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Brief History of the Academy for Eating Disorders

In celebration of the our 21st birthday in 2014, the AED created a video that tells the story of how we came to be. The video includes interviews with numerous founding members, as well as archived photos.

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First Meeting

The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) began in 1993 with a meeting organized by Craig Johnson, PhD, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Thirty-three clinicians and researchers met to discuss concerns about the deleterious effects of managed care and other insurance practices on providing quality treatment for patients with eating disorders.

This group saw the need for an organization of eating disorders professionals that embodied excellence in education, treatment and research that could advocate for patients with eating disorders, provide professional training and development and, in general, represent the field of eating disorders. The AED was formed to meet these goals and today, the AED includes over 1,500 professionals from around the world who have joined together to support this mission.

The current and past AED leadership has worked hard to ensure that this mission is met. Below is a brief timeline of accomplishments during the tenures of each president:

Pauline Powers, MD, FAED

  • Membership grows from 33 to 250 members

Ruth Striegel-Moore, PhD, FAED

  • Organization is restructured; Board is reduced from 26 members to more manageable number with term limits established
  • Task force is organized to increase international membership
  • AED sponsors workshop on Development of Research Priorities in Eating Disorders, initiated by NIH's Susan Yanovski, MD

B. Timothy Walsh, MD, FAED

  • AED increased focus on professional education and training
  • Clinical Teaching Day debuts; Amy Baker Dennis, PhD, is appointed first Coordinator for Teaching and Education

Joel Yager, MD, FAED

  • Membership increases to more than 500
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders becomes official journal of the AED
  • Listserv is established to enable more effective member communication
  • Management structure shifts from the Adolescent Medicine offices at Montefiore Hospital (New York City) to organizational management company

Marsha Marcus, MD, FAED

  • Management transition process is completed
  • AED increases activities promoting public education about eating disorders

Stephen Wonderlich, PhD, FAED

  • First formal strategic planning session held in Toronto, Canada
  • AED organization is restructured, with the addition of Publications, Research and Public Affairs councils

James Mitchell, PhD, FAED

  • AED redefines relationship with other U.S.-based eating disorders organizations, including advocacy groups which eventually coalesced into the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) and the Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS)
  • AED sponsors first International Conference on Eating Disorders (ICED) in New York, NY, USA

Allan Kaplan, MD, FAED

  • AED experiences rapid growth; membership exceeds 1000

Patricia Fallon, PhD, FAED

  • AED expands initiatives designed to increase the involvement of colleagues from outside North America

Cynthia Bulik, PhD, FAED

  • Global membership expands
  • AED sponsors first conference outside North America in Quito, Ecuador

Michael Devlin, MD, FAED

  • AED transitions to new management company
  • Website is redesigned and relaunched
  • AED initiates plans for first ICED to be held outside North America
  • Special issue of International Journal of Eating Disorders and the first AED Annual Review published

Scott Crow, MD, FAED

  • AED implements new leadership structure

Eric van Furth, PhD, FAED

  • AED establishes Advisory Board
  • Worldwide Charter is launched in six languages
  • AED collaborates with NEDA and EDC to improve the health of models in the fashion industry
  • Guidelines for the Fashion Industry are launched in six languages
  • CE credentialing for International Journal of Eating Disorders established

Kelly Klump, PhD, FAED

  • AED develops Research Grant Program
  • Scientific Committee is formed
  • Research-Practice Task Force is developed
  • First AED position paper on eating disorders as serious forms of mental illness is completed

Judith Banker, LLP, MA, FAED

  • AED launches new branding platform
  • AED prioritizes Research-Practice Integration as long-range organizational goal
  • Guidelines and Action Plan for Research-Practice Integration are released
  • Guidelines for Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs are released
  • AED forms Medical Care Standards Task Force to promote essential online medical management education for physicians worldwide
  • AED Fitness Industry Guidelines Task Force is formed, facilitating the collaborative global implementation of eating disorder awareness, prevention and intervention guidelines throughout the health club and fitness idustry

Susan Paxton, PhD, FAED

  • AED welcomes five new Sister Organizations and hosts first meeting of AED's Sister Organizations and Chapters
  • Website is redesigned and relaunched
  • AED issues position paper: "The Role of the Family in Eating Disorders"
  • AED completes Early Recognition posters and brochures for primary care settings
  • AED contributes to the collaborative approach to the Office of the First Lady (US), raising awareness of Guidelines for Obesity Prevention Programs

Debra K. Katzman, MD, FAED

  • AED launches efficiency program
  • Membership continues to increase, exceeding 1400
  • AED hosts fundraiser and book launch of Aimee Liu's Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives
  • Go Green initiative is established
  • AED launches Critical Points for Early Recognition and Medical Risk Management in the Care of Individuals with Eating Disorders brochure

Anne Becker, MD, PhD, ScM

  • Global Capacity Building Task Force is initiated
  • First AED Mentorship Program is launched at 2012 ICED
  • AED website is optimized for mobile devices
  • AED membership sets new record, exceeding 1500
  • 2012 ICED attendance (Austin, Texas, USA) sets new record, exceeding 900
  • More than 44,000 copies of Critical Points for Early Recognition and Medical Risk Management in the Care of Individuals with Eating Disorders brochure are distributed

Dasha Nicholls, MBBS, MD, FAED

  • Relaunch of vision, mission, goals and priorities following major strategic and governance review
  • AED turnover reaches $1M
  • Publication of AED Residential and Inpatient Treatment standards
  • Board of Directors approves appointment of Patient-Carer representative to Board
  • New Editor-in-Chief takes the helm at the International Journal for Eating Disorders

Pamela Keel, PhD, FAED
Immediate Past President

  • Launched new website that integrates social media into the AED homepage, facilitates implementation of online courses, and provides an interactive data base for members to identify and interact with each other.
  • AED Bylaws revisions approved by membership to expand Board of Directors to include a nonprofessional member to represent Patient-Carer perspective in strategic planning
  • 2014 ICED attendance in New York City sets new attendance record, exceeding 1350 attendees.
  • AED membership sets new record, exceeding 1600
  • Prague, Czech Republic, is selected for next non-North American ICED for 2017 following robust support from poll of AED members.

Glenn Waller, DPhil, FAED
Current AED President


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1/48 AMTech Focke-Wulf TA-183 "Huckebein"
by Michael Morrow

I had been hearing stories and reading reviews about how good the AMTech TA-183 kit was for a couple of weeks. TA-183 builds in the most creative and colorful color schemes imaginable were being posted on the internet and brought to the local model meetings, where the kit was praised even more. Curious to sample the state of the art, I finally broke down and got one from Emil up at Skyway Models.

The reviews were all they said it was - the AMTech TA-183 was a great kit, but I decided to try to make it better by trying out a few techniques I hadn't used before, one of which was using photo-etch cockpit parts. When I got the kit, I also picked up an Edward FW-190 D-9 photo-etch cockpit set. This would be the first kit I built where I added after-market details.

So here's my build. Starting with the cockpit, I added photo-etch seatbelts, handles, levers, and rudder pedals from the Eduard FW-190 D-9 photo-etch set. Since you can see the back of the instrument panel, I also added wiring to the back of the instruments. Getting the cockpit tub to fit properly resulted in the EZ-42 gun-site being lowered so only half of it looked over the cockpit dash. The site was cut off, and small holes carefully drilled for new, taller posts made from stretched sprue. The gunsite was glued on AFTER the model was completely painted to prevent damage during the extensive masking for painting.

The canopy comes as a single piece, so I cut the windscreen away from the canopy so the sliding portion of the canopy could be displayed in the open position to show off all the cockpit detail. The canopy wouldn't sit on the aft deck without support, so a piece of armour plate was shaped and glued in place inside the canopy just aft of the clear section. The armour supports the canopy on the aft deck, and allows the canopy to be displayed properly in the open position. The Eduard set also includes a canopy pull-back handle which was installed just inside the sliding canopy's front frame.

The landing gear were enhanced with chrome-style BARE-METAL adhesive foil wrapped around each strut oleo, very effectively simulating highly polished oleo struts. Aluminum wire was added to each main gear leg to simulate brake lines. The front landing gear leg was heated and turned to represent a front wheel being steered to the left.
Scale 30mm cannon barrels were added to the nose from sections of stainless hypodermic tubing.

A wing-mounted pitot tube made from scale-size telescoping stainless hypodermic tubing was also added.

Red and green clear plastic wingtip navigation lights were added. The solid plastic lights were cut away, and pieces of clear red and green plastic were glued in their place. When dry, they were sanded to shape and polished to a shine.

A DF loop base fairing was carved and added to the top of the fuselage just behind the rear of the open canopy. A mounting hole was drilled for the morane antennae halfway between the DF loop mount and the tail. After painting was completed, the DF loop and morane antennae from the Eduard FW-190 D-9 photo-etch set were added to the fairing and mounting hole respectively.

Since the TA-183 never saw service, nearly any color scheme can be used. Some of the most famous color schemes applied to FW 190's were those of the famous JV-44 "Papagei Staffel" which flew FW 190 D-9's for Me-262 landing protection flights. The bottom of their FW 190 D's were painted all red with narrow longitudinal white stripes, making these aircraft the most colorful of all FW 190 D's in service! In addition, the spinners were painted yellow and black, and each of the four aircraft in the flight was adorned with a memorable slogan on the left side of the aircraft.

I chose the markings of "Red 4", originally on a rare FW 190 D-11 as the markings for my TA-183, under the presumption that if the war had continued, JV-44 might have traded their FW 190 D's for TA-183's. The decals came from an old 1/48 scale "Experten Decals" set I had which included decals for "Red 4". I painted the fuselage and vertical tail bare metal with the top of the wings and stabilizer in standard RLM 83 Dunkel-grun and RLM 75 Grau-violet camoflage. The entire bottom of the aircraft was painted RLM 23 red with narrow white longitudinal stripes. An RLM 04 yellow and black striped nose finished off the color scheme. Finally, the tires were dry-brushed with flat light tan to simulate dried mud, a very effective and realistic touch.

All the effort was worth it, as I managed to pull down a very pleasing second place in class for my efforts!

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Virtual reality used to train Soldiers in new training simulator

by Maj. Loren Bymer
Fort Bragg, N.C.

SSgt. Casey Liffrig, a squad leader in 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, briefs his squad on the operation order on the Dismounted Soldier Training System before entering a simulated battlefield environment, July 26, 2012, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Fort Bragg is receiving the first three out of 40 DSTS kits that are being issued to units across the Army this year.

The Army is responsible to provide realistic training for individual soldiers while mitigating risk. With emerging technology of the virtual world, this is becoming a reality.

The first-ever, fully immersive virtual simulation training system for soldiers is being fielded at Fort Bragg. The Dismounted Soldier Training System will be available for leaders to enhance their Soldiers’ training in a fully immersive, virtual reality environment.

This virtual system allows leaders at the squad level to maintain their squad’s proficiency of their assigned tasks in a timely and safe manner, even in the event new soldiers arrive to the unit.

“This system gives the power of simulation to the squad in order to close the gap of individual Soldier training and collective training,” said John Matthews, project director, Assistant Project Manager for Close Combat Tactical Trainers. “This system enhances training; it does not replace it.”

Paratroopers of 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, conduct simulated missions, July 26, 2012, at Fort Bragg, N.C., using the Dismounted Soldier Training System, a virtual reality environment with unlimited mission possibilities.

The ability to train with this system allows the “reset” time to be cut down, which allows the ability to get more repetitions in a shorter amount of time and the ability to review each mission on a television screen to enhance the after action review process upon completion of each mission.

“You can mold the situation, and you can do it as many times as you want and give younger guys a chance to step up and be leaders. I can see us in the future using this system to conduct rehearsals,” said Sgt. Charles Haywood, team leader, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division.

With a wide variety of environments, and the ability to insert specific entities into the scenarios, the options for training opportunities are virtually limitless; rehearsals for missions or live-fire exercises are just a couple of examples. Currently, the programmed training environments include mountainous, wooded, and desert. These are intended to simulate places like Afghanistan and Iraq, but are not limited to only these specific scenarios.

“I think everybody accomplished the missions, minus some casualties. But that’s part of [the training]; retrain and try again. [The DSTS] would make part of a well-rounded training cycle, a little bit of this on top of field time can get you different views and situations,” said Haywood.

The system itself is divided into five distinct work areas. The Soldier Simulated Training area is a 10-foot by 10-foot area with a manned module pad, which provides feedback for the Soldier to safely move in his or her space.

The Exercise Control Workstation is the brains behind the system and allows the trainer to create, modify, and execute training exercises. This workstation controls each person participating in the training.

Virtual Soldier Multi-function Workstations allow additional virtual soldiers, vehicles, neutral or opposing forces to “participate” in the training and is controlled by a keyboard and mouse by an additional individual.

The Semi-Automated Forces Works station gives the trainer the option to create additional static items like furniture and buildings or items that are animated such as dogs and birds, inside the virtual world. There can also be modifications made during the scenario like adding an improvised explosive device or more vehicles and combatants.

“You can do things on this system that you can’t [train on] as often here as in the field like air assault missions and capturing [high value targets], whether it be the weather, or having to get ranges,” said Haywood.

Finally, there is an after action review area to allow for an assessment of the scenario. Soldiers can watch as the events unfold with radio communication between squad members and shots fired. This area can be configured to a real-time station that allows visitors to witness what is taking place in the virtual world.

“We see [the DSTS] enhancing fundamental tactics and creating an environment to refine shooting, moving, and communicating in a non-fatal manner to increase the Soldiers’ and squad’s capability and decrease fatalities in theatre,” said Clarence Pape, vice president of Department of Defense Services at Intelligent Decisions.

The initial phase of the fielding will involve delivering three systems to the Fort Bragg Virtual Training Facility and validating them by 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. Upon being validated, other units on the installation will be able to use them. Additional systems will be delivered to Army installations worldwide for soldier use in the following weeks.

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May 14, 2015

FMQ Weekly: Should you Stitch in the Ditch before you FMQ?

I had the good fortune of learning FMQ from probably the best possible teacher there was. Her name was Kathy Sandbach. She quilted professionally for other quilters, not on a long arm, but on her domestic machine. Can you imagine? She also wrote books for C&T Publishing and I can't tell you how many times I checked out "Show Me How to Machine Quilt" from the library because I was in nursing school and had no money and wanted to remember what Kathy taught me.

Anyway, I'm telling you this because as a person whose business depended on doing good and fast quilting on her domestic machine, Kathy had developed a very practical and sound approach to free-motion quilting. When she taught us, she showed us how to baste and then jump right in freehand, without even marking designs. Notably, she did not teach me to "stitch in the ditch" before doing the FMQ. Stitch in the ditch (SITD) is what you call quilting along the seams of patchwork, right against the seam, ("in the ditch"). Some quilting teachers teach their students they have to do this before they free-motion quilt. I am so happy I learned from Kathy. If I had learned from someone who told me I had to quilt my quilt twice (once SITD and then again with FMQ) I would never have started free-motion quilting. I would have two unfinished quilts still in my closet probably. I didn't have time for that. In fact, I still don't have time for that. Who has time for that?

Someone asked in my Craftsy class about whether they need to SITD before they FMQ and I typed up such a long reply I thought it was basically a blog post, so I wanted to share it here too, because I while I bet some of you have never even heard of this "Stitch in the ditch before free-motion quilting" idea, some others of you think it absolutely has to be done, all the time, for "every stinking seam". So let me share my thoughts on this.

Stitch in the ditch (SITD) is an option, not a requirement. It has two effects. One is to stabilize your quilt so you have less shifting around as you quilt. That's certainly something we want, because it means our quilt isn't distorted and puckers are prevented. But, stabilizing the quilt is really the function of basting, which we are already doing anyway, so there's no reason we need SITD for stabilizing the quilt.

The second function of stitching in the ditch is to hold down seam lines so they don't puff upwards when the quilt is quilted. You're most likely to see this with dense, shape-filling quilting. Since anything that's not quilted pops up a bit and the things that are quilted push back, the unquilted seam lines will pop forward a bit if you are quilting each shape in a block individually. Here is a block I quilted without stitching in the ditch. Can you see the seam lines popping forward a bit?

If this would drive you crazy you should maybe stitch in the ditch. If you can't see what I'm talking about, or if you're thinking "the quilt is going to be more rumply than that after I wash it!" then there is no problem and you should probably not stitch in the ditch.

If you can kind of see what I'm talking about and don't love it, but would prefer not to stitch in the ditch, you might consider all-over quilting designs instead of shape-filling designs. Here is the same quilt block quilted with an all over pattern. Again, I didn't stitch in the ditch, but now you don't see the goofy seam thing happening. Cool, right?

Now, if you are sending your quilt to hang in a quilt show where you might win money or fame or free burgers or something, SITD may make the difference between getting a ribbon and not getting a ribbon. People spend so many hours quilting for show that a few extra hours stitching in the ditch may not be a big investment compared to the dismay it may save them. I find that it's almost always quilters who quilt for show that recommend SITD before free-motion quilting.

I don't quilt for show. And every shred of time I get quilting is a hard won triumph after tending to the needs of my family, my job and my household. I really don't like to waste that time on
unnecessary tasks. Also, I use a lot of all over designs, and I know my quilts are going to be washed, which is going to give them plenty of bumpiness anyway, and at that point a little puffiness at a seam line will be darn near unnoticeable  So it's the right choice for me to just dive into the FMQ. And I've been happy with the results.

Based on your plans for your quilt and your quilting you can decide what you'd like to do. You could make a trial block and quilt it with your chosen batting and quilting design to help you determine if SITD is worthwhile for that particular quilt or not. If SITD makes you feel safer and more confident with your FMQ, then go for it, I definitely support whatever makes you feel ready and excited to quilt. If you prefer the way SITD looks and you want to do it you should!

I hope that was helpful to some of you quilters out there. I like to take the voodoo out of free-motion quilting so you feel good about what you're doing and why you're doing it. Happy stitching!

May 11, 2015

Free-Motion Quilting Essentials starts today at Craftsy!

This is the day I've been waiting for! My beginner's free-motion quilting class, Free-Motion Quilting Essentials, is now available on Craftsy! I got the chance to watch the lessons the other night and I am very happy with it.  This is a great way to bring my style of teaching to you wherever you are, so you can start your FMQ adventure with confidence. I've had a good time teaching with Craftsy so far, and I look forward to connecting with more of you over there!

My three favorite things about this new class are:
  1. I lead you through a bunch of free-motion exercises on screen. You can watch me do them, then you can do them yourself, getting hours of practice one step at a time.
  2. In the course materials there is a "Free-Motion Quilting Cheat Sheet" to take with you to your machine to remind you of the steps to take as you get started.
  3. You get to see me quilting on an actual quilt in the final lesson. And...I do that on my grandma's old Singer Featherweight!

And here's my treat for you, blog readers: a special link to get the Free-Motion Quilting Essentials class for $20 off, which makes it less than half price! I hope that makes you smile. Thanks for being so supportive of me and my teaching, telling me where you get stuck and what you find helpful. It really keeps me going.

Want a preview? Here's a little video to watch.

Well that's my big news, what a great way to start the week. If you take the class I'd love to know what you think! Happy stitching everyone.

May 07, 2015

The FMQ Challenge

Darlene at QuiltShopGal is having a Free-Motion Quilting Challenge and it's going on for the rest of 2015 with monthly challenges. If you're learning FMQ this is a great way to give yourself exposure to lots of different teachers and styles and also keep yourself motivated to regularly exercise your FMQ skills. She has really gathered the top resources out there and points you to both free and paid options for participating in challenges, each of which is inspired by a different free-motion quilting teacher. There are even prize drawings open to people who post photos of their finishes!

QuiltShopGal featured me as her free-motion quilting expert for April. What an honor! I feel quite grateful to Darlene. She's been so supportive of my FMQ teaching since I started sharing tutorials on my blog years ago, and she even suggested long ago that I teach for Craftsy, which helped me gather the courage to make a proposal to them, bless her!

Anyway, you might enjoy a peek at the beautiful work the participants in the April challenge did. I feel so inspired looking at these beautiful entries.

Oh and a quick mention, if any of you are podcast listeners, tune in to hear me on Pat Sloan's American Patchwork and Quilting on Monday May 11, I'll be on sometime between 1 and 2pm Pacific time. Here is the link to listen:

Finally, there's still time to enter the giveaway at Craftsy for my upcoming class FMQ Essentials! The giveaway will stay open through Sunday May 10. Good luck!

May 04, 2015

FMQ Weekly: Planks Free-Motion Quilting Design

I have a super beginner friendly design to share with you today! Meet Planks.

This design is one of my favorite kinds, going from one edge of the piece to the other, and pleasantly geometric for those times that curves won't do.

You only need sort-of straight lines to make it work. Don't stress about straight lines. Mine are wobbly too and it still works. Here is how you do it:

a. Start with a short line up, then take your line off to the side.
b. Then another short line up and off to the other side.
c. Keep going up like this, back and forth. Make the length of the lines variable as you go.

When you get to the other edge of the piece it will look something like this:

Now you make another column the same way, right next to it, making sure you only leave a small space between columns. You can see how the columns fit together below. The more variety you have in the length of your horizontal lines, the less obvious it will be that you quilted this in columns.

Cover the whole space with your columns...and then you can't even tell how the pattern was done! Magic.

I have a little video of this design in action right here.

Of course it doesn't have to go side to side; up and down works fine too.

And you may be wondering, does this have to be straight lines? No way! How about curves?

Doesn't that look like stretchy meandering? So if you like the look of the stretchy meander but don't like how all over it is, you could do it this (easier) way instead.

I hope you get some use out of the Planks design. I know I will!  Now I also want to share that I'm in this all-star line up of teachers who will be teaching at QuiltCon in 2016. You know how excited this makes me? Unbelievably excited! Can't wait to be a part of the QuiltCon magic. I hope I'll meet some of you there!

May 01, 2015

My FMQ Essentials class is coming! Want to win it?

You know how sometimes I disappear for a while? Sometimes that's because my refrigerator died and someone hit my car and all my typical work time is going to getting things fixed. But sometimes it's because I'm working on something big and organized and fabulous. Like this! Free-Motion Quilting Essentials is my new class with Craftsy that will be launching soon. I'm so thrilled to have these photos to share with you, and to give you a chance to be one of the first people in the class, free!

My last class with Craftsy was all about quilting designs; understanding, adapting and recreating them. It didn't cover the basics. THIS class is the prequel to that class, so if you're just starting your free-motion adventure you have someone to take you through it one step at a time, as well as specific exercises to try as you get your feel for it.

In the class I take you though all the basic designs and skills.

 We build on what you've learned...

And build some more...

Until you're combining designs like a FMQ Wizard.

So are you excited? I am! I really hope this helps launch some of you hopers in to doers! If you would like a chance to win the class, please enter at Craftsy (it's quick!). I'll share more about the class when it launches.

Oh and I guess it's giveaway time here, the winner of the Magic Carpet Quilt pattern is "Tink's mom" who blogs at Selina Quilts. Congratulations!

April 28, 2015

Magic Carpets all around, with a giveaway!

It was a great delight to me that through the blog and Instagram there were several people who were interested in taking my new Magic Carpet pattern out for a spin. And today I get to show you what they did with it!

Kristyn at Melonpatch Quilts made this monochromatic version and I really love it!

Beth at Cooking Up Quilts picked the perfect fabrics for a happy rainbow approach. Click over to her blog to see the beautiful quilting!

Karlee (sewinspired2day) chose an attractive color scheme with input from her 14 year old daughter. She said it's her favorite quilt she's ever made, what a compliment!

Debra Hamilton (rivergirlquilts) used a two color approach and it came out especially hypnotic.

And you may have already seen the quilt made by Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict. She whipped up this quilt and finished hers before I had even finished mine!

Finally, Jasmine at Quilt Kisses made the pattern with a few changes that she explains in her blog post, I love how her color scheme reads!

Isn't it fun seeing all the different ways the pattern can look with various fabric choices?

So now I'm a little embarrassed to say I intended to offer a giveaway of the pattern for sale when I posted it but I forgot. I am not the model blogger, it turns out. But now today's the day!

To enter the giveaway leave a comment here on this blog post (no emails please!) letting me know what your favorite salad is. I need some new salad ideas! (Oh, and if you've already bought the pattern thank you and you should enter anyway; if you win the giveaway I'll refund your money!)

The giveaway is now CLOSED! Thanks for the great suggestions everyone!

April 26, 2015

I'm doing a rare thing and quilting a quilt for someone else. This is about a once a year thing, and this time the quilt top is from Hillary at Entropy Always Wins.

I like Hillary's work and I was happy to be asked to quilt something of hers. I was also happy she wasn't in a hurry because I generally have about 6 hours a week to quilt and I had things already lined up for a few months.

But now I'm getting to her top and it's a lot of fun.

Hillary gave me a lot of latitude to do what I wanted on the quilt top. Mostly that kind of thing gives me a stomach ache. I'm sure professional quilters get used to it, but I am always second guessing myself with quilting someone else's work. Still, I'm glad for the experiment because it's letting me try my hand at some ideas, especially in all the negative space.

That last one is a shot from the back. I'll show more when it's finished!


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The proposed project, public market cum terminal in Talisay City, Cebu, Philippines is still under construction. This project will serve as the solution to minimize traffic problem in Barangay Tabunok. This big area will hopefully gather the small and medium enterprises to operate businesses in this new market. All public utility vehicles in Talisay City will also be housed in this terminal. See the pictures below.

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Credit card debt destabilises Turkey

Demonstrators protest against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Ak Party government in Ankara February 27.
Demonstrators protest against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Ak Party government in Ankara February 27. Photo: Reuters

Ozcan Yuksel’s descent into debt began with a stroll down Istiklal Caddesi, a popular Istanbul promenade teeming with shops and restaurants.

Bank employees were passing out credit card applications and helping people fill them out. Mr Yuksel made the equivalent of a few hundred dollars a month working for a lighting fixture shop. But it turned out that did not matter.

“They were asking people to sign, and I did," he said. Within a week he had a card and a spending limit many times his paycheck.

That was in 2001. Today, Mr Yuksel, a 32-year-old father of two, owes more than $8946, much more than his annual income and an amount that will take him more than a decade to repay. He is among millions of Turks who are over their heads in debt they incurred after local banks aggressively marketed credit cards to low-income people.

Mr Yuksel’s tale of living on borrowed money illustrates one of the ills plaguing the country’s economy and threatening a new financial debacle in an unstable region. It echoes the subprime mortgage calamity in the US in 2008, in that the Turkish banks often seemed oblivious to the risk that their new customers might not pay them back.

The credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s Financial Services warned in a report last week that the boom in consumer credit had become a serious risk for Turkish lenders. Slowing economic growth, political turmoil and increasing reluctance by foreign investors to provide financing “are prompting a deterioration in the operating environment for Turkish banks", S&P said.

Even as turmoil in Ukraine lately has overshadowed Turkey’s political and economic crisis, the problems in Istanbul on the other side of the Black Sea have not diminished. On Thursday, Turkey’s dangerously weakened currency, the lira, lapsed to a three-week low as political opponents of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued to raise allegations in the graft scandal clouding his government less than a month before local elections.

When foreign capital was flowing freely into Turkey and other emerging markets, the nation used it to splurge on consumer goods and real estate, rather than on new businesses that would support lasting growth. Now the bill is coming due. A big issue facing Turkey is what financial and political havoc this pile of consumer debt could create as a plunge in the value of the Turkish lira and a pullback by foreign investors forces the country to live within its means.

Much of Turkey’s rapid growth in the past decade came from consumer spending based on credit. Debt from credit cards rose 31 per cent nationwide in 2012. In 2013 it rose an additional 22 per cent. From practically nothing a decade ago, consumer debt in Turkey now equals 55 per cent of household disposable income, according to Oxford Economics, a research organisation in Britain. Until the Turkish government recently curtailed the practice, stores habitually offered to sell almost anything on instalment, even a pair of jeans.

Debt upon debt upon debt

The debt overhang adds to the stress on the Turkish economy, which is already intense. Debt by the Turkish private sector, including businesses other than banks, totals more than 60 per cent of gross domestic product. That is one of the highest levels among developing countries, according to Oxford Economics.

An additional danger is that foreign investors are increasingly less willing to finance this debt, preferring to deploy their money in the US and Europe as those regions grow faster and offer better returns. The danger is seen in Turkey’s current-account deficit, a measure of how much imports exceed exports. The deficit of 7.4 per cent of gross domestic product in 2013 is really a representation of how much more Turks were spending than they were earning. Such a deficit is sustainable only as long as foreigners are willing to keep extending credit. Signs suggest they are not. That means the boom in consumer spending stops suddenly, forcing a sharp decline in living standards.

In response, the Turkish central bank has raised official interest rates sharply. The move seems to have stabilised the lira from further declines, but it has raised the cost of borrowing, which will slow the economy. Fewer people will shop if they can’t buy on credit.

Some analysts say the amount of consumer debt in Turkey, about $146 billion, is not big enough to threaten the country’s banks in the way that subprime mortgages, and securities tied to them, undermined the health of banks in the US and other nations. They say that because Turkish banks are considered well capitalised and the number of problem loans, at less than 5 per cent of the total, is considered low.

But S&P warned in its report that the official numbers may understate the scope of problem loans. Banks may be allowing debtors to take out new loans to repay old ones, rather than classifying the loans as being in arrears.

In a slower economy it will be even more difficult for low-income people such as Mr Yuksel to get pay raises or better jobs that would help them escape indebtedness. Umit Kumcuoglu, chief executive of Kare Investment and Securities, an Istanbul fund manager, said Turkey needed to do more to improve the climate for business and increase exports. “The way to achieve that is through entrepreneurship," Mr Kumcuoglu said.

Instead, Mr Yuksel earns the equivalent of about $470 a month working for a lighting shop. When a customer buys a fixture he installs it in the customer’s home.

A slightly built man with a dark beard and sad eyes, Mr Yuksel grew up in a village in eastern Turkey and is among the millions of people who have migrated from poor rural areas to Istanbul, looking for better opportunities and swelling the city’s population to more than 10 million.

A vicious cycle

After Mr Yuksel received his first credit card banks kept sending him more offers, he said. Within a year and a half he had eight credit cards and was borrowing from new cards to make payments on old ones. The Turkish Central Bank has become concerned about outrageous interest payments. In December it imposed a cap on credit card interest payments of 27 per cent per year. The permissible rate can still be as high as 35 per cent for people who are behind in their payments.

That does not help Mr Yuksel much. At first he used the cards only for necessities such as food, he said, but later succumbed to temptation and bought items such as a plasma television and a refrigerator.

Mr Yuksel consolidated his debt on two cards and cancelled the rest. Still, by 2011, he said, the payments on the credit cards exceeded $1119 a month, more than twice his salary.

Soon, the banks started to call. One day in 2012 a collection agency came to Mr Yuksel’s workplace during business hours, shaming him in front of co-workers, he said. Now the agency takes a quarter of his net income every month. About an additional quarter goes to support his eight-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.

Mr Yuksel’s second wife and their newborn live on what is left. He said they sometimes go for two months without eating meat. It will take him six or seven years to repay just the debt to one bank, he said. Then it will be the other bank’s turn. Turkish law has no provision for personal bankruptcy, and, in any case, failing to repay a debt is considered a deep dishonour.

“I blame myself," Mr Yuksel said. “Why wasn’t I more careful?"

But he is also angry at the banks. “They saw how much I was paid," he said. “You are given this card beyond your means. It sits in your pocket. No matter how hard you try, you spend it."

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The Volksblad Arts and Crafts Market in Bloemfontein

The Volksblad Arts and Crafts Market in Bloemfontein

There are so many malls and shopping centres in South Africa – it seems that even the small towns need two or three malls to draw consumerism out of shoppers and make them buy so much “stuff”.  It appears that the thing-to-do is to be seen at a mall with shopping bags packed under your arms.

Whatever happened to supporting local arts and crafts artisans, of browsing through stalls in a market-like environment and choosing items to purchase based on the quality of their craftsmanship and the décor appeal? These artworks will give you a sense of homeliness and culture when you display the artists’ wares in your living room or entrance hall.

Living close to Bloemfontein, we often make the trip to the aptly named City of Roses, taking advantage of my sister’s garden cottage as our Bloemfontein accommodation to be able to stay over for a weekend to enjoy the sights and sounds. What I like best is the monthly Volksblad Arts and Crafts Market, which is held at Kings Park. On the first Saturday of every month, artists bring their artwork and crafts handiwork to be on display for people who appreciate a deeper sense of culture and are prepared to pay very good rates for local artists’ work.

This isn’t like the “arts and crafts” you’ll find at airports, which are so ludicrously marked up because of their convenient location for travel gifts, but real artists’ very own work. These brave people have chosen to eke out a living from their natural talent, or to support their monthly income with hobbies that they really love doing.

Kings Park is a great venue for the market as everyone is familiar with the location as the ideal spot for family entertainment. My kids love the green and open vibe of the place and they enjoy interacting with other kids there (who probably also get a bit bored while their mothers stroll along and browse through the stalls). Often they get drawn towards the food stalls while we wander off towards the paintings or admire the thousands of roses. I always have to tell the kids that if they behave, they get a trip to the Bloemfontein Zoo, which also shares space with the park.

It’s great for a morning out, since the arts and crafts market is held from 07:00 to 13:00, and is one of the reasons why we keep coming back. Hope to see you there!


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Google’s ‘Africa Connected’ Finalists announced

Google’s ‘Africa Connected’ Finalists announced  $25,000 [271,000 rand] prizes for five winners whose lives are ‘powered by the web’ Online voting for the winners now open

Johannesburg, 19 February 2014 - Google has today announced the finalists of the Africa Connected competition. The competition was launched in August last year, calling entrepreneurs, creatives, innovators and web-lovers to share stories of how the web has transformed their lives and work. The 10 finalists have been selected by a panel of judges from over 2,200 entries from 35 countries.

Five successful winners from among the finalists will now be selected by the online voting public. The winners will bag $25,000 [ZAR 271,000] each, and will also have the opportunity to work with a Google sponsor over a six-month period to further their online business success. The competition categories included Education; Entertainment/Arts/Sports; Technology; Community and NGOs; and Small Businesses.

"Africa Connected is a competition that has run for over six months and we are thrilled at the number of amazing stories that have been collected from across Africa. Today we are excited to announce the top 10 finalists who have been selected by our judges’ panel. The diversity of their ventures - from providing clean drinking water to preserving culture - shows how the web can truly drive positive change in the lives of many people and their communities. We look forward to seeing who the voting public choose as the winners - the top five most inspiring success stories from across our continent." says Affiong Osuchukwu, Google Lead for the Africa Connected initiative.

Statement from the I* Leaders Coordination Meeting

Statement from the I* Leaders Coordination Meeting, Santa Monica, 14 February 2014

Leaders of the organizations responsible for coordination of the Internet technical infrastructure (loosely referred to as “I* leaders”) met last week in Santa Monica, California, USA. During the 2-day meeting, they discussed activities underway and exchanged views and updates on a range of topics including:

IETF and W3C efforts to improve overall Internet privacy and security.
• Globalization of the IANA functions.
• The 1net initiative, website and new collaboration forum.
• The “Netmundial” – Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance.
ICANN strategy panels and globalisation efforts.
• Preparations for the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference .
• Web 25th anniversary and W3C 20th anniversary planning.

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48 Hour Give Away: Zazzle.com Ornament

Zazzle.com is a site online that allows you to make or customize your own holiday ornaments.  They have give me a code for a FREE custom premium ornament to give away to one lucky reader!

They also sent me a code so I could try it a premium one (up to $19.95).  I have to admit I liked alot of the non-premium ones better- I guess I am not that fancy.  But I made a very cute ornament with a picture of my cat on it!.

The site is VERY easy to use  and there are many options.  I can see these on a themed tree making a nice addition!  The average cost looks like it is about $25.

Take a look around and see if there are any ornaments that catch you eye.  If there are you can enter the contest and see if you can win a code to create yours for FREE!

There are 3 ways to enter the contest:

1- Leave a comment below letting me know which ornament you like best.

2- Follow me on facebook and leave a comment below letting me know.

3.  Follow me on twitter and leave a comment below letting me know.

That’s it!  I will choose a winner on Wednesday 12/7/11 around 7 p.m. EST.  The winner will have 24 hours to respond to my e-mail or I will choose another winner.

Good Luck!

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Before You Enlist and After You Say No

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This new training manual contains:

  • Fifty group exercises
  • Eight complete workshops
  • Handouts and support articles

All tools designed with the direct education approach, which uses group exercises that emphasize participants' empowerment and taps their wisdom as much as possible, not a boring lecture-based teaching approach.

For more information about ordering a copy along with the companion DVD, see our publications page (ON SALE for $7.50!).

We asked The Ruckus Society and Training for Change to help us create a training manual to assist the growing counter-recruitment movement. The Ruckus Society has played a lead role in the Not Your Soldier counter-recruitment camps. Their experience, coupled with Training for Change's direct education approach, produced a result that is a pedagogically sound, information-packed series of workshops with a skill-building emphasis. Matt Smucker of the smartMeme collective and Beyond The Choir also contributed by writing the Media and Messaging workshop.

What is in This Manual?

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • What Is The American Friends Service Committee?
  • What Is AFSC's Youth And Militarism Program?
  • What Is This Manual? How Do I Use It?
  • What Are The Contents Of Each Workshop?
  • What Is The Training Methodology?
  • Who Wrote The Manual?
  • Workshops
  • Elements Of Each Workshop
  • Before You Enlist: The Truth Of Military Recruitment
  • The Poverty Draft
  • How A Recruiter Gets Your Number
  • Core Organizing Skills
  • Creating And Expanding Your Group
  • How To Build A Campaign
  • The Big Picture Of Counter-Recruitment
  • Media And Messaging
  • Support Documents
  • Beyond Just Education: Why Our Approach To Teaching Makes All The Difference In Social Change (at
  • Tips For Facilitators
  • Tailoring Workshops
  • How To Design A Workshop
  • Index Of Tools And Handouts

What are the Contents of Each Workshop?

Before You Enlist: The Truth of Military Recruitment (Mini-Workshop)
Geared for presentations in high school settings, this is a brief introduction to the issues of enlistment and military myths, designed to give students the full picture. Because it is in a classroom and not a peace club, the anticipated audience is a mix of students ranging from anti-war to pro-military. This training can help trainers "get their foot in the door" by connecting with sympathetic teachers in the school, and may lead to invitations to come back for longer trainings.

The Poverty Draft
This session is like a counter-recruitment 101. It explores how the military is reaching out to youth and how larger societal forces like poverty, racism, and classism impact who is targeted most by recruiters. The connections between education funding cuts and increased militarism in schools are made, and the lies that recruiters tell are examined. Alternatives to the military are presented.

How a Recruiter Gets Your Number (PDF, 861KB)
This is an informational session on how military recruiters operate. Specific attention is given to tools that help recruiters get access to youth including school access, ASVAB, No Child Left Behind, JAMRS, and JROTC. We look at each of these recruitment tools as an opportunity for activists to campaign against military recruitment. We also look at what appeals to people about going into the military, and look at the truths behind the values recruiters promote and the promises they make.

Core Organizing Skills
What is organizing and how do we do it? This workshop explains how organizing differs from other forms of social change (like service providing/advocacy). It then moves into specific skills for being persuasive, in settings such as school board meetings, and other skills for building relationships and becoming an effective organizer.

Creating and Expanding Your Group
This workshop offers leadership skills training to help groups become more effective. It is especially for counter-recruitment groups looking to strengthen their own internal leadership and ability to organize. It includes theory and skills about leadership development, decision-making and team-building. A major section is devoted to expanding the group, especially how to reach out across lines of diversity, such as race and class.

How to Build a Campaign: Setting Goals, Making Allies, and Evaluating Outcomes (PDF. 1.16MB)
Campaigns wage struggles for specific outcomes that further larger social change goals. Like a story, they have a beginning, middle and end - setting goals, waging the struggle, and eventually winning. This workshop focuses on defining a campaign and building skills to create a counter-recruitment campaign. The skills include setting specific goals that lead to larger outcomes, reaching out to new allies to win that campaign, and evaluating a campaign.

The Big Picture of Counter-Recruitment: Seeing CR as a Movement
For those already involved in counter-recruitment work, this workshop helps folks put counter-recruitment into a larger context of militarism. This workshop focuses on the dynamics of social movements and puts smaller campaigns into the bigger picture of social change. Folks will build skills in the strategic choices they need to further their campaign, sustain themselves for the long run, and get familiar with the Movement Action Plan, a powerful framework for how movements develop over time.

Media and Messaging: Presentation, Message Discipline, Telling Stories
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Regina Spektor heeds Amanda Palmer’s advice

Amanda Palmer, Nicole Atkins and Regina Spektor walk into a bar.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

OK, so it may not have been a bar — more like New York City’s Spiegeltent — but the three were indeed together and, thanks to some peer pressure from Palmer, Spektor walked away from the evening with a mission: update her MySpace blog. “Amanda was kind enough to remind me that me not writing about anything on MySpace for such a long time, is uncool to the max (not her exact words),” she wrote.

In fact, it had been eight months and 11 days since the quirky chanteuse fully took to her digital scribe, and only then to talk about her then-recent health ailments (vertigo) and to wish readers season’s greetings. In that time, Spektor, as she reveals, wrote a song, titled “The Call,” for Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, recorded a tune with Ben Folds for his new album, played a Brooklyn show with a Stroke (Albert Hammond, Jr.), opened for Ani DiFranco in Philadelphia, and played three dates on the True Colors tour, which included a little tour-bus dance party with Tegan and Sara in Washington, D.C.

“They are the funnest and awesomest twins I know,” Spektor wrote, “and just because I don’t know that many twins doesn’t mean they are not the highest caliber of awesome and fun.” We’d imagine few would argue.

Fun aside, the tour’s mission certainly wasn’t lost on Spektor:

Gay rights, in a free and equal country, should be implicit. That’s the point of equality. It’s equal. Everyone gets to have it. Somehow, someone didn’t get the memo with the whole ‘inalienable rights’ thing, and so they are not. Then again, they got the memo about guns just fine. Not separation of church and state, though … Who is in charge of handing out these memos? It’s bizarre. Then again, we are a heart beat away from having a very inexperienced woman (an insult to all actually deserving women out there) possibly lead our country off the deep end of the edge of human reason … but that’s a much longer post…

Meanwhile, for those curious about a follow-up to 2006’s Begin to Hope, Spektor, who will perform with Ben Folds on Late Night With Conan O’Brien on Oct. 2, offers little detail, saying only, “A record has been started, and not finished yet.” Here’s hoping the wait for the new record isn’t as long as for the update to her blog.

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Alessandro C. Coppie Italy, 2 luglio 2010
Viaggiatore in coppia

ALbergo stile resort al centro di surabaya
Ottimo hotel all'interno di un giardino al centro di surabaya. Mall ad 1 km, piscina grande.
Benny S. Viaggiatori singoli Indonesia, 29 settembre 2014
natural environment

very natural, unique and bigger room
kind of surprise with this hotel, unique from others Hotel, its more to cottage style... that was my first impression, but overall i like this hotel....:)
Ferry Y. Viaggiatori singoli Indonesia, 19 settembre 2014
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cheap, clean, good location
Nice hotel but a little bit too old, need to be renovate, and too dark at night, a little bit creepy, the breakfast was so unacceptable.
Ie M. Viaggiatori singoli Indonesia, 25 agosto 2014
Good value for money

Location, friendliness of staff and pricing
John T. Viaggiatori d'affari Malaysia, 24 agosto 2014
Disappointing Room

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It was disappointing when i first step in into the hotel room. This is mainly because the hotel is not up to my expectation and it is dirty. Real dirty. When i open the bed sheet, there were hairs on the bed covered by the bed sheet, besides that, the bathroom is in poor condition as the tiles are dirty, towel are in black white color. Overall only the breakfast and bed was good. Other than that, all is disappointing.
John T. Viaggiatori d'affari Malaysia, 24 agosto 2014
Normal to me

Food, Service , Bed
Poor Cleanliness in Room, Poor Lightning in Outside Corridor and inside the Room. Excellent comfortable bed and breakfast. Recommend for a short stay but definitely not honeymoon stay.
Irawan G. Famiglie con figli grandi Indonesia, 30 luglio 2014
Good Hotel

This hotel is clean , comfortable , near shopping mall at the West Surabaya
Eric G. Coppie Australia, 19 giugno 2014
Well located hotel with large comfortable rooms

Rooms, Gardens, Location
Bit slow on check in due to political convention on but ok, rooms were very nice and large in beautiful gardens. The location was central to where we wanted to go for entertainment and a nice area of Surabaya.
Yosef N. Viaggiatori singoli Indonesia, 19 maggio 2014
Comfortable place and nice room

Nice room, good services and quite
Just great and nice environment with quite surrounded room. And resorts concept for this hotel even in the middle of the surabaya town
Paul G. Viaggiatori d'affari Australia, 30 aprile 2014
Very pleasant

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Great stay, Hotel can do with a renovation but my personal view is that it is well worth the price you pay for your stay. The cost is very reasonable, lovely natural garden surroundings, air conditioned rooms which are also very comfortable and great staff that are more than willing to assist you.

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Robert M. Families with young children United States of America, January 9, 2015
Big hotel. Bad beds

Pool and location
Fine. Short and easy. No access to wine store. The front desk informed us we would have to taxi to go to a restaurant. The next morning we Found a huge hotel across the street with many nice restaurants inside. Really bad business to drive customers away from close by businesses.
Morgan M. Solo travelers United Kingdom, January 22, 2011
Large hotel outside of the center of Marrakech

Rooms were big, hotel was quiet, being outside the center the hotel was peaceful
We stayed here in late January. Initially we had wanted to stay in the center of Marrakech, but couldn't find anything there as good value as the Ryad Mogodor. In the end, we were glad that we stayed outside the center as it is very noisy, crowded and badly polluted. The Ryad Mogodor, however, was clean and relatively peaceful. The rooms were large and comfortable, although the decor was slightly worn. The hotel provided good value, and a location not too far from the center of town.
Bina V. Groups United Kingdom, December 9, 2010
Comfortable rooms

spacious rooms, nice location, nice views from the balcony
Was a nice spacious rooms with good location. Was about a 10 min ride from the square, and the hotel provides a free shuttle to the square every hour. It is nice as the square is very polluted. The hotel is in a newly developed area, with a shopping centre and supermarket 5 mins walk away. Hotel decor is fantastic. Breakfast is okay....not much variety but has the basics. Overall if you are not too concerned about paying for the facilities and the noise, then the hotel is really nice.
David P. Groups United Kingdom, October 20, 2010
Excellent accommodation for £22 p/n

Good value for money
Access to the old centre a bit difficult. But easy coming back on a no. 16 Hotel convenient for the airport bus link.
Judith O. Groups Ireland, October 9, 2010
"Lovely hotel, waiter staff only with a smile "

Lovely Room, Beautiful Pool Area, & balcony for breakfast
Just thought the receptionists and staff where you bought coffee while waiting for the suttle bus could have been more friendly. Cleaing & Waiter staff very friendly and polite. Cleaing of rooms daily was excellent. Shuttle bus service was excellent. Again Receiptionist could have been more helpful when handing the little flyer with timetable.
Matthew T. Solo travelers United Kingdom, September 2, 2010
Riad Mogador Kasbah

Good pool. Very clean & in good condition.
I had a good 3 nights at this Mogador hotel. The breakfast was average. My room was average. The pool area was good. It had a beautiful lobby. The main market place of Marrakech was about a mile & a half away, which I walked, but would only be 5 minutes in a taxi. The staff were very pleasant. Overall, I had a very nice stay at the Mogador Kasbah.
Sightseeing/Attractions Tip: Agdal Gardens close by.
Sam M. Couples United Kingdom, August 24, 2010
ok hotel

room standard
the room was very comfortable however the staff did not do the hotel justice. The pool was a little dirty. there is a shopping mall nearby but apart form that the hotel is very secluded. In our experience the hotel shuttle buses are not very reliable.
Ruokai C. Solo travelers United States of America, August 17, 2010
Good hotel

Very classy building, included pool, friendly employees
I enjoyed my stay here. The hotel is very large, a converted Ryad I believe, and the rooms are spacious as well. The front desk is helpful. There is a shuttle every 90 minutes that will transport you to the Medina. The meals here are only so-so, and you might need to get used to the sight of birds and ants surrounding the buffet table. But, overall a nice hotel. Does need Wifi though.
Damrong S. Couples Thailand, July 9, 2010
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We stays at this hotel two days. the hotel's location is far from the old medina, about 2 km., but there was a hotel's shuttle bus service which leave from the hotel 8 times per day, starting from 9:00 am. and then every 1:30 hr. The reception is friendly and helpful. The room's condition was very good as the 4-star hotel standard. The hotel's facilities was very good. There are a clean swimming pool and fitness room. The breakfast is on a good quality. We impressed this hotel very much.
Said A. Couples France, June 29, 2010
Great Hotel

Clean, Friendly Staff, Great Breakfast
We are a great time at the hotel. The staff were very friendly, recommending places to visit and advising how to get there. Breakfast was delicious with a live eggs cooking station. The rooms are roomy and the bed is comfortable, however the pillows are a bit too thick. The hotel is distant from the Medina but we rented a car which was very convenient. If back in Marrakesh, we'd definitely go back to this hotel.
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Drilling into a downturn

DANIEL LOOKER 02/20/2014 @ 4:53pm Business Editor

USDA economists gave more details of the department's recent forecasts for lower farm income Thursday at the Agricultural Outlook Forum in Arlington, Virginia.

A drop in cash receipts is the main reason for a 26% decline in net farm income to $95.8 billion this year and a 21% drop in net cash income, said Kevin Patrick, an economist with the Economic Research Service. A $26 billion fall in cash receipts and $5 billion less in farm program payments is only partially offset by a $3.9 billion drop in production costs.

Yet, those income projections would still be relatively high, he added. Net farm income would be the seventh highest since 1970, when adjusted for inflation. Net cash income would be the ninth highest.

In the short run, USDA commodity programs aren't going to be a windfall as farms adjust to lower income. The 2014 Farm Bill ends direct payments for this year, while any payments from its new programs, either target price or revenue, won't be received until 2015.

"In real terms, government payments in 2014 are the lowest level since 1981," he said.

But when those programs kick in next year, they'll help put a floor on farm income.

"You could be looking at support rates approaching $90 an acre," said Purdue University economist Brent Gloy, who based that assumption on a 200-bushel corn yield farm in Indiana that enrolls in the Agriculture Risk Coverage program, which currently appears to offer a revenue guarantee tied to $5.30-per-bushel corn prices in the Olympic average of the last five years. Gloy said his calculation is just a back-of-the-napkin estimate and more accurate estimates will be made later by economists at USDA and elsewhere.

"We have an idea where the downside is, and I don't think we had that until we got this [farm] bill," he said.

Gloy said that agriculture faces some years with headwinds that likely will include lower commodity prices and margins.

"The growth from biofuels is likely over," he said.

"The emerging markets have been the other key part of the demand story," he said, and mentioned Turkey, where its central bank recently raised interest rates. It's among the so-called Fragile Five nations that attracted investment during the recession in the U.S. and Europe that appear to be faltering as those economies start to recover. The other four are Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.

The recent increase in global crop production isn't likely to go away, he said. And in the U.S., the technology that farmers have purchased to increase yields, such as tile and center pivots, won't disappear either.

Yet, for most farmers, Gloy sees the next few years as "a few hiccups on the way."

"Farmers will figure out how to get through this and prosper over a long period of time," he said.

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Jerry Gulke reflects on the 2013 grain marketing year and provides insight for 2014 and beyond.

With Christmas only a few days away, Jerry Gulke says farmers should take a moment and acknowledge agriculture’s many blessings. True, prices are much lower now than they were at this time last year, but yields were also dramatically higher than 2012.

"We know things go in cycles," says Gulke, president of the Gulke Group. As the saying goes…What goes up must come down.

"Most of us got good yields, even with low prices," he says. "It could have been a lot worse."

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For 2013, Gulke says, the U.S. just didn’t need a big crop. But, that’s what U.S. farmers harvested this fall. "Prices are dependent on what you grow this year based on what you used last year," Gulke says. "Demand was hurt last year because the world doesn’t want to eat $7 or $8 corn."

While corn prices aren’t anywhere near the $6.50 level from earlier this year, Gulke says there is an advantage to lower prices. "We’re down here at $4 where we’re going to create demand eventually," he says. "We’re going to change some minds of our global competitors. Do they really want to be in the business with us? Who can hang on the longest?"

The high prices of the last few years have attracted many farmers across the globe to the corn production family. While more competition can mean lower prices, Gulke says, a steady supply can further develop demand.

"I can remember complaining when Brazil entered the soybean market," he says. "But, low and behold, years later, we now we use pretty much all South America and North America can produce." That increase in supply resulted in a new price plateau.

Now that corn and soybean production is on such a global scale, Gulke says, if our competitors grow a poor crop, U.S. producers will benefit. If a major enough crop failure happens, Gulke says, U.S. farmers’ inventory in the bins will be worth more than money in the bank. "But I don’t know when that will be," he says. "It will probably be up to weather all over again."

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Gulke is quick to say he’s not bullish about grain prices in the short-term. "Everyone is negative right now," he says. "But the current situation will cause farmers to switch some acres, and we will educate our competitors."

And looking into the future, Gulke sees positive signs.

"Long-term, agriculture is still the best place to be, even for a young farmer who is just getting started," he says. "We still have to feed the world, and we are still the best in the business. I think the American farmers will still come out on top."

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Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Michael Caton, Guy Torry, Louis Lombardi, Edward Asner

Marvin is a police evidence clerk who dreams of becoming a real cop someday, he answers a 911 call of a burglary in progress. Seeing this as his opportunity to prove he is cut out to be an officer, he races off to the burglary. But enroute Marvin has a freak car accident and awakens to find that a deranged scientist secretly used animal organs to rebuild his broken parts. Then he finds himself falling in love with the sexy Rianna and its animal magnetism at its wildest

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He had a life anyone would envy, but he couldn't remember it. Waking up on a beach, he is unsure of who he is, but he remembers a woman's face, and this woman becomes his world and his way back to himself. The question he can't answer is just what he'll find when he gets there

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