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World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread
46 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Sun Sep 18, 2016 11:08 am
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wprager wrote: Apparently you can pick up tickets on StubHub for Sweden vs. Russia for $16. Why am I not in Toronto right now???!
Because it's an overpopulated Dung hole?
SeawaySensFan wrote:
I meant, other than the obvious reasons.
48 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Sun Sep 18, 2016 2:44 pm
Lundqvist ill, Markstrom will start.
Location : Toronto
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Flo The Action wrote: I'm looking back on the fact that people are saying gallager or galchenyuk being part of the World Cup and not stone, I think it's great. Had stone been part of the teams we'd have an uphill battle with teams keeping him on a lookout but this way he fois a little under the radar for another little while. By th olympics he'll be under everyone's radar. For now he can demolish a few teams this year!
I don't think he's flying under the radar anymore. From all indications Hoffman-Turris-Stone will be the Sens' top line this season. Sens were in the top-third of the league in scoring last year, even with Turris playing more than a third of the season on one leg. I am expecting an improved powerplay (with the addition of a left-handed center and a new coaching staff which should keep them in the top-10 teams in goals for (and perhaps move higher). Another 60 point season should be a given, and 65-70 is very likely. If the team improves its defensive play Stone should have a much better +/- than last year which, combined with his takeaways will finally put him into the Selke conversation.
I'd agree. I don't think he's off-radar anymore. That said, I don't think it matters too much. He'll see top defenders, but IMO that line is good enough that it won't make much difference. I expect about 190-200 points from those three combined.
50 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:41 am
Crosby/Kunitz/Kessel (Pittsburgh's TOI/game leaders at the three forward positions) combined for 184. And I'm not sure if Letang collects one-third of the team's assists like Karlsson does. I'll be very happy with 160-170 points. 190-200 is very unlikely.
51 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:52 am
wprager wrote: Crosby/Kunitz/Kessel (Pittsburgh's TOI/game leaders at the three forward positions) combined for 184. And I'm not sure if Letang collects one-third of the team's assists like Karlsson does. I'll be very happy with 160-170 points. 190-200 is very unlikely.
You don't think they could hit 65 points each?
52 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Mon Sep 19, 2016 12:06 pm
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Seems like a reasonable number to me.
53 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:28 pm
Ya, me too. I personally don't give a rat's Donkey how many points Kunitz got last year. I think this trio could definitely hit 195 points.
I gotta say this. Media folks are tweeting out pics of empty seats at the ACC for some of the non-Canada/NA round robin games.
What kind of 'world cup' is held locally in one single city and arena? What did they expect was going to happen? The host should be a country, not a single city. It's shit like this compounded with gimmicky crap of the NA team that doesn't allow hockey world cup to even register on any type of global sports radar.
55 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:19 am
Of course they each could, individually, hit 65 points (even though none of them have ever hit 65). All of them hitting that total in the same year is a different story. All of them playing on the same line makes it a little more rare as well. A top line like the old CASH line here is very rare and it would have to be something close to that (and recall that scoring totals are down quite a bit since those years).
tim1_2
Hoff-Machine wrote: I gotta say this. Media folks are tweeting out pics of empty seats at the ACC for some of the non-Canada/NA round robin games.
What kind of 'world cup' is held locally in one single city and arena? What did they expect was going to happen? The host should be a country, not a single city. It's Dung like this compounded with gimmicky crap of the NA team that doesn't allow hockey world cup to even register on any type of global sports radar.
The tickets were likely sold, just not used in the end. The game could be anywhere in Canada and there would probably be empty seats.
Ekblad is done. He missed the game against Russia with a suspected concussion and the Panthers are pulling him out.
wprager wrote: Ekblad is done. He missed the game against Russia with a suspected concussion and the Panthers are pulling him out.
Some team's season is going to get ruined here, it's only a matter of time.
59 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Tue Sep 20, 2016 10:33 am
Flo The Action
Location : montreal
tim1_2 wrote:
Even better if they are in our division..
Cap'n Clutch
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This World Cup of Hockey format is lame. I haven't watched a single minute of it. Team North America? Plays both anthems? Team Europe? Doesn't even have an anthem? What the hell? Seriously? Why have this tournament? I guess because it's making them money. We have the Olympics to see which country is the dominant power in the sport. This thing is a joke and as was stated, it'll ruin a team's season potentially due to injuries.
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Cap'n Clutch wrote: This World Cup of Hockey format is lame. I haven't watched a single minute of it. Team North America? Plays both anthems? Team Europe? Doesn't even have an anthem? What the hell? Seriously? Why have this tournament? I guess because it's making them money. We have the Olympics to see which country is the dominant power in the sport. This thing is a joke and as was stated, it'll ruin a team's season potentially due to injuries.
The format is fine: round robin plus a playoff at the end. That's pretty normal and it makes sense. People have been pooping on Team North America and Team Europe, but I like the idea for both. Both are very competitive and very entertaining to watch. The Olympics is every four years and NHLers may not even go to the next one. This takes place prior to the season which makes a lot of sense. The hockey has been great...people just aren't in the "mood" for it because it's happening before the NHL season is in full swing so nobody's gone back to "hockey mode" yet.
The one issue is going to be injuries, but as long as it's not Karlsson, it's all good.
62 Re: World Cup of Hockey 2016 - All Purpose Thread on Tue Sep 20, 2016 2:28 pm
yeah probably sold but optics don't look good. And I don't buy that for a second, it definitely would have sold out anywhere else in Canada with butts in the seats if handled right (i.e. not on a monday afternoon at Cussing 3 pm). We're not talking belarus or latvia type of countries, there is certainly some appeal. you think if sweden/finland was played at CTC it wouldn't be sold out? Yes they have to be smart about locations, but doing everything entirely in Toronto is asinine and foolish. Again, find me another 'World cup' that does every game within one city.
BTW, there were empty seats on Saturday for Europe vs USA. Doing it in toronto was quite simple a money making decision. You think if that game was in buffalo/hamilton it wouldn't be sold out in a second?
I'm not a fan of the world cup final being decided by best 2 out of 3. Alot of good teams will get knocked out because of the format. Personally think they should have kept with top 3 teams advancing in each division and top team getting a bye to the semis.
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By the time Eric Soderholm appeared on card #441 of the 1980 Topps set, he was no longer wearing a Rangers uniform. Texas picked up the veteran third baseman from the White Sox on June 15, 1979 in exchange for Ed Farmer and Gary Holle.
Soderholm played in 63 games for the Rangers. Texas picked him up to help fill in for ailing third baseman Buddy Bell as Bell struggled through his injury-plagued season. All told Eric would appear in 37 games at third base, 14 games as the designated hitter, and two games at first base for the Rangers. He was serviceable but below the league average at both third and first.
In his 166 plate appearances Soderholm walked 12 times and struck out nine times en route to a .272 batting average and a .325 on-base percentage. He scored 15 runs and knocked in 19 RBI. He also hit six doubles and four home runs.
On November 14, 1979 the Rangers traded Eric to the Yankees for Amos Lewis and Ricky Burdette. Neither one of those players would ever make it to the Majors. Soderholm would play through the end of the 1980 season as a backup with the Yankees and see some some action in the American League Championship Series as New York fell to the Royals. Eric would miss the entire 1981 season before the Yanks released him on October 13, 1981.
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Boris Johnson shows why optimism is now key in the fight against Covid-19
Finn McRedmond: Overpromising makes practical sense when it comes to the vaccine
Thu, Jan 7, 2021, 01:00
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The United Kingdom has started the rollout of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, with 82-year-old dialysis patient Brian Pinker the first in the world to receive the shot. Video: Reuters
Exiting with haste: By overpromising, Boris Johnson pressurises the system, and redoubles the motivation to administer as many vaccines as feasible. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/ PA Wire
Imagine you have two optimistic children. One eagerly waits to receive presents, unsure of how or why they might arrive. Another wants a treehouse, so gathers wood and nails and parental guidance on the logistics of treehouse building. Within weeks the latter has a treehouse, and the former has not received the presents he so desperately desires.
The distinction, employed by economist Paul Romer, is between complacent optimists and conditional ones. And the difference might go a long way in helping us understand the psychological processes of navigating the pandemic.
It seems hard to make any case for optimism in the midst of this crisis – especially its most irresponsible variant. The complacent strain is responsible for reams of damaging lockdown-sceptic, anti-mask arguments: Covid-19 is no worse than regular flu; everything will be fine by Christmas; herd immunity will sort us out in no time; our health services have coped in the past, why wouldn't they now?
This dangerous complacency – that everything will ultimately be okay, despite a few bumps in the road – is in no small part responsible for the dire situation we have found ourselves in over the past 10 months. With staggering case rates, ICUs reaching capacity, and death tolls tragically ticking up, it is right to leverage severe criticism at those who peddle baseless justifications for inaction. In short, the complacent optimists wait for the crisis to resolve itself, unsure of how or why that may happen.
In the early stages of the pandemic, we saw it from Boris Johnson, whose strategy stood in marked contrast to many European counterparts. Large-scale organisations continued as the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic; and Johnson seemed swept up in the belief he could somehow outmanoeuvre the virus, still buoyed by his electoral victory and Brexit triumph. The inevitable lockdown arriving several weeks too late naturally threw cold water on that attitude.
And so too have we been treated to similar complacency from Donald Trump. Johnson may possess seemingly boundless self-confidence, but Trump occupies a different realm altogether. In late September the president was touring the country, hosting packed rallies, claiming the pandemic was waning, all while conveniently ignoring the death toll had reached 200,000 Americans. His public evaluation of the pandemic has always been peachy and optimistic, his policy appropriately complacent.
But just because Johnson (early on) and Trump (the whole way through) demonstrated staggeringly complacent and irresponsible optimism, it does not mean optimism has no place at all in the fight against the virus. In fact, conditional optimism – the child who builds the treehouse – is critical to plotting the course out of the crisis. And that requires designing an exit strategy underpinned by the belief that the sunlit uplands of a world no longer gripped by Covid-19 is no fantasy.
It is incumbent on governments to prevent apathy and fatalism from setting in
It requires a different approach. There is a natural and understandable tendency to become fatalistic while things are at a nadir. What is the point in taking all of these burdensome precautions when the situation is so grave that the light at the end of the tunnel is barely perceptible? Things do not look good now and we are awaiting a deterioration over January before we are met with any kind of improvement. Why continue to try?
But this is exactly the importance of optimism: it reminds us that progress does not just happen, but is a direct result of action; and it encourages us to continue to try by allowing us to hold on to the belief that the situation can improve.
The conditional optimist might say that with appropriate lockdown measures, mask wearing and social distancing, things will not just be tangibly better in due course, but we know exactly how to get there. If we cannot believe things will improve, failure to move forward seems the only guarantee.
Despite Johnson's early missteps, his signature buccaneering confidence –absent for the best part of nine months – might be exactly the requirement of the moment as we face the vaccine roll-out. The most tedious critique of the UK prime minister rests on his inclination to overpromise and underdeliver: once again he has made a promise he cannot keep; his optimism is unfettered.
That criticism may hold in lower stake scenarios. But with the advent of the vaccine, it is exactly this tendency towards unfettered optimism that will see Britain exit the pandemic with haste. By overpromising, Johnson pressurises the system, and redoubles the motivation to administer as many jabs as feasible. Whether the highly optimistic target of 14 million vaccines by mid-February is an impossible ask is secondary: making the promise means we will see a higher vaccination rate than if Johnson had advocated for a more conservative target altogether.
Overpromising makes practical sense, irrespective of underdelivering. This is conditional optimism – optimism with a plan, no matter how ambitious.
With the advent of the vaccine, the route out of the pandemic is well lit. In the meantime it is incumbent on governments to prevent apathy and fatalism from setting in. That requires the simple reminder that things will be better, and we know exactly how to get there.
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(1-18-19) On Friday, 1-18-2019 at 12:48 AM Celina Police officers responded to a report of domestic violence at 125 N. Enterprise St. Upon arrival officers found 38 year old Jessica Mullins badly beaten. An adult child was with her waiting for help.
The investigation revealed that while the family was working on a puzzle that Ms. Mullins' husband, 43 year old Mitchell Dale Mullins, suddenly and without provocation brutally attacked his wife. He assaulted her with closed fists and once she was on the ground, he kicked her until she was no longer conscious. During the attack he held her down to keep her from leaving and dragged her around. Mitchell Mullins then fled the scene. Jessica Mullins was transported by ambulance to a local hospital and then transferred to another medical facility with serious head injuries.
Mitch Mullins is still at large and was last seen driving a white Chevrolet Suburban, unknown license plates. Mullins is described as 5'05", 200 pounds, brown hair and brown eyes. He is also known to shave his head, which is covered in tattoos. Mullins is a dangerous man, known to act impulsively and violently towards anyone. He has had weapons in the past, however, it is not known if he is currently armed. He has a lengthy criminal history of violence with a prison record. He is currently on parole from prison and is wanted by the Ohio Adult Parole Authority as a result of this incident.
Charges have been filed against Mitchell Dale Mullins for Domestic Violence, a felony of the third degree. The case is currently under review by the Mercer County Prosecutor, Matthew K. Fox for possible additional charges.
If you see Mitch Mullins – do not approach – do not attempt to apprehend him – contact your local law enforcement immediately.


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Japanese car manufacturer Mazda has posted record results for the seventh consecutive year, according to their 2007 profit round up.
All revenues and profit levels showed an increase in turnover, with fiscal-year figures showing a global retail volume sales of 1,363,000 units, representing a rise of almost five per cent.
Mazda President and chief executive officer Hisakazu Imaki commented: "We will continue to raise business efficiency, accelerate cost innovation and enhance brand value through new product launches and increased customer satisfaction.
"In doing this successfully, we will achieve the aims set out in the Mazda advancement plan."
Consolidated sales revenue posted an even greater rise - of seven per cent - to a record-breaking level of 3,475.8 billion yen (£16.77 billion), with further record rises of two per cent and 25 per cent respectively for consolidated operating profits and net income.
Mazda produced its first vehicle - a three-wheeled truck - in 1931 and completed its 800,000th Roadster in 2007.


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Q: .gitignore wildcard suffix exclusion with negation for subfolder I have a .gitignore which is like this:
*.png
*.jpg
*.gif
!0/*.png
!0/*.jpg
!0/*.gif

I want to ignore all image files (.png, .jpg, .gif) in all folders but not in the folder /0/. All image files in this folder should not be ignored.
I tried with the above .ignore file but it is not working as image files in /0/ are still ignored. How to write this correctly?

A: The ignore pattern:
!0/*.png

means "don't ignore any *.png file that is directly inside a folder named 0". So this would include 0/abc.png, and it would include 1/0/def.png, but it would exclude 0/1/ghi.png.
If you want to include all *.png below the folder 0, there are two ways to do this.
You can use the following pattern:
*.png
!/0/**/*.png

The ** pattern matches any series of subdirectories, including the root. Starting the pattern with / means that the pattern must match starting with the current directory.
So this will include 0/abc.png, 0/subdir/def.png, and 0/subdir/ghi/jkl.png. It will exclude abc.png and 1/abc.png.
Alternatively, you can create a file .gitignore with
*.png

And then you can create another file, 0/.gitignore, which contains:
!*.png

This is a little more obvious, and it has exactly the same effect.
Demo
Here is the base *.png rule, it ignores all *.png files:
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in .../.git/
$ mkdir -p 0/1
$ touch img.png 0/img.png 0/1/img.png
$ cat >.gitignore
*.png
$ git add -n .
add '.gitignore'

Here is the rule you have, which includes any *.png inside any directory named 0:
$ cat >.gitignore
*.png
!0/*.png
$ git add -n .
add '.gitignore'
add '0/img.png'

Here is the fixed pattern:
$ cat >.gitignore
*.png
!/0/**/*.png
$ git add -n .
add '.gitignore'
add '0/1/img.png'
add '0/img.png'

Here is the alternative:
$ cat >.gitignore
*.png
$ cat >0/.gitignore
!*.png
$ git add -n .
add '.gitignore'
add '0/.gitignore'
add '0/1/img.png'
add '0/img.png'


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Saudi Arabia: SIDF provides loan worth 54 million SAR for glass panel plant in Riyadh
In December 2010, the government of Saudi Arabia announced a change in private-sector financial support.
2010 Annual Report of the SIDF
http://www.sidf.gov.sa/en/MediaCenter/AnnualReport/Annual_Report_2010_En.pdf
http://www.sidf.gov.sa/en/MediaCenter/AnnualReport/SIDF%20AR2014%20ENGLISH.pdf
Historical Review of the SIDF
http://www.sidf.gov.sa/en/AboutSIDF/Pages/HistoricalReview.aspx
Inception date: 31 Dec 2010 | Removal date: open ended
State loan
In 2011, the Saudi Industrial Development Fund published its Annual Report for the year 2010. The report mentions a 54 million SAR (ca. 14.4 million USD) loan for the expansion of a glass panel plant in Riyadh.
As no inception date was provided for this state aid, the most conservative date, i.e. 31 December 2010, is assumed.
The Saudi Industrial Development Fund
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The Indie Handbook
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Tag: performance
Dimbleby & Capper: gaffer tape and other stories
August 12, 2010 ~ Eric	~ 3 Comments
Don't forget to read the introduction to Dimbleby & Capper week as well as part 1 of the interview, if you haven't already. If you have–well–enjoy part 2!
TIH: Let's talk about your stage show a bit. What is it with the masks?
D&C: The masks. That whole thing. I was doing Dimbleby & Capper before I finished my degree (I did my degree at Goldsmiths, the same one Lisbee was on) and in your final year, what you have to do is put on a show or whatever you want to call it—basically, do a set. It sounds piss, but it's got to be you kind of figuring out what your music's about—there's got to be all this kind of conceptual thought behind it and reasons for doing stuff and not just getting up there and playing what you usually play on a Friday night down at the pub. There has to be a reason for what you're doing. And so, the mask really—for me—it puts up something between myself and the audience. Because sometimes I really don't enjoy performing; I find it really hard. And other times, I really enjoy it. It was more for me. The whole costume-y kind of thing is like a barrier between me being able to dip into something else before I go over to them if you like. Whereas I experimented,when I was doing the EP (because I recorded and produced it from home) I was basically holed away doing that for ages in between gigs and that, I stripped the costumes out of it and the guys and the masks and things. I was just like I'll do it naked—well, not naked naked, obviously—and it was exposing. So, when we took it to the gigs, it was just completely different. It showed that the music stands up by itself. That was nice. And the band, they stand up. But something was just not quite—I just didn't feel comfortable with it—it just puts a whole new level of you, personally, being out there. I don't know how I can explain it. It's difficult when you've been working on it at home and it's been all you and then you're performing them and, like you say, it's just you and how you look at home and if you don't get a good reaction…it's just all too much for me. Instead, it's like I'm some character saying I don't give a shit if you like it or not! I used to wear proper gaffer tape clothes.
TIH: Yeah, I've seen pictures.
D&C: I might bring them back. That's why I had gaffer tape shoes on last night, because that was kind of my whole thing. When I was doing my solo stuff, I got—a lot of the sound engineers I encounter are male and you turn up and you're a girl and it's something like: What's your setup? I've just got a loop station and a vocal. Right, so you've got no instruments? No. So what do you need? And I'll just plug all my stuff in and think 'fuck you, man! I know what I'm doing and it sounds good, thank you'. And a lot of them see it and start asking, So, what's that? Well, this is my vocal splitter. I'll need two outputs for this and I'll send one to your main desk. And they're all like Oh, you kinda know what you're doing and I'm like 'Fuck you'. So my tape was kind of that thing of two fingers up to them, wearing the industry's essential thing—because they're all like I don't know how I'd ever get through a live gig without any gaffer tape—and then wearing it in a seductive way on your person. There was something in that for me, anyway. Like, this is me and my machine, but in a slightly seductive way. That's my weird, strange relationship with my equipment.
TIH: Would you ever think of going the next step and making it full-fledged conceptual show—not give it a plot, necessarily—but a full theatrical production almost?
D&C: I would love to. That was the great thing about doing the degree, you have all this spare time and you have money or a loan coming in and you can meet up with your band and you can spend three days in a row rehearsing without having to worry about going to work—perfect! We used to do all these synchronised movements to all these different songs and it was genius, but we haven't been doing that recently because we haven't had time to rehearse it. You know, when you've got a gig every week, in between we haven't been meeting up. We just do the gigs, and, when the gigs have quietened down a bit, then we will go back and rehearse and do some different stuff. But, yeah, totally. We'd love to. We're thinking about doing a video soon. We've got a guy involved who would like to do a video and I'm totally about scratching each other's backs, you know? We've got a lot friends who do fashion and other people that do the more visual side of it, choreography—next door to Goldsmiths, we've got the Laban Centre, that contemporary dance place—and people that do costume design and all this. You know, I think there should be a real sense—and that's what I love about down in New Cross. You know the people and you just need to come together and help each other out because they can use it for their portfolios, you can use it for press, and you all just muck in and get some stuff done.
TIH: Do you think it benefits the overall quality of the music when you have to be really conscious of how much you're spending and doing the best you can with limited funds?
D&C: Yeah. Well, with what I do, it's all about getting out of that whole working with other producers thing and doing things by yourself. Because you don't have the time and everyone else is really busy. I'd say, if you're an unsigned artist, it's not necessarily the producers that won't give you time. It's their managers who say 'Well, you're not getting paid for it, so we'll just bump that one out of the way', which is fair enough. But that was so beneficial for me, because otherwise, there never would have been an EP. There would just be a few more pop-esque demos that weren't wholeheartedly myself floating around and that would be it, really. So that was completely beneficial for me, just having the time and saying to myself no one's funding this for you so you've got to do it by yourself in your bedroom. You've got the musicians around you. Yeah, and I really like it. You get a real sense of who's wholeheartedly in it and, hopefully, it will pay off for all of us. And when it comes to the live thing with the guys, I know I couldn't do it without them. I mean, I still do solo shows sometimes, if it's small enough, intimate venues, I still do the solo thing and I love doing them. But when it comes to the band and stuff, they're great, because we get a minimal fee. We cover our backs—we don't lose money—but we certainly don't make any money when it comes to the live thing…at the moment. But it's nice. We've built up a real team of people around us that are really into the project, no matter if it makes money or it doesn't, and that's cool.
Pourquoi les crayons?
September 2, 2009 September 3, 2009 ~ Eric	~ 1 Comment
I have to admit, I'm not really sure why I've been sitting on this one for so long. I mentioned it on facebook a few weeks ago, but unless you're a fan (and I don't know why you wouldn't be) who happened to be online at the time, chances are, you missed it. I suppose, somewhere in the back of my mind, I had hoped to write this entry in French (as you may have deduced, I have not done so). Regardless, in a rash of dabbling in French music about a month ago, I came across Amelie-les-crayons (yes, it is as ridiculously cool as it sounds).
Honestly, where the music is concerned, I think it is most accurate to say that it sounds French. I mean quintessentially French, often favoring nylon string guitars, piano, woodwinds, accordion, and handclaps (very often, in waltz time), to the extent that, in listening to it, I feel as if I am sitting in a cafe on a cool September evening (and not just because I am sitting in a cafe on a cool September evening). Amelie's raw vocal quality is firmly rooted in the French chanteuse tradition, but in the execution of her songs, that voice takes on a life of it's own, almost the character of an absurdist cabaret. If you are familiar with Edith Piaf's "Bravo Pour le Clown", imagine that sort of spirit, but unrelenting. You've never heard anything like it. More importantly,
you've never seen anything like it.
Because there is more to Amelie-les-crayons than just the music (as good as that music is). Amelie-les-crayons is about performance: about creating her own little world and locking you inside with her until you beg her never to let you out. An Amelie-les-crayons performance is a glimpse into this world, blurring the line between Amelie the person and Amelie the Persona (one thing you won't see is Amelie the rock star). The lighting is intricate, the sets are elaborate, the piano blooms (yes, I said "blooms"), and the energy is palpable (even on YouTube). I wish she would tour here in the States. Luckily for us is in this part of the world, in addition to two albums and an EP, the last two touring shows have been released on DVD (Le Tour de la Question and A l'Ouest). Now, we too can experience the world of Amelie-les-crayons (at least, those of us with multi-region DVD players can). For now, you can get a taste for it below and if you want more (and you will want more), explore the official website; the "Bonus" section is loaded with other videos.
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The 1988 Bucknell Bison football team was an American football team that represented Bucknell University during the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Bucknell tied for third in the Colonial League.

In their third and final year under head coach George Landis, the Bison compiled a 3–7 record. Ed Foley, Chris Hackley and Steve Weiss were the team captains.

The Bison were outscored 323 to 229. Their 2–3 conference record placed Bucknell in a three-way tie for third (and for next-to-last) in the six-team Colonial League standings.

Bucknell played its home games at Memorial Stadium on the university campus in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Q: Contradiction for Roots of a Complex Polynomial? In y complex analysis course we learned a theorem about the roots of a complex, nonconstant, holomorphic polynomial.
That if $p(z)$ is nonconstant and holomorphic then $p$ has a root, i.e. for some $\alpha \in \mathbb{C}$ we have that $p(\alpha) = 0$.
But wouldn't $p(z) = z^2 + 1$, not have a root but is also holomorphic and nonconstant?

A: $$p(z) = z^2 + 1$$ has two roots as promised by the theorem.
Both $ z=i$ and $z=-i$ satisfy $z^2+1=0$ so they are roots of $p(z) = z^2 + 1$
Probably you were expecting real roots.
Well, the theorem did not prove that the roots are necessarily real.