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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Is Your Prospect Satisfied With Another Supplier ... - Sales Training
A family friend told me recently how she had a total change in the way she viewed her job, and asked me if I could help her get back the motivation she once had.
Naturally, I helped her out. But her story got me thinking about how we, as salespeople, can help prospects make changes too.
Here?s her story?To keep anonymity, I?ll call her ?Ann?.
Ann works in retail, and was doing OK in her job. She earns around ?20k and was quite happy with that salary. The job challenged her, kept her on her toes and gave her satisfaction.
A friend then told Ann about a job advert in a local paper. Ann saw it and noticed the salary offered was around ?22-?25k, quite a bit higher than she was on now, but for doing essentially the same job.
Ann applied for it. She got a favourable reply and went for the interview. She thought it went well.
A?couple of weeks later, she got the letter saying thanks for attending, but they weren?t going to take her application further.
Ann was very disappointed. She still had her current job but now, where she used to enjoy the challenges, she now felt overwhelmed. Where she used to have satisfaction, she now had disdain.
What had changed? The job was exactly the same, the pay was the same, the conditions were the same. But she had been shown something else, an opportunity that would have given her a better standard of living. And the fact she didn?t have it made her feel disillusioned with her current state and situation. Consequently, she is now looking for job opportunities that she wasn?t looking for before.
Why am I telling you Ann?s story? Because it?s possible that our prospects and clients might be feeling the same way.
Many times, you approach a prospect and they say they are happy in their current situation. They are in their comfort zone, with no reason to change. Like Ann, they are satisfied as they are.
Then, you show them an opportunity, helping them see how things could be even better with your services. You prove to them that what you have could bring more benefits, better productivity and greater profitability.
What you?ve produced is called ?dissonance?.
Dissonance is defined as a simultaneous combination of tones conventionally accepted as being in a state of unrest and needing completion. This creates disharmony, a feeling of discord, and may make a person feel unhappy with the current situation, wanting to resolve the disharmony that they didn?t even knew existed before.
It?s like the old television programme called ?Bullseye?, where the contestant who lost out was then shown what they could have won, when the curtain was drawn back. Before that, they didn?t know what was on offer?.now they did and they felt gutted!
Prospects who are happy with their current supplier often don?t see what might be available with someone else. When?they DO see it, it could create discord between what they have now and what they could have in the future.
So this is your opportunity to raise that discord. Show your prospect how they could benefit from your services. Paint the picture of how their future could be different with you. Associate more benefits with your products than with what they have at the moment.
This will help them see how things would be better with you. If they stay as they are, they will feel less satisfaction than before, because they see what they could have. Just like Ann, they feel less happy with the staus quo. Just like Ann, they feel they have to now look at what opportunities might be out there for them.
And, if your products and services can help them achieve the better future they could have, you have provided the answer to that discord, that disharmonious feeling between current position and future possibility.
I helped Ann get her persepctive right by talking about how she can still be happy and content now, while still seeking better opportunities in the future. You can do the same with clients, helping them see those opportunities that only you can bring for them in the future.
Happy Selling!
Sean McPheat
Managing Director
MTD Sales Training
www.mtdsalestraining.com
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Flexible Work Is Healthy, Studies Show
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo!, enacted a policy this week that requires previously remote workers to now spend their days in-office and bars employees from using flexible work hours.
"To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side ... That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices," read the memo written by head of HR Jackie Reses and obtained by AllThingsD. ?Speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home.?
Employees and the general public alike were dismayed by the news -- particularly as many companies move toward more flexible work hours, influenced by reports that a looser work schedule is healthy for workers -- and for the bottom line. Even the White House has compiled a comprehensive report, extolling the attributes to wellbeing of flexible work policies.
It should come as no surprise that Mayer, known for her hard-charging work ethic and her two-week maternity leave, would prefer an all in-house staff. But are flex hours merely a luxurious refuge for the underperforming or, in the current work culture, a necessity for many in the workforce?
Research on employees who use flexible hours and work from home points toward the latter. Studies regularly show that employees who are given some choice as to their schedule and location of work report better self-care behaviors like increased exercise and regular doctors' visits, better sleep habits, less stress, less depression and less work-life conflict.
A 2010 Cochrane research review looked at the results of 10 studies evaluating more than 16,000 people. They found that self-scheduling work time improved a variety of health metrics, including reduced exhaustion, improved sleep (both duration and quality), lowered blood pressure, improved mental health and better self-rated health status. The distinction of self-scheduled, meaning the choice belongs to the employee, is important to note: As the authors wrote in their report, "In contrast, interventions that were motivated or dictated by organizational interests, such as fixed-term contract and involuntary part-time employment, found equivocal or negative health effects."
"Flexible working seems to be more beneficial for health and wellbeing where the individuals control their own work patterns, rather than where employers are in control," review author Clare Bambra, of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham Univerisy in the UK, said in a statement. "Given the limited evidence base, we wouldn't want to make any hard and fast recommendations, but these findings certainly give employers and employees something to think about."
One well-known study looked deeper into the health impact of flexible work environment by following 608 white-collar workers at the headquarters of Best Buy before and after a flexible ?Results Only Work Environment? policy was implemented. The researchers found that, on average, employees got one additional hour of sleep per work night after flex-hours were implemented and were more likely to exercise. They were more apt to go to the doctor when they needed to and were less likely to go into the office when contagious. From a mental health standpoint, the subjects reported that they felt "greater mastery" of their time, had fewer work-life conflicts and, as a result, felt increased energy, less stress and a self-reported sense of well-being.
"Flex time is a way to get control over work. We can't reduce the overload of tasks, but flexible schedules make it a bit more manageable," co-author of the Best Buy study, Phyllis Moen, Ph.D., McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair of Sociology at the University of Minnesota tells HuffPost. "We now have an elevated intensity of work -- we're expected to work smarter, do more with less and with fewer people. And what has enabled workers to continue to work with this level of intensity is often that they now arrange when they work."
"And yet I can't imagine [Mayer] will tamp down on the intensity of work," Moen adds. "What she's asking for isn't just a relocation shift -- she's ratching up time pressures when you want to be more flexible. Time pressure has a negative effect on people who are going to be expected to work long hours, to work intensely and work smarter.
Further, many of the employees affected by Mayer's new policy are already accustomed to working on their own schedule and in their own environment. What will happen to the health of workers who have grown accustomed to flexible work hours and must now return to their office desks full time?
"We have no studies looking at what happens when you take it away, but the assumption would be that it would have negative effects," says Moen. "It will mean a lack of control -- and feeling a lack of control over one's life is associated with greater psychological stress."
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Adele's Post-Oscars Plans May Include Beyonce-Style Doc
Oscar-winner reveals her plans for EGOT domination.
By Jocelyn Vena
Adele at the 2013 Oscars
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The soldier as sexual aggressor
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"Sexual violence in war-time is criminal behaviour, but can nonetheless come to be seen by soldiers as something acceptable," states Inger Skjelsbk, who authored the study.
"Political psychology differs from clinical psychology in that it does not examine the deviant behaviour of the individual, but rather the context of the deviant situation in which the individual is acting. I have focused on individuals in extreme situations, which obviously applies to war."
Inger Skjelsbk is Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). The study of sexual violence committed by military personnel during the Bosnian War was funded under the Programme for Gender Research (KJONNSFORSKNING) at the Research Council of Norway and was published in book form under the title The Political Psychology of War Rape by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Barbarians not honourable defenders
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is the first court to systematically prosecute perpetrators of war rape. Dr Skjelbk's is the first study of convictions for sexual violence during war, which makes it a pioneering effort in more ways than one.
"I have studied the victims of rape before, but in order to gain more insight into why sexual violence takes place and what should be done to prevent it we need to know more about the perpetrators as well," Dr Skjelsbk explains.
Although she was not able to interview the convicted criminals directly, she has studied the judgments handed down closely in order to understand the actions of soldiers when they are behaving in the guise of being a soldier.
"The judgments provide a rich source of new and striking profiles of soldiers. The honourable defender of both country and countryman is seldom present. The picture of the soldiers that emerges is one of barbarians who have lost all sense of what is civilised behaviour in an atmosphere of absolute moral decline. The judgments from the war in Bosnia illustrate the intense indignation of the international community regarding these soldiers' actions," says Dr Skjelsbk.
Many show no remorse
Based on the judgments, she has distinguished between three categories of war-time aggressors: the romantic hero, the opportunist and the repentant sinner. The first does not even consider his actions to be wrong. He holds his victims captive and often enters into what he refers to as a "love relationship".
"The second category, the opportunist, takes advantage of the situation and often will admit to no wrongdoing afterwards. These are typically soldiers who served as guards in concentration camps and who abuse many individuals in a variety of contexts."
The last type of aggressor feels deep remorse for what he has done and, afterwards, is unable to come to terms with the misdeeds he has committed and been convicted for, explains Dr Skjelsbk.
Nearly half of the 161 cases tried in the court involved sexual violence. Twenty-eight persons received convictions with nine convicted for having committed rape themselves. The number of sentences is not high given that official statistics show that at least 11 000 people were subjected to sexual violence in Bosnia. The victims were not limited to women; men comprise a large proportion of those assaulted as well.
Possible to learn more from Bosnia
"The majority of those found guilty were not convicted for having committed the assault themselves, but for complicity because as superiors they should have been aware of what was happening and intervened. I think it is encouraging that military leaders are held responsible in this way for crimes committed by men under their charge," Inger Skjelsbk says.
"One lesson we can take with us from the war in Bosnia is that more stringent requirements must be imposed to ensure good military leadership. War is a chaotic situation. This makes it especially important to make clear what is acceptable behaviour and what is not when training soldiers. Sexual violence is always an unacceptable, criminal act. In Bosnia, soldiers became aggressors by virtue of their being a soldier. They were never taught otherwise," Dr Skjelsbk points out.
Much can still be learned by studying the aftermath of the war in Bosnia. Many of the convicted soldiers were given a hero's welcome upon their return home. Many of the victims have not received the war pensions they are entitled to. Why is this?
Inger Skjelsbk will continue her efforts on these topics in a new project she will be heading. The project has been granted support under the FRIPRO funding scheme for independent projects at the Research Council.
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Share ] Contact: Thomas Keilman
thke@rcn.no
The Research Council of Norway
"Sexual violence in war-time is criminal behaviour, but can nonetheless come to be seen by soldiers as something acceptable," states Inger Skjelsbk, who authored the study.
"Political psychology differs from clinical psychology in that it does not examine the deviant behaviour of the individual, but rather the context of the deviant situation in which the individual is acting. I have focused on individuals in extreme situations, which obviously applies to war."
Inger Skjelsbk is Deputy Director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). The study of sexual violence committed by military personnel during the Bosnian War was funded under the Programme for Gender Research (KJONNSFORSKNING) at the Research Council of Norway and was published in book form under the title The Political Psychology of War Rape by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
Barbarians not honourable defenders
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is the first court to systematically prosecute perpetrators of war rape. Dr Skjelbk's is the first study of convictions for sexual violence during war, which makes it a pioneering effort in more ways than one.
"I have studied the victims of rape before, but in order to gain more insight into why sexual violence takes place and what should be done to prevent it we need to know more about the perpetrators as well," Dr Skjelsbk explains.
Although she was not able to interview the convicted criminals directly, she has studied the judgments handed down closely in order to understand the actions of soldiers when they are behaving in the guise of being a soldier.
"The judgments provide a rich source of new and striking profiles of soldiers. The honourable defender of both country and countryman is seldom present. The picture of the soldiers that emerges is one of barbarians who have lost all sense of what is civilised behaviour in an atmosphere of absolute moral decline. The judgments from the war in Bosnia illustrate the intense indignation of the international community regarding these soldiers' actions," says Dr Skjelsbk.
Many show no remorse
Based on the judgments, she has distinguished between three categories of war-time aggressors: the romantic hero, the opportunist and the repentant sinner. The first does not even consider his actions to be wrong. He holds his victims captive and often enters into what he refers to as a "love relationship".
"The second category, the opportunist, takes advantage of the situation and often will admit to no wrongdoing afterwards. These are typically soldiers who served as guards in concentration camps and who abuse many individuals in a variety of contexts."
The last type of aggressor feels deep remorse for what he has done and, afterwards, is unable to come to terms with the misdeeds he has committed and been convicted for, explains Dr Skjelsbk.
Nearly half of the 161 cases tried in the court involved sexual violence. Twenty-eight persons received convictions with nine convicted for having committed rape themselves. The number of sentences is not high given that official statistics show that at least 11 000 people were subjected to sexual violence in Bosnia. The victims were not limited to women; men comprise a large proportion of those assaulted as well.
Possible to learn more from Bosnia
"The majority of those found guilty were not convicted for having committed the assault themselves, but for complicity because as superiors they should have been aware of what was happening and intervened. I think it is encouraging that military leaders are held responsible in this way for crimes committed by men under their charge," Inger Skjelsbk says.
"One lesson we can take with us from the war in Bosnia is that more stringent requirements must be imposed to ensure good military leadership. War is a chaotic situation. This makes it especially important to make clear what is acceptable behaviour and what is not when training soldiers. Sexual violence is always an unacceptable, criminal act. In Bosnia, soldiers became aggressors by virtue of their being a soldier. They were never taught otherwise," Dr Skjelsbk points out.
Much can still be learned by studying the aftermath of the war in Bosnia. Many of the convicted soldiers were given a hero's welcome upon their return home. Many of the victims have not received the war pensions they are entitled to. Why is this?
Inger Skjelsbk will continue her efforts on these topics in a new project she will be heading. The project has been granted support under the FRIPRO funding scheme for independent projects at the Research Council.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Video: Jennifer Lawrence, ?Argo? win big at Oscars
>> for seth mcfarlane , his opening monologue did last 17 minutes, kicked off a night filled with singing, dancing and awards.
>>> and the oscar goes to -- argo.
>> in a surprise appearance from the white house , first lady michelle obama announced the winner for best picture . ben affleck expressed gratitude for this win.
>> it doesn't matter that you get knocked down in life because that's going to happen. all that matters is that you get back up.
>>> and best actress , a bit of a stumble.
>> you're just standing up because you feel bad that i fell. thank you.
>> later celebrating with her family at the governor's ball.
>> and the oscar goes to daniel day lewis .
>> oscar winner meryl streep presented the award to daniel day lewis for his role in "lincoln."
>> i had actually been committed to play margaret thatcher .
>> in the directing category, ang lee won for " life of pi ." from "django unchained," christoph wallets won for best supporting actor . another performance from the cast of " les miserables ." a moving in memoriam, and "adele" from "skyfall," that went on to win best original song .
>> and the quest to beat tommy lee jones starts now.
>> song and dance for a big welcome. and as the credits ran, the end of the night alongside kristin chenowith and a tribute to the evening's losers. he said before the show this was a one-time thing for him.
>> one and done.
>> what did you think of his performance?
>> he is extremely talented. i agree with savannah that the opening was too long.
>> it's a thankless task. i'm not going to join the legions of people criticizing.
>> there's enough of those people.
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WTH? Kanye West Disses Jay-Z & Justin Timberlake (VIDEO)
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Kanye West, who has collaborated with pal Jay-Z previously, doesn’t appear to be a fan of the rapper touring with Justin Timberlake. West shocked fans attending his Saturday night concert in London when he blasted Jay-Z’s new single. Kanye West was captured on video during his show trashing Jay-Z and Timberlake’s new song “Suit & ...
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Obama admin. to Supremes: Strike anti-gay law | Strange ...
The Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike part of a controversial 1996 law that bars recognition of same-sex marriage, even in the nine states where it is now legal, for such federal benefits as income and estate taxes and federal employee benefits.
?The law denies to tens of thousands of same sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important benefits that are available to legally married opposite sex couples,? the Justice Department argued in a brief urging the high court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act.
The justices hear oral arguments next month in two landmark marriage equality cases.? One is a legal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.? The other is a challenge to California?s Prop. 8, which rolled back same-sex marriage in America?s largest state.? Lower federal courts have ruled against both DOMA and Prop. 8.
Washington, Maine and Maryland voted last November to legalize same-sex marriage, and has seen hundreds of marriages beginning in December.
?Each time the Obama administration acts to support LGBT (gay and lesbian) Americans, it feels even more significant when considered in the context of Presidential history:? It was not all that long ago that President Reagan refused to help when many were dying of AIDS,? said Anne Levinson, a former judge and Seattle deputy mayor, and strategist in the 2012 campaign for marriage equality.
?President Bush embraced a platform and led an administration that vilified the LGBT community,? Levinson added.
Same-sex marriage licenses issued in King County
In its legal brief, the Obama administration argues:
?Gay and lesbian people are a minority group with limited political power.? Although some of the harshest and most overt forms of discrimination against gay and lesbian people have receded, that progress has hardly been uniform (either temporally or geographically) and has in significant respects been the result of judicial enforcement of the Constitution, not political action.?
The Defense of Marriage Act ?targets the many gay and lesbian people legally married under state law for a harsh form of discrimination that bears no relation to their ability to contribute to society,? the brief adds.
The Obama administration announced last year that it would no longer defend DOMA in court.? The defense of the 1996 anti-gay law has been taken up, and paid for out of public funds, by the Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops has also filed briefs in defense of DOMA, arguing that supporters of traditional marriage would be subject to attack if the law is overturned.
Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/02/24/obama-admin-to-supremes-strike-anti-gay-law/
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Scientists find genes linked to human neurological disorders in sea lamprey genome
Feb. 24, 2013 ? Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) have identified several genes linked to human neurological disorders, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury, in the sea lamprey, a vertebrate fish whose whole-genome sequence is reported this week in the journal Nature Genetics.
"This means that we can use the sea lamprey as a powerful model to drive forward our molecular understanding of human neurodegenerative disease and neurological disorders," says Jennifer Morgan of the MBL's Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering. The ultimate goals are to determine what goes wrong with neurons after injury and during disease, and to determine how to correct these deficits in order to restore normal nervous system functions.
Unlike humans, the lamprey has an extraordinary capacity to regenerate its nervous system. If a lamprey's spinal cord is severed, it can regenerate the damaged nerve cells and be swimming again in 10-12 weeks.
Morgan and her collaborators at MBL, Ona Bloom and Joseph Buxbaum, have been studying the lamprey's recovery from spinal cord injury since 2009. The lamprey has large, identified neurons in its brain and spinal cord, making it an excellent model to study regeneration at the single cell-level. Now, the lamprey's genomic information gives them a whole new "toolkit" for understanding its regenerative mechanisms, and for comparing aspects of its physiology, such as inflammation response, to that of humans.
The lamprey genome project was accomplished by a consortium of 59 researchers led by Weiming Li of Michigan State University and Jeramiah Smith of the University of Kentucky. The MBL scientists' contribution focused on neural aspects of the genome, including one of the project's most intriguing findings.
Lampreys, in contrast to humans, don't have myelin, an insulating sheath around neurons that allows faster conduction of nerve impulses. Yet the consortium found genes expressed in the lamprey that are normally expressed in myelin. In humans, myelin-associated molecules inhibit nerves from regenerating if damaged. "A lot of the focus of the spinal cord injury field is on neutralizing those inhibitory molecules," Morgan says.
"So there is an interesting conundrum," Morgan says. "What are these myelin-associated genes doing in an animal that doesn't have myelin, and yet is good at regeneration? It opens up a new and interesting set of questions, " she says. Addressing them could bring insight to why humans lost the capacity for neural regeneration long ago, and how this might be restored.
At present, Morgan and her collaborators are focused on analyzing which genes are expressed and when, after spinal cord injury and regeneration. The whole-genome sequence gives them an invaluable reference for their work.
Morgan, Bloom, and Buxbaum collaborate at the MBL through funding by the Charles Evans Foundation. Bloom is based at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research/Hofstra North Shore-Long Island Jewish in New York. Buxbaum is from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
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- Jeramiah J Smith, Shigehiro Kuraku, Carson Holt, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Ning Jiang, Michael S Campbell, Mark D Yandell, Tereza Manousaki, Axel Meyer, Ona E Bloom, Jennifer R Morgan, Joseph D Buxbaum, Ravi Sachidanandam, Carrie Sims, Alexander S Garruss, Malcolm Cook, Robb Krumlauf, Leanne M Wiedemann, Stacia A Sower, Wayne A Decatur, Jeffrey A Hall, Chris T Amemiya, Nil R Saha, Katherine M Buckley, Jonathan P Rast, Sabyasachi Das, Masayuki Hirano, Nathanael McCurley, Peng Guo, Nicolas Rohner, Clifford J Tabin, Paul Piccinelli, Greg Elgar, Magali Ruffier, Bronwen L Aken, Stephen M J Searle, Matthieu Muffato, Miguel Pignatelli, Javier Herrero, Matthew Jones, C Titus Brown, Yu-Wen Chung-Davidson, Kaben G Nanlohy, Scot V Libants, Chu-Yin Yeh, David W McCauley, James A Langeland, Zeev Pancer, Bernd Fritzsch, Pieter J de Jong, Baoli Zhu, Lucinda L Fulton, Brenda Theising, Paul Flicek, Marianne E Bronner, Wesley C Warren, Sandra W Clifton, Richard K Wilson, Weiming Li. Sequencing of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) genome provides insights into vertebrate evolution. Nature Genetics, 2013; DOI: 10.1038/ng.2568
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Laser mastery narrows down sources of superconductivity
Public release date: 24-Feb-2013[ | E-mail |
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MIT and Brookhaven Lab physicists measure fleeting electron waves to uncover the elusive mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity
UPTON, NY Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electric current to pass with perfect efficiency through materials chilled to subzero temperatures, and it may play an essential role in revolutionizing the entire electricity chain, from generation to transmission and grid-scale storage. Pinning down one of the possible explanations for HTSfleeting fluctuations called charge-density waves (CDWs)could help solve the mystery and pave the way for rapid technological advances.
Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have combined two state-of-the-art experimental techniques to study those electron waves with unprecedented precision in two-dimensional, custom-grown materials. The surprising results, published online February 24, 2013, in the journal Nature Materials, reveal that CDWs cannot be the root cause of the unparalleled power conveyance in HTS materials. In fact, CDW formation is an independent and likely competing instability.
"It has been difficult to determine whether or not dynamic or fluctuating CDWs even exist in HTS materials, much less identify their role," said Brookhaven Lab physicist and study coauthor Ivan Bozovic. "Do they compete with the HTS state, or are they perhaps the very essence of the phenomenon? That question has now been answered by targeted experimentation."
Custom-grown Superconductors
Electricity travels imperfectly through traditional metallic conductors, losing energy as heat due to a kind of atomic-scale friction. Impurities in these materials also cause electrons to scatter and stumble, but superconductors can overcome this hurdleassuming the synthesis process is precise.
For this experiment, Bozovic used a custom-built molecular beam epitaxy system at Brookhaven Lab to grow thin films of LaSrCuO, an HTS cuprate (copper-oxide) compound. The metallic cuprates, assembled one atomic layer at a time, are separated by insulating planes of lanthanum and strontium oxides, resulting in what's called a quasi-two-dimensional conductor. When cooled down to a low enough temperatureless than 100 degrees Kelvinstrange electron waves began to ripple through that 2D matrix. At even lower temperatures, these films became superconducting.
Electron Sea
"In quasi-two-dimensional metals, low temperatures frequently bring about interesting collective states called charge-density waves," Bozovic said. "They resemble waves rolling across the surface of a lake under a breeze, except that instead of water, here we actually have a sea of mobile electrons."
Once a CDW forms, the electron density loses uniformity as the ripples rise and fall. These waves can be described by familiar parameters: amplitude (height of the waves), wavelength (distance between waves), and phase (the wave's position on the material). Detecting CDWs typically requires high-intensity x-rays, such as those provided by synchrotron light sources like Brookhaven's NSLS and, soon, NSLS-II. And even then, the technique only works if the waves are essentially frozen upon formation. However, if CDWs actually fluctuate rapidly, they may escape detection by x-ray diffraction, which typically requires a long exposure time that blurs fast motion.
Measuring Rolling Waves
To catch CDWs in action, a research group at MIT led by physicist Nuh Gedik used an advanced ultrafast spectroscopy technique. Intense laser pulses called "pumps" cause excitations in the superconducting films, which are then probed by measuring the film reflectance with a second light pulsethis is called a pump-probe process. The second pulse is delayed by precise time intervals, and the series of measurements allow the lifetime of the excitation to be determined.
In a more sophisticated variant of the technique, largely pioneered by Gedik, the standard single pump beam is replaced by two beams hitting the surface from different sides simultaneously. This generates a standing wave of controlled wavelength in the film, but it disappears rapidly as the electrons relax back into their original state.
This technique was applied to the atomically perfect LaSrCuO films synthesized at Brookhaven Lab. In films with a critical temperature of 26 degrees Kelvin (the threshold beyond which the superconductivity breaks down), the researchers discovered two new short-lived excitationsboth caused by fluctuating CDWs.
Gedik's technique even allowed the researchers to record the lifetime of CDW fluctuationsjust 2 picoseconds (a millionth of a millionth of a second) under the coldest conditions and becoming briefer as the temperatures rose. These waves then vanished entirely at about 100 Kelvin, actually surviving at much higher temperatures than superconductivity.
Ruling out a Suspect
The researchers then hunted for those same signatures in cuprate films with slightly different chemical compositions and a greater density of mobile electrons. The results were both unexpected and significant for the future of HTS research.
"Interestingly, the superconducting sample with the highest critical temperature, about 39 Kelvin, showed no CDW signatures at all," Gedik said.
The consistent emergence of CDWs would have bolstered the conjecture that they play an essential role in high-temperature superconductivity. Instead, the new technique's successful detection of such electron waves in one sample but not in another (with even higher critical temperature) indicates that another mechanism must be driving the emergence of HTS.
"Results like this bring us closer to understanding the mystery of HTS, considered by many to be one of the greatest problems in physics today," Bozovic said. "The source of this extraordinary phenomenon is slowly but surely running out of places to hide."
###
Additional collaborators on this research include Darrius Torchinsky and Fahad Mahmood of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Bollinger of Brookhaven National Lab.
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation and DOE's Office of Science.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.
One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers.
Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.
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MIT and Brookhaven Lab physicists measure fleeting electron waves to uncover the elusive mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity
UPTON, NY Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electric current to pass with perfect efficiency through materials chilled to subzero temperatures, and it may play an essential role in revolutionizing the entire electricity chain, from generation to transmission and grid-scale storage. Pinning down one of the possible explanations for HTSfleeting fluctuations called charge-density waves (CDWs)could help solve the mystery and pave the way for rapid technological advances.
Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have combined two state-of-the-art experimental techniques to study those electron waves with unprecedented precision in two-dimensional, custom-grown materials. The surprising results, published online February 24, 2013, in the journal Nature Materials, reveal that CDWs cannot be the root cause of the unparalleled power conveyance in HTS materials. In fact, CDW formation is an independent and likely competing instability.
"It has been difficult to determine whether or not dynamic or fluctuating CDWs even exist in HTS materials, much less identify their role," said Brookhaven Lab physicist and study coauthor Ivan Bozovic. "Do they compete with the HTS state, or are they perhaps the very essence of the phenomenon? That question has now been answered by targeted experimentation."
Custom-grown Superconductors
Electricity travels imperfectly through traditional metallic conductors, losing energy as heat due to a kind of atomic-scale friction. Impurities in these materials also cause electrons to scatter and stumble, but superconductors can overcome this hurdleassuming the synthesis process is precise.
For this experiment, Bozovic used a custom-built molecular beam epitaxy system at Brookhaven Lab to grow thin films of LaSrCuO, an HTS cuprate (copper-oxide) compound. The metallic cuprates, assembled one atomic layer at a time, are separated by insulating planes of lanthanum and strontium oxides, resulting in what's called a quasi-two-dimensional conductor. When cooled down to a low enough temperatureless than 100 degrees Kelvinstrange electron waves began to ripple through that 2D matrix. At even lower temperatures, these films became superconducting.
Electron Sea
"In quasi-two-dimensional metals, low temperatures frequently bring about interesting collective states called charge-density waves," Bozovic said. "They resemble waves rolling across the surface of a lake under a breeze, except that instead of water, here we actually have a sea of mobile electrons."
Once a CDW forms, the electron density loses uniformity as the ripples rise and fall. These waves can be described by familiar parameters: amplitude (height of the waves), wavelength (distance between waves), and phase (the wave's position on the material). Detecting CDWs typically requires high-intensity x-rays, such as those provided by synchrotron light sources like Brookhaven's NSLS and, soon, NSLS-II. And even then, the technique only works if the waves are essentially frozen upon formation. However, if CDWs actually fluctuate rapidly, they may escape detection by x-ray diffraction, which typically requires a long exposure time that blurs fast motion.
Measuring Rolling Waves
To catch CDWs in action, a research group at MIT led by physicist Nuh Gedik used an advanced ultrafast spectroscopy technique. Intense laser pulses called "pumps" cause excitations in the superconducting films, which are then probed by measuring the film reflectance with a second light pulsethis is called a pump-probe process. The second pulse is delayed by precise time intervals, and the series of measurements allow the lifetime of the excitation to be determined.
In a more sophisticated variant of the technique, largely pioneered by Gedik, the standard single pump beam is replaced by two beams hitting the surface from different sides simultaneously. This generates a standing wave of controlled wavelength in the film, but it disappears rapidly as the electrons relax back into their original state.
This technique was applied to the atomically perfect LaSrCuO films synthesized at Brookhaven Lab. In films with a critical temperature of 26 degrees Kelvin (the threshold beyond which the superconductivity breaks down), the researchers discovered two new short-lived excitationsboth caused by fluctuating CDWs.
Gedik's technique even allowed the researchers to record the lifetime of CDW fluctuationsjust 2 picoseconds (a millionth of a millionth of a second) under the coldest conditions and becoming briefer as the temperatures rose. These waves then vanished entirely at about 100 Kelvin, actually surviving at much higher temperatures than superconductivity.
Ruling out a Suspect
The researchers then hunted for those same signatures in cuprate films with slightly different chemical compositions and a greater density of mobile electrons. The results were both unexpected and significant for the future of HTS research.
"Interestingly, the superconducting sample with the highest critical temperature, about 39 Kelvin, showed no CDW signatures at all," Gedik said.
The consistent emergence of CDWs would have bolstered the conjecture that they play an essential role in high-temperature superconductivity. Instead, the new technique's successful detection of such electron waves in one sample but not in another (with even higher critical temperature) indicates that another mechanism must be driving the emergence of HTS.
"Results like this bring us closer to understanding the mystery of HTS, considered by many to be one of the greatest problems in physics today," Bozovic said. "The source of this extraordinary phenomenon is slowly but surely running out of places to hide."
###
Additional collaborators on this research include Darrius Torchinsky and Fahad Mahmood of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Bollinger of Brookhaven National Lab.
The work was funded by the National Science Foundation and DOE's Office of Science.
DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.
One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers.
Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE's Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.
Visit Brookhaven Lab's electronic newsroom for links, news archives, graphics, and more or follow Brookhaven Lab on Twitter.
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Jane Lynch to host NBC's 'Hollywood Game Night'
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? NBC is launching a celebrity game show with Jane Lynch as host.
The network said Friday that it ordered eight episodes of "Hollywood Game Night" from producer-actor Sean Hayes.
The network says the former "Will & Grace" actor is basing the show on his own "game nights." NBC says the new series will mix celebrities with regular folks who have the chance to compete for money.
Lynch already stars in Fox's "Glee," and she's also set to make her Broadway debut in May in a revival of "Annie."
NBC says "Hollywood Game Night" is planned for late summer but no air date has been set.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/jane-lynch-host-nbcs-hollywood-game-night-232625052.html
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Iran says it has captured a foreign 'enemy drone'
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday that it had captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in southern Iran.
Gen. Hamid Sarkheili, a spokesman for the military exercise, said the Guard's electronic warfare unit spotted signals indicating that foreign drones were trying to enter Iranian airspace. Sarkheili said Guard experts took control of one drone's navigation system and brought it down near the city of Sirjan where the military drills began on Saturday.
"While probing signals in the area, we spotted foreign and enemy drones which attempted to enter the area of the war game," the official IRNA news agency quoted the general as saying. "We were able to get one enemy drone to land."
Sarkheili did not say whether the drone was American.
In Washington, a CIA spokeswoman declined to comment on the report.
Iran has claimed to have captured several U.S. drones, including an advanced RQ-170 Sentinel CIA spy drone in December 2011 and at least three ScanEagle aircraft.
State TV said the Guard's military exercise, code-named Great Prophet-8, involved ground forces of the Guard, Iran's most powerful military force. State TV showed tanks and artillery attacking hypothetical enemy positions. He said various systems, including unmanned planes that operate like suicide bombers, were tested.
"Reconnaissance as well as suicide drones, which are capable of attacking the hypothetical enemies, were deployed and their operational capabilities were studied," the semi-official Fars news agency quoted him as saying.
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Associated Press writer Thomas Strong in Washington contributed to this report.
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Fire That Caused Third-Degree Burns to Cancer Survivor Triggered by Unusual Mixture
The fire that caused second and third degree burns to an 11-year old cancer survivor in the US was triggered by an 'unusual mixture' of static electricity, olive oil and hand sanitizer.
Stephen Lane revealed that his daughter Ireland Lane, who was a patient at the Oregon Health & Science University's Doernbecher Children's Hospital, had used an ethyl alcohol-based hand sanitizer which she may have wiped on her t-shirt and the bedside table.
The doctors also found presence of olive oil in her hair and on her t-shirt and the report said that the combination of the two along with static electricity caused the fire. Ireland suffered second and third degree burns on 19 percent of her body.
Dr Stacy Nicholson said that the hospital is no longer encouraging the use of olive oil to remove EEG electrodes on patients who are allergic to the gel remover. "We are no longer suggesting the use of olive oil for patients who have an allergic reaction to EEG gel remover. In addition, while our placement and use of hand sanitizer meets industry standards, we plan to review our procedures to see if there are any additional adjustments we can make to promote safety", she said.
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RBS seen planning Citizens Financial IPO
(Reuters) - The Royal Bank of Scotland
A full sale of Providence, Rhode Island-based Citizens could raise more than 8 billion pounds ($12.21 billion) for Britain's largest state-backed lender, which has been under pressure from regulators to strengthen its balance sheet.
RBS was expected to announce a plan to move forward with the IPO when it reports full-year results on Thursday, the newspaper said, citing an unnamed source familiar with the plan.
RBS may aim to spin off up to a 25 percent stake in the next two years, but the bank would also entertain offers from buyers looking for a full stake. Canada's TD Bank was one potential buyer, the paper said.
The RBS board has secured the support of both the Financial Services Authority and UK Financial Investments, which manages the taxpayers' 82 percent stake in RBS.
An RBS spokesman contacted by Reuters declined to comment.
(This story is corrected with potential value of sale to 8 billion pounds from $8 million)
(Reporting by Karl Plume in Chicago; Editing by Vicki Allen)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rbs-seen-planning-citizens-financial-ipo-183801933--finance.html
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Saturday, February 23, 2013
NFL Draft Question
I'm flying from Orlando to NYC to see the draft during day one.
My flight lands in Newark, NJ at 6pm the night before.
I read last year fans that wanted to attend had to get tickets the night before.
Does anyone have any information on ticket info or how long the lines were while waiting to pick up a ticket?
Anyone else going??
Go Bills.
Source: http://boards.buffalobills.com/showthread.php?454195-NFL-Draft-Question&goto=newpost
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GOP House panel chairman will consider gun bills
WASHINGTON ?
The Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Friday that he's interested in writing legislation this year improving background checks for gun buyers and cracking down on illegal firearms sales.
In an interview, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., provided little detail about his plans. But he said the federal background check system should be fixed to make sure more people with serious mental illnesses don't get firearms.
Criminals and people with significant mental problems are among those barred by federal law from buying guns. States are supposed to supply the federal background check system with purchasers' mental health records, but often they do not because of privacy rules and other barriers.
"We want to improve that system to try to screen out people who should not be able to possess firearms," Goodlatte said.
Until now, House GOP leaders have only said they will wait to act until the Democratic-run Senate produces legislation. The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., could begin writing its own gun curb measure in the next week or two.
Goodlatte did not say when his panel might write legislation, but he said he would not necessarily wait for the Senate to pass legislation.
President Barack Obama has proposed near-universal background checks. Currently, the checks are only required for purchases from federally licensed gun dealers, not sales between private individuals at gun shows, online or elsewhere.
Goodlatte said his legislation would be unlikely to require private background checks for private gun sales between people.
Obama also wants to ban assault weapons and ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds. Goodlatte said he opposes those ideas.
Goodlatte did not say when his panel might write legislation. His comments that the House would begin acting on gun legislation were first reported by Roll Call, a newspaper that covers Congress.
Details remain unclear about the mental health of Adam Lanza, who shot 26 people to death at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December. But shooters in some recent mass shootings have been afflicted with mental problems, including those involved in the Virginia Tech killings in 2007 and the 2011 Tucson attack that killed six people and wounded 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.
As other congressional Republicans have done, Goodlatte also complained that current gun laws are not being enforced sufficiently. He and other GOP members of the Judiciary Committee wrote letters Friday to Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, asking for data on federal firearms prosecutions for the past 11 years.
Source: http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2020414976_apusguncontrolhouse.html?syndication=rss
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Full federal appeals court hears arguments in ?I (Heart) Boobies!? bracelets case
A lawsuit involving a middle school?s ban on breast cancer awareness bracelets that bear the slogan ?I (Heart) Boobies!? got its day in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
To the chagrin of officials at Easton Area Middle School, 15-year-old Brianna Hawk and 14-year-old Kayla Martinez defied a previously-imposed ban and wore the bracelets ? distributed by the Keep A Breast Foundation ? on school premises in 2010. The female students say they only wanted to show their support for breast cancer awareness.
School officials responded by suspending the students for a day and a half and prohibiting their attendance at a school dance.
The school district describes the case as a dress-code issue and a matter of too much double entendre, explains The Express-Times of Easton. The students, through their attorneys at the American Civil Liberties Union, call it an issue of constitutionally-protected free speech.
In April 2011, Judge Mary McLaughlin of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania sided with the students, issuing a preliminary injunction against their punishment.
The school district appealed, leading to a hearing before the entire appellate court. Attorneys for the school district and the ACLU made their cases to 14 judges in two half-hour chunks.
Easton Area School District solicitor John Freund argued that the lower court?s injunction should be overturned because school officials are in the best position to know what is likely to cause disruptions.
The previously-instituted ban is a straightforward way to ?encourage decorum in schools and preserve the civility of discussion in the classroom,? Freund said, according to The Express-Times.
Freund recited the story of a teacher who had to pause in class because there was too much distracting chuckling when she read a poem that included the word ?breast.? He also noted that a male student who had heard about the bracelets professed to a female student, ?I heart your boobies.?
Mary Catherine Roper, an attorney for the ACLU who represents the two bracelet-wearing teens, argued that the word ?boobies? is harmless. ?This is a word these girls use with their grandmothers,? she said, according to The Express-Times.
Roper also suggested that the bracelets promote a valid social purpose.?
The ACLU attorney charged that school officials had conveniently changed their objection to the bracelets. The initial problem with the bracelets was their ?cutesy? nature. Only later did sexual meaning become an issue.
Roper told TheDC that the school district seems to view middle school boys as incorrigibly childish and essentially impossible to manage.
?The school district has this fixation that boys can?t handle anything,? she said. ?The school district attorney talks about this boiling cauldron of hormones that happens to be in seventh and eighth grade.?
According to Roper, middle school officials have suggested that the bracelets were the cause of some groping by some middle-school boys. However, she notes, school officials testified in their depositions ? under oath ? that there was no groping.
The Daily Caller was unable to reach anyone representing the school district.
The grown men and women in the crowded courtroom couldn?t keep their composure upon hearing about the word boobies appearing at a junior high school, notes The Express-Times. The judges were not as amused, though, a fact which may not bode well for the school district.
Judge Dolores Sloviter said she doesn?t view ?I (Heart) Boobies!? as sexual and noted that one of her colleague had succumbed to breast cancer, Philly.com reports.
?I don?t find the sexual meaning in the word ?boobies,?? agreed Chief Judge Theodore McKee, according to The Express-Times.
McKee was reportedly annoyed at one point when Freund and the audience laughed about a particular booby-related comment. He told Freund the bracelet-wearing students wanted to ?remove the stigma of breasts that you seem to be reading into the message. I suggest your chuckle is less mature than the conduct of these kids here.?
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Nationwide cancer study enrollment to take place in Savannah
Residents of the Coastal Empire & Lowcountry have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a historic study that has the potential to change the face of cancer for future generations. During the week of February 26-March 1 the American Cancer Society is asking men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer to participate in the American Cancer Society?s Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3).
Men and women who are willing to commit to the study must be between the ages of 30 and 65 and never have been diagnosed with cancer. To enroll, individuals provide a waist measurement, give a small blood sample and complete and complete a baseline and enrollment survey. Over the course of the study, participants will be asked to fill out follow-up surveys every few years for the next 20-30 years (total time commitment over 20-30 years, approx. 8 hours)
The goal is to enroll at least 400 participants in Savannah, the Coastal Empire and Low country during the week of February 26-March 1.
Enrollments will take place the following dates & times:
Savannah Civic Center
301 West Oglethorpe Ave.,
Wednesday, February 27
11 a.m.-3 p.m.
West Chatham YMCA
165 Issac G La Roache Dr., Pooler
Thursday, February 28
3-7 p.m.
Habersham YMCA
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Tuesday, February 26
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Friday, March 1
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For more information or to learn how to become involved with CPS-3 in Savannah, go to www.cps3savannah.com, email amy.riesinger@cancer.org or call 912-355-5196. Appointments available at www.cps3savannah.com
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Mark Hamill Comments on Star Wars Rumors
In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Mark Hamill spoke at length regarding his involvement with Star Wars: Episode VII.? Yesterday, Showbiz 411 reported that Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford were all set to return, although an earlier report said a deal with Ford wouldn?t be closed for weeks or possibly months.? In this case, it?s best to go straight to the source, and Hamill confirmed his earlier comments that George Lucas wanted to know if they were interested, and that the filmmakers have been talking to them.? Lucas also told Hamill that if they didn?t want to do the sequels, ?they wouldn?t cast another actor in our parts; they would write us out.?? And on that day, George Lucas finally did something right again.? Hamill went on to say, ?I can tell you right away that we haven?t signed any contracts. We?re in the stage where they want us to go in and meet with Michael Arndt, who is the writer, and Kathleen Kennedy, who is going to run Lucasfilm.?? Hamill added ?Both have had meetings set that were postponed ? on their end, not mine. They?re more busy than I am.?
Hit the jump for much more including what Hamill assumes will happen with the characters, other actors he?d like to see return, and the visual style of the sequels.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight [via CS], Hamill strongly hinted at how Luke will be depicted in the sequel:
?I?m assuming?because I haven?t talked to the writers?that these movies would be about our offspring, like my character would be sort of in the Obi-wan range [as] an influential character. When I found out [while making the original trilogy] that ultimate good news/bad news joke the good news is there?s a real attractive, hot girl in the universe; the bad news is she?s your sister.? I thought, ?Well, I?m going to wind up like Sir Alec [Guinness]. I?m going to be a lonely old hermit living out in some kind of desert igloo with a couple of robots.??
Of course, Obi-wan was in a self-imposed exile, but since the Empire was defeated at the end of Return of the Jedi, I don?t see why Luke would have to live out in a desert igloo with droids.
However, it sounds like Hamill would prefer if the new movies wouldn?t be quite so dark:
?I said to George that I wanted to go back to the way it was, in the sense that ours was much more carefree and lighthearted and humorous, in my opinion, anyway?.hope they find the right balance of CGI with practical effects. I love props, I love models, miniatures, matte paintings ? I?m sort of old school. I think if you go too far in the direction of CGI it winds up looking like just a giant a video game, and that?s unfortunate. If they listen to me at all, it?ll be, ?Lighten up and go retro with the way it looks.??
I think plenty of fans agree with Hamill, but that approach seems unlikely since the demands of what moviegoers want in terms of spectacle can only be served with massive amounts of CGI even though the original trilogy holds up perfectly fine.? Hopefully, they find the ?right balance of CGI and practical effects? rather than the green-screen heavy world of the prequels.
Hamill would also prefer some throwbacks in terms of bringing back more than Luke, Leia, and Han Solo:
?Another thing I?d want to make sure of is are we going to have the whole gang back? Is Carrie and Harrison and Billy Dee [Lando Calrissian] and Tony Daniels [C-3PO], everybody that?s around from the original [returning]? I want to make sure that everybody?s on board here, rather than just one.?
That?s a very thoughtful sentiment, although I think once you get past Luke, Leia, and Han Solo, it may be tougher to bring back outside characters in terms of where they would fit into the story.? Perhaps past the point of Luke, Leia, and Han, you have old supporting characters reduced to cameos in order to make way for the new characters.
Michael Arndt is working on the pic?s screenplay as we speak, and once Star Trek Into Darkness opens in May, Abrams will be able to devote his full attention to Star Wars for the next 2-3 years. As such, we should be hearing some more solid information regarding Star Warslater this summer.
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