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ABC Hits New Season High in Adults 18-49
During the week of November 5, 2012, ABC hit a new season high in Adults 18-49 (2.3/6) and finished No. 2 to NBC, tying an NFL-boosted Fox.Building week to week to achieve a season high with Adults 18-49, ABC scored its top-rated week in 5 months – since w/o 6/11/12 with coverage of the 2012 NBA Finals. Season-to-Date Updates – Upscale and Non-Sports Averages: Season to date among Adults 18-49 in homes with $100K+ Annual Income in the non-sports numbers, ABC leads the competition by double-digit percentages (3.65 rating), outdelivering CBS by 19% (3.07 rating), NBC by 21% (3.02 rating) and Fox by 34% (2.72 rating). In fact, ABC ranks No. 1 for the season in the non-sports Adult 18-49 averages across Nielsen's data streams, including Program Ratings for Most Current, Live + 7 Day and Live + Same Day, as well as the Commercial + 3 Day Ratings. Rankings: ABC claimed 5 of the Top 15 scripted TV shows during the week Adults 18-49, including the No. 1 broadcast drama for the 3rd straight week, with "Grey's Anatomy": "Modern Family" – No. 3, "Grey's Anatomy" – No. 5, "Suburgatory" – No. 9, while "The Middle" and "Once Upon a Time" tied at No. 14. ABC's "DWTS: All-Stars" (No. 5) and the "Modern Family" (No. 7) placed among the week's Top 10 most-watched TV programs overall, as "Dancing" was the most-watched unscripted series for the 5th week in a row. ABC's "20/20" on Friday ranked as the week's No. 1 newsmagazine in Adults 18-49 (tie). Monday
With "DWTS: All Stars" and "Castle," ABC led the pack for the 7th straight Monday this season in Total Viewers (12.4 million), outdrawing runner-up NBC by 2.0 million viewers (10.4 million – "The Voice"/"Revolution"), CBS by 4.8 million viewers (7.6 million – "HIMYM"/"Partners"/"2 Broke Girls"/"Mike & Molly"/"Hawaii Five-0") and Fox by 7.0 million viewers (5.4 million – "Bones"/"The Mob Doctor"). In addition among Adults 18-49, ABC beat out Fox on the night by 33% (2.0/5 vs. 1.5/4)."Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars" (8:00-10:01 p.m.)
Gaining audience from its first hour to its second hour, ABC's "Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars" (13.5 million) won its time period and finished as Monday's most-watched TV series for the 5th week running, besting NBC's "The Voice" (11.9 million) in head-to-head competition by 1.6 million viewers. Among Adults 18-49, ABC's "Dancing" beat out Fox's dramas in the 2-hour time period by 40% (2.1/5 vs. 1.5/4). "Castle" (10:01-11:00 p.m.)
Monday's most-watched scripted TV program in its 6th telecast in a row, ABC's "Castle" (10.0 million) won the 10 o'clock hour by wide margins, topping NBC's "Revolution" of 2.6 million viewers (7.4 million) and CBS' "Hawaii Five-0" by a season-best 2.5 million viewers (7.5 million). In addition, the ABC drama ranked as the No. 2 series in the hour with Adults 25-54 (2.7/6) and key Women demographics (W18-49/W25-54). Tuesday
With ABC News' "Your Voice, Your Vote: Election 2012," ABC beat CBS in prime by 33% in Total Viewers (10.4 million vs. 7.8 million), by 44% in Adults 25-54 (3.9/8 vs. 2.7/6) and by 36% in Adults 18-49 (3.4/8 vs. 2.5/6).Anchored by Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos, "Your Voice, Your Vote: Election 2012" scored ABC's strongest non-sports performance on the night in almost 1 year with both Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 – since 11/22/11.Wednesday
Despite facing increased competition week to week from a special 2-hour "The Voice" on NBC, ABC posted across-the-board increases with its Wednesday line up. Jumping 12% over the prior week, the Net earned second place on the night among Adults 18-49 (2.8/7), beating CBS by 4% ("Survivor"/"Criminal Minds"/"CSI" = 2.7/7) and Fox by 8% (2-hour "The X Factor" = 2.6/7). In viewers and young adults, ABC's "Modern Family" stood as Wednesday's No. 1 TV show, leading the night among Adults 18-49 for its 6th consecutive telecast this season. "The Middle" (8:00-8:30 p.m.)
At 8:00 p.m., ABC's "The Middle" took second in Adults 18-49 (2.7/8) to "The Voice," tying CBS' "Survivor: Philippines" for the first time this season (2.7/8) and beat out Fox's "The X Factor" by 13% (2.4/7). In addition, the ABC comedy defeated "The Voice" in Teens 12-17 to finish as the No. 1 TV show in the half-hour. "The Middle" returned up after its preemption the prior week, growing its numbers for its 4th straight telecast in viewers (+2%) and young adults (+4%) to mark best-since-premiere numbers on both measures. "The Neighbors" (8:30-9:00 p.m.)
At 8:30 p.m., ABC's "The Neighbors" beat the second half-hour of CBS' "Survivor" by an impressive 18% with Women 18-34 (2.0/6 vs. 1.7/5). Surging week to week in viewers (+19% - 6.9 million vs. 5.8 million) and young adults (+11% - 2.1/5 vs. 1.9/6), "The Neighbors" achieved new season highs in the half-hour on both counts. In addition, the ABC family comedy shot up 56% week to week with Teens 12-17."Modern Family" (9:00-9:31 p.m.)
Jumping over its lead-in to win the 9:00 p.m. half-hour, ABC's "Modern Family" (12.4 million and 4.8/12) beat out its nearest competition in the slot by 4% in Total Viewers ("Criminal Minds" = 11.9 million) and by 20% in Adults 18-49 ("The Voice" = 4.0/10). In addition to finishing as Wednesday's No. 1 TV show in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, "Modern Family" was also the night's highest-rated program with Adults 18-34 and Adults 25-54 for its 4th consecutive telecast."Modern Family" was up over the prior week by double digits in viewers (+17%) and young adults (+14%), while jumping by triple digits with Teens 12-17 (+155%) to match its highest rating since the beginning of January – since 1/4/12. "Suburgatory" (9:31-10:00 p.m.)
In the 9:30 p.m. half-hour against the conclusion of "The Voice" and "The X Factor," ABC's "Suburgatory" spiked week to week in Total Viewers (+21% - 7.6 million vs. 6.3 million) and Adults 18-49 (+21% - 2.9/7 vs. 2.4/6). In fact, the ABC sophomore comedy beat out "The X Factor" in Total Viewers (+9% - 7.6 million vs. 7.0 million) and Adults 18-49 (+7% - 2.9/7 vs. 2.7/7).Hitting season highs, "Suburgatory" drew its biggest audience since January and tied its top young adult number in over 1 year – since 1/11/12 and 11/2/11, respectively."Nashville" (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
During the 10 o'clock hour, ABC's "Nashville" ranked No. 1 in its time period, defeating its drama competition on CBS ("CSI") and NBC ("The Voice"-driven "Chicago Fire") in Adults 18-34 (1.7/5) and across the key Women demos (W18-34/W18-49/W25-54).Equaling the series' 2nd highest Adult 18-49 number, "Nashville" rose week to week by 7% in viewers (6.1 million vs. 5.7 million) and by 11% in young adults (2.0/6 vs. 1.8/5). Continuing to see big increases in the Live + 7 Day ratings, "Nashville" spikes over its Live + Same Day numbers by 54% in Adults 18-49 (+1.3 rating) and by 42% in Total Viewers (+3.3 million), averaging 11.1 million viewers and a 3.7 rating with young adults in the final numbers.Thursday"Last Resort" (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
Up against big competition during the 8 o'clock hour from NBC's special "The Voice," CBS' top-rated comedies ("The Big Bang Theory"/"Two and a Half Men") and Fox's premiere of "The X Factor Results Show," ABC freshman "Last Resort" returned after its preemption the prior week with gains of 8% in Adults 18-49 (1.4/4 vs. 1.3/4) and 25% in Adults 18-34 (1.0/3 vs. 0.8/3) from two weeks ago. The new show also spiked 25% with Men 18-34 over its last telecast to equal its best number since early October – since 10/11/12. One of the biggest percentage gainers via DVR playback for any 8:00 p.m. show this season, ABC's "Last Resort" adds on 2.3 million viewers and shoots up by an impressive 56% (+1.0 rating) in Adults 18-49 from the next-day L+SD numbers to the final L+7 numbers. The ABC freshman drama continued to deliver double-digit year-over-year growth in its time period. In fact on average "Last Resort" is boosting its hour for ABC by 29% in Total Viewers and by 47% in Adults 18-49 over the same point last season with original drama programming. "Grey's Anatomy" (9:00-10:02 p.m.)
More than doubling its lead-in among Adults 18-49 (+136%) at 9:00 p.m., ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" won its hour and registered as Thursday's No. 1 drama for its 5th straight telecast this season. Leading the 9 o'clock hour by double-digit percentages among Adults 18-49, "Grey's" (3.3/8) beat out CBS' "Person of Interest" by 14% (2.9/8), Fox's "Glee" by 38% (2.4/6) and NBC's "The Voice"-fueled comedies ("The Office"/"Parks and Recreation") by 57% (2.1/5). Jumping in DVR Playback this season, "Grey's" builds by 3.5 million viewers and by 1.7 Adult 18-49 rating points from its next-day numbers to its L+7 finals. "Grey's" grew over its most recent airing two weeks ago by 6% in Total Viewers (9.3 million vs. 8.8 million) and by 10% in Adults 18-49 (3.3/8 vs. 3.0/8).Season to date "Grey's Anatomy" is up over the same point last year in both viewers (+6%) and young adults (+2%). "Scandal" (10:02-11:00 p.m.)
ABC's "Scandal" once again posted a close 2nd-place finish to CBS' "Elementary" in the 10 o'clock hour in Adults 18-49, while running way ahead of NBC's "Rock Center with BrIan Williams" in Total Viewers (+56% - 6.1 million vs. 3.9 million) and Adults 18-49 (+90% - 1.9/5 vs. 1.0/3). Additionally, "Scandal" continued to beat out "Elementary" to stand as the No. 1 scripted TV show in its slot in Adults 18-34 and Women 18-34, while winning outright with key Women (W18-49/W25-54). Posting large increases from DVR playback, on average this season the ABC 10 o'clock drama surges by 2.4 million viewers and by 40% in Adults 18-49 over its first-reported L+SD numbers to its Live + 7 Day results. Up for the 2nd telecast in a row, "Scandal" posted its top Women 18-34 number since the beginning of October – since 10/4/12.
With its comedies ("Last Man Standing"/"Malibu Country"), "Shark Tank" and "20/20," ABC won Friday in Adults 18-49 for the 2nd week in a row (1.8/6), leading by double-digit percentages over CBS (+13% - 1.6/5), NBC (+50% - 1.2/4) and Fox (+64% - 1.1/3).ABC's "Shark Tank" qualified as Friday's No. 1 TV show for the 2nd straight week among young adults. The Net was up over the same night last November by 21% in Total Viewers and by 64% in Adults 18-49 (5.2 million and 1.1/3 on 11/11/11)."Last Man Standing" (8:00-8:31 p.m.)
At 8:00 p.m., ABC's "Last Man Standing" ran in a virtual tie for first in its half-hour to CBS' "Undercover Boss" in Adults 18-49 (pacing within 1-tenth of a rating point and tied in audience share – 1.6/6 vs. 1.7/6), while finishing a close second in Total Viewers (7.4 million). The ABC comedy beat out Undercover Boss by 33% among Adults 18-34 and was the broadcast leader with Teens 12-17. "Last Man Standing" greatly improved its time period over the year ago night with original programming, surging by 3.1 million viewers and by 100% in Adults 18-49 (4.3 million and 0.8/3 on 11/11/11). "Malibu Country" (8:31-9:00 p.m.)
Building on its lead-in among Adults 18-49 (+6%) at 8:30 p.m., ABC's "Malibu Country" delivered a strong second-place finish in its slot among the major networks with Total Viewers (7.3 million) and Adults 18-49 (1.7/5), towering over Fox's "Kitchen Nightmares." The ABC comedy beat its network rivals to win its half-hour among Women 18-34.Like its lead-in, "Malibu Country" generated huge year-over-year time-period improvement for ABC, growing its half-hour by 3.4 million viewers and by 143% in Adults 18-49 from the same night last year (3.9 million and 0.7/2). "Shark Tank" (9:00-10:01 p.m.)
Spiking over its lead-in by 24% in Adults 18-49 to emerge as the night's highest-rated show, ABC's "Shark Tank" dominated the 9 o'clock hour (2.1/5), outdelivering NBC's "Grimm" by 24% (1.7/5), CBS' "CSI: NY" by 50% (1.4/4) and Fox's "Fringe" by 133% (0.9/3). "Shark Tank" scored the series' 2nd highest Adult 18-49 rating ever, just behind last week's series high.
"20/20" (10:01-11:00 p.m.)
ABC's "20/20" ran No. 1 during the 10 o'clock hour in Adults 18-49 (1.6/5), beating CBS' "Blue Bloods" by 7% (1.5/5) and NBC's "Dateline" by 23% (1.3/4). In addition, the ABC newsmagazine bested "Dateline" by 4% in Total Viewers (4.9 million vs. 4.7 million) and by 24% in the key Adult 25-54 news demo (2.1/6 vs. 1.7/5). Anchored by Elizabeth Vargas, "20/20" reported on wild tales from the workplace, offering tips and secrets on how to survive the corporate jungle from such business successes as MARK CUBAN, star of 'Shark Tank" and the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Donald Trump.Building for the 2nd straight week (+7%), "20/20" marked an 8-week-high among Adults 18-49 – since 9/14/12. Continuing to show year-to-year gains, ABC's "20/20" topped its year-ago broadcast (2.0/5 and 1.5/5, respectively) in both Adults 18-49 (+7%) and Adults 25-54 (+5%).Saturday
With "Saturday Night Football" (Notre Dame at Boston College), ABC easily won the night, dominating Fox with its college football coverage (from 8:00-10:00 p.m.) by 125% (1.8/6 vs. 0.8/3). In addition, ABC stood as the most-watched network on Saturday night, more than doubling the overall audience of Fox (+103% - 5.9 million vs. 2.9 million).Airing from 8:06-11:30 p.m., "Saturday Night Football" was the definitive No. 1 program of the night in Adults 18-49 (1.8/6).The "Saturday Night Football" game was up over the prior week's match-up by 100% in Total Viewers (5.8 million vs. 2.9 million) and by 157% in Adults 18-49 (1.8/6 vs. 0.7/2).
Opposite NFL-driven Sunday competition from NBC's "Sunday Night Football" (Chicago Bears-Houston Texans) and Fox's huge overrun during the first hour of primetime (St. Louis Rams-San Francisco 49rs), ABC defeated CBS on the night by 5% in Adults 18-49 (2.0/5 vs. 1.9/5)."Once Upon a Time" (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
Shooting up from its Adult 18-49 lead-in (+93%) at 8:00 p.m. and growing from start to finish, ABC's "Once Upon a Time" beat out CBS' "The Amazing Race XXI" during the hour by 8% (2.7/7 vs. 2.5/6). In addition, the ABC drama stood as the No. 1 non-sports program in the hour across all key Women demos (W18-34/W18-49/W25-54). ABC's "Once Upon a Time" is generating big gains in DVR playback in the Live + 7 Day ratings, spiking over its preliminary Live + Same Day numbers by 3.0 million viewers and by 1.4 Adult 18-49 rating points. "Revenge" (9:00-10:01 p.m.)
In the 9:00 p.m. hour, ABC's "Revenge" dominated CBS' competing drama "The Good Wife" by 41% in Adults 18-49 (2.5/6 vs. 1.7/4). For the 2nd week in a row, "Revenge" beat out its non-sports competition on CBS ("The Good Wife") and Fox (1-hour "Family Guy's" 200th episode) by wide margins in Adults 25-54 and across the key Women demographics. Surging in DVR playback, on average this season "Revenge" jumps from its L+SD to L+7 numbers by 2.9 million viewers and by 1.2 Adult 18-49 rating points (+43%). "666 Park Avenue" (10:01-11:00 p.m.)
During the 10 o'clock hour, ABC freshman "666 Park Avenue" retained 100% of its week-ago number in Adults 25-54 (1.5/3), while growing 5% with Women 25-54 (2.1/5 vs. 2.0/5). Continuing to rank among the biggest freshman series this season in DVR playback, on average "666 Park Avenue" sees its Live + 7 Day Adult 18-49 rating jump by 53% (+0.9 rating) and adds another 2.0 million viewers over its Live + Same Day numbers. WEEK NO. 7: ADULTS 18-49 TOTAL VIEWERS
No.1 NBC 3.1 No.1 CBS 9,340,000
No.2 ABC 2.3 No.2 NBC 8,830,000
No.2 FOX 2.3 No.3 ABC 8,000,000
No.4 CBS 2.2 No.4 FOX 6,340,000
No.5 CW 0.7 No.5 CW 1,710,000Source: The Nielsen Company (National, Live+ Same Day Program Ratings), week of 11/05/12.


text: Dear Citizens of Baltimore, Support the city in preserving and improving a Baltimore icon by voting YES on Question H. On this year's election ballot, a number of bond issues will appear before City voters. One of those is Question H, which would authorize a $1 million grant to the National Aquarium to restore its original central atrium and the 265,000-gallon open water exhibit that is home to stingrays, sharks and an endangered green sea turtle named Calypso. Originally built in 1981, the concrete structures in and around the Wings in the Water exhibit are corroding from 30 years of contact with salt water and the wear and tear of 1.4 million visitors every year. These funds will be put toward the $6 million total cost to reinforce the concrete in and under the exhibit and improve the exhibit lighting for the animals and our visitors. Improving the National Aquarium will ensure that we can be a centerpiece of Baltimore pride for years to come. Help us to preserve and improve this Baltimore icon by voting YES on Question H! Tags: baltimore-city, election, question-h, vote Categories: Behind-The-Scenes, News Previous Post Next Post

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HTML 5 Game of Life – Canvas Tag
In a previous post I described how I created a simple version of John Conway's Game of Life using HTML 5 Web Workers for multi-threaded matrix calculations: HTML5-GoL. Once each new matrix is calculated, I needed to display it somewhere. In order to keep rendering (and therefore UI thread overhead) at a minimum I decided to only pass back the delta from the previous matrix to the current one (those squares with new life and recently deceased). The end result was a pretty fast implementation that could render fast enough for smooth transitions.
Canvas Tag – Simple 2D bitmap graphics
The Canvas tag was first introduced with Apple within Webkit and allows for a simple block area to render simple 2D bitmap graphics. This differs from SVG implementations which render individual graphic primitive objects which can be re-rendered and modified as DOM elements. Canvas tag graphics are simple drawing, composition, translation, and image manipulation.
In order to draw each Game of Life matrix, we first need the canvas area
<!DOCTYPE html> <canvas id="gol_canvas" width="401" height="401"></canvas>
Next we need to get the 2D context from the canvas DOM element.
var context = document.getElementById('gol_canvas').getContext('2d')
Once we have the 2D context we can start drawing simple shapes (lines, blocks, circles, etc) or do any number of other 2D actions. For this simple Game of Life example I created a new GoLCanvas object which would hold all of the GoL specific actions (e.g. create life at x,y, clear the board, etc). Overall the drawing API is simple if not a bit archaic (reminds me of my CS course in computer graphics where we did very basic OpenGL commands in C++).
Taken from gol-canvas.js
var draw_background = function() { context.clearRect(0, 0, size, size) context.fillStyle = COLORS.BACKGROUND context.fillRect(0, 0, size, size); }
The canvas work was simple and effective; only touching the surface of what can be done. There are a ton of great tutorials on the canvas tag and what can be done with it.
HTML 5 Game of Life – Web Workers
I like JavaScript. I admit it. I used to hate it, but then things changed. What changed? A few months back I decided to take a crack at learning some of the new HTML 5 APIs by implementing John Conway's Game of Life in JavaScript using web workers and a 2D canvas tag for display. The end result was a lot of fun and a pretty cool pet project: HTML5-GoL.
Game Of Life: Devs-In-A-Cabin & STL Code Retreat & HTML 5
John Conway's Game of Life is a simple algorithm for cellular automaton where each new generation can be computed by calculating the number of neighbors each cell has in the previous generation. A living cell will stay alive if it has 2 or 3 neighbors (diagonals count). A dead cell will spawn new life IFF it has exactly 3 neighbors. Simple.
A few months back Amos King got a number of developers together for a weekend of hacking and talking shop at a cabin near St. James, MO (#devsinacabin). The idea was for every developer come prepared to give a quick talk on something … I hacked together the basics of this HTML5 implementation the day of and presented that night.
Not long after, Mario Aquino and James Carr put together a Code Retreat here in St. Louis where pairs of developers repeatedly tried to implement the Game of Life in many different languages and styles in 40 minute chunks. I cleaned up my code a bit before hand to show one implementation that actually had graphics (I cheated, I know). FYI both Mario and James have put together JavaScript implementations of GoL also.
Without too much trouble I was able to put something together that leveraged web workers for calculating each new "world" state outside of the main UI event loop and a simple 2D canvas tag to display all of the live and dead cells. There are a ton of other HTML 5 features I would love to add (mouse interaction, local storage and loading of customer patterns, etc), but those are for another day. For now the code is up on GitHub with a nice home page including an example implementation (JSpec tests for all of the actual game logic).
Click the above picture to go there and see it in action
and keep reading below to find out how I used web workers to offload my hard computations…
Web Workers: Multi-Threaded JavaScript
The event oriented nature of JavaScript can be a nice feature and a huge pain int he a$$. Simple button click events and AJAX calls are easy, but try to do any significant calculations and you quickly run into UI problems. Trying up your one and only JavaScript thread on an animation loop or complex parsing task means your UI becomes unresponsive and sluggish. Take the time to break all of your work into small chunks and hundreds of setTimeout and setInterval calls and you might go cross-eyed. Enter Web Workers.
Web Workers are separate JavaScript threads that can be spawned by the main UI thread and will download and execute a specified .js file from the same domain. The UI thread and the new worker can communicate by asynchronous message passing of String values (and vanilla JSON objects, although this isn't technically in the spec). In addition, web workers can't manipulate the DOM or anything on the page directly. So what can they do? They can run in parallel of your UI code and leverage any other normal native API that your UI code can (web sockets, XMLHttpRequest, local storage, etc). This means that you can offload large computations and server communication to the second thread and leave your main thread for dealing with the user and the DOM.
*** From several soures and the spec itself, it sounds like Web Workers are not designed to be cheap to create and start. This doesn't mean that implementations have to make these expensive operations, but the idea is that you won't create hundreds of these. Instead create one or two and reuse them. I noticed that besides the extra network hits to grab the actual code to run int he worker, there was occasionally a noticeable pause as the worker thread was spawned. Since the UI thread will have continued on during this time, it is probably a best practice to have the worker and UI threads coordinate their work with some "I a alive and ready" type messages. ***
In the Game of Life code I wanted to use a Web Worker to do the generation-to-generation calculations since I figured this would be the bulk of the processing time and my naive 2D array implementation required a fair amount of calculations for large "worlds". The gol-client.js file is the jumping off point. The main chunk of code is executed after the DOM is loaded and creates the necessary objects used to draw on the canvas and creates a new Web Worker loaded with gol-worker.js.
var message_actions = { log: function(message) { console.group('Client Received Message'); console.log( message ); console.groupEnd(); } } $(function() { var context = document.getElementById('gol_canvas').getContext('2d') var canvas = new GoLCanvas(context, 50, 401) canvas.clear() message_actions.draw = function(delta) { canvas.draw(delta) } var worker = new Worker('./lib/gol-worker.js') worker.addEventListener('message', function (event) { message_actions[event.data.action](event.data.data) }, false); })
First thing first, the worker loads up a secondary library file containing the actual Game of Life logic using the importScripts(") command. The worker is the only one that actually knows about the Game of Life algorithm and matrix ("world"). After creating a new matrix it randomly seeds the world and kicks off a timer to calculate a new generation each X ms and post the changed positions back to the main UI thread.
importScripts('gol.js') postMessage({ action: 'log', data: 'Starting' }) for(var x = 0; x < SIZE; x++) { for(var y = 0; y < SIZE; y++) { if(Math.floor(Math.random() * 2) == 1) { matrix.spawn(x, y) } } } setInterval(function() { postMessage({ action: 'draw', data: matrix.ticktock() }) }, 200)
*** Initially I assumed that the calculations for each new board would be time consuming and I would be able to run them continuously and post back changes to the UI thread after each one without any waits. Turns out it is fast and spamming messages to the UI thread can cause some hiccups in performance more than just waiting. I haven't had a chance to examine what really happened but in Chrome on Windows I was seeing some really strange behavior when I flooded the UI thread w/ messages too fast. I am not sure if their is a message buffer I was overflowing or if it was just choking on the throughput. ***
All in all workers are a piece of cake and really helpful. I noticed some performance differences between Firefox and Chrome (hint Chrome was faster) but I can't blame one particular thing or another. It might just be my crap code.
Along with offloading large processing tasks web workers can be used for background server communication, as a proxy for helping multiple client windows to talk to each other, persistent data stores, and common processors that can have life cycles beyond the scope of a single page but across multiple requests for a whole web-app (shared web workers).
>> Another post discusses some of my findings w/ using the Canvas tag to display the world … …
- Homepage of my code (hosted on GitHub, includes running example)
- HTML5Test.com (great resource for finding out if your current browser is "modern" or not)
- Bocoup web log (lots of good articles)
- Web Worker spec (includes some nice examples)
- HTML 5 spec from WHATWG
- Mozilla Web Workers tutorial
- The Wilderness Downtown and Google's Chrome Experiments (inspiration)


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The Glass House Mountains National Park is noted for its distinctive craggy peaks that tower above the surrounding landscape.
Formed by volcanic activity millions of years, these ancient rocky outcrops are of special significance to the Gubbi Gubbi Aboriginal people.
The Mount Ngungun summit walking track is a 2.8 kilometre trail that begins in open forest and offers great views of Mount Tibrogargan, Mount Coonowrin and Mount Beerwah from the summit. Don't forget to pack your camera as you'll find a 360 degree panoramic view of the coast and hinterland at the top!
Listed as a Grade 4 walking track, you will need to have a moderate level of fitness for this track, which will take about two hours to complete. Be sure to take plenty of water, wear supportive boots and sun protection.
Caution: This track passes close to cliff edges so please supervise children closely. Take extra care around the summit area in wet weather as rocks can become very slippery.
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|2.8 Kilometres
The Mount Ngungun summit walking track is a 2.8 kilometre trail that begins in open forest and offers great views of Mount Tibrogargan, Mount Coonowrin and Mount Beerwah from the summit.
This walk is managed by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. The map only shows an indicative start point; the track route and end point are not shown, and the map cannot be used for navigation purposes. See www.des.qld.gov.au for detailed maps and the latest park information. When you are in the park, read the signs at and near the start of the track.
|Route Details
|Mode of Travel
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|One Way
|Level of Difficulty
Level 4: Recommended for experienced bushwalkers
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March 13, 2017 - August 1, 2018
Beginning Monday March 13, 2017 Milestone Contractors will be restricting one lane in each direction on Sagamore Parkway between Kossuth Street and South Street. These restrictions will be through the duration of the project ending July 2018.
Contact: Ethan Cinatl
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Contact Office: 765-772-7500
April 2, 2018, 6:00 AM - September 8, 2018, 6:00 PM
Rieth-Riley will be having numerous lane restrictions and closures throughout the project. Lane restrictions and closures will begin on Teal Rd. from S. 30th St. to US 52 S. They will continue at the intersection of Teal Rd. and US 52 S. heading South to the end of the project at CR 775 E. Contractor will be sending in updates throughout the project so that any modifications can be added to the road closure request, keeping it current. Traffic control will be in place at all times. Watch for flagmen, signage, barricades and barrels. Restrictions and closures will be from 4/2/18 to 9/8/18. Contact: Jeff Bond with Rieth-Riley 765-585-7758.
April 2, 2018, 6:00 AM - July 15, 2018, 7:00 PM
Milestone Contractors will be closing South St. on April 2nd before rush hour traffic. Two sections will be closed to traffic. South St. will be closed between Earl Ave. & Sagamore Pkwy. South St. will be closed between Sagamore Pkwy. and Hamman St. Businesses along the closed section can be accessed using Sagamore Pkwy. (Sagamore Pkwy. will remain open during construction). The eastbound detour for the through traffic will be diverted to Earl Ave., then Union St., then to Creasy Ln. and back to South St. The westbound detour for the through traffic will be diverted to Creasy Ln., then Union St., then to Earl Ave. and back to South St. Traffic Control signage, barricades and barrels will be in place. Closure will be from 4/2/18 to 7/15/18. Contact: Ethan Cinatl, project manager 765-412-0933
April 30, 2018, 6:00 AM - November 30, 2018, 6:00 PM
Bowen Engineering will be closing the section of 10th St. & Valley St. spanning from South St. to Kossuth St. for the installation of a water main and storm water work. Road Closure will be from 4/30/18 to 11/30/18, approximately 6 months.Through traffic will not be permitted during this time. If you are traveling through this area, please follow the alternate route, which will be displayed by detour markers. Please be attentive as construction traffic and workers will be in and around the work zone. Contractor has coordinated with the residents, flaggers will help facilitate everybody to and from their residence during this time. Contact: Scott Heinzelman with Bowen Engineering at 317-719-2767.
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A postelection crisis appears to be setting into a slow boil in Venezuela, with the government and opposition trading bitter accusations but holding back for the moment from moves that would escalate into direct conflict.
The government is threatening to jail opposition leader Henrique Capriles on charges of masterminding postelection violence but has given no indication it has any immediate intention of acting against him. Capriles, meanwhile, is boycotting an audit of the vote and plans to challenge his narrow loss in court. He is almost certain to lose in the government-controlled court system, but hasn't hinted that he will call his followers to the streets anytime soon.
"This isn't a struggle just for one day," Capriles said late Thursday. "This wasn't a fight for the presidency, rather to have a better country, a different one. A country in which institutions function."
For Capriles, open confrontation could bolster accusations that he only wants violence. His strategy for now appears to be waiting out the socialist government, which is struggling to keep its narrow margin of popularity from being eroded by food shortages and daily electrical blackouts that independent observers and the opposition link to mismanagement of the economy and national infrastructure.
For the government, jailing Capriles while he's seeking resolution in the court system could bring international condemnation and drive more people into the opposition camp.
"There are ways to express opposition to the government without risking violence or confrontation. It's a very fine line. Capriles has shown he's very smart and he can figure out where that line is," said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based think tank. "The government, I think, they have to keep up some of the rhetorical attacks and threats ... at the same time they have to be careful not to go too far, that would provoke a strong backlash within Venezuela but also among Venezuela's neighbors."
The conflict is not just rhetorical, however. The government says postelection attacks by Capriles supporters killed nine members of the ruling Chavista movement, left dozens injured and damaged government offices and medical clinics. The opposition and independent observers dispute the accusation.
Meanwhile, the opposition says hundreds of government workers have been fired and threatened with punishment for supporting the opposition. And a 35-year-old American documentary filmmaker, Timothy Tracy, was arrested Wednesday and is being held by Venezuela's intelligence service, accused of being a spy who paid right-wing youth groups to create post-vote unrest. The government said Thursday that it planned to charge him promptly, then repeated that statement on Friday, without providing details.
A member of Venezuela's top electoral authority said Friday that it had formally decided not to meet opposition demands for a top-to-bottom audit of the April 14 presidential election, a move that will keep tensions high over the almost evenly split and contested vote.
Vicente Diaz, the only member of the five-person National Electoral Council not seen as being firmly pro-government, told reporters that he had abstained from the council's vote because it did not include a review of registers containing voters' signatures and fingerprints.
President Nicolas Maduro, 50, was declared the winner of the election by a 267,000-vote margin out of 14.9 million ballots cast, or less than 2 percent of the total. Capriles says voting rolls included 600,000 dead people and a review of the registers would reveal votes cast in the names of the deceased.
Venezuela has a relatively advanced, multi-step voting system in in which citizens cast their vote on a computer, which generates a paper ticket that they place in a ballot box, before signing and placing their fingerprint in a register. At the end of election day, each computer generates a paper tally of votes.
A series of government officials have indicated in recent days that the vote audit would consist simply of matching the strips of paper tallying votes with the individual tickets in the ballot box. Capriles says the audit would show that those tallies match but won't uncover other types of fraud, like voting by people using the names of the dead.
"The members of the National Electoral don't want you to see what's in the voting register!" Capriles wrote on Twitter Friday. "How many dead people voted?"
While this week has seen a series of statements from high-ranking officials that they are ready to jail Capriles in connection with post-vote violence, Maduro appeared to be softening that tone on Friday as he toured the country reviewing infrastructure projects and promising more efficient responses to complaints of government mismanagement.
"We are all going to turn ourselves into popular communicators," he said. "Let's work together and build a stable revolutionary majority, which can even reach 70 percent ... let's knock on the door of the house of the people. Let's tell them our truth."
Late Friday, Maduro announced that he would travel to Cuba in the coming hours to ratify the strategic alliance that grew between the countries under Chavez.
"Tomorrow Saturday we are going to form a mixed commission with the government of Cuba to sign agreements for a new stage of cooperation in health, education and sports, to ratify our strategic alliance with the socialist government of Cuba," he said.
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After a severe thunderstorm delayed the match nearly two hours, the sellout crowd of 20,392 in attendance at Columbus Crew Stadium saw the home team fall 1-0 to a Seattle Sounders squad that played more than 83 minutes of the game with ten men.
While Crew captain and designated player Federico Higuain served the first match of his two-game suspension, rookie forward Ryan Finley earned his first MLS start for Columbus. Recently-acquired forward Clint Dempsey started the match at forward for Seattle alongside his US men's national team colleague Eddie Johnson.
The drama started early in the match, when Seattle defender Leonardo Gonzalez was issued a red card in the seventh minute.
A deflection gave Crew forward Ryan Finley a breakaway toward goal just past the halfway line, and as the rookie accelerated past the last Seattle defender, Gonzalez yanked him to the wet turf, forcing referee Ismail Elfath to reach into his back pocket and give Columbus a man advantage for the remainder of the match.
Despite that disadvantage, the Sounders were the first to find the net only eight minutes later, when a Mauro Rosales free kick found the head of Johnson. The Seattle striker found a seam in the Columbus defense and easily headed home the opener.
As Seattle played with ten men, the match seemed to open up for both teams, and the half played out with a plethora of chances in both directions. A sliding block by Jhon Kennedy Hurtado prevented Jairo Arrieta from equalizing on a Dominic Oduro cross in the 33rd minute, and Crew goalkeeper Matt Lampson got a toe on a Lamar Neagle shot just before the half to redirect a shot that would have given Seattle a 2-0 lead.
The Sounders tired down the stretch and spent much of the second half bunkering in their own end of the field. But despite numerous Columbus crosses and passes into dangerous areas, the Crew could not break through a Seattle side that was clearly focused on defense as Higuain's creative influence was clearly missed.
Columbus's best chance came in the 80th minute, when Oduro broke through the Seattle defense, outran the last defender and cut to his left past goalkeeper Michael Gspurning. With a nearly open net, Oduro's shot was too close to the 'keeper, and Gspurning got a finger on the attempt, pushing it wide to secure the victory for the Sounders.
With the win, Seattle improves to 43 points on the season, good enough for second place in the Western Conference with four games in hand on leaders Real Salt Lake. Columbus stays in eighth place in the East with 29 points, eight back of fifth-place New England.


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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
(W. W. Norton, 2009)
In this timely and long-awaited cultural history of the 1930s, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called "one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature," explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed Americans at a time of dire economic dislocation. Bringing together a staggering range of materials—from epic Dust Bowl migrations and sharecropper photographs to zany screwball comedies, wildly popular swing bands, and streamlined Deco designs—this eloquent work highlights the pivotal role of culture and government intervention in hard times. Exploding the myth that Depression culture was merely escapist, Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced some of America's greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment. Morris Dickstein is distinguished professor of English, theatre, and liberal studies at the Graduate Center.
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UPDATE: An SAI source confirms that Yahoo and Google have reached a search deal. The source believes that the deal will start small and ratchet up over time depending on its success. This makes sense, as a small deal will attract far less regulatory scrutiny. It will also contribute less to Yahoo's bottom line. The deal may not be announced this afternoon.
EARLIER: WSJ reports Microsoft-Yahoo talks have formally ended, which explains why YHOO is getting crushed:
The deal unraveled last weekend, at a meeting between Yahoo directors and Microsoft representatives. At the meeting, Microsoft made it clear that it was no longer wanted to pursue a larger deal, the people [familiar with the matter] said...
The company now plans to pursue a search advertising pact with Google, a deal that could be announced as early as today. Details of the plan weren't immediately clear but the two companies have been discussing a deal under which Yahoo would outsource its search advertising to Google.
Yahoo statement below. Meanwhile, now that Microsoft is history, Yahoo and Google are reportedly close to a search partnership.
EARLIER: TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports that Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) will announce "a search partnership of some sort" at 1:30 PT. We have since confirmed the search deal.
Here are our key points on a YHOO-GOOG search partnership:
- No way is it going to generate the incremental $1 billion of EBITDA for Yahoo some analysts have talked about. This is especially true if the deal will start small, as our source suggests.
- A smart deal--one structured to pass muster with the regulators--would not eliminate Yahoo's Panama and would only cover a fraction of Yahoo's overall search queries. This might deliver $200-$300 of annual EBITDA to Yahoo.
- A deal that excluded Microsoft would instantly render Microsoft's search business DOA.
- A deal that included Microsoft--an open bidding system--would be more likely to sail through regulator hell, but it still wouldn't save Microsoft's search business (which depends on query share, not monetization).
Interestingly, Yahoo's stock is cratering on this news. This could mean that:
- the market hasn't picked up on the rumor yet,
- the deal may not actually be that meaningful,
- Carl Icahn is already dumping Yahoo stock,
- someone else is dumping Yahoo stock because what is propping up the stock in the mid-$20s is hope for a Microsoft deal.
- Yahoo is doing the search deal with Google because all hope of a Microsoft deal is lost.
Would a Google-Yahoo search partnership eliminate the possibility of a Microsoft takeout? Very unlikely. In fact, it might even make it more likely. It would not be in Yahoo's interest to enter into any transaction that would prevent Microsoft or any other company from buying it, especially because Microsoft might still argue to regulators that the only reason Google and Yahoo are doing the deal is to screw Microsoft.
UPDATE: TechCrunch adds that Yahoo will announce the departure of another big senior executive today..and not Jeff Weiner. This could be hitting the stock, too. Not clear if this the whole announcement at 1:30, or whether the company will announce both the exec departure AND the search deal. (Or, for that matter, either). An SAI reader says the executive is a tech exec with little responsibility.
See Also: Carl Icahn May Lose His Shirt on Yahoo (YHOO)
Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced that discussions with Microsoft regarding a potential transaction -- whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo! or a partial acquisition -- have concluded. The conclusion of discussions follows numerous meetings and conversations with Microsoft regarding a number of transaction alternatives, including a meeting between Yahoo! and Microsoft on June 8th in which Chairman Roy Bostock and other independent Board members from Yahoo! participated. At that meeting, Microsoft representatives stated unequivocally that Microsoft is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo!, even at the price range it had previously suggested.
With respect to an acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business alone that Microsoft had proposed, Yahoo!'s Board of Directors has determined, after careful evaluation, that such a transaction would not be consistent with the company's view of the converging search and display marketplaces, would leave the company without an independent search business that it views as critical to its strategic future and would not be in the best interests of Yahoo! stockholders.
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The U.S. Embassy in Peru says it now sees a reduced threat of American tourists being kidnapped in the Cuzco region and is lifting a restriction on embassy personnel traveling there. The area includes the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
A warning to U.S. tourists in February that credible evidence existed of a threat from a Peruvian terrorist group drew vehement objections from officials in the South American country.
A statement posted Tuesday on the embassy's website says that after reviewing current information, it now sees a reduced threat of potential kidnapping in Cuzco. But the embassy recommends that Americans traveling in the regions of Cuzco, Apurimac, Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Junin heighten their security awareness and adopt additional security measures.
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Press Release: Final UC Report on Protests and Policing Released
The final "Response to Protests on UC Campuses" report was released by the University of California today (Sept. 13).
The report from UC General Counsel Charles F. Robinson and UC Berkeley Law School Dean Christopher F. Edley Jr. includes 49 recommendations and synthesizes months of inquiry into best practices for handling demonstrations, civil disobedience and free-speech issues related to protests throughout the 10 campuses of the UC system.
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oaktown wrote:i admit to not having spent much time playing this map so I won't speak to what you should do, but as for what you can do... yes, it would be possible to set up the code so that territories are split up in two and/or three player games. You could code three start positions so it would only affect 2 and 3 player games - if there are more than three players the start positions would be ignored.
Blitzaholic wrote:There should be 3 neutrals on every torri region to avoid players who start first from gaining an unfair advantage
this is my feedback ruben
awesome map by the way
Acquaviva Serravalle
Città di Borgo Maggiore
San Marino
saaimen wrote:Nice map, Ruben!
I'm gonna do some nitpicking again Don't know whether this has been discussed before, I'm sorry if it has.
How did you choose the order of the region names for you legend? Clockwise, I'm guessing?
I was very confused when I first saw it. IMHO, it would be more logical to place them more like their actual location on the map.
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Acquaviva Serravalle
Città di Borgo Maggiore
San Marino
... or something like it. Hope you get my point
Ruben Cassar wrote:Sorry but I'm not doing any of those changes at this stage.
I will try to improve the gameplay though with that neutral option.
saaimen wrote:Ruben Cassar wrote:Sorry but I'm not doing any of those changes at this stage.
I will try to improve the gameplay though with that neutral option.
Why not ?
It's bèta...
Does anyone back up my point, or doesn't it make sense to you guys?
Ruben Cassar wrote:However on a personal note, even if you would have mentioned this before in the development stage I would not have agreed with you. I prefer the regions to be listed in a clockwise order, as you said earlier. Just because you prefer them in another way it does not mean I would have changed it, this is just a matter of personal taste not an improvement per se.
MrBenn wrote:The purpose of the Beta Phase is iron out any gameplay glitches (such as occurred on Das Schloss), and to ensure that there are no significant flaws affecting the way games play (missing connections in XML; imbalanced gameplay). It's a failsafe to the foundry process, rather than a time for nitpicking - the nitpicking should come before the map is quenched.
If you get yourself signed up onto the review mailing lists (threads in Not Maps subforum), then you'll be alerted when maps are earlier on in the development process
yeti_c wrote:XML Updated and checked to now have all torri territories start as 2 neutral.
Ruben Cassar wrote:Ok guys...I'm playing a doubles on it right now and to me it seems more balanced now.
Let me know what you think.
jwithington wrote:I liked it better when it was random--made it so that perhaps one or both players could start with a bonus.
I voted in the poll as such too....Ruben Cassar wrote:Ok guys...I'm playing a doubles on it right now and to me it seems more balanced now.
Let me know what you think.
Ruben Cassar wrote:jwithington wrote:I liked it better when it was random--made it so that perhaps one or both players could start with a bonus.
I voted in the poll as such too....Ruben Cassar wrote:Ok guys...I'm playing a doubles on it right now and to me it seems more balanced now.
Let me know what you think.
Yes but that's what makes it less balanced and is exactly what we wanted to avoid!
It's not fair that whoever starts get a bonus.
MrBenn wrote:Hmmm... I'm not too sure how I feel about the neutral armies - it just feels like there are a lot of them, and it's not as if this is the biggest map in the world in the first place
I think a better solution would be to create 3 starting positions, as follows:
This breaks up all the small bonus regions, and ensures that in 2/3 player games, nobody will get a small bonus from the drop (and that each player will have at least 1 torri, but not all of them). The territories not included in starting positions are then divided equally among the players, so the rest of the map will be allocated randomly. The start positions are ignored if there are more players than positions, so will not effect larger player games, where it can be argued that the drop is less of an influencing factor.
I'd be inclined to leave 2 neutrals on Borgo Maggiore and Serravalle to ensure that nobody starts with the biggest bonuses in any case.
Ruben Cassar wrote: Something is not normal in this game. Apart from the 2 neutrals on the torri territories, there are also 10 territories with 3 neutrals on them which should not be there! Those 10 territories should be equally distributed among players 1 and 2. So I guess that's why you have the feeling that there are too many neutrals because in fact there are 10 territories which should not be neutral. I don't know if it's something to do with the XML, but that's not normal and is something that I will have to look into.
Edit: Is it possible that that particular tournament game was created before the XML was updated at that this somehow messed things up because in the new games I started I did not have this problem?
MrBenn wrote:The starting neutrals (as designated in the XML) are excluded from the territories that are allocated as player starts.
In 1v1 games, 1/3 of the 'allocatable' territories are assigned neutral. In these games then, you've got 1 neutral in each area, and then the additional neutrals in 1v1 games. The starting positions I proposed were purely to counter the massive amount of neutrals in 1v1 games (and would provide a fairer distribution in 3p games). Basically, each player would have at least 1 territory in each of the small areas that would prevent anybody getting the small bonuses from the drop...
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Matthew King necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 24 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Ministry Visuals
My name is Matthew King, and my wife is Karen. We recently decided to build Ministry Visuals as a side business, but have full intentions of making our full time income over the next few years... We have a heart for Ministry, especially the video ministry, and would love to display the most professional looking site we can afford to have a competetive edge with our fellow video sites.
Karen has worked within the church all of her life, and I have been in the Army for the last 13 years, making it hard to run a side business. Together, we hope to accomplish this goal, and to work with many producers, affiliates, and churches as we can find!
we are targeting the new age church, mostly non demoninational churches who are in need of videos, illustrations, countdowns, mini-movies, and interview style videos they can use to hook their audience into their sermon.
Our secondary audience is the new and upcoming church that is non-demoninational or of the protestant faith who is unsure how to use video in their church and they are looking for help to build a video ministry or video worship center into their existing building or setup.
Our goals are two-fold: we plan to train, through seminars, workshops, and personal one-on-one training, how to build a video ministry into their church, and 2) we provide the tools, and the videos, backgrounds they need in order be properly equipped, and running smoothly and efficiently after we leave them.
Our products are for them, and for any other churches that need our videos.
Our target audience would be Pastors, and youth ministry leaders.
I need a header, a menu bar, a sidebar with space for login name and password, a shopping cart bug (that shows how many products they have in their cart, a main viewing area where the prospective buyer can preview videos, and below that, they can see a horizontal thumbnail display of maybe 5 to 7 videos with short descriptions they can see at a glance to click on. When they click on the display, the video would show up in the preview window.
Below that would be a footer display.
On the Menu Bar, the Menus (or other pages) I need to display are:
Inside the page preferably on the sidebar (on the right), there should be a search box, so the clients can search for videos, and there should also be space for a "Top Ten Videos" list.
You can get examples from pages such as:
As far as background goes, I would like to see a dynamic colored background of some sort (see catholicmediahouse for an idea of what I mean), and as far as website colors go, I would like my color scheme to include the colors Plum (a dark purple), Black, a muted white, and Gold.
Examples are included in the uploaded files.
Please use the included files to create header logo, and a basis for the background, and overall look and feel of the page.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A UK parliamentary committee has invited executives from Starbucks Corp, Google Inc and Amazon.com Inc to answer questions about their tax practices, which allow them to make significant sales in the UK, but pay little tax here.
The Public Accounts Committee asked senior officials from the companies to address a hearing on November 5, but a spokesman said scheduling problems could mean the hearing might be held later in November.
He said none of the companies had declined to attend in principle.
Google said its representative, which the Committee identified as UK Managing Director Matt Brittin, would be travelling on this date and therefore would be unable to attend.
The company declined to say if Brittin would be available at a later date.
"We comply with all the tax rules in the UK," a spokesperson said.
Amazon and Starbucks did not return calls and emails seeking comment. Spokespeople have responded to previous inquiries about their tax affairs by saying the companies comply with tax rules in all the countries where they operate.
Earlier this month, Reuters revealed that Starbucks had paid only 8.6 million pounds of income taxes on 3.1 billion pounds of sales since 1998, by reporting consistent losses, even as it told investors the UK was a profitable market.
The report prompted a media storm and calls from lawmakers for a probe of Starbucks by the tax authority. Prime Minster David Cameron said last week in response to a question in parliament about big companies paying little or no tax on UK earnings that he was unhappy with the current situation.
Google has come under fire for routing sales to UK clients via an Irish subsidiary, thereby avoiding UK income tax on any profits made. Amazon bills its European customers from a Luxembourg-based subsidiary.
European Union rules allow companies to sell into one EU market from another.
Ireland and Luxembourg have tax regimes that allow companies incur effective tax rates well below the headline UK rate of 24 percent.
Reporting by Tom Bergin. Editing by Andre Grenon


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Spain coach Vicente del Bosque would like to see a good match when Real Madrid entertain Atletico Madrid this weekend, who he believes are a strong side under Diego Simeone.
Los Colchoneros are enjoying a great season and are currently second in the Primera Division, three points behind leaders Barcelona and an impressive eight points ahead of their cross-town rivals.
Although Atleti have a miserable record against los Blancos, Del Bosque hopes that the outcome of the match will not be determined early on as it has often been in the past.
"Atletico Madrid under Simeone are a very good team. I hope it will be a good match between them and Real Madrid," the Salamanca-native was quoted by Marca.
"I hope that the game will not be resolved in the opening stages like it has been in previous years.
"Atletico have had their ups and downs over the years. But, now with Simeone that are more consistent."
Del Bosque was speaking before travelling to Brazil where the final shortlists for the Ballon D'Or were made and where he will attend the draw for next year's Confederations Cup this Saturday.
Talking of the annual award and next year's warm-up competition ahead of the 2014 World Cup, Del Bosque revealed which fellow coaches he voted for, denied that Brazil are no longer the force they used to be while insisting that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi could play together.
"They [Ronaldo and Messi] for sure could play in the same team, just like all good players," he continued.
"As for my votes, I elected Roberto Di Matteo who won the Champions League, Cesare Prandelli who led Italy to the final of Euro 2012 and Pep Guardiola who I believe is an important figure within football.
"Brazil do not cease to be Brazil. They, as hosts, have fantastic players still."


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Millionaires: They're not so different from the rest of us. In a study of 880 global high-net-worth clients, deVere Group asked respondents to identify the biggest investing mistake they made before they decided to get help from a professional.
"Mistakes investing can and do occur — it is how they are best avoided, or at least mitigated, that is the key to success," Nigel Green, founder and chief executive of deVere, said in a statement. "Learning lessons from people, like those we polled, who have overcome these common investment mistakes to go on to accumulate significant wealth in the longer-term is a way to reduce costly errors."
Green noted that there was little difference between the top five most common mistakes. "This close weighting could suggest that, according to the respondents, all of them are almost equally as significant and costly — and therefore must be avoided," he said.
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5. Focusing Too Much On Historical Returns
Fourteen percent of respondents said they focused more on the past than the future in their investing.
"High-net-worth individuals told us that they have in the past been caught out by relying too much on historical returns and not giving enough importance to future expectations," Green said. "The future investment situation is likely to be different from time-aged averages. Past averages may have little bearing on the current environment and therefore the actual returns you receive."
4. Not Reviewing the Portfolio Regularly
The survey found 16% of respondents failed to review their portfolio on a regular basis.
"This is not surprising as even the best portfolios can go off-target over time," Green noted. "Investments need to be reviewed and potentially rebalanced at least annually, preferably more often, to ensure they still deserve their place in the portfolio and that they are still on track to reach your long-term financial objectives."
3. Making Emotional Decisions
Fully one in five respondents said they made decisions based on emotion instead of fact.
"Most decisions in life are emotional to some degree, but making excessively emotional decisions can prove deadly when it comes to investments because they are blighted by prejudices and biases," according to Green. He pointed to advisors' advice as an important tool for clients to overcome emotional biases.
2. Investing Without a Plan
The survey found 22% of millionaires fall into the "all-too-familiar trap of randomly investing, or investing without a structured, robust plan," according to Green. "Anyone who has an investment plan can expect their portfolio to outperform those without a plan. To my mind, unless you have a sound investment plan you are gambling, not investing."
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Finally, 23% of respondents said failing to adequately diversify their portfolio was their biggest mistake.
"As the survey highlights, failure to diversify a portfolio is widely regarded as one of the most common investment pitfalls," Green said. "Spreading your money around is a vital tool to manage risk. However, it must be used correctly. Diversification will only add real value if the new asset has a different risk profile."
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We begin the pay per view with a video package featuring the members of Team Smackdown talking about how it is the Friday night flagship. Then we see the members of Team Raw focused as they talk about how Raw is the corporate flagship for the last two decades. ECW is not mentioned.
Your announcers are Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and Todd Grisham.
We see the Official Bragging Rights Trophy on a blue and red table cloth.
The announcers mention that Jim Ross is at home recovering from an illness and they wish him the best.
Before our first match we have the Miz and Morrison video package that aired on the 30 minute preshow starring Jack Korpela.
We see the members of Team Smackdown in the seven on seven tag match watching in the back. Now we see Team Raw, but Shawn and Hunter are not wearing the red shirts. Match Number One: Match for 'Bragging Rights': United States Champion The Miz versus Intercontinental Champion John Morrison
They lock up and Morrison with a waist lock and Miz tries to escape but Morrison continues to ride Miz. Miz makes his way to the ropes. Morrison with a double leg take down and he works on the arm. Morrison blocks a hip toss and hits a fireman's carry for a near fall. Morrison with a side head lock and shoulder tackle. Morrison with another shoulder tackle for a near fall. Morrison with a side head lock and he backs Miz into the corner. Miz pushes Morrison on a break and then he goes to the floor. Miz with a kick and side head lock take down. Miz with a shoulder tackle but Morrison with a flap jack and a kip up. Morrison with a standing shooting star press for a near fall. Morrison with a forearm to the back but Miz with punches and kicks. Miz throws Morrison to the floor and then Miz poses in the center of the ring.
Miz tries to suplex Morrison back into the ring but Morrison blocks it and slides in and gets a near fall. Morrison with a cover but Miz with a bridge. Miz misses a knee lift and Morrison tries for the swinging neck breaker but Miz escapes. Morrison clotheslines Miz over the top rope to the floor. They return to the ring and Morrison gets a near fall. Miz sends Morrison to the floor when Morrison tries to float over on an Irish whip. Miz goes out to the floor and throws Morrison back in. They return to the ring and Miz with a knee to the back and a belly-to-back suplex for a near fall. Miz with a knee in Morrison's back as he works on Morrison's back. Morrison with a mule kick. Morrison with a forearm and punches. Miz with an Irish whip and he hits the running clothesline into the corner. Miz with a forearm to the back and then he hits a knee lift with Morrison's head over the apron. Miz gets a near fall. Miz with a reverse chin lock. Morrison with a rollup for a near fall. Miz misses a charge and Morrison with another rollup. Miz with a kick to the ribs and Morrison responds. They exchange kicks and punches while the crowd boos and yays. Morrison with a series of kicks and a clothesline followed by a leg lariat for a near fall. Morrison misses the Shining Wizard and Miz with a rollup.
Morrison with another take down and he punches Miz. Morrison misses a charge into the corner. Miz misses a clothesline but Morrison does not miss the springboard spin kick and Miz gets his foot on the ropes. Miz rolls to the floor when he sees Morrison set for the moonsault. Morrison with a corkscrew pescado onto Miz. Morrison brings Miz back into the ring and gets a near fall. Morrison puts Miz on the top turnbuckle and Morrison tries for a superplex but Miz knocks Morrison off. Miz with a double sledge from the turnbuckles. Miz tries for the Skull Crushing Finale but Morrison escapes. Morrison with a side Russian leg sweep and Morrison goes up for the moonsault but Miz knocks Morrison off the turnbuckles and Miz gets the three count.
Winner: The Miz (Raw Leads 1-0)
We see Team Raw, at least the male members of Team Raw celebrate while Team Smackdown is not happy.
Michael Cole reminds us of the challenge that Chris Jericho and Kane set up for the members of Team Smackdown and we see footage of their failure thanks to Finlay's illegal shillelagh use.
Cody Rhodes is in the medical office getting ready. He says that it should be a clean sweep. R Truth enters and says that there are still two matches. Cody reminds Truth that he lost his match to qualify and then they had to get their team replaced. Cody calls Truth second rate and says that is the truth. Truth tells Cody that his daddy is the reason why he is on Raw. Randy Orton is the only reason why he has had any success. Truth tells Cody that he will be pinned tonight. Truth tells him that is the Truth and the Truth hurts.
Big Show comes up behind Truth and says that taking cheap shots shows that he learned a lot from Chris Jericho. Show tells Truth to go back to Kane, Jericho, and anyone in a blue shirt that Raw will let their actions speak.
We have a Survivor Series commercial featuring DX on a movie set.
Match Number Two: Match for 'Bragging Rights': Kelly Kelly, Melina, and Gail Kim versus Michelle McCool, Beth Phoenix, and Natalya Neidhart
Gail and Beth start things off and Beth with a kick and punch. Gail kicks back and connects with a forearm. Beth stops an Irish whip but Beth catches Gail on a cross body but Gail with a rollup for a near fall. Beth with a shoulder tackle and punch. Michelle tags herself in and she punches and kicks Gail followed by an uppercut. Gail with a kick and a rana. Michelle seeks refuge next to Natalya's legs and she tags in. Gail with a rollup for a near fall. Gail with a forearm but Natalya with a knee and forearm. Natalya with a slam but she misses an elbow drop and a charge into the corner. Gail with a cross body into the corner. Gail with a kick to the head from the apron and Kelly is tagged in. Kelly chokes Natalya in the corner with her boot. Natalya misses a clothesline and Kelly with a satellite head scissors. Natalya gets Kelly up in a wheelbarrow set up and drops her on the top rope and gets a near fall. Natalya runs Kelly into the corner and then Michelle and Beth attack Kelly while Natalya is with the referee. Michelle tags in while Natalya holds Kelly after a sunset flip attempt. Michelle with a knee to the head and then she runs Kelly into the corner. Beth tags in and she snap mares Kelly and gets a near fall. Beth with an arm bar and chin lock. Beth keeps Kelly from making the tag and Michelle tags back in. Michelle with a snap mare and a sleeper. Michelle with a knee to the head and then she connects with a knee lift. Beth tags herself in and she sends Kelly into the turnbuckles. Kelly kicks Beth and then hits a rana for a near fall. Kelly with a jawbreaker and Melina tags in.
Melina with a matrix and she punches Beth. Melina with a drop kick and a drop toe hold that sends Beth into the ropes. Melina with a screaming knees into the back and a screaming hair toss. Melina counters a slingshot suplex with an inside cradle and Michelle switches their positions while the referee was not watching. Melina with a screaming tilt-a-whirl head scissors for a near fall. All six women were in briefly. Beth grabs Melina and hits snake eyes and then gets Melina up for the sit out butterfly driver for the three count.
Winners: Michelle McCool, Beth Phoenix, and Natalya (tied 1-1)
We go to the Raw locker room and it is time for the DX pep talk. He says that the stakes have been upped and they cannot lose the match. Swagger wonders if they need the rah rah speech. Shawn says that it is not that simple. Swagger has all of the athletic ability, but it is respect that will carry this team. Hunter says that individually the team shouldn't get along. Hunter brings up the Mae Young/Mark Henry/birth of a hand angle from years ago. Hunter reminds everyone that Big Show has had Vince McMahon's head up. He reminds everyone about what they did to Cody Rhodes at Hell in a Cell. They have even proven that Kofi's Jamaican heritage was a fraud. Shawn says that they let him on the team. Shawn says that Swagger can leave and they will replace him with the first person they see. Hornswoggle comes in and Shawn reconsiders. Hunter says that they cannot and will not lose tonight. This is about honor and pride. It is about not being losers when you confront Team Smackdown. Hunter asks if they are ready.
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What are the chances we end up with no new record in terms of surface area but that the volume minimum is worse this year than last?I've actually not seen any recent figures for current volume vs the previous year
Looks like there is a little hole in the ice showing up pretty much right at the pole
In case the clouds cover it up later, a first glimpse of the North Pole Hole:[Edit - Updated the image]
Quote from: Jim Hunt on August 03, 2013, 11:27:33 AMIn case the clouds cover it up later, a first glimpse of the North Pole Hole:[Edit - Updated the image]If the bulk of the CAB retains this fractured, slushy state going into the freeze, what will be the effect on the strength of the CAB after the freeze? Could the presence of this ice and the low SLT result in a dramatic freeze and growth of volume?
If the bulk of the CAB retains this fractured, slushy state going into the freeze, what will be the effect on the strength of the CAB after the freeze? Could the presence of this ice and the low SLT result in a dramatic freeze and growth of volume?
I had a play with the ESRL data. Nothing interesting I can see on clouds. However, I think you are reading low temperatures over Greenland as low temperatures over the ocean.Take a look at the spatial variation of the temperature for 2013 compared to 2007-2012 average. Colder Greenland and CAA is always the biggest effect, but while a lot of the ocean is colder in the May and June comparisons, in July its neutral or warmer.I still think substantial PIOMAS catchup in July is on, likely record melt for July, but not enough to catch up on the degree its fallen behind earlier in the year. Those numbers should be out soon enough though.
PIOMAS updated212 7.104Tied with 2010 1.2k more than 2012. I think PIOMAS is drifting from reality, the ratio of thick to thin has made it optimistic. CRYOSAT2 saw a 8% decrease in average thickness, PIOMAS did not. When are they going to come out with the winter thickness map?Vergent
Chris,The link in your last post is broken, it just gives me a page not found error message.Take the same temperature comparison as in Figure 11 of your blog, but for surface temperatures on a polar projection. Look at that plot and I think its clear the Greenland tail is wagging the arctic dog when you do the averaging over the whole area. I am not sure if it will directly link, but this is the plot I am talking about.http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/data/composites/comp.pl?var=Air+Temperature&level=Surface&mon1=6&mon2=6&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&iy=&ipos%5B1%5D=2013&ipos%5B2%5D=2013&ineg%5B1%5D=2007&ineg%5B2%5D=2012&timefile0=&tstype=0&timefile1=&value=&typeval=1&compval=1&lag=0&labelc=Color&labels=Shaded&type=1&scale=100&labelcon=1&switch=0&cint=&lowr=&highr=&proj=Custom&xlat1=70&xlat2=90&xlon1=0&xlon2=360&custproj=Northern+Hemisphere+Polar+Stereographic&level1=1000mb&level2=10mb&Submit=Create+Plot
This lack of warm air influx has affected temperatures at the surface in both July and the June/July average, here for the region north of 70degN. There has been a warming in recent years, and so far 2013 represents a downward excursion from that trend.
For the June/July average the cooling is seen to be more striking.
With all this in mind, some very high melt rates could be on the cards starting from the middle of next week. A mixture of storm damage, upwelling, export, compaction and general melting could well produce a second period with 7 day losses exceeding 1 million km2.
Yep.In 24 hours it's already blowing down through the 980s.
An interesting few days coming up anywayHere's a few charts, from Tuesday to Thursday, showing the main wind directions (white arrows), the general area of the storm (white ovals) and the main damaging wind areas (red lines)................After Friday, high pressure continues to build over the Pacific and Western side of the Arctic, with a general +ve dipole, something that's been largely lacking this melt season..................The longer term sees a further +ve dipole and a hint of a return to -ve NAO conditions, which we haven't seen since March.
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