Road salt – or deicer – is used to melt ice and snow from paved roadways in the winter. In North America it is used regularly in northern states and provinces, and on high elevation roads. Road salt improves tire adherence to the pavement, greatly increasing vehicle safety, but it has effects on the environment beyond the road surface. What Is Road Salt? Road salt is not necessarily table salt, or sodium chloride....
DC Studios CEO James Gunn has shared a tease for one character on social media ahead of the imminent DCU slate announcement in the coming days.Gunn and co-CEO Peter Safran are currently hard at work on crafting the future of the DCU, and fans can’t wait to find out what they have in store. The DC Studios duo is expected to announce the first of their slate plans in a matter of days before the end of January, but there has so far been no real indication of what to expect....
The Suicide Squad is set to introduce new and exciting villains to the world of the DCEU, and one of them is John Cena’s Peacemaker. It remains to be seen how Peacemaker will fit into the narrative of the upcoming hybrid reboot/sequel, but it seems that Warner Bros. is fully aware of the character’s potential due to the fact that Cena will return in a standalone spinoff series centered around the anti-hero on HBO Max....
Recent comments teased that the DCEU will be completely rebooted by James Gunn and Peter Safran, meaning that Jason Momoa will likely not be returning as Aquaman.The future of the DCEU has been in question for months now, as Gunn and Safran were picked to oversee the next 10 years of projects regarding the superhero franchise.Some previous comments teased that only certain characters and actors from the DCEU will be brought into the new DCU, while other times seemed to hint that the entire franchise will be rebooted and everything will be starting completely over....
Marvel Studios is ready to take the world by storm once again with Phase 5, a slate that brings a solo Daredevil series and a fourth Captain America movie, sandwiched between the Ant-Man threequel and the newly confirmed Thunderbolts movie. San Diego Comic-Con 2022 saw the first look at Spider-Man: Freshman Year, which will feature at least half a dozen classic web-slinger villains while bringing Charlie Cox’s Daredevil into the animated world....
PRODUCTION After an eventful August, it was eventually reported by Variety that Disney and Sony Pictures had jointly announced that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige would be co-producing the MCU’s third standalone Spider-Man film with producer Amy Pascal. The film was originally scheduled to release next year on July 16th, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sony Pictures made the decision to push the film’s release back to November 5th, 2021....
Moon Knight recently debuted its action-packed finale episode, which featured, among other things, Marc Spector and Steven Grant fully coming to terms with one another, a pitched showdown between Moon Knight and Arthur Harrow, and a giant crocodile fighting a giant bird skeleton. Yeah, things got interesting. Amidst all the chaos was the full debut of May Calamawy’s Layla El-Faouly as the MCU’s own Scarlet Scarab, the first Egyptian superhero put to screen....
Marketing for The Flash is about to ramp up, and a new report shared a promising update on when exactly its next trailer will premiere. Amid the controversies that its lead star Ezra Miller faced in the past year, the anticipation surrounding The Flash is still high, especially after DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn hyped up the movie by calling it “one of the greatest superhero movies ever.“While the issues have slowed down, the attention has now shifted to its next trailer....
Sometimes we have to decide between “neighborhood character” or carbon emissions and density. A new Passive House in Vancouver is a good example. For years, this TreeHugger has been a proponent of preservation and renovation rather than demolition and replacement. But over the years I have renovated my own house twice, added a bit of insulation here and there but not enough to make a serious difference, because I wanted to retain that historic character of the wood and the windows....
Secret Invasion is one of the upcoming entries of the Marvel Cinematic Universe on Disney+. The series will feature the Marvel returns of Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos alongside several veterans and newcomers, such as Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill and Emilia Clarke’s unknown character. Secret Invasion is inspired by the comic storyline of the same name, exploring the Skrulls’ infiltration of Earth. Despite being inspired by a famous comic storyline, the exact plot details of the show are still shrouded in secrecy....
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier came in as one of Marvel Studios’ first Disney+ shows. Debuting right off the coattails of WandaVision, the series saw Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson and Sebastian Stan’s Bucky Barnes forced to team up to stop international terrorists. Along the way, they also had to deal with John Walker, who was named the new Captain America by the government. But what comes next? Shortly after the series finished, it was announced that there’d be a proper Captain America 4 sequel film, one which would follow Mackie’s hero as he tries to navigate a world under the weight of his new mantle....
Marvel Studios has nearly half a dozen Phase 4 projects deep in production as the franchise’s first new project in 18 months, WandaVision, continues its run on Disney+. Some series premiering on the streaming platform later in 2021 are already completed while others are only partially done in terms of filming and production. And on top of that, the blockbuster studio is also well underway with Phase 4’s big-screen movies as well....
Months after the film’s release, it was reported that former Pixar CEO and Toy Story director John Lasseter has been extremely critical of this year’s Lightyear. Lasseter has not been in the Pixar office for quite some time, after alleged sexual misconduct toward employees, but he has still been vocal about the happenings at the famed animation studio. The filmmaker is now in charge of Skydance Animation, having jumped on Paramount Picture’s Luck midway through production....
Xbox consoles have been hard to secure this console generation. From scalpers to bots, getting a pre-order for an Xbox console has never been this difficult. We are here to help! We want our entire Xbox Direct community to get an Xbox as soon as possible, so we will be keeping you updated whenever pre-orders go live throughout the first few months of this console generation (or until Xboxes become widely available)....
Around the world, a spoken language vanishes every two weeks, according to statistics presented at a United Nations conference on indigenous languages. It seems hard to imagine that a group of people would suddenly stop speaking a certain language. But consider this: According to the U.N., most languages are spoken by very few people. About 97 percent of the world’s population speaks just 4 percent of its languages, while 3 percent speaks 96 percent of them....
Warning - This article contains spoilers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Today saw the release of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s concluding episode which finally introduced Sam Wilson to the world as the next Captain America. It’s been a long road to get to this point from his introduction as the Falcon in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Seven years, and seven appearances later, the veteran soldier has taken up the shield and donned his own unique version of the legendary patriotic suit....
Captain America’s legacy within the MCU is as deep as any character in the franchise, having been a part of Marvel’s big-screen lore for more than a decade. Chris Evans carried the mantle as Steve Rogers from 2011 to 2019, and in the final moments of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, Rogers passed the mantle and the shield to Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson for Phase 4 and beyond. Following a journey of self-discovery and acceptance regarding his new status in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Mackie’s MCU veteran fully evolved into Captain America as he took down the Flag Smashers....
Disney+ is ramping up its holiday slate heading into the festive season. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law Season 1 has just finished its run on Disney+ while Andor is more than halfway through its first season, and that’s far from everything to look forward to as November rolls around.While Marvel Studios’ only in-universe release comes with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in theaters, November is jam-packed with behind-the-scenes entries that fans can watch to learn how the MCU continues to build....
For many, financial freedom can be an elusive goal. People work long hours to pay off student loans, mortgage loans and consumer debt, but rising costs of living and housing prices mean that true financial freedom is increasingly difficult to achieve without some serious reconsideration of how to get past the finish line. Saving Money With a Tiny Home For Jocelyn and Jarvis, gaining financial freedom meant undergoing a process of recognizing their financial situation, taking steps to curb their spending, setting goals and sticking to them, and also building their own small home, which they have lived in for the last two years....
New Star Wars promo photos for Season 3 of The Mandalorian have shown Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin without his helmet.Unlike most television series, The Mandalorian’s titular character - and consequently Pedro Pascal - has rarely been seen without his beskar helmet as removing it violates the Mandalorian creed. The fact that Djarin showed his face twice in Season 2 of the Star Wars Disney+ series, and what’s now required of him as a result, appears to be key to the show’s Season 3 plot....
