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Gift Guide: Drinking
ayne Curtis recommends cocktail books for the holiday season.
My nominee for the cocktail gift book of the year is "World's Best Cocktails" (Fair Winds, 304 pages, $28). It's a lavish, large-format volume with nearly the heft and gloss of a Helmut Newton photography book. But it's more than pretty pictures. Tom Sandham, a British cocktail writer, persuaded some of best talent in the cocktail world to contribute recipes, and the result is a solid guide to the classics, along with adventurous variations like the Zegroni, a rum-based Negroni with Dubonnet and Campari. The pages are leavened with brief profiles of bartenders, intriguing sidebars of drinking history and tours of some of the world's most appealing lounges. Carrying it around made me thirsty; leafing through it made me even thirstier.
Reading "Let's Bring Back: The Cocktail Edition" (Chronicle Books, 208 pages, $18.95), I was beset by an inexplicable desire to don sleeve garters and hair pomade. With its oblong format, embossed cover and profusion of old-fashioned type-setting, it's the most tactile and visually ornate of recent cocktail books. It's part of a series celebrating olde-timey things, and is essentially a curated collection of antiquated drinks. Lesley M.M. Blume admits to selecting many of the drinks based on names (the Fluffy Ruffles, the Splitting Headache Punch), and in the manner of an apothecary she prescribes drinks for various maladies ("to help you shoulder burdens" or "to access your inner homesteader.") This is cute. Maybe a little too cute. Actually, definitely too cute. Although most of us probably know someone for whom this would be just the right amount of cute. I'd prescribe this book for friends who say "indeed!" out loud, and express surprise that you can't tell a flute from a coupe.
"To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion" (Perigee, 293 pages, $24) answers the question: What did Papa drink? The short answer is: Everything. Philip Greene merrily expands upon this, essentially exploring the vast Boolean overlap between "Hemingway" and "Drink." Mr. Greene runs down the history of many of the cocktails that crop up in Hemingway's fiction and those he guzzled in his real-life wanderings. These include standards like the Martini and the Rum Swizzle, plus delightful obscurities like the Ojen Special and El Definitivo. Chapters are divided by drink, but the recipes play just a supporting role. The emphasis is on detours and disquisitions about the novelist's life and libationary habits. Buy it for Papa-philes and literary lushes.
I was skeptical when I picked up "Frontera Maragaritas, Guacamoles and Snacks" (W.W. Norton, 235 pages, $24.95) by Rick Bayless. Granted, his Frontera Grill in Chicago is superb. But, seriously, a whole book about a drink with three ingredients? But Mr. Bayless pulls it off. He starts with "a master class" on the Margarita—detailed notes on lime squeezers and ice ("I'll apologize beforehand to those for whom a discussion of ice quality in cocktail making is deeper than they think anyone should delve"). He then riffs on the classic with variations like the Tangerine Spice Margarita and one made with tamarind and mezcal. The chapter entitled "A Year of Guacamoles" sounds vaguely like a threat, but, again, he surprises with some creative twists.
Tracking down a good place to drink on the road doesn't require special powers ( Google "craft cocktail" and any city), but guidebooks can be fun ways to plan a trip or remember an old one. "Destination: Cocktails—The Traveler's Guide to Superior Libations" (Santa Monica Press, 414 pages, $19.95) offers a good roadmap for people who probably shouldn't be doing a lot of driving. Jim Teitelbaum, the author of a guide to tiki bars, alights in more than 40 cities, both domestic and international. Some get only passing attention (Anchorage: one bar), but in others he tipples far and wide. New York City, for instance, gets 19 full write-ups, plus another dozen bars mentioned in a sidebar. Mr. Teitelbaum is pleasantly opinionated. If your bar isn't represented here, he writes, "it is either for lack of space, or because you're in a town that we just couldn't get to this time around . . . or maybe because your bar program sucks."
— Mr. Curtis is the author of
"And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails."


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Let $X$ be a smooth variety and consider the diagonal $\Delta \subseteq X \times X$. It seems to be well-known that the exceptional divisor in the blow-up of $X \times X$ along $\Delta$ is isomorphic to the projectivized tangent bundle $\mathbb P(\mathcal T_X)$ of $X$ but I can't find a reference or a proof; where might I find one?
Chuck, I think you can find references for both of the statements 1,2 that Allen gives in Fulton's Intersection theory, Appendix B, Section 5, and maybe also section 7. There, I think (1) is proved more generally for a regularly embedded subscheme. I asked a question about (2) some time ago. You might find what you are looking for (including how one proves 2, which is easy, and "intuition") here:
Tangent bundle and normal bundle in self-product
Fulton doesn't include proofs for everything but gives references to EGA. (Since I don't have the book with me, the section numbers might be a little off, maybe someone can correct me.)

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Recently I've been trying to get some flamenco spirit into my playing. I've already experimented with some 'gypsy' scales and it feels good ... but I've also realized that part of the secret is in using less common time-signatures.
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I found Dawn of Worlds on the web and got the PDF of it. My group tried and loved it. I was wondering has anyone else worked with this very novel system for cooperative world building?
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Take a look at Microscope. It just finished its playtest cycle and should be out soonish. The game is all about starting at the macro level and slowly zooming in on details of particular portions of the world.
It's likely inspired by ARIA: Canticle of the Monomyth, way out of print. The Worlds book specifically addresses shared creation of the setting. Your best bet in finding one is eBay.
An answer to the question in the title would be Universalis from Ramshead Publishing. Part of play in Universalis involves taking turns making assertions about the game world and campaign to follow, and there's a "stakes" mechanism involved in enforcing those desires.
Another system that would deliver this is Shock: Social Science Fiction (and presumably Human Contact to a degree).


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Meat and Potato Pie
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Cakes/pies, Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Kid-friendly, Party Snacks
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Meat and potato pie is an easy and hearty dish that your whole family will love.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 1H30M
Serves: Serves 4
- 3 all-purpose waxy potatoes, peeled and cut into bite-size chunks
- 11/2lb (675g) round, chuck, or Swiss steak
- about 1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 cups hot beef stock
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- half of a 17.3oz (425g) box frozen puff pastry sheets (1 sheet), thawed as package directs
- 1 egg, lightly beaten, for egg wash
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- Cook the potatoes in a pan of boiling salted water for 15 minutes until soft. Drain and set aside. Put the meat in a large frying pan with a few drops of olive oil and cook over high heat for 5-8 minutes until browned all over. Remove with a slotted spoon, and set aside. Using the same pan, heat 1 tbsp olive oil over low heat. Add the onion and a pinch of salt, and cook gently for 5 minutes until soft. Stir in the flour and continue to cook for a few minutes longer.
- Increase the heat and add the Worcestershire sauce and stock. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat slightly, and return the meat to the pan. Cover and simmer gently for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir in the potatoes and season well with salt and pepper.
- Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Spoon the meat filling into a 1 quart (1.1 liter) pie dish or 4 individual ones. On a floured work surface, roll out the pastry so there is a border all around, extending about 2in (5cm) beyond the pie dish. Cut out a strip of 1in (2.5cm) pastry in from the edge to make a collar. Moisten the edge of the pie dish with a little water; fit the pastry strip all the way around, and press down firmly. Brush the pastry collar with a little of the egg wash, then top with the pastry lid. Trim away the excess. Using your finger and thumb, pinch the edges together to seal.
- Brush the top of the pie all over with the egg wash, and make 2 slits in the top with a sharp knife to allow steam to escape. Bake in the oven for about 30 minutes until puffed and golden. Serve hot.
- Use the same amount of pie dough instead of puff pastry, if you prefer.
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It's in the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage series, and that is the only place it's been listed on their web site as far as I know (but what do I know? - read on, it doesn't take long to tell), so that it will run from 6:00 to 7:00 PM on Friday 23rd February at the Kennedy Center, but not on the Millenium Stage, but rather in the 513-seat Terrace Theatre, on the Roof Terrace level. (I've never been in either venue, but the virtual tour of the Terrace Theatre looks to confirm what I've been told, that the seats there are nicely raked up for good sight lines.)
Anyway, those attending will have time to get downstairs to the Bolshoi performance at 7:30, if they want.
And, as Millenium Stage events always are, it's FREE.
What's the repertory? Concierto di Mozart, Clarinade (in its four-movement entirety? don't know, sorry), "additional divertimenti" from Don Quixote, Variations for Orchestra, and "Divertimento Brilliante", the fourth movement pas de deux conclusion to Glinkiana, of which all we've seen for a long time is the second movement, Valse Fantaisie.
I'll post more here if, as, and when I find it out.
Oh, I'm told Farrell's dancers are also participating in a Shakespeare in Washington event in the Shakespeare Theatre at 7:30 PM on Monday, the 26th. They will share the program with the Washington National Opera and the Washington Ballet, concentrating on Romeo and Juliet; I expect a performance of the Bejart ballet, to the "Love Scene" from the Berlioz music. This has been sold out for some time, I'm told, but Washingtonians may know this game better.
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April 20, 2011
Liliana Graciela Astiz, a sophomore in NYU's Liberal Studies Program, is one of 40 students from across the nation to be selected by PBS's award-winning documentary series "American Experience" to take part in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride.
PBS "American Experience" has organized the 2011 Student Freedom Ride to retrace the 1961 bus rides of hundreds of black and white Americans across the Deep South in violation of Jim Crow laws. Marking the 50th anniversary of this historic journey, students will retrace the steps of the original Freedom Riders as they journey from Washington, D.C. to Jackson, Miss. from May 6 to May 16.
Astiz, who lived in New Mexico's Gila National Forrest for the first five years of her life, sees an "innate correlation between the treatment of nature and the exploitation of minority groups." This fall, Astiz will begin her concentration in water sustainability in changing climates at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
The experiences of the 2011 student freedom riders can be accessed here.
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Kool Smiles announced an initiative Tuesday, Operation Troop Treats, in which children can turn in their Halloween candy in exchange for toys.
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Caesar and Pompey's forces battled with one another on numerous occasions during the Fall of the Roman Republic. What is the earliest battle that is commonly accepted as the one where it became clear that Caesar's eventual victory was inevitable?
When Caesar led his army across the Rubicon River, Pompey fled to Greece with his army and most of the Senate.
In the beginning, the advantage seemed to lie with Pompey. Not only did he command a large army, but he also controlled much of the East as well as Spain. Caesar, however, handled the situation masterfully. Finally in 48 B.C., Caesar crushed Pompey's army at Pharsalus in Greece.
Although Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon, which marked the border of his province, was significant in that it marked the start of full on hostilities, it was by no means certain that he would be victorious. According to both Plutarch and Suetonius, Caesar had doubts in his mind as he reached the river, the latter claiming that these doubts were soothed only by the appearance of a divine apparition. Appian also wrote that Caesar had concerns, although those had more to do with the bloodshed that he might unleash, while Cassius Dio does not mention any hesitation.
Misinformation about the size of Caesar's army prompted Pompeius and many of the senators to leave Rome not long afterwards. According to Appian and Plutarch, Pompeius was forced into this action by others in spite of his military experience. Cassius Dio attributes the move to Pompeius fearing that the masses in Rome would support Caesar over him. In terms of numbers, Pompeius had a superior force and recruited further troops in the countryside. It was around this time that Labienus, Caesar's long time deputy in Gaul, switched his allegiance to Pompeius. Even if he had grown distant from Caesar and was afraid of being harmed, as Cassius Dio records, such a move would have been extremely foolish if Pompeius was already looking like a lost cause.
After consolidating power in Italy and Spain, Caesar crossed the Adriatic Sea. However, his supply lines were cut and his defeat at Dyrrachium could well have ended the war in favour of Pompeius. That this did not occur was because the Pompeius was overly cautious, and according to Caesar, fearful of an ambush, having far exceeded his expectations in the fight.
It was only at the final battle at Pharsalus that matters were decided, and even there, Caesar was in a far from solid position. He was short on supplies, only able to acquire them by forage. According to Caesar, such was the confidence in the Pompeian camp that some of its members were already allocating priesthoods and dividing the expected spoils. While Pompeius considered defeating Caesar by starvation, his overconfident subordinates persuaded him to take the field. Pompeius also outnumbered Caesar and possessed the superior cavalry. Caesar's tactics led to the rout of cavalry, however, and in response, Pompeius fled, eventually being assassinated in Egypt.
Pharsalus was the turning point. Caesar was out numbered and could easily have lost but was the better general on the day. Remember that Pompey was considered the better general between the two at the time. After that, it was a matter of time before he finished the civil war. Pompey was later assassinated in Egypt and thus never had a chance to recover from the defeat at Pharsalus.
Here is a time line of events of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey (continued by his party after his death)
50 - Caesar enters Italy proper by crossing the Rubicon with his army
49 - Pompey evacuates Italy and arrives in Greece
48 - Caesar returns to Italy, crosses over to Greece, and barely wins the battle of Dyrrachium over Pompey
47 - After being reinforced by his ally Mithridates of Pergamum, Caesar, along with Cleopatra's forces, defeat her brother outside of Alexandria (Battle of the Nile), thereby ending the Egyptian phase of the war
46 - Caesar barely defeats his former lieutenant and current Pompeian, Titus Labienus at Ruspina in north Africa
45 - Caesar defeats the last pocket of Pompeian resistance at Munda in Spain. However, one of Pompey's sons, Sextus, escapes to Sicily where he builds up a base of power and resists Antony and Octavian until 35, when he was captured and killed in Miletus


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City Council hopeful Laurie Cumbo scored two major labor endorsements recently in her bid to replace Council Member Letitia James in the 35th District, who is stepping down to run for Public Advocate.
On April 19, Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ, the country's largest property service workers' union, announced its endorsement of Ms. Cumbo. The news came a day after the New York Hotel Trade Council (HTC) voiced its support for her campaign. As the candidates make the rounds, the endorsements will give Ms. Cumbo a leg up in a field where candidates differ more in experience and connections than in policy.
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Back to top KurosJoined: 27 Apr 2004 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:48 pm Post subject: Timothy Geithner is the most dangerous man in the American government right now. Can the government ever escape backing mortgages? Geithner wrote: I don't think it's quite right to think about these things as a stark choice between a purely private market and a market where the government in crisis or in normal times is guaranteeing mortgages. If you leave all these mortgages in the banking system, like many countries do, the government is still there with an implicit commitment to back the banking system. So if you look at the model that Canada, and many European counties, have adopted, where in contrast to our model, they leave most of these mortgages with banks. The government provides a lot of support for banks. It's very reluctant in those countries to let banks fail in a crisis. So the support is there, but it's just implicit -- it's not explicit. Banks don't have to pay for that support, but it's not quite the private market idea that many people think. Why compare it to Canada or Europe? Why not China, Timmy? Quote: Geithner's explanation is quite astute, but it relies on a very important assumption: the U.S. would be forced to bail out the mortgage market again in the future, even if privatized. This may or may not be true, depending on whom you ask. The Obama array of choices for housing reform is quite good. But Timmy is going to foreclose genuine discussion again. Remember, Timmy is the author of the HAMP monstrosity, which is merely an incentive plan full of carrots for loan servicers, disarmed of all the stick guarantees lawyers rely upon to defend foreclosure actions (including mild sticks like discovery permitting a peak at the mortgage servicers' Net Present Value test). Now Timmy's message is, we'll be bailing out the banks each and every time. He wants this to be his legacy: privatized profit, socialized risk.Last edited by Kuros on Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:55 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top bucheon bumJoined: 16 Jan 2003 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:53 pm Post subject: As requested, adios quote.Last edited by bucheon bum on Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:58 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top KurosJoined: 27 Apr 2004 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:55 pm Post subject: . . .Last edited by Kuros on Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:21 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top misesJoined: 05 Nov 2007Location: retired Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 1:16 pm Post subject: Quote: So if you look at the model that Canada, and many European counties, have adopted, where in contrast to our model, they leave most of these mortgages with banks. The government provides a lot of support for banks. It's very reluctant in those countries to let banks fail in a crisis. So the support is there, but it's just implicit -- it's not explicit. ..and now a bungalow in Vancouver costs 2.7 million dollars. Though, that's really just the lot. http://vreaa.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/695k-35-over-ask-dunbar-tear-down-52x130-for-2683000/ ...and the BC government is bought by FIRE: http://vreaa.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/52-backed-by-real-estate-analysis-of-contributions-to-campaign-of-christy-clark-new-leader-of-the-bc-liberals/ .... Canada does some things well but our system of housing finance is creating a really bad situation. Back to top Space BarJoined: 20 Oct 2010 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:37 am Post subject: Are The Federal Reserve's Crimes Too Big To Comprehend? Posted: 2011/03/07 This is the Wall Street equivalent of the Pentagon Papers. The level of fraud, from top to bottom, has been staggering. The lack of accountability and the complete disregard for the rule of law have made me and many of my colleagues extremely cynical and jaded when it comes to new evidence to pile on top of the mountain that we have already gathered. But we must not let our cynicism cloud our vision on the details within this new information. We were finally granted the honor and privilege of finding out the specifics, a limited one-time Federal Reserve view, of a secret taxpayer funded �backdoor bailout� by a small group of unelected bankers. This data release reveals �emergency lending programs� that doled out $12.3 TRILLION in taxpayer money � $3.3 trillion in liquidity, $9 trillion in �other financial arrangements�...and Congress didn�t know any of the details. If you still had any question as to whether or not the United States is now the world�s preeminent banana republic, the final verdict was just delivered and the decision was unanimous. The ayes have it. Any fairytale notions that we are living in a nation built on the rule of law and of the global economy being based on free market principles has now been exposed as just that, a fairytale. FEDERAL RESERVE SPREADSHEETS article condensed Back to top misesJoined: 05 Nov 2007Location: retired Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:34 am Post subject: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/letting-no-disaster-go-waste-sec-prepares-let-lehman-executives-walk-repo-105-fraud Quote: ....the world's most incompetent ... regulator is preparing to let Dick Fuld completely off the hook for last spring's stunning Repo 105 report by Anton Valukas, whose findings even the bankruptcy expert said were probably cause for civil lawsuits. The WSJ reports: "In recent months, Securities and Exchange Commission officials have grown increasingly doubtful they can prove that Lehman violated U.S. laws by using an accounting maneuver to move as much as $50 billion in assets off its balance sheet, which made it appear that the securities firm had reduced its debt levels....After zeroing in last summer on the battered real-estate portfolio and an accounting move known as Repo 105, SEC officials have grown more worried they could lose a court battle if they bring civil charges that allege Lehman investors were duped by company executives. The key stumbling block: The accounting move, while controversial, isn't necessarily illegal." Oh no, illegal it is. The problem is that should the SEC actually pursue it and win, that act would open up the floodgates for hundreds of lawsuits against everyone from Bank of America and Citi, which have also disclosed they used comparable tactics to misrepresent the true status of their books, to shady accounts like Ernst & Young, all the way to FASB at the very top of the corruption pyramid. And with hundreds of millions if not billions in legal fees about to be paid out if the fraudclosure back door settlement fails, the SEC simply can not allow the pursuit of justice to threaten the viability of America's only national interest: that of its criminal banking syndicate. The repo transactions were done to deliberately and materially misstate the financial statements. LB intentionally deceived investors and regulators. Period. The ZH post has all the links. Here's the most important one: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/repo-105-scam-how-lehman-fooled-everyone-including-allegedly-dick-fuld-and-how-other-banks-a When are Americans going to demand their government enforce the law? These pricks are allocating massive amounts of money to themselves (Fuld walked away with hundreds of millions) using fraud. Back to top misesJoined: 05 Nov 2007Location: retired Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:03 am Post subject: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42095415 Quote: Obama's Top Housing Policy Adviser Becomes Mortgage Banker Lobbyist A key adviser to President Barack Obama on housing and mortgage policy is set to become the head of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Barack Obama Now I'm pretty cynical about politics. But this news made me stop and gasp. David H. Stevens announced last week that he was leaving the Federal Housing Authority last week. At the time, he said he had no plans for his future employment. But, as it turns out, he's becoming a lobbyist. The Washington Posts's Dina Elboghdady reports: After joining FHA in July 2009, Stevens quickly emerged as a major player in crafting the Obama administration�s housing policy. He�s been deeply involved in several high-profile initiatives that involve the mortgage banking industry, including current negotiations that will determine what kinds of fines and penalties might be imposed on mortgage servicers who took part in shoddy mortgage foreclosure practices. Stevens no doubt has had a hand in most of the Obama administration's housing and mortgage policies over the past year and half--almost of which have involved subsidies for housing and giveaways to banks. "If Stevens had generally been less friendly to industry -- had he decided to let the mortgage market fall more freely or punish lenders more harshly (that is, had he been more Right or more Left) -- would industry have considered hiring him?" my brother Tim Carney asks at The Washington Examiner. "The incentives for powerful bureaucrats are to be 'responsible' and 'pragmatic' -- which usually means friendly to the industry you're regulating and subsidizing." Tim goes on to point out some other top Obama officials cashing out to work for big banks: * Deputy White House Chief of Staff Mona Sutphen, now a lobbyist for UBS. * White House Counsel Greg Craig, who went to Goldman Sachs * Budget Director Peter Orszag, who went to Citigroup * Labor Department aide Oscar Ramirez who represents Bank of America at the Podesta Group * Top Treasury Department aide Damon Munchus, who now lobbies for Citigroup and the International Swaps & Derivatives Association, among others. This is a far cry from what some of us expected when candidate Obama pledged he was "closing the revolving door." "No political appointees in an Obama Administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years," Obama wrote back during the 2008 campaign. Ain't democracy grand? Obama... At least he hasn't attacked Iran. Back to top misesJoined: 05 Nov 2007Location: retired Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:39 am Post subject: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-01/foreign-banks-tapped-fed-s-lifeline-most-as-bernanke-kept-borrowers-secret.html Quote: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke�s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya. Dexia SA (DEXB), based in Brussels and Paris, borrowed as much as $33.5 billion through its New York branch from the Fed�s �discount window� lending program, according to Fed documents released yesterday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. Dublin-based Depfa Bank Plc, taken over in 2007 by a German real-estate lender later seized by the German government, drew $24.5 billion. The biggest borrowers from the 97-year-old discount window as the program reached its crisis-era peak were foreign banks, accounting for at least 70 percent of the $110.7 billion borrowed during the week in October 2008 when use of the program surged to a record. The disclosures may stoke a reexamination of the risks posed to U.S. taxpayers by the central bank�s role in global financial markets. Damn those conspiracy theorists who claim the existence of an international banking cabal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576219073867182108.html Quote: If you want to understand better why so many states�from New York to Wisconsin to California�are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government. It gets worse. More Americans work for the government than work in construction, farming, fishing, forestry, manufacturing, mining and utilities combined. We have moved decisively from a nation of makers to a nation of takers. Nearly half of the $2.2 trillion cost of state and local governments is the $1 trillion-a-year tab for pay and benefits of state and local employees. Is it any wonder that so many states and cities cannot pay their bills? How to pay for all this? Back to top Ya-ta BoyJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: Established in 1994 Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:54 am Post subject: rollo wrote: I love bananas! Very healthy!! I always thought the 'generals' in the Chicita Republic with their chest full of self-awarded medals and the funny hats had more principles than the current crop of American conservatives. (I should clarify: I don't consider 'me, me, me!' as a principle in the commonly understood meaning of the term.) Back to top rolloJoined: 10 May 2006Location: China Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:52 pm Post subject: Bananas have a lot of zinc. That helps prevent leg cramps. Look at Europe if you want to see bananas. 10% unemployment, Portugal going under, Spain next Back to top misesJoined: 05 Nov 2007Location: retired Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:23 am Post subject: Wild: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7361572n Back to top KurosJoined: 27 Apr 2004 Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:37 am Post subject: ^ This is the work I do now. At Legal Aid's twice weekly foreclosure clinics, every clinic has someone bring in a complaint accompanied by a note that's improperly indorsed, or just plain absent. The legal work on the bank side is so shoddy. And then you have the magically appearing allonge. The push in the legal field here is to move foreclosure hearings into equitable grounds. But remember that judges don't like this stuff to be complicated. This is supposed to be the easiest part of their docket. Foreclosures have always dominated lawsuits, in terms of pure numbers. 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EVANSVILLE, Ind. - The key word for West Liberty is 'make them pay.'
The No. 7 Hilltoppers (29-3) open play in their fourth consecutive NCAA Division II Elite 8 when they match up against eighth-ranked and defending national champion Drury (28-3) at 7 p.m. tonight inside the state-of-the-art Ford Center.
"They are a little more risky in the half-court set. If the ball goes to the post they are going to double every time," West Liberty coach Jim Crutchfield said follwing the team's film session Tuesday night at its hotel. "If you come off a ball screen you should be looking to get doubled because they rotate so well.
"That is what I have watched on tape, and we have watched a lot of tape. They don't pay for it.
"We need to make them pay for it."
That style would seem to play right into the hands of the Hilltoppers, who enter off their record fourth straight Atlantic Region title.
With a shooter at every position on the floor at all times, West Liberty perhaps offers a set of problems in that regard that Drury as not seen.
"We're used to it because we do it every day in practice and we're used to people coming and trapping us," said Hilltoppers point guard Cedric Harris, who earlier in the day became a consensus first team All-American. "I feel like our guys are prepared for it. (Our post men) won't panic and will make quick decisions the right decisions."
The Panthers, the champions of the Midwest Region for the second year in a row, are led by their point guard, Kameron Bundy, a 6-foot-2 native of Nixa, Mo., who averages 17.6 points per game.
He is joined in the scoring column by Cameron Adams (6-5), who checks in at 17.5 ppg. They are the only two Drury players who average in double figures.
"One of the scary things is Bundy is very good at drawing fouls he's been to the line 140 or 150 times and Adams has been there 200 times," Crutchfield said, noting that the the job of containing Bundy will fall upon the shoulders of Harris. "Drury is a well-oiled machine on offense and they do a lot of things that are almost set plays that you don't notice because they do them in live action and come at you so fast.
"They do a ton of ball screens and they do it on the side of the court where they will isolate the screener and the dribbler and put the other three guys on the other side. So you have to recognize quickly when you're on the help-side."
The highest-scoring team in the country (101.5 ppg.) for the eighth time in nine seasons, West Liberty trek's through the postseason has been spearheaded this time by its work on the defensive end of the court. In the three-game Altantic Regional the Hilltoppers surrendered 72 points to Glenville, 85 to Indiana, Pa. (in triple-overtime) and it took East Stroudsburg 88 shot attempts to tally 82 points in the final.
All that adds up to a more complete team, one that perhaps is more prepared for this stage than any other in Crutchfield's highly successful tenure.
"It's our desire to get back here,'' said junior C.J. Hester, who along with Harris was named all-tournament in both the Mountain East event as well as the regional. "We had a tough road getting through here in the regional, so we're battled-tested.
"To be successful we're going to have to play West Liberty basketball, and everyone knows that's playing a good, team game."
The Hilltoppers feature seven double-figure scorers, led by Harris with 17 points, six assists and 4.2 rebounds. Hester (team-leading 8.6 rebounds) and Shawn Dyer check in at 14.6 and 14.4 points, respectively, while Keene Cockburn (12.1 points, 2.66 blocks per game) and redshirt freshman Devin Hoehn (12.0 ppg.) follow closely. Wheeling Park grad and sophomore Bubby Goodwin scores at an 11.1 clip and Seger Bonifant, who shoots better than 50 percent from 3-point range, averages 10.6).
"Our route to the national tournament last year was unlike anything I have ever seen. You don't win games by 20 in regional play, and we did," Crutchfield said. "This is how it should be.
"Every team that gets here has a story about the close games, the shots that didn't go in and the reason they are here. We have that this time.
"Maybe they have been tested a little bit more, and because of that if we're in a close game, I would shocked if there is any kind of panic button pushed."
If the Hilltoppers are able to reach the Final Four for the third time in five seasons, they will meet the Chico State (25-7) vs. USC-Aiken (32-3) survivor at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday.
The quarterfinals and Final Four games will be streamed online at www.ncaa.org, while the championship, which is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Saturday, is a live CBS broadcast.


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1932 Ford Pickup - A Stitch In TimeWritten on November 1, 2009 Glenn Kramer Sews Up A Classic '32 Ford Pickup
Glenn Kramer, an upholsterer by trade, earned a solid reputation as the go-to guy for hot rod interiors in the Pacific Northwest. When he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, he plied his considerable talents at a few local shops and soon became a regular at local cruise nights. Known for his quick wit and his encyclopedia of one-liners, Glenn keeps his friends in stitches (pun intended). Side jobs are now his fulltime work: Glenn's Hot Rod Interiors shop in Glendale, Arizona, maintains a long waiting list of both new and repeat customers.
Spending all his time on customer projects left none to build a new rod. That left only one option; he purchased a very sanitary '30-31 Ford highboy. The refrigerator-white roadster soon sported a new wild flame job and, of course, a fresh interior. Glenn and his wife Karen racked up thousands of miles on the odometer.
In December of 2007 Glenn figured it was time to build a new shop truck and the roadster found a new home in Canada. A '32 pickup cab and a Model A bed soon sat in the spot once occupied by the roadster.
Since wood is the foundation of most upholstery jobs, Glenn fabricated a frame from 2x4 lumber, pie-cutting the wood to create a 131/2-inch rear and 91/2-inch front kick-ups, while the framerails taper slightly from the cowl to a front crossmember. Glenn cut wheel blanks from marine plywood using a predetermined tire height, and then set everything up with the body and bed resting on the wooden frame.
Building a hot rod is not all about using a tape measure. Kramer spent a good amount of time just looking at the pickup from across the shop, moving this and adjusting that until the proportions looked just right. When he was satisfied with the look, he had Dave and Doug at Sweet Components in Glendale, Arizona, duplicate the wooden mockup in 2x4 steel.
With the exception of the tubular front crossmember and a couple "C" notches for spring and axle travel, the entire frame was constructed from square tubing. It's a clean, straightforward approach that's so simple it's brilliant, a perfect example of form following function. It all rolls on 15-inch steelies with whitewalls, a Super Bell 4-inch dropped tube axle, '32 Ford Spring with P&J shorty shocks and a Ford 9-inch rear.
Between the front 'rails is a 305/350 Chevy combination. Vintage dress-up accoutrements include stock, painted 283 valve covers, an Offenhauser 3x2 manifold with Rochester 2G carbs, and a 283 distributor case that hides Pertronix internals. The ram's-horn exhaust manifolds are ground smooth and coated in VHT.
The relatively decent pickup body and tattered '31 Ford pickup box were the next tasks. The bottoms of the doors were rusted beyond repair, so Glenn added new patch panels to the bottom of the doors. To gain extra legroom, he also took a stock 1931 Ford sedan firewall and spread the outer edges to fit the '32 cowl. This clever bit of engineering leaves many scratching their heads.
The bed spent decades as someone's utility trailer and therefore every panel needed attention. Glenn scratch-built splash aprons to cover the rear framerails (they taper to the rear, so the bed doesn't look like it's just hanging off the frame).
Finishing touches were provided by Glen Bolz and crew, who sprayed PPG tint black with flattener and a satin clear coat, a perfect finish for any shop truck.
A '33 commercial shell covers the custom-built radiator. A pair of '34 commercial headlights and a V-8 tagged headlight bar provides the perfect old school looks with just the right amount of bling. Outback, '33-36 taillights and a nerf bar continue the traditional theme. Rob Olin Designs created the sign work on the doors for Glenn's Hot Rod Interiors with tasty graphics and just the right amount of tan and white pinstripes.
Inside, Glenn modified the seat riser and back brace to allow for an additional 4 inches of legroom. This, along with the Model A cowl, make long rides more comfortable. The upholstered surfaces are spice and ivory leather. Tan gold loop pile carpet covers the floor, the lower portions of the kick panels and the seat riser. The dash is a stock '32 with three Auto Meter gauges set in an engine-turned panel surrounded by copious amounts of Rob Olin pinstripes. Glenn sits in front of a '40 column and wheel with the shift lever adapted and indexed to the 350 trans. Future plans include adapting the key and column lock to the ignition. A full hood is also in the works.
Traditional hotrods never go out of style. As you can see, Glenn knows how to stitch together a classic.
Glenn Kramer
Glendale, Arizona
1932 {{{Ford}}} pickup
|Wooden mock up by Glenn Kramer. 2x4 steel fabrication by Dave
and Doug at Sweet Components (Glendale, AZ)
|2x4 square tubing, pie-cut 1" from firewall to grille shell with 9 1/2"
tapered kick-up. 13 1/2" rear kick-up. Suicide front cross member.
Framerails are angle notched for front and rear axles clearance.
Square tubing crossmembers with drop out trans mount
|Chassis plumbing
|Basic brake lines
|Rearend / Ratio
|3.0 to 1 Ford Fairmount 9"
|Front Suspension
|Super Bell (Peculiar, MO) 4" dropped tube axle, '32 Ford Spring
with P&J (Peculiar, MO) shorty shocks
|Master Cylinder
|'68 {{{Mustang}}}
|Steering Box
|Front {{{Magnum}}} discs / Rear '76 Ford Fairmont drums
|Pedal assembly
|'20 {{{Buick}}} gas pedal, '32 Ford brake pedal
|Wheel Covers
|'{{{57}}} Buick with bullet centers
|Wheel make and size
|15x5 Ford Steel
|Front tire make and size
|Firestone 6.70x15 whitewalls
|Rear tire make and size
|Firestone 8.90x15 whitewalls
|Gas Tank
|Custom by Dave's Gas Tanks (Phoenix, AZ)
|{{{Chevrolet}}} Vortec
|Custom by Doug at Sweet Components
|Manifold / Induction
|Offenhauser 3x2 Rochester 2C carburetors
|Ignition / Wires
|Chevy 283 distributor case with Petronics internals.
|Chevrolet ram's-horns ground smooth with VHT paint. Mufflers 23" Smithy's
|283 OEM valve covers
|Chevrolet 350
|Custom by Dicks Driveline Service (Phoenix, AZ)
|Body Style / Material
|1932 Ford / steel
|Body Manufacturer
|Body Mods
|Stock body with a 1931 Ford sedan firewall with outer edges
spread to fit the '32 cowl opening by the owner
|1933 Ford commercial
|Body Work
|Patch panels as needed. Stock length 1931 Ford truck bed.
Scratch built tapered splash aprons to cover the rear framerails by owner
|Paint type / Color
|PPG tint black with flattener, PPG satin clear coat by Glen Bolz & crew;
pin stripes & door logo art work & paint by Rob Olin Designs
|Headlights / Taillights
|1934 Ford {{{Commercial}}} / '33-36 Ford commercial
|Rear bumper
|Custom nerf bar by owner
|1932 Ford
|Insert / Gauges
|Auto Meter (Sycamore, IL) white faced gauges
|Climate control
|Cowl vent
|Haywire (Joplin, MO)
|Steering wheel
|1940 Ford
|Steering column
|1940 Ford Column shift modified to operate the turbo 350
|Glenn Kramer, Hot Rod Interiors (Glendale, AZ)
|Material / Color
|Leather / Spice and Ivory
|Tan Gold loop pile carpet
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The 305 Chevy hides its modern internals with painted valve covers, Rochester 2C carburetors, an Offenhauser manifold, and the original 283 distributor case with PerTronix internals. The stock ram's-horns are ground smooth and heat treated.Steering is via a '40 Ford steering wheel and column. The original shift lever is indexed to the 350 transmission. Rob Olin's steady hand laid down the Von Dutch and Tommy the Greek style pinstripes.


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BELLMEAD (November 21, 2012)-Thousands traveled through Central Texas Wednesday, as many made their way home for Thanksgiving.
Drivers took precautions because of the large number of fatal car crashes that have plagued Interstate 35 in the last month.
Those deadly crashes have consequences not only for victims and families, but also for first responders.
"Body parts, children that are deceased, I mean we've all seen it and it's horrifying," Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper D.L. Wilson said.
State troopers, paramedics and firefighters see some of the most gruesome car wrecks in Central Texas.
"It's the worst part of our job," Wilson said.
"I mean, going and knocking on someone's door and telling them a loved one was killed in a car wreck...no one wants to do that."
Many are familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder, which is most commonly associated with troops returning from war.
But here at home, many state troopers and volunteer firemen assisting in deadly wrecks can suffer from what's called critical incident stress, which is similar to PTSD, but typically lasts for only about four weeks.
Wilson says after a career on the highway, death can wear on you.
"I've been doing this for 20 years and if I witness a bad fatal wreck, I can close my eyes and see it," Wilson said.
State troopers have counseling readily available if they need it, but some firefighters may not know where to turn when they experience traumatic stress stemming from their job.
"There's a lot of volunteer firemen that don't know help is out there for them," Chalk Bluff Volunteer Fire Chief Mike Meadors said.
Meadors says talking with his firefighters about the deadly situations they see is a crucial process.
"You can't bottle it in. If you bottle it in, then it will affect you for years and years," Meadors said.
Both Wilson and Meadors both have jobs that aren't pretty.
But they take pride just knowing the community is safe.
"I can sleep easy knowing that there are people like us out there trying to keep everyone around us safe," Wilson said.


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One of my personal favorite drugstore lip products are CoverGirl TruShine lipsticks, in part because they're smooth and moisturizing on the lips and in part because there is such a huge variety of wonderful shades to choose from - 24, to be exact. Each shade has a corresponding number (I've swatched them in numerical order); in theory, the first eight are supposed to be most complementary to fair skin tones, the second eight for medium skin tones, and the last eight for deep skin tones. I think CoverGirl should get some credit for this effort, as I did find that I liked more shades from the "fair" range on my lips than from medium or deep. With that said, I think lipstick color selection is all about personal preference, and anyone could find shades they love in all three color ranges.
In an hour of insanity, I decided to do lip swatches of every single one of these shades, so in order to not bombard you with too many pictures, I'm breaking my post on the TruShine lipsticks up into three parts: the shades intended for fair skin, medium skin, and deep skin. Remember, though, that there's no rule saying you have to stay within some prescribed color spectrum!
CoverGirl TruShines retail for $5-7 each, depending on the store, and are available at almost all drugstores (though some stores have fewer than the full 24 shades available, unfortunately). I don't notice a scent with these. The wear is about average - I have to reapply after eating, drinking, etc., but not more than once every few hours otherwise - and, as I mentioned, they are exceptionally moisturizing. I think the fact that I was able to do lip swatches of 24 of these in an hour with no irritation is a great testament to A) how gentle the TruShines are on lips, and B) how totally awesome Neutrogena Night Calming makeup remover wipes, which I use for all my swatching endeavors, are. (More on those later - I plan to make a post on all my all-time favorite products at some point, and I assure you they'll make another appearance then!)
Finally, here are your CoverGirl TruShine lipsticks for medium skin tones. On myself, I found Raspberry Shine to be the most flattering, and I felt very "Marilyn Monroe" in Valentine Shine:
TruShine Lipstick: Rosy Shine, Hot Pink Shine, Lilac Shine, Raspberry Shine, Plum Shine, Peach Shine, Nude Shine, Valentine Shine
Monday, July 20, 2009
CoverGirl TruShine Lipsticks: Medium Skin Tones
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I love all these! Thanks!ReplyDelete
I'm totally going to pick a few of these up.
I sure wish Peach Shine showed up like that on me! On my lips it looked clear! I was so sad! :(ReplyDelete
Do any of these (from any category) make your teeth look yellow or discolored?ReplyDelete
Marie - I apologize, but I don't recall whether specific ones did. However, you can pretty much always trust that more blue-based lipsticks (cool pinks, reds, etc.) will make teeth look whiter. Hope that helps!ReplyDelete
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Princess Bride: 25th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray] for $8
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This was released 25 years ago? Inconceivable!
This is available for the same price at Target all the time, about three or four times per year. If you can't get it now, just wait... you'll find it again.
@anthgothlz: Was it a Blu-Ray disc, at Target?
http://www.target.com/p/the-princess-bride-blu-ray-widescreen/-/A-13152911#prodSlot=medium_1_6&term=princess bride $8.00 online as well.
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I've implemented OpenID-Login with Google. I can access the following attribute types 'contact/email', 'namePerson/first', 'namePerson/last' and 'pref/lang'. But I also wanna have the Google Account image/avatar. Concerning to the specs from http://www.axschema.org/types it should be 'media/image/default' or 'media/image/aspect11' but none of them work :(
Isn't it possible to access the image/avatar via OpenID?
Is the AX type something else?
Is there any other possibility to get that image?
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I try to give reference to completely applied examples of (non)uniformly hyperbolic and/or ergodic systems. With completely applied I don't mean an irrational rotation on the torus but from other branches like biology, astronomy, physics, engineering, computer science...
The only example that comes to my mind is the Lorentz-gas. I also thought about an application of the N-body problem.
To broaden the scope a little bit I would also take examples from known 'chaotic' systems in nature.
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I would like to know what are currently used methods for targeted deletion of genomic regions in mammalian organisms or cell lines. I have heard of Zinc-Finger nucleases as a recent genetic engineering method, but I don't know if there are other methods, more efficient or better tailored, for the deletion of specific regions.
I can only provide you with a few pointers from memory, as an ad hoc search for "
Please consider the provided information with precaution and only for pointers to help you do literature research.
There are definitely published reviews on this exhaustive topic, notwithstanding the dozens of books.
Naturally (literally!), the vast majority of methods will be based on the noncovalent interaction of an n-mer "homing construct"/probe a)attached to an nuclease or b)an
attachment site for a nuclease or c)participate in the reaction for the formation of a reactive chemical species to break the sugar-phosphate backbone.
I would speculate that most other methods are likely not practical in terms of either efficiency and/or affordability.
To learn about the applicability of the respective methods relating to your field of research, and be provided with an overview of the pros and cons of the methods, you will still need to find a good review paper.


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spoiler:But when I gave it to the prostitute and followed her through the main entrance to the stadium I was suddenly teleported far inside without being stopped at the entrance by the ticket controller. And I didn't have the required song title item in the inventory yet. So I was stuck without being able to get out of there. This glitch ruins also one of the puzzles. The proper entry to the stadium that Mona and Froderick should have used at a specific point in time was the stadium's backdoor
spoiler:at the beginning of the game, Mona does not acknowledge that she has been turned into a vampire, yet if you ask her to put her hand in the fireplace, she will refuse because "burnt vampire flesh smells bad".
spoiler:As you will learn, Mona is quite aware of being a vampire, she just likes to pretend she isn't and prefers not to think about it in general. So you can consider her line a slip of the tongue.


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Provide BLM with a decision matrix to be utilized in selecting treatment protocol to increase native diversity in three-awn dominated plant communities.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
Examine the effects of fire and nitrogen addition on three-awn dominated communities. Increased nitrogen availability will likely improve the ability of other species to establish and compete with three-awn. Late growing season fire should be detrimental to red three-awn because of the plant's growth pattern and bunchgrass habit. Treatments will be combinations of fire vs. no fire and nitrogen addition vs. no nitrogen addition and assigned in a completely randomized design with factorial arrangement and replicated 5 times. Treatment effects will be evaluated by measuring standing crop, plant species composition and plant diversity before treatment and 2 years post-treatment.
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JDK 6 Performance Update, WAS v7, Fix Pack 7, and the G1 Collector
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The Fix Pack 7 release for WebSphere Application Server v7 includes the JDK 6 SR6 update. It will update Java to Java SE 6 Update 16.
If you have not upgraded your WebSphere application environment to JDK 6, here are the reasons that you should upgrade to the latest. You will see many improvements with performance, stability and scaleability. In addition to these benefits, Fix Pack 7 with SR6 includes the new garbage collector known as the Garbage First or G1 Collector. It is concurrent and parallel with more predictability and better useability. It splits the heap into regions and young and old generational spaces are organized in sets of regions. This eliminates the need to fine tune "NewSize/MaxNewSize". G1 also provides incremental compaction in those regions by "evacuating" the regions that are full and fragmented...


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I'm having some trouble deriving a generalization for $\sigma_\alpha(n)$ from this: $$\sigma_1(n)=\sum_{d \mid n} \varphi(d)\sigma_0 \left( \frac{n}{d} \right).$$ My proof of the above is $$\sigma_1=N \ast u = (\varphi \ast u) \ast u = \varphi \ast (u \ast u) = \varphi \ast \sigma_0,$$ and by experimentation I found $$\sigma_\alpha(n)=\sum_{d \mid n} \varphi(d^\alpha)\sigma_{\alpha-1} \left( \frac{n}{d} \right),$$ but I don't see how I can derive this from $\sigma_\alpha=N^\alpha \ast u$. I don't even know how to write the $\varphi(d^\alpha)$-part... Am I doing this all wrong or is it just some detail I'm missing?
Alternatively, a purely functional approach might go like $$\rm\sigma_\alpha=(\color{Blue}{Id}\cdot Id^{\alpha-1})*1 \tag{1}$$ $$\rm= (\color{Blue}{(\varphi*1)}\cdot\color{Red}{Id^{\alpha-1}})*1 \tag{2}$$ $$\rm=(\color{Orange}(\color{Red}{Id^{\alpha-1}}\cdot\color{Blue}{\varphi}\color{Orange})*\color{Red}{Id^{\alpha-1}})*1 \tag{3}$$ $$\rm =\color{Orange}(\color{Green}{Id^{\alpha-1}\cdot\varphi}\color{Orange})*(\color{Purple}{Id^{\alpha-1}*1}) \tag{4}$$ $$\rm=(\color{Green}{\varphi\circ Id^\alpha})*\color{Purple}{\sigma_{\alpha-1}}. \tag{5}$$ In the above we used
We define $$\sigma_{x}(n)=\sum_{d|n} d^x,$$ so that $\sigma_x = 1*N^x.$ This means that it has the Dirichlet series $\zeta(s-x)\zeta(s)$. Your identity is correct, the simplest way to prove it is perhaps with Dirichlet series. Notice that $\phi(d^\alpha)=d^{\alpha-1}\phi(d)$ so that $\sum_{d|n}\phi(d^\alpha)\sigma_{\alpha-1}\left(\frac{n}{d}\right)$ are the Dirichlet coefficients of the series $$\left(\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\phi(n)}{n^{s-\alpha+1}}\right)\left(\sum_{m=1}^\infty \frac{\sigma_{\alpha-1}}{n^s}\right)$$ As the series for the Totient function is $\frac{\zeta(s-1)}{\zeta(s)}$ this becomes $$= \frac{\zeta(s-\alpha)}{\zeta(s-\alpha-1)}\cdot \zeta(s-\alpha-1)\zeta(s)=\zeta(s-\alpha)\zeta(s). $$
Now this is the dirichlet series for $\sigma_a(n)$, so we have proven the identity.
Also you can use Exercise 2.17 on p48 (Apostol) where the Jordan totient $J_k(n)$ is defined.
Then $J_{\alpha}=\mu*N^\alpha$ so $\sigma_{\alpha}=J_{\alpha}*\sigma_{0}$ - perhaps a more pleasing generalisation.


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WEIRTON - Watching the Academy Awards has always been a big deal in the Weirton household of Rick and Deb Witkowski, where their at-home celebration includes dressing up, sipping champagne and filling out ballots to make their picks.
Even a faux Oscar statuette or two are part of the personal party where the longtime married musician-producer-composer and his WTOV-TV9 "What Would Deb Do?" area entertainment promoter take seriously viewing the show that honors Hollywood's best.
But this year, there's a new twist.
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Rick Witkowski
This year, Witkowski, the owner of Studio L in Weirton for more than 25 years, has a professional connection to one of the movies up for an Oscar.
And that makes watching the 85th-annual awards show that airs live Feb. 24 on ABC all the more exciting and party-worthy.
Witkowski scored original music for "Inocente," one of the five films nominated in the best documentary short subject category, its challengers being "Kings Point," "Mondays at Racine," "Open Heart" and "Redemption."
"Inocente," according to promotional material, "is an intensely personal and vibrant coming-of-age feature documentary about a young artist's fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by her life as an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years."
The documentary, the release goes on to note, "is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America - children. Neither sentimental nor sensational, 'Inocente' will immerse you in the very real, day-to-day existence of a young girl who is battling a war that we rarely see. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in Inocente's story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do."
Witkowski's involvement was creating the vocal music that represented what Inocente would emotionally have in her head, a venture in which he enlisted the talents of Pittsburgh-area singer-songwriter Vanessa Campagna.
Together they gave sound to the story described as visually and artistically moving.
The filmakers of "Inocente" include:
Directors Sean and Andrea Nix Fine of Fine Films, whose "War/Dance" won several awards and was a 2008 Academy Award nominee for best documentary;
Yael Melamede, who co-founded the independent film production company Salty Features in 2003 with "the goal to make feature films that showcase unique vision, strong storytelling and thought-provoking subject matter;"
Emanuel Michael, president of Unison Films, a production and distribution company based in New York; and
Shine Global, a nonprofit film production company "dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of children through films and other media that inspire action to change." The company was founded by Susan MacLaury and Albie Hecht, who was Witkowski's connection to becoming involved in the film.
He was approached in December 2011 about doing the entire score.
"I have known him since I was back in the band called Crack the Sky," Witkowski said. "We were signed to a record label in the 1970s, and in 1975 our first first album came out and (Hecht) came to work for the record company out of Columbia. He was like a paralegal at first, and he got plugged in. We became friends, and after our band broke up, he went on and started his own video company," he continued.
Hecht moved on to become a creative consultant to MTV and Nickelodeon. "He plugged me into that company, and they started using me for doing music stuff for MTV and Nickelodeon, and we just kept our relationship going," he said.
Hecht would later become vice president of Nickelodeon. "He would throw me work, and I would (work) through their network of people, and he ended up starting Spike TV. He was the executive of that company, and then he and his wife started the documentary film company called Shine Globe," he said.
"I got contacted at the beginning of December 2011, but they kind of wanted to have it all wrapped up and done by the end of the year, and I am heavily involved in the B.E. Taylor concert at Christmas, but I definitely didn't want to turn the gig down. It ended up I was recommended to them to try to create, to bring forth sound for the girl, the music that the girl hears in her head," he said.
"The music is shared in the film. All the music you hear involving any vocal stuff is my music, and any of the other just music and no singing going on is the composer. We kind of split it up so we could have it done in a timely fashion. I was offered the whole thing, but couldn't do it because of time constraints," he said.
"The biggest challenge was finding the proper balance between melancholy and joy for the character," Witkowski said.
"They would send me these little scenes, and there would be music under it that was kind of like what they wanted something like this, so that made it a little easier," he said of the creative process.
"I got the gig and had to do a demo. Actually they wanted me to do the closing scene to see if I could come up with something emotional, so I did a demo, and they liked it, and I got the gig," he said.
Discussions, fine-tuning and a visit from one of the film's editors fueled the project to the finish line.
"They were real particular," he said of the work involved.
Describing himself as a musician first, Witkowski has been playing music since he was 12 after watching the Beatles perform on television.
"I told my mom that's what I want to do and talked them into getting me a drum set that first year for Christmas, and it started there," he said.
The musician in him evolved into music producing, recording and composing.
Studio L came to be in 1986 in a cause-and-effect kind of way.
"I was working with the B.E. Taylor group at the time, and we had a rehearsal studio that had recording equipment in it, and when the band broke up, I kind of took over the gear and moved it into my house, so officially I had a studio," he said.
Landing a contract with Macmillan/McGraw-Hill to do book-to-tape projects involving dramatic reads constituted "my first real job."
"It was a huge contract, and that afforded me the opportunity to start a business," he said. His music studio today involves "all types of music, singer-songwriters and bands, and I do jingles for commercials, and I also do music for television and film."
The jingles have been a staple for more than 20 years with local recognizable ones including Sentry Health Plan's "Here for you, there for you with the health plan ... we are there for you."
Another one is "Come ride with us," promoting the Steel Valley Regional Transit Authority.
His very first one was for the now-defunct Simon's Furniture in Weirton "Furniture of distinction at a price you can afford ... Simon's."
"I have done so many of them locally here, and I ended up getting a few national ones," said Witkowski, who did a lot of work for Nickelodeon, including collaborating on the 1993 Chips Ahoy spot, using the music "Sing, Sing, Sing" Benny Goodman piece.
In October, Witkowski said he knew "Inocente" was on the short list for an Academy Award nomination.
"There were eight films on the short list, and they usually nominate three to five, so we had almost a 50 percent chance at that point," he said.
"We didn't know until that morning of the announcements that we were actually on it. It wasn't one of the categories that they announce on TV, but as soon as that's done, then all the nominees are on the website so we went in there. It took a while to get on the site because everyone was on it, but it finally popped up, and we scrolled down, and in the best category 'Inocente' was the first one in the best short documentary," he said.
And it's worthy to be there, according to Witkowski.
"It's a very good movie," he said.
"I feel very blessed to have been a part of it," Witkowski said. "They were happy with the work, and now the work is elevated, good enough that it was nominated for an Academy Award, and it could possibly win and that in itself, just to achieve that, that's kind of good," he said.
Asked what his advice would be to young people contemplating an artistic future in the entertainment industry, Witkowski says follow your instincts.
"Follow your heart," he said. "If your heart is telling you this is what you want to get into doing, by no means don't let anything get in your way because here's a Polish guy from Weirton, West Virginia, scoring music for a movie nominated for an Academy Award," Witkowski said with a laugh and a pinch-me-is-this-real reaction.
"You'll find a way if it's really in your heart, whatever it is that you're doing," he said.
As for watching the Academy Awards, Witkowski said he and his wife, a huge fan of movies, dress up and pretend they're actually there.
"She's serious about watching," he said with a chuckle. "She's always loved movies, and she prints up ballots, and we do our voting before we watch," he said.
And as for "Inocente" and its chances of taking home the Oscar, Witkowski calls it a contender.
"I think we've got a 50-50 shot."
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If you're going to devote an issue of your series to exposition, "Swamp Thing" #33 has Charles Soule and Javier Pina show readers how it should be done.
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"Wonder Woman" #31 enters its endgame, as Brian Azzarello and Goran Sudzuka change the status quo on Paradise Island, even the dead begin to spill out of the underworld.
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Kamala Khan has to embrace her new powers in order to save a student in G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona's excellent "Ms. Marvel" #2.
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|December 23rd, 2013
Young Avengers #14
"Young Avengers" #14 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Emma Vieceli, Christian Ward and Annie Wu is the beginning of the "Afterparty," a two part epilogue that runs through the last two issues, containing many sweet and bittersweet enc
|December 20th, 2013
Young Avengers #13
The final battle with Mother sets the storytelling bar even higher for Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's "Young Avengers" #13
|December 9th, 2013
Swamp Thing #26
"Swamp Thing" #26 has the new Swamp Thing trying to make his mark right away, but Charles Soule and Jesus Saiz haven't taken Alec Holland entirely out of the picture, either.
|December 5th, 2013
Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #1
J. Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods bring more revelations about the origins of the Terminators and Skynet in "Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle" #1.
|December 5th, 2013
Young Avengers #12
Our young heroes begin the ultimate battle with "Mother" and the ramifications are nothing less than world ending in Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's "Young Avengers" #12.
|November 22nd, 2013
Wonder Woman #25
Brian Azzarello and Goran Sudzuka start moving pieces across the proverbial chessboard in "Wonder Woman" #25, as they remind readers that the personification of Strife is never someone to be trusted.
|November 22nd, 2013
Swamp Thing #25
Jesus Saiz brings his best to Charles Soule's entertaining story in "Swamp Thing" #25 as the Seeder and Swamp Thing square off for a fight to the finish.
|November 11th, 2013
Swamp Thing Annual #2
"Swamp Thing Annual" #2 lets Charles Soule, Javier Pina, and Kano show us Swampy's training for his upcoming battle with the Seeder, but it's far more entertaining than you might believe.
|October 30th, 2013
Young Avengers #11
"Young Avengers" #11 has Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie setting up their final storyline, as the group rallies to try and rescue Hulking and defeat Mother once and for all, even as Loki gets something he's wanted.
|October 25th, 2013
Swamp Thing #24
"Swamp Thing" #24 loses a bit of momentum in its Seeder storyline, but there's enough interesting material here from Charles Soule and Andrei Bressan that it's still entertaining.
|October 4th, 2013
Young Avengers #10
Loki confers with Mother about a deal they struck in Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's villainous "Young Avengers" #10.
|September 30th, 2013
Wonder Woman #23.2
Series writer Brian Azzarello teams up with ACO to tell the First Born's story in "Wonder Woman" #23.2, and for all intents and purposes it's "Wonder Woman" #24.
|September 26th, 2013
Secret Avengers #9
Maria Hill and Daisy Johnson jockey for control of S.H.I.E.L.D. and control of Johnson's memories in Nick Spencer and Butch Guice's "Secret Avengers" #9.
|September 23rd, 2013
Swamp Thing: Arcane #23.1
"Swamp Thing" #23.1 checks in on both Anton and Abby Arcane, as Charles Soule and Jesus Saiz both show us the Arcanes' past - as well as a hint of their future - in this one-shot.
|September 20th, 2013
Young Avengers #9
"Young Avengers" #9 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie sees the Young Avengers face off against the extra-dimensional threat of Mother.
|August 29th, 2013
Wonder Woman #23
"Wonder Woman" #23 feels like another standard (if good!) fight against the First Born at first, but when Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang throw us a curveball, it elevates this into something much more interesting.
|August 22nd, 2013