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Blue sky studios5/18/2023 ![]() Perhaps, we’ll see former employees rally together on a new company. However, the fewer animation studios doing original projects is not a great thing for the animation industry as a whole. There is an expectation that with Disney+’s popularity that they’ll be asking the film divisions to provide animated content for the streamer in a speedy manner as they attempt to grow their animation stable. Director: Carlos Saldanha Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, George Lopez, Karen Disher. 3.7K 411 comments 1. has decided to shutter Blue Sky Studios, the computer animation company behind the 'Ice Age' films, roughly two years after acquiring it as part of the larger purchase of 21st. When Blu, a domesticated macaw from small-town Minnesota, meets the fiercely independent Jewel, he takes off on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with the bird of his dreams. With the news of Blue Sky’s closing, we send 34-years worth of gratitude and appreciation to our friends and fans throughout the world. READ MORE: Pixar Executive Pete Docter Says Sequels Are Necessary For “Financial Safety” A letter from Blue Sky Co-Founder, Chris Wedge.It’s never a good thing when a production company goes under, and people lose their livelihoods. READ MORE: The Best Animated Movies Of The Decade Ĭonsidering that Disney has heavy-hitters like Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, they likely didn’t see the need to keep Blue Sky Studios however, this looks like another casualty of the merger between Disney and 21st Century Fox. They point out that the Blue Sky Studios IP will remain at Disney with an “Ice Age” series currently in the works for their streaming service Disney+. READ MORE: ‘Raya & The Last Dragon’: Don Hall & Carlos López Estrada & The Film’s Producers Talk Creating Disney’s New Animated Adventure Fantasyĭeadline stating their last day of operation will be in April and suggest that Blue Sky employees might have future opportunities at open positions at other internal studios. The company is likely best known for their “ Ice Age” films along with animated features such as “ Robots,” “ Rio,” “ The Peanuts Movie.” and the Academy Award-nominated “ Ferdinand.” Their most recent release was the Will Smith and Tom Holland romp “ Spies Like Us.” READ MORE: The 50 Best Animated Films Of The 21st Century So Far We have some sad news to share from the world of animation as Deadline reports that Disney is closing down Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox‘s once successful animation company. It’s seemingly suffering a similar fate to Fox 2000, a live-action branch of 20th Century Studios that was axed post-merger as similar projects were shifted over to Searchlight Pictures.
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Humankind rutger bregman5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() But if we can actually trust each other, if we do have the courage to move to a more realistic, hopeful view of human nature, then we can move to a very different kind of society as well - and build very different kinds of schools and democracies and workplaces. And in the second place, it's often used as a legitimization of hierarchy, because if we cannot trust each other, then we need them – we need the CEOs and the monarchs and the generals and the kings and you name it. It sort of gives you an excuse to do nothing. I'm just saying that we have to remember here that cynicism is, in the first place, it's a synonym for laziness. And if you've never been conned, then maybe you should ask yourself the question: Is my basic attitude to life trusting enough? I think it's more rational to say, OK, this is just going to happen a couple of times in my life that I'll be the victim of some confidence game. Do you really want to live your whole life distrusting other people? That price is way too high to pay. You know, human beings are just incredibly good compared to other species at cooperating on a skill that other species just can't. And it's, as I said, it's actually the reason why we have conquered the globe. I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent. But it can give us hope, because there are a lot of reasons for hope in this world today as well. So I'm not saying that journalism should all be happy. And I think that good journalism is also not only about the problems, but also about the solutions, and the people who are working on these solutions. So I think that good journalism helps you to zoom out, to focus on the structural forces that govern our lives. Maybe we have to make a distinction here between the news and journalism. So, yeah, there's a real mental health hazard here. You know, they've become cynical and depressed and feel anxious. And this is what you can see with people who, basically, just follow too much of the news. And you'll have a quite bleak view of human history and human nature. So if you watch and follow a lot of the news, at the end of the day, you know exactly how the world is not working. Well, the news is mostly about things that go wrong, right? It's about sensationalist incidents that happened today, instead of things that happen every day. On media raising misperception of risk, anxiety, contempt and hostility Both of these things are true at the same time. And they literally talk about survival of the friendliest, which means that for millennia it was actually the friendliest among us who had the most kids and so had the biggest chance of passing on their genes to the next generation.īut then, on the other hand, we're also the cruelest species, right? We do things that other animals just don't – when you think about wars or ethnic cleansing or, you know, racism, discrimination, you name it. Right? Because on the one hand, biologists say we are one of the friendliest species in the animal kingdom. It's one of the ironies of writing a book about the power of human kindness is that you have to go on for hundreds of pages about all the dark chapters in our history. On thinking this way amid all of the discouraging news And I think that, if you zoom out a little bit during this pandemic, you see the same phenomenon. This happens again and again after natural disasters, after earthquakes and after floodings. And we get this explosion of altruism and cooperation. It's actually more than 700 case studies that show that, especially in times of crisis, we show our best selves. But in the first chapters of the book, I go over all the evidence of sociology that we have – and it's quite a lot. ![]() And that we really become quite horrible versions of ourselves. ![]() We often assume that during times of crises, the veneer that we call civilization cracks and that people reveal their true selves. You know, I think it's actually exactly the right time. On whether this is a good – or bad – time to make his argument "If we can actually trust each other, if we do have the courage to move to a more realistic, hopeful view of human nature, then we can move to a very different kind of society as well - and build very different kinds of schools and democracies and workplaces," Bregman tells NPR. Rutger Bregman begins his new book Humankind: A Hopeful History with what he calls this "radical idea" that most people deep down are pretty decent.īregman is a historian and writer for The Correspondent in the Netherlands and author of the previous bestseller Utopia for Realists. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Humankind Subtitle A Hopeful History Author Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton, et al
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Bato spring resort5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() The Finnish government's 1997 defense white paper strongly advocated the development of interoperability to support international crisis management in line with the PfP concept. In this image, two Finnish soldiers are receiving a briefing from an Irish soldier.īefore joining NATO, Finland participated in nearly all sub-areas of the Partnership for Peace programme, and provided peacekeeping forces to both the Afghanistan and Kosovo missions. This was complemented by the concept of total defence, which calls for the use of all resources of society for national defence in times of crisis.įinland has sent peacekeepers to Kosovo as part of the NATO-led Kosovo Force. From 1968 onward, the Finnish government adopted the doctrine of territorial defence, which requires the use of large land areas to delay and wear out a potential aggressor. During the peak of the Cold War, the Finnish government made a conscious effort to increase defence capabilities to ensure a strong deterrent for any potential invasion. As a result, it took neutral stances to stay out of great power conflicts, and refrained from joining NATO, the European Communities, or other institutions which were established following the war by the Western democratic states, as well as the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact. The Cold War was marked by Finlandization, in which Finland retained its nominal independence on internal affairs, while its foreign policy was limited to avoid conflicts with the Soviet Union's foreign policy. Shortly afterward, the YYA Treaty was concluded between Finland and the Soviet Union. ![]() The Finnish government refused foreign aid from the United States under the Marshall Plan due to Soviet pressure. This was to be achieved by maintaining good enough relations with the Soviet Union to avoid war with its eastern neighbor. Following the war, foreign policy was guided by the Paasikivi–Kekkonen doctrine, which aimed to ensure Finland's survival as an independent sovereign, democratic, and capitalist state next to the Communist Soviet Union. History Īt the end of World War II, Finland had to cut its ties with Germany, with which it had allied against the Soviet Union in the Continuation War. Finland has a 1,340 km (832 mi) border with Russia, which more than doubles NATO's border with Russia. Finland formally became a member of NATO on 4 April 2023 during a scheduled summit, finalizing the fastest accession process in the treaty's history. By the end of September, 28 of 30 NATO member states had ratified the accession protocol, the remaining two being Turkey and Hungary, who would both ratify it by the end of March 2023. On 5 July 2022, NATO signed the accession protocol for Finland to join the alliance. The possibility of membership became a topic of debate in the country after the end of the Cold War, and following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country officially applied to join NATO on. Finland has had formal relations with NATO since 1994, when it joined the Partnership for Peace program, and has been a member of the European Union (EU) – which largely overlaps with NATO in membership – since 1995.įinland has historically maintained a position of neutrality in the face of its often complicated relations with Russia. The Republic of Finland became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on 4 April 2023. US Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson in Washington discussing Sweden's and Finland's NATO applications.
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