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Joann Sporleder: So far the Commission hasn't suggested any practical solution, only offered so far, negative comments. Catherine Hostetler: I that exception with that. We have worked very hard to analyze this situation and restoration is not a negative. Joann Sporleder: There is no restoration involved with anything that anyone has said. You can restore the windows but you have not solved the problem of the thermal insulation and its therefore useable livability. One of the things this Commission has tried to do over all the years is to find acceptable solutions to real -live problems. This is not a museum, folks. This is a house that people live in and want to live in on a daily basis. And unless we can provide adequate guidance for people to live in their houses, as most people like to live in their houses, then we have totally failed. Shawn Peterson: Is there any other discussion regarding the issue here? Lynn Patrick: We have a member of the public that wishes to make a comment. Shawn Peterson: That is within your discretion, obviously. You are past the public hearing portion. Lynn Patrick: We are past. Shawn Peterson: I guess, a couple of things, one I guess an opportunity to the applicant, "Do you wish to allow them to consider your certificate of appropriateness or withdraw it at this time? Would you like for them to go ahead and proceed" Georges Enderle: I am willing to withdraw it. Shawn Peterson: You wish to withdraw it? Georges Enderle: Yes, I need some days to think about it and then to think about the proposals I am going to make and I also would like to have the right to invite a specialist, a specialist with windows at Notre Dame who restores hundreds of windows and I will discuss the issue with him and my solution. So I would like to have him here so that we have another point of view. And then I also want to second what you (Martha Choitz) have said is very close to my heart. You know, that I studied history quite a lot and history does not mean just applying technical solutions. It is to understand the mind of the people who lived in the house and who constructed the house, etcetera. I mean that's why I personally feel that to place storm windows on those windows as they have been for decades and decades would be a violation of the historical sense. That can discussed, I withdraw this and I will think about it and see if I want to submit two proposals; one for four windows, which I think that is an easier path, and one for the six windows. And also have your permission to invite Tony Polotto from Notre Dame.