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SkySports- Michael Owen has launched a vociferous defence of under-pressure Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea.

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He's a top keeper and will only improve as he gets older. It's a shame some man u fans can't see that.

KingPin1818d ago

"He's a top keeper and will only improve as he gets older"

thats the problem right there.

A club like MU need a young keeper like this as a secondary option to gain experience playing in "lower" competitions like the FA cup, carling cup and a fully experienced keeper playing in the UCL and EPL.

he does have talent, no doubt. but when i look at the 2 united keepers, to me anders lindegaard looks the much better between the 2. as a fan i feel more at ease when he's in the poles especially since our defense is missing vidic.

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I agree in principal - the problem is that De Gea isn't an inexperienced keeper.

He's played in several competitions with both Spain U-21'S and Athletico Madrid. There's no doubt he'll come good, it's just that he's part of a vicious circle.

The less he plays the less confidence he gets. And as Fergie concentrates on the league he'll be reluctant to pick him, making it harder for De Gea.

Hopefully he realises his enormous potential - because if he does he'll be absolutely outstanding. Needs to bulk up and try to gain some confidence.

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Hello there, for the very first post I wanted to do something big (and by that I mean something useful and that would took some time to code properly). So I decided to share my implementation of the A* path finding algorithm in C.

I will split this post in a few sections, as I want to explain the problem that A* solves, the algorithm limitations, how you interface it with your own code and customize it to your own needs. If you are in a hurry, the code download link is on section 6.

1) Introduction - The Path Finding Problem:

Look at this picture, it is a screenshot from the game Lufia II - Rise of the Sinistrals (for the SNES).

Let's imagine that we want to take the main char (the guy with red hair) from its starting position to the point A. It would be a simple task, all we need to do is moving him along the Y axis a few cells up.

On the other hand, if we want to move the character from its starting position to the point B, then we would have a totally different problem. We can't just move in a straight line since there are several bushes in the way (in this game those are not considered walkable cells, unless you cut them). To find a path, we can use several solutions, the fastest one known by the date of this post is the A* (normally referred as A star).

The algorithm is a modification of the Djikstra's algorithm that uses an heuristic to reduce the search space. Basically it will look at the starting point and mark it as the current point, it will then check all the points around it and determine a score for each one. The score uses both a precise distance function (that is used to determine the distance between the current point and a neighbor) and an heuristic function (that is used to estimate the distance between the neighbor and the goal). After a neighbor point is analyzed, it is added to a list, known as the open list, and each neighbor point is marked as having the current point as parent (it will be used later on).

After checking all the points around the current point, the algorithm will remove it from the open list and add it to another list (known as the closed list). It will pick a new point to be set as current, which shall be the one with the lowest score in the open list.

The algorithm will then use pretty much the same logic as described in the beginning, with two differences: the first one is that it will ignore points that are in the closed list. The second is that it will check if the neighbor's distance from the current point is not smaller than the distance between the neighbor and the point marked as its parent. If it is the neighbor's parent is changed and its score is updated.

The algorithm ends when the goal is reached or when the open list is empty (in this case there is no path available to the goal). If it found a path it can be recreated by looking at the goal parent point, then the parent of that point and so on, until the starting point is reached.

If you want to read more about the subjects related to the A* and its implementation, here are some links (the fourth one has an illustrated explanation, bigger, but way easier to understand than mine):
A* Algorithm on Wikipedia.
Dijkstra Algorithm on Wikipedia.
Dynamic programming on Wikipedia.
A nice tutorial on how A* works.
Great info on path finding (and AI in general).

2) Algorithm Limitations:

Although A* is known to be the fastest way to solve a path finding problem, this implementation I am publishing is not.

The reason for such limitation is due to the data structure I used to save the list of cells that need to be checked. During the process of searching for the best path, the algorithm does two main operations: inserting the possible cells (at this point, they already have an score) in a list (know as open list) and finding the cell with the lower score in the open list.

In my list implementation the complexity of such operations are O(1) for the inserting and O(n) for finding the lowest score cell. On the other hand, if the implementation was using a heap the complexities would be O(log2n) and O(1) respectively.

The reason I didn't use a heap is that I already had a list working in my game and this implementation is already fast enough for my needs.

Another limitation is that INFINITY is defined as 1000000000, this can be easily changed, but it can give users problems if they use their own score functions (if you are using the default one, this means you will start having problems by the 71428571th cell, which is very unlikely to happen).

3) Interfacing with your Application:

The first thing to do is to determine if you need to change anything in the base code. If you just compile and use it, it will obey the following rules:
 - The agent may move in diagonals, but it can't if there is something in its way. For instance, if there is a wall to its right, it can't move to the upper right or lower right cells.
- The cost to move in a diagonal is bigger than the cost to move in a straight line (14 vs 10 per cell, respectively);
- The algorithm will iterate 1000 times before it stops and assume there is no path.

If your movement rules are different, check in the next section to learn how to change the implementation's behavior.

Now, the first thing to do is writing a function with the following prototype:
int name_of_your_function (void* yourGrid, int x, int y);

This function will be used by my implementation to find if the cell in index y and x is walkable or not. The first argument (the void*) is a pointer to your grid, you should cast it your own implementation type and return 0 if the cell is not walkable, and 1 if it is). A very basic example would be:
int walkable_interface(void* pt, int x, int y){
    int ** matrix = (int**)pt;
    return matrix[y][x];

In this example the grid is simply a two dimension int pointer that maps directly (1 or 0) if the region is walkable or not. Since a real grid implementation is likely to be much more complex, it will be passed simply as a void*.

The next step is creating a pathFindingStruct pointer, this can be done by using the function:
pathFindingStruct* createPathFindingStruct(void* , unsigned , unsigned , int (*)(void*, int, int));

- The first argument is a pointer to your grid.
- The second argument is the number of cells in the x axis of your grid.
- The third argument is the number of cells in the y axis of your grid.
- The forth argument is the function described just above.
To search for a path between two points, all you have to do is call this function:
list* processPathFinding(pathFindingStruct* , unsigned , unsigned , unsigned , unsigned );

- The first is the pathFindingStruct* you just created.
- The second argument is the index of the x cell where the path should start.
- The third argument is the index of the y cell where the path should start.
- The forth argument is the index of the x cell you want to get to.
- The fifth argument is the index of the y cell you want to get to.

This function will return a list of cellReference pointers. The cellReference struct has two unsigned int elements x and y. They are the cell indexes of the path found from the starting point to the end point.

To recover the results from a list you should use the listIterator type. The list iterator functions that are available are:
listIterator* createIteratorForList(list* l);
void startListIterator(list* l, listIterator* it);
void* getFirstListElement(listIterator*);
void* getNextListElement(listIterator*);
void* getCurrentListElement(listIterator*);
void resetListIterator(listIterator*);

If you create a list iterator with the first function you must free it by using the free function. The easiest way to use it is by declaring a listIterator variable and then using the second function, so you don't need to free it. Freeing a list iterator will not free the list nor the list's elements, when you no longer need a list you should use this function to free it:
freeList(&listReturned, free);

Where the second argument is the function that will be used to free the list elements. An example of the use of most of the functions described is:

pathFindingStruct* pathFinder = createPathFindingStruct(mainGrid, len, lines, walkable_interface);
if (
pathFinder == NULL){
list* pathTo = processPathFinding(pathFinder, begin.x, begin.y, end.x, end.y);
listIterator it;
startListIterator(pathTo, &it);
cellReference* pathCell;
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  //Do something...
freeList(&pathTo, free);

You may reuse the pathFindingStruct for as many searches as you like. When you don't need it anymore don't forget to free it by using:
void freePathFindingStruct(pathFindingStruct*)

4) How to Customize the Algorithm:

The implementation offers some limited customization, if you look at the pathfinding.h file you will find the following defines:
#define PATHFINDING_INFINITY 1000000000

The first two lines define the cost of moving one cell. The third one defines the cost considered infinity, this is used to find the lowest cost, if the costs passes this value, this implementation will not work properly. The fourth one defines if the agent may move in diagonals or not, you must comment this line if you want the algorithm not to consider diagonals (it will also change the default heuristic to the Manhattan distance). Finally, the last one is the default maximum number of iterations.

You can also change the maximum iteration number, heuristic function and neighbor distance function by using the following functions:
void setPathFindingMaxIter(pathFindingStruct*, unsigned );
void setPathFindingHeuristic(pathFindingStruct*, int (*)(void*, int, int, int, int));
void setPathFindingNeighborDistanceFunction(pathFindingStruct*, int (*)(void*, int, int, int, int));

The distance functions must have the following form:
int yourFunctionName(void* , int , int , int , int );

- The first argument shall be a void* to the grid that was passed to the createPathFindingStruct.
- The second and third arguments shall be the current point x and y indexes, respectively.
- The forth and fifth arguments shall be the either the neighbor point or the ending point, depending on which function you are setting, x and y indexes, respectively.

5) Examples of Use:

In the download you can find a full example of use, just get it and you will have six files:
- main.c
- list.c
- list.h
- pathfinding.c
- pathfinding.h
- input_example.txt

On windows I used code::blocks with MINGW to compile, but it should be compilable on any IDE. On linux I used vim and gcc, in this case all you need to do is use this command:
gcc -O2 main.c list.c pathfinding.c -o pathfinding_example

When you have the executable, you need to run it with a text file as argument.  The input file must have up to 100 lines and columns and all the lines must have the same length. The text may have the following letters:
- ".": an walkable cell.
- "0": an non-walkable cell.
- "s": the starting point.
- "e": the goal.

The file named "input_example.txt" can be used as a base, you can also use it to check the program working. It will print the text of the input file with the path marked by the "x" letter. Here are some examples of an input file (the left row) and the generated output (the right row):

6) Code Download and Considerations:

You may download the code here.

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Notso Nuttzo Butter

In the July Diner News, in celebration of all things blender and food processor worthy, I have a recipe similar to the Nuttzo Butter I have wanted to try. The jar was a bit too pricey for my itty bitty budget, so I opted to try making my own. I love the fact that the founder of Nuttzo added extra nutrients into her nut blends by incorporating flax and chia seeds. Always trying to use those more. I found several copycat recipes floating around the web. My favorite was from the Gluten Free Muse. I changed her recipe up just a bit. I was interested that she also added some psyllium.  Very nice.

Since then, I have changed my recipe again. To make another batch, I wanted to get more like the 7 Nut and Seed Butter version of Nuttzo. This one also does not use peanuts, but some do. See their line up of butters here. Sprouts has a great mixed nut option in the bulk nuts section. That is the best way to get the variety of nuts into the butter without going broke. My blend had almonds, pecans, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts and cashews. To get extra creaminess, I added in some extra cashews. This blend got creamy even in my Ninja Master Prep blender with no extra oils. No 10 minute blending time either. Out of pumpkin seeds, I added sunflower seed kernals this time. Because I was experimenting, I made a small batch. You can easily double if you are going to the trouble. Sunflower seeds really cut the costs too.

This home made version is a lot cheaper than the commercial variety. The jars I saw ran about $18 for 16 ounces. Granted, the Nuttzo brand is certified organic, and I opted for some organic and some not. The choice is yours, just know that you can do this yourself! You can mix it up and go all raw, some raw some roasted, all roasted...some soaked and dried...whichever nuts you prefer. The nuts I used were mostly roasted, but the sunflower seeds were raw. None were salted this time, so I added some salt to the recipe. I suggest you do that after blending so you can adjust the flavor to taste.

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1/2 cup roasted cashews, unsalted
1 cup mixed roasted nuts, unsalted
1/4 cup sunflower seed kernals, raw
1 1/2 tbsp golden flax seed
1 1/2 tbsp chia seeds
1 tbsp psyllium husk
1/2 tsp salt

Place all ingredients except salt in a food processor. Blend, scraping sides as necessary, until nut butter forms. This may take up to 10 minutes. If mixture remains crumbly, you may add a tsp of neutral flavored oil. This may be avoided by longer processing times.

This nut butter is different from peanut butter and almond butter. The seeds retain a little crunch. Being a devotee of the crunchy style butters--never smooth for me--I think those tiny bites of crunch are terrific. You not so much? Perhaps you should grind the chia seed and flax seed first.

The carb count on the commercial variety lists 8 carbs and 3 grams of fiber for 2 tablespoons. Since I didn't measure out each type of nut, I can't do a specific carb count on this butter. Like all nuts, use in moderation. It is so easy to overdo nuts! But we do feel better knowing this has some extra healthful ingredients in there. Now what to do with it? Basically anything you would do with almond butter or peanut butter. I may try a protein ball later this week and I am thinking about some coconut oil candies too. I'll try to post what I come up with--if we don't eat it all up on celery. If you want the original recipe I featured using only cashews, almonds, and walnuts plus the seeds, order the Diner News here.

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BATTLE OF THE TITANS: In my opinion, one of the classic fights between behemoths - Fujitsu and Samsung are pounding each other over PDP (plasma display panel) technology. In the fourth quarter of 2003, Samsung SDI was the world’s second-largest PDP maker with 22% of total global shipments. Fujitsu is the owner of key pieces of PDP IP. All PDP manufacturers in Japan are paying royalties to Fujitsu in return for access to its fundamental patents.

Recently, Samsung (who is from South Korea), got dinged when Japanese customs officials suspended the import of Samsung panels in response to Fujitsu's April 6 lawsuit filed in the Tokyo District Court and the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, which accused Samsung of patent violations.

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Bad Photos

Family FotoFun Friday Challenge #19
Post your pictures on your blog and leave a link and a comment here before 2/23/07.

This week's photo challenge is "bad photos".  You know -- the ones where someone looks horrible but someone else looks really good so you can't bear to send the photo to the recycle bin?   Sure, you can always crop out the bad part but what fun is that!?  :)

Please don't forget to leave a comment after you leave your link.

20060904_pearl_river_cruise_001_mediumThis picture was taken near the elevators of the China Hotel in Guangzhou just a week or so after Maddy's adoption.  I love the photo because it's the only picture we have of the girls wearing my favorite matching dresses.  We bought the dresses in the gift shop of The Majestic Hotel in Nanning (dirt cheap) and there's no way they'll fit them again this summer.

Daddy doesn't usually look like this.  No, he wasn't drinking.

20061107_six_shots_004_mediumThis is one of the best photos of Maddy but poor Gwen!  Anyone who thinks Gwen always takes a good picture needs to take a good look at that face!

As always, click any photo to see a larger view.

Family FotoFun Friday

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Some bad photos can be fixed.

We used a tripod to take a dozen or so pictures of our family recently.  None of them came out with everyone looking acceptable so I found one picture that had the fewest flaws and 'fixed' it.

Family_pic_fixIn this case, Maddy was the culprit.  In the first photo, she wasn't looking at the camera but she had a better pose in another photo and, overall, the two photos were similar enough that I could easily cut her out and paste her into the 2nd photo.  Please don't ask me how I did this.  It's not hard to do (after you've done it a time or two) but it's nearly impossible to explain without the benefit of actually having the photo editing program right here in front of us.

After Maddy was spliced into the bottom photo, I touched up the rest of the people in the photo.  I whitened our teeth and removed a few blemishes, wrinkles, etc.   Too bad those changes don't affect us in real life, huh!

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185.12 KUT Live at The Four Seasons

Here we go Austin.  The wait is over.  ACL has arrived.  It goes without saying that ACL is the “thing to do” this weekend, but by now you either have passes or you don’t.  Here is an option for those that want some pre-ACL music, or those that are not going but want to enjoy some of the music.

KUT will be kicking off the festival on the Four Seasons Lawn with live music, breakfast tacos, and coffee.  Proceeds benefit the Seton Shivers Cancer Center so it’s great music for a great cause.

The Four Season’s lawn is an awesome spot to experience Austin.  They have a great view of Lady Bird Lake and are close to everything downtown.

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Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Superman Stories 2

By Mark Russell
Half size, 60 pages, $5.

Do you know that meme about how Superman is a total jackass? All those out of context panels and covers from ‘60s comics where Superman is feeding Lois Lane to wolves and saying “Haha Lois, I bet you wish you’d never found out my secret identity was Clark Kent.”* and similar? They're pretty hilarious, and the stories Russell has written seem to owe a lot to them, because the Superman that appears in his stories is frequently a total dick.

*I may have just made this up.

This isn’t to say that Russell doesn’t have a firm grasp of Superman’s character. If anything he’s thought through the idea of Superman more than a lot of the people that have written him in recent years. (Though that may say more about current Superman comics than anything else.) His portrayal of Superman as a kind of world-weary guy who’s just doing his job (saving the world) every day until he can retire (never) is pretty effective overall.

And Russell’s Superman does seem to spend most of his time flying around and rescuing people. He doesn’t fight many super villains, instead trying to stop them before they start. The only appearance by one of Superman's comic book enemies is when Lex Luthor goes to his high school graduation.

This book really drives home how many (fictional) people Superman does save. When Superman (he seems to have given up on Clark Kent) marries Lois Lane they go on their honeymoon, but only for three days because Superman has calculated that he saves twenty lives a day, and that by taking three days off he’s let sixty people die. Brutal.

Of course it’s not all Superman rescuing people, as one of the other main characters is Jesus (yes, that Jesus), and he spends time rescuing people too. God also shows up, and there are some angels and scenes that occur in Heaven, none of which I really cared for. I mean, the Jesus who appears is a pretty nice guy (he doesn’t judge people or anything, he just helps them) and the other scenes are written well enough (unlike this review), it’s just that I don’t care. I’ve experienced enough Judeo-Christian-Islamic centred stories for one lifetime and it doesn’t bother me if I never read another one.

Russell explains his inclusion of God and Jesus in his introduction, where he says that as a child he watched Superman cartoons on Saturday morning, and went to church on Sunday morning. Thus he viewed God as a superhero, and felt Superman had theological implications. Yeah, he’s probably right, but I’d rather have more stories about Superman fighting intelligent gorillas.

In addition to God and Jesus, Russell also makes up a bunch of new characters for no apparent reason. If you’re already writing the people that already exist incredibly far out of character what is the point of creating Superman’s grandmother and her obsession with finding a sack of gold (which Russell clearly found far more hilarious than I did)? Just make it his mom, she's already old. And all the other stories about old people! These clearly don’t belong in a book about Superman (insert smiley emoticon).

Despite these complaints this book is still pretty funny and worth reading. The brief portrayal of Aquaman as a guy who thinks democracy is stupid (royalty is awesome!), the introductory piece about how screwed up and boring Krypton was before it exploded (soup is awesome!), and the suggestions people give Superman on how to improve the world are some of my favourite bits. All it’s missing are what every Superman story needs, monsters and robots.

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  1. I found this book completely by accident and it was definitely the best accident of my life, Superman Stories 2 now occupies my top 5 most influential books list, The story about Jesus and Superman playing cards has had a greater impact on my life than any story in the bible.

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2000 Point Bret List (2nd list no wizard)

posted Oct 29, 2012 04:31:39 by jake_hutton
Prophetess w Lvl 4 (Heavens), Bret Warhorse, 240 (general)

Paladin w. BsB, Barded Warhorse, Wyrmlance (1 S(3) breath weapon, +2 S on charge, and flaming attacks)- 94

I found a neat ruling in the Bret book that says their heroes benefit from the effects of their magical lances every round in combat, unless specifically stated otherwise. He does sadly only have a +3 save, I found out the Bret BSB cannot take a shield :/

Paladin w. Virtue of Impetuous Knight, Barded Warhorse, Shield, Lance- 115

Virtue of Impetuous knight allows me to add +6" to the first charge he and his unit declares

40 Men At Arms w. Musician, Banner 215
40 Men At Arms w. Musician, Banner 215

10 Bowmen w. Braziers (flaming ranged attacks) 65
10 Bowmen w. Braziers 65

9 Knights Errant w. Errantry Banner (-2 LD on Impetuous tests, but +1 S on the charge), Full Command 221
6 Knights of the Realm w. Full Command, Banner of Discipline 183 (Prophetess goes in here)
8 Knights of the Realm w. Full Command, Banner of Swiftness (Paladin goes in here) 231
6 Knights of the Realm w. Full Command 168

2 Trebuchets 180

So this list will use the trebs and lore of heavens to try to push my opponent towards me. If the opponent makes use of a lot of warmachines (which scare my knights) I will most likely have comet, or Thunderbolt to help the trebs eliminate those pesky machines with.

The Knights Errant are a hand grenade unit. I charge them into something that scares me that I think they can hurt, and hope they either maim it, or hold it back for a few turns. (With Impetuous can't expect them to hold back forever, so might as well shoot them forward).

The rest of the army meanwhile would advance under the cover of magic and trebs. The Men at Arms are to trap the opponent into a steadfast unit, and hopefully follow thru with a knight charge into the flank. If an enemy unit looks especially scary, I may even just throw a peasant unit at it, hope it last for a few turns and try to clean up other units.

Strengths- Points are Spread out, my other Bret list suffered from death star syndrome, which kept getting killed. With points spread around it should be harder to lose because of one poor break test.

-2 large units to be stead fast

-A few maneuverable, relatively hard hitting knight blocks. They won't eliminate an enemy on their own, but then again they are not supposed to.

- I have a lvl 4 so my dispelling should be top notch, and so should my casting (at 2k lots of local players take a lvl 3, or multiple lvl 2s)

-Large Monsters. Without the Heroic Killing blow lord I have only my trebs to rely on to kill large monsters. They can do it well if they remain on target. thats a big if ;).

-No really hard punch, the army lacks any really big knock out punch. Large units will be a problem, hopefully between trebs, multiple units and my large unit I can even the odds, but I expect to just need to avoid certain units.

-No way to take on killy lord builds

-My Heroes are relatively vulnerable.

Ok so thoughts? Please feel free to pick it apart, but bare in mind this is a 2000 point list so bringing all the toys just doesn't work. I debated back and forth a lot about taking Heavens, and I am still not sold on it, but its low casting costs, combined with long ranges seems like a win. I will miss Wildform though :/.
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jake_hutton said Oct 29, 2012 16:34:39
I also Wrote this 2nd list. I think I like this one better but would like opinions.

Bret Lord w. Virtue of Heroism (Heroic Killing Blow), Barded Warhorse, Shield, Sword of Bloodshed (+3 attacks) 234

Paladin w. BSB, Barded Warhorse 74
Paladin w. Royal Pegasus, Charmed Shield, Lance, Grail Vow (Magical attacks immune to psychology) 131
Paladin w. Barded Horse, Vow of Impetuous Knight (+D6" on first charge), Shield, Lance, Luckstone 120

40 Men At Arms w. Musician, Banner 215
40 Men At Arms w. Musician, Banner 215
6 Knights of the Realm w. Full Command 168 (BSB goes in here)
8 Knights of the Realm w. Full Command, Banner of Swiftness 231 (the impetuous paladin goes in here allowing crazy long charges)
8 Knights of the Realm w. Full Command, Banner of Eternal Flame 226 (Heroic Killing Blow guy goes in here)

10 Men at arms 50 (chaff/ disposable deployment)
10 Men at Arms 50

5 Pegasus Knights w. Musician 285

So that's the list. Its probably obvious a few things are missing, namely wizards or Trebs. I'll explain my thought behind this. Without wizards I could afford both the Peg knight and the impetuous knight. Yes I will get hammered in magic, but if I purposefully hold my dice to try to only dispel 1 spell a phase, hopefully I can weather the storm until my stuff gets stuck in. Also the Pegasus hero and Peg Knights can go wizard hunting charging into units to specifically target the wizards if need be. Its risky, but at 2K something has to be missing.

Missing the 2 Trebs may hurt. But since my army should be moving forward full force from turn 1 on Trebs will only get maybe 1 or 2 turns of good target shooting. I felt points were better spent elsewhere.

-2 Hard Hitting Knight Buses backed up by 2 big blocks of Men At Arms should do well
-The paladin on Pegasus coupled with the 5 Peg knights should really drive my opponents crazy, hopefully 1 if not both can survive to hit their targets which will be warmachines, vulnerable mages, and chaff
-with 7 heroic Killing blow flaming attacks I should tear through monsters and monstrous infantry.
-its kind of fluffy a Bret list with absolutely no shooting
-It should throw some people off balance, not having trebs or wizards
-Ability to easily get 2nd turn charges (even potentially 1st turn)

-Vulnerable to magic Heavy list, I'm really relying on my high armor saves and ward saves to bear the brunt of damage so I can get stuck in
-Elite infantry could pose a problem
-My characters are not the best protected

So thoughts? I think I like this list better then the other one its something different and looks like fun to play.
Greg2thePerson said Oct 29, 2012 21:56:36
I think both lists look pretty interesting. Personally, I prefer the first list because it has a nice balance of magic, shooting, and combat potential. As you've discussed, your second list plays on your strengths of mobility and combat prowess, and may be a more powerful build. I'd say try them both out and see what you like!
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jake_hutton said Oct 30, 2012 17:18:32
Thanks for the input Greg (how did you guys weather the storm?). I'm playing in a map campaign, and two of my frequent opponents have been Vampire Counts, I'm thinking of using the second list against them. Since they have no shooting, and they mostly spam low lvl casters to do invocation (which is super hard to stop) if figure no magic won't be too much of a disadvantage.

I'll play around with it and post my findings after getting in some games.

What is people's opinions about lore choice in the first list? Does heavens seem appropriate? Life was very tempting, but I think Heavens has more spells that will be useful. Thoughts?
Peyton said Oct 30, 2012 18:56:36
If you're rumbling against vampires no lv4 is a huge disadvantage! With the +4 dispel, you'll be stopping a lot of the spells he's casting if he's spamming low level casters. If he's not raising then your knights have a much better shot of chopping through blocks, otherwise you're getting bogged down. The heavens debuffs will also go a long way in keeping that vampire lord from ripping through your knights!

I like the first list a lot more. It's got good magic (heavens is a great lore, especially for 2+ save knights), flaming shots to knock regen off monsters and then hit with two trebs (for their points one of the best shooting units in the game), and plenty of close combat power. The second list looks like all it can do is charge knights and peasants into combats and hope for the best, which with an average human statline isn't going to do it vs most armies with any combat ability, especially since they'll be buffed by the magic you can't stop without a lv4. My 2 cents, by all means take whichever list you like playing best!

About the BSB, can't he take a dragonhelm to give him a 2+ save? And a dawnstone to make it re-rollable? Or just an enchanted shield for a 1+? I think any of these choices would make him more surviveable in either list.

jake_hutton said Oct 31, 2012 05:37:05
The paladin can take the dragon helm (not sure about enchanted shield the army book says he can't take regular shields so I would presume no magical either?). I could remove the banner of swiftness from the first list in place for the dragon helm on the BsB. I did want to give him equipment to be more survivable, but finding the points is pretty tough.

What about dropping the Knights Errant, bumping the 6 man unit of knights of the realm up to a 8 man unit, that's 48 points. That leaves 174 points to spend, 30 points into gromril great helm (giving him a rerollable +2 save).

144 left
Paladin on Royal Pegasus w. Shield, lance + Earthing Rod on the Prophetess
6 Knights errant w. Champion 120 +Channelling staff on Prophetess
10 more Bowmen w. Flaming attacks 65, Earthing Rod on Prophetess,and bumping one Men at arms unit up to 50 strong.

Thanks for the tips guys. I see what both of you are saying about the second list.
jake_hutton said Nov 02, 2012 02:35:46
So I played a game with the 1st list today. My opponent was playing empire he had a hellblaster with an engineer, large unit of halberdiers large unit spearmen, about 24 or so greatswords, 4 DemiGrphy Knights, a Hurricanum, a warrior priest on war alter, lvl 4 on metal, and a BSB on pegasus in the spearmen unit along with the lvl 4 so the lvl 4 goes in second rank.

My opponent got 2 towers to start with (because I was attacking his fortified town). He only used one put his hellblaster in the tower (to my delight) .

In the end I lost but very narrowly (by 200 points ish, came down to last combat).
A few highlights/Thoughts
-Trebs love when units go in buildings, D6 multiple wound D6 Strength 10! Needless to say the hellblaster and engineer died.
-Heavens was really great, low casting with many useful spells.
-Greatswords don't do to well against men at arms.
-My opponents little archer blocks were a real pain. They kept blocking chrage paths ect.
-I did not know how to deal with demigrphys
-I took a lvl 2 on beast, she didn't get a chance to do much (got killed fast). I like having her to help, she had the power stone so when I really need wildform i use it)

Overall I liked how this list played much more. I will be using it some more, hopefully with more experience I will learn how to use it better.
Greg2thePerson said Nov 02, 2012 10:23:15
Sounds like a good game!

Perhaps you could use some Peasant Bowmen, Mounted Yeomen, or the Ruby Ring of Ruin to help you clear off chaff?
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jake_hutton said Nov 02, 2012 16:29:06
I dropped Chain Lightning which turned out to be a mistake because it would have been perfect for chaff clearing.

My spells were abysmal at clearing chaff 1 uranon's thunderbolt and flock of doom into the same 5 man archer unit only killed one altogether lol. My bowmen could have been useful for chaff clearing but I deployed them wide to distract the demigrphys.

I think mounted yeoman would have been perfect, sadly they are the only models from the list I don't have :/. Might have to fix that as they are starting to look pretty useful, basically discount peg knights.
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TOP 10: Not surprisingly, the aforementioned Dave Matthews Band's Everyday holds on to the top spot, selling another 280,000 copies, while Just Push Play, the new one from Aerosmith, comes in at No. 2 in its first week on the shelves, with sales of more than 240,000.

At No. 3, Shaggy sells another 235,000 copies of Hot Shot, followed by Eve's Scorpion, which sells 161,000 in its debut. DJ Clue's The Professional — Part 2 drops two spots to No. 5, selling 129,000, while Dido's No Angel comes in at No. 6, selling another 113,000.

The Beatles' 1 sells almost 83,000 at No. 7, while Lenny Kravitz's Greatest Hits set sells another 80,000 at No. 8. At No. 9 is Project Pat's Mista Don't Play, which sells another 74,000, followed by Ja Rule's Rule 3:36, which sells yet another 73,000 copies at No. 10.

NOTABLE DEBUTS: Outside the Top 10, Koffee Brown's Mars/Venus bows the highest, selling 43,000 copies at No. 32. Oleader's Unwind comes in at No. 94, selling 14,000, while Delbert McClinton sells almost 13,000 copies of Nothing Personal at No. 103, and Alien Ant Farm's ANThology comes in at No. 105. Farther down, Big Dumb Face, the side project from Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland, sells less than 6,000 copies of Duke Lion Fights the Terror at No. 194.

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Regardless of whether one agrees that 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan should have gotten an adult lung transplant, one thing is clear: Sarah's mother figured out how to turn the Internet into a megaphone to fight for her daughter.

"Not every story catches media attention," said Dan O'Connor, who specializes in the ethics of social media and health care at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. "It's like lightning in a jar."

Read about how Sarah woke up nine days after transplant.

Janet Murnaghan may currently be a stay-at-home mother of four in Newtown Square, Pa., but she wasn't always, according to her Facebook profile. The Villanova University graduate used to work in communications, and some of that know-how certainly paid off. Her campaign was in the top 1 percent of its petitions, and the attention ultimately led to Sarah's lung transplant.

"Five, 10 years ago, this wouldn't have happened," O'Connor said, adding that storytelling through social media gives patients and their families a sense of control they lose during illness. "Her primary goal was to save her daughter's life. Anyone in that situation would use whatever tools were available to them."

Murnaghan started with a petition, calling attention to what would become known as the Under 12 Rule, an organ transplant policy she said was pushing Sarah to the bottom of the adult lung transplant waiting list even though she was eligible for adult lungs. The rule said that even though Sarah would be given priority when pediatric lungs became available, adult lungs would have to be offered to adult matches in her region before they could be offered to her.

Read about how Sarah's story prompted a change to the organ transplant policy.

But 30,000 petitions are added to each month, said spokeswoman Megan Lubin. Somehow Murnaghan's petition went viral, starting with 10,000 signatures over Memorial Day weekend that eventually surpassed 370,000 signatures. It's in the top 1 percent of petitions.

"If you read that story, it's actually difficult to not want to do something," Lubin said.

O'Connor said that although a lot of the Murnaghan attention was probably the result of being at the right place at the right time, people's gut reactions to hearing about the Under 12 Rule certainly helped generate buzz.

"We're used to giving children everything first," O'Connor said, adding that even though there were scientific reasons for the policy to be the way it was, it seemed strange to the public that children would get adult lungs last.

Once the petition took off on Memorial Day weekend, politicians took interest. They asked Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to make an exception for Sarah, but the HHS secretary refused. Soon, the law firm Pepper Hamilton LLC offered its services to the Murnaghans for free. The firm started with a letter to Sebelius and went to court the following day.

On June 5, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to prevent Sebelius from enforcing the rule for Sarah. By June 10, the Organ Transplantation and Procurement Network re-evaluated the Under 12 Rule and decided to keep it but created a mechanism for exceptions to be made depending on the case. Sarah's case was expected to be reviewed in court on June 14, but she got her transplant the day before.

On Saturday, June 22, Sarah woke up after nine days of sedation. She is expected to be taken off her ventilator and breathing on her own toward the end of the week, Murnaghan wrote on her Facebook page.

And now, the Murnaghans are using a new social media tool,, to raise $10,000 to pay for expenses associated with Sarah's treatment. In addition to updating Sarah's supporters on her condition, Murnaghan promised to post a video of her "awake and fully experiencing her new lungs."

O'Connor said telling health stories has become increasingly popular over the past few years, in part because all anyone needs to tell a story and generate buzz today is a cellphone or an Internet connection.

"You don't need to be friends with the director of your local newspaper," he said. "You don't need to have gone to the same college as a news anchor."

The Murnaghans raised $3,586 in four days.

Lubin said health petitions have done especially well on since she started working there a year and a half ago.

"People are winning and winning at really increasing rates," she said, adding that these victories can vary from getting better rates for certain procedures to prompting a review of the federal organ transplant policy. "It's been fascinating."


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by Benjamin Bradley
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When Thomas Edison invented the world’s first projector he recorded and watched a grainy motion picture of his colleague, Fred Ott, pretending to sneeze. This was 1894.

Andover Cinema projectionist Corey Patrick programs a digital projector so that it will atomize film presentation, from starting movies on its own to dimming lights and automatic focusing. Photo by Benjamin Bradley
Andover Cinema projectionist Corey Patrick programs a digital projector so that it will atomize film presentation, from starting movies on its own to dimming lights and automatic focusing. Photo by Benjamin Bradley

When the Andover Cinema purchased its first digital projector 115 years later, owners Clayton Kerns and Shane Maxwell watched the visually stunning “Ice Age 3D.” This was 2009.

The industry has clearly changed.

“The first projector was certainly a milestone for us,” says Kerns. “It was a huge deal… [but] then the ball kept rolling faster.”

Now it’s 2012. In approximately a year’s time Maxwell, Kerns and every theater owner across the nation must convert to digital cinema – gutting their current infrastructure and replacing it with new, expensive technology. According to Kerns and Maxwell, the demand comes from film studios, such as Warner Brothers and Paramount, which will save billions in production and shipping costs by putting their movies on lightweight computer hard drives instead of heavy, physical film prints.

The National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) recognizes that many independent theaters are “in a pinch” to finance such a complex project. Digital cinema requires computer servers, software management systems and 3D screens for 3D entertainment. And, of course, digital cinema demands digital projectors which, according to Elizabeth Baier of MPR News, cost around $75,000 each.

“It’s going to wipe some theaters out,” says Kerns.

Maxwell and Kerns have been familiar with adversity since they bought the 10-screen theater located in Andover. They made the leap into entrepreneurship in February 2008, in the middle of a recession. Kerns was a manager at the Andover Cinema, then 24 years old, and had recently graduated from St. Cloud University with a degree in political science. Maxwell, who became the Andover Cinema’s general manager in 2007, was 25.

Digital cinema became a top priority from the beginning. In less than two years they converted two of their 10 screens.

Perhaps it wasn’t until 2009 that digital cinema left its true mark on the industry.

When “Avatar 3D” made its debut it hit the silver screen with a boom. Audiences around the world experienced visual extravagance. The Motion Picture Association of America reported staggering box office sales, as studios racked in nearly $500 million in the U.S. and Canada alone. And as for the Andover Cinema, an early start paid off.

“We’re on the wave… not behind it,” says Maxwell.

Soon enough, Maxwell and Kerns received calls from neighboring theaters, asking for advice on how to make the digital switch. Currently in the middle of negotiations to convert their remaining eight screens, the two owners know firsthand what independently owned theaters are up against.

The biggest problem is money. According to Kerns, film studios will collectively save billions a year, but “theater owners aren’t going to be saving that kind of money.”

Kerns said that each film print made and shipped costs at least $900. When a widely released film is made, it is shipped to around 3,000 theaters. That’s over $2.5 million for a single movie.

In an attempt to help theaters transition to digital cinema, film studios have taken their savings and implemented something called a Viritual Print Fee (VPF) model. According to Motion Picture Karagosian Enterprises (MKPE), a consulting firm for cinema technology, this means movie theaters receive payments for converting to digital cinema. Within such a model financing and digital equipment are provided by third-party companies called integrators. In theory, theater owners can simply switch over to digital technology at a marginal cost.

“This option is not readily available to most [theaters],” says Kerns.

In many cases independent theaters will be left to negotiate their own financing and buy their own equipment. This is by no means an easy task. According to Kerns, financing is dependent on how many movies play at a theater each year, or a turn-count. In other words, small theaters with fewer screens will receive less financing.

Because of this, Minnesota’s small-town and historic theaters stand to lose the most and a number of theaters, such as Minnesota’s own JEM Theater, have started asking for donations on their company websites. According to JEM Theater’s website, JEMMovies.com, the theater has raised nearly $12,000 and is hoping to raise a total of $30,000 by April 1.

Even if a theater does obtain its equipment and financing through an integrator there are plenty of risks. According to Kerns, integrator contracts usually last about 10 years, a length that can be worrisome. Should an integrator go bankrupt during this time, it’s the theater owner who’s stuck with the bill. Such a nightmare scenario is “a legitmate fear” for many theater owners, said Kerns.

Another concern comes from how quickly technology advances. According to MPKE, the life-expectancy for digital projectors is around 10-15 years, whereas their 35mm counterparts can last for decades. The difference comes from what’s under the hood.

Film projectors have always provided a fall-back plan for theater owners, because even in a worst case scenario their rudimentary parts can be custom ordered. Digital projectors, on the other hand, are wired with complex circuit boards and semiconductors—technology that eventually becomes obsolete. Manufacturers are more likely to invest in new equipment rather than reengineer out-dated technology. Simply put, in 20 years movie theaters may need to buy new equipment all over again.

Despite all the growing pains, Maxwell and Kerns believe digital cinema will offer viewers the best film presentation to date. As Maxwell puts it, high definition entertainment has become commonplace in American households and as a result, it’s time for theaters to step up their game. With the ability to produce breathtaking visual and audio presentation, digital cinema appears to be the answer.

“It’s going to look great,” says Kerns. “A sharp, crisp picture 100 percent of the time.”

John Fithian, president of the NATO, considers the digital conversion the most significant change in the film industry since the 1930s, when silent film was replaced by “talkie” motion pictures.

While the challenge may be difficult, Maxwell and Kerns say they are poised and ready to entertain their audiences for years to come.

“We’re still going to find a way,” says Maxwell.

Benjamin Bradley is pursuing a master’s degree in technical communications at Metropolitan State University and is a part-time employee of Andover Cinema.


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Postby jimv » Fri Aug 30, 2013 5:18 pm

Hi. My chosen piece of music to learn ABC notation (I'm an old skool Linux user so automatically fell in love with an ASCII way to notate - thanks!) is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. I've fought with ABC for a couple of hours and have, ahem, the 1st four bars. However, no matter how hard I try and how often I read the reference/language guide, I cannot get any beams across my triplets!

X: 1 % Reference number
%%score {RH | LH}
V: RH clef=treble % Voice 1 (piano right-hand)
V: LH clef=bass merge % Voice 2 (piano left-hand)
K: C#m % Key signature
% Bar 1
V:RH !pp! (3:1:3G,CE (3:1:3G,CE (3:1:3G,CE (3:1:3G,CE |]
V:LH !pp! [C,4C,,4]|]

Why!? I'm using abcm2ps (tried both stable and 'unstable' versions 6.6 and 7.6).

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That's a puzzle. Your coding is correct I think and it works for me in EasyAbc (which uses abcm2ps). Here's a screenshot.

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Two thoughts:
- you should use a T: field (T: Moonlight Sonata) right after the X: field - however I don't think that will fix it
- are you using a .fmt file in some way

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I am also interested in Moonlight in abc. Have you finished it & can you share?

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This has a number of bars where chords are not meant to be played. How do I express this in abc notation so that the midi part of the program plays the melody but not the chord at these points. I tried placing NC in parenthesis but this did not work; the NC was displayed as if it were a chord symbol but the chord from the previous bar continued playing.
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Polar Express Themed Activities

Polar Express Themed Activities and Crafts

The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg has become one of our family’s favorite Christmas books!

Here are several Polar Express Themed Activities and Crafts to go along with this sweet story:

Polar Express Name Train

Make a Polar Express Name Train from Tippytoe Crafts

Polar Express Shape Train

Polar Express Shape Train from The Bestest Mom

Polar Express Conductor Hat

Make a Polar Express Conductor Hat from My Activity Maker

polar express lantern craft

Create a Polar Express Lantern from Ready Set Read

polar express ornaments

 Printable Polar Express Ornaments to Color

snow globe craft

Make a Polar Express Themed Snow Globe using a Baby Food Jar

from Early Activities and Projects

toilet paper tube train

Toilet Paper Tube Train from Homeschool Creations

Egg Carton Train

Egg Carton Train from Getting Messy with Ms. Jessi

polarexpress Pack

Printable Polar Express Preschool Learning Pack from 3 Dinosaurs

Polar Express Dice Game

Polar Express Dice Game from Mrs. Freshwater’s Class (scroll down for the free version)

Polar Express I have who has

Polar Express “I have…Who has?” Reading Game (scroll down for the free version)

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