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C How to Program by Deital is good, but extremely dense and much worse for it.
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I am very happy with "a Book on C" by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl (4th edition). It's about ANSI C.
It explains everything very well and (for me) in depth.
The biggest advantage is that it starts with an "overview of c" (first chapter, about 50 pages) to get one started. Then you can read on, chapter by chapter, but with the foundations you have from the overview, it should be possible to jump to other chapters.
Very good exercises at the end of each chapter.
I have the dutch translation "De Programmeertaal C".
The C programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie is a very good introductory book for learning C. But it is also a very concentrated book and every word has to be read with care as it contains a lot of details.
If you do not have any experience in programming, I suggest you first read the book by Balagurusamy and then K & R.
I don't recommend Let us C because it contains a lot of stuff specific to Windows which is not needed for beginners.
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This is the problem........C is not an Easy language. Every wondered why System Engineers get paid the most and not Java programmers?........
Let us C does not tell you anything about :- Memoization, Defensive Programming and Writing Secured C code.
These 3 aspects are the core of any decent C program and Let us C tells you nothing about that.
And what about explaining the C libraries?......Ok C has only a bunch of libraries but <ctype.h>, <string.h> and other libraries deserve mention.
When I was getting started in C most of the introductory books on C were...well....too introductory. They explained what C was but not really what to do with it. This book by Herb Schildt Amazon.com: Born to Code in C (9780078814686): Herbert Schildt: Books
teaches with real-world projects (how to create a database, game, etc). More hands-on than many books. For the longest time it was a favorite of mine...
C/C++ Environment: GNU CC/Emacs
Make system: CMake
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"Understanding Pointers in C" by Yashwant Kanetkar.
Its a very nice book, contains nice examples and easy to understand. It is best for the beginners.
I'm almost done reading The C Programming Language 2nd edition. I'm at the 8th chapter, and i started to wonder what book should i pick next.
K&R is my first book.
There are actually many good books on C. However, i feel that most times you can find just about everything that you are looking for online. What most programmers really want is a good reference and not a book explaining every possible detail on C.
I just completed ANSI C By Balaguruswamy
I learned basics in loops,decision making,arrays and structure which book can come next for me
I want to learn some graphics, and other beauty about C language
read the book "illustrating C"
i use sams C primer plus as my first book to learn C,
i like this book , it also include many ansi c features.
and i read this book , the c programming language, i use this book as reference
C Programming is another nice book to begin.
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I've heard that K&R is an excellent book, so I bought it.
I also bought C All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies.
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But, back to the famed and more commercially acceptable red convertible. I think I didn't care for it because it seemed so clichéd (though I didn't know what the word clichéd meant at the time), but I couldn't explain that one, so I kept quiet about my reservations. The idea of the drop-top red coupe never appealed to me (surprising perhaps for someone who loves cars).
I was still a boy, and one Saturday morning my Dad attended a meeting with a pastor at church – now this church is very old, still standing today, and every generation of family had attended it at some point – Calvary Santuary. My Dad practically grew up in it, dragged along by my grandmother; my parents first met each other in it… so it's pretty old. For some reason I tagged along with my Dad that morning.
Whilst the meeting ensued, I took a stroll around the old grounds, which included the auxiliary hall (which used to be the original church hall until the renovations, the adjoining caretakers house, and the separated out buildings for the church offices, shed and garage. I hoped to maybe find a tree worth climbing (these were after all tall oak trees). But as I wondered, strolling over the loose gravel and dead leaves, my eye caught something just around the next corner, something red. Parked in the church's car port stood two old cars; one a beat up, but probably still running, old beige VW van – the types fancied by the flower power generation (it even matched the color of the wall behind it), and then there was this other thing.
It was small. The tyres were all flat and it was half covered by an old tarp that had seen better days. I pulled back the cover and took a look inside. The soft top roof was missing, affording me an unobstructed view of the tan colored interior. I glanced around over my shoulder to make sure the coast was clear, and then I turned the 'T' shaped door handle and pulled. Surprisingly the door hinges didn't creak. I hesitated before climbing inside, just staring at the dirty leather seat. After dusting off a twig and some dead leaves as well as, well, dust, I slowly lowered myself into the driver's seat. It was comfortable without being comfortable. I placed my hands on the wooden steering wheel and took a breath, instinctively looking at the ignition. I then started a half-hearted search for a key, any key, but found only more wind swept dead leaves under the seats. And so I sat there, soaking in the moment, allowing my imagination to run, and indulging in a quick fanciful daydream. Before long I was out the car again, inspecting her, running my hands over the smooth but dusty lines. I found myself at the rear and pulled back the tarp all the way. I opened the boot lid and located the missing roof. The tan colored roof – matching the interior - was jumbled up, probably broken, so I left it there, after a brief debate with myself about the difficulties of wrestling with a retractable roof without assistance or any prior practical knowledge of the mechanism. After closing the boot, careful not to attract attention, I stared at the name in raised letters just over where the license plate was meant to be. Two of the silver letters were broken, the first and the last, but I could still make out the name… "T-R-I-U-M-P-H".
But, there was one secret I still wanted to discover, but for this secret, I need to take you back a few years.
When I was about seven, my father bestowed upon me a very serious duty. Every morning before school, my job was to warm up the car. I'd unlock and roll up the garage door, pop the bonnet and check the oil and water levels, and start the ignition, holding the accelerator down and keeping the engine humming at 2000 rpm for about 30 seconds. This, as the rising sun stared at me in the rear-view mirror through the gaping garage door. This little procedure would be a sort of calling card for the family, the sign that it was time to get going in the mornings. I may have taken it for granted after a while, but when cruel fate took the car from us; the whole family missed the power and purr of the 2.8 litre straight 6 cylinder engine (The flagship Cressida: my Dad's dream car since the early 80's).
And so, a part of me instinctively wanted to hear what this little Triumph had to say… but since I was minus a key, all I could do was perhaps take a look at her heart. I walked over to the front and loosened the right side latch. It must be said that the Triumph is a sports car, so the bonnet/hood doesn't open like normal cars. The simple design meant the whole front end was connected – engine cover and wheel arches – and it opened forward, so the hinges were ahead of the front wheels and not below the windscreen wipers (which were also missing). Before I lifted the bonnet though, I hesitated, for two reasons. 1: was that I was looking around, minding the time, hoping to not get caught whilst thinking of the story I'd conjure to try and explain why I was snooping around someone else's car. And 2: (most importantly) I was afraid of what I'd find, or not find. I stood motionless, just considering things...
Before I could answer some of my questions, I put the latches down and pulled the tarp back over half the car, stealing one last glance at her red loveliness before saying a brief goodbye.
In hindsight, considering the relatively decent condition of the bodywork, the engine was probably still there… but I didn't want to face the possible alternative – that she'd been abandoned and gutted by some heartless man. But like I said, the engine was probably fine, though not running, since Triumph's are/were not renowned for their stellar reliability. So I left it, with my daydreams untarnished, my encounter still filled with beauty, and mystery.
A paltry 1.3 litre engine producing enough power to muster speeds in excess of 130 kph/81 mph, just about. In fact the advertising posters, back in 1979 when the car was released, highlighted the power unit as, "lively"… its trademark being its namesake, the 'Spitfire' exhaust.
The thing of it is though, is that none of that really matters. The car made an impression. She's not the fastest, the prettiest or, to put it bluntly, the best, far from it… but what she is (as most 70's sports cars go), is beautiful.
It took this experience for me to understand the red convertible fascination on a primal level. The fact that this Triumph MK III was red, was of course just fortuitous, but so it was.
I may not be a fan of most red convertibles, but I am, forever now, a fan of this car; which by many standards is an average vehicle, but I had a personal encounter, and this car just happened to be red, and it happened to be a convertible. Either way though, I do now, in my own way, understand why the phenomenon can be so captivating, and its growing in me still.
It's more dream than reality, the idea of it… but also its in the little things, quite simply because, it's not a normal car; it wasn't built to be mere transportation, it was built with passion and an artful eye, to symbolize fun, vibrancy and freedom. Perhaps revered more for what they aspired to be as appose to what they actually delivered. How's that for a sales pitch? The weird part though, is that the very first automobiles just after, and all based upon, the horse drawn carriage, were of course… open-top vehicles.
- So, the abandoned or neglected car; its even inspired a cable TV show. This car though, the one that found me just as much as I found her, will forever be a treasure, a lonely discovery, made all the more sweeter, because it felt slightly illegal… a mysterious and beautiful red affair.


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Macaroni and cheese with garlicky spinach, canned chickpeas, and a sprinkle of Spanish smoked paprika.
Spinach is a dark green leafy vegetable that belongs to the family of rant amaranthaceae '. It is a vegetable of Central and Southwest Asian origin. Spinach is rich in iron content and many other essential nutrients. It accelerates recovery after prolonged diseases. Spinach is easy to digest and can be cooked in a variety of ways. Having low calories ensures that those who want to lose weight are on the diet list. It helps reduce the risks of high blood sugar, high blood pressure and cancer. Here are some of the benefits of spinach …
Spinach is a popular functional food. Spinach is packed with nutritional properties and contains a lot of essential nutrients. Anti-cancer, which prevents the growth of malignant cells, has antioxidant properties. It promotes healthy cell division, thereby improving the healing properties of the body. Spinach contains A, B, C, E, K, zinc, magnesium and a large amount of iron, which is necessary for red blood cells in the body. Spinach is also a rare blessing for hair, skin, nails and eyes.
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If the fiber source is cooked fresh and consumed immediately, it protects the human body from cancer-causing harmful factors due to its green color, but it becomes harmful if it is waited. Heating the spinach dish several times may cause discomfort in the human body, such as vomiting, dizziness and diarrhea. The reason for this is the increase of nitric and nitrate in spinach. Therefore, it is better to consume spinach food daily.
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Pakistan motorcade protesting US drones sets off
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Thousands of Pakistanis joined by a group of U.S. anti-war activists headed toward Pakistan's militant-riddled tribal belt Saturday to protest U.S. drone strikes — even as a Pakistani Taliban faction warned suicide bombers would stop the demonstration.
The motorcade march was led by Imran Khan, the ex-cricket star-turned-populist politician, whom militants have brushed off as a tool of the West despite his condemnations of the drone strikes, which have killed many militant leaders.
Khan insisted the protesters, who want to travel the roughly 400-kilometer (250-mile) route to the South Waziristan tribal region by Sunday, would go as far as possible.
"This is a peace march, an effort for peace in Pakistan on our part. ... We are not going to fight anyone," Khan said as the motorcade set off from Islamabad.
The convoy, which at its start numbered around 150 vehicles, grew steadily throughout the day, appearing to stretch for miles. It was warmly welcomed by Pakistanis in small towns and villages along the route. Pakistani TV footage showed people showering rose petals on the cars and other vehicles.
Around three dozen Americans from the U.S.-based anti-war group CODEPINK joined Khan for the march. Because access to Pakistan's tribal regions is heavily restricted, it was unclear whether the Westerners participating in the protest would be allowed to enter the region.
South Waziristan has been the scene of a Pakistani army offensive and a frequent target of the drone strikes aimed at the Pakistani Taliban. The protesters say that despite U.S. claims, the strikes have terrorized peaceful tribes living in the area and killed many innocent civilians.
"I'm hoping that what it will show is that the Pakistani people and American people and even the people in the tribal areas want peace," said Joe Lombardo, a U.S. activist from Delmar, New York.
James Ricks, another American activist, said he was going along with the convoy despite the danger. "I am taking this risk because my government is committing international war crimes and we want to stop this," said Ricks, of Ithaca, New York.
The convoy departed early in the morning, leaving behind some who arrived late in cars carrying Khan posters and the red-and-green flag of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf political party. Youths on motorcycles and vans blaring songs from loudspeakers rushed to catch up.
When Khan arrived in his home district of Mianwali, huge crowds greeted him. TV footage showed him wearing Pakistan's white traditional dress, sitting on the roof of his vehicle, waving back to his cheering supporters.
Khan, in brief chats with media at different stops, said government officials had tried to discourage people from joining the march.
"Fearing this will be an historic rally, they (government) have attempted to discourage people through scaring tactics but you have seen the response," he said. "This will prove to be a historic event."
The government has warned about safety concerns, especially in South Waziristan. Although that tribal region has theoretically been under army control since an offensive there in late 2009, militants still roam the area.
The main faction of the Pakistani Taliban, which is based in South Waziristan, issued a statement Saturday calling Khan a "slave of the West" and saying that the militants "don't need any sympathy" from such "a secular and liberal person."
The statement did not reveal anything about the militants' plans regarding the march, but added: "Imran Khan's so-called Peace March is not in sympathy for drone-hit Muslims. Instead, it's an attempt by him to increase his political stature."
On Saturday, a statement from a Taliban faction said to be based in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province warned that militants would welcome the protesters with suicide bombings.
"We ask the brave people of Waziristan not to side with the gang of Jews and Christians — otherwise their fate will be terrible," the Punjabi Taliban said in the statement.
Khan in his televised remarks attacked the militant accusations: "We have no political aims but want to protect tribal people from drone attacks. ... They are whispering that Jews and Christians are coming. They should feel shame for this act."
Earlier in the week, Khan said that South Waziristan tribal leaders had assured him that he and his entourage would be protected there.
Still, he did allude to the possibility that entering the tribal area might not be possible, saying that the marchers would go as far as they could, and stage a major rally wherever they decided to stop.


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110. Since, in truth, bondage and freedom are relative, these words are only for those terrified with the universe.
This universe is a reflection of minds. As you see many suns in water from one sun, so see bondage and liberation.
9. A Buddha before History A monk asked Seijo: "I understand that a Buddha who lived before recorded history sat in meditation for ten cycles of existence and could not realize the highest truth, and so could not become fully emancipated. Why was this so?" Seijo replied: "Your question is self-explanatory." The monk asked: "Since the Buddha was meditating, why could he not fulfill Buddhahood?" Seijo said: "He was not a Buddha."
Mumon's comment: I will allow his realization, but I will not admit his understanding. When one ignorant attains realization he is a saint. When a saint begins to understand he is ignorant. It is better to realize mind than body. When mind is realized one need not worry about body. When mind and body become one The man is free. Then he desires no praising.
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Capers a goat tonight in second half at least
4 Responses to "Capers a goat tonight in second half at least"
barb inkc Says:
January 23, 2011 at 7:15 pm |
Thank you Lovie!!! for calling that ill-managed TO and taking your team out of the game in the last minute!
Gotta love Lovie.
james s Says:
January 23, 2011 at 7:20 pm |
the defense was burned out!
AZWarrior Says:
January 23, 2011 at 7:26 pm |
Hated rushing just three at the end. Their QB had poise and a good arm.
All's well though.
Joe Says:
January 24, 2011 at 10:47 am |
I think Capers was just sitting back and waiting for Hanie to make a mistake. It took a while but it worked out.


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FEDS INVESTIGATING McCAIN DONORS AS HIS CAMPAIGN LIES TO MEDIA ABOUT RETURNING DIRTY MONEY FROM CROOKED LAW FIRM
Phoenix, AZ (JUNE 10) – Sen. John McCain must personally and publicly explain why he allowed his staff to lie to the media about returning all $1.1 million given to his presidential campaign by a convicted felon; if he accepted even more from the felon's law partners; and why he has not donated all the dirty money to charity as his campaign claimed.
Federal authorities have been investigating 30 lawyers who worked in the now-defunct firm of Scott Rothstein, who yesterday was sentenced to 50 years in prison for running an elaborate Ponzi scheme.
According to his lawyer and media reports, the convicted felon is giving up the names of people involved and has even gone "undercover" which will likely lead to the arrest of lawyers, business associates and perhaps even politicians.
Tomorrow, Rothstein's chief operating officer, who personally gave McCain's political committees at least $30,000, is scheduled to plead guilty to assorted criminal activity.
The lawyers, along with 15 other Rothstein employees, made about $2.2 million in state and federal campaign contributions while he was running the Ponzi scheme from 2005 to 2009.
"McCain is knee-deep in this scandal and he needs to come clean," said Mark Sanders, spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ). "He first lied to the media when his campaign said the entire $1.1 million Rothstein collected was given to charity and it was old news. Then he tried to cover it up by saying he gave back the few thousand dollars Rothstein and his wife gave directly."
Federal officials are examining Rothstein's use of money from his $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme to pay salaries and give huge bonuses to senior attorneys on the condition that they donate generously to his favorite politicians, including McCain.
"Rothstein and his wife Kimberly held fundraisers for McCain," Sanders said. "His partner Stuart Rosenfeldt and his wife Susanne gave to McCain and to others, including Florida Gov. Charlie Crist.
"McCain likes to say character matters, but he is displaying his lack of it by keeping the $1.1 million and returning to Rothstein two small individual contributions," Sanders said.
One employee close to Rothstein, chief operating officer Debra Villegas, donated about $46,000 to McCain, other politicians and political committees in Florida. They gave the dirty money back, while McCain kept his million.
"Everybody seems to get it but McCain," Sanders said. "He needs to fully account for the distribution of the money he collected from everyone at this corrupt firm and explain to Arizona voters why accepting and keeping money gained from a criminal activity makes him worthy to serve in any public office."
The racketeering charges against Rothstein allege that the firm's donations to politicians and campaign committees were largely illegal because they were funded with money from the now-disbarred lawyer's illegal Ponzi scheme.
"According to media reports, agents for the FBI and the IRS are investigating campaign records to determine how Rothstein used his investment scam to fund the political donations," Sanders said. "Their next stop needs to be in Phoenix to interview McCain. If he didn't know how his top contributor was making money he should have. Ignorance is not a defense when this contributor is the number one donor to the 'McCain Victory 2008' fund and the 'McCain-Palin Victory 2008' fund."
Sanders said McCain should not try to hide behind his spokesman when it comes to answering these questions.
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Drill will dig deep into Earth's core
The deepest hole ever made is more than 40 years old, and quite dead. In 1970, the Soviet Union began to drill on the Kola Peninsula, close to the Finnish border, in an attempt to penetrate the skin of the Earth. Ten years later, the drill passed the six-mile (9.7km) record then held by a hole in Oklahoma made by an oil company, which failed when its drill bit hit a lake of molten sulphur. Five more years took it to seven-and-a-half miles (12.1km) but then the temperature rose so high that to go any further would have melted the bit.
In 2008, the money ran out and the site was abandoned (although some fundamentalists still cite the hoax that the drill was stopped because it had broken into Hell itself).
Now, a new programme of ocean-drilling is under way, attempting to reach parts of the planet's interior never before penetrated. The problem with drilling on land is that the Earth's outermost layer - the crust - is so thick that there is little chance of getting through.
Under the sea, however, its intimate secrets are easier to probe. A century ago, the Croatian meteorologist Andrija Mohorovicic was studying the shock waves made by earthquakes as they passed through the continents. He noticed that the waves travelled much faster through the rock about 55 kilometres below the surface than they did above that depth. That shift - the Mohorovicic discontinuity, or "Moho" - hinted that the Earth has distinct layers of rock above its liquid metallic core, with the Moho forming the boundary between the outer crust (which makes up less than one hundredth of its mass) and an inner zone called the mantle.
Beneath the deep oceans, where the surface is younger and thinner as it has been extruded from the molten depths, the Moho may be as little as 6km down.
In 1957, the Americans set out to penetrate it in a deep trench off Mexico, and managed to extract a short core of mantle. However, the project was plagued with difficulties in keeping the ship in place and manipulating the drill through more than 3km of water, and was abandoned.
With GPS, and today's oil-well technology, both those problems have been solved - so the International Ocean Discovery Programme has set out to break through the Moho and find what lies below. It is now investigating sites off Hawaii, California and Baja California, to find the right balance between new, thin (but hot) crust and older, thicker, but cooler material that will not melt the drill. Already the Baja hole has reached roughly 1500 metres down.
One aim is to work out the role in the global carbon cycle of the liquid that bubbles from the mantle at the ocean ridges; another is to insert sensors into the hole to check the temperature, pressure and intestinal movements of our planet. The geologists hope to examine the mantle's balance of metallic elements, which may be depleted in platinum, gold, cobalt and others that have been sucked in by the liquid iron core.
Biologists are involved, too. Already, single living cells have been found more than 1600 metres below the sea floor, and we know that bacteria from ocean vents can survive at 115 degrees Celsius; which means that, in principle at least, they or their relatives could exist close to 5km below the surface. It might hint at what the first life, on a searing-hot planet more than 4 billion years ago, looked like.
Plate tectonics explained many once-baffling observations about the Earth. Fifty years after Drummond Matthews and Frederick Vine's discovery, these giant drills are revealing more truths about our planet, and this time in 3D.
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Although other overtures were made before, there's never been a better opportunity to touch the sun than this one: an invitation to participate in some of ESPN's 30-year anniversary activities.
And it would be foolish to ignore that invivtation based on the antiquated notion that They, Worldwide Leaders Of The Universe, are our sworn enemy based on past incidents. Nope, bygones be bygoned, I say.
I agreed that their generous invitation would be an "ample learning experience" for all involved, but due to some prior commitments here in NYC, I won't be able to attend the full day-and-a-half of festivities. So I outsourced.
Considering the top-tier writing talent available to us both in-house and through outside correspondents, I decided it was important to spend our limited funding on a person who, in my opinion, could ably tackle the goose-infested playground in Bristol, Connecticut with the vim and vigor required for such an important assignment. Yes, Spinheads, Blazer Girl is here to rescue us once again.
She is in mid-flight right now most likely carrying a gym bag full of mismatched thrift store wares, her iPod and Xanax. Once she lands, she'll be whisked off to Bristol to get some rest before her big day of ESPN education, along with the many other blogs and traditional media outlets in attendance.
Here's her itinerary:
Thursday, Aug. 27
Time (ET) Topics
9:30 a.m. Digital Media
10:45 a.m. ESPN's 30th Anniversary
12:30 p.m. Lunch with ESPN President George Bodenheimer
2 p.m. Event Production (U.S. Open tennis, NASCAR, 2010 FIFA World Cup, etc.)
3:30 p.m. Campus Tour
4:45 p.m. ESPN International / Writing Time / One-on-One's
6 p.m. ESPN Films "30 for 30"
Friday, Aug. 28
8:30 a.m. Monday Night Football / NFL studio shows
10 a.m. State of Sports roundtable
11:15 p.m. College Football / ESPNU
12:15 p.m. SportsCenter / Journalism
And some of the ESPN on-air talent she'll be mingling with at lunch:
• Bob Ley
• Jeremy Schaap
• Hannah Storm
• Chris Berman
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To calculate the cost of renewable energy under the RES, BHI used data from the Energy Information Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy, to determine the percent increase in utility costs that Michigan residents and businesses would experience. This calculated percent change was then applied to calculated elasticities, as described in the STAMP® modeling section.
We collected historical data on the retail electricity sales by sector from 1990 to 2010 and projected its growth through 2025 using its historical compound annual growth rate (see Graphic 5).[*] To these totals, we applied the percentage of renewable sales prescribed by the Michigan RES. By 2015, and in all subsequent years, renewable energy sources must account for 10 percent of total electricity sales in Michigan.[36] (For the "Michigan Energy, Michigan Jobs" initiative simulation, renewable energy sources must account for 25 percent of total electricity sales by 2025).[37]
Next, we projected the growth in renewable sources that would have taken place absent the RES. We used the EIA's projection of renewable energy sources by fuel for the Reliability First Corporation/Michigan through 2025 as a proxy to grow renewable sources for Michigan. We used the growth rate of these projections to estimate Michigan's renewable generation through 2025 absent the RES. [38]
We subtracted our baseline projection of renewable sales from the RES-mandated quantity of sales for each year from 2011 to 2025 to obtain our estimate of the annual increase in renewable sales induced by the RES in megawatt-hours. The RES mandate exceeds our projected renewables in all years (2013 to 2025). This difference also represents the maximum number of MWh of electricity from conventional sources that are avoided, or not generated, through the RES mandate. We will revisit this shortly. Graphic 5 contains the results.
Graphic 5: Projected Electricity Sales, Renewable Sales and 10 Percent RES Requirement (Thousands of Megawatt-Hours)
To estimate the cost of producing the additional extra renewable energy under an RES against the baseline, we used estimates of the LEC, or financial breakeven cost per MWh, to produce the electricity.[39] However, as outlined in the "electricity generation cost" section above, the EIA numbers provide a rather optimistic picture of the cost and generating capacity of renewable electricity, particularly for wind power. A literature review provided alternative LEC estimates that were generally higher, and capacity factors that were lower, for renewable generation technologies than the EIA estimates.[†] We used these alternative figures to calculate our "high" LEC estimates and the EIA figures to calculate our "low" cost estimates and the average of the two to calculate our "medium" cost estimates. Graphic 6 displays the LEC and capacity factors for each generation technology.
Graphic 6: LEC and Capacity Factors for Electricity Generation Technologies
*These figures represent a weighted average of the estimates for both onshore and offshore wind. Onshore wind is weighted more heavily, since it is more likely to be used.
We used the 2016 LEC for the years 2010 through 2018 to calculate the cost of the new renewable electricity and avoided conventional electricity, assuming that from 2010 through 2016, the 2016 LEC would underestimate the actual costs, while from 2017 through 2018, the 2016 LEC would slightly overestimate the actual costs. We assumed that the differences would, on balance, offset each other. For 2019 and 2020 we used the 2020 LEC. The assumption is that LEC will decline over time due to technological improvements.
We used the EIA's reference case scenario for all technologies. We adjusted the 2016 LECs to 2025 by using the percentage change in the capital costs from 2015 to 2025, since capital costs often represent the largest component of the cost structure for most technologies. For the technologies for which the EIA does not forecast LECs in 2020, we used the average of the 2016 and 2025 LEC calculations, assuming a linear change over the period.
Once we computed new LECs for the years 2020 and 2025, we applied these figures to the renewable energy estimates for the remainder of the period.
For conventional electricity, we assumed that the technologies are avoided based on their costs, with the highest-cost combustion turbine avoided first. For coal and gas, we assumed they are avoided based on their estimated proportion of total electric sales for each year. Although hydroelectric and nuclear are not the cheapest technologies, we assume no hydroelectric or nuclear sources are displaced since most were built decades ago and offer relatively cheap and clean electricity today.
To determine the impact of the RES standard in a given year, we calculated the amount of renewable energy the RES would require that year and compared it to our renewable energy baseline sales for that year; the difference represents the renewable sales attributable to the RES policy. We then determined which renewable energy source(s) would be used to meet the renewable energy sales attributable to the RES and calculated the additional renewable energy costs by using the LEC(s) for the relevant energy source(s).
The increased total costs in renewable energy lead to decreased total costs in conventional energy, since less conventional energy would be needed and sold. The decrease in conventional energy production is not as large as the increase in renewable energy production, however. Wind power and solar power in particular are intermittent (as reflected in their relatively low capacity factors), and it would still be necessary to keep backup conventional energy sources online and ready to meet any sudden electrical demands that renewable sources could not instantly provide. To estimate the share of conventional energy that would still be running as backup, we used a ratio of the renewable energy capacity factor to the conventional energy capacity factor.[‡]
Graphics 7, 8 and 9 below display the results of our medium-, low- and high-cost calculations for the 10 percent RES respectively. We converted the aggregate cost of the RES into a cost-per-kWh by dividing the cost by the estimated total number of kWh sold for that year. For example, for 2015 under the medium-cost scenario above, we divided $951 million by 111,853 million kWh for a cost of 0.85 cents per kWh.
Graphic 7: Medium-Cost Case of 10 Percent RES Mandate from 2013 to 2025 (Thousands of 2010 Dollars)
Graphic 8: Low-Cost Case of 10 Percent RES Mandate from 2013 to 2025 (Thousands of 2010 Dollars)
Graphic 9: High-Cost Case of a 10 Percent RES Mandate from 2013 to 2025 (Thousands of 2010 Dollars)
Graphics 10, 11 and 12 below display the results of our medium-, low- and high- cost calculations for the 25 percent RES, respectively. We converted the aggregate cost of the RES into a cost-per-kWh by dividing the cost by the estimated total number of kWh sold for that year. For example, for 2025 under the medium-cost scenario above, we divided $2.551 billion by 132,405 million kWh for a cost of 1.93 cents per kWh.
Graphic 10: Medium-Cost Case of 25 Percent RES Mandate from 2013 to 2025 (Thousands of 2010 Dollars)
Graphic 11: Low-Cost Case of 25 Percent RES Mandate from 2013 to 2025 (Thousands of 2010 Dollars)
Graphic 12: High-Cost Case of a 25 Percent RES Mandate from 2013 to 2025 (Thousands of 2010 Dollars)
[*] "Electric Power Monthly: Table 8. Retail Sales, Revenue, and Average Retail Price by Sector, 1990 Through 2010," (U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2012), (accessed Sept. 4, 2012). The historical compound growth rate was calculated independently for each sector — residential, commercial, industrial and transportation — using the years for which data were available. These independent rates were then used to project sales for each sector in subsequent years, with the projected total annual retail sales calculated as the sum of the projected annual sector sales. This calculation produces a projected annual compound growth rate of approximately 1.68 percent between 2013 and 2025.
[†] For coal, gas and nuclear generation we used the production cost estimates from the International Energy Agencies, Energy Technology Analysis Programs, "Technology Brief E01: Coal Fired Power, E02: Gas Fired Power, E03: Nuclear Power and E05: Biomass for Heat and Power," (April 2010 http://www.iea-etsap.org/web/Supply.asp (accessed February 2012). To the production costs we added transmission costs from the EIA using the ratio of transmissions costs to total LEC costs. For wind power we used the IEA estimate for levelized capital costs and variable and fixed O & M costs. For transmission cost we used the estimated costs from several research studies that ranged from a low of $7.88 per kWh to a high of $146.77 per kWh, with an average of $60.32 per MWh. The sources are as follows: Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, and Kevin Porter, "The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies," Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/emp/reports/lbnl-1471e.pdf (accessed Sept. 19, 2012); Competitive Renewable Energy Zones (CREZ) Transmission Optimization Study, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, April 2, 2008 http://www.ercot.com/news/presentations/2006/ATTCH_ A_CREZ_Analysis_Report.pdf (accessed December 2010); Sally Maki and Ryan Pletka, Black & Veatch, California's Transmission Future, August 25, 2010, http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/ news/article/2010/08/californias-transmission-future (accessed December 2011).
[‡] For example, if the RES will require 100 MWh more wind than would otherwise be produced, then that 100 MWh of wind will produced at the LEC for wind. Ideally, then 100 MWh of natural gas-based energy would no longer be needed, and the forgone costs would be computed at the LEC for natural gas. Since wind would require a backup, however, we would estimate the amount of natural gas energy production needed on standby by employing a ratio of the capacity factors of the two energy sources (using, for example, the mid-range estimates from Graphic 6): 0.269/0.86 * 100 MWh of natural gas = 31.3 MWh of natural gas energy production.


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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday defended Law Minister Somanth Bharti asserting that his cabinet colleague did not tamper with evidence.
According to media report Bharti and his client Pawan Kumar are facing prosecution on corruption charges - after the CBI accused them of influencing a prosecution's witness by speaking to him on phone and discussing it.
"Somnath Bharti was trying to save a junior level officer and the sting operation that has been done is being called tampering of evidence by the judges," Kejriwal told reporters.
"We are ready to give the recording and then you can see and tell where has the tampering been done. I have told Somnath that the recording be played in the media," he added.
Explaining the case, the chief minister said: "We need to understand the entire case. This is almost a Rs.100 crore corruption case. It was a a fraud within the bank."
"Whenever anybody exports anything, a letter of credit is received against the consignment. False letters Of credit were raised and senior bank officials were involved," added Kejriwal.
He also pointed out that the CBI made a junior level desk officer Pawan Kumar a scapegoat and arrested him.
"Everybody was talking in the bank and openly accepting that they had put him (Pawan Kumar) in the trap. Pawan Kumar did a sting operation and called all senior officers," Kejriwal said.
"Whatever, they were saying was recorded, there was no tampering of the evidence instead court was being given more evidence," he said.
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BJP Demands Somnath Bharati's Resignation


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Editor's note: John J. Castellani is president and CEO of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, a trade group that represents research-based pharmaceutical companies. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.
(CNN) -- Imagine your doctor telling you there's nothing she can do, that your life has shifted, and you are headed to a lifetime full of painful treatments, possibly radical surgery, and even early death. That there's simply no prescription that can work.
Now imagine your doctor telling you that scientists have discovered a breakthrough, one that just might brighten the life you thought was headed into shadows, one that just might save your life.
This narrative, or one like it, is unfolding right now for the 3 million Americans -- and 175 million people all over the world -- with hepatitis C. The progress has been stunning, with new and forthcoming treatments now curing up to 90% of patients. In a health care climate mired in relentless, negative back-and-forth, it's encouraging to see what hard work can turn into for America's patients.
It's also an opportunity to learn from the recent past.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, HIV/AIDS was considered a death sentence. Doctors then had the task of telling their patients that nothing could be done. That early death was, in most cases, inevitable.
But for people all over the world with HIV/AIDS, the dawn of anti-retroviral medications in the mid-1990s transformed HIV/AIDS from near-certain death into a manageable chronic disease.
In the United States, the AIDS-related death rate has fallen by more than 80% since then, in large part because of advances in anti-retroviral therapy. Over the past 30 years, nearly 40 medicines have been approved to treat HIV/AIDS, and we now know that many of these medicines can also help prevent transmission of the disease as well.
The parallels between HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C are remarkable -- and a reason for optimism.
When HIV/AIDS was still considered a death sentence, some also claimed that treatments for it would bankrupt the health care system, as critics are claiming about the hepatitis C drug.But that did not happen. One reason is that cost containment is built into the system through the medicine life cycle. In its initial phases, innovator biopharmaceutical companies produce medical advances through pioneering scientific work and massive investments, like the $500 billion invested in research and development since 2000. After that, competition enters the market and lower-cost generics become available, helping achieve long-term savings.
2013: FDA approves breakthrough drug for treatment of hepatitis C
As a result of market dynamics and generic drug usage, the cost of medicines overall has grown more slowly in recent years than other health care costs, and makes up just 10% to 12% of total health care spending.The same can happen with treatments for hepatitis C, whose value becomes even more apparent when considering the cost consequences of not acting.
Although critics say the price of a promising new hepatitis C drug raises the cost of insurance, research from Milliman in 2009 projected that, without a cure for hepatitis C, annual U.S. medical costs associated with the disease will nearly triple over 20 years -- from $30 billion to $85 billion -- indicating that curing the disease can help reduce future medical costs.
Opinion: We all pay for $1,000 a pill drug
And recent projections show that the cost of curing hepatitis C patients will be far less than some have claimed. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that new medicines for hepatitis C will increase health care costs by just half a percent in 2014 and will level off after 2016 as patients are cured.
This is particularly noteworthy given that public discussions have focused almost exclusively on the price of new medicines while ignoring the tremendous societal benefits, including the potential to prevent even more expensive health care interventions such as liver transplant surgeries and related hospitalizations.
The finest biopharmaceutical research in the world helped wrestle HIV/AIDS down into a manageable disease. Now, it is giving us the same opportunity against hepatitis C -- and many more diseases.e need to move forward, and let the harrowing experience of HIV/AIDS patients inform our continued war against diseases like hepatitis C. And simple economics will remind us that, while investments at first may seem challenging, the prescription drug life cycle, market forces and tenacious global competition can lead to lower prices and broad access over time. behalf of America's hepatitis C patients, let's repeat that success once more.
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"The agreement we concluded earlier this month helps us provide clients supercomputing resources cost effectively via a cloud environment," said Tomi Ilijas, CEO of Arctur. "The IBM system allows Arctur to increase workloads without dramatically increasing power and cooling requirements. This efficiency will become even more important as Arctur continues to work on key projects, enabling computer assisted modelling services to small and medium enterprises through high performance cloud computing. In 2011, when the software platform for the IBM iDataPlex will be fully developed and implemented, Slovenian midmarket companies will have the possibility to lease computing time and top-capacities, thus shortening their product development cycle under economically affordable conditions."
Arctur expects its clients will use the IBM iDataPlex system in areas such as developing and testing new composite materials, which are formed by the combination of two or more materials with very different properties. These composite materials, which can be man-made or natural, are being used in industries such as aerospace, automotive, bridge and building, marine, sporting goods, and textile parts and assembly. It can take up to 12 months to design, test and implement a new product from composite materials. The possibility to run the extensive simulations on a supercomputer, especially on micro or nano scale, may save clients up to 75% of their development time.
"As the demand for supercomputer-style power grows, IBM is packaging the technology in new ways for users that might not have the space, power and resources required to build traditional-style clusters," said Roman Koritnik, Country General Manager, IBM Slovenia. "The iDataPlex provides the right mix of technology innovation and computing power to help Arctur and its clients reach their ambitious goals."
The IBM iDataPlex supercomputer running Linux will be capable of performing approximately 10 trillion calculations per second (rpeak teraflops) and is expected to grow to 25 teraflops in near future.The computer harnesses the latest Intel six-core processors and QDR InfiniBand in an IBM design that dramatically improves energy efficiency and cooling requirements.
iDataPlex maximizes performance per watt with innovative cooling techniques such as the IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger. This liquid-cooled panel on the back of the unit can eliminate the need for computer-room air conditioners, allowing for room temperature operation. A single iDataPlex 2U server packs five times the computer power of a typical server while consuming 40 percent less power.
The iDataPlex system is the second supercomputer system to be delivered by IBM in Slovenia. In 2008, Turboinštitut acquired Adria - a 2.048-core system of 256 IBM BladeCenter servers based on Linux, which was then the most powerful supercomputer in South Eastern Europe.
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All employees of the Feleti Barstow Public Library, except for the Territorial Librarian, are appointed or hired and compensated in accordance with the government employee laws A.S.C.A., 7.0101 et seq., except that the public library board may adopt administrative rules, pursuant to A.S.C.A. 4.1001 et seq. To supplant government employee laws and rules in the specific categories of personnel recruitment, assignment, transfer, employment, termination, of employee services, disciplinary actions, and compensations at levels comparable to higher education and library and learning resource management and employee levels.History: 1999, PL 26-3


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I'm in the same situation as Tubular Toby here, school expenses are growing. I don't know how many of you keep up with the national news, but Louisiana's budget cuts and tuition spikes are interfering with my graphic design studies (only a few art classes are being offered through the 2011 school year while the others may or may not reappear again so it's been difficult for the art and foreign language majors to schedule classes to graduate).
Anyway, I'm helping out a friend of mine who established LSUS's first animal related club- The Future Veterinarians of America Club. Here, he sponsors a local animal rescue each semester and selects one special animal to push for adoption on campus (including parading the happy pups on campus; early on I even considered adopting the sweetest bulldog I have met but I can't support a dog just yet and eventually she did find a wonderful home to call her own).
To continue fundraising (the school has cut some student organizations' funding as well), I am taking on pet portraits (furry, feathery, scaly, finned or otherwise) and 10% of each commissioned piece will go to Shreveport-Bossier animal shelters and rescues.
To get things moving, I am offering $15 off the total price for my fellow members here. If anyone is interested, let me know via PM.
Sizes: 5x7 - $30 8.5x11 - $75 9x12 - $90 11x14 - $110 16x20 and 18x24 also available (ask for price)
Traditional Mediums: graphite/pencil, ink, chalk pastel, gouache/watercolor, acrylic
Oil (water-soluble) and Digital Paintings -add $10 to size price
-Shipping $5 via USPS; Paypal only (sorry no checks)
-No charge for multiple pets right now
And by request, I can do people portraits as well - same price same sizes; multiple subjects - $50 per additional person (no charge for pets!)
Check out examples of my work here: http://brokenlizard2.deviantart.com/
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Susie Wolff has cited Sebastian Vettel as an example of how women could compete head-to-head in formula one against men.
Wolff, Williams' test driver who has applied for the mandatory super licence enabling her to contest grands prix, is pushing hard to become the first woman in two decades to attempt to race in F1.
Critics, however, often cite women's inferior physical strength as an obstacle, even though Wolff has conducted F1 aerodynamic tests, and raced in the DTM touring car series and junior single seater categories.
And Wolff, 30, told the Observer newspaper: "Look at the size of Sebastian Vettel. Do you see a big, muscular guy?
"I know women have 30pc less muscle than men. And in DTM I had to train harder.
"But I was karting from such a young age that, year on year, my body was getting stronger in the right places."


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Towards a strategy for soil protection
Towards a strategy for soil protection
Towards a strategy for soil protection
This summary has been archived and will not be updated, because the summarised document is no longer in force or does not reflect the current situation.
Towards a strategy for soil protection
To formulate a plan with a view to developing a Community strategy for soil protection.
Communication of 16 April 2002 from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Towards a Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection [COM (2002) 179 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
One of the objectives of the Sixth Environmental Action Programme is to protect soils against erosion and pollution. It is to fulfil this objective that the Commission is publishing this Communication, which paves the way for developing a strategy on soil protection. For the purpose of this Communication, soil is defined as the top layer of the earth's crust, formed by mineral particles, organic matter, water, air and living organisms.
This Communication describes the functions of soil, which include:
The Communication also identifies the main threats to soil in Europe: erosion, decline in organic matter, soil contamination, soil sealing (caused by the covering of soil for housing, roads and other infrastructure), soil compaction (caused by mechanical pressure through the use of heavy machinery, overgrazing or sporting activities), decline in soil biodiversity, salinisation (excessive accumulation of soluble salts of sodium, magnesium and calcium) and floods and landslides. All these processes are either driven or exacerbated by human activity and some degradation processes have increased over recent decades. The economic consequences and restoration costs linked to the threats to soil are huge.
The Communication examines the international initiatives taken to address soil degradation, as well as action undertaken by EU Member States and Candidate Countries. As regards Community initiatives as such, the Communication stresses that an explicit Community policy does not exist at this stage. However, measures implemented under other policies (environmental, agricultural, regional, transport, research) contribute to soil protection.
Building blocks of a thematic strategy
It is therefore essential that the EU develop a Community thematic strategy for soil. This strategy will be presented in 2004. It will take into consideration the principles of precaution, anticipation and environmental responsibility, and will focus on initiatives already being undertaken in environmental policies, better integration of soil protection in other policies, soil monitoring and new actions based on monitoring results.
In environmental policy, new legislation will supplement existing legislation:
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will encourage organic farming, the maintenance of terraces, safer pesticide use, use of certified compost, forestry, afforestation and other measures for soil protection. Under the review of the CAP, the Commission intends to expand the financial commitment to rural development and soil protection.
As regards soil monitoring, the Commission will propose, by June 2004, legislation on a Community information and monitoring system for soil threats. This monitoring will provide the basis for future legislative initiatives and will be used as a tool to adjust and review existing policies in the field of soil protection.
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A clever, deconstructed BLT: Bread coats chicken in the form of breadcrumbs,bacon is cooked with lettuce and tomato for a simple side, and a dollop of seasoned mayonnaise acts as a sauce.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- Total Time
- 15 minutes
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon peel
- 5 slices thick-cut bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 4 large plum tomatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 5-ounce package mixed baby greens
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breast halves
- 1 cup panko (Japanese breadcrumbs)*
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- *Available in the Asian foods section of some supermarkets and at Asian markets.
- Blend first 3 ingredients in small bowl. Season mayonnaise with salt and pepper.
- Cook bacon in large nonstick skillet over medium heat until crisp. Add tomatoes and cumin. Increase heat; cook 2 minutes. Add greens; toss until barely wilted, about 1 minute. Sprinkle vinegar over and toss to blend; season with salt and pepper. Divide among 4 plates.
- Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Place panko in shallow bowl; press chicken into panko to coat on both sides. Heat oil in another large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken and sauté until cooked through and golden, about 4 minutes per side. Place chicken atop greens and serve with mayonnaise.


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Heading out, GNK Dinamo Zagreb struck in the 98th minute to join Helsingborgs IF, AEL Limassol FC, FC BATE Borisov and WKS Śląsk Wrocław in completing the third qualifying round lineup.
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Helsingborg will now face WKS Śląsk Wroclaw – competing in the European Champion Clubs' Cup for only the second time – after they clung on to claim a 2-1 overall victory against FK Budućnost Podgorica despite a 1-0 second-leg defeat.
There was no doubting the most dramatic denouement of the night, GNK Dinamo Zagreb leaving it until the 98th minute to salvage a 3-2 home win against competition debutants PFC Ludogorets Razgrad and progress 4-3 on aggregate. Dinamo will play FC Sheriff.
Debreceni VSC lie in wait for FC BATE Borisov, meanwhile, after the Belarusian title holders drew 0-0 with FK Vardar following a 3-2 triumph last week. A goalless stalemate was also enough for AEL Limassol FC – 3-0 victors against Linfield FC last time out – to rubber-stamp a meeting with FK Partizan.
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In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to make a good melee AI using the AI Editor, I'm not gonna talk about how the editor works since there are other good tutorials made for that purpose, like Av3n's "The AI Editor".
What you must know to understand and use correctly this tutorial?
1. How does the AI Editor work, if you don't know that, see Av3n's tutorial then come back here later.
2. How do conditions work in GUI Triggering
Another thing: I didn't post any screen of the editor because I have the italian version so it won't help you much, and it may cause side effects like: confusion or learning some italian (both things to avoid xD).
However Sunwarrior25 provided me some screens that will do the job...
I'm gonna base this tutorial on making an AI for a normal Human Race, if it's not what you want (very probably) then adapt this explaination to your needings.
Ok, let's start. We're gonna use the AI Editor page by page, the first page is General,
here we set:
Custom Data: IMPORTANT! The race you're gonna use is a normal race or it has been made modifying the object data? In the first case skip this zone, in the second case, you have to import in the AI editor the .w3o file containing the custom Object Data.
Conditions: Here you set the conditions you're gonna use more that one time in the next pages (except Heroes page), I suggest you to set at least these two conditions:
Attack Possible: (((Total number of Footman units completed) Bigger or Equal to 4) And ((Total number of Rifleman units completed) Bigger or Equal to 3) Or ((Total number of Spellbreaker units completed) Bigger or Equal to 3) And ((Total number of Rifleman units completed) Bigger or Equal to 3))
It's a sequence of "Integer", "And" and "Or" conditions. Why do we have to write all of this? We're gonna set this as the main parameter the AI must use to know when it can attack. Change the underlined fields of this trigger to match it with your race:
(((Total number of T1 Melee units completed) Bigger or equal to X) And ((Total numer of Ranged units completed) Bigger or equal to Y) Or (((Total number of T2 Melee units completed) Bigger or equal to Z) And ((Total numer of Ranged units completed) Bigger or equal to Y)
T1 Melee:
Footman, Ghoul: X = 4
Grunt, Huntress: X = 3
Archer, Headhunter: Y = 4
Rifleman, Crypt Spider: Y = 3
T2 Melee:
Spellbreaker, Raider: Z = 3
Night-Elves and Undead don't have a T2 Melee unit, so skip the second part of the condition if you use them, or set at its place the T3 Melee unit.
Hall: (Food Produced) Minor of 60
(60 is the number of food you have after having upgraded the hall to Tier 2 in my example)
(That's not an important condition normally, but if you use Orcs or Humans, expecially Humans (they have Spellbreakers, that are better than Footmen, while Grunts and Raiders have pretty similar statistics), you can write down this condition and use it later to disable the training of T1 Melee units when the food is more than 59, in this way the AI will have more food to train stronger units (10 in this example))
(However, in the case of Undead and Night-Elves, this trigger could need to be adapted (to the number of food produced after upgrading the hall to Tier 3) or removed, due to conflicts that could happen with the "Attack Possible" condition, so remember that if you use these two conditions, they are strictly linked, so if you change the first, you probably should change also the second and vice-versa)
Another condition that is essential, if you use units that are upgraded to others: (like Siege Machines (Humans) or Troll Headhunters)
This example will be on Siege Machines:
Siege: (Upgrade level of Scatter Rockets) Equal to 0
If that's not clear, here is the example with the Headhunter:
Headhunter: (Upgrade level of Berserker) Equal to 0
(You must set this condition to all the units that are affected by that power-up then, after making the AI use that power-up, set the building queue of all the units of the new type that should be trained)
(If you don't set this, at the moment of the upgrade the AI won't find the non-upgraded unit to be trainable, thus blocking all the AI unit training)
Ok, we finished with the first page, and we can go to the second one, Heroes:
Used heroes: Here you set the number and the kind of heroes.
Normal values in Training Order in each field per hero number:
Skill selection: There's not much to say, here you choose how will AI's heroes learn each skil.
Another thing, if your hero has custom abilities and are not shown in this zone, open the object editor, copy the "Hero Skills" field, return the field to its default values, then paste the "Hero Skills" field and export the Object Data again and import it again in your AI editor.
If this method doesn't work, retry a couple of times and it should, if it doesn't work even after 3 attempts, feel free to PM me the map and the ".wai" file and I'll try to fix it...
Third page (CAUTION! This is the hardest part, some wrong inputs in this page and you'll face a high number of bugs), Building:
First parameters:
Harvest Priorities (this is how I set them):
HTML Code:
(Lumber Worker numbers should be changed depending on how many lumber they can harvest in one trip)
Faerie Fire (5 Lumber, no trip) : 6 Workers
Peon (10, with trip) : 5-6 Workers
Peasant (10 (Improveable), with trip) : 4-5 Workers
Ghoul (20, with trip) : 3-4 Workers
Build Priorities (The MOST important thing in a whole AI, this is an example step by step (and provided with comments) using Humans):
HTML Code:
*In the case of a custom hall, maybe it's better to add a condition: (unless you want them to have a bunch of unused T1 Halls in their base)
((Total number of T2 Hall units) equal to 0) And (Total number of T3 Hall units) equal to 0)
Obviously, set T2 Hall and T3 Hall with the buildings you have for Tier 2 Hall and Tier 3 Hall.
** These are the starting units for the AI, so change them with EXACTLY the same units this AI must have at the map init. And, this way, if those workers are killed, they'll be trained by the hall with an active mine, in this way the AI is more efficient.
*** Remember, this only if you don't want them to continue training Footmen when they have Spellbreakers and then Knights
**** In the case of a custom hall, maybe it's better to add a condition: (unless you want them to have a T2 Hall and a T3 in their base at the same time)
(Total number of T3 Hall units) equal to 0)
***** Here you may think: "What the hell can I do with 6 food?" You're wrong, if you used the Hall condition, you have 16 food avaiable now, also if AI Editor tells you the opposite.
****** When The food needed for the queue exceeds the food created by the AI the lines are written in red, but don't worry since, as I explained before, the AI Editor is wrong now.
Finally the third page (and the most difficult) is ended, now the fourth, Attacking:
The first thing to do is to set Attack Groups, 2 attack groups are needed:
Minimum Attack:
This is the minimum of army that the AI will use, I'd base it this way:
HTML Code:
All Units:
In this group you'll put all the units avaiable for the race
Attack Waves:
Put as a first wave "Minimum Attack", with a delay of 2, then put "All Units" as a second wave, with a delay of 0.
Minimum Forces:
Set the "Minimum Attack" attack group in this field.
Target Priorities:
Set them this way:
HTML Code:
* "Why this?" Because this way the AI will always have at least 1 mine and, if you're gonna play as an ally of this AI, won't try to steal every mine YOU clear.
** Not an important priority, if you want, you can also kick it out
FINALLY! The End!
After this, this AI Step-by-Step is completed, feel free to use it as a base for your custom AI.
Only one thing: remember to save this AI and then export the ".ai" script, never import the ".wai" file in your map, it works but it contains also the custom object data you used for your AI, so the 90% of its size is useless to the map, import the ".ai" file instead.
Thanks to Sunwarrior25 for the screenshots of the AI Editor.
Edited because: 28-02-10: Fixed a typo and modified the Target Priorities in order to be... better.
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Isn't the .wai file automatically created (or imported. one of the two) when you import the .ai file?__________________
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No, the ".wai" file is created only by the AI Editor when you save your AI, it is the AI script + custom data. To have an ".ai" file you have to save first, then use the command "Export Script". (or some similar name)__________________
Though, as I said above, both work, the ".ai" file is space saving... :)
EDIT: Found the best way to get rid of the "Hero Skills" bug, updated the main post!
FURTHER EDIT: Just found out that moyack already did a tutorial like this...
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Good point, my bad, turns out the .ai file is imported/created if you import the .wai file. Sorry 'bout that. You were right.__________________
Anyhoo, I made a Custom AI based on my entry for the contest. When I changed the object editor data to include a new spell for the hero (Kyrbi0's "Look Out, Sir!"), it keeps trying to reference the old spell (Howl of Terror). The actual strategy hasn't changed. Any ideas?
EDIT: You could change the tutorial to try to reference a custom race. As far as I know, the AI will automatically use any abilities it has (though I think it might have to be run a few times to get the hang of it). I've also noticed that even if you have 4 computer players with the same exact AI, each on different teams, they'll each behave a little differently.
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Was the strategy this?
If you tried this and it didn't work, send me a PM with the map and the ".wai" file and I'll give it a check...
For the first point I think that referencing to a custom race could cause a little confusion, but maybe I could attach a map to make people see how does it work...
For the second one, the same AI acts differently depending on different in-game situations, creep positions, mines owned, number of units owned etc.
That's a good thing, because it means that the AI won't act always in the same way, so the map won't have a always-the-same boring AI...
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PM'd. The AI I sent you makes full use of it's race's siege engines, and ignores the caster side of it.__________________
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Fixed, I'll send you the files soon on PM. Strangely I only tried the "strategy" and now it works. (I should add that if it doesn't work at the first time, re-trying can give results)
BTW Interesting AI...
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Maybe I could add screens for the first 4 windows, don't worry for the rep, if you do the screens I guess I should rep you XD
EDIT: So, tutorial updated and Reppy sent.
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Some handy hints:
1. putting number of unit = number of unit completed as a condition for all your units helps to make sure the building is producing that unit constantly instead of waiting endlessly for the piroties above to be finished
it's better then staggering your units i.e
footmen etc
cause what happens if one of your footment gets killed? the ai will try to replace your footmen and delay the production of the peasent.
2. having Creep Camp (0-9) as a first attack piroty will make the ai creap out ALL Creep Camp (0-9) on the map before it attacks the enemy even when you have 100 food. really bad if you face an AI which techs up first gets better units then you then attacks you in one wave wiping out your tier 1 units all in one. Baring in mind your AI doesn't kill it's own units so you end up with loads of footmen at 100 food
3. in the above AI, all uou have to do is make sure you kill enough to make it have less then 10 peasents and it won't build anything else until it replaces it's peasents. Blademaster wind walk haress combined with you're producing units and it's not
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1. That doesn't matter because when the AI has got the barracks will train both peasants and footmen at the same time.__________________
The priority list is not that strict, after the AI has issued the order with the highest priority, will issue all the other possible orders in the list at the same time.
2. For creep camps you're right, I'll probably add some conditions, but normally this AI loses all the footmen above even before arriving to have a Castle, thanks to attacks to creep camps or fights between other AIs, and if it doesn't, 5 Footmen (10 food) is not that great problem, believe me.
3. in this AI you're assuming that the AI can train only a unit at a time... if a Blademaster kills all the peasants, be sure that the AI will train both peasants and footmen/spellbreakers/knights at the same time, depending on existing buildings and on research values etc.
However, thanks for the tips, I'll see what to modify for the 2nd point.
Last edited by Michael Peppers : 03-27-2009 at 12:52 AM.
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I just found out today, that you can add the AI to the map without doing most of the export stuff. Just click 'File > Add to map' and specify what path you want it to be. It'll add the AI to whatever map is open in the WE. Still, if all you need is the .ai file, then just delete the .wai file that appears as normal...__________________
Just thought I'd post that bit of info. It's still a smart Idea to save the map, in case you need to change something later. (I dunno, is it possible to do what I just said in... say... 1.21?)
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Ha! I got so accustomed to "no new replies" for this thread that I didn't check it in a while, sorry...
And... funny, I never ever seen that command (yes, it works on 1.21b), but it seems it imports the AI Data (.wai file), so I won't suggest that. If someone wants to use it, it's in the AI Editor anyway. :P
BTW, thanks for the new! :)
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