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To say that some viewers were not pleased with former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's cameo on the Emmys Sunday evening would be an understatement. To make matters worse, a photo posted to Variety's Instagram account caught late night host James Corden on camera giving Spicer a peck on the cheek at the awards show, which elicited further blowback.
Corden, however, addressed the incident in his opening monologue on "The Late Late Show" Monday night, stating that he was "disappointed" in himself.
James Corden (@j_corden) shows @seanmspicer some love after the former White House press secretary's surprise appearance at the #Emmys (Photo by Invision/AP/REX/@Shutterstocknow)
A post shared by Variety (@variety) on Sep 17, 2017 at 9:47pm PDT
After cracking a few Donald Trump jokes, Corden went on to lambast himself. "According to some reports at the after-party, Spicer was the most popular guy in the room," he began. "And I just wanna say, I think people are forgetting this man lied to the American people and should not be embraced. These Hollywood phonies kissing up to Spicer are disgusting, I mean, who did this, who are we talking about here?"
The image of Corden and Spicer then flashed on the screen.
"Now, I know you think that's a picture of me kissing Sean Spicer, but in the spirit of Sean Spicer, no it isn't," he joked. "To be fair, everyone was kissing ass last night, I just happened to kiss the biggest one there."
He then took a somewhat more serious tone. "Understandably, some people have been disappointed by this photo. In truth, I'm disappointed as well. I've been reading a lot of harsh comments on Twitter and I hear you, I really do, so much so that I'm starting to regret that Carpool Karaoke we taped with Steve Bannon … feels like a mistake today."
Corden went on to make the point that he has a long history of kissing random people, including Harry Styles, Allison Janney, and Bryan Cranston, and implied that alcohol may have had a hand in his actions. "Basically what I'm saying is, I need to learn how to shake hands," he finished.
Spicer's appearance at the Emmys caused quite a stir on Twitter, with many commentators pointing out it constituted a "normalization" of what many view as Spicer's dishonesty with the American people.
Watch the video of Corden's opening monologue here.
.@seanspicer can normalize himself in good fun, but he still passionately advocated against human rights, health care, & American values
— Kal Penn (@kalpenn) September 18, 2017
If u think that Spicer should be allowed to participate in anything but an apology, you really dont understand anything&im bummed about you.
— jenny slate (@jennyslate) September 18, 2017
I'm not ready to laugh "with" Sean Spicer. I think he is an evil, opportunistic liar that hurt our country.
— Zach Braff (@zachbraff) September 18, 2017


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Saudi Arabia, under growing pressure to account for a crush that killed more than 700 people this week at the Hajj pilgrimage near Mecca, on Friday suggested that pilgrims failing to follow crowd control rules bore some blame for the worst disaster at Islam's holiest sites in 25 years.
Saudi Health Minister Khalid al-Falih said in a news release posted on his ministry's website that an investigation would be conducted rapidly and a final toll calculated. At least 863 pilgrims were injured.
"The investigations into the incident of the stampede that took place today in Mina, which was perhaps because some pilgrims moved without following instructions by the relevant authorities, will be fast and will be announced as has happened in other incidents," the news release said.
Falih's comments — which came hours after Riyadh's top Hajj official Prince Khaled al-Faisal suggested that "some pilgrims with African nationalities" had triggered the crush — were likely to be seen as an attempt to deflect responsibility. Hajj safety is politically sensitive for the kingdom's Saud dynasty, since the ruling family presents itself internationally as the guardian of orthodox Islam and custodian of its holiest places in Mecca and Medina. The pilgrimage has seen several deadly crowd incidents, including one that killed 1,426 people in 1990.
With photographs of piles of bodies from this week's incident circulating on social media and pilgrims frantically searching for missing compatriots, the efforts to uncover the facts — and to assign blame — appeared to be growing Friday. Saudi King Salman ordered a review of Hajj plans after the disaster, in which two big groups of pilgrims collided at a crossroads in Mina, a few miles east of Mecca, on their way to performing the "stoning of the devil" ritual at Jamarat.
But officials from the kingdom's regional political rival, Iran — which lost 131 of its nationals in the crush Thursday — were quick to express fierce indignation. They said the incident was further proof that Riyadh was incapable of managing the event.
"I ask the Saudi Arabian government to take the responsibility of this catastrophe and fulfill its legal and Islamic duties in this regard," Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Friday in a statement published by the state news agency, IRNA. Rouhani was in New York City, where he was set to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
In Tehran, protesters held a demonstration after Friday noon prayers. Iranian state television said they were showing their anger at "Saudi incapability and incompetence to run the Hajj."
Some Iranian pilgrims who survived the incident described Saudi Arabia's response as "too little, too late," according to Iran's state-run Press TV. The pilgrims were quoted as saying that the rescuers arrived at the scene two hours after the incident, and that they started collecting dead bodies first instead of helping the injured.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Turki denied those charges, telling Saudi media on Friday that security forces had immediately responded and begun to rescue those who fell in the crush. It was unclear whether Riyadh had — and would release — CCTV footage of the pile-up.
Keith Still, a professor of crowd science at the U.K.'s Manchester Metropolitan University who has consulted Saudi Arabia on how to avoid such incidents, said Riyadh has made considerable efforts to improve safety at the holy sites after a string of fatal accidents — including crowd incidents, fires, and, earlier this month, a crane collapse that killed about 100 people.
Al Jazeera and Reuters. Michael Pizzi contributed reporting.


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Andrew H Kemp is the Director for Research of the new Health and Wellbeing Academy (HWA) at Swansea University. The HWA is the first academy in the ARCH network -- http://www.arch.wales/what-is-arch.htm -- focused on improving the social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of Wales.
The relationship between mind, brain and body has kept philosophers and scientists busy for centuries. Some of the first interesting – albeit gruesome – experiments on the role of the body in human consciousness considered life after decapitation.
I called in a strong, sharp voice: "Languille!" I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions – I insist advisedly on this peculiarity – but with an even movement, quite distinct and normal, such as happens in everyday life, with people awakened or torn from their thoughts.
Almost two decades later, Soviet scientist Sergei Brukhonenko reportedly kept a dog's severed head alive for nearly six months using a primitive heart-lung machine. Video footage allegedly shows the head responding to light, sound and citric acid stimuli. But while Brukhonenko's research may have been an important in the development of cardiac surgery – it is also regarded as faked Soviet-era propaganda.
Investigations into human consciousness have moved on since these initial observations – though we haven't got away from decapitation just yet. More recently, however, neuroscientists have questioned just how it is that physical matter comes together to make the mind.
In 1995, Dr Francis Crick wrote in his The Astonishing Hypothesis that we are nothing more than an "immensely complex collection of neurons". This theory is a form of reductive physicalism – a philosophical position to which modern neuroscience typically subscribes – that everything in existence is no more than its physical properties.
Again using animal decapitation, though this time with rats, neuroscientists have explored the question of how long brain activity is observed after death – a step forward from investigating consciousness.
In a 2011 experiment, it was reported that decapitated rats' time to unconsciousness – defined by a decrease in cognitive activity of 50% – was four seconds. The researchers also observed a very large and much later slow wave in brain activity. This was interpreted as what they called a "wave of death" – when all the brain's neurons died at the same time – and perhaps, the ultimate border between life and death.
But some believe that the mind is more than just the sum of its physical brain cells. A contrasting position to physicalism is the dualist assumption that the physical and the mental are fundamentally different substances.
Furthermore, some philosophers and scientists have suggested that "information may be the key to consciousness". Consistent with this idea is integrated information theory, which accepts the existence of consciousness, but controversially implies that anything at all may be conscious – even a smartphone – if it possesses a sufficiently high "phi": a measure of information in a system which cannot be reduced to that specified by its parts.
While I have left out many important details in this fascinating discussion, better understanding the link between mind, brain and body has been the focus of my own research, in recent years through looking at the functions of the vagus nerve.
Higher vagus nerve function (measured and indexed by heart rate variability) supports a person's capacity for emotion regulation, social engagement and cognitive function. By contrast, impaired vagal function – and lower heart rate variability – may play a role in the onset of depression.
But the vagus nerve doesn't just affect the mind. Higher levels of vagal function may lead to improved glucose regulation, reduced inflammation, and reduced risk of disease and death.
Vagal function is also known to play an important role in brain cognition. It helps to suppress irrelevant and interfering stimuli. Studies have also suggested that the vagus nerve might play an important regulatory role over inflammatory processes, contributing to diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease – all of which also impact on cognitive function.
However, little research has been done which looks at how the vagus nerve affects body and mind together. That's why I teamed up with colleagues to question whether previously reported relationships between vagal function and cognitive performance could be explained through a single physiological pathway.
Supporting this possibility, we observed that impairment in vagal function appears to increase insulin resistance, which contributes to a thickening of the carotid arteries, which in turn adversely impacts on cognitive function. This means that low vagal function initiates a cascade of adverse downstream effects which subsequently lead to cognitive impairment.
While simple health behaviours – weight loss and exercise for example – may "short circuit" adverse effects on brain function, more research into the causal pathways involved is needed to discover just how the vagus nerve connects the body, brain and mind.
Our research is a first step into uncovering how the health of the body and mind can be affected by this one nerve. But it is one step on a path that we hope will develop with our own research into "positive psychology" for people living with neurological disorders.
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Anti-foam: What is It? Why Do Perfusion Systems Need It?
Defoaming or anti-foaming agents are used to break up or reduce bubbles that form at the blood-air interface.
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), the silicone agent used in many anti-foam agents, is "a hydrophobic or 'water fearing' liquid component that is insoluble in water and blood," explained Joseph Kalscheuer, Principal Scientist, Medtronic Coronary and Structural Heart Disease Management. "It disperses and spreads across the surface of the foam's lamellae — thin liquid films that separate the foam gas bubbles. The PDMS dispersion can create localized areas of extremely low surface tension which, when low enough, disrupt the stabilizing mechanism of the lamellae and cause the membrane to burst."
PDMS can also carry modified silica particles to assist in foam structure disruption. Silica particles are a naturally hydrophilic or "water loving" material made partially hydrophobic to allow its suspension in the PDMS oil. "The PDMS oil transports the suspended silica particles to the lamellae's surface. The lamellae's hydrophilic qualities allow the particles to bridge between the two layers, rupture the membrane, and ultimately disrupt the foam's structure," Kalscheuer noted. "It is through the mechanisms of local depression in surface tension and bubble rupturing particles that medical anti-foams disrupt foam generation."
Most entrained material exists at the blood-air interface due to the natural affinity of hydrophobic PDMS and the semi-hydrophobic silica particles for air — a similarly hydrophobic surface — and due to their mutual insolubility in blood.
Disc oxygenators, introduced in the 1950s, oxygenated blood by passing discs through the blood reservoir, where the turning discs would cause the blood to foam. To break up the bubbles, perfusionists had to lift the reservoir lid and spray the blood with an anti-foaming agent. For this and a variety of other clinical reasons, disc oxygenators were quickly replaced with bubble oxygenators.
In contrast, bubble oxygenators employed a diffuser, a simple piece of perforated plastic, which had a single-piece design upstream of the pump, including an oxygenating foaming column, a defoaming section, and an arterial reservoir that held the blood to be returned to the patient. During perfusion, blood was exposed over the top of the diffuser and oxygen ran underneath, forcing oxygen through the blood, which caused it to foam. This foam would then rise up a column, where it was oxygenated and CO2 was removed. The oxygenator's efficiency depended on the diffuser's design and the size of the bubbles it created: small bubbles were good for oxygenating, big bubbles were good for removing CO2. Thus, a balance was needed to provide adequate oxygenation and CO2removal.
Because bubble oxygenators purposely foamed blood, the blood had to be defoamed before being returned to the patient. Bubble oxygenator defoamers had to be large to ensure sufficient bubble break up to return blood to a liquid state. Blood passed through a defoamer — a black filter sponge saturated with a defoaming agent — then settled into the arterial reservoir.
As membrane technology became prevalent in oxygenator designs, blood had to be collected in a separate container. Initially, this container was a soft-shell or flexible venous reservoir and no defoamer was needed since there was no blood-air interface. The blood simply flowed into a bag already filled with blood.
Designs evolved to an open/hard shell reservoir configuration that merged the cardiotomy venous reservoir and defoamer into a single device that automatically removed air from the circuit. Smaller cannulae and smaller ID venous lines impacted venous return. For the increasing number of minimally invasive techniques requiring smaller cannulae, perfusionists needed the ability to use vacuum on the reservoir, possible only with hard shell systems. Consequently, hard shell systems became the go-to devices and today they are the most common configuration in use worldwide.
As with earlier reservoir designs, today's devices use a silicone anti-foam agent to disrupt foaming and return blood to a liquid phase. The difference is in how the cardiotomy/venous reservoir's (CVR) design features interact with blood and the anti-foam agent.
It is well known that air can be become entrained in blood. On the venous side, it may occur when there's a problem with the cannulation site. When this happens, blood flows into the bottom of the reservoir and foam rises to the top. Thus, the placement of the anti-foaming agent is critical. In the Affinity Fusion® CVR, the anti-foam agent is located high in the reservoir. Consequently, when venous blood flows normally, it does not touch the anti-foam agent. This design limits blood exposure to the anti-foam agent to instances when significant foaming occurs.
Blood is rich in proteins and other components that, when combined with air, produce significant structure, making blood defoaming essential. According to John Knoll, Senior Engineering Manager, Medtronic Coronary and Structural Heart Disease Management, "The Affinity Fusion's reservoir incorporates a fluid outlet that drains at the bottom while air escapes upward. If there's foam on the blood's surface inside the reservoir, it simply sits there and the anti-foam agent manages it."
On the cardiotomy side, foam is introduced in the CVR through the intermittent introduction of air and blood from the various chest cavity instruments that provide suction for a clear field of view. "In the Affinity Fusion CVR, blood flows over a cardiotomy cone and out through the cardiotomy filter," Knoll explained. "If the blood enters as foam, it contacts the anti-foam agent, which is strategically placed to defoam the cardiotomy blood as needed. Only liquid blood exits the cardiotomy inside the CVR. It's all about strategic location.
"Some anti-foam agent contact is inevitable on the cardiotomy side because the blood comes in as foam," Knoll noted. "The Affinity Fusion CVR design facilitates minimal contact between the blood and anti-foam agent."
It puts distance between the venous inlet and outlet so air coming into the reservoir does not immediately exit.
It slows the blood as it resides in the reservoir to allow time for air to be released.
It uses the oxygenator's fiber bundle to significantly reduce GME by removal of air from the blood via the semi-porous membrane. "We believe this is superior to a simple screen, which only traps the air within the blood side of the device," Knoll explained. The oxygenator also has an upfront bubble trap to remove any large bubbles that may get through.
It incorporates active air removal. When used as an arterial filter, the oxygenator purge remains open, which also serves to remove air completely from the blood rather than holding it in place.
The Medtronic Affinity Fusion® Oxygenator uses a silicone anti-foam agent to disrupt and break down foam.
The routing of blood over a cone, which allows it to flow rather than fall and splash into the CVR's bottom.
Modern day oxygenators and CVR's utilize many design and technological advances to manage air in the perfusion circuit, including smooth curves, the reduction of falling blood, and active air removal as seen in the Affinity Fusion System. While these design advances help reduce air entrainment in the oxygenator and CVR, anti-foaming agents are still required to facilitate air removal from the blood stream.


So, you're moving along your day and everything is fine, maybe even much better than fine. Then, something happens. It might be a comment from someone, a phone call, a situation that arises or even something that you hear on the news. Suddenly it's like a little button is pushed as something in your mind has been triggered. Little Mind, seeing this amazing opportunity before it, doesn't delay. It decides it's time to take a trip…a trip to Mind StoryLand.
Mind StoryLand is quite a disempowering place as there is usually little or no truth there. Although it is filled with all kinds of entertaining and usually quite imaginative scenarios about what could happen, about what someone else is thinking, even about you and your character, it's still all story and little or no truth so it's pointless to spend too much time there. When we're there, it can be difficult to touch our own personal power because we're engaged in the stories and not engaged in what is truly true for us.
1. Is that true? This simple question cuts to the core of StoryLand and with some practice can take you immediately out of its grip. Most of the time when we ask this question, the answer is "no" or "I have no way of knowing if that's true". Excellent! Then why spend more time here? From here, you can move on to Question 2 or 3 for your next step.
2. What does the rest of me say? Our mind is just one of the 3 neural networks (or brains) we have access to in our bodies (go ahead, google that!). When we give them a chance, our gut and our heart also have some excellent information for us. Learning to check in with our gut and our emotions that we have access to there, often give us a different 'story'. And our beautiful hearts are full of information – often helping us see the bigger picture and the Truth. You can simply take a breath into your gut and then your heart and ask "What do you have to tell me?" If this seems foreign to you and you'd like more direction, read The Listen Story from The Mood Lady Storybook. This will give you an example of what it looks like to use this question.
3. Who do I choose to be here? The most powerful question of all. This one supports you in getting out of StoryLand because it reminds you that you are ALWAYS at choice. You don't always have a choice about what is happening or about what someone else is doing, but no matter what IS going on, you can always choose who you ARE in that situation. Will you be compassionate, will you be fearful, will you be honest, will you be the victim, will you be powerless, will you be open-minded, loving and on and on and on.
So, next time you find yourself in StoryLand or perhaps maybe even before little Mind takes you away there, pick one or all three of these questions. The more you use them, the easier it will be avoid StoryLand altogether and to stay in Your Power. Feel free to share any comments below!
Love this post! I have been guilty of heading to Storyland many times. It really can run away with our logic. Thank you for sharing these steps to detour away from Storyland. I love the Power Mood Lady. She has been with me during some pretty intense moments.


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I then tested again using a "charcoal" test kit ordered from Val and just got my test results today - 0.8pCi/l! My wife is now speaking to me again, hmmm....:). Anyway, throughout this process I consulted with Val who was a great help confirming my intentions/providing guidance and his site had all the right parts necessary. I have to say a professional could not have done a better installation job albeit it probably took me longer but it was done "right".
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Beverly Ross Law
WILLS, TRUSTS, & ESTATE PLANNING
BUSINESS & ART LAW
I work in the following areas of divorce, marriage, and related issues
(Residency requirements differ in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.)
Alimony:
- Pendente Lite alimony (temporary spousal support)
- Rehabilitative alimony
- Indefinite alimony
Alternative families
Child custody / support / visitation
Domestic violence and protective orders
Marital Property (what it is, and how to divide it)
Parenting plans
Pension and other retirement plans: to divide or not?
Divorce is always wrenching, no matter the reason, and no matter how much we may think we want it or feel we are ready for it. This is all the more so when children are involved. I try to make the process as calm and mutually respectful as possible by seeking to understand what each party wants and can live with. This takes a great deal of compassion and comprehension of the feelings and positions of both sides to the divorce.
In your divorce, I can act in one of three roles:
1) As the attorney for one of the spouses, I represent your interests alone, while all the while working toward bringing you and your spouse to an agreement. I have been able to keep the vast majority of divorce cases I've handled out of court, either by negotiating rationally with your spouse's attorney or taking the case to court (the least preferable choice, in my opinion).
2) I can represent both you and your spouse as your joint mediator. In this process, I act as a neutral party, and help guide you to a fair and workable solution. Please see my article on mediation elsewhere on this website to get a better idea of how mediation works. The three of us sit down to determine what issues are outstanding, and how we can best iron them out to both parties' approval.
3) I can represent you as part of the process called Collaborative Law. I have taken the lengthy, intensive training in this relatively new process, which suits some, but not all, situations. In collaborative law, the attorneys for both spouses sign a written agreement in which they commit to work toward an out-of-court settlement. If, during the process, that seems impossible or highly unlikely, both lawyers remove themselves from the case, and the divorcing spouses hire different lawyers.
"Tout ça change, tout ç'est la même chose."
The more things change, the more they stay the same. So it is with adultery, which in Maryland is a ground for asking the court to grant an immediate divorce. In general, Marylanders must have a year of physical separation before they can file for divorce. However, one party can skip that waiting period if s/he can show the spouse has committed adultery.
Use of adultery as a ground for divorce is not favored in Maryland, although it often is one of several factors that may influence a judge's decision. Given the possibility that a couple would try to get around the one-year waiting period by agreeing to admit to adultery in a divorce case, the courts require substantial proof before granting a divorce solely on that ground. One spouse's statement that s/he committed adultery is not enough. Photos may help. For example, photos showing a man and woman going into a hotel in the evening and exiting in the morning from the same hotel, holding hands, may suffice as proof of the adultery. It is not a slam-dunk, however, and anything short of a photo of the lovers in delicto flagrante may not be accepted as credible evidence.
The adultery complaint will allow the party asking for the divorce (the plaintiff) to get her/his foot in the court's door. It is then up to both parties to prove their versions of the facts, including the adultery and their property ownership. A court will not directly penalize a party monetarily for the actual commission of the adultery itself. However, it will be taken into account as one of the many factors in deciding how to split a couple's property and determine a so-called "monetary award". Factors (4) and (11) in the list above give the judge wide leeway in taking the adultery into account.
An interesting case decided March 31, 2022, in Maryland's Court of Special Appeals (the second-highest court in Maryland), Gagliardi v. Gagliardi, https://casetext.com/case/gagliardi-v-gagliardi-2, reveals a great deal as to how adultery can play a role in a judge's attitude and decision. In the case, Mother (the court referred to the parties throughout as "Mother" and "Father) admitted she had committed adultery, but objected to the lower court's granting Father the divorce on the grounds of adultery in that he had "condoned" the adultery. Condonation -- basically, the resumption of marital relations post-adultery -- is a defense to adultery, but it is only one of several factors in whether a judge will grant the divorce on that ground alone. In somewhat archaic terms, the Gagliardi court stated:
Condonation, as a defense to the charge, is [only] "a factor to be considered" in determining whether divorce should be granted based upon adultery. FL § 7-103(d). As this Court has previously explained, "[c]ondonation is a conditional forgiveness of a marital offense." [...] It requires "an implied promise that the marital offenses or acts rendering the marital relation intolerable will not be repeated by the erring spouse and that the offended party will be treated with conjugal kindness." Id. Evidence of condonation includes "[r]esuming normal marital relations[.]" [...] Condonation is not, however, an "absolute bar" to divorce on the grounds of adultery. FL § 7-103(d).
[Note: All boldface, italics, and brackets are mine, and were not in the original.]
It appears, then, that one can get an absolute divorce on the grounds of adultery, even if s/he has condoned (read: forgiven) the adultery by resuming normal marital (read: sexual) relations, even if the adultery has not been repeated after confrontation, and even if the aggrieved party has been treated with "conjugal kindness" (whatever that may mean). Thus, no matter what happens after the "erring spouse" has admitted the adultery, and been forgiven, there appears to be a window of opportunity during which the offended spouse may still sue for absolute divorce based on adultery.
None of this is clear. What is also not clear, and seemingly not yet tested in court, is how long that window stays open -- two months after resumption of conjugal relations? Six months? One year? This is uncharted ground that leaves a perhaps inordinate amount of discretion in the trial court judge to decide. It also leaves a great deal of uncertainty for parties heading to divorce court based on adultery.
Under Maryland law, if the parties don't agree themselves on how to divide their property, a judge is charged with making an "equitable" property distribution. Although "equitable" and "equal" sound similar, they are not.
"Equitable" means that the settlement will be fair, just, and reasonable, taking into account all the circumstances. "Equal" means fifty-fifty, which is something quite different, and is rarely how property is divided in Maryland. In shaping an equitable property distribution, a judge has to look at all the circumstances and come up with a decision that seems fair -- "equitable" -- to her or him. The lack of precision in the concept of what is fair can lead to property distribution decisions that may seem very far from fair, even outlandish, to some. What is more, the trial judge at the circuit court level has an enormous amount of discretion, which a court of appeal will only overturn if there is "clear error" or an "abuse of discretion".
By law, in a court case, the judge must consider all of the following factors when deciding how to split a couple's assets. Maryland Code, Family Law Article § 8-205, "Monetary award", states:
Grant of award or transfer ownership of an interest in property
(a)(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, after the court determines which property is marital property, and the value of the marital property, the court may transfer ownership of an interest in property described in paragraph (2) of this subsection, grant a monetary award, or both, as an adjustment of the equities and rights of the parties concerning marital property, whether or not alimony is awarded.
(2) The court may transfer ownership of an interest in:
(i) a pension, retirement, profit sharing, or deferred compensation plan, from one party to either or both parties;
(ii) subject to the consent of any lienholders, family use personal property, from one or both parties to either or both parties; and
(iii) subject to the terms of any lien, real property jointly owned by the parties and used as the principal residence of the parties when they lived together, by:
1. ordering the transfer of ownership of the real property or any interest of one of the parties in the real property to the other party if the party to whom the real property is transferred obtains the release of the other party from any lien against the real property;
2. authorizing one party to purchase the interest of the other party in the real property, in accordance with the terms and conditions ordered by the court; or
3. both.
(b) The court shall determine the amount and the method of payment of a monetary award, or the terms of the transfer of the interest in property described in subsection (a)(2) of this section, or both, after considering each of the following factors:
(1) the contributions, monetary and nonmonetary, of each party to the well-being of the family;
(2) the value of all property interests of each party;
(3) the economic circumstances of each party at the time the award is to be made;
(4) the circumstances that contributed to the estrangement of the parties;
(5) the duration of the marriage;
(6) the age of each party;
(7) the physical and mental condition of each party;
(8) how and when specific marital property or interest in property described in subsection (a)(2) of this section, was acquired, including the effort expended by each party in accumulating the marital property or the interest in property described in subsection (a)(2) of this section, or both;
(9) the contribution by either party of property described in § 8-201(e)(3) of this subtitle to the acquisition of real property held by the parties as tenants by the entirety;
(10) any award of alimony and any award or other provision that the court has made with respect to family use personal property or the family home; and
(11) any other factor that the court considers necessary or appropriate to consider in order to arrive at a fair and equitable monetary award or transfer of an interest in property described in subsection (a)(2) of this section, or both.
It is easy to see that a divorce judge has enormous discretion in dividing a couple's property.
© 2022 by Beverly D. Ross, Attorney at Law

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Das Haus Heiligegeiststraße 6 ist ein denkmalgeschütztes Gebäude in der Stadt Quedlinburg in Sachsen-Anhalt.

Lage
Es befindet sich im Stadtgebiet südlich des Quedlinburger Marktplatzes und ist im Quedlinburger Denkmalverzeichnis als Wohn- und Geschäftshaus eingetragen. Westlich grenzt das gleichfalls denkmalgeschützte Haus Heiligegeiststraße 5, östlich das Kreishaus Quedlinburg an.

Architektur und Geschichte
Das große Fachwerkhaus wurde im Jahr 1902 von A. Müller erbaut, auf den eine Inschrift hinweist. Die unteren Etagen sind in massiver Bauweise errichtet. Es finden sich hier neogotische Formen. Die oberen in Fachwerkbauweise erstellten Stockwerke verfügen über einen Kniestock. Darüber hinaus wurden viele traditionelle Verzierungen eingesetzt. So gibt es Taustab, Schiffskehle, Fächerrosetten am Fußwinkelholz, Rautenfachwerk und Fußstreben. Der Einsatz von Fachwerkelementen erfolgte auf Drängen des städtischen Bauamtes.

Literatur
 Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt (Hrsg.): Denkmalverzeichnis Sachsen-Anhalt. Band 7: Falko Grubitzsch, unter Mitwirkung von Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried und Mario Titze: Landkreis Quedlinburg. Teilband 1: Stadt Quedlinburg. Fliegenkopf, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4, Seite 128.

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Kulturdenkmal in Quedlinburg
Fachwerkhaus in Quedlinburg
Erbaut in den 1900er Jahren
Heiligegeiststraße (Quedlinburg)
Wohn- und Geschäftshaus in Quedlinburg
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"When you design your garden you can pick and choose from the very best that you have seen in nature, ensuring that every stone contributes something to the overall effect."-—from the Sakuteiki.
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Hi, my name is Clayton and I use ruby-debug. There, I said it. As a matter of fact, I use ruby-debug a lot, I use it too much. I'm not even solving complex problems or debugging nitty gritty internals, I'm just being lazy. Sure, ruby-debug is a really awesome tool, but we abuse the hell out of it. If you're reading this and thinking "hey, that's what I do" then you're making a mistake, a mistake that's hurting your code.
Marking breakpoints and stepping through your code, evaluating each line and variable is a pretty typical practice. There are some developers who literally figuratively could not live without their debugger. I suspect this is most common in languages where IDEs are prevalent, but lets not forget about the modify-refresh-repeat paradigm in the PHP world.
Sometimes, when I come across some unexpected result or outcome, I will immediately add my debugger statement and start stepping through the code line-by-line echoing variables, assignments and conditionals to the terminal trying to track down my problem. Recently, I had a colleague scoff at the idea of not having ruby-debug for their rails project. The idea that we need this tool for day-to-day development is absurd.
When you're testing the logic and/or output of your code with a debugger you're making the mistake of not writing automated tests.
There are few problems that are solved via the manual and time-consuming process of a debugger that cannot be solved with an automated test. If you're confused about the output of a calculation or method, write a quick unit test for that method. When the logic of your application doesn't appear correct based on the input, maybe an integration test is in order to evaluate the flow of your program.
Not only do you get rid of the debugger baggage, you gain all of the other benefits that go along with testing.
Write more tests. Don't have tests? Quit your job.


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In the early days of direct reduction, there was a clearly discernible difference between iron oxide pellets intended for blast furnace use (BF-grade pellets) and those used to make DRI to feed an EAF. A "DR-grade" pellet typically has higher iron content and less silica, alumina and other gangue constituents than "BF-grade" pellets.
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Ported kiln operation. By injecting air under the bed of pellets in the rotary kiln, complete oxidation can occur in magnetite pellets prior to the annualar cooler. This patented development by , in addition to lowering fuel consumption, significantly improves pellet quality.
Explore Minnesota: IRON ORE. Minnesota's iron ore operations have a production capacity of about 40 million tons of high-grade iron ore annually, which is approximately 75 percentof total U.S. iron ore production. To produce 40 million tons of high-grade iron ore pellets, Minnesota moves on the order of .
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Details Of Iron Ore Pellet Operation U.S. Steel: Â Iron Range's Keetac plant to resume operations. U.S. Steel announced Thursday that it will reopen its shuttered Keetac taconite iron ore mine and processing center and sell taconite pellets to a third party.
These iron ore pellets are transported from Sweden to Norway for shipping. In 1902, a train line was built all the way to Narvik for this purpose. At the time this was the most northern train line in the world. The trains using this route pull up to 68 rail carts and transport around 33 million tons of iron ore .


Stay-at-Home Mom Shares a Good Money Hack When Managing Her Hubby's Salary!
Budgeting is doubly hard when you are in a single-income household, but it doesn't mean that you can't be in control of your finances. On the other hand, it might even make you more money-savvy because you need to keep track of your cash flow.
At Smart Parenting's Facebook group, Smart Parenting Village (SP Village), a stay-at-home mom named Madeline "Madz" Ellado shared the simple hack she uses to keep her family's expenses and savings in check: a money organizer that she purchased from Lazada.
Bills are kept neatly in each pocket and are properly labeled according to expense.
Speaking with SmartParenting.com.ph via Facebook Messenger, Madz says that she started the habit of putting money in the organizer when her son, Liam, turned two years old. Their expenses ballooned especially with Liam's milk and diaper needs. It was also her way of helping her husband, Aldwin, manage his income.
She also tries to save an additional Php2,000-Php3,000 every end of the month and all of their savings go into her son's junior savers account.
Madz with her husband Aldwin, and her three-year-old son, Liam.
Apart from their savings, Madz says her husband takes care of their insurance. They are also thinking of getting an educational plan for Liam, who is now three years old and who will be starting playschool soon.
1. Write down your grocery list and stick to it.
2. Get your husband's full support.
3. Set a budget that's within your means.


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Tales From The Alhambra
Posted on February 13, 2016 by Anita and Richard @ No Particular Place To Go	67 comments
We'd been in Lagos for three months and were itching for a road trip to an epic destination, a way to celebrate receiving our one year Portuguese residency visa. There was no question about where to go since we'd long dreamed of seeing this UNESCO World Heritage Site, a place of mystery, myths and history. A look at google maps showed us that the Alhambra, the palace of Sultans and Spanish kings was a mere six-hour drive – no magic carpet required.
The Moors invaded the Iberian Peninsula in 711 and the first references to a fortress perched high upon the hill, Al Sabika, dates back to 889. It was all but forgotten until the mid-13th century when the ruins were renovated and rebuilt and the royal residence of the first Sultan of the Nasrid dynasty was established. Protected by mountains at its back (the Sierra Nevadas) and thick woods surrounding it, the Alhambra was a reflection of the glory days of the house of the Islamic Nasrids, the last of the Muslim Emirates of Granada. There were twenty-two Sultans who resided in the palace city of the "Red Castle" with their wives, harems and courtiers. Of these, twelve were assassinated so, while the life of a Sultan was luxurious, it was not secure. Intrigue and in-fighting between Moorish tribes, royal courts, cities and generals was always present. And, with the conquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs in 1492, the Moors finally retreated. The flag of Ferdinand and Isabella (yes, that Ferdinand and Isabella!) was raised over the Alhambra on January 2, 1492, and after the Reconquista the near-by town (Granada) quickly encroached upon the palace walls.
We began our private tour at the upper-most portion of the palace grounds at the northern end of the complex, the only section that was built outside the protection of the massive walls. The Generalife was the daytime residence and formal gardens of the royal family and it was here that the massive scale of the Alhambra became truly obvious. From this height the individual buildings, actually palaces in their own right, spread below on the lower hillocks.
It was a cold, January day and the numbers of tourists were nowhere close to the 8,000 maximum allowed per day during the high season. The snows on the upper slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains to the east, were muted against the leaden sky but when the sun emerged later in the day the contrast of white versus the blue sky was dazzling. The day of our tour only a fraction of the flowers were in bloom but the towering cypress that lined the walk and the precisely trimmed hedges in geometric patterns alongside the curves of orange and pomegranate trees were beauty enough for us. It was easy to imagine the drone of bees amongst the profusion of flowers with butterflies flitting about seeking nectar as well as the lilting tremolos of birds that would be ushered in with the advent of spring. Yet, with the return of spring's warmth would come the hordes of tourists.
Leaving the leafy greenery of the Generalife we headed south towards the protected city of the Alhambra. Just outside the walls were a number of businesses jammed into miniscule homes. Entering Lugna Taracea, a shop run by the Lugna family in the same location for over 150 years we stopped to watch skilled craftsman assemble traditional mosaics: patterns intricately inlaid with bone, silver, copper and a variety of woods. The Lugnas specialize in lacquered furniture and household amenities such as trays, boxes and tables, all beautiful, high quality pieces including a pretty, folding cribbage board that we bought for ourselves to replace the two we'd given to our son when we started our nomadic journeys.
Once back inside the walls we wandered past bubbling fountains and reflecting pools, arched doorways, stone columns, tiled mosaic walls and carved ceilings of wood in detailed and complex patterns.
ceramic tile mosaic
ceiling design of inlaid woods
tiled floors
Tortuously carved stucco adorned spaces not covered by tile, marble or wood in stylized motifs and twisting Arabic words extolled the greatness and glory of Allah. Much of the stucco has faded to a creamy color although traces of color can be seen here and there. It's almost impossible to imagine the true assault upon the senses that the original painted stucco would have triggered.
Taking up the story once again of the conquering Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492, we were shown the throne room where Columbus pleaded for funds to find a shorter passage to the Orient. Our guide also pointed out where the initials of Ferdinand and Isabella (spelled Ysabella) were carved in stucco among the motifs and Arabic words along with the crown of the reigning monarchs.
The conquerors continued their redecorating by filling in some of the stucco carving with whitewash and both Charles V (1500 – 1558) and Philip V (1683 – 1746) destroyed portions of the original complex in order to erect their own palaces. (In fact, by the end of our fascinating tour, we were actively cursing the barbarous Spanish for their sacrilege and intolerance. The destruction of such beauty was, to our modern and secular minds, unconscionable.)
The game of empire building, which ran rampant throughout Europe at this time, continued when France, under the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, invaded the Iberian Peninsula and in 1812 overran the southernmost part of Spain, including the Alhambra and Granada. Decamping the Alhambra a few months later, the French, under the command of Napoleon's brother Joseph, an inefficient and apparently venial and vindictive King of Spain, ordered sappers to mine the Alhambra. An observant and brave Spanish citizen reached the fuses and removed them from the explosives, interrupting the chain of detonations that had been intended to level these magnificent structures. As a result, only a minimum of damage on the periphery was visited upon the Alhambra.
The mighty Alhambra fell on hard times, forgotten and neglected. Squatters set up house. In 1828, after visiting Madrid and writing a tract on his travels and observations, the American author Washington Irving journeyed to Granada where he encountered the Alhambra. After taking up residence as a kind of "literary squatter" he was inspired by his experience to write "Tales of the Alhambra" which was published in 1832. It reintroduced the Alhambra to the West and the renewed interest assisted in the preservation on the Palace. Spain recognized the Alhambra as a national artistic monument and initiated several decrees beginning in 1870 with the goal of preserving the complex.
Nothing we had read, none of the photographs we had viewed, none of the conversations with those who had previously been there, could have prepared us for what we encountered at the Alhambra. The immensity of the Alhambra cannot be fully appreciated until you are there. The staggering redundancy of beauty, opulence and craftsmanship simply overwhelms the senses. Poets centuries ago called the Alhambra a "Paradise on earth" and we wholeheartedly agree. And after visiting this UNESCO World Heritage Site we suspect that the spirit of Allah still resides among the beauty that was designed to glorify him.
Allah – Arabic translation
By Richard and Anita


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Tillus elongatus est une espèce d'insectes coléoptères de la famille des Cleridae.

Description
Femelle au prothorax rouge, mâle entièrement noir.

Répartition
De l'Espagne à la Scandinavie.

Biologie
Sa larve se nourrit d'insectes xylophages de la famille des Anobiidae (surtout l'espèce Ptilinus pectinicornis et les membres du genre Anobium) et son habitat est contraint à celui de ses proies. On le trouve en général sur des troncs de feuillus morts.

Synonymes
 Chrysomela elongatus Linnaeus, 1758
 Lagria ruficollis Herbst, 1758
 Lagria marchiae Gmelin, 1788
 Lagria ater Fabricius, 1792
 Cylinder coeruleus Voet, 1806
 Tillus aterrimus Eschscholtz, 1818
 Tillus niger Ragusa, 1896

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Espèce de Coléoptères (nom scientifique)
Cleridae


It was a long-awaited speech. Here in the Netherlands, people have been waiting impatiently for David Cameron's arrival to The Hague and finally sighed because it was cancelled due to heavy snow. If only the speech were scheduled here today as I am writing, sitting in a café while glancing outside from time to time to enjoy the white picture of a sunny winter afternoon!
The speech was given yesterday morning. Its content was quite explicative and daring. To sum it up very roughly, the Prime Minister explains the UK's vision of the European Union and the reasons why he is planning to hold an in-out referendum, although not for now but after the next UK general election (May 2015). No, the UK is not planning to leave the EU (because the consequences for the country and the EU itself would be disastrous). It wants the EU to consider the UK's vision of the EU, based on "five principles": Competitiveness, flexibility, a better circulation or balance of powers (allowing certain powers to flow back to the member states rather than just one way -from the Member states to the EU), democratic accountability and fairness. This is not completely an intergovernmental view of integration, yet a step further from the supranational view.
David Cameron has been certainly heard by EU leaders. Is he going to find allies to realise this vision within the EU? The Netherlands' government seems to be the most open, showing its willingness to welcome him to deliver his speech on Dutch soil. Moreover, the Netherlands have been showing supports for the UK's strong measures of austerity to confront the EU financial and debt crises. So, what do you think about this?
Disclaimer: You can read and watch the full speech here.