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It's not unusual for actors to become playwrights – Sam Shepard, Noel Coward, even Chekhov started their theatre careers on stage. But a playwright who turns to acting – and who practically makes his debut on Broadway – is, indeed, a rare phenomenon.
"I made my acting debut and farewell on Broadway, as everyone should," says recent Los Angeles transplant Jay Reiss, only half joking.
Reiss — whose play "That May Well Be True" will have a run at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica — found himself on the Great White Way through a series of serendipitous events, the stuff of which show biz legends are made.
It started as a lark. At the urging of his fiancée, actress Rebecca Feldman, Reiss agreed to help create and act in a quirky, improv-heavy show called "C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E" about a Spelling Bee competition. The play ran three weeks at Theatorium in downtown New York in 2004. And that was supposed to have been that.
But playwright Wendy Wasserstein came to the show, loved it and hooked the company up with playwright-composer Bill Finn of "Falsettos" fame. Finn saw a videotape of the show and decided he wanted to write songs for it.
Then it was off to Barrington Stage in the Berkshires where Reiss and several other co-creators worked with Finn to develop the new musical that was to become "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." The show did well at Barrington , reviews were good, and famed Broadway director James Lapine came on board to helm a production off-Broadway before the hit show moved to Circle in the Square last April.
"It goes to show that anything is possible," a still somewhat bemused Reiss says.
Riess ended up staying in the Broadway production for six months in the role of Douglas Panch, the vice principal he created for the original play who asks the bee contestants the tricky words to spell. He also performed at the Tony Awards last spring and bantered with – and gave a spelling test to – Katie Couric on "The Today Show."
It was the kind of success that thousands of wannabe actors throughout the nation would give an arm and a leg for. But Reiss had no desire to be an actor, had no on-stage experience as a child or young adult, and did not even major in theatre as an undergraduate at the State University of New York at Binghamton (he studied cinema).
However, he has been a productive writer, graduating from The Juilliard School's playwriting program and authoring several plays including "The Tulip Craze" (Manhattan Theatre Club), "Meanwhile, on the Other Side of Mount Vesuvius" (Adobe Theatre in New York), and "The Romantics." "That May Well Be True" was commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club.
Though Reiss could have stayed on in "Spelling Bee," his heart – and main interest – lay with writing. And so he bid an emotional farewell to fellow cast members last October and moved to L.A. to write screenplays, having already sold one script to Warner Bros.
"Acting was good fun, but it was never the most fulfilling thing," he says. "There was no means to an end, though it was a good learning experience."


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Posted on 04/25/2012 9:41:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The USA Today reports graduating class of 2012 is in for a rude awakening as Half of new graduates are jobless or underemployed.
A weak labor market already has left half of young college graduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don't fully use their skills and knowledge.Useless Degrees
Young adults with bachelor's degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or receptionist, for example — and that's confounding their hopes a degree would pay off despite higher tuition and mounting student loans.
Median wages for those with bachelor's degrees are down from 2000, hit by technological changes that are eliminating midlevel jobs such as bank tellers. Most future job openings are projected to be in lower-skilled positions such as home health aides, who can provide personalized attention as the U.S. population ages.
Taking underemployment into consideration, the job prospects for bachelor's degree holders fell last year to the lowest level in more than a decade."I don't even know what I'm looking for," says Michael Bledsoe, who described months of fruitless job searches as he served customers at a Seattle coffeehouse. The 23-year-old graduated in 2010 with a creative writing degree.
About 1.5 million, or 53.6%, of bachelor's degree-holders under the age of 25 last year were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years. In 2000, the share was at a low of 41%, before the dot-com bust erased job gains for college graduates in the telecommunications and IT fields.
Out of the 1.5 million who languished in the job market, about half were underemployed, an increase from the previous year. Broken down by occupation, young college graduates were heavily represented in jobs that require a high school diploma or less.In the last year, they were more likely to be employed as waiters, waitresses, bartenders and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists and mathematicians combined (100,000 versus 90,000). There were more working in office-related jobs such as receptionist or payroll clerk than in all computer professional jobs (163,000 versus 100,000). More also were employed as cashiers, retail clerks and customer representatives than engineers (125,000 versus 80,000).
According to government projections released last month, only three of the 30 occupations with the largest projected number of job openings by 2020 will require a bachelor's degree or higher to fill the position — teachers, college professors and accountants. Most job openings are in professions such as retail sales, fast food and truck driving, jobs which aren't easily replaced by computers.
Bledsoe, currently making just above minimum wage, says he has received financial help from his parents to help pay off student loans. He is now mulling whether to go to graduate school, seeing few other options to advance his career. "There is not much out there, it seems," he said.There is nothing out there for many degrees which means that going to graduate school will do nothing but waste more money. Nurses are still in demand, but technology and engineering majors are crapshoots. If you can land a technology or engineering job it is likely to be high paying, but if not, the next step is retail sales.
I believe the so called youth vote/millenials will not turn out in high numbers for obama. They really like being able to buy things and than only happens if they, or their parents, have jobs. You know..jobs...that three letter word according to Joe Biden.
I have no problem with this because a majority of the little dopes vote democrat, just like in 1980. Stupid ass, Che loving marxist retards can go on welfare. It's BO's pleasure.
What we need to do is forgive their student loans and immediately offer them unemployment benefits because unemployment compensation creates jobs per Nancy Pelosi. / SAR
Here's a thought, Mr. Bledsoe...rather than blow another $75,000 on a graduate degree, when you're "not even sure what you're looking for..." is throwing good money after bad. If you want to get out from under that undergrad debt, go to a community college and pick up a trade or license as a plumber or electrician. Then, you'll be able to use your creative writing degree to draft up proposals and bids for jobs.
Younger voters shift from Obama
Once thought to be solidly behind President Barack Obama, younger voters burdened by a bleak employment picture, high gas prices and student loan debt are being aggressively wooed by the Democrat and his likely Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
In 2008, Obama had a 34-point advantage over Republican Sen. John McCain among voters under age 30. He won about two-thirds of the vote in that age group.
But a new Harvard poll suggests the president may face a harder sales job with younger voters this time around. Obama led Romney by 12 points among those ages 18-24, according to the survey. Among those in the 25-29 age group, Obama held a 23-point advantage.
Its an opening Republicans hope to exploit by focusing on young peoples disillusionment with the candidate who promised hope and change.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/younger-voters-shift-from-obama/#ixzz1t4Vd3LmF
I'm waiting for the first poster to say something along the lines of "The only decent major to have in college is engineering."
C'mon I know you're out there.
Excellent suggestion with zero chance of implementation.
Your plan would make sense to him if, instead of going to college, he had worked in any job for a couple of years.
College delays maturity.
With off-shoring, H1-B Visas and sending our technical projects to China/India/Singapore where the labor is cheaper - the days of the "Engineer" are pretty much gone. I can't say I'd recommend an engineering degree to anyone.
If I had been smart, I'd have pursued a degree in Healthcare Administration. I'd have a much higher salary, job security and expanded opportunties. Plus, no Theoretical Physics, Differential Equations, Advanced Calculus, Number Theory, Thermo/Dynamics/Statics, Materials Science, Antenna theory - the classwork would have been exponentially easier.
I saw the same article earlier in the week, over on the Yahoo Finance section--complete with a picture. It seems that Mr. Bledsoe also has a nose ring--the kind that goes through the septum--and some gaudy "ear lobe" rings (rivets?)
His "creative writing" degree may not be the ONLY thing, keeping him from a minimum-wage job.
I don't remember Shakespeare, the Bronte sisters, Dickens, etc earning Creative Writing degrees from Oxford.
I guess Zero can't expect much enthusiasm from Millenials this time given that so many are broke.
While it might not be exactly what they signed up for when they persued an engineering degree, there are still plenty of jobs out there for those with the degrees. There are jobs for project managers, quality managers, requirements' analysts, customer liasons, sales reps, etc. that are highly dependent on engineering backgrounds, and that are not nearly as outsourced as the actual engineer work.
Again, that might not be what they wanted to do, but they can continue to work in an engineering-related company or project.
That first lesson in the reality of Democrat economics, and it's cause/effect relationship can be very harsh, and karmic.
It's a damned shame this generation is having to learn, the hard way, that Democrat Rhetoric and Reality never match, like we did under Carter.
I believe the earrings are called "gauges".
Oh, but, man...Obama is so "coooooool!"
Tell it to Jimmy Fallon. Maybe he can "slow jam" this news to all our nation's little commie Obama lovin' yufs.
Thanks for the information, I had no idea. I believe some hiring managers call them "job interview killers."
If the purpose of an education is to make you employable, then you should go to a trade school.
If the purpose of an education is to be educated, then get your degree in Poli Sci, and then go to work where ever you can find work and work your way up. If you're smart and you work hard, you'll be running the place eventually.
A Poli Sci degree is probably a great degree to have if you're planning to enlist in the military. And a few years of military experience under your belt, along with your degree in Whatever, is probably good preparation for lots of stuff.
The problem isn't the degree in Creative Writing. The problem is the idea that it guarantees you a job, and ought to guarantee you a job. Get your degree in Creative Writing, go to work selling shoes, and write. Get your degree in Art, go to work at the supermarket, and paint in your studio in the garage. If you're good, someone will buy your screenplay, or your sculpture, and if they don't, still, you did what you loved.
Well said.
—— His "creative writing" degree may not be the ONLY thing, keeping him from a minimum-wage job.——
LOL, yeah. Reminds me of the scene in Life of Brian, where the crowd chants in unison, "yes, we are all individuals!"
I'm amazed the other 47% have managed to find jobs.
Those are fascinating stats. Those who can be assumed to BE in college 18 to 24 year olds) are 50% LESS supportive of Obama than those recently out of college (25 to 29 year olds). I would have thought the opposite to be more true, since life sucks for recent grads.
Interesting map. This is what happens when we let Democrats educate our kids. Its a wonder, after 12 or 16 years of miseducation, if any of them vote conservative at all.
What does the writer think....big time Universities don't make money??????? My gosh....Education is BIG-BUSINESS...and FOR PROFIT.
What a dumb ass statement..........
Who was it that said:
If you're 18 and not liberal, you haven't got a heart; if you're 40 and not conservative, you haven't got a brain.
Part of capturing the youth vote is tapping into their idealism. Many of them want to "change the world," and probably many of them are completely onboard with "fundamentally changing the Unite States," without really knowing what it is they want to change.
I give them a partial pass--one, because they have not seen enough of the world to know how it works; two, our education system and popular culture does not show both sides--it shows conservatism as evil, cruel, and un-hip; and three, I was a little like that in my youth.
They got what they voted for,no whining allowed.
The only major worth having in our current economy is any major that requires a ton of math.
I'm talking Diff Eq, Statistics, Calculus, Linear Algebra, and their applications.
Otherwise you're just filling your head with mush.
Generalize much? I'm 27 and as staunch and informed a conservative as you older folks.
Say, aren't you the young man who had a long thread the other day complaining about your inability to get a good job despite your substantial background in mathematics?
And I would have been better off with a degree with no math? Perhaps you can enlighten me to which major that isn't math intensive is currently a booming commodity?
And I would have been better off with a degree with no math? Perhaps you can enlighten me to which major that isn't math intensive is currently a booming commodity?
Law Enforcement and Psychological Counseling have lots of openings.
One thing I've noticed about FR since I started lurking here in '06 is the near obsession with A) Trade jobs B) jobs that don't require a college degree.
While I applaud those who enter these fields and succeed not everyone is cut for those jobs. I'm interested in jobs that require a high level of math.
If they are gone from the USA than so am I. I'll follow the supply.
Older? LOL! I'm 35!
The point of the factual graphic is that most young folks are very liberal.
There are the exceptions, like us! ;)
Math is my weakness.
That would be my generation and I agree with you. (With some obvious exceptions like yours truly).
Mainstreaming drugs wrecked this generation like a nuclear bomb.
As you say, with that considered its amazing subsequent generations have come out as well as they did.
I still maintain my original point, which I have made on other occasions in more detail. You can't win the war of ideas when you abdicate the logistics of that war, when you abdicate the very field where the battle takes place. That would be (1) schools and universities, (2) news media, (3) entertainment media. All of these are mostly in the hands of our ideological opposites.
Conservatives are the true independent thinkers of whatever generation. They (we) are the real counterculture. But we do need to understand the cost of abdicating the field of battle and work to establish our own media, and take control of the education of our kids. What you may have understood as an "agist" slam was just me beating my favorite drum; to win the war of ideas we have to engage on those three levels. Schools, news media, entertainment media. Build our own if the originals are too far gone.
Are you saying that your parents were "burned out hippies"?
I didn't say that. I am, though, suspicious of anyone who promotes only one way to salvation in the world of work. There are those—and you are one of them—who accent but one way to fame and riches. Many of them tend to be oriented toward engineering (hell, they seem to worship the discipline to the exclusion of all others).
Fine, if you think that mathematics is the One True Path, well, that tells me that you are young and very inexperienced.
P.S. There are hordes of people working on the floor at Wall Street and other trading exchanges who are liberal arts graduates making bundles of money and they probably would look quizzically at you if you mentioned differential equations.
Don't assume what I say are my own thoughts on the matter. I try to defer to the wise among us and the wise ain't the young.
The wise have told me to learn as much math as I can therefore I listen. At least I have a marketable skill and not some "creative writing" degree.
That and neck tatoos.
That the exact opposite of what I'm saying. My parents weren't a part of that selfish culture and bred well-adjusted conservative children. Liberalism is a sickness that's affected generations far earlier than my own.
Agreed. I also want to point out that (while I can't stand him) Obama actively went after the youth vote. The Republican party has been pathetic in regards to reaching out to my age group. Fortunately the new media has picked up the slack somewhat...
I won't disagree that many in my generation are idealistic and misinformed/uninformed, but that's not a characteristic unique to the Millenium Generation.
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In 2015, with the motto "I remember and I demand", the Armenians will commemorate throughout the world the centennial of the Genocide committed against them.
One of the educational projects of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada is to establish a virtual museum of surviving objects or artifacts, with the theme of "One hundred survived objects for the centennial of the Armenian Genocide".
The project will begin in Armenian schools throughout Canada. The students will look for various items in the homes of their families, asking their parents, grandparents and relatives for books, jewelry, photographs, postcards, clothing, costumes, carpets, rugs and other objects that have survived the 1915 Genocide and have been transmitted from generation to generation, reaching us, here and now.
The items will be photographed and the students will record their story, getting to know and claiming our heritage and history.
This work will also be conducted in the community at large with the same objectives.
Through this project we shall become aware of our material cultural heritage that has survived the 1915 Genocide and, at the same time, get involved in the immediate histories of our families and that of our nation, thus especially contributing to the process of transmitting them to the new generation.
The Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee of Canada
Educational sub-committee
August 2014
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Iain Cuthbertson was born on January 4, 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland. He was an actor, known for Sutherland's Law (1973), Gorillas in the Mist (1988) and Super Gran (1985). He was married to Janet Mary Smith and Anne Kristen. He died on September 4, 2009 in Glasgow.
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Abstract: | Over the past 20 years, many in the field of second language learning and pedagogy have become familiar with models of language that emphasize its communicative nature. These models are often referred to as usage-based because they emphasize the notion that actual language use is a primary shaper of linguistic form. Supporters of these models also argue that making meaning, that is, the use to which language is put, is central to how language is configured. Usage-based models share several other underlying assumptions as well. While these usage models have a number of ideas in common, several distinct approaches have emerged. They often use similar terms, such as cognition and metaphor, but the precise interpretations can vary from model to model. The overall result is that without extensive reading, it is not always clear just how these models differ and what unique insights each offer. This article attempts to address this situation by examining three major usage-based models—systemic functional linguistics, discourse functionalism, and cognitive linguistics. First, the common, underlying tenets shared by the three models are discussed. Second, an overview of the unique tenets and concerns of each approach is presented in order to distinguish key differences among them. Within the discussion of each approach, I also discuss various attempts to apply the model to issues in second language learning. |
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text: Remember the white BlackBerry Bold that launched on AT&T last month after we scooped it in August? Looks like our Japanese brethren will be able to sport one on their hip, too. Starting December 3rd, NTT DoCoMo will make the blanco version of the BlackBerry Bold available to the Japanese public. Consider us big thinkers but we're pretty sure this will do incredibly well over in Japan.


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Obama defends decision to commute Chelsea Manning's sentence
Obama argued in his final White House news conference that Manning had served a "tough prison sentence" already.
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Room 7 minutes Walk to the Sea
N.º máximo de huéspedes2
Cuartos de baño1
Planta2(con ascensor)
- Toallas
- Ascensor en el edificio
- Apto para familias / niños
- Aparcamiento disponible
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Resumen del alojamiento
Dirección | Balfour, 5955205 Bat-Yam, Israel |
Tipo de propiedad | Habitación privada |
Código de referencia | QKUZUL5K |
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Much to ask guests are asked not to smoke in the rooms! Relax, enjoy the quiet, cozy atmosphere !!! We will try to make you comfortable in our house !!!Refundable deposit for possible damages of $ 200 .For the use of a fan, an additional fee for electricity. Time of arrival and departure guests from 22-00 to 8-00, extra paid 10 € for each arrival and departure at the clock separately. If the day of arrival and departure dates you want to leave your luggage in our house, it is also worth the extra 10 €.
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Tarifa para > 2 huéspedes | $ 17 US por huésped/noche extra |
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Entrada a partir de las | 15:00 |
Entrada antes de las | 22:00 |
Salida antes de las | 10:00 |
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Fui muy contenta en la casa de Tatjana Satanowskaja.
Todo estaba muy limpio y ella y su marido muy amable.
Ella me acompano hasta la estacion de tren, primero ella me ayudo de arrastrar la maleta.
>>> Ademas Balfour 98 esta muy cerca de la estacion de Autobus Balfour/Yoseftal! U ventage!
Antes de llegar se noto, que yo no habia recibido la informacion de dar 200 Euros o 200 Dolares como deposito (en . Tal vez fue mi culpa? Yo no lo se.
Usted lo sabe?
Doris Wili
It was a really good stay in Bat-Yam at Tatianas and Vladimirs host. I enjoyed her company and they're very helpful and lovely. To meet both of them is very intresting, they're have a big knowledge, which I could join. The room was clean and I had also my privacy. One of the best things was the short walk to the beach, which was very beautiful. To get somewhere else was also easy, so I could explorer this country. I'm looking forward to be still in contact with Tatiana and Vladimir. Thank you for this experience, which worked out very well.
The place was clean and it is in a nice location, near the sea and some cheap shops. The woman herself was very controlling. At first she was friendly and showed us where the cheap shops are; but after a few days she started inventing things and kept insisting that we had been having showers when we hadn't. She sleeps with her door open so it's very hard not to disturb her at night. When my room was freezing cold I tried to make myself a hot water bottle at night, but she wouldn't let me, saying it disturbed her. I became very ill and then she gave me some tea and allowed me to have a shower that was hot, but that was the only time I was allowed a hot shower. At the end when we wanted our deposit back, she told us that she'd cleaned the room thoroughly before we came and that we had to clean it just as thoroughly for the next people, otherwise she'd take it out of our deposit. At first we agreed, and we started cleaning shelves but she insisted we hadn't cleaned them well enough. Then she brought a step ladder and said we had to clean the top of the fan; and also the toilet which she and her husband had also been using aswell. We asked how much of the deposit she wanted to keep, and she said 100 for the cleaning and another 20 because she wanted to believe we'd been having all those showers. We just let her keep the extra money in order to get out and away from her as soon as possible!
Schönes und sauberes Zimmer nur 7 Minuten vom Strand entfernt. Die Gastgeber sind super nett, unkompliziert und hilfsbereit.
Ich hatte eine schöne Zeit.Gerne wieder
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text: Pixar's latest short will make you believe your whole city is aliveLauren Davis6/19/13 12:20pmFiled to: blue umbrellapixarSaschka Unseldshort filmsmonsters university414EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkIf you see Monsters University this weekend, you'll be treated to Pixar's newest short: The Blue Umbrella. It's love story between two umbrellas who meet on a rainy evening, with a supporting cast of all the faces you see in the city's inanimate architecture and fixtures.AdvertisementA few years ago, Blue Umbrella director Saschka Unseld came across a discarded umbrella in the rain. "I just thought it looked so sad," he said during a recent Pixar press event. "Someone just tossed it away and didn't even go back looking for it, just left it lying there." From there, he started developing ideas for a short film based around that melancholy image.First, he tried to develop a story about an umbrella trying to get back to its owner, a sort of break-up story from the umbrella's point of view. When he couldn't figure out a happy ending for that, he tried to work out a story in which the umbrella's owner wanted to move to a place where it hardly ever rained, much to the umbrella's chagrin. But that story ended up being too dependent on how the umbrella's owner felt about the rain.AdvertisementUnseld is originally from Frankfurt, Germany, but he grew up in Hamburg, a city that gave him many magical memories of the rain. "I like the rain," he said. "I love cities in the rain, and I thought it would be nice if the short was a bit of a love declaration to the rain." That's where the blue umbrella's love story began.While Unseld was working on the story for The Blue Umbrella, he was also working on another animation project. Like a lot of people, when Unseld would walk around his neighborhood, he would see faces everywhere, in the utilities, in the architecture, and he began photographing the faces he saw. He uploaded them onto his computer and began animating them. He imagined the faces singing in a music video and set them to a song by Sarah Jaffee (whose music pops up at the end of the short).As he began fleshing out the details of the short, Unseld found himself a bit stuck. So he asked himself, "What means something to me personally?" He thought about his childhood memories of the rain and how the whole city seemed to come alive. That's when those two projects — the short film about the umbrella and the animated faces of drain pipes and electrical outlets — came together as a single vision. That's the story he ended up pitching to Pixar, a tale of an umbrella whose search for love is witnessed — and ultimately aided — by the architectural characters of the city around him. He included his animated music video at the end of his pitch.SponsoredEven in the original music video, Unseld played with the perception between inanimate and animate. When you watch The Blue Umbrella, it takes a moment to realize that what you are looking at is animation rather than live-action. Pixar's use of global illumination, which simulates how light is reflected off of surfaces, helps the world of The Blue Umbrella approach photorealism. As the rain falls, the city begins to stir (I don't want to spoil exactly how), and it becomes clear that we've stepped into an animated film, but one filled with familiar sights and textures.Although Unseld didn't initially picture The Blue Umbrella with such realistic animation, others on the Pixar team saw the potential. Unseld's music video animation contains a moment in which an inanimate face is momentarily animated, then still again, the process repeating until the face is fully alive. In order to fully deliver on moments like that, the team decided to make the short as realistic as possible. "Because this moment, this magic of the city coming to life, it's so special if it's real for [the audience]," Unseld said.AdvertisementBut Unseld also wanted to take advantage of the control animators have over this world. "I think there's some human aspect, some texture that gets lost in CG," he said. "Sometimes I get disconnected from the world because it's so hyper-real, so polished, devoid of texture. In puppet animation, you can see the fingerprints, and that's really nice. and I wanted to get that in there somehow, this hand, this kind of texture."So he decided to give those faces a stop-motion feel. Rather than having the eyes and mouths glide in smooth motions, the animators would hold the poses over a longer frame time, creating more jittery, jerking motions. It makes the characters look more like puppets than like computer-generated creatures, and for the animators, it felt truer to the stone, concrete, metals, and wood the characters were supposed to be made from. Each house and grate and fixture was given its own personality, from young and floppy to older and more like Carl from Up.The umbrellas, on the other hand, have more stylized, two-dimensional faces, and they are given the quicker, snappier movements you see in traditional animation. Meanwhile, the rain gets a more realistic motion blur, looking all the more magical for coming so close to our own world.Unseld is clearly proud of having worked on a piece of computer-generated animation that gets away from its conventional aesthetic. "Animation nowadays can be anything that it wants to be," he said. "People got used to [computer-generated] animation looking a certain way." 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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Average student-loan debt for graduating college students in Ohio is on the rise.
A report by the Project on Student Debt said Ohio students who borrowed for college and earned a bachelor's degree in 2011 graduated with an average of $28,683.
That's the seventh highest in the nation and a 3.5-percent increase over 2010.
The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/R1gPEW ) reports that the Ohio average is nearly 8 percent higher than the national average. Like the previous year, 68 percent of the state's 2011 graduates left school with at least some student-loan debt.
Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro said he will continue to push Ohio's public colleges to keep their costs down and find ways to move students through school more quickly to reduce their debt.
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Orion: Dino Beatdown was the best-named of all the videogames. Unfortunately, it then had to go and ruin that by being very glitchy and generally un-fun to, you know, play. That in mind, Spiral wants you to consider Orion: Dino Horde both a) an apology and b) a, er, finished product. It seems like more or less what they were aiming for with Beatdown, and thankfully, they're making it free to everyone who purchased the first prehistoric jetpack blaster. "This is the sequel to Dino Beatdown and you receiveing it for free shouldn't even be a question on anyone's mind. We are extremely sorry about falling short on our first release and the problems you may have experienced," Spiral wrote. Details and a couple trailers after the break.
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Anachro-tastic: Orion: Dino Beatdown Savages Steam
Update: This game is apparently horrifically buggy and mired in mud-slinging controversy. Fun! A patch is allegedly on the way for one of those things, but it hasn't dropped yet. In the meantime, if anyone with (or formerly with) Spiral would like to talk about, well, anything (including favorite colors, sports teams, or breakfast mascots), please get in touch. Just email me via the address in my byline.
Original article: "The game is out April 20th." We said that about co-op jetpack blaster Orion: Dino Beatdown, and then it didn't happen. Distraught, I tossed and turned night after night fearing the worst. Before long, I started putting up posters that read "Have you seen/been killed by this T-Rex" around my city and openly bursting into tears anytime I heard the Jurassic Park theme. Two weeks passed. I became almost certain that Dino Beatdown had scampered into the middle of the road and gotten hit by an errant meteor. My heart sank into the briniest depths of my chest at the mere thought. But then: hope. A Steam listing celebrating a May 4th release – with a four-pack option, no less. D'aaaaw, it had babies. That explains everything. Well, actually, no, but a recent trailer does. So fearfully grip your gun and venture into this post's thickest word jungles to check it out.
Orion: Dino Beatdown Has Classes, Beaten Dinosaurs
I'd inadvertently left some Beefheart playing when I unmuted my speakers to have a listen this trailer, below. The effect was quite beautiful. Or perhaps I've not had enough sleep. Another thing, the name "Orion: Dino Beatdown" really doesn't seem quite right to me. I mean, Orion looks like Tribes mated with a Jurassic Park movie licence anyway, but the name sort of doubles that: half serious sci-fi, half 1980s dinosaur platformer. Perhaps that's appropriate. Hm.
The game is out April 20th.
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Dino Might: Orion Gets A Release Date, Trailer
Co-operative, open-world sci-fi dinosaur hunting game Orion: Dino Beatdown is strapping into its jetpacks for an April the 20th release date. After watching the trailer below I just hopped onto Google Calendar and made sure I had nothing planned for that day – just some lump thing in my brain needed removal on that day. I soon got rid of that. What smells of burning, btw? Anyway: I also added "Sleepover with the Timothy Olyphant" to my girlfriend's calendar to make sure I'm not disturbed. I love Trespasser and I take my dinosaur hunting VERY seriously. I am the Bob Peck of RPS.
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Jurassic Jetpacks – ORION: Dino Beatdown
I'm in two minds about this multiplayer shooter from the ORION: Prelude team that somehow isn't ORION: Prelude. Is ORION: Dino Beatdown a brilliant name for a game, or is it a horrible name for anything? One thing I do know, despite the laudable presence of dinosaurs and jetpacks, I'd be a lot happier if the dinosaurs were actually using the jetpacks. As it is, this is a game of cooperative shooting in which teams of men must survive in massive environments populated by hordes of hungry monster-lizards. And despite my quibbling, it looks pretty damn good.


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Well , she opens tomorrow. Don't seem possible , but , the normal anxiety of the preseason waiting only began a week or so back . I guess all the bull hocky going on a my job has really got to me more than I thought .
At any rate , Woodchuck and I will be in the public land shortly after 5 am . Forecast calls for temps in the low 50's and winds to 40mph . I believe the wind is to actually pick up during tonight and gust through tuesday. Monday and tuesday being the only two days Woodchuck could get off work.
I know where we can get down low and there has already been a lot of turkey/gobblers hanging in there .I suspect the wind will keep a lot of hunters home too.
The plan is to put Woodchuck on an old bird that we have seen and this particular bird just might be the same one that has beat me the last three years . He surely acts like him anyway . Either way , he's a brute with a horsetail type beard and thunder in his gobble .
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David: Maddow's followers are furious at this insult. She Proved tonight that she Truly believes that her followers are fools. Started with a FAKE NEWS headline in Twitter... She promised her followers that SHE HAD TRUMPS TAXES... TUNE IN TONIGHT ! a pathetic PLEA for Ratings... SO... What does the Queen of FAKE NEWS do? She brings out a 12 year old 2 page 1040 that she illegally obtained that showed President Trump PAID OVER 38 MILLION Dollars in Taxes that year... SO WHAT !! LOLOLOL How many of you will tune in tomorrow... like good little blind followers... LOLOLOL


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LOS ANGELES Right-hander Zack Greinke completed his physical Monday and the Dodgers officially announced his signing. Greinke will be introduced as the Dodgers' latest big-money acquisition at a news conference this afternoon at Dodger Stadium.
Korean left-hander Hyun-jin Ryu was introduced to the media on Monday. Before that news conference, Dodgers co-owner Magic Johnson jumped the gun on the Greinke news, tweeting out a welcome to the right-hander before his signing had become official.
"We knew we wanted to improve our pitching this offseason," Johnson said. "We were definitely hoping for Zack and … we wanted to sign (Ryu) as well because he has a tremendous fastball and an unbelievable changeup.
"We got him (Ryu). Now tomorrow – the big one, Zack. He's a proven winner. We feel good about our pitching staff."
Greinke, 29, agreed to a six-year, $147 million contract that makes him the second-highest paid pitcher in baseball history behind Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia (as measured by total contract value). The 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner, Greinke was 15-5 with a 3.48 ERA for the Brewers and Angels last season.
"As we set out this offseason to add a front-line pitcher who is capable and proven, Zack was the one we zeroed in on," Dodgers GM Ned Colletti said in the statement making Greinke's signing official. "We are very pleased to add a second pitcher who has won a Cy Young award to this rotation and organization. We believe he brings a lot to this team and to a pitching staff that was already very good."
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Saberi Release Highlights Case of Imprisoned Iranian AIDS Doctors
While the international community celebrates the release of detained US journalist Roxana Saberi, there is still continuing vigilance over the unjust imprisonments of Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei. These Iranian brothers are world-renowned HIV/AIDS physicians who were imprisoned since June by the Iranian government on unsubstantiated charges of communicating with an "enemy government."
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Yesterday the lawyer for Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei filed a final appeal of their sentencing under article 18 of Iran's Constitution. This is their last big chance to have their day in court, be acquitted of the charges and resume their lifesaving HIV/AIDS work in Iran and elsewhere.
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One is the reigning American League Most Valuable Player. The other is one of the favorites to win this year's MVP award -- and could win baseball's first Triple Crown since 1967.
Justin Verlander and Miguel Cabrera are nightmares to hit off of and pitch to, respectively. On Saturday, the Twins were overwhelmed by the Tigers' potent combination in a 6-4 loss at Target Field.
Verlander shut down the Twins early and Cabrera put the game away late as Detroit increased its lead in the American League Central to two games over the White Sox with four to go.
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I took on this project in sculpture class my final year of college in 2007. For our first project we were required craft a piece that combined two different types of animals, using only sheet metal and rods. Right away I tried to figure out how to make this project something I could put in my game room, and I thought it would be super cute to "breed" a Chocobo and a Moogle together.
After getting permission from my professor to use imaginary creatures instead of real ones, I started by creating the sculpture out of paper. When I had that all mapped out, I moved on to the real deal. At that point I had never welded before in my life, so getting started was a little difficult. After a few false starts, I got used to it and it went much smoother. I did burn my face with a braising rod once, but other than that, I avoided major injury.
The whole project took me 25+ hours, not including all the waiting time between the 10 coats of paint. I really wanted the whole thing to fit the "Kawaii" style of Japanese design that is so cute, so I made the Mog wings and ball glittery, and stuck to the bright yellow paint for the Chocobo body.
I also included a spiraled rod of metal around the body of the Chocobo, glittery like the wings, to help show movement in the sculpture. In reality, it is supposed to be a Chocobo attack, but I didn't think anyone from my class would understand.
Overall I am really happy with how it turned out. When I first introduced the sculpture to the interwebs it was received pretty well. Kotaku even did a quick story on it. Enjoy the photos!
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Fillydelphia private eye Looking Glass is hired by a beautiful new client to find her missing fiancé, Silver Coin. However, the simple missing pony case gets complicated quickly, and the hard-luck gumhoof soon finds himself embroiled in a plot that could have consequences for all of Equestria.
Let's see. Good description, well-written, funny, and it's a genre I love. Take your like, follow, and fav. You've earned them.
An excellent and involved story very much a tribute to Marlowe, I personally liked the pulp detective style a lot and you really have recaptured it perfectly in this.
Definitely got to check this out, I love Detective stories and wanted to do a Pony one of my own.
Love the character name and sounds ace!
You're getting a lot of mileage out of the 'pencil in the mouth' gag, aren't you?
I couldn't resist the pull from the mention in the Blueblood stories. Fine story. Really deserves more likes and whatever.
This was amazing.
And the title suggests a series maybe?
There is a sequel planned and partially outlined! However, I'm currently sidetracked by an ongoing series of stories about everyone's favorite inexplicable royal, Prince Blueblood. Once that's done, though, I do plan on getting started on "Looking Glass, P.I: Savage Nights." Griffons, changelings, gang wars, and more freakin' politics. Should be fun
Please make this a series! I loved this one and would love to see more! You are a very talented writer. I hope to see more from you!
I was taken in at the "Bellicose drunks" line. I can practically feel Marlowe in this. Definitely looking forward to reading this.
Hmm well Hot air is up to something. nobody's that helpful *suspicious face*
Looks good and Im looking forward to reading this. One thing I noticed; you said pony was xHands high. Was that intentional and referring to dragon hands? Or did you perhaps mean xHooves high?
That's... a tricky question. "Hands" don't really exist in Equestria, but, "hands" is also the unit of measurement for determining a horse's height. So let me just stroke my mustache and waggle my eyebrows mysteriously at you while I say something cryptic.
How is this still languishing at less than 400 views? This is criminal!
Thank you for the story!
Pretty good style and well written.
I'm looking forward for the sequel :)
I would say this story really struck the noir mood, though I didn't read enough noir to be allowed to say such things. Either way, from what I can tell, the mood was really enjoyable, the pacing felt right, and the editing was solid - although since I read the .txt file, I think I'm not too competent in this last regard. Since I'm not a noir or dark fan, I had my doubts (slight as they were), but fortunately you proved me wrong!
The only moment I would criticize is Nightingale sparing our hero's life. I mean, Looky already knew too much, and Nightingale could enact his plan herself, without his help. Or alternatively, if not she herself, one of her henchponies.
Also I would've kinda liked to see our protagonist ending up with his ex again, although I understand that noir is not a genre for knights in shining armor and happy endings. It still felt a little dissonant when he demanded for the safety of a mare he just met a few days ago, but not for her ex - but I guess he just couldn't forgive her. Kind of a shame.
What I didn't like, though, is the epilogue - I mean, obviously you wanted a sequel hook, but this letter felt rather out of genre. You could've just written an author's note or something, but the epologue made me feel that almost everything our hero accomplished (and consequently, the story itself) was sorta pointless. (Not to mention that the sequel never arrived. Although I'd place my money on Nightingale being the changeling spy!)
I loved, however, the guns - horseshoes analogue. That bit was a nice touch!
So bankers are evil... I have noticed a trend in your stories.
And I read the Prince series before this... :)
Good old-fashioned emoticons.
Wow, Crown was an IDIOT. Hadn't he ever read the Evil Overlord List?
four and a half hands tall
I hope I'm not sounding nitpicky, but four and a half hands is 18 inches. Even if you're measuring to the shoulder, a foot and a half tall hardly sounds like a 'large pony.'
simply, hearty, and cheap
Do you mean 'simple, hearty and cheap?'
"The ones that I could, yeah."
Ouch. Prepare for incoming tragic backstory.
She inspected the ancient wooden chair I reserved for my guests and wisely decided to remain standing.
Wisely? So Looking Glass knows it could collapse at any second and leaves it there for his guests to sit in anyway? Is it a test or something, or does he just like to annoy his clients?
"He is a large stallion, four and a half hands tall,
hands? Ponies have hands? Or did they adopt the minotaur measuring system? While a bit confounding, the real issue here is that it's inconsistent. In the following chapter, you call them "freet," and in chapter 15, it becomes legs.
Maybe suspicions of diloyalty?"
and a few uniformed cops were standing a city-mandated ten freet from the front doors while they smoked and bitched about the heat.
1. feet
2. inconsistent, called them hands in chapter 1, legs in chapter 15
The floors were a simple white tile, chipped and cracked in most places from the thousands of hooves that have tread its surface,
Had tread its surface, not have. The floors WERE chipped and cracked, so thousands of hooves tread its surface BEFORE that. Thus, you need past perfect tense, not present perfect.
The main lobby wass mostly a waiting room,
I made my way to a nearby diner and ordered hibiscus and gravy–simply, hearty, and cheap.
drifting down well-paved streets and across perfectly-manicured lawns from blocks away.
"I have someone expecting me," I said in my best Manehattan voice.
There, I found enough carbage cans and old boxes to build myself a makeshift staircase,
which were–of course–plated with gold.
You used -- before. You keep switching back and forth between -- and –. Consistency!
He was exceptionally skinny and had yellow coat, a graying mane and a thin mustache,
a yellow coat
This was all I needed, Cammy stirring up old emotions I'd thought song since settled.
long, not song.
'Celestia, I'm so lucky to have a filly who will stay by me, even though this.'"
through, not though
I approached with a pleasant a demeanor as I could muster,
as pleasant
but I thought already knew the answer.
I thought I
and drug out the fireproof metal box where I kept my backups.
dragged, not drug
I tried to shrug, but my arms didn't cooperate. I looked to my left and found a yellow-and-black pegasus hovering in place, holding me up from under my front leg.
Forelegs, not arms. Change "from under my front leg" to "from under my shoulder" or "by my legpit" to avoid repetition.
If I can just fine something solid,
"You sent me out to Emerald Park, and then you told Nightgale I'd be there."
And anypony trying to come in by air would have to deal with a squad of armed, skilled, and highly-payed pegasi.
highly paid.
Blackguard gestured with his horn towards me and Gold Coin, and two of his guards broke ranks to drag us after him.
We stared into eachothers eyes,
"Many genuises are mistaken as such."
Almost there, just a few more legs.
inconsistent. Hands, feet, legs.
Crown suddenly jerked and went rigid. The bloody tip of a spear emerged from his chest. The light around his horn dimmed and then died out, and the knife dropped to the ground. He turned his head as far as he could, straining to see his murderer."That was for Gold," said Hot Air, still bound and leaning heavily on the spear.
The spear is still impaling Jewel, who is still standing up. How can he lean on the spear?
Apparently, a mole in the F.C.P.D had lured Calla and Cammy into an ambush by Nightingale's colts.
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Former basketball star Dennis Rodman has hurled abuse at reporters, as he angrily rejected calls to lobby for the release of an American detained in North Korea.
Rodman had been to the country for a second time this year to meet leader Kim Jong-un.
Speaking to reporters, he said: "He's my friend for life - I don't care what you guys think about him."
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Just watched FOX & Friends and Col Allen West was on live and stated that he will no longer fight for the FL D18 seat. (paraphrasing) He stated that even though they found problems with the way the vote count was handled he said it is not about him but is about what is best for the people of FL D18 so he conceds the seat to Pat Murphy.
I have a feeling we have not seen the last of Col West. Thanks for your service to our country Col West.
I think Allen West's next play is to run for Governor of Florida. Would seem an odd thing to do given he lost a House seat, but there would be opportunity for him to win a statewide race.
That was my attitude when I joined FR in 1999. Since then, I've been told to "hold my nose", "vote against the other guy", "We must all back the same horse", "hang together or hang separately", and every other corny aphorism folks could drum up to convince me it was ok to sell out my principles to back a GOP lame horse.
No more. Period. End of line.
If this Country is on an Express rail-line to Hades, then it may be time to blow the tracks and hope some few survive the crash.
The 2016 Presidential Campaign has begun for Allen West!
Thanks. Sometimes for what ever reason things just don't go your way. Take care.
Perhaps he would have had more support for his reelection if he had not been an early supporter of increasing the debt ceiling in return for a bogus deficit cutting agreement with the Rats.
Have we seen any discussion of deficit cuts beyond Defense cuts? I haven't.
Unless it's a Palin/West ticket, why would any conservative want to vote Republican in 2016?
The communist DemocRATS win another one. Florida should be ashamed of itself. Barry Benghazi has another new butt boy.
You are right. I, myself, left talk radio and TV on Bloody Thursday during the primary because I knew what was happening. Have not been back since (honest) and feel so much better. I get my news local and on the web. Hannity is old news; I can't see how people follow him the way they do. I lost respect from Rush when he said Newt was a bold conservative with ideas to get things done in Washington. same week.. on air, he admits he got a phone call from the Romney camp saying that he, Rush was too positive with Newt. Since that, he was criticizing Newt at each turn. They have played a lot of listeners. I am glad I got out of the cycle of spin. I think they said he would win in a landslide to get people out to vote so people would feel good about being on a winning side. Though in truth, they knew the base had issues with the candidate. And you can bet ElRushbo knows who the GOP/RNC has up for next bat.
Efforts to bring West to Georgia for the next election: http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/20/allen-west-concedes-after-preliminary-recount/#.UKuHPmmNmNo.twitter
Don't put down the voters who voted for him and voted only once.
A lot of us are upset.
The real builders and keepers of this nation have become irrelevent. America, isn't recognizable after the Obama takeover. I don't even know if it is worth fighting for, and have to wonder if West didn't sense this.
It shouldn't matter what West says or does — this election was obviously handled improperly due to either incompetence or intent. Florida's Secretary of State can either do something about it, or endorse it by craven inaction.
The Florida Secretary of State should use this district as a test case to reassure the public that elections under his supervision have integrity. He should not certify the election results, pending a full recount and investigation/audit by his deputies (not the local officials). The investigation should include: checking the voter sign-in rolls precinct by precinct to assure that at least as many signed in properly as voted; checking that the signatures are valid; checking for duplicate voting within FL; checking US/FL citizen status and legal registration of the signed-in voters; looking into voter
identity theft and other reports of malfeasance; finding out whether show-ups were allowed to cast regular (non-provisional) ballots, etc. There is a lot more to reviewing this situation than running cards through a machine.
Were those lies coming out of West's headquarters. What happened to the 900 votes they claimed came from a precinct with 7 registered voters?
If Allen West forms a group that goes after voter fraud, I can respect him again. Otherwise he is just another politician.
It would not suprise me at all if that person is ONCE AGAIN MITT ROMNEY..........it's still his turn you know?/sar.
What do we do if it (gag) is?
I refuse to concede my tag line.
That's what I want to know. They announced this on Fox News. Does anyone remember what group this was?
There were a lot of other groups that might easily have done it, but they thought it was covered. It almost makes you think this was planned. Announce and don't show up.
You've articulated much of what I've been thinking.
It really does feel like Groundhog Day:
Most important election of our lifetime. Shame us into voting for someone we don't like. Send money. Pound the pavement. Work the phones. Ignore the polls. Get out and VOTE. Don't question fraud.
Why bother? Once again, the GOP got their dream candidate—another "electable" moderate with an actual, liberal record, who still managed to be painted as extreme.
Really, I think the GOP's just in it at this point to quibble over the scraps of what used to be the USA. Election results really don't affect the party bigwigs; their lives go on as usual. Different matter for the rest of us tho and I wholly accept that now.
Takers now outnumber the makers. I'm over it. Nothing left to do except hope that our decline's well managed, hunker down, practice my faith and enjoy what small amount of liberty remains.
And good luck to the GOP in building its new and improved coalition of... Whoever.
I wouldn't put that pass them though, the next candidate would be Jeb Bush approved. I recall Rush telling us before that Jeb was doing the interviews with the more potential candidates during the early primary. Barbara Bush has already come out to tell conservatives to calm down, to move on and to proclaim that there was no fraud in this election. Hello, Mrs. Bush..
I hear ya, Mutt, and feel exactly the same way...
We been played...there's no two ways about it...they can all suck it.
"ONCE AGAIN MITT ROMNEY...What do we do if it (gag) is?"
Vote for Obama.
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Electronic and transport properties in circular graphene structures with a pentagonal disclination
- Esther Jódar1Email author,
- Antonio Pérez–Garrido1 and
- Fernando Rojas1, 2
© Jódar et al.; licensee Springer. 2013
Received: 16 November 2012
Accepted: 24 April 2013
Published: 29 May 2013
We investigate the electronic and transport properties of circular graphene structures (quantum dots) that include a pentagonal defect. In our calculations, we employ a tight-binding model determining total and local density of states, transmission function and participation number. For the closed structure, we observe that the effect of the defect is concentrated mainly on energies near to zero, which is characteristic of edge states in graphene. The density of states and transmission functions for small energies show several peaks associated with the presence of quasi-bound states generated by the defect and localized edge states produced by both the circular boundaries of the finite lattice and induced by the presence of the pentagonal defect. These results have been checked by calculating the participation number, which is obtained from the eigenstates. We observe changes in the available quasi-bound states due to the defect and the creation of new peaks in the transmission function.
Graphene; Transport; Defects 72.80.Vp 72.15.Rn 73.20.AtBackground
The theoretical and experimental study of properties of graphene has attracted the attention of many authors in the last few years since a method to isolate single graphene layers was developed (the authors Geim and Novoselov were awarded with the Nobel prize). These graphene sheets may be stable enough to be freely suspended[1], which allows us to use them in solid state experiments. Besides, the electronic properties of graphene are surprising: one finds new quasi-particles described by the Dirac equation at low energies that behave like massless particles. This opens the possibility to study quantum electrodynamics properties in solid-state devices and to carry out new developments, e. g., biosensors (see other studies[2–10]).
where are the creation/annihilation operators of an electron in site i. We expand the wave function in terms of the site base., where is the amplitude probability that the electron is to be in site i for the eigenstate k. We need to solve. Four quantities are calculated to characterize the nature of the electronic and transport properties on two-circled structures, with PD and defect-free (ND) structures: the total density of states N(E), the local density of states ρ(i,E), the participation number P(E) and the transmission function T(E).
Electronic properties for the closed system
It assesses the wave function spreading so it can help to find out the localized or extended nature of an electronic state. For a completely localized wave function Ψ k (i) is approximately δ k i →P≈1 while for a typical delocalized wave function on D atoms, Ψ k (i) is approximately, and then P≈D.
Electronic transport properties: Green's function method
where and are the self-energy terms of left and right leads, respectively, and is the Hamiltonian of the conductor, i.e., in our case, the circular graphene sheet plus a few unit cells of the leads. In our approach, the contact leads at opposite sides of the circular graphene sheet is the graphene sheet itself extended to make the leads semi-infinite. This is equivalent to have reflectionless contacts in macroscopic conductors. Self-energy terms are calculated using the prescription, where is Green's function of the semi-infinite lead (right or left) evaluated on sites k and l, which are in contact with sites i and j in the circular graphene sheet.
We only need to calculate in the sites in contact with the conductor. To do that, we use the formalism developed by López Sancho et al.[18]. This method has the advantage that the number of iterations close to singularities is very low compared to other transfer matrix methods, so it converges very fast and has been applied to graphene layers by other authors (see e.g.[19]). In this scheme, Green's function is, where is the Hamiltonian of one isolated graphene cell in the lead, and is the matrix that takes into account the interaction between two consecutive cells. For the calculation of T, we use the iterative method described in[18].
In Equation 6, GR/A are the retarded and advanced Green's functions, respectively, and. We denote the trace of the matrix considered by "Tr", which is extended over the whole matrix.
Results and discussion
We have investigated the electronic and transport properties of circular graphene layers with a pentagonal disclination. In particular, using a tight-binding model, we have calculated the density of states, transmission function, participation number and local density of states of the structure with and without defects. The density of states for the structure with the PD shows several peaks that are associated with new localized states, which have been checked by calculating the local density of states and the participation number. We observe changes in the available quasi-bound states due to the defect and new peaks of the transmission function. Comparing these results, we conclude that there are more quasi-bound states in the structure with the defect, states associated with both the presence of quasi-bound states related to the atoms belonging to the defect and others due to the circular confinement and edge states due to circular boundaries of the finite lattice and the defect.
Defect-free structure
Pentagonal defect.
FR would like to acknowledge the DGAPA project PAPPIT IN112012 for their financial support and sabbatical scholarship at the UPCT.
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We've been cloth diapering for about four weeks now. I thought I would post about what has been working around here.
My stubborn refusal to even consider cloth diapers had to do with:
- The jargon - I couldn't figure out what the acronyms meant. PUL, AIO, prefold. It was all gibberish to me and I just tuned out.
- The initial expense.
- The smugness. I felt if we were to cloth diaper I would become so smug and trendy I couldn't bear to be around myself. This was the only legitimate fear.
What has sold me on cloth diapering:
- Fewer trips to Target. I don't have to buy diapers. I don't have to make emergency trips to the store and watch my tiny subtotal jump from a friendly $40 to a far less pleasant $70 with one swipe.
- Cuteness - her bottom speaks for itself. But also, every morning I take the clean, fluffy pile of diapers and fold them into a tidy little stacks. It's just pleasant. It's my favorite laundry to wash - and um, this is probably TMI, but I like the challenge of getting them clean. It's like a science experiment! What combination of detergents and soaking will be ideal for our water type? So exciting! Commence mocking me.
- It's not all or nothing. Because my husband bought a big box of Pampers right when we made the switch, we use disposables at night.
So here's what I bought:
- A pack of snappis to fasten the diapers.
- 6 Green Mountain Diapers Cloth-eez Prefold Diapers. I'm very pleased with these diapers. They are easy to clean and absorb nicely. I also think I learned most from the Green Mountain website.
- Two Thirsties covers. They work nicely and fit well. Two thumbs up.
I have some bird's eye burp cloths I converted for extras (good sewing info here). If not, I'd need to order a few more from GMD. I could have very easily just stopped here.
But then! Someone linked to a seconds sale at Cotton Babies and before I knew what happened, three BumGenius One Size Cloth Diapers arrived in a little box on my doorstep. It was the cute colors and sale price, I admit. So, I see the appeal of these diapers. They are easy to use and the fabric stays dry feeling on the inside, which is nice for baby. However, I hesitate to use synthetic fabrics. We had a romper that was a poly-blend and we could not get the spit up smell out of it. I've heard similar stories about the microfiber used in diapers. Right now, my inserts for these diapers are some cotton flat fold diapers and that works just fine. I don't regret buying the BumGenius because they are my husband's preference and they work well for going out, but they are not used on a daily basis. They also tend to leave red marks on her little thighs.
I go through all six prefolds in a day and then, when she's down for the night (ha, ha!) I wash the diapers on hot with a double rinse. I hang them to dry overnight, fluff them in the dryer for a minute or two in the morning. No big deal.
The whole thing has really been no big deal. I thought it would be disgusting but there's no getting around dealing with your child's output, no matter how you diaper. And for all the systems and brand names and money, you really just need something to absorb tinkle and a way to keep it from getting on everything else.
As for expense - let me add it up here.... I spent $22.00 at Green Mountain Diapers, including shipping, I think. $33 at Cotton Babies, including shipping and about $30 at Amazon for the covers and snappis. I think. So under $100. I think you could spend a lot more than that, but you could also spend less. I could easily have done without the BumGenius diapers. I may eventually order more prefolds but I prefer to wash them every night anyway, so there's just no need right now.