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The Absa Cape Epic is renowned the world over for showcasing the rough and tough side of the South African country side, so what better way to tackle this truly South African adventure than on a truly South African mountain bike.
That's why braai guru Jan Braai and Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka Team Principal Doug Ryder will be riding the 2018 Cape Epic on proudly South African Momsen VIPA bikes.
Victor Momsen, the man behind the Momsen bike brand, hails from Port Elizabeth, so while Braai and Ryder might not challenge for the red Absa African Jersey, they could stake a claim for being the most South African team at this year's Cape Epic.
"It's an honour to ride in the world's toughest mountain bike race with Doug, and to be supported by Momsen Bikes," says Braai. "The VIPAs that they have put together for us are incredible, while the custom paint job will really stand out during the event – especially when the bikes are parked against a tree while Doug and I braai somewhere along the route."
The bikes fly the South African flag on their headsets while also closely aligning with the Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka Team colours, the kit in which Doug and Jan will be riding. "We wanted to ensure the bikes had a very local feel while still keeping the branding and colours in mind – I am very happy with how they came out," says Victor Momsen. Both bikes sport the iconic Qhubeka "5 finger salute hand" on their top tubes in recognition of the charity's aim to put Africans on bikes. The top tubes also feature the rider's respective names, in case they forget which respective bikes is theirs after aforementioned trail-side braais.
On top of the impressive paint job, both bikes have been custom-specced for Braai and Ryder. "We've gone with the 1×12 gearing to cut down on stuff that can break," says Braai. "Neither of us is very good on the technical sections so we want to just focus on steering, and not have to worry about additional parts and shifters. To my mind a trail orientated bike like this, that has a bit of extra travel specced with a 1×12 groupset, is the absolute logical choice for an amateur like myself."
Momsen says that the VIPA TRAIL was the obvious choice for the pair. "With both riders being more road orientated in terms of their cycling backgrounds, our new VIPA TRAIL seemed like the logical choice of bike. It is light and nimble, plus with its 120mm of travel and slightly more relaxed geometry it allows for a bit more comfort for those long days whilst still assisting with handling in the technical sections. "
Ryder, who has been training in Johannesburg ahead of the Cape Epic to avoid too many pre-Epic training braais, is looking forward to flying the Qhubeka flag at the event.
"Qhubeka is all about putting Africans on bikes and now Victor has put us on South African bikes. It has a nice symmetry," says Ryder. "Riding in the kit of Dimension Data for Qhubeka on a South African brand should really help us bring the message home of bicycles changing lives. The more we spread the word, the more people will realise how important a bicycle can be."
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Metabolical Leaders
In the photo above, you see children jumping for joy at a community farm. They were participating in a "farm camp" – two full weeks of exposure to real food and nutrition education disguised as all-out fun. Photos like this give us hope when we find so many children being affected by metabolic disorders such as hypoglycemia and type 2 diabetes. Programs like these, all over the world, are helping to shape healthy futures for our children – but they wouldn't be possible without a growing and robust group of leaders working to improve our metabolic health. In this part of the "Metabolical" section of the HSF website, we feature the ever-expanding list of doctors, scientists, educators, healthcare providers, farmers, business owners, artists, and thought leaders who are working hard to shape the future of metabolic health for humanity, fighting and reversing disease, and improving our healthspan. We provide a brief introduction, description of their work, and links to their website and social media channels.
Robert Lustig, MD, MSL
Professor emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Dr. Robert Lustig specializes in the field of neuroendocrinology, with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. His research and clinical practice has focused on childhood obesity and diabetes. Dr. Lustig holds a Bachelor's in Science from MIT, a Doctorate in Medicine from Cornell University. Medical College, and a Master's of Studies in Law from U.C. Hastings College of the Law.
Dr. Lustig has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition, exposing some of the leading myths that underlie the current pandemic of diet-related disease. He believes the food business, by pushing processed food loaded with sugar, has hacked our bodies and minds to pursue pleasure instead of happiness; fostering today's epidemics of addiction and depression. Yet by focusing on real food, we can beat the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease.
Visit Dr. Lustig's website at https://robertlustig.com. It is loaded with information, links to his research, and informative infographics and videos.
Keith W. Berkowitz, MD
Founder and Medical Director of the Center for Balanced Health
Keith Berkowitz, M.D., is the founder and medical director of the Center for Balanced Health in New York City where he specializes in treating metabolic conditions such as obesity, fatigue, blood glucose disorders, thyroid problems, and hormone imbalances.
Before founding the Center for Balanced Health, Dr. Berkowitz was medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine, where he worked closely with Dr. Atkins until the time of his death. He also for many years served on the teaching faculty at North Shore University and New York University School of Medicine. He is on the Medical Advisory Board of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. He is frequently quoted in the print media, fielding interviews for Newsweek, New York Magazine, Newsday, The Sunday London Times, Associated Press, INC Magazine, amNY, Wins 1010 online and The New York Post. He has been featured on ABC News, CNN, WOR Radio, WCBS Radio and RAI TV. He is the co-author of Princeton Review's Medical School Companion (Random House, 1995), The Stubborn Fat Fix (Rodale, 2009) and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flour Free Eating (Alpha Books, 2010)
Visit Dr. Berkowitz's website at http://www.centerforbalancedhealth.com
Mark Cucuzzella, MD
Chairman at Healthy Running, Owner of Two Rivers Treads and Natural Running Center, and Professor at West Virginia University
Lt. Col. (Dr.) Mark Cucuzzella is a Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine. As a US Air Force Reservist he designs programs to promote healthier and better running with the US Air Force Efficient Running Project. Mark is director of the Natural Running Center, an education portal designed to teach healthier running. He is also the owner of Two Rivers Treads – A Center for Natural Running and Walking in his hometown of Shepherdstown, WV. Mark's innovative work and story has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Outside Magazine, Running Times, Runners World, Air Force Times, the Washington Post, JAMA, and other medical and media outlets.
Visit Dr. Cucuzzella's website at https://www.drmarksdesk.com


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Walterswil is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.

History

Walterswil is first mentioned in 1139 as Walterswile.

The local Freiherr von Walterswil appear in historic records until the early 14th century.  After their extinction, portions of the modern municipality were owned by other local nobles.  The village church of Saint Cecilia was first mentioned in 1275.  In 1438 Henman von Spiegelberg gave the village, the court and the patronage rights over the village church of Walterswil to the city of Bern in exchange for another property.  In the following year, Bern divided Walterswil between several nearby courts.  Following the 1798 French invasion, the smaller Walterswil parish became part of the Helvetic Republic district of Unteremmental.  After the collapse of the Republic and 1803 Act of Mediation it joined the newly created Trachselwald District.  Finally, in 1888-89 it received part of the Hubberg Quarter (Hubbergviertel) from Ursenbach, which expanded the municipality to its modern borders.

Historically the local economy was based on farming with some cottage industry canvas weaving in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Today many residents commute to jobs in nearby cities and towns and about 71% of the jobs in the municipality are in agriculture.

Geography

Walterswil has an area of .  As of the 2006 survey, a total of  or 74.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while  or 21.2% is forested.   Of rest of the municipality  or 5.1% is settled (buildings or roads).

From the same survey, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.4%.  All of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests.  Of the agricultural land, 36.8% is used for growing crops and 35.5% is pasturage, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops.

The municipality consists of the village of Walterswil, the hamlets of Schmidigen and Mühleweg, a cluster of farm houses at Wiggisberg and other individual farm houses.

On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Trachselwald, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Oberaargau.

Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent three branches palewise in fess raguly inflamed Gules.

Demographics

Walterswil has a population () of .  , 1.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Between the last 2 years (2010-2012) the population changed at a rate of 0.2%.  Migration accounted for 1.9%, while births and deaths accounted for -0.7%.

Most of the population () speaks German (540 or 98.9%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (5 or 0.9%) and French is the third (1 or 0.2%).

, the population was 50.8% male and 49.2% female.  The population was made up of 272 Swiss men (50.1% of the population) and 4 (0.7%) non-Swiss men.  There were 266 Swiss women (49.0%) and 1 (0.2%) non-Swiss women.  Of the population in the municipality, 290 or about 53.1% were born in Walterswil and lived there in 2000.  There were 192 or 35.2% who were born in the same canton, while 29 or 5.3% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 6 or 1.1% were born outside of Switzerland.

, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.0% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 56.6% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 19.4%.

, there were 237 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 277 married individuals, 22 widows or widowers and 10 individuals who are divorced.

, there were 44 households that consist of only one person and 29 households with five or more people.  , a total of 178 apartments (82.4% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 29 apartments (13.4%) were seasonally occupied and 9 apartments (4.2%) were empty.  , the construction rate of new housing units was 3.7 new units per 1000 residents.  In 2012, single family homes made up 29.9% of the total housing in the municipality.

The historical population is given in the following chart:

Economy

, Walterswil had an unemployment rate of 0.33%.  , there were a total of 214 people employed in the municipality.  Of these, there were 141 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 54 businesses involved in this sector.  The secondary sector employs 22 people and there were 6 businesses in this sector.  The tertiary sector employs 51 people, with 16 businesses in this sector.  There were 298 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.6% of the workforce.

 there were a total of 162 full-time equivalent jobs.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 88, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 17 of which 9 or (52.9%) were in manufacturing and 8 (47.1%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 57.  In the tertiary sector; 7 or 12.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 5.3% were in the movement and storage of goods, 6 or 10.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 8.8% were in education.

, there were 15 workers who commuted into the municipality and 156 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 10.4 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  A total of 142 workers (90.4% of the 157 total workers in the municipality) both lived and worked in Walterswil.  Of the working population, 3.4% used public transportation to get to work, and 55.4% used a private car.

In 2013 the average church, local and cantonal tax rate on a married resident, with two children, of Walterswil making 150,000 CHF was 11.9%, while an unmarried resident's rate was 18.3%.  For comparison, the median rate for all municipalities in the entire canton was 11.7% and 18.1%, while the nationwide median was 10.6% and 17.4% respectively.

In 2011 there were a total of 181 tax payers in the municipality.  Of that total, 32 made over 75,000 CHF per year.  There was one person who made between 15,000 and 20,000 per year.  The greatest number of workers, 49, made between 40,000 and 50,000 CHF per year.  The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in Walterswil was 106,072 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 136,785 CHF.

In 2011 a total of 2.7% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.

Politics
In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which received 59.8% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP) (13.6%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (6.5%) and the Evangelical People's Party (EVP) (4.6%).  In the federal election, a total of 230 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 52.2%.

Religion

From the , 506 or 92.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church, while 3 or 0.5% were Roman Catholic.  Of the rest of the population, there were 4 individuals (or about 0.73% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  5 (or about 0.92% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 28 individuals (or about 5.13% of the population) did not answer the question.

Education
In Walterswil about 57.9% of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education, and 12.2% have completed additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).  Of the 41 who had completed some form of tertiary schooling listed in the census, 73.2% were Swiss men, 26.8% were Swiss women.

The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten, followed by six years of Primary school.  This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.  Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.

During the 2012-13 school year, there were a total of 69 students attending classes in Walterswil.  There were a total of 13 students in the German language kindergarten classes in the municipality.  The municipality's primary school had 33 students in German language classes.  Of the primary students, 6.1% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens).  During the same year, the lower secondary schools in neighboring municipalities had a total of 23 students from Walterswil.

, there were a total of 41 students attending any school in the municipality.  Of those, 38 both lived and attended school in the municipality, while 3 students came from another municipality.  During the same year, 31 residents attended schools outside the municipality.

References

External links

Official website of the municipality

Municipalities of the canton of Bern

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Hiring trends at SPACs
Over the past few years the number of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) going public has exploded. A number of those have completed an acquisition and are now trading as that target company. Using SPACtrack.net, we took a look at a subset of these companies hoping to determine whether the hiring patterns of these SPACs could tell us something about their future performance. In our analysis, we separate our SPACs into groups by performance, and dig deeper into each group's hiring practices to determine what differentiates them.
First, using SPAC Track's list, we will filter down to all companies that have completed an acquisition, giving us a starting point of 130 companies. We filter that result further by joining the list of 130 companies with LinkUp's coverage, which brings us down to 45 securities we will analyze for this post.
In an attempt to provide the most value from this exercise, we will separate these 45 securities into 2 groups: Underperformers and Overperformers. The SPAC Track list has start dates going back to 2007, with the average start date being February 2018. We will take the average of all these dates and use that to calculate an annualized return of 12.05% for the S&P 500. This annualized return will then be used to separate our groups.
With the groups separated using this annualized return, we are left with a total of 21 Overperformers and 24 Underperformers. The Overperformers now have an IPO date of June 2018, while the Underperformers have an IPO date of October 2017. This may suggest that SPACs that have been traded for longer amounts of time perform poorly in comparison to their younger counterparts.
One trend we observe is that our Underperforming group seems to be just returning to per pandemic hiring levels after a sharp decline at the onset of COVID-19. Our Overperforming group, however, initially experienced a decline during COVID, but quickly recovered and have now surpassed pre-pandemic hiring levels.
Taking a closer look at the types of roles Overperformers were hiring for, it looks like there has been steady growth in the Architecture and Engineering occupations, as well as Computer and Mathematics.
Turning to the Underperformers group, we see a large increase in Healthcare roles.
Two interesting differences start to emerge here. First, the group of Underperformers does not have Engineering among their top roles. They also seem to prioritize Management and Administrative positions over technology focused positions. This is the opposite of what our Overperformers group has done.
Taking a look at DraftKings, one of the more successful SPACs, we can see that they follow a similar pattern. Our data for DraftKings goes back to 2014, and we see their top hiring group was almost always Computer and Mathematical occupations. Drawing on what we have seen, it appears markets prefer SPACs who prioritize hiring for roles that lead to product developments over roles like management.
If you're interested in the data behind this post, please contact us to learn more.


Czech design week is a design show representing artists from the independent scene.
We intend to present the most interesting works of Czech and foreign artists with an emphasis on authenticity and a personal vision.
Each exhibitor will be given adequate space for their presentation. The event is selective and only for chosen works. Emphasis will be placed on the individual and personal approach of individual designers.
Anyone! We are open to applications from individuals, schools, galleries, design studios or companies.
The most important thing is not the size but the quality of the idea, the final concept and its method of presentation. We will consider all applications individually. We will invite the best to exhibit their personal presentations at this Autumn's design week.
We place emphasis on the quality of the photographs which is often the deciding factor in the success of the application.
The aim of the project is to create platforms which will allow the general public to connect with experts in the fields of design and art. Design is an everyday life activity for all and we are therefore open to creative artistic works and their free expression in production, marketing and sales.
We want to give artists the possibility to present to the public their ideas and the stories that lay behind their works. We want to show that design is not just represented by an expensive piece of art sitting in their apartment.
We support local production and creative works of art. We are convinced that small independent studios and creative individuals can compete internationally.
We like to engage with public spaces and bring design out of closed rooms and onto the city streets where anyone can appreciate it.
We want to connect Czech artists to their international counterparts. In the course of the year we are sending our artists abroad and in turn welcoming foreign artists here.


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I am a big advocate of John Frieda. The Frizz Ease range is basically my life. There was a time when I owned every product in the curly range. Yep. So when I was contacted to review the latest John Frieda Luxurious Volume range, I was pretty excited.
The shampoo immediately gave me a surprise because it was transparent. I'm not sure why this pleased me so much but it did. I'm such a child! It has a lovely fruity scent- A mix of apple and watermelon. As I applied it, I was struck by how well it lathers. A little really does go a long way with this shampoo. It rinsed out really well, and left my hair feeling particularly clean.
I followed up with the conditioner, which has a rich, creamy consistency. It feels especially smooth and moisturising as I applied it. When rinsing out, I was aware of how soft and smooth my hair felt.
I was also sent a sample of the Blow Dry Lotion. I have to admit, I don't actually own a hairdryer, since I've found they tend to exacerbate frizz, but I sprayed a little just to give you an indication of the initial application. It has a pretty strong chemical smell, but it has a fine spray and applies evenly across the hair.
As my hair was drying, I noticed that it was a lot less frizzy than usual. Always a good start! As you can see from the before photo below, the frizzy bulk has disappeared and has been replaced with bouncy curls. I'm pretty impressed!
I might have to give this range a go, I've thick hair but it's just frizz mania at the minute, and I can't find anything to tame it!
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EB30, Inc., a non-profit organization, was established in 2008 to conduct fund raising activity in support of the Eric Bassett Memorial Scholarship Fund. The primary goal of EB30, Inc. was to raise sufficient funds to establish a self- sustaining endowment to provide the annual $20,000 scholarship award in perpetuity.
The initial funding for the scholarship came from the generosity of a large number of donors made up of family, friends and businesses in the local community. To supplement these donations, a series of six very successful annual golf tournament fund raisers were held, beginning in June 2008, to raise additional funds. With the completion of the June 2013 golf tournament and auction, EB30, Inc. achieved its goal of fully funding the self-sustaining endowment, culminating six years of active fund raising.
As a supporting organization to the Cy-Fair Educational Foundation, EB30, Inc. directed all proceeds from fund raising activity to the foundation for deposit in the investment fund for the Eric Bassett Memorial Scholarship Fund. The Cy-Fair Educational Foundation manages the endowment fund and administers the award of the annual scholarship. The officers and directors of EB30, Inc. work closely with the Cy-Fair Educational Foundation in support of the common goals of these two organizations.
EB30, Inc. is recognized as a public charity under Section 501(C)(3) and Section 509(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code. A Board of Directors, made up of five community leaders, governs EB30, Inc. EB30, Inc. receives no tax dollars from any local, state or national taxing entities.


Do you feel that? Love is in the air! Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays. What is more beautiful than a day to celebrate the ones we hold near and dear! Jep and I celebrate our love daily, but February 14 always feels extra special. I love spending the days leading up to the holiday with my children doing crafts. My favorite? Decorating cookies. Valentine's Day cookies make great gifts to share with friends and family (and yourself!) Who doesn't love a good red, white, and pink treat? If you want to share some sugary love this holiday, follow this delicious Valentine's Day cookie recipe and get into the loving spirit. Don't forget the heart-shaped cookie cutters and sprinkles! Enjoy!
In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat butter and sugar on medium-high speed until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low and gradually add flour mixture; beat until combined. Divide dough in half; flatten into disks. Wrap each in plastic and freeze until firm, about 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment. Remove 1 disk of dough; let stand 5 to 10 minutes. Roll out 1/8 inch thick between two sheets of floured parchment, dusting with flour as needed. Cut shapes with 2 1/2-inch heart-shaped cookie cutters. Using a spatula, transfer to prepared baking sheets (if dough gets too soft, refrigerate 10 minutes). Reroll scraps and cut more shapes. Repeat with remaining disk of dough.
Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until edges are golden, about 12 minutes. (If bubbles form, tap baking sheet firmly against oven rack a few times during baking.) Let cool completely on wire racks. Cookies can be stored in an airtight container up to 1 week.
In the bowl of a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine confectioners' sugar and egg white on low speed. Add a scant 1/4 cup water, then increase speed to medium-high and mix until icing holds a ribbon-like trail on surface for 3 seconds when you raise paddle, about 10 minutes. Reduce speed to low and mix 1 minute more to eliminate air bubbles. Add food color, a drop at a time, until desired color is reached. Use immediately, or store in an airtight container in refrigerator up to 3 days. Stir well before using.


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Chris Wilder: '˜Corruption in football not a major issue in lower leagues'
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder believes the latest allegations of corruption in football are not a major issue in the lower leagues.
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Wilder, in charge at League One United, believes the huge amount of money in the Premier League and Championship – with multi-million pound transfers commonplace – is behind the misdemeanours highlighted in this week's Daily Telegraph probe. England manager Sam Allardyce was the first casualty, while yesterday Championship side Barnsley sacked assistant manager Tommy Wright following the newspaper allegations. Wilder – former Halifax Town and Northampton boss – said he had never been approached by agents offering cash to sign players. But he believes there will be "a lot of nervous people" in football, with rumours that more high-profile managers' identities are set to be revealed. "It's been disappointing, but I imagine like a lot of industries – where there is a lot of money flying about – then there is people out there who can be, and will be affected by it," said Wilder. "It's really disappointing, but I am not surprised with the amount of money that is awash at Premier League and Championship levels. "It's not a good time for football and I imagine there are a lot of nervous people out there at the moment. "Hopefully they can get to the bottom of it and clear it all up.


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The 2013 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition was won by the team from Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA. The International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University, the Netherlands was runner-up. Semi-finalists were the University of Pretoria, South Africa and National Law University (Delhi), India.
The World Finals were held at the Beijing Institute of Technology Law School, Beijing, China on 26 September 2013. Total participating universities numbered 60 from four regions. The 2013 problem was the Case Concerning the Operation of a Lunar Station (Lydios v Endymion), written by Professor Setsuko Aoki, Japan.
For more information about the awards, past and present, including the names of this year's top teams and judges, see the IISL website.
For those considering entering the competition, the problem has been set for the 2014 Moot.
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BEMIDJI, Minn. The Ohio State women's hockey team never held the lead in the 3-3 tie, but picked up two points with a 1-0 shootout victory against Bemidji State in a Western Collegiate Hockey Association game Friday at the John Glas Fieldhouse in Bemidji, Minn. With 44 seconds left in regulation, sophomore defenseman Shannon Reilly scored to force overtime and freshman forward Natalie Spooner netted the shootout goal.
The tie snaps Ohio State's losing streak at four games and moves the team's record to 6-16-3 overall and 4-13-2-2 in the WCHA. Bemidji State, who picked up one point in the shootout, is 5-17-3 and 2-16-1-0 in the conference.
With 1:25 remaining in the third period, the Buckeyes called timeout and pulled senior goaltender Liana Bonanno for an extra skater. The move proved successful when Hayley Klassen chipped the puck from along the boards to Spooner up top. She passed the puck over to Reilly at the top of the left circle who wound up and fired the puck through traffic and past BSU goalie Zuzana Tomcikova with 44 seconds left in the game.
After a scoreless 5-minute overtime session, Ohio State entered its second shootout of the season. Spooner scored in the second round, carrying the puck left of the net and quickly pulling it right to score in the lower right corner. Bonanno made two saves, including a poke-check, to seal the win.
Bemidji State scored at the end of the first period and start of the second for a 2-0 lead. Just as the opening period was coming to an end, the Beavers got on the board. Erin Cody picked up the puck in the neutral zone from teammate Jackie Robertson and jumped ahead of two Buckeyes to score a breakaway goal top-shelf at 19:32.
The Beavers doubled their lead 2:48 into the second period when Erin Johnson scored a shorthanded goal from the crease off a pass by Cody.
Ohio State responded with two goals in a two-minute span to tie the game. Senior co-captains Morgan Marziali and Klassen combined got on the board at 9:05. Marziali scored from the left doorstep on a cross by Klassen from the right side.
Klassen then knotted the game at 2-all with a power play tally at 11:03. Freshman forward Laura McIntosh tapped the puck over to Reilly at the point, who blasted a shot on net and Klassen cleaned up the rebound.
The tie was brief as the Beavers answered just 18 seconds later to regain the lead at 3-2. Cody scored her second goal of the game and picked up her third point when she knocked in the rebound by Franny Dorr with Johnson picking up the second assist.
Overall, Ohio State had a 47-23 advantage in shots, including a 19-4 margin in the third period. The Buckeyes were 1-of-5 on the power play and a perfect 2-of-2 on the penalty kill.
Bonanno finished with 20 saves and is 5-12-2 this season. Tomcikova stopped 44 shots and is 4-14-2.
Ohio State will conclude its series with Bemidji State with a 2 p.m. (CT) game Saturday at the John Glas Fieldhouse.


On the occasion of the tragic death on Friday 19, February, colleagues Sladjana Stanković and Jovica Stepic, who died while the US air strike on a terrorist base in the Libyan city of Sabraty, the Embassy has opened a book of condolences.
Colleagues were killed after a three-month kidnapping, that occurred in November 2015 and since they were searched by the competent authorities.
The Note, received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs R. Serbia was immediately forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan and all diplomatic missions and international organizations who work on a bilateral and multilateral basis.
The book of condolences was signed by the dozens of ambassadors and charge d'affaires, and a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan.


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Adios, Tierra
Tierra — the Latin-inspired restaurant located underneath Spruce in the old Town Hall next to Restoration Hardware — has served its last lobster ceviche, chicken chilaquiles and lamb arepas.
The food got pretty decent reviews. The service was inconsistent. And — tucked away in an alley — it was not easy to find.
However, some of its less-than-uno-año run may be its own fault. One Westporter shook his head at the news.
"They never even put out a sign," he says. That tells you something.
This was the entrance to Tierra.
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17 responses to "Adios, Tierra"
Jamie Camche | March 3, 2015 at 2:53 pm |
Shame !
Peter Blau | March 3, 2015 at 2:54 pm |
Yep, never knew it was there, despite going by that location 3-4 times a week.
Bart Shuldman | March 3, 2015 at 3:02 pm |
We really enjoyed the food. Needed to change the menu more and get more comfortable seating. But will miss the variety it supplied Westport.
Robbyn Footlick | March 3, 2015 at 3:04 pm |
Lee Fleming | March 3, 2015 at 3:04 pm |
We went there once for Sunday brunch. The food was very good and the coffee was excellent. However, it took them more than 30 minutes to make coffee in a French press! We were the only clients there except for a couple of people at the bar. The host was rude — the waitress finally greeted and seated us (outside — it was a lovely day). This was after we guessed at the entrance. Some of what we ordered was never served even after requesting them two additional times — we had to insist that those items be removed from our bill since we never even got a glimpse of them. This was six months after opening, so there was no excuse for mistakes. Sorry to see them go, but not surprised.
Roberta LeMay | March 3, 2015 at 3:05 pm |
Yes, sad to see it go, because the food was very, very good. However, they seemed determined to not promote themselves. I went twice, once for brunch when we were the only people there (and still it took a very long to be served) and for a weekend dinner, which was busier, but we still walked in without reservations.
David Meth | March 3, 2015 at 3:23 pm |
As I understand it from the one time I went to investigate the rumor that there was actually a restaurant opening, the manager of Tierra told me they could not get permission for a sign from the town because it was below street level (What?) and their architects and attorneys were trying to get permission for a sign. Considering the larger than life signage of the store above Tierra and all around the restaurant, I had no idea how to interpret this information. Why would the town object? My problem at the time was that I walked around the building twice and couldn't find the entrance. I went into the building once where the elevator was and there was no evidence of a restaurant anywhere, nor an entrance. I even asked a workman at the building if he knew of the restaurant, but he had no idea. Very strange that any one would take a space where you were not allowed to have sign announcing your presence to the public.
Dan Woog | March 3, 2015 at 3:30 pm |
If that's true, they should have gone to the (ahem) media. The controversy would have given them tons of much-needed publicity.
Armelle Daniels | March 3, 2015 at 3:50 pm |
Too bad. Food was very good. Chef was creative and had worked at one of our favorite Cuban fusion restaurant in Philadelphia (Alma de Cuba). Service was however painfully slow and casual.
Jack Whittle | March 3, 2015 at 4:46 pm |
Sorry to see them go – we ate there a number of times and the food was very good; Tierra brought something new and different (Cuban fusion, I'd call it) to the Westport area
Andy Yemma | March 3, 2015 at 6:06 pm |
Never even knew they were there. Sad.
cristina negrin | March 3, 2015 at 6:27 pm |
No idea it was there!
Bill Ryan | March 3, 2015 at 8:23 pm |
Interesting point about the signage. I happened to be at an Historic District Commission hearing on a different subject one night and one of the…what would it be "petitioners"?…were representatives of the restaurant and they presenting their request for some embellished signage out near the Post Road which the Commission signed off on.
I did not know it existed, but being curious, we tried it one night and had a very good meal, with service that was at least "meh". Place was busy and had a good vibe and was on our list of places to go again, So I am sorry to see it go. But like others, it took us a bit to figure out how to get into the place.
matthew mandell | March 3, 2015 at 9:43 pm |
This is sad. They had good food and a good attitude. They did restaurant week and had so many people come in. Signage was a big issue for them. I offered tips on what to do, but months ago if was clear they were failing. In the end they ran without a manager and that was that.
A new restaurant could come in there, all the stuff us still there but would they to find the location untenable.
buell neidlinger | March 4, 2015 at 12:28 pm |
used to walk by there in the 40s and 50s on our way too and from the Fine Arts Theatre, and i always admired the stonework on the old Town Hall, the
work of fine Italian artisans.
Larry weisman | March 4, 2015 at 3:08 pm |
Tierra was a terrific place. I loved the food and the atmosphere. It was our "goto" place and we'll miss it.
Larry Weisman
wordsilk | March 4, 2015 at 7:15 pm |
Not closed! http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v2_5/comments/52628/


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in: Articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Wickes-class destroyers,
Ships built in Massachusetts
Town-class destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy
Town-class destroyers converted from Wickes-class destroyers
World War II destroyers of Canada
USS Thatcher (DD-162)
For other ships of the same name, see USS Thatcher.
At Boston Navy Yard
Career (United States)
Name: USS Thatcher (DD-162)
Namesake: Henry K. Thatcher
Builder: Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts
Laid down: 8 June 1918
Launched: 31 August 1918
Commissioned: 14 January 1919
Decommissioned: 24 September 1940
Struck: 8 January 1941
Fate: Transferred to UK, 24 September 1940
Career (Canada)
Name: HMCS Niagara
Acquired: 24 September 1940
Decommissioned: 27 May 1946
Identification: Pennant number: I57
Honours and
awards: Atlantic 1940-44
Fate: Scrapped, 1946
Class & type: Wickes-class destroyer
Displacement: 1,191 tons
Length: 314 ft 4 1⁄2 in (95.822 m)
Beam: 30 ft 11 1⁄4 in (9.430 m)
Draft: 9 ft 2 in (2.79 m)
Speed: 35 knots (65 km/h)
Complement: 122 officers and enlisted
Armament: 4 × 4" (102 mm), 2 × 3" (76 mm), 12 × 21" (533 mm) torpedo tubes
The first USS Thatcher (DD–162) was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy, later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Niagara.
1 As USS Thatcher
2 As HMCS Niagara
As USS Thatcher
Named for Admiral Henry K. Thatcher, she was laid down on 8 June 1918 at Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Fore River Plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation; launched on 31 August 1918; sponsored by Miss Doris Bentley, the grandniece of Rear Admiral Thatcher; and commissioned on 14 January 1919, Lieutenant Commander Henry M. Kieffer in temporary command. On 25 January, Lt. Comdr. Francis W. Rockwell—who later commanded the 16th Naval District in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific—assumed command. Following shakedown, Thatcher operated with the Atlantic Fleet into the autumn of 1919. During the transatlantic NC-boat flights in May 1919, the destroyer operated on picket station number 9—one of 21 stations strung out from Newfoundland to the Azores—between her sister ships Walker (Destroyer No. 163) and Crosby (Destroyer No. 164). Underway at sea, she provided visual and radio bearings for the flying boats as they passed overhead on their way toward Lisbon, Portugal.
Upon completion of this duty, the destroyer—reclassified as DD-162 on 17 July 1920—resumed her routine training operations off the eastern seaboard before heading west in the autumn of 1921 to join the Pacific Fleet. She operated out of San Diego, conducting exercises and training cruises off the west coast until decommissioned at San Diego on 7 June 1922.
Thatcher remained laid-up at San Diego through the summer of 1939. War broke out in Europe on 1 September 1939, when German troops invaded Poland. Thatcher was recommissioned at San Diego on 18 December 1939, Lt. Comdr. Henry E. Richter in command, and conducted shakedown and training evolutions off the west coast until transferred to the Atlantic the following spring. Transiting the Panama Canal on 1 April 1940, a month before the situation in Europe became critical when Germany began her blitzkrieg against France and the Low Countries, Thatcher subsequently conducted neutrality patrols and training cruises off the east coast and in the Gulf of Mexico through the summer of 1940.
The European situation took a drastic turn with the fall of France in June 1940. British destroyer forces in the wake of the disastrous Norwegian campaign and the evacuation of Dunkirk found themselves thinly spread—especially after Italy entered the war on Germany's side. Prime Minister Winston Churchill appealed to the United States for help.
In response, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the transfer of 50 "over age" destroyers to the British in return for 99-year leases on strategic base sites in the western hemisphere. Thatcher was accordingly withdrawn from the Atlantic Squadron and her operations with Destroyer Division 69 for transfer to the Royal Canadian Navy, which had been allocated six of the "50 ships that saved the world," as these vessels came to be known. As such, Thatcher and her five sisters arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 20 September—the third group of the "flush deckers" transferred. Decommissioned on 24 September 1940, Thatcher was struck from the Navy list on 8 January 1941.
As HMCS Niagara
Renamed HMCS Niagara following the Canadian practice of naming destroyers after Canadian rivers (but with deference to the U.S. origin), after the Niagara River forming the border between New York and Ontario.[1] Niagara departed Halifax on 30 November; proceeded eastward via St. John's, Newfoundland; and arrived in the British Isles on 11 December. Early in 1941, the destroyer was allocated to the 4th Escort Group, Western Approaches Command, and based at Greenock, Scotland. Subsequently transferred to the Newfoundland escort force, Niagara operated on convoy escort duties into the summer of 1941. While she was operating with this force, she took part in the capture of a German U-boat, U-570.
A Lockheed Hudson bomber, flying from Kaldaðarnes, 30 miles southeast of Reykjavík, Iceland, located U-570 running on the surface off the Icelandic coast on 27 August 1941. The "Hudson" attacked the U-boat with depth charges, damaging the enemy craft so severely that she could not submerge. Soon, some of the German crew appeared on deck displaying a large white cloth — possibly a bed sheet — indicating that they had surrendered. Patently unable to capture the submarine herself, the Hudson radioed for help.
Niagara sped to the scene and arrived at 08:20 on 28 August 1941. Rough weather initially hampered the operation but eventually, by 18:00, Niagara had placed a prize crew aboard the submarine and had taken U-570 in tow. During the operation, she also took the 43-man crew of the enemy craft on board. Towed to Þorlákshöfn, Iceland, the U-boat eventually served in the Royal Navy as HMS Graph.
In January 1942, Niagara escorted the tempest-battered Danish merchantman Triton into Belfast, Northern Ireland, after the freighter had been severely mauled in a storm at sea. In March the destroyer rescued the survivors from the American merchantman SS Independence Hall, which had run aground off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, and had broken in half. The next month, she picked up two boatloads of survivors from the sunken steamer SS Rio Blanco, which had been torpedoed by U-160 on 1 April 1942, 40 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
The destroyer subsequently underwent boiler repairs at Pictou from May to August 1942 before resuming coastwise convoy operations between Halifax and New York and escort duty in the western Atlantic. Another refit at Pictou came in June and October 1943, before she continued her coastwise convoy escort missions through 1944.
Niagara became a torpedo-firing ship — first at Halifax and later at St. John, New Brunswick — from the spring of 1945 until the end of World War II in mid-August 1945, training torpedomen. Decommissioned on 15 September 1945, Niagara was turned over to the War Assets Corporation on 27 May 1946 and ultimately broken up for scrap soon thereafter.
List of United States Navy destroyers
↑ Milner 1985 p.23
Milner, Marc (1985). North Atlantic Run. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-450-0.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
NavSource.org DD-162
Wickes-class destroyers
Woolsey
Stringham
Colhoun
Stribling
Schley / Luce
Mugford
Rathburne
Tattnall
Twiggs
DeLong
Jacob Jones
Aaron Ward
Crowninshield
Boggs
Kennison
Cowell / Ward
Tarbell
Yarnall
Bernadou
J. Fred Talbott
Walker / YW-57 (Unnamed)
Cowell
Foote
Rodgers / Kalk
Sproston
O'Bannon
Stansbury
Haraden
Abbot
Bagley / Doran
World War II operators
part of Town class
Bath (ex-Hopewell)
Brighton (ex-Cowell)
Caldwell (ex-Hale)
Campbeltown (ex-Buchanan)
Castleton (ex-Aaron Ward)
Charlestown (ex-Abbot)
Chelsea (ex-Crowninshield)
Georgetown (ex-Maddox)
Hamilton (ex-Kalk)
Lancaster (ex-Philip)
Leamington (ex-Twiggs)
Lincoln (ex-Yarnall)
Mansfield (ex-Evans)
Montgomery (ex-Wickes)
Newark (ex-Ringgold)
Newmarket (ex-Robinson)
Newport (ex-Sigourney)
Richmond (ex-Fairfax)
Roxborough (ex-Foote)
Salisbury (ex-Claxton)
St Albans (ex-Thomas)
St. Mary's (ex-Bagley)
Wells (ex-Tillman)
Royal Canadian Navy
Annapolis (ex-MacKenzie)
Columbia (ex-Haraden)
Niagara (ex-Thatcher)
St. Clair (ex-Williams)
Royal Netherlands Navy
Royal Norwegian Navy
Soviet Navy
Doblestnyi (ex-Roxborough)
Dostoinyi (ex-St Albans)
Druzhny (ex-Lincoln)
Derzkiy (ex-Chelsea)
Zharki (ex-Brighton)
Zhguchi (ex-Leamington)
Zhivuchi (ex-Richmond)
Zhostki (ex-Georgetown)
Preceded by: Caldwell class
Followed by: Clemson class
List of destroyers of the United States Navy
Town-class destroyers
Broadwater
Burwell
Dejatelny
Doblestnyi
Dostoinyi
Druzhny
Derzkiy
Zharki
Zhguchi
Zhivuchi
Zhostki
Preceded by: V and W class
Followed by: HMS Ambuscade
List of destroyers of the Royal Navy
List of destroyer classes of the Royal Navy
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Video Game Streaming and Esports: Building a Live Platform
June 18, 2018 by Nadine Krefetz
As live-streaming video booms across market verticals, the gaming and esports segment is experiencing some of the most rapid growth. Live video on these platforms involves streamers broadcasting their gameplay, while viewers talk to the streamer and one another in a chat window.
Gaming and esports audiences are a unique breed. They have no problem sitting in front of a screen for eight solid hours while interacting with content, according to Donny Neufuss, director of digital engagement at esports vertical market leader Production Resource Group (PRG): a production company that serves esports, TV, theater and corporate-events clients.
But why are these viewers so engaged? What started with a few people going online to broadcast their gaming very quickly evolved to a space where, for many, live streaming is now second nature. The sophisticated gameplay, community interaction and personality of the broadcaster all work in varying parts to make this more engaging and compelling than any other form of content online.
If you want to learn more about creating live-streaming products and services for gaming and esports, you've come to the right place. In this post, we'll explore how people are using these apps and services, and what you should consider if you're building technology or environments for users in this segment.
Video Game Streaming Creates New Entertainment Categories
One of the biggest online communities of live-streaming gamers is Twitch, which boasts:
355 billion minutes watched in 2017.
15 million daily active users.
2+ million unique broadcasters per month.
This is influencer-based social video at its best. Anyone can set up an account to start broadcasting, and the best streamers have viewers who come back day after day, spending an average of two hours online per viewer watching and interacting with live streams.
Twitch streamers are well-versed in what it takes to manage the technical side of broadcasting, as well as to keep an audience deeply engaged for hours on end. They are leading the industry in user-interaction and monetization opportunities, so we talked to some prominent Twitch broadcasters to identify the most important market trends: easy, redundant content capture; the ability to monetize streaming; and real-time interactivity.
Hook Me Up: Three Approaches to Content Capture
Let's start with how Twitch broadcasters get content to viewers. Making content capture easy and redundant is everyone's goal. There are a number of solutions by which streamers can achieve this, including:
Gaming's Virtual Control Room: Zak Eubank is CEO of HyperRPG, a premium live-streaming media company that primarily streams to Twitch. They have five full-time employees and broadcast mainly tabletop content, as well as events for related companies in the space.
After several years of troubleshooting, HyperRPG settled on a custom solution that shoots with Blackmagic Studio Cameras and Magewell capture cards. To allow multiple participants in a game, content is shot in multiple locations; the signals are taken in as an RTMP feed and combined as a single stream in Wirecast.
"We run about 40 hours a week of content on Twitch with multi-camera setups, and around 60 private contractor actors," says Eubank.
Broadcast Capture With Supplemental Content: Meghan Kaylee is an on-camera host for GameStop TV and is a Twitch broadcaster (@MegKaylee). She uses OBS Studio for broadcast capture, which gives her the ability to show her gameplay as well as other discrete content on her computer, such as web pages or social media content.
Twitch broadcaster Tobin's equipment list
This content may also include Twitch Extensions: 200+ third-party extensions now available through the platform, which give broadcasters the ability to integrate overlays and panels for enhanced viewer interactivity into their live stream. Extensions can show in-depth stats on screen; create viewer polls; display graphical overlays to show game stats; give viewers avatars; and more.
"I don't use too many of them, because I feel some of them can be a little bit much or a little distracting," says Kaylee. She adds that they don't integrate very easily into OBS, but that the ability to place interactivity directly into her stream is something she'd like to see in the future. "There's no way to do it directly in OBS, which I think would be something really cool to see from a streaming software."
Popular Twitch Extension Stream Legends
Esports Broadcast Center: Twitch also broadcasts esports competitions: global gaming events where the top 1 percent (or even the top .0001 percent) of gamers face off against one another to win prizes and sponsorships. These professional gamers have split-second skills that enable them to think and play at a level far surpassing the average player.
"Our broadcast center is the same type of broadcast center you would have for television. The only difference is that we don't always have a truck outside," says PRG's Neufuss. "Believe it or not, we are pushing an RTMP stream over OBS." They may also stream to Restream.io, Switchboard.live or to their clients' content delivery network (CDN) provider, he says, adding that "the actual machine sending it out is, for the most part, a beefy PC."
"The most important [part] of any esports [event] is the live broadcast, because the live broadcast is where all the eyeballs are, and that's where the majority of the sponsorship dollars are coming from," Neufuss explains. While the arena event is important, they place less focus on it than on the online broadcast, where millions of people are watching.
"When in doubt, we're always hard-lined," says Neufuss. "We feel good if we have two fiber lines from two separate ISPs with at least a gigabyte connection."
Show Me the Money: Monetizing Video Game Streaming
"People donate money to streamers to support them so they can continue to stream," says Neufuss. The ability to get paid for gaming is the ultimate goal, and some broadcasters make a full-time income from their broadcasting.
Streamers such as Kaylee and HyperRPG do a combination of corporate work (a "day job") and Twitch streaming. Twitch offers various subscription tiers for broadcasters; on the viewer's side, while they are able to watch content without a subscription, Twitch also allows viewers to voluntarily subscribe and fund the streamers they're watching. In addition to viewer-funded subscriptions, broadcasters make part of their income from tips: crowdsourced micro-transactions, handed out much like you would tip your barista or waiter.
While some monetization features are developed and run by Twitch itself, a whole range of additional services have been enabled by the aforementioned Twitch Extensions. One company leading the charge developing these Extensions is Streamlabs. Like the PayPal of the gaming industry, Streamlabs provides tools that enable viewers to give donations directly to streamers.
"People use our tools … [to] help them engage better with their fans, [and to] grow and monetize their channels," says Antonio Hicks, director of marketing and communications at Streamlabs. The company reported that tipping volume is up 33 percent from Q4 2017, with $34.85 million going to support streamers.
There are also third-party tools to help broadcasters run charitable-donation programs for causes of their choosing. Kaylee says hosting charity events draws more viewers to her stream, while enabling her audience to support a worthwhile cause. She uses one of these tools, Tiltify, to host her events.
"They have an overlay that [appears onscreen and] keeps track of how much you raise. You can have alerts that go off when people donate," Kaylee says. She raised $11,300 for Toys for Tots this past Christmas, and routinely hosts events for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which helps youth battling childhood cancer.
Kaylee hosting her Toys for Tots charity drive
"Our mission was to enable live streamers an easy and efficient way to raise money for charity," says Daniel Bong, community manager at Tiltify and Twitch streamer iKasperr. Tiltify is now available on Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, Smashcast, Mixer and MLG gaming platforms. "I think we're approaching 100 different charities right now, and we keep adding more."
Enabling Interactive Conversations
In many gaming channels, online chat is a personal conversation between the broadcaster and viewers. Kaylee says her channel is very community-driven.
"It's all about us talking to each other: them talking to each other; them talking to me. That interaction is the thing I love most on Twitch," Kaylee observes. In busy gaming channels or esports competitions, the viewer chat is like the roar of the crowds. This split-second communication is a blur scrolling by at a breakneck pace—and keeping up with conversations requires the same kind of split-second response as gameplay itself.
Enabling this degree of user engagement is an important consideration for developers of gaming and esports platforms. Many users of these platforms go online to "hang out" with other viewers and to interact with their favorite streamers.
"The big difference between Twitch and Netflix is that Twitch is interactive," says Seth Sivak, CEO of game developer Proletariat, which created Streamlegends: one of the top 10 Twitch Extensions, installed in over 30,000 Twitch channels. Using Streamlegends, players can work together with other members to beat games.
Screenshot from Stream Legends, one of the top Twitch Extensions
According to Sivak, users keep coming back to these platforms because they want to spend time with their community, which is built around a certain broadcaster and/or game they all identify with.
"Typically, those broadcasters are really high-level players; they're really good, so you can pick up some amount of skills through osmosis," Sivak adds. "The things we try to build are really focused on the idea that viewers want to do more together than just chat. They are mostly there because they want to be interactive, but just [being in] a chat room is not that interactive."
As an example of this, HyperRPG has its own developer devoted to ensuring viewers have a voice on-screen.
"We've built a bunch of custom web apps that we bring into Wirecast … that give us live on-screen notifications interacting with the Twitch API, says Eubank. "If you're watching our show, there'd be a link in the chat room, like [for example], go to tencandles.straylogic.com," he says. "Whatever you do on that site [in the way of viewer interactions] will then … show up on-screen in the show."
HyperRPG's custom app that integrates third-party sites into Twitch streams
Video Game Streaming Meets MMO Games
The early 2000s saw the rise of the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, with titles such as EverQuest and World of WarCraft as well as first-person shooter games for PC and consoles (e.g., Quake and Halo). This trend has continued to rise with this year's big winner, the game Fortnite, which has already surpassed 8.3 million hours streamed. Fortnite's most popular player, Ninja, even played with hip-hop star Drake, and hit 628,000 concurrent Twitch viewers on March 14, 2018.
"Now instead of four on four or five on five, there are 100 players battling against each other. So the network infrastructure to support something like that is significant," says Neufuss. "That is something where it can't go down. This is a live tournament, [so] you have to be able to support that."
This environment is similar to the futuristic virtual playing field described in Ernest Cline's popular book "Ready Player One." But to make these massive gameplay experiences a reality, the biggest consideration for streaming services is scalability, as platforms must be able to support more and more people concurrently viewing, interacting and broadcasting.
This simultaneous growth in contribution and viewing requires platforms to perform seamlessly, with little buffering. Gaming networks need to be able to scale on demand, deliver a high-quality experience and still provide real-time interactivity—not only within the gameplay, but between other players. Accomplishing this requires intelligent load-balancing for popular games or viral streamers, as well as predictable computing resources for peak viewing times. It also demands redundancy to ensure that if streams do fail, there is another server available for failover.
As the gaming and esports segment has evolved, it has created a huge new market of potential consumers for streaming products and services. Today's gamers may be focused on being the last person standing—but game developers and service providers must focus on creating the tools gamers need to build thriving user-generated media empires.
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LiveJournal is turning 10 and we're feeling nostalgic. What was your first LJ post about?
My first post was on April 24, 2004, and it was simply an introductory post. I started a journal mainly to join some communities that live journal had to offer. My fifth anniversary is coming up, and I'm still here, still posting! I never imagined I'd keep this journal for so long.


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Home Commercial Solar 12.1 MW Solar Farm Planned for University of Illinois
12.1 MW Solar Farm Planned for University of Illinois
University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign campus anticipates a new solar farm in construction to be fully operational by early 2021. It is expected to produce over 14 million kWh annually, which will triple the university's current renewable energy generation on site. Once complete, a total average of 52,000 megawatt-hours per year, satisfying 10% of the electrical demand on campus.
Dubbed "Solar Farm 2.0", the system will serve as a resilient landscape and pollinator habitat due to plantings located throughout the array with 17 plants included in the system blueprints.
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Q: How to group identical strings in to any collection? I have a string looks like
 {APP,LEE,APP,KCC,KCC,LEE,APP}.

I want to push same values like APP, LEE, KCC into different arraylists(any    collection) respectively.
For example:

*

*arraylist 1 should have {APP,APP,APP}

*arraylist 2 should have {KCC,KCC}

*arraylist 3 should have {LEE,LEE}

So that i can identify how many distinct groups are there and whats their value.
Thanks in advance.

A: You could instead create a Set from the ArrayList (This would remove duplicates) and then take the size of the set and each item of the set would be one group
Set<String> groups = new HashSet<String>(list);

groups.size(); //Number of groups

for(String group : groups) {
    System.out.println(group); //Print each value
}

A: Use Map<String, List<String>>. Each value will contain a list of elements (you can use Integer to count if you want)
When you add an element:
List<String> elemList = myMap.get(key);
if (elemList == null){
    elemList = new ArrayList<String>;
    myMap.put(key, elemList);
}
elemList.add(key);

Although using counter is better...
    Map<String, Integer> myMap = new HashMap<>();
...
    Integer count = myMap.get(key);
    if (count == null){
        myMap.put(key, 1);
    } else {
        myMap.put(key, count + 1);
    }

A: It would be easiest to create a map with each list.  Then if a key does not exit, create the entry it, then append.
Something like this:
Map<String, List<String>> result = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();

String[] values = source.substring(1, source.length() - 1).split(",");
for (String value : values) {
   List<String> existingMatches = result.get(value);
   if (existingMatches == null) {
     existingMatches = new ArrayList<String>();
     result.put(value, existingMatches);
   }
   existingMatches.add(value);
}

If you just need a count of the distinct values, replace the List with an AtomicInteger, and increment the value, then you end up with a map of distinct Strings, and a count of the num ber of times it appears.

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Q: Dúvida em AngularJS! (Factory, Controller, View) Porque 'identity' não é atualizado na VIEW? Galera estou com uma dúvida em AngularJS!
O código fonte está em https://plnkr.co/edit/BoIr6nFCa8ST5ekT3DZO
Na factory tenho uma propriedade com o nome identity, que é espelhada para a controller e apresentada na view. Ao adicionar uma nova mensagem essa propriedade é incrementada corretamente, o problema é que ela não é atualizada na view.

A: Você está preservando um valor, não o objeto. messages e identity são propriedades do serviço messageService. A sequência no seu código é a seguinte:

*

*messageService é inicializado. Propriedade identity recebe o valor literal 0.

*variável local do controller recebe o valor literal presente na propriedade messageService.identity (0), na prática copiando o valor.

*messageService.identity é atualizada, porém como o valor é literal e não uma referência, variáveis locais permanecem intocadas.

Eu alterei seu código para preservar a instância, assim:
vm1.ms = messageService;

Exemplo funcional a seguir:

var app = angular.module('plunker', []);

app.factory('messageService', function() {
  var messenger = {
    messages: [],
    identity: 0,
    addMessage: function(text, caller) {

      this.identity += 1;
      var id = this.identity,
        message = {
          text: caller + ": " + text + ": " + id,
          id: id
        };

      this.messages.push(message);
    }
  };

  return messenger;
});

app.controller('Controller1', function(messageService) {
  var vm1 = this;
  vm1.ms = messageService; // ALTERAÇÃO
  vm1.post = {
    text: ''
  };

  vm1.postMessage = function() {
    messageService.addMessage(vm1.text, "controller 1");
    vm1.text = '';
  };

});

app.controller('Controller2', function($scope, messageService) {
  var vm2 = this;
  vm2.ms = messageService; // ALTERAÇÃO
  vm2.post = {
    text: ''
  };

  vm2.postMessage = function() {
    messageService.addMessage(vm2.text, "controller 2");
    vm2.text = '';
  };

});

    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>AngularJS Plunker</title>

    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" />

Controller 1 - {{vm1.ms.identity}}

{{msg1.text}}

        Controller 1 Message: <input type="text" ng-model="vm1.text">
        <button ng-click="vm1.postMessage()">Post</button>

Controller 2 - {{vm2.ms.identity}}

{{msg2.text}}

        Controller 2 Message: <input type="text" ng-model="vm2.text">
        <button ng-click="vm2.postMessage()">Post</button>


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Portraits taken at locations outside the Dallas/Ft. Worth area are possible for an additional travel fee.


Content Services for Mozilla examines the fundamentals.
As New Tab for desktop users continues to evolve, those of us who create features for this core Firefox product must be forever mindful of user sovereignty. Although it is foremost a simple navigation tool, the current experience lacks any form of user customization for individual sites. To this end, the Content Services team recently conducted a study examining both the usability and user sentiment regarding more advanced controls over the sites shown on New Tab.
For this study, prototypes were created to depict new controls that would allow users to add, edit, or delete any site they see on New Tab. These were developed for two primary groups: 1.) current Firefox Desktop users and 2.) new users who have not tried Firefox within the last six months.
In addition, new controls for Suggested Sites and related contextual labels were introduced for current Firefox users (24 of 48 testers). Discrete controls enabled these users to edit their individual category preferences for all related suggestions content on New Tab.
Initially, usertesting.com ran a qualitative un-moderated usability study with 8 participants (4 current Firefox users, 4 new) in the United States and United Kingdom to observe how they interacted with the new features available in the New Tab prototype. Testers were asked to think out loud as they explored enhanced controls for Top Sites and Suggested Sites, while inputting answers to specific questions for measurable data points.
Would testers notice these features on New Tab?
How easy or difficult were they to use?
Were they at all interested in them as permanent features?
What roadblocks might users encounter when deleting, editing, and adding a tile, or updating their Suggested Site category preferences?
After completing round one, we ran a second study with 40 additional participants – this time without video analysis – to verify data gathered from the original 8.
Combined, a total of 48 responses were collected and analyzed to ensure that the results were 90% accurate or better.
Current users: People who use Firefox as their primary or secondary browser, at least a few times a week.
Insight: While many testers rolled over sites shown in the prototype, most did not interact with any new controls on their own.
Analysis: In an effort to simplify the New Tab interface, site-specific controls were made available on rollover by clicking a cog icon. By doing so, however, users may not notice the icon, and will therefore fail to discover any additional controls available to them. Furthermore, when prompted to interact with the menu, several testers explicitly asked for the "X"/delete icon to display in the left corner when rolling over a site, which partially solves the problem. Discover-ability could be further addressed by increasing the contrast of the icons to attract more attention, or showing a tool-tip the first time a user interacts with a site.
Insight: Nearly all testers found the new controls generally easy and intuitive to use.
A layover state with controls allows a user to choose a new site, and specify how it appears on New Tab.
Analysis: When prompted to do so in the study, nearly all testers were able to add, edit, or delete sites on New Tab on their first attempt, and without much difficulty. In usability terms, we could not have hoped for better results, as this affords us a high degree of confidence that these features would be intuitive for the vast majority of Firefox users if we deployed them today.
Insight: Most testers were interested in seeing these features on Firefox New Tab.
Analysis: In fact, the majority of participants expressed appreciation for being able to choose how a top site or Suggest Site was displayed on New Tab – whether as a logo, the homepage, or destination page. When asked to rate their likelihood of using these controls on their actual New Tab page, 41 responded with "likely" (13) or "very likely" (28). These findings confirm our hypothesis (derived from previous research) that Firefox users want more direct control over their New Tab experience, including how their sites are presented. As such, future experiments should explore the degree of customization users actually want.
Insight: Testers did not find the controls related to the interest category especially intuitive, but useful.
Clicking the related interest category below a Suggested Site reveals a fly-out menu. Selecting "View all categories" shows a layover.
A layover enables a user to turn individual Suggested Site categories on or off (check-boxes).
Analysis: Of the 4 initial participants who were shown the prototype for current users (which shows a Suggested Site), 2 of them did not expect the related interested category link to provide more control over their preferences. On the plus side, all testers found the controls to edit their interest categories for Suggested Sites easy to use. When combined with raw data from the second test, 20 of the 24 participants indicated that they were either "somewhat likely" or "very likely" to use these controls on Firefox. We interpret this to mean that users would appreciate more customization of Suggested Sites, even if the user value perceived will depend on the individual.
We already knew Firefox users wanted more control over their New Tab experience. Now we have a strong indication that further control over their top sites and Suggested Sites would be well-received. Together with findings from previous studies for New Tab and other Firefox products, the data shows that users are more receptive to suggested content than we initially thought. We now suspect that users may also want to organize New Tab according to their own preferences, instead of Firefox organizing New Tab on their behalf.
What we don't know is how much of a connection users expect or want between their natural browsing behavior, and the content recommendations Firefox may show them based on inferred interests. Clearly, more research is required to determine how much New Tab should be a utility, verses a tool for discovery.
Special thanks to Alexandra Michaelides, User Research Specialist at UserTesting.com who, after providing her with a draft test plan, ran the study on their platform and provided the detailed findings this post is based upon.


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Original WWII U.S. Navy Bu. Ships Mark 28 Mod.0 7x50 Binoculars by Bausch & Lomb with Case - Dated 1943
Original Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent condition pair of WWII U.S. Navy Mark 28 Mod.0 7x50 Binoculars, made in 1943 by Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., specifically designed for the Bureau of Ships. U.S. Navy organizations that were largely responsible for procurement in the 1940s were designated Bureaus, each commanded by a Rear Admiral. These Bureaus included: Aeronautics, Engineering, Navigation, Ordnance, and Ships. So the fleet of surface combat and support ships, of submarines, of Coast Guard and of Maritime Service vessels, along with most of their instruments and consumables too, were largely specified by and contracted for by the Bureau of Ships (BUSHIPS, or sometimes designated BU.SHIPS)
When the mission was to observe movement across a wide expanse of air and water then a binocular with a much wider field of view was justified. Several wide angle binocular models were commissioned specifically for the Bureau of Ships, whose vital work included spotting enemy vessels, planes, as well as other objects; these bear the designation BU.SHIPS as found on this example. The Mark 28 was a version like the original Bausch & Lomb Mark 1 produced for the Navy, but with improved waterproofing and different prism plates.
These are marked on the right side of the rear by the eyepiece with the model and serial number:
U.S. NAVY, BU.SHIPS
MARK 28, MOD.0
N 189536, 1943
Below this is the manufacturer information: BAUSCH / & LOMB / OPT. CO. / ROCHESTER / N.Y. U.S.A.. The left rear plate is marked 7x50., along with a warning about taking care to clean the COATED OPTICS.
The optics are clear and excellent, all aspects of the binoculars function, and they are in overall excellent condition. Unfortunately the pair has no neck strap at present, but most of the original leather straps were replaced post war with rubber ones, which can be found relatively easily.
The binoculars come in a very nice fabric reinforced hard rubber case, maker marked on the bottom with HOOD with an arrow through it. The shoulder strap is in great shape, with no issues, and the original belt loop on the back is also in great shape. One of the bottom rivets securing the shoulder strap has given way, but the stud for the closure strap is still intact.
Overall a fantastic Bureau of Ships wide angle 7x50 binocular set from WWII. Ready to display or use!


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Bomba on Panther Island is a 1949 American adventure film directed by Ford Beebe and starring Johnny Sheffield. It is the second in the 12-film Bomba series following Bomba the Jungle Boy (1949).

Premise
A developer brings his sister with him to Africa and plans to build a plantation. Commissioner Barnes and Eli appear to lend him a hand, but unfortunately for them (and Bomba's monkey friend) a rogue panther is on the loose. Bomba, with revenge on his mind, is hunting the panther when he comes upon the construction site. He gets sidetracked by the sister (Roberts) and her exotic traveling companion (Lita Baron), but recovers in time to battle the panther.

Cast
 Johnny Sheffield as Bomba
 Allene Roberts as Judy Maitland
 Lita Baron as Losana
 Harry Lewis as Comm. Andy Barnes
 Charles Irwin as Robert Maitland
 Smoki Whitfield as Eli

References

External links

1949 films
American adventure films
Films directed by Ford Beebe
Films produced by Walter Mirisch
Monogram Pictures films
1949 adventure films
American black-and-white films
1940s American films


Food Science Publisher specializes in publishing books in the field of functional food science, nutrition, bioactive compounds, chronic diseases and development of functional food products.
This book is a collective work of 19 scientists, and 13 universities, medical organizations, and food organizations across the globe.
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.1 x 11 inches.
The Journal of Functional Foods in Health and Disease (FFHD) strives to develop concepts that help readers understand the mechanisms of disease and the creation of specific functional and medicinal foods used for the prevention and management of various diseases. Established December 3, 2010, FFHD is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, which keeps members of the ASFFBC, readers of FFC newsletter (more than 800,000 readers composed of scientists, medical doctors, dietitians, nutritionists, and food industry professionals), as well as the public up-to-date on the latest collective information on the topic of functional food and bioactive compound research and development.
The Functional Food Institute (FFI) is the leading organization in the world for evaluating functional food products and educating the public in Functional Food Science. The primary goal is to educate healthcare professionals, researchers, scientists, students, representatives of the food industry, and the public on the health benefits of functional food products and bioactive food compounds to increase their knowledge in this specific field of science. Since 2004, the Functional Food Center/Functional Food Institute has organized conferences where scientists, researchers, and food industry professionals present their research and discoveries about functional foods and bioactive compounds for the management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, CVD, obesity, cancer, etc. In the past, the FFI has organized conferences jointly with top-level universities such as the University of California (Los Angeles, California), Texas Women's University (Denton, Texas), Kyoto Prefectural University (Kyoto, Japan), University of California (Santa Barbara, California), Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas), University of San Diego (San Diego, California), Kobi University (Kobi, Japan), and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital (Boston, MA, and more).
The Academic Society of Functional Foods and Bioactive Compounds (ASFFBC) was founded at the 11th International Conference of FFC, which was held at the University of San Diego in 2012. Ever since its inception, the ASFFBC has continued to grow and develop. Currently, it has over 2000 members (comprised of medical doctors, scientists, dietitians, nutritionists, and other food and medical industry professionals) who are dedicated to the research and development of functional and medical foods, bioactive compounds, and nutraceuticals. The society's mission is to increase the global awareness of functional foods and their ability to improve overall health and wellness.


Weststar Malaysia has officially launched the imported (CBU) Maxus G10 SE today, a few months after we initially previewed a pre-production unit of the large SE back in June 2015. Prices (OTR without insurance) start at RM135,825.50 for the Luxury 16″ variant and RM138,742.85 for the Sport 18″ variant.
As reported earlier, the SE – which made its Chinese market debut last year – will be launched as a passenger vehicle instead of a commercial one. On the mention of passengers, the Maxus G10 SE is capable of accommodating up to 10, which is just two shy of the 12-seater Hyundai Grand Starex.
From the outside, the Maxus G10 SE certainly looks like a sizeable vehicle. Breaking out the measuring tape, the SE measures 5,168 mm long, 1,980 mm wide and 1,928 mm tall, and has a 3,210 mm-long wheelbase.
Exterior features here include HID Xenon headlamps, LED tail lamps, front/rear fog lamps, chrome accents, 16-inch alloy wheels (with optional 18-inch ones as denoted by the variants) and two sliding rear doors for ingress and egress.
Inside the biege/black interior, you get plush leather seats, dual-zone auto climate control, rear air-conditioning, cruise control, a moon roof and a seven-inch display that is hooked up to a DVD player, six-speaker audio system, keyless entry with push-start and a reverse camera.
Motivation is provided by a 2.0 litre turbocharged GDI engine that outputs 225 hp at 5,500 rpm and 345 Nm at 4,000 rpm. The four-cylinder mill is paired to a six-speed ZF automatic transmission with manual mode.
As for safety kit, the people mover comes standard with two airbags and ABS (with EBD and brake assist). An electronic stability program (ESP), traction control and tyre pressure monitoring system are also here.
According to Weststar, 120 units of the G10 SE have been pre-ordered. The company's managing director Tan Sri Syed Azman also said that plans to commence local assembly (CKD) of the G10 SE will start by September this year (with more kit), with exports to ASEAN countries set to take place by 2017.
The 10-seater SE is available in three colour options – Champagne Gold, Blanc White and Obsidian Black. Each purchase comes with a three-year warranty with one-year free service. So, if you need a more affordable alternative to the Hyundai Grand Starex, the Maxus G10 SE could just be the people mover you have been waiting for.


Abstract: Background: Family health history (FHH) is an underutilized tool in primary care to identify and risk-stratify individuals with increased cancer risk. Objective: Evaluate the influence of patient education on quantity and quality of FHH entered into a primary care-based software program, and impact on the program's cancer risk management recommendations. Design: Two primary care practices within a larger type II hybrid implementation-effectiveness controlled clinical trial. Participants: English speaking non-adopted patients with a well visit appointment December 2012–March 2013. Interventions: One to two weeks prior to their well visit appointment, participants entered their FHH into the program. Participants were then provided educational materials describing key FHH components. They were instructed to use the interval to collect additional FHH information. Patients then returned for their scheduled appointment, and updated their FHH with any new information. Main Measures: Percentage per pedigree of relatives meeting individual quality criteria. Changes made after patient education and changes to recommendations for surveillance, chemoprevention or genetic counseling referral. Key Results: Post patient education, pedigrees exhibited a greater percentage (per pedigree) of: deceased relatives with age at death (84 vs. 81 % p = 0.02), deceased relatives with cause of death (91 vs. 87 % p = 0.02), relatives with a named health condition (45 vs. 42 %p = 0.002), and a greater percentage of relatives with high quality records (91 vs. 89 % p = 0.02). Of 43 participants with pedigree changes that could trigger changes in risk stratified prevention recommendations, 12 participants (28 %) received such changes. Conclusions: Patient education improves FHH collection and subsequent risk stratification utilized in providing actionable evidence-based care recommendations for cancer risk management.


The steel belts, Berndorf Band Group manufactures, for the processing of foodstuffs and luxury foods possess properties capable of withstanding the high mechanical and thermal stress to which they are exposed. These premium-quality belts will retain their shape even at fluctuating operating temperatures and a high number of load cycles.
In addition, Berndorf belts are easy to clean and satisfy the highest sanitary standards. The smooth and abrasion-resistant surface keeps fibers and remnants of fat from lodging in the steel belt, reducing the need for cleaning agents and, thus, saving valuable time and money.


We still have some more to go on the current video games out there as well as some other hand-on and reviews to come at you. We may also be looking to get a few of our backlogged reviews out there as they were games we wanted to cover but were not granted the chance until on or after the release. It happens when you are still considered smalltime. We will not focus on that and just press forward with it all anyway. Although we will not turn down any solid help you or anyone you know may want to contribute to the site. There are a whole lot of video games out there and our team is still relatively small. Be like a Deadite and JOIN US!


school. Student treat school as a fashion show, so eliminating that puts the students' full focus on schoolwork. Although requiring students to wear school uniforms may violate their self-expression in some ways, a uniform are supposed to be looked upon as ... Uniforms provide a more bully- free environment for the students.


A picture is worth a thousand words. Please read my words anyway!
Paintings in Minecraft are decorative entities, up to 4x4 blocks in size, which sit on the wall and make you think deep thoughts about life. Why do creepers explode? Why are there zombie pigmen but no regular pigmen? Why are Minecraft's melon blocks square, but the slices curved? Can Endermen jump? What do chorus fruits taste like? Why doesn't anyone want to discuss art until three in the morning with me?
Paintings were added to Minecraft in the Indev phase of the development of the Java Edition, and were originally made from eight planks around a block of wool. Later the planks were changed to sticks. At first there were only 19 paintings, but now there are 26 – enough for a sizeable in-game gallery.
Almost all of the paintings were created by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, a wonderful Swedish artist who often integrates videogame-inspired elements into his surrealist works. Minecraft's paintings are based on real-life paintings by Zetterstrand, who also did the work of turning them into pixel versions.
Paintings can be placed on the side of most solid blocks. When you place one, it'll check to see how much space it has around it, and then a random painting of that size or smaller will appear. If you don't like the one you get, you can always remove and replace it until you get one that matches the artistic concept that you were aiming for.
Humans have probably been painting since before they were called humans. Most cave paintings date from the Paleolithic period (25,000–8,000 BCE), but some are much older or much younger. Researchers studying the Gabarnmung cave in northern Australia found that the oldest rock art there was produced more than 28,000 years ago, but the youngest was less than a century old.
Earlier this year, a study claimed an age of 64,000 years for one of the oldest examples of cave art in Spain. That's 20,000 years before humans arrived in Europe, so it must have been created by Neanderthals. Engraved shells created by another of our humanoid predecessors, Homo erectus, dates as far back as 500,000 years. But just like with video games, experts disagree on whether these engravings can be properly classified as 'art'.
It's thought that painting was first developed for utility – they likely existed to show how to do something, or where something was. Some believe they were also used in ritual – that animals were painted to "catch" their souls and make them easier to hunt. Some even think that they were used as calendars. Since then, art has fragmented into many different strands – from sculpture, to industrial design (the shape of a chair, for example), to photojournalism, to "fine art" – which is appreciated chiefly for its aesthetic, imaginative or intellectual content.
Today, art is a huge industry which feeds into many different parts of society and was worth about $63 billion in 2017. But mostly it's still about making beautiful and meaningful things, so if you've ever tried to make your Minecraft house and its surroundings look a little nicer, or thought carefully about what colour you'd like your herd of sheep to be, then you get to call yourself an artist. Sacré bleu!


The Local Transport Strategy (LTS) is the final document in the suite of documents produced by Transportation Services that sets out the transport policies for Fife. The LTS reviews and replaces the previous version from October 2000 and looks to build on the principles of integration contained within the previous LTS. If this file is too large for you to download contact us at the contact details below for a CD version of it.


The Sea Slug Forum - Nembrotha spp?
UPPER: Negros Is, Philippines. Size: smaller than 1 cm, depth 9m.
LOWER LEFT: Negros Is, Philippines, dive site called "Dauin", size 15mm, depth 7m, nightdive.
LOWER RIGHT: Negros Is, Philippines, dive site called "Sara's Place", size 4 cm, depth 14 m.
These three animals were photographed by Erwin Koehler, at Negros Is, Philippines, Oct-Nov 1998. I am not sure if they are all the same species. They all have similarities to two species, Nembrotha? rubroocellata and Nembrotha rubropapulosa described by Bergh (1905) in the report of the Siboga Expedition, but both those names almots certainly refer to Roboastra gracilis. Further photos accompany Erwin's messages below. Any ideas welcome.
Some messages on this page identified as Nembrotha guttata and moved to that page ... July 2001.


Nikolay's affinity for classic shapes isn't to be understated, with each piece we've seen featuring carefully-considered details, with a keen eye for grain. In this straight Pot we can see touches of Danish influences, its plump base and easy taper giving a certain softness to the form, while still retaining its stout proportions overall. Kozyrev's eye for grain is on display, too, in the vibrant licks of flame engulfing the bowl, all highlighted in a bright, warm stain, its lighter notes accented by a pale mount of boxwood.