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Several years ago I wrote the column Positive Integration for C/C++ Users Journal and later Dr. Dobb's Journal, which discussed issues involved in adapting C/C++ libraries to other languages. The main exemplar project used was recls ("recursive ls") [1], a platform-independent recursive filesystem search library written in C and C++, and with a C API. Adaptation to numerous languages (including Ch, C#/.NET (via
P/Invoke), D, Java, Python, and Ruby) was examined, covering the development of the library from versions 1.0 through 1.6. Since that time, the library has continued to evolve, and now stands at 1.8. A new C/C++ version, 1.9, will be released in the coming weeks.
I have long planned to rework the library implementation. The two main changes will be a substantial refactoring of the source files and packaging for the core library and the C++ layer, and a rewrite of some/all of the language mappings in the form of full "100%" implementations. This article describes the first of these, a 100% C# implementation of recls for .NET. For clarity I'll refer to the original stream of work as recls 1.x and the new .NET library as recls 100% .NET in this article.
The reasons for these changes are:
- The core library has grown to a level of complexity such that I no longer find it easy to make changes
- I wanted to introduce diagnostic logging to the core library; this is included in recls 1.9
- I wanted to ease the burden of deployment. For example, with the .NET mapping in versions up to 1.8, the recls.dll exporting the core C API (for access via
P/Invoke) must be manually packaged along with the C# API in recls.NET.dll. Automated tools (such as Visual Studio) do not automatically copy it to working areas. And organisational security policies may prohibit use of assemblies that call into "unmanaged" code.
- I wanted to take advantage of new features of languages over the last five years. As we'll see shortly, aspects of C# 3 make for improved syntax in client code for non-trivial search use cases
- I wanted to implement two long asked-for features: breadth-first search, and search-depth limiting. recls 1.x provides only depth-first search, and always does a full-depth search.
Despite being written entirely in C#, the implementation of recls 100% .NET is larger than can be fully covered here. So I intend to focus on the interesting design points, language features, and the differences in functionality between recls 1.x and recls 100% .NET.
API Differences
The first difference is a cosmetic one. To placate FxCop [2], and also to clearly distinguish the new recls .NET API from the old for anyone who wishes to port their code to it, I changed the old recls namespace to Recls.
Similarly, the RECLS_FLAG enumeration is now
SearchOptions (see Listing 1), and its enumerators are Files not FILES, Directories not DIRECTORIES, and so on. There are also fewer enumerators. Notably absent from the original [3] are RECURSIVE, LINKS, DEVICES, NO_FOLLOW_LINKS, DIRECTORY_PARTS, DETAILS_LATER, PASSIVE_FTP, and ALLOW_REPARSE_DIRS. The changes reflect the intended increase in portability and improvements to discoverability and transparency [4, 5] of the new API, based on user feedback.
[Flags] public enum SearchOptions { None = 0x00000000, Files = 0x00000001, Directories = 0x00000002, IgnoreInaccessibleNodes = 0x00100000, MarkDirectories = 0x00200000, IncludeHidden = 0x00000100, IncludeSystem = 0x00000200, DoNotTranslatePathSeparators = 0x00002000, }
Listing 1: The SearchOptions enumeration.
FileEntry class is gone, replaced by the
IEntry interface (see Listing 2). The
FtpSearch class goes entirely, as the first version of recls 100% .NET does not support FTP search. The
DirectoryParts class is no longer externally visible; the
DirectoryParts getter-property now returns (an instance implementing) the interface
IDirectoryParts; see Listing 3. The
FileSearch class goes, and search is now provided by the (static)
FileSearcher class.
// in namespace Recls public interface IEntry { string Path { get; } string SearchRelativePath { get; } string Drive { get; } string DirectoryPath { get; } string Directory { get; } string SearchDirectory { get; } string UncDrive { get; } string File { get; } string FileName { get; } string FileExtension { get; } DateTime CreationTime { get; } DateTime ModificationTime { get; } DateTime LastAccessTime { get; } DateTime LastStatusChangeTime { get; } long Size { get; } FileAttributes Attributes { get; } bool IsReadOnly { get; } bool IsDirectory { get; } bool IsUnc { get; } IDirectoryParts DirectoryParts { get; } }
Listing 2: The IEntry interface.
public interface IDirectoryParts : IEnumerable<string> { int Count { get; } string this[int index] { get; } bool Contains(string item); void CopyTo(string[] array, int index); }
Listing 3: The IDirectoryParts interface.
IEntry vs. FileEntry
Table 1 compares the public interfaces of the old
FileEntry class and recls 100% .NET's
IEntry interface. The differences, highlighted in bold, involve changes to both syntax and semantics, and result from lessons learned by users of recls 1.x.
Table 1: Mappings Between Old and New Entry class/interface Methods and Properties.
Drive changed from a character to a string so that there'd be less hassle when manipulating UNC-based paths: Now users can deal with a single property, rather than a drive letter character in one, and a (UNC) drive string in another. The spellings of
UNCDrive and
IsUNC changed to follow .NET idiom. The
Size property changed from
ulong to
long to be CLS compatible (for example, to be able to be used from VB.NET and other .NET languages that don't support unsigned integral types).
IsLink and
ShortFile had to go by the wayside because of the need to be implemented 100% in terms of the CLR facilities (and not go to
P/Invoke). The
Attributes property was added to allow recls to stay relevant in light of evolution in the CLR of the file attributes that may be made available to managed programmers.
There are also some semantic changes. The form of the file extension has changed, and now includes the dot, so "abc.net" will have an extension of ".net", rather than "net" as was the case with recls 1.x. Since this is a breaking change, I've removed the previous name,
FileExt, and given it a new name
FileExtension. (This also fits better with the .NET way of doing things, which is to avoid unnecessary contractions in names.)
It's useful to be able to paste the extension to another file name without having to pollute client code with logic to determine whether or not to insert the dot. Now, all of the following combinations will reproduce the full path (and, to be useful, may be used in combination with other strings to build correctly-formed new paths):
- DirectoryPath + File
- DirectoryPath + FileName + FileExtension
- Drive + Directory + File
- Drive + Directory + FileName + FileExtension


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OMG that rhymes as well
I think Pete has won enough with Nikki's heart so Glyn deserves the winners cheque.
Can't believe it is nearly over again already it does not seem like nearly three months have passed since Shabaz started off the series with a big bang.
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Alec Baldwin let it all hang out on Wednesday's "Late Night with David Letterman."
The "30 Rock" star good-naturedly dropped his trousers to prove that he has lost weight.
But Baldwin's half-naked stunt was just the entree before the evening's main course, as Letterman quickly turned to the elephant in the room: Baldwin's alleged dust-up with a New York Daily News photographer.
U.S. & World
"Let's get to it, shall we?" Baldwin said.
"You're obviously burning to hold up the cover of the Daily News," he added.
"The picture, without knowing the story, tells a tale that's often not true," Letterman said, in reference to a shot of Baldwin allegedly shoving photographer Marcus Santos.
"Honestly, Alec, if this was me — look at how good you look!" Letterman joked.
"I'm forming the letter 'F' with my mouth," Baldwin responded, to big audience applause.
But Baldwin asserts that he wasn't cursing out Santos, who has filed an assault complaint with the NYPD. Baldwin said he was really just asking a technical question.
"I said to him, as I walked to him: what F-stop are you using on the camera?"
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( Based on open source information )
Q.What materials for assembling an improvised explosive device (IED) have been recovered by the authorities of the Dubai airport and the East Midlands airport of the UK from the cargo planes of the FedExpress and the UPS respectively which were searched on a reported tip-off from the Saudi security agencies?
A.Pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) - an explosive favoured by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). PETN belongs to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin. Explosives experts have been quoted by the media as saying that six grams of PETN are enough to blow a hole in the fuselage of an aircraft. The AQAP had used the same explosive in its failed attempt to have an American North-West Airlines plane bound for Detroit in the US blown up on Christmas Day last year through a Nigerian student Abdul Mutallab. That attempt had failed because an alert passenger intervened and overpowered the Nigerian before he could cause the explosion. The CNN affiliate ITN has quoted Col. Richard Kemp, former Chairman of the UK's COBRA intelligence group, as saying that 'the quantity of PETN in these devices was about five times the volume used at Christmas." Abdul Mutallab was alleged to have been carrying about 80 grams of PETN.
The Dubai Police told WAM, the local official news agency, that the explosive materials were "professionally" loaded and connected using an electric circuit to a mobile phone chip tucked in a printer cartridge. According to the CNN, the device was packed in a toner cartridge of a laser printer and designed to be detonated by a cell phone. The package found at the East Midlands Airport contained a "manipulated" toner cartridge and had white powder on it as well as wires and a circuit board. The media has quoted a source associated with the investigationas saying that the detonating substance was Lead Azide, a standard substance in detonations.
The CNN quoted Olivier Clerc, described by it as a hardware application engineering manager for a large U.S.-based cell phone parts manufacturer, as saying as follows on the basis of a study of the images of the neutralized IED carried by the media: " The electronic component visible in a law enforcement image of an intercepted suspicious shipment from Yemen appears to be a printed circuit board from a disassembled cell phone. This size and the shape of the PCB (printed circuit board) are typical to a handset cell phone type device. The component on the top right part of the device seems to be a digital camera sensor. The area with a rectangular grey material [held] a display that was removed. On the left of the device, under the two metallic shield cans are most likely the baseband processor or the display controller. A baseband processor is critical to the function of a digital cell phone. There is as well a coin type cell (which) is a backup battery, and 2 Board to board connectors. On one of these connectors is plugged a keypad that was as well removed. Another metallic component on the top left of the electronic board (partly hidden under a screw) seems to be a small vibration component, used on cell phones (when vibrate mode is enabled). So this board is very likely to be the main electronic board of a cell phone device."
The CNN further added: "A Google search for the numbered markings on the printed circuit board produced several links to the Bird D736 mobile phone. The D736 is a similar shape to the circuit board. The D736 is a Chinese-brand GSM two-band phone that allows the unit to work in most countries in the world, including the United States. Clerc cautioned, however, that "it was not obvious that this board is the D736 phone." In the law enforcement photo, the cell phone circuit board is crudely mounted with screws, metal and plastic fragments to what appears to be a stout metal case. Wires lead from the circuit board out of the frame. Sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN that the suspicious shipments from Yemen contained computer printers. The metal case on which the circuit board is mounted would be consistent with the frame of a laser printer." ( My comment: It is not clear whether the printer cartridge modified to conceal an IED was dispatched alone to the synagogues or whether it was in a printer in a consignment of printers sent to the synagogues. Was or were the printers ordered from Yemen or Dubai by the synagogues? If so, was the cartridge of one of the printers in the consignment modified to conceal an IED? Answers to these questions are not available )
Q.Were the IEDs designed to explode mid-air or on reaching the two synagogues in Chicago to which the packages were addressed?
A.There are contradictory versions in answer to this question. According to the British Prime Minister David Cameron as quoted by the BBC: "We believe the device was designed to go off on the aeroplane. We cannot be sure about the timing when that was meant to take place. There is no early evidence that that was meant to take place over British soil, but of course we cannot rule it out." According to the CNN: "Officials weren't certain whether those behind the plot, who likely would have used cell phones to trigger the devices, wanted to detonate them while the planes were in the air or at their destinations, two synagogues in Chicago, Illinois." CNN reported that UK Home Secretary Theresa May said authorities do not believe the perpetrators would have known the location of the device had they detonated it.
Q.Are there previous instances of planes being blown-up mid-air using mobile phones?
A.On August 24, 2004, there were two explosions on board two aircraft which had taken off from a Moscow airport which led to the disintegration of the planes and the death of 90 persons, including all the passengers and the members of the crew. The Russian authorities claimed to have established that two Chechen women from Grozny had a role in the explosions. It was suspected that they had checked in their baggage containing IEDs with mobile phones as triggers and traveled by the flight and that the IEDs were activated after the planes had taken off by sending mobile signals. Please see my article of September 6,2004, titled TERRORISM: THE RUSSIAN ORDEAL athttp://www.southasiaanalysis.
Q.What has been the progress of the investigation so far?
A.According to the BBC, security forces in Yemen have arrested a female medical student suspected of posting bombs found on two cargo jets in Dubai and the UK. She was held at a house in the capital, Sanaa, after being traced through a phone number left with a cargo company. According to the AFP news agency, the unnamed young Yemeni woman, described as a medical student and the daughter of a petroleum engineer, was arrested at a house on the outskirts of Sanaa. Her mother was also detained but was not a prime suspect, the arrested woman's lawyer said. ( My comments: It is possible she was used as an unconscious cut-out by the AQAP. If she was a conscious cut-out who was aware of the nature of the contents, she might not have left her correct telephone number with the courier company )
Q.Any additional security precautions required for the forthcoming visit of President Barack Obama to India the coming week?
- Trace all packages that might have been received in India from Yemen in recent weeks and have them examined. Question their recipients.
- Suspend all parcel movements from Yemen till the visit is over.
- Suspend all flights from Yemen to India till the visit is over.
- Step up surveillance of Yemeni and Nigerian nationals studying in India .
- Strengthen physical security for all Jewish establishments in India. If Obama plans to visit the Jewish establishment in Mumbai which was attacked by the Lashkar-e-Toiba during the 26/11 terrorist strikes, strengthen physical security for it. ( 31-10-10)
( The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com )


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Harminv is a free program (and accompanying library) to solve the problem of harmonic inversion — given a discrete-time, finite-length signal that consists of a sum of finitely-many sinusoids (possibly exponentially decaying) in a given bandwidth, it determines the frequencies, decay constants, amplitudes, and phases of those sinusoids.
It can, in principle, provide much better accuracy than straightforwardly extracting FFT peaks, essentially because it assumes a specific form for the signal. (Fourier transforms, in contrast, attempt to represent any data as a sum of sinusoidal components, and are thus limited by the uncertainty principle.) It is also often more robust than directly least-squares fitting the data (which can have problematic convergence), since it re-expresses the problem in terms of simply finding the eigenvalues of a small matrix.
Harminv uses a low-storage "filter diagonalization method" (FDM) for finding the sinusoids near a given frequency interval, based on the algorithm described in (see also below):
- V. A. Mandelshtam and H. S. Taylor, "Harmonic inversion of time signals," J. Chem. Phys. 107 (17), 6756-6769 (1997). Erratum, ibid. 109 (10), 4128 (1998).
This kind of spectral analysis has wide applications in many areas of physics and engineering, as well as other fields. For example, it could be used to extract the vibrational or "eigen" modes of a system from its response to some stimulus, and also their rates of decay in dissipative systems. FDM has been applied to analyze, e.g., NMR experimental data. It is especially appropriate for analyzing numerical simulations, e.g. of quantum mechanics or classical electromagnetism. In general, it is useful when you know on physical grounds that your system consists of a small number of decaying & oscillating modes in the bandwidth of interest, plus a limited amount of noise, and is not appropriate to analyze completely arbitrary waveforms.
Harminv was developed by Steven G. Johnson (firstname.lastname@example.com), and is free software that should install under any Unix-like operating system (e.g. GNU/Linux).
The latest version is Harminv 1.4, which can be downloaded in source-code form at:
What's new in each version is described in the Harminv release notes. Harminv is distributed under the GNU GPL and comes with NO WARRANTY (see the license for more details). Development sources can be found on GitHub:
It would be courteous of you to cite Harminv and its author in any publication for which you find it useful, in addition to citing a Mandelshtam reference (either the one above or the review article below).
To install, please see our installation instructions. The main requirement is that you first install the BLAS and LAPACK libraries.
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A Python interface to Harminv was developed by Aaron O'Leary: pharminv.
Please file bug reports or feature requests as harminv Github issues.
Most users will employ Harminv via the standalone
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Essentially, the FDM algorithm works by considering the time-series to be the autocorrelation function of a fictitious dynamical system, such that the problem of finding the frequencies and decay constants is re-expressed as the problem of finding the eigenvalues of the complex-symmetric time-evolution operator of this system. The key point is that, if you are only interested in frequencies within a known band-limited region, the matrix elements of this operator can be expressed purely in terms of Fourier transforms (or, really, z transforms) of your time-series. Then, one can simply diagonalize a small matrix (size proportional to the bandwidth and the number of frequencies) to find the desired result.
In general, for M data points and J frequencies, the time required is O(M J) + O(J3). The main point of the algorithm is not really speed, however, but rather the effective solution of a typically ill-conditioned fitting problem. (Even closely-spaced frequencies, large numbers of modes, and/or weak decay rates can often be resolved reliably by FDM, whereas a straightforward fit of the data or its spectrum is problematic in such cases.)
Some additional references on this method are:
- Michael R. Wall and Daniel Neuhauser, "Extraction, through filter-diagonalization, of general quantum eigenvalues or classical normal mode frequencies from a small number of residues or a short-time segment of a signal. I. Theory and application to a quantum-dynamics model," J. Chem. Phys. 102 (20), 8011-8022 (1995). (This is a precursor of the Mandelshtam & Taylor method.)
- V. A. Mandelshtam and H. S. Taylor, "Harmonic inversion of time signals," J. Chem. Phys. 107 (17), 6756-6769 (1997). Erratum, ibid. 109 (10), 4128 (1998).
- H. Hu, Q. N. Van, V. A. Mandelshtam, and A. J. Shaka, "Reference deconvolution, phase correction, and line listing of NMR spectra by the 1D filter diagonalization method," J. Magnetic Resonance 134, 76-87 (1998).
- Rongqing Chen and Hua Guo, "Efficient calculation of matrix elements in low storage filter diagonalization," J. Chem. Phys. 111 (2), 464-471 (1999).
- V. A. Mandelshtam, "FDM: the filter diagonalization method for data processing in NMR experiments," Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 38, 159-196 (2001). (Review article.)
Newer twists that we have not yet implemented include:
- J. Chen and V. A. Mandelshtam, "Multiscale filter diagonalization method for spectral analysis of noisy data with nonlocalized features," J. Chem. Phys. 112 (10), 4429-4437 (2000).
- V. A. Mandelshtam, "On harmonic inversion of cross-correlation functions by the filter diagonalization method," J. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry 2 (4), 497-505 (2003).
...as well as other variants, such as multidimensional FDM, described in the 2001 review article above.


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Merry Christmas everyone! Today was a day filled full of old Christmas movies (A Christmas Story, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, and Home Alone to name a few), a little bit of shopping, and some fun craft time.
Full on craftin'
The proud girls with their creations
I did it all be myself, I swear!
Following dinner with our famous homemade pizza, the girls took quick baths and then got to open one present.
One of Violet's handmade goodies
Sylvia's GoldieBlox
Both were then very happy to go to bed, knowing Santa is on his way. Last check on NORAD, he was dropping off gifts in England. He will be here soon!


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Lone young wildlife usually have an unseen mother watching nearby
PRATT -- Every spring and early summer, hundreds of "orphaned" wild animals are picked up when they would do perfectly well left alone. In most cases, the intended "rescue" results in a death sentence. If the animal does end up in the hands of a professional wildlife rehabilitator, its chances are better but still not good. And over-worked rehabilitators have enough to do with animals that are genuinely injured.
Bird and animal mothers will often leave their young in search of food during the day. Humans entering the area are often convinced that the young have been abandoned and pick them up in order to "save" them. Unfortunately, such action almost always leads to the animals' death, sometimes slowly and painfully.
In addition to the damage done to wild species, the health risk to humans picking up wild animals is high. Rabies is common to many species of wild animals. Raccoons often carry a parasite which attacks the brain. Deaths can, and have occurred from this parasite.
It must also be emphasized that picking up these young animals -- under any circumstances -- is against the law. Both the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment have regulations against such activity. Fines can be as much as $1,000.
Wild animals are better off left in the wild. They are not puppies or kittens and are seldom tamed, even by those who know what they are doing. They cannot legally be inoculated by veterinarians, and few people really know how to care for them.
If you see young animals in the wild this spring or summer, consider yourself lucky to have seen them. But remember, their mother is most likely hunting or watching nearby. Leave them to the wild world where they belong.


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[Hector] Santiago, 24, entered Tuesday's scheduled off-day for the White Sox as a veritable lock to break camp as one of the team's seven relievers. He threw a scoreless inning against the Reds during Monday's 1-0 loss at Camelback Ranch, giving him six without allowing a run this spring, while striking out six.
And the screwball has played a major part in this success.
… After being selected in the 30th round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft, Santiago made 129 of his first 130 appearances out of the bullpen for Bristol, Class A Kannapolis and Class A Winston-Salem. He started 23 games for Winston-Salem and Double-A Birmingham in 2011, before pitching 5 1/3 scoreless innings in relief for the White Sox, giving up just one hit.
His impressive debut with the White Sox and continued success in Spring Training has caught the eye of the higher-ups in the organization.
"You know, we may take a [Chris] Sale approach with him," said White Sox general manager Ken Williams of Santiago, who also could work as a late-inning left-hander. "We might keep him in the bullpen and then look to start him down the line."
Speaking of pitches, Jake Petricka wants to continue developing his breaking stuff:
The harshest critic of Jake Petricka is … Jake Petricka.
Armed with a mid-90 mph fastball that most deem to be a "plus" offering — scouting jargon for beyond big league average — the White Sox's No. 5 prospect shrugged and said he believed it to be only average. OK, he relented, maybe slightly above average.
Despite receiving an invitation to Chicago's Major League camp this spring, it's clear the 23-year-old right-hander is wary of becoming a one-pitch pitcher destined for the bullpen. He's intent on improving his secondary pitches — a changeup and a slider — necessary ingredients for a future in the rotation.
Petricka finished 2011 in Class A Advanced Winston-Salem's starting rotation. He went 7-8 with a 3.65 ERA over a career-high 113 1/3 innings across three lower levels before working exclusively as a reliever in the Arizona Fall League. Impressing others, if not himself, in either role this month likely would lead to a spot with Double-A Birmingham.
MiLB.com asked Petricka to describe and grade each of the three pitches he employs, fastball included. (His grade is based on a scout's traditional 20-80 scale, 50 being Major League average.) Here is Petricka, in his own words:
Other White Sox links:
- Chris has an excellent post on the Birmingham Barons new publicly-financed park.
- J.J. looks at Gavin Floyd future, and Jake Peavy's bullpen comments.
- James looks at Dayan Viciedo's future.
- Chris Kamka says the Jackie Robinson could've broken the color barrier in a White Sox uniform.
- John Sickels likes Nestor Molina.


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Spring is here on our calendars, but it sure doesn't feel like it here in New York! Everyone is still walking around bundled up in… you guessed it, cowls! They were the word on the street this winter when we brought you the Big Herringbone Cowl, and as we move into spring, cowls are here to stay, now in cool cottons and spring colors. It's really no wonder we love the cowl: no questions of wrapping or tying, no loose ends dragging through mud puddles and no getting caught in subway doors! I'm sold!
And so for spring, I decided to make a cuddly soft cotton cowl because April is no picnic! For the main yarn we chose Blue Sky's superlatively cozy Worsted Cotton in the subtle color Drift, a pale, pale gray, almost white. To it we added Olympus's Sashiko Thread in bright, beachy stripes. The simple matte cotton of the Sashiko Thread and the casually natural Worsted Cotton conspire to make a no-fuss cowl with a whole lot of style. A little off kilter, a little rustic and a lot charming!
- 3 skeins of Blue Sky's Worsted Cotton, 100% Cotton. This color is Drift.
- Olympus's Sashiko Thread, 40 meters, 100% Cotton. I used 3 skeins of Off White; 2 skeins of each of the following colors: Carrot Orange, Yellow, Gold and Aqua; and 1 skein of Red and of Navy. (If you'd like to design your own stripes, it will be helpful to know that the whole cowl uses 400 yards of yarn and each skein of Sashiko Thread is 44 yards, so at minimum you'll need 9 or 10 skeins.)
You'll also need…
- US 10 knitting needles, either circular or straight
4 1/4 stitches = 1 inch in garter stitch
Finished Dimensions: 60 inches around and 8 1/2 inches wide
- When this pattern refers to "ridges", it means a garter stitch ridge which is formed by knitting two rows. Counting "ridges" is an easy way to determine how many rows you have knitted without having to count as you work. If you find this confusing, just multiply the number of ridges given by 2 and that is how many rows you should knit (ie 3 1/2 ridges is 7 rows).
- You will always be knitting with one strand of the Blue Sky Cotton, called the Main Yarn (MY), and one strand of Sashiko Thread. It's easy! Just pull a strand from each of the two balls. Don't worry about anything except making sure you get your needle under both strands as you knit.
- To avoid an overwhelming number of ends to weave in, I knit some of the ends in as I worked. Just hold the tail(s) with the working yarns and knit it along for four or five stitches. Hardly noticeable and very time saving!
With the Main Yarn (MY) and the Off White Sashiko Thread, use a Provisional Cast On to cast on 36 stitches. (Why a provisional cast on? So that at the end of the project you can graft the cast on and cast off ends together, avoiding a seam. However, if you find a provisional cast on a bit overwhelming, then just cast on normally, and when you're finished you can sew the two ends together. Your cowl will still be beautiful!)
Knit 3 ridges. Cut the Off White Thread.
With the MY and the Orange, knit 15 1/2 ridges. Cut the Orange Thread.
With the MY and the Yellow, knit 7 ridges.
You will continue in this pattern, cutting the old Thread at the end of each section and adding the new Thread at the beginning of the next section. Here is how the stripe sequence continues:
- 2 1/2 ridges with Navy.
- 11 ridges with Off White.
- 1 1/2 ridges with Red.
- 6 ridges with Off White.
- 3 1/2 ridges with Aqua.
- 2 ridges with Orange.
- 8 1/2 ridges with Aqua.
- 12 ridges with Gold.
- 5 1/2 ridges with Yellow.
- 4 ridges with Off White.
- 2 1/2 ridges with Red.
- 4 ridges with Orange.
- 12 1/2 ridges with Off White.
- 6 ridges with Aqua.
- 2 1/2 ridges with Navy.
- 4 ridges with Gold.
- 1 1/2 ridges with Aqua.
- 15 ridges with Yellow.
- 3 1/2 ridges with Red.
- 3 ridges with Off White.
- 6 1/2 ridges with Orange.
- 2 ridges with Off White.
- 13 1/2 ridges with Gold.
- 4 ridges with Aqua.
- 1 1/2 ridges with Red.
- 3 ridges with Gold.
- 4 1/2 ridges with Off White.
- 9 ridges with Yellow.
- 4 1/2 ridges with Navy.
- 14 ridges with Aqua.
- 1 1/2 ridges with Off White.
Cut both yarns, leaving a tail approximately 36 inches long.
Preparing to Graft
Bring the ends of the cowl around to meet each other, making VERY sure that there are no twists in the fabric (unless, of course, you intentionally want one!).
Pick up the 36 stitches of the Provisional Cast On (check our tutorial for how-to's), making sure, if you're using straight needles, that the ends of your needles are pointing the same way. If you're using circular needles, you'll need to ensure that the tail is situated at one end, not caught in the middle of your needles.
For the grafting to be seamless you need one end of the cowl to have ended on a purl row and the other end to have ended on a knit row. Look closely at the rows closest to your needles and double check that this is the case. If it's not, then take out the last row you knit, and reorient your stitches on the needle so the tail is still at the end.
Here's how ending with a purl row looks (see how the purl bumps are snug up against the needle?):
And here's how ending with a knit row looks (see how the last row looks like little "v's", aka knit stitches?):
Now thread the tail onto a tapestry needle and you're ready to begin the Kitchener Stitch.
Kitchener Stitch
NOTE: For a detailed Kitchener Stitch tutorial, click here. It's important to know that our tutorial shows how to graft two pieces of stockinette together, while here we're grafting together two pieces of garter stitch. So the order of our steps will be slightly different than the tutorial's, but you may still find it very helpful.
The first two steps of Kitchener Stitch are set up steps and only happen once at the beginning. Holding the two knitting needles parallel to each other, thread the yarn through the first stitch of the FRONT needle (the needle closer to you) as if to PURL and LEAVE the stitch on the needle.
Next, thread the yarn through the first stitch of the BACK needle as if to PURL and LEAVE it on the needle.
That completes the set up. Continue…
Step 1: Thread the yarn through the first stitch of the FRONT needle as if to KNIT. REMOVE the stitch from the needle.
Step 2: Thread the yarn through the next stitch on the FRONT needle as if to PURL. LEAVE it on the needle.
Step 3: Thread the yarn through the first stitch on the BACK needle as if to KNIT. REMOVE it from the needle.
Step 4: Thread the yarn through the next stitch on the BACK needle as if to PURL. LEAVE it on the needle.
Repeat Steps 1 through 4 until two stitches remain, then KNIT the FRONT stitch and REMOVE it and KNIT the BACK stitch and REMOVE it.
A LITTLE TIP: After years of messy grafting, I've finally learned that holding my index finger between the knitting needles creates good tension and a neat finish! Like this:
Now all that's left to do is to weave in any ends you have left and to enjoy on your new Striped Cotton Cowl!


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Denise Richards -- I Can't Be the Guardian of Brooke Mueller's Kids -- I'M OUT
Denise Richards I'm Out!
Denise Richards told the L.A. County Dept. of Children and Family Services ... she cannot care for Bob and Max, the twins of Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller, because she claims her own kids are in danger and she feels Brooke is insane ... sources tell TMZ.
TMZ broke the story ... Denise and Brooke had a sit-down Thursday with Dr. Charles Sophy, the DCFS Medical Director. We're told Denise told Sophy what we reported ... that Bob and Max were violent and attacked her daughters numerous times. She said she couldn't control the twins and could no longer serve as temporary guardian.
Sources say Denise told Sophy what we reported ... that the only way she would continue on as guardian is if the kids got the psychological help Brooke had blocked.
Our sources say Sophy has not given up ... he believes there is still room to keep Denise in the game.
As it stands now ... our sources say DCFS is looking for another guardian if they can't change Denise's mind. The problem is ... Brooke's mom won't do it and the options are not attractive.
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Madden 25, EA Sports' upcoming football game, is a two-headed monster.
On the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, it's a promise to gamers who stuck with the series and begged for more gameplay options and features. On the Xbox One and Playstation 4, it's a glimpse into the future. With a new gameplay and visual engines and a brand-new step-based locomotion system, Electronic Arts believes the pigskin action will never be the same.
"There's that wow factor when you pick up the controller," said Electronic Arts Football General Manager Cam Weber. "It feels amazing."
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A celebration of 25 years of the franchise, EA Sports spent significant time developing a next generation football game they felt would change the genre. On the PS4 and Xbox One, the IGNITE gameplay engine will have approximately 300 "live" characters on both sidelines, reacting to the action, as well as a crowd that looks more "real" than the cardboard cut-outs and static virtual fans gamers of all ages have become accustomed to over the years.
The new True Step Locomotion system also promises a better rushing game. Madden 2013 focused heavily on passing and True Step, combined with the enhanced A.I., makes offensive linemen, as well as defensive players, more aware of the on-field developments. The end result, Weber says, is a more authentic and instinctual game of football, with authentic route running, more realistic downfield blocking and better moving player models.
"Every individual step in our game is calculated," Weber said. "In previous games, there were a lot of looping and repeating running animations, without a lot of fidelity in terms of what each individual step would do. Now, with the power of the new consoles, we can make a lot of calculations with every single frame. There will be a precision to every footstep."
But what about the current consoles? Regardless of the effort the company has put into the next generation version of Madden, EA Sports said all the work on the PS4/Xbox One edition actually helped refine what may be the last hurrah for the series on the PS3 and 360.
Weber said that the run-blocking and locomotion system on the PS3 and 360 will be markedly improved because EA was able to transfer over "tidbits" of the new technology to the current generation version. With those improvements and the new and developed gameplay modes such as the "Connected Franchise" and "Owner Mode," EA Sports is confident they haven't left PS3 and 360 owners out to pasture.
"We wanted to deliver on the promises," said Weber. "We wanted to add all the depth and polish. 25 years of innovation-make Madden 25 the most polished experience we could."
Check out this gameplay video of Madden 25 below:
Madden 25 is scheduled for an August 27 release on the PS3 and 360. No release date has been confirmed for the PS4 and Xbox One versions.


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It's Friday.
Ready to get clicking?
First off, here is an interesting article/interview from author Dr. Judi Hollis who wrote the book "From Bagels to Buddha, How I Found my Soul and Lost my Fat"
I love this kind of gardening. Makes it more cleaner, modern. This is a sunken-planter-buried pot garden from apartment therapy.
Sun dried tomato butter. Sounds so good. With corn on the cob? Oh yes.
Tips for hosting a "stress free" Al Fresco pot luck. The tips really are helpful; a couple I would have never thought of.
Here is a good list of 25 "no-bake" desserts. The good ones too. Not just crappy jello.
Isn't this chair gorgeous? They have other colors too. From johnlewis.com
Hand painted mural in silver & pink with butterflies. So pretty.
Why burnout is causing you to pack on the pounds.
Can't afford all those high-priced raw smoothies for cleansing/detoxing? Try this article: Cleansing tips for the rest of us.
22 Kettleball exercises.
10 different tips for relieving stress. (these actually make sense, I was shocked).
This is great. 47 skills you need for surviving home ownership. Excellent list. From This Old House.
Lemon ice box bars from bakeorbreak.com
Buffalo chicken sushi!! From closetcooking.com
Here is a great video of earth from space. One of my favorites to watch when I've had a really bad day. Everything is real, nothing is enhanced. Look for the lighting at night.
Famous actors and their stunt doubles. The Angelina one is not even close.
Cantaloupe and campari ice pops! from flavorwire.com
Chickpea fries. From flavorwire.com
Do you love tiki bars and tiki theme? I do. Everything you need to know about tiki bars. Love this.
8 kinds of food poisoning and how to avoid them.
List of Summer Reads (just click on image for info):
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Middle Eastern Courses
An Introduction to Modern Arab Society – ARBC 100
This course surveys the main issues of debate in modern Arab society: social, intellectual and political. Focusing on key turning points in the 20th century, this course examines changes in definitions of identity, modernist thought, nationalism, and views of the West in the Arab world. Students will analyze representative samples of these trends, including social and literary debates, novels, memoirs, poetry, the media, films, and popular music. These texts depict Arab society in a state of transition and change.
The course will include key forms of modern Arabic literary genres (i.e. poetry, novels, theatre, short stories), providing a glimpse at Arab society and culture. Readings include literary works written by prominent authors, dealing with dominant cultural topics such as nationalism, religion, gender and women issues, the role of the family and kinship, and social concepts and taboos. Selected texts help delineate the cultural uniqueness of the Arab world, and will include certain major works by authors such as prominent cultural critic and poet Adonis, and leading intellectuals George Tarabishi and Mohammed Abed Al Jabari. Representative samples of poetry and short stories will be covered from throughout the contemporary Arab world.
Advanced Arabic: Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation – ARBC 110
The course "Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation" offers a window into the richness and sophistication of modern Arabic poetry. It focuses on major themes in Arabic poetry, and will cover the most important poetic texts and works written by the leading Arab poets in contemporary times. It begins with providing a necessary overview of classical Arabic poetic traditions, including pre-Islamic poetry. The course also offers insights into critical aspects of modern Arab culture. It examines the influence of Western literature on modern Arabic poetry and discusses the significant role of modern Arab poets within Arab society. Modern Arabic Poetry in Translation will be taught in English.
The Arabic Novel in Translation – ARBC 115
This course will focus on a close reading in translation of a number of important twentieth-century Arabic novels. These texts have been chosen both for their exceptional literary merit and for the fact that their themes and forms reflect the distinctive features of Arab modernity. The seminar's guiding principle is that literature includes politics, history, and culture, and not vice versa.
These novels portray the region's perennial problems of political tyranny, military defeat and exile, patriarchy, and the complex relationship with the West. Because Arab modernity was both accelerated in relation to its Western counterparts and profoundly influenced by the West's wars and technology, the Arabic novel offers new insights into the manner in which the novel is related to Western narrative and literary theory.
Readings in Modern Arabic Poetry – ARBC 120
The course will provide students with a broad theoretical background and representation of the diversity and richness of modern Arabic poetry. This course will explore and analyze the poetic scene of the Arab world by reading the poetry of leading Arab poets in the Arabic language. The selected poems will focus on major themes in contemporary Arab life. The course will discuss the trends and movements of modern Arabic poetry and talk about the artistic, political and cultural dimensions as reflected in the writings of the best Arab poets.
This course will not only be taught in Arabic, but all discussions and presentations will be conducted in Arabic, as well as all written work. After reading and understanding the poems, their vocabulary, idioms, and expressions, we will discuss their artistic and ideological semantics. By the end of the semester, students will be able to place major Arab poets into the correct theoretical and historical context and their place and role in the modern poetic movement.
Prerequisite: Readings in Modern Arabic Poetry 120 will be taught in Arabic and is open to all students who have successfully completed Arabic 44 or equivalent.
Readings in Modern Arabic Prose - ARBC 130
This course explores Arabic prose, and how it depicts the relationship between the East and the West, and creates and fosters debate on the relationship. The Arabic novel explores issues of modernist, postmodern, and postcolonial themes. This is of literary and intellectual value to the student who will examine the Arabic novel and other forms of Arabic prose and find a rich field for comparative analyses with Western and other non-Western literature.
Prerequisite: Readings in Modern Arabic Prose, ARBC 130, will be taught in Arabic and is open to all students who have successfully completed Arabic 44 or equivalent.
Advanced Arabic: Readings in Modern Arab Culture and Thought - ARBC 166
This is an advanced course which will be taught in Arabic, and all discussions and presentations will be conducted in Arabic, as well as all written work. The course will be organized in a seminar format, and will include readings in Arabic of some of the most important and influential Arab writers and intellectuals in the last hundred years. The selected works are a reflection of major trends and movements in Arab culture and thought, and will include excerpts from amongst the texts below. The reading list will change over time to keep current.
Trends and Movements in the Modern Middle East – ARBT 190
The Senior Seminar in Middle East Studies will serve as the capstone for the Middle East Studies major at CMC. All majors are required to take the semester-long seminar in their senior year. The course will provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of the most prominent trends and movements in the social, political, religious, and cultural arenas of the Middle East. The course is intended to provide the opportunity to focus more intensely on several major themes including: 1) the emergence of the Modern Middle East, 2) intellectual currents of the last century, and 3) Islamic political movements. The seminar will have a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on concepts from political science, history, language, and literature.


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beyond beautiful … I'm so happy for all of you!
My son's first year was absolutely overwhelming, kicked off after the first week when family left us and here I was, mostly alone in December, in snowy, cold-ass New York, with this new life in my care. It's scary and unbelievable and all the damned Benjamin Spock & Penelope Leach books & parenting blogs out there amount to a grain of fucking sand in the face of an actual infant's needs.
Selfishly speaking: Damn, I wish what you wrote today existed 11 years ago. But hot damn, lady, it is here now and I'm so glad it is. Rock on, mama.
Okay, now I'm verklempt.
I have no children of my own; my mother died almost exactly a year ago.
So a bit of a weird Mother's Day for me this year.
But I have Mrs. Gummo, who cares for me and our two felines as fiercely as any mother would.
Good reminder that, no matter the circumstances, we should be grateful for those who care for us, and those we care for.
Beautifully done. Made me cry and laugh at the same time. No need to tell you, but treasure Kick. It's true. They really do grow up too damn fast!
That's one lucky little girl to have you as her mom, sweetie
Damned allergies…
A, you will do just fine. There's one rule – if that wonderful child wants to play, stop what you are doing and play. I was so fascinated watching my children learn and grow that I didn't want to do anything else. Relax and enjoy her. Make memories.
Oh, damn, now you made me cry.
I'd like to know my anesthesiologist's name too, so I could go back and smack him. When the doctor went in with forceps (they did that a lot, back then) to get Son out, I yelled, loud, the way you do when you are being pulled apart.
Anesthesiologist came in and said, "Was that you yelling? I'm disappointed in you."
If I hadn't be in stirrups, giving birth, I'd have levitated, flown across the room, grabbed him by the throat, and said, "Listen, asshole, you are completely confused as to who is disappointed in whom."
Congratulations to you on your first Mother's Day and all blessings to the brave young woman who made you a mother.
You are incredible, you know that?
beautiful and beautifully written, A
That is/was beautiful.
Make sure she reads your post when she gets older. Beautiful.
Are you so sure that your inability to breastfeeding was due to a C-section? I had a C-section and I nursed my daughter for two and a half years. Also, is age a barrier to breastfeeding? I know that teenagers are less likely to breastfeed than older women, but you don't sound like a teenager.
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Cooking with a Friend: Cooking without a Plan
Jennifer Maiser writes about locally and sustainably grown food. The Cooking with a Friend series chronicles her cooking and menu planning adventures with her neighbor, J.
This week, as we did in week 5, J. and I purchased a CSA box of vegetables. It was chock full of seasonal produce including green beans, new potatoes, cauliflower, alliums of all sorts, cucumbers, and fennel. "Does it make you itchy," I asked J. on email, "to try this week's menu on the fly tomorrow?" We had enough vegetables in the fridge and grains in the pantry, and I figured that by adding a few protein elements we could just improvise the menu when we got together on Sunday. To add to the vegetables, we purchased a whole chicken, a pork tenderloin, bacon, and eggs. When J. came over on Sunday, we spent a few minutes looking through the vegetables and making some decisions.
Cooking without an exact meal plan worked out okay for us during this specific week, but I'm not sure it's repeatable on a regular basis. Our menu, as you'll see below, didn't end up using the bacon or the eggs. Both ingredients were fine to hold over for a week or two, but it made our costs for this week a bit higher than normal.
A couple months ago, my friend Sam made delicious potatoes for a few friends during a girls' weekend away to the Russian River. I asked her for the recipe, and made them for J. and I. It was the first dish we've made that we gobbled up while we were cooking instead of saving it for the week. We convinced ourselves that the potatoes wouldn't be nearly as tasty when reheated, and that gave us free reign to eat the entire dish. If you'd like to recreate the perfect roasted potato, Sam uses this recipe from Delia Smith.
This week didn't have any other revelatory recipes, as most of them were things that we'd made before. Mark Bittman's chicken under a brick is becoming a staple as it's delicious and good to reheat. Much of the rest of the menu was dictated by the vegetables we had, and the lentil salad has been seen on our menus before. To make the pork tenderloin, we sliced it and marinated it for an hour or two in a spicy-soy marinade that I made up, then put it on a stove-top grill to quickly cook.
While the plan during cooking was to create a dish of pork and vegetables to be served over rice, both J. and I ended up eating the components in unconventional ways. One day, I ate the pork with rice, and the next, I ate all the stir-fried vegetables tossed with pasta. I really appreciate the flexibility of our menus for this reason. While the basis of the meal is created, there's still room to change up the menu during the week.
The food that we cooked during week eleven turned out successfully, but the cost, the food overage, and the initial chaos of the kitchen reminded me why we normally make a meal plan beforehand and stick to it.
Final Menu, Week 11
- Chicken under a brick
- Stir fry rice bowl with vegetables and grilled pork tenderloin
- Roasted potatoes
- Roasted cauliflower
- Roasted asparagus
- Lentil Salad
Cost: $44 each
Average weekly cost to date: $36 each


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On my home Kubuntu 11.10 machine I have discovered that I cannot upload via FTP any single files that is larger than 5791 bytes. I have tried to two different FTP servers (not anonymous rather my employer's FTP servers) using Konqueror, GFTP, and Krusader. Also, to both of those servers other people can upload larger files just fine. I do not know if the issue is my Kubuntu desktop or possibly my router / ISP blocking. I tried changing the MTU as per this question however it did not resolve the issue. How might I troubleshoot that? I don't have any other computers here at home to FTP to / from.
I have no problem uploading larger files via SSH from this same machine, the problem only manifests with FTP. Note also that I can only connect with passive mode (-p on the CLI).
Here is example output:
ftp> put smallFile.txt
local: smallFile.txt remote: smallFile.txt
227 Entering Passive Mode (50,63,78,1,198,219)
150 Accepted data connection
226-File successfully transferred
226 0.837 seconds (measured here), 48.98 bytes per second
41 bytes sent in 0.00 secs (494.3 kB/s)
ftp> put largeFile.txt
local: largeFile.txt remote: largeFile.txt
227 Entering Passive Mode (50,63,78,1,198,224)
150 Accepted data connection
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
7785 bytes sent in 0.00 secs (62315.9 kB/s)
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150 Accepted data connection I will wait for quite some time before the
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At the beginning I thought I wouldn't like Kurt, but he really grew on me to fight for first place.
Darren I felt a real connection with early on. Not sure if this is really a spoiler, but
Pretty much this. I originally abandoned Jeff and started a Darren file when I found out he was.. well, you know (plus when I finally met Darren it was like OMGPERFECT). But then after I went back and he really grew on me.SholtoMaru wrote:I have to say, I loved Darren. He was adorable, and very charming. I loved that slightly insecure underdog vibe to him, and his looks were pretty appealing. I mean, he was really cute. And after him, I loved Jeff. I love those slightly off, strange characters, they're the most interesting, and the most fun!


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NBC: Enthusiasm for Michelle Obama at DNC in 'Stark Contrast' to GOP Convention
On Wednesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent
Chuck Todd cheered Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National
Convention while running down the GOP: "[She] had a hold on the
delegates in this hall in a way that no speaker was able to do in Tampa.
A stark contrast to the Republicans in the way they structured their
convention and with the enthusiasm."
During NBC's live convention coverage Tuesday night, Todd could barely contain his excitement. At one point, he proclaimed that the First Lady "owned this convention...in a way that no speaker owned the floor of the convention in Tampa." Prior to Mrs. Obama's address, Todd applauded "the passion that you see throughout the evening" at the Democratic gathering, and claimed that Republicans "waited for the television cameras to come on" to show similar enthusiasm at their convention.
Later on the Wednesday morning show, fill-in co-host Tamron Hall lead a Today's Professionals
panel segment by praising Michelle Obama as "a true strong woman" who
got rave reviews "not just from Democrats, not from liberals,
Attorney Star Jones gushed: "My favorite line was that, 'Women are more than capable of making decisions about their bodies and their health care'...For a woman to be able to make choices about her own health care in every aspect, that's one of the most important things to me."
NBC chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman chimed in: "This was a confident woman who strode onto that set podium very aware of who she was, what she needed to do. It was an electrifying speech."
Beyond the speech itself, the Today show cast was thrilled by the First Lady's fashion. Co-host Savannah Guthrie, in Charlotte covering the event, eagerly informed viewers: "...the First Lady's making headlines, not just for her speech, but of course, also for her fashion choices. She wore that Tracy Reese dress, J. Crew shoes...a blue-gray hue nail polish that is really the talk of the internet."
News anchor Natalier Morales later revisited the important topic:
While many people thought the First Lady nailed her speech last night at the Democratic National Convention, some, as you heard already, were focused on her gray-blue nails. Her manicure getting a lot of buzz online, with some calling the shade unexpected and trendy. One person said it is sure to spark a craze if we ever figure out the shade and the brand she chose.
Hall remarked that the polish looked similar to a shade "called Fair and Balanced." That prompted weatherman Al Roker to take a swipe at Fox News, which uses the same phrase as its motto: "But you can only put it on your right hand."
Here is a full transcript of Todd's September 5 Today report:
MATT LAUER: Impassioned plea. First Lady Michelle Obama delivers a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention. Reaching out to women, she gets emotional as she talks about her family.
MICHELLE OBAMA: My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
LAUER: Savannah has reaction live from charlotte.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: I'm Savannah Guthrie at the Democratic National Convention here in Charlotte. Matt, I was on this floor last night when Michelle Obama spoke. At times she was fiery. At times she seemed to get choked up. In distinctly personal terms, she made the political case for why the President deserves four more years. And while she never mentioned Mitt Romney by name, and she did not go on attack, and that was by design according to advisers, the contrast she drew between her husband's background and that of his Republican challenger, was not subtle. And as for the President, he arrives in Charlotte today, after watching his wife's speech with their daughters, Sasha and Malia, at the White House. We will have more on the First Lady's speech and President's former chief of staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, joins us live straight ahead, Matt.
GUTHRIE: We're going to begin with the First Lady's speech here at the Democratic National Convention. Chuck Todd is NBC's political director, chief White House correspondent. Chuck, good morning to you.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Today at the Democratic National Convention; Michelle Obama Sets the Stage for the President]
CHUCK TODD: Good morning, Savannah. Well, the first night of the Democratic Convention got off to a rousing start. Culminating with Michelle Obama, the most popular figure in the Democratic Party, who had a hold on the delegates in this hall in a way that no speaker was able to do in Tampa. A stark contrast to the Republicans in the way they structured their convention and with the enthusiasm. Making the case for reelection, First Lady Michelle Obama mixed the personal and the professional in a speech designed to address her husband's biggest vulnerabilities with disillusioned Democrats.
MICHELLE OBAMA: Change is hard, and change is slow, and it never happens all at once.
TODD: With recent polls showing the President's personal likability advantage shrinking over Mitt Romney, Michelle Obama's job was to get Democrats to fall in love again.
OBAMA: When people ask me whether being in the White House has changed my husband, I can honestly say that when it comes to his character and his convictions and his heart, Barack Obama is still the same man I fell in love with all those years ago.
TODD: Her chief role Tuesday, simply playing character witness.
OBAMA: I hear the determination in his voice as he tells me, "You won't believe what these folks are going through, Michelle, it's not right." We've got to keep working to fix this. We've got so much more to do.
TODD: While she never mentioned Romney by name, a few lines about her husband seemed designed to directly contrast him with the Republican.
OBAMA: For Barack, success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
TODD: The speech culminated with the First Lady showing rare public emotion.
OBAMA: My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
TODD: Just before the speech ended, the White House released this photo of the President and their two daughters watching her from Washington, ending a night in Charlotte that was not just about bolstering the President but also hitting Romney, and sometimes hard.
RAHM EMANUEL: Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio, the President said, "I've got your back."
DEVAL PATRICK: Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you Massachusetts was not one of them.
TODD: And the job of appealing to Latinos fell to keynote speaker, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro.
JULIAN CASTRO: My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. And my mother fought hard for civil rights, so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
TODD: Tonight, the featured speaker is former President Clinton, but he's got an interesting opponent night. He's up against the first night, opening night of the NFL, right here on NBC. Savannah.
GUTHRIE: Alright, Chuck Todd, thank you.


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Poll: Obamacare opposition ticks up
As the White House claims to have significantly improved the Obamacare exchange website after a bungled rollout, more than half of all Americans still want to see the Affordable Care Act slimmed down or gone entirely.
Fifty-two percent of those polled in a new Gallup survey said they want the law scaled back or repealed, compared with 50 percent in October.
The majority of that group wants to see the law gone, as 32 percent of those surveyed said it should be repealed altogether.
Thirty-seven percent said they want the law expanded or kept as is.
According to Gallup, since they began polling on the question in January 2011, at least half of Americans have wanted the walked back or repealed in each survey.
Gallup surveyed 1,017 adults from Dec. 3 to 4 for the poll, which has an error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.


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Three students pose for a portrait at a Latin Catholic school in Ader, Jordan.
(photo: Tanya Habjouqa)
In the May edition of ONE, journalist Nicholas Seeley visited some of Jordan's remaining Christian villages and reported on efforts to uphold the faith and adjust to a changing world:
"I have five engineers — boys and girls — out of nine." He grins proudly as he lists their accomplishments: one works as an agricultural engineer for the army, another teaches in Amman, a third is an engineer in Abu Dhabi. The other children are in high school and college. His wife teaches in Smakieh's public schools.
"All scientific knowledge has come to us through the church," says Mr. Hijazine. "We, as Christians, want to be the best in the area."
For years, he says, people from Smakieh have left to pursue higher education, a choice the local church has always encouraged. "They came back bringing new ideas and information with them," continues the educator. "They tried to make us understand or to explain to us how the rest of the world was working and changing. So everything came to us either through the church or through the people who came back."
For more, read A Bridge to Modern Life.


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Institute for Law and Philosophy and Institute for Law and Religion Present John M. Finnis
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- Friday, September 27, 2013 at 5:30 p.m.
Warren Hall, Grace Courtroom
Join the School of Law's Institute for Law and Philosophy and Institute for Law and Religion as John Finnis presents:
"The Tradition of Reason and Justice"
Traditions are at the heart of successful natural sciences and, somewhat differently, of law. Max Weber's distinction between traditional and rational authority – basic to his theory of law – needs modification. More importantly, there is a tradition, fundamentally though not exclusively philosophical, that considers itself the Tradition and seeks to be both reason and tradition. The Tradition flows from the Hebrew prophets, whose theses about creation, freedom, justice, and revelation proved to be sounder – more in line with reality – than the theses of the best Greek philosophers. Focusing on those four topics, the lecture will outline how this remarkable situation has become clearer in the light of what modern natural sciences disclose about reality. It will relate the intellectual situation to certain resultant, dependent concepts: revelation, faith, and doctrine. And it will point to some implications for the understanding of law, and of philosophies such as H.L.A. Hart's and Ronald Dworkin's.
About John Finnis
John Finnis is known for his work in moral, political and legal theory, as well as constitutional law. He joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1995. Currently, Notre Dame shares Finnis with Oxford University, where he has held the positions of lecturer, reader and a chaired professor in law for almost four decades. In addition, he has served as associate in law at the University of California at Berkeley (1965-66), as professor of law at the University of Malawi (Africa) (1976-78) and as the Huber Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the Boston College Law School (1993-94). He is admitted to the English Bar (Gray's Inn). He earned his LL.B. from Adelaide University (Australia) in 1961 and his doctorate from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 1965. His service has included the Linacre Centre for Health Care Ethics (governor since 1981), the Catholic Bishops' Joint Committee on Bioethical Issues (1981-88), the International Theological Commission (1986-92), the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (1990-95) and the Pontifical Academy Pro Vita (2001-present). He has published widely in law, legal theory, moral and political philosophy, moral theology and the history of the late Elizabethan era.
There is no charge to attend, but online registration is requested.
A reception will follow the lecture.
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Parking is available in the Mission Parking Structure (across from the main entrance kiosk) and the law school parking lot. Please allow ample time to park, as campus traffic may be impacted by other large events.


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The groundbreaking ceremony for Lindenwood University-Belleville's $4 million residence hall is scheduled to take place on May 31. Lindenwood University's Board of Directors voted in February to begin construction on the new dormitory as soon as possible.
Lindenwood University-Belleville administrators are working closely with the City of Belleville, Blanton Construction, and Musler Engineering to have the dorm ready for students early in the fall 2013 semester. The university has obtained the appropriate municipal permits for construction.
"The City of Belleville is extremely excited about the continued growth at Lindenwood University-Belleville," said Mark Eckert, Mayor of Belleville. "This dorm marks a significant next step in that growth, and we are excited to be working with Lindenwood to make it a reality."
As a result of the new dorm, campus administrators anticipate the total day student population to increase from the current 780 to 1,000 in the fall. Considering the addition of more degree programs for evening students, LU-Belleville's total student body is expected to exceed 2,000 in the next academic year.
After many years of working with the university and leading the construction of eight dorms on the St. Charles campus, Blanton Construction has become the primary overseer of the new dorm at Lindenwood University-Belleville.
"It's exciting to see the beginnings of dorm construction at Lindenwood Belleville," said Ben Blanton, co-chair of the Lindenwood University Board of Directors and former president of Blanton Construction. "I was on the ground floor of all the growth and construction at Lindenwood University in St. Charles in 1991. It's interesting to be able to witness similar things happening at the Belleville campus now. The City of Belleville has been very supportive from the beginning, and it's a pleasure to work with them."
In addition to the new dorm, LU-Belleville continues to develop its facilities. The former New Freedom Baptist was recently demolished and will be converted into additional parking, thus making up for space lost due to the construction of the dorm.


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I remember hearing both democracy and liberty, but I think we might all be confusing two seperate lines in the movie. In one scene Padme speaks of Democracy, and another she speaks of Liberty... Maybe we're just confusing them?
I assume that includes the digital prints as well, Anthony? Hopefully the upcoming DVD version will get spiced up a little bit though!
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Contractors realigning Interstate 80 with the new Bay Bridge remain on schedule for a Tuesday 5 a.m. opening, reported Bay Bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon on Sunday morning.
Whether or not the bridge will open earlier remains the number one source of speculation out on the bustling construction site as the hundreds of private contractors, tradespeople, consultants and engineers who have helped build the $6.4 billion span over the past 11 years begin to see the finish line.
As of Sunday, Gordon said the work was 80 percent complete. The roadway connection at Yerba Buena Island tunnel was completed at midnight Sunday and contractors continued to grind up a piece of the old eastern span of the bridge to make way for the temporary bicycle and pedestrian trestle.
The bridge has been completely shut down to motorists since Wednesday night while MCM and Flatiron West grind, pave, stripe and install barriers for traffic lanes that will link the bridge at the island and the toll plaza in preparation for the traffic switch-over.
The contractors are also demolishing a 1,000-foot section of the upper westbound deck on the Oakland side and installing in its place a temporary bicycle and pedestrian overpass. Cyclists and walkers will use the temporary wooden trestle starting Tuesday at noon while contractors remove the lower westbound deck and build the permanent path.
And Caltrans is taking advantage of the rare closure and checking off months' worth maintenance chores on the west span within a few days such as steam cleaning the inside of Yerba Buena Island tunnel, replacing the tunnel lights with LEDS to match the new eastern span and lubricating the expansion joints.
In reality, several years of work both big and small remains after the bridge opens to traffic — paint touch-up, final aesthetic lighting, permanent bike and pedestrian path installation in Oakland and punching the path all the way to Yerba Buena Island after the old bridge is demolished. There will be no pedestrian or bicycle access to the island until the path is completed in 2015.
But for the next two days, the focus is on opening the much seismically safer new bridge to motorists by the time they return to work Tuesday after the long holiday.
"We have been very fortunate not to have had a major earthquake before the new span opens," Gordon said.
Another source of speculation Sunday was over the who's who list of dignitaries expected to christen the new bridge at Monday's invitation-only chain-cutting ceremony, set to start at 3 p.m.
"Plenty of people of note," promised Metropolitan Transportation Commission spokesman John Goodwin.
Asked if President Obama would attend, Goodwin said: "That's not a name that's been mentioned thus far."
Various elected and transportation officials will speak, including Metropolitan Transportation Commission Chairwoman and Orinda Mayor Amy Worth. The long-elusive Bay Bridge troll is expected to make a rare appearance. The Pacific Boys Choir of Oakland will sing the national anthem and the Oakland Military Institute will present the colors.
Gov. Jerry Brown is out of state and not scheduled to attend but Lt. Gov. and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to be on hand.
Other scheduled speakers include State Building and Construction Trades Council of California President Robbie Hunter, Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty, Metropolitan Transportation Commission Executive Director Steve Heminger, American Bridge/Fluor Joint Enterprises President Mike Flowers and state Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley.
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