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Wednesday, 30 June 2010
There was only heavenly feelings at the Welcome Collection picnic last Saturday. We unveiled our giant, embroidered snakes and ladders board, the design of which we took from the Hindu Vaishnava faith's Heaven and Hell game. The communities of Euston and Prick Your Finger, had embroidered squares with printed numbers and microscopic drawings of nutrients and bacteria. The game was a joy to play, and our giant die was a hit, as everyone seemed to be hit with it at some point during the day.
The Welcome Trust are going to take some proper detailed pictures of it, my quick snaps don't do it justice as there is / was so much to see, with kid's shouting 'la der, la der' and 'boo 'ing their way down the snakes. When one little girl standing on 4, threw a 4, 3 times, always moving up to 8 and sliding back down a snake to 4, we could understand her tears, as the boys were throwing scissor kicks of joy, clambering up ladders to nirvana. This game is fun to play and there is much depth to study. The game will be donated to Timeback, the Euston community centre with which we worked.
Although the last square is 72, this is not the goal. The goal is to reach square 68 which is the abode of Vishnu, the Hindu deity of maintenance of the universe. This is on the 8th level, which is above the 7 upper worlds defined in the Vedic cosmology. The 7 upper worlds are defined in the middle square of each row.
Other such groups are obvious in the definitions:
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the six internal foes: egotism, anger, greed, desire, jealousy, and pride called ùaóaripu.
three most auspicious rivers of India: The Ganges, Yamuna and Sarasvati.
elements of nature: sky, space, air, light, earth, ocean, fire.
the three qualities of nature: truth / light, action / passion, inert/darkness
The players take turns to throw the dice and keep moving ahead sequentially, and have to take the action as suggested on the square where their chip lands: climb a ladder or go down the body of the snake. If they go past 68, they need to get to 72, fall down to 51 and continue until they throw the exact number to reach 68. The player who reaches 68 first, wins the game.
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Monday, 28 June 2010
Morning! We liked Libby Brooks's article. Follow the link below. The picture of my old spinning wheel just hours before I set fire to it, is not part of the article; I just felt like putting it up.
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Friday, 25 June 2010
Tomorrow, Saturday, you are all invited picnic with us, the Welcome Collection, and the community of Euston. We will unveil our giant snakes and ladders board, which looks shamazing.
Didn't they do a good job with our sarnies on this poster?
The picnic is in Cumberland Market, Euston from 12-4pm. It's not far from Regents Park.
Remember the sun tan lotion, it's going to be very hot.
See you there!
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Monday, 21 June 2010
You never know, it might help.
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Thursday, 17 June 2010
I am deeply saddened to hear that our friend Sebastian Horsley died yesterday. Sebastian inspired me to write, and I loved the way he made himself into an institution, by being a dandy, designing his clothes, making beautiful paintings - doing strange things. He just got on with what he had to do, constantly cutting against the grain, and asking questions we never dared. He gave us permission to speak and behave with with honesty and passion.
The phrase Prick Your Finger had been floating around in my head for a while, but it was when I wondered what I would tell Sebastian our shop was going to be called, that I realized that was it's name. I used to see Sebastian in Soho, in the Colony, or drinking hot chocolate with our mutual friend. He talked about death in a special way, and I kind of hoped he would out live us all, so that whenever we were frightened or saddened by death, he could be there, to slip us a quote, which might make us laugh and marvel at the power of nature and emotions.
You can read all about this tragic accident in the press.
He wore darkness, but I will remember Sebastian as being full of light and life, and sparks going off everywhere.
I'm have to go out now, so I will improve on this post later.
Big love to him and all his loved ones.
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Please join us for 'Salon Bench Project - Bethnal Green' on Friday 2nd July, 3-6pm.
Salon Bench Project is the brain child of artist- curator Trevor Pitt and Kate Pemberton.
The Bethnal Green bench is one of eight benches being made by knitting groups across the UK, as part of 'The Knitting Salon'.
We are all asked to knit a 'plank' in Herdwick Moss Stitch, either at home alone, or in a gang at Prick Your Finger where we can discuss some hot topics and drink tea, taking it in turns to sit on the bench.
If you knit at home, Trevor explains,
"A plank is quite quick to knit, it's repetitive and relaxing and you can knock one out through two episodes of Corrie."
By adding planks we will be joining a nationwide gang, who we can meet as the benches tour the country.
Knitting packs are free, and if you can do knit and purl, you are most welcome.
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Louise has been looking for an environmentally friendly solution for replacing the printer ink cartridge for ages. We were quite happy buying them from 'Advantage', who buy up the old cartridges from the re-cycling, and refill them.
Last week, Louise was having a chat with the nice man at Advantage, about a cartridge problem , and the nice man said that he will no longer be able to supply us, because our printer is made by Cannon, who are buying up all their old cartridges and sending them to land fill.
The nice ink man then sent us a credit note, and we noticed what lovely hand writing he had. We will be sorry not to trade with him for the time being, but he can still fill cartridges from other companies.Naughty Cannon, perverse Cannon, dirty Cannon, we are disappointed in you.
We are delighted to tell you that John Paul Flintoff will be launching his book,
'Sew Your Own', here on 1st July.
It's a page turner I tell you.
Please come and celebrate it with us,
and see a display of his charming works.
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010
We love this video! Thank you Harold!
We were chuffed to see it because when we proposed our Spark Plugs project for the Crafts Council, Clothes as Architecture, one of our inspirations was William Van Allen's costume of his Crysler Building for the Beaux Arts Ball in New York 1931. We loved the way he was so proud of his building.Well Harold Offeh hosted his own version- Margate's First Beaux Arts Ball, for 'Dead Season - Live Art' in Margate in March. We hope it can be part of our show. Why not host one in your city/ town/ village?
We were chuffed to see it because when we proposed our Spark Plugs project for the Crafts Council, Clothes as Architecture, one of our inspirations was William Van Allen's costume of his Crysler Building for the Beaux Arts Ball in New York 1931. We loved the way he was so proud of his building.Well Harold Offeh hosted his own version- Margate's First Beaux Arts Ball, for 'Dead Season - Live Art' in Margate in March. We hope it can be part of our show. Why not host one in your city/ town/ village?
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Saturday, 12 June 2010
We were blown away today when Tom came over with no. 30 of our snakes and ladders board for the Welcome Collection picnic blanket. No.30 sits on the printed microscopic drawing of beer.
In the most delicate flosses, Tom has stitched,
"Life is not all beer and skittles."
Check out his little beer like, french knot bubbles!
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Friday, 11 June 2010
I done my back in. Standing up and lying down are fine, but sitting has been rather uncomfortable. I wouldn't normally talk about my health on the blog, because it's boring, but Zarah found this brilliant picture of Hollywood stars resting on boards without creasing their clothes. We are trying to rig up a similar situation with an ironing board.
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Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Our Zarah has done a wonderful job of mending the Campbell family's baby blanket. The garter stitch edge needed completely re-knitting and there was some darning to do on the main piece. The blanket was knitted by Dr. Pick, the local GP in Ambleside in the Lake district. He learned to knit when he was in the Navy and was apparently was a big, tall man, with a beard, who drank too much and had an eye for the ladies. Everybody loved him and he would get drunk with people as they died, giving them a good send off. Mrs. Pick would get cross with him, and eventually gave him an ultimatum for his outrageous behavior. He had to behave or she would boot him out.
Dr. Pick decided that if he was to give up drinking, he'd better pick up his knitting, so he knitted this blanket for the Campbell baby, who was about to be born and become one of his patients. He made it in the Campbell tartan colours, blue and green.
The Campbells loved the blanket, hence they wanted to restore it. We hope that there are many more Campbell babies to use this blanket.
Does anyone dare to try this much loved knitting pattern with no picture?
Written in beautiful hand writing for a 38" bust, and well used, we can't bare to throw it away.
Yours if you want an adventure!
We had a lovely day yesterday catching up with our curators, and other artists from the Louder Than Bombs show at Stanley Picker Gallery in Kingston in March. Our meeting was at the Live Art Development Agency, who part curated the show, and the aim was to reflect on and discuss what happened. The legacy of our residency has been really good for us.
It's been beneficial performing our work in a Live Art context and relating our labor to the Joseph Beuys quote around which the show was based. The situation we created has given us a clearer vision as to how Prick Your Finger could grow in the years to come. Our research has given us more to write about, more images to brand ourselves with, and more reasons to get out into the world and make a difference. As Fugazi so rightfully sang, 'Cos what a difference a little difference would make.'
There's a lovely little film of us all and check out my Mother's hands on the spinning wheel, she's getting really good!
Each of the seven residencies were so different from each other, I do recommend taking a few minutes to surf through the images by clicking on the link below.
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
We weren't really sure who was the most handsome, shearer or ram at yesterday's sheep shearing at Stepney City Farm, Stepney, London. The sheep are more relaxed now they are naked for the summer season, so do visit them.
Heike and the farm crew aim to wash the gorgeous fleeces by the end of the week. Check out the farm timetable for felting workshops.
Thanks Heike for this wonderful photo!
Heike and the farm crew aim to wash the gorgeous fleeces by the end of the week. Check out the farm timetable for felting workshops.
Thanks Heike for this wonderful photo!
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Friday, 4 June 2010
Our Snakes and Ladder's board picnic blanket for the Welcome Collection Picnic is coming together! We printed microscopic pictures of food related substances behind the numbers and asked people to stitch whatever they like. 72 squares have been sent out and here are the first one's back. Grace made a splash in blue with no. 37 on the stomach acid.
Lisa Anne Auerbach (Yes, the Lisa Anne Auerbach) made instant karma on a moldy 29,
Diana pumped up the Vitamin B and 31,
Louise is embellishing 28 with little running stitches resembling tomato seeds,
I was a bit restrained on the corn, and Zarah knows just how to embroider beer....
Lisa Anne Auerbach (Yes, the Lisa Anne Auerbach) made instant karma on a moldy 29,
Diana pumped up the Vitamin B and 31,
Louise is embellishing 28 with little running stitches resembling tomato seeds,
I was a bit restrained on the corn, and Zarah knows just how to embroider beer....
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Dynamite proudly presents Season Two of JUNGLE GIRL!
Overseen by co-writer and artist Frank Cho and infused with everything Cho fans want to see - beautiful women, thrilling adventures, and, of course,
dinosaurs - Dynamite Entertainment's JUNGLE GIRL also features co-writer Doug Murray (RED SONJA: QUEEN OF THE FROZEN WASTES, The 'Nam) who's once again along for the ride as is
returning artist Adriano Batista (RED SONJA, JUNGLE GIRL SEASON ONE) as they once again bring Jana the Jungle Girl to life!
This hardcover collection features
issues 1-5 of SEASON TWO along with a complete cover gallery featuring the art of Cho and Batista along with sketchbook material from Batista!
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I have written elsewhere this week about the moment in The Lord of the Rings that I find the most pivotal and dramatic. It occurs in these chapters: the death of Theoden and the triumph of Eowyn and Merry against
Rather than rehash things here, I urge you to go check out my guest post over at Snobbery.
It's not like that's the only thing that happens in these chapters; far from it. For one thing, Eowyn barely survives her moment of glory, and is thought dead until Prince Imrahil of
Good thing Eowyn's pretty, though.
Her near consignment to death along with Theoden King really foreshadows quite a lot, immediately and a bit down the road. Immediately, the Rohirrim, despite the defeat of
are outnumbered, weary, in trouble, and then things look to get even worse. Those Black Ships we've been hearing about since Pippin arrived at Minas Tirith? Here they come, up the Anduin, and the host of Mordor is plenty happy to see the Corsairs of Umbar come to assure victory at Pelennor.
But oh! Just as Eowyn turns out to be only mostly dead, the ships aren't something to mourn and fret over, either: "upon the foremost ship a great standard broke, and the wind displayed it as as turned... There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor; but Seven Stars were about it, and a high crown above it; the signs of Elendil that no lord had borne for years beyond count." This banner I've talked about before in this blog: it's the one Arwen made for Aragorn, asserting his lineage, his claims and his promises in fabric, thread and white gems.
And like all good icons, it communicates a very clear message: the ships do not carry the Corsairs but the gonnabe King of Gondor, who took these ships with the help of his army of oathbreaker ghosts.* Soon Imrahil and the knights of
Would there, though, be victory so complete had not Eowyn and Merry stood up to the
and destroyed him? We can't be sure, but really we've already been told, by Tolkien himself, that the watershed moment had occurred. We are told this when the death of Snowmane, who accidentally killed his master, Theoden, is discovered and discussed. Snowmane gets a grave mound at Pelannor Field, and we are told that, while grass grows long and green over that grave, where the foul flying steed of the
died, the ground stays forever black. The fact that land so close to Mordor stays fertile and fair long enough for Snowmane's Howe, as it comes to be known, to become grassy basically tells us right there that Sauron lost.
Unless maybe the long green grass is kudzu.
It would grow fast, but in doing so would probably prove that Sauron had won, amirite?
I believe this is the first time we're given this retrospective view of Frodo's quest and all of the fights and failures around it as a fait accompli, but I might be wrong.
Anyway, onward, to the other thing Eowyn's near-death foreshadows**: her future fella's own brush with death.
When we last left those anxious souls in Minas Tirith, Pippin was racing to find Gandalf to help prevent a tremendous tragedy: Denethor, not content to give up on Minas Tirith and himself, has also chosen to give up on his only remaining son, wounded but only mostly dead. Denethor has built a pyre for himself and his son, had them wrapped in a shroud and drenched in oil, and is fixin' to "burn like the heathen kings of old."
I find it just a little troubling, this choice that Gandalf makes to abandon what may well be the most important battle in the history of Middle Earth and his secret job of wielding his Elven Ring to keep everyone's spirits up, commanding Gondor's forces, and very likely doing some fighting himself, to ride up to save the life of one Man, even if it is one that happens to be one of my favorites. It just reeks of the kind of feudal elitism that makes me foam at the mouth; you know he wouldn't hesitate to throw, say, Beregond, under the Burn Bus.
But then again, how much does it really matter? We have already come to understand that Gandalf and his ilk are due to fade soon from Middle Earth, and Eowyn and Merry have proved to everyone that you don't need a wizard to destroy a Big Bad, just strategic knowledge of its weak points***, and nothing kindles the hearts of fighting men like scoring big, big points against the enemy. So maybe Gandalf isn't so terribly vital to the battle effort after all. And hey, the Fellowship did kind of all right during the time he was fighting his way out of
The question, then, may well be, does Gandalf think his presence at Pelannor is so very important? Because if he does, then it's a tiny bit reprehensible, in the grand scheme of things, to desert so many to save so few.
I'm pretty sure he would have stayed at Pelannor.
But then there's the possibility**** that no one else can save Faramir; no one is willing to cross his lunatic father.***** So, Gandalf puts Prince Imrahil of
He finds quite a scene, but is just in time. Revealing himself for a split second to be quite a lot more spry than he looks (sort of like Grand Maester Pycelle, eh?), he leaps onto the heap of wood doused in oil and yanks Faramir off the pyre Denethor has built (or rather, ordered built). Denethor has a last grand round of theatrics, ranting and raving and revealing that he knows about Aragorn in the process, and he refuses to hand over the kingdom to the last son of "a ragged house long bereft of lordship and dignity." To prove that he means it, he snaps in half the white Rod of the Stewards of Gondor (thus destroying the last heirloom of his house, probably at right around the time that Aragorn revealed his fancy new heirloom that completes his collection) right before he lights the fire.
Faramir is carried down to the Houses of Healing, and soon Eowyn is, too. As for Merry, he has gone all but unnoticed, Bilbo-style, but made it into the city under his own power -- just barely. The reunion he has with Pippin as he comes staggering in is as sweet as can be, both of them still in awe that they've experienced what they have. But Merry, who has lost the use of his right arm to icy numbness following his killing stroke on the
is, like Eowyn and Faramir and many others, overcome by the Black Breath and will surely die of it, unless there's a miracle.
There is a miracle, and her name is Ioreth, who sort of wistfully reminds Gandalf that back in the good old days, when there were kings of Gondor, you could tell the rightful king because "the hands of the king are the hands of a healer." So, while Aragorn has made the humblebraggy decision to wait for the Steward to recover and invite him into the city, he is summoned earlier than that by Gandalf to ply the kingsfoil cure. And so the news breaks and spreads throughout the city.
Then, because so far The Return of the King has come so very, very close to passing the Bechdel test, Tolkien does something weird, seemingly by way of making sure it doesn't. But hey, give him credit for this: he couldn't bring himself to make Eowyn cause the failure directly: he makes her brother and Aragorn her proxies for this as she lies raving in her recovery from the Black Breath. Aragorn gently lectures Eomer about how all of the surprising and saddening things she's muttering aren't really coming out of nowhere, how Wormtongue wasn't just working on Theoden, and for good measure he pretty much implies that her big problem is that she has the hots for him, Aragorn. Because it's all about Aragorn. Says so in the title. "Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned."
Nor, actually, is this Aragorn's only cock remark; when he moves to Merry's bedside and speaks to Pippin, he tells Pippin not to worry: "Do not be afraid. I came in time."
And I called him back.
But yeah, I know it's true. But jeeze, look who's starting to believe his own press already. Though yes, he does create a stir as he leaves the House of Healing to go back to his campsite outside the city until Faramir is well enough to perform his duties like making a new Rod of Stewarding, whipping everything into shape for Aragorns big, uh, re-entrance. Meanwhile, Prince Imrahil of
But meanwhile, there is still the matter of
to be discussed. It's still up to Samdo to save the world from the Ring, but meanwhile it's up to the rest of his friends to keep Sauron distracted while Samdo sneaks through Mordor.
The idea boils down, more or less, to trying to make Sauron think that Aragorn has the Ring and is maybe fixin' to do some things with it. Neener. They're going to leave a crew behind to guard Minas Tirith, sure, but everybody else is going to go knock on Sauron's Gate. Hoo dogies!
Merry is still down, but Pippin gets to go. Of course Gimolas gets to go. Replacing Boromir are Eomer and Imrahil (I've beaten the Lovecraft jokes into the ground now, yes?). Oh, and a thousand calvary and seven thousand infantry. Which kind of sounds like a lot until everybody starts thinking about how many Orcs/Evil Men/Other Icky Things are still waiting for the chance to kill 'em at the Gate.
There follows a long stretch of trashed scenery and heralds yelling, in effect, "Come out, come out, wherever you are, but hey, this is our land again" as we pass through Ithilien, retracing some of Samdo and Smeagollum's (Samsmeagoldo's?) footsteps. Despite the bravado, some of the men chicken out and the host dwindles a bit. I guess the WKoA isn't the only one with trouble finding good help these days.
Anyway, they finally get there and line up outside of the Gate. The Lieutenant of Barad-Dur, also called The Mouth of Sauron, rides up to challenge them.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, God said let there be lips...
And lo wast there a lot of trash talk, followed by the taunting display of some stuff, including a certain coat of mithril, forcibly taken from a certain pair of hobbits that really should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.
Of course, the Lips of Sauron give away pretty much immediately that Mordor has no idea why Frodo or his stuff are so important and just brags about what a crappy spy he made. But only Gandalf seems to grasp this, and when the Lips start talking terms, Gandalf tells them to shut and go away, which they look to be doing but Ackbar time; while the Lips have been flapping, the Easterlings have been cutting off our heroes' escape route. The Black Gate opens and more bad guys emerge.Complete with Hill Trolls. And I'm sure there are some more Oliphaunts somewhere in there. UH OH.
But before things get completely out of hand, Pippin wounds and likely kills a troll. He's gotten a bit taller from those Ent draughts, maybe, and has a good sword, and manages at least to hamstring it or something! Yay! But then the troll collapses on top of him. Boo! But then... Eagles... eagles again.
And that's it for these chapters, and really, as far as I'm concerned, for me. I'ma finish Book VI, don't worry, but as an adult reader of this trilogy, for me the culminating moment of it all, the watershed moment, is when Merry and Eowyn take out the WKoA. From there, it's all just clean-up, as I said over at the Snobbery.
*Or are they ghost oathbreakers? Oh noes, argument time!
**Narratively, if not historically; it's possible that the future lovers are in their gravest danger at the same time, the way Tolkien has structured these chapters.
***Lo, like unto Bard of Esgaroth. Sure, you can insist that it's all because of magic because how else would anyone have learned to converse with Thrushes, but it still boiled down to skill, courage and strategic intelligence.
****I say "possibility" because, even as Gandalf will soon be heard to all but lament that he could have, e.g., prevented Theoden's and many other deaths if he'd been around to take on the
himself (because we all know nobody else could take him, right?), practically within the same breath he gives credit for saving Faramir to Beregond of the Tower Guard, Pippin's friend, who was the only one who had Manned the Snape up and tried to break into the room where Denethor was whipping up a batch of Steward Roast. Which is it, Gandalf? Only you can kill the Witch King but oh, look, Eowyn and Merry did it (though they couldn't save Theoden, they saved potentially many, many more, including, very possibly, all the Rohirrim), or only you can save Faramir but oh, look, Beregond would have managed all right? Or both? I don't have the answer, just as I don't have the answer to whether or not Gandalf's choice was defensible. Which is marvelous.
*****Who has also, by this time, gazed into the Palantir that remained in Minas Tirith. Now, it's an open question, I think, whether in wresting the Orthanc Palantir from Sauron's control Aragorn also freed all of the Palantir or not. If it was just the one stone he freed, then the Minas Tirith Palantir basically would have made a temporary connection between Denethor and Sauron, doubtless not to Denethor's benefit. But even if Aragorn freed all the stones, Denethor used it to get a look at what his people were facing -- the Orcs, the evil Men, the
and probably the Corsairs for good measure (shades of the fate of Aegeus, there, since the ships' sails were black and Aragorn didn't bother to unfurl his new banner until he arrived at Pelennor) and that burned through all, like, two of his remaining sanity points.
******You know, we never do hear with whom it was he had those children, including the daughter who eventually marries Eomer...


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Our "BBQ and Brews for Barkers" event was a phenomenal success, which brought much encouragement to a fatigued shelter team and the wherewithal to continue to provide appropriately for our fuzzy wards!! Several dedicated individuals and businesses are responsible for making this event so successful. The Lost Dog, who sponsored the event, has offered so much support to us over the years that it would be extremely difficult to express our depth of gratitude. The same is true for our VIPs at the Durango Animal Hospital. These incredible individuals organized the event (again) and are so worthy of any amount of praise that can be showered on them! We were delighted by the performance and personality of "The Assortment," a local acoustic band. To the numerous contributors of items for the Silent Auction and to those who provided for patron-imbibing-pleasure, sooo many thanks! Finally, of course, we offer sincere appreciation to our devoted volunteers and to all Annie's Orphans' friends, old and new, who came out to support our cause!
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Have any of you done a genealogical DNA test? I noticed my sister and I have slightly different ancestry, and I asked him specifically how identical twins can have a different ancestry. It really was fascinating to hear the answer, and then he told me about a case where a woman had twins with 2 different fathers!
Have you ever wanted to know more about DNA science?Ugo: There is also a proven case of a woman that had twins from two different men. All you have to do is be fertile and having two mature eggs and have sexual relations within a very short amount of time with two different men and one fertilize one egg and the other fertilize the other egg.


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I'm excited to be part of the amazing White Night event, which lights up the streets of Brighton all night this coming Saturday, partly to acknowledge the Autumn Equinox, when the clocks go back and we get an extra hour to enjoy the hundreds of events… and partly just to connect and be fascinated by a wealth of happenings, performances, installations and (in my case) café talks. There's a parallel event in Amiens, and they share a strong theme around sound, which is why I'll be there. My talk is about the future of sound and listening. Come along to Marwoods café at 2230 if you'd like to learn how to transform your listening and just possibly to change your reality.
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Hello there crafty friends and welcome to another anything goes challenge. This week Team B is showcasing designs made using Dr. Digi's House of Stamps.
Welcome to the brilliantly bizarre brain of Dr. Digi's House of Stamps.
Here you will find monsters, aliens, odd balls and Dundertons as well
as many many more wonderful digital stamps with a sense of humour.
This week they are offering the lucky winner the choice of 2 digi images from their shop.
Dr. Digi has such fun digis to work with. I am using Professor Wiggingson for my creation this week. I used my Prisma Colored Pencils to color him, then used Graphic 45 Core Impressions Paper, a Tim Holtz Watch Charm, and a Bronze Chain, Michael's Jewelry to complete the card.


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Remembering Irish involvement on Somme centenary
Remembering 3,500 Irish soldiers at Somme centenary
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, the World War I battle which lasted almost five months and wounded and killed over a million soldiers.
Of these, over 3,500 soldiers were Irish, with an unknown number injured, which affected the entire island of Ireland.
The Battle of the Somme is the most infamous in history, and was orchestrated with the intention of bringing the war to an end with a major victory.
In fact on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1 1916, the first phase of the so-called Battle Albert resulted in 57,470 British casualties, greater than the total combined British casualties in the Crimean, Boer and Korean wars put together.
On that first day the 36th (Ulster) Division lost 5,500 men, of whom almost 2,000 were killed. It was the largest unit of Irish soldiers to fight on that day, and consisted of three battalions of the Royal Inniskilling Fusilliers, Royal Irish Rifles and one of the Royal Irish Fusilliers.
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The Ulster Volunteers were noted for their brave manoeuvre in which they broke through the strongest German defences, and penetrated deep into rear positions to take 500 German prisoners.
But as the rest of the army were unable to make progress to the front of this area, the Ulstermen had to abandon their positions, and ended up with 5,500 casualties. That Division were awarded four Victoria Crosses for that day alone, and the losses were felt throughout the entire Ulster community.
Soldiers from the south also fought in the Battle of the Somme, and the next notable involvement was from the mainly Irish Catholic 16th Division on September 3.
Within ten days the Division, fighting with the same bravery as the 36th Division lost half of its 11,000 men in the bid to take Guillemont and Ginchy after being brought in from Loos in Belgium.
The Battle came to an end in the snow of November 1916. During the final attack on the 13th, the 10th Royal Dublin Fusiliers helped to capture Beaumont Hamel, with 50 per cent casualties.
The Battle, and the War itself, resulted in huge Irish losses at a time when the country was still suffering from the aftermath of the 1916 Rising.
One notable Irish loss was of MP and nationalist Tom Kettle, who missed out on playing a political role in his own country alongside the many who refused to fight for Britain. Notably, his final letter to his wife read: "he carried his pack for Ireland and Europe. Now his pack-carrying is over. He has held the line."
At the time the prospect of Irish conscription, to make up for the huge loss of life along the Western Front before the American armies intervened, seemed very real, prompting Kettle to write:
"Used with the wisdom which is sown in tears and blood, this tragedy of Europe may be and must be the prologue to the two reconciliations of which all statesmen have dreamed, the reconciliation of Protestant Ulster with Ireland, and the reconciliation of Ireland with Great Britain."


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HAVING REGARD to Article 5 b) of the Convention on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development of 14 December 1960;
HAVING REGARD to the Recommendation of the Council on Improving the Environmental Performance of Government [C(96)39/FINAL];
HAVING REGARD to the Resolution of the Council on Improving the Environmental Performance of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [C(96)40/FINAL];
HAVING REGARD to the support for the use of green public procurement practices as expressed in the OECD Environmental Strategies for the First Decade of the 21st Century, which was adopted by OECD Environment Ministers and endorsed by the OECD Council at Ministerial level in May 2001;
RECOGNISING the importance of governments in demonstrating leadership in progressing toward sustainable development;
MINDFUL of the commitments made by Member countries in 1992 at the UN Conference on Environment and Development to review and improve government procurement policies in order to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production;
NOTING that as a means to improve the environmental performance of public procurement, public authorities in a number of Member countries apply policies and practices which seek to encourage procurement officers to purchase products and services which are less environmentally-damaging (hereafter "greener public purchasing policies");
NOTING that greener public purchasing policies constitute a significant element of product-related environmental policies adopted by some Member countries;
NOTING that the scale of government purchases is such that greener public purchasing policies can contribute to the development and diffusion of products and services which are less environmentally-damaging;
NOTING that greener public purchasing policies can result in more cost-effective procurement practices;
RECOGNISING the need to preserve market openness and to apply the principles of transparent and competitive processes and non-discrimination among potential suppliers;
CONSIDERING that measures to improve the environmental performance of public procurement should not constitute unnecessary obstacles to international trade;
CONSIDERING that the use of relevant international standards, as well as equivalence and mutual recognition arrangements, could result in enhanced co-ordination amongst Member countries' greener public purchasing policies, and thus could have beneficial environmental and economic effects;
RECOGNISING that greener public purchasing policies depend for their efficiency and effectiveness upon: the use of appropriate methods to account for the environmental costs of products and services including, where appropriate, environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle; co-ordination between procurement, budget, environment and other relevant government officials; co-ordination with other environmental policy measures such as economic instruments (e.g. tradable permits and environmental taxes), performance standards, and information-based measures (e.g. demonstration projects and eco-labels); and, the prevention of false or misleading claims of environmental quality;
CONSCIOUS of the need for Member countries to tailor implementation strategies for greener public purchasing policies to fit their individual institutional, social, economic and environmental needs and priorities;
On the proposal of the Environmental Policy Committee:
I. RECOMMENDS that Member countries take greater account of environmental considerations in public procurement of products and services (including, but not limited to, consumables, capital goods, infrastructure, construction and public works), in order to improve the environmental performance of public procurement, and thereby promote continuous improvement in the environmental performance of products and services.
II. RECOMMENDS to this effect that Member countries should:
1. Develop greener public purchasing policies in ways which are consistent with Member countries' competition and other relevant national policies, and with their international obligations and commitments;
2. Take the following concrete steps to ensure the incorporation of environmental criteria into public procurement of products and services including, where appropriate, environmental impacts throughout the lifecycle, while ensuring that transparency, non-discrimination and competition are preserved:
a) Provide the appropriate policy framework to incorporate environmental criteria into public procurement of products and services, along with price and performance criteria;
b) Introduce financial, budgeting, and accounting measures to ensure that public procurement policies and practices consider the environmental costs of products and services;
c) Provide information, training and technical assistance to officials involved in the public procurement and use chain, including those who set the performance criteria of products and services, those who are responsible for procurement, and those who use the products and services;
d) Make information and tools that facilitate greener public purchasing available to all levels of government;
e) Disseminate the information needed to facilitate and encourage greener public purchasing decisions, as well as the results and benefits derived from their adoption;
f) Establish procedures for the identification of products and services which meet the objectives of greener public purchasing policies;
g) Encourage the development of indicators to measure and monitor progress made in greener public purchasing;
h) Assess and evaluate greener public purchasing policies in order to ensure that they are economically efficient and environmentally effective.
III. INVITES the Environment Policy Committee to:
1. Support efforts by Member countries to develop and apply efficient and effective greener public purchasing policies, for example through the collection and dissemination of information on "best practices" and the development of appropriate indicators;
2. Monitor, assess and report to the Council in 2005 on Member countries' implementation of this Recommendation and on any barriers to further progress.


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Saturday, April 6, 2013 | 2 a.m.
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Shadow Creek Golf Course
3 Shadow Creek Drive, North Las Vegas
Mark Brenneman traces his history as manager of Shadow Creek — the swank, exclusive golf club owned by MGM Resorts International — to a day 12 years ago when he was caddying.
Mind you, Brenneman was caddying that day for golfing great Nick Faldo, whose playing partner was Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. The venue was Pebble Beach, a public golf resort steeped in American golf lore.
It's about a nine-hour car ride from the Monterey Peninsula and Pebble Beach to Shadow Creek, a golfing oasis in the Mojave Desert that has grown to be somewhat of its own legend — a course where Tiger Woods practices and former U.S. presidents and movie stars come to unwind.
Brenneman, in his job running Shadow Creek, now serves as golf pro and caddy for the most elite players. The course opens its gates to the public only on rare occasions, including this weekend's Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational.
But back to that round between Faldo and Gates.
It was a few days before the U.S. Open. Brenneman wanted to be close to Faldo, a three-time winner of the British Open and owner of three green jackets signifying championships at the Masters. Brenneman, the golf pro at Spyglass Hill at Pebble Beach, assigned himself to be Faldo's caddy that day.
At the end of the round, Brenneman got an unexpected phone call from a corporate headhunter about a job in Las Vegas.
"Which golf course?" Brenneman remembered asking the recruiter.
"I can't tell you," he answered.
"Then I'm not interested," Brenneman said.
Still, the headhunter asked for Brenneman's résumé. Brenneman had it handy on his computer, so he attached it to an email and sent it with a shrug. He was scheduled in a few days to be at the U.S. Open at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. But the next day, the headhunter called back. Bobby Baldwin, CEO of MGM Mirage Resorts, wanted to hire Brenneman.
Finally, Brenneman learned the golf course he was supposed to run was Shadow Creek.
"This course had been shrouded in mystery and people talked about it in whispers," Brenneman said. "I at least wanted to see it."
He took the job, and the golf course retains the same level of mystery today.
"It's never been on TV," he said. "We don't advertise and don't market ourselves. You have to stay at an MGM Resorts property."
No matter who you are.
A few years back, Brenneman got a call asking if then-President George W. Bush could play a round while he was in Las Vegas. Problem was, Bush was staying at a hotel owned by a competitor of MGM Resorts International. Sorry, Brenneman had to say. Just weeks later, Brenneman received a call from the office of Canada's prime minister, who was visiting under the same circumstances. Brenneman said sorry, again.
"You understand we're talking about the prime minister of Canada," the voice on the other end of the phone said.
"I know," Brenneman answered. "But if I can't let our president of the United States play here, then the prime minister can't either."
Bush would get his chance to play at the course last year, when he was speaking at the Aria, which also serves as host resort for the Jordan Celebrity Invitational. Bush's father, George H.W. Bush, also has been a regular at Shadow Creek and keeps a fishing pole above his locker. He fishes out of one of the ponds on the course. Former President Bill Clinton has played there, too, along with high-rollers from MGM casinos who want to take a break from the craps or blackjack tables or baccarat rooms.
"We have greens fees of $500 a person that people can pay, but most are invited guests of the casino," Brenneman said.
Except for an occasional former president fishing in a pond, Shadow Creek is all about golf. There are no swimming pools or tennis courts typically seen at other golf clubs.
"You can find those at the casinos," Brenneman said in a voice that always sounds like he's smiling.
Steve Wynn built Shadow Creek for somewhere between $45 million and $60 million in 1989 on a flat piece of desert land, just off Losee Road in North Las Vegas. Designed by Tom Fazio, who has planned more of the 100 top-rated golf courses than any other architect, Shadow Creek rose out of imported dirt on the desert floor, with winding brooks with waterfalls, where players cross cobblestone bridges and walk amid pine and juniper trees. Snowy white egrets and blue herons swoop overhead. The Air Force Thunderbirds fly practice rounds in the distance from nearby Nellis Air Force Base.
MGM took over the 320-acre course in the same deal in which it acquired the Bellagio and Mirage from Wynn.
Even after all these years, Brenneman still marvels at how nearby mountains look off one of the tees.
"See how the mountain range goes high left to low right?" Brenneman says. "Your eyes will always move along a diagonal."
At the end of that line is the green and the hole.
"And that's where you want to go," he said. "Little stuff like that makes all the difference. All the mountain ranges come into play in all these interesting ways."
Tall trees line the fairways, both as a buffer to the industrial areas surrounding the picturesque golf course as well as hiding what's around the next corner.
"You'll be driving along and all of the sudden the course reveals itself," Brenneman said. "You never know who's going to jump out of a limo and walk through the door; you don't know what's around the next corner."
Matt Damon, George Clooney and Sylvester Stallone have their names on brass plates over lockers. The plates are magnetic and can be swapped out to put another name next to the lockers of celebrities such as Jordan and Woods.
"I remember one day, Matt Damon was here, and he was walking through the locker room," Brenneman said. "He made a beeline right to his locker to make sure it was still there. When he saw his name, he pumped his fist. It's interesting to see people, no matter how famous they are or how much money they have, get excited about these things."
Such excitement can be attributed to Brenneman's own personality. He reacts with glee and amazement, showing visitors around a course he's seen daily for 12 years. It's like a child seeing wrapped presents under the tree on Christmas morning. Each day, he drives from his home near Sahara Avenue and Valley View Boulevard toward an area of storage rentals and auto-repair shops. Most people making the turn off Craig Road onto Losee Road and toward the hidden valley of Shadow Creek usually arrive by limousine.
Just like his journey to Las Vegas started with a golf game between a golf champion and a titan of business, Brenneman continues to live a kind of fantasy life amid a forest carved out of the desert.
And that's kind of what Shadow Creek is meant to be — an escape from the Strip.
"See that arched bridge over there?" Brenneman asks as he drives a cart around the course. "Normally, an architect would put that front and center, like, 'Look at me.' Here it's 50 yards off the hole. It's subtle. That's different.
"Las Vegas is known for a lot of things, and subtlety isn't one of them. On a conscious level, the players who come here know they're in Las Vegas, but you also look at this and think you could be anywhere else but Nevada."


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Kylie Dawn Ast
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle, Tracy, Karston and Konner Ast, Nevada, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter and sister, Kylie Dawn Ast. Kylie was born at 10:47 a.m., on April 15, 2005, at Nevada Regional Medical Center. She weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces, and measured 19.5 inches. Paternal grandparents are LeRoy and Ann Ast, Nevada. Paternal great-grandparent is Agnes Ast, Conway Springs, Kan. Maternal grandparents are Wayne and Wanda Worthington, El Dorado Springs.


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Mamas Gun: The Life and SoulThere's something of a timeless quality to The Life and Soul, the second album by Mamas Gun. It moves along in a bright and breezy way. It's a fitting follow up to their critically acclaimed 2009 album but on The Life and Soul, there's also a bit more of a mainstream pop edge. The funk soul quintet aren't reinventing the wheel here, they appear to be just doing their thing and it's a great sounding album, almost a perfect summer soundtrack full of great, well crafted songs and a cool vibe.
The album has been co-produced by Grammy Award winning team Martin Terefe and Andreas Olsson who have worked with Train, James Morrison and KT Tunstall and you can hear a clear, polished pop effect which brings out a more commercial radio friendly pop feel.
On a String in a perfect world, should be a hit single, a sweet blues soul feel in the Holland Dozier Holland envelope and the band's self deprecating video is worth a view on You Tube. Sending You a Message is also another perfectly executed standard. The title track The Life and Soul and Heavy Hands show singer Andy Platts at his best. Only One is a duet co-written with Platts and Beverly Knight and is a great song.
I'm still a bit dubious over the cover of Queen's Bicycle Race, always a risky tactic, which they just manage to pull off despite copying the original instead of bringing their own skill and musicianship to put a different slant on the song. At this point, an honorable mention should go to the rhythm section; in fact all the band's playing is terrific.
This a great album, with loads of catchy hooks and with the right handling, some luck could give them the major breakthrough they deserve.
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"IAS versus US GAAP: Information Asymmetry-Based
Evidence from Germany's New Market"
Journal of Accounting Research, June 2003
BY: CHRISTIAN LEUZ, University of Pennsylvania:
Motivated by the debate about globally uniform
accounting standards, this paper investigates
whether firms using US GAAP vis-a-vis IAS exhibit
differences in several proxies for information
asymmetry. The study exploits a unique setting
where the two sets of standards are put on a level
playing field. Firms trading in Germany's New
Market must choose between IAS and US GAAP for
financial reporting, but face the same regulatory
environment otherwise. Thus, institutional factors
such as listing requirements, market icrostructure
and standards enforcement are held constant. In
this setting, differences in the bid-ask spread
and share turnover between IAS and US GAAP firms
are statistically insignificant and economically
small. Subsequent analyses of analysts' forecast
dispersion, IPO underpricing and firms' standard
choices corroborate these findings. Thus, at least
for New Market firms, the choice between IAS and
US GAAP appears to be of little consequence for
information asymmetry and market liquidity. These
findings do not support widespread claims that
US GAAP produce financial statements of higher
informational quality than IAS.
M.G. Bancorporation v. Le Beau (Del. 1999)
three distinct methodologies to
value MGB's two operating bank subsidiaries: the
comparative publicly-traded company approach,
yielding a $ 76.24 to $ 77.50 per share value;
the discounted cash flow ("DCF") method,
yielding a $ 73.96 to $ 72.23 per share value;
and, the comparative acquisitions approach, yielding
an $ 85 per share value.
In performing his analysis, Clarke
added a control premium to the values of the two
subsidiaries to reflect the value of MGB's controlling
interest in those subsidiaries. He then added
the value of MGB's remaining assets to his valuations
[**7] of the two subsidiaries. Clarke arrived
at an overall fair value of $ 85 per share for
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Did you know what I discovered recently? I discovered that I am the byproduct of my parents, more specifically my dad and his incessant "good-bad" and "black-white" view of the world. Even more specifically: the following the rules part. I, Lotte, admit to being a rule-follower. I'll break them from time to time when it suits me, but on average, you could say I'm a freakin' goody two-shoes. *sigh* Meow.
What do I mean by that exactly? I mean to say that I'll try to be considerate of others, even when I don't particularly want to. I'll just do it, because it's "the right thing to do". Especially when it comes to practical shizzle. Like a couple of weeks ago, I was assigned to a group taking the train and I needed to front quite a bit of money on a Go Pass for the entire group. Not exactly the most fun thing to do, to be honest, and some friends gave me the advice to just tell my program manager that I couldn't pay for it or something. Not only would that have been a blatant lie – okay, fronting ALL of the cash wouldn't have been easy to tell the truth, but the Go Pass was definitely still okay – but it just felt wrong. Because… Then I'd just be giving someone else that burden of fronting the cash? How would that be better? It'd be better for me, sure, but it didn't feel "right" to me.
Of course, I'm human and I make mistakes like everyone. Seriously, I don't pretend to wear a holier-than-thou sort of crown – though some of my friends have crowned me "drama princess", I'm supposed to get my little pink crown after I pay the membership to the Drama Club. This, just, as a little side note ;-). Ahem. What was I saying? Ah, yes, I'm no saint, but I do wake up every morning, hoping to do better than the day before. I won't promise that I succeed in that effort, but I try. Because I believe it's the "right thing to do". You've gotta try. If you don't try, then what good are you really? How will you grow? How will you ever have a positive impact on someone or something? And, maybe this is the silliest thing to say so far, but how can the world ever be a better place when the individual never looks beyond himself? For those of you wondering what part of the political spectrum I'm at, let there be no more doubt…
However, I can go way overboard in my trying to "follow the rules", even to the extent where it gets a little embarrassing… Take the example of my train card. I've got a train subscription to get to Ghent every week. Everyone with my type of subscription just takes out the card a little bit, has the train conductor "stamp it" and that's it. But one conductor told me once to really take the card out all the way and unfold it, this to prevent him "stamping" other train rides (ones I haven't used yet, meant for future use). Only ONE conductor has told me this ONCE over the course of several months. But now, I take out the damn card all the freakin' way every single time! I see all the other kids NOT doing it, but because I know "it's the right thing to do", I do it anyways?! It's ridiculous. It's what a goody two-shoes would do. And I totally blame my dad for it. He's an excessive rule follower and obviously decided to pass on that quality to me.
Whenever I plan something, whenever I do something, whenever I decide anything… I always take into account the full picture. I decided against going to Peru, because my team wished me to stay with them. I saw two amazing opportunities, both mind-blowingly cool, but I chose my team, because… People matter. And I just can't look at something through my own eyes. I always try and view the full picture, which includes the consequences of my actions towards others. So, yeah, I did what I considered to be "the right thing". And I guess I'm pretty black and white in that view.
Maybe I'm wrong to make the choices the way I do. I can tell you that I sometimes wished I'd just do what I'd like to do. But I don't think it would make me any happier. Maybe I believe in karma and I hope that good things will come to those who try to do good themselves. Maybe that's too philosophical for a Sunday night. But I've been on bedrest for over two days now – sprained ankle, the most ridiculous thing evah!! – and painkillers make me pensive. And Ed Sheeran's I See Fire is presenting me with a perfect backdrop to write this. You just can't go wrong with some LOTR-spin-off music.
Enjoy this train pic I made last week: sometimes nature makes me believe in bigger and better things…


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Young Souls June 2018 Events
Keep track of all events on the Young Souls Google Calendar.
If you'd like to organize a Young Souls event, send your idea to the Young Souls Board at firstname.lastname@example.com.
June 1st – 3rd – Weekend on the Bay
Join the All Souls congregation for a weekend getaway at Camp Tockwogh (about two hours from DC on the Eastern Shore). There will be activities for infants through Silver Souls: campfires, workshops, vespers, a talent show, water sports, archery, hiking, and plenty of time to relax and enjoy the beautiful setting. This will be a great way for Young Souls to spend time with people of all ages from the All Souls community. Online registration for Weekend on the Bay is open at http://www.all-souls.org/wob.
Friday, June 8 – Sunday, June 10 – Jubilee Anti-Racism Training
Want to learn to fight white supremacy? Join us for Jubilee Anti-Racism Training June 8-10, 2018. Jubilee helps us identify how white supremacy prevents us from experiencing our common humanity. Jubilee examines white supremacy's reach into our institutions, our lives, and our interpersonal relationships. It teaches us how to build a new culture of solidarity and empathy. The Beckner Advancement Fund generously provided for scholarships for 10 Young Souls to attend Jubilee! More information about how to receive the scholarship soon! The workshop requires a weekend commitment but it's worth every minute. It's $160 per participant (includes cost for trainers, meals and materials). We welcome contributions in support of this work. Fri., Jun. 8 (6–10 pm); Sat., Jun. 9 (9 am – 9 pm); Sun., Jun. 10 (8:30 am – 5 pm), All Souls Church, Washington, DC. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ysjubilee2018 Contact Andrew Hall. Facebook event.
Wednesday, June 13th, 5:30pm – Young Souls Happy Hour
Join us for our monthly happy hour! This is an excellent event for newcomers to attend and meet other Young Souls. Local 16 donates 10% of our checks back to All Souls. Location: Local 16 (1602 U St. NW). RSVP on Facebook here. For those interested, we'll walk over to Vespers after the happy hour. Last Vespers service before the summer break. Questions? Contact Claire.
**Friday June 15th, 7pm – Young Souls End of the Year Party!**
Come to the Young Souls End of the Year Party! Join us on Friday June 15th at 7pm at Alice's house (check YS listserv for address) as we celebrate the end of the year and welcome the new Young Souls board members. RSVP on Facebook here. This is a great event for newcomers to attend and meet other Young Souls. It's a potluck, so please bring drinks and/or food to share. For more information, contact outgoing YS Board President, Alice. Let's celebrate!
Wednesday, June 20th, 6:30pm – Young Souls UU Principles Discussion Group
Have you ever wanted to know more about the Principles of Unitarian Universalism? Every third Wednesday of the month we will gather to discuss these basic tenants of the Unitarian Universalist faith. We'll talk about the actual language of the principle, historical UU perspectives, and our own experiences in relation to the month's principle. On Wednesday, June 20th, we will reset to the First Principle: "The inherent worth and dignity of every person." Snacks and friendship will be provided. All are welcome, and those who are either new to the community or excited about the faith are especially encouraged to come. Bring your curiosity and join us as we delve into this intentional exploration of UU beliefs! Location: Shaw (Watha T. Daniel) Neighborhood Library- 1630 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001. RSVP on Facebook here. Contact Nick Ford for more details or with any questions!
Saturday, TBD, 7pm – Young Souls UU Principles Discussion Weekend Edition!
Are you interested in the ongoing UU Principles discussion groups, but haven't had the time to attend? We are meeting for a second time on the weekend for the Young Souls UU Principles Discussion Group! The event will start around 7:00 in the evening and will be a potluck style dinner and conversation about Unitarian Universalist core beliefs. For this meeting we will focus on the Seventh Principle: "Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part." Location and date: TBD. For more information feel free to email Nick Ford.
Sunday, June 24th 12pm – Young Souls June Brunch
Join us in Pierce Hall after service to go to brunch. Location: TBD. RSVP on Facebook here. Contact Claire with questions.
Young Souls July Circle Suppers – Looking for hosts!
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Examples of tiered mentoring research projects
Below are research statements written by some of the students who participated in the 26 STEM projects in the Tiered Mentoring program.
Algae as a Renewable Biodiesel Fuel
Student 1: I was involved with a research team working on the cultivation and processing of algae as a renewable feedstock to bio-diesel fuel. In addition to helping with the waste water system, I designed and carried out multiple experiments on the effects of ethylene glycol, sodium acetate, and xylose on algae. There was interest in the possibility of our algal species to metabolize ethylene glycol or xylose, along with any possible inhibitory effects they may have. Sodium acetate was studied to see if it possessed inhibitory effects, and if so, at what concentration, out of interest for using it as a pH buffer. Many side studies and projects were carried out in addition to these.
Student 2: I was heavily involved with a waste water system to feed algae to create Biodiesel using a system of tanks with different retention times. The other project I was involved with was trying to separate the algae from the lipids.
Flame Propagation of Aerosol Fuels
This summer I was involved with the development of a combustion facility for studying flame propagation of aerosol fuels.
Tracking Coyote Populations in the CVNP
This summer I worked on a telemetry study of coyotes in the Cuyahoga Valley in partnership with MetroParks, Serving Summit County. The bulk of the project involved tracking five coyotes fitted with radio collars. Each coyote was located once a week during the day and tracked overnight once a month. The purpose of the project is to determine their home ranges and movement patterns as well as analyze how much time they spend in urban vs. rural areas. As part of a diet analysis being completed by Cleveland Metroparks, I also collected and processed scat twice a month.
Modeling Biofilms
Student 1: Bacterial infections in the form of biofilms exhibit increased tolerance or resistance to antibiotics. This can be explained in part by the presence within the biofilm of persister cells, a small sub-population of antibiotic-tolerant cells. Antibiotic tolerance in persisters is non-heritable and reversible, and is currently believed to be the result of a stochastic switch in the expression of toxin-antitoxin modules within each cell. This summer we continued work on a mathematical model of the gene regulatory network controlling the toxin-antitoxin modules associated with the persister state. Recent discoveries on genes associated with persister formation were used along with gene expression data of Escherichia coli to derive equations representing the regulation of these genes. A larger goal of our work is to couple this intracellular modeling of persister formation with dynamical models of cell populations in order to describe the overall growth and treatment of biofilm infections.
Student 2: I was involved with the biofilm project in Dr. Wilber's group. I was basically like a student in this group as they taught me a lot about biofilms and the application of mathematics applied to situations in which biofilms were related. I would often get mini-assignments for research, but it was mostly for my own understanding, rather than for contributions to the group project. I did learn a lot throughout the summer though. I had never really had any experience applying high-level mathematics to real life situations, so it was a good experience for me.
Cell Growth on Silicon Wafers
The main project I was involved culturing and observing cell growth, and the effect environment has on cell growth. Beginning with a pre-patterned silicon wafer, with different arrays of grooves on micrometer wide and deep, I mixed a clear polymer and let it set over the wafer, molding a microgrooved surface. I then cut and sterilized the surface, and cultured bovine endothelial cells on it. Every few days I observed cell morphology under a microscope and changed media. Grooved helped facilitate tube structures to grow, the first step to growing veins and arteries essential to complete organ synthesis.
Insect Pollination in Wetlands Plants
Student 1: Over the past summer I was involved in research with the lab of Dr. Mitchell. As this was my second year in the program I spent the majority of the time conducting field work on a project that I designed with the help of Dr. Mitchell. The project that I was investigating was the grooming behavior of Bombus bees visiting the flower Mimulus ringens. The observations were conducted mostly in an area at the Bath Nature Preserve with some work also being conducted at the Panzner Farm Wetlands. Observations of Bombus bee grooming was conducted with a high speed video camera which was able to record behavior at 300 fps. The analysis of these videos is still ongoing and I am preparing the data for the October presentations. Other projects I worked on this summer were assisting Heath Garris with setting up areas for his studies at the Bath Nature Preserve and this was mostly done in the late spring. I also assisted Dr. Mitchell in looking at the effect of bee visits to pollen removal from Mimulus ringens. Predominantly most of my time spent on research was during the last weeks of July and through the month of August.
Student 2: For the first part of the summer I did a lot of just skipping around and helping out Dr. Mitchell with pollen counting as well as I help Matt out with his project dealing with the landfill. As for the pollen counting, Dr. Mitchell and I were having problems with finding clumps of pollen being hard to count and we found out a new way of counting them that made it easier. We put the test tubes in a ultra sonic cleaner and we found out that this made it so the pollen broke apart from each other a lot better than just shaking them. Later in the season I helped Heath out by setting up his experiment where he was testing the difference temperature had on some of the wetland environment. He put of 3 of these sites but I only helped him out with 2 of them. One was at bath and the other was at Twinsburg. I helped Heath several times recording data he got and also took pictures for him. I also helped Sean out with filming bees with the high speed camera. After Sean got enough film we were looking at bee pollen baskets and was trying to determine how much bigger of a basket a bigger bombos Impatient basket was compared to a early season Bombos impatient had. We measured a lot of bees lengths and found out that they only varied a little bit. I forgot to mention but Sean's experiment was about if bees had a set cleaning routine or if they varied the number of times they used there legs to clean off the pollen. Also I forget when but i went down to a place like hour and a half south of Akron with Dr. Mitchell to talk to another professor about bee behavior as well. She had some very interesting ideas about how pollination was better closer to forests because of the amount of bees that nest there rather than the open meadow. I also watched videos Dr. Mitchell had recorded when there were a bee sightings for him so he could go back and review them. The only sad thing I had for this summer was the fact that I had to go on vacation with my family around August, and I missed a bunch of stuff that happened for that week.
Assessing Reproductive Types in Fossil Crustaceans
Student 1: I assisted Timothy Astrop with his research on the evolution of sexual systems of clam shrimp by imaging preserved clam shrimp specimens and helping rear tanks of living clam shrimp. Also, I participated in a field trip to Pennsylvania where we collected fossils of clam shrimp.
Student 2: I am involved in an ongoing project studying sexual dimorphism in Eulimnadia. I hypothesized that Eulimnadia become dimorphic during a definitive morphological event within 4 days of soil hydration. To test this I hydrated two samples of WAL dirt from New Mexico and sampled 5 specimens per day per tank beginning 3 days after hydration. I sampled at this constant rate per day for 8 days and imaged each specimen with light microscopy and the ProgRes camera in the Ecology Commons. Once each specimen was imaged I used Adobe Photoshop's magnetic lasso tool to outline the carapace of each specimen. Once the outlining stage was completed I used a program named TPSdig to turn the outline of the carapaces into 500 coordinates of a graph. Once all of the outlines were digitized I exported them to an online program on the Morpho tools website which gave a standard carapace shape per day per tank. I am currently involved in re imaging and digitizing more specimens and will soon begin the third and final stage of the WAL soil hydration, which will offer 10 samples per tank per day and a larger amount of husbandry to pinpoint the dimorphic event, and reduce error by capturing second and third generations of Eulimnadia of the same hydration. As a second year student I also, taught the new students microscopy technique and hydration/ husbandry techniques of Eulimnadia. I also participated in a field trip to PA for the purpose of fossil collection
Student 3: The Project that I was involved with was with clam shrimp. I organized the clam shrimp specimens that were in vials that were filled with EtOH. I organized them by species. I did this by looking into past papers that Dr. Weeks had published. In these published papers there were locations that had known species at them. Some of the specimens also came from rehydrated soil samples. I went through these samples and was able to match some of the specimens with known species from the same soil sample at different locations. I was able to identify almost all of the unknown species vials and place them with other specimens of the same species. I then placed the vials in the preserved specimens locker with other specimens of the same species. This helped clear out space in the lab and should help future projects find specimens easier. I also did imaging of specimens. This required me to use the imaging setup that is located in the wet lab in the old biology department. I did this by suspending specimens in ethanol and then taking a picture with the camera. The goal of this was to try to get as clear of an outline of the carapace of the clam shrimp so that Tim Astrop could use a program that allows him to compare the differences in shape of the carapaces. I also used the new camera setup that is located in the Ecology commons once that setup was finished about halfway through the summer. The weekly maintenance of the tanks that contained rehydrated soil from various places was also something that I did. This required me to feed the clam shrimp and to observe the tanks and remove any other organisms that could be in the tank to eliminate competition of food for the clam shrimp. In August we went on a trip to Pennsylvania to a site where there was possible clam shrimp fossils. We were taught basic dig techniques like how to remove specimens, how to create a overview of the area, and labeling and collecting of specimens.
Assessing Cancer-Reducing Compounds
The identification of a compound in Black Raspberry which is thought to help in the treatment of cancer.
Gecko toe pad adhesion
Student 1: Studies have shown that soaking gecko setae in water has no effect on their frictional forces (Pesika et al, 2009). Early data from our lab indicates that a gecko's frictional strength decreases dramatically when made to walk on glass coated with a thin film of water. For my experiment, I soaked the feet of Tokay geckos in water then tested their frictional strength while submerged in water. We took measurements at the initial cling, and then allowed the gecko to take steps, measuring frictional forces after each step. The results showed that the gecko's frictional strength was lower than dry trials at each measurement. As a control, we tested dry geckos submerged in water. The results were very similar to those from the soaked geckos. Further experiments are needed to fully evaluate what exactly is causing the inhibition of the geckos' frictional strength. Some ideas for these experiments are: to do trials with soaked gecko feet on a misted glass, and to do trials with soaked gecko feet on a dry glass.
Student 2: Based on a study done by Pesika et al (Gecko adhesion pad: a smart surface? 2009) there is evidence that a patch of gecko setae that has been submerged in water for 1.5 hours then pulled to test frictional forces shows the same results as trials done under dry conditions. The data indicate that water has no significant effect on the frictional forces of gecko setae. Initial data from experiments conducted within our lab shows that when a gecko is placed on glass misted with water then pulled to test frictional forces, the results match those of the same force test under dry conditions. However, after the gecko is allowed to take 1 or more steps the frictional forces decrease significantly. According to the data from Pesika's experiment, we would not expect this sort of result to happen. Their conclusion was that frictional forces are load dependent and are unaffected by water; the contact region of the spatulae excludes water. Continuing with these findings, the assumption could be made that having the gecko take steps under the previously described conditions would not affect frictional force. This assumption contradicts the results we have seen.
Genetics of the milfoil weevil, Euhrychiopsis lecontei
Student 1: Over the summer I worked with the invasive Eurasian watermilfoil and the weevils that consume this plant. We were getting the DNA out of the weevils. We used gels and the PCR machine
Student 2: This is the second time that I have participated in the Tiered Mentoring Research Program under Lara Rocketenetz. The research was focused on the Milfoil Weevil (Euhrychiopsis Lecontei). The goal of the research was to prove that the eastern weevils and the western weevils are two different species. Necessary procedures were followed to obtain DNA from the collected weevils and analyze the obtained data. Several methods were put to test in order to determine the best solvent to be used to store the weevils once they have been collected. Storing the weevils in ATL buffer at room temperature yielded the best results. After the best method of storage was determined the research was carried on to obtain more data on the Milfoil Weevil.
Water Quality in the Barberton Reservoir
This summer my research focused on the manganese concentration in the 196 acre Barberton Reservoir in Norton Township. We collected from three different sample sites along the reservoir. We then took samples from each site at three different depths; the surface, the middle, and the bottom.
Each sample was taken back to the lab for multiple tests. The sample was tested for pH, Fluorescence's, TOC, and manganese. My focus was on manganese in which I took readings for each sample both soluble and insoluble. We were able to map the manganese concentration per depth and location over a period of time and begin to predict how and why each sample had the concentrations it had.
They will be continuing this study through-out the next year in order to get a better read-out of the concentrations; this will allow us to determine solutions to the amount of manganese in the reservoir.
Artificial Wound-Healing and Polymer-Facilitated Cell Growth
This summer I worked with Doctor Newby under the Grad student Jia Fang on two projects. One was to produce scaffolds to grow stem cells and implant them into the body with the aim of deep wound healing. This was for Dr. Yin of NEOMED. However, I eventually stopped working on this project as a new grad student came into the lab and instead focused on my second project which I had also been working on in collaboration with the Biomedical Engineering Department's Dr. Zhang and her grad student Nikul. My focus was to find an alternative surface to produce cell sheets using a thermoresponsive polymer, thus providing a scaffoldless implantable supply of tissue for various regenerative pupose. Both projects focused on using micropatterns produced from fracture of cured PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) strips from glass which spontaneously produce micropatterns 5-30 microns in length, perfect for certain types of cells to grow and align. I spent my time mixing solutions and duplicating these micropatterned strips of pdms and then modifying them with various polymers to meet our goals. I also learned how to do basic characterization of the thin polymer films using ellipsometry, contact goniometry, and using various settings on the microscope in the lab.
Although we haven't found success in finding an alternative method for cell sheets, we're still moving forward with different approaches.
Robot Design
Tiered Mentoring (TM) students went to both RoboGames in San Francisco, and the NASA Lunar Mining Competition at Kennedy Space Center. One TM student's robot at RoboGames was the 340-lb combat-bot. The TM student was responsible for command and control. The team got second place. Our Lunar Mining robot was one of only six robots out of 29 that was able to load lunar regolith. We got 5th place honorable mention, the TM student was again responsible for command and control. The TM student mostly used his TM funds to go to improving our general command and control capability.
Additional TM students have been working hard on their quadrotor for this next year. It will be a robot that uses four rotors to hover and maneuver. It is more stable and maneuverable than a helicopter. One TM student used his opportunity to get involved with the IEEE Aerospace Systems - Gyro Committee. He was even able to get them to meet on campus, and he acted as their host. The TM students mostly used their TM funds to develop their quadrotor hardware.
Using Spider Silk for Medical Adhesives
This summer, I was involved in two different projects with Vasav. All of the research I assisted in was concerning a species of orb-weaving spiders, Lariniodies cornutus. I learned how to dissect spiders in order to extract the aggregate glands, which contain glue that could potentially be used for a medical adhesive. I also did experiments with the spider silk, exposing it to different humidities and measuring how the glue droplets increased or decreased in size.
Leptin Expression in Fish
Working with my graduate mentor, Donnie Copeland, over the summer, I learned a lot about various lab techniques including PCR, gel electrophoresis, plating, growing cultures and conducting protein assays. I am continuing to work on my project throughout this semester to be used for my Honors Thesis. I am working to identify the exact number of mRNA copies of leptin that are expressed in carp tissues including liver, brain, heart, and testes. Leptin is a protein hormone that plays a key role in a number of metabolic and biological processes throughout the body. So far, in working to create a standard to eventually compare leptin I and II quantitations of these different tissues to, and under the direction of my mentor, I have successfully cloned leptin I, and leptin II into vectors that were transformed and grown in E.Coli bacterial cultures. After several weeks of trial and error and trying to verify that my clones were in fact expressing the leptin sequence I was hoping for, we deemed the cloning to be a success. We ran several PCRs followed by gel electrophoresis to determine this, and then purified the plasmid DNA on the clones, to be able to isolate it. We will now continue with quantitative PCR. This will then be our standard, and we will be able then to use different carp tissues that we suspect to contain leptin and quantify the number of mRNA copies being produced in each tissue. This will greatly contribute to our understanding of leptin expression and will allow us to compare with other species, leading to a better understanding of this protein's role in the metabolic processes of carp and different species.
Perfecting Bio-diesel as a Fuel Source
I worked as a research assistant for Dr. Mittal and his Graduate Assistant, Anveeksh. The project we are in the process of working on is a Rapid Compression Machine. The goal of our project is to control the combustion of bio-diesel fuel in order to obtain information on this type of fuel. We will be using a two step process to determine the fuel concentration and flame propagation rate of the fuel. The first step, obtaining the concentration, utilizes a preexisting combustion chamber that will be retrofitted with quartz glass windows to allow a He-Ne laser to pass through the chamber and ultimately determine the fuel concentration. A second chamber will be used to combust the same fuel concentration in a controlled setting. A spark will be used to initiate combustion and a high speed camera will be used to capture images of the flame as it expands through the gas.
Outcome Database for Fetal Abnormalities
Student 1: This summer I was involved with the Co-op working in the Fetal Treatment Center at Akron Children's Hospital. We entered closed patients' cases into a database, and then narrowed down our sample to only include those patients who were prenatally diagnosed with gastroschisis. Gastroschisis is an abnormality involving the herniation of the contents of the baby's abdomen, and can most often be treated effectively and efficiently. We also received lists of babies who were transported to the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) with this disorder, and we were able to separate them into three groups: Babies prenatally diagnosed with the abnormality and having had received services from the FTC, babies prenatally diagnosed and not seen in the FTC, and babies who were not prenatally diagnosed. We compared averages for the first two groups (with and without FTC services) based on several variables which included: birth weight, apgar score at 1 and 5 minutes, whether or not the baby was transported to the NICU and if so what day they were transported and how many days they spent there, postnatal diagnosis, postnatal procedures, pediatric management plan made, psychosocial concerns, male/female, the follow up known on the baby (premature, live born, spontaneous/terminated abortion, stillborn or newborn death), type of surgery, days until surgery, additional complications (bowel peel, short gut syndrome, atresia, necrotizing entercolitis), days on ventilator, days to oral feed and newborn death. We were not able to achieve statistical confirmation that babies seen in the treatment center did better after birth, and the project is going to be continued from a different angle to better support the work that the treatment center does for it's patients.
Student 2: I continued my research at Children's Hospital this past summer. My partner and I finished work that I started the previous summer with a different partner. We compiled a database of all the patients seen by the fetal treatment center. This database included high amounts of information on the patients. Once the database was completed, we chose one disorder as our focal point. We compiled more information on the patients with this disorder (gastroschisis) and then did a statistical study to determine if visiting the FTC was beneficial to patients. (We had a separate list of patients with gastroschisis who did not visit the FTC.) Unfortunately, it was determined that the patients w/gastroschisis who came to the FTC were significantly "sicker" (had other disorders) and therefore could not be compared to the other patients. We determined this right at the end of summer and there was no time to put together another study and obtain some results. However, the database (which we spent two summers putting together) still exists and can be used for future studies
Hemolysis Testing at the Cleveland Clinic
With an increase in medical technology and science, medical product development has also increased. Being responsible for evaluating and predicting the safety effectiveness and manufacturing process of all medical devices, the Food and Drug Administrating (FDA) launched the Critical Path Initiative (CPI) to drive innovation in the scientific processes through which FDA-regulated products are developed, evaluated, and manufactured. The CPI covers a broad range of medical devices and drugs. The main goal of the CPI's focus on medical devices is to accelerate the safety assessment of medical devices in the preclinical stage, with particular attention paid to blood damage, and to standardize computational fluid (CFD) dynamics techniques for such use.
CFD programs have been created to predict flow and fluid forces and calculate physical parameters such as shear stress. However, no CFD program has been created to predict blood damage in medical devices. To create such a program, baseline testing of blood damage will need to be completed. In the CFD field, benchmark tests are used to evaluate the ability of an algorithm to correctly solve the field equations. If a CFD algorithm correctly handles the benchmark cases, considered to be known results, it is assumed that predictions in unknown cases with similar fluid mechanics conditions will be correct. The FDA will use such a program to model blood damage in medical devices. Since data ranges can vary due to a number of external conditions, baseline data will be collected by at least three different labs to insure quality of the CFD program. The University of Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and the FDA will be conducting round robin testing of models to assure quality. Cleveland Clinic Foundation's (CCF) Biomedical Engineering Department and the University of Pittsburgh are solely responsible for collecting and sending baseline data to the FDA.
Hemolysis is defined as the rupture or breakage of the red blood cell membrane, causing the release of hemoglobin, also called free hemoglobin, and other internal cellular components into the surrounding fluids. The rate of change of free hemoglobin in a system is a measure of device quality. Hemolysis is the main type of blood damage that will be documented in the testing. Because baseline testing for the CFD program requires precise documentation of levels of hemolysis, defined objects will be used to create blood damage. The FDA selected a nozzle model with a defined geometry to create hemolysis in a closed loop system. The closed loop system used to create and sample blood damage consisted of pressure ports, a temperature port, a blood pump, reservoir, and heat exchanger.
The student was to take lead in hemolysis testing for the Cleveland Clinic. After weekly testing had been completed, data processing began. Once all data was processed, it was sent to the FDA for analysis. Purchasing supplies for testing and shipping supplies to separate labs was also conducted. Since the student was directing hemolysis testing, he was allowed to hire a student from the Tiered Mentoring Program to aid him in testing. The student got to experience research first hand in a state-of-the-art facility under direction of some of the world's best researchers.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Dogs Explained
As dictated by Nancy at the Farm at 8:08 AM
6 comments:
- Molly The Wally said...
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Best wishes Molly
- October 25, 2012 at 9:09 AM
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Loveys Sasha
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