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Tag Archives: covers
Video: Peter Case Sings Bob Dylan's 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues,' 'Long Time Gone'
September 13, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, covers, Music, news, song, streaming music, VideoBob Dylan, covers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Long Time Gone, music, Peter Case, songs, streaming music, videoMichael Goldberg
Peter Case performs two awesome versions of songs by Bob Dylan.
The first, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues," was performed on September 1o, 2014 at Live at Larkin Square in Buffalo, New York.
"Long Time Gone" was performed at the Mug & Brush barber show in Columbus Ohio earlier this year.
"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues":
"Long Time Gone":
Audio/Video: Patti Smith does Bob Dylan – 'Changing of the Guards,' 'Boots of Spanish Leather' + Smith/Dylan do 'Dark Eyes'
August 12, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan live, covers, live, Music, Patti Smith, song, streaming music, VideoBob Dylan, Boots of Spanish Leather, Changing of the guards, covers, Dark Eyes, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Drifter's Escape, music, Patti Smith, streaming music, True Love Scars, videoMichael Goldberg
Photo via Ken Regan's website. Photo by Ken Regan.
Bob Dylan has long been one of Patti Smith idols. Today I thought I'd feature some of her covers of Bob Dylan songs, plus a duet she did with Dylan in 1995.
I've also included versions of the songs by Dylan>
Patti Smith, "Changing of the Guards," 2007:
Bob Dylan, "Changing of the Guards," live version 1978 (sound starts ten seconds in):
Bob Dylan, "Changing of the Guards," off Street-Legal, 1978:
Changing of the Guards by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
Patti Smith, "Boots of Spanish Leather," 2011:
Bob Dylan, "Boots of Spanish Leather," 1964:
Boots of Spanish Leather by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
Patti Smith, "Drifter's Escape," 2012:
Bob Dylan, "Drifter's Escape," 1967:
Drifter's Escape by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
Patti Smith & Bob Dylan, "Dark Eyes," Boston, Dec. 10, 1995:
1995-12-10-Boston-Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan & Patti Smith on Grooveshark
Patti Smith & Bob Dylan, "Dark Eyes," New York, Dec. 11, 1995:
1995-12-11-New York City-Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan & Patti Smith on Grooveshark
Patti Smith & Bob Dylan, "Dark Eyes," Philadelphia, Dec. 15, 1995
1995-12-15-Philadelphia-Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan & Patti Smith on Grooveshark
Bob Dylan, "Dark Eyes," Empire Burlesque, 1985:
Dark Eyes by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
[I just published my rock 'n' roll/ coming-of-age novel, "True Love Scars," which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.
Or watch an arty video with audio of me reading from the novel here.
Audio: Tom Robinson Band Does Bob Dylan's 'I Shall Be Released' – 1977
August 12, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, covers, live, Music, song, streaming music, VideoBob Dylan, covers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, I Shall Be Released, music, streaming music, Tom Robinson Band, True Love Scars, videoMichael Goldberg
Here is a 1977 recording by the Tom Robinson Band of Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released."
The recording was the B-side of Robinson's first single, which reached #5 on the British charts.
During one interview Robinson said of his own political songs:
I never wanted it to become a fossilised museum piece about ancient injustices, it was always intended more as journalism than poetry. But to be honest it seemed a natural thing to do anyway. Bob Dylan was a big role model for me, and he constantly updates and changes lyrics when performing live. Part of the fascination of being a Dylan fan is hearing the different versions of "Tangled Up In Blue." It's fascinating to constantly get new angles on that dense and intriguing story.
Live version:
Of just buy the damn thing:
Audio: Hank Williams' Granddaughter Holly Williams Delivers Beautiful Cover of Springsteen's 'No Surrender'
July 28, 2014 album, audio, Bruce Springsteen, covers, Music, news, song, streaming musicAmanda Shires, audio, Born in the U.S.A., covers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A., Holly Williams, I'm On Fire, Jason Isbell, Low, music, No Surrender, streaming music, True Love ScarsMichael Goldberg
Hanks Williams' granddaughter, Holly Williams, offers up this intense cover of Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender."
The song appears on the Springsteen tribute album, Dead Man's Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A., out in September.
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Here are a few other covers from the album:
Low, "I'm On Fire":
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, "Born In The U.S.A.":
Video: Bonnie Raitt Sings Bob Dylan's 'Million Miles' – July 21, 2013 – Copenhagen, Denmark
July 20, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, covers, live, Music, song, streaming music, VideoBob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Copenhagen, covers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Denmark, live, Million Miles, music, Standing in the Doorway, streaming music, videoMichael Goldberg
A year ago, on July 21, 2013, Bonnie Raitt performed Bob Dylan's "Million Miles" in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The song appeared on her 2012 album, Slipstream, as did Dylan's "Standing in the Doorway."
Studio version:
Another live version, this one performed at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, GA, on May 9, 2012:
Continue reading Video: Bonnie Raitt Sings Bob Dylan's 'Million Miles' – July 21, 2013 – Copenhagen, Denmark →
Audio: Flamin' Groovies Cover Bob Dylan's 'Absolutely Sweet Marie' Plus More
June 20, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, Music, song, streaming musicAbsolutely Sweet Marie, Bob Dylan, covers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Flamin' Groovies, Jason & the Scorchers, music, streaming musicMichael Goldberg
I've always dug Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie," a song that is on Blonde On Blonde.
It's been covered very infrequently by other artists.
However there's a great version by the Flamin' Groovies, and George Harrison sang it at the 30th Anniversary Concert, and I found one by Jason & the Scorchers.
This track appeared on the Flamin' Groovies 1979 album, Jumpin' In The Night.
"Absolutely Sweet Marie":
Flamin' Groovies, 1979 promo photo.
Jason & the Scorchers:
Absolutely Sweet Marie by Jason & The Scorchers on Grooveshark
George Harrison, 30th Anniversary Concert:
Gorge Harrison / Absolutely Sweet Marie by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
Bob Dylan live from the '60s (this song is, supposedly, from 1968 and is credited as being performed by Dylan and Neil Young. Anyone have any info on that?):
Absolutely Sweet Marie by Bob Dylan & Neil Young on Grooveshark
Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde":
Absolutely Sweet Marie by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
Video: First Aid Kit Offer Beautiful Cover of Bob Dylan's 'One More Cup Of Coffee'
June 10, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, live, Music, news, song, streaming music, VideoBob Dylan, covers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, First Aid Kit, music, news, One More Cup Of Coffee, Philadelphia, streaming music, Union Transfer, version, videoMichael Goldberg
"One More Cup of Coffee" is a great song off Bob Dylan's Desire album.
Here the Swedish duo First Aid Kit offer a lovely version of the song.
They performed the song last night, June 9, 2014, at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.
And here's the original by Bob Dylan:
One More Cup of Coffee by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
Audio: Many Versions of Bob Dylan's 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue' – Dylan, The Byrds, Them, Echo & The Bunnymen, Joan Baez & More
June 6, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, covers, Music, song, streaming music13th Floor Elevators, Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, covers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, It's All Over Now Baby Blue, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Marianne Faithful, music, streaming music, The Animals, The Byrds, Them, versionsMichael Goldberg
An obscure British band that covered Dylan's masterpiece in 1965.
One of Dylan's many incredible songs is "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."
Unlike "Fourth Time Around," which I posted about the other day and which had few covers, many, many artists have covered "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue." The Byrds even covered it twice.
Below are some pretty incredible versions of the song including both of those versions by The Byrds.
Them with Van Morrison:
Bob Dylan, April 13, 1966, Sydney, Australia:
Marianne Faithful:
Link Wray:
Joni Mitchell:
Echo and the Bunnymen:
Hugh Masekela:
Grateful Dead, 1966:
Bonnie Raitt:
The Animals:
13th Floor Elevators:
Judy Collins:
Its All Over Now Baby Blue by Judy Collins on Grooveshark
Leon Russell:
Joan Baez:
The Cops and Robbers, cool 1965 version:
Bryan Ferry:
The Byrd, 1965 version:
The Byrds, 1969 version:
Bob Dylan, May 16, Sheffield, England:
Audio: 'House of the Rising Sun' by Bob Dylan, The White Stripes, Joan Baez, Texas Alexander, The Beatles, Thin Lizzy, The Supremes & More
May 19, 2014 audio, Bob Dylan, covers, Music, song, streaming musicBob Dylan, covers, Dave van Ronk, Days of the Crazy-Wild, House of the Rising Sun, Joan Baez, music, Nina Simone, streaming music, Texas Alexander, The Animals, The Beatles, Thin LizzyMichael Goldberg
On November 20, 1961, Bob Dylan recorded "House of the Rising Sun" at Columbia Studio A in New York.
The recording appeared on his debut album, Bob Dylan.
Below are two versions by Dylan, plus versions of the old blues song by Nina Simone, Frijid Pink, Texas Alexander (possibly the earliest recorded version), The Supremes, Thin Lizzy, The Animals, Dave Van Ronk and others.
Bob Dylan:
House Of The Rising Sun by Bob Dylan on Grooveshark
The Supremes:
House Of The Rising Sun by The Supremes on Grooveshark
The White Stripes:
House Of The Rising Sun (Bob Dylan) – 2005-09-09 by The White Stripes on Grooveshark
Nina Simone:
Josh White:
Roy Acuff:
Texas Alexander:
Dave Van Ronk:
Thin Lizzy:
The Beatles:
Libby Holman:
Frijid Pink:
Sinead O'Connor
[In August of this year I'll be publishing my rock 'n' roll/ coming-of-age novel, "True Love Scars," which features a narrator who is obsessed with Bob Dylan. To read the first chapter, head here.]
Audio: Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore Do Awesome Version of the Gun Club's 'Nobody's City'
May 2, 2014 album, audio, covers, Music, news, song, streaming musiccovers, Days of the Crazy-Wild, Debbie Harry, Iggy Pop, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Mark Lanegan, music, news, Nick Cave, Primal Scream, streaming music, The Gun Club, Thurston MooreMichael Goldberg
This is so great you need to just stop reading and click 'play' on the SoundCloud player below.
Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore cover the Gun Club's terrific "Nobody's City."
The song appears on the just released Axels & Sockets, a collection Jeffrey Lee Pierce covers. Pierce, of course, was the leader of the Gun Club. (There's another excellent cover at the bottom of this post.)
Album track list:
01 Iggy Pop & Nick Cave (feat. Thurston Moore) – Nobody's City
02 The Amber Lights & Debbie Harry – Kisses For My President
03 Black Moth – Mexican Love
04 Julie Christensen – Weird Kid Blues
05 Slim Cessna's Auto Club – Ain't My Problem Baby
06 Crippled Black Phoenix & Cypress Grove (feat. Mark Lanegan & Bertrand Cantat) – Constant Limbo (Constant Rain)
07 Nick Cave & Debbie Harry – Into The Fire
08 Kris Needs Presents…Honey – Thunderhead
09 Mark Lanegan & Bertrand Cantat – Desire By Blue River
10 The Amber Lights & Xanthe Waite – Kitty In The Moonlight
11 Ruby Throat – Secret Fires
12 Andrea Schroeder – Kisses For My President
13 James Johnston – Body And Soul
14 Primal Scream – Goodbye Johnny (Andrew Weatherall's Nyabinghi Noir Mix)
15 Hugo Race – Break 'Em Down
16 Cypress Grove – My Cadillac
17 Lydia Lunch & Jeffrey Lee Pierce – The Journey Is Long
18 Mark Stewart & Jeffrey Lee Pierce (feat. Thurston Moore) – Shame And Pain
This one is damn good too:
Black Moth, "Mexican Love":
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develop good practice guidelines on the involvement of users and carers in learning and teaching in higher education (building on work begun with the Learning from Experience guide), the establishment of involvement worker posts, and development of a context in which they can flourish.
DUCIE guidelines for the employment of service user and carer involvement workers in higher education.
In the summer of 2005, a small band of user and carer involvement development workers, based in Higher Education Institutions, met over two days in Nottingham. They had in common that they were fairly newly appointed to posts with the aim of facilitating user and carer involvement in education for health and social care. Lively discussion was accompanied by a shared sense of optimism and enjoyment in the possibilities of these new roles. They were seen to pose significant challenges too.
Some of the issues related to the cross-cutting nature of the work. Workers made reference to the need to 'juggle too many balls' or 'spin too many plates at once'. They spoke of 'wearing lots of different hats' and the complexity of 'working with different voices'. There was a real sense of people being pulled in a number of different and sometimes opposing directions; a set of challenges which will be familiar to anyone who might be considered a 'boundary spanner' (Williams 2002).
Other key issues were around hidden agendas, lack of clarity in what is expected of the role and tokenism; with one worker describing 'being parachuted in to rubber stamp things'. For some the role felt unstable, reflecting temporary or part-time contracts and 'inadequate resources'. One worker felt they were precariously 'standing on tip-toes'; another in a state where they felt they were 'about to be rained on'. Most could identify with the ambient fear of getting things wrong.
Two statements from the meeting stand out for me. When asked to describe a picture they had drawn of themselves in role, one person said "I'm trying to push the main door open when it seems that service users and carers are only allowed in through a little door that is open at the side!'. Whatever progress may already have been made in involving service users and carers in education and engaging with communities, 'pushing the main door open' can be a major task. The second image relates to tensions involved in work that breaks new ground. "It's a challenge" one worker said "not being a this or a that"; with colleagues always seeming able to assert much clearer, established and accepted role identities.
Supported by the Mental Health in Higher Education (mhhe) project, but with a remit that goes beyond mental health, the DUCIE network meets two to three times a year and has proved a means for the sharing of expertise and experience between those employed in development worker roles.


Ruth Ozeki '80, award-winning author and Smith's Elizabeth Drew Professor of English Language and Literature, will read from her imaginative novel A Tale for the Time Being on Sept. 5. The book, a finalist for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, was this year's summer reading choice at Smith.
Erika Rodriguez '06, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, was eager to bring more women to her workplace. So she created internships for 10 Smithies this summer. Rodriguez said her NASA co-workers responded enthusiastically to the idea of supervising Smith students at the research center.
Taz Mueller '18 has created a digital portal containing detailed historical and biological information about important campus trees. "We've got to preserve our arboretum," says Mueller, who was a participant in Smith's Summer Research Fellowship program. She will continue working on the portal in an independent study this fall and hopes to launch it later in the year.
The Culture of Collards, a video by Aditi Desai '05, is a finalist for SAVEUR magazine's best food video award. Collard greens represent a part of African American cultural history. Desai is among a new generation of farmers and culinary historians working to preserve and share their cultural heritage.
In an August 29 letter, School for Social Work Dean Marianne Yoshioka addresses a series of attributed and unattributed letters that circulated in the SSW community and the media, outlining an action plan for inclusion, diversity, equity and civil discourse.
Eighteen new full-time faculty members will teach at Smith this coming year on subjects ranging from Africana studies to statistical and data sciences.
Emma Guyette '20 has always been inspired by Gloria Steinem '56's work to make the world a better place. It's a lesson Guyette has put into action in her own way, designing a CPR training program for 250 people in her rural hometown in Franklin County, Mass., where it can take as long as 45 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at the scene of an emergency. Guyette's effort recently earned her the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement in Girl Scouting.


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The Department of Zoology was established in 1934 as part of the Course of Natural History of the School of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters. First hosted at the basement of the Faculty of Medicine, the Department was transferred to the Palace "Alameda Glete", where it remained until 1955 when it was finally transferred to the building Ernest Marcus. In 1970, the Department of Zoology was incorporated into the newly established Institute of Biosciences.
Between 1936 and 1960, the research in the Department flourished focusing on invertebrates such as cnidarians, arthropods, mollusks and worms. From 1970, with new faculty members, new research topics were incorporated, including studies in anatomy, systematics, evolution, biogeography, ecology and behavior of vertebrates. Since 1970, with the implementation of the Graduate Program in Zoology, several new research topics were established, making the department a premiere institution for ground-breaking research and academic excellence in Zoology.
Currently, the research conducted at the Department are focused on the study of biology, morphology, functional anatomy, behavior, systematics, evolution, development and conservation of free-living protists, invertebrates (cnidarians, Mollusca, Annelida, Platyhelminthes, Crustacea, Arachnida and Insecta) and vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) of fresh water, marine, land and cave, especially in South America. Research in ecology and evolution of the fauna of major Brazilian ecosystems such as the Amazon and Atlantic Forests, Caatinga, Cerrado, as well as freshwater ecosystems, is another key goal of the Department.
The Department also has a long-standing tradition in education, offering 21 courses in the Undergraduate Program in Biological Sciences and many specialized courses for graduate students. Furthermore, outreach activities include lectures, media interviews, counseling to governmental agencies and private companies, advising for the development of conservation plans and engagement with policy makers and the public.
Currently, the major research lines of the Department of Zoology include:
- Systematics and Ecology of Amphibians
- Study of Brazilian Subterranean Fauna
- Reproductive Biology, Postembryonic Development of Anomuran Decapods
- Biology and Systematics of Cnidarians
- Conservation Biology, Habitat Fragmentation, Natural History and Diversity of Mammals
- Systematics Evolution and Biogeography of Coleopterans
- Natural History and Behavior of Arachnids (Opiliones and "Small Orders")
- Systematics, Evolution and Biogeography of Arachnids, with Emphasis on Opiliones
- Marine Evolution
- Diversification of Elasmobranch Parasites
- Taxonomy and Evolution of Amphibians and Reptiles
- Systematics of Characiformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi)
- Systematics, Biogeography and Evolution of Chondrichthyes
- Systematics of Marine Fish
- Anatomy and Systematics of Marine Bivalves
- Taxonomy of Copepod Crustaceans
- Comparative and Functional Anatomy, Systematics, Evolution and Biology of Birds
- Taxonomy of Polychaetes (Families Sabellidae, Serpulidae, Syllidae and Terebellidae)
- Systematics and Biogeography of Diptera
- Evolution and Embryonic Development of Invertebrates
- Systematics and Evolution of Amoebozoa
- Systematics of Terrestrial Turbellarians
- Scientific Education and Dissemination in Zoology
- Activities and Learning in Non-formal Spaces of Education
Visit the Website of the Department of Zoology: http://www.ib.usp.br/departamento/zoologia.html (Only in Portuguese)

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Q: Why using StatelessWidget works fine here? Just started playing around with dart and flutter today. I'm trying to fully grasp the basics and I have trouble understanding why the following works fine:
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() => runApp(MyApp());

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    final appTitle = 'Form Validation Demo';

    return MaterialApp(
      title: appTitle,
      home: Scaffold(
        appBar: AppBar(
          title: Text(appTitle),
        ),
        body: MyCustomForm(),
      ),
    );
  }
}

class MyCustomForm extends StatelessWidget {
  final _formKey = GlobalKey<FormState>();
  final _textKey = GlobalKey<FormFieldState<String>>();

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Form(
      key: _formKey,
      child: Column(
        crossAxisAlignment: CrossAxisAlignment.start,
        children: <Widget>[
          TextFormField(
            key: _textKey,
            validator: (value) {
              if (value.isEmpty) {
                return 'Please enter some text';
              }
              return null;
            },
          ),
          Padding(
            padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 16.0),
            child: RaisedButton(
              onPressed: () {
                if (_formKey.currentState.validate()) {
                  Scaffold.of(context)
                      .showSnackBar(SnackBar(content: Text(_textKey.currentState.value)));
                }
              },
              child: Text('Submit'),
            ),
          ),
        ],
      ),
    );
  }
}

In the documentation, they are using a StatefulWidget with a State where I'm simply using a StatelessWidget. Is there a reason why the StatelessWidget works in this case and why should we be using a StatefulWidget ?

A: There is no obligation to use stateful widget. You decide whether your class needs to extend a stateful widget or stateless widget.
A Stateful widget is used when you are sure that there will be change of data in your class and need to rebuild your UI (Like the flutter hello world app).
on the other hand , Stateless widget is used when you know that your class won't change UI (a splash screen with a single image for example).
In this example , both can do the job perfectly. There is no change of data so stateless can be used , also a stateful can be used.
Read more about stateful widgets and stateless widgets and other solutions of state management

A: The Form class is a StatefulWidget
Note the inheritance:

Object  > Diagnosticable > DiagnosticableTree > Widget > StatefulWidget > Form

All the stateful work in this example is contained within the scope of the Form.
If you wanted to maintain state within a portion MyCustomForm, but outside Form, then you would have to change MyCustomForm to a StatefulWidget.

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This hotel's unbeatable location, next to the Cathedral and Las Ramblas, is right in the heart of the Gothic Quarter and just 5 minutes away from the Plaza Catalunya and the Born area. All the main landmarks, museums, restaurants and bars may be found within a short stroll.You can go to Carabela restaurant at the sister hotel Col n, just opposite the property.Traditional five-storey building.Small in size.This 3-star hotel offers excellent quality and has been recently renovated. It has two halls and a nice 1900s-style bar for a relaxed drink. (05/09 dv). A city tax where applicable is to be paid in cash locally.


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Un petit frère (dt.: "Ein kleiner Bruder", internationaler Titel: Mother and Son) ist ein französischer Spielfilm von Léonor Serraille aus dem Jahr 2022.

Das Familiendrama wurde im Wettbewerb des Filmfestivals von Cannes am 27. Mai 2022 uraufgeführt.

Handlung
Frankreich im Jahr 1989: Rose und ihre beiden Söhne Ernest und Jean übersiedeln von der Elfenbeinküste nach Paris. Der Film folgt der Familie bis in die Normandie ins Jahr 2010 und zeigt wie sie zusammenwächst, aber auch droht auseinanderzubrechen.

Hintergrund
Un petit frère ist der zweite Spielfilm der französischen Filmemacherin Léonor Serraille, für den sie auch das Drehbuch verfasste. Für ihren Debütfilm Bonjour Paris (2017) hatte sie mehrere Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter den Nachwuchspreis Caméra d'Or beim 70. Filmfestival von Cannes. Un petit frère soll vom Beginn und der Dekonstruktion einer gewöhnlichen Familie über mehrere Jahrzehnte erzählen. Für die Hauptrollen wurden Annabelle Lengronne, Stéphane Bak, Kenzo Sambin und der Comedian Ahmed Sylla verpflichtet.

Rezeption
Nach der Premiere in Cannes sah in einem rein französischen Kritikenspiegel der Website Le film français keiner der 15 Kritiker Un petit frère als Palmen-Favoriten an. Im internationalen Kritikenspiegel der britischen Fachzeitschrift Screen International erhielt der Film 2,4 von 4 möglichen Sternen und belegte unter allen 21 Wettbewerbsbeiträgen einen geteilten 11. Platz.

Auszeichnungen
Für Un petit frère erhielt Serraille ihre erste Einladung in den Wettbewerb um die Goldene Palme, den Hauptpreis des Filmfestivals von Cannes.

Weblinks
 Un petit frère im Programm der Filmfestspiele von Cannes (englisch)
 Profil bei allocine.fr (französisch)

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2022
Französischer Film
Filmdrama
Historienfilm

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This past week a lifelong resident of the Coachella Valley who was a respected DJ and member in the music community unexectantly passed away. Although I never had the opportunity to meet Chris, I have many mutual friends who were touched by him and are in pain.
This post is dedicated to Chris (DJ ChrisL) Lancaster.
Please read the information below regarding his tribute at Reunion this Thursday evening and also where to donate money to his family online.
This Thursday night DJ Day is hosting a fundraiser/memorial celebration for our good friend Christian Lancaster inside the Amigo Room of the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs.
There will be a silent auction, so if any businesses out there would like to make any donations you can get in contact with DJ Day or Jay Bednar via Facebook (search for names).
This night will also be featuring many other local DJ's so come through and enjoy some great music and good times in celebration of a great man's life. Also asking for a minimum $5.00 cash donation, but anything helps. There are some collection boxes out in the west end of the valley, so be on the look out for those. Also, more events are under construction where donations can be made for this cause.


The Electrical Sensing Zone technique aka….
The Electrical Sensing Zone technique (also known as the Coulter Counter) has been used as a method of particle size measurement since it's development in the 1950's. Originally developed for counting blood cells, it was quickly realised that the 'Coulter Counter' could be of great help in particle size analysis of almost any powder, suspension or emulsion, providing rapid, reliable and reproducible results.
Since the Coulter Counter measures the particle volume ( one of the few techniques to measure an actual particle parameter rather than an effect of the particle on light or settling rate) it produces a particle size distribution by volume(weight), but it also has the advantage that it measures the particles individually (particle counting) and provides a particle count or concentration measurement.
One of the highest resolution techniques available it can measure and show extremely small changes in particle size. With a number of ISO and ASTM standards for different applications, the Coulter Counter offers an established technique for particle characterisation.
But What Is a Coulter Counter?
For the last couple of years I have been writing posts on Coulter Counter applications, developments and history, some of which have been quite detailed, but this month I thought I would pause and give a simple summary for those who are new to the subject. Continue reading But What Is a Coulter Counter?
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When Mexico City was hit by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in 1985, disaster response teams searched the same buildings over and over again. During search and rescue efforts for the 1986 El Salvador earthquake, two European rescue teams clashed over the appropriate approach.
Twenty years ago, international search and rescue was "very chaotic indeed", said Joe Bishop, an emergency management consultant. "It was a free-for-all, there was no commonality at all... the tools were totally inappropriate for the job, all to the detriment of the affected people."
That changed with the development of the International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) 20 years ago in December. "I think there's still a lot to be done, but we've made major inroads since the earthquake in Mexico in 1985," said Bishop.
Jens Kristensen, a UN official who was rescued from the rubble five days after the 12 January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, agreed: "INSARAG has come a long way in 20 years."
The international response to the Haiti earthquake was the largest ever. "The best outcome," observed Kjell Larsson, a senior adviser to the Swedish government, "was that the USAR [urban search and rescue] teams saved more lives than any other earthquake response in the past 10, 20 years."
Nihan Erdogan, a humanitarian affairs officer with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Haiti United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team member, said the search and rescue operation in Haiti "allowed INSARAG to learn significant lessons".
INSARAG held its first global meeting in Kobe, Japan, in September, linking up 200 participants, 79 countries and eight international organizations. Co-organized by OCHA, the meeting launched celebrations for INSARAG's 20th anniversary and commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe.
Erdogan believes the main achievement of the meeting was the INSARAG Hyogo Declaration, which was adopted by all participating member states.
The next step, said Erdogan, will be the implementation of "a common understanding and common strategy [which] will make a big difference at the operational level".
Erdogan suggested the biggest lesson for INSARAG over the years has been to have minimum international standards. Referring to her experiences in Haiti, she said: "It was challenging to coordinate the USAR operations while teams had completely different opinions and approaches to security measures."
On 16 December 2002, General Assembly Resolution 57/150 endorsed the establishment of international standards and USAR capacity-building with the aim of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of international search and rescue operations, but a remaining challenge has been the certification of qualified international USAR teams.
One measure that has already been introduced to address this gap is the INSARAG External Classification (IEC) process, established in 2005 to identify competent USAR teams.
"Haiti was the first big disaster using the classified teams," said Erdogan. In light of Haiti, "now we know very well that IEC worked very well".
Yet out of the 60 international USAR teams that responded to the Haiti earthquake, only eight were IEC-classified. Larsson noted that "it's a fairly costly process ... and it's a fairly slow process".
It can take years for an international USAR team to complete the classification process, Erdogan said, and the queue to qualify for IEC classification extends to 2014.
Once a team has been classified, "we speak the same language and do the same thing", Erdogan said.
Mariusz Feltynowski, leader of a USAR Poland classified team, said in a review of the Haiti response that "cooperation with other certified teams was almost faultless. This happened because teams worked with the same standards, similar equipment and mainly because they knew each other."
Another lesson that has emerged is the need to strengthen capacity at local, national and international levels. Because of time and distance issues, at least 48 hours can pass before an international rescue team arrives at an emergency.
"If we can spread out the methodology through all levels and layers of response, we can save more lives," said Larsson. "If the national teams are trained, they can come together and work better with the international teams in a rescue operation."
INSARAG now aims to classify national teams.
Toni Frisch, INSARAG chairman, noted that "[w]hile the benefits of the INSARAG External Classification process in ensuring minimum international operational standards and matching needs to capacity were amply demonstrated in Haiti, the importance of introducing similar minimum standards and methodology at the national level became abundantly clear as a key to better preparedness for earthquake response".
Yet another lesson addressed at the global meeting in Kobe was the "beyond the rubble" concept.
Using the analogy of a local fire and the response carried out by a local fire department, Larsson noted that the firefighters do not simply show up, put out the fire and then leave. There are procedures in place for after the fire, such as relocating victims, dealing with trauma, and so on. He said there was room for improvement in this post-disaster phase.
During this period in Haiti, the expanding role of the USAR teams was seen to add value to overall humanitarian assistance. They assessed the safety of vital public buildings, recovery of damaged equipment and collection of the deceased.
The recognition of this reconstruction "beyond the rubble" has become an important aspect of how USAR teams will think about future responses to disasters.
A typical international USAR team includes search, rescue and medical components as well as administrative and logistical support and can be deployed within eight hours of notification of an emergency. A medium team consists of 20-60 people and a large international deployment can comprise 80 to 100-plus.
"Dogs spearhead most of the search operations," said Bishop, but structural engineers, vets and medics are also needed.
A team can remain in operation for 10 to 14 days before being resupplied, but the operational effectiveness for life-saving has a limited window of about four days. "The survival rate dramatically drops after four days," he said.
"Ninety percent of the rescues are done by locals, [while] international teams deal with deep penetration protracted rescues."
A senior humanitarian official said it was "crystal clear" that nations gained positive visibility in the media from their USAR teams. In addition, it was a good way to hone skills and develop the "real-life" experience for use at home.
Yet as Bishop pointed out, "These teams deploy gratis. It doesn't cost the affected country a single cent. The prime mover is that they are doing humanitarian relief.
"The investment that they are making in vulnerable countries is the right investment," said Bishop. "Equipment, training and maintenance costs would be unsustainable in many countries."
And while there is "nothing stopping a do-gooder or a nice john from showing up with a dog and a shovel... the INSARAG family is working toward filtering [out 'disaster tourism']," added Bishop.


Phuketwan journalists Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian. Pic: Phuketwan.com.
In an ironic and shameful twist, two Reuters journalists were awarded the Pulitzer prize for covering the plight of Burma's Rohingya while two Thailand-based reporters could face jail for republishing a paragraph from the Pulitzer-winning reports. Reporters Jason Szep and Andrew R.C. Marshall published a series of articles on the brutalities and discrimination suffered by the Rohingya, an underreported story of one of the most persecuted minorities of the day. Szep and Marshall wrote an article alleging that the Thai Navy funnels Rohingya refugees into human trafficking rings, a damning accusation. The Thai authorities took no action against the Reuters reporters. But they did target Phuketwan, a local media outlet that republished a paragraph from the Reuters story.
That the government is going ahead with this case at all, rather than commending all involved for exposing a potential case of extreme corruption and abuse of power, casts a stain on the country. International groups such as Human Rights Watch and UNHCR have called on the government to drop the case and focus on investigating the allegations rather than punishing the Phuketwan team. The Democratic Voice of Burma reported that Morison and Chutima have said they are both prepared to go to prison, an outcome which should inspire outcry toward a nation that bills itself as progressive and internationally savvy, but still practices media suppression.
Morison told Al-Jazeera that the case holds implications for all outlets republishing from other reports and expressed concern that if he and Chutima go to jail, their reporting on the Rohingya refugee story stalls for the duration of their sentence. Phuketwan has reported on this issue for years and DVB noted that the outlet was praised in 2009 for coverage of Thailand's "pushback" policy. This is exactly what it sounds like – authorities being granted permission to drag boats of refugees back out to sea, sometimes with devastating consequences.
Human trafficking is big business in the region and there have been many reports about trafficking operations that ensnare Rohingya refugees from Burma's Rakhine state. These are among the most vulnerable people in the world, regularly caught up in anti-Muslim violence and forced from their homes into refugee camps. They are without a state or governing body to protect them. DVB noted that the numbers of people fleeing Rakhine state for safety in Malaysia by way of Thailand's seas have "swelled" in the past two years following a surge in violence in the area.
CNN reported that the Thai government "says it is committed to combating human trafficking in Thailand but denies that the Rohingya are victims of trafficking. It says that the Rohingya are migrants who consent to being smuggled." This attitude seems irresponsible at best and downright criminal at worst. Thailand often serves as a haven for refugees fleeing poverty and war in Burma, and thousands of migrant workers cross the border to make a living. Human trafficking is a real problem in Southeast Asia and for Thailand to not only turn a blind eye to the struggle of the Rohingya, but to persecute local media calling attention to it, is a shameful act that is rightly condemned internationally.
Despite its reputation as one of the most popular vacation and ex-pat destinations in Southeast Asia, allegations of gross human rights violations and media suppression expose Thailand's darker underbelly and rampant government corruption. After the Pulitzer announcement, Szep said the story was underreported and that he hoped greater attention would be given to this situation in Burma. Here's hoping he's right – and that in the process, Thailand's unjust treatment of Morison and Chutima will continue to be exposed and condemned as well.


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package org.olat.lms.course.condition.interpreter;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.olat.data.basesecurity.Identity;
import org.olat.lms.course.editor.CourseEditorEnv;
import org.olat.lms.course.run.userview.UserCourseEnvironment;
import org.olat.lms.security.IdentityEnvironment;
import org.olat.system.exception.OLATRuntimeException;
import org.olat.system.logging.log4j.LoggerHelper;

/**
 * @author Felix Jost
 */
public class EvalAttributeFunction extends AbstractFunction {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerHelper.getLogger();

    /***************************************************************
     * Function types * * ATTENTION: Don't change the order! * *
     ***************************************************************/

    // user must have exaktly this expression in one of the values of given attribute
    public static final int FUNCTION_TYPE_HAS_ATTRIBUTE = 0;
    private static final String FUNCTION_NAME_HAS_ATTRIBUTE = "hasAttribute";
    // one of the values of given attribute must start with the given expression
    public static final int FUNCTION_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_STARTS_WITH = 1;
    private static final String FUNCTION_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_STARTS_WITH = "attributeStartswith";
    // one of the values of given attribute must end with the given expression
    public static final int FUNCTION_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_ENDS_WITH = 2;
    private static final String FUNCTION_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_ENDS_WITH = "attributeEndswith";
    // given expression must be part of one of the values of given attribute
    public static final int FUNCTION_TYPE_IS_IN_ATTRIBUTE = 3;
    private static final String FUNCTION_NAME_IS_IN_ATTRIBUTE = "isInAttribute";
    // neither of the values of given attribute may contain the given expression
    public static final int FUNCTION_TYPE_IS_NOT_IN_ATTRIBUTE = 4;
    private static final String FUNCTION_NAME_IS_NOT_IN_ATTRIBUTE = "isNotInAttribute";
    // neither of the values of given attribute may match the given expression
    public static final int FUNCTION_TYPE_HAS_NOT_ATTRIBUTE = 5;
    private static final String FUNCTION_NAME_HAS_NOT_ATTRIBUTE = "hasNotAttribute";

    private final int functionType;
    public String name;

    // private static final Pattern multiValueSeparatorValue = Pattern.compile(ShibbolethModule.MULTIVALUE_SEPARATOR);

    /**
     * @param userCourseEnv
     * @param functionType
     *            the type of function (use defined constants)
     */
    public EvalAttributeFunction(final UserCourseEnvironment userCourseEnv, final int functionType) {
        super(userCourseEnv);
        this.functionType = functionType;
        if (functionType == FUNCTION_TYPE_HAS_ATTRIBUTE) {
            this.name = FUNCTION_NAME_HAS_ATTRIBUTE;
        } else if (functionType == FUNCTION_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_STARTS_WITH) {
            this.name = FUNCTION_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_STARTS_WITH;
        } else if (functionType == FUNCTION_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_ENDS_WITH) {
            this.name = FUNCTION_NAME_ATTRIBUTE_ENDS_WITH;
        } else if (functionType == FUNCTION_TYPE_IS_IN_ATTRIBUTE) {
            this.name = FUNCTION_NAME_IS_IN_ATTRIBUTE;
        } else if (functionType == FUNCTION_TYPE_HAS_NOT_ATTRIBUTE) {
            this.name = FUNCTION_NAME_HAS_NOT_ATTRIBUTE;
        } else if (functionType == FUNCTION_TYPE_IS_NOT_IN_ATTRIBUTE) {
            this.name = FUNCTION_NAME_IS_NOT_IN_ATTRIBUTE;
        } else {
            throw new OLATRuntimeException("This function type index is undefined: " + functionType, null);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Searches expression ex in multivalue enabled attribute value values
     *
     * @param ex
     *            The expression to search for.
     * @param values
     *            The attribute value(s), separated by ,
     * @return true if found, false otherwise
     * @author Lars Eberle (BPS Bildungsportal Sachsen GmbH)
     */
    private boolean findExpressionInMultiValue(final String ex, final String values, final int type) {
        try {
            if (ex == null || values == null) {
                return false; // empty params?
            }
            final Pattern multiValueSeparatorEx = Pattern.compile(",");
            final String[] a = multiValueSeparatorEx.split(ex); // split on ,
            final Pattern multiValueSeparatorValue = Pattern.compile(";");
            final String[] b = multiValueSeparatorValue.split(values); // split on ;
            if (a == null || (a.length == 1 && a[0] == "")) {
                return false; // empty array?
            }
            if (b == null || (b.length == 1 && b[0] == "")) {
                return false; // empty array?
            }
            if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                log.debug("a: " + Arrays.toString(a));
                log.debug("b: " + Arrays.toString(b));
            }
            if (type == FUNCTION_TYPE_HAS_ATTRIBUTE) {
                final List<String> l = Arrays.asList(a);
                if (l.retainAll(Arrays.asList(b))) {
                    return true; // all values are the same -> excellent :-)
                }
                if (!l.isEmpty()) {
                    return true; // some equally values found, return true
                    // l now contains all values which were also contained in values param, so if you want to work with that...
                }
            } else if (type == FUNCTION_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_STARTS_WITH) {
                for (int i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) { // for every attribute value
                    for (int j = 0; j < b.length; ++j) {
                        if ((b[j].startsWith(a[i]))) {
                            return true; // if match then return true
                        }
                    }
                }
            } else if (type == FUNCTION_TYPE_ATTRIBUTE_ENDS_WITH) {
                for (int i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) { // for every attribute value
                    for (int j = 0; j < b.length; ++j) {
                        if ((b[j].endsWith(a[i]))) {
                            return true; // if match then return true
                        }
                    }
                }
            } else if (type == FUNCTION_TYPE_IS_IN_ATTRIBUTE) {
                for (int i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) { // for every attribute value
                    for (int j = 0; j  -1) {
                            return true; // if match then return true
                        }
                    }
                }
            } else if (type == FUNCTION_TYPE_IS_NOT_IN_ATTRIBUTE) {
                boolean somethingFound = false;
                for (int i = 0; i < a.length; ++i) { // for every attribute value
                    for (int j = 0; j  -1) {
                            somethingFound = true; // if match then return true
                        }
                    }
                }
                return !somethingFound;
            }
            return false; // only return false if nothing found
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            return false; // some String was null or something else unexpected
        }
    }

    /**
	 */
    @Override
    public Object call(final Object[] inStack) {
        /*
         * argument check
         */
        if (inStack.length > 2) {
            return handleException(new ArgumentParseException(ArgumentParseException.NEEDS_FEWER_ARGUMENTS, name, "", "error.fewerargs", "solution.providetwo.attrvalue"));
        } else if (inStack.length < 2) {
            return handleException(new ArgumentParseException(ArgumentParseException.NEEDS_MORE_ARGUMENTS, name, "", "error.moreargs", "solution.providetwo.attrvalue"));
        }
        /*
         * argument type check
         */
        if (!(inStack[0] instanceof String)) {
            return handleException(new ArgumentParseException(ArgumentParseException.WRONG_ARGUMENT_FORMAT, name, "", "error.argtype.attributename",
                    "solution.example.name.infunction"));
        }
        if (!(inStack[1] instanceof String)) {
            return handleException(new ArgumentParseException(ArgumentParseException.WRONG_ARGUMENT_FORMAT, name, "", "error.argtype.attribvalue",
                    "solution.example.name.infunction"));
        }
        final String attributeId = (String) inStack[0];
        /*
         * check reference integrity
         */
        final CourseEditorEnv cev = getUserCourseEnv().getCourseEditorEnv();
        if (cev != null) {
            // remember the reference to the attribute for this condtion
            cev.addSoftReference("attribute", attributeId);
            // return a valid value to continue with condition evaluation test
            return defaultValue();
        }

        /*
         * the real function evaluation which is used during run time
         */
        final String attName = (String) inStack[0];
        final String attValue = (String) inStack[1];

        final IdentityEnvironment ienv = getUserCourseEnv().getIdentityEnvironment();
        final Identity ident = ienv.getIdentity();
        final Map attributes = ienv.getAttributes();
        if (attributes == null) {
            return ConditionInterpreter.INT_FALSE;
        }
        final String value = (String) attributes.get(attName);

        boolean match = false;
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            log.debug("value    : " + value);
            log.debug("attrValue: " + attValue);
            log.debug("fT       :  " + functionType);
        }
        if (value != null) {
            if (functionType <= FUNCTION_TYPE_IS_NOT_IN_ATTRIBUTE) {
                match = findExpressionInMultiValue(attValue, value, functionType);
            } else if (functionType == FUNCTION_TYPE_HAS_NOT_ATTRIBUTE) {
                match = !findExpressionInMultiValue(attValue, value, FUNCTION_TYPE_HAS_ATTRIBUTE);
            }
        }

        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            log.debug("identity '" + ident.getName() + "' tested on attribute '" + attName + "' to have value '" + attValue + "' user's value was '" + value
                    + "', match=" + match);
        }
        return match ? ConditionInterpreter.INT_TRUE : ConditionInterpreter.INT_FALSE;
    }

    @Override
    protected Object defaultValue() {
        return ConditionInterpreter.INT_TRUE;
    }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The next generation of consoles should be coming around the bend soon. We make some educated guesses as to what they'll look like.
The concept of a console generation is a fluid one. These eras are defined by the dominant console or group of consoles in competition with one another. The true beginning and end are fuzzy though: is it when the first console of that generation launches or when the most popular console of that generation drops? To understand how weird "generations" can be, the Nintendo Switch is technically of the ninth console generation, with the eighth generation including Nintendo Wii U, Sony PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The Switch has kickstarted the generation technically, but its competition may not launch for many years now.
For the purposes of this article, I'm defining the "next generation" as beginning with the launch of the next PlayStation and Xbox. The Switch is here as a unique hybrid of home and portable console, but what will the next iterations of the major home console brands look like?
The Nintendo Switch has already begun the next generation, technically.
When Will the Next Generation Begin?
By 2020, our current generation of consoles will start to pull even with the longest in recent history. The sixth generation was as long as six years—the PlayStation 2 launched in 2000, while its successor bowed in 2006—or a short as four years, marking the time from the launch of the original Xbox to the Xbox 360. The seventh generation was lengthier, with the Wii to Wii U's six years, to eight years for the Xbox One replacing the Xbox 360.
So, an announcement of the next generation in 2019, with a subsequent launch in 2020 feels right to much of the industry. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter told USgamer that he expects to see the next devices from Sony and Microsoft in 2020. This number was backed up by comments from NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella to Gaming Bolt. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot pointed towards late 2019 as the earliest new consoles would be coming from Sony and Microsoft.
"As Sony launched the [PlayStation 4 Pro] last year and Microsoft Xbox One X this year, we think we still have a minimum of two years in front of us before something new is coming," Guillemot said during an investors call in November 2017 (at around 49:30). "But that's our perception, we don't have any confidential information on that front."
Do the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X change things for the next generation?
"We really like the fact that Sony and Microsoft are really putting more power in their machines, using the evolution of technology to give power to our developers to create better games for our players," he added.
The one outlier in this regard is Macquarie Capital Securities' Japan Technology Analyst Damian Thong, who correctly predicted the launch of the PlayStation 4 Slim and PlayStation 4 Pro. Thong told the Wall Street Journal that he expects Sony to release the next PlayStation in the second half of this year.
Despite his track record, it seems unlikely that the PlayStation 5 would launch this year, as we've heard next to nothing within the industry. You can keep a system a secret internally, but every developer and publisher that works on the platform vastly increases the chances of information leaking, and we've heard nothing. In addition, there are a host of major PlayStation 4 games at least that seem to be 2019 releases, including Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima.
A mockup of a potential PlayStation 5 logo.
A generation isn't just Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo though. Like Nintendo has done with the Switch, other competitors will be entering the space, potentially changing what a console is. In the fourth generation, a home console was a cartridge-based system. The sixth generation systems were all disc-based, while the seventh generation embraced online connectivity as a standard.
There are numerous directions this generation can go. Will we see more powerful hardware, continuing to push 4K gaming as the growing standard? If that's the case, that hardware be an ongoing evolution of the current generation, like the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X, and a complete jump with unique infrastructure. Other options include consoles focused on additional technology like virtual reality, or a reliance on streaming technology.
PlayStation VR has been a success for Sony.
"Both PlayStation VR and Gear VR appear to have been successful ventures, and that makes it clear that there is demand for accessible VR. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if VR was a major component of the proposition for next generation consoles. That might simply take the form of improved performance, and perhaps a new bundled headset, with a 'this is the console you need for high fidelity VR'-style pitch attached to it.," Mode 7 co-founder Paul Kilduff-Taylor explained to us.
Some hardware manufacturers and technology companies are building standalone headsets focused purely on virtual reality or augmented reality. Facebook is working with subsidiary Oculus VR on the new standalone Santa Cruz headset and will be releasing the cheaper Oculus Go headset early this year. Magic Leap finally revealed its Magic Leap One headset towards the end of last year, offering wearable augmented reality for developers and enthusiasts. Google is also working with several manufacturers to make headsets for its Daydream VR program.
PlayStation VR has been relatively successful for Sony. The headset closed out 2017 with 2 million systems sold. That's a fraction of the 73.6 million PlayStation 4 systems sold worldwide, but it's just enough to be profitable. It's also enough to keep Sony and other developers making PlayStation VR games. Kilduff-Taylor doesn't see that as a primary focus of a home console at this point.
"I don't think anyone serious is going to go all-in on VR yet; I'm thinking of a standalone 'VR console' which doesn't connect to a TV here. We're a long way away from that. However, I can definitely imagine a situation in the next few years where this becomes a major selling point," he said.
You can already play games on Google's Chromecast.
This generation will likely see the launch of several streaming consoles, even if they're not coming from any of the major home console owners. According to a report from The Information (subscription required, from Ars Technica), Google as been working on a streaming service code-named Yeti. This gaming service would offer a host of games to users via a subscription fee, pushing those games to existing Chromecast dongle or Google-developed gaming console.
For enthusiast-level gaming though, a streaming console has a number of issues, including latency and the bandwidth required for high-fidelity graphics.
"To my knowledge, there's no streaming technology out there yet which can provide the level of latency-free, reliable experience which most players demand," said Kilduff-Taylor. "The convenience of a console with downloadable games has been really well demonstrated, so I don't think it'll be the next generation which sees us moving away from that. When you have that system in place, there's no discernible advantage that streaming offers to the user."
A device like Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV could be used for a streaming games service.
That doesn't mean the idea of a streaming console is outlandish, merely that network infrastructure and player preference hasn't caught up yet. Another generation out, we could likely see an enthusiast-level home console built around streaming technology.
"Streaming will be a powerful force over the next ten years and will likely completely take over the console market in the generation after the next one (i.e. the Tenth Generation). This will be especially influenced by growing hardware requirements, the rising costs of GPUs, and the expansion of more advanced network infrastructure worldwide," Psyonix Vice President of Publishing Jeremy Dunham explained to USgamer.
"Even so, I don't think you'll see a complete abandonment of the physical or retail side in generation nine (the Nintendo Switch is already a proud member of that crew anyway) given how big the physical market still is—especially in countries with bad internet," Dunham added.
The appearance of the PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X outlined a future in which game consoles operate like smartphones and tablets: a sliding baseline of hardware power, where the overall infrastructure and operating system remains the same. In such a business model, a PlayStation 5 would just be a more powerful version of the PlayStation 4 Pro, running all of the same games and services. Pachter disagrees with this idea of the next PlayStation and Xbox.
"There will undoubtedly be a [PlayStation 5] before there is a [PlayStation 4 Pro Plus], if that's what you're asking. The next devices from each will be truly new consoles," he estimates.
Microsoft has previously released statements that point to a more evolutionary thought process when it comes to Xbox home consoles.
"For us, we think the future is without console generations; we think that the ability to build a library, a community, to be able to iterate with the hardware—we're making a pretty big bet on that with Project Scorpio. We're basically saying, 'This isn't a new generation; everything you have continues forward and it works.' We think of this as a family of devices," Xbox Head of Games Marketing Aaron Greenberg told Engadget two years ago.
The benefits of this model are long-term for platform holders and consumers. It allows for one continuous library from platform to platform, not unlike the PC. Consumers can upgrade to the latest, greatest console if they want to, but there's no immediate need. Publishers and developers don't have to worry about the early years of a console, when there's a limited install base.
"It's good from the hardware manufacturer's position as well, because you have a built-in way to remarket a console that's a few years into its life cycle while also staying close to a very competitive tech scene from the PC crowd," Psyonix's Dunham told us. "I was skeptical of the PlayStation 4 Plus and Xbox One X, but their successful integration into the existing console market showed that people can accept this sort of release strategy."
That said, the current model of generational upgrades works because its easier to sell the new hotness if it's actually a brand-new platform. Theoretically, the early sales of a PlayStation 5 would be bigger than a PlayStation 4 Pro Plus. So, I'm assuming at least Sony will create a new, discrete system, perhaps with some backward-compatibility.
A number of players buy a number of digital games, but not everyone wants to be digital-only.
It's unlikely that the industry will translate over to digital-only gaming, though digital has been a larger part of sales for the last few years. Last year, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) released its annual report, Essential Facts About the Computer and Video Game Industry, which showed that digital sales accounted for 74 percent of all game revenue in 2016. (Digital revenue includes game downloads, subscriptions, downloadable content, and microtransactions.) Still, traditional publishers see physical as important and necessary for the foreseeable future.
"Consoles and disc drives probably stay around for a long period of time. I think it's the consumer deciding what's the easiest way for them to buy a game. And it may mean they no longer have a store down the street from them so they decide to buy it [digitally] maybe it's easier for them to do," said Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen at the 37th Nasdaq Investor Conference in December of last year.
Another reason consoles might stick to physical media in many cases is the growing support for 4K resolution in gaming. Unlike 3D television, 4K looks to be here to stay, as the Consumer Technology Association expects half of all digital displays sold in the United States in 2018 to be 4K Ultra-HD televisions. The problem is the games powering those televisions are getting bigger and bigger. As USgamer covered in a previous feature on 4K gaming, 4K-enhanced games are beginning to approach 100GB on more in size, without equal increases in bandwidth caps or download speed.
4K gaming means huge file sizes.
"This problem is just going to get worse as we push more resolution and wider dynamic ranges. There are a number of possible solutions to these issues, and certainly digital downloading of assets, à la carte, can help," Monolith Productions Director of Technical Art Matt Allen told USgamer. "Ultimately though, that's just custom content management, not a new, or fundamentality different content creation strategy."
As games get bigger, it's harder for avid gamers to be fully digital. Instead, they have to rely on physical releases on Blu-Ray. Microsoft won a bit of positive reputation for including a 4K Blu-Ray drive for video content, but the PlayStation 4 Pro is still running a standard Blu-Ray drive. The problem here is a standard dual-layer Blu-Ray disc allows for 50GB of storage space; there is a BD-XL format offering 128GB of space, and Ultra-HD Blu-Ray discs top out at 100GB. Currently, publishers get around this by adopting a hybrid model where part of the game is on the disc, but 4K assets like textures and cinematics have to be downloaded.
And that's before the fact that we're only somewhat getting native 4K gaming with certain PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X games. For the next generation of consoles, it seems like native 4K and playable frame rates should be the baseline. Display manufacturers are already moving onto the next featureset: 8K resolution (7680 × 4320), dynamic HDR, and variable refresh rate, via the new HDMI 2.1 specification, putting our industry potentially on track for 8K gaming in the tenth generation.
What Will Power The Next Generation?
That leaves us with the ongoing march forward. The next PlayStation and Xbox will be whole new consoles, with their own games, services, and operating systems. Whether those systems are called the PlayStation 5, Xbox Two, or whatever their platform holders desire, they'll be what consoles have always been: big boxes that will go under or around your television, that play a combination of disc-based and downloaded digital games. So what about the innards of these potential beasts?
Currently, both consoles are powered by semi-custom Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) based on AMD's Jaguar architecture. An APU is a single chip that combines a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) on a single unit, sometimes known as a system-on-a-chip (SoC). The Jaguar architecture is older low-power style that AMD started using in 2013. Either company could switch to technology from competitors like Nvidia, whose Tegra chip forms the basis of the Nintendo Switch, but it's more likely that they'll continue using AMD in the future.
AMD's Jaguar powers our current home consoles.
There is the possibility that Sony and AMD could decide to use a discrete CPU and GPU, which would be power-hungry, but offer more in terms of graphical processing power. A rumor reported by TweakTown stated exactly that, but it has yet to be followed upon and I'm just not seeing it. Home console manufacturers aim for horsepower, but they also take into account noise and energy draw.
PlayStation 4 architect Mark Cerny has already highlighted what he believes would be necessary for a true next generation console, as opposed to an upgrade like the PlayStation 4 Pro.
"Each new generation brings with it a new set of capabilities: CPUs, GPUs and the like but also controllers and new types of display devices. If you go back to the 1970s, it was colour TV. That was the new display device," Cerny told Digital Foundry in May of last year. Cerny pointed to a new CPU architecture, more memory, much more storage, and improved graphics capability, somewhere in the eight teraflop range. Currently, the PlayStation 4 Pro reaches 4.2 teraflops, while the Xbox One X achieves six teraflops.
So let's assume we're getting another AMD APU for these next consoles. For the new systems, we could be seeing something based on AMD's Zen architecture and Ryzen series of CPUs. AMD did its reveal of the Zen architecture at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2016, so it apt to think you might see the processor being used in a gaming device. Our colleagues over at Digital Foundry speculated the same thing, even running a few benchmarks to see how performance would improve on a theoretical Ryzen-based console.
When paired AMD's current Vega GPU in a new APU, the next Xbox or PlayStation could definitely hit the threshold Cerny has set for a "new generation". The system would probably also need more RAM, probably 16GB of GDDR5 (or GDDR6!), and a 4K Blu-Ray drive. 1TB of storage space is not cutting it either, given that even disc-based games have to be installed on the system.
We can dream a bit bigger though. At CES 2018 this year, AMD showed off two Ryzen-Vega APUs—the Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G—and offered a roadmap of its new Zen 2/3 CPUs and Navi GPU. Zen+ will be a refresh of the Ryzen chip planned for this year, while Zen 2 is coming in 2019 and Zen 3 is planned for 2020. Navi is planned for 2019, with a Vega refresh, shrinking from 14nm to 7nm.
The PS4 Pro and Xbox One X are based on a 16nm process; a smaller chip means better performance and power efficiency. Basically, using a later architecture can lead to more powerful systems. So another, more powerful APU using a combination or Zen+ and Vega or Zen 2 and Navi could pay off in terms of a new generation of hardware.
Of course, all this power is nothing if publishers and developers can't work with the system. A benefit of Nintendo's partnership with Nvidia for the Switch is the latter company helped with the API and software libraries. It is much easier for developers to bring their games over from other platforms, which means more games overall. One of the reasons the PlayStation 3 lagged behind in the beginning of the seventh generation was the system's obtuse development environment.
"From a development standpoint, a great [software development kit] and development tools can make all the difference in the world. The easier it is for us to take our game between platforms without having to start all over again is the biggest win you can ask for as a studio. Power is great, but an effective way to harness that power is even better," Psyonix's Dunham concurred.
It's interesting to think about where home consoles will go in the next generation. Nintendo has already drawn a line in the sand with the Switch, which is a hybrid home and portable console. It's unlikely that Microsoft and Sony will follow suit though, leaving Nintendo its own unique space in the market.
"My suspicion is that the Switch is another classic Nintendo move to capitalise on a particular moment, rather than anything which is going to establish a long-lasting trend, so my guess would be that we won't see rival products from Sony or Microsoft," said Mode7's Paul Kilduff-Taylor.
It's likely that Sony and Microsoft's next consoles will look and operate in similar ways to the current Xbox One and PlayStation 4, just in more powerful iterations. So what will those platform holders offer to truly differentiate their new consoles? What will make them more than just the PlayStation 4 Pro Plus or Xbox One X Plus? Perhaps we'll see in two years.
My guess is that Sony and Microsoft have already started working on their next consoles. I'd expect the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Two to be powered by APUs based on the current Ryzen CPU architecture with 8-cores in combination with the Vega 11 GPU (maybe Vega 10?).They could go more future-proof, sure, but it's more likely that they'll take what they can get now to nail down the specs. Further, later chips will use a smaller 7nm process; AMD doesn't know if that will be reliable or yield the number of chips needed for a console production run. 14nm feels about right, as you get the boost in power and energy efficiency without going bleeding edge.
RAM will probably start at 16GB if either platform holder goes with GDDR5X or GDDR6, with 20GB being likely. (Maybe they'll get wild with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) 2 RAM. Storage will probably start at 1TB, because that's a place manufacturers will try to save costs. An Ultra HD Blu-Ray drive will come standard.
And I'm reasonably sure that Sony will push forward on the PlayStation VR initiative with a new headset for the PlayStation 5. Microsoft is still working on its augmented reality HoloLens and the company got burned by Kinect, so I'd expect that not to be a selling point of the next Xbox. I also think Sony will try to hit the $399 price point if at all possible.
Those are just my gut reactions though, which aren't any better than your own. What form do you think the next consoles will take? Let me know in the comments below!
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Born Again Virgins is an alt-rock act from Austin, Texas consisting of solo artist Anna Roenigk. Their self-titled debut album, produced by Brian Beattie, (Bill Callahan, Daniel Johnston, Okkervil River) explores both dissonant and melodic sensibilities—some tracks echoing 90's lo-fi grunge ("Limited Hands") while others, such as the last track "No Albi," play on chamber pop theatrics. The group formed in 2013 and has brought their music to the United Kingdom and Europe since.
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"A Remembrance of a Collective Moment with Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama" by Michael Ramos
Jan 13, 2022 | News
The rolling laughter filled the great hall: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and His Holiness the Dalai Lama nearly falling out of the chairs in exuberant exchange at the front table. The interfaith crowd took it all in with amazement. The setting was a breakfast convened in conjunction with the Seeds of Compassion Conference in Seattle (April 11-15, 2008), at Saint Mark Cathedral's Bloedel Hall.
I had the honor and challenge of assembling a list of 250 people to be invited to attend what was to be an extraordinary experience. There was no agenda, no program to be debated. Yes, the two luminaries were embodiments of "seeds of compassion." Seeds of justice, seeds of integrity, seeds of solidarity as well.
The seed that was planted in each of us that day was joy. Joy at life, joy in relationship, joy in the struggle, joy in encounter, joy in the surprise and wonder of it all. Their spirits soared as they shared not only profound words, but the essence of themselves in the gathering. They had seen it all: discrimination, hatred, death threats, oppressive systems, exile. Yet, their exchange with one another was a breath of life and life in abundance, spread throughout the room. Their spiritual groundedness – and earthiness – spoke to our souls. Their message was where joy lives, there lies hope: for change, for the world, for us. Living in freedom, we can help sow the seeds of freedom in whatever situation we face, as they did, confronting the evils of apartheid or the suffering of persistent exile.
For those of us privileged to be present that day, we witnessed the power of joy. Our lives were touched in a way that happens when we first glimpse lightning. We were invited to our own processes of transformation, the fruit of which is compassion. Thanks be to the Divine Source for their lives and may Archbishop Tutu rest in power, a power that helped bring about reconciliation in South Africa. (For further reflection, see their book, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, 2016).
Photo: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the Seeds of Compassion Interfaith Dialogue held in Seattle, Washington, USA on April 15, 2008. Photo by Tomas/Seeds of Compassion
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Why armed police deployed in Belper town centre
The incident allegedly involved a police officer being assaulted
Shannyn QuinnSenior reporter
King Street, Belper
A man allegedly had a machete in a Belper street and assaulted a police officer when confronted about it.
His dog then allegedly attacked an officer, leaving him with a hand injury that needed hospital treatment.
The 28-year-old was said to have been carrying the weapon in King Street, on July 25, at 2pm. Armed police were deployed at the scene near the Railway Hotel.
Alvaston dad had 40,000 sick child abuse videos and pictures
A police spokeswoman said that, when officers got to the man, one of them was bitten by his dog.
She said: "He needed hospital treatment for a minor injury."
The spokeswoman said the no-one was seriously injured during the incident and that "no-one was stabbed".
She said the man was arrested and the weapon recovered.
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Task Force Indecisive on Glaucoma Screening Recommendation
By Aimee Simone, Assistant Editor
Based on a review of studies on the risks and benefits of early screening and treatment for glaucoma, the United States Preventive Services Task Force concluded that it could not recommend for or against screening for asymptomatic adults.
There is insufficient evidence to determine whether adults without vision problems should be screened for glaucoma, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) declared in a statement published online on July 9, 2013, in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The statement updates recommendations made by the USPSTF in 2004 and was made based on a review of the evidence on benefits, harms, and accuracy of screening and treatment of early glaucoma.
Evaluating the accuracy of screening proved difficult, as there is no standard procedure for glaucoma diagnosis, and screening can include multiple complex tests. The task force assessed evidence from more than 100 studies on the effectiveness of a variety of testing approaches. The evaluation of these tests was further complicated by the lack of an established "gold standard" to assess accuracy. In the absence of such a standard, researchers of the studies included in the review used confirmation of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) during a follow-up examination, a diagnosis of POAG that required treatment, and the results of other tests or combinations of tests to gauge the accuracy of the various screening methods. Due to these limitations, the task force was unable to draw conclusions regarding the accuracy of glaucoma screenings.
The task force was unable to find studies that directly evaluated whether screening in asymptomatic adults helped to prevent visual field loss, visual impairment, or worsening quality of life. Nor did the task force find any evidence on the risks of early screening.
More evidence was available on the risks and benefits of early treatment for glaucoma. A systematic review of 10 studies, published in 2007, found that medical treatment protected against worsening of visual field measurements. The task force reviewed 19 additional studies, however, a majority of which found either no change or worsening of visual field measurements with treatment.
Even in longer studies with large populations, the efficacy of glaucoma treatment was unclear. Of 3 large studies with long follow-up periods, 2 concluded that treatment helped to slow the progression of glaucoma, while 1 found no difference between treatment and placebo. A 2005 review of 5 studies, however, found that patients who received medical, surgical, or both forms of treatment had a decreased risk of visual field loss and optic disc damage.
A number of risks associated with glaucoma treatment were identified. Eye redness was the most common adverse effect reported in patients receiving treatment with topical medication, occurring in 2% to 21% of participants, depending on dose, length of use, and medication used. Other adverse effects associated with medication included eye pain, burning, irritation, and dryness, increased iris pigmentation, and cystoid macular edema. Hypotony, hyphema, shallow anterior chambers, cataracts, and choroidal detachment were associated with surgical treatments and occurred more frequently in penetrating procedures.
Screening and treatment were also associated with a risk of over-diagnosis and over-treatment as patients with increased intraocular pressure, once thought to be the hallmark sign of the condition, do not always have glaucoma.
Based on the inconclusive evidence it found, the task force concluded that it could not make a recommendation for or against glaucoma screening in asymptomatic adults. More research on the progression of the condition and on treatment is needed before suggestions on early screening and treatment can be made, the statement notes.
Until then, the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends medical eye evaluations, including tests for glaucoma, for all adults, with frequency depending on age and other risk factors. In addition, the American Optometric Association recommends eye examination every 1 to 2 years depending on individual risk.


Skype, voice over IP and instant messaging software company, is now free. I should restate that that, Skype has always been free to download to chat and make Skype-to-Skype calls but now it is free to call out to any US or Canada phone number. Wow, this is a big deal.
I just recently started to use Skype a few weeks ago and actually purchased a $10 credit to make outbound calls. Now you do not need credits to call US and Canada calls or Skype-to-Skype call. I think it is a solid competitive move by Skype as Vonage prepares to IPO. it might make me re-think the usage of Vonage at all. In case you are unfamiliar, Vonage is a subscription-based voice over IP or VOIP phone service. It is tough to argue with free.


Trump is asserting, without providing evidence, that the FBI failed to thoroughly review Clinton's emails as part of its investigation into her use of a private email server while she served as secretary of state.
The tweets cap a difficult week for Trump in which his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, said the president directed him to arrange hush money payments to two women before the election.
President Donald Trump has been having a tough week.
On one of the worst days of his presidency, Donald Trump was chatting aboard Air Force One when the conversation took a detour into gallows humor.
Despite the momentary levity, though, Trump is increasingly frustrated and isolated as the investigations that have long dogged his White House plunge into the personal territory he once declared off-limits. One by one, the president's men have turned against him.