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Artists: Kamil Terczynski
Kamil Terczynski
Kamil Tattoos Studio
Unit 208A Belgravia Workships
159-163 Marlborough Road
London, England,
Web: kamiltattoos.com
Instagram: instagram.com/kamiltattoos
What year did you start tattooing?
I graduated from art school back in Poland. Shortly after that I moved to Krakow, where I got the offer from my friend Robert Lypik to work in his tattoo studio drawing projects for some extra money. I started to do it during the nights, after my shifts in a supermarket, and got really into it. I started my apprenticeship shortly after that, in Robert's studio, RobTattoo, in Krakow. It was 2001. He was the person who put the machine in my hand and taught the basics, mostly about black-and-gray. I stayed there for three years; it was a very valuable experience. in 2004, I moved to London. Fortunately, I got a job at Jeff Ortega's studio. At this stage he was taking over Evil From the Needle from Bugs, so I had that luck to be under the influence of them both. That's when I got interested in color.
Do you have any special training?
I didn't have any special training; I just invest a huge amount of my time in this job to get more and more experience.
What conventions have you worked at? Have you won any awards? What are some of your best convention memories?
My very first convention was the one in Berlin in 2006. Then I attended a few more conventions in Europe, like Milan, Rome—where I won best of show—Krakow, Amsterdam, and Brussels. Before that, I'd started to work at the conventions in London. Now I am regularly traveling to Australia—at the Sydney Tattoo Convention last year I won Best Female—and the states, for the New York Convention, and this year I was at the Las Vegas Convention. In fact, over all these years, there have been so many conventions around the world that I can't remember all of them. I also won lots of awards back in Krakow.
How do you describe your style?
Watercolor-like, painting style; I think that's my trademark.
What inspires you as an artist?
I take lots of inspiration from the movies, books, etc. especially lately, I'm so into comic books. But it's really just everyday observations. I'm watching nature, like flowers, people's faces, animals, and inspire myself; sometimes i don't even notice that. I also pay attention to fine art, which I just adore. Polish symbolism and art deco are my favorites.
What sets you apart from other artists?
When I'm working on a piece I am always asking myself how it's going to look in the future. It's extra hard in this particular style to make it stay sharp and nice for a long time, as there are not many outlines. I'm trying to make sure every single piece I do is good looking not only after it's done, but also in, let's say, 20 years' time.
What other mediums do you work in?
I graduated from art school with stone sculpture as a main subject. I don't have much time now, as I'm really dedicated to tattooing, but from time to time I'm finding a few evenings to stay at home and paint something, or make a small sculpture just for myself. I consider it more of a hobby now.
What tattoo artists do you admire most?
Definitely Bugs and Boris.
What kind of tattoos do you look forward to doing?
It's a hard question because every time when I'm about to start a new piece, I get excited about it in some way. I invest a lot of time to find the best references and make the best project I can. I guess it's just how I am. I enjoy everything related to graphic novels, comic books, like superheroes, and the movies as well.
Before someone gets a tattoo what advice do you give them?
Make sure you know exactly what you want, and choose the artist wisely.
Is there a tattoo that you haven't done yet that you are dying to do?
I can't wait to tattoo my son on his 18th birthday. I'm dying to do it because I won't get a chance to know what it'll be in the next 18 years!
You are sponsored by ink company Intenze. Does using their ink in your work help better your practice?
I'm really happy that I got a chance to join the Intenze family. I've been using Intenze inks way before the sponsorship began, and I have to admit that I love the artist series. I find the new colors to be very helpful, and I truly enjoy using them.

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By Ian Bremmer
(Reuters) - As protests sweep the developing world and Europe struggles through an austerity hangover, China and the U.S., relative to their peers, look like the best in class.
They are both comfortable with their modest economic growth rates compared to their norms of the past decade, and are insulated from the kind of social unrest we are seeing in Egypt, Turkey or Brazil. But both countries have a deeper intractable challenge that will, in the longer-term, get worse. What's interesting is that they're the inverse of each other. In the U.S., wealth and private sector interests capture the political system. In China, politicians capture the private sector and the wealth that comes with it.
The U.S.'s struggles with lobbying, pork-barrel spending, and the corporate sector's general overlord status in Washington are well documented. Campaign finance reform is long past. Corporate personhood is well-entrenched. Super PACs are ascendant. A representative democracy is being crowded out by a capitalist one.
The cycle is hard to break. Politicians' interests become aligned with those of the corporations that help them get elected. But even more troubling is that so many American politicians are gearing up to join the lobbying machine after they retire from government. In 1974, 3.0 percent of retiring members of Congress became lobbyists. Today, the figure stands at 50 percent of senators, and 42 percent of the House.
China has a related but different problem. Its politicians control too much of the money themselves. Politicians and elites in China enrich themselves, their friends, and their families by managing and siphoning China Inc., China's state capitalist enterprise. Chinese industry is controlled by the state, and thus it is the property of the people who run the state. Last year, state-owned enterprises and affiliated businesses accounted for over half of Chinese economic output and employment. There were 70 mainland Chinese companies on the 2012 Fortune Global 500 list; 65 of those were state-owned.
As an example, look no lower than China's People's Congress. The United States' House of Representatives and Senate has no billionaires. China's parliament has 83. According to Bloomberg, "The richest 70 members of China's legislature added more to their wealth last year than the combined net worth of all 535 members of the U.S. Congress, the president and his Cabinet, and the nine Supreme Court justices." If you're part of the state, state capitalism is the best, even if the system is centralized, corrupt and calcified.
That is where China's trouble is: its inability to create a robust industrial sector that can spread the wealth. It is leading to severe income inequality. Reliable financial metrics can be hard to come by in China, but a survey by a Chinese university suggests the wealth gap is now well above the world's average and "10 percent of Chinese households held up to 57 percent of all disposable income."
Income inequality is of course a problem in the U.S. as well. Just this week, the New York Times reported on how medical and pharmaceutical companies have ensured that giving birth in America is costlier than anywhere else in the world. Yet the country is still sufficiently stable, resilient and wealthy. America's poor people are still well-to-do from a global perspective. China's are less so. One in ten Chinese live on the equivalent of $1.50 a day or less. In other emerging markets this has, and is, leading to mass protest. But in China what can be done to placate the masses when it comes to corruption?
Xi Jinping is very popular, and he's eager to make a show of addressing political corruption. He announced a fight against the "four forms of decadence" — formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance. The party leadership may be priming itself for a purge, locating local and midlevel officials that are low-hanging fruit: people they can make a public example of without impacting the top of the pyramid.
As for the wealthiest, they are undergoing a PR campaign of sorts, trying to display more modesty. China's foreign minister just traded in his Audi for the same domestic model that Mao used to drive around in. Make no mistake these actions are largely cosmetic. They mitigate public dissent in the short-term, but they do not get at the root of the problem. Why is that? China's leaders cannot fundamentally go after the problem because the problem is them.
And so we are left with a world in which the two strongest countries offer mirrored visions of what it takes to get to the top. In the U.S., the biggest danger of the capitalist system is that the private sector captures the state. In China, the biggest problem with state capitalism is that the state has already captured the private sector.
This is not to say that China is doomed. It, like the U.S., is in a powerful position despite its fundamental inefficiencies. The world's two largest economies are humming along at modest clips and economic growth has a way of shading over entrenched structural concerns. Both the United States and China are positioned to kick the can down the road for the foreseeable future, but eventually they will have to face their biggest issues. And it's best that they do so sooner rather than later.
It is fascinating that the two countries with the largest economies have inverse imperfections. But will they have inverse fates?
(This column is based on a transcribed phone interview with Bremmer. Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group, the leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Bremmer created Wall Street's first global political risk index, and has authored several books, including the national bestseller, The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?, which details the new global phenomenon of state capitalism and its geopolitical implications. He has a PhD in political science from Stanford University (1994), and was the youngest-ever national fellow at the Hoover Institution.)
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The exhibit "Becoming van Gogh" might just be the most ambitious undertaking in the Denver Art Museum's 120-year-history.
The show brings together an impressive array of 70 works from the man many consider the greatest painter of all time, accompanied by another 20 from artists whose efforts inspired him. It will be in Denver for 13 weeks and travel to no other city.
Seven years in the making, the exhibit is a logistical wonder. The van Gogh paintings, drawings and prints were borrowed from 40 institutions and private collections across the globe, from the top European museums in London, Paris and Amsterdam, and from their U.S. counterparts in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.
Each loan was negotiated individually by curator Timothy J. Standring, who made dozens of trips abroad, persuading cautious museum directors and quirky collectors to send their precious van Goghs to a museum that does not have any of its own.
Then the works, valued together in the hundreds of millions of dollars and insured by a federal government program, had to be transported to Denver, an effort that required 22 separate shipments, each accompanied by its own courier and piles of paperwork.
When the show opens October 21, it will present Denver with its first home-grown blockbuster art exhibit in decades and — if all goes as planned — finally fulfill the promise of big, international moments the museum made when it constructed its $111 million Frederic C. Hamilton wing in 2006.
"This is the most complicated exhibit the Denver Art Museum has ever done," said museum registrar Laura Paulick Moody, whose job is to keep track of the works as they come and go. "It has the largest scope, the largest number of paintings, the largest value."
A relentless pursuit
"Becoming van Gogh," which traces the origins and development of van Gogh's talents, is a career capper for Standring, a 23-year DAM veteran currently serving as the Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Its very existence can be credited to the professional connections he has developed over time, but also to his personal powers of persuasion. He is a self-effacing guy whose sly smile paints a picture of optimism that is completed by his trademark bow-ties.
Former museum director Lewis Sharp bought into his idea of a large, van Gogh exhibit back in 2005 and Standring dove into the task of shaping an event that made art-historical sense.
What followed was a relentless drive to win the confidence of a tight-knit art community that controls the 800 paintings and 1,000 drawings van Gogh produced during his lifetime.
At first, the plan was to focus on van Gogh's years in Paris, where he did his most beloved paintings, but the scope changed as Standring and his partner, Louis van Tilborgh from Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum, developed a clearer idea of how to create an exhibit lenders would want to be a part of.
Ultimately, they decided on a retrospective that built a case for van Gogh's personal development as an artist. Mixed in would be work from his major influences, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pissarro and others.
In the end, Standring wrote more than 600 loan-request letters and made personal visits to nearly every lender. For five years, he traveled, previewing each piece. He worked the phones at 5 a.m. to catch colleagues in Europe.
"Nobody loans a multimillion-dollar painting on one loan letter," said Stand-ring. "You have to make your pitch."
It took three visits to the Staatliche Museen in Berlin to secure a loan of "Road Workers," a drawing van Gogh completed in 1882, and three more to Oslo to obtain the 1888 drawing "View of Arles from Montmajour" from Norway's museum of art.
"Becoming van Gogh" at the Denver Art Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago turned down seven loan requests before agreeing to send the 1887 oil painting "Grapes, Lemons, Pears, and Apples."
A museum might refuse one thing and offer another, or change its mind when it switches management, or politely decline as one collection did in Milan, even though Standring appealed in person there three times.
"You have to sense their changing sands as well as their changing needs," Standring said.
His strategy was to "keep calling until they don't take my calls." He is satisfied with the art he collected.
With each success and rejection, Standring and van Tilborgh would regroup and recalculate which works they needed to make their point.
"You always dream of the impossible," said van Tilborgh in a phone interview from Amsterdam last week. "That's the fate of every curator that puts together an exhibition."
Matter-of-fact master
DAM had serious competition for van Gogh's work. At the same time, the National Museum of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art were hunting to stock their joint "Van Gogh: Up Close," a wildly successful exhibit that focused on the artist's nature paintings and wrapped in Philly in May.
But "Becoming van Gogh" had unique and attractive intellectual merits. Thematically honed, it promised a more structured and informational take on the 10 years — just 10 — that van Gogh made art before his death in 1890.
Van Gogh's personal struggles are legend, his mental illness and absinthe addiction, his famous moment of self-mutilation. But this show sets that aside, instead looking at how van Gogh taught himself to draw, how he learned about ink and oil and different kinds of paper, how he expressed his religious convictions through his choice of subject matter.
Room by room, by period and by geography, the exhibit follows the trail of a searching 20-something wanderer who decided he would be a professional artist, who began by imitating others then branched out into his own styles, who was affected by both the marketplace and the opinions of peers, who mastered the power of brush strokes, and who learned — in the show's colorful climax — to add in oranges and burnt umbers, to connect brilliant reds, golds, indigos into cohesive works of art.
This isn't a portrait of the romantic and irritable van Gogh his followers conjure up. It presents a thoughtful, calculating workman who wanted to be the best he could.
"Van Gogh was quite rational and systematic," said Standring. "And he had a fierce intelligence."
"Becoming van Gogh" is an exhibit that doesn't rely on big paintings to make its point. There are wheat fields but no big sunflowers, portraits of prostitutes but no cafes or dance halls. There are unremarkable early drawings of girls and miraculous late paintings of oranges, apples and grapes.
Its blockbuster quality comes from its entirety, not its individual pieces; from the supporters who paid for the research and the increased security; from the dare and ego of a smallish city like Denver to put it together.
Ray Mark Rinaldi: 303-954-1540, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/rayrinaldi
"BECOMING VAN GOGH." The Denver Art Museum presents a career retrospective of Vincent van Gogh, with 70 of the artist's works on loan from 40 international museums and collections. October 21-January 20. 13th Avenue between Broadway and Bannock streets, $13-$25. 720-865-5000 or denverartmuseum.org.
An impressive list of lenders
The exhibit "Becoming van Gogh" was assembled through loans from museums and private collection around the world.
Here are some of the lenders:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Tate Museum, London
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
The Baltimore Museum of Art
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Yale University Art Gallery
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands.
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Museo Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona, Minn.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève, Geneva
Ecole le nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris.
Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France
Noro Foundation, the Netherlands
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Scottish National Gallery
Frederic C. Hamilton
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Courtauld Gallery, London.
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
Collection Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conn.
Ray Mark Rinaldi


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|2004-06-17, 04:41
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I have absolutely no problem with shows like these. They know what they are and they don't pretend to be something else.
|2004-06-17, 09:54
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So, Smash Hit! is fini. What a fitting ending.
I wanted to laugh when Ikita had her breakdown. What a stupid reason for a breakdown doofus!!! Or at least, what a poorly conveyed reason for a breakdown.
"We understand some of Cosprayers was not suitable for a children's show" Some? It was not suitable for any child ever. Not suitable for any human being ever. They should have just made a porn flick.
|2004-06-18, 02:18
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Aaawww, what a touching ending, lol. No seriously, I thought it was good ending. It brings a sense of closure to not only Smash Hit! but Cosprayers as well. They made good use of those 10 short minutes.
I must say, despite what anyone else says, I thoroughly enjoyed this series. I still smile when remembering that group picture they took at the end.
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Watch the begining of Ep 2 of Smash Hit. That's basically Cosprayers. It's that stupid and bad.
I think Smash Hit was a little more ecchi. No shower scenes or the like in Cosprayers. I don't remember any nudity either, but I'm not sure.
Love Love is the really ecchi one. It's practically porn.
I enjoyed Smash Hit somewhat. I like the way it made fun of Cosprayers. It wasn't very good in any other respect, though. Except the ED, I love it.
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I complain, but I really liked Smash Hit!. Cosprayers was bad, but somehow I find bad anime entertaining in a "oh my god this is so bad" way...Or I'm just a sadistic freak who has to compulsively watch anime...
The ecchi in the two series wasn't that bad, but there's definitely lots of it.
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DVD Fansubs
Triad seemed to make a commitment to fansubbing both the TV shows and the DVD releases for both CosPrayers and Smash Hit [I can't remember if it was at the beginning or the end of one of the shows, where they also made it clear that they were not subbing Love*Love].
Does anyone know if they intend to follow through on the DVD fansubs?
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|2004-06-22, 04:57
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Maybe you could help me understand:
Do they add episodes to the DVDs, or do 4 TV episodes have additional footage added to them [or was the additional footage already there and removed for airing on TV, i.e. uncut]?
If it's the latter [additional footage/uncut], is it common for the producers to choose just a handful of episodes to receive that kind of treatment for the DVD release, or more common for all the episodes to receive that kind of treatment for the DVD release?
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By ELLIOT WEISS
This post was written as an assignment for Professor Cindy Shearer's CIA 7091: MFA Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop. As part of a community of artists working across art perspectives, students in this course get the chance to present their work and teach each other about their art form(s), practice, lineage and influences, and are challenged to inquire into the interdisciplinary arts as well as forms new to them.
This is a blog about Risk for Reward. This was an assignment for class; however, its importance is far reaching. In my case, taking advantage of the opportunity presented by a risk when I was in my late 20s gave me confidence in myself and belief in my art (poetry). The risk of performing at an open mic and taking that risk (with help) was the starting point of my life as an artist. The confidence I gained from that event is part of my being today. I can always recall this event whenever I feel any self-doubt.
As a young teen I read a weekly newspaper, The Village Voice. In addition to the abundant music and arts section, the Voice also published an article that helped the Weiss clan win the war with roaches. The article explained how boric acid was the answer as it sent both the roaches and their offspring to the Roach Motels Burial Grounds. We had a roach colony that you would see covering the kitchen table during the night. Also in the Voice was an ad posted religiously about the Back Fence. The Back Fence, located on Bleeker Street in Greenwich Village promoted musical acts and an open mic every Sunday afternoon. Odetta, Bob Dylan, and Richie Havens are a few of the artists that performed at the Back Fence. As a teen I day dreamed about performing. I would listen to music, particularly Doo Wop, and imagine that I was singing onstage with the group.
In 1982 I wrote my first poem, "Junky." I asked a friend to read it and his reaction was positive (Risk for Reward Pt.1.) Then I remembered the ad for the Back Fence. One Sunday I put the folded up poem in my inside jacket pocket with no intentions of reading it and headed down to the Village. While I was sitting and waiting for the open mic to begin a woman came in and sat next to me, and we introduced ourselves. Her name was Lorraine Galiper. She was originally from the Caribbean and living and working as a teacher in Spanish Harlem. She also had a young daughter still residing in the Caribbean with her mother. Lorraine asked me if I was going to read and I said that I wasn't. I asked her if she was reading and she told me that she was the featured poet. This meant that she had 15 minutes as the feature.
While we were talking I took a risk and asked her if she wouldn't mind reading my poem (Risk for Reward Pt.2). "Sure, I'll read it," she said, and I took it out of my inside pocket and handed it to her. She liked it, said it was intense, and urged me to get up and read it when the emcee called for volunteers. I said that I wasn't sure. The open mic began with a few poets reading their poems, then Lorraine took the stage. She read for 15 minutes, and when she came off the stage she asked me what I thought. I told her that I had a clear picture of her home in the Caribbean and of her separation from her daughter.
Risk for reward part 3: Remember that Lorraine and I were sitting side by side? The emcee asked if there was anyone else that would like to read, and the next thing I knew, my hand was up in the air with Lorraine's hand on top of mine. We smiled and were laughing with each other—and I took the risk. It was great. The audience responded strongly, and taking this Risk for Reward jumpstarted my involvement as an artist/performance poet/writer/actor/bass guitarist, and eventually, as an MFA Student at CIIS. Lorraine and I had a supportive relationship for a while. I retell this story in my one man show and dedicate an original poem, "Your Smile," to Lorraine.


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Dance New Amsterdam280 Broadway, 2nd floor, 212-279-4200: BEN MUNISTERI DANCE PROJECTS, Thurs. Sat., May 31 June 2 at 8pm; Sun., June 3 at 3pm. $25.
Dance Theater Workshop219 W. 19th St., bet 7th & 8th Aves., 212-924-0077, www.dtw.org: WALLY CARDONA QUARTET, World premiere of Site, evening-length work with composer Paul Kline. Tues. Sat., thru June 2 at 7:30pm. $15/$25.
DanspaceSt. Marks Parish Hall, 131 E. 10th St.: EXCHANGE WITH THE DANCE SCENE IN DENMARK, Danish & American artists Sara Gebran, Mute Comp, Ishmael Houston-Junes, Irene Hultman, Wally Cardona & others. Sun., June 3 at 6pm. Free.
Dixon Place258 Bowery, 212-219-0736: BRINK, Curated by Michael Helland. Regina Rocke in Ive got what you need. Fri. Sat., June 1-2 at 8pm. $12. THE SALON OF FOUND (& STOLEN) DANCE: Video, performance & conversation. Organized by Melinda Ring. Sun., June 3 at 3pm. $5.
Hundred Grand Dance Studios100 Grand St. #2: BALLET RESEARCH PANEL, Panelists of ballet teachers including Barbara Forbes, Zvi Gotheiner, Therese Howard, Marjorie Mussman & others. Sat., June 2 at 3pm. Free.
Judson Memorial Church55 Washington Square South, SPECIAL EVENT, Sara Gebran (Copenhagen), Neil Greenberg, Donna Uchizono & Reggie Wilson. Mon., June 4 at 8pm. Free.
Judson Memorial Church Gym243 Thompson St., POPULUS, 9 separate but simultaneous performances. Fri., June 1 at 8pm. $8.
Tisch School of Arts111 2nd Ave., 3rd floor: IMPROV JAM WITH EVERYTHING SMALLER, Led by Brooklyn-based collective everything smaller. Tues., June 5 at 3:30pm. Free.
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The Jensen Farms cantaloupe blamed for the deadliest listeria outbreak in years may have become contaminated in the farm's own packing facilities.
That's the conclusion of the FDA's investigation into the source of the outbreak so far, although the saga is far from over.
And once again, the likely culprit is poop.
In a conference call with reporters today, FDA's Sherri McGarry says the agency's tests of cantaloupes growing in the fields were negative. Same for some samples collected in the packing facility, although she noted they were collected after the equipment had been thoroughly cleaned.
Listeria bacteria were found on some of the fruit in cold storage and some equipment, but not in the water used to wash the cantaloupes. (Read the full inspection report here.)
But where did the bacteria come from? A farm truck used to haul cantaloupes to a cattle facility — increasing the risk of contamination via animal feces — is one possibility.
Also, Magary says, the packing facility has a floor that allows water to pool and contains equipment previously used on another crop — potatoes — that wasn't "easily cleanable and sanitized." And, the packing facility is open to the air.
She added that there is no reason to believe these practices are widespread in the industry.
Jensen Farms is currently not operating and has agreed to allow government inspectors to inspect it before reopening. It initiated a recall Sept. 14.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says she hopes the listeria investigation will lead to better prevention of foodborne illnesses in the future - a mantra the agency has been repeating since the first reports came out last month.
As of yesterday, the outbreak has been blamed for at least 25 deaths and 123 illnesses in 26 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. While the casualties have slowed since September, they still may creep up, given the long incubation period of listeria, officials say.
Still, not everyone who was exposed got sick, and our own Allison Aubrey reported on why that is recently.
Stay tuned for more on the listeria outbreak tonight on All Things Considered.
The Food and Drug Administration has pinpointed what it says are the likely causes of the recent Listeria outbreak. That outbreak has been blamed for at least 25 deaths and 123 illnesses. The FDA identified a series of problems at a Colorado cantaloupe farm.
And as NPR's Allison Aubrey reports, what investigators found inside the farm's packing facility offers important clues as to what went wrong.
ALLISON AUBREY, BYLINE: Investigators found low levels of Listeria contamination on some hard-to-clean equipment inside Jensen Farms packing facilities. And experts say the virulent strains of bacteria that made people sick likely found lots of places to hide and multiply. They also found water, pools of water on the floor of the facility.
Don Schaffner is a food science expert at Rutgers University.
DON SCHAFFNER: Water gets moved around in a food processing plant or a packing house all the time. With hoses, it gets sprayed. It's just - water is the vehicle that facilitates the movement of bacteria in many different environments.
AUBREY: If water was spreading the bacteria it could explain how it ended up on the fruit. But how did the bacteria get to the packing facility in the first place? Well, investigators learned that a truck at Jensen Farms used to haul melons had also made trips to a cattle operation, possibly introducing animal feces.
During a press conference today, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Jensen Farms has agreed to correct all the problems identified during the investigation. And she says, going forward, prevention must be the cornerstone of food safety.
DR. MARGARET HAMBURG: The lessons from this outbreak also speak to the urgency we have in implementing the FDA's Food Safety Modernization Act, which gives FDA much-needed tools to build a new prevention-focused food safety system.
AUBREY: Administrators are in the process of writing new standards to codify best practices that all food producers should be following. But Erik Olson, who directs food programs for the Pew Charitable Trust, says he's concerned that proposed budget cuts may hamper the progress here.
ERIK OLSON: We are concerned that not only investigations of outbreaks but, and frankly even more importantly, preventing these kinds of outbreaks with new standards that are supposed to be put into place fairly soon, may not happen if these budget cuts go into effect.
AUBREY: The FDA says Jensen Farms is currently not operating and has agreed to allow government inspectors to inspect again before reopening.
Allison Aubrey, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Shell-mode gives access to a shell in a normal emacs buffer, meaning you can move around and edit it as usual. A drawback is that you can not launch programs like htop or other ncurses ones, like you would in term-mode.
M-x shell
Look at the menu: you have several keys to interact with the shell. Some of them are:
- [M-p] previous input of command line
- [C-c r] go to beginning of output (useful when you have a large output and want to read through the beginning)
- [C-c-p] go to beginning of previous output group
- [C-c-c] send the C-c command to the shell
- [C-c-o] delete the output of last command
To launch a shell in the directory of the current buffer, have a look to shell-here: https://github.com/ieure/shell-here (available through ELPA).
re-execute successive commands
Often it is useful to reexecute several successive shell commands that were previously executed in sequence. To do this, first find and reexecute the first command of the sequence. Then type [C-c C-x], that will fetch the following command--the one that follows the command you just repeated. Then type RET to reexecute this command. You can reexecute several successive commands by typing [C-c C-x RET] over and over.
More colors
If you have bad colors in the output, try using ansi-mode:
(require 'ansi-color) (defun colorize-compilation-buffer () (toggle-read-only) (ansi-color-apply-on-region (point-min) (point-max)) (toggle-read-only)) (add-hook 'compilation-filter-hook 'colorize-compilation-buffer)
You can highlight some text based on regexp (useful to see "OK" or warnings):
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook (lambda () (highlight-regexp "\\[OK\\]" "hi-green-b")))
Make URLs clikable
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook (lambda () (goto-address-mode )))
Make file paths clickable
Every line representing a path to a file will be colorized and made clickable, so that you can jump to that file and that line, like in compilation-mode (specially useful when compiling a program or running tests):
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'compilation-shell-minor-mode)
Now you can use key bindings from the mode: use [C-x `] (or M-x next-error) (backquote) to go to the next error detected in the shell. You can't do that in an xterm !
Change directory with ido-mode
Using ido's completion system for changing directories is a big gain in usability and efficiency for emacs' shell. I urge you to check this Stack Overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20952995/emacs-shell-change-directory-with-ido
For comint-mode and derivatives (including shell-mode) the searchable history is read in via comint-read-input-ring, which uses comint-input-ring-file-name which you can set in a mode hook. However I would suggest that you actually set your HISTFILE environment variable to ~/.zsh_history because shell-mode automatically defers to that.
The documentation suggests that:
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'my-shell-mode-hook)
(defun my-shell-mode-hook ()
(setq comint-input-ring-file-name "~/.zsh_history") ;; or bash_history
(comint-read-input-ring t))
Note that if you want to persist more variables (mini-buffer history,…), enable savehist-mode and configure the variables you wish to persist between sessions. See M-x customize-group RET savehist RET.
See also
shell-pop to pop up and pop out a shell buffer window easily (installable via ELPA).


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WHEN eagle-eyed bargain hunter Stuart Lever saw Marks and Spencer armchairs worth £700 on sale for for just 50p each online, he thought it was the deal of the century.
Mr Lever and his wife, Melanie, quickly placed an order for seven of the High Back Richmond recliner chairs — costing a grand total of £3.50, rather than £4,900.
But, as the former Conservative councillor for Astley Bridge was making plans to donate his new chairs to a worthy cause, Marks and Spencer confirmed that the price change had been the result of a "technical error" and it would not be delivering Mr Lever's order — or any others made for the wrongly reduced price.
Mr Lever said: "I was very disappointed to hear that Marks and Spencer wouldn't be going through with the order — as far as I'm concerned they should honour the deal without any question.
"They are a big company and they should take the mistake on the chin and pay out, they have already confirmed that they received our order."
He added that although he will not be pursuing the matter, he hopes others will not take the news "sitting down".
"If everyone kicked up a fuss, you never know they might end up changing their minds," he said.
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Mr Lever, aged 45, had planned to find a worthy recipient to donate his arm chairs to. He said: "I had contacted the hospital about possibly giving them to the maternity unit, but obviously that won't be happening now."
A Marks and Spencer spokesman confirmed that a technical error meant that for a short period of time on Wednesday, the recliner chairs were incorrectly priced, an error that was corrected as soon as it was spotted.
He also said the chairs would not be sold at 50p and a full refund would be given.
A statement said: "We have contacted customers and apologised for any inconvenience caused."
A Bolton Council trading standards spokesman said: "When someone makes an order on a website, they are offering a contract and it is within the seller's rights to accept or reject that contract.
"In cases where there has been a clear mistake, such as the pricing of armchairs at 50p, the seller is able to reject or cancel the order as it was not a genuine contract."


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The Town of Palmer is made up of four separate villages; Depot Village, Thorndike Village, Three Rivers and Bondsville. The first settler of Palmer was John King, who built a home on the Quaboag River in 1716. The town asked to be incorporated in 1751, but the Royal Governor refused the petition. Palmer was finally incorporated in 1775. During the 19th century the town bustled with activity being the home of several large textile mills which were able to ship their goods on the newly established railroads. Between 1830 and 1850, the population of Palmer more than tripled. Agricultural Fairs like the one pictured here were held in many communities throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. These fairs were used to promote agricultural education and also provided people with a place to show off prize animals and crops, or skill in the domestic arts like cooking and sewing.
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Michael Jeffrey Gieseking, 58 of Borger died July 29th in Borger. Memorial Service will be Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Riverview Baptist Fellowship Hall with Scott Wallace, Associate Pastor officiating. Cremation was under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.Michael was born on November 29, 1953 in Dayton, Ohio to Millard and Enid Gieseking. He came to Borger in 2009. He served in the US Army as a Sgt. Ten years.He is survived by his parents Millard and Enid Gieseking of Borger. Sisters, Penny Barrett of Detour Village Michigan; Sallie Parker of Peebles, Ohio; and Ellen Swan of Burleson, Texas; Brothers, Nicholas Gieseking of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Craig Gieseking of Batesburg, SC; and Marc Gieseking of Borger. He was preceded in death by a brother John Gieseking.To send condolences, sign the online guestbook at www.mintonchatwell.com.


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"Say, 'I'm sorry, you just didn't make Santa's nice list this year.'" — Kim
"Over Christmas dinner with her parents, because she 'just can't imagine you fitting in with the family.' That happened to me." — Kevin
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"Say, 'Like this menorah, our love is only going to last for eight more nights.'" — Jacob
"Wrap up your key to their place and put it under the tree as their present. But only if they deserve it. That's cold!" — Dominic


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The SANDS web page information serves as a clearinghouse for those who would like to either offer a hand or find an outdoor partner to provide a hand in the field.
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RENO, Nev. — Things change.
Jeremy Lamb knows that as well as anybody.
He was the 12th pick in the 2012 NBA Draft by the Rockets and was supposed to be a key part of a young nucleus for the future. Then on Oct. 27, Lamb was traded to the Thunder as part of the deal that sent James Harden to Houston.
Now 2 1/2 months into his rookie season, Lamb's destination changes from day to day as he's played 13 games with OKC and 11 as an assigned player with the NBA D-League Tulsa 66ers.
On Thursday, Lamb wrapped up his two-game stint at the D-League Showcase by hitting 11-for-19 shots to score 33 points and also had eight rebounds and three assists.
"I hit some shots and that always feels good," said Lamb. "But the main idea is to get reps and try to stay sharp in case they need me at OKC."
At just 20 years old, Lamb knew there was plenty he had to learn at the pro level, but figured he'd be doing it exclusively alongside Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and the rest of the Thunder this season.
"I'll admit that I wasn't really happy when they first came and told me that they wanted me to play in the D-League," he said. "I mean, you come out of college and get drafted and the thrill and the expectation is that you're in the NBA.
"You're hearing what they're saying when they tell you about the D-League and how it can help. Still it's pretty hard not to feel like you've been demoted. But once I got to Tulsa and got play a few games and get plenty of minutes, I could understand the value and it's made a lot of sense."
Lamb has shuttled back and forth between OKC and Tulsa regularly, averaging more than 35 minutes a game with the 66ers, while getting just a token few runs with the Thunder.
His most significant contribution came on Dec. 19 when Thunder coach Scott Brooks called on Lamb to replace Durant late in the first quarter of a game against the Hawks. He not only hit two-of-three shots and scored five points in five minutes, but also didn't allow Josh Smith to score, despite giving up size on a steady diet of post-up plays.
While Lamb is averaging 21.8 points and 5.4 rebounds in the D-League, he's got the most work to do at the defensive end.
"I've got to learn to be more consistent on defense," he said. "You can't take a possession off. You can't lose your focus at any time. Those are things that I definitely work on in practice when I'm in OKC, but's game situations that really test your concentration. The idea is to make the most of these games in the D-League and to get myself to a point where if something happens in OKC and I'm needed, I'm ready to step in."
As Lamb knows, things change quickly.


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Original Recipe Owl Tag Along Toddler Backpack by Angela Pingel Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Hello all! My name is Angela Pingel and I blog over at Cut To Pieces {cuttopieces.blogspot.com}. I recently participated in Moda Bake Shop's SLICED competition and had the honor (and shock!) of winning. I'm pleased to share with you today my final project for the competition, the Owl Tag Along Toddler Backpack. This backpack is fully insulated with heat/cold resistant batting to make a functional yet adorable lunch tote. Lined with laminated fabric, it is perfect for the messes that come with a toddler, making it easy to wipe clean. The backpack uses basic box construction techniques, piping, a zipper, cording, D rings and more. I'm not saying that this is easy. But trust me, you will be happy with the bag! And so will that special little someone. It's the perfect project for a holiday or birthday gift! approximately 6 Assorted Layer Cake Pieces assorted scraps (for owl eyes and nose) 1 yard of Twill/Home Dec weight fabric (this is plenty!) 1/2 yard of laminated fabric 1/4 yard of mesh utility fabric 1/2 yard of Insul-Bright insulated batting 1/2 yard of fusible non woven interfacing Basting Spray Eyelets 2 yards of nylon cording (sized to fit through eyelets) Heat-n-Bond Lite II 1 package of coordinating piping 18" zipper 1/4 yard of nylon strapping 1 package of 4 D rings 2 double cord stops optional but helpful: teflon sewing machine foot optional but helpful: freezer paper optional but useful: scotch guard Unless otherwise noted, all seam allowances are a 1/4". Use the pattern pieces provided to cut the backpack front and back from the twill fabric and the lining front and back from the laminated fabric. Be sure to mark the top center of each piece. I like to use freezer paper to create my pattern pieces because I can iron the piece in place from the nonwaxy side. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com A little tip when working with laminated fabric: you can quickly press the fabric from the BACKside using a pressing cloth to help protect your iron and the fabric. The heat will make the fabric more malleable, which may or may not be useful for you. Creating the Lining: In addition to the two pieces cut from the provided pattern pieces, also cut the following from the laminated fabric: (1) (2) (2) (2) 10 1/2" x 4 1/4" - bottom of backpack lining 8 3/4" x 4 1/2" - sides of backpack lining 15 1/2" x 2 1/2" - zipper opening 7" x 4 1/2" - interior pocket Cut the following from the Insul-Bright Batting: (1) 10" x 4" - bottom batting (2) 8" x 4" - side batting (2) backpack lining pattern minus a 1/4" all around Mark 1/4" from each corner on the side and bottom lining pieces. Spray-baste batting onto the wrong side of the laminated fabric, centering the batting on the pattern pieces. Sew batting in place in even lines across all lining pieces. (I used 2" increments.) I chose to keep the batting out of the seam allowance to help reduce bulk. The laminate is already a bit tricky to work with and placing the batting only on the usable part of the bag eliminates some struggle you might have working with both the laminate and the batting. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com TIP: When working with the laminated fabric, you will have the most success if you use a teflon sewing machine foot. It will not cling to the laminate and allows you to sew more easily. Most likely your teflon foot will look something like this: Construct the interior laminate pocket by using the two " x 4 1/2" pieces. Place these right sides together and sew around the perimeter leaving a couple inches open to turn the piece right side out as seen in the picture below. Clip the corners, turn the piece right side out and top stitch along the edge. Place the pocket on the lining back piece, centering the pocket. Stitch along the left, bottom and right sides to attach the pocket piece to the lining back. To create an extra detail to the pocket to hold something like a pen, stitch a vertical line 1 1/2" from the right edge. Construct the top opening and sides of the lining, starting with the two 15 1/2" x 2 1/2" pieces. The lining will not actually be connected to the zipper until the final step, so we are creating a finished edge for the lining at the zipper opening. Fold in one long edge on each of the two pieces by a 1/2". Top Stitch the fold in place. (You will love having that teflon foot for this kind of step!) Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Lay the two center opening pieces right sides together on one of the side lining pieces. Align the outside edges together. There should be a gap in the middle. You do not want these to meet together!. Use a 1/2" seam and sew these together. Fold the sidepiece back and press the seam allowance toward the sidepiece. Top stitch the pieces in place. Use the same procedure to sew the center opening pieces to the other sidepiece as well. At this point, you have a long side/center piece, a bottom piece, a front piece and a back piece of the lining. They have been insulated and a pocket is attached. Now you need to sew all of these four pieces together. Use basic box construction techniques. First sew the side/center piece to the front and back panels using a 1/4" seam allowances, matching the centers and the ends. Leave a 1/4" unsewn at each each end and ease the curves as you sew. Pin the pieces together with heavy-duty pins ONLY in the seam allowance (the pins will leave a mark and you don't want that anywhere other than your seam allowance). Clip the curves as needed. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Sew the bottom of the bag to the other pieces one side at a time, always starting a 1/4" in from the edge of the bottom piece. Again this is basic box construction. Clip the corners of the bottom piece to turn the piece along the edge of the bag. (I didn't get a great photo of this step but there are oodles out there on the Internet...just search for box construction sewing techniques) Sew all four edges together and you will end up with an interior all lined with insulated batting and ready to go into your backpack! Creating the Backpack Exterior: The exterior is best tackled in steps. Construct the back of the back pack, the sides of backpack (including the mesh pockets and zipper) and the owl front of the backpack. Then put them all together. Ready? Exterior Back: In addition to the two pieces cut from the pattern pieces for the exterior back, also cut the following from the Twill fabric: (2) 22" x 4" strips (1) 5" x 4" strip Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com With each strip, fold the fabric in half along the length of the piece and press. Open the piece up again and fold in one short edge a 1/4" and then again by a 1/4" and top stitch the short end in place. (You do NOT need to do this particular step for the 5" x 4" piece). Fold the long edges of the strip in toward the center seam and press. Top stitch each long side of the folded strip. Cut (1) 10.5" x 9" rectangle for the Exterior Bottom Back piece. Mark the center at the top and bottom of the piece. Place each of the long shoulder straps, raw edges together, 2" from the center on each side and tack in place using an 1/8" seam allowance. Lay your piece flat and stretch out the shoulder straps flush against the back panel. Angle the straps so that they are 1 1/2" from the outside edge and pin temporarily in place. With right sides together, sew the exterior back panel pieces together using a 1/2" seam allowance. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Press the seam toward the top of the bag and topstitch the top panel just above the seam (you may want a second row of topstitching a 1/4" above that). Remove the pins from the shoulder straps and move these out of the way while you work on attaching the D rings to the bottom of the bag. Take the 5" x 4" strip that has been sewn into a small strap and cut it into (2) 2 1/2" long pieces. Fold the small strip in half and slip (2) D rings onto the loop. Use a zipper foot to sew the D rings tightly in place at the center of the small straps. Mark 1 1/2" from each side of the bottom and place the D ring straps to the inside of each mark. Tack in place using an 1/8" seam allowance. Pull the long shoulder straps through the D rings following the manufacturer's instructions. Apply piping to the outside edge of the whole back exterior panel around the sides (not the bottom). Be sure to use a thread that matches the piping for this step and a zipper or piping foot. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Cut 8" of nylon strapping for a hanging loop and attach it to the top of the exterior back with raw edges aligned and stitch in place using an 1/8" seam allowance. Step back and admire your work! You have completed the exterior back of the backpack! Exterior Sides: There are two distinct parts to making the exterior sides: making the center zipper and making the adjustable mesh pockets. Zipper installation: Cut (2) 15 1/2" x 2 1/2" strips of Twill fabric. Install the zipper between these two pieces. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Use your zipper foot for installation and top stitch the fabric in place for a smooth finish. Shorten the zipper according to the manufacturer's instructions. Mesh Pockets: Cut the following: (2) 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" pieces from the Twill fabric (2) 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" pieces from the Mesh Fabric (2) 7 1/2" x 3 1/2" pieces from layer cake piece chosen for pocket casing Take the (2) casing pieces measuring 7 1/2" x 3 1/2" and fold in half along the length, wrong sides together. Press. Open out the pieces and press each side into the center. You should see 4 "sections" of the casing now. Along the 2nd section, add a small scrap of interfacing across the middle. Mark the center (3 3/4" from either end). Measure 1" or so from each side of the center and mark your eyelet locations. Install the grommets according to the manufacturer's instructions with the wrong side of the grommet on the interfacing. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Cut (4) pieces of cording 14" in length and thread it from the wrong side of the fabric through the eyelet to the right side. Tack it in place along the wrong side edge. Insert the mesh fabric into the grommet placket casing and top stitch along the edge of the casing. Attach the mesh to the side twill panel pieces by first stitching along each side using an 1/8" seam allowance. Box pleat the bottom of the mesh to be fit perfectly flush with the twill fabric and stitch in place. Insert the cording through a double cord stop. Trim cording to desired length and knot each cording end. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com You may want to insert a pull-tab on the zip side, so attach a 3 1/2" piece of ribbon/twill tape folded in half to the pocket piece on the zip side. Now attach each side pocket piece to the center zipper piece using a 1/2" seam allowance on each side. Top stitch each piece in place. Yay! You've finished the exterior sidepieces! Exterior Front: And now the part that I'm sure you've been waiting for! Making that sweet owl for the front of the backpack. I saved it for last because it's my favorite part! In addition to the (1) exterior front backpack pattern piece cut from Twill, you will also need the owl pattern pieces. Cut (2) Owl Belly Pocket pieces from (2) layer cake pieces. Fold (1) neutral layer cake piece in half and cut (2) Owl Face pieces. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Cut (4) Owl Wing pieces from (2) matching layer cake pieces. Apply Interfacing on the wrong side of one piece of each owl part: 1 per wing, 1 for belly pocket and 1 for owl face. Again, to lessen the bulk I like to keep the interfacing out of the seam allowance. So trim it to 1/4" shorter than the pattern piece on all sides. With right sides together, stitch 1/4" around the belly pocket sides and top. Clip the corners and notch the curves. Turn the belly piece right side out and double top stitch the top of the pocket. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Match the centers of bag front and belly pocket. Tack the pocket in place along the bottom of the bag using a 1/8" seam allowance. Stitch the sides *only* of belly pocket to the bag front. To make the wings, sew (2) wing pieces right sides together along the sides only. Clip the seam. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Turn wings right side out. Flip top in and under 1/4" and top stitch all around the wing pieces. Sew Wings to either side of the belly pocket, attaching *only* at the top of the wing using a tight double top stitch. Your wing will be free to flap this way. To make the owl face, sew (2) owl face pieces right sides together around the shape, leaving a 2" or so unsewn gap at the bottom of the face. Trim seam allowance to 1/8", turn right side out and press firmly. Creating the eyes: Cut (1) gray 2" circle and adhere steam a seam lite II to the back. Cut the circle in half. Then trim an 1/8" away from the outside edge (make this a good cut! These are the pieces you are using on the backpack). Use the remaining inner circle pieces to cut some tiny pieces for your eyelashes. Arrange as desired. Remove the paper backing and press all eyepieces in place. Be sure not to move your iron back and forth...this is an up and down pressing motion. Using an open toe applique foot, top stitch or satin stitch around the edge of each piece with matching grey thread. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Creating the nose: Cut (1) small triangle from a scrap of fabric. Back this piece with SAS Lite II as well. Remove paper backing and press in place. Top stitch or satin stitch around the edge. Spray baste the back of the owl face and position it on the Exterior Backpack front above the Belly Pocket and Wings. Top stitch around the whole perimeter of the face. Eep!! Isn't she sweet?! Sew piping to the Exterior bag front along the edges but not the bottom just as you did for the Exterior Back. You now have a completed Exterior Front, Exterior Back and Exterior Sides. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Cut (1) 10 1/2" x 4 1/2" twill piece for the Exterior Bottom and you can start to sew all of these pieces together. It is constructed exactly as the interior lining was, with box construction. First sew the Exterior Sides to the Exterior Back, matching centers and ends. I used my zipper foot to keep that piping nice and snug! Ease the curve together and clip seams as necessary. Remember to leave a 1/4" unsewn at the bottom of each side. Starting to see a bag! Yum....pretty piping! Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com I keep the backpack straps pinned up and out of the way. Continue to construct the backpack together, sewing the bag front to the bag sides. Then sew the bag bottom to the backpack using the same construction techniques as you did with the lining: box construction. So be sure to mark the quarter inch seam allowance at each corner on the bottom Twill piece. Sew all four sides together, clipping corners as necessary. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com Turn bag right side out. Admire your work. You are almost there!! Putting the lining and exterior bag pieces together: This is it! The very end!! All that you need to do now is insert the lining into the exterior backpack and stitch together at the zipper. Insert the bag lining into the backpack ensuring that WRONG sides are together. Push and finagle that lining into its proper place and line up the openings of the backpack exterior and the lining. The laminated fabric should be tucked back from the zipper a bit so it does not get caught in the zipper. Use heavy-duty pins and carefully pin the lining in place. Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com You may want that teflon foot back again depending on how you do the last step, but this is it! Sew the lining opening in place along the edge of the exterior zipper. There are some tricky parts to this but just keep fiddling with the bag until you can sew all around the zippered edge. You will end up with what looks like a double row of topstitching on the outside! Now do the happy dance because you are DONE!! Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com One Backpack perfect for the Toddler in your life! I hope that you all enjoy this pattern and try to tackle it. If you're dying for the look without too much hassle, you could always make an unlined version and finish off the interior seams with packaged bias tape. Quick and Easy! (well...easier!) I would love to see any projects made from my patterns, so please add them to my group on Flickr, Cut To Pieces {flickr.com/groups/creating_with_twee} and of course to the Moda Bake Shop Group {flickr.com/groups/modabakeshop} as well. And don't forget that there are endless possibilities for color combinations and themes. In another lifetime I will find the time to make a boy version of this in navy blue and kelly green, perhaps with a sweet whale face! My mind is a whirl with all of the adorable options for how to personalize this backpack to a particular child's tastes. Personally my girl is quite pleased with her owl. The owl who says "whooo!" Angela Pingel {cuttopieces.blogspot.com} Original Recipe can be found at www.modabakeshop.com
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Not long after Friday's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school, media outlets began reporting the gunman's identity as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza of Hoboken, N.J.
His name and image quickly spread worldwide as the perpetrator of the nation's second-deadliest school shooting. Facebook and Twitter lit up as people vented their fury at the man they believed was responsible.
In reality, Ryan Lanza was at work in New York City when the gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., some 60 miles away, and a law enforcement official later identified his 20-year-old brother, Adam Lanza, as the culprit.
Ryan Lanza was interviewed by investigators but is not believed to have any connection to the killings. He told officials he'd had no contact with his brother since 2010.
The Associated Press, relying on a law enforcement official who turned out to be mistaken, initially reported Ryan Lanza was the shooter. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the source was not authorized to speak on the record about the developing investigation. Many other media outlets also reported the same, also citing law enforcement officials.
Once he realized he'd been identified as the perpetrator, Lanza evidently whipped out his mobile device and began posting a quick succession of denials on Facebook, according to screen grabs purportedly taken from his Facebook page and posted online.
"IT WASN'T ME I WAS AT WORK IT WASN'T ME," said one message. Then, two minutes later: "I'm on the bus home now it wasn't me." Finally, three minutes after that, he posted an obscenity and repeated, "it wasn't me," the screen grabs showed.
A friend of Lanza's, former Jersey Journal newspaper staff writer Brett Wilshe, told the AP he "got really scared" when he began hearing the media reports about Ryan Lanza, and sent him a message on Facebook asking what was going on and if he was OK.
Lanza's reply, according to Wilshe, was something like: "It was my brother. I think my mother is dead. Oh my God."
Wilshe said he met Ryan Lanza through mutual friends and hung out with him about once a month.
"I really enjoy his company because he's a great guy," Wilshe said. He said Lanza never mentioned his brother, though "I didn't know him well enough to have gotten to know his family."
Katie Colaneri, 24, a radio reporter from Hoboken, said she met Ryan Lanza about a year and a half ago through mutual friends, and described him as "the nicest guy." She last saw him at a community meeting after Superstorm Sandy, and they spoke of how he had been without power for several days.
When she heard his name, she said, it left her in "absolute shock, and I could not fathom what I was hearing."
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One more post about a yard sale find. (I really never go yard-saleing – I just got lucky, 'happening-to-pass-by' two garage sales in my own neighborhood this summer.) So at a yard sale down the street from my house I spotted these 2 chairs. $10 for the pair. They looked a little bedraggled but full of potential.
I used white, gloss Krylon to paint the chair. Not fancy. I probably need to add a coat of some kind of finisher, glaze or something and I'm undecided about whether or not to distress it a little bit. I'll keep mulling it over for a few more weeks before I tackle the other chair as well. It's still a work in progress.
Here's the nice 'before and after' shot. My china-hutch re-do is still probably my favorite furniture makeover, but the chair is definitely a close second. Cost-wise per chair: Chair = $5, primer = $3.50, paint = $3.50, fabric = $2.25 for a total of $14.25. I think I can handle doing the other one.


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Can the government prevent a near-disaster from happening again if it's not sure what caused it in the first place?
That was the question confronting the Securities and Exchange Commission immediately after the "Flash Crash" of May 2010, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost and regained about 600 points in a matter of minutes.
"Without understanding what happened, we had to stop the event in its tracks," said Gregg E. Berman, senior advisor to the director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the SEC.
Berman's Jan. 30 address at the Columbus School of Law, titled "How the SEC is Responding to Increasingly Computerized Markets," offered an overview of the moves the agency made in response to the Flash Crash, as well as to the new norm on Wall Street: high-speed computerized trading that holds the potential for occasionally veering out of control.
Since the lightning-fast meltdown and equally swift recovery of stock values nearly three years ago, the SEC has created a new Office of Analytics and Research. Among other things, the office is charged with producing new initiatives and regulations that will better respond to the inherent market volatility created by computerized trading.
Speaking for the second time at the Law School at the invitation of the Securities Law Program and the Securities Law Students Association, Berman said that a significant new failsafe—a "circuit breaker"—has now been introduced in the system of stock trading.
If the system detects more than a 10 percent spike or drop in the market within a five minute period, trading is automatically suspended until experts determine the cause of the violent fluctuation.
The circuit-breaker has been tripped roughly 300 times over the past three or four years, "And it's taught us that the market tends to correct itself," concluded Berman.
Nonetheless, the stock market remains vulnerable to the unforeseen glitches and vagaries of high-speed stock trading, and Berman, a former hedge fund manager and physicist by training, said it bears monitoring at all times.
"There are some who advise to let the spikes happen and see if they go down. If the market spike goes too far and the market needs to shut down, the circuit breaker is still there," Berman said.
"Let the spike happen and see if it goes down. If the market needs to shut down, the circuit breaker is still there. We can put the brakes on and say the market must stop."


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LODI - Beth Newell of Oakland has raced all over the world on her bicycle.
LODI - Beth Newell of Oakland has raced all over the world on her bicycle.
And one of the events she looks forward to the most, the Lodi Cyclefest, is taking place on Sunday.
"I love this race because the town of Lodi gets behind it and makes it so enjoyable with all of the fans, and I love all the wineries they have available and the kids' races," the 31-year-old professional rider said. "I love the downtown atmosphere. Sometimes, we race in the remote countryside, which is beautfiul but sometimes a little lonely."
Isolation will be the last thing racers from throughout Northern California will experience in this up-close-and-personal criterion - a high-speed, timed race - on a course that weaves in a figure-8 pattern through downtown Lodi. Riders can reach speeds up to 40 miles per hour with spectators literally at arm's length from the action. There will be prizes for boys and girls and all age divisions, with live music, food, wine and beer.
The fifth Lodi Cyclefest promises to be as fun and exciting as its previous renditions, but organizers hope it will grow and draw competitors and spectators from around the world, while promoting the burgeoning Lodi wine scene at the same time.
"It's so fascinating," said professional triathlete Damian Gonzalez, one of the event's organizers. "When you talk about it, you can't really grasp how fascinating it is just by talking about it. You have to see it."
So more people can see it, a documentary film crew will capture the scene Sunday.
"The goal is to get the spotlight every year on this event to people from around the world to focus on the wine region here," Gonzalez said. "The bigger the crowd, the better it's going to look on film."
Wineries are at the forefront of the event. Michael David Winery of Lodi is the presenting sponsor, and perhaps the most entertaining race of the Cyclefest involves representatives of Lodi, Clarksburg and El Dorado appellation wineries battling for the Vintner's Cup, a hand-made metal sculpture by John Fitzhugh. The winner gets the sculpture for display at their establishment and the bragging rights that go with it. Joe Lange of LangeTwins Family Winery and Vineyards in Lodi is the reigning Vintner's Cup champion.
"We're trying to combine the marketing of the wine world here with athletics and sport and make something fun that sets Lodi apart from other wine regions," said David Phillips, co-owner and president of Michael David Winery and an avid cyclist. "We have fun. People dress up and we smack-talk each other and it's all in fun and gest."
Newell also has fun but takes cycling seriously. The former public health program planning administrator recently turned pro with Team NOW (No Opportunity Wasted). She won her division at the 2011 Lodi Cyclefest and is a two-time national champion and a Pan-Am champion. The 31-year-old former track competitor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., is training for the 2016 Olympics in velodrome cycling, which is raced indoors on a banked track. She will race in the coming weeks in France and Italy.
Andres Gil, who teaches at Bear Creek High, also will compete Sunday hoping to win in Lodi for the first time after placing second in his age division last year. Gil, 41, won a race last month in Hamilton near San Jose and finished second at a recent criterion in Nevada City.
"It's our home race, so yeah, it's in the top five for sure," said Gil when asked if the Lodi Cyclefest was his favorite race of the year. "Lodi is pretty challenging. The road changes. You have pavers and nice asphalt and it makes it fun."
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A man placed on probation for 15 years after being convicted last summer of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child between the ages of 12 and 16 was arrested Wednesday.
A man placed on probation for 15 years after being convicted last summer of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child between the ages of 12 and 16 was arrested again Wednesday.
Richard David Cheshire, 35, who also is known as Brandon David Rich, was charged with violation of probation for several infractions.
Court documents show that earlier this month Cheshire visited Alachua and Sumter counties without a travel permit after being forbidden to leave Marion County without permission from parole and probation officers.
As part of his probation, Cheshire was fitted with an electronic monitoring device. The device showed that on Jan. 5 he went to Alachua County at 8:36 a.m. and returned to Marion County at 9:30 a.m.
Cheshire claimed he accidentally traveled to Alachua County to attend a garage sale and was not aware he had entered another county, the report noted.
Two days later, the device showed that he entered Sumter County at 6:53 a.m. and returned to Marion County at 3:23 p.m.
Last month, Cheshire applied for his probationary supervision to be transferred to California, but the request was denied because he had not completed a psychosexual evaluation that was a requirement of his probation.
Authorities discovered in late November that Cheshire was in possession of a laptop and was accessing the Internet. He told investigators he did not remember he could not go on the Internet and had borrowed the laptop from a friend.
After assessing all the infractions, an arrest warrant was issued Jan. 11.
In early August 2010, Cheshire was arrested by Detective Mark Peavy for the sex offense after a 14-year-old boy reported that Cheshire touched him inappropriately.
Cheshire met the teen at a store and asked if he would like to go to his Ocklawaha home so they could play video games. While there, the juvenile said, Cheshire offered him marijuana and he smoked it, as well as alcohol, which the minor said he did not like after tasting it, according to reports. The boy said he fell asleep in Cheshire's room and the man made sexual advances and touched his private area.
Cheshire denied the allegation.
In August 2012, he was adjudicated guilty and sentenced to the 15 years of probation.
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