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Silicon is the secret sauce behind the next generation of fast-charging, long range, low cost EV batteries (image courtesy of PNNL https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/leap-using-silicon-battery-anodes)
US Energy Dept. Hearts New Silicon EV Batteries
Silicon is the silent killer of graphite behind a new generation of fast-charging, long range, low cost EV batteries.
Tina Casey
There they go again. Just a few months ago the US Department of Energy tapped a startup called Group14 Technologies for a multi-million dollar R&D grant to usher in a new generation of high performance EV batteries, and now here comes Group14 with another $17 million in series B funding spearheaded by the South Korean battery expert SK Materials. If you guessed that means scaling up production for the mass market, you're right on the money. The bigger question is why the Energy Department is determined to support the US electric vehicle industry, considering that White House policy has been aimed at supporting the US oil industry. Any guesses?
Silicon is the secret sauce behind the next generation of fast-charging, long range, low cost electric vehicle batteries (image courtesy of PNNL)
Group14 Technologies: Who Are These People?
Group14 Technologies first sailed across the CleanTechnica radar last July, when it popped up in a group of Energy Department grants aimed at improvements in electric vehicle batteries that will lead to faster charging times.
The idea was to use silicon instead of graphite to juice the capacity of mobile energy storage devices, but that's easier said than done because silicon is, well, silicon.
"In your electric car's battery, swapping an electrode with one made of silicon could let the battery store 10 times more energy. Why isn't silicon used? It falls apart," explains the Energy Department.
Silicon's superpower is its ability to expand in the presence of lithium. The problem is that silicon overdoes it and expands by about 300%, which breaks up the anode. In addition, silicon is too finicky to withstand conventional manufacturing process.
The solution is to figure out some sort of molecular glue that holds things together while still providing that boost in capacity and keeping costs down, too. Group14's nanotech solution was impressive enough win the company an R&D award of almost $4 million for a project called "Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines."
That's just for starters. The Energy Department has had its eye on Group14 since the company launched in 2016 as a spinoff of the firm EnerG2.
In September, the agency also selected Group14 for special recognition in its Energy Storage Grand Challenge, a soup-to-nuts decarbonization initiative, on account of the potential for its patented process to yield up to 50% more energy density than a typical lithium-ion battery with graphite.
It seems the Energy Department is not letting the grass grow under its feet. As a Grand Challenge winner, Group14 will team up with the global specialty materials firm Cabot Corporation, additional energy storage and materials partners Farasis, Silatronix, and Arkema, and the Energy Department's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to commercialize its patented Scaffold Prime™ process.
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Group14 is not letting the grass grow under its feet either. The company has already broken ground on a new production facility and the $17 million Series B funding — which includes returning investor OVP Venture Partners along with SK Materials — will speed things along (for the record, Amperex Technology Limited, BASF, and Showa Denko are previous investors).
How fast? Pretty fast! Last week Group14 dropped an embargoed press release into the ol' CleanTechnica mailbox indicating that the company is ramping up pilot production and "plans to supply its first commercial customers in consumer electronics in 1Q21, with more to follow in other markets."
Hmmm…CleanTechnica is reaching out to Group14 for the inside scoop on who those first commercial customers might be. In the meantime, if you have any ideas about that, drop us a note in the comment thread.
Any number of automakers could be queuing up to improve their EV batteries, so the real question is which ones are positioned to be among the first.
EV Batteries & The PNNL Connection
If you're wondering how Pacific Northwest National Laboratory came to be involved, silicon EV batteries is one of its ongoing areas of interest.
As early as 2010 PNNL was plotting the demise of the graphite anode for EV batteries, with an assist from silicon. In 2014 a team of PNNL researchers created a silicon "sponge" fortified with carbon to replace graphite. Just last April, the lab issued a press release announcing a new, improved sponge-like nanostructure, and a team of PNNL researchers charted "dramatic progress" over the past few years in a technology review published last May.
Earlier versions of the "silicon sponge" approach were falling short in the mechanical strength department. The new iteration described in the April press release deploys carbon nanotubes to form microspheres of silicon particles. According to PNNL, the new formula displays "extraordinary" strength, so there's that.
An even more interesting tidbit of news popped up in that April press release. The credit line includes PNNL lead researchers Ji-Guang (Jason) Zhang and Xiaolin Li, along with PNNL researchers Haiping Jia, Junhua Song, Xin Zhang, Langli Luo, Yang He, Binsong Li, Yun Cai, Shenyang Hu, Chongmin Wang, Kevin M. Rosso, Ran Yi, and Rajankumar Patel.
Also included is Xingchen Xiao, who is a staff research with the General Motors Research and Development Center, which means that GM is interested in silicon EV batteries. That would be interesting, considering that the company rolled out its much-heralded Ultium battery for electric vehicles earlier this year.
…And The GM Connection
Xingchen Xiao has been tackling the silicon angle for a number of years, and it looks like all that hard work is about to pay off. As recently as 2018, he co-authored a technology review which noted that "silicon-based anode materials usually suffer from large volume change during the charge and discharge process, leading to subsequent pulverization of silicon, loss of electric contact, and continuous side reactions."
The technology review took stock of R&D involving tailored nanostructures for silicon EV batteries, but warned that "some practical issues with nanostructured silicon cannot be ignored, and must be addressed if it is to be widely used."
Ouch! Well, it just goes to show how much can happen in a year or two.
All this is by way of saying that the US Department of Energy has been on a decarbonization tear all throughout the *Trump administration, regardless of White House policy supporting fossil fuels.
It started with a new grid study that was supposed to support fossil energy (spoiler alert: it didn't), and it all went downhill from there, at least if you're a fossil energy stakeholder.
Aside from shepherding in the next generation of EV batteries, the Energy Department has been lending financial support, resources, and expertise to a whole raft of emerging technologies that are poised for rapid expansion including offshore wind power, floating wind turbines, new low-cost solar cells, long duration energy storage, our favorite new topic green hydrogen (well, new to some), and green ammonia, which is the new best friend of green hydrogen.
*Developing story.
Image: "Silicon microspheres have extraordinary mechanical strength due to the addition of carbon nanotubes which make the spheres resemble balls of yarn. In this representation, the image on the left illustrates a close-up of a portion of a microsphere made of silicon nano particles deposited on carbon nanotubes" by Mike Perkins/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
In this article:Arkema, basf, Cabot Corporation, EnerG2, Farasis, GM, Group14 Technologies, OPV Venture Partners, pnnl, Silatronix, silicon batteries, SK Materials, Xingchen Xiao
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Tina specializes in military and corporate sustainability, advanced technology, emerging materials, biofuels, and water and wastewater issues. Views expressed are her own. Follow her on Twitter @TinaMCasey and Google+.
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The German navigation system manufacturer Raytheon Anschütz announces the launch of a new generation navigation radar for this year's SMM. The new radar is distinguished mainly by two innovations on the transceiver: Network technology replaces analog data transmission, and a pedestal which is newly constructed electrically and mechanically reduces cost of ownership and simplifies service.
The advantages are that through the digital technology the new radar can provide high-quality raw data and at the same time, applications on the bridge are given great flexibility in processing the radar signals – with all the diverse possibilities of modern network infrastructure. All workstations can access and use the radar video, if needed, which supersedes the current "slave" type of configuration. For a workstation to become master it has to communicate with the transceiver via a secured channel that protects the radar setup from unwanted interference or changes in configuration – the former "master mode" reloaded. Correspondingly the range of applications and requirements is wide – from a single navigation radar on a small vessel to large bridge systems, from a simple "point-to-point" connection setup to a dual-redundant radar distribution network.
The new radar comes with a number of further improvements, such as an improved signal processing for better performance, a built-in-test for easy service diagnosis, an integrated and automated performance monitoring or an innovative "Sleep Mode" to save Magnetron lifetime when radar is on standby.
Additionally, a pedestal which is newly constructed electrically and mechanically will simplify service and reduce cost of ownership. The new pedestal offers a robust, practice-oriented design and improved service accessibility with a simplified handling of the electronics. The maintenance-free gear box further reduces service costs.
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Mrs Dalloway @ The Arcola Theatre Review
I firmly believe that if Virginia Woolf were alive today she and her lofty set of literati would be stomping around East London somewhere – floating between the fringes of privileged society and the liberal arts world sipping a kale juice or soy latte. In my eyes, it's appropriate then for Hal Coase's adaptation of Mrs Dalloway to find a home at the fringe Arcola Theatre in Dalston.
Coase approaches the text of Mrs Dalloway with a keen, if not overblown, eye. Dismantling verses and flip-flopping between scenes and characters, this adaptation illuminates the original novel's non-linear structure in a way that comes across as experimental and explorative.
Director, Thomas Bailey, takes a similarly 'experimental' approach. Playing with the temporal possibilities of the piece, he haphazardly plonks modern day references like Oyster cards, voice recorders and copies of the Metro that feels overly lost in semantics.
The cast open by breaking the fourth wall, telling the audience that they feel a tad 'nervous' about tonight's performance. I'm not surprised, I would be too if I had to remember over one hour forty's worth of flowery text, and countless character changes.
In post WWI London, Clarissa Dalloway saunters about doing last-minute prep for a party she is hosting that evening. Clare Perkins plays the eponymous character with the fun yet empathetic spirit needed for any high society social climber. Along the way Mrs. Dalloway recounts her missed opportunities in love – Peter Walsh the opposing force to her husband Richard's mild manners and Sally Seton, with whom she shared a short tryst that is explored in one of the many flash backs.
Meanwhile, war veteran Septimus (Guy Rhys) and his wife Lucrezia (Emma D'arcy) are left battling the effects of living with post-traumatic stress disorder. Rhys has a vigorous charge in his delivery, it is just a shame all his scenes are cluttered by the clumsy direction.
Conference mics, that annoyingly crackle and pop, are used throughout the piece to illustrate a meaning far beyond my comprehension. At Clarissa's party, each actor uses these microphones along with a multitude of nametags to depict the various attendees. It does create the hubbub of a thriving social scene but the metaphor is a rather unsubstantial.
Woolf was a writer who pushed forward contemporary ideas on gender, sexuality and equality but these themes were mislaid, distracted by all the hidden metaphors. I hate having to read a plot summary on the tube home, but for the uninitiated you might just have to with this production that seemingly drowns in its own pretention. 2/5
Review written by Niall Hunt.
Mrs Dalloway is currently showing until Saturday 20th October 2018 at the Arcola Theatre. To find out more about the production, visit here…
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It's worth noting that there's no official word on this yet. However, as Engadget reports, a listing for the new 12 GB variant was spotted on Canada's online marketplace Future Shop (hence removed) for $199.99. Engadget has also received a picture of the new PlayStation 3 12 GB found at a retailer within the US, along with a label that the product mustn't be revealed before August 18.
So August 18 is about when people within the US can get their hands on the low budget, 12 GB PlayStation Console.
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Have you been planning a visit to Augusta Maine? Here is a bit of history about the area. Augusta Maine, which is situated upon both sides of the Kennebec River, was first inhabited by English settlers from the Plymouth Colony in 1625. In 1827, it became the official state capital. Today, one of the main attractions in Augusta Maine is the Old Fort Western which is located on the east side of the river. It is America's oldest surviving wooden fort. Today, it serves as a reminder of the conflicts between cultures that were once prevalent in New England life. The Fort Western was constructed in 1754 by the Kennebec Proprietors. This Boston-based company wanted to settle the lands along the Kennebec River that had been granted to the Pilgrims more than a century earlier.
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During the American Revolution in 1775, Benedict Arnold used Fort Western as a staging point for his assault on Quebec. He stayed in the area for a few weeks. After the War, Old Fort Western became a store and private residence. Today, the store and house are interesting attractions in Augusta Maine. The store exhibit contains farming tools that were essential to life on the new settlement. The house contains some of the original furniture. Be sure to take a look around when you visit Augusta Maine.
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Shooter posts 1985 internal newsstand estimates
by John Jackson Miller
The Direct Market saved Superman's world.
Jim Shooter, former editor in chief at Marvel, has embarked on his blog on a discussion of the history of the distribution business for comics, delving into such fun buts of minutiae as affadavit returns. (See Chuck Rozanski's piece on the Mile High II collection, a batch of millions of comics in perfect shape that had been fraudulently reported as affidavit returns, here.) And as in past installments of Jim's must-read blog, he's included some internal documents.
This time, he's included a Marvel analysis of DC's sales through the newsstands, based on Warner Publisher Services projections. Follow the link above to see the document, but it posits figures for the November 1985 cover-dated issues.
Now, we know a number of things already about, for example, the November 1985 issue of Superman — issue #413. The average paid annual circulation for the year was 96,787 copies, from a print run of 270,577. Cut out subscription sales, and the figure is 96,686 copies. The average issue that year saw returns of 168,906 copies. These figures all come from the Statement of Ownership. We also know that Capital City sold 9,000 copies of that issue to comics shops, from my own copies of Cap City's records.
Shooter's document adds more facts. The internal analysis Marvel had from Warner projects that Superman #413 would have sent 186,800 copies to the newsstand, for which 59,900 copies were sold. If that figure is correct, the direct market sales would have been around 36,800 copies — making the Capital City share of the issue's sales in the direct market about 24%.
This all presumes that the 1985 Statement is the right one to look at. It might not be, because #413, on sale in August and early September, would have been right on the cusp of being in the next year's Statement. The sales figures for 1986 are just about the same — but the difference is on the print run. DC printed 30,000 fewer copies of Superman (or actually, as it became, Adventures of Superman) on average in the 1986 reporting period. That, interestingly, matches up with the cover letter in the Marvel memo, which states that DC's newsstand draws had dropped by an average of 20,000 copies per title in 1985. You would see that reflected in the 1986 print runs — and Supes, having a larger print run than most, would see a larger cut. The 1986 Statement seems to square up better with the number of copies returned, too.
I have nearly 3,000 Statements of Ownership in my database, and hope to get more online soon. The numbers for the 1960s are here, and I also have a number of titles up, as well.
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Records abound in October sales; reboot titles held sales levels
The estimates for October 2011 comics orders by comics shops in North America are now online here at The Comics Chronicles, and as speculated upon last week when Diamond Comic Distributors provided the first taste of data for this second full month of the DC relaunch, it was a record-setting time in many ways:
• Highest dollar sales for the Top 300 comics. Retailers ordered comics in the Top 300 worth $25.36 million in October, the highest total for that figure since the Diamond Exclusive Era began in the mid-1990s. The previous record was held by October 2008, with $24.9 million in orders. The totals in the early 1990s were likely higher, even given inflation.
Number of titles from each publisher in the Top 300, 1997-present.
• Most titles in the Top 300 by a publisher. DC placed more titles in the Top 300 than any publisher since the Diamond Exclusive Era began in 1996: 129. (Update: See the item-count tracks for the five largest publishers over time, here.) All but one of the "New 52" titles that launched in the previous month reappeared in the Top 300. The previous high-water mark was set by Marvel, which had 119 entries on the charts in December 2008 and June 2009. I do not have exact counts from the charts from before 1996, and reorders would not have been included on any charts before 2003. DC's previous high-water mark was 107 entries in October 2007.
• Largest number of issues reappearing in the Top 300. I haven't really kept this statistic before, but there always a few titles from the previous month that reappear on the list. As mentioned, this month dwarfed any previous experiences, as 51 out of the 52 DC reboot titles that appeared on the charts in September 2011 reappeared. (The only which didn't make the Top 300 again is Men of War, but that is not necessarily because of a lack of demand — if most of its print run was reported by Diamond as sold in September, it might not have charted again.)
Usually, when titles reappear, it's because of reorders; in the DC case, 41 titles from September were made returnable, with their reported sales levels reduced. Squaring up September and October finds that Diamond reported sales of 670,000 copies of those September #1s in October; that's an addition of 19.5% on top of the 3.43 million copies those comics sold when they first came out. It's not clear whether those are all reorders being reported, or Diamond logging the returnable over-run copies as sold. But the reappearance of so many DC titles on the charts directly led to the next record...
• Fewest publishers with titles in the Top 300. Often when the major publishers are prolific or producing many blockbusters with reorder activity, the number of publishers who make up the Top 300 shrinks. This month, only 13 publishers made the Top 300, the lowest level since the folding of Heroes World Distribution in 1997. The previous low, 15 publishers, had been seen in June of the last two years. And the large number of major publisher titles in the Top 300 led to the next record...
• Highest orders for the 300th place title. I've talked here before about the 300th place title as a benchmark for how comics are performing at the farther end of the sales spectrum. This month, Robert E. Howard's Savage Sword #3 from Dark Horse set a record for the highest number of copies ordered at that position, 5,167 copies. It beats a nearly 15-year-old record, Archie's Cheryl Blossom Goes Hollywood from November 1996.
As a consequence of there being so few publishers in the Top 300, Diamond's supplemental tables listing top independent and small press performers dug especially deep, as readers will see here; the table has 45 entries below 300th place, going all the way down to 425th place. We see again the strength of the long tail in periodicals from this, as the next 125 comics after 300th place add 400,000 copies worth nearly $1.5 million to overall sales, or between 5-6% again what the Top 300 sold.
There are some superlatives that don't rise to the level of records, but are noteworthy nonetheless. Trades were off this month, but the Top 300 comics plus the Top 300 trades posted their highest dollar sales since July 2009. Unit sales within the Top 300 comics were no record, but at 7.59 million copies was at the highest level since December 2008. It was, in fact, the best the best October for periodical units since 1997. And with them, the unit sales total for the Top 300 turned positive for the year.
Finally, something Comichron doesn't normally track is worth mentioning. Many have expressed interest in how the DC reboot titles would fare across time. I have described here in the past how the month-to-month sales reports that Diamond provides aren't a perfect measure of any title's individual, ongoing performance; there's too much statistical noise. If any title shipped in Week 3 of September and shipped in Week 4 of October, those titles would appear from the charts to have sold less in October even if the eventual sales are identical. (We already know that a fifth week adds 11% in unit sales to the market.) Since I'm not prepared to go digging around in the shipping files to add a column for weeks-on-sale, I don't tend to make those comparisons here very much.
But anyone can compare the numbers from the two months, and this is what they'll find in aggregate: Diamond reported orders for the 52 DC reboot titles of 3.43 million copies in September (this includes the copies of Justice League shipped in August). The October orders for those 52 titles were 3.22 million copies, a second-issue drop of only 6%, line-wide. That is a much lower figure than most new series see, and, in fact, we find that a number of titles — from Catwoman to Detective to Red Hood — had higher first-month orders for #2 than they had for #1.
Now, there are again caveats, in addition to those already mentioned: the September #1s had additional sales in October, as well, to the tune of 19.5% of their September totals. But to compare apples to apples, at this point we have to look at initial, first-month demand — and here, it looks like, by the time retailers were ordering for October, they approached the market with a certain amount of additional confidence and cash.
The aggregate totals:
TOP 300 COMICS UNIT SALES
October 2011: 7.59 million copies
Versus 1 year ago this month: +31%
Versus 5 years ago this month: +24%
Versus 10 years ago this month: +18%
Versus 15 years ago this month: -27%
YEAR TO DATE: 58.96 million copies, +1% vs. 2010, -12% vs. 2006, +8% vs. 2001
ALL COMICS UNIT SALES
October 2011 versus one year ago this month: +32.12%
YEAR TO DATE: +1.86%
TOP 300 COMICS DOLLAR SALES
October 2011: $25.36 million
Versus 5 years ago this month:+33%
Versus 15 years ago this month: +1%
YEAR TO DATE: $202.85 million, -1% vs. 2010, -1% vs. 2006, +34% vs. 2001
ALL COMICS DOLLAR SALES
YEAR TO DATE: -0.23%
TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES
October 2011: $5.78 million
Versus 1 year ago this month: -19%
Versus 5 years ago this month, just the Top 100 vs. the Top 100: -28%
Versus 10 years ago this month, just the Top 25 vs. the Top 25: +32%
YEAR TO DATE: $56.84 million, -9% vs. 2010
ALL TRADE PAPERBACK SALES
October 2011 versus one year ago this month: -12.9%
TOP 300 COMICS + TOP 300 TRADE PAPERBACK DOLLAR SALES
Versus 5 years ago this month, counting just the Top 100 TPBs: +20%
Versus 10 years ago this month, counting just the Top 25 TPBs: +35%
YEAR TO DATE: $259.69 million, -11% vs. 2010
ALL COMICS AND TRADE PAPERBACK SALES
OVERALL DIAMOND SALES (including all comics, trades, and magazines)
October 2011: approximately $40.8 million (subject to revision)
YEAR TO DATE: $339.4 million, -2% vs. 2010
The average comic book in the Top 300 cost $3.41, with the average comic book ordered by retailers costing $3.34. $2.99 was the median and most common price of comics.
As mentioned here earlier, 2011 now has at least a shot at matching or beating last year's $418.6 million total; November 2011 has those five shipping weeks, and the hurdles for beating November and December 2010 are lower. We'd need to get year-over-year improvements in the 10% range again to hit the break-even point. But it's reachable, especially if trade paperbacks pick up. Trade paperback sales tend to echo the popularity of whatever comics were coming out six months earlier, for obvious reasons; we're getting out of the weak winter and more into the stronger summer season for reprint fare.
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Direct market dollar orders up double digits in October 2011
Diamond Comic Distributors released its initial report on October 2011 comics orders today, and the numbers reflect a continuing improvement in the Direct Market. Overall, comics retailers in North America spent 11.93% more ordering comic books and trade paperbacks than they did in the previous October. Orders were also up 2.67% over September, which was the first full month of the DC relaunch. Click to see the preliminary rankings for October 2011.
That would suggest a month in which overall dollar orders for comic books, trade paperbacks, and magazines were in the neighborhood of $40.6 million, the first time that figure has topped $40 million since September 2009, a month in which Blackest Night was continuing to build momentum. That would put the year to date at just under $340 million.
The eye-popping number is the rise in comic-book unit orders of 32.12% over October 2010. Orders rose 6.9% over September, when all the first issues of the DC relaunch were out. While that may sound counter-intuitive, it isn't when you consider that all those first issues continued to have reorders selling through October. Retailers with an eye on the aftermarket may also have some sense that second issues are historically under-ordered — something which goes at least back to the experience of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #2 in the 1980s, which wound up being much more valuable than its first issue.
So retailers ordered at least a million more comic books in October 2011 than they did in the previous October, and my back-of-the-envelope calculations say the month may edge out December 2008 to be the best month for unit orders since May 2007. It'll depend on what happens at the bottom of the charts. And remember, a large number of DC titles still have orders under-reported by Diamond by 10-20%, owing to DC's returnability offer. The upshot is that comic book unit sales went positive for the year this month, and dollar sales are within a hair's breadth of doing the same.
The comparisons:
COMPARATIVE SALES STATISTICS
OCTOBER 2011 VS. SEPTEMBER 2011
TOTAL COMICS/GN
OCTOBER 2011 VS. OCTOBER 2010
YEAR-TO-DATE 2011 VS. YEAR-TO-DATE 2010
Trade paperbacks were off again. The Flashpoint hardcover was the top seller, with a Walking Dead hardcover in second and the Batman: Arkham City hardcover in third. When the charts are dominated by hardcovers, the unit sales go down quite a lot, as you see above. But the dollar picture is better.
On to the market shares, and a new record set by DC. DC's market-leading dollar share was 42.47%, which beats its old Diamond Exclusive Era dollar share record of 40.88%, set in December 1999. That was the JLA Earth 2 month, and DC had 39 more comics than Marvel in the Top 300 that month — giving DC more than double Marvel's market share. The 42.47%-to-29.10% gap between DC and Marvel this month is thus by no means the largest seen — and in fact, with the growth of the market this month, it's not necessarily the case that all of DC's increase comes at the expense of others' final order totals. (Marvel's top dollar share in the Diamond Exclusive Era was 45.31%, set in September 2008.) The chart:
TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS
EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS
OTHER NON-TOP 10
It's a common misconception that Marvel always leads in dollar market share: DC led Marvel in Final Order Dollars in December 2010 and eight other times in the last 10 years. And DC led Marvel in that largest category every month from January 1999 to October 2001, much because of the comparative size of its offerings and trade paperback backlist in those days. You can see it visually here.
DC and Marvel's combined market shares total 71.57%; the record is June 2006, the Civil War #2 month, where the combined total reached 76.23%.
DC published more than half of all units sold, and had a 20-point lead in that category. I do not have historic tracks on that, because unit sales comparisons are not as clean when comics and trade paperbacks are in the same category. (That December 1999 month when DC had double Marvel's dollar sales, for example, Marvel was nearly even with DC in Top 300 units.) But Marvel had a 50.92%-to-28.47% unit share lead in September 2008, so there are earlier gaps of similar size in the Diamond Exclusive era.
DC's Justice League #2 led the market, and DC had 19 of the top 25 comics titles ordered. This is a remarkable figure, but, believe it or not, it is not a record. Marvel had 23 out of the Top 25 spots in March 2005.
October gives us a cleaner comparison in one regard: For the first time in the DC relaunch, we're comparing a four-week-month versus a four-week-month in the year-to-year totals; part of why the October gains look so much better than the September gains is that September 2010 was a five-week month. Since 2004, final unit orders for Top 300 comics are 11% higher in five-week months; that factor was not in play in October. However, it will be in November 2011, which I believe is a five ship-week month despite Thanksgiving.
2011 now has at least a shot at matching or beating last year's $418.6 million total; November 2011 has those five shipping weeks, and the hurdles for beating November and December 2010 are lower. We'd need to get year-over-year improvements in the 10% range again to hit the break-even point. But it's reachable, especially if trade paperbacks pick up.
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Q: Capturing form field value to pass into AJAX using BUTTON (not submit) I have a simple form with one input.  The page is located here:
Actual Page
I want to be able to take the input from the field, capture it, run ajax to get the data, trigger a div to show below, and display the data without any page refresh or reset.  If I define the var value, this code works:
var query = '12';
$("#buttonToClick").click(function () {
    $("#divToShow").show();
    $.post('ajax/part_detail_by_partno.php', { part: query }, function(data) {
                $("#divToShow").html(data);
    });
});

I am using an auto-complete feature on the field, but even disabled, the following does not work:
var query = $("#fieldWithData").val();
    $("#buttonToClick").click(function () {
        $("#divToShow").show();
        $.post('ajax/part_detail_by_partno.php', { part: query }, function(data) {
                    $("#divToShow").html(data);
        });
    });

I'm assuming it's because I cannot cannot capture the data without actually submitting the form.  So I changed the "button" to a "submit" with no form action (no page reload).  But then #divToShow does not open as a result of a page-reload.  Take a look at the "Quick Find" box on my page.  How can I get the input from the user to trigger the div to display the data returned from ajax/part_detail_by_partno.php generated by the input from the user?  I've spent hours trying to figure this out.  I am new to jQuery and AJAX, and I appreciate your help!

A: You're capturing the value of "query" outside the click action.  Move it inside the function.
Like this:
$("#buttonToClick").click(function () {
    var query = $("#fieldWithData").val();
    $("#divToShow").show();
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InterviewsLexi Jayde
Lexi Jayde Talks With TMI About Her Music & Acting Career
| 15 December, 2017 at 09:36
You started your music career at a very young age, what inspired you to try music at all?
My parents enrolled me in summer camp at the local theater when I was 6, and I auditioned and landed one of the "Doowop" girls in The Little Shop of Horrors Jr. A star was born! *laughs*
Did you always want to be a singer?
From that point on I wanted to act and sing! I've since done over 20 musicals.
Adventurous, Creative, Determined, Bubbly, Loving, Sassy and CRAZY! (I know it's more than 5!)
How would you describe your musical style?
I am still working on that, but it lies somewhere between Pop and Country.
What artists do you look up to right now?
Currently, I am in awe of Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato. I just watched their documentaries and was so inspired by their journeys.
Can we expect any new music soon?
Yes, but now that the cover is done I will be focusing on acting again. In between projects I will be working on some original songs.
What was it like starring in Jacob Sartorius' "BINGO"?
It was such a fun day! I found out the night before that I got the role and the icing on the cake was that I booked it with my good friend Sophia Rose Turino. We just laughed all day and it was such a catchy song. Jacob is incredibly sweet and we all went out after and grabbed a bite to eat.
You are also releasing your own version of a holiday classic in time for the holidays, Can you tell us a little bit more about that?
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" is a timeless piece. I think the first version was made in the 1940's and yet, it is still everyone's favorite song. We had to change some lyrics but overall it has the same flirty feel.
How did the idea for the Music Video come about? And what was the process to make the music video?
I have been wanting to do this cover for quite some time. I was inspired by the movie "Elf" a couple years ago, but it all happened so fast! I was recording the song and someone suggested Emery Kelly for the duet, and everything was done within a week's time. Our director Nayip Ramos brought our vision to life. Holiday magic definitely played a part in it coming together.
What was it like working with Emery Kelly on this project?
He is so charming and so talented! He made rehearsals and filming so much fun and he is such a professional.
You are also an actress. What made you decide to try acting?
I did my first musical when I was 6 and I think I caught the acting bug at that time! My parents kept me away from the entertainment side except for musicals and I accidentally fell into becoming a junior reporter for HollywoodTeenZine. It was fun, but as the story goes, when I was 10 I told them I wanted to be on the other side of the carpet.
Are there any other projects in the works you can tell us about?
Nothing I can discuss but I can tell you 2018 is going to be a very good year!
Handling school with my schedule has been very challenging! My high school has been so supportive and they have set up a special program for me which allows me to audition and film and maintain my class schedule. Both my parents and I strive to make school a priority, and I feel lucky that I get to experience both high school and the entertainment industry. I was a cheerleader this year and the experience of being on the field during a football game is priceless. It is very tough at times, but very worth it. I feel blessed everyday!
How do you want your relationship to be with your fans?
Active! I love heartwarming, supportive people that are always there for me, and I want to be there for them as much as I can! If I can bring a smile to their face like they do to mine everyday, I will be a happy little bean!
Does your fanbase have a name?
It has definitely steered toward "Lexinators".
What was the craziest fan encounter you have had?
Nothing has been too crazy yet, but I love when a fan comes up to me and we FaceTime their friend! Watching their reaction is always fun!
What social media platform do you use most to stay connected to your fans?
What's an average day for you look like?
Wake up, go to school, work with a tutor, go to vocal or acting classes, work out, hang out with my friends or do homework and then go to bed!
How do you spend most of your free time?
When I have free time I always like to spend it with my friends! I love shopping and crazy adventures, but also enjoy just lounging around. It depends on my mood.
What goals have you set out for yourself in your career and in your personal life?
Career wise, I would like to meet Oscar someday. 😉
Ultimately, just making a living by doing what I love is the goal. I would love to travel the world and possibly create my own non-profit. Personally, I want to have a huge family!
How has this whole music career experience been?
Its been absolutely incredible! I plan on doing a lot more of it!
Do you have any advice for aspiring music artists?
If you can dream it, you can do it. Don't let anyone discourage you.
Since this is the time of giving, Can you tell us about your part in "LikeUrLife" & "Breathe For Caley"?
LikeUrLife is all about self empowerment and having the courage to stand up against bullying, and how one person can make a difference. The videos are based on a true story and I am very proud to have been a part of this project. I am even more proud that it is being shown in schools across the country!
"Breathe For Caley" is very close to my heart. Caley Camarillo was a good friend of mine who had Cystic Fibrosis and I watched her fight with this disease every day. She was an example of strength and courage. She was a role model for everyone that stepped into her path and was the kindest soul that I have ever met. When we lost this Angel I decided that I will give whatever I can to this charity until the day that I die until they find a cure.
Do you have any last things you went to tell your supporters?
Thank you, thank you, thank you! You are the best and I will be forever grateful!
Thank you so much for the questions and have an amazing holiday!
Photo Credit: Derrick Freske
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"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" tweaks history onscreen as America's most iconic and beloved president Abraham Lincoln is portrayed as a vampire slaying powerful political figure of his time. Abraham Lincoln's (Benjamin Walker) journey in this alternate universe begins when his mother Nancy is stricken with a disease of unknown origin – but recognizable to young Abraham as a result of a vampire's bite. Nancy was a woman of intelligence and heart, imparting on her son the notion that, "until everyone is free, we are all slaves". Abraham never forgot those words which also came to define his views toward slavery. Nor would he ever forget the eternal evil responsible for his mother's death - a vampire named Jack Barts (Marton Csokas), against whom Abraham swears revenge. Catch the red band trailer of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" after the break.
"Abraham Lincoln" Vampire Hunter" opens July 4 in the Philippines in both 3D and 2D format from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.


Ewan McGregor narrates this BBC documentary about Hollywood's top plastic surgeons revealing the intimate secrets of the stars, including Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne, Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth. Watch Dr. Borko B. Djordjevic discuss about achieving natural looking results with procedures done on his celebrity patients.
King results with procedures done on his celebrity patients.


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Q: Angular 2 spec test for a component using material design I would like to test a component that uses material design and has a title.
<md-card-title>{{title}}</md-card-title>

How can I query the element containing the title?
it('should display original title', () => {

    // trigger change detection to update the view
    fixture.detectChanges();

    // query for the title by what ???
    de = fixture.debugElement.query(By ???('md-card-title'));

    // confirm the element's content
    expect(de.nativeElement.textContent).toContain(comp.title);
});

A: I think you can use one of these methods:
import { MdCardTitle } from '@angular/material';

de = fixture.debugElement.query(By.directive(MdCardTitle));

or
de = fixture.debugElement.query(By.css('md-card-title'));


Beautiful views atop this 4+ acre property south of the Town of Floyd. This property, with a little clearing, will be a wonderful place for a getaway or permanent residence. Easy access to 221 and short drive into town or Christiansburg.


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Selecting a "profile" image for an entity which will be shown when viewing the entity.
The width can be configured in the admin area.
Clicking on it opens the file view.
Moving gallery to an own ticket (#968) since it will require restructering of directory structure, new packages and some file operation functions, e.g. for thumbnail creation.


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A model black hole that traps sound instead of light has been caught emitting quantum particles, thought to be the analogue of the theoretical Hawking radiation. The effect may be the first time that a lab-based black hole has created Hawking particles in the same way expected from real black holes.
Black holes are ultra-dense concentrations of matter left behind when a star or other massive body collapses. Their gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from their edge – a boundary called the event horizon.
Given that, physicists expected that black holes would be, well, black. But in 1974, Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge predicted they should emit a faint glow of particles now known as Hawking radiation.
An oddity of quantum theory that says that the vacuum of space is not truly empty, but fizzes with pairs of particles and their antimatter counterparts. Normally, these pairs annihilate each other and disappear. But if one gets caught inside a black hole's event horizon, the other is free to escape and becomes observable as Hawking radiation.
The glow from real-life black holes would be too faint to see so, to confirm Hawking's prediction, physicists have built artificial black holes that mimic the event horizon.
In 2010, a team led by Francesco Belgiorno at the University of Milan made a model black hole, the horizon of which trapped photons using laser pulses in a fibre-optic cable. The team claimed this had produced Hawking radiation – but other researchers questioned whether it used the same physics as a real black hole horizon.
A quantum mechanical fluid should be able to mimic the exact physics of a black hole's event horizon, albeit at a much smaller scale. In 2009 Jeff Steinhauer at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa and his colleagues made just such a model black hole using Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), a quantum state of matter where a clump of super-cold atoms behaves like a single atom.
The team used one laser to confine the BEC to a narrow tube, and another to accelerate some of it faster than the speed of sound. This fast flow created two horizons: an "outer" one at the point where the flow became supersonic, and an "inner" one further on where the flow slowed down again.
The Hawking effect comes from quantum noise at the horizon, says William Unruh at the University of British Columbia in Canada, one of the first to propose fluid-based black hole analogues. The horizons create pairs of particles of sound, or phonons. One phonon escapes the horizon, and the other is trapped inside it.
A single phonon is too weak to observe, but the phonons inside the black hole bounce back and forth between the inner and outer horizons, triggering the creation of more Hawking phonons each time, much like a laser amplifies light. Physicists call this effect a black hole laser.
"The Hawking radiation exponentially grows, it self-amplifies," Steinhauer says. "That allows me to observe it, because the amplitude has grown." In the future he hopes to improve his detectors to sense radiation from a single horizon, which could help determine whether the pairs of phonons are entangled – another predicted feature of real black holes that may have fiery consequences.


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Arthur D. Reid (born October 17, 1947) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Carbonear and Carbonear-Harbour Grace in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 1998. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador. He was born at Carbonear.

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I have assembled the item and it will work but I had to correct mistakes someone made in producing the boards. Boards F & C were prepared so the non-veneered sides were facing to the front. It occurred on both of the shelf organizers I purchased. I ended up purchasing some veneer I applied and then painted. Check the employee who is messing up please.


On Sunday, April 7, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., Cinema Art Bethesda will present the Greek film, Amerika Square (Plateia Amerikis). The film is 86 minutes long and in Greek and English with English subtitles. It was released in 2016 and was the winner of 5 and nominated for 4 awards at 7 international film festivals.
Filmmaker Yannis Sakaridis presents a clever satirical view of the Greek migrant crisis by exploring both xenophobic and sympathetic sentiments of Greeks towards foreigners escaping the war and hardships that engulfed their native lands. Told from three different points of view, the story follow through to an upbeat, yet realistic and plausible ending.
Nakos is an unemployed inhabitant of the small neighborhood of Amerika Square who grows increasingly disgruntled at the influx of Middle Eastern migrants coming to Athens. Much of Nakos' frustration stems from his inability to do anything about the new demographics of his neighborhood, a situation he spends most of his time brooding over instead of undertaking measures to address the much bigger problem at hand – his dead-end life. The pathetic Nakos has few close allies – his parents with whom he lives and childhood friend Billy, the selfless tattoo artist next door in whom Nakos confides his hatred of immigrants. What Nakos does not confide in Billy is a sinister plan to eliminate some of the migrants utilizing a desperate measure that accomplishes a chain reaction only resulting in the loss of Nakos' few remaining friends. Billy, a lost soul himself who has wittingly and unwittingly impacted countless other lost souls through his line of work, seizes upon an opportunity to help two migrants escape from Athens; one of which a beautiful African singer with whom he falls in love and sees that she escapes to France at great cost to himself; the other a weary Syrian doctor escaping the war in Aleppo and trying desperately to reunite with his 9 year old daughter who has been smuggled to Germany ahead of him.
In the end, sympathy and selflessness resonate more brightly than intolerance and Nakos finds his anti-migrant attitude to have cost him his only allies and the shreds of pride and dignity that had been clutching all along.


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APRIL Group, the international insurance services entity and leading wholesale broker in France, is celebrating 30 years since its foundation in 1988. The Group, which today operates in 31 countries, has developed international private medical insurance (iPMI) as a core business line outside of France.
Shortlisted for the prestigious category of Best Individual International PMI Provider at this year's Health Insurance awards, the APRIL Group's iPMI business line is now gaining increasing recognition in a highly competitive market space.
APRIL International UK Managing director, Joe Thomas said, "We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the Best Individual International PMI Provider category and are grateful for the support from our broker partners who voted for us. Our experience, depth of service and network gives us a strong global proposition and with this new award nomination, we are confident in our ability to be able to continue growing our share of the global iPMI market through the development of competitive solutions and innovative concepts, whilst delivering excellent support and superior service."
The Group's iPMI business brings together APRIL International Care in France, APRIL International UK and APRIL Asia Pacific and now operates under the new trade name of APRIL International Care. It aims to make high quality medical care accessible for all customers wherever they are in the world supported by dedicated local service capabilities.
The APRIL Group's iPMI business line acquired MediCare Internationl in the UK just over four years ago and added GlobalHealth Asia in 2015 to lay the foundations for rapid expansion into the international private health insurance market. Now according to Joe Thomas, APRIL International Care is "Poised for a major push into new and existing markets."
Based in Hong Kong, April International Care's Head of Digital Marketing Kylee Bees has first hand experience of how innovation in one part of the Group can be developed, tested and delivered to the rest of the organisation. "Our mobile app is a case in point. Launched last year in Asia, it allows you to send all your medical invoices up to the value of US$800 electronically, so you don't need to send us the original invoices anymore". Bees adds, "With France already on board we are now working on rolling out this innovation to the UK, and Africa."
Listed on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1997, APRIL now has a truly international footprint, with operations in 31 countries worldwide. In addition to its presence across mainland Europe and the UK, the Group own companies in the Far East, where separate subsidiaries support activities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Latin America and Africa. The Group now has over 3,800 employees worldwide supporting 20,000 distributors, 15,000 of which are brokers.
April International is part of the April Group which was founded in France more than 30 years ago. It is an internationally known and respected insurance services group with operations in 31 different countries, looking after close to 6 million policyholders worldwide, consisting of some 86 different nationalities located in more than 120 countries.
April International are specialists in designing and delivering outstanding, flexible international health insurance solutions for individuals and companies, with long term, short term and student healthcare plans available.
Cover under group plans may also be available for local nationals. Discounted group rates start with 3 lives and full medical history disregarded underwriting is available on groups of 10 or more employees, making April International one of the most competitive group cover providers.
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Snickerdoodles are definitely a classic and simple cookie but one that took me at least a few… okay many attempts to master. Some may say it is a simple sugar cookie but they are so wrong. Snickerdoodles are buttery & soft, crispy & crinkly on the outside but deliciously chewy on the inside. And to get that signature Snickerdoodle taste made with Cream of Tartar.
For the longest time, whenever I saw a recipe with Cream of Tartar, I'd always think to myself, is that really necessary? Sometimes substitutes are perfectly acceptable, however in this case I think not. Cream of tartar is used for many different reasons, most commonly in meringues to stabilize egg whites. It's acids help strengthen the proteins in the egg whites allowing them to trap more air as they are beaten and we all know the trick to mile high meringue is air. However in the case of the Snickerdoodle, it is combined with baking soda to aid in leavening and provide the classic Snickerdoodle tang. If you don't have it on hand, I've heard you can substitute 2 teaspoons of baking powder but I've never tried it and it wouldn't be a true Snickerdoodle, now would it?
1.) Softened butter is necessary to get good creaming action out of the butter and the sugar. Cold butter is good for flaky pastries but not cookies. The creaming process incorporates air bubbles into the mixture giving the cookie it's soft interior. When creaming this cookie, cream until it is light and fluffy. About 3-4 minutes.
2.) Like we mentioned before cream of tartar gives the Snickerdoodle its signature tang. It also aids in lightening up the dough so you don't have a super dense cookie.
4.) Slightly under-baking cookies is my little trick to making sure they are chewy every time. A couple minutes in the oven in the world of cookies can be the difference between soft & gooey cookies and hard, crunchy and dry cookies. Bake these babies until you see the edges start to turn a light golden brown and firm up, the center will still look soft and not quite done, that means they are ready to come out. Once out of the oven they will continue to bake. If they look done in the oven then they are overdone.
Now we are all ready to bake some delish Snickerdoodles!
Cream softened butter and sugar in a mixer until it becomes light & fluffy. Approximately 3-4 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time making sure they are incorporated. Add the vanilla and mix until combined.
Sift the flour, salt, baking soda & cream of tartar in a separate bowl. Add it to the wet ingredients slowly in increments until combined.
Cover and chill the dough for at least an hour.
While the dough is chilling, in a small bowl combine the cinnamon sugar for the topping. After the dough has chilled roll the dough into 1 inch balls and roll them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture. The dough will be tough to scoop out at first but the warmth from your hands will soften it very quickly.
Place them 2 inches apart on a silver or light colored baking sheet with parchment. And bake for 10-11 minutes until you see the edges of the cookies turn a light golden brown color and firm up.
If you roll out dough that is waiting to be baked, chill the cookie balls on the baking sheet in the fridge.
Let cool completely before moving or eating. Enjoy!
Finally! This is the snickerdoodle I've been waiting for. I've tried other recipes that were good but didn't quite nail it like this one. This ones a keeper! Thank You!
Thanks Monica!! So happy you stopped to say hi! Right? You can't make a true snickerdoodle without it.
Thank you Stephanie! This is absolutely one of my all time faves!!!
Roughly how many cookies does this recipe make?
Hi Angie! Depending on how big you make them, you'll probably get around 18-22 cookies.
they do look like perfect snickerdoodles!
Thank you! They are so yummy!
Just out of curiosity, why do you have soy listed as an allergen? It shouldn't be with the ingrediets you listed.
Whoops! Good catch! I didn't even notice that was checked. Thank you for pointing that out!
Your cookies are gorgeous! Just like a textbook perfect snickerdoodle! Pinned!
Thanks Averie! That means a lot coming from you!! Thanks for visiting and pinning my cookies!


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Q: Angular 2 subscribe/unsubscribe through a button I m trying to check the internet connection. Whenever connection is lost, i want to show an alert to the user and if user clicks on the refresh button i want to check the connection again... But when i unsubscribe when the connection is lost, i cant subscribe again.
what am i doing wrong ?
  constructor( private alertController: AlertController ){

                    let connection = this.checkConnection().subscribe(data => {
                      let alert = this.alertController.create({
                          title: 'Error',
                          subTitle: "You lost connection !",
                          buttons: [ {
                     text: 'Refresh',
                     handler: () => {
                     connection.subscribe();
                }}]
               });

                  if(data == false){
                      alert.present();
                      connection.unsubscribe();
                  }
              }
                 );

        checkConnection() {

                   return Observable
                    .interval(500)
                    .map(() => {
                    return navigator.onLine;
                    });
                 }

UPDATE:
     let refresh$ = new Subject();
          let connection$ = refresh$.mergeMap(() => {
                        return Observable
                                .interval(50)
                                .map(() => navigator.onLine)
                                .filter(onLine => !onLine)
                                .take(1);
                      });

                      refresh$.next();

            connection$.subscribe(data => {
                    console.log(data)

            })

A: I think you're misunderstanding how observables work.
When you unsubscribe from an observable, you, as the consumer of the observable, are telling the observable that you no longer want any more values to be emitted to you. That's the signal to the observable to tear down its producer of values. So, unsubscribe is a one way street - there's no going back.
But you can probably still achieve what you want. From your code, it seems as though there is a navigator.onLine boolean that you can check to determine if you're currently online or not. And, if that boolean is false, you want to show a prompt telling the user that they are disconnected. In addition, it seems as though you want to stop checking for a connection at that point, until the user clicks 'Refresh' and then at that point, you want to resume checking.
If I'm getting your flow correct, then you can achieve that with using an observable chain.
Basically, you need multiple observables that you compose to get the effect that you want.
let refresh$ = new Subject();
let connection$ = refresh$.mergeMap(() => {
                    // on each refresh,
                    // create a new observable that checks every 50ms,
                    // but only emits if we are not online
                    return Observable
                            .interval(50)
                            .map(() => navigator.isOnline)
                            .filter(isOnline => !isOnline)  //only emit a when we go offline
                            .take(1);  // just need a single value to notify us to bring up our alert prompt
                  });

So, in the example above, refresh$ is a Subject that you call next() on whenever you want to start checking for an offline connection. You'll call refresh.next() manually for your first check, and then call refresh$.next() on each press of the refresh button after that.
connection$ is your observable that you subscribe to where you show your alert box whenever it receives a value.
I may not have gotten your precise use case correct - i had to guess based on the code you submitted - but hopefully this gets you thinking as to how you can go about achieving the result you want.


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