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I was chatting on twitter with Cynwise the other day and they mentioned that Human's racial ability set them up so much higher than rolling a Gnome Mage was out of the question. Despite my dislike for the gnome race, I don't mind using one as a twink so I took that statement as a challenge and rolled yet another twink named Blastoph. I had a good bit of fun with the Gnome last night and got the chance to see the new leveling mechanics with the changes in 3.3. When I saw Cyn's post this morning on Green Tinted Goggles I decided I should probably post a bit about me new leveling experience as well.
Blastoph: Gnome Mage
This post isn't going to be about Blastoph quite so much as the last two posts have been for my other twinks because he's only level 7 and I have a couple of other blogs set aside to start monitoring my twinks anyway, which I'll introduce to you later when I have their designs and such finalized.
What I do want to do though, is share some of what my experiences last night showed me with leveling new characters. So here are some examples of what I did with Blastoph:
Killing Spree: No, not the achievement, just the literal performing of such. I took the mage into the troll cave in the starting area, positioned myself right in the middle of all of the mobs (which are now Neutral instead of Hostile) and starting casting Fireballs one right after the other on every mob in the entire cave without taking any breaks until they were all dead. More specifically, I cast 40 consecutive Fireballs without running out of mana. Every mob in there died to two casts or to two casts plus the extra little bit that comes from the dinky DoT effect of the Fireball.
Frostbolt Sucks: Actually it doesn't suck, but with the changes made there's really no reason to bother casting it in the starting zone. Fireball now has the same cast time, costs only 1 more mana point to cast, and does significantly more damage. With all of these changes you might as well consider Frostbolt a thing of the past while you're rolling your new toon and just Fireball everything in the face. That's what I did this time.
"Free" Quests? Yoink! Now that none of the mobs in the starting areas will agro you before you attack them you can do all of those otherwise annoying little gather quests with no worries and little effort. Just run right up, grab what you need, and then run back and turn in the quest. Collecting Felix's items for him was easier than ever this go around.
Details on 3.3
With the new changes in 3.3 the leveling of a mage has taken a whole new twist. Here are the main reasons why:
- Reduced Mana Cost
- Reduced Casting Times
- Increased Mana Regen
Reduced Mana Cost
First on the list we have probably the biggest contribution to the changes in the reduced mana cost. A level 1 mage in 3.2 had to spend 18-25 mana (if I remember correctly) to cast a Fireball. In 3.3 through, using a Gnome in my case, Fireball costs a whopping 8 mana to cast a level 1. That's more than a 50% reduction in mana cost, and that's flipping huge.
One of the main trade offs in 3.2 and previous patches between Fireball and Frostbolt was that Fireball cost quite a bit more mana, so you could cast for a longer period of time by leaving the Fire alone save for pulling. At level 4 my Fireball required 9 mana to cast and my Frostbolt required 7; I think I can handle an extra 2 mana for higher damage.
Reduced Casting Times
Previously Fireball had a base cast time of 2.0 seconds, which made things move a bit slower than you'd like (sort of like a Warlock from that day and age with their Shadowbolts). But now our Fireball (Rank 1) has only a 1.5 second cast time. That was the second big difference between Fire/Frost in 3.2 was that you could fire off Frostbolts with a lower mana cost and also a faster casting speed, but that's no longer the case.
The casting speed does jump back up to 2.0 seconds when you get Fireball (Rank 2), but it still hits harder than Frostbolt does, and with the next point below you can see that the mana issues are no longer a problem.
Increased Mana Regen
When they nerfed regen in previous patches it really screwed low level toons to the point where I actually had to start drinking between fights in my starting areas. With 3.3 they have increased regen by 200% which is a very noticeable rate now that we're back to having some decent regen.
The removal of food on starting characters didn't bother me as I don't think I have ever used the starting food for anything but a few spare coppers in my pouch, but the removal of drinks made me wonder a bit about casters.
Other 3.3 Changes
Another new little feature I want to bring to your attention is that any time you learn a new spell now it will auto-assign it to an open space in your action bar. While this feature actually bothers me due to my planning out my action bars ahead of time and reserving slots for future use and such, it does provide a benefit to a lot of people making it almost impossible for you to miss the fact that you learned a new spell unless you just never bother looking at them for some reason.
A really big change that I saw in starting areas also is that now all mobs in starting areas are Neutral, meaning that you aren't going to have to fight anything you don't want to until you get out of the starting zone. The little mini-bosses of sorts, everything you have to kill for a quest, every mob all together in your starting areas are now Neutral, meaning that you will not draw agro from anything unless you attack it. So you can move at your own pace no matter where you're at, and with the big boost to regen rates you can get a lot more done with a lot less hassle.
You'll also find the new build in quest tracking features to be very helpful. As Gordon over at WeFlySpitfires.com discussed yesterday, this new feature potentially removes the need for questing addons such as QuestHelper. Your questing is going to be made easier with all of these changes whether you use addons or not, but this is just one more change that's going to impact the speed at which you level early on.
I think the only thing they could have done to make leveling any easier would be to give us some bags to start out with and/or put a mailbox in the starter zone so that we don't have to run to the next town to pick up bags, gear, or gold that we mail to them.
New Leveling Rotation
When it comes to the new starting zones you can write off everything I said in the old mage leveling post and stick to this rotation right here:
Fireball, Fireball, Fireball, Fireball
That's it, just spam Fireball at everything until it's dead. Once you run out of mana, go collect all of your loot and by the time you finish clicking all of the sparklies you'll have a full mana bar and will be able to jump right back into that rotation again.
Sadly, I'm completely serious about this. I don't mind the fact that leveling is a bit easier now, the sad part comes from the fact that using Frost isn't even the least bit necessary any more. Just spam Fireball 2-4 times and whatever you're fighting will be dead unless you keep missing for some reason.


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GCRTA to begin S-curve projectWritten by Jenifer Nunez, assistant editor
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) in Ohio will begin its nearly $7-million restoration and improvement of the S-curve on the Red Line rail track on April 21, with an estimated completion date of June 7, 2013.
"This is a vital upgrade to our Red Line rail system focusing on infrastructure, drainage, rails, ties, ballast and overhead power system," said Joe Calabrese, CEO and general manager of the RTA.
Delta Railroad, Inc., will perform the S-curve work. The track curves first in one direction, then the other, as it ascends from the West 98th Street station to the West 117th Street station. This section of track is nearly 3,000 feet of the Windermere to the Airport Red Line built in 1955.
The existing track drainage system in the S-curve is not working properly. Portions of the track are constantly wet and water flows from one section of track to another. The entire drainage system must be cleaned, with certain portions needing to be replaced. A slab that supports track at the west end of the curve will also be replaced.
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It's only fitting that the first steps Dustin Hill took in his life were at his big brother's high school soccer game.
It's only fitting that the first steps Dustin Hill took in his life were at his big brother's high school soccer game.
Perhaps that was, or at least should have been, the giveaway to Dan and Traci Hill that the sport of soccer would continue to allow the youngster to walk right into college.
Well, if his parents didn't see it then they certainly know now as the Wildcat standout signed a letter of intent on Friday to continue his career at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, next season.
"It's all I've known," Hill professed of the sport. "It's just in my blood. I've tried other sports, but they're just not as fun."
A versatile player for the Wildcats, Hill earned all-conference and all-district awards in his junior and senior campaigns under coach Steve Schnackenberg.
Hill said the team-first approach demanded by Yellowjackets head coach Guillermo Sanchez is what made his decision so easy.
"It's not a one-man team," Hill said. "It's the whole team and if it's not working (Sanchez) pulls people off so that the team always has great chemistry. I can't stand having one person doing it all. They play well together."
After attending camps at Graceland for the past three seasons, Hill said his acclimation with the team and the friendships he's made will make the transition easy.
"I'm very excited to play with Graceland," he said. "They're a great team. The campus is great. I've been going to their camp in the summer for three years now. Their coach is awesome. The team is awesome. I've actually stayed overnight with them and I'm actually pretty good friends with (the team) already.
"I feel welcomed and at home there."
Schnackenberg said Neosho's loss is Graceland's gain.
"His skill with the ball is amazing," Schnackenberg said. "He definitely has the next level skill for the ball. He can step up and play good, physical soccer when he needs to. He's just a finesse player that can find the open player and scores when he needs to.
"He's just a good all-around player that we're going to miss a lot. I think Graceland is going to find out that they found a good one here out of Neosho."
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Over the past several months, particularly during the "fiscal cliff" fiasco, I saw a number of letters from people on the left that failed to acknowledge one thing: We are facing the biggest problem of this generation — an out-of-control debt crisis that has been made exponentially worse by our current president.
I saw Congressman Paul Ryan on Meet the Press, and he was very articulate about the challenges we face.
Time and time again, Ryan and many of his House colleagues, including Congressman Mike Kelly, R-3rd, have put forward and passed budgets and spending reforms to put our country back on a path to solvency. For four years the Senate has failed to act, but says it will this year.
Hopefully, this will lead to a debate in this country over our fiscal future.
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Harrisburg comes from behind in dramatic fashion to advance to state championship.
It's been said that the slogan March Madness was invented in Illinois.
It was on true display Friday night when Harrisburg and St. Jospeh-Ogden hooked up in the IHSA Class 2A State Tournament semifinals at Carver Arena in Peoria.
Arguably one of the biggest X-factors for the Bulldogs in their quest for the school's first state championship is 20-year veteran coach Randy Smithpeters.
No stranger to the game, Smithpeters had a long and extensive talk with his team in the locker-room prior to taking the floor with the Spartans in the semifinals Friday night.
His advice to his kids: There will be good times and there will be bad times.
How they would balance themselves out - not even Smithpeters could say.
"Often times when you play a good team it's not going to be eight minutes of bliss, followed by eight minutes of bliss. It's going to be tough times sometimes and good times the others. That's exactly what this ended up being. I'm very happy with the way it ended, but we haven't had a lot of test like that at the three or four minute mark in the game in question. We have had very few games where we had the challenge we had Friday night."
Defense was again key to Friday night's matchup.
Harrisburg held St. Joseph-Ogden to 28 percent shooting from the floor and 24 percent from behind the arc.
Harrisburg shot 52 percent from the field and another 50 from beyond the arc.
One of the most telling stats for Smithpeters however was on the rebounding end.
Harrisburg was dominated on the glass, getting outrebounded 35-28. However, 23 of those rebounds were on the defensive end.
"The biggest word on our board in the dressing room was rebounds and that was put on there before we took the floor," Smithpeters said. "I thought that was the biggest fact, biggest negative factor. We got beat on the boards and especially offensive boards. I thought St. Joseph-Ogden was a physical team and I don't mean in a dirty way, but they went to the boards hard and that's what we expected and we didn't react to that very well."
In what ended up being a game of runs, and one where Harrisburg had to weather a storm from St. Joseph-Ogden, Smithpeters acknowledged how fortunate he felt to win Friday night's game.
"I'm very proud of the way our group responded to that kind of pressure at both ends of the floor. We really stress defense a lot and I thought our defense did a good job. I felt like we put a lot of pressure on St. Joseph-Ogden and didn't allow a lot of open shots. They are a good 3-point shooting team. I can't say I'm not happy with the defense, other than the rebounding side of it."
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Students aged 13 to 18 and their parents are alerted to an exceptional summer opportunity, the Colorado Preserve America Youth Summit, which will get students into the field for hands-on experiences with history, archaeology and historic preservation.
Students aged 13 to 18 and their parents are alerted to an exceptional summer opportunity, the Colorado Preserve America Youth Summit, which will get students into the field for hands-on experiences with history, archaeology and historic preservation. Young people who are selected for the Youth Summit are offered full scholarships for program costs, meals and lodging. They will also earn community service hours.
Youth Summits foster leadership by mentoring students so they can become engaged with their own local communities in historic preservation, cultural conservation and heritage tourism. Teachers receive classroom resources to tie the experience back to their own classrooms and communities.
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Southern Rockies, A Crossroads of Cultures, June 18 - 21, 2013, will feature Pueblo Neighborhoods, Steelworks Industry and the Ludlow Massacre National Historic Landmark. Students will visit ethnic neighborhoods, explore the national significance of the Colorado steel and coal industries, and connect with the story of labor relations in the region. Students will tour historic buildings in Pueblo and suggest new ways to put historic buildings back into use.
Canyons & Plains, Vitalizing National Treasures, June 25 – 28, 2013, will feature the Santa Fe Trail; Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site; Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site; Camp Amache National Historic Landmark; and the Comanche National Grassland. Youth will experience the partnership between local communities and the National Park Service in revitalizing places of national importance. Challenges will include the preservation of historic landscapes, scarce water supplies and the preservation of traditional agricultural lifestyles. Canyons & Plains, the regional heritage task force, will host this Youth Summit.
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TRAINING: Today wrestling and grappling at noon. Strength and conditioning at night. Tomorrow Spin (cardio) in the morning and kickboxing at night.
When and why did you start training for fighting? 16 years ago - to make money
What ranks and titles have you held? IFL light heavyweight champion
Do you have any heroes? No
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It's the same as if I was a football player and got a chance to play in NFL.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Bachelors degree in physical education and health from University of Nevada, Reno
What was your job before you started fighting? Wrestling coach
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What you see above is the only picture I took during my entire Christmas vacation.
Now don't get me wrong, it's not like there wasn't plenty of cool stuff or awesome people to photograph on this trip. I just really suck at taking photographs.
On this trip, I flew from Boston to Minneapolis. I spent three days in the Twin Cities and spent some time at the Mall of America. I drove down to Iowa and spent three days with my family. There was a sizable snowstorm. I drove back up to Minnesota in said snowstorm. I spent an evening hanging out with friends and looking ridiculous playing XBOX Kinect games. I spent a day hanging out in a hospital and then driving back to the Twin Cities before flying back out the next morning.
In all that time, despite all of the family, friends, and cool stuff I saw and did, the only picture I took was of an advertisement in the in-flight magazine for mail order ribs.
And I took it before we ever pulled away from the gate in Boston.
No pictures of presents. No pictures of family. No pictures of the snow. No pictures of my friends. No pictures of my rental car. No obligatory pictures of the food I ate (and I ate Taco John's AND Five Guys). No pictures of Christmas trees.
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Most of us know that Nebraska's 2013 Heroes Game against Iowa is Friday, Nov. 29th, but did we ever tell you that we need another real-life hero like Jason Parks, Nebraska's 2012 Hero of the Year? Parks was honored last November in Iowa City when the Huskers defeated the Hawkeyes, 13-7, in the second annual Heroes Game presented by Hy-Vee. Parks, who saved the life of a truck driver, didn't get to wave to an appreciative Nebraska sellout crowd last year, so he made up for that lost opportunity at Saturday's 59-20 Nebraska win over South Dakota State in Memorial Stadium. The Huskers' final regular-season non-conference game also served as the 2013 kickoff for Hy-Vee's Call for Nominations.
"We're glad Jason was introduced at halftime of Saturday's game, so all of our fans can show their appreciation for his heroic act," Nebraska Assistant Athletic Director Michael Stephens said. "Jason's instincts and selflessness define the kinds of heroes we're looking for – everyday people who help others in a dire situation without hesitation."
Parks was driving to work at his family's business in Aurora, Neb., one morning when he saw two semi-trucks collide in his rear-view mirror. He doubled back to the scene of the accident, where he heard one of the drivers screaming for help from the flaming truck cab. Parks pulled the man from the wreckage and carried him to safety as the truck exploded behind them. For putting himself in danger to save the life of a complete stranger, Parks was Nebraska's No. 1 Hero of the Year choice.
"Jason definitely deserves the honor he received, but what I like most about our Heroes Game is both states having so many deserving heroes for the roles they played in very similar experiences to Jason's," Stephens said. "There are all kinds of compelling stories out there where ordinary people go above and beyond."
Besides Parks, Nebraska also congratulates 28 additional 2012 nominees for hero status, including one that was submitted in support of Tom Osborne, who presented Parks his award last November in Iowa City. Other Nebraskans who were nominated for the 2012 Heroes Award: Deann Barnard, Beatrice; Christopher Berggren, Lincoln; Lisa Buhr, Adams; James Buhr, Adams; Vicki Depenbusch, Lincoln; Dr. Harris Graves, Omaha; Laura Hickman, Omaha; Dr. Anne Hubbard, Omaha; Lynsie Jones, Omaha; Kris Kinsella, LaVista; Keith Knoop, Lincoln; Tevi Lawson, Omaha; Floyd "Sid" Mason, Columbus; Justin Matthes, Malcolm; Dr. Joseph McCaslin, Omaha; Ron Meyer, Blue Hill; Bruce Moore, Omaha; Sean Murphy, Papillion; Dr. Scott Osborne, Beatrice; Philip Peter, Blue Hill; Mikayla Savell Flott, Omaha; Tanya Shook, Omaha; Jeff Spencer, Omaha; Bethany Staffort, Omaha; Jason Vculek, Belvidere; Aaron Wattenbach, Bellevue; and Ron Wolfe, Lincoln.
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Citizens' Hose Company No. 1, of Smyrna, and American Legion Ambulance 64 responded to a reported house fire Feb. 14 at 7:39 p.m. on West South Street and arrived to find smoke coming from a residence at 50 W. South St.
Citizen's Hose Company Public Information Officer Eugene Tucker said that upon further investigation, firefighters found an active kitchen fire that had progressed to the second floor above the kitchen.
"Firefighters went to work making an aggressive attack on the fire and was able to stop the fire from progressing any further throughout the residence," Tucker said.
Upon extinguishing the blaze, Tucker said firefighters checked for the possibility of extension of the fire and found that they were successful in preventing the fire from causing any further damage.
"Because of the quick response and aggressive attack on the fire, firefighters were able to quickly stop the spread of the fire and bring the blaze under control in 20 minutes," Tucker said.
Approximately 52 firefighters with 4 pieces of apparatus under the direction of Chief Isaac Hankins were in service for 1 hour and 41 minutes.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A California museum says it has reached an agreement to return a 10th century statue known as the "Temple Wrestler" to Cambodia.
The announcement was made Wednesday by the Norton Simon Museum and Norton Simon Art Foundation in Pasadena, where the statue has been on display for nearly four decades.
The sandstone work depicts Bhima, a heroic figure in the Hindu epic Mahabharata.
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Listing Seven is just a conventional shell script that loops from
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MIC_ENV_PREFIX to indicate that all environment variables intended for the Intel Xeon Phi will be preceded by the string "
PHI_". Per the previous discussion, a balanced thread affinity will be used.
Listing Eight: Survey script to run MKL on the device (and OpenMP on the host).
export MKL_MIC_ENABLE=1 export MIC_ENV_PREFIX=PHI export PHI_KMP_AFFINITY="granularity=thread,balanced" nThreads=12 i=500 while [ $i -le 11000 ] do echo -n "mklOffload " ./matrix.omp $i $nThreads 5 let i+=500 done
Run all offload regions on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor.
Per Figures 4 and 5, the number of threads to use on a 61 core Intel Xeon Phi is set to 4*(60-1), or 240 threads. The thread affinity is also defined to be balanced in Listing Nine.
Listing Nine: Survey to run in offload mode.
export MKL_MIC_ENABLE=0 export MIC_ENV_PREFIX=PHI export PHI_OMP_NUM_THREADS=240 export PHI_KMP_AFFINITY="granularity=thread,balanced" nThreads=12 i=500 while [ $i -le 11000 ] do echo -n "OMP_OFFLOAD " echo -n "PHI_THREADS " $PHI_OMP_NUM_THREADS " " ./matrix.off $i $nThreads 5 let i+=500 done
Native mode on the coprocessor
Listing Ten runs on the device and assumes that libiomp5.so and the required Intel Xeon Phi libraries have been copied to /tmp. The
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable is set so these libraries can be found by the Intel Xeon Phi when the binary is loaded. Further, this script assumes the
matrix.mic executable has been copied to the directory where the script will run. Per the previous discussion, the thread affinity is defined to be balanced.
Listing Ten: Survey script to run natively on the Xeon Phi.
export MKL_MIC_ENABLE=0 export KMP_AFFINITY="granularity=thread,balanced" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp nThreads=240 i=500 while [ $i -le 11000 ] do echo -n "mic " ./matrix.mic $i $nThreads 5 let i+=500 done
Of special interest in the host offload script is the use of
PHI_USE_2MB_BUFFERS environmental variable that controls the use of large pages. By default, the runtime system allocates memory in 4KB virtual memory pages. These small pages can cause a performance degradation with some algorithms such as matrix multiplication due to TLB misses (that is, misses in the cache management). Setting
PHI_USE_2MB_BUFFERS (when
MIC_PREFIX=PHI) tells the runtime to allocate heap variables whose size is greater than the value specified by
PHI_USE_2MB_BUFFERS in 2MB pages. According to this Intel MIC memory presentation, consider setting this environment variable when your code utilizes a 16 MB or larger memory with a large data structure that has heavy semi-random element accesses. Native applications should use
mmap or
hugetlbfs to allocate memory with large pages.
Briefly, the use of the larger 2MB pages can benefit many algorithms such as matrix multiplication. In virtual memory architectures like the x86 processors, the TLB provides an on-chip cache to improve the speed of virtual address translation. When a page entry is in the TLB, application addresses can be translated to physical RAM addresses with minimal overhead and no additional RAM accesses. While TLB caches are fast, they are also small and the overhead and performance penalty incurred by a TLB miss is significant. The importance of larger pages for floating-point dominated application can be understood by considering any array operation however trivial that requires stepping through memory in strides that are greater than the standard page size used by the system. These are common scenarios that occur frequently when working with two- and higher dimensional matrices. Because of the stride size, each memory access requires looking up a new page in the TLB. If the array is sufficiently large, then each memory access can cause a TLB miss and corresponding performance drop. Utilizing larger page sizes results in fewer TLB misses which will increase application performance because the processor does not have to wait (or wait as long) for data.
Setting the number of threads on the host and device can be confusing when running in offload mode. The matrix.c source code uses the OpenMP
omp_set_num_threads() method to control the number of threads in the code when running in native and host modes. The previous offload script uses the host
PHI_OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable to specify the number of threads used by the device in offload mode. Sumedh Naik, from Intel, provided the following code snippet to illustrate how to set the number of threads at runtime on both the host and device in offload mode.
Listing Eleven: Setting the number of threads on both host and device at runtime.
int main() { printf("Setting threads on Host to 8\n"); omp_set_num_threads(8); #pragma omp parallel { #pragma omp single { printf("HOST RUNNING %d THREADS \n", omp_get_num_threads()); fflush(0); } } #pragma offload target (mic) { printf("Setting threads on MIC to 240\n");fflush(0); omp_set_num_threads(240); #pragma omp parallel { #pragma omp single { printf("MIC RUNNING %d THREADS \n", omp_get_num_threads()); fflush(0); } } } return 0; }
Figures 6 and 7 show how the runtimes scale according to matrix size on a preproduction 1.5 GHz Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor containing 61 cores compared with a 12-core Sandy Bridge X5680 running at 3.33GHz (marked Host OpenMP). The algorithm utilized in the
doMult() example code is clearly not as efficient as the one used in the MKL library. For this reason it is unfair to directly compare the performance of the OpenMP code against the MKL library. The value of the MKL performance numbers is that they show the performance capability of the Xeon Phi hardware.
The MKL library results demonstrate that a preproduction Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor can easily deliver over 1 teraflop/sec of single-precision performance. In comparison, the host implementation of the MKL
sgemm() function appears to saturate the x5680 processors and/or memory subsystem when multiplying matrices larger than 2000x2000. In offload mode, the MKL library takes responsibility for moving the data to and from the device. For this reason the MKL offload results are particularly interesting because they demonstrate that it is possible to achieve more than a teraflop/s of performance even with the overhead required to move data between the host and device.
Figure 6: MLK sgemm() performance results compared with Sandy Bridge.
In Figure 7, the matrix.c OpenMP code delivers the best performance when running natively on the Intel Xeon Phi. Even with the overhead of transferring the
B, and
C matrices on every call to
doMult(), the offload performance still exceeded that of the native host OpenMP code. This is expected as matrix multiplication performs O(N2) calculations per datum (for example, floating-point element) transferred. Matrix multiplication is used as a common example to demonstrate coprocessor and accelerator programming for this very reason. Unfortunately, algorithms that exhibit such a lack of sensitivity to data movement are desirable but not very common. As later tutorials will show, a large amount of coprocessor application design time will be spent on minimizing data transfer costs.
Figure 7: OpenMP performance results.


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Lasrick writes: The Bulletin has an interesting article about the likelihood of terrorists obtaining nuclear material. "Since 1993, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has logged roughly 2,000 cases of illicit or unauthorized trafficking of nuclear and radioactive material. Thirty illicit radioactive trafficking incidents were reported in the former Soviet region alone from 2009 to 2011. As Obama said in December, "Make no mistake, if [terrorists] get [nuclear material], they will use it.""


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He's pretty easy to make.
New head
New bare forearms
Keldor Boots
Straight Purple armor
Repainted Havoc Staff
He's pretty easy to make.
New head
New bare forearms
Keldor Boots
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I'm good with the Skellies we have gotten so far, and there are still variants to come. perhaps some of his Filmation elements will be incorporated into those.
Ask not for whom MOTUC is made, it's made for thee.
If you have to disclaimer your like, then you don't really like it.
New face w/Preternia He-Man hood
New bare forearms (reusable for Oo-Larr)
New three-pronged "outer" loincloth w/non-furry "inner" loincloth (latter a reuse from either Bow or MEF/Optikk/Roboto in plain black)
NEW Havoc Staff head w/existing handle (take a look at the heads - they ain't the same)
Keldor boots
All the rest as-per existing Skelly. That's four new tools (face, forearms, belt, havoc staff head) and a few other mix & matches.
Plus, there'd need to be at least one other new accessory on top of the Havoc Staff to make two (since you couldn't pack in a He-Man sword repaint again), but it wouldn't be hard to find ideas given a quick scan of episodes.
I won't buy it, but since I now have Alcala Skeletor coming, you should get your preferred version, as well.
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Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
I would love a Filmation Merman head!
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Most paint-schemes are already somewhat FILMation-accurate, so a newly sculpted head to pop onto your favorite characters would kick major butt.
Some of the heads that come immediately to mind: Mer-Man, Hordak, Teela, Tri-Klops, Skeletor, and Evil-Lyn.....
Where are the rest of my New Adventures Classics figures?!?!?
**Staunch FILMation lover!!! **** MUST complete the New Adventures Faction!!!**
MOTUC NEEDS more TROLLANS !!!
Where are the rest of my New Adventures Classics figures?!?!?
**Staunch FILMation lover!!! **** MUST complete the New Adventures Faction!!!**
MOTUC NEEDS more TROLLANS !!!
Now that the Filmation license is official, I'd really like to see Filmation Clawful get a figure. He is very different looking from his original toy counterpart. I wonder how they would approach his bio...
I'd actually make him a Snakeman. I mean, I always thought he was supposed to be a snakeman when I was a kid watching the cartoon (since he obviously wasnt clawful) and you dont have to be a real snakeman to be a part of that faction (think Toung Lashor, who's clearly a salamander) and he'd fit.
Just so long as it were a new character and not just some bizzare varient. As I like the bio's and the story that is being told peicemeal through them, I'd want this to fit.
Not in a rush to get it though. Many others I'd want to get to before this.
wow thats Clawful??
you know it would be cool if they did him and gave him a belt like trap-jaw with the snakeman logo on it so then he can be a new snakeman or pop the belt off and you have Clawful
the King needs his Queen and pet! Queen Veena and Battle Lion for MOTUC!
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We already have a Clawful figure. Can't we just agree that Filmation did not do Clawful right? Filmation admitted they based Clawful on a prototype picture they got and they didn't make one claw bigger because they didn't want to take up too much animation time.
Back in the day, it was very common for them to just flip an animation cell to show them from different angles. If they gave him his big right claw, they couldn't flip the cell.
You just read a post from the head Honcho of Nerds On A Couch!
I absolutely hated the Filmation Clawful as a kid and I still do today. If he were somehow released in MOTUC, I am guessing we'd get a unique character and bio -- just like Zodak and Zodac. I don't, however, feel that MOTUC should clean up all Filmation's mistakes. I can only imagine the name Mattel would give this guy? Claws Full or something like that?
I like them both, but I actually like Filmation Clawful's look a lot better than the original toy version.
Filmation Clawful looks like a SnakeMan indeed, so I'd make this version a SnakeMen character and give him a bio according to that.
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I can see him coming in the future, but I'm not interested in him...
I would like to see new characters like Fang Man or Shokoti first...
I would accept a Filmation Clawful if it were indeed another character with another name. Perhaps he is Fang-Man's relative.
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I'll take a filmation Clawful.
Give him a new name, bio and slap a Horde symble and there you go. A new figure. Why the Horde? Why not? Why can't they have their version of clawful?
Could even make his species a distant relative to Clawful's.
I much prefer the toy design for Clawful, but I would buy the Filmation version if they made him. I'd probably give him a new name and use him as a new character.
I'm willing to bet this is a distinct possibility considering how easily you could get multiple characters out of that design. Fang man for sure. He only really needs a new sculpted head to make this figure work.


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Tuesday afternoon Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt released the following statement.
"We have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review Oklahoma's law that seeks to protect women from harmful off-label uses of abortion-inducing drugs such as RU-486.
"Oklahoma's law does not ban the use of the drug, but does require proper protocols to be followed. There is strong evidence that the off-label use of abortion-inducing drugs leads to serious infections and death for many healthy, unsuspecting women. This is not OK. Our job is to protect the citizens of Oklahoma and defend the State Constitution, which does not provide the right to abortion."


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Circa 1910
A double-light urn-backed sconce in its original two-tone darkened brass patina. Having oval-section arms that flare under the broad waxpans and turned candle cups.
Overall: 15-1/2" h. x 13-1/4" w. x 7" d.
Backplate: 15" h. x 4-1/2" w.
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Laconia man arrested after altercation
July 09. 2013 11:46PM
LACONIA -- A man involved in a disturbance and altercation near Church and North Main streets was arrested after allegedly running from a police officer, then flashing a knife at a pursuing officer.
Police said officers responded to the disturbance, which they said was between the suspect, Joseph Coughlin, and two or three other men.
After being placed under arrest, Coughlin was found to be in possesssion of three unloaded handguns, marijuana, a prescription drug and drug paraphernalia, police said.
Coughlin allegedly displayed a knife during the original altercation as well.
He is facing three counts of criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, three counts of violating a protective order by possessing a firearm, resisting arrest and assorted drug charges.
Coughlin declined a bail commissioner and was held for arraignment in Laconia District Court on Wednesday morning.