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In spring, when everything revives, two hundred species of migratory birds come back here from Africa or from the Mediterranean, like in a holiday.
Wild Danube Delta is the only natural area from Romania included in Unesco World Heritage. It is the place where the Danube River ends it's journey through Europe and flows into the Black Sea. It is a true paradise for those who love nature, wildlife, birdwatching, remote villages and simplicity of life.
After more than 2800 kilometers crossing Europe from West to East, Danube River formed one of the most beautiful Deltas in the world. It is the newest land of Europe, continuosly expanding. It is the heaven for hundres of species of birds and animals.
Of the 375 bird species that live in Romania, 341 are found on the Danube Delta. Of these. 171 are nesting species. Other species are there during spring, summer and autum or winter migration. A number of 17 species are globaly thereatened. Some of the species from the Danube Delta are recognised as monuments of nature.
Without doubt, the stars of the Delta are the Pelicans and Cormorans. The Great White Pelican is the symbol of the Danube Delta. Notice that in the Danube Delta there are the largest Pelican colonies from Europe. The Pelicans are the biggest birds in the Delta. Their wings are over 3 meters and the body weight up to 15 kilograms.
The spectacle is amazing when the Pelicans hunts. They gather in a semicircle and chase small fish in shallow waters.The sound is fabulous. Pelican is a protected species in Europe. In the Danube Delta, their estimated number is between 3560-4160 breeding pairs.
Another famous bird from Danube Delta is the Great Egret, a splendid, impressive bird with white plumage, beak and longs legs, very graceful. This bird stay in the Danube Delta over the winter aso.
Other birds you will admire in the Danube Delta: Red-Breasted Goose, Pygmy Cormoran, Little Egret, Purple Heron, Squacco Heron, Little Bittern, Spoonbill, Glossy Ibis, White Stork, Ferruginous Duck, Greater Spotted Eagle, White-tailed Eagle, Red-footed Falcon, Black-winged Stilt, Crane or spectacular Kingfisher.
Population of the Danube Delta is arround 20.000. The main activity is fishing, but agriculture is also a way of earning food. Sheep and cattle breeding is another important ocupation for the locals.
In Danube Delta there is only one City - Sulina - and many small villages, some of them very remote, like Crisan, Mila 23, Letea, Periprava, Caraorman or Sfistofca.
Sulina is the most eastern city of Romania at the lowest altitude. First historical document mentioning Sulina is from the year 950. During 12th and 18th century, Sulina was recognised as a fisherman village and a refuge for pirats from the near seas. At the end of 19th century, Sulina was a very cosmopolite city, due to the Danube European Comission which had it's headquarters in Sulina. This is why in Sulina were built a Catholic Church, an Orthodox Cathedral and a Greek Church. Also a Mosque and a Synagogue were erected in Sulina.
Sulina had a very good life - on the beach it was a Casino where many parties gathered all the locals dancing, gambleing, listening music. At some point, the population of Sulina was 30.000. The official documets were written in french and english and 80% of the population were speaking greek language. Every person from Sulina had to know the other languages and at some point in Sulina were 20 different languages. Apart of romanians and greeks, in Sulina lived turks, armenians, russians, slovenians, bulgarians, french and english people, italians or germans.
Sulina developed over times: from a small fisherman village to an international port. Sulina had also bad times when, during the Second World War was bombed and many houses distroyed. Unfortunatelly, the communism put it's mark on Sulina too and in the City were built ugly small apartments blocks, soviet style. But, this didn't ruined Sulina's charm and now, Sulina is a very nice place to visit.
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just a quick post tonight as it's getting late and I'm starting to droop!
here is my (very last minute) entry for the current Lawnscaping Challenge #22!!
just a quick post tonight as it's getting late and I'm starting to droop!
here is my (very last minute) entry for the current Lawnscaping Challenge #22!!
At first, I'll admit, I couldn't think of anything at. all. I love apples, I love autumn...but nothing came to mind. So I just let it stew for a bit (pardon the pun!) and this is what I came up with.
A cute little card, mostly very self explanatory. The only part that I can think might need explaining is the apple sack, which is an ATC sized piece of Sticky back canvas that I 'painted' with Frayed Burlap Distress Stain and then stamped on using Momento Ink and Lawn Fawn Sally's ABCs (my new favourite alphabet!!) As you can see, I couldn't resist using my new Houndstooth stamp from Hero Arts on the tree either :)
I tied some jute twine around the corners of the canvas to make it look like a tied sack, but that ended up being removed because I had to re-size it. I still feel the twine would be a cute look so I might attempt it again on another card.
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One last thing before I go, a big thank you to my gorgeous friend Joy who helped me re-snazzy up my blog and bring Christmas to it too--thanks so much for all the time you spent on it honey! (make sure you pop over to her blog too to see what she's done there!)
Anyhoo that's it for me!
I hope you like it :)
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Do you need a check-up from the neck up? May is Better Speech and Hearing Month and all month I'll be sending you tips on caring for your voice and articulators.
Just like working out at a gym, your facial and oral muscles need to be exercised to function well. Singers and performers warm up by singing scales. Public speakers need to do the same for their articulation.
Here is today's tip:
Warm up before your public speaking engagement with these vocal exercises for the lips, tongue, and jaw.
Lip trills: Say brrrrr. with your lips. It's the sound you make when you're cold. If you do it correctly, your lips will vibrate.
Lip and tongue coordination. Say puh tuh kuh, puh tuh kuh, puh tuh kuh in rapid fire succession.
Lip coordination: Place a pencil between your teeth and say this tongue twister-"Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers". It causes you to over articulate which will improve your clarity.
Jaw: Place the top of your hand under your chin. Drop your jaw as low as it can go. With your hand in place, say Yaw, Yaw, Yaw.
Do this daily or at least right before your next presentation. You'll feel more relaxed and you'll articulate more clearly and fluently.


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no bummer summer.Saturday, June 21, 2014
Welcome official start of summer! Yah! I'm pretty excited for you as long as you please promise to be better than last year's summer. Alex has been really good this year and has only played volleyball once so far, so it looks like we are on track to have an injury-free summer. And just in case, we have Aflac. Quack. But hope to not have to use it.
This pretty little album was created before the start of Summer 2013 (and pre-injury). It sat untouched for the entire summer and is feeling a little lonely. It is longing for memories and stories to be placed inside. And it's not my nature to neglect something right? (haha). This year I decided to work on finishing this album instead of starting another one for Summer 2014. Not sure where my Summer 2014 memories are gonna go, but I'll find a place for them. We love all memories equally and they all deserve a good home.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Roy the Destroyer
I wonder why this is. He's not in a political party, so it's not a matter of towing the party line. Surely Cricket Australia don't care much. They shouldn't. He's a free thinking person, I think it's admirable that he thinks there are more important things than cricket. Like world affairs. And safety!
And then he saved the game. What a champion.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Personal Message From Gary Randall
We've been writing this daily column for the past 10 years. I appreciate the wisdom (well, most of it) the encouragement and support many of you give to this effort.
I also deeply appreciate our worldwide readership.
We will return to our regular daily publication schedule on Thursday, September 18.
During these days we will be re-running some of our most listened to radio programs. I will return live on radio on the 18th as well.
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Rest up Gary, we need your sound voice.ReplyDelete
God bless you and your family.
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Gary, Do you have a radio program on the West side of Washington state? I live on Camano Island and would like to listen, but don't see any stations I can receive listed??ReplyDelete
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Thanks for all you do, Gary. We need more great voices like yours to speak out for truth and goodness...in this wicked world of ours.ReplyDelete
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Good for you. Take care of your self because we need you. Thank you for your steadfast commitment. Praying you can have more fun than you think possible , and be spiritually and physically revitalized.ReplyDelete
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I cannot tell you how grateful I am for all of your love and support.
I have gotten more sweet messages and emails that have encouraged me and, more often than not, brought me to tears.
Sometime this week I will get around to returning those messages, but please know that your words matter to me and this family and we are thinking about y'all, and praising God for all y'all have done.
Also, I haven't sent out the password yet, because now it feels huge. As if I need something profound and insightful. I may be over thinking it just a bit. What's new?
So yeah, since my brain is crowded with packing list, document details, and travel plans, don't expect big things. Love you guys!


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When I started coming up with ideas for my first iDevBlogADay post, I considered writing about everything from procrastination to Xcode folder references. It took a couple helpful tweets to make me realize I should write about something I really know about: the process of developing Trainyard.
Trainyard is my iPhone game. It's a grid-based logic puzzle game where the goal is to get each train from its initial station to a goal station. Every train starts out a certain colour, and most puzzles require the player to mix and merge trains together so that the correctly coloured trains end up at the right stations. The player's only method of input is drawing tracks for the trains to follow. It's kind of hard to explain with words, so if you're confused you should watch the trailer.
I came up with the idea for the game a year and a half ago, during a period where I was actually working on ideas for Flash games. At that time I didn't have any iPhone development experience, and had barely even looked into Objective-C. I did, however, have an hour long commute by train which gave me plenty of time to come up with interesting game ideas. My main game prototyping tools were (and still are) a notepad and an Acer Asprire One netbook. Yes, a netbook. I'll probably write more about that little guy in a future post. For now let's focus on the notepad.
Every game designer should carry around a notepad as much as possible. You never know when the spark of a great game idea is going to come to you. I went through notepads and notebooks of all shapes and sizes while working on Trainyard, so I really don't think it matters which kind you use as long as you've got one. I suppose you could try an iPhone app for recording ideas, but there's something special about being able to sketch with a pen.
A notepad is more than a place to write down the gist of an idea, it's also a great place to flesh concepts out and figure out how you're going to execute them. In the case of Trainyard, my initial idea (as you can see on the page above) was "each train starts with a solid colour that they have to mix and deliver". So far so good. Ok, let's look a little further down that page: "[trains] can collide, have two cars, and pick up paint". That's quite different. My original idea was that each train had several cars to pull, and each train would also have its own control panel where you could adjust the speed before pressing "Go". Confusing? Yes. Would it make for a good game? Maybe, but it's definitely not Trainyard.
On this second page you can see some more questionable ideas: "Game could be hex based instead of square", "limitations include fixed quantities of pieces". At this point in the process I was thinking of limiting the user's selection of pieces like a lot of other similar puzzle games do. After thinking through the mechanic over the next few days, I realized that I could make it work without limiting the user's piece selection. I think the flexible unlimited-track nature of Trainyard is now something that really makes it unique. At one point a lot later in the prototype process I even made a hex based prototype (flash link) just for fun, but it felt weird and confusing.
After those first few sketches, I worked over the course of a few days to eliminate most of the extraneous ideas and the concept gradually got closer and closer to what it is today. About a week after coming up with the initial idea the core gameplay mechanic was transformed into something nearly identical to what it is now. Keep in mind that at that point I still hadn't coded anything; it was all on paper. I even have a sheet of paper with a detailed solution to the very first Trainyard puzzle ever created, which actually made it into the game as The Original. Unfortunately I couldn't find that piece of paper in time for this post, but when I do I'll be sure to put it here.
The moral of the story: as developers, we're often tempted to go straight to our computers to make prototypes and tests, but sometimes it's good to just sit down with a pen and paper and flesh out an idea.
I hope you enjoyed this first little look into the Trainyard development process. I'm planning to post at least a couple times a week, so please add http://struct.ca/feed/ to your RSS readers and whatnot. I've never had my own blog, so my writing style is going to be a bit rough for a while, but bear with me, it'll get better over time If you didn't come here from iDevBlogADay, make sure you check all those other blogs out, there's some great stuff there.


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After working with over 25 churches across the country this past year, I realized there is a common challenge that growing churches face. It's a challenge that frustrates leaders, slows progress in critical areas, and causes an undercurrent of strain between teammates. This challenge is lack of clarity around decision making.
When churches are small, and there are a few leaders who lead the church, it's pretty clear who makes what calls. But as churches grow and more leaders are added to the team, it's not long before confusion sets in around who gets to make what decisions. Often all decisions start to feel like we need to have total consensus to move on anything. Did I mention frustration sets in?
The fog lifted for me about 5 years ago. On a team retreat, our Executive team had the privilege of working with Jim Dethmer, Co-Founder of Conscious Leadership Group. He walked us through an exercise called Decision Rights. He said before a decision can be made, the team has to first decide how the decision will be made. Who holds the decision rights?
The chart below illustrates the 7 ways decisions can be made. The two variables to keep in mind are the amount of time it takes to make a decision and the level of buy-in it generates.
7 Levels of Decision Rights
- Leader Decides: This is the quickest way to make a decision because no other input is required in the decision making. A leader is simply appointed to make the decision. Buy-in is often very low at this level.
- Leader Decides with Input: A leader is appointed to make the decision, but is also instructed to get input from others prior to making the decision. Because other voices are in the mix, there is an increased level of buy-in.
- *Sub-Group Decides: A small team, a sub-group, is tasked with making the decision.
- *Sub-Group Decides with Input: The sub-group makes the decision after getting input from others.
- Majority Vote: Just like it sounds. Once options have been discussed, whichever option gets the most votes wins.
- Consensus: Consensus is reached once all team members involved in making the decision are no longer opposed or are neutral towards the option that's been laid out.
- Alignment: Different from consensus, alignment requires that all team members are in total agreement that it's the right decision.
* For 'Sub-Group Decides' and 'Sub-Group Decides with Input' – the sub-group still needs to determine how they will make the decision (Majority Vote, Consensus or Alignment)
Here's a practical example of how this works.
Let's say your church is out of space on Sunday morning. Your two services are full, and you know you need to launch a 3rd service in the fall. How will, and who will, make that decision?
Here are the options:
Leader Decides:
You appoint a leadership team member to make the call. It takes very little time to make the decision, but also creates very little buy-in. There will most likely be a lot pushback and complaining from all the team members that now must rally their teams to accommodate this decision.
Leader Decides with Input:
You appoint a leader to make the decision, but require her to go and talk to the key ministry leaders that will be impacted by whatever decision is made. While not adding a lot of time in the decision-making process, the leader has more wisdom in making the best decision and a little more buy-in is created.
Sub-Group Decides:
You appoint the heads of worship, ministry, and operations to make the decision. You feel they know their areas and will make the best decision with the time you have to make the decision.
Sub Group Decides with Input:
Same as above, but you add time and potential buy-in to the process by requiring them to get input from all of their team leads.
Majority Vote:
The leadership team brainstorms all of the options, narrow it to three, and then you take a vote. The option with the most votes wins. (By the way, Majority Vote can be good for a lunch decision like "Chipotle or Chick-fil-A" – but not much else.)
All of the options are vetted by the team and then each team member gets a vote – opposed, neutral, favorable. Our team did it this way. Once the options were narrowed down, and there appeared to be a leaning towards the best service time, we would do a rock-paper-scissors style vote. On the count of three, we would put each put out the number of fingers that represented our perspective. 1 finger=opposed, 2 fingers= still opposed, but less strongly. 3 fingers= neutral. 4 fingers= favorable with a few remaining concerns. 5 fingers= very favorable. Once we were all at a 3 or above, we had "consensus".
Drawing from the last illustration, everyone on the team puts out 5 fingers. One 4 – and you do not have alignment.
3 Key Learnings as Our Team Adopted This Model:
Not every decision warrants consensus.
Different types of decisions warrant different types of decision rights. By thinking through what level of buy-in is needed and how much time you have to make a decision, this allows the right level of decision making.
You can strive for consensus, but can also have a back-up plan.
In this example of adding a service time, you can shoot for consensus, but you also have to make the decision by a certain date in order to allow time for the teams to prepare for the change. The back-up plan, set up from the get-go says, "if we aren't able to come to consensus by July 31, Jim's going to decide (Leader Decides)."
Bringing clarity in advance to who is making the decision is freeing!
Everyone knows their role. Either you have no role in it so you don't have to expend any energy on it. Or if you're giving input, you can speak honestly and openly, and then your job is done. And if you have a vote, that's clear as well.


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Metabolomics is a fast growing field in systems biology and offers a powerful and promising approach for a large range of applications. Metabolomics focuses on deriving the concentrations and fluxes of low molecular weight metabolites in bio-fluids, cells or tissue, plants, foods and related samples and this information provides enormous detail on biological systems and their current status. Mass Spectrometry in Metabolomics: Methods and Protocols presents a broad coverage of the major mass spectrometry (MS)-based metabolomics methods and applications. MS is one of most powerful and commonly used analytical methods in metabolomics; because so many different MS systems are used in metabolomics, this volume includes a wide variety such as triple quads, time of flight, Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance and even simple quadrupole systems. A wide range of studies are described, with samples ranging from blood and urine to tissue and even plants. Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols, and notes on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
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Part I. Historical and Methodology Overview
1. Overview: of Mass Spectrometry Based Metabolomics: Opportunities and Challenges
G. A. Nagana Gowda and Danijel Djukovic
Part II. Global LC-MS Based Metabolic Profiling
2. Global Metabolic Profiling using Liquid Chromatography Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry
Yunpeng Qi, Yunlong Song, Haiwei Gu, Guorong Fan, and Yifeng Chai
3. LC-MS Profiling to Link Metabolic and Phenotypic Diversity in Plant Mapping Populations
Camilla B. Hill, Antony Bacic, and Ute Roessner
4. Mitochondrial Metabolomics Using High-Resolution Fourier-Transform Mass Spectrometry
Young-Mi Go, Karan Uppal, Douglas I. Walker, ViLinh Tran, Lauriane Dury, Frederick H. Strobel, Hélène Baubichon-Cortay, Kurt D. Pennell, James R. Roede, and Dean P. Jones
5. Sample Preparation Methods for LC-MS Based Global Aqueous Metabolite Profiling
Antoni Beltran, Sara Samino, and Oscar Yanes
Part III. Global GC-MS and CE-MS Based Metabolic Profiling
6. Methods of Discovery-Based and Targeted Metabolite Analysis by Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography with Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry Detection
Luke C. Marney, Dr. Jamin C. Hoggard, Kristen J. Skogerboe, and Robert E. Synovec
7. Analysis of Mouse Liver Metabolites by GC×GC–TOF MS
Xue Shi, Xinmin Yin, and Xiang Zhang
8. Metabolite Fingerprinting by Capillary Electrophoresis-Mass Spectrometry
Antonia Garcia, Shama Naz, and Coral Barbas
Part IV. Isotope Labeling Methods
9. Quantitative Metabolomic Profiling using Dansylation Isotope Labeling and Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
Ruokun Zhou and Liang Li
10. Quantitative Analysis of Amino and Organic Acids by Methyl Chloroformate Derivatization and GC-MS/MS Analysis
Hans Fredrik Nyvold Kvitvang, Kåre A. Kristiansen, Stina K. Lien, and Per Bruheim
11. Stable Isotope Labeled Tracers for Metabolic Pathway Elucidation by GC-MS and FT-MS
Richard M. Higashi, Teresa W-M. Fan, Pawel K. Lorkiewicz, Hunter N.B. Moseley, and Andrew N. Lane
Part V. Targeted Aqueous Metabolite Profiling
12. Multiplexed, Quantitative and Targeted Metabolite Profiling by LC-MS/MRM
Ru Wei, Guodong Li, and Albert B. Seymour
Part VI. Lipid Profiling Methods
13. Multi-Dimensional Mass Spectrometry-Based Shotgun Lipidomics
Miao Wang and Xianlin Han
14. Comprehensive Quantitative Determination of PUFA-Related Bioactive Lipids for Functional Lipidomics using High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Mojgan Masoodi and Dietrich A. Volmer
15. Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Targeted Profiling of Bile Acids: Application to Serum, Liver Tissue and Cultured Cells of Different Species
Juan Carlos García-Cañaveras, María Teresa Donato, and Agustín Lahoz
Part VII. Profiling Volatile Organic Compounds
16. Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in Exhaled Breath by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry combined with Chemometric Analysis
Jan W. Dallinga, Agnieszka Smolinska, and Frederik-Jan van Schooten
17. Headspace SPME-GC-MS Metabolomics Analysis of Urinary Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Shucha Zhang and Daniel Raftery
Part VIII. Profiling and Imaging using Atmospheric Sampling Methods
18. Metabolite Profiling by Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry
Christina M. Jones, María Eugenia Monge, and Facundo M. Fernández
19. Analysis of Dried Blood Spots using DESI Mass Spectrometry
Justin M. Wiseman and Joseph H. Kennedy
20. DESI-MS Imaging of Lipids and Metabolites from Biological Samples
Livia S. Eberlin
21. Metabolic Imaging using Nanostructure-Initiator Mass Spectrometry (NIMS)
Katherine B. Louie and Trent R. Northen
Part IX. Statistical Analysis Methods
22. Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics Data
Bowei Xi, Haiwei Gu, Hamid Baniasadi, and Daniel Raftery
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Minding Minority Interests at City Hall
A city council invites a federation of minority groups to improve community relations
When the City of Antwerp was looking to improve its relations with minority communities, it decided to approach the Brussels-based Minderhedenforum (Forum of Ethnic Cultural Communities) for help. The city council wanted a new way to reach out to community organizations and the Forum's ten years of work appeared to be a successful model to adapt.
A number of issues were of concern to the city and minority groups. In 2009, controversy erupted after a headscarf ban in schools became world-wide news , just two years after the city banned the wearing of all religious symbols by city employees.
Meanwhile, the previous local elections in 2006 resulted in a far-right Flemish nationalist party gaining 30 per cent of the vote; the opposition of minority voters prevented it from becoming the largest party at council. In spite of such political engagement, research by the Open Society Foundations showed that Muslims (particularly those from the Moroccan and Turkish communities) felt little trust in city institutions.
Minority relations in the city were stalled and with an election called for 2012, important decisions for the city's future were on the horizon.
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As a port city of almost 500,000 located in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium (Flanders), almost 30 per cent of its citizens are foreign-born, coming from over 170 countries. Approximately 120 ethno-cultural organizations exist in the city as do a number of umbrella ethno-cultural organizations. Although Antwerp already had an 'Ethnic Minorities Council' (allochtone overleg en adviesraad) in place with representatives from minority organizations, it was seen as 'old-fashioned' and 'polarizing', and not as a source of policy advice. The city recognized that it needed a new start.
"There wasn't that much trust," says Rafike Yilmaz, policy advisor to Leen Verbist, Alderman for Social Policy, Diversity and Windows. "The organizations weren't working together, they were working in their own little islands,"
"There had been frustrations at both sides," says Naima Charkaoui, Director of Minderhedenforum. "The federations said that they were not involved enough, they were not listened to, they did not have real opportunities to participate. And the city realized they needed a new start."
The Forum was seen as the right fit because it was an established non-profit umbrella organization. It already represented 17 ethno-cultural federations which, in total, included over 1,500 organizations and had an established history as an official 'participation organization' in Brussels. Its structure allows it to "engage as one voice" with various levels of government.
In 2010, the Forum accepted the council's invitation to open a new branch in the city. The aims of the Forum were specific:
- to strengthen cooperation between the existing federations of ethno-cultural minorities through consultations and discussions;
- expand and diversify networks as well as link the federations with non-migrant organizations; and
- encourage participation in local government policy by developing policy advice, focusing on the 2012 elections and organizing training sessions regarding engaging with local government.
Whereas its earlier work focused on coordinating discussions between member federations in Flanders and Brussels, the Forum tailored its work in Antwerp to local circumstances by opening participation to individuals not formally connected to a member federation. Anyone can participate in training or discussion sessions.
"We have lots of different ethnicities here in Antwerp," says Yilmaz. "It is a strength of Minderhadenforum that they can focus on the big communities but also the small and even the individuals."
Local elections and beyond
The central theme to the Forum's work, however, is helping to prepare minority communities for the upcoming local elections in October 2012. The Forum is providing a list of recommendations and facilitating contact between voters, local ethno-cultural organizations and politicians. It is also developing tools that can be used by member organizations (and the Forum itself) to provide training sessions for local voters on a number of topics, such as what it means to vote, what the different political parties stand for and how to register to participate.
The elections are important for another reason. The official relationship between the city and the Forum runs until October 2012. Then the new city council will decide whether the Forum continues for another six years until the next election. The Forum was not interested in a mere short-term contract designed to sway voter impact. It needed to ensure that the interests of minority groups be represented fairly in the business of local government for the long term. As such, the Forum required an independent relationship with the council and could not worry about the city shutting it down if the Forum's community-based message was unpopular with some councilors.
"Because of these local elections we think this is a real opportunity even in the short term to work on this civic participation," says Charkaoui. "This gives us some time to really build up something and in the worst case scenario even if we have to stop we can leave something behind so this hopefully reinforces participation of minorities in the local elections."
In November 2011, Minderhedenforum Antwerp had its official launch with a day devoted to talks, workshops, and debate on topics ranging from improving the diversity of city staff to reviewing a recent report on "Muslims in Antwerp" .Upcoming projects include media workshops for young people with local journalists to learn how to get the voice of youth to the decision table.
Critical to their success is Antwerp City Council's recognition of the Forum's status as an independent organization and third party voice for minority interests in the city. The Forum has already issued a public statement on their opposition to the headscarf ban by Antwerp City Council, in the belief that a public discussion of such matters lessens public frustration and results in better decisions. For example, public discussion over a partial ban in the city of Ghent by the Forum resulted in less frustration and anger from minority communities with the city.
"I think the importance of this initiative is that in a situation of really difficult relationships, the city chooses to work with an independent partner and a critical partner," says Charkaoui.
"You have to have faith in an independent partner knowing that in the long run this will lead to a better relationship even if in the short run it can give more friction and more discussion and difficult issues coming on the table."
This Good Idea was identified by the Open Society Foundations' At Home in Europe project as a good practice promoting inclusion, social cohesion and nondiscrimination. For more on this practice and the At Home in Europe project, read Living Together: Projects Promoting Inclusion in 11 EU Cities (OSF, 2011)
Making it Work for You:
- When developing new structures for engaging under-represented communities in local decision-making, look around you for successful participatory models that can be adapted to your work
- As per the Antwerp City Council , don't be afraid to look across sectors or to other jurisdictions for the best model available that can answer your needs;
- Be prepared for new ideas and opposition to the current norm, that's how democracy works.
- Public discussion mitigates the risk of unpopular decision-making and paves the way for achieving more consensus across diverse groups or points of view.
- Community consultation is a long-term commitment to solutions tailored to community interests and need.
Themes: connect, Democratic institutions
For this Good Idea contact:
Naima Charkaoui, Minderhedenforum
Vooruitgangsstraat 323/4
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I start on adult so I have no advice for you there, some make the change at 6-8 months
I'm switching Penny our 10 week old puppy we just got from the Puppy chow she was on to Canidae All Stages and I'll see what happens. I'm also going to be switching the Pug/Boston mix my wife had since High School from the garbage Iams/Pedigree she is on to Canidae Platinum. I'll get back with results. At least the puppy chow our puppy was on is 100% holistic/natural, just too high in protien at 30%.
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I feed ADULT dog food, past the age of about 4 months. I have successfully used Holistic Select Anchovy (which is pretty equivalent to Costco - blue bag) & they just dive into the Royal Canin Giant Breed. TOTW Bison is another crave of the kids. No problem have I had with any of these.
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Oh - I forget to mention - I had my pup on Holistic Select Anchovy, Sardine, etc.. since he was about 3 months old. He did great on it! Personally, I think it is a great food. Low protein and low fat and a quality food that Brody decreased his food intake from 10 cups per day (on Natural Balance) to 6 cups per day on the Holistic Select. He recently started to get really hot and dirty ears and soft stools on the Holistic Select, so sadly, I had to make the change.
Hi everyone I am new to the forum and I already found tons of information in here. I do have a feeding question though. I just got Harlee ,my 6 year old English Mastiff, 2 days ago and they had her on a diet of 1 meal a day consisting of 96 ounces of food. They had her on a brand that is not available here in my area so my husband just got a bag of Ol' Roy. We are going to switch once I find out where in my area I can buy Eagle Pack Holistic. My question is should Harlee be eating that much food in one day? She weights about 185 and is 6 years old. I just feel like that is too much food, but I don't want to make her hungry. I would greatly appreciate all the replies. Thank you. Ashley
Hi ashley, I see you were able to post. I feed my guys about 6-8 cups of dry food a day, and I add canned salmon, or canned mackeral for additional treats ( great for coats and eyes) I also sprinkle a little cheese on top a coulple of times a week. I feed Costco's Chicken and rice. It is actually better to feed twice a day ( split your amount into two smaller servings) easier on the tummy.
Thank you Tracy. I have heard of Costco's and it is easier for me to find so I am going to start with that one first. I would have to order the Eagle Pack. Thanks for information it really helped. I am going to split Harlees food to 2 times a day also. She doesn't eat the whole bowl at one sitting anyways and my kids keep playing with her food. lol. Canned salmon I would have never thought of that but I am going to try it out. I hope she likes it. Thank you again for all your help. Ashley
I have a 11 week old EM pup & a 10 year old Boxer, I feed my pup (Meena) Eagle Pack Large & Giant Breed Puppy. It seems to do well for her, so far so good! Im starting to add green beans and carrots to her food along with warm water. I use frozen veggies that i boil for 5 min then cool tempid. Are frozen veggies ok or should I use canned (no sodium)
My Boxer has had skin allergies since she was around 1, Benadryl use to do the trick. I've tried her on so many dog foods from Purina to Wellness to Taste Of The Wild. I decided to try her on Eagle Pack as well (Lamb) because it seemed like beef & chicken gave her reactions. Eagle Pack has not stopped her from her allergies so I'm giving her boiled ground beef and white rice (she has had many times before with no reactions) to clean out her system... Still not working after 5 days. I was wondering if it's possible that Advantix II could be the culprit since it is more then likely not her food? I have always used Frontline, my Vet suggested Avantix II because it covers all types of pests. I know Mastiffs & Boxers are very different but, I am at a loss. Please help!!
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Meena eats Eagle Pack Large & Giant puppy 3x a day: 1 1/2 cup am, 1 1/4 cup mid-day, 1 1/4 cup pm. Is this enough food for her?
I have a 4 month old and a 3 year old and have fed both Blue Buffalo holistic food and they do great on it. I also mix their food 3 times a week with organic babyfood and organic brown rice. Neither of my dogs have ever had lose stools and they are very regular. The only thing I have noticed is with my 4 month old. He has the stinkiest gas ever. Thats the only downside I have had..other than expense of course but you get what you pay for.
i cook just natural food, same like mine to my dog.
i don't belive in fabrication food so much...
what do you do for bone (calcium)? bone can not be cooked for animals
The biggest issue for growing mastiffs is not the protein so much as the calcium phosphorus and the ratio of each. search calcium and phos in the search bar above lots of threads dealing with this and the proteins
I use Diamond Large Breed Puppy for my female Mastiff "Bella" and she has done very well on it. Been giving it to her for about 5 months now and she loves it.
Well the place I get Bella her food is no longer going to carry TOTW (after this last INCIDENT they decided it wasn't to their standards. They are dog snobs but have great stuff). I had switched her to Instinct Duck meal and turkey meal formula http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/showproduct.php/product/1300/sort/8/cat/8/page/1
That's an old rating but the best I could pull on my phone while standing in the store isle LOL. I would love to know what you guys think of this kind and this formula. It did get the 6 star rating back when this review was given could it?
It's the last paragraph that has me worried. She just turned a year this April 26th if that matters. This is her relaxing in my spot and looking at me as to say what; did you want to sit here? Man these dogs have some persoanlities to them.
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This is an incremental update, with several new commands, improvements to existing commands and a bunch of bug fixes.
You can grab the latest version from the downloads section and it'll also be live on the Asset Store in a few days time. As usual, if you have questions or spot any bugs please let us know on the forum. Enjoy!
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- SetDraggable2D command #191
- WaitInput command #276
- Fade UI command to fade UI objects #349
- Read Text File command to read a text file into a string variable #344
- Added Set Audio Pitch command #340
- 'Center View' button to center Flowchart window on all Blocks #302
- Clear Menu command #300
- Set Slider Value command #297
- Stop Flowchart command #289
- Integration with Esoteric Spine animation system (available in Fungus/Integrations/Spine folder)
- Added null checks in Flowchart variable accessors
- Set Say Dialog property for characters
- Can now specify the gameobject to shake for punch tag in Writer component
- PlayMusic command has a loop property
- Updated reorderable list control to v0.4.3
- Updated to LeanTween 2.30
- Added HasExecutingBlocks() and GetExecutingBlocks() to Flowchart class
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- CustomGUI class not in Fungus namespace #353
- Whitespace trimming after {wc} & {c} tags #346
- iTween commands on the same gameobject can conflict #342 #303
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- Null reference if command classes have same name #312
- End command indents when not matched with an If #308
- Draggable objects behaving incorrectly #310
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- SceneManager warnings in Unity 5.3
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text: Mar 12, 2014 BUFFALO GROVE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Essex Rental Corp. (Nasdaq: ESSX) ("Essex") today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Nicholas Matthews, 41, formerly Chief Operating Officer, to President and Chief Executive Officer effective tomorrow. Mr. Matthews will also serve as a director on Essex's Board. Laurence Levy , Chairman of the Board, stated, "After an extensive search, we are confident that Nick is the right individual to lead the Company given his proven experience at Essex and his keen focus on driving return on invested capital that he gained from his prior executive positions." Since joining Essex approximately nine months ago, Mr. Matthews has led a number of long-term key strategic initiatives to strengthen the Company and enhance value for all Essex stakeholders including: Spearheading the decision to sell surplus equipment through the sealed bid auction sale process; Refining the Company's go to market strategy relating to its parts and service segment; Designing operational improvements focused on increasing utilization; Leading an initiative aimed at improving the Company's quality; and Developing a more customer centric service oriented culture throughout the Company. Mr. Matthews commented, "I am extremely honored to take the helm and lead Essex, a company with a strong market position, extensive asset portfolio and even greater prospects for the future. I am focused on operational excellence and financial discipline in order to reposition the Company for success. I am committed to driving success for the Company by diversifying our products and services, repositioning the fleet by divesting underutilized rental assets and creating a differentiated value proposition for our customers. I am confident that we will create long-term value for our shareholders, employees and other stakeholders." Mr. Matthews' experience spans across a number of asset heavy manufacturing and leasing industries. Prior to joining Essex in 2013, he served as Vice President and Group Executive for Railcar Operations at GATX, a global leader in railcar leasing. Prior to GATX, he held a variety of executive and functional roles at FreightCar America and Trinity Industries. Essex Rental Corp. will issue its fourth quarter financial results on Thursday, March 13, 2014 before the stock market opens and will conduct a conference call to discuss the operating results at 9:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 13, 2014. 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With a large fleet, consisting primarily of cranes, as well as other construction equipment and unparalleled customer service and support, Essex supplies a wide variety of innovative lifting solutions for construction projects related to power generation, petro-chemical, refineries, water treatment and purification, bridges, highways, hospitals, shipbuilding, offshore oil fabrication and industrial plants, and commercial and residential construction. Some of the statements in this press release and other written and oral statements made from time to time by Essex and its representatives are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 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text: Share: Comments Print August 20, 2014 at 9:01 PM First impressions: Sounders 1, Earthquakes 1 Posted by Matt Pentz First impressions from Seattle's 1-1 draw against the San Jose Earthquakes on Wednesday night at CenturyLink Field, as Chris Wondolowski cancelled out Chad Barrett's second-half goal with one of his own in the 65th minute. – Seattle's poor run of results continues It wasn't a loss, which would've been Seattle's fifth in seven MLS matches, but it was two points dropped in an increasingly competitive Western Conference race against a team toward the bottom of the league. The Sounders were in control after Obafemi Martins played in Barrett for his third goal in as many games just after halftime. Seattle's advantage in shots kept climbing – it would finish with a 23-10 edge – and it remained camped out along the San Jose box for long stretches. But a momentary loss of concentration allowed Wondolowski to sneak in at the back post and tap in Cordell Cato's cross. And though it was all Sounders down the stretch, the decisive goal never came. Adding insult to injury, the L.A. Galaxy rallied from two goals down to beat Colorado 4-3 and keep the pressure turned up in the West. – There were plenty of notable absences With Seattle in the midst of its run of five matches in two weeks and with a trip to rival Portland looming this weekend, Sounders coach Sigi Schmid made significant changes to the team that lost 2-1 in Salt Lake City last Saturday. Just four Sounders who started that match – DeAndre Yedlin, Chad Marshall, Osvaldo Alonso and Kenny Cooper – did so again Wednesday. Clint Dempsey didn't come on until the 71st minute, Brad Evans followed seven minutes later and Gonzalo Pineda wasn't even in the squad. San Jose, meanwhile, has been ravaged by injuries. Yannick Djalo, who scored the lone goal when these teams met at Levi's Stadium at the beginning of the month, was out of the 18, as was new designated player Matias Perez Garcia and veteran defender Clarence Goodson. The 'Quakes were trying to make the best of limited options and the Sounders hoping to make it to the weekend, but the result was a free-flowing match, especially in the second half. – Young stars provided a jolt Tommy Thompson, making his first-ever league start five days after his 19th birthday, sparked the 'Quakes with a series of back heels and flicks. Thompson nearly found Shea Salinas with at the back post in the 12th and played in Chris Wondolowski for the game's first meaningful chance six minutes later. Yedlin, the grizzled veteran of the two at age 21, was the one who got to Thompson's cross before his Salinas did. Yedlin provided a steady attacking presence on the right, dropping in pinpoint crosses, bringing the crowd to its feet with an inside-out dribble around a defender midway through the first half. Thompson went silent for long stretches of the second half and Yedlin was partially at fault for the San Jose goal. But two youngsters provided an extra dash of spice to an entertaining match. Comments | More in First impressions, MLS, Sounders FC