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Monday 18th May until Sunday 24th May is National Vegetarian Week. The week is designed to advocate the many benefits of vegetarianism. To support our college's commitment to ethical, sustainable and environmentally-friendly living there will be vegetarian additions to the buttery menu for everyday this week! That means veggie options at breakfast and an additional veggie option at lunch and dinner. There will also be collections for the Vegetarian Society (www.vegsoc.org) and information available for anyone who is thinking of going veggie. 

Think green. Think veggie! 

As of this week the buttery will run from 7.45am to 9.30am.

Thats early enough to start a keen day of lectures or revision AND late enough to get back from the boathouse and still make breakfast.

Either for a full english, (any 4 for £1.30 or any 8 for £2.30), or just for a good coffee and danish, come enjoy breakfast and start your day off well. 

Tickets for the Queens' College Medical Society Garden Party on Monday 15th June, 4.15-6pm, Erasmus Lawn, will be available from Wednesday 13th May.

Tickets cost £6...if any are available on the day, they will cost £7. Cheques, made payable to 'Queens' College Medical Society' and with your name and email address on the back, should be posted in Kate Richards' pigeon-hole. 

Thursday 4.30-5.30 QJCR Welfare Tea Free tea, coffee and cake. Take some time out to chill! As always, a member of the welfare committee will also be around if there's anything you want to talk about. This week's hosts are Charlotte Benton, Women's Officer and Emil Hewage, JCR President.

Dates: From 1st July (flexible)

Duration: 10 weeks

The Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics are looking for two summer students to help develop a set of web services that will allow researchers and the wider community to easily find and create data sets with open licenses. This project will extend the capabilities of the open data registry CKAN (www.ckan.net/), which links to open data packages ranging from crystallographic structures to Shakespeare's works. It will involve working closely with software developers to test the applications, finding and opening data sets to add content to the system and directing the project priorities. No coding skills are necessary.

 Application for project funding is currently pending, if successful it will provide payment of £200 per week. Please contact Jenny Molloy (jcm80) on behalf of the team led by Prof Peter Murray-Rust and Dr Rufus Pollock for more details and to register your interest.

The Open Knowledge Foundation (www.okfn.org/) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes knowledge that can be freely used, reused and redistributed, be it Shakespeare's sonnets, chemical crystal structures or Bulgarian budget data. We run many working groups and projects which rely on volunteers with a wide range of skills and varying levels of available time, so there is sure to be something of interest! Current projects requiring volunteers include:

* Open Shakespeare (www.openshakespeare.org/): We need volunteers to proof edit and format texts, or even to create an original book cover design for downloadable versions of the plays.

 * Open Text Book (www.opentextbook.org/): We need the assistance of a part-time editor to curate andextend our current listing and blog about new finds.

 * Open Economics "Where Does My Money Go" (www.openeconomics.net/wdmmg/): developer and researcher needed to develop prize-winning "Where Does My Money Go" project proposal which aims to track and chart UK government expenditure.

Huge room to rent in London with double bed, desk, fitted wardrobes, wifi connection etc. 10 minutes walk from Ealing Common and Ealing Broadway tube stations (District, Central and Piccadilly lines). In a lovely flat with 3 other ex-Cambridge students. Flat has bathroom, toilet, kitchen and huge living room

125 pounds/week, including bills

Room available from 5 July onwards, preferably for a minimum stay of 2 weeks (maximum stay 14 months)

Contact: Lottie Davey, (Cambridge Graduate) lottie.davey@gmail.com or 07890 375 874)

We are looking for paid volunteers to participate in a study about decision-making and attention. Participation involves completing several simple tasks and questionnaires. The study will take place on the Downing Site, and you will be reimbursed a minimum of £15 for your participation. You must be physically healthy and aged 18-35. 

If you are interested in participating or would like to know more about the experiment, please contact Laura Haynes (lch35@cam.ac.uk), Department of Psychology, Tel. 07974258214.

"The Age of Stupid" will be screening in CU Engineering Dept LT0 at 7.30pm on Fri 22 May 2009. 

See www..eng.cam.ac.uk/~hemh/climate/notstupid.htm

Please come along, bring your friends and ask them to bring their friends.

"Every single person in the country should be forcibly made to watch this film".  Ken Livingstone, former Mayor of London

Cambridge University Engineering Society (CUES)

www.cues.org.uk

For a relaxing evening, come watch the blues cricketers play Oxford after the first day of bumps. The Varsity Twenty20 is on 10th June at Fenners Cricket Ground. Starting time around 7pm (still to be confirmed) and finished by sunset!

See Philip Ashton (X10) for tickets. (£2.50 in advance or £5.00 on the day)

Founded by three Cambridge entrepreneurs, LUX Lifestyle aims to make the most of Cambridge lifestyle and bring Cambridge into the spotlight for its incredibly dynamic social vista.

The LUX Launch Night is on Thursday 11th June, hosted simultaneously at both LA RAZA and TA BOUCHE, featuring Top DJs from MINISTRY OF SOUND, PACHA LONDON and KISS FM. The party is split between these two venues with fantastic DJs at each, along with premium service all night long and a complimentary champagne and LUX cocktails at the start of the night.

Tickets start at £12 and are only available by online registration, via a process similar to MAY BALL applications, whereby tickets will be allocated after application, after which you will be notified to arrange payment and ticket delivery.

Please visit our website to find out more about LUX lifestyle, book your tickets, reserve a LUX Card. Deadline for registration to get your Launch Night tickets and LUX Cards is SUNDAY 24TH MAY.

Register now at - luxlifestyle.co.uk/ -Join the Facebook Group to connect with hundreds of others who have already become part of LUX.

An evening not to be missed!

Wed 20th May 2009, 20:00, West Road Concert Hall

Overture to 'Candide' - Bernstein

Rhapsody in Blue - Gershwin

East Coast Pictures - Nigel Hess

Cambridge University Wind Orchestra

Simon Thomas Jacobs conductor

Richard Uttley piano

Tickets: £10/£8/£5 from www.cums.org.uk or Maggie Heywood (01223 365110)

CALLING ALL CHEMICAL ENGINEERS

Come along to the BP and CUCES Annual BBQ

1pm - 4pm on the 15th June @ Churchill Chapel Grounds

Burgers & Sausages! Vegetarian and halal options will be available. Beer & Cocktails! Jelly & Ice-cream! Iced Tea & Smoothie! Frisbee & more!

If you are a current first year NatSci or Engineer coming into Chemical Engineering next year, and would like to get a taste for the department, we would love to welcome you along to the event. Please email as850@cam.ac.uk to book your ticket for just £5.

If you are a current Chemical Engineer please sign up below:

www.srcf.ucam.org/cuces/current/signup/signupv.php?id=78 and send cheque made out to 'CUCES' to the pigeon hole (DEADLINE: 1ST JUNE)

Prices: Chem Eng'ers - £5 (advance) or £7 (on door), Friends/Guests - £7

Congratulations to Gina Murgatroyd who knew that the doctor's surgery nearest to Queens' is called Trumpington Street Surgery. 

This week...until what date does the Quiet Period last?

A sweet reward will be given to whoever answers correctly first.

Old Library Book Spines by Thomas George