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Explore the rich and vast world of Neventale, an ever growing world created by both the players and the studio. Imagine experiencing the classic RPG adventure as a social MMO. With the NevenTale, we are going to deliver more high quality gameplay content than the players can ever finish — we will not need to create pointless time sinks.
There is an ever growing, open world to explore and interact with. The game will be an innovative blend of adventure, exploration, puzzles, and minigames that will prevent stagnation of content that never ends. The content will be so vast and expansive that players will always be exploring new gameplay with weekly updates.
We are going to aim for a massive nitch of PC gamers who buy and play adventure games like Skyrim, Dragon Age, Gothic or The Witcher, and are pushed away from the traditional, "grindish" MMORPG experience. As with all games, we cannot appeal to everyone — the PvP crowd will find somewhat less interest in NevenTale.
Every choice you make reinforces a positive aspect in the game. There are sometimes options to take a chaotic or evil path for the sake of fun, but these will always end in positive and rewarding way. You will never be penalized for bad actions or decisions.
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For the game engine, it is certain that the best solution to create such MMO would be the HeroEngine. The main reasons for us to choose that engine are the multiplayer collaboration tool and the fact that the Seamless 2.0 system would allow us to create a large and flawless world. The engine was used to create multiple MMO's including Star Wars: The Old Republic. We are also going to incorporate additional plugins that will increase the graphical capabilities of the engine.
Collaborative World Building
Because the HeroEngine is a collaborative world building tool players will be able to expand. Think of it as "Skyrim Creation Kit meets minecraft". We will supply you with all art, textures, quest & character & Map editor. And most of all, you will be able to do it without any programming knowledge.
We are a collection of independent game developers with over 75 years of combined industry experience, having credits in over 100 shipped game titles of which 14 were AAA. That said, four of our team members have AAA senior/director level experience. As the team has limited resources due to self-funding, there are currently only 10 team members.
The biggest strength of NevenTale is the fact that it can be expanded by literally anyone. The official lore will be published on the NevenTale wiki. The first main quests and story arcs in the game will be developed by Vavel. With those foundations, anyone will be able to expand upon the existing content. The community not only up-votes the good ideas, but with the writers it will ensure that what has been created fits the canon of the Never-Ending Tale.
There is a multiverse theory—an infinite number of independent universes that comprise of two opposite energies, Saeli and Tyadi, and there are also those who create and manage these worlds called Demiurges. One of the Demiurges, Gilban, decided to create a world that consisted only of the positive energy, Saeli.
He named his creation "Neven"— meaning "Never Ending". But to create a pure world, he had to also create a world filled with only evil, or Tyadi. He called this world "Nether"— meaning "does not exist"—for he had to hide this world's creation from his fellow Demiurges. When he created these worlds, he broke the sacred oath that all Demiurges must take before they are given their powers, that he would always create worlds with an equal balance of Saeli and Tyadi so that the two powers would maintain balance within the world itself as well as the multiverse.
All of the built up Tyadic energy began flowing into Neven, corrupting and transforming the Saeli creatures into evil abominations. Immense and powerful monsters traveled through rifts into the world of Neven, slaying thousands and destroying the countryside. At first, turmoil and chaos reigned upon Neven, but the Primal races allied themselves together to fight, but the massive armies were not able to slay the abominations. Tens of thousands of Primals were killed, but a gleam of hope still remained.
Among the Primals there were those who had been gifted by Gilban with eternal youth, growing stronger over time. These men and women, most of whom hadn't been warriors, entered the battlefield and slew the monsters. These newly discovered warriors came together and made a pact, dedicating their lives to train and protect their beloved world from the creatures seeking to destroy it. They called this pact the Hunter Brotherhood. During this time of turmoil, many lives were lost, but the brotherhood were finally able to slay the monsters wreaking havoc upon the world and push them back into the recesses of the earth.
Neven settled into a time of relative security. The population of the Primal races increased. A new government called the Republic of the United States of the Dual Continent was made from dozens of city-states scattered from across the Nevenian Realm. Every city-state recognized the authority of the Brotherhood and relied upon them to protect them from the Tyadic abominations that occasionally crossed over through the great rifts from Nether.
In year 3021, a mage performing an experiment upon a soul pillar overloaded it, piercing the barrier between the worlds and destabilizing it. Suddenly, dozens of abominations from Nether began crossing over, and not just nearby, but all over Neven rifts were discovered with new abominations crossing over. Members of the Hunter Brotherhood who had been commissioned to watch over the experiment immediately began slaying them. Among abominations, they discovered that another being had also crossed over, one that they had never seen before. He called himself a Seam.
The being said that his people, The People of the Void or The Seam, had been created by Gilban thousands of years ago with a singular purpose, to help bring balance back to Neven and Nether. He said that when the Tyadic energies first began flowing out from Nether, Gilban created a separate realm called The Void and filled it the Seam, but he had been unable to connect The Void with Neven before he was imprisoned by his fellow Demiurges. When the soul pillar overloaded and pierced the barrier between worlds, it finally connected the Void to Neven, allowing Seams to materialize within Neven but only as long as they stayed near a Soul Pillar. The Seam promised the Brotherhood that he and his people would do everything in their power to help bring balance to Neven once and for all.
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We have everything needed to create this game. Starting with the concept, a straight vision for the development along the best industry professionals interested in working on the project. The most important thing we lack is the money needed to pay off over 100 full time professionals needed to make such game.
MMO development is the most expensive type of game development you can imagine – an average MMO budget is over $10M. In order for NevenTale to be created it will need to be fueled with over $20 million dollars. Unfortunately for all of us, publishers who have such money would rather invest in something that has proven to be successful; we end up with tens of WoW clones.
Our real goal is to gather over 200,000 backers who would show interest in playing the game. Such player base will prove publishers that there is a real demand for this kind of game. On the other hand, the money from the Kickstarter campaign will keep the projects design safe & independent from decisions of people who have no idea how to make a user-friendly game.
Thanks to Kickstarter, we can have you, the end-user to act as the projects Angel Investor – With the exception that instead of company shares you will receive in-game goodies! This will work out better for the project, because we will make the game the players want, not the game a publisher may (not) want.
If you pledge your money to the project, and we do not reach our goals, or we do not find an external investor needed to back this project. The project will be canceled and you will get your money back.
There is nothing worse than playing a game that is pay to win. The core elements of the game will be completely free. The money will not affect the gameplay but will enhance your experience -- skins, pets, mounts, housing customizations and access to premium worlds.
A lot of people mentioned that Vavel is an anagram of the word Valve - it is partially true, but it wasn't our intention to copy somebody's company name. We named our company after the name of the polish Royal Castle - Wawel. Although it is spelled with a "W", it is pronounced as a "V". Check out the pictures: http://lmgtfy.com/…
The game will have an aim to stop the grind by staying away from timesinks that keep the players plaing and subscribing MMO games. Instead, the goal will be to create a never ending surge of quests, that will occupy the player "forever" – More quests added faster then the players can finish. Aside from that, this will be the first big MMO that will not only give out all the world building tools to the player community, but will also give away 10$ so that they can expand the map and add more quests, making the first statement possible.
WINDOWS - PC Client.
The game is going to be a next generation MMORPG that will focus on breaking the grind that stares the lead role in the MMO's produced today. It will feature an advanced, enormous and amorphous world that will allow anyone to add their own tale.
There are a 3 reasons.
1) The games of tomorrow should have social aspects.
2) Many players choose to pirate games - you can't really pirate an MMO; we will be able to constantly expand the game.
3) The community will be in one place and the player generation process organized. Skyrim has over 20,000+ mods but you can only rarely play over 300 at once.
We have a lot of friends from the industry who really like the idea of the NevenTale and would be interested in working on the project. Unfortunately all of them have families so taking up an unpaid job is not an option for them. So far the AAA names we can share with you include Brett Norton, Elic Agler and Bob Rissolo - feel free to look us up on MobyGames.
As said, we are currently self-funded and we most certainly do not plan on making the game for $2M - that would be almost impossible. The Kickstarter is only going to act as proof that it would be worth investing in such project. There are a lot of investors out there who are putting money into all sorts of projects, but they mostly fund proven business models. NevenTale is something unique and new - not really proven in any form of way. We have already contacted some investors but they aren't really interested in the project at this point. Hopefully this will change as we progress through the Kickstarter campaign :)
If you really like the idea pledge one dollar and you will still be rewarded - $1 isn't much. If you are sceptic about the project in any form of way, feel free to write a public comment for anyone to see - we will try to answer it ASAP.
If you have any questions about the project; feel free to have a chat with us on our Teamspeak3 server: ts62.gameservers.com:9484
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The answer is yes - you will have to spend hours to be the best, but you won't be able to do it through grind. We will make sure that players will have a reason to compete, without the possibility to use bots. There will be hiscores for those categories:
Game completion – the ammount of points the player scored, Story Points with different amount of points given out depending on the quest difficulty , skill levels, achievements, different areas visited - "Orinheim discovered", achieving things in minigames and activities, Different Raids and activities completed,
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Film sparks Chinese tourist boom in Chiang Mai
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)'s Chiang Mai office expects the number of tourists from China to increase by at least 20 per cent this year from 2012, driven by the huge success of the Chinese film "Lost in Thailand". More than 80 per cent of the film was shot in the northern province.
However, the local service sector, including tour agencies, needs to improve its capabilities, especially in the area of Chinese-speaking personnel, if it is to cash in on the growth of Chinese visitors, tourism officials said.
Visoot Buachum, director of the TAT's Chiang Mai office, said the number of Chinese tourists visiting Thailand grew 50 per cent year on year in 2012 to between 2.5 million and 2.6 million. The number of Chinese tourists visiting Chiang Mai rose from 70,000 in 2011 to about 80,000 last year.
Sorapop Chuaedamrong, vice president of the Chiang Mai Chamber of Commerce, said "'Lost in Thailand' fever" had encouraged Chinese tourists to visit Chiang Mai, where most of the film was shot. The film hit screens in China in December and is credited with trebling the number of Chinese visitors to Chiang Mai at the end of last year.
"Chiang Mai itself has a good tourism foundation, such as government-funded attractions like the Chiang Mai Night Safari and the Royal Park Ratchaphruek. Aside from leisure activities, many visitors from China are also looking for business opportunities. Chiang Mai province itself should capitalise on this point by establishing a centre to provide trade and business information to Chinese visitors," he said.
Songwit Itthipattanakul, managing director of Standard Tour, a leading tour agency in Chiang Mai, said the number of individual tourists from China visiting Chiang Mai had increased dramatically since the end of last year. Chinese tourists visiting the northern city at the end of 2011 accounted for at least 7-8 per cent of the total number of Chinese tourists in Thailand in the period, up from only 5 per cent on average in previous years.
"We expect to receive growing numbers of Chinese tourists throughout this year, especially during the Chinese New Year festival to be held in February. Many Chinese tourists are now backpacking, as opposed to taking group tours. Encouraging factors are the direct flights connecting Chiang Mai with Chinese destinations such as Macao and Kunming. The situation will improve if airlines add more direct flights between Chiang Mai and other cities in China such as Guangzhou and Shanghai," Songwit said.
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Air Canada says it has suspended its flights to and from Venezuela due to civil unrest.
In a statement posted on its website Monday, the airline says it can no longer ensure the safety of its operation in Venezuela, which has been roiled by daily street protests over crime and a deteriorating economy for more than a month.
The airline's last flight left Caracas on Sunday. It is offering refunds to those who have purchased tickets for flights after that.
Foreign airlines have struggled under a $3.3 billion debt owed by the Venezuelan government.
President Nicolas Maduro said Friday any airline that reduced or suspended flights in and out of Venezuela would face severe measures. He said any airline that leaves won't be allowed back while he is in power.
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Charles Allis Art Museum serves tea with the Mad Hatter
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The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday adopted new rules governing competitive electric markets that it hopes will encourage suppliers to provide more innovative products and will make it easier for customers to switch suppliers.
Most of the changes brought about by the new framework will be invisible to customers. But the rules should reduce the frustrating administrative delays that required some customers to wait up to 45 days to switch suppliers. The new rules will shorten the waiting period and by 2015 should allow for instantaneous conversions.


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As expressed by Dr. Eppes in the beginning of the television series, NUMB3RS, mathematics is critically important to modern science and engineering. As Sir Issac Newton observed, we stand on the shoulders of giants: Science and engineering equate to a communal activity whereby tools created for one purpose can often be used to increase productivity in other realms.
"We all use math every day — to predict weather, to tell time, to handle money. Math is more than formulas and equations; it's logic, it's rationality, it's using your mind to solve the biggest mysteries we know."
Fictional character Dr. Charles Eppes, from the TV series "NUMB3RS"
It is difficult to overstate the importance of digital computers to modern science and engineering. The scientific method's imperative to observe and measure may begin the process, but analysis follows closely and requires tools that are powerful and easy to use to make sense of the volume of data collected.
The primary purpose of the mathematical discipline of statistics is to enable the collection and analysis of data. Statistics is a broad category and covers the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data.
Guided by the desire to produce a powerful tool for such statistical analysis of data, the engineers of Bell Labs produced a programming language in 1976 called S. As S grew in power and popularity, it was transformed over time into S-Plus, a commercial software package distributed by TIBCO. (See Resources to follow the history of S-Plus.)
As often happens to successful commercial tools, an open source version of S was produced by the GNU project and given the name R. One major difference between S-Plus and R is that R is primarily a command-line-oriented software package, whereas S-Plus offers a graphical user interface (GUI).
The characteristics of R that make it particularly useful are that it is:
- Interactive — You type commands and see results immediately.
- Simple — You can easily obtain useful results from the moment you install it and begin to use it.
- Comprehensive — R draws on the vast libraries of statistical analysis software that have grown up with the package.
- Extensible — You can easily create your own libraries of functionality and share them with the R community.
R also offers a variety of tools you can use to easily import your data into the package for analysis.
The importance of statistics
The discipline of statistics guides the decision-making process. Gathering meaningful data on the topic that interests you and determining various statistical values such as the minimum, maximum, mode, mean, median, and standard deviation contained within the data constrains solutions that help you make better decisions. For example, if the materials being used in a product will melt from too much heat, you need to know that before mass production. You will have to make sure the maximum temperature expected is far less than the minimum melting point of the materials being used.
Statistics help make intelligent decisions
Making informed, intelligent decisions requires work. No matter what the field of endeavor, you must apply due diligence to understand it before making decisions. There is no free lunch. If, for example, your goal is to make money as an investor (deciding which stocks have growth potential, at what price to buy them, and what the target selling price is), you must study the promising characteristics of the stock, and one of those important characteristics is how has it performed in the past.
Access to such statistical data isn't difficult to find. You can download it from sources that your broker can recommend. Downloading the historical data into a common spreadsheet format or a comma-separated text file makes input of this data into R easy. With the data in R, you can readily employ several statistical analysis tools to tease out the information you need to make informed decisions.
The same is true for the engineering or science realm. NASA engineers spend a great deal of time building prototype devices such as rocket engines and testing them so they not only provide the required thrust but have a significant margin of safety. Choosing a particular design must be an informed decision so that money and lives aren't wasted in rockets that explode soon after launch. Reams and reams of test data have to be analyzed to guide these decisions.
Statistics help interpret data
Part of the process of statistical analysis is interpreting the data — that is, assigning meaning to it and determining the implications of that meaning. When, for example, herbicides are being designed, agricultural scientists apply them to carefully isolated plant populations and evaluate how well they did over time. The idea behind herbicides is to kill weeds without harming the intended crops, and a simple measure of their effectiveness might be the ratio of crop to weed over a fixed period of time.
After gathering such data and not seeing the expected results, perhaps other clues in the data can hint at why. If other coincidental data was gathered, such as how much the plants were watered per day as well as how much sunshine fell on them, scientists might discover hidden patterns that point to the reason for the failed tests. Such hidden patterns may be as simple as not having enough water per day to make the herbicide effective. Assigning meaning such as that would not have been possible without gathering and analyzing the herbicide performance data.
Statistics help establish Bayesian inference
As additional data is collected, you can begin to employ Bayesian inference, a method of updating the probability estimate for a hypothesis. In recent years and with the advent of digital computer technology, Bayesian techniques for updating probabilities with new data have really come into their own. R is an ideal tool for applying Bayesian inference, because a significant number of contributed packages in the Comprehensive R Archive Network exist for applying it.
Statistics enable you to mine for hidden treasures
The interactive nature of R enables a refreshing degree of freedom over the old batch methods of exploring data. With R, you are constantly inputting commands that build and display objects as your sense of exploration drives you. This flexibility can enable you to find hidden treasures in the data that add to the body of scientific knowledge.
R data types
Computer models of the real world are little more than mathematical abstractions. The system being modeled in an R session can be represented with many different data types.
R data types are stored in named variables, and to display the content or value of the variable, you need only type the name. Variables in R are case-sensitive (A is not the same as a) and must be unique. After starting R, you can enter commands such as those in Listing 1.
Listing 1. Named variables in R
> a <- 7 > a [1] 7 > hours_per_day <- 24 > days_per_week <- 7 > hours_per_week <- hours_per_day * days_per_week > hours_per_week [1] 168
Scalars and vectors
Mathematics is the language of science, and the simplest of mathematical
objects is the scalar, a single number that represents the value
or magnitude of something. In R, you create variables with scalar values
by using a simple assignment. The following commands mean the same thing
— to assign 3.14 to a variable named
> pi <-- 3.14 > 3.14 --> pi > pi = 3.14 > pi [1] 3.14
The R manual defines a vector as "a single entity
consisting of a collection of things." The
c() function for
constructing vectors appears like this:
> days_per_month <- c(31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31)
Furthermore, you can attach names to elements of a vector as follows:
> names(days_per_month) <- c("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec") > days_per_month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 31 28 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31
Notice that the input data to the
names vector are character
strings. Vectors can contain a collection of any data type R offers,
including character strings.
Arrays and matrices
You can create multidimensional arrays and matrices in R simply and in many ways. One of the simplest ways is to create and fill the vector first, then apply the dimensional parameters for it. Listing 2 provides an example.
Listing 2. Constructing multidimensional arrays
> a <- c(2,4,5,67,34) > plot(a) > rm(a) > ls() character(0) > a <- 1:20 > a [1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 > dim(a) <- c(4, 5) > a [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 5 9 13 17 [2,] 2 6 10 14 18 [3,] 3 7 11 15 19 [4,] 4 8 12 16 20 > a[3,2] [1] 7
It is also possible to use the
array() function to create the
whole array in one command, as shown in Listing 3.
Listing 3. A multidimensional array with one command
> b <- array(1:20, dim=c(4, 5)) > b [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 5 9 13 17 [2,] 2 6 10 14 18 [3,] 3 7 11 15 19 [4,] 4 8 12 16 20
You can perform arithmetic operations on the arrays, too (see Listing 4).
Listing 4. Array arithmetic
> a+b [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 2 10 18 26 34 [2,] 4 12 20 28 36 [3,] 6 14 22 30 38 [4,] 8 16 24 32 40 > a-b [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 0 0 0 0 0 [2,] 0 0 0 0 0 [3,] 0 0 0 0 0 [4,] 0 0 0 0 0 > a*b [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 25 81 169 289 [2,] 4 36 100 196 324 [3,] 9 49 121 225 361 [4,] 16 64 144 256 400 > a/b [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [,5] [1,] 1 1 1 1 1 [2,] 1 1 1 1 1 [3,] 1 1 1 1 1 [4,] 1 1 1 1 1
Next, define a square matrix and calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors for it (see Listing 5).
Listing 5. Calculating eigenvalues and eigenvectors
> c <- array(1:25, dim=c(5, 5)) > eigen(c) $values [1] 6.864208e+01+0.000000e+00i -3.642081e+00+0.000000e+00i [3] 6.638046e-16+1.280454e-15i 6.638046e-16-1.280454e-15i [5] 3.657972e-17+0.000000e+00i $vectors [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] -0.3800509+0i 0.76703416+0i 0.3058009-0.1907904i 0.3058009+0.1907904i [2,] -0.4124552+0i 0.48590617+0i 0.1370806+0.2690219i 0.1370806-0.2690219i [3,] -0.4448594+0i 0.20477817+0i -0.7527335+0.0000000i -0.7527335+0.0000000i [4,] -0.4772637+0i -0.07634982+0i -0.1289781-0.0439041i -0.1289781+0.0439041i [5,] -0.5096680+0i -0.35747782+0i 0.4388302-0.0343274i 0.4388302+0.0343274i [,5] [1,] -0.11454104+0i [2,] 0.01126422+0i [3,] 0.58902185+0i [4,] -0.75367218+0i [5,] 0.26792716+0i
As you can see, R is highly interactive and can be fun to work with, too.
Data frames
Data frames in R are a complex data type that consists of a list of vectors of equal length. You can picture them as spreadsheet rows and columnar data (see Listing 6).
Listing 6. Data frames
> name <- c("Joe", "Mark", "Tom") > age <- c(23, 35, 64) > working <- c(TRUE, TRUE, FALSE) > people <- data.frame(name, age, working) > people name age working 1 Joe 23 TRUE 2 Mark 35 TRUE 3 Tom 64 FALSE
You can easily apply the R
summary() function to summarize
statistical data about any R object. In Listing 7, I apply the function to
the data frame that was just created.
Listing 7. The R
> summary(people) name age working Joe :1 Min. :23.00 Mode :logical Mark:1 1st Qu.:29.00 FALSE:1 Tom :1 Median :35.00 TRUE :2 Mean :40.67 NA's :0 3rd Qu.:49.50 Max. :64.00
In R, a list is a generic vector containing other objects. Because vectors must contain objects of the same type, lists allow you to group collections of diverse object vectors. Listing 8 provides some examples.
Listing 8. The R
> a <- 1:5 > a [1] 1 2 3 4 5 > b <- c("xx", "yy", "zz") > b [1] "xx" "yy" "zz" > c <- c(TRUE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE) > c [1] TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE > d <- list(a, b, c) > d [[1]] [1] 1 2 3 4 5 [[2]] [1] "xx" "yy" "zz" [[3]] [1] TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE FALSE > summary(d) Length Class Mode [1,] 5 -none- numeric [2,] 3 -none- character [3,] 5 -none- logical
Factors in R are known as categorical variables. They are useful in that they have a limited number of different values, often used for categorizing data. For example, consider different categories of wrestlers based on their weight:
- Heavyweights are 190 pounds or heavier.
- Middleweights range from 165 to 189 pounds.
- Lightweights are those under 165 pounds.
Listing 9 shows this information in a data frame.
Listing 9. A data frame of wrestlers
> name <- c("Joe", "Mark", "Tom") > weight <- c(135, 176, 169) > wrestlers <- data.frame(name, weight) > wrestlers name weight 1 Joe 135 2 Mark 176 3 Tom 169
Now that I have my table of wrestlers in a data frame, I'll create categories for the class in which these guys wrestle. Notice that to properly "cut" the categories, there must always be one more break than there are labels.
Listing 10. Factors or categorical variables
> labels=c('Lightweight', 'Middleweight', 'Heavyweight') > breaks=c(1, 165, 190, 500) > class = cut(wrestlers$weight, 3, labels, breaks) > table(class) class Lightweight Middleweight Heavyweight 1 2 0
Of my three wrestlers, one is a lightweight and two are middleweights. There are no heavyweights.
R transformations
It is often necessary to make on-the-fly transformations of your data to get a better picture of what's happening. Sometimes, such transformations can make the data much more uniform and less skewed. For example, consider the growth of the Internet over the six-year period from 1996 to 2002. The number of registered domains in each year indicates explosive growth during this period. (See Resources for the source of this data.)
> years <- c(1996, 1998, 2000, 2002) > domains <- c(1560000, 3900000, 15600000, 32500000) > plot(years, domains)
Figure 1 shows registered Internet domains by year.
Figure 1. Registered domains by year
As you can see, the graph that this command produced shows a strong curvature upward, indicating approximately exponential growth during this period. If you suspect exponential growth, you would expect the logarithm of each data point to be a nearly linear diagonal. Making this transformation on the domain data confirms this:
> logD <- log(domains) > plot(years, logD)
Figure 2 shows registered domains logarithmically.
Figure 2. Registered domains by year (logarithmic)
It might also prove useful to examine histograms of the domain data and their logarithms:
> hist(domains) > hist(logD)
Figure 3 shows registered domains as a histogram.
Figure 3. Registered domains by year (histogram)
Figure 4 shows the registered domain histogram.
Figure 4. Registered domain histogram (logarithmic)
Notice that the logarithmic data is much less skewed. Such transformations can tease out details you may not see at first glance and assist in interpreting the results. Because R makes such transformations easy, why not leverage this power as much as you can?
A simple R project
This simple R project assumes you are using a computer running Debian Linux®. Installing R on other operating systems is similarly easy. The goal of the project is to calculate basic statistics for an input dataset found on the Internet after a Google search.
Installing R
Installing R is easy. Issuing the standard Debian
command downloads and installs the package:
$ sudo apt-get install r-base Password: _ . (Installation messages) .
After installation, you can start R using the Tk GUI like this:
$ R -g Tk &
Finding a data source
The world is awash in data on many different topics, so finding a data source you can play with to learn R isn't difficult. For the sake of this article, a timely topic might be "Government spending on healthcare." By typing that exact phrase into Google, I was instantly presented with more than 99 million links. I chose to click the first link that seemed to be from the U.S. government and immediately saw a table with a download link.
Importing the data
I clicked the download link on the "U.S. Health Care Spending for 2013" page and chose to download the comma-separated values file usgs_2013.csv to my workstation. As always seems to be the case with data files, a little editing was called for: I had to delete a few rows above and below the table so only the column headings and the data appeared. After that, I started R with the command given above and entered the following command to read the table data:
> hc <- read.csv(file="usgs_2013.csv", stringsAsFactors=FALSE)
stringsAsFactors=FALSE is necessary to
avoid interpreting strings as factors.
Analyzing the data
Suppose that the only thing I want from this data is the mean and sum of all of the numbers in the Fed column. I entered the following command, and it failed:
> sum(as.numeric(hc$Fed)) [1] NA Warning message: NAs introduced by coercion
The problem was that some of the values had a comma in them, which
prevented the proper conversion of the numeric values. (Those with commas
were "coerced" into
NAs by the R conversion functions.)
Listing 11 shows how the commas were removed to fix the problem.
Listing 11. Fixing errors in the data
> hc$Fed <- as.numeric(sub("\\,", "", hc$Fed)) > as.numeric(hc$Fed) [1] 874.3 882.2 510.5 0.0 4.6 33.1 0.0 333.9 98.0 [10] 856.5 422.4 37.0 94.5 55.9 141.4 222.8 0.0 3685.0 [19] 972.9 17249.3
Then it was smooth sailing to get the values I wanted.
Listing 12. Displaying the
mean() and
> mean(as.numeric(hc$Fed)) [1] 1323.715 > sum(as.numeric(hc$Fed)) [1] 26474.3
Note: These values don't have any useful meaning other than for demonstration purposes.
The world is awash in data
As each of the following paragraphs and links will show, R is being used to process data in useful ways throughout the world. The creativity of people is amazing when they have access to the right tools for the job.
Airline performance
In 2009, the American Statistical Association held its biannual Data Exposition event. This event included various competitions, one of which was on the topic "Airline on-time performance." From the association's website:
"The data consists of flight arrival and departure details for all commercial flights within the USA, from October 1987 to April 2008. This is a large dataset: there are nearly 120 million records in total, and takes up 1.6 gigabytes of space compressed and 12 gigabytes when uncompressed."
That's called big data.
Although the SAS Institute produced the winning poster, teams from Iowa State University and Yale University used R to "tease some fascinating facets out of the data," as well.
Although we have reached the stage where our science can read the book of life, also known as DNA, making sense of it is still vast, mostly uncharted territory. Our greatest tools are being brought to bear on the problem of trying to tease out the meaning of the various subsequences of DNA's bases, and R is a powerful tool in this battle.
Avril Coghlan wrote three free booklets on using R in bioinformatics. In them, she described how R is being used for multivariate analysis, time series analysis, and biomedical statistics (see Resources).
Finance and economics
R is being employed by various economists and financial planners to study the ebb and flow of financial markets. A series of articles in The Economist at Large are dedicated to illustrating how R is being put to use in analyzing the performances of various financial instruments with an eye toward more efficient portfolio management.
Investing is part art, part science, and statistical analysis is at the heart of most of the science. It should come as no surprise that the R programming language can be found in this important realm.
Google Maps
Google Maps is one of the most powerful tools available for presenting data that has a mapping component to it. Examples of such data abound — the density of doctors per 10,000 citizens, the average home value for a given region, etc. What truly makes Google Maps so powerful is the application program interface that affords programmers the ability to merge this tool's capabilities with their own databases.
Thanks to the efforts of various individuals in the R community, a bridge between the Google Maps API and R has been built and is being actively used and improved on (see Resources).
As has already been demonstrated, the government is a great source for data of all kinds. A simple Google search with "government data on" reveals many links on a huge variety of topics. It is necessary for those who lead a nation to know what they are doing, and the only way to accomplish that is to collect, analyze, and make informed, data-driven decisions. Because all of this activity is paid for by taxpayers, most of the data is made available to download and use (see Resources).
Oceanographers like Dan Kelley have access to many databases of oceanographic data. He has written OCE, a statistical analysis package for R that enables complex analysis of many of these databases. Many diverse tools in the package enable things like calculating seawater salinity from temperature and density, tools to read oceanographic data files, tools to calculate geodesic distances on earth, tools to plot a coastline, and more. It is a comprehensive and powerful package (see Resources).
The weather
Every six hours, the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) forecasts the weather for the entire world. The data that NCEP uses is available for download by anyone who wants it, and Joe Wheatley of the R community is using that data to do his own studies (see Resources).
As Dr. Charles Eppes observed, we all use math every day. For most of us most of the time, every product or service we use wouldn't exist were it not for mathematics. Furthermore, we could not apply mathematics as efficiently or effectively as we have without digital computers and software like R being readily available. It is my sincere desire to see many more people take an active interest in taking advantage of this powerful tool for their businesses.
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West Ham Jewish Cemetery (Buckingham Rd), London, 1. England, UK
Notes: West Ham Jewish Cemetery: Opened in 1857 and closed in 2002.
Status: Headstone photos: incomplete.
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In an old-fashioned amusement park ride, passengers stand inside a
hollow steel cylinder with their backs against the wall. The
cylinder begins to rotate about a vertical axis. Then the floor on
which the passengers are standing suddenly drops away! If all goes
well, the passengers will "stick" to the wall and not slide.
Clothing has a static coefficient of friction against steel in the
range 0.64 to 1.0 and a kinetic coefficient in the range 0.40 to
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Candlewood Suites St. Joseph/Benton Harbor
Candlewood Suites St. Joseph/Benton Harbor
Lake Michigan Hotel's Location near Benton Harbor & St. Joseph
Comfort is our priority at the Candlewood Suites® St Joseph - Benton Harbor hotel. Situated amid the sandy beaches of Lake Michigan, our hotel's guests are minutes from Four Winds Casino Resort.
Corporate guests visiting Stevensville or St. Joseph, Michigan appreciate our hotel's top-notch business meeting room with free Wi-Fi access and seating for 20 guests. Why not meet clients at The Golf Club at Harbor Shore, designed by Jack Nicklaus? And extended stay business travelers love the free Wi-fi, full size kitchens in each of our suites.
During your leisure time, guests enjoy exploring the unique specialty shops and fine restaurants surrounding us. Spend the day along the magnificent Lake Michigan coastline, at the Lincoln Township beaches or visiting Silver Beach or Grand Mere State Park in Stevensville. Our hotel guests love the Silver Beach Carousel & Amusement Park Museum. Or try for a million-dollar jackpot at Four Winds Casino.
No matter what brings you to St. Joseph and Stevensville, our hotel offers guests outstanding conveniences. Stop by the Candlewood Cupboard for value-priced items. Hop aboard the shuttle service to get around the city or to the airport. Relax in a suite with a fully-equipped kitchen and all the comforts of home. You'll see why our St. Joseph, Michigan hotel's guests consider us their home away from home on the shores of Lake Michigan.
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It's hard to leave your best buddy at home when you're traveling for extended periods, so we provide a pet friendly experience. Restrictions and fees apply.
Whether you are booking suites for a family reunion or suites for your company's training needs, Candlewood Suites hotels can accommodate your group.
Workout whenever you want: Candlewood Gym always has an open door and lots of aerobic and cardio equipment to make it easier to stick to your exercise routine, no sweat.
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Nicely updated room
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The room we stayed in was one of the updated rooms. Enjoyed the stay, decoration was contemporary. Great proximity to highway. Recommended.
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While it is apparent the hotel is undergoing a needed renovation I still would recommend the hotel. It is pet friendly and has a homey atmosphere for some guests are long term.
For the Management I would mention that the grass was very poorly cut and the trash was not emptied until the very last day of my week's stay.
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I was disappointed that no breakfast was offered and there was no pool.
Under renovation, great location, nasty carpet
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Energy Efficiency Discussion from EESI
Environmental and Energy Study Institute discusses energy efficiency at the 2013 expo.
Jennifer Schafer, Executive Director – Federal Performance Contracting Coalition Saving Energy in Federal Buildings: The use of Energy Savings Performance Contracting to increase the energy efficiency of federal buildings and facilities and the actions needed and underway to comply with the President's performance contracting goal.
Mike Kandel, Senior Communications Associate – Building Performance Institute Energy Efficiency Starts at Home: Before installing renewables, focusing on residential efficiency improvements reduces load demand, and helps transform homes into comfortable & healthy places to live; learn what BPI is doing to ensure quality energy upgrades are done right.
Eric G. Huffman, Director of Sales – Sunoptic/Acuity Brands Daylighting for a Greener Economy: How daylighting can impact local energy demands and green job growth for a sustainable future in the United States.
Jeff Beiter, Managing Partner – Capstone Turbine Distributor, E-Finity Distributed Generation American-Made MicroTurbine for Reliable Onsite Power: Learn how Capstone turbines are providing resilient, onsite cooling, heating, and power for a wide variety of facilities nationwide.
Andy Kunz, President & CEO – U.S. High Speed Rail Association High Speed Rail – 21st Century Sustainable Transportation for America: Hear about transportation and its interrelationship with energy consumption the great prospects for high speed rail in America, and how a national system can significantly reduce the country's fossil fuel dependency.
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After 25 years of working in the racing industry and being a part of the PRI organization, it is very important to have you hear directly from me that I have made the decision to transfer ownership of the PRI magazine and PRI Trade Show to the SEMA organization.
Being able to work in an industry that I loved and to have been able to make so many friends in the process is more that I could ever dreamed would ever occur. The SEMA organization will keep the current PRI management team intact, and will keep the company located in Laguna Beach in the same building where the first magazine was published 25 years ago.
It has been a true joy working with all of the wonderful entrepreneurial and...
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After 25 years of working in the racing industry and being a part of the PRI organization, it is very important to have you hear directly from me that I have made the decision to transfer ownership of the PRI magazine and PRI Trade Show to the SEMA organization.
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By John Kilroy on March 8, 2012
The starting point for the birth of the RaceSaver Sprint Car Series, founded by French Grimes 17 years ago, was to provide a place for the working man to go open wheel racing. "I'm trying to be like Johnny Appleseed. I want to see RaceSaver across the country as a good Sprint Car class," he continued. "I want it to propagate and continue to be a class that blue collar guys have a chance to race in. They can come and race with us, bring the whole family and have fun, and even if they don't win, they'll be treated with respect."
The series has now grown to 650-plus drivers at 60-plus tracks, and recently partnered with the IMCA for further growth!
There's a lot of acitivity in the racing industry right now in series and...
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There's a lot of activity right now in various forms of racing and sanctioning organizations that are focused on 'fun and affordability' in racing, and offer a way for a regular working guy to go racing.
In discussion on this subject in oval track racing, the POWRi Racing organization comes up in the conversation pretty fast, with its POWRi Lucas Oil National Midget Series. If you want to look for growth in the racing industry, this is a good place to start.
We spoke with POWRi' Ken Brown last week, and he shared the "key ingredients" in his successful formula.
First, the tracks are dirt tracks, and they are no longer than 3/8ths of a mile. This format is easier on equipment,...
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By John Kilroy on March 6, 2012
We attended the MAZDASPEED Media Day on Tuesday, and always enjoy being part of this event, with so many of the Southern California-based motorsports journalists in attendance. Dean Case does a terrific job creating energy and news at these events, and John Doonan and Jim Jordan are creating a powerful new path when it comes to a car company utilizing motorsports to sell cars. The MAZDASPEED team can go from bold 'high concept' marketing to flawless 'boots on the ground' execution at events without skipping a beat. Pretty amazing to watch.
You'll see a racing references in Mazda's cool new TV advertisement. Click here to view it on YouTube. More importantly, you'll see tons...
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WLA President for 2016 will be Prof. Linda Karell, Montana State University. All questions regarding the conference should be addressed to her.
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Update from the President, 3-19-16:
Greetings! As host of the 2016 Western Literature Association Conference, which will take place in Big Sky, Montana, September 21-24, 2016, I invite you to consider giving a paper, organizing a session, or attending for the sheer pleasure of discovering all the intriguing and exciting work being done in western literary studies. The theme for this year's conference is "The Profane West." (Please see the CFP for a fuller discussion of the theme: it isn't just swearing.) Be brave, be bold!
This year's conference returns to Big Sky, MT. The resort is located between Bozeman and West Yellowstone, one of the popular gateways to Yellowstone National Park. Lean more about the resort here: http://bigskyresort.com. Fall in Montana is usually gorgeous, with warm days and cool nights, but last time we were at Big Sky, it snowed! Whatever the weather, you'll be surrounded by some of the most specular scenery in the West, with numerous dining opportunities and much to occupy your time in addition to the conference. For those of you (there must be some, including me!) who don't itch to get outside in the grandeur, Big Sky has a spa as well as plenty of places to relax into the quiet.
Big Sky is a tourist destination: that means good food, a chance to buy a mink or diamonds while you're here, and copious displays of wealth. It's also a hard-working town, with its own school district, medical center, a distillery, and plenty of friendly people. Consider coming before the conference or staying after it's done and enjoying yourself at your own pace. It's worth noting that Big Sky is about a 45-minute drive from Bozeman; shuttle busses will be arranged to take you to the lodge and return you to the airport, but if you're an explorer, you may want to rent a car. More details, maps, and deals on transportation to come.
We've blocked an assortment of rooms (from standard rooms to suites to lofts that accommodate 2-8 guests, with room rates ranging from $149 to $289 plus tax) for the conference, so there's much for you to choose from.
Conference highlights and details are being arranged, but here are some of the planned events that have me beyond excited about hosting you:
Our Distinguished Achievement Award Winner is Maxine Hong Kingston. Ms. Kingston is Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, and she is the author of many books, including The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey. Her blazingly brave and original work has earned numerous awards, including the National Book Award, PEN West Achievement Award, and the National Medal of Arts. Ms. Kingston will be attending with her husband Earll, and she will be giving an address at the conference.
For our opening night activity, we anticipate screening Winter in the Blood, with a discussion featuring the directors Andrew Smith and Alex Smith to follow. James Welch's powerful novel-turned-film was the Official Selection in 2013 of the Los Angeles, Austin, and American Indian film festivals.
We're also at work developing a new component of the conference that will welcome and support secondary school teachers in their work teaching western American literature. More detail on that in coming months.
Our annual awards dinner will take place Friday evening, and the dance, featuring the popular local western/honky tonk/all around good dancing band, Little Jane and the Pistol Whips will keep us dancing through the evening.
For other entertainment and down-time fun, there will be a Saturday tour bus to Yellowstone National Park. Alan Weltzien has committed to leading a hike on Saturday for interested fitness buffs. Big Sky also offers zip lining, hiking, and other activities that can be booked individually or in small groups. (I plan to zip line and then get a massage!)
I'll provide more details as we get closer to the event. But just a few last reminders:
Welcome to 2016 WLA at Big Sky, Montana! I can't wait to see you there!
Linda Karell
Montana State University
The profane: not limited to the blasphemous or the obscene, but rather encompassing that which is underrepresented, undervalued, censored, denied, and/or secretly shared. Unofficial and unsanctioned pleasures and punishments. The necessary complement of the sacred, helping both to define and erode it.
The 51st annual Western Literature Conference, hosted by Linda Karell (Montana State University), will take place in the spectacular natural beauty and undeniable tourist development that is Big Sky, Montana. We invite you to think about "the profane West" in ways that challenge entrenched definitions/conceptions/celebrations of the West—including the once subversive.
In addition to proposals on the conference theme and any aspects of literature about the North American West, we especially encourage innovative proposals on the following:
° Indigenous literatures of and about the West
° Feminist and queer approaches to Western literature
° Women's autobiographical and memoir writing
° Pedagogy and K-12 issues in Western literature
° Animals (and sacred cows) in Western literature
° Montana literature and writers
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Painted Cephalyx army up on Ebay!
The Cephalyx army I recently painted is up on Ebay.
Welcome to FigurePainters.com where we make your hobby dreams come true! I provide high quality painting for miniatures games of all types, from Warhammer 40k to Warmachine/Hordes and anything in between. I have been painting since about 1995 and I am active in the hobby aspect of the games too.
Please take a look around and feel free to ask any questions you may have!
The Cephalyx army I recently painted is up on Ebay.
I added a bunch more pictures to the Warmahordes Galleries. Check them out at
I picked up an Epic Borka for Hordes Troolbloods while at L&L this year. He is currently pained and up on ebay. Get him while you can as the model will probably not be released until Oct/Nov this year.
I have a Cryx army that I have not played with for years and it is time to sell it.
You can see pictures of it at https://www.facebook.com/tyson.koch.52/media_set?set=a.553965038034587.1073741834.100002632861498&type=1¬if_t=like
And http://www.figurepainters.com/galleries/my-warmachine-cryx/
Payment would be via Paypal (you cover fees if any) or money order. Cash is fine if I drop it off to you.
I will ship for free in the US, signature required. International buyers will pay all shipping costs and signature required.
Asking $1600
Total retail of miniatures at 30% off $620
Commision painting price $2000
If you live in LA I can deliver it at Game Empire Passadena, or I will be at Kingdom Con.
Payment Via Check (has to clear first), money order or paypal (you cover the fees if any)
If you have any questions feel free to ask too.
Goreshade2 (unpainted)
Asphuxious2 (unpainted)
1 Slayer
1 Defiler
2 Nighwetch
2 Deathrippers
1 Leviathan
1 Seether
2 Stalkers
1 Reaper (unpainted)
1 Harrower (unpainted)
10 Bane Knights
14 Bane Thralls
-Bane Thrall UA (needs card)
10 Mechanithralls
1 Brutethrall
1 Stictchthrall Unit
The withershadow Combine
10 Blackbanes ghost raiders
2 Necrotechs
10 scrapthralls
2 Bloatthralls
1 Machine wraith
2 pistol wraith
2 Skarlock (one converted)
1 Warwitch Siren (partially painted)
5 40mm wreck markers
3 50mm wrech markers
2010 card deck
Old token set
3 army transport foam trays
Anything else I might find around
I had a great time meeting everyone that was able to come. Here are a few pictures from this weekend.
Firstly, I would like to thank everyone that came out to the Las Vegas Open and made it such an awesome weekend. I had a great time hanging with everyone I only get to see a few times a year and meeting such great new people, too!
I want to say thanks to Frontline Gaming, Gail, Will, and Inyoung, who helped make the weekend run so smoothly and made sure everyone had a great time.
If you have any questions or suggestions for next year feel free to message me on FB (Tyson Koch) or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Here is the breakdown for the events of Las Vegas Open. Top five places along with lists for the 50 point Steamroller and WMW Masters Event.
Sorry if any of the names are miss-spelled. Next time write neater :)
The Store Wars Trophy goes back to Imperial Outpost who made a great showing over the weekend!
Team Tournament
1st Place- Team CATX
Jordon Braun, Khador
Eric Dietsch, Menoth
Lee Horn, Menoth
2nd Place- Team Heavy Meta
Trenton Pera, Khador
Alex Smith, Cryx
Nick Kraffhefer, Menoth
3rd Place- Team ABE
Anthony Carter, Khador
Ed Hachtez, Cygnar
Bryce Richardson, Skorn
Friday night Mangled Metal
1st Place, Brian Chung, Legion
2nd Place, Richard Wall, Menoth
3rd Place, Kevin cox, Cryx
4th Place, Peter Lipphardt, Skorn
5th Place, Brandon Cating, Retribution
50 point Steamroller
1st Place, Ryan Chiriboga, Cryx
2nd Place, Brandon Cating, Menoth
3rd Place, Ed Hachtel, Cygnar
4th Place, Billy Robin, Cygnar
5th Place, Jazon Flanzer, Cygnar
Tier Tournament:
1st Place, Matt Shoup, Menoth
2nd Place, Mike Puryear, Menoth
3rd Place, Zach Thode, Menoth
4th Place, Jon Burdett, Mercs
5th Place, Sam Ross, Cryx
Who's the Boss?!
1st Place- Ian McHleese, Retribution, 24 points
2nd Place- Todd Ensley, Retribution, 23 points
3rd Place- Bryce Richardson, Skorn, 20 points & Joseph Herrle, Circle, 20 points
Masters WMW qualifier event.
16 pre-qualified players:
Banjamin Curley, Minions
Billy Robin, Cygnar
Brandon Catting, Menoth
Brian Chung, Legion
Brian Marino, Legion
Danny Modesto, Retribution
Ed Hachtel, Cygnar
Jason Flanzer, Khador
Jordan Braun, Khador
Kevin Cox, Cryx
Matthew Shoup, Menoth
Micheal Puryere, Menoth
Peter Lipphardt, Skorne
Richard Wall, Menoth
Ryan Chiriboga, Cryx
Zackary Thode, Menoth
1st Place- Ryan Chiriboga, Cryx. Las Vegas Open Grand Master, WMW invitational winner! Road to Kigndom Con Winner!
2nd Place- Brandon Catting, Menoth
3rd Place- Matthew Shoup, Menoth
4th Place- Migheal Puryere, Menoth
5th Place- Billy Robin, Cygnar
Lists for Ryan Chiriboga:
List 1:
Goreshade2, Heresy of Shadows Tier2
Goreshade2 +5
-Kracken 19
-Skarlock 2
Bane Thralls (10) 8
Bane Thralls (6) 5
-UA Free Tier
Bane Knights (10) 10
Tartarus 4
Necrotech 1
Scrap thralls 1
Scrap thralls 1
Scrap thralls 1
50 (58)
List 2:
Skarre1 +6
-Helldiver 3
-Helldiver 3
-Skarlock 2
Mechanithralls (10) 5
Mechanithralls (10) 5
Mechanithralls (6) 3
Baneknights (10) 10
Satyxis Raiders (10) 8
Blood Witches (6) 4
Necrosurgen 2
Necrosurgen 2
Raider Catain 2
Saxon 2
Scrap Thralls 1
50 (56)
List 3:
Deneghra1 +5
-Skarlock 2
-Nightwretch 4
-Nightwretch 4
Gorman 2
Dougal 2
Raider Captain 2
Warwitch Siren 2
Machine Wraith 1
Blood Witches (6) 4
Satyxis Raiders (10) 8
Nyss Hunters (10) 10
Bane Knights (10) 10
50 (55)
Lists for Brandon Catting:
List 1:
Kreoss3 +5
-Hirophant 2
-Reckoner 8
-Reckoner 8
-Fire of Salvation 9
Vassal 2
Vassal 2
Rhupert 2
Chior (min) 2
Chior (min) 2
Flame Bringers (5) 10
Zealots (10) 6
List two:
Feora2 Tier 4, Defenders of the Temple
Feora2 +6
-Reckoner 8
-Judicator 18 (bonded)
Temple Flame Guard (10) 6
Temple Flame Guard (10) 6
Choir (min) 2
Cleansers 5
Daughters 5
Rhoven & HG 4
56 (58)
List 3:
Severius2 +6
-Judicator 18
-Reckoner 8
-Blessing of Vengence 7
-Hierophant 2
Vassal 2
Vassal 2
Zealots (10) 6
Chior (full) 3
Covenant 2
Ayana & Holt 4
50 (56)
Lists for Matt Shoup:
List 1:
Feora1 +6
-Devout 5
-Templar 8
Avatar 11
Vassal 2
Vassal 2
Covenant of Menoth 2
Eiryss2 3
Chior (4) 2
Zealots (10) 6
Temple Flame Guard (10) 6
Daughters of the Flame 5
50 (56)
List 2:
Feora2 +6
-Redeemer (bonded) 6
-Reckoner 8
-Reckoner 8
-Reckoner 8
Reclaimer 2
Vassal 2
Vassal 2
Wracks (3) 1
Choir (6) 3
Zealots (10) 6
Temple Flame Guard (10) 6
50 (56)
List 3:
Kreoss1 +5
-Reckoner 8
-Reckoner 8
-Redeemer 6
Vassal 2
Vassal 2
Reclaimer 2
Gorman 2
Choir (4) 2
Zealots (10) 6
Rhoven & Guard 4
Exemplar Errents (10) 8
Wracks (3) 1
50 (55)
Lists for Michael Puryer:
List 1:
Severious1 +6
-Judicator 18
-Blessing of Vengence 7
-Reconer 8
Exemplar Errents (10) 8
Chior (min) 2
Rhupert 2
Covenant 2
Vassal 2
Hierophant 2
Eyirss2 3
List 2:
Kreoss3 Tier 4 +5
-Fire of Salvation 8
-Templar 7
-Redeemer 6
Vengers (5) 11
Vengers (3) 7
Exeplar errents 8
Chior (min) 2
Vassal 2
Reclaimer 2
List 3:
Harbinger +5
-Devout 5
Avatar or Menoth 11
Choir (min) 2
Vengers (5) 11
Flamebringers (5) 10
Daughters of the Flame 5
Zealots (6) 4
Nicia 3
Vassal 2
50 (55)
Lists for Billy Robin:
List 1:
Haley2 +5
-Stormwall 19
-Thorn 8
-Squire 2
Gunames + UA 8
-Hunter 6
Black 13th 4
Junior Warcaster 3
Arlen 2
Eirys2 3
50 (55)
List 2:
Caine2 +5
-Hunter 6
-Squire 2
Gunmages + UA 8
-Hunter 6
Boomhouwlers (10) 9
Alexia & Risen 5
Vicktor Pendrake 2
Rhupert 2
Reinholt 1
Dougal 2
Rangers 5
Junior Warcaster 3
Gorman 2
Taryn 2
50 (55)
List 3:
Haley1 +5
-Stormwall 19
-Squire 2
Gunmanes +UA 8
Junior Warcaster 3
-Sentinal 4
Nyss (10) 10
-Jonas 2
Eiryss1 3
Ayana & Holt 4
I will be running this years LVO Warmachine events. Hope to see you there!
Las Vegas Open 2014 Warmachine and Hordes Events Feb 7th-9th Bally's Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
Tickets at. http://www.frontlinegaming.org/las-vegas-open/las-vegas-open-warmachine-and-hordes-events/ You will need a door ticket and an event ticket.
There are also other game system tournaments this weekend. See them at http://www.frontlinegaming.org/las-vegas-open/
Book Your Room Here or call: 1-800-358-8777 If you call to reserve your room, be sure to tell them you are with the Las Vegas Open and Frontline Gaming or use our group code: SBFLG4 We are on the hook for rooms for the nights of the 7th and 8th, please be sure to book for those nights under our code, specifically! Thanks! - See more at: http://www.frontlinegaming.org/las-vegas-open/#sthash.NW38mWxc.dpuf
-All Events will run death clock. Some timers will be available, but please be prepared with your own.
-All tournament will use Steamroller 2014 rules
Fully painted armies will be eligible for prize raffles during each tournament.
-We expect this to be a Warmachine Weekend Qualifier event. The application has been submitted and things are looking good ;) I will update once this confirmed
-This will be a West Coast Store Wars event also!! https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastStoreWars check out the AWESOME trophy! http://thefigurepainters.squarespace.com/storage/mscpics/storewars.jpg
-Anyone who registers by January 12th will receive an exclusive counter from Broken Egg Games and a resin Objective Marker from www.Figurepainters.com
-There may be some tables for open gaming during the tournaments, but these will be limited to space available.
-We are expecting over half of the US WTC team to be here too. -Come meet them and play against them!
-Awesome Prizes! We give away seriously boss loot, so expect more of the same! In addition to awards for fastest caster kill, best appearance, tournament champs, etc. the players that do the best with each respective faction will win a custom trophy declaring them the Faction Champion for the weekend!
Warmahordes Team Tournament:
Check In: 10:00 am, Start 11:00 am
50 points
2nd List Optional
3 Man Teams (Ranked Team Members)
Top team qualifies for Sunday
Mangled Metal Tooth and Claw:
Check in 8:00pm, Start 8:30 pm (or at end of Team Tournament)
20 points -Battle group only (hard core time limits)
One list, close quarters
Top 4 qualify for Sunday
Open gaming:
Warmahordes 50 point Tournament:
Check in : 8:00 am, Start 9:00 am
50 points
2nd List Optional
Top 5 qualify for Sunday
Warmahordes Blood, Sweat & Tiers Tournament :
Check in : 8:00 pm. Start 8:30pm (or after end of 50 point Tournament)
35 points, all lists must be at least tier 2
2nd List Optional
Open gaming:
Warmahordes 50 point "Master format" Tournament
Top 16 players qualified previously
Check in : 9:30 am, Start 10:00 am
50 points
SR2014 Masters rules
Warmahordes 35 point Who's the Boss? Tournament:
Check in : 10:00 am, Start 10:30 am
35 points, one list. Make a list without a warcaster/warlock assuming +5 jack/beast points
Who's the Boss point scoring, Death clock timing.
Closing ceremonies and prizes 6:30-7:00
- See more at: http://www.frontlinegaming.org/las-vegas-open/las-vegas-open-warmachine-and-hordes-events/
The Kickstarter is finally all finished! The Boards are up for Pre-Sale in the store. http://www.figurepainters.com/store/
The Pre-Sale is to allow me to make a large materials order to help keep costs down and replenish some stock.
Check them out and let me know if you have any questions!
found out that is is much more involved than you though?
Well with the Super 3D dungeon boards Kickstarter it has definitely been that! We are coming up to the end of it with the last few painted boards shipping out soon.
I plan on putting together a more thorough post with some costs break downs to give everyone an idea of how everything went.
Qucickly though here is a fun picture with some minis while I had 18 or so painted boards together in a group :)


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In case opponents to school prayer weren't listening, the deafening silence by the U.S. Supreme Court Oct. 29 regarding a minute of silence in public schools spoke volumes.
The court rejected a challenge to a Virginia law providing a daily observation of a minute of silence in public schools.
Yet again, the court was forced to address the school prayer issue, which by now should be clear to those on both sides of the debate.
Students are free to pray in school provided the school is in no way sponsoring or endorsing the practice.
The Virginia law does not require students to pray, it is simply what it says - a minute of silence.
Students can pray in respect to their individual religions, meditate, or simply twiddle their thumbs for 60 seconds.
As long as the students are silent, they have the right to choose and do as they please regardless of their faith, or lack thereof.
And if this country has reached the point that educators cannot force a student to remain silent for 60 seconds, there is indeed a crisis of not only constitutional concern but also of educational concern.
At least four other states have similar laws: Nebraska, Nevada, Tennessee and West Virginia. Others have laws mandating a moment of silence without mention of prayer.
Texas state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio, has indicated he will introduce similar legislation in the 2003 Legislature.
Once again, to alleviate any misunderstanding, public school students have the right to pray.
A minute of silence providing students this right while not infringing on another student's right not to participate is not a constitutional violation.
As long as there are no school mandates requiring a student to do anything other than sit quietly for 60 seconds, there is no need to prolong this legal quiet game that puts school prayer unnecessarily at odds with the Constitution.
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