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  1. Byrne, Joseph P & Fazio, Giorgio & Fiess, Norbert, 2010. "Optimism and commitment: An elementary theory of bargaining and war," SIRE Discussion Papers 2010-102, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE).
  2. Laura Mayoral, 2009. "Heterogeneous dynamics, aggregation and the persistence of economic shocks," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 786.09, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
  3. Tillmann, Peter & Wolters, Maik Hendrik, 2012. "The changing dynamics of US inflation persistence: A quantile regression approach," IMFS Working Paper Series 60, Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS).
  4. Gadzinski, Gregory & Orlandi, Fabrice, 2004. "Inflation persistence in the European Union, the euro area, and the United States," Working Paper Series 0414, European Central Bank.
  5. James Yetman, 2009. "Hong Kong Consumer Prices are Flexible," Working Papers 052009, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.
  6. Ian Babetskii & Fabrizio Coricelli & Roman Horvath, 2009. "Assessing Inflation Persistence: Micro Evidence on an Inflation Targeting Economy," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-00643340, HAL.
  7. Choi, Chi-Young & Matsubara, Kiyoshi, 2007. "Heterogeneity in the persistence of relative prices: What do the Japanese cities tell us?," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 21(2), pages 260-286, June.
  8. Frédérick Demers & Annie De Champlain, 2005. "Forecasting Core Inflation in Canada: Should We Forecast the Aggregate or the Components?," Staff Working Papers 05-44, Bank of Canada.
  9. Ian Babetskii & Fabrizio Coricelli & Roman Horvath, 2007. "Measuring and Explaining Inflation Persistence: Disaggregate Evidence on the Czech Republic," Working Papers 2007/1, Czech National Bank, Research Department.
  10. Dixon, Huw & Kara, Engin, 2006. "Understanding inflation persistence: a comparison of different models," Working Paper Series 0672, European Central Bank.
  11. Pankaj Kumar, 2015. "Can Univariate Time Series Models of Inflation Help Discriminate Between Alternative Sources of Inflation PersistenceAuthor-Name: Naveen Srinivasan," Working Papers 2015-104, Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India.
  12. Steven Cook, 2009. "A re-examination of the stationarity of inflation," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(6), pages 1047-1053.
  13. Andrade, Philippe & Zachariadis, Marios, 2016. "Global versus local shocks in micro price dynamics," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 78-92.
  14. Guglielmo Maria, Caporale & Alexandros , Kontonikas, 2007. "The Euro and Inflation Uncertainty in the European Monetary Union," CELPE Discussion Papers 101, CELPE - Centre of Labour Economics and Economic Policy, University of Salerno, Italy.
  15. BOUAKEZ, Hafedh & CARDIA, Emanuela & RUGE-MURCIA, Francisco J., 2009. "Sectoral Price Rigidity and Aggregate Dynamics," Cahiers de recherche 2009-01, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques.
  16. Rangan Gupta & Charl Jooste & Omid Ranjbar, 2015. "The Changing Dynamics of South Africa's Inflation Persistence: Evidence from a Quantile Regression Framework," Working Papers 201563, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
  17. Boivin, Jean & Giannoni, Marc P. & Mihov, Ilian, 2006. "Sticky prices and monetary policy: Evidence from disaggregated US data," CFS Working Paper Series 2007/14, Center for Financial Studies (CFS).
  18. Richard S. J. Tol & Francisco Estrada & Carlos Gay-García, 2012. "The persistence of shocks in GDP and the estimation of the potential economic costs of climate change," Working Paper Series 4312, Department of Economics, University of Sussex.
  19. Caglayan, Mustafa & Filiztekin, Alpay, 2015. "Price dynamics and market segmentation," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 134(C), pages 94-97.
  20. Troy A. Davig & Taeyoung Doh, 2008. "Monetary policy regime shifts and inflation persistence," Research Working Paper RWP 08-16, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
  21. Fröhling, Annette & Lommatzsch, Kirsten, 2011. "Output sensitivity of inflation in the euro area: Indirect evidence from disaggregated consumer prices," Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies 2011,25, Deutsche Bundesbank, Research Centre.
  22. Espasa, Antoni & Carlomagno, Guillermo, 2015. "Forecasting a large set of disaggregates with common trends and outliers," DES - Working Papers. Statistics and Econometrics. WS ws1518, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Estadística.
  23. Roy Cerqueti & Mauro Costantini & Luciano Gutierrez, 2009. "New panel tests to assess inflation persistence," Working Papers 54-2009, Macerata University, Department of Finance and Economic Sciences, revised Oct 2009.
  24. Binder, Carola Conces, 2016. "Estimation of historical inflation expectations," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 1-31.
  25. Sofiane H. Sekioua, 2004. "Real interest parity (RIP) over the 20th century: New evidence based on confidence intervals for the dominant root and half-lives of shocks," Money Macro and Finance (MMF) Research Group Conference 2004 91, Money Macro and Finance Research Group.
  26. Kim, Dukpa, 2011. "Estimating a common deterministic time trend break in large panels with cross sectional dependence," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 164(2), pages 310-330, October.
  27. Hubrich, Kirstin & Marcellino, Massimiliano & Beck, Günter W., 2011. "On the importance of sectoral and regional shocks for price-setting," Working Paper Series 1334, European Central Bank.
  28. Chong, Terence Tai Leung & Zhu, Tingting & Rafiq, M.S., 2013. "Are Prices Sticky in Large Developing Economies? An Empirical Comparison of China and India," MPRA Paper 60985, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  29. Joseph P. Byrne & Giorgio Fazio & Norbert Fiess, 2010. "Primary commodity prices: co-movements, common factors and fundamentals," Working Papers 2010_27, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
  30. Nicholas Apergis, 2013. "The Stylized Facts of Greek Inflation: New Evidence on Persistence," Panoeconomicus, Savez ekonomista Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia, vol. 60(1), pages 51-71, March.
  31. Joseph P. Byrne & Alexandros Kontonikas & Alberto Montagnoli, 2010. "International evidence on the new Keynesian Phillips Curve using aggregate and disaggregate data," Working Papers 2010_18, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
  32. Blazej Mazur, 2015. "Density forecasts based on disaggregate data: nowcasting Polish inflation," Dynamic Econometric Models, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, vol. 15, pages 71-87.
  33. Espasa, Antoni & Carlomagno, Guillermo, 2014. "The pairwise approach to model a large set of disaggregates with common trends," DES - Working Papers. Statistics and Econometrics. WS ws141309, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Estadística.
  34. Francesco Ravazzolo & Shaun P. Vahey, 2010. "Forecast densities for economic aggregates from disaggregate ensembles," Working Paper 2010/02, Norges Bank.
  35. Logan Rangasamy, 2009. "Inflation Persistence And Core Inflation: The Case Of South Africa," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 77(3), pages 430-444, 09.
  36. Givens, Gregory & Reed, Robert, 2015. "Monetary Policy and Investment Dynamics: Evidence from Disaggregate Data," MPRA Paper 61495, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  37. Jari Hännikäinen, 2016. "When does the yield curve contain predictive power? Evidence from a data-rich environment," Working Papers 1603, University of Tampere, School of Management, Economics.
  38. Filippo Altissimo & Benoît Mojon & Paolo Zaffaroni, 2007. "Fast micro and slow macro: can aggregation explain the persistence of inflation?," Working Paper Series WP-07-02, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  39. O'Reilly, Gerard & Whelan, Karl, 2005. "Testing Parameter Stability: A Wild Bootstrap Approach," Research Technical Papers 8/RT/05, Central Bank of Ireland.
  40. Crucini, Mario J. & Shintani, Mototsugu & Tsuruga, Takayuki, 2010. "Accounting for persistence and volatility of good-level real exchange rates: The role of sticky information," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 81(1), pages 48-60, May.
  41. Rafal Raciborski, 2008. "Searching for additional sources of inflation persistence : the micro-price panel data approach," Working Paper Research 132, National Bank of Belgium.
  42. Kushal Banik Chowdhury & Nityananda Sarkar, 2015. "The Effect of Inflation on Inflation Uncertainty in the G7 Countries: A Double Threshold GARCH Model," International Econometric Review (IER), Econometric Research Association, vol. 7(1), pages 34-50, April.
  43. Logan Rangasamy, 2010. "Food inflation in South Africa: Some implications for economic policy," Working Papers 197, Economic Research Southern Africa.
  44. Baumeister, Christiane & Liu, Philip & Mumtaz, Haroon, 2013. "Changes in the effects of monetary policy on disaggregate price dynamics," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 37(3), pages 543-560.
  45. Christian Bauer & Sebastian Weber, 2016. "The Efficiency of Monetary Policy when Guiding Inflation Expectations," Research Papers in Economics 2016-14, University of Trier, Department of Economics.
  46. Espasa, Antoni & Carlomagno, Guillermo, 2016. "Discovering common trends in a large set of disaggregates: statistical procedures and their properties," DES - Working Papers. Statistics and Econometrics. WS ws1519, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Estadística.
  47. Patrick Lünnemann & Thomas Y. Mathä, 2010. "Rigidities and inflation persistence of services and regulated prices," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(2-3), pages 193-208.
  48. Huw Dixon & Engin Kara, 2010. "Can We Explain Inflation Persistence in a Way that Is Consistent with the Microevidence on Nominal Rigidity?," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 42(1), pages 151-170, 02.
  49. Simone Elmer & Thomas Maag, 2009. "The Persistence of Inflation in Switzerland: Evidence from Disaggregate Data," KOF Working papers 09-235, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich.
  50. Todd E. Clark, 2003. "Disaggregate evidence on the persistence of consumer price inflation," Research Working Paper RWP 03-11, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
  51. Espasa, Antoni & Tena, Juan de Dios & Pino, Gabriel, 2013. "Forecasting disaggregates by sectors and regions : the case of inflation in the euro area and Spain," DES - Working Papers. Statistics and Econometrics. WS ws130807, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Estadística.
  52. Hännikäinen, Jari, 2016. "When does the yield curve contain predictive power? Evidence from a data-rich environment," MPRA Paper 70489, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  53. Tomás Castagnino & Laura D’Amato, 2008. "Regime and Underlying Inflation Dynamics: ¿Generalized Comovement or Relative Price Adjustment?," Ensayos Económicos, Central Bank of Argentina, Economic Research Department, vol. 1(52), pages 87-120, October -.
  54. Choi, Chi-Young & O'Sullivan, Róisín, 2013. "Heterogeneous response of disaggregate inflation to monetary policy regime change: The role of price stickiness," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 37(9), pages 1814-1832.
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Technology Advances in Agricultural Production, Water and Nutrient Management

Technology Advances in Agricultural Production,
Water and Nutrient Management

Join Us in the United States | August 21 – September 1, 2017 | Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.

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About the Training

By 2050, the global population is projected to be nine billion, resulting in a near-doubling of global food and fiber demand. Doubling food and fiber production and sustaining the production at that level are major challenges, but doing so in ways that do not compromise environmental integrity and public health present even greater challenges. Intensification of agriculture through the use of high-yielding crop varieties, fertilization, irrigation and crop protection remain the most likely options to combat these challenges. In the past, the emphasis was on improving potential yield; but today, there is increased emphasis on improving the nutritional value of foods (e.g., protein content in grain, essential amino acids, content of other minerals, etc.), reducing post-harvest losses, improving stress tolerance and/or reducing reliance on chemical crop protection products (CPPs).

Recently, there have been enormous advances in agricultural production, not only improving productivity, but just as importantly, safeguarding the environment. Several systems-research tools relating to information technology have become available for fertilizer management. With the introduction of geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning systems (GPS) and remote sensing (RS), farmers can now refine nutrient recommendation and water management models to the site-specific conditions of each field.

Substantial variations in soil properties and nutrient and water availability exist across most fields. Thus, the ability to apply site-specific nutrient and irrigation management to match spatially and temporally variable conditions can increase application efficiencies, reduce environmental impacts, while improving yields. Precision farming technologies have now been developed to spatially vary nutrients and water prescriptions within a field based on various information sources (soil properties maps, terrain attributes, remote sensing, yield maps, etc.). Precision agriculture involves the integration of the new technologies (including GIS, GPS and RS) to allow farm producers to manage within field variability to maximize the benefit-cost ratio. Variable rate technology (VRT) available with farm implements, such as fertilizer or CPP applicators and yield monitors, has evolved rapidly and has fostered the growth of precision agriculture. For example, in the Midwestern United States, chlorophyll meters, a recent development in agriculture, are used for corrective nitrogen (N) management where N fertilizers are applied based only on crop needs to ensure increases in fertilizer use efficiency and return on fertilizer investment.

In-season prediction of crop yield potential using models is becoming available for cereals. This technique offers possibilities for real-time nutrient and water management in prescriptive and/or corrective concepts. The models are based on a quantitative understanding of underlying processes and integrate the effects of soil, weather, crop, pests and management factors on growth and yield.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, nearly 40 percent of the world’s food is produced by irrigated agriculture, which covers about 250 million hectares (corresponding to 17 percent of total arable land) and is the major user of fresh water, accounting for 70 percent (on average, and up to 90 percent in many countries) of worldwide water taken up for human use. Since high-quality irrigation water is becoming increasingly scarce, it is becoming more important to use available water efficiently. One approach being adopted to overcome this constraint is the use of soil moisture sensors to control irrigation. Soil moisture sensors can detect when the substrate water content drops below a grower-defined set point and can be used to automatically turn on the irrigation when needed.

These emerging technologies are ushering in a new era that will affect farmers’ day-to-day operations and improve their ability to compete in the global market. These innovations will also contribute to increased agricultural productivity and transformation of agribusiness infrastructure. Many of these advanced technologies, as well as the concepts and approaches in strategic farming in the U.S., are directly applicable to agricultural production in developing and developed country environments. Therefore, the study tour will provide participants with a unique opportunity to develop their professional skills and at the same time build collaborations.

IFDC is uniquely positioned to stay abreast of the latest technologies related to soil fertility and water management and how they can be applied to developing and developed country agriculture. IFDC has well-established relationships with essentially all public and private sector organizations that impact agricultural production in the U.S. This study tour will allow participants to visit some of these organizations including, but not limited to: farmer cooperatives; the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Monsanto; The Fertilizer Institute; research and education centers of major agricultural colleges and universities; and many large- and small-scale farmers. Interactions with these entities will provide the participants with an opportunity to see how farmers, agribusinesses and policymakers are adjusting to today’s agriculture challenges in ways that ensure agriculture in the United States remains competitive on a global scale. While in the Midwestern U.S., participants will be offered the unique opportunity to visit the Farm Progress Show, which is the largest outdoor farm show in U.S. agriculture and features the most extensive state-of-the-art farm equipment and information and technology available for today’s agricultural producers.

This workshop is designed for innovative farmers, agronomists, soil scientists, researchers and extensionists from national and international agricultural research institutes and universities, as well as policymakers from governments and ministries in charge of agricultural productivity and planning. Executives and managers of fertilizer and agricultural input organizations will find this program extremely interesting. Government officials involved in developing strategies for increased agricultural production through the use of emerging technologies that promote resource conservation and increased efficiencies should also benefit from the program. Participants should be fluent in English.

The objectives of the 10-day training program and study tour are to:

  • Improve participants’ knowledge and understanding of recent technological advances in the areas of biotechnology, sensor-based irrigation, information management, precision agriculture and remote sensing technologies.
  • Familiarize the participants with the farm-level impact of each of these advances on water and nutrient management under changing climatic conditions.
  • Provide an opportunity for participants from many countries and backgrounds to observe and discuss the practicality and economics of integrating these innovations into the mainstream of major crops.
  • Expose participants to trends and challenges in the agricultural global market and show how farmers, agribusinesses and policymakers are adjusting to them by using state-of-the-art information and technology available for today’s agriculture production.

Faculty for this training program and study tour will include IFDC specialists with more than 25 years of soil science experience with a focus on improving nutrient use efficiency and facilitating the transfer of innovative agro-technologies. Other faculty participating in this training will include farmers, extension agents, public sector researchers, entrepreneurs and other representatives of the private sector involved in using, supplying or developing the technologies.

Training Program Content and Features

The program will cover various topics including, but not limited to:

  • Overview of U.S. agricultural production and fertilization.
  • Economic benefits of integrating agricultural technology advances in U.S. agriculture.
  • Fertilizer and nutrient use efficiency in agricultural production.
  • Nutrient management using precision agriculture and remote sensing technologies.
  • Overview of advances in water management in agricultural production, e.g., sensor-based irrigation management.
  • Precision agriculture involving nutrient and water spatial and temporal variability management.
  • Precision agricultural systems farm-level impacts (real and/or potential) from national policies and international agreements on trade and the environment (e.g., biofuel production and its impacts on commodity prices, reserve stocks and national fiscal, environmental and energy policies).
  • Information management and agricultural extension services: Smart phone applications and advisory services (crop management, fertilizer use, irrigation schedules, weather and pest control).
  • Strategic planning and risk management in times of uncertainty.
  • Biotechnology and advances for crop improvement.
  • Managing natural resources and environment under changing climatic conditions.
  • Advances in sustainable, environmentally-safe use of CPPs and bio-engineered agriculture.
  • U.S. Government policies and regulations on fertilizer and crop protection.

Training Program Features

The program offers exceptional highlights and features including, but not limited to:

  • International faculty from IFDC, leading U.S. agricultural producers and other international experts.
  • Diverse and participatory activities based on training activities, key lectures and films.
  • Written training materials for permanent reference.
  • Eight-and-a-half (8½) days of field visits to observe recent advances in irrigation and nutrient management, biotechnology, precision agriculture, etc., and one-and-a-half (1½) days of classroom-style presentations and discussion opportunities.
  • The discussions and interactions will generate considerable information which will help prepare participants to improve their abilities to compete in the global market and assist farmers in their day-to-day operations.

Travel & Fees

The program will begin Monday morning, August 21, 2017, at IFDC headquarters in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Thus, participants are expected to arrive on Sunday, August 20, 2017. After two days in Alabama, participants will travel as a group via bus to Tennessee, Arkansas and finally to St Louis, Missouri. Participants will travel as a group via plane from St. Louis to Washington, D.C., where the program will conclude on Friday, September 1, at approximately 5:00 p.m. While the training will officially end Friday evening, an optional half-day bus tour of Washington, D.C., will take place on Saturday, September 2, provided that we have enough participation. Participants should return to their home country from Washington, D.C. It is up to the participants to select their departure date, bearing in mind that the negotiated room rate in D.C. may not be available for extended stays past September 2.

Further details about flight booking and lodging will be provided later.

To be determined

APPLICATIONS FOR NECESSARY VISAS SHOULD BE MADE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE. A visa is required for entry into the United States. Each participant must obtain a visa from the Embassy or Consulate of the United States in their country of residence. Participants should fulfill all required immunizations and health formalities before departing their country of residence. Medical insurance should be obtained by participants. The program fee does not cover any medical insurance or expenses.

Enrollment & Fees

program registration

The program fee for this training course is US $2,500 per participant (inclusive of a US $250 non-refundable deposit) and should reach IFDC no later than July 21, 2017, four (4) weeks before the program is scheduled. Those received thereafter will be accepted at IFDC’s discretion and incur a late fee. Participants will be given the opportunity to take advantage of an early bird rate if registration and payment is received by IFDC prior to June 21, 2017. Please refer to the table for pricing.

The program fee, less the non-refundable deposit, will be refunded for cancellations made two (2) weeks before the commencement of the program. Ninety percent of the paid fee will be returned and 10 percent, in addition to the deposit, will be charged to cover administrative costs for cancellations made between two (2) weeks and one (1) week before the commencement of the program. Cancellations made less than one (1) week before the commencement of the program will receive no refund.

Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Paid participants will receive priority. An organization wishing to enroll more than one participant should supply information and payment for each participant.

Payment of the program fee can be made by: (1) check or draft payable to IFDC; (2) wire transfer to IFDC’s account in the U.S.A. through First Metro Bank, 406 West Avalon Avenue, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S.A., ABA number 062203955 for credit to IFDC account number 55281; or (3) major credit card – MasterCard, Visa or American Express.

The program fee covers registration, training and reference material, coffee/tea breaks, all lunches and surface transportation on field trips. The fee does not include air travel, lodging and dinner expenses, or medical and communication expenses.

Payment of the program fee can be made by:

  • (1) check or draft payable to IFDC;
  • (2) wire transfer to IFDC’s account in the U.S.A. through First Metro Bank, 406 West Avalon Avenue, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S.A., ABA number 062203955 for credit to IFDC account number 55281; or
  • (3) major credit card – MasterCard, Visa or American Express.

The program fee covers registration, training and reference material (including IFDC/UNIDO Fertilizer Manual), coffee/tea breaks, all lunches and surface transportation on field trips. The fee does not include air travel, lodging and dinner expenses or medical and communication expenses.

IFDC is a nonprofit, public international organization (PIO) dedicated to increasing agricultural productivity and food production through the development and use of plant nutrients in sustainable crop production systems. Headquartered in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, U.S.A., IFDC is involved in human resource development, research and technical assistance in collaboration with public, private, national and international organizations throughout the world. IFDC has conducted more than 700 formal workshops, study tours and training programs for over 11,000 participants from over 150 countries since 1974. The programs have covered a wide range of subjects including integrated soil fertility management and fertilizer use efficiency, fertilizer production technology, agro-input dealerships, competitive marketing, supply chain management, investment analysis, policy reforms and numerous specialized topics.

Training and Workshop Coordination Unit

P.O. Box 2040 Muscle Shoals, Alabama 35662, U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 (256) 381-6600
Telefax: +1 (256) 381-7408
As a nonprofit organization, IFDC does not finance or sponsor any participant.

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SCORP City Trip 2015

For the second time the SCORP City Trip (Standing Committee on Refugees and Peace) was organized on the 14th, 15th and 16th of October in Brussels, Belgium. Last year the SCORP City trip was set up for all the members of IFMSA-NL (International Federation for Medical Students’ Associations – The Netherlands). The purpose of this Trip was to encourage our volunteers to learn more about Human Rights, Refugees and the problems around the immigration of refugees and to learn more about the organisations who deal with these subjects.

A selected group of IFMSA-NL volunteers visited Brussels for three days. They visited the European Parliament and had discussions Dutch members of the European Parliament with a different political backgrounds. They had discussions about their visions on the large influx of refugees into European countries and about the possible solutions for the problems that are arising with these migrant flows. With another Dutch member of the European Parliament they discussed gender equality, the rights of women and the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender en Bisexuals in Europe in particular.

During these three days, the participants also visited a number of UN organisations. On October 15th we had a meeting with one of the employees of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), who taught us more about MDG8 and the Sustainable Development Goals. On Friday we visited the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), where we talked about the Palestine refugees in Syria en the current human development and humanitarian services for Palestine refugees provided by UNRWA. Lastly, we visited the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Europe and one of our partner organisations, Doctors of the World.


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Greenlit and Version 1.2 in the works!

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Time fly’s by so fast, it’s true. Though still it does feel a long time ago that I finally took the plunge and put iGrow Game on steam greenlight. Nearly half a year ago actually. Still, despite losing faith that iGrow Game would ever get greenlit. It actually happened!

So that’s fantastic news and of coarse it wouldn’t be right if I released it as is. When I decided to try for greenlight I released the very necessary 1.13 version with game breaking bug fixes. It fixes a lot of the problems I should have fixed for a long time ago. Unfortunately it was not to fix all bugs in the game. So I decided to make sure all these fixes (that I know about) were fixed.

Though that’s not all, another issue with former versions is it’s polish. Game development is incredibly difficult and I will admit, iGrow Game became a beast I never expected. Development became stuck for long periods and it did at some points look like iGrow Game may not have ever become playable. It was the main point of the game that became the un-finish able nightmare. The actual plant growing system that was essential to the game. Just before release I was unexpectedly let go from my job and I decided iGrow Game, being my most developed project, would have to get finished as I had more time while looking for another job. So I rewrote the system from scratch and finally finished it. From that point i spent only a few more weeks to finish everything else including the selling, drying and harvesting. Then I released it!

Which at that point I was so relieved I never wanted to look at it again let alone play it. Which is why it took a year or so for me to go back and tackle those game breaking bugs, which if I had played it properly at the time it would have been oblivious what they were. This rush though didn’t just leave bugs, it left an unpolished game. So without giving anything away… version 1.2 is in development and should hopefully make iGrow Game even better. Thanks for everyone’s support and fingers crossed I don’t have problems deploying on steam. I will be updating the demo this time too so everyone will be able to try 1.2 as it should be. I don’t want to say what might go into 1.2 as I don’t like to promise anything as at the moment I just don’t know.

Thank you for everyone who has brought iGrow Game and supported me as an indie developer. Don’t forget to check out some of the other game development I’ve done not relating to iGrow Game at including my android games or even try them out on my very own online HTML5 game arcade. If you want to contact me then drop me an email at or follow and message me on @iDev_Games and @HTML5arcade. Would also be great if you joined the forums and tell me what you really think.


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Lemon Feta Chicken with Oregano

24 Feb

this was a really good chicken dish!  quick to prepare and stick in the oven.   served it with roasted broccoli and couscous. YUM

Lemon Feta Chicken with Oregano
adapted from Skinnytaste.com

  • 2-3 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • kosher salt and fresh ground pepper
  • 2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp dried oregano
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 1/3 cup feta cheese, crumbled

Preheat oven to 375°. Season chicken with salt, pepper, garlic powder, oregano, and lemon juice.

Place in a roasting pan and bake for about 40 to 45 minutes, or until chicken reaches 165. When chicken is cooked through, remove from the oven and sprinkle with feta.

Broil on low for about 2-3 minutes, until cheese is golden brown (careful not to burn).

Roasted Eggplant with Spinach, Quinoa, and Feta

26 Dec

being not so huge fans of eggplant, but getting them in our veggie box – this actually came out really good! do not forget the feta!

Roasted Eggplant with Spinach, Quinoa, and Feta
adapted from juliasalbum

1 large eggplant, cut into 1 inch cubes
2 tablespoons olive oil
salt and pepper
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cloves garlic
5 to 10 ounces fresh spinach (to taste)
1 and 1/2 cups cooked quinoa
1/4 cup Feta cheese

Preheat oven to 420 F. Line a baking sheet with foil. Grease the sheet lightly with olive oil.
In a large bowl, mix cubed eggplant with 2 tablespoons olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Spread chopped eggplant over the lightly greased baking sheet. Roast for 20-25 minutes (or more, depends on your oven) until eggplant softens. Midway through roasting, take out the sheet and flip over eggplant cubes to the other side using spatula – that will help even out the roasting.
While eggplant is being roasted, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet, add spinach and 1 minced garlic clove and cook for a couple of minutes, constantly stirring, just until spinach wilts. Remove from heat.
Once eggplant is done, immediately remove it from the baking sheet into the same skillet with spinach, off heat. Immediately add quinoa and second clove of minced garlic. This will allow cooked eggplant to release some juices when mixed in with quinoa. Mix everything well, off heat, and season with more salt if needed. Don’t add too much salt or omit it altogether as you will be using Feta cheese too. Top with Feta cheese.

Focaccia pizza

20 Jul

One thing I really like about the new csa we joined is we get a “goody” most weeks. One of these “goodies” was focaccia dough from the breadsmith. This turned out really delicious! Fresh spinach was from the box too! I baked off the focaccia and sautéed the spinach. Then topped the focaccia with the spinach, tomatoes and feta cheese. Yum!

Prosciutto and Spinach Stuffed Pork Loin

29 Jan

This pork looked so pretty and delicious when it was done and served. I thought it would be delicious with feta, prosciutto, and spinach! We couldn’t really taste the feta so that was a waste of perfectly good feta and the prosciutto too. Oh well. This was good but not as good as expected. Served it with so e brown rice medley

Prosciutto and Spinach Stuffed Pork Loin
adapted from betsylife

1-10oz package frozen chopped spinach, thawed
2/3 cup feta cheese
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
3 T olive oil
salt and pepper
3lb pork loin, butterflied
4 oz thinly sliced prosciutto
3/4 cup low sodium chicken broth

Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Squeeze any excess moisture from the spinach. Combine spinach, feta, red pepper flakes, and 2 T of olive oil in a small bowl.
Lay the pork loin on a flat work surface. Generously season the inside with salt and pepper. Line with prosciutto and top with spinach mixture. Roll up the loin and tie with kitchen twine at 1/2 inch intervals.
Heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in a large, oven proof skillet. Add the loin and cook until browned on all sides, about 10 minutes.
Add chicken stock and scrape the pan to remove any browned bits. Transfer the skillet to the oven and roast for 40-45 minutes until the internal temperature reaches 145 degrees.
Remove from the oven and allow to rest, covered in foil, for 15 minutes before slicing

Quinoa With Tomato, Cucumbers, Feta, and Mint

10 Sep

Another recipe to use up fresh box veggies! Every week along with our veggies we get a packet of recipes to go along with the veggies for that week! This recipe was in the packet. Yum! This was delicious. The original called for Israeli couscous which I was out of so quinoa it was yum yum yum!!
Served this with some mini meatloafs. Forgot to add the cheddar in the meatloafs this time and didn’t even notice!

Quinoa With Tomato, Cucumbers, Feta, and Mint

Kosher salt
1 cup Quinoa
2 cups cucumber, peeled and finely diced
1 1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, cut in half
1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh mint
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 Tbs. fresh lemon juice; more as needed
1 tsp. finely grated lemon zest
Freshly ground black pepper
1 cup small-diced feta cheese

Cook quinoa according to directions.
Pour the quinoa into a large mixing bowl. Stir in the cucumber, tomatoes, and mint.
In a small bowl, mix the oil, lemon juice and zest, 3/4 tsp. salt, and 1/4 tsp. pepper. Stir in the feta. Add the feta mixture to the couscous, season to taste with salt, pepper, and lemon juice, and mix well. Transfer to a serving bowl.

Garden Farro Salad with Feta

21 Aug

Since we discovered farro a few weeks ago I’ve been looking for good recipes to use it! I had all the ingredients for this one. I ate it before it cooled all the way. I tried it later after it had cooled and it was definitely better cooled! I threw in some rotisserie chicken too!

Garden Farro Salad with Feta
adapted from aggieskitchen

1 cup farro, uncooked
2 lemons
1 seedless cucumber, quartered
6-8 radishes, sliced
2 oz feta
drizzle of olive oil
salt and pepper to taste

Cook farro according to directions. Drain and set aside in a large bowl to cool. Squeeze juice from one lemon over cooked farro while still warm.
Once farro has cooled, add cucumbers, radishes, feta, za’atar, salt and pepper and gently toss. Squeeze juice from second lemon and drizzle olive oil over prepared salad and toss a few times. Taste for seasoning and serve at room temperature or chilled.

Couscous with Swiss Chard, Raisins, chicken, and Feta

1 Jun

I’ve made this once before, and we really liked it. This time I threw in some shredded rotisserie chicken to make it a meal instead of a side! It was really filling this way! Yum! Do not forget the feta!!

Couscous with Swiss Chard, Raisins, chicken, and Feta
adapted from rachealraymag

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 1/4 cups israeli couscous
One 14-ounce can chicken broth
2/3 cup golden raisins
Salt and pepper
1 bunch swiss chard, stems and leaves chopped separately
One 15-ounce can chickpeas, rinsed
2 ounces crumbled feta cheese
1-2 cups shredded cooked chicken

In a saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Add half of the garlic and the couscous and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes. Add the chicken broth; bring to a boil. Cover, lower the heat and simmer until the broth has been absorbed, about 10 minutes. Stir in the raisins; season with salt.
Meanwhile, in a skillet, heat the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium heat. Add the remaining garlic and the swiss chard stems and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add the swiss chard leaves, chciken, chickpeas and 1/2 cup water, cover and cook, turning, until the chard is wilted, 2 to 3 minutes; season with salt and pepper. Serve on the couscous and top with the feta.

Roasted Tomato, Kale and Feta Pizza

1 Nov

hurricane sandy came and left a trail of destruction here. We were lucky. We lost power for 2.5 days… Others weren’t so lucky. The jersey shore I grew up with is no longer 😦

I made this well before the storm just didn’t have time to post it. We got some kale in the csa and I had picked up some tomatoes at tj’s so this seemed like the perfect use for them. I let it sit in the oven a little too long. But it was still eh. And a little more involved than I like a pizza to be.

Roasted Tomato, Kale and Feta Pizza
adapted from Annie’s eats

For the tomatoes:
4-5 medium tomatoes
Olive oil
Pinch of sugar
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper

For the pizza:
2 tbsp. plus 2 tsp. olive oil, divided
2 cloves garlic, minced
½ tsp. red pepper flakes
3-4 cups kale leaves, stemmed and roughly chopped
1 ball pizza dough
2 oz. mozzarella, shredded*
3-4 oz. crumbled feta cheese

To roast the tomatoes, preheat the oven to 300˚ F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Slice the tomatoes into about ½-inch thick slices. Lay the slices in an even layer on the prepared baking sheet. Drizzle lightly with olive oil, sprinkle with a pinch of sugar, and season with salt and pepper. Bake for 50-60 minutes, carefully flipping the slices halfway through baking, until roasted and slightly browned. Transfer the tomatoes to a plate lined with paper towels, layering if needed. Refrigerate at least a few hours to drain excess liquid from the tomatoes.

In a small skillet, combine 2 tablespoons of the olive oil with the garlic and red pepper flakes. Warm over low heat for about 10-15 minutes to infuse the oil with the flavors of the spices. Set aside.

In a medium skillet, heat the remaining 2 teaspoons of oil over medium-high heat. Add the kale to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, just until the leaves are wilted. Remove from the heat and set aside.

To make the pizza, heat the oven to 500˚ F and preheat a pizza stone for at least 30 minutes. Roll out the pizza dough into a 12-14 inch round. Lightly brush the dough with the garlic-red pepper oil. Sprinkle the shredded mozzarella over the dough. Layer with the wilted kale, roasted tomato slices, and feta.

Transfer the pizza to the preheated pizza stone and bake until the cheese is melted and bubbling and the crust is lightly browned, about 11-12 minutes. Remove from the oven and let cool slightly before slicing and serving.

Pasta with Kale, Capers, Dried Cranberries, Toasted Garlic, & Feta

15 Oct

We got some kale in the csa last week, just as this recipe was posted. It looked interesting so I decided to try it! Glad I did! It was delicious! Definitely try this one!

Pasta with Kale, Capers, Dried Cranberries, Toasted Garlic, & Feta
adapted from two peas and their pod

1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 head garlic, cloves peeled and thinly sliced lengthwise
1 medium red onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup dried cranberries
1 large bunch of kale, stems removed and leaves coarsely chopped
1/2 cup water
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 pound spaghetti or other pasta(we use whole wheat)
1/3 cup capers
1 1/2 cups crumbled feta cheese

1. Heat olive oil in a heavy skillet over medium heat until it shimmers, then cook garlic, stirring, until golden, about 3 minutes. Transfer garlic with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Cook onion in the remaining oil over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Add dried cranberries and cook until plumped, about 1 minute.

2. Add kale leaves into onion mixture with water and 3/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper. Cook, covered, over medium-high heat until almost tender, about 5 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, cook pasta in a pasta pot of boiling salted water until aldente. Reserve 1 cup pasta-cooking water and drain pasta.

4. Toss pasta with kale, capers, and 1/2 cup pasta water. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle feta cheese and garlic chips over the pasta dish and serve warm.

Tuscan White Beans with Spinach, Shrimp and Feta

15 Apr

YUM this dinner was really good — spinach, beans, shrimp & feta!  great combination!!!  a piece of texas toast added to the yumminess!

Tuscan White Beans with Spinach, Shrimp and Feta

adapted from skinnytaste

  • 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 lb large shrimp, peeled and deveined
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tsp chopped fresh sage
  • 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  • 1/2 cup low sodium, fat-free chicken broth
  • 15 oz can no-salt added cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
  • 5 cups baby spinach
  • 1 1/2 oz crumbled reduced-fat feta cheese

Heat 1 tsp oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook shrimp until just opaque, about 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a plate.

Heat remaining oil in the same skillet over medium-high heat and add onion, garlic and sage; cook 4 minutes stirring occasionally until golden. Stir in vinegar and cook 30 seconds.

Add broth, bring to a boil and cook 2 minutes. Stir in beans and spinach and cook until the spinach wilts, about 2 to 3 minutes.

Remove from heat and stir in shrimp. Top with feta cheese


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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
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Author David Hackett Fischer
Country United States
Subject U.S. social history
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date
Pages 946
ISBN 978-0-19-506905-1
OCLC 20012134

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of England (Albion) to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the modern United States.[1] Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture."[2] Fischer describes Albion's Seed as a modified Teutonic germ theory within the framework of the Frontier Thesis and the migration model.

Four folkways

The four migrations are discussed in the four main chapters of the book:

The Exodus of the English Puritans (Pilgrims influenced the Northeastern United States' corporate and educational culture)[3]
Distressed Cavaliers and Indentured Servants (Gentry influenced the Southern United States' plantation culture)[4]
The Friends' Migration (Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States' industrial culture)[5]
The Flight from North Britain (Scotch-Irish, or border English, influenced the Western United States' ranch culture and the Southern United States' common agrarian culture)[6]

Fischer includes satellite peoples such as Welsh, Scots, Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians and a treatise on black slaves in South Carolina. Fischer covers voting patterns and dialects of speech in four regions that span from their Atlantic colonial base to the Pacific.

Fischer remarks on his own connective feelings between the Chesapeake and Southern England in Albion's Seed but attempts to flesh that out in Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement, a corollary of his work in the book.[7]

Fischer states that the book's purpose is to examine the complex cultural processes at work within the four folkways during the time period. Albion's Seed argues, "The legacy of four British folkways in early America remains the most powerful determinant of a voluntary society in the United States."

The term "folkways" was originally conceived of by William Graham Sumner, a 19th-century American sociologist. Sumner's treatise Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals posits:

"The folkways are habits of the individual and customs of the society which arise from efforts to satisfy needs; they are intertwined with goblinism and demonism and primitive notions of luck (sec. 6), and so they win traditional authority. Then they become regulative for succeeding generations and take on the character of a social force. They arise no one knows whence or how. They grow as if by the play of internal life energy. They can be modified, but only to a limited extent, by the purposeful efforts of men. In time they lose power, decline, and die, or are transformed. While they are in vigor they very largely control individual and social undertakings, and they produce and nourish ideas of world philosophy and life policy. Yet they are not organic or material. They belong to a superorganic system of relations, conventions, and institutional arrangements."[8]

Key characteristics

Fischer describes his modified application of the folkways concept as "the normative structure of values, customs and meanings that exist in any culture," which rise from social and intellectual origins. More specifically, Fischer's definition of folkways are that they "are often highly persistent, but they are never static. Even where they have acquired the status of a tradition they are not necessarily very old. Folkways are constantly in the process of creation, even in our own time."

Each of the four distinct folkways is comparatively described and defined in the following terms:

  • Speech Ways: "Conventional patterns of written and spoken language; pronunciation, vocabulary, syntax and grammar."
  • Building Ways: "Prevailing forms of vernacular architecture and high architecture, which tend to be related to one another."
  • Family Ways: "The structure and function of the household and family, both in ideal and actuality."
  • Marriage Ways: "Ideas of the marriage-bond, and cultural processes of courtship, marriage and divorce."
  • Gender Ways: "Customs that regulate social relations between men and women."
  • Sex Ways: "Conventional sexual attitudes and acts, and the treatment of sexual deviance."
  • Child-Rearing Ways: "Ideas of child nature and customs of child nurture."
  • Naming Ways: "Onomastic customs including favoured forenames and the descent of names within the family."
  • Age Ways: "Attitudes towards age, experiences of aging and age relationships."
  • Death Ways: "Attitudes towards death, mortality rituals, mortuary customs and mourning practices."
  • Religious Ways: "Patterns of religious worship, theology, ecclesiology and church architecture."
  • Magic Ways: "Normative beliefs and practices concerning the supernatural."
  • Learning Ways: "Attitudes toward literacy and learning, and conventional patterns of education."
  • Food Ways: "Patterns of diet, nutrition, cooking, eating, feasting and fasting."
  • Dress Ways: "Customs of dress, demeanor, and personal adornment."
  • Sport Ways: "Attitudes toward recreation and leisure; folk games and forms of organized sport."
  • Work Ways: "Work ethics and work experiences; attitudes toward work and the nature of work."
  • Time Ways: "Attitudes toward the use of time, customary methods of time keeping, and the conventional rhythms of life."
  • Wealth Ways: "Attitudes towards wealth and patterns of its distribution."
  • Rank Ways: "The rules by which rank is assigned, the roles which rank entails, and the relations between different ranks."
  • Social Ways: "Conventional patterns of migration, settlement, association and affiliation."
  • Order Ways: "Ideas of order, ordering institutions, forms of disorder, and treatment of the disorderly."
  • Power Ways: "Attitudes toward authority and power; patterns of political participation."
  • Freedom Ways: "Prevailing ideas of liberty and restraint, and libertarian customs and institutions."

See also

  • Louis Hartz's "fragment thesis" which proposes that the political cultures of the New World countries depends on when, and by whom they were colonized

  1. David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed (Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 6
  2. Hackett Fischer, David. Albion's Seed Oxford University Press, 1989.
  3. Fischer, Albion's Seed, pp. 13–206
  4. Fischer, Albion's Seed pp. 207–418
  5. Fischer, Albion's Seed, pp. 419–604
  6. Fischer, Albion's Seed, pp. 605–782
  7. Fischer, Albion's Seed, p. 246
  8. Sumner, William Graham Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals. Project Gutenberg E-Book. Last accessed: March 19, 2013.

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Tokyo Sushi

August 16th, 2012By Category: Food & Dining, Travel

Sushi is by far my favourite Japanese fare, and I think I may have found a little bit of heaven, tucked in the streets of Umegaoka: Sushi no Midori Sohonten, introduced by my foodie friend Sophia.

We lined up at the restaurant for an early lunch, amongst other sushi enthusiasts (mostly of elderly age, apparently). We luckily got to sit at the counter, which is the best seat in the house, as it enabled us to closely watch the swift and efficient work of sushi chefs.

The lunch set featured a platter of assorted sushi, as well as a salad, chawanmushi (egg custard), green tea, and a light dessert. Sophia and I, in true party girl fashion, ordered some alcoholic beverages despite not having had breakfast. Sushi is best accompanied with beer or sake, and bites of gari (pickled ginger) are recommended between each sushi dish, to help cleanse the palate.

We dined on delicious pieces of salmon, tuna, eel, sea urchin, egg omelet, salmon roe, and well, more tuna in a sushi handroll, generously offered by our neighbour. The kind older ladies on my left taught us how to properly flip the sushi and dip the fish into the soy sauce, without making a mess. Brilliant!

By the end of the delightful meal, we were secretly hoping pieces would stop coming, as we both fell into a sushi coma and lost our morale. At that point, we both thought we would never be hungry again (yet the hunger came back, a mere few hours after), but we did manage to eat the dessert and snap some fun photos (and blankly stare at the sad remaining pieces).

I loved, loved, this place so much, and I’m already planning my next visit.

I highly recommend having lunch there, a) if you love sushi b) if you can handle some interesting fish and dishes like crab brain salad, and c) if you go on an empty stomach.

I’ve decided I’m bringing a boy there next time I go- this way, he can polish off the whole platter.

Author of this article

Vivian Morelli

Vivian Morelli hails from Canada and is a journalist based in Tokyo, where she writes about culture, fashion, food and music. You can read her Japan musings at

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  • leslie nguyen

    I could finish everything on the menu probably! =P My only concern is about the eating etiquette in Japan especially for sushi because I don’t want to be rude.

  • The food was so there! I want to go there every time I go to Japan! Vivian and I were really lucky, we had some kind, old Japanese ladies teach us how to properly eat sushi!

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    what’s the price range for the place?

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Standing Up Again: James and Amicus

February 1, 2013

Amicus One to One friends Pete (left) and James

“I know in my heart that if it wasn’t for Amicus I would still be in prison.”

Released in fall of 2012, James is tasting freedom for the first time in 28 years. He’s out and determined to stay out because he believes that’s the best way to thank those who helped him.

The world looked bleak for James as he grew up in Louisiana with a family struggling with alcoholism, mental illness, abuse and more. He belonged to a sharecropper family in which education was something that was possible only after the harvest came in. As a result, James was functionally illiterate for much of his life.

His first taste of incarceration came 45 years ago at age 13 when he was caught breaking into a home, looking for food. He recalls spending a year in county jail and upon his release being placed on a bus to Chicago. A family in Chicago tried to be supportive but James rebelled and found his way back to the street, stealing what he could. He eventually followed the promise of work to Minnesota.

He had started using cocaine and was high, looking for cash and more drugs, when he and some cohorts broke into a local home. James didn’t know there was an elderly woman in the house and he came across her in the bedroom. The woman started screaming and James panicked, squeezing her throat to stop the noise. He crushed her windpipe and the woman died.

He was caught, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Part of James froze on that day, nearly 29 years ago, and he stayed that way for 16 years.

“I’d been doing time, for a long time and never really thought I’d be doing something else.”

The thaw came about 13 years ago. James described meeting with Susan, an Amicus staffer who took the time to talk with James and convince him that he could try to make positive changes and improve his chances for release. He agreed to be matched with a One to One volunteer. He was matched with Pete, and that was the start of a friendship of 13 years and counting.

“Pete saw something in me that I didn’t see myself,” James said.

With Pete’s encouragement James threw himself into his efforts to reclaim hope, attending dozens of classes and seminars, learning to read and getting his GED. He got involved with an Amicus monthly support group called Connections and participated in an Amicus program customized for African American inmates preparing to reenter society. James attracted the attention of Department of Corrections personnel and he had a surprise waiting for him the next time he was called before a parole board.

“Nobody understands what it feels like to try to convince eight people that I’ve made changes, but you know what happened? They convinced me!”

James was told that if he could stay on the right track and incident free for one more year, he would be placed on supervised release, and one year later he walked into the Amicus offices. Amicus helped him in a variety of ways, connecting him with transportation and providing basics such as hygiene items, signing him up for “Heads Up Strategies” to help him practice his job seeking skills and maintain employment.

James has a tough road ahead but he’s making progress. He found a low-paying but steady job and has kept it for several months and is looking forward to moving from a halfway house into his own place. He attends the Amicus Ex-Offender Support Group and has spoken at volunteer information sessions in support of Amicus One to One. And through it all, his One to One friend, Pete has been a constant.

James recently ran across an early mugshot of himself as a younger man and he believes the image bears little resemblance to who he is now.

“It was a dead person on that card. It took a lot of time but I’m alive again.”

“I can never bring that lady back that I killed, but I learned. I’m telling you this day that I am an entirely changed man.”

“Amicus was the first place ever that stood up for me and showed me a different world. I know I don’t want to let anybody down, because they stood up for me.”

The Gift of Making Friends – a Letter from Barry

January 18, 2013
Kevin and Barry

Amicus Friends Kevin and Barry

Editor’s Note- This post came to Amicus from Barry, an inmate currently serving a life sentence at Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater. Determined to show he has changed from the young man who committed his crimes, Barry has worked during his incarceration to earn two Associate degrees, his Bachelors, and is nearing his Masters degree in Business. He has also become an experienced group leader, mentor and teacher.  Barry is a regular participant in the Amicus Connections group at Stillwater and was matched with Kevin through the One to One program in 2010.

“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another”                 – THOMAS HUGHES (1822-1896).

I’ve been involved with Amicus for the past 14 years.

It is by far one of the most enriching experiences of my life. The dedication and commitment of the staff and volunteers has helped to bring hope to my life in ways I never thought possible. Hope is such a valued commodity, especially while incarcerated. When you find it, it is such a precious gift. The Amicus One to One Program has been a tremendous blessing in my life. The program matches a volunteer from the community with an individual who is incarcerated. It brings people together and looks to build community friendships that are lasting. What I like so much about the program is that it’s based on who you are as a person, not the mistakes you’ve made. It gives opportunities to find meaningful friendships and helps to build a sense of belonging.

My Amicus friend is Kevin. Our friendship is one of the most rewarding experiences I have. God has truly blessed me with this friendship. The quote from Thomas Hughes says it all, “the power of going out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.” This is the embodiment of what Kevin has done for me. Our relationship has grown in many ways.

I consider Kevin one of my closest friends and enjoy our visits and conversations immensely. This friendship has helped bring purpose to my life. It has encouraged me to continue to strive for excellence in all that I do and to build healthy and lasting relationships with all those around me.

A special thank you goes to every person who has invested in the lives of those behind the walls – I am truly grateful!

Happy Holidays from Amicus!

December 21, 2012

Amicus Radius Honored as 2012 Program of the Year by MN Women’s Consortium

December 14, 2012

CONTACT: Steve Nelson,
Communications Director,

For Immediate Release

 Amicus Radius Honored as 2012 Program of the Year by Minnesota Women’s Consortium

Program works with teenage girls involved in the juvenile justice system

 The Minnesota Women’s Consortium has chosen the Amicus Radius Program to receive their Program of the Year Award. Amicus Radius works with girls and young women ages 12 to 18 who are involved in the juvenile justice system.

The program’s efforts are currently focused on girls in Hennepin County and works with about 90 girls and young women a year.

The Minnesota Women’s Consortium is an association of 150+ organizations and thousands of individuals committed to achieving full equality for women and girls. Their mission is to achieve full equality for women and girls by connecting organizations that share this goal. Each year, the Women’s Consortium selects organizations and individuals who exemplify leadership in improving the status of women and girls through role modeling, leadership development, and advocacy.  In honoring the Amicus Radius Program, the consortium’s board of directors cited the program’s work to empower girls in the juvenile justice system, among other reasons.

Radius offers girls a 14-week in-depth relationship-based program that addresses their main issues and helps them discover strengths from within, despite the messiness of life. It seeks to restore family, peer and community connections, engage the girls as active architects of their own success and to provide content which is relevant to the real world of each girl.

Amicus Radius Program Director Marjorie D. Grevious said her team was surprised and is grateful for this recognition.

“It’s rare for a direct service youth worker to get any recognition at all. We just expect to do our work, and our sense of fulfillment comes more from the successes we see in the young people we work with. So for our team to get this type of honor is very meaningful,” Grevious said.

The award will be presented at the Minnesota Women’s Consortium annual gala on Thursday, Jan. 24, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Paul-Riverfront.  Other honorees include the St. Cloud Chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum and Kim Nelson, VP of External Relations at General Mills. A Lifetime Achievement Award will be awarded to Lonna Sczczesny of Employment Action Center.  Information on purchasing tickets is available by calling 651-228-0338.

For more information on Radius please contact Amicus at 612-877-4250 or

In Gratitude to a Friend: John Blackstone

November 21, 2012
by Steve Nelson, Amicus Communications Director

Sometimes one of the hidden blessings of a loss is that we see more clearly the gifts we had been given.

It is in that bittersweet intersection between gratitude and loss that we at Amicus find ourselves at the passing of a true friend.

John Blackstone passed away yesterday.  John had volunteered at our agency for over two decades, and we had grown to rely on him as a voice of reason, a mentor, a spokesperson and an advocate for those the system would not listen to.

Amicus President Louise Wolfgramm remembers how John first came to volunteer, around the time of the first Gulf War. She said John approached her at church and told her how frustrated he was by the killing and violence of the Gulf War. He decided his response was to volunteer for Amicus.  When she asked why, John said he couldn’t do much about the violence in the Middle East but he COULD help in a small way by responding restoratively to the violence he saw here in his own community.

John volunteered for the Amicus One to One program and he stayed in that role from 1990 to his passing yesterday. He was matched over periods of many years each with four different inmates.  Amicus’ Russel Balenger recalls that John’s matches were with inmates who often had significant challenges to overcome, and John saw a couple of his One to One friends return to prison because of mistakes made after release. One of his One to One friends died of injuries in a car crash while evading police. John felt those losses like anyone would if they had happened to a close friend, but he stayed with the program.

“He was easy to match because he could handle whatever you put in front of him,” Russel recalls. “He knew how to get beyond all the BS and get to the real issues. He could bring clarity to situations that seemed hopeless.”

Chris Doege, Amicus Director of Reentry Services, remembers John as one of Amicus’ four “Beatles.”  There were four volunteers, John, Paul, George and Ray who formed the backbone of the first volunteer groups who worked with MnCOSA. MnCOSA, Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability, was a new pilot program Amicus established with the Department of Correction in order to reach out to inmates with sex offenses on their records who were reentering society.   Chris recalls that “The Beatles” didn’t get that nickname solely for the fact that the names nearly matched up with the Liverpool version. It was because these four were among the best volunteers Amicus had ever worked with.  They were rock stars.

Chris said John stood out because he understood that it wasn’t about him as a volunteer. It was about the match.

“He REALLY understood what the program is about,” Chris said. “It’s about making a connection with someone and letting that connection take you where it will.”

At Amicus this Thanksgiving, our connection with John has taken us down a byway with only one sign along the side of a long and winding road. The sign is not flashy or oversized or particularly colorful. Still, it comes from the hearts of people in prison, people who are staying out of prison, fellow volunteers and staff.  As we pass these words, we will nod, remember John, and continue traveling that road to a more just society.

“Thank You, Friend.”

By the Numbers – Great Reasons to Give to Amicus on Thursday’s Give to the Max Day

November 14, 2012

In a few short hours it’s going to be Thursday, November 15. That’s important because it is “Give to the Max Day.” This is the time when Minnesota nonprofits, including Amicus, often ask engaged people like you to make an online donation to support their cause.

Much of this blog has been devoted toward stories from those we work with and those who volunteer or intern with Amicus. Our agency is effective in large part because we know those stories. To us they’re more than stories. They’re how we spend our lives. We’re proud that for us it’s usually more about relationships we’ve built than the numbers served. We’re not MacDonalds and don’t intend to be.  We’re more like “Louise’s Neighborhood Cafe.” We take the time to know people.  That said, we do have numbers and they’re important ones for us. As you consider a donation to Amicus on “Give to the Max Day”, check out these digits…

  • 2,000  – For many people leaving prison, Amicus Reconnect is the place they go when they don’t know where to go next.  Last year, over 2,000 people seeking help on searches for jobs and housing, bus passes to get around town, hats and gloves to ward off the cold, found Reconnect.
  • 7 percent – That’s the percentage of participants in the Amicus One to One program who go back to prison for a new felony after being released.  Compare that to the Minnesota Department of Corrections number – 23 percent.  We believe that those we work with are highly motivated and their success in the community belongs to them, but we also know that Amicus must be doing something right too.
  • 703,000 – That’s the estimated number of US Armed Forces Veterans who have been involved in the justice system.  Many are struggling with mental health issues and chemical dependency issues related to their time in service.  In response to that need, Amicus joined with other agencies in the region to start the Amicus Veterans Justice Program.
  • 187 – That’s the number of donors to Amicus last year.  It’s not that many compared to a lot of nonprofits in the area.  We believe it takes a special person to understand that people who have committed crimes and paid the price for them usually need support for starting a better chapter in their lives and not more punishment.
  • 12-18 – That’s the age of the participants in the Amicus Radius program. About 90 girls a year are referred to our program for counseling, support, resources and the space to help them recover from trauma and decide how they want to walk the life paths before them.
  • 40 –  That’s the number of years our President, Louise Wolfgramm, has dedicated to leading Amicus. It’s not easy keeping a small nonprofit vital and successful these days, and thanks in great part to Louise, Amicus has not only survived, it has become one of the region’s most stalwart leaders in helping people find second chances.  Louise is retiring in 2013 and we dedicate every penny we receive in 2012 Give to the Max Day to the “Louise Wolfgramm Transition Fund.” This fund will help keep Amicus services going strong as we journey through one of the most important transitions in the agency’s history.

Thanks for your consideration and please Give to the Max!

Final Letter to Amicus: Live, Learn and Laugh

October 25, 2012

Susan Mwarabu has been a volunteer social media contributor for Amicus since 2011. Susan  relocated to North Carolina and is currently in graduate school, attaining her Masters in Public Administration. Her experiences with the justice system have prompted her series of letters to Amicus which will highlight her first meeting with Amicus, her probation experiences, as well as how she has dealt with job hunting challenges.

By Susan Mwarabu

I have often wondered what other people feel when they have to go through a process of incarceration, probation or parole, like I did. How do they feel when they can’t find work, and even more so, how do they interact with people who don’t know them?

When I walk down the street, I often wonder whether just by looking at me, people know how much more I have to overcome. Not only do I have to overcome employment barriers, I also have to overcome housing barriers, then I have to overcome barriers to participating fully in the social life of my neighborhood. More often than not, I feel like I am a spectator to something that I am not truly a part off… the world.

It takes lots of compartmentalizing, a healthy dose of creativity and the ability of being able to laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. That’s how you get through the invisible sentence you have to live with after committing your mistake. It follows you everywhere and like an invisible hand with a vice like grip, forces you to live on the margins of life. Looking in, I often wonder whether I can ever truly be part of the world again. Have I forever been changed by this experience?

To get through my first two years of probation, I compartmentalized.  Just like eating and sleeping, seeing my probation officer was an important “to-do” on my list. And with the new Justice Reinvestment Act going into effect, a probation officer wields more power than ever before. They have the power to arrest you for violations and therefore I expressed a healthy amount of respect in both how I spoke to them, as well as in my body language.

Outside of my probation duties, I conducted a semi-normal life.  I worked (eventually, after two years of unemployment) and interacted with my coworkers but never too closely. After all, I didn’t want them visiting me and chancing the probation officer doing a home visit. It just wasn’t a scenario I wanted to experience.  So I have a compartment for everyone. My coworkers stay in their compartment; at work.

Then there is my school compartment. I decided to go back to school. It was a little jarring when one of my classmates turned out to be a police officer. But even that became normal after a while. ‘I wonder if she understands why I am reluctant to share  my personal life.’ As a student I work extra hard because I know I have to do my best to be a cut above the rest. ‘I have barriers to overcome.’  I remind myself every time exhaustion threatens to take over.

Family and home are my last compartments. I often find myself looking forward to being around those who really know me. Like my family and even Amicus. I don’t have to worry they will judge me. I don’t have to worry what they will think if they really knew everything about me. This is truly what has kept me going the last couple of years.

I hope everyone who has ever felt the loneliness of trying to find their footing finds this helpful. It takes time to find a place in the world after a mistake, whatever it might be. Living out the invisible sentence of trying to get back into the community can be difficult. There may even be restrictions on where you can be and what you can do and with whom you can interact with. There are even times when things don’t go back to what they were before. Finding a new way to live life with the terms presented to you is the key and being kind to yourself in understanding that there are those things that may never be the same again.

But most importantly find time to laugh.


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The Loveliest Yarn Company: shop profile

Earlier this month I was delighted to meet Michelle from The Loveliest Yarn Company while I was visiting the Knitting & Stitching Show at Ally Pally. A new online yarn shop located in the Midlands, The Loveliest Yarn Co. has been stocking Knit Play Colour since opening this past summer. I hadn’t realised how many samples Michelle had made with her yarns using patterns from the book! Her yarns are wonderful and a couple of very pretty balls of West Yorkshire Spinners found their way home with me. I am still thinking about the gorgeous Life in the Long Grass though… You know I love to share a good yarn-y find so I knew I had to share this shop with you! Read on for my interview with Michelle.

Michelle chatting with a customer on her stand at Ally Pally

Michelle chatting with a customer on her stand at Ally Pally

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The secret is out: Yarn porn for Yarnporium

It’s no secret that I love a secret. And a secret that involves delicious yarn? Well it’s almost too much to bear!

Happily, my secret is out! Last week Countess Ablaze revealed on her Instagram that I will be bringing a selection of her yarns with me to the Yarnporium happening on November 5th and 6th in London. As if that weren’t enough of an announcement to cause yarn-y delirium, I’m also bringing a variety of yarns from Eden Cottage Yarns too!

I’m really thrilled to be bringing both of these ladies’ amazing yarns with me. While it’s great to bring my book and patterns I really love helping knitters choose their yarn for the project. It means I can help answer questions about yarn choice or the pattern, or a combination thereof. And really, if you’re getting a pattern and want to get started right away, what’s better than being able to get the perfect yarn in the same place?

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Wool Week Workshop

A scene from Rams

A scene from Rams

Ha! Try saying that three times fast! (wool week workshop, wool week workshop…) Apologies, but I may be just a wee bit excited that there’s finally more than barely-there nip in the air on the school runs in the morning. It must be October!

October is one of those months that seems to catch me off guard completely. We’re no sooner settled into the new school routine when all of sudden there’s the Knitting & Stitching Show and UK Wool Week back to back. The minute there’s time to catch your breath it’s Wovember and then the steady downward spiral right towards Christmas. This year there’s even more going on than usual as I’m preparing for the upcoming Yarnporium show in November where I’ll be an exhibitor (more on that in another post!).

YARN - the movie: what more could I ask for?

YARN – the movie: what more could I ask for?

But before all that can happen, I’m delighted to be part of a day-long line-up of events celebrating UK Wool Week at the Maltings in Farnham this Sunday, 9th October. I get to kick things off with my workshop on playing with colour and then enjoy the rest of the day’s offerings. Emma Boyles of The Little Grey Sheep will be giving a talk in the afternoon about her small family farm that I’m really looking forward to hearing. Then there are two woolly film screenings: YARN the movie, and Rams, about two Icelandic sheep farmers.

Let's have some fun playing with colour

Let’s have some fun playing with colour

If you haven’t had a chance to take a workshop with me before and are curious about playing with colour in your own knitting projects we’ll be looking at choosing colour combinations with confidence. With a nod to Wool Week, we’ll also discuss how fibre type can influence colour. This is also a hands-on, playful class so bring your yarns or scraps that you’ve had a hard time deciding how or which colour combos would work best and we’ll work through them together.

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Stars in a Denim Sky

Hello friends! I’m getting ready for a whirlwind visit to Wonderwool Wales this Sunday (I’ve been making my show plan already!) but wanted to pop in and let you know about my latest pattern release, Denim Sky.

Introducing Denim Sky – in hues the colour of your favourite jeans

Denim Sky was originally released as an exclusive with The Loopy Ewe’s Giftables Club and now that the rights have reverted back to me I’m able to offer it to everyone! Releasing a new pattern always makes me happy. I feel a little springier in my step than usual – maybe because a new pattern and a yarn show on the horizon is the perfect opportunity to play? Continue reading

Just a few more…

It’s half-term this week so I feel like I’m rushing even more than usual!

I missed posting this Maltings WIP last week by vivieknits - such a wonderful WARM view when today is so chilly!

I missed posting this Maltings WIP last week by vivieknits – such a wonderful WARM view when today is so chilly!

It was wonderful looking at so many photos of Maltings last week that I almost forgot about the other KAL that has been happening with Inspiration Knits designs – the Knit Play Hearts KAL in our Ravelry group featuring the Heart Deco cowl and Warm Hearted blanket patterns from Knit Play Colour. Continue reading

Merrily we knitalong…

I’m sure I’ve said it before but one of the most rewarding things as a designer is seeing my patterns go off into the world to be knit by so many of you. Knitalongs (KALs) always get me incredibly excited – especially when WIP and FO photos are posted!

February has been fantastic on the KAL front so far. Finishes have been pouring in from the Maltings KAL for the upcoming Unravel show. It’s nice to know it will be easy to spot people at the show with their Maltings cowls! Continue reading

Local yarn love

It has been incredibly exciting this last week seeing all of the Maltings cowls slowly starting to take shape in the Unravel KAL on Ravelry. As wonderful as it is to see one of my designs go off into the world and be knit and loved, I’ve been completely thrilled by the sharing of yarn porn that has happened on that thread! There was some serious #yarnstashlove happening as people were diving into their stash and emerging with gorgeous skeins.

I was so inspired seeing everyone else’s Maltings that I had to start knitting one that can be just for me and not a design sample!

What I really love and appreciate so much about this KAL though, are how thoughtful people have been with their yarn choices. Most have been making the decision to use yarn that is local to them, or even finding precious souvenirs from Unravel or other yarn shows past. Even knitters joining in from far away have picked up the theme and chosen yarns that are local to where they are. I’m happy that so many of you have taken the opportunity to re-discover some long-lost loves in your own stash.

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Maltings: the Unravel KAL pattern

Maltings: cowl for the Unravel KAL

Maltings is a gorgeously textured cowl inspired by barley grains. Shaped to fit, it is narrower at the top and gently flares out to sit perfectly on the shoulders.

I wanted to create something I’d love to wear to a show – pretty but practical. Cowls keep us warm on a cold morning, stay neatly out of the way when we’re petting yarn, and can be folded up into a pocket as the day warms up. Perfect.

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Get ready for: Unravel KAL

I do love to collaborate with others in my work, whether that is with yarnies, bloggers, stores, other designers or other wonderful knitterly people. To start this year in style, I have been working with the lovely team at Unravel to cook up something special for this, my favourite, yarn show.

Test KAL image 2

I’m thrilled to give you this early sneak peek of a special knitalong, commissioned by Unravel. It starts next Thursday, 28th January, and runs until the show closes on Sunday 21st February. The pattern will be free to download while the knitalong runs – keep your eyes peeled on the 28th!  Continue reading

Cosy Cables KAL – and a prize from LoveKnitting

It’s unfathomable to me that this post finds us at the end of October already. It feels like I’ve been head down on the book for so long that it’s almost a surprise that autumn is well and truly here now that I’ve poked my head back up and resurfaced!

One of the things that has kept me busy this month has been knitting my own Yarn Tamer with the yarnlings that I bought on the Eden Cottage Yarns stand at Yarndale. I’m quite in love with how it’s turned out, but am AMAZED by the wonderful versions I’ve seen as the Yarn Tamer KAL wraps up on the Inspiration Knits Ravelry board. If you haven’t had a chance to see them yet, go take a look. The colour combinations are so beautiful…

Shadowlines wrap in MillaMia Aran in colourway Cinder

As the Yarn Tamer KAL is wrapping up, we’ve already been looking ahead to having a longer KAL for November/December. What better way to welcome winter than with some cosy cables? (Apologies for the alliteration but I’m just so excited about this KAL!) Continue reading


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My drawing today is a single panel. A simple snapshot, you might say.

It is based on an incident I witnessed while waiting in line at a donut shop. The man who made the mistake was a tiny little guy with a pronounced squint and the victim was a very tall man who was wearing a bright orange blazer and vivid yellow shirt. They both passed off the incident with an uncomfortable solemnity.

Drawn with a stubby pencil and colored with ye olde photoshoppe!

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