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Breed registries today rely on DNA testing to verify parentage in an animal's pedigree. Every animal has a genetic code in every cell of the body. Several billion chemical sub-units of a material called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) constitute the long, threadlike chromosomes (and the genes on those chromosomes) that exist in the nucleus of every cell. The genetic code for every aspect of that individual can thus be found in any body cell, whether blood, bone, hair or muscle.
In recent years, researchers have mapped the genomes of many livestock species to discover their complete genetic make-up. These genomic maps have shown that all mammalian livestock species have 3 billion base pairs of DNA that are organized into approximately 50,000 to 100,000 genescontained in different numbers of chromosomes that occur in pairs. Horses have 64 chromosomes (32 pairs) and cattle have 60 (30 pairs). Genes are the pieces of the DNA that make up the various codes for proteins and enzymes. Each gene is a specific segment of DNA on one of those chromosomes.
A DNA or gene marker is an identifiable piece of DNA that can be mapped to a unique physical location on a chromosome. A marker is any measurable inheritable difference that shows a variation between individual animals, such as coat color, body type, various aspects of conformation, various traits such as marbling and tenderness, etc.
Since the genetic code of an individual animal is present in every body cell, a tiny portion of that animal can be utilized to verify its identity. Samples of blood or hair (containing the hair roots) are the most commonly used portions that are sent to a lab to analyze for identifying that animal. DNA testing is now the standard tool for parentage verification and/or individual identity testing for all species. Some of the human applications include forensic science and criminal cases, paternity questions, or individual ID for everyone in the military (in the unfortunate event that someone is killed and all you have are body parts to be identified).
Every individual animal or human has a unique set of DNA. As explained by Brandt Cassidy, PhD (Director of Operations, DNA Solutions, Inc.one of the companies that does animal DNA testing), if you're just comparing an individual to itself, the DNA will always match. We often do this when working with USDA, wildlife enforcement, cattle associations to resolve rustling cases, etc. in which we need to show that a certain animal is what we think it is. DNA can thus identify a stolen animal, or show that the beef in someone's freezer came from an animal that matches the blood in the back of their truck. This type of DNA test is accurate 100 percent of the time, says Cassidy.
Tom Holm, of MMI Genomics (the company that does DNA testing for a large number of cattle breed registries including Angus) says that if look at one animal compared with another, essentially their DNA is very similargreater than 99 percent identical. All animals have similar body functions, for respiration, digestion, etc. There are many things that all mammals share, for instance.
But there are also differences in DNA that make one individual different and unique from every other individual. For parentage verification and individual identity testing, we take advantages of these small differences at the DNA marker level and use them to ascertain correct parentage or identify one animal versus another, says Holm. DNA technology for parent identification has replaced any other technology used in the past, such as blood typing.
Parent Verification -- Differences in DNA markers can be determined using various detection techniques. Those differences are inherited from parent to offspring. For instance, every mammal, whether it's a horse or a cow has two copies of every chromosomeone from each parent. If you have a way to mark those chromosomes, you can follow their transmission from parent to offspring. For each marker, a particular offspring (if it truly is the offspring) has to get one copy of the marker from its father and one copy from the mother, says Holm.
Cassidy explains that by tracing the pieces of DNA from the cow to the calf and from the bull to the calf, you can establish that together those two animals could have produced that offspring. But lineage checking, when you start running genetic tests to determine parentage, is not always simple, says Cassidy. It is definitely most accurate when you have both the sire and the dam to check. It can become more murky if you only have one of the parents to test.
Sometimes cattle breeders send in samples and ask the lab to check their entire herd to try to identify the parents of a certain animal. We may find two bulls that could possibly be the sire, says Cassidy. The breeder then tells us that one of them is the father of the other. So just by itself, the DNA may not be enough. We must have additional information from the breeder, telling us who the actual possible sires might be. Otherwise you might assume that the grandfather is the sire, especially in linebreeding situations where the animals have close genetics.
In nature, there are random mating selections, with a relatively large gene pool to draw from. In cattle or horse breeding, by contrast, the owner generally determines the matings within a small segment of the species population. You lose the genetic variation that makes it easy to distinguish the correct sire and dam of each offspring, says Cassidy.
In domestic animals you often end up with genetically similar animals because most matings take place within a certain breed or even within certain family lines within that breed. With all the linebreeding that occurs within a breed, a rancher might have several bulls with similar, though not identical, genetics. Sometimes the mothers are also related to the fathers of the calves. Due to this lack of variation, the passage of genetic material from parent to offspring can be difficult to determine whether some of it came from the mother's side or the father's side, if you only have one of the parents tested, explains Cassidy.
Any single marker may not carry much weight in resolving questions of parentage or individual identification. But by combining the power of many markers, we increase the probability that an alleged parent is actually the true parent, says Holm.
Cassidy says it is important to understand the limits of DNA testing. The DNA test can tell you whether a certain animal biologically could not be the father. This exclusion is 100 percent accurate. If it doesn't match, there is no way that animal could be the sire.
Or, the test might tell you there is a possibility he could be the sirenot that he IS, but that it's possible. You can't say with 100 percent certainty, in human or animal genetics, that this is the only one that could be the father, using only the DNA information. But if there is a match at all the markers tested, then there is a possibility he could be, explains Cassidy.
In human situations, with random matings, you can do a statistical evaluation and give a probability, because there's not as much inbreeding and linebreeding in humans. It's a little harder in cattle because there's not as high a predictability in an inbred system as in random matings, says Cassidy.
But in most cases, after running a certain set of markers, if no marker excludes either parent, then the probability of parentage can be calculated, says Holm. The technology of determining parentage, particularly in livestock, is always based on exclusion, however.
If we are looking at the parents of a particular individual and find that the alleged father could not have contributed a certain marker to that offspring, then we call that an exclusion. In this case, we say that animal is excluded from being the true sire. Essentially, we look at an exclusion as being 100 percent proof that a certain animal is not the parent of the offspring being tested. In our lab, we always want to see at least two exclusions, to make sure we can call it that, says Holm.
A mismatch can sometimes be caused by a mutation. Cassidy says that when DNA is passed to offspring (whether human or animal), a small percentage of the time there is an error produced (mutation) that makes the DNA of the offspring different from that of the parents. This happens occasionallywhen you have one marker that doesn't match, even though it is the correct parents. In humans this occurrence is about 1 in 300. It's probably similar in most animal systems. You can use more markers, to try to sort out the tough cases, but the problem with using more markers is that you'll also increase the probability in which you might find a mutation.
Each lab has it's own standards regarding possible mutations. Cassidy says that he doesn't know how other labs deal with these situationswhether they automatically exclude that sample as being a possible match or say it's inconclusive. Or they may go back to the breeder to get more information to establish that this is or isn't the true parent (with no other possibility) and then put a note on the file that it's a match but we accepted a mutation at this one site. We do this, for instance, in our whitetail deer breeding system, where the owner has enough information to provide us that this is the only possible scenario. Then we will on occasion go ahead and issue a certificate that says this is the possible father of this animal, with the caveat that there's a mutation at this particular marker. But this is very rare, says Cassidy.
The rancher may say he saw a certain bull breed that cow, and he thinks the calf must have been sired by that bull. But if the test comes back with an exclusion, we have to say we are 100 percent sure that it is not the sire, says Holm. Assuming that there are no sampling problems, exclusions are 100 percent accurate, he says. Perhaps there was another bull in the pasture, or a neighbor's bull jumped the fence and bred the cow as well.
Sometimes breeders rely too much on DNA tests and technology, and want the lab to determine the sire of a calf using the entire database of bulls in that breed that are on file. While DNA-based parent verification is the most accurate tool for determining correct parentage, stockmen need to realize that DNA tests are not a substitute for accurate record-keeping, or close management (planned matings, accurate AI records, or knowing which bulls are with which cows, and so on). DNA testing, as done in the livestock industry today, can easily verify whether a certain individual is not the sire or dam of a certain calf, or can give a probability that it isbut is not an adequate way to try to find the sire or dam if the breeder doesn't have a clue about the actual identity of that sire or dam. It can be done, but this would take the use of a lot more markers and would be very expensive, according to Holm.
Parent verification in livestock uses only a certain number of markers, due to cost in running the tests. A DNA test on humans is more expensive. In the livestock industry we are asked to do the exact same thing, for about $20 per sample, because stockmen can't afford high cost, says Holm.
If money were no concern, however, we could run more markers. The power of the probability of parentage is determined by the power of each of the individual markers you use, and the total number of markers you use. To keep costs down, we must run a finite number of markers. If someone wanted to test all the bulls on the planet as potential candidate fathers for any particular offspring, with the finite number of markers we use today, this would be impossible. Many, many sires would potentially qualify, just by chance. But if it was important to know, and cost was not a factor, we could run enough DNA markers to resolve parentage on every animal, he explains.
Running more markers means more cost. There has to be a balance between costs that breeders want to pay for this technology and how good they are in their record keepingto need to push the envelope on this, in the first place, says Holm. If very many more markers were used in the testing, the costs of parent verification for registering an animal would be too high for breeders to want to pay.
But in some situations, such as when a rancher has 3 bulls that are closely related, you could run more markers on those three bulls and on the other animals that are related to them, and sort this out, says Cassidy. This could be an option if a breeder really needed to narrow it down, and some labs will do this.
They have up to 21 markers they could use, but they save this for a few situations where it's the last chance option, explains Cassidy. But there is also more risk for finding one or two mutations, which would show places that didn't matchand possible exclusion of that animal even though it is the correct parent.
DNA technology is the most powerful tool known for resolving questions of parentage and individual identity, says Holm. It provides a great benefit to breeders. A DNA test increases the validity and value of the pedigree, he says. When the owner sells that animal, he/she is not just selling the animal, but also the guarantee of pedigreewith DNA testing behind it. The breeder can guarantee the bloodline represented in that pedigree. In any registry, the validity of pedigree and bloodline is what's most important. The known ancestry is what makes any animal valuable.
Standardization Of DNA Testing -- Companies like ours have been doing parentage verification in cattle now for almost 20 years, says Holm. We were some of the pioneers in doing this. It took time for DNA testing to replace the blood-typing technology that was used in the past, in all breeds. There also had to be some international standardization for the DNA testing, just as there had been for blood typing.
An international organization was involved in standardizing the earlier blood typing. This International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) became involved in DNA testing during the early 1990's and was responsible for coordinating selection of DNA markers to be used as standards across the industry. This technology has been accepted internationally, and is monitored and validated internationally so that there are uniform standards.
Types Of DNA Markers -- The kind of markers used for parent verification in cattle are what we call microsatellites, says Holm. They are also called STR (short tandem repeats). We run 11 markers in our standard microsatellite panel. In most breed types, this provides probabilities of parentage at greater than 99 percent. In a situation where you are using closely related bulls in a multi-sire breeding group, however, sometimes they fall into that 1 percent of being inconclusive. In order to deal with those, we have a secondary panel of microsatellite markers that we run, to help resolve these cases, he explains.
Our lab and our competitors are now looking to switch over to a new type of marker called a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP marker). With SNP markers, each marker is less informative, so you have to run a lot more of them. You'd have to run 80 to 100 SNP markers to have the same power you'd have with 10 microsatellite markers. But the cost of running SNP markers is becoming much lower, so it is now feasible to run 100 SNP markers for a cost equal to or less than the cost to run existing panels of microsatellite markers, explains Holm.
The current technology is very powerful, but the new technology with the SNP markers will probably replace it within five years for the seedstock industry, if not sooner. Part of the problem with changing to SNP markers is similar to the situation we had when we went from blood typing to microsatellite DNA markers. The microsatellite genotypes on a parent cannot be compared against SNP genotypes on progeny. They have to be tied to the same marker system. When we went away from blood typing, all the parents that were in the data base had to be DNA typed, he says.
This will be the same kind of transition. All the parents that were genotyped with microsatellite markers would have to be genotyped with the SNP panels. So we have to convert the data base again. Even though the SNP technology is very low cost, there is a very high cost to convert the data base. But we are in the process of doing that in the most efficient way possible, he says.
For example, you don't need to genotype all parents in the database. You'd wait until new progeny are submitted, with a request to test a certain old sire and dam. Then we can go back and pull their DNA out of our archive and genotype them with the new markers. So we only do it as needed, says Holm.
In our business, we archive all samples we receive. You can have those forever, and if you need to convert the database to a new marker system, we still have a sample on file for that animal. Even if it is alive, you don't have to go through the hassle of collecting a new sample. We just retrieve it from archives.
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text: Childrens bedroom inspiration: A MuralOur lovely friend Suzie and her beautiful daughter Lola designed and painted a mural in little Lola's bedroom- we love it! Have a read and be inspired to add some colour to cream bedroom walls... The cream wall provided the perfect blank canvas for Lola's big tree design – incorporating fresh green leaves and pretty birds tweeting in the branches. Suzie sketched the design on to the wall and then they made sure that the carpet was covered in case of any paint spills. Once the dark brown trunk of the tree was carefully painted by Lola (with a little help from Suzie) they patiently waited for the paint to dry. During this time Suzie created a leaf template ready to draw the leaves around the branches. We love Suzie's creativity, imagination and bright colours, perfect to create a beautiful and playful kid's bedroom. Some of our other ideas you could create as a mural is a jungle scene, a pirate ship, a field of flowers or aeroplanes in the clouds. If, like me, you don't have the natural creativity you could create stencils or templates. Or if you are lucky enough to live in the Nottingham area you could email Suzie firstname.lastname@example.com to design and create you a mural.July 12th 2012Posted by: Feather & BlackTagged with childrens bedroom

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The medical field is like no other thanks to its sensitive combination of high stakes, unpredictability, emotional situations, cultural concerns, legal liability, and the need to provide an exceptional experience.
Healthcare providers have a lot to balance when communicating with and treating patients.
Hiring an interpreter is a good start when working with patients who have limited English proficiency. But qualified medical interpreters familiar with complex medical terminology are in an even better position to provide the best possible service to healthcare professionals and their patients.
Here are just a few ways qualified medical interpreters add value.
Even in one's native tongue, medical language is often opaque to the uninitiated. As is the case with doctors and nurses, medical interpreters have put in time to become familiar with medical terminology about conditions, symptoms, complications, and medications.
An interpreter with a general knowledge of medical procedures is able to not only explain them thoroughly to patients, but can also help healthcare staff in ways as simple as knowing where to stand so they won't interfere.
Professional interpreters are in high demand and often work in a variety of settings, such as court rooms, social-services offices, or business conference rooms. Medical interpretation has its own standards and code of ethics that differ from the way things are done in other settings.
A patient's culture impacts the expectations for care and readiness to follow instructions. It also has an effect on interactions with doctors, decision-making among family members, and more.
An interpreter who understands these cultural dynamics in addition to the language can help healthcare professionals bridge the divide. For instance, patients in some cultures may be unaccustomed to standard procedures, such as having blood drawn or receiving an X-ray.
An interpreter who has taken the time to receive additional training and testing in medical terminology will likely have greater confidence in their abilities and will be more at ease, which will in turn put patients at ease. This can make the interpreter more efficient and contribute to a better experience.
As we've noted before, hospitals have spent more than $15.8 billion in litigation and have lost $1.2 billion due to poor communication with LEP patients. Utilizing a qualified medical interpreter reduces the risk of misunderstanding and misdiagnosis, ensures regulatory compliance, and improves the patient experience.
If you want to ensure you're utilizing a qualified interpreter, look specifically for someone who has taken the extra step to receive training in medical terminology.
Learn more about how LanguageLine's interpreter training and testing programs can help your organization avoid costly mistakes.
Ana Catalina (Cata) Gonzalez Siax, C.M.I., is LanguageLine Academy's Testing and Training Manager. She has been working in the interpretation industry since 2006. While working as a medical interpreter, she also developed the training program for non-experienced interpreters at Pacific Interpreters. She has been a Certified Medical Interpreter since 2012, and also has ample experience evaluating interpreting skills and language proficiency, as well as training raters for LanguageLine Academy. Cata holds licensure in Psychology from Universidad de Iberoamerica in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Cata will be presenting at the California Healthcare Interpreting Association Annual Conference to be held March 17-18 in San Jose, California.


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Studies in Computational Intelligence Volume 427, 2013, pp 751-774
Multi-objective Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Partner Selection in Virtual Enterprises
Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a temporary alliance of autonomous enterprises formed to act together to share skills or core competencies and resources in order to respond to a market opportunity. The success of VE strongly depends on its composition, so partner selection can be considered as the most important problem in VE. This paper presents and solves a model for the partner selection problem in VEs that considers two main evaluation criteria; project completion time and total cost. To do so, the paper uses a multi-objective algorithm, namely Pareto Simulated Annealing (PSA). Results showed improved performance of PSA compared to the Tabu Search algorithm used in a recent study.


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Painted these for my daughter who turned 12 this week. On the day of her birthday, my husband and I chaperoned a class field trip to OMSI [Oregon Museum of Science and Industry] where the featured exhibit is Body Worlds. My group was ready to move on after 20 minutes, which speaks more to the attention span of adolescents than the exhibition.
My dear friends brought back for me some anchovy stuffed olives from Spain. I'm already on my second can today.
I shipped off some of my original works and prints to a boutique in Beacon, New York called Blackbird Attic. I'm the featured artist at the shop from March 10 - April 13. Wish I could follow my works to New York, but that'll have to wait for another time.
Here are two new originals that will be part of the show:
Here are two new originals that will be part of the show:
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Kicking off in January with the CELAC EU summit in Santiago, Chile and ending with the World Cup Draw in Costa do Sauipe, Brazil and with all kinds of wild, wonderful and poignant events in between 2013 has been quite a year, from start to finish.
One of the most emotionally charged stories I covered this year was also one of the first; the anniversary of what has become known in Argentina as the 'Once' tragedy. In January, on the first anniversary of the train crash disaster in which 51 people died, families of the victims held a very emotional commemoration at the site of the crash in remembrance of their loved ones and calling on 'justicia' (justice) from the national authorities. To mark the exact moment of the crash, one year on, they played an audio recording of the moment of the tragedy, the emotion was palpable sadness: The coverage justifiably got a lot of coverage by international broadcasters.
February saw a trip to neighbouring Paraguay to do an indepth report for the brilliant media outlet: GlobalPost on the more insalubrious side of the country's agricultural boom
March then saw another outlandish journey, returning to the Falklands or Malvinas Islands for the second consecutive year, this time to cover the historic referendum on the future political status of the long politicized archipelago
http://www.paulbyrne.com/political/falkland-islanders-vote-overwhelmingly-in-favour-of-remaining-british-rte-radio/ live from Port Stanley on Irish RTE Radio 1's flagship morning programme just hours after the release of the referendum results.
I also capitalized on the visit to produce a radio feature for the same broadcaster on the story of two Irish men that were on opposite sides of 1982's South Atlantic conflict
Of course as is the nature of news, synonymous events happen with little advance notice and sometimes at the most inopportune moments. Such was the case, for me at least, following 2013's big news from the Vatican. During my week on the islands the white smoke went up announcing Cardinal Jorge Borgoglio of Buenos Aires as the new head of the catholic church and successor to Pope Benedict. There was an outpouring of reaction from the new pontiffs home city, the Argentine capital and I was immediately called up by a raft of international media for coverage and reaction…BUT when on the Falklands or Las Malvinas, there is one flight, once a week, so I had to hold off for 3 days until I got back to base and readied myself to report on the hometown celebrations, the background of Pope Francis and some of the more unusual effects of the papal announcement.
My involvement in covering Pope Francis, didn't end there, just a couple of months later I was back on his trail, this time chasing the Pope mobile around Rio de Janeiro as the pontiff made his first overseas visit, to Brazil as part of the International Youth Day events. Despite the symbolizm of Pope Francis's first trip being back to his home continuent it wasn't all what you might imagine, on the night of his arrival our AP coverage documented how ongoing social unease in Brazil lead to an unexpected welcome to the carnival city. However, as his week long trip continued, the positivity surrounding the papal visit became the overriding story and culminated in a Sunday mass on one of the world's most famous beaches attended by over 3 million people. My early morning report, on the pilgirms rousing from a night long vigil leading up to the historic event went out around the world including this broadcast which lead SKY News.
One of the more unusual pieces I got to work on in June was a cross media feature for AP on the Argentine Atlantis; the town that once was, disappeared under water and is now re-emerging as an attraction but in a very different form. It was also the story that I worked on for AP this year that got the most international difussion: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/epecuen-argentine-town-photos_n_3252049.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22492104
Another quirky story that I worked on later in the year was the unusual event in Buenos Aires of an environmental activist marrying a ….tree.
I put some thoughts on the production of the story and its ensuing diffusion by the international media, comparing it to another very significant story I had subsequently finished as part of a full AP team. Here's the gist: 'What Makes News'
As I approached the year end I had the chance to work on another emotionally charged story but this time, a theme brimming in hope and inspiration. A cross media feature I wrote and produced for the AP about a beauty therapy project encouraging cancer patients in Argentina to look in the mirror as a way of tackling what for many is "the fight of their lives" Look Good, Feel Better
This story was also the very positive result of a new endeavour I am establishing with a group of freelancers in Argentina and the region, basically building a team of top notch professionals, encompassing journalists, technicians and hybrids of all the above, so that we can as a team or individually generate, share and work interdependently on a growing number of media projects that are coming to our inboxes. This is something that I have plans to significantly develop in 2014.
A few other trips thrown in along the way, including my first time to Suriname to cover a UNASUR (South America's more 'hit and miss' version of the EU) saw me rounding out the year back in Brazil for the draw for next years Football World cup.
And well this is a good ending point for 2013 and starting point for a 2014 that already looks set to be centred around the upcoming world cup, I am already set to spend 6 weeks in Brazil for the event.
After 5 years now based in Latin America, I feel this year was one of the most significant in my work as a video journalist. My mission of looking for more innovative ways to cover Latin American news events and daily issues and bring a more interpretative snapshot of the region to a global audience took a serious step forward.
…see more at: paulbyrne.com
World Cup #FinalDraw Coverage – first piece down
Recently I did two feature stories that somehow touched on the parallel theme: of human beings destructive trajectory with the environment. The angle and production of both stories could not have been more different.
One was an AP multi department story that was months in the planning, had the hand of dozens of people involved in the final output and touched on big business and government interests.
The second story I filmed, edited and wrote in 3 hours and it pretty much centred on a Johnny Depp lookalike performing an unseemly act with a plant. In the backstory I have code named the piece 'Wood-lock'.
Which one of the two do you think had most diffusion with international broadcasters???? Yes, thats right… the man that married the tree!!
The theatrical show caught the worlds eye and in its own quirky way might just have accomplished the goal of Richard Torres in drawing attention to a global plight.
The second story told through the eyes of former farm labourer in Argentina's agricultural belt and his devastating history with agrochemiclas. The premise of Fablan's account was the basis for a very detailed report on the side effects of Argentina's unhealthy relationship with biotechnology. This story got a fraction of the play out of 'wood-lock'
THE ONE MAN BAND – sometimes 2 hands just don't stretch
I was explaining to a new collaborator the other day the positive benefits that can be brought to not only features but also news coverage whilst working as a one man band/vj – the synergy that you can bring to a story in ensuring that your visuals communicate in the most illustrative and colourful way the editorial storyline as you see it. In circumstances where you work as a team, sometimes this level of visual and editorial harmony can be very hard to produce. However, on the other side in circumstances of breaking news or the coverage of political events, sometimes two hands just don't stretch to the needs. In the coverage above (as per picture [zoom]) of this story http://goo.gl/Y8Cwc0 you can see that I really had to battle to ensure as well as having good framing I didn't miss good audio quality of the vital soundbite from the statement made by the Dad of the detained Argentine activist. As I bowed with camera in one hand and stretched with microphone in the other a cameraman from one of the very competitive and assertive local media asked to brush my hair to keep it out of his shot while another screamed at me that if I moved an inch I would get a boom mic stuck in my skull.
I am all the time trying to come with creative and simple solutions that make live easier and material better from such circumstances…so any thoughts pls post them here
Olympic sized coverage
Olympic sized week of coverage in #BuenosAires as #IOC meet to choose host city for 2020 games, new sports and new president
Embedded with #Madrid delegation as they make #IOC bid presentation
I/viewing President of Olympic Wrestling Federation Nenad Lalovic as he makes last #IOC bid to keep wresting for 2020
You know when you get to that stage where you have decided that you have definitively decided on something and then all of a sudden something comes a long and opens the can of worms right back up again. Great to have had the chance to work with my new buddy Sergey Brilev the last days here in Argentina. A great professional and a great Russian


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Tradition Travel
5421 Transit Road, Depew, NY 14043 – (716) 686-0702
A Polish-American travel agency that sells Polish books and gifts. Also houses the studio of Polonia Varieties, WHLD.
Broadway Market
999 Broadway, Buffalo, NY 14212 – (716) 893-0705
A special place to visit, especially in the two weeks before Easter. Temporary stands sell traditional eggs, pussy willows, and crafts.
Polish specialty shops at the Market include:
- E&M Bakery – Polish style baked goods from Canada
- Wanda & Anna's – Polish sausages and cheeses; meats imported from Chicago
- Tombak's Bakery – braided breads and rolls
- Burzynski Imports – specializes in Polish herbs and spices, teas, canned herring, pierogi, cheese, and Polish chocolate
- Malczewski Poultry – the only homemade butter lambs at the Market at Easter time, homemade pierogi
- Paul Redlinski & Sons – fresh meats and homemade sausages; family owned and operated for three generations


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Hello, I come bearing a recipe 🙂
Sweet potato tagine with couscous
- Oil/Spray oil to fry
- 1 chopped onion
- 2 crushed garlic cloves
- 2tsp ground coriander
- 2tsp cumin
- 2tsp paprika
- 1 small aubergine cut into cubes
- 2 small sweet potatoes peeled and cut into cubes
- 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 1 cup water
- 1 small handful raisins
- 1 small can chickpeas
- 1 courgette cut into chunks
- 1tbsp tomato puree
What to do:
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan then add the onion and garlic. Fry for around 10 minutes
- Add the coriander, cumin and paprika and fry for 30 seconds
- Add the aubergine and sweet potato, stirring for 1 minute
- Add the tin of tomatoes, water, raisins and chickpeas. Bring to the boil then simmer for ten minutes covering the pan with a lid
- Add the courgette and tomato puree then simmer again for 5 minutes
- Tagine goes best with couscous but I guess you could have it with anything you like. Couscous is so easy to make but just in case you didn't know… Put 50+grams in a bowl and then pour in boiling water until the couscous is just covered. Cover with a plate and leave for five minutes
Enjoy 🙂


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Lucky draw schemes for Digital payments to begin tomorrow
New Delhi (GN News) —The government of India is going to start lucky draw schemes namely, Lucky customer and Digi-Dhan business plan with a view to promote digital payment culture in the country from tomorrow. Under these schemes, people will get the reward on digital payments on a daily basis.
The first draw of the Lucky Customer Scheme will be launched tomorrow and under this scheme, consumers will get a cashback of Rs.1000 to 15,000 every day for the next 100 days. The lucky draw winners for the Lucky Customer Scheme will be selected on a daily basis, while the winners of Digi-Dhan business plan will be selected on weekly basis. A mega draw is scheduled to be held on 14th April 2017. After that, the lucky draw schemes shall be reviewed for further implementation. The draws are planned to take place in 100 different cities around the country.


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Pale Green Velvet Cushion Cover is one in a range of luxurious cushions and cushion covers that will add opulence and style to any room. Measurements: 45 x 45cm.
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The best part is finding things to fill it up with. Oh, the hutch isn't crooked, once again it's my photography! Kim also sent me those sweet little floral plates.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The All New Shabby Chic Hutch Dresser!
The best part is finding things to fill it up with. Oh, the hutch isn't crooked, once again it's my photography! Kim also sent me those sweet little floral plates.
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Better, much better!!ReplyDelete
Now is so beautiful...
So wonderful. I love the Cat Kidson book....so adorable. Love your work. Glad you had fun with it.ReplyDelete
Hugs~ Kim
I wish I had a magic wand as talented as yours! I love what you did with that hutch!ReplyDelete
That looks wonderful Mecedes!ReplyDelete
Cute plates!
Luv the basket, Im keen on baskets I must find a tutorial to make one or 2, and those little maps are soooo cute!
I'm sure your having a lovely time in the holidays!I really enjoyed having the children around for a few weeks... that was way back when!
It looks great!! I love the plates Kim gave you as well, and the shabby chic books... they look so real!!!ReplyDelete
Nice work with all of it :D
Great wandwork!ReplyDelete
Mercedes, I have the same stickers booklet by Cath Kidston in real. I bought it this summer ! I have to try and make it mini. BTW the hutch looks great.ReplyDelete
What a perfect job you have done with this Mercedes...it looks lovely, really lovely. My favorite part is the open draw with all the wonderful little items...very clever.ReplyDelete
Linda x
Mercedes,you did an amazing job on the makeover for the huch!ReplyDelete
I love the little window in the door and I love the the little things
you put in the drawers...excellent!
That way it looks so real!
I'm sorry to tell you that I did not received any mail from you,I'm afraid it is lost?
Beautiful and much better!!ReplyDelete
I love the box with the roses and the shabby shic books, wonderful!!
Love Sylvia
This is very nice !!!ReplyDelete
I see that you like to "play" with Photoshop too...
Your Shabby Chic books are great!
Lovely work,it looks so much better than in boring brown.What I like at most is the idea to broke out the doors and put in one door with etched glass.All my compliments.Hugs,JeannetteReplyDelete
oh wow it's wonderful!ReplyDelete
You're truly a magician :)
What a beautiful transformation! The hutch is perfect for your house now! I love all of the tiny things you've added. I also like the "glass" door at the top. It's all very pretty!ReplyDelete
Mercedes it's wonderful!!! I must say as always I see your works!!!ReplyDelete
You have really done magic to theReplyDelete
hutch, and I like the little
glass-door - a very good idea!
/Eva J
Oh Mercedes! It's beautiful!! Love those plates that she sent, so Girlie!!! And I like how you added handles to that little pink basket at the bottom!! So Shabby!!! :)ReplyDelete
You are so gifted! What an amazing transformation- I love, love, love the little glass door too!ReplyDelete
Lovely! I adore the drawer contents, it makes it look so real! You have a wonderful eye for transforming things!ReplyDelete
It look fantastic now!!.So real!ReplyDelete
It´s beautiful. PerfectReplyDelete
Is very nice Mercedes !!! Me encanta el resultado.ReplyDelete
Mecedes did you manage to have a look at those mini rosebuds atReplyDelete
Thought they might be what your looking for!
I love it! :)ReplyDelete
I love your shabby style! This little cupboard is a triumph :) Would you one day show how you do a make-over please?ReplyDelete
Oh yes please learning how to do a makeover would be fabulous!!!!ReplyDelete
I know a little about shabby Chic-ing but what do you use under the white paint
that is all I need to know really!
Welcome to my blog.Congratulations on your blog and your miniatures. I love the Cath Kidston books. I love going to the Cath Kidston's shops in England, a pity there is no shops in France.ReplyDelete
It is so nice to meet you! I LOVE your creations and find you very inspiring! Every thing you make is ADORABLE! Congratulations on your magazine feature too! I added your blog to my Blog Candy page. Please come visit me sometime!ReplyDelete
Would you grant the short term use of one of your shabby photos for the homepage of ShabbyChicMiniatures please? If you aren't willing, please delete this comment.ReplyDelete
I love your style!
Thankyou so much Mercedes!! Take a lookReplyDelete
His miniatures are perfect, beautiful! I loved all yourReplyDelete
work. Congratulations you are a great artist!
you're so pro at this. this reminds me to start paying attention to the detailsReplyDelete


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Cinemalphabet: Z is for Zapped!
Who doesn't love the irresistible pairing of perennial D-list faves Scott Baio and Willie Ames? If a tree falls in the forest and Scott Baio isn't around to hear it, does Willie Ames still have a career? Oh, the jokes about these two and their lack of any utterly redeemable cinematic qualities just write themselves.
Zapped! was a constant fixture on the premium cable circuit when I was growing up and it seemed I never managed to catch this stinker from the beginning. Nearly always catching it during the scene when Baio's character projectile vomits into the kitchen sink (I believe) and it is a visual, which used to give me nightmares. While the premise – teen boy gets special powers and then uses them for sexual tomfoolery – must have made this thing a hit with – well – teen boys, I'm pretty sure I don't need to scan any reviews to know they were probably scathing.
If the plot, the bad script, low production values weren't enough, the always stinky Heather Thomas (of The Fall Guy fame) is along for the ride as the resident hot babe.
And with that, the first round of Cinemalphabet comes to close! Stay tuned! I'll be starting another round of entries on December 1st. See you on the other side!
November 28, 2010 8:16 pm
Hahahaha wow, I'd forgotten about this movie. I vaguely remember watching it when I was in middle school or so, a time when my cousin was going through a weird Scott Baio phase after watching too much Happy Days. I used to get it confused with Real Genius, a superior but equally cheesy movie.
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Just when I thought our weather was about to take us into Spring, fierce winter decided to push in yet again. Oh, these temperatures are just not my thing!
Well, then let's play in the craft room! This past weekend it was carnaval in Brazil and it is a time when I miss my homeland. I saw a bit of the parades, but not much. Just enough to warm my heart. The floats and everything was beautiful and very creatively crafted. I picked at some subtle costume and liked the calmness of it in the midst of the excitement and decide that a card could come out of that. The sketch for this card was inspired by the Retro Sketch Challenge 153 and I was happy to create a card that is soft and gentle in a way. I am truly enjoying the new Perpetual Birthday calendar stamp set with its small images and used it in the background here. A bit of washi tape and some retired DSP and this card is ready to find it way to a lovely lady.
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I'm not good with pain, people. In fact, you *could* say that I am a total wimp. I have accepted this. I can't bend the three fingers and the pain is radiating up to my elbow (but I don't think anything is broken) and when my DH (good man) put the ointment and bandage on it, I almost passed out a second time (there were stars). The reddish-purple you see is not a trick of the light - those are broken blood vessels. And the throbbing? Oh, the throbbing...
How am I supposed to draft tomorrow at work? Typing is near-impossible at the moment (it has taken me almost 30 minutes to type this) and writing with a pen? No.
But, most importantly: how am I going to finish my Christmas knitting?
Oh. My. GOD. I just realized why this has happened. I could kick myself.
This morning, I was knitting and I said (out loud, because I am stupid and I momentarily forgot that the Universe was listening): "You know, I think I am totally going to finish this project in time to send it off for Christmas. Huh. I am awesome."
Pride cometh before the fall, my friends. Let my suffering serve as a valuable lesson to you. Never taunt the crafting fairies. They take no prisoners.


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- Liosis said...
Isn't it that if God is changable he is imperfect and therefore not pure being? I think it's from Plato and Plotinus.
- November 25, 2009
- Jeff said...
I'm trying to wrap my brain around presentism.
What is going on now is incredibly dependent on what has occurred before. (E.G. If I had never learned to read, I could not understand what you wrote and then respond to it.)
Doesn't this truth fly in the face of the claim that the present is the only reality?
- November 27, 2009
- Enigman said...
Sorry for the delay replying. Liosis, why would God be imperfect if changable? Being fickle would be an imperfection, but the God of Open Theism is regarded as ethically immutable and perfect. Plato was not bad for an ancient Greek, and his speculations were less crazy than those of David Lewis (famous modern American philosopher), but still, I wonder if there could be an actual reason.
Jeff, no it doesn't, but I've got to rush off again at the moment, so I'll post on that question shortly (it was pure fluke that I checked cyber space today:)
- December 04, 2009
- Enigman said...
Jeff, that dependency is actually something that supports Presentism. The main alternative to Presentism is a 4-dimensional spacetime as, not just a way of speaking (especially in physics) but an objectively real thing. On that view we are not ultimately 3-D objects changing, but a 4-D collection of 3-D bits, a 4-D tube of 3-D slices. Suppose a bit or slice was removed. The other bits would remain just as before. Of course, no such removal is possible, as it would require time and change. But it is possible to do that experiment in thought. The inner connection between things at different times seems to be lost on the 4-D view (for a development of that Humean intuition, see David Lewis).
But on Presentism there is this one ultimate thing, you, that is changing, or moving through time, so to speak. What you are depends on what you were because you are the same object. Presentism is not the denial that there was a way things were. It is the claim that those are the same things, which have changed. That is how we naturally see the world. Russell suggested that we might (logically) have all come into existence a second ago, with false memories. That is not Presentism, and it is only much of a possibility on the 4-D view.
The main argument for moving from our quotidian Presentism to a 4-D view of spacetime is Relativistic physics, but that argument is not as strong as it looks (cf. the argument from evidence for evolution to the non-existence of a creator, or from evidence for the brain's importance to the non-existence of a soul). Time is a confusing things to thing about. I've been thinking about it ever since I was a schoolboy with an interest in physics, some 30 years ago, and I'm only just beginning to think that there could be anything sensible to say about it. I'd say more about dependency and Presentism, but I'd like it to depend on what you think of the above, as it is a confusing subject.
- December 05, 2009
- enigMan said...
Incidentally this post on Alexander Pruss's Blog addresses a similar worry about Presentism.
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Recap | From Shanghai to Jalan Sultan by Kay Ngee Tan
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By Eddie Koh
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I had the pleasure of attending an immensely thought provoking talk delivered by a well known architect, Kay Ngee Tan. During the talk, he exposed the audience to a wide range of experiences, approaches and dilemmas that he encounters with regards to the designing of spaces around the world.
Citing numerous past projects, from the designing of local buildings such as the Singapore Management University (SMU) with its open atmosphere concept and the Breadtalk Headquarters which was shaped like a bread, he moved on to his overseas projects such as "Commune by the Great Wall", the Singapore Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo and the designing of the Kinokuniya main store in Sapporo. With the aid of ample preliminary sketches, photographs and beautifully rendered designs, Kay Ngee walked us through how ideas crystallize with passionate and thorough explanations.Through the different cases, Kay Ngee highlighted how he responded to the varied scenarios that stretched and tested the limits of thinking creatively while meeting the specific demands of each project. In other words, the audience was also presented with an insight into the architectural dilemma, of forming one's own perception and principles with regards to the fields of practice and the subsequent application of these beliefs upon the design of each new building.
I must admit, before the talk began, I was wondering about what possible relation between architecture and curating the nation could there be? But my doubts were soon challenged as Kay Ngee began to vividly illustrate the historical concerns that had been "built" into his buildings. Being a strong believer in how the history of a place should shape designs of buildings, he often made sure his buildings were able to connect to certain historical contexts the actual site held. The designing of SMU was one such example, where he recognized the historical significance the ground on which the University was to be built upon. He therefore attempted to structure the building in such a manner that it emphasized on negotiating the design of the University alongside the presence of other historically important buildings in the area, like the Singapore Art Museum and the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd. The Singapore Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo represented an effort to portray a certain historical narrative about Singapore to China. It was designed in such a way that served as a challenge to the convention of taken-for-granted perceptions of Singapore and its people. At the same time, it emphasized upon certain historical aspect that Singapore had taken upon itself with pride, like its identity as a "garden city".
One particular point he made that I found to be quite inspiring was his mention of designing buildings, especially within historical spaces, in such a manner that they would have some form of 'dialogue' with each other. This idea of a dialogue between buildings points to the concept of buildings as forms of historical narratives, at times complimenting and at times competing with each other, telling different stories and perspectives about different historical periods. That if one looked closely enough, it is possible to discern the historical memories and narratives that might had been composed into the designs of the buildings, contributing to the efforts by different scholars in the telling of a nation's history. Kay Ngee is also an accomplished writer, and I managed to find this link where he discusses his concept of Magnetic Fields of Cities. Click here


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I've seen a number of articles lately about the menace of viruses that spread over wireless phones, but most of the outbreaks I've read about have all been in Europe and Asia.
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Hampshire Family Photography, Cath, Frazer & Family, Mortimer
I love doing lifestyle family shoots and photographing Cath, Frazer and their fabulous kids reminded me why. Whilst they're playing it really lets their personalities shine through. There are no forced smiles here, well okay, maybe a couple:) and I got the impression the whole family enjoyed running around nearly as much as I did (Cath?).
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Last month, I was able to hook up with some china painting friends I hadn't seen in a long, long time. My sweet friend, Cathy, was in the area giving a seminar. She really likes the 1:12 scale dolls I've been making, so I popped over for a brief visit and took some of the dolls with me. Here's her merry crew:
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4,5,6...Living Dolls...Lost??
Last month, I was able to hook up with some china painting friends I hadn't seen in a long, long time. My sweet friend, Cathy, was in the area giving a seminar. She really likes the 1:12 scale dolls I've been making, so I popped over for a brief visit and took some of the dolls with me. Here's her merry crew:
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Way to go on getting part 11 stitched up! How nice that you were able to spend some time with your china painting friends! Enjoy your weekend, Kim!ReplyDelete
Oh no! I hope they are not lost at all.ReplyDelete
The post office is horrible- they might still get there. I mailed a check to someone and she didnt get it for a month and it was the next state over!China painting looks fun!ReplyDelete
Very nice Sal Kim. Now you have learned to count until 6 lolReplyDelete
one more to finish ;)
I took some license with those flowers too. Yours block looks great. Number 12 is just around the corner. So cool to finish a SAL.ReplyDelete
Yikes! I hope your RAKs arrive soon. That's so awful to think they might have been lost. I don't know if you're sending internationally, but it took me 20 days to get a parcel that normally takes a week, so fingers crossed they still get there. I hope you enjoyed your class!ReplyDelete
Well hello there! Lol sorry it's nice to see a photo of you 😊 and if I may say so... 60?? No!! You don't look that old at all!!!ReplyDelete
Ooooooos! I need to stitch that adorable ABC sal.... Hmmmmm
Oh no!! I hope your RAKs find there way, I dislike the waiting and see if they turn up part when I post something... Fingers crossed for you xx
Happy smiles 😊
I'm pretty sure you're a fibber. Yep...nobody who is turning 60 looks that good, so it must be a big fat fib. (just kidding) Really do hope your missing RAK's show up - if you happened to mail them to Canada, it could take weeks (and weeks....and weeks). Our postal system here is notoriously slow overall.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2016 at 7:54 PM
Hi Kim oh no i hope those 3 turn up ,lovely pic ,enjoy your weekend my friend :)ReplyDelete
Oh I hope your little RAKs reach the intended recipients!! Fingers crossed xReplyDelete
Always so nice to get together with friends . Hope the RAKs reach their homes soon .ReplyDelete
You can't trust the post today sometimes its quick and other times not , hugs.
You certainly don't look 60! Looking great Kim! I do hope your RAKs arrive, it's horrid waiting for things to arrive! Our post has been bad, but I think it's OK now?! But who knows......ReplyDelete
Barbara xx
It is so nice to meet friends after a long time and especially the ones who have interest in seeing our work :)ReplyDelete
Lovely progress! :DReplyDelete
Love the SAL progress :o)ReplyDelete
How wonderful to meet up with all those lovely talented people.. :o)


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March 11, 2013
2013 Eastern Oceanex Canadian Gymnastics ChampionshipBy paul — 23 Comments
It's that time of year again. I'm happy to announce that I will be the official photographer for the 2013 Oceanex Eastern Canadian Gymnastic Championship! I will have coverage of both Artistic and Tumbling and Trampoline. This year it is being held at the Newfoundland & Labrador Sports Centre. It has been a very long time since …read more →


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Saturday, September 07, 2013
back with a cricket...
17 comments:
- fionalawlor said...
Awww this is too cute!!! Your colouring is beautiful, such a fab card :)
Fiona L x
- 7 September 2013 at 07:56
- kbrandy4 said...
What and adorable image and card Mina, so glad you enjoyed yourself!
Hugs, Hazel xx
- 7 September 2013 at 09:01
- Claire said...
Glad you had a fab time - good to see you back. Love your card, such a sweet image and fab colouring. Hugs, Claire x
- 7 September 2013 at 15:35
- coops said...
its good to have you back mina, glad you had a nice time.:D
your card is gorgeous , i love the oriental papers and fab image :D
xx coops xx
- 7 September 2013 at 16:28
- Vicky said...
Gorgeous as always hun...and I hope you are having a wonderful weekend too...:o)
biggest of hugs Vicky xx
- 7 September 2013 at 18:29
- Mojca said...
waw it's really cute, love the image. lovely that you had a lovely time, hope to see some pictures. hugs! Mojca
- 7 September 2013 at 18:40
- Lorraine A said...
Gorgeous card Mina :-) the image and whole design is fab :-) glad you had a nice time and hope your Dad recovers OK :-D
thanks for joining us on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
Lols x x x
- 7 September 2013 at 21:04
- ValByDesign, Valerie said...
Hi Mina, That's a really sweet card! Thank you so much for joining us this week over at the Sister Act Card Challenge blog! ~Valerie
- 7 September 2013 at 21:26
- Sammy said...
Oh gorgeous! Love the colours! x
- 7 September 2013 at 22:02
- Skye said...
An adorable card. She is such a sweet image. The paper piecing is such a nice tie-in with the design paper
- 8 September 2013 at 00:37
- kanda said...
Aah this image is so sweet Mina. Love the design and the paper piecing xx
- 8 September 2013 at 11:30
- Debbie said...
Oh this is so darn cute Mina.Glad you've had a nice time away, shame about the journey home.Hope your scan went well.Big hugs Debbie x
- 8 September 2013 at 12:13
- Rebecca said...
Hi Mina I love your card and the colours are just gorgeous!
Love From Rebecca xx
- 8 September 2013 at 12:51
- mags said...
A gorgeous card Mina. Such a cute image. Glad you had a nice time away and had good weather. Hope you scan went okay.
- 8 September 2013 at 20:30
- Lisa Carroll said...
Such a sweet card! Love her paper pieced outfit! Thank you for playing along in our Animal Antics challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog. :)
- 10 September 2013 at 03:04
- Wendy Nicola Jackson said...
Mina, this card is gorgeous! Love the paper piecing and the papers you've used too. Love to bits this gorgeous image of Mo's, so so sweet. All really delish. Hugs, Wends xxx
- 10 September 2013 at 12:11
- Valou ALLARD said...
Beautiful card!thanks for playing with "Creative Corner Challenge". Good luck!
- 11 September 2013 at 19:14


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VALDANI THREAD: Super Quality, Astonishing Price
By Addy Harkavy
Many years ago, before I got my first Bernina, I thought that thread was thread. In the intervening years, Ive acquired some antique Singers (no Featherweights), a couple of Berninas, and a couple of Elnas, and I have tested, tested, and tested 100% cotton threads, which brings me to Valdani Threads, which Ive been playing with for the past several months.
The short version is that I am impressed, seriously impressed. These are truly the best threads I have seen for the price, and they hold their own against any 100% cotton threads at any price.
My criteria for thread are simple. I use a lot of it, so it needs to be economical, but cheap wont do it. It needs to be strong, must run well in a variety of machines (so I can use it on any machine I choose to work with), must leave very little lint (I am spoiled), and must be available on demand.
Valdani Threads met all these criteria and then some. Heres what my tests involved. Each thread was used for hand sewing or quilting and was run in the following machines: Singer 201, Singer 301, Bernina 1008, Bernina 1260, and the Elna Heirloom Edition model 6005 (a sister machine to the Elna Quilters Edition). I tested only the 3-ply 50-weight 100% cotton sewing thread, 35-weight 100% cotton quilting thread, and 35-weight hand-dyed 100% cotton variegated quilting thread. I did not test the CottonLook poly and the size 12 Pearl Cotton.
The thread: Valdani says these threads spun from 100% long-staple, mercerized cotton and are suitable for hand sewing and for use on home and commercial machines. Available in a stunning array of colors and variegations, these threads seem to glow. They invited me to get cozy with them. When I wound off a little of the 3-ply 50-weight sewing thread, it appeared thin, and I wondered about its strength. Some pulling and jerking convinced me that it was at least as strong as any thread on my rack. Its silky texture impressed me. The quilting thread was similarly silky and also seemed very strong.
Both types of thread wound easily on bobbins and ran smoothly in all of the sewing machines.
Hand sewing and quilting: The 50-weight sewing thread was a dream to use in hand piecing and applique. It was strong, and it neither tangled nor shredded at the needles eye. The 35-weight quilting thread was a pleasure to use. It didnt shred in my 11 between, and it pulled smoothly through cotton top, back, and 100% cotton batt.
Machine sewing: Heres where both of these threads really shine! Not only did they run smoothly in my machines, they left very little lint. The 50-weight performed beautifully in straight stitching, decorative stitching, and embroidery. Just for the heck of it, I tried the 35-weight quilting thread with embroidery stitches (using 50-weight in the bobbin), and I was favorably impressed with my results. The 35-weight thread performed well when I used it to machine quilt a sample sandwich that had an intricately pieced block on top (scrap that I sewed together for the purpose, lots of small pieces, lots of seams to quilt through), a 100% cotton midweight batt in the middle, and plain cotton on the back. For this application, I used 50-weight thread in the bobbin and the quilting thread on the top.
Machine tension: The Valdani threads ran superbly in the Singers without adjustment. Minor adjustments were required on the Berninas and the Elna, which had been set for the thread I customarily use.
Cost: This stuff is a bargain. Super quality at an unbeatable price. Heres the breakdown:The solid cotton 50-weight thread is available on 1625yd and 3260-yd spools at retail price of $5.40 and $11.00, respectively. The solid 35-weight quilting thread is sold on spools of 1083 yds and 2167 yds for $4.20 and $7.80, respectively. The variegated 35-weight thread is a super bargain on 542-yd, 1083-yd, and 2167-yd spools for $4.99, $7.40, and $11.50, respectively.
The bottom line: I think this line of thread is absolutely super and think that if youre looking for good thread, this stuff is worth a try.
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01 of 11
Pitchers for Tildy's Cabin With Paper Pieced Courthouse Steps Quilt Blocks
The term paper piecing is a bit confusing because paper piecing is just one of the methods used for foundation piecing in quilts. However, the word paper has become the name most quilters associate with the technique.
Flip and sew and sew and flip are two more descriptions you might hear when you read paper piecing patterns. Both describe the actions of sewing a foundation pieced block.
More About Paper/Foundation Piecing
- String piecing is a popular "freehand" foundation/paper piecing technique.
- Don't confuse the term paper piecing with English paper piecing -- that's a totally different construction method, where fabrics are folded around and basted to paper templates (hexagons are favorites). After basting, the shapes are hand sewn together along their edges (taking care to avoid the papers). Papers are removed before the project is completed.
Learn How to Paper Piece
Paper Piecing General Instructions
Paper Piecing Quick Tips
Pictures of String Pieced Quilts
Pictures of Log Cabin Quilts (many are paper pieced)
Paper Piecing Quilt Patterns
Pitchers for Tildy's Cabin is a wallhanging made from a combination of applique pitcher blocks and paper pieced Courthouse Steps quilt blocks; Courthouse Steps is a variation of the traditional Log Cabin quilt block design and a perfect candidate for paper piecing.Continue to 2 of 11 below.
02 of 11
Paper Pieced Miniature Quilt Pattern, Little Oddfellows Star
Paper Pieced Oddfellows Star Quilt
Little Oddfellows Star is a paper pieced miniature quilt. If that's a new technique for you, definitely read my Foundation Piecings Basics and Paper Piecing Tips before you begin. And it wouldn't hurt to make a practice log cabin block just to get a feel for the technique.
Foundation piecing isn't difficult, but it's different. Once you understand how to do it, you can assemble any foundation pieced block with few (or no) instructions. Be sure to begin by cutting only enough fabric to make a block or two, because everyone aligns patches differently when paper piecing. My suggestions are generous, but test them out before you dive in and cut tons of fabric.Continue to 3 of 11 below.
03 of 11
Miniature Whirlwinds Paper Pieced Quilt Pattern
Paper Piecing Quilt Patterns
This little paper pieced miniature quilt is made from sixteen 3" Whirlwind blocks and finishes at 21" square. The quilt blocks are quick and easy to make, but you might have to experiment a bit with patch placement because triangles can be a little challenging at first if the technique is new to you.
After you've made a couple of foundation pieced projects, you'll know instinctively how to make them all.Continue to 4 of 11 below.
04 of 11
Christmas Log Cabin Quilt Pattern
This 36-1/2" log cabin quilt is assembled with log cabin quilt blocks that are arranged in a barn raising layout. The design is slightly different than a traditional log cabin -- its red logs are taller than its green logs, and that helps make the horizontal "line" where colors meet appear to curve a bit, instead of moving in rigid stair-steps.
Alter the fabrics to create a quilt with an entirely different look.Continue to 5 of 11 below.
05 of 11
Log Cabin Christmas Tree Quilt Pattern
Paper Piecing Quilt Patterns
This little paper pieced Log Cabin Christmas Tree quilt measures about 22-1/2" square. The quilt's straight patches are easy to position and sew, and a narrow border surrounds the tree to give it the illusion of floating.
Decorate this tree for the holidays by adding buttons, ribbons, and charms to serve as ornaments. Make tiny Christmas stockings and tack them on (you can probably find a fabric with stocking images to help make that a breeze).Continue to 6 of 11 below.
06 of 11
Through the Windows, a Paper Pieced Quilt Pattern
Paper Piecing Quilt Patterns
Through the Windows was inspired by a carpet we saw at a hotel in Arizona. Black sashing and corner triangles (at the tops and bottoms of strippy vertical rows) blend with the outer border, helping the quilt resemble a three-paned stained glass window. Blocks finish at 6" square and the completed quilt measures about 37-1/2" x 42".
Take a look at two quilts made from the pattern: Butterflies and Stained Glass Quilt, and Kay Ahr's Arizona Quilt.Continue to 7 of 11 below.
07 of 11
Paper Pieced Pineapple Quilt Pattern
This pineapple quilt is made from thirty-five 9" square paper pieced pineapple quilt blocks. Two color layouts are used in the quilt, but you have the option of either sewing identical blocks for a more traditional look or going completely scrappy with a huge mixture of colors.Continue to 8 of 11 below.
08 of 11
String Pieced Table Runner
String Pieced Table Runner
This brightly colored table runner is from a Quilting Book that was published several years ago. It's an example of one simple way to combine string pieced quilt blocks. We used an assortment of fabrics to create the string blocks for this table runner and finished its edges with a lively border print (plus string pieced blocks at the corners).
Refer to the String Piecing General Instructions if you'd like to make a string quilt.Continue to 9 of 11 below.
09 of 11
It's Easy to Make a String Quilt
Learn How to Make a String Quilt
String piecing is a freeform type of foundation piecing. The technique gets its name from the long strips of fabric that are used -- the strings, which are sewn randomly to a permanent foundation that's typically cut from muslin (but other materials can be used).Continue to 10 of 11 below.
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Civil War Inspired String Pieced Quilt Block Pattern
This example of a string pieced quilt block was inspired by a quilt sewn in North Carolina during the Civil War era. The steps required to make the block vary just a bit from traditional string quilting, but are still very easy to accomplish.
Take a look at the quilt block pattern -- We're sure you'll see many ways to vary the block to create a unique quilt.Continue to 11 of 11 below.
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Paper Pieced 6" Log Cabin Quilt Block Pattern
Paper Piecing Quilt Patterns
Traditional log cabin blocks are assembled with a split color value arrangement, lights on one side and darks on the other. Choose a scrappy assortment of light fabrics and another assortment of darks to make this paper pieced log cabin block. This block finishes at 6-inches square.