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Dehaese & Dehaese counts 11 lawyers whose areas of expertise form a complementary relationship in order to guarantee a high-quality service. This team located in Hasselt (Limburg, Belgium) is supported by a strong financial and administrative back office of 5 collaborators led by Katelijne Quanten, financial and administrative manager.
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Our lawyers form specialized teams in different fields of law with the support of a strong back office.
Full Service
We deliver a full service concept. We advise our clients, we give support in negotiations and introduce when necessary legal procedures before the Court. Private persons as well as self-employed workers and companies are clients of our office. We draw up appropriate contracts for our clients in order to avoid conflicts and mediate when conflicts already have occurred. When found appropriate, our office will start a procedure before the Court. When needed we can count on our international network of colleague law firms.
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We feel it is essential to communicate in an open and correct way with our clients.
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We strongly belief in mediation as a way to solve conflicts. Together with our clients, we work out the best way to come to a solution for a conflict either via mediation or via a procedure before the Court.
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"Obituary - Sallie "Sally" Irene Lewis"
Name: Sallie "Sally" Irene Lewis
Married: Joseph Emmett Kollmeyer
Death date: September 18, 1980
Death location: Farmington Community Hospital, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri
Burial date: Unknown
Burial location: Hillview Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri.
Name of newspaper publication: Unknown
Newspaper location: St. Francois County, Missouri
Date published: September 1980
"Transcript of the above obituary"
Title: Sally Kollmeyer
Sally Irene Kollmeyer, Farmington Manor, died Sep 18 in Farmington at the age of 81. She was born Nov. 7, 1898, in Delassus to the late Peter Simon and Addie Price Jones Lewis. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Emmett Kollmeyer.
She is survived by two daughters; Opalean (Mrs. Joseph) Perry of Farmington and Francis (Mrs. Josa) Morfin of New York, two sons; Chester Kollmeyer of Pocahontas, Ark., and Ellis Kollmeyer of Farmington, seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Friends may call today at the Miller Funeral Home. Easter Star services will be held 7 p.m. tonight, White Shrine services will be held 7 p.m. Saturday. Pythian Sisters Lodge services will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Miller Funeral Chapel. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in the Miller Chapal with the Rev. Jerry Cowin officiating. Burial will be in Hillview Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Kollmeyer was also a member of the Farmington Baptist Church.
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Mmmm, hot cocoa! We are finally having cooler weather, enough to wear a sweater, a light one. I can't wait for it to really cool down. Snuggle up with a cozy fleece blanket, watch some classic Christmas Claymation movies with a steaming cup of cocoa not dark chocolate because that's too bitter for me.
Now onto my card. I paired the coffee drinking, pajama wearing chica from Need Coffee with the sentiment from Cocoa Kisses. The paper is a 6×6 paper pad from American Crafts, Hot Cocoa. It was one of my bargain finds at Marshalls. I couldn't seem to find any embellishments to coordinate with the paper or theme of the card, so I fuzzy cut the peppermints. Added a bit of twine and stamped the snowflake on her mug with the snowflake from Snow Sweet.
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Barron County Sheriff's Dept
Jayme Closs' story sounds like a nightmare that, against all odds, concluded with the miraculous.
Answering the prayers of her family and an entire city that was hoping she would come home, the 13-year-old is alive, having managed to escape her alleged abductor three interminably long months after her parents were killed in their Wisconsin home.
What happened to Jayme during those torturous 88 days is still in the process of being revealed, but the very fact that she is now with family members and on the road to recovery was an unexpectedly happy ending to this story. Most children who go missing, if they've been kidnapped by a predator, don't come back at all if they aren't found in the first 24 hours.
Not infrequently, there can be some disagreement or confusion in those critical first few hours as to whether a child has actually been abducted—and in 2018, less than 1 percent of 25,000 missing-children cases that involved law enforcement were categorized as nonfamily abductions, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
But there was no misunderstanding about the scene that greeted law enforcement in the early morning hours of Oct. 15, 2018.


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Nigel Sadler, the UK's first beer sommelier and tutor at The Beer Academy, talks pairing beer with food…
Welcome to the first of my articles for EAUX as resident beer sommelier. Over the coming months I will to take the chance to elaborate on some of the basics involved in food and beer matching, after all, it is a relatively new idea to most people and is certainly an exciting area worth exploring. Why choose beer over wine? It could be for a number of reasons: lower alcohol content, greater flavour range and versatility or even just to keep costs down when eating out. You'll be amazed at how often a beer works better than a wine when matched with certain dishes. Above all have fun experimenting – there are no hard and fast rules!
Over the next few articles I want to guide you through some of the basics, introduce you to a few beer styles and show some pairings with the featured recipes which this month include Goat's Cheese Salad with Tapenade Toasts, Copppino and Lemon and Rosemary Posset.
First of all let's take a look at beer itself. Often regarded as the poor relation to wine, it's actually a very complex drink involving up to 12 ingredients. For a start, there's a whole range of different malt (that's the dried, kilned part-germinated barley grains), which not only provide the sugars needed for fermentation but gives both colour and flavour. Then there are the wonderfully aromatic hops – the herbs and spices if you like. Finally, but by no means least both the yeast and the water used for brewing contribute greatly. All of these add differing depths and dimensions to the flavour of beer. You might be surprised to learn there are now some 143 recognised beer styles today and some 19,000 brands here in the UK alone.
What are the basic principles of food and beer pairing? First of all treat blonde/golden beers and lagers as you would white wines and the darker stronger bitters and porters as reds. Secondly, we need to understand what we're looking for in any food and drink matching; One must enhance the other: thus the drink enhances the food and vice versa.
So how does that work exactly? Well you're looking to complement, contrast, co-ordinate and/or cleanse (cut). These four 'Cs' are what we will be looking to follow. Complementing uses a similar flavour or characteristic in the beer and food, contrasting places the food and beer on opposite sides of the plate e.g. sweet against sour, co-ordinating balances food and beer intensity, finally cleansing (sometimes known as 'cutting') lifts and removes fats or oils leaving the palate fresh and ready for the next mouthful.
So until next time I'll leave with my recommendations for this month's recipe of Goat's Cheese Salad and Tapenade Toasts, a dish with an exciting array of flavours and textures. Generally a sharpish spicy beer would be my choice here to counter the tangy earthy notes of the cheese and slight oiliness of the tapenade. I would recommend either Boon Geuze Mariage Parfait at 8% ABV or St. Fuillien's Saison, 6.5% ABV, farmhouse style ale, both are Belgian beers. The Boon beer is created from a blend from 95% mild lambic beer, aged at least three years in wooden casks and 5% young lambic. It is softly tart with hints of fruit and spice. The Saison being crisp, dry, slightly tangy and with a discrete hoppiness. For a similar local beer I'd look for Cambridgeshire based Elgood & Sons, www.elgoods-brewery.co.uk, Coolship Blonde at 6% ABV. Produced by spontaneous fermentation, the same as Belgian Lambic and Gueuze beers, in their unique double coolships. A long period of fermentation and maturation in special tanks enables naturally occurring wild yeasts, combined with oak, to create its sharp fruity flavour. A true sour English ale.


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Police are hunting a Pakistani national after two children came home to find their mother in a bloodbath under the stairs at their Bangkok townhouse.
The 15 year old son in grade M4 came home to the house in Soi Mitrmaitree 6/1, Nong Jork at 4pm but found it locked up and no one around.
He waited until his sister came home from university later and after they could still not get in and calls to their mother went unanswered he decided to climb into the house round the back.
He found his mother dead under the stairs in a pool of blood.
Head of the met police Sanit Mahathavorn, local cops and forensics teams descended on the house later last night.
They found 39 year old Naphatsorn Pathan dressed and face up by a bed under the stairs. She had multiple stab wounds including two deep ones to her chest.
There were signs of a struggle but nothing appeared to have been stolen.
In a downstairs bathroom at the two story property they found a ten inch knife and more blood that was taken into evidence.
Neighbor Wijit Nuibunkaew, 50, told Thai Rath that four people lived at the house that they had rented for the last four years.
He had heard the sound of arguments coming from the house for three days though not yesterday. At 3pm he said he saw the Pakistani husband walk out of the house, a fact that was later confirmed by CCTV.
He left the housing estate and has disappeared.
Sanit told the press that the murder had likely occurred at 2pm. He said that the victim had two children from a previous marriage and after divorce she started living with a Pakistani man.
Police are looking for Mian Vargas Ahmad, 27, who they believe is still in the country.
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Each time we go someplace we see dogs in the road. We simply see the ones dogs, but we infrequently consider them. However, they too need care. Normally young dogs get shelter, however lamentably; senior dog's age and regularly unkempt appearances depart them invisible within the eyes of many. Mark Imhof, a professional dog groomer, is on a task to change that. He visits Animal Care Centre of NYC to present aged dog's unfastened baths and haircuts so they may sooner or later find a home. Imhof become inspired with the aid of his fiancée. Imhof stated to his fiancée that, she didn't need to look him go to another soulless job, and she saw the joy he had whilst he interacted with dogs. He had seen such differences in almost all the dogs and it is so uplifting, he delivered. He has been operating in public accounting for nearly 10 years whilst he fiancée helped him to work for dogs. Imhof become inspired after his fiancée adopted a pit bull from a Brooklyn rescue shelter in April. The shelter didn't have bathing facilities on site, and the dog turned into in such bad shape that the dust on its fur caked on the ground of his toilet at domestic. However, after a shower, the dog turned into transformed. Imhof completed dog grooming school in October. He volunteers his services at the city's two shelters in Brooklyn and New York two to 4 times every week. Mark Imhof facilitates the medical group of shelter through shaving down the dog to prepare them for an exam.
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What does Password Policy Mean?
A password policy is a set of rules designed to enhance computer security by encouraging users to employ strong passwords and use them properly. A password policy is often part of an organization's official regulations and may be taught as part of security awareness training. SmarterMail requires a password that is comprised of at least 8 characters that include a capital letter, lower case letter, and a symbol. Additionally, SmarterMail Password Policy: Set to EXPIRE every 128 days.


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Rights Respecting School Award
|March 2017
At Hillary Primary School, we are working towards achieving the Rights Respecting School Award. The Rights Respecting Schools Award is a Unicef UK programme that aims to put children's rights at the heart of schools in the UK.
UNICEF is the world's leading organisation working for children and their rights. In 1989, governments worldwide promised all children the same rights by adopting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). These rights are based on what a child needs to survive, grow, participate and fulfil their potential.
At Hillary Primary School, we encourage children to make decisions about what happens in school. They are learning to realise the part they can play in making decisions and will also learn how to speak up for the rights of children around the world.
Last term, children were encouraged to apply to be part of the Rights Respecting Team. One child from each class was selected based on their application form. Their role involves attending meetings, discussing ideas about how we can promote children's rights as a school and reporting back to the class. It also required the members to ask their class questions and getting feedback so that each child within our class has the opportunity to contribute.
The 'Rights Respecting School' award (RRSA) will help our pupils to grow into confident, caring and responsible young citizens both in school and within the wider community. By learning about their rights our pupils, your children, also learn about the importance of respecting the rights of others i.e. their responsibilities.


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Savings Made Easy
Banned 60 Watt Bulbs Flying Off the Shelves
By Cynthia Taylor
Consumers are stocking up on 60 watt incandescent light bulbs after the EU ban on the manufacturing of these light bulbs came into effect at midnight 31st August.
As of today, 1st September, these old style tungsten bulbs have been outlawed in order to force people to use CLF energy saving globes.
However, the British public have been out in force to snap up the 60 watt traditional globes as they are dissatisfied with CLF and Halogen globes, they complain that they cast a yellow glow which is unattractive and also complain that these globes do not work well with their dimmer switches.
Shops are allowed to sell the 60 watt globes until stocks run out.
Health groups as well as experts on design are asking for the outright ban to be annulled as they believe that about 2 million Britons are adversely affected by these new types of bulbs. A group that represents health charities, Spectrum Alliance, claims that the modern globes give affected sufferers of light sensitive conditions, migraines and adversely affect conditions for instance lupus disease.
The group is calling for exceptions to be made to this rule. Labour MP for Edinburgh East, Sheila Gilmore, has tabled an �early day� motion calling for the old style bulbs to still be available for sufferers of light sensitive diseases.
Retailers say there is still a huge demand for these types of bulbs and consumers say they are stock-piling them before they are no longer available.
A blogger, says that it would not solve the problem forever, but wants to have them available for as long as possible, therefore they were bulk buying them.
The incandescent bulbs work on the principle of basic physics, if something is heated sufficiently it will emit light. However, a lot of the heat that is generated is wasted which is the reason they have been branded inefficient.
Consultant for Lighting design, Kevan Shaw has launched a Save the light bulb campaign. He says that humans are not �attuned physiologically� to the type of light that is emitted by energy efficient bulbs.
He says that humans have evolved over the years with two types of light, the daytime light and fire light during night time, he says that this is natural light that has been �hard-wired� into us.
The EU�s target is a target of 20% reduction by the year 2020.
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Patience, flexibility keys to Knabe's success
Sarah Knabe, second-grade teacher at Lake Hamilton School District, is driven by her passion for students. Recipient of the 2017 Reader's Choice Award for Best Teacher of the Year from The Sentinel-Record, Knabe started her 12th year teaching at Lake Hamilton this year. Prior to her career at Lake Hamilton, she taught first grade at Malvern School District for two years.
Sarah Knabe: I always wanted to be a teacher. I just like working with kids, I like watching them grow and learn. I like the little ones; I don't know if I could go above second grade.
SK: There's a few different things. The main thing, and I think any teacher would probably say this, would just be that 'ah-ha' moment when they get it and they're just so proud of themselves and you can just see their confidence because they understand and they get it. So that would be the main thing. Then, and this is more toward Lake Hamilton, it's just like a little family. I have two different families where I've taught all three of the siblings. You're a family, you get to know each other and they grow up wanting to be in your class because their older siblings had you. It's just that family atmosphere; it's just different here.
SK: I really don't have any dislikes! We were at dinner the other night and everybody was griping about something and my husband said, 'Everybody can gripe about something about their job, except for Sarah.'
SK: I have my bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from University of Central Arkansas, I have one master's degree in Educational Theory and Practice from ASU, I have another master's degree in Gifted, Talented and Creative from ASU, and I'm also a national board certified teacher. That usually takes three years to do; luckily I passed the first year. It's just this special certification. It doesn't mean that we can teach in other states or anything, it's just kind of like a highly qualified teacher. We get a bonus from the state for doing that.
SK: They have to have a lot of patience and be very flexible because nothing ever goes as planned. Not just from the kids, but new laws are always being made, everything's changing, you never do the same thing.
SK: In second grade we're self-contained so we teach every subject. The main big chunks are reading and math but we integrate our science and social studies into our reading. Every 20-30 minutes is something new.
SK: It was really exciting. Last year I got second place and it was totally out of the blue. Then this year I was like, 'Oh, I won't get it again,' because there were so many people on that list that were so deserving I didn't think I would get it at all, so I was really surprised. We don't get a lot of recognition.


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CryoLife, Inc. Reports Record Revenues And Earnings For The First Quarter Of 1998
ATLANTA, April 21 -- CryoLife, Inc. (NYSE:CRY), a leader in human tissue and cell preservation, and a manufacturer and distributor of specialty cardiovascular and vascular medical instruments and devices, announced record revenues and earnings for the first quarter ended March 31, 1998.
Revenues for the first quarter of 1998 were $14,625,000, a 40 percent increase over the previous first quarter record of $10,413,000, set in 1997.
Net income for the first quarter of 1998 was $1,172,000, a 23 percent increase, compared to the previous first quarter record of $952,000, set in 1997. Earnings per common share in the first quarter of 1998 were $0.12 basic and $0.12 diluted, compared with $0.10 basic and $0.10 diluted in the first quarter of 1997.
Steven G. Anderson, President and Chief Executive Officer, CryoLife, Inc., noted, "Record revenues and net income reflect the growing demand and acceptance in the medical community of cryopreserved human tissues for transplant. Our financial performance in the quarter also benefited from the acquisition on March 5, 1997 of Ideas for Medicine(R), Inc., a manufacturer of single-use vascular and cardiovascular medical devices, and the expanding surgical application of the CryoLife-O'Brien(TM) porcine heart valves in the European market."
On April 3, 1998, CryoLife successfully completed a follow-on public offering of 2,588,000 common shares which became effective March 30, 1998, and on April 16, 1998, an over-allotment option was exercised for an additional 387,500 shares. The oversubscribed offering provided the Company with net proceeds of $45,400,000. The proceeds from the offering are being designated for repayment of indebtedness, expansion of facilities, general corporate purposes and potential acquisitions. Managing underwriters for the offering were SBC Warburg Dillon Read of New York and Piper Jaffray of Minneapolis.
Founded in 1984, CryoLife, Inc., is a leader in the development and commercialization of technology for ultra-low temperature preservation ("cryopreservation") of viable human tissues for use in cardiovascular, vascular, and orthopaedic surgeries throughout the United States and Canada. The Company's BioGlue(R) surgical adhesive, CE marked in the European Union for use in vascular sealing and repair, is distributed throughout Europe. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Ideas for Medicine, Inc., CryoLife is a manufacturer and distributor of an extensive line of single-use medical devices used primarily in vascular and cardiovascular surgery. The Company also manufactures stentless porcine heart valves which are distributed within the European Community.
CRYOLIFE, INC. SUMMARY OF CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT SHARE AND PER SHARE DATA) (UNAUDITED) Three Months Ended March 31, 1998 1997 REVENUES $ 14,625 $ 10,413 COSTS AND EXPENSES: CRYOPRESERVATION AND PRODUCTS 5,481 3,426 GENERAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND MARKETING 5,827 4,479 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT 1,011 849 INTEREST 430 132 12,749 8,886 INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES 1,876 1,527 INCOME TAX EXPENSE 704 575 NET INCOME $ 1,172 $ 952 EARNINGS PER SHARE: BASIC $ 0.12 $ 0.10 DILUTED $ 0.12 $ 0.10 WEIGHTED AVERAGE SHARES OUTSTANDING: BASIC 9,739,000 9,581,000 DILUTED 10,077,000 9,877,000 Proforma* March 31, March 31, December 31, 1998 1998 1997 BALANCE SHEET DATA: WORKING CAPITAL $59,452 $52,363 $18,825 TOTAL ASSETS 101,069 89,844 53,749 SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY 71,560 77,570 30,227 * Ref1ects the receipt of the proceeds from the underwriters (including the overallotment option), repayment of certain debt and distributions to selling shareholders in connection with the Company's follow-on offering.
SOURCE: CryoLife, Inc.


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Europe's Heritage of Evil
By David Jayne Hill
(Formerly United States Ambassador to Germany)
[The Century Magazine, May 1917]
In the retrospect of future historians the year 1914 may have a place not less important than the year 1453, which has been accepted as marking the dividing line between medieval and modern history. The fall of Constantinople and the establishment of the Ottoman Turks in Europe revealed the insufficiency of the bond that had held Christendom together. In like manner the present European War reveals the inadequacy of purely national conceptions for the complete organization of mankind; for as Christendom failed to unite the whole world by faith, so civilization has failed to maintain itself by force. Whatever the future of the world is to be, it cannot be a mere repetition of the past. There will be a new Europe, which will radically change the order of the old, and mark the beginning of another era in the development of mankind.
The great tragedy of history has been the conflict between the universal humanism that Rome endeavored to establish, first by law and afterward by faith, and the tribalism of the primitive European races. In the fifteenth century tribalism triumphed. In the twentieth, universal humanism may reclaim its own, and reassert the substantial unity of the human races.
In both instances there has been disillusionment. In the fifteenth century Christendom assumed the existence of a unity of belief that had not in reality been attained. Both the empire and the papacy, in which great minds had placed implicit faith, proved unable, in the face of racial conflicts, either to rule the world or to preserve the coherence of Christendom. All that had given grandeur to Rome seemed to have ended in failure when the Greek Empire, the last bulwark of Roman imperialism, already long and bitterly alienated from the Roman Curia, paid the penalty of separatism, and fell before the Ottoman assault. With it the splendid postulates of the Roman imperial idea—the essential unity of mankind, the supremacy of law based upon reason and divine command, the moral solidarity of all who accepted the formulas of faith, and the effective organization of peace as a condition of human happiness—seemed to have suffered a fatal catastrophe. In place of the Pax Romana, Faustrecht, the right of the mailed fist, widely prevailed within the confines of Christendom. Slowly dying during a thousand years, the traditions of the ancient world, which the Greek Empire had endeavored to preserve long after they had been undermined by tribalism in the West, were now definitively abandoned. The future was seen to belong to the separate nations, which alone possessed a strong sense of unity. The disparity of races, the spirit of local independence, the conflict between the spiritual and the temporal forms of obedience, combined to render possible the development of powerful national monarchies, and dynastic ambition was eager to make use of them for its own designs.
It was Machiavelli who expounded the new theory of the state and the methods of securing its advancement; and in this he was inventing no system of his own, but merely stating in definite terms the principles which successful monarchs were already putting into practice. "'The Prince,'" declares Villari, "had a more direct action on real life than any other book in the world, and a larger share in emancipating Europe from the Middle Ages;" but it would be more exact to say that Machiavelli's work, written in 1513 and published in 1532, was the perfect expression of an emancipation from moral restraints already far advanced. The Christian idealism of the Middle Ages had already largely disappeared. The old grounds of obligation had been swept away. Men looked for their safety to the state rather than to the church; and the state, as Machiavelli's gospel proclaimed it, consisted in absolute and irresponsible control exercised by one man who should embody its unity, strength, and authority. Thus began the modern world.
With the dissolution of the feudal organization through the predominance of the national monarchies disappeared the sense of mutual obligation which under the feudal regime had constituted an ethical bond between the different orders of society. What remained was the bare conception of irresponsible "sovereignty" considered as a divinely implanted, absolute, unlimited, and indivisible prerogative of personal rule, the charter right of each dynasty to seek its own aggrandizement, preponderance, and glory regardless of all considerations of race, reason, or religion.
With such a conception of the nature of the state, the whole system of international relations was necessarily based upon military force. Until Grotius appealed to the ethical motive, and the treaties of Westphalia recognized the de jure rights of territorial sovereignty, there was among the nations of Europe no semblance of public law which jurisprudence could recognize. But even after the Peace of Westphalia, the so-called "law of nations" was little more than a theoretical acceptance of the equal rights of autonomous sovereigns, each of whom could work his will without interference within his own domains, leaving to each ruler the unquestioned prerogative of dictating the religion of his own subjects, of taxing them, of arming them, and of making war with their united forces for his own advantage. In effect, the Peace of Westphalia, by rendering even petty princes absolute, permitted more than three hundred independent rulers to carry on the sanguinary game of war for plunder or conquest without restraint; and all, left free to destroy one another, were thus entitled by public law, through war and diplomacy, to seek their fortunes with complete autonomy. Sovereignty, defined as "supreme power," regardless of any principle of right, was conceived to be the very essence of the state. It remained simply to discover by a trial of strength which power was entitled to be esteemed supreme.
When in its moral awakening the Europe of the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century began to think for itself—or at least to follow the thinking of Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, and others who sought to find the true foundations of the state in the conception of law based upon the nature and necessities of men rather than upon dynastic power—Europe found itself under the incubus of this sinister inheritance.
Without a convulsion that would shake the whole of Europe to its foundations it was powerless to throw it off. Rousseau had in "Le contrat social" merely transferred the idea of sovereignty from the monarch to the people, but he had not essentially altered its character. It was still "supreme power," still the "absolute, indivisible, and perpetual" thing which Bodin, seeking to give royalty a philosophical pedestal to stand upon, had said it was. Inherent in the people, it was still the personification of all the public powers; and the volonté générale, the general will, regardless of its moral qualities, was the unlimited, irresponsible source of law, the possessor of all, the dictator of all, and the ultimate authority in all things, which the individual man must respect and obey.
When the French Revolution judged and condemned the king, it was done as a sovereign act, and was, therefore, not permitted to be questioned by the monarchs of Europe. Was not sovereignty territorial? Then it belonged to France. Was it not indivisible? Then it belonged to the French people. Was it not perpetual? Who, then, could ever take it away or in any way dispute it? And thus the volonté générale of one nation, having swept away the monarchy, soon rose to the height of a war on all kings; and in the person of the residuary legatee of the Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, made emperor by the assent of the volonté générale of France, assumed to act as sovereign over the whole of Europe. There was no moment during the whole revolutionary period when sovereignty ceased to be conceived as unlimited supreme power. Recent French writers not only recognize, but emphasize, the fact. The distinguished critic and academician Emile Faguet declares:
The French Revolution neither enthroned individualism nor suppressed absolutism. It did precisely the contrary.... It put the sovereignty of the people in place of the sovereignty of the king, and it did nothing else.... It was the absolute effacement of the Individual by the majority of his compatriots...votre Majorité in place of votre Majesté—that is, without qualification, the sum and substance of the French Revolution.
And thus the malign inheritance of Europe, in so far as it was affected by the Revolution, is essentially unchanged. Monarchy and democracy alike, without distinction, have regarded sovereignty merely as "supreme power," "absolute, indivisible, and perpetual." Thus it stands in all the text-books of the law of nations. So many sovereignties, so many absolute autocrats. Being the sole sources of law, how can they be subject to law? And there being no law which they may not set aside, since it is but their creature, sovereign nations are irresponsible, and have no more to do with moral right or wrong than so many untamed animals seeking to satisfy their appetites. The right to make war at will and to be answerable to no one, that was, and is, the accepted doctrine of the old Europe, which merely asserted itself anew in 1914.
This does not signify that it has never been contested. More than three hundred years ago a now almost-forgotten German jurist, though recognizing sovereignty as the foundation of the state, defined it as an attribute not of the people as an unorganized mass, but of a "body politic" organized for the promotion of justice, deriving its authority as a moral entity from the rights of its constituent members, whom it is organized to protect against wrong, and therefore from its very nature charged with mutual rights and obligations. The only authority it can claim is authority to defend the rights and interests thus committed to its guardianship. As a moral entity—for this is what Althusius taught that a state founded on rights necessarily is—it should be ready to apply the principles of justice and equity in its dealings with other states.
Were this conception of sovereignty generally accepted, justice and equity would not halt at the frontiers of a nation. The right of war would exist, but it would not be, as the old Europe has generally recognized it to be, a virtually unlimited right. There could be, under this conception, no permanently subject peoples. There could be no world dominion. There could be no legal schemes of conquest. War would mean the punishment of offenders against the law of nations, the suppression of anarchy and brigandage, resistance to the ambitions of the conqueror.
But the old Europe has never been disposed to give to sovereignty that meaning. It could not do so while it was identified with royal legitimacy. That principle triumphed a hundred years ago in the Congress of Vienna, which strove to neutralize the effects of the French Revolution by ending forever the sovereignty of the people. Then followed the effort to establish Europe firmly upon the principles of absolutism by crushing out all constitutional aspirations. To accomplish this the unlimited right of war was necessary, for without armed intervention by the allied sovereigns the task was hopeless. Legitimacy was to be everywhere sustained by the Holy Alliance. Wherever a state adopted a constitution, the powers bound themselves at the Congress of Troppau, "if need be by arms, to bring back the guilty state into the bosom of the Alliance."
The unlimited right of a sovereign state to make war for any reason it considered sufficient, or for no reason at all, thus seemed to be written into the public law of Europe, That was the unhallowed inheritance which modern democracies have received from absolutism. Being entitled to all the prerogatives of sovereignty as historically understood, they have not repudiated the heritage. And thus they have tacitly accepted the evil principle of the despotisms against whose iniquities they have rebelled, and whose pernicious influence they were struggling to throw off.
In the call for the first Hague Conference "all questions concerning the political relation of states" were expressly excluded from the deliberations of the conference. In that, and in the second conference, rules were laid down regarding the manner of conducting war both on land and sea; but nowhere were any regulations prescribed regarding the causes or conditions of declaring war that were to be considered legal or illegal, just or unjust. As one of the best-accredited authorities on the subject says:
Theoretically, international law ought to determine the causes for which war can be justly undertaken; in other words, it ought to mark out as plainly as municipal law what constitutes a wrong for which a remedy may be sought at law. It might also not unreasonably go on to discourage the commission of wrongs by investing a state seeking redress with special rights, and by subjecting a wrong-doer to special disabilities.
In fact, however, it does nothing of the kind. The reason is not merely that there would be no means except war for enforcing such rules—for that would apply equally to the regulations concerning the manner of conducting war that have been explicitly laid down—but because no sovereign state has thus far been disposed to pledge itself not to engage in war except under conditions that in harmony with its own principles of legislation would be considered just. "Hence both parties in every war are regarded as being in an identical position, and consequently possessed of equal rights." Aggressor and victim alike, triumphant force and helpless innocence, these are held in equal honor by the public law of Europe as it now stands, and this law has been tacitly accepted by the "family of nations"!
It is upon this unlimited right to resort to war, and the consequent general irresponsibility in international relations, that the idea of neutrality reposes; and yet neutrality is historically an immense step forward in the path of progress when compared with the Machiavellian doctrine that no opportunity for gain from the quarrels of others should be allowed to pass unutilized. In every war, Machiavelli declares, one side or the other will win, and the wise course for an intelligent prince to pursue is to join at the proper moment with the probable winner, whoever he may be, in order to be able to share with him the spoils of victory.
The modern doctrine of neutrality, which considers war an unavoidable evil, is no doubt an amelioration of Machiavelli's policy; for, instead of widening the range of hostilities, it aims to narrow the area of conflict. It is inspired, however, chiefly by the consideration that it is a national right to avoid the infection of a pestilence that the neutral power has not caused and for which it is not responsible. So long as the belligerents, who are conceded the privilege of mutual destruction—but often with very unequal facilities for engaging in the conflict—do not too deeply offend the neutral states by their activities, powerful nations feel justified in standing silent and inactive while weak states are crushed into subjection and the laws of war, which they themselves have helped to make, are violated.
From a moral point of view this appears to be a strange proceeding for a member of the "family of nations;" but it must be considered that this is a family of a very peculiar kind. In it each member, by tacit consent, is believed to fulfil his whole duty by looking solely after his own interests. Governments, it is held, are in every case responsible to their own constituents for the preservation of the safety and well-being of the nations intrusted to their care, and consequently they cannot act with the freedom of a private person. They may not, therefore, incontinently plunge their people into war without reasons that involve the national interests. Until there is a better organization of international relations, this condition must continue; but it is rapidly coming to be perceived that, if civilization is not to suffer shipwreck, a better organization must be sought.
Before attempting to find a basis for a revision of international relations it is necessary to consider how intimately national interests have become associated with war. For a long time all the interests of the state were regarded as personal to the sovereign. All its territory was his territory. All the property of the nation was his property, of which the people enjoyed only the usufruct. Even their persons and their lives were at his disposal, for they were in all respects his subjects. To-day the identity of the sovereign is changed, but not the conception of sovereignty. The people, standing in the place of the sovereign, claim the right of succession to all the royal prerogatives. The national interests have become their interests. The appeal to their patriotism rests upon this ground. The power, gain, and glory of the state are represented to be theirs. Even where it has not entirely superseded the monarch, the nation believes itself to have entered into partnership with him, and the people consider themselves shareholders in the vast enterprise of expanding dominion. Even the beggar in the street is assured that it is his country; and though ragged and hungry, he takes a pride in his proprietorship.
It is the nation's territory, industry, commerce, and prestige that are now in question. And government, even the government of the people, is no longer merely protective. It enters into every kind of business, owns railways, steamship lines, manufactories, everything involving the life and prosperity of the people. The state has become an economic as well as a political organ of society. The modern national state is, in fact, a stupendous and autonomous business corporation, the most portentous and the most lawless business trust, and views other nations as its business rivals, aiming at the control of foreign markets, and of the sources of raw materials wherever they may exist. And these vast economic entities, with their vision fixed on gain, combine not only the command of armies and navies, but absolute freedom from effective legal restriction with immensely concentrated wealth, such as the kings and emperors of the past never had at their disposal.
Whatever, from an internal and social point of view, the merits or defects of the extension of state functions may be, they are bristling with possibilities of war, and when modern nations engage in it, it is no longer a dynastic adventure, but a people's war. Commanding the strength and resources of a whole people, and acting for its alleged interests, these great economic corporations are fitted for aggression as well as for defense. If they were subject to the usual laws of business that prevail in the regulation of private enterprises within their own borders, in accordance with the principles they apply at home, these mailed and armed knights of trade might not be dangerous to the world's peace; but they are not subject to these or to any such regulations. They recognize no law which they feel themselves obliged to obey. Inheriting by tradition from the past alleged rights of absolute sovereignty, and equipped with military forces on land and sea, they are engaged in a struggle for supremacy which they would not for a moment permit within their own legal to pronounce specific condemnations jurisdiction. Were a similar organization formed within their own borders, adopting as its principles of action the privileges usually claimed by sovereign states, it would be promptly and ruthlessly suppressed as a dangerous bandit.
This statement implies no reflection upon any particular nation, for all to some extent share in the responsibility. What is here condemned as essentially unsocial and anarchic is the indifference of these great national economic corporations to one another's rights, and above all the absence in the law of nations, as it is now understood, of any accepted regulations such as the lesser constituent elements of the business world are required by these very states to obey under their authority. If civilization is to endure, and nations are not to become privileged highway robbers on the land and pirates on the sea, this part of the law of nations must be revised not only as respects the rules of war, but the rules of peace. In so far as a nation is a business entity it should be governed by the same principles in its dealings with other nations as civilized states apply to business within their own limits. But international law has not yet reached the stage of formal development where this is recognized. It is still under the influence of the inherited customs of the past, the baneful fiction of an absolute sovereign prerogative. Just as Christendom found that it was not in fact so organized as to restrain the Hun and the Tatar, so we are discovering that civilization is not yet so organized as to restrain their modern counterparts. So long as international business is controlled by an absolute conception of sovereignty, and sustained by military force, there will be no prospect of peace or equity in the world.
Let us not here undertake to speak of remedies. We must first comprehend the nature of the disease. Nor should we here attempt to apportion blame, which would end only in bitter controversy. If the evil is in the system, then it is the system that must be changed; and it will be time enough to inquire how to change it and to pronounce specific condemnations when we know what change is required and who may refuse to participate in making it.
Undoubtedly, we have all of us been cherishing illusions. Let us, then, endeavor to dissipate them.
We have assumed that in some mystical manner progress is inherent in society that it is necessarily produced by natural laws; that the mere duration of time carries us forward to perfection; and that the older civilization becomes, the wiser it tends to be. Trusting to these baseless generalities, we have in a spirit of optimism forgotten that we have duties to perform, renunciations to make, and sacrifices to offer if the state, or the so-called society of states, is to prosper. We have formed the habit of looking to the state as a source of personal benefit to ourselves, which calls for only the smallest contributions from us in return. We have made exorbitant demands upon it, as undisciplined children extort gifts from overindulgent parents. We have wanted better wages, better prices for our commodities, better opportunities of trade, better conditions of life, free schools, free books, playgrounds, public provisions of every kind at the expense of the state. In order to obtain these benefits, we have desired that the state should become omnipotent, seeking to augment its resources by despoiling the rich within its limits, and exploiting or even conquering foreign territory wrested from other peoples, in the belief that this would render it easier to meet all our necessities, and through its increased power become the dispenser of happiness. When for this purpose armies and navies have been required, it has been easy to obtain them ; for may not the state, being a sovereign power, do all things necessary for its own interest? Thus our consciences have been put to rest.
This tendency of modern states and the sudden revelation of its meaning have been forcibly expressed by a recent writer. He says:
A few more teasings, a few more pistols held at the head of the state, and a scheme, we were expecting, would be forthcoming that would render us all happy in spite of ourselves. Then, one fine morning in August, there came a rude awakening. We got a message from the state couched in language we had never heard before. "I require you," said the state, "to place your property and your lives at my service. Now, and for some time to come, I give nothing, but ask for everything. Arm yourselves for my defense. Give me your sons, and be willing that they should die for me. Repay what you owe me. My turn has come."
And thus Europe is called upon to pay the debt its theory of the state and of the state's omnipotence has incurred. We, too, in America may sometime be called upon to pay the debt if we are not wise.
We have trusted blindly to the process of social evolution. Industrialism and commerce, we have assumed, will automatically bring in a new era. Before it militarism, the grim relic of the old regime, will disappear. There will soon be no need for fighting. When all the world turns to industry, as it will, wars will cease. Commerce will cement the nations together and create a perfect solidarity of interests.
But the present war has thrown a new light on the relations of militarism and industry. Forty years ago, Herbert Spencer, with his strong proclivity for brilliant generalization, fancied that the age of militarism was soon to be superseded by an age of universal industrialism. He described their opposite polities, the conditions of the gradual transition, and the final triumph of industry over militancy. But what do we now behold? Has militarism diminished with the growth of industry? Has not militarism simply become more titanic and even more demoniacal by the aid of industry, until war has become the most stupendous problem of modern mechanics? And now we see militarism wholly absorbing industry, claiming all its resources, and even organizing and commanding it.
And why is this? It is because the state as a business corporation is employing military force as its advance-agent, struggling for the control of markets and resources, and the command of new peoples who are to feed and move the awful enginery of war.
And this condition of the world is the logical outcome of the inherited theory of the state. This fact is now beginning to be recognized, and recently there has been much said regarding imperialism and democracy, often assuming that the mere internal form of government is responsible for the international situation in Europe. But it is not the form, it is the spirit, and above all the postulates, of government that are at fault. If democracies may act according to their "good pleasure," if the mere power of majorities is to rule without restraint, if there are no sacred and controlling principles of action, in what respect is a multiple sovereign superior to a single autocrat? If the private greed of a people is sustained by the pretensions of absolutism in international affairs, democracy itself becomes imperial, without accepting the principles of equity which give dignity to the imperial idea. In truth, the most dangerous conceivable enemy to peace and justice would be a group of competitive democracies delirious with unsatisfied desires.
If there is to be a new Europe, it will be far less the result of new forms of organization than of a new spirit of action. Europe must renounce altogether its evil heritage. It must reconstruct its theory of the state as an absolutely autonomous entity. If the state continues to be a business corporation, as it probably in some sense will, then it must abandon the conception of sovereignty as an unlimited right to act in any way it pleases under the cover of national interests and necessity. It must consent to be governed by business rules. It must not demand something for nothing, it must not make its power the measure of its action, it must not put its interests above its obligations. It may plead them, it may argue them, and it may use its business advantages to enforce them; but it may not threaten the life or appropriate the property of its neighbors or insist upon controlling them on its own terms. It may display its wares, proclaim their excellence, fix its own prices, buy and sell where it finds its advantage; but it must not bring to bear a machine-gun as a means of persuasion upon its rival across the street.
No one can make a thorough and impartial inquiry into the causes of the present European conflict without perceiving that their roots run deep into the soil of trade rivalry. Beneath the apparent political antagonisms are the economic aspirations that have produced them. In the light of history we can no longer accept the doctrine that industrialism and commercialism by a process of natural evolution automatically supersede militarism. On the contrary, we perceive that militarism on the one hand, and industry and commerce on the other, are at present partners rather than antagonists. They are different, but closely associated, activities of modern business policy as conducted by the state. If there were no economic questions involved, the conflict of nationalities could soon be ended. Modern wars are trade wars. Modern armies and navies are not maintained for the purpose of ruthlessly taking human life or of covering rulers with glory. They are, on the one hand, armed guardians of economic advantages already possessed; and, on the other, agents of intended future depredation, gradually organized for purposes alleged to be innocent, and at what is esteemed the auspicious moment despatched upon their mission of aggression. Mere international misunderstandings are readily adjusted where there is the will to adjust them but against the deliberately formed policies of national business expansion—the reaching out for new territory, increased population, war indemnities, coaling-stations, trade monopolies, control of markets, supplies of raw materials, and advantageous treaty privileges, to be procured under the shadow of the sword—there is no defense except the power to thwart or obstruct them by armed resistance.
We must, then, definitively abandon the thesis that industrialism is essentially pacific, and will eventually automatically disband armies and navies, and thus put an end to war. On the contrary, modern armies and navies are the result of trade rivalry, and are justified to those who support them on the ground that there are national interests to be defended or advantages to be attained by their existence. So long as even one powerful nation retains its heritage of evil and insists that it may employ its armies or navies aggressively as an agency in its national business; so long, to put the matter directly, as the nations must buy and sell, travel and exchange, negotiate and deliver, with bayonets at their breasts, so long defensive armies and navies will be necessary, and the battle for civilization must go on.
Strange as it may seem, it is not the poorest nations, but the richest, where discontent is deepest and most wide-spread. It is the great powers that are most inclined to war, and are most fully prepared to make it; and the reason is not difficult to discern. The greater the state, the greater its ambitions. It is easily within the grasp of five or six great powers to secure the permanent peace of the world, and, far more important than that, to secure the observance of just laws by all the nations. But, unfortunately, governments, feeling themselves charged with the duty of augmenting the resources of the state, find no limit to their ambitions except in their powers of action, which are great. The whole future of the world has in the past virtually lain in the hands of a small number of men, not all of them monarchs, but the recognized leaders of public thought and action in their respective nations.
This order of things is less likely to continue in the future than at any time in the past. Far less frequently than in former times will individual men shape the destinies of nations. No man, probably, will ever do for Great Britain what was done for it by William Pitt, and no man will ever do for Germany what Bismarck did. And this is an important augury for the new Europe. Only a few men, and they but temporarily, framed and executed the policies that have, for example, created the British Empire. As the historian Seeley said, "We have conquered half the world in a fit of absence of mind." And in all this process the British people have never been consulted, just as the German people were not consulted in the two critical moments of their existence; for in the past peoples were seldom consulted regarding their national destiny. But that time has passed forever. Henceforth no intelligent people will ever be led into the shambles of modern warfare without being in some sense consulted. That is the first mark of difference that will distinguish the new Europe from the old. And, being consulted, will they not ask with increasing earnestness why nations cannot conduct their business as the state generally requires private business to be conducted, in accordance with reasonable rules of procedure? Many negative answers will, no doubt, be given, for governments are tenacious of their traditions; but, nevertheless, there will be a general revision of the inherited conception of the nature of the state, and a perception that world dominion is not the prerogative of any single nation. States, like individual men, must henceforth admit their responsibilities to one another, accept the obligation to obey just and equal laws, and take their respective places in the society of states in a spirit of loyalty to civilization as a human and not an exclusively national ideal.
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Visited Sean and Lucy last weekend, along with my sister Brenda, and nephew Stephen who kindly drove us, up to see them in Cumbria.
I couldn't resist taking a photo of their pretty lit tree, and in the foreground . . .
one of Lucy's super jars filled with a delicious Christmas cookie mix, decorated with a red and white ribbon, small wooden spoon and cookie cutter. Another fabulous Lucifer Bakes special! Lucy has also baked us a scrumptious Xmas cake which I will show you in a future post.
We sat chatting around their warm and cosy woodburner that had been newly installed last month. The welcome heat and glow very much appreciated - it was blowing a gale outside.
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She is wearing mini, she must be very out going. He has so many girls around him, he must be a flirt. Opinions/judging follow you every where you go.
It is sad that we stereotype people at a first glance. "first appearance makes or breaks" holds good only when you are interviewing. In regular life it is very difficult and not correct to judge anyone unless you are in their shoes.
When it comes to judging a person one should remember the saying "Don't judge a book by its cover". Only way you can know someone is to spend some time with them. The experience might be positive or negative; but that's the only way you can be sure.
I remember during my undergrad, I never spoke to anyone during the first semester since I was uncomfortable for many reasons. Language barrier and the fact that it was the first time I was forced to interact with guys were the major reasons. It just made me nervous to my hair tips. After the first semester though, I made few friends and was back to being the normal me. It was then that one of my newly found friend told me that they were scared of me since I was too quite. I responded that with, "How do you feel now about me?" and the reply was "you are fun".
That conversation has stayed with me till now and will do forever. Today, whenever I am interacting with someone new who looks out of place to me, I remember my conversation with my friend then, and pull myself back to try making the person comfortable enough to really show who they are and leave the opinion for later.
Lets be honest, people are ALWAYS opinionated and there is no stopping it. Only "good to have" filter would be TIME to know before you form your. Of-course you don't need to pass on your opinions of others to others. Its your point of view as to how you look at things. Let others have their own.


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|Everything drenched when we got back from shopping
It's amazing how long small chores take to do when cruising. The day started out with a 1 mile walk to the post office to send some things off and then another mile or so to the nearest bus stop to head into Wilmington and find a Kinko's and grocery store to do some shopping for the week. Normally this would take probably an hour maybe slightly more to cruise around town and get things knocked out. In the cruising world it took roughly 2 hours of researching the bus schedule, finding where the stops were to get where we needed to go, and then to get our things together and dinghy into shore.
Everything was grand until we made it to the first bus stop and the skies above opened up on us. We got drenched for about 15 minutes sitting on the side of a highway, road a freezing bus for roughly 45 minutes, and then walked another half mile to get to the Kinko's. Easy enough I guess. We waited in the rain for roughly another 50 minutes to catch a bus and roughly half an hour later finally arrived at a Harris Teeter. Sweet! Soaking wet we dragged ourselves around the grocery for about an hour or more and filled up an entire shopping cart full of good stuff! Ooops we forgot we had to lug all this back to the boat roughly a 4 mile hike away with 50 lbs of groceries and beer.
|Dinghy still half filled with water
Easy enough 5 minutes in it begins to pour, and pour so hard that the rain stung our faces the entire walk back to the dinghy docks. We arrived to a dink that was completely filled with water and nothing to bail it out with so I proceeded to get on my knees, cup my hands and try to shovel water overboard for about 30 minutes. At this time I believe M.E. had just about all she could handle. Back to the boat we go for some sandwiches for lunch nearly 6 hours later. Just another easy day of getting a few errands done. Its only 4:15 as I write this and its pouring down rain, blowing about 25 knots, and I am dead tired. I think it's time to call it a day. M.E. is already in bed sleeping, haha.. Am I beginning to sound like this is a rough life? I loved every minute of the day today don't let me fool you. Its not that rough out here. Good Times!
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If you want to live healthy, then you have to take nutrition into account. Everyone wants to become healthy, but are you aware of what you need to do so? Achieving a healthy lifestyle is not as difficult as it may seem. By following these tips, you will soon be happier and healthier than you were before.
Meat is a very important source of protein nutrition. Leans meats can make you feel fuller longer, offer your body a fuel source, and help you reduce weight gain. You should avoid fatty meats or meat that is deep fried. This can actually add more unneeded calories into your diet.
Add more salads to your diet every day. These are packed with so many vitamins and nutrients essential for healthy organs and healthy minds. These can also take care of the amount of "greens" you should be consuming everyday and you can basically add any healthy fruits and veggies that you want. Try to avoid cream-based dressings though and opt for olive oil, vinegar, low fat yogurt or eat it plain.
Everyone should have their vitamin D level checked at least once a year. If they are deficient their doctor can recommend a supplement to increase their level. Even though vitamin D is supplemented in milk, many people do not drink enough to get the amount they need. The other main source of vitamin D is from sunlight. Since people in northern countries have less sun exposure during the year they are especially prone to deficiency. Widespread sunscreen use has contributed to low levels of vitamin D also.
You should write down everything you eat during the day. This helps make you accountable for what you have eaten. It also helps you to not "forget" about that latte you indulged in, or that candy bar you ate after lunch. Knowing what you have eaten already will help you make better decisions about what to eat at the next meal or snack time.
We all love smoothies, so why not buy some organic fruits and make some to consume whenever you'd like? The ones at stands or in stores have lots of calories. You know what nutrients are going into a smoothie when you make it yourself. Making customized smoothies helps you fill your daily requirements of fruits and vegetables. Use low fat yogurt, fruit and even kale, carrots or celery.
If you are on a vegetarian or vegan diet, you need to find plenty of ways to incorporate protein into your diet. Protein is an important building block for muscle development, and it is very easy for vegetarians to lose muscle mass when they reduce the meat and animal products from their diet.
Try buying your fruits and vegetables at a farmer's market near you. Not only do locally-grown foods have a minimal impact on the environment, but they are also better for you, since small farms generally use less harmful chemicals. It's fun to walk around and sample all the delicious fruits and vegetables. Converse with the farmers to ensure you know exactly where and how the food was produced.
To help your body fight off common illnesses, such as the http://www.amazon.co.uk/Probiotic-1030-Probiotics-Supplement-Digestive/dp/B01BZC1QWM/keywords=advanced+probiotic+10 common cold and diarrhea, eat plenty of probiotics. Probiotics are a healthy, living bacteria that has been proven to fight off harmful illness causing bacteria. Examples of probiotics include yogurt, tempeh, and sauerkraut. Fermented teas like kombucha are also rich in probiotics.
Make a salad for dinner. You can add chicken, fish, or other lean meats, as well as lots of fresh veggies like carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and even throw in some strawberries, mandarin oranges or pineapple for some sweet pizazz. Making a salad the entree will keep you from using a high calorie and carbohydrate like pasta instead.
As you grow older, it can be more of a challenge to maintain good nutrition on a daily basis, so it is important to keep your appetite stimulated with fresh ideas. Try a new spice, read a best selling cookbook, or just wander among the colorful produce at the local farmers market to jump start new interest in eating healthy.
Try your hardest to avoid empty calories. This is things like refined sugars, soft drinks or other junk food snacks. These won't give you a feeling of being full and they also won't provide your body with any nutrients. If you are able to eat more complex foods your body will thank you.
When you go grocery shopping, be sure to make a list ahead of time and try setting a time limit for your shopping. If you have a list, you are less likely to purchase items that are unhealthy for you. When you set a time limit, this can prevent you from going into parts of the store that has processed food.
Make a salad for dinner. You can add chicken, fish, or other lean meats, as well as lots of fresh veggies like carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and even throw in some strawberries, mandarin oranges or pineapple for some sweet pizazz. Making a salad the entree will keep you from using a high calorie and carbohydrate like pasta instead.
If you want to be healthy, you need to drink enough water. Your body is made up of roughly 60% water, and you lose it continually -- day and night. Rather than drinking large amounts of water at once, it is a good idea to always have a glass or bottle of water on hand and to sip it throughout the day.
Try to change your entire household at the same time. If mom and daughter are eating healthy but dad and son are not, it will be difficult to http://www.livescience.com/26579-immune-system.html stay motivated. Talk to your family about how this is important to you and they should be willing to at least try to help you within the house.
Creating good food habits is a key to maintaining good nutrition. One important habit to cultivate is portion control. It is easy to forget what real portion sizes are in our super-size culture, but by measuring carefully for a few days, you can familiarize yourself with the amount of food you should really be consuming.
If you want to start consuming more highly nutritious vegetables and fruits, but are put off by the taste, try juicing. Juicing can allow a generous quantity of veggies and fruits to be consumed quickly. The initial taste may be horrible, but it will be quick. Just one quick gulp, and it's all over.
Eating healthy is possible for everyone to do. Proper nutrition is the key to how good or bad you feel since what you put into your body affects your well-being. If you apply what you had learned here, your life will be healthier and happier.
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December 16 2016
Food and beverage advertising for children soon banned for ROC?
If bill S-228 is adopted, the rest of Canada will soon have to deal with a ban on food and beverage advertising directed at children.
Whether such ban will garner wide approval or not, Senator Nancy Greene Raine is determined to see this measure adopted. The short title of this legislative initiative is the Child Health Protection Act and it follows the recommendations made in March of this year by a senate committee in a report titled "Obesity in Canada: A Whole-of-Society Approach for a Healthier Canada. The report called for a ban of food and beverage advertising directed at children.
The ban proposed in the bill resembles the one in force since 1980 in Quebec (where section 248 of the Consumer Protection Act prohibits commercial advertising directed at persons under 13 years of age) except for one basic difference: in Quebec, the ban is not limited to any type or class of product whereas the federal project only covers food and beverages. However, even if the bill covers fewer products, the scope of the prohibitions is wider.
Lets take packaging as an example.
In Quebec, advertising to children is allowed on product packaging, as long as the advertising content complies with certain conditions set in the Regulation respecting the application of the Consumer Protection Act. For example, characters from animation movies popular among children can be used. Last winter, dairy products were covered with images of the characters from the animation movie Snowtime. Although fully compliant under Quebec law, if the federal bill were adopted, this practice could be prohibited, which would have an important impact throughout the country, well beyond the example described above.
For example, how would this affect the characters created by an advertiser and used as trademarks for his products? Would packaging of food products that include a small bear, a colourful tiger or a multicoloured toucan suddenly be considered packaging directed mainly at children? Although this is an extreme and unlikely consequence, the fact that it is a possibility is enough to worry advertisers.
The bill also targets the practice of offering gifts or prizes with purchases made for children under 13 years of age. Subsection 7.5 provides the following:
(1) No person shall offer or provide, in exchange for the purchase of a food, any direct or indirect consideration that is intended primarily for children.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), consideration includes a gift to a purchaser or third party, a bonus or the right to participate in a game, lottery or contest.
Without a doubt, this provision would put an end to some practices, such as small prizes in cereal boxes and even any kind of prize for children, whether the prize bears the colours of the advertiser or not.
Furthermore, the bill raises questions particularly in regard to the sanctions imposed in case of violations, namely the prohibition of the sale of the product. An advertiser who offers a prize that violates the section quoted above may be forced to stop selling the product in question. The same thing would happen to an advertiser whose advertising is deemed to violate the ban on advertising directed mainly at children.
In our opinion, how this provision would be applied raises many interesting questions. For example, would the prohibition apply only while the offending ad is in circulation? Otherwise, how long would the prohibition last?
We will be watching the bills progress closely as it may have a considerable impact on packaging, advertising and promotion of many food products in Canada, including in Quebec, even though we are used to dealing with the prohibition on commercial advertising directed at children.


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Nestled in the heart of the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, the bustling city of Charlotte, North Carolina, serves as the country's "International Gateway to the South." Its convenient location makes it the most sizable and most accessible city between Dallas, Texas, and Washington D.C. The city's bustling businesses and vibrant entertainment options attract residents of all kinds, creating a diverse haven where people flock to enjoy a thriving cultural scene.
Whether they live in downtown apartments or large suburban homes, Charlotte residents need plumbers to help maintain and upgrade their plumbing systems. Whenever possible, experts recommend getting estimates from at least two or three plumbers to get the most competitive prices on planned plumbing projects.
Local Costs for Plumbing Tasks
Across the country, homeowners pay an average of $281 to hire a plumber for common jobs such as toilet repair. Homeowners in Charlotte pay an average of $227 when they hire a plumber for average plumbing projects.
Many plumbers charge a flat fee for simple plumbing jobs, but others charge by the hour. Average hourly rates run from $45 to $150 per hour, depending on the plumbing job and timing. The following table compares the average prices some of the most common plumbing tasks in Charlotte to the national average:
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Charlotte Average
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The prices in Charlotte run fairly close to the national average on most tasks. When evaluating the cost of a plumbing job, homeowners should consider the factors that typically affect pricing, including the complexity of the job and the timing of the request. For example, one of the most notable extra fees is associated with calling an emergency plumber, who typically charges extra for after-hours visits.
Necessary Licensing and Qualifications
Charlotte homeowners should only consider hiring licensed and insured plumbers. North Carolina requires its plumbers to obtain a plumbing license through the State Licensing Board. Applicants must pass a licensing exam and have at least 4,000 hours of experience before obtaining a license. Experts also recommend that homeowners verify that the plumber has general liability insurance to cover any damages or injuries caused by an accident. In addition to their state credentials, Charlotte plumbers might belong to professional organizations such as the North Carolina chapter of the Plumbing, Heating, Cooling Contractors Association (PHCC) or the North Carolina Plumbing Inspectors Association.
How Plumbing Affects the Value of a Home
Upgrading the plumbing in a home won't necessarily increase its value. However, homes in need of plumbing upgrades lose approximately 20 percent of their value if the upgrades are left undone when the home is put on the market. Additionally, homes with plumbing problems typically send buyers running because even small leaks can lead to catastrophic damage, including structural problems due to rot. Over time, leaks create a moist environment ideal for mold, which can leave a home uninhabitable.
To maximize the appeal of their houses, Charlotte homeowners maintain their plumbing systems, address problems promptly, and upgrade fixtures to give kitchens and bathrooms a fresh look. Similarly, many locals upgrade to high-efficiency plumbing such as low-flow toilets, showerheads, and water heaters to save on utility bills and maximize the home's appeal to buyers, particularly in older homes.
Prominent Charlotte Neighborhoods and Suburbs
From the historic charm of Eastover and fixer-uppers in Selwyn Park to the upscale homes in Foxcroft and Wesley Chapel, the city of Charlotte houses a variety of neighborhoods and suburbs, each with their own unique appeal. For example, the small-town feel, beautiful yards, and great schools in the suburb of Stallings appeal to families with young children, while the apartments and city-center location of Downtown's First Ward neighborhood typically appeal to singles and young professionals who want to be near all of Charlotte's entertainment options. Some of the city's most prominent neighborhoods and suburbs include the following:
- The Arts District: The vibrant, eclectic feel of the Arts District appeals to everyone from artists and musicians to young professionals and hipsters who enjoy the live music that plays nearly every night. Known as NoDa by locals, this neighborhood offers a mixture of fixer-uppers and new construction.
- Center City: From sleek, modern condos to older and more affordable single-family homes, the 11,000+ residents of Center City have a diverse mix of housing options. Restaurants, shops, bars, and clubs keep the entertainment options varied, while live theaters and museums infuse the neighborhood with culture.
- Midwood: Known as Plaza Midwood by most of the locals, this charming neighborhood mainly features quaint bungalows, many of which are renovated to retrofit their plumbing lines, while others require some keen attention and care to maintain their historic appeal and original finishes.
- Ballantyne: Ballantyne is one of the only Charlotte suburbs located within the city limits. Just 20 minutes from downtown, this family-friendly neighborhood features newer single-family homes, stellar schools, shopping, restaurants, and plenty of parks with green space, walking trails, and sports fields.
- Belmont: Just 14 miles from downtown, this sleepy suburb features a mix of nicely maintained older homes and new construction. Amenities include the eight-acre Stowe Park, summer concerts, water activities on Lake Wylie and nearby rivers, and a family-friendly vibe.
Some of the more common plumbing issues in the city and nearby suburbs depend on the age of the home and types of surroundings. Tree-lined streets are charming, but the roots of those trees can often cause drain line breakage. Older homes in areas like Belmont and Eastover may need to be retrofitted for new fixtures and high-efficiency plumbing, while residents living in newer homes in Ballantyne often need a plumber's help to install a new tub, shower, faucet, or toilet during a remodel.
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RE: Completed Installation of Historic Plaque at The Chattel Shop/Phyllis' Hairworks
TOCCOA, GA – On Thursday, January 5, 2017, The Chattel Shop/Phyllis' Hairworks received the third historic plaque in the 2016-2017 series of plaques dedicated to downtown buildings. The ceremony took place at 5:00 p.m. in front of The Chattel Shop to celebrate the history of McCurry's Men's Shop.
A classic sight in Historic Downtown Toccoa, McCurry's Men's Shop was founded by Mr. Carl McCurry as a retail location designed to provide casual, formal, and professional wear to men of all ages. The building which housed McCurry's Men's Shop was originally constructed around the year 1900, making it one of the older buildings in Downtown Toccoa.
Currently, the building that housed McCurry's Men's Shop is now owned by Phyllis Skelton and is home to her business, Phyllis' Hairworks, a successful downtown women's hair salon, as well as Gail's Infinity Hair Salon, and The Chattel Shop.
The ceremony was brief and memorable, with a large crowd drawing from family members and friends, the Toccoa Historic Preservation Commission, ER Committee, Promotions Committee, downtown business practitioners, community members, and Main Street staff. Many anecdotes were told regarding the history of the building and the legacy of Mr. Carl McCurry himself.
The next historic plaque will be presented at Sherwin-Williams, honoring the legacy of Sherwin-Williams, on February 2, 2017 at 5 p.m.
For further questions, please contact Christian Hamilton at the Main Street Office in City Hall at 706.898.5777.


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UK stores suffered another blow in March as the 'beast from the east' contributed to the heaviest year-on-year drop in footfall since records began a decade ago.
The number of people entering non-food outlets fell by -11.5% last month compared to the same period last year. As blizzards and heavy snow continued to grip the country during the first week of March, retailers experienced nearly a -29% decline in footfall against the same week in 2017.
The figures, from Ipsos Retail Performance, show that footfall has now fallen for the eleventh consecutive month. Worst hit was South East England and London, which saw a -15.5% drop, followed by Scotland and Northern Ireland with -13.4% and The Midlands at -12.3%.
Ipsos Retail Performance, the global retail and footfall consultant, compiles the Retail Traffic Index (RTI), which is derived from the number of individual shoppers entering over 4,000 non-food retail stores across the UK.
Despite falling in March, Easter footfall also failed to deliver, with every region across the country performing badly compared to last year. Nationally, store visits fell by -6.4%, although Yorkshire and Humberside and the North West saw the most dramatic declines of -10.5% and -8.8% respectively. The Midlands, however, fared better with a relatively modest fall of -2.2%.
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Basic Security Techniques Really Work
With the building wave of IoT products, services and media coverage, it's no surprise that IoT security continues to make headlines. Some of the headlines are positive – companies announcing security solutions or standards groups beginning to address security issues; while others are negative – stories of IoT systems being hacked or of IoT device vulnerabilities.
One message that is often lost in the noise is that there are solutions to IoT security, even for the smallest of IoT devices. Security, in many ways, is an arms race; security vendors continue to develop better security solutions while the black hats continue to discover new vulnerabilities. On the other hand, the vast majority of security vulnerabilities in IoT devices are the result of manufacturers failing to include basic security in their products.
Design vulnerabilities are weaknesses that result from a failure to include proper security measures when developing the device, and are the focus here. Examples of design vulnerabilities that have resulted in security breaches include use of hard-coded passwords, control interfaces with no user authentication, and use of communication protocols that send passwords and other sensitive information in the clear. Other, less glaring examples include devices without secure boot or that allow unauthenticated remote firmware updates.
Security capabilities
Adding a few basic security capabilities can make IoT devices dramatically more secure and greatly reduce the risk of falling victim to a cyber-attack. These capabilities are:
• Secure boot
• Secure remote firmware update
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• User authentication
Secure boot utilizes cryptographic code signing techniques to ensure the device only executes code that was produced by the device OEM or other trusted party. Use of secure boot technology prevents hackers from replacing the firmware with malicious versions, thereby blocking a wide range of attacks.
Secure firmware updates ensure that device firmware can be updated, but only with firmware from the device OEM or other trusted party. Like secure boot, secure firmware update ensures the device is always running trusted code and blocks any attacks attempting to exploit the device's firmware update process.
Utilization of security protocols such as TLS, DTLS, and IPSec adds authentication and data-in-motion protection to IoT devices. By eliminating sending data in the clear, it is much more difficult for hackers to eavesdrop on communications and discover passwords, device configuration or other sensitive information.
Security protocols provide protection for data while it is being transmitted across networks, but do not protect the data while it is stored on the device. Large data breaches have resulted from data recovered from stolen or discarded equipment. Encryption of all sensitive data stored on the device provides protection should the device be discarded, stolen or accessed by an unauthorized party.
Weak or non-existent user authentication has resulted in several high-profile device vulnerabilities including FDA reported medical devices with hard-coded passwords. A strong user authentication method is a clear requirement for device security.
Security is a requirement for all IoT devices, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant. By adding a few basic capabilities, the security of any device can be significantly increased. Solutions, including Icon Labs Floodgate Security Framework, exist and are tailored for use in very resource limited IoT devices. These solutions are effective in blocking cyber-attacks. Strong passwords, basic authentication and ensuring the device is running authentic code go a long way to protect IoT devices from cyber-threats.
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Rudy Giuliani is looking more and more each day like he should be the U.S. Attorney General, and no Jeff "Do Nothing Pertinent" Sessions should have remained in office to avoid the election debacle in his abandoned seat.
While on Fox News recently, the former NY Mayor and Federal Prosecutor said If we ever get Comey into court, "We'd rip him apart."
The conversation goes on, and Giuliani makes it quite clear that something is amiss, and it needs to be dealt with swiftly. (See video below)
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DOOCY: "Let's talk a little bit about something else. James Comey, former FBI director. You are at loggerheads with him. Didn't you hire him at some point?"
GIULIANI: "Did you have to say that? The president keeps saying that, didn't you inflict this guy on us to begin with?"
DOOCY: "But you were saying he was a liar and essentially a terrible person." [crosstalk]
GIULIANI: "He — a lot but a terrible person I think is he a liar. I mean, he — oh let's say he lied. McCabe would tell you he lied. He's number two guy."
EARHARDT: "But it was proven McCabe lied. Four times, three times under oath."
GIULIANI: "Right, and he lied three or four times. And also refuse to clear to say the president wasn't a target when, in fact, he had done that to Hillary Clinton, completely botched the Clinton investigation. There is nobody that doesn't think he — his handling that was disgraceful. Clinton investigation. Now how he can be put up as a model of credibility, I mean, they are dreaming, they think if he ever get in court we would rip him apart."
KILMEADE: "So the one thing is, with McCabe has said is, I told Comey I'm going to talk to the 'Wall Street Journal' and tell the story. And they say they do that. And Comey says he's never told me anything. So McCabe and Comey are at loggerheads now. That's what this is —" [crosstalk]
GIULIANI: "So I'm going to bet on that one McCabe is telling the truth. Why wouldn't he go to his boss who is the leaker-in—chief."
DOOCY: "Right."
GIULIANI: "Right. Another — illegal by the way. I contend the only crimes committed so far in this investigation are the ones they committed. The government committed. Comey leaked no to get a special prosecutor. Why wouldn't McCabe go to him and say —"
KILMEADE: "What did the president say —"
GIULIANI: "— can I do what did you, boss? Can I leak too, illegally and unethically." (Transcript via Grabien)
In another interview where he made it clear there was no basis for the continuation of the Mueller's Russia investigation, Giuliani remarked that Comey was once a fine man, but isn't anymore.
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