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Check out today's highest ranked practically non-existent and big improvement movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies that are practically non-existent and big improvement, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country. Maimovie provides context-aware recommendation based on extensive data gathered and analyzed by AI.
1 Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016)
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
2016-05-25 | Adventure / Family
Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp
wild and wacky
visual marvel
2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
2015-12-15 | Action / Adventure
Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill
pronounced actor
logical progression
fake-looking
3 Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
2017-12-13 | Science Fiction / Action
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher
more prominent
ultimately satisfying
cringe-worthy dialogue
4 Fantastic Four (2015)
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan
shocking climax
thrilling climax
double whammy
5 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.
1999-05-19 | Adventure / Action
Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor
bit disappointing
much improved
unnatural acting
6 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot that could change the galaxy forever.
Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor
visual feast
most exciting
absolutely pathetic
7 Jurassic Park III (2001)
In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.
Sam Neill, William H. Macy
flimsy premise
more terrifying
8 Pet Sematary (2019)
Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.
2019-04-04 | Thriller / Horror
Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz
too thrilling
bone chilling
unearthly
9 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
technically impressive directing
everything fitting together
subpar acting
10 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a young prince whose life has been threatened by the evil King Miraz. Now, with the help of a colorful cast of new characters, including Trufflehunter the badger and Nikabrik the dwarf, the Pevensie clan embarks on an incredible quest to ensure that Narnia is returned to its rightful heir.
Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley
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What are recommended movies of Top rated practically non-existent movies that are also big improvement?
The recommended movies of Top rated practically non-existent movies that are also big improvement are Alice Through the Looking Glass, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Fantastic Four, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Jurassic Park III, Pet Sematary, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
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Q: Mono.Android fails to load with debugging symbols I am new to the mobile arena, and having some problems using Visual Studio 2017.
It is android app. Here is the code I'm trying to run
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Peacock, Kenneth. "Lithuanian Music in Canada". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 23 January 2014, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lithuania-emc. Accessed 19 April 2019.
Immigrants from the Baltic country of Lithuania began arriving in Canada in significant numbers early in the 20th century, the largest wave following the country's reabsorption into the Soviet Union in 1940 (after 22 years of independence).
Immigrants from the Baltic country of Lithuania began arriving in Canada in significant numbers early in the 20th century, the largest wave following the country's reabsorption into the Soviet Union in 1940 (after 22 years of independence). There were more than 36,000 Lithuanians in Canada in at the end of the 20th century and most reside in larger urban centres.
Lithuanian folk culture is predominantly rural in its orientation. Many dainos (folksongs) are rich in symbolism and are often connected with significant events such as weddings and funerals. Other ancient genres include calendric ritual songs that have become Christianized through their association with Advent, Christmas, Easter, and other church observances. A host of male and female songs involve the labours associated with agricultural life and work (grinding, spinning, weaving, harvesting, shepherding, herd-tending, and so on) and have survived in Canada through individual performers. (Kenneth Peacock collected 409 songs and 63 instrumental pieces for the National Museum of Man - Canadian Museum of Civilization - in 1962 and 1967-8.) Some of this material has been assimilated into more sophisticated choral and instrumental presentations for concerts, festivals, and banquets.
The most unusual songs are the multipart sutartine (from sutarti meaning to sing in accord or to agree and sing harmoniously). These polyphonic songs often are characterized by clashing major and minor seconds and by canonic devices. The synchronized, dissonant melodies and words are sung primarily by women and children, and draw on a range of folksong subjects. A rhythmic word or onomatopoeic vocals are repeated by some voices as the text continues in other voice parts. Some of the songs are also be performed with movements such as walking, stamping feet, gliding, or simple dances choreographed in rows or in a circle.
Two types of sutartine, the Dvejines, sung by one pair and the trejines, sung by three women, are unique to Lithuanian music and are a source of fascination for musicologists. The male counterparts of the sutartine are played by men and boys on single-toned pipes (skudučiai) of varying lengths. Each player holds two or three pipes and plays the correct tone at the appropriate moment in the piece - rather like a group bell-ringing. A Canadian innovation in the construction of skudučiai is the use of bamboo, with the natural joints forming the closed ends. Other instruments include the popular kankles (zither), also of various sizes, and the Pentecost horn, a holed reed instrument.
Lithuanian groups in Canada have included the Aušros Vartu Parapijos Choras of Montreal, a 50-voice mixed choir established in 1950 (directed successively by A. Piešina, V. Kerbelis, A. Ambrozaitis, and Madeleine Roch); Varpas (meaning 'bell'), a Toronto mixed choir of 50 voices, conducted by Stasys Gailevicius, which was active in the mid-1950s; and a male choir, also in Toronto, which gave its first concert 6 May 1978 under its founder Vaclovas Verikaitis. After Verikaitis's death (8 Jan 1990), the group continued under the direction of John Govedas (b 1950, d 7 May 2005). Another choir, Volunge, began in 1978 as a girls' choir and in 1981 became a mixed voice choir (of 52 voices in 1991), conducted throughout by its founding director, Dalia Viskontas. In Ottawa the Ramuneles Singers, a seven- or eight-voice female ensemble, sang 1976-87, co-directed by Ruta Siulys (later Klicius) and Loretta Luksa-Cassidy. A Lithuanian Song Festival was held in Maple Leaf Gardens in the summer of 1978, and in 1987 a concert was held in Montreal at the Church of St Casimir to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Catholic Church in Lithuania.
Lyra, a chamber orchestra initiated by the Lithuanian community of Toronto, began to introduce popular and classical Lithuanian music, musicians and composers to the Canadian public. Lyra was founded in 1997 and its first performance celebrated Lithuanian independence on 15 March 1998.
In 2002, ERGO Projects helped establish a Lithuanian-Canadian musical exchange with the Lithuanian section of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM), Numus (New Music Society) and the Music Gallery in Toronto. ERGO and Numus perform and promote contemporary music in Canada and abroad. In 2003, the Penderecki String Quartet performed works by Lithuanian-Canadian composer Piotr Grella-Mozejko, in Kaunas at the 2003 ISCM festival in Slovenia. In 2004, Wilfrid Laurier University and ERGO Projects organized the Vidmantas Bartulis Festival with concerts that again featured works by Grella-Mozejko at concerts in Toronto, Waterloo and London.
The soprano Lilian Sukis and the bass Allan Fine were born in Lithuania. The violinist Dana Pomeranz (who with her husband, the Ukrainian violinist Yuri Mazurkevich, moved to Canada in 1974) was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and raised in Austria. The soprano Gina Capkas (Capkauskiene, b Lithuania 1930) studied with Pauline Donalda and Lina Narducci in Montreal and has performed in opera and concert in Australia, the USA, and Canada.


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I just realized that this blog has been going for 2 years. Tuesday Marked 3 years with my room-mates. I am starting to think I need a change, don't you?
I forgot my wallet. I left in one of the stores when we dropped Fluffy off at his home. So we spent the day there.
Creamsiscle playing with a toy. She is the only one who does anymore.
Ayden got a new harness today. He walks better with it that the leash on the collar.
I found the hat I was looking for.
We did stop at a book store.
I forgot to put up the menu. We went to bring Fluffy and Harley home on Sunday. I was still trying to get over my head cold. That lasted from Thursday till Sunday.
Saturday- Tomato Steak and rice.
The ground buffalo was purchased because we wondered what it would taste like.
Here is Harley. There is a before and after pictures of his grooming.
Here is some pictures of the knew frig. It is bigger that the old one.
We gave Fluffy two days for cooking. He usually wants to cooking something when he gets here.
Happy New Year everyone. It came in wet and warm.
I almost didn't make it to midnight. Fay and I played Lego Indiana Jones till 11:45.


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Thank you Yates for your help on this website.
Sorry if I offended you earlier by asking you a question about a post you made 5 years ago. Just really anxious to get my problem solved and looking for help, maybe I came to the wrong place? Let me know and I won't post here anymore.
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This article is about the 1975 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 1975 in baseball.
August 14 - Atlanta Braves pitcher Phil Niekro hits the only triple of his Major League career, off the pitching of Lynn McGlothen of the St Louis Cardinals.
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Sometime last year, the Bubs and I found an old wooden ladder in a skip behind St. Pauls. Seeing its potential, I had my poor house elf cart it home for me and it has spent the winter outdoors, weathering, to what I hope will be a lovely silver.
So my next focus for getting things finished around the house (and I say 'finished' loosely, as we all know decorating is never REALLY a finite process!), is sorting out the kitchen, once and for all.
While the cupboards, floor and cooker are recently refurbished and the space is impeccable and maybe just needs a new lick of paint… somehow the room still irks me. It is better with the new Missprint 'Little Trees' wallpaper, which I LOVE, but still doesn't feel right.
It screams BEIGENESS. The cheap, light wood cabinet doors give me the hives, and to make it worse are made out of some laminate that comes with a warning sticker not to use cleaners on it. Just a soft damp cloth. IN A KITCHEN.
A) Why would you even make such a product.
B) What numpt would buy it????
It makes no sense. The manufacturer should be shot.
Unfortunately, as the landlord has recently installed them, I really have to leave them be. So next on the irk list is getting rid the nasty halogen spot lighting. What a minger.
I am not even going to waste time with a photo – it is one of those silver bar deals with 4 lights. Someone thought a novel design feature would be to give it pseudo-retro pointy bits – so it looks like Buck Rogers shot it out of his 'seat area' (as a friend would say). It is bad.
So nearly a year later I am pondering how to replace it with something more pleasing, that will give us spot lighting in the needed places. WITHOUT a shadow over the sink when you are washing dishes.
I am full of them.
If there is anything I hate it is not having a direct light over you when you are doing dishes. A flaw in most of the kitchens I have lived with.
Some of you might recall this post from way back on rise and fall lights – I have been wanting some industrial enamel lighting for a while.
For weeks I trolled and sniped on eBay for the parts I needed to make the fixture.
A few weeks ago I managed to snag 2 green vintage 'coolies' from seller frenchmemories on eBay, who is located in Vienne, France. I mentioned my sadness over not getting the 3rd one I had bid on, and the lovely fellow, Ron, let me know he was listing some more that evening! It was fate.
I need to sort out how the other 2 shades will work with the fitting and all the bits and bobs needed. Details make ALL the difference and I am hoping to find just the right brass bulbholder/coloured flex combination to make them shine. I want the brass bits to be chunky, but the hole on the shade is quite narrow, so need to rig up something that will work.
I will also have to sort out how the rose will work with 3 cords coming out of it…and how to hang them… This should be interesting.
I love new projects! I will try to slow down and take shots once I start putting things together and do a proper DIY if any of you Roost-ers are interested!
I am really loving the whole 'Davy Crocket' chic thing that has been going on during the last few winters.
All the red/black plaid, trapper hats, bulky knits, fur (I know, I know), and big chunky boots take me back to harsh Canadian winters in the woods.
I can smell the fires smoke just looking at all that rough wool!
The interiors translations are cheese-ily tongue and cheek, mixing high camp with classic cabin.
However, what I am really loving is the more minimal, modern translation into interiors this year like the firewood displays below.
All that natural wood with pale colours is so calming.
Having grown up in the bitter Canadian north, I am not normally one to wax lyrical about snow!
Usually the mere sight of the white stuff makes me feel claustrophobic, bringing flashbacks of months trapped indoors with dysfunction. Brrr.
However, as I approach a milestone in birthdays I am oddly finding myself feeling a little nostalgic about snowy scenes. But they have to be the RIGHT snowy scene…like this beautiful, cozy lounge looking out onto the cold from civilized warmth!
Now THAT would make winter bearable…don't you think?
Liking these cheerful shots of bright, saturated colour.
A shot of fresh, cheery green for your Thursday. Green interiors are another hot trend at the moment.
It is funny, I used to be very anti-green for interiors, but the longer I live in an urban jungle away from trees and the large swathes of wild I grew up in, the more leafy greens in interiors appeal to me.
They now feel like a breath of much needed fresh air. Sigh.
I am still planning green as the accent colour for the bathroom, but things have slowed a bit on the home front as we try to draft-proof the icebox that the house has become in the cooler weather.
I do have an enormous Oleander plant in there now that doesn't quite fit as it needed to come in from the cold to survive the winter, and the bathroom was the only place with enough room to house it! However, I still haven't done the chalk drawing on the blackboard wall and it is weighing on me like a chittering monkey on my back!
I'd love this fabric for the curtain!
Does anyone know who it is by?


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I am a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow based at Harvard University and Imperial College London. My research focuses on understanding the organization of distributed brain networks at the level of individuals, and the relation of the networks to cognitive function and dysfunction.
Like a fingerprint, every brain is unique, containing its own arrangement of anatomical folds and functional zones. Because of this, brain imaging tools have to operate at the level of individuals, as preserving each individual's unique circuitry can reveal important determinants of function. My research has revealed that focusing on the individual can reveal new principles of brain organization, namely the existence of closely juxtaposed parallel networks in human association cortex. I am currently investigating the role that these new network architectures play in cognition at the Centre for Brain Science at Harvard University with Prof. Randy Buckner.
The group-defined dorsal attention (greens), frontoparietal control (blues), and default network (reds) were found to fractionate into parallel closely interdigitated parallel networks when defined within individuals. Adapted from Braga & Buckner, 2017, Neuron.
My PhD research was supervised by Dr. Robert Leech and Prof. Richard Wise, and focused on the brain networks that are recruited when we are paying attention to different sounds. We found evidence that separable systems serve the orienting of attention to vision and sound, and that these systems interact during natural listening conditions. I also investigated the organisation of distributed networks in group-averaged data and showed that multiple overlapping networks can be detected in association cortex, suggesting that a finer-scale functional architecture exists here that lies beyond the limits of group-averaging. This spurred me to being an exploration of functional anatomy at the level of individuals.
Separable networks observed during top-down attention to auditory and visual modalities. Adapted from Braga et al., 2013, Neuroimage.
Eye movements during auditory attention: Listening to sounds in the left and right ears led to differences in natural gaze position. Adapted from Braga et al., 2016, Frontiers in Human Brain Mapping.


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His name is not Stupido – Scott Lobdell on RHATO, Rebirth, and reductionist criticism
Brian Warshaw
Scott Lobdell is a weirdo—and I think that's why I like him so much. After tearing his Teen Titans to shreds, and ripping his Red Hood/Arsenal multiple new ones, I found myself eating a super-sized portion of crow after a few issues of his second crack at Red Hood and the Outlaws. The man I once insisted was not a storyteller had proven me wrong, and I wanted to understand more. After I interviewed RHATO letterer Taylor Esposito, Lobdell playfully asked me when I would be interviewing him. A few false starts and over a year later, the stars have at last aligned and I am pleased to present what I hope will be the first of many such talks. So enough setup—on to the interview!
Brian Warshaw: You've been writing Jason for a long time now—why does he appeal to you?
Scott Lobdell: While I'm a sucker for a redemptive arc in movies and television, the truth is that Jason's redemption will probably take forever. That is, he's always going to feel the need to make up for what he's done—he's going to always push himself to do the right thing for all the times in his past that he's screwed things up. (We are a lot alike in that way, Jason and I, though I don't own a duffel bag with heads in it)
I think that's okay, though. I think that makes Jason more self-aware than a lot of other characters in comics. He knows he has tragic flaws, and he doesn't want to paper over them. If anything he wears them out in the open (he even wears a blood red bat symbol on his chest—sort of his own version of a scarlet "A"). Unlike Batman who is trying to save the eight year old version of himself—trying to protect his parents from a murder that happened thirty years ago—Jason is dealing with the moment.
BW: Reception to the current RHATO book has been very good on Batman News, and, as you know, I like the book a lot. But I (and a lot of folks) didn't see it coming, because we weren't too fond of the pre-Rebirth stuff. What's different about your approach—or editorial approach, if you're allowed to talk about it—now vs then?
SL: Interesting that you put the onus on me and not on you? LOL!
Is it possible that you went into the first series with expectations for what RHATO should be and became angry/frustrated because it wasn't the series you wanted it to be? Instead of judging it for the series it is?
Even recently you've been shaving points off the reviews that you start by saying "I would rather this arc be about this" or "I would rather we focus on these characters instead of this," instead of taking the story for what is and not what is not.
Just something to think about.
I will say that, traditionally, in the past, readers of RHATO and Red Hood/Arsenal can notice where stories were set-up and set-up and set-up, only to have the conclusion of the story go careening off the tracks. I can say that there have been many times where I've started a story and someone from upstairs decreed that a particular plot thread had to be dropped, or a whole other plot thread needed to be added, or an entire story arc had to be gutted in the middle of the story. Those times have been very frustrating for me—but as a professional writer of some thirty years, I've always felt that part of the profession means that I need to turn in the story the editor/publisher wants and not always the story I want to write, or begin, or end.
Similarly, when an editor says "you need more narration here to explain what is going on" or "we would prefer you write third-person omnipresent because so many of our books are written first-person" or "we want you to use thought balloons on this title, but not thought balloons on that title," then that is what I do, because that is what I'm asked to do.
Maybe more to your point, I love both my editors on Red Hood and the Outlaws since Rebirth. They are both great guys and great editors.
But I had a much bigger storyline to start the series with, and it was tossed, and I was asked to write Black Mask as the main villain for the first arc. I admit that I agonized over that for the first few months of the series. Unlike even a Lex Luthor or Joker (who at least have battle suits and toxic Joker gas), Black Mask has no powers at all. He's not even someone as inherently evil as the Penguin. He is just a guy who has henchmen with Tommy guns.
I was so angry for months that I had the chance to write Red Hood, Artemis and Bizarro—Trinity level super heroes—and the big villain they were up against was the Black Mask?!
Let's take a minute and put it in perspective: any one of the three heroes could easily defeat every henchman Black Mask could order up and kill off Black Mask if they started out at sunrise, and still be home for breakfast. The idea that he would last five minutes against the Dark Trinity would be laughable. But that's what I was tasked with.
Since it was going to be the first arc, though—and because I didn't have any say in it—I was forced to concentrate almost entirely on character and less on plot (when I say "forced," it didn't take much, because my inclination is to always focus more on character than plot). So maybe what you and Batman News and other people are responding to was more the change of pacing from the first series: instead of hitting the ground running with a preexisting relationship between Jason, Roy and Kori (which wasn't necessarily what people were expecting), the Rebirth had a much slower pace, and the characters were introduced to each other and to the readers with more detail.
Similarly, with this series, I have editors who are supportive of taking chances. For example, the "Smart Bizarro" story was only going to be for three issues. "Scott, everyone knows he's not going to stay smart, so you should just wrap it up." But when I wrote his very first sentence, I was like "whoa! There is something so cool about this—there is such a bigger story to tell about the Outlaws with a smart Bizarro! This isn't just about Bizarro, it is about how the team changes, how the dynamic between the three of them changes as a result, about how Jason and Artemis deal with Bizarro and their own feelings about him!"
I was between editors at the time and I said to my new editor "I know this was supposed to be only three issues, but we can do this! And this! And this!" And he was like, "you are clearly very excited. Write down what you are thinking and we'll talk about it."
Which is a lot different than writing-by-edict.
Is that what you might be sensing?
BW: I'd like to push back a little bit on the first part of your answer…
SL: I knew you would!
BW: I think that's a fair question, and a fair point, but my situation is a little bit different than most of my readers. I started reading comics in 2013 ahead of the release of Man of Steel. I didn't bring any baggage into Red Hood/Arsenal or Teen Titans when I reviewed them—I just had big problems with dialogue and plot. Not so much because I wanted the stories to be something they weren't, but because I didn't think they worked within themselves. Maybe my readers brought more baggage, but I don't think so. In my (admittedly short) experience, big Jason fans loved everything you did (and let me know what they thought of my criticism). But most of the voices that chimed in disliked the same things I did.
I asked the question—and I'm grateful for your answer—because once Rebirth started, I ate a lot of crow. I did it with a smile on my face, because I was glad to be wrong, but I still had to do it. In one of my reviews for a Teen Titans trade, I'd said "Scott Lobdell may get paid to tell stories, but he is not a storyteller," but Rebirth's RHATO proved me wrong on that point. And it made me think a lot more about the complexity of this business, and realize that there's a lot more at play than a guy's capabilities. I never apologized to you about that storyteller comment—in hindsight, it kind of seems mean-spirited. Forgive me, please.
SL: You don't need to apologize for anything.
In response to your reply, I feel this:
There are so many choices that go into writing a comic—especially when you are writing to making the twenty pages work individually and not with an eye solely on the trade.
I've read reviews where people harangue me for recapping something that happened last issue—or a character's secret identity or their powers or etc. To me, I think it is important that if someone is reading just this comic (and not a trade, or not every issue before this), that they should have the information they need to enjoy the story. Now, can it be annoying to people who have read every issue (or even last issue)? Sure. But without a "Previously on…" highlight reel, this is the experience of reading a standalone comic. It is either/or. And often I'll chose "or" over "either."
For people who prefer either over or it can be irritating. But I don't necessarily find it a "fair" criticism.
Now you (or other reviews or other fans) might think it is fair because it isn't what you want—but that doesn't make it fair as a matter of course.
I'll give you another example. There was a writer who did an issue of Swamp Thing that co-starred Superman. It was very well-received, and the reviewers loved it, and even someone from upstairs at DC said "Scott, you have to read this. This is such a great comic. All comics should be this good."
I read it and I was kind of appalled. I searched backwards and forwards in that issue, and I couldn't find any reference to Superman. As I recall, he was not even named in the issue. At all. I think I recall he was referenced as Clark once, but I can't say for sure. I was staggered. How do you write a whole issue and never name the character, even in caption, even if the character is Superman? It was a few years ago now, but I remember thinking while the story was about Holland trying to hold onto his humanity, there wasn't any context for Superman in this story: about the idea that while he was raised as a human, he is not actually a human; and so it is odd that Holland is looking up to Superman as some kind of beacon.
Now, you can say, "Scott, every person on the planet knows who Superman is. And that he's Clark. And what his powers are and his history and that he's an alien." But for the purpose of this story (that I read), none of that was there; and so, to me (strictly speaking, to me), the story didn't do what it needed to do as a story.
Again, at the time people loved it. People went crazy for it. The reviews I read were stellar. The fact that I didn't think it worked doesn't change the reviews one whit.
I'll just say one more thing on this. There are people who watched Happy Death Day [a recent film written by Lobdell] and thought it was the best horror script of the last twenty years. There were others who watched it and said it was the worst thing they'd ever seen committed to film. In essence, they are both right: for the people who loved it and thought it was the best, they enjoyed it. To the people who hated it, no amount of reviews will ever change their mind.
Some people like some stuff. Other people like other stuff.
BW: Bizarro is probably my favorite character in the book, and one of my favorite characters period being published at DC right now. You've taken him in a different direction than most anticipated, and I think that was a great move. Can you talk about inspirations for your version? Where's this guy coming from?
SL: I think it is right there in his name. So many times in the past he has been written as dumb. "Me am cold," when he is in the sun, and "me am hot" when he is in the Arctic. When I looked at him at the beginning of the series, I thought, "his name is Bizarro. He should think bizarre." His name is not Stupido.
And then I thought about how maybe my entire life I've been either written off or admired or loved or hated over the reality that I don't think about things the same way other people do. I just don't. I'll give you an example:
When I was growing up, I had two best friends, Buddy and Mickey, who had Muscular Dystrophy. They were both supposed to have died before they were thirteen years-old. We spent every day together—and as they were my neighbors, that was very easy. Well, they both lived until the age of twenty-four. So for about ten years of my life, every single day was a gift from God.
Every. Single. Day.
Every day, I would go to bed, and they were alive and happy; and every morning that I would wake up and they were there, I would thank God and the universe for it. We all hear the phrase "live every day like it is your last"—but we don't. We get wrapped up in bills and relationships and jobs that suck, and instead of appreciating what we have, we grouse about what we don't have or don't have yet or may never have.
But I really and honestly and genuinely in all ways wake up and go to bed grateful for the day that passed, and look forward to the day I'll be waking up to—even when those days have sucky things happening in them.
I've had some pretty staggering successes in life, and some pretty crushing failures, but on either end of the spectrum is a ferocious and cognitive and deliberate appreciation of the day—of the moment. Like Jason!
I think there are people who might look at that day and say it is a bizarre way to think. Heck, there are a lot of people who don't even believe in God or the Universe—which, I admit, I think is kind of bizarre!
I don't want to get to personal, but I think there are a lot of people who would think my views on sex are bizarre. I don't—and I try to hang out with people who have similar thoughts and try not to get involved with Vanillas—but I understand there are many people who would consider my pursuit of my own sexuality bizarre.
Heck, Brian, I'm sure if you wrote down every thought you have in the course of a week, there would be lots of people that might find some of those thoughts bizarre. [I can confirm this–BW]
And therein lies the key to Bizarro. He isn't the "stranger" or the "freak" or the "misfit toy"—he is the bizarre in each of us. In his own way he's more a representation of Everyman than Superman will ever be. If Superman's chest symbol represents "Hope," then Bizarro's chest symbol represents "Be."
BW: I like that.
For better or for worse, when you put a guy and a girl together in a book, people expect them to get together. You've skirted the issue with Jason and Artemis, but you haven't (yet) tackled it directly. Is there any internal pressure (at DC or just in your own head) to aim for or avoid that sort of relationship here?
SL: Hmmm. It seems like you do much better with the ladies than I, Brian!
My own personal experience is that about 99.8% of the women I've met in my life have never "gotten together" with me. Not women I've met socially, not women I've met through work, not even women I've met through, say, a dating app where the whole point of the app was to get together.
I think the notion that Jason and Artemis would get together based mostly on their proximity to one another to be an odd one, no?
After I got out of college, in my early 20s, I worked as a nurse's aide in a nursing home. If I recall, I was the only male nurse's aide working at the time. I don't recall dating or even hooking up with any of the thirty or so women I worked with at the time. Though maybe, to your point above, that is more because I am weird.
You have to remember that both Jason and Artemis are two tragically-flawed peopled. They have both experienced a lot of trauma in their lives and I doubt either one of them are in a place (yet) where they really have the tools they need to build and maintain a healthy relationship with anyone, let alone each other. And, spoiler alert, things are going to get even worse emotionally for all three of them in the coming months.
But yes, there have been times where it has been expressed to me by the powers at be [that I should have] have Jason and Artemis get together, but I've resisted the notion. I just don't think it serves either character. I don't think that, given their individual histories, they are a natural fit in a romantic way.
Can that change over time? Absolutely. People change. People grow. In real life and in comics.
But for the moment I just don't see it happening. I think right now, they are better off being partners who razz each other, are fiercely loyal to each other, maybe even love the other—but don't need to express that love romantically by kissing each other or sleeping together. But for the JaRtemis 'shippers out there, hold out hope. I could be fired tomorrow and another writer might think it is a great idea!
BW: I think you might have misunderstand my relationship question a little bit (or I wrote it badly—I can take criticism, too). I've had one girlfriend who became my wife, and it's not because I wasn't interested in girls before her—it's because none of them wanted anything to do with me! I just meant that people look at a work of fiction and instantly start pairing prominent characters—"shipping them," as the kids say. But you answered the question anyhow.
SL: No, I understood. I was just teasing you—but also teasing readers or audiences who think that because two characters are in proximity to each other and because they are both awesome, that they should be together.
BW: Okay, last question for now: I've seen at least one comment in the past year from a reader who wishes that Jason was more brutal—that he would go back to killing people again instead of playing by Bruce's rules. They kind of want him to be DC's Frank Castle, I suppose. How do you feel about that?
SL: I agree to an extent that he should be more violent—more on that in a moment.
But I don't think he should be the Punisher, because there is already a Punisher. Just like I don't think there should be x amount of people in the Iron Man armor, or x amount of people running around with power rings. I just think every character should be unique, and that maybe we've lost a lot of that over the years in the industry's effort to "evolve."
I always got the impression that the Punisher might track down a crime lord and make his way through three dozen bodyguards in the crime lord's mansion—killing every one of them—and then the crime lord himself.
I think Jason should only kill when he doesn't have other options. I think he should probably only kill when his life (or that of another person) is in imminent danger.
When the series started, I understood they wanted to instill a "No Killing In Gotham City Rule." But when we got to Qurac, I had him killing terrorists and soldiers who were trying to kill him. I got a note: "he can't kill, remember?" I was like, "he's in the middle of a war!" The note came back: "doesn't matter. He promised." Honestly, I was a little embarrassed: part of putting him in the middle of the war was so that I thought I could write a sort of Jason Unbound! So now I have him in the middle of a war and he can't shoot any one. Sigh.
Lately I have gotten word to make the book grittier—darker—so maybe we will be seeing more of the more violent Red Hood.
BW: Well, Scott, I'd like to thank you for taking the time to answer my questions, and for being gracious to this (at times) highly-critical critic. It's been a pleasure.
SL: Thank you!
I love hearing from readers. Drop me a line at mrwarshawreadsthecomics@gmail.com to let me know what you think of this interview, or if you have any follow-up questions for Scott. Or leave a comment below!


The debate still rages over the controversial cross-border trucking plan.
The U.S. Transportation Secretary recently released a statement to Congress urging that the plan continue.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters today cautioned Congress that now is not the time to halt efforts to implement trucking provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is delivering economic benefits to U.S. workers, farmers, businesses and consumers.
Secretary Peters said a broad coalition of more than 69 U.S. companies and agricultural and business organizations support the project because of the benefits it provides to U.S. exporters who every year ship billions worth of products and produce into Mexico. Should Congress choose to end the project, Mexico has the right under the rules of NAFTA to impose fees and tariffs on U.S. goods that would surely result in lost business and lost jobs, she said.
"Whatever their reason, this is no time to let the politics of pessimism dim the promise of prosperity for hundreds of thousands of American drivers, growers and manufacturers. We should be looking for every chance to open new markets for our drivers, to find new buyers for our products, and encourage new consumers for our produce," Secretary Peters said.
In other news relating to cross-border trucking program, SignonSanDiego.com reports that the problem might be too few trucks. According to the Article, The DOT Office of Inspector General reports that that only 16 Mexican trucking companies are involved with the cross-border program. 100 were expected to participate. The number of participating carriers might be too small to show valid results from the program.
On March 10, 2008, we issued our Interim Report on NAFTA Cross-Border Trucking Demonstration Project, as required by legislation enacted in May 2007. By law, we are required to issue an interim report at the six-month point of the demonstration project, which was initiated on September 6, 2007, and a final report 60 days after the conclusion of the project.
Our audit found that at the 6-month point, fewer Mexican carriers and vehicles have participated in the project than expected. The low number of carriers currently participating is not sufficient to provide reliable statistical projections regarding safety attributes of Mexican carriers. The Department has established and is supporting an independent panel to assess any adverse safety impacts from the project; however, the panel is also concerned that it will have insufficient data when the project ends.
Source: Department of Transportation, SignonSanDiego.com, and DOT Office of Inspector General.


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Evaluation of plasma retinol-binding protein as a surrogate measure for plasma retinol concentrations
J. Almekinder, W. Manda, D. Soko, Y. Lan, D. R. Hoover, Richard D. Semba
Plasma retinol-binding protein (RBP) concentrations have been suggested as surrogate indicators for plasma retinol concentrations in the assessment of vitamin A status in less technologically developed settings. Plasma RBP was measured by radial immunodiffusion and plasma retinol by high performance liquid chromatography in a cross-sectional study of 900 pregnant women at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi. The Spearman correlation coefficient between plasma RBP and retinol concentrations was 0.95 (p < 0.0001). By linear regression, 0.70 μmol l-1 retinol was equivalent to 21.1 mg l-1 RBP. With these cut-off points for defining vitamin A deficiency, there was high concordance between categorical descriptions of deficiency using retinol and RBP by chi-square analysis (p < 0.001). Measurement of plasma RBP by radial immunodiffusion is simple, inexpensive, and does not require expensive instrumentation: Plasma RBP concentrations measured by radial immunodiffusion are highly correlated with plasma retinol and can be used as a simple surrogate measure for vitamin A concentrations in large field studies.
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Almekinder, J., Manda, W., Soko, D., Lan, Y., Hoover, D. R., & Semba, R. D. (2000). Evaluation of plasma retinol-binding protein as a surrogate measure for plasma retinol concentrations. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 60(3), 199-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/003655100750044848
Evaluation of plasma retinol-binding protein as a surrogate measure for plasma retinol concentrations. / Almekinder, J.; Manda, W.; Soko, D. et al.
In: Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, Vol. 60, No. 3, 2000, p. 199-204.
Almekinder, J, Manda, W, Soko, D, Lan, Y, Hoover, DR & Semba, RD 2000, 'Evaluation of plasma retinol-binding protein as a surrogate measure for plasma retinol concentrations', Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 199-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/003655100750044848
Almekinder J, Manda W, Soko D, Lan Y, Hoover DR, Semba RD. Evaluation of plasma retinol-binding protein as a surrogate measure for plasma retinol concentrations. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 2000;60(3):199-204. doi: 10.1080/003655100750044848
Almekinder, J. ; Manda, W. ; Soko, D. et al. / Evaluation of plasma retinol-binding protein as a surrogate measure for plasma retinol concentrations. In: Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation. 2000 ; Vol. 60, No. 3. pp. 199-204.
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Jan (Janne) Önnerud, född 15 juni 1948, är en svensk dansbands- och popsångare.

Janne Önnerud startade sin karriär som trummis i popgruppen Hounds under 1960-talet. Han fick även framträda som sångare på vissa låtar bland annat "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", som blev Hounds största hit på Tio i topp-listan.

Hans solokarriär startade 1968 då han turnerade med Telstarsparaden, en paketshow där även Tommy Körberg, Eleanor Bodel och Björn Skifs medverkade. Han fick 1969 en skivframgång med "Kärlekens hus", som hamnade på Svensktoppen. 1970 startade han dansbandet Janne Önnerud & gänget som senare bytte namn till Janne Önnerud & Co. Under 1970-talet lyckades dessa pricka in två stora hits på Svensktoppen – "Är du min älskling än" 1977 och "Tommy" 1979. Han deltog i den svenska Melodifestivalen 1984 med melodin "Nu är jag tillbaks igen", som slutade på delad sjätte plats.

I tre säsonger under 1980-talet var Janne Önnerud programledare för Svensktoppen.

Sololåtar på Svensktoppen
Nu är det advent - 2000–2001 (duett med Kikki Danielsson)

Missade svensktoppslistan
Vänder hem - 1997
Kom tillbaks till mig - 1999
Du och jag - 2002 (duett med Kikki Danielsson)

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Externa länkar
 Janne Önnerud
 Webbradio: ''Tommy som knarkade

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Svenska trummisar
Deltagare i Melodifestivalen 1984
Svenska sångare under 1900-talet
Svenska musiker under 1900-talet
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PURELY CZECH CAPITAL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST US IN THE FIELD
so thinks ATALIAN's commercial director
ATALIAN → Blog → Articles → Purely Czech capital discriminated against us in the field
22. 03. 2015 | Články
The time the Novotnys from Mladá Boleslav started their business played an important role. Their tenaciousness also had its note to play, even if their most important decision was a "marriage of convenience" with a multinational company. From a former employee he is now co-owner of a company that only employs 3,500 people in the Czech Republic alone.
Article originally appeared on http://probyznysinfo.ihned.cz
"a dwarf is small, even if he stands on a mountain". The history of ATALIAN proves the words of the Roman philosopher Sencea wrong. Originally a Czech cleaning company set up at the beginning of the 1990's by Mr. and Mrs. Novotný, thanks to a merger with a French company it conquered at least the fifth highest mountain in the Czech Republic - Praděd. With its 3,500 employees and a turnover of more than 1.5 billion crowns, it can boldly measure up with the four largest players in the field of facility management - ISS Facility Services, OKIN Facility, AB Facility and M2C Facility management.
From a dwarf to a giant
David Fiala
For 16 years he has been in the senior management of ATALIAN CZ From the position of assistant operating officer and representative management for quality he has worked his way up to the commercial director, which at the same time combines issues of trade, marketing and IT.
His motto "extreme is my standard" indicates the direction he is going. In addition to a high work commitment, he is actively engaged in extreme sports and likes looking for new ways of dealing with situations.
He is the father of 3 sons, who he tries to be an example to and a natural role model for their further development and approach to life.
ATALIAN CZ's history began in 1994. At the time Pavel Novotný learned that Škoda Auto was looking for an external company for cleaning its factory . In the same year he and his wife founded the company JANA and took part in the selection procedure for Škoda Auto. "It sounds almost unbelievable, but thanks to the time, the good price, and some specific knowledge of the background we won the tender," says commercial director David Fiala.
Thanks to its persistence and the efforts of its founder, JANA managed to push back the boundaries of what was generally expected from a cleaning service. "At the time the cleaning market was really just about cleaners with a cloth in their hands, which appeared here and there in the corridors. No one really bothered to check if they were cleaning and how. That wasn't the case with Pavel Novotný" Fiala says with a smile.
Novotny was in 1998 Novotný was one of the co-founders of the Czech Association of Cleaners, which pushed for the first cleaning standards and the use of certified chemicals. Škoda Auto was still one of JANA's major clients, but gradually, as the company gained a good reputation, the ring of its clients expanded. It grew up to be the third largest cleaning company in the Czech Republic, but that is where its organic growth stopped.
"I came in as the commercial director in 2001. At first I saw the fact that we were a purely Czech company as a big plus, but only until I realized how limiting it was for us. Our potential customers were mostly foreign clients who required the international activities of a partner," he explains.
The truth of this was borne out in 2007, when one multi-national company's warehouse burnt down. "That's when we had a great interest in putting in a tender for the clean-up, but we were told that this potential client only works with the three cleaning companies registered abroad," recalls Fiala.
All three registered suppliers requested the services of JANA. "We sent the same price offer and the one that won made the least off us. At that moment I saw that purely Czech capital is discriminatory. If we had been part of a multinational group, that profit could have gone to us," he says.
So the JANA management began to look for a trans-national partner that would be willing to merge has with the company. They found the French company TFN with a family history starting in 1944.
A time of acquisitions and building a single corporate culture
ATALIAN CZ s. r. o. belongs to the ATALIAN group (formerly the TFN-GROUPE), which was founded in France in 1944.
It entered the Czech market in 2008 by purchasing the majority share in the cleaning company JANA s. r. o. JANA was founded in 1994 by the Novotnýs from Mladá Boleslav and at the time of the acquisition it was one of the leading players in the Czech market for cleaning services.
From 2008 to 2010 Atalian made a number of acquisitions on the Czech and Slovak market with a specific focus so as to be able to offer its clients comprehensive facility management services .
In the Czech Republic alone it now employs 3,500 people, and has a turnover of more than 1.5 billion crowns. Among its clients are Škoda Auto, Tesco ČR, as well as Václav Havel Airport Prague.
Less than two years ago the company management reviewed its management strategy and switched from a divisional to a regional management system.
The company doesn't plan any further acquisitions in the near future, it is focusing on internal stability and cost-effectiveness. The result of this process is investment into modern technologies and an unique franchise concept for the firm's development that counts on the franchiser's local knowledge of the environment.
JANA entered the TFN group as part of its cleaning division in 2008. Since then not only has it operated under the TFN brand, but it has also tried to incorporate French know-how in the provision of facility management (FM) services into its line of business .
"Facility management is about three basic disciplines - technical administration , cleaning and security . We were purely a cleaning company with a turnover of around 0.5 billion crowns. We provide other services in part by buying firms that have specialized in these activities," says Fiala.
So between 2008 and 2010, the company bought, for example, Test, Zeta Holding, Praha Facilities Management and others. Its latest acquisition its longtime "rival" from Mladá Boleslav - KAF Facility - took place in 2011.
With each acquisition the new owner also buys a certain corporate culture, know-how, the procedures and employees of the company that was the subject of the acquisition. How hard was it to merge these aspects into the existing structure?
"Very difficult. For example, with the purchase of Test, which was then owned by the French company Veolia, we paradoxically came upon a difference in corporate cultures. Having been brought up in the German approach and trained by the automotive sector, we were faced with a French system that was different, and this caused the need for the careful introduction of a single system and unification of both cultures," Fiala outlines.
"It's difficult to group together very different corporate cultures, on the other hand with every acquisition there is a review of what you do and if you're doing it the best possible way," he adds.
A facility manager has it tough
The worst was to build a reputation as a provider of comprehensive FM services. "Everybody kept reminding us we were a cleaning company. Cleaning still constitutes 68 percent of our turnover, but we already have the know-how and technology for everything else from the area of FM. As our partners saw, rebranding the firm had a negative role in this. After two years under the brand name TFN at the impetus of the French parent, we changed it to ATALIAN," he explains.
The fact that the outlook of the company changes over time is testified to by the fact that it is invited to various selection proceedings as a FM provider. With its turnover of over 1.5 billion crowns it is one of the five biggest players in the Czech market for FM services. It has to compete with its rivals, however, not just through prices, but mainly via the high quality of the services and the added value in the form of technological innovation.
"Pricing policy is very simple in this sector. We provide a service; therefore the most basic costs are labor costs. Things of a technical nature and other costs are 20 percent at most," he outlines.
Technology sets the mirror competition
Nowadays the customer can only be convinced by offering premium services and these are built on the fact that the company must be more effective internally and optimize costs - perhaps via software solutions to facilitate communications with the customer.
"That's why we use a Web application, thanks to which our client has an immediate overview of the activities carried out and access to their electronic documentation. As an employer we can monitor the load on the workers assigned to a task, and when we monitor them for a certain time we see that there are reserves, so we can put a worker on another project and save the client costs," Fiala says describing the system's logic.
"Our non-organic growth meant there were different systems in the company whose functionalities were not completely compatible and their licenses ran out in different years. By buying Microsoft Office 365 we solved the problem. The main thing we appreciate about the system is its flexibility. The company runs on a single platform, workers only install those programs that they actually work with, which saves expenditures and not just on unnecessary licenses", he describes.
Another advantage of Microsoft Office 365 is the ability to have video conferencing instead of traditional meetings in person, or the company intranet, which is used for sharing examples of best practice.
"I know that our size means we are unable to compete with low-cost local firms that have low overhead costs, but clients turn to large companies for other reasons. For instance our guarantees," says Fiala.
In a situation where, for example, the loss of the generator will stop a production line, the technical administration worker must get the generator running in a certain emergency time. If he doesn't do so the FM service provider undertakes to pay the client a contractual fine based on set rules or another form of reimbursing the loss of profit for the down time. "We're insured against such damages with a multinational insurance contract with conditions that a small company just cannot afford," he points out.
Other reasons why clients choose big players is their "green" philosophy or their "corporate responsibility". Clients even require this approach from their service suppliers, which is reflected in these suppliers' costs.
"The client has a certain philosophy and doesn't want to be associated with a company that pays its employees the minimum wage or uses technology that is not environmentally friendly. Of course it costs something to prove this. For instance investing in the certification," Fiala says.
NO to the public sector
In his opinion the public sector isn't about business: "If you do business, you sell some possibilities, some abilities and you provide added value. I'm afraid the public sector doesn't care about added value, it's only interested in the lowest price, it doesn't look at the quality of the services."
"For this reason we approach public tenders with a certain reserve and they only make up a minor part of the portfolio of our existing customers. For instance, apart from the afore-mentioned Škoda Auto and Tesco ČR, our long-term clients include TRW, Panasonic, the administrative office of the IBC center or Passage Myslbek. As of March the company will also have its headquarters in the premises of this complex.
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Girl Characters and Geena Davis
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media works with entertainment creators and companies, educates the next generation of content-creators, and informs the public about the need to increase the number of girls and women in media aimed at kids and to reduce stereotyping of both males and females.
From the website: Three years ago, while watching children's television programs and videos with her then 2-year old daughter, Academy Award winner Geena Davis noticed a remarkable imbalance in the ratio of male to female characters. From that small starting point, Davis went on to raise funds for the largest research project ever undertaken on gender in children's entertainment (resulting in 4 discrete studies, including one on children's television).
The research showed that in the top-grossing G-rated films from 1990-2005, there were three male characters for every one female – a statistic that did not improve over time.
The concern was clear:
What message does this send to young children?
According to the study released this month: Not only were there fewer females, but the nature in which the females were depicted was questionable. They were either objectified and sexualized or portrayed as extremely traditional.
Dr. Smith and her team also examined 4000 female film characters and found that two types of females often frequent film: the traditional and the hypersexual. For example, females are over five times as likely as males to be shown in alluring apparel and are roughly three times as likely as males (10.6% vs. 3.4%) to be shown with an unrealistically "ideal" body.
The same problem was shown to exist in television aimed at audiences of children: Females in kids' fare are almost four times as likely as males to be shown in sexy attire (20.7% vs. 5.4%) and nearly twice as likely as males to be shown with a small waist line (25.6% vs. 14.4%).
Animated females in TV for kids are more likely to be shown in sexually revealing attire than are live action females (24.5% vs. 17.4%). Also, females in animated TV stories for children are more likely to have small waists (36.9% vs. 6.9%) and have an unrealistic body shape (22.7% vs. 1.2%) than are females in live action TV stories for children.
Though, females are not the only ones hypersexualized in TV
content for children, the report noted. Animated males are more likely than live action males to have a large chest (15.4% vs. 4.9%), small waist (18.4% vs. 4.3%), and an unrealistically muscularized physique (12.5% vs. .5%).
At the Institute's recent conference in January it was noted that such hypersexualization of children's characters contributes to low self esteem, poor body image and eating disorders in children.
For more detailed information you can read An Analysis of Popular Films and TV.
According to the report: In fact, research on television reveals that the participation of women writers and producers increases the percentage of females on screen.
What can You do? The Institute is having a contest called "I Want to See Jane!" The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media doesn't want any Jane to grow up believing she is only worthy of sidekick status. That's where our I Want to See Jane Campaign for girls and women comes in. YOU can be involved by spreading the word and telling your story, and your story could end up in the first GDIGM documentary!
It's easy! Just tape yourself talking about the female character who meant the most to you when you were growing up.
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The complete senior management team has now been confirmed at Center Parcs Longford Forest ahead of the tourism facility's opening in the summer.
As progressive works continue apace at Center Parcs ahead of the summer 2019 opening, the Longford Forest leisure and hospitality facility has announced the latest development details.
With less than a year to go until Center Parcs Ireland opens its doors, the company has today announced a raft of exciting activities that Irish families can expect to see and enjoy at the much anticipated Longford Forest Resort.
The first lodge has been completed at Center Parcs Longford Forest, marking a key milestone in the resort's development as it prepares to open its doors to Irish families in summer 2019. The Woodland Lodge is the first of 466 lodges to be completed in the unique and beautiful forest.
Center Parcs Ireland has announced that they have awarded the contract for environmental services to Longford firm, Mulleady's Ltd.
The first photos of the €233 million construction site at the Center Parcs project at Newcastle Wood have been revealed, showing the enormity of the project.


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Home Africa Nigeria Passes Law Against Gay Marriage
Nigeria Passes Law Against Gay Marriage
Homosexuality is against the law in most African countries
AFRICANGLOBE – Nigeria has outlawed gay marriage, public displays of same-sex relationships, and belonging to gay groups with the passing of a law that has sparked international condemnation, but is widely supported among Nigerians.
President Goodluck Jonathan's spokesman, Reuben Abatim said on Monday that the president signed the bill because it was consistent with the view of most people towards homosexuality in the west African nation.
"I can confirm that the president has signed the bill into law," Abati said, without specifying a date but adding that it happened earlier this month.
"More than 90 percent of Nigerians are opposed to same-sex marriage. So, the law is in line with our cultural and religious beliefs as a people," he added.
"And I think that this law is made for a people and what [the] government has done is consistent with the preference of its environment."
International Threats
European mouthpiece Amnesty International urged Jonathan to reject the bill, calling it "discriminatory" and warning of "catastrophic" consequences for Nigeria's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Under the terms of the law, anyone who enters into a same-sex marriage or civil union can be sentenced to 14 years in prison while any such partnerships entered into abroad are deemed "void".
It also warns that anyone who registers, operates or participates in gay clubs, societies and organisations or who directly or indirectly makes a public show of a same-sex relationship will break the law. Punishment is up to 10 years in prison, it adds.
"Only a marriage contract between a man and a woman shall be recognised as valid in Nigeria," the law states.
Nigeria is a highly religious society, with its 170 million people roughly divided in half between Christians and Muslims, though a significant number are also believed to follow African religions.
The anti-homosexuality law follows similar legislation in Uganda that was condemned by the US president, Barack Obama, as "odious". South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu compared it to apartheid.
By: Isiaki Wakli
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President Goodluck Jonathan
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