In the midst of celebrating the 50th anniversary of the beginning of what we call "comics fandom," a few folks now and then will announce (as if it were uncharted territory) that some people collected comics (and even published fanzines with comics commentaries) prior to 1961. (Most often cited are the E.C. fanzines of the 1950s.) The reason we're celebrating 50 years is that 1961 marked the start of a fandom that didn't go away; earlier endeavors did not grow and build into a long-term, ongoing community of hobbyists. But, especially among science-fiction fans (with a tradition of amateur self-publication), there were certainly people who shared their fondness for comics. A case in point was The Cricket, and I turned up a copy of the first issue (June 1949) recently.
So many friends have asked me in grim or pathetic tones, "Do you approve of comic books?" that I feel I must make some public statement which I can hand out to such gals and run for cover while they are reading it. The question, of course, makes about as much sense as "Do you approve of books?" but it is hard to say this without being thought impertinent or irrelevant by the questioners.
Comic books are naturally appealing. Pictures, like stage drama, are more interesting than mere print. The rapid action of most of the plots and the excitement of adventure hold a child's attention in comics as they do in western movies. Passages of slow moving description are not necessary when the action is presented in pictures.
Many objections to comic books have to do with their subject matter. It is certainly not surprising that the children of avid whodunit readers should like detective comics and that children who are offered few fairy tales should satisfy their craving for fantasy with Superman and the Green Lantern (whose doings are in their way more moral than "Big Claus and Little Claus" and most of the contents of the Red, Violet, and Blue Fairy Books. And comics are cheaper than "good" fantasy - the Oz books are still retailing at $2. I wish I could afford to supply Judy [my nickname in 1949] with books which she would enjoy more (and there are plenty) than comics.
Some mothers object that their children bury themselves in comics and no longer spend time in active "fantasy play" with their friends. Cops and robbers are supposed to have given way to afternoons in the corners of the sofa with piles of comics. Comics are also supposed to have replaced "real literature" in the lives of our young. I can see no reason why there should not be a "real literature" in comic form. It is slow in taking shape, but the work of such artists as [Morris] Gollub, [Dan] Noonan, and Kelly give promise that comics can be good reading for children. Certainly these stories have been acted out by children - I've seen and heard it.
Comic art is a young art. When better comics are printed, kids will read them. I have considerable faith in the taste of children - they like good fiction better than bad; but as long as they are offered only mediocre, bad, and worse, in a form that is more appealing and cheaper than good stories, they will continue to read mediocre, etc.
I don't know how to get good comics on the market any more than I know how to encourage the writing and publishing of other good books for children - but I am hopeful that artists and publishers will come across in time for our grandchildren to have lots of fun at a very moderate cost.
The largest number of periodicals in our household seems, in spite of culture and reefinement, to be made up of comic books. Most of our collection are really intended to be comic - that is, funny. Most of them are published by the Dell Publishing Company and portray the doings of urban children (Little Lulu, Henry) or urban animal child-substitutes (Walter Lantz, Merrie Melodies, Walt Disney, Tom and Jerry, etc.) The cream of the crop were, in the recent past, Our Gang, Raggedy Ann, and Fairy Tale Parade (still Dell) with the excellent drawing, interesting stories and amusing dialogue of Walt Kelly, Dan Noonan, and Morris Gollub; but these three gentlemen seem to be deserting the comic book business and two of the publications are no longer in existence. The least painful comics still on the market other than the ones I have just mentioned seem to be the Disney ones. I should recommend a recent special, still on the stands in Canton - "Donald Duck in the Treasure of the Andes" [Dell Four Color #223, actually "Lost in the Andes" by Carl Barks] - as the best of the recent dime publications for the four-to-eight year old. We do seem to have accumulated a number of Superboy, Wonder Woman, and Bat Man opera, but these do not hold the attention of our six-year-old for more than five or six readings. Even Raggedy Ann can beat that.
Dorf turned me on to your wonderful newsletter -- I was part of the original San Diego Comic-Con bunch. I love all the comics news and the spot illustrations. You guys were very inspiring. Thanks for all the enjoyable issues.
Great to hear from you! Of course, I remember you. Will you be part of the celebration of pioneering fans at this year's Comic-Con International: San Diego?


Who Is Apple's Favorite Customer?
The iPhone-maker has a broad appeal, but a certain group of customers is more likely to choose its products.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has become a cultural touchstone around the world, as familiar as any other global brand. The iPhone-maker now has over 1 billion installed devices globally, and more than half of American households own at least one Apple product.
The company has long had a reputation for being popular among hipsters, a notion that Apple and rival Samsung (NASDAQOTH:SSNLF) have each reinforced through marketing. Apple has successfully presented itself as a species distinct from other device makers with ad campaigns such as "Think Different." Conversely Samsung's commercials have depicted Apple devices as followers, mocking the fanboy cult around the company.
Apple is also known for being popular among techies as research by Crittercism said that San Francisco and New York, had a high proportion of Apple users with 80% of San Franciscans choosing an iOS device, while "lower-tech" cities like Phoenix and Detroit found Android more popular.
Yet, another study seemed to contradict both of the above stereotypes. Slice Intelligence found that the highest-spending Apple customer in the US was in fact, a man over the age of 65. That demographic shelled out an average of $976 between October 2014 to September 2015, compared to the national average spend of $788.
The study found that spending tends to increase with age -- perhaps as earnings and disposable income also increase -- and it also showed that men outspent women by a considerable margin. Men on average spent $897, compared to just $633 for women, and women 18-24 spent the least. Slice theorized that the spending by older Americans may be because they tend to be on the late side of the adoption curve. They could be new buyers, or alternatively, are shopping for Apple products as gifts. The survey also found seniors were among the greatest purchasers of iPads, while the 25-34 demographic led purchases of iPhones and Macs.
Another study from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners found that nearly half of iPhone buyers are repeat customers, upgrading from an old iPhone. The study also showed that Apple attracted three times as many Samsung customers to switch to iOS, as Samsung did to Apple.
Globally, Apple now sells more iPhones in China than in any other country, making the world's second-biggest economy its most important market. Regionally, Apple draws about a third of its sales from the Americas, with Europe, Middle East, and Africa contributing another 22%. Asia delivers the balance, and by market share, the iPhone is most dominant in Japan.
A company like Apple can't really have a single favorite customer as you don't grow to $200 billion in annual revenue without mass appeal. However, if there was a composite figure of its most important customer, it would probably be young, affluent, upwardly mobile, Chinese males. As Apple attempts to swing back to growth in the world's most populous country, targeting that consumer is likely to yield the greatest benefit.


Wall Street Recalls Bush as 3rd-Best for a GOP President!
Markets are closed today as president George Herbert Walker Bush’s demise last month will be remembered at a National Cathedral memorial service in Washington. The official mourning of the 41st U.S. president will be the first such farewell in almost a decade.
Trading on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq will be halted. The last time markets remained closed was on Jan 2, 2007 to commemorate the death of president Gerald Ford. The bonds market, by the way, has been recommended to remain closed by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or Sifma, a prominent financial-industry trade group. This means trading in bonds, including the 10-Year Treasury yield, could see limited movement on Dec 5.
George H.W. Bush has been a statesman of vision and an astute businessman. He became the president at a time when the economy was booming and had become the head of state from a towering political stature Ronald Reagan. He is fondly remembered for his foreign policy achievements, but had more difficulties to face at the ballot boxes than his son.
However, when it comes to stock market returns, the elder Bush easily trounced the younger. Under George H.W. Bush’s tenure (Jan 20, 1989-Jan 20, 1993) the stock market gave an impressive return of 11% per year, whereas under George W. Bush, the market lost nearly 6% every year.
The late George H.W. Bush currently ranks as the third-best GOP president for the stock market, in terms of the S&P 500 returns. The broader index had gained 52% during the Texas Republican’s term in the White House.
Bush trailed GOP predecessors Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. While the S&P 500 yielded an astounding return of 130% during Eisenhower’s eight years in office, Reagan’s two terms resulted in a 114% surge in the S&P 500.
Looking at the major political parties, Democrats in fact presided over the top three biggest S&P 500 gains. Bill Clinton, who beat Bush, saw the S&P 500 gain a staggering 209% during his stint as the president of the United States. Barack Obama saw a 166% advance, while Franklin D. Roosevelt saw the S&P 500 climb 141%.
Thus, George H.W. Bush’s overall stock market return ranks seventh out of all the 16 presidents since the S&P 500 started.
Can the S&P 500 Repeat the Laudable Show Under Trump?
It’s worth remembering that Bush’s tenure saw a period of economic downturn. Restrictive monetary policy by the Fed in response to inflationary concerns, decline in consumer confidence due to the 1990 oil price shock and decrease in defense spending as Cold War era ends were cited to be the primary reasons to have led to the recession. Still, the S&P 500 came up with encouraging returns, much to investors’ delight.
Similarly, if not a recession, the Trump administration is plagued by a slew of concerns that sent the S&P 500 into a free fall. The relentless flattening of the U.S. yield curve is weighing on financial shares and has compelled JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM to say that cash will likely outperform equities in the near term. In fact, JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon added that the fourth quarter trading activity may remain flat, leading to further woes in the financials.
The biggest company in terms of market-cap is doing no good to the markets either. Major suppliers to Apple Inc. AAPL have recently cut their outlooks, indicating that the tech giant is about to face slowing sales.
What about the current state of the economy? It’s not good either. Recent housing starts and new home permits are down, while existing home sales have started to soften. This has in turn forced Toll Brothers, Inc. TOL, one of the high end builders to post discouraging results for the latest quarter.
But, a major issue impacting the stock market is that the supposed trade truce between China and the United States is beginning to look more like a vague agreement. After all, there are major differences in what the leaders want from the deal.
Trump focused on trade issues, including a 90-day pause on raising tariffs and Xi’s concession to buy “very substantial” amount of energy and agricultural goods from the United States to address the trade imbalance. Meanwhile, China is predominantly focused on diplomacy and regional issues. Xi’s government surely wants to resolve complex territorial issues such as Taiwan and South China Sea before the truce develops into a full-grown peace treaty.
With the world’s two largest economies’ approach being strikingly dissimilar, the G-20 truce thus has merely paused the trade war but not put an end to it, something that doesn’t bode well for the stock market. But if this differing depiction of the deal is addressed by Trump, the stock market can surely bounce back. This will for certain improve his stock market legacy rank, which is currently the sixth-best for a GOP president.


During a project status review meeting, some of the project team members have raised a concern over the complexity of the project performance information reporting requirements. The project team is of the view that the work performance data should be sufficient for reporting. Which of the following is the best response that should be given to team members?
A. The work performance information is necessary for the conversion of the resisting project stakeholders to supportive project stakeholders.
B. Compliance to the PMBOK requires transforming the work performance data to work performance information.
C. This is a non-negotiable requirement and the project manager is not required to convince the team.
D. The work performance data alone is not sufficient for effective decision making.


This puzzle replaces all numbers with other symbols.
Your job, as the title suggests, is to find what value fits in the place of $\bigstar$. To get the basic idea down, I recommend you solve Puzzle 1 first.
Each numerical symbol represents integers and only integers. This means fractions and irrational numbers like $\sqrt2$ are not allowed. However, negative numbers and zero are allowed.
Each symbol represents a unique number. This means that for any two symbols $\alpha$ and $\beta$ which are in the same puzzle, $\alpha\neq\beta$.
A solution is a value for $\bigstar$, such that, for the group of symbols in the puzzle $S_1$ there exists a one-to-one function $f:S_1\to\Bbb Z$ which, after replacing all provided symbols using these functions, satisfies all given equations.
What is a Correct Answer?
An answer is considered correct if you can prove that a certain value for $\bigstar$ is a solution. This can be done easily by getting a function from every symbol in the puzzle to the correct values (that is, find an example for $f:S_1\to\Bbb Z$).
A complete answer is a correct answer which also proves that the solution is the only solution. In other words, there is no other possible value for $\bigstar$.
How is an Answer Accepted?
After the puzzle is asked, a one day grace period will be given, in which no answer will be accepted. After that day passes, the complete answer which makes the least assumptions will be accepted. If no complete answer will appear within the grace period, the first complete answer that appears after the grace period will be accepted.


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This album was recorded in Somerset. Ah, I thought, West Country blues rock. Then I realised it was Somerset in Kentucky. Rod Wilson, leader of this trio, has shared the stage with members of the Allman Brothers, Bob Seger, The Steve Miller Band, Cher, Stevie Nicks, Boz Scaggs, Steppenwolf, Chuck Berry, Robert Cray, and Mitch Ryder plus many more. The Thunderbolts are perhaps typical of the modern, mature American blues rock trio which will always find plenty of work in the USA. Nine of these ten songs were written by bandleader, vocalist and guitar man Rod. What's it like? Rod's vocals are well to the fore with that degree of clarity which allows you to hear every word. His guitar playing is impressive enough, and he even includes a sensitive instrumental, Broken Wing, which is dedicated to Jimi Hendrix. He also expresses those many emotions musicians feel with the moody Life Of A Bluesman. As a trio, they make a pretty fat sound, and on When Love Comes Calling, he's underpinned by some fine female backing singers. As with many acts in this style, The Thunderbolts are probably better enjoyed in a live situation, but as a souvenir of a show, this CD would be a firm reminder to go see them again.
Singer-songwriter / guitarist Lightnin 'Rod Wilson grew up in a town in southeast (the "Wolverine" state) Michigan. Wilson played for several years in several local rock / blues bands, with whom he traveled in the region. In 2004, his debut album "All American Blues" was released and "After The Storm" was released in 2008. As a sequel to 'Guilty of the Blues'  there is now the album 'Delta Time'. Currently, Lightnin Rod's music has been called "Bob Seger Meets Eric Clapton at Muddy Waters' House" but it's hard to push Lightnin Rod's music into a specific box. Throughout the unmistakable portion of blues rock, there are also soul, motown, gospel and acoustic influences. For the ten original tracks (one of which he wrote together with his bass player Jimmy Seville & drummer Greg Kitzmiller) he also drew to the studio Tommy Cates (Harmonica), Roy Edminston (Percussion) and Backing Singers Danielle Gross, Tiffany Bays and Kristi Kitzmiller. For "What I Done Forgot" he received the extra support of Roy Edminston (drums), Shannon Link (bass), Robert Hopps (piano), Jennifer Atkinson Doser (vocals) & Joe Kleycamp (sax). The opener and title song "Delta Time" is familiar with Rod's Resonator and Cates' Harmonica, which we will encounter more often on this trip. "Addicted to Something" we all are! "When I Loved You" is a Southern tinted rocker with a separate lineup and "What I Done Forgot" is a funky shuffle. "Low Down Funky Blues" adds a swampy sequel to this and in the slow rocker "Out of the Darkness" Rod warns us about the future, which he claims to be ominous. Rod still has many open questions in "What Was I Thinking" and the slow blues "Broken Wing (for Jimi)" is a handsome instrumental homage with Rod's guitar in the lead. The shutter "Life of a Bluesman" is the most bluesy song of this album. It floats on an infectious repetitive rhythm and drives Tommy Cates' harmonica grooves very well. “Delta Time” is a blues album that will also attract the attention of rockers and soul lovers.
After spending two years on the road Rod Wilson decided to re-locate his home, firstly from the Midwest to Florida and then finally settling happily in Southern Kentucky, during this time he amassed sufficient material to enable him to be spoilt for choice for the songs on this, his new album. Rod takes lead vocals and plays all guitars and six string banjo, his extremely smooth and well-oiled band are bass players; Calvin Johnson and Shannon Link, on drums and percussion; Tom Delarossi and Roy Edmiston; Bob Hopps on keyboards and harmonica, with Joe Kleykamp providing saxophone and horn arrangements, featuring John Pope on trombone and John Francis on trumpet, with William McNeil on violin. Together they present thirteen original numbers that ooze sunshine filled aural delights. The mellow, laidback funky guitars merge and dance with keyboards that sweetly pepper the air while in the background urging horns and violin tightly entwine, creating an undercurrent of irresistible rhythms that lifts you to your feet. Black Widow and Guilty Of The Blues exemplifies the bands ability to instill and fuse the denser Chicago club guitar feel with a looser swinging, wandering saxophone led southern sound. The fluid rich, ringing guitar work of the very pleasant shuffle entitled Shufflin Sue, wonderfully conveys a hot, languid and stifling Saturday night out in the open air. The rock inflected guitar and slide work on the motorway based I-75 foot tapping lifts and gently drives the groove happily along in the best traditions of the master, Chuck Berry. This album is well suited to a hot afternoon where you groove at a slower pace but still maintain the high standards of blues, soul and rock.
Track 06: “Livin’ in a Smokescreen” – “They want the power; they’ve got the greed. Don’t care about nothing that the people need…Politicians lie; good people die in a smokescreen.” Swinging track six is a blues rocker exposing the political fog in which we currently stumble. “You own the press; you own the schools – but you don’t even know the Golden Rule,” Rod states of so-called “public servants”. His wah-wah guitar solo coupled with Shannon Link’s perky bassline is terrific.
Track 08: “Midwest Boy” – This is Lightnin’ Rod’s ode to his home region: “You can take the boy from the Midwest, but you can’t take it out of the boy. I mix Detroit-rocking Motown with Chicago, Illinois.” He drops names (Seger, Mitch Ryder, and Buddy Guy, to name a few), and plays decent acoustic guitar.
Track 12: “Rooster in the Hen House” – The Thunderbolts go all out in this highly-danceable instrumental, as Rod struts his stuff on six-string banjo. It’s not exactly rock, blues, or country, but right in the sweet spot between all three genres. Listen closely for the popular musical refrains from “Shortnin’ Bread” and “Dixie Land”.
The one flaw in this CD is that the Thunderbolts’ music might be too mellow for some – especially for those looking for hair-raising party tunes. However, peruse-ers in a more laid-back mood will surely find themselves Guilty of the Blues!


I agree that a forced sync would be great. Also downloads from one computer many times do not show up on other computer for days.
Files downloaded from laptop may not show up one OneDrive on desktop for days. It is very annoying and may mean cannot get work done quickly and efficiently if the other computer is not accessible. Maybe a forced sync that works quickly would work.
At some point one drive on the desktop stops telling you what it is doing - what files it is processing. Fix this bug so that it shows you all the time.
I can't login ma onedrive.
▽위조신분 증위조☀Two-piec＠핫매일.ｃｏm♥직거래/택배♥운 전면허증위조▽가짜직거래업자들많습니다※주의하십시요※♥전화번호나카톡으로 광고하는곳에문의하시면 경찰조사받을확률상당히높습니다.▽통화기록/문자기록/카톡기록/계좌추적..등등으로 경찰수사들어가면 100% 조사대상 1순위 되십니다.
▽사기치는 곳은 불안해서 직거래 절대 못합니다.
▽직거래 된다고 했다가 말 바꾸는 업자들 100% 사기꾼 입니다.
Utilities to help organize data, cloud storage, and separating work and business files.
It is very hard to try to sort-out personal, business, desktop, laptop, phone across different devices and in the Cloud. It would help tremendously if Microsoft developed a utility program to help simplify the sorting and managing of data.
Develop the OneDrive for Business app for Windows Mobile 10 .
Develop OneDrive for Business app for Windows Phone as skype for business is has made . Actually I got an office subscription from my institute and I'm feeling really difficulty in OneDrive app Make an option to link work accounts on the OneDrive app .
You Sway can't even embed codes from other sources even twitter doesn't work.
1.원본과 똑같은 정확한 물건을 제작해 드리겠습니다.
2."사기 당하지 않을까" 걱정하는 거래가 아닌, 믿음이 가는 거래를 진행하겠습니다.
3.문의 상담및 제작완료후 모든 자료는 100% 정확히 파기시키겠습니다.
많은 위조업자들이 진실과 거짓을 섞어서 광고들을하고 있습니다. 또 많은 위조업자들이 돈만받고 물건을 안만들어주며 사기들을 치고 있습니다.
손님들은 여기저기 문의해서 꼼꼼히 체크하신후 믿음이 가는곳에서 거래를 하십시요! 그래야 사기를 당하시지 않을겁니다.
많은 업자들이 있는만큼, 여기저기 잘알아보십시요..그리고 저희한테도 문의주십시요! 정성껏 정확한 물건을 만들어 드리겠습니다.
그리고 안전한 거래 믿음이 가는 거래가 되게끔 하겠습니다. ♥ ０１０-５２１１-５８６６ ♥.
♥０１０-５２１１-５８６６♥ 많은 위조업자들이 진실과 거짓을 섞어서 광고들을하고 있습니다. 또 많은 위조업자들이 돈만받고 물건을 안만들어주며 사기들을 치고 있습니다.
It would be advantageous to add a zoom feature at set levels like 200%, 400%. not just zoom without info regarding the zoom level.
Please allow me to rename my OneDrive.
I have multiple accounts from the same domain. Now I have "Account Name" and "Account Name (1)". Two "clouds" on my task bar. Not at all obvious which one is which.
not a suggestion, but a question: why does my anti-virus program indicate that OneDrive.exe is "suspicious"?
File Explorer Toolbar for OneDrive please!
Since OneDrive is an integral feature in Windows 10, why not add a toolbar for OneDrive features into Windows Explorer? It will give a more comprehensive and stable interface for sync and files-on-demand as compared to the pop-up menu + right-click combination that exists right now.


All the Italian luxury fashion boutiques, in one unique experience: shop the newest clothes, shoes & bags, like being in Italy Italist. This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.. Get this from a library! The Macmillan Bible atlas.
First published in 1968, The Macmillan Bible Atlas was hailed as "one of the year's most outstanding reference books" by Library Journal.. This atlas was last published in 1977. The original authors are now deceased, so Anson F.


The following article is from Ali Abunimah, October 4, 2001. It is in reaction to attempts by the U.S. State Department to influence the flow of news in the Middle East. The original article can be found at http://www.abunimah.org/features/011005jazira.html.
There can be no more shocking and disgusting demonstration of US double standards than the demand delivered by US Secretary of State Colin Powell that Qatar crack down on the independent satellite TV network Al-Jazira.
According to the BBC, Powell asked Qatar to reign in the influential and editorially independent television station, which gives airtime to anti-American opinions among many others. The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Khalifa al-Thani, confirmed after a meeting with Powell in Washington that he had been asked to exert influence on the Qatari-based channel, which can be received almost worldwide.
Al-Jazira is one of the few sources of reliable and comprehensive news reporting and debate about the Arab and wider worlds.
As someone who watches Al-Jazira daily, I can say that there is nothing on this network that matches the shameless nationalism, open hostility to Arabs and Muslims and occasionally outright incitement that often passes for "news" and "analysis" in the United States media, both electronic and print not to mention the "entertainment industry."
How would the United States government react if Arab countries demanded it crack down on the semi-official daily The Washington Post which in August published a series of articles demanding that Israel launch a war of annihilation against the Palestinians? Or would the US government be prepared to crack down on CNN which for hours after the September 11 atrocity repeatedly played a clip of a small handful of celebrating Palestinians inviting viewers to take that as indication that Palestinians were either responsible or universally pleased with the attack? Or how about the major US TV networks which rely for most of their analysis on former government and military officials who are often hostile to Palestinians, Iraqis and others?
I hope the United States government would never crack down on any media, and that no government will heed hypocritical demands to do the same. Here in the US, where what passes for television news is largely nothing more than advertisements, diet tips, mawkish sentiment and attempts to give every story a selfish personal or financial angle for every viewer, independent news beamed in from the outside world has never been more vital. Here, where no person is permitted to speak on any issue for more than eight seconds at a time, the kind of free, in-depth debate provided by Al-Jazira should serve as an example and a reminder to the American media as to what their job is supposed to be. Is it this very freedom that the United States government hates and wants to destroy even as its accuses others of wanting to destroy the freedoms we enjoy here in America?
The greatest service Al-Jazira could do is to continue its mission undaunted by these unconscionable demands, and to start broadcasting in English so that Americans too can begin to comprehend at long last some of the issues and problems their government has mired them in.
The United States is justified in seeking the cooperation of every country to track down the perpetrators of the September 11 atrocities and bring them to justice. But stifling the freedoms of others in the name of protecting your own is a formula that the US has tried before. It didn't work then and it will not work now.


As to the conclusions I have come to from the working of my mill for 11 instead of 12 hours each day, as previously, I am quite satisfied that both as much yarn and cloth may be produced at quite as low a cost in 11 as in 12 hours. It is my intention to make a further reduction to 10½ hours, without the slightest fear of suffering loss. I find the hands work with greater energy and spirit; they are more cheerful, and happy. All the arguments I have heard in favour of long time appear based on an arithmetical question - if 11 produce so much, what will 12 or 15 hours produce? This is correct, [for] the steam-engine, but try this on the horse, and you will find he cannot compete with the engine, as he requires time to rest and feed.
There is more bad work made the last one or two hours of the day than the whole of the first nine of ten hours. About 20 years ago, we had many orders for a style of goods. We had about 30 young women in our Manchester warehouse; I requested that they would work [instead of 11] 12 hours. At the end of the week, I found they had not a mere trifle more work done' but, supposing there was some incidental cause for this, I requested they would work 13 hours the following week, at the end of which they had produced less instead of more work. The overlooker invited me to be in the room with them the last hour of the day. They were exhausted and making bad work and little of it. I therefore reduced their time two hours, as before. Since that time I have been an advocate for shorter hours of labour.


Find below the most common variation of this bind. Pressing the bind key will switch to your knife and then back to your weapon in slot 1 (the primary weapon). Hit the "Change Key" button to change the key this is bound to. Paste this into your developer console to apply.
Like many other binds on our binds list, this bind activates two commands when pressed.
The first part of this bind, "bind q", tells the game the character to bind the command to.
The second part of this bind, "use weapon_knife;use slot1", is made up of two commands separated by semi colons. The command "use weapon_knife", as you might've guessed, makes your character switch to holding your knife. The command "use slot1", which is ran just a tick after "use weapon_knife" will switch back to "slot1", which is your primary weapon slot. This creates the quick switch effect.
The below command binds the Q key to quickswitch to your knife and then back to your AWP. Copy the command into your console to apply.
bind q "use weapon_knife;use weapon_awp"
bind q "use weapon_knife;use weapon_deagle"


This article is about the historical figure that appears in Mario's Time Machine. For the character based on Albert Einstein in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, see Einstein.
Albert Einstein talking to Mario.
Albert Einstein was a German theoretical physicist who is famous for his contributions to modern physics, most notably for formulating the theories of general relativity and special relativity that rationalized the laws of physics that govern the universe. His formula for mass–energy equivalence, E=mc^2, was first introduced in 1905 and became intrinsically linked with him. In the NES release of Mario's Time Machine, he is visited by Mario in a laboratory after Mario travels back in time to 1905 return his stolen Physics Equation, which holds Einstein's famous E=mc^2. He is found in Japan wandering around a shrine. If Mario talks to him, Einstein mentions how he was born in Germany in 1879 and moved to the United States of America in the 1930s (despite Mario having traveled back in time to 1905, when Einstein still lived in Germany).


Pregnancy is an incredibly exciting and joyous period of life. There is something wonderful and magical about the nurturing and growing of a baby, and many women delight in the way their bodies change to accommodate the process. However, for many women, along with the joys come a variety of aches, pains and unpleasant symptoms.
Along with issues such as morning sickness, acid reflux and muscular pain, many women also experience sciatic pain for the first time during pregnancy. If you suspect you have sciatic pain, here are the answers to five common questions on the subject.
1. What Causes Sciatic Pain?
Sciatic pain occurs when there is pressure or swelling that affects the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve runs from your lower back through the hip and buttocks then down into the upper thigh.
2. What Does Sciatic Pain Feel Like?
Sciatic pain varies from person to person and it can be felt in the lower back, hip, buttocks and thigh. It can feel like a tingly pins and needles type sensation, a dull ache or intense nerve pain. For some people, the pain is mildly annoying while, for others, it can be severe and debilitating.
3. Why Is Sciatic Pain so Common During Pregnancy?
Pregnancy puts a lot of physical strain on women's bodies, particularly in the lower back, hips and pelvis. Muscles, ligaments and bones can be stretched, strained and displaced. As the baby grows, there is also a lot less space in the area and things can get quite cramped and squashed. This can lead to pressure on the sciatic nerve that causes sciatic pain.
Often, sciatic pain is treated using anti-inflammatory and nerve-blocking medications. However, during pregnancy, most of these medications are considered unsafe. Many women find relief through chiropractic treatment or professional remedial massage, both of which can alleviate the pressure on the sciatic nerve. Gentle walking, heat packs and stretching can also help.
For the mast majority of pregnant women, sciatic pain will resolve itself completely after the baby is born. For a small number of women, there may be a degree of damage to the sciatic nerve that means they experience continued sciatic pain postpartum. If you find yourself in this situation, your GP can refer you to a physiotherapist who deals with postpartum issues. You can also continue on with the treatment options mentioned above.
I have always been a relatively healthy person, and I expected that to continue when I became pregnant with my first child. What I was not prepared for was the pain that pregnancy put on my spine and other joints. The larger my baby got, the more I ached. I was lucky to receive advice from a friend who told me to go to a chiropractor. She pointed out that not only is your back under pressure during pregnancy but also as your child grows through to the toddler years as you are always lifting them up and down. My blog is all about back pain as a mum. From chiropractic massage to strengthening exercises, I want to enable you to get help for your back pain too.


Dams keep the boom and bust of flooding from being too severe, they prevent water shortages, they make human existence better. But they clearly change nature.
Why is a human building a dam unnatural but a beaver building a dam natural? Only an environmentalist can figure that out, but what was a great idea 10 years ago - hydroelectric power and storing water - is now the enemy of the paid activism community, and politically sympathetic researchers have increasingly begun to curry media attention by writing papers to prove them right, as has happened again in Nature Sustainability, a journal which, like something might be called Nature UFOs, was created to make money legitimizing the beliefs of the activism community inside academia.
Dams have been built for 5,000 years - the Egyptians did it because they were concerned about drought and water shortage and they decided to create reservoirs to store water during rainy seasons and release it during dry spells. The new paper uses the sort of Malthusian logic that says we should not have agriculture or medicine at all; if you give more people water, more people will demand water, more people will expect to have water, and then if a drought occurs, there won't be enough water because no one built "sustainable" water due to there being enough water. And then government will build more water storage, which will only increase the number of people who can have water.
Hoover Dam and the Lake Mead, USA. Credit: Michelangelo Brandimarte.
They have a solution; mitigation and rationing, the default approach of people who strive against progress. But it's unneeded. We have no lack of water, over 98 percent of the planet's water is unusable. We have a lack of energy, a problem that nuclear could solve easily. What energy source do sustainability activists oppose? Nuclear.


Siruseri receives a lot of rainfall during the monsoons and this used to ruin its otherwise excellent roads. A few years ago, a wise Collector converted most of the roads of Siruseri to concrete roads to avoid this nuisance.
However, since there are underground cables (telephone, power, fibre optic ... ) and pipes which have to cross the roads and these cables and pipes often need fixing, the collector did not concrete any of the intersections (places where roads meet each other). The intersections were left tar covered. Cables and drains were relaid so as to cross roads only under intersections.
However, during the monsoons the intersections do get ruined and this results in a lot of traffic jams on Siruseri roads.
Recently, the Collector learnt of a new technology that uses small concrete blocks to pave the roads. This gives the road the strength of concrete and, further, a few of these blocks can be removed quite easily to excavate parts of the road if necessary. So he decided to use these concrete blocks to pave all the intersections in Siruseri.
Paving an intersection involves stopping all the traffic through that intersection. Now, he was worried that some of these intersections could be critical. A intersection I is critical if there are two other intersections J and K such that any route from J to K must necessarily pass through I. Notice that if I is critical, then stopping all the traffic through it disconnects at least one pair of intersections from each other.
You may assume that the roads of Siruseri are such that if all the intersections are usable then one can get from any intersection to any other intersection. All the roads in Siruseri permit traffic in both directions (there are no one way streets). Politicians in Siruseri love to see their names on roads and so every road segment connecting a pair of intersections has a different name. Thus a road merely connects two intersections and never pass through any other intersections.
Then, I2 is a critical intersection because if all traffic through I2 is blocked then there is no route from I4 to I1 (or I3). Similarly I5 is also cut off from I1 and I3. You can check that no other intersections is critical.
Given the description of the intersections and roads in Siruseri, your task is to determine the number of critical intersections in Siruseri and list them out.
The first line of the input contains two integers N and M. N is the number of intersections in Siruseri and M is the number of roads. You may assume that the intersections are numbered 1,2,...,N. The next M lines (lines 2,..., M+1) describe the roads in Siruseri. Line i+1 contains two integers in the range 1,...,N indicating the pair of intersections connected by road i.
The first line of the output must contain a single integer C indicating the number of critical intersections. The next C lines must list out the C critical intersections, one per line.
You may assume that N ≤ 300 and M ≤ 50000.
Here is the input and output corresponding to the example discussed above.


I was thinking of a wood-block circuit project for kids. I like the block idea because connecting blocks are not only cheaper than little bits they more intuitively show that you are building a "circuit"! I like your copper tape idea, it makes it feel electrical.. The magnets: I would get rid of the side magnets, make the blocks wider and add two magnets on each end, mounted with opposite polarity. (let's say, left is always N, right is S). This way, blocks can be turned around and always connect. (Important for diodes). Of course one wouldn't need to get rid of the side magnets, just make them pairs of two as well. But I think it would be cheaper to add branch pieces: 3-way T and 4-way X connectors for branching. If one adds straight circuit pieces (wire only), the branch pieces could simply be steel covered in copper tape, no magnets.
This probably would not work for woodworking. The tools in this setup (plotter. 3d-printer, laser) put very little stress on the mechanical setup (motor, belts, bearings, rails), so one can "get away" with reusing scanner parts.
A Flat (ish) pack desk using hinges, latches and mortised joints.


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DVD and beyond - IFA REPORT: How far away is the Promised Land of glasses-free 3D?
IFA REPORT: How far away is the Promised Land of glasses-free 3D?
With the exception of LG, which gave pride of place to the new immersive standard, 3D did not dominate this year's IFA – Berlin's annual consumer electronics bazaar. Given that, last year, CE manufacturers were outmaneuvering each other to show off the nascent TV format and capture the heart and mind of consumers (IFA is open to the public), 3D's presence this year was subdued, but for JEAN-LUC RENAUD, key issues gained prominence. Here is his personal take on them.
As consumers have yet to embrace the stereoscopic vision with the resolve hoped for by foretellers, the industry is coming to the realisation that 3D is but one component - albeit an important one - of an ecosystem inhabited by HDTVs, connected devices, tablets and smartphones, rather than the jewel in the CE crown. But, make no mistake: 3D is here to stay and will make it big, eventually. And don't get rid of your active shutter 3D glasses, yet!
Autostereoscopic 3D - a road to nowhere?
The ink on the standardisation of 3D stereoscopic television using 3D glasses is barely dry and the industry is forging ahead with glasses-free autostereoscopic TV in the belief that it is the sine qua non for consumers to make 3D a success.
In an event unsurprisingly hyped, Toshiba demonstrated the world's first commercial autostereoscopic TV - the 55-inch 55ZL2 model - announced for a December release in Germany at a price rumoured to be around €7,000. I waited in line to be squeezed into one of the small demo cubicles furbished with three armchairs and the TV some 2.5 meters away. I was underwhelmed. A disappointment that plagued most of the other glasses-free 3D demos I saw at IFA.
The explanation in a nutshell: The autostereoscopic system Toshiba (and others) are using is based on lenticular technology. It relies on lens that zooms in on different groups of pixels when looking from different angles of vision. Thus, each eye sees a different set of pixels. By rendering different images for several angles of vision, depth perception is achieved without the need for glasses.
The Achilles heel is that the number of angles of vision (or viewpoints) reduces the resolution of the original 3D image. Indeed, the number of pixels is divided by the number of viewpoints, and that is the reason why the autostereoscopic 3D image resolution using lenticular technology is - and always will be - less than that of the native TV panel resolution.
Because the system on show provided for nine angles of vision, I judged the quality of the resulting 3D glasses-free picture to fall below that of a standard definition image, even though Toshiba's 55ZL2 display uses native Quad Full High Definition (QFHD) '4K' (3,840 x 2,160 pixels) panel - four times the number of pixels of current HDTV displays - to mitigate the loss of resolution. The added problem is that no source material is shot in 4K, and upscaling goes only some way.
Chinese giant Haier was showing a 4K 65-inch LED autostereoscopic TV with eight angles of vision. The resulting glasses-free image was still unsatisfactory.
Manufacturers could up the ante by using 8K panels to ensure that the output autostereoscopic image would come close to full HD. Not only the price tag does not bear thinking about, but also a native 4K (QFHD) 2D picture is already unbelievably sharp, not to mention an 8K picture. A highlight of the exhibition floor was Sharp displaying the world?-s first 8K4K 85-inch, direct-view, 7,680 x 4,320, 33-million pixel LCD panel: simply stunning and obsessively immersive! Who need 3D with that?
Another acid test of where the glasses-free 3D developments stand is how smooth is the The configuration of Toshiba' demo cubicles made it hard to check that, unless you stepped on your neighbours' toes, which I did! This is Achilles' other heel. The effect is inescapably disruptive, even though several autostereoscopic protagonists make use of the so-called 'soft edge' technology.
Hungarian company iPont (I visited a few days later at IBC Amsterdam) is proposing an approach that makes this transition between angles of vision oblique, thus slightly less noticeable, but at the price of generating more artifacts on the picture itself so far as I noticed.
Russia's Triaxes (also visited at IBC) has pushed autostereoscopic 3D technology furthest in terms of comfort of vision, owing to enhanced depth map processing. Triaxes is in partnership with Dimenco, a leading autostereoscopic 3D developer.
At IFA's Future Zone, devoted to research in progress, Germany's Fraunhofer Institute shared its work on improving the software to process the virtual camera angle generation and, with it, the depth map. From a 2-camera live capture (pictured below), a heavy-duty computer was generating in real-time five intermediate virtual camera angles (theoretically up to 28 possible). Indeed, sorting out the depth perception issue exercises many researchers. The Promised Land of autostereoscopic 3D is still far away.
An approach that goes a long way to resolving the unsatisfactory transition across viewpoints is one based on eye-tracking technology and the retrofitting of a solid sheet with a lense structure. It is a panel placed in front of a 2D TV or laptop screen that allows each eye to see a different set of pixels, so creating a sense of depth through parallax.
An integrated eye-tracking system detects the user's position and transmits it to the 3D engine. This engine combines the images for the left and right eye to optimise the effect, in real time. As the 3D image is continuously adjusted according to the user's position, the user enjoys freedom of movement. The 3D engine and associated 3mm-thick panel have been developed by German company SeeFront under the leadership of its CEO Christoph Grossmann (pictured below).
Sony demonstrated this technology on its top-of-the-range Vaio S Notebooks. First, the user calibrates the system to fit his/her vision via a quick, easy-to-use procedure. The autostereoscopic 3D effect was remarkable. Indeed, the best 3D rendering without glasses I have seen to date. The panel will launch next month for this Vaio S Notebooks series, priced at €129.
The relative small size of the computer screen - 15.5in - is undoubtedly helping to keep the picture sharp and bright. The eye-tracking technology caters only for one user, thus precluding its use for a living room TV.
It is worth mentioning that Germany-s Fraunhofer Institute is working on eye-tracking technology that can accommodate several viewers simultaneously.
I was impressed with the reactivity, speed and precision of the eye-tracking technology. Toshiba, which was also showing glasses-free 3D on their high-end Qosmio laptop, told us that this 'home consumer'? eye-tracking application was originally developed as a security feature, similar to iris-recognition devices, for their professional computers.
Most 3D demonstrations at IFA naturally involved use of glasses of both passive and active varieties. It was therefore a perfect battleground to assess the merits (or lack of it) of each system.
For someone like me who consumes almost exclusively high-definition television output across all genres including news, not to mention Blu-ray disc content, I had somehow failed to appreciate how much a backward step passive 3D glasses (for home entertainment) represent. That both passive polarised and active shutter glasses technologies are given equal footing as a consumer proposition puzzles me, indeed concerns me greatly.
In a nutshell, in a frame sequential method, left eye and right eye images are displayed alternately. Active shutter glasses are synchronised to show in each eye a Full HD 1080 image delivered from TV sets with fast refresh rates.
With the polarising filter method, the left and right images are displayed on alternate horizontal lines of a 1920 x 1080 panel. Passive glasses thus deliver only a standard definition image. The resulting resolution can be even coarser when side-by-side half-screen images (e.g. Sky 3D) are converted to the alternate line format of passive screens. Here, the resolution drops to a quarter. The answer is a 4K panel, producing two 1080 images, although with side-by-side it means there are only 960 pixels to stretch and fill 2,160 across.
When 3D picture quality is compared, active shutter glasses thrash their passive counterparts. There is no contest.
Given their lower production cost and the propensity of visitors to keep souvenirs, it was passive glasses that were lent to visitors to taste 3D at the LG booth. The irony is that the quality of the finest 3D-capable HDTV sets on the market, that LG makes, will have been lost on visitors who will be treated to liny pictures from another age.
Incidentally, LG was showing off what it claims is the world's largest 3D LED TV - the 72-inch LZ9900 model (pictured below). No release date or pricing were provided.
This is no way of promoting the immersive 3D TV experience, especially when consumers are asked to spend their hard-earned cash on a 3D HDTV and a 3D Blu-ray player. They deserve to be told in no uncertain terms that it is active shutter 3D glasses that will maximize their assets.
Passive glasses are being touted as the inexpensive and lighter option compared with active glasses. Toshiba was keen to promote its glasses-free 3D system claiming users don't want to wear 'bulky,' 'ugly,' 'heavy' 3D glasses.
Perhaps, but considerable progress has been made on making all types of 3D glasses, in particular the active type, light and attractive. Samsung showed one (pictures below right). Designers are at it, and many consumers would be hard-pressed to pick the 3D version out of the eyewear range.
A reminder of what 'true' 3D can offer was supplied by Panasonic which demonstrated its 3D LCD home cinema projector (PTAT5000E) showing clips of Avatar off a Blu-ray player, with active glasses. It sets the bar very high. It was also a welcome reminder that great 3D images are the product of great native 3D production.
What I observed with grave concern is the flurry of activity on the 2D-to-3D real-time conversion front. Several big names were at it, demonstrating systems incorporated into either TV sets or Blu-ray players. This is just what the industry needs if it wants to nip 3D in the bud! A Samsung attendant was candid enough to volunteer that these conversion kits only produce a “bit more depth” to an existing image, not real 3D.
CMOS Mediatech, a South Korean company, demonstrated 3D Spectat, a small box (125x92x28mm) selling for $55 on ebay, that converts 'on the fly' 2D material whatever the source into 3D. I saw the disappointing result on a BBC World feed.
On a 3D-capable TV screen, the box will turn 2D material into 3D (working with passive or active glasses). With a standard (2D) TV screen, the kit will turn a 2D picture into an anaglyph (red-blue) 3D picture!
Sony showed its 3D visor - the HMZ-T1 (pictured below). Reminiscent of virtual reality helmets, the company claims it is the world's first 3D compatible head mounted display. The device uses two 0.7in OLED HD displays, complete with surround sound. It can connect to a Blu-ray player or a PlayStation 3 console. On sale in Japan in November for ?60,000 (€570), Sony plans to roll out the device in the US and Europe in time for Christmas. Warning: this 3D visor is a no-go for people with prescription glasses!
Glasses are not for 3D use only. LG was demonstrating Dual Play, a new function on its Cinema 3D TV line. It allows two players wearing differently polarised glasses to engage in multiplayer games in full screen where previously players had to play on split screens (pictured below). Players 1 and 2 can see their own viewpoint on a full screen compared to the conventional approach of splitting one screen into two (side by side, top & bottom).
Worth noting is Sony's digital binoculars with a built-in 3D HD recorder (pictured below).
If you think that, with its 21x9 3DTV set, Philips launched the widest screen on the market, think again. Chinese company Hisense demonstrated its 21x7 3DTV (pictured below). It translates into a 27x9 screen! As to what image source might fill the screen, I can only think (with the help of Wikipedia) of the 1959 version of Ben-Hur and a few sequences of How The West was Won, shot in the Ultra Panavision format (2.93:1). But Blu-ray Discs specs do not accommodate it. Apparently, the most they could squeeze is a native 2.35:1 transfer.
Moving into unchartered territory, Haier showed the first completely wireless 3D TV, the result of a collaboration with the MIT. With its radiation free magnetic resonance coupling, the 55-inch TV can exchange energy remotely, thus functioning with no mains cable.
The exchange of data also takes place wirelessly thanks to WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) video technology, which enables a 1080p HD image to be transmitted over a distance of 30m at a speed of 3Gbps. The television also connects wirelessly to the Internet via a Wi-Fi dongle, enabling access to multiple applications and content.
Pushing the envelope even further, Haier demonstrated a TV set that obeys signals from the user's brain. Thanks to a 'sensory' headset called Wave Brain (pictured below), each electrical impulse from the brain is analysed and compared, enabling mental power to change channels! Visitors were invited to try this channel-controlling system by testing out sensory relaxation games available on the stand. I declined, afraid to move effortlessly into a post-watershed territory!
As they venture into the world of 3D, consumers are at the receiving end - even at the mercy - of powerful voices telling them to hold their purchasing decision until glasses-free 3D is on the retailers' shelves. "The requirement for 3D glasses is a temporary and unfortunate phase in the evolution of the immersive standard, which will eventually disappear as glasses-free alternatives are around the corner,"? so goes the argument. I say: don't believe a word of it!
As true as the fluctuating price of apples will never alter Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, frame sequential-based 3D technology using active shutter glasses will always be superior to passive polarised options, and especially to glasses-free technologies - and by a long shot - when it comes to providing the highest image quality, thus the best immersive experience. The current price of active 3D glasses, often used against them, will be a non-issue next year.
Glasses-free 3D, so far as the goal is to match the quality achieved by active shutter glasses, is a mirage. The waterhole is always visible on the horizon, but never reached! It is therefore misleading, even counter-productive from a home entertainment industry standpoint, to encourage consumers to wait for the Promised Land when they can already enjoy earthly delights now.
Many issues in this report have been examined by speakers at the Blu-ray Disc Academy 3D conference we organized in May in Hamburg. The video proceedings are available here.


“Saturday Night Live’s” 41st season bowed Oct. 3, and its digital footprint has never been heftier.
Following the airing of the premiere episode, which was hosted by Miley Cyrus and featured sketches lampooning presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, “SNL’s” official YouTube channel was viewed a total of 5.7 million in the first 72 hours, according to ListenFirst Media. This signals a leap in digital popularity from last season’s premiere, which netted 1,239,591 views in the same time frame, and the previous season’s premiere, which notched just 59,601 views.
The Trump and Hillary sketches each played a large part in the boost: the Trump cold open tallied 1.5 million views in its first 72 hours, and the Clinton bartender sketch accounted for 1.3 million.
For context, consider that Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” clip featuring Hugh Jackman and Shaquille O’Neal accumulated 993,000 views in its first 72 hours online.
Between seasons 40 and 41, the official “SNL” channel on YouTube jumped from about 300,000 to 1,239,591 subscribers.


summary : Pastor Stephen Anderson who leads the flock at the Faithful Word Baptist Church that is located in Tempe, Arizona, has surely ruffled more than his fair share of feathers after he intends to prove male superiority among his congregation by inviting them to an arm wrestling match.
summary : A Phoenix, Ariz., mother reportedly shrieked in religious fervor even as her three, missing young sons were found stuffed in a closet after being stabbed to death and partially dismembered, newly released court records indicate. Octavia Rogers, 29, was released from a hospital and booked into jail Sunday in Phoenix on suspicion of three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the boys, who were 8 years, 5 years and 2 months old.
summary : A 19-year-old Chinese woman died in a road-rage shooting Saturday by an Arizona woman who had written a note promising she would engage in violence prior to the time of the accident. The attacker "expressed a desire to be shot by law enforcement," according to court documents.
summary : Controversial pastor Mark Driscoll appears to be on the verge of launching a new congregation just over a year after resigning from Mars Hill Church in Seattle following accusations of plagiarism, bullying, and an unhealthy ego.
summary : Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to generate controversy in the American political landscape, this time directing his harsh remarks over Arizona Sen. John McCain and his status as a war hero. Despite the public backlash, the businessman has refused to apologize and wrote an op-ed defending his position, highlighting the plight of U.S. military veterans.
summary : The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trail came to an anticlimactic ending after one juror voted to keep the convicted killer behind bars for the rest of her life instead of the death penalty. Now she is speaking out on why she made that decision.
summary : American rock star legend Alice Cooper has been known to make shocking music and stage antics for more than 30 years. However, he has never talked at length about his Christian faith until now.
summary : The Arizona Cardinals will travel to Missouri to face off against the St. Louis Rams at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis on Dec. 11. While the shortened schedule could throw off Arizona's game, the Rams still hope to become the first team in 38 years to shut out three straight opponents. Viewers can watch online the Cardinals vs. Rams game via live stream - free for subscribers - below.


If I were to ask a person to name a number which comes between 1 and 3, everyone from a three-year-old child to a white-bearded great-grandfather is likely to respond by saying, “2.” If I rephrase the question to ask about a number between 1 and 2, then the young child might be confused, but a fourth-grader might be able to respond with . We have to extend our understanding of what we mean by “number” to include some concepts which are not quite so intuitive. That is to say, in between the Integers, there are other numbers which are known as Rational numbers. In fact, given any Integer, , there are an infinite number of Rational numbers which are greater than and yet less than any other Integer which is greater than .
There are numbers in between the Rational numbers, too. We can define some number, , which is not equal to any Rational number. There are Rational numbers which are greater than , and those which are less than , but somehow our number squeezes itself into a gap in between the Rational numbers. In order to find such a number, we need to further extend our understanding of “number” to include the Real numbers. This should all be very familiar to the average high-school student.
Now, what happens if we extend this idea one step further? Are there more numbers which are in between the Real numbers?
For thousands of years, mathematicians have had heated debates about this question. There is a well-known concept in number theory called the Archimedean property, named after the famous mathematician Archimedes (though he, himself, had attributed the idea to his friend and mentor, Eudoxus). Euclid described the notion by saying, “Magnitudes are said to have a ratio to one another which can, when multiplied, exceed one another.” In short, this means that given any two numbers, and such that , then we should be able to add to itself a finite number of times in order to find a number which is larger than . For example, given the numbers 5 and 34, I can add 5 to itself seven times in order to get a number greater than 34– that is to say, . Given the numbers and , we can find that . Given the numbers and , we can find that .
Ancient Greek mathematicians, while studying circles, wanted to find some way to discuss the circumference of the circle in the same way in which they talk about other magnitudes. So, they began “unrolling” circles to create a straight line equal in length to the circumference of the circle. Aristotle noticed that, given a larger and a smaller circle which share a centerpoint, rolling out the wheel to produce a straight line equal in length to the circumference of the larger circle causes the smaller circle to produce an equally long line. But how can this be? The smaller circle obviously has a smaller circumference, but rolling it out at the same rotational rate as the larger circle makes it seem to have an equal circumference to the big one!
Galileo Galilei, two millennia after Aristotle, attempted to resolve this paradox by arguing that there must be gaps in the continuum– that is to say, there must be empty spaces between the points in any line or figure– and that these gaps account for how the smaller circle’s circumference can be stretched to equal that of the larger circle. However, other mathematicians were quick to note that this would run afoul of the Archimedean principle. If such gaps existed, it should be possible to continue to stretch them until they became noticeably large. We should be able to magnify a line until we literally see it rend apart into pieces.
In the latter half of the 17th Century, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz began to argue that there are numbers which are infinitely small. To the absolute shock of the mathematical community, Leibniz was claiming that a 2000-year-old immutable law of number theory was, in fact, incorrect. There existed numbers, Leibniz claimed, which violate the Archimedean principle; numbers which are greater than zero, but which are nonetheless so much smaller than any Real number that it is impossible to find a finite ratio between that infinitely small number and any Real. You could add the number to itself a thousand times, a million, a quintillion, a googolplex– even Graham’s number of times– and that number would still remain smaller than any Real number which you could possibly imagine.
Not only did Leibniz believe that such numbers exist, he utilized them in order to create an entirely new method of mathematics: Calculus. However, the idea was so incredibly controversial that even other proponents of Calculus– like Isaac Newton, who independently developed that field of mathematics– railed against Leibniz for his reliance upon such an insane concept. Still, Leibniz’s results were indisputable, and a number of mathematicians joined with him in an attempt to find some rigorous and logical means of discussing these infinitely small numbers. However, after a great deal of failure, other avenues began to be explored in order to place Calculus on a rigorous footing. Particularly, the notion of the Limit was put forth, expanded, and eventually made rigorous in the 19th Century by Karl Weierstrass. With a rigorous and logical footing finally established for Calculus, the infinitely small numbers of Leibniz’s devising were abandoned and Calculus classes began being taught based on the idea of the Limit.
Thankfully, this was not the end for our strange and tiny numbers. One-hundred years after Weierstrass, and three-hundred after Leibniz, a model theorist named Abraham Robinson began to attack the problem. He was fascinated by Leibniz, and wanted to gain a better understanding of the mind which had invented the calculus. Robinson’s work led to his development of a new number system: one which did not adhere to the Archimedean principle, but which otherwise behaved in exactly the same manner as did the Real numbers. He called this new system the Hyperreal numbers. Just as the mathematicians had extended the Integers to find the Rationals, and then extended the Rationals to find the Reals, Robinson extended the Real numbers in order to find the Hyperreals.
The Hyperreals contain all of the Real numbers, so any number on the Real line is also on the Hyperreal line. However, the Hyperreal number line also contains two very special types of numbers which are not contained in the Reals. The first of these are Infinite numbers– numbers which have an absolute value greater than that of any Real number. That is to say, we can define some number such that, for any given Real number , it is true that . The second type refers to Infinitesimal numbers. Infinitesimals are the reciprocal of Infinite numbers, and as such, have an absolute value which is smaller than that of any Real number (except 0, which is considered to be Infinitesimal): .
For any Finite Hyperreal number, , there is exactly one Real number, , such that is Infinitesimal. In such a case, we call the standard part of , denoted as .
Any two numbers which are only separated by an Infinitesimal are said to be infinitely close to one another. As such, another way of wording the above is that the standard part of any Finite Hyperreal number is the Real number which is infinitely close to it.
So, now, we can answer the question with which our article started. Are there numbers between the Real numbers? We find that the Hyperreals allow us to answer this with a resounding, “Yes!” Given any Real number, , and any Infinitesimal number, , we can be absolutely certain that there are no Real numbers which come between and . This concept is the absolute foundation of Infinitesimal Calculus.


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English Grammar: Which is it, I or me?
We were reading some stories online the other day and a line in there made us think, “It should be ‘me’ here, not ‘I'”, but then wondered if we were correct. We’d say we are not too shabby with grammar, but there are still times we have question marks, especially sentences with ‘You and I’ or ‘You and me’. So, when is it that it’s correct to say “you and I” and “you and me”?
ME is defined as an object pronoun.
An object pronoun is a noun that act as objects: me, him, her, you, them, us, it. Object pronouns receive actions.
I is a subject pronoun.
A subject pronoun is a noun that stands in for/refers to a subject: I, he, she, you, they, we, it. Subject pronouns performs actions.
A: I pushed Daisy into the elevator.
B: Me pushed Daisy into the elevator.
‘Me’ can’t push Daisy, but ‘I’ can push Daisy!
Then there’s ‘Between you and I’, ‘Between you and me’.
We were watching some tv and we heard tv characters and tv hosts say, ‘between you and I’, but we’ve always believed that ‘between you and me’ is the correct one. We thought that maybe we were wrong. Surely screenwriters know their rules. Then we heard Sheldon Cooper, the character from The Big Bang Theory say, ‘between you and me’. Sheldon Cooper, a character who seems to be the type to be accurate and correct, must care about speaking with proper grammar, so ‘between you and me’ had to be correct, or is his speaking odd like he is?
It seems not all writers are great at grammar, or maybe writers do know, but it’s their characters who speak incorrectly (writers are only writing them realistically).
‘Between you and me’ is the correct one.
The explanation is that object pronouns (such as me) follow prepositions (at, between, towards, for, come, through, under, to, in, etc).
CORRECT: The rabbit is between Jon and me.
INCORRECT: The rabbit is between Jon and I.
CORRECT: Daisy came towards Jon and me.
INCORRECT: Daisy came towards Jon and I.
CORRECT: It’s time for you and me to cook.
INCORRECT: It’s time for you and I to cook.
CORRECT: Daisy bumped into you and me on purpose.
INCORRECT: Daisy bumped into you and I on purpose.
Daisy bumped into me on purpose.
When we think we’ve got it down-packed, there are sentences like “It is me”—”It is me who took the dog for a walk”. In these sentences, using me sounds right, but the sentences should be spoken with ‘I’.
It is I who took the dog for a walk.
The reason is the word, ‘is’. ‘Is’ is what you call a linking verb (more information about Linking Verbs). Subject pronouns follows linking verbs not object pronouns. That’s why the correct pronoun to go in the above sentence is ‘I’ and not ‘me’.
In saying this, though, using ‘me’ in a sentence like ‘It is me’ appears to not be entirely faux pas. Common usage of ‘me’ in such sentences has made using ‘me’ acceptable in conversational speech/informal settings even though using ‘me’ in ‘it is me’ isn’t proper grammar. Grammaticians apparently will not bark at you for using me instead of I when everyone says ‘It is me’ and it is rare to find someone say ‘It is I’!
The research certainly has enlightened us! Hopefully, it has enlightened you. The next time you hear someone say “You and I” or “You and me”, you’ll know yourself which one is correct/proper grammar!
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The United States now believes the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its people, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and a White House letter to Congress.
U.S. government reverses stance on Syria's weapons use as senators say this is more evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad must go.
United States is "currently pressing for a comprehensive United Nations investigation"
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The United States now believes "with varying degrees of confidence" that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its people, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the White House.
Hagel, speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi, also said the U.S. government believes "any use of chemical weapons in Syria very likely originated" with President Bashar Assad. These announcements are the first U.S. indication of confidence in claims of Syria's chemical weapons use, and represent a reversal for the government.
President Obama has said the use of chemical weapons by Syria, or the transfer of stockpiles to terrorist groups, would be a "red line" that could trigger U.S. reaction.
But White House and Pentagon officials caution more proof is needed before the United States escalates its involvement in Syria, particularly the use of any military force aimed at ending a bloody civil war that has claimed thousands of lives or ousting Assad's regime.
These officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited faulty intelligence about the use of weapons of mass destruction such as in Iraq -- which proved to be wrong -- as a reason for the careful approach.
"Our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin," White House legislative director Miguel Rodriguez wrote in letters to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain, R-Ariz.
Hagel said the decision to conclude chemical weapons use by the Syrian government was "reached in the last 24 hours."
"The intelligence community has been assessing information for some time on this issue," he said, adding that intelligence is still being analyzed to determine when and under what circumstances the weapons were used.
Any use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces "violates every convention of warfare," Hagel said, since they represent "uncontrollable, deadly weapons."
A White House official said the United States will be "methodical, rigorous and relentless" as it seeks more definitive proof about Syria's chemical weapons use. The official did not give a timeline for action.
If evidence definitively shows the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, the official said, the U.S. will consult with its global allies and decide on the next steps. "All options are on the table," said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The assessment about Syria's chemical weapons use sparked a sharp reaction on Capitol Hill, where Republican and Democratic senators cited it as evidence that Obama's "red line" had been breached.
"It is clear that 'red lines' have been crossed and action must be taken to prevent larger scale use," said Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. She urged the United Nations Security Council to take "strong and meaningful action" against Syria.
McCain and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., emerging from a national security briefing, said the chemical weapons stocks must be secured and aid should be provided to the Syrian Opposition Council to drive out the Assad regime.
"I think it's pretty obvious that a red line has been crossed," McCain said. "Now I hope the administration will consider what we have been recommending now for over two years of this bloodletting and massacre, and that is to provide a safe area for the opposition to operate, to establish a no-fly zone and provide weapons to the people in the resistance who we trust."
In his letter, Rodriguez wrote that "our standard of evidence must build on these intelligence assessments as we seek to establish credible and corroborated facts. For example, the chain of custody is not clear, so we cannot confirm how the exposure occurred and under what conditions."
The assessment of weapons use relies in part on "physiological evidence," a senior defense official said, declining to be more specific.
Earlier this week, Hagel said he doubted Syria had used the weapons after an Israeli intelligence officer had said so during a security conference in Israel.
Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, the head of research and analysis in Israeli military intelligence, said Tuesday that Syria had used chemical weapons multiple times. "Shrunken pupils, foaming at the mouth and other signs indicate, in our view, that lethal chemical weapons were used," he said.
Brun also said the Syrian regime was using less lethal chemical weapons, and that Russia has continued to arm the Syrian military with weapons such as advanced SA-17 air defense missiles.
The White House statement puts the United States closer to the positions of Great Britain, France and Israel about Syria's use of chemical weapons. British and French officials told U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon last month they had evidence of such use, including soil samples and interviews with witnesses and members of the Syrian opposition.
The two countries asked the United Nations chief to investigate allegations of chemical weapons use in two locations near Damascus on March 19, as well as in the city of Homs on Dec. 23. Ban has appointed a team of chemical weapons experts to investigate the allegations, but the Syrian government has largely blocked the team from doing its work. Syria, meanwhile, has accused rebels of using chemical weapons.
Rodriguez wrote that the United States is "currently pressing for a comprehensive United Nations investigation that can credibly evaluate the evidence and establish what took place."
Feinstein, the Senate intelligence chairwoman, called on the U.N. Security Council to act against Syria.
"I am very concerned that with this public acknowledgement, President Assad may calculate he has nothing more to lose and the likelihood he will further escalate this conflict therefore increases," Feinstein said in a statement. "It is also important that the world understands the use of weapons of mass destruction, such as sarin, will not be countenanced, and clearly Assad must go."
Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, urged discretion during an appearance on C-SPAN's Newsmakers program.
Smith said the United States should talk to its allies before committing to any action. "Personally I urge caution," he said, adding that he does not want to commit U.S. troops to Syria. "We do not need another war."
"What has not been said by the administration at any point beyond the red line is what that means," he said. "What will they do? What is the best response?"
Jackson reported from Washington. Also contributing: Catalina Camia, Susan Davis and Jim Michaels in Washington.
White House letter to Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., on Syria's use of chemical weapons. An identical copy was sent to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.


This chapter focuses on troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst Switch platforms in preparation for the CCNP TSHOOT exam 642-832.
Resolving InterVLAN Routing Issues: This section begins by contrasting Layer 3 switches and routers. Troubleshooting procedures are also compared for these platforms. Lastly, this section discusses two approaches for routing packets using Layer 3 switches: routed ports and Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs).
Router Redundancy Troubleshooting: This section discusses three approaches to providing first-hop router redundancy. Options include: Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP). Troubleshooting strategies are discussed for HSRP with suggestions on how to modify those strategies for troubleshooting VRRP and GLBP.
Cisco Catalyst Switch Performance Tuning: This section examines the architecture of a Cisco Catalyst switch and points out different architectural components that could become troubleshooting targets. Also, you are presented with a series of show commands used to gather information about different aspects of a switch's performance.
Trouble Ticket: HSRP: This section presents you with a trouble ticket and an associated topology. You are also given show and debug command output (baseline output and output collected after a reported issue occurred). Based on the information provided, you hypothesize an underlying cause for the reported issue and develop a solution. You can then compare your solution with a suggested solution.
This chapter builds on Chapter 4, "Basic Cisco Catalyst Switch Troubleshooting," by continuing to focus on troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst Switch platforms. Although the term switch might conjure up the image of a Layer 2 device, many modern switches can also route. Specifically, many switches can make forwarding decisions based on Layer 3 information (for example, IP address information). Therefore, this chapter starts by discussing a couple of ways to make a Layer 3 (or multilayer) switch perform routing.
Next, because many Layer 3 switches reside in a wiring closet, these switches might very well act as the default gateway for endpoints (for example, user PCs). Rather than having this switch (or perhaps a router at the distribution layer) become a single point of failure for endpoints relying on the IP address maintained by that switch (or router), you can take advantage of a first-hop redundancy protocol. A first-hop redundancy protocol allows clients to continue to reach their default gateway's IP address, even if the Layer 3 switch or router that had been servicing that IP address becomes available. This chapter contrasts three first-hop redundancy protocols and discusses the troubleshooting of first-hop redundancy.
Often a trouble reported by a user comes in some variation of, "The network is slow." Although such a description is less than insightful, troubleshooters are likely to encounter network performance issues resulting in a poor user experience. This chapter focuses on troubleshooting performance problems that originate from a Cisco Catalyst switch.
Finally, this chapter presents another trouble ticket. This trouble ticket describes a first-hop redundancy protocol not operating as expected. Given a collection of show and debug output, you are challenged to determine the underlying cause of the issue and formulate a solution.
The "Do I Know This Already?" quiz helps you determine your level of knowledge of this chapter's topics before you begin. Table 5-1 details the major topics discussed in this chapter and their corresponding quiz questions.
Layer 3 switches do not maintain a routing table.
Layer 3 switches usually forward traffic faster than routers.
Layer 3 switches support more interface types than routers.
Layer 3 switches usually support fewer features than routers.
What type of special memory is used by Layer 3 switches, and not routers, that supports very rapid route lookups?
What type of interface can be created on a Layer 3 switch to support routing between VLANs on that switch?
Which of the following statements is true concerning GLBP?
GLBP is a Cisco proprietary first-hop redundancy protocol.
GLBP allows multiple routers to simultaneously forward traffic for the group of GLBP routers.
The active virtual forwarder in a GLBP group is responsible for responding to ARP requests with different MAC addresses.
A GLBP group has multiple active virtual gateways.
Which of the following is a Cisco proprietary first-hop router redundancy protocol?
An ACL is applied to a switch port.
A switch's TCAM has reached capacity.
Based on the output, what percent of the switch's CPU is being consumed with interrupts?


Scenario: A woman, Ms. Nora O'Dell, comes to the Moguri Detective Agency asking for help looking for a man, Trent Cook. To help Kogoro, she presents a rough sketch of Trent, a picture of his red sports car and the license plate. The next day, the Detective Boys is riding the train to the aquariam when Conan sees Ms. O'Dell. Abandoning the league, he follows her to the grave of her old boyfriend, Terry York. She meets an acquaintance, James, at the grave and they converse for a while. When they part ways, Conan reveals himself to the acquaintance. James turns out to be the doctor who rehabilitated Ms. O'Dell after she was injured in the car crash which killed Mr. York. Conan finds out Mr. York had an affinity for growing Christmas cacti and the plants went to the doctor after his death. Though the critical piece of information Conan extracts was that after the accident, Ms. O'Dell rehabilitated after only three months instead of six. This was caused by motivation and adrenaline. Conan concludes Ms. O'Dell asked Richard to find Mr. Cook not to be his girlfriend but to have revenge. Conan and the doctor meet up with Richard and Rachel at Mr. Cook's address only to find Ms. O'Dell about to burn Mr. Cook and his girlfriend alive. Using Mr. York's cacti and a bit of coaxing, Conan calms Ms. O'Dell and she surrenders.


In the above table, the time the routine takes to create the page in question is given (for my own purposes). All the routines are acceptably quick, other than that for the "Papers - Categorised" page, which requires investigation as it takes over 2 hours. "Days Ago" shows how many days prior to the production of this page (which was on 05/04/2016 at 23:17:25) the indicated page was produced.
In the above table, the time the routine takes to create the page in question is given (for my own purposes). "Days Ago" shows how many days prior to the production of this page (which was on 05/04/2016 at 23:17:26) the indicated page was produced.
In the above table, the time the routine takes to create the range of pages in question is given (for my own purposes). "Days Ago" shows how many days prior to the production of this page (which was on 05/04/2016 at 23:17:26) the indicated page was produced.
In the above table, the time the routine takes to create the range of pages in question is given (for my own purposes). "Days Ago" shows how many days prior to the production of this page (which was on 05/04/2016 at 23:17:27) the indicated page was produced.
In the above table, the time the routine takes to create the range of pages in question is given (for my own purposes). "Days Ago" shows how many days prior to the production of this page (which was on 05/04/2016 at 23:17:28) the indicated page was produced.


MODERATOR: Coach Carmody can make an opening statement and then we'll go to questions for the student‑athletes.
COACH CARMODY: Well, tough loss. I just thought at the half we should have had more than a two‑point lead. When we went to the one‑three‑one zone we stalled the ball about three or four times, sort of had breakaways, and we didn't capitalize. I think we had four steals outright and a blocked shot, a missed dunk, a turnover, you know, bad pass. And we didn't take advantage.
And then in the second half they guarded us harder, and I didn't think our offense flowed the way it should. And you give them credit. We weren't able to contain 1, and he made shots in the first half. And then the second half when they were coming back, he just took the ball to the rim and we didn't have an answer for him. We didn't shoot the ball well. And so give them credit for defending us well.
MODERATOR: Questions for the student‑athletes?
Q. JerShon, you were having a great night up until the overtime and you turned the ball over right at the baseline. Did that deflate you and the team or did you think you had a chance?
JERSHON COBB: No, we still had a chance until the game was over, but it hurt. But that was a bad turnover. It hurt the team.
Q. John, how tough of a loss is this for you to swallow as a senior and coming so close in the Subway Tournament? Whether or not you guys get there obviously will be decided on Sunday.
JOHN SHURNA: Yeah, it's disappointing. Obviously we've had a lot of close games this year, and you have to give credit to Minnesota. They came up with the extra play and they hit a lot of threes, I think, coming in. I think coach said they averaged about six threes a game, and it felt like they did that in like five minutes today. So it was disappointing, but you have to give credit to Minnesota.
Q. For both guys, do you just feel like an issue with this team has just been poise over the last couple minutes of games and in overtime?
MODERATOR: John, let's start with you, please.
JOHN SHURNA: I mean, obviously I guess you have to look at that just because we've had so many close games and we've lost a couple of them. So, yeah, obviously it's disappointing and‑‑ but I think our team's dealt with adversity the entire time, and when we're down, we're not out. We like our chances all the way until the very end.
JERSHON COBB: Just to piggyback off of John, this team is tough. We come back, we fight through adversity where sometimes the ball just doesn't bounce your way.
Q. Is it getting to the point where you thought maybe the pressure of each game being the biggest game in program history, was that‑‑ did that ever get to you guys at some point?
MODERATOR: John, let's start with you.
JOHN SHURNA: I don't think so, just because it's been like that for a while. You probably could go from the start of February or the end of January or something like that, and we've won some tough games. And I don't think‑‑ I don't think we felt pressure. I think we just have to‑‑ we go out there and play our game, and Minnesota played better tonight so you have to give them credit.
MODERATOR: JerShon, do you want to add anything?
JERSHON COBB: I don't think it's pressure. We just go out there and we play. We play no‑question basketball.
Q. John, if you're not selected for the tournament on Sunday, do you view this season as a disappointment or is there still something you can take from it that's a positive?
JOHN SHURNA: I don't know. Hopefully I won't be disappointed on Sunday. But I guess we'll just have to wait and see. We'll be playing next week, and we like to compete no matter who we're playing against.
MODERATOR: One more for the student‑athletes if there is one. Anybody?
Thank you, fellas. You may go back to the locker room.
Q. Hey, Bill, why do you think the offense stalled so much, especially in overtime?
COACH CARMODY: You know, it's funny. I think we had‑‑ we must have missed seven layups tonight. I don't know if it was just overtime that it stalled, but I think in a stretch of the second half it was that way. I think what John said was that you have to give credit sometimes that they were playing us real hard, and I didn't think we were moving as well as we could, and we didn't seem to be able to get open and to make the offense really click. And what happened was then you come down to sort of one‑on‑one situations, and we didn't fare that well. So I don't know if we were tired or whatever. I think they just outplayed us in that last period.
Q. Coach, Andre Hollins seemed to tear you guys up tonight. What was he doing so well that was able to beat both the man and the zone.
COACH CARMODY: He's a good player. He shot the ball extremely well and he has all year. He shot the ball well, and he's just a tough guy to guard. Like I said, in the first half he was making 3s, and then in the second half, he went‑‑ he scored like 16 points, it seemed like, out of the first 20 or something they had, something crazy like that.
And in the second half, a couple times when we turned the ball over towards the end of the game, he just took it to the basket and sort of‑‑ deep this way, that way, and got to the rim. I mean, he was just‑‑ he's a good player.
Q. Bill, you went away from the 1‑3‑1 and more man, it looked like, most of the second half. Why was that, do you think?
COACH CARMODY: They were making shots on us. I think we went back and forth. It probably is fairly close in time that we played 1‑3‑1 and that, but we just wanted to not give them 3s because they were‑‑ guys were making shots.
Q. Bill, if there is a case to be made for Northwestern for to get into the tournament after tonight. What is it?
COACH CARMODY: Well, I told our guys before the game or sometime that if we win tonight, it doesn't mean you're in; if you lose tonight, doesn't mean you're out. And that's what I think. It's a body of work.
And a few years ago, they said the last ten games used to be something that if you were on a hot streak, that was more important than playing December games, but now they say it's not true. So we'll put our resumé out there and see where it goes.
Q. Bill, frustration is part of this game. But when you come close again and again and again, how frustrating has this been for you?
COACH CARMODY: I'm still here. It's hard. It's disappointing, tough, and‑‑ but, you know, you come back.
Q. What's the plan on Sunday? You all going to get together and watch the selection show, or what do you traditionally do?
COACH CARMODY: We haven't talked about it yet. I'm not really too sure what we're going to do. We'll practice on Sunday. That I know.
THE MODERATOR: One more, if there is one.
COACH CARMODY: That might have been yesterday or something like that. I don't know if it was ‑‑ I don't think it was right before the game, like the pregame talk. I think it was our last practice or something.
Q. Have you addressed them since after the game, or what do you tell them Sunday to sort of keep their spirits up?
COACH CARMODY: I got a long bus ride home to figure that out. But right now, just reiterating what I just said. And there's not too much‑‑ you know, you got about five minutes and then the press is in there, so haven't talked about it too much.


BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Thailand's government is trying to get a new abbot appointed to head the country's biggest Buddhist temple, whose former leader is wanted for money laundering, an official said on Thursday (March 23).
Police pulled back from a three-week siege of the Dhammakaya temple this month after failing to find Phra Dhammachayo in a search that was frustrated by monks and devotees in one of the biggest challenges to Thailand's junta since a 2014 coup.
Dhammachayo, 72, is wanted for questioning for suspected money-laundering and on numerous charges of building on land without authorisation.
Thailand's National Office of Buddhism had proposed to religious authorities that a monk with no affiliation to the temple should now be appointed to lead it, the head of the government office, Pongporn Pramsaneh, told Reuters.
This would help with an investigation into the temple's assets and in the process of disrobing Dhammachayo, he said.
"The monk in chief should be someone the society can rely on for unbiased action and judgment," Pongporn said.
The proposal on changing the leadership was made to the most senior monk in the Pathum Thani province, where the temple is located.
The temple's current acting abbot is Dhammachayo's deputy, Phra Dattajivo, but police last week said they were investigating him for using temple money in stock dealing.
The temple said the accusation was "fake news" and that none of its money had gone into stocks.
The Dhammayaka temple, nearly 10 times the size of the Vatican City, dwarfs Thailand's other temples in wealth as well as size. It claims millions of followers, although still a small minority of Thai Buddhists.
Traditionalist Buddhists accuse the temple of commercialism, though it says it is just as dedicated to Theravada Buddhism as them and its money is only to do good works.
Pongporn said the Buddhist governing body in Pathum Thani province would convene to inspect the Dhammakaya temple's financial records at the end of the month.