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Decluttering your home has never been easier with this step-by-step action plan. Plus, hundreds of genius tricks help you create a calm and tidy life. Often the hardest part of organizing is getting started. This attractive book from the experts at Good Housekeeping breaks down your decluttering to-do list into smaller zones so you can tidy up and whip your home into shape. Whether you're looking to take on every room in the house or focus on trouble spots (like your linen closet and that junk drawer!), this step-by-step action plan will help you decide what to keep and what to let go, as well as give you neat ideas for putting every space and every room in order...and to keep them that way. With 5-minute tidy-up projects or a 28-day declutter challenge and beautiful photographs throughout, you'll unlock the secrets to an organized home. Inside you'll find how to: Divide your organizing projects into zones to make them manageable; Clear out your closets; Dejunk the junk drawer--for good!; Maximize space in the fridge, freezer and pantry; Free up overstuffed nooks and crannies; Boost bathroom storage. With inspiring yet practical advice from the home experts at Good Housekeeping, you'll create order in your home and transform your life.

This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. It highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns' personal experiences, illustrating the tensions between theory and practice in the ideal of being dead to the world. It shows how Benedictine convents were both cut-off and enclosed yet very much in touch with the religious and political developments at home, but also proposes a different approach to the history of nuns, with a study of emotions and the senses in the cloister, delving into the textual analysis of the nuns' personal and communal documents to explore aspect of a lived spirituality, when the body which so often hindered the spirit, at times enabled spiritual experience.

(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 669-685 | Article | (Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 669-685 | Article | (Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 669-685 | Article | (Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2025 10(3), 669-685 | Article | (Table of Contents) 1. Introduction. – 2. Factual background. – 3. Analysis. – 3.1. Previous case law. – 3.2. The Court’s decision. –  3.2.1. Res iudicata and probative value – 3.2.2. Mandatory arbitration – 3.2.3. Standard of review – 3.2.4. The self-enforcing nature of CAS arbitration – 3.2.5. Justification of arbitration as a legitimate objective – 3.3. Legal and practical implications – 3.3.1. The role of the NYC – 3.3.2. Practical outcomes – 4. Conclusions. | (Abstract) The case discussed here provides an extensive illustration on the interaction between EU law and arbitration as well as the Court of Justice of the European Union’s approach to it. The judgment concerns a CAS arbitration between a Belgian football club and the world football association, FIFA. The Court was asked, in a preliminary reference, whether the principle of effective judicial protection precludes the res iudicata effects of CAS awards. In its judgment, the Court clarified that for an award to have res iudicata status, it must have been effectively scrutinised for possible violations of EU ordre public. The Court also discussed whether CAS arbitration constitutes ‘mandatory arbitration’ and how this concept affects the principle of effective judicial protection. Another key issue was the special system of enforcement carried out by sports associations. The case note examines this reasoning and evaluates the Court’s findings. It moreover sets out to question how the judgment relates to the position of arbitration in the EU system at large, the effects on the implementation of the New York Convention by member states and the practical implications this judgment has for ongoing and future disputes. Based on this critical assessment of the framework set out by this judgment, the case note aims to give suggestions for its implementation by state courts and point out fallacies to be aware of in future arbitration cases.

Cet article se penche sur un groupe d’épurés méconnu: les mineurs accusés de faits de collaboration à la Libération. Grâce à un corpus de 1 300 filles et garçons jugés dans six départements représentatifs de la France sous l’Occupation, l’objectif est d’examiner l’attitude des tribunaux de l’épuration à l’égard des mineurs durant une période où l’État cherche à éloigner les jeunes délinquants de droit commun du droit pénal. Alors que l’ordonnance du 2 février 1945 pose comme principe la primauté de la prévention sur la répression, les pratiques de la justice exceptionnelle de l’épuration s’alignent-elles sur celles de la justice ordinaire ? Pour répondre à cette question et après avoir présenté le visage des justiciables, on étudie successivement la répression judiciaire des jeunes, les faits qui leur sont reprochés et le décalage existant entre les peines prononcées et les peines réellement subies. Limitée au territoire français, l’étude invite enfin à une histoire connectée et transnationale des épurations des mineurs en Europe au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. This paper looks at a little-known group of individuals who endured purges: minors accused of having collaborated during the Second World War. Using a corpus of 1,300 girls and boys tried in six departments representative of France under the Occupation, the aim is to examine how minors were treated by the purge trials during a period in which the state sought to keep young common law offenders away from the criminal justice system. While the Ordinance of 2 February 1945 established the principle of the primacy of prevention over repression, were the practices of the exceptional legal purge aligned with those of the ordinary justice system? To answer this question, after giving a presentation of the accused, we study the legal repression of young people, the acts of which they were accused, and the gap between the sentences handed down and the sentences they actually served. While this paper is limited to France, it concludes by opening up to a connected and transnational history of the purges of minors in Europe at the end of the Second World War.

Through an unusual investigation of kabbalistic commentaries on prayer and ritual from the viewpoint of cultural semiotics, this book attempts to illuminate the features of a lasting Jewish tradition, showing in particular the relevance of ordering structures in Sephardi Kabbalah.

A gripping account of the rise and fall of the last great medieval military order. This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the knights of the Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. The book traces the Order's evolution from a crusader field hospital into a major territorial ruler in northeastern Europe. Notably, the knights constructed distinctive fortified convents, including their headquarters in Western Christendom's largest castle. The narrative concludes with the Order's fifteenth-century decline due to the combined effects of a devastating war with Poland-Lithuania and the Protestant Reformation. The result is an accessible overview of this pivotal corporation in European history.

In this important book, Jan Willem Duyvendak and James M. Jasper bring together an internationally acclaimed group of contributors to demonstrate the complexities of the social and political spheres in various areas of public policy. By breaking down the state into the players who really make decisions and pursue coherent strategies, these essays provide new perspectives on the interactions between political protestors and the many parts of the state“from courts, political parties, and legislators to police, armies, and intelligence services. By analyzing politics as the interplay of various players within structured arenas, Breaking Down the State provides an innovative look at law and order versus opposition movements in countries across the globe.

Two graphs with adjacency matrices $\\mathbf{A}$ and $\\mathbf{B}$ are isomorphic if there exists a permutation matrix $\\mathbf{P}$ for which the identity $\\mathbf{P}^{\\mathrm{T}} \\mathbf{A} \\mathbf{P} = \\mathbf{B}$ holds. Multiplying through by $\\mathbf{P}$ and relaxing the permutation matrix to a doubly stochastic matrix leads to the linear programming relaxation known as fractional isomorphism. We show that the levels of the Sherali--Adams (SA) hierarchy of linear programming relaxations applied to fractional isomorphism interleave in power with the levels of a well-known color-refinement heuristic for graph isomorphism called the Weisfeiler--Lehman algorithm, or, equivalently, with the levels of indistinguishability in a logic with counting quantifiers and a bounded number of variables. This tight connection has quite striking consequences. For example, it follows immediately from a deep result of Grohe in the context of logics with counting quantifiers that a fixed number of levels of SA suffice to determine isomorphism of planar and minor-free graphs. We also offer applications in both finite model theory and polyhedral combinatorics. First, we show that certain properties of graphs, such as that of having a flow circulation of a prescribed value, are definable in the infinitary logic with counting with a bounded number of variables. Second, we exploit a lower bound construction due to Cai, Furer, and Immerman in the context of counting logics to give simple explicit instances that show that the SA relaxations of the vertex-cover and cut polytopes do not reach their integer hulls for up to $\\Omega(n)$ levels, where $n$ is the number of vertices in the graph. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

The authors define a Banach space $\\mathcal{M}_{1}$ of models for fermions or quantum spins in the lattice with long range interactions and make explicit the structure of (generalised) equilibrium states for any $\\mathfrak{m}\\in \\mathcal{M}_{1}$. In particular, the authors give a first answer to an old open problem in mathematical physics--first addressed by Ginibre in 1968 within a different context - about the validity of the so-called Bogoliubov approximation on the level of states. Depending on the model $\\mathfrak{m}\\in \\mathcal{M}_{1}$, the authors' method provides a systematic way to study all its correlation functions at equilibrium and can thus be used to analyse the physics of long range interactions. Furthermore, the authors show that the thermodynamics of long range models $\\mathfrak{m}\\in \\mathcal{M}_{1}$ is governed by the non-cooperative equilibria of a zero-sum game, called here thermodynamic game.

Patents relating to the human brain and its functions regularly fulfil the general patent requirements. In some cases, however, the inventions in question reveal considerable risks for the rights of individuals, but also for society as such, which have a hitherto unknown dimension and which have not been discussed so far. Due to the limited scope of application of the ordre public clause, patent law is fundamentally not in a position to respond adequately to the challenges that exist here. The ratio of patent law and the lack of resources and also, above all, competence of the patent offices for a more extensive ethico-legal analysis mean that patent law is not the right setting for dealing with the existing challenges. Instead, the international organisations responsible for the protection of human rights and their relevant bodies are in particular demand here, although they have so far been unaware of the difficulties that are evident in the area of brain patents. What is needed is the development and establishment of mechanisms that enable the flagging and communication of critical patents, so that the responsible bodies are enabled to fulfil their tasks.