Didn't you look it up on Wikipedia? Yeah, it says, well, seed has many meetings. Ooh. Yeah, we don't need to go that. The term, the one that's used in Game of Thrones very often, we're not gonna go there, but here's the sports term of it. It was first used in tennis, which you're a genius. You knew that. It's based on the idea of laying out a tournament ladder by arranging slips of paper with the names of players on them the way seeds or seedlings are arranged in a garden, which apparently, which no one knows, you have smaller plants up front and larger ones behind. Sure. What? It makes sense. I was right. It's seed. So we'll talk about, you know, we'll see that wildcard seed might be taken by the Patriots. Hey, we got a guest coming up right after this that you know pretty well. What should I talk to him about? We do. I can't wait to hear Mac Castle thoughts on the Patriots because they're very much alive now and big matchup, big win yesterday against the Dolphins, big matchup coming up with the Bills. I know he's pretty plugged in there as you are. So I'm very much looking forward to that chat. Very much looking forward to it. Hey, can we just start this right now? We're gonna do Aaron Rodgers' manifestation. DJ Reader tonight. Big game, big game from DJ Reader. Can we stop Josh Allen? Can we stop single Terry? Can we stop everybody from running a muck with that Bills offense there in Cincinnati tonight? DJ Reader, have yourself a game. Yeah, I'm looking at Logan Wilson too. I'm excited to hear what he has to say about stopping Josh Allen, but maybe they have him spying Josh a little bit to try to keep him under control. A little Wyoming on Wyoming action tonight. All right, we're talking about Sunday Night Football. Yeah, Wyoming, they were former teammates, so we'll talk about that. But you and I had a decision to make editorially last week and we said, do we wanna give space to the Panthers? Who we love, we were rooting for them. Sorry it didn't happen there officially eliminated after being taken down by the Bucks in crazy comeback fashion, we'll get to that. But we're also deciding what do we wanna do with our under reactions? We have a segment every week, what are we not talking about enough and it was gonna be the Panthers in the run? Or is it Mark Tomlin, the badass Mark Tomlin? Thanks, Hamilton, to talk to you in a bit. And we decided to give love to Tomlin with this run that the Steelers are on. So let's dig deeper to some of this and it was a dramatic 16 to 13 win last night in Baltimore, I was bored for the first quarter, but gosh, the second consecutive week, Kenny Pickett puts together engineers, puts together the Christmas Lego set to create a brilliant game winning drive. Are you kidding? Oh my gosh, this Najee Harris, go ahead, touchdown pass, unbelievable. And he didn't just leave the Steelers down the field on that drive, guys, he made three big time throws, the type of throws that set quarterbacks apart from other quarterbacks in classes, in ranks, in seedings, if you will. Coach Tomlin, last week coming off the field in a genuine moment, you know, mic'd up, it's talking about growing up, grow up moments last week. Pickett has had those moments over the course of this Steelers run and it's so obvious when you turn on any sort of tape, any sort of highlights on Pittsburgh, they're winning, they've won five of six. I'm at the point where I genuinely believe they're gonna get in. It was like a 2% chance and I'm here for this story. The Patriots, as Hamilton said, they have to go too buffalo in a game that almost certainly will have no matter to the Bills as far as seeding is concerned. The Dolphins, they're down to their third stringer at quarterback. We saw, we saw, we saw Skylar Thompson take on the defense already once this year and New York won 40 to 17. So if the Steelers can just beat the Browns and damn, I'm rooting for that. God, am I rooting for that? There is a strong chance that they're headed back to the postseason where they live. You know, birds fly south for the winner? Is that still true? I don't know. And Tomlin goes to the postseason because he is a wizard. But there's another team on a relatively improbable run that we need to get to as part of these takeaways. Green Bay, they blasted the Vikings. I mean, 41 to 17, their playoff hopes still very much alive in the matter of three weeks. It went from, oh, cute. That's so cute. They kind of still have a chance. I have two little nephews that are Packers fans. I'm so happy for them. They're wearing their Elm Lazar jerseys and like it might still happen. There's hope, holiday spirit. It went from that to, oh, okay. Well, they need some help, but it's Aaron Roth. He could somehow do this back to back MVP winner. And that all shifted to what is now a control your destiny with Mr. Manifestation Wizard, win and get in against the Lions in week 18 to finish the regular season. It is shocking when you think about where we stood on Thanksgiving weekend with the Packers at four and eight and the offense looking like an absolute mess. Now, a little over a month later, Aaron Rodgers is basking, really having a good time and enjoying the glow of the turnaround to glisten. You know, we've all seen some of the commentary outside as we went from four and eight to five and eight to six and eight and nobody's worried about the Packers and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now what are you gonna say? I love that you cut your hair. That's what I wanna say.  I just need to say it. It looks great. Mwah, best haircut I've seen in a long time. And that might draw, be the impetus and the catalyst that they need to get this team to the Super Bowl. But seriously, what you're hearing Aaron Rodgers say is that he pays very close attention to what we're all saying. So I'm just glad that I never said to take this team behind the shed, old Yeller style and shoot it because that's something that he might hold on to and that would not be very good for this show or me when he does win said Super Bowl. Aaron has found a rhythm with his team, Christian Watson not looking maybe as good as he did for a bit of a stretch, but the run game is cooked, the defense has figured it out. Special teams, which is like this team's kryptonite over the last few years, suddenly a strength on this squad. I mean, Keisha Nixon, 105 year kickoff return. What is he the best player ever to play the game? Unbelievable. He had the big one against the Dolphins last week as well. He wasn't even supposed to suit up for this one. They also got right after a 75-yard pick six from Darnell Savage yesterday. I'm in the car listening to this on the way home from the airport like, what is this game? Aaron Rogers has done nothing in this game yet and they're crushing it. And that's what made this win so awesome and so terrifying for the rest of the NFC. It wasn't about Rogers. It wasn't Rogers back up against the wall, stepping up and going dracarys on everyone like we've seen him do throughout his entire career. It was literally every person on the team in every phase that made it happen. It was the true definition of a team win good coaching. I don't have complaints about the coaching the type of wins that have been Rogers hallmark wins were not this, right? And maybe this type of complete effort is ultimately what actually will give the Packers a chance to get in and do something in the postseason. There's another team though that has a say in all of this. Let's just let you listen to this and put it all in context. What we just did today is gonna put us in a high commodity come next week. We'll be at a hot game, all right? Because the fact of the matter is we just extended ourselves one more week for the playoffs. We just did. We just guaranteed ourselves one more week. That's not scary, buddy, yeah. Just gonna be amazing. Is it the Sunday night football game? Maybe. I don't care when it is. I don't care when it is. I will be up watching. Put it on, cut our World Cup hours and I will be up watching this. And so will you because this is going to be as intense and emotional like this season game as we've ever seen. Dan Campbell's crew has a chance to make their own miraculous run to a playoff but they need a little bit of help. And exercise, by the way, some major Lambo field demons in the process. And we're still waiting on the Sunday slate but it seems like there's a strong chance we see this one as game number 272. The Mr. Irrelevant but super relevant of the regular season slate to cap off what was an insane 2022 season. We're gonna get to the bucks. We gotta get to other stuff but we're gonna take a break here because we have Matt Castle joining the show. Brady's gonna win the Super Bowl. Are the Patriots gonna get in to the dance? How are they in the final wild card? How is Brady hosting a playoff game? Matt Castle's here, next. Oh boy, the Patriots control their destiny. Will they get in? They're locked, not locked there. Hanging on by a thread to the final wild card spot right now as we are joined by a 14 year NFL veteran, good friend of the show, Pro Bowl quarterback for the Chiefs as well co-hosting The Breakdown on Kansas City Sports Network along with our guy Hammer. Hey, happy new year, Mr. Matt Castle. Happy new year. How was your new year?   It just sounds like awful and not a good time. And no, I went to like a pretty lame dinner and was in bed before midnight. Is that not okay? That's totally fine. Cause I did very self-aware things to myself. You know what, I just, I didn't, I didn't do it. We got the fireworks. We bought like $300 worth of fireworks. So just boom, boom, boom everywhere where the kids were out and all that stuff. But I just couldn't stay up until that 12 o'clock hour. I'm getting a little bit older, you know. Me too. And I was like, and I was in Cabo that I wasn't watching TV. I wasn't, I was 20 seconds away from like carnival happening and having like all this fun but I was so not into it. But that's okay. Because I needed to get a good night's sleep for what happened on Sunday, which was insane. And then we got bills and bangles tonight. It's so great. Matt, I want to start with those Patriots, right? It's a team that you cover for NBC Sports in Boston. They took care of the Dolphins. It was a must win, it was a playoff game for them. They're the seventh seed heading into week 18 and it's against Buffalo who might rest everybody cause they might have no, nothing to play for. So from what you saw yesterday, what positives can you take away that gives anybody out there some confidence that they could pull off an upset and get it? Right. It's an uphill battle for sure. They're going up against the Buffalo Bills who have dominated this team since 2020. I mean, they're five and one against them. But when you look at the Patriots, they're offense still sputters at time but they were able to go down and believe it or not put together an opening drive touchdown drive. So they were able to go down the field and put points on the board, which they haven't done much all season long. In addition to that, the defense, even though there's a lot of attrition in the secondary, Jack Jones was out. I mean, you had Jalen Mills out. You had Marcus Jones out. You had a ton of corners out and you were worried about what the receiving court for the Miami Dolphins was going to do against the Patriots. But they stepped up and they made plays again. Kyle Duggar had an interception that was returning for a touchdown the second half. And then that offense stepped up and put together two drives in the fourth quarter. They kicked the field goal. Another great touchdown drive to really cap off the win. So look, this is a scrappy group. They're resilient group. They're well coached. And at the end of the day, they've got to go into Buffalo against a division rival. They've got everything to play for and they've got to win this game by any means necessary. Do you think they get it? If Buffalo maybe sits some of those guys, yes. They probably will. But this matchup, right, this matchup for the New England Patriots has been a difficult one with Josh Allen, Stefan Diggs, Gabe Davis. I mean, they really get after this group and the offense hasn't been able to produce this amount of points that they need to to keep pace with the Buffalo Bill. So I think it's, like I said, it's going to be a challenge. It's going to be a big challenge. But anything can happen, especially you never know what the weather's going to be like in Buffalo. If they get it, like what, I'm trying to think of the weight of this game beyond just the 2022 season for the Patriots. Is it going to affect at all changes that are made on that coaching staff or the noise from these New England fans that are saying maybe Bill, you need to step away. Maybe we need to inject some new energy in here. Like what, how meaningful will this game be in terms of that? Well, you know, as a player and as a coaching staff, you don't think about the noise on the outside. Honestly, you're inside that building. You got to get ready to go play the Buffalo Bills. Ultimately, your goal is to go to the playoffs each and every year, despite what the circumstances are, what your coaching situation is. You want to go win ball games to go to the playoffs and think about all that stuff after the season. I'm sure Coach Belichick is going to have to sit down, look himself in the mirror and say, how can we get better? What areas do we have to improve on? Is it on the coaching staff? It is, is it personnel? Is it players? How do we get better going into next season so we can compete with a team like the Buffalo Bills and the Miami Dolphins who both got much better from a personal standpoint? So that's going to be the focus, but that's after season. Right now, nobody's worried about that inside the building. Let's move down to the Buccaneers. This whole season, I'm like, what did Mike Evans do to Tom Brady? What did Tom Brady do to defend Mike Evans? Why is this friendship not clicking? Why is it not? And then I've been waiting for this big game to happen. And it was insane. 10 catches for Mike Evans, 207 yards. And I sort of was waiting for it all year to happen. Why do you think it finally clicked in such a big way? Now all of their goals are still ahead of them. Well, Carolina made the bad mistake of just going one-on-one on the outside with off coverage and letting Mike Evans just run right at those wide, I mean those cornerbacks and get behind them. And so Tom Brady recognized the matchup and he was able to go expose them against it and exploit them on that matchup.  It's been an 11-game drought for Mike Evans and his ability to go up and get a touchdown pass. It was great to see them build a little bit of that chemistry that they had over the first two seasons together, but they just were not clicking this year for whatever reason. Tom Brady will take fault and they'll say, look, I missed him. Other times, Mike Evans has had some drops or he's not creating separation. He said that a few weeks ago, like, hey, I need to get more separation. I need to give him space to be able to deliver the ball. At the end of the day, though, it's good to see in a big game to clinch the NFC North and hopefully give them momentum going into the playoffs. It's so funny because it doesn't matter at all, right? We could say he could have had 10 catches all season and we'd make this huge storyline, but it really doesn't matter because it happened and it's only gonna carry over into the weeks that come, isn't it? And I guess my question to you is with somebody like Tom Brady, the greatest player to ever play a game, not one of the greatest player, when something is off and then it starts clicking or I guess the question is, is he like a grudge holder? How do you, when something goes wrong, like when Julian Edelman botched something in the wear time that he did, was it something that Tom festers or does he just really turn the page after the game is over? And how do you know when you're like back in the good with Tom? Well, I think with Tom Brady, his expectation level is always so high and so he holds everybody accountable and if whatever he has to do at practice or through the course of a week to try to refine his skills or get those small minute details that might make the difference in the game, he's gonna do that. At the same time, yes, he's got passion and he'll let you know out on the field and you'll see that frustration come out, but that's part of being a great competitor, that's part of being a leader, but at the end of the day, he knows that Mike Evans has been a guy that's been there constantly throughout his time in Tampa Bay and that it's like a shooter that's missing his three pointers. He's just gotta keep shooting and eventually it came up in a big way this week against Carolina. So hopefully that, again, builds momentum going into the playoffs. It's totally fair to say that everyone should be scared of the Bucks now because they're in it, they're gonna host a game and all of that. But it's also like a lazy thing to say, right? It's up Brady, but of course. Do you legitimately think, knowing what you know, seeing what you're seeing out there, are they a legit threat in the NFC? It's been such a crazy season watching this team, right?  They had to grind in this game to get back in it. And then all of a sudden, they've got the dramatic fourth quarter comebacks against the teams like the LA Rams and stuff like that to win some ball games that maybe they shouldn't have won, but it hasn't been clicking for them all season long. However, you never count out, Tom Brady. And I know it's the lazy thing to say, but how can you two years ago, this same team with a lot of the same faces went out and won the Super Bowl? So these guys know they're battle tested. They've been in playoff games before and they know what it takes to win ball games. It's whether or not they can collectively come together in all three phases and put together a run. More dangerous for the playoffs. Packers or Bucks? That's a great question right now. I'd say the Bucks are just because defensively, I think that they're a better unit defensively than the Green Bay Packers. The Green Bay Packers on the defense has not played up to the level that anybody expected this year. And I know that they had a good game against the Minnesota Vikings, create a bunch of turnovers and all that, but that's an outlier compared to how they've played consistently throughout the course of this year. I mean, maybe Jair Alexander should always track the number one rider. Yeah, yeah, he should. Seemed to look pretty good yesterday. Call him out. Call him out. 200%. Mr. Barry, what are we talking about? Can you explain why I'm watching the game yesterday and I was like Kermit sipping my T because all I say is maybe Jair should always track our guy, Justin Jefferson. It seemed to work okay yesterday, Matt. 100%. I'd come out every week and just talk as much smack as possible about the opposing team. Motivate yourself, whatever it takes this time of year, but if you're gonna play like that and shut down Justin Jefferson and play in the fashion, the manner in which you did, if that motivates you, bro, go out there and do it every week. Just talk, smack, say, coach, just let me do my thing. I'll be ready. Yes. Oh, I love that. Okay, let's go to the Gardner Minshu. That's part of the Gardner Minshu. Time for the Gardner Minshu portion of the program here. The Eagles, they had two shots. One to woof, woof, whiff, whiff. They were unable to lock in the number one seed. They lose to the Saints. Philadelphia, now they have this interesting dilemma, right? They have to figure out when are we bringing back Jalen Hertz? Is it more important, do you think, to give him time to heal ahead of the playoffs or do you start to get him out there now if you're Nick Siriani? Like, are you starting him in week 18 or are you resting him? Again, it's really hard from a medical standpoint to say where he's at, because only he knows the medical staff, the coaches. But if he's close to 100%, I'm saying 100%, go out there and play this man, because he gives you the best opportunity to win. And at the same time, when you go into playoffs, say they do get that by, that'll be four weeks away from the game in which you're not out competing on Sundays. So when you think about that, there is a little rust involved in that. There is a little rhythm.  And right now, the way in which the offense has struggled, they're feeling that, you know? And you need to build a little bit of momentum and have some success going into playoff to where you're playing your best football and all on the same page. And right now, this team isn't feeling that. And you need to have your best chance to lock up the one seed. And your best chance is not Gardner-Minshew. It is Jalen Hurt. So I think getting him out there, if he's healthy, of course, would be the move. We'll see what Siriani decides to do. If we stay in the East, Ron Rivera. I mean... Four guy. Four guy. I don't know what's going on, but he sits high in a key, right? He starts once. I'm like, I'm behind it. I'm just like, whatever. Yeah, I'm gonna root for Wenz, fine. Wenz looked good in the, you know, week 60, or yeah, week 16 action. And then Wenz gets out there yesterday, throws three picks, they lose to the Browns. It eliminates them from the playoffs. He didn't know that it would eliminate from them the playoffs. That's a whole other thing I don't actually really care about, but do you agree with Wenz? Did you agree with Wenz starting? And with him struggling, should they have gone to Heineke at some point in the second half, especially after he just benched Heineke the week before? Right, I've got a lot of respect for Ron Rivera as a coach and also as a person. He's an incredible man. But at the end of the day, this was a headscratcher for me in terms of what Taylor Heineke was able to come in and do. I know he's five, three and one and they were 0, two and one in the December month. But at the same time, they're playing the 49ers. They played the Giants twice. I mean, and those were close contests in which I thought he came in one, five in a row for him at one point in the season, gave them a spark and also his mobility and his ability to get outside the pocket and create plays is something that Carson Wenz hasn't shown.  The second picks, third and seventh, he's trying to force the ball down the middle of the field but he under throws the wide receiver for another interception. It just, it puts your team in a really bad position. And if you're gonna make that decision the week before to bench Heineke, then why wouldn't you hold the same standard for Carson Wenz this last week? It was a headscratcher and it didn't work out the Washington commanders now eliminated though they did reveal a new mascot. No, I didn't even see that, what is it? A hog of some sort. Oh, nice. I think we have it. Love hogs. Conrad's good. We love hogs, nothing but respect for the hogs in the world. Do we have it? Do we have the hog? What's his name?  Can we see him? Do we have him? Major Hammy, Major what? There he is. Okay, so this is, you know, of course an homage to their history, which I like, but what do you think? I mean, I actually really love the look. This looks like an old footage.  I didn't see the tail, I'm sure it's squiggly, I didn't see it. I'm sure, of course it has to be, it has to be interesting timing to do that. Week 17, Elimination Game, let's see. Elimination Game. Hey, this is all going on over here, look over here, hey, our new mascot.  Another head scratcher, but we enjoy it, but here's a head scratcher, when I heard this news, we're gonna move on here, where McDaniels decides to bench Derek Carr, get him away from Locker, I was like, and then I saw Sidham yesterday and I was like, oh, interesting. So it was the Niners, it was a loss, it was the number one defense though, Sidham looked so good, he had a phenomenal performance. Fallen. 365 yards, three touchdowns, and this is against this defense, from what you saw, do you think the Raiders might have fallen into their future quarterback? You know, you can never jump to that conclusion based off one performance, but just the stage itself, your first start of your NFL career against the 49ers, the number one defense in the league, and to go out and perform the way in which he did, he was calm, he was composed, he had complete control, he was even signaling stuff at the line of scrimmage, he was going through his checks, and then some of the throws that he made were just outstanding. I mean, the one thing I'll say about Jared Sim, you can tell that he's comfortable in this system, because since 2019, this is the only system that he's known because he was drafted by the New England Patriots in the fourth round, and Josh McDaniels has been his coordinator, so there's a confidence level in that, but at the same time, you gotta go out there and prove it and do it, and some of those throws that he made is particularly some of those throws to Devonte Adams down, the one that he dropped in the bucket, the one that he dropped in the bucket on the fade route, and then the win he extended to play out to his left, Nui is gonna get crushed and hit in the face by Fred Warner, and to release that ball and get another 65-yard touchdown, I mean, he kept them in that game all game, he battled, and I thought he played extremely well. Now, yeah, if the Bills beat this team, the Bengals tonight, they get the one seed back, but for now, it might be short-lived, the top dog in the AFC is your Kansas City Chiefs. Win over the Broncos, fairly unimpressive, sorry, but they did make the big plays they needed to when they had to and they did them. Nobody grinds more Chiefs tape than you do. Do you have any concerns about what seems like some recent close calls with bad opponents like the Broncos and the Texans? It's interesting, because when you watch the film, there are so many good things that this team's doing, and the way in which Patrick Mahomes is distributing the ball and the defense, they'll have some incredibly great statistical games, sacks, pressures, they'll have takeaways, but then again, they'll bend and then they'll break. They'll give up some easy scores that they shouldn't give up. The biggest concern that I have is they've had turnovers in four of the last five games. The other part of that is the special teams' units has not been playing well. Buckner, Bucker, excuse me, Harrison Bucker, their kicker has missed another field goal, missed the 51 yarder before the end of the half. In addition to that, Kaderis Tony on a punt return, fumbles, gives the ball to the Denver Broncos, very deep in their territory in which Denver Broncos able to capital. So it's the little things right now that this team's doing that are keeping these bad teams in the game, and they just can't do that going into playoffs against better competition, because that'll come back to bite you. And tonight with this game that could take away the one seed from the Chiefs. You've got the Bills and the Bengals here. It's in Cincinnati. It's Josh Allen. It's Joe Burrow. They've never played each other. It's the first time. Bengals are riding a seven game win streak. There's a lot of intriguing matchups in this one, but is there anything, your quarterback eyes, your lens that you're specifically looking at that's gonna make a difference tonight?  Because when you look at it, you've got two of the best young quarterbacks in the game, two of the best offenses. You've got Jermar Chase, T Higgins on one side, Stephon Diggs, Gabe Davis, all these guys on the other side. They're past first offenses, and these defenses are quality defenses. They're in the top 10. They keep opponents down and scoring. So it's gonna be one of those games that you can point to any little individual matchup, but it's not about that. It's about these two offenses, these two defenses, and two of the best teams in the AFC going head to head. And I can't wait to see what happens, because it will be an unbelievable game. What do you think wins? What's gonna happen? I think the Bengals will win, to be honest with you. It's road, incency, the way that they've been, I mean, they've won seven straight games. They're battle tested. I think Joe Burrow is playing at a really high level, even though I know the last few games he's had some interceptions, but so has Josh Allen. I think that's what it's gonna come down to is really the turnover battle. I'm so excited for this game. It'll be better than New Year's, literally. Better than our New Year's plan.  Make sure to catch Matt. Castle showed the breakdown on the Kansas City Sports Network. Happy New Year, and thank you, Matt. Thanks, that was great stuff. Happy New Year, as always. Have a great one. Well, the back after this. Wheels up to Cincinnati. Oh, that's a nice smile on Josh Allen's face. You love to see it. The hashtag builds Mafia, ladies and gentlemen.  I don't think we spend, what do I say, Brian, always in meetings. I say I don't wanna spend much time on the Thursday night game or the Monday night game, because there's so, well, Thursday night's different, but the Monday night game, we have so much to react to on Sunday. We do it. We had so much great stuff happen, but this is a special one. This is a special one tonight with the Bills, as you can see, headed to play the Bengals in Cincinnati hours from now. Looking at the matchups, looking at what this game means, the first time these two were ever facing each other. It reminds me of a conversation that I had not long ago with Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson, and I asked him about his experience playing with Bills' star quarterback, Josh Allen, back in college, and what it's going to be like going up against him tonight. Take a listen. How are you feeling? I'm good, how are you? I'm really, really good. Yeah, we're really welcome. We'll let you get it. Go, win. 10 of hits, that's forward. Logan Wilson's got it. Do you wanna talk Monday night football? Welcoming the Bills to town, and that's a guy, Josh Allen, you've played a game or two with at Wyoming. That'll be fun, for sure. We played together, I think, for three years when we were at Wyoming, so we had a lot of good times there, and he's still doing what he's doing in this league, and his development from when he was at Wyoming to where he's at now is unbelievable. We knew he had the ability to, but he was just so raw coming out that he got in a good position with the coaching staff there in Buffalo, and they developed him, and he's been playing at MVP level for the last few years. So when you're inevitably in a situation, Logan, where Josh is barreling towards you in the open field, what's gonna go through your mind? One, not to get hurtled. He's been known to hurtle some guys.  Logan Wilson with the bangles there, do not get hurt, and he said it right away. He knew right away, don't get hurt. And I think after that, it's not in this piece, but we talked for a good five minutes about how devastating it is to be on that highlight tape when you get hurtled as an NFL player. So good luck to Josh Allen. Good luck to Logan Wilson, to Joe Burrow. The thing about this game is that the number one seed, seed, seed, seed, seed, whatever you wanna say, it's up for grabs. How fun is that? How fun is that? The Bills, they're nothing to sneeze at here. Without Von Miller, they've won six straight, the bangles of one seven in a row, both have momentum. Who is the quarterback edge? I don't, I mean, I don't know. I just get the feeling this is a preview. This is, you know, the YouTube ad before you get to the video, you wanna really watch. And there's an even more meaningful battle to come in the post season. This is the first meeting between Joe Burrow and Josh Allen. And Burrow's best chance, by the way, to stake his claim for some MVP votes. Yeah, Mahomes, clear edge, absolutely. But Burrow beat Mahomes, and he boots Mahomes a lot. And if Joe can go off tonight, all eyes watching, number one seed up for grabs up against a dominant Bills defense and gets the bangles into contention for the one seed with wins over Mahomes, Allen and Brady on his resume. You can't tell me he doesn't have an awfully compelling case for that MVP. And there's so many implications in this one. I don't know that I've been more excited for an NFL game this year. I don't know. And it kind of matters, and it kind of doesn't.  That's the problem. We look at this quarterback matchup, who's better? Joe doesn't really run that much. Josh can't, that kind of gives him a bit of an advantage here. Like let's get that going. DJ Reader, the Bills, craziest dad I saw. They've rushed for over 100 yards every game this season. I think they're the only NFL team that can say that they've done that. So can this bangle's defense much improve throughout the season? Can they win in the trenches? Can they make the Bills offense one dimensional, especially with that hurtling quarterback that they've got there? And then on the other side, you know, after the loss of L. Collins, can the bangle's offensive line keep it together? And well, let's just, you know, let's not, we're not thinking Swiss cheese. We're thinking Velveeta cheese block. Velveeta cheese block, nothing can run through it. No Swiss cheese. What other cheeses have holes in them? I don't know. I can't think of one. Hakim Adenagi, okay?  This Bills pass rush is relentless, even without Von Miller. Collins, this was the guy in the addition that got everybody believing in this bangle's outline. It's a huge loss and this group is really gonna be tested in a matchup of this magnitude to do what they can do to stop what the Bills are going to bring. I can't wait. Who do I think's gonna win? I don't know. The bangle. Gotta get to some other games that we didn't get to. I loved stable after the win with the Giants. We gotta just love on that for a little bit. Huh, Hammy? Your team, baby. Oh, it was awesome to see the Giants get it done. Daniel Jones, you talked about him, how fantastic he's been here down the stretch. It's just a big moment for this year. He had like 100 rushing yards in this game. Yeah, four total touchdowns. It was exciting to see. And Brian Dable in his first year there with all the injuries they've had, with all the roster issues they've had to get this into the playoffs. He's, yeah, he made his case for coach of the year, for sure. Okay, so I mean, biggest performance had to happen with Daniel Jones. He looked great, two rushing touchdowns, which was amazing. What stood out to you? And now I understand they're firmly locked in. Why should I care? Yeah, and this gets really interesting because if you bring up that playoff picture, as you said, the Giants are locked into that number six seed. So if I'm Brian Dable, next week, with all the injuries we've had, I'm not letting Saquon Barkley anywhere near the field. I'm not letting Daniel Jones anywhere near the field against the Eagles. So could they potentially be handing that number one seed to the Eagles where they don't, maybe they start Jalen Hertz but only play him for a couple of series and then bring him out to rest him? Because if I'm the Giants, I don't care. I'll take the loss in that game and hand it to the Eagles. I'm gonna make sure my team is healthy for that first round matchup. But I can upset a few Cowboys fans here if the Giants just kind of hand that game over. The shock, the horror of the integrity of an NFC East rivalry. Yeah, not like we haven't seen that before with the Eagles in Washington a couple of years ago. So, you know, but yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see how they decide to play that and how the Eagles respond to it because, you know, do they look at it if the Giants announce they're gonna benched in and Jones benched Saquon? Do they look at it like, okay, you know what, let's roll out Minchu again and Sid Hertz. I would think they're probably gonna try to play Hertz for at least a couple of series, but yeah, it really does. But do you start with Hertz or do you start with Gardner and then if it's going poorly, then you do put in Hertz? That's a great question too. But Jalen was always involved in these weird like bent, like he's always in like, that's not new. Remember that crazy things that Ronnie did? We're all like, what, when was that? Two years ago? Yeah, yeah, so we might be up to some end of the season shenanigans once again. Well, the Giants haven't won a playoff game since Super Bowl 46. Since their win over the paint, they haven't won a playoff game since then. Congratulations to the Giants, to their fans, to Coach Dable, on all of that. And with where we are right now, they head to Minnesota for a rematch with the Vikings on Wild Card weekend. All right, Hamilton, great stuff. I think they'd have a good shot to win that. Just saying. Goodbye, goodbye, happy new year, happy new year, happy new year.


My name is Hao Liang. I'm a system professor of finance at Singapore Management University. I graduated from Tilburg University in 2015. The five years I spent at Tilburg has been most impactful. I not only gained rigorous training in finance, economics, economics, but also had close relationship with the faculty there. For example, I met with my supervisor every week and also talked to other faculty members very frequently. I not only talk about research, but also discuss a lot about our personal life. During my PhD, I also spent one year at Harvard University as a visiting researcher and had a chance to collaborate with the faculty there. This has been tremendously helpful for my research and my work turned into publications at Journal of Finance, Journal of Energy Economics, Journal of International Business Studies, et cetera, during and right after my PhD study. Looking back, I think I will still choose Tilburg to do my PhD. For me, what's more important is to learn and to work in a relaxing and collaborative environment. And I believe Tilburg provides me such an environment. My main advice to prospective students is to pursue what you yourself think is interesting and important in research rather than what others think is trendy or can lend you a decent job. I think pursuing academic career is more about discovering the truth and understanding the society. And these are exactly the spirits of Tilburg University.


As the North Korean communists launched their surprise invasion of South Korea on 25 June 1950, United Nations forces began to withdraw. By early August, U.N. troops outnumbered and under heavy pressure had pulled back to establish a 120-mile defensive perimeter around the port of Busan. The problem that faced the United Nations commander was how to utilize his outnumbered forces so they could break out of the beachhead and take the offensive. Aerial reconnaissance had established that supplies and reinforcements for the enemy were being funneled along two main highways through Seoul, southeastward to the Busan perimeter. After estimating the situation and considering several possible plans of maneuver, General MacArthur decided to make an amphibious attack behind the enemy lines to protect the transportation and communication hub which centered around Seoul. With the enemy's supply line cut, the 8th Army would be able to break out of the Busan beachhead and launch a simultaneous attack from the southeast. However, before the amphibious attack could be launched at Seoul's port city, Incheon, high-level conferences were necessary. In mid-August, General J. Lawton Collins, Army Chief of Staff and Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, Chief of Naval Operations, arrived in Tokyo to confer with General MacArthur and his staff. One of their main problems was the selection of troops to take part in the invasion since the United Nations forces then engaged in Korea were sufficient only for the defense of the Busan perimeter. Perhaps an even greater problem was presented by the tidal conditions at Incheon considered among the most difficult in the world for an amphibious operation. Extensive studies were made of the area including examination of scenes such as these photographed in 1945 during the U.S. occupation. It was decided that mid-September would be the best time for an amphibious assault, but even then special tactics would be necessary. In Incheon's harbor and at Wolmi, a small island which dominated the outer harbor, there was a 35-foot tidal range leaving impassable mud flats at low tide. Assault landing craft would be able to approach the beaches only during the three hours of each high tide. Troops landing in the first waves would have to stick it out alone until the next high water. Meanwhile, it was decided that the 7th United States Infantry Division, which had been on occupation duty and undergoing training in Japan's snow-covered northern region, would constitute one major ground unit of the invasion force. The entire force would be designated the 10th Corps. Part of another major ground unit of the 10th Corps came from Camp Pendleton, California. They were members of the United States First Marine Division, which was at that time deployed in widely separated areas of the world. Other units of the division were assembled from the Mediterranean area and Hawaii. Still other First Division Marines were already in Korea, helping to throw back the all-out communist attacks on the Busan beachhead. Because of their combat experience, they were pulled out of the lines two weeks before the invasion to spearhead the attack on Incheon. While the invasion force was being assembled, B-29s and other planes of the UN Air Force were softening up the Incheon Seoul area for the assault.  Ships and aircraft of the United Nations fleet joined in softening up the Incheon area. To confuse the enemy, bombardments were directed at other coastal cities including Pohang, Kunsan, Samcheok, and Yeongdeok. By this time, the ships of Task Force 77, a United Nations armada, had left Japan with its cargo of 10th Corps troops and was nearing the west coast of Korea. Navy crews were getting ready for D-Day. Ground troops were making final preparations to hit the beach. On D-2, six UN destroyers closed in to draw fire from Wolmese and Incheon's shore batteries so they could be definitely located. 1,000 yards, 900. As soon as the shore batteries opened up, our destroyers returned fire and moved in closer. The probing action was successful. Every shore battery fired and was pinpointed for later destruction by air and naval bombardment, thus preventing many potential casualties among troop-loaded transports and landing craft. One of the destroyers, the Colette, received direct hits from a shore battery only 600 yards away. The preparations were completed and this was the invasion plan. At 0600, 15 September, after a pre-invasion bombardment, the third battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment would land at Wolmese and secure the island during the hours of the morning high tide. On the evening high tide at 1800, the remainder of the 5th Marine Regiment and the 1st Marine Regiment would simultaneously attack the city of Incheon from the north and south respectively. These two regiments, followed later by the 7th Marine Regiment, would move inland as rapidly as possible along the Incheon-Soul axis. Their primary mission was to capture the city of Seoul. As soon as possible after the 1st Marine Division was assured, the U.S. 7th Infantry Division would be landed through the port of Incheon, proceed east along the Incheon-Soul axis, then turn south toward Suwon to protect the southern flank and establish a line against which the 8th Army could crush the retreating communists. The 1st Korean Marine Regiment would clear captured areas and the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team would be held in reserve in Japan. On 15 September, dawn broke off the island of Wolmese. Guns of the 262 ship United Nations Armada began their point-blank preliminary bombardment. Tiny Wolmi broke into flames as naval gunfire hit enemy ammo and fuel dumps. General MacArthur observed from the command ship. At 06.30, the invasion began. 15 seconds before the Marines hit the beach, the bombardment was lifted at Wolmi, but continued at Incheon. They hit the beach on schedule, completely combat loaded. Because of the tidal conditions, men in this first wave could expect no supplies or reinforcements for 10 hours. The island was defended by about 400 soldiers of the 18th North Korean Division, but with the air and naval bombardment as well as close ground support by the 1st Marine Air Wing, only sporadic resistance was encountered. Communist troops in a state of shock surrendered after only light opposition. By the morning of 16 September, Incheon had been taken against light resistance. While the 1st Korean Marine Regiment cleared the city, the United States 1st Marine Division started toward the Han River and beyond it, the former South Korean capital of Seoul, which lay about 20 miles from the Incheon beachhead. Four miles out of Incheon, they passed burning Russian-made D-34 tanks.  Elements of the 1st and 5th Marine Regiments cleared the rice paddies near the village of Akia. On 18 September, a launch neared shore between Incheon and Seoul. A board was General MacArthur. He was met by Major General Edward M. Allmond, commander of the 10th Corps. As General MacArthur came ashore, he was greeted by Major General O.P. Smith of the 1st Marine Division. On the same date, troops of the U.S. 7th Infantry Division landed at Incheon. First to disembark were men of the 32nd Regiment. They moved rapidly inland, then southward to form the base of an anvil against which the 8th Army driving north would crush the North Koreans. Major General David G. Barr, 7th Division commander, conferred with General Smith to coordinate army and marine action. On 19 September, the 5th Marine Regiment was maneuvering along the west bank of the Han River, poised to launch an amphibious attack. Red defenses were softened before the crossing was attempted. In the early morning hours of 20 September, the 5th Marine Regiment started a cross against enemy resistance. It was expected that the crossing would be difficult, for the river is very wide in this area. However, leading marine elements quickly made the crossing. They rapidly established a six-mile front on the far bank. By mid-morning, all opposition in the landing area had ceased, and remaining marine elements crossed without difficulty. They had cleared the greatest barrier between Incheon and Seoul. Now they lost no time in heading toward the former capital. Meanwhile, far to the south, the 8th Army led by Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker broke out of the Pusan perimeter as Communist troops were cut off from supplies and reinforcements by the 10th Corps. The Reds in South Korea were in full retreat, and one of the major objectives of the Incheon invasion had been achieved. In the Seoul area, Kimpo Airfield, captured by the 5th Marine Regiment on 17 September, was soon operational. A full-fledged airlift was quickly begun with about 400 tons of critically needed supplies being brought in daily. General MacArthur, arriving at the airfield after a frontline inspection tour, again conferred with his combat commanders. He discussed the tactical situation with General Almond. Held in reserve in Japan, the Air Force 187th Regimental Combat Team was landed at Kimpo on 23 September, quickly rushed to a staging area and ordered to proceed northward to capture the Kimpo Peninsula. By 23 September, Marines of the 5th Regiment were slowly advancing toward the suburbs of Seoul. When resistance in the suburbs proved extremely heavy, the Marine Commander decided to have the 1st Marine Regiment cross the Han in the vicinity of Yangdongpo east and south of where the 5th Marine Regiment had crossed, then moved them into the city through and south of the 5th Regiment's position. Fighting in Seoul suburbs now reached the house-to-house stage as the Reds fortified some of the main buildings. On 24 September, with the Marines still meeting fanatical opposition, General Almond decided to speed the plan for the capture of Seoul by utilizing elements of the 7th Infantry Division to envelop the southern portion of the city. This was the general situation of the 10th Corps on 24 September. The 187th Airborne Regiment and the Korean Marines were destroying the enemy on the Kimpo Peninsula. The 7th Marine Regiment was driving the enemy to the north. The 5th and 1st Marine Regiments fighting in the suburbs of Seoul were encountering fierce enemy resistance which precluded an early capture of the city. The 7th Infantry Division having seized the important airfield at Suwon was deployed on the southern flank. Now the commanding general 10th Corps directed the 7th Division commander to commit one of his regiments in an amphibious crossing of the Han River. The regiment's objective was to attack the city amphibiously from the south, capture South Mountain, the commanding terrain in the city, and envelop the enemy's southern flank. The 32nd Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, quickly moved to follow General Almond's new orders. At 0630 on 25 September, after a 30-minute artillery barrage the 32nd Regiment began its crossing southeast of Seoul. The infantrymen reached the far bank without serious opposition. However, a short distance from the river they ran into heavy small arms and machine gun fire. By noon the 32nd Regiment had captured South Mountain. With this commanding terrain in our hands the defenses of Seoul virtually collapsed. Marine and 7th Division units assisted by the 17th Rock Regiment drove to the south of Seoul and the 17th Rock Regiment drove the North Koreans out of the city on 26 September. On 27 September, 7th Division troops waited near Osan for a flying column of the US 1st Cavalry Division. As these 10th Corps and 8th Army soldiers linked up, thousands of Communists were trapped. The Anvil and the Hammer were joined. In the Republic of Korea's War Scout Capital on 29 September they participated in Seoul's Liberation Ceremony. To Dr. Seung-mon Ri South Korea's 75 year old President the UN Commander restored the city. With the 8th Army moving through its position the 10th Corps was relieved of all tactical responsibility on 7 October. In 22 days it had completed its job in the Seoul area and was on its way to another amphibious operation.


This is your friend Tim, and today I'll tell you how Jump Jump, the little elf from Holiday House, and I finally succeeded in saving Christmas. Well, just when Mary Holiday, Jump Jump, and the other folks from Holiday House, and I had managed to rescue the reindeer and send them back home to Santa, we had been captured and made prisoners in the Ice Queen's Palace. Now in just a minute, I'll go on with my story. Warned us that she was going to turn us all to ice. Mary Holiday had called to Archie Poggle the Clown to be careful when... Archie Poggle, oh Archie Poggle, look out! Did you do something to help us? Ice except Jump Jump and me. She told me that the Christmas fairy was near. Listen Ice Queen, listen! It is only the voice of the Christmas spirit, but your wonderful fairy doesn't dare show herself in my heart. You're mistaken about that, Ice Queen.  Christmas spirit. You can see your friends here have turned to ice. You melt their hearts which have turned to ice. But the Christmas fairy only smiled and went toward Mary Holiday, who was standing like a statue made of ice.  Oh look, Jump Jump, the Christmas fairy touched Mary Holiday. And now she's touching Archie Poggle, and sleepy slim, and the bite Archie Poggle... Sleep, ever be afraid Tim, we're all alright. The Christmas fairy has told me that there is something that Ice Queen is afraid of. The Ice Queen? A fairy holiday? Afraid? You are afraid to look at all the faces of the children in your silver screens? Yes, you are. That's right Ice Queen, so you are. I'm not afraid to look at children's faces. You're on the silver screen at once. You looked at the world, Ice Queen. I never waste time looking at human creatures. Haven't you ever watched the children before, Ice Queen? Of course not. I have important things to do. Now the screen is ready to show me whatever I desire. Make it so you have high self, Ice Queen. Very well. Oh silver screen of magic skill, yield thy mirror to my will. Let us see a shop where toys are sold and bought for girls and boys. And there are hundreds of children crowding around the toys. What are they doing? They are looking at toys. Why are they smiling? They are happy. Why are they happy? There will be no Christmas. There are children putting ornaments on a Christmas tree now. And they are laughing. What is that strange light in their eyes? That's the light of happiness, Ice Queen. See the star on top of the Christmas tree? It's shining so brightly. It's brightness hurts my eyes. That star itself is the token of Christmas, which is peace and joy. I can't look at it anymore. In the way the children are smiling, the way their faces are glow with joy. I can't look anymore. I can't look. What? What? What? I can't look at them. Something is happening. Something is happening to my heart. It makes my heart hurt. How can it hurt you to see the children so happy and waiting for Christmas? I don't know. But something in their faces makes me feel as if my heart were... were melting. Now they are singing. How can it hurt them? It hurts my ears, my ears, my ears. They're singing a Christmas carol. Look at the ice cream, Tim. Look at you, Poppy. The ice cream looks different. Do you know what I think? I think the spell is broken. Yes, I think the spell is broken. Yes, and it makes me feel fine. I feel happy. Look, I can even turn a hand spring again. Here I go. The Christmas spirit is one, Tim. The Christmas spirit is one. Look at the ice cream now. She's gazing into the screen of the children around the tree. She's melting all right, Mary Holiday. See? Her heart is melting. She's crying, crying real tears. So she is. The walls of the tower room are changing. Oh, Tim, they're turning from ice into walls of silver. They sparkle like stardust. It's the most amazing thing I ever saw. Oh, how wrong I have been to try to take away from the world something as joyous as Christmas. Let's change the ice queen's name to Snow Queen, shall we? Ice is cold and bitter, but snow is the earth's warm coat in winter. Yeah. The Christmas fairy is standing beside the Snow Queen and they're hand in hand. What's that sound? Oh, come to the balcony and look, Mary Holiday. What is it? I do believe that all of those ice statues that we saw on the plane have come to life. Really? Exactly, really? Yes, come and look. Everyone out there is so happy to be alive and well again. They're dancing and cheering. But how do we get back to the North Pole in a hurry? Oh, there's not much time, you know. We must hurry. I have the wishing star. Your wishing star. You can be with Santa Claus in a very short while. It's so many good wishes to guide you. Things happened so fast I could hardly keep up with it. First, the snow thing took us to where the wishing star was. We all climbed aboard and whisked off. I was really not flying along toward the North Pole. Hurry again and again. Sort of sleepy. The jump jump was jumping on my shoulder. Now the last thing I remember was his little voice saying to me, then the faces of Mary Holiday, Archie Pogli, Sleepy Slim, the poet, and Jump Jump and the others, began to fade slowly away. Oh, I was so tired. I began to dream that I was in the woods near the orphanage again. I thought Mrs. Burns, our matron, was touching me and saying, Oh, Tim, I'm so glad we found you. You've been asleep here in the woods. Of course, what really happened was that Mary Holiday and the others must have taken me to the woods in the wishing star and left me off there close to the orphanage. When I woke up next morning, I was back in my own bed. It was all a bit hazy, but one thing I do know, I really did go to the North Pole and have that wonderful adventure with Jump Jump. I know I did, because that year, when Christmas Eve came around, anyone who doubted my story sure had a big surprise coming, because do you know what happened on Christmas Eve at the orphanage? Well, I've got to keep that last and best part of my story for tomorrow, so be sure and meet me here and I'll tell you just what it was.


Anonymous asks, I transferred my Bitcoin with too low a fee and it's been unconfirmed for 10 days. What should I do? First of all, do not fret. You didn't actually transfer your Bitcoin.  A Bitcoin transaction either happens and is confirmed and confirmed several times or it doesn't. And if it doesn't get confirmed, it hasn't happened. And if it does get confirmed, it has happened. Now, it sounds like I'm speaking in mystical riddles, but the bottom line is we call this principle in distributed systems atomicity. Atomicity means it is an indivisible operation. Either it all happens or it doesn't. It's not as if the Bitcoin left your address and then exists in some kind of limbo state and then has not yet landed in the other address. The transaction that makes it leave your address hasn't been confirmed, which is why it hasn't arrived at the other address. But it also means it hasn't left your address. And if that transaction does get confirmed, at the very moment that it arrives in the other address because it never really moved, it is also no longer available for you to spend. So either the transaction has happened and that money is already owned by the recipient or it hasn't and it's still owned by you. Now, your wallet may hide this from you. For usability purposes, your wallet will not let you basically create another transaction spending that Bitcoin that has not yet been confirmed in this transaction. And your wallet is doing that to prevent an accidental double spend attempt or confusion by wallet users. But the bottom line is that the money is still in your wallet. You just can't control it, which means you should get a better wallet. So first of all, the idea that you did a transaction and that transaction had insufficient fee tells me that you do not have a wallet that allows you to increase the fee after transaction has been broadcast. Wallets that allow you to do that support one of two technologies. One is called replace by fee, which allows you to broadcast a second transaction with increased fee. And the other one is a technology called child pays for parent, which allows you to make another transaction with the change or even allows the merchant or recipient to make another transaction with the payment amount. That is a child transaction that has more fee and that child fee is enough to pay for the parent fee, causing both the child and the parent to be confirmed simultaneously. So all of this is stuff that you can do with a more sophisticated wallet, but it can be confusing, especially if your wallet is not sophisticated and it can lead you to both getting stuck where you can't make a transaction you want to make and worse help you or rather put you in a situation of fear or confusion or even panic like, where's my money? Your money is exactly where it always was. So don't worry. First of all, and there's probably nothing you can do with your current wallet to fix this. You have to be patient. Eventually the backlog will clear and the transaction will get kicked out of the blockchain. I think the maximum amount of time that a transaction is held in the mempo by any client is 14 days. So you might only be three days away from getting that fixed. The transaction will simply get dropped. And at that point, I would say the first transaction you need to make is to a better wallet. I hope you enjoyed that video. If you'd like to support me in my mission of educating people about Bitcoin and open blockchains all around the world and publishing free content under Creative Commons licenses, please consider subscribing to the channel, sharing this video, as well as supporting me on patreon.com. Thank you.


Sad to know where all the best toys are, and this December, many of the hottest smartphones are just a penny, with service in Appalachian Wireless. Stop by your local Appalachian Wireless to check out all of the great smartphone deals that consistently top the nice lists. Ho, ho, this Christmas is truly going to be bigger and better than ever. Better service, bigger savings, that is. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho! That's today's Appalachian Wireless! It's not very often that stuffed animals are handed out to Kentucky State troopers, but that's exactly what happened today at Post 9 in Pikeville. Everybody, take a bear, keep it in your car. When you come across a child, respond to a complaint or a car wreck or something like that, feel free to give that bear to that child. Many times, when troopers encounter young children, it's following a traumatic situation, and KSP hopes their trooper teddy bears will help calm children in these situations. And you know, a trooper teddy is wearing a campaign hat, and it has the state police seal on it, and so, you know, kids are going to remember that, and they're going to remember who gave it to them. And even though it may be in a bad circumstance how they come across that trooper teddy, I hope that they can remember that it gave them some comfort and that they will remember the state police for that. Before the troopers left with their new teddy bears today, they all shared stories of times in the past when they really could have used one. One of the little girls was in a corner and she was crying, and I had some movies downloaded on my cell phone that my kids watched. And I remember pulling up a Barbie movie and letting her watch that Barbie movie. That was really all I had at the time to offer any comfort. The trooper teddy program has been around since 1989, but ran out of funding in recent years. However, KSP was recently able to use asset forfeiture funds to get the program going again. And so we're taking money that was used to harm the community, you know, trafficking in drugs and things like that, and we're giving back to the community in a positive way. Each KSP post will be receiving a supply of bears that will be distributed to troopers. Reporting in Coal Run for EKB News, I'm Shannon Deskins.


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We will have an admin present here, body centered. So this is very important, if you do not know the relation of A and R, at least this property you should know. In simple cubic unit cell, at the corner, atoms are in touch. In BCC, atoms along the body diagonal. उसके जोंगर येड़स. Now, when I ask you what is the relation of A and R. क्या हो जाए होता? ये रोगर के लेशे? Root 3. 2 pi root 3. See what did I say, atoms along the body diagonal. बोगर येड़स पाईंटर को तो क्या आता है? 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am definitely drawing, you also draw this structure we have to discuss many things here FCC is the most important one for exam point of view FCC we also call it as CCP arrangement FCC, CCP are the same if the question says atoms A arranged in CCP manner it means the arrangement is FCC for A CCP is cubic most packing we will discuss that in arrangement of atoms so atoms at the corner is this 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and face center of the atoms are present so this is the face center this is the face center of this or your friend colleague of face center will have somewhere here now one thing you see here this atom is in touch with 1, 2 and 3 this corner diagram 1, 2 and 3 similarly this edge if you extend here so here all the face center is in touch with basically you have to imagine how many faces are there with this corner you can draw in a crystal and that is not a unit cell here though this is only one unit cell we have how many faces you can draw with one corner in the entire unit cell so this A phase go if you extend this way here will be a face center like one more thing you will do corners is if you feel difficult to understand then you consider this atom how many atoms with which this atom is in touch you have face center atom this face center will be in touch with this one this one and this one means A-arga relation A-arga relation can be shown here A-arga relation can be shown here 2 A is equal to 4-arga if this relation is satisfied it means atoms are in contact A-center atom may, this face center उत्रुटरूँ. मैस dimeyam some space and space centre. अजा नेजा दिष्तलज अगा. �井aja-ajaja nenej that corner now I am writing on o. अजा नेजा या या दिष्तलज तेअ लिए io jahad chole jahad chole jahad chole jahad chole jahad chole jahad या जदिस्ोखा. oa jahad chole jahad. औजा या वे रूद. औजा प kilometre jahad chole jahad chole jahad chole jahad jahad this is what a by root 2 is it right and what is this again a by root 2 half of phase diameter a by root 2 or e i equal to what is it so this is the distance of kb means this is of this phase center and this phase center here is our distance root 2 root 2 means and we know root 2 is equals to what 4 dot okay so what we can say this atom are in touch what is this distance can tell me a by root 2 and we are trying to find out this distance this is a by root 2 and this is also a by root 2 what is this distance a by root 2 it should be a by root 2 touch yeah that's what i'm doing what is this distance k by root 2 when you find out this its not 90 because the angle is 60 all the angles are 60 then you can't apply it you can't apply it as you call this theorem oh yeah this is 60 right yeah you don't need to yeah right right right it is 60 this is also a by root 2 a by root 2 means what this 2 atoms are in contact right so the 2 atoms are in contact when the distance between them is a by root 2 if the distance between these 2 atoms is a by root 2 it means these are also in contact can we say that okay now to conclude this what we can say this phase center atom is in touch with all adjacent phase center opposite velocity pranidho this is in touch with that phase center this phase center and this phase center is it clear 2 distance a by root 2 yeah a by root 2 that is in touch with this corner let it be phase center it will be easy for you to understand you are trying to find out the correlation number okay corner atoms you can imagine and do that phase center atom if you are taking this is in touch with how many phase center atoms 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 understood this is in touch with this phase center this phase center this phase center this phase center which you have a phase center right 4 this 4 in this cube now extend all these phases so 4 is up okay or 4 4 plus 4 is 4 4 plus 4 is 4 sorry for this one