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He made his summer home in Hyannis Port. His springtime mansion was in Palm Beach. Autumns were spent in Bel Air, and he wintered in the Netherlands Antilles. But Toronto has always held a special place in the heart of the Million Dollar Man.
"Toronto is one of my favourite Canadian cities, and it's where I had my best WrestleMania match," Ted DiBiase recently told SLAM! Wrestling from his home in Clinton, Missouri. "It was against Jake ("The Snake" Roberts) in the SkyDome, and at that time, I had never wrestled in front of a crowd that large -- I think it was 67,000."
Fans will have an opportunity to meet DiBiase at the 2011 Wizard World Comic Con being held in Toronto at Exhibition Place from March 18 to 20.
"People at these conventions often ask me what my most memorable match at WrestleMania is, and obviously my first WrestleMania which was IV, but my favourite, I tell people, was against Jake at WrestleMania VI," said DiBiase. "Wrestling Jake was almost effortless, working with him, we could almost go out there without even saying a word. And that promo he cut, oh my gosh -- brilliant!"
With the Million Dollar Belt on the line, Jake "The Snake" Roberts warned DiBiase before the match: "These were people far less fortunate than you. People who could use your money for essentials, and what did you do? You made fun of them and you humiliated them. Well, now it's my turn. I'm going to make you beg, DiBiase. You are going to get down on your hands and knees. This time, you'll be the one that's humbled. This time, you'll be the one that's humiliated. And this time, you will be the one that grovels for the money. And how appropriate that the money you grovel for is your very own. A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice."
Mean Gene Okerlund, clutching the microphone, exaggerated only slightly when he quipped: "Longfellow couldn't have said it better!"
The Million Dollar Man would defeat The Snake that night in Toronto, with the help of DiBiase's bodyguard Virgil, who will also be appearing at the 2011 Toronto Comic Con, and Wizard World conventions in Anaheim, Chicago, and Philadelphia.
Though DiBiase's illustrious career would eventually take him all over the world, he had never been to Canada until he joined the WWE. "When I was in the territories, aside from going to Japan, I had never even been in another country," said DiBiase, who wrestled for years in Texas, Atlanta, and the Mid-South. "So the first time I ever came to Canada, I came to Toronto. I have so many fond memories of wrestling at Maple Leaf Gardens, and I remember that big ramp that led to the ring."
"So this WrestleMania, coming up in Atlanta, it will be 30 years to the month that I met my wife," DiBiase added proudly. "Of course, I'm going to be there to induct Jim Duggan (into the WWE Hall of Fame) and the whole deal, but it's also going to be a very special weekend for Melanie and I because we're going to go back and reminisce."
Just weeks after WrestleMania in Atlanta, DiBiase will be heading back to Canada for a speaking engagement with the Promise Keepers in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia on April 15. Promise Keepers Canada is a uniquely Canadian ministry for men, explained DiBiase, who travels the world as an evangelist with his own Heart of David Ministries. "The first thing I did when I left the WWE in '06 was get hooked up with (Promise Keepers Canada), and my very first speaking engagement for them was in Regina, Saskatchewan," said DiBiase.
Throughout the late '80s and early '90s, DiBiase would wrestle in every major city in Canada. Many of those battles -- against the likes of Dusty Rhodes, Big Bossman, and Tito Santana -- took place at Maple Leaf Gardens along with auditoriums in Kitchener, London, Ottawa, and Hamilton. "Oh my gosh, before I came to Toronto for the first time, I had no idea of the heritage around that area," said DiBiase of Southern Ontario. "I've had the privilege of wrestling in Hamilton, just down the road from Toronto. And in terms of Canadian pro wrestling, Hamilton was one of those places like Calgary -- with Stu Hart -- that had so much history. Iron Mike Sharpe is a guy I wrestled a lot in Mid-South, and he came out of there.
"And Dewey Robertson, he was one of those guys who, early in my career, I met. He was from around there. I actually met Dewey in Kansas City, but he was one of those guys who had been in the business for a while already. And there are different guys you remember, when you were young and just coming up, who went out of their way to befriend you, take care of you, and help you learn the ropes. Dewey, for me, was one of those guys. Of course, he was a lot tamer back then before he became The Missing Link -- and a lot other things," said DiBiase of the late Robertson's wild persona, both in and out of the ring.
"Wrestling was this amazing part of my life, and I saw wrestlers like Ted DiBiase as superheroes, or supervillians, and larger than life. That's why I thought bringing wrestlers in for the comic cons made perfect sense," said Shamus, who also has wrestlers like Eugene, Rhino, and Torrie Wilson appearing at various Wizard World Comic Cons this summer.
"The wrestling stars always have great stories, and the fans who come out always bring action figures, magazines, and championship belts to get signed, and they absolutely love it. And bringing Ted DiBiase in for the Toronto event is a major bonus because he is instantly recognizable, a WWE Hall of Famer, and one of the most unique and memorable wrestling villains of all time."
DiBiase concurs, the Million Dollar Man was a character the fans loved to hate. "I get a lot of people coming up to me at these meet-and-greets that say, 'You know, you were one of the best bad guys ever. I hated you when I was a kid,'" DiBiase recalled with a chuckle. "Or they say, 'Don't get mad, but man, I used to hate your guts!' I just say, 'Thank you. You weren't supposed to like me.'
"And people never get tired of seeing a guy like that get beat up. And man, walking through that curtain and hearing the fans boo me out of the building was music to my ears."
It's those passionate fans, DiBiase said, he looks forward to seeing at conventions like the upcoming 2011 Toronto Comic Con this weekend. "I really enjoy greeting the fans, chatting with them and taking pictures. And in Toronto, I'll have my old sidekick Virgil there along with me."
With WrestleMania 27 just around the corner, DiBiase opined on his many appearances over the years on "the grandest stage of them all."
"I kinda joke with some of these guys who like to talk about how they've been in this WrestleMania, and that WrestleMania. And I respond by sayin', 'Well, you've wrestled in so many WrestleManias, but very few guys can say they had three matches in one WrestleMania,'" DiBiase said with a laugh. "At WrestleMania IV I wrestled Jim Duggan, Don Muraco, and Randy Savage. Now beat that!
"But like I always tell people when they ask, my best WrestleMania match was against Jake Roberts," DiBiase concluded. "Jake is one of those guys who I really loved to work with, and wrestling him in front of 67,000 in Toronto was an enormous thrill. It's the one I enjoyed the most."
Marshall Ward, standing on his chair 30 rows back on the floor, was one of 67,000 fans booing the Million Dollar Man out of the SkyDome at Wrestlemania VI. He is also a visual artist and weekly columnist with the Waterloo Chronicle. Email is welcome at email@example.com.


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World winemakers visit Seattle to put Riesling in spotlight
Arguably, Riesling is the most important white wine in the world. And many of the world's top Riesling winemakers will descend on Washington to celebrate the noble grape.
The annual Riesling Rendezvous begins Sunday at Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville with a grand tasting of Rieslings from around the world. Wines from Washington, Oregon, California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan, as well as Germany, France, Austria, Canada, New Zealand, Slovakia and Australia will be on display.
In addition, the Idaho wine industry is a regional sponsor, which will help put the wines of the Snake River Valley in the global spotlight.
On Monday and Tuesday, hundreds of wine experts will gather at Bell Harbor on the Seattle waterfront to explore, taste and discuss Riesling.
All of this is sponsored by Chateau Ste. Michelle, which makes more Riesling than any other winery in the world, along with Dr. Loosen, one of Germany's top Riesling producers.
Even if you can't make it to the Riesling Rendezvous, here are five Washington Rieslings we've tasted in recent weeks that are delicious and perfect for summer sipping.
Find them at your favorite grocery store or wine shop or contact the wineries directly.
Alexandria Nicole Cellars 2012 Destiny Ridge Vineyards Riesling, Horse Heaven Hills, $14: This is a delicious white from Alexandria Nicole (tasting rooms in Prosser and Woodinville) that opens with classic aromas of baked apple, lemon, jasmine and clove. On the palate, it reveals flavors of lime, pear and apple, all backed with bright acidity that leads to a finish that just won't quit. Enjoy this with zippy Indian, Thai, Tex-Mex or Vietnamese dishes.
Poet's Leap 2012 Riesling, Columbia Valley, $20: This label for Long Shadows Vintners in Walla Walla is a collaboration between former Ste. Michelle Wine Estates boss Allen Shoup and famed German winemaker Armin Diel. They came together a decade ago to craft a Washington Riesling with an international perspective. This is the latest version, and it is superb. It starts with aromas of lemon, lime and slate, followed by flavors of Granny Smith apple and minerality. It's a rich, round wine without being sweet.
Anew 2012 Riesling, Columbia Valley, $11: Ste. Michelle Wine Estates' newest label is a national brand that debuted in June and focuses entirely on Riesling. Alluring aromas of apple, pear, fresh-cut celery, slate and spice are followed by flavors loaded with jasmine, pineapple, pear and apple. It is perfectly balanced with bright acidity that provides a lengthy and memorable finish.
Mercer Canyons 2011 Riesling, Yakima Valley, $13: The Mercer family has been farming in Washington for more than a century and has been in the wine business since the early 1970s. Now that it has a namesake winery in the Yakima Valley, it is able to take full advantage of its legacy and expertise. From a cool vintage, this was picked late in the season yet still managed to maintain bright acidity. It begins with aromas of fresh-squeezed lemon, yellow grapefruit, slate, pear and Golden Delicious apple. It's beautiful on the entry, with crisp acidity rounded on the corners with just under 2 percent residual sugar. Flavors of lemon, lime, peach and apricot lead to a stunning finish. Buy this one by the case and enjoy for the rest of the summer.
Willow Crest Winery 2011 Estate Riesling, Yakima Valley, $12: David Minick launched Willow Crest in the mid-1990s and has been making superb wines since using estate grapes from north of Prosser. Minick also oversees vineyard operations for Precept Wine in Seattle, which now partners with him at Willow Crest. This is a classic Yakima Valley Riesling and one of the best you're likely to taste in Washington. This opens with aromas of honeysuckle, apricot glacée and orange marmalade. On the palate, it unveils mouthwatering flavors of Limeade, apple and pear, all backed with bright acidity and no perceptible sweetness.
*Eric Degerman and Andy Perdue run Great Northwest Wine. Learn more about wine at www.greatnorthwestwine.com.

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When people get serious about preparing for retirement and later life, they invariably ask the same question: How do I find a good financial planner?
Yes, technical money-management skills are essential. Equally important, though, may be the questions that are asked in your initial interview with a prospective planner – not the questions that you ask, but the questions the planner asks you.
That's the thrust of a thoughtful article in this month's Financial Advisor magazine titled "Demonstrating That You Care." Written by Roy Diliberto, chairman and founder of RTD Financial Advisors in Philadelphia, the piece is aimed primarily at the author's peers. But if one of your priorities in 2013 is finding a good financial planner – or perhaps a better adviser than the one you have now – take a few minutes to consider Diliberto's thinking.
There are, of course, all types of financial planners. One might try, from the start, to impress you with his or her technical – and superior – knowledge of the markets. Another might dive in with questions about your financial circumstances: the size of your assets, your annual income, the insurance that you own.
That kind of prologue, Diliberto writes, could be a good indicator that "the planner cares more about your money than they do about you."
A better approach, he argues, is for a financial planner first to find out "what is truly important" to clients and how to "remove obstacles that have stood in the way of their financial success."
To that end, Diliberto and his colleagues first ask questions like: "What was your family like when you were growing up?" "How are you affected by the money messages that you got from your mother and father?" "What is your first memory of money?" Such questions, he argues, might well indicate that the planner's top priority is to "understand and care about [clients] and their uniqueness."
This approach has grown more popular in financial-adviser circles over the last few years; it's sometimes labeled "life planning" or "values clarification."
Sure, all this might sound touchy-feely. And you might be uncomfortable with personal questions in a financial planner's office. But do yourself a favor: Make a list of questions that you want to ask a prospective financial planner – and then listen carefully to the questions that he or she asks you. Sometimes, touchy-feely works.


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Dark Matter to Bring Space-Based Horror to Steam This Month
A 2.5D survival platformer game called Dark Matter will be coming to Steam later this month, set to make you scream where no one can hear you do it.
Iceberg Interactive has announced that Dark Matter will be hitting PC, OS X and Linux on Steam in mid-October. Dark Matter tells the tale of an Ensign who must navigate a derelict spaceship called the Endeavor. He'll scavenge for parts and blueprints while taking on intelligent alien enemies.
Players will be able to expand their arsenal and customize their weapons in order to be better equipped for survival in the parasite-infested ship. You can see, or at least try to see, all of the action in the screenshots shown below. Dark Matter definitely takes its name seriously and has you adventuring in dimly-lit corridors and facilities, ramping up the tension you'll feel. Why? Well, because the aliens are probably in the walls.
Look out for Dark Matter on Steam later this month!


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NEW YORK -- Coming off a television season that saw its ratings fall by 20%, Fox unveiled a new schedule heavy on big names both in front of and behind the camera in hopes of rejuvenating its prime-time lineup.
"We're making the biggest investment in original programming in our history to ensure that Fox continues to engage viewers and move the culture more than any other entertainment brand," said Fox Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly of the new schedule.
With "American Idol" finally starting to show its age and "The X Factor" failing to generate the big numbers Fox was hoping for, the network is taking a more traditional approach to television with nine new sitcoms and dramas for the 2013-14 fall and mid-season schedules.
But when it comes to scheduling those shows, Fox is being anything but traditional. As part of its efforts to boost ratings, Fox will launch new shows throughout the year including some high-profile projects for the summer, which is traditionally a time the broadcast networks have ceded to cable.
"This season we're going to take one step forward and really try to break out of the confines of the broadcast season," Reilly said.
Among the stars Fox signed up for new shows are ex-"Saturday Night Live" cast member Andy Samberg and Academy Award nominees Greg Kinnear and Matt Dillon. Acclaimed director and producer J.J. Abrams, whose credits include "Lost" and the new "Star Trek" movie and "Family Guy" creator and "Ted" director Seth MacFarlane also have new shows for the network.
Fox is also bringing one of its most popular shows ever out of retirement with "24," the thriller that starred Kiefer Sutherland as anti-terrorist agent Jack Bauer set to return in late spring and run into the summer.
"There has not been a week since I've been in this job that someone hasn't asked me, 'Would you ever bring back "24?"' " Reilly said. "There is still a lot of love for it."
Returning shows include "Glee," "The Following," "Bones," "The Mindy Project" and "New Girl," which will also get the coveted post-Super Bowl slot in February.
While Fox was making news about its new programs, Reilly kept quiet about the network's two talent shows — "American Idol" and "The X Factor," both of which had tough seasons.
There is talk of a complete overhaul at "American Idol." Randy Jackson, the last original judge, has already said this will be his last season, and speculation continues to swirl that judges Keith Urban, Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj are also expected to be gone when the show returns next January.
Asked on a conference call with reporters about the fate of Urban, Carey and Minaj, Reilly declined to say if they would return but did stress that the show itself is in need of revamping.
"The format, more than anything will have a few fresh twists, a nice little jolt for next season," Reilly said, adding that there would likely only be three judges next season instead of four.
Reilly also didn't talk about potential changes to "The X Factor," the singing show featuring ex-"American Idol" judge Simon Cowell that has not delivered the big ratings Fox had expected.
In the fall, Fox will premiere new dramas "Almost Human" and "Sleepy Hollow" on Monday, both of which are set in the future. "Almost Human," from Abrams, is a crime drama about robots working in law enforcement. "Sleepy Hollow" is a modern take on Ichabod Crane.
On the comedy front, Fox is adding two new sitcoms — "Dads" and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" to its Tuesday night lineup and bringing back "New Girl" and "The Mindy Project." "Dads," produced by MacFarlane, is about two video game entrepreneurs whose cool lives come crashing to a halt when their fathers move in with them. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine, starring Samberg and Andre Baugher, is about a quirky squad of detectives.
Fox's big midseason shows include "Rake," a legal drama starring Kinnear and executive produced by Peter Tolan, whose credits include FX's "Rescue Me." Also coming in midseason is "Gang Related," a police drama.
In the summer, besides the return of "24," Fox will roll out "Wayward Pines," a miniseries thriller produced by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Dillon.
Although TV shows on cable television continue to take audience away from the broadcast networks, Reilly noted that most shows on cable that critics fawn over do not have big enough ratings to survive in his world.
"We live by a different standards," Reilly said. "We cancel shows that most cable networks would declare a success."
With more viewers watching programs via their digital video recorders or via on-demand and online platforms, all the networks are pushing to get their content available on all outlets. "The Following," Reilly noted, often adds several million viewers when ratings from platforms other than the Fox broadcast are factored into the equation.
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text: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > Still, going from 5% of the working-set in L2, to perhaps 20% of the > working set in L2, may still provide you with a generous speedup. > > I don't think there are rules of thumb. The factors and conditions I've > summarized here are cude at best, but should give you an idea about what > the scalability game is all about :) > > Move the bulk of your working-set data up the hierarchy (from disk to > RAM, from RAM to L2, ...), avoid communication where possible, adding > more computational work to the overall problem may still aid the > speedup, if it helps avoiding communication or memory consumption. > > Measure, think, experiment... Repeat as necessary. > > Everyone feel free to supplement, comment and correct ;) Actually, beautifully said -- I'll save this in my directory of beautiful list answers for sure. The only thing I'd add is a little chunky from the online book (in latex, which is actually pretty easy to read as math). The table referred to is a table of approximate memory hierarchy speeds (as of a few years ago -- I don't know if they are still current). L1 access in about a nanosecond; L2 access in about 8 nanoseconds, main memory in about 50 nanoseconds. Then: <quote> Suppose $p_i$ is the probability that your program finds the next piece of data or code it is looking for in the $i$th kind of ``memory'' in the table above. Then the average latency (the average time the system has to wait before the data or code becomes available) is: \begin{equation} <L> = \sum_i p_i L_i. \label{avg_latency} \end{equation} For example, if $p_{L1} = 0.05$, $p_{L2} = 0.9$, and $p_{M} = 0.05$ for a problem that fits into main memory, the average latency might be something like: \begin{equation} <L> = 0.05*1 + 0.9*8 + 0.05*50 = 9.75 \end{equation} in nanoseconds. Things get a little more complicated trying to determine the overall data access rate (I'd rather not get into a full discussion of EDO, SDRAM, Rambus, and so forth at this moment and instead will just give you a web reference\footnote{See http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/PCHW/CPUMEM.HTM}. However, the bottom line is that as long as the hierarchy of your hardware accomplishes this efficiently (maintaining an average latency and bandwidth reasonably close to that of the L1 and/or L2 cache) {\em for your code} there is no reason to invest in a more expensive hierarchy. <quote> This equation gives you an idea of when one might see superlinear speedup, and why seeing it is actually remarkably rare outside of deliberate code reorganizations such as ATLAS. In most programs, one has fairly limited control over how data is blocked out and accessed. I'd argue that MOST programs are written in e.g. C, C++, Fortran to be readable and maintainable and optimized only at a coarse level (such as unrolling loops). Compilers are generally not microarchitecture aware and have no idea what the sizes of e.g. the L1 and L2 caches are; nor are they algorithm aware and do not reblock vector operations and algorithms to optimize for the cache. This is what makes ATLAS such a fascinating, and extremely advanced, concept, one that is WAY ahead of its time. The "best" way to realize superlinear speedup in most programs (except for those that swap to disk, since that's so slow that any split that doesn't swap will speed up by orders of magnitude) is to use ATLAS for all your linear algebra. You would have to work very hard, and very knowledgeably (in terms of the architecture of CPU, cache, memory) to equal ATLAS's optimization efforts. ATLAS actually dynamically measures cache speeds and sizes in situ during the build process, running what amounts to a search algorithm for the optimal blocking and algorithm set (since it turns out that optimal algorithms themselves alter as a function of program size and relative cache speed). ATLAS will actually change algorithm as necessary automagically, as a function of vector/matrix size. IIRC, it manages a speedup of 2-3 on a lot of linear algebra code, which is a tremendous achievement (like turning your 2 GHz CPU into a 6 GHz CPU, relative to running unoptimized). If your code doesn't USE a lot of linear algebra (but still does lots of loops over large data sets) then your second best approach is to try to get a feel for the degree of memory locality and block things out to maximize the probabilities in the latency equation above in the fastest kinds of memory. This too can lead to odd looking, non-intuitive code. For example, when looping over sites in a lattice model in d dimensions, neighboring sites in the lattice are typically NOT neighboring in physical memory (where they are inevitably unrolled in a vector of some sort). The separation of neighboring sites in the vector is typically on the order of L^(d-1) where d is the dimension and L the length of a side -- one only if the lattice is 1 d (linear vector), L if 2d (square lattice), L^2 for 3d (cubic lattice) and so forth. If the L1 data cache size is e.g. 32K, then AT MOST 4K of doubles can fit in it at a time. The square root of 4096 (2^12) is 2^6 or 64. Hence for cubic lattices of size L=64, it is borderline impossible to hold a lattice site AND ITS NEAREST NEIGHBORS in L1 at the same time while looping over sites. To "fix" this, one has to work very hard to break the big lattice up into chunks that DO fit into L1 -- perhaps cube root of 4096 or 2^4 or L = 16 on a side -- and loop over each subchunk. Then one pays a relatively heavy penalty for the surface atoms, which are now guaranteed to be nonlocal in L1 (but which might be local in L2. Further out, there are boundaries that are guaranteed to be nonlocal in L2 for "every access" and so forth. One picks up a surface to volume advantage, however, over a cache hit per lattice site access -- (L-2)^3 sites are guaranteed local (presuming that the entire block is loaded into L1 at once), L^3 - (L-2)^3 (the surface sites) are guaranteed nonlocal. Except that there is no such guarantee as one has little control over how L1 is emptied and filled and L1 data will almost certainly have other variables in besides the lattice and THEN there is L1 code, which might be nonlocal as hell if you execute subroutine calls on the lattice sites involving long jumps locally allocate memory or other global vectors, and so forth. Ultimately it becomes VERY difficult to theoretically predict exactly how cache is going to fill and empty in a given code block, which is why ATLAS utilizes an empirical search for the optimal blocking and algorithm in the neighborhoods of the expected boundaries instead of just presuming that it can compute them exactly even from a detailed knowledge of the microarchitecture. This is precisely analogous to the process that would show superlinear scaling on parallelized code, with the same tradeoffs, and with an additional set of latencies (the network latencies) associated with accessing "memory" on node A that resides physically on node B. Lattice decomposition can often be accomplished across a cluster with the same surface to volume penalty on IPC's. This favors running the BIGGEST POSSIBLE sublattice that will fit in memory on each node, and favors blocking that sublattice such that its sub-sublattices will fit in L2, and its sub-sub-sublattices will fit in L1. All of which will VERY LIKELY render the underlying code impossible for humans to read and understand and maintain. Especially if one is truly compulsive and hand-optimizes the core loops in assembler for maximal speed and control! There has to be a very large economic payoff in terms of speedup to be worth the cost of the human time, expertise, energy required for this sort of optimization, and one has to be aware that the resulting optimization isn't portable or general and will have to be REdone to move your code from Intel to Athlon, from Celeron to P3 to P4, from SDRAM to DDR to RDR. Generally there isn't any such overwhelming payoff and generally portability is an important issue, so generally it isn't done, or is done at the level of ATLAS, or perhaps is done in very rough terms that provide one simple layer of moderately portable L2 optimization (which can provide PROFOUND speedups, as noted above) but not "perfectly" optimized. One conclusion one can draw from the above is that EVEN WHERE SUPERLINEAR SCALING IS EVIDENT on parallelized code, so Amdahl's law is in fact violated, the large disparity between the longest possible real memory latencies (tens of nanoseconds) and the shortest possible NETWORK latencies (order of ten MICROseconds) means that one could almost certainly eliminate the superlinear speedup resulting from splitting up the code by optimizing the code for the local memory architecture FIRST. If one can get a signficant speedup by splitting the (non-swapping) code between machines with a network in between, one can almost certainly an even GREATER speedup by blocking the code appropriately on the SINGLE machine and paying a much smaller penalty across the boundaries. The second conclusion to draw from this is that if you REALLY want to write the fastest possible code, you need to abandon writing a "simple translation" of the underlying operational theory into code and take up serious computer science as a vocation. You should probably obtain ATLAS and read its associated design documents and white papers. Dongarra and co are VERY SMART HUMANS. You might want to get a book or two on algorithms and high performance computing and parallel computing. You might want to learn assembler. Be sure, however, to do the FULL cost-benefit analysis for doing so. Remember, you're going to spend a lot of human time (expensive) optimizing for a given architecture, and will have to REoptimize for each new architecture that comes along. The cost of micro-optimization (where it cannot be scalably and universally done and encapsulated in library calls a la ATLAS) is going to be large and paid repeatedly over a long time. The potential benefit is also large (factors of two or more in speed in many cases) but it is RUN time (where you as a human "wait" for results but can do lots of other useful things while you are waiting like teach classes and write grants and have a life) versus YOUR time writing, rewriting, tuning, tinkering with your code and quite possibly breaking it and introducing Deep Bugs that are difficult to root out in all the new complexity. I'd say that most folks balk at this for very sound reasons. Hence most folks are content with the modest optimizations available at the compiler level and perhaps an ATLAS layer for linear algebra dominated code, and just live with the "probability" estimates of mean latency like the one given oh-so-far above. One of my personal fantasies, and a truly excellent project for a really ambitious CPS graduates student, would be to create a numerical code optimization engine and API between the kernel and applications programmers. For example, it would be VERY INTERESTING to abstract the optimization steps of ATLAS into a matrix of parameters and create a daemon or kernel module that generates those parameters on the first boot of the kernel and periodically refines them, adding more parameters as needed by other kinds of operational optimization. Then it might be possible to generate a variety of libraries that READ those parameters when the code starts up and autotune. Indeed, it might even be possible to interface the compiler itself with the API and create an "O7" level of optimization that actually reblocks dynamically in a way that optimally utilizes the memory hierarchy. Might or might not be possible, but a very interesting concept... rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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As a little Christmas gift from us to you, we thought we'd catch up with one of DiS' most beloved bands. Despite a seven year gap since their debut album and people calling it the Chinese Democracy of Brit-rock, My Vitriol confirm they have a new album and it's very likely to be released in 2009...
You released 'Finelines' back in 2001 which must seem forever ago, you then toured it and went on hiatus, what did you do in the time out?
After the release of Between the Lines and about 3 years of constant touring I think we were all burned out, and a little disillusioned with the music industry. We had achieved far more than I thought we ever would, but I wasn't sure I wanted to do it anymore. So we called a hiatus, as I felt that it wouldn't be right to do something unless your heart was in it 100%.
What ended the hiatus?
Over the years I had been writing more material for MV with the idea of putting it out if it all felt right. About 3 years on, it got to a point were I think we were all aching to get back out there and play a show. I think I will always make music, but it was a case for us to decide at that point, whether or not it would be on the public stage, I guess.
For those that didn't know, you've been playing live and selling out venues like Koko and your sets at Offset and Download certainly reminded people you still exist - how did it feel playing those shows?
It was incredible really, to see that people still appreciated what we did in such a number. To go away for so long and still have similar sized crowds show up, was very touching. The music industry can be very fickle, so it gave us hope that there were people out there that still supported us. I guess it felt like the hard work over those years, that pushed us to the brink, was maybe worthwhile after all.
How was the tour you played toward the end of the year?
This was a 'fanclub' tour... we played the most requested towns on our myspace 'demands' with minimal advertising, to trial out some new material. The sets were pretty much half new material, with certain tracks having never been played live before. Road testing new stuff can really sort things out! It was great to play these tracks to enthusiastic, smaller sold out audiences, as they would be somewhat more forgiving of the inevitable fuck ups... haha.
Earlier in 2008, Ravi told ThrashHits that you're "planning on releasing a double-album later this year" which I'm now guessing might be due in 2009, how likely is that looking?
Obviously Raz [Editor of ThrashHits] is trying to make me work pretty hard haha. Well we have well over 30 tracks and what we're going to do with it is yet to be officially announced. Things in the music industry keep changing, which really doesn't help. We had been in talks with Pinnacle about eventually releasing the new material through our own imprint, but they went bust! I guess, momentum is pretty hard to build up but, it's all a lot easier once it's started going, so we'll see...the false starts are pretty frustrating.
You've obviously taken your time to follow-up your debut, for various reasons but do you feel part of that is that as an artist, you get to spend twenty years or so living, in preparation to release your debut album and most acts seemingly then have 6 weeks after touring the world to write, record and release your follow-up... do you feel you needed the time to ensure you could make something significant, rather than, like most acts, just rushing something out so that you don't lose the 'new band buzz'?
I agree with you. I think a lot of artists are forced to release a record more to a record companies fiscal calendar, rather than for the music itself. And I guess the current m.o. of the music industry is really showing this by the high turnover rate with new artists. Record companies push for a release as they are aware that sales are almost purely driven by marketing more than by content. But a bad record is a bad record, and with all the options out there, I don't think the media, audiences or record companies are so forgiving as perhaps they used to be either. It took the Cure and Depeche about 5 records before they got to Disintegration and Violator, and I wonder if that would happen anymore. So it's a game of much higher stakes.
To me, as I've always said, the 'commercial momentum' comes second. I personally never really cared how long it took my favourite author or painter to come out with their next book or painting.
Do you have a rough outline of your plans for 2009 that you could share with us?
As it currently stands, we will be touring Europe in Feb. Belgium, Lux, France, and Spain. And returning to do a tour of the UK in March along with a release, with the album to follow later in the year.


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Military Murder Charges Reveal Terror Groups Inside Army
Sergeant Deirdre Aguigui had been dead less than three months when a police officer alerted the Army and FBI: Her widower was stockpiling high-powered firearms.
The officer reported that Isaac Aguigui, a private on leave, bought 15 weapons at a store in East Wenatchee, Washington. His wife's battered body had been found in their home at Fort Stewart in Georgia, and the autopsy, noting the couple had "marital problems," said how she died was undetermined. He received $500,000 in life insurance benefits.
A relative alarmed by the purchases and unnerved by the unexplained death tipped off police, the officer, John Kruse, said. Still, Aguigui didn't break any laws in buying the guns, and was free to return to Georgia -- where prosecutors say he amassed more firearms and committed murder.
The 21-year-old Aguigui and two other soldiers were charged Aug. 10 with killing two teenagers to conceal a plot to use $87,000 worth of munitions to blow up a fountain in Savannah, bomb a dam in Washington, overthrow the government and kill the president. Indictments four days ago widened the alleged conspiracy to a total of 10 people, eight of them current or former soldiers.
"The Army painted over something," said Brett Roark, whose son was one of the victims, shot in the head as he knelt in a south Georgia swamp. "If they knew, it's very wrong. If they didn't know, they're very stupid. Either way, a lot of people are dead and many lives are ruined."
Criminal Records
Michael Roark, 19, and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York, were killed Dec. 5 by four soldiers who were members of a band of would-be anarchists called FEAR, for Forever Enduring, Always Ready, according to the capital murder charges filed in rural Long County. The new indictments accuse a fifth soldier of tampering with evidence in the case and three former soldiers and a civilian of committing crimes to help finance FEAR.
The murder defendants had troubled histories that included petty crimes and violent threats documented in civilian court records, military files and a social-networking website. The Army took no action to discharge any of them before the murders.
That fit a pattern in which the military, desperate for manpower to fight prolonged conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, accepted more recruits with criminal records and discharged fewer who behaved badly while in uniform.
Normally, one felony or two serious misdemeanors bars a prospect from the Army. In 2006 alone, the Department of Defense issued 30,615 special dispensations that diluted that standard, more than double the total a decade earlier, amounting to 17 percent of all enlistees. That year, the military also reduced by 30 percent the number of troops discharged for misconduct and poor performance, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
'High-Risk Behavior'
Also by Elliot Blair Smith: Grisly Camp Liberty Killings Show Cruel Failure of Military Psychiatry
More sketchy recruits helped explain why violent crimes committed by active-duty soldiers at home and abroad rose 31 percent between 2006 and 2011 to 399 per 100,000 troops, according to an Army report issued in January. It found a crime is committed in the Army every six minutes, and a homicide every 63 hours, and cited growing "high-risk behavior with increasingly more severe outcomes."
"We saw this in Vietnam -- you get these substandard troops and pretty soon you're screwed," said Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star general who is a military consultant and analyst. "This put the military at risk."
Assistant District Attorney Isabel Pauley said Aguigui was FEAR's ringleader, an Army intelligence analyst who "actively recruited new members at Fort Stewart and targeted soldiers who were troubled or disillusioned."
Loaded Rifle
One of his co-defendants in the murder case is Sergeant Anthony Peden, a 26-year-old veteran of three combat tours, two in Afghanistan. Peden was sent home from Iraq in August 2010 after threatening to shoot a fellow soldier, according to military records. Once back at Fort Stewart, he aimed a loaded rifle at his wife, she said in one of three complaints she filed with the police in Hinesville, Georgia, before they divorced.
The third murder defendant is Private Christopher Salmon, 25, who was demoted from specialist in August 2011 for reasons not made public. In the year before Salmon's 2006 enlistment, he was charged with 12 misdemeanors, including one for marijuana possession, police records show. That background would have disqualified him from service without one of the special exemptions, known as a moral conduct waiver.
The fourth soldier charged in the teenagers' deaths, Private First Class Michael Burnett, 26, pleaded guilty Aug. 27 to manslaughter and illegal gang activity. He said FEAR members saw themselves as revolutionaries who would "give the government back to the people."
'Aggressive Measures'
The accused soldiers "are indicative of a military that has turned a blind eye to organized and violent groups within its ranks," said Matt Kennard, author of "Irregular Army: How the U.S. Military Recruited Neo-Nazis, Gang Members and Criminals to Fight the War on Terror."
With the exception of Burnett, the defendants haven't entered pleas. Their lawyers either declined to comment or didn't respond to telephone calls.
Army and FBI officials declined to comment on the tip from the police officer in East Wenatchee.
"We do everything we can with local, state and federal law enforcement to prevent crime," said George Wright, a spokesman at the Pentagon. "We take some very aggressive measures. There are times criminals outwit law enforcement."
Under Investigation
The Army Criminal Investigation Command had been familiar with Aguigui since he reported finding his wife's body on July 17, 2011, one or two hours after the couple had sex, he told authorities. A linguist who spoke Arabic and had served in Iraq, she was 24 and five months pregnant. The autopsy inventoried "blunt force injuries" to her head, arms and back. The postmortem "did not detect an anatomic cause of death."
Her death is under investigation, said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the command in Quantico, Virginia.
Aguigui, the son of a career soldier who moved frequently, had been going on anti-government tirades for years, according to a childhood friend, Phylicia Hanson.
"He was paranoid that they were corrupting us and taking over the world," Hanson said. Aguigui had wanted to be the center of attention since they were kids, she said, talking about how important it was to "do something big."
In March 2009, he posted on his MySpace page a threat to an unnamed person, writing that "nothing would please me more than to personally finish you off" and that "prison sounds lovely to me." Pauley, the assistant district attorney, said he described himself on a recording discovered after his arrest as "the nicest cold-blooded murderer you will ever meet."
'The Awakening'
In July 2009, Aguigui was accepted into the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School, a program that put him on a track for officer training at West Point in New York.
He was kicked out in November for breaking the rules by dating his future wife, a fellow cadet who also had to leave, according to her father, Alma Wetzker. They married in December.
At Fort Stewart, Aguigui assessed whether soldiers were fit to join FEAR by watching their reactions to a trailer for a video game in which a vigilante group acts as judge, jury and executioner on behalf of victims of economic inequality, Pauley said. She said he called this test "the awakening."
The Saturday before the murders, Anthony Peden showed up at a bar in Savannah where his ex-wife worked. "We're involved in some really bad stuff," Landri Peden said her former husband told her. "I could tell he was scared. He was acting crazy."
She said she and two friends drove him back to the base, about an hour away. He was ranting, she said, saying, "If you find out anything that's going on, they'll kill you."
That Monday night, the four FEAR members rolled into an alligator-infested swamp of cypress and oak trees known as Morgan Lake, in a tan Jeep Cherokee loaded with handguns and several boxes of ammunition, according to state investigative records. Roark and York followed in a black Nissan Altima.
Roark had received a less-than-honorable discharge from the Army four days earlier for drinking and disciplinary issues, according to his father. York, a high school junior, had been dating him for a few months, her mother said.
The occupants of the two vehicles communicated with walkie- talkies, navigating inlets filled with water moccasins and rattlesnakes where they often went to practice target-shooting, according to the records and interviews.
Unscheduled Formation
The teenagers had $500, money they planned to use for a West Coast trip, Roark's father said. He said his son had agreed to help Aguigui set up a private security company in Washington but was having second thoughts. The company was to have been a front for FEAR's criminal activities, according to prosecutors.
At an isolated turnout, Aguigui allegedly directed the vehicles to stop and pressed the soldiers into action.
Peden shot York in the face as she sat in the Nissan, took her pulse, and then shot her again, according to Burnett's testimony in court. Peden then handed the Taurus Judge .410 caliber handgun to Salmon, who shot Roark, Burnett said.
The four soldiers stripped off clothes splattered with blood and brain matter and burned them in Peden's backyard, according to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation search warrant.
That Saturday, they were called to an unscheduled formation at 6 a.m. and arrested by military police in battle gear, said Long County Sheriff's Lieutenant Thomas Sollosi. "It's the most sinister case I've ever been involved with," Sollosi said. "It shocks the conscience of anyone with morality."
Later that day, Landri Peden said a social worker called her to pick up her 3-year-old son, who was visiting her ex- husband. When she went to collect his clothes, she said, she saw loaded firearms, boxes of ammunition and gun racks throughout the house near the base, including in her son's bedroom.
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Chavez laid to rest after final farewell in Caracas
Late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was laid to rest at a military museum on Friday after an emotional final journey through the streets of Caracas watched by hundreds of thousands.world Updated: Mar 16, 2013 08:44 IST
Late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was laid to rest at a military museum on Friday after an emotional final journey through the streets of Caracas watched by hundreds of thousands.
After more than a week lying in state, Chavez's body was driven through the Venezuelan capital in a hearse, allowing his compatriots to bid a final farewell to the man who ruled the South American country for 14 years.
Friends and family joined government and army officials in surrounding the coffin as it arrived at Chavez's final resting place - the hilltop former army barracks-turned-museum where he plotted his failed 1992 coup.
Official television coverage, streaming the procession throughout the day, cut the footage just as Chavez's coffin, bedecked in a Venezuelan flag, was set to be interred.
Late on Friday Venezuelan officials ruled out embalming Chavez and leaving his body on permanent public display in a similar fashion as Lenin.
The museum housing Chavez's body will open to the public from Saturday and the government expects the mausoleum to become a "place of pilgrimage for the world's revolutionaries."
Earlier, a black hearse loaded with the casket made its entrance through the gates of the barracks, and several senior military commanders carried the coffin down a red carpet.
"Our people can be absolutely sure that we won't fail them, we will build Bolivarian socialism... following the comandante's instructions," the late president's older brother Adan Chavez spoke just before the coffin closed, as he choked up and could not finish his speech.
Chavez succumbed to cancer on March 5 at age 58, plunging a deeply polarized Venezuela into mourning amid growing uncertainty over its future.
"We came for the love and loyalty. Life will continue to remind us of Hugo Chavez, the man who opened our eyes and roads," said Maria Ruiz, a local official of the ruling PSUV party who traveled from the northern state of Carabobo.
The funeral procession had started after a mass and a solemn ceremony in the courtyard of the military academy, which for nine days and nights saw throngs of Venezuelans come pay their last respects.
The "comandante" was laid out in an olive green uniform and wore his trademark red beret.
His daughter Maria Gabriela, donning dark glasses, broke through the applause to thank her father for "giving us the homeland back" and promised to defend his legacy, as Chavez's mother wept incessantly.
After a mass, the casket was loaded into a black hearse for the 12-kilometer (7.5-mile) procession by foot, motorcycle, car, jeep and on horseback to the barracks.
Huge crowds of hundreds of thousands of supporters - many sporting red shirts bearing Chavez's likeness -- watched as the hearse, flanked by riders in ceremonial red military uniforms on horseback, made its way slowly down the Paseo de los Proceres, a boulevard honoring the country's founders.
"I came because he is our president," 51-year-old Judith Santana told AFP. "The best tribute we can pay tribute is to keep fighting for our revolution and to be happy, not sad."
The march resembled last week's seven-hour procession during which Chavez's coffin was transferred to the academy from the military hospital where he died.
Communications Minister Ernesto Villegas said the government had scrapped plans to embalm Chavez "like Lenin" and put him on permanent public view.
"We have ruled out the option of embalming the body of comandante Chavez after a Russian medical commission report," that determined the procedure would require the body to be sent to Russia and stay there for at least seven months, Villegas wrote on Twitter.
Some have also suggested that Chavez be buried in the National Pantheon next to South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, Chavez's personal hero and the inspiration of his leftist movement.
On Tuesday, the ruling party postponed debate in parliament on a constitutional amendment that would make this possible without waiting 25 years.
Venezuelans will vote for a new president on April 14.
In the running are Nicolas Maduro, Chavez's handpicked successor, and opposition leader Henrique Capriles, whom Chavez beat in October elections.
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January 26, 2013
Stephen S. Bowen, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wabash College, announced today that Gregory D. Hess has been elected the 16th president of Wabash College.
"I am honored and privileged to lead an institution that transforms gentlemen into everyday heroes," Hess said upon accepting the position at the 900-student liberal arts college for men.
Dr. Hess, who is currently the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Claremont McKenna College (CMC), will begin his responsibilities on July 1, and will follow Patrick E. White, who announced his resignation last May.
"The Trustees could not be more pleased with the work of the search committee in identifying an extraordinary pool of candidates," Bowen said. "The Board is proud to announce the election of Gregory Hess as Wabash's next president. He brings an impressive record of achievement as an economist, teacher, scholar, and administrator, and we look forward to working closely with him to help Wabash College achieve its mission."
In addition to his role as Dean of the Faculty at Claremont McKenna, Dr. Hess is the James G. Boswell Professor of Economics and a George R. Robert Fellow. In his current role, he oversees all aspects pertaining to academic affairs, including the curriculum, the Center for Global Education, the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurism, athletics, institutional research, student learning outcome assessments, and information technology.
"Promoting and identifying Wabash College's distinctiveness as a 21st century liberal arts college for men is a critical element for the new president to articulate," Dr. Hess said. "Wabash needs to be known as an institution that understands the unique abilities and needs of young men, firmly grounds them in the liberal arts, and resolves to fully develop their cultural and skill-based competencies. A Wabash education must be made synonymous with the superb preparation of men to be the next generation of ethical and responsible leaders who will address the key challenges facing our country and their communities."
A native of San Francisco, he earned his bachelor's degree with high honors from the University of California-Davis, and his master's degree and Ph.D. in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.
In his tenure at Claremont McKenna, he implemented the academic fundraising outcomes of The Campaign for Claremont McKenna, including 27 professorships, a new Dean of Science position, the Robert Day Scholars Program for undergraduates and graduate students in a new Master of Finance program, and nine grants from national and international foundations. He initiated and facilitated a review of faculty governance at CMC, which included a complete revision of the faculty handbook and significant changes to the college's appointment, promotion, and tenure policies.
Dr. Hess has led several important curricular changes at CMC, including the establishment of a year-long freshman humanities and writing program, the Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and its master's degree program, and new Arabic and Portuguese language programming. He also helped establish summer programs in Amman, Jordan and Seoul, Korea, and created the Silicon Valley Semester Program and CMC's India Initiative in Delhi.
Dr. Hess has held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Kansas, St. John's College (Cambridge), the University of Cambridge, London Business School, and Oberlin College.
Outside the academy, Dr. Hess has previously worked as an economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as a consultant for Honda Motors of North America, and as a member of the Ohio Governor's Council of Economic Advisors. He has served as a visiting scholar for the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, St. Louis, Cleveland, and Kansas City, the International Monetary Fund, and the Bank of Japan.
He has published over 40 articles in refereed journals and is the author of 20 book chapters and books. He has appeared as a guest lecturer or invited seminar speaker at more than 80 conferences and meetings around the world.
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Project Number: 2096-21660-003-01-S
Project Type: Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: May 18, 2010
End Date: May 17, 2015
Non-destructive estimation of nutritional status of potato canopy using multispectral imaging and prediction of tuber yield and quality response to variable nutrient management under pivot irrigation.
Spectral characteristics of vegetation are a quantitative measure and can offer a non-destructive method to assess crop nutrition; biomass production; and, in turn, yield and quality of crop products. This type of sensing technology has been successfully developed for detecting nitrogen stress in agronomic crops, such as corn and rice. This technology can be modified for its application to potato production under center pivot irrigation. In this research, the following steps will be used to investigate the feasibility of developing a multispectral imaging based sensing system for estimation of nutritional status of potato canopy under variable nutrient management programs and, in turn, predict biomass production, tuber yields and tuber quality parameters. Furthermore, multispectral image sensing can be an efficient tool of non-destructive evaluation of potential non-uniformity in water distribution through sprinklers in center pivot irrigation system. 1. Collect multispectral images of potato canopy grown under different nutrient management programs; 2. Analyze the spectral characteristics of the canopy and search for a trend of such characteristic change with the corresponding nutrient management programs; 3. Analyze relationships between the spectral information carried in multispectral images and nutritional status of the plants monitored based on the petiole analyses and destructive plant sampling; and 4. Define a calibration equation for quantitatively estimating the level of nutritional statuses based on multispectral images.


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Drinks are expensive in Paris, so we are sure you will appreciate the three free shots (1 in each bar), one free shot at each venue. Meet up with a friendly bunch of local Parisians, students and backpackers - all ready to meet new people and have a awesome time.
Joining Paris Bar Crawl costs just €15 on the door, or only €13 if you book online in advance.
You must be over 18 to join Paris Bar Crawl. Please bring a valid ID (passport or driving licence) as proof of age and to enter the clubs along our route.
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After graduating from WC, I took a job at a medical supply company working in Accounting. I really liked the business aspect of things and went and got a Master's degree in Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Maryland. I now work for a defense contractor in program planning and financial control.
This is definitely not where I thought I'd end up after getting my Sociology degree but I wouldn't change a thing. I LOVED Washington College and the Sociology department. The understanding of social activity and welfare as well as the writing and analytical skills I picked up are invaluable no matter what profession you end up with. When the people I work with find out my undergrad degree is in Sociology they are always fascinated and really interested in how I ended up where I am.
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Feudal War
Map by gimil, yeti_c, DiM
Guide by danryan
Feudal War is in the opinion of many players on Conquer Club both the most versatile and one of the most strategic maps available. This is a conquest style map, meaning each player begins only with his starting region and must expand from there. There are a total of 82 regions on the map. It is helpful to think of these regions as either part of a kingdom or not. There are six total kingdoms, each has eight regions within its borders, including the castle. For every two regions of a kingdom a player controls, he receives a +1 troop bonus. Each round the owner of a castle gains a +5 autodeploy on each castle he controls. In addition, he receives the normal troop bonus based on region count (e.g. +3 if less than 12 are controlled, +4 for 12-14, +5 for 15-17, etc.). There are also three villages on the map. The villages have an autodeploy similar to the castle, only it is +3 per round.
The map works superbly for any settings except 7 or 8 player and quad games, due to only having six starting positions. All types of spoils, and any game style will work well on this map and require different approaches. It is a very fair two player map as well.
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The Campus Post Office is a contract station for the United States Post Office in Socorro, New Mexico. As a contract station, the Campus Post Office can provide the same services that are generally found in any post office operated by the United States Postal Service. The Director of Budget and Analysis oversees the operations of the Campus Post Office and the Post Office Manager reports to the Director.
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The United States Post Office in Socorro, New Mexico prepares the everyday mail, which is addressed to New Mexico Tech addresses. Approximately one-third of the mail received at the Socorro station belongs to New Mexico Tech. The mail is picked up by a van from the main post office and sorted at the contract station at 7:30 A.M., Monday through Friday. Campus Station provides the personnel and vehicle for the pick up. Once received, mail is sorted by departments and individuals. There are approximately fifteen hundred mailboxes to serve the student population.
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