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From the BBC on the hunt for David Moyes replacement "That would seem to suggest Van Gaal, out of contract with Holland after the World Cup in the summer, may emerge as the most likely candidate, although there have been reports that some senior players are concerned about his strict approach." Poor loves having to work hard, train hard and for such a pittance!

I think this is a brilliant idea. People who speak ebonics will actually know about the objective.

Look what you made me do James! I had to find them... EDIT: series 2000 were the shit create your own story series

(I am stealing this from another BF4 forum I frequent) (I did not write this) -------------------------------------------- This is obviously aimed at people who need a leg up on boat driving. It happens to be one of the things I am better at, and I can often quickly determine why I lost a boat battle if I do. If you are also well versed at naval warfare, please feel free to add to this. It is designed to help. Many of these tips are for using my preferred load out. 30mm cannon, TOW and active protection. Some of these are common sense. NEVER STOP THE BOAT See number 1. Now that has been drilled in to your head, a stopped boat is a dead boat. You are open for attack from other boats, planes and engineers on the shore. So is your crew. They are open for sniper fire. There are instances in which you may want to stop, like capping points, and you can and should, but do not idle. Do what you have to do and move on. Your first job as a boat driver is to take out the other boats. If you fail to recognize this fact, they will take you out first. Always be looking for them. Use land to your advantage to conceal your movements and deceive your enemy. Many times, if the enemy spots you, you can change direction behind a small land mass to get the advantage. You can do this to maneuver behind the enemy. Always try to attack another boat perpendicular. T-Bone the sucker if you can. It gives the largest area to attack. This also means he has not seen you and it will be a very short battle provided you don't miss with your first missile. Attacking from behind is almost as good. When attacking, fire your missile first. Then follow up with cannons. Don't waste your cannons by firing way out of range. That just puts you on the radar and depletes your ammo. After practice, you can fire your TOW from a fairly decent range, provided the weather agrees. If you don't get the drop and it’s a head-to-head battle, firing your TOW can be tricky. Wait until you are close. Engage your active protection if you are within 20 meters because he will likely fire at you. Obviously activate it if you see and incoming missile. Being the first to strike in a head-to-head battle is not as important as being the most accurate. Make sure your first missile shot counts. After you pass, circle. Circle around the enemy. Half the time he will stop to fire from behind at you. Continue to circle around him alternating between cannon and TOW. Many drivers seem to forget they can fire behind them as they turn. Most times the enemy driver will just stop his boat or continue to drive it straight. If this happens, and provided you follow this guide, you will win. Aim for the rear. At the very least, if you cannot win, you can take out his crew very easily. They will be aiming for you as well. If at all possible, always travel in pairs. Stick with another boat. When you engage, Go wide and put distance between your ally. Hopefully, if the enemy chooses to attack you, your ally will come in from behind and share the kill. Know when to retreat or not to fight. Try to avoid a 1-2 situation, or a situation in which the enemy boat has helo support. If spotted and you have to flee, make large S-shaped maneuvers until you can get back to friendly seas. If a 1-2 boat battle cannot be avoided, always go for the lead boat and concentrate on it. If the seas are rough, you have a good chance. Remember to circle the first boat. It will make you a harder target for the second. If you finish off the first, move on to the second using the same maneuvers. Help your crew out. They are fodder for aircraft, primarily scout choppers. Always try to maneuver so the chopper is in front or has trouble staying on your rear. Also, your rear takes more damage than your front, which is the strongest point on the boat. Use the mini-map to drive. Keep your eye on it as it can help you avoid beaching yourself. Don't be afraid to retreat to the spawn point if damaged. We can't always have a helpful squad. Sometimes you'll be repaired. Sometimes you'll have to regenerate your own health. Just be sure you don't sit in sight of aircraft. Remember you have gunners! Make sure you attack at such an angle that you at least give one of them a clear shot at the enemy boat. Or that pesky Helicopter that's headed towards you. Many times your gunner will be more effective against a helo than you will, unless you are using your six shot burst canon. Also, when using the Chinese boat, you may if you desire, keep your nose pointed right at the enemy... both gunners have overlapping fields of fire in the front, allowing both to concentrate on the primary target. The captain always goes down with the ship. Never leave the boat. What's worse than an enemy with two boats? An enemy with three boats. Fight down to the last point of health and don't give the enemy any chance to take a damaged boat. On maps where you know a boat spawns at a capture point, make it best practice to head to that point first, allowing one of your crew to take the boat as it spawns. Misery likes company, and two boats are misery for the enemy. As you progress, learn to use TV missiles. They can be helpful on maps with choppy or rough water where it is harder to use TOW missiles. As of now, TV missiles are not detonated by active protection and will not set of your threat indicator. They are very hard to counter. Burst cannon is highly effective against helicopters. Use it if you are highly confident of your missile skills against boats and feel you are less likely to need a canon against them. Get in the fight! Stay in the fight. Want to tick off your teammates? Sit back miles away from any meaningful battles while fruitlessly attempting to take down distant helos with your cannon. Boats can be a game changer. Your cannons can level buildings and destroy infantry. Help your team and stick close to them. Anyhow, I hope these tips may prove successful for someone out there looking to help themselves out in boat driving. It's probably one of the aspects of BF4 I enjoy the most.

My Easter consisted of cooking and overseeing (aka: standing around) my bro-in-laws engine build project. A 3rd gen 60-something AMC Rambler American with the tiniest turbo ever. Should be fast!

Jack Black is bringing the classic books by RL Stine to life with a movie This was my favourite Loved these back in the 90's

(OMG I am literally crying at my desk, and all my coworkers think I am insane)

Yes! I had the theme park one on VHS and the one where all the masks came to life in the Halloween store... I didn't see many of them though...

Does anyone remember the TV adaptation of the books? I watched a few back in the mid to late 90's and they were fairly decent especially with comparing the translation of the TV episodes to the actual books. Here is the intro if anyone remembers it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC3kue_C35g

Nice, I loved these as a kid, probably had 50 of the damn things. They must still be at my parents house, or else mom tossed them. Hopefully the movie is decent and not horribly juvenile, the people that read these are probably all 25+ now.

I don't see the point in it being a downloadable dlc, however I don't see a problem in doing voice acting, if it was on the original disc release or free tbh I'd be all over it...

Watched the multiplayer video tonight. It looks pretty damn good.

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/store/sales/double-ip-weekend Get ready for three days of League action because we're cranking up the IP gains during the last weekend of April! From 12am on Friday April 25th until 11:59pm on Sunday April 27th, you'll earn double IP from every match. This should up your mileage from the 30% off Rune sale that's running through the last day of April. In addition, we wanted to give you advance notice that we'll be having a two-week long 2 for 1 Rune Page sale during May. The exact time frame will be announced at a later date, but if you want to take advantage of the promotion, start saving so you can snag the rune pages you need.

Also got some more work done on the Monkey poles today.

. . . so you're familiar with Hodor, then.

Crepe Myrtle came today. A very good customer bought me a gift certificate to a bonsai shop online as a thank you so this is what I bought with it. Great looking little tree and fits right into the collection very nicely.

Funny story that. A few years ago I'm given an entire building to look after. It's huge, 5 stories tall and it's right behind Selfridges on Oxford Street, so a fairly high profile building. The former engineer made a mess of loads of things there and generally created a very hostile tension between us and the client. He was punted off of site and I was sent in as the clean up crew. So I get cracking, after about two weeks things are looking good, I've got the emergency lights working, the legionella count is dropping, etc etc. Much commendations, many praise, etc etc. Then one day the power goes out. Entire building, all dead. The building manager comes to me in a huff and all hell breaks loose. Eventually I suss it out and it's down to EDF doing some maintenance on a transformer and blowing a phase. Eventually it's all reset and we're back to normal, but everyone's blaming me. So I get behind my PC and start writing out an email with all the details, explanations, etc etc. I look over it about a hundred times and it looks good (I can't stress how important this email was). Outlook only fucking changed my surname to "Knobbed". My boss saw the humour but I was never seen on that site again.

OK so I went ahead and made the mistake of installing FC3 on PC. I'm addicted all over again. I can't get over how much better it looks and runs on PC. A lot of gripes I had about the graphics, like using textures in cut scenes over top of the animations to make them blurry and look better for console, aren't even in this PC version. I need 4 in my life!

Latest tree (a boxwood) that I took from nursery stock to first shaping to train as a bonsai. About 7 straight hours of work on it tonight. . . Before.... After....

the definition of pissed off