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Roasted Parmesan Herb Potatoes is one of the tastiest roasted potato recipe ever! This Roasted Parmesan Herb Potatoes recipe elevates the humble potato to a whole new level. The fresh herb salsa adds zest and vitality to this perfect side dish. If you like, you can also add your own flavours such as Italian seasoning to the potatoes.
Roasted potatoes taste amazing as they are! But, add some parmesan and a drizzle of garlic and herb salsa and this dish becomes something else altogether.
Potatoes are probably the most popular comfort food on the planet. It would be hard to find any person who does not love potatoes, right? My guess would be that most people like potatoes of some kind or another. I love all kinds of potatoes, whether they're roasted, mashed or cooked into long, shoestring fries.
They're budget friendly and are usually inexpensive and easy to find any time of the year. They're versatile and can be transformed into many different dishes. One of my favourite uses for potatoes is for Gnocchi.
Here are some of my other favourite potato recipes which I think you will also love. Mashed Potatoes with Grilled Mozzarella and my Crispy Roasted Rosemary Potatoes.
Roasted Parmesan Herb Potatoes
This recipe I share with you today is all about good old-fashioned comfort food. Roasted Parmesan Herb Potatoes are what you can serve your mates watching the cricket or the kids arriving ravished after school. I tend to use these as a side dish to a baked lamb or roast chicken dinner.
The thing with this comfort food is that is is healthy and zesty.
Let me introduce you to the humble oven roasted potato with a twist.
For all the potato lovers out there, this recipe is for you.
What potatoes are best for Roasting?
For this recipe, I use the Kipfler variety of potatoes. The Kipfler potato is a waxy, small finger shaped potato with a light coloured flesh. You could also use other waxy potatoes such as the Fingerling, Désirée, Yukon Golds or red potatoes.
Potatoes generally come in either floury or waxy. Waxy potatoes tend to hold their shape when cooked and this is why I've used the Kipfler potatoes in this recipe.
How to roast potatoes
If you're wanting the best results from roasting potatoes, the key is to make sure that the oven is pre-heated. The potatoes should be placed in the oven once the oven is hot. For this recipe, I pre-heated the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes.
While the oven was heating, I prepared the potatoes by washing, cutting and seasoning them. It is really important to dry the potatoes using a clean tea towel. This means the potatoes will crisp up better in the oven.
How long to roast potatoes
Sometimes when I roast potatoes, I prefer to parboil them first. However, because I used these smaller Kipfler potatoes, it wasn't necessary to parboil them.
The kipfler potatoes were roasted for 20 minutes. Then I removed them from the oven and added the grated parmesan. I then returned them to the oven to roast for an extra 10 minutes. Make sure you spread potatoes on the baking sheet so they cook evenly.
I've made this recipe once with Desiree potatoes. I found that they required a little more time to cook. This is because the skin was a littler tougher than the Kipfler potatoes.
If you're using a hardier, bigger potato like the russet potato, you may need extra time. It could take between 30 – 45 minutes to cook. If you need to, just add the parmesan 10-15 minutes before they are fully cooked.
The best way to check if a potato is cooked is to pierce it with a skewer. If the skewer slides in easily, then it's cooked. If the potato is too firm, then it needs more time.
I also kept the skin on them for more flavour and texture. While the potatoes were roasting, I then prepared the salsa. Preparing the salsa is very simple. Simply place all the ingredients into a food processor and whizz it up.
I encourage you to try this recipe.
This dish is vegetarian. It's also gluten, dairy and sugar free which makes it a healthy, delicious side dish for the whole family to enjoy.
What's you favourite recipe for the humble potato? If you would like to see more potato recipes let me know by leaving your suggestions in the comments section below.
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Ingredients for the potatoes
- 1 kg Kipfler potatoes (fingerling, yukon gold or red potatoes are also suitable)
- 2 tbsp garlic powder
- 2 tbsp finely grated parmesan
- salt and pepper
Ingredients for the salsa
- 2 cups flat leaf parsley
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp lemon zest
- 2 cloves garlic
Cut the washed potatoes in half.
- Cut into quarters if you are using a larger variety of potatoes.
- In a medium bowl toss to coat the potatoes with the garlic powder, salt and pepper.
- Lay out the potatoes on a prepared baking sheet in a single layer.
- Roast in a moderate oven 180C for 20 minutes.
- While the potatoes are cooking begin making the salsa.Place the parsley with stems, olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest and garlic into a food processor. Whiz for 30 seconds until the mixture is combined.
- After 20 minutes, remove the potatoes from the oven.
- Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Return to the oven for a further 10 minutes or until the parmesan is bubbly and golden brown.
- Before serving drizzle the salsa over the potatoes and give the potatoes a toss.


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What is the Black On Board Community?
The Black on Board (BoB) community is a network of people committed to support BME people into governance positions and Olmec's mission of race equality through economic and social justice. BoB community was founded by graduates of the BoB training programme.
BoB community is an environment for BME people to share lived experience and peer learning, and develop as community leaders and receive mentoring and training into board, senior management, community and civic leadership roles.
Why is Black On Board Important
The 2017 McGregor-Smith review suggested the economy could receive a £24bn annual boost if businesses stamped out ethnic inequality. It found that BME people were still often disadvantaged at work and that employment rates amongst the BME population was 12% lower than for white counterparts. They were more likely to work in lower paid and lower skilled jobs despite being more likely to have a degree, and just 6% reached top-level management positions.
The Parker Review 2016
"Understanding and responding to cultural and demographic change is a major commercial imperative both in the UK and globally. We must all recognise, business included, that the UK has changed dramatically over the past 40 years:
• Today, approximately 14% of the total UK population is a "person of colour", or from a "non-white" ethnic group1 – up from just over 2% in 1971.
• By 2030, it is expected that the proportion will be closer to 20% of the total UK population."
An Examination of the FTSE 100:
• 1,087 director positions in total
• UK citizen directors of colour represent only about 1.5% of the total director population
• 90 individual directors of colour (four hold two Board positions)
• Total directors of colour represent about 8% of the total (compared to 14% of the UK population)
• 53 out of the FTSE 100 companies do not have any directors of colour
• Seven companies account for over 40% of the directors of colour
• Five out of the seven companies have headquarters historically located outside the UK
• Only nine people of colour hold the position of Chair or CEO
Black on Board Community: breaking the glass ceiling
Our focus is on working with communities in London, however the problem is a national one and crosses sectors, as our communities in London and the UK becomes increasingly diverse. London is the most ethnically diverse city in the UK with 34% of resident population made up of migrants (30% in outer London and 40% in inner London).
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The impact of residualisation on social work has so far hardly been explored. Based on existing literature and recently started empirical research in Amsterdam we analyze several consequences. Residualisation refers to the process whereby urban social housing is strictly allocated to the lowest income groups. What does this concentration of disadvantaged households mean for the role of social workers? Firstly, for community workers residualisation mostly implies a renewed role as instigators of residents' participation in urban renewal trajectories for social mix. Furthermore community activities are increasingly used to offer safe havens for new and old groups of residents and also to prevent expensive treatments for several residential groups. For social workers focusing on individual support or casework residualisation results in an increasingly complex caseload. Residualisation does not imply extra formation for social work, but rather extra attention for the effortful coproduction of welfare between formal and informal actors. Within this playing field, we distinguish link work as vital for both formal and informal social work. Link work is about establishing vertical and horizontal connections between different worlds, across sectoral, professional or trust gaps. We expect that in areas of residualisation successful urban social work is dependent on strong linking skills.
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Sociaal werk in stadswijken waar problemen zich opstapelen
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2019
|Residualisering, Stedelijk sociaal werk, Concentratie van sociale problematiek, Link work, Geuzenveld
|Dr. Saskia Welschen en Dr. Lex Veldboer
De aanpak van belastingontwijking door de EU: gerichte maatregelen zonder structurele verandering.
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2019
|Tax, EU/European Union, Corporate taxation, Tax avoidance, Tax policy
|Indra Römgens
According to the outgoing European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici, the European Union (EU) has made more progress in tackling tax avoidance and evasion in the last five years than in the twenty years before that. This article argues that although several targeted measures have indeed been adopted, such as automatic exchange of tax rulings and limitations on interest deductions, this has not led to a structural change in EU corporate tax policies, nor in underlying power relations. The article discusses the politics of a number of recent policy developments related to tax avoidance and evasion by transnational corporations. It argues that the adoption of targeted measures, and the simultaneous stalling of more comprehensive approaches – in terms of tax transparency or a common consolidated corporate tax base – can be explained by recent tax controversies, international politics, and the dynamics within and between EU institutions. Particular attention is paid to the role of the European Parliament that is formally limited, but still houses progressive forces that have continuously pushed for a clampdown on tax avoidance. Finally, the article pleads for more transparent EU decision-making, specifically concerning discussions with and within the Council, in order to improve the democratic legitimacy of EU corporate tax policies and processes.
Het asielzoekerscentrum als buurthuis? Over vrijwilligerswerk in asielzoekerscentra in Amsterdam en Brussel
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2019
|Asylum centres, Community centres, Refugees, Civic engagement, Interpretive policy analyses
|Rosaly Studulski en Nanke Verloo
Citizens are being activated to organize activities in asylum centres in both the Netherlands and Belgium. That way, asylum centres are expected to become better integrated in the local context of a municipality or neighbourhood. This ideal of citizenship does not stand on its own. The policy object to integrate asylum centres in the local context has parallels with broader societal and academic discussions about citizen participation and active citizenship. The object, however, is now the asylum seeker. In this article we research how voluntary work in two asylum centres takes shape and how policy could support voluntary activities better. A comparative interpretive policy analysis of two asylum centres in Amsterdam and Brussel shows how voluntary work is stimulated by policy, how these policies are implemented locally, and how they are experienced in daily practices of volunteers and professionals. The cases reveal stark differences, but exactly those contrasts lead to important lessons. We show that because of this policy, the asylum centre is often functioning as a community centre, that integration can be strengthened by volunteers, but we are also critical when voluntary activities are driven by an ideal picture of the 'good asylum seeker'. There is a risk that the societal responsibility for integrating and engaging asylum seekers in the local context is pushed on the shoulders of unpaid volunteers and that activities are exclusively for one group. That is why we conclude that professional support and financial resources are crucial to implement the policy ideal of active citizenship in asylum centers.
De opkomst van voedselbeleid: voorbij de tekentafel
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2018
|Food policy, Food system, Agricultural policy, Policy integration, Policy instruments
|Dr. Jeroen Candel
To address a range of interconnected food-related challenges, Dutch policymakers have invested in the development of integrated food policy in recent years. This article discusses this development in two parts. The first part contains a detailed description of the main events and lines of thinking that characterized the food policy process. From this description it becomes clear that food policy has been gradually developing towards a separate institutionalized policy domain. In the second part, this development is analysed from a policy integration perspective. This analysis shows that although considerable steps towards strengthened policy integration have been made, the Dutch 'Food agenda' does not yet proceed beyond symbolic levels. This particularly shows in the absence of concrete policy goals and in a policy instrument mix that has not been adjusted to strengthen consistency and effectiveness. In addition, the involvement of relevant ministries gradually decreased after the initial stages. The article concludes that the food policy process has arrived at a critical juncture: the next steps of the new government will prove decisive for whether food policy integration intentions will advance beyond the drawing board. Political and administrative leadership are identified as key conditions for such further steps to occur.
De interactielogica van verzet: een dramaturgische analyse van escalatie tijdens een informatieavond
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2018
|Protest, Governance, Participation, Dramaturgy, Interaction logic
|Sander van Haperen MSc
Theory about participation has long moved beyond merely informing citizens, arguing for more influential and effective instruments. Nevertheless, 'inspraak' remains widely implemented in Dutch practice, with mixed results. This article argues that the deliberative quality of the instrument is closely related to the performance of power. Dramaturgical concepts are employed to analyze resistance against the siting of a homeless facility in an Amsterdam neighborhood. One particular evening sets the stage for escalation, which ultimately frustrates the policy process. The analysis shows how the performance of the meeting invokes specific kinds of resistance. A different performance of 'informing' could potentially improve the quality of the public sphere.
Slanker maar topzwaar, meer vrouwen maar vergrijsd: het veranderende gezicht van de rijksoverheid 2002-2015
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2018
|Cutbacks, Government spending, Civil servants, Public service, Open data
|Dr. Dimiter Toshkov, Eduard Schmidt MSc en Prof. dr. Caspar van den Berg
This article analyses the transformations of the Dutch civil service over the last 15 years, during which numerous cutbacks and reorganizations took place. While existing research predominantly focused on changes in the total number of civil servants, we examine how the distribution of civil servants changed in terms of rank, gender and age. We theorize four methods for shrinking the government apparatus, and for each method, we identify the possible consequences for the composition of the central civil service in terms of hierarchical make-up and of age. Our results indicate that the total number of civil servants only slightly decreased, but the decrease affected differentially the various ranks of the civil service. While at the lower ranks the number of civil servants decreased strongly, at the upper ranks the number actually increased slightly. The number of women in the civil service increased, also in the higher echelons. Regarding the age distribution, we found considerable changes, with the modal age shifting upwards with up to ten years. Altogether, the civil service has become slightly smaller, more gender-balanced, and significantly more senior (both in terms of ranks and age). The results of this study show that it is important for researchers and practitioners to look beyond the trends in the total number of civil servants and explore the deeper changes within the civil service.
Burgertoppen in opkomst
Zegen of zorg voor de gemeenteraad?
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2017
|Burgertoppen, G1000, Raadsleden, lokale democratie, Institutionalisering
|Dr. Harmen Binnema
Over the last three years, various G1000s have been organized in Dutch municipalities. These citizen summits share a number of characteristics: random selection of participants, an open agenda, dialogue and inclusion of the entire 'system' (inhabitants, politicians, civil servants). The G1000s aim to renew local democracy and to change the relations between citizens and governments. Both of these objectives affect the role of local councilors and this paper discusses their opinions and attitude towards a G1000. It shows that councilors regard the G1000 as complementary to representative democracy and that they want be involved both in the organization of a G1000 in their municipality and the follow-up in local decision-making. On the one hand, this may lead to a better coupling between citizen initiatives and formal policy making. On the other hand, this entails the risk that a G1000 becomes institutionalized and loses its distinctive characteristics that make it a new form of democracy.
Copingstrategieën bij onderwijsbestuur: over hoe onderwijsbestuurders complexe vraagstukken of dilemma's waarderen en hanteren
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2017
|School boards, School board governance, Coping strategies, Proactive coping, Secondary education
|Hoogleraar Edith Hooge en Alumnus Nancy Plasmans
This article is about how education administrators value complex issues or dilemmas they are confronted with in their governance practices, and which strategies they adopt to cope with them. Professional governance of school organisations was introduced gradually over the past fifteen years, and at the same time governance in education has gained in complexity and raises considerable risks, requiring more time, knowledge and expertise of education administrators. We draw on the theoretical perspective of coping to investigate the potential of education administrators to deal with the complexity, impediments and social and regulatory pressure in their daily practice. Our study consists of a comparative case study of six education administrators in secondary education. Their agency has been researched qualitatively with the help of the hierarchical model of coping strategies of Skinner and colleagues. The results show that the issues and dilemmas education administrators find most complex are about educational innovation and numbers of students enrolled. Education administrators value these issues or dilemmas hardly as threatening, and they adopt various proactive coping strategies to deal with them, such as information seeking or bargaining.
Deliberatieve democratie: ervaringen met diversiteit in burgertop Amsterdam
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2017
|Democracy, Summit, Dialogue, Diversity, Homogeneity
|Dr. Peer Smets en Marloes Vlind MSc
This paper will show how citizens' summits in the Netherlands cope with diversity of participants and the impact of this on those initiatives. This provides insight in why diversity is hard to reach and what can be done to improve it. Presently, dissatisfaction about the Dutch democratic system is widespread. Solutions are being sought to strengthen Dutch participatory democracy. For this objective, citizens' summits develop different kind of initiatives. However, citizens participating in these summits are a homogeneous group, namely mainly white, middle aged and highly educated. Mechanisms of exclusion, selection of candidates, homogeneous composition of the organization, and a dominating intellectual/rational way of debating are playing a role here. Citizens with different backgrounds need to be included in these initiatives to obtain a better representation of society's voices. This notion has been strengthened by theory, which shows that diversity enables more creativity and innovation.
Huisvestingsbeleid en nieuwe scholen
Over de noodzaak van een geografisch perspectief op onderwijs
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2016
|housing policies, education markets, new schools, educational geography, friction costs
|Prof. dr. Sietske Waslander
While international research gives increasing attention to geographical factors in education, this perspective is lacking in Dutch research and policy. That a geographical perspective is badly needed, is demonstrated on the basis of the proposed policy to promote new schools in the Netherlands. Current housing policies for Dutch schools are described, pointing at disputes between municipalities and school boards who hold shared responsibilities. Next, foreign housing policies for new schools are studied, that is for friskolor in Sweden, free schools in England and charter schools in Texas (USA). Experiences abroad not only testify that very different choices can be made, but indicate that housing policies may in the long run have a substantial impact on segregation and educational inequality. It is also shown that new schools are mainly located in urban areas. It is argued that in addition to costs for new schools, friction costs for existing schools need to be considered. In all, a geographical perspective on education is needed, so as to prevent increasing segregation and social inequality as well as wasting public financial resources.
De Collectieve Horeca Ontzegging: uitsluiting uit de publieke ruimte?
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2014
|Responsibilization, Collective Pub Ban, Selective exclusion, Security, Public space
|Dr. mr. Marc Schuilenburg en Dr. Ronald van Steden
The article provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the Night Time Economy and how the Collective Pub Ban is applied in three Dutch cities: Utrecht, Amersfoort and Den Bosch. The Collective Pub Ban is a measure taken in the Netherlands in an effort to make pubs, bars and clubs co-responsible for maintaining security. Depending on the severity of the conduct, an offender can be denied of entry to these venues for five years. During this period, the offender is not allowed to enter the particular pub or any of the other pubs, bars and clubs that participate in this measure. On the basis of 84 interviews, we show how these venues fill out their new responsibilities with respect to the Collective Pub Ban-measure. Also, we answer the question what this new measure means for the quality of the public space.
Veranderend lokaal gezag
De gezagsbronnen van burgemeesters en wethouders verkend
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2013
|authority, political leadership, mayors, aldermen
|Dr. Niels Karsten MSc MA en Drs. Thijs Jansen
The traditional authority of mayors and aldermen is readily challenged. Formal positions do no longer constitute authority. For that reason, new political repertoires are being sought after and are being developed by local political-executive leaders. This article analyses and compares the sources of authority for mayors and aldermen: how can they develop, maintain, and strengthen their authority? It develops an innovative typology of sources of authority. A distinction is made between institutional, positional, and personal sources of authority. The model is applied to the mayors and aldermen in relation to relevant socio-political developments that affect the two offices. It is found that the authority of mayors rests on institutional sources of authority more so than that of aldermen. For the latter, positional and personal sources of authority are more important. At the same time, personal sources of authority have become very important for mayors as well as aldermen. The results call upon mayors and aldermen's skills and competences to develop personal authority through persuasion.
Burgers als trustees
Participatie, informele vertegenwoordiging en representativiteit
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2013
|Dr. Bas van Stokkom, Dr. Marcel Becker en Teun Eikenaar MA MSc
The involvement of citizens in discussions about policy arrangements has been growing in the past decades. These forums of decision-making often provoke criticism because of a so-called 'lack of representativeness'. Often a small group of active citizens takes the lead and decides which problems have to be dealt with. Some active residents primarily focus on improving the neighbourhood, regardless of whether their activities have everyone's consent. This raises many questions related their representativeness. Do these participants form an adequate cross-section of the population? Are they speaking on behalf of others? Maybe passive citizens feel fine with the opinions of active citizens and agree that a small group of citizens is taking the lead. In this paper these active citizens are viewed as 'trustees': informal representatives who take responsibility to look after the neighbourhood's interests, expecting that passive residents would support their efforts. The paper has two central questions: First, which ideas do active participants have about representation and representativeness? Second, in what respects can active citizens be characterized as 'trustees'? In the theoretical part we contend that the notion 'trustee' may function as a theoretical framework to understand present-day citizen participation. In local policy networks many informal representatives express views and interests that are recognizable for many citizens. They are trusted, as long as their activities can be checked. The second part of the paper focuses on three projects of citizen decision-making within local safety policies (The Dutch cities Amsterdam, Deventer and Rotterdam). Within these projects, participants prioritize what kinds of activities and interventions police officers and other frontline workers should carry out. A main finding is that many active citizens function as contact persons who are continuously available for other residents. They do not wish to speak 'on behalf' of others but they are bestowed – often reluctantly – with the role of representative, as they demonstratively express neighborhood interests ('clean, intact and safe'). Their reputation seems to be decisive.
Privaat beheerde woondomeinen: beloftevol of beangstigend fenomeen?
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2011
|housing enclave, gated community, Netherlands, local government
|Jasper Eshuis, Erik-Hans Klijn en Mark van Twist
In recent years the Netherlands have seen an upsurge of housing enclaves. The enclaves are often built as courtyards, castles, estates or apartment complexes. The growing number of people living in housing enclaves indicates a demand for this kind of living areas. However, the motivations behind the increasing popularity of housing enclaves are unclear. Is this a reflection of a long standing tradition of people staying in their own social group, seeking for belonging and sociability? Or does it fit in a global trend of searching for security in gated communities? This paper presents empirical research in the Netherlands that addresses peoples' motives for living in housing enclaves, as well as the role of the local government in relation to housing enclaves. The research shows that residents of housing enclaves seek a pleasant living environment in the first place, while security is a less important motive. The study gives reason for planners and developers outside the US not to assume that fear of crime and a wish for security are the main reasons for moving to housing enclaves. Further, the study shows that housing enclaves are not completely privatized areas. Local government still has an important role to play.
Welke burger telt mee(r) in de doe-democratie?
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2011
|civic participation, citizens' initiatives, inequalities, neighbourhoods, democracy
|Drs. Judith Bakker, Prof. dr. Bas Denters en Dr. Pieter-Jan Klok
In citizens' initiatives (CI's) citizens themselves take action to solve problems in their community. Many Dutch municipalities have adopted policies to facilitate CI's. This raises a number of issues. For example who are involved in such initiatives? And, which problems are likely to be addressed? Such questions are pertinent, because for other forms of civic participation research has demonstrated that privileged social groups are overrepresented. We have compared groups of citizens who are actively involved in CI's with less active citizens. It is demonstrated that in keeping with previous findings privileged social groups (e.g. high income and well educated people) are overrepresented amongst the more active citizens. This is true for both individual and collective neighbourhood initiatives. However, we did not find an overrepresentation of males amongst the activists. In answering the second question, we have looked at the concerns and worries of the citizens. There is no evidence of systematic differences in the problem definitions of more and less active citizens. This mitigates problem of the social selectivity in civic participation: if citizens agree about the issues to be addressed, who cares about who does the job, provided that someone is willing to do it?
De diplomademocratie
Over de spanning tussen meritocratie en democratie
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 4 2006
|Mark Bovens
Contemporary western democracies, such the United States, Great Britain, and The Netherlands have become diploma democracies. They are ruled by the well educated, whereas the least educated, even though they still comprise about half of the population, have virtually vanished from most political arenas. Of course, the well educated have always been more politically active than the less educated, but in the past decades this gap has widened substantially. Well-educated citizens are more inclined to vote, to write letters to the editor, or to visit consultative or deliberative meetings than citizens with a low level of education; and most, if not all, members of parliament, all the political officials, and almost all of the political advocates and lobbyists, have college or graduate degrees. The paper substantiates the rise of diploma democracy in The Netherlands, discusses what is problematic about such an educational meritocracy in the context of democracy, and looks at what could be done to mitigate or remedy some of its negative effects.
Slot: Klimaatbestendigheid: tussen ordening en adaptiviteit
Een kritische slotbeschouwing over de legitimiteit van klimaatadaptatie
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 1 2010
|Arwin van Buuren, Peter Driessen en Geert Teisman
The problem of climate change is high on the various political-administrative agendas, both national and international. At the same time the problem is full of uncertainties and controversies. Adaptation to climate change asks for adjustments in our spatial planning, but can also necessitate changes in the distribution of public and private responsibilities. A crucial question is how the legitimacy of adaptation measures can be organized in a context surrounded with uncertainties, controversies and conflicting interests. In this paper we introduce the central theme of this special issue and the various contributions.
Het democratisch tekort van vraagsturing
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2006
|Evelien Tonkens
Demand-steering policies in healthcare are understandable but problematic answers to the desire for democratization that dates from the seventies of the former century. Prominent critics such as Achterhuis and Illich were very critical of the undemocratic character of health care. Yet their romantic idea of society excused them from the need to articulate democratic alternatives. The empty space that they left was filled by the concept of demand-steering. Demand-steering, however, rather than strengthening democratic practices, merely undermines them, by preferring exit above voice, by putting up new bureaucratic barriers between clients and professionals and by undermining the quality of the relationship between clients and professionals.
Doing more justice to the democratic impulse is possible and desirable. A new step towards this aim is being taken by a fourth logic of steering, (next to the familiar logics of the market, bureaucracy and professionalism) that centers on improving the dialogue between clients and professionals. The one variant, democratic professionalism, starts from the position of the professional and aims at intensifying democratic control, while the other variant, collaboration, starts from the client and aims at providing him with more influence and responsibility for the health care process. This fourth logic however can only provide a new impulse to democratization when the vague notion of the dialogue is elaborated more thoroughly.
Grip op de post-Euclidische stad?
Oefeningen in de regio Amsterdam
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2006
|Willem Salet
Cities are in stage of transformation under the combined effect of enlargement of scale and the enlargement of scope of urban activities. The enlargement of scale is visible in the regionalization of urban development. Housing markets, labor markets and mobility patterns crystallize at regional level. However, the scaling up of urban life is not just an extension of the city as is experienced over more than a century. The simultaneous enlargement of scope makes the transformation more complex and dependant on external connections, both in the private and the public sector. The essay explores concepts that try to explain the nature of this new complexity. What is the meaning of 'urban space' and 'urban place' under the conditions of globalization? And what are the consequences for the guidance of collective action in the context of multi actor and multi level governance? The nature of urban change is illustrated in the case of the Randstad Holland, in particular the region of Amsterdam.
Hoe effectief sturen provincies op de realisering van windenergie?
Een evaluatie van de Bestuursovereenkomst Landelijke Ontwikkeling Windenergie
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2006
|Marieke van Duyn, Hens Runhaar, Susanne Agterbosch e.a.
In the Netherlands, an ambitious policy goal of 1,000 MW of wind power capacity by the year 2000 had already been formulated in 1985 and remained the official basis for wind energy policy until 2000. The pace of realisation of wind turbines however did not keep up with this policy objective. An important reason is that it proves difficult to provide enough locations for wind turbines in spatial plans. Over the last 15 years two covenants have been concluded between the Dutch central government and provinces in order to overcome this problem: the 1991-Governmental Agreement on Planning Problems Wind Energy (BPW), and the 2001-Governmental Agreement on the National Development Wind Energy (BLOW). In the BLOW provinces have agreed to work towards the realisation of wind turbines with a total capacity of 1,500 MW in 2010. For this purpose provinces need the co-operation of municipalities, wind power project developers and local communities. Municipalities have a crucial role because of their discretion of detailed allocation of land use in local spatial plans. They are no partners to the covenant however. Provinces can use several governance strategies for mobilising co-operation: from top-down governance in which provinces specify locations to bottom-up approaches in which the initiatives are left to municipalities and project developers. This paper compares both covenants and assesses the effectiveness of different governance strategies employed by three distinct provinces.


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Today – Playmobil School Review
The Playmobil school (suitable for 4-10's) looked absolutely amazing on the box, full of intricate details and with lots of characters . The kids and I were beyond excited when it arrived.
Playmobil School Review
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Good morning, Nerdy Bloggers!
I'm back with another portion of my thesis, the second part of my chapter on Christ Figures. I hope you enjoy it! Also, for those wondering about the TV Top 30 series I've started, I plan to return to it very soon, probably after I'm finished posting my thesis. Enjoy!
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These examples of Christ figures in Harry Potter are quite explicit; however, they are symbolic. In comparison to Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, there are not many Christ figures, but in comparison, only one. This one Christ figure found in Narnia is Aslan the Lion, Son of the Emperor over the Sea. In Aslan's character, Lewis embodies the many aspects of Christ into one being. This character is the dominant figure throughout the entire series, and perhaps one of the clearest allegorical Christ figures found in literature.
When placed in chronological order, the first book in The Chronicles of Narnia is The Magician's Nephew. In this story, the reader follows the adventures of Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer who stumble into the yet to be created Narnia through the devious trick of Digory's Uncle Andrew. While the two are in this strange land, they witness a marvelous thing: the creation of Narnia.
The Lion was pacing to and fro about that empty land and singing his new song. It was softer and more lilting than the song by which he had called up the stars and the sun; a gentle, rippling music. And as he walked and sang, the valley grew green with grass. It spread out from the Lion like a pool. It ran up the sides of the little hills like a wave. In a few minutes it was creeping up the lower slopes of the distant mountains, making the young world every moment softer. The light wind could now be heard ruffling the grass. Soon there were other things besides grass…. (Lewis Magician's Nephew 64)
This Lion speaking Narnia into existence is none other than Aslan. The reader may recall the creation story of the Bible in which God speaks the world into being. Indeed the Scriptures say throughout Genesis 1, "And God said…" (Bible Gateway). What may be interesting to note is the nature of Aslan's character as played out through the other Chronicles of Narnia: Aslan is portrayed as a Christ figure. For this allusion to be congruent to the Bible, how may this seeming inconsistency between the two be used to form an allegory from this particular passage? This answer is found in Genesis 1:26, which states, "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground'" (Bible Gateway, emphasis added). The "us" found in this verse refers to the Trinity—God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. Thus, the symbol of Aslan the Creator fits with the aspect of Jesus in God the Creator.
Another aspect of Aslan's Christ-likeness is found in his very being a Lion. In the Bible, Jesus is often described as a lion. A simple word search on "lion" in the Bible recovers many verses that refer to Jesus Christ. The most explicit of these verses is Revelation 5:5 which states, "Then one of the elders said to me, 'Do not weep! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals'" (Bible Gateway). This parallel is quite clear and further establishes Aslan as a Christ figure.
Indeed, another point of interest concerning Aslan is his "parentage." Aslan claims himself to be the "Son of the Emperor Over the Sea." Though this Emperor is never seen face-to-face in the novels, he is given a very God-like aura. Aslan being his son, by nature draws Aslan to parallel to Jesus Christ himself, Jesus calling himself the Son of God. Extrapolating on the point of Aslan as a Christ figure, Joy Alexander says in her article, "The Whole Art and Joy of Words,"
…Aslan is clearly a character redolent of divinity and with godlike connotations. This is explicitly reinforced by Lewis when, less that a month after writing to fifth-graders, on June 19, he replied, when the idea of a cartoon version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was suggested to him: "I am sure you understand that Aslan is a divine figure, and anything remotely approaching the comic (above all anything in the Disney line) would be to me simple blasphemy." (Alexander)
From the mouth of the author himself, we see Aslan's character established as a one of divine nature, and from the literature it is quite simple to see Aslan as a Christ figure.
One of the most transparent symbolic elements found in the Chronicles of Narnia is found in the first novel published, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In this novel, the capital image of a Christ figure is found in Aslan's sacrifice for Edmund Pevensie. Edmund, having become a traitor and eaten of the White Witch's food, has committed an offense worthy of death according to the Deep Magic. Aslan meets with the Witch to talk over her claim. She renounces her claim on Edmund's life, however, only in exchange for Aslan's. The exchange takes place that evening. No one is aware of the exact terms of the agreement Aslan and the Witch have made, save for those two themselves. As Aslan begins to walk to his appointed time, Lucy and Susan spy him, and follow after him. Aslan appreciates their company saying, "I am sad and lonely. Lay your hands on my mane so that I can feel you are there and let us walk like that" (Lewis Lion… 179). This is much like Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane when he calls Peter, James, and John to come with him to watch and pray in Matthew 26:36-38, which states,
Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. Then he said to them, "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with me." (Bible Gateway)
In the same manner, Aslan calls upon Lucy and Susan to comfort him before his death. Like Aslan, Jesus too was "sad and lonely."
Aslan goes to his appointment with the White Witch, allowing himself to submit to the humiliating, degrading, and painful death of a traitor he has chosen to take upon himself. The text lists Aslan as being bound, shorn of his mane, muzzled, and finally murdered by the White Witch herself (Lewis Lion… 180-81). This description also matches the account of Jesus' scourging and crucifixion found in the Bible. Jesus was "bound" by the mob of the chief priests and soldiers in the garden after being betrayed by Judas as recorded in Matthew 27:2. Jesus too was "shorn of his mane," as his beard was plucked out, prophetically spoken of in Isaiah 50:6, "I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting" (Bible Gateway). He was "muzzled" in the sense that he did not speak up on behalf of himself. Indeed, Mark 15:3-5 states, "The chief priests accused him of many things. So again Pilate asked him, 'Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of.' But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed" (Bible Gateway). Finally, Aslan was murdered, and thus, Jesus was crucified, the debt now paid for traitors (in both accounts). It is notable that the manner of Dumbledore and Aslan's deaths is very similar (both die willingly, die for traitors, only one or two friends present at their death) and their deaths resonate with Jesus' death.
Perhaps the most crucial moment in this story is found in the resurrections of both Aslan and Jesus. In the morning after his death, Susan and Lucy are sad and crying on the body of the fallen Aslan. They turn away to go inform the rest of the company of Aslan's death, but hear a great and thunderous crack. The Stone Table where Aslan was killed has broken in two. Upon find this, they are greeted with another sight: a resurrected and fully restored Aslan. He explains the circumstances as thus:
…Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards. (Lewis Lion… 185)
Aslan, being sinless and taking Edmund's place allowed him to live again. Similarly, Jesus, having committed no wrongdoing, taking the place of sinners, is allowed to resurrect, to live again. Luke 24:46-47 states, "He [Jesus] told them, 'This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem'" (Bible Gateway). These comparisons undoubtedly place Aslan in the role of the Christ figure—which is widely accepted by many.
Another post-resurrection example of Aslan as a Christ figure can be found in The Horse and His Boy. During this story, Bree the Horse echoes the disciple Thomas in his disbelief (Bree boasting about his doubts that Aslan is actually a Lion, and Thomas not believing in the resurrection of Jesus). Aslan puts all his doubts aside when he suddenly appears to Bree and his company: "Now Bree," he said, "you poor, proud frightened Horse, draw near. Nearer still, my son. Do not dare not to dare. Touch me. Smell me. Here are my paws, here is my tail, these are my whiskers. I am a true beast" (Lewis Horse… 299). These words to Bree are comparable to Jesus' words to Thomas in John 20:26-29:
A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." (Bible Gateway)
Thomas has seen and believed, just as Bree has done. This offers yet another similar point between Aslan and Jesus.
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, another example of Aslan and his Christ-likeness presents itself. In this adventure, Lucy and Edmund Pevensie and their unbearable cousin Eustace Scrubb are on an adventure with King Caspian to find the seven lost lords of Narnia. During their adventures, Eustace is transformed into a dragon with the aid of a magic bracelet, but in greatest part, due to the greed he harbors in his heart when discovering some treasure. Aslan is the only one who can offer Eustace the cure he needs for his ailments: Aslan must shed Eustace's dragon skin and bathe him. Eustace describes the situation to his cousins saying,
And there was I as smooth and soft as a peeled switch and smaller than I had been. The he caught hold of me—I didn't like that much for I was very tender underneath now that I'd no skin on—and threw me into the water. It smarted like anything but only for a moment. After that it became perfectly delicious and as soon as I started swimming and splashing I found that all the pain had gone from my arm. And then I saw why. I'd turned into a boy again. (Lewis Dawn Treader 475).
Aslan was the only who could cure Eustace of his predicament. Likewise, as stated in Acts 4:12, "Salvation is found in no one else [Jesus], for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved" (Bible Gateway). Indeed, Jesus himself declares in John 14:6, "Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me'" (Bible Gateway). As Aslan is the only cure for Eustace's condition, Jesus is the only cure for man's sinful condition.
Also in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the reader finds Aslan another time, but in the form of a Lamb. Interestingly enough, this lamb offers the children a breakfast of fish, roasting over a fire, much like the breakfast Jesus offered his disciples in John 21:9 (Bible Gateway). An interesting parallel here is also Aslan taking the form of a Lamb. John the Baptist calls Jesus in John 1:29, "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (Bible Gateway). Discovering the Lamb is none other than Aslan himself, the children are met with shock, "…but as he spoke, his snowy white flushed into tawny gold and his size changed and he was Aslan himself, towering above them and scattering light from his mane" (Lewis Dawn Treader 540). As Jesus is described as both the Lion and the Lamb, Aslan too is the Lion and the Lamb.
In the final volume of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle, the apocalypse has come to Narnia. Aslan has gathered his children and they are entering through The Door to his country. When entering this marvelous land, Lucy laments about the inevitable possibility of returning to her own world. Aslan calms her fears saying, "The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning" (Lewis Last Battle 767). Aslan has passed judgment on the world, and gathered all his to himself. Likewise, in Revelation 11:18, Jesus will judge the world and reward his saints, "The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great— and for destroying those who destroy the earth" (Bible Gateway). Aslan has judged his world and rewarded his saints, as Christ will in his second coming.
The symbols for Christ found in both Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia are very similar, but portrayed in different styles. J. K. Rowling is subtler with her symbolism in Harry Potter than C. S. Lewis is in Narnia. In Rowling's works, more than one character or object may represent something, in this case, Christ; thus there are multiple Christ figures in Harry Potter. Conversely, in Lewis' Narnia, the reader finds only one Christ figure—Aslan. John Granger describes this difference in this manner: "Allegories are stand-ins or story translations of a worldly character, quality, or event into an imaginative figure or story…. Symbols, in contrast, can be stacked up" (Granger 99-100). This main difference allows both series to be studied for Christian symbolism, but under different lenses. Each series offers its own rich symbols, but merely in a different manner.
The actions of these Christ figures are driven by agapē love, particularly in the examples where sacrifice is involved. Likewise, the Christ figures, in their Christ-like actions and attitudes bring about some form of redemption. It does not take a careful reading to see that the two symbols of agapē love and Christ figures are often present because someone is in need of redemption. These three symbols form a trinity that is difficult to separate. It is the final theme of redemption that ties the other two together.
Works Cited in Chapter II, Part II
Alexander, Joy. "'The Whole Art and Joy of Words': Aslan's Speech in the Chronicles of Narnia." Mythlore Summer 2003. Infotrac. Lamar Memorial Lib., Maryville TN. 7 Mar. 2006 <htttp://infotrac.galegroup.com>.
Bible Gateway. King James Version. New International Version. 2006. 27 Apr. 2006 <http://biblegateway.com/>. 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 John 4:8; 2 Chronicles 7:14; 2 Samuel 22:2-3; Acts 4:12; Colossians 1:13-14; Ephesians 1:7, 2:1-5, 2:20; Genesis 1:1-31, 3:15; Hebrews 9:12, 12:1; Isaiah 1:18, 50:6, 53:1-12, 61:10; Job 2:11-13; John 1:29, 3:16, 4:10, 4:13-14, 8:36, 14:6-7, 14:26, 15:13, 15:15, 19:17, 20:26-29, 21:9; Luke 10:18, 22:42, 24:46-47; Mark 7:37, 15:3-5; Matthew 1:21; 24:31, 26:36-39, 26:42; Philippians 2:1-2; Revelation 5:5, 11:18, 12:10; Romans 6:11; Titus 3:5.
Granger, John. Looking for God in Harry Potter. USA: SaltRiver, 2004. 67-68, 99-100, 133, 135-36, 182.
Lewis, C. S. The Horse and His Boy. The Chronicles of Narnia. New York: HarperEntertainment, 2005. 205-310.
—. The Last Battle. The Chronicles of Narnia. New York: HarperEntertainment, 2005. 669-767.
—. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The Chronicles of Narnia. New York: HarperEntertainment, 2005. 107-97.
—. The Magician's Nephew. The Chronicles of Narnia. New York: HarperEntertainment, 2005. 11-106.
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Happy Friday! Today's guest is Jane Small. I love the beautiful things she does with color! Jane has shared some thoughts about techniques and her unique perspective on art.
Why are you passionate about art?
I have to be very honest here and say that it isn't actually "art" that I'm passionate about. What I am passionate about is the mystery that makes art possible. Many years ago, I suffered from acute anxiety and depression. I had felt that way for 16 years. Without going into too much detail, one day, I had an experience of healing that affected my perception so instantly and profoundly that my life totally changed. I still experienced to some degree, some of the original anxiety, but it was no longer a problem! It just felt like a small thing in a much greater perspective. The greater perspective showed me that life was in fact an awesome mystery, full of hope and beauty. I started to really "see". I noticed everything in much more detail; spiders webs, ants, a drop of rain water, shadows cast by the light on a plain wall. All these things now seemed beautiful and the stiller I became and the more I looked, the more I noticed. Colours in particular now had a particular impact. I was especially in awe of the colour "mauve". When I was very young, I had worn a mauve dress once and my mother had told me I looked very sickly in it! She didn't like that colour and it was one of those little things that get lodged in the mind. I had disliked mauve ever since. Now, it was like I was making up for having missed out on "seeing" that colour, and wherever I saw it, whether as a flower, or lampshade, or whatever, it would stop me in my tracks and I would look and look. My life now became focused on exploring the mystery behind what had happened. My husband Simon had been so astonished by the transformation, that he too was drawn to seek with me. It became a wonderful journey of discovery and ever more questions. For him, the journey came together in a creative sense, via the beautiful and mysterious mystical novel that he wrote, "Star Pilgrim."
What got you started with art and being creative as a hobby/business?
As a bi product of this quest, I found myself drawn to express the enchantment and beauty that I was noticing, through art. For years I painted in soft pastel and sold my work as originals, prints and cards. My pictures always had a meditative or mystical quality to them. I also worked in water colour, sometimes on silk, and in acrylic. I also experimented with batik. Then, I found a book one day about encaustic art. I was interested to try it. This involves painting in coloured beeswax and using a variety of heated tools for melting and working with the wax. The American way and the European way of encaustic are different. In America it is popular to use heat guns and more powerful tools,and to paint on absorbant panels. In Europe,it is more common to use a small iron, heated stylus, hot plate and hog hair brushes, and to paint on a clay coated encaustic non absorbant card. This is a big generalization as of course individuals everywhere are using different approaches. For some years now I have focused on painting with beeswax, because it makes an interesting change. I love the way the colours merge and blend and its slightly quirky, unpredictable nature.
Do you have any tips/inspiration to share?
I noticed on the internet that the European way is often derided as "not the real thing"! This might be in part because a lot of people who do encaustic over here, make no claim to be artists. They just love messing around with beeswax and enjoy the special effects you can make.They paint numerous fairy castles, dragons, fox gloves and dragonflies! And I think thats great. However, I felt from the beginning that a lot more could be achieved with these simple tools for anyone who was a natural artist and who wanted to do more specific and detailed work. So really, I just went ahead and did my own thing! And basically that involves an enormous amount of practise and experimentation to find your own style. Maybe a class for beginners could be useful but then just experiment! You can use other media with the wax too such as oil pastels and its common to add wax to photographs. A word of caution about oil pastel. It never completely dries so the finished work would have to be framed behind glass. This is not necessary if you stick to pure beeswax. Quite a lot of detail can be achieved in wax by using an encaustic stylus. And the finished work can be buffed up so it really shines.
Do you have a favourite piece you have created?
My favorite piece is always my current one! Because it is such a joy in the moment to produce something totally unique and new. However people who like my work do have favorites. This varies enormously, but without doubt, my top, best selling print and card is "Inner Peace." This was painted years ago, shortly after my healing experience. It is executed in acrylic, using a water colour method.
What exciting future plans do you have for your work?
Well, the exciting thing is that I don't plan! And that's when the best things seem to happen. I'm an absolute menace with any kind of technology which of course includes computers. I have never had much to do with them. I had an offer of help to set up my enchantment fine art blog. And it has been amazing, the interest I have had from people all over the world who are interested in encaustic art. Or people who just like meditative, calming images, something a bit mystical. This is already opening new doors. And I have started writing Haiku to resonate with the images as they seem to really suit that style of verse. I can't write them "cold". They come to mind when I look into each painting after it is completed.
You can connect with Jane on her website, Twitter and her flickr gallery.
Thank you Jane! I would love to try working with beeswax someday, I think it would be a lot of fun. You do beautiful and inspirational work!


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Wednesday, May 15, 2019 1:00 am
Booker's bold view on gun safety
Bloomberg Opinion editorial
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker has released a plan to combat gun violence. Alongside some familiar proposalsĀ– including universal background checks on gun purchases and bans on semi-automatic rifles ("assault weapons") and high-capacity magazinesĀ– he has some bolder ideas, and these could do even more to advance the cause of gun safety.
His plan is a welcome addition to the debate on gun violence in the Democratic presidential campaign and in the nation at large.
First among Booker's more ambitious ideas is a federal permit-to-purchase law that would require every gun owner to have a license. He compares the licensing process to "applying for or renewing a passport." Applicants would submit fingerprints, provide background information and complete a rudimentary gun-safety course. The FBI would vet the information, perform a background check and issue a firearm license valid for up to five years.
The process would be similar to those already in place in several states with low rates of gun violence, including Hawaii and Massachusetts.
Research suggests that licensing is among the most effective means of reducing gun violence and homicide; it correlates with lower levels of suicide as well. And systems like this needn't be burdensome to legal gun ownership: Where they're in place, an overwhelming majority of applicants are approved for gun possession.
Booker also wants new semi-automatic handguns to be micro-stamped, which would mark ammunition when it's fired, enabling law enforcement agencies to trace a shell casing to the gun that fired it.
Current law forbids a spouse or ex-spouse under a restraining order or convicted of abuse from purchasing a firearm. Booker wants to extend this to current and former dating partners. And he wants to remove the gun industry's exceptionally broad immunity from legal actions by repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.
This all makes sense. Research continues to document wide disparities in gun violence among states with carefully constructed gun-safety regulations and those with shoddy laws (as frequently advanced by the gun lobby), and the case for robust federal regulation becomes ever clearer.
Booker's plan would protect gun rights while making it harder for violent people to get firearmsĀ– the simple goal that all reform proposals should be measured against.
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Cementing its status as the UK's leading voice across all aspects of licensed hospitality, the ALMR has launched its Casual Dining Manifesto promoting the UK's varied and innovative casual dining market.
The Manifesto highlights the dynamism and diversity of casual dining in the UK and calls upon the Government to address issues surrounding property and investment to ensure continued growth in the sector.
ALMR Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said: "The UK's licensed hospitality offerings have evolved immeasurably over recent years with casual dining outlets driving new trends in the eating out market.
"Faced with tightening margins and increasing levels of red tape, many of this country's licensed hospitality outlets have looked to new and exciting ways to entice customers and drive trade. Businesses have increasingly turned to food and we are seeing a fantastic depth of choice in our high street brands but the benefits of this are not recognised collectively at either a national or local level."
The ALMR Casual Dining manifesto calls upon both local and national authorities to:
- Promote a free, fair and flexible property market by implementing a root and branch reform of business rates and updating the Code for Business Leasing Premises
- Cut unnecessary costs of doing business by ensuring that authorities have a regard to economic growth for planning and licensing decisions
- Unlock our potential for growth and investment in communities by scrapping NICs for under-25s, direct funding for apprenticeships and bonuses for businesses each time they take on an apprentice
Nicholls concluded: "Eating out businesses serve over 42 million meals each year and contribute £209k per restaurant to their wider local communities. This is a significant contribution that can be capitalised on if the conditions for businesses permit it. Cutting costs and providing businesses with opportunities to invest is crucial and the ALMR will continue to push for a fairer, flexible market, particularly in respect of property, that allows our casual dining businesses to flourish."


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Yes, we have a customer with a '54 MG. Good God is it rough, and a royal pain in the ass to work on (think 65 years of rust), but cool to toodle around town in.
And one of my favorite rides, a late model Jaguar S-Type 'R'. Fast as hell and handles like a dream while you feel like you're sitting on a plush leather couch.
Yes, that says "supercharged"
By the way, the huge aluminum brake calipers are so light, they weigh less than the two brake pads inside 'em.
Got change for a Quattroporte ...
This is one beautiful piece of Guinea Iron (2007 Maserati Quattroporte) with a story behind it that has a moral.
Seems the customer bought this car a couple months ago off the Internet for a high-5-figure price tag, sight unseen (pics only). Imagine his surprise when, last week, the dashboard advises him of a transmission failure (Tiptronic) with only 15K on the clock. No problem, you say, take it to the dealer and heave 'em fix it under warranty. Well, seems Maserati and Ferrari are pretty particular about transferring warranties. They don't like people selling their late model cars as 'used cars'. Guess what? They informed him the warranty is void. Heh ... Now he gets to pay me to fix it. By the way, the dual disc clutch pack alone is $2500.
Moral: Never buy an exotic car (or hotrod) off the intarwebs unless you or someone you trust can physically go and see it and drive it.
Another story related to this car. The Ferrari/Maserati dealer we used to use for parts (Ferarri of Glen Cove) went out of business. So now, instead of driving a mile and a half, we have to go to Ferrari of Long Island which, fortunately, I pass on my way home.
So, the other day on the way home, I stop in to get all our account and resale paperwork set up with their parts department and pick up the parts I need for the Quattroporte. Now, I've never been in there but I've seen the building a million times so I pull in a space and head for the front door. As I'm walking up, I look through the glass and I see this huge marble atrium and the only thing in it is this huge marble desk with a hot woman sitting at it and a security guard standing next to her.
By the time I got the front door open, the security guard was on me. "What do you want?" He says. Mind you, I'm coming from work so I'm dirty, wearing a ball cap, uniform shirt - open with a dark blue 'wife beater' underneath - BDU pants, and combat boots.
I ignore him and walk up to the babe behind the desk. "I'm looking for the parts department," I tell her.
"Well, that wouldn't be in this building," she says, and I can see her turning up her nose at whatever it was I was spooged with last before I left the shop. "That's three buildings up the block. This is the showroom."
"Excuse me," I said, tipping my sweaty hat to her. "Thank you." I gave the guard an evil look before heading out, thinking if I went home, showered and got into one of my three-piece British suits and went back, she and the guard would have thrown their backs out trying to bend down to kiss my ass. Fuck 'em both; ain't buying no Ferrari.
The Prince of Darkness lives ...
So I get this 10 year old Jaguar in with a steady miss in #1, plus random misfires throughout. I ohm out the #1 coil and I find the resistance is a little high after determining I had a signal from the processor.
I check the computer and see the car has about 60K on the plugs, so I yank the coil to check their condition. I pull the coil out and what do I see? Jaguar ain't learned shit over the past 50 years.
After seeing that little sticker, I ordered 6 new coils. Heh ...


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Young Daniels off to Barca Academy, compliments of Milo
On June 9, 2018, Nestle hosted the second edition of the Milo Football Skills Tournament at the Police Sports Club Ground, Eve Leary. The event is part of a global partnership between Nestle Milo and FC Barcelona, which was officially announced in 2016.
The partnership between the two powerhouses is based on a shared vision to promote healthier lifestyles through physical activity among children, especially during their foundation years, 7-12 years old.
The first edition of the tournament was hosted in August 2017 and saw participation of over 150 children from Guyana vying for the top spot of the tournament for the grand prize of a trip to the Barca Academy in Barcelona Spain.
This year more than 160 boys and girls between the ages 7-12 participated in the tournament and were judged on the following skillsets: passing, dribbling, composure, running and control.
Ian Daniels delivered a stunning performance and walked away with the grand prize of a trip to the Barca Academy where he will participate in a training camp hosted by the FC Barcelona coaches, together with 93 other winners from across the world.
Speaking at the prize-giving ceremony, Geysha Thomas Davis, Senior Consumer Marketing Manager said: "We are extremely happy for the support given and the team spirit shown by the kids that came out today showcasing their skills. Milo will continue to invest in initiatives such as we work towards achieving our global objective to help 50 million children live healthier lives by the year 2030."
Ian will be travelling on September 29, 2018, along with other Caribbean winners from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica and two representatives from Nestle to Barcelona Spain for this lifetime opportunity.


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We have been looking at ideas for beautiful hardy pots to provide us with all year round interest and colour colour
Pots as I mentioned earlier are an excellent opportunity to enjoy plants that may not otherwise suvive in the soil in your borders. Plants such as rhododendrons, azalias or pieris.
Small collections of coloured evergreen can look very appealing .Placed in a collection together. They can often make a very dramatic display. I thoroughly recomend including Daphne odora 'Marginata' and sarcococca because as well as being good evergreens they smell delicious. I want the fragrance to lift me up every time I pass up my front path.
This pot is dominated by a small silver leaved pittosporum and under planted with a variety of small silver euonymus and frosted red leaved heucheras.
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