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Hello Diamonddeath, greetings and welcome to the Narutopedia! Thanks for your edit to the File:Nagato Walker.png page.
We do hope that you will stay for a long time. Enjoy your stay as we work to become the best Naruto info site out there. BELIEVE IT!
If you're looking for something to do why not look over the Forums or more specifically Narutopedia Collaboration for a list of projects we're working on. And the Community portal has a lot of recent discussions and places to go listed on it.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- ShounenSuki (Talk) 09:18, 2010 June 23
Re: Problem with Update on Madara's New Mask
I haven't uploaded anything lately. KakerZone X uploaded a pic of Madara's new mask over the pic where Madara surprises Konan, but that has been fixed. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 10:41, September 23, 2010 (UTC)
Re: New Sexy Technique
I just used Photoshop CS3 to remove the watermark. If you give me a link to the original image is, I could probably remove the subtitles the same way. ~ Fmakck - Talk - Contributions 14:53, February 6, 2011 (UTC)
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I apologize. I wasn't aware of your reasons for uploading the image when I deleted it. I thought you had uploaded the image without realizing that there was a near-identical image already in use on the wiki. I've restored the image. ~SnapperTo 06:56, February 20, 2011 (UTC)
Re: Samehada Picture
If i remember correctly you overwrote another user's image from another episode. You can't do that. I don't see it here any more but feel free to reupload it if you want. I seem to be derping a lot lately so if i'm wrong; i apologize in advance. Ifiwasrightthenthisapologymeansnothing>.<--Cerez365™☺ 12:17, April 15, 2011 (UTC)
I reverted it because Samehada was better drawn in the previous image, Ponta and the sword don't matter.--Deva 27 03:17, April 16, 2011 (UTC)
Re: Torune Picture
It doesn't have any licensing. Also, it was an accident that they were shown in the first place. Being that we've never seen an Aburame's eyes before they might look different or something.--Cerez365™☺ 17:39, April 23, 2011 (UTC)
you need to do the form:character or creature to do on the article. For example http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Form:Character
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We have enough images showing his full body...why upload another one? -White Flash-(Talk)- 08:31, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
- You do realize that the image is from a game. We only want Anime and Manga images. -White Flash-(Talk)- 08:39, July 19, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Full Appearances
Assuming you mean Shikaku sure go ahead. Just make sure it's licensed and you're not substituting it for a full bodied image that's there already unless it's better quality or a "true" full-bodied image.--Cerez365™(talk) 05:11, December 19, 2012 (UTC)
Oh, well tailed beasts don't really need that kind of image because the ones in their infobox are already full-bodied. That's probably why it was removed.--Cerez365™(talk) 13:31, December 19, 2012 (UTC)
I'm sorry but its feet are really not an issue. We've never even seen the beast's feet before cononically, suppose it doesn't have any.--Cerez365™(talk) 14:05, December 20, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Rai and Naori Uploads
First of all, your images had bad quality and you uploaded it with JPG format which is not preferred here in this wiki especially for the anime images. That's why I uploaded a better quality (and resolution) of your images with PNG format for better description. —Shakhmoot (Talk) 05:08, December 9, 2013 (UTC)
- Paint does that. and you're welcome —Shakhmoot (Talk) 07:34, December 13, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Colored Pages
Check here to know everything about this issue. —Shakhmoot (Talk) 06:31, April 22, 2014 (UTC)
- Seems so, we'll keep updating when any information is revealed about this issue. —Shakhmoot (Talk) 07:56, April 22, 2014 (UTC)
Re:When Obito attacks himself
To put it simply, the Truth-Seeking Ball Obito shot exploded and his body got hit by the explosion. Sasuke thought Obito had hit himself with his own attack, but Minato concluded that it was because Obito had little to no control over the Ten-Tails and as such had trouble using its power.-- JOA20 08:19, September 19, 2014 (UTC)
- No, it was the explosion. When the Ball was launched, Obito's body was almost transforming into that of the Ten-Tails, and the explosion destroyed the excess mass.-- JOA20 08:38, September 19, 2014 (UTC)


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In a recent post, I responded to the Creationist challenge, "DNA is a program, programs demand a programmer, and that programmer is God" Let's turn to a related idea, that DNA is too complex to have evolved naturally.
DNA (or RNA) becoming more complex, from the first simple cells four billion years ago to humans and other animals today, is explained by evolution, but conservative Christian groups often dogmatically reject evolution. They say that it is incompatible with God creating life in Genesis (in two incompatible stories, but never mind that). Adam didn't evolve from earlier apes, they tell us—that would be yucky. No, God created Adam from dirt, which is far more dignified. And we know that Eve was made from Adam's rib because it's right there in Genesis (leading to the belief, which survives, that men have one fewer ribs than women).
Curiously, they never seem to be troubled by quantum physics, which is far more counterintuitive.
Let's explore a few examples besides evolution where complex comes from simple. The well-known Fibonacci sequence is very simple. Each term is the sum of the two previous terms: F(n + 2) = F(n + 1) + F(n). After {1, 1} as the first two terms, we get:
1 + 1 = 2
2 + 1 = 3
3 + 2 = 5
5 + 3 = 8
8 + 5 = 13
And so on. It's trivially simple, and yet entire books have been written on this simple series and its applications. As one example, the ratio of consecutive terms in the Fibonacci series becomes an increasingly good approximation to phi (φ), the golden ratio. Expressed formally:
And then phi itself is a fascinating number about which entire books have been written. To take just one example of many, phi (φ = 1.618 . . .) is the only number that if you take off the initial one (0.618 . . .) and then invert it (1/0.618 . . .) you get the original back: φ – 1 = 1/φ.
There are many more examples of complex coming from simple, some of which you are already familiar with.
- Crystals and snowflakes are complex but formed from simple physical principles and laws.
- Simple equations can form beautiful, complex, fractal artwork as Julia sets.
- The harmonograph (typically, a pen is controlled by two pendulums as it draws on paper) was invented in the 1800s. A Spirograph creates similar art.
- John Horton Conway's Game of Life is a two-dimensional cellular automaton with three simple rules. The general category of cellular automata also create complex patterns with simple rules.
- The members of social insect colonies—ants, termites, bees—don't have large brains for complex algorithms, and yet they still create complex hives and nests. "A single ant or bee isn't smart, but their colonies are," as National Geographic put it. Starlings are famous for their swarms ("murmurations") that appear to act as a single organism, and many fish swarm. Simple rules govern both.
- A piano has 88 keys but can create a vast number of pieces of music.
- The Periodic Table has 94 naturally occurring elements. From these millions of compounds are possible. Only 19 elements are essential for human life, but these make the thousands of chemicals that are metabolized as food and converted into thousands more to make a healthy human.
- Mathematics has a small set of axioms (a statement declared true because of evidence, not because it derives from simpler axioms) from which derive its fantastic complexity—algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, topology, group theory, linear algebra, probability and statistics, number theory, and so on.
- Pulsars emit a beam of radiation at very precise intervals, measured in milliseconds or seconds. From our vantage point, they're like a lighthouse. The pulses were so curiously regular that an intelligent source was considered, first as interference from the earth and then as a signal from an alien intelligence. We now know that pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation from their poles.
That the complex can come from the simple is no proof that DNA wasn't made by God or that there is no God, but it does illustrate that complexity can be nicely explained with natural means.
Creationists are forced to the very brink of accepting evolution when they agree that antibiotic resistance is caused by random mutation and natural selection acting on bacteria. Add more time (not just years but millions of years), and you get the diversity of life that you see on earth. Somehow Creationists imagine an unexplained shield that prevents one species from eventually becoming another.
At best, they propose an argument from ignorance: Wow—look at how DNA works. What could've caused that?? This is no evidence for God. And what does it say of their arguments that this argument from incredulity is in their arsenal? A god worth believing in wouldn't be hidden.
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'Innocence of Muslims': Who is Sam Bacile?
The man behind video excerpts from an anti-Muslim movie that provoked mobs in Egypt and Libya said Wednesday that he has gone into hiding. But doubts rose about the man's exact identity amid a flurry of false claims about his background and role in the purported film. The filmmaker, who identified himself in a telephone interview with The Associated Press as Sam Bacile, said he is an Israeli-born, Jewish writer and director of Innocence of Muslims. Bacile was the name used to publish excerpts of the movie online as early as July 2.
But some key facts about Bacile's background and role in the film crumbled Wednesday as a Christian activist involved in the film project said that Bacile was a pseudonym, that he was not Jewish or Israeli, and that a group of Americans of Mideast origin collaborated on the film. Officials in Israel also said there was no record of Bacile as an Israeli citizen.
Doubts mounted as well about the provenance of the film, Innocence of Muslims. Several Hollywood and California film industry groups and permit agencies said they had no records of the project. Only an employee at a faded Hollywood movie theater confirmed that an entire version of the film had staged a brief run several months ago.
All that currently exists of the film are about 13 minutes of excerpts on YouTube, in English and Arabic language versions. While the excerpts were still viewable online in the U.S. on Wednesday, they vanished from the Web in Egypt. Cairo residents who tried to view the YouTube site instead got a warning that "this content is not available in your country due to a legal complaint."
Protesters apparently angered over the film burned down the U.S. Consulate Tuesday in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Libyan officials said Wednesday that Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other embassy employees were killed during the mob violence, but U.S. officials now say they are investigating whether the assault was a planned terrorist strike linked to Tuesday's 11-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
In his brief interview with the AP, the man who identified himself as Bacile defiantly called Islam "a cancer," and said that he intended the film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion. But several facts Bacile provided about himself soon proved false or questionable. Bacile told AP he was 56, but identified himself on his Youtube profile as 74.
A Riverside, Calif., Christian activist who said he was a consultant and worked with Bacile on the film told The Atlantic Monthly on Wednesday that Bacile's name was a pseudonym, and that he was not Jewish or Israeli. The activist, Steve Klein, said that behind the film were Americans who had lived in several Mideast countries. "Nobody is anything but by an active American citizen," Klein told the Atlantic. "They're from Syria, Turkey, Pakistan, there are some that are from Egypt. Some are Copts but the vast majority are evangelical."
In an interview Tuesday with the AP, Klein said the filmmaker is concerned for family members who live in Egypt. Bacile declined to confirm that suggestion. Klein did not return phone messages to the AP on Wednesday.
Klein told the AP that he promised to help Bacile make the movie but warned him that "you're going to be the next Theo van Gogh." Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004 after making a film that was perceived as insulting to Islam. "We went into this knowing this was probably going to happen," Klein said.
Bacile told the AP he is a real estate developer selling a house and an Israeli Jew. But Israeli officials said they had not heard of him and there was no record of him being a citizen. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not permitted to share personal information with the media.
The name Bacile also does not appear in searches of California state licenses, including the Department of Real Estate. Directors' and producers' groups in Los Angeles said they had no record of Bacile and California's state film commission said no permits had been issued to Bacile or Innocence of Muslims. But officials added that films can easily be made on a shoestring, without permits and under the radar of authorities and film industry watchdogs. "There's no universal registry where you can tell for sure this is legitimate film," said Chris Green, a spokesman with the Producer's Guild of America.
The only sparse evidence indicating that an entire version of Innocence of Muslims was filmed beyond its 13.5-minute trailer came in comments from an employee of the Vine Theater, a Hollywood Boulevard theater that was padlocked on Wednesday. The theater employee, who declined to identify himself, said that a version of Innocence of Muslims ran briefly several months ago at the theater and that a man whose first name was Sam had brought the film to the theater.
In his earlier interview with AP, the man who identified himself as Bacile said that the film had run for a day at a mostly-empty Hollywood theater. "This is a political movie," Bacile told the AP. "The U.S. lost a lot of money and a lot of people in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we're fighting with ideas."
Bacile said he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam's flaws to the world. "Islam is a cancer, period," he said repeatedly, his solemn voice thickly accented.
The two-hour movie, Innocence of Muslims, cost $5 million to make and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors, said Bacile. The film claims Muhammad was a fraud. The trailer, posted in an original English version and another dubbed into Egyptian Arabic, shows an amateur cast performing a wooden dialogue of insults disguised as revelations about Muhammad, whose obedient followers are presented as a cadre of goons. It depicts Muhammad as a feckless philanderer who approved of child sexual abuse, among other overtly insulting claims that have caused outrage.
Muslims find it offensive to depict Muhammad in any manner, let alone insult the prophet. A Danish newspaper's 2005 publication of 12 caricatures of the prophet triggered riots in many Muslim countries.
Though Bacile was apologetic about the American who was killed as a result of the outrage over his film, he blamed lax embassy security and the perpetrators of the violence. "I feel the security system (at the embassies) is no good," said Bacile. "America should do something to change it."
Bacile's film was dubbed into Egyptian Arabic by someone he doesn't know, but he speaks enough Arabic to confirm that the translation is accurate. It was made in three months in the summer of 2011, with 59 actors and about 45 people behind the camera.
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Landscape Ready: Utility Marking, Underground Septic & Sewer Back-Up
Remember the "Beverly Hillbillies?" With apologies to Jed, Grannie and the clan, consider the following variation:
"Come and listen to a story about a lady named McGee
A simple suburban homester just wanting a new tree
But when our green thumber plunged that shovel in the ground
Up from the depths come a-bubblin' brown….…Sewage, that is. Smelly sludge, septic tank tea."
And if you'll forgive the mixed metaphors, a smelly yard may be just the tip of the iceberg when you dig before being sure exactly where your local underground utilities are located. Negligent homeowners may face a myriad of exposures to loss beyond the possible damages to their own property or house plumbing:
- Severe injury if that shovel hits an electrified line. (Hit a natural gas line and they may never find you again.)
- Fines from local regulators.
- Liability for repair expenses to utility companies.
- Liability to neighbors for cutting power, water, phone, cable or sewage lines.
- Even if there is no immediate visible damage, your shovel may damage the protective coating of a gas line, for example, starting a gradual leakage or deterioration that is a ticking time bomb.
Yet according to a recent national survey conducted by the Common Ground Alliance (CGA), only 33% of homeowner do-it-yourselfers called to have their lines marked before starting digging projects. (CGA is a coalition of 1,400 excavators, locators, and road builders; telecommunications, electric, oil and gas providers; railroads; one-call centers, public works, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, state regulators, insurance firms, engineering/design firms, and emergency services.)
Too Shallow? Careful!
And speaking of time bombs, even if you're thinking like many of those non-callers that your planting is too shallow or located sufficiently to the side to impact deeply buried utilities, consider future growth: Could those spreading tree roots eventually make their way into nearby sewer lines, causing anything from nuisance blockages to major and expensive damage and backups?
The answer, thanks to the FCC and the CGA, is as simple as three numbers: 811. There have long been numerous local "Call Before You Dig" numbers furnished by municipalities and utility companies. The FCC mandated a single, national phone number be created in addition to the existing local options to increase convenience, compliance and eliminate confusion, while continuing free and local service.
Nice Colors
The 811 calls are directed to a local center, which then notifies all the affected utilities. They then mark all underground lines—at no cost to you—with easily recognized colored lines or flags:
- Red, electric.
- Orange, communications, telephone/CATV.
- Blue, potable water.
- Green, sewer/drainage.
- Yellow, gas or oil.
- Purple, reclaimed water or irrigation.
- Maroon, temporary survey.
- White, pre-marked site of intended excavation.
Be sure to call at least 48-72 hours in advance of digging, and be prepared with specific information on your plans. When it comes to digging in your yard, 811 represents the best of risk management—minimizing or eliminating the claim entirely!
Coverage Idea
Even your best-laid plans might not prevent a basement or ground floor bathroom to be suddenly awash in sewage backup. That's why you should ask your agent about special endorsements to your home insurance to respond to such backups. Be sure to tell your agent the amount of valuable property you have in the basement. While old-time basements often held only old stuff in storage, today's are often the center of family life—"man-caves" to recreation rooms!
If your best precautions should fail, add your Trusted Choice® agent to your Call Before You Dig list! Just like those utilities, he or she will gladly mark out the limits of your current coverage as it applies to your plans. (Now, if we insurance experts could just figure out a way to do it—red for property, blue for liability?—with those clever colored lines or flags!)


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- The Hubon Family Papers contain the correspondence of San Diego early settler Frederick Hubon (1827-1882), and include letters from three generations of Hubons, in addition to transcriptions, genealogical notes, and a carte-de-visite portrait.
- Creation Date: circa 1801-1966
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- Collection: Spanish Civil War Collection
- Name: Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939); Catholic Church.; XI, Pope, Pius, 1857-1939
- Date: [between 1936 and 1939?]
- Topic: Anti-fascist movements; Diplomatic relations; Anti-Catholicism; International relations; Fascism
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Oi'd been layin' low. Finn 'adn't yet drown'd me, but 'e were doin' 'is best wif a steady supply uv 'is best blackstrap rum. As far es th' Governor knew, I were dead. Nell'd been absent fer several days, but I wer suspectin' she'd show up soon, jes t' make sure I were gone. Scholey were keepin' an eye on Mary an' Dick fer me, an they weren' givin' any sign uv what they were about. Toime were movin' mighty slow.
Affer a week, one uv Whiskey Finn's boys brought me a bundle uv lettars wif me lunch.
Th' First were from Ling.
"Em -
"You backstabbing, bastard son of a whore! I hope you rot in hell.
"And I love you. I don't know how you got your hands on that letter, but the writ is done. I'll send it to Finn as soon as I can. Sometimes you surprise me, dear. Your idea with the lace and transcribing the signature worked. It looks as if he signed it with his own hand. And for the seal - whatever you were smoking when you came up with the idea to use powdered starch and water was worth it. Now I've got the Governor's chop sitting on my writing desk along with your balls, your heart, and your soul. Come get 'em.
Love always, Ling."
Th' second were from Scholey.
"'E's sure yer dead, but keep yer eyes open. Nell be comin', mate. Mary's scented somethin', as ye thot. She said t' keep hopin', but thet she preferr'd Lady MacBeth t' a whiner's mum. Whut in th' hell's that mean? Drink wun fer me."
Th' third surprised me - it were from Lam.
"Em, you will be son to me, so I give advice. You need talk to Ling. She miss you. She annoy me with crying, worrying, yelling. Disturb business. I know you hide. Take Lam direction - go for walk. Walk to big hill. Call "El Culo Del Diablo" by local. Swim to bottom of lake. You find way, but no open eyes. Water bad for eyes. Come soon, or I no give blessing for marry Ling."
"Th' Devil's Asshole?" I took me bottle t' th' patio, an' watch'd th' surf roll in. "What's thet chinaman thinkin'?" There were still a week's werth uv supplies sittin' in me parlor. I 'ad nuffin' better t' do while I wait'd fer Nell t' come lookin, but if I weren't 'ere whun she came, I'd not learn what I needed t' know. Oi'd give 'er one moar day, an then I were goin' fer a swim.
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I am pleased to announce that my latest recording, Homage to Kindness,
has been nominated for a 2020 GRAMMY Award. I want to thank all my friends and colleagues in the recording industry for
nominating the album for this honor.
"Walk in Beauty," recorded with Thomasina Levy and the legendary, late flutist Joseph FireCrow and released on the
Parallel Universe album, has been awarded Song of the Year
at the 2019 Native American Music Awards.
My latest recording is Homage to Kindness,
released through Hearts of Space Records. My hope for this recording is to encourage the expression of kindness in the world
in these difficult times.
Gratitude, released April 2016, was produced with my long time colleague
Mickey Houlihan and Wind Over the Earth.
Prayer for Compassion,
released January 20, 2009, represents one of the deepest and most creative experiences of my life.
My long-time producer and colleague, Mickey Houlihan, and I
have patiently worked with this music for ten years.
Each title represents a journey into a way of being that, for us, holds the world together.
We have used the studio as an impressionist painter might use a palette.
Mickey and his wonderful friends at Wind Over The Earth and Immersive Studios have used technologies and techniques both old and new to help each composition find its way into being.
Eight String Religion,
released in 1993,
is one of the all-time
favorite creations of my collaborations with Mickey.
Like Prayer for Compassion, this project also took many years to create.
It also reveals the process of deep listening that has become central to our work together.
I've also been involved in new CD collaborations with a range of artists with varied and wonderful styles:
Finally, for those of you who love Poetry as I do, please check out
The Tao of Poetry with my long time colleagues
Chungliang Al Hung and Coleman Barks.
The ancient and modern poetry from China spoken both in English and Chinese is a deep and
philosophical tribute to the great legacy that can guide us in these modern times.
Thank you for your support and love for all these many years!
— David Darling
For upcoming events, please visit my
Schedule and Blog.
See David's series of interviews on Joseh Garci'a Blog:
Smiling at Mistakes,
Potential of Humanity's Consciousness, and
The Bossa Nova and its Effects.
Read David's interview in this on-line edition on the Xtreme Music web site.
Read David's chapter in Love Each Day: Live each day so you would want to live it again. The book includes 40 chapters about 40 individuals and includes a specific chapter about a day in David's life.
Please enjoy the music samplers that are on many pages on my site.
Here are some tracks from various recording projects.
For all my recordings, visit the Recordings Page.
... and here's a YouTube video of a solo from the Colin Walcott Tribute Concert, May 12, 1985 - enjoy!
... and a recent collaboration with the Many Rivers Ensemble ...
Homage to Kindness
David Darling
Released: 2019
2020 GRAMMY Award Nomination
David Darling and Thomasina Levy
Released: 2018
Song of the Year - 2019 Native American Music Awards
Silver Medal - 2018 Global Music Awards
Released: April 2016
In Love and Longing
David Darling and
Sylvia Nakkach
Released: April 1, 2014
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you,
as fish out of water hear the waves,
or a hunting falcon hears the drums.
Come back. Come back.
This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
— Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
This is true "art music"—vivid and orchestral in scope, yet rich with subtle microtonal movements. It is simultaneously an ode to love and an intimate communion with all things. Love becomes at once the inquiry, the answer, and the life within the music. May listening open your heart to your own story, your own longing. —Silvia Nakkach
With In Love and Longing, acclaimed composer and vocalist Silvia Nakkach and Grammy® Award-winning cellist David Darling beckon us into a moving journey: Nakkach's spiritually profound vocals in dialogue with Darling's luminous cello merge to immerse us in a powerful experience of deep listening and emotional release.
These tender musical explorations draw upon many places, languages, and cultures, creating an acoustic landscape that evokes a colorful tapestry of feeling, sensuality, and prayer. They invite us to become alchemists who see music transformed into images, and images into poetry, feeling all of it from the depths of our hearts.
With Steve Gorn, flute; Kit Walker, piano; Christopher Willits, guitar.
David Darling and
Jane Buttars
Released: 2013
David's Grammy-winning cello and Jane's expressive piano connect deeply to create these moving duets, improvised at the moment of recording. Lyrical, meditative, energetic contemporary classical, and India-modal pieces with inventiveness and artistry.
Where Did the Time Go
Neil Tatar and
David Darling
Neil Tatar is a wonderfully talented Guitarist and multi Instrumentalist. I recently collaborated with him on the creation of his stunning new CD Where Did The Time Go. Neil has shown on this CD his amazing talents as a composer and also as a multitalented Jazz and Blues guitarist. He is a pleasure to know, and I truly enjoy working with him.
Improvisations for Cello and Piano
2-CD set - 1 hour, 42 minutes
David Darling and
Jacqueline Tschabold Bhuyan
Released: 2012
A 2-CD set of inspiring, relaxing cello-piano duets combining the elements of both New Age and Classical music traditions
… lyrical melodies at times rich and exalting, or ethereal and impressionistic, others with refreshing, gentle spaciousness.
This album was recorded live improvising for 2 days, February 6–7, 2012, with Surround Sound/DSD equipment at Immersive Studios in Boulder, Colorado
Just Being Here
Rumi and Human Friendship
3-CD set - 2 hours, 39 minutes
Coleman Barks and
David Darling
Released: October 1, 2011
"What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being."
Those were the words of the Persian mystic poet Rumi upon meeting the wild dervish Shams Tabriz. And out of their friendship bloomed many of Jelaludin Rumi's most inspired verses. On Just Being Here, the acclaimed poet Coleman Barks joins master cellist David Darling in a celebration of friendship-some of Rumi's most memorable poems on the subject and five of Coleman's own-illuminated within the interplay of Coleman's inspired readings and David's music. Listen in and let them widen and deepen your senses, like a fresh breeze that invites you to breathe freely and surrender to love in all of its changing guises.
Prayer for Compassion
David Darling
Released: January 20, 2009
Winner of the 2010 Grammy for Best New Age Album
12th and Delaware
original score by David Darling
The HBO Film 12th and Delaware, produced and directed by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score in the 2011 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. The original music score by David Darling was done for this film that explores the core of America's most intractable conflict.
8-String Religion
David Darling
This edition of Eight String Religion was undertaken by Winston Ma of First Impression Music. Extreme care was taken to re-master the original recording tapes to DXD Format (24-bit 352.8KHz) for superb sound quality. The package is completed with extensive liner notes.
The Darling Conversations
David Darling and Julie Weber
Nominated for Best Educational Album in the 2009 JPF Music Awards.
The Return of Desire: Improvisations
David Darling, cello and
Eve Kodiak, piano
"We did not know what we were going to play ... we began with no chord changes, no melodies, no assumptions." — Eve Kodiak
"After the first day, we took a drive and listened to what we had recorded, and every take seemed perfect. It was a miracle." — David Darling
Tao of Poetry
Chungliang Al Huang and
David Darling
For more than a decade, Chungliang Al Huang and David Darling have been exploring the development of a series of Chinese poetry recordings. The first in this series of CDs is finally completed with poetry by eleven Chinese poets.
David Darling, Maverick Cellist, by Joseph Vella on Jazz Online
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The first news of today was a disheartening humdinger of a jobs report, but it's Friday evening and I'd rather not worry the entire weekend away with frets and fears about the economy and the ongoing deficit reduction talks (which might or might not net a plan to tackle the nation's economic problems). So, when I came across this blog post on The Washington Post website, I couldn't help but smile. The piece, by Post reporter and author Dale Maharidge, captures a few lessons Maharidge learned while traveling the country documenting the plight of the jobless for a number of books, the most recent of which is called "Someplace Like America."
It's evident to me that Maharidge and I wouldn't agree about much in terms of what would help to solve the increasing problem of joblessness in America, but we certainly agree about one thing: The innate and irrepressible optimism that seems to characterize so many Americans across the country is an attitude to celebrate. Maharidge writes:
It's very American to try to find the bright side. This goes way back in our history. I'm a student of the 1930s' Depression and its literature. Tom Joad in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" saw a better future in the passage where Tom says he will be "Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy," and people can build houses and grow the food they eat, and so on – it was an anthem to optimism amid bleakness. …
I'm encouraged by this positive attitude. In reporting our new book, "Someplace Like America," … [o]ver and over, we found people who are changing their lives in a better direction. The message of "Someplace Like America" is that we all can learn from the people we documented.
As usual, citizens are ahead of politicians.
That last sentence Maharidge seems to write with a tone of lament, as though it would actually enhance American optimism if political activism (of the sort to encourage and solicit government intervention) automatically accompanied it.
But, to me, that last sentence is the capstone. Historically, Americans have rarely been known to wait for the government to give them the go-ahead to improve their lives. The history of the United States is peopled by pioneers, explorers, inventors. Always, the frontier appealed to the American consciousness and, even after we'd settled the vast space between one ocean and another, we found new frontiers — in space, for example, or, now, online.
Certainly, politicians need to catch up to the rest of the country, to recognize that what will spur job creation is, in a nutshell, smaller government — and that's why countless voices in print, on air and on the Internet have called for action, for cuts, for caps, for general fiscal discipline from the president and Congress. The truth is, American optimism has already found an outlet in political activism, just not of the sort Maharidge would prefer — it's called the Tea Party.
But until the federal government heeds the call to retrench somewhat, I'm happy to find something to celebrate in those intrepid, entrepreneurial Americans who live out the great experiment of self-government day after day by taking responsibility for their own lives, by living with discipline, by taking worthwhile risks and, above all, by choosing freedom over government favors.


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I missed my "Adventure of Link" links last week, although I had the links combined. A head cold hit me and I woke up out of the haze to realize that it is Thursday. Well, here are some links for this week.
Using traditional games for educational purposes:
Instead of making serious games for education, why not embrace traditional gaming to enhance kids' lives?The concept and the discussion in the article are good. We talk about games having educational and critical thinking value, but we in academic libraries work to create games to our specific needs. If we looked at games that were out there and the skills they taught, we could not only use their strategies (an application I promote), but we could use the game itself to help teach. Problem puzzles deep in a temple of a Zelda game? Logic puzzle from a Telltale adventure game? Physics challenges and predictions from a FPS? Games provide applications of educational concepts that we could use. GameSetWatch also ran the article from Serious Games Source.
Which is it? A serious game or a simulation?
Clark Aldrich has a quick post talking about each on his site. I think it is easy to blur the line when thinking of what we want to create or what we want our students to experience. The line can also be blurred when discussing educational gaming with administrators. Clark puts it as such:
But what is also tough is when people confuse serious games and educational simulations. Now these are obviously much closer together in any taxonomy. But serious games are light experiences that are easy and fun to engage while building awareness, and educational simulations rigorous develop skills and capabilities.Cerise weighs in on game cannon:
I've mentioned the quality work at Cerise before. This article looks at the ongoing debate of if games are art/expression or have value... what is the core group of titles. What is the gaming cannon?
Gaming on a grown-up's budget:
Mister Raroo drew criticism from some gaming libraries with his initial column, but his most recent one is a good read for any "grown-up" with a gaming passion. Sometimes our passions and our pocketbooks don't have the same priorities.
Managing my money:
Speaking of budgets, Future-Making Serious Games has an interesting story about a new educational game used to help teens manage their money, learn budgeting, and other financial skills. As someone who's taught money management to 7th and 8th graders, a game to do this would be a welcomed resource. Granted there are many games that apply economic issues, but this is a great use of teaching a process through gaming.


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DOWNTON, DOWNTOWN: Savile Row tailoring sprang to life — in theatrical glory — on Tuesday evening at Spencer House with a living exhibition of work by some 30 men's brands, located on and off the fabled street of tailors. Brands including Anderson & Sheppard, Henry Poole & Co., Richard James Bespoke, and John Lobb Ltd dressed a host of dashing young models pinstriped suits, country tweeds, velvet smoking jackets and snazzy military attire.
As if characters from "Downton Abbey," models milled around the 18th-century splendor of Spencer House in St. James's, and gathered in rooms that had been staged theatrically for a formal dinner, a casual breakfast, or simply cocktails and conversation.
The mood was so low-key and authentic that few would have been surprised to see Lord and Lady Grantham glide down the stone stairs or Matthew Crawley raise a toast to his friends. The presentation, styled by Jo Levin, creative fashion director of British GQ, was a highlight of the week.
"Savile Row has always been about father and son, something passed on through the generations," said Levin, adding that her aim was to create an environment where the tailors and brands could showcase their craftsmanship and collective strengths. "For me, Savile Row and St. James's make up the DNA of men's wear. It is our history, we own it and we have to celebrate it."


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Edward seemed more or less the same to me. Bella however, definitely seemed more nervous than usual. Maybe because she wasn't expecting to see him and didn't have the opportunity to mentally prepare herself.Alphie wrote:1. How do you think Edward and Bella both did in trying to behave naturally around each other on the "morning after?" Was Bella too nervous or shy? Did Edward seem more open?
I think he was looking forward to it, as he's convinced she edits her thoughts around him. Maybe with the questions coming from another person, he'll get a different perspective and be able to understand her better.Alphie wrote:2. How do you think Edward really felt about Bella's conversation with Jessica?
I would think that Edward would've had a pretty good idea of the effect of sharing food. He probably knew she wouldn't have been in any danger, so he didn't make a big deal about it.Alphie wrote:3. Bella took a bite of pizza after Edward. Stephenie has told us that in that moment, Bella consumed a very small amount of venom. Does it surprise you that Edward didn't stop her from taking a bite or that he didn't react to it in any way?
I think Edward's behavior is a pretty good indicator that his feelings are stronger. I mean, it's not like SHE'S sneaking into HIS bedroom at night.Alphie wrote:4. They argue about who cares for whom more all throughout lunch. In your opinion, which one really does care for the other more?
Am I crazy for thinking they'd all prefer people? Except for Carlisle, though. He seems like he'd be a deer person. (In all seriousness, I have no idea.)Alphie wrote:5. Emmett prefers bears, Edward prefers mountain lions. Based on their personality, what do you suppose the other Cullens prefer to hunt?


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On Tuesday, November 13, the Moretown Development Review Board hosted the fifth in a series of public hearings that must take place before the board can close its hearings on Moretown Landfill's conditional use permit to construct a fourth trash cell at its Route 2 location.
The fourth trash cell—which would be as large as the existing three cells combined—would extend landfill's life by 15 to 18 years. Without the 40-acre addition—and without reopening Cell 2 (another permit the landfill is currently pursuing)—the landfill will reach capacity and be forced to close this February. If it does, Moretown will lose out on the over $500,000 it receives annually from a host-town agreement it maintains with the facility.
So far, the permitting process has encountered a lot of opposition from residents who live within a mile of the landfill and who worry about how the expansion project will increase the traffic, noise and stench that they claim infringes upon their lives almost daily.
Previous hearings have addressed issues of groundwater quality and blasting associated with cell construction, but last Tuesday's hearing addressed perhaps the most noticeable impact of the landfill upon its neighbors: odor.
At the start of the hearing, Brian Beaudoin of Sanborn, Head & Associates, Inc., a consultant for the landfill, gave a presentation about the types of gases associated with landfills as well as the systems in place to collect and neutralize those gases.
According to Beaudoin, gases in landfills arise from three main categories: leachate, municipal solid waste and biosolids. The most common gas produced is methane, which is odorless. "What you smell are the sulfurs," Beaudoin said.
To control odors, landfills have gas collection systems over their cells that create a constant vacuum, and the gases gathered from this vacuum are then channeled to a combustion device. It is possible for the collection and the combustion systems to fail, but when they do "it doesn't take long to recognize the problem and get it fixed," Moretown Landfill general manager Tom Badowski said.
According to federal gas monitoring programs, landfills are required to keep on-site gas levels below 500 ppm (parts per million), but Badowski announced that Moretown Landfill upholds more "stringent standards"; the facility aims to always be below 50 ppm. "That's typically when you notice an odor," he explained.
But is Moretown Landfill able to uphold these more stringent standards? "It seems to me that, over time, the landfill has been fined for exceeding odor limits," Moretown Development Review Board chair John Riley said.
"We've received violations, but we've never been fined," Badowski replied.
But the landfill has also received numerous odor complaints from neighbors. The complaints are directed to an odor response program mandated by the Vermont Solid Waste Management Division in August of 2011 and currently run by the environmental engineering firm, Weston & Sampson.
When the program was first created, Weston & Sampson sent out a letter to those living within a .75-mile radius of the landfill—about 75 residents—explaining how they can report offsite odors by calling or emailing a 24-hour hotline.
Once a complaint is received, Weston & Sampson representatives will visit the location it was made from and assess the intensity of the odor as well as its most probable source. Unless a complaint is made after 8 p.m., representatives will respond almost immediately, and their average response time is 20 minutes.
Many residents have taken advantage of the odor response program, and since August of 2011, Weston & Sampson has logged 181 complaints. While residents appreciate the diligence of the employees who respond to their complaints, they question as to how these complaints translate into remedial action at the landfill site.
"This is all very educational," one resident said, in response to a particularly detailed diagram about gas collection systems, "but, really, whatever you're doing there doesn't work," she said. "We have odor complaints every day."
"Landfills are always going to have an odor," Beaudoin conceded, but the facility does all it can "to best respond to issues as they arise," he said.
But if Cell 4 goes in, "is it going to get worse?" one resident asked. According to Badowski, Cell 4's lower elevation and more isolated location will likely result in fewer odor issues, but residents argued that as the cell fills up over the years, lower elevation will no longer be a controlling factor.
Despite whatever advances may have been made in modern technology, "right now, [the odor issue] is no better than it was seven years ago," one resident said. The question is, if Cell 4 is approved, "do we have 18 more years of this?" she asked.
The next DRB hearing regarding Moretown Landfill is scheduled for Tuesday, November 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Moretown Town Hall. The hearing's subject is yet to be determined, but it will likely address issues of dust and air pollution.


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Oliv - Oct 5, 2010 9:56 am Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2010Case Route (5.5)
Climbed the Case Route. The description in the book 'Adirondack Rocks' is right, except for the time taken to approach. Book says 2 hrs, it took us 4 (from adk loj)! Pretty tough trail! We camped near the boulder at the base of the route. It took us 9 hrs to climb and descend the route which we did in 7 lengths of ropes and with fixed belays. Climb was easy 4th class scramble except the crux which was an overhanging 5.5 crack. Well protected (BD camalot #2). Belays were really comfy. South face too so it was sunny! At the summit, we started to rappel 50 ft right of the end of the route on double rop rappels (60m). We equipped all trees on this line of descent and reached the ground after 5 rappels. This brought us right at the base fo the climb. It took us 2h15 to hike back to Adk loj while speed walking. The trail tends to be muddy. Enjoy!
Rockscaler - Feb 3, 2009 6:10 pmLeave the beer at home
Hangovers don't go over well on wallface, lol! Good times though!
Tom Fralich - Sep 22, 2008 12:55 am Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2008Diagonal (5.8)
Mary and I climbed this excellent route from a camp at the start of the Diagonal approach. We hiked in late on Friday night and bivied at the first lean-to, then to the campsite on Saturday morning. Made camp and headed for the route, started climbing at around 10:30. The first 2 pitches weren't great, but the rest of the route was fantastic. The last 2 pitches were super steep and fun. We rapped down in 4 double-rope rappels and were back in camp by 5:30. The next day was cloudy and damp, so we decided to hike over Indian Pass and then to Lake Colden to complete a round-trip loop from Upper Works. The hike was a lot more rugged than expected and we ended up back at the car pretty late. Definitely a great weekend, but we both could have done without the long hike on Sunday with heavy packs.
MoapaPk - Apr 11, 2007 9:51 pm Date Climbed: Jul 10, 1973a long time ago
Went from the Ti mine N up the Indian Pass trail, to just N of the cliff, then cut SW up along the edge of the cliff. I was amazed how close the brush went to the very edge.
Seth Maciejowski - Oct 20, 2005 12:06 pmRoute Climbed: Diagnol Date Climbed: August 2005
Got a little screwed up on the first two pitches and did some licheny pitches between Lewis Elijah and the correct diagnol start. The ramp pitches are good fun and the final pitch is in your face right to the rim. One of the Daks finest pitches in my opinion.
iceisnice - Oct 4, 2005 12:55 amRoute Climbed: Mental Blocks Date Climbed: summer '00
Phenominal route. 5.9 A2. Aid pitch was pretty fun. Stellar rock with a variety of climbing. Little bit easy of a bushwack then the stuff down by the Diagnal route. Classic adirondacks experience.
iceisnice - Oct 4, 2005 12:53 amRoute Climbed: Diagnal Date Climbed: Summer '00
Great route. Fun 5.7 pitches up top. Hell of an approach hike from the hiking trail. One of the worst bushwackings i've ever done. Worth the effort though.
mt10climber - Oct 17, 2003 8:15 pmRoute Climbed: Indian Pass to cliff then Case route to summit Date Climbed: 10/04/03
Spectacular cliff. Lots of rotten rock, knocked a car size boulder down from near the top so beware everything is loose. 80 degrees,bright and clear.


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Lawmakers to vote on Connecticut medical pot regulations
HARTFORD >> A special legislative committee must decide on Tuesday whether to approve proposed regulations that spell out the details of Connecticut's medical marijuana program.
The General Assembly's Regulation Review Committee is scheduled to vote on the wide-ranging regulations, which include the quantity of active ingredients in a product, background checks for caregivers of patients and other rules.
Lawmakers passed legislation in 2012 that created the medical marijuana program. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy then signed it into law.
After first recommending that the committee reject the regulations, legislative attorneys are now recommending that lawmakers approve the rules on Tuesday after reviewing revisions by the state Department of Consumer Protection. The Legislative Commissioner's Office also cited 118 technical corrections that are needed.
Some members, however, still have concerns about approving regulations for an industry that violates federal drug laws and whether lawmakers, state employees who regulate the system, marijuana growers and distributors could be liable.
Rep. Selim Noujaim, R-Waterbury, the committee's co-chairman, said he plans to pose questions about the federal liability and other issues to representatives from the attorney general's Office during Tuesday morning's scheduled meeting at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
While Noujaim did not vote for the 2012 bill that created the medical marijuana system, he said he understands that he has a different role as a member of the Regulation Review Committee. Noujaim and his fellow members are charged with making sure the regulations match the intent of the law and are sound.
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Unlike most legislative committees, the 14-member Regulation Review Committee is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans. Half had voted against the original bill.


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Here's an argument to end all arguments: what's the best weapon from any type of movie where make believe weapons get invented? Is it the trusty lightsabre? Perhaps you'd rather trust yourself with Thor's hammer. Or maybe even the ring from Lord of the Rings? Are you bold enough to pick Wolverine's claws? You get the point. What's the best weapon our human brains have ever thought of.
The guys from Sneaky Zebra duke it out in a hilariously epic battle with various weapons to see which can best which. The lightsaber, probably a popular choice for many a geeks, lasts a really long time while the true power of the ring or brute force of Wolverine's claws isn't fully explored. In the end though, there's something even more powerful than all of these fake weapons.
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The last time Everton collected 13 points from the opening six games of a season they went on to reach the Champions League qualifiers. The last time, 2004‑05, they were not as good as this. David Moyes's latest incarnation were again commanding and at times exhilarating as Southampton were made to suffer.
Nikica Jelavic scored twice as Everton recovered from falling behind to Gastón Ramírez's early header and maintained their encouraging start in the Premier League. Nigel Adkins, the Southampton manager, had cause to regret the failure to add to his £12m record signing's first goal in English football during a vibrant opening. In truth, his overriding emotion should have been one of relief. This was a long, educational afternoon on Merseyside for the men from the south coast.
"There were times when I was applauding myself," said Moyes, not a man who is easy to please. "It took us 15 minutes to get going, I think there was a hangover to losing at Leeds, but after that there was action every minute in the first half. It was great play and great theatre for 30 minutes and we could have scored more." Everton had to settle for three and a standing ovation instead.
There was a contest for 25 minutes and Southampton were worthy of their lead as Everton struggled defensively and in the search for a final touch to their intricate passing display. Once Moyes's team clicked, however, their performance came together beautifully. In 13 devastating minutes Southampton were routed.
Everton superiority was an illusion in the early exchanges. Adkins's adventurous team, built around the guile of Ramírez operating behind Rickie Lambert and Jay Rodriguez, were confident after their first league win of the season last weekend and were gifted the lead when the home defence and notably Tim Howard failed to intercept Adam Lallana's corner. The Uruguay international was completely unmarked as he headed home.
On the back of Tuesday's elimination from the Capital One Cup at Elland Road, the early goal added to the anxiety around Goodison and in Everton's play. Southampton should have doubled their lead when Rodriguez comfortably outpaced John Heitinga to Frazer Richardson's long ball but, with only Howard to beat, dragged his shot wide of the far post. A key moment.
Adkins reflected: "We came away from home and played to win. If Jay had scored it might have been a different story but once Everton scored from their first real passage of play they upped the tempo, the Goodison crowd got behind them and it was very challenging for us to stay in the game after that."
Everton levelled through Leon Osman after the impressive Kevin Mirallas crossed for Jelavic and the ball fell kindly for the midfielder, and parity marked the start of an onslaught. The Belgium internationals Mirallas and Marouane Fellaini combined superbly to cut through a crowded central midfield. Mirallas sent Jelavic clear down the left and he guided the ball beyond Paulo Gazzaniga into the far corner. Poor positioning from the Southampton goalkeeper made the finish simpler than it should have been.
The Croatia international scored his second of the game and third of the season with a back-post header after fine work down the right from Seamus Coleman, who seized a rare opportunity to impress at right-back.
The second half was a nonevent but for a Ramírez chip over Howard that rolled agonisingly wide. Everton coasted home and Southampton improved defensively, as they must do to avoid a struggle against relegation.


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This cushion is a Christmas surprise for my son (he'll get other stuff too, don't worry… ). It's to help gradually transform his bedroom from a little boy's abode into a cool grunge lair. Making it is very simple. At the back, there's a 10cm of overlap of fabric which eliminates the need for a zip or buttons. The bright piping adds interest and is beginner-friendly, though be sure to make more than you think you'll need!
I've had a go at this before, many years ago when I used a print fabric (a sweet "Ready Steady Robot" design from Alexander Henry, long discontinued) and it was quicker still, but this time I wanted to use applique after seeing the gorgeous asterisk cushion made by Vacuuming the Lawn. My OH and I looked at various Space Invaders images and agreed at once which little dude would appeal to our first-born the most:
Drawing him isn't difficult: he's basically a bunch of squares on an 8 by 11 grid. Should you want one of your own and you're in a hurry, I've put him on a Space Invader Excel Graph for you. Or would you prefer the version of him cheering with his hands in the air!? Here it is: Cheering Space Invader!
I chose cotton sateen as it's washable (this is a cushion that the cats will sneak up to sleep on). It has a richness of colour and a shine that isn't unlike the brightness of a monitor. One bonus of working in this bright yellow colour was that even after I interfaced the fabric, I could trace the design through it from a sheet of paper.
Oh look, once you cut the dude out, you can use the offcuts to play Tetris!
The Space Invader Cushion Tutorial
You will need: a cushion, 0.75cm of full-width fabric (more for a bigger cushion), 0.25cm of applique fabric plus fusible interfacing. 2mm piping cord.
1. Firstly, buy (or somehow obtain) the cushion and design a template for the applique to fit. My cushion is a 55cm square and the Invader is printed onto an A4 sheet. I cut a 55cm paper pattern for the cushion, plus 1.5cm seam allowance all around (that is, a 58cm square).
2. Fuse some interfacing onto your applique fabric and cut out your design. Stitch the applique to your cover fabric. I use a stitch length of 0.4 and a width of 2 on my Elna zigzag. It takes a good 45 minutes to do an A4-sized Invader! For the piping, I cut 4cm bias strips and inserted a 2mm cord inside. This creates piping to fit a 1.5cm seam allowance.
3. Next, pin piping to the cushion front seam allowance, lining up the raw edges. Overlap the ends of the piping and clip piping seam allowances at the corners:
4. Add cushion backing. Make the pattern first: half of the pattern for the cushion front + 5cm for the overlap + 3cm seam allowance for the overlap side. Cut twice.
5. Pin and stitch the backing, first one side then the other. Stitch twice over the overlap, especially if your cushion is a firm one. This will prevent the stitches ripping when you insert the cushion.
I really hope my son doesn't read this but when I was his age, we had an Atari 2600, an early video game console, on which I'd blast away at Space Invaders for hours each day, or till my mum realized and chased me off into doing something more useful. Don't remember the little buggers looking this cute though…


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Vegan Double Chocolate Brownie Chunk Ice Cream
This Vegan Double Chocolate Brownie Chunk Ice Cream recipe was going to be called Triple Chocolate Brownie Chunk Ice Cream due to it's use of two different types of chocolate and brownie chunks mixed in. Then I realized that things were starting to get out of hand and I had to look out the window and count to ten. Its still full of chocolate though; this Category 1 chocoholic wouldn't lie. It's a great way to use up those extra Ultimate Vegan Brownies you have lying around that you've desperately been trying to eat. Wishful thinking, no? Drizzling some Double Chocolate Sauce over the top is highly recommended.
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Vegan Double Chocolate Brownie Chunk Ice Cream Recipe¾ cup raw, unsalted cashews, rinsed
2 ¼ cups water
1 cup + 2 Tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon instant espresso powder
1 pinch salt
2 Tablespoons arrowroot flour or tapioca flour
½ cup cocoa powder
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Tablespoon + 1 teaspoon agave syrup
1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1.5 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
4 ounces of brownie chunks, chopped into ½ inch cubes
1) Simmer the cashew mixtureIn a medium saucepan add the cashews, water, sugar, espresso powder and salt. Cover the saucepan, bring it to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
2) Simmer with the starch then add the cocoa powderAdd the arrowroot flour or tapioca starch and simmer for 4 more minutes. Now add the cocoa powder and simmer for 1 minute.
3) Blend the creamy base ingredients with the rest of the flavor building ingredientsTransfer the mixture to a blender and add the vegetable oil, agave syrup, apple cider vinegar, vanilla extract and semi-sweet chocolate. Blend on the Whip setting for one minute then transfer to a covered container and place in the refrigerator to cool for at least two hours.
4) Whip the ice cream mixtureNow we want to whip some air into the ice cream to improve creaminess. Beat the mixture for 2 minutes.
5) Process the mixture in an ice cream makerTransfer to an ice cream maker and mix for about 30 minutes. Transfer the ice cream to a medium mixing bowl and stir in the brownie chunks.
6) Transfer the vegan ice cream to the freezer for it to hardenTransfer to a covered container and put it in the freezer for at least 3 hours. This recipe makes about 1 quart Vegan Double Chocolate Brownie Chunk Ice Cream.
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Don't Use Canola Oil
Having made this twice, once as recently as last week, I'd recommend caution on the "vegetable oil". We used canola oil, and found that its distinctive rapeseed taste overpowered the ice cream. Nobody could finish it, and we discarded the unserved portion. We've modified the recipe as a result, completely removing the "vegetable oil", and upping the chocolate to a 4-oz bar of dark chocolate. We melt this (via low microwave or double boiler) and add it in place of the vegetable oil, although I suppose one could simply break the bar into chunks and boil with the cashews. Also, instead of instant espresso powder, we simply make a shot of real espresso, and make it up to the 2-1/4 cups of water.
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Question on step 2
Don't you need to mix the starch with cold water before adding to the simmering mixture, or else you get gooey clumps?
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Decadent but healthy!
Mattie, thank you for this recipe! I opted not to add the brownie chunks because I didn't have time to bake. The ice cream was very creamy, firm, flavorful, chocolatey, decadent and healthy! I will definitely try adding the brownies next time!
What, Non Xanthan Gum?
You're able to get the creaminess and absence of ice crystals you want without the need for an emulsifier like xanthan gum or guar gum? You used it in your vanilla...
The bees knees!
Now this is what I call ice cream!!!!!! This is like a more intensely flavoured Ben and Jerry's chocolate fudge brownie. I have to confess Mattie, that I foolishly doubted the recipe and added a few more cashews as I love the thick creamy taste of cashew but other wise left the recipe as it was (may be vegans are just unable to leave recipes alone and have to fiddle due to all the recipe alterations they make to remove the dairy etc from their old favourite recipes?) When I saw the boiled mess of cashews, sugar and water I was a little unsure but then I dabbed my finger in and the taste was divine. Once blended this became a tremendously thick and creamy ice cream and unlike other non dairy ice cream I've made this was great properly frozen and easy to scoop straight out of the freezer. Superb flavour and texture. Definitely a winner!!!..and who'd have thunk vinegar in ice cream!! You are a genius man!
Oh I should add, I forgot to whip it before putting it in the ice cream maker, I'll try that next time, though it really seemed as if it couldn't be improved upon!
I've found that cashews make the best/creamiest vegan ice cream as well. Whipping the base before freezing is inspired. I'm going to have to try that next time. Thanks for the suggestion. What is the purpose of the vinegar?


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Equity futures are substantially lower this morning with the S&P 500 futures touching 1,052 overnight, the exact location of the rising wedge bottom trend line that it is currently skipping from:
The dollar and bonds are higher, oil and gold are lower.
Very interesting that the day after my report on the bond market breaking below support, that the bond market and the dollar reverse direction. This is the same time that we have to auction off $123 billion THIS WEEK alone in new DEBT. When the math doesn't work, you can pretend for awhile, but eventually something has to give, and that's what we're seeing now. Oh, yeah, there are still choices to make – namely, how do you take your medicine? Through the destruction of the dollar, or through destruction of the debt? Or both? I'll vote for the later, as I think they are both happening.
The worthless MBA Purchase Application "report" came out this morning, and for the past week the index fell 5.2 huge percent… this follows a 7.6% drop the week prior, and a 5+% drop the week before that. Hmmm… while I'm not a major in math, I do know how to do compounding interest and I'd say that the past month has seen a HUGE drop in the number of mortgage applications and refinancings. If only they would report a real number, gee, I wonder why they don't? Is everyone tired of being lied to and manipulated yet?
The purchase index fell 5.2 percent in the Oct. 23 week while the refinance index dropped 16.2 percent. The Mortgage Bankers Association offered no commentary to explain the steep drops. Mortgage rates were mixed in the week with 30-year fixed loans down 3 basis points to an anverage 5.04 percent. New home sales will be posted at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Durable goods orders came in less than expectations with a year over year drop of only 19.6%!! Wait, wait, that's an improvement! Last month was -20.2%! Month over month it gained 1%, the consensus was expecting 1.5%. Note where the improvements came from in this report…
According to the latest durable goods report for September, manufacturing is still on track for a moderate recovery. Durable goods orders in rebounded 1.0 percent, after a 2.6 percent drop in August and a 4.8 percent surge in July. However, September's boost was below the market forecast for a 1.5 percent increase. Excluding the transportation component, new durables orders posted a 0.9 percent boost, following a downwardly revised 0.4 percent dip in August and 0.9 percent advance in July. Overall, the gains in September indicate forward momentum for manufacturing-especially in the context of earlier strong increases mixed with occasional dips.
The rebound in new orders was led by machinery which surged a monthly 7.9 percent, followed by a 1.1 percent rebound in transportation equipment. Transportation was boosted by a rebound in defense aircraft, up 12.5 percent, as motor vehicles and nondefense aircraft slipped 0.1 percent and 2.1 percent, respectively. Primary metals advanced 0.3 percent while fabricated metals were flat. Weakness was seen in electrical equipment, down 0.9 percent; computers & electronics, down 0.2 percent; and "all other durables," down 1.4 percent.
Businesses may be investing in equipment more in coming months as orders for nondefense capital goods rebounded 2.5 percent in September, following a drop of 7.7 percent the month before and a 7.0 percent boost in July.
Year-on-year, overall new orders for durable goods improved to minus 19.6 percent in September from down 20.4 percent the previous month. Excluding transportation, new durables orders rose to minus 16.9 percent from down 19.2 percent in August.
While today's report shows durables manufacturing on a moderate uptrend, equities may not like the numbers as the headline figure fell short of expectations. Nonetheless, manufacturing appears to be doing its part to keep the recovery going-even with less of a contribution from autos going forward.
Nice try in making a historic collapse sound good. The increase largely due to government spending on military aircraft... sure, that's going to last forever. Wave C is coming if not here already, it will soon be reflected in this data as well.
New Home Sales figures are released at 10 Eastern, the weekly petroleum report at 10:30.
And the bailouts continue… yesterday evening we learn that GMAC is asking for, and likely to get, ANOTHER $2.8 to $5.6 billion in this P.O.S. company that they have already injected $12.5 billion in and spent countless billions in other forms of bailouts for them including cash for clunkers… and that is on top of the tens of billions funneled through GM prior to their bankruptcy. And the media and company spin is to blame the unions! What SPIN, what gall! GM could have paid their employees, their health care plan, and their retirement plan ZERO, NOTHING, and the company would have still lost BILLIONS because of MANAGEMENT'S insane venture into toxic derivative debt products. They did not know or weigh the risks and they got burned. In America, when you screw up, you fail – at least in the America I remember. Now we have lumbering zombies that block true innovation and advancement.
And the politicians and bankers are hell bent on keeping home prices unaffordable. Now they want to extend the $8,000 first time homebuyer credit to everyone – details to be worked out still. Let me translate… homes will artificially be raised in price to help keep the banks afloat, and it will be done, once again, with your tax dollars. This does not help the people, it hurts them, and ultimately it's going to hurt the housing industry as well. Again, insane policies from people whose goal is to take the money and run.
Technically, the market is on the edge. The Transports have cleanly broken down from the rising wedge, the NDX is below it this morning, and the SPX is right on it. If the SPX breaks below 1,050, then I become instantly bearish. If it manages to hold and bounce, then be careful, we could still get that final wave higher… but that is looking less and less likely. Here's a one month chart of the SPX, note that the fast daily stochastic just entered oversold, but the slow has a way to go. Of course it can remain oversold for quite some time, but we are on pretty heavy uptrend resistance. If the Transports, XLF and NDX continue to sink, then eventually their weight will pull the entire market beneath that support:
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I bought a papaya a few days age and still stored in the refrigerator. Last night, a friend stay my house, therefore, this morning , I cook Papaya Milk as breakfast for her.
Ingredients: papaya , jujube, longan, brown sugar, milk
First of all, Boiled a pot of water, put the longan and jujube.
And then, papaya,peeled and cut into small pieces ,put them into pot.
At lastly, when the water is boiling,add two spoonfuls of brown sugar and milk, when them boiling again, the papaya milk is finished.
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The members of Dyspraxic Teens have differing opinions about their dyspraxia and how it feels to be dyspraxic. However, there is a shared sense of pride and resilience that influences the way we talk about our condition and is very obvious on the boards. Here are a few snippets, taken from members' posts, that will give new people an idea of how dyspraxia is viewed on DT:
"I cannot imagine life any other way." - pinkparrot, December 2005
"In the words of Evanescence: 'Don't try to fix me. I'm not broken.'" - Thirteen-thirty-seven, January 2006.
"I think I would like a cure or something I dont really know cos Ive never known anything else and as someone else said even if I didnt have Dyspraxia I might still get bullied and spoken down to and who knows I probably still be rubbish at these particular sports that cause me problems now. I am good at what I am good at and I enjoy what I do I probably would never have tried water sports if it was not that I was Dyspraxic." - Andy, March 2006
"Do you really want to 'cure' your dyspraxia, even if there was a way that offered 100% success? Personally, I wouldn't, because my dyspraxia, in spite of the obstacles it puts in my life, is part of who I am and getting rid of it would be like getting rid of part of my identity and I would no longer feel complete." - Page, July 2006
"I would get rid of it, it's not like it's a part of me, it holds me back, and it's that my brain hasn't fully developed, it doesn't really have any reason to be seen as a good thing to have." - Dan, July 2006
"I don't think that dyspraxia is just some kind of monster tagging around after you. There are positive elements too." - pinkparrot, July 2006
"I've often thought to myself that if only everyone is as nice as people on here, I'd find meeting people a lot easier because people would be more understanding of my difficulties interacting with other people. It may sound corny, but I can honestly say that this forum and the people on it, have made me feel proud and glad i'm dyspraxic." - Mattie, December 2006.
"I would like to be rid of the physical problems of dyspraxia. I keep imagining waking up oneday and finding I could draw to a nearly normal standard, write fast enough to keep up with the class, and walk down an uncrowded corridor without bumping into someone. I wouldn't fix my brain, I don't think it needs fixing." - Alice, October 2007
"I am proud of who I am, what I've got, and how far I've come. It's taken me a long time to develop this self-belief, and I wouldn't exchange it for the opportunity to play Olympic hockey or a short-term memory that is absolutely watertight. I've met precious few normal eighteen-year-olds who are as happy with their lot as I am with mine. If people can't accept - or at the very least tolerate - my personality, then that's their loss. Not mine.
When I was diagnosed, I didn't allow anyone to tell me what it means to be dyspraxic. I worked that one out for myself. It was a slow, painful process, but I was determined to finally understand why I am the way I am. I have realised that dyspraxic people simply view the world through different windows. Our view counts. It's special. It's important. As I said at the very beginning of this message, it would be a boring world if all our thoughts were identical." - parnassus, December 2005
"The bad thing about dyspraxia, or other motor disorders, like dysgraphia or DCD, is that they make ordinary little tasks, like fastening a button, making a sandwitch or pouring a drink very difficult. However, even this (which I freely admit is very frustrating) isn't all bad. "Normal" people don't get a warm fuzzy glow inside themselves when they manage to tie their own shoes, or eat dinner without spilling it everywhere. Dyspraxia makes life different and difficult, but it makes it more interesting." -Thirteen-thirty-seven, January 2006
"Dyspraxia got me bullied.
Dyspraxia made sure I had no friends.
Dyspraxia prevented me from doing most of the things I wanted to.
Dyspraxia gave me a load of stereotypes ranging from ignorant to offensive.
Dyspraxia crushed me with embarrassment and worthlessness every day of my life.
Dyspraxia made me gifted.
Dyspraxia got me respect.
Dyspraxia meant I met all of you.
Dyspraxia opened a whole window of insight to me, about what it is to really be valued.
Dyspraxia made me able to help others.
So, would I cure it if I could? I don't know..." - Goldenhamster, March 2006
"I am glad that everyone is created differently. I think it is beautiful how there are so many different types of people in the world." - Hermionefan5, April 2006
"i do feel admittedly a strong sense of bitterness about it and sometimes feel that it is a barrier, this is mainly because of the mood swings i have, when im on a "high" im able to achieve so much, i feel so happy and accomplished, yet when im on a "low" i feel intensely depressed, my friends cant really understand and i do feel like im in a prison cell in that i cant think what i want to do, i cant socialise and my mind hits a blank. my moods have been so inconsistent although happily ive had more highs recently than i used to. i resent the problems with social barriers and depression and the repetitive nature i come to feel about life often, as well as my short attention span and inability to follow things (ie forums, i often stop cheking them for months). although after thinking about it ive got positives from dyspraxia, such as my compassionate nature, i try to listen to others and i believe dyspraxia had made me a caring and sensitive person, it has also made me very determined and open minded, and as im discovering i think i might be a creative person, partly due to my alternative viewpoint to many issues in life to the "normal" people." - confused_teen, April 2006
"Last night I got a message from one of the dyspraxia e-groups I belong to. I've been debating the 'merits' of a cure mentality with one or two of the parents who use that group. I think you'll all be able to guess the side I'm taking. Last night, somebody wrote that saying dyspraxia is a part of your personality is like saying 'a couch potato is who I am, so muscle deterioration and obesity are a part of who I am as well'. This really upset and offended me.
Not only is the comparison offensive, it is also false. I am glad to see that DT is casting a much brighter light on what it means to be dyspraxic. I can remember a time when several people on this forum wanted a cure for dyspraxia quite badly. If DT has changed that, it has done more good than all the 'cure' programmes in the world." - parnassus, January 2007
"In the past 5 years since I started this website, I've grown in so many ways. I've grown in confidence, I've had life changing experiences, I've met some fantastic people, and discovered for the first time that the world isn't so bad after all. The first few years of my life were hell. But looking back on it all now, in a way I'm glad I had the experience of life in school, and what it's like to be bullied, because in the long run, I think it's made me a better person. It's made me strive to prove the people who doubted me wrong, to show that I'm not a stupid little boy who'll never amount to anything, but an intelligent, bright young man, who could go on to follow his dreams and become whatever he wants." - Matt Alden-Farrow (owner of Matt's Hideout and DT).