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New York Times best selling author Michael McGarrity — author of the 2012 best seller "Hard Country" — has released the second installment of the trilogy and will be in Ruidoso Sunday to meet and greet fans of the action packed novel about life in the Old West and the epic family saga of the Kerney family.
In the first installment of the trilogy, "Hard Country," McGarrity spanned the years of 1875 to 1918, following John Kerney and his family as they traveled west in search of a new life in New Mexico where they experienced drought, economic boom and bust, and World War I.
"Backlands," the second installment, follows a young Matthew Kerney, John Kerney's grandson, as he struggles to carve out a life on the harsh New Mexico Tularosa Basin during the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II. Matthew returns to live at the family ranch with his distant father, Patrick. Life is never easy in the backlands, especially when the reduced demand for cattle, lingering drought and the Great Depression edge the Kerneys towards economic collapse. Matt must endure the challenges of adolescence and adulthood — love affairs, heartbreak, first jobs, and family struggles — all the while fighting to save the ranch and his way of life in a rapidly changing world.
McGarrity is no stranger to Ruidoso. His fan base in Lincoln County keeps him coming back with the release of each new book — this his 14th novel — including 11 other bestselling Kevin Kerney crime novels and the Anthony Award-nominated Tularosa.
"I've always loved to come down to Ruidoso," said McGarrity. "All of my books are set in New Mexico. I look forward to being down there. We usually have a standing room only crowd. Some of my books have been set in the area. One of them is 'The Big Gamble."
McGarrity will be in town Sunday, May 18 at 4 p.m. at Books, Etc.
McGarrity wasn't always a writer. A former deputy sheriff and investigator, McGarrity drew on his experience to write his bestselling Kevin Kerney series, which spanned 12 installments. Although the series is classified as crime fiction, McGarrity says the books were always about telling family stories first. "The joys and heartbreaks, failures and triumphs — even the good and evil within families," he said.
He published his first Kerney novel, "Tularosa," in 1996, and began imagining the backstory of his main character, a Santa Fe detective.
"I would conjure up images of Kerney's ancestors and speculate about their lives," McGarrity said. "It helped me define him. I had started writing a good dozen or more years before that on a part time basis just to see if I could do a good story. I never tried to turn my head to any kind of fiction. I thought, maybe I can do this. As I could spend time writing, I found a young editor who was interested in seeing an early manuscript. I worked with him and finally got the first two manuscripts good enough to submit to the editorial board. These were unsolicited manuscripts, so it was even quite rare to be able to do it then."
McGarrity keeps his stories close to home, most of them set in south central New Mexico, all woven with a heavy dose of history. "I've woven historical events into both of the volumes until now and plan to continue that through the end of the trilogy," McGarrity said.
He draws his inspiration from real-life accounts of the old West. "I love to find these little self published family memoirs and autobiographies that come out," McGarrity said. "When I was researching "Backlands" I came across a great little book published by Gretchen Heiztler called "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch," about Three Rivers Ranch. It just helped inform my understanding of what life was like at that particular point and time. I like to use those when I can find them. Fortunately there was an era when pioneer families and settlers felt it was important to pass along that info to their children and grandchildren."
As for up-and-coming authors, McGarrity offers this advice. "To me you shouldn't be writing to make a lot of money but for the love of it," McGarrity said. "It's because it's something you're compelled to do. Explore all of the opportunities out there before you self publish. Exhaust every other option and be ready for rejection. You've got to have a thick skin. There are so many avenues to explore. Exploring them first is very wise, whether it's a major publishing house or small independent press. It all depends on the kind of story a person is trying to sell."
As for the final book in the trilogy, McGarrity says it's already in the works. "The title is 'The Last Ranch,'" McGarrity said. "It covers the removal of the ranching families from the Tularosa Basin. It carries a very poignant feel of the time."
McGarrity also will be in Alamogordo on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Hastings Books on White Sands Boulevard.
McGarrity said fans won't be disappointed in the second installment.
"Like Hard Country, "Backlands" will resonate with fans of the Western genre, lovers of historical fiction, and appeal to readers who enjoy immensely powerful stories and unforgettable characters," McGarrity said. "Whether Matt is struggling to keep the ranch from going under, confronting long-buried family secrets and crimes, or fighting for his country on the battlefields of Sicily, he is emblematic of the American West — gritty, brave, and full of promise. Through Matt's eyes and the compelling Kerney family tapestry, readers will glimpse a slice of American history."


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On 28 November, the Paris Regional Court paved the way toward a more responsible Internet by requiring greater involvement of ISPs and search engines in the fight against piracy online. The proceedings were initiated by the French theatrical distributors (FNDF), the French video distributors (SEVN) and the local producers association (APC) against ISPs to block access to the pirate streaming websites "Allostreaming.com", "AlloshowTV.com", "Alloshare.com" and "Allomovies.com", as well as search engines to stop indexing these sites.
In terms of blocking access to sites that are manifestly and substantially pirate, this case confirms the practices obtained in other EU Member States in dealing with rogue sites in a balanced and proportionate way by using procedures sanctioned by EU legislation. The unique aspect of this decision is that all major search engines active in France are ordered to effectively de-index the 16 copyright infringing sites. That is a worldwide precedent.
We have long called for more responsible involvement from search engines. For all rightholders, the decision in France reinforces what we have long known to be a fact: search engines are the gateway to the Internet and as such have a special responsibility in ensuring that consumers are led to the multitude of legal platforms and services rather than to illegal money-making sites.
Equally gratifying was the opinion issued by the Advocate General Cruz Villalon on 26 November in the kino.to case that the Austrian Supreme Court referred to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). The AG states that blocking access to substantially infringing websites that refuse to legitimise their approach is a proportionate and valid measure to be implemented by ISPs. In his opinion, he also refers to the role of search engines in finding illegal content online.
All of us in the internet ecosystem share a responsibility to take meaningful steps to curb copyright infringement online. We are fully aware of our responsibility and have been working hard to develop innovative, legitimate and consumer-friendly platforms. Online options are booming and more than ever, consumers can view shows and movies when they want them, wherever they want them. The legal precedent set in France last week, reaffirms that search engines bear a responsibility, too, and must take real action to stop directing consumers to infringing sites.
Categories: Content Protection
Tags: FNDF, SEVN, APC, MPAA, Allostreaming.com
If it seems that every day there is a new development in the world of streaming movies and TV shows online, that's because it's true. The uber-competitive online distribution market continues to add viewing options on a regular basis. At this very moment we are aware of over 410 unique online services around the world offering legitimate full-length films and TV shows to consumers, including more than 60 multi-country services like iTunes and Netflix. And here in the U.S. alone there are now over 95 services available for consumers. These include ones that have been highlighted before like Fandor, Amazon, Hulu and HBO GO, and also new services like the one that debuted last month from retail-giant, Target: Target Ticket lets you rent or purchase new releases and classic movies and TV shows. You can find a growing list of all these different services that are now available on the MPAA's site, www.WhereToWatch.org. But Target Ticket isn't the only development in digital content that occurred during this year's third quarter. A new subscription online streaming service, Presto, will launch later this year in Australia and offer both current hits and favorite classic titles licensed to the Foxtel Movies channel, which includes the best that all of the major studios and key independents have to offer. And earlier this year Disney Media Distribution announced an agreement with Tencent's Hollywood VIP, a Netflix-style VOD streaming service available throughout China, to provide live action and animated feature films from Marvel Studios, Pixar Studios and Walt Disney Studios. Other noteworthy developments that occurred since last quarter include: the expansion of Netflix's operations into the Netherlands; VDIO announced its expansion into Canada just two months after its launch in the U.S. and U.K.; and iTunes announced in August the latest territorial expansion of its 'iTunes Movies in the Cloud' service to 8 new countries: Austria, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia and Switzerland.Audiences around the world have an ever-expanding array of innovative options for viewing online. And innovations in this area show no signs of slowing, whether in the form of new services, new geographies, and new content or new features.
Categories: Content Protection, Innovation, Technology
Tags: MPAA, Video on Demand, WhereToWatch
That IP-intensive industries are drivers of innovation, growth and jobs shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Certainly it is something that the creative industry has been championing for a number of years. The study undertaken by the Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) and the European Patent Office (EPO) that was presented at the end of September, strongly confirms this claim and actually shows the IP-intensive industries overall contribute 26% of employment and 39% of GDP in the EU. Within this, the core copyright-intensive industries generate 9.9 million jobs, contribute approximately EUR 230 billion and generate a trade surplus.
Yesterday, the OHIM released another important study, one which shows that European citizens view intellectual property and its social and economic contributions positively. This is certainly very encouraging, especially when one looks at the overwhelming majority with which Europeans believe that IP is important. This EU-wide study found that 86% agree that protecting IP contributes to improving the quality of products and services. And 69% of those questioned value IP because they believe it contributes to the creation of jobs and economic well-being. As a result, they condemn IP infringements.
But the study also clearly points to a gap between words and actions and shows that the EU faces a challenge in ensuring that its citizens understand what these values mean in practice when they enjoy films, TV shows and other creative works. And so as online content offers in the EU are booming and the movie industry continues to provide sustainable legal platforms and services for all Europeans, the challenge we now face is to educate citizens about what it takes to make a movie and that the impact of piracy is not just on companies and stars but also on the hundreds of people involved in the movie-making process. Whether we know them personally or not, they are citizens, neighbors, parents, and friends. We love what they make and should respect and reward their creativity and originality.
Categories: Content Protection, Copyright, Job Production
Tags: MPA, OHIM, EPO
View infographic to see how U.S. copyright industries lead the economy in value added to GDP, economic growth, good jobs and foreign sales and exports For years, those of us representing copyright industries have been making the case that copyright is a major contributor to the U.S. economy and an important job creator for American workers. In case there were any doubts, a new study released today by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) showed that, for the first time, the core copyright industries - the creators and producers of copyrighted materials like computer software, videogames, books, newspapers, music, and films and television programming - added over $1 trillion in value to the U.S. economy in 2012.
Of course, that is only part of the story - the other is that these important industries - and the millions of creative workers whose jobs are based on copyright - continue to face a major threat from piracy. And if we want copyright to continue to be a vibrant job producer and economic generator, we need to do more to strengthen and protect its businesses and workers, even as important new digital business ventures emerge to provide an ever increasing array of online movies, television shows, music and other creative products for consumers.
According to the new study, Copyright Industries in the U.S. Economy: The 2013 Report, these industries account for nearly 6.5% of the total U.S. GDP and are responsible for almost 5.4 million American jobs - that's almost 5% of the country's entire private sector. These are high-quality jobs offering an average of 33% more in compensation than the rest of the workforce.
And these are not just the famous people whose names and faces so many of us know, but the men and women sweating behind the scenes every day developing the latest software, building sets for films and TV shows, operating the lights and cameras, recording and producing the music we listen to, or publishing the latest books we love to read. These people provide the foundation of a healthy creative industry and they all depend on copyright for their livelihoods.
When you take into account other industries who work in and around copyright, but whose entire industry isn't based on it (such as toys and games, fabrics, TV sets, computers, etc.), these numbers grow even more staggering with more than 11.1 million workers employed altogether and $1.7 trillion added to the GDP. In the film and television industry alone, we support 1.9 million of those jobs, both directly and indirectly, through the creation, production and distribution of our movies and TV shows.
Today's study was prepared by Stephen J. Siwek of Economists Incorporated for the IIPA, and updates 13 previous studies. Based on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and other government agencies, the study demonstrates the vibrancy of copyright and creativity as an engine for growth for the U.S. economy. It also highlights copyright's role as an engine for export revenues, creating a positive balance of trade with a "copyright surplus" of $142 billion for key copyright sectors last year. This "surplus" directly benefits workers here in the United States and provides a great deal of economic stability during these not so stable times.
As we continue to become much more of a knowledge-based economy, the importance of the copyright industries will only continue to grow. Between 2009 and 2012, these industries grew at a rate of 4.7%, that's more than twice as much as the entire U.S. economy. And who knows how much larger that will be in the next three years, if we work together as a society to create and enforce effective laws that will continue fostering the tremendous economic growth and contributions of those who create and innovate.
This post was originally posted on HuffingtonPost.com and can be read in its original format here.
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Tags: MPAA, Copyright, IIPA, Copyright Industries, Steven J, Siwek
Today, copyright is driving innovation throughout the growing digital economy, and promoting a robust, competitive environment that constantly generates new sources of entertainment for audiences to enjoy. This in turn supports investments in the many related applications, devices and other technologies that viewers use to access this content with increasing ease and flexibility. To help spur this creativity and innovation, I believe that the primary goal of policymakers who are reviewing copyright should be to preserve and expand the incentives in the law that have produced this unprecedented success for consumers.I made this argument in comments filed on behalf of the MPAA as part of a proceeding by the Department of Commerce's Patent and Trademark Office and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration regarding their Green Paper, "Copyright Policy, Creativity, and Innovation in the Digital Economy." A copy of these comments can be found here.
There are now over 90 legitimate web-based services in the U.S. to watch movies and TV shows, and that number is growing every single day --services like Netflix, UltraViolet, HBO GO, Hulu, Crackle, WatchESPN, Amazon Prime to name a few. The entire list can be found at www.wheretowatch.org. These services let audiences connect to the content they love easier than ever before, and creators in both the content and technology sectors are devoting substantial time and resources to creating new, easier ways to access this content.But in order to maintain this tremendous growth in innovation and technology, everyone in the digital ecosystem must do their part to protect the rights of creators and innovators. The growth in access to digital content and to the Internet has been world-changing for consumers. And I believe that all stakeholders in the Internet ecosystem—whether search engines, advertising networks, payment processors, or cloud storage providers – share a responsibility to curb abusive practices online, including copyright infringement, and help create an Internet that works for everyone.That means finding ways of working together in good faith on voluntary solutions where everyone shares in the responsibility of creating a healthy digital marketplace for the exchange of ideas, goods, and services; one that promotes creativity, investment, innovation and job creation. The motion picture and television industry is made up of media and technology companies. They invest billions of dollars every year in creative talent, skilled workers, and supportive technologies. They produce movies and television programs that inspire, thrill, and educate audiences around the world while supporting 1.9 million jobs all across the country. They are responsible for 108,000 businesses across all 50 states, 85 percent of which employ fewer than 10 people. In 2011, the industry supported $104 billion in wages; $16.7 billion in sales tax, state income tax, and federal taxes; and a $12.2 billion trade surplus. None of this would be possible without a robust, effective copyright system. And we must ensure that it remains the economic and innovation driver that it was intended to be.
Categories: Copyright, Innovation, Technology
Tags: MPAA, Department of Commerce, US Patent and Trademark Office
Google has reportedly removed more than 200 million links to allegedly pirated content in 2013 in response to demands from copyright holders – up from 50 million in 2012. This increase in link takedowns is further evidence of the significant role search engines play in introducing Internet users to infringing content – movies and TV shows that have been stolen and illegally distributed online – and underscores their responsibility to help curb the piracy problem. A study released in September by the MPAA found that 74 percent of consumers surveyed said they used a search engine as a discovery or navigation tool in their initial viewing sessions on sites with infringing content. And 58 percent of searches that led to infringing content contained only general keywords – such as the titles of recent films or TV shows – and not specific keywords aimed at finding illegitimate content. The study also found that audiences who view infringing content for the first time online are more than twice as likely to use a search engine in their navigation as repeat visitors. We are constantly working to develop new and innovative legitimate platforms that deliver the shows and movies audiences want while ensuring that content creators are compensated for their work. But as the gateway to the Internet, search engines have a responsibility to not only direct consumers to a high-quality viewing experience but also to adopt effective initiatives to address their role in introducing users to infringing content. As Rep. Marsha Blackburn said in September: "The question search engines need to answer is this: do they want to be the digital highways for legitimate information, entertainment and education, or do they want to be the get-away car for stolen content and mass exploitation of private property? Leaders in technology innovation are in a unique position to do something serious and they're being called on to do better." Of course, search engines can't solve the piracy problem on their own. But their influential role in the Internet ecosystem means they share a responsibility to be good actors. We look forward to continuing to work with search engines to find reasonable solutions that can foster and protect innovation and creativity online.
Tags: MPAA, Copyright, Marsha Blackburn
Fascinated to see a rom-com about the pregnant mistress of a powerful tycoon shipped off to Seattle to have a baby to escape the reach of the gossip tabloids? Excited to see Keanu Reeves take the helm behind the camera for his directorial debut with the action film Man of Tai Chi? Then look out for these and other co-productions screening when filmmakers and representatives of the American and Chinese film industries converge on Los Angeles for the 3rd China International Co-Production Film Screenings.
Over the past decade, China has exploded into one of the biggest film markets around the world, second only to North America. Between 2003 and 2012, their box office grew from USD $120 million to USD $2.7 billion, and for the first nine months of this year it grew once again by nearly 35% compared to last year. And the domestic and co-production film industry in China has grown in leaps and bounds, producing some of the most creative and original content around.
That's why for the last five years we worked with others interested in the growth of China's film industry to create the China International Co-Production Film Screenings with the goal of fostering a greater exchange of creative ideas and strengthening the bond between our two film industries. And it is working. Today, Chinese, American and companies from many countries are together producing films, building cinemas, and innovating with new technologies to excite audiences worldwide.
And now, after the great success of our first two co-production film screenings, all of us at the MPA, as well as our partners at AMC, Asia Society, China Film Group Corporation, China Film Co-production Corporation, China Lion, CJ Entertainment, IMAX, MTime, Variety and Wanda are thrilled to highlight a small sample of the great filmmaking that is being done by creators and artists from both nations working together thanks to the cooperation that events like this support. To kick-off this year's exciting line-up of screenings, our partners at Universal Studios will host a gala event on their studio lot this evening featuring a special screening of Man of Tai Chi. The week will continue with the North American premiere of Finding Mr. Right, a love story from the mind of talented new writer/director Xue Xialou who was the winner of MPA Asia-Pacific's first film workshop just a few years ago; the Chinese blockbuster Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon, and others. A full schedule of the week's screenings can be found here.This is a very exciting time for not only those working in the Chinese and American film industries, but movie lovers in both nations who are eager for great stories that are fresh and well told. It has never been easier for creators from different nations to collaborate on projects and bring stories to life that will appeal to different audiences than it is today. So for those who attend next week's 3rd China International Co-Production Film Screenings and are looking for great, fresh stories that appeal to a lot of different audiences – I promise that is exactly what they will get.
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Tags: China International Co-Production Film Screenings, Man of Tai Chi
A revolution in digital content is sweeping the globe, forever changing how we create and consume the content we all love – from films and TV shows, to literature, music, video games, art and photographs. It's a very exciting time for creators and makers, and all of us who work with them in the content industry and beyond. The innovation at the core of this revolution is only going to continue.
On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to join representatives of Google Play, the National Music Publishers Association and the Digital Media Association on a panel hosted by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to discuss the impact that the surge in available content is having on both consumers and creators, and how this space has evolved in recent years. A link to a webcast of the panel discussion is available here.
One thing that's clear is that quality content has never been more influential to the growth of the Internet than it is today. If you want to attract visitors to your website, subscribers to your service, or eyeballs to your advertisements, your content needs to be compelling. That's why players like Amazon and Netflix have begun producing their own original programming, and that is just as true for Hollywood studios who continue to be on the cutting-edge of the digital content revolution.
With services like HBOGo, Crackle, and Hulu that stream films and TV shows, to search engines like CanIStream.it, Fan.tv, GoWatchIt and others like iTunes, Vudu, and Target Ticket for purchasing movies and TV, companies are working every day to create innovative ways of delivering content to consumers when, where and how they want it. At this moment there are 95 services in the U.S. providing access to online legal film and TV content, and all of them can be found on the MPAA's recently launched website - wheretowatch.org.
These efforts show that we have a very competitive marketplace for developing compelling content, distributing it in new ways, and experimenting with new business models in order to meet consumer demand. And that is great news for everyone.
As my fellow panelist, Zahavah Levine, head of content partnerships at Google Play, said, "the market is working…." and we have "more legal digital content options than ever before."
But even with all of these new innovations, the problem of piracy remains. A recently study by NetNames concluded that the amount of bandwidth used for infringing content represents nearly a quarter of the total bandwidth used by all Internet users.
It's going to take all stakeholders in the Internet ecosystem collaborating in good faith in order to make a meaningful reduction in that number. But it can be done. Voluntary initiatives like the Copyright Alert System (CAS) – a partnership between the major ISPs and the movie and music industries, which alerts consumers when they have accessed illegal content and helps guide them to other legal sources for accessing that content – are perfect examples of how we can create a safe, secure and sustainable Internet for consumers and creators by working together and ushering the next big innovation in digital content.
Categories: Innovation, Technology
Tags: ITIF, MPAA, WheretoWatch.org
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I am showing a new work at DAM Frankfurt "BACK TO BACK" , opening next Sunday . "Graphic Arrays" is about screen resolutions and aspect ratios and how these evolved over the laste decades. The left board is dedicated to more recent mobile vertical resolution ending at iPad retina. The right board represents the long history of desktop screen pixel sizes starting with the classic VGA (640×480) IBM standard from 1987 till todays common 2560×1600 desktop monsters. It's also fun to look up the top screen resolutions of Internet users for each year screenresolution.org, sometimes even sorted by country (which it was up to date). My first screen ever was a PAL 576×768 on a C64.
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Eight independent candidates from North West's Tlokwe municipality have alleged in court papers that hundreds, if not thousands, of voters in the by-elections in the area were not legitimate, City Press reported on Sunday.
The electoral court in Bloemfontein is due next month to hear a court application by the independent candidates to have the election result set aside and an independent investigation to be conducted.
The newspaper reported that court papers submitted by the independent candidates allege that at least 500 voters were registered at addresses outside the ward areas and at least 600 had provided false or incomplete addresses on voter registration forms.
Other allegations include that 31 people from other areas were re-registered in the contested wards and transported to the Tlokwe area to vote in the elections.
In responding papers, the Independent Electoral Commission's chief electoral officer Mosoto Moepya said "no evidential material has been brought before the court in support of the allegations."
The ANC retained six wards in by-elections which took place in the highly contested region in December last year.
Political engagement in the area has been heated after 14 ANC councillors were expelled from the party last July for participating in a motion of no confidence in the ANC's mayor Maphetle Maphetle. He was replaced as mayor by the DA's Annette Combrink.
The ANC's national disciplinary committee subsequently overturned the expulsions, but nominated other candidates for the by-elections. Some of the former councillors decided to stand as independents. - Sapa
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This technology has been around for many years. You can modify any diesel engine to run on any kind of vegetable oil. If the average temperatures are high enough - as they are in the South Pacific - you don't need any modifications at all.
Biodiesel, on the other hand, is made from vegetable oil but doesn't require engine modifications.
There's this Oil From Algae yahoogroup at, you guessed it, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oil_from_algae
There's talk about setting up a "distributed research" study: share the methods, work at home, share the results.
I sometimes worry about cash crop mentalities in the developing world though. It seems that island ecologies might be badly skewed if well meaning but short sighted governments in the Pacific start heavily subsidizing farmers to grow coconut palms to the exclusion of all else.
I applaud it if leads to some level of self-sufficiency but I wonder if we might see a repeat of all the failures of previous cash crop fads that swept the developing world in decades past--peanuts, coffee, bananas, etc.
Why would there have to be subsidies? As a locally grown/locally consumed product, this class of bio-fuels presents a local solution to a local problem. Dependence of petroleum based fuels is not going to go away at ay near term point. This is a method of providing power, transposrtation, and jobs to local economy with minimal impact on the environment, at a minimal cost to the local customers.
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Coconut Crop yields 287 Gallons of fuel per 1 acre crop. Corn Oil yields only 18 Gallons per crop.
see: http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html
From a business point of view - if I was going to start a farm to make biodiesel, this would be the clear winner.
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It is said that the Philippines counts over 7200
islands, of which only 2200 are inhabited. According to satelite info, Indonesia consists of 18,108 islands, of which a mere 6000 are inhabited.
This means that, roughly speaking, there are a whopping 17,000 "uninhabited" islands in this region (seventeen thousand)! While many of those are probably just rock or sand or reef, I'm sure several thousands of those have a huge number of coconut trees. Probably nobody's harvesting the coconuts (as an individual farmer, it's not worth it sailing out to a remote island to go and get a few nuts).
So engineers, if only you could come up with some kind of GPS-activated, automated, solar-bio-cocopowered robo-harvesting-boat-ship-robot to go fetch the nuts, you could become famous and powerful and rich.
Maybe someone could just do the effort of hanging cheap nets under these trees (so that they don't drift into the sea) and go pick up the nuts later.
Just imagine it: seventeen thousand uninhabited islands!
I for one welcome our coconut-harvesting robot masters.
The reason america uses corn so much is as a grass its rather easy to grow.. yes its a grass folks.
Genetic work and breeding have improved yeilds of oil and such immensely over the years and likely for biofuels production they will use a new breed designed to max out oil production.
If you dont need sugar content or taste im sure oil production characteristsics can be pumped up quite high.
The main issue with biofuels is do we have enough farmable land and enough water and such to grow a useful amount while feeding ourselves as well?
And can we do that after the worst of the climate change has occured?
Burning more corn or coconuts and less fossil fuel is an answer to the wrong question. The right question is how do we move away from oxidation as our primary source of energy? This fascination with burning things has to cease if we want to make any forward progress out of the mess that Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Peabody left us in.
As a South Pacific man, born in PNG, I felt really good about this!
Go, Vanuatu! Go, wantok!
i am aware of an oil fired power station in the UK that is now able to burn coconut oil, maintaining (and recently surpassing) output levels obtained by burning crude oil (1250 MW).
This is happening 'now', but cannot be publicly announced, due to the lack of controls in which the oil is harvested.
Its a shame the corporation, that is pioneering this effort in renewable resources (and others including Greenpeace approved off-shore wind farms), is unable to control the farming methods for this energy source.
Currently the cost of choosing this alternative source over conventional methods is negligable, requiring little modification (and therefore cost) to the existing infrastructure.
Why is it that even though they are no longer being tied to a handful of sources (Saudi, m eastern, Texan) they are unable to accept their corporate responsibly and still utilise this coconut oil at a competitive price?
What I want to know is, can I buy bottles of Hawaiian Tropic Suntan oil cheap at the end of the season and just run my car on that? Mmmmmm, suntanny goodness.
Seriously, thank you for the interesting facts. I think if you can run your car on anything besides conventional gas, it's a good thing for everyone. Especially the coconut-harvesting robot masters.
I lived in the Marhsall Islands for a year, and some companies there run diesel trucks on 100 percent coconut oil and have been doing so for over three years (as it never gets below coconut oil's freezing point, there is no need for any engine modification).
As a second point, I wanted to respond to an earlier post...
"Posted by: fp at September 24, 2005 05:48 PM
Burning more corn or coconuts and less fossil fuel is an answer to the wrong question. The right question is how do we move away from oxidation as our primary source of energy? This fascination with burning things has to cease if we want to make any forward progress out of the mess that Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Peabody left us in."
Many people, including my father who is sometimes called to speak on tv about energy, believe that burning any fuel releases CO2 into the atmosphere and increases net atmospheric CO2. The advantage of burning biofuels is that the CO2 released was in the atmosphere before the plant source used it to make carbohydrates (in the case of corn or sugar ethanol) or oil (in the case of coconuts or vegi oils). Burning biofuels leaves no NET increase in CO2. Burning fosil fuels, you are releasing CO2 from the ground into the atmosphere, increasing net CO2 in the atmosphere.


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The Critical Life Studies Research Group (CLSRG) endeavors to foster cutting-edge and creative, independent and collaborative projects at the intersection of gender and queer theory, posthuman studies, animal and viral/bacterial studies, contemporary philosophy, technoscience studies, anthropocene and extinction studies, environmental humanities, ontology, and ethical and socio-political theory. As such, CLSRG is comprised of a diverse group of individual scholars and linked to a number of networks, Swedish and International—some already existing, some still in the process of formation. Members of the team and some members of these networks will be divided into a variety of substrands. These substrands have multiple working groups, some of which are very specific and targeted toward narrower goals while others will attempt to broaden the scope and combine themes in innovative and interdisciplinary ways. Some members of the team participate in more than one substrand.
1. Posthumous Life and Inhuman Ethics
2. Conflict Zones: Genocide, Extinction, and the Inhuman
3. Theory Sex: Transgenres, Affects, and Ontological Queerings
1. Posthumous Life and Inhuman Ethics
There are several projects located in this strand. Foremost, the Critical Life Studies book series (General editors: Jami Weinstein, Claire Colebrook, and Myra Hird; Columbia University Press) and, already underway - situated to be the first publication in the series - is a co-edited volume with Claire Colebrook (Penn State University) entitled Inhuman Rites and Posthumous Life.
Confirmed authors include: Elizabeth Grosz, Rosi Braidotti, Paola Maratti, Cary Wolfe, Karen Barad, Myra Hird, Alastair Hunt, Akira Lippit, Donna V. Jones, Eugene Thacker, Nicole Anderson, Susan Heckman, and Rebecca Hill.
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2. Conflict Zones: Genocide, Extinction, and the Inhuman
With co-applicants Claire Colebrook and Nina Lykke, Conflict Zones will be a large-scale, international, interdisciplinary research project.
We are currently in the process of submitting several grant proposals in order to meet together and hash out the ethical and political dilemmas of extinction and genocide, or more generally, annihilation and the possibility of the inhuman. The plan is to meet in three locations over three years as a group of around 31 theorists from a diverse range of disciplines and think together through these issues. The culmination of this project will be several co-edited volumes (along with Claire Colebrook) publishing the results of our research.
For more info on the project and participants, click here.
3. Theory Sex: Transgenres, Affects, and Ontological Queerings
This is the newest of the three strands and is still in the process of formation, the network still under construction. Some of this comes out of my own recent work reconceptualizing feminist philosophical "Sex Difference Theory," another part is derived from my work on queer and gender theory, and the newest element--affect--has been spawned from one of the funded projects (in Bergen, Norway) of which I am a member. I have added affect to my already established research strand focusing on transgenre because of the way in which I would like to mobilize this new turn to affect, a response in some way to the age old mind-body problem, in the service of posthuman theory.
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|Molar quantification by flow cytometry of fatty acid binding to cells using dipyrrometheneboron difluoride derivatives.
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|PMID: 8742176 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Fatty acid analogs of a dipyrrometheneboron difluoride fluorophore (BDY-FA) have recently been developed. Relative to other fluorescent fatty acids, some of these have the advantages of excitation and emission spectra similar to those of fluorescein and of high quantum yield, which permits their use in conventional argon laser cytometry or microscopy. For the cytofluorimetric quantification of BDY-FA analogs, expressed as molecules bound per cell, we have compared the fluorescence of BDY-dodecanoic acid (BDY-C12) with that of fluorescein. Fluorescent beads with different amounts of bound fluorescein were used to calibrate a flow cytometer in order to correlate the fluorescence intensity with the number of fluorescein molecules per bead. In addition, starting from the basic equation defining the relationship between fluorescence and concentration, we have derived another equation which makes it possible to establish, for a given fluorescence, the relative molar concentration of both fluorochromes and, consequently, to express the fluorescence intensity emitted by the BDY-FA as the equivalent number of BDY-FA molecules. As an example of the potential application of this procedure, the time-course and concentration-dependent binding of BDY-C12 to quiescent and mitogen-activated human lymphocytes and to cultured human T-lymphoma cells have been studied. The method described is of general interest as it can also be applied to the flow cytometric or laser scanning microscopic quantification of other fluorescent dyes.
|A Macho; Z Mishal; J Uriel
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|Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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|Title: Cytometry Volume: 23 ISSN: 0196-4763 ISO Abbreviation: Cytometry Publication Date: 1996 Feb
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|Created Date: 1996-10-10 Completed Date: 1996-10-10 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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|Nlm Unique ID: 8102328 Medline TA: Cytometry Country: UNITED STATES
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 166-73 Citation Subset: IM
|Laboratoire de Chimie des Proteines, Institut de Recherches Scientifiques sur le Cancer, Villejuif, France.
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|MeSH Terms
Boron Compounds*
Cells, Cultured
Fatty Acids / metabolism*
Flow Cytometry*
Fluorescent Dyes
Lymphocytes / metabolism*
Lymphoma, T-Cell / metabolism*, pathology
Microscopy, Confocal / methods
Reference Standards
Spectrometry, Fluorescence
Tumor Cells, Cultured
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|0/Boron Compounds; 0/Fatty Acids; 0/Fluoresceins; 0/Fluorescent Dyes; 2321-07-5/Fluorescein
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