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Republican Ken Cuccinelli is defending the rights of gun owners during his debate with Democrat Terry McAuliffe, saying tougher laws would not have prevented the massacre on Virginia Tech's campus that left 33 dead.
McAuliffe has seen his lead grow over Cuccinelli in polls. He said Thursday that government has a role in keeping people safe and tougher laws like expanded background checks could help. McAuliffe says, quote, "some people should not own guns."
The candidates met with less than two weeks before Nov. 5's election that could be a test whether a deeply conservative candidate like Cuccinelli can win statewide. They traded criticism over the economy, education and their records.
But the specter of the 2007 massacre on this campus was an early instance where Cuccinelli and McAuliffe split.
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Well, it's official.
With the 2014 election for governor a year away, former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist announced his intention to run again — this time as a Democrat.
And Republicans were quick to pounce, calling him . . . gasp . . . an opportunist!
I don't know how many voters they hope to rile up with this incendiary accusation. They're willing to bet pretty heavily, dropping a half million dollars on their "opportunist" campaign blitz.
News flash: Most voters think all politicians are opportunists. In fact, I looked up "opportunist" in Roget's A-Z Thesaurus. After listing numerous synonyms, including self-seeker and go-getter, it said, "See also businessperson, politician, rascal."
Is this really a winning strategy?
Let's set the stage:
Incumbent Republican Gov. Rick Scott is running for reelection but has not yet formally announced. He won the last election by a percentage point over Alex Sink with 48.87 percent of the vote. He is a wealthy man and spent $73 million, mostly his own money, in a short seven-month campaign.
Charlie Crist served one term as governor before running for the U.S. Senate in 2010. After a series of vetoes and actions as governor that angered some in the party, he found himself in a tough Senate primary battle. Crist decided to run as an independent when the party made it clear he wasn't conservative enough for the shifting base. He lost in a three-way race to Marco Rubio, who took 49 percent of the vote. Crist is now challenging the incumbent governor.
Now, in full disclosure, I'm a Republican and a former legislator. I personally know both men, I have served with both men and I have voted for both men. I have opinions of their strengths and weaknesses.
My purpose is not to take sides but rather to question the wisdom of the current GOP strategy.
Let's look at a few fundamentals.
People generally join a party because they share a common ideology with that party. That doesn't mean they agree with every position, but for the most part they agree with the general philosophy. When you run for a major office under that party, you are expected to toe the party line on its defining issues. For many years, Crist did so and was considered a conservative in good standing.
Over the past few election cycles, party activists moved the Republican Party further to the right and became less tolerant. Candidates that didn't show complete party loyalty were made to feel unwelcome. This change in the party has purposely made it more pure but at the expense of alienating long-time party members who were chastised for being moderates or RINOs (Republicans In Name Only).
Then-Republican Gov. Crist tried to move the party toward the center-right and to work in a bipartisan manner. While many conservatives decried his policies, legislative leaders continued to sing his praises as long as he was the governor. Were they, in fact, being opportunistic?
Crist, once a darling of the Republican Party, ran with its blessing for numerous positions: the Florida Senate, education commissioner, U.S. Senate, attorney general and governor. Was he an opportunist during those election attempts? No, he was a rising star of the party.
The lesson to be learned here: You can run for numerous offices as long as you don't switch teams. Much like a professional athlete, you might be beloved on Team A but ridiculed and despised on Team B. Switching teams is the ultimate sin, even if you are no longer welcome on your current team.
But the electorate does not want hyper-partisanship and gridlock. Voters are registering "no party affiliation" in record numbers in Florida. Polls are showing a majority of voters want cooperation and compromise. Fewer voters are identifying as far right or far left on the political spectrum. Voters want their elected official to listen to them and to be willing to negotiate on their behalf.
The governor should be in a position of strength. He has the power of incumbency, a huge campaign checkbook and an improving economy. But by sticking to its current strategy, the party apparatus, once under Crist's control, is signaling weakness. The party's nasty attacks show worry. They are also playing into his hands.
Crist is a skilled political campaigner who sees the changing political tides. He threw his hat in the ring because the opportunity presented itself for someone to step in and change the tone of politics. Voters want to replace anger and hatred with "nice."
And no one is going to out-nice Charlie.
Paula Dockery is a syndicated columnist who served in the Florida Legislature for 16 years as a Republican from Lakeland.


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Rivers Edge - Luxury Mountain Home Located Directly on River in Boone
- bedrooms 4
- baths 3½
- sleeps 9
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Rivers Edge Lodge is a luxurious and meticulously crafted mountain style home completed in 2010 and has direct frontage on the pristine Watauga River. This beautiful mountain retreat is located in the exclusive 350 acre gated community of Twin Rivers and is centrally located to all that the High Country has to offer. If your idea of paradise is relaxing beside a tranquil river and unwinding to the calming and restorative sights and sounds of nature, welcome to Rivers Edge.
Unwind inside this impressive and well appointed home, offering 4 bedrooms and 3 ½ baths and sleeping accommodations for 9. Entering the home you will appreciate the elegant and rustic quality with hickory floors, vaulted beamed ceilings, hand crafted wooden trim, 10' ceilings throughout the main floor and featuring a grand wood burning stone fireplace. The remarkable view of the river is apparent directly ahead. The gourmet in your family will enjoy the kitchen, well equipped with granite counters, island with gas stove and stainless steel appliances. Also on this floor is the beautiful dining room which will seat 6-8.
The master bedroom is an en suite and furnished with a king bed, large screen HDTV and an amazing view of the river. Imagine yourself waking in the morning to the sound of the river and that view! Two other well furnished bedrooms are also located on the first floor and both contain very comfortable memory foam mattresses on Queen beds and large screen HDTV's. The children will enjoy their own upstairs retreat, furnished with a full bath, full/twin bunk beds, large screen HDTV and an extensive collection of DVDs to keep them entertained. There is also a large laundry room with washer and dryer directly off of the main living area and 2 car garage, where you can kick off your flip flops, river shoes or snow boots. Consider River's Edge your "home away from home", but stay connected with the available high speed wireless internet service.
Outside the home, activities abound. Take a bike ride or hike through the community's miles of managed trails along the Watauga and Boone Fork Rivers that connect to the Julian Price Park trail system or visit the many attractions in Boone, Banner Elk and Blowing Rock only minutes away from the home. At the end of your day, take a break by the river at the fire pit and roast marshmallows or relax in the 6 person hot tub positioned right outside the back door with a fantastic view of the river. Or just sit and relax on the large, fully furnished back deck while the cook grills on the outdoor grill.
The Twin Rivers Community is conveniently located off Hwy. 105 in Foscoe, N.C. within minutes of the many activities the High Country has to offer, from hiking the Profile Trail to Shopping in Blowing Rock to a day at Grandfather Mountain or Tweestsie Railroad or a leisurely drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway, just to name a few…. Centrally located 10 minutes from Boone, Banner Elk and Blowing Rock, your dining options are limitless while staying at Rivers Edge or just stay home and roast hot dogs over the stone fire pit and listen to the tranquil sounds of the river. For winter months, Sugar, Beech and Appalachian Mountains are all within 10-15 minutes for skiing, tubing or snowboarding.
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Jan. 7, 2013 thru March 5, 2013 Weekly $1900 Nightly $350 2 Night Min
March 6, 2013 thru May 31, 2013 Weekly $1800 Nightly $325 2 Night Min.
June 1, 2013 thru Sept. 3, 2013 Weekly $2200 Nightly $350 6 Night Min.
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Sept. 26, 2013 thru Nov. 5, 2013 Weekly $2100 Nightly $350 3 Night Min.
Nov. 6, 2013 thru Nov. 21, 2013 Weekly $1800 Nightly $325 2 Night Min.
Nov. 22, 2012 thru Dec. 1, 2013 Weekly $2950 Nightly $450 6 Night Min.
Dec. 2, 2013 thru Dec. 13, 2013 Weekly $1800 Nightly $325 2 Night Min.
Dec. 14, 2013 thru Jan. 6, 2014 Weekly $2950 Nightly $450 6 Night Min.
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I would go look at the trailer.
Consider that you may want to haul tractors and pieces of equipment heavier than one Cub.
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Re: New cub hauling trailer
I would go look at the trailer.
Consider that you may want to haul tractors and pieces of equipment heavier than one Cub.
I have an excuse. CRS.
Re: New cub hauling trailer
Trailer will have to wait. Found another cub for about the same money.
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First things FIRST
You certainly have the fever, Dale.
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Most have no clue Denny. Because every cub I get or own is for sale, (except Jan's) I am not allowed to post any pictures anywhere on the forum except in the for sale section. None of me working on them, non of them on the trip home, not in the cub pride section. None of the loads of implements ect. like everyone else does, because they will eventually be for sale.
I am told, that is unfair advertising to the site sponsors and was told to cease and desist.
Only those that know me best, know that I save or rescue about 10 a year for the last 7 years. In my TN math, that is about 70 cubs. I don't have a place to keep that many, so there are never more that 3 or 4 here at a time. the rest must be sold as workers locally or as parts.
So I just keep going on as I have, giving the best advice I can to the forum, working mostly locally and when i can, attend cubfests and swap meets, providing the used parts so many of these old little red tractors need.
I do not get much shop time at cubfests to help others, because of the parts, so most get the impression I don't like to help, or don't know what I am doing. This is the furthest from the truth. Here locally i fix cubs for free all the time, I just normally don't brag about it.
Re: New cub hauling trailer
Dale, I enjoyed seeing you again last week-end. I too, am on the look-out for a larger trailer. I currently use a 5' X10' single axle, which is fine for my Cub, but I want to get a double-axle one which is large enough to tow the tractor and my golf cart. The cart is for my wife, who cannot stand or walk for any significant period of time. I believe that I can just get by with a 16' at a bare minimum, but 18' would be better. The problem is that the 18' ones that I have seen are all at least 83" wide, and I prefer the width of the 16' which I can get with 77". So, I continue to look...Stanley
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Re: New cub hauling trailer
Stanley, the 21' er i have been using is just shy of 6'wide and that is pleanty. I am needing to invest in a new brake system for it, and that gets pricey, but it is by far the best I have had.
I may have to sell it like it is to get an 18 like you are looking for. The width you were talking about would make up for the loss of leangth for me.
Re: New cub hauling trailer
As you stated Dale, since every cub you buy is for sale, it is improper to tell all about them or put pictures in the main forum since it is pretty much trying to raise interest for the sale, just as if I bought one intending to sell it or part it out would be wrong to do that, and my comments and pictures should be reserved for the For Sale forum. Those who are contributing advertisers (PCAs) are allowed to post what they have bought and may be selling in the main forum so long as they do not post the actual for sale listing there. That is one of the privileges they pay for.
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Re: New cub hauling trailer
Well thank you John. I was not made aware of that, once the PCS forum went into effect. I will tastefully start posting again.
Re: New cub hauling trailer
I think I'd pass on that one.
I've never met a tractor I didn't like....but I have found some that were greatly annoying....
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Glitter and Be Gay? Addressing the LGBT Influence in Fashion-------
As industries go, fashion may be the least closeted there is: No one can deny the massive impact made by men and women who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered in the history of fashion and costume. Fashion historian Valerie Steele addresses the contributions made by LGBT people in a new exhibition, A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk, opening this week at the Museum at F.I.T. It includes pieces ranging from designs by Jean Paul Gaultier and Gianni Versace to Edwardian suits and nineteenth-century finery; clothing made by gays and for gays; as well as those items and styles co-opted and fetishized by gay audiences, and from gay audiences. (See, for example, Versace's adaptation of leather fetish regalia into his women's haute couture.)
As the exhibition makes clear—not that it wasn't out, as it were, already—the gay contribution to fashion is beyond doubt. The question that's much harder to answer is why. Shortly after the show was announced last year, I sat down with Steele, who co-curated the exhibit with Fred Dennis, to try to tease out the curious correlation and connection between gayness, politics, fashion, and style.
It goes without saying—but let's say it—that many, many fashion designers and professionals are gay. Is gayness fashion's default position?
I don't know if it's the default position, because there are heterosexual men, and there are women of all different sexualities, straight, gay, and bi, in fashion—though fewer of them have come out than gay men. But I think it's not just a stereotype to say that there's a lot of interest in fashion and style among a lot of gay men. What we're interested in doing with Queer History is, if you can get beyond saying it's just a stereotype, maybe you can start exploring why it might be the case that there's this interest in fashion and style. You're not pathologizing it; for one thing, most people like fashion now. You could explore, is there a kind of gay sensibility that would be drawn to issues of style and fashion?
And is there?
We tend to think yes. But we think there's not one gay aesthetic, but at least a couple of different gay aesthetics. Several, probably: One that would tend to be more idealizing, and the other that would be more disruptive and gender-fuck.
But that idealizing aesthetic could be a kind of misogyny, no? You have male designers creating designs for women's bodies that aren't necessarily forgiving, or even possible…
If you go online, this is the vox pop: Do gay men hate women? You saw that [first] in the fifties, when you had all these very homophobic commentators, like the psychiatrist Bergler, who said that gay men hate women and therefore they make weird clothes for them to wear. But the point is, gay men have made all different types of clothes. It's not just that they like girls to look like teenage boys, or they like girls to look like a caricature of women. It's all different styles. And you find that straight men and women of different sexual persuasions also doing those, too. It's much more related to their individual aesthetic and their time period than it is to their sexual orientations. So I think you have to confront that. Some people who don't like fashion are going to say that it's gay men making things for putatively straight women. But I think you can't be held back by homophobic complaints. I think it's more important to try and explore where things might lead you and not be constrained by irrational homophobia—and irrational fashion phobia, too.
Which go hand in hand.
Which often do go hand in hand.
Where does this connection between gay men and fashion come from?
I think it's partly a kind of self-selection early on that gay boys, maybe before they know they're gay, are interested often in artistic pursuits. "Artistic" was always a kind of euphemism for being gay. Lots of gay people talk about, "When I was four, I was telling my mother how to dress. When I was four, I was doing elaborate drawings of ladies' costumes." That's before you have much of a sexual identity, but there's already possibly something there that's attractive about artistic and transformative fields like fashion. Fashion is about artifice and transformation and fantasy and a certain idea of beauty. I think it's intrinsically very appealing to a lot of people, and it may just be that, at least in certain cultures—and there's been so little cross-cultural work done, it's hard to tell—that may be something that's part of a gay male sensibility. Continue Reading "Glitter and Be Gay? Addressing the LGBT Influence in Fashion" »


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We were also struck by the enormous variety of events we covered. (Seriously, I think everyone in Philadelphia used the phrase "you're everywhere" at least once.) There was also an emotional spectrum that ranged from the grief of candlelight vigils to the excitement of successful candidates to photos that are lighter and cuter than in previous years. Take for instance ...
1. Out, proud heroes (Oct. 12-18)
Members of the Philadelphia Freedom Band took it upon themselves at OutFest to not only entertain, but to counter-annoy the living crap out of those annoying, self-righteous haters who bullhorn their way through the fun every year. If there were an award for the person or group who best embodied the spirit of pride, unity and joy, the Freedom Band would be my nominee.
2. Music and mischief (Aug. 31-Sept. 6)
There are a few events every year that we look forward to more than others. One of those is the annual Gay Community Night at Citizens Bank Park. This year the Philadelphia Gay Men's Chorus was again tapped for the National Anthem and the Phanatic came by for vocal warm-ups. He didn't really help any with the music, but his silliness left the PGMC delighted.
3. The kiss (June 15-21)
Sorry, Klimp, but that's the best name for this favorite. PGN's coverage of engagements and marriage announcements increased in 2012 and this happy, simple kiss does the collection of celebrants nicely.
4. Aftermath (Nov. 2-8)
While everyone else was hunkered down (with the exception of a few bartenders and patrons), we went out to see what was going on as Sandy roared through the area. The rainbow flag at City Hall took a hit and we were able to rescue it before it blew or walked away. We also learned some things about the flag from its owner and caretaker, Gloria Casarez. Glad to be part of the flag's history for LGBT History Month!
5. Best two out of three (Nov. 16-22)
Over the years, Jen Colletta and I have been like Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen covering stories together. Now she sits in the big chair and lets me have some fun with photos and not just take pictures of people standing together. Outgoing longtime owner Rick Piper and longtime manager and incoming owner Frank Baer were happy to play along and pose for us in this shot, but wanted it made clear that the ownership change was amiable, not a wrestling match.
6. Until this epidemic is over (Sept. 21-27)
BINGO players, led by Carlotta Ttendant, take the pledge at the beginning of the 16th year of Gay BINGO in this colorful and poignant photo. Pause and reflect.
7. Scene in Philly (Feb. 17-23)
We've never put a Scene in Philly page in the favorite-photos list because, quite frankly, with 52 to choose from and what with OutFest, Pride, QFest and such, there's usually not just one that's a favorite. This year there is. Going around to restaurants on Valentine's Day resulted in something completely different: Five couples and their number of Valentine's Days together.
8. No peeking! (Aug. 31-Sept. 6)
Philly. Naked people. Bikes. 'Nuf said, actually, but we're quite pleased that the annual Philly Naked Bike Ride every year raises safety awareness among motorists and cyclists alike. And sometimes a panorama tells the story better than any single shot.
9. On the non-campaign trail (Nov. 9-15)
Former Gov. Ed Rendell did another bar crawl this year, but it was on the street where he got the most squeals, screams and smiles. We love Ed. And we love bars. Not so much the crawling.
10. In loving memory (Nov. 23-29)
Time and lives frequently get away from us and, as each year passes and another starts, we should ponder that more. This photo of my friend Eddie Long was taken a couple years ago at The Woods Campground and, while it may seem unusual that a photo like this be used as a memorial, we choose to remember people as they were, and this was Eddie. This photo is for all those we lost this year and a reminder for us to cherish those we care about just a little more in the next year.


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10:20am Sunday 23rd March 2014 in News
SOME Redditch, Bromsgrove and Droitwich schools will be closed or partially closed on Wednesday, (March 26), when teachers walk out on strike.
The one day strike involves members of the National Union for Teachers (NUT).
Among the schools closing for the day are Aston Fields Middle School, Catshill First School and Nursery, Catshill Middle School, Chaddesley Corbett Endowed Primary School, and Walkwood CE Middle School.
Several schools are expected to be only partially closed during the walkout.
In Redditch, Beech Class at Abbeywood First School is to be closed all day to pupils while its Maple Class will close at 1pm.
Only Class 11, year four, is to be affected at Crown Meadow First School and Nursery.
Ridgeway Middle School is set to close to youngsters in year five, seven and eight, although year six will be open as normal.
At Westacre Middle School, in Droitwich, classes are to close to all year seven children and selected classes in year five.
South Bromsgrove High School will open to all year groups, except year nine, while Rigby Hall School will open only to primary and 4GMY pupils.
Parents can view updates to school closures by visiting Worcestershire County Council's website - worcestershire.gov.uk.
The strike action was announced over teachers' concerns about pay, pensions, jobs and workload.
The NUT says teachers are demoralised and face unacceptably long working hours and the prospect of having to pay more into pensions and work for longer to receive them.
Last month, Christine Blower, NUT's general secretary, said: "Two in five teachers are leaving the profession within five years due to intolerable workload pressures, performance related pay, increased pensions contributions and working until 68.
"Our concerns have to be addressed if a crisis in teacher supply is to be avoided."
Another teaching union, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), pulled out of the strike.
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WV Secretary Of State Mistakes Cost Taxpayers $200,000 With More Bills Possible
September 25, 2012
West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant's election opponent said a missed deadline for notifying voters of a proposed constitutional amendment is just the latest in series of mistakes and bad decisions by the Democratic incumbent.
"It's just another example of the lack of leadership, lack of knowing the constitution, lack of knowing the rules," Republican Secretary of State candidate Brian Savilla said. "It's a simple date."
In a new release, the state GOP detailed what it said are Tennant's missteps. They include a primary election ballot error involving the number of Republican delegates, which carried with it a more than $200,000 price tag to fix.
The GOP also said Tennant has been on the losing end of several court decisions that cost the state money to defend.
However, Tennant said allegations that she is incompetent are untrue.
"He probably would say something to that matter," Tennant said. "When you are six weeks away from an election and your opponent has nothing to show for what he's done as his term as an elected official, you're going to point out."
Tennant freely acknowledges that her office erred in both the primary and general election ballot issues. But she maintains that there is plenty of information about the proposed constitutional amendment readily available.
"There have been mistakes made by my office and me, but we have also moved mountains at the same time," Tennant said.
Savilla said what makes the situation worse is "now she acts like it's no big deal. I mean, the constitution is kind of a big deal. So we need to have somebody in there who is going to follow that, actually have a calendar, and, crazy thought, actually look at that calendar."
It remains to be seen if the secretary of state's missed deadline on the notification of a constitutional amendment will cost taxpayers additional dollars.
Most observers say a court challenge is only expected if the measure eliminating term limits for West Virginia sheriffs passes. Even then, it's not a sure thing that someone would file a lawsuit to overturn the election result on the notification technicality.
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When it first began, many, many years ago, The Playlist covered film in general, but with a particular focus on the places where movies intersected with music -- scores, soundtracks, music videos et al. And while our remit has grown over time, it's still something we take a particular interest in. After all, it's hard to think of major movies in which music doesn't play a key part, from a piece of score elevating a key sequence to a pop song that becomes inextricably linked with a film until the end of time.
And 2012 has been no exception, with a host of movies that have used songs and music to hugely impressive effect, from grand-scale musicals to contained dance sequences to memorable montages to movie-stealing karaoke numbers. So, to kick-off our year-end coverage, we've picked out some of our favorite movie music moments of the year. The only rule was that they had to be intrinsic parts of the film -- closing credit numbers (like Arcade Fire's stomping "Abraham's Daughter" at the end of "The Hunger Games") or cuts-used-in-passing (like the cunning-but-brief use of The Walkmen's "Angela Surf City" in "Seven Psychopaths") didn't count. You can find, and watch/hear, our picks below, let us know your own favorites in the comments section below. For all The Playlist's year-end coverage make sure to follow all our Best Of 2012 features.
Yorgos Lanthimos' follow-up to the absurdist and dark "Dogtooth" is similarly bizarre. This askew look at human relationships centers on a secret society that sets out to ease the grieving process by creating a business wherein they impersonate the recently deceased in an effort to help soften the suffering of loved ones. It's a bit difficult to explain, but one of the members of the "Alps" is a teenage gymnast, and one of the main points of contention in the film is that her coach won't let her do her floor routines to pop music -- classical music only. It's such a divisive issue, that the girl eventually attempts suicide. In the end however, the coach caves and she gets the opportunity to do her gymnastics floor routine to a cheerful and corny techno-version of Hot Butter's '70s Music to Moog By hit "Popcorn." It's a celebratory moment and it's likely not going to mean much to anyone who hasn't seen the film, but for those that have, it's a terrific cap to this odd little gem of a movie.
The ball scene is something of a staple of the costume drama world, and Joe Wright managed a couple of fairly definitive takes on the trope in his debut, "Pride & Prejudice," using a Steadicam to glide between participants in immaculately choreographed long takes (we discussed it in detail right here). Reteaming for the third time with Keira Knightley in "Anna Karenina" he manages to top himself with the amazing centerpiece scene. Demonstrating the title character falling in love with the much younger Count Vronsky with barely a word being spoken between them, the pair head off to the tune of composer Dario Marianelli's lovely "Dance With Me," their waltzing accompanied by strange, beguiling hand movements courtesy of choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. As they move, the others dancers first freeze around them, then, in one bravura shot, disappear altogether. It's sexy and convincing stuff -- not least to Kitty, who loves Vronsky, and is helpless to watch her man being stolen away as she dances with another partner. The whole thing is one long, hugely accomplished set piece, but you can see a truncated glimpse of it below.
The combination of Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin, composer and composer/director is a deadly one that should not be slept on. Their passionate, anthemic and melancholy-tinged scores are akin to the symphonic swells, childhood pains and bittersweet aches channeled by Arcade Fire. Romer and Zeitlin's compositions have the same heartrending trajectory of hope, sadness and fervent emotion, so much so that the Obama campaign used one of their songs from the director's short "Glory At Sea" for one of their key commercials in the last week of their 2008 campaign. And so everything that is wonderful about their work is alive, magnetic and present in the magical and muddy fairytale "Beasts of The Southern Wild." There's plenty of score pieces in the film that are wistful, beautiful and filled with longing, but perhaps none is so great as the motif theme, perhaps represented well by "The Confrontation," that reaches its stunning crescendo in the final moments of the film and the score piece "Once There Was A Hushpuppy." The film's precocious lead Hushpuppy's father has sadly passed on and the young girl gives her little voice-over monologue about perseverance, survival, hope and community. The lugubrious music rises, your emotions tremble and much like the spirit of hopeful New Orleans funerals, this lament bursts into an apex of tremendous joy and celebration. Suffice to say it made many of us literally burst into tears the moment we experienced it.
This little seen indie film features some of the most charmingly quirky original tunes to be found in film in 2012, and they were played live by the actors live on set. Take THAT, "Les Mis"! Yes, they are playing that guitar and those toy keyboards driving in the car, which makes this winning scene even more remarkable. After the depressed Alex decides to go on the road with the unhinged Jim (for lack of anything else to do), these two misanthropes find a real creative connection in pairing Alex's somber and sensitive lyrics and guitar with Jim's mastery of a collection of toy instruments, resulting in a unique sound that manages to be not overly twee, but instead one of those chocolate and peanut butter combinations: it just goes right together. The scene in the too small car when they finally play together, just hours before their first gig, is the first of many truly inspired musical moments in the film, and their distinctive sound becomes an integral part of the film's emotional and stylistic aesthetic. It's also one of the first times we get to see Alex experience something like happiness, as he sets off on this unknown adventure with a possible lunatic, but a friendly one at that. Lead actors Ryan O'Nan and Michael Weston actually released an album of the self-described "The Shins meet Sesame Street" songs, written mostly by quadruple threat writer/director/star O'Nan, in addition to the film's soundtrack, and played a few live shows promoting the film. Hopefully we'll see more from them soon.
Rick Alverson's disturbing and hilarious mediation on the male psyche -- in the form of an aging hipster played by Tim Heidecker -- is an unflinching look at damaged manchilds. And the tasteful collection of mystical soul and bittersweet pop -- described as the "autumn of the American Era" by the filmmaker -- is a strange and wonderful elixir for this provocative picture. There's two phenomenal sequences. The first is Donnie and Joe Emerson's amateurishly sweet and soulful "Baby" which plays as the arrested 30-something in the picture are introduced in slow-motion-- drunkenly dancing half naked and wrestling in a tribal-like ritual. With sweaty guts keeling over and beer splashing the walls it's an amazing/beautiful/ridiculous expression of their hyper and acute juvenalia. The second sequence, is these men, free of the obligations of jobs and responsibility pissing away the day drinking beers and playing wiffle ball in the park. The montage is cut to a forlorn ambient track by William Basinski and its stunning, wonderful genius, conveying both a carefree like wonder and an underbelly of sadness. Rarely is source music used very effectively in movies these days, let alone atypically and Alverson is one to keep an eye on, at the very least for his amazing and unusual command of picking the perfect left-of-center track.
While the music in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" is the best its been in years, there's not really a "music moment" per se like David Bowie's "Cat People" in "Inglourious Basterds" or "Stuck In The Middle With You" in "Reservoir Dogs," but we'd be remiss if we didn't mention there were a few pretty standouts. Aside from the excellent borrowed title theme (which is not really a moment, just a tremendous song), most of the memorable song moments are contemporary -- a first for Tarantino. He goes super anachronistic with Rick Ross' spaghetti-western flecked hip-hop song "1000 Corpses" and the song is terrific and while the scene is a brief transition moment, it's pretty badass and fitting. Meanwhile, a soulful John Legend ballad is great too, and Tupac rapping over James Brown in the action crescendo is kinda neat as well. And it looks like QT's selections outside his well worn vinyl collection of Ennio Morricone soundtracks has served him well this time out.
Trina Logan | July 28, 2013 3:00 AM
I agree with this list of songs from awesome movies completely!
Matt Lohr | December 14, 2012 2:40 PM
I can't think of a musical moment in film this year that surprised me more than Tenpole Tudor's "Swords of 1000 Men" amping up the opening of "The Pirates! Band of Misfits." It immediately put a smile on my face that didn't leave until the movie was over.
EasySeamus | December 13, 2012 8:05 PM
Playground scene in The Comedy is incredible. Never experienced the emotions of ridicule and nostalgia sandwiched together, let alone so well. heatbreaking stuff
Bryan | December 13, 2012 4:54 PM
I watch those scenes from Take This Waltz over and over again. My two favorite scenes of the year. Thanks for the list.
lora | December 13, 2012 9:53 AM
I like the music part in Rust and Bone
ska-triumph | December 12, 2012 4:24 PM
Good list - juicy. But, hey, how no WHERE DO WE GO NOW?
Mike | December 12, 2012 10:48 AM
So is it Marianellis or Desplat's score used in the dancing scene in Anna Karenina? All I know is Marianelli is the music composer for the whole film.
Ronnie D. | December 11, 2012 4:44 PM
Kylie Minoque's song, and her whole part in general, were literally the worst part of Holy Motors.
Arjuna | December 11, 2012 10:03 AM
And that's Johnny not Jinny (looks up to the heavens where Johnny is playing guitar somewhere...my deepest apologies, sir). Seriously, Playlist...re-write your list please and include Silver Linings Playbook which feature the songs of Led Zeppelin as well as Dylan & Cash...thank you.
Arjuna | December 11, 2012 9:58 AM
The scene in Silver Linings Playbook where Led Zeppelin's "What Is and What Should Never Be" (incredible scene) as well as Bob Dylan and Jihnny Cash's "Girl from the North Country" (quite possibly one of the most beautiful songs EVER written) need to be included....c'mon, guys.
Claude | December 10, 2012 10:11 PM
Why nothing from Joseph Kahn's brilliant slice of pop-culture satire, "Detention"? The use of "MMMBop" as an instrumental piece, and later as a dance number was great. Or the twenty year long detention set to a montage of songs that fit with the trends we see was genius. Or even "Field Of Gold" sung by Toby T.! A vastly underrated gem of a movie with a vibrant soundtrack.
Monica | December 10, 2012 8:20 PM
I love the Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best
justin | December 10, 2012 5:04 PM
i am confused. why are you hating so bad on skyfall, oliver, when in your own review (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/review-sam-mendes-007-film-skyfall-sees-james-bond-back-to-his-best-20121012) you praised a return to form. you didn't call the film perfect but you didn't call it a disappointment.
what's up with this? you're starting to flip flop on your own reviews on this website.
Christian | December 10, 2012 4:47 PM
How do you not include What Is And Should Never Be in The Silver Lingings Playbook. Or anything from that movie?
LO | December 10, 2012 4:34 PM
Where (the hell) is Laurence Anyways??
jack | December 10, 2012 3:41 PM
Hace tuto guagua- Argo: Mendez returning home after saving the hostages to his son. Lying in bed with him, as we see the storyboard.
Why Do We Fall-Dark Knight Rises: Bruce climbing out of the pit.
Feelin' Alright: Flight: Denzel hitting that line of cocaine
Ladies of Tampa-Magic Mike: McConegheny serenading the crowd, as Tatum decides to leave
bill | December 10, 2012 3:35 PM
god beasts score is beautiful
S | December 10, 2012 3:33 PM
Nate | December 10, 2012 3:30 PM
"The Man Comes Around" in KILLING THEM SOFTLY was fucking awesome! Amiright?


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Herman Cain has spent his life living and working all over the country -- Indiana, Georgia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Washington, D.C. -- but never in Chicago.
So it's curious that all the sexual harassment allegations against Cain emanate from Chicago: home of the Daley machine and Obama consigliere David Axelrod.
Suspicions had already fallen on Sheila O'Grady, who is close with David Axelrod and went straight from being former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley's chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA), as being the person who dug up Herman Cain's personnel records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA).
The Daley-controlled IRA works hand-in-glove with the NRA. And strangely enough, Cain's short, three-year tenure at the NRA is evidently the only period in his decades-long career during which he's alleged to have been a sexual predator.
After O'Grady's name surfaced in connection with the miraculous appearance of Cain's personnel files from the NRA, she issued a Clintonesque denial of any involvement in producing them -- by vigorously denying that she knew Cain when he was at the NRA. (Duh.)
And now, after a week of conservative eye-rolling over unspecified, anonymous accusations against Cain, we've suddenly got very specific sexual assault allegations from an all-new accuser out of ... Chicago.
Herman Cain has never lived in Chicago. But you know who has? David Axelrod! And guess who lived in Axelrod's very building? Right again: Cain's latest accuser, Sharon Bialek.
Bialek's accusations were certainly specific. But they also demonstrated why anonymous accusations are worthless.
Within 24 hours of Bialek's press conference, friends and acquaintances of hers stepped forward to say that she's a "gold-digger," that she was constantly in financial trouble -- having filed for personal bankruptcy twice -- and, of course, that she had lived in Axelrod's apartment building at 505 North Lake Shore Drive, where, she admits, she knew the man The New York Times calls Obama's "hired muscle."
Throw in some federal tax evasion, and she's Obama's next Cabinet pick.
The reason all this is relevant is that both Axelrod and Daley have a history of smearing political opponents by digging up claims of sexual misconduct against them.
John Brooks, Chicago's former fire commissioner, filed a lawsuit against Daley six months ago claiming Daley threatened to smear him with sexual harassment accusations if Brooks didn't resign. He resigned -- and the sexual harassment allegations were later found to be completely false.
Meanwhile, as extensively detailed in my book "Guilty: Liberal 'Victims' and Their Assault on America," the only reason Obama became a U.S. senator -- allowing him to run for president -- is that David Axelrod pulled sealed divorce records out of a hat, first, against Obama's Democratic primary opponent, and then against Obama's Republican opponent.
One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was way down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader.
But then The Chicago Tribune -- where Axelrod used to work -- began publishing claims that Hull's second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.
From then until Election Day, Hull was embroiled in fighting the allegation that he was a "wife beater." He and his ex-wife eventually agreed to release their sealed divorce records. His first ex-wife, daughters and nanny defended him at a press conference, swearing he was never violent. During a Democratic debate, Hull was forced to explain that his wife kicked him and he had merely kicked her back.
Hull's substantial lead just a month before the primary collapsed with the nonstop media attention to his divorce records. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.
Luckily for Axelrod, Obama's opponent in the general election had also been divorced.
The Republican nominee was Jack Ryan, a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard law and business schools, who had left his lucrative partnership at Goldman Sachs to teach at an inner-city school on the South Side of Chicago.
But in a child custody dispute some years earlier, Ryan's ex-wife, Hollywood sex kitten Jeri Lynn Ryan, had alleged that, while the couple was married, Jack had taken her to swingers clubs in Paris and New York.
Jack Ryan adamantly denied the allegations. In the interest of protecting their son, he also requested that the records be put permanently under seal.
Axelrod's courthouse moles obtained the "sealed" records and, in no time, they were in the hands of every political operative in Chicago. Knowing perfectly well what was in the records, Chicago Tribune attorneys flew to California and requested that the court officially "unseal" them -- over the objections of both Jack and Jeri Ryan.
Your honor, who knows what could be in these records!
A California judge ordered them unsealed, which allowed newspapers to publish the salacious allegations, and four days later, Ryan dropped out of the race under pressure from idiot Republicans (who should be tracked down and shot).
With a last-minute replacement of Alan Keyes as Obama's Republican opponent, Obama was able to set an all-time record in an Illinois Senate election, winning with a 43 percent margin.
And that's how Obama became a senator four years after losing a congressional race to Bobby Rush. (In a disastrous turn of events, Rush was not divorced.)
Axelrod destroyed the only two men who stood between Obama and the Senate with illicitly obtained, lurid allegations from their pasts.
In 2007, long after Obama was safely ensconced in the U.S. Senate, The New York Times reported: "The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece (on Hull's sealed divorce records) later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had 'worked aggressively behind the scenes' to push the story."
Some had suggested, the Times article continued, that Axelrod had "an even more significant role -- that he leaked the initial story."
This time, Obama's little helpers have not only thrown a bomb into the Republican primary, but are hoping to destroy the man who deprives the Democrats of their only argument in 2012: If you oppose Obama, you must be a racist.
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Obama always played dirty politics in elections . .
Submitted by Gary Hall on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 3:11pm.
. . right from his first "stolen" effort. A very good read, indeed:
I imagine that most everyone in the national media read these stories, clearly understood the implications on his 2008 election chances -- if they became known by the national electorate -- and so, they were very deliberately never mentioned again.
Now. If a liberal journalist/pundit wrote such a piece on a similar scandal involving Republicans, we could expect to see that journalist/pundit on most every national media outlet in the land, being fawned over and enticed to spill all the beans for the broad public to see.
Great work Ann.
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Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 4:21pm.
is so very sad and pathetic that people? like Axelrod and his cronies go to such hate and filth to get attention for their political agendas. I find it hard to believe that there are not some lawsuits against these thugs and bring them to the gutter where they belong. Great article Ann!!!
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Finally an explanation that makes sense!
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 8:04pm.
Start the money trace. It will probably lead back to Rezko.
"Because the Only Good Progressive is a Failed Progressive"
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"idiot Republicans (who should be tracked down and shot)."
Submitted by Newsbubba on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 11:19am.
Oooooooooooooh, Ann! There goes your Concealed Carry Permit, girl!
But I love the way you think!
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"My family loves avocados, and this delicious salad is perfect on days you don't want to spend a lot of time cooking," writes Vicki Smith of Okeechobee, Florida. "Served with soup and bread it makes a tasty meal anytime."
- 2 packages (3 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon celery seed
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 can (6 ounces) tuna, drained and flaked
- 3 medium ripe avocados
- In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese and mayonnaise until well blended. Add the onion, lemon juice, celery seed and pepper. Stir in the tuna. Cut avocados in half lengthwise; remove pits. Spoon tuna salad into avocado halves. Serve immediately. Yield: 3 servings.
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Lazy Lehua Cottage ~ Whimsical & Charming ~ Volcano Retreat in Volcano
- bedrooms 1
- baths 2
- sleeps 4
- pool no
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Cottage
- community Volcano
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$ 600 - $ 600 / week
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Serenity and adventure both await you at this charming and whimsical
cottage, volcano retreat, nestled on a half acre of
beautiful rainforest. Lazy Lehua Cottage is ideal for quiet or
adventurous couples, small families,
honeymooners, artists, poets, musicians, authors. If it's serenity
you need, or adventure you
crave, Lazy Lehua Cottage is the perfect place. The native birds
will serenade you while you drink
your early morning tea or coffee. Float suspended in a hammock chair
on one of the 3 lanai's while
gazing out to the abundant rainforest that hosts gigantic Hapu'u
ferns, magnificent Lehua flowering
Ohia trees, and aromatic ginger. Lazy Lehua Cottage is located 1
mile from Volcano Village where
restaurants, galleries, a winery, golf course can all be found.
World Famous Hawaii Volcano
National Park is 2 miles away, a must for your trip to the Big
The Big Island offers many unforgettable experiences. In Hawaii
Volcano National Park, you can walk
through a giant lava tube, hike through unforgettable rainforests,
steaming craters, or see what
Pu'u O'o is creating today; one of the only place's in the world you
will experience new land being
created. Check out Punalu�u beach, where sea turtles rest and lay
their eggs in the beautiful black
sand, a 30 minute drive. Visit old historic town Hilo, only 30
minutes away. Walk through the
beautiful Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens, or to hike to the many
waterfalls. If your travels
take you to the South East part of the Big Island to walk on newly
made land near Kaimu; check out
the banana splits at Kalapana Cafe where the road ends in Kaimu on
hwy 137. A short jog down hwy
137, snorkel and soak in the naturally heated Kapoho tide pools,
breathe the most pristine air in
the world, check out Champagne Pond, another 10 miles east of
Kalapana, a beautiful and scenic
Awaiting you when you get back to the Lazy Lehua Cottage, your home
away from home, is a serene
cottage for you to catch your breath and rejuvenate. Soak your sore
muscles in our 2 person master
bedroom Jacuzzi tub, over looking the beautiful rainforest just
outside your window. Exactly what
you need after your day of exploration on the Big Island. You'll be
rejuvenated and ready for more
Lazy Lehua Cottage was lovingly built between 2003- 2004. The idea
for Lazy Lehua Cottage was to
make it a special place for guests to stay, dream, and regroup. Focus
was on putting as much
character, charm and soul in to it, and making it a whimsical,
beautiful place for everyone to
enjoy. Trees were hand cut and property cleared only enough to put
the Lazy Lehua Cottage in its
perfect place. The beautiful Ohia trees that unfortunately had to be
cut down were used for the
posts on the lanais giving it, its whimsical cottage look that blends
in well with the forest. In
keeping in the spirit of whimsical, some of the furniture throughout
the cottage was hand crafted;
coffee table, bar top, headboard on bed, using all local, exotic, and
native woods. We know you'll
feel the magical spirit of the house when you stay here. Enjoy -
Lazy Lehua Cottage.
cottage rental amenities
Fully equipped kitchen.
2 Propane fireplaces
All bed and bath linens provided.
Jacuzzi Tub in master suite
TV with cable, DVD & VCR player, CD player, selection of dvd's,
videos, and cd's, variety of books in our small library.
Wireless Internet, Telephone local and free long distance avail.
Private Basketball & hoop
Hairdyer, shampoo/conditioner, soaps, bubble bath.
Complimentary: Kona Coffee (you're in Hawaii, we think you deserve
the best coffee!), hot cocoa, teas, microwave popcorn, fresh local
fruits, and lots of fresh tropical flowers throughout cottage!
activities and attractions in Volcano The Big Island
Hiking, Lava flow, and Steam vent viewing at Volcanoes National Park,
will only be one of the many
highlights of your trip. Mountain biking, hiking, golf, bird
watching, kayaking, shopping,
restaurants, galleries, wine tasting at Volcano Winery, the best
Sunday farmers market on the
island, and live theater (seasonal)...all within just 2 miles of our
cottage! Surfing, swimming,
diving/snorkeling, turtle watching, are all within a 30 minute drive.
vacation rental rates
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$100/nt. 3+ nt. stay + cleaning fee.
$129/nt. 2 nt. stay + cleaning fee
$60 cleaning fee (1-2 guests)
$80 cleaning fee (3-4 guests)
50% deposit is required upon booking.
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After two weeks of playing with Python I feel finally that developing a Symbian app is easy. Being a C/Java programmer/teacher I must confess Python is really a wonderful and powerful language and it invites people to program. Finally, no rss, mmp, buggy software and inflexible compilers anymore ;-)
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NOBLESVILLE — Bradley K. Neal, 82, of Noblesville, passed away Aug. 13, 2013. He was born July 22, 1931, in Anderson and preceded in death by his parents, J.P. and Mattie Neal, brother O.P. Neal, sister Pauline Riggs.
Brad graduated from Anderson High School in 1949 and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1950-1954. He attended Ball State University from 1954-1958, graduating with a B.S. in Teaching/Business Administration. He taught at Highland High School, worked at GM /Guide Lamp and State Farm Insurance in Indiana and retired from Amoco Oil Company in 1994 after 27 years of service.
During his career he lived in Indiana, Michigan, Florida and Kentucky.
He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Veronica (Roni); son, Timothy Neal (Sandi); granddaughter, Sirie Neal Michaels (Jeffrey), Everett, Wash.; son, Todd Neal, Brooklyn, N.Y.; daughter, Tina Evans (David), The Villages, Fla.; grandson, Grant Gauthier, Hermitage, Tenn.; granddaughter, Taylor Gauthier, Lexington, Ky.; brother, Raymond; and a nephew and nieces, all of Texas.
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Dead or Alive 5 is the first of the franchise to be released without director Tomonobu Itagaki, and Team Ninja has used the creative freedom to bring some much-needed life to a series that had become more of a jiggle simulator than a serious fighting genre competitor. The changes will be welcome to those who are just getting into the series, but long-standing fans may feel like DOA 5 is a step backward.
The Dead or Alive games have always been impressive from a visual standpoint, but they've also always suffered from – or benefited from, depending on who you talk to – a very anime-style aesthetic. Characters had unblemished skin and big, vibrant eyes, with perfectly-parted hair.
Dead or Alive 5 has remodeled the cast and, while they're still nowhere near realistic, it's nice to see little details like pores, flushed cheeks, and hair that's broken up with transparent layers and uneven edges. Team Ninja put extra work into the characters but the environments, which have always been bright and vivid, became a bit too dark and gritty. Instead of the Shinto shrine, red carpet theater, or island of dinosaurs from previous games, Dead or Alive 5 places fights in such locales as the top of an oil rig, in an alleyway, and a boxing ring. There's still the absurd arena or two, but it feels like there's a schism between characters and their location, and arenas get recycled far too often in the Story mode.
The changes from previous installments to Dead or Alive 4 are significant: counters no longer did as much damage, falls couldn't kill you, and the button-masher-friendly controls were refined to focus on smaller input time windows. Dead or Alive 5 doesn't change as much as DOA 4 did, making it feel like refinement of 4's mechanics rather than a full sequel.
You'll still have a button for punches, a button for kicks, a button for throws, and a button for counterattacks, which the game calls holds. It's a rock-paper-scissors triangle of what dominates what, where punches and kicks beat throws, throws beat holds, and holds beat punches and kicks. There are tweaks to combat, such as a decrease in damage from holds and slightly slower animations and, though I preferred the lightning fast bouts of DOA 4 , it's not like the game is plodding along. The troubles come when the game tries to add something new, as the additions feel gimmicky.
The biggest and most noticeable addition is the Power Blow, a sort of equalizer for those on the losing side of a match. When your fighter reaches less than 50% health, you can trigger a Power Blow, which is a charged up attack that, if it connects, automatically lands several hits and then sends your opponent flying. There's a moment as your character finishes the combo where you can aim the final blow, and some stages have certain items in the environment that can only be triggered or hit by a Power Blow.
It sounds good in theory, especially since it affords players an opportunity to make a comeback and thus keep the battle tense, but the move tends to reward bad play instead of good. Power Blows are not as cool or useful as a Hyper Combo from games like Street Fighter, and they don't balance well against a skilled opponent. Since they take so long to charge up, it's easy for a skilled player to take advantage of the opening. It's also very easy for your opponent to learn where the strike will land and how far it can reach so they can avoid or counter it. In all the online matches I played leading up to the review, not a single person used a Power Blow. We'll have to wait and see how popular the move becomes once the game is released to a wider audience and things become more competitive.
The game does a poor job of even telling you what a Power Blow is. If you want to jump into online fights or matches against your buddy on the couch, you won't know. You have to either play through Story or enter Arcade mode to see a list of how to perform them, and only Story mode describes what it does. The Story mode is treated like a tutorial that drags on forever, and although it introduces challenges with every fight that are designed to make you a better player, there's a frustrating lack of clarity in what you must do to win.
For example, when the Story mode has you play as Ryu Hayabusa, it attempts to teach you his special throw. The instructions list how to do it, but you won't know if you're actually pulling it off or what it's supposed to look like unless you go into training to view a demonstration. Likewise, when the game teaches you how to do an advanced hold, it lists the button inputs, but you really want to head into training to get a feel for when in a character's animation you need to press them. It's annoying that the game can't give a visual representation of these challenges before telling you to perform them, and if you want to make sure you're doing it right, you need to back out and go through several menus to practice.
Thankfully, training mode is well fleshed out. There are many options for CPU behavior, including the ability to record a move or combo if you're trying to learn how to counter a certain blow. A HUD can be toggled to show exactly how much damage you're doing and how many frames it takes to perform a move, so the hardcore crowd should be pleased. If you're trying to figure out a character's moves, there's a guided tutorial that challenges you to complete the character's move list, complete with demonstrations if you need them.
A soap opera starring ninjas shouldn't be this boring
In his review of Resident Evil 5, Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw lamented that sequels of that franchise tended to bring "arbitrary game play additions that improved bugger-all and more unresolved plot threads to staple onto an arching storyline that increasingly resembled a colony of octopi going through the woodchipper." I tried to think of a more accurate, succinct way of describing how I felt about Dead or Alive 5, but I really couldn't. The addition of a Story mode in no way improves the series, and in many ways hinders it.
If you haven't been following the series over the past decade and a half, here's a quick run-down: "Dead or Alive" is both the name of the franchise and a worldwide fighting tournament sponsored by mega-corporation DOATEC. A ninja named Kasumi enters the tournament to get revenge on the champion, a ninja named Raidou, for crippling her brother, Hayate, and putting him into a coma. Raidou is the father of Kasumi's half-sister, Ayane, who must now hunt down and kill Kasumi for leaving the village. In the second Dead or Alive, a clone of Kasumi appears, Hayate has lost his memory, and for some reason a troll is now the final fight of the tournament. The third tournament reveals that Ayane's foster father was the one who allowed the troll into the world, and his hunger for power has allowed DOATEC to twist him into the ultimate warrior. The fourth tournament revealed that no, actually it was the clone of Kasumi was the ultimate warrior all along, and DOATEC has been compromised from within by a man named Donovan, who was the bad guy mastermind orchestrating everything from day one.
That's just the main plot, to say nothing of the ancillary characters like the Russian assassin Bayman, the British assassin Christie, the eccentric Zack, or father-daughter wrestling combo of Bass and Tina. And how could we forget those beautiful memories on the beach with some "xtreme" volleyball? With the new looks and "I'm a fighter" ad campaign, Team Ninja had a chance to start from scratch, or to at least streamline the insanity that is the Dead or Alive plot.
Instead, the story suffers from obvious shoehorning of characters who have no impact or relevance to what's going on, and when twists present themselves, they just come across as confusing. There's a difference between a character having ambiguous motives and having confusing motives, but Dead or Alive 5 doesn't recognize it.
I don't subscribe to the "it's a fighting game, the story isn't important" philosophy. The Mortal Kombat reboot brought new game play, refined visuals, and a cohesive story with decent writing and voice acting. There's no reason DOA couldn't do the same. Add in the feeling that the story exists as a tutorial and you wind up with a tedious, boring exercise that doesn't engage or hold attention as it should. The story gets in the way of enjoying Dead or Alive 5 when it should be helping spur enthusiasm.
It's telling that even with the new additions to the roster who are fun to play, redesigned characters that look far better than they ever have, and a tweaked combat system, in the end, the latest entry to the franchise just inspires me to revisit its previous installments.


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"Being in the playoffs is special for me, and a big reason why is because of Philip Rivers. He was my quarterback when I first came into the league, so to be going through all of this with him, it makes it special. To go on the run that we had winning these games, it makes it all that much sweeter. The impact Philip has on our team is unparalleled. He is obviously a leader as far as motivation. He plays at the highest level possible and everyone aspires to play at the level he plays at. He is the cornerstone of our team, and he gives us all a lot of confidence. As a receiver I know the ball is going to be there at the right place at the right time, and no one wants to let him down. He's an emotional, fiery guy who everyone needs to play more like." - Seyi Ajirotutu
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"I remember watching Philip when I was playing at San Diego State, so to be in the playoffs with him now is crazy. I remember having days at State when the Chargers were in the playoffs and to be a part of it now with him, it's crazy. Looking back, I watched him so much when I was in college it's a crazy feeling still to be a part of that huddle with him. What Philip brings is a type of leadership that is rare. He wants to get it done. Especially being the young player I am, seeing how he leads and gets guys going, it's a special thing. That is what really stands out to me." - Vincent Brown
kato_karma3.3 Jan 13, 11:44 a.m.
In that case...
Rick Rivers should be very careful about showing his bee-hind like that on national TV.
PackFanaticInDaHouse Jan 13, 11:43 a.m.
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This thread couldn't go much worse for stalkerkato and hanssack
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This thread couldn't go much worse for stalkerkato and hanssack
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Nope... They're getting sufficiently PWNTV'd!!!
It's been comical watching the #FactSlaps
Rivers is revered... And that reality kills pansy nation.
Which always makes me grin!
KT will not be censored Jan 13, 11:36 a.m.
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Couldn't go much worse for Rick Rivers...
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It could go a lot worse....he could be in TJ Yates' position as a third string.
Mr. Hans Jan 13, 11:22 a.m.
Couldn't go much worse for Rick Rivers...
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Couldn't go much worse for Rick Rivers...
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LOL! Rivers is such a putz. I asked myself how anyone can like someone who constantly talks trash despite an inability to win anything and acts like a 2 year old when things don't go his way, and then it dawned on me... it's the EXACT same thing the lunatic fringe does when it comes to State athletics. Rivers is the perfect quarterback for them.
kato_karma3.3 Jan 13, 11:16 a.m.
Couldn't get much worse for Neck (league bottom-feeder for net yds per pass play & yds per pass thrown)...
kato_karma3.3 Jan 13, 11:10 a.m.
Couldn't go much worse for Rick Rivers...
KT will not be censored Jan 13, 10:33 a.m.
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This thread couldn't go much worse for stalkerkato and hanssack
Dr. PwntV2 Jan 13, 10:27 a.m.
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"We have a good quarterback, and when you have a good quarterback you have a chance to win every game you play. We are really confident going into this game and a big reason why is Philip. Look, anything can happen. We're playing on the road, but shoot we are going there and we feel like we can get the job done. A big part of the team's success is Philip. He's the leader of the team and a major reason why we are where we are right now. We are lucky to have him. We have a pretty normal relationship when you have two guys play the same position, but we are also great friends outside of that." - Charlie Whitehurst
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