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This Virgin Frozen Watermelon Margarita is a perfect treat for pretty much every single day! A super hot day calls for Virgin Frozen Watermelon Margarita! A long and tiring day? Celebrations? You got it!
Isn't this faux margarita recipe absolutely stunning? Not only is it pretty, but it is so yummy – like drinking a sweet frozen melon! This gorgeous pink is accomplished by chopping up a watermelon – obviously, right? 😉
Specialty Ingredients:
The following ingredients are affiliate links on Amazon because they may be a bit hard to find in your normal store. I wanted you to be able to see exactly which things we are using.
Reminder, not all ingredients are linked above, just the ones that may be a bit difficult to find or that you might be unsure of what to look for.
Recommended Tools:
A great (and pretty) mocktail takes a stash of a few fun tools like the ones listed above.
So, if you are planning to make cocktails and mocktails when entertaining, it would make sense to create your own little bar box!
This way, you are prepared when the unexpected guest drops in.
- 1 cup of seedless watermelon cut into chunks
- 1- ounce watermelon cocktail syrup
- 1- ounce sweetened lime juice
- 1/2 ounce agave nectar
- 1 3/4 cups of bag ice
- 3-4 watermelon slices cut into wedges
- granulated sugar
Smear the tip of a finger with agave nectar and rim the margarita glass then dredge the rim of the glass through granulated sugar, set the glass aside.
Into the pitcher of a blender add ice, watermelon, watermelon cocktail syrup, sweetened lime juice and agave nectar.
Blend until the ice mixture is smooth.
Spoon mixture into the prepared margarita glass.
Garnish with fresh wedges of watermelon.
Wanna know something else? Your house could be the best hangout spot for all the kids' friends! Break out a few of these and they will think they have landed in Heaven!


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Enjoy a healthier pizza night this week with this homemade Chicken Pesto Pizza with Fresh Avocado featuring a whole wheat crust.
It used to be that one of my children requested Costco pizza on a weekly basis. And on a weekly basis, I said no.
Though it was once a our "go-to" pizza for almost two decades, our (hubs' and mine) recent adventure in calorie counting has struck Costco pizza from the list. With one slice topping 500 calories, it's just not worth it to us. Especially when I can make a personal-size pizza with whole wheat crust for fewer calories. Not only is my version less fattening but it tastes better and contains much more nutrition.
So, now that homemade pizza is a regular thing, the aforementioned child requests pizza on a weekly basis. And he gets really wigged out if I have something different on the meal plan.
Good thing I know how to make a healthier pizza.
In our calorie education hubs and I learned to measure out toppings, like cheese or chicken. We realized that we were just as satisfied with an ounce of cheese as we were with several handfuls. Who knew?
Not only is measuring a great way to reduce calories, but it's also a fair means to using less and thereby saving money. One of our favorite healthier pizzas is this Chicken Pesto Pizza with Fresh Avocado.
With a whole grain crust, pesto sauce, chicken, and lots of fresh vegetables, it's a winner! I love adding avocado to a pizza after it's been cooked. Gives it a nice dose of healthy fat and a boost in flavor. Have you tried it? You must!
Often I make my own pesto or this Rustic Basil Sauce, but on a Friday night when I'm tired, I'm happy to lean on Costco's Pesto. It's delicious and a great deal. Feel free to use your favorite pesto-type sauce.
How to make this cheap:
Here are some of the strategies you can use to make this recipe more economical:
- Stock up on ingredients when they are on sale. Whether it's chicken, pesto, or avocado, track prices and stock up on great priced items.
- Shop Costco. Costco has the best price on shredded mozzarella as well as pesto. I buy the big five pound bag of cheese and divide it into smaller bags to store in the freezer. The jar of pesto lasts several weeks and we make all the pesto things when we buy a jar.
Tools I use to make this recipe easy:
This is a pretty straight-forward dish. You don't need any fancy equipment. However, having some good basic kitchen tools can really make your time in the kitchen more enjoyable. Over time, I've honed my collection so that they are perfect for my needs.
I actually have an arsenal of favorite pizza tools that make the Friday night pizza experience super quick and simple.
Here are the tools that I like to use in this recipe:
- A kitchen scale – to weigh flour quickly, much more quickly than when I use a measuring cup.
- A KitchenAid mixer – I used to use a bread machine, until the 4th — or was it the 5th? machine in 14 years broke. My KitchenAid, circa 2004, has served me well since then.
- A large plastic cutting board – I use this to work my dough.
- A bench knife – for dividing the dough easily into portions.
- Round pizza screens – I have a collection of different sizes that work really well for me.
- A pizza wheel – I have a Pampered Chef pizza wheel that has lasted me over ten years
Chicken Pesto Pizza
- 1/2 batch Whole Wheat Pizza Dough
- 1/2 cup pesto
- 1/4 red onion sliced
- 1/2 bell pepper (any color) julienned
- 2 cup chicken (cooked and cubed)
- 1 tomato diced
- 12 oz mozzarella cheese (shredded) (3 cups)
- 1 avocado peeled, pitted, and chopped
- Preheat the oven to 475. Spray two 12-inch pizza pans with non-stick cooking spray or line two baking sheets with . Form the dough and stretch to fit the prepared pans. You can make two medium pizzas or 4 small personal size pizzas.
- Divide the pesto evenly over the rounds, spreading to the edges. Layer on the toppings: chicken, vegetables, and cheese.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until the dough is crisp and the cheese is melted. Remove from the oven and slice. Top the pizzas with fresh avocado.
Originally published October 10, 2012. Updated April 22, 2017.

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This is about a 2-3 yr view of AAPL in a weekly view. As you can see, we are in an overall downtrend for the past 2 yrs, though, it's in an upward cycle. Right now, the past 6 weeks, we are compressing in a rectangle pattern. The uptrend from March to June has been broken.
RSI shows a downtrend. MACD is weakening in the bullish strength. Volume is saying that perhaps the bullish run isn't over yet, but we are compressing.
From this view (6 months, Daily), we see a double top forming, where the right top is lower than the left top. This is more a bearish signal. If it breaks and closes below 133.50, this is more bearish. Also, we're right at the 50 EMA, so this is also a good pivot point. It could bounce here with less bullish strength to form a triple top, with this top being not as high as the 2nd top. The 200 EMA could be an area where it could drop to, if it becomes more bearish.
How would I play this?
BULLISH - This would probably be a short play from entry @ 139 and exit @ 142ish. Cost stop just above 133.50.
BEARISH - If closes below 133.50, I'd go bearish and have my profit target at the 200 EMA, which is around 122-123ish. Cost stop just above 133.50.
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Which Colleges Have Teaching Degree Programs in the Albuquerque, NM Area?
Learn about colleges that have teaching degree programs in Albuquerque, NM. See specialization options, degree requirements, classes and the different types of degree programs available in the area.
Do you need to know which schools are currently offering teaching degree programs in Albuquerque, NM? Here you can learn about undergraduate and graduate options offered at four schools in this area.
What You Need to Know
Albuquerque-area students can choose among several teaching programs presented by public schools at multiple degree levels. For example, degree programs usually offer an area of specialization, such as career and technical education, bilingual elementary education, early childhood education or secondary education. Credits from a 2-year associate's degree program can be transferred to a bachelor's degree program. These programs may also provide an alternative path to career preparation for students who already hold a bachelor's degree. One program is uniquely dedicated to training Native American teachers to serve Native American families; at this school, you must be able to verify your tribal membership to be admitted.
Bachelor's degree programs can take 4-5 years, and the curriculum varies by area of study. Field experience is required. Admission requirements also vary by program but can include a portfolio, interview, cold-writing assignment and standardized test scores. Master's degree programs may be intended to accommodate those seeking first-time teaching licensure as well as those seeking career advancement. You'll need to complete field work and an exam to graduate. Keep reading to learn more about these schools.
Associate Degree Programs in Teaching in the Albuquerque Area
Central New Mexico Community College
Central New Mexico Community College's Associate of Arts in Teacher Education program features five areas of emphasis, but the career and technical education option is for individuals with a certificate or associate's degree in a vocational area, such as culinary arts or welding. An alternative degree program available here is the Associate of Arts in Early Childhood Multicultural Education with specializations in family, infant and toddler; birth-3rd grade teacher; and early childhood program administration. If you've already obtained a bachelor's degree, an alternative teacher licensure program is available.
- Program Name: Associate of Arts in Teacher Education
- Specialization Areas: Career and technical education, special education, secondary education, elementary education, bilingual elementary education
- Program Length: 2 years full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $1,626 in-state students; $7,338 out-of-state students per year (2018-2019)
- School Type: 2-year, public; about 23,553 undergraduates
Santa Fe Community College
You can fulfill part of the educational credentialing requirements to become a teacher in New Mexico by completing one of the early childhood education associate degree programs. These degree credits can be transferred to a 4-year program at a university. Common courses include health, safety and nutrition; curriculum development; and composition. An alternative degree is the Associate of Arts in Teacher Education, which offers courses in field-based teaching observations, technology in the classroom and psychology.
- Program Name: Associate in Arts/Associate in Applied Science in Early Childhood Education
- Program Length: 2 years full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $1,755 in-district students; $2,115 in-state students; $4,605 out-of-state students per year (2018-2019)
- School Type: 2-year, public; about 4,207 undergraduates
Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute
This school's Associate of Arts in Early Childhood Education program is designed to teach students how to provide the necessary educational services to Native American families. You must be of Native American descent or be an Alaskan native to be admitted. You have to complete at least 35 hours in general education classes and 29 hours in early childhood education.You can expect to take classes on childhood growth and development and learning; family and community collaboration; child assessment; and professionalism.
- Program Name: Associate of Arts in Early Childhood Education
- Program Length: 2 years full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $1,095 per year (2018-2019)
- Admission Requirements: Tribal affiliation verification
- School Type: 2-year, public; about 367 undergraduates
Bachelor's Degree Programs in Teaching in the Albuquerque Area
University of New Mexico
The secondary education major at the University of New Mexico can be pursued as a Bachelor of Science in Education or a Bachelor of Arts in Education. The elementary education specialization can only be acquired as a Bachelor of Science in Education. Each of these programs has slightly different admission requirements and coursework. A field experience class is necessary for both programs. You'll also have to pick a secondary subject to concentrate your studies in. This subject should be in the area that you plan on teaching. A few of these subjects include mathematics, life science, communicative arts and social studies.
- Program Name: Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts in Education
- Specialization Areas: Elementary education and secondary education
- Program Length: 4-5 years full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $7,633 in-state students; $22,586 out-of-state students per year (2018-2019)
- Prerequisites: 26 credit hours (both specializations) and a 2.5 cumulative GPA (secondary education)
- Admission Requirements: Bound portfolio, cold-write assignment and faculty interview (elementary education); New Mexico Assessment of Teacher Basic Skills score (secondary education)
- School Type: 4-year, public; about 24,319 students (18,621 undergraduate)
Master's Degree Programs in Teaching in the Albuquerque Area
University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico has two master's degree programs in elementary education--one for students seeking licensure and one for licensed teachers, such as those seeking a higher tier within the state licensing system. In these programs, you'll study research methods, curriculum development, diversity and teaching methods. A master's exam and fieldwork is required for all specializations. The school also offers a Master of Arts in Secondary Education with the same learning options for licensed and unlicensed individuals.
- Program Name: Master of Arts in Elementary Education
- Specialization Areas: Licensed teachers, MSET (math, science and educational technology), reflective practice, alternative route to K-8 licensure
- Program Length: Approximately 1-2.5 years full-time (varies by specialization)
- Tuition: $6,258 in-state students; $18,140 out-of-state students per year (2018-2019, including fees)
- Prerequisites: Bachelor's degree with an undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.0 in last two years
- Admission Requirements: Varies based on the specialization, but typical requirements include interviews, testing, teaching experience; NM teaching license (for the licensed teacher program)
- School Type: 4-year, public; about 24,319 students (18,621 undergraduate)
To summarize, both undergraduate and graduate teaching degree options in Albuquerque, NM. Associate's degrees are offered at Central New Mexico Community College, Santa Fe Community College and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute; bachelor's and master's degrees are offered at the University of New Mexico.


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Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions: Woven Works by Contemporary Painters
Nov 30 - Jan 29, 2006
Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions:
Woven Works by Contemporary Painters
Nov 30, 2005 - Jan 29, 2006
This exhibition introduces the community to a contemporary interpretation of an ancient and beautiful art form. After adorning cathedrals and castles for centuries, tapestries in modern times have become a rare sight, as their ancient, labor-intensive production has made them costly to create. Through advances in computer technology, however, master printers at Magnolia Editions have developed a system for digitally translating original works by
contemporary artists into tapestry form. The tapestries, woven at small, family-owned mills in Belgium, bring forth the artists' authentic marks with stunning detail and subtlety.
The Bedford exhibition will feature thirty Magnolia Editions tapestries, many of them as large as seven feet high by ten feet in length. Works by nationally known artists The Art Guys, Squeak Carnwath, Chuck Close, Bruce Conner, Lia Cook, Lewis deSoto, Guy Diehl, Don & Era Farnsworth, Rupert Garcia, Leon Golub, Gus Heinze, Rob Keller, Robert Kushner, Hung Liu, Alan Magee, Dan McCleary, John Nava, Nancy Spero, Darren Waterston, Katherine Westerhout, and William Wiley will be on view.
Bedford Gallery Curator Carrie Lederer states, "each tapestry is an engaging, inspiring image, and many of them artfully blend personal and universal themes. Squeak Carnwath's Sorry World symbolically acknowledges world suffering with bright blue teardrops raining down onto a colorful globe. For the artist, Sorry World is somber but hopeful. The tears become rain that nurtures the globe, while the earth floats like a ship on an ocean of tears."
Other tapestries of note include Philip Glass Tapestry, an extraordinary ten foot by thirteen foot black
and white portrait of the composer by renowned New York painter Chuck Close. Bruce Connor's At the Head of the Stairs is a highly detailed line drawing that resembles an 18th Century etching. Hung Liu's Profile II, an elegant rendering of an old country Chinese woman, captures (in thread) the painter's gestural, textured brushwork, as well as the nuances of her trademark washes of color.
As a group, these modern tapestries are warm and tactile, inviting viewers into closer contemplation of contemporary artworks.
About Magnolia Editions:
Magnolia Editions is a fine art print studio in Oakland, California that provides artists with technical expertise and access to a variety of printing processes. For over two decades Magnolia Editions has worked closely with artists to produce and publish print multiples, unique artist's prints, works on paper and textiles, utilizing both traditional printing methods and the most advanced digital printing and Jacquard weaving techniques.
In the past decade, Magnolia Editions has also collaborated with artists on developing large-scale, public commissions. Working with the San Francisco Art Commission, Magnolia was actively involved in realizing works commissioned for the new international terminal at the San Francisco International Airport. Other public commissions in which Magnolia has played an active role include works for the San Francisco Superior Court Building, the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco, the Homart Corporation in Glendale, California, the Cathedral of our Lady of Los Angeles and the San Jose Museum of Art.


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Citizens and scholars excel in identifying and analysing government failure. It is important indeed to understand public sector, but while governments in the Low Countries are doing well on average and very well from an internationally perspective, most attention is focused on the errors and mishaps. This article argues for a robust positive perspective on the public sector as a complement to existing research. From a scientific perspective, public administration must set itself the ambition to connect and aggregate existing positive insights even better. From a social perspective, the discipline must prevent the gap from being filled by a wholesale rejection of democratic government or the use of unproven miracle cures. This article elaborates the starting points for Positive Public Administration, arguing that this perspective should be comprehensive, context related, inter-subjective, learning-oriented, and robustly scientific in nature. The article also introduces the other contributions in this special issue, which together give an initial interpretation of positive public administration.
Zoekresultaat: 217 artikelenDe zoekresultaten worden gefilterd op:
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Positieve bestuurskunde
Naar een robuust positief perspectief op de overheid
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019
|Positive Public Administration, successful public governance, research agenda, societal relevance
|Scott Douglas DPhil, Prof. dr. Trui Steen en Prof. dr. Zeger van der Wal
'Meedoen is belangrijker dan winnen'
Prijzen als exponent van de positieve bestuurskunde?
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019
|Positive Public Administration, prizes, successes
|Dr. Tom Overmans, Prof. dr. Mirko Noordegraaf en Prof. dr. Filip De Rynck
Positive Public Administration (PPA) encourages scholars to examine governance success. The appreciation of successes, however, is not new. During previous decades, awards were bestowed for exceptional performance. We analyse whether two important awards in the Netherlands and Flanders are an expression of PPA. Firstly, we find that successes are interpreted differently: in the Netherlands, one-off, trendy performances are rewarded, while in Flanders the focus is on consolidated results of long-term change processes. Secondly, we see that 'clean' success criteria promote a suggestion of 'control', whilst public settings are ambiguous and unpredictable. Finally, we conclude that prizes are primarily celebrations; little evidence is found of systematic knowledge exchange, learning and professionalisation.
Catharsis: een vergeten functie van financiële verantwoording
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019
|Catharsis, Accountability, Emotions, Debates, Positive Public Administration
|Dr. Sjoerd Keulen en Dr. Ronald Kroeze
Performance Budgeting has been introduced to gain greater managerial control over the outcomes and efficiency of policies and their budgets. Strikingly, a growing body of literature has explained that politicians hardly use performance information or only to emotionally judge government performance. We, however, propose understanding the emotional use of performance information as catharsis. Catharsis is the ritual of emotional and moral judging to understand and initiate improvement. Catharsis has been named as an important function of accountability, but has not been researched in the field of Public Administration. We discuss the concept of catharsis in relation to accountability and show that, by using evidence from its role in Dutch parliament, the use of 'cathartic emotions' are omnipresent in financial debates, especially when parliamentary enquiries and annual budgets are debated. Based on these findings catharsis should be understood as a much more serious function of accountability by both academics and public officials.
Positieve beleidsevaluatie: hoe evaluatieonderzoek kan bijdragen aan beter beleid
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019
|positive public administration, positive evaluation, positive psychology, success, policy oriented learning
|Dr. Peter van der Knaap en Dr. Rudi Turksema
New insights from the field of positive psychology led to the insight that people learn more effectively from positive feedback. Policy evaluation aims to improve public policy programmes through contributing to both accountability and learning. This ambiguous ambition has contributed to a considerable body of research into the impact of policy evaluation. Too often the conclusion is that the outcomes of policy evaluations – which are often negative by nature – are sparsely used by policy makers. This has led to series of improvements in the way we carry out evaluations. First through technical improvements and then by more responsive approaches. Both have not led to the desired breakthrough. Building on a number of positive evaluation studies, we advance a more positive approach in policy evaluation. Focussing on the successes in policy programmes rather than on its failures may contribute to evaluation impact. Consequently, we think a more positive, appreciative approach and using data to find success in policy making is necessary for policy evaluators to be more effective. This article presents practical examples of positive policy evaluations and successful use of data in the domain of policy evaluation.
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Burgerparticipatie: ontwikkelingstypen van bewonersverbanden
Interactie tussen participatieprofessionals en bewonersverbanden in beeld
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019
|citizen participation, self-organisation, public participation professionals, community enterprises, Amsterdam
|Dr. ir. Anna de Zeeuw, Eelco van Wijk MSc en Dr. Alex Straathof
Local authorities expect citizens to fulfil an increasing number of public services. In that context, citizen-based networks are emerging as means to fulfil a variety of public tasks, varying from supporting young entrepreneurs and strengthening social cohesion, to providing local care. In this article, we address the following questions: Which phases do community enterprises pass through in their efforts towards realising a sustainable contribution and how do participation professionals support these phases? To respond to this question, researchers followed seven community enterprises based in Amsterdam over a two-year period. We identified a typology of four development phases, with particular attention to the interaction between external participation professionals and the key persons of community enterprises. The study has practical relevance for governance of citizen participation and also raises important follow-up questions about the role of the local government.
Wanneer worden gemeenten gezien als waardevol?
Lokale publieke waardecreatie door de ogen van lokale actoren
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019
|public value management, Positive Public Administration, local government, performance assessment
|Scott Douglas DPhil en Prof. dr. Paul 't Hart
This article explores how we can gain insight into the quality of local government with the help of the public value perspective. The public value perspective does not evaluate government through generalised standards or benchmarks, but through the judgments of the actors involved in the policy. This approach could do better justice to the unique context of different governments, such as different local governments. The public value perspective, however, is hampered by the competing expectations that actors have of public policy and their generally negative bias towards the government. Based on 71 interviews with local actors in six municipalities, we show how the public value approach does indeed yields many different and critical perspectives, even within municipalities that are considered successful by national experts. However, we also show which connections exist between these seemingly competing perspectives and how sombre judgments about past governance are actually influenced by optimistic ambitions for the future.
Positieve bestuurskunde: een Europese Minnowbrook (EPPA I)
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 3 2019
|Positive Public Administration, European research, research agenda, societal impact
|Prof. dr. Geert Bouckaert
Geert Bouckaert reflects on the ambitions of Positive Public Administration within the larger European research agenda for public administration.
Evaluatieonderzoek, Big Data en Artificiële Intelligentie: een verkenning
|Beleidsonderzoek Online, juni 2019
|Frans L. Leeuw
Overheidsbeleid heeft steeds meer te maken met digitalisering en data-ificering van de samenleving en het menselijk gedrag. Dat betekent uitdagingen voor beleidsevaluatoren. In dit artikel gaat het om éen van de daarmee gepaard gaande verschijnselen: Big Data en Artificiële Intelligentie (BD/AI). Het artikel stelt, na erop gewezen te hebben dat de evaluatieprofessie langere tijd niet erg actief op digitaal gebied is geweest, ten eerste de vraag wat BD/AI te bieden hebben aan evaluatieonderzoek van (digitaal) beleid. Vijf toepassingsmogelijkheden worden besproken die de kwaliteit, bruikbaarheid en relevantie van evaluatieonderzoek kunnen bevorderen. De tweede vraag is wat evaluatieonderzoek te bieden heeft, als het gaat om het analyseren/onderzoeken van de betrouwbaarheid, validiteit en enkele andere aspecten van Big Data en AI. Ook daar worden verschillende mogelijkheden (en moeilijkheden) geschetst. Naar het oordeel van de schrijver is het enerzijds dienstig (meer) gebruik te maken van BD/AI in evaluatieonderzoek, maar doen onderzoekers er ook goed aan (meer) aandacht uit te laten gaan naar: de assumpties die aan BD/AI ten grondslag liggen (inclusief het 'black box'-probleem); de validiteit, veiligheid en geloofwaardigheid van algoritmes; de bedoelde en onbedoelde consequenties van het gebruik ervan; én de vraag of de claims dat digitale interventies die mede gebaseerd zijn op BD/AI effectief (of effectiever zijn dan andere), onderbouwd en valide zijn.
Sociale cohesie in gentrificerende arbeiderswijken van Amsterdam-Noord
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2019
|Gentrification, Bridging capital, Bonding capital, Amsterdam North, Public familiarity
|Dr. Linda van de Kamp en Dr. Saskia Welschen
We analyze how 'original' residents in different gentrifying working class areas in Amsterdam North experience and evaluate the changes in their neighborhood in terms of social cohesion – in other words, whether they feel at home in their changing neighborhood and whether they feel connected to other residents. Policy interventions often focus on establishing connections between residents with different socioeconomic or cultural backgrounds, in order to stimulate mutual understanding. An underlying policy aim is to uplift vulnerable original residents through contact with higher income groups. Based on our empirical data, we critically assess the concept of 'bridging capital' (Putnam, 2000) that underpins several of the social activities that are organized in areas such as the ones in our study. Subsequently, we discuss the importance of 'bonding capital' or the sense of interconnectedness and strong ties amongst original residents. Our empirical data – based on both interviews and participatory observation – suggest that activities within the 'own' community contribute importantly to feelings of belonging in the neighborhood. In the final section of the article, we discuss how different types of local meeting places offer opportunities for 'lighter' forms of interactions without aiming directly at strong connections between differently positioned neighborhood residents.
Introductie bij het themanummer: een drieluik van groeiende woonongelijkheid
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 3 2019
|Dr. Cody Hochstenbach en Dr. Nanke Verloo
Access to affordable, decent and secure housing is under increasing pressure in countries across the world, especially in burgeoning cities. This results in displacement, exclusion and increasing housing cost burdens. This theme issue consists of a collection of papers that approach inequality on urban housing markets from different angles. In this introduction to the special issue, we provide a framework to understand these various dimensions of inequality and their interconnectedness. We identify three scales of inequality: First, at the abstract level of housing systems, market developments and housing policies contribute to increasing housing costs and a reduction in affordable housing units. Second, at the urban level we identify increasing spatial segregation between populations as well as the intertwined trends of intensifying gentrification and suburbanization of poverty. Third, at the everyday level we can identify a loss of belonging among long-term residents of changing (gentrifying) neighbourhoods, while other residents may appreciate change. This also fosters the potential for conflict and poses new challenges to professionals dealing with families in situations of poverty. We argue that emerging inequalities at these different scales need to be considered as interconnected.
Politie en rechtstatelijke waarden: opvattingen van politieleiders
|Beleid en Maatschappij, Aflevering 2 2019
|Police, Rule of law, Democratic values, Social integration, The Netherlands
|Ivo van Duijneveldt MMC (master of management Consultancy)
Since the 1970s social integration of the police has been considered as a key element of the Dutch police. It can be understood as a strategy to realise police legitimacy. This article adresses the question whether the Dutch police still strive for police legitimacy via social integration. The article is based on a series of interviews with present and former strategic leaders of the Dutch police. The study shows how asking about police legitimacy and social integration of the police leads to more fundamental considerations about the role of the police in democratic society and about democratic values and the rule of law ('Rechtsstaat'). The article concludes that police leaders emphasize the importance of civic liberties (freedom of speech, right to demonstrate) and equal rights. Police leaders consider the role of the police to reinforce and protect these values. In their opinion, this requires the police to be deeply rooted in society.
What Is Left of the Radical Right?
The Economic Agenda of the Dutch Freedom Party 2006-2017
|Politics of the Low Countries, Aflevering 2 2019
|radical right-wing populist parties, economic policies, welfare chauvinism, populism, deserving poor
|Simon Otjes
This article examines the economic agenda of the Dutch Freedom Party. It finds that this party mixes left-wing and right-wing policy positions. This inconsistency can be understood through the group-based account of Ennser-Jedenastik (2016), which proposes that the welfare state agenda of radical right-wing populist parties can be understood in terms of populism, nativism and authoritarianism. Each of these elements is linked to a particular economic policy: economic nativism, which sees the economic interest of natives and foreigners as opposed; economic populism, which seeks to limit economic privileges for the elite; and economic authoritarianism, which sees the interests of deserving and undeserving poor as opposed. By using these different oppositions, radical right-wing populist parties can reconcile left-wing and right-wing positions.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Europese regelgeving: meer dan de som der delen?
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|European Union, EU legislation, evaluation, implementation, European administrative networks
|Prof. dr. Ellen Mastenbroek
Evaluations of EU legislation can fulfill a key role in the European policy process. They can provide the knowledge base required for political accountability towards the electorate, and form a basis for the improvement of existing legislation. This article introduces a research agenda in the realm of the ex-post evaluation of EU legislation, which comprises two research lines. The first strand comprises research into ex post legislative evaluations conducted by the European Commission. This research is innovative, because EU policy researchers so far have barely touched upon evaluation, as a final and important stage in the EU policy cycle. By assessing evaluation critically, we can ascertain to what extent the EU's ex-post evaluation system is more than an instrument, aimed at increasing the EU's legitimacy. The second research strand is own evaluation research, focusing on the role of European administrative networks- intergovernmental structures that have been established to improve the implementation of EU legislation by the member states. By critically evaluating the functioning and effectiveness of these networks, I hope to be able to find out whether and under what conditions these network structures are more, than the sum of their national parts.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Management van stedelijke ontwikkeling
Beleid, sturing en institutionele veranderingen voor duurzame steden
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|sustainable urban development, governance, institutional innovation, socio-technical-ecological system
|Ellen van Bueren
With her chair in urban development management, Ellen van Bueren investigates policy, governance and management issues. Cities, as economic and cultural centres in our society, are major consumers of resources. They not only contribute to problems such as climate change, but also experience the risks and consequences thereof. Technological solutions to these problems are difficult to implement. They require larger-scale system changes, or encounter resistance. Making cities sustainable not only requires technical solutions, but also institutional innovation. A socio-technical-ecological system approach to cities shows the coherence and complexity of issues. Issues play on multiple scales, are cross-sectoral, and require an interaction of citizens, companies, and governments. Moreover, the playing field between these groups of actors is changing rapidly, technological empowerment in particular has made the citizen a much more equal player alongside the government and business. Existing instruments and approaches are not sufficient to approach sustainability issues. To identify and address these issues, cooperation between science and society is necessary. Multi- and transdisciplinary learning environments enable researchers and students to identify issues, to answer questions and to try out solutions together with stakeholders. Such environments are indispensable for the development of sustainable cities.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Balanceren en experimenteren
Wetenschap en praktijk van publiek management
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|bureaucracy, competing values, leadership, public managers, practice
|Prof. dr. Sandra Groeneveld
Increasing demands and competing values force public organizations to introduce new organizational forms that veer away from rigid bureaucratic structures while remaining in control. How do public managers and their employees deal with the dilemmas that these decentralized and organic ways of organizing entail? On the one hand it must be prevented that public managers fall back too quickly on structures that rely on control and formalization, while, on the other hand, they themselves as managers are still primarily held accountable based on those bureaucratic principles. New organizational forms also assume that leadership is shared and distributed. This not only asks for a higher degree of self-management of employees, but also requires from formal leaders that such behavior is supported and encouraged. In our research and teaching on these changes in public organizations, we work closely with practice. That too is a matter of balancing, this time of public engagement with scientific independence.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Bestuurswetenschap in de kennissamenleving
Een pleidooi voor een transdisciplinaire en veelvormige wetenschapsbenadering
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|research program, knowledge society, transdisciplinarity, plural approach, technology
|Prof. dr. Albert Meijer
This article presents the research program into governance in a knowledge society of professor Albert Meijer and colleagues at Utrecht University. The knowledge society is a society in which (1) citizens are higher educated that ever before and their level of education largely determines their societal position, (2) knowledge plays a key role in administrative and policy processes and is increasingly contested and (3) technology plays a key role in every facet of societal life. Research into governance of and in the knowledge society requires a transdisciplinary and plural approach to scientific work. Transdisciplinarity entails combining insights from science with various forms of contextual and practical knowledge. A plural approach to scientific works means that we should not only do explanatory empirical work but also theoretical, normative and prescriptive research. The overall ambition of this research program is to contribute to a democratic debate about the governance of the future.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Hoe onzeker is de toekomst, of hoe is de toekomst onzeker?
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|future, uncertainty, strategy, governance, organization
|Prof. dr. Martijn van der Steen
The future is inherently uncertain. No certain statements can be made about the future. This means that policy and management always have to deal with long-term 'future uncertainty'. However, it does matter how we name uncertainty; what words we use for it. What kind of uncertainty do we mean when we talk about uncertainty in policy processes and management? The same applies to the type of preparation for uncertainty that we choose. The question 'are we prepared' can also be answered in different ways. In this contribution we identify a variety of types of uncertainty and types of ways of dealing with uncertainty, based on the text of my Inaugural Speech delivered in 2016. I then discuss how these questions have been translated into research and education and which next steps I foresee for myself in the – although inherently uncertain – near future.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Pleidooi voor een ontwerpgerichte bestuurskunde
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|Design, Solution-oriented research, Abduction, Societal relevance
|Prof. dr. Arwin van Buuren
Public Administration as a scientific discipline can increase its scientific and social relevance if it takes a more design-oriented approach. With that I go back to the classical notion of Herbert Simon that public administration is a design science. I advocate revitalizing that idea. This is necessary if we look at the problems governments are struggling with, but also in view of the developments in the environment of our field. But it is also promising because it offers opportunities to achieve innovative, scientific knowledge. The design sciences contain numerous insights into how a public administration design process can be set up, with room for creativity, abduction and intuition. I divide a public design process into five rounds: the round of understanding the issue, defining or demarcating it, coming up with possible solutions, testing and refining these solutions and distilling the more generically applicable elements. This is ideally done through fast, iterative rounds of developing, testing and refining designs. In such a design process, disciplinary knowledge can play an important role in understanding the issue and coming up with possible designs. And so designing can also become a way to validate this knowledge.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Samenwerken in de kenniseconomie
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|knowledge economy, sharing knowledge, collaborative community, governance structures
|Prof. dr. Ferry Koster
For a long time, the three governance structures market, hierarchy, and community were regarded as separate entities. The market is based on the price mechanism, the authority mechanism is the basis of the hierarchy, and trust relations characterize the community. As the knowledge economy evolves, there is a shift in thinking about how these governance structures are related. Creating and sharing knowledge are key features of the knowledge economy. However, this knowledge is partly tacit and sharing knowledge is particularly useful among diverse organizations, which are two barriers for sharing of knowledge among organizations.
|Thema-artikel 'Uitgesproken Bestuurskunde'
Gedragen gedragsverandering
|Bestuurskunde, Aflevering 2 2019
|public administration, public management, psychology, behavioral public administration, behavior change, design science
|Prof. dr. Lars Tummers
Changing behavior is often necessary to tackle societal problems. Governments can change behavior via economic incentives (such as subsidies for electric cars), bans/mandates (such as prison sentences for drug smuggling), communication (for example information campaigns) and nudges (for example, being a donor by default). However, the government should not be a manipulator that applies the latest behavioral tricks without societal support. Public administration research shows that support cannot be taken for granted. If there is no support for behavioral change, well-intended interventions can even be counterproductive. I therefore develop a model for supported behavioral change. I provide five criteria that indicate when there is supported behavioral change: if the behavioral change is both effective (1) and efficient (2), and when there is support for behavioral change among politicians (3), among implementing organizations (4), and among citizens (5).


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Declaring "now is the time" to fix broken immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Tuesday heralded a rare show of bipartisanship between the White House and Senate lawmakers on basic plans for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a pathway to citizenship, cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the borders.
LAS VEGAS — Declaring "now is the time" to fix broken immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Tuesday heralded a rare show of bipartisanship between the White House and Senate lawmakers on basic plans for putting millions of illegal immigrants on a pathway to citizenship, cracking down on businesses that employ people illegally and tightening security at the borders.
But both the White House and Senate proposals for tackling the complex and emotionally charged issue still lack key details. And potential roadblocks are already emerging over how to structure the road to citizenship and whether a bill would will same-sex couples — and that's all before a Senate measure can be debated, approved and sent to the Republican-controlled House where opposition is likely to be stronger.
Obama, in the heart of the heavily Hispanic Southwest, said Congress is showing "a genuine desire to get this done soon." But mindful of previous immigrations efforts that have failed, Obama warned that the debate would become more difficult as it gets closer to a conclusion.
"The question now is simple," Obama said during a campaign-style event in Las Vegas, one week after being sworn in for a second term in the White House. "Do we have the resolve as a people, as a country, as a government to finally put this issue behind us? I believe that we do."
Despite possible obstacles to come, the broad agreement between the White House and bipartisan lawmakers in the Senate represents a drastic shift in Washington's willingness to tackle immigration, an issue that has languished for years. Much of that shift is politically motivated, due to the growing influence of Hispanics in presidential and other elections and their overwhelming support for Obama in November.
The separate White House and Senate proposals focus on the same principles: providing a way for most of the estimated 11 million people already in the U.S. illegally to become citizens, strengthening border security, cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants and streamlining the legal immigration system.
A consensus around the question of citizenship could help lawmakers clear one major hurdle that has blocked previous immigration efforts. Many Republicans have opposed allowing illegal immigrants to become citizens, saying that would be an unfair reward for people who have broken the law.
Details on how to achieve a pathway to citizenship still could prove to be a major sticking point between the White House and the Senate group, which is comprised of eight lawmakers — four Democrats and four Republicans.
Obama and the Senate lawmakers all want to require people here illegally to register with the government, pass criminal and national security background checks, pay fees and penalties as well as back taxes, and wait until existing immigration backlogs are cleared before getting in line for green cards. After reaching that status, U.S. law says people can become citizens after five years.
The Senate proposal says that entire process couldn't start until the borders were fully secure and tracking of people in the U.S. on visas had improved. Those vague requirements would almost certainly make the timeline for achieving citizenship longer than what the White House is proposing.
The president urged lawmakers to avoid making the citizenship pathway so difficult that it would appear out of reach for many illegal immigrants.
"We all agree that these men and women have to earn their way to citizenship," he said. "But for comprehensive immigration reform to work, it must make clear from the outset that there is a pathway to citizenship."
"It won't be a quick process, but it will be a fair process," Obama added.
President Barack Obama endorsed a framework for immigration reform Tuesday that largely mirrored one unveiled a day earlier by a bipartisan group of senators — with a few important differences. A look at the elements included in each of the plans:
— Create a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country, but not until increased border security measures are completed.
— Create a commission of lawmakers and border-state community leaders to make a recommendation about when security measures are completed.
— While security measures are under way, illegal immigrants can register, pass background checks and pay fines and back taxes to earn "probationary legal status."
— Once security measures are in place, immigrants on "probationary legal status" could apply for permanent residency behind other immigrants already in the system after they prove their employment history and learn English and civics.
— Create a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants, with "provisional legal status" and a green card as intermediary steps, regardless of whether border security measures are completed.
— Illegal immigrants can earn "provisional legal status" by registering, passing background checks and paying fees and penalties.
— Immigrants on "provision legal status" could get in line for permanent residency behind other immigrants already in the system.
— Five years after receiving permanent residency, immigrants can apply for citizenship.
— Add unmanned drones, surveillance equipment and more agents at and between ports of entry.
— Create an entry-exit system to track whether people in the U.S. on temporary visas have left as required.
— Improve infrastructure at ports of entry and use public-private partnerships to boost investment in technology for foreign visitor processing.
— Create new criminal penalties for those who smuggle people, drugs, weapons or money across the border and crack down on passport and visa fraud.
— Deport convicted criminals at the end of their prison sentences and streamline the process for removing those who overstay their visas or pose a national security threat.
— People brought to the U.S. as children would have a quicker path to citizenship.
— People brought to the U.S. as children would have same path to citizenship, but could expedite that path by attending college or serving for two years in the military.
— Reduce backlogs in family and employment visas.
— Allow more lower-skilled immigrants to come to the country when the economy is creating jobs than when it's not.
— Permit workers who have succeeded in the workplace and contributed to their communities over years to earn green cards.
— Create an agricultural worker program and allow employers to hire immigrants if they can demonstrate that American workers aren't available.
— Raise the annual cap for how many family-sponsored immigrants can come from any given country from 7 percent to 15 percent.
— Temporarily increase annual visa numbers by an unspecified amount.
— Create "startup visa" for job-creating entrepreneurs and expand visa opportunities for those who invest in the U.S.
— Allow greater flexibility to add countries to the visa waiver program for tourists and let the State Department waive interview requirements for very low-risk visitors.
— Award green cards to immigrants who obtain advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math from American universities.
— Award green cards to immigrants who obtain advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math from American universities.
— Create a new visa category for highly skilled immigrants to work in federal science and technology labs on national security programs after being in the U.S. for two years and passing background checks.
— Does not include a provision allowing sponsorship of a same-sex partner.
— Allows U.S. citizens and permanent residents to sponsor a visa for a same-sex partner.
— Farm workers in the country illegally would have a quicker path to citizenship.
— Farm workers in the country illegally would have the same path to citizenship.
— Create a nonforgeable electronic system for requiring prospective workers to demonstrate legal status and identity.
— Stiff fines and criminal penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
— Create a fraud-resistant Social Security card and create nonforgeable documents for those without Social Security cards.
— Increase penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
— Over five years, phase in mandatory electronic employment verification, with exemptions for some small businesses.


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Is Switzerland Still Open to Americans?
Nick Giambruno: Today we're following up with Frank Suess regarding the situation in Switzerland. Frank is the CEO of BFI Wealth Management, a Swiss-based wealth planning and management firm.
There are many solid reasons why Switzerland has been and is still an attractive destination for various aspects of internationalization. Money talks and Switzerland is still by far the top country in terms of foreign assets under management (though Singapore is catching up).
Frank, for those new to internationalization, quickly recap what makes Switzerland a location people should consider.
Frank Suess: The primary reason to keep assets in Switzerland is expressed in one word: Safety. If you are interested in jurisdictional and institutional safety abroad, Switzerland will be at the very top of the list. And, despite all of the hype and the media's shunning of Switzerland, a lot of investors still consider Switzerland the safest and best choice to deposit and manage their wealth. I don't see that changing anytime soon. Switzerland has its challenges; it can't be seen as separate from global trends and developments. But the country overall is doing very well.
A common misconception is that Switzerland's wealth and economic success is based entirely on the success of its financial services industry. In other words, if Switzerland's banking sector is in trouble, the Swiss success story all comes to an end. In fact, the total contribution of financial services to Switzerland's GDP amounts to about 11%. Switzerland has a very well-diversified economy with large portions of GDP originating in manufacturing and trade.
Another common misperception is that Switzerland's success as a financial safe haven and center for international private wealth management is founded solely on banking secrecy. If that was all it took, shouldn't a country like Austria, which has until recently had a constitutionally anchored banking secrecy regime, have been equally, or at least similarly, successful as Switzerland? With about $2 trillion worth of cross-border assets under management, Swiss banks have about 4 times more on deposit than Luxembourg or Singapore. Jurisdictions like Denmark, Gibraltar or, as mentioned, Austria have nowhere near that much. Why is that?
Like you mentioned Nick, there are many reasons and factors. Ultimately, the attraction to Switzerland is based on an aggregate of factors that are not easily summed up or copied. They range from the country's solid and long-standing political system to the outstanding health of the economy.
Contrary to every one of its neighboring countries, Switzerland continues to write budget surpluses. Unemployment stands at about 3%, and that rate is not based on bogus numbers. When people from abroad come to Switzerland, they always seem to enjoy the fact that "things really work in Switzerland". The trains are on time, as are the people, generally. I suppose it is the overall and combined advantages that a lot of international investors are looking for.
Nick: It is unfortunate that, despite its attractiveness, it is a difficult jurisdiction for American citizens to access. Why is that?
Frank: Well, I don't really think it's that difficult. It's our daily bread and butter at BFI to help American clients with their international diversification needs. We help them with their planning, manage their money and generally use Swiss institutions for safe custody.
Although Americans do indeed have to accept a little more scrutiny and red tape when diversifying their assets offshore than do most other world citizens, that is not a phenomenon specific to Switzerland at all. Americans will run into that issue worldwide. It's an issue primarily based on the complexities of US law. FATCA (the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) and Dodd-Frank are just two of the US legal gems I can mention that add a redundant level of bureaucracy and hassle to the lives of Americans, and to the lives of their advisors.
The impression that this might be a Swiss problem stems from the fact that, in this context, Switzerland is most prominently mentioned and observed by the media. That again is a result of Switzerland's success, and probably also a reflection of the fact that there's a long list of countries around us that are financially strained. This "hunt for tax dollars" in so-called "offshore havens" might lend itself well as being a welcome diversion. But, in fact, the tax revenues presumably generated from this media-spectacle amount to window dressing in the big scheme of things.
Today, financial institutions from around the world, including Switzerland, are much more hesitant to do business with American clients, or even clients that might have some "US link." We have just set up a managed account with an Italian client who lives in Switzerland. He has grownup kids who live in America. A whole additional pile of forms and questions were the result. I guess Americans should earnestly ask their representatives and lawmakers in Washington whether they are really doing America a favor…
Nick: Can you comment on the tax deal the US Justice Department has just struck with the Swiss government?
Frank: The deal is very fresh, and, frankly, I don't know the details yet. In essence, the US and Swiss governments have come up with a plan that allows Swiss banks to settle any disputes with US authorities over non-declared accounts held by US taxpayers without running afoul of Swiss banking secrecy rules.
The tensions between Switzerland and the US have been building in this context over the past years. This deal may bring this controversy to an end. FATCA is now a fact of life and is here to stay, for foreign institutions as well as for Americans. The deal will allow Swiss banks to clean up any legacy problems. It does pose a significant risk for those Americans and banks that don't fall in line.
Nick: Many dual Swiss-American nationals, like Tina Turner, have been renouncing their US citizenship recently.Last quarter, the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship surged to a record level. What are your thoughts on this trend? What do you think the response of the American government will be?
Frank: Well, the response of the American government already seems underway. The US Congress has taken notice that expatriations have been steeply on the rise and that those expatriating are sometimes "big ones," such as Eduardo Saverin, Denise Rich, or Tina Turner.
As far as I know, just recently, a number of US Senators proposed rules that would target former US citizens who may have expatriated for tax avoidance purposes. It seems that giving up your US citizenship is deemed an "unpatriotic act" and therefore should be subject to a very hefty price tag. And I believe these "traitors" are supposed to be banned from entering the US. Quite extreme, really. Whether such laws will slow down the flight or accelerate it, I can't say.
It comes down to this: American citizens (and long-time green card holders) are subject to the US tax regime, no matter where they live. A lot of Americans who have lived overseas for a long time are tired of dealing with the shenanigans and restrictions of US regulations. FATCA, in particular, has become a hassle to them. So, they decide to cut their regulatory ties to America. That however, is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive.
Nick: Your firm is an exceedingly rare exception in that it is still open for business to American clients. Tell us about what compliance with the American government means for your business and your clients.
Frank: While it's still perfectly legal for Americans to have money or assets overseas, disclosure and worldwide tax reporting are key. All Americans, or "US persons" as defined by the US Internal Revenue Code, must report their worldwide income on their US tax return. Then, in addition, a variety of forms must be filed in regards to accounts and assets held internationally.
The most well-known form is probably the FBAR (Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts Report). It's been around for a long time. As of last year, Americans must also report their foreign assets on form 8938. That form (unlike the FBAR) needs to be filed with their regular taxes.Furthermore, for assets held in trusts, foundations, or other legal structures, other reporting rules will be required. So, in brief, the US government wants to know what their taxpayers have and what they make—everywhere.
The maze of reporting and tax rules might appear a bit daunting. However, ultimately, it comes down to administrative work that can be arranged efficiently and conveniently. We help our clients with that and operate with US-compliant services and solutions that already take into account the regulations. We try to keep abreast of regulatory changes and work closely with a network of accounting and legal experts as required.
At BFI, we are committed to our US clients and work hard to continually adjust our business to their very specific requirements and needs. We have chosen to focus our strategy and service offering on the US market. Accordingly, we accept all of the bureaucracy and compliance work as just all being part of doing business. For example, to be able to manage assets for American clients who live in America, we chose to become a Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) a few years ago. This allows us to communicate and meet with our clients in America without running afoul of SEC rules and Dodd-Frank, in particular.
Nick: You also have certain EU countries calling for a sort of European version of FATCA, where countries engage in the automatic sharing of financial data. Since Switzerland has already signed on with the US-FATCA what are your thoughts about Switzerland signing on with an EU-FATCA?
Frank: Switzerland, at this point, is the only country in Europe that does not allow for automatic information exchange or any regime whereby banks have no restrictions as to sharing detailed client and account information with other banks and tax authorities. In Switzerland, access to client information is only possible via the government procedures defined in the respective double- taxation agreements. Really, in all those other countries, there is no more cross-border privacy.
Obviously, the pressure is on Switzerland to join the bandwagon. This, however, collides with Swiss client confidentiality and banking secrecy rules. And, according to recent polls, the Swiss people are not at all in favor of letting go of those privacy rights. The reason Switzerland has not joined yet is that such a step would certainly be subject to a national vote in Switzerland, as is the case with most critical changes of law. Really, it is ultimately this system of direct democracy that makes a huge difference and is at the root of Switzerland's unique success story.
At this point, it appears that the Swiss government would only lean toward accepting an automatic information exchange, as described above, if and when OECD standards and rules would be implemented by all OECD members, including America and Great Britain. At that point, this might be brought to a vote before the people.
Nick: The future of financial privacy worldwide appears bleak. In many ways it is already dead. In a world where privacy does not exist, what sustainable competitive advantages does Switzerland offer?
Frank: I agree. It really does appear that complete citizen transparency is the direction the world has taken. Whether Switzerland, and possibly a few other countries, are able to carve out some exceptions and privacy benefits needs to be seen. However, as discussed earlier, the success of Switzerland's financial center is not based on banking secrecy alone. Therefore, I would not count Switzerland out too quickly. Switzerland's competitive advantage lies in its overall solidity, history, and tradition.
Nevertheless, the challenges that banks and wealth managers who serve international clients face today are considerable. The biggest burden, in my view, is the growing mountain of red tape and regulations. Rules like FATCA, AIFMD, MIFID, and the like—they all show up in these meaningless abbreviations—do indeed pose a particular challenge to Switzerland, because such a large portion of business is cross-border. Financial institutions have clients from all over the world. They are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with all the different legal regimes. That is where the Swiss financial center is currently in a transition mode that will keep it on its feet for some years to come.
Ultimately, in my view, this will not destroy Swiss financial services. But, it will certainly change the face of the industry in that you will find more specialists and country focus in the service offering of the players. BFI has already taken decisive steps in that direction. I expect many others to follow, or to fail.
Nick: What are the best internationalization options (if any) in Switzerland and through your firm that are available for Americans with modest wealth?
Frank: That really depends on each individual client's situation. We like to take a comprehensive approach and help clients in both their structural as well as their investment needs. The options of structuring yourself overseas are manifold, ranging from a mere bank account to more sophisticated planning strategies.
Many of our clients have trust structures, variable insurance policies or pension solutions to achieve a variety of asset protection, inheritance, and tax planning needs. Generally, those structures are quite straightforward. In other cases, the planning is more involved and may require the assistance of a good US tax attorney or accountant. We work with and coordinate our services with a number of trusted firms that can help our clients.
Nick: Anything else you would like to add?
Frank: I appreciate the opportunity of having this interview. The questions you asked are important. Proper guidance and support is key. That's what we're here for. So, I'd like to invite your readers to contact us at our offices in Switzerland or to join us for one of our upcoming seminars in the US.
We'll be sure to demystify many of the concerns and presumed challenges. It's not as convoluted and difficult as it sounds.
Nick: Thank you, Frank, for keeping us plugged into the situation in Switzerland. I look forward to speaking with you again soon. If you are looking for one of the few remaining doors to Switzerland that remains open for American citizens, be sure to check out BFI Wealth Management.


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Abstract:There are large differences across countries in instructional time in schooling institutions. Can these differences explain some of the differences across countries in pupils' achievements in different subjects? What is the likely impact of changes in instructional time? While research in recent years provides convincing evidence about the effect of several inputs in the education production function, there is limited evidence on the effect of classroom instructional time. Such evidence is of policy relevance in many countries, and it became very concrete recently as President Barrack Obama announced the goal of extending the school week and year as a central objective in his proposed education reform for the US. In this paper, I estimate the effects of instructional time on students' academic achievement in math, science and language. I estimate linear and non-linear instructional time effects controlling for unobserved heterogeneity of both pupils and schools. The evidence from a sample of 15 year olds from over fifty countries that participated in PISA 2006 consistently shows that instructional time has a positive and significant effect on test scores. The effect is large relative to the standard deviation of the within pupil test score distribution. The OLS results are highly biased upward but the within student estimates are very similar across groups of developed and middle-income countries. However, the estimated effect of instructional time in the sample of developing countries is much lower than the effect size in the developed countries. Several checks for threats of identification support the causal interpretation of this evidence. I obtain very similar results when I use as an alternative data from primary and middle schools in Israel and a somewhat different identification strategy. Finally, I also explore some correlations that suggest that suggest that the productivity of instructional time is higher in countries that implemented s
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About songwriter markus koller
markus koller, songwriter, composer, producer...
... but unfortunately no singer! So Markus Koller has specialized in writing, composing and arranging songs & instrumental music of various styles for professional singers and bands, as well as for commercials, websites, film and television.
In order to create expressive pre-productions out of his mad musical brainwaves, MK cooperates with differ ... read more
"Whiskey soaked voice meets groovy guitar & banjo riffs over metallic trash can percussion rhythms" - 100% Made in Austria First Single: "Wake Up" (available at cdbaby & all other music download/streaming services) New tracks, album & video under construction - so please stay tuned! ;-) (All HEISER FRANZ JOSEPH songs are written, arranged & produced by Songwriter Markus Koller, (c) 2019)


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In any highly-cyclical small-margin business a drop in unit revenues of almost 11 percent year-over-year (YoY) and of 8.5 percent month-over-month (MoM) would make all alarm bells ring.
In the first month of 2015, such a drop in unit revenues (in this case revenues per kg, measured in US$) is exactly what happened to the worldwide air cargo business. Yet, we maintain that alarm bells can remain silent, for three reasons.
Firstly, a good case can be made for the statement that almost 2/3 of the yield drop was caused by decreasing surcharges, perhaps a surprising development for all those who referred recently to what they called "anecdotal evidence" that surcharges have not come down. The reason behind this decrease would seem to be good news for everyone involved, with a possible exception for the oil companies. A second element in the US$-yield decrease was the deteriorating exchange rates of virtually all currencies against the dollar. Lastly, there was the usual effect of January showing lower yields than December: -4.4 percent in Jan 2013, and -3.0 percent in Jan 2014.
A bad start? We think not. Business as usual then? Difficult to say given the industry's diverging performance from one region to another. Worldwide January volumes were up by 3.2 percent year-over-year (YoY), not great, but also not too bad given the fact that January 2014 was already part of the recovery that started in Autumn 2013.
North America and Asia Pacific were the origin regions with the largest YoY volume growth (8.3 percent and 5.5 percent respectively), the former also being the only region that hardly lost volume compared to December. A substantial part of the growth in the USA came from Pacific States business destined for Asia, presumably a nice windfall from the port problems... The MoM performance was particularly worrisome for the region Central & South America: 19 percent volume loss accompanied by a yield drop of 10 percent. January also marked this region's first YoY volume contraction. Africa had the smallest YoY percent-growth in twelve months, whilst Europe and the Middle East & South Asia (MESA) showed "business as usual" by continuing their below average growth pattern.
Saying it with flowers?
For longer term developments, this month we take a quick look at a specific part of the perishables markets over the past three years: flowers. The role of flowers in the total perishables palette has diminished. Whilst the overall air cargo volume in 2014 was 9.0 percent up on 2012, and perishables in general even by 23 percent, WorldACD recorded a growth of 13 percent in the volume of flowers carried by air.
At a conference held in South Africa recently, Amsterdam Schiphol urged the air cargo sector to develop answers to technological developments in shipping. Understandably so, since Western Europe – being the main destination for flowers – stands to suffer most from a growth in flower markets lagging behind the general growth in perishables. Other destinations thrived, for example the Gulf Area with inbound growth of 57 percent in two years.
Worldwide yields from the transport of flowers decreased by more than the overall yields between 2012 and 2014: -10.2 percent vs. -5.2 percent.
We saw some notable deviations from this trend, however. Flower transport from South America, although still the highest yielding in the business, suffered a yield drop of 13.5 percent. At the other side of the Atlantic, Europe, lost only 0.1 percent in yield in the same period. But the flowers from the origin North America really stood out: a volume increase of 12 percent accompanied by a yield increase of 11.9 percent.
- WorldACD provides air cargo market data based on airline sources covering all countries.


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Employers do have to pay overtime to employees depending on their classification. To determine the type of status an employee has, his/her work tasks are evaluated. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) categorizes exempt employees according to job duties, which are typically higher levels of work, such as executive, professional, and administrative. In general, if an employee is not a supervisor, manager, or delegating tasks to other people, then they are more than likely considered a non-exempt employee.
Non-exempt employees are those who are paid an hourly wage and who are entitled to receive overtime pay. Most employees fall under the non-exempt status and are covered under the FLSA. Being classified as a non-exempt employee usually means that the employee is not paid a salary. A non-exempt employee is paid based on the hours worked and the type of work performed.
Non-exempt employees are entitled to time and one-half their normal hourly wage for each hour that they are working overtime, which is any amount over 40 hours per week for most jobs, or more than 8 hours per day. For example, a warehouse worker who makes $16.00 per hour working 40 hours per week, is entitled to compensation for all overtime worked. Overtime is time and one-half of the regular rate, therefore this non-exempt worker is entitled to about $16.00 + $8.00 per hour over 40.
In some instances, employers mistakenly calculate a non-exempt employee's overtime rate when they don't add in all components, such as shift differentials and other bonuses. According to FLSA, all wages must be paid in full when due. Many employers pay wages late, which is viewed as "no payment" under the FLSA rules.
According to FLSA overtime is the amount of time actually worked past a predetermined threshold. A normal work period for non-exempt is 7 consecutive days working 40 hours per week. Once an employee has worked passed the initial 40 hours they are entitled to overtime. More than 8 hours a day is considered overtime, but employers may pay on a basis of their choosing as long as it falls within the guidelines set out by the FLSA, which any employment attorney can help clearly define.
Other factors that come into play when discussing FLSA regulations for non-exempt employees involve training time, time worked off the clock, breaks, etc. Any time an employee works, they must be compensated, but if it is a break time longer than 30 minutes it can be deducted from work time. In some cases there are salaried non-exempt employees who can be paid in salary form, but are still entitled to overtime pay as long as they work more than 40 hours.
In many cases an employer can be liable for damages for incorrectly classifying an employee. If a non-exempt employee is paid "late" wages, they have the right to contact a labor law attorney due to a violation of FLSA regulations.
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Back in 1990 director Barry Levinson gave us Avalon, his epic masterpiece on the American Jewish community. In that classic film Levinson skillfully examined the Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their often tumultuous encounter with the complexities of American culture and the assimilation process. It presented the fraught confrontation of Old World values with the brash and exhilarating world of 1950s America and its fast-paced lifestyle and Suburban sprawl.
We were able to see the generational clash and the shock of the new, but in a way that warmly remembered the struggles and disappointments of the immigrants and showed how their children moved on from the past.
It is this debilitating process which becomes the underlying subject of Levinson's chilling examination of the Bernie Madoff story.
In The Wizard of Lies we see the pitfalls of "Making It" in America and how the Jewish community has reconfigured itself at the end of a very tumultuous century. The film is currently being screened on the HBO network
Expertly played by Robert De Niro in a dazzling performance that hearkens back to the iconic roles of his 1970s and 80s peak, Madoff is a reckless nihilist whose debased Long Island/Palm Beach 1%-er values mirror the excesses that we continue to see in the disaster that is Donald Trump.
Madoff is a truly nasty piece of work who relentlessly browbeats his family and associates as he remains completely oblivious to what it is that he is actually doing to his clients.
The movie notes the many ways in which Madoff ascended to the very apex of the financial services industry and became the idol of not only his investors, but of the institutional system itself.
He was held in awe by SEC and NASDAQ officials as a pioneering leader who helped to craft the laws regulating the industry. This idol-worship blinded regulators to the malfeasance that he perpetrated under their collective watch.
His insider knowledge of the system helped him commit his shocking fraud which parasitically shifted massive amounts of money from one place to the other as he eventually ran out of cash to continue to "generate" unrealistic returns for his clients.
While massively enriching himself and his unsuspecting family, Madoff was bilking his clients out of their life savings, eventually leaving many of them penniless.
Central to the story is the 2008 Wall Street collapse which was the beginning of the end of his demonic Ponzi scheme.
We will recall the process which began with the vile Ronald Reagan and ended with George W. Bush that sought to empower a feckless financial services industry at the expense of the internal coherence and stability of our economic system.
Prior to this collapse the movie shows us the Madoff world in full debauchery: expensive houses, vacations, lavish social gatherings, the very best shopping sprees, and the fast lane of American elite society.
The Wizard of Lies, brilliantly written by Sam Levinson, Sam Baum, and John Burnham Schwartz, is based on New York Times reporter Diana Henriques' book (she also plays herself in the movie), and is structured using her prison-house interviews with Madoff as the framework of a series of intense flashbacks which present the sorry tale in revealing fragments; a similar structure to the one used in Avalon.
Levinson's presentation focuses on the most basic human elements of the story which reminds us of the Avalon immigrants and their own complex dealings with the American economic system and the pluralistic social universe of their new homeland.
After many decades of engagement with America, Jews like Madoff felt entitled to game the system in a way that displayed a shocking lack of basic moral values.
Exploitation became the key to Madoff's scheme to enrich himself by bilking the unsuspecting investors.
But as De Niro/Madoff says in the movie, those investors – including prominent Jewish figures like Elie Wiesel and many religious charities – chose not to examine the suspiciously secretive way in which Madoff worked, and never questioned why it was that their returns were consistent as the market continued to fluctuate so wildly.
The Wizard of Lies is an implicit indictment not only of the American economic system, which has since the 1980s become an out-of-control train careening from one crisis to another, but also a critical examination of the debased mores of the 1% with a strong Jewish component in the social process.
The Krichinsky family in Avalon famously sits down to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with the full Turkey and trimmings, while the Madoffs entertain lavishly on the ritzy Long Island shore with Steak, Lobster, and Champagne.
The physical contrast between the humble Baltimore row houses in Avalon with the often obscene wealth of Madoffworld could not be more telling as we process the dramatic changes in the American Jewish community over the course of time.
Avalon sought to question the base materialism of the new generation by juxtaposing it to the thrift and humility of the immigrants.
The Wizard of Lies shows us the process completed in a way that removes the moral values of the Old Country and replaces them with degenerate greed and smug elitism; a process that manifests a revolutionary shift in values.
The Madoffs live high on the proverbial hog and have forgotten the most basic elements of life and of the essential dignity of the human being.
Bernie Madoff is a man who only sees his own well-being and remains oblivious to the pain he is causing others. He surrounds himself with yes-men and sycophants who cater to his every wish and desire. In one of the movie's critical scenes he is shown tyrannically berating a group of workers setting up a meal at one of his lavish social affairs, showing no respect for their essential human dignity.
Madoff saw human beings as inert instruments to exclusively serve him and his interests. He showed no respect or consideration to his own family and to those who trusted him as their financial counselor.
The cruelty that he exhibited to his wife and children is often harrowing and truly unspeakable; their suffering is the manifestation of an inhumanity that represents evil in its most primal manifestation.
We have seen a similar narcissism and megalomania in Donald Trump whose own financial malfeasance also speaks to the explosion of ego and a blatant disregard of socio-political norms.
The connection between Madoff, a very uncaring Jew who thought nothing of using his elevated financial status to exploit his own community, and the larger institutional Jewish world is an important element in the story. The Madoff scandal prompted much soul-searching and hand-wringing in the Jewish world, as we see in a 2009 article by Jonathan Tobin from Commentary magazine. A 2008 New York Times piece by Robin Pogrebin quotes numerous rabbis and Jewish leaders attacking Madoff as a "shanda," which is a Yiddish word that means "shame" or "disgrace."
But the current Jewish embrace of Trump and his degenerate values shows that perceived financial self-interest continues to overshadow morality and ethics. In spite of the rise of Alt-Right Trumpworld Anti-Semitism and the numerous ethical violations coming from the White House, the institutional Jewish community continues to strongly back the president.
The Madoff personality-type remains central to contemporary Jewish identity. We have seen the ascendance of an Ashkenazi Jewish culture which has rejected the values of Religious Humanism and adopted a cynical, alienated stance that is deeply rooted in selfishness, materialism, and cruelty.
The Jewish community today is all about getting the upper hand and stomping out the little guy. Our leadership presents a smug superiority which revels in its economic success and assumes that wealth engenders honorific status and socio-political control.
The Wizard of Lies presents indelible scenes of the elites in their native habitat, reveling in their luxurious lifestyle which in turn has served to eviscerate their humanity.
In this toxic context there is little if any room for the most elementary religious concerns, as it is money and the things it can buy that have become the central defining factor in American Jewish life.
We have seen how this nefarious process works in David Brooks' New York Times column "The Orthodox Surge". Five years after the Wall Street collapse and in the looming shadow of Madoff, Brooks vigorously applauds Orthodox Jewish materialistic values and the lavish lifestyles that he saw in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood. Brooks does not once refer to Madoff and his shenanigans, but he does proudly mention his tour guide Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, an individual who is at the forefront of Republican-Conservative Jewish politics and who is a committed enemy of the Sephardic tradition. We should recall that Madoff was beloved in the Modern Orthodox community where he was seen as a veritable Messiah. As Elie Wiesel put it: "We thought he was God, we trusted everything in his hands."
It is of course said that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, and we have seen how Jews continue to engage in dubious financial behavior.
The 2016 Platinum Partners scandal extends the Madoff legacy to the present and speaks to a continuing culture of excess and corruption inside the Jewish community, which is so expertly detailed by Levinson in "The Wizard of Lies" with its many scenes of revelry and carnival-esque celebrations.
As we saw in Avalon, there was a dark side to the rampant assimilation and its attendant materialism: The abandonment of traditional values as understood within the framework of Religious Humanism produced an internal corruption that has led to the rot of The Wizard of Lies and a system that lionizes degenerates like Bernie Madoff and Donald Trump.
And so it is that we continue to see the collateral human damage that has been generated by a socio-economic system that famously produces people like Bernie Madoff.
In the masterful Wizard of Lies, a deeply striking work of historical reconstruction, we are able to process how all this works: the cheating, the arrogance, the cruel barbarity, and the materialistic excess all function as markers of a debasement of humanity that has untethered contemporary Jewish culture from its most important ethical values. It is a transformational motion picture which forces us to confront the demons among us.
It is thus critical that we again look carefully at the life of Bernie Madoff and rethink what is happening in our Jewish community before it is too late.
Our lives truly hang in the balance.


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1000 fb likes is coming up
I never thought I would see my facebook page grow so fast. The amount of likes in the last 12 months has blown me away and here I am edging up on 1000 likes. I feel I would be ungrateful if I didn't show my appreciation to all those that have supported me. Although I mainly do wedding and event cakes, my macaron line is taking off and I couldn't be more thrilled visit www.gjmacaron.weebly.com for more info on macarons. Please feel free to jump over to my fb page www,facebook.com/simplycakesbycamberly and get in on the giveaway. An Event of your choice from Sept-March 2016 I am partnering with some amazing vendors to bring you an Event Dessert Table to die for
Colorado Wedding....
I was tickled that a Wedding that I did a wedding cake and grooms cake along with chalkboard signs for was featured on the Colorado Wedding Magazines blog today,
This wedding was a honor to be a part of. It was a beautiful night.
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Slice of Cakes
These entries are just fun little shares to help you see different styles and techniques I use. Let you in on my little cake world and things I love. Enjoy!
Bakers are Super Heroes with their capes as aprons
January 2018
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Mrs. Colbert
Do you love Stephen, or do you know someone who does? Here's a great gift for all members of the Colbert Nation. Maybe you love him so much, you want to marry him... wearing this shirt is the next best thing. Show the world your love for all things Colbert with an elegant Mrs. Colbert splashed across your chest!


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One of the best things about the catalogue is that it contains so many brilliant samples to inspire us, so this is a direct CASE from the annual catalogue on page 72.
I have 20 kits of 2 cards each of this design prepared and ready to go for Sunday. (I have a choice of 10 kits, participants choose 4)
I have done the watercolour "Smoosh" technique for the card front, and used the retired Naturals White for the card base. I love the softness of the colours - Pool Party has to be one of the best colours SU has ever invented!
The sentiment is from Designer Tee - one of the cute Sale A Bration sets which won't be around for much longer!
The challenge at Stampin Up Only this week is Things That Fly so I think this will fit nicely.
Thanks for looking, and remember,
"don't just post online, post something pretty",
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