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I'm pretty sure Ditto's in the No Egg group. While it can breed with any Pokémon besides those in the No Egg group, it cannot breed with another Ditto, implying that it is, itself, in the No Egg group. -Ketsuban
Ditto is in a special egg group called "DITTO" (you know how the game likes to use all-caps for Pokemon names). This group allows it to breed with anything other than a Pokemon in the "No EGGs" group or the "DITTO" group. This is what allows Ditto to breed with Pikachu or Staryu, but Suicune can't breed with other Pokemon. --Meowth346
I thought you could breed two Ditto and get another Ditto. surskitty 23:01, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Nope. Stupidly. ~Ketz
Ditto is able to breed with other Pokémon ostensibly because of its ability to transform into other Pokémon. If it was paired with another Ditto, it wouldn't have anything to transform into, and since Ditto are genderless, would therefore have no reproductive organs.
Makes perfect sense to me that two purplish-pink blobs can't mate with each other. --17:09, 9 August 2007 (UTC)Ozzie
Does that mean that Ditto can breed with Lucario?Optimus35 03:23, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Anything but legendaries means anything but legendaries. Lucario isn't legendary. Therefore, of course. TTEchidna 04:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
- Er Thanks...Optimus35 08:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
didnt in in the II gen games if you put Ditto in the day care by itself turn into two dittos (most likely because it duplicated like a cell)--Kittenchild 02:58, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
So I can't have a Lvl.1 Ditto? TESHIGIGAS 18:34, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
In the same note of discussion, how was the Steps to Hatch a Ditto Egg reached? Hack?
- The data's in there for all Pokémon just in case you somehow (usually hacking) manage to make an egg of it. TTEchidnaGSDS! 07:17, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Ditto in the Anime could morph into any other pokemonn but keeps it size in some cases , but in the TCG it keeps its beaded eyes , that just makes wonder , can the Pokémon that ditto morphs to in the TCG be exceptions or special forms?--Nobody777 12:38, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think so...D: Not sure... *is currently in Science-ICT class at school* Takoto タコト| サソデイ = 愛 12:47, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
i think the info above should be mentioned in the trivia about the beaded eyes. to be honest nintendo shoud confirm this--Nobody777 13:25, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Though worthless to do, can't u breed 2 Dittos and get another Ditto?--KukiTalk 15:23, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
- No. You cannot breed a Ditto with a Ditto. ~$aturn¥oshi THE VOICES 17:53, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
Really... interesting--KukiTalk 18:09, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
It's confusing, but it makes vague sense since Ditto has no gender. Remember, non-gendered Pokémon can't be bred, even with Ditto...it's "Unknown"-gendered Pokémon (Magnemite etc.) that can. Ditto has a unique egg type as well, we assume it breeds with everything except itself and None. LordArceus 00:07, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
While not made true in the games or implied in other sources: Considering its physical structure, does anyone else think that Ditto reproduces asexually? -- HechEff 18:18, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- It probably does, but since no official sources imply or otherwise indicate this, it doesn't belong in the article. It's pure speculation, and it's just as plausible that a fixed number of Ditto were created by Arceus at the beginning or time, and they lie dormant until bothered in the tall grasses. Or maybe Dittos are actually single cells from Mew's body that have grown much larger. — Laoris (Blah) 18:30, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
- That... actually makes perfect sense. It would explain why the both of them can use Transform while no other pokemon can...Kiryu 00:42, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
Learn every move
Can't ditto learn every move with its move transform?ryan 00:10, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
- But since it doesn't keep the move permanently, it doesn't go under the Learnset section. - s.Combusken 00:11, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Ok i was just wonderingryan 14:39, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
Sould it be noted that, in all sprites exept Gen. 3 Ditto's color is purple, but in its Gen. 3 sprite it's pink ? ryan 15:19, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
no cos to me it looks pink all time and in Yellow it Yellowy-green.GoldsWigglytuff 10:42, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Buggy Moves
In my Pokemon Diamond game, I was using Ditto to catch Pokemon. After using transform on and catching a Primape, combat ended with Ditto still looking like Primape (duh). After that I got into another wild battle and Ditto was Ditto again, but with Primape's moveset. I am making an assumption that you can potentially make Ditto a permanent clone move-wise this way, anyone want to experiment? Crenel 21:07, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
never happed to me and my ditto, if was a bug in your game then you are lucky. and what do mean experiment? I can experiment.GoldsWigglytuff
- Wha? I've heard of this happening... was this a Japanese game or the international release? TTEchidna 23:57, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
- Sorry for the stupidly late reply, I don't visit here much (obviously). Anyway, the description I left above is still accurate. It has been traded between several players, gained over 30 levels in daycare, gone back and forth over Wi-fi, and been used in many battles since I originally left this message, yet it still knows the Primeape's moves. It has not effected or hampered my breeding at all, either. In fact, I bred that same Primeape with the Ditto to get a Mankey later on.
- I own the US version of Pokemon Diamond (purchased at my local Gamestop).
- The Primeape in question was caught with an Ultra Ball and caught on Route 225 (of course) if anyone wants to experiment with this. Basically, go into any battle with your Ditto, use transform, and then catch the Pokemon you transformed into while Ditto is still your active Pokemon. Then, check Ditto's moves to see if they have changed. If they haven't, try it a few more times and see if it works. Also, I am pretty sure my Ditto was holding Quick Powder at the time as well.
- Ditto right now knows whatever moves a level 52 Primeape knows, which off the top of my head are Cross Chop, Rage, Swagger, and Thrash. Crenel 07:39, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
- Forgot to mention, I own no cheating devices nor do I have access to them. and my entire game is legitimately played. Crenel 07:40, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
if a shiny ditto Transforms will it Transform in a shiny whatever
if it don,t then saud be in the page GoldsWigglytuff
cool, when did it solpGoldsWigglytuff 10:40, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
- Gen IV is the first game where it becomes, shiny or not, whatever it turned into. TTEchidna 19:30, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
The Transform Paradox: I changed the title because this example is not actually a paradox. A paradox is an extended contradiction, this is not. - unsigned comment from Manowargodsofwar (talk • contribs)
- True, yes, however, a paradox is also an infinite time loop that self-contradicts. The contradiction here comes in the never-lowering PP of Transform for both Pokémon, remaining locked at 5. TTEchidna 19:29, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
There is no contradiction in this at all. Both using Transform is nothing more than a deadlock. An infinite time loop the self-contradicts would be going back in time to kill your grandfather and succeeding. - unsigned comment from Manowargodsofwar (talk • contribs)
- I have a question, does this only apply with two ditto, because mew can transform and can learn other moves. Because it seems to me that only Transform the move is copied, but I thought transform copies all the other Pokemon's moves, so wouldn't a match up between a mew and a ditto (as long as Mew has other moves) be an exception? --Dman dustin 09:46, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
- It works if Mew Transforms into something with only Transform. Say you have a Mew with Transform and Psychic. Psychic has 10 PP. You're facing the exact same Mew. You use Transform. Both Transform and Psychic have 5 PP apiece. You can use all 5 Psychics you have now, then Transform and the PP will be at 5 again. It only locks you in if you have only Transform. TTEchidna 11:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
- Right that's what I meant, the locking, not the transform reseting the PP. Okay good to know.--Dman dustin 20:51, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
- It works if Mew Transforms into something with only Transform. Say you have a Mew with Transform and Psychic. Psychic has 10 PP. You're facing the exact same Mew. You use Transform. Both Transform and Psychic have 5 PP apiece. You can use all 5 Psychics you have now, then Transform and the PP will be at 5 again. It only locks you in if you have only Transform. TTEchidna 11:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Regarding that...in my Crystal, my Ditto battled a wild Ditto. My Ditto constantly transformed, but the wild one kept having its Transform for no reason whatsoever. As a result, Struggle came about... ht14 02:30, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
Shiny Ditto Glitch
What the F...lareon happened to the glitch to get a shiny ditto in G/S using R/B, if no one knows what I'm talking about here's how (altough it's old and I think you all know):
1 Capture the shiny Gyarados in G/S and ransfer it to R/B 2 Teach Gyarados Mimic and erase all his other moves 3 Battle a wild Ditto with the Gyarados, mimic him and transform a few turns while it transforms 4 Capture the Ditto and transfer it to G/S it will be shiny
Notes: I'm not sure if it's a requirement but all of the times I used the Pokémon Stadium 2 (For both transfer and Doduo GB).
Sorry I don't have a video or anything but try it out, I didn't directly affect the article but I'll edit it if no one answers this in 10 days. --Sword zero001 06:56, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
- The egg's a glitch, that's how breeding worked in Generation II. See the last part of the trivia. You just got lucky because of you got a shiny Charmander. And I think the shiny Ditto trick is also mentioned somewhere. UltimateSephiroth (about me · chat · edits) 23:40, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
The glitch has nothing to do with the Shiny Charmander I only wrote that to reference but since I confused you I'll delete it.--Sword zero001 16:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
Ben 10 in Trivia
An alien in the television series Ben 10 shares a name with Ditto. However, unlike the Pokémon, the alien Ditto can simply multiply, and gets its name when two of them say the exact same thing at the exact same time. Don't tell me this belongs in the article. Ben 10 has absolutely nothing to do with Ditto. I don't want to start a revert war, however. Kiryu 00:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- To be honest, it's not surprising that the name "Ditto" is used, since it's not Pokémon specific...ΘρtιmαtumTalk 11:25, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
Ditto Breeding
Ok. all up and down this talk page (and on the Gender one) it says Ditto can't breed with Ditto. And yet, I'VE DONE IT! In both FR and Pearl (Don't ask me to remember GSC, cause I don't, and I didn't have 2 dits in Ruby or Sapph, and never owned LG, Emerald, or Diamond) Either whoever failed has a dfective game, or I do. Me and my fellow torchics agree on this - Sk8torchic. 19:22, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
- Plz to be proving this with a YouTube video proving that no Action Replaying was involved. TTEchidna 20:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
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Ditto isn't the only Pokemon that only learns one move, the same is true of Unown.


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I've just started testing WSUS this week and everything seems to be working great. Currently WSUS is running on a production server and 4 clients are polling for updates.
For testing purposes I've only changed the local group policy on the clients. (Also I know squat about OU's, AD and group poilcy on the domain)
The test environment has been running for a couple of days now and it seems that all 4 computers update successfully however there always seems to be 2 or 3 updates that are waiting for install. When I look at the status of these clients in WSUS, they always seem to say 99%. Will these clients ever reach 100%? Perhaps I'm just being impatient and just need to wait for the process to finish?
I have WSUS syncronizing at 11pm, and the clients installing updates at the default setting of 3am.
So amongst all this ramble... will these clients ever reach 100%?
ps.. For those of you who are new to WSUS, here's a great little vid that will take you through an install and show you some of the features...
Apr 21, 2008 at 8:56 UTC
You guys have all been very helpful! Being new to Wsus this is all very valuable information.
As it turns out, I just needed to config the local group policy correctly and be patient enough to let Wsus do it's thing. As time goes by, more and more clients are reporting 100%.
Thanks again everyone...
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Apr 16, 2008 at 8:43 UTC
(Just to mention, there's an SP1 now for WSUS 3.)
You probably already know this, but when you go to your Computers group and you click on one of the computers that is at 99%, the bottom half of the window should show you a report with a clickable link of Updates needed. When you click on that, the report should open with more detail about which update is needed.
On page 2 of that report, it will list the updates and their approval and their status.
What does the Update Detailed Status Report show for one of your 99% boxes?
Apr 16, 2008 at 8:54 UTC
One of them has 11 updates needed. All of them with an approval status of "Install" and of course a status of "Not Installed".
I'm wondering since WSUS is syncing at 11pm and the client is installing at 3am... why wheren't these 11 updates included and installed at 3am?
I did install SP1... thanks for the heads up.
Apr 16, 2008 at 9:14 UTC
Can you post what policies you set and what they were set to? I understand you are using local and not group. Let me take a look at them and maybe it will shed some light on this.
Apr 16, 2008 at 9:16 UTC
Do you have the WUS setup to reboot the machines, or did you leave that up to the end users to do? It's possible they are waiting for a reboot before they can install the rest of the updates. Are any of the problem machines showing errors (red x) in the WUS console?
Apr 16, 2008 at 10:20 UTC
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Hrm I couldnt tell you. I do know that GFI has a software package Langaurd that we use instead of the MS solution and it works great.
Apr 16, 2008 at 10:30 UTC
Ok my mistake... I had set up the local group policy to notify of updates and allow for manual install. Auto update just gave me the popup and I've installed the suggested updates, however according to wsus there are 5 more to go. I've changed the GP to auto download and auto install at 3am, so I guess we'll see how it all looks in the morning.
Thanks for all the help! WSUS is completely new to me and having this community at my beck and call is a wonderful thing.
Apr 16, 2008 at 10:37 UTC
Sounds good. Make sure it's set to reboot if necessary as Grimby pointed out, else other updates won't be able to install / finish installing until it's manually rebooted.
Apr 17, 2008 at 12:05 UTC
I had the same thing happen to me with more than half my users. For whatever reason a couple of updates were reporting back with no status which hung them at 99%. After running the Server Cleanup Wizard (under Options) and removing all the old and sperseeded updates, they are all now up to 100%.
Hope this works for you!
Apr 21, 2008 at 8:56 UTC
You guys have all been very helpful! Being new to Wsus this is all very valuable information.
As it turns out, I just needed to config the local group policy correctly and be patient enough to let Wsus do it's thing. As time goes by, more and more clients are reporting 100%.
Thanks again everyone...
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Hello All!
I have the same problem and i have all the above settings but its on 99%. I guess one of my another colleague configured this one but i have checked all the settings and every things looks fine. I can only see 1 client in green and every other is on 99%.
I did configured Client side targeting last week after reading documents.
I can see some errors on my WSUS:
Content file download failed. Reason: HTTP status 404: The requested URL does not exist on the server.
Source File: /msdownload/v7/software/svpk/2007/12/wssmuisp1-bg-bg_858cda916942e6503a6708703c5f3b94bd891142.cab Destination File: D:\WSUS\WsusContent\42\858CDA916942E6503A6708703C5F3B94BD891142.cab.
The server is failing to download some updates.
I did all the stuff provided by google as show below in the link but its not working and i can still see the error.
What should i do to fix it?
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Pallekele, Sep 27: Sri Lanka win super over, after the match was tied as both teams scored 174 at the end of 20 overs, which was a first of it's kind in World T20 2012, during the Super Eights clash at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
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Highlights: World T20: Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand
Thriller of a contest, as the first Super Eights clash between Sri Lanka and New Zealand was tied as both the teams scored 174 at the end of 20 overs, which led to an exciting finish as there is a Super Over to decide the winners of the clash.
With one to win off the last ball, as Lahiru Thirimanne ran himself out while attempting for a single, as Southee failed to collect the ball but it deflected into the stumps to be declared out, which also gave a dramatic finish to the game, as a Super Over had to be bowled to decide the winner of the match.
Jayawardene and Perera walked out as they scored 6/0 off the first three balls off Southee, while the next one was a wide as Perera got a single as well, as Jayawardene was dismissed off the fourth ball as he was miles away when McCullum dislodged the stumps.
A single and three runs off the fifth and sixth ball respectively to finish with 13/1 off the Super Over.
Needed 14 to win, New Zeland's Martin Guptill faced Malinga in the Super Over; took two runs and a single off the first two balls to give Brendon McCullum the strike, as he took two runs after Sangakkara failed to collect the ball, score 5/0 off 3 balls.
The next ball was a wide ball as Guptill hit that which was put down by Sangakkara, which yielded a run, followed by Guptill's wicket off the fifth ball, as Dilshan took an amazing catch under pressure as NZ required 8 runs off the last ball.
6/1 off 5 balls, as Malinga conceded 2 runs off the last ball to win the match in the one over eliminator.
Sangakkara messed it up in the Super Over, as he failed to collect the ball twice.
Earlier Tillakaratne Dilshan's 76 off 53 balls helped Sri Lanka to score 174/5 off 20 overs, which included 5 boundaries and 3 sixes. Sri Lanka was on a roll as they chased such a big target for the first time at home, though it was tied, the win off a one-over eliminator would keep their confidence high.
With Jayawardene (44), Sangakkara (21), Ajantha Mendis (8) all contributing very well, Malinga finally won it for Sri Lanka, conceding just 8 runs when NZ required 14 to win.
NZ Innings Report: Riding high on Rob Nicol and Martin Guptill's knock, New Zealand posted a challenging 174/7 against Sri Lanka while the hosts disappointed on the field as only debutant Akila Dananjaya impressed claiming two wickets on debut for Sri Lanka in the Super Eights clash at Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
Akila Dananjaya finished with 2/32 off his 4 overs, as he is placed third in the list of bowling figures on debut after Muralitharan (2/27) and Ajantha Mendis (4/15).
New Zealand's Rob Nicol stole the show as he scored 58 off 40 balls which included 3 boundaries and 4 sixes.
Sri Lanka, having conceded 43 runs in the first 6 overs, looked tensed and sloppy on field as Dananjaya was the only one who impressed everyone on the field.
New Zeland's batting was quite good on Thursday as the top order contributed well, with Mark Guptill (38), Brendon McCullum (25) and Ross Taylor (23) playing well to guide NZ to 174/7
Chasing 175 to win, hosts would rely more on the opening partnership as they need some good partnership at the start of the innings, in order to seal a win and keep their semifinal hopes alive.
Moreover, stats are against the hosts, as they have not won a match chasing at home and given their struggle under pressure, it all depends on the opening stand.
Playing XIs
Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardene (captain), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Akila Dananjaya, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Ajantha Mendis, Jeewan Mendis, Thisara Perera, Kumar Sangakkara, Lahiru Thirimanne.
New Zealand: Ross Taylor (Captain), Martin Guptill, Rob Nicol, Brendon McCullum, Kane Williamson, James Franklin, Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Daniel Vettori, Kyle Mills, Tim Southee
Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and Simon Taufel (Australia)
Third umpire: Steve Davis (Australia)
Match referee: Javagal Srinath (India)


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This is a sponsored post by Legal and General, they've written about home tech here and asked me if I'd write a post about Home Technology. They came to the right place! We went to Curry's a couple of weeks ago, and I was amazed at how much new home technology is out there now.
One quick wander round a store and we saw…
A floor cleaning robot (small children were torturing it with bit of large paper, poor thing), an LG Washing Machine which you can control from your smart phone, TV's you can voice activate, wifi lighbulbs (no idea why you'd need those but they looked cool!) and the new massive Dyson 'fan' which frankly looks like wonderful black magic.
It was one of those trips to the shops when you realise as an 80's child, that you do in fact live in the future.
So this has made me think, as a techie household we really have a surprisingly small amount of home tech. The most interesting thing we have at the moment is a kettle where you can choose the temperature of the water and that is surprisingly handy. We are fairly pragmatic about tech though and I think that it has to make your life better/easier to warrant the extra expense of buying it. I am the woman since unplugging the microwave a month ago, I've only plugged it back in twice…maybe I don't need it anymore!
But what would we use? I think if we were staying in this house we'd get the boiler changed and I'd have something like Nest installed to control the heat in the house from my phone, that would be amazing and save on bills. In fact I think the next house that will be something we install fairly soon after we move in.
I love the idea of this 'Energy Egg Smart Light Switch' which turns off lights when you've left the house or the room. It's my husband's dream product!
Bluetooth speakers are now cheap and everywhere it seems, you can even get them in lightbulbs which I LOVE the idea of these Playbulbs just make me happy and I think I'll have to get some. They even do them for the garden now too.
Now if I had the money, and the right sized kitchen this is a perfect storm of two of my favourite things, an Aga you can control from your iPhone…..but that is a lottery win wish!
I asked my friends on Facebook to see if they had any new home tech and what they thought of it. Here's what they said…
Helpful Mum from 'You're not from Around Here' says 'Our robot hoover is amazing. It cleans the dining room and hall for me so I have a few less jobs to do. It's a Roomba iRobot. When B&B guests have finished, I clear the dining room and pop the hoover in there. It means I never have to hoover the dining room. It also does the hall, which leaves fewer jobs for me. I don't use it on the bedrooms because it tends to get stuck under beds.'
Old school friend James recommends the Xiaomi Mi Band – 'it's great, buzzes to alert you to messages / calls on iphone and android, it's a fitness and sleep tracker (like fitbit etc) and costs ~£12 (unlike fitbit etc!). Waterproof and battery lasts between 30 and 60 DAYS between charges. If you're on android 5.0 + it acts as a trusted device to lock and unlock your phone so if you're out of range it locks the phone automatically and unlocks it when you're in range'.
Nik from niksargent.com – 'withings scales; withings blood pressue monitor; withings pulse (health monitor); Philips baby monitor & Philips IP cams; bekin wemos; lifx lighting; easybulb lighting; pebble watch; Tile trackers; And soon to be re-instated our fully connected IOT bumblebee nest environment (Spin remote on order; Flic trackers on order; netatmo weather station on order; heatmiser neokit on order) – (for the avoidance of doubt, these are all internet connected devices)'
His top tip for lighting is 'cheapest smart/wifi bulbs I have found are the easybulb range – just installed about 15… sadly they can't be controlled by the ifttt.com service, whereas the lifx bulbs can…'
Do you guys have any amazing home tech that your use, or think is worth buying? Would love to hear about it!
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In termite society, there are different castes that determine the termite's role in the colony. Only termites that are reproductive will grow wings. Even then, not all reproductive termites have wings. There are two primary types of reproductive termites: alates and neotenics. There are two further subtypes of neotenics, and alates have two further stages. Neotenics will not have wings, although some of them will have wing nubs; neotenicssupplement the colony's egg production and resemble smaller queens. Alates are the winged termites that you are likely to see as neotenics remain inside the colony.


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Hi, I'm Craig Kendall, the author of The Asperger's Syndrome Survival Guide. In today's issue we will discuss…
Asperger's Syndrome: How can I stop meltdowns when routines change?
Understanding the need for routine in people with Asperger's syndrome
People with Asperger's syndrome need to have a routine and need to know what is going to happen next at all times. Routine is stabilizing and essential to people with Asperger's syndrome; they get very anxious when they are not prepared for what will happen.
Having a routine and predictability helps those with Asperger's syndrome feel safe. Whether you're meeting someone with Asperger's syndrome for the first time or trying to figure out how to best help a loved one, creating a routine, using explicit, literal, verbal language to communicate, being aware of sensory issues and trying to minimize them as much as possible, and having lots of love and understanding will go a long way to helping people with Asperger's navigate the world.
Consistency Is Important for People with Asperger's Syndrome
What are some things a parent can do to help?
The most important thing is to be consistent. Everyone (but especially kids) with Asperger's syndrome thrive on routine.
Everything needs to be done at the same time, in the same way, every day, as much as possible, to give a sense of safety and security. When there will be a change in routine, tell your loved one as far in advance and explain what will happen.
When you talk to your loved one with Asperger's, you should use a calm and even tone of voice, and use explicit language that says exactly what you mean.
Do not make requests too complicated or ask a child, teenager or even an adult with Asperger's syndrome to do things with too many steps at once. Try to keep your language as literal as possible.
Try to be very verbal. If your child does something right, praise them for it. But this advice is definitely not just for children.
I received this email from an adult which describes how he feels when things get complicated and he begins to meltdown…
An Aspie is like a juggler who can keep one ball in the air at a time, but struggles with more than one. Right now I am battling with four or five balls (problems) that just do not seem to get resolved and at times, like today, and my mind is on overload and cannot cope – it just goes blank, I forget things, lose things, which are uncharacteristic. Can you recommend anything to help me, please?
Meltdowns can occur in adults as well as children with Asperger's syndrome
If your loved one has a meltdown, the most important thing to remember when dealing with these situations is to try to figure out what caused them. Your loved one is not doing this to intentionally annoy you; he is doing it because he has reached his limit of tolerance in whatever he is dealing with. If you feel his meltdown was caused by a change in routine, reassure him of the routine for the rest of the day and that the routine will not change the next day, if that is the case.
Successful tactics used by parents of children with Asperger's syndrome
In the research I conducted for my book, The Asperger's Syndrome Survival Guide, I interviewed hundreds of parents. The following are specific actions that parents of children with Asperger's syndrome told me helps minimize or reduce the likelihood of meltdowns.
"We try not to change anything around him. I try to be with him as much as possible."
"Keeping on a strict schedule and explaining if something will be different, aside from the normal routine."
"We have added visual cues where possible we try not to stray from routine, even when something exciting is happening we created 'retreats' where our son can go to calm down."
"I try to keep some kind of structure. Any change in his routine, will result in a meltdown – from his morning routine all the way to his bedtime."
"We provide warnings (30 minute, 10 minute, 5, etc.) when we know a transition is approaching. We have 'do overs' as an opportunity to 'go back in time' and make things the way she likes them. We don't raise our voice with her because that causes her to become highly agitated. Instead, we try to be silly and cajole her into calming down."
"We have tried to 'slow down' and work around his temperament. We no longer 'rush' to do things and try to allow plenty of time because we found that by telling him we were 'running late' it only caused him to get more upset. We have tried to cut down/eliminate those items that we know send him on 'sensory overload.' We have altered his diet and we are still working at how to lessen/shorten the melt downs as well as what other things trigger them."
"Making changes would be the wrong thing to do in Saira's case. We have had the same routine since she was 2 and any change would pretty much destroy her perfect world."
"we tend to follow the same routine, or sequence of activities, we have to be careful about transitions, make sure that preferred foods are available, he needs very close following to see that homework and other non-preferred activities are completed well so use picture schedules at times"
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6 Responses to How can I stop meltdowns when routines change-5
Our daughter is now 33 yrs old. She is smart ans was an honor student. Her two brothers have Delexia. She was so snmart growing up her Asperger's syndrome was masked to us compared to her brothers. Now as an adult we see meltdowns, angry outbursts, intolerence to noise and much ado like family holiday gatherings. Last Christmas she & har family declined to join the rest of our family to celebrate. what can we do to make things more calm & enjoyable for her?
Hi my name is Amy and my son Jaden is 8 yrs old . I was told he had Asperger's syndrome , ODD , and mood disorder. Jaden get very upset in his meltdowns and hit, bites, kicks and pulls my hair. also if he gets mad at my 5 yr old he will hurt him. Jaden has been in hospitals 6 times and comes out the same . all they do is change his meds. and sometimes its like every other week they are changing them. He has no friends that he plays with like any other child would do . and I cant get him to eat much of anything and he has been that way from a baby starting baby foods. I don't think the doctors working with Jaden are helping him because some of the meds. they put him on take at least 2 or more weeks to start working and most of the time he is only on it for one week before they are changing it again. I don't know how to help him and im at my wits end any help would be wonderful . I would love to see Jaden living a happier life .. Thanks Amy
Amazing! Really helpful!
My son is a 25 year old Aspie still learning to navigate his way in a world
that unfortunately still remains pretty
ill-knowledged on dealing with AI spectrum
folks. Our new focus is "life skills" for
Jacob. We try to recognize an imminent meltdown and run one of our interference plays…either a "mental mini vacation-usually about two minutes will help" or
some deep cleansing breath 3 – 5 minimum.
A quick "sensory snack – something sweet and
crunchy like an apple, or just moving to a quiet zone.
Hi Craig, I found your web site while doing a general search about Aspergers. Our son who is now 14 years old has displayed many, but not certainly all of the Asperger "type" symptoms. Jack was born quite premature and went through over 5 years of Occupational Therapy and some limited Physical Therapy for fine ans gross motor deficits and tactical issues. What is a working dx of Sensory Deficit Syndrome. Wow, has he came a long way. He is very social and makes and keeps good friends since childhood.
Just recently a (or should I say another) Child Developmental M.D. has brought up the word ASPERGERS for the first time.
Jack has both parents that work in Pediatric Sub-Specialists. Poor guy! He doesn't have a chance. Ha!
Any advise for maybe the children who are fall on the "out-lying" spectrum of Aspergers? Many thanks, Sandi


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You may have noticed a peculiar trend over the past century: popular music from young people's radio stations and the like are cropping up in cinematic feature films. 2014 continued this burgeoning trend with great gusto, with pretty much every movie you can think of in some way incorporating some of that sweet sugary ear candy. Here are 40 of our favourites, with just one getting very special attention, if only because it really is that unfathomably awesome.
'Everything Is AWESOME!!!'
Artist: Tegan And Sara / The Lonely Island
In: The Lego Movie
Canadian indie popsters Tegan And Sara were enlisted to perform Bricksburg's biggest (and only) radio hit - as written by Shawn Patterson, Joshua Bartholomew, Lisa Harriton (AKA Jo Li) and comedic music maestros The Lonely Island - giving the world at large a song so infectious and emphatic, the three exclamation marks in its title just didn't seem quite enough. The International Business Times declared it a brilliantly subversive parody of fascism, which may have been overthinking it just slightly, although if you did want to reduce your population to a servile mass of droolingly obedient human goldfish, there are worse ways of going about it. Altogether now: "You know what's awesome? EVERYTHING!"
'The Money Chant'
Artist: Robbie Robertson ft. Matthew McConaughey
In: The Wolf Of Wall Street
By the end of 2014, you can pretty much guarantee that nobody but nobody was spelling Matthew McConaughey's surname incorrectly. An Oscar here, a thought-provoking mega-blockbuster there, a groundbreaking TV show just for the heck of it. Not bad at all. And just for good measure, he was an integral part of the year's first major earworm. Hardly surprising, of course - music has always been a true love for Hollywood's foremost naked jazz percussionist, and he must have got a major kick out of featuring on a track by Robbie Robertson. Based around a sample of McConaughey's chest-thumping inspirational mantra from the lunch scene with Leonardo DiCaprio – itself based on something McConaughey likes to do between takes, and which DiCaprio insisted he include in the film – 'The Money Chant' is a deliciously addictive groove about greenbacks.
'Time In A Bottle'
Artist: Jim Croce
In: X-Men
"Should not be a famous overplayed song. Should be one that we make famous, like Quentin did with Neil Diamond's 'Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon'. Something that would be super-cool now." Not our words, but the words of Bryan Singer, typed onto his iPhone when his voice gave out during filming of X-Men: Days Of Future Past. He was referring, of course, to the Quicksilver kitchen scene, eulogised elsewhere in our Review Of The Year. Empire asked which song he'd chosen, naturally, but he deflected our inquiry, only to say that it was era-appropriate and subject-appropriate. He wasn't wrong. 'Time In A Bottle', a lilting, folksy lament from Croce, beautifully enhances the scene, where something quirkier and rockier might have fallen utterly flat. Spookily, Croce died in a plane crash in 1973, the year in which Days Of Future Past is set, lending the lyrics of 'Time In A Bottle' a poignant edge. "There never seems to be enough time/to do the things you want to do…"
'Come And Get Your Love'
Artist: Redbone
In: Guardians Of The Galaxy
Singling out one song from the movie that made OSTs cool again is no easy task. This piece could just as easily be about Elvin Bishop's angelic 'Fooled Around And Fell In Love', for example, or the impish 'Escape (The Pina Colada Song)'. But it's this funky classic from Native American rock group Redbone that sets the tone and tempo for James Gunn's space rock-opera, settling both its hero and the audience into an unmistakable groove as Star-Lord dances around ancient ruins, using local wildlife as an impromptu microphone. It's the song that says, from the off, this is not the movie you were expecting. And it's catchy as hell.
Artist: Family Of The Year
In: Boyhood
The song that adorns Empire's film of 2014 like the bow on a Christmas present, 'Hero' is so full of Boyhood's charms and uncertainties ("I'm a kid like everyone else" runs one particularly Mason-y lyric), it could only have been written especially for the film. Except, of course, it wasn't. Californian four-piece Family Of The Year, an indie troupe of Mumfordian folk tendencies, released it two years ago. It was the last track picked for Richard Linklater's jukebox of time-specific tunes, initially deemed "too much" before the director decided that "too much" was exactly the right amount for the scene. "You know when it works," he told Time magazine. "That's the good thing. You know it when you finally crack it."
'Main Theme'
Artist: Hans Zimmer
In: Interstellar
If the year ends with a number between 0 and 9, you can beat your lugholes that Hans Zimmer will have popped up with another score to register high on any December round-up. Interstellar's space jams, built around a haunting organ motif, were full of the wonder of space and the sheer, jaw-dropping zaniness of its heroes' interplanetary exploits. This main theme was the perfect earworm for Christopher Nolan's wormholes.
'Old Man'
Artist: Neil Young
In: Expendables 3
Only if Neil Young had bashed out a ditty called 'Old Man With Massive Rocket Launcher' could there have been a more perfect accompaniment to the bit of Expendables 3 when its ageing tough guys assemble in a bar and get mercilessly ribbed by the new generation. Yes, there was a new generation. If that sounds worryingly like previous baton-passing exercises (cc Mutt Williams), it looked worrying too. Still, this musical cue was a nice reminder that its current crop of creaking, bus-pass-fumbling cadre of tough guys didn't take themselves too seriously.
'Trouble Man'
Artist: Marvin Gaye
In: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014 was the year that Marvel discovered soul. Guardians Of The Galaxy was drenched in it, of course, but the studio kicked off the year in style by updating Steve Rogers' musical taste with this cracking Marvin Gaye tune. With all the guys in his barbershop quartet now dead, Cap is introduced to the song when he first meets Anthony Mackie's Sam Wilson. Maybe Wilson thought his new BFF would appreciate the lyrics? "I come up hard but that's okay / 'Cause trouble man, don't get in my way." The song itself makes an appearance at the end when Wilson plays it to a recovering Rogers in his hotel room. Disappointingly, Cap doesn't react like a 95 year-old man normally would. "Would you TURN IT DOWN? It's VERY LOUD. What's he SAYING? I CAN'T MAKE OUT THE WORDS."
'I'll Get You What You Want (Cockatoo in Malibu)'
Artist: Bret McKenzie
In: Muppets Most Wanted
Bret McKenzie's songs for the follow-up to The Muppets are undeniably fun, and fine as far as it goes. But when the first movie bagged the former Conchord an Oscar (in true Academy fashion, for the wrong song; 'Life's A Happy Song' is far superior to 'Man Or Muppet'), it upped the pressure on the tunes second time around. This seriously sexy Billy Joel-esque number, in which Kermit imposter Constantine attempts to woo Miss Piggy, is possibly the only song to match the highs of the first movie, both musically and lyrically ("You want an ice cream cone? I'll give it to you. You want a mortgage loan? I'll give it to you."). The video, in which McKenzie appears and sings, is also a delight.
'Frank's Most Likeable Song Ever'
Artist: Frank Sidebottom
In: Frank
After an entire movie of churning out virtually unlistenable experimental nonsense, Frank (Michael Fassbender) takes Domnhall Gleeson's Jon into his hotel room and shows that the latter's exhortations to write more commercial stuff haven't fallen on papier-mâché ears. "This is my most likeable song… EVER!" exclaims Frank, unleashing a 35-second long blitzkrieg of virtually listenable experimental nonsense that is at once utterly hilarious and the frontrunner to be Ireland's entry at next year's Eurovision Song Contest. And it is likeable - an exuberant puppy of a song, name checking everything that is good in this life, including lipstick, Coca-Cola and, of course, Ringo. Peace and love, Frank. Peace and love.
'American Interior'
Artist: Gruff Rhys
In: American Interior
This year, Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys made a documentary about a Missouri River-mapping, 18th century Welsh explorer called John Evans – as you do – and produced a concept album to go with it. The album, film and its lead single are all called 'American Interior', but as only one of them is actually a song, it's the 6 Music favourite that's made it onto our year-end playlist. If you're curious about the film, do check it out: Evans is represented as a puppet that Rhys drags about with him.
'Love Me Again'
Artist: John Newman
In: Edge Of Tomorrow
Kicking into gear over the end credits of Doug Liman's sci-fi actioner, this cracking slice of soul is probably the best-known track by Newman, the youthful Yorkshireman with the voice born and bred in Motown. And it's a cheeky continuation of the inner monologue of Tom Cruise's character as he comes face-to-face with Emily Blunt's Rita Vrataski, a woman with whom he's deeply in love, but who doesn't know him from Adam. "I need to know now, know now - can you love me again?" Given the film's relative underperformance at the box office, this is the closest we'll come to a sequel.
'Pretty Girl Rock'
Artist: Keri Hilson
In: The Rover
An oasis of oddness in the desert of depression that is David Michôd's post-apocalyptic thriller, the scene where Robert Pattinson's hulking manchild Rey sits in a car and gently sings along to Keri Hilson's bouncy ode to, well, herself is certainly one of the strangest sights of the cinematic year. And that's before we've even tackled the social and cultural implications of Robert Pattinson - R frickin' Pattz himself - singing, "Don't hate me 'cause I'm beautiful". It's a reminder that the world of The Rover is not too far removed from the one we're living in right now, and rather than being a joyous moment, it's stark and unnerving.
'Yellow Flicker Beat'
**Artist:** Lorde
In: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Perhaps overshadowed by the extremely catchy chorus of 'Hanging Tree' from Jennifer Lawrence herself, Kiwi singer Lorde's haunting yet bouncy trip to Panem is a bit of a treat itself, proving yet again that The Hunger Games can attract incredible talent like Coldplay, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore where no other franchise could. Fingers crossed the Part 2 of this song – where all the motifs set up here finally pay off – can deliver.
'Anthonio (Berlin Breakdown Version)'
Artist: Annie
**In:** The Guest
This synthy, John Carpenter-esque cut was part of one of the nicest surprises of the year. From a distance, The Guest looked like a fairly standard genre piece, so when Adam Wingard's film arrived with a star-making turn for Dan Stevens, plenty of tongue-in-cheek twinkle to go with its outlandish action beats, and a stack of '80s-sounding vinyl cued up on its stereo, we were suddenly sold on retro thrillers featuring ex-Downton Abbey cast members. You know, just in case anyone wants to remake Escape From New York with Hugh Bonneville.
'I Need You'
Artist: M83
In: Divergent
The film may have divided people in these parts, but the soundtrack and Junkie XL-penned score both had their moments. Even the kind of sax solo that would be outlawed in any kind of compassionate society can't keep French synthster Anthony Gonzalez, AKA M83, from our year-end playlist. This sizeable-sounding slab of electronica is a highpoint.
'Lost Stars'
Artist: Adam Levine
In: Begin Again
Not including his 30 Rock appearance as Jack Donaghy's "European friend, Rocca", Adam Levine is a newcomer to acting, but he can definitely sing a bit, as 27 bazillion Maroon Five fans would testify. Despite worrying references to "hunting season" and "lambs on the run" that made him sound a bit like Elmer Fudd, the end-of-the-affair vibe of this power ballad chimed nicely with the film's downbeat moments. If it sounds a bit like the New Radicals, that's probably because it was co-written by ex-New Radical (Old Radical?) Gregg Alexander. There's also a Keira Knightley version, but we can't tell you why without spoiling the movie.
'Black Hole Sun'
Artist: Nouela
In: Walk Among The Tombstones trailer
'Black Hole Sun' is best known as a raw chunk of classic Soundgarden, so it was a surprise to hear it pop up on the trailer of Liam Neeson thriller Walk Among The Tombstones in pared-down, cover-version form. Nouela Johnston, an unheralded vocalist who coincidentally also hails from Seattle, gave it a eerily low-key treatment – more Soundshrubbery – that mirrored the current trailer trend of spooky reworkings of old staples (see also Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Gone Girl). "I've done little things here and there for things like cellphones," the singer told Grantland, "but to see Liam Neeson kicking the crap out of people with me singing in the background was pretty great."
'A Horse With No Name'
Artist: America
In: American Hustle
True fact: America's Billboard #1 song has appeared in an episode of Friends and Air America, and once prompted Penn Jillette, of Penn and Teller fame, to quiz the band on why some of its lyrics – namely "there were plants, and birds, and rocks, and things" – seemed a bit, well, unfinished. It has not, until now, been used to accompany a combover of dazzling complexity like the one executed by Christian Bale at the beginning of American Hustle. First time for everything.
'Please Mr. Kennedy'
Artists: Justin Timberlake, Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver
In: Inside Llewyn Davis
A song so catchy that the tortured artiste protagonist of the Coen brothers' latest immediately holds it in utter contempt, 'Please Mr. Kennedy' is the comedic highpoint of Inside Llewyn Davis, beautifully playing Oscar Isaac's increasingly flustered Llewyn off against the earnestness of Justin Timberlake's Jim, as well as the spectacular oddness of Adam Driver's Al Cody, bellowing backing vocals like a man having an episode. A jaunty parody of early '60s protest songs that was so close to the T-bone that it was prevented from competing for Best Original Song at last year's Oscars, it's glorious stuff. And there's something strangely beautiful about Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac singing, 'Please don't shoot me into outer space' before they were both cast in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Artist: Duke Ellington
In: Mood Indigo
There are many strange things in Michel Gondry's tragi-romance – mice people who travel in the skirting boards, a piano that makes cocktails and a pod car attached to a crane – but the score isn't one of them, especially for fans of old-school jazz. The latter is mostly provided by Duke Ellington, and it's this wonderfully woozy number that most makes us want to find a 1930s dancefloor and biglemoi right across it, preferably with Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris.
'Mr. Moustafa'
Artist: Alexandre Desplat
In: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mr. Moustafa by Alexandre Desplat on Grooveshark
If you've had a busy year, spare a thought for Alexandre Desplat. The Frenchman, now a near-giant in film composition, wrote and recorded the scores to The Monuments Men, Godzilla, The Imitation Game and Unbroken, as well as Empire's personal favourite, The Grand Budapest Hotel. If he got more than 17 hours sleep along the way, we'd be surprised. Joyous, infectious and fabulously evocative of the not-quite-Balkan kingdom of Zubrowka, he gave voice to Wes Anderson's quirky confection. This balalaika theme, accompanying F. Murray Abraham's grown-up Zero Moustafa, could be the music of the world's least scary haunted-house movie.
'London Is The Place For Me'
Artist: D Lime
In: Paddington (NB the following is the original version)
One of the loveliest touches in Paul King's delightful family film, and one that reinforces his notion of London as a faintly magical storybook realm, comes when Paddington is driven through London as a breezy ditty about the joys of the city plays on the soundtrack, the camera finally coming to rest on the Calypso band specially put together for the film by Damon Albarn, of all people. This is D Lime, and the key song of the movie is 'London Is The Place For Me', composed by a Caribbean musician called Lord Kitchener, who came to England - like Paddington - after the World War II on the famous ship, MV Empire Windrush. Amazingly, Kitchener wrote the song, with lyrics like "You can take a walk down Shaftesbury Avenue / There you will laugh and talk and enjoy the breeze", before he'd even set foot in the city, but somehow its glowing optimism fits Paddington, bear and movie, like a glove.
'Obvious Child'
Artist: Paul Simon
In: Obvious Child
An obvious choice, this. The film is named after the song and the song is used extensively in the film, and that's more than enough to earn it a place. Hey, we're simple folk. Besides, this Africa–influenced Paul Simon tune is just that – a tune – boasting a drumbeat you could hang up a thousand loads of damp washing to, and a bunch of nonsensical lyrics you could argue the toss over for years (is he singing about Sonny from The Godfather?). All in all, here's an underappreciated piece of super pop that you need to play into your brain as soon as possible.
'I Got To Find Me Somebody'
Artist: The Vel-Vets
In: Northern Soul
A UK hit that blindsided just about everyone, Elaine Constantine's coming-of-age drama struck the nostalgia motherlode in October with a jukebox-load of feelgood soul and hip-commandeering soul from the early '70s. The soundtrack – all 54 tunes-worth – will a lot of sixtysomething Lancastrians very happy this Christmas. This track is our pick.
'We Built This City'
Artist: Starship
In: The Skeleton Twins
"'We Built This City' is often on the top list of worst songs of all time," concedes Skeleton Twins director Craig Johnson, "but it's an era. We're all about the same age. We all know it. We all sing along." So do we, Craig. So do we.
'Hate The Sport'
Artist: Klara, Bobo and Hedvig
In: We Are The Best!
Klara, Bobo and Hedvig, the three punky teens at the heart of Lukas Moodysson's return to form, churned out gleeful Riot Grrrl belters without ever going through the conventional phase of learning to play their instruments or even coming up with a band name. Their set list featured this raucous signature tune that left little doubt over where they stood on the subject of sport ("Hate the sport, hate the sport, hate hate hate hate the sport," they bellow) or their gym teacher.
Artist: Katy Perry
In: Horrible Bosses 2
So far, Katy Perry's flirtation with the big screen has been restricted to voicing Smurfette in the Smurf Cinematic Universe movies and a concert movie. But, even if she never takes another acting gig, her place in the cinematic pantheon is assured - Jacques Audiard used 'Firework' in Rust And Bone (the same year the same song also popped up in Madagascar 3), while 'Roar', her profound paean to being the best that you can and never letting nobody keep you down, plays an integral part in Horrible Bosses 2. Jason Sudeikis' Kurt claims that he chose it as his ringtone because it's catchy (and also, we suspect, because he fancies Katy Perry), but really we suspect he's analysed the lyrics. "You held me down, but I got up / Already brushing off the dust"... If this isn't a song about small American business owners refusing to lie down and take their medicine from The Man - the EXACT PLOT OF HORRIBLE BOSSES - then we don't know what is.
'Gimme Shelter'
Artist: The Rolling Stones
In: 20 Feet From Stardom
Her co-star Darlene Love stole the Oscars' show with a thunderous acceptance speech but fellow backing-singing great Merry Clayton owned the best moment in 20 Feet From Stardom when she recalled a late-night invitation to the studio of an up-and-coming rock band. "Merry, there's a group of guys in town called 'The Rolling somebodies'," she remembered of that 3am phonecall, "and they need someone who'll sing with them." The track turned out to 'Gimme Shelter'. Not sure what became of The Rolling Somebodies.
'The Weight'
Artist: The Band
In: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
When Matt Reeves was looking around for a song to become the first piece of music heard by Dawn's human heroes in years, when they're playing around at a deserted gas station just as power is finally restored, he chose this classic cut from The Band. Warm, familiar and with the refrain 'Take a load off', it was a perfect choice for the moment in the film when harmony between ape and human seems not only possible, but inevitable. But it also contains the lyrics, 'You put the load right on me', and that weight has to give at some point. When it does, it does so spectacularly.
'Sister Rust'
Artist: Damon Albarn
In: Lucy
A standout on an Eric Serra-curated soundtrack that wasn't quite up with his very best, Damon Albarn's tender, bruised ballad captured the bits of the movie where Scarlett Johansson's reluctant heroine wasn't sprouting godlike powers or making Park Chan-wook really, really angry by killing all his henchpeople. "It's you and me again, waiting for the credits to end," sang a forlorn-sounding Albarn on a song he wrote for Luc Besson's sci-fi thriller. A few critics knew the feeling.
'Jeep's Blues'
Artist: Duke Ellington
In: American Hustle
American Hustle did everything just a little bigger than its competitors this Oscar season – the acting, the collars, the tunes… even the hairpieces were turned up to 11. Any movie with ELO, Wings and The Bee Gees sharing with Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk has plenty going for it, sonically-speaking. This Ellington classic offered a key character moment when Christian Bale and Amy Adams' scammers-to-be shared their love for it at a party.
'Kyrie, Requiem'
Artist: György Ligeti
In: Godzilla
Grandpa Empire hailed from Transylvania and we've all seen Count Duckula, so it's not difficult to imagine how the haunting Carpathian landscape and its spooky history might have inspired Hungarian composer György Ligeti to come up with his none-more-eerie Requiem mass. Stanley Kubrick famously employed it in 2001: A Space Odyssey, and this year, paying homage to that great sci-fi while ramping up the chills for Godzilla's HALO jump sequence, Gareth Edwards unleashed it once more on our ear drums like a swarm of killer bees.
'Dark Days'
Artist: DJ Shadow
In: Dark Days
The man from U.N.K.L.E. popped up in 2000 to lend his heavy, hypnotic beats to Marc Singer's enthralling documentary about the subterranean shanty town beneath New York. The Freedom Tunnel, a derelict train track that runs from Penn Station through Harlem, could easily double as the set for Luc Besson's Subway or Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King. Instead, Singer's documentary, re-released this January, told the story of the drug-ravaged denizens who have made it their home. Shadow's Endtroducing and music he wrote specially for the film – this chunky cut, in particular – provides perfect urban soundscapes to accompany it.
'The Hanging Tree'
Artist: Jennifer Lawrence
In: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
A capella'ing like she was a shoo-in for Pitch Perfect 3, Jennifer Lawrence added another string to her Hunger Games bow with this gospel-and-blues-style ditty in Mockingjay 1. The song itself – not to be confused with the 1959 Max Steiner effort of the same name – now sits proudly in the charts, despite featuring references to lynching, murder and execution that you won't find in most One Direction tracks. "I cried on set that day," remembers the reluctant pop star with a shudder. "It was awful."
Artist: Hans Zimmer
In: 12 Years A Slave
Full of plangent cellos and violins, building occasionally to quiet swells of emotion, Hans Zimmer's score for 12 Years A Slave was, as you'd expect, an entirely BRRAAAMMM-free affair. The composer was initially reluctant to take on the job, deterred by the magnitude of the story, but Steve McQueen talked him round and his beautiful, melancholy four-note central theme shows why that was a very good decision indeed.
'Wish I Was Here'
Artists: Cat Power and Coldplay
In: Wish I Was Here
Zach Braff's unofficial Garden State follow-up had a tough year, falling flat at the box office and finding its grandstanding use of Paul Simon's 'Obvious Child' hijacked by an entire movie of the same name. To compound things, the musically savvy Braff had Texan rockers Spoon dissing his debut film in song. Still, at least he was able to playlist Wish I Was Here with some dream collaborations – including this one from Cat Power and Coldplay – and hit up The Shins again for another song to change our lives. Chris Martin, Guy Berryman and company also popped to provide the end credits song of Angelina Jolie's sea-survival tale, Unbroken, although sadly not recording under the name 'Codplay'.
'Dust My Broom'
Artist: Elmore James
In: The Wolf Of Wall Street
The great slide guitarist Elmore James was a direct inspiration for Scorsese favourites like The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, and while previously used him on The Departed's soundtrack it was his music producer Robbie Robertson who stuck a copy of James's 1951 recording under his nose for his '80s blow-and-bear-markets period piece. Jazz bandsmen Ahmad Jamal and Cannonball Adderley, bluesman Howlin' Wolf and R&B legend Bo Diddley also made this a Mojo magazine favourite, in preference to the power and hairspray rock of the early '80s. "This is music that gets under your skin immediately," explains Robertson.
'La Cinquette'
Artists: Víctor Reyes and John Lenehan
In: Grand Piano
The plot of concert thriller Grand Piano has concert pianist Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) threatened with certain, snipery death by an anonymous figure in the audience - see mum, this is why we didn't want to do those piano lessons - unless he plays a perfect rendition of a single piece of music. The twist? It's not 'Chopsticks'. In fact, you'd need the temperament of a Buddhist monk and the limbs of Dave the octopus to perform the fiendish 'La Cinquette' flawlessly, which leaves poor Tom in a Hitchcockian bind. Here's the sniper-free version for your listening pleasure.
'Far From Any Road'
Artist: The Handsome Family
In: True Detective
The Handsome Family have been wowing folkies and country fans for close on two decades, but when HBO got hold of their slice of desert gothica they were suddenly in the houses of people who wouldn't know Fairport Convention from the Labour Party Conference. It all came as such a surprise to the folk veterans that when the network originally enquired about using their 12 year-old song on True Detective, they refused to believe it. "We were all, 'Yeah right, we've heard that before'," remembers Handsome Family member Rennie Sparks. "Then we heard back and it was for real, and now we're been getting emails from people in Iran and Kyrgyzstan."


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Football is the ultimate sport, as it incorporates the fast pace of basketball, the timely precision of baseball, and the full-contact aggression of wrestling down purse snatchers in food courts. Unleash the beast with this GrouponLive deal.
The Deal
- $35 for a game-day package to see the Philadelphia Soul against the San Jose Sabercats ($78.25 total value)
- When: Sunday, July 20 at 4 p.m.
- Where: Wells Fargo Center
- Seating: lower-level sideline in sections 101–104, 111–115, 122, or 123
- Door time: 3 p.m.
- Ticket values include all fees.
- Click here to view the seating chart.
The game-day package includes the following:
- One lower-level sideline ticket ($56.25 value)
- Post-game pass to walk on the field and meet the players ($15 value)
- A mini football souvenir ($7 value)
Field passes and mini footballs are available for pick-up at the sales table at section 101.
Scouting Report
After a trip to ArenaBowl XXVI a season ago, the Soul appear to be championship contenders once again. Already halfway through the 2014 campaign, the team has showcased one of the best offenses in the league thanks to a solid running game, which is a rare sight in arena football, a sport played with a zero-gravity ball that floats effortlessly when thrown in the air.
During a May 17 victory over Tampa Bay, Soul running back Derrick Ross became the first player in league history to record 2,000 career rushing yards. Ross also leads the AFL in rushing touchdowns this season, proving to be the perfect complement to quarterback Dan Raudabaugh's high-flying passing game. On July 20, fans can witness the team's multi-faceted attack during the final home game of the regular season at Wells Fargo Center—where the Soul have yet to lose. It's also fan appreciation day at the stadium, complete with a team poster giveaway for the first 3,000 fans and plenty of raffle prizes throughout the evening.
Philadelphia Soul
For nearly 10 years, the Philadelphia Soul have been a fixture in the AFL— earning four trips to the postseason and two ArenaBowl appearances. All of the team's hard work built to a head in 2008, when they claimed victory in ArenaBowl XXII, defeating the San Jose SaberCats 59–56 and earning the right to replace the plastic Foster Trophy in their trophy case with a real one. The team plays its home games at Wells Fargo Center, which they share with the city's professional hockey and basketball teams.