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Home News A sailor says of Bergdahl: "There's never been a SEAL captured or left behind. No. Exceptions. Ever."
A sailor says of Bergdahl: "There's never been a SEAL captured or left behind. No. Exceptions. Ever."
Myrddin wrote earlier this morning about the news that the right-wing, including former officer John McCain and his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, has been attacking Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for the crime of "not being left behind" by his commander-in-chief.
Bergdahl, as you may know, was being held captive by a Taliban-aligned network in Afghanistan, after he went missing in June, 2009. The circumstances surrounding his disappearance are still murky. The US government recently secured Bergdahl's release in exchange for the release of five Taliban prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo).
I offer this, sent by a person I'll identify as a "former member of SEAL Team 2." The writer served in Viet Nam. This is his experience.
This is also the experience of every person in the U.S. military, in one form or another. It's what we do. Please read. The story that illustrates the lesson is amazing. It may also bring you a smile:
One of the things that was drummed into us, beginning with the recruiting process (when I joined the teams you had to be invited by UDT/SEALs to the training; you couldn't just walk up and say, "Dude, I want to go to BUDs") was that "There has never been a SEAL captured or left behind, living or dead."
Wounded soldier with comrades (Image credit: NATO photos)
During our training, if a classmate or crewmate (we were divided into boat crews by height — since you spend a lot of time carrying those f*cking boats, that part makes sense) got hurt, if the injury was not life-threatening (and believe me, our instructors had a strange scale to measure what constituted life-threatening), then it was our duty to carry that person through the rest of the exercise while the instructors screamed into our ears — "There has NEVER been a SEAL captured or left behind, living or DEAD!"
Sometimes, if no one got conveniently injured, an instructor would touch someone on the shoulder and say, "Your leg's broken." And the same drill would ensue with the appropriate screaming at us. Times were not adjusted to account for the extra effort, because there are no such adjustments on the battlefield. If you blew your time, your time was blown.
In Quang Ngai during a recon I caught a bullet in the hip. It blew off a chunk of my iliac crest and cracked my pelvis. The guys on my team did the usual bandaid-type first aid, rigged a stretcher, and humped my ass the hell out of there nearly eight miles to try and reach a place where the choppers could reach us to evacuate.
I was hurting like hell. I was also feeling guilty for slowing my guys down, and feeling responsible since we were supposed to be avoiding contact and when the contact came, I had been "on point." Eventually, when the pain and jostling had gotten to be more than I could stand — along with the guilt for being the cause of all this — I begged my guys to put me down and leave me with an M60 so I could at least slow down the folks chasing us.
To my great relief they put me down and stopped the bouncing. To my surprise they all busied themselves digging the f*ck into a perimeter around me. I told them, "No, leave me. You guys get outta here." I was greeted with seven guys shouting in my ear — "There has NEVER been a SEAL captured or left behind, living or DEAD!"
My friend [name withheld] said, "If you die, everybody dies." Faced with that choice I told them to pick me up and start the bouncing again. This time I sucked it the f*ck up and took it.
I have no opinion of the "worthiness" of Bowe Bergdahl before, or since, his capture. That sh!t is way above any pay grade I ever held.
If he was at any time on the field of battle like me, then it is my sworn duty to bring his ass home one way or another, even at the cost of my own life.
That's the f*cking rule, *ssholes. No. Exceptions. Ever.
–Former Member SEAL Team 2
The writer adds:
Rear Adm. John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said that there was a larger matter at play: The American military does not leave soldiers behind. "When you're in the Navy, and you go overboard, it doesn't matter if you were pushed, fell or jumped," he said. "We're going to turn the ship around and pick you up."
Who would not want to serve with women and men who think and act like that, whatever your other thoughts about war? Me, I'd be proud to call them sisters and brothers.
By the way, that link in the first sentence — you'll like it. Master stylist Charles Pierce performs a perfect take-down of the aforementioned "right-wing". The phrase "Rich (Sparkle Pants) Lowry" turns up.
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34 Responses to "A sailor says of Bergdahl: "There's never been a SEAL captured or left behind. No. Exceptions. Ever.""
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LumberJock says:
Believe me! I had better be.
flocculent says:
This is going to be unpopular, but I call bullshit. Saying something repeatedly doesn't make it true, and the idea that carrying a corpse from a battlefield isn't "leaving them behind" is a fallacy. They were left behibd on that battlefield the instant they died. The other SEALS were carrying worm food, and risking their lives only to perpetuate recruitment for more the manufacture of worm food. This focus on squad loyalty is simply another way to trick desperate young men and women into donating their limbs and lives to corporations and their shareholders. Stories like this are designed to perpetuate the false concept of a volunteer military, and of "just wars," where morality and justice are destroyed. The history of the SEALS shows that their military efforts are primarily pursued for financial gain.
I don't tell soldiers and sailors that I respect their service, because I respect their humanity enough not to lie to them. I have no respect for the decision to make a career of killing, especially given the history of American interventionism for corporate profits.
Its worse than that. They want to keep the wars going so they can send people to get killed.
During the cold war we had agents in the field in East Germany trying to bring down the government and the wall. Meanwhile Thatcher is telling Gorbachev to send in the tanks to stop that happening (claiming to speak for all the NATO leaders). The transcript is in the Thatcher foundation archives.
Two things to learn from that, first the intel services have their own agendas that is not necessarily the same as the politicians. Which is why I don't trust the Generals running the NSA. Second the politicians will stab you in the back for some idiotic Machiavellian scheme thats really about boosting their ego.
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Silver_Witch says:
I hope you are right LumberJock.
Should it be appropriate to Courts Martial Sgt.Bergdahl, He'll likely get any conviction reversed, due to pre-trial publicity. None of the trial Court board can avoid watching or hearing the hue & cry of guilt first and punishment second – saves the 'taxpayers' the cost of a trial.
Well that is Sarah Palin now….
Want to see what she said before?
Governor Offers Support to Family of Captive Soldier
July 19, 2009, Anchorage, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin offered her support and encouragement to the family of a Ft. Richardson soldier captured in Afghanistan.
"Todd and I are praying for Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, his family, and all of his fellow soldiers who are putting their lives on the line to defend our freedom and protect democracy abroad," Governor Palin said. "The capture of Private Bergdahl and the bombings in Jakarta prove that we have not defeated terrorism, and that radical extremists will stop at nothing to attack Westerners and our ideals."
Hmmmm what is the difference between today and 2009….could it be who is in the White House, noooo SHE could not be that shallow – oh yes she is!
TallulaDuck says:
Can Bowe Bergdahl Be Tied to 6 Lost Lives? Facts Are Murky
The Daily Beast published an essay by a former member of Sergeant Bergdahl's battalion, Nathan Bradley Bethea, who linked the search to the deaths of eight soldiers whom he named. But a review of casualty reports and contemporaneous military logs from the Afghanistan war shows that the facts surrounding the eight deaths are far murkier than definitive — even as critics of Sergeant Bergdahl contend that every American combat death in Paktika Province in the months after he disappeared, from July to September 2009, was his fault.
Two soldiers died during the most intense period of the search after Sergeant Bergdahl's June 30 disappearance. Both were inside an outpost that came under attack, not out patrolling and running checkpoints looking for him. The other six soldiers died in late August and early September.
All across Afghanistan, that period was a time of ferocious fighting. President Obama had decided to send a surge of additional troops to improve security, but they had not yet arrived. In Paktika, the eight deaths during that period were up from five in the same three months the previous year. Across Afghanistan, 122 Americans died in that period, up from 58 in 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/world/middleeast/can-gi-be-tied-to-6-lost-lives-facts-are-murky.html?_r=0
John McCain and his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, has been
attacking Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for the crime of "not being left behind" by
his commander-in-chief.
In a perfect world every time Palin opened her mouth .. a hand would appear to slap John McCain upside his head.
Prior to Bergdahl's release, Republican lawmakers were some of the sergeant Bergdahl's biggest advocates, and repeatedly pressed the administration to do something — in fact, everything within its power — to get him returned to the United States.
A May 22 press release from Senator Ayotte's office read, "As part of ongoing efforts to urge the Department of Defense to do all it can to find Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl and bring him home safely, Senator Ayotte worked successfully to include a provision in the bill that presses Pakistan to fully cooperate in the search for SGT Bergdahl." Of course now Ayotte is singing a different tune. Dirty Reps like to burn their candle at both ends .
4th Turning says:
Don't go away thinking I missed your point. Am a "veteran" raptor rehab
volunteer, campaigner for no-kill, meager donation donor to several
sanctuaries (My fav. still Primarily Primates-don't know what happened
there…) I believe life is life-all of it equal in every way. Love that image
I carry in my head of an Indian woman brushing the floor with a feather
before sitting down. Maybe more symbol than substance, but my kind
of prayer. Indeed, I am treated better by the bacteria in my gut than
by some of my own…
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goulo says:
True; they would not be screaming about this if it had been done during Bush's presidency.
The_Fixer says:
Yes. And one more thing: To secure resources for their corporate masters.
It's a disgusting two-fer.
Make no mistake about it, this crap coming out right now is what the extreme right wing is famous for – attempting to grab the narrative early on and create their own version of events in an attempt to create distrust of the current non-white occupant of the White House. They've done it a number of times with mixed results. It's gotten so bad that it's spawned sites like Politifact (questionable) and Snopes (a lot better) The key to the success of it all is to get their version of the story out there ASAP.
They know that in a lot of cases, people have a natural tendency to accept as truth whatever version of the story they hear first. Quickly disseminating their fabricated version of the truth is important for that reason. The "I have a buddy who was there" e-mail has been particularly effective for them in a number of situations.
Snopes is filled with loads of their conspiracy theories and outright fabrications, all fully debunked. Part of the great circle of false conspiracy is, of course, denying that the Snopes debunking is accurate.
I had real-life experience with this chain of propagandizing. I have a acquaintance, an otherwise decent and generous guy, keep sending me these e-mail messages at the height of the Iraq war, just like the ones we've all seen. I knew it was a cartload of the finest fertilizer-grade bullshit and found a thorough debunking of it on Snopes, which I sent in reply to him. I got a message back from him quoting other e-mail messages saying that Snopes was biased and not to be believed. I sent him a couple of links to various reports generated by neutral parties who had checked into Snopes, their founders/operators and their political affiliations. The results of all of this investigation was that Snopes' investigations are about as neutral as one could hope for in this day and age. If anything, they err on the side of "undetermined". I never got another one of those e-mail messages from my acquaintance again.
This crap is the worst kind of social engineering, and it is truly social engineering by sociopaths.
And the poor man (Bergdahl) will be tortured even more by the people here at home that he tried to serve simply because it was President Obama that was in office at the time the release was negotiated. How sad….and that they (the WNs) have not shame over it…sadder still.
Indeed PappyVet indeed. Who cares about their medical care, their mental health or their repeated returns to tours of duty because there are too few to serve in all the conflicts they find to put out soliders in harm's way.
I for one am sick to death of their two-faced treatment of our men, women, sons and daughters.
I say, next time they need a little war – THEY CAN ALL GO and SERVE!!! And we keep our soliders here safe, warm and loved.
mirror says:
Thank you for your polite reply to my less-than-polite comment. I absolutely agree with your point here. It is horrible that we send these men and women to fight in support of our policy objectives and refuse to go all out to help and support them afterwards, either based their status as veterans or based on needs we should be responding to for all our citizens. The callousness of this is made all the worse in that the same people who use their suffering and sacrifice as justification for the war they are fighting in, by some horribly twisted circular reasoning, those same people afterward look down on them for mental and physical scars they get in the process. There are so many ways "I respect your service" plays out in real life as a total con.
My point is that the tax cutters and war mongers would like nothing better than for us to believe or even consider that the resources needed for helping veterans, the help they earned and believed was part of their compact with society, that those resources are somehow being diverted to animal shelters and studies of swamp mice.
pappyvet says:
I believe that I stated in a previous post that the only uses the wingnuts have for the military is to pretend to be tough by sending them to die and to garner votes with a bunch of flag waving B.S.
I have not changed my opinion.
Appreciate your taking a moment to reply. This is what I was attempting to
address in BeccaM's comment:
"America's servicemen and -women exist only to be used up and discarded.
For them, Bergdahl committed the unpardonable double sin of being noticed and failing to be dead."
Her point and mine:
Summary of Veterans Statistics for PTSD, TBI, Depression and Suicide.
there are over 2.3 million American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (compared to 2.6 million Vietnam veterans who fought in Vietnam; there are 8.2 million "Vietnam Era Veterans" (personnel who served anywhere during any time of the Vietnam War)
at least 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have PTSD and/or Depression. (Military counselors I have interviewed state that, in their opinion, the percentage of veterans with PTSD is much higher; the number climbs higher when combined with TBI.) Other accepted studies have found a PTSD prevalence of 14%; see a complete review of PTSD prevalence studies, which quotes studies with findings ranging from 4 -17% of Iraq War veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder)
50% of those with PTSD do not seek treatment
out of the half that seek treatment, only half of them get "minimally adequate" treatment (RAND study)
19% of veterans may have traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Over 260,000 veterans from OIF and OEF so far have been diagnosed with TBI. Traumatic brain injury is much more common in the general population than previously thought: according to the CDC, over 1,700,000 Americans have a traumatic brain injury each year; in Canada 20% of teens had TBI resulting in hospital admission or that involved over 5 minutes of unconsciousness (VA surgeon reporting in BBC News)
7% of veterans have both post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury
rates of post-traumatic stress are greater for these wars than prior conflicts
in times of peace, in any given year, about 4% (actually 3.6%) of the general population have PTSD (caused by natural disasters, car accidents, abuse, etc.)
recent statistical studies show that rates of veteran suicide are much higher than previously thought (see suicide prevention page).
PTSD distribution between services for OND, OIF, and OEF: Army 67% of cases, Air Force 9%, Navy 11%, and Marines 13%. (Congressional Research Service, Sept. 2010)
recent sample of 600 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan found: 14% post-traumatic stress disorder; 39% alcohol abuse; 3% drug abuse. Major depression also a problem. "Mental and Physical Health Status and Alcohol and Drug Use Following Return From Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan." Susan V. Eisen, PhD
Oddly, statistics for veteran tobacco use are never reported alongside PTSD statistics, even though increases in rates of smoking are strongly correlated with the stress of deployment and combat, and smoking statistics show that tobacco use is tremendously damaging and costly for soldiers.
More active duty personnel die by own hand than combat in 2012 (New York Times)
http://www.veteransandptsd.com/PTSD-statistics.html
to paraphrase:
First they came for the chickens, and I didn't do anything because I wasn't a chicken…
Finally, they came for the humans…
It plays right into the hands of our economic masters for you to argue that one should limit empathy and compassion to approved objects. "I can't be worried about climate change hurting people in Bangladesh because acting on those feelings will hurt OUR economy." "Giving government help to brown people will mean there is no help for MY family." You really think animal rescue shares the blame for the inhuman heartlessness of the right wing and liberal corporatists toward their fellow man? You understanding that less money goes into that in this country than is spent on auto detailing? At least Chomsky bothered to go after something truly widespread when he compared the interest and intelligence poured into sports to the lack of thought put into politics and economics by the ordinary citizen.
Why don't you have the guts to go after the indulgers in auto detailing? Or sports enthusiasts, in your either or world? Attacking empathy for animals will only decrease empathy for other humans.
Jim Olson says:
Note the utter lack of outrage from the right that we were there in an illegal and purposeless war in the first place, where thousands of other soldiers have died.
Amen. The rest of the armchair soldiers who never actually served can now just STFU.
But if you listen to the Fox-indoctrinated wingnuts, that's how they feel about anybody who isn't their immediate family or friends now: "F*ck off and die."
The guy who failed to buy health insurance, for whatever reason? "Let him die!" was their shout.
Even now, the wingnuts harp over whether it was a "good deal" to trade five members of Afghanistan's former government in exchange for an American citizen and servicemember who's been a POW for five years. It's not enough anymore simply to be an American, much less a servicemember who was given that promise, "No matter how badly you f*ck up, you will be brought home." No, now these bloody-minded zealots demand that you have to be WORTHY — but only in their judgment. And it doesn't even matter if that judgment is informed by facts, rumors, baseless assertions, or lies. All that matters is the narrative.
Hundreds of them all over the web are cutting and pasting a block of text alleging to be (anonymously of course) from members of Bergdahl's company in Afghanistan. And it's not enough to just repost the hearsay; they almost always claim the information is from 'a buddy' of theirs. Or as one inconsistent and confused liar posted yesterday, first it was 'a buddy' then a 'buddy of (my) son'.
They won't suspend judgment or simply wait until Bergdahl is asked the inevitable questions by professional investigators, "Did you leave the base voluntarily? If so, why?" If in fact the evidence is he really did desert his post and was in his right mind when he did so, there'll be a court martial and he'll be tossed into Leavenworth. These ravers though? They've already declared him guilty and want him to be executed lynch mob-style.
Unfortunately, Bergdahl's release was negotiated by the Obama administration. That right there, in the psyche of the unhinged wingnut, is a fatal albatross. Obama could rescue a kitten from in front of a speeding car and they'd go nuts trying to frame that kitten into a Nazi-Communist sympathizer and carrier of rabies who attacks only fundamentalist Christians.
heimaey says:
Yes I agree – thanks for the correction!
Listening to this on FreshAir as I was reading through these comments.
Yours strikes me as beyond melancholy as I go down my almost endless list of our fellow human beings who are or become disposable-fated to be used up and discarded… It feels almost like some kind of genetic flaw to wind up caring about members of our own species more than or at least equal to the high octane crusaders for caged chickens or abandoned puppies and kittens. (Did you see the story about avocado pickers in Mexico…)
"One young man described arriving at a new facility just as a fight broke out in the dormitory to which he had been assigned. And although he hadn't been involved, his whole dorm was stripped to their boxers, handcuffed, chained together, taken to the gymnasium and forced to kneel there for what turned out to be two weeks. Is fear the right word for what you feel during an experience like that? I don't know, because, again, he described his humanity draining out of him as he listened to the guards banter and tell jokes and just pass the time, as if these were something other than suffering human beings on the floor in front of them. …"
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/04/318801651/burning-down-the-house-makes-the-case-against-juvenile-incarceration
maybe if the rw gopers keep doing things that are not in the military's best interests the vets might start realizing that their support is counter productive to their and americas best interests.
pvequalkt says:
slight correction. those guys are nameless, faceless subhuman fodder sent to die for corporate profits and predatory capitalism.
"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. … " — General Smedley Butler, USMC, recipient of 2 congressional medals of honor; 1935;
As near as I can tell, for them, America's servicemen and -women exist only to be used up and discarded.
Henson says:
Charlie Pierce is always worth reading, even on his bad days. A true wordsmith, who approaches political snark with a craftsman's eye.
Monte Logan says:
the perfect explanation
Gindy51 says:
And what person in their right mind would sign on to a military career of any duration and NOT depend on that organization to move heaven and earth to get them out of harm's way? If we start leaving people behind ON PURPOSE (which is what the right would do in this case) we won't have a military because no one will join up no matter how hard up they are.
Bring the soldier home, get him healthy, and then see if he is a deserter. We never, ever leave anyone in the hands of a foreign power no matter what they may have done. We sure as shit did not leave soldiers who murdered innocent civilians over there to face the local's justice…
The right has never really cared about the troops. This is just more proof. They are faceless, nameless toys they can send to die for "freedom."
HereinDC says:
Here's an everyday example I came up with:
A snowboarder goes up the ski lift following all the rules…..then the snowboarder decides he wants to board in the off limits zone. The boarder gets caught in an avalanche. Do we just say: "Too Bad, He Didn't Follow the Rules, We'll Just Let Him Die." No……we rescue him and he then has to deal with the consequences.


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How to Build a Championship Team in NBA Live Mobile
Posted on October 27, 2017 by myadmin
When the calendar flips to July, it can only mean one thing: It's time for some basketball!
Okay, not normally, we'll admit. But thanks to EA waiting until the real NBA season was over to drop NBA LIVE Mobile on us, that's what we'll be doing on our phones and tablets for the rest of the summer. The game zoomed right toward the top of the App Store upon its release, so it obviously isn't bothering too many mobile gamers to be playing hoops out of season.
The basics of gameplay are not too difficult, but building the best possible team can be a little trickier. Since that's one of the big focuses of NBA LIVE Mobile, a little instruction may be in order — and we're happy to give it.
Read on and you'll find out how to put together a squad that will make the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors green with envy. Yes, even with Kevin Durant around.
There are levels to this, or tiers, rather
NBA LIVE Mobile uses the time-honored tradition of precious metals to give you a quick glance at how good a player is. In general, gold players are better than silver, which are better than bronze.
Players are marked with one large number to signify their overall skill level, but you can tap on their shields to see how their talents break down in six areas: speed, dribbling, 3 pointer, shooting, defense, and passing.
There are also elite or special event players that are even better than gold, and you'll be able to identify them by the red names and numbers on their player cards.
Five lineups to fill
In one of the more non-intuitive aspects of NBA LIVE Mobile, you aren't nearly done once you've put together a good starting five — or even a 12-man squad, for that matter. Instead, you have to fill five different lineups, each of which grants different bonuses.
• Two-Way: Passing and Defense
• Small Ball: Speed and Dribbling
• Defensive: Speed and Defense
• Big Man: Defense and Shooting
• Shooting: Shooting and 3 Pointer
Each player can only be used in a particular lineup, as indicated by the colored icon on his player card. Yes, this means once you get Russell Westbrook, you can only use him in certain events. That's just the way it goes.
The important thing to remember is that you want to keep looking to improve all of your lineups, meaning players you acquire, especially early on, may be more useful than you think.
Bust some packs
The easiest way to fill out your roster is simply to buy packs of player cards in the in-game store. They can be purchased using coins that you earn from gameplay or by completing achievements, or by NBA Cash, which is the game's hard currency and needs to be picked up using real money.
A quick tip: While the Pro Packs are affordable, NBA LIVE Mobile almost always has a promotion with better packs that are only around for a limited time. So save your coins, because those packs are generally worth it.
Other places to find players
Packs are far from the only places to beef up your roster. You'll win players flat out from certain Live Events, and many different players, including elite ones, can be had by trading in trophies and other players to complete Sets.
If you have your heart set on a specific NBA star in particular, though, or need to fill that last elusive spot in your Small Ball lineup, the place to go is the 'Auctions' tab. There you'll be able to bid on athletes other gamers have put on the block, and there's a search function (found at the very top of the auction screen) to help narrow down the choices you see.
Trophies and collectibles can also be won at auction, and of course, you can auction off unwanted players and items too in order to build up your coin balance. Utilize all these tools in conjunction and you'll be sure to conquer the court that much faster.
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NBA Live has Given a New Spirit to the Game of Basketball
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How to Get Elite Most Feared Players in Madden Mobile
When the wind starts blowing leaves across the loading screen and scary carnival music is playing in the background, you know it's Most Feared time in Madden Mobile. The annual Halloween-themed promotion is back for the 2017 season, and arguably better than ever.
As the carnival music suggests, the Most Feared event has taken the form of a spooky carnival with three separate tracks to earn special Elite Most Feared players. There are also uniforms or three imaginary teams with distinct Halloween connotations, the Bats, Black Knights and Nighthawks, as well as two powerful defensive units.Still, it's those sweet Elites you'll probably crave the most, and we're here to tell you how to get them.
How to Earn Elite Most Feared Players
The carnival is set up with three different event tracks, each with its own rewards. For all three of them, you'll need to complete Most Feared events in that track to earn collectibles you can trade for Gold Most Feared Players. Those, in turn, can be placed in sets to earn Elite Most Feared players.
Midway Monster – This track features three events — Hit the Target, Scary Good Defense and Hot Potato — that have three separate stages like you've seen in some regular live events. Wins here get you tokens toward Midway Monster Carnival Game collectibles. Trading in 20 of those will get you a Gold Midway Monster Player. You'll need 25 Gold Midway Monster players to trade for one Elite Midway Monster Player.
Knight Mare Carousel – Like an actual carousel, this is a rotating series of five different events that open and close at different times. Beating one gets you token toward Knight Mare Carousel Horse collectibles, 10 of which can be traded for a Gold Knight Mare Player. It takes 25 Gold Knight Mare Players to trade for one Elite Knight Mare Player. Like the recent Color Rush promotion, there is an extra event in this track that opens at limited times and gives you the chance to win a Carousel Horse for every victory, so this is perhaps the easiest of the three Most Feared tracks.
DredZone Maze – In contrast, this is the trickiest of all three sections of the carnival, but it has the coolest prizes in the form of Out of Position (OoP) players. The Maze itself consists of multiple events for which you receive only coins and XP for beating until you find the exit, where you can win tokens toward a DredZone Fun House Mirror. Happily, it only takes one of those plus any Silver Player to trade for a Gold DredZone Player, though you still need 25 Gold DredZone Players to trade for one Elite DredZone Player.
Bonus Tip: Gold Most Feared Players can be cut to give you half the amount of tokens or collectibles you need for a Gold player in another track. It works on a rock-paper-scissors system like this: Knight Mare -> DredZone -> Midway Monster -> Knight Mare. Use this to your advantage if you are working toward Elite players in one area and wind up with Gold players from another.
That should be all the info you need to grab as many Elite players as possible to strike fear into the hearts of your Madden Mobile opponents. But be sure to get going on them now, because all the Most Feared events and sets expire on October 31.
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FIFA 18 Tips: How to Earn FIFA Coins Quickly with Transfers
If you're struggling to earn FIFA Coins then you're not going to get very far in FIFA Ultimate Team.
Fortunately for you, as part of our growing guide to FIFA Ultimate Team, we have a simple and effective plan to earning coins quickly and efficiently. Once you've gotten your head around earning coins, you'll be ready to start spending them on the best teams in FIFA 18. But remember, the best teams really take advantage of chemistry and how it works.
Play the transfer market – Player Popularity
If you play it right, the transfer market is the best way to earn coins fast. Just like the stock market, prices fluctuate based on supply and demand and are further influenced by current events.
A player that nobody is even looking at might put a string of outstanding performances together in real-life and have a breakout year. These players in FUT will increase in value accordingly as managers want to be seen to be on the cutting edge and include the most fashionable players in their team. Think N'Golo Kante and Riyad Marhez a couple of seasons ago, or Timo Werner and Gabriel Jesus from last season.
As such, it pays to keep an eye out for these players in real-life and add them to your team as quickly as possible while they're still cheap. Then you can sell them on for a huge profit as their popularity grows.
Play the transfer market – Buy to Sell
Another way to game the transfer market is to take advantage of inefficient pricing used by some managers when selling their players.
What you want to look for is players listed on the transfer market for a 'Buy Now' price lower than the typical 'Buy Now' price. To find this simply highlight a player within the transfer market, click the 'Compare Price' button and look at their average Buy Now prices.
For instance, while typing this I am seeing Buy Now prices for Chelsea's Pedro ranging from 10,000 coins down to 5,200. This is an incredibly inefficient market and you can take advantage of that.
What you want to do here is buy at 5,200, then relist immediately for a few hundred coins more than that – maybe 5,500 to 5,700. You're offering a much lower price than the average, meaning you will get a buyer quickly, but you're still turning a quick profit.
To make serious money from this method you need to turn over high volumes by buying and transfer listing lots of players at the same time. It is, though, a guaranteed method of getting rich in FUT.
Play the transfer market – Trade at odd hours
Everyone is going to be scouting the best players for the best prices on the weekends and in the evenings after work or school, so avoid those times.
The best bargains are found in the early hours of the morning and in the middle of the day during weekdays (apart from lunch times) when most people are otherwise occupied.
This drop in demand means you've got more chances of grabbing yourself a bargain. To help you stay on top of the transfer market during these kinds of hours when you're likely to be away from your console you can turn to the FIFA 18 web app for help.
Use the Web App
The web app is accessible to everyone with an EA account and a copy of FIFA 18. It's worth setting up an account to use the web app simply to get the free coins that are dished out for each daily login.
You can also use it to manage your transfer activity when you're away from your console, so if you're trading a lot then it makes your life easier in that regard.
Sell everything you don't need
It sounds obvious, but don't forget to sell everything that you don't need. If you're opening lots of packs and concentrating on making a profit from the transfer market it's easy to forget that you've probably got cards lying about that you don't need.
Put these to work by listing them on the transfer market. If you don't think you can sell them at all then use the quick sell option to get rid of them immediately and make space for new, more profitable cards.
You don't make much using the quick sell option, but you're better off freeing up space than restricting yourself in future if a good opportunity comes along.
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NBA Live 18 Details & Features
The NBA Live 18 release will give Xbox One and PS4 gamers a second way to play as their favorite basketball teams this September.
Though NBA 2K18 is the go-to game for many players, Electronic Arts is promising new features, experiences and refreshed rosters for those willing to try NBA Live 18. The One is a new mode that lets gamers create their own player and focus on his career. The decisions they make off the court change their player's prospects and reputation. Another mode, called The Streets, lets gamers use their custom character against real-world NBA stars at real-life courts.
NBA Live 18 Gameplay
A video from this year's EA Play event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo provides a brief look at what EA has planned for the entire game. It begins with brief looks at The One, The Streets and The League. A few glory shots of dunks and dribbles give you a taste of the game's graphics. We see some player customization, play style and skill options at the end.
Gamers that attended EA Play 2017 recorded footage of the game that's just surfacing on YouTube. Shakedown2012's video showcases the graphics and mechanics for The Streets. A brief look at Archetype, Traits and Unlocks reveal some of the game's character customization.
We know NBA Live 18 has improved one-on-one controls, a refreshed dribble system, improved player movement and better transitions. A YouTube video that focuses on Drew League Gameplay showcases these features. Drew League gives gamers a place to test their skills without playing an official NBA team.
NBA Live 18 Features
The One is EA's name for the new career system. This area has two modes of its own, The Streets and The League. Gamers get single and multiplayer gameplay within the mode, but it focuses on each player's custom character. Gamers can customize their character's gear, traits, play styles and abilities.
The Streets is for unofficial pick-up games. These pickup games have 5 players on each team taken from real-life NBA teams. Because they aren't league games, sessions in The Streets take place outside league arenas. Court locations include California's Venice Beach and New York City's Rucker Park. A Pro-Amateur Mode in The Streets lets players compete against professionals for lower-stakes than league games. Popularity in The Streets influences how a custom character gets treated in The League, EA says.
NBA Live 18's cooperative play, single player and online multiplayer have Live Events. Competing in Live Events gets gamers rewards for their custom player. EA will hold Live Events all year.
Franchise Mode lets gamers draft and trade their favorite athletes to get the best squad possible. It's not clear how deep the customization goes beyond that.
For the first time, the WNBA will feature heavily in an NBA Live title. NBA Live 18 will have every WNBA team in a dedicated experience, called WNBA Play Now. This mode lets gamers play online against each other with the league's current teams. EA says that it has started scanning the WNBA's biggest stars for inclusion in the game, just like it does NBA players.
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FIFA 18 is the Biggest Justification for the Nintendo Switch Yet
There's an old saying about cameras: the best one is the one you have with you. Unfortunately, the same is rarely said about video games. Despite rapid advances in the power of smartphones and tablets, mobile gaming has rarely exceeded relatively simple puzzlers and platformers, and are a long way from competing with console or PC iterations.
Enter the Nintendo Switch, a console that finally offers that promise, and FIFA 18, perhaps the biggest test to date of the Switch's potential as a serious contender for gaming beyond Nintendo's own limited if often delightful offerings and indie favourites like Stardew Valley.
On Xbox One and PS4, FIFA 18 is, yet again, the best outing of the franchise to date. It's sumptuous to look at, including full motion capture of some bigger names, such as new franchise star Cristian's Ronaldo. The AI is smarter, dribbling tighter; there is, inevitably, a smattering of new features, and excellent, cameo-packed follow on to last year's cutscene-heavy The Journey, in which players shape the career of rising Premier League star Alex Hunter.
The Switch iteration was always going to be a test. Nintendo's portable machine apparently can't handle EA's Frostbite engine, so FIFA on Switch has its own proprietary build – and no Journey. The graphics are simpler, particularly noticeable in textures (blades of grass; the fabric of players' shirts) and lighting. But the graphics have a crisp, bright feel – the real player faces are all there. And although early versions are somewhat mired by graphical bugs, these are being ironed out. In short: you won't really care, because the gameplay is all there.
On the pitch, FIFA for Switch feels remarkably similar to the full-sized console version – it's a deep and gloriously entertaining football simulation. Any comparative limitations in graphical power are easily compensated by the ability to lift your career mode from the dock and keep playing on the go. It's deep and satisfying; prepare for endless questions from fellow commuters ("Is that FIFA? How is it?") as they look on in envy. Even the split Joy-Con multiplayer is a pleasingly diverting option that won't ever replace local multiplayer on consoles, but will keep you going on a long train journey.
In fact, FIFA for Switch is a triumph, a validation of Nintendo's vision: that, much like smartphones, consoles are increasingly all the same, separated by a few small differences in looks and power. Nintendo's bet is that the ability to play in portable mode outweighs the lack of a 4K option. And, moreover, that gamers are increasingly divided into two subsets: the online player base who can pour hours into Ultimate Team or Elite: Dangerous, and the time-starved, mobile gamer, who may not have time for a 6 hour Destiny raid but finds too many smartphone games shallow and empty.
The challenge remains for Nintendo to sell enough consoles for more developers to follow EA Sports' example. (And to fix its online experience. Seriously, that Wi-Fi interface is criminal in 2017 and the lack of SIM connectivity options feels like an oversight.) It'll take plenty more franchises to close the gap with the other console manufacturers. But if presented with the option of a 4K iteration or one I can play anywhere? I know I'll be choosing the latter.
How to Earn VC for NBA 2K18 in My NBA 2K18
One of the really excellent things about My NBA 2K18 is that it can be used to help your progress in NBA 2K18 for PS4, Xbox One and PC. Just by playing the mobile game, you can earn VC — short for "Virtual Currency" — that can be used in multiple game modes in the full game. And who wouldn't want that?
Fortunately, earning VC in My NBA 2K18 is a simple process. We've narrowed it down to just three steps for you. And if you're looking for any other help — like how to get rare players or make it in the playoffs, we've got guides for that too.
Scroll Down to Login Bonus on the Main Screen
You'll want to do this anyway since you want to make sure you are getting the days counted toward login rewards, but this is also where you need to perform the next and most important step.
Log In to the Console or PC Account of Your Choice
This should be common sense, but just in case: Log in to your PSN account if you play NBA 2K18 on PS4, Xbox Live if you play on Xbox One and Steam if you play on PC. So far, there doesn't seem to be any way to stay logged in, so you'll have to do this daily. That kind of stinks, but you'll need to do it if you want that sweet VC.
Play Quick Game or Head 2 Head Games
For either of the game's most common modes, you'll receive 50 VC at the end of each completed game, right before you make your picks from the card draft board. See? We told you it was simple.
Note that you can only earn 500 VC per day in this manner, which works out to just 10 games per day. You can keep playing in either mode, of course, you just won't get any more credit for VC until 24 hours elapses. This is to ensure people can't just spam My NBA 2K18 (which would be very possible since there's no limit on how much Quick Game you can play) to help them out in NBA 2K18.
That's all there is to it. Playing My NBA 2K18 every day can pay off in the long run, even if it's just for 10-15 minutes, so make it part of your NBA 2K18 habit if at all possible.
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NHL 18 Features – The Most Underrated Feature
The NHL 18 official preview and feature set has been released! We will list all of the major new features underneath, but will not go into detail on many of them as there have already been several locations you'll be able to realize that information; however, there are a few I would like to plunge deep into, like the most underrated feature! 64 Multiplayer Combinations.
We would highly recommend subscribing to this brand new Official EA Sports NHL YouTube station since they'll probably be posting a few exclusive articles there to acquire their subscriber base up for NHL 18.
Those will be the principal new features that are already being pushed right now.
New dekes and defensive ability stick are gameplay shifts and there is in fact much to speak about there until we see how the beta performs. I tried the new dekes at Alpha a couple months back and they have been fun but will not make any decision until the beta.
EASHL 3v3 and also the Multiplayer options on the other hand… I might never sleep again once NHL 18 drops. The latter of these two features is a much bigger deal than it is being made out to be! Something I have wanted for ages and I think that no NHL experienced will welcome with open arms as it has been quite a long time arriving.
Multiplayer Options
NHL 18 will let you play just about any multiplayer game mode(except EASHL) together with buddies couch co-op fashion, on line, OR a mixture of both. That is right, you can have a friend at your house in your own Online Versus team subsequently have a friend at his own home also in your own group versus real players in a ranked Online Versus match. Or perhaps jump to a game of Threes with your two teammates and connect with three other friends in an unranked match to get a full 3v3 friendly game going, not certain who's that many friends but I'm sure someone does.
Should you take into account the various game modes this really makes for far more than just 64 Multiplayer blends too. It is no secret that NHL is way more entertaining with friends and the limitation in previous NHL's of needing to have your friend in your house to play with co-op Online Versus(or any multiplayer mode) was a bit tragic.
This feature will even function as Multiplayer offline ways as well — so for example you may play one player HUT co-op with a friend against the AI.
I have been enjoying Online Versus in NHL ever since it was introduced back in NHL 2007 and over the past ten years I can not even imagine the number of games I've played sofa co-op fashion with my cousin — It was just what we did growing up and into our early 20's. Countless games not any doubt.
As you get older, life's obligations get in the way and you simply don't have enough time to go over to a friend or cousin's position and sit on the couch until your eyes are bloodshot . Being able to hop online and readily get some co-op Online Versus in as you're both in your own houses will be huge!
Hey Con, you better have your skates sharpened and also stick… our co-op Online Versus domination will make it's return.
EASHL Threes
We'm equally as eager for EASHL Threes. If you've never played EASHL 6's(all individuals on either side), then you might not know exactly how much fun this is going to be. I got my fingers in it again in April and will also tell you from experience I believe it will grow to be a simple fan favourite.
Playing with EASHL 6's is undoubtedly the most enjoyable way to play with NHL 17 right now. It is the most true hockey you may play without enjoying real life hockey. This means you have the most control possible, it is all in your own team.
A problem with EASHL 6's is that you need 5 buddies… I have been alive for almost 27 years and before I became heavily involved in the NHL community that season I had only 2 friends who I knew in real life that possessed the game. Therefore, if you're in that situation and you would like to play with EASHL 6's then you basically should join a league such as the LGHL. Point is, it is not simple to get 6 people together.
Queue EASHL Threes! Now you only need 2 friends; should you use AI goalies. Although, for maximum enjoyment you truly need to acquire human goalies also. AI goalies are foreseeable and therefore takeaway the authentic hockey sense of a full EASHL 6 or 3v3 matchup.
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How to Earning More Coins and Building your Squad in FIFA 18 Ultimate Team
There's no bigger gaming series in the world than FIFA. Yet its most popular mode, Ultimate Team, can appear overwhelming to the casual player, with social media lexicon as indecipherable as Ba-Shu scripts: "Packed SIF Messi from the Sivasspor SBC! Flip or hold?"
The guide below is intended to change that. In addition to getting up to speed on the secret language of FIFA 18, you'll be able to quickly compete with the elite, and rack up gold coins as swiftly as Craig Dawson does yellow cards.
FUT basics: Chemistry, cards, and special editions
Ultimate Team blends competitive matches, played online or off, with digital-card collecting. The difference from your Panini years is its player cards have attributes: you build a squad from them, then take them into those competitive matches. Cards can be acquired either through opening packs, or buying and selling from/to other human players in an auction market. As with real football, the better the player's attributes, the more he'll cost you.
It's not only attributes that matter, however. By placing players of the same club, league or nation next to one another in your team, you increase its 'chemistry' – a measure of how well players work together on the pitch in areas such as pass accuracy.
As the real-life season progresses, special cards are released into the market for a limited time, which is where that 'SIF' term stems from: it means Messi's 'second in-form'. So while his standard card has an overall rating of 93, a strong weekend performance in real-life might earn him a 94-rated 'in-form' card in the Team Of The Week, released every Wednesday. Another impressive performance later in the season would then earn a 95-rated card – his second 'in-form', hence 'SIF'. Yes, TIF and FIF cards exist too.
The current Team of the Week can be found online, you should be using it to find new players to add to your squad that might fit in, in the limited time they're available.
FUT short-term tactics: How to quickly boost your coin balance
The packs mentioned earlier, from which you acquire cards, come in three types: gold, silver, and bronze. Although the better players are found in gold packs, you should never buy them; because far more gold packs are opened than any other type, the cards found within are terrible value on the secondary market. Sustained play unlocks gold packs in other ways, such as Squad Building Challenges (which we'll get to), and shrewd market work will eventually earn you enough coins to buy any player.
To expedite your coin making at the outset, click R3/RS and unlock all FUT bonuses available to you in the FIFA Catalogue. These can be worth up to 1000 extra coins per match. Then focus all your early coins on buying bronze packs – and, when you're feeling a bit more wealthy, silver packs.
Place players from the Premier League, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, Calcio A and La Liga straight on the market – ensuring you hit the 'Compare Price' option for each before doing so, to guarantee you're getting at least market value. Stash all other players in your club. Also transfer-list all Injury healing cards, Player Fitness cards, and Squad Fitness cards. The latter will eventually sell at a minimum Buy Now price of 1,400 coins; a profit of 930 (EA takes a small sales tax) from that 400-coin pack price.
FUT long-term tactics: SBCs and discard in-forms
The reason for stashing all players when you open bronze and silver packs is that eventually these cards have value far beyond the price paid for them. That's a result of the other term referenced earlier: 'SBCs'. Squad Building Challenges require the submission of sets of cards according to specific conditions, in order to earn attractive rewards. So a gold pack might be given in exchange for a team comprising two leagues and two nationalities, collectively rated 78 or over.
Every weekend, the focus of SBCs is Marquee Matchups. This is a set of challenges inspired by fixtures taking place that weekend: so Manchester City vs Manchester United would likely require submission of an all-Premier League team containing a player from each.
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How to Upgrade Players in Madden 18 Ultimate Team
There's been a whole lot of confusion surrounding Madden Ultimate Team's upgrade system. This Madden NFL 18 MUT Guide provides you with all of the essential information about not only whom you may upgrade but also the way you may do it.
It also supplies you general tips and techniques about Madden's upgrade system so you can get the best out of your players. MUT can be quite complicated at times so reading this manual should help you get a bit more familiar with its inner working.
MUT Guide – Upgrading Players
If you go over to the 'Team' tab in the Ultimate Team segment of Madden 18, you'll find the 'Upgrade Sets' option near the bottom of the display. There are a variety of options in this segment, however the one that you would like to be focusing on first is the 'Upgrades' area.
Pick the 'Players' choice after this, and then choose from AFC or NFC, depending on which team you're after. For Instance, when I picked the Colts pack at the Start of Ultimate Team, I had been given a 70 OVR Vontae Davis, which I can now upgrade to 75, and then 84 OVR, but just having a few key items.
The 4 players you upgraded in the previous section can all be upgraded a further 2 times each. You can unlock their tier 2 and tier 3 versions if you have the prior version unlocked. Tier 2 version requires tier 1 combined with 5 players (70-74) and 5 gamers (75-79) and lastly a silver token + gold market, this way your player's overall should be close to the low 80s by now.
Tier 3 is the previous tier you are able to upgrade to, to take action you want the grade 2 version of the participant, all 3 components (Gold, Gold, and Base Elite). This upgrade gives you 1 point higher overall compared to the player's core elite overall and then your upgrading is complete.
One more thing to keep in mind is that when you begin the game, an LDT is awarded to you free of charge and you'll be able to purchase packs with LDT tokens to upgrade him 1 point at a time.
Best Players to Upgrade
So, obtaining Team Tokens is by no means a simple job, so as soon as you've got hold of a few, which players should you prioritise upgrading over others?
For starters, you definitely need to go for skill position players, over any players on the offensive or defensive lines. Skill players definitely have a larger impact on your average game of Madden than some other gamers, to it is ideal to go with quarterbacks, running backs, tight ends, wide receivers, cornerbacks, and safeties over any other positions.
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The best year for movies? A new book makes the case for an unexpected choice.
By Craig Lindsey, Correspondent April 11, 2019 Updated: May 29, 2019 10:27 a.m.
The best year for movies? A new book makes the case for...
1of11THE MATRIX - Keanu Reeves. None. HOUCHRON CAPTION (01/04/2001): Topping Off 2000. End of year moneymakers give Hollywood a bit of box-office relief. HOUCHRON CAPTION (02/12/2002): What's wrong in this scene from The Matrix? A mistake was discovered by a careful movie watcher, who reported the finding at www.movie-mistakes.com/.Photo: WB
2of11Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in "Eyes Wide Shut," directed by Stanley Kubrick.Photo: WARNER BROS.
3of11ELECTION (1999) -- Reese Witherspoon in "Election". HOUCHRON CAPTION (05/10/1999): In her latest film, ``Election" (far left), Witherspoon plays an overachieving high school student caught up in student government. HOUCHRON CAPTION (01/02/2003): In the black comedy Election, 7 tonight on Fox/Channel 26, super student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) gets involved in class politics. Matthew Broderick plays a vindictive teacher in the 1999 film.Photo: Bob Akester / Paramount Pictures c1999
4of11Brad Pitt's tough-guy character lights up in a scene from the film 'Fight Club.'Photo: 20TH CENTURY FOX
5of11(l to r) George Clooney , Ice Cube and Mark Wahlberg star in Warner Bros. unconventioal drama, "Three Kings."Photo: MURRY CLOSE
6of11FRIMOVIES5/C/19OCT99/DD/HO-- MOVIE, FILM: THE "BEST MAN" YOUNG NOVELIST HARPER (TAYE DIGGS) ENJOYS A MOMENT WITH CATERER-GIRLFRIEND ROBIN (SANAA LATHAN) IN THE FILM THE "BEST BAN".Photo: HANDOUT
7of11Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon in "Election."Photo: Courtesy photo / SFC
8of11Scene from the movie 'Office Space'
9of11LOA18:OSCAR:LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA,15FEB00 - UNDATED PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPH - Actor Tom Cruise is shown in a scene from the film " Magnolia. " Cruise received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor February 15. The Academy Awards will be presented March 26 in Los Angeles. cfm/Photo by Peter Sorel/New Line Cinema REUTERS ALSO RAN 3/24/2000Photo: HO
10of11SENSE/C/03AUG99/DD/HO = MOVIE,FILM: THE "SIXTH SENSE" WITH BRUCE WILLIS AS A PSYCHIATRIST, AND HALEY JOEL OSMENT WHO PLAYS A TROUBLED BOY WHO SEES DEAD PEOPLE. ALSO RAN: 9/27/99, 1/10/2000 ALSO Ran on: 06-22-2007 A shrink in &quo;The Sixth Sense.&quo;Photo: HANDOUT / Handout
11of11OSCARS08C-C-06JAN00-DD-HO--Al Pacino and Russell Crowe in THE INSIDER.
"One thing I learned from my farmer friends is that, every twenty years, you get a good harvest."
That's how veteran character actor Luis Guzman describes the batch of movies that came out in 1999. That quote appears in the prologue of "Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen," author Brian Raftery's entertainingly freewheeling rundown of the original, subversive and eventually influential films from that year.
Raftery practically had the inside dope on all these flicks since he was an intern at the time for Entertainment Weekly, a magazine that already had proclaimed that 1999 was a revolutionary year for film in a cover story that same year.
Cinematically speaking, it was a madcap 12 months. It began with multiplexes being inundated with about-teens-for-teens movies including "Varsity Blues," "She's All That" and "10 Things I Hate About You" and ended with major studios releasing ambitious (albeit commercially unsuccessful) features such as "Fight Club," "The Insider" and "Magnolia."
Somewhere in the middle, unusual genre films "The Matrix," "The Sixth Sense" and Sundance fave "The Blair Witch Project" became unlikely monster hits while future auteurs Christopher Nolan and Sofia Coppola were trying to wow festival audiences with their debut films, "Following" and "The Virgin Suicides," respectively.
'Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen'
By Brian Raftery
416 pages, $28.99
George Lucas returned to the sci-fi celluloid universe he created with the much anticipated (yet much derided) "Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace," and Stanley Kubrick virtually kept working and reworking "Eyes Wide Shut," starring former A-list married couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, which came out after he passed away.
All those aforementioned films and others get extensive shout-outs in the book, complete with the actors and filmmakers giving their firsthand accounts. As Raftery tells it, it was go-for-broke time in Hollywood mainly because it was a go-for-broke time in the world.
Y2K (remember that?) made everyone worry that we would all revert to the Dark Ages. So, why not let a bunch of visionary filmmakers, both young and old, make whatever the hell they want? It was also a time when these outcasts could make movies about, well, outcasts. As Sam Mendes, whose debut film "American Beauty" won best picture at the Academy Awards the following year, put it: "And if you look across the films of that year, they were stories about outliers: the loners, the people no one pays attention to."
Raftery does a thorough, appreciative job going through the highs and lows not just in the year of movies but the year in general. He recalls with crystal clarity how such events as the Columbine High School shooting, President Bill Clinton's scandalous dalliance with Monica Lewinsky and the death of Matthew Shepard affected both the culture and Hollywood.
What's great about "Best" is how it brings awareness to not just that year's most noteworthy films (and that includes cult classics "Office Space" and "Election") but forgotten films that usually seem to be excluded from the conversation. I'm very glad he devoted a chapter to "Three Kings" and "The Limey," two of my favorite films of that year.
He also gives love to "The Best Man" and "The Wood," two successful films made by African-American filmmakers, featuring an all-black cast and both starring Taye Diggs. (This chapter reminded me of the way-too-brief time when Diggs was seen as a star-on-the-rise when he was in both the No. 1 and No. 2 movie one week.)
Though Raftery does forget about a film or two here and there (in the chapter on "The Sixth Sense," I thought for sure he'd bring up "Stir of Echoes," the other kid-sees-dead-people flick that came out around that time), that's just me being nitpicky.
"Best. Movie. Year. Ever." is a fun read and a clear indication that movies that aren't sequels, reboots, retreads or superhero movies can actually exist at your nearest multiplex — and even make some money.
Craig Lindsey is a Houston-based writer.
Smith: Silence at top speaks volumes for Texans
Family has trouble accepting parents' move to warmer clime
Tipping is the worst, part 894
Dear Prince Harry. Don't do it.
Rise School celebrates 20 years of inclusive early education
Bringing up the dead with Mo Rocca
List of road closures for Chevron Houston Marathon
Hotel-condo hybrid is coming to Austin. Take a look around


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If you do any crafting at all, a glue gun is most likely a tool that you own. Glue guns come with a built-in metal stand that I've found doesn't work well; It's annoying to be in the middle of a craft project using a glue gun that won't stay upright. A few years ago I found the solution to my problem: I made a DIY glue gun holder that works like a charm to keep my glue gun upright while I am crafting.
I'm joining my Power Tool Challenge Team girls today to share projects that you can make using one board. I actually made this glue gun holder in 2013 and thought that I'd share it again for this challenge since I find it to be so useful.
This was one of my first woodworking projects and Mr. SP patiently helped me with it. I got the idea from One Project Closer and followed their directions.
2. A piece of wood was cut for the glue gun holder with an angle on one end. Draw a line vertically down this piece to mark where the "U" will go to hold the glue gun.
3. The bottom of the U for the glue gun holder was made with a forstner bit.
5. All of the pieces were sanded smooth.
6. A template for routing was made by drawing a center line down a piece of luan and then tracing the tile on the luan.
8. Use a router to route out a recessed place for the tile and then drill a hole so that the tile can easily come out for cleaning. The angled piece to hold the glue gun was first glued in place and when dry was screwed from the bottom to be sure that it was secure.
9. Paint the glue gun holder and then it is ready to be used.
Can you believe that this glue gun holder has been used for almost 3 1/2 years? All I had to do before I took this picture was to clean the dried glue off of the tile with a razor blade and then remove the glue residue with acetone.
I can't tell you how handy I find my glue gun holder. It's great that the holder keeps my glue gun upright and the tile catches all of the messy glue drips.
The goal of our monthly power tool challenge is to encourage women to not be afraid to use power tools. I am one of the least mechanically inclined people that you will ever meet and if I can learn to use power tools, you can as well!
Don't forget to pin this idea!
A one board challenge is a super fun theme. I can't wait to enjoy all of the projects after school today. Click on the links below to visit each one.
As soon as I saw your project I though no way, this is crazy useful! I have the same little glue gun, although it's awful looking. I use a metal jar cap to hold mine, it never stays upright and is always a mess when I use it. This is a fabulous project and I love that it's so easy to make!
Thanks, Wendi! My glue gun is really old and I'm surprised that it looks as good as it does considering how much I use it.
That's an awesome project. Using the tile is brialliant!
Thanks, Gail. It is handy to have when I'm doing a craft project.
I so NEED one of these! I am tired of picking glue off my counters! I love your design with the tile!
Thanks, DeDe! The tile is easy to clean, too.
I SO need to make one of these… yep me too… glue all over my counters.
It is really handy to have, Maryann!
Hi Paula! This is awesome! I want one of these so bad. I'm going to forward this to my husband. I didn't bring any tools with me to Martinique, but maybe he can make me one at work on his lunch or something. I'm not even sure I brought a glue gun. I should look for one of those. Thanks for the directions. I'd love for you to share this at our link party on Monday night at 9 eastern time.
It is so handy to have and didn't take that long to make. I hope your husband can make one for you!
Paula, just the other day I told Mr. Frugalista that I needed something to hold my hot glue gun. This is so happening in my house SOON! Thank you for the easy to follow tutorial. Pinned to share and bookmark.
I love this glue gun holder! Such an easy project and the perfect accessory for the craft room!
I need one of these desperately in my life! Maybe I'll make one this winter! 🙂 Would you consider sharing this at our weekly Dishing It & Digging It Link Party? We are live every Sunday @4pm.


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Biology Science Blog
Can We Trust Climate Models?
The prediction of climate change associated with human activities is one of the most pressing challenges of science. The modern approach to its solution is based on the use of mathematical models of the climate system, which are currently being intensively developed in many scientific teams of the world.
Modeling and Building Climate Scenarios
Global climate change is very complex, so modern science cannot give a definite answer about what awaits us in the near future. There are many scenarios for the development of the situation.
Scenario 1 – global warming will occur gradually
Earth is a very large and complex system. It consists of various components that are related to each other. The atmosphere on the planet is moving, the movement of air masses distributes thermal energy across the planet's latitudes, there is a huge accumulator of heat and gases on Earth – the World Ocean. Changes in such a complex system cannot happen quickly. Centuries and millennia will pass.
Scenario 2 – Global warming will occur quickly
This is the most "popular" scenario at the moment. According to various estimates, over the past hundred years, the temperature on Earth has increased by 0.5–1° C, the concentration — CO2 has increased by 20–24%, and methane by 100%. In the future, these processes will continue and the average temperature of the Earth's surface may increase from 1.1 to 6.4° C by the end of the 21 century, compared with 1990. Further melting of the Arctic and Antarctic ice can accelerate global warming processes due to changes in the albedo of the planet. According to some scientists, the ice caps of the planet cool our Earth by 2° C and the ice covering the ocean surface significantly slows down the heat exchange processes in the atmosphere. In addition, there is practically no main greenhouse gas above the ice caps since it is frozen. Global warming will be accompanied by a rise in world ocean level. From 1995 to 2005, the level of the World Ocean has already risen by 4 cm, instead of the predicted 2 cm. If the level of the World Ocean will continue to rise at the same rate, then by the end of the XXI century the total level of its rise will be 30 – 50 cm, which will cause partial flooding of many coastal areas, especially the populous coast of Asia. Many people live at a height of less than 88 centimeters above sea level. In addition to rising sea levels, global warming affects the force of the winds and the distribution of precipitation on the planet. As a result, the frequency and scale of various natural disasters will double. Today, 2% of all land is suffering from drought, according to some scientists, by 2050, drought will cover up to 10% of all continental lands. In addition, the seasonal distribution of precipitation will change.
Scenario 3 – Global warming in some parts of the Earth will be replaced by a short-term cooling
One of the factors in the occurrence of ocean currents is the gradient (difference) of temperatures between the Arctic and warm waters. Melting polar ice increases the temperature of the Arctic waters, which will lead to a slowdown of the currents in the future. One of the most famous warm currents is the Gulf Stream, thanks to which in many countries of Northern Europe the average annual temperature is 10 degrees higher than in other similar climatic zones of the Earth. Stopping this oceanic heat conveyor will greatly affect the Earth's climate. Today, the Gulf Stream current has become weaker by 30% compared with 1957. Mathematical modeling has shown that raising the temperature by 2-2.5 degrees can stop the Gulf Stream completely. Currently, the temperature of the North Atlantic is already warmed by 0.2 degrees compared to the 70s. If the Gulf Stream stops, the average annual temperature in Europe will continue to drop by 1 degree every year. Other scientists "promise" a stronger cooling of Europe. According to these mathematical calculations, the complete stop of the Gulf Stream will occur in 20 years, as a result of which the climate of Northern Europe, Ireland, Iceland and Great Britain can become colder by 4-6 degrees, rains increase and tornados occur more often. Cooling will affect many countries on different continents. By the end of 2030, warming in Europe will resume under scenario No. 2.
Scenario 4 – Global warming replaced by global cooling
The halt of the Gulf Stream and other oceanic currents will cause global warming on the Earth and the onset of the next ice age.
Scenario 5 – Greenhouse catastrophe
Greenhouse catastrophe is the most "unpleasant" scenario of the development of global warming processes. According to some scientists, the average annual temperature on Earth increases due to an increase in anthropogenic CO2 content in the Earth's atmosphere. This will cause a transition to the atmosphere of CO2 dissolved in the ocean and also provoke decomposition of sedimentary carbonate rocks with additional carbon dioxide emission, which, in turn, will raise the temperature on Earth even higher, which would entail further decomposition of carbonates lying in the deeper layers of the earth's crust. Glaciers will melt intensively, reducing the albedo of the Earth. Such a rapid increase in temperature will contribute to an intensive influx of methane from thawing permafrost, and an increase in temperature to 1.4–5.8° C by the end of the century will contribute to the decomposition of methane hydrates (icy compounds of water and methane) concentrated mainly in cold places of the Earth. If we consider that methane is 21 times stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, the situation on Earth will be disastrous. If you want to better imagine what will happen to Earth, you should pay attention to our solar system neighbor, the planet Venus. It has the same atmospheric parameters as Earth, so the temperature on Venus should be only 60° C higher than Earth's (Venus is closer to the Sun) i.e. around 75° C, but in reality, the temperature on Venus is almost 500° C. Currently, the atmosphere of Venus consists of 98% of CO2, which leads to an increase in the planet's temperature by almost 400° C. If global warming follows the same scenario, then the temperature of the surface layers of the atmosphere on Earth can reach 150 degrees. Increasing the temperature of the Earth even at 50° C will put a cross on human civilization, and an increase in temperature by 150° C will cause the death of almost all living organisms on the planet. Some scientists say: if the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere remains at the same level, then the temperature will be 50° C, it will be established on Earth in 300 years. This progress cannot be stopped, CO2 emissions are increasing with each year. According to a realistic scenario, CO2 emissions will grow at the same rate, doubling every 50 years, and the temperature of 50° C on Earth will already be established in 100 years, and 150° C in 300 years.
How Reliable is Climate Modelling?
What science says: "Although the models contain uncertainties, they successfully reproduce the past and give predictions, which are then confirmed by observations."
Argument of skeptics: "Models cannot be trusted since they cannot correctly describe clouds, aerosols, chemistry and biology of fields, farms and forests. There are many fitted factors in them, so they are more or less consistent with observational data. But there is no reason to think that the same adjusted factors will ensure correct behavior in a world with a different chemistry, for example, in a world with an increased level of CO2. "
Indeed, there are various difficulties in predicting climate. The behavior of the sun is difficult to predict. Short-term interventions like El Niño or volcanic eruptions are not easy to model. Nevertheless, the main impacts driving climate are well understood.
Skeptics say that we should wait until the climate models become completely accurate. If we wait for 100% accuracy, we will never take action. Models are constantly in development, include more processes, use less approximation. Besides, computer productivity increases. The complex and non-linear nature of climate means that refinements and improvements will always continue. The main thing is that we already know enough to act now. Models in their development have reached the stage at which they successfully predict long-term trends and now they are developing their ability to predict more chaotic, short-term changes. Multiple lines of evidence, both empirical and model-based, show us that global temperatures will change by 3° C with a doubling of CO2 (Knutti & Hegerl 2008).
Models do not need to be precise in all respects in order to give us an accurate overall trend and its main consequences. If you know about a 90% chance of getting into a car accident, you will not get into the car (or at least you will fasten your belt). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that man is the cause of global warming with more than 90% probability. It's reckless and irresponsible to wait for 100% confidence to act.
Climate modeling helped to predict many phenomena, which were subsequently discovered in reality. So the answer is YES, models can be trusted in predicting climate change.
Category: General Issues
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El de Young Museum, también conocido simplemente como de Young (anteriormente llamado M.H. de Young Memorial Museum), es un museo de arte ubicado en el parque del Golden Gate en San Francisco. Fue nombrado en honor al periodista Michael H. de Young, cofundador del San Francisco Chronicle.

Como parte del acuerdo que creó el Museo de Bellas Artes de San Francisco en 1972, la colección de Young de arte europeo fue enviada al Museo Legion of Honor (California Palace of the Legion of Honor). En compensación, el museo de Young recibió el derecho a mostrar el grueso de la colección antropológica, que incluye significativas obras precolombinas de Teotihuacán y Perú, así como arte tribal indígena del África subsahariana.

Historia
El museo abrió sus puertas en 1895 como parte de la Exposición Internacional de California de 1894. Un terremoto en 1989 dañó severamente el edificio, por lo que fue demolido.

A finales de los 90 se convocó un concurso para diseñar un nuevo edificio, resultando ganador el proyecto de la firma suiza Herzog & de Meuron y el estudio local Fong & Chan. Para ayudar a resistir futuros terremotos, el edificio «puede moverse hasta tres pies (91 centímetros) gracias a un sistema único de placas deslizantes con rodamientos y amortiguadores que absorben la energía cinética y la convierten en calor». El nuevo de Young fue abierto en octubre de 2005.

Arquitectura
El nuevo edificio proporciona espacios abiertos y llenos de luz que facilitan y mejoran la experiencia de visualización de arte. El exterior está revestido de cobre, que se espera que eventualmente se oxide y adquiera un tono verdoso y una textura distinta, similar a la de los eucaliptos cercanos.

Algunos elementos históricos del antiguo de Young se han conservado o reconstruido, como las esfinges, las palmeras originales y el Estanque del Encanto (Pool of Enchantment).

Véase también

 America's Favorite Architecture

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página web oficial
 Información sobre el museo

Arquitectura postmoderna en California

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Entrepreneurship is vital for companies' success, to allow them to adapt and grow in today's interlinked and turbulent business environments. Yet as they grow in size and complexity, many companies become less innovative and more rigid. The challenge of how to deal with these trends has led to the rise of the field of Corporate Entrepreneurship, looking at the development of new business ideas and opportunities within established firms. This book provides an effective entry point to Corporate Entrepreneurship as an academic field and a management practice.
Corporate Entrepreneurship leads readers through an overview of real-life Corporate Entrepreneurship; the aims, organisational models, implementation and results. Covering theoretical perspectives, empirical findings and practical concerns, the book also switches between the perspective of the individual and the organisation.
Written by two specialists of the discipline, the book includes a wealth of real-life case studies, covering over three decades of Corporate Entrepreneurship practices, by companies of all sizes, geographies and sectors. With coverage of such topics as Internal Corporate Venturing and Participative Innovation, this thoughtful text will be required reading for entrepreneurship students around the world.
Corporate Entrepreneurship: a specific process?


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The Khalsa and the Punjab: Studies in Sikh History, to the 19th Century
Banerjee, Himadri (Ed.)
The Khalsa & the Punjab: Studies in Sikh History; to the 19th Volumes published to mark the tercentenary of the Khalsa, the previous to being history ..
Khurasan and Sistan
Yate, C.E.
I now carry on the description farther west into Persia, and describe each district of Khurasan and Sistan in detail, from the Kurd and Turkoman count ..
Khusrau's Qirain us Saden (Translated into English)
Ansari, Ishrat Husain & Hamid Afaq Qureshi al-Taimi al-Siddiqi (Trs.)
The Kingdom of Awadh: Its History, Polity and Administration
Singh, S.N.
The region of Awadh has at tracted the attention of people the world over. We also find considerable litrature on the history and culture of Awadh. Bu ..
Kings of Kashmira: A Translation of the Sanskrit Work : Rajatarangini of Kalhana Pandita - Jonaraja - Shrivara - Prajyabhatta - Shuka; 3 Volumes (bound in 1)
Dutt, Jagdish Chander
Kashmir has the privilege of being one of the oldest civilization in the worid with recorded history. It is the only place where the oldest attempts a ..
Kings, Gods and People: Essays on the Cultural History of Medieval Andhra
Myneni, Krishna Kumari
A significant feature of this volume is the critical analysis of archaeological and historical sources relating to the specific issues of cultural his ..
Kingship in India from Vedic Age to Gupta Age
Sharma, Ravindra
King had a pivotal role to play in the ancient Indian polity and as such, the study of kingship and its various related aspects is of tremendous impor ..
Kingship in Indian History
Karashima, Noboru (Ed.)
Know India Better
Know India Better takes you on a discovery of the mystical land that is in India. The journey takes you from the barren moonscapes of Ladakh to snow-c ..
Kohima: The Story of the Greatest Battle Ever Fought
Swinson, Arthur
Arthur Swinson's account of his time in the Japanese invasion of the British India from April to June 1944, this book is a tour de force about the bat ..


Social media sensation, Oluwatobi Adeshina Onibatedo popularly known as Mama Tobi is bringing together some of Nigeria's hottest musicians and online sensations for his anticipated first show in Lagos tagged Mama Tobi Untamed (The Homecoming).
"They have seen me do video skits but this is going to be different ball game where I will do my serve it live on stage," Mama Tobi said excitedly.
Joining Mama Tobi to entertain on the night are musicians including Olamide, Phyno, Reekado Banks, Small Doctor, 9ice, Bisola, Jeff Akoh, L.A.X and CDQ among others. Also to spice up the occasion with rib-cracking jokes and comedy skits are Maraji, Lasisisi Elenu, Josh 2 Funny, Woli Arole, Kenny Blaq, Wofaidada and EmmaOhMyGod among others.
Oluwatobi Adeshina Onibatedo or Oluwa Kaponeski is by far one of the funniest and young African comedians plying his trade in America today. The son of Nigerian parents, the young comedian has deployed social media effectively to build an entertainment brand.
He has a degree in Management and Finance at Park University and currently studying for Masters in Business and Technology at Stevenson University. As an active duty member of the United States Marine Corps, he is an embodiment of both the American and Nigerian dream and is a testament to the saying that with hard work, perseverance and a strong belief in God, all things are possible.


Sundays: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Wednesdays (Oct. 3-31): 5 -10 p.m.
Our design for 2018 is Peter Pan. Other activities include a gemstone mining attraction, straw pyramids, corn box, corn hole, wood cutouts for photos, swing set and concessions. Hayrides and barrel train rides on Saturdays and Sundays. Pumpkins available for purchase.
"The Ghost Behind the Back Door," written by Youngstown native Roger Gregg. Old time radio drama with live sound effects. All ages are welcome!
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Oct. 31 from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Oct. 31 from 6-9 p.m.
After last years success with approximately 500 kids walking through the front yard being scared before being given treats it's running again this year. This year will be bigger and better with a costume contest for the best boy and girl costume, photo board, new animatronics, scarioke (karaoke with Halloween music) and more.
Oct. 31 from 6:30-8 p.m.
Virgin Sacrifices and the costume contest will begin a half hour before showtime each night. Prop packages will also be available for purchase at all performances (no outside props permitted). This show is rated R (parental discretion advised).