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With just a little effort and some graph paper, you too can turn your cramped apartment into a Kinect-ready playland.
Or, save yourself the time, effort, and heartache when the games suck, and the money for rhe expensive add-on and DON'T BUY IT! Let it die in the same landfill as the virtual boy!
Well, I'm not gonna even enter the damn aisle in BestBuy where they're being sold, but I did have a nice laugh at this. Apparently, the family room in my house is bigger than some people's apartment. >.>
What if you live somewhere that has a pole in the way that you can't move because it supports the foundation of your house?
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Some people live in one room appartments, were everything is in the same room and the bathroom is shared by everyone living on the same floor.
I wont be getting Kinect at all. I'm interested to see how big name dev's and publishers take it on and I do think it's a great piece of tech, just not implemented properly.
When I lived in Summer Hill (I'm in Sydney, Australia) my trendy-location shoebox apartment would not have enabled me to enjoy Kinect. There was about 4'^2 of clearance between the TV and the couch, and a large chunk of that was taken up by coffee table.
I moved further out west about a year ago to a less desirable suburb, but for the same money I have a lot more space. Providence!
My recommendation: move somewhere else.
Surely it's not too much to ask that you relocate for your love of games?
This sounds like entirely too much work for a new, unproven periphery. I say it dies a slow and drawn out death. The Wii did motion sensing first, it did it cheaper, and it did it a hell of a lot more conveniently than Kinect's shenanigans. Perfect lighting? 8 square feet? rearrange the room? To put it quite plainly, fuck that. I'd rather hit one button and flop down on the couch with a Wiimote than jump through all the hoops.
The title font keeps reminding me of the font used on one of the many covers for one of the many reprints of Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!. Which was probably not intentional but I found very clever.
So instead of making kinect fit around my life, I have to fit my life around Kinect? That's immersion right there.
Unlike most people that'll likely comment on this article, I'm actually getting a Kinect and looking forward to it, even though I'm part of the "core" gaming market rather than the casual. I'm a broke college student and even in my cheapest, seediest apartment I had plenty of space for a Kinect. Seriously, unless you live in a New York closet apparently, you shouldn't have too much of an issue. The Wii and Move don't require as much space, sure, but they still require some. Look at the warnings on the loading screens that pretty much say "keep people out of your arms reach". Honestly, 8ft is a very small amount of space. I like both the Wii and the Move as well, but everyone's gonna turn this thread into a "Kinect sucks, Move rocks" thread, and it's getting kind of old. Remember when everyone said the Wii was gonna fail? Damn, well... I guess it didn't. Let the tech come out, let it get some games over time, then judge it.
Here's the thing. As Extra Credits pointed out, so much time, money, and investment has gone into Kinect that if the thing sinks, it could seriously affect the video game industry in an adverse way. This goes for Move too. We may not want the waggle war being fought within our lands, but we have no choice. The industry brought this upon itself and now we have to make sure the ship can float before she drowns in the sea of failed enterprise.
Unfortunately, this is quoted for truth. I'm not going to spend christ knows how long shifting things, buying things and building things just so i can play kinect. Especially as the shovelware coming out on release is extremely unappealing. If something genuinely awesome and more relevant to me came out (yes, call me a call of honour / medal of duty FPS lolboy) or perhaps included kinect implementation in an RPG, like having the player speak the dialogue lines of their character in Dragon Age 2, then i would put all this effort into integrating it into my gaming life. But as it stands now? No. No way am i going to buy and build a storage unit and shift everything just so i can jump about like a twat while i pretend to run on the spot, when i could just go down to the gym and hop on the treadmill for the same experience. But the dance game looks good right? Again, if i wanted to dance, i'd go take classes rather than go through all that effort (and expense) of having to do it in the room where my xbox currently resides. Even if i did shift everything, it's still not exactly ideal for full body motion. I appreciate what the writer of the article was trying to do. And it is encouraging. But if you look at the myriad of things that he writes out that you need to do to "make room for kinect", it almost sounds like a satirical rant about how much time money and effort needs to go into Microsoft's new toy. In fact, i have trouble discerning whether he wrote it to genuinely promote kinect or to satirise it.
Even supposing I was the target audience for the Kinect - which couldn't be further from the truth, I don't even own an X-Box - seeing the lengths urban residents would have to go to just to make the system work at all does indeed strike me as needlessly convoluted. And not just because I live in the suburbs in what I would consider a fairly small house - by typical urban standards it would probably be considered palatial, but out here it's pretty small.
Is the gimmick of button-less motion controls honestly worth all the extra effort and disruption it would take to experience? Again, I'm not a console gamer by any stretch of the imagination, but I look at Kinect marketing materials and it's like watching advertising aimed exclusively at extraterrestrial beings with minds fundamentally distinct from our normal human brains. I simply cannot comprehend why anyone would want one - all the games look like pointless fluff, sports/casual titles with the depth of a pencil line, fare fit only for the waggle-crowd of the Wii - and the control methodology itself seems to be ill-suited for titles that would actually be of interest for those of my mindset.
Put simply, if I wanted to jump around and flail my arms and generally look like a spastic idiot, I would go outside (no I wouldn't, I hate the outdoors). Motion controls are colossal steps backwards - economy of motion and efficiency are what is important when devising a control scheme, so injecting additional layers of abstraction and expanding the required range of motions leaves you with a control scheme that is objectively worse. We don't need motion controls to make better games - if anything, shoehorning in motion controls can only be detrimental - and the Kinect in particular all but precludes any possibility of there being any games that "gamers" will actually care about by virtue of its design.
So at the end of the day, I'm left wondering this: Unless they're buying it for exercise purposes, why the hell would the audience that frequents sites like this one even want a Kinect, let alone want to rearrange their lives to use one?
But Vanguard does; do as Chris says and bulldoze.
Never planned on getting a kinect. I fI wanted to play horrible minigames with a motion sensor I would have gotten a wii
What kind of retard crap is this? We do not have to buy Kinect to support Microsoft. Its thir responsibility to make good products, no our responsibility to subsidise crap products from them. then there is no motivation for them to make good products. Extra Credits id NOT claim we HAD to support Kinect. You totally misread that in some sort of socialist retarded way.
I'd watch how you talk to people. Because that's pretty insulting and the mods might take offense - just saying.
No, i didn't misread the message Extra Credits was trying to say. I don't think you understood their point. The point was that whether we're yay or nay for the motion control craze, it's too late now. Time and money has been poured into the project and if it sinks, it will hit the industry bad. That's not good when the industry itself is weak, just look at how second hand games sales, piracy and a myriad of other problems such as controversy (see the November bill) are and will be causing a lot of problems for the industry. If these projects fail to take off, Sony might just go back to making televisions and Microsoft might just stick to computers. Not to the point where video games no longer exist, but it will definitely impact the industry as a whole. What Extra Credits said was that we shouldn't actively fight back against kinect. No, we don't have to like it, but we should welcome the audience that kinect is marketed to, because it's that supposed untapped audience that will keep the industry afloat and develop. The whole idea of the debate on kinect, and arguably this article, is to say "well i understand kinect isn't for me, but i'm not going to grab a torch and pitchfork and kick up a stink about it. I'm going to acknowledge it's a part of my culture now, whether it's for me or not, and not try to boycott / start a revolution / be a hero whenever it's mentioned". Because every time you go "MOTION CONTROL LOLWUT" it scares off a casual or someone else who might have been interested in the product. No-one wants to be part of a community that are full of foul-mouthed offensive 'hardcore, yo' trolls. Video games are meant to bring people together, after all. The idea of being more welcoming and open to kinect isn't about kinect itself. It's about being welcoming and open to the people that it brings with it. The new community.
Hmmm if it's that bad for a New Yorker imagine how bad it must be in Japan... Microsoft has been trying to crack that market for a while now, and again they show that they just don't get it.
The space limitations of the kinect are making it only available to a niche market, yet they are trying to sell it to casual gamers... I think the Kinect would be best suited to an arcade or something, but even then it would have to have special lighting and stuff because most arcades are pretty dark. And most arcades don't even exist anymore.
Maybe it will just take some time, let the devs get used to it first and then see what sort of games start coming out.
A very cute article!
My first thought was 'because the long-term weight on the wheels and movement will often dent, scrape or otherwise damage your floor - especially hardwood', but you covered that with your suggestion for carpeting and rugs. :D Nice one!
On that note, I am gobsmacked that such a thing is considered the tenant's responsibility in a rental situation.
I think your confusing NYC with London :P
OT: I can't rearrange my furniture for the required 6-8 feet of space :(
And I can't get Kinect! Not that I wanted it in the first place X3
dissappointed in this article. when I read the involement of graph paper and the "don't judge us" clause in the beginning I was certain I was going to read a method of fooling the Kinect system by some use of a graph paper backdrop and hand puppets.
Now THAT I want to see!
Impact in a rather great way, I'd say!
I mean, what, if there's a demand for games other companies will rise to meet that market, etc. If Sony and Microsoft failed here, I doubt they'll just leave the industry considering the huge investment they've made up to now.
But if they DO leave, who cares? Do you seriously think other companies will say "Hell screw this entire market we could be making millions in now that two of the biggest competitors just bowed out!" Yeah, right.
I like how this guy signed up only to give this advice.
Yeah, I know. You have a point. But as I pointed out in the comments of the Extra Credits you refer to, I'm not saying the Kinect will fail because I think it's dumb and want it to burn - I'm saying that because, as someone who can analyze the industry in an intelligent manner, I think it won't fly.
And I don't think I have any obligation to support a device that I do not like and that represents something in the industry I don't particularly care for. I will buy games and consoles solely because I think they're a step in the right direction, but I won't do this indiscriminately. If Microsoft fucked up and wasted time and money in a product that has no appeal to me and ends up having no appeal to their non-me demographic either, that's their problem. They should have foreseen it as a company. It's their job, not mine, as a costumer. It's also not my job to save the gaming industry for themselves if they screw up. They should be thinking of ways to help me, not the other way around.
If that means the gaming industry crashes, well, look at the bright side, at least there won't be ten new cover-based brown and grey gritty shooters coming out next year.
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hah, or so they'd have you think (jk).
I have to agree. That would be wonderful.
My opinion of Urbanite New Yorkers is second only to the French.
Step 1 - Bequeath your shitty little matchbox apartment to the rats
I'm surprised that no one thought of using this whole "motion sensing" gimmick to resurrect the good old days of public arcades. Wouldn't it make more sense to do this kind of thing in a specially designed, carefully controlled environment?
Oh yes, I know you don't want to waggle your body and humiliate yourself in a public venue. But last I checked, dance clubs were still popular. :)
I just have a little single apartment, but the way my furniture is set up won't really allow for enough space. I've got a full bed, a futon, the TV, then my computer desk, plus some space for my bike. There really isn't anywhere to move any of it temporarily.
I like motion controls and I own a Wii, but I'm not yet convinced that Kinect will add much to the mix. Essentially, motion controls are just full or partial body replacements for button functions, with the possibility of more accuracy with certain things like aiming or the direction of a sword swipe, etc. Kinect may provide some extra motion recognition, but the games that are possible with it don't seem vastly different. That being said, I kind of hope it succeeds. I'd love it if a new generation of consoles simply incorporated motion just like analog sticks or vibration, just another option for developers when making games. Selling it as a peripheral to the main system singles it out and begs for criticism. It becomes a separate experience, asking us to adopt it when it should just be there without all the fanfare.
I'm not moving my living room around for Kinect.
I don't know why Microsoft thought such a restricition was ok.
Japanese people already live with modular furniture. Apartment rooms are often multi-purpose, with tables that fold up and go into a closet, to be replaced with a folding futon. They have a lot of empty space in them because Japanese rooms come built-in with closets for the furniture. And given that the standard size for a Japanese room will work with Kinect, they're BETTER suited, considering all the whining about having to move a coffee table some people are making...
What niche market? People with houses? The people who own houses usually have families. Families are full of casual gamers. Hence, Kinect is perfect for the average casual gamer. I'd be willing to bet there are far more 'core' gamers (eg single males in their 20s) living in shoebox apartments than there are families with lots of disposable income and kids who want the newest toy (aka half of the Wii's playerbase).
A quick googling shows that almost 70% of the USA lives in houses. Hardly a "niche".
Well maybe niche wasn't quite the proper word, but they're definitely limiting their market. I know for me to get Kinect to work I'd have to have my T.V. in my closet and put my computer desk on my bed. In my current living situation even if I wanted a kinect I'd be unable to buy one and use it properly, and there are plenty of people in similar situations, so to me it seems like they're losing sales, and not because of lack of interest but because of the way they designed it.
Amazes me that people will live in places like that. I'm lived in cramped placed and I just won't do it anymore. I live in the small Aussie state of Tasmania and I love it. I own a three bedroom house which I have to myself, I'm a 5 minute drive from the CBD and I don't really find any major city has anything I care about.. and if I do? These days you can fly to Melbourne for under a $100 return! Most of the time though, if I can't buy it local I just buy it online and it shows up a few days later.
Granted our internet speeds could do with some work, bring on the NBN (which I'll have in the next 12-18 months). But after living in Sydney and Perth during my life I can absolutely say that big cities with cramped real estate are just not worth it.
With two roommates that supposedly pay rent, and a pet that does less than nothing useful, I'd have to invest into a lot more than just the add on to be able to play it. In order to get the 6 to 8 feet needed, I'd have to get a TV set that's large enough for me to be able to see it at 8 feet away.
I also don't know if I'll be moving out of state next year, and where I may have to be moving, or what the living conditions are for where I'll be living, or anything like that. It just seems to me to be too much of a hassle to try to change my life this much for something that might or might not be any good at all.
First of all, you do not need perfect lighting. I've played it with nothing more than the glow from my LCD. Sure its not perfect, but it works. Second, you do not need 8 square feet to play. I've played it in an area that was literally 4 square feet, granted I was about 7 feet away from the sensor.
Also, the Wii is not much cheaper:
Nunchuk = $20
Wiimote + another Nunchuck = $60
Kinect works with 2 players at the same time. To achieve similar functionality with the Wii, you would need the additional Wiimote and 2 Nunchuks. This price however does not include the cost of buying the Motion Plus addon which would cost an additional $40 each That brings the grand total of the Wii to $360.
And before you start crying foul about how I know that stuff about Kinect; I'm a Kinect beta tester. If you don't believe me, look here. That is my gamerprofile. You'll notice a game in my games played list that is a shadow of an Xbox 360 with the title "???". That is one of the games we were given to test.
EDIT: I realized this makes me sound a bit like a dick. I'm not trying to attack you or what you think of Kinect, I'm just trying to inform you. There is a lot of misinformation and opinions based on very limited amounts of information.
Honestly, having to do that much work to play a damn game is ridiculous. I guess I'll be passing on Kinect until at least the summer when I'm out of my dorm room.
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South Africa's hip hop recording artist, Jabulani Hadebe, better known by his stage name Sjava, is the winner of 2018 BET Awards' "Viewers' Choice: Best New International Act".
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He didn't do that without immense competition from slews of rising global music heavyweights – including Niniola, Kwesi Arthur, Not3s and others.
Guess who have sent in his congratulation message, Cassper Nyovest who was also at the even held at the Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, California, United States, several hours ago. He was part of the nominees for the "Best International Act" which was won by Nigerian Afropop star, Davido
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There are several things I find misplaced with this deity. First: the quote "it is solely by his will that the spirits of the dead reach their respective planes." makes deities like Nerull and Wee Jas irrelevant. Perhaps he has a hand in such things, but putting sole responsibility over the dead to his hands (however capable) is overpowering. Second: if you're going to state later on exactly what the deity is and what its origins are, you shouldn't weave mysteries about it in that respect. Third: malevolent deities don't have overt temples in major Good-aligned cities. They are driven out for the safety of the people within them. Major Evil-aligned cities could have overt temples to Abaddon, but they are likely to have overt temples to other Major Evil Deities as well. Fourth: the quote "is the chief instigator of the conflict known as the Blood War" is misleading. Abaddon may believe that it has that dubious distinction, but events as they happened were probably not so simple. Like the death bit above, putting sole responsibility into his hands (however capable) is overpowering. Fifth: Overdeity is a very powerful title. Progenitor of the Yugoloths as it might be, that species is not diverse enough to warrant an Overdeity in their name. Perhaps if there was a pantheon that the Yugoloths worshiped that Abaddon presided over, that may work. As it stands, that seems once again overpowering. Sixth: Naming specific avatars is all fine and good, but having one named "Seth" sounds like you're trying to place yourself into your own campaign setting. That just screams Mary-Sue.
This could be a great deity. I hope you continue to work on it. --JRCameron 16:13, 17 October 2011 (MDT)
In my Opinion, Abaddon should not be a Deity, would be better as a leader of a Yugoloth´s subrace.
This could be a great Infernal force. I have an idea for an Yugoloth subrace, this new subrace is based on the all culture of the world from the shinigami to holy death an his name is Mortholoth, and Abaddon would be a great leader for these race. Atte. Hanoi da Pollux [1]


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However, I made a comment afterward mentioning my then-agent, now my ex-agent. Yes, through the school of hard knocks, I have since learned some more lessons that I will pass along to you. Check out my original post, then skip down through the comments to find my Rules of Agents.
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INVITATION: IEDP is hosting a lunchtime discussion and 'meet the expert' forum in association with Henley Business School at the Royal Society of Arts in London on Wednesday 23rd March. The topic for discussion is the application in our daily work of new insights from neuroscience, insights which throw important light on our behaviour as individuals and teams and on the development of organizational culture. The discussion will be led by these two leading experts in the field: Patricia Riddell, Professor of Applied Neuroscience and Head of Department of Psychology at the University of Reading. Patricia Bossons, Director, Henley Centre for Coaching and Behavioural Change, Henley Business School. The lunch for senior L&D professionals will start with short provocations from these experts. The following open forum discussion will be a chance for…
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SAN RAFAEL, California – BYU-Hawaii women's volleyball swept Dominican University 25-9, 25-19, 25-20 on Wednesday evening at the Conlan Center.
Kathleen Collette Kalougata led all players with 10 kills and added 11 digs. Ying Chun (Michelle) Chen recorded match-high 40 assists, as well as 17 digs. Sophomore middle blocker Malary Reid totaled nine kills and two blocks, while Sinamoni Tonga and Brittany Waite added eight kills each. Brydgette Tatupu recorded 10 digs in her first start for the Seasiders (12-10, 10-4 PacWest) this season.
Kate Even and Brittany Latigue led the Penguins (6-15, 3-12 PacWest) in kills with eight apiece. Even also added four blocks as well. Amanda Lee led all players with 21 digs.
BYU-Hawaii finished with a .263 hitting percentage and held Dominican .054 percentage. The Seasiders also recorded 45 assists and 61 digs while the Penguins accumulated 24 and 50, respectively.
Kulia Murray sparked a strong start for BYU-Hawaii with an ace during a 7-2 run to open the first set. Two more kills by Kalougata and a third service ace in the set, this time from Tonga, started a 7-point Seasider run to extend the lead to 14-3. BYU-Hawaii maintained a wide gap for the remainder of the set, finishing with a 25-9 victory and featuring kills from Jaqueline Swarbrick, Nu'umau Coleman, and Bayarsaikhan Amarjargal.
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Tonga killed the ball on a set from Murray to kick off the third set of the match, immediately followed by a pair of kills from Reid assisted by Chen to build a lead BYU-Hawaii would not relinquish. A 3-point run by the Penguins tied the match briefly at 9-9, but the Seasiders immediately answered with a 4-0 run off kills from Waite, Chen and Tatupu. The teams exchanged 4-0 runs off errors as BYU-Hawaii was able to maintain its lead. Waite contributed three kills of the final four points to close out the match, 25-20.
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Also in the running were Turkish media conglomerate Dogan Yayin and Goldman Sachs/Apax Partners. "SBS and ProSieben are a logical fit -- SBS has channels in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the Benelux countries, while ProSieben is big in Germany, Europe's largest market," the source said. "Together, the two companies have a lot of growth potential." SBS operates 19 free-TV and 20 pay TV channels as well as 16 radio networks in 11 European countries. ProSiebenSat.1 has five free-to-air and two pay TV channels in Germany, where its stations have a 30% share of the total German audience and account for 45% of the territory's TV ad revenue. A merged company will be in position to negotiate rights deals for all of Europe and to offer pan-European advertising packages. It will also benefit from synergies through the co-production of drama and entertainment formats.A merged ProSiebenSat.1-SBS would go head-to-head with Europe's leading broadcaster, RTL. The Bertelsmann-controlled group has stakes in 34 TV and 34 radio stations in 11 European countries. In Germany, RTL runs or co-owns seven free-TV channels and three digital pay channels. A source familiar with the situation said KKR/Permira will pay €29 ($38.15) a share for German Media Partner's voting shares in ProSiebenSat.1, a deal that values the German broadcaster at about €6 billion ($7.9 billion). At that price, ProSiebenSat.1's new owners would shell out €3.1 billion-€3.2 billion ($4.1 billion-$4.2 billion) for German Media Partner's controlling stake. Saban and his investors, which include Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital, Hellman & Friedman, Providence Equity Partners, Quadrangle Group, Putnam Investments and Alpine Equity Partners, hold 88% of the voting shares in ProSiebenSat.1 and 50.5% of the company's total stock. German Media Partners took control of ProSiebenSat.1 in August 2003, paying €7.5 a share, or €525 million, for 72% of the company's voting shares and a total 36% capital stake. The group later increased its stake to the current 50.5%. German Media Partners' total investment has been estimated at about €900 million ($1.18 billion). Under German law, KKR/Permira also will have to make a buyout offer to minority shareholders of ProSiebenSat.1. The asking price, however, will be lower than the price tag for Saban's stake. The law requires an offer equivalent to ProSiebenSat.1's average share price over the past three months. That would come in at around €22.50 ($30) a share, adding an additional €2.5 billion ($3.3 billion) to the final price. ProSiebenSat.1 shares were down almost half a% to €23.56 ($31.1) in late afternoon trading Thursday.It is still unclear what German publishing giant Axel Springer Verlag, which holds 12% of ProSiebenSat.1, will do with its stake. Springer initially had plans to acquire all of ProSiebenSat.1, and had agreed on a €4.2 billion ($5.53 billion) deal with Saban and partners, but the deal was dropped in January amid regulatory problems. In the latest round of bidding, Springer indirectly backed Turkey's Dogan Yayin Holding. The German publisher has a 25% stake in Dogan's Turkish television subsidiary Dogan TV. A Springer spokeswoman on Thursday said the company was keeping "all our options open" for its ProSiebenSat.1 stake. A KKR/Permira deal also will have to be approved by German and EU regulators. On the German side opposition seems unlikely. KKR and Permira have no significant media assets in the territory. The BLM, Bavaria's state broadcasting authority, and the first gatekeeper in the regulatory process, on Thursday welcomed a KKR/Permira deal. "It would be a very good solution for ProSiebenSat.1," said BLM president Wolf-Dieter Ring. "It would strengthen the company and make it more international." 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In January, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, (D) Michigan, became Chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. She's only the second woman on this job in history. She'll wield considerable power when the next farm bill is hammered out next year. The farm bill is the national budget for agriculture. It includes everything related to ag– from land conservation to the kind of foods the government wants children to eat.
Michigan has the second most crop diversity in the country after California. Asparagus, peaches, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, pumpkins, cucumbers and a couple dozen more. Kalamazoo was once the celery capital of the country. Imlay City is still bursting with carrots.
For the 2007 farm bill, Senator Stabenow got incentives passed for producers of fruits and vegetables. This appealed to the local food movement. They want closer-knit communities of people that shop at farm markets and know their farmers. They don't want to depend on fossil fuels for transport of people and food.
Stabenow's incentives also appealed to national children's health advocates trying to fight obesity and diabetes. Both are considered epidemic.
The Center For Disease Control in Atlanta says childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. The prevalence of obesity among children aged 6 to 11 years increased from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increased from 5.0% to 18.1%.
But the senator's fellow committee members come from big commodity states. Corn, soybeans and wheat, all of which Michigan grows too, is often the only thing those states have. Therefore, Stabenow will meet resistance if she wants to alter the federal food regime that's been in place since the 1950's.
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A somewhat red-faced plant scientist, who was quoted extensively in a Texas A&M press release, backed away from claims that the summer picnic staple actually can promote erections. But he didn't abandon the notion entirely.
Bhimu Patil, Ph.D., director of the Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M, said he was sorry that a press release, issued by the university, referred to the well-known erectile dysfunction drug in its headline.
Hundreds of news outlets around the world picked up the release, which archly suggested that watermelon "may be better suited for Valentine's Day."
"That's because scientists say watermelon has ingredients that deliver Viagra-like effects to the body's blood vessels and may even increase libido," according to the release.
In reality, studies at Texas A&M and a nearby U.S. Department of Agriculture lab in Oklahoma have found that watermelon contains high levels of citrulline, which is converted into arginine in the human body.
Arginine is the raw material from which nitric oxide, the powerful vasodilator critical to penile erection, is generated in vivo.
But according to Dr. Patil, as well as physicians familiar with erectile biology, no studies have shown that boosting arginine -- through high-citrulline foods, arginine supplements, or other means -- promotes erectility.
Dr. Patil did not contribute to the studies of citrulline in watermelon, but his laboratory is involved in watermelon breeding. He said he was approached to suggest good things about watermelon for inclusion in the press release, a publicity exercise intended to capitalize on the upcoming Independence Day.
Nevertheless, in an interview with MedPage Today, Dr. Patil reiterated that the citrulline studies suggested eating watermelon could boost levels of arginine in the blood and hence make it easier for men to develop erections.
But he said he was unaware of clinical evidence to confirm the connection. "Until you have a clinical trial, it would be tough to [claim an erectile effect]," he said.
Still, he said it was a strong possibility that should be evaluated with a clinical study.
Jay I. Sandlow, M.D., of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, cautiously agreed that a clinical study was worthwhile.
"We're always looking for nonprescription medications or supplements," said Dr. Sandlow, who is president of the Society for Male Reproduction and Urology. "Everyone wants to do things naturally. If you could find foods that are beneficial to overall health, that's always helpful."
On the other hand, he was skeptical that such a study would really find that high-citrulline foods such as watermelon make a difference in most men.
Such an effect, he said, presupposes that arginine levels in the blood are a limiting factor to developing erections. He said there was little evidence to suggest that is the case in most men.
But he said it hadn't been disproved either, to his knowledge.
Allen Seftel, M.D., of Case Medical Center in Cleveland, and a spokesman for the American Urological Association, said arginine is itself a vasodilator, but it acts systemically.
It can lower blood pressure but has no specific effects in the penis, he said.
Dr. Sandlow pointed out that if watermelon does have a significant effect on vasodilation, some people might find it a problem.
"If you're on nitrates, a medication like Viagra is contraindicated," he said. "Do those people have to worry about eating fruits and vegetables that are high in these substances?"
Dr. Sandlow said the concept that high-citrulline foods would have health benefits is attractive. "The problem is translating the concept into reality," he said.
Nevertheless, Dr. Patil said his laboratory is going ahead with a breeding program to increase citrulline levels in watermelon, in confidence that it will be beneficial.
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Millar as Rose in Series 5 of Keeping Up Appearances
Irene Mary Wetton
26 July 1936
Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK
10 November 1998 (aged 62)
Brockley, London, England, UK
Cause of death
|Ovarian cancer
|Actress, singer
|Years active
|Rafael Frame (m. 1962–98) (her death)
|Lucy Frame (born 1972)
Irene Mary Wetton (26 July 1936 – 10 November 1998), better known by her stage name Mary Millar,[1] was a British actress and singer best remembered for her role as Rose in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.[2] She was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire.
Millar made her first television appearance in 1953, aged 17, in Those Were the Days. She also made appearances on The Dick Emery Show and The Stanley Baxter Show.[1] Millar gained acclaim for her part in Keeping Up Appearances as Rose, replacing Shirley Stelfox for Series 2 in 1991 as Stelfox had prior commitments to Making Out. Rose was a popular character in the sitcom, with a flair for drama and a fancy for married men.[3] Millar remained with the series through to its conclusion in 1995. In 1960, Millar travelled to New York to understudy Julie Andrews in Camelot. She began her West End career in 1962 as Cloris in Lock Up Your Daughters.[2][4] In 1969, she played the title role in the musical Ann Veronica, based on H. G. Wells' novel. In 1986, Millar originated the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera. She played the role for four years and her voice appears on the original cast album.[4] From 1997 to 1998, she played Mrs Potts in the London production of Beauty and the Beast, and appeared on the cast album composed by Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice.[5] In February 1998, Millar left the show because of deteriorating health.[6]
Early life
Irene Mary Wetton[7] was born in Doncaster, England, on 26 July 1936 to Horace and Irene (née Mellor) Wetton, both music hall singers.[1] She intended to become a stable hand, but later decided to pursue a stage career. She toured the country with her parents, who had an act called Sweethearts in Harmony.[6]
Personal life
Millar had one daughter, Lucy Frame (born 1972), by her marriage to Rafael D. Frame, which began in 1962 and ended in 1998 with her death.[4][8] She was a practising Christian.[3][9]
In January 1998, Millar was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and underwent chemotherapy.[6] A month before her death, when asked what she would do when she arrived at heaven's door, Millar said, "Rehearse for a part in the Angelic choir, darling."[10] She died on 10 November, at the age of 62, in Brockley, London, with her husband and daughter at her bedside. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.[6] An episode of Keeping Up Appearances was broadcast on BBC One the following week and dedicated to her.
|Those Were the Days
|1963, 1964
|The Dick Emery Show[11]
|The Stanley Baxter Show
|Rookery Nook
|Poppy Dickie
|Keeping Up Appearances
|Rose (replacing Shirley Stelfox)
Also: BBC2 productions of The Mikado, Tipitu and Iolanthe.[1]
|1952, 1954–55
|Babes in the Wood
|Principal character
| The Empire Theatre, Sheffield (1952)
Derby Hippodrome Theatre (1954–55)[12]
|1957, 1959
|The Desert Song
|Margot Bonvalet
|His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen
|1967 studio recording[13][14]
|Old Chelsea
|Mary Fenton
|King's Theatre, Glasgow
|Queen Guenevere
|Majestic Theatre, Manhattan
|Julie Andrews' understudy[1][9]
|Lock Up Your Daughters
| Mermaid Theatre[4]
Her Majesty's Theatre[15]
|See You Inside
|Duchess Theatre[16]
|All in Love[17][18]
|Lydia Languish
|Mayfair Theatre[19]
|Based on The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
|Dearest Dracula[20][21]
|Olympia Theatre, Dublin
|Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
|1966 recording[22]
|1967–68, 1971
|Bless the Bride
|Richmond Theatre
|1967 studio recording[23]
|Love From a Stranger
|Cecily Harrington
|Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch[24]
|Virtue in Danger
|Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch[25]
|The Rivals
|Lydia Languish
|Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch[26]
|The Real Inspector Hound
|Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch[27]
|Black Comedy
|Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch[27]
|Ann Veronica[28]
|Ann Veronica Stanley
|Cambridge Theatre
|Cast recording[29]
|Spider's Web[30]
|Clarissa Hailsham-Brown
|Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch[31]
|Poppy Dickie
| Globe Theatre
Cambridge Arts Theatre
|The Importance of Being Earnest
|Honourable Gwendolen Fairfax
|Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch[33]
|Small and Brassy
| King's Head Theatre
Wyndham's Theatre[34]
|Lark Rise[35]
|Emma Timms
|Royal National Theatre
|Pack of Lies
|Barbara Jackson
|Lyric Theatre, London
|Replacing Judi Dench[9]
|1985, 1993–94
|Sally Durant Plummer
| Forum Theatre, Wythenshawe
Brighton Dome
Haymarket Theatre
|The Phantom of the Opera[38]
|Madame Giry
|Her Majesty's Theatre
|Leader of bible studies between shows,[10] cast recording
|Follies: In Concert
|National Concert Hall, Dublin
|Beauty and the Beast[2]
|Mrs Potts
|Dominion Theatre
|Cast recording[39]
|Pal Joey[2]
|The King and I[2]
|Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
|The Mating Game
|An Evening with Mary Millar
|Talking about her Christianity, life, and work[3]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Hayward, Anthony (13 November 1998). "Obituary: Mary Millar". The Independent (Independent Print Limited). Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Lefkowitz, David (11 November 1998). "Mary Millar, First Giry of UK Phantom, Dies of Cancer Nov. 10". Playbill. Philip S Birsh. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Middlehurst, Lester (29 April 1997). "God and the tart with a heart... Rose of Keeping Up Appearances on her life-saving faith". Daily Mail. Retrieved 16 February 2015. – via HighBeam (subscription required)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "The Original Cast – Mary Millar". The Phantom of the Opera. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ↑ "Mary Millar". Toledo Blade. 13 November 1998. p. 11.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Palmer, Alun (12 November 1998). "Death of a TV Rose; At 62, Hyacinth's lovelorn sister loses her battle against cancer". Daily Mail. Retrieved 16 February 2015. – via HighBeam (subscription required)
- ↑ "Births search results 1761–2006". Findmypast. Brightsolid. Retrieved 8 July 2013.
- ↑ "British Actress Mary Millar Dies". AP News Archive. Associated Press. 11 November 1998. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Mary Millar". Herald Scotland. Newsquest. 14 November 1998. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sanderson, Heather (1 August 2011). "Mary Millar, "Rose" from Keeping Up Appearances". Maryland Public Television. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
- ↑ Light and Lighting and Environmental Design. Illumiating Engineering Society. 1967. p. 144. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ "D6 – Derby Hippodrome, 1954". Vaudeville Postcards. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
- ↑ Hischak, Thomas S. (2007). The Rodgers and Hammerstein Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 350. ISBN 978-0-313-34140-3. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ "THE DESERT SONG [musical show]". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ "Lock Up Your Daughters". AusStage. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ "Short measure". Catholic Herald. 22 March 1963. p. 8. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
- ↑ "1964 musicals" (PDF). Over the Footlights. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ Wright, Adrian (2012). West End Broadway: The Golden Age of the American Musical in London. Boydell Press. p. 209. ISBN 978-1-84383-791-6. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ Gilmore, Peter. "Off Broadway to May Fair". gilmore-stallybrass.eu. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
- ↑ "Dearest Dracula". PlayographyIreland. Irish Theatre Institute. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan (2010). Dracula in Visual Media: Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921–2010. McFarland. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-7864-6201-8. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ "Seven brides for seven brothers". WorldCat. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ "Bless the Bride". musical-theatre.net. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ "Love from a Stranger 1967". Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
- ↑ "Virtue in Danger 1967". Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ↑ "The Rivals 1968". Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 "The Real Inspector Hound and Black Comedy 1969". Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ↑ "Ann Veronica". guidetomusicaltheatre.com. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ "Ann Veronica: original London cast recording". WorldCat. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ "Mary Millar". Theatricalia. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
- ↑ "Spider's Web 1970". Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ Johns, Eric (1973). Theatre Review. W. H. Allen Co. p. 168. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
- ↑ "The Importance of Being Earnest 1973". Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ Phillips, Neville (4 August 2008). The Stage Struck Me!. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 258. ISBN 978-1-906510-43-5. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ Mangan, Richard. "Production of Lark Rise". Theatricalia. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
- ↑ "Follies at the Forum Theatre". University of Bristol. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
- ↑ Morley, Sheridan (26 October 1994). "This 'Romeo and Juliet' Is Not for Purists". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
- ↑ Tylor, Marcus (2007). The Phantom of the Opera: The First Year Backstage. Lulu.com. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-9556820-0-1. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
- ↑ "Disney's Beauty and the beast: the new hit musical: original London cast recording". WorldCat. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
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PROTECTION AREA STATISTICS* for Time Period 0800 thru 0800, 08/30/12 thru 08/31/12
NE Area – 0 fires
EC Area – 0 fires
SE Area – 4 fires burned 0.8 acres (Causes: 4-Equipment)
* Protection Area Statistics do not reflect local fire department's fire run information. Statistics are for the ODAFF-Forestry Services' eighteen county Fire Protection Area in eastern Oklahoma unless otherwise noted in the Discussion section of this report.
FIRE DEPARTMENT STATISTICS** FROM www.firereporting.ok.gov for Time Period 08/30/12 thru 08/31/12
2 fires burned 25 acres (Causes: 2-Other) Reporting Department(s): Keystone Fire Department
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The Forgotten Cities Series is a collection of coins which celebrate and highlight ancient cities which existed in different parts of the world during antiquity. These silver coins are highly regarded by both history buffs and coin collectors alike, and feature locations such as Angkor, Machu Picchu, Petra and Pompei.
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Even the most seasoned chef started somewhere, that's why we recommend anyone wanting to improve their culinary chops take a look at this back-to-basics look at technique found over at Lifehacker.
A quick aside: We love Lifehacker's can-do, how-to attitude toward everything from fixing computer problems, making the most out of your leftovers, or even setting up an automatic sprinkler system.
Today, however, we're focusing on their post that pulls together clips from Anthony Bourdain's look at basic techniques demonstrated by Jacques Pépin, Scott Conant, Thomas Keller, and Bourdain himself. These top chefs run though basics like how to cut an onion (without nicking yourself in the process), make a perfect omelet, roast a chicken, and make your own red sauce from scratch.
Our friends at Bravo have their own video segments showing how-tos from cooking legends like Pépin and Julia Child up on their site, too.
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My friends Matt and Linda and I went for a ride up Mill Creek the other day. Linda was celebrating her new speedy bike. While her trusty steel KHS will continue to be loved, I think her new all carbon Specialized Ruby Elite will be very welcome to the family. We have more adventures yet to come.
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The latest issue of german magazine dotnetpro, on newsstands now, contains an extensive review of Chrome 1.5, as well as a short interview with yours truly. I'm told the trial version is also included on the magazine CD. If you speak (or read) german, make sure to check it out!
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Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization of his country. Banda, the protagonist, sets off to sell the year's cocoa harvest to earn the bride price for the woman he has chosen to wed. Due to a series of misfortunes, Banda loses both his crop and his bride to be. Making his way to the city, Banda is witness to a changing Africa, and as his journey progresses, the novel mirrors these changes in its style and language. Published here with the author's essay "Romancing Africa," the novel signifies a pivotal moment in African literature, a deliberate challenge to colonialism, and a new kind of African writing.
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text: Begell House Inc. International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering JMC 1543-1649 10 1 2012 MULTISCALE COMPUTATION AND MODELING OF DEFECTS IN MATERIALS vii Vikram Gavini University of Michigan THERMAL EXPANSION BEHAVIOR OF Al AND Ta USING AFINITE-TEMPERATURE EXTENSION OF THE QUASICONTINUUM METHOD 1-11 Gabriela Venturini Caltech Jaime Marian Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA Jaroslaw Knap Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551, USA G. Campbell Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Michael Ortiz California Institute of Technology Numerical methods that bridge the atomistic andcontinuum scales concurrently have been applied successfully to anumber of materials science problems involving both nonlinear andlong-range deformation fields. However, extension of thesemethods to finite temperature, nonequilibrium dynamics isdifficult due to the intrinsic incoherency between moleculardynamics and continuum thermodynamics, which possess differentcrystal vibrational spectra and therefore result in unphysicalwave reflections across domain boundaries. Here we review ourrecent finite temperature extension of the three-dimensional,non-local quasicontinuum (QC) method based on Langevin dynamicsand carry out an analysis of the systematic errors associated withthe entropic depletion that results from the QC reduction. Weapply the method to Al and Ta structured meshes ranging fromatomistic resolution to minimum-node representations using thethermal expansion coefficient as the standard metric. We findthat, while Al errors scale linearly with the number of meshnodes, Ta displays a very erratic behavior that degrades rapidlywith mesh coarsening. COARSE GRAINING OF ATOMISTIC DESCRIPTION AT FINITE TEMPERATURE USING FORMAL ASYMPTOTICS 13-31 Yashashree Kulkarni University of Houston In this paper, we propose a computational method for coarse graining the atomistic description at finite temperature using formal asymptotics. The method is based on the ansatz that there exists a separation of scales between the time scale of the atomic fluctuations and that of the thermodynamic processes, such as thermal expansion. We use the WKB method to propose an averaging scheme for treating the thermal degrees of freedom and deriving an effective Hamiltonian for the atomistic system. This energy functional is incorporated into the quasicontinuum framework to achieve a seamless coarse graining on the spatial scale. Numerical validation is performed by computing the thermal equilibrium properties of selected materials. The scope of the method based on the use of perturbation theory is discussed, and its capability is illustrated by way of simulating dislocation nucleation under a nanoindenter. ANALYSIS OF THE QUASI-NONLOCAL QUASICONTINUUM APPROXIMATION OF THE EMBEDDED ATOM MODEL 33-49 Xingjie Helen Li School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455 Mitchell Luskin University of Minnesota The quasi-nonlocal quasicontinuum method (QNL) is a consistent hybrid coupling method for atomistic and continuum models. Embedded atom models are empirical many-body potentials that are widely used for fcc metals such as copper and aluminum. In this paper, we consider the QNL method for EAM potentials and give a stability and error analysis for a chain with next-nearest-neighbor interactions. We identify conditions for the pair potential, electron density function, and embedding function so that the lattice stability of the atomistic and EAM-QNL models are asymptotically equal. STRESS-BASED ATOMISTIC/CONTINUUM COUPLING: A NEW VARIANT OF THE QUASICONTINUUM APPROXIMATION 51-64 C. Makridakis Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Crete, 71409 Heraklion-Crete, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, FORTH, 71110 Heraklion-Crete Christoph Ortner University of Oxford E. Suli Mathematical Institute, 24-29 S. Giles', Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom The force-based quasicontinuum (QCF) approximation isthe principle that lies behind the most commonly usedatomistic/continuum hybrid models for crystalline solids. Recentanalyses have shown some potential pitfalls of the QCF method, particularly the lack of positive definiteness of the linearized QCF operator and the lack of uniform stability as the number ofatoms tends to infinity. We derive a weak variational representation of the QCF operator and identify the origin ofthese difficulties as the lack of an interface condition on thestresses. This leads us to propose an improved variant of the QCF method that can be understood as a coupling mechanism based onstresses rather than forces. RECENT DEVELOPMENT IN QUANTUM MECHANICS/MOLECULAR MECHANICS MODELING FOR MATERIALS 65-82 Xu Zhang California State University Northridge Yi Zhao Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA Gang Lu Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA We have introduced two quantum mechanics/molecularmechanics approaches for materials modeling. One is based onquantum mechanical coupling and the other on mechanicalcoupling. The formalism of both approaches is described indetail. The validations of the methods are demonstrated in termsof atomic and electronic structure. Finally, the applications ofthe methods are surveyed, including applications in vacancyclusters, dislocations, nanoindentations, and fractures. LINEAR SCALING SOLUTION OF THE ALL-ELECTRON COULOMB PROBLEM INSOLIDS 83-99 J. E. Pask Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore,CA 94550 N. Sukumar University of California Davis S. E. Mousavi Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 We present a linear scaling formulation for the solution of the all-electron Coulomb problem in crystalline solids. The resulting method is systematically improvable and well suited to large-scale quantum mechanical calculations in which the Coulomb potential and energy of a continuous electronic density and singular nuclear density are required. Linear scaling is achieved by introducing smooth, strictly local neutralizing densities to render nuclear interactions strictly local, and solving the remaining neutral Poisson problem for the electrons in real space. Although the formulation includes singular nuclear potentials without smearing approximations, the required Poisson solution is in Sobolev space H1, as required for convergence in the energy norm. We employ enriched finite elements, with enrichments from isolated atom solutions, for an efficient solution of the resulting Poisson problem in the interacting solid. We demonstrate the accuracy and convergence of the approach by direct comparison to standard Ewald sums for a lattice of point charges and demonstrate the accuracy in all-electron quantum mechanical calculations with an application to crystalline diamond. SADDLE NODE SCALING ON APPROACH TO DISLOCATION NUCLEATION 101-108 Asad Hasan Carnegie Mellon University Craig Maloney CMU We study the process of dislocation nucleation in aperfect 2D hexagonal crystal under nano-indentation loading in anumerical model using energy minimization techniques and analysisof the energy eigenmodes. The nucleation event takes the form ofa saddle-node catastrophe and is governed by associated scalinglaws In particular, on approach to nucleation, a single energyeigenmode descends through the spectrum and its eigenvaluevanishes as the square root of the distance to the nucleationpoint. The velocity of the system shows the same scalingbehavior, and its normal-mode decomposition demonstrates that itis dominated by the critical mode responsible for nucleation. DYNAMICS OF NANOSCALE VOID-FIBER ASSEMBLY FOR MATION INIRRADIATED AMORPHOUS MATERIALS 109-116 Kun-Dar Li Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Qiangmin Wei Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Lumin Wang Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109; Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Wei Lu University of Michigan Ion beam experiments have revealed an intriguingobservation that a nanoscale porous structure containing uniformlysized nanofibers can form spontaneously in preamorphizedgermanium. Depending on the ion energy and ion dose, thenanoporous fiber assembly can either be exposed from the samplesurface or embedded under an intact surface cover. This paperproposes a phase field model that describes the dynamic processfor the formation of such a structure in an amorphous matrix. Inthis model, vacancies in an amorphous matrix are defined by localreduction of atomic density relative to the reference solid beforeirradiation, and the cavity is treated as a phase with the vacancyconcentration close to one. It is shown that interface migrationtogether with the competing actions between vacancy production andannihilation determines the morphology of irradiated material.The model suggests that with continuous supply of vacanciesthrough increasing irradiation doses, the morphology evolves intoa network structure composed of nearly uniform sizes ofnanofibers. The morphology and characteristic wavelengthpredicted by the model are consistent with experimentalobservations. The model also well predicts the effects of ionflux, temperature, and material properties on the uniquenanostructure evolution under irradiation.


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