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Q: How to detect back button is pressed in the next viewController in a navigationController I want to detect if back button is pressed in the next viewController in a navigationController.
Let's say I have VC_A and VC_B viewControllers in a navigationController. I know how to detect if back button is pressed in a current view controller but I do not know how to detect it in a previous viewController.
Edit:
I go from VC_A to VC_B and when I press back button in VC_B then I want to call a function in VC_A.

A: You could use notification center. This link has a nice tutorial: https://learnappmaking.com/notification-center-how-to-swift/

A:
I want to detect if back button is pressed in the next viewController in a navigationController.

I'm not sure I understand this exactly, but it really doesn't matter much: in essence, you're talking about some view controller (call it controllerA), whose views aren't currently visible, finding out about a change that affects some other view controller (controllerB). The usual reason for needing such a thing is so that controllerA can update some data that it manages.
A better way to handle that is to have both controllers share a common data model. Any application state that's affected by something like a view controller being dismissed is shared data that should be part of the data model. controllerA really shouldn't care about whether controllerB's back button was tapped or not... that event is only the business of controllerB (and arguably the navigation controller that manages it). What controllerA should care about is updating its own views according to whatever changes happened while it was off screen, and those changes should be recorded in the model by controllerB and any other view controllers that might have been active along the way.

A: I'm suggesting you to do that with Notification Center like AglaiaZ suggested you. But if you're not feeling comfortable with using Notification Center, then try this more basic solution with viewWillAppear delegate method in viewController from which you're tracking are you back from B VC. So, let's go.
Set this variable in your current view controller class where you want to trigger method when the back button is pressed on the specific view controller, let's call that specific view controller B VC.
let isFromBViewController = false

Then in code block where you're triggering the transition to B VC set this variable to true.
func goToBViewController() { // This method is triggering transition from A VC to B VC
isFromBViewController = true }

And then in viewWillAppear delegate method check did current VC from which we triggered the transition to B VC have appeard from B VC.
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)

if isFromBViewController {
    // code for doing something when you got back from B VC

    isFromBViewController = false
}}

And that's it.
But, again I'm suggesting you to use the notification center as @AglaiaZ suggested, the tutorial is easy, and with that tutorial I've also learned how to use Notification Center and how to create and use custom notifications.
Good luck.

A: If I understood correctly, you want to do something when the back button in the navigation bar at the current view controller is pressed, and the user is going back from the current B view controller to A view controller.
Put this line of code in the view controller in which you want to track when the user has pressed the back button.
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

    if isMovingToParent {
        //your code when back button is pressed
    }
}


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14 For Sale
John's Blog
Restoration Progress
Update 13th November 2020
Peak Rail is again in lockdown due to the Government's guidelines.
Once we are allowed visitors once again to view the loco, we will let you know.
You will be required to forward your contact details, initially to me to be passed on to Peak Rail for filing, re contact and traceability issues, of
the ongoing Coronvirus situation. All potential purchasers will be met off site, and escorted by myself onto and back off the premises.These are conditions I have agreed to and I will be up holding the promise. Please also note coming to view the loco will not include a tour of the site, or our facilities.
Please contact 01142424405 or 07868706156
syr_03099@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks and keep safe, John Wade.
For Sale; CLASS 14,,,,D9525
In good working order.
This will probably be the best presented 14 which is ever likely to come on the market. Please note, no time wasters, serious offers only will be considered. Contact for expressions of interest and further details;
or telephone contact as above
Generic Information for interested Parties.
The Locomotive has had a Full rewire to the Swindon Works drawing ,which was issued when the locos were built. Every wire is identified by the correct number as per drawing. This work was carried out by a fully qualified Panel Electrician. In my own words the wiring is an absolute work of art.
An overhauled turbo charger has been fitted to the power unit with new leather bellows. The power unit has had an oil change, and after the governor has been adjusted, now runs very nicely with no evidence of excessive smoke once the engine is warm. No leaking radiator elements and the loco has the appropriate antifreeze added.
The loco was stopped by ourselves as the generator had an intermittent fault. The generator has now had a full rewind, and while the loco was under overhaul the air frame that straddles the generator has had a full overhaul also with the b nose end also having a full internal repaint.
Moving onto the cab. The internal steps within the cab have both been renewed. The peg board paneling which makes up the internal roof has all been renewed to a high standard. The cab has had a full internal repaint. Both of the triple sliding cab windows are in good working order.
It has a full set of cab gauges including the electric fuel gauge which are absolutely impossible to find in original condition. The hand brake is in full working order.
The bottom end has been serviced, including all components below being lubricated and overhauled as required.
Externally the loco has had a full repaint with replica works plates, the correct coaching stock roundels and paint spec applied. Replacement air vents have been fitted to the bonnets as required.
Please note as of yet the loco is not fitted with route indicator boxes, although this should be a relatively easy item to have made. Don't look for original ones there aren't any they rusted out many years ago!
The loco has not been tyred turned but they have reasonable tyres with a profile on them. The loco has had new battery boxes fabricated and fitted to an exacting standard, with a good set of batteries fitted ,all with new wiring of course.The loco is vac fitted and it works.
If I am honest the loco looks a treat. We don't really want to let it go, BUT its too large for our collection. It takes up a lot of covered accommodation. It has taken an inordinate amount of time and trouble to get it into the condition its now in. (9 years) We run Galas on our sidings, this is a greyhound that doesn't want fettering to sidings or mere shunting duties! We pride ourselves on the standard of work we produce, with everything we restore. We have 22 ex BR shunters some of which are still waiting to be restored. Some of which are now awaiting to be restored for the second or third time! There are about ten of us in total undertaking this work, so what I'm getting round to saying is we can't look after a 14, or more rightly do it anymore justice we simply don't have the time.
No guide price is to be offered, it's worth is to be decided by what its worth to you, then ultimately by ourselves. These don't come along very often, and never in the condition that this one is in. If we don't get a satisfactory offer it will stay with us, there is no pressure .
Ultimately the loco will be sold as seen, there are very few spares with it, for the reasons listed above.
I would also mention, there is also a class 14 owners club, who share information trade spares and are generally a group of very nice and extremely helpful people. I suppose it's fair to say that it will be sad not to have an involvement as Class 14 owners with this very nice set of enthusiasts. Special mention must go at this moment to a very old friend Dave Hartley at the Nene Valley Railway (Mr 14), who is now suffering poor health but is still manfully offering advice and help to all those that need it .Thanks Dave.
I have been as honest as I can be, I have been actively involved myself in shunter preservation for just over 35 years so have met the chancers, dreamers, down right con artists etc etc. If you are a tyre kicker or dreamer please don't waste our time, it's probably our most precious commodity,,,,,,,,,,Thanks John Wade
All photos below of D9525 taken on 16th July 2020.

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Shulkin Says He Has 'Comfort' With Potential Successor at VA
"Dr. Jackson is a very honorable man who wants to do the right thing," Shulkin said
By Hope Yen	• Published at 11:41 am on April 2, 2018
Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin downplayed concerns about his potential successor's lack of managerial experience Monday, saying the key for improving the VA will be surrounding White House doctor Ronny Jackson with a good team "because no one person can do this alone."
Shulkin and the White House have engaged in a highly public campaign surrounding his departure from the VA last week. Shulkin said he was fired. The White House said he resigned.
On Monday, Shulkin told CNN there was no reason he would resign. He said he had been given a heads-up on his ouster by Chief of Staff John Kelly moments before President Donald Trump tweeted it.
impeachment 10 hours ago
Shulkin said he supports the person President Donald Trump selected to replace him.
"I have comfort because I know Dr. Jackson," Shulkin said. "Dr. Jackson is a very honorable man who wants to do the right thing."
Shulkin's comments represented a different tone from the fractious back-and-forth Sunday when the White House hit back at Shulkin for claiming that he was fired from his job and that he was only informed about it shortly before President Donald Trump tweeted about his replacement.
The Trump administration says he left his job willingly amid a bruising ethics scandal and mounting rebellion within the agency.
On Sunday, chagrined by Shulkin's public statements blaming his ouster on unfair "political forces" in the Trump administration, the White House circulated a "talking points" memo to some veterans groups in a bid to discredit him.
The three-page memo, obtained by The Associated Press, points out seven "lies" that it said Shulkin had spread. They include statements in which he minimizes a VA watchdog report in February that concluded he violated ethics rules by accepting free Wimbledon tennis tickets. The VA inspector general has previously found Shulkin made misleading statements about the trip to investigators and the news media.
In television interviews earlier Sunday, Shulkin said he had not submitted a resignation letter, or planned to, and was only told of Trump's decision to replace him shortly before the Twitter announcement. He said he had spoken to Trump by phone earlier that day about VA improvements, with no mention of his job status, and was scheduled to meet with the president the next morning.
"I came to run the Department of Veterans Affairs because I'm committed to veterans," Shulkin said. "And I would not resign because I'm committed to making sure this job was seen through to the very end."
Last week, Trump named Defense Department official Robert Wilkie to the acting position, bypassing Shulkin's deputy secretary, Tom Bowman. Bowman has come under criticism for being too moderate to push Trump's agenda.
Under federal law, a president has wide authority to temporarily fill a federal agency job if someone "dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to perform the functions and duties of the office." There is no mention of a president having that authority if the person is fired. Still, it's unclear if courts would seek to draw a legal distinction between a firing and a forced resignation, if that is indeed what happened to Shulkin.
The day after announcing he was replacing Shulkin, Trump told a rally in Richfield, Ohio, that he had been dissatisfied with efforts to improve the VA. Shulkin had enjoyed Trump's support for much of his first year in the administration, but that eroded in February after mounting ethics questions and political infighting at the VA.
Wilkie, now listed on the VA website as acting secretary, took over Shulkin's duties last week.
The back and forth over the circumstances behind Shulkin's departure — and what it could mean for Wilkie's status — comes as the nomination of Jackson is drawing concern among lawmakers and veterans groups. They worry the Navy rear admiral and lifelong physician lacks the experience to manage an enormous agency paralyzed over Trump's push to expand private care.
Trump's new Cabinet nominees also are beginning to pile up in the Senate, likely leading to weeks of confirmation battles and other delays in the run-up to congressional midterm elections in November. That could mean an extended reign for an acting VA secretary.
Shulkin's dismissal comes amid a broader shakeup of top Trump administration officials and accusations of excessive spending by Cabinet officials. Also currently under fire are Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
Shulkin had agreed to reimburse the government more than $4,000 after the VA's internal watchdog concluded last month that he had improperly accepted Wimbledon tennis tickets and that his then-chief of staff had doctored emails to justify his wife traveling to Europe with him at taxpayer expense. Shulkin also blamed internal drama at the agency on a half-dozen or so rebellious political appointees, insisting he had White House backing to fire them.
Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed.


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import com.intellij.codeHighlighting.DirtyScopeTrackingHighlightingPassFactory;
import com.intellij.codeHighlighting.TextEditorHighlightingPass;
import com.intellij.codeHighlighting.TextEditorHighlightingPassRegistrar;
import com.intellij.openapi.editor.Document;
import com.intellij.openapi.editor.Editor;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.psi.PsiFile;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

import java.util.List;

public abstract class TextEditorHighlightingPassRegistrarEx extends TextEditorHighlightingPassRegistrar {

  public static TextEditorHighlightingPassRegistrarEx getInstanceEx(Project project) {
    return (TextEditorHighlightingPassRegistrarEx)getInstance(project);
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An old man wanders alone in a crumbling temple. He has won, but he feels hollow (like the vacant eyes of the carvings and statues and paintings, replaced by crudely fashioned coins, pale reflections of the pure ideal they are meant to honor).
What does it mean to be the High Priest of a religion that no longer has any followers?
It was so hard to read this after I died and not tell you who the demons were.
:D yaaay well done mafia compatriots!
Shoal, what were your instructions as demon? Was there anything we should have picked up on?
YOU HAVE BEEN POSSESSED BY A DEMON (and are now playing that demon instead of your original character, now the demon's host).
Your win condition has changed. You now only win if at the end of the game whoever's possessed is the last person standing. You may then assume that the host skips town to happily unleash the demon in a larger metropolis.
Your current host (Akar) has an expiration date: being possessed by you is no picnic. On night 8 (if it gets that far), target someone else to move into them. You will die tragically if you fail to move hosts for any reason, such as trying to do so to someone who has died. Alas, you (the player) will have to bow out of the game when you change hosts even if it goes off without a hitch; but you can take notes to pass on to future players of THE DEMON, who will retain all of the active host's powers.
I also got access to private chat with MTC and modrony who kept themselves unspoiled (not PDV, who didn't), and they left me lots of notes and stuff.
and I have no idea. I think your math was pretty much right that regardless of win con we had to play the same BUT one thing that could have changed it was if you did trust someone not to be the demon, and you trusted them enough, it would have made sense to co-operate with them to avoid a coinflip, if the amount you trusted them (tamien in this case) gave a bigger chance of winning that way.
Another thing to notice was: modrony chose the target and we had to survive until the end. choosing michael would have been a loss for modrony, therefore michael couldn't have been the demon. i think that completely undoes the "it makes sense to vote for michael" strategy, despite the math.
Just continue acting like you normally would. Self-knowledge is our greatest weapon.
Watch out for too much flattery. Our conversation about 'townleaders' in the beginning of the previous day was the point I seriously started suspecting you. Don't go overboard on the other direction either thou. Being sympathetic is an asset.
There is a doc MTC has been keeping for us, but I think spending time on reading or altering that is counterproductive at this point. You'll get a link from him if you want but I advise against it.
I don't think there is much there you don't already know and having too much insight into our motivations could out you.
Will be available for consult later, but it will be very sporadic until wednesday. [snip] . Do chat with MTC if you like, it really helps me keep my thoughts semi-organized. My skype handle is [snip]. Urgent things should go through PM. I'll try to check that daily at least. Keep logs of all communication since Alicorn wants them.
MTC and modrony, the previous hosts who've avoided learning unauthorized game information, are allowed to talk to you as long as they avoid acquiring spoilers from any player other than you; they may continue to communicate with and advise you (make sure you CC us gods), but if opsec is breached they have to stop and you will only have their previous notes to go on.
Good game, everyone. That was a fun one. I'd forgotten how much I enjoy playing as scum. Although I clearly need to learn to lurk less, because none of my incidents of suspicious lurking throughout the game were actually tactical ploys; they were all just me defaulting to not saying anything if I didn't feel like I had anything useful to say.


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Revolution9: An interview with Kode9
We untangle the history and many activities of the leading British DJ and producer and get his reflections on his label Hyperdub, one of the most consistently rewarding imprints in underground music.
Photo by Georg Gatsas.
Kode9, aka Steve Goodman, is well-known as a producer, DJ, and the founder of leading electronic music label Hyperdub Records, but his talents and interests have seen his operations expand far beyond. Tracing his history from his youth outside of Glasgow to key rave introductions in Edinburgh and PhD studies with illustrious British philosopher Nick Land at Warwick University—where both were part of the now recognizably-seminal thoery/cyberpunk/pop culture cooperative Cybernetic Culture Research Unit—Goodman's subsequent move to London only stoked his already deep engagement with British dance music.
In 2006, the year dubstep broke, Kode9 was at its forefront while Goodman also held down a full-time job as a lecturer in sonic culture at University of East London. In 2009 the "sonic research collective" of which he is a member, later to name themselves AUDiNT, had their first installation in Berlin's Akademie der Künste, and the following year he published his first book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear—a theoretical text based on the politics of frequency. In 2011, a commission from Poland's Unsound Festival resulted in Her Ghost, an ongoing collaborative reinterpretation—with video artists MFO and theorist/performer Ms. Haptic (Jessica Edwards)—of Chris Marker's groundbreaking 1962 science fiction film La Jetée.
Tell me about the first proper party you went to.
I think the first proper thing would have been the first time i took ecstasy, 1992 I think, club called Chocolate City in Edinburgh. They were playing Herbie Hancock, Jbs, etc. I particularly remember the synth on Fred Wesley's "Blow You Head". Anyway, the next day I bought turntables. I had some vinyl, but properly started collecting after that night: funk, jazz, hip hop, house, and early hardcore like SL2 "On a Ragga Tip". I also used to go a club called Pure in Edinburgh occasionally, which was my first exposure to extreme glow stick, hardcore nosebleed techno, and a big rave near Edinburgh called Rezerection.
What's the significance of the "k"? Because Mark Fisher/K-Punk uses it as well and didn't you guys choose these monikers at around the same time of the CCRU?
K—it was a melting pot of Ks. Josef K from Kafka, K from the german spelling of cybernetics, K from K-waves in Kondratieff theory in economics, Ko from the I Ching, etc etc. K was in the air.
What was the impact of the CCRU in your life?
Well, my early experience was seeing [noted writer, theorist, artist, and lecturer] Kodwo [Eshun] and Mark talk about dance music culture using the kind of theory I was into, but hadn't yet bridged into using it in relation to music. so CCRU fused my interests in philosophy and jungle into one. That must have been around 1995.
What do you think it is about British dance music that lends itself to theory?
Intensity. Where the words you have available are unable to capture the intensity of experience you are undergoing, so you have to fabricate a new language, a new conceptual schema to catch up with the sonics. Of course most philosophy is not engaged in anything so interesting.
Intensity could be a word used to describe rave culture in general. Is this specific to British dance music, or a general rave thing?
There have been various moments of psychedelic theorizing in conjunction with music. i think mid-'90s UK was one of these theory/music singularities, just like the late '60s was for the acid explosion.
Both of these seem to be tied to drugs?
Yeah, the conjunction of drugs, sonics, electronics, and concepts against the backdrop of socio-economic upheaval.
Is this something you feel you can tap into now or any time after experiencing it, or do you wait for it to come along?
Well, right now I'm trying not to theorize very much around music. I'm trying to empty out and focus on simply making tracks, because when the conjunction doesn't work its quite destructive of music making. Zen and the art of making beats.
Before you were an artist, there was Hyperdub. Hyperdub was a party and a webzine before it was a label. Can you talk a little bit about those early days?
Hyperdub started as a web mag in 2001 in Brixton. I wanted to collect together my favorite writers such as Simon Reynolds, Kodwo, and Mark alongside coverage of late UK garage as grime and dubstep were starting to wriggle out of the carcass. We also did some nights at the Bug Bar in Brixton with Darren [Cunningham aka Actress] and Gavin [Weale, co-founder of Werk], and had Benny Ill from Horsepower play at one of them. This was in 2001, before [seminal UK dubstep/grime club night] FWD>> started. We called the night Hyperdub 130 because I was playing garage, broken beat, and early dubstep, Darren was playing techno and house, and Gavin was playing electro, breaks—so really the only thing that held it together was a rough tempo. We also did a night at the ICA called "Speed Tribes" where Darren performed live, and Mark, Kodwo, etc, gave talks, and we showed [Black Audio Film Collective's essay-film on Afro-futurism] The Last Angel of History.
Weren't you a resident at FWD>> in the early days?
Yeah, I played some of the early ones. There was around 12 of us on rotation.
You also used to have a regular slot on [former pirate, now licensed London-based radio station] Rinse, which is now operated by the same posse as FWD>>. You've DJ'd and had artists like Wiley on the mic.
I was on Rinse from 2003-2008 hosting the FWD>> show. At that early point FWD>>/Ammunition were separate entities—they only became the one entity later on, I think.
I guess your earliest known tracks were on the Rephlex Grime 2 compilation?
Well, I had a release on Tempa with Benny Ill and the Culprit around 2002/3, and then the first Hyperdub release in 2004. the Rephlex Grime compilation came after that. Before all that, CCRU had a label called Katasonix that did one release in 1999—I had a track on that, so did Mark.
Who still has that??
Don't know—I still have a copy of the record somewhere. It think 90% of them are under someone's bed somewhere.
Collector's item.
That's one way of putting it.
Kevin Martin [The Bug/King Midas Sound] once told me that he had urged you to start Hyperdub to put your own tracks.
It's Kevin's fault I started the label. I went to interview him for XLR8R in 2002, I think, and gave him a CD with "Sine of the Dub" on it. He linked me with a distributor and suggested I start a label to put it out.
At what point did DJing become as big of a concern, something more than a hobby, as big as your academic career?
Well, I've been DJing for over 20 years, but maybe only seriously since around 2003 when I was only playing brand new, unreleased dubplates of a scene that was still congealing. And then a couple of years later, when we actually started getting bookings, etc. It's been a gradual increase, really.
I was really impressed by your life a few years back. It seemed like you were juggling three full-time jobs: teaching/lecturing, DJing, and running the label.
I found it slowly became unmanageable juggling all of these things, and doing them to a standard that didn't constantly feel like you could be doing everything much better. Teaching got the chop last year—it was becoming a bit of a rut, teaching the same thing every year.
Has working on your own music taken the place of teaching?
Thats the intention. It's been good the last few months. I remembered how to finish tracks again, but I'd been away from it for a couple of years, so I kind of had to go through the same process as back in the mid '90s when I started dabbling with sampling, etc. I had to teach myself from scratch again. The hardest thing is learning how to disconnect from communication devices from long enough to create something instead of RT'ing. Twitter is full of producers just twiddling their thumbs in between presets
I've seen you DJ literally dozens of times. You're one of the few DJs worth seeing that often because you keep it fresh. What does that kind of drive as a DJ mean for your work as a producer? And how will you know if you've mastered the art of producing to the same level you've mastered DJing?
Thank you, that's very kind. Well, I've never really played much of my own music. DJing like this sets the bar very high as a producer, and my own productions rarely fit into my sets for various reasons. I'm rarely happy with the technical side of my production, in terms of playing it in a club. Some of the things you have to do to make your tracks really bang in a club are also some of the things that make tracks outside of that context dry to listen to—like isolating every sound, avoiding too much clashing of frequencies, etc. I've got a lot to learn on the technical side of things. I will know I'm there when I'm happy to do a DJ set of all my own productions. I'm a long way off that. It may never happen, but it's about the thrill of the quest.
In his own words, Kode9 on key Hyperdub tracks and artists.
Cooly G – "Narst"
It's such a hard question because we've released so much stuff now. My head is in a spin just thinking about it. Cooly G's "Narst" and Scratcha's "Natty" are two amazing tracks that bring back good memories of when funky was exciting. Except Cooly was never a UK funky artist, really. Her tracks weren't that important to the scene as such, but maybe like a lot of Hyperdub artists she was on the periphery doing her own thing—dark yet soulful. Her stuff is generally much more minimal than most of the funky that was floating around; really tracky, yet slinky. Both myself and Marcus [Scott, Hyperdub's label manager] had heard some of her stuff on MySpace, and we reached out to her on the strength of the tunes she had on her page. I think I just had a screw face when I heard "Narst" for the first time [laughs]; I think that's the appropriate response.
The Bug, featuring Killa P & Flowdan – "Skeng" (originally released as a 12″ on Hyperdub)
He's a free spirit, Kevin Martin. After the initial push he provided, I was just really happy to release him and Warrior Queen on the label. I don't think the "Money Honey" release was their best work by a long way, but at that moment it fused grime and dub techno with a dancehall flavor, and that was where our heads were at in 2004/5. We would share a lot of tracks we were both making and I enjoyed what he had been doing with his Rephlex releases at that time. Enjoy isn't really the right word, actually. I respected their intensity. I remember at the launch party for the first Rephlex Grime compilation at The End where his sadistic obsession with mid-range frequencies actually made me collapse in the club. I got carried out by the bouncer and came to in the gutter. That was a personal highlight, obviously. "Skeng" is probably the track I've had the most fun playing over the years—I had an amazing trip to Japan with Kevin that led to my "Skeng" remix where we went around getting taxi drivers, school girls, and pretty much everyone we came across to say "skeng" into our voice recorders. You can hear that in the intro to my remix.
Darkstar – "Need You"
The first Darkstar release was pretty emotional. "Need You" just fused my obsession with synthetic speech and vocoders with garage, 8bit sounds and a sad song. It came in a run of tracks that started with the computer game sampling I did on "Find My Way" and ran through Quarta 330, Ikonika, Zomby, and that generation of artist releases from 2006 to 2008. But Darkstar had their own path they wanted to follow, and while "Need You" and "Aidy's Girl" are amazing tracks, it's probably good they didn't rinse that sound—because if they did, we wouldn't be looking back so fondly on those tunes.
Burial – "South London Boroughs"
Burial used to send me letters with drawings and CDRs of tunes from back in 2002. There was quite a few CDRs, actually—I noticed in 2004 that I was still listening to some of them, and was playing "South London Boroughs" in my sets, and was listening to "Broken Homes" a lot. And I got the idea that the label should not just be for my own stuff. He was a fan of the website and the stuff like El-B that we were featuring. The writing was like a magnet, or to use a Burial-esque image, it was a searchlight into the darkness that picked him up. We sent out the troops to capture him, interrogated him, and then locked him up.
His music has a weird, intoxicating, obsessive effect on his fans and some writers—there was one Belgian journalist who really, really took offence to the Hyperdub robot woman who used to grace our promos. We'd sent him the Burial album, and he was so disgusted that we'd drawn a moustache on the Mona Lisa that he refused to review it. We get a lot of abuse generally for not providing 24/7 access to Burial's hard drive.
Hype Williams – "Bad Mind"
Kelly Price W8 Gain Vol II, what a fuckin' record—thats the kind of record that makes me happy. Like, if you don't like that record, you can just fuck off [laughs]. The Hype Williams and Laurel Halo stuff were less surprising for me than for most people, I suppose. For me, I was just reconnecting with where the label started, which wasn't really a dance music label in any conventional sense. The timbre of both the Laurel Halo and Hype Wiiliams albums fits quite comfortably into our back catalog. Hyperdub is not a group of friends that decided to start a label. It's not a clique like that. It's the other way around really whereby the label has forced a lot of artists from very different music backgrounds together, and helped them find connections and musical friends they didn't know they had.~
Kode9's new single Xingfu Lu is out now via Hyperdub. His new Rinse mix CD is out on May 20th. This summer, AUDiNT publish their book Dead Record Office—which charts the history of the weaponization of sonic hauntology from World War II to the present day and catalogues their 2011 installation in New York—through Art in General Press.
Published May 13, 2013. Words by Lisa Blanning.


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J.K. Rowling's official site had a small update on Christmas. Last year she announced that she had finished writting book 6, this year, however, she could never say the same thing about book 7, of course. Demo, she did give us some tiny Xmas presents.
Jo gives birth to a baby girl!
I feel very happy for her! And I didn't expect it so soon ^__^ It's a beautiful date, by the way.


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Das im heutigen Japan populäre Sprichwort Nichi nichi kore kōjitsu (jap. ); auch gelesen als Nichi-nichi kore kōnichi, bedeutet: "Tag um Tag ist guter Tag" oder "Jeder Tag ist ein guter Tag".
Das englischsprachige Digitale Wörterbuch des Buddhismus
gibt beide Lesarten für diese Phrase an. Aber auch die Lesart Hibi kore kōjitsu ist in Japan verbreitet.

Auf chinesisch lautet dieser Spruch: Rì rì shì hǎo rì (chin.).

Die chinesische Quelle für diesen Ausspruch von Chan-Meister Yunmen ist das Yunmen yulu (Aufzeichnungen von Yunmen), bzw. genauer das Yunmen kuangzhen chanshi guanglu (Umfassende Aufzeichnungen von Chan-Meister Kuangzhen Yunmen). Der Yunmen-Forscher Urs App benennt als älteste existierende Ausgabe des Yunmen yulu das Guzunsu yulu (Aufzeichnungen der Worte der Altehrwürdigen) aus dem Jahr 1267. Quelle: Urs App: "Zen-Meister Yunmen", University Media, Wil/Paris, 2018, S. 214 und S. 242.

Bekannt wurde der Ausspruch insbesondere durch das sechste Beispiel der berühmten Kōansammlung Biyan Lu ("Bi-Yän-Lu") verfasst 1111–1115 von Yuanwu, erschienen um 1300 in Sichuan. Der japanische Titel ist Heki-gan-roku. Deutsche Übersetzung von Wilhelm Gundert: "Meister Yüan-Wu's Niederschrift von der Smaragdenen Felswand", München 1960 Bd. 1 – 3, hier Bd. 1, S. 147 ff, bzw. Dietrich Roloff: "Aufzeichnungen vor smaragdener Felswand", Windpferd Verlag, Oberstdorf, 2013, S. 90 ff.

Das Beispiel lautet:
Yunmen richtete bei der Unterweisung folgende Worte an seine Hörer: "Nach den letzten fünfzehn Tagen frage ich euch nicht. Zu den nächsten fünfzehn Tagen kommt mit einem Sätzchen daher und redet."
An Stelle der Gefragten sagt er dann selbst: "Tag um Tag ist guter Tag."

Dieses Sprichwort wurde u. a. von dem Komponisten John Cage im Westen populär gemacht. Der Neurologe, Psychiater und Autor Wladimir Lindenberg wählte diesen Spruch unter Bezugnahme auf Chan-Meister Yunmen als Titel eines seiner Bücher.

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Jesus invites us sinners to follow Him. What is this invitation about and what does it entail? Well first we need to exercise our free will and respond to Jesus in action. With that His peace is upon us and His redemptive grace liberates us from our bonds. We have entered into the most wonderful relationship with our Lord and God. No other relationships will ever come close.
St Matthew pray for us.


I recently tried to make some crispy bacon, and failed. I prepared half of it in a frying pan, half of it in the oven.
Half the strips were still chewy, some were partially burnt, some were still chewy but already partially burnt, some were dried, crunchy and crumbling, not a single of them had the typical reddish strips - all went shades of dull brown and shrunk way more than normal "good" bacon strips should (even the still chewy ones).
In conclusion, I realized I just lack too much knowledge which is common in the USA. In my country bacon is not nearly as popular, so I won't be easily able to obtain a bacon press or any such specialized equipment, so a pan or an oven will have to do.
what kind of bacon to start with? Raw? Smoky? Boiled? Anything specific about the meat?
Should I remove the skin?
How thick should the slices be?
When to salt it? (one of the issues was it was entirely unsalty when done, and salt wouldn't even stick to the dried surface).
how hot? Also, I read it should start on cold pan - what about consecutive batches, cooling the pan down?
What about grease? Pour off between batches? Remove during frying? Leave it in?
How to tell it's done?
How to make sure I won't burn it before it's crispy?
Temperature, time? Heating: top, bottom, both?
Should I lay it on a grill in the oven, letting the fat to drip below, or lay it on tinfoil to simmer in its own grease?
Again, how to tell it's crispy yet?
Finally, I don't want my strips to be very greasy. Should I put them on a paper towel to soak some fat or should I avoid that (and reduce the fat some other way (how?))?
And generally: is there anything else to it?
In order to get crispy bacon you need to start with the right type. In the USA what most people consider bacon is from the belly, whereas in other parts of the world bacon is from the loin. You can get this in the states as Canadian bacon. You can't make loin bacon crispy and believe me I've tried. However you can get belly bacon most places (presuming bacon is available), in the UK it's called streaky bacon. You want to get the meatiest back bacon you can with the highest meat content.
Bacon is almost always salt cured, and can be smoked or not, which to chose is entirely your preference on flavor and won't make a difference in crispiness. Thickness is again your personal preference, some people like thin, others thick. It will make a difference in cooking time, thicker takes longer to cook. You shouldn't have to do anything to your bacon like removing anything, or salting it - if your bacon isn't salty enough then maybe it's not been cured in which case look for a different source.
Once you have the right bacon you need the right technique. In order to get crispy bacon the fat has to render out, and that takes time. A common mistake people make is to cook it at too high a temperature and browning it before the fat can render. I start with a cold pan and lay the bacon out on it before applying heat. I apply low-medium heat and cook it for about 10-15 minutes depending on the size and thickness of the bacon. I turn it once towards the end to get color on the other side, then I remove and let the bacon drain on some paper towels. The paper towels wick the fat away better then simply letting them drip, giving a crispier result. I know the bacon is getting done when it starts to stiffen up when I lift one side, when it gets to that state I know it will only need another minute, that's when I flip.
If you are going to pan cook in batches then drain the fat out after each batch and let the pan cool some, alternatively have two pans, letting one cool. If you have that much to cook I'd use the oven technique below.
You can also make very good bacon in the oven, very similar in technique to making it in the pan. You lay bacon out on a cold tray and put it in a cold oven. You then turn the to oven on to 200C (400F) oven for about 20 minutes. If you are in less of a hurry you could do 110C for an hour, slower cooking makes for better bacon. I've seen one chef who cooks bacon for 2 hours on low heat while sandwiched between 2 baking trays - the top tray keeps the bacon perfectly flat. The oven method is great for baking large quantities.
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Hygglo Birdo är en EP av det svenska skabandet USCB Allstars, utgiven 1998.

Låtlista
"Insensitivity" - 3:17
"You ve Got My Number" - 3:45
"Brand New Age" - 3:13
"Rimshot" - 4:34

Svenska EP-skivor
EP-skivor 1998


I found this anecdote floating around Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter and I thought it would make a nice, short comic. Sometimes I need a break from the heavy and deep quotes and just want to do something fun. Now, there's no actual proof the Buddha said this so I didn't use his name on the comic. If anyone has a definitive source for this, please let me know.
– While wasting time on YouTube I found this BBC documentary about the life of the Buddha which I thought you folks might be interested in.
– I changed my web hosting again overnight so I might have lost a few of your comments – I managed to reinstate a few but apologies if yours has disappeared.
*sigh* …and then I accidently hit "post comment".
So, as I was saying…somehow my "does not equal" symbol got turned into a question mark.
And finally remove "happiness", which is a baseless irrational feeling. What does it leave? Nothing. The nothing that will consume us all someday.
Happiness is not irrational, and it is certainly not baseless.
"Blind faith" Just Happy or happiness is not a move of blind faith; it is a conscious mindful choice. Your use of "just as" suggests that there is contrast between happiness a rationality; I perceive no such dichotomy.
Life is absurd, but it is also deeply meaningful. Meditate upon that a bit.
Right on P. Hill! and I will!
Blind faith in rationality? Rationality means not having blind faith! They are opposite realms!
Pity how dissatisfied people find shelter in "rationalism" which is nothing else than another form of subjectivity.
Pity how some people over analyze things. To be happy, be happy. It's simultaneously that difficult and that easy.
Though it is very well done, this comic is also wrong and westernized.
The true belief in buddhism, even stated by Alan Watts, is that to find happiness, you help others be happy.
That is how buddhism works.
The westernization of buddhism (which is actually killing it as a practice) wants everyone to just suddenly find happiness.
Impossible, until those steps are first completed, and then the finding of the truth behind happiness in the helping of others, which is what buddhism was always all about.
The rest is distraction, for temporary "ananda", which is what is directed by, what, again?
The ego needs constant distraction, and will tell you that distraction is "happiness".
The way the practice is structured in the west, you will will constantly be in search of happiness, you will constantly be slave to the ego.
Therefore ALL of you are incorrect, and the only person that was actually correct was the original poster, in that the "happiness" we know is an irrational and temporary emotion.
Take the hard steps, and you will truly find happiness.
And we wonder what has gone wrong with the world…….
Wow. Harleigh Quinn, that's amazing. You just put a smile on my face. Thank you for helping a soul who needed a little lift.
Some things in life you just don't have to work at–laughter, joy, contentment, and love–but you can struggle for them, if you wish to postpone them, and find satisfaction in sacrifice, and abnegation.
Beautifully put Harleigh Quinn, concise and truthful. You made me smile, hope in a sea of madness.
I think there can be another angle to this saying. If we keep our ego and desire in check, we are less likely to face problems in our lives. I would like to clarify that I am talking about personal problems and not challenges faced by a person. Challenges give meaning to our lives and are an integral part of our civilization.
Based on or in accordance with reason or logic: "a rational explanation".
It does not matter if happiness one day leaves us, as non-attachment is what the Buddha teaches. Ones you practice non-attachment, there is no longer fear of loss, and as such, you will never feel sorrow, hence reaching a higher plane of "happiness" or enlightenment.
Just because something is irrational, doesn't automatically make it bad or wrong.
Perhaps, but have you really considered this 'nothing' you speak of???
It is from this 'nothing' in which everything must arise. 'Self' implies 'other' as 'nothing' implies 'something.' Neither of these things exist exclusive to the other, a principal of non-dualism. Even the 'total vacuum of space' is seething with 'virtual particles' that pop into and out-of existence all the time. They are all around us, even now.
In this way coma and death are somewhat similar. If I were to slip into a coma right now, I would lose my perceptual grasp on the linearity of time. Upon awaking I would be unsure of how much time has passed… I might first ask, "What year is it?!" …because 'nothing' cannot actually be experienced.
Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing… suddenly he whacked Yamaoka on the head with his bamboo pipe. This made the youth quite angry.
If you've learned something new, then your time wasn't wasted.
Completely agree with you. Plus the fact that life itself is continuous learning process that never ends.
The title of the comic enhances this normal overused quote quite a bit. I almost wrote a stern yet informative comment about how the Buddha did not actually say this, then I re-read the comic plus the info. On the same subject, has anyone ever reccomended this quote by Anthony de Mello: "To find the kingdom is the easiest thing in the world but also the most difficult. Easy because it is all around you and within you, and all you have to do is reach out and take possession of it. Difficult because if you wish to possess the kingdom you may possess nothing else. That is, you must drop all inward leaning on any person or thing, withdrawing from them forever the power to thrill you, or excite you, or to give you a feeling of security or well-being. For this, you first need to see with unflinching clarity this simple and shattering truth: Contrary to what your culture and religion have taught you, nothing, but absolutely nothing can make you happy. The moment you see that, you will stop moving from one job to another, one friend to another, one place, one spiritual technique, one guru to another. None of these things can give you a single minute of happiness. They can only offer you a temporary thrill, a pleasure that initially grows in intesity, then turns into pain if you lose them and into boredom if you keep them.
Too bad my mind doesn't work that way.
Jake, In all of my long life I don't believe I have ever read such wise words,thank you,and bless you.
So simple and true. Great sweet drawing!
Buddha didn't say it that way. He taught it so.
" There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way" also by Buddha.
Great work Gav, definitely a quote worth remembering.
AWW YEAH, THE BEST QUOTE EVER (as of now) ! SO INSPIRING.
It is my pleasure, you have awesome talents.
Ugh – they couldn't even spell happiness!
Ummm… Gav… I think the misspelling of "happiness" was a joke.
Rather than taking the "I" out of "I want happiness" they (jokingly) took the "i" out of the word "happiness", thus leaving "happness".
Definitely not Buddha, but in his vein. 🙂 Ego wasn't a household term for the personal drive until the Freudian school got a hold of it, long after Buddha.
Though, I also think that the person who said you also had to take away happiness was correct, too: Buddhism strives for becoming nothingness itself, after all.
It seems you didn't understand it.
What about we? Hillel says: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
The philosophy is beautiful. The truth of it a bit less so. I wonder if Buddha would be as happy with a continuously empty stomach for several weeks. Forgetting I and Want might be a bit more difficult than this quote leads one to think.
But at that point food becomes a need rather than a want.
The difference, I think, is between a simple meal and a expensive buffet. Everyone, of course has needs. Food and water being the two most obvious. It is not wrong to want to continue to survive.
What a great way to illustrate this concept. We're all on this journey of surrendering the ego by letting go of our beliefs, but it's a painful one. We cling to our desires and our ideas, not knowing that these things stand in the way of real happiness. Thank you for this.
Funny. This one is one of the deepest for me.
O LORD of hosts, blessed [is] the man that trusteth in thee. Psalms 84:12.
Hi, I've been a silent subscriber for a quite a while now and well, I saw this picture on an FB page (http://www.facebook.com/buddhistbootcamp) and thought that I come here first because I might be out of line and there's no credit and all – you know about this?
This comic is beautiful and inspiring! simple to complex to Simple!
Then why they're killing innocent Muslims in Burma? Answer it.
Simple, they — like most humans on earth — have forgotten that happiness isn't a limited resource. They think the only way to get it is to take it from someone else.
I understand the premise of this… however I'm not fully sure that I agree that we should take away our own personhood… that is in fact our identity and personality.
Why would we take away our own unique personhood if it is there where we can discover what makes us happy? We can dive into ourselves and discover what truly brings us joy through journaling, painting, and meditating.
I believe it's putting too much weight on the outcome of our efforts that can make us unhappy. We need to live in the present moment; enjoying and being grateful for all that we have. We need to value the journey more than the results.
Contentment is key to happiness. When we desire things that are within our reach we can experience happiness too. The cartoon is very well made so kudos for that.. But I just wanted to share my perspective on why I disagree with this thought.?
Thanks Eren, I always welcome and encouragement different points of view. You def have made some great points. I took 'I' as being the ego, arrogance, selfishness, narcissism – basically all the negative elements whenever we put ourselves first.
Well, seeing as the gag relies on a double entendre in the Latin language and translation through English ("ego" in Latin means "I" in English, but "ego" in English means self-importance, thee latter being the ego that must be dissolved, according to the Zen mindset, for happiness to follow), and that it's snarky but not actually helpful in any way, shape or form, I'd say buddha probably did not say this!
Loved Jakes comment that nothing absolutely nothing can make you happy. In a world where stuff is constantly bombarding us via advertising ( buy to be happy) it is very apt.
The same quote is attributed to Swami Vivekananda.
But it is the wise words that count not the individual!
I don't know if Lord Buddha actually said this in these exact words but certainly Buddhism teaches the way of happiness. And "less is more" really goes with it. possessions, complications desires are things we seek to get happiness. all temporary…long term or short term.
sometimes we get ourselves in to situations …relationships with things and persons and things we predict or expect to get hold of but these complications and relationships are so fragile uncertain and temporary, that we spend little time getting actual happiness from them and spend more time worrying about them and trying to keep them from falling apart.
true happiness lies where desires are less…..
one who does not….do not consider him a Buddhist because a Buddhist is not some one who would wear Buddhist symbols and praise lord Buddha…. buddha himself has taught that if you want to follow me…follow my teachings….he considered himself only a guide but not a supreme god….
Happiness is our natural state; Which we sabotage by wanting more things which we may not need.
Buddha has said "let go"…this doesn't mean one is asked to neglect his/her responsibilities but to let go of things that would eventually loose its state and that uncertainty will make us unhappy !
I completely agree with your comic. God tells us to Give ourselves to the world just as his son Jesus did. Once we are able to follow Gods principles we find that true happiness that we're always in search for.
Our lives are not about what we want or what we can get. It's about lending a hand, helping those who are in need. Happiness is something that we is already in side of us and once we remove the "I" and "Want" from the equation we will truly be blessed with the abundance of Happiness.
without I there will be no existence, without want there will be no action.
Only happiness exist but nothing to experience. Was Buddha sure about this??
Even plants desire. Have the desire to live. "Plants want to live". Talk about poisonous plants.
Oneness helps you to see this and get liberated from this.
I've got a lot of time for buddhism but this is absolutely impractical, it's of no use what so ever in everyday life.
Very nice illustration. Thank you for sharing it.
Removing ego is a day to day occurrence for those who work with others. My way or his/her way is often the debate of the day/week/month.
And you desire to remove desire… Your foot slips off the first rung of the logic ladder.
Or perhaps the logic of it all is simply too much for the common mindset that today's society teaches us.
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Interesting comments so far. As far as the Buddha saying this, I would guess he didn't say it in English. Buddha's main language is referred to as Magadhi. This refers to the area he was in. He probably also spoke Pali and Sanskrit (see note) though he told his disciples not to write his teachings in Sanskrit. The scholars who have researched his teachings believe the were first written down about 400 years after his death in Pali. Proving what were the Buddha's exact words would be quite a challenge.
I believe the teachings have kept very close to the original words (meanings) of the Buddha. So the quote above is at best an English translation of what the Buddha said. His teachings were very subtle and even disciples who had been with him for a long time would still have questions trying to understand it.
Note: He did not want to use Sanskrit as the official language since Sanskrit was a secretive language used by the priests. he wanted Buddhism to be taught in the local language.
This is my understanding and if someone has more accurate information I would enjoy hearing about it.
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totally meaningless, like most of any religion.
Great going Gavin. Such a simple and sweet clip beautifully presented. A strong message indeed.


At the start of every new year an awful lot of people sit down and write their New Year's Resolutions...actually no, that's not quite true, most people don't even write them down. But it is a 'thing' that a lot of us like to do...dream about a different, more rewarding, more fun, less tiring year where we make more money and have a 'better' life.
We get really creative about what we're going to do to make things different. For many, top of the list after a winter of eating as if we're going into hibernation...is losing weight. For others, it's spending more time with the family; quitting smoking; maybe getting promoted at work...or finding a new job; or perhaps just keeping a diary - I have lost count of the number of diaries I began on Jan 1st, and gave up mid-February.
And all too often that's as far as our New Year's Resolutions get...a month into the year, and only then if we told somebody else about them! We have such great intentions, feel really motivated, and within 6 weeks we're either telling ourselves that we're too tired, too busy, too comfortable, or beating ourselves up for being weak, lazy, and unable to see anything through!
So how can we make this year the year we deliver? How can we ensure that 2013 is the year we do what we say what we're going to do...that we can look back on December 31st with both satisfaction and pride?
Different things work for different people, I know...but last year was one of the best and most productive years of my short life, so I thought I'd share with you what worked for me, in the hope that it could also work for you.
Only choose choose something that you feel really strongly about, and have a convincing argument as to why you must do this. This argument is not to convince others, but to convince your negative self when the going gets tough, and the whining and bitching starts about there being no point.
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Be precise and don't fudge the issue. Do you want it or not..?! How great is that desire?
Plan out what you are going to do day to day or week to week in order to achieve your goal. Make the plan as detailed as possible...and realistic. Stretch yourself...but don't overcommit as that could lead to failure. Build the milestone targets and celebrations into your plan, and put it somewhere that you will see it every day.
This may sound a bit airy fairy to anyone not used to doing it...but if it works for all of the top athletes and performers, it works for me. Picture yourself having achieved your goal...what will you look like...how will you feel...what will others be saying to you? Spend some time on this, because when the going gets tough, this visualisation will pull you through and get you back on track.
As soon as you have written your plan, and made the commitment to yourself that you will complete it...take the first step. Don't delay, don't tell yourself you'll start tomorrow. No matter how small, take that first step immediately. You will be amazed at the psychological impact of simply starting NOW.
As with anything in life, in work, or in business...the combination of passion + planning + process, will guarantee your success. And for the days when your 'other self' is getting the upper hand and you need a bit of inspiration...I suggest you treat yourself to the following 2 minutes of inspiration (from Overthinkingit.com)...it always works for me!
Have a year to remember!


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Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call – Western Announcement Trailer | New Details & Producer's Comment
By Johnny on April 22, 2014 • ( 5 Comments )
Square Enix has announced THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL, a rhythm action game combining classic FINAL FANTASY music with RPG elements, will be released later this year, exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS.
If you didn't already know, THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL is the sequel to THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY, released on the Nintendo 3DS in July 2012, and includes three times as many songs and twice as many playable characters as its predecessor. In addition to the new features mentioned below, the sequel also boasts two new game modes: Quest Medley where you alternate playing FMS (Field Music Sequence) and BMS (Battle Music Sequence) games, and the Versus BMS mode, where players can challenge and compete against friends and other players. The game also includes a number of customization and progression elements.
BMS (Battle Music Sequence)
FMS (Field Music Sequence)
As said, the game features more than 200 songs and 60 playable characters from across the entire FINAL FANTASY series including FINAL FANTASY VII: Advent Children, FINAL FANTASY TACTICS and recently released titles like LIGHTNING RETURNS: FINAL FANTASY XIII and FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn. THEATRHYTHM FINAL FANTASY CURTAIN CALL is said to let players relive their favorite moments from across the epic series, as they "tap their way through key FINAL FANTASY events, environments and battle sequences."
"Music is an integral part of the FINAL FANTASY experience that serves as a complement to the gameplay, said Ichiro Hazama, producer. "As with the previous title, we envisioned a game where the music takes centre stage and the RPG gameplay enhances that experience. Our fans are definitely in for a treat as they'll be able to re-experience their favourite songs across the entire FINAL FANTASY catalogue."
Versus Battle Mode: Players can now compete head-to-head with friends and other users
Quest Medley Mode: Songs from the vast FINAL FANTASY music catalogue are used as backgrounds to unique quests; players can choose their own routes through various short, medium and long adventures. Players can also share these quests with friends.
New Characters: The game features over 60 characters from across the series, including Barret (FINAL FANTASY VII) and Yuna (FINAL FANTASY X-2). Characters from spin-offs like Benjamin (FINAL FANTASY MYSTIC QUEST), Ramza (FINAL FANTASY TACTICS) and Zack (CRISIS CORE -FINAL FANTASY VII-) also make their debut in this game.
Collecta Crystarium: Clearing songs and winning battles allow players to obtain CollectaCards that boost their character stats.
Categories: Final Fantasy, Theatrhythm
Tagged as: Final Fantasy, FINAL FANTASY series, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XIV, Square Enix
Language's Red Single Premiere | Listen Now | Out 23rd April
New Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call Screenshots
Miranda says:
I'm so damn happy Square Enix fan today. AH! Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy is still one of my most played 3DS games of all time and this looks way more awesome. I'm especially excited about the versus mode introduced in the video.
Can we have a Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy Curtain Call Versus Club here? xD
Sounds like a good idea! Once TR:FFCC is out, I will be posting a club post where people can share their friend codes etc. :)
Sounds fun, but are u sure you want to put versus in the title. Your club may be put on hold for unknown reasons and finally be made 9 years from now XD. JUST JOKING for all of you who took me serious. ^-^
v3ronica7 says:
Woo hoo!!! Looking forward to it. I'm definitely buying a DS just for this game, it looks so fun. =)
nv8hft says:
Omg this is such a good day today – not only in Gaming but in Anime/Manga :'D
This is my most anticipated game this year – i seriously cant wait!!
Can this day get any better? xD
Drakengard 3: Release Date and 10th Anniversary Edition Announced


There's secrets, there's lies, so I couldn't help but be along for the ride.
Enjoy this ORIGINAL book tag inspired by this book, and don't miss out on the GIVEAWAY at the end of this post!
Violence in the small, suburban town of Highbone, Long Island, is escalating, and best friends Joan and Daisy are finding themselves in the center of it.
Sharp-edged and voice-driven, Meredith Miller's How We Learned to Lie is a keenly observed story about friendship, violence, and life in a town on the brink.
Meredith Miller is the author of Little Wrecks and How We Learned to Lie. She grew up in a large, unruly family on Long Island, New York, and now lives in the UK. She is a published short story writer and literary critic with a great love for big nineteenth-century novels and for the sea. Her short stories have appeared most recently in Stand, Short Fiction, Prole, Alt Hist, and The View from Here.
I gave this book 3 out of 5 stars on GoodReads. I appreciated the characters in the book—especially because they were all flawed—and I enjoyed its darker elements.
Joan and Daisy's friendship was interesting in that they were so completely different. Though it wasn't the focus of the book, I thought their conversations about these differences were important, and not just because Joan is into marine biology and Daisy is into phone-phreaking. Daisy is white and identifies as a male, and Joan is black and identifies as a female. Daisy is continuously ignorant about how Joan's experiences are different than his own; he doesn't think about his privilege, which Joan calls him out on occasionally, and the concerns and fears and struggles that Joan faces because of her race and gender.
Even though both Joan and Daisy both had positive qualities, Joan aggravated me to my core throughout the novel. At times I did not like her. She was judgmental and critical, even though she herself made decisions that were selfish and stupid. Ugh. But she was a well-rounded, passionate character, though.
I also did find the timeline of the book confusing, which made it hard to get into at first. For the first chunk of the book, there are flashbacks and the events are not in order, and I think the book would have been stronger if it followed a forward-moving timeline.
Last, I thought the darker elements in the book could have been further developed to make the terrible things that go down more believable.
All that said, though, I thought it was solid and appreciated its gritty (super, super gritty) elements.
Check out the rest of the stops along this book tour!


I always allot a piece of my busy schedule to my friends inviting me for a food trip and get together. Dude! It means happy tummy and I wouldn't say no! Would you? Wehh? Last week, my Japanese food buddies (Pam and Gudo) invited me to a small talk and of course, it means eating lol! Our original plan was to eat at a buffet house along Morato but I craved for Ramen and Gudo suggested Hanamaruken.
Hanamaruken was created by a family of butchers in 1982. It is a subsidiary of the Arakawa Pork Company, a reputable supplier of high-quality meat in Osaka, Japan. With over 40 branches in Osaka, Hanamaruken strictly follow the philosophy that ramen should be made with excellent meat and prepared by passionate chefs.
Their cozy ambiance will surely resurrect your Asian spirit with the wooden chairs and tables where you can comfortably eat. It was my first time at Hanamaruken so I was looking for a chicken or fish-based Ramen but they unfortunately don't have one. Gudo suggested the best selling Happiness Ramen instead.
Their signature Happiness Ramen was inspired by creating a distinct marriage between meat and Ramen. It is topped with a dark, tender, slow-braised soft bone pork rib that has gained a devoted following. We waited for 10 minutes for the Happiness Ramen to served.
I must say that their Happiness Ramen (P480) is one of the best tasting pork-based Ramens I've ever tasted. Ever! As you can see, it comes in a giant very Asian bowl hehe. The broth itself is very rich and flavorful without compromising the authentic kick of Ramen. Its thick noodles occupied a big space of my tummy not to mention the giant braised pork rib on top. I just don't like that the Ramen is kinda greasy than usual, it might hinder other people to try it (specially our health conscious dudes out there).
Karaage is a Japanese version of fried chicken and it tastes amazingly good.
Tempura is a battered and deep-fried shrimp (like your friend, shrimp lol) their version tastes good too.
Overall, we enjoyed our food and the ambiance at Hanamaruken and we'll definitely back for more. Their foods are a bit pricey but reasonable. I highly suggest Hanamaruken specially if you wanna treat yourself and make your tummy smile. Try their Happiness Ramen and you'll surely be satisfied.