Lezeres Veronique Thiteca zweert bij de aloude remedie “Eau de Carme”. Eau de mélisse des Carmes, zoals het goedje voluit heet, is een tinctuur van melissekruid dat vroeger door de Karmelietessen werd bereid (vandaar die “Carmes”). In Duitsland staat het bekend als “Klosterfrau” en ook in Frankrijk is het populair.
Mijn eigen grootmoeder deelde dit middel zuinigjes uit aan ons, haar kleinkinderen, – een paar druppels op een suikerklontje – in gevallen van hevige maagpijn, maar Veronique, die haar druppeltjes in water neemt zegt dat zij ook wonderen doen voor allerlei …

This is a one-time refundable credit taken on Form 5405. For 2009 and 2010 the following rules apply:
The credit is the lesser of $8,000 ($4,000 for MFS) or 10% of the pur- chase price and applies to homes purchased 1/1/09 – 4/30/10. Available for principal residences located in the U.S. The credit is phased out for higher income taxpayers.
A taxpayer can elect to treat a home purchased during the year as purchased on December 31 of the preceding year (thus, the credit for a home purchased in 2009 can be …

België onopvallend in Vancouver
De Olympische winterspelen zitten er weer op, maar we betwijfelen of onze Belgen in Amerika het nieuws hebben gehaald. Ondanks de acht deelnemers die onze driekleur vertegenwoordigden, was de buit pover.
Onze shorttracker Pieter Gysel zag zich vooral genekt door de moeilijke lotingen op de 1000 en 500 meter. Op de 1500 meter haalde hij wel een negende plaats. De meest opvallende prestatie kwam ongetwijfeld van onze bobbende meisjes, Elfje en Eva, die knap veertiende werden.
Kevin Van Der Perren ontgoochelde in het kunstschaatsen met een zeventiende plaats.Bij de …

De Post-La Poste, Belgium’s national postal operator, acquired a majority stake in MSI Worldwide Mail, a U.S.-based mail and parcel delivery company. The company will continue to operate as MSI Worldwide Mail and will be managed by its founding partners Richard Gerhardt and Christopher Taylor for at least the next five years.
De Post-La Poste said its business unit Belgian Post International will use the new partnership with MSI to further expand its retail operations in the United States and worldwide.
Peter Somers, member of the Executive Board of De Post-La Poste …

On Monday, January 25, 2010, on the occasion of the visit to Washington of Chairman Wouter Beke and four other members of the Belgian Senate’s Finance and Economics Committee (Fineco), the Embassy organized a Breakfast-Roundtable dedicated to “The Financial crisis and Regulatory Response – Belgian and Transatlantic Perspectives,” with the participation of Senator Berni Collas, Deputy Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Jules Muis, former Director General (Audit) at the European Commission, Mr. Peter Kerstens, Financial services counselor with the EU Delegation to the US and Mr. Nicolas Véron, Senior fellow …

Mother Nature has been showing her worst side of late: first the Haiti
earthquake, then the one in Chile, which was followed by a tsunami.
Meanwhile, Europe, too, was hit by a storm named Xynthia, which caused
about 50 deaths in France and one in Belgium (a person hit by a falling
tree).
Relief agencies are complaining that donations for Chile are slow in coming.
This is to be expected in cases like this, where the public is numbed by a
“one-two punch.” Besides, our own economy is still in the dumps, so how
can they expect us …

The former Bishop of Namur,André Léonard, has now officially taken on his new post as the Archbishop of the Mechelen- Brussels diocese. Sixty-nine year-old Monsignor Léonard takes over from Cardinal Godfried Danneels who is retiring. The bi-lingual Walloon clergyman officially took over the stewardship of the diocese at a special mass in the Saint-Rombout’s Cathedral in Mechelen (Antwerp province) on Saturday afternoon. Leading politicians including Prime Minister Yves Leterme, the Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck and Defense Minister Pieter De Crem (all Flemish Christian Democrats) attended the service, as did …