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D. Licensing and Business models (collecting societies; meta data; exchanges/hubs; windowing; crossborder availability)
This field includes papers that examine policy issues related to strategies and licensing solutions in the exploitation of copyright protected materials, and how legal markets attempt to match production to consumption. Among others, the papers included under this category examine collecting societies, metadata, copyright exchanges and hubs, windowing and crossborder access.
Evidence Based Policy Areas
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D. Licensing and Business models (collecting societies; meta data; exchanges/hubs; windowing; crossborder availability) is an evidence based policy area defined within the Copyright Evidence wiki.
The following studies are related to this issue (275):
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Andersen and Frenz (2008) Andersen, B., & Frenz, M. (2008). The impact of music downloads and P2P file-sharing on the purchase of music in Canada.
Antelman (2004) Antelman, K. (2004) Do Open Access Articles Have a Greater Research Impact? College & Research Libraries News, vol. 65, n. 5, pp. 372-382.
Arendt, Peacemaker and Miller (2018) Arendt, J., Peacemaker, B. And Miller, H. (2018) Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study. College and Research Libraries (Preprint)
Asser Institute and IViR (2014) T.M.C. Asser Instituut/Asser International Sports Law Centre and the Institute for Information Law - University of Amsterdam (2014) Study on Sports Organisers' Rights in the European Union, EAC/18/2012
Astle and Muir (2002) Astle, P.J. and Muir, A., 2002. Digitization and preservation in public libraries and archives. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 34(2), pp.67-79.
Athey, Mobius and Pal (2017) Athey, S., Mobius, M. M., & Pál, J. (2017). The Impact of Aggregators on Internet News Consumption.
Australian Law Reform Commission (2013) ALRC Report 122 (2013), available at http://www.alrc.gov.au/sites/default/files/pdfs/publications/final_report_alrc_122_2nd_december_2013_.pdf.
Baghestan et al. (2019) Abbas Ghanbari Baghestan, Hadi Khaniki, Abdolhosein Kalantari, Mehrnoosh Akhtari-Zavare, Elaheh Farahmand, Ezhar Tamam, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Havva Sabani and Mahmoud Danaee (2019) A Crisis in "Open Access": Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access? SAGE Open 9(3)
Baker and Cunningham (2006) Baker, M., & Cunningham, B. (2006). Court decisions and equity markets: Estimating the value of copyright protection. Journal of Law and Economics 49(2), 567-596.
Ballon and Westermann (2006) Ballon, H. and Westermann, M. (2006) Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age. Texas: Connexions.
Band (2013b) Band, J. (2013). Profitability of firms in copyright-intensive industries. Bandwidth. Available at SSRN 2333844
Bechtold (2013) Bechtold, S., 2013. The fashion of TV show formats.
Beekhuyzen, Von Hellens and Nielsen (2011) Beekhuyzen, J., Von Hellens, L. and Nielsen, S. 2011. Underground online music communities: exploring rules for membership. Online Information Review, 35, 699-715.
Belleflamme and Peitz (2010) Belleflamme, P., & Peitz, M. (2010). Digital piracy: Theory. CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3222. Available at SSRN 1698618.
Belleflamme and Peitz (2014) Belleflammea, Paul, and Martin Peitzb. Digital piracy. (2014).
Belleflamme, Omrani and Peitz (2015) Belleflamme, P., Omrani, N. and Peitz, M., 2015. The economics of crowdfunding platforms. Information Economics and Policy, 33, pp.11-28.
Bently et al. (2017) Bently, L., Kretschmer, M., Dudenbostel, T., Moreno, M. and Radauer, A. (2017) Strengthening the Position of Press Publishers and Authors and Performers in the Copyright Directive. Project Report. European Parliament, Brussels.
Bessen (2005) Bessen, J. E. (2005). Open source software: Free provision of complex public goods. Boston University. Available at SSRN 588763.
Bhattacharjee, Gopal and Sanders (2003) Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., & Sanders, G. L. (2003). Digital music and online sharing: Software piracy 2.0?. Communications of the ACM, 46(7), 107-111.
Bhattacharjee, Gopal, Lertwachara and Marsden (2006a) Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R., Lertwachara, K. and Marsden, J. R. 2006a. Whatever Happened to payola? An Empirical Analysis of Online Music Sharing. Decision Support Systems, 42, 104-120.
Bhattacharjee, Gopal, Lertwachara and Marsden (2006b) Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertwachara, K., & Marsden, J. R. (2006). Impact of Legal Threats on Online Music Sharing Activity: An Analysis of Music Industry Legal Actions*. Journal of law and economics, 49(1), 91-114.
Bhattacharjee, Gopal, Lertwachara, Marsden and Telang (2007) Bhattacharjee, S., Gopal, R. D., Lertwachara, K., Marsden, J. R., & Telang, R. (2007). The effect of digital sharing technologies on music markets: A survival analysis of albums on ranking charts. Management Science, 53(9), 1359-1374.
Bjork (2012) Björk, B.C., The Hybrid Model for Open Access Publication of Scholarly Articles–a Failed Experiment?.
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Bounie, Bourreau and Waelbroeck (2006) Bounie, D., Bourreau, M., & Waelbroeck, P. (2006). Piracy and the demand for films: Analysis of piracy behavior in French universities. Review of Economic Research on Copyright Issues, 3(2), 15-27.
Bounie, Bourreau and Waelbroeck (2007) Bounie, D., Bourreau, M., & Waelbroeck, P. 2007. Pirates or explorers? Analysis of music consumption in French graduate schools. Brussels Economic Review, 50(2), 167-192.
Breyer (1970) Breyer, S., 1970. The uneasy case for copyright: A study of copyright in books, photocopies, and computer programs. Harvard Law Review, pp.281-351.
Brooks (2005) Brooks, T. (2005). Survey of reissues of US recordings. Council on Library and Information Resources.
Brynjolfsson and Smith (2000) Brynjolfsson, E., & Smith, M. D. (2000). Frictionless commerce? A comparison of Internet and conventional retailers. Management Science, 46(4), 563-585.
Buccafusco and Garcia (2021) Buccafusco, C. and Garcia, K. (2021) Pay-to-Playlist: The Commerce of Music Streaming. 12 UC Irvine L. Rev (forthcoming 2021)
Buccafusco and Heald (2012) Buccafusco, C., & Heald, P. J. (2012). Do Bad Things Happen When Works Enter the Public Domain: Empirical Tests of Copyright Term Extension. Berkeley Tech. LJ, 28, 1.
Buxmann, Pohl, Johnscher and Strube (2005) Buxmann, P., Pohl, G., Johnscher, & P., Strube, J. (2005). Strategies for digital music markets: Pricing and the effectiveness of measures against pirate copies. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 47(2), 118-125.
Calzada and Gil (2016) Calzada, J., & Gil, R. (2016). What Do News Aggregators Do? Evidence from Google News in Spain and Germany.
Camerani, Grassano, Chavarro and Tang (2013) Camerani, R., Grassano, N., Chavarro, D. & Tang, P. (2013) Private Copying, IPO, 2013
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Cameron and Bazelon (2013) Cameron, L., & Bazelon, C. (2013). The impact of digitization on business models in copyright driven industries: a review of economic issues. Brattle Groupe paper prepared for the US National Research Council, available at: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cs/groups/pgasite/documents/webpage/pga_063398.pdf.
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Carrier (2012) Carrier, M. A. (2012). Copyright and innovation: The untold story. Wisconsin Law Review 891. Available at SSRN 2099876
Castañer and Campos (2002) Castañer, X. and Campos, L., 2002. The determinants of artistic innovation: Bringing in the role of organizations. Journal of Cultural Economics, 26(1), pp.29-52.
Cave, Deegan and Heinink (2000) Cave, M., Deegan, M. and Heinink, L., 2000. Copyright clearance in the refugee studies centre digital library project. RLG DigiNews, 4(5).
Cenite, Wang, Peiwen and Chan (2009) Cenite, M., Wang, M. W., Peiwen, C., & Chan, G. S. (2009). More Than Just Free Content Motivations of Peer-to-Peer File Sharers. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 33(3), 206-221.
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Japan, 1976, psychedelic folk
Osamu Kitajima – Benzaiten
This is a dear favorite of mine. Its groovy, funky beginning grabs me every time. The groove quickly incorporates traditional Japanese flute playing to evoke the unique summer festival feeling. Benzaiten is the god of music and water, and his influence is typified in this music, an album almost seemingly made in praise of the tiny mountain waterfall in the midst of a clear, secluded stream, or perhaps the thundering of the waves crashing against the shore after a sea storm. Both are equally the sounds of water on the island country of Japan. From the initial festival feeling of this audio document, the music moves into territory more familiar to the Western ear: psychedelic rock/folk, though it still maintains something of the traditional instrumentation without making it the focus. In time, however, emerge to the patient listener stronger interludes of traditional music with flutes, drums, and even the voice of a man who sounds like a mikoshi master. This is very pagan music. At the end of the document, it descends into a rather Zen feeling as Kitajima explores (or at least it seems to me) the concept of negative space, employing silence as a counterpoint to sound in the sporadic percussion.
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Ping 1.5+
Review: Ping 1.5+
How does Ping 1.5+ fare against other Wii U eShop games?
By Anthony Vigna. Posted 10/28/2014 09:00 Comment on this ShareThis
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1-Up Mushroom for...
Beautiful retro-inspired aesthetics; Awesome boss battles; Highly replayable.
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Frustrating difficulty; No quick restart button; Level glitches.
One of my favorite Wii U eShop games to date is Aban Hawkins & the 1001 Spikes. Despite being a point A to point B platformer with simple controls, the game is known for its notoriously hard difficulty. When I first picked it up and died continuously, I felt powerless as the game taunted me with its death screen. Yet, as I continued to press on, I discovered that the game was far from impossible. I learned everything about the world of 1001 Spikes and its numerous traps through my failures, leading me to breeze through the levels easily over time. Sure, it's still a difficult game, but it has a perfect level of difficulty that makes the game fun and not frustrating.
In a way, Ping 1.5+ is pretty similar to 1001 Spikes since it takes a simple concept and makes it very difficult to accomplish. In Ping 1.5+, your objective is to launch a white cube from its starting position to the orange sphere goal in each level. The gameplay sounds simple, but the difficulty comes from the level design and the set restrictions on your cube. By restrictions, I mean the amount of times that you can shoot your cube and the number of bounces it can handle. If you have multiple shots, you'll have to use them as the cube is moving since it is constantly in motion. However, these shots are easy to execute because the game automatically slows down once you start aiming.
For the most part, Ping 1.5+ plays really well. You will fail a lot in each level, but each failure gives you a better understanding of how every level functions. Using the ability to slow down time is essential for levels with moving platforms, as it gives the player the ability to time their shots effectively. Even though the game features a simplistic art style, the use of bright colors and dynamic backgrounds makes everything pop and look fantastic. The game also uses its aesthetics to reference old Atari games, like Pong and Pitfall, which fits really well with the game's art style. There's a boss battle in every world, which features different gameplay mechanics from the standard levels to add variety. The references to old videogames really shine in these levels because they often emulate different kinds of games. In the retro-inspired boss battles, I played Ping 1.5+ versions of games like Missile Command and Space Invaders, which was absolutely incredible to experience.
Unfortunately, not every level hits the perfect sweet spot in difficulty. I understand that this game is supposed to be difficult, but some levels are absolutely frustrating due to their design. Some levels have ridiculous constraints on the number of shots and bounces, while others have a plethora of fast moving obstacles that are hard to get past due to their short movement range. World 6 has a boss that is borderline impossible. It takes the concept of the awesome Space Invaders boss in World 7 and drastically lowers your rate of fire, spawns enemies that are practically on top of you without any kind of shelter for attacks, and has constantly respawning enemies that take multiple hits to defeat. Keep in mind that this difficulty curve is in a world before another with an easier version of the same boss battle! Without the cheat code that unlocks all the game's levels, I would have never been able to see the rest of the game's worlds because there's no way to skip a hard level. As a huge fan of games like 1001 Spikes, I have no problem with high levels of difficulty, but it should be fair and not overly frustrating.
Another flaw with Ping 1.5+ is its lack of a quick reset button. If you navigate through the game's options, you can toggle on the ability to restart a level after a failed attempt, but there is no way to restart the level mid-game. For a game that prides itself on its high difficulty, I'm baffled that something as simple as a restart button doesn't exist. There were plenty of scenarios where I shot the cube and immediately knew that I did something wrong, yet I was forced to watch my attempt end or exit the whole level entirely to try again. On top of that, some levels have some interesting glitches involving moving platforms. If you shoot at a moving platform with slow speed, the cube can get stuck and waste all of the allowed bounces for the level. Other moving platforms stay in motion during the game's pause screen, making hard levels easily exploitable with the right timing.
Even though Ping 1.5+ lacks balance in difficulty and polish in its gameplay, I still had tons of fun with it. Not all of the levels have sporadic difficulty curves, as some offer the perfect level of challenge and are incredibly rewarding to complete. Not only that, but the game's three star ranking system encourages the player to complete levels more efficiently, greatly increasing the game's overall replayability. It may not be perfect, but games like Ping 1.5+ prove that there are great eShop games out there for Wii U owners to experience.
Nintendojo was provided a copy of this game for review by a third party, though that does not affect our recommendation. For every review, Nintendojo uses a standard criteria.
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Cairn Tornado review
Can Cairn's £850 Tornado CD player whip up a mid-market storm?
By TechRadar Staff 03 March 2008
The Tornado is a bit like a Caterham – a full on experience that shuns compromise and delivers intensely real sound for its price. It will be too exciting for some and needs good system matching, but there's no denying its appeal.
High-intensity, electric sound
Can be upgraded to an upsampling player for a £250 supplement
Handy volume control
Can sound a little bit exposed and over sharp with less refined discs
Some polish and finesse is lacking
French ergonomics
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Earlier in the year, we took a closer look at Cairn's obscurely named Fog 3 CD player.
Manufactured in France, it had its fair share of Gallic charm and provided more thrills than we've encountered in digital audio for some time.
Small, but perfectly formed
Now we have the first sample of its new stablemate, the Tornado - a similarly designed player that manages to bring the price down quite dramatically by cutting back on luxuries. While the Fog 3 will set you back over two grand, the Tornado is only £850.
The Tornado is the base disc player in Cairn's small, but attractively formed range (there are two further one-box players, including the aforementioned Fog 3 and the Via, which is only available built to order).
Described as a simplified version of the Fog 3, the Tornado is smaller and is less lavish; the former's attractively ventilated silver casework being replaced with a standard black finish behind a 5mm front panel. It is not quite as smart as the Cambridge 840C, but is very much on a par with most of the competition.
Inside the box, savings have been made by shaving off the XLR output and the digital inputs. More significant, perhaps, is the change of DAC board, with the Tornado having a standard 24-bit/96kHz chipset and filtering.
The four filter settings on the Fog 3 offer a broad range of sound tailoring, far wider than the filters we've tried on players in the past, with everything from relatively smooth and relaxed all the way up to 'in yer face'. So the way that Cairn has set the filter on the Tornado will probably have a distinct impact on the impression it makes.
The analogue output stage is a Fog-like bipolar design that runs in class A and is devoid of negative feedback, an approach much vaunted by the valve amp designers.
But Cairn is also an amplifier maker with three integrateds and a pre/power on its roster, so the chances are that it has its own ideas in this department.
For the newcomer, the Fog 3 had some peculiar operating procedures and the Tornado is no exception. Opening the disc tray or playing a disc, requires holding in the operation button for a longer period of time. Turning the unit on requires you to double click the on/off button.
Simple connections
Nonetheless, the remote handset now has a conventionally arranged numerical keypad and once you've located the 'tray' and rotate symbols for 'open' and 'repeat', it's not so hard to find them a second time.
The Tornado boasts a simple socket layout, with analogue outputs on RCA phono and digital outputs on coax and Toslink connectors. There's even one extra phono socket for wired remote operation.
Cairn offers an optional 24-bit/192kHz upsampling board called SOFT for £250, which is featured in the £2,000 Fog 3.
As standard, the Tornado is supplied with a 24-bit/96kHz Crystal CS 4398 DAC with fixed filtering. The SOFT board not only ups the sample rate, it also offers the four filter settings that allowed us to tailor the sound on the Fog 3 to quite a significant degree.
The question, of course, remains as to whether adding this board to the Tornado gives you Fog 3 sound at nearly half the price, Cairn calls SOFT "the magic bullet", claiming that it "intensifies all the qualities and brings a refinement that you find sometimes only in very high-end stuff." But, of course, they're naturally biased!
In action, the Tornado is extremely reminiscent of the Fog 3 in its F3 filter setting. It has the same highly detailed midband and a tendency to emphasise instruments in the upper midrange and treble.
Cymbals and percussion instruments are a little more obvious with this player and it doesn't quite put the music in the room to the extent that its sibling does. But it does have a very engaging presentation, which takes a well-tempered system to keep from getting too close to the edge.
We used the Tornado in two set ups (Classé/B&W and Border Patrol/ATC active), and found it more revealing than we would expect at this price point. But, in neither instance was it out of its depth, so long as the output level was reduced accordingly.
We set its output to match a Cambridge Azur 840C (which meant reducing it by 2.5dB) and this took away a slight edginess from the sound, probably produced by high output discs overdriving the input on the preamps in use. In less revealing or warmer systems, this is probably not necessary, but if your amplifier and speakers are already on the lean or bright side it could be essential.
Heard after the 840C with its 24-bit/384kHz oversampling, the Tornado produces an electric result that's significantly sharper and more crisp. It lacks the sophistication of the more affordable Cambridge, but trades this for a level of realism and excitement that is enthralling. Timing isn't quite as poised from the French machine, but it does dynamics to greater effect.
With a good recording - such as Manu Katche's Playground on ECM - the Cairn puts the musicians right there in the room with you. Some of the polish and finesse is missing, but what you get in exchange seems remarkably real.
We wondered if this magnification of the sound might be a little too much for lesser discs and so put on Grace Jones' The Collection. The bass sounds great, chiselled and taut, but the eighties style electronic percussion is a little bit busy and hard-edged.
So the differences in recordings are pretty obvious. But you'll want this from a hi-fi component, so long as it's not achieving the result by colouring the tonal balance. In this instance, there are other factors at work. This is an extremely nimble player that lets you follow what the various contributors to a musical piece are doing.
It does this by being more sensitive to the dynamics and timing than the timbral qualities of the voices and instruments. The Fog 3 is better balanced in this respect and it's possible that the SOFT board upgrade would bring the Tornado closer to that result.
What you can't help but be impressed by, is the way that singers like Rickie Lee Jones are seemingly placed in the room by this player, a trick it pulls off with greater skill than we've previously encountered near this price point. There's an element of 'seat of your pants' to the experience, but that is part of the thrill.
The Tornado will not be to all tastes, but it does deliver an awful lot of detail for the money. This places more emphasis on the smoothness of the recording than usual,
but has the potential to deliver results that would usually cost much more.
It's a bit like a supercar - you don't expect an easy ride but you do get carried away with the adrenalin it produces. So the question is, are you ready to listen in the fast lane?


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Brose Baskets 49
Local time: 20:45 ARENA NURNBERGER VERSICHERUNGEN
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Real Madrid downing Brose Baskets 49-59
Real Madrid stayed unbeaten in Group C and joined Panathinaikos atop the standings by downing Brose Baskets 49-59 on the road in Bamberg, Germany on Wednesday night. Real Madrid improved to 3-0 and sits atop the standings while Brose Baskets dropped to 0-3 after registering its second home loss in Group C. Felipe Reyes showed he is recovered from his back problems, as he led the winners with a double-double of 21 points on 8-of-9 two-pointers and 12 rebounds. Charles Smith added 15 for Real Madrid, which was without both Venson Hamilton and star guard Louis Bullock. Nobody scored in double digits for Brose Baskets, as Steffen Hamann led the hosts with 9 points. Even with that, Ademola Okulaja hit a triple for a 31-30 Brose Baskets lead at the half. Real Madrid allowed 18 points in the second half, while Reyes and Smith led the guests to yet another impressive road win.
Bamberg started with Okulaja on the bench with Chris Ensminger in his place. Reyes started the scoring with an inside basket for the guests but Demond Greene, Darren Fenn and Steffen Hamann all drained three-pointers as Bamberg built a 9-4 lead early. Reyes scored his fourth straight basket for Madrid in cutting the deficit to 9-8. Greene hit two foul shots following an intentional foul and the German champions pushed the lead to 15-10 on Mark Dickel's steal and break-away lay-up. But Kerem Tunceri and Alex Hervelle both came off the bench to drain three-pointers in the final minute - Hervelle's at the buzzer - to cut Bamberg's lead to 17-16.
Smith continued the three-point barrage straight off in the second, giving the Spanish powers the lead 17-19. And a Smith driving lay-up made it 17-21 and brought on a Bamberg timeout. But Smith and Tunceri went back-to-back from long range to open a 21-27 gap. Bauermann's Germans worked hard defensively and held Real scoreless on six possessions, knotting the game at 27-27 on Hamann's two foul shots. Herville knocked down a turn-around jumper to stop the drought. And after Dickel and Reyes swapped foul shots, Okulaja gave the hosts the lead 31-30 with a three-pointer with a minute left. And that was the scoreline at the break as Michalis Pelekanos missed a trey at the buzzer.
Fenn knocked down a three-pointer to open the third quarter scoring and a 34-30 lead. And the Spaniards were unable to find any rhythm and didn't score a basket until Lazaros Papadopoulos hit a left-handed hook shot for 34-32 with six minutes left in the period. But Bamberg were unable to take advantage of Madrid's struggles as they went six possessions without scoring and another Smith three-pointer gave Madrid the lead 34-35. Tim Ohlbrecht's dunk pulled the Germans to within 37-39 only to see Real push the margin to 37-42. It could have been more but Madrid missed five of eight foul shots. Hamann's layup made it 39-42, but Reyes scored another inside basket for the 39-44 scoreline going into the fourth.
Reyes continued his superb performance with a jumper to begin the fourth. Another Reyes jumpshot gave Joan Plaza's team a 39-48 advantage, forcing Bauermann to call a timeout with just over seven minutes remaining. Spanish internationals Mumbru and Reyes hit jumpers to increase the lead to 41-52. It was still a 10-point game - 45-55 - on Tunceri's foul shot with three minutes left. Okulaja then missed four straight free throws after two Madrid lane violations. Reyes missed two foul shots of his own but Bamberg couldn't take advantage as they were unable to knock down their three-pointers. Smith's two free throws made it 47-59 with less than a minute remaining. And that's how it ended.
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Referees: SUDEK, PETR; SAHIN, TOLGA; LEFWERTH, OSCAR
Brose Baskets 17 14 8 10
Brose Baskets 17 31 39 49
Brose Baskets
4 ENSMINGER, CHRIS 20:32 4 2/2 3 2 5 2 1 1 5 4 10
6 HAMANN, STEFFEN 26:21 9 2/4 1/3 2/2 3 3 2 2 4 2 5 11
7 GREENE, DEMOND 31:16 7 1/1 1/7 2/2 2 3 4 1 3 4
8 SUPUT, PREDRAG 30:16 8 4/9 0/1 1 3 4 1 1 3 2 1 4
9 TADDA, KARSTEN 0:50 1 1 1
10 FENN, DARREN 26:31 8 1/3 2/9 1 3 4 1 4 -2
11 PAVIC, IVAN 0:50 1 -1
12 GARRETT, ROBERT 14:30 2 0/1 2/2 2 2 1 1 1 2
13 OKULAJA, ADEMOLA 22:34 6 1/4 1/2 1/6 2 2 4 2 1 1 2 -1
14 OHLBRECHT, TIM 13:31 2 1/2 1 3 -3
24 DICKEL, MARK 12:49 3 1/2 1/2 1 1 2 1 1 5 2 1
Totals 200:00 49 13/28 5/22 8/14 8 20 28 9 8 19 0 1 24 18 30
Head coach: BAUERMANN, DIRK
4 HAMILTON, VENSON DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
5 PELEKANOS, MICHALIS 16:39 0/2 0/2 2 1 2 2 1 -4
7 SMITH, CHARLES 27:13 15 2/3 3/6 2/2 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 14
8 SEKULIC, BLAGOTA 2:40 1 -1
9 REYES, FELIPE 26:32 21 8/9 5/12 4 8 12 2 5 2 7 27
13 AGUILAR, PABLO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14 PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS 26:46 2 1/1 0/2 3 3 2 2 2 5 10
15 MUMBRU, ALEX 33:37 8 3/6 0/5 2/3 1 3 4 3 3 1 4 3 3
17 HERVELLE, AXEL 22:48 5 1/3 1/2 2 5 7 2 1 2 1 9
19 TUNCERI, KEREM 21:37 8 2/6 2/4 1 1 1 3 3 2 3 5
23 LLULL, SERGIO 8:21 0/1 1 1 1 -2
24 LOPEZ, RAUL 13:47 2 2 2 1 3 4 1 -1
Totals 200:00 59 15/25 6/21 11/23 9 23 32 13 10 20 1 0 21 24 61
60% 28.6% 47.8%
Head coach: PLAZA, JOAN
BAUERMANN, DIRK
"It's not like we were playing against a nobody team. You can't expect to be given anything. But it was really tough to get inside. We have to control the ball better."
PLAZA, JOAN
"I told my players that we played our worst game of the season. Missing 12 free throws means you're not in the game. Losing 20 balls means you're not in the game. I'm disappointed in my players. I told them I hope this will only be one game because we will lose other games if we play like this. We're happy that nobody on Brose scored more than 10 points and that we dominated the rebounds. And it was good to have Felipe back. He's really beginning to play at his full capacity. But for playing our worst game, I'm happy we won."
ENSMINGER, CHRIS
"We only scored 49 points. We couldn't put points on the board. We played strong defense but we need to find ways to take advantage of that. I mean 18 points [in the second half] is not enough. They are a good team and we knew that. But we can't afford any letups. It's just about us getting over the hump. We know we have a chance in every game. We're in a tough group. We just need that first win."
MUMBRU, ALEX
"Felipe is really important for us. He was injured one week but really came back strong tonight. Now we're 3-0 and it was very important for us to stay at the top of the standings. We didn't play that well, that's true. But what is most important is we got the win."
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Virtus VidiVici 76
Aris TT Bank 77
Cibona 73
Lottomatica Roma 66
Partizan Igokea 90
AXA FC Barcelona 82
Chorale Roanne 76


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"We need to hang a pumpkin from the tree." On a recent bright fall day we had some friends visit. They kindly brought us lunch, and T-Rex was excited to set up this Thanksgiving obstacle course our friends to try. Of course a hanging pumpkin was high on his list of obstacles.
Each player received a paper airplane, representing the Mayflower, and the start and finish were marked with branches.
Obstacles included, the hanging pumpkins, some sitting pumpkins, rocks and a sea of leaves.
The participants flew their airplanes through the obstacles. As they passed each obstacle, they named one thing they were thankful for.
We lost one participant to an unfortunate insect injury, but otherwise everyone enjoyed this active way of giving thanks.
This activity would be a great way to burn off some energy after dinner tomorrow.All you need is a few paper airplanes, and some obstacles. Then fly your ships through the obstacles giving thanks at each stop. Ask your second graders what obstacles they would like to use. We recommend a leaf ocean, rocks and of course, a hanging pumpkin.
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I think this is wonderful! Sometimes Thanksgiving (and other family events) can seem very long for the kiddos. Burning off a little steam while maintaining the spirit of the holiday is a great idea.
Burning off steam will be a must for our crew!
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Wind, hail causes damage in Minden
By Sue Tiffin
Published Aug. 2, 2018
Minden residents are recovering from the effects of a severe thunderstorm that dumped rain and golfball-sized hailstones on the area, damaging property and causing some nervewracking moments for those waiting it out last Thursday.
Minden's meteorologist Scott Moore said his 88-year-old mother can't recall a storm like the July 26 event.
"For a thunderstorm, it was just a decent one," he said. "From a meteorological event, well, considering the pics I have seen from friends on [social media], that was some serious hail."
Local residents quickly began sharing photos and videos of the extreme weather online, despite a power outage due to a fire at the Allsaw Flats substation.
Rachel Gillooly, who said she lives in the suburbs of Moore Falls, about two kilometres south of Moore Falls proper, posted the weather she was experiencing which alerted friends in Minden to the incoming storm.
"I was trying to heat up some soup on the barbecue because we had no power, and all of a sudden, this just like bang, bang," she said. "It started very slowly but then escalated really quickly. And they weren't even coming straight down. It was like some of them were travelling horizontally, these great big honking pieces of ice. It was nuts. I haven't seen anything like that, we've been here for 20 years and haven't had anything like this happen. Crazy snowstorms, but not crazy hail storms like that. We just all got nailed down here."
The multiple directions the hail was falling in, as well as what felt like a 10 degree drop in temperature in less than 10 minutes time made Gillooly think of the potential for a tornado.
"Our eavestroughs could not handle it," she said. "It just looked like a curtain coming off the roof." Gillooly's vehicles were dented by the hail, and her windshield smashed.
"The yard looks like, it's very funny, the driveway looks like a golf fairway because of the shredding of the poor oak and maple leaves," she said.
In Minden, trees were knocked over in Minden cemetery, Rotary Park, the back of the arena and fairgrounds, according to Mark Coleman, community services director. Hydro lines and poles snapped in the area of Invergordon Avenue and Stouffer Street.
"It started off as rain, and then it went from rain to small, almost marble-sized hail, then it just kept getting bigger and bigger," said Chantel Smith, a Minden resident. "I had one a little bit bigger than a golf ball in my hand, that was the biggest we saw. Then the trees started blowing around and the weather got really grey and dark. There were really high winds and the trees were just folding in half. We grabbed our kids at that point – the weather just went crazy – and then at that point we ran to the basement because it literally looked like there was going to be, like it was the start of the tornado."
Anticipating a possible tornado due to the intense nature of the storm, Smith said she kept her curious kids back from windows when the hail started loudly striking the glass.
"I was so scared," she said. "I've never been so scared in my life ... I'm going to be 29 and as far as I can remember, the way it was yesterday was the craziest I've ever seen it. I was shaking. It went from just raining to quickly hail and then bigger hail, bigger hail and then all of a sudden it just went nuts for 15 minutes at least. We were panicking. Then the trees were falling over in the park."
Larry Moynes at Ridgewood Ford Sales Ltd. in Minden was kept busy the day after the storm estimating the damage caused to the entire inventory of 145 cars in the parking lot.
"They will be all fixed, and then they will be all sold with further price reduction from the employee pricing," he said. "Insurance covers the cost to fix the cars, it doesn't cover what we're going to have to reduce them to move them."
Besides dealing with the insurance claim, Moynes was busy with people bringing their damaged cars to him for advice.
"I don't know whether it was maybe not quite as severe on our lot – it was severe enough that it dented all the cars – but we've had customers come in today with far more damage than what's happened to our cars," he said.
It's expected to take three to four weeks to repair the inventory, which can all be fixed with paintless dent repair, without a need for paintwork.
"Well, nobody was hurt, so ... it's just one of those things," said Moynes. "Mother Nature, you can't do anything about it. You just have to make the best of it and deal with it and move on."
Home Hardware in Minden was busy on Thursday afternoon, especially due to the power outage that affected more than 22,000 county residents.
"We were running on the back-up generator here, and we were busy because naturally everyone was coming in for flashlights, candles, we sold out of all of our generators," said Tom Walton, assistant manager.
Laughing, he added: "Everyone running at the last minute for everything they should have had beforehand."
Staff was running ragged up until the store closed.
"The thing is, nobody realized how bad things were out front until this morning," he said. "We've never had anything like that happen before."
Outside the store, a display of Adirondack chairs was destroyed, with about eight chairs smashed. "There were holes right through them, all over the place," he said. "Very unexpected."
The greenhouses on the store lot were spared.
"It was strange, I've never seen anything like that up here," said Walton, who has been in the area for 15 years.
"We've seen hail before, it wasn't the first time we've seen hail, but it was obviously harder than we thought."
On Water Street, Faye Adamson's garden did not fare well in the storm.
"[We] lost half of our hot pepper crop, hundreds of tomatoes, the zucchini and squash leaves are shredded, all the carrots and lettuce look pathetic, I have zucchini with welts in them, and to top if off, the light on my back deck shattered so now I can't garden barefoot," she said.
Adamson, the Haliburton County farmers' market manager, relies on output from her gardens for her business, Water St. Market Garden.
"Without having greenhouses, I depend entirely on the sun to ripen my crops, so my harvesting season is further behind the other larger scale farms," she told the Times. "I will have way less to harvest, and therefore way less to sell, less to preserve. And then the broken plants will be far more susceptible to insect and fungal attacks so there is a chance we will lose more than we already have."
Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Haliburton County at 2:48 p.m. on July 26 that stayed in place until the early evening as approximately 23 millilitres of rain fell on the region. The storm brought winds that toppled trees and hail that dented cars, smashed windshields, shredded awnings and destroyed vegetable gardens.
"Yesterday was extraordinary because hail is not that common," said Gerald Cheng, acting warning preparedness meteorologist, Environment and Climate Change Canada on July 27. "If we get hail, usually it's pea-sized, smaller sizes, but we've got reports of golf ball-sized hail, larger than a toonie – then it's sort of an extraordinary event for us."
Cheng said that in preliminary review of the storm, large hail was not reported in Haliburton County after the thunderstorm winded down. Toonie-sized hail was reported from London to Toronto, and golf ball-sized hail, about 4.5 centimetres, was reported in Birr, north of London. In the evening hours, a tornado warning due to radar was issued around the London and Woodstock area.
"When we went into yesterday there were basically two threats that were the main threats," he said. "It was the gusty winds, possibly damaging gusts, and also hail. There were very few reports around [Haliburton's] neck of the woods in terms of actual gusts. We did get some hail reports, they were around Haliburton, which was from nickel to quarter size, around 2.1 cm to 2.4 cm."
Earlier last week, two storms had measured 10 millilitres and 33 millilitres of rainfall, effectively ending a fire ban on the morning of July 26 that had been in place since July 9.
"So it's been a very rainy week, which is good, because I think for a moment there we were all complaining about the lack of rain," said Cheng.
Cheng said the county will see less of the heat wave and dry weather experienced at the beginning of the month, and more rounds of showers coming through.
"It doesn't mean we can guarantee rain for everybody but it's just that the chance of showers will be there and they may develop, especially in the afternoon or evening hours," he said. "We just have to watch how powerful they are. I see that even into the long-range, you might get a day that would be clear or fair, but otherwise we'd be looking at on-and-off showers kind of thing. I'm hoping there's no more hail so it won't ruin the gardens."
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The Division is a tense, absorbing shooter, but the multiplayer Dark Zone needs some work
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Marion Hamplestein is a glass-half-full kind of person. Her warm, motherly voice makes it sound like everything is going to be OK. Just make sure you don't get any blood on your clothes. She wouldn't like that.
Hamplestein is one of the many resilient survivors you'll meet in The Division (out now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC). The online third-person shooter from developer Ubisoft Massive combines a huge open-world with role-playing game systems. You play as a member of the Division, a secret network of sleeper agents who have to help restore order in New York City after a deadly disease killed a large chunk of the population.
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The online RPG shooter category is quite small, so the only other game The Division directly competes with is Destiny. But Ubisoft managed to avoid Destiny's major pitfall when it launched in 2014: the lack of interesting content. It took me more than 40 hours to finish The Division's story. I had a great time just playing through that by myself.
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Sadly, I can't say the same thing about its multiplayer features. And the new activities that appear after you finish the campaign are tedious at best.
Above: Grand Central Station and other famous NYC landmarks appear in the game.
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Taking back the city, one block at a time
Describing something as a slog usually isn't a good thing, but that's exactly what The Division is — and in this case, it works. Once the city fell, different enemy factions took over Manhattan's neighborhoods and filled it with their minions. Rescuing a beleaguered city from criminals and other gun-toting lunatics isn't an easy task.
Your first introduction to this violent world are the hoodie-wearing Rioters, who attack wildly with baseball bats and handguns. Soon afterward you meet the Cleaners, a cult-like group that believes the only way to get rid of the disease is to burn everyone — living or dead — with napalm. In other parts of NYC, the well-armed Rikers (escaped convicts from the Rikers Island prison) are in control. They usually have people who charge toward you with shotguns and at least one sniper who's waiting for you to stick your head out of cover.
The most dangerous faction is the Last Man Battalion, a private military company with soldiers that have almost all the same fancy weapons you do. They try to outflank you or use automatic gun turrets to make your life a little harder.
The Division kept testing me with different enemy configurations and strategies, which forced me to try weapons and abilities I wouldn't have used otherwise. I never felt bored or overpowered. Though the fighting can be unrelenting, it makes the quieter moments in the game that much sweeter.
Your actions matter
RPG systems (like earning levels, new skills, and weapons) are often about improving your character. The Division doesn't stray from these conventions, but it does add one more layer of complexity with the base of operations. The base is a physical manifestation of the player's progress. At first, it looks like a mess, and it doesn't have enough resources to help civilians. But as you go on story missions and spend time upgrading the Medical, Security, and Tech departments, it will start to look like a livable place. Survivors will flood in as the ad-hoc facilities improve, making it feel less like a military outpost and more like a neighborhood.
The base is an excellent way of illustrating that your actions — beyond getting experience points and better loot — matter. You're actually creating a community.
I often returned to the base to see if the people were doing anything new or having different conversations. I once overheard a man talking about getting back together with his ex-wife, saying that they've become better, more mature people because of their harrowing experiences. One woman tends to sit by herself near the base's Christmas tree while strumming a sad tune on her guitar. I even enjoyed watching someone selfishly demand more medical supplies, because this felt like a real thing that'd happen in a situation like this.
These characters don't have names and their stories are simple, but together, they made me feel like I was having a positive impact on their lives.
Above: Times Square's obnoxious ads somehow survived the apocalypse.
Rebuilding New York City
The story is light enough that you can play through the game with your friends without worrying about a ton of cutscenes and dialogue getting in the way. But what's there is meaty if you're willing to dig for it. The three wings of the base also represent the three different story threads, and completing their respective missions lead to new revelations in the form of audio recordings and video footage. You'll learn more about the origins of the virus, the leaders of the enemy factions, and any other sinister forces lurking in the shadows.
Additionally, dozens of miscellaneous items hidden throughout the city provide even more details about the story. Collectible cellphone recordings, laptop files, and augmented reality "echoes" give you snippets of people's lives. They aren't essential to understanding the story, but I felt compelled to find as many of them as I could.
The downside of this piecemeal storytelling method is that it doesn't spend a lot of time on the main cast. But it was effective enough to make me care for the city as a whole: NYC is undoubtedly The Division's best character. It's beautiful to walk through, especially at night with heavy snowfall or when a fog comes in that's so thick that you can't see more than a few feet in front of you.
One of my favorite moments was when I came across a couple looking out of their second-floor window. They were talking about how they were going to handle the birth of their child without any hospitals being around (the wife was three-months pregnant). In the end, the husband hugged his wife and repeatedly told her that they were going to be just fine.
Above: Each Echo is a short story that shows you how certain people lived or died.
The BB-8 from hell
As you upgrade the base, you'll unlock an assortment of destructive gadgets that transform you into a more efficient warrior. While I had fun using most of them, they all pale in comparison to the Seeker Mine.
It sort of looks like BB-8 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens: When deployed, the spherical Seeker Mine will follow you around and speak to you in melodic chirps. But once it sees a hostile enemy, it gets angry. The mine's two little green lights turn red, and it makes a beeline toward its victim. It's a funny reminder that this cute little robot is actually a sentient ball of death filled with enough explosives to level a small house.
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Many caregivers say they are looking for support from people who "really understand because they've been there, too." We start Caregiver Meeting in Jakarta and now expand to 11 cities in Indonesia, this is a safe place for caregivers, family and friends of persons with dementia to meet and develop a mutual support system.
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Multi-organ procurement surgical procedures are undertaken on donors who have consented at the time of their death to donate multiple organs, body parts or tissues. These donors fulfil the criteria for donation by either being certified as brain dead as a result of an injury or via a donation after cardiac death (DCD) pathway. Worldwide multi-organ procurement surgery has made a huge impact in both extending and enhancing the quality of life for recipient patients who have received organs from donors. Perioperative nurses working in surgical teams play a vital role in procuring organs from both paediatric and adult cadaver organ donors. The nature of the surgical procedure used for procuring organs, the urgency of coordinating surgical procurement teams and the removal of organs for urgent transplantation to awaiting recipients is fast paced and technical. The experience has been reported to evoke emotions which traumatically impact on perioperative nurses when assisting in these surgical procedures. There is currently a dearth of research examining the experiences of Australian perioperative nurses assisting within multi-organ procurement surgery.The objective of this study was to describe and gain a greater understanding of the personal experiences nurses encountered as part of their professional roles when involved in these surgical procedures. This thesis presents the substantive theory which has used a grounded theory methodology to describe the experiences of 35 perioperative nurses working within multi-organ procurement surgical teams from metropolitan, regional and rural hospitals in both New South Wales and Western Australia. The qualitative data from in-depth interviews were simultaneously collected and analysed to develop the substantive theory. The study findings draw attention to the complexities that exist for perioperative nurses to participate in these surgical procedures.The basic social psychological problem of hiding behind a mask was found to be a fundamental shared concern that the majority of perioperative nurses in this study faced when participating in multi-organ procurement surgery. The problem of hiding behind a mask was comprised of three stages: being unprepared, being overwhelmed and hiding the burden. The first stage, conceptualised as being unprepared, consisted of not knowing what to expect during the surgical procedure when they lacked prior knowledge and experience and felt unprepared for being exposed to death by operating on a cadaver donor and managing DCD donors within the operating room. Moreover participants were unprepared for witnessing the circumstances of each donor patient in addition to dealing with the grieving family.During the second stage participants described being overwhelmed with fears of facilitating death of the donor when they lacked understanding of the process of brain death diagnosis. They reported being overwhelmed at also having to witness the graphic nature of the procurement process and feeling overwhelmed by their own emotional responses to the donor's death which they tried to hide and contain from their work colleagues through hiding behind a mask. Lastly the third stage of hiding behind a mask was identified as hiding the burden where participants were forced to contain their own personal beliefs and attitudes towards these surgical procedures whilst undertaking their professional roles. They reported hiding behind a mask when suppressing personal beliefs, hiding an objection to participate, not disclosing their own views or attitudes on death and spiritual 'afterlife' beliefs and lastly hiding not being able to cope when participating in these surgical procedures. The majority of the participants in this study articulated that various conditions influenced and directly contributed towards their experiences of hiding behind a mask. Three conditions were identified and these were reported as: work conditions, levels of knowledge and experience and levels of support.In an attempt to overcome the problem of hiding behind a mask, the data revealed that participants had to reach a turning point which was labelled as taking control. The turning point of taking control was described by participants as taking control of their own internal turmoil and rationalising the situation they were placed in whilst also changing their attitudes and thoughts towards their participation in the procedure. Once they had passed through the turning point of taking control participants were able to move beyond this point into the basic social psychological process of finding meaning.The basic social psychological process of finding meaning comprised of three stages: pushing through; preserving self and coming to terms. The first stage of finding meaning was conceptualised as pushing through. For many of the study participants in pushing through they dissociated themselves from their internal feelings and conflicts by focusing on the importance of their role and professional contributions towards the surgical procedure. The second stage of the basic social psychological process of finding meaning was conceptualised as preserving self, this saw participants implement strategies to protect themselves from both the traumatic experiences of procurement surgery and the tragic circumstances of the donors they came in contact with. Three aspects of preserving self were identified: being resilient; nurse self care and seeking personal support. The third and final stage of the basic social psychological process of finding meaning was conceptualised as coming to terms. During this stage participants were able to gain some understanding from their experiences by placing their participation role into perspective, honouring the donation wish and assisting in preserving life for the greater good when focusing on the needs of recipient patients requiring the organs they were assisting to procure. Conditions influencing the basic social psychological process of finding meaning encompassed: work conditions, levels of knowledge and experience and levels of support. Participants articulated these as positive influencing conditions such as a changing work environment, feeling less isolated and being supported by their work organisations.Throughout this thesis pertinent scientific literature has been woven into the research findings to illustrate the relevance of the newly developed theory and to place the substantive theory within the context of other findings and related theories to further support the trustworthiness of the current study data and the newly developed theory. The findings detailed in the substantive theory illustrate new contributions to the knowledge and understanding of the Australian perioperative nurses experiences when undertaking multi-organ procurement surgical procedures which will have relevance both nationally and internationally. The findings have implications and recommendations directed towards perioperative nurses, health services, perioperative organisations, government and policy makers.


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World Archery releases new mobile apps ahead of 10th Archery World Cup Final
Archery - 19 Oct 2015
Applications to communicate live scores, news, photos and video from Mexico City 2015 Archery World Cup Final on 24/25 October.
LAUSANNE (SUI), MONDAY 19 OCTOBER – New versions of World Archery Live, World Archery's live scoring, results and data application, are now available via Android Play and the Apple App Store.
The updated apps include expanded athlete biographies, full records and results information and integration with Archery TV, World Archery's successful YouTube channel, which boasts over 28 million lifetime views.
"World Archery is committed to making archery available to its millions of fans around the world through the latest in technology. Sport content is forever being consumed faster and more concisely by the younger generation of sports followers, and these new applications will ensure archery is always at their fingertips," said World Archery President Prof Dr Erdener.
The release of the new applications comes just in time for the season-ending 2015 Archery World Cup Final, being held in Mexico City on 24/25 October, where the top 32 athletes of the year compete for champion crowns and a prize fund totalling more than 140,000 CHF.
Archery's premier international and annual circuit was launched in 2006 and has been a driver behind the evolution of the sport, both on and off the field.
It has attracted major sponsors in Kia Motors, Turkish Airlines, Longines, FILA and Sportoto, lead to TV coverage on Eurosport, SBS and other international and regional broadcasters, and raised the competitive level of international archery and its athletes.
The line-up at Mexico City 2015 includes Olympic Champion Ki Bo Bae and World Champion Kim Woojin, from Korea, and defending champions Sara Lopez and Brady Ellison, who has a chance to win an unprecedented and historical fourth title.
Prof Dr Erdener said: "Mexico City 2015 marks the 10th anniversary of the Archery World Cup Final. Over the last decade we've seen archery's premier international tour go from strength to strength, providing a platform for the sport's elite to perform in iconic venues around the world."
Previous Archery World Cup Finals have been held in front of the Eiffel Tower, by the Bosphorus in Istanbul, twice in the Olympic Capital of Lausanne, in Copenhagen's Nyhavan Canal and next to Edinburgh Castle.
"We'll now add the Zócalo, central City Square of the Mexican capital, to that list," Prof Dr Erdener added.


Tinctures are made when you want something that is preserved and will keep for up to 3 years in your cupboard.This is a great option for herbs or remedies that you want to use for a few months. They do take a bit longer to make than infusions or decoctions though, and they contain alcohol. Many tinctures contain up to 90% alcohol or more. Tinctures come out stronger than infusions or decoctions, so you don't need to take anywhere near as much. This is helpful for herbs that you don't find particularly pleasant tasting.Keep in mind some herbs only lend their healing properties when alcohol is used to help extract those properties out. This is especially true of roots and bark.
Start by diluting 3 cups vodka with an ounce or two of water to create your medium.
Put your herb(s) into a large jar and pour in your medium, making sure your herbs are completely covered. Seal the jar and store it for 2 weeks in a cool, dark place. You will want to shake it occasionally (once every couple days or so).
Place cheesecloth around the rim of a winepress and pour your mixture in, pressing the mixture through the wine press and into another jar. Alternatively, you can place the cheesecloth over the lid of a wide mouth jar and pour the mixture in, then squeeze the cheesecloth by hand.
Store the liquid in clean amber or blue glass bottles, preferably in the cupboard out of the sunlight. Sunlight tends to lessen the potency of the herbs more quickly.
If you get bottles with droppers for the caps it makes it easier to measure out your dosage. Squirt the dropper into your teaspoon measuring spoon to see how many it will take to equal one teaspoon.
You can squirt the tincture directly into your mouth, or put it in a small amount of juice or water to help the flavor. Typically milk is avoided as it may negate any antioxidant properties of the herbs.
TIP: The leftover herb makes excellent compost and mulch for your flower bed – but beware, it can attract deer. NOTE: It is not suggested for pregnant or nursing mothers, infants, toddlers, or those people suffering from gastric or liver inflammation to use tinctures due to the high alcohol content. You can evaporate a portion of the alcohol by adding a small amount of boiling water (0.75 to 1.5 ounces) to your dose and allowing it to cool before drinking.
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King Township Limousine Services provide airport pickups as well as drop offs apart from transporting people to various destinations to attend various events. Some of the events that are common in King Township that limousine King Township provides transport for include wedding, prom, corporate events, sporting events, funerals, parties among other events. King City limousine service also provides services for casino drives, concerts as well as tours.


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High progesterone level, when performed 7-10 days after ovulation, confirms that ovulation has occurred and that progesterone production for that cycle is normal.
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These change dramatically throughout the cycle as a result of the various feedback mechanisms involved. First, we will consider the individual hormones involved, their target organs and actions, before piecing together the mosaic of the feedback mechanisms to complete the hormonal profile of the normal ovulatory cycle.
A simple diagrammatic representation of the origins, target organs and feedback mechanisms of the principal hormones involved in the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis. Gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) GnRH is a decapeptide which is synthesized and released by specific neuronal endings in the anterior and mediobasal hypothalamus. It is secreted into the portal vessels which run a very short course to the anterior pituitary.
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This rise in FSH concentrations stimulates the growth of antral follicles, granulosa cell proliferation and differentiation. It also encourages the action of the enzyme aromatase in the conversion of the basic androgens, androstendione and testosterone to estrogens.
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Walk away the Blues with Camino Zen : Walk & Yoga on the Last 100 km to Santiago! The Camino de Santiago is a medieval pilgrimage, inspiring millions of pilgrims through the centuries. It also has been a unique source of healing to all of those who walk it. Many pilgrims still use this pilgrimage as a way to balance their life, find some answers or simply take some time away from their overly busy life-style. So we thought about bringing you a new way to experience the Camino, getting that plenitude or zenitude we are all aspiring to.
On this tour your yoga instructor will travel the Camino along with you, taking you through a morning and evening asanas session each day. We can arrange this package for any time of year once you have a group of at least 8 people.
Important: Follow The Camino Yoga guided trips are guaranteed at a minimum of 9 people registered. In case we do not reach this number, the tour will continue as self guided and we will refund the price of the guide to you.
We'll book you on the same trip but, without instructor. We'll ensure you have a private room at each location so you can practice yoga in solitude.
You will be booked into a chilled hotel right in the heart of Oia. Your rooms will be all en-suite. From Oia, you walk along a coastal path away from the main road. After 10km you will then continue along gorgeous coast line on boardwalk with picturesque views on the Atlantic Ocean and the Cies islands.
of the day. You will have regular opportunity to stop in a local cafe along the beach.
Reaching the historic site of Ponte Sampaio, the Camino crosses the Verdugo River. During the War of Independence, Napoleon's army suffered one of its greatest defeats in Galicia at this bridge, at the hands of the armed populace. Heading up a cobbled footpath we come to the 13th Century church of Santa Maria. Views of the Bay of Vigo are fabulous!
Exiting the town, we take a bridge over the river Umia that leads us to a fountain of hot spring water that has lent the town its name since Roman times. Entering the woods once more, the Camino make its way gently uphill to the hamlet of Santa Marina. Going downhill, we then cross the river Fontenlo . Finally, following a Camino lined with pine trees, we catch up again with the river as we arrive in Padron. Padron is famous for being the first land sighted by the ship bearing the body of Saint James.
Santiago de Compostela airport with Aer Lingus or Ryanair (can book return flights).


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