Part 2 of our 4 part series on the X-Men franchise and its impact on comics and the film industry.
X-Men came out in 2000. The following years saw an industry explosion of Marvel films produced by a variety of studios.
As a result of this market leader proving that superhero films were beyond viable but in fact highly profitable, the field diversifies and the X-Men franchise starts to be enthralled by the mania it has created. Warner Bros, the parent company of DC Comics, was still reeling from Batman and Robin and therefore unwilling to open the floor to films of its comics. In the mean time, the Marvel films cleaned up. The second outing for the X-Men in 2003 (depending on your region either X-Men 2 or X2: X-Men United) exhibits the ascendancy of the genre, with its bigger budget, scale, and production values. Investment was up and now there were rivals to fight off, particularly Sony's slightly more child appropriate Spiderman films which were faring even better than Singer's films. The early 2000s were in many ways the brief heyday, and the X-Men franchise, though not the market leader, was a safe cash cow.
Superman Returns directly impacted X-Men III: The Last Stand (again, some variation on the regional names) by sniping franchise helmsman Bryan Singer to direct. Studios needed big name directors to guard their investments. The property that spawned the hype would now be scarred by it. The demand for more and more of this type of content led a major artistic voice behind the franchise leave and be replaced by Brett Ratner – a director much less interested in the thematic intricacies that Singer had woven into his films. Ratner was incapable of, or at least unwilling to, match the serious tone, opting instead for crass campy humour. X-Men III does not simply act as a symbol of the harmful saturation of the blockbuster market that was already taking place. It was a victim of an increasingly ravenous industry but it was also hamstrung by a particular product that it would later be usurped by: the reboot.
Up to this point, the approach of the superhero franchises was to have direct sequels, and above all, the neat trilogy. But we were six years into the phenomenon and these trilogies were drawing to a close, and that meant no continued revenue. But Warner Bros don't make Superman V (following on from the much older Christopher Reeves films) nor do they reboot the film series from scratch: Superman Returns retcons Superman III and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and instead hops backward to presume that it immediately follows Superman II (a much better-regarded film than its sequels). This idea of non-sequential films that could hop about the timeline of the overall canon provided opportunities. And with the poor performance of X-Men III, Fox were eager to distance themselves from their last dud while still exploiting the property recognition of the franchise.
Hence we get the next prospect, the subseries of the 'X-Men Origins' films. Going into production first was the prequel of the series protagonist Wolverine, and next up was to be the origin of main villain Magneto. But as these projects begin development, the next big year for the industry occurs: 2008. This is the year of The Dark Knight (which would go on to gross over $1 billion internationally) and Iron Man. As a result of the former's epic box office performance, investment into superhero blockbusters goes into overdrive and the idea that upper film certifications will diminish revenue begins to hold less weight. Because Iron Man was able to out-perform all but Batman in its first outing, with initially limited brand recognition, suddenly the ability to mine comic history to source obscure but potentially lucrative characters was essential. If the new Marvel Studios could rival the established studios with their first film and they had the rights to EVERY single character they had never signed away in perpetuity, then they would prove a big threat. And then there was the internet.
The internet had, of course, been around and a major force before 2008, but it wasn't until this period that the film industry understood what a force it could be within the comics fandom and how that could spin out into self-generating film publicity. Even X-Men (2000) had allusions to obscure or not immediately relevant content in the comic, but with Marvel Studios steadily gearing up for The Avengers, suddenly the internet became a tool to inspire hype as studios laid clues. Speculation would be rabid. Who would be appearing in the next film? If this character was present, did that mean they were doing that storyline? On top of the move towards non-linear series building, the internet community allowed accessibility and viability to increasingly complex branching narratives of films that reflected the, at times, rather impenetrable nature of the comics. With Marvel Studios actively exploiting this, with their mission statement at the end of Iron Man to make an Avengers film, Fox had lost the initiative. It was time to follow suit leading to the next era of the X-Men films.
You can read Part 1 of this series here. Check back next Friday for Part 3.


Have you recently been living by any life philosophy? It usually works out in the end. What will baffle future generations about our day and age? Going from Obama to Trump. Racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia. Paying for health care and education. What is it that interests you about photography? Beyond the science of it (film specifically — which still baffles me), being able to take something real and truthful already in existence and completely subverting it without needing to make it from scratch, like with a painting or sculpture. What is the worst thing about city life? How expensive everything is. What part of the planet would you like to explore? The whole thing, but my top spots are Thailand and Japan. What do you think is the most plausible of the supernatural? Are psychics, tarot cards and astrology considered supernatural? I haven't really gotten too much into any of these but am intrigued by them and think there could be *some* truth there. If you had to align yourself with a leader in history, who would it be? Malcolm X.
Pick a field of science to be an expert within. Neuroscience. What moment have you most wished you'd had a camera when you hadn't? I have way too many of these moments to pick one — it's the worst. Choose a job you would be willing to do for free on the side. Food critic. How often do you take other people's advice? I ask my girlfriend for her advice everyday and usually take it. Describe a personal hell. Never being allowed to listen to music for the rest of my life. Losing my vision. Having my heart broken. Which living person do you most admire? Celine Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. On what occasion do you lie? When I have to give my name to a cashier. I've had someone write and pronounce my name as Lyayel once. I usually just get Elle. What was the last crime you witnessed? Today when I drove without a drivers license to get some pizza on the beach. What is the best way to educate yourself? Books, documentaries, podcasts, conversations. What is the next book you want to read? Swing Time by Zadie Smith, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, The Mothers by Britt Bennett. Ultimate camera? Pentax 645Z medium format DSLR. Most used camera? 4×5 Crown Graphex. What object do you want? Comme de Garcons multicolor wallet. What object do you need? A digital camera, badly.
Are you satisfied with your level of physical strength? I could probably choke someone with my thighs and my calves look like I have been working on them for a decade, even though I have no idea how they got that way — maybe my youthful soccer days? My arms could be more brolic. Describe a cheap thrill. When I get to pick up film from the lab after it's been processed. Pick an historic moment from the last hundred years to bring a camera to. Fall of the Berlin Wall. Are impulses more important than consequences? I've gotten in trouble too many times for thinking this way (or not thinking, rather), so at this point in my life I would say no. Which talent would you most like to have? I would love to play an instrument REALLY well. I would also love to fly a plane. What is your plan for the next 24 hours? Being on a plane from Israel to New York with a layover in Istanbul. I was working on a photo project and visiting family.
Yael Malka (b. 1990) is a native New Yorker and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. See more of her work: Website / Instagram.


If you follow the instructions in Creating an Application, you will end up with a working application. Those steps are designed so that you can see each piece working one at a time. The starter kits provide a more complete developer experience. But if something goes wrong, they might be harder to diagnose.
First, pick your language. Then, pick your front-end framework. Finally, export the repository. If you have Subversion installed, you can do that in a single line. Otherwise, you will need to download it via the GitHub repository page.


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Fuelling Future Famines
From the carbon sense coalition - couldn't have said it better:
This generation of pampered westerners is the first tribe in the history of the world that seems determined to destroy its ability to produce food.
The history of the human race has always been a battle for protein in the face of the continual challenge of natural climate change. Nothing has changed for this generation, except the wildfire spread of a destructive new religion that requires the sacrifice of food producers on a global warming altar.
Food creation needs solar energy, land, carbon dioxide and water. All four food resources are under threat.
Eons ago, long before ancient humans learned to use the magic warmth locked in coal, millions of woolly mammoths were snap frozen in the icy wastes of Siberia. They are still being dug out of the ice today.
That means, of course, it was warmer just before the mammoths were frozen than it is today. How fast the weather can cool if conditions are right! As I showed before, we are overdue for the next ice age.
Answer to 'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment'
Ron House December 7, 2009
So 56 newspapers are putting up a common editorial pushing the climate hoax. Are these editors: (1) too lazy to investigate the facts for themselves, and/or (2) too incompetent to do so and see the dripping evidence of fraud and political and financial manipulation cloying to this issue like thick red mud, and/or (3) one of the hoaxsters, who knows that the truth is that reducing CO2 emissions will cost lives in reduced food production as well as put endangered species in peril as their wild areas are converted to foodmaking by famished human beings? In other words, are they lazy, stupid, or evil? There is one other possibility, which I'll get to at the end, so without further ado, here is the entirety of their nonsense, with a few comments from me to the 56 editors.
'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'
Today 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial.
Newsflash: Truth is not decided by majority rule, nor by authority.
We do so because humanity faces a profound emergency.
Yes. The proposed Copenhagen treaty establishes an unelected, socialist government in all but name, with the power to tax every transaction in the western democracies. It will reduce the output of carbon dioxide plantfood, thereby starving humans and animals. This treaty must be defeated. From Lord Monckton's speech about the treaty:
"I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word "government" actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, "climate debt" – because we've been burning CO2 and they haven't. We've been screwing up the climate and they haven't. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.
"How many of you think that the word "election" or "democracy" or "vote" or "ballot" occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn't appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He's going to sign it. He'll sign anything."
Unless we combine to take decisive action, climate change will ravage our planet, and with it our prosperity and security. The dangers have been becoming apparent for a generation. Now the facts have started to speak: 11 of the past 14 years have been the warmest on record, the Arctic ice-cap is melting and last year's inflamed oil and food prices provide a foretaste of future havoc. In scientific journals the question is no longer whether humans are to blame, but how little time we have got left to limit the damage. Yet so far the world's response has been feeble and half-hearted.
A generation ago the lamestream media were telling us that there would be an ice age. Actually that was closer to the truth than your current alarmism, but in neither case was the lamestream opinion based on sound science. The Arctic icecap is actually freezing rapidly as we head into the northern winter, but taking the above misleading remark as a reference to the yearly meltback, the Arctic icecap is almost all the way back to the mean, having increased dramatically for each of the past two years [and notice, readers, how the Antarctic, doing well, is neatly forgotten]. So in what sense is it "melting"? It isn't melting right now, it is freezing. It isn't melting compared to last year, it is growing: 2008 was 10.6% more than 2007, and 2009 was 23.4% more than 2007. Editors, your statement is a lie pure and simple. Nextly, inflamed food prices can be directly traced to conversion of food crops to biofuel. What do you fools editors think will happen when you take a great chunk of the world's food off the food market? And we now know, thanks to climategate, that the insiders have been 'fixing' the peer-reviewed literature, thus making the record found in 'scientific' journals worthless from the point of view of a lay person simply looking for something to trust. It cannot be trusted, period!
"Climate Change": understanding an evil religion
The evidence is coming out that "climate change" is not merely a description of an ongoing process in the life of our planet, but a new religious phenomenon. In an article in New Scientist one of its "professors" comes out of the closet and tells us as much:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has constructed a powerful scientific consensus about the physical transformation of the world's climate. ... One way I [make sense of what climate change actually means] is to rethink our discourses about climate change in terms of four enduring myths. ... The value in identifying these mythical stories in our discourses about climate change is that they allow us to see climate change not as simply an environmental problem to be solved, but as an idea that is being mobilised in various ways around the world. ...
The world's climates will keep on changing, with human influences now inextricably entangled with those of nature. So too will the idea of climate change keep changing as we find new ways of using it to meet our needs. We will continue to create and tell new stories about climate change and mobilise these stories in support of our projects. Whereas a modernist reading of climate may once have regarded it as merely a physical condition for human action, we must now come to terms with climate change operating simultaneously as an overlying, but more fluid, imaginative condition of human existence.
This is from one Mike Hulme, professor of climate change at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. The UEA clearly needs to ask itself whether it is funding a professor of science or a professor of his own non-theistic religion. There's lots of disturbing stuff in the complete article - please do read it. But let's look at the short pieces above and ponder.
Sentence one is classic PC/postmodernist/anti-science obscurantism. Leave aside the fact that science can not and should not work by consensus. For those who haven't followed this stuff, "construction of reality" is a required tenet of the false postmodernist religion: the truth is not out there; we all make up our own 'truths', no one's 'truth' is any better than anyone else's 'truth'; he who believes the Sun rises because the Earth is rotating daily is no more correct than he who believes it rises because the morning chant was correctly intoned by the priests. Harsh? I don't think so. Only space and time prevent giving any number of examples. Here's how it works: first you convince yourself that 'truth' is whatever you choose to believe; then, a sufficient number of people choose to believe the prognostications (the "truth") of the committee of high priests (in this case, the IPCC) - who were busy planning out how to deal with global warming before they had established that there was any (see Plimer's Heaven and Earth amongst many other places). There's your consensus, and it is a "scientific" consensus because we all believe that it is (it is our 'personal truth'). Sad, but that is how the widespread psychological malfunction which I call the false religion operates.
Leader Worship and the Rush to Destruction
Those who have taken a look at the background materials on this site will know that one of the dangers I see threatening humanity is a widespread psychological malfunction I have called the false religion. This isn't a religion in the old sense, it has no personal god, it isn't an overt competitor with other religions. Indeed, believers in normal religions often are also believers in the core doctrines of the false religion. In fact, because we are immersed in the false religion from birth (it having now taken over as the unofficial religion of the state), we all probably have been suckered by one or another of its beliefs, even if we saw through most of them and even if we later wised up when we looked closely at the evidence.
Perhaps Jung understood it in talking about an expansion of the ego - a belief that the individual, or the human species, has infinitely perfectible nature and powers, instead of being limited, as are all creatures, by the restrictions of our evolution, our environment, and our instincts. The framers of the American Constitution also understood it when they designed a structure that could work in spite of human frailty, rather than gambling on a mass spiritual transformation. So it clearly is a mistake to think the false religion has a single, identifiable manifestation. Human hopes and dreams can outrun reality in a thousand different ways - and how hard it is to reign them in when they are framed in words that uplift the heart and enthuse the spirit, even as they guarantee that the hopes must end in disappointment and tragedy. The false dream can infect any group or any organisation, and it does infect many, all at once. Over the top? Too alarmist? The following video was put together by a black person, Kevin Jackson of theblacksphere.net, so if you want to accuse me of racism for the following, please don't bother. It scares me, and it should scare you too.
End of the line for The Royal Society?
Ron House September 1, 2009
If the poor Brits don't have it bad enough with their loopy Met Office, now the supposed bastion of careful thinking and good science, The Royal Society, goes completely off the rails. They want to spray pollution (real pollution, not carbon dioxide plant food) into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet:
Once in a World-Time...
Four and a half billion years... half way through the lifetime of a planet... for some of that time molten and dead from bombardment in the early formation of the solar system... for most of the remainder inhabited only by single-celled life forms. And for a 'mere' half billion years, a flourishing of plants and animals. Then at last, for the merest flicker of geological time, there are human beings. How very long it took until a tool-making, syntactic language-using, self-reflecting species arose—for the first time and (for all we know) the only time in the entire galaxy.
But life on Earth is dangerous. Mass extinctions can happen slowly through geological changes that cause vulcanism and planetary cooling, or quickly through a collision with a meteorite. A nearby star could become a supernova. At least twice in its long lifetime, Earth has been frozen solid or nearly solid all the way to the equator—the sort of ice age which, if it happened now, would exterminate all multicellular life. Bacteria would once again be the only life forms. By the greatest of good fortune, our planet has survived until it is within reach of safety from cosmic disasters: its latest creation, ourselves, is slowly maturing in its capacity to develop the means to safeguard the planet for all life.
alien life
The Love of Truth
It is a sad fact, I suspect, that we are in a very tiny minority, those of us who love truth and are prepared to seek it no matter how it disturbs our comfort zone.

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CHAL (rising tide in local language* near Saint Malo) has been created in 1975 by a couple of sailing boat fans who followed their boat in Saint-Malo.
In 1976, CHAL loisirs shop opened within the walls of the old city of St Malo (intra-muros), with a speciality in quality nautical clothing and equiped numbers of competitors of the firsts "courses du Rhum" between Saint-Malo and Pointe à Pitre in the french west indies.
In 2001 the family company left the traditional boutique to work online only.
CHAL grows year after year with a wider range of quality nautical clothes.
- the update (at last) of our internet online store.
More and more of our customers used to coming to see us in order to see things by themselves and were received in the old barn transformed into a micro-shop.
This is why we have opened a boutique " LA MER QUI DECHALE..." (ebb tide) à Chateauneuf ( 35430 ) 10km from St.Malo (at the crossing of the 2 four-carriage ways Rennes/St.Malo bretagneboutique2.com and Mont St.Michel/Dinan since 2016.
To update our online store, bretagneboutique2.com , will allow you to have a better visibility of products showing a wide range of selected Quality products of nautical style, full of colors and with a lot of different shapes and accessories for women, men and kids.
We wish you a pleasant visit of our shop.
* All brittany was not Gaelic speaking. Gaelic spread as far as St.Brieuc and Dinan, but further east, Saint Malo and Rennes areas used to speaking a local language (patois in French) called GALLO which was half french.


We continue on from Shi Wasu in Japan.
The American Holiday Table returns to the far right side of the United States Pavilion.
The Slow-roasted Turkey and Pecan Tart return from last year with the Hand-carved Smoked Ham replacing last year's Seared Pork Tenderloin and with the addition of the Green and White Sugar Cookie. Each of the beers return from last year, while AMERICAN HERITAGE® takes over for Nestle on the Hot Cocoa Front.
This hits all of the high points of the traditional Thanksgiving meal and everything tastes wholesome and comforting. The cranberry has a nice tang to it and the turkey is juicy and flavorful. The pillow-y dressing stuffing does a nice job of soaking up all of the flavors, in addition to adding some onion and spices to the mix. The green beans were an improvement over the past couple of years, prepared to a nice al dente and slathered in butter and pepper.
I would say that I was disappointed by the amount of cranberry sauce that we were served this year. Above is last year's dish. That may be a luck/personal preference thing, though.
My apologies on the photography front as while the American Holiday Kitchen is smack dab in the middle of the World Showcase, it was also the last booth we visited that day and I was not in the mood to get any more artsy than absolutely necessary. Since it's smoked, the ham is a little more grey than I'm used to seeing on the Thanksgiving/Christmas table personally, but the meat is salty, tender, and flavorful underneath the light gravy. I'm not ordinarily a sweet-potato-guy, but the Casserole here was sweet and complex with nutmeg and cinnamon and topped with several deliciously crunchy, candied pecans. There are a couple of more Green Beans in there for good measure. Overall, this is another smart comfort-food favorite if you're in the market for such things. There are "more interesting" items you could order, but it's hard to look past how well the Ham and Turkey dishes are executed.
The tart is flavorful with a distinct nutty quality backed up with a crispy crust and topped with a decadent caramel sauce and a fluffy flurry of canned whipped cream. It's relatively large as well, making it a great value.
Holiday Beer Flight – $9.50 with Orange Blossom Brewing Cranberry Kringle Pilsner, Shipyard Eggnog White Porter, and JDub's Season's Greetings Peppermint Milk Stout.
This flight actually brings some interesting flavors for once, which isn't something that we often see from Epcot Festivals. The Shipyard Eggnog is a really creamy beer with a murky, milky mouthfeel. It's not at all to my tastes, but in a 4-ounce sample cup, you don't have a lot to lose. The Cranberry Pilsner is the most drinkable of the bunch with a bit of a fruity, sour flavor up front and a clean finish. The JDub's Peppermint Stout has a robust coffee flavor backed up by a hint of peppermint, but has a really thin mouthfeel that may or may not be to your liking. Overall, this is one of the more obscure beer flights that Epcot has offered in a while and anyone interested in beer should give it a whirl. I didn't love everything, but it's nice to see something other than Sam Adams Winter Lager on the menu. Recommended.
Overall, all three food items are safe bets executed well. The Festival of the Holidays isn't necessarily focused on the culinary side of things like Food/Wine/Flower/Garden/Arts, which makes these comforting, accessible types of dishes all the more welcome. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Tuscany in Italy us up next.
Nice to see some positive reviews! Appreciate you throwing yourself on the sword, Josh, to point us to the best choices.
This year I'm thankful I'm not at WDW standing in those huge lines!


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Hundreds of growers take to the fields in pilot program as legalization bill moves forward in U.S. Senate.
WISCONSIN—The state's first industrial hemp crop in over sixty years is now being planted by 227 farmers on about 2,200 acres. The plant is a cousin of marijuana and was listed as a Schedule 1 controlled substance in the 1960's for the relationship, but today 40 states have either implemented a pilot program or have recently passed legislation to do so.
The plant can be used in a variety of ways—optimists estimate over 25,000 applications—depending on its specific genetics and how it is processed.
At the moment, the booming market is led by pharmaceutical initiatives with cannabidiol (CBD), an extract from the plant's flower buds which has shown promising uses in medicine. The plant can also be harvested as a grain, like wheat, but does not produce gluten, making its use on the growing offerings of gluten-free products especially attractive.
Accordingly, the state's 88 licensed processors are either focused on CBD or grain purposes, but logistical headaches are tied to the crop given its federal illegality.
Data from the Wisconsin Dept. of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
"This is so exciting for Wisconsin, because we're leading the way in this new and emerging market," Rob Richards, senior director of governmental relations for the Wisconsin Farm Bureau told The Denmark News.
"The most common complaint that I've heard is that it is very difficult for anyone to secure lending from banks because of hemp being Schedule 1," Richard said.
Since banks are federally insured, they are barred from investing in a federally illegal product, even though the new industry is permissible under the 2014 Farm Bill.
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell introduced a bill in April that would declassify hemp as marijuana and fully legalize the plant for agricultural use nationwide. It was included as an amendment to the Senate's version of the 2018 Farm Bill, which succeeded in committee on a 20-1 vote and may see a full vote as early as next week.
Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell and Congressman Jamie Comer (right) with University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Dean Nancy Cox, University of Kentucky President, Eli Capilouto and University of Kentucky Agronomist and Head of Hemp Pilot Program, Dr. David Williams.
Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin have both cosponsored McConnell's bill, as have 26 of their bipartisan colleagues. Five of Wisconsin's eight delegates in the House of Representatives have also cosponsored similar legislation introduced to that chamber in 2017, though neither the Energy and Commerce nor the Judiciary Committees have taken action.
"Hemp plays an integral role in agriculture…Wisconsin's 8th District relies on agriculture to create jobs, grow the economy, and feed its citizens. I am committed to helping all our farmers and the industry thrive, while still protecting the environment, animals, and our residents," Rep. Mike Gallagher said in a statement on the topic.
Gallagher also championed revisions to dairy risk protection policies which were included in the House's version of a Farm Bill that passed by two votes on Thursday. The state of dairy in Wisconsin has been in flux for years as large industrial farms nationwide have increased production astronomically while demand has flat lined and certain outlets have closed, such as Canadian tariffs imposed on diafiltered milk last spring.
Data from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service.
"Farmers in the 8th District and across the country have been suffering through the worst farm economy in over a decade, and have seen real farm income decline 52 percent in the last five years alone," Gallagher said in a statement following Thursday's vote.
The stagnant dairy economy has been suspected as a driving factor for hemp's popularity in Wisconsin, and for good reason. Last month, Hemp Business Journal reported that the United States hemp-related product market topped $800 million in 2017, nearly $200 million of that being CBD products.
The report estimates a $2.5 billion market by 2022 which, on paper, seems more promising than playing the milk game, where prices have been low and immobile for nearly four years.
"Farmers are entrepreneurs by nature and are always looking to diversify what they're doing to find better chances of success," Richard said of Wisconsin's quick appetite.
Though CBD and grain are the domineers of the state's early infrastructure, several components of the Wisconsin economy—namely plastics and paper manufacturers—have new production options at their disposal. The implementation of processing infrastructure has not exactly been breakneck.
"This is an emerging and developing market. The investment and infrastructure is coming, but people are kind of holding back until the picture is a little bit more clear," said Richard, citing fiber processors as currently being absent from Wisconsin.
"In Brazil, there are spots where on the left you see the lush Amazon rainforest, and on the right it's all flattened and destroyed," said Perlowin, whose company opened a $20 million hemp fiber processing facility in Spring Hope, North Carolina last August.
"In four months, you could have 12-foot tall hemp plants on all of that land, and then have it again in four months," instead of waiting years for trees to regrow, Perlowin said.
One shot of deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.
Green Bay Packaging announced on June 12 that it will be constructing a new $500 million mill on its existing site over the next few years which is projected by company planners to double its production output and reduce a bulk of its environmental impacts, including the elimination of wastewater discharge into the Fox River.
The project will be the first new paper mill built in the United States in over thirty years and represents one of the largest investments in the history of Brown County, whose Board of Supervisors quickly approved $5.3 million in financial assistance on Wednesday, June 20.
Hemp fiber does not seem to be part of the company's grand strategy, as it has long focused on recycled cardboard.
Six sites are being used for hemp cultivation in Brown County this year, though requests for acreage statistics were not immediately returned by the University of Wisconsin Extension Office.


searched all up and down the wood. But it was no use; there was not a sign of the pigs.
At last she thought that perhaps if she climbed a tree she might see further. But no sooner was she seated on the highest branch than something happened which put the pigs quite out of her head. This was a handsome young man who was coming down the path; and when he had almost reached the tree he pulled aside a rock and disappeared behind it.
The maiden rubbed her eyes and wondered if she had been dreaming. Next she thought, ' I will not stir from here till I see him come out, and discover who he is.' Accordingly she waited, and at dawn the next morning the rock moved to one side and a lion came out.
When he had gone quite out of sight the girl climbed down from the tree and went to the rock, which she pushed aside, and entered the opening before her. The path led to a beautiful house. She went in, swept and dusted the furniture, and put everything tidy. Then she ate a very good dinner, which was on a shelf in the corner, and once more clambered up to the top of her tree.
As the sun set she saw the same young man walking gaily down the path, and, as before, he pushed aside the rock and disappeared behind it.
Next morning out came the lion. He looked sharply about him on all sides, but saw no one, and then vanished into the forest.
The maiden then came down from the tree and did exactly as she had done the day before. Thus three days went by, and every day she went and tidied up the palace. At length, when the girl found she was no nearer to discovering the secret, she resolved to ask him, and in the evening when she caught sight of him coming through the wood she came down from the tree and begged him to tell her his name.


Ajax, ON (July 19, 2018) – Volkswagen Group Canada announced today the formation of Electrify Canada, a new company that will build an ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) direct current (DC) charging network across Canada, which is anticipated to be operational starting in the second quarter of 2019.
The initial plan includes the installation of 32 EV charging sites near major highways and in major metro areas in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. Each charging site will have four chargers on average and use the non-proprietary DC fast charging technologies (CCS and CHAdeMO). Charging power will range from 150kW to 350kW for the expected longer range, larger battery vehicles coming to market and will also deliver 50kW charging power to support today's EVs from all automotive manufacturers.


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Grateful Dead: Bring Me The Head Of Jerry Garcia
BRING ME
THE HEAD OF
A tribute to
mainman Jerry Garcia
1 August 1942 – 9 August 1995
Don Henley saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. In "The Boys Of Summer" he relates how it spoke in a voice inside him 'don't look back, you can never look back'. Now it's time to look back. Jerry Garcia slowed with a bang into the Last Chapter of The Book Of The Dead. And now, when the telecast obit's need a sharp soundbite, they get a live triple-album.
The deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley place a final punctuation on their decades. But they belonged to the world.
The Grateful Dead remain cult. Even after all these decades.
Non-initiates say 'Jerry who…?' The 'Sun' says 'DEAD STAR DEAD'. Yet it was the Dead who patented the since-maligned term 'Community Band'. In the UK we had Man, Edgar Broughton, Pink Fairies… the Levellers. Life-style totems. Benefits. Free Gigs. Personal bonding with their tribe going way beyond anything as trivial or as ephemeral as vinyl or music. With the Dead, that bonding remains… remained. And Jerry Garcia – a stoned moon-faced cartoon from the 'Furry Freak Brothers', was always the Head Dead. Reviewing their first LP in July 1967 'Melody Maker' calls him 'one of the most boring lead guitarists ever to inflict his presence on a group.' Many years later, when asked what the Dead had learned over their twenty-two years as a band, Garcia smiles his goofy avuncular grin and says 'we expect to get the hang of it any day now.'
There's a recent Dead CD made up entirely of different versions of Garcia's "Dark Star" ('Grayfolded', 1994/1995). Great bands usually invent new maps of their lives every few years. The Dead, loose-riffed and loose-trousered, always steered by Zen and the Art Of Endless Improvisation. With Jerome John Garcia at the exact centre of its sprawling psychedelic chemistry. Inactive for much of the nineties the one-time Captain Trips finally unhappened 9 August, following a heart attack in a Drug Rehabilitation Centre fighting heroin addiction. And even Bill Clinton – the dope-smoking President who never inhaled, was moved to eulogy. Adding a warning to the nation's youth that 'you don't have to have a destructive life-style to be a genius and make a contribution.' Perhaps. Perhaps not.
The 1987 Grateful Dead single "Touch Of Grey" was their only US Top Ten record. Their albums seldom graze the Top Thirty. But what the Dead had was authenticity. When Hippie movie-goers wrangle over whether Dennis Hopper smokes real marijuana in 'Easy Rider' (1969) it's not just nit-pickery. It's a litmus for the sniff of hands-on authenticity. There was never any doubting that the Dead were for real.
Evolving rapidly out of Folk, Jug-Band and Bluegrass into R&B the then-Warlocks drink Ken Kesey's LSD-spiked Kool-Aid, and create a beautiful mythology. 'Synchronicity spoken here!' says Tom Wolfe, 'nothing was in perspective, nothing had any touch of normalcy' ('The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test', 1968). 'You can imagine what it was like' recalls Jerry, 'to have a whole band completely out of their heads on acid. It's weird. It's all out of time and the timing is all peculiar.' The Skull-and-Roses sleeve-art by Rick Griffin, the spaced ambience, the inventive technical skills of their fully meshing free-form explorations, the 'Extended Family' of interactive contributors all play a part. Robert Hunter's lyrics. The Day-Glo posters. But it's Garcia's grizzled presence that's always the defining point. And he was always grizzled. On the sleeve of their debut album – covering material like "Morning Dew" and "Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl", he wears Uncle Sam's Stars-&-Bars Top Hat against the molten surface of the sun. And even clean-shaven he already looks grizzled.
But despite playing Woodstock and the murderous Altamont Festivals they're still $100,000 in debt to Warner Bros due to failed album sales. It's not until 1970s 'Live/Dead' double LP which finally captures something of the Dead's mystique, and the more accessible Country-Rock of 'Workingman's Dead' (June 1970) and 'American Beauty' (November 1970) that they begin to achieve something like commercial recognition. While Garcia is also out freelancing solo with his 'Garcia (The Wheel)' (January 1972) album, or with New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Jefferson's Airplane or Starship. And he's there – grizzled and grinning on the liner photos of Crosby Stills Nash & Young's 'Déjà Vu' (March 1970), or indulging his continuing taste for the more obscure byways of Americana Trad, Bluegrass and Country with Old And In The Way. Vocally he's as light as his fretwork. The obvious technical limitations of his voice offset by its flesh and blood human warmth. His first instrument was the six-string banjo, and beyond his chemical Away-Day explorations, it was this simplicity he returns to. His solo 'Run For The Roses' (1982), 'Reflections' (1976) and the Jerry Garcia Band 'Cats Under The Stars' (1978) can be self-indulgent to the point of lethargy. While his down-home projects with the likes of Merl Saunders suffer critical neglect. But his pedal-steel guitar on 1988's 'Almost Acoustic' can be near transcendental.
I saw the early-evening five-hour Dead set 7 May 1972 at the Bickershaw mudbath. We were all chemonauts together. But by the time of 'Wake Of the Flood' (1973), 'From The Mars Hotel' (1974), and the Dead's first for Arista 'Terrapin Station' (1977), they have become a nomadic touring community, a cultural phenomenon spanning generations, a continuity the survival of which is hardly dependent on record sales at all. More an essential part of the American musical pageant.
Jerry Garcia's narcotic problems through the mid-eighties are well-documented. He endures Drugs Rehabilitation following a five-day coma, returning to tour onstage with Bob Dylan. Then he's hospitalised with 'exhaustion' in 1991, cancelling concert dates the following year due to 'ill-health'. The final Grateful Dead concert with Jerry Garcia was in Chicago on 9 July 1995.
It's barely conceivable that the Dead can exist in any meaningful form without him. But we're going to continue re-exhuming the Dead for some time to come.
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ExoMars finds no methane
Are there significant amounts of methane in the Martian atmosphere? Data from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter raise new questions.
Mars Planetary Atmospheres Planetary science
About a year ago, the space probe ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a joint project of the European and Russian space agencies, began its scientific measurements from the orbit of Mars. Since then, the probe has not detected methane in the atmosphere of our neighboring planet, as the teams of two TGO instruments including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) report in the journal Nature. The new measurement data are a surprise. Especially since NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had repeatedly found methane near the ground in the past, many researchers expected to be able to detect the gas in the rest of the atmosphere as well. Methane is considered a possible indicator of life on Mars.
First results of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
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With more than 95 percent, carbon dioxide is the main component of the Marsian atmosphere, followed by small amounts of nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon monoxide, and other trace gases. Whether the latter also include methane and in what concentration, is one of the most discussed questions in Mars research. Since in the Earth's atmosphere methane is primarily produced by microorganisms on the ground, it is believed to be possible that on our neighboring planet too the gas could have a biological origin. However, other sources must also be considered, such as certain geochemical reactions in the Martian rock.
The first discoveries of methane in the atmosphere of Mars date back about 16 years. In the following years, both ground-based investigations and measurements by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft confirmed the discovery. NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Gale crater since 2012, also proved successful in finding methane: At ground level, the methane concentration there fluctuates constantly between 0.24 and 0.65 ppb (parts per billion).
"Assuming our understanding of the atmospheric chemistry of Mars to date is correct, methane has a lifetime of several hundred years there," explains MPS scientist Dr. Paul Hartogh, who is part of the team of the TGO instrument ACS (Atmospheric Chemistry Suite). Above all, the incidence of ultraviolet radiation and reactions with the hydroxyl radical contribute to the degradation of methane. Due to its chemical stability, methane produced near the ground should gradually spread evenly over the entire atmosphere of Mars and be measurable even at great altitudes.
However, the current data from the NOMAD (Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery) and ACS instruments on board TGO paint a different picture: despite the high sensitivity of the measurements, which can detect concentrations of 0.05 ppb, the scientists were unable to find methane.
Mars researchers are now looking for ways to reconcile the seemingly contradictory results of TGO and Curiosity. For example, it is conceivable that a previously unknown mechanism is at work in the atmosphere of Mars where it degrades methane. Other explanations take a closer look at Curiosity's measurement data. Is it true that the entire Gale crater has the same methane concentration as measured by the rover? Only then should ACS, too, be able to detect the gas. Or do the data have to be interpreted much more locally? For example, there were fears that Curiosity itself might have emitted methane. In this case, the quantities of methane that reach the rest of the atmosphere are likely to be well below the detection limit of TGO.
MPS scientist Paul Hartogh brings another explanation into play: It is possible that there are methane hydrates under the regolith layer at the bottom of Gale crater, such as those found in permafrost soils of the Arctic on Earth. These could be mixed with other gases and materials in the Martian soil. If the methane is released, it could diffuse into the Mars regolith and be deposited there. The pressure of the moving rover could then release the gas. The total quantities would be too small to be detected by TGO.
Nevertheless, the Gale crater will be the target of future methane measurements by TGO.
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Online Learning Module for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals (2012).
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Time to see which teams are going to the state tournament, and where in the bracket will they be placed.
Click here to see standings.
#1 Laramie and #2 East have a first round bye, and have automatically qualified for the state tournament.
#3 Central 6 #6 South 0 - South Eliminated. Central qualifies for the state tournament.
#5 Sheridan 2 #4 Gillette 1 Shootout: 4-3 - Gillette Eliminated. Sheridan qualifies for the state tournament.
Evanston gets #5 seed over Rock Springs, due to head-to-head.
#1 Natrona and #2 Green River receive a first-round bye and have automatically qualified for the state tournament.
#4 Riverton 2 #5 Evanston 1 OT - Evanston Eliminated. Riverton qualifies for the state tournament.
#3 Kelly Walsh 3 #6 Rock Springs 2 - Rock Springs Eliminated. Kelly Walsh qualifies for the state tournament.
The first place team in each quadrant (Buffalo, Lander, Cody and Jackson) receive a bye and is already in the state tournament.
(#2 SE) Torrington 7 (#3 SW) Pinedale 2 - Pinedale Eliminated. Torrington plays Buffalo in the first round of the state tournament.
(#3 NW) Worland 2 (#2 NE) Douglas 0 - Douglas Eliminated. Worland plays Lander in the first round of the state tournament.
(#2 NW) Powell 4 (#3 NE) Newcastle 0 - Newcastle Eliminated. Powell plays Jackson in the first round of the state tournament.
(#2 SW) Star Valley 9 (#3 SE) Rawlins 0 - Rawlins Eliminated. Star Valley plays Cody in the first round of the state tournament.


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Howard & Howard's Intellectual Property Law Intern Program differs from other law clerk programs by fully utilizing the engineering or other technical expertise of each intern to understand the various technologies of our clients. An intern's education and skills accumulate with the addition of legal knowledge to be able to identify patentable novelty, as well as to prepare and obtain patents before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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I am using this opportunity to address the issue regarding our windows mail server. I intend to explain what has happened, what would happen, and measures we have taken for it not to repeat itself.
On Saturday the 16th of August, we upgraded our smartermail software which promised more features and better security.
We did this, with the backing up of our data using the windows backup feature which turned out unreliable.
The new upgrade of the software somehow corrupted the mail database, and structure, and we had to re-install the whole software to ensure that you don't lose new mails.
We re-installed the software, because we weren't sure how long it would take to rectify the issue. Re-installation ensures that the mail server was back online in reasonable time.
We accessed our backup and it seemed that windows did not backup the files correctly and hence the files became corrupted too.
This means that some clients on the windows server, not all, might lose their emails and have problem accessing their email account from smartermail. If you are having problem accessing your email account with your old password, kindly send us an email, and we would try to recover the email users.
What measures have we taken?
We are introducing a product named Evault, a remote backup solution under our E-mail package for clients on windows hosting with the subscription of the service.
We are also introducing yet another backup mail server that is mirrored to the primary server, known as a smarthost. This would be ready this weekend. What the smarthost server does is, it allows one SmarterMail server to accept mail for another SmarterMail server, and hence this would be used as a backup so that if the primary mail server goes down, the secondary server will accept mail for it until the server goes back online.
The smarterhost server would be located in a different location other than the first 2 server locations. This means we have 3 different backup solutions to safeguard your emails.
What is this Evault solution?
Our windows server is located in Dallas, and the Evault server is located at Washington. Our datacenter has integrated EVault into our windows server, and the backups would be done on a daily basis using its industry-leading automated services.
Is there a possibility of data corruption as the previous case?
No, this is because this solution was specifically built for backups, and the technology that ensures the data integrity is intact after backup.
Also with this we can assure a 100% uptime to your mailservers, which means this is the end of email delivery unreliability.
We would be charging 1500 naira per year for new clients and 1000 Naira for old clients?
Kindly order with your new package or send a mail to our sales department and we would issue you an invoice for the email protection plan.
Are we liable for the lost of your data?
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You agreed to our terms of service when you were making the order for your hosting package which protects us from the liability of loosing your data.
This is a hosting provider standard, you would hardly come across any web hosting provider that would assure you that they can 100% percent protect all your data from loss or damage.
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Published on October 1st, 2013 | by Giles Parkinson
Cost Of Solar Getting Competitive With Wind
October 1st, 2013 by Giles Parkinson
Originally published on RenewEconomy.
By Giles Parkinson.
The cost of large-scale solar projects has fallen by one-third in the last five years and big solar now competes with wind energy in the solar-rich south-west of the United States, according to new research.
The study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — entitled "Utility-Scale Solar 2012: An Empirical Analysis of Project Cost, Performance, and Pricing Trends in the United States" – says the cost of solar is still falling and contracts for some solar projects are being struck as low as $50/MWh (including a 30 per cent federal tax credit).
The LBNL study is the first detailed investigation on the costs of "big solar." The US has more than 4,000 MW of utility-scale solar (any installation more than 2 MW) and has been building them since the 1980s. The US has more "big solar" than rooftop solar, in contrast with Australia, where nearly all solar capacity has been built on rooftops.
The most interesting observation is that solar is now competing with wind energy on costs. If this were to happen in the Australian market it would likely cause a rapid reshaping of the projects needed to acquit the 20 per cent renewable energy target, which is criticised in many quarters for being focused only on wind energy.
This graph below illustrates just how dramatic that fall has become, although it should also be noted that PPA prices for wind energy have also nearly halved in the past year, although the sample is small.
But here's another reason why solar is attractive. Because solar generates its output during the day, when demand and wholesale prices are normally higher, it can generate much higher revenue than wind farms. LBNL quantifies this at around $25/MWh. "In 2012 and 2013, solar has given wind a run for its money," the researchers say. "This is particularly true given solar's greater time-of-delivery value to utilities."
It also notes that wind energy and solar farms could be co-located because their output is complimentary, and infrastructure costs such as sub-stations could be shared.
Both these observations are interesting for the Australian market, particularly for developers such as Infigen Energy and Pacific Hydro, which are looking to add solar to their wind portfolios and looking to bypass the blockade of the major utilities by either "playing" the merchant market – generating revenue from spot prices, or writing their own contracts. Both companies are looking at co-locating some wind and solar projects.
This next graph below shows the progress of the various technologies, and plant sizes, over the last 10 years. It is interesting to note that solar PV outnumbers CSP and CPV by a large margin, but smaller plants are often more cost-effective than larger ones. That's because of the extra costs in permitting and other factors of large installations, and because most solar PV arrays are now built in small modules.
"Once you move beyond installing a few power blocks, economies of scale appear to diminish (or perhaps be offset by higher costs elsewhere)," the researchers note.
To illustrate the price falls, the LBNL study cites the Copper Mountain project in Colorado. It began with a CSP project, before making three separate additions using thin-film solar PV technology, and then a fourth with crystalline silicon-based solar PV modules.
The first two solar PV contracts in 2008 and 2009 were struck at $150/MWh for 58MW of capacity, the next stage was struck at $103/MWh for 150MW capacity, and last year a contract was struck for another 250MW of capacity at $82/MWh.
Given the underlying similarities among these four projects – location, duration of contract – it says that the near halving of prices over the three-year period can be attributed primarily to the declining cost of solar modules and other balance-of-system costs. (It would be interesting to see what the likes of Bjorn Lomborg, the new Coalition pin-up boy who opposes deployment on the basis that only R&D can deliver cost reductions, make of this).
Another interesting observation from LBNL is that most of the contracts written in recent years do not escalate in nominal dollars over the life of the contract. This means that in real dollar terms, the pricing of the contract actually declines.
This means that towards the end of their contracts, the solar plants (including PV, CSP and CPV) contracted in 2013 will on average will be delivering electricity at less than $40/MWh. This is likely to be considerably less than fossil fuel plants at the same time, given the expected cost of fuels and any environmental regulations.
And here's one final graph on capacity factors. It notes utility-scale solar installations with single axis tracking are achieving capacity factors of more than 30 per cent, while the best performing solar installations without tracking are more than 25 per cent.
Tags: Australia, Australian Energy Market, cost of solar, Cost of Solar vs Wind, cost of wind, Infigen Energy, lbnl, Pacific Hydro
Giles Parkinson is the founding editor of RenewEconomy.com.au, an Australian-based website that provides news and analysis on cleantech, carbon, and climate issues. Giles is based in Sydney and is watching the (slow, but quickening) transformation of Australia's energy grid with great interest.
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