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Hey guys, I know some of you play pen and paper games. I'm running a campaign for the first time and am trying to come up with fresh ideas. Honestly the hardest part of it I've found is that I can't bounce ideas off my friends. The people I normally kick writing ideas around with are my players. I don't know if there's enough activity in this part of the forum to keep this kind of post alive but does anyone want to try and come up with some ideas?
I'm down to talk about whatever, encounters and plot stuff, but right now I'm trying to come up with some interesting artifacts for my players to find. I really like Bakker's artifacts. They're mechanically interesting, and they fit with the metaphysical rules of magic he's set out, but they maintain all the mystique and wonder you want from artifacts. They all feel unique and clearly leverage sorcery in cool ways. I have a forerunner race in my game that is roughly modeled on the nonmen and I want to put interesting remnants of their civilization in the world. Does anyone have any thoughts for artifacts like that? Like the Diurnal and that kind of thing?
I have a list somewhere of ideas for you. When I get home I will try to find it and edit this post.
But, my DM did something that I have never heard of. (Which means next to nothing because I have only played with one DM) While playing, if any person is drinking, or smoking (mary jane or cigarettes) he has a structure that directly impacts your character. I hit our paladin (my brother) with a spell that went awry because I had consumed 6 beers at that point. Didn't end up well for my character since the Paladin had about enough of overlooking my alignment issues by that point.
A soul-trapping sword (or other weapon). If souls could be held in a wrathi doll, why not in a sword or something? I have no idea what it's function is though.
Some sort of "philosopher's stone" that invokes, or projects, "becoming." I'm not sure how deeply you are following the Nonmen in their philosophical bent, or to which end, but this could even be a "nihil stone" of sorts, doing the reverse and invoking oblivion. Or maybe it alternates between the two? Or maybe it does both at the same time? Perhaps it prevents either or both?
Rather than chorae, how about something that enhances magic? An object that can amplify magical power? A lens of some sort.
Speaking of lenses, maybe some kind of lens that allows perception of the Outside?
A book that can somehow devour knowledge, rather than impart it? This seems really OP and mean, haha, maybe it just devours memories?
Lol, I like the substance use thing, that's hilarious. I don't know if I would ever use that though, I would want to de-incentivise consumption at my table lol. Wouldn't be fair since I tend to make it through 40 when we play. No complaints that it's effected my GMing though. I do find that the weed smokers go through short periods of quiet after they hit the vape though.
I like all those H. I don't know about the soul trapping stuff though. Bakker does the animata in such a distinct way, super different than they're normally used. I don't think I could elevate soul binding beyond the standard. I'm still down for brainstorming in that direction though.
I really like these two and I'm sort of exploring both of those concepts with my not-nonmen already. Great minds. There's a nonmen undercity nearby my players and two of the points of interest line up with what you're suggesting. They're these two deep pools of water in the depths of dungeon, the first was were they disposed of their dead and it can now be used to glimpse in chaos of the outside. The other pool of water is in the mage's library. They used it as a kind of sorcerous hardrive. Both can be accessed by the players but at severe psychological cost. So we're on the same page.
Anyway I'm totally down to post some general lore and plot if you guys are interested. I really want to bounce ideas around with people. Have you guys been playing recently?
I'm probably better coming up with half ideas if I already have something to start with. If you post some ideas of the plot, I might be able to come up with some better stuff. I'll definitely read it and see what I can do if you post.
Ok cool. I'll start with some general plot and setting and later I'll throw out some ideas for artifacts that we can kick around.
My game is pretty tropey so it's all stuff you've seen before. It takes place at the edge of a Rome like empire. The players are wardens, basically marshal style lawmen. A small town on the wild west style frontier was taken over by a group of bandits who killed the previous sheriff and moved in to occupy the town. They are sent to kill the bandits and set up camp in town as the new law. Because it's the frontier they become the major representatives of the crown in the area.
After they killed the witch they've stirred up some political intrigue. They put together a council of prominent citizens to help rule. Ostensibly they did this in order to restore the rule of law but really I think they just wanted to have a way to keep track of the major players. After that they played around with the government of the town and then later went on a short delve into the nearby undercity. I don't know exactly where the plot will go from here.
For the mythology I steal from all over the place. The main good deity in my setting is Lucifer. I know that sounds like I'm trying to be super edgy but whatever. So, Lucifer won the battle with God and now he and a group of archangels make up the pantheon. God is locked in hell instead of Lucifer. Magic comes from him. Mages imitate the voice of God to control the Word which is the substrate of creation.
At some point in distant history a dark Christ was born on earth and tried to free the Father. He went to war with the nonmen and destroyed their cities one by one. Eventually, their greatest sorcerers met with each other and the most powerful consumed the others. He faced the Christ in a final climatic battle and won but the nonmen were forever broken.
That's basically what I have right now. I'll try and come up with some ideas for artifacts next but lemme know what you think and if you have any cool ideas.
So, the Nonmen's agenda include keeping God locked up, presumably because that is the font of their remaining power? While God is not in Heaven (or wherever else) he is not in charge of creation, therefor his voice is muted, so everyone else's can be heard (i.e. exact changes)?
Is the idea about the Christ that he is Lucifer's son, who rebelled in turn, or was he some effort on the part of God to escape? I think there are some interesting things to be done with either. To keep it in a real-world parallel still, there is the offer of a second coming, of course, which seems to only make sense if he was God's son, rather than Lucifer's. Presumably, Lucifer would have learned his lesson about children, after the first.
My biggest question is probably, what are the ramifications of God's absence (and Lucifer's reign)? Is it just a transference, like all things attributed to God simply now are applied to Lucifer? How has the Church changed, what are the differences of it under Lucifer and God? Where God was perhaps only, or mostly, intercessional, Lucifer is more "hands-on," but rewards those most like himself? Therefor the Chruch is largely oppressive, rewarding those who seem dominance and lack humility and hubris? Lucifer is not omniscient, but fancies himself so. His plans have no been working out as he really wished. The more he tinkers, the more goes wrong, perhaps? Where Angels were once the dispensers of God's mercy and grace (mostly), now they are agents of Lucifer's will, attempting to force his orders, since plans are falling apart?
I guess this brings me into my next part, what is the story of Lucifer? Are we on the idea that he was an Angel, cast out of Heaven for wishing to supplant God? So, he established an Underword empire, so called Hell, and from there perhaps crafted Nonmen? In other words, Nonmen are part Angel? OK, that aside, Lucifer rebels and through means unknown, managed to switch places with God and partition Hell off from the world to keep God locked away?
Now, perhaps God finds a way to squeak out some of his will, or maybe some other Angel decides to help God, and so Christ is born. He realizes what has happened, perhaps by the guidance of that Angel, and so works to free God. Naturally, the Nonmen selfishly want God to stay locked up, since their voices are loud without His to drown them out, so they fight Christ. They win, but at huge costs. Now there is fear, because there is a prophecy of a Second Coming, and the Nonmen don't know if they have the strength to fight this again.
OK, I think I am rambling a bit now. On the artifacts, there are some things that can be sort of real-world parallels to actual Christian artifacts. Like the Shroud of Turin, pieces of the True Cross, or the Lance of Longinus. Also, artifacts from the war between God and Lucifer. Objects inflected with God's will and those with Lucifer's.
Awesome stuff all around H. Thanks so much for helping me brainstorm this.
My biggest question is probably, what are the ramifications of God's absence (and Lucifer's reign)? Is it just a transference, like all things attributed to God simply now are applied to Lucifer? How has the Church changed, what are the differences of it under Lucifer and God? Where God was perhaps only, or mostly, intercessional, Lucifer is more "hands-on," but rewards those most like himself? Therefor the Chruch is largely oppressive, rewarding those who seek dominance and lack humility and hubris?
I tend to think of Lucifer as an innocent. Maybe a kind of mirror for Christ. For me, Lucifer has to be the highest of God's creation, the grandest. The first angel, he is noble, strong, smart and kind. His love for God is unimaginable. Unfortunately, he is, like all angels, incapable of change, and is forced to rebel. That's just my thoughts on the character and those fudge the cannon a lot but that's where I'm coming from.
In the world of my story he is a definitely a force of good. For the sake of a simple and fun mythology, the God figure is a clear bad guy. Lucifer's motivations in real mythology are complicated, but here, he is simply overthrowing an evil overlord. So to answer your question, he is an unambiguously good deity, and many of the traits of the Christian God are simply transferred over to him. He does reward those more like himself, but the differences between him and the Christian God aren't that dark. He values freedom and strength more highly than mercy. He values chivalry. He values truth. The angels were God's soldiers and he was first among them. He is lightbringer, a knight in shining armor. The problems with his rule are probably mostly born of the fact that by his nature he is a hero and not a king.
So that's what I have as a starting point. I'm open to changing stuff though. Your feedback is really good and none of this is set in stone yet. I need notes on this stuff so if you think something doesn't work or could be more interesting by all means let me know.
Lucifer is not omniscient, but fancies himself so. His plans have no been working out as he really wished. The more he tinkers, the more goes wrong, perhaps?
This I really like and am going to use. Lucifer is a good guy but he is proud, and this is a really interesting way for that to manifest. Totally the kind of flaw a jock like Lucifer would have.
I guess this brings me into my next part, what is the story of Lucifer? Are we on the idea that he was an Angel, cast out of Heaven for wishing to supplant God? So, he established an Underword empire, so called Hell, and from there perhaps crafted Nonmen? In other words, Nonmen are part Angel?
Lucifer succeeded in his rebellion and locked God in Hades. He now sits in the throne of heaven and rules as God did. I think the forerunners were God's chosen people, and that humans are Lucifer's. When God created them they were mud people. Animals without consciousness. Lucifer gave them the apple and elevated them.
OK, that aside, Lucifer rebels and through means unknown, managed to switch places with God and partition Hell off from the world to keep God locked away?
Now, perhaps God finds a way to squeak out some of his will, or maybe some other Angel decides to help God, and so Christ is born. He realizes what has happened, perhaps by the guidance of that Angel, and so works to free God.
Yeah, God is locked in hell now. I wasn't sure whether Christ should be the son of God or Lucifer but I've been leaning towards God. The birth of the Son is part of God's nature, and so it offered a chance for God to retake the heavens and the earth.
I don't know if that answers all your questions so let me know if I missed something important or there's an area of the lore you'd want to explore cuz I'd be down. Really good thoughts on artifacts, I'll think about those. I still want more Bakker style artifacts. Bits of philosophy in material form.
Not a problem, it's no sweat, easy to spin yarn from my armchair here. That has always been my 'trouble' with storytelling, I can spin, but I can never weave yarn, if you follow what I mean.
OK, that makes sense. God is a despot. Lucifer is not, so there is definitely room to play with the concept of 'rule-gone-awry.' I need to think more on grander implications. I think a central theme here is freedom and it's costs. At what cost does Lucifer's allowance of freedom come? At what cost does his love come?
Indeed, that is good. One thing that begs though, is if the Nonmen were God's chosen people, why did they choose to not back Christ upon realizing he would bring back God? Is it because they realized that God was a despot and so they wanted to keep the power they gained in his absence? It's deep, because when we, in the real world, say "so-and-so is God's chosen" what we really mean, "so-and-so has chosen God" but in your world, it literally means that God has chosen them. Loosed from the shackles of God's indomitable will though, they chose freedom rather than a return, even a return that brokered 'elevated status.' That's kind of fascinating, how they gave up so much in the name of freedom. Raises interesting questions about the worth of freedom at such a high cost.
I admit, I am partial to the idea of God having a confederate Angel 'on his side.' My first thought goes to Michael, since it would have been him who had lead God's fight with Lucifer in those early days. Now, he slowly attempts to covertly work to bring back God, by the resurrection of Christ, but his work is slow because he cannot be seen to be openly defying Lucifer.
The player characters can be pawns of Michael, perhaps he appears to them, presents something as a Holy quest, but really unwittingly aiding in the Resurrection, to perhaps find the tomb of Christ (or something similar) or sundering it, or perhaps something else. No doubt, the Nonmen would not be pleased about this, so there is a potential conflict there.
I admit that my philosophical knowledge is rather poor. I'll need to think more about bits that can translate to artifice.
Hey H, I was a little drunk when I typed this up so it kind of goes off the rails a little.
I follow. I tend to run into the same problem myself. It's something I'm trying to work on.
Another thing I'm wrestling with is Lucifer's love for God. When I was first fleshing this out I planned on having God be a fairly unambiguous tyrant, and on casting Lucifer as a kind of promethean freedom fighter. But I've always really liked the idea that Lucifer's love for God is unrivaled and I keep arguing with myself about how I can work that in. It wasn't something I planned for and it doesn't easily fit in with the mythology as I've set it up. Why would Lucifer love this tyrant God so much? I guess God could have just programmed that into Lucifer nature but that isn't very interesting. Ideally, Lucifer's love for God is something pure, not pathological. I'm not sure it's a concept I'll end up trying to include but it's on my mind. Introducing some moral ambiguity to God is probably a good idea anyway. Thoughts on what that should look like?
Indeed, that is good. One thing that begs though, is if the Nonmen were God's chosen people, why did they choose to not back Christ upon realizing he would bring back God? Is it because they realized that God was a despot and so they wanted to keep the power they gained in his absence? It's deep, because when we, in the real world, say "so-and-so is God's chosen" what we really mean, "so-and-so has chosen God" but in your world, it literally means that God has chosen them.
Yeah, exactly. I like the idea of them rejecting God's favor. I haven't decided exactly where I'm going with it yet though.
Loosed from the shackles of God's indomitable will though, they chose freedom rather than a return, even a return that brokered 'elevated status.' That's kind of fascinating, how they gave up so much in the name of freedom. Raises interesting questions about the worth of freedom at such a high cost.
There's also the question of what benefits that "elevated status" actually conferred. I can think of a few main things that the chosen people usually receive in myth. Possibly some divine assistance in the form of miracles. This is D&D so we can assume that this exists, probably in the form of paladins and priests with Saint-like abilities from God. Divine guidance is pretty ubiquitous, prophets and oracles. The big one though is entrance into heaven. Why did they give that up? And how does it work in this world? Now that God is overthrown, do you need to worship Lucifer to get into Heaven?
I hadn't considered that God's absence allows mages to manipulate the Word more freely. I'll consider that. Regardless, I don't think the forerunners rejected Christ because they were power hungry. I want to make it weirder than that if I can.
Maybe heroism is just in their nature. Different varieties of this are pretty standard for elves and elf-equivalents like the Nonmen. Elves are naturally good or wise or whatever. It's almost an essential trope for elder fantasy species.
I especially like the way Bakker did this with the Nonmen. They aren't fundamentally good obviously. As a society they've committed more than their fair share of atrocities, and the personalities of individual Nonmen seem to vary as much as human personalities do. But it seems like they are fundamentally "epic". They're sort of Nietzsche-ian. They have this ancient greek vibe, like they're genetically predisposed to behave like characters from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Maybe they only come off that way because all we get as readers is historical accounts and folk stories but I doubt it.
So some variation of that is one possibility for why they rejected God. Something in their alien psychology put them at odds with him. The simplest form of this could be similar to the Nietzsche-ian heroism of Bakker's Nonmen or the tragic sense of duty that the Tolkiens elves have. The Forerunners recognized that their God was a tyrant and so they stood against him.
The other possibility I see that relies on their culture alien psychology is something you mentioned. The Forerunner's could value freedom more than God's Grace, or despise servitude to such a degree that they couldn't bear God's dominion. It could be weirder than that too, like they despise peace so much that the idea of eternal tranquility in the bosom of God. Anyway, whatever explanation I go with, I want it to say interesting stuff about them. Whatever gives me the most meat to work with going forward I should probs pick. What exactly does it say about them if they venerate freedom so much they choose it over God.
I'm definitely into this. My plan right now for the overarching narrative is to have the players stumble into an angel's scheme to open a gate to hell. It'll be up to them whether they get played by the angel or start trying to unravel the conspiracy.
Ideally I'd like to draw them into it more subtly. The game is still in a kind of gritty noir western-y place, so direct contact with an angel would be out of place. I'm gonna try to bring in the epic powerhouses slowly. I want the players to feel me slowly turning the heat up as the angels plans proceed and the world approaches catastrophe.
Well, Lucifer's knowledge is finite. So his understanding of God is finite. Why would he love God, despite him being a despot? Well, there is the love, so strong, that it can do nothing but overwhelm. He loves God, not despite God being a contradiction, but because God is a contradiction. It is all too much. Love so strong it cannot exist. Love so strong it makes you want to subsume yourself. It's too pure, it's overwhelming, it threatens to devour. Lucifer's love for God is so strong he believes that all things are violence to God. Even Lucifer's own love is an affront, since he cannot even fathom God in his infinite manifest existence and yet the love blossoms of itself, on and on, a perfect positive feedback loop. The world is imperfect and impure, a blight on God's (at least in Lucifer's eyes, since, remember, his knowledge is finite) perfect and pure divine corpus.
Lucifer's removal of God is not an act of imprisonment in his eyes, but a sheltering of God from the base and imperfect world that seeks only violence to God's very nature. Lucifer would bear the failure of the world, the sins of the world, the base nature of the world, and the impure devotion of it's inhabitants to spare it from God. God apart from the world, not as a punishment, but clemency. A sacrifice on the part of Lucifer, to bear the sins of the world.
I think that's a good way to explore it. Also there is the idea, "Nothing is harder to bear than a succession of fair days." God's grace offers no end to the fair days. Also, maybe they are like Bakker's Nonmen, in that their long lives mean memories are hard to come by. Such fair days leave nothing, a smooth slate. It is only through the trauma of stress, pain, etc that they can really experience life. Maybe that's it then, that freedom offers the chance of life, rather than just the exalted state of being.
Yeah, I don't see it working thematically or even sensically for Michael to arrive, blazing sword in hand, clad in robes, unveiling his plan. More like in the cackling of the local madman, or the drunken musing of the town lush. I kind of like the idea of Michael shepherding the downtrodden and disenfranchised of the so-called Kingdom of Lucifer. He fancies that these would not be God's lost children (even if that it probably false). The players can either buy in to these mechanations, as their so-called, "good deads" or be skeptical, as to what the real aim is here and who is behind it. The guise of a noble quest, they can take the offer of such a noble cause at face-value, or be suspect of what is really going on.
Ok I like this but it doesn't quite solve my problem. What you are saying lines up almost perfectly with my conception of Lucifer in actual Christianity. The overwhelming love, the failure of the world to live up to God, the inability to choose another path. While the scripture doesn't really say any of it, that all fits closely with how I see Lucifer from a mythological perspective.
That all makes perfect sense to me in world where God is the good. In the lore I've been laying out he's a tyrant. He isn't the absolute, if anything, he's the demiurge.
The love I want Lucifer to feel for God is exactly what you are describing, but what I was actually asking was how I can justify that level of blindness for Lucifer. Yes, his knowledge is finite (which is an awesome idea, thanks for that) but I don't think it feels right for him to be that blind. If he so believes that God is the absolute good, and that he's just protecting God, than I think he's too delusional to make a very good supreme deity. It isn't inconceivable. The soul is full of contradictions. I'm just not sure it feels right.
Maybe I'm wrong, and I'll mull it over more but I think I'm leaning the other direction. Instead of Lucifer's love being delusionally blind, it is savvy and enlightened. Sad and reflective. Like a child who has grown up and discovered that his father is slipping into dementia. Or maybe he just realizes that his father isn't a the hero he thought he was, he's actually a villain.
Yeah totally. Well said, I like that.
I was skeptical about using Michael for that role at first. I tend to see him as even more of a jock than Lucifer so I generally envision him as sincere and straightforward - not the scheming type - but I think you've won me over.
Hmm, yeah, I kind of digressed into a word salad there, but I think I understand how I missed the point.
So, Lucifer realizes that God isn't the beneficent father he thought He was. He realizes that this was only the logical progression of God, that there couldn't have been any other option for God, in light of the world as it came to be. He then imagines a world apart. A world that does no violence to God and God does no violence to the world. God is a tyrant, but he doesn't have to be, it's the world that has driven Him to it (that probably isn't true, but Lucifer thinks it is).
Lucifer would take the mantle of the damning world on himself, so great is his love for God. Lucifer want's God to be the good God he loves, so he sets out to make it so? Cognitive dissonance on a divine level, Lucifer seeks to rectify the age old question, "If God is good, why does he allow bad things to happen?" He wants God to actually be good so much that he takes away God's ability to be bad, mainly because he simply refuses to believe that God could simply just be bad.
Even better to throw them off the trail. Have them meat "Disciples of Michael" perhaps, some kind of militant order in his name, to throw the trail off even further. Keep in mind, Michael isn't just deceiving the PCs, he needs to be deceiving Lucifer too.


When you create a Ptex file in Mudbox the resolution will look nice in your viewport.
Disclaimer: the following is based on my personal experience, altering Maya native scripts should be handled with care as it might break the application.
Test on your own risk.
Commenting these lines out seems to work as a workaround.
While using this workaround, I didn't get any serious side effects of this modifaction.
Please let me know if someone might find this un-useful.
Each one is unique in the way it will be used when composited.
Once we create a shadow pass, we will notice that the buffer type is set to 16 bit float. This gives us the indication for the need of a floating points solution otherwise the values will be clamped.
We need to make sure that our frame buffer will support this type of frame buffer. For this exercise, we will choose RGBA (HALF) 4*16 floating and image format is TIFF.
In the shadow raw pass, the shadow is "pure". We will also notice it's not affected by the ground colors.
which means you will need to use a "minus" operation and composite the 'shadow' pass to 'diffuse without shadow' pass.
Note: the reason I have a grade node in NUKE, is simply to view my passes as they were sRGB.
You can ignore it for now.
To insure a proper workflow we used a floating point framebuffer, to illustrate the outcome of a clamped framebuffe (8 bit) I comped the same tree using 8 bit files in Nuke.
We immediately notice that the shadow is very faint.
A typical fix is to add a color correction node to the shadow. In this scenario I used a grade node.
However, it won't give us the exact shadow as the diffuse.
In conclusion, it is recommended to use a floating point solution when using shadow passes.
This problem appear when using a combination of mia_material , HDRI and floating point framebuffer.
One would get very high spike in the reflected area of the Shader.
A first look will appear as it's a bad filter, but it's actually the camera that could not handle the reflection high value .
since we already have advanced lense shader in mental ray, the fix will be utilizing one of them.
In this case, we will use the mia_exposure_simple which will solve the problem by clamping or damping color values of the exposure control .
Note that the mia_exposure_simple default gamma value is 2.2, so we need to drop to 1.00 to match the original render.
Now we have a nice render with no spikes/artifacts.
Note: I like to thank Renzo Gavino for allowing me to use his model for this post.
When rendering your render passes you will notice that the background gets calculated (appear) only in the beauty pass.
But what if we want the background as a separate pass for composting purpose.
A- Adding the IBL in a different layer.
B- Using a poly sphere with Shader assigned to it, this way the pass will be calculated as according to that Shader.
In this tutorial we will look into getting it as a render pass from the IBL node.
Since we already know that the background gets calculated in beauty, now all we need to create and empty beauty pass.
However Maya will ignore any empty PCM and renders them out black.
Now when you render you will get the background, but still we have the car as a black silhouette.
The fix is very simple; we will need to disable the "hold out "option in the render pass AE.
Now when we render, we will get the background as a separate pass.


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Q: Select and copy any text? Many GUI elements (windows, dialogs...) have text that does not support selecting and copying to the clipboard. (Windows error dialogs are a special case: ctrl-c will copy all their text to clipboard, without explicitly selecting it first. It even includes the window title.)
Is there a way to copy those "non-selectable" texts?

This answer from another question seems to fit perfectly: https://superuser.com/a/493009/86828

A: There are quite a few utilities that can extract text from text-containing
controls found in dialogs and windows. Here are some such products :
Nirsoft SysExporter
GetWindowText
WinScraper
ShoWin
Spyxx
WinSpy++
I only have experience with Nirsoft SysExporter, which works.
For the cases where these utilities do not work,
one can use a screen-reading OCR.
I am quite happy for these cases with the multilingual ABBYY Screenshot Reader.
This is commercial software selling for $29.99 or €9,95,
but I got it via a free offer that might still be running,
or similar offers can be found via google.
OCR is not perfect, but usually gets correctly almost all of the text.

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Deborah Hall
Myths Standing in the Way of Homeownership
Think you need to come up with 20% for a down payment in order to buy a house? It might surprise you to know that the median down payment for first-time buyers last year was just 7%, per the National Association of Realtors®. And there are plenty of loan programs out there that require far less. The 20% myth is just one of the things that's keeping homeownership out of reach. We're digging in to seven others.
You need to be well-established in your forever career
There has been a lot of discussion about how millennials are waiting longer and longer to purchase homes. "As a result of their consequent struggle to save, millennials are delaying major life milestones like getting married and having kids," said Business Insider.
Nonetheless, there are still millennials jumping into the market because they're excited to have a home in their name and build equity. Having a stable job, a comfortable salary, and the desire to own a home may just be enough.
Sure, you might not be ready to buy the house of your dreams or move to the neighborhood where you can imagine raising kids and, someday, retiring, but that doesn't mean you're completely out of the game. A smaller place closer to work or an attached property can, quite literally, get your foot in the homeownership door and allow you to start earning equity.
You have to be completely out of debt
Recent data shows that nearly half of all undergraduates are delaying homeownership because of student loans. "According to a recent Federal Reserve study, a $1,000 increase in student loan debt lowers the homeownership rate by about 1.5%, equivalent to an average delay of about 2.5 months in attaining homeownership," said Clever Real Estate. "For the average college debt holder with $37,000 in debt, that ends up being about a 7.7-year delay in their path homeownership."
Regardless of your debt, whether it's from student loans or credit cards, it may still be possible to qualify for a mortgage and afford the payments, especially because rents are often comparable to mortgage payments. Mortgage underwriters don't expect homebuyers to be debt-free; In fact, having no debt might actually work against you. They like to see responsible credit use and management.
You need to have a family
Yes, many would-be homebuyers hold off until parenthood is looming, because they're not ready to move to the suburbs, get married, and have kids. But, a third of today's new homeowners are unmarried, according to CITYLAB. "The shift is detailed in a new working paper from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, in which researchers crunched demographic data from HUD and from American Housing Surveys taken every other year between 1997 and 2017. Perhaps the most notable departure from 20 years ago is the marital status of new homeowners. According to the paper, the share of married buyers declined from 61 percent in 1997 to just over half by 2017. Meanwhile, 35 percent of first-time homebuyers in 2017 had never been married."
You need to be a man
There was a time when single women wouldn't even have considered buying a home on their own. That time has clearly passed. According to the National Association of Realtors® 2018 profile of home buyers and sellers, single women homebuyers outnumbered single male homebuyers by 2 to 1!
You need a 30-year conventional loan
There are tons of different loans that can help you purchase your first home, make payments more affordable and/or give you the flexibility you need to make homebuying affordable. FHA loans are among the most well-known and most popular loans for first-time buyers because they require just 3.5% down and have low credit score requirements. Other loans worth looking into depending on your circumstances include: government VA loans for veterans; USDA loans for properties in rural areas; and loans like Fannie Mae's HomeStyle Renovation loan, which gives buyers bundled funds to purchase and make improvements to their home.
You need to have great credit
If your score isn't in the 800s, or even the 700s, it doesn't mean you're going to be living that apartment life forever. You might be surprised to see the credit score minimums for some loans. "While there is no official minimum credit score for a home loan approval, the minimum FICO credit score for conventional loan approval tends to be around 620," said Credit.com.
It has to be your primary home
"Some rich urban millennials are choosing to rent in the city and buy a vacation home instead of a primary residence," said Business Insider. Meanwhile, some other savvy investors are continuing to rent and plunking down money to purchase homes in tourist-friendly locations so they can take advantage of the AirBNB craze. "According to Priceonomics, hosts on Airbnb are earning more than anyone else in the gig economy and are raking in an average of $924 a month," said Travel & Leisure. "Airbnb hosts make nearly three times as much as other workers... with some hosts making more than $10,000 per month."
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McLeansboro () is a city in Hamilton County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,675 at the 2020 census. The estimated population as of 2018 was 2,773. It is the county seat of Hamilton County.

McLeansboro is part of the Mount Vernon, Illinois micropolitan area.

Geography

According to the 2010 census, McLeansboro has a total area of , of which  (or 95.22%) is land and  (or 4.78%) is water.

History
The city was named for Dr. William McLean, an early settler who had resided there in 1821.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,945 people, 1,265 households, and 747 families residing in the city.  The population density was .  There were 1,444 housing units at an average density of .  The racial makeup of the city was 98.10% White, 0.78% African American, 0.03% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.17% from other races, and 0.68% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.37% of the population.

There were 1,265 households, out of which 26.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.6% were married couples living together, 11.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 40.9% were non-families. 38.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 23.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.  The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.91.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 22.8% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 25.7% who were 65 years of age or older.  The median age was 42 years. For every 100 females there were 81.3 males.  For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 74.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $22,183, and the median income for a family was $35,296. Males had a median income of $35,114 versus $18,125 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,354. About 11.9% of families and 19.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 34.7% of those under age 18 and 8.6% of those age 65 or over. As of 2015, the median household income was reported at $36,717 and the median family income at $54,430. 18.9% of the population were living below the poverty line.

Notable people

Elwood Barker, businessman, farmer, and Illinois state legislator
Ray Blades, baseball player.
Paul W. Broyles, businessman and Illinois state legislator
Jim Burns, former U. S. Attorney, Inspector General for the Illinois Secretary of State from 2000 until 2020
Christen Drew, news reporter
M. J. Engh, science-fiction author and Roman scholar
Carl Mauck,  former center for the Houston Oilers and National Football League coach
Rodney K. Miller, television host for Small Town Big Deal
Jerry Sloan, Basketball Hall of Famer, player and head coach for the Chicago Bulls and head coach of the Utah Jazz
H. Allen Smith, author
John H. Stelle, lieutenant governor 1937–40, 29th Governor of Illinois 1940-41, National Commander of the American Legion 1945-46
Henry C. Warmoth, 23rd Governor of Louisiana

See also
Hamilton County Courthouse (Illinois)
1968 Illinois earthquake

References

Further reading
History of Southern Illinois, George Washington Smith, 1912.

External links

Hamilton County Historical Society
Hamilton County Chamber of Commerce

Cities in Hamilton County, Illinois
County seats in Illinois
Cities in Illinois

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Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan is a multi-purpose indoor sports arena that is located in Levallois, Paris, France. It is primarily used to host basketball games. The arena is named after the French boxer Marcel Cerdan. The arena has a seating capacity of 4,000.

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Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan
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Q: Don't understand how to input/print and compare string in loop in C I'm newcomer to C and I am stuck. I want to write simple program, which will take input from keyboard and output it if it isn't an 'exit' word. I've tried few different approaches and none of them works. Almost in all cases I get infinite output of the first input.
Here is one of my approaches:
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    char word[80];

    while (1) {
        puts("Enter a string: ");
        scanf("%79[^\n]", word);

        if (word == "exit")
            break;

        printf("You have typed %s", word);
    }

    return 0;
}

I thought after it finish every loop it should give me prompt again, but it doesn't.
What I am doing wrong.
Please if you know give me some advice.
Thanks in advance. Really, guys I will be so happy if you help me to understand what I am doing wrong.
Oh, by the way I've noticed that when I typed some word and press 'Enter', the result string also include Enter at the end. How can I get rid of this ?

A: *

*Improper string compare - use strcmp().
if (word == "exit") simply compares 2 address: the address of the first char in word and the address of the first char in string literal "exit".  Code needs to compare the content beginning at those addresses: strcmp() does that.

*Left-over '\n' from the previous line's Enter.  Add a space to scanf() format to consume optional leading white-space.  Also check scanf() results.
scanf() specifiers like "%d", "%u"  and "%f" by themselves consume optional leading white-space.  3 exceptions: "%c", "%n"  and "%[".

*Add '\n' at end of printf() format. @ Matt McNabb
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
    char word[80];
    while (1) {
        puts("Enter a string: ");
        //         v space added here
        if (scanf(" %79[^\n]", word) != 1)
            break;  // Nothing saved into word or EOF or I/O Error
        if (strcmp(word, "exit") == 0)
            break;
        printf("You have typed %s\n", word);
    }
    return 0;
}

Nice that OP used a proper width limited value of 79 in scanf()

A:
Oh, by the way I've noticed that when I typed some word and press 'Enter', the result string also include Enter at the end. How can I get rid of this ?

This is because you don't output a newline after printf("You have typed %s", word);. The next statement executed is puts("Enter a string: "); . So you will see You have typed helloEnter a string:.  To fix this, change to printf("You have typed %s\n", word);
As others have mentioned, use strcmp to compare strings in C.
Finally, the scanf format string "%79[^\n]" does not match a newline. So the input stream still contains a newline.  Next time you reach this statement the newline is still in the stream , and it still doesn't match because you specifically excluded newlines.
You will need to discard that newline (and any other input on the line) before getting the next line. One way to do that is to change the input to scanf("%79[^\n]%*[^\n]", word); getchar();  That means:

*

*Read up to 79 non-newlines

*Read all the non-newline things , and don't store them

*Read a character (which must be a newline now) and don't store it

Finally it would be a good idea to check the return value of scanf so that if there is an error then you can exit your program instead of going into an infinite loop.

A: The specifier [^\n] will abort scanf if the next character is a newline (\n), without reading the newline. Because of that, the scanf calls after the first one won't read any input.
If you want to read single words, use the %79s specifier and the following code to remove the \n at the end of your string:
if(word[strlen(word)]=='\n')
    word[strlen(word)]='\0';

If you want to read whole lines, you can remove the newline from the input buffer this way:
char line[80];
int i;
while(1)
{
    puts("Enter a string:");
    i=-1;
    scanf("%79[^\n]%n",line,&i);
    //%n returns the number of characters read so far by the scanf call

    //if scanf encounters a newline, it will abort and won't modify i
    if(i==-1)
        getchar(); //removes the newline from the input buffer

    if(strcmp(line,"exit")==0)
        break;

    printf("You have typed %s\n",line);
}
return 0;

A: It is better to clear (to have a reproducible content) with memset(3) the memory buffer before reading it, and you should use strcmp(3) to compare strings. Also, consider using fflush(3) before input (even if it is not actually necessary in your case), don't forget to test result of scanf(3), also most printf(3) format control strings should end with a \n -for end-of-line with flushing- so:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
  char word[80];
  while(1) {
     puts("Enter a string: ");
     memset (word, 0, sizeof(word)); // not strictly necessary
     fflush(stdout); // not strictly necessary
     if (scanf("%79[^\n]", word)<=0)  exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     if (!strcmp(word,"exit"))
        break;
     printf("You have typed %s\n", word);
  };
  return 0;
}

I would suggest reading a whole line with fgets(3) and getting rid of its ending newline (using strchr(3)). Also read about getline(3)
Don't forget to compile with all warnings and debug info (e.g. gcc -Wall -g) and learn how to use the debugger (e.g. gdb)

A: Your first problem is that you can't compare a string with '=='.  So:
if (word == "exit")

should be
if ( strncmp( word, "exit", 4 ) == 0 )

(You could also use strncmp( word, "exit", strlen(word) ) if you know that word is zero-terminated and safe from bad values.  There's a few other options also.)
Your second problem is that scanf() is not consuming the input, probably because it's not matching what you've told it to expect.  Here is a good explanation of how to do what you want to do:
http://home.datacomm.ch/t_wolf/tw/c/getting_input.html


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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has found "concerning" shortcomings in local councils' work on data protection ahead of the implementation of the strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) next year.
The findings of a survey conducted late last year, and published this week, show councils have work to do before the new rules come into force in the UK on 25 May 2018, the ICO said.
Lack of data protection training
The study found 34 percent of councils don't carry out privacy impact assessments (PIAs).
Since the GDPR requires that they do so in certain circumstances, councils would be best to produce their own PIA process and accompanying guidance to ensure privacy issues are considered as part of projects.
The ICO found 37 percent of councils have no data sharing policy, while one-quarter don't have a data protection officer. The upcoming regulations increase data sharing requirements to provide certain services, and require the role of data protection officer in public authorities.
"It was good to see that 93 percent of councils have a data protection and information security policy," said audit group manager Anulka Clarke.
She said the ICO found it "concerning" that 18 percent of councils don't have mandatory data protection training for staff, given that many of the information security incidents her office deals with are caused by staff not knowing what they need to do about data protection.
Overall, the findings show that "many councils have work to do", Clarke said.
Fines to increase
The GDPR is to replace the Data Protection Act (DPA) 1998, and the government has confirmed the referendum to leave the EU will not affect the regulations' implementation in the UK.
The new rules will, amongst other things, vastly increase the power of European data protection authorities to impose fines, with organisations facing penalties of up to 20 million euros, or 4 percent of their annual worldwide turnover, whichever is greater.
By contrast, the ICO can currently impose fines of up to only £500,000.
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) recently estimated fines paid to the European data protection regulator could rise from £1.4bn in 2015 to £122bn in 2018, a nearly 90-fold increase, based on breaches continuing at the same level.
Large organisations could face a total of £70bn in fines, or £11m on average, with smaller businesses seeing a 60-fold increase to £52bn, or £13,000 per fine on average, the PCI SSC estimated.
The ICO also said this week it fined Norfolk County Council £60,000 after social work case files were found in a cabinet purchased by a member of the public from a second-hand shop.
"Norfolk County Council appears to have overlooked the need to ensure it had robust measures in place to protect this information," said ICO head of enforcement Steve Eckersley in a statement. "It should have had a written procedure in place which made it clear that any storage items removed from the office which may have contained personal were thoroughly checked before disposal."
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Letters to the Editor Response to 'Paws for reflection' Check out this story on ruidosonews.com: https://r-news.co/1oSqSCC
Ruidoso News Published 11:19 a.m. MT March 3, 2016
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I am writing in response to the editorial written by Jonathon Lamb regarding the dog park. I must say that I was able to speak with Mr. Lamb, but wanted to clarify what was published for everyone else
I serve as the Executive Director of the Boys & Girls Club of Sierra Blanca and as Village Councilor. Mr. Lamb views that as a conflict, and he is correct, in that at times it can be when matters concerning the Club come before the council. Living in a small town, we all have some sort of conflict. I am very aware of the potential for a conflict and always abstain from voting on Boys & Girls Club matters as evidenced by the minutes of past council meetings. Even speaking, I make it very clear what position I am representing when I speak to avoid any perception of a conflict.
The midtown property that was referred to is scheduled for a portion of that lot to be much needed additional midtown parking by Memorial Day. The remainder of that property will be for future development. We have had many meetings with the NMDOT to look at helping traffic flow more smoothly through midtown, adding 200 plus car trips a day into an already congested area is not a way to accomplish that.
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds of up to $500,000 are available to communities to help with community development projects. The partnership with the village would help to identify land which could be used and possibly obtain the funds through HUD to partially provide for a needed gym and community rooms. The majority of the funding would come from the Boys & Girls Club via fundraising, grants and loans. The gym would provide year round indoor recreational opportunities and rooms available for meetings, parties, etc. I want to reiterate that the funds would not come from the village, but the village would benefit by having access to the amenities that we need to help improve the quality of life for residents and visitors in our small town.
I am always available to answer any questions that anyone may have. My cell phone is 973-5469 and you can always find it in the front section of the Ruidoso News with other elected officials.
Tim Coughlin - Ruidoso
Hope in Trump
Once again Donald Trump has made the major media and his detractors look like idiots. Apparently in 2012 we gave Mexico over $200,000,000 in aid.
In 10 years that's a billion dollars. So the past corrupt president of Mexico, Vicente Fox may want the Donald to "f" himself, but the fact of the matter is that $200,000,000 plus a year, plus the savings in food stamps and other social services will eventually get the job done.
The real problem is that we have a president what armed ISIS, and allowed ISIS into the USA, wants to start WW III with Russia over Syria and does everything to let the millions of illegals swarming over our Mexican border stay. But I can be mad at Obama in that he is only doing what his mother and father would want him to do. That is to take down America. If they don't take Trump out like they took out JFK our nation has hope of greatness again.
Joseph DuPont - Towanda, PA
Thank you to the community
The family of Jack Wilson wishes to thank J Bar J Country Church, the Ruidoso firemen, policemen, ambulance personnel, the e.r. Doctor Leslie Carroll and her staff, La Grone Funeral home directors Danny and Shuana Sisson and all of the lovely people of Ruidoso, especially Dales Furniture (where Jack loved working), that gave their love and talents in any way during the loss of our wonderful husband, dad and papaw Jack Williams.
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BA Cityflyer is third airline partner for Stobart Air, which operates Aer Lingus Regional and Flybe regional routes
Stobart Air to operate services for BA CityFlyer from London City Airport
Stobart to invest €36m in two Embraer E190 jet aircraft and add 40 new jobs
Aer Lingus Regional operator Stobart Air is to operate routes from London City Airport under the British Airways CityFlyer brand.
Stobart Air has invested in two Embraer 190 jet aircraft under a three-year lease agreement with Limerick-based Nordic Aviation Capital. The ACMI arrangement with BA see Stobart Air provide aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance to BA CityFlyer to run London City Airport routes under the BA CityFlyer brand.
The airline is to create 40 new jobs, with recruitment for 10 captains and first officers as well as 30 cabin crew under way.
Graeme Buchanan, Stobart Air
Last year, Stobart Air announced a €25m investment in the airline, with the addition of 60 new jobs and the first three Embraer E195 jet aircraft to its fleet.
Stobart Air operates under the Aer Lingus Regional brand as part of a franchise agreement with Aer Lingus and operates Flybe routes from London Southend Airport and the Isle of Man.
The Managing Director of Stobart Air, Graeme Buchanan said: "Due to the continued and consistent growth of our airline, we are investing in our fleet and our people to deliver on our current growth strategy.
"As a regional partner to leading airlines, we constantly review our business operations and our network to position us for opportunities with key partners from the most popular cities and routes across Ireland, the UK and beyond. We continuously seek to provide the optimum connectivity on key routes for customers, working with our partners. We have ambitious plans to grow and develop this partnership in 2018."
Stobart Air said it is on track to carry 2m passengers in 2018 – a 17pc increase on the previous year.
British Airways' General Manager for Commercial and Customer, Luke Hayhoe, said: "The relationship will ensure we continue to provide punctual and reliable services for our customers from the London City Airport hub."


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Short, sharp climbs, heavy crosswinds, narrow roads, innumerable traffic islands and a brutal battle for position make the Amstel Gold Race one of the most under-rated and nervous days of the spring classics. Without an overwhelming favorite, Sunday's 47th edition will be all the more stressful — just the situation the gritty opportunists need to turn the tables on the power climbers in the opener of the Ardennes classics.
Sandwiched between cycling monuments Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, two of Europe's oldest and most prestigious races, the upstart Amstel Gold Race is the youngest of the classics and probably the most nerve-wracking. Westerly winds buffet the low-slung hills of the Netherlands' Limburg region, which plays host to the Dutch classic on Sunday. With rain in the forecast and temperatures around 50F, this weekend's 256km Amstel Gold Race could be a very sloppy affair.
The Tour of Flanders and Roubaix lie behind the peloton, and the big, brawny cobbles-bashers step aside for a new style of rider to take over as AGR opens "Ardennes week."
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This week in the hills of eastern Holland and Belgium offers the climbers three chances for classics glory. But the GC riders capable of winning a grand tour will have their best shot later in the week, as La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège are better suited for the likes of Cadel Evans or Andy Schleck.
Amstel Gold Race winners are typically riders who are nimble enough to climb, but still pack a punch at the end of seven hours of racing. Puncheurs such as Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), Simon Gerrans (GreenEdge), Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) and Gilbert are all ideal for this terrain.
All three will line up as legitimate favorites for victory, though Gilbert has admitted he's not even close to the same level as he was last year when he swept through Ardennes week, making him only the second rider to ever win Amstel Gold Race, Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the same year. (The first rider was Davide Rebellin, who later served a doping suspension tied to the 2008 Olympic Games.)
"You have to be realistic… I'm not the favorite," Gilbert said following Wednesday's Brabantse Pijl warm-up race, east of Brussels. "My main ambition is to re-find my shape, the shape I had last year. Either it will come or it won't… Let's put it this way: right now it's not pleasant. Also because it is difficult to find a way out, to analyze why I'm lacking shape."
While Gilbert arrives after a week of training in Monaco that followed his run at E3 Harelbeke, Ghent-Wevelgem and Flanders, Gerrans, Rodriguez, Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Damiano Cunego (Lampre-ISD) and Bauke Mollema (Rabobank), came through the typical lead-up to the hilly classics by riding the Vuelta al País Vasco in Spain earlier this month.
Sánchez looks to be back in the same form that delivered him the Olympic gold medal four years ago and enters the week with high ambitions. He won the queen stage at the Basque Country tour for the third year-in-a-row and finally captured the overall there, which had eluded him in his team's biggest one-week race.
"Now I am at peace with myself and with the fans," said Sánchez. "Finally at 34, which I just celebrated, I won the race that most resisted me. I had been third, I had won stages, I was the leader… finally, my turn."
Sánchez will carry the freedom that the long-sought-after win gives him into Maastricht and is one of the favorites most capable of riding away on the Keutenberg or Eyserbosweg.
Gerrans will also ride with a free hand on Sunday, a month after opening the classics season with the surprise win at Milan-San Remo. The Aussie is best suited to the Ardennes races and with the confidence of an unforeseen victory and the backing of his GreenEdge squad, Gerrans will no doubt be a firecracker as the race arrives on the final circuit.
"They're pretty honest races. If you got good legs in the final, you will be up in the front," said Gerrans. "Amstel finishes atop the Cauberg; that's a pretty truthful finish. The best guy in the front group always wins. This year there is not one big favorite, so the racing might be a bit more open."
The other top favorite is Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), looking to make up for lost time during his two-year doping ban from Operación Puerto.
Valverde has been on great form so far, winning in his first race back with a stage at the Tour Down Under in January, followed by stages and the overall at the Ruta del Sol and a stage at Paris-Nice and the podium. Two of those wins came head-to-head with Gerrans on hilltop sprints similar to the Cauberg.
A crash knocked Valverde out of the Volta a Catalunya, but so far he's won in each month since his return and hopes to keep that streak going with a strong ride in the Ardennes. The Spaniard has trained his eyes on returning to the top step of the podium at Liège since rejoining the peloton in January, and the finale on the Cauberg is the perfect prelude, if he arrives to Valkenburg at the front of the race.
Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) was impressive with his victory Wednesday at Brabantse Pijl, but Amstel is a notch or two harder that that transition race between the cobbles and the Ardennes. Voeckler, however, is never one to shy away from a punching match and Gilbert opened his historic run last year with a win in the midweek semi-classic. Voeckler has never finished inside the top-25 on the Cauberg, and given his win on Wednesday — and his reputation as a gritty breakaway rider — the other favorites are not likely to let the Frenchman out of their sights anywhere inside the final two circuits.
Two riders on the "watch list" are Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Andy Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan). Both are expected to start despite crashing in separate incidents at Brabantse Pijl. Schleck injured his hand, but expected to recover in time for Sunday. Sagan slammed hard on his right side and is more doubtful.
That's unfortunate, because if one rider seemed destined to win Amstel Gold Race, it would be Sagan. The Slovak sensation has been on a tear this spring and is poised for a big win. There's no question he can sprint at the end of a hard effort — he won the chase group sprint at Milan-San Remo and was second in the field sprint at the Tour of Flanders — but his crash Wednesday might have taken the wind out of his sails.
The Dutch are always under the gun to try to win on home roads, though the last national winner was more than a decade ago with Erik Dekker in 2001. Mollema will lead a Rabobank squad that is bringing it's A-team, with Lars Boom, Matti Breschel, Robert Gesink, Steven Kruijswijk and Bram Tamkink all lining up, but the orange-clad home team will most likely find difficulty in creating a scenario in which it can win its biggest one-day race of the year.
The purists will say that the Limburg region has nothing to do geographically nor geologically with the Belgian Ardennes, the setting for La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but for brevity's sake, "Ardennes Week" has stuck.
Some 25 climbs for a total of 31 ascents (riders tackle some hills more than once over three circuits) are packed in on the 256.5km course that loops back and forth around the family farms and small villages east of Maastricht.
The route doubles back between Maastricht, where the race starts, and Valkenburg, the party town at the base of the finish line at the Cauberg, before diving into the three circuits comprising the final 184 kilometers of the route. Alone, the climbs are not terribly long, with most not even measuring a kilometer in length, but packed in one after another in an endless string of turns, sharp corners, narrow roads and manure-slicked farm tracks they create a building tension as riders approach the tens of thousands of fans pouring out of cafes and taverns at the foot of the Cauberg for the final time.
The 31 climbs of the 2012 Amstel Gold Race:
1. Maasberg (4.4%, 500m) at 10.7km
2. Adsteeg (5.4%, 500m) at 32.5km
3. Lange Raarberg (4.5%, 1300m) at 40.2km
4. Bergseweg (3.3%, 2700m) at 55.5km
5. Sibbergrubbe (4.1%, 2100m) at 67.4km
6. Cauberg (5.8%, 1200m) at 72.8km
7. Wolfsberg (4.4%, 800m) at 93.2km
8. Loorberg (5.5%, 1500m) at 98.8km
9. Schweibergerweg (3.9%, 2900m) at 108.9km
10. Camerig (3.8%, 4300m) at 115.3km
11. Drielandenpunt (3.8%, 3700m) at 128.3km
12. Gemmenich (6.4%, 900m) at 131.1km
13. Vijlenerbos (7.9%, 1800m) at 134.6km
14. Eperheide (4.5%, 2300m) at 144.4km
15. Gulpenerberg (8.1%, 700m) at 152.4km
16. van Plettenbergweg (4.2%, 1000m) at 155.9km
17. St. Remigiusstraat (4.3%, 2200m) at 157.8km
18. Huls (7.7%, 1000m) at 162.7km
19. Vrakelberg (7.9%, 700m) at 168.1km
20. Sibbergrubbe (4.1%, 2100m) at 176km
21. Cauberg (5.8%, 1200m) at 176km
22. Geulhemmerweg (6.2%, 1000m) at 185km
23. Bemelerberg (5%, 900m) at 198.7km
24. Wolfsberg (4.4%, 800m) at 215.km
25. Loorberg (5.5%, 1500m) at 221.4km
27. Kruisberg (7.5%, 800m) at 235.2km
28. Eyserbosweg (8.1%, 1100m) at 237.3km
29. Fromberg (4%, 1600m) at 241km
30. Keutenberg (9.4%, 700m) at 245.5km
31. Cauberg (5.8%, 1200m) at 256.6km
The nerves will ratchet up in the second half of the race, with such climbs as the Eyserbosweg figuring early before the decisive final 40km where the big moves are typically made.
A brutal string of climbs, with the Kruisberg, the Eyserbosweg (again), Fromberg and Keutenberg usually see riders launching race-breaking moves. Last year, Schleck tried in vain to attack on the Keutenberg, only to get gobbled up at the base of the Cauberg on its final ascent.
Big crowds pack the bars and terraces at Valkenburg (host of this year's world championships) for the final charge up the Cauberg. The climb is just over 1km, but packs a punch, with ramps as steep as 14 percent. Gilbert followed Rodriguez as the sprightly Spaniard countered Schleck on the climb last year, before jumping away as the pitch mellowed near the top.
The Cauberg has been the kingmaker of late, but brave attacks in the closing 20km have worked. Sergei Ivanov won from such a move, with Robert Gesink (Rabobank) and Karsten Kroon (Saxo Bank) in 2009. Stefan Schumacher made an attack before Valkenburg stick in 2007, winning by 21 seconds over teammate Rebellin; Fränk Schleck and Rebellin also cracked Amstel Gold atop the podium after long-range attacks, in 2006 and 2004, respectively.
The bottom line is that this race is one of the most unpredictable and exciting of the year. Any race named after a beer can't be half bad, after all.
Five-star favorites
Alejandro Valverde, Movistar
If Valverde can get through the tricky circuits around the Limburg, he should arrive to the final 25 kilometers the top favorite. With a burst that has proven unbeatable in uphill finishes thus far in 2012, Valverde would like to add the Amstel Gold hardware to his 2006 and 2008 Liège trophies. The "Green Bullet's" luck ran short in late March, crashing out of the Volta a Catalunya on the second stage, but said days later that he was nearly back to 100 percent and was looking forward to a "beautiful duel" with Philippe Gilbert.
Simon Gerrans, GreenEdge
One rider looking to upset that duel, Gerrans was third at Amstel Gold in 2011, behind Gilbert and Rodriguez, and returns now as a winner of one of cycling's monuments. His Milan-San Remo victory in March bolstered Gerrans' confidence, but perhaps more importantly, it removed the pressure he felt leading Team Sky at the Ardennes in 2011. Gerrans has a score to settle with Valverde after the Spaniard beat him in hilltop photo finishes at the Tour Down Under and Paris-Nice. If the racing is as open as Gerrans expects, he is one of the top favorites capable of going in a late move and forcing it to the finish. He did battle a cold at País Vasco last week, but stopped before the time trial in order to recover.
Joaquim Rodriguez, Katusha
"Purito" Rodriguez is better suited to Wednesday's Flèche Wallonne, but is on a hot streak. Stage wins at Tirreno-Adriatico and País Vasco emboldened the Katusha rider and if not for a super-natural Gilbert, Rodriguez could have won on the Cauberg in 2011. Perhaps the biggest card Rodriguez has to play — and also the biggest weight around his ankles — is teammate Oscar Freire. Rodriguez may need to go on the attack early, forcing the other climbers to chase and setting up Freire for the finale. If both Spaniards are in the front group at the foot of the Cauberg, don't count on Rodriguez to wind up the first attack, as is his usual tactic. Although, with attacks as fierce as they are unpredictable, "Purito" may do just that.
Four-star favorites
Peter Sagan, Liquigas-Cannondale
Sagan would be a top favorite, if not for his hard crash on Wednesday at Brabantse Pijl. The Slovak appears to have improved his bike handling significantly this year and his wits are catching up to his rain-making legs.
Samuel Sánchez, Euskaltel-Euskadi
The Olympic gold medalist is one of the fastest finishers in a finale like the Cauberg. He is only held back by his lack of Amstel Gold experience, having finished in the top-15 three times, in 2009 (13th), 2007 (15th) and 2006 (15th), but never contending for the win.
Oscar Freire, Katusha
Freire is an outlier in this list of favorites. With no top-heavy favorite on the roll, the racing over the final 50 kilometers on Sunday will likely be extremely aggressive. If this is the case, one of the climbers will probably see the top of the Cauberg first. Freire has been knocking on the door for weeks, however, and if a large group arrives to Valkenburg together for the final time, the three-time world champion cannot be discounted.
Three-star favorites
Greg Van Avermaet, BMC Racing
Philippe Gilbert, BMC Racing
Cadel Evans, BMC RAcing
Andy Schleck, RadioShack-Nissan
Damiano Cunego, Lampre-ISD
Ryder Hesjedal, Garmin-Barracuda
Thomas Voeckler, Europcar
Vincenzo Nibali, Liquigas-Cannondale
Sylvain Chavanel, Omega Pharma-Quick Step
Two-star favorites
Robert Gesink, Rabobank
Matti Breschel, Rabobank
Rinaldo Nocentini, Ag2r La Mondiale
Thomas Dekker, Garmin-Barracuda
Giovanni Visconti, Movistar
Maxime Monfort, RadioShack-Nissan
Notable Absentees
Fabian Cancellara, RadioShack-Nissan: fractured collarbone
David Millar (Garmin-Barracuda): fractured collarbone
Tom Boonen, Omega Pharma-Quick Step: tendonitis
Tejay van Garderen, BMC Racing: not selected
Nicolas Roche, Ag2r La Mondiale: not selected
Alexander Vinokourov, Astana: not selected
Christian Vande Velde, Garmin-Barracuda: not selected
Michele Scarponi, Lampre-ISD: not selected
Laurens Ten Dam, Rabobank: not selected
Jens Voigt, RadioShack-Nissan: not selected
North Americans
Ryder Hesjedal (Can), Garmin-Barracuda
Chris Horner (USA), RadioShack-Nissan
Race notes
Weather forecast: Partly cloudy, with a high of 51 degrees Fahrenheit and a 10-percent chain of precipitation.
Worlds preview: Sunday's race finishes atop the Cauberg climb, above Valkenburg, site of the 2012 world championships. The worlds finish lies a further kilometer down the road, on a mostly-straight, gentle downhill (think a false flat in reverse). The course for the worlds follows with a few exceptions the route used in the 1998 world championships and while the difference is just a kilometer, the alternative finish will dramatically change the nature of the finale in September.
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