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Come on? Nobody?
No one is over 50?
I don't buy it. Come clean boys.
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the new forty. lol
That is so true. But where are they all?
That is good to hear Robin - I am 7 years from there at the moment.
Can you join the group and help us get it started?
. . . a bunch of soft, flabby, panzy assed, doubles players.
Paul how old are you? want to play for your pink slip? Sound very cocky and immature, you will one day be over fifty. I'll be happy to get you on court and have some witnesses, so you may want to give that public apology now.
Woooo! Smackdown! I would pay money to see this match. OK guys, tell us each what your strengths are and we can begin to imagine the match that will probably never happen.
Older than you! Not too happy about it, either! I've been playing tennis for almost 45 years and my comments are based on personal knowledge and experience. Like I said, soft, flabby, panzy assed doubles players. I've got nothing to apologize for. But, maybe you do for disrespecting your elders. Let me know next time you're in Miami and we'll play.
I love Florida man, miss the fishing. I live in So Cal. Paul I must say I see fat people everywhere, of all ages, it is so sad to see children especially. I was taught not all elders are to be respected. I guess you get a free pass being older and all. I am 53 got a 34 inch waist and in pretty good shape. I am not big on the grey hair and the recovery time I need now, but looking for some competition it is hard to find. My project of working with those underprivileged kids will hopefully get some of them to move on a court and less with their video games. I'm not soft or flabby, can't find many that can even return serve. The college kids get upset, and that isn't any fun. I am looking forward to playing some senior events soon as my friends are in the top 10 players in the state. Time is a trip, going by way too fast. You might want to expand your horizon and play some actual players not the guys with a keg on court.
You make a lot of assumptions, Mark. Anyway, my biggest peave is not being able to find dedicated practice partners who want to do drills and work on their games. Not one. For me, one of the great joys of tennis is the struggle to improve, and acheive those goals. In the past, I've had some great drilling partners and I always played my best when doing drills on a regular basis. But, the lack of regular practice partners is one of the reasons I started playing golf in the late 80's. There, I said it! That's right, I play golf. Pthpthpthpth!
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"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from the observations in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising average sea level."[1] With these words, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made certain that the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which are widely believed to have contributed to global climate change, will be a policy issue for decades. Carbon trading markets are the most popular solution for reducing GHG emissions, and in particular carbon dioxide emissions, which are the largest constituent of GHG emissions.
Carbon trading refers to a system to control the emission of carbon dioxide whereby governments or international bodies set an overall limit on the amount of carbon that can be emitted. Allowances are then granted (or auctioned) to large emitters of carbon, such as electric utilities, paper mills, and chemical plants, which are then freely tradable. Companies who will be emitting more carbon than they have permits to emit must therefore buy additional credits on the open market, while those who will emit less can sell their credits.
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What does all this mean for investors? The implications of a widespread carbon trading scheme, especially encompassing U.S. carbon emissions, are vast and highly dependent on the details of any pending legislation. However, a few investment themes are likely to play out, regardless of the details.
Financial services companies and related businesses with prior experience trading carbon, with exchanges for trading carbon-emission credits, and those involved with providing real-time data to financial institutions and utilities would all stand to benefit from the emergence of new markets to expand into.
The quickest way for an electric utility to directly reduce GHG emissions is to switch from coal power to natural gas power. This will, of course, not be sustainable over the long term as natural gas prices rise, and given that investments in other forms of carbon reduction would have large long term payoffs. Over the long term, generating power from low-carbon sources will be critical to meeting carbon cap requirements. Oil and natural gas companies will have to add the cost of CO2 emissions permits to the cost structure of their products. Fossil fuels are a price-setter. As their price rises, the price of energy from all sources will rise, making previously expensive energy generation technologies competitive. This will encourage investments in nuclear, solar, geothermal, tidal, wave, hydroelectric, and wind energy, all of which offer significant carbon reductions over coal, oil, and natural gas.[6]
Johnson Controls (JCI) offers another interesting play on carbon trading. The company specializes in building efficiency services (i.e., helping reduce electricity usage in buildings), and already offers one contract that promises to deliver a fixed reduction in GHG emissions.
For paper companies, such as Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) and International Paper Company (IP), carbon trading also offers a double-edged sword. On the one hand, their GHG-emitting plants would now be subject to increased regulation, while on the other hand, their forestry assets in North America and overseas would become more valuable, depending on how legislation defines "carbon sinks." A carbon sink accumulates and stores carbon, effectively offsetting a certain level of emissions.[8] Power companies such as the Canadian company Cleco Power (CNL) are already investing in "carbon sinks" and offsetting carbon use by participating in efforts to stop deforestation. Cleco participates in the UtiliTree Carbon company, a consortium of 40-plus U.S. utilities that manage wetlands and plant trees to offset deforestation in the southern U.S., Malaysia and Belize.[4] The trees and plants in forests absorb carbon dioxide, but quantifying their effect is difficult, making their legal status as carbon sinks to offset emissions uncertain. h t t
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American Electric Power Company (AEP), an electric utility, produces more carbon dioxide each year than any other company in the U.S. With its strong base of coal-powered plants, AEP may be hard-pressed to meet the carbon cap placed on it by regulators, and will therefore need to resort to buying credits on the open market or investing in carbon sinks. The impact on coal-powered generators is unknown, though, until the details of the auctioning versus grant system are determined. For this reason, similar outlooks hold for TXU (TXU) and Dynegy (DYN), both of whom have large coal assets. Ultimately, electric utilities will pass on a portion of the costs of any carbon trading system to their consumers, resulting in higher energy bills for the end-user. This will lead to growth in demand-side management (DSM) initiatives targeted at saving the end-user electricity, which would further hurt utilities.[10]
Depending on the details of the particular carbon trading scheme, Oil, gas and coal companies would either have to purchase emissions credits themselves, or would likely have to lower the price of their products, as customers would have to purchase allowances to cover the carbon dioxide emissions released by their use.
Domestic auto manufacturers are at risk, should the U.S. government decide to include transportation under the cap and trade system. In this case, the domestic manufacturers, such as Ford and General Motors (GM) will be disadvantaged relative to those manufacturers who have made further advances in hybrid, fuel-cell, and other fuel-efficient technologies, such as Honda Motor Company (HMC) and Toyota Motor (TM). Other effected transportation companies would include those in the airline, railroad, air delivery & freight services, and shipping industries.
The effectiveness and costs of any carbon trading scheme depend on its structure and method of permit distribution.
Under a Cap & Trade scheme, an explicit national cap is set on greenhouse gas emissions. That cap is then divided into tradable permits, which are then distributed to all regulated firms for a set fee, through an auction, for free, or through a combination of those methods. As the number of tradable permits remains constant, achieving the countries emissions target is easy, albiet costly. A notable example includes the Clean Air Act of 1990, which implemented a successful sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide trading system. Within five years, participating power plants reduced emissions by more than 20% at a cost less than one-third of the lowest estimates originally made.[11]
Under a baseline & credit scheme, an implicit national cap is set on greenhouse gas emissions. The cap is constructed as the sum of individual baseline levels of emissions for all regulated firms. That is the key difference between baseline and cap and trade. Under cap and trade the number of permits is constant. Under baseline, they aren't. The reason is that the baseline is constructed as the product of firm size (in terms of energy usage) and a constant which measures desired firm efficiency (in terms of emissions vs. energy usage). As a firm grows in size, its baseline increases, as the efficiency constant remains the same. The effectiveness of this type of plan is held to be lower than that of cap & trade, which also means that its economic impact is more muted.[12] A notable example is the Kyoto Protocol. Participating countries were expected to reduce their emissions to 5.2% below their 1990 baseline by 2012.[13] However, since the protocol's creation in 1997 there have been several revisions, and most participatory nations have formed their own carbon trading markets, like the EU.
When permits aren't distributed at auction, the costs of polluting are reduced, lowering the effectiveness and economic impact of the scheme. So, phase I of the EU's scheme, which had a very small impact on lowering emissions, also had a very small cost, estimated at .1%-1.1% of GDP over the scheme's 3 years (.033%-.37% on an annual basis).[14] The costs and benefits of carbon trading are, therefore, looked at in two ways. One, in the benefits accrued in the future versus the costs borne in the present, and two, the effectiveness of carbon trading versus the effectiveness of other forms of regulation, like carbon taxes, federal grants or tax incentives for research into clean energy and energy efficiency.
In terms of the first, although there is scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that it will cause a loss of agricultural output, a loss of biodiversity, an increase in water scarcity, an increase in the spread of disease, an increase in coastal flooding and shoreline erosion, and an increase in environmental insurance expenses[15], there is no consensus on the magnitude of said changes. According to the Stern Review, the costs of global warming will reach numbers like $9 trillion dollars, well above the costs of carbon trading.[16] On the other hand, other estimates place the costs at $100 billion, below the costs of carbon trading.[17] However, combined with the eventual reality of peak oil, there is scientific consensus that global warming mitigation strategies like carbon trading deserve serious attention and possible implementation.[17]
Carbons trading's largest competitor is carbon taxation. Taxation is simpler. Find out how much fossil fuels a company is using and a government can accurately estimate its level of carbon emissions.[18] Then, apply a fixed fee for every ton of estimated emissions. There are fewer outcomes involving failure, where the cost of pollution becomes disproportionately high or low. On the other hand, carbon trading schemes involve an implicit or explicit cap in emissions, while estimating the long-term impact of a tax on polluting behavior would involve a lot of guesswork.[18] Furthermore, it often makes sense for a company in a hard environmental situation to simply pay another company to reduce carbon emissions, rather than spending the resources required to do so for itself. With taxation, the burden can't be traded on the market to the companies most cheaply able to carry it. Also, carbon trading already has a lot of support internationally (the Kyoto Protocol). More important than all of that, however, is the design of the strategy picked, rather than the type of strategy.[18] Both strategies have the potential to fail (or succeed) depending on the details. For the market, both strategies make polluting carbon more expensive, with the key difference that taxation would cut financial intermediaries out of the picture.
In January of 2005, the EU created the largest carbon trading market in the world.[19] The EU established national emission caps for each participating country, which then provided individual polluters with allowances.[20] In Phase I of the European Unions carbon trading scheme these allowances were provided for free, but were intended to be less than the actual amount of emissions that would have otherwise been released, requiring these companies to purchase additional allowances on the carbon market or reduce their level of pollution.[20] Because there was an over-allocation of allowances at the beginning of the plan, greenhouse gas emissions did not fall as much as was expected.[21] As companies began to realize that there was an over-allocation, the market price of carbon allowances fell. From May of 2006 to December of 2007, prices fell from €30/ton to €0.03/ton.[22] In the second and third phases of its carbon trading scheme, the EU will slowly decrease the number of allowances that are provided for free, until that number reaches 0.[23] As that happens, the impact of the scheme will likely increase.
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Today sees the release of
Star Wars: The Essential Reader's Companion
, Pablo Hidalgo's compendium of Expanded Universe stories. The book, which includes a chronological listing of every novel in the EU's 36-year history, also features incredible new artwork and fascinating behind-the-scenes information about the making of the EU. I recently spoke to Pablo, an established
Star Wars
expert at Lucasfilm, to learn more about what went into producing this book.
This is part one of the interview. The second part is
on Suvudu
Before we get into the book, tell me about your personal history within the
Star Wars
community. How did you go from a fan to an official authority on the saga?
I was a fan from the start, part of the original
Star Wars
generation, part of the folks who were of that age where you grew up with
Star Wars
on the playground. It was pretty much inescapable. And then around the mid-1990s, when
Star Wars
was coming back through the Expanded Universe with the Timothy Zahn books and all the material that was coming out of Dark Horse and Bantam, I had hooked up with West End Games and was a writer for their
Star Wars
roleplaying game. Through that project I kind of established myself as a guy who knew a lot about
Star Wars
minutiae. Right around that time, Steve Sansweet was doing research for his first edition of the
Star Wars
encyclopedia through Del Rey, and I think through my contacts with West End, I connected with him.
It might have been at GenCon, a roleplaying game convention in 1996, that I first met Steve. I introduced myself and I told him that I?d be happy to help out in any way I could with his encyclopedia. He sent me a draft of it, and this was fairly early on Internet-wise. I was not doing much online at the time, so I think I ended up faxing him a ton of changes, so that kind of dates us. What would have happened via email was done very inefficiently through eighty pages of faxed notes with corrections and changes to make to the encyclopedia.
Right around that time, I was starting to get more online and I met folks like Jason Fry and Dan Wallace. We were all kind of
Star Wars
experts in our own particular way and we would compare notes and exchange emails on the most esoteric minutiae. We would also keep ourselves abreast about
Star Wars
news, not only new material that was coming out but also obscure material that had kind of fallen by the wayside. This email group kept growing and growing and adding more experts ?? folks like Abel Pe?a and Rich Handley and Joe Bongiorno and James McFadden. We jokingly referred to ourselves as the
Star Wars
Fanboy Association, because this is where we?d have extremely long and detailed conversations about the most esoteric subjects. We would exchange photocopies or original copies of really obscure
Star Wars
publications that had fallen by the wayside. We became this kind of brain trust in that regard.
What then happened in 1999 was that Lucasfilm put up a job posting for an Internet Content Developer, basically a writing position for StarWars.com. I applied for it. I had attempted to put Steve on as a reference and he said not to because he would be one of the people that would be interviewing me. I?m sure Steve went a long way in making the case as to why I would be an asset to the company in that capacity, and sure enough, I got the job in 2000. Ever since then I?ve been working here at Lucasfilm beyond whatever my stated capacity was at the time. My job may have been listed as someone who writes content for the Internet, but it basically grew to being involved in a lot of
Star Wars
productions at the time, offering whatever insight and expertise I could.
This is not your typical
Star Wars
Essential Guide. When did this project get started, who had the idea, and how closely does the final product resemble what you had in mind in the early days?
The book existed as an idea before my involvement. It had shown up on a couple of internal calendars listing projects that Del Rey wanted to do. It was called
The Guide to Fiction
. It wasn?t necessarily branded with the ?Essential? name to start off with, but we knew that it was going to be part of that library. We also knew that it was going to be different; we knew that it was going to be the first non-fiction book within that label. The others are written from an in-universe perspective, and this would be one that makes no allusions as to what it would be. It?s a non-fiction guide: it talks about books as books, as opposed to events within a universe.
My involvement started in January 2010 when Erich offered me the book as a project. I?m sure that it was based on experience that he had with me directly, working on
The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
. He knew my writing style, he knew my working style, and he knew that I was okay taking on some rather large projects and some very tight deadlines. Early on, there was some discussion as to, ?How do we handle all of these materials? What?s the scope of the book? What are we going to cover and what aren?t we going to cover? Do we handle everything equally? Are short stories treated the same way as novels?? I took the first chapter ?? I started with the Old Republic era ?? and said, ?Let?s use that as a shakedown cruise, as it were, for this concept, and see how that works. That way, if it all works, then we?ve got Chapter One done, and if it doesn?t work, then we?ve learned our lessons from the first chapter. Either way we?re making forward progress on it.?
My first stab at Chapter One actually included the comics. We took the Old Republic-era comics and put them in there and we attempted to treat every short story as its own entry, and there was some learning from that. The first thing was that the chapter was just too big. I ended up using nearly half of my allocated word count just doing the first chapter, and I realized, ?Something?s not working here.? We had to take comics out immediately; the comics took up way too much room. So we realized that comics were beyond the scope of the book and we would focus primarily on prose fiction.
The other thing we realized is that with multi-book series, there was something to be gained from making a single entry for those. Things like the Darth Bane books could be handled under one entry as opposed to creating entries for individual books. That saves a lot of text because you don?t need to re-introduce the subject; you?re able to continue along and summarize the story in one entry.
Then we realized that doing sidebars for short stories that were directly tied into an existing book was also much more economical. There was still room to do short fiction as self-standing entries when it made sense, but in other cases, when it saved you a lot of words, it was decided to do them as sidebars. For instance, with the Old Republic novels, Paul Kemp?s
had a sidebar; he had a short story that he wrote, called "The Third Lesson," that appeared in
Star Wars Insider
. It was easier to do that as a sidebar on the
entry than to do a standalone entry on "The Third Lesson." A lot of these decisions were made in an attempt to save word count, because we knew that this was going to be a big book, and whatever we could do to streamline the process, the better.
You said that multi-book series are grouped under one entry. I noticed that for
Fate of the Jedi
Legacy of the Force
, you didn?t do that. Was it just that those books lent themselves better to individual entries, or did you particularly want to keep more recently published books as distinct as possible for people who were looking through their options?
I should clarify. When it comes to multi-book series, we meant things like duologies and trilogies. In some cases we broke that rule, just because of how much was covered in individual books. But when it came time to do things like the Brian Daley Han Solo Trilogy or the Lando Calrissian books by L. Neil Smith, or the duologies that occur within
The New Jedi Order
, it made sense to collect those into single entries because there?s not much that happens in between them. They pretty much lead one into the other, and they tend to focus on a single story.
The nine-book arcs would be too big to collect together in a single entry. We looked at it in terms of reading habits. If we?re trying to help readers by making recommendations about what to read, there are certain books that lent themselves to be handled in composite entries, and there are other ones that were more spaced out, with other stories occurring in between them.
So for example, you might not want to read anything in between
Dark Tide I
Dark Tide II
The New Jedi Order
, but if you finished
, you could go read other stories before you continued with
Fate of the Jedi
Yes, if certain things fell in between those books, exactly. For example,
The Jedi Academy Trilogy
is pretty tightly connected. Even though
I, Jedi
happens in the middle of it, we still recommend reading
The Jedi Academy Trilogy
as a whole and then going onto
I, Jedi
. There was a certain degree of taking it case by case. What we have in the book is basically a strong recommendation. Some readers may agree with it and some may not.
Describe for me the process of culling all of the behind-the-scenes material for this book. You write about working titles that evoked later-discarded plot themes, George Lucas? involvement in the early planning of
The New Jedi Order
, and other production stories. How much of that did you experience as a participant in those meetings and how much did you get from other sources?
A lot of it depends on when the book was published. Since I started at Lucasfilm, I?ve been lucky enough to have been invited to the development of a lot of publishing initiatives. But even in those cases, I always tried to back it up with notes that were taken at those story meetings. I didn?t want to solely be relying on my firsthand experience because that?s just one limited perspective. What?s great is that whenever those meetings occur, a lot of notes are taken. Especially after 2000, so much of this has existed in emails that were archived. Leland Chee, in addition to keeping track of the in-universe material, also keeps track of the material that went into its story development, including documents that describe the evolution of certain stories and that are basically collected notes from the authors and correspondence between the authors and the editors themselves. So that came in very handy. For
The New Jedi Order
, there are several binders dedicated to the correspondence that went into its early development, because they knew that this would be something that would require a lot of bookkeeping.
The stuff before that is a little bit trickier. There were some attempts, especially by Sue [Rostoni] and Allan Kausch in the early 1990s, to keep track of as much documentation as possible. To their credit, there were some very interesting memos written out and collected at that time that were very helpful. Going earlier into the history, especially into the 1970s and 1980s, that stuff was harder to find.
Going into the making of this book, there was no prerequisite that every entry would have to have some sort of behind-the-scenes tidbit. Some material simply doesn?t exist anymore.
What other kinds of documents did you mine for behind-the-scenes information?
Memos, correspondence, and notes were my primary sources, because they were trustworthy. There were some undocumented things. During a series of lunches that I would have with the editors who were working with the company during the development of the books, they would point me to materials that I wouldn?t have otherwise known about. That was another way of doing it, having in-person conversations, particularly with the editors who would point me along the way.
How much behind-the-scenes material did you gather and not include for space reasons?
I made a conscious choice not to include information about books that were, for whatever reason, canceled. It?s fascinating, and maybe there will someday be a good place for that kind of stuff, but it just opened up a can of worms. I don?t want to get into the reasons why a book didn?t come to pass. There are multiple reasons why that may happen, and I don?t want someone taking a note and deciding, ?Oh, this particular detail from this story summary must be why that story never got published.? Ultimately, there was not enough room to present that material in a way that would answer the questions that it would raise.
Do you think there will be a venue for those stories at some point in the future?
Potentially. I think there?s a great outlet for that in blogs and potentially in the Insider magazine. As for a book itself about the making of
Star Wars
fiction, this is probably the closest we?re going to get to it. I might be wrong. There might be an appetite for that and we?ll see. I love, for instance, the [Jonathan] Rinzler approach on the making of the movies, where he actually presents the documents as scans within his books. I came across similar documents like that in the making of this book, but it wasn?t the right place to present them. It did not end up being that book. It?s not a ?Making of
Star Wars
Fiction? book. That material does exist, but whether or not there?s an appetite for it is something that we?ll have to see.
It seems like it would be tough to judge the audience for that kind of book.
Right. Also, because the EU is always going forward, is there an appetite to do that kind of looking back? That?s why I think that online and in the magazine might be good ways to test the waters and see if there is indeed that appetite. That kind of thing relies on the readers. Let Del Rey know that this is something you?re interested in.
What was the most surprising or interesting behind-the-scenes tidbit that you learned about the EU while writing this book?
I think, again just because of its depth, it?s the
New Jedi Order
stuff that was really a page-turner in terms of figuring out what might have been. Legacy of the Force was like that to some degree as well, but with
The New Jedi Order
, it was so extensively documented, and it was so ambitious at the time. I mean, the early documents really defined
The New Jedi Order
as being potentially thirty books, and as we know it did not end up being that long. But just the idea of it being thirty books was so ambitious at the time. That?s practically a whole shelf devoted to one storyline. It was interesting to see the way it was broken out, and there was feedback and correspondence directly from George?s desk on what to change and what to do. It really set it apart.
I thought
The New Jedi Order
was successful, but I know that there was a lot of learning involved. The people who were involved in it will say, quite candidly, that there were some missteps and there were changes that were made as the series went down. Personally, I think it was worthwhile, just as a risky endeavor.
Before that, other material that I found included evidence of there being an attempt by Del Rey to secure the license to do
Star Wars
fiction in the early 1990s. That license ultimately went to Bantam, but it was Brian Daley who was tasked [by Del Rey] to come up with creative story pitches. I didn?t find enough material about that process to include in the book, but I have subsequently discovered what it was that he was putting together. I talked about it briefly at Celebration VI. I?ll most likely post a blog entry that talks about this. I found that it was primarily for business reasons, and not creative ones, that the Del Rey deal never came to happen. I have reason to believe that the [Daley] creative pitch never made it to Lucasfilm. The business reasons are what caused that pitch to collapse before it ever really happened. So there?s a story that was too nebulous to include in the guide itself, but I still intend to keep researching it, because I think it?s fascinating to find out what might have been.
You mentioned George Lucas? involvement in
The New Jedi Order
. A lot of fans know that he gave LucasBooks and Del Rey a list of characters who could not be killed in the series, a list that resulted in the creative team picking Chewbacca. How much were you able to learn about his other involvement in this landmark series?
It was largely reactive. The editors on the Lucasfilm side, especially [then-Director of Publishing] Lucy Wilson, would figure out the key questions that needed to be floated in front of George. They gauged what kinds of things he wanted to offer feedback on. As the Prequels became more active, he basically conceded more and more of those decisions to the editorial staff, and said, ?Well, you guys take care of this, I?m going to be focusing on this universe. You guys go ahead and keep focusing on your stuff.? I found more memos related to the earlier Bantam-era stuff, vetting what is the definition of a Sith, what is the definition of a Jedi, when could we say the Clone Wars happened or didn?t happen, what are our parameters. It was largely handled through yes-or-no memos or some additional feedback. That?s the kind of paperwork that still exists from that day.
For context, you have to remember that in the early 1990s, no one knew what a Sith was, and authors would want to attempt to define that, especially in comics. In Zahn?s books, he wanted to make them a species ?? they eventually became the Noghri ?? and that feedback came from a series of memos that were floated to George.
So initially, he didn?t want the Sith to be depicted as they have subsequently been depicted in the
comics and the Lost Tribe of the Sith stories?
I think it was more that he didn?t want the authors to explore ?What are and what aren?t they?? The specific description that Tim had of a culture that Vader had ruled over, that was nixed.
What was the most obscure or unusual source that you referred to during your research?
It all largely came from the same kind of well. One of the things that made this book doable was going into it knowing that these kinds of resources existed. At the same time, we also knew that the majority of the book would be synopses of the stories, so it wasn?t contingent on there being that deep a well of behind-the-scenes material that we could mine. Thankfully it existed to allow us to supplement the synopses and make sure that these stories were in the book, especially for long-time readers who were seeking out new information and stuff that they hadn?t been exposed to. But that wasn?t a make-or-break requirement for the book?s existence itself.
You can read part two of this interview
right here on Suvudu
I?d like to thank Pablo Hidalgo for being so generous with his time and for providing me with so much great information about
The Essential Reader?s Companion
, which went on sale today. If you are a fan of the Expanded Universe, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book. You will not be disappointed.
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In spite of all the talk of how much he hates the British media the player now appears to be up for any team that will offer him Champions League and big pay packet. He told a Uruguayan radio station
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"Friends call me up to ask if I am moving to Chelsea, to which I laugh. The important thing in the market, whatever else has happened, is for teams to continue to value me for what I've done as a player on the pitch. It is not one club at the moment, there are lots of options.
"I do not think any of them are concrete yet. There are two or three teams that are possibilities."
With still no movement on Fellaini and Gareth Barry increasingly looking like a Plan B I wonder if Arsene will this morning be thinking about another old flame – Matty Flamini.
After several tricky years in Italy the player is said to be keen to move back to the Premiership as he had unfinished business.
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Ave. retail - $89,675
High retail - $101,325
Obviously, this is only a "guide" and there are lots to consider when selling or buying but is useful for those who want to try to use milage against anyone selling their Z8. Interesting though, they do not even list the Alpina.
Great that there are only a few other models that are considered "collectible BMWs" by this reference guide....., ALL the Z8s, the e24 M6 (I have one of those too), the 1979 -80 M1 (wish list) and ALL production years(1956-59) for the 507 (bigger wish) and the all years for the 503 too.
No M5, No M3 or other Z cars (not even the Z1), or MZ cars are listed as "collectible". Just thought that was interesting.


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- Dept of Electronic & Electrical Eng
- Faculty of Engineering Science
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Research Summary
Professor Jackman heads UCL's Diamond Electronics team whose laboratories are within the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Diamond is widely known as a gemstone, but few people appreciate that the use of this incredible material for purely decorative purposes is to truly waste an important Engineering material. It is used for:
- High frequency electronics
- High power electronics
- 'Radiation hard' electronics
- High temperature electronics
- Corrosion resistant electronics
- Biocompatible electronics
- Space-bound electronics
- Optoelectronics (deep UV)
- Radiation detectors
- Biosensors
- High frequency SAWS
- NEMS and MEMS
- Cold cathodes
- Electrochemical sensors
- Quantum computing
- Life Science applications, including neuronal cell-diamond electronic interfacing
Gate Oxide Electrical Stability of p-type Diamond MOS Capacitors
Simultaneous Conduction and Valence Band Quantization in Ultrashallow High-Density Doping Profiles in Semiconductors
Nanodiamonds for device applications: An investigation of the properties of boron-doped detonation nanodiamonds.
Surface functionalisation of nanodiamonds for human neural stem cell adhesion and proliferation.
Nanoscale, Conformal Films of Graphitic Carbon Nitride Deposited at Room Temperature: A method for construction of heterojunction devices
Nanometric diamond delta doping with boron
Biocompatibility of nanostructured boron doped diamond for the attachment and proliferation of human neural stem cells
Patterning of Nanodiamond Tracks and Nanocrystalline Diamond Films Using a Micropipette for Additive Direct-Write Processing
Academic Background
Award YearQualificationInstitution
1986PhDDoctor of PhilosophyUniversity of Southampton
1983BSc HonsBachelor of Science (Honours)University of Southampton
Professor Jackman gained a BSc in Chemistry at the University of Southampton, before completing a PhD in Surface Science at the same institution in 1986. Richard was made the Royal Society Eliz. Challenor Research Fellow to study 'processes at the semiconductor-vapour interface' at the University of Oxford, from 1986 to 1989, during which period he also held a Junior Research Fellowship at Linacre College, Oxford. Following his appointment as a Lecturer within the Electronic and Electrical Engineering department at UCL in 1989, Richard established a research group exploring the use of diamond for electronic device fabrication, a topic new to UCL and one only just emerging worldwide. Richard became a Senior Lecturer in 1993, a Reader in Electronics in 1996 and took up a Personal Chair in Electronic Devices in 2008. Professor Jackman is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and a Chartered Engineer and Physicist. Richard chaired the British Vacuum Council (BVC, 2000-3), represented the UK on the Electronic Materials division of the international Union of Vacuum Science and Technology Associations (IUVSTA, 1995-2001), and represented the UK on the Council of IUVSTA (2001-4). Professor Jackman also served on the committee of the IOP's Semiconductor Physics group (2007-10).
Richard has served on the Editorial Board of the international journals, Semiconductor Science and Technology and Applied Physics A, and edited special issues of the journals Thin Solid Films, Surface Science, Applied Surface Science, Physica Status Solidi A, as well as editing Proceedings of the Materials Research Society (Diamond Electronics I, 956 (2007), Diamond Electronics II, 1039 (2008)). Media work has included the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Materials World' (2004) and 'Diamond: The worlds most dazzling exhibition' at the Natural History Museum, London (2006). Extensive international conference organisation includes The European Diamond Conference series (9th-19th, 1998-2008-), the Hasselt Diamond Workshop (IV-XIII, 1999-2008-) and the 'New Diamond and Nano-Carbons' series (NDNC, 2007,8). Richard has given more than 65 invited papers at international meetings.
To date, Professor Jackman has personally graduated 20 PhD students, and has a current group of ten PhD students, plus postdoctoral research fellow support. He has published a (co-edited) book, 6 book chapters, four patents, 185 journal papers and more than 250 conference papers. The Diamond Electronics Group, which Richard heads, is based within the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), on UCLs campus. Research income to date is more than £5M, £4M with Richard as PI.
- Cell interfacing
- Diamond
- Electronic devices
- Graphene
- Nanotechnology


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Design submitted by Laszlo from Hungary.
This watch design is based on Laszlo's older design, LED Bars Concept Watch Design. The bracelet is made of semi-translucent plastic and the LEDs are visible only when active.
It has a variation of black body with red LEDs and white body with blue ones, both having a chrome strip running on both sides. The setting button is placed on the back cover of the watch, next to the battery lid.
The LEDs on the left side indicate hours, the ones on the right indicate minutes (both stripes show 5-minute groups, top stripes are single minutes).


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UK cops clamp down on midnight PS3 launch
Sony's big day faces disruption
London's Oxford Street Virgin Megastore will be the only shop in the centre of the capital to offer Sony PlayStation 3s at midnight tomorrow - thanks to the actions of Westminster Council and the Metropolitan Police. The reason? Local government and law enforcement officials fear they won't be able to cope with the crowds.
This means that anyone who pre-ordered a PS3 anywhere other than the Virgin Megastore, and was hoping to collect it tonight, is in for a big disappointment.
Retail chain Game has advised its customers to call their local branch to see if it's opening at midnight. But it warned you will have to have registered for your PS3 at the branch you visit. You can't collect from a different store.
Not one HMV store in London is opening its doors. However, beyond the capital approximately 50 shops around the UK will be opening as planned – but even this number is changing from hour to hour, a direct result from the reactions of police forces around the country as they act on the notion that lots of people will be roaming the streets late at night carrying brand new PS3s worth around £425 - all of them potential robbery targets.
So, come Thursday evening, it could be considerably less than 50 HMV stores that stay open for the launch. Again, HMV said customers should contact their nearest store to find out... what the heck is actually going on.
Whether the approach being adopted by the boys in blue will prove a sensible one in the long run remains to be seen. Either way, there are going to be a lot of disappointed PlayStation fans out tonight, all of them wondering why they didn't just buy an Xbox 360 or a Wii.


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The Bachelor of University Studies is a Bachelor of Arts degree program created for the part-time adult student who typically has previous college experience and seeks to complete a baccalaureate degree. It allows part-time students to design, with the assistance of an advisor in the Bachelor of University Studies program, an individualized program of study responsive to their educational and professional interests. The individualized program includes a concentration with courses offered by the various schools and colleges of the University, including existing evening and weekend courses. Thus, a combination of courses is permitted and encouraged that would be unobtainable in a traditional undergraduate degree. Learn more.
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University Studies offers a Paralegal Studies program approved by the American Bar Association. The program, which began at Hartford College for Women in 1974, was the first legal training program for paralegals in Connecticut. It provides rigorous training in legal specialty courses in preparation for one of the fastest-growing careers in this country.
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As numerous studies have shown, most women would rather go shopping naked than engage in any sort of negotiation—whether for a job, a raise or a better deal.
Is asking so painful or embarrassing?
Not any more, thanks to a new book: "A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating" (McGraw Hill), by Lee E. Miller and Jessica Miller, a father-daughter team.
They culled the negotiating secrets of top female CEOs, including Andrea Jung of Avon, Lisa Caputo of Citi, and even a rock star (Susanna Hoffs of the Bangles). Our favorite tips:
Negotiate for someone else. Many women can't shake off the caretaker instinct, the Millers note—so harness it. Step outside yourself and imagine that you're advocating on behalf of a dear friend. It can help you stand up for what you deserve.
Beware the empathy trap. Empathy is a terrific negotiating skill; it helps you understand the other side. But it can backfire, the Millers say, if you're swayed to believe that your goal (a higher salary, say) is less important than what your boss wants (lower overhead). Stay focused on your needs.
Know your BATNA. Always walk in with a "best alternative to a negotiated agreement" in mind. Example: You really want Job A, and you require salary X. If you can't agree on that amount, your BATNA might be to accept additional perks—or to go for Job B. Knowing your best alternative gives you an out, so you don't settle for less than what you want.
Ask for it. What skills help you to get the terms you want?


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Document 1: Schedule of Questions for Communities Applying for a Carnegie Library
Carnegie officials required applicants to provide the following information.
Free Public Library
b) What is the highest rate of tax levy allowed by law?_________________________
c) How much income would this rate have yielded for the last five years?_________________________
10. Is the requisite site available?_______________
11. Amount, if any, already collected toward building______________
"To facilitate Mr. Carnegie's consideration of your appeal, will you oblige by filling in the above, and return with a statement of any particulars likely to assist in making decision? It is necessary to give explicit answers to each question, as in the absence of such, there is no basis for action, and the matter will be delayed pending further communication."__________________________
Adapted from the three versions used by James Bertram, Carnegie's secretary.
The form below was designed by Carnegie officials to show that the community accepted the library grant as well as the specified responsibilities.
A Resolution to Accept the Donation of Andrew Carnegie
Whereas, Andrew Carnegie has agreed to furnish_______________ Dollars to the _______________ (name of community) to erect a Free Public Library Building, on condition that the said community shall pledge itself by a Resolution of Council, to support a Free Public Library, at a cost of not less than _______________ Dollars a year, and provide a suitable site for the said building.
Now therefore be it resolved by Council of _________ (name of community) that said community accept said donation, and it does hereby pledge itself to the requirements of Andrew Carnegie. Resolved that it will furnish a suitable site for said building when erected, at a cost of not less than ____________ Dollars. Resolved that an annual levy shall hereafter be made upon the taxable property of said community sufficient in amount to comply with the above requirements.__________________________
The signatures of the clerk and mayor and the witnessing statement of the clerk followed.
Questions for Document 1
1. What type of information does the form ask for?
2. Why would Carnegie want to know if the community already had a library? Why would he want to know about how much money the community could supply for maintenance?
3. Why would Carnegie make the community sign a contract in which they promise to provide a site and support for the library for which he will donate the money?
Document 1 was adapted from George S. Bobinski, Carnegie Libraries (Chicago: American Library Association, 1969).


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SOURCE: Cellceutix
January 06, 2014 08:00 ET
BEVERLY, MA--(Marketwired - Jan 6, 2014) - Cellceutix Corporation (OTCQB: CTIX) (the "Company"), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies in oncology, dermatology, and antibiotic applications, is pleased to announce that it has today submitted the application to the Institutional Review Board ("IRB") responsible for the planned clinical study of the Company's psoriasis drug Prurisol.
The trial is a short crossover study being conducted at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") with the purpose of demonstrating that Prurisol, an ester of abacavir, converts into abacavir in humans, just as it did in animal models. Once IRB approval is received, Cellceutix will immediately file an Investigational New Drug (IND) Application with the FDA. The trial is expected to take approximately one and a half months to complete, at which time the Company will move forward with initiation of a larger Phase 2/3 trial under the guidance from the FDA that a 505(b)(2) designation is an appropriate developmental pathway for Prurisol.
"Submitting the application to the IRB to begin clinical trials of Prurisol is a fantastic way to begin the year," commented Leo Ehrlich, Chief Executive Officer at Cellceutix. "We are excited to kick-off 2014 with Prurisol moving into human studies, our novel antibiotic Brilacidin commencing a Phase 2b trial in January, and Kevetrin, our flagship anti-cancer drug, reaching the latter stages of its Phase 1 trial. These trials represent our unwavering commitment to build shareholder value and bring new drugs to market spanning several areas of great unmet medical need."
Cellceutix will be providing a comprehensive update on all of its pipeline developments at the Biotech Showcase 2014 conference being held in San Francisco, California, January 13-15.
About Cellceutix:
Headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, Cellceutix is a publicly traded company under the symbol "CTIX". Cellceutix is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies in oncology, dermatology and antibiotic applications. Cellceutix believes it has a world class portfolio of compounds and is now engaged in advancing its compounds and seeking strategic partnerships. Cellceutix's anti-cancer drug Kevetrin is currently in a Phase 1 clinical trial at Harvard Cancer Centers' Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In the laboratory Kevetrin has shown to induce activation of p53, often referred to as the "Guardian Angel Gene" due to its crucial role in controlling cell mutations. Cellceutix is planning a Phase 2 clinical trial with its novel compound Brilacidin-OM for the prevention and treatment of Oral Mucositis. Brilacidin-OM, a defensin mimetic compound has shown in the laboratory to reduce the occurrence of severe ulcerative oral mucositis by more than 94% compared to placebo. Cellceutix's anti-psoriasis drug Prurisol is being readied for clinical trials at sites in the U.S. and Europe. Prurisol is a small molecule that acts through immune modulation and PRINS reduction. Cellceutix's key antibiotic, Brilacidin, is set to begin a Phase 2b trial in January 2014 for Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections, or ABSSSI. Brilacidin has the potential to be a single-dose therapy for multi-drug resistant bacteria or a dosing regimen that is shorter than currently marketed antibiotics. Cellceutix has formed research collaborations with world renowned research institutions in the United States and Europe, including MD Anderson Cancer Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and the University of Bologna. More information is available on the Cellceutix web site at www.cellceutix.com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause Cellceutix's actual results and experience to differ materially from anticipated results and expectations expressed in these forward looking statements. Cellceutix has in some cases identified forward-looking statements by using words such as "anticipates," "believes," "hopes," "estimates," "looks," "expects," "plans," "intends," "goal," "potential," "may," "suggest," and similar expressions. Among other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements are Cellceutix's need for, and the availability of, substantial capital in the future to fund its operations and research and development; including the amount and timing of the sale of shares of common stock to Aspire Capital; the fact that Cellceutix's compounds may not successfully complete pre-clinical or clinical testing, or be granted regulatory approval to be sold and marketed in the United States or elsewhere. A more complete description of these risk factors is included in Cellceutix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements. Cellceutix undertakes no obligation to release publicly the results of any revisions to any such forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by applicable law or regulation.
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Cellceutix Corp.
Leo Ehrlich
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Cellceutix Corp.
Leo Ehrlich
(978) 236-8717Email Contact
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