International Networking and technical innovation cooperations.
On the 11th of Jan. 2012 a high ranking delegation lead by Minister Dr. Peter Ramsauer visited SIM-Drive a company for which CBI Partners is expanding the international partnership network.
The delegation was investigating the status of alternative energy- and transportation models in Japan.
The business model and the presented technology of SIM-Drive did not only impress Dr. Ramsauer.
Dr. Volker Stanzel (Embassador of Germany to Japan) is listening to the presentation of Prof. Shimizu about SIM-Drive.
Herbert Hemming (President of Bosch Japan) is taking about the participation of Bosch Japan in SIM-Drive's open source project.
Mr. Ramsauer returns impressed from his test drive in the fastest electric vehicle with street homologation in the world.
The delegation in front of the 3 SIM-Drive vehicles – SIM-Lei 1 (global leader in range per charge), SIM-Drive, Keio Bus and ELIICA (fastest e-vehicle for passengers in the world).


This term our topic is Fairy Tales. We will be reading lots of different fairy tales and learning all about what is in a fairy tale as well as all about the characters.
We tested the materials that the 3 little pigs used to build their houses and then we decided to build our own houses using these materials.
We have been using the new laptops to build houses for the 3 Little Pigs.
We have made wands just like the fairy god mother in Cinderella and used our writing skills to write a spell where we change an object into something else to help Cinderella get to the ball.
In maths we have been learning all about money and have been using this learning in our role play. We have been creating our very own shops and using what we know about 1p, 2p, 5p and other coins.


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Devolution and Independence: Deception and Lies
Stephen Bailey
Britain is being continuously lied to about the whole process of constitutional change. At the beginning, in the late 1990's, the government of Blair assured us time and time again that devolution would be 'an event' (IE a one off happening) and not a process, or more or less continuous series of changes. The Scots, Welsh and the Province of Northern Ireland would get a parliament/assembly with devolved powers but this would be 'within the UK' and the House of Commons would retain responsibility for major issues (finance, foreign policy, the army ETC).
This hasn't been adhered to. Over the years subsequent to devolution all the devolved bodies, but especially the Scottish parliament (and to a significant but lesser degree, the Northern Ireland Assembly) have slowly but surely accrued more and more new powers to themselves until we get to the current position where the Scottish parliament will have the highest degree of devolved autonomy that exists anywhere in the world (after the latest Scotland Bill comes into force).
We shouldn't be surprised at this as Tam Dalyell predicted this happening back in the 1970's during House of Commons debates on an earlier, similarly mad, attempt at devolution. Tam was a proud Scotsman who often fiercely and intelligently fought for Scotland's interests in the Commons against all (especially English MP's) who took Scotland for granted or who treated her unfairly and/or patronisingly, much to the chagrin of those people guilty of such actions. He fought Scotland's corner in the Commons with great pugnacity and intelligence. However he realized that blinkered nationalism would lead Scotland into disaster. He also realized that Scotland's best interests lay in maintaining the Union. He dismissed devolution as '...a one-way highway to independence with no roundabouts or turnoffs'. In his later years he criticized devolution as unworkable as it is in the nature of devolved assemblies to continuously attract more power to themselves, ending in the demand for independence. And look how true that turned out to be.
During the debate in Parliament in the mid-late 70's on devolution Tam attacked devolution as unworkable as he thought that two parliaments in one country would simply lead to conflict over who controls what. Having two parliaments in a unitary country leads to the devolved region breaking away from the other part of the country as the two provinces can't agree on who controls what and as the devolved region accrued more and more powers to itself it gains the (often false) impression that it can go it alone - it seeks independence. Again, recent experience has proved him right.
The Scottish independence question has been beset with lies and distortions from all sides. The SNP simply told (and continues to tell) one bold face lie after another in order to bamboozle Scots into voting for independence. It's now obvious that they did this because they had no concrete policies for the post-referendum period if they won. Vague promises built on sand were all they offered (with a good dose of extremely unpleasant anti-English rhetoric). Luckily the sensible Scots saw through their mad plans.
But even the 'unionists' have misled us. Cameron's 'Conservatives' weren't really unionists and indeed actually believed that it would be good for Scotland to leave the Union, as this would mean that they would rule the rump UK in perpetuity as they could easily get a substantial majority in the Commons if Labour voting Scotland is removed from the electoral equation. His successor Theresa May is no different, and, whilst saying publicly that she doesn't think that a second Scottish independence referendum is needed, has made no firm commitment to the Union and gives the impression that she would not defend it if Sturgeon started banging the independence drum again. She is cut from the same patrician cloth as Cameron and would simply cave in to the SNP's demands for another referendum. What's more, even though she didn't have to, she would respect the result. She can't be trusted to maintain the Union. Corbyn's neo-Trotskyite Labour Party is indifferent towards the Union and this is highlighted by his assertion that '...I am not a unionist'.
The so-called 'Conservative and Unionist Party' are the worst of them all. Before the 2014 Scottish independence referendum Cameron promised that a 'no' vote would settle the question 'for a generation'(25-30 years?). He asserted repeatedly that this was a 'one off deal' and that this didn't set a precedent that would enable future referenda to be held. After the nearly 2-1 'no' vote he re-asserted this. He called the vote 'decisive'. Then, in order to frighten people into voting for staying in the EU he brought up the bogeyman of a second Scottish independence referendum if we left. Sheer scare-mongering and hypocrisy.
He knows he has the legal power (from both the original devolution Acts and the Smith Commission Report recommendations) to rule out a second Scottish referendum. It is perfectly clear from both the original devolution Bill and the later Smith Commission that the House of Commons retains full jurisdiction over constitutional matters, including the calling of referenda, not Holyrood. All this threatening of a second Scots referendum vividly displays the Conservatives real lack of honesty about the constitutional change issue-they have no real intention of sticking to Cameron's original 'one off deal' pledge and will simply cave in to future demands for referenda from the SNP. Their misplaced patrician gentlemanliness means that even though they have the legal right to they won't deny the Scots future referenda if they ask. They can't be trusted on this issue.
We have been continuously lied to and misled from day one about constitutional change by everybody involved in the process and their deceit will lead the UK to ruin, unless we stop them.
© 2016 Stephen Bailey.

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Rick Scott's team bashes Tampa Bay Times story that challenges his economic record
By Mitch Perry on Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Sunday brought the first of a hyped three-part series in the Tampa Bay Times on Rick Scott's economic record, entitled "Big Promises, Small Gains." The key statistic? The Times reports that "96 percent of the jobs that Scott promised during his 2010 campaign for governor remain unfulfilled."
But but late Sunday morning the Governor's communications team had fired back with an over 1,100-word response refuting numerous charges made in the paper.
Specifically they dispute 12 specific charges made in the lead story of the package, which is led by Times/Miami Herald Tallahassee Bureau Chief Steve Bosquet (In a bit of a slight to the Times, the Scott press release refers to the story as only being written by the Herald. Regarding the charge that the total number of jobs).
Here's the entire press release, after the jump:
Governor Scott's Strong Record of Economic Growth Detailed, RE: Miami Herald's Story
"In the four years before Governor Scott took office, hundreds of thousands of jobs had been lost. Since the Governor took office, hundreds of thousands of jobs have been created. Under Governor Scott, companies are choosing to move to Florida from other states, reversing years when Florida was considered uncompetitive for job creation projects. There is no doubt that Governor Scott's job creation policies are working. But, there is still more work to be done to develop an opportunity economy that creates jobs for generations to come." — Melissa Sellers, Communications Director, Governor Rick Scott
MYTH: "Of the jobs Scott can influence most, only a fraction now exist."
FACT: The Miami Herald's statement ignores the many state economic policies that support economic growth beyond just those companies who compete for state incentive funds. Economic policies including tax cuts, and repealing burdensome regulations contribute to increased business investment and job creation. Florida added more jobs in the month of October than any other state in the country. The state's addition of more than 440,000 new private sector jobs under Governor Scott stands in sharp contrast to the more than 800,000 jobs lost in the four years before Governor Scott took office. CEO Magazine now ranks Florida #2 in the nation for job creation, up from #6 in 2010, before the Governor took office.
MYTH: "The total number of new jobs Scott ultimately might deliver doesn't offset the jobs lost at companies with more than 100 workers in the same time period."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to acknowledge the creation of 440,000 private sector jobs under Governor Scott, and incorrectly makes an apples-to-apples comparison between job gains through incentive deals with a select group of companies who adjusted their employment for any reason whatsoever over the same time.
MYTH: "The jobs outlook isn't better in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, where Scott inked deals to create 5,456 jobs in exchange for $25.2 million tax incentives and breaks. Jobs created to date: 61."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that many of these projects have timelines from five to 10 years. Governor Scott has only been in office for about three years, leaving many years for companies to meet their legally binding job creation/capital investment goals.
MYTH: "Two years after Scott agreed to spend $250,000 renovating a Kissimmee warehouse for Colt's Manufacturing Company, the building sits empty."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to include that under Colt's agreement with the state, the company's jobs are not due until the end of calendar year 2013.
MYTH: "Nearly a year after Scott hailed news of 350 jobs at a sawmill in struggling Suwannee County, construction is just beginning."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that this company is facing delays at their construction site due to naturally occurring sinkholes.
FACT: Additionally, the jobs for this project are not contractually due to the state until the end of calendar year 2013 and 2014.
MYTH: "For hundreds of other projects, the state website that tracks jobs data, Floridajobs.org, shows the same number of jobs created during Scott's tenure: 0."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that each of the projects listed on the economic development portal have their own timeline for job creation/capital investment. Many company timelines average around five to 10 years, and Governor Scott has only been in office for about three years — leaving many years left for companies to meet their legally binding job creation requirements with the state.
MYTH: "For example, Bi-Lo Holdings, corporate parent of the Winn-Dixie grocery chain, stands to get $3.6 million in incentives to keep its headquarters in Jacksonville and create 100 new jobs over 11 years. That's a $36,000 bonus for every job created, the highest cost per job of any incentive deal during Scott's term, according to the Times and Herald analysis. State officials say the figure is so high because Bi-Lo also agreed to retain 891 existing jobs at an average salary of $81,000 and make $81 million in capital investments. The state and Bi-Lo struck the deal on June 1, 2012, but 18 months later, the state confirms zero Bi-Lo jobs."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that Bi-Lo's agreement has already retained 891 jobs and the company's new jobs are not due under their agreement until the end of calendar year 2013.
FACT: The Miami Herald incorrectly reports that the per-job incentive total is "$36,000." It is, in fact, $3,633.
MYTH: "Evolution promises to hire 40 people over the next two years — salesmen, mechanics, accountants — with an average salary of $40,000. The company is starting small, with a sales center in a small building. The state lists no jobs created yet."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that the jobs under the agreement for this project are not due until the end of calendar year 2013.
MYTH: "Home Source, a maker of furniture, lighting and textile products, plans to employ 303 people at an average wage of $14 an hour in a region desperate for jobs. Scott approved $1.4 million in immediate incentives in May 2012 that paid for improvements to the building, but the jobs are slow in coming: the company says 23 so far."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that the jobs for this project under their agreement are not due until the end of 2013. Additionally, these incentive funds under the agreement go to the local government to reimburse the cost of the facility renovations.
MYTH: "He has offered tax breaks and incentives for a Sam's Club discount store in St. Petersburg, a Miami-Dade Walmart…"
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that the Brownfield incentive focuses on the redevelopment of blighted site and is not dependent on wage requirements like most other incentives.
MYTH: "Navy Federal Credit Union plans 1,500 jobs in Pensacola by the same year."
FACT: The Miami Herald fails to report that Navy Federal's 2012 project is more than a year ahead of schedule in their job creation requirements. They have retained 1,944 people, created 140 net new jobs, and also purchased land at more than $3.75 million for a portion of their capital investment requirements.
MYTH: "A $280,000 sales tax refund for DTW covers the moving costs of all 40 employees, Statile said. The incentive was a factor, but so were Florida's lack of a state personal income tax and the island's proximity to the ocean."
FACT: Pam Statile, President, dtw Marketing Research Group, Inc. said, "A number of factors went into our decision to move to FL, including the business friendliness of the state, the absence of income tax, the weather, the ocean, the labor pool, AND the tax refund incentive. We never intended to move 40 employees and will not, the balance between those who have moved (14 employees) would be new, local hires. We do not look at the incentive as a cost offset to our moving employees, I'm not even sure the maximum incentive will cover the cost of relocation."
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The Sustainable Farming project, which developed a 'cow hotel' model of dairy farming, was creating an ecosystem of sustainable livelihoods for small dairy farmers, securing and increasing their income while also protecting the environment.
China was suffering from a milk supply shortage. Smallholders were no longer able to sell raw milk to factories directly due to issues with both quality and safety, while overgrazing and grassland desertification in the north of the country were giving rise to environmental degradation and poverty. In this context, Danone Early Life Nutrition China and Danone Dairy China were increasing their production capacity but faced raw milk supply shortages at a time when new government regulations for baby food companies required local milk sourcing. With support from Danone Ecosystem Fund, Danone Early Life Nutrition China, Danone Dairy China and their local partner Heifer, Sustainable Farming China project saw the creation of a 'cow hotel' model and an ecosystem of sustainable livelihoods, allowing farmers to diversify revenue streams and increase income through sustainable agriculture and beef farming. Access to markets and micro-credit was also supported.
The project improved general farming practices and mitigated the risk of desertification in the North of China by regulating wild grazing. Danone ELN and Dairy China secured their milk sourcing and developed privileged relationships with farmers, diversifying the supply and increasing the general quality of milk.
The project is now independent and has been handed over in 2016.


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Q: Why is this paper stack not flat? So we have lots of paper for photocopy.  They come in a bundle. What I have noticed is that There are sine curves or maybe cosine when I saw them from the side. That's Look like:

Is there any explanation for these curves?

A: This is an artifact of the so-called conversion process, by which a continuous ribbon of paper hundreds or thousands of feet long and four feet wide on a huge roll is slit to width and then sheared to length and the cut sheets then stacked and wrapped into packages for shipment.
Since the initial spooling process by which the master roll is made occurs when the paper is still hot from the drying process and occurs under significant tension, the paper takes a set on the roll and the sheets cut from it exhibit "curl" after being cut.
That curl becomes cyclic when the master roll is left to rest on a concrete floor and deforms slightly under its own weight as it cools. The net effect is small for sheets that originate in the outermost layers of the roll (which is typically 4 feet in diameter at full size) and becomes progressively of shorter period by the time you get towards the end of the roll (which is wrapped onto a core that is only ~4 inches in diameter).
If the package contains a mix of sheets cut from a variety of rolls, then some of the sheets will have cyclic curl and others will be relatively flat in comparison.
Inkjet printers re-humidify the paper, which greatly magnifies the curl- in fact, paper sheets which start out almost perfectly flat will curl like crazy because the water-based ink is applied to only one side of the sheet, which then tends to roll itself up into a tube when the residual curl coincides with the wetter side of the sheet. In injket printing circles, this is known as the "diploma effect".

A: Let's assume that they were originally perfectly stacked. If you apply some nonuniform external force to the whole stack, some sheets might slightly slide around (which is true in this case, as visible in the photo; note sides of the stack). This can be viewed as a deformation of the whole stack. Due to being stacked, upper sheets will press down on the lower layers, thus creating  friction, which ultimately prevents the whole stack to reverse the deformation completely.
To compensate these inner stresses, paper can either compress or decompress in its own plane or bend in the third dimension. Apparently paper prefers to bend more than to stretch or compress.
(By the way, sine and cosine is basically the same, just shifted by $\pi /2$ )

A: I notice one tendency. Biggest sheets distortion is in the bottom pages. If you go upwards, you'll see that distortions will become smaller and smaller and paper will be getting more straight and almost plane-like at the top. This seems a little-bit counter-intuitive, because bottom sheets experiences highest load from paper mass above, still they warped most ! This suggests one possible explanation  -  heat flow from some source below paper tower through paper stack dissipating vertically upon reaching top sheets. This explains why  bottom sheets are mostly warped - they get highest heat amount. It can be seen in picture that there are some wires in left side of paper tower and some device too (probably copier or printer). I don't know if it is functioning or not, but if it is - printers certainly produce a lot of heat, because they need to physically heat a dye particles. This adds to the same idea.

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"America Hates Dark"
One of the most successful network executives ever laid down this maxim to a producer who insisted that a new cop show be "dark" and "real:" "America," he said, "hates dark." He's right, of course. When audiences sit down to watch something, they rarely want to be depressed. Gripped, thrilled, grabbed, amused, scared, any or all of those things (and more) are okay … but plunged into a depressing and dark vision of the world? Not so much.
Sure, yes, a few "Dark Knights" may achieve escape velocity and make some real money at the box office, but — for day-in-day-out television viewing — it's hard to make money that way. And it's getting harder to make money in the movie theater that way, too. I write a bit about this in my column for The National, the English-language newspaper of Abu Dhabi:
There's more than enough dark and depressing content on the front page of the newspaper, and audiences – at least in the United States – are expressing their bad-news-fatigue by changing the channel.
Once promising, though grimly dark, shows like Hannibal have been cancelled, and the recently popular genre of the "anti-hero" – shows that depicted such complicated and morally compromised leading roles as Tony Soprano or Breaking Bad's Walter White – now seem overly heavy and leaden.
It isn't just a case of audiences demanding sunnier themes. It's also clear that they're tired of ceaseless controversy in general.
When former Olympic gold medallist Bruce Jenner announced that he was undergoing a major life – and gender – transformation, it was the kind of lurid and tabloid-ready news that garnered big headlines and seemed tailor-made for an eventual reality television series.
Which, no surprise, it was. Jenner's series, I Am Cait, premièred a few weeks ago to a large audience, only to collapse in the ratings in the subsequent weeks. Call it "issue exhaustion" or "controversy ennui" or whatever you like, but it's clear that when audiences get home after a long day at work and sift through their large and growing entertainment choices, what they're looking for is a ticket out of the here and the now.
And then, there's the summer's box office disaster, "The Fantastic Four." There's a great summary of all the things that went wrong with the picture in the Hollywood Reporter, but this line stood out to me:
Sources say Fox believed in what one executive calls a "grounded, gritty version of Fantastic Four that was almost the opposite of previous versions" — and initially thought [the director] could deliver that.
Recall, for a moment, that the Fantastic Four includes a guy with stretchy arms and another guy who's all rocky and stuff. It's a comic book movie. Whoever suggested a "grounded, gritty" version should be dragged naked through the movie lot and then publicly whipped.
Because people have "grounded, gritty" lives. When they pay money, or crack open a beer and sit in front of the TV, what they want is entertainment. And that doesn't mean it has to be shallow or stupid or comic-book light: it can be brilliant, and complex, and all sorts of smart. But don't make a movie about a guy with elastic arms and try to make it all dark.
America hates dark.
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Bryan G. Stephens
@BryanGStephens
8:23 AM EDT ⋅ Aug 17, 2015
Well Said Rob.
My job has plenty of darkness in it. We care for people no one else cares for. When I want entertainment, I want it to be fun. MI5 was fun. And even in the Dark Knight, Batman got to be Batman.
The King Prawn
@TheKingPrawn
What about Captain America: The Winter Soldier? It did ok while being pretty dark, maybe leaning a little dystopian. Do you think the next movie, Civil War, will drown in the dark and depressing?
The King Prawn:What about Captain America: The Winter Soldier? It did ok while being pretty dark, maybe leaning a little dystopian. Do you think the next movie, Civil War, will drown in the dark and depressing?
It was like a 70's Political thriller (complete with Redford) but with Captain America and flying Aircraft carriers. I don't think it was all that dark. At no point was Cap going to waver, turn into a bad guy etc. He knew he could trust Black Widow. We knew Fury was not dead. We knew that Cap would win out and come out noble and true and American.
He put on his old Smithsonian costume.
Bryan G. Stephens:
It was like a 70′s Political thriller (complete with Redford) but with Captain America and flying Aircraft carriers. I don't think it was all that dark. At no point was Cap going to waver, turn into a bad guy etc. He knew he could trust Black Widow. We knew Fury was not dead. We knew that Cap would win out and come out noble and true and American.
But don't we know basically the same thing about Fantastic 4?
Misthiocracy
@Misthiocracy
Fantastic 4 didn't fail because it's "dark".
It failed because the plot is entirely incoherent and because the scenes that were reshot and reedited by the studio are SOOOOO obvious. Sue Storm's hair changes from shot to shot, for crying out loud.
The parts of the movie I liked the MOST were the dark sciencey stuff.
Dark is not bad. What's bad is when a movie can't decide what it wants to be.
The director of the movie wanted to make a full-on dark science fiction flick, but the studio stepped in and forced him to shoe-horn some comic book hijinx into the second half of the movie.
Leave the director alone!!! He knows what he's doing.
Fantastic Four comic books haven't been goofy for a generation now. They are about power, and death, and infidelity, and depression, and betrayal, and monomania, and technocracy, etc, etc. Reed Richards hasn't been an unambiguous "good guy" for a very, very long time.
Real Jane Galt
@FakeJohnJaneGalt
Funny you mentioned this. Last night our family sat down to watch a movie. We turned off 4 movies because they were just too dark, gritty, depressing. What followed was a discussion on how they do not make any good movies anymore and how most current movies just suck. (I hope the Ricocheti can handle that word because my mother said it is the only word that truly describes what is being made) You come out of them an emotional wreck, like you just did marathon sessions on a psych couch, tore up and sweating.
The really odd part is how even the comic movies and comedies are trying to go with this new gritty reality. What ever happened to feel good movies where the good guys win and were actually "good guys" and not emotional cripples?
Speaking of which did anybody see the last season of "True Detective"? The "good guys" were not really good. Just less bad than the "bad guys". They were all emotional cripples that insisted that you take the trip with them into their emotional disabilities. Not fun or enjoyable at all.
Austin Murrey
@AustinMurrey
I think Americans like dark but hate the over-the-top parody of a grim world that is derided by some as grimdark: the idea of a depressing world where honor doesn't exist and might makes right.
The purported exception to this is George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones, the much-lauded book and TV series where being a decent person means you will not live to see the end of the series. But for all the plaudits and "everyone is watching" mystique, how big are the ratings really: has it ever broken 10 million viewers? So this zeitgeist show has about half the drawing power of Two and a Half Men. And I bet the biggest cost for Two and a Half Men was salaries, not production.
What are the top movies of 2015 worldwide? Fast & Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Jurassic World: all over $1.5 billion dollars worldwide. The next comparable gritty film? Mad Max: Fury Road at under $375 million.
For comparison sake Furious 7 cost $190 million, Mad Max cost $150 million, so for the cost of $40 million the cheerfully absurd action film made $1.2 billion dollars more.
Tell me again about the drawing power of gritty realism.
Matt Wood
@MattWood
I loved the FF comic growing up. I want to support the effort by watching the film but boy is it getting panned by critics. So sad – why is it so difficult to put together a cogent story with these characters?
You write for a newspaper in Abu Dhabi? How did you pick that up ?
EJHill
@EJHill
Liberal America is dark and perpetually depressed. Everyone is oppressed. And every new darker, grittier, reboot of something America is already in love with is going to make us snap into passionate social justice warriors.
In reality, opening weekends create word of mouth reviews of "Gee, they f'ed that one up" and everyone stays away in droves.
I'm waiting for the next "Lassie" reboot but they're undecided between Lassie being kidnapped for animal testing drugs by Big Pharma or having Timmy fall down a fracking well.
EJHill: I'm waiting for the next "Lassie" reboot but they're undecided between Lassie being kidnapped for animal testing drugs by Big Pharma or having Timmy fall down a fracking well.
Well, really Lassie is the hero so you'd have Timmy kidnapped for testing by Big Pharma who are using petroleum based drugs because they can sell them for more than the all-natural alternative you can grow in your windowsill.
The Civil War part has me scared on this one. The Hollywood left can't ever seem to resist the American Civil War, slavery and why white people today need to feel guilty about something that white people 150 years ago did. If they can resist feeding me a guilt trip it might be enjoyable, if not I will be skipping it.
David Sussman
@DaveSussman
Once promising, though grimly dark, shows like Hannibal have been cancelled, and the recently popular genre of the "anti-hero" – shows that depicted such complicated and morally compromised leading roles as Tony Soprano or Breaking Bad's Walter White – now seem overly heavy and leaden
For the same premise as your article notes, I had zero interest in Breaking Bad. At the insistence of my Brother, it took me a few episodes to get into it, but on one Saturday, sans kids, I turned it on with my coffee at 7am and 14 hours laters I had to peel myself of the couch after a Level 5 binge. It was dark, gritty and disturbing… and for my money, the best written series I have ever watched.
I think entertainment can be dark, light, whatever, but to succeed they must have great writing, direction and actors you can relate to. Better Call Saul seems to be carrying the torch very well.
EJHill:
I genuinely would love to see a Krypto movie. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. About a pampered family mutt. From a planet that orbits a red sun. Who is used to test a FTL spaceship. And it crashes in the middle of the Russian taiga. With zero dialogue until the very end. When Superman reclaims his pet dog. Roll credits.
(Gratuitous shot of a statue of Laika optional.)
David Sussman:I think entertainment can be dark, light, whatever, but to succeed they must have great writing, direction and actors you can relate to.
William Shakespeare agreed with this.
@Douglas
F4 failed because the movie stinks, and the audience may be finally getting to a point Rob has been predicting for a couple of years now: superhero saturation. Look at the slate of major films coming up. Seems like half of them are comic book flicks. Hollywood found a winning formula in super flicks, and as it has always done, then proceeded to mine that shaft until there's no gold left.
Another problem with comic book flicks is the reboot thing. In 15 years, we'll have had three different Spider-Man franchises, with three different actors, all telling the same story three different times. We've had two F4 franchises in 10 years. And we're starting to hit bottom of the barrel for characters.
Douglas:Another problem with comic book flicks is the reboot thing. In 15 years, we'll have had three different Spider-Man franchises, with three different actors, all telling the same story three different times. We've had two F4 franchises in 10 years. And we're starting to hit bottom of the barrel for characters.
This is a problem with Fox and Sony superhero flicks, primarily.
Instead of blaming the genre, or the industry, why not shine a light on the specific studios who consistently keep screwing up?
RightAngles
@RightAngles
I wanted to like Hannibal. The reason I don't like it as much as I wanted to (but I still watch it anyway) isn't because it's too dark. I mean how could it not be dark? It's Hannibal. No, the reason is that they messed with the original too much. In the book and the original movie with William Petersen, Will was burned out from all the profiling of sickos. But in the TV series, they turned him into an insane mental patient. And the reporter Freddie Lounds is now a girl. They messed with the original story too much, that was the problem.
@Tuck
"Whoever suggested a "grounded, gritty" version should be dragged naked through the movie lot and then publicly whipped."
A large part of the reason for Marvel's success back in the "Golden Age" of comic books was that its stories were more grounded and gritty than DC's. This was one of Stan Lee's great innovations.
I haven't seen the new Fantastic Four movie—I liked the last two well enough, and didn't think it needed a reboot—but I see others have observed that the new movie just wasn't that good.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier was also pretty dark—can you get darker than Nazis secretly running the country?—but it was fundamentally about overthrowing the darkness, by the least-dark hero in the Marvel universe. I think that element is what distinguished it from other dark stories with no positive aspect.
I'm thinking of a specific Batman movie here, which I'd never bother to rewatch.
@billy
It's like that whole "film noir" fad….nobody wants to see dark.
RightAngles:I wanted to like Hannibal. The reason I don't like it as much as I wanted to (but I still watch it anyway) isn't because it's too dark. I mean how could it not be dark? It's Hannibal. No, the reason is that they messed with the original too much. In the book and the original movie with William Petersen, Will was burned out from all the profiling of sickos. But in the TV series, they turned him into an insane mental patient. And the reporter Freddie Lounds is now a girl. They messed with the original story too much, that was the problem.
I love Hannibal. I am very sad that they have to wrap it up this season.
Thomas Harris has been quoted as saying that the tv series is better than his original books.
David Sussman: …It was dark, gritty and disturbing… and for my money, the best written series I have ever watched….
Yes. Watching that series was a necessary evil, I think. I hated doing it at times, not because it was bad, but because it was so well-done it was hard to take. And I was delighted to have finished watching the last episode.
But it was fantastically well-done as a drama. And I'm happy that I saw it.
But I'll never watch it again!
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Rob Long: Recall, for a moment, that the Fantastic Four includes a guy with stretchy arms and another guy who's all rocky and stuff. It's a comic book movie. Whoever suggested a "grounded, gritty" version should be dragged naked through the movie lot and then publicly whipped.
Absolutely. The tone of FF4 lends itself as poorly to dark and gritty as this one.
Real Jane Galt… did anybody see the last season of "True Detective"? The "good guys" were not really good. Just less bad than the "bad guys". They were all emotional cripples that insisted that you take the trip with them into their emotional disabilities. Not fun or enjoyable at all.
I for one am sick of the Damaged Hero or Heroine. We should go back to having heroes to look up to, heroes for kids to aspire to be like. No more Carrie on Homeland with her manic depression and her meds. No more anti-heroes with three bad marriages behind them. And they're usually recovering alcoholics to boot.
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Entertainment/art products can fail or succeed for many reasons, and usually do for multiple reasons in conjunction. There is no entirely objective and mathematical way to measure the influence of these factors. At best, we can make educated guesses.
Factors like "bad acting" or "believeability" can only be identified by surveys. If you ask ten people who didn't like the acting why the acting is bad, you will get ten different answers…. if half of them can even offer explanations. Most consumers of art respond to requests for criticism first by describing their own feelings ("I didn't like it") and struggle to understand, let alone explain, their own judgments.
The many factors involved in any artistic product rely on each other like parts of an engine. If any part is flawed or broken, it makes the other parts look bad. Conversely, excellent features might hide flaws elsewhere in the work. And no feature pleases unless it is well implemented. Sometimes a work fails because it presents a winning feature poorly.
To complicate the matter further, each factor must be considered in relation to scarcity or saturation in the market at the time of its release. Film production schedules vary, typically requiring years. It is difficult to anticipate what other movies will be released when the film is completed.
All of which is just to say…. I'm skeptical.
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Appreciating Rob's expertise in the subject at hand (Hollywood and the entertainment industry), I have to suggest that the current "Fantastic Four" re-boot is a flop for no other reason than…it's a lousy movie. The story is incoherent, the characters dull and two-dimensional, and the franchise villain only emerges in the last ten minutes or so…and then is immediately neutralized by the obligatory kindergarten-level teamwork of the erstwhile heroes.
In the original Marvel comic book, the characters were adults, accomplished in their respective fields, and the only adolescent was Johnny Storm (a nod to the then-accepted requirement in comic books for a "teenage side-kick"). In this version, all the characters are precocious teenagers; The adults are all stupid, corrupt and exploitative, or exist simply to provide the young geniuses with the means and facilities their intellectual potential entitles them to.
No wonder this movie is so boring…it's a fairy tale for millennials, one that ultimately fails to affirm any message worth telling.
billy:It's like that whole "film noir" fad….nobody wants to see dark.
I think people are forgetting just how horribly the technicolor superhero movies of the 1990s performed at the box office.
People enjoy it when realism is injected into superhero movies. It helps to make these VERY unrealistic characters and situations more relateable.
The failures happen when a) the studio gets nervous and forces the director to showhorn some idiotic superhero cliches into the story, and/or b) the writers confuse realism with darkness.
Now, what do we mean by "realism" when we're talking about superhero movies (or fantasy movies, or sci-fi movies, or horror movies, etc)? How can these sorts of stories possibly be "realistic"? Isn't is an oxymoron?
No it isn't. What we mean by "realism" is simply that the writers/directors must plug the freaking plot holes!
A movie that is dark and gritty, but still doesn't make a lick of sense, is not going to do well just because it's dark and gritty. It fails because it doesn't make sense.
I loved Man of Steel, and cannot wait for Batman v. Superman. However, Man of Steel still isn't a perfect Superman movie because it still had too many plot holes.
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Daredevil on Netflix is quite successful. It's fairly dark but it's always entertaining.
We could probably reach, and maybe exceed our goal of 10,000 by re-imagining Ricochet as some dark, foreboding website.
A few psychotic drugs into Peter's Ovaltine should do the trick. Maybe Lileks could go postal in the STrib news room.
Henry Castaigne:Daredevil on Netflix is quite successful. It's fairly dark but it's always entertaining.
I was sad they didn't slip a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle reference into the origin scene. One throwaway shot of a kid carrying a bowl with four baby turtles would have sufficed.


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Dispite the controvorsies revolving his personal life lately, he has managed to promote the movie just on the basis of the movie itself. Unlike other movie stars, I had seen very few hungama for TZP promotions. The caption of the movie is" Every child is special", am not sure if all are but yes Ishaan Avasti who is played by Darsheel Safary sure is and so is Amir Khan as a debutant director.
The movie is well executed and has the right ingrediants necessary at the right place. Nothing overdone; no excess shots squeezed in to show the struggles of kid with his diability. Infact Ishaan is by far the character who is happier than the other charaters, playing his pranks and living in his la la land of dancing letters and jumping cartoon images. Aamir has been able to show to the audience the vulnerability of kids and that every kid has a pace of their own. In this competivitve age somewhere down the lane todays parents have forgotten that and are in a constant race to see how far better, smarter and fast learner are their kids in comaprison to their peers. TZP has made us take a step back to understand the each kid has to be handelled uniquly. And like the old saying spare the rod and spoil the child funda doesn't work for every other kid. This movie makes us realise that if your kid is a slow starter that dosnt mean that they are stupid or dumb. Just that they have to be taught in a different way.
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Do the Seahawks really need Marshawn Lynch?
Marshawn Lynch has been one of the most interesting characters the NFL has seen in a long time, which makes how he announced his retirement on Sunday normal for his standards. "Beast Mode" decided to literally hang it up when he posted a Tweet during the Super Bowl saying goodbye to the NFL with his cleats hung up. It was such a Marshawn Lynch-way to go out, and actually caused a stir about whether he did it for more attention or to take attention away from himself. The biggest question to me, though, is whether or not the Seahawks really need Marshawn Lynch?
"Beast Mode" was obviously a great player in his time in Seattle, putting together some of the most impressive plays the NFL has ever seen. Between the start of his fame in the playoff game against the Saints where he broke a million tackles on a 67-yard touchdown that helped the Seahawks upset the then-Super Bowl champions. He did the same thing, if not crazier, in a game against the Cardinals on a 79-yard touchdown. He was one of the best in short-yardage situations, and teams really had to game plan for what he could do.
However, I personally think Lynch lost something in the last year that made him less important to the Seahawks' success. You knew he was lacking motivation to play; evident by the retirement scares after the past few seasons. You knew he wasn't healthy; evident by his sports hernia surgery back in November that took him out for the rest of the regular season and some of the playoffs. He wasn't the same running back that terrorized defenses every week, and everyone knew it.
The Seahawks seemed to move on quickly from Lynch with multiple different running backs. Seattle has Thomas Rawls, who had a great season before suffering a season-ending injury, and they still can utilize Robert Turbin, Christine Michael, and Fred Jackson.
People can say all they want about how these aren't big names and they can say the Seahawks are in trouble, but look at the results they had without Lynch. They went 7-2 in the regular season games Lynch didn't play in, and 3-3 in the games he did. They won a playoff game without him, and utilized more of a passing game because they couldn't get production out of him in the close Divisional game against the Panthers.
I loved watching Marshawn Lynch play, and he was a dangerous player when motivated and when he actually produced for the Seahawks. He could've won Seattle another Super Bowl if they had just given him the ball at the goal line, which not many running backs have the guaranteed ability to do. Despite all of that, the recent results haven't exactly been great for Beast Mode. I think his retirement is justified, and I'm positive the Seahawks will be fine without him.
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The move is yet another attempt by the social media company to censor what it perceives to be misleading information related to the presidential election.
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I Всемирный конгресс эсперантистов — международная конференция эсперантистов 1905 года, состоявшаяся во французском городе Булонь-сюр-Мер и положившая начало ежегодному проведению конгрессов участников международного эсперанто-движения ().

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Конгресс стал первой международной конференцией эсперантистов такого масштаба, в нём приняло участие 688 эсперантистов из 20 стран (в 1904 году была организована конференция в Кале, в которой приняли участие эсперантисты Франции и Великобритании, и она оказалась столь успешной, что её участники приняли решение провести в 1905 году встречу в более широком масштабе). Инициатором проведения 1-го конгресса в Булонь-сюр-Мер был адвокат, руководитель кружка эсперантистов этого города Альфред Мишо, организационный комитет конгресса возглавлял Эмиль Буарак (он же стал впоследствии и председателем конгресса). В ходе подготовки возникали опасения, что из-за русско-японской войны создатель эсперанто Л. Заменгоф, как подданный Российской империи, не сможет сам принять участие в конгрессе.

Уже в 1904 году на страницах главного печатного органа эсперантистов — газеты «» («Международный язык») началось обсуждение вопросов повестки дня будущего конгресса, свои статьи публиковали Л. Заменгоф, О. Капе, Ш. Бурле, Г. Мош. В июле 1905 года в  был также опубликован проект Булоньской декларации, впоследствии принятой на конгрессе. В дни, предшествовавшие конгрессу, супруги Заменгоф вместе с другими участниками конгресса посетили Париж, где провели встречи со студентами Сорбонны и вручение премий одарённым студентам.

Конгресс проходил с 7 по 12 августа 1905 года и включал в себя как официальные заседания и обсуждение ключевых вопросов развития языка эсперанто и эсперанто-движения, так и обширную культурную программу. Главные решения, принятые на конгрессе — это принятие Булоньской декларации об основополагающих принципах всемирного движения эсперантистов, «Основ эсперанто» — своего рода «неприкосновенного базиса» языка, и учреждение «Языкового Комитета» () — предшественника Академии эсперанто. Также был утверждён вид флага движения эсперантистов.
Участники конгресса не смогли прийти к единому мнению по вопросу создания международной организации эсперантистов, поэтому решение данного вопроса было отложено.

Культурная программа конгресса включала в себя представления пьес на эсперанто, среди которых были «Женитьба поневоле» Мольера и «Гамлет» У. Шекспира, костюмированный бал участников, национальные танцы.

Заменгоф в своём заключительном выступлении на конгрессе прочёл свою поэму «Молитва под зелёным флагом» (), в поэтической форме отражавшую дух всемирного движения эсперантистов. Овация, которой был удостоен Заменгоф после прочтения «Молитвы», поразила руководителей французского эсперанто-движения. Они не предвидели, что на конгрессе будет царить почти религиозная атмосфера.

См. также
 Булоньская декларация
 Основы эсперанто

Примечания

Ссылки
  Фотопанорама всемирных конгрессов эсперантистов, 1905—2010

Всемирные конгрессы эсперантистов

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Triana zou verwijzen naar de Romeinse keizer Trajanus die vlakbij, in Italica werd geboren, de oudste Romeinse vestiging op het Iberisch schiereiland. Een andere versie alludeert op drie rivieren (tria Latijn voor drie en ana Keltisch voor rivier). Het noordelijk deel van Triana ligt nog steeds tussen twee armen van de Guadalquivir, waar ook het Olympisch stadion van Sevilla werd gebouwd.

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