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Mora vs. Flores, a 10 round middleweight bout, is presented by Golden Boy Promotions and is sponsored by Cerveza Tecate and AT&T. Doors open at 6:00pm PT on fight night and the first bell rings at 7:30pm PT. The TeleFutura broadcast begins at 11:30pm ET / PT (10:30pm CT).
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Tickets, priced at $25, $35 and $45, are on sale now and available for purchase at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, by calling (800) 827-2946 or online at www.fantasyspringsresort.com.
Former World Champion Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora (22-2-2, 6 KO's) has had a wild 11-year professional career thus far, but the 30-year-old from East Los Angeles is far from finished when it comes to thrilling fans around the globe. Winner of the first season of NBC's "The Contender" in 2005, Mora captivated viewers with his personality and story. Yet it wasn't until he beat the late Vernon Forrest in 2008 for the WBC Super Welterweight World Title that he earned the respect of the diehard boxing crowd. Mora lost the belt back to Forrest in his first defense, but bounced back to stop Calvin Green in seven rounds in April of 2010 and fought to a 12-round draw with future Hall of Famer Sugar Shane Mosley in September of 2010. Following a controversial split decision loss to Brian Vera in February, Mora returns on November 4 to face "Shibata" Flores with the aim of recapturing a world title in the near future.
A respected contender at 154 pounds for years, Jose Alfredo "Shibata" Flores (45-11, 26 KO's) never met a challenge he wasn't willing to take head on. Turning professional in 1990, he fought his way through the tough Mexico and California fight circuits, earning respect and a world ranking along the way. The owner of several regional titles, Flores squared off against Fernando Vargas, Raul Marquez, Paul Vaden, Vince Phillips and Vernon Phillips before leaving the sport in late 2002 to pursue a singing career. In 2010, the southpaw returned to the ring and after winning two of his three comeback bouts, he is looking forward to testing himself against Mora.
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The City of Windsor plants 20,000 tulips in the sunken gardens at Jackson Park annually but will skip a year in an attempt to rid affected beds of the persistent fungus, botrytis tulipae.
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A broken water pump caused the cancellation of school for students at Medomak Valley High School May 15, according school personnel.
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Recommended prerequisites: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals and Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced.
- Using masks and blend modes in radically new ways
- Mastering the Pen tool and Paths panel
- Transforming and maximizing Smart Objects
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I've saved my progress as Just a drop.psd, found aside the 27_pen_tool folder, and thus far we've managed to exactingly select this drop and isolate it from the rest of the image, using a precise path outline drawn with the Pen tool. Now you may look at this drop and wonder about the precision. After all, I'll go ahead and press the A key to get my White Arrow tool. After all, it looks like this darkness down here is an area that's outside the drop and potentially, we're going too far out on the left-hand side. So if you're curious about that kind of stuff, you can just go ahead turn on this droplets layer that appears duplicated behind single drop.
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Now, I'm not advocating for sloppiness by any means. I'm suggesting you work as hard as possible to get the best results you can. However, if you're going to err on one side of the other as usual, I would recommend that you err on the side of selecting too little as opposed to too much. All right, now, in our case, things are a little more forgiving than that, because we're now going to paint in some shading below the water droplet using this droplets layer right there. So I am going to switch to the droplets layer and I am going to go ahead and zoom out a couple of clicks, so that we can see more of the image at a time, and then I'm going to add a layer mask, but I am going to add a layer mask that hides everything associated with this layer.
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I'm revealing these other droplets in the background as well as this little droplet upfront. So I need to press the X key in order to switch the foreground color to black, and I will paint this away, like so, so that I am not seeing the edges of the droplets, and I will paint down here a little bit as well. I end up with this shading like so, and that's really all there is to it. So that part of the experience is very easy to pull off. So once you get that path outline in place, you can paint in your shading lickety-split, just using a simple layer masking technique.
Now I'll just go ahead and zoom in so that we can see this final version of the image. I'll Shift+tab away my panels, because we have such a wide image at our disposal here. This is the final effect. again, it's achieved using a very simple layer mask and I think that's obvious, and just four smooth points surrounding this droplet. In the next exercise, we are going to take on something more complicated, namely, a person's face.


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Prime Lending4840 Vista Blvd, Ste. 108, SPARKS, Nevada United States of America
Prime Lending Pulled funding of loan 2 days before close of escrow causing major tax ramifications SPARKS, Nevada
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Three businesses on Crystal Street in East Stroudsburg — Liztech, Dansbury Diner and Trackside Station Grill & Bar — presented members of East Stroudsburg University's theatre department with a check for $1,832.
With any pin purchased from "The Wizard of Oz" collection from April 21 to 27, Liztech donated 50 percent of those sales (minus sales tax) to ESU's theatre department. In addition, Liztech gave theatre students coupons to be distributed and used during the month of April. Any coupon purchases made at Liztech, Trackside or Dansbury Diner during this time resulted in a 10 percent from sales to the theatre department.
"Wizard of Oz" director Margaret Ball, D.M.A., ESU associate professor of theatre, said "What helped us even more than the money was the incredible support we got from everyone on Crystal Street. Having our posters, table toppers and handouts really helped get us the audience support we have rarely had before."
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Google Māori is a Maori-led initiative which was made possible by Google's popular Google in Your Language initiative, which saw the translation of Google's homepage translated into te reo Māori.
Around the time the Google in Your Language program began, Craig Neville Manning, the New Zealand computer scientist who developed Froogle for reached out to a former colleague at Waikato University, Dr. Te Taka Keegan, with the idea of translating Google into Māori. While working on his doctorate, Te Taka began the translation effort in his spare time. Over the course of the next six years, with the help of several other volunteers, he had covered 68% of the messages.[1]
In 2007 TangataWhenua.com's husband-and-wife team of Potaua and Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule began to project manage the initiative. As project managers they initiated the support of the Māori Language Commission and dozens of volunteers, leading ultimately to all translations being completed within a year—just in time for Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori (Māori Language Week) 2008.[2]
In total more than 1,600 phrases, totaling more that 8,500 words, had been translated.
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Google Māori was launched during Māori Language Week (Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori) in 2008 at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, in Rotorua. Google sent two representatives to the event and it was widely covered by media in New Zealand and around the world.[3]
About Google in Your Language[edit]
The Google in Your Language initiative is in line with Google's overall mission of making the world's information accessible in as many languages as possible. The program began in 2001 and is designed to give anyone the tools to translate Google services into languages in which they are fluent, as a result the Google homepage now appears in more than 100 languages.
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With English Learners (ELs) representing nearly 10 percent of U.S. elementary and secondary students, many school districts are struggling to develop the capacity to meet the needs of children from immigrant and refugee backgrounds. This study provides an overview of supplementary funding mechanisms to improve EL outcomes, examining policies at state and local levels, and making recommendations for improvement.
At the fourth anniversary of the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, this issue brief describes the populations eligible for DACA as of 2016; discusses recent policy developments; presents trends in DACA requests and application rates nationwide, by state, and for top countries of origin; and examines the impacts that DACA has had on qualifying young unauthorized immigrants.
What factors are fueling rising public anxiety over immigration seen in Europe and North America? This Transatlantic Council report outlines and analyzes the factors that can set the stage for such public unease—some of which have their roots outside of immigration policy per se, and are instead deeply embedded in the global, national, and local contexts within which migration occurs—and offers policymakers strategies to respond.
Twenty-five years after enactment of the Immigration Act of 1990, the law remains the framework for the current U.S. legal immigration system. This issue brief examines the legislation, which sought to admit more immigrants based on their skills and education, finding it has only modestly increased the employment-based immigration share. The law also created the diversity visa program and Temporary Protected Status.
This report shed light on supplementary funding mechanisms targeted to migrant-background students in four countries—Canada, France, Germany, and the United States—and some of the key challenges and strategies decisionmakers face as they attempt to ensure that additional resources are used effectively to remedy the achievement gaps that immigrant and refugee students often confront.
Despite weathering many of the same economic and political challenges that have affected support for immigration in other countries in recent decades—from recession to threats of terrorism—Canada has managed to maintain a consistently positive public consensus around its immigration system. This report explores the evolution of Canada's apparently unique attitude toward immigration and diversity.
As immigrant-skeptic movements gained salience, and even political representation, in several European countries in recent years, Germany remained a relative outlier until mid-2015. This report explains how a pro-immigrant consensus evolved and persisted in Germany during the period from 2005—as the country emerged from recession and embarked on a reform of its immigration laws—through to the events of mid-2015.
In an era of diminished public trust in governments' ability to manage migration, policymakers face a set of interlinked challenges to winning back that trust. This report reflects on why it is so crucial for immigration policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic to earn back public confidence, and on the role of sound migration governance in doing so.
This report analyzes British polling data in a bid to paint a more accurate picture of public opinion on immigration in the United Kingdom, which is often described as having particularly hostile attitudes compared to other countries. The report examines several drivers of public opinion, including media coverage, and considers how recent migration policies can be linked to public opinion—including the call for a Brexit referendum.
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Birders count birds in the San Elijo Lagoon on Monday for the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy in San Diego County, California. The group along with the County of San Diego is in the eighth year of a 10 year study on birds in the lagoon. Volunteers have been counting birds once a month since the study started in 2002.


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Avion, Protron TVPo Box 9148 Ontario, California U.S.A.
Avion, Protron TV bought 32" hdtv from shop.nbc on 12/25/05. tv stopped working abought 1 year ago. keep calling company . they say need new adaptor but out of stock. Ontario California
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Volume 36, Issue 6, 15 March 1962
Excitation of Molecular Vibration by Slow Electron Impact36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732758View Description Hide Description
A mechanism for excitation of molecular vibration by slow electron impact involving negative‐ion states as intermediates is proposed and discussed. It is believed that this mechanism is the most important energy loss mechanism for slow electrons for energy regions in which it occurs. Calculation of the vibrational excitation cross section using the proposed mechanism has been carried out for hydrogen molecules and the result is compared with the experimental observations. The estimated cross section is in the order of 1 A2.
Diffusion Kinetics in Radiation Chemistry. I. Generalized Formulation and Criticism of Diffusion Model36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732759View Description Hide Description
A generalized formulation of the diffusion‐kinetic model of track effects in radiation chemistry is presented and criticized. It permits consideration of complex mechanisms, arbitrary initial distributions and radical correlation effects. Methods for the numerical integration of the associated differential equations on high‐speed electronic digital computers are given and their accuracy is examined. Several applications are suggested.
Diffusion Kinetics in Radiation Chemistry. II. One‐Radical‐One‐Solute Model; Calculations36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732760View Description Hide Description
The general diffusion‐kinetic equations are applied to a one‐radical‐one‐solute model of the radiolysis of dilute aqueous solutions. The validity of the prescribed diffusion approximation is examined. Results of calculations of the effect on the molecular and radical yields of the following parameters are given: solute concentration, solute depletion, shape of initial radical distribution, radical density, diffusion coefficients, and rate constants. Conditions under which a straight track of equal and equidistant spherical spurs can be replaced by either isolated spherical spurs or an axially homogeneous cylindrical track are examined.
On the Use of Nonintegral Exponents in Elliptical Coordinate Wave Functions, with Special Reference to the Hydrogen Molecule‐Ion36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732761View Description Hide Description
Introduction of arbitrary powers of the elliptical coordinate μ is shown to give a better approximate wave function for the hydrogen molecule‐ion than any previous function of comparable complexity. The three‐parameter two‐configuration functionis found to give an energy of —0.602566 a.u. and an equilibrium internuclear separation of 1.9956 a 0 compared with the results for n=0 of —0.602386 a.u. and 1.9966 a 0, respectively, and with the exact values of —0.60263 a.u. and 2.0 a 0, respectively. This agreement is maintained over a range of internuclear distances.
In the Appendix a discussion is given of various methods for computing kinetic energy integrals, and a special difficulty is pointed out that arises when functions in prolate spheroidal coordinates are employed.
Dissociation Pressure of Uranium Dicarbide36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732762View Description Hide Description
Vapor transport of uranium from UC1.86 in a graphite crucible has been measured from 1930° to 2365°K by the Knudsen technique. In order to treat the data, unusual assumptions have been made concerning the thermal properties of carbides which hydrolyze to yield hydrocarbons. The gaseous uranium species is assumed to be monatomic. With the aid of these assumptions, the data have been treated by the third‐law method as well as by the second‐law method. Agreement between the two is considered good, and the ΔH 298° obtained for the processis 140.15±1.82 kcal/mole. Reasonable estimations for reactionentropies within the system lead to an upper limit of 0.5 kcal/mole for ΔH 298° for the reactionand hence a value of 119.8±2.8 kcal/mole is obtained as an upper limit for ΔH 298° of vaporization of uranium.
Interaction Energy of an Alkali Metal with a Rare Gas36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732763View Description Hide Description
A molecular orbital self‐consistent field calculation is made for closed shell ions, LiHe+ and LiHe— as function of internuclear distance. The eigenfunctions obtained from these calculations were used to calculate the potential energy curves for the neutral Li–He. This system has some interesting properties. For example, these calculations suggest the probable quenching of certain excited states of an alkali metal when in close interaction with a rare‐gas atom. All of the curves obtained are repulsive except for the LiHe+ curve which has a shallow minimum and follows an expected 1/r 4 attractive potential. Fair values are obtained for the ionization energies of the Li and He atoms and the electron affinity of Li. These calculations indicate that open‐shell systems with few electrons can be treated by making the simpler SCF calculation on a closely related closed‐shell system and using the resulting eigenfunctions to calculate the energy of the closed shell system.
Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance of N14 in Solid N236(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732764View Description Hide Description
Pure quadrupole resonance of N14 in the α phase of solid nitrogen has been studied in the temperature range from 1.5° to about 34.5°K. The resonance frequency at 4.2°K is 3.4873±0.0001 Mc. The line shape and relaxation times at 4.2°K are discussed. A hydrostatic compression to 130 atm at 4.2°K gives (dν/dP)4.2=33 cps/atm. The temperature dependence of the resonance frequency below 20°K has been analyzed in terms of a modified Bayer theory in which account is taken of volume expansion. The torsional frequency of oscillation of the molecule is found to be ν t =1.12×1012 sec—1, and the quadrupole resonance frequency without zero‐point vibrations is ν0=4.16 Mc. The resonance frequency decreases very rapidly as the phase transition at 35.6°K is approached and pure quadrupole resonance has not been observed in the β phase.
Comparison of the Classical Theories of Unimolecular Reactions36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732765View Description Hide Description
Three classical strong‐collision‐mechanism theories of unimolecular reactions, due to Slater, Kassel, and Giddings and Eyring have been rederived using Slater's new approach to rate theory. These derivations show the importance of the gap distribution problem, and help point the way toward further development of a nonlinear theory.
Hyperfine Structure of the Rotational Spectrum of HDO36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732766View Description Hide Description
The hyperfine structure of the 32→33 and 52→53 rotational transitions of HDO, which fall at about 825 and 487 Mc, respectively, have been studied using microwavecavities as spectrometers. The experiments illustrated the usefulness of large Qcavities as spectrometers for this kind of work. The 32→33 transition was resolved into a symmetrical pattern consisting of a strong central line with six weak satellites on each side. The minimum full linewidth between half‐power points that was achieved was about 10 or 12 kc. The spectrum was fitted with C H=—46.6±0.3 kc, C D=—1.66±0.3 kc, and (eqQ)OD=310.3±3 kc. The 52→53 transition was resolved into a symmetrical pattern also, with a strong central line and three weak satellites on each side. The minimum full linewidth between half‐power points was about 6 kc. The spectrum was fitted with C H=—47.38±0.1 kc, C D=—2.42±0.1 kc, and (eqQ)OD=314.3±1.5 kc. A systematic comparison of the results with those obtained elsewhere on the 21→22 transition in HDO is made. The qualitative features of the spectra are consistent with what one would expect on the basis of existing theory, but the present state of the theory may be inadequate for explaining some of the quantitative details of the magnetic structure.
Electrostatic Energy Matrices of the f 7 Configuration36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732767View Description Hide Description
The f 7electrostatic matrices have been derived by the methods of Racah and are tabulated. A previous table of spin‐orbit matrix elements has been corrected and extended, and then used in a further analysis of the spectra of gadolinium salts. Finally, a tentative calculation has been made of the energy levels for the corresponding curium salts.
Isotope Effects and Electronic Energy in Molecules36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732768View Description Hide Description
The definition of electronic energy in molecules is analyzed and, in its conventional form, it is shown to be in slight disagreement with experimental experience. By means of a proper treatment of the center‐of‐mass motion, a modified concept called reduced electronic energy is introduced and shown to give more satisfactory results. In particular, the hydrogen molecule and its isotopic analogues are used for a quantitative comparison of the two concepts with experimental results.
Quadrupolar Study of Barium in Barium Bromide Dihydrate by Proton Magnetic Resonance36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732769View Description Hide Description
The Zeeman‐split quadrupolar resonances for Ba137 in BaBr2·2H2O were measured by using coincident enhanced protonresonance as a detector. The principal axes of the electric field gradient were found to be oriented thus: x parallel to b, y parallel to c, and z perpendicular to the bc plane. a, b and c are the crystallographic axes. The asymmetry parameter is 0.73±0.01 and the pure quadrupole resonance frequency is 24.38±0.03 Mc/sec.
Energy Parameters in Adsorption36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732770View Description Hide Description
The energy quantities for chemisorbing systems derived from calorimetry, isotherms, rate studies, and steady state measurements are analyzed. It is shown that if equilibration of the adsorbed layer occurs rapidly before evaporation (as it does for most metals) and the kinetic processes are properly identified, then the energy parameters deduced from thermodynamic and kinetic measurements are comparable.
Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectra of 1,4‐Dioxane and 1,3‐Dioxane36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732771View Description Hide Description
The spectrum of 1,4‐dioxane shows strong absorption regions with intensity maxima at 55 500, 63 000, 69 500, and 72 000 cm—1, and an absorption region whose maxima is obscured by the last two absorption regions. A first ionization potential was located at 76 750 cm—1 (9.52 ev) which agrees with the value determined by electron impact (9.52 ev). The first electronic transition shows considerable virbrational structure, and the analysis of this structure indicates that the upper‐state vibrational frequencies are only slightly changed from those of the normal state. The other electronic transitions form a possible Rydberg series which converges to the first ionization potential.
1,3‐dioxane shows an absorption region with a maximum at 62 500 cm—1, and another very strong continuous absorption region beginning at about 67 500 cm—1. There is no apparent discontinuity in the region of the ionization potential. The electronic spectrum of 1,3‐dioxane showed no vibrational structure.
Mass Spectrometric Studies of Atom Reactions. I. Reactions in the Atomic Nitrogen‐Ozone System36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732772View Description Hide Description
A method has been developed for following the kinetics of fast atomic reactions with a mass spectrometer. The method has been used to determine separately the rate constants for the following reactions which are relevant to an atomic nitrogen‐ozone system.These reactions have been used to interpret the observed changes of concentration with time for reactants and products of the N–O3reaction. The concentrations of N2O and NO2 in the system were below the detection limits of the mass spectrometer, which is consistent with predictions based on the above rate constants. Evidence was obtained for the production by reaction (2) of vibrationally excited N2 molecules having energies greater than 23.4 kcal/mole. Such energetic molecules are not present in significant quantities in discharged O2 or N2.
Approximate Hartree‐Fock Calculations for the Hydrogen Fluoride Molecule36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732773View Description Hide Description
Approximate Hartree‐Fock calculations have been carried out on the 1Σ+ground state of hydrogen fluoride at three internuclear distances near equilibrium. Roothaan's method is used, with basis orbitals chosen to represent a reasonably good approximation to the atomic Hartree‐Fock orbitals and to allow for the principal polarization and distortion effects that must be expected when two atoms approach to within a chemical bond distance of each other. Total energies are comparable to calculated total Hartree‐Fock energies for the separated atoms, and the calculated binding energy is improved by a factor of nearly 3 over binding energy calculated with fixed atomic Hartree‐Fock orbitals. Thus this improvement can be attributed to polarization and distortion effects systematically neglected in earlier LCAO calculations. Physical and spectroscopicproperties of several electronic states of HF and HF+ are calculated, and are found to be in reasonable agreement with experiment. Localized ``exclusive'' self‐consistent orbitals have been calculated. They give a chemical picture of the structure of the molecule and make it possible to analyse the various contributions to the dipole moment, which is mainly due to the lone pair orbitals on the fluorine atom.
Radiolysis of Methylcyclohexane. I. Liquid Phase36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732774View Description Hide Description
The gamma‐radiolysis of liquid methylcyclohexane has been studied over the dose range 0.40 to 35.0×1019 ev/ml. The initial 100 ev yields of the products are: H2, 4.80±0.07; (1‐methylcyclohexene+methylenecyclohexane), 2.65±0.15; (3‐methylcyclohexene+4‐methylcyclohexene), 0.83±0.10; open chain heptene′, 0.33±0.02; open chain heptene″, 0.31±0.04; bi‐methylcyclohexyl, 0.75±0.05; methylcyclohexylheptene, 0.13±0.02. Methylcyclohexyl‐methylcyclohexene was a secondary product, resulting mainly from reaction of methylenecyclohexane and partly from reaction of 1‐methylcyclohexene.
The values of the ratios of the olefin yields to the ``dimer'' yields in the cyclohexane and methylcyclohexane systems were compared with values of disproportionation to combination ratios for moderately bulky alkyl radicals in the gas phase. It was concluded that the major portions of the olefins and ``dimers'' in the radiolytic systems were formed by the disproportionation and combination of radicals. A steric hindrance effect probably has a small influence on the rate of the combination reaction.
It was illustrated that a polymerization reaction occurs, involving the olefinic products, although the polymer could not be characterized. The relative significance of the polymerization reaction increases with decreasing dose rate.
Radiolysis of Methylcyclohexane. II. Liquid Phase Inhibition by Benzene36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732775View Description Hide Description
The effect of benzene on the radiolysis of liquid methylcyclohexane (MCH) has been studied over the benzene concentration range from 0.25 to 100 mole %. The dominant effect of benzene at low concentrations appears to be one of hydrogen atom scavenging. At higher concentrations, the transfer of energy (excitation or ionization) from activated MCH to benzene also becomes important.
As in the liquid cyclohexane system, there seem to be two major reactive species in γ‐irradiated MCH. One species, C7H14′, decomposes to produce ``cold'' hydrogen atoms that can be scavenged by benzene. The other species, C7H14″ or C7H14 +, produces hydrogen by a mechanism that is not subject to atom scavenging but which can be inhibited by an energy transfer process. The 100‐ev yields of the activated species in pure MCH are G(C7H14′) = 1.8±0.3 and G(C7H14″) = 3.0∓0.3. These compare with the cyclohexane yields G(C6H12′) = 2.4±0.3 and G(C6H12″) = 3.0∓0.3.
Reaction mechanisms have been proposed and tested against the experimental data.
Effect of Adsorption on Acoustic Boundary‐Layer Losses36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732776View Description Hide Description
A theory accounting for the effect of surfaceadsorption of molecules on losses occurring in acoustic boundary layers has been developed. Results of this theory show that such losses can be a sizable fraction of losses due to viscosity and thermal conductivity. Interpretation of recently obtained sound‐absorptionmeasurements in H2, He, Ne, N2, CO, O2, and Ar by this means permits direct determination of adsorption times for these gases. Comparison of these results with existing data is not conclusive, since most adsorptionmeasurements have been carried out at temperatures near that of liquid air whereas the data reported here was obtained at room temperature. In addition, it is almost certain that water vapor caused considerable contamination of the adsorbing surface.
Nitrogen on Nickel Surfaces36(1962); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1732777View Description Hide Description
In this paper we have shown that nitrogen is not adsorbed upon a (110) face of a nickel crystal at room temperature. In previous experiments it has been found that nitrogen is not adsorbed upon more densely packed crystal planes and upon polycrystalline surfaces. The new result extends the conclusion to the more open and chemically active (110) face.


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This company contacted me via my poor parents who repeatedly tried to inform them that it had been nearly a decade since any of their children had lived at this address and phone number, and yet the calls persisted. They identified themselves as being from JBC Legal Group, and having been involved in a lawsuit recently I thought it best to have my lawyer contact them to determine what the nature of their business was with me.
They informed my lawyer that it had nothing to do with my lawsuit and was an attempt to collect a debt from a utility bill. So I called and asked them to send me a copy of this outstanding electric bill for an apartment which I lived in almost five years ago! They said they would, but after waiting a week, I called again to request the information be sent.
The holidays came and went with not a word, and when I finally thought to call them a THIRD time to have them send the proof of debt, I was informed that the debt had been closed...by my lawyer. Knowing that my lawyer had made no payment to them I was confused, after all, all he had done was to call and ask what it was about.
HERE'S THE KICKER FOLKS - I do not deny the debt itself, and fully intended to pay it given the circumstances - BUT HOW DO I PAY SOMETHING THAT'S ALREADY BEEN PAID OFF?!!...
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scoobydoobydont 3 years ago#11
"I don't hate people, I just feel better when they're not around." - Charles Bukowski
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Giant wall of troll topic
You need to learn the definition of wall of text because that was not.
Last generation was like this for me.
MP was played on Xbox because my friends had Xbox.
SP was played on PC if it was on PC.
multiplatform console games only was played on PS3.
Exclusives were played on their respective consoles.
For me I only played Xbox if it was an exclusive or MP game.
All my friends are picking up PS4 first this gen so that will be my primary console starting out.
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MrImpatient35 3 years ago#14
Just to somewhat mirror your story, the same happened to me. I had a PS2, and I would blindly hate on everything Xbox, but my friends kept convincing me to try it before I say anything, so I finally bought it. I fell in love right away...first with the controller. The thumbstick placement felt so good, I wondered why Sony didn't do it.
After that, I didn't get much reason to go back to Sony gaming. There was only a bit more than a handful of games that I really wanted to play last gen that was only on PS3.
Like you, I was all for the X1 even before the "180s". The thing that annoyed me the most was the used games policy, but I made my peace with that in about a week of thinking about it. I REALLY wanted to play some of the games shown at E3, like Dead Rising 3, so yeah...X1 for me.
33 things to know about X1: http://www.oxm.co.uk/61886/features/the-xbox-one-33-things-you-need-to-know/
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BruceLee1974 3 years ago#15
I think if your worried best thing to do is to cencel it and wait a few months for games to come out on it and wait for peoples reviews and do some research and see if everything is true or not . The smartest thing to do is to wait and see.
Sniper_Brosef 3 years ago#16
To address the OP rather than comment on the "Great Wall of Text," seriously though you can see that post from space!
The Xbox One can handle 1080p just fine. This is not something you should worry about. First of all, these are launch titles, which are historically worse looking than 2nd year and later games. Just go back to your 360 and put Call of Duty 2 in and then pop Black Ops 2 in. See what I mean? Also, the 360 had some native 1080p games and this console is way more powerful than it.
Bottom line this isn't something you should worry about nor is it an issue with the system. It's just a matter of developers not being familiar with programming for it yet but they will get there. Don't worry. The only thing that should make your decision is what system offers the games, features and experience you're needing. Don't let graphics decide this for you.
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catzrul2002 3 years ago#17
If you are adamant on getting a launch console, I'm afraid the popular choice is not the Xbox One.
But like others said, wait awhile, the numbers and possibly your friends decisions will be made to help with your choice.
Fingers crossed for Sony to enable PSN name change!!
billsfanno1 3 years ago#18
I'm totally on-board with X1 and regularly fight back the trolls on this site. But look -- if the worst rumors you are fearing about X1 turn out to be fact, simply do not buy an X1 and grab the first PS4 you can get your hands on. MS has invested billions of dollars into research, development and infrastructure for X1. If they can't deliver anything more than a half-baked product at launch then they don't deserve your (or any of our) money. You will know before 11/22 what the initial verdict is from trusted/reputable sources.
Don't be insistent on being a PS or Xbox person. There's nothing wrong with having both (if you can afford it) or changing mid-generation if one gets more appealing to you.
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Nerves are fraying in Tehran as initial glee over Arab spring upheavals turns to alarm. Iran welcomed the fall of its old enemy, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. But the uprising now threatening its key Arab ally, the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad, is a different matter altogether. Worse still, the thought that the region's revolutionary mood may inspire Iran's own much-bludgeoned green opposition to rise again inspires real fear.
Snap judgments in Washington and Jerusalem that Iran would be a main beneficiary of the collapse of the old Arab order now look wide of the mark. Infighting within the regime is matched by, and linked to, rising strategic uncertainty abroad. For these and other reasons, such as the gathering impact of nuclear-related sanctions, the era of cocky Iranian international defiance may be drawing to a close.
Amid the Middle East maelstrom, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei – Tehran's terrible twins – suddenly look off balance, vulnerable, and at odds.
Khamenei tried initially to hijack the Arab liberation movements in the name of Iran's illiberal theocratic brand, shamelessly sidestepping the brutal suppression of Iran's own democratic revolt in 2009. "What I firmly announce is that a new movement, with the grace of God, has started in the region," he said in his Persian new year message in March. "This widespread awakening of nations, which is directed towards Islamic goals, will definitely become victorious."
Significantly, Khamenei did not mention Syria. But as unrest there and elsewhere has intensified, and as the essentially secular, wholly temporal, democratic thrust of that unrest has become undeniable, he and other Iranian leaders have largely abandoned the attempt to portray it as spreading Khomeini-ist revolution. Instead they complain about Nato intervention in Libya and a US-Israeli "plot" to topple Assad.
The stakes are undoubtedly high. Syria's importance to Shia Iran as a prime conduit to Hezbollah in Lebanon, as a base for Hamas leaders running Gaza, as a frontline ally in the confrontation with Israel and the US, and as a political and commercial pathway into the Arab world is hard to exaggerate. But Tehran may reluctantly share western analysis that, regardless of Assad's fate, the political balance between the minority Alawi Shia regime in Damascus and the Sunni majority has shifted irreversibly – to Iran's distinct disadvantage.
A flurry of recent statements indicated rising Iranian anxiety. Speaking in Turkey, Ahmadinejad said there was "no need for foreign intervention" in Syria, as if anybody was contemplating it. Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast accused western media of exaggerating the violence. And an official statement urged government and protesters to compromise in the interests of anti-Zionist solidarity.
"If Assad survives, he will have to establish some distance from Iran to appease Sunni protesters," said American commentator David Ignatius, quoting US officials. "If he's toppled, Syria is likely to be ruled by a Sunni-dominated regime that will be more hostile to Iran."
The negative implications for Iran of the Arab revolts do not stop with Syria. The shotgun wedding between the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, after years of bitter estrangement, has been widely attributed to the Hamas leadership's new sense of insecurity in its habitual Syrian base. But it was also the product of a new assertiveness by Egypt, whose summary disposal of the slavishly pro-American Mubarak has begun to restore Cairo's authority as the leading Arab power and an honest broker of inter-Arab disputes.
An Egypt less in thrall to Washington, and more prepared to defy Israel (for example, by permanently opening the Gaza crossings) could in theory benefit Tehran. But a more democratic and politically stronger, independent Egypt would also be a formidable rival and check on Tehran's regional ambitions. In an interview with the Washington Post, Egypt's new foreign minister, Nabil El-Araby, said Cairo had "turned a page with every country in the world". But he declined to say whether that really included Iran, too.
The sudden outpouring of repressed hostility unleashed by the Arab spring has punctured the illusion, cultivated by Iran, of harmonious relations with the Arab world and has instead highlighted its isolation. More dangerously for the warring Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, it may act as a catalyst reviving Iran's internal opposition as economic problems mount and political factionalism intensifies ahead of next year's parliamentary polls. At their latest demonstration in February, broken up like all the others, Tehran protesters hit on a slogan the terrible twins might do well to ponder: "Whether Cairo or Tehran, death to tyrants!"
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- Understanding shading concepts
- Simulating the Fresnel effect for realistic reflections
- Rendering transparent and translucent surfaces
- Comparing mental ray and Maya standard shaders
- Introducing the mia_material
- Developing shader networks
- Using subsurface scattering shaders
- Mapping polygon UV coordinates
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In this movie we are going to talk about some ways that you can create the look of realistic human skin using the mental ray Subsurface Scattering shaders. So in this scene I have a character model just a head of a character. and at the moment he has got just the default lambert applied to his surface of his skin. The lighting in this scene is fairly simple. Let's take a look at it really quick though, because it is important. I have an areaLight, which is creating the main key light on the surface of the front of the character.
I have fill light here which is just a directionalLight with a very low intensity value and just a slight bluish color to it, and then most importantly I have a light here which is a directionalLight and it's lighting the character from the back, and this is going to be an important element to creating the realistic skin, as you see as we get into creating the shader and adjusting the settings. Lastly, in the camera1 attributes under Environment, we have the background set to just a bluish color, just so we can see the objects a bit easier.
I'll do a rendering. You'll see that the character at the moment looks fairly simple. And here he is with just a default lambert applied to the skin. I'll minimize the Render View and let's take a look in the Hypershade, and see how we can start creating one of these shaders. So go to Window > Rendering Editors > Hypershade, and under mental ray > Materials, if you scroll down you will find there are number of shaders that use the misss prefix, and this stands for the mental images subsurface scattering shader.
So any one of these shaders will create the subsurface scattering effect. and some of the shaders are very simple and some of them are more complex. The misss physical shader is the most complex and that's really only used for objects like very thick candles or jade or things like that, when you really need an actually physically accurate subsurface scattering effect. But the one that I like to use the most is the misss_fast_skin_maya shader, because this is the simplest to use.
It does have more settings than some of the others, but I find it to be the most reliable. So I'm going to click on this shader to create the node and I'll select the character's head, right-click over the misss_fast_skin_shader, and choose Assign Material To Selection. I am going to select the shader and in the Attribute Editor, let's just rename this oldmanSkin, so we know exactly what it is.
So I would like to create a test render to see what the default settings look like. So let's close the Hypershade for a moment and do another test under. So the way subsurface scattering works in the real world is photons of light penetrate the outer layers of the surface, bounce around inside and then leave again, and they pick up some of the color of the surface as they leave again. In human skin you see it is as sort of this redness, especially in the areas that are strongly lit from the back or thin areas like the ears. Now the default settings right here tend to make the surface look very plastic, so we can start to adjust this to make it look a little bit more realistic.
So I have got the Attribute Editor open for the oldmanSkin shader. Let's take a look at some of these settings. At the top we have the Diffuse Layer. This is the outermost layer of the skin and this is where most of the light bounces off the skin and back into the environment. So this is where you put the basic skin color, adjust the ambience, the strength of the diffuse color and so on and so forth. But the settings that control the actual subsurface scattering quality of the shader are found in the subsurface scattering layers, and for the skin shader, we have three layers.
So when you're working with the shader, what you want to think about is think about the layers of skin. Skin covers up all our muscles and bones and keeps us together for the most part when we are walking down the street. So it's very useful in that respect. But you can sort of think about it as building up layers on top of things like muscle and bone. When I am designing the shader, I think about it from the bottom up, from the innermost layer of the skin and up to the outermost layer of the skin. And the way the shader is organized, is the innermost layers are down here at the bottom, and as we go up in the Attribute Editor, we moved outwards to the outermost layers.
So the Diffuse layer is the outermost layer, and the Back Scatter Color is the innermost layer. The Back Scatter Color is most affected by strong backlighting. So the directional light that I have here, that's shining in the back of the character is going to interact with that back scattering color the most. So let's select the character and go back to the oldmanSkin shader and the way I like to do this design in the shader is I want to turn everything off that I can and work with one channel at a time, and slowly build up the look of the shader that way.
So the first thing I am going to do is I am going to go down to the Specularity layer, this is the specular head highlights in the surface of the shader, and I set Overall Weight to zero. So this turns Specularity off and you can see that in the preview. There's no more specularity. I am going to leave Back Scattering the way it is, but I'm going to set the Subdermal Scatter Weight to zero so that effectively turns that off, and I am going to set the Epidermal Scatter Weight to zero that turns that off, and I'm going to turn the Diffuse Weight to zero.
That turns that off. Think of these weight attributes as kind of like volume knobs for each one of these channels. So, now they're all set to zero with the exception of the Back Scatter Color, so let's do a test render and see how it looks. So this rendering gives you good idea of how back scattering works. It's picking up the color from the directional light that's shining in the back of the character's head and you can see the redness come through. In the thinner parts of the surface we get more red and the thicker parts of the surface, it's darker color.
The tip of the nose of course has the most amount of matter behind it, so it's the darkest. If you started to rotate the camera and had it shining from the profile, the nose might be redder, but from this moment since we are looking at it straight on, that's going to be the darkest. So if we look at the settings, the way this works is as I mentioned before, the Weight setting is kind of like the volume knob. So right now that's set to 0.5. So in terms of the overall shader, this is how much of the contribution the Back Scatter Weight is giving to the overall look of the shader. Now the Depth and the Radius are also important to understand.
The Back Scatter Depth determines how far this red color is going to penetrate the surface. So in other words, when this is set to 25, this is how much the red color is going to come through the entire character. So as I lower this value, I am going to set this down to 10. What's going to happen is we are going to see the thicker parts are going to become even darker, and that it's only going to be the thinner parts that we are going to see this red color. Now the Radius setting, you can sort of think about this as if I rotate the view and imagine light hitting the surface from the back, think about as the photons of light are hitting the surface and browsing around within the surface, think about the radius as about how far they spread as they go through the surface.
So this is kind of like a spread value, and I want to lower this down a little bit too, because right now I think it's a bit too strong. So I want to lower this down to let's say about 8. I usually think about this in terms of same units. So if the grid is showing this is 10, same units, then I'm thinking about the Radius is being in about a volume of about 8 units, and same with the Depth. So let's do another rendering. So as you can see by lowering those values, the Depth and the Radius, we get more of a subtle shading here on the ears.
This look is starting to look a little bit more realistic in terms of how it actually affects human skin. But of course, if you make it too subtle then it's going to disappear altogether. So what I might do is increase the Back Scatter Weight to about .8 and let's give it a little bit more of a Radius to it. I will put this up to about 10 as well. So once you understand how these works, the Depth being how far the light penetrates the surface and the Radius being spread across the surface, then you'll understand how these other settings work, because it's basically the same way.
Once again, each one of these is layers. So this is the innermost layer and now this is the next layer up. the Subdermal Scatter layer. Someone talking about human skin, I think about this layer of being like muscle and bone, and this layer being the deepest layer of the skin where you might see like veins and that kind of thing. So again, I am going to turn the volume up on this, so I am going to increase the Subdermal Scatter Weight to let's say, I'm going to start with 0.5 and generally when I'm working with the shader, I will just start plugging in when I think it would be appropriate values and adjusting from there.
The main difference between the Subdermal Scatter settings and the Back Scatter settings is there is no Depth setting; there is only Radius. So I am going to lower this down to about, let's do the setting of 10, and I am going to keep these colors to where they for the moment, but that's another thing that you can adjust as you are tuning the skin. You can start to adjust the colors. It's a bit heavy-handed, but you can easily see now how the two colors are working together, so they're being added together, which is helping to increase the brightness on the ears, maybe a little bit too much but you can also see how these colors are combining on the various parts of the surface.
So what I might do is lower this Weight down to about 35. I tend to like to have a higher Back Scattering Weight, because I like that back scattering effect, and I lower the Subdermal Scatter Weight a little bit, and I might bring the Radius down to about 8, and let's darken the Back Scatter Color a little bit and darken the Subdermal Scatter Color a little bit. Once you understand how they work, it's just a matter of tweaking to get the settings that you want. The Epidermal Scatter Color is the part of surface that's just below the very top of the skin.
It's just going to usually have a lighter color, and again with this one I like to have a bit lower value than the other two. So I might set this to about 5, just to start with, and as terms of the weight, let's do 25 and see how that looks. Now you can see how the three layers are starting to work together to create the subsurface scattering effect. Once again, a little bit heavy-handed, but at this point I'm mostly interested in making this as obvious as possible, so you can see how these things work.
It really takes a bit of tweaking to get the setting that you want. Finally, at the top we have the Diffuse Weight, and this is the color that directly interacts with the lights at the very surface of the skin. So this is where you think about things like freckles and moles and that kind of stuff, they are actual surface color of the skin, and I am going to set this to about 35, do another rendering. And there you can see how they're working together. The last thing that I like to adjust as I'm designing the shader is the Specularity settings and this is going to determine the shininess of the skin.
Now what's interesting about the shader is that it essentially has two different specular channels. We have a Primary Specular Color and a Secondary Specular Color, and then an Overall Specular Weight. So this is going to be the overall volume knob for Specularity. So let's put this up to about 0.5 or maybe a little bit higher. Let's put it at 0.8. What I want to point out about the way these two work is if you can think about this as being like the broad specular highlights, well, imagine the light that is shining on the surface of the skin. This specular highlight is going to be fairly broad and spread out across the skin as it reflects the light in the room.
The Secondary Specular Color, think about this is adding kind of the quality of like oily skin or wet skin. So you have a very shiny type of highlight on top of a broader highlight and that's basically the way these two works. As you can adjust their Weight and their Shininess. Higher values are going to make these more shiny. So if I set this up to 50 and increase the Weight up to 0.5, what we are going to get is a wetter looking skin. If I lower this, lower the Shininess setting, lower the Weight, we are going to get more of a duller skin.
So depends on the effect that you're trying to achieve, and by default this has a slight bluish color and it kind of looks like the skin might in like a cool lighting setting. It has a nice contrast to the warmer colors to the rest of the skin. So I am going to render this and look at the end result and of course, we have a ways to go before we create generally realistic skin, but it's important to understand how the shader works, because in the next step, what you would want to do is start to plug textures into the various channels to start to control the overall colors of each channel as you design the skin.
So you can see here is this specular coloring and you can see this is nice and shiny in the waxy parts of the ear and on the other parts of the face. So once you have established the overall values for the shader, the next step would be to go in and start plugging textures into these various color channels to start to fine-tune the look of it. So rather than having these sort of unrealistic colors, you can have a much more sophisticated texture in there controlling the color for each channel.
That's generally the way that I go about designing the shader.


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