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Sonoma County Book Festival's Windrush Farm benefit features columnist Michele Anna Jordan in conversation with author Anne Zimmerman on writer M.F.K Fisher, Sunday, August 21, 2011
Anne Zimmerman's biography "An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher" (Counterpoint, 2010, 261 pages, $26) is a very personal account of the celebrated writer's life. Photo: courtesy Counterpoint Press.
Every August, in preparation for the Sonoma County Book Festival in September, now in its 12th year, there is a delightful benefit at Mimi Luebbermann's rustic Windrush Farm in West Petaluma. This Sunday, August 21, 2011, from 2 pm to 5 pm, local author and columnist Michele Anna Jordan will be in conversation with Anne Zimmerman, author of An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher (Counterpoint, 2010, 261 pages, $26). In addition to lively conversation, the afternoon will feature gourmet wood-fired pizza served straight from Mimi's outdoor oven, an oyster bar, Sonoma County wines and an "Everybody Wins" raffle where everyone will take home a great book.
"I love the opportunity to talk about Mary Frances," said Michele Anna Jordan. "A lot of people don't know her any more, which is a shame. She's tremendously misunderstood in today's world, where food has become passive entertainment. I was happy to discover Zimmerman. She takes a look at M.F.K. Fisher's first five books and does a fairly close reading of them. She adds her own very personal story, which shows why M.F.K. Fisher had such an appeal to her at the time."
"Fisher always bristled at being called a food writer─she was a writer," added Jordan. "In those first five books, you see her at the height of her powers—her passion for life and for writing. She was driven to write by her own muse, not by economic need. There was a lot of heartbreak, too, which was the unspoken foundation for all of these first books, and our conversation will explore that."
For those who aren't aware, M.F.K. Fisher also had close ties to Northern, California. In 1972, at the age of sixty-three, after decades of extensive travel that took her all over the world, she moved into a home designed by architect David Bouverie that was situated on his 535-acre Glen Ellen ranch (today's Bouverie Preserve). She lived there for the next two decades, writing prolifically from a cabin that she called "Last House." She welcomed frequent guests—famous and not famous– whom she loved entertaining in a low-key, pitch-in-and-help style. Julia Child, James Beard, Alice Waters, Anne Lamott, Herb Caen, and Maya Angelou all visited and Bill Moyers filmed his PBS interview with her there.
Santa Rosa author and columnist, Michele Anna Jordan, will be in conversation with author Anne Zimmerman on writer M.F.K Fisher, this Sunday, August 21, 2011, at a benefit for the Sonoma County Book Festival at Windrush Farm in West Petaluma. Image: courtesy of Michele Anna Jordan.
It is the early years and Fisher's love and knowledge of food and passion that Ann Zimmerman focuses on in An Extravagant Hunger. "No matter her location or level of emotional anguish, she always noticed the meal in front of her," Zimmerman writes. From her first salad on the rumbling train into Paris, to the inky wines that swayed in her glass on [a ship called] the Cellina, the colors and flavors of great food and wine brought her incomparable pleasure."
"This event at Mimi's is always a special treat," said JJ Wilson, one of the co-founders of the festival, a co-founder of The Sitting Room: A Community Library, a retired Sonoma State University Professor Emeritus, and a literary tour de force. "There's amazing food and there's always a discussion about a great new book. People have stopped reading M.F.K. Fisher and that's too bad because she's not dated. She is a wonderful stylist and writer and she so is quotable and that's one of the joys of reading Anne Zimmerman's book. She takes so much from Fisher and she had access to a lot of materials—her letters and so forth– that weren't available to others. This resulted in a fascinating book─it's like the very best gossip. That's not a very high-minded way to put it, but this is very good and totally fascinating inside information."
The "Everybody Wins" Raffle, a fundraiser for the festival, is expected to be quite popular. $10 automatically gets an entrant any book from an outstanding selection of new or gently used books. Culled from the personal collections of avid readers on the Book Festival Steering committee, these books include best sellers from Lorrie Moore, Abraham Verghese, Yiyun Li, Stieg Larsson and others. In addition to the book, the $10 gets the entrant a raffle ticket to win one of these terrific prizes:
— A copy of guest speaker Anne Zimmerman's book, An Extravagant Hunger
— Lunch for two at the popular Dierk's Parkside Cafe in Santa Rosa
— A bucket of seeds from the Petaluma Seed Bank supplied by Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company
Raffle tickets are $10 each or 3 for $20.
Anne Zimmerman, author of An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher, is in conversation this Sunday, August 21, 2011, at a benefit at Windrush Farm, for the Sonoma County Book Festival.
The Windrush fundraiser menu seems to get better every year. Wood-fired pizzas made with farm-fresh local organic produce will be assembled and baked by Mimi Luebbermann and her team of volunteers. There will be an oyster bar, with oysters from Tamales Bay Oyster Company, and champagne. A cheese board will feature Joe Matos' famous St. George Azores-style cheese made on his Santa Rosa farm. Windsor Vineyards has provided two cases of wines for the event and Lagunitas Brewery, of Petaluma, has donated its popular beer. Dessert is Michele Anna Jordan's own elegant creation, "Honeydew in Absinthe, with Fresh Mint." (recipe provided below for ARThound readers)
Sonoma County Book Festival: This year's Sonoma County Book Festival is September 24, 2011 and it sponsored by The Literary Arts Guild, a Sonoma County non-profit dedicated to the arts. The book festival is the main literary event in Sonoma County and, every September, for one glorious afternoon, it transforms Santa Rosa's sleepy downtown square into a glorious hub for readers. "What it really is, is a fashion show for books," explained of JJ Wilson. "It's a way of drawing attention to the joys of literacy and, while it's not in our mission statement, we want to keep these few remaining independent book stores in Sonoma County alive. This gives them a platform from which to meet readers, to sell books and to remind people that they are there. The goal is to get people to read. Sadly, we are the only book festival left in Northern, CA."
This year's festival will feature a mix of local writers and big-name draws like Ann Packer, Belva Davis, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jane Hirshfield. There are readings, presentations, book-signings, and panel discussions—including the ever popular panel discussions for mystery book writing and writing for film and stage. Megan McDonald, author of the Judy moody books, is the headliner for an amazing line-up of children's programming that includes storytellers, marionettes, and a Secret Agent Jack Stalwart Treasure Hunt. There will be over 100 booths and exhibits focused on small and independent booksellers and publishers too. Visit http://www.socobookfest.org for a schedule of the days' events and more information.
Hungry to start reading? If you haven't read Fisher yet, Jordan recommends starting with The Gastronomical Me. "It's Fisher at her height and the essence of who she was as a writer, said Jordan. "It covers her early experiences in California and life in France in the 1930's and all her exploits─passionate and powerful." Readers' Books, of Sonoma, will be selling copies of Zimmerman's book, An Extravagant Hunger, and an assortment of books by M.F.K. Fisher at the event on Sunday.
Details: Mimi Luebbermann's Windrush Farm, 2263 Chileno Valley Rd., Petaluma
Sunday, August 21, 2011, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets: $40; children 12 and under are free.
Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets and can be purchased (cash or check only) on Sunday at Windrush Farm.
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Field Days–Jonah Raskin's Year-long Odyssey to find the Perfect Local Farm Yields an Abundant Harvest. Photographs on view at Sonoma State Library through April 2010
Several months ago, I was given a feast–Jonah Raskin's memoir Field Days, A Year of Farming, Eating and Drinking in California. His writing is elegant, the content substantial and the story is moving–one of personal growth through re-connection with farming the land—our land, here in Sonoma County. While busily harvesting my own garden, I found myself reading a chapter or more a day of Field Days and underlining like crazy, which I did not do with Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. Pollen gave me so much to think about factually that it was overwhelming and his writing, while excellent, didn't really stir me. With Field Days, not only did I learn about the local organic farming movement around our community of Sonoma through the well-told stories of involved individuals and passionate local farmers, I witnessed Raskin's transformation as well. In the course of a year, as Raskin digs into this project and embraces the locavore lifestyle (a locavore is a person who shops locally), we witness his reconnection to the earth and ultimately to himself. It almost seems that he is channeling Thoreau.
Jonah Raskin is a well-published author, poet and journalist who is chairman of the Communications Studies Department at Sonoma State University. He is proud of his activism and status as a 1970's counterculture radical and his previous books reflect that. He has written about marijuana, Abbie Hoffman, Alan Ginsberg and imperialism. In recent years, he has published poetry and begun to explore Northern CA writers—The Radical Jack London, Writings on War and Revolution (2008).
Jonah Raskin speaking at Windrush Farm, Chileno Valley, August 2009 by Geneva Anderson
Field Days is immersive reporting or participatory journalism at its best—it springs from Raskin's curiosity about the renaissance in local organic farming in Northern California– from a sociological and personal health and happiness perspective. Raskin grew up in Long Island in the 1940's and 50's with free thinking parents who grew all their own food. As suburbia encroached, the family relocated to the bohemian haven of Occidental and again found their rhythm. Raskin lived in the family home until a few years ago and fondly recalls his fruit trees. At age 65– after surviving a life-threatening health situation—he realized it was time to refocus and to get around to some things he's been meaning to do—learn how to live in real harmony in this magical and historic place Sonoma that the rest of the world calls paradise.
What I lost was not a mystery to me. I had lost the world of my childhood… Before it was too late, before life passed me by, I wanted to be in touch with the earth again. I wanted to regain something I felt I had lost, and to work alongside men and women who were cultivating the earth. I wanted to eat as though for the first time, with a sense of newness.(page 13)
Organizationally, Field Day's 12 chapters can each be treated like a short story, entertaining and fulfilling, with digressions here and there. Raskin starts his quest by talking with his friends like Mimi Luebbermann (Windrush Farms, Chileno Valley). Mimi is a farmer, herder, foodie and a transplanted Berkeley writer who has authored several best-selling cookbooks. With the assistance of local photographer Paige Green, who documents his journey, Raskin explores the old rural life in his neighborhood. He has been living in an old barn close to Sonoma State University. His chats with his neighbor "The Bean Queen"– Sharon Grossi of Valley End Farm, Penngrove, the largest organic vegetable grower in Sonoma County about her struggles. He explores the concept of "local" with Lure of the Local author Lucy Lippard. Lippard, originally from New York, found her special place elsewhere and put down roots, a process Raskin seems fascinated with. Momentum builds as Raskin listens to Alice Waters advocate for small organic farms at Copperfield's bookstore in Petaluma and understands that she and other restauranteurs depend on California's small organic growers for their produce.
Raskin starts interviewing "founding farmers," along with field workers, restauranteurs, farmer's market vendors, people at the Whole Foods corporation, and smaller grocers. Particularly interesting are his profiles of the visionaries who spearheaded California's local organic movement and infused those around them with an environmental consciousness– Warren Weber (Star Route Farms, Marin), Anne Teller and her family and colleagues (Oak Hill Farm), and farmer and teacher Bob Cannard (Sonoma, founder Green String Farm). Later in the book, members of the work crews at Oak Hill farms, laborers who toil in the fields and are the backbone of the California farm, are brought to life. Through these unfortgettable farmers and workers, Raskin builds a emotional landscape whose foundation—of hopes, dreams, visions, struggles, rivalries, extreme risk and hard work—is every bit as important as the physical environment he is exploring.
After six months of talk and research, he zeros in on his farm of choice, Oak Hills Farms of Glen Ellen, in the heart of Sonoma Valley, owned by Anne Teller widow of Otto teller, one of the founders of the environmentalist movement in Sonoma County. Glen Ellen is comfortable territory for Raskin whose 2008 book explored Jack London's life there. Jack and Charmain London were among the ancestors of today's organic farmers and ranchers and created a life for themselves in Glen Ellen that gave them a great deal of satisfaction, a satisfaction Raskin yearns for also.
But even at first sight I felt enclosed and protected within the Oak Hill world that surrounded me, and I wanted to embrace it in return. Of course, I didn't blurt out my feelings on that first day. I wanted to see if the place was really as spectacular as it seemed to be. Was the beauty skin deep or was there also underlying beauty not immediately apparent. (page 64)
He describes his first meeting at Oak Hill's Red barn store with a "locavore" –a person who shops locally. The concept takes hold of him and he realizes that he has entered "the world of the locavores" and he digs it.
Why not shop, cook, and eat what was available…expressing much the same attitude as Henry David Thoreau, who urged his contemporaries to "live in the season as it passes" and "open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of Nature in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons." (page 71)
Oak Hill's owner Anne Teller, a passionate advocate for the responsible stewardship of the land, invites Raskin to wander around Oak Hill and take it all in. By chapter 3, Raskin is in London, England, discussing farming there, but his heart is back in Glen Ellen. When he returns, he sets up interviews at Oak Hill and soon he is working "like hell" in the fields, tilling, planting and harvesting right along with Mexican farm-workers whom he befriends and learns how to plant and harvest from.
Jonah Raskin planting at Oak Hill Farm by Candi Edmondson
Writing of the day the workers regarded him as one of them—
I had never worked so fast or so accurately. No one had told us to work quickly, but we all did. All I could see was the ground in front of me. No one spoke; there was nothing to say. No one had assigned individual tasks, but each of us assumed a responsibility and took turns doing what had to be done. By now I had also lost a good deal of my self-consciousness and awkwardness. The field was my home now, and I knew instinctively what to do. I loved the earth, and it belonged to me. (page 161)
Raskin also works at the local farmers' market in the Sonoma Plaza and connects with people who embrace the farm to table lifestyle. He begins to cook, eat and live more consciously, sumptuously and passionately. Inspired by Michael Pollan's writing, Raskin flushes out the difference between local organic and Big Corporate Organic as he penetrates the Whole Foods chain via the Sonoma store and shows why the store and what it stands for is a bad fit for the town of Sonoma but a better fit for the towns of Napa and Sebastopol. Now that the organic agriculture business has attained cultural legitimacy, it ironically has become a paradox—it has come so far from its anti-industrial food roots in the early 1900's that it now fully embraces the logic of capitalism, specifically of California agribusiness. Raskin, an old skeptic, does a good job of pointing out that eating ethically has become very complex. Food choices are moral choices and we need to think about how we want our food produced and delivered.
For Raskin, buying and eating foods grown locally and organically, with the chain from farmer to customer as small as possible, is a no-brainer from the perspective of taste and values. His wish is that if we all could embrace this locovore lifestyle, we could be happier and healthier. I thank my lucky stars that I reside in Sonoma County where farmers markets are plentiful and where for most of us, our political consciousness is backed by the economic means to eat largely what we want to eat. The stark reality of the global situation is that not everyone can eat what they want or even regularly. And for most consumers right now, even in California, the difference between big organic versus sustainably grown and locally produced organic is nuance. For Raskin though, having thought these issues through, connected with the land and discovered the joy of eating locally and of a local network, it has made all the difference–
A change had come over me at Oak Hill. The more I went down to the ground, the further up my imagination and my spirit had soared. The earth elevated me even as it held me in its embrace. … With my hands and face in the dirt I had been inspired. (p 285)
What would a book about food be without a mouthwatering feast? Raskin delivers–to celebrate his year in the fields, he lovingly prepares a vegetarian dinner for 8 friends and serves it outdoors under the oak trees. This rustic feast is comprised of the freshest local organic ingredients—tomato soup from slow roasted tomatoes topped with shaved Gruyère, a creamy risotto with his own reduced vegetable stock topped with grated Parmesan, a green salad dressed with a De Vero olive oil and rice wine vinegar, corn on the cob with Strauss Family Creamery butter, heirloom tomatoes, sautéed brightly colored peppers, fresh picked pears and peaches with dark Scharffen Berger chocolate. The meal, which goes on for hours, is savored by all and documented by photographer Paige Green–the empty table becomes the cover shot for the book. Of course, those friends gathered at the table must have also been celebrating the remarkable transformation they observed in their friend.
I felt local now, too, a part of the earth, attached to the barn, the contours of the land, the valley and mountains an these people…When I went home to my barn, I felt as happy as I had at any time in my life. Feelings of happiness I had learned to distrust over the course of my life. If something was good, it was sure to change for the worse. I had learned that lesson early and well. But this time I trusted the happiness; it felt a part of me—something inside and organic and I allowed it to surge. (p. 286)
Field Days makes an enormous contribution to the way people should think about where their food comes from and celebrates the local people who toil with passion to grow it. I really love the way Raskin brings his poetic insight to our local history and shares his own journey of self-discovery. Anyone who is interested in growing and eating really fresh food will enjoy this book.
The show "Field Days Search for a Sustainable Feast" at Sonoma State Library Art Gallery (on the second floor), through April 2010, pairs Raskin's elegant passages from Field Days with photos taken by Paige Green and Candi Edmmondson. Field Days, A Year of Farming, Eating and Drinking in California, is a UC Press, Simpson Book in the Humanities, hardback, May 2009, ISBN 9780520259027, paperback September 2010, ISBN 9780520268036.
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'Devil' in the details for Eugene's video game success
Published April 20, 2018 April 21, 2018 AuthorMichael Jacobson
Bachelor of Popular Music graduate Eugene Nesci is enjoying success creating sound and music in the video game industry
Forging a successful career is no game, but Griffith University graduate Eugene Nesci has shown it can arise from playing one.
The game in question is Devil Daggers, a first-person shooter video game released to critical and popular acclaim in February 2016. Players strive to survive against demonic enemies in an arena shrouded in darkness. Survival times are recorded on a global leaderboard.
Eugene provided the sound and music for Devil Daggers and continues to work as an independent audio producer.
The appeal of the game owes much to the ingenuity and innovation of the stark, minimalist design. Reviewers also raved about the elevated contribution of the sound and music to the overall experience.
For Bachelor of Popular Music graduate Eugene, response to the game was a validation of his skills after a slow start in the industry.
"My goal was always to develop games. I started out with animation, but an interest in music led me to discover a middle-ground between those areas," says Eugene, who graduated in 2009.
"I was producing games in parallel to my audio studies, but with no commercial success. When I graduated, the gaming world was still recovering from the Global Financial Crisis. It was difficult to break into the industry the way I imagined it. So, instead of going to job interviews I decided to collaborate with other independent developers."
Fortunately, one of those collaborations became Melbourne-based, independent game development company, Sorath, comprising the team that put together Devil Daggers during 2015. Eugene says his Griffith degree was a factor in his success.
"In retrospect, I see how the degree fostered independence in its students. The program structure was multidisciplinary, but at the core of each subject was a different approach to how to be a more resourceful person," he says.
"My lecturers had themselves worked in the music industry during the shift away from major label control, and this had shaped them into interesting characters with first-hand experiences to impart. These turned out to be relevant to similar changes taking place in the game industry.
"At the time, I was only beginning to grasp how having a personal aim to work towards made it easier to learn, because I had something to apply the knowledge to. A decade later I'm amazed that piece of information from my time at Griffith continues to surface, giving me a new perspective on problem-solving in my work."
That work, though informed by conventional facets of sound design and music composition, also carries an extra dimension due to the interactive nature of video games.
"There are cues that need to be self-evident and audio is a way to clearly express ideas that would otherwise be abstract," says Eugene.
"During development, I am playing the game and checking sounds in context as I make them. It's easy to hear if something doesn't serve the overall experience."
It's also very individual. Everything Eugene creates is done from scratch, instead of relying on content available in pre-existing or pre-made libraries. This removes copyright issues and ensures a unique imprint that is a bonus for the gamer's experience.
Meanwhile, during Eugene's time at Griffith he also produced his debut album, which in 2011 was released on a Japanese record label. Click here
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The Last Song: Student edition
by Nicholas Sparks
NOVEL LEARNING SERIES(TM)
THE LAST SONG by Nicholas Sparks
Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in North Carolina with him. Ronnie's… (more)
Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in North Carolina with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.
The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children-that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts . . . and heal them.
With a NOVEL LEARNING SERIES(TM) Student Guide
· Questions about the text after every few chapters check your comprehension
· Quizzes throughout help you prepare for standardized tests with SAT- and ACT-style questions using vocabulary and grammar from the book
· Sample writing prompts and essays at the end guide you through the elements of an above-average, average, and below-average essay-and explain why!
Non-Fiction Education and Study aids Book Notes
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 09, 2014)


Subscription based video-on-demand streaming giant Netflix have today announced that they have secured the video-on-demand streaming rights to Gainax's legendary anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion that it will be made available for Netflix subscribers to watch during Spring 2019.
This streaming license, which is the first of its kind for the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series, will see Netflix offering all twenty-six episodes and both feature-length-films, known as Death & Rebirth as well as The End of Evangelion, worldwide to Netflix subscribers.
It's not currently known if Netflix will offer Neon Genesis Evangelion in its subbed and dubbed formats, or whether it will be presented in its High Definition remaster variation; but given today's announcement trailer its most likely going to be in High Definition with Japanese and English Subtitles.
In the UK Neon Genesis Evangelion was originally released on DVD as individual volumes by ADV Films before later being re-released as a Complete Series edition. Shortly after this a 'Platinum Edition' was released by ADV Films, of which featured remastered picture and audio qualities, in individual volumes before being made available as a Limited Edition Complete Series set. Manga Entertainment UK meanwhile relesed the films as individual DVD releases before a Collector's Movie Double Pack on DVD.
Since these releases Neon Genesis Evangelion has never received a re-release, nor has the series been re-released in the UK on Blu-Ray despite the series being available in High Definition form in Japan. Regardless this announcement is 'major' news for fans of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion and more importantly it allows newcomers to experience the original anime series worldwide.
Neon Genesis Evangelion, and in turn its two feature-length-films, will be available to watch on Netflix during Spring 2019 with an official streaming date to be confirmed next year.


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Eigenstrains and the elastic field of an adatom
Alonso Peralta, Demitris Kouris, Jaroslaw Knap, Karl Sieradzki
IAFSE-SEMTE: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
A harmonic lattice model for an adatom at the (001) surface of a cubic crystal is developed, based on the concept of eigenstrains. In this context, eigenstrains represent the distortion introduced by the adatom, affecting the substrate atoms in its vicinity. The distortions which model the relaxations associated with an adatom are obtained directly using embedded atom method (EAM) potentials. The eigenstrains are translated into a set of forces which, in the case of second-neighbor interactions, are applied to five 'substrate' atoms in the immediate vicinity of the adatom. Four of these atoms are located at the surface and one in the first layer below the surface. The resulting set of forces is self-equilibrated as expected by the nature of the adatom. The elastic field of the adatom is described and the limitations of the continuum theory are discussed. Calculations of the interaction energy between adatoms indicate agreement with existing, long-range results. The strength of the leading singularity of the interaction energy changes, however, when the adatoms are closely spaced. Anisotropy plays a significant role in this process; in certain directions, identical adatoms actually attract each other. Independent simulations using EAM potentials clearly demonstrate the accuracy of the elastic field produced by the eigenstrain model. The restrictive assumptions regarding the adatom/force system found in existing models are removed in this distortion-based model. The eigenstrain approach can also be used to represent surface steps and vacancies.
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Published - Sep 14 1998
A. Diffusion, surface
A. Surface energy
A. Surface tension
B. Thin films
C. Numerical algorithms
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Peralta, A., Kouris, D., Knap, J., & Sieradzki, K. (1998). Eigenstrains and the elastic field of an adatom. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 46(9), 1557-1579. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5096(98)00030-1
Eigenstrains and the elastic field of an adatom. / Peralta, Alonso; Kouris, Demitris; Knap, Jaroslaw; Sieradzki, Karl.
In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 46, No. 9, 14.09.1998, p. 1557-1579.
Peralta, A, Kouris, D, Knap, J & Sieradzki, K 1998, 'Eigenstrains and the elastic field of an adatom', Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 1557-1579. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5096(98)00030-1
Peralta A, Kouris D, Knap J, Sieradzki K. Eigenstrains and the elastic field of an adatom. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 1998 Sep 14;46(9):1557-1579. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5096(98)00030-1
Peralta, Alonso ; Kouris, Demitris ; Knap, Jaroslaw ; Sieradzki, Karl. / Eigenstrains and the elastic field of an adatom. In: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 1998 ; Vol. 46, No. 9. pp. 1557-1579.
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abstract = "A harmonic lattice model for an adatom at the (001) surface of a cubic crystal is developed, based on the concept of eigenstrains. In this context, eigenstrains represent the distortion introduced by the adatom, affecting the substrate atoms in its vicinity. The distortions which model the relaxations associated with an adatom are obtained directly using embedded atom method (EAM) potentials. The eigenstrains are translated into a set of forces which, in the case of second-neighbor interactions, are applied to five 'substrate' atoms in the immediate vicinity of the adatom. Four of these atoms are located at the surface and one in the first layer below the surface. The resulting set of forces is self-equilibrated as expected by the nature of the adatom. The elastic field of the adatom is described and the limitations of the continuum theory are discussed. Calculations of the interaction energy between adatoms indicate agreement with existing, long-range results. The strength of the leading singularity of the interaction energy changes, however, when the adatoms are closely spaced. Anisotropy plays a significant role in this process; in certain directions, identical adatoms actually attract each other. Independent simulations using EAM potentials clearly demonstrate the accuracy of the elastic field produced by the eigenstrain model. The restrictive assumptions regarding the adatom/force system found in existing models are removed in this distortion-based model. The eigenstrain approach can also be used to represent surface steps and vacancies.",
keywords = "A. Diffusion, surface, A. Surface energy, A. Surface tension, B. Thin films, C. Numerical algorithms",
author = "Alonso Peralta and Demitris Kouris and Jaroslaw Knap and Karl Sieradzki",
journal = "Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
T1 - Eigenstrains and the elastic field of an adatom
AU - Peralta, Alonso
AU - Kouris, Demitris
AU - Knap, Jaroslaw
AU - Sieradzki, Karl
N2 - A harmonic lattice model for an adatom at the (001) surface of a cubic crystal is developed, based on the concept of eigenstrains. In this context, eigenstrains represent the distortion introduced by the adatom, affecting the substrate atoms in its vicinity. The distortions which model the relaxations associated with an adatom are obtained directly using embedded atom method (EAM) potentials. The eigenstrains are translated into a set of forces which, in the case of second-neighbor interactions, are applied to five 'substrate' atoms in the immediate vicinity of the adatom. Four of these atoms are located at the surface and one in the first layer below the surface. The resulting set of forces is self-equilibrated as expected by the nature of the adatom. The elastic field of the adatom is described and the limitations of the continuum theory are discussed. Calculations of the interaction energy between adatoms indicate agreement with existing, long-range results. The strength of the leading singularity of the interaction energy changes, however, when the adatoms are closely spaced. Anisotropy plays a significant role in this process; in certain directions, identical adatoms actually attract each other. Independent simulations using EAM potentials clearly demonstrate the accuracy of the elastic field produced by the eigenstrain model. The restrictive assumptions regarding the adatom/force system found in existing models are removed in this distortion-based model. The eigenstrain approach can also be used to represent surface steps and vacancies.
AB - A harmonic lattice model for an adatom at the (001) surface of a cubic crystal is developed, based on the concept of eigenstrains. In this context, eigenstrains represent the distortion introduced by the adatom, affecting the substrate atoms in its vicinity. The distortions which model the relaxations associated with an adatom are obtained directly using embedded atom method (EAM) potentials. The eigenstrains are translated into a set of forces which, in the case of second-neighbor interactions, are applied to five 'substrate' atoms in the immediate vicinity of the adatom. Four of these atoms are located at the surface and one in the first layer below the surface. The resulting set of forces is self-equilibrated as expected by the nature of the adatom. The elastic field of the adatom is described and the limitations of the continuum theory are discussed. Calculations of the interaction energy between adatoms indicate agreement with existing, long-range results. The strength of the leading singularity of the interaction energy changes, however, when the adatoms are closely spaced. Anisotropy plays a significant role in this process; in certain directions, identical adatoms actually attract each other. Independent simulations using EAM potentials clearly demonstrate the accuracy of the elastic field produced by the eigenstrain model. The restrictive assumptions regarding the adatom/force system found in existing models are removed in this distortion-based model. The eigenstrain approach can also be used to represent surface steps and vacancies.
KW - A. Diffusion, surface
KW - A. Surface energy
KW - A. Surface tension
KW - B. Thin films
KW - C. Numerical algorithms
JO - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
JF - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids


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What got lost a bit in this decades-long rush for Maturity and Seriousness was the fact that, you know what, actually, comics are for kids. You can tell, they have robots in and farting and everything.
I've loved comics ever since I was old enough to hold a pencil. I'm a bit too young to remember the heyday of weekly comics in this country, when every newsagent's shelves bulged under the weight of a staggering line-up ofBattles and Actions and Valiantsvying for dominance with Jintys and Tammys and Mistysand you couldn't swing a cat without igniting a fierce argument about whether the cat was a Whizz-Kid or a Chip-Ite. But there was still a lot of choice, and I grew up loving the Beano and Oink and Transformers and 2000AD and generally spending most of the week counting the days till Saturday morning.
There's something very special about what comics can give to kids – mind-blowing artwork and thrilling stories that pull you joyfully into reading and make it something cool and fun and exciting – but also the sense that they give you a whole world. A private world, a world that gets to live on in your head in that deliciously agonising weeklong wait between issues. And a world that spills out onto paper when you try to fill that long week by picking up a pencil and drawing your own. The ease of imitability and sheer fun of comics naturally encourages kids to have a go themselves, developing their literacy skills and artistic abilities without it ever seeming like work, because they're having too good a time drawing robots farting to notice. That's what comics gave me in my childhood, and I'm incredibly happy that I get to pass that on and give it to the young people who read my comics today.
So, sure, comics aren't just for kids any more. But, in a world increasingly full of Batman videogames you have to be 18 to play and 'dark and edgy' reimaginings of characters that once belonged to 9-year-olds, perhaps we ought to remember that they shouldn't be just for grown-ups, either.


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