Dark energy is also an area of intense interest for scientists, but it is not clear whether direct detection of dark energy will be possible.

A typical year's yield for a maple syrup producer will be about 25 to 30 percent of each of the # 1 colours, 10 percent # 2 Amber, and 2 percent # 3 Dark.

Rachel Hawthorne's Dark Guardian novels examine a secret society of werewolves who live peacefully alongside normal humans, are able to initiate the change at will to protect their kind, and generally retain control of themselves when transformed.

It is also touched upon in the 2012 crossover film The Avengers and will likely be featured in the 2013 sequel Thor: The Dark World.

There, defended by Cadsuane Melaidhrin's Aes Sedai and loyal Asha ' man against the Forsaken, Rand and Nynaeve link and use the Choedan Kal to cleanse saidin of the Dark One's taint so that men who channel will no longer go mad.

The multiplayer mode divides players into Light Siders and Dark Siders, and will pit these sides against each other in team modes.

Since Jean Grey does not die in the Infinity Vortex, she will return to Earth in the form of the Dark Phoenix to take vengeance upon those who did not save her.

In addition, he will be developing comics based on " Dark Universe " and " Sam Space ".

Hari Seldon himself hopes that his Plan will " reduce 30, 000 years of Dark Ages and barbarism to a single millennium ," a goal of exceptional moral gravity.

" In April 2012 Kent will release their tenth studio album, Jag är inte rädd för mörkret ( Swedish for " I Am Not Afraid of the Dark ").

By the end of the Third Age, four had been lost, with two lost in Forochel, one in Anduin, and one buried amongst the ruins of the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr ; a fifth had been rendered virtually unusable ( the palantír of Minas Tirith showed only the burning hands of Denethor save to those with the strength of will to turn it elsewhere ).

Each door opens onto New York City at different periods in time ( 1987, 1964 and 1977, respectively ) and, as Roland passes through these doors, he brings back the companions who will join him on his quest to the Dark Tower.

Dark Horse Comics will be doing another reprint series with SAF starting in March 2012.

In July 2009 Dark Horse Comics announced at the Comic-Con International in San Diego that Shooter will oversee the publication of new series based on classic Gold Key characters like Turok, Doctor Solar, and Magnus, Robot Fighter, and write some of them as well.

These will be followed by a co-starring role alongside Bruce Liang in He Who Would Be King produced by Ju Long's new film studio and Kevin Munroe's War Monkeys for Dark Horse Indie, a branch of Dark Horse Entertainment.

In contrast, the Eldar Dark Reaper excels at long range fighting but will almost certainly be taken down in melee by even moderately skilled / equipped melee units.

Although some terms in academia do go out of style, such as " Dark Ages ", the term Barbarian is in full common currency among all mainstream medieval scholars and is not out of style or outdated, though a disclaimer is often felt to be needed, as when Ralph W. Mathisen prefaces a discussion of barbarian bishops in Late Antiquity, " It should also be noted that the word " barbarian " will be used here as a convenient, nonpejorative term to refer to all the non-Latin and non-Greek speaking exterae gentes who dwelt around, and even eventually settled within, the Roman Empire during late antiquity ".

Reunited with his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry returns to Hogwarts and learns that Dolores Umbridge, an employee of Fudge, will be his new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

She will appear in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine by Dark Horse Comics.

The playbill of Dark Of The Moon indicated that he had portrayed the Witch Boy before and that he will " repeat his famous portrayal " of this character for the 1955 season's revival of this play.

In a Hollywood record, The Dark Knight Rises will feature over an hour of footage shot in IMAX ( in comparison, The Dark Knight contained less than 30 minutes.

In an interview from " Beyond The Dark Horizon " on June 12, 2010, James LaBrie stated that his next solo album entitled " Static Impulse ", is in the mixing stages and will contain 12 tracks.

It has recently been announced that a younger John Constantine will feature in Justice League Dark, one of the new titles launched as part of September 2011's DC Universe reboot.

The same conclusions can be drawn from the other physical evidence of the Dark ages, from linguistic distribution, and from the survivals of early social, political, and religious patterns into later ages.

Willie's wonderful walloping Sunday -- four home runs -- served merely to emphasize how happy he is to be playing for Alvin Dark.

In the Dark Ages spiders were commonly considered to be a source of contamination of food and water.

Dark energy in its simplest formulation takes the form of the cosmological constant term in Einstein's field equations of general relativity, but its composition and mechanism are unknown and, more generally, the details of its equation of state and relationship with the Standard Model of particle physics continue to be investigated both observationally and theoretically.

This usually takes the form of a list of enemies with short descriptions ( e. g. the Metroid Prime and Castlevania games, as well as Dark Cloud and Final Fantasy ) and may even be central to the plot ( Pokemon series ).

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

A quantity of more recent bibliographical information can be found at the Bibliography section of the Eldritch Dark site online ( see External Links ).

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

Dark matter cannot be seen directly with telescopes ; evidently it neither emits nor absorbs light or other electromagnetic radiation at any significant level.

The most widely discussed models for nonbaryonic dark matter are based on the Cold Dark Matter hypothesis, and the corresponding particle is most commonly assumed to be a weakly interacting massive particle ( WIMP ).

According to Irish mythology, Donn, or the Dark One, is the Lord of the Dead and father of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, whom he gave to Aengus Óg to be nurtured.

Dark, unsweetened chocolate, caffeine, lemon rind, and some types of fruit are known to be bitter.

If the DNA is to be used after separation on the agarose gel, it is best to avoid exposure to UV light by using a blue light excitation source such as the XcitaBlue UV to blue light conversion screen from Bio-Rad or Dark Reader from Clare Chemicals.

In the 1970s, a harp was common in popular music, and can be heard in such hits as Cher's " Dark Lady ", the intro of " Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves ", and " Boogie Nights " by Heatwave.

Dark skin probably evolved after humans lost their body fur, because the naked skin was vulnerable to the strong UV radiation as would be experienced in Africa.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Morgoth of The Silmarillion as well as Sauron, the King of the Nazgûl and the others of the Nine Riders from The Lord of the Rings, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series, Lasky's Kludd and Nyra of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks's Warlock Lord of The Sword of Shannara, Jordan's Dark One of The Wheel of Time, and Eddings ' Torak of The Belgariad and Zandramas of The Malloreon, Rick Riordan's Kronos of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goodkind's Darken Rahl and Emperor Jagang of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Moragon, and Paolini's Galbatorix of The Inheritance Cycle.

Von Trier has stated he was inspired to make a trilogy about the United States as a reaction to Americans at the Cannes film festival who said he had no right to make the Dancer in the Dark, which was often viewed as being critical of a country he has never been to ( and has no intention of ever visiting, due to his phobia of travel ); however, von Trier himself has stated in interviews he did not intend it to be a criticism of America, saying the film takes place in a " fictional America ".

Ultimately, it would be A Shot in the Dark, three years later, which would boast the longest run.

US Grade A Light Amber has to be more than 75 percent translucent, US Grade A Medium Amber has to be 60. 5 to 74. 9 percent translucent, US Grade A Dark Amber has to be 44. 0 to 60. 4 percent translucent, and US Grade B is any product less than 44. 0 percent translucent.

Nintendo has since allowed several mature-content games to be published on its consoles, including: Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Doom and Doom 64, BMX XXX, the Resident Evil series, killer7, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, BloodRayne, Geist and Dementium: The Ward.

The Dark Lady is believed by some Oxfordians to be Anne Vavasour, Oxford's mistress who bore him a son out of wedlock.