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Bishop Paprocki Supports Priest Who Denied Communion to Pro-Abortion Senator Dick DurbinBy
Bishop Thomas Paprocki has once again shown his resolute courage in defending the Faith.
He's also shown that he supports his priests when they make tough decisions for the good of the faithful, and that's something we don't always see.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (Dem., Planned Parenthood) is a Catholic, a democrat, and an outspoken supporter of abortion.
But let's not be redundant.
Anyway, the pastor of Durbin's home parish in the Diocese of Springfield, probably thinking that offering the Holy Eucharist to a rabid apostle of genocide would be a bit awkward, and maybe slightly offensive to certain people, like Jesus, did the reasonable thing (and the correct thing under Canon Law 915) and told Senator Durbin, sorry, no Communion for you.
And Bishop Paprocki's response? That's my priest, yo.
Quoth the shepherd:
"Senator Durbin was informed several years ago by his pastor at Blessed Sacrament Parish here in Springfield that he was not permitted to receive Holy Communion per canon 915 of the Code of Canon Law," Paprocki wrote. "My predecessor upheld that decision and it remains in effect. It is my understanding that the senator is complying with that decision here in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois."
There's something comforting about a bishop who acts like a bishop. Comforting for that pastor, no doubt, and for the other priests in the Diocese of Springfield, but also for us, even if we don't live in his diocese. I'm not talking about a sense of schadenfreude or triumphalist pleasure at the sight of a scoundrel getting his comeuppance. Dick Durbin, like any pro-abortion Catholic is a tragic figure whose soul is to be pitied and prayed for.
What I'm talking about is the sense of peace and security one gets knowing that someone in a position of leadership is ready to stand between you and the onslaught and state the Truth with courage and clarity. In an age of ever-increasing attacks on the Church, the faithful need to know they are looked after, the way a child needs to know that his father will protect him from any threats from the outside world.
In an age of wolves, we need shepherds.
Bishop Paprocki is one of the best.
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This saddens me. We discourage people from changing viewpoints when we shut them out. This is not love. This is judgement. And we are not encouraging a dialog. We are shutting people out. I am a democrat who disagrees strongly with abortion. However, we lose the battle by acts such as these.
Corrine, while I understand your viewpoint and I myself try very hard to educate without shutting people out. However, Jesus calls us to be his disciples and to lead the right way. Taking communion with a mortal sin on your soul is just another mortal sin. Administering communion to someone you know supports an organization that blatantly disregards the basics of the Catholic church would be wrong. I think denying him communion was the right thing but perhaps after mass he should have pulled the Senator aside and said should you change your views and receive the grace of confession you are welcome to receive the Eucharist again. We must remember this isn't a symbol of Jesus' body and blood but Him actually we are receiving. Therefore it must be treated with the up-most dignity and respect. God Bless!
It would be worse to give the senator communion, because it would give scandal to the Catholic Faith. If one gives holy communion to someone who advocates abortion and is in favor of it, then it is like telling the person that it is okay for him/her to hold those views, that no change is necessary. However, denial of holy communion, to one who actually believes, should cause him/her to reflect and give thought to the reason of the refusal. If such contemplation or reflection upon the reason of refusal does not occur, most likely the senator could care less from a religious point of view why he was denied, just that he was denied. Most likely, too, he shouldn't have too hard a time finding another priest who would give him holy communion. And while I do not actually believe anymore that the Norvus Ordo consecrations are valid, or the entire Norvus Ordo "church," that is a different topic. To give scandal to the faith by allowing someone to continue in error and silently permit his view points to override God's laws, is wrong.


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The Bombay High Court on Friday rejected an application made by scam-tainted Adarsh Housing Society opposing the title suit filed by Union Ministry of Defence claiming ownership on the land in South Mumbai where the plush building stands.
The Defence Ministry had in December 2012 filed a title suit in the High Court stating that the land in Colaba where the 31-storey Adarsh building is constructed belongs to them (Defence Ministry) and possession should be handed back to them.
The Defence Ministry alleged that the Adarsh building has been constructed "illegally and unlawfully". It further states that MoD is the sole owner of the land and that the land was transferred to Adarsh Society by fraud, collusion and connivance on the part of the society members, ministers and bureaucrats of the state government.
The Society had, however, filed an application opposing the title suit on the ground that only the Defence Estate Officer (DEO) can file title suits on behalf of the Defence Ministry.
The Society relied on an order passed by the General Governor Council and the Government of India in 1930.
"The Society also relied on the military land manual which says that only the defence estate officer is authorised to file and conduct a title suit in court on behalf of the Ministry of Defence," the Society's lawyer Saket Mone from Vidhi law firm argued.
The Defence Ministry refuted this and argued that the ministry is empowered to file and conduct title suits.
Justice Roshan Dalvi today heard arguments from both sides and rejected the Society's application.
Meanwhile in a related development, a division bench of Justices P V Hardas and A S Gadkari refused to hear a public interest litigation filed by former journalist Ketan Tirodkar alleging that CBI has failed to arraign as accused family members of several politicians who own flats in the society under benami names.
CBI had filed a supplementary chargesheet in March this year against 44 persons including BJP Rajya Sabha member Ajay Sancheti and his family members for owning benami flats in Adarsh building.
Out of the 103 flats, CBI claimed to have unearthed 22 benami properties. Sancheti, his brother Abhay Sancheti and nephew Paramveer Shancheti and his M/S San Finance Corporation in Nagpur allegedly are the proxy owner of eight flats.
Similarly former Congress MLC Kanhaiyalal Gidwani and his sons allegedly own six benami flats. The CBI has also named Major General (retd.) TK Kaul in the chargesheet for allegedly owing three benami flats in Adarsh society.
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So Eric Schneiderman's team is a little upset with me, I assume, over this post. I can only assume it, because I haven't had any direct contact. But indirectly, I've heard accusations of "misinformation and outright misrepresentations" lodged at me. I guess I'm not on the good guys team to get a phone call anymore. Ah well.
Nevertheless, gracious sort that I am, let me allow Schneiderman's office to explain themselves, without a filter. Here's the set of talking points passed my way that lays out what happened and where we go from here. I'm happy to post this in full without alteration. I'll be back at the end for a few comments.
What the MERS agreement does?
• Required multistate settlement release to explicitly carve out all of AG's claims in the pending MERS suit against Chase, Wells, and Bank of America, as well as similar claim that may be asserted in the future against Citi and Ally.
• AG agrees to not pursue certain monetary claims (primarily penalty claims under NY General Business law) in exchange for payment of $25 million in cash. (The allocation of the payments among the 5 banks is set forth in Para. 5 of agreement.)
• The agreement is not part of the multistate settlement. The banks chose to submit the agreement to the DC Court because it has some relationship to the multistate agreement, in that it narrowed the claims NY was releasing.
What the MERS agreement does not do?
• AG still may pursue claims for damages suffered by borrowers, homeowners, or consumers as a result of illegal conduct alleged in the MERS suit. There is a very narrow exception – the State may not recover damages if the only evidence it can ultimate show of unlawful conduct is "robo-signing," a very small portion of the MERS suit which focuses primarily on other foreclosure-related practices.
• AG may still pursue injunctive relief against banks (i.e., court order directing banks to reform ways they use MERS system, stopping illegal and deceptive foreclosure filing practices, including filing foreclosure actions where party lacks authority to sue, and directing banks to take all necessary actions to cure any title defects and improper liens resulting from illegal and deceptive practices). The only "injunctive relief" the AG agrees not to pursue is a court order specifically vacating foreclosure judgments already entered into before MERS suit was filed – relief that the AG did not ask for in the suit and did not intend to seek.
• AG may still pursue declaratory relief against banks and obtain a court decision that the practices alleged in the complaint violate the law.
• AG did not release any claims against MERSCORP, Inc., including penalty claims. The banks own MERSCORP and thus may indirectly be responsible for penalties imposed against MERCORP.
Why the settlement is good for New York?
• New York obtains an additional $25 million that can be used help distressed homeowners in NY. By getting this money now as opposed to years from now in a court judgment, we can help people now.
• Initially, New York could not join the multistate agreement and receive the $107 million and benefits for homeowners (i.e., loans mods, refinancing, etc.) and pursue the MERS suit because the types of claims raised against the banks in the MERS suit are waived by other states. We were able to successfully negotiate a path to obtain the benefits of the multistate agreement while still being able to pursue the MERS lawsuit claims against the banks – something no other state can do because they released these claims. (except Delaware which negotiated a substantially similar agreement but current has no pending lawsuit against the banks targeting MERS-related conduct)
• There are substantial legal restrictions on how much penalties we could recover from the banks. First, the legal cap on penalties is $5000 per violation. Second, we only could obtain penalties going back 3 years to Feb. 2009 – the pace of foreclosure filings dramatically dropped starting in late 2010. Taking into account these very real legal restrictions, receiving $25 million is a very good deal.
• We can continue to pursue the primary goals of the MERS lawsuit: a) obtaining a court order directing the banks and MERS to stop engaging in illegal practices and dramatically reform their conduct; b) obtaining a court order requiring the banks and MERS to take all remedial actions to resolve any title problems created by their prior illegal practices (i.e., clean up the mess they made); and c) obtaining a court ruling declaring the practices set forth in the complaint illegal.
OK, that's their argument. [cont'd]Fair enough. I never said it was a full settlement, and mentioned that Schneiderman can still pursue claims for damages suffered by borrowers. It's interesting that the language used here — "clean up the mess they made" — mirrors the language in the Jeff Thigpen suit just released.
I guess I have a few questions. One, if the constraints on the suit as far as penalties were well-known, why engage in that part of the suit? Two, if the suit was always meant to be forward-looking, what will constitute the evidence to get MERS to change their practices? Three, if MERSCORP, a shell corporation, declares bankruptcy as a result of its legal exposure, how do you expect to ever acquire penalties?
I have more questions, but my hope is that there can be a dialogue on these issues rather than a dictation. And ultimately, I'm going to look to results to guide my opinions on Schneiderman and his relative success. Given not only the outcome of this lawsuit, but the relative quiet of the task force, and most important, signing on to a settlement that looks increasingly disappointing, we're not off to the best start.


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Created: 08/16/2014 10:31 PM KSTP.com
By: Josh Rosenthal
What a day to be a Minnesota sports fan.
The Minnesota Vikings, Twins and Lynx all played Saturday in Minneapolis, which is great news for thousands of fans. The only potential problem: All of those fans had to get to the games.
Many took the light rail.
"It's a little packed there," said Dan Vang, "but it's nice because you have the ambiance of having fans go with you too."
Metro Transit expected more than 11,000 riders Saturday. To handle the crowds, it has all of its trains - more than 80 of them - on the tracks. Also, for the first time at a Vikings game, it sold single round trip light rail tickets online, and it encouraged riders at the Vikings game to buy their return tickets early.
"If you need train tickets for the ride home, buy them now, save time after the game," shouted one worker outside of the game as people walked off the light rail.
We wanted to see how it all worked out. So we hopped on the Green Line at Target Field, and at 5:22 p.m., we rode the seven stops to Stadium Village in 18 minutes.
"Very pleased," Wayne Viessman said of his light rail ride, "and I'm a country boy. I'm from South Dakota."
Metro Transit also added busses to Saturday's schedule, and they kept the extra light rail trains running even after the Vikings game Saturday night.


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| Section8 = }} Ammonia is a compound with the formula NH3. It is normally encountered as a gas with a characteristic pungent odor. Ammonia contributes significantly to the nutritional needs of terrestrial organisms by serving as a precursor to foodstuffs and fertilizers. Ammonia, either directly or indirectly, is also a building block for the synthesis of many pharmaceuticals. Although in wide use, ammonia is both caustic and hazardous. In 2006, worldwide production was estimated at 146.5 M tonnes.
Ammonia, as used commercially, is often called anhydrous ammonia. This term emphasizes the absence of water in the material. Because NH3 boils at -33 °C, the liquid must be stored under high pressure or at low temperature. Its heat of vaporization is, however, sufficiently great that NH3 can be readily handled in ordinary beakers in a fume hood. "Household ammonia" or "ammonium hydroxide" is a solution of NH3 in water. The strength of such solutions is measured in units of baume (density), with 26 degrees baume (about 30 weight percent ammonia at 15.5 °C) being the typical high concentration commercial product. Household ammonia ranges in concentration from 5 to 10 weight percent ammonia.
The main use of ammonia is for fertilizer (83% in 2003). Another major application is its conversion to explosives, because nitric acid is made via oxidation of ammonia. The entire nitrogen content of all manufactured organic compounds is derived from ammonia.
In the form of sal-ammoniac, ammonia was known to the Arabic alchemists as early as the 8th century, first mentioned by Geber (Jabir ibn Hayyan), and to the European alchemists since the 13th century, being mentioned by Albertus Magnus. It was also used by dyers in the Middle Ages in the form of fermented urine to alter the colour of vegetable dyes. In the 15th century, Basilius Valentinus showed that ammonia could be obtained by the action of alkalis on sal-ammoniac. At a later period, when sal-ammoniac was obtained by distilling the hoofs and horns of oxen and neutralizing the resulting carbonate with hydrochloric acid, the name "spirit of hartshorn" was applied to ammonia.
Gaseous ammonia was first isolated by Joseph Priestley in 1774 and was termed by him alkaline air; however it was acquired by the alchemist Basil Valentine. Eleven years later in 1785, Claude Louis Berthollet ascertained its composition.
The Haber process to produce ammonia from the nitrogen in the air was developed by Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch in 1909 and patented in 1910. It was first used on an industrial scale by the Germans during World War I, following the allied blockade that cut off the supply of nitrates from Chile. The ammonia was used to produce explosives to sustain their war effort.
Prior to the advent of cheap natural gas, hydrogen as a precursor to ammonia production was produced via the electrolysis of water. The Vemork 60 MW hydroelectric plant in Norway constructed in 1911 was used purely for this purpose and up until the second world war provided the majority of Europe's ammonia.
Because of its many uses, ammonia is one of the most highly produced inorganic chemicals. Dozens of chemical plants worldwide produce ammonia. The worldwide ammonia production in 2004 was 109 million metric tonnes. The People's Republic of China produced 28.4% of the worldwide production followed by India with 8.6%, Russia with 8.4%, and the United States with 8.2%. About 80% or more of the ammonia produced is used for fertilizing agricultural crops.
Before the start of World War I, most ammonia was obtained by the dry distillation of nitrogenous vegetable and animal waste products, including camel dung, where it was distilled by the reduction of nitrous acid and nitrites with hydrogen; in addition, it was produced by the distillation of coal, and also by the decomposition of ammonium salts by alkaline hydroxides such as quicklime, the salt most generally used being the chloride (sal-ammoniac) thus:
(Two molecules of ammonium chloride plus two calcium oxide yields calcium chloride and calcium hydroxide and two molecules of ammonia)
Today, the typical modern ammonia-producing plant first converts natural gas (i.e., methane) or liquified petroleum gas (such gases are propane and butane) or petroleum naphtha into gaseous hydrogen. The processes used in producing the hydrogen begins with removal of sulfur compounds from the natural gas (because sulfur deactivates the catalysts used in subsequent steps). Catalytic hydrogenation converts organosulfur compounds into gaseous hydrogen sulfide:
Hydrogen required for ammonia synthesis could in principle be obtained from other sources, but these alternatives - apart from the electrolysis of water into oxygen + hydrogen - are presently impractical. At one time, most of Europe's ammonia was produced from the Hydro plant at Vemork, via the electrolysis route. Various renewable energy electricity sources are also potentially applicable.
Ammonia is also a metabolic product of amino acid deamination. Ammonia excretion is common in aquatic animals. In humans, it is quickly converted to urea, which is much less toxic. This urea is a major component of the dry weight of urine. Most reptiles, including birds, as well as insects and snails solely excrete uric acid as nitrogenous waste.
It is miscible with water. Ammonia in an aqueous solution can be expelled by boiling. The aqueous solution of ammonia is basic. The maximum concentration of ammonia in water (a saturated solution) has a density of 0.880 g /cm³ and is often known as '.880 Ammonia'. Ammonia does not burn readily or sustain combustion, except under narrow fuel-to-air mixtures of 15-25% air. When mixed with oxygen, it burns with a pale yellowish-green flame. At high temperature and in the presence of a suitable catalyst, ammonia is decomposed into its constituent elements. Ignition occurs when chlorine is passed into ammonia, forming nitrogen and hydrogen chloride; if ammonia is present in excess, then the highly explosive nitrogen trichloride (NCl3) is also formed.
The ammonia molecule readily undergoes nitrogen inversion at room temperature; a useful analogy is an umbrella turning itself inside out in a strong wind. The energy barrier to this inversion is 24.7 kJ/mol, and the resonance frequency is 23.79 GHz, corresponding to microwave radiation of a wavelength of 1.260 cm. The absorption at this frequency was the first microwave spectrum to be observed.
The salts produced by the action of ammonia on acids are known as the Ammonium compounds and all contain the ammonium ion (NH4+). Anhydrous ammonia is often used for the production of methamphetamine.
In this Brønsted-Lowry acid-base reaction, ammonia serves as an acid.
The combustion of ammonia in air is very difficult in the absence of a catalyst (such as platinum gauze), as the temperature of the flame is usually lower than the ignition temperature of the ammonia-air mixture. The flammable range of ammonia in air is 16–25%.
Amides can be prepared by the reaction of ammonia with a number of carboxylic acid derivatives. Acyl chlorides are the most reactive, but the ammonia must be present in at least a twofold excess to neutralise the hydrogen chloride formed. Esters and anhydrides also react with ammonia to form amides. Ammonium salts of carboxylic acids can be dehydrated to amides so long as there are no thermally sensitive groups present: temperatures of 150–200 °C are required.
The hydrogen in ammonia is capable of replacement by metals, thus magnesium burns in the gas with the formation of magnesium nitride Mg3N2, and when the gas is passed over heated sodium or potassium, sodamide, NaNH2, and potassamide, KNH2, are formed. Where necessary in substitutive nomenclature, IUPAC recommendations prefer the name azane to ammonia: hence chloramine would be named chloroazane in substitutive nomenclature, not chloroammonia.
Ammonia can act as a ligand in transition metal complexes. It is a pure σ-donor, in the middle of the spectrochemical series, and shows intermediate hard-soft behaviour. For historical reasons, ammonia is named ammine in the nomenclature of coordination compounds. Some notable ammine complexes include:
Ammine complexes of chromium(III) were known in the late 19th century, and formed the basis of Alfred Werner's theory of coordination compounds. Werner noted that only two isomers (fac- and mer-) of the complex [CrCl3(NH3)3] could be formed, and concluded that the ligands must be arranged around the metal ion at the vertex of an octahedron. This has since been confirmed by X-ray crystallography.
An ammine ligand bound to a metal ion is markedly more acidic than a free ammonia molecule, although deprotonation in aqueous solution is still rare. One example is the Calomel reaction, where the resulting amidomercury(II) compound is highly insoluble.
The calorific value of ammonia is 22.5 MJ/kg (9690 BTU/lb) which is about half that of diesel. In a normal engine, in which the water vapour is not condensed, the calorific value of ammonia will be about 21% less than this figure.
Ammonia also plays a role in both normal and abnormal animal physiology. Ammonia is created through normal amino acid metabolism and is toxic in high concentrations. The liver converts ammonia to urea through a series of reactions known as the urea cycle. Liver dysfunction, such as that seen in cirrhosis, may lead to elevated amounts of ammonia in the blood (hyperammonemia). Likewise, defects in the enzymes responsible for the urea cycle, such as ornithine transcarbamylase, lead to hyperammonemia. Hyperammonemia contributes to the confusion and coma of hepatic encephalopathy as well as the neurologic disease common in people with urea cycle defects and organic acidurias.
Ammonia is important for normal animal acid/base balance. After formation of ammonium from glutamine, α-ketoglutarate may be degraded to produce two molecules of bicarbonate which are then available as buffers for dietary acids. Ammonium is excreted in the urine resulting in net acid loss. Ammonia may itself diffuse across the renal tubules, combine with a hydrogen ion, and thus allow for further acid excretion.
|Solubility (g of salt per 100 g liquid NH3)
|Ammonium acetate
|Ammonium nitrate
|Lithium nitrate
|Sodium nitrate
|Potassium nitrate
|Sodium fluoride
|Sodium chloride
|Sodium bromide
|Sodium iodide
|Sodium thiocyanate
Liquid ammonia is an ionizing solvent, although less so than water, and dissolves a range of ionic compounds including many nitrates, nitrites, cyanides and thiocyanates. Most ammonium salts are soluble, and these salts act as acids in liquid ammonia solutions. The solubility of halide salts increases from fluoride to iodide. A saturated solution of ammonium nitrate contains 0.83 mol solute per mole of ammonia, and has a vapour pressure of less than 1 bar even at 25 °C.
These solutions are very useful as strong reducing agents. At higher concentrations, the solutions are metallic in appearance and in electrical conductivity. At low temperatures, the two types of solution can coexist as immiscible phases.
|E° (V, ammonia)
|E° (V, water)
|Li+ + e− ⇌ Li
|K+ + e− ⇌ K
|Na+ + e− ⇌ Na
|Zn2+ + 2e− ⇌ Zn
|NH4+ + e− ⇌ ½ H2 + NH3
|Cu2+ + 2e− ⇌ Cu
|Ag+ + e− ⇌ Ag
The range of thermodynamic stability of liquid ammonia solutions is very narrow, as the potential for oxidation to dinitrogen, E° (N2 + 6NH4+ + 6e− ⇌ 8NH3), is only +0.04 V. In practice, both oxidation to dinitrogen and reduction to dihydrogen are slow. This is particularly true of reducing solutions: the solutions of the alkali metals mentioned above are stable for several days, slowly decomposing to the metal amide and dihydrogen. Most studies involving liquid ammonia solutions are done in reducing conditions: although oxidation of liquid ammonia is usually slow, there is still a risk of explosion, particularly if transition metal ions are present as possible catalysts.
The following isotopic species of ammonia have been detected:deuterated ammonia was considered a surprise as deuterium is relatively scarce. It is thought that the low-temperature conditions allow this molecule to survive and accumulate. The ammonia molecule has also been detected in the atmospheres of the gas giant planets, including Jupiter, along with other gases like methane, hydrogen, and helium. The interior of Saturn may include frozen crystals of ammonia.
The toxicity of ammonia solutions does not usually cause problems for humans and other mammals, as a specific mechanism exists to prevent its build-up in the bloodstream. Ammonia is converted to carbamoyl phosphate by the enzyme carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, and then enters the urea cycle to be either incorporated into amino acids or excreted in the urine. However fish and amphibians lack this mechanism, as they can usually eliminate ammonia from their bodies by direct excretion. Ammonia even at dilute concentrations is highly toxic to aquatic animals, and for this reason it is classified as dangerous for the environment. Ammonium compounds should never be allowed to come in contact with bases (unless in an intended and contained reaction), as dangerous quantities of ammonia gas could be released.
| Concentration
by weight (w/w)
| Concentration
Mass/Volume (w/v)
|2.87–5.62 mol/L
|48.9–95.7 g/L
|Irritant (Xi)
|5.62–13.29 mol/L
|95.7–226.3 g/L
|Corrosive (C)
|>13.29 mol/L
|>226.3 g/L
| Corrosive (C)
Dangerous for
the environment (N)
The ammonia vapour from concentrated ammonia solutions is severely irritating to the eyes and the respiratory tract, and these solutions should only be handled in a fume hood. Saturated ("0.880") solutions can develop a significant pressure inside a closed bottle in warm weather, and the bottle should be opened with care: this is not usually a problem for 25% ("0.900") solutions.
Ammonia solutions should not be mixed with halogens, as toxic and/or explosive products are formed. Prolonged contact of ammonia solutions with silver, mercury or iodide salts can also lead to explosive products: such mixtures are often formed in qualitative chemical analysis, and should not be acidified and concentrated before disposal once the test is completed.
Ammonia reacts violently with the halogens. Nitrogen triiodide is formed when ammonia comes in contact with iodine. It causes the explosive polymerization of ethylene oxide. It also forms explosive fulminating compounds with compounds of gold, silver, mercury, germanium or tellurium, and with stibine. Violent reactions have also been reported with acetaldehyde, hypochlorite solutions, potassium ferricyanide and peroxides.


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FRIDAY - March 19, 2010
RALEIGH - United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that in federal court yesterday United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MICHAEL CARL STEVENSON, 46, of Wilmington, North Carolina, to 121 months' imprisonment followed by five years supervised release.
A Federal Grand Jury returned a Superseding Criminal Indictment on May 7, 2009. On December 3, 2009, a federal jury found STEVENSON guilty of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
According to evidence presented at trial, on November 26, 2007, the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office was contacted and informed that, co-defendant, Robert Ed Beatty, Jr., a known drug dealer who has served time in state prison on drug charges, wanted to come to Richmond County to buy half a kilogram of cocaine and bring his brother, STEVENSON, and uncle. A controlled buy was
arranged for the following day. When they met up in a parking lot, there were three men in the car; Beatty, STEVENSON and co-defendant James Patterson. Once it was determined by each party that the money and the drugs were present, the exchange location was moved. Once the cars began to move, law enforcement moved in to make the arrest.
It was learned that STEVENSON, a police officer with the Burgaw Police Department at the time, had rented the car in Wilmington, in which the three defendants had traveled. Further evidence presented at trial revealed that three Narco kits were found in the rental vehicle for the purpose of testing drugs, which had been given to Beatty by his brother, STEVENSON. STEVENSON traveled with Beatty and Patterson to provide cover for the drug purchase so that if the three were stopped by law enforcement he could show his badge to the officer in the hopes of being allowed to pass without being searched. Trial evidence also showed that STEVENSON was in possession of a police cell phone, which was a duty phone not to be taken out of the area, on which he called in and ran the plate number of the other vehicle.
Testimony at trial revealed that STEVENSON had previously stored narcotics at his residence for Beatty to avoid detection by law enforcement and that STEVENSON profited from it.
Investigation of this case was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, the Richmond County Sheriff's Office, and the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office. Assistant United States Attorney Denise Walker represented the government.
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Honduran Charged With Illegally ReEntering U.S. After Removal
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Acting United States Attorney Robert S. Cessar announced today, May 25, 2010, that Abraham Cruz‑Paz, a/k/a Jose Abraham Cruz‑Paz of Honduras, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal immigration laws.
The one‑count indictment names Cruz‑Paz, age 28, of Honduras, as the sole defendant.
According to the one‑count indictment presented to the court, Cruz‑Paz, an alien from Honduras, was removed from the United States on April 4, 2006, and December 5, 2007, and then reentered the United States and was found in Lawrence County on or about May 2, 2010, without having applied for and received permission from the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Assistant United States Attorney A. Elliot McLean, who presented the case to the grand jury, indicated that the law provides for a maximum total sentence of not more than 2 years in prison, a fine of $250,000.00, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed would be based upon the seriousness of the offense and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Hermitage Police Department conducted the investigation leading to the indictment in this case.
An indictment is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt. A defendant is presumed innocent and is entitled to a fair trial at which the government must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Student Number 943208012 Author Jhih-jie You(游智傑) Author's Email Address email@example.com Statistics This thesis had been viewed 1715 times. Download 275 times. Department Energy of Mechatronics Year 2006 Semester 2 Degree Master Type of Document Master's Thesis Language zh-TW.Big5 Chinese Title Quantitative Measurements of A Low-NOx Burner with the Consideration of Hydrogen Addition Date of Defense 2007-07-10 Page Count 78 Keyword hydrogen addition low-NOx burner particle image velocimetry turbulent burning velocity wavelet transform Abstract In 1995, Bédat & Cheng (B & C) proposed a low swirl burner which can enhance flame stability, reduce NOx formation and increase thermal efficiency. In this study we apply the concept of B & C to design and make a low swirl jet burner (LSJB) for measurements of turbulent burning velocities (ST) and investigation of the effect of hydrogen addition for the first time. Lean methane doping with 0 ~ 30% hydrogen by volume as a fuel is used. Quantitative measurements of velocity fields including both average velocities (U) and r.m.s turbulent intensities (u') from the nozzle exit to the stabilized bowl-shape flame and above are obtained using high-speed particle imaging velocimetry (PIV). The value of ST is chosen as the value of U just at the bottom position of the stabilized bowl-shape flame. Identification of the stable operation ranges between flashback and blowoff limits of the LSJB is also made over a range of a swirling number (S) defined as the ratio of the axial flux of the angular momentum divided by the radius of the burner exit to the axial flux of the linear momentum, and the jet Reynolds number (Rej). We apply the wavelet transform (WT) to analyze spatiotemporal scales of the LSJB using these PIV time sequent data for the first time. [NOx] and [CO] in the products are measured by the gas analyzer. Thus, the knowledge of hydrogen addition on lean premixed combustion can be learned. The results show that the stable combustion ranges of S for the LSJB becomes narrower with increasing Rej. PIV measurements indicate that at the same lowermost point of the bowl-shaped flame, U of nonreacting cold flow is twice more in magnitude than that of reacting hot flow with about the same u'. Probability density functions and energy spectra of reacting hot flows indicate that the present flow is not isotropic and this result differs with that found by B & C. The spatial characteristic length scales, approximate to the Taylor length scale, determined from the axial and radial velocity data along the nozzle axis using WT are found to be approximately the same as the thicknesses of a mean progress variable (flame brush thickness), about 0.8 cm. Temporal characteristic scales are also identified by the WT analysis and both values are roughly the same in both axial and radial directions. The measured values of ST and u' are found to increase with increasing Rej, at least in the range of Rej = 4,700 ~ 11,000, where errors of values of ST and u' at a fixed Rej cannot be neglected especially when S approaching blowoff limits. Moreover, by adding a small amount of hydrogen [CO] can be significantly reduced with only a slightly increase of [NOx]. As the hydrogen addition increases from 0% to 30%, values of ST can be increased 30% more the increases of u' smaller than 10%, and [NOx] and [CO] vary from 0 to 1.7 ppm and from 5,500 to 2,500 ppm, respectively. Hence, it is concluded that the present LSJB cannot be as a benchmark device for accurate measurements of ST, but it is indeed an excellent low-NOx burner which can be need in many practical applications such as gas turbines for electricity generation. Table of Content 目錄
第一章 前言1
第二章 文獻回顧5
第三章 實驗設備與方法19
3.3雷射斷層攝影術(Laser tomography)22
3.4高速質點影像測速技術(Particle image velocimetry)24
第四章 結果與討論34
第五章 結論與未來工作57
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Nampa is located about 20 miles west of Boise along Interstate 84. The city is considered part of the Boise metropolitan area.
Nobody knows for sure where Nampa got its name. The belief is that it came from a Native American word for moccasin. Native Americans stuffed their moccasins with sagebrush to keep warm, making a larger footprint.
Nampa was founded in 1886 by Europeans,and a year later had grown from 15 homes to 50. As new amenities were added to the town, Nampa continued to grow. It was incorporated in 1890.
Unlike most towns in that historic era with streets running true north and south, Nampa's historic roads run perpendicular to the railroad tracks that travel northwest to southeast through the town. Thus, the northside is really the northeast side of the tracks, and the southside is really the southwest side of the railroad tracks. Founder Alexander Duffes laid out Nampa's streets this way to prevent an accident like one that occurred earlier in a town he had platted near Toronto, Canada. In that town, a woman and her two children were killed by a train when they started across the railroad tracks in a buggy and the wheel got stuck. Nampa has the fanciest of many Oregon Short Line Railroad depots built in the area.
The first elementary school was built in the 1890s. Lakeview school was located on a hill on 6th Street and 12th Avenue North, with a view of Lake Ethel. Just after the school's centennial celebration, it was condemned as a school and sold to the First Mennonite Church. In 2008 the building was refurbished, and is now being used by the Idaho Arts Charter School.
Lake Ethel was later drained because it caused some flooding in neighboring homes. The area was converted to Lakeview Park. It is Nampa's largest park and many community celebrations are held there.
Colonel William H. Dewey, a man who made a fortune mining in Silver City, seeing the advantage of 4 railroad lines, built the elegant Dewey Palace Hotel in 1902 for a quarter of a million dollars. Colonel Dewey died in his hotel in 1903, leaving his son a million dollars. The hotel survived the great fire of 1909, which burned several blocks of downtown Nampa, but was razed in 1963 because no one wanted to invest in renovating the grand structure. Relics from the hotel, such as the chandelier and the hotel safe can be found at the Canyon County Historical Museum, which is housed in the old train depot on Front Street and Nampa City Hall. After demolition the location on first street between 11th and 12th Ave. South was sold to private enterprise including a bank and tire store replacing this historic building with the current modern structures. A public-use postage stamp sized park was later placed across the street from the old palace property as a collaboration between the Downtown Alliance of Nampa (the local business council) and an Eagle Scout Project for the Boy Scouts of America. The park includes a large mural/wall sculpture of running horses that was commissioned for the project.
A Carnegie library was built downtown in 1908. It burned down after the library moved in 1966. The Nampa Public Library is now located on the corner of 1st Street and 11th Avenue South in the old bank building.
Deer Flat Reservoir, an offstream irrigation storage reservoir, was constructed by the United States Reclamation Service between 1906 and 1911. Known locally as Lake Lowell, it is surrounded by the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, which was established in 1909 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The refuge is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Idaho State School and Hospital was built in Nampa in 1910, for the state's developmentally challenged population. It opened in 1918. The institution was largely self sufficient. It had a large farm which was worked by the residents. The higher functioning residents also cared for residents who couldn't do anything for themselves. Much has changed in the care of persons with developmental disabilities from the time of the state school's opening. The old farm has been sold as a golf course, and residents no longer give primary care to other residents. The institution is much more modern and remains in operation, though a few of the old buildings are now used to house juvenile offenders.
Nampa held an annual harvest festival and farmers' market from about 1908. It was a time of celebration and community fun. From this festival emerged the Snake River Stampede Rodeo in 1937, which continues to this day. It is one of the top twelve rodeos in the pro rodeo circuits.
A local congregation of the Church of the Nazarene built a small elementary school in 1913, later growing to Northwest Nazarene College in 1915 and finally to Northwest Nazarene University. The university currently educates about 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students.
In 1965, the Karcher Mall was built, becoming the first indoor shopping mall in the Treasure Valley. Many area residents have memories of having an Orange Julius, sitting on Santa's lap (Arthur Yensen), or playing games at the Red Baron arcade in the mall. Karcher Mall was "the place to gather" for several decades until the Boise Towne Square was built in Boise in 1988, drawing the business and shoppers away. Karcher Mall, having struggled for many years, is now making a comeback. With the new I-84 interchange nearby, the area is booming with new business.
Nampa is growing fast, with new homes, new shopping centers and new roads. Treasure Valley Marketplace north of the Karcher Interchange has Costco, Target, Best Buy, Cost Plus World Market, Olive Garden, Michael's, DressBarn, Old Navy, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Kohl's. Across from it, is Sportsman's Warehouse and a McDonald's is currently under construction. Off the Garrity Exit, near the Idaho Center, Nampa Gateway Center has J.C. Penney. Other large retailers such as Wal-Mart and Sam's Club are in the same area.
The Idaho Press-Tribune is the local newspaper for the Canyon County area.
Nampa also is home to part of the Vallivue School District. Which has Sage Valley Middle School, Desert Springs Elementary, Birch Elementary, and East Canyon Elementary all located in Nampa.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 19.9 square miles. 19.9 sq mi of it is land and 0.04 sq mi of it (0.10%) is water.
ZIP codes: 83651, 83686, 83687.
As of the census of 2000, there were 51,867 people, 18,090 households, and 13,024 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,612.3 people per square mile (1,008.9/km²). There were 19,379 housing units at an average density of 976.0/sq mi (376.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 83.45% White, 0.40% African American, 0.94% Native American, 0.93% Asian, 0.18% Pacific Islander, 11.25% from other races, and 2.86% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.90% of the population.
There were 18,090 households out of which 40.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.6% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.0% were non-families. 22.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.77 and the average family size was 3.25.
In the city the population was spread out with 31.0% under the age of 18, 12.5% from 18 to 24, 30.3% from 25 to 44, 15.0% from 45 to 64, and 11.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28 years. For every 100 females there were 96.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $34,758, and the median income for a family was $39,434. Males had a median income of $28,580 versus $22,022 for females. The per capita income for the city was $14,491. About 8.7% of families and 12.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.7% of those under age 18 and 9.9% of those age 65 or over.


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Dropbox and Samsung will be joining forces again to provide Samsung Galaxy Note II users 50GB of free space on Dropbox for two years. This will see the Dropbox application automatically installed on the Galaxy Note II by default.
"The most important thing to us is to provide our users with the ability to have a seamless experience across the many mobile devices they use and this partnership shows our mutual commitment to offering Samsung users the best possible experience," Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen said. "These integrations with Samsung's latest Wi-Fi and 4G enabled camera and Galaxy Note II means Dropbox users can rest assured their photos and videos will be with them anytime, anywhere."
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Whose Fault Is It Anyway? part of Examples
This game has students simulate the propagation of P and S waves after an earthquake and to use the lag between these to determine where in the simulation the earthquake occurred.
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Virtual Oil Well Game part of Examples
This strategy game has players prospect for oil using seismic profiles on limited budgets.
Allosaur Survival Game part of Examples
In this online computer game, players must figure out how to keep an Allosaurus from starving or being eaten until it grows to adulthood.
Welcome to Planet Oit! part of Examples
This is an online adventure game in which players prospect for minerals on a virtual geologically realistic world.
Wheel of... Geology! part of Examples
This quiz game is intended to help students review for an upcoming exam. Topics of questions are randomly determined by spinning a wheel. Teams answer questions using electronic CPS handhelds.
An Interactive Game Approach to Learning in Historical Geology and Paleontology part of Examples
The instructor uses a series of games to help students identify and answer questions about fossils. The game grows more complex over time as the instructors add rules and phyla to identify.
GPS Treasure Hunt part of Examples
Students are divided into teams, each of which is given a list of instructions and a GPS unit, and sent to find certain locations. At each stop, they identify a particular building stone or a plant.
Rock/Mineral Scavenger Hunt part of Examples
Take students into the field and give each team a list of rocks or mineral types you want found and brought back within the time limit.
Correlation Guessing Game part of Examples
In this game activity, students match correlation values with plots generated by the applet. Competition in this game setting encourages students to become more involved in the classroom and attainment of learning objectives.
Energy Balance Game part of Integrate:Workshops:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
This online game activity introduces students to Earth's radiative energy balance. It also explores the use of a simple climate model in the attribution of climate change.


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Patients with advanced colorectal cancer whose tumors have gotten smaller six weeks after starting treatment with Erbitux had a much longer time before their cancer got worse and almost twice the overall survival as patients whose tumors didn't shrink. Patients in the BOND study had already gotten worse on standard chemotherapy and were receiving either Erbitux®… Read More
Primary Colorectal Tumors Can Be Safely Left in Place
When cancer has spread beyond the colon or rectum, the primary colorectal tumor can safely be left in place with only rare complications. Surgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York followed 233 patients who began chemotherapy without surgery to remove their primary colon or rectal tumor. Almost 90 percent never had a problem… Read More
Almost There: Colon Cancer Clinical Trial Needs Six More Patients
NSABP C-10 needs only six more patients to complete enrollment and prepare to answer the question: Is it safe and effective to leave a primary tumor without symptoms in the colon or rectum and proceed directly to chemotherapy in patients with colon cancer that has spread to distant organs where it cannot be surgically removed, The trial… Read More
Intense Combination Chemotherapy Enables Surgery for Initially Unresectable Colorectal Mets
Treated with a combination of three chemotherapy drugs, 1 in 5 patients whose colorectal cancer had spread too far for surgery were able to have operations to remove metastatic tumors. After five years, a third of them were alive with no sign of cancer. Doctors in Italy treated 200 stage IV patients with a combination of… Read More
NCCN Updates Guidelines to Include KRAS Testing
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has updated their Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Colon Cancer to include testing tumors from patients with metastatic colon cancer for the KRAS gene. The Guidelines also now say that cetuximab (Erbitux®) and panitumumab (Vectibix™) should only be given to patients whose tumors have normal (wild-type) KRAS.
Continuing Avastin Beyond Initial Cancer Progression Improves Survival Time
Continuing Avastin® (bevacizumab) beyond the time when advanced colorectal cancer gets worse helps patients, according to new study reports. Patients who continued to receive Avastin with a new chemotherapy regimen after their cancer first progressed lived almost 12 months longer than patients who got more chemo but stopped Avastin. Both groups did better than those who… Read More


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Home » Caregiver Support » Emotional Wellbeing » Articles » 5 Ways to Overcome Mid-Life Regret
Cynthia Occelli knew that something was wrong with her husband—his headaches were just too persistent to be benign. Yet, after a visit to his doctor resulted in a convincing diagnosis of tension headaches, she and her husband went home.
The aneurism struck the very next day.
It wiped out Occelli's husband's short-term memory, leaving his recollections of life with her, "garbled and incomplete—like Swiss cheese."
The experience of caring for a husband who had suddenly become as dependent on her as her children tested Occelli in ways she never expected.
"There is no harder job in the world than caregiving," says Occelli, a life coach and author of the book, "Resurrecting Venus." "It's almost too bizarre to comprehend."
Could've, should've, would've…
Along with guilt and sadness, feelings of regret often fuel the fire that consumes many a caregiver's spirit.
Occelli uses the word "searing" to describe the remorse she used to feel when looking back on the day she and her husband walked out of the doctor's office, unaware that their lives would be upended just a few hours later. "I knew something was wrong—but his doctor was so definitive," she says.
But, regret isn't limited to life and death circumstances—it comes in many shapes and sizes—and often strikes hardest when we reach middle-age.
We look back and begin to lament the paths not taken, the relationships not pursued, the careers left abandoned because we were called to become mothers, fathers and caregivers.
"We get to a certain point where we wake up one day and think, 'I should have accomplished something by now—but I haven't,'" says Alex Lickerman, M.D., author of "The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing An Indestructible Self."
According to Lickerman, those who find themselves sandwiched between the care duties of two different generations—young children and aging parents—are particularly prone to powerful feelings of regret.
Finding rebirth in remorse
It was Occelli's experience in the neurological ICU where her husband was receiving treatment that helped her put out the destructive inferno of remorse that threatened to engulf her.
Getting to know the families of other patients in the ward and watching them come and go as their loved ones passed gave her an enlightened view of the brief nature of life. "The number one wish of people in there [the neurological ICU] is that they had more time to live and be true to themselves," she says. "I knew that's what I wanted, and the experience was a call to take it seriously. It gave me a sense of urgency and helped me find my path a lot quicker."
She and Lickerman offer a few strategies for shaking off regret and re-discovering your life path:
The quest to rid yourself of remorse won't be without its challenges—partly because regret is such a natural, ingrained emotion. Setbacks are inevitable and at times it will appear as though your best years are relegated to faded photo albums and weathered diary pages.
But, keeping alive the hope for a brighter tomorrow can make you a stronger, more compassionate human being.
"It'll be a challenge, but hold the door open to what is possible," Occelli urges. "You don't have to jump on the Pollyanna band-wagon—just don't let the spark go out."
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Mic'd Up: Clayton White
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Former Pack Linebacker Clayton White Named Safeties Coach
Nine-year collegiate coaching veteran will also serve as co-special teams coordinator
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Clayton White
PLAYING EXPERIENCE: College - A three-year starter at linebacker for the Wolfpack from 1998-00 and a member of the special teams unit during his collegiate playing days at NC State. Ended his career with his name in the record book for several categories, including career tackles for loss (33), single-season tackles for loss (16) and tackles in a single game (23). Was named NC State's special teams MVP in 1997; Professional - Spent three seasons in the NFL, with the New York Giants from 2001-02 and with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from March to August of 2003. Played every special teams snap during the 2001 season with the Giants.
EDUCATION: Earned a B.S. degree in sport management from NC State in 2001.
PERSONAL DATA: Born in Dunn, N.C., on Dec. 2, 1977. He and his wife Kelly, have a son, Chase (3), and a daughter, Macy (1).
BOWL EXPERIENCE: As a coach - 2009 Sun Bowl, 2006 International Bowl; As a player - 1998 Micron PC Bowl, 2000 MicronPC.com Bowl.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS: As a coach - In 2012, Connecticut tied for the national lead with three punt returns for touchdowns. The Huskies also led the Big East with a 12.5 punt return average, a mark that ranked 18th nationally. In 2011, UConn tailback Lyle McCombs earned Freshman All-America honors from the Football Writers Association of America and was a second-team All-Big East pick. He became just the second Husky to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a freshman season. On special teams, UConn was ranked 17th in the country in kickoff returns in 2011. Punter Cole Wagner was named second team All-Big East Conference. In 2010 at Western Kentucky, the punt return team at ranked third in the Sun Belt Conference with 8.1 yards per return. He helped coach the defense that led the Sun Belt in total yards allowed in conference games. During his tenure at Stanford, the Cardinal was ranked as high as 14th in the national polls, posting an 8-4 regular season record in 2009. The Cardinal's Sun Bowl appearance that season marked the school's first bowl game since 2001. At Western Michigan in 2006, they ranked sixth in the country in kickoff return defense at 16 yards per return and 10th in the country in punt returns at 13.6. The defense that year led the nation with 24 interceptions and 3.5 sacks per game, while ranking in a tie for second with 37 turnovers gained. At Western Carolina, the Catamounts led all FCS schools in pass defense and ranked fifth in passing efficiency defense.
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RTSquare by GPUTech, and available in the Renderosity Marketplace, is a rendering plugin for 3dStuio Max versions 6,7 or 8.
It's GPU based and so it operates much faster than the default renderer that ships with 3dsMax. It includes features such as soft shadows, reflections, refractions, global illumination, caustics, depth of field, fog, lens flare, etc..
To install it, run the exe, and direct it to your 3dsMax directory. Upon running it for the first time you are given a request code, which you then submit via an online form to get the authorization code, pretty much the same way you activate Max itself. Upon selecting RTSquare as your renderer, you are then presented with an interface as in the attached illustration.
As you can see there are a number of options available:
Antialiasing: Allows you to choose the quality of the antialiasing in the finished render.
Shadows: Allows you to add or remove the shadow option, and includes several options to adjust the quality and appearance of shadows.
Reflections/Refractions: A similar option to include or exclude reflections and refraction of light.
Global Illumination: Allows you to include global illumination, and adjust the level and brightness of the radiosity.
Caustics: Allows you to include caustic effects, and includes several options to adjust their quality.
Skylight Rendering Options: Includes the option to add a sky dome, and to adjust its brightness, scale, etc.
Environment Rendering Options: Enables you to compute a background environment for your render.
Fog Rendering Options: Enables you to add fog, and includes several options to adjust its density, color, and other attributes.
Depth of Field Rendering Options: Enables you to compute a depth of field effect, and includes options to adjust its quality, blur intensity, far depth, and near depth.
Motion Blur: Enables you to include a motion blur effect and adjust its quality.
Cartoon Rendering: Enables you to have a cartoon effect, and includes options to adjust outline width and gradient quality.
Lens Flare Rendering Options: Enables you to include a lense flare effect, and has several options to adjust its quality.
Light Cone: Allows you to create a light cone for spotlights. It includes options to adjust its quality, as well as the density and noise scale of dust within the cone.
The plugin requires DirectX 9 to function, so if your 3dsmax is not set for directX you will have to change the settings before you can use the plugin.
When I ran it for the first time, I did a couple of test renders with some pre-made scenes, comparing the render times for the default renderer and RTSquare. I was pleasantly surprised at the much faster render time of RTSquare.
It also calculates radiosity solutions much faster and the adjustable options allow for much more flexibility and variety in the finished render.
Here is one of the test-renders with the "still-life" scene that ships with 3dsmax. The top image is the default renderer, and the bottom image is RTSquare (the slight distortion of the shapes in the bottom picture was done by my image editing software and not the renderer).
The lights, etc are the same, but the settings in RTSquare allow you to get a varied look without changing the setup of the scene.
There are a couple of minor issues, however. One of them is that the renderer seems to have trouble with very large high-poly scenes. This issue is currently being looked into by GPU-Tech and will be addressed in a future release.
The other issue, is that the textures for the scene must be stored in 3dsMax's default Maps directory for RTSquare to find them.
As of the time of this writing, GPU-Tech has just released version 1.3 in which global illumination, area lights, and render elements have been improved.
Taking everything, both advantages and disadvantages, into account, I'm of the opinion that this plugin is definitely well worth the price. Its improved render options and much faster render speed make it an essential addition to the toolbox of any serious 3dsMax user.
System Requirements:
Hardware minimum requirements:
A Graphics Board that is DirectX 9.0 compatible, and supports Pixel Shader 2.0.
Software requirements:
3DS Max version 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
Operating System requirements:
RTSquare is designed to run on PCs equipped with Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP and Microsoft DirectX 9.0c.
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The Southern California Waste Management Forum (Forum) is pleased to announce its 2011 Waste Management Conference and Exhibit, which will take place on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Fullerton, California. We invite you to participate as an Exhibitor, Contributor, Sponsor, or Delegate at this event. Last year, over 200 people including local government managers, industry decision-makers, elected officials, and waste management professionals attended our conference and exhibit area.
Our conference theme this year is Connecting the Dots to Sustainability. The Forum is an educational organization dedicated to advancing knowledge of the interrelationship between waste management practices and the environment. As a non-profit entity, our organization depends greatly on the assistance of its conference exhibitors, contributors, sponsors, and delegates to accomplish its mission.
Conference Schedule
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What started as a photography assignment to capture a festival of pachyderms soon turned into a passion project for Anand Shinde
At the age of 84, S Paul, the man who shaped Indian photojournalism, still takes his camera out for a daily shoot
Hanif Kureishi's sharp new novel is not only a riff on the Naipaul-French saga, but also an exploration of his own fascination for writers and their habits
Sudesh Choudhary has broken a tradition spanning more than six centuries. Do men still set the limits of her power?
The author underwent female-to-male sex re-assignment surgery, but has been unable to switch his passport gender. The story of his struggle in his own words
Wandering the city at night with photographer Gavin Evans
Looming Litmus Test • The Cost of Being Fussy
Reading Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation in the time of the avenging Arab
The Indian music scene has more players than all seasons of Game of Thrones put together, but there are few who can give the audience a great time. Here are some of the festival circuit bands you must check out
India's biggest cultural export to the West has become an American way of enlightened life
Amitav Ghosh in his historical Ibis trilogy reclaims the story of the victims told for so long by the imperial winners
The writing is on the wall for both Mahendra Singh Dhoni and ODIs
A global consensus on fighting jihad cannot wait any longer
Would Ono have been remembered as an artist in the league of Andy Warhol had she never been associated with Lennon, had she only produced her non-Lennon work and not been glorified or castigated as the legendary singer's widow?
Communists like Raul Castro and Sitaram Yechury face a Trotskyan moment today
India needs more from the man who has broken the Nehruvian establishment
Whatever their future, Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal have got Indian-American knickers in a colossal twist
Where history flows through the Mayyazhi river
Visit this Harappan site to marvel at the ancient civilisation's quest for perfection
Award winning astronomer Nitya Kallivayalil is on a space odyssey. What is it about near-field cosmology that keeps her going?
There is more than Lalit Modi that makes the Foreign Minister's position untenable
For all the wails and groans in the air, the EU is a political project as much as an economic one. And anyone who favours 'unity in diversity' should be pardoned a soft spot for the euro
The suicide pact made by four teenage gold medallists in Kerala points to a larger malaise in the administration of the Sports Authority of India
Unfreedom and the difficulty of screening a movie that features lesbians in India
Food inspectors say they're up to the challenge of keeping people safe, even taking on powerful business interests—if only they were better equipped for it
An Old Delhi neighbourhood full of highly skilled craftspeople struggles to survive, to keep some fragment of its poetry in a city whose priorities are far more prosaic.
Lamented • The Pulitzer Poet • Christie's Again • Cultural Bully • The Indian Banksy • A Millennium for DDLJ • The New Bestselling Genre • The Yogi Departs
An insightful analysis of Pakistan—then, now, soon—that Indians have much to gain from
Even with no definite plot, this film is a moving meditation on places and what defines them
The latest in the series comes with new hardware packed in a thinner body
Males are not more skilled, they just overestimate their arithmetic prowess
Lashkar-e-Islam first stormed the Valley with posters that threatened mobile network providers, asking them to wind up their operations
"There have been deaths in my ambulance, but also births. At the set-up I work for, more than 13,000 babies were born in a vehicle"
Hooch was being sold in connivance with local cops and excise officials for some 30 years in the slums of Malwani, where the tragedy occurred
The tennis tournament's iconic green and purple towels are made by an Indian firm at a facility in Gujarat
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What studio discussions on the Mumbai rape revealed about NDTV and Times Now
Why the Indian broadcast news industry is staring at an abyss
What makes rapists feel they can get away with it?
Rape is not an exotic crime, but an extension of the oppression that women bear daily. The media must take it seriously
A killer disease returns to Mumbai
Two women's stories of their struggle against sand mining—one protecting a river, and the other, the sea
The ongoing crisis of the economy demands clarity and not howls and shrieks
Tracing the story of Indian hip-hop through that of Alvin Augustine, aka Nivla, legal administrator by compulsion, desi emcee by passion
Boy bands are back, baby
Gunjeet Sra recounts her memories of heading out with her grandfather as a child to join the village in a celebration at the spot where a Khalistani separatist had been gunned down
Are my days of newness and adventure behind me?
Fast & Furious Hopefuls • Kat's Problem with Stealth • Once MBAs Run the Show
Was there a shared Punjabi identity that united the region's Muslims and Sikhs before the advent of British rule? Gandhi places too much faith in such a notion
Humans used garlic mustard as way back as 6,000 years ago
The brand's smallest and lightest compact system camera for mainstream users
Why people who throng Gandhinagar matter so much to Sandalwood, as the Kannada film industry is called
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Priya was raped by her father and brother for nine years till she saw on television the protests against the 16 December gang-rape
Racecourse legend, industrialist, philanthropist and unforgiving father. We chronicle the triumphs and trials of MAM Ramaswamy
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Ingrate Expectations • The Lady They're All Talking About
New Delhi's muscular new security doctrine could have a far-reaching impact over the years
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Baby Patankar, who introduced Meow Meow to the city and was arrested on 22 April, is said to be worth over Rs 100 crore
Cosy in their make-believe, the revolutionaries of JNU campus are in permanent denial
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India's most revered yoga centre abhors publicity and turns away casual seekers. Ullekh NP in Munger chronicles the legend of the Bihar School of Yoga
Parallel Lives and Discord • Propaganda No One's Buying
The heartbreak caused by high cut-offs at Delhi University sustains an entire sub-economy of personal therapy, career apps and Twitter spam
An Open Investigation
Champagne soirées, luxury sailing trips and vintage masquerade balls. Dating cliques play Cupid to urban India's well off
On its fiftieth anniversary, Shiv Sena is a caricature of its former self
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Navy Sharpens Acquisition Pencil to Find Savings
July 19, 2012
The Department of the Navy's fiscal year 2013 budget request was $1.4 billion less than in 2012. The service, like other Defense Department organizations, expects next year to be the beginning of a steady budget decline.
To help counteract that expected budget decrease, the Navy is sharpening its acquisition pencil to find both efficiencies in how and what it buys.
This is especially true in services, where the DoN spends about $11 billion annually.


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Behind The Cover: Clay Marzo's Peruvian Nosepick
In late January, a monster swell reared up in the North Pacific that had Quiksilver In Memory Of Eddie Aikau invitees waxing up their rhino chasers and gathering in the pre-dawn hours at Waimea Bay waiting for the call. At the same time over on Maui, a thought bubble popped into Clay Marzo's head that read something to the effect of, 'Eddie Swell equals perfect lefts in northern Peru—call Cristobal!'
After contacting Titi De Col (one of the most respected surfers in Peru and father to Quiksilver team rider Cristobal De Col) the trip was green lighted and tickets were hastily purchased. After a week of surfing from sunrise to sunset, the crew was exhausted and satisfied with what we had as far as photos—we'd nailed it by then. On our last day, we were all lounging around the De Col compound watching these fun looking waves come in right out in front but in no rush to paddle out. At 11am it started to get pretty hot so the most logical thing to do was go mess around out front.
Clay was complaining about his board and not too happy with the way he was surfing and just about ready to call it a trip when a few bigger sets started rolling through. Somewhere in his brain, a switch was flipped. With fins flying all over the place and hoots coming from every angle, "Gnarzo" went into an absolute frenzy of ripping.
I was sitting next to Strider Wasilewski in the channel when Clay did this nose pick—we looked at each other and just started laughing—totally blown away by him yet again. TWS' senior photographer Seth Stafford is never one to get too excited, and this was the first time he'd broke out the pole cam, but you could see in his face as he looked at the images on his computer afterward that he had something special.
A big thanks goes out to the De Col's for their hospitality and the local surfers for sharing their waves with us—we couldn't have done it without you!—Justin Coté
In this issue (Volume 13 #5) of TransWorld SURF:
Chasing Eddie
Clay Marzo and friends head to Peru hot on the trail of the same swell that sent massive waves to the Hawaiian Islands. They caught the swell and discovered a land of perfect sand-bottom lefts, empty lineups, and ripping locals.
Four Quick And Easy Rip Trips
Wanna score sick waves without going feral? Feeling the need to go get barreled but don't have the time or money to spend a month on the search for perfection? Check out these four quick and easy surf trip destinations. You'll be off the plane and in the tube in no time flat!
Back To Baja
Northern Baja was once the go-to region for California surfers who wanted a break from the crowds and a taste of a different culture. With drug violence, uncertainty with the political climate, and general feeling of fear, most surfers have stopped going. But with a new government, a military crackdown, and a positive outlook on the future of Mexico, that all could be changing. Come with us as we go back to Baja.
A Dingo's Tale
Dean Morrison is one of the most tubed humans on Earth. But his life hasn't been all surf trips and barrel rides. He's been through a lot, and now his life is an open book. Here's a look at what it's like to be Dingo and all the shit he's gone through to get into the tube and hopefully stay there.
Editor's Note: Go ahead, jump off the boat.
Letters: Jetlag and coffee on the lap…enjoy.
True Stories: Yep, it's another shark attack, read at your own risk.
Currents: Natural disasters, artificial waves, humanitarian action—it's all here.
Mess And Noise: Montezuma's revenge strikes, get a towel.
How To: Stick late drops with Ry Craike.
Ask The Expert: Yeah, more shark banter.
Quivers: Nate Yeomans' rip sticks.
Check Out: Kona kine Keala Naihe.
Departure: Cool-ass surf travelers.
Last Words: Julian Wilson, so hot right now.
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