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Sixteen-year-old Tomas and his Roma family left Slovakia because of mysterious attacks on his life when he was a child, but when they return, the same creatures of folklore begin to strike again and Tomas, aided by his cousin, will have to bargain with Death herself to set things right.

[...]the court explained that there was a rational basis for the County to believe that its adoption of the Plan- and its application to Land Owner's property-furthered these objectives, because his development proposals were directly contradictory to the Plan's legitimate government goals. Comm'n, 558 F.3d 1301, 1306 (11th Cir. 2009). [...]the Land Owner's Equal Protection claim failed because, although he claimed he was treated disparately in relation to others who succeeded in opting out of the Plan, he failed to identify anyone who was in fact able to opt out.

A study of two the sequential displacement of gas and liquid phases in microchannels for eventual application in temperature swing adsorption (TSA) methane purification systems was performed. A model for bulk fluid displacement in 200 µm channels was developed and validated using data from an air-water flow visualization study performed on glass microchannel test sections with a hydraulic diameter of 203 µm. High-speed video recording was used to observe displacement samples at two separate channel locations for both the displacement of gas by liquid and liquid by gas, and for driving pressure gradients ranging from 19 to 450 kPa m-1. Interface velocities, void fractions, and film thicknesses were determined using image analysis software for each of the 63 sample videos obtained.The bulk fluid displacement models for fluid velocity were found to be in good agreement with experimental results for the displacement of gas by liquid, with a mean absolute error of 11%. For this displacement case, 90% of the predicted interface velocities are within 20% of the experimentally observed values. For the displacement of liquid by gas, the mean model error was 20%. In this case, only 64% of the predicted data points are within 20% of the experimental values. This lower model accuracy for the displacement of liquid is attributed to the presence of several different flow patterns at the liquid-gas interface.The flow patterns observed during the displacement of liquid by gas were drywall, thin-film, ring-film, intermittent, and rivulet flows. During the displacement of gas by liquid, only one flow pattern was observed, in which a single liquid slug cleanly displaced the gas in the channel with little interaction at the liquid-gas interface. For each test case, spatially-averaged and centerpoint liquid film thicknesses for the recorded frame were measured at 50 millisecond intervals over a 1 second time interval following displacement. Liquid films were observed with thicknesses as large as 30 µm. Film thickness data exhibit considerable scatter, and no patterns or trends were discernible beyond initial displacement. Immediately after displacement, the film thickness data were more coherent, but also did not exhibit trends amenable to physically based correlations. It was found that to ensure a dry channel wall after displacement, which would provide optimal conditions for mass transfer in an actual adsorption system, the maximum allowable interface velocity would be 0.16 m s-1.Coupled 2-D heat and mass transfer models were developed to simulate a TSA gas separation process in which impurities in the gas supply were removed through adsorption into adsorbent coated microchannel walls. These models were used to evaluate the impact of residual liquid films on system mass transfer during the adsorption process. Continuous annular liquid films thicker than 1 µm were found to have a significant detrimental impact on system mass transfer, and liquid films greater than 5 µm were found to decrease pure methane output by more than 85%. It was determined that the presence of liquid rivulets on the channel wall is preferable to the presence of continuous films, and that in the case of rivulet flow, mass transfer performance is less sensitive to film thickness. It was determined that rivulet flow will preserve the mass transfer performance of the channel even in the presence of large amounts of residual liquid, with a 10 µm film covering 50% of the channel causing only a 4.4% reduction in purified methane output.It was determined that for a TSA methane purification system to be effective, it is necessary to purge liquid from the adsorbent channel. This intermediate purge phase will benefit the mass transfer performance of the adsorption system by removing significant amounts of residual liquid from the channel and by causing the onset of rivulet flow in the channel. The existence of the remaining dry wall area, which is characteristic of rivulet flow, improves system mass transfer performance in the presence of residual liquid.The commercial viability of microchannel TSA gas separation systems depends strongly on the ability to mitigate the presence and effects of residual liquid in the adsorbent channels. While the use of liquid heat transfer fluids in the microchannel structure provides rapid heating and cooling of the adsorbent mass, the management of residual liquid remains a significant hurdle. In addition, such systems will require reliable prevention of interaction between the adsorbent and the liquid heat transfer fluid, whether through the development and fabrication of highly selective polymer matrix materials or the use of non-interacting large-molecule liquid heat transfer fluids. If these hurdles can be successfully addressed, microchannel TSA systems may have the potential to become a competitive technology in large-scale gas separation.

\"Good ethics are good business\" is the philosophy of the Urban and Regional Land Corporation, a Victorian government business enterprise. It has helped it to evolve into an internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainable development, and Victoria's largest residential land development organization. Land development has hardly been in the green and socially aware spotlight, but when good social and environmental outcomes are built into the product, the economic benefits also flow.