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03 Mar 2016 : Seán Brosnan
37th Festival will take place in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford from 20th - 22nd April
The Celtic Media Festival has revealed the nominees for the Torc Awards for Excellence with the winners set to be revealed at the 37th Festival in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford from 20th - 22nd April.
Nominees from over 90 production companies and broadcasters will compete across 23 award categories, including Arts, Comedy, Current Affairs, Drama Series, Factual Single, Sport, Radio Documentary and more. Entries for the 2016 Awards again surpassed 500 submissions. 10 separate juries undertook almost 370 hours of listening and viewing to produce a shortlist for this year.
Ireland has 42 productions in the running for a Torc Award including Factual Single nominee, 'Cumann na mBan - Mná na Réabhlóide'. Produced by Genefile Ltd for TG4, it tells the story of the women of Cumann na mBan during Ireland's revolutionary period. With 2016 marking the centenary of the 1916 Rising the piece affords recognition to the female-led organisation that played a vital role in Ireland during 1914 - 1923.
Among other documentaries nominated is 'One Million Dubliners', the story of Dublin´s city of the dead - Glasnevin Cemetery. The cemetery´s inhabitants outnumber those living in Dublin, and the documentary explores life, death and the afterlife in an immensely engaging manner. Produced by Underground Films in association with RTÉ it is ultimately a piece about contemporary Irish society: the people, their traditions, their attitudes and rituals.
BAFTA-winning and Oscar nominated Short Drama, 'Boogaloo and Graham', was shot in four days around the city of Belfast, and centres on two brothers who are over the moon when presented with two baby chicks to care for. Produced by Out of Orbit, the short was directed by Michael Lennox who went on to direct the feature film 'A Patch of Fog' starring Stephen Graham.
'The Notorious', a six-part feature series following UFC fighter Conor McGregor's life behind closed doors was produced by Motive Television and first broadcast on RTÉ, and is nominated for a Torc Award for Excellence in Sport. The success of the Irishman's TV narrative led to Fox Sports broadcasting the hit series to over 90 million homes in America.
Scotland, the festival´s home in 2015, received 37 nominations across a range of categories for productions including 'Mrs Brown´s Boys Christmas Specials 2014', a festive episode of the IFTA-winning comedy created by BBC Comedy Production.
Welsh nominees include 'Y Gwyll / Hinterland', Fiction Factory and S4C/BBC´s crime drama that won a Torc Award for Excellence in Drama Series in 2014. Michael Sheen´s 'Valleys Rebellion', a Cwmni Da/BBC production nominated in Factual Single commemorates the 175th anniversary of the Newport Rising. The esteemed actor goes on a personal journey to discover the cause of political disillusionment in the Wales of today.
Cornwall´s 'Poldark' (starring Irish actor Aidan Turner in the lead role) is nominated in Drama Series. The Mammoth Screen Limited/BBC drama relays the story of Ross Poldark and his struggle to regain control of his Cornish tin mines following his involvement in the American War of Independence.
Festival Director, Catriona Logan said: "Every year, we´re taken aback by the quality of programming that is entered into Celtic Media Festival. The Celtic Nations and Regions are a force to be reckoned with creatively, and we´re proud to be involved in recognising this. It´s hugely important to acknowledge the stellar work that these people do, and all the entries this year are testament to the talent and skill that these programme makers have. The record-breaking entries were whittled down by our dedicated National Juries who, in all, watched and listened to over 370 hours of top quality submissions and we´re looking forward getting to work with the Celtic Media Festival International Jury for the difficult task of choosing the winners."
The 37th Celtic Media Festival takes place over 20th - 22nd April 2016 and will see hundreds of delegates descend to Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Supported by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Waterford City and County Council, TG4, BBC Scotland, RTÉ, MG ALBA, S4C, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Cymru Wales, the Festival consistently attracts international delegates wherever it is held and offers a programme that celebrates the influential media industry of the Celtic nations and regions, as well as providing networking opportunities for delegates and speakers alike.
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2016 sees the introduction of the inaugural International Pitching Forum, which will see commissioners and decision makers in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK attend the Festival to hear formal pitches as part of the Forum.
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Delegate registration for Celtic Media Festival 2016 is now open – visit www.celticmediafestival.co.uk for more information. Further details on the Festival will be unveiled shortly, with the full programme set to be revealed soon.
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"Antonio Marquez is a pillar of the community!" That's what I'd shout if I was a loudmouthed New Yorker and somebody said something to disrespect Antonio Marquez. Not that anyone does have a reason to disrespect him. Antonio has been a part of Kansas City's hardcore scene for over a decade, singing in the bands Sorry Excuse, Contrast, and Spine and instilling fear into the hearts of any mosh pit weaklings whenever a Bad Brains cover is played. Considering he's a lifelong music fan who enjoys many different genres (we talk hardcore, punk, salsa, and post-punk below and got into some country music chat before we started recording), he has one of the most impressive merch collections of anyone I know. So let's dig in, yeah?
What shirt are you wearing right now?
My [Cro-Mags] tie-dye shirt.
This is one of your three picks?
No, I just have a lot of different types of music shirts that I like to collect. So yeah, it was kind of hard thing to pick.
Where do you pick up a tie-dye Cro-Mags shirt? Was that official merch?
Official, 1993, Near Death Experience tour. Euro tour. I had a longsleeve and I had two t-shirts. But I got these maybe in the last like eight to 10 years or something like that. And then with the popularity and stuff like that and the obscurity, it's now considered up there next to like the Down But Not Out '89 tour Cro-Mags shirts, but I just like it. I like the record. I actually liked the record. So it's a cool shirt. I got rid of the longsleeve and my extra shirt a few years ago.
Antonio, how do you feel about the Wonder Woman movie Cro-Mags t-shirt controversy? [Laughs.]
Yeah, 'cause it was like that, arguing because like, it was '84 and then the shirt was obviously -- the record came out in '86 or whatever. I mean, it's goofy. [Laughs.]
Yeah, that was a fun discourse to watch for about a week.
Yep. Yeah, it was a big year. It was like all over the place, man. Yeah, it was very much like, "Well actually, the demo was recorded in '84." I actually have the demo tape and I think it was actually recorded in '84 but then they were like, "Well the artwork done blah, blah, whatever." You know the artwork that probably would have been on that shirt if it was true to the time period, probably some problematic shit, you know?
Yeah, like the dogfighting design?
The dogfighting design is not an actual shirt design. It's just from the uncensored [album] artwork which has the dogfighting, it's got drug abuse, it's got homosexuality on it, it's got all this stuff that they were like trying to show that the world's coming to an end because of all this shit. This real fucking small-minded bullshit from like the '80s. But whatever, it would have been something like that on a shirt. [Laughs.]
I want a bootleg of that on a shirt.
There's one of the uncensored artwork that you could definitely get. Yeah, for sure.
Did James K. do that one?
No, James K. just took one of the images from the dogfighting -- the "life's hard, I gotta be harder" or whatever, just blew it up and put it on the back or whatever, but the actual uncensored artwork from the [album] sleeve it's definitely been on shirts and stuff like that. So I was trying to remember if I had it. I can't easily find the record right now. But you can search for it. If you look at the vinyl version of the Cro-Mags demo that they did, that's like the bootleg. It's got the uncensored version now where you can see it pretty clearly on there. It's really ignorant shit.
So I usually start by asking what your first piece of band merch that you remember being excited about owning was. Is that something you remember?
Yeah, bro. This is 1999, Sam Goody. You know what Sam Goody is? Sam Goody sold CDs. They were like $20 CDs in the mall and they did shirts in the back and posters and some novelty tapes or whatever.
And I remember really being into Korn and so Follow The Leader had come out or whatever. Ironically, not my favorite Korn record, but Follow The Leader had come out and this was like the Limp Bizkit era, this is like MTV on in the summer 24/7, Tom Green Show, all this shit. Sam Goody had some discounted shirts and it was like this olive green Korn shirt with the Follow The Leader artwork, but there was like a kid with a backwards hat and a CD discman player listening to music. And there was an orange sort of bubbly outline to it. It was fucking weird. And I got it for like nine bucks or something like that and that was like my first piece of merch.
Then my second piece was shortly after that, when I was like, "I really like wearing merch." Rockabilia had a catalog and you would look at the little thumbnails and shit and I bought a Nine Inch Nails shirt by money order. Sent it and it was on sale for like 12 bucks. Those are like the first two ones and then I remember my first one from eBay when eBay was coming up, it was the early 2000s. It was just like a picture of Marilyn Manson's face, it had Marilyn Manson [written] on it below and it was I don't know, like 10 bucks again, money order sent through mail. It's just crazy how things have changed.
You mentioned Rockabilia and I'm guessing they do not send out physical catalogs anymore, but I do remember looking at their website a lot when I was in sixth grade and middle school, getting into kind of starter pack '90s punk and alternative rock bands and stuff like that. So I don't know if I ever ordered anything from them. Maybe a NOFX t-shirt or something at some point. Also important to me, I definitely ordered some stuff from Interpunk. And I always lump these three together: Rockabilia, Interpunk, and Angry, Young, And Poor.
Yeah, man. Those catalogs for Rockabilia were just all alphabetical order and they're real small thumbnails on these catalogs. Kinda like CCS did. Those were the ones you would get with your friends, you just flip through them all the time looking at the new decks. Same thing, I remember going through and seeing shirts for a band at the time -- I had no idea -- Eyehategod and being like, "This is crazy." It was for Dopesick and it was like the cover art for it. I was just like, "What the fuck is this? This is nuts."
There was a lot of stuff like that I was exposed to, but I would use that to get into bands and learn more about bands and stuff like that, because this was Napster era, basically. And so you would be like, "Okay, what does fuckin' Dimmu Borgir sound like?" This is before YouTube, you had to type it in, download it. So yeah, it was pretty pivotal with merch stuff.
But yeah, that's basically how my merch [collecting] started. And that Korn shirt, actually, I probably wouldn't rock a Korn shirt anymore. I don't really care about Korn anymore. I mean, I like it, I'll listen to it and stuff like that, but it hasn't grown with me. ... I'm not gonna wear that Korn shirt, but I thought it'd be cool to have what that first shirt was because it was like '99 and you got to think I was probably 11 years old then. And I was into music really young and I'd trade baseball cards for CDs and shit and that was my first one. I thought it'd be cool to try to find it again and just have one just for the sake of having it.
Definitely post about that if you track one down for yourself. What's the first of your three shirts?
I was trying to pick it because I have a lot of stuff that people haven't seen before, that I don't wear often or whatever, but I really wear everything that I have. Just not as often as some people do, but this is probably my number one. I have a lot of cool shit. This is definitely like my number one.
So, Bad Brains is my favorite punk band of all time. No question, most important to me. Second, probably Agnostic Front. So this is the Quickness tour tee. And the '89 tour, which is really cool. '89 was just such a sick year for music and hardcore was changing, especially if you think about what was going on with New York and the transition from like '86 to '88 -- your demo-core stuff and then things kind of shifting -- your Underdog. You had a lot of bands like Supertouch that were coming up. Obviously, there's a big shift musically, sonically, with punk and hardcore, so Quickness comes out, everyone hates it. I've just always been really fond of Quickness and the styles from it and I think a lot of the music from Quickness is very much -- a lot of influences are even more prevalent now. And I think Quickness is received a lot better [now] than it was when it came out.
But I think Mackey from Cro-Mags actually played drums on that record, which is really cool. But the thing about this shirt specifically is that this shirt, there's a few different Bad Brains Quickness tour shirts, like colorways -- this one specifically was only available for like two shows. And the story is that the shirts were made for a gig that they played, I think it was in Southern California or maybe like Tijuana or something like that. I can't remember. And as they were playing the gigs, Dr. Know was supposed to be in charge of the merch or whatever. He had a box of these. They sold them at those two dates and then for whatever reason, he lost the box of shirts, so they had to rush order some other shirts, which are the yellow versions. But as far as this dark navy blue, there's not many of these since they were only sold at a few shows. So I was really fortunate to get one of these, especially with the front design and the back designs.
Yeah, that one's sick. Funny enough, we also talked about a Quickness tour tee that LT has in her merch interview, though she never wears it and has it hanging on her wall since it's already in not the best shape.
Oh, really? I think she showed it to me. Isn't it the white version? I think the front design is different but the back is the same [as mine].
Yeah, I think so. Wonderful how that tour has touched two of these columns so far.
Well, if you think about it, too, Quickness came out in maybe '88, the tour was in '89. I could be wrong. But you have to think the sizing on shirts in the '80s was not comparable to now. Your XLs basically fit like mediums, maybe a small large, you know? So, for me, I'm tall. I'm like 6' 5", 220. I can't wear an '80s XL for most stuff, but since this is towards the end of the '80s and they were starting to make the bigger sizing, I can rock that XL.
I had a large Quickness tour shirt and it was a European Quickness tour shirt. It was yellow and the person I got it from had the concert ticket that they purchased it from in London, which was really cool. I could never wear it. So eventually I sold it or traded it or something like that with the concert ticket. ... And I think that's one of the reasons why you might see more Quickness stuff than I Against I or even Rock For Light or anything like that, especially stuff like that from Rock For Light era and the ROIR Sessions or whatever, that's really, really fucking hard to come by because we're almost 40 years out from the birthplace of hardcore.
That's funny. I haven't heard before about the sizing disparities over the years. What year did McDonald's roll out the supersize? Makes you think.
[Laughs] So true. I have an Age Of Quarrel -- this just like bonus material -- '86, like, original Cro-Mags shirt. Yeah, but it's a double XL and it fits like an XL and finding a double XL from the '80s in merch is like a unicorn.
Yeah, it must be hard for you to find '80s stuff that fits!
Extremely difficult. And there was a period of time where I was just buying stuff or trading for things just for having them, but it got to a point of like, what am I gonna do with this stuff? I don't wear it. It doesn't fit.
Gotta get your measurements before you order it if it's that old, I guess.
Well, yeah, so I just slimmed down on a lot of stuff and just basically kept things that fit and just only tried to trade for or to purchase things that fit me because you know, hopefully someone else who can wear it is buying it.
Yes. So what's your next tee?
Alright, so this one is interesting. This is a Fania All-Stars 30th anniversary shirt. So for people that don't know, Fania was a record label that put out a lot of very important Latin music from the '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s. That's where you have some of your greats, obviously like Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Ray Barretto, Willie Colon, Hector Lavoe.
And Spine has sampled Lavoe. Was he on that tour?
Hector Lavoe died in '89 I think, maybe '90, and this tour was in 1995. But he's part of that whole group. So it's like a record label. I think about [Revelation], like if it was like our Rev tour, which I guess they've done, but like a Rev tour with basically similar sounding acts as well. So you had like Yomo Toro, you had El Condé, you had like a lot of people that played Latin soul, salsa music, in general that were part of it.
So Fania for me is really pretty important. I love Spanish music in general, but salsa music is really near and dear. I mean salsa is like a mixture of a lot of different sounds, particularly from Cuba. And because of the revolution and all the stuff that came with the country like politically, your salsa artists and those artists from Cuba and the music that they helped kind of cultivate, those artists never really got to be like some of these. Most of the artists that were part of Fania are mostly Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, Colombian artists, so yeah, for me it's pretty cool. And Fania, I think it's the last name of the guy that owned the record label. He wasn't he wasn't Latino at all if I understand correctly, but anyways.
What, is he Italian!?
[Laughs] I have no idea, but the cool thing is the shirt's kind of an interesting design. It almost looks like it's potentially a parking lot [bootleg].
Yeah, like the same color palette as a boardwalk airbrush tee.
Yeah, exactly. So it's like it's [from a show at] MSG. In 1978 they did [a show] at Yankee Stadium. They did some Fania All-Stars records, Volume One, Volume Two there which is really cool. Sold it out. Cool thing about that is some of my family members that lived in West New York at the time totally remember that gig. It was such a big deal, but you think, in the '70s Latinos selling out a salsa concert at Yankee Stadium is incredible. But anyways, that's actually on record. It sounds really good. Just for the culture, I think I just needed to have this and you don't find this [easily] like a lot of music shirts. For salsa merch like that, that's just never really been like a super big thing. I have some reprints of some Hector Lavoe stuff and some Willie Colon stuff, but for this, this was cool. A lot of artists in one.
I forgot to ask. Where did you find these first two shirts?
Alright, so the Bad Brains shirt I got from someone that got it from a friend of mine. They got it from a friend of mine in Chicago who got it from Dr. Know. Dr. Know had some extras from that box or whatever that he had sold, I think in the early 2000s, that he had found. And that was one of them.
This [Fania] one, I just got this. I was searching for it, found it on Depop. I actually got this maybe two years ago or something like that for 10 bucks. So yeah, the merch game has gotten so fragmented from what it used to be. So it's really hard to find things nowadays. Because it's like, in some ways, it's really easy, in other ways it's super hard. I mean, how many people are out there trying to buy stuff like this?
Yeah, and the stuff that is easy to find is all over $100.
Yep. Exactly. Yeah. 100 percent. Because people will think that they thrift something and they look it up and be like, "Oh, this is worth $400!"
Yeah. A lot of inflation in the market.
Yeah, I mean, like this [Cro-Mags tie-dye] shirt here, specifically, $100 shirt. Yeah, I think it was like 100 bucks or 200 bucks in 2011. It's kind of a lot of money in 2012. But now the last one sold for $900. Like, what? Why? No one really likes the record. [Laughs.]
But you like the record. [Laughs.]
I do like the record. It's kind of a weird Mags record because if you listen to it through the vacuum of what was going on in 1994, 1993 musically in the United States with grunge and alternative music, it makes sense. But anyways.
Is that the Cro-Mags record you get the most shit for liking or is that another one?
No, that's Revenge.
The 2000 record.
Yeah, I mean, I don't love it front-to-back. I think it's a good record overall, but I don't listen to all the songs on it. There's just some songs. Because the songs on that record, most of those songs were White Devil songs. White Devil was Harley's band he did before they just decided to call it Cro-Mags. He played with some of the guys from Biohazard. Paris and Rocky who's in the Mags now and was in Suicidal Tendencies. White Devil songs are really good. The White Devil record is pretty cool if you can find it. I think it's on YouTube or whatever, but they just re-recorded most of those songs for Revenge and then added some stuff and I think the White Devil songs are still pretty good. People hate on the record, but it's cool.
Spine did the Revenge bootleg album cover for the Faith release show, right?
And there was a Bad Brains album cover, too?
Yeah. I Against I.
I fucked up, I only got the Revenge one.
[The Revenge bootleg cover] is the better one, dude. It's better as far as the Photoshop. If you look at I Against I, John and I had to do this and these photos are photoshopped pretty poorly. But it passes.
What's your third piece you're sharing?
Alright, so I'm not a sad boy like [David] Chavez is, but I love some sad boy music. This is a Cure Disintegration tour shirt. So this is the 1989 Prayer tour shirt. I really love The Cure. Big, big Cure fan. Disintegration is actually not my favorite Cure record. Pornography is my favorite Cure record, but this I like Disintegration basically front to back. And the coolest thing about this shirt is the back. So there's a white version of this shirt that has green ink to it. And I've always loved it and I had one and it had holes and stains on it and it barely fit me, so I got rid of it. And I've always been trying to search for it.
This thing popped up maybe like six or seven years ago. Someone had barely worn it. I don't know if you can tell, but it's pretty crispy like for a shirt from '89 and it fits pretty well. And I just always wanted it just because I love that record. Pornography came out in '82. There's no shirt that was released that probably would fit me. So this is probably the closest I'm going to get and it's a pretty sick design.
Disintegration is definitely my favorite Cure album. I bought it on CD as a teenager and played it all the time. I love that this shirt is just the album cover pretty much, but just slightly rearranged, then it's just Robert's eyes peering at you on the back.
It's cool. It's simple though. You just got like the text really big on the back but yeah, I love it. I think someone actually asked me one time, and I don't care about this, but they asked me like, "Dude, is it a bootleg? It looks like it," and I was like, "Nah, man that's OG, straight up." I have a Head On The Door bootleg though that is pretty sick. I like that record a lot. A lot of heavy saxophone on that record. I really love and respect the fat sax on that, for real.
I need to spend more time with that album. I almost always just default to Disintegration.
I'd say that's a top three record for The Cure, so probably, Pornography, Disintegration, Head On The Door.
Have you seen them live?
Yep, I saw them at Starlight, like like six years ago?
At least at least six years ago. Yeah.
Bro. Amazing. They played "The Hanging Garden." They played some Pornography songs and they played a lot of Disintegration stuff.
Amazing show, but my one critique was that they closed with "Boys Don't Cry" and played it at like two-thirds its original speed and part of what makes that song great is its tempo. I was like, "You can't end the show like this!" But otherwise, amazing time. Robert still had it.
Totally. Well, you know like the other thing too is I thought about this Depeche Mode shirt -- I thought about going straight up sad boy mode on all this and just showing my sad boy stuff, but seeing Depeche Mode would be insane. Like, I would die. They played here like seven years ago or something like that. I couldn't make it.
Yeah, it seems like their tours are pretty rare now, too.
Yeah, they did a pretty big one before COVID but didn't hit KC. It was pretty big though. But yeah, Depeche Mode would be pretty sick. But to your point on the "Boys Don't Cry" stuff. It's one of those things that I would love to -- I've never seen Bad Brains before and I'd love to just to say I did, but I can almost assure you that it would be like The Cure playing "Boys Don't Cry" at half speed, but for every song. [Laughs.]
Well you know, H.R. played The Riot Room the summer before the pandemic and I went to see Facewreck on Vine that night and I could've easily made it to both shows, but I just assumed it would be a bummer and skipped it, but LT told me it was really cool.
Damn, I did not know. I literally never heard anyone talk about that gig. So I just assumed it was not very good. Like, there's not a lot of solo H.R. stuff that I like, either. But I mean, I would have liked to go if it was sick.
Yeah, to be in the room with dude and have a decent performance. That's enough for me.
Yeah, I would say like Roger and H.R. and Dr. Know, like, those are I think some of the coolest people of the elders of hardcore. People would probably throw in Henry Rollins like that, but I don't really care about Henry Rollins. I mean, I like Henry Rollins. I prefer Rollins Black Flag any day, 100 percent, but Henry Rollins never had that big of an impact on me. So I'm just kinda, whatever.
Yeah, you mention Roger and I was really impressed by both the most recent Agnostic Front show in Kansas City and the Cro-Mags J.M. show at The Riot Room with Eyehategod a few years back.
I didn't get to go to the Brick [AF] show and one of the things that people probably don't know is that when I started playing punk music, one of my biggest things was to play with Agnostic Front because Agnostic Front is a [formative] band for me. My dad listened to them growing up in West New York. It was one of the first records that I knew was a punk record. I remember looking at Cause For Alarm and yelling at my dad because I thought all skinheads were racist,
Yeah, so it's like, I just wanted to play with AF -- it would have been sick. And then that Brick show happened. It was like around the holidays or something like that and I couldn't make it. And like holy shit, what a crazy gig that would have been.
But then I was fortunate enough that the other band I was in at the time, Contrast -- AF was coming through on like an off-day and played Springfield and we went down and played with them. I got to meet Roger for the first time. Literally to this day we still talk, but he's had some health problems and stuff. But really cool. My dad and him actually had some connections with mutual people that they knew. Roger also lived in West New York pretty close to where my dad used to live and I thought that was pretty cool.
But literally as recently as the other day he wished me happy anniversary for me and my wife's three year. Dude's amazing. But he's also -- not to go on this trip, but from a representation standpoint -- I'm Cuban American. I never had anyone to look up to except for someone like Roger. Not that he's a role model by any means, but just someone to be like, "That's me. I can do that." You know what I mean?
Yeah. And Roger's never been an insanely animated frontman. That's kind of what they have Vinnie Stigma for. He's a blast to watch run around the stage and ham it up.
Well, you know, the story is they actually turn his guitars off because they don't think he can play at the same [level] you know, so he gets to do a lot of stuff like that and they have that other guitarist, which is cool. I don't know if he played at The Brick this way, but he usually has a guitar that's wireless or whatever so he can kind of do some Stigma shit or whatever. And I think he might play some. I don't think he plays any leads. But he plays some guitar. He just doesn't do a whole whatever 'cause he's 60-something years old or whatever. But yeah, Stigma is sick for real.
I remember when I saw Bitter End open for Ghostemane at The Granada a few years ago, the singer was wearing the sickest Agnostic Front shirt that on the back had a picture of him and it said "Stigma!" I'm not one to track down a shirt usually, but I might have to find that one.
Oh yeah. AF and Negative Approach, US hardcore essentials right there. Goated, straight up, no question. Most people just assume that I'm a huge Mags fan and they're my favorite band or whatever. They're not. Probably top five, but AF is king in New York to me as far as from that area.
Listen to Spine at SpineHC.Bandcamp.com or on digital streaming platforms. Listen to Antonio's Hard Stance Hardcore Podcast on Spotify. He has also begun to catalog some of his merch on the Instagram account @WorldsUnfold.
[This article first appeared in Issue 5 of Shuttlecock's free monthly print edition. Click here to order a copy online, or pick one up for free at locations around KC/Lawrence/JoCo.]
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'use strict';
/**
* Factory for creating simple model objects with a restful interface
*
* @author Jordan Garcia (jordan@optimizely.com)
*/
var _ = require('lodash');

/**
 * config options:
 * 'entity' {String} name of entity in the API, ex: 'experiments' (unique)
 * 'instance' {Function} blank named function used as instance constructor, ex: function Audience() {}
 * 'parent' {{ entity: String, key: String }} the required parent association for fetches
 * 'fields' {Object} (optional) hash of default values of the entity when using Model.create()
 *
 * @param {Object} config for the model and extends the model object with any properties/methods
 * @return {Function} constructor
 */
function createModel(config) {
  if (!config.entity) {
    throw new Error('"entity" is required');
  }

  var InstanceConstructor = config.instance || function ModelInstance() {};
  var api = config.api;

  // Mixin methods that all models have
  var BaseModel = {
    // expose the instance constructor for `(instance instanceof Model.instance) checks
    instance: InstanceConstructor,

    /**
     * Creates a new object with the config.fields as the default values
     *
     * @param {Object=} data
     * @return {Object}
     */
    create: function(data) {
      // use the supplied constructor
      // This allows a user to pass in instance: function Audience() {}
      // and have the Audience() function return an instance of Audience
      var instance = new InstanceConstructor();
      var instanceData = _.extend(
        {},
        _.cloneDeep(config.fields || {}),
        _.cloneDeep(data || {})
      );
      // populate the instanceor
      _.extend(instance, instanceData);
      return instance;
    },

    /**
     * Persists entity using rest API
     *
     * @param {Model} instance
     * @return {Promise}
     */
    save: function(instance) {
      var loadData = function(data) {
        return _.extend(instance, data);
      };

      if (instance.id) {
        // do PUT save
        return api
          .one(config.entity, instance.id)
          .put(instance)
          .then(loadData, console.error);
      } else {
        // no id is set, do a POST
        var endpoint = api;
        if (config.parent) {
          endpoint.one(config.parent.entity, instance[config.parent.key]);
        }
        endpoint.all(config.entity);

        return endpoint
          .post(instance)
          .then(loadData, console.error);
      }
    },

    /**
     * Fetch and return an entity
     * @param entityId Id of Entity to fetch
     * @returns {Deferred} Resolves to fetched Model instance
     */
    fetch: function(entityId) {
      return api
        .one(config.entity, entityId)
        .get()
        .then(this.create, console.error);
    },

    /**
     * Fetches all the entities that match the supplied filters
     * If the model has a parent association than the parent.key must be
     * supplied.
     * @param {Object|undefined} filters (optional)
     * @return {Deferred}
     */
    fetchAll: function(filters) {
      filters = _.clone(filters || {});
      var endpoint = api;

      if (config.parent && !filters[config.parent.key]) {
        throw new Error("fetchAll: must supply the parent.key as a filter to fetch all entities");
      }

      if (config.parent) {
        endpoint.one(config.parent.entity, filters[config.parent.key]);
        // since the filtering is happening in the endpoint url we dont need filters
        delete filters[config.parent.key];
      }

      return endpoint
        .all(config.entity)
        .filter(filters)
        .get()
        .then(function(results) {
          return results.map(this.create);
        // }.bind(this), console.error);
        }.bind(this), function(err) {console.log(err); throw new Error(err);});
    },

    /**
     * Makes an API request to delete the instance by id
     * @param {Model} instance
     */
    delete: function(instance) {
      if (!instance.id) {
        throw new Error("delete(): `id` must be defined");
      }

      return api
        .one(config.entity, instance.id)
        .delete();
    },

    /**
     * Checks if the passed in object is an instance of the supplied
     * def.instance function constructor
     *
     * @param {Object} instance
     * @param {Boolean}
     */
    isInstance: function(instance) {
      return (instance instanceof this.instance);
    },

    /**
     * Deserializes API data to be used in Javascript
     * @param {Object} data
     * @return {Object}
     */
    deserialize: function(data) {
      return api.deserialize(config.entity, data);
    },

    /**
     * Serializes the model instance data and prepares it in a format that is
     * consumable by the API
     *
     * @param {Object} data
     * @return {Object}
     */
    serialize: function(data) {
      return api.serialize(config.entity, data);
    }
  };

  return _.extend(BaseModel, config);
}

module.exports = {
  create: createModel
};

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Q: Changing method signature for implementing classes in PHP Is there any decent work around to PHP's lack of Generics that allow static code inspection to detect type consistency?
I have an abstract class, that I want to sub-class and also enforce that one of the methods changes from taking a parameter of one type, to taking a parameter which is a sub-class of that parameter.
abstract class AbstractProcessor {
    abstract function processItem(Item $item);
}

class WoodProcessor extends AbstractProcessor {
    function processItem(WoodItem $item){}
}

This is not allowed in PHP because it's changing the methods signature which is not allowed. With Java style generics you could do something like:
abstract class AbstractProcessor<T> {
    abstract function processItem(T $item);
}

class WoodProcessor extends AbstractProcessor<WoodItem> {
    function processItem(WoodItem $item);
}

But obviously PHP doesn't support those.
Google for this problem, people suggest using instanceof to check errors at run-time e.g.
class WoodProcessor extends AbstractProcessor {
    function processItem(Item $item){
        if (!($item instanceof WoodItem)) {
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException(
                "item of class ".get_class($item)." is not a WoodItem");
        }
    }
}

But that only works at runtime, it doesn't allow you to inspect your code for errors using static analysis - so is there any sensible way of handling this in PHP?
A more complete example of the problem is:
class StoneItem extends Item{}
class WoodItem extends Item{}

class WoodProcessedItem extends ProcessedItem {
    function __construct(WoodItem $woodItem){}
}

class StoneProcessedItem extends ProcessedItem{
    function __construct(StoneItem $stoneItem){}
}

abstract class AbstractProcessor {
    abstract function processItem(Item $item);

    function processAndBoxItem(Box $box, Item $item) {
       $processedItem = $this->processItem($item);
       $box->insertItem($item);
    }

    //Lots of other functions that can call processItem
}

class WoodProcessor extends AbstractProcessor {
    function processItem(Item $item) {
        return new ProcessedWoodItem($item); //This has an inspection error
    }
}

class StoneProcessor extends AbstractProcessor {
    function processItem(Item $item) {
        return new ProcessedStoneItem($item);//This has an inspection error
    }
}

Because I'm passing in just an Item to new ProcessedWoodItem($item) and it expects a WoodItem as the parameter, the code inspection suggests there is an error.

A: You can use methods with no arguments, documenting the parameters with doc-blocks instead:
<?php

class Foo
{
    /**
     * @param string $world
     */
    public function hello()
    {
        list($world) = func_get_args();

        echo "Hello, {$world}\n";
    }
}

class Bar extends Foo
{
    /**
     * @param string $greeting
     * @param string $world
     */
    public function hello()
    {
        list($greeting, $world) = func_get_args();

        echo "{$greeting}, {$world}\n";
    }
}

$foo = new Foo();
$foo->hello('World');

$bar = new Bar();
$bar->hello('Bonjour', 'World');

I'm not going to say I think this is a good idea though.
Your problem is, you have a context with a variable number of members - rather than trying to force those through as arguments, a better and more future-proof idea is to introduce a context-type to carry all possible arguments, so that the argument list never needs to change.
Like so:
<?php

class HelloContext
{
    /** @var string */
    public $greeting;

    /** @var string */
    public $world;

    public static function create($world)
    {
        $context = new self;

        $context->world = $world;

        return $context;
    }

    public static function createWithGreeting($greeting, $world)
    {
        $context = new self;

        $context->greeting = $greeting;
        $context->world = $world;

        return $context;
    }
}

class Foo
{
    public function hello(HelloContext $context)
    {
        echo "Hello, {$context->world}\n";
    }
}

class Bar extends Foo
{
    public function hello(HelloContext $context)
    {
        echo "{$context->greeting}, {$context->world}\n";
    }
}

$foo = new Foo();
$foo->hello(HelloContext::create('World'));

$bar = new Bar();
$bar->hello(HelloContext::createWithGreeting('Bonjour', 'World'));

Static factory methods are optional of course - but could be useful, if only certain specific combinations of members produce a meaningful context. If so, you may wish to declare __construct() as protected/private as well.

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Firth, C. H., (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
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The Resource Firth, C. H., (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
Charles Harding
51 Items by the Person Firth, C. H., (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
A life of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury : 1. Scotland, 1643-1674, by T.E.S. Clarke... 2. England, 1674-1715, with bibliographical appendixes, by H.C. Foxcroft
A life of Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury
A plea for the historical teaching of history; : an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904,, by C. H. Firth
Absalom & Achitophel, Dryden ; edited by W.D. Christie
An American garland, : being a collection of ballads relating to America, 1563-1759;, ed. with introduction and notes by C. H. Firth
An American garland, being a collection of ballads relating to America,
Cromwell's army : a history of the English soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate
Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon as statesman historian and chancellor of the University : a lecture delivered on February 18, 1909
English history in English poetry, from the French revolution to the death of Queen Victoria
Essays, historical & literary,, by Sir Charles Firth
Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, governor of Nottingham, by his widow Lucy ; edited from the original MS by Julius Hutchinson, to which are added the letters of Colonel Hutchinson and other papers. Rev. with additional notes by C.H. Firth
Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, governor of Nottingham,, by his widow Lucy. Ed. from the original manuscript by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson, to which are added the letters of Colonel Hutchinson and other papers
Milton as an historian., By C. H. Firth
Naval songs and ballads, selected and edited by C. H. Firth
Notes on the diplomatic relations of England and France 1603-1688; : lists of ambassadors from England to France and from France to England,, comp. by C.H. Firth ... and S.C. Lomas ..
Oliver Cromwell and the rule of the Puritans in England
Papers relating to Thomas Wentworth, : first Earl of Strafford., From the mss. of Dr. William Knowler. Edited by C.H. Firth..
Robert Browning's prose life of Strafford : With an introd. by C.H. Firth and forewords by F.J. Furnivall
Scotland and the Commonwealth. : Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland, from August 1651 to December, 1653., Edited, with introd. and notes, by C.H. Firth
Scotland and the Protectorate. : Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659. Edited with introd. and notes
Scotland and the protectorate : letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659, edited, with introd. and notes, by C. H. Firth
Scotland and the protectorate. : Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659., Edited with introd. and notes, by C.H. Firth
Stuart tracts, 1603-1693 ; with an introd. by C.H. Firth
Stuart tracts, 1603-1693, with an introd. by C. H. Firth
Stuart tracts, 1603-1693, with an introduction by C.H. Firth ..
The House of Lords during the Civil War
The House of Lords during the Civil War,, by Charles Harding Firth
The School of English Language and Literature, : a contribution to the history of Oxford studies
The Seconde parte of a register : being a calendar of manuscripts under that title intended for publication by the Puritans about 1593, and now in Dr William's library, London, edited by Albert Peel ; with a preface by C.H. Firth
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second, Edited by Charles Harding Firth
The journal of Joachim Hane : containing his escapes and sufferings during his employment by Oliver Cromwell in France from November 1653 to February 1654;, ed. from the manuscript in the Library of Worcester college, Oxford, by C. H. Firth, M. A
The journal of Joachim Hane,, containing his escapes and sufferings during his employment by Oliver Cromwell in France from November 1653 to February 1654;
The last years of the Protectorate, 1656-1658
The last years of the protectorate, 1656-1658;
The letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle ; edited in three volumes with notes, supplement and enlarged index by S.C. Lomas, with an introd. by C.H. Firth
The letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle; ed. in three volumes, with notes, supplement and enlarged index, by S.C. Lomas ; with an introduction by C.H. Firth, M.A
The letters and speeches, with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle : edited with notes, supplement and enl. index, by S.C. Lomas. With an introd. by C.H. Firth
The life of William Cavendish : Duke of Newcastle to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life, edited by C.H. Firth
The life of William Cavendish, : duke of Newcastle, to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life,, by Margaret, duchess of Newcastle; ed. by C. H. Firth..
The life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life, Edited by C.H. Firth
The life of William Cavendish, duke of Newcastle, to which is added The true relation of my birth, breeding and life, by Margaret, duchess of Newcastle. Edited by C.H. Firth
The memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Lieutenant-General of the Horse in the army of the Commonwealth of England, 1625-1672, edited with appendices of letters and illustrative documents, by C.H. Firth
The memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, lieutenant-general of the horse in the army of the commonwealth of England, 1625-1672, edited with appendices of letters and illustrative documents by C.H. Firth
The narrative of General Venables, : with an appendix of papers relating to the expedition to the West Indies and the conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655;, edited for the Royal historical society by C.H. Firth
The parallel between the English and American civil wars. : The Rede lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 14 June 1910,, by Charles Harding Firth ..
The parallel between the English and American civil wars. : The Rede lecture delivered in the Senate house, Cambridge, on 14 June 1910
The teaching of history, by Dr. Oskar Jäger; tr. by H. J. Chaytor, M. A., with an introduction by C. H. Firth ..
The teaching of history,, by Dr. Oskar Jäger; tr. by H. J. Chayter, M.A., with an introduction by C. H. Firth
Then and now; : or, A comparison between the war with Napoleon and the present war
Context of Firth, C. H., (Charles Harding), 1857-1936
A plea for the historical teaching of history; : an inaugural lecture delivered on November 9, 1904,
An American garland, : being a collection of ballads relating to America, 1563-1759;
Essays, historical & literary,
Milton as an historian.
Notes on the diplomatic relations of England and France 1603-1688; : lists of ambassadors from England to France and from France to England,
Papers relating to Thomas Wentworth, : first Earl of Strafford.
Scotland and the Commonwealth. : Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland, from August 1651 to December, 1653.
Scotland and the protectorate. : Letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659.
The House of Lords during the Civil War,
The parallel between the English and American civil wars. : The Rede lecture delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, on 14 June 1910,
A life of Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury : 1. Scotland, 1643-1674
Absalom & Achitophel
Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, governor of Nottingham
Memoirs of the life of Colonel Hutchinson, governor of Nottingham,
Naval songs and ballads
Scotland and the protectorate : letters and papers relating to the military government of Scotland from January 1654 to June 1659
Stuart tracts, 1603-1693
The Seconde parte of a register : being a calendar of manuscripts under that title intended for publication by the Puritans about 1593, and now in Dr William's library, London
The history of England, from the accession of James the Second
The journal of Joachim Hane : containing his escapes and sufferings during his employment by Oliver Cromwell in France from November 1653 to February 1654;
The journal of Joachim Hane,
The letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell
The letters and speeches, with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle : edited with notes, supplement and enl. index
The life of William Cavendish : Duke of Newcastle to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life
The life of William Cavendish, : duke of Newcastle, to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life,
The life of William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, to which is added the true relation of my birth, breeding and life
The memoirs of Edmund Ludlow, Lieutenant-General of the Horse in the army of the Commonwealth of England, 1625-1672
The narrative of General Venables, : with an appendix of papers relating to the expedition to the West Indies and the conquest of Jamaica, 1654-1655;
The teaching of history
The teaching of history,

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FDA Proposes New Nutrition Facts Label
For the first time in two decades the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to significantly update Nutrition Facts labels on packaged foods.
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For the first time in two decades the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing to significantly update Nutrition Facts labels on packaged foods that better reflect the latest scientific information, which includes the link between diet and obesity and heart disease. The proposed change would replace outdated serving sizes to make them more in line with how much people actually consume. The change would also highlight key parts of the labels, particularly calories and serving size.
"Our guiding principle here is very simple: that you as a parent and a consumer should be able to walk into your local grocery store, pick up an item off the shelf, and be able to tell whether it's good for your family," said First Lady Michelle Obama says in an FDA press release. "So this is a big deal, and it's going to make a big difference for families all across this country."
Other key changes to the Nutrition Facts labels are as follows, taken directly from the FDA:
Require information about the amount of "added sugars" in a food product. The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans states that intake of added sugar is too high in the U.S. population and should be reduced. The FDA proposes to include "added sugars" on the label to help consumers know how much sugar has been added to the product.
Update serving size requirements to reflect the amounts people currently eat. What and how much people eat and drink has changed since the serving sizes were first put in place in 1994. By law, serving sizes must be based on what people actually eat, not on what people "should" be eating. Present calorie and nutrition information for the whole package of certain food products that could be consumed in one sitting.
Present "dual column" labels to indicate both "per serving" and "per package" calorie and nutrition information for larger packages that could be consumed in one sitting or multiple sittings.
Require the declaration of potassium and vitamin D, nutrients that some in the U.S. population are not getting enough of, which puts them at higher risk for chronic disease. Vitamin D is important for its role in bone health. Potassium is beneficial in lowering blood pressure. Vitamins A and C would no longer be required on the label, though manufacturers could declare them voluntarily.
Revise the Daily Values for a variety of nutrients such as sodium, dietary fiber and Vitamin D. Daily Values are used to calculate the Percent Daily Value on the label, which helps consumers understand the nutrition information in the context of a total daily diet.
While continuing to require "Total Fat," "Saturated Fat," and "Trans Fat" on the label, "Calories from Fat" would be removed because research shows the type of fat is more important than the amount.
Refresh the format to emphasize certain elements, such as calories, serving sizes and Percent Daily Value, which are important in addressing current public health problems like obesity and heart disease
The last change to Nutrition Facts labels came back in 2006 when information on trans fats were required to appear on the labels.
The FDA is accepting public comment on the proposed changes for 90 days, starting February 27.
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Announcement of the Establishment of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on Buddhism (CEIB) in Paris
第三屆《五臺山信仰》國際學術研討會
2017年度 佛教與東亞文化國際研修班
二月 24 2017
At a time when the challenges of religions are again being recognized as crucial in comprehending major global events, the research arm of INALCO on the rue de Lille, Paris, welcomes a completely new federated research center, the CEIB (Centre d'études interdisciplinaires sur le bouddhisme). This new center was created as a joint project by INALCO (Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales), EPHE (École pratique des hautes études) and the Collège de France.
The CEIB is supported by the expertise and networks constituted over the years by colleagues from these three establishments and other French institutions, in order to meet the scientific demands linked to ongoing religious changes and disciplinary reconfigurations, while also preserving and promoting the heritage of two centuries of French Buddhist studies. The center will support the various teams of researchers in France who devote some of their work to Buddhisms, and it is hoped that the center will reinforce their collaboration.
The project of creating CEIB was begun in June 2015 by Catherine Despeux (professor emeritus, INALCO), Jean-Noël Robert (professor at the Collège de France), Anne Cheng (professor at the Collège de France), Vincent Goossaert (Directeur d'études at EPHE), Sylvie Hureau (Maître de conférences at EPHE), and Ji Zhe (Maître de conférences at INALCO and member of the Institut universitaire de France).
The goal from the beginning was to group resources and experts in order to:
1) support students and young researchers, at the scientific, administrative and financial levels;
2) coordinate and finance individual and collective research projects;
3) promote interdisciplinarity of research;
4) reinforce international collaboration and create a permanent international network of researchers;
5) encourage integration of teaching and research, as well as the diffusion of knowledge among researchers, students, and the public interested in academic, non-denominational studies on Buddhism.
With the support of the three founding establishments, the CEIB took shape after more than a year of intensive preparatory work. It is currently attached to the INALCO Equipe ASIEs, and is financed by several foundations. On 22 March 2017, an inaugural ceremony will take place at the rue de Lille, followed by the first presentation of the Lin Li-kouang distinguished lectures for Buddhist studies. For this premiere, we welcome Professor Stephen F. Teiser of Princeton University.
However, this is only the beginning. During the week of the 20th of March, there will also be three more presentations and an international colloquium organized or supported by the CEIB; the journal Buddhism and Modern China will be launched this year, in partnership with Renmin University of Beijing; there will be a call for candidates for doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships before the end of the semester.
These actions, and others to come, should allow the CEIB to take part in the worldwide dynamic of Buddhist studies. Since the beginning of the 20th century, scholarly interest in Buddhism has grown considerably. In North America and Europe, research centers have multiplied: Columbia (1988), Stanford (1997), then UCLA (200), UC Berkeley (2004), Oxford (2004), Ghent (2007), and Hamburg (2007), without mentioning the dozens of centers in Asian universities, in China, Japan and Korea. In this context, the CEIB, as the first French academic center entirely dedicated to Buddhist studies, plans to service as a catalyst to reinforce and highlight French research on Buddhism through its international opening to approaches from every field. It is an ambitious undertaking, but can be achieved through concrete, continuous effort. As the 9th-century Chinese Chan master Changsha Jingcen teaches us, even if we are on "the top of a hundred-foot pole," we must still "take one step forward."
CEIB, February 21, 2017
Translated from French by Julie Sullivan
For the French version of this announcement, please consult:
https://asies.hypotheses.org/1096
Program of "the Week of CEIB":
http://www.inalco.fr/evenement/semaine-centre-etudes-interdisciplinaires-bouddhisme-ceib
Programme la semaine CEIB 2017 FR
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Today sees the introduction of another sale across the Nintendo eShop, with the Japanese gaming giant discounting some of the more 'Weird and Wonderful' games available on Switch.
We've got all the games included listed below, as well as links to stores for your region so that you can check all prices; interestingly, a trailer has appeared for the sale in both Europe (above) and North America, but only the European stores have the sale live at the moment. We'd recommend that our friends in North America keep an eye out throughout the day; the very same deals may well be headed your way shortly.
The sale comes to an end on 6th February, so make sure to grab any games that interest you before that date to secure your money off.
Will you be getting any of the games listed? Want to recommend any highlights to other readers? Share away in the comments.
ooh might get pool panic and west of loathing!
The links are broken in your article, each title links to the one listed beneath it.
Seems like a list flipping death would be on.
Yep, I'm trying Pool Panic too at that price!
The visuals and physics of snake pass are great. I should really go back and complete that game.
Pool Panic is £3.73! Has to be worth a punt at that price surely?
To anyone out there who has played it - do you recommend it?
I've been waiting a long time for a Snake Pass sale, but I use the NA eShop, so I guess I'll have to wait and see.
Was just about to ask if snake pass was any good?
Great fun, very dependent on the technical controls and movement of the snake. It's a game best played to 100% completion, doing your best to find all the collectibles, then doing your hardest to collect them at your peril.
Got both West of Loathing, Slime-San and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime already. Don't think I'm tempted too much by anything else here. Maybe Crawl, but probably not - with a backlog of games here WAY out of hand.
I wish Hamster was one of the publishers that do this kind of promotions some day. I know a few of their games were on sale some time ago (a handful of ACA Neo Geo titles, not the best ones, though), and this week or the next it's going to happen again probably (because now there are three games on sale on Xbox One and this pattern happened the last time already), but I mean a really big selection of titles, and Arcade Archives too.
That would help me get the ones I'm doubtful about.
@RupeeClock May have to give it a go. Just watched a couple of reviews of pool panic aswell and that also looks pretty fun. Didn't think I'd like it but it's doesn't seem like it's all about the pool.
There's a Nicalis sale on too with most games around half price.
I'm at the point where I'm buying games I'm half interested in because the discount is good. I suppose as Nintendo fans we still need to get used to hefty discounts.
What I'm personally hoping for in the future, when they're done developing them is that Hamster do a physical compilation release of ACA titles.
Could be a pack of all Nintendo Arcade titles.
Could be packs of Neo Geo titles by genre or series, with no small number per pack.
@Ooccoo_Jr At that price, you need Pool Panic in your life. I grabbed at full price on release, and still love it. It's got a ridiculous amount of content.
Octodad for $1.42 on Steam or $7.00 on Switch. Well ,portability isn't that important.
@Kidfunkadelic83 You should definitely give Snake Pass a shot while it's on offer. It took a couple of levels (for me) for the controls to feel right, but once they clicked with me it was a joy to play. I only wish there were more of it to play! I've had my fingers crossed for DLC levels or a sequel.
@RupeeClock I'm all for physical releases, but in this case I hope they won't, because I've bought several already. Call me selfish. I hate when they release games physically after months or years, when nobody was expecting them to. It happened with Namco Museum and I got angry.
But realistically I don't think they're going to do it. When it comes to physical releases PS4 is always granted, Switch maybe and Xbox One only if there is a miracle (Xbox One doesn't even have Arcade Archives outside ACA Neo Geo). PS4 has had Hamster titles, even exclusive ones like classic Konami arcade titles, since 2014, and no compilation has been released in physical stores.
@PapaPedro it's added to the watch list. I will g through it tomorrow (payday) and buy everything that's on offer in there. 100% will get snake pass. Looks fun.
@JackEatsSparrows Cheers mate. Saw it in the Direct and thought it looked fun. Downloading it tonight.
The digital first, physical later thing does hurt a lot of people, but these days we're also spoilt for choice on what to play, and backlogs keep growing. So waiting for physicals is a small way for me to deal with such backlogs.
Sega 3D Classics got a physical collection release when they were done with those, it wasn't comprehensive but it was something, and even included extras like the Master System version of Fantasy Zone as a secret.
M2 are currently doing Sega Ages releases for the Switch, keeping up their track record of producing the best versions of Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and arcade favourites. The fact that they added the drop dash to Sonic the Hedgehog alone makes want to pick that up, but I also feel like there will eventually be a physical Sega Ages compilation physical for the Switch.
@Kidfunkadelic83 I really enjoyed Snake Pass but I think for others it was a bit love/hate. It's kind of a 3D platformer with really weird controls, so a lot of the game is just learning how to control a snake instead of a jumpy-man.
@RupeeClock I think they're just too many games already by Hamster. But I can't wait when I want one of them and end up buying it as soon as I can.
About Sega Ages that's my fear. They could do a collection eventually, but honestly, I want to play them now and they're being released pretty slowly. I just can't wait unless there is some guarantee, and there isn't.
Sega 3D Classics Collection was great news back in 2016, and of course I bought it and luckily hadn't bought any of the included games before. But I ended up buying others when almost 2 years after japanese release we didn't get volume 3, which we should have. It was a shame, because there were exclusive games too that never got released digitally.
My son just mentioned wanting Snake Pass a few days ago, we'll see what happens in a few hours when Reggie wakes up.
Be aware that while Rain World is absolutely fantasitc, it's currently broken. The devs have told me on twitter that a patch is on its way but that was weeks ago. It basically freezes and boots you back to the home screen with a message simply saying something along the lines of 'an error was detected and the software was closed'. 3 times it happened to me.
None of those games really interest me.
@Bunkerneath @klingki I'd recommend South African or Norwegian accounts over UK. Those eShops are always cheaper.
@BionicDodo @Bunkerneath I know it's not that hard to set up accounts from other regions, but I don't really care to do it. I'd rather just stick with one eShop. I know that limits me somewhat, but I'm fine with it. If Snake Pass goes on sale in the NA shop, I'll get it. If not, no big deal, I'll just keep waiting it out. I have an enormous backlog anyway, haha.
A reminder to everyone that you don't need to make a brand new name every time you want access to another country's eshop. All you have to do is log onto your my-Nintendo account online and in the settings, change your country / time zone to the eshop you want. You will be asked to sign back into your eshop again on the switch and you're in!
This works really well for me because I am able to amass all my gold coins on one account. When I buy a Japan import I switch my time zone, claim my gold, then switch back to US account. The gold points will always still be waiting for me when I switch back and forth.
This also works well when I buy a game that has gold points expired in the US like Bomberman. I just Switch my time zone to London, claim my points (because EU has a 2 year window for gold expiration instead of US 1 year claim), then when I am done I just switch back.
You can only use points in the eshop you claimed them in, but at least you still get to claim them and it stays on one account.
Definitely giving Pool Panic a go at that price.
Rain world sounds like my jam, its on my steam list and I haven't gotten round to it but will 100% pick it up on switch.
@Mando44646 They did make an NOA-specific video for YouTube though. I won't take that as 100% confirmation, but I'm holding out hope.
Crawl is utterly fantastic, each game lasts about 30 mins. Can't recommend it enough.
Why aren't the game available in the morning of the release???
Pool Panic all the way! Waited a long time for a sale like that!
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is a highly recommended co-op game to those that don't have it yet.
Personally, I'm a lil' interested in Pool Party but otherwise most of these games aren't too high on my wishlist.
West of Loathing is absolutely worth the dive! Couldn't recommend it more.
Great article, the links to the individual online shops are much, much appreciated!
@coolaggro yep, just logged in to say West Of Loathing is a must-buy if you love great writing and humour.
It's an RPG without the bloat, it's a point-and-click without the frustration. Just sink your teeth in and enjoy.
Time for Rainworld it is then!
I went for Flame in the Flood. Great music, seems pretty enjoyable so far. Small text though. Had to get the Henry Swanson's out.
Human: Fall Flat and Octodad look cool but am pretty sure I'll get frustrated with the weird controlling mechanics of the characters.


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Those Old Songs
I read a fun little article in the DailyMail today; it was speculating on what other old songs (besides Brown Sugar) will be next on the list to be cancelled. If you've been living under a rock, or are not familiar with the music of the Rolling Stones, this week the Stones announced they would no longer play the song at their concerts. Though I always liked the rhythm of the song, I was always glad that the lyrics were so mumbled you could hardly make out what it was about. But you could guess it was sexual exploitation of women of color by white men, to be sure.
While I love classic rock 'n roll, it is very true that sometimes it is quite hard to play some of those classics in front of my children. The bands were almost all men, with the male gaze on everything, with male priorities of getting sex without any commitment often front and center. Many times I had to get my senses to simply "not hear" what I could guess these men were saying. And it was a shame, because some of these were excellent songs, musically speaking. Other times I could substitute a very similar-sounding word for some of the objectionable ones. Yet other times I thought about how the meaning of the song would change when a woman sang it, and so I sang it with gusto, as Joan Jett taught us in "I Love Rock 'N Roll." Still do.
But as I approach senior-citizen-hood, I just turn the car radio off when some of these songs come on the oldies station. Just can't do it anymore. Can't cover for these guys anymore. Don't even want to hear it. "My Sharona," fugeddaboutit.
There's now even some songs by women (songs I suspect were written by men) that I don't care for anymore. Think "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer. (Yes, one of my guilty pleasures was disco . . . )
So my interest was piqued when I saw the list the article had compiled. I had to admit most of those songs were indeed quite slimy, and in need of a scrub or even a wholesale reboot: "Under My Thumb" by the Stone; "Young Girl" by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, etc. But one caught my eye because it was the very first rock 'n roll song my heart objected to . . . "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry.
I think I started listening to the radio around the same time this song was released. I remember the old radio I commandeered from the family and kept in my room, where I'd crack sunflower seeds and read book after book after book. (If you'd have lived in the family I did, you would have wanted to hide away, as well.) But the radio songs in that era inculcated me into the social understanding that women should never expect men to make a commitment to them. I understand now that this was a deliberate ploy. Fallen men always arrange things so they can get sex without commitment. It's the whole purpose of so many large swaths of our economy--and radio songs are a powerful expression of that desire. "I've Got to be Free," by The Monkees, "Free Bird," by Lynary Skynard, even less direct songs such as "Brandi" by Looking Glass. Training us girls, over and over again, that "love" was really having sex, but that "love" also meant not tying a man down.
I know other generations of women have had it worse--those who were socialized by rap, for example. But I think my generation were the ones who heard it first in such a prevalent way--the songs of the generation right before me were all about going steady and getting married.
But I guess I had potential as a feminist, because when I first heard that Mungo Jerry song, I remember detesting it despite the fact it was qite a catchy tune. While there are several problematic phrases ("In the summertime, you got women, you got women on your mind . . ."), the one that really make my blood boil was "Have a drink, have a drive Go out and see what you can find. If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel."
See "what" you can find. It's clear that we women are just "things" to "find."
But even worse--"if her daddy's poor, just do what you feel," made my blood boil. I'd been on the receiving end of this kind of predatory behavior even at the tender age of 13 and would be for years.
So, yeah, I guess I hope this song either gets re-written or scrubbed. I'm not into cancelling anything, but surely we as a culture know better than this now? Well, it doesn't matter one way or the other--I am turning off the car radio when Mungo Jerry comes on . . . I hope young women of this generation will be smarter than we were--don't give these creeps space in your head, don't give them the minutes of your day, don't give them any royalty payments.


People's United Financial, Inc. (PBCT - Free Report)	is scheduled to report first-quarter 2019 results on Apr 17. Both revenues and earnings are anticipated to reflect year-over-year improvement.
Before we discuss the factors that could influence the results, let's take a look at how the company performed in the last reported quarter.
Driven by improvement in loans and deposit balances, along with rising rates and higher fee income, People's United delivered a positive earnings surprise of 5.88% in fourth-quarter 2018. However, elevated expenses and provisions were major drags.
Notably, People's United delivered positive earnings surprise in one occasion and in-line results in two out of the trailing four quarters, the average beat being 0.74%.
The company has the combination of the two key ingredients for a possible earnings beat — a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or at least 3 (Hold).
Earnings ESP: The Earnings ESP for the stock is currently pegged at +2.59%. This is a very significant and leading indicator of a likely positive earnings surprise for the company.
Zacks Rank: The combination of People's United's Zacks Rank #3 and a positive ESP makes us confident of an earnings beat.
Loan Growth: A modest increase in lending — mainly in the areas of commercial and industrial, commercial real estate and consumer — is expected to boost net interest income (NII). However, weakness in revolving home equity loans (due to slowdown in originations as well as refinancing activities) will partially offset this.
Growth in loan portfolio is expected in the range of 3% to 5% for 2019, the impact of which will likely be reflected in the Jan-Mar quarter as well. This goal excludes the transactional portion of the New York multifamily portfolio, which is in runoff mode. Management expects the runoff in the transactional New York multifamily portfolio to be $400-$500 million. Deposits are projected to be up 3-5%.
Modest Rise in Net Interest Income (NII): Given the influence of rise in interest rates, People's United is anticipated to record an increase in NII. Notably, management's projections of 2019 NII's growth in the range of 10-12% is likely to show impact in the quarter to be reported as well. This is based on the expectation of net interest margin (NIM) of 3.15-3.25%, on assumption of no hikes in fed funds during the year. Notably, flattening, and sometimes inversion of the yield curve, during the Mar-end quarter might have an unfavorable impact on net interest margin.
Fee Income to Escalate: On strong retail banking, fee income might escalate for the bank. Additionally, the company projects non-interest income to be up 2-4% in 2019, the impact of which will likely be reflected in the Jan-Mar period.
Increase in Expenses: Despite undertaking a number of expense-saving initiatives, People's United's operating expenses have witnessed an elevated level. Though the company is focused on optimizing its branch network and has initiated installation of technology to improve efficiencies and reduce costs, escalating expense levels are likely to curb bottom-line expansion.
Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS - Free Report)	is set to report first-quarter earnings on Apr 23. The company has an Earnings ESP of +0.57% and carries a Zacks Rank of 3, at present. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
BB&T Corporation (BBT - Free Report)	has an Earnings ESP of +0.32% and currently carries a Zacks Rank of 3. It is slated to release quarterly figures on Apr 18.


Chagas Coalition together with their members will hold sessions, symposiums and posters in the Annual meetings of the American Society of Tropical Medicine (ASTMH) and Coalition for Operational Research on NTDs (COR-NTD).
Immigration and Chagas Disease:Barriers to Access to Treatment and New Challenges in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America Session # 159, November 8 th , 1:45-3:30 pm, Room 341-2.
Chair: Sheba Meymandi, Director Center of Excellence for Chagas Disease at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. Speakers: Peter Hotez, Baylor University; Joaquim Gascon, Institut de Salut Global, Barcelona, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda, University of São Paulo, Brazil and Colin Forsyth, DNDi and CECD.
A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach to Scaling up Healthcare for Chagas Disease.
Breakout Session 2E, Saturday 4th of November from 9 a.m to 12.


Do you have mealtime family favorites?
Well, one of our family's favorite vegetables (technically a fruit?) is spaghetti squash.
eat noodles for every meal, snack, and appetizer…..
…..think that spaghetti squash is noodles.
We love eating the spaghetti squash in place of noodles with plump meatballs and sauce……creates a delicious meal.
**Sorry for the lack of a picture, but if you cut into that meatball, there is a delicious mozzarella center. I'm not kidding when I say that I want to make these 3 times a week.
To bake the squash, cut in half, scoop out the seeds and other debris, and lay open side up on a baking sheet. Add about a tablespoon of butter to each half and place in the oven at 400 degrees (F) for about 45 minutes to an hour. Time depends on the size of your squash. You can also cook in the microwave….there's usually a sticker on the squash with directions. (Also, you can skip the butter…..I just love the flavor, yum!) Depending on the size of the squash, you may need a little more or a little less time. When it's done, you will be able to fork apart all of the little string-like pieces. And if you taste one, it shouldn't be too crunchy but also don't be expecting a soft noodle. They are a bit firmer than that.
I found the recipe for the mozzarella stuffed meatballs here.
Go on and give that squash a try.
Stuffed Acorn Squash...packed with flavor!
I need to try this. My in-laws have a huge country garden and they grow spaghetti squash and eat it once or twice a week in the summer. It has never looked that appealing to me. Thanks for your presentation because it really looks good!
I love spaghetti squash. And so easy to prepare. I make it with a little bit of butter and parmesean cheese sprinkled on top.
I seriously have a HUGE spaghetti squash sitting on my counter – staring at me for the last two days. This is a great inspiration. Thanks!
What do you do with the rest of the squash? I was thinking of roasting and pureeing into a soup.
I'm really just going to have to venture out and try this. It looks like a winner!
I will have to try this! We never have pasta because my husband is diabetic and pasta has too many carbs. I imagine squash is way better in total carbs and might be something he could enjoy.
Ooh! I'm definitely making the meatballs tonight!!!
We inherited a Spaghetti Squash when our friends moved last week and I've had no idea what to do with it! THANKS SO MUCH!
Yum! I just recently discovered spaghetti squash. I wish I had known of it sooner. I will definitely have to try it with the meatballs.
It looks fabulous! Great suggestion, especially for people who watch their pasta intake. Love it!
Looks yummy. I'm growing spaghetti squash this year so I'm going to try it!
I have noticed you don't do blog awards, but I did give you one, a kreativ award, which you totally deserve. I won't be hurt if you never mention it or pass it on, but I just love your blog and wanted to you know!
My grandson LOVES plain noodles and not so big on veggies. I love the spaghetti squash but never thought of cooking it for him. We have to sneak veggies in wherever we can so I will definitely give this a try!
Yum! I have made that before but I have also made a lasagna too. (a small one) Ground chicken, spaghetti sauce and squash to replace the noodle. Very tasty.
I make acorn squash and butternut squash for my son often, but haven't made spaghetti squash. He is only 12 months old, but I think that he would like it.
You can also cut it in half, wrap it in plastic wrap and microwave it on high in 1/4 cup of water for 7-10 minutes. Good deal!
OK YUM! Thanks for sharing! I love love love your blog!
Well, I was about to e-mail you and ask for this recipe as Tom tried it at school the other day and is in LOVE! Thanks!
This looks so so yummmm!!!
Wow looks so good I am totally going to try this, I never know what to do with squash!!
That looks absolutely amazing! I'm definitely going to try this soon!
THANKS for the dinner idea!!!
I had a spaghetti squash that was just taking up space in my fridge!
Oh YUM! Thanks so much for sharing. My doctor has me off grains for now, so I can substitute the bread crumbs in the meatballs and will thoroughly enjoy this!
made the meatballs and loved them! enjoying leftovers for lunch today!
I made the meatballs earlier this week, and they were so delicious! Even though I altered the recipe for only 1 lb of meat, our little family of 3 didn't have any leftovers. I will have to try it with spaghetti squash next time – if only I can sneak that fact past my anti-veggie husband.
I make spaghetti squash as a pasta replacement too – it is delicious. You can also cook it face down with a bit of water in the pan, helps to steam it as it cooks, and put fork holes through the skin.