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Eugene Paul Wigner
Born: 17 November 1902 in Budapest, Hungary
Died: 1 January 1995 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA
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The Hungarian version of Eugene Paul Wigner's name was Jenó Pál Wigner. His father, Antal Wigner, was the director of a leather-tanning factory while his mother, Erzsébet Wigner, looked after the family of three children. Both Antal and Erzsébet were from a Jewish background but they did not practice Judaism. Paul was born in Pest, the eastmost of the two towns which, together with Buda, formed the Hungarian capital of Budapest. He was the middle of his parents three children, having both an older and younger sister.
From the time he was five years old Wigner was given private tuition at home. When he was ten years old he entered an elementary school but about a year after he began his studies at the school he was told that he had tuberculosis. The cure was to be found in sending him to a sanatorium in Breitenstein in Austria and he spent six weeks there before being told that the diagnosis had been wrong and that he had never had tuberculosis. However, one advantage of his six weeks was that he began to think about mathematical problems [13]:-
I had to lie on a deck chair for days on end, and I worked terribly hard on constructing a triangle if the three altitudes are given.In 1915 Wigner entered the Lutheran High School in Budapest. Here he met John von Neumann who was in the class below him. However he wrote [8]:-
I never felt I knew von Neumann well at Gymnasium. Perhaps no one did; he always kept a bit apart.The school provided a solid education for Wigner in mathematics, literature, classics and religion. It did provide science teaching, but there was less emphasis on this than on other subjects. He was still at the Gymnasium when the communists took control in Hungary in March 1919 and the whole Wigner family fled the country. They lived in Austria until the communists were overthrown in November 1919 when they returned to Budapest and Wigner completed has school education. When he was in his late teens the whole Wigner family became converts to Lutheranism but it did not mean a great deal to Wigner who in later life described himself as "only mildly religious".
In 1920 Wigner left school being one of the top students in his class. Already he knew that mathematics and physics were the topics for him but he realised that von Neumann [8]:-
... was a much better mathematician than I was and a better scientist. But I knew more physics.Wigner wanted to be a physicist but his father expected him to join the family business and he believed that a degree in chemical engineering would be useful to his son in the family's leather-tanning factory. Wigner followed his father's wishes and took his first degree in chemical engineering spending one year at the Technical Institute in Budapest, then moving to the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. He said [13]:-
I went to practically no classes ... but worked extremely hard in the laboratory. I loved inorganic chemistry.Despite working for a degree in chemical engineering, Wigner studied mathematics and physics in his own time. He attended colloquia at the University of Berlin with Einstein, Planck, von Laue, and Nernst. Wigner obtained the degree of Dr. Ing. in 1925 from the Technische Hochschule in Berlin with a thesis Bildung und Zerfall von Molekülen Ⓣ supervised by Michael Polanyi, who was a fellow countryman also from Budapest. Wigner's thesis contains the first theory of the rates of association and dissociation of molecules. Wigner and Polanyi published a joint paper on this work in 1925.
Having completed his doctorate, Wigner returned to Budapest to join his father's tannery firm as planned. However, things did not go too well [13]:-
I did not get along very well in the tannery. ... I did not feel at home there. ... I did not feel that this was my life. ... [In 1926] I received a letter from a crystallographer at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute [who] wanted an assistant ... to find out why the atoms occupy positions in the crystal lattices which correspond to symmetry axes. ... He also told me that this had to do with group theory and that I should read a book on group theory and then work it out and tell him.Wigner's father supported him taking the post in Berlin. There he read Heisenberg's papers but in developing his own ideas he realised that the mathematics presented problems. He submitted a paper on the spectrum of atoms with 3 electrons to Zeitschrift für Physik on 12 November 1926 extending Heisenberg's results for 2 electrons. The paper ends with Wigner writing that his methods would be prohibitively complicated for atoms with more than three electrons. However, he asked von Neumann for advice on the mathematical difficulties and was told to read about the theory of group characters in Schur's papers.
Wigner, because of his interest in crystals, had already read Heinrich Weber's Lehrbuch der Algebra Ⓣ and, already having an expertise in matrices from Weber's text, he found Schur's papers easy to understand. He also studied the representation theory of the symmetric group due to Frobenius and Burnside. The theory, as von Neumann suggested, was exactly what he needed to develop a theory of the spectrum of atoms with n electrons. He then began the work for which he is famous, namely applying group theory to quantum mechanics. His paper on the case of n electrons was submitted to the Zeitschrift für Physik on 26 November 1926.
Wigner was invited to Göttingen in 1927 to become Hilbert's assistant. Hilbert, already interested in quantum mechanics, felt that he needed a physicist as an assistant to complement his own expertise. This was an important time for Wigner who produced papers of great depth and significance, introducing in his paper On the conservation laws of quantum mechanics (1927) the new concept of parity. However his collaboration with Hilbert was less successful for they only met five times during the year [8]:-
I found him painfully withdrawn. ... His enormous fatigue was plain.Wigner returned to Berlin after the year in Göttingen where he lectured on quantum mechanics, worked on writing his famous text Group theory and its application to the quantum mechanics of atomic spectra and continued his research. In fact Wigner's book on the applications of group theory to quantum mechanics was not the first to appear, since Weyl published his a little before Wigner. However, as Mackey writes in [3]:-
Weyl's ideas differed from those of Wigner in that he wanted to apply group representations to get a better understanding of the foundations of quantum mechanics in general and not so much to gain insight into particular problems.An offer to spend a term in Princeton saw him travel to the United States at the end of 1930. From 1930 to 1933 Wigner spent part of the year at Princeton, part at Berlin. His Berlin post vanished under the Nazi rules passed in 1933 and from then, except for the years 1936 - 1938 in Wisconsin, Wigner spent the rest of his career at Princeton. In 1934 his younger sister Margit (always known as Manci) joined her brother in Princeton. There she met Dirac, who was a visitor, and the two married in January 1937.
There is slight confusion about the reason that Wigner left Princeton in 1936. In [8] he said:-
In 1936 came a shock ... Princeton dismissed me ... they never explained why ... I could not help feeling angry.Pais points out in [16] however, that this statement by Wigner is not strictly accurate and he was not dismissed. Rather it appears that he was not receiving the promotion in Princeton which he felt that he deserved and so took leave of absence to accept a position of acting professor in Wisconsin. While in Wisconsin, Wigner became a U.S. citizen. Also while at the University of Wisconsin at Madison he met and married Amelia Frank. She was a physics student there but the happiness was soon replaced by much pain for she fell ill with cancer and died in 1937 less than a year after the marriage.
While in Wisconsin Wigner showed the role of the special unitary group SU(4) in considering nuclear forces and he constructed a class of irreducible unitary representations of the Lorentz group. Kim writes in [12]:-
Wigner's 1939 paper on representations of the inhomogeneous Lorentz group [Ann. of Math. (2) 40 (1939), 149-204] is one of the most fundamental papers in physics.He was appointed to the Thomas D Jones Chair of Mathematical Physics at Princeton in 1938. He brought his parents to the United States in 1939. First they lived in Princeton, then they moved to a more country place in New York State. They were never happy in the United States and for that matter Wigner never really felt at home. Near the end of his life he wrote:-
After 60 years in the United States I am still more Hungarian than American. ... much of American culture escapes me.He met Mary Annette Wheeler, a physics teacher from Vassar College, in 1940 and they were married on 4 June 1941. They had two children, David Wigner who taught mathematics at the University of California in Berkeley, and Martha who worked on the transportation system in the Chicago area.
Wigner worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago during World War II, from 1942 to 1945. His training as an engineer proved valuable background for his war work on nuclear fission.
Wigner received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963. The presentation Speech by I Waller put Wigner's contributions into their context:-
In order to be able to calculate the motion of the nucleons it was ... necessary to know also the forces which act between them. A very important step in the investigation of these forces was taken by Wigner in 1933 when he found, deducing from some experiments, that the force between two nucleons is very weak except when their distance apart is very small but that the force is then a million times stronger than the electric forces between the electrons in the outer part of the atoms. Wigner discovered later other important properties of the nuclear forces.R L Ingraham summarised some of the many contributions made by Wigner. These include his:-
... It was ... fundamentally important that Wigner could show that most essential properties of the nuclei follow from generally valid symmetries of the laws of motion. Earlier Wigner had performed pioneering work by studying such symmetries in the laws of motion for the electrons and had made important discoveries by investigating e.g. those symmetries which express the fact that the laws mentioned make no difference between left and right and that backward in time according to them is equivalent to forward in time. These investigations were extended by Wigner to the atomic nuclei at the end of the 1930s and he explored then also the newly discovered symmetry property of the force between two nucleons to be the same whether either of the nucleons is a proton or a neutron. This work by Wigner and his other investigations of the symmetry principles in physics are important far beyond nuclear physics proper. His methods and results have become an indispensable guide for the interpretation of the rich and complicated picture which has emerged from recent years' experimental research on elementary particles. They were also an important preliminary for the deeper penetration into and the partial revision of the earlier concepts concerning the right-left symmetry ...
Wigner has made many other important contributions to nuclear physics. He has given a general theory of nuclear reactions and has made decisive contributions to the practical use of nuclear energy. He has, often in collaboration with younger scientists, broken new paths in many other domains of physics.
... epoch-making work on how symmetry is implemented in quantum mechanics, the determination of all the irreducible unitary representations of the Poincaré group, and his work with Bargmann on realizing those irreducible unitary representations as the Hilbert spaces of solutions of relativistic wave equations, ... discrete symmetries and superselection rules in quantum mechanics, symmetry implications for atomic and molecular spectra, natural line-width theory, contrast of microscopic and macroscopic physics and of general relativity and quantum mechanics, explanation of why symmetry yields more information for quantum than for classical mechanics, philosophical questions such as what nature laws should be, limits on causality, and whether quantum mechanics could in principle explain life.His important works include Nuclear Structure (1958) with L Eisenbud, The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors (1958) with A Weinberg, Dispersion Relations and Their Connection with Causality (1964), and Symmetries and Reflections (1967). His 1960 paper on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics has provked a wide debate on the role of mathematics in science.
Wigner received many honours for his outstanding work. He was awarded the United States Medal for Merit in 1946, the Enrico Fermi Prize in 1958, and the Atoms for Peace Award in 1960, the Medal of the Franklin Society, the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society, the George Washington Award of the American-Hungarian Studies Foundation (1964), the Semmelweiss Medal of the American-Hungarian Medical Association (1965), and the National Medal of Science (1969). The list of universities which awarded him an honorary degree is extensive, University of Wisconsin, Washington University, Case Institute, University of Alberta, University of Chicago, Colby College, University of Pennsylvania, Yeshiva University, Thiel College, Notre Dame University, Technische Universität Berlin, Swarthmore College, Université de Louvain, Université de Liège, University of Illinois, Catholic University, and The Rockefeller University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1970 and other memberships of learned societies included the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Letters, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften of Göttingen.
A J Coleman writes of the:-
... course by Wigner on advanced quantum mechanics which I had the good fortune to attend at Princeton in 1940. I recall a person with razor-sharp mind and of a kind and gentle spirit.Many other references to Wigner's personality leave the feeling that, despite the extensive interviews such as [8] and [13], he is still someone who is slightly mysterious. As Pais writes in [16]:-
He was a very strange man and one of the giants of twentieth-century physics.Perhaps we should end with Wigner's own words:-
The promise of future science is to furnish a unifying goal to mankind rather than merely the means to an easy life, to provide some of what the human soul needs in addition to bread alone.
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- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (pdf)
- Mathematical Genealogy Project
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Jeter deserving of place among Yankees' legends
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Derek Jeter's legacy will not be all that complicated. He was the perfect baseball player. Got anything else?
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Jeter's place in Yankees history will be debated and discussed forever. Was he greater than DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle? Does Jeter deserve to be mentioned in the same breath with the Babe or Yogi?
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Hi I like your quilt the fish the style and the colors I am one who takes forever my problem i must have the idea before i can even pick out the colors might alone start it , two mini blocks with teenie strips of colors bright with a pure with a pic of dog white he is eyes jumping out and has teenie dog bones in around yep its not my cup of tea but these two children friends will love it, but yours is a work of art . also am learning too crochet thanks so much for your blog
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Ahhhh!!! That's my girl, Norma!! I've had the pleasure of seeing this quilt in person and let me tell you, ALL of us at the BMQG flipped when she showed us!! Love this quilt & it's maker!!
So great to see Norma's quilt featured! As Jen said, we all loved it when she showed it to our group at our first meet and greet! So happy to have you as part of our BMQG family!
Absolutely adore your fish quilt! Will have to make one for my sister, just as soon as I finish all my other UFOs!
It's a wonderful little quilt! The BMQG members all knew how talented Norma is as soon as we saw this beauty. 😉
It is great to see Norma featured. She is very talented and her fish quilt is even cuter in person.
This is SUCH a cute quilt!


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It was July 2012 and all eyes turned to London for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. And we didn't disappoint. Everyone came together – athletes, volunteers, cheering spectators – to put on the greatest show on Earth.
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Talk about an old model of socializing: On Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus, I can socialize only with people who have registered with a service that's owned, operated, and controlled by a single company. Even enterprise social software suites that leverage a corporate directory for single sign-on still require employees to activate and configure their online social profiles. This walled-garden approach to online collaboration has been a major roadblock to broader participation and leads to a sort of social schizophrenia, requiring users to monitor, update, and synchronize their activities across several platforms, while never being quite sure where best to find a long-lost friend or new business associate.
The model of closed systems, whether it's Facebook or your company's SharePoint environment, does make financial and business sense. It lets companies like Facebook monetize people's collaborative endeavors, while enterprises need to control the collaborative environment to ensure compliance with company information-sharing strictures and adherence to corporate communication policies; however, such centralization flies in the face of the Internet's ethos of open sharing and decentralized control. At least one research program, Stanford's MobiSocial Computing Research Group, is out to crack the social software oligopolies by developing a set of open applications and protocols that facilitate new collaboration platforms that aren't locked to a particular vendor but are device- and service-agnostic, much like email.
As its name suggests, the MobiSocial research sees mobile devices, not PCs, as the primary platforms for social interaction, but its open aspect could prove just as disruptive. As noted in the group's mission statement, "Our focus is to let everyone interact socially with each other, without having to join the same proprietary social network." Several MobiSocial projects further this effort, from Musubi, "a non-proprietary social Internet and application platform for phones," to GroupGenie, which can analyze one's online persona via email correspondence, Facebook posts, or LinkedIn connections and develop a "social topology" of overlapping or nested social groups.
But the project I find most intriguing is Mr. Privacy: Open and Federated Social Networking Using Email (PDF).
Unlike SaaS-based social networking, Mr. Privacy uses email as a federated online identity management system and data transport. As the four Stanford computer scientists working on the project write in their research paper describing the project, "For the sake of adoptability, Mr. Privacy is built upon email, which is itself a mature, scalable, open, and federated infrastructure supporting over 1 billion users. We can socialize with anybody as long as we know his or her email address. We need not sign up to join the same social network. All the shared information is stored as email messages." The Mr. Privacy APIs essentially turn social applications into email clients, using the same time-tested, reliable protocols, SMTP and IMAP.
To demonstrate the feasibility and evaluate the ramifications of using email-based plumbing for social software, the researchers have developed an API and three Mr. Privacy applications on three platforms: Android, iPhone, and the Firefox browser. It's the browser app, a Firefox extension called SocialBar, that illustrates the potential for an open Facebook alternative. In a way, SocialBar and its email foundation are quite reminiscent of Google's now-defunct Buzz, in that they use a Web UI with a specially crafted message and data schema to enable a familiar threaded conversation view. Unlike Buzz, SocialBar isn't tied to a particular mail service; it works just as well with your internal Exchange server as it does a public Gmail or Yahoo account. Also in contrast to all of the existing social sites, SocialBar keeps local copies of all messages and a local friend database (that can be integrated with an existing Mozilla Contacts file), giving users greater control over their data, faster response when doing data-intensive actions like message filtering, and the potential for offline access.
Stanford's researchers rightly conclude that network effects, i.e., Metcalfe's Law, create the environment for one or two proprietary companies (read: Facebook and Google) to own the online social ecosystem. Facebook arguably already does and may have reached such critical mass that resistance is futile. However, the most effective way to counteract such natural monopolies isn't through regulation but openness; namely, a new generation of social software built on open APIs and protocols and using the pervasive, inherently distributed and federated email system. The Stanford team says that because of email's ubiquity, Mr. Privacy could quickly, almost virally spread, concluding, "We believe that Mr. Privacy is the first proposal that has a chance to challenge the status quo within the next few years. We need one or more killer applications developed using Mr. Privacy to help jump start this model."
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USGIF's GEOINT 2012 Symposium proves to be an added value to the Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security Communities.
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) last month concluded its 9th annual GEOINT Symposium, attracting 4,300 attendees from 27 countries. Despite federal cuts and pending legislation, the symposium had the broadest representation of government ever. Attendees at the event, which took place October 8-11 in Orlando, FL, had an opportunity to explore the latest technologies from a record breaking 264 exhibitors and were able to hear from and meet with key Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security Community leadership.
"These are important metrics. Companies aren't rolling around in cash wondering where to spend it," said Keith J. Masback, president, USGIF. "We don't do numbers to brag. Our numbers show that we are adding value to our community."
Over 100 industry speakers guided the audience through discussions focused on this year's theme, "Creating the Innovation Advantage." The theme is indicative of the idea that innovation has always been at the heart of what it means to be American and was captured in the symposium's extraordinary opening video.


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With his 'New' album just around the corner, it's time for Paul McCartney to start making the publicity rounds, including his first-ever visit to 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'
McCartney stopped by Kimmel's late-night ABC talk show last night and took a few moments to chat about the new record while reminiscing about some of the high points from one of rock's most successful and storied careers. And speaking of all that success, here's something fans might find funny: Not only does McCartney still suffer performance anxiety, but he often has nightmares about playing disastrous gigs with the Beatles. (You can watch about 12 minutes of the interview in the videos above and below.)
"You can't control what goes on in your dreams anyway," explained McCartney. "I'm there, say, with the Beatles, and we're playing, and the audience starts to leave. 'What do we do? What do we do? Quick! 'Long Tall Sally" — they're still leaving. You wake up in a cold sweat."
McCartney also discussed the Beatles' historic first trip to Hollywood, saying his most prominent memory is of "Lot of screaming — which is, you know, great. Beautiful girls — we were young, we were healthy, we were ready to roll." The band also met Elvis Presley, which left them starstruck because "we were little kids from Liverpool, growing up hearing this first burst of rock 'n' roll, really — we hadn't heard that kind of stuff, so it was magical. We always wanted to meet him." The meeting took place despite some interference from Presley's manager, the infamous Colonel Tom Parker. As McCartney mused during the interview, "I think we were a threat — he was popular, but we were kind of taking over."
As for whether any unreleased Beatles recordings remain? "Yeah, but you wouldn't want to hear them," McCartney assured a doubtful Kimmel. "There's one or two things, but one that sort of deep fans keep requesting is a thing called 'Carnival of Lights,' but it's very far out. Far out for 15 minutes."
After his appearance on Kimmel's show, McCartney played a 15-song set on the roof of a Hollywood Boulevard theater.
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Who What Wear
Part of the fun of fashion is trying to articulate the je ne sais quoi quality that distinguishes an average outfit from a truly excellent ensemble. And while our answer to said query is still a work in progress, we do know it when we see it and are happy to share our findings with you. It is in that spirit of sartorial sharing that we present this month's installment of Who What Wear: Styling Tips. Hopefully, you will find these tidbits of wisdom as inspiring and instructive as we do!
Tip #1: Mix a nude bag and shoes with dark pieces
While attending the launch of Fashion Fringe at Covent Garden in London (a British nationwide search to discover and nurture cutting-edge design talent), Claudia Schiffer looked polished and posh when she accented a menswear-inspired outfit in basic black with of-the-moment nude accessories. By now, we're sure you all have a favorite blazer and tailored trouser; update these timeless pieces with L.A.M.B.'s Tizzy Strappy Sandal Bootie ($345) and Lauren Merkin's Caroline Clutch ($275) to get a fresh look for a spring evening out.
Tip #2: Get festive with a hot pink party dress
Leigh Lezark, one third of the DJ collective The Misshapes, occasional model, and full time hipster, is notorious for her cutting-edge style and almost exclusively dark wardrobe. Needless to say, we were pleasantly surprised when the downtown doyenne slipped into Dior's Mini Smokey Bustier Dress ($9250) and Deesse Sandal ($1360, 800.929.DIOR) for the design house's F/W 09 show. The Schiaparelli pink dress added a refreshingly festive element to her normally somber evening ensembles. She looked so stellar, in fact, we quickly resolved to introduce a brightly-hued strapless party dress into our own nighttime rotation. Either French Connection's Otto Cotton Dress ($158) or Rare's Cup Tulip Dress ($110) will do the trick, just add some opaques and metallic sandals—like the Just Cavalli Snake Metallic Platform Sandals ($447)—for the Lezark look!
Tip #3: Wear trendy accessories with great basic pieces
British TV personality Alexa Chung is a true fashion all-star with a keen ability to seamlessly weave unique vintage finds with key designer pieces. During Paris Fashion Week, Chung was spotted teetering around town in Louis Vuitton's Spicy Sandals ($2790) and Savane Flight Bag ($2910, 866.VUITTON), surely the most marvelously over-the-top accessories to come out of the S/S 09 season. Chung smartly balanced the bold statement of the shoes and bag with an understated sweater dress she discovered in an anonymous boutique in Paris. So, dear readers, take note: if you are going to show off a spectacularly strong accessory or two (and we suggest that you do!) make sure to temper the look with a more basic piece. Whether you want to splurge on something like YSL's Patent Cage Belt ($495) and Cage Boot ($1590) or decide to rock Topshop's Patent Cut Out Waisted Belt ($50) and Lattice Caged Sandals ($145), don't force them to compete with an equally au courant item!
Tip #4: Belt a body-skimming top over a fitted skirt
For the Los Angeles premiere of Sugar, Jessica Alba belted a voluminous patterned Miu Miu chemise, creating a more feminine, figure-flattering shape. To give her outfit a little more interest, she layered her top over a formfitting short skirt and black tights. We love the idea of augmenting a loose blouse by adding a killer belt, such as Miu Miu's Double Buckle Belt ($370). Alba's choice is very eighties, so be sure to check out your favorite local vintage shops, or try the Ostrich Print Pintuck Blouse ($75) from Peoples Market. Don't forget to cinch above the waist, to create an empire silhouette à la Alba.
Tip #5: Bring back your denim jacket
While moto jackets and boyfriend blazers are the reigning casual outerwear options for the fashionable crowd, there will always be a corner of our hearts reserved for a simple jean jacket. This spring, we love a fitted cropped version in a light wash, like the one spotted on actress Cecile Cassel at the Louis Vuitton A/W 09 show during Paris Fashion week. Try Urban Renewal's Studded Denim Jacket ($148) with a monochromatic dress and tights or pair it with a floral frock for a warm-weather appropriate look.
Tip #6: Try shoulder-detail tops and jackets
Love her or loathe her, everyone agrees that Agyness Deyn knows how to pull an outfit together in an interesting way. At the Rebecca Minkoff Fall 09 presentation, Deyn dabbled with the directional strong shoulder trend by donning a leather bomber jacket with ruched detailing on the shoulders and a slightly pronounced sleeve. While Deyn wore her jacket with a pink metallic dress, and combat boots, obviously the styling options abound. We think that Miu Miu's Rosette Leather Jacket ($2835) or Guess by Marciano's Legend Jacket ($248), two Deyn-inspired picks, would look just as smashing with harem pants or skinny jeans and your favorite pair of heels. –Kate Mulling
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Wow that would have been interesting! Uruguay had one last chance there.
Wow that would have been interesting! Uruguay had one last chance there.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
TBH, would be gun if the Dutch could get the monkey off their back in SA....
Take a bow, Diego Forlan.
going nuts here personally!!!
Goal of the tournament right there. Dutch will have to step it up to beat either of the other semi-finalists one feels.
Shocking commentary from ITV tonight, seemed desperate to do the game down. The way it was described you would have thought it was a horrible 1-0 or something. and why no 'expert' commentator?
I did not realise until well into the second half either.
Was not the best game ever played but there were 5 goals! and some very good ones.
At one point he said 'two long range strikes' as if were a bad thing.
ITV just crap, clearly just put out that England were not in it.
Was summed up when Southgate at the end of the game said 'who were they playing again?'
Was greeted with laughter, its not England so we don't care is what they wanted to say.
As for siding with Uruguay, it's kinda a response to everyone hating on them so much. Great game that. Well done Netherlands .
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|[NY Times] Egypt's Interior Ministry issued a rare apology on Saturday, a day after a group of its officers were seen beating a naked man two blocks from the palace of President Mohamed Morsi, an episode captured by television cameras and broadcast live during festivities between protesters and riot coppers.
In a statement, the ministry said it regretted the beating and called it an "individual attack" that did not reflect police doctrine. The police were performing their duties "with a new spirit" of Egypt's revolution, the ministry said, adding that the beating would be investigated with "objectivity and transparency."
Mr. Morsi's office also issued a statement saying it was "pained by the shocking footage."
More than 50 people have been killed over the last 10 days during fighting in several Egyptian cities in some of the worst violence since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
almost two years ago. That uprising was set off in part by widespread anger with the ministry's long record of police brutality.
The beating, though, provoked a different kind of outrage, crystallizing for many the collapse of order and civility that has derailed Egypt's transition from its authoritarian past. And even if most Egyptians could agree that the beating was vile, they could agree on little else.
Beneath the official pronouncements of regret, supporters and opponents of Mr. Morsi continued to blame one another for the festivities on Saturday, each citing the unrest as evidence to support their political complaints.
By Saturday evening, even the essential details of the attack were in dispute as the victim, Hamada Saber, gave an interview on state television
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asserting that the coppers who beat him had actually been trying to help him.
Speaking from his hospital bed, he said that the riot officers had come to his aid as he was running from protesters who stripped and robbed him. He said the attack started after he felt what might have been a bullet or birdshot that struck him in the leg, which came, he said, from the "side of the protesters."
"I was afraid," he said, adding that as he ran, officers came to his aid. "They tried to help me," he said.
His account contradicted the reports of witnesses, as well as the video, raising the question of whether he was intimidated or coerced by security officials.
The graphic images of the beating showed Mr. Saber naked and being dragged and beaten by riot coppers with his pants pulled down around his ankles. A witness, Mai Sirry, said she and others watching the protests from her apartment saw officers beat Mr. Saber and strip him of some of his clothes. Officers were cursing at him as they dragged him on the street, his pants around his knees, she said.
Later Saturday, the interior minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, repeated Mr. Saber's account, though he still acknowledged that the officers' conduct was "excessive," and said he had ordered an investigation.
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|#4 At least it wasn't a cheesy, amateurish video belittling Mo...
|Posted by: Pappy 2013-02-03 13:13
|#3 Sorry you had to see that. We'll make sure you don't see it anymore...
|Posted by: tu3031 2013-02-03 12:35
|#2 Yep. The Instaprof has a on going program of posts documenting American cops going after anyone filming their public actions (ridiculous given that COPS has been airing for a couple of decades on national television and infinite reruns on independent TV channels).
|Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-02-03 08:39
|#1 For letting it be televised?
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