At Thursday's Television Critics Association press tour, executive producers from Arrow, The Flash, DC's Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl gathered to tease what's to come in each of the show's new seasons.
Of Course The CW Is Planning a Super-Sized Four-Show Crossover With Its Superhero Series
"Next season, Arrow , The Flash , Legends of Tomorrow , and now Supergirl will join forces in our annual crossover event, our biggest ever," he said. Previously Aired Episode
I have seen 100% of Supergrl, Constantine, Arrow and DC Legends.
We got earth-1 which is home to Arrow, Flash. Legends, we got earth-2 (Zoom's and Harry's Home World) and we got earth-3 where the real Jay Garrick / Flash lives. So which is Supergirls earth in this multiverse? earth-3 as well? On a narrative way the Flash/Supergirl Crossover was poorly done fitting in the overall context.
The biggest piece of news was that a musical episode will cross between two of the series. "Yes, there will be a musical crossover," said Greg Berlanti, exec producer of the so-called Arrow-verse. "There's going to be a musical pair of episodes in the back half of the year with Supergirl and The Flash." The musical inclusion in the shows isn't completely a surprise given the musical background of many of the cast members across all shows. Also, while the crossover will be between The Flash and Supergirl, don't be surprised if cast members from the other shows appear, given the musical backgrounds of stars like Victor Garber (Legends) and John Barrowman (Arrow).
Berlanti, a self-proclaimed lover of musicals, explained how the singing might work in the episodes. "It is a significant character," Berlanti teased. In Supergirl casting, executive producer Andrew Kreisberg confirmed that new cast member Chris Wood is in fact playing iconic character, Mon-El, and executive producer Ali Adler announced that Sharon Leal will appear as Miss Martian.
The kakapo parrot is one of the most endangered species in the world.
There are currently fewer than 200 of the flightless birds from New Zealand on the planet. That's a big problem, especially when you consider that (surprise, surprise) human beings are largely responsible for their dwindling population.
A kakapo parrot. Photo via Dianne Mason/Department of Conservation/Flickr.
Hundreds of years ago, humans hunted them for their skin and feathers. In the 1800s, land clearance and the introduction of mammalian predators (like dogs) in New Zealand further reduced their ability to survive.
Photo via Chris Birmingham/Department of Conservation/Flickr.
For decades, scientists have exhausted their options trying to bring the kakapo population back from the brink. They've tried everything.
Photo via Department of Conservation/Flickr.
And when I say everything, I mean everything. Including a "sperm helmet" that scientists wore on their heads to collect semen samples after they noticed the kakapos would routinely try to mate with people's heads.
Photo by Neil Sandas/AFP/Getty Images.
Needless to say, it didn't work.
In 2016, though, things are actually looking up for the little birds, as an incredible 33 kakapo chicks were recently born in New Zealand.
Incredibly, the kakapos made it happen all on their own, no sperm helmets needed. Thanks to the conservation efforts of the last several decades, the birds just had a very successful mating season.
Photo via Mike Bodie/Department of Conservation/Flickr.
They look as terrifying, as baby birds usually do (is it just me?), but their birth represents a huge win for conservation efforts that have been going on since at least 1891.
A conservation scientist who is NOT Bernie Sanders. Photo via Don Merton/Department of Conservation/Flickr.
Protecting endangered species is important for many reasons.
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Like biodiversity, balancing ecosystems, and even climate change. It isn't always easy, and it doesn't always work — hell, just think of the poor guy who had to test out the ill-fated sperm helmet.
Staying in The Zone just got easier with The Zone diet's new meal-delivery service. Creating signature Zone meals that adhere to the 40/30/30 mantra of this super popular diet and lifestyle program, Zone Delivery offers six different programs you can choose from: Customized, Non-customized, low-carb, lactose-intolerant, Kosher and vegetarian.
Those living in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California have the option of receiving daily meals delivered directly from Zone Delivery USA.
Some of the benefits you can look forward to when using the Zone Delivery USA meal plan include:
The meals are delivered everyday including holidays. Each plan includes eating three Zone meals and two Zone snacks a day that are delivered to your door daily, seven days a week.
You can expect to lose one to three pounds per week using The Zone Delivery meal plan. Offers a convenient and easy way to eat Zone meals with no shopping, measuring or cooking
Meals are delivered daily to your front door
Much more expensive than preparing your own meals
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With six different meal programs to choose from, Zone Delivery has a plan for everyone. A day on Zone Delivery could look like this:
EXERCISE
There are no specific exercise guidelines with The Zone Delivery plan, but the Zone Diet does encourage regular exercise as part of an effective weight loss plan. Within the next five years, the company plans to offer Zone Delivery nationwide.
Suiting A Home Diet Meal Plan To My Tastes
Plates include, clockwise from top from left: Chefs Diet's roast chicken with basil gremolata; Nu-Kitchen's vegetarian moussaka; Zone Manhattan's spinach and herb frittata; Zone Manhattan's seared lamb T-bone with red rice; the Zone lamb dish in its delivery package; and eDiet's chicken breast and shrimp alfredo over pasta. The couple explained they were having diet meals delivered, and that they had tried several companies. My hunch was that any diet plan would work, if I stuck to it. After online searches and conversations with friends, I decided to compare the offerings of four companies: Zone Manhattan, Chefs Diet, Nu-Kitchen and eDiets. All four would deliver the meals to my door in Brooklyn.
Consumers are trading down to do-it-yourself diets with foods or supplements from the supermarket,” said Marcia Mogelonsky, a global food and drink analyst for Mintel, a Chicago company.
Nu-Kitchen bills itself as the ultimate personal chef and meal delivery company.” The meals looked like institutional fare and their taste was disappointing. (I later learned that the founders of Nu-Kitchen sold it in 2008 to Nutrisystem, the national diet food company.)
At dinner, a glue-like stuffing (alongside tasty turkey breast) was equally dismaying. I neither lost nor gained weight on the Nu-Kitchen food. EDiets promises healthy, delicious meals delivered to your door” and allows you to choose menu items on its Web site. Four days after I placed my order, FedEx delivered a large box containing five breakfasts, five lunches and five dinners.
Zone Manhattan was $349.80, with tax, for a week's supply of food, or about $44 a day — three meals and two snacks delivered to my door by 5 a.m. each day.
A company nutritionist satisfied me on both counts. Substituting other foods for pork wasn't a problem. The meals are based on the Zone Diet, which calls for consumption of carbs, protein and fat in a 40:30:30 ratio, a diet popularized by Barry Sears, who wrote the first in his series of Zone diet books in 1995.
Zone Manhattan was my hands-down favorite. Both Nu-Kitchen and eDiets, which operate nationally, listed every ingredient. Chefs Diet did not.
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