Check out the way the narrow island of Manhattan, between the Hudson River and the East River, looks from the International Space Station (ISS). The photo was taken on May 5 by the Expedition 39 crew. Central Park looks pretty green – playing fields appear as white dots. The two darker zones are where the tallest buildings of Midtown and the Financial District cast long shadows even in this early afternoon view.
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It is my pleasure to present a guest post by Jennifer Babaie, a litigation fellow with the Open Society Justice Initiative. The note reflects the core points that a number of human rights NGOs submitted to the Court on the new Protocol 16, also known as the 'dialogue' protocol:
"On 30 July 2015, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) invited contributions from NGOs on proposed amendments to the Rules of Court arising out of the implementation of Protocol 16 to the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). Protocol 16 creates a brand new mechanism allowing the ECtHR to issue advisory opinions on matters of ECHR law, in cases referred by national courts.
The Open Society Justice Initiative, together with 10 other NGOs responded to the court’s call by submitting detailed comments on the draft rules. In the note, the Justice Initiative addressed multiple short-falls of the draft amendments, ranging from substantive concerns to minor procedural issues. Additionally, the Justice Initiative has produced a briefing paper reflecting a detailed analysis of each of the proposed amendments to the rules, a comparative analysis of the ECtHR’s new advisory opinion procedures with those of the Court of Justice of the European Union and other regional human rights bodies, as well as a review of academic discussion of the issues.
Protocol 16 and the proposed rules of procedure are a significant expansion of the court’s power to provide advisory opinions. The new protocol, which will enter into force once it has been ratified by a minimum of ten states, introduces an entirely new system which allows the “highest courts and tribunals” of a state party to request a non-binding advisory opinion directly from the ECtHR. Domestic courts can seek opinions on “questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the Convention or the protocols thereto”. They may also seek an advisory opinion for the purposes of clarifying the ECtHR’s case-law.
As of 16 March 2016, six states have ratified Protocol 16 (Albania, Finland, Georgia, Lithuania, San Marino, and Slovenia); another 10 have signed it. The purpose of Protocol 16 is twofold. First, it is intended to strengthen the interaction between national courts and the ECtHR. Second, it is intended to reduce the court’s excessive caseload.
For priority number one, the underlying rationale is that state parties will have access to more guidance from the court so that they can avoid future violations. With the advent of the new mechanism, national courts will be able to request advisory opinions from the ECtHR prior to the conclusion of their domestic case. Upon receipt of the court’s opinion, the national judge presiding over the case can make an informed judgment on the issue, potentially eliminating the need for an appeal to the ECtHR.
The hope of the drafters is that the issuance of advisory opinions will result in fewer violations of the convention, thus increasing the court’s efficiency and reducing its workload in the long run. However, what is not addressed by either the standing committee in charge of the ECtHR’s procedural rules or the committee of ministers in charge of drafting Protocol 16 is the extra work load that could result from a flurry of national judges seeking advisory opinions on a multitude of questions. Moreover, the rather vague language of the proposed amendments as currently drafted leaves the reader without a clear sense of just what exactly the necessary elements of a successful request are. Without greater resources being allocated to the ECtHR, it is difficult to see how the new mechanism will increase its efficiency rather than further hampering the court’s productivity.
In comments provided to the court by the collection of civil society partners including the Justice Initiative, three main problem areas were identified primarily relating to due process concerns.
Firstly, the amendments proposed do not include a mechanism to formally allow parties in domestic proceedings to intervene in the event that their case is referred to the ECtHR for an advisory opinion. The civil society organisations in consultation have proposed that the rules be amended to require the ECtHR to automatically notify the parties in a domestic proceeding that their case is the subject of an advisory opinion; in addition, the civil society collective propose that the parties be automatically invited to intervene in the advisory opinion process as a third party.
Secondly, the proposed amendments carry a very real risk of excluding the voice of the victim entirely from the advisory opinion proceedings. For example, draft rule X(B)(d) requires that a summary of the arguments made by the parties to the domestic proceedings should only be included with the request for an advisory opinion “if relevant”. It seems unlikely that arguments made on the very issue put to the ECtHR would not be relevant, but this qualification opens the door for arbitrary exclusions. The Justice Initiative and its partners propose that the rule be amended to clarify that the domestic court should always include summaries of the arguments of the parties wherever they address the issue for which an advisory opinion is sought.
Thirdly, the proposed amendments carry some risk that the domestic court requesting an advisory opinion will pre-judge the very issue for which it has sought clarity from the ECtHR. This risk exists because the draft rules explicitly invite the domestic court to give its own view on the question referred to the ECtHR. Forming a view on a case that has not been fully argued risks subordinating the due process owed to the parties. The Justice Initiative and its civil society partners propose to amend the current form of the draft rules to clarify what is not appropriate to include in the domestic court’s request: any opinion that might amount to pre-judging the question referred should be emphatically discouraged."


In "The Sweep," CNN dives deep into issues that are making news and why they're in the headlines.
Chesapeake, Virginia (CNN) -- It's dinner time on Sunday night and fresh burgers are sizzling on the grill a few feet away as Aaron Wheeler Sr., an African-American pastor who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as a kid, sits on his back patio and muses about how it has already been almost two years since President Obama's stunning election night victory electrified a nation.
The 63-year-old Wheeler usually votes Republican, but he will never forget sitting in his living room in southeastern Virginia, about a 3½-hour drive from Washington, watching as state after state fell into the Obama column and tens of thousands of young people joined older men and women from his generation to stream into Chicago, Illinois' Grant Park and chant "Yes we can!" and "We have overcome!" before an international television audience.
"I was so proud, excited -- anticipation like ketchup, you know," Wheeler said, shaking his right arm in the air as if he had a bottle of Heinz in his hand and the condiment just will not gush out. "Water came down my eyes. I couldn't believe it."
Wheeler is one of the original "Obamacans," Republicans who crossed the aisle in 2008 to help propel Obama to his historic victory. That kind of bipartisan appeal led Obama to become the first Democrat to carry Virginia in a whopping 44 years, and he was treated like a rock star when he used the state as the backdrop for his last major rally of the 2008 campaign.
The fact that Obama snarled traffic in Manassas for hours because of a rally that drew 100,000 people that day was a stark display of the enthusiasm gap Republicans faced in 2008. Their presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, had held a rally in the same city a couple of weeks before the election that drew 8,000 people.
But now the rock star seems to be losing his mojo at the precise time when Democrats most need Obama to rise to the occasion and help save their House and Senate majorities. The stakes could not be higher, because losing control of Congress could cripple Obama's agenda in the final two years of his first term.
Obama's fading clout can be measured by how many Democrats who were so willing to embrace him while he was on top are running from him in races across the country. That includes freshman Virginia Rep. Glenn Nye, who had four campaign events with Obama in 2008 but now is avoiding him like the plague.
Local Republicans like Wheeler, who was shedding tears of joy over Obama's victory just two years ago, say they're now ready to support Nye's Republican opponent, Scott Rigell. If Nye falls, Democrats will be one step closer to having their House majority come crashing down.
Chad Saunders, a Virginian who voted for John McCain in 2008, said he has respect for Obama's willingness to try to bring new ideas to the table -- but he noted that the president is simply stuck in a toxic political environment.
"It seems like it's just complete political unrest ... essentially that regardless of your party affiliation you're not granted time," Saunders said bluntly. "You better have quick results or you're done."
To be sure, Obama has been battered by a series of struggles, starting with the economy, but including a series of events that were at least initially beyond his control -- from the Gulf oil disaster to a Republican minority that by any objective standard has tried to block him at every single turn -- and dragged down his approval ratings.
But then there have also been challenges of his own making, such as spending months of political capital on health care reform on top of an already-packed agenda, which led voters from across the political spectrum to tell me on this trip to Virginia that Obama tried to do too much, too fast.
"Honestly I think he just promised to change too many things in 20 months -- no man can do that," said J.P. Binard, an independent in Virginia who voted for Obama in 2008 who stressed that he is nonetheless proud of his vote for the president and impressed with Obama's legislative accomplishments.
In fact, despite all the talk and punditry about how this is the year of the "angry voter" and such, I was struck by how many people of all political parties told me they believe the president is a good man who deserves credit for trying hard to turn the economy around. But this is a microwave society where people want faster results, and you could see the frustration from even some Obama supporters spill over at a CNBC town hall meeting on Monday.
The seminal moment came when a middle-class mother of two, Velma Hart, told the president: "Quite frankly I'm exhausted -- exhausted of defending you, your administration, defending the mantle of change I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now."
Then Tuesday on CNN's "American Morning," Hart added, "There's no denying that this president and his administration has made progress in these two years, no denying that at all. I just think that for middle-class America, we thought we'd reap the benefits of that a lot faster."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs tried to deflect some of the heat from Obama by noting, "This is a frustration that built for years and years and years" and predates this administration, since incomes were dropping for a decade. He also tried to stamp out any suggestion the president is out of touch, stressing that Obama understands full well why the American people want to see this turn around faster.
"I don't think anybody believed that it would turn around in a year, a year and a half or 20 months," Gibbs said. "It's understandable there is a lot of anger, frustration out there. The notion that people that supported us would be immune to frustration when the president is frustrated himself, I don't think that is something the president believes."
The question now is whether Obama, who is planning to crisscross the country several times in the final push before the midterm elections, can recapture some of the old magic from 2008 in time to save his party.
Binard, who works at the Bayshore Concrete Products Corp. in Cape Charles on Virginia's Eastern Shore, said voters are looking for an "easy fix" because of the fierce economic climate. He said that people seem ready to embrace divided government -- a Democratic president working with a Republican Congress -- as a last-ditch effort to bring both sides together.
"I believe that a Republican Congress and a Democratic president is a great fit for the United States of America," Binard said. "I think the last couple years have been ineffective because you've had sort of two entities that are operating supposedly alike but yet seem to be different, and I think that's what's discouraging, and perhaps that's what will change."
That mentality could spell trouble for Nye, who is facing a stiff challenge from political newcomer Rigell. Nye won his seat, which represents all of Virginia Beach and the Eastern Shore as well as parts of Norfolk and Hampton, in 2008 by 13,000 votes, thanks in part to a surge of African-American votes because Obama was on the ballot.
That was then. This is now, and like some other Democrats around the country, Nye is running from Obama as fast as he can. The congressman stresses to me again and again his "independent approach," eagerly distancing himself from Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
He voted against the president's health care reform bill and seems hardly interested in having Obama come here to stump on his behalf, brushing off any suggestion of a visit by saying, "He does his own schedule."
But when I gently remind Nye he appeared together with Obama at no less than four campaign events in this district in 2008, the congressman is quick to clarify the circumstances. "I didn't have him here," said Nye. "He came here to see me."
Nye is facing an aggressive charge from Rigell, who owns several car dealerships affiliated with Ford in Virginia Beach, a role that has given him a lot of powerful contacts in the community to help organize voters and raise money.
He's also an easy glad-hander. Years in the car business seem to have burned an "aw-shucks-glad-to-meet-you" smile on Rigell's face, which supporters believe is a sign of a refreshing outsider. But he also signed a pledge of support with the Tea Party, which led some of his supporters to privately tell me they have concerns about whether he will be his own man if he wins. The political newcomer also is not exactly a firebrand on the stump.
"We are 44 days away from big things," Rigell said at a Sunday afternoon rally with other Republican candidates. But then he paused sort of uncomfortably to reveal the "big things" that are coming: "a leadership team" that will do the right thing and cut deficit spending, which draws polite applause from a Republican crowd.
Democrats are also giddy that there is a third-party candidate in the race, Kenny Golden, who is a former Republican. That gives national Democrats hope that Golden will pull votes from Rigell and save Nye's seat, no small development in one of several close battles that will determine control of the House next year. Relying on a relatively unknown third-party candidate to carry you to victory is hardly a rallying cry, but Democrats will take good news where they can get it.
Voters are in 'panic mode'
Nye just turned 36 years old and it's clear he's still getting the hang of this retail politics thing. He arrives for breakfast Sunday at d'Egg Diner in downtown Norfolk and immediately starts shaking the hands of some firefighters sitting by the front door.
But then he quickly joins me in a corner booth without greeting another voter in a joint that's packed on weekend mornings, missing the opportunity to sell himself. Part of the challenge is that politics does not appear to come naturally to Nye, who previously served as a foreign service officer in hot spots like Afghanistan, Bosnia and Iraq.
On this morning he's also in a bit of a hurry because he has to get to services at two churches, important Sunday stops for any politician in this very religious area.
It's not uncommon here to ask someone how they're doing and hear back, "Blessed."
I ask about how he won in 2008, and Nye doesn't wait to start distancing himself from Obama. "Change was the mantra, but it wasn't just the president and his campaign," he said. "People were looking for a different approach, a more pragmatic approach to policy."
While he did break with Obama on health care, Nye supported the president's $787 billion stimulus plan, in part because he was able to win a provision that provided tax cuts for companies that hire unemployed military veterans, a big deal in this heavily military community. He explains his vote by saying something had to be done to save the economy.
"At the time, we were looking at the worst recession any of us had seen in decades, the economy was going off the cliff," said Nye, in between sips of orange juice.
But in the next breath Nye tells me that he was proud to vote against the president's push for a new round of TARP bailout funding in early 2009, even though that, too, was sold as necessary to prevent the economy from falling off the cliff. Nye brushes past the contradiction of why he voted for one and not the other and eagerly stresses that he does not blindly follow Pelosi, a liberal lightning rod in military towns like this one.
"My relationship with her is very pragmatic," said Nye, in a tone that sounds like he's talking about his dentist instead of his leader. "I tell her what I think we should do based on the people I talk to. Sometimes she agrees, sometimes she doesn't."
That approach seems to resonate with some Republican voters in Nye's district, like Saunders and Gary Shrieves, who both work at Bayshore Concrete Products Corp., which Nye visited on Monday.
"I still think in the climate that we live in, he still does owe some allegiance to his party, but he is willing to stand firm for the folks here on the Eastern Shore," Saunders said.
But Shrieves said that regardless of Nye's record of breaking with Obama on some issues, many people here "are just going to vote for something different" regardless.
"There are going to be knee-jerk reactions and that's what you're going to see," he said. "They're in a panic mode so they're going to keep reacting that way."
This is why Nye is breaking with Obama on the Bush tax cuts -- he wants all of them extended, including those for the rich -- and said positive things about House Minority Leader John Boehner's economic plan.
If this race is a referendum on Obama, Nye loses. If it's a referendum on incumbents like Nye, he and the others still may lose, but at least they have a fighting chance.
"I disagree with painting the election as a choice between two parties," Nye said. "I'd rather it be a choice between individuals. That's the choice right now -- not whether they like Obama or like Boehner."
But it's a delicate balancing act and Nye has to be careful not to break too far with Obama or he could turn off African-American voters like Wheeler, who griped to me that Nye "rode in on the Obama wave" and is now opposing him on key issues.
The Sunday faithful at the Grove Baptist Church, a largely African-American flock, also seem less than enthusiastic about turning out for the midterms. After the 9 a.m. Sunday service, I catch up with Dr. Melvin Marriner, senior pastor.
"People don't seem excited about voting, they don't seem energetic," said Marriner, characterizing their thinking as: "What difference would it make? We've got the first African-American president in office, but look at where we are now."
Marriner added that it is not necessarily directed at the president. "I don't know if they're disappointed in him. I think they are disappointed in the process," he said. "I think they're disappointed in the overall dysfunctional attitude in Congress."
Pumpkins and politics
Rigell is doing all he can to make this race a referendum on Obama and Pelosi, and he's getting a little help from his fellow Republican from Virginia's nearby 4th Congressional District, Rep. Randy Forbes. On Sunday afternoon, Forbes opened up his massive backyard to voters for his regular fall "Pumpkins and Politics" festival, with face painting for the kids and red meat for the adults.
"They are ready to dismantle the greatest military in the world to pay for social programs!" Forbes declared from a makeshift stage on his back lawn surrounded by pumpkins and American flags. Then he put an arm around Rigell and said the most important vote he will cast is not over any one issue. It's over who will be the next speaker of the House.
"Do we continue to let Nancy Pelosi take this country off the cliff?" Forbes asked the crowd of a couple hundred people.
The answer is a thundering "No!"
In an interview later, Rigell picked up the same theme and said Nye's "first vote will be to make Nancy Pelosi speaker of the House again" if the Democrat is re-elected.
Rigell said he decided to leave his comfortable car dealership to run for office because he became "deeply, deeply troubled" about the direction of the country, especially federal debt. So I asked him to name one federal program he would cut, and all he came up with was a "federal hiring freeze" that would hardly put a dent in the deficit.
Pressed for more details, Rigell added, "I'd cut out every TARP program, every stimulus program that's not been fully funded yet. I would unwind that and return it to the treasury."
Because he still had not offered any kind of real budgetary plan, I asked whether he would be willing to cut Medicare, Social Security or defense spending. "We need to keep Social Security strong," he said.
A few minutes later, Forbes and I sat on a couple of bales of hay in his backyard and he proudly noted he is just one of 17 members of Congress who voted against the stimulus and every single bailout. When I asked what would have happened to the financial markets if he had succeeded and the bailouts had not passed, he said the "doomsday scenarios" from both the Bush and Obama administrations were overblown.
Forbes said he's convinced Republicans will take control of the House because of what he calls "arrogance" from Democrats in Washington.
"The intensity level is like I've never seen in all the years that I've studied politics or been involved in it," he said. "I can't go in a Lowe's, a Home Depot, I can't go in a restaurant that we don't have people lining up to come up and say thanks for fighting for us and for the country, because they really feel like the leadership in Congress doesn't care about them and is not listening to them."
"The greatest drive of my life"
The sun is starting to set on southeastern Virginia and Wheeler, the African-American preacher, is in his backyard grilling his hamburgers and reminiscing about his support for Obama in 2008. It turns out there's more to the story beyond the celebration in his living room on election night.
Wheeler could not cast his ballot in Virginia in that election because the former chairman of the Ohio Civil Rights Commission had just recently moved and was still registered to vote there. So a few days before Election Night, he drove 11 hours to participate in Ohio's early voting and pull the lever for Obama.
CNN's Mary Snow happened to be in Columbus, Ohio, when Wheeler showed up to vote and interviewed him about the moment. "Tears came out of my eyes as I cast my ballot," Wheeler said then.
Wheeler is not completely satisfied with Obama's performance, but said he has no regrets about the 22-hour roundtrip.
"It was the greatest drive of my life," said Wheeler. "Proud to do it. I'll never forget it. And it wasn't just about the color, because Jesse Jackson ran. I didn't vote for Jesse."
Wheeler said Obama can't change Washington in just two years, so he's giving him more time.
"President Bush left us in not the best of shape, OK?" he said. "This country was at the edge of financial destruction. He leveled it off. I think he's done a good job. Republicans ought to back off and quit complaining, start helping the president."
Nevertheless, it turns out that Wheeler will not be backing the Democrat in the hotly contested House race here. He has decided to back Rigell over Nye and is organizing outreach to African-American voters for the Republican.
Wheeler said he realizes a Rigell victory could give Republicans control of the House and cripple Obama's agenda. But he sounded optimistic that Rigell is a good man, and a divided government -- a Democratic president and Republican Congress -- might actually force the two parties to work together better.
"I think he'll be his own man," Wheeler said of Rigell. "I don't think he'll be with the party of 'no.' I really believe this guy will make a difference."
The same words were used about Obama in this state two years ago, but it's time for the interview to end. I've got a plane to catch, and Wheeler has some burgers to dig into.
CNN White House Producer Shawna Shepherd contributed to this report.


Stewart, J. R., 2016. Synchronous genetic turnovers across Western Eurasia in Late Pleistocene collared lemmings. Global Change Biology.
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Recent palaeogenetic studies indicate a highly dynamic history in collared lemmings (Dicrostonyx spp.), with several demographical changes linked to climatic fluctuations that took place during the last glaciation. At the western range margin of D. torquatus, these changes were characterized by a series of local extinctions and recolonizations. However, it is unclear whether this pattern represents a local phenomenon, possibly driven by ecological edge effects, or a global phenomenon that took place across large geographical scales. To address this, we explored the palaeogenetic history of the collared lemming using a next-generation sequencing approach for pooled mitochondrial DNA amplicons. Sequences were obtained from over 300 fossil remains sampled across Eurasia and two sites in North America. We identified five mitochondrial lineages of D. torquatus that succeeded each other through time across Europe and western Russia, indicating a history of repeated population extinctions and recolonizations, most likely from eastern Russia, during the last 50 000 years. The observation of repeated extinctions across such a vast geographical range indicates large-scale changes in the steppe-tundra environment in western Eurasia during the last glaciation. All Holocene samples, from across the species’ entire range, belonged to only one of the five mitochondrial lineages. Thus, extant D. torquatus populations only harbour a small fraction of the total genetic diversity that existed across different stages of the Late Pleistocene. In North American samples, haplotypes belonging to both D. groenlandicus and D. richardsoni were recovered from a Late Pleistocene site in south-western Canada. This suggests that D. groenlandicus had a more southern and D. richardsoni a more northern glacial distribution than previously thought. This study provides significant insights into the population dynamics of a small mammal at a large geographical scale and reveals a rather complex demographical history, which could have had bottom-up effects in the Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra ecosystem.
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Friday, August 15, 2008
I have always loved wallpaper. A few years ago I ordered samples from Wallpaper from the 70s. They've been in the envelope I received them in, up on my shelf, but I've finally found use for the samples!
The letters will decorate the wall above E's nursing table. I just have to figure out a neat way to put them up on the wall.


One of the things I HATE a/b my 'hood in Dayton is that all the street names are so weird I always have to spell them when someone needs my addy. In NYC, almost all the streets are either just a number or a single letter of the alphabet. Streets all run east-west, so just add the E or W prefix, and the avenues all run north-south. Too easy.
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I have a fresh installed 9.0 updated with 9.1, no language kits. I had language kits in another 8.6 sys folder. If I go into IE5 > View > Character Set >, you are suppoed to see a list of 25 different text encoding choices, starting with Western Latin1, Western ISO, Western Mac, Chinese Traditional, Chinese Simplified, etc, etc...
However, I get this:
Greek (ISO 8859-7)
(somthing like this. i can't produce most of the gremlins)
Followed by about 20 lines of blanks.
Contents of web pages looks fine. The strage thing is that I have had the exact same problem when I was using 8.6 + IE5 + language kits. But then other than the odd looking manual, even Chinese pages looks fine AS LONG AS the html header sets the char-code correctly. I counldn't choose the encoding manually from the odd menu even if I guess the position of the labels. This time I blew away all IE prefs, pref panels, and extns. It's a fresh OS and freshly downloaded copy of IE5. The only thing I kept from before is my favourite.html file which just can't mess things up, right?
may be some plugins?


I have such a fun colorful wedding to share with you guys today! I love how Maya + Dave infused their personalities and a bit of their heritage into their day. I’ll let Maya talk about her day. :)
We were inspired by color! Dave + I love love LOVE color. We wanted our wedding to be beautiful and represent little pieces of us as individuals and as a couple. I wouldn’t really say there was a “theme” but we jokingly call it “whimsical, eclectic, flea market chic, fiesta.” The beautiful glass pieces that we used for our centerpieces were all thrift store finds and they really inspired the design. Dave and I are both Mexican-American and we wanted to incorporate that aspect of our lives into our wedding without making it seem like a Cinco de Mayo party. Our signature drink- the Spicy Michelada was a hit and our guests loved the Mexican Loteria escort cards. Overall, our wedding was a huge mash-up of everything Maya + Dave and we loved every second of it!
Most memorable moment of your wedding day? Dave and I saw each other before the ceremony for our first look photo shoot. We were actually a bit spoiled and had a full two hours to shoot before the wedding. Spending that quiet time with him, all dressed up, knowing that in a few hours we’d be married was ridiculously special.
From Erin (of dandelion and grey): Two vintage nightstands topped with antique books and lamps flanked the ceremony area, which also boasted a multi-colored hanging ribbon backdrop. Maya wanted something sweet and simple to line the aisle, so we hung mismatched jars from twine, which Honey & Poppies filled with bright, beautiful blooms.
From Christina (of simply modern weddings): Maya + Dave also wanted to add a hint of mexican elements to the day, so we did loteria cards for the guest’s escort cards & corresponding table numbers, and strung brightly colored papel picado behind the dessert dresser (aka “yellow lovely”) to make it a focal piece of the reception. They wanted their day to reflect a feel of comfort & home…as if the wedding was a cool backyard party, so Erin brought in some beautiful vintage furniture pieces to incorporate in the reception. Maya’s mom sewed fun colored toss pillows that we placed around the tree trunk’s lounge area. A photo from maya’s grandparents wedding day was incorporated in to the welcome table, and her grandmother’s china was used on their sweetheart and dessert tables. These added such beautiful personal touches to the day!
For their reception tables, we paired beautiful raw natural colored linens from la tavola with some flirty peach napkins that maya found and wrapped with twine. with maya’s collection of antique glassware vessels, and megan’s delightful mix of bright flowers…it was such a fantastical combination!
Love the dessert table!
Maya, any advice for those planning now? Remember to enjoy the planning process and don’t get too overwhelmed with all of the business! Spend the money and hire a coordinator. I thought I could do it all myself and realized as the big day grew closer I needed major help. It was the best investment we made. We were so relaxed on our wedding day knowing that we were in such good hands.
I’d just like to say a HUGE thank you to all of our vendors. They were all so fabulous throughout the planning process and on the day of our wedding- Dave and I were so lucky to work with such beautiful people!
Thanks so much to everyone involved for letting me share this beautiful wedding – and congrats to Maya + Dave!
wedding planning & design: simply modern weddings // photography: love ala // floral design: honey & poppies // event styling: dandelion and grey // bride’s attire: gown-lazaro, brides shoes- bakers // cake: portos bakery // chiavari chairs: fusion linens // venue & catering: happy trails catering // dj: socal dj // groom’s attire: suit- ben shurman, groom’s shoes- vintage // hotel: westin pasadena // lighting design: aspect lighting // rentals: line 204 events // linen: la tavola linen // hair: kennie johnson w/ salon sessions


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Monday, October 17, 2005
9:37 AM Gil Student


Politico: Romney currently McCain’s top choice for VP
posted at 12:07 pm on June 30, 2008 by Allahpundit
After six posts on this subject, I’m plum out of things to say. Well, almost.
Surprising many Republican insiders, Mitt Romney is at the top of the vice-presidential prospect list for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). But lack of personal chemistry could derail the pick…
Campaign insiders say McCain plans to name his running mate very shortly after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) does, as part of what one campaign planner called a “bounce-mitigation strategy.”…
One of the chief reasons the Massachusetts governor is looking so attractive is his ability to raise huge amounts of money quickly through his former business partners and from fellow members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons.
McCain sources tell Politico that they believe Romney could raise $50 million in 60 days. One close Romney adviser said it could even be $60 million…
But there’s one big problem: Despite the buddy-picture choreography of a McCain-Romney campaign swing, McCain remains far short of enamored of Romney.
Supposedly Rob Portman and John Thune are the leading alternatives, although I don’t see how naming Portman would produce any “bounce-mitigation” from Obama’s VP pick since most conservatives couldn’t pick him out of a lineup. (As for Jindal, “insiders” evidently think his youth would backfire by making McCain look older by comparison, a point I’ve made before here.) Hugh Hewitt makes a good point too in arguing that if you want Mitt out there raising money — most or all of which would presumably go to the RNC, since McCain’s going to take public financing — then it makes no sense to wait until Obama makes his own VP pick. Tap Romney now and let him hit the trail as the newly crowned heir apparent. The fact that McCain wants to wait makes me wonder if I wasn’t right in this post in thinking that the two candidates are waiting to see if either will put a woman on the ticket to make a play for Hillary supporters. If Obama names Sebelius, McCain may feel he has no choice but to name Palin and break the “old white guy” monopoly on the GOP.
The only really surprising thing about this is that it’s now two months after Bob Novak first reported that Romney was the top choice, and he’s still the top choice — even after the strain on McCain’s relationship with evangelicals from his repudiation of Hagee and Parsley in May and the renewed outreach to social cons that began last week. Needless to say, for reasons legitimate and not so legitimate, Mitt isn’t necessarily the guy to get pro-life Christians fired up to turn out in the fall.


Spartak Moscow of Russia and Super Eagles striker Emmanuel Emenike is dating two Nigerian actresses and this is authoritative. One of them is the very sexy fast rising actress Victoria Egbuchere (pictured on the left with Emmanuel) and the other one is controversial actress Nuella Njubigbo.
Nuella Njubigbo is currently in Russia to see her 25 year old boo who she met a while back via a mutual friend. The same mutual friend also introduced the footballer to Victoria who got a promise ring from him and an invitation to Russia. Heard Victoria is also preparing to go see her man in Russia in the coming weeks.
If the ladies didn't know they were dating the same man...well, now they know. Long live LIB! lol. Let's see who gets the man...! :-)


In August, Brian Hildebrand's plans to transfer to Nebraska was a contributing factor to Harrison Beck's spectactular departure. However, the subsequent arrival of Sam Keller and then the commitment of Zac Lee changed the Huskers' plans, and now Hildebrand is leaving Lincoln.
However, he's not leaving quietly. Today on Big Sports 590, Hildebrand told Matt Perrault that the coaches reneged on a promise to put him on scholarship next semester and accused them of lacking "integrity". Pretty bold statements, though we've heard them from other players who've left the program in the Callahan era. They are even more surprising when you consider Hildebrand's comments when he arrived in August. Many kool-aid drinkers will automatically dismiss Hildebrand's charges as sour grapes, and many critics will automatically take them at face value. Where's the truth? Somewhere in between likely. In any event, Hildebrand is in a tough spot as leaving a second division 1-A program (he originally redshirted as a freshman at Oregon State 2 years ago) doesn't leave him a lot of options. He could go division II and play for 2 years, or go 1-AA and play for one year.
In any event, that seems to solidify Sam Keller's status as heir apparant as Nebraska's next starting quarterback. Keller was named scout team player of the year, and Corey McKeon said that Keller has been regularly torching the Blackshirts in practice. Of course, that just puts him in the same class as Adam Barmann in finding holes in the CozBohl "Bend and Break". Perhaps we also see why Keller's teammates in Tempe went to Dirk Koetter and asked for Rudy Carpenter to start instead. Keller is known to yell at teammates who make mistakes, which is fine as long as Keller owns up to his own screwups.


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Anglers get paid $4 to $8 for northern pikeminnow nine inches and larger caught in the lower Columbia (mouth to Priest Rapids Dam) and Snake (mouth to Hells Canyon Dam) rivers. The more pikeminnow an angler catches, the more the fish are worth. The first 100 are worth $4 each; the next 300 are worth $5 each; and, after 400 fish are caught and turned in, they are worth $8 each. As an added incentive, specially tagged fish are worth $500.
The annual program started May 1 and was originally scheduled to close Sept. 30. Program managers extended the season by 10 days this year, allowing rewards through Oct. 10, 2010. The official fish numbers became available last week.
Since 1991, more than three million pikeminnow have been removed from the Snake and Columbia rivers through the sport reward program. Last year, anglers caught approximately 142,000 pikeminnow. As a result of these efforts, pikeminnow predation on juvenile salmon is estimated to have been cut by 40 percent.
The program is administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission and is funded by the Bonneville Power Administration. Watch a video with fishing tips and program details. Get more information at www.pikeminnow.org.
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City Stars axe four players
18 January 2013, 17:04
Nairobi - Kenyan Premier League (KPL) side Nairobi City Stars FC have dropped four players from their squad ahead of the new season.
Fisa FC (Nairobi Provincial League) winger Ibrahim Kitawi, who was on-loan to the Kawangware-based outfit, Francis ‘Jakambare’ Akango, Duncan ‘Macheda’ Owiti and Alex Nyamweno have all parted ways with the club.
Confirming the news, head coach Bye Wadda said that he wanted to maintain a lean squad that he would be able to handle effectively.
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There exist 2 tables in one database:log,url_ip,the TABLE log have one column:url varchar(100), and the TABLE url_ip have columns :url varchar(100) ,ip varchar(15) refelecting the mapping of ip of url. I want to replace the url in TABLE log with it's ip address using the second TABLE url_ip's values: UPDATE log set url=url_ip.ip where log.url=url_ip.url; but it failed. saying"fields url_ip.url not exist..." How can I do with it? any substitute?
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Chile vote exposes fatigue with ruling center-left alliance
Even though outgoing socialist President Michelle Bachelet enjoys approval ratings of over 70 percent, voters seem to be growing weary of the Concertacion political alliance she represents.
Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff
Center-right billionaire Sebastian Piñera held a strong lead in the polls going into Chile's presidential election Sunday, positioning the country's conservatives to take the reins from Chile's center-left alliance for the first time since 1990 when dictator Augusto Pinochet was forced to step down peacefully. But the clear frontrunner was not expected to win outright, putting the spotlight on the surprisingly strong wildcard candidacy of Marco Enriquez-Ominami, a young leftist who broke off from his party to run as an independent.
Even though outgoing socialist President Michelle Bachelet enjoys approval ratings of over 70 percent, voters seem to be growing weary of the Concertacion political alliance she represents. And while Mr. Enriquez-Ominami is polling behind both the traditional parties on the right and the left, the fact that he could face one in a runoff is being watched as a potential advancement for Chilean democracy.
“The main problem of Chile is not the transition to democracy but the consolidation of democracy,” says Ricardo Israel, a political expert at the Autonomous University of Chile. A third party brings competition to the race, he says, that “obligates” the traditional parties to react, even after the race. “I hope that this election helps create a more vigorous democracy.”
The most recent polls show that Mr. Piñera will not receive the 50-plus percent of votes needed to avoid a runoff. He faces former president Eduardo Frei of the ruling party, who is in second place. But Enriquez-Ominami, in third, has surged in polls in recent weeks.
The high approval ratings of Ms. Bachelet, the nation's first female head of state, are attributed to her reforms to the pension system and steering Chile out of economic crisis with the windfall saved during boom times from copper exports.
But this race has revealed fatigue for the political alliance that she is part of. Guillermo Pattillo, an adviser to Piñera, says that Chile, whose economy boomed in the 1980s and 90s, needs a stronger and more dynamic one today. “Piñera wants to return to more growth,” Mr. Pattillo says. “It is not impossible ... to go back to that era.”
Both Piñera and Enriquez-Ominami, who is just 36 and a former film director, are touting themselves as the candidates of “change.” But with little differences between major policies between the right and left, in some ways, the split in the left created by Enriquez-Ominami´s departure is the biggest change to the nation´s political scene.
“Enriquez-Ominami has brought to the race the idea that you can get more change without the Concertacion,” says Patricio Navia, a Chilean columnist and professor at New York University who has written a book on the candidate.
Marcela Morales, an English teacher in Santiago, says that her vote is with Frei, but that she views the Enriquez-Ominami candidacy as a strong signal that voters long for new political faces. “For me Enriquez-Ominami is too untested,” Ms. Morales says, “but as a phenomenon he will contribute to the renewal of democracy in Chile.”
Age among voters is also playing a role, helping both opposition candidates. Piñera, says Mr. Navia, is benefitting from the votes of young voters tired of the Concertacion but who did not necessarily live under a dictatorship and do not see the right as taboo. For his part, Enriquez-Ominami appeals to voters who have relaxed their views on social issues such as divorce and abortion in this deeply religious country.
“Chile is increasingly becoming a more liberal country,” says Mr. Israel, and voting for the right might scare away those who fear it represents a return to deep social conservatism of the past.
Johanna Aguilera, a waitress at a coffee shop in the port town of Valparaiso, says that therapeutic abortion and a strict divide between the church and state are priorities for her and that she sees Enriquez-Ominami as the most suited to secure them. “The other two are unappealing. Frei has already been president,” she says.
“And Piñera owns half of Chile,” adds Claudia Rosas, her colleague.
“At least,” says Ms. Aguilera, “Enriquez-Ominami is new.”


Q: Let by independent, uniformly distributed random variables on the interval . Find the
a) Probability distribution function of .
b) density function of .
c) mean and variance of .
A: If I can figure out a) and identify the pdf, the cdf (part b) and mean / variance (part c) should follow. So, here is my attempt
Let . Then, by Thereom blah, we have
, with .
I do not recognize the density function and its support.
Any help would be great. Not sure where I went wrong.
Just because you can't recognize this, doesn't mean it's wrong.
AND there is only one y, whether you call it or .....
is the derivative of the CDF that CB derived.
If you are curious....
If we let then X is a Beta and you can obtain the mean and variance that way if you wish.


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Memorial gravestone to Ihaka Whaanga who died 14th December 1875 at Mahia. Photographer unidentified.
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Print the recipe card! balsamic tortellini
It’s hard not to love this one. It’s super yummy and takes less than five minutes prep time to make. In fact, the extent of your effort will be to boil a pot of water… you’ve gotta love that! On top of that, those you prepare it for will applaud your culinary inaction with all kinds of compliments. Just be polite and say thank you anyway.
Prep time: 5 minutes
1-2 TBS olive oil (*see note)
2/3 cup freeze dried onion
1/3 cup water
1 (2.8 oz) jar Hormel Real Bacon Pieces
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
2 (7 oz.) boxes Cheese-filled Tortellini
2-4 TBS Balsamic Vinegar (to taste)
Bagged as a pantry meal
Rehydrate onions with water. Meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 minutes or until al dente. Drain pasta and add olive oil, onions and bacon. Reserve 2 TBS parmesan cheese (set aside) and add remaining cheese to pasta. Add vinegar, toss all together, and serve (sprinkling reserved parmesan on top).
Rehydrate onions and cook pasta.
Just so you know, I ♥ garlic olive oil!
Drain pasta and add bacon, onion and parmesan cheese
Add the balsamic vinegar and combine. Sprinkle reserved Parmesan over top when ready to serve.
Wait? Dinner already?? … Oh yes.
- Of course you can use regular olive oil just the same. To find the garlic olive oil that I love so much you may have to shop around a little bit. Higher end grocery stores carry it so check around.
In my book this recipe is used as a:
*Long Term Recipe
*3 month meal


Writer: Norman Martin
LAS CRUCES - New Mexico cow-calf operators can gauge their production and finances at two Standardized Performance Analysis workshops in Tucumcari on May 24 and Albuquerque on May 26.
In today's cattle industry, it's imperative cow-calf operators know how their businesses are performing, said Clay Mathis, a livestock specialist with New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service. The goal of these workshops is to help cow-calf operators determine their current financial and production benchmarks.
"This is a working workshop," he said. "We'll help participants generate and complete their own performance analyses."
The first workshop will held at the Tucumcari Convention Center, while the next session is scheduled for the Bernalillo County Extension Office. The program will be limited to 10 new ranches at each location. The registration fee is $100 per ranch and includes the analysis, a private consultation, software and educational materials.
Standardized Performance Analysis, SPA for short, provides New Mexico ranchers with an opportunity to analyze their cow-calf operations from both the production and financial side, Mathis said.
"It facilitates the comparison of an operation's performance between years, producers, production regions and production systems," he said. "SPA is intended to be an annual tool for cow-calf producers."
Instructors for the sessions are Mathis, along with agricultural agents Jeff Bader and Pete Walden with NMSU's Cooperative Extension Service. James McGann, an emeritus ranch economist with Texas A&M University, and Manny Encinias, a livestock specialist at NMSU's Clayton Livestock Research Center, will also assist.
One element that the workshop will feature is SPA software, which identifies ways to lower production costs while still practicing good resource stewardship, Mathis said. Using information from production and financial records, the software allows cattle producers to blend data to produce benchmarks, such as rate of return on assets, unit cost of production, net income per cow and feed costs per cow, he said.
"Producers will be able to use their own data for this portion of the workshop," Mathis said.
Other work sessions cover how to prepare ranch financial statements, organize financial data for cow-calf SPA and interpret results.
For more information about the conference, or if you are an individual with a disability who is in need of an auxiliary aid or service to participate, contact Mathis in advance at (505) 646-8022 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Did you know modern condensing boilers have an efficiency rating of 90%? We’re talking an A or B efficiency rating. Condensing boilers are much more efficient than non-condensing models, thanks to an effective “heat exchanger” which enables heat to be re-circulated instead of it being lost up the boiler flue. The more energy efficient the boiler the more savings there are to be made, helping to cut fuel costs considerably.
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Richard Serra is best known for his 50-ton steel Torqued Ellipses and site-specific sculptures, yet the intimate retrospective of his drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized by the Menil Collection and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, provides perhaps the most illuminating encounter yet with the Mick Jagger of American sculpture.
With 43 drawings and 28 sketchbooks tracing his work from the 1970s to the present, this is a drawing show where you don’t need reading glasses. A few early works in the first room map in charcoal on paper something Serra drew, but soon giant oily shapes take over. Triangle affixes a 6-foot triangle to the wall. It’s solid black, sculptural, smearily gestalt. The drawing is not about how your eye sees line, but how your body reacts to its massive shape. A number of pieces have been remade for the exhibition; the galleries smell like fresh oil paint, like newly cut hay to an art viewer. Black paintstick–an oil-based, oversize crayon–is Mr. Serra’s medium of choice. This is the ideal art exhibit for someone who is color blind. Every piece is black.
Donald Judd wrote in 1965 that “half or more of the best new work in the last few years has been neither painting nor sculpture,” and you get the sense that Mr. Serra got the memo. In the late ’60s, he made up a list of verbs on a sketchbook page. which is on view: “to roll,” “to crease,” “to fold,” “to time,” “to laminate,” “to scatter,” “to grasp,” “to knot,” “to cut,” “to curve,” “to remove.” “To draw,” and “to paint” were not among them.
Mr. Serra was born in San Francisco in 1939. A muscular man with an M.F.A. from Yale and two years of looking at art in Paris and Italy under his belt, he was 28 living in New York in a loft on Greenwich Street, supporting himself by moving furniture. He had just started to work in lead, fiberglass and rubber. At about this time Dan Flavin, Carl Andre and Sol Lewitt had been in the 1966 Primary Structures show at the Jewish Museum; their move to make impersonal, reconstructable work and use the gallery as an installation environment is evident. But Mr. Serra’s real community is Robert Smithson, Eve Hesse, Yvonne Rainer and Bruce Nauman–people who politicized and eroticized Minimalism, who above all brought it back to the body. Mr. Serra’s brother is the counterculture San Francisco trial lawyer Tony Serra (“More freedom for more people through law is a beautiful concept”), and both Messrs. Serras may err on the side of defiant anti-institutional idealism.
In Blank, two giant facing rectangles press on either side of the narrow walls of gallery. Walking through the show you realize Mr. Serra’s work is not compositional. It doesn’t have parts or bases. When you get close, you see his infinitely dense shapes are held in place with tiny black staples pushed directly into the wall. If the show is not about painting, or even drawing, it is about scale, mass and the way planes pull at you. It’s like meditation: You start to notice how you stand on the balls of your feet, the way certain things attract you or repel you.
The 1970s drawings are also often funny, even endearing. In Institutionalized Abstract Art, a black circle with a 90-inch diameter has been paintsticked directly on the wall about 7 feet up. The black registers as absence, a hole in the white wall, and the piece looks like a giant cartoon mouse hole. Mr. Serra knows that black empties out the steel shapes in Forged Drawing, so that rather than massive, these paintsticked sculptures look hollow, like pipes. It wasn’t clear to me that laughter would be a welcome response, though, and the glee the works elicited seemed a little out of place, so I stifled it.
It was the 1980s when Mr. Serra was at his best. Pittsburgh has slightly Guston-y radiant shapes, and time has haloed the paper with oil around the two barely touching paintstick squares. He was ticked off at the government the year he made No Mandatory Patriotism, two rectangles just touching at top with a wedge of white showing through their lower facing edges. (Tilted Arc, that 1981 debacle of site-specificity once installed at the Jacob K. Javits federal building, was removed in 1989 after much public debate; another drawing from the same year is titled The United States Government Destroys Art). This is the best room in the show, where Mr. Serra wields with delicacy the powerful relationships of form to form and artwork to viewer.
In the 1990s, the scale of the work grows smaller. These more picturelike drawings recap earlier breakthroughs. Their size and framing seems to retreat from the kind of engagement with the viewer and the walls that made the earlier rooms thrilling. In the late 1990s and 2000s, square-framed circles like Robert Frank and out-of-round X swirl paintstick into what looks like black radiant suns with a centrifugal velocity. They aren’t resolved and seem on the verge of proposing a problem that other artists will have to solve.
The show’s final room puts on display 28 of Serra’s never-before-exhibited notebooks. Almost jarringly representational after the exhibition’s insistence on pure form, these drawings are like postcards from places you’d want to see Mr. Serra sketching: the Giza Pyramids, the Guggenheim museum, the Le Corbusier Chapel in Ronchamp, Machu Picchu. Four videos, among them the literal Hand Catching Lead, round out the show’s generous definition of drawing.
The artist is now 72 years old. He spent three weeks at the Met installing his retrospective, and the staff there seemed proud and almost proprietary of his presence, as if the artist himself were an artifact on loan. Mr. Serra at the opening pointed out that the Met was exhibiting his work simultaneous to Cézanne’s Card Player series; Serra’s One Ton Prop (House of Cards) (1969) suggests another way to view the mass and weight of the planes of paint in Cézanne.
Speaking with Michelle White, associate curator at the Menil, I was told that the Met’s galleries were remodeled to accommodate Mr. Serra: The continuous decorative molding along the base of the walls had been taken out to install his often floor-to-ceiling works. (You can spot the remains of wainscoting along one stubborn wall.) The museum’s molding is gone for good, and this is fitting–if works in the Met have influenced Mr. Serra, this exhibition has in turn definitively made the Met more modern.


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The future of higher education is the focus of the next Power Breakfast Series.
Sponsored by Greater Wilmington Business Journal, this next installment, set for Tuesday, Sept. 15, will feature the new leaders at UNC-Wilmington and Cape Fear Community College, chancellor Jose “Zito” Sartarelli and Dr. Amanda Lee, respectively.
The two top administrators will share the stage to discuss a number of topics, including the visions they have for their institutions, their perspective on how higher education is changing and how they plan to engage with the business community and economic development in our region.
Breakfast and networking will take place from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m., with the discussion running from 8:15 to 9:45. The Power Breakfast event will be held at Wilmington Convention Center, 515 Nutt St.
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Part 3 of 5
Ladies and Gentlemen: It is not always easy to tell the truth, especially when one must be brief, and so to-day I must correct an incorrect statement that I made in my last lecture.
I told you how when I gave up using hypnosis I pressed my patients to tell me what came into their minds that had to do with the problem we were working on, I told them that they would remember what they had apparently forgotten, and that the thought which irrupted into consciousness (Einfall) would surely embody the memory for which we were seeking. I claimed that I substantiated the fact that the first idea of my patients brought the right clue and could be shown to be the forgotten continuation of the memory. Now this is not always so; I represented it as being so simple only for purposes of abbreviation. In fact, it would only happen the first times that the right forgotten material would emerge through simple pressure on my part. If the experience was continued, ideas emerged in every case which could not be the right ones, for they were not to the purpose, and the patients themselves rejected them as incorrect. Pressure was of no further service here, and one could only regret again having given up hypnosis. In this state of perplexity I clung to a prejudice which years later was proved by my friend C. G. Jung of the University of Zürich, and his pupils to have a scientific justification. I must confess that it is often of great advantage to have prejudices. I put a high value on the strength of the determination of mental processes, and I could not believe that any idea which occurred to the patient, which originated in a state of concentrated attention, could be quite arbitrary and out of all relation to the forgotten idea that we were seeking. That it was not identical with the latter, could be satisfactorily explained by the hypothetical psychological situation. In the patients whom I treated there were two opposing forces: on the one hand the conscious striving to drag up into consciousness the forgotten experience which was present in the unconscious; and on the other hand the resistance which we have seen, which set itself against the emergence of the suppressed idea or its associates into consciousness. In case this resistance was nonexistent or very slight, the forgotten material could become conscious without disguise (Enstellung). It was then a natural supposition that the disguise would be the more complete, the greater the resistance to the emergence of tbe idea. Thoughts which broke into the patient's consciousness instead of the ideas sought for, were accordingly made up just like symptoms; they were new, artificial, ephemeral surrogates for the repressed ideas, and differed from these just in proportion as they had been more completely disguised under the influence of the resistances. These surrogates must, however, show a certain similarity with the ideas which are the object of our search, by virtue of their nature as symptoms; and when the resistance is not too intensive it is possible from the nature of these irruptions to discover the hidden object of our search. This must be related to the repressed thought as a sort of allusion, as a statement of the same thing in indirect terms.
We know cases in normal psychology in which analogous situations to the one which we have assumed give rise to similar experiences. Such a case is that of wit. By my study of psychoanalytic technique I was necessarily led to a consideration of the problem of the nature of wit. I will give one example of this sort, which, too, is a story that originally appeared in English.
The anecdote runs: Two unscrupulous business men had succeeded by fortunate speculations in accumulating a large fortune, and then directed their efforts to breaking into good society. Among other means they thought it would be of advantage to be painted by the most famous and expensive artist of the city, a man whose paintings were considered as events. The costly paintings were first shown at a great soirée and both hosts led the most influential connoisseur and art critic to the wall of the salon on which the portraits were hung, to elicit his admiring judgment. The artist looked for a long time, looked about as though in search of something, and then merely asked, pointing out the vacant space between the two pictures; "And where is the Saviour?"
I see that you are all laughing over this good example of wit, which we will now attempt to analyse. We understand that the critic means to say; "You are a couple of malefactors, like those between whom the Saviour was crucified." But he does not say this, he expresses himself instead in a way that at first seems not to the purpose and not related to the matter in band, but which at the next moment we recognize as an allusion to the insult at which he aims, and as a perfect surrogate for it. We cannot expect to find in the case of wit all those relations that our theory supposes for the origin of the irruptive ideas of our patients, but it is my desire to lay stress on the similar motivation of wit and irruptive idea. Why does not the critic say directly what he has to say to the two rogues? Because, in addition to his desire to say it straight out, he is actuated by strong opposite motives. It is a proceeding which is liable to be dangerous to offend people who are one's hosts, and who can call to their aid the strong arms of numerous servants. One might easily suffer the same fate that I used-in the previous lecture to illustrate repression. On this ground, the critic does not express the particular insult directly, but in a disguised form, as an allusion with omission. The same constellation comes into play, according to our hypothesis, when our patient produces the irruptive idea as a surrogate for the forgotten idea which is the object of the quest.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is very useful to designate a group of ideas which belong together and have a common emotive tone, according to the custom of the Zürich school (Bleuler, Jung and others), as a "complex." So we can say that if we set out from the last memories of the patient to look for a repressed complex, that we have every prospect of discovering it, if only the patient will communicate to us a sufficient number of the ideas which come into his head. So we let the patient speak along any line that he desires, and cling to the hypothesis that nothing can occur to him except what has some indirect bearing on the complex that we are seeking. If this method of discovering the repressed complexes seems too circumstantial, I can at least assure you that it is the only available one.
In practicing this technique, one is further bothered by the fact that the patient often stops, is at a stand-still, and considers that he has nothing to say; nothing occurs to him. If this were really the case and the patient were right, our procedure would again be proven inapplicable. Closer observation shows that such an absence of ideas never really occurs, and that it only appears to when the patient holds back or rejects the idea which be perceives, under the influence of the resistance, which disguises itself as critical judgment of the value of the idea. The patient can be protected from this if he is warned in advance of this circumstance, and told to take no account of the critical attitude. He must say anything that comes into his mind, fully laying aside such critical choice, even though he may think it unessential, irrelevant, nonsensical, especially when the idea is one which is unpleasant to dwell on. By following this prescription we secure the material which sets us on the track of the repressed complex.
These irruptive ideas, which the patient himself values little, if he is under the influence of the resistance and not that of the physician, are for the psychologist like the ore, which by simple methods of interpretation he reduces from its crude state to valuable metal. If one desires to gain in a short time a preliminary knowledge of the patient's repressed complexes, without going into the question of their arrangement and associations, this examination may be conducted with the help of the association experiments, as Jung  and his pupils have perfected them. This procedure is to the psychologist what qualitative analysis is to the chemist; it may be dispensed with in the therapy of neurotic patients, but is indispensable in the investigations of the psychoses, which have been begun by the Zürich school with such valuable results.
This method of work with whatever comes into the patient's head when be submits to psychoanalytic treatment, is not the only technical means at our disposal for the widening of consciousness. Two other methods of procedure serve the same purpose, the interpretation of his dreams and the evaluation of acts which he bungles or does without intending to (Fehl- und Zufallshandlungen).
I might say, esteemed hearers, that for a long time I hesitated whether instead of this hurried survey of the whole field of psychoanalysis, I should not rather offer you a thorough consideration of the analysis of dreams; a purely subjective and apparently secondary motive decided me against this. It seemed rather an impropriety that in this country, so devoted to practical pursuits, I should pose as "interpreter of dreams," before you had a chance to discover what significance the old and despised art can claim.
Interpretation of dreams is in fact the via regia to the interpretation of the unconscious, the surest ground of psychoanalysis and a field in which every worker must win his convictions and gain his education. If I were asked how one could become a psychoanalist [sic], I should answer, through the study of his own dreams. With great tact all opponents of the psychoanalytic theory have so far either evaded any criticism of the "Traumdeutung" or have attempted to pass over it with the most superficial objections. If, on the contrary, you will undertake the solution of the problems of dream life, the novelties which psychoanalysis present to your thoughts will no longer be difficulties.
You must remember that our nightly dream productions show the greatest outer similarity and inner relationship to the creations of the insane, but on the other hand are compatible with full health during waking life. It does not sound at all absurd to say that whoever regards these normal sense illusions, these delusions and alterations of character as matter for amazement instead of understanding, has not the least prospect of understanding the abnormal creations of diseased mental states in any other than the lay sense. You may with confidence place in this lay group all the psychiatrists of today. Follow me now on a brief excursion through the field of dream problems.
In our waking state we usually treat dreams with as little consideration as the patient treats the irruptive ideas which the psychoanalyst demands from him. It is evident that we reject them, for we forget them quickly and completely. The slight valuation which we place on them is based, with those dreams that are not confused and nonsensical, on the feeling that they are foreign to our personality, and, with other dreams, on their evident absurdity and senselessness. Our rejection derives support from the unrestrained shamelessness and the immoral longings which are obvious in many dreams. Antiquity, as we know, did not share this light valuation of dreams. The lower classes of our people to-day stick close to the value which they set on dreams; they, however, expect from them, as did the ancients, the revelation of the future. I confess that I see no need to adopt mystical hypotheses to fill out the gaps in our present knowledge, and so I have never been able to find anything that supported the hypothesis of the prophetic nature of dreams. Many other things, which are wonderful enough, can be said about them.
And first, not all dreams are so foreign to the character of the dreamer, are incomprehensible and confused. If you will undertake to consider the dreams of young children from the age of a year and a half on, you will find them quite simple and easy to interpret. The young child always dreams of the fulfillment of wishes which were aroused in him the day before and were not satisfied. You need no art of interpretation to discover this simple solution, you only need to inquire into the experiences of the child on the day before (the "dream day"). Now it would certainly be a most satisfactory solution of the dream-riddle, if the dreams of adults, too, were the same as those of children, fulfillments of wishes which had been aroused in them during the dream day. This is actually the fact; the difficulties which stand in the way of this solution can be removed step by step by a thorough analysis of the dream.
There is, first of all, the most weighty objection, that the dreams of adults generally have an incomprehensible content, which shows wish-fulfillment least of anything. The answer is this: these dreams have undergone a process of disguise, the psychic content which underlies them was originally meant for quite different verbal expression. You must differentiate between the manifest dream-content, which we remember in the morning only confusedly, and with difficulty clothe in words which seem arbitrary, and the latent dream-thoughts, whose presence in the unconscious we must assume. This distortion of the dream (Traumentstellung) is the same process which has been revealed to you in the investigations of the creations (symptoms) of hysterical subjects; it points to the fact that the same opposition of psychic forces has its share in the creation of dreams as in the creation of symptoms.
The manifest dream-content is the disguised surrogate for the unconscious dream thoughts, and this disguising is the work of the defensive forces of the ego, of the resistances. These prevent the repressed wishes from entering consciousness during the waking life, and even in the relaxation of sleep they are still strong enough to force them to hide themselves by a sort of masquerading. The dreamer, then, knows just as little the sense of his dream as the hysterical knows the relation and significance of his symptoms. That there are latent dream-thoughts and that between them and the manifest dream-content there exists the relation just described-of this you may convince yourselves by the analysis of dreams, a procedure the technique of which is exactly that of psychoanalysis. You must abstract entirely from the apparent connection of the elements in the manifest dream and seek for the irruptive ideas which arise through free association, according to the psychoanalytic laws, from each separate dream element. From this material the latent dream thoughts may be discovered, exactly as one divines the concealed complexes of the patient from the fancies connected with his symptoms and memories. From the latent dream thoughts which you will find in this way, you will see at once how thoroughly justified one is in interpreting the dreams of adults by the same rubrics as those of children. What is now substituted for the manifest dream-content is the real sense of the dream, is always clearly comprehensible, associated with the impressions of the day before, and appears as the fulfilling of an unsatisfied wish. The manifest dream, which we remember after waking, may then be described as a disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.
It is also possible by a sort of synthesis to get some insight into the process which bas brought about the disguise of the unconscious dream thoughts as the manifest dream-content. We call this process "dream-work" (Traumarbeit). This deserves our fullest theoretical interest, since here as nowhere else we can study the unsuspected psychic processes which are existent in the unconscious, or, to express it more exactly, between two such separate systems as the conscious and the unconscious. Among these newly discovered psychic processes, two, condensation (Verdichtung) and displacement or transvaluation, change of psychic accent (Verschiebung), stand out most prominently. Dream work is a special case of the reaction of different mental groupings on each other, and as such is the consequence of psychic fission. In all essential points it seems identical with the work of disguise, which changes the repressed complex in the case of failing repression into symptoms.
You will furthermore discover by the analysis of dreams, most convincingly your own, the unsuspected importance of the rôle which impressions and experiences from early childhood exert on the development of men. In the dream life the child, as it were, continues his existence in the man, with a retention of all his traits and wishes, including those which be was obliged to allow to fall into disuse in his later years. With irresistible might it will be impressed on you by what processes of development, of repression, sublimation and reaction there arises out of the child, with its peculiar gifts and tendencies, the so-called normal man, the bearer and partly the victim of our painfully acquired civilization. I will also direct your attention to the fact that we have discovered from the analysis of dreams that the unconscious makes use of a sort of symbolism, especially in the presentation of sexual complexes. This symbolism in part varies with the individual, but in part is of a typical nature, and seems to be identical with the symbolism which we suppose to lie behind our myths and legends. It is not impossible that these latter creations of the people may find their explanation from the study of dreams.
Finally, I must remind you that you must not be led astray by the objection that the occurrence of anxiety-dreams (Angsttraüme), contradicts our idea of the dream as a wish-fulfillment. Apart from the consideration that anxiety-dreams also require interpretation before judgment can be passed on them, one can say quite generally that the anxiety does not depend in such a simple way on the dream content as one might suppose without more knowledge of the facts, and more attention to the conditions of neurotic anxiety. Anxiety is one of the ways in which the ego relieves itself of repressed wishes which have become too strong, and so is easy to explain in the dream, if the dream has gone too far towards the fulfilling of the objectionable wish.
You see that the investigation of dreams was justified by the conclusions which it has given us concerning things otherwise hard to understand. But we came to it in connection with the psychoanalytic treatment of neurotics. From what has been said you can easily understand how the interpretation of dreams, if it is not made too difficult by the resistance of the patient, can lead to a knowledge of the patient's concealed and repressed wishes and the complexes which he is nourishing. I may now pass to that group of everyday mental phenomena whose study has become a technical help for psychoanalysis.
These are the bungling of acts (Feldhandlungen) among normal men as well as among neurotics, to which no significance is ordinarily attached; the forgetting of things which one is supposed to know and at other times really does know (for example the temporary forgetting of proper names); mistakes in speaking (Versprechen), which occur so frequently; analogous mistakes in writing (Verschreiben) and in reading (Verlesen), the automatic execution of purposive acts in wrong situations Vergreifen) and the loss or breaking of objects, etc. These are trifles, for which no one has ever sought a psychological determination, which have passed unchallenged as chance experiences, as consequences of absent-mindedness, inattention and similar conditions. Here, too, are included the acts and gestures executed without being noticed by the subject, to say nothing of the fact that be attaches no psychic importance to them; as playing and trifling with objects, humming melodies, handling one's person and clothing and the like.
These little things, the bungling of acts, like the symptomatic and chance acts (Symptom- und Zufallshandlungen) are not so entirely without meaning as is generally supposed by a sort of tacit agreement. They have a meaning, generally easy and sure to interpret from the situation in which they occur, and it can be demonstrated that they either express impulses and purposes which are repressed, hidden if possible from the consciousness of the individual, or that they spring from exactly the same sort of repressed wishes and complexes which we have learned to know already as the creators of symptoms and dreams.
It follows that they deserve the rank of symptoms, and their observation, like that of dreams, can lead to the discovery of the hidden complexes of the psychic life. With their help one will usually betray the most intimate of his secrets. If these occur so easily and commonly among people in health, with whom repression has on the whole succeeded fairly well, this is due to their insignificance and their inconspicuous nature. But they can lay claim to high theoretic value, for they prove the existence of repression and surrogate creations even under the conditions of health. You have already noticed that the psychoanalyst is distinguished by an especially strong belief in the determination of the psychic life. For him there is in the expressions of the psyche nothing trifling, nothing arbitrary and lawless, be expects everywhere a widespread motivation, where customarily such claims are not made; more than that, he is even prepared to find a manifold motivation of these psychic expressions, while our supposedly inborn causal need is satisfied with a single psychic cause.
Now keeping in mind the means which we possess for the discovery of the hidden, forgotten, repressed things in the soul life: the study of the irruptive ideas called up by free association, the patient's dreams, and his bungled and symptomatic acts; and adding to these the evaluation of other phenomena which emerge during the psychoanalytic treatment, on which I shall later make a few remarks under the heading of "transfer" (Ueberträgung), you will come with me to the conclusion that our technique is already sufficiently efficacious for the solution of the problem of how to introduce the pathogenic psychic material into consciousness, and so to do away with the suffering brought on by the creation of surrogate symptoms.
The fact that by such therapeutic endeavors our knowledge of the mental life of the normal and the abnormal is widened and deepened, can of course only be regarded as an especial attraction and superiority of this method.
I do not know whether you have gained the impression that the technique through whose arsenal I have led you is a peculiarly difficult one. I consider that on the contrary, for one who has mastered it, it is quite adapted for use. But so much is sure, that it is not obvious, that it must be learned no less than the histological or the surgical technique.
You may surprised to learn that in Europe we have heard very frequently judgments passed on psychoanalysis by persons who knew nothing of its technique and had never practised it. but who demanded scornfully that we show the correctness of our results. There are among these people some who are not in other things unacquainted with scientific methods of thought, who for example would not reject the result of a microscopical research because it cannot be confirmed with the naked eye in anatomical preparations, and who would not pass judgment until they had used the microscope. But in matters of psychoanalysis circumstances are really more unfavorable for gaining recognition. Psychoanalysis will bring the repressed in mental life to conscious acknowledgment, and every one who judges it is himself a man who has such repressions perhaps only maintained with difficulty. It will consequently call forth the same resistances from him as from the patient, and this resistance can easily succeed in disguising itself as intellectual rejection, and bring forward arguments similar to those from which we protect our patients by the basic principles of psychoanalysis. It is not difficult to substantiate in our opponents the same impairment of intelligence produced by emotivity which we may observe every day with our patients.
The arrogance of consciousness which for example rejects dreams so lightly, belongs -- quite generally -- to the strongest protective apparatus which guards us against the breaking through of the unconscious complexes, and as a result it is hard to convince people of the reality of the unconscious, and to teach them anew, what their conscious knowledge contradicts.


From the Queens Chronicle:
A neglected Flushing lot that had turned into a junkyard has been cleaned up after pressure from an elected official and a civic leader.
Last Friday, state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside) and Peter Brancazio, president of the North East Flushing Civic Association, met with representatives of the departments of Buildings, Sanitation, Finance and Fire to discuss the lot at 24-19 Francis Lewis Blvd.
As a result, the FDNY issued a notice of violation for rubbish found in the Dumpsters on the lot and the DOB transferred oversight of the property to the Padlock Enforcement Unit, based on illegal commercial use in a residential district.
Since the area is zoned R2A, a violation was issued for a defective fence allowing unauthorized access and storage of fully loaded Dumpsters and a commercial truck filled with steel beams.
Shortly after being contacted by the city, the owner cleared the lot.


David Tennant talks about the Olympics opening ceremony and Doctor Who.
Next in the Olympic pole vault
the athlete from the Shire
(Lord of the Rings)
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Fox Lane High School was created in 1956 as a multi-town, innovative enterprise on a 50-acre rocky hilltop. Over five decades, its many wings of combined middle and high school, science and art evolved into a 1,500-student high school where the many "wings" needed a thorough second look.
The amalgam of administrative, middle school, high school CAPACITY1,500COST PER SQ FT$300.00FEATURED IN2009 Architectural Portfolio fields offered poor vehicular access, and the space provided inadequate separation of recreation, pedestrians, buses and cars.
The high school was reconceived, re-utilizing 145,000 square feet and building 81,200 square feet around a new north-south axis with clerestory light with two entrances; a commons; reconstructed science, renovated music and art, and 35 new general-use, properly sized high school classrooms; three computer rooms; a new electronic music room; a new orchestra room; and a new technical drawing studio. Solar orientation and sun shading were fundamental to the design inside and out. Expanding a small, pre-existing commons and making it a pivot point was part of the plan.
The result is a forward-looking, coherent and striking three-story general classroom hub around a south-facing atrium linking all spaces to a one-story, sloped metal roofed north interior, along a skylighted street. With the majority of the undersized one-story concrete block classroom wings of the 1956 footprint demolished, all teaching spaces now have ample space, natural light and technology. The revised hilltop plateau has a new second front door onto the adjacent roadway.