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|A little packed lunch for me. Tea and couscous.
|The colour is so rich and vibrant it sent my camera funny
|A little packed lunch for me. Tea and couscous.
|The colour is so rich and vibrant it sent my camera funny
How bizarre!
I, too have got a new bike recently- mine is pale biue with a basket on the front.
(Grrrrrrr, except, once I'd bought the bike they told me the lovely wicker basket wouldn't fit on the front, so I've had to settle for something more modern- am planning to cover it in a gorgeous crochet cover soon!)
And I am sooooooo envious that you have Fanny Adams!
Actually, the Mister is probably very relieved that I don't have a Fanny Adams near us.
What a lovely, lovely shop!
Have a super-dooper week.
Wow! What a lot is going on in your life! Love the bike and the carriage! I hope the garden fills you with hope even if not delight!
I most of all send you and your family all the best wishes in the world as your son steps into his new school. I hope he soon catches up but most importantly learns he is special because he is unique.
Kindest Regards Linda
What a lovely bike - now we just need the right sort of bike riding weather! Really enjoyed reading your blog it felt like talking to you! Beautiful photos as always! My garden looks like a green jungle after all the rain - I have some beautiful gig red ladybird poppies which I love with huge buds on them that look rather like triffids! Have a lovely week. Jo xReplyDelete
Love your gorgeous new bike, what a lovely colour!
Hope its not gall bladder you have. I had that a few months after my eldest was born. Thought I was dying the first time it flared up. I did have the op after about 10 months. It was a testing time for all of us! I was one drugged up mummy for a while. (dont worry I was lucky and had good family support that looked after me and my little lovely)
Love the plants you have in your garden so pretty. Ours has been a struggle this year. Too much rain, slugs/snails and bugs!very slow growing!
Take care.
P x
Cosmos.....big pink or White flowers, grow quickly and seem to chunk out although the leaves are spidery....I am no gardener, I am quite a lot like you in that I desperately like to be better, but I find it totally overwhelming and all gets on top of me......however sometimes when I think to be less harsh on myself, I spot some lovely spots or individual flowers (I just have to block out the crap bits)
Fab shop, I can see why it's dangerous!
I feel for you n the school front but you know, when you know that this is all about the future not the here and now, the travel and hassle becomes easier. I do a ridiculous amount of car time as my boys don't go to the local school, but I KNOW its the best for my kids future, I no longer pressure myself to fit more in the day, as I just can't anymore with school runs, make it simple.
Good on you for cycling, when I got back in a bike after years off, every time I saw someone I fell off....normally in the brambles, I was covered in scratches and bruises! I have improved a little ;-)
I'm rambling....nice to read your rambling!
Lush post. What looks good in my garden? Ummmmmmmmm..........me and the kids scoffing ice creams!!!! Whatever the weather. The birds! Yeah, they look nice. But not the gimpy fox with the limpy leg. Who I call Samantha. The fox I mean, not the leg.
Ummmmm I am slighly delirious with a mad rush load of work so I am heading off but really enjoyed reading this post. Mini looks lush! I love those pull along bike things (carriage????) but was always too scared to get one as knew I'd get the fear using it on roads.
See you a week on Sat. Pray for the weather. Per-aay.
x x
aw I miss you even more after reading that!!! too much to comment on so I'm just going to add 2 words
fee x
ps need to lick your tongue. Would like to lose half a stone pre hols!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Fee, I like the way you're thinking. I could do with a bout of something non-life-threatening pre-France next month. Let's see what we can come up with. Maybe a group snog with Cuckoo?Delete
So pleased you've done another blog post. Enjoyed reading that I did. I'm learning with the garden at the moment and stealing all of B's ideas. The thing is, I'm not too bothered about my garden looking nice -I'm happy with some overgrown bushes and a nice neat lawn, I just want an abundance of gorgeous flowers that I can pick and pop in vintage jugs all around the house. I'm starting properly from Autumn as have left it a bit late now for flowers this summer. I think Alliums are up and about around that time of year and they are beautiful! That's all I can offer, soz.
Hi Cuckoo, great to catch up with your news. I'm so happy the poppies have grown :0)
I have some coming up that may be those you sent me...I'll let you know when they flower.
Your bike looks a bit like mine, I love riding in a skirt or dress on a hot day... need to get mine a nice basket like yours .
Jacquie x
Oh where to start? What a bloomin fabulous post hon!!! The photo of your wee one getting new shoes was just a walk down memory lane for me. My son is 8 now, but I took him to that exact same shop for his first pair of shoes - amazing! They were totally inappropriate - I fell for these gorgeous retro black patent leather ones (they sure did look fab), so ended up also getting some more practical shoes at NEXT. Bad Mum! Love, love, love your new bike - it is sooo pretty! Oh how I miss Leigh Woods - used to drive through it every morning at dawn on my to work in Bristol. Thanks for sharing your big sons story. My son is special needs too and it is always a challenge, trying to do the best thing for him. Gosh, sorry I am rambling on here like a nutcase, lol, but could 'chat' to you for ages. So sorry to hear you've been feeling so rotten. I hope things improve soon. Its not fair - your in the middle of summer and should be having lovely times. Take care hon. Becks xxxReplyDelete
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pictures are awesomee really
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Hey Cuckoo what a lovely post.......
Mini is looking cute as.....I have a crush on Lou Lou, she's gorgeous, well done on getting out into the wide blue yonder with the boys. Fanny Adams, what a wonderful shop, love your dress and hat....
The flowers are stunning, love Poppies. My suggestion for something hardy and easy to grow are Zinnias.....Beautiful, bright colours, they self seed. Great for cutting bunches to bring indoors or give away......
That thermos mug is beautiful, love it. Will make school runs easier to do when it's full of tea.....
Wishing you some blue sky and sunshine, soon,
CLaire x
Oehoeee what a lovely bike! I want one too, if only to ride to the dairy. Took a spin on my husband's huge mountain bike in the park the other day - no pedals, just those click things - it's a miracle I could complete one lap round the park :-DReplyDelete
What a gorgeous, gorgeous post hon. I have to start with your bike - it's the prettiest bike I've ever seen. The rest of my family all have bikes and I recently told hubby that "I would get one too but only if it was pretty and had a basket, and could be ridden with ridiculous good posture like the olden days". So I can't wait to show him your bike this evening! I can just imagine you whizzing around the garden on it - looking fabulously gorgeous!!
I hope your new school arrangement ticks all the boxes even if it is a bit more of a trek to get there. I'm sure it will be well worth it ay. And now you've got your flash thermos mug - you're good to go!
I am so glad I don't have a store like Fanny Adams near me - I'd be broke in no time. And madam, you look amazing in your dress!
Sorry I can't offer any gardening advice. I too am totally pants at gardening (I totally love that word - pants, pants, pants!!!). I do everything in my power to avoid weeding until I can't ignore it any more otherwise the veges will just stop growing. Have fun!!!!!! Fingers crossed you start getting that summery weather you are owed.
Have a fab week hon,
what a fabulous post!
I'm sorry to hear you've got a bad tummy, i hope it gets better quick smart x
Ahhhh first shoes...so sweet
LOVE your bike and extra wheels, especially the basket....just think of all the stashes that can be nestled in there?!
Well done on the gardening and i'm with Claire...zinnias are gorgeous, although they are annuals so you have to plant them each year, lupins are very pretty too and will come up every year!
enjoy the rest of your week
love jooles x
Foxgloves!!! They self seed and are big and bold and gorgeous! :)
I have bike envy, it is beautiful Cuckoo, I love it!
Hope that tummy heals soon.
Vivienne x
Oh, I do so like your rambling long posts. I don't blame you at all for not cycling on the roads - I do and it never ceases to amaze me the disregard people have for cyclists. I am RUBBISH at gardening, no inclination to do it what-so-ever. Having said that, aquilegia are nice and they self-seed. Hope your tummy troubles are cured soon.
I love your bike! Well done for all your gardening efforts! It is hard work isn't it. I'm sure it will be worth it though. Rachel xReplyDelete
Ah fab post! I really like reading more behind the Instagram pics! I bloody love Instagram though it is terrible for encouraging procrastination!! Sorry to hear you're still suffering from tummy problems. Have you tried Optibac sachets? They are about £8 to £9 in Superdrug or Health Shops. You get a weeks supply in a box, you take one sachet a morning before food and I swear by them! They are bloody brilliant at putting all the right probiotics back into your tummy and have far more of what you need than a couple of probiotic yoghurt's. Acidophilus tablets are also really good as a maintenance afterwards. I can' recommend Optiobac sachets enough though...I use the pink box. After a really bad bout of IBS they really sorted me out :) love love your bike! I have a black sit up & beg bike but not a proper wicker basket....I soooo need a proper wicker basket to decorate and play with!!! I'm sure once you all get settled into a new school run routine things will feel ok. The thought of having to do something is always so much worse than actually doing it. Have you tried doing a dummy run there yet at the time you will be having to leave? Might help to put your mind to rest and settle that tummy at the same time!!! Hope you feel better soon x Take care x
Love & hugs,
Jo x x
Oh, I love your bike - I want one! I hope your tummy settles soon and you can stop dashing to the loo every morning! Mini looks so cute in his big boy shoes - he looks so chuffed with himself! I hope the school moves go well and that you all quickly settle into your new routine/schools. I'd suggest having snacks in the car for the way home though! And maybe some 'we're in the car and we're going home, let's have some quiet time' stickers or books, etc. for the really tired/whingy days!
As for the garden (self-seeding) aquilegia look great at the moment as do geraniums, thrift, saxifrage, astrantia and scabious. It's dying off now but my bleeding heart was looking fabulous a few weeks ago, as was the aubretia. I'm not a natural gardener, plants in my garden have to thrive on neglect so none of these are hard to look after!
Take care x
wow, it has been quite weird reading your post. Many of the things you mention I have wrestled with too. Summer-hate (just trying to overcome it), garden-hate (so OUTDOORS), Christmas has surely just finished and yet we are now (tomorrow) in the last half of the year.... and I insisted on a basket with my bike - old biddy taunts notwithstanding, I will NOT cycle with a rucksack like a lesbo. (sorry if you do that). Anyhoo, you could home-teach your boy, you seem like a bright chick.....xReplyDelete
HOw nice to read a blog post from you. I've been coverting that same bike for a while as my dream is to ride a bike with a vintage flower dress and cardigan along a country lane from my cottage to the village to buy bread, milk and butter to go home and bake a cake.......
Loving the thermos cup and your tupperware? any idea where your friend purchased said cup from?
Looking forward to your next post already.
ooh I do love your bike! I can't believe how much Mini has grown, he's such a scrumptious little boy though, looks so proud to be getting his first shoes.
I hope your tummy gets better soon ... no ideas for the garden I'm afraid as mine is a rectangle of concrete with two dustbins in it. sorry!
xxxxx Heather
Just a heads up, when I finally get my act together and manage to book a flight over (unless u want to use your contacts and get me a freebie), to steal your cowl, and whatever pother assorted things of yours I have coveted, I also plan on stealing that unbelievably beautiful bike!!! It is the happiest looking bike I have ever seen!!
Good news about the new school, sucks about the drive, I have to at times do an hour and a half round trip, driving to school, uni and kindegarten!! It's lucky I'm fond of them all!!
*other* not pother. I am not sure what a pother is, actuallyReplyDelete
Hope your tummy gets better soon! Garden wise, I've heard self seedings flowers are fab as they come back each year and are low maintenance. Poppys and Cosmos are pretty good.
Love the bike! I'd love to ride my bike more often but there aren't many places around here that are safe to ride (am way too scared to ride it in the road!)
Gemma xXx
What a great post! Thank you so much. I wish Big much success and happiness at his new school and hope that the school run won't be too bad. Love the bike also. Re tummy: why not try probiotic capsules from Healthspan? Much cheaper and more convenient than those silly sugary drinks, and they seem to work well. They won't do anything for gallstones, mind, but they are worth a try for you :-). And I am very sorry/glad that I live nowhere near Fanny Adams... JillReplyDelete
It really is amazing just how time seems to be flying these days. I cannot believe we nearing the end of June.
Like you, I think i'm sick of the disappointment that Summer seems to bring. These past few years have been a big let down weather wise. We all start off with high hopes of things to do, but we never seem to get to be able to do them. I hate coming into Autumn thinking that we never really got to have a Summer. Oh well, it is how it is.
Love your bike. I would love one, but know I would never really use it, certainly not in the area that we currently live in. It's too hilly. I loved Lou Lou perfume too when I was a kid. I thought it was dead grown up. I used to splosh it all over me and REALLY stink! Ah, those were the good old days!
I hope that your school routine will be okay in September. A bit sucky, but if it gets the best for the boys then it's just something that you have to do.
I wish I had green fingers too. It's something I would love to invest more time in. Just at the moment it is tough, and I just have the death touch. Can't be good at everything I guess. It's way down on the list, but one day, i'll try and put in some effort to being a better gardener.
Love Mr C's socks in the making! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I love your new bike - I have just bought a very traditional British made trike from money given by my Great Grandmother. I am yet to find a basket for it - it has a carrying shelf at the back too so I am thinking picnic hamper with red and white gingham....I am too scared to ride a bike and so I have given up pushing myself through the terror of it. My son finds this highly amusing. On the garden front I am experiencing the same as you. Too much work, too much not growing or getting battered by the wind. Its demoralising especially as we are moving this year and it was a last ditched attempt to make the garden nice for when I sell the house. Lily. xxxReplyDelete
What a gorgeous bike, I think I could do with one, if only to get me safely through all the lake-size puddles the I'm having to wade through this summer...........sorry not very helpful on the gardening front, although if my garden becomes any more water logged I'm thinking of turning it into a paddy field and planting rice.
Great blog.
What a fabulous post!!! I really enjoyed sitting back with a cuppa and having a good read about what you've been up to!
I love your bike!!! If we HAVE to do sporty things, at least we should be able to have pretty colours involved!!! I keep trying to persuade Simon to get one of those chariot-thingies to pull me along in..... But he's not having it!!! Grrrrr!!!
Get Dahlias, dahlias and dahlias. I got cheap tubers from Wilko, old tubers split from friends, seed packet ones - they've all grown and I am a crap novice. They are bright, vulgar and blowsey - and you can cut them. And, they come back next year - hopefully!!!!ReplyDelete
Dahlias and more. I have bought cheap ones from Wilko, had some old tubers split from friends, sown seeds and they have all grown, and I am a fairly crap novice gardener. They are big, bright, blowsy and vulgar, but lovely. I have one a planted 2 months ago and it has 14 huge bright pink flowers heads on - will be flowers when (if) we get some sunshine. They can also be left in the ground or next year. What could possibly be easier? Nowt. PS - Where can I get a thermos cup with flowers on??? Love it - want it!ReplyDelete
Hi Cuckoo, just me again...letting you know some of your poppies have flowered :0) There's a pick on todays post .
Jacquie xxx
I have been a little absent from blogland, mainly on reading other blogs - i used to do it everyday....but now i am sooo addicted to instagram!!!!! its taking over my life ha ha!! your one of my faves xxReplyDelete
Lovely to read about what you've been up to. What a fantastic shop to live near, I wish I could go to 'Fanny Adams' it looks great!
Poppies are currently my favourite .. though I'm dreaming of the white ones at the moment.....but with all this rain they are going to be so waterlogged and droopy..shame!
Have a great week.
Fleur xx
I just love every photo in this post!
How gorgeous is your little one! Oh my :)
Sue xx
Now that is a big, juicy, newsy post. I can't believe Mini is that 'grown up' exactly where did all that time go!!!! Love the shoe line up from mini to maxi. Love the bike and I can just imagine the chuckling going on in the buggy. How is it attached to your bike? (which is gorgeous) My ex threw my bike away when we seperated (poopie head) The poppies are devine, wish I could grow them successfully, I am sure your climate is much more conducive to flower growing then ours. I fall back on the good old geraniums, you can get a variety of different ones so it isn't boring and they make a lovely vase of cut flowers. LOVE your fanny adams dress, I could see me in that, but not the hat, my head is too small and I look quite strange in hats, can't even wear a beanie so I just have to put up with a cold head in winter.
Some good news and not so about your tum, don't ignore that pain for too long Mrs.
xoxo Sandi
Your post has made my day - I'm not the only one who's hopeless at gardening, not at all sporty despite having a sporty family and who only wants to stay indoors prettying up the house and reading blogs!Thank you!ReplyDelete
lovely post, you look beautiful in your dress ;0)
love all the photographs- shoes lined up, yummy treats in pretty boxs and that swoonworthy bike xx
Hi Cuckoo,
Great to hear from you again! Your are a busy lady. I am terribly jealous of your new bike. It looks lovely with the wicker basket at the front :-)!
The dress looks perfect on you! Great store!
Happy new week,
Madelief x
Hi, I love your bike-is it a raleigh? I have been looking for the perfect bike and you have found it!!!!! Debby.xReplyDelete
Hello :) where do I start ? Too many nice things and then a cute dog pic...need to go back for another look. I love your little doll that you made for Lisa BB how funny that we sent them at the same time, great minds eh???
Hope alls well over there
Jane xxxxxxxx
Gosh, so many things I could comment on in this post! Yes the school thing sounds good, it's certainly made me think, sometimes you need to make a change. Love the bike! and yes I also have a big garden and feel overwhelmed during the summer particularly, it just won't stop growing. I would rather be on the computer or making things too! I just try and mow and weed a bit and hope some seeds may grow, but it's not looking so hopefull on the seeds. Today I also happened to be driving across the countryside and called in Fanny Adams for a coffee. Nice place, I like that they will let me bring my dog in! Lots of things I could have brought but I was amazingly good today, probably because I had just spent lots of money at the vets! By the way, where did your friend get the mug from? HeatherReplyDelete
What a gorgeous bike I have a serious case of the wanties, the envies and all that :O) I have been lusting after one for ages - so much so that I have a picture of one on my vision board. Alas I have a perfectly good bike but it's a mountain bike and so clunky in comparison. It will have to do for now.
I defo recommend lupins for your garden - ridiculously RIDICULOUSLY easy to grow. I grew them from seed last year and they plummeted up this year - after being buried in snow for months and then drowned with an Irish summer. I also think cosmos, foxgloves, cornflower are super easy to grow and keep too.
Good luck!
Love your sweet blog...I have a blue bike just like yours...must get her out for a spin...and fill her basket with pretty flowers..it has been much too long. The rain has finally gone...sun today...off I go. Happy day to you.ReplyDelete
Love the bicycle. I too just did up a vinatge bike and I LOVE it my little princess sits in her seat on the back and we now go most places on the bike. I love love love it. Yours such a pretty blue I love her name I haven't named mine but you sure have inspired me. Love all your other bits and bobs you have been one busy lady.ReplyDelete
Oh how I envy you your fabulous new bicycle! I've been pining after a BEG or a Pashley - but now that I know they sell such a delightful version in Halfords, i shall skip on over and take a good look!
Lovely blog - love your sense of style - delighted to have found you and am now a happy follower!
Paula xxx
Gosh where to start...
The chariot, love it. Particularly since being pulled by such a girls bike. However I too would be too scared for roads, I am too scared trusting myself on a road never mind pulling my child. Nice flat countryside though, wee picnic in that basket, now you're talking.
And how do you live near such gorgeous shops? I love the name Fanny, thinking the connotations are too strong for a girls name but gonna run it past g Kisby none the less.
Lovely to be back reading your blog,
Nelly x
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I love your post and your photos of Fanny's. Did you know that Jane is speaking at our King's Daughters Conference this year? I would love you to come along - it would be lovely to see you :) Here is the info: www.kingsdaughtersconference.co.ukReplyDelete
I love your post and your photos of Fanny's. Did you know that Jane is speaking at our King's Daughters Conference this year? I would love you to come along - it would be lovely to see you :) Here is the info: www.kingsdaughtersconference.co.ukReplyDelete
I L♡VE your comments. Thank you ever so for taking the time. I do try to get back to everyone but I am rather scatty and I have these 3 big distractions....(and I'm just generally a bit rubbish lately, so please don't feel obliged to leave a note) Sorry about the word verification too, too much spam.


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The local mid-century retro shop had a couple of these giant ice containers with minor scratches and chips. The swivel tops are quite a precision thing, probably beyond my capability.
How is that for honesty. Standard stock acrylic sheet only goes up to 4" thick. These are originally machined from a custom casting. So unique, they are not a cheap item, costing hundreds of dollars. I don't think they are manufactured anymore, these come from the high end acrylic heyday of the past. But there is a definite revival of acrylic furnishings.
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In France, two laws—known in English as the "Finance Law for 2017" and the "Rectified Finance Law for 2016"—and their tax-related measures were finalized on publication in the official gazette, 30 December 2016.
Publication of the laws followed completion of the legislative process and came after the laws were submitted to the French Constitutional Court (Conseil Constitutionnel) which found certain provisions were not constitutional.
The standard corporate income tax rate (currently 33.33%) is decreased, in phases over a period of years, to 28%. The schedule for the phase-in of the new corporate income tax rate is, as follows:
The 10.7% "tax surcharge" that applies with respect to the corporate income tax of French companies or French tax group with revenues exceeding €250 million will no longer apply for financial years closed as from 31 December 2016. The "tax surcharge" was not extended by the Finance Law.
The 3.3% "tax surcharge" that applies to companies that have a corporate income tax liability exceeding €763,000 and that is assessed on the portion of the corporate income tax in excess of €763,000 remains unchanged.
Tax professionals with Fidal* have noted that the maximum rate of corporate income tax for all corporations will decrease from the current rate of roughly 38% to 28.92% as of 1 January 2020—this reflects the phased-in reduction of the rate of the corporate income tax to 28%; non-renewal of the 10.7% tax surcharge; and continuation of the 3.3% tax surcharge.
Companies with revenue in excess of €250 million must pay their corporate income tax liability in four installments, over the course of the year. Currently, the amount of the fourth and final installment is equal to the difference between: (1) 75%, 85% or 95% (depending on the amount of revenues of the companies) of the estimated corporate tax liability for the current year; and (2) the amount of installments already remitted.
The new law replaces and increases the percentages of 75%, 85% or 95% with 80%, 90% or 98%, respectively. The aim is to accelerate remittances of corporate income tax due by the largest companies.
Software acquired by companies and booked as a fixed asset previously could be depreciated over a 12-month period. This 12-month depreciation schedule is not available for software acquired during financial years opened as from 1 January 2017.
The CICE—crédit d'impôt pour la compétivité et l'emploi—is a tax credit that can be set off against the company's tax liability for the year during which the related salaries were paid. Any excess of the CICE can be carried forward three years, and any unused credit amount is then refundable.
Before the legislative changes, the CICE or credit previously was equal to 6% of the amount of salaries paid to employees up to a monthly individual amount of 2.5 times the minimum gross salary or roughly €3,650.
The amount of the CICE credit has been increased by the Finance Law of 2017 to 7% of the amount of salaries paid as from 1 January 2017.
The "impatriate" regime, to encourage foreign investments and relocations in France, basically provides an exemption from income tax on the additional compensation paid or granted to executives moving to France and also an exemption from imposition of the wealth tax on foreign assets.
The Finance Law of 2017 provides that period during which impatriates can benefit from the specific favorable regime is extended until 31 December of the eighth year (8th year), instead of the fifth year as originally proposed, following the beginning of their business operations and functions in France.
Also, the payroll tax imposed on certain taxpayers (including banks and insurance companies) that are not fully subject to value added tax (VAT) and that is assessed on the compensation paid to employees will not apply with respect to the additional compensation paid to executives relocating and moving to France.
Tax professionals with Fidal* have pointed out that the aim of this measure is focused on attracting top executives of the financial services industry to relocate to France, following the Brexit vote in 2016.
The law establishes a withholding tax system that generally is similar to a "pay as you earn" (PAYE) system in other countries. The French system is effective beginning 1 January 2018, and it will apply to compensation and pensions.
A favorable regime applicable to the granting of "free shares" (RSUs)—as introduced in 2015 by the legislation known as the "Macron Act"—has been modified by the Finance Law. The changes are viewed as not being taxpayer-favorable, and include measures such as:
These modifications will apply to the tax treatment of grants of "free shares" made pursuant to a decision of the shareholders' meeting after 30 December 2016.
The scope of the tax on financial transactions has been extended to apply to intra-day transactions. Also, the rate of the financial transactions tax is increased to 0.3% (up from 0.2%).
An anti-abuse clause is provided to address certain schemes used by individual taxpayers to reduce their liability for the wealth tax.
The French Constitutional Court held as unconstitutional the proposed treatment of the territoriality system for corporate income tax purposes. This has been referred to as the "tax on diverted profits" or as the "Google tax."
In general, the diverted profits tax was largely inspired by the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) recommendations on permanent establishments. As codified by article 209C of the French tax law, the measures would have permitted the French tax authorities to assess corporate income tax, in France, on amounts realized by the entities established outside France when those entities realized in France income from the sales of goods or services through entities that could not be qualified as permanent establishments of the foreign enterprises (subject, of course, to the provisions of relevant income tax treaties). The entity liable for the tax would have been the foreign enterprise. Read TaxNewsFlash-Europe
The Constitutional Court concluded that this provision would have permitted to the French tax authorities to determine who would be liable to corporate tax in France—a competence that exclusively belongs to the legislature. Thus, it was concluded that this provision was unconstitutional—and the measure was removed from the enacted Finance Law.
The French Parliament broadened the scope for application of the exemption from the 3% tax on distributions. Previously, the exemption from the 3% tax on distributions was limited to the distributions made within French tax groups.
The rectified Finance Law provides that the exemption from the 3% tax on distributions is extended to distributions made from French companies to foreign companies subject to corporate tax and that hold, directly or indirectly, at least 95% of the share capital of the French distributing company. This exemption applies to distributions made as from 1 January 2017.
Parent companies established in "non-cooperative" countries will not benefit from this exemption unless they can demonstrate that the location of the parent company was not mostly driven by tax reasons. Read more in TaxNewsFlash-Europe
Entities subject to corporate income tax are entitled (in addition to regular or standard depreciation) to an exceptional depreciation deduction. The additional or bonus depreciation deduction is equal to 40% of the original cost of fixed assets that are eligible for depreciation under the double-declining balance when the fixed assets are acquired or manufactured during a two-year period, beginning 15 April 2015 and ending 14 April 2017.
The rectified Finance Law for 2017 provides that this additional deduction will also apply to the qualifying assets ordered before 15 April 2017 provided that: (1) at least 10% of the total amount of the order has been settled prior to this date; and (2) the assets are actually acquired within two years following the date of the order.
Following a decision of the French Constitutional Court in July 2016, the benefit of the participation exemption regime on dividends received from subsidiaries is extended to instances when the rights owned (that must represent a participation of at least 5% of the capital) by the recipient in its subsidiary are not voting rights. However, the benefit of a "quasi exemption" from capital gain taxation (effectively resulting in taxation of of the gain only at a rate of 12%) that applies with respect to sales of qualifying participations held for more than two years still requires that the disposing company own at least 5% of the voting rights in its subsidiary.
A new kind of account—an account for SME innovation or "CPI"—is available for individuals who having their tax domicile in France. Managers or minority individual shareholders may take advantage of this new kind of account, with respect to shares of companies they create or in which they have invested (during the start-up phase) when the individuals sell the shares and reinvest the proceeds of the sale directly or via funds in new small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Taxation of the gains realized on such sales will, in the case of reinvestments, be deferred until the date when the funds resulting from the sale (or from successive buy/resale transactions) are not reinvested in qualifying "young" companies.
However the social contributions or levies due on gains are still due at the time when the gain is realized—even when the proceeds are reinvested in qualifying young companies. Also, any dividends received from the participations during the eligible period(s) will also be immediately subject to tax and social contribution levies.
For more information, contact a tax professional with Fidal* in France or with KPMG in the United States:
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
We Bought a House!
When I say that this purchase was the culmination of all my hopes and dreams, I am only mildly exaggerating. Welcome to Gray Barns.
It has everything we could have asked for in a place: a name and some history, plenty of space for entertaining inside and out, and an in-law apartment we can rent out for a little extra money. Getting here felt like it took ages, because I have dreamed of owning a home since I was a little girl touring the Newport mansions and because started saving for a house down payment in 2010, long before I had any idea where that home would be.
But then, like all good things I suppose, it happened so quickly my head was spinning, and on May 19th, we closed and embarked on what's probably the biggest project either of us has ever taken on. We're fixing her up slowly, slowly, and documenting the process (along with some of the fun artifacts we're finding along the way, on Instagram.
It will take years until everything is really finished, but we're excited for the journey and to customize everything just so. Because of this, I wasn't really able to feel like we actually live here, and like we're not just staying for a while until something else comes along. But driving home last night, listening to the Beatles and looking out over the country roads I now drive everyday, something clicked and I'm feeling really at peace with things. It's a good feeling.
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Sunday, October 16, 2016
The Attempted Murder of Morality
Certainly US politics is giving us the most distilled version of this breakdown. The heinousness of an action is now to be determined by political affiliation. It is born out of a willingness to push ahead thoroughly deficient candidates because our side must win. The willingness to surrender core moral values to further the promise of the pursuit of other moral values drives this way of thinking. "I know my candidate is an amoral or immoral individual here, here, and here...but I will overlook this because he/she promised to do this, this , and this. Furthermore I will defend the candidate and attack those who point out these failings as traitors to the 'cause' I am for." Point out the deficiencies of Trump and now you're for loading the Supreme Court with satanists who will further the advance of immorality, point out the deficiencies of Clinton and you are for women and children suffering, you hate minorities, and you want people to die on the streets for want of insurance. The ad hominum attacks pile up like mounds of fetid garbage worthy of Gehenna. Don't even talk about voting third party (not exactly a parade of the moral either) and you get attacked as a traitor and blamed for the downfall of the republic. When morality gets compromised, the compromiser needs to become more shrill in their accusations. Where morality fails, conspiracy theorists dwell.
It isn't limited to politics. That it is in politics in our country means it had to exist in the people first. In our type of government we essentially elect a reflection of our collective values. The political process exposes this and forces us to confront it. If I am the type of person that excuses my own behavior yet condemns the same exact behavior in another, then I am the microcosm of what politics is in the macrocosm. Can we be surprised that in a society where we bolster self-esteem to the point where we see an exercise in humility that is honest self-reflection as the enemy, that our body politic and society as whole ends up here? If I make excuses for my own sin, will I not make excuses for my friends and allies who also sin? This, my friends, is the road to a sociopath nation. A nation that gives license to sociopath behavior will elect sociopaths to lead it.
Within the Catholic Church in the West we have seen a complete breakdown in the Sacrament of Confession. Many churches, if they offer any confession times at all, offer them at a constrictive schedule. Most priests do that because no one comes anyway. It can be a chicken/egg argument to be sure, but it representative of the problem. When preaching and teaching were reduces to 'be nice; and hell was dismissed as a bogeyman to scare people into line, it was like lacing a stick of dynamite. Be good replaced be holy. Morality was bludgeoned with 'do what your conscience tells you' without fulfilling the duty of forming the conscience with truth. This, of course, was never the official teaching of the Church, but how is was lived on the ground. That. my friends, is how the Catholic Church went from the Body of Christ in this country to a social work agency. I am not saying social work is bad, but reducing the Church to social work is like reducing God to a sugar daddy (funny how those things go hand in hand). That is why people bristle when moral issues, sin (especially the idea of mortal sin) and confession are brought up. It is why people are fine with your bringing up someone else's sin as long as you don't preach about their pet sin.
However, look at the fruits of this tree. This nation is angry. This nation is getting angrier. We become super sensitive to having our faults exposed while we become super angry at the sins of others we want exposed. That concepts of the super sensitive like 'microagression' and 'safe space' rule us is witness to the madness. It is the madness brought on by dwelling in the extremes. If we wish to pull back from the brink of anarchy, it will come with a re-grasping of morality and truth. In the Catholic Church, the two are intertwined.
We might attempt to murder morality, but we can't kill it. True morality is a matter of God's love, of living selflessly. The road to redemption, as individuals and a society, will come from coming face to face with the challenge presented by true morality. True morality moves us beyond seeing a person as an end. True morality finds the objectification of a person as reprehensible regardless of who does it. True morality shows us that an act is good or bad based on the act and not the as to whether or not the person is part of' my side'. For example: sexual assault is sexual assault regardless of the party affiliation of the person who does the assault. Murder is murder regardless of the race of the person murdered or the race of the murderer. Yes, sometimes the person does matter. Our expectations of a child are not the same as our expectations of an adult. Our expectations of a person suffering from a disease, mental disorder, and even an addiction are not the same as those who have full faculties.
That said, we must stop with defending indefensible behavior because it furthers another end. The more we do this, the lower the standards go until there are no standards left. If we expect to do this within society, it starts with each individual. We must stop trying to explain away our sins and squash shame and guilt so as to give free reign to those sins. Shame and guilt are little more than warning lights letting us know something needs to be addressed. It is one of the beauties of Confession, it gives us a place to deal with these issues and use God's grace to start again.
Wrong does not become right by public vote. A majority of citizens might vote for genocide, slavery, brutality and such. It only makes these things legal...not moral. Legal and moral do not mean the same thing. If we want want what is legal to drift further and further away from being moral, then by all means keep up excusing behavior. If we want what is legal to be what is also moral, then the excuses must end. That is the start. Justice cannot be found independent of truth. I suggest if enough people start with the conversion of the man or woman in the mirror, we might well be able to turn the country or society around. I know, like myself, the majority of people are weary of what we see. We are weary of the hypocrisy. Okay. If the surest road to hypocrisy is to excuse our own immorality, then why don't we start there...stop making excuses with ourselves and others. Demand better of yourself and you'll find you'll want better of our leaders as well. I realize we don't elect angels, but we don't have to settle for demons either.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Faith and Politics
The fact is that we bring our actual beliefs into everything we say and do. We do have a civic duty to support the good of the states and nations in which we live. Support the good. Is supporting the good in contradiction to the tenets of our faith? What do we say about our faith if we view this as true?
For decades we have accepted the fallacious argument that to keep the peace we must sacrifice beliefs in order to be fair. In doing so we cede more ground to those who are hostile to our faith. We ceded the ground on God in the public square, we ceded the ground on life issues, we ceded the ground on human sexuality, we ceded the ground on a multitude of issues to the point where we will justify and even be belligerent about supporting severely deficient moral characters to be our leaders. Yes, I understand that we elect human beings. However, that is becoming yet another excuse to hide behind the surrender of our values.
I, for one, am not willing to surrender my Catholic faith and values when I enter the voting booth or any other any venue. It has become like wandering in a desert. Because it is an act of free will, my vote is a moral act which I will be held accountable before God. For too long, when voting, it seems like I have to balance which values I will abandon to further other values. When did this become acceptable?! How did we cede so much ground that this is the choice we have to make?
Hence, we are left with being perpetually between Scylla and Charibdes. Poor choices and devilish compromises pile upon one another until there are no moral choices left to make. Choosing between the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil! Taking back the ground lost will require our not 'accepting our fate' election in and election out. Our faith must matter or it is not worth having! Our faith and its tenets can never be reduced to political expediency. Either we believe human life is sacred or we don't. Either we believe that our duty to our fellow man, regardless of his socioeconomic state, is sacred or we don't. Either we believe that the dignity and integrity of each human person is to observed or we don't. That we have gotten to the place we are now, a very dangerous place, is a direct result of the poor choices we have made up to this point. Do we double down on these choices or finally stand up, politics be damned, and reverse course?
My idea of supporting the state, or rendering unto Caesar, does not include allowing it to sink into utter madness. If it does sink into utter madness, a possibility that looks inevitable anymore, it will do so without my support or complicity. What am I supporting? A call to spiritual arms! An end to compromise! Even if I am standing on my own, then so be it. Before all things, I am a child of God. It is that definition and that alone that informs who I am and how I vote.
Monday, October 10, 2016
God Doesn't Need My Money
However, for most outside of the health and wealth evangelicals, such a grandiose lifestyle is not the rule. Truth be told, there will literally be hell to pay for those who fleece their flocks. While the grand churches are indeed beautiful, what is forgotten is the immense amount of other things done by churches in this country. Forgotten are the schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, clinics,orphanages, soup kitchens, food pantries, relief services, and such that are the only ones around in the poorest areas of the world and in the richest as well.
As a Catholic priest, I am going to speak to my experience. For those who do not know me, I am a pastor of a church with about 425 families is a rural area of Missouri. In almost twenty years of priesthood, I have been stationed in 8 parishes in 6 assignments. 5 of those parishes had parochial schools. I grew up in the lower middle class to being in poverty. I have never been assigned to parish flush with money. Every parish I have served and almost every parish I know of, including protestant churches, struggle financially. The parishioners of my churches were and are major contributors to local help agencies. My current parish give direct help to those in need. I have been insistent about this.
Why? Because of the nature of the tithe. The tithe, or thanksgiving offering/sacrifice of the Old Testament had a specific purpose. In the Old Testament, the Levites and priests were to be of 24/7 service to God and the people. They were not to own businesses or other ventures that would take them away from this service. Also, the Old Testament placed a premium on assistance to the poor and needy. The tithe was the offering for the first fruits of one's labor. that tithe was to be used by the priests and Levites for their support, for the upkeep of the temple, and to be distributed to those in need as well. The tithe was an act of thanksgiving by the person; an acknowledgement of God's blessings already present in their lives.
In the Catholic Church, the tithe serves the same purpose. Priests, for example, are not allowed to own businesses or ventures that trump their pastoral duties to God and to His people. They are to immerse themselves in ministry. Furthermore, Canon Law (Canon 282) states that clergy are to live simply. This does not mean impoverished, it means simply. Hence part of the thanksgiving offering goes to him and others who work for the parish (teachers, principals, maintenance and janitorial, secretaries, bookkeepers, and so on), none of whom make what their confreres make in the private sector. Part of the tithe goes to making sure that utilities are paid, insurance is paid, benefits are paid, and to upkeep the buildings. Numerous collections are also taken up to help the diocese do its work, to send to missionary work across the globe, to help local help agencies, and to bolster particular programs and outreach within the parish.
Globally, the Roman Catholic Church is the largest charitable organization in the world. It has been from the beginning. The concept of institutions we take for granted now: hospitals, schools, colleges and universities, and a myriad of institutions to help those in need grew out of the ministry of the Church. The Catholic Church is still the largest health care provider and educator on the planet. Yes, we have grand buildings, but we also do more to help the sick, the poor, and the needy.
It is an unfortunate truth that some churchmen have misused funds and have grown wealthy on the tithe. It is worth noting that this has been repeatedly condemned by the Church from the times of St Augustine (read his letter on Pastors), St Gregory the Great (Pastoral Care) and down through the line to our current Pope Francis. It is and always has been scandalous for a priest or bishop to fleece the flock. Truth is, though, it is rare. Most clergy try to be responsible with what is given and make many quiet sacrifices when budgets get tight. Like a good dad, they simply and quietly do without so that those placed in their care get what they need.
All this said, it is important to remember that the Church is not primarily a social work organization nor is it a business or bank. There is nothing wrong with these entities. But that is not the primary reason for the Church's existence. Archbishop Sample of Portland, Oregon reminded his flock in a pastoral letter this year that the primary purpose of the Church was the salvation of souls. Sure, teaching, health care, assistance to the poor are the activities of an an institution dedicated to the salvation of souls. However, the kerygma is to preach the Good News so as to draw people into the Body of Christ. Truth be told, how effective we are at that is facilitated or restrained by the tithe.
My job as a pastor is to be sure that the tithe is used for the purpose for which it is given. As per our teachings, we do help the poor of our parish and local area through a fund we set up that gives direct but limited assistance. The rest goes to the upkeep of our facilities, the pay and benefits of our staff, utilities and insurance, and other items needed to carry out what we do as a parish. I can assure you, there is nothing left once these things are done. I am well aware as a pastor that I will have to stand before God someday and give an accounting of what was done with the thanksgiving offering. I also will have to stand before God, as will everyone else, to give an accounting for the thanksgiving offering I made.
In closing, consider the following: thanksgiving builds relationship. This is especially true with God. He doesn't ask that the thanksgiving offering be burned up like the sin offerings. No that offering is given back to benefit His people. In Catholicism, we believe that in exchange for our thanksgiving (Eucharist comes from the Greek for thanksgiving) which is a sign of our desire to be in relationship with Him, we are given the Flesh and Blood of Christ our Lord. God will not be outdone in generosity. None of us would want a relationship with a leech; no one wants a relationship with someone who continually takes without gratitude. My dad used to reprimand us as kids when we would be thankless. He would ask why we should be given more when we were not thankful for what we had already.
The tithe isn't merely about paying the bills, it is about acknowledging God's blessings and sharing those blessings so that the work of His Church might thrive and that those in need find help. Thanksgiving is a part of a healthy relationship. Let it be a part of your relationship with your God, your parish, and your society.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Down the Rabbit Hole
Take our politics: Each side demands our outrage at the reprehensible words and actions of the other side while demanding we look away from their own reprehensible words and actions which mirror each other. The criteria for my sought after outrage? Not so much as what was done but who did it! I suppose something being venal isn't about the act itself as it is the person who does it. Makes sense, no? Well, no, it doesn't make sense. Candidate A demeans women and Candidate B, who also demeans women (just different women that candidate A) demands we castigate Candidate A. While this goes on, we are to ignore the horrible things done by the candidate we support. It gives me headache just writing this.
Truth is that a venal act is a venal act regardless of who does it. Sin doesn't become more sinful because someone I don't like or support is doing it. I know...logic. Who has time for that? However, if we just dabbled ever so lightly in the world of logic we would see the whole thing for what it is: a garish and immoral Mardi Gras float, filled with characters from a Dickens' novel. Or a Lewis Carroll novel were I to stay within the original example.
We are told that we cannot believe our eyes when it comes to gender. We are given a whole host of new pronouns to use so as to accommodate someone's self defined gender...which is not readily detectable to even a doctor giving a physical. Somehow I am to guess at which set of pronouns to use based on an ability to read minds. Sure that's possible! Oh let the taking offense begin! Why not? In a world of subjective truth, being offended is the default response. Your job is to placate me. Everybody's job is to placate me. My job is to be placated. Yeah, that will lead to a healthy society...the Cheshire Cat told me so. This leads to a world full of the Queen of Hearts screaming 'off with their head!' The deafening roar drowns out any and all signs of sanity.
The very same activities lauded on TV (sex and violence) are condemned when the wrong person does it. Actors who are anti-gun don't mind shooting dozens of people in their movies. Then again these are same people who warn us of global warming (or climate change or whatever the blazes they call it now) and will leave one of their many mansions, hop on private jets, and to go to conferences to let us know how seriously we need to take it. I guess there is no Skype in Wonderland. The same people upset with the vulgar talk of someone they don't like are the same people scooping up vulgar entertainment like 50 shades of Grey. The same people who don't think I have any business in their bedroom are the same people who want to hand me the bill for what happens there and what happens as a result of there. There is no such thing as responsibility or accountability in this place either.
There is nary a field not tainted by this subjective climate. Even within churches we see people screaming that we need to preach against sin, unless, of course, we touch on their sin. That is off limits and hurtful because, you know, we're like...judging them. My neighbors sin is more sinful than my sin. Yeah, that makes sense. Insanity reigns.
So where is sanity to be found? Where is the exit from this nightmarish wonderland? Truth. Objective truth. It is a sane place where the sin I need to correct is my own. It is a place where actions and words need to be in tandem. It is a place where narcissism is replaced with love. Love is a virtue, a theological virtue at that. Where truth is, virtue is. Where virtue is, truth is. Virtue raises us above the circus of subjectivity and sets us into a place that is steady and sure. If we want out of wonderland, it will come from cultivating faith, hope, love, fortitude, wisdom, justice, and temperance. These are the things authentic Christian faith calls us to grasp and live. God gives us the grace to do these things.
I am personally weary of wonderland. We all should be. We need to put our love of being offended aside. We have to admit that the world doesn't conform to my wishes. Reality has no duty to readjust based on the whims of my (or anybody's) personal fiats. Instead of entertaining ourselves with vice and getting drunk with our indignation of other people's vices, perhaps that time and energy would better spent pursuing virtue. I do believe most will be pleasantly surprised at the peace and unity such a stable world view brings.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Book Review: The Seven Revolutions: How Christianity Changed the World and Can Change it Again
We take for granted in our own day and age the holy partnership of marriage and the care parents are to have for children. We take for granted the ideas that freedom of religion, the dignity of the human person, and that our rights derive from God, not man. We see as a positive the duty we have to our fellow man, to their welfare, and that we must respect their dignity and integrity. We do not view women and children as possessions to be disposed of at the whim of the husband. These common place observations were radical and dangerous positions to hold in the Roman Empire. What seem to be benign propositions in our history were seen an fundamentally corrosive to the foundations of society in the Roman Empire, and consequently to every despot since.
In their astounding perseverance, our early Christian forefathers' willingness to embrace this new way of life, this Gospel of Jesus Christ, even if it meant losing everything won the day. The Gospel of Christ brought hope to the overwhelming number of peoples not fortunate enough to be born into the patrician classes of their day. It spoke hope to those whose lives were a matter of convenience. It raised the dignity of women and children. It brought about an understanding that every human life was precious and to be respected and that societal constructs should reflect this truth. Going through each of the seven ways Christianity upset the accepted order, the authors, show clearly the teachings, the consequences, and the victory each revolution brought.
This is, however, more than a history book. The premise for writing about these revolutions is to stir up the Christian faithful to regain the truth and the fervor for the truth that the Gospel of Jesus Christ first brought. In so many places in the industrialized world, society is going back to the barbarism that existed before the advent of Christianity. Once again the practices that denigrated the family, marriage, human sexuality, economic justice, and the practice of religion have gained social acceptance. The west is re-paganizing. This brave new world is every bit as hostile to the undiluted Gospel of Christ as was the Roman Empire of old. The authors leave us with a clarion call to grasp again the same willingness to evangelize, be gloriously subversive, and to lose all for Christ.
Christianity has never been victorious when treated with mediocrity or complacency. It has never succeeded when carried by the lukewarm or cowardly. It has grown when approached with bravery, truth, and compassion for all. It succeeds when we become a reflection of the Christ who gave us this Gospel. Let us not forget the revolution that was started by Jesus; a revolt against the most evil depravity the devil could concoct. This call to arms is timely, necessary, and a call to excellence!
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Multi-volumed work
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Die neuen Psalmenhomilien
Eine kritische Edition des Codex Monacensis Graecus 314
[The New Homilies on the Psalms: A Critical Edition of Codex Monacensis Graecus 314]
Ed. by Perrone, Lorenzo
Series:Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte N.F. 19
- Hardcover
- Publication Date:
- May 2015
- 978-3-11-035091-3
Aims and Scope
The editio princeps of Codex Monacensis Graecus 314, the collection of Origen's Homilies on the Psalms was discovered by Marina Molin Pradel in april 2012. The Munich manuscript is the major text discovery on Origen, seventy years after the find of the Tura papyri in 1941. The 29 homilies provide the original Greek text of four Homilies on Psalm 36, translated by Rufinus into Latin at the beginning of the fifth century, together with twenty-five new sermons. Only parts of them were known through tiny excerpts preserved in the exegetical anthologies of the catenae. The list of the sermons essentially corresponds to the catalogue of Origen's Homilies on the Psalms in Jerome's Letter 33. It includes two homilies on Ps. 15, four on Ps. 36, two on Ps. 67, three on Ps. 73, one on Ps. 74, one on Ps. 75, four on Ps. 76, nine on Ps. 77, two on Ps. 80, and one on Ps. 81. Beyond recovering for us Origen as the great interpreter of the Psalms, the sermons throw new light on his life and thought, and provide insights into the situation of the Church in the third century CE.
The critical text has been edited by Lorenzo Perrone in cooperation with Marina Molin Pradel, Emanuela Prinzivalli and Antonio Cacciari.
- 24.0 x 17.0 cm
- x, 641 pages
- 3 Fig.
- Language:
- Ancient Greek, German, Italian
- Type of Publication:
- Source Edition
- Keyword(s):
- Origen; Psalms; Homiletics; Exegesis
- Readership:
- Academics, Libraries, Institutes
- Subjects
- Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies > Classical Studies > Early Christianity
- Theology and Religion > Old Testament / Ancient Near East > History of Reception
- Theology and Religion > Old Testament / Ancient Near East > Wisdom and Psalms > Wisdom and Psalms, other
- Theology and Religion > Patristics > Patristic Authors


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Love makes us all feel amusing. That sense of giddy disorientation, unsinkable bliss and total fascination with a new love can be so overwhelming, that it's hard to envision it's all about emotion. While the outcomes hardly make love less mysterious, they do start to shed light on why it can make individuals feel so funny.
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When they're under the influence, more studies reveal that gushy romantic feelings might be comparable to the highs drug addicts feel. Nora Volkow; the associate director for life sciences at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, has actually analysed the behaviours of drug abuser and individuals in love and discovered striking parallels. "When a individual is passionately in love, it is extremely amazing and provocative , and if the enjoyed one is not there, stressful," states Volkow. "When I see my drug addicted clients, it simply clicks with me how similar the dependency is. "The truth that drug addiction and enthusiastic love may trigger the exact same actions, signals to Volkow that drug dependency is specifically unsafe because it taps into a natural experience.
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