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NEW YORK — What pitchers used to have on their side was information. Hitters didn't know what was coming. Pitchers could get by solely on the element of surprise.
With video and scouting reports now a staple of every major-league clubhouse, the element of surprise has gone out of the window — and so pitchers have had to adjust accordingly. As strikeout rates have risen and walk rates have dropped across baseball in recent years, pitchers have stayed ahead through an ongoing evolution in the pitches they choose to throw.
"Hitters get accustomed to certain types of pitches when they're seeing it often," Red Sox manager John Farrell said, "so you look for a different look."
As more and more pitchers suffer elbow injuries and undergo Tommy John surgery, however, it's worth wondering if that shift in pitch selection might be contributing.
In years past, pitchers often complemented fastballs with big, sweeping curveballs that would dive out of the strike zone. But as the strike zone has tightened over time — "The strike zone is not what it once was," Jake Peavy said — and hitters have grown more disciplined, limiting the effectiveness of those pitches.
Many pitchers have tended to set aside those bigger breaking pitches in favor of more harder, more late-breaking pitches — particularly the cut fastball and, of late, the splitfingered fastball.
Clay Buchholz several years ago tightened up what used to be a slider into a hard cutter, and he's added a splitter into his repertoire in the last two years. John Lackey has all but abandoned his curveball in favor of a hard cutter. Jake Peavy has begun to incorporate a splitter into his repertoire this year.
Cutters and splitters both are far easier to throw for strikes than curveballs and sliders, two pitches with bigger break — and not just to throw for strikes but to command to a certain side of the plate. With scouting reports revealing more than ever about what pitchers are throwing, the element of surprise is less important than precise execution of each pitch — and a cutter is far easier to execute with precision than a curveball or a sweeping slider.
"If you're able to command a curveball with a power, four-seam fastball, that's still probably the best combination," said Red Sox manager John Farrell, a former pitcher and pitching coach. "But you can count those guys on one hand that can execute that."
(One pitcher who can do that — who has a "plus-plus curveball" that he can throw out of the same release point as his power fastball, David Ross said, is the recently demoted Brandon Workman.)
And as hitters get better and better at tracking pitches, it has become more essential for pitchers to disguise the movement of their pitches until the last possible minute. A curveball looks like a curveball right out of the pitcher's hand, and a batter can adjust accordingly. A cutter looks like a fastball until it makes a last-second dart away from a same-handed hitter, in on an opposite-handed hitter.
"The guys that are good, it comes out as a fastball with tight spin and it cuts late," Mike Napoli said.
A splitfingered fastball looks like a regular fastball most of the way to the plate, too, until fades at the last minute — in toward a same-handed hitter, away from an opposite-handed hitter.
Pitchers throw changeups and curveballs to miss the bat entirely. They throw cutters and splitters to miss the barrel of the bat just enough to turn a line drive into a pop-up or weak ground ball.
"There's more knowledge in the game now of bat paths and technologies and studies and charts and hot zones, so you can get a picture of somebody's bat path and where they like to hit the ball," Ross said. "Guys try to stay off that as much as they can off the fastball with a cut or a sink or sharp breaking stuff. The big breaking ball is pretty much obsolete."
"Chasing the hands, running out of reach — it's always been about trying to miss the barrel," Red Sox pitching coach Juan Nieves said.
Where has the trend come from? Pitchers are inherently copycats. Legendary New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera made a career out of breaking bats with his cutter. It's not hard to trace the trend toward the cutter with the ascendance of Rivera.
"With the success of Mariano Rivera and his cutter, the cutter has been, the last 10 years, the en vogue pitch to go to," said longtime former major-league pitcher David Cone, now a YES broadcaster. "It has the same spin as a fastball. It's really harder to pick up."
The same now might be happening with the splitter, a pitch popular in the 1980s that seems to be enjoying a resurgence — thanks perhaps to the success Japanese imports Koji Uehara, Hiroki Kuroda and Hisashi Iwakima have had with the pitch.
"If Koji weren't on my team and I didn't know I can't throw a split the way he does, I would look at him and say, 'That's a pitch I want to learn how to throw,'" Red Sox lefty Craig Breslow said. "You look at a guy who's six feet tall and 175 pounds and throws 88 miles an hour, and he's the most dominant reliever in baseball, and you say, 'I want to learn how to do that.' Five years ago, you probably would look at Mariano Rivera and say, 'That's a pitch I want to learn how to throw.'"
There might be a cost involved, however: Cutters, splitters and even sliders generally are understood to involve torque more in the elbow and the forearm — unlike fastballs, where most of the effort comes from the shoulder. Even with curveballs, the effort comes from the shoulder and the wrist rather than the elbow.
The more torque on the elbow and forearm, the more susceptibility for injury. The splitter fell out of fashion in the 1990s after pitchers like John Smoltz complained of elbow pain and shelved it. Felix Doubront didn't throw his first cutter in a game until his final start of spring training; when asked why, he just pointed to his forearm.
"When guys come to the big leagues, they realize it's a tighter strike zone, so you've got to get a breaking ball that you can throw inside the zone and move off the bat head," Farrell said in spring training. "It's an easier pitch to throw. The catch-22 of it is that it can wreak havoc on the elbow."
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If you haven't already heard, Becki and I are moving to New York. I guess the internet is about the lamest way possible to tell people, but that's what happens when you're as bad at keeping in touch as I am. I freshened up the header image to match, because I apparently have a lot of free time.
So why are we moving? Well, we've been planning to move out of Maryland anyway, since I'm getting to the point where I have to tell people I'm "from" here, and I really don't like doing that. Now that Becki's out of college and our lease is almost up here in Columbia, it's the perfect time. She's looking to get into publishing/writing, and the place I work has an office in Brooklyn, so NYC just made sense.
We started out looking in Washington Heights and upper Manhattan in general, but I've been pulling for Brooklyn lately. The reasoning is that we can't afford Manhattan or Staten Island, Queens is pretty far out, and I just plain don't want to live in the Bronx or outside the five boroughs. There's also the fact that even though I've only spent a total of maybe three days of my life in Brooklyn, I just like it. See also, Mos Def:
Its real yo, but still yo, its love here,
And it's felt by anybody that come here.
Out of towners take the train, plane and bus here,
Must be something that they really want here.
Travel all around the world in great distances,
And ain't a place that I know that bear resemblance.
So there's that, I guess.
Our planning process has hinged on two questions:
1. Can we afford it? The answer to this is very often a resounding no, punctuated by a sharp tightening of the chest when I think holy crap I'm so screwed so hard that I reconsider how much I really want to move.
2. Are we likely to be stabbed? Thanks to New York Magazine, we have a pretty good resource (Warning: PDF link) for that. The answer to this question is actually no most of the time, but mostly in cases where question one was also a negative. Honestly, as long as we aren't living in or near Bed-Stuy, I feel safe. Becki's standards are a bit higher, and not without reason.
There's a very small slice of locations that I can both afford, and survive living in, and while there are plenty of rentals in those areas, they don't stay on the market very long. I suspect that most people reading this haven't ever tried to live in New York, which is probably good for them, because unless you're rich or a badass, you're going to find it an unpleasant process.
It's not that Columbia is cheap, I actually pay around a thousand a month here. An apartment in Brooklyn, at least the things I've found so far, can be half again more than that. And landlords frequently require the first month's rent, the last month's rent, and a security deposit of a month's rent. If you go through a broker, often the requirements aren't as steep, but brokers charge a fee of, generally, either a month's rent or 15% of a year's rent.
Needless to say, I'm trying very hard to avoid going through a broker. I'm not sure how 8 million people can live in New York when, at the minimum, it can run you four or five thousand dollars every time you have to move.
Aside from the staggering initial cash outlay in exchange for the keys, the fun thing about NYC real estate is that things fly off the market like you wouldn't believe. I didn't get, at first, how vacancies could be at .5% (forgot where I read that, and it may not be accurate), when I saw so many apartments in the classifieds. The answer, apparently, is that things frequently list and sell on the same day. That's insane. We're going up there to apartment-hunt in a week, and everyone I've talked to has told me that, rather than this being a poorly-conceived last-minute failure of a plan, like most of the things I do, it's actually too far out to expect anything I see to still be around.
So the search goes on. We'll find something, I don't worry about that, but it's definitely the hardest market I've ever had to deal with. It'll all be worth it when I start working up there, and I can buy lunch everyday from a street vendor hot dog cart, and eat in the shadow of the Brooklyn bridge.
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Shifting Perspectives: Balance druid talents and the illusion of choice {WoW}
Mar 11th 2011 8:23PM Furor is a good talent to take, even after you're suitable with mana management. It'll help out on your innervate that you will use on a healer (and don't think next tier healer's wont need mana).
Gale of Winds is a good talent, if you have those mana regen talents, you can afford to cast hurricane, and with it glyphed, it makes a great form of AE slow if you don't have a frost mage, DK, or a hunter (Which is often the case in our groups)
Fungal Growth is great for the same reason, especially on fights like Cho'Gall.
These talents you consider worthless may be situational to your group, but that's where the choice comes from.
I'm hitting 78k AE dps without Gale of Winds (with Hurricane counting for 60% of that total AE damage, and typhoon somewhere in there too, but mostly from that initial mushroom burst), which would bring that up to ~90k.
Owlkin Frenzy holds the same spot as in wrath though, incredibly situational and disputed to specific fights.
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Also, be sure to bring the Glyph of Hurricane; it helps a ton.
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If the weak rand persists during this year, producers of paper, pulp and board will register stronger returns, particularly from bleached hardwood pulp and chemical cellulose exports, Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (Pamsa) executive director Jane...
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Position: Executive director of the Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA) Main Activity of the Company: The PAMSA has been promoting the interests of the South African pulp and paper industry since 1992. It represents more than 90% of the country's...
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As the worldwide recession subsides, the South African paper and pulp industry has settled, with some grades of sustainably produced pulp, packaging and tissue paper showing slight growth in demand.
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The domestic forestry and pulp and paper sectors do not have as negative an impact on the environment as many people might believe, industry bodies Forestry South Africa (Forestry SA) and the Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (Pamsa) emphasise.
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The South African paper, pulp and board industry has consistently increased exports of paper and board and maintained imports at similar levels for the past three years, despite facing a number of challenges, says Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa...
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jeffyscott Posts: 3,855
mschmal Posts: 1,757its more than extra software. First, the ABS system has to be sophisticated enough to handle it. Probably a 4 channel system is required.
Also there are more sensors for a vehicle with Stability control such as a Yaw Sensor. A steering input sensor, a acceleration input sensor and probably helps if you have a car with drive by wire throttle.
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sonofknud Posts: 50I think stability control is a big miss. Consumer reports thinks it will save more lives then air bags and child car seats combined if I remember the article correctly. I do have experience myself in my VW I had to swerve to miss a dear doing 70 on a freeway and it all happened so fast I believe the stability control help me keep the car on the road.
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gregg_vw Posts: 2,427Well, obviously he doesn't.
But if a buyer feels more safe in a vehicle with stability control, then he or she will buy that. In addition, the systems do actively prevent vehicles from going beyond limits the vehicle can sustain. No, they are not perfect, and some conditions can be too much for the system to overcome. But like airbags, they add a clearly measurable extra margin of safety.
If Ford's competitors offer the system (some as standard equipment), then Ford is going ot lose more and more customers who care about such things--unless Ford begins to offer the option. -
jrdoa Posts: 11I own this vehicle and cannot figure this out nor can any dealer I have asked. Can anyone explain to me what exactly the mp3 means on the radio? I've read on the specs that this vehicle has an AM/FM in-dash 6 CD player with MP3 stereo. I have made several homemade cd's that are mp3 files and keep getting the error "bad disc". The dealer supposedly checked my stereo and said it's fine and it's just my discs. Help!!
mschmal Posts: 1,757First, make sure you actually are burning discs in MP3 Formant and not in WMA or some other format. If you are using Windows Media player and didn't pay extra for an MP3 burner software then you are probably not using MP3 format.
Second, you can not use "nested" folders. The disc should have a main directory with folders and in each folder should be the actual MP3 Files. you can put the files in a folder that is inside a folder.
Mark -
mschmal Posts: 1,757Just noticed these new 06 Ford Five Hundreds on my look that look way different from the side.
Ford removed the flat door molding from the middle of the door and replaced with a wedge shaped molding at the very bottom edge of the door. The car now looks completely different and very very European.
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fsmmcsi Posts: 792Since production of the 2007 models is supposed to begin in May, the order guides should be out by now, but I can't find one. Does anyone have an idea where to find them?
Yes, I am back here because the too-short Sport Trac box and too-tall tailgate would be way less useful to me than the trunk of the Five Hundred or Montego. -
mschmal Posts: 1,757IT was released Saturday to dealers but I can't post a link because its on a password only site.
In summary,
SE goes away.
SEL is decontented to 06 SE level but there is a SEL Comfort package and SEL Interor Power Package that brings the car back to 06 SEL level of equipment.
Ok that makes NO sense.
All FWD cars are now 6-speed..
Options that added are Family Entertainment Package and Sat. Radio oh and Heated Seats are available on SEL.
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jrdoa Posts: 11Here is where this stands with my mp3 issues. First to go back to my problem, some / most of my homemade mp3 discs are being "kicked out" with a message "bad disc". This happens to a variety of brand name discs. My dealer checked for any problems with the radio and reported all was fine. I contacted Mercury earlier regarding what then, does the mp3 exactly mean or provide on the radio.
My response from Mercury was this: "...we recommend that you contact Visteon Audio at: www.visteon.com or (800) 847-8366." Upon doing so, Visteon told me they have nothing to do with my vehicle (Mercury) and told me to contact Delphi.
When I did that, I got the message "Thank you for contacting delphi.com. Delphi does not work directly with consumers for this type of information. The reason for this is that the vehicle manufacturer controls the warranty and policy for products that Delphi sells to them. Please contact your vehicle dealer for the information you require regarding your audio system. If your dealer can't answer your questions, they can contact our technical support at 1-800-428-0501.
I just contaced Mercury again to find out what exactly this mp3 on the radio means. (I'm sure I know what it is (playing mp3 discs, but just want to hear it from them.)
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mschmal Posts: 1,757Saving MP3 files
• Your Family Entertainment System supports discs containing up to
255 files. Discs containing more than 255 files will not play.
• Always save MP3 files with the .mp3 extension. The player recognizes
an MP3 file by the .mp3 extension, so MP3 files saved with different
extensions will not be played. Never save a non-MP3 file with the
.mp3 extension as the file will not play properly.
• The player supports multi session discs. However, be sure to import
the previous session of the disc before you add new files. If you do not
import the previous session, only the last session will be played.
• When burning a disc, ensure that you close/finalize the disc
before playback, or the disc may not play properly or an error
message may appear.
• Some CD-RW discs may operate inconsistently and may cause an error
message to appear. We recommend burning MP3 files onto CD-R discs.
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mschmal Posts: 1,757Use brand named data CD-Rs. Also, try 1 level of Folders.
Also, I know this is stupid but make sure you are actually ripping into MP3 format.
Most computers out of the box do not have MP3 ripping software installed or if they do its only a trial version.
If you didn't pay something for MP3 ripping software, there is a good chance you are not using MP3 format.
Windows Media Player rippes in wma unless buy an add on.
These players are very finiky. It could just be the CD writer that you are using. It could be the brand of CD-Rs that you are using. It could be the allignment of Mars and Jupiter etc.
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barnstormer64 Posts: 1,106I've used mp3's burned onto CD-R without issues.
I'm using some older Kodak Gold CD-R (rated at only 4x, though I'm burning them at 40x without issues).
I'm using NERO to burn the CD-R's. I burn them in a single session.
I'm using only a single level of folders (all tracks for an album area under a folder with the album name). -
lzc Posts: 483I'm considering buying. I'm attracted to the car's safety as indicated by its great crash test scores, and also to its comfortable and spacious seating and good view of the road, something not easy to find outside of SUVs.
I'm hesitating because I want to include vehicle stability control, a feature I understand will be available on the 2007 models. The one negative that probably won't change is the basic driving experience, which is less responsive than I'd prefer. Oh, the cars goes where you steer it, but it's clearly a large, American-style freeway cruiser.
But . . . in comfortable, safe, and reasonably reliable passenger cars, there aren't that many choices.
Based on the Five Hundred's recent sales record, large discounts off MSRP should be available. -
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petronio Posts: 18My wife wants AWD because we get a lot of snow in Poughkeepsie NY. I think FWD with VSC works fine in snow (AWD only helps you get out of snow not stop or really recover from a skid -- maybe traction control helps a little there) but VSC is not available in the 500. High seat and overall visibility are also pluses.
The only experience I have with Ford is my mother 1983 Ford Escort. Brrrr. -
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fsmmcsi Posts: 792I'll second John's motion. As ANT14 (he has been absent lately - hope he is OK and just busy) pointed out long ago in this forum, AWD is a safety feature which improves traction in many situations. Besides winter driving, think about accident avoidance, loose gravel, rain, mud, uneven pavement, and other such situations. Unless there is some inordinate extra cost, or significant additional noise from the drive train, why wouldn't someone get AWD on a car on which it is offered? It may add some additonal parts, but designs such as the Volvo-type AWD used on the Five Hundred, Montego, and Freestyle have been around for enough years and have been proven to be reliable. In their literature on the upcoming Edge, Ford (www.media.Ford.com) indicates that they expect more and more vehicles to be equipped with AWD over the coming years.
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It's crunch time. Or getting close. Two and a half months remain in the 2012 baseball season, and so many teams are still in contention for a spot in the postseason. In the American League, only the Mariners, Royals and Twins are ten or more games out of the second wild card. In the National League, all but the Phillies, Cubs, Astros, Padres and Rockies are still vying for a chance to play deep into October. Sure, each of the 162 games counts the same. Each win a win. Each loss a loss. But with the standings so close, and so much at stake, it just feels like the games now matter more.
And so, as we head down the stretch, we're tweaking the focus of the Impact Index just a bit. Instead of highlighting just the unheralded bench guys and relief pitchers who had a good week, we're going to hone in on game-changing pinch-hit at bats and relief-pitcher appearances for the teams making a push for the postseason. The ones where, at the end of the season, fans look back and say: "Ah, if only he'd gotten a hit in that one at bat," or "That strikeout with the bases loaded saved the game, and the season." Okay, maybe not all of the confrontations we highlight will be that memorable, but each will be critical to the team's ultimate success this season.
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Ok, don't laugh, but I just had to have this toy to try it out as I do not like making cake pops by hand! Anyone use box cake mixes with this? I used a lemon DH cake mix. The pops were nice and round on the bottom, but rather misshaped pointy looking on the top. I tried another batch, leaving them in to cook a minute or two longer and still did not get a nice round top. Does this work any better with the scratch recipes provided in their book or your own scratch recipe? Did anyone ever use the "official' cake pop mix they sell? This may become another item for the garage sale - I had such high hopes.
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There is no "magic formula" for getting what you want through prayer. God will not be manipulated by faith-formulas or vain confession. He is not moved by our greedy pursuit of "things". The Lord will never adjust Himself to us and what we want. Instead, we must be adjusted to Him and ensure that He gets what He wants.
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3 Compose a parable for the rebels' household and say to them, The LORD God proclaims: Put on the pot, set it on, and fill it with water. | 3 Tell this rebellious house a parable and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: " 'Put on the cooking pot; put it on and pour water into it. |
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For those who love the look of knuckle tattoos but don't want to take the plunge, there's the fake tattoo gloves from Sibling.
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June 8-17: California Tour (Kali + Matt duo) July 10-14: WA/ID Tour with Cars & Trains (Kali + Matt duo) July 19-21: Western Oregon Mini-Tour with Norman and Holiday Friends (full band; includes Portland) July 24th-August 10: National Tour leg [...]


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Trailer LittleBigPlanet Karting - Post-Launch Trailer A post-launch trailer for LittleBigPlanet Karting.
Gameplay Level Editor Gameplay - LBP Karting The level editor is robust but difficult to use, take a look at this LBP Karting feature in action.
Gameplay Boss Battle Gameplay - LBP Karting Story mode in LBP Karting ends with a epic boss battle with sackboy at the heart of it all.
Gameplay Dull Tutorial Gameplay - LBP Karting The tutorial will have you watching many of these uninspired tutorials in order to come to grips with the numerous tools in the level editor.
Gameplay Split Screen Racing Gameplay - LBP Karting Two friends or enemies can race split screen in LittleBigPlanet Karting for the PS3.
Review Video Review - LittleBigPlanet Karting Tom Mc Shea and sackboy tackle the horde in this video review for LittleBigPlanet Karting.
Original Series GameSpot AU's Shipping Out - November 5, 2012 What games are out in Australia this week? Will you be assuming the role of Master Chief or Commander Shepard? The choice is yours!
Original Series New Releases: November 4th - 10th This week we check out Halo 4, LittleBigPlanet Karting, Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD Collection, Mass Effect Trilogy, Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package, Midway Arcade Origins and ...
Trailer LittleBigPlanet Karting - Halloween Trailer A Halloween trailer for LittleBigPlanet Karting just before it launches on November 6, 2012 in North America.
Gameplay LittleBigPlanet Karting Game Jam Recap Here's a recap video of the LittleBigPlanet Karting Game Jam that took place earlier this summer.
Feature Sony Press Conference Mash-Up Gamescom 2012 Don't have time to watch the full Sony press conference out of gamescom 2012? We've picked out the best bits for you in this handy video mash-up.
Trailer Summer Sports - LittleBigPlanet Karting Trailer Here's a LittleBigPlanet Karting trailer inspired by that summer games event in London, along with the launch date announcement!
Gameplay User-made Mayhem - LittleBigPlanet Karting Gameplay We test out the product of some user creativity in an online race of LittleBigPlanet Karting.
Gameplay Pre-made track - LittleBigPlanet Karting Gameplay LittleBigPlanet Karting comes packed with some pre-made tracks that are ready to go from the off - have a look at just how they drive.
Gameplay Track Editor - LittleBigPlanet Karting Gameplay Take a look at the fun and accessible track builder available in LittleBigPlanet Karting.
Gameplay Egg Hunt - LittleBigPlanet Karting Gameplay There's an angry dinosaur with eggs that we wanted to get out hands on - the results were explosive!
Gameplay Character Customisation - LittleBigPlanet Karting Gameplay We explore some of the enormous number of possibilities available when customising your character and car in LittleBigPlanet Karting.
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Gameplay LittleBigPlanet Karting Gameplay Demo Have some gameplay demo footage for LittleBigPlanet Karting!
Feature Comic-Con 2012 Stage Show, Day 1 We feature XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Tomb Raider, Hitman: Absolution other major titles, and live reports from the convention center.
Feature LittleBigPlanet Karting - Comic-Con 2012 Stage Demo Sackboy takes on his friends in a race at Comic-Con 2012.
Original Series Start/Select - New Lara Croft, New Media Molecule IP Danny investigates rumours of a new Media Molecule IP, and says hello to the latest Lara Croft.
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Gameplay Round and Round they Go Gameplay Video - LBP Karting This track has the LBP kart's going around and around in an effort to take home the prize.
Feature LittleBigPlanet Karting E3 2012 Stage Demo Get your sackboy (or girl) ready for some epic Karting action in this demo of LittleBigPlanet Karting from E3 2012.
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Trailer LittleBigPlanet Karting Official Trailer E3 2012: Create your own games and adventures in LittleBigPlanet Karting, coming soon!
Feature Sackboy Gets Some New Wheels - Little Big Planet Karting Demo We take a spin around the tracks in this demo for Little Big Planet Karting.
Feature Play, Create, Share, and Then Blow Each Other Up We get a first look at Little Big Planet Karting and talk with design director William Ho.
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13 For you are called to freedom, brothers; only don't use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love. | 13 You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. |
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Fri, Nov 16, 12 at 7:21
I posted this on the appliance forum, but am posting it here as well, since several on this board chimed in about their Bosch ovens. I'm down to two double wall oven choices: The GE Cafe or the Bosch 300 series. I thought I was set to go with the Bosch, but read this morning that if you open the door to check something, the oven stops working, and you have to push start again. I can see this being a disaster in my house, if it's true, as we have multiple cooks here who like to get involved - and I don't think I want to have to restart the oven each time I check things or stir my roasting vegetables.
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- Posted by sara_the_brit_z6_ct (My Page) on Fri, Nov 16, 12 at 9:25
I've got a 500, but I imagine it's the same: the convection fan stops turning when you open the door, to avoid you being blasted with heat. Once you close the door it automatically comes back on. They recommend you turn the light on to check your cooking, if having the fan go off for that time is a problem (say, with a souffle, but you wouldn't open the oven for that anyway!) |
- Posted by nosoccermom (My Page) on Sat, Nov 17, 12 at 8:38
Same as sara: The convection fan will turn off automatically but turn back on automatically when you close the door. No need to restart. |
- Posted by aimskitchen (My Page) on Sat, Nov 17, 12 at 23:16
Thanks, that's good to hear and was confirmed by the appliance store today. We're good to go! |
My Wolf oven does the same thing -- avoids blowing more heat out of the oven when the door is open. It's actually a good thing. |
Ditto! Go snag that oven :-) |
- Posted by aimskitchen (My Page) on Sun, Nov 18, 12 at 20:51
You guys put my mind at rest, we're going with the 500. So excited for all this to finally happen after months of researching and planning - everything but the countertop is ordered, phew! |
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Watch Taiwan's over-the-top animation of the NASCAR Daytona tragedy
During last Saturday's Nationwide Series race the afternoon before the 2013 Daytona 500, a last-lap crash on left some 33 spectators injured when Kyle Larson's car flew into the fence and disintegrated as it rode along the upper edge of the barrier. The flying parts tore a hole in the fence and flew into the stands, with a television crew and a spectator video catching part of the incident.
Taiwan's Next Media Animation, which digitally recreates events usually in order to lampoon them, has made a video on the NASCAR crash questioning NASCAR's commitment to fan safety. It uses comically outrageous scenarios to make its point, the sort one would expect from a cartoon sendup.
We wonder if it's a bit unfair, though – racing is dangerous, and if you made it safe enough for no one to get hurt, we're guessing no one would want to watch it. If fans were left on their own, there could have been more injuries, but the Daytona Speedway has armed police constantly patrolling the fence to make sure fans stay back. We have a feeling, as the video below suggests, that a head-to-head between personal injury lawyers and NASCAR will write the text of the next chapter in race-day safety.
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Ben Pobjie Trigger Warning
Review by Elise Faulkner
Ben Pobjie is angry. And he's not the only one.
'Anger is the currency of the modern age,' he tells us, using letters to the editor as his evidence.
Trigger Warning is a show that explores the nature of anger and its role in our day to day lives.
Pobjie is angered by a variety of things from dogs to child soldiers to the dvd shrink wrapping that's too tight to open.
The show makes you think about your own anger and your reactions to everyday racism, sexism, and Tony Abbott.
It's only day two so the show is still in its preview phase and it's only going to get stronger with time. Anyone who is angry at the world and wants to know that they're not alone will find some pretty funny solace in Trigger Warning.


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Nine years ago this week, Sony launched the PlayStation 2 in the US, sporting a $299 price tag and a launch-day library of more than two dozen games, including hits like Madden NFL 2001 and Tekken Tag Tournament.
The gaming giant marked the anniversary today with a stat dump celebrating the long-term success of the PS2. According to Sony Computer Entertainment America, the console has a worldwide installed base of nearly 140 million, with a library approaching 10,000 games having sold more than 500 million copies combined.
Although Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's original Xbox ceased production years ago, Sony today declared that the PS2 "shows no signs of slowing down" at the tail end of its 10-year life span. However, with the introduction of the current generation of consoles, its sales have slowed in recent years. According to the NPD Group, the PS2 sold 146,000 last month, down from 173,500 in September 2008 and 215,000 in September of 2007.
The slimline PS2, introduced in 2004, remains available on store shelves for a retail price of $99. The system finally reached the double-digit price point April 1, more than eight years into its life span and nearly five years after the move was first rumored. The low price has helped convince publishers to continue developing for the platform, with DJ Hero and MotorStorm Arctic Edge among recent PS2 releases.


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New photos taken today, any questions, just ask, glad to be of help
Dioscorea elephantipes caudex, about 8 yrs-old from seed, just starting to vine, Adromischus cristatus to the right
Pachypodium saundersii(?), can't remember exactly
Pacypodium brevicaule
Pseudolithos migiurtinus flower close-up, the ruffles on the petal tips are quite comical looking as they sway in the breeze
Astrophytum asterias x coahuilensis...mathematics and nature go hand in hand
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Very impressive!! The Luethyi is marvelous. Harry |
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I love plants that have shape, color and texture that can be appreciated from way up close, micro-nature is fantastic |
Wonderful stuff! I agree about enjoying up close and personal views of plants, and yours are beauties -- every one of them! It's interesting, I've been wanting M. leuthyi for a while. I just found an online source, but I passed because I didn't like the look of the "lollipop" grafts. (It can have different rootstock, but it should be discrete.) |
- Posted by xerophyte_nyc 7 (My Page) on Sat, Sep 2, 06 at 16:02
I got the mamm luethyi a few years back on ebay non-grafted...however, while I don't know for sure I really think they were collected from the wild so I was very upset when I received the plants - they looked too large to have been seed grown. I unknowingly helped to support the illegal collection of plants from their habitats. I make sure to take extra special care of that plant because I now know that it is not readily available on it's own roots. But as you can see from the photos I think the plant is happy and hence so am I. I've heard they root easily from cuttings, so you could buy a grafted plant and take some cuttings off of it. I've also seen seed available if you have some patience. |
Beautiful plants - all of them. Impressive pachy's. The middle Aloe looks alot like Aloe cryptopoda - H |
You have some great looking plants there. M. luethyi is very easy to root. Just buy yourself a grafted plant, wait for some sprouts, cut them off and root them. No difficulties in doing this at all. They're very similar to M. theresae in care. Pieter |
I second that Hirsuta, A. cryptopoda or A. wickensii I forget which is current. |
"Pseudolithos migiurtinus flower close-up, the ruffles on the petal tips are quite comical looking as they sway in the breeze" i've done a lot of snorkeling and kept marine fish for many years....this reminds me much of something i'd see at a reef. very kewl! a great pic, as all they are! TFS |
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Tight supplies of lemons during the summer led to strong markets and heavy demand that should continue through fall and into winter, grower-shippers say.
"We have some good scenarios coming up with our crop," said Alex Teague, senior vice president and chief operating officer for Limoneira Co., Santa Paula, Calif.
"We have a marketplace that's much more free of fruit," he said, because of weather problems in Mexico, Chile and Argentina.
Up to 40% of Argentina's lemon trees have been damaged, he said, adding that it could take 18 months or more for the country's lemon crop to recover.
Prices were $3-4 per box higher than last year, he said.
"We're encouraged by that," Teague said. "The pricing we experienced last winter was a loser for everybody."
Tight lemon supplies persisted as harvesting started in the California desert and in Arizona, said Jeff Olsen, president of Chuck Olsen Co., Visalia, Calif.
"The pipeline is nearly empty," he said in early October. "It will take a couple of months to be in balance."
Most years, growers store some District 2 fruit from California's coastal growing region for summer and into October, but that wasn't the case this year.
"The fruit was so mature that we picked and packed and shipped a lot of fruit quicker than normal," Olsen said.
Heavy Chilean volume that typically hits the market in June, July and August also failed to materialize, he said.
Wet weather delayed the start of the Mexican crop until the last week of September, but those shipments should be picking up, Olsen said.
Monsoon conditions and high humidity in the California desert and Arizona growing regions made it difficult for the fruit to dry out and resulted in a late start.
"It's been a real struggle," Olsen said.
Conditions are similar for organic lemons.
"We walked into an organic lemon market that's been pretty dry, quickly absorbing what supplies are becoming available," said John Stair, domestic commodity manager for Pacific Organic Produce, San Francisco.
Initial volume comes off slow, he said, but supplies should pick up, which is good, because of strong demand.
The company plans to pack organic lemons from the desert through February, he said.
Quality and sizing seem to have improved over last season. In fact, he said organic lemons look to be a half to a full size larger than last year.
Sizing on Limoneira's lemons out of the desert should be pretty good, Teague said.


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From: The Annual Healthcare Technologies Lecture, 21 November 2012, London - IET London: Savoy Place
22 November 2012 News
>> Play webcastThe William James Award is presented to the student whose PhD research shows the most potential to contribute toward the development and improvement of the biomedical engineering field. This award was instated by Dr Christopher J James, of Warwick University, in honour of his late father.
The award is presented to encourage, support and recognise outstanding work of PhD students demonstrating a high level of commitment and advanced understanding of biomedical engineering.
Centre of Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation
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We wanted to let you know about a few quick updates Twitter just made. Mainly to their privacy policy and terms of service. As we've seen in the past, when major social networks like Twitter and Facebook update these things, you should take notice. Remember when it basically turned out that you could be named in a lawsuit against Pinterest? Stuff like that. So here's what Twitter just changed:
So overall, nothing too world-changing or scandal-causing. It's nice to see Twitter is now supporting Do Not Track browser settings. All these changes make me understand what it takes to truly build a 'mature' platform.


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Describe a time your services really changed a client's life for the better.
The birth of a baby will mark the most defining moment in a person's life. From that day forward,
everything changes and means everything. And in just weeks, your new little one will no longer fit so tiny in your arms. They are only this little for a very short time. With a newborn portrait session at Diane Bartoo Photography, we help you preserve those memories forever.
What's one tip for first-time customers that will make them feel like regulars?
We provide beautiful pregnancy clothing for mamas. These gowns are top-quality and made from chiffon and silk so that we can capture gorgeous flowing movement of the dress. Our newborn wraps are made from angora, merino wool, and cashmere. You will not need to purchase anything for mama or baby; all props, blankets, and head pieces are made from the finest materials and are available for your use.
What aspect of your job, or the services you offer, most often surprises people?
Pregnancy and newborn photography are best done within a specific point of development. I like to photography pregnant mamas between 32 and 37 weeks so we have a beautifully round belly and mama is still feeling active. Newborn babies are best photographed before they are 10 days old. These are only guidelines for best-case scenarios, and we do photograph outside these guidelines.
Is there anything else you want to add that we didn't cover?
I am very comfortable working with mamas and newborns. With 20 years of photography experience and over five of those years working exclusively with mamas and newborns, I have perfected my craft in the pregnancy and newborn photography industry.
After a fruitful modeling career, Lori Brystan moved to the other side of the camera lens, where she began to capture artful portraits of families, kids, and women that would look at home in the pages of a fashion magazine. In 1989, she opened Brystan Studios, which eventually expanded to include a team of professional makeup artists, hairstylists, set designers, and photographers. Inside the professional studio, a large dressing room brims with props, fan mail, and glamorous costumes. Using in-studio sets, Lori captures images ranging from burlesque-themed boudoir shoots to pared-down images, such as women posing in front of a white sheet or siblings lying in a hammock. The studio also specializes in love-note videos, professionally produced short films that capture the subject's inner starlet without the use of a net. The busy shutterbug also works as beauty editor for the lifestyle pub Greer's OC and penned High Impact Portrait Photography, a book on framing eye-catching portraits.
For photographers, the process of capturing meaningful portraits requires more than first-rate equipment and technical know-how. As the team at Jack Randall Photography knows, photographers must also establish a comfortable environment for their subjects. Armed with high-resolution digital cameras, Jack Randall's photographers capture casual poses and candid moments during shoots conducted at their indoor studio.
At Little Black Dress Photography, the person behind the camera is more than a floating head. Each female photographer continuously coaches their subjects, guiding them through different come-hither poses during seductive boudoir photo shoots. The unflagging support from the shutterbugs is just one element of the studio's mission to inspire confidence in their clients. Several other amenities, including wardrobes and professional styling services, combine to transform guests into self-assured models, whose portraits make enticing gifts for significant others.
Upon their arrival, ladies can peruse a fully stocked closet of lingerie and 1940s-style pin-up outfits in sizes 0–22. Though staffers furnish polka-dot dresses, thigh-high stockings, and garter belts, they also encourage clients to bring favorite items from home. Stylists can then complement new looks by imbuing hair with bounce and eyelashes with drama, prepping patrons to cast flirty glances from velvet couches or atop vintage suitcases.
These shoots yield high-resolution pictures that typically require little to no retouching—the staff is more committed to enhancing natural beauty than artificially beautifying people by reshaping body parts or airbrushing out extra eyelashes.
Elizabeth Toller Productions is a professional photography studio that combines traditional methods with digital image-enhancement techniques to accurately make reality better. With over 10 years of experience, Elizabeth Toller's cameras click masterfully to capture the souls of families, political candidates, corporate-event attendees, and inanimate objects. First, clients will meet with the photographer to discuss session locations, themes, and clothing styles—options that are only limited by imagination and the client's wardrobe of stolen circus costumes. Clients will then spend a 30-minute photo shoot ($100) acting natural, interspersed with practicing their best vogues. Later, a special projection proofing process allows light reflectors to preview the results on a big screen to simplify image selection. Later, clients will receive a 5"x5" photo book ($95) that includes 10 two-dimensional clones of themselves for safe keeping at home.


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Can you take a name like pzizz seriously? Neither can I, but this product from England is serious about giving you some pzizzes (p for power nap, and zizz for the British slang for catching some zzz's).
The pzizz is software that creates soothing sounds that "combines Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques," aka, a guy's voice whispering to you, telling you subconsciously to go to sleep.
I don't have a sleeping problem, so listening to this in headphones was more distracting than comforting, yet I did get to sleep, so I guess it worked. It wasn't my cup of tea, but maybe it'll work for you. You can read my review here, or download a sample to try for yourself at pzizz.com.


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Page Speed is an open-source project started at Google to help developers optimize their web pages by applying web performance best practices. Page Speed started as an open-source browser extension, and is now deployed in third-party products such as Webpagetest.org, Show Slow and Google Webmaster Tools.
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Game Developers Conference 2014 dates announcedHands-down, my favorite event of the year is the Game Developers Conference. Between the sessions and the opportunity to commune with people who share an incredible passion for games, I always come away from it with a new perspective and new ideas. Today, conference organizers announced dates for next year's show, which will run March 17-21, returning once more to the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. Registration for the show is scheduled to open later this month. And, of course, you can count on Destructoid to be there. Comments not appearing? Anti-virus apps like Avast or some browser extensions can cause this. Easy fix: Add [*].disqus.com to your software's white list. Tada! Happy comments time again.
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Staff Information
Gordon Ricketts
Statement on the Art's Village
I like to think of the Arts Village as an intersection of the arts and people. In the Arts Village, we work on providing an atmosphere that promotes learning through participation and personal experience. We offer a wide variety of arts-related and general education courses that are coordinated by the individual academic departments, plus a broad range of extracurricular activities that promote critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and community. In the Arts village you will find a mentoring program helping to aid with the transition into college and create ties within the artistic community. In the Arts Village, there is a commitment to seeing our students succeed both personally and academically. College is a time for curiosity, ideas, and exploration; the Arts Village is dedicated to that endeavor.
Gordon Ricketts, M.F.A— Director / Arts Village, 2005 to present
Born in San Diego, California, Gordon grew up surfing on the beaches of Southern California and Mexico. In 1966 he entered the armed services, where he served in the Marine Corps. He has worked as a car salesman, beer truck driver, bartender, carpenter, general building contractor, artist and teacher. The Special Olympics, National Ski Patrol and working with marginalize peoples are and have and have been his volunteering interests. In 1991 returned to school and received his Bachelor of fine Arts degree in painting at San Francisco Art Institute. He then came to Ohio's Bowling Green State University where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing. He is a working artist and maintains an in house studio. He has been teaching at BGSU since 1999 and has directed the Arts Village for four years. He loves to travel; Kathmandu, Timbuktu, and Machu Picchu to name a few. He promotes and leads many student trips realizing the great benefits students gain on these unusual trips and explorations.
Derrick Jones
Statement on the Art's Village
I look forward to working with a community of artists who seek to go beyond the classroom in order to maximize their life experiences.
Derrick's Biography
Derrick A. Jones, Assistant Director / Arts Village, 2009 to present
Derrick (aka D Jones) was born and raised in Youngstown, OH and is a graduate of Bowling Green State University with a BAC and MA in Theatre and a member of Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Incorporated. His experiences in the arts are quite diverse having worked in theater, film and hip hop music for many years as well as publishing four books of poetry. After serving as the Hall Director for Rodgers from 2004-2006, Derrick left BGSU to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Film from Ohio University.
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Caitlin Kotnik
Caitlin is a second-year Masters student in the College Student Personnel program. She is an Ohio native and received her undergraduate degree in journalism and graphic design from the Ohio State University in 2008. Outside of the Arts Village, Caitlin enjoys traveling, reading, spending time with her family and friends, attending theater productions, and spoiling her two cats. She is thrilled to being working with such a dynamic and creative group of students!
Life mantra: Be great in little things.
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Station Hall
Explore a century of station life.
Station Hall was once home to York's main goods station. It was built in the 1870s and was a working railway building into the 1960s. Over the past year we've been redisplaying Station Hall, and now you can experience the sights and sounds of a station from the past.
Soak up the atmosphere of this historic building filled with vehicles spanning a century of railway history.
See station objects from our collection, many of them on display for the first time. Watch films showcasing station life, including Terminus.
You can even climb on board some of our carriages or take a tour around Station Hall with one of our Explainers.
We put people's stories about working in stations and travelling by train at the heart of station hall - read more about these stories in our blog posts about the redevelopment process.
The Royal Trains
Station Hall also houses our collection of royal vehicles. Highlights include:
- Queen Adelaide's saloon, the oldest preserved carriage in Europe.
- Queen Victoria's 'Palace on Wheels'. This is the most famous and popular of the royal carriages and is one of the several saloons made for the Queen during her reign. It is the only surviving example and was her undoubted favourite. It became part of the collection in November 2003, 103 years after it was last used by Queen Victoria.
- King Edward VII's royal carriage. Built by the London & North Western Railway in 1902. It was the principal royal train used for travel to Scotland.
- The most modern (and considerably less extravagant) royal train is the Royal Saloon built for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) in 1941. Built during the Second World War, its carriages were designed to give maximum protection to its royal inhabitants.
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'I have never kicked a nun in the shins' says Gordon Brown
In a rather disappointing interview with Gordon Brown today, the Prime Minister claimed to the surprise and possibly even dismay of many MPs that he had in fact never kicked a nun in the shins, despite claims to the contrary in a new book called 'Politicians, and Members of the Catholic Clergy Whose Shins Have Been Injured By Them.'
'I have never, ever kicked a nun, especially not in the shins' he said. 'When I get angry, I lose my temper with myself, kick my own shins, and throw newspapers in a fury of anti-press vitriol.' When asked if he had ever thrown a newspaper at a nun or her shins, he replied hesitantly that he had acted 'In the heat of the moment' but that he 'didn't hit her'.
The allegations threatened the integrity of the Labour Party, coming as they do on the same day as the launch of their new slogan 'A Future Fair for All Members of the Priesthood'.
'I'd never kick or punch a nun' said David Cameron today in a counter-interview on The Daily Politics, 'nor have I any of my team ever given Chinese burns to choir boys or given a dead leg to any member of the Catholic clergy,' claimed the leader of the Conservative Party despite rumours circulating that the National Nun Shin Helpline had received a number of calls about senior Westmister politicians.. 'We can't go on like this,' he continued. 'I'll punch deficits, not nuns.'
The revelations have left voters further disenchanted with politicians as the General Election approaches. 'They're all as bad as each other' said one swing voter in a key marginal. 'They try and get your vote, promising not to kick nuns in the shins. And then as soon as they are in power, they are even worse than the last lot, with every Mother Superior in the country black and blue from the knee down.'
The Pope, head of 'The Catholic Church', a fringe Catholic rights group and the administrative organisation of the National Union of Nuns (NUN) released a statement condemning the injury of nuns, priests and all parishioners of 'The Catholic Church' and urging them to take whatever steps are necessary to defend themselves. He told Radio 5′s Simon Mayo that all nuns working at Downing Street have been issued with Adidas shin-guards, and a number of them have been taken advice from Premiership footballer Robbie Savage, on 'getting their retaliation in early'.
On the way in to a Cabinet sub-committee this morning, the Gordon Brown was tackled from behind by a couple of Carmelite nuns who work in the Downing Street press office, one of whom was seen to stamp hard on his left shin while the Prime Minister lay stricken on the floor while the Cabinet Secretary appeared to look the other way.
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When his estranged father dies, Cheyenne returns home to America after more than 20 years and encounters a professional Nazi hunter (Judd Hirsch) who has been on a lifelong pursuit of the German guard who tortured Cheyenne's father at Auschwitz. Cheyenne is slowly pulled out of his torpid malaise when he himself joins the hunt.
Paolo Sorrentino has devised a compellingly unpredictable entertainment, laced with wry humor and that essential, all-too-rare element these days, surprise. It starts out as a gentle, very amusing—largely due to Penn—comedy, observing Cheyenne's daily life, full of small, random activities, like meeting Mary at a favorite coffee shop or strolling the town with Jeffery. But despite Cheyenne's initial, hermetically sealed existence, the film proves wide-ranging as Luca Bigazzi's magnificent cinematography captures him traveling back to and all over America on his quest, discovering all kinds of strange and unlikely beauty along the way in places like Michigan, Utah and New Mexico.
Throughout, Sorrentino employs the David Byrne/Talking Heads song which gives his film its title, and this plaintive ditty proves effective in a variety of instances, as when a chubby little boy sings it to Cheyenne, forcing him to make music for the first time in years, or when Byrne himself appears, performing it thrillingly (if all too briefly). His encounter with Cheyenne inspires a rare moment in which our protagonist drops his withdrawn, soft-spoken cover and launches into a confessional rant of self-hatred that, in Penn's hands, is simply electrifying. Before and after this moment, he has been the quietest of deadpan comedians, with beautifully timed, unexpected utterances, as when he suddenly gives makeup tips to a bunch of chattering females with whom he is trapped in an elevator.
Hirsch basks in his sage-like role, full of outbursts of Biblical fury, while McDormand is rather wasted (and that firefighter profession is a tad too twee). Hewson and Levo are charming, and I wish more had been made of their relationship (and also his music ambitions). Kerry Condon is appealingly sweet as the young mother Cheyenne relates to in New Mexico. Heinz Lieven, who plays the man being hunted, gives a still but powerful performance, all the scarier for conveying the way utter evil can so easily meld into seeming normalcy.