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Muscle aches and pains
- General Information
- See Your Pharmacist or Medical Professional
- Treatment Tips
- Treatment Options
- More Information
General Information
General muscular aches and pains are often caused by unaccustomed use or overuse of muscles. More severe muscle pain accompanied by swelling and restricted movement may mean that muscles, tendons or ligaments have been damaged, torn, sprained or strained (possibly in a sports or other accidental injury).
Before you treat, consider whether you have general aches or pains from overuse, or if it is something more serious, such as an injury. If you have injured yourself, follow the RICER approach immediately (see 'Treatment Tips').
See Your Pharmacist or Medical Professional
- if you have a serious loss of movement along with the ache or pain
- if you can't put weight on the joint
- if the injured area looks deformed
- if the pain is severe, there is swelling or the area feels warm
- if your pain or discomfort has not improved after treatment
- if the pain is from a back injury or lower back pain that spreads to your legs
- if pain gets worse during the day, such as knee or hip pain
- if you have other symptoms, such as morning joint stiffness, fever or numbness
- if you have muscular pain and a medical condition or take certain medicines, such as those to lower your cholesterol level
- if the person is a child or elderly; they may be more sensitive to some medicines
- if you are pregnant or breastfeeding; certain medicines will not be suitable
- if your pain persists beyond seven days
If any of these apply, investigation of muscle aches and pains by your health professional is recommended, even if it confirms there is nothing seriously wrong.
Treatment Tips
- general muscle aches, stiffness or soreness caused by overuse may be relieved by anti-inflammatory gels or 'heat rubs'
- for general muscle soreness and stiffness, gentle exercise, massage and medicine helps restore mobility
- avoid HARM: heat, alcohol, running/exercise or massage for the first 72 hours; they may limit healing and exacerbate the injury if undertaken too soon.
- check with a doctor or physiotherapist before starting heat treatments and physical activity, to avoid the risk of further injury
- if your back is the problem, in future make sure you adopt good posture and appropriate lifting techniques to prevent back ache
Treatment tips for sprains, strains and soft tissue injuries
- RICER therapy is very important in the first 48 to 72 hours after an injury, such as a sprain:
- R rest: no further exercise
- I ice: apply ice or a bag of frozen vegetables, wrapped in a towel to protect your skin, for 10 to 20 minutes every two hours
- C compress: wrap with a firm, elastic bandage, and loosen it if you feel tingling or numbness
- E elevate: keep the injured limb raised on a chair or cushion
- R refer: see a doctor or physiotherapist for a precise diagnosis and ongoing care; a full recovery is more likely with less scarring
Treatment Options
- general muscle aches and pains can be relieved by a range of medicines
- it may be better to avoid certain medicines when you are first injured; check with your pharmacist
- take pain relievers regularly for the first few days, rather than waiting for the pain to ease
Oral pain relief medicines (analgesics)
e.g. paracetamol, packets of 24 or fewer (Panadol range), aspirin (Aspro range, Disprin range); ibuprofen, packets of 24 or fewer (Advil Liquid Caps, Advil Tablets, Nurofen range
e.g. paracetamol, ibuprofen, larger pack sizes; diclofenac (Voltaren Rapid 12.5), naproxen (Naprogesic)
e.g. diclofenac (Voltaren Rapid 25)
Combination analgesics
Ibuprofen + paracetamol
e.g. Combigesic, Maxigesic, Mersynofen, Nuromol
e.g. Ibupane
Paracetamol, aspirin and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) relieve pain. Aspirin and NSAIDs (which include ibuprofen, diclofenac and naproxen) also reduce inflammation (swelling). Paracetamol and NSAIDs can be used together as they work differently (they are usually given at different times; ask your pharmacist about dosing).
Paracetamol is a safe choice for most people but it is important not to take more than recommended. It is an ingredient in many cold and flu remedies so be careful not to double dose. The maximum daily dose of paracetamol for an adult is 4 g (4000 mg), and no more than 1 g (1000 mg) every four hours. It is important to dose children by their weight and to follow the manufacturer's instructions on dosage.
Aspirin and NSAIDs are not suitable for everyone. Children under 12 years old must not take aspirin because it can cause Reye's syndrome, a serious condition. It should also be avoided by adolescents under 16 years old who have a viral illness.
Check with your pharmacist before taking aspirin or NSAIDs if you:
- have a history of stomach problems, such as ulcers or indigestion
- have asthma; some people with asthma find their condition is made worse by these types of medicines
- have kidney problems or a heart condition
- take other medications
- have an allergy to aspirin or NSAIDs
- are pregnant or breastfeeding
- are elderly; you may be at more risk of side effects
- are dehydrated
Sometimes aspirin and NSAIDs can cause side effects. It is important to take these products with a glass of water and food to minimise heartburn. If you develop indigestion, or unusual or increased bleeding or bruising, stop taking them and talk to your pharmacist.
Gel NSAIDs
e.g. ibuprofen (Nurofen Gel), diclofenac (Dencorub Anti-inflammatory Gel, Voltaren Emulgel), piroxicam (Feldene Gel)
- NSAID gels rubbed gently over the affected area may help relieve aches, sprains and strains
- gel medication can be absorbed into your bloodstream so it is important to check if NSAIDs are suitable for you (see above)
- NSAID gels help general aches, sprains and strains
- occasionally your skin can become irritated; stop use if this happens
- do not apply to open wounds, lips or near eyes, and wash hands after use
- if large amounts are used, or you are sensitive to NSAIDs, side effects may occur (see above)
- treatment beyond 2 weeks is not recommended; seek medical advice for long term use
- NSAIDs are not recommended for pregnant or breastfeeding women, or for children
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Cruise Getaway and Zoofari Packages Help Guests Save at the Hotel in Jacksonville, Florida This Summer Season
JACKSONVILLE, FL--(Marketwired - May 3, 2016) - Courtyard Jacksonville I-295/East Beltway is greeting summer with two packages that will help guests plan their perfect Florida adventure during the sunniest season. The hotel has announced it will extend its Cruise Getaway Package for travelers planning to set sail from Jaxport Cruise Terminal, as well as offer a new "Zoofari" package to the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens to get up close and personal with some of Jacksonville's rarest animal residents from across the globe.
The hotel's Cruise Getaway package includes complimentary parking and transfers for up to four guests to and from Jaxport Cruise Terminal. Travelers can plan their cruise, unwind at the Jacksonville hotel and leave their car near the cruise port while they set off for the ultimate seafaring summer cruise beyond the Florida coast. Before disembarking, guests can check out the local sights nearby, like the wonderful shopping and dining at St. Johns Town Center just minutes away.
Also announced is the hotel's brand new "Zoofari" Package, which invites travelers to embark on an exploration of the rare and unique animals and exotic plants that reside at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, with two complimentary tickets. Guests of this charming Jacksonville Florida hotel with free parking will also wake up to a freshly prepared complimentary breakfast before setting out for the day's adventure.
Conveniently located in the heart of Jacksonville, just minutes from area favorites such as beautiful Jacksonville Beach, where visitors can dip their toes in the sand, the hotel is a central haven of comfort in one of Florida's most vibrant cities. For those seeking other adventures, the hotel is near Jacksonville University, and Anheuser Busch Brewery Tours are just moments from the property, as are many acclaimed restaurants, charming shops and boutiques, retail outlets, and local entertainment.
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Guillermo del Toro has a Monster on the brain. This time around it's not a gigantic Kaiju for his upcoming Pacific Rim, but rather an adaptation of Naoki Urasawa's manga, Monster. The vision may be big but this project is meant for the small screen as part of del Toro's TV collaboration with HBO. The 18-volume thriller follows a doctor on his global search for a former patient of his who went on to become the most evil sociopath the world has ever seen. Del Toro will co-write the story with Steven Thompson (Dr. Who, Sherlock), while Thompson will write the pilot that del Toro intends to direct (got that?). Hit the jump for more.
Deadline reports that del Toro and HBO are in the Monster business. The project was originally set up at New Line as a feature but proved too unwieldy. Del Toro reportedly wooed Urasawa over a lengthy period of time until he was able to get him to trust that his creation would be in good hands. This appears to be a similar process to how Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss were able to bring George R.R. Martin's creation to the masses.
As a side-note, the write-up also mentions that del Toro is once again stirring the coals with Universal in hopes of firing up his adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. This news comes on the tail of the studio's successful global launch of Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise, who was also lined up to star in the del Toro picture. It remains to be seen whether Universal is willing to make his $150 million R-rated 3D movie, but the outcome of Pacific Rim will certainly help push that decision one way or another.
Here's the description for the first volume in Urasawa's series (via Amazon):
Brilliant doctor Kenzo Tenma risks his reputation and promising career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. Unbeknownst to him, this child is destined for a terrible fate. Conspiracies, serial murders, and a scathing depiction of the underbelly of hospital politics are all masterfully woven together in this compelling manga thriller.


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Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus has become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic exprmentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as 'the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s', Fluxus challenged conventional thinking on art and culture for over four decades. It had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms. The Fluxus Reader offers the first comprehensive overview on this challenging and controversial group. The Fluxus Reader is written by leading scholars and experts from Europe and the United States.


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Ahead of their global conference on supplier inclusivity and diversity, Procurement Leaders invites MSDUK founder Mayank Shah shares lessons from 10 years of helping businesses make supply chains more inclusive.
An inclusive approach to sourcing brings innovation, positive disruptive new products and services, can mitigate risks within your supply chain, drives competitive advantage and removes all biases, making procurement transparent and sustainable. Better said than done, isn't it? When sourcing teams are under pressure to deliver cost savings, support a heightened risk agenda and drive consolidation, these words come across as wishful thinking!
I founded MSDUK in 2006 as UK's first corporate-led organisation that encouraged big firms to drive inclusive procurement behaviour and engage with ethnic minority owned businesses (EMBs). 10 years on, we have worked with sourcing teams of over 100 large firms, more than 500 sourcing professionals and nearly 1000 small and medium size businesses owned by ethnic minorities with a combined turnover in excess of £1bn employing over 13000 people; organised 84 industry specific meet the buyer events, hundreds of learning sessions and 5 global conferences.
Our efforts have supported £70m of spend with EMBs and the communities they are located, creating new jobs in those places. Large firms have in return got access to a new, improved and innovative supply base, but what is more important is that these ten years of real stakeholder engagement has left big lessons – good and bad and proven without doubt that if done smartly and diligently, inclusion of diverse owned SMEs brings real tangible economic and social benefits for everyone in the supply chain.
And if I have to pick a few things that have worked and a few things that have not worked to make supply chain inclusive, they are:
Reasons why supply chain inclusivity is easy:
Reasons why supply chain inclusivity might be a non-starter:
MSDUK is organising a global conference on inclusive procurement in London on 21st, 22nd Sept with global experts, CPOs, sourcing professionals, policy makers and 100s of enterprising minority business owners will be in attendance, providing opportunity to meet, learn, share knowledge and network.
Procurement Leader readers will get a special discount of 10% on registration by using special discount code; PL10.
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How to Best Do Your Garage Door Repair
With the many manufacturers that are then the world, owning a car has never been easier and therefore most people have them. After owning the car, a major question that a person needs to ask himself is where they'll keep the car safely every day. The garage is a very important place for keeping of the car because it ensures its safety.However, maintaining of the garage itself is sometimes a nightmare to many people, and therefore this article seeks to bring a solution to this, especially for the repairing of the garage doors or the installing of one. Professional garage door services at the best option for the maintaining and repairing of your garage door.These companies are located in all the major towns and therefore finding one is not a hard process, just by going to the Internet you can easily find one. By engaging the professional garage services your easily going to get the benefits of the professional services.
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Losing weight isn't just about going down a few sizes or fitting into an old pair of jeans. There are numerous other benefits which are health related that come with shedding some unnecessary pounds.
Along with a slimmer waist, losing weight can help lower blood pressure, reduce joint pain, reduce the risk of cancer and diabetes and more. Losing weight, however, is not always the easiest thing to do.
Aside from eating healthier and exercising regularly, there are other ways in which to help you lose some weight quickly and more effectively.
Two products that are popular for weight loss include Apple Cider Vinegar and Garcinia Cambogia. While they may each have their own benefits separately, together they are a powerful weight loss combination.
Apple Cider Vinegar & Weight Loss
For thousands of years, Apple cider vinegar has been used as a sort of health tonic. Extensive research has been done on it and it has been proven that there are many health benefits of using it regularly.
Which include lowering blood sugar levels and helping to aid in weight loss with proper diet and exercise. Adding some apple cider vinegar into your diet can help you lose weight in several different ways.
Apple Cider Vinegar Weight Loss Benefits:
Decreased Insulin Levels – Acetic acid in apple cider vinegar can help to reduce the ratio of glucagon to insulin which helps burn fat.
Lowers Blood Sugar – Acetic acid can also help to improve the muscles and liver's ability to take sugar from the blood.
Reduces Fat Storage – Research has shown that the apple cider vinegar mixture can help to increase the expression of the genes responsible for reducing stomach fat storage and also liver fat storage.
Improves Metabolism – Apple cider vinegar has been shown to increase certain enzymes that are responsible for burning fat and lowering sugar and fat production in the liver.
Burns Fat – The vinegar can also help to increase the genes in the body which are responsible for fat burning and helps to keep fat from building up.
Reduces Appetite – Another research study about apple cider vinegar showed that the acetate in the mixture may help suppress centers in our brains that control appetite. This can lead to a reduction in food intake.
Garcinia Cambogia & Weight Loss
While the fruit that Garcinia Cambogia is derived from may be too sour to eat, it is great for things like cooking and has become a popular weight loss supplement.
It is thought that the Hydroxycitric acid found in the rind of this fruit is what makes it so effective for weight loss. Other ways that it helps aid in losing weight includes reducing your appetite and blocking fat production in the stomach.
Apple Cider Vinegar with Garcinia Cambogia for Losing Weight
Both the apple cider vinegar and the Garcinia Cambogia have great attributes that aid in weight loss. When combined together, their complementary effects create a very potent weight loss agent.
There are many benefits with regards to losing weight that is gained from taking both of these natural products together.
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This, in turn, can also help you to both absorb nutrients better and burn excessive carbs and calories more efficiently. All of these benefits combined together make them a must have for your endeavor to lose weight and be healthier overall.


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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Announces $2.4 Million in Grants to Protect and Restore Delaware River
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Philadelphia, PA - July 15, 2014
— The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced today $2.4 million in grants as part of the first round of $7 million in funding to improve waters that contribute to the overall health of the Delaware River. These grants are part of a $35 million multi-state investment by the William Penn Foundation to protect the Delaware River. This initial round of funding includes 15 projects
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across the Delaware River watershed.
The projects announced today will collaboratively restore 34 acres of wetlands and 32 miles of riparian habitat, engage 1,050 volunteers and mitigate nearly two million gallons of stormwater runoff.
In April 2014, The William Penn Foundation announced a $7 million grant to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to restore habitat in the Delaware River as part of a $35 million initiative that also includes the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, the Open Space Institute and more than 40 additional national and regional partners.
The initiative aims to permanently protect more than 30,000 acres, implement more than 40 restoration projects, pilot new incentives for landowners and businesses, provide replicable models for other locations in the watershed, and develop long-term water quality data for the watershed at an unprecedented scale.
Dignitaries and grantees alike gathered at the Race Street Pier in Philadelphia this afternoon for the 2014 Delaware River Restoration Fund grants announcement.
Amanda Bassow, Director, NFWF Eastern Partnership Office; Laura Sparks, Chief Philanthropy Officer, William Penn Foundation; Denise Coleman, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service – Pennsylvania; and Shawn Garvin, Regional Administrator, U.S. EPA Region 3, provided remarks about the multi-state investment to protect and restore critical sources of drinking water for 15 million people.
The 15 initial grant recipients are:
Brandywine Conservancy, Inc.; Brandywine Valley Association, Inc.; Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership; Stroud Water Research Center; Berks County Conservancy; Lower Merion Conservancy; Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust; Pennsylvania Resources Council; Brodhead Watershed Association
New Jersey:
The Nature Conservancy; American Littoral Society; New Jersey Audubon Society (2); Musconetcong Watershed Association; Association of New Jersey Environmental Commissioners
"NFWF is thrilled to announce the inaugural slate of Delaware River Restoration Fund grants.
With an investment of only $2.4 million from NFWF this year, our grantees are able to leverage more than twice that amount for on-the-ground conservation and restoration," said Amanda Bassow, Director of the Eastern Partnership Office for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
"We're grateful to William Penn Foundation for sparking this initiative by bringing together such a talented group of partners—and we're looking forward to supporting additional important projects in subsequent rounds."
"The team at the William Penn Foundation is very excited to see the first steps of the recently-launched Delaware River Watershed Initiative come to life. We're pleased that these NFWF grants will further
align efforts to restore streams, advance implementation of green infrastructure, deliver robust conservation on working lands and improve water quality in our region," said Laura Sparks,
Chief Philanthropy Officer for the William Penn Foundation.
"Conservation is truly a partnership effort," said Denise Coleman, NRCS State Conservationist. "NRCS is looking forward to expanding our conservation efforts with partners and grant recipients to protect and improve water quality in the Delaware River."
In recent years, deforestation from commercial, residential and energy development, contaminated runoff from farms and urban stormwater have increasingly threatened the health of the Delaware River.
The Delaware is the only free-flowing river east of the Mississippi and provides clean and safe drinking water to more than 15 million people, many in major cities including Philadelphia, New York, Camden (NJ) and Wilmington (DE).
The Delaware River watershed covers 13,539 square miles of land and water, touches a population of over eight million people and is home to native brook trout, river herring, oysters and threatened plants and other wildlife.
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Clicky Analytics (getClicky) Review: clean, simple, effective
In my post last week about social buttons, I included code samples for Clicky Analytics. I got some emails asking me why I use Clicky and Google Analytics alongside each other. In this review I want to show you some of the cool features I use from Clicky Analytics (aka getClicky) that make me use it a lot, actually probably just as much if not more than Google Analytics.
Let me go over some of the features of Clicky Analytics:
The Clicky Dashboard
More than any other affordable analytics package, the dashboard for Clicky shows me what's happening on my site now. Nothing really fancy, but it just works and measures what it's supposed to measure. Check out this example:
Clicky Analytics Spy
If the dashboard isn't realtime enough for you, the Clicky spy feature gives a very simple but cool AJAXified overview of the traffic coming in to your site:
Their API
Clicky allows you to insert data into it by using their internal data logging API. My Clicky WordPress plugin uses this feature to store comments. Instead of having to do the "unreliable" thing I have to do in Google Analytics: adding an onclick handler to the submit comment button, I can just do a request to the Clicky servers when the comment is inserted into the database, which gives cool stuff like this:
Once someone leaves a comment, the plugin is also able, using the cookie that WordPress sets once you make a comment, to track the visitor by name, so if they come back, you'll know exactly who it is. This feature (the API as well as the goal part) requires a Pro account, which leads me to the next advantage: its pricing (aff link). You can do up to 30k pageviews per day in an account that costs $60 a year. That's serious value for money if you compare it to any other paid analytics package.
How about speed?
In the past, Clicky Analytics had some performance issues from time to time. Recently they've been improving a lot though, with their latest move being to move to a truly global CDN for their tracking scripts. Today I updated the Clicky WP plugin for that which also reminded me I should really write this post.
Is that all?
No, there's more, with a Pro account, Clicky will also pick up data from Google Analytics campaign variables, do video analytics and all sorts of other neat stuff. There really are a lot more features in Clicky Analytics, but to be honest, I don't use them as much as I probably should. All my more hardcore analysis is done in Google Analytics, as I like that interface more for doing such analyses. However, for a quick overview of your site, you can't really go wrong with Clicky. Like it too? Get it now.


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pauloUR needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 75 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
This is for a new brand that sells handmade clothing accessories such as bowties. "weev" is a play on the word weave, as in, a fabric is made by weaving strings together. These accessories are targeting a modern and irreverent audience.
Logo should be clean and simple enough to create a stamp out of it.
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Doug Armstrong, compassionate, loving General Manager that he is, has seen the abundance of homeless and unwanted former New Jersey Devils hockey players stuck in Free Agency, and has decided to take action.
Today, the Blues invited Martin Havlat and Dainius Zubrus to professional tryouts. Both played for the Devils last season. The Blues have invited four veterans from New Jersey to the team over the last two seasons, including Marty Brodeur and Scott Gomez.
"It's tough." Said Blues GM, Doug Armstrong. "These men just want to play hockey, but have no team to play for. As an organization, we're doing all we can to be sure that these guys who are down on their luck have a fresh sheet of ice to skate on."
"I thought I saw Jaromir Jagr once… But it turned out it was just a really old guy."
– Blues employee
An employee is always present at the entrance to the Scottrade Center, scanning the streets in search of more former New Jersey players, with a warm pair of skates and a Blues practice jersey ready in hand.
"I thought I saw Jaromir Jagr once…" Said a Blues security guard, "But it turned out it was just a really old guy."
Giving former players a new home is not a new idea for the Blues, two seasons ago they were extremely helpful in giving old washed up Dallas Stars players another chance, including players such as Brendan Morrow, Derek Roy and Steve Ott.


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Where To Find Legitimate Assignment Writing Services
For the past two years I have been working a freelance writer for hire, providing my services to anyone who needs them and is willing to pay. Occasionally students will approach me requesting services for their post-secondary writing assignments and depending on the negotiated rate I am always willing to consider taking on these projects.
I know what you are thinking, how unethical is it that a professional writer would compose school assignments for students? Well let me am blunt when I say that times are tough and work is work. Taking on these projects is not a question of moral ethics but a matter of business. Often when you think of students you think about pimple face freshmen, which are taking general studies and beer-bonging their nights away. However many of my student clients are serious academics who are in their fourth or fifth year of study and have many major writing assignments due in a single semester.
These students are not looking for someone just to do their homework so they can go party at a frat-house for the night. They are seriously concerned about their GPA's and desperately need help getting a improving grade on a major written assignment. The fact that they are willing to pay for my services demonstrates the fact that they are legitimately interested in submitting a professionally composed paper. To me, there is no reason why I shouldn't at least consider helping them out with my services.
Finding A Great Writer To Complete Your Assignment
I believe that it is my professionalism and understanding that makes me such an appealing candidate for these projects. When you trust someone else to complete an important assignment, you want to be assured that they are a legitimate professional writer. I always keep on hand a writing portfolio and resume to share with my clients in order to demonstrate my capabilities and expertise. I also have a handful of academic writing samples, so that they can get a sense of what to expect when they hire me.
Legitimate writing services can be hard to come by; many individuals advertise their writing services but fail to provide credentials or high-quality final products. Keep in mind that when it comes to professional writing, you essentially "get what you paid for" the price will often dictate the amount of time and energy that the writing is willing to commit.


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anybody here going to play this? me personally, it's the only version of wow i like so i definitely am. I love all these retro games making a come back, can't get into many of the newer games for some reason.World of Warcraft Classic will be sending players back in time this summer, returning to the days before flying mounts, dungeon queues and the earth-shattering Cataclysm. You'll be able to start levelling up a new character in old WoW on August 27.
If any of you (those who don't despise me that is ) want to play, let me know so we can end up on the same server. I already have a few friends/family that are going to play.
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The growing trend in development has been the action-oriented MMO. There's a number of projects still in the making that happen to redirect the focus of a massive-multiplayer online game into a fast-paced, action-RPG. True Games Interactive's latest title, Warrior Epic, fits into this description nicely and the new screenshots showoff why.
What makes Warrior Epic so unique is, firstly, it doesn't have 'Online' at the end of the title. Next, the game doesn't just allow players to control and command one warrior, but many warriors: Instead of manning a character from the start, the game puts players in charge of a Warrior's Hall, in which they will manage their characters and adventures.
The Warrior Hall works in ways that exceed a central hub for player control. If a player character dies there's the option of reviving them or using their spirit to imbue it into weapons or skills for additional damage. Nice, eh?
You can check out the new screenshots below, and be sure to visit the Official Warrior Epic Website for more details on the game. For more updates, news and media regarding the latest gaming titles, be sure to stay tuned in with Blend Games.


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The Great Lost Trashmen Album! by Trashmen, The (9/10)
Another fine collection of Trashmen recordings. Not much to add here except that these were all previously unreleased and there's only one bird themed song included.
Another fine collection of Trashmen recordings. Not much to add here except that these were all previously unreleased and there's only one bird themed song included.
The Trashmen were a standout band from the surf era known mostly for their hit, "Surfin' Bird." That single captures much of the appeal of the band. They are at their best when they are going crazy and having goofy fun. They will often fall back into covering rock standards like "It's So Easy" and the result is never as good when they're doing their own crazy thing. Fortunately, they maintain a high level of stupidity through most of this disc. Oh, and the liner notes are fantastic.
Well, like everyone else who saw this movie, I think the first quarter is very good, mostly because Brian Cranston's character is actually interesting. The rest of the film is by-the-numbers summer faire. The characters are merely signposts to get us from one plot point/set piece to the next. The monster battles are very well done so I guess characters and solid plotting don't really matter. Just sit back and watch the cool battles and be nauseated by the 3-D crap.
The record label/co-op thingy I help run has a major release available for pre-order today! Go secure your copy of The Austerity Program's Beyond Calculation and get a t-shirt as part of the package.
This CD compiles four of the band's early 7" singles. This was when the Toy Dolls were at their punkiest. So, despite its short length, Singles 83/84 is good collection of tunes that fills a few gaps missing from the early LPs.
Another new record label and another quick cash in on the band's older songs. This time it's a live set from the Wakey Wakey tour. While there's nothing wrong with this, an actual greatest hits record would be a better purchase.
I got this back when it came out and it was about the only way to get Toy Dolls on CD here in the States (I only had the first LP on vinyl at the time). I absolutely loved it at the time. Now, more than 20 years later, I still like the compilation but I can hear its flaws. Read more about Ten Years of Toys...
What's with the "Z" in Toy Dollz? That was the first sign that this might be a questionable release. In fact I think this was their weakest record. The sound is tinny and the songs just didn't hook me. There are parts that are okay such as the chorus from "I Loathe You" or the Andrew LLoyd Webber cover, but nothing really jumps out as being great. After this came out I stopped buying Toy Dolls records. They have had a few good songs since then, but that's what Spotify is for.
After a string of just okay records, The Toy Dolls finally released an LP that almost stands up to their first recordings. I guess I like the raw, punk aesthetics of the first three records, but I have to admit that, despite the heavy metal-esque shredding solos, this record sounds great. The song highlights on this one are "My Wife's a Psychopath," "Toccata in Dm," "Sod the Neighbours" and "Alec's Gone."
This CD includes the embarrassing bonus track "Turtle Crazy!" which is a song about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Aside from that misguided career low-point the rest of the songs are passable. The only real standout here is the nostalgic anthem, "Back in '79."
Well from here on out these records are business as usual. The highlights on this CD are "There's a Trollop up Elmwood Street," "Cloughy Is a Bootboy" and, despite its cheesiness, "Sabre Dance."
In the above scene from Memento Mori you are supposed to trick a little, abused girl into thinking she's your friend. The only thing that's missing is the white panel van and sick puppy dog. Fortunately, the rest of the game isn't quite this creepy. Read more about Memento Mori...
Amazon recently gave this ebook away for free as a promotion for the sequel Inferno. It was my beach read for spring break this year. It's an okay mystery thriller, but the writing is not terribly good (not that I'm one to judge such things). Actually, it's really not much of a thriller or a mystery for that matter. It's more of a straight forward treasure hunt. One treasure leads you to the next until you get to that final goal. I have no idea why this book was so successful. Maybe the underground Christianity themes impressed people? Not bad, but whatever.
From here on out, Toys Dolls records and songs start to follow a pretty standard formula. While every release is guaranteed to have a couple of good songs, there are more and more clunkers in the mix. Bare Faced Cheek may feature one of the worst album covers ever, but it also features one of the Toy Dolls best songs, "Fisticuffs in Frederick Street." As for the rest of the album, "Ashbrooke Launderette" is good but tracks like "Howza Bouta Kiss Babe??!" are just too intentionally silly... well, at least more so than your usual Toy Dolls tune anyway.
When I started this book I was apprehensive. As much as I love Gavin's current incarnation as a wild libertarian/conservative provocateur, I knew this wasn't going to be a collection of political essays. Rather, it's a memoir documenting his sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll filled early years, and, given his propensity to shock and offend, I wasn't looking forward to reading about weird sex, self-inflicted STDs and the titular pissing in public. Read more about How to Piss in Public: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood...
This is the last truly great Toy Dolls record. It could have been their best release, but it suffers from some odd production choices, mainly the drums sound like they were recorded in a drain tunnel. Later records have a definite formula to them (and a more hottt metal lyxxx guitar style). The band was still finding its sound here and the result is still within the realm of genuine punk rock. The title track, "Lambrusco Kid," "Harry Cross," and "Pete's Practice Space" are all winners (better recordings of all these are on the Ten Years of Toys compilation).
Toy Dolls second album has a little more polish than the first and even includes a radio spot for that first LP! While every Toy Dolls album is guaranteed to have at least one classic song, this once again chock full of 'em: "She Goes to Finos," "Carol Dodds Is Pregnant," "Bless You My Son," "We're Mad" and "Florence Is Deaf."
Toy Dolls skirt the edge of punk rock and novelty music. As such there will be some people who will find them very annoying, but I love them. Who could hate such happy, fun music? Dig that Groove Baby is probably my favorite release by the band. This was before they completely locked in on their formula. The songs are varied and have a rawness that is missing from most of their later records. "Dig that Groove baby," "Dougy Giro," "Glenda and the Test Tube Baby," and "Nellie the Elephant" are each classics, and that's just the first side of the LP!
There was a time in the early 2000's when I thought I might be able to expand my electronica tastes beyond Richard H. Kirk. This was one of the CDs I got during that period. It's alright. I appreciate the spacey noisiness of many of the tracks, but I was never excited enough to listen to anything more than this one release.


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Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending the official launch party for Beefeater 24 gin. For many cocktail writers, mixologist, bartenders, and enthusiasts, the "tea party" at Ella in New York was their first opportunity to try the product. Little secret here (ok, maybe not since I'm blogging it): it was my first chance to try it as well. Biased though I may be, I've got to tell you it's fantastic! But you don't have to believe me…take a look around online and you'll see many others are raving about it as well.
So what is Beefeater 24 and what makes it different from the regular Beefeater Dry Gin? Created by Beefeater's master distiller Desmond Payne, Beefeater 24 was inspired by the fact that Beefeater's founder, James Burrough, was a prominent tea merchant. Though Beefeater 24 is made from many of the same botanicals (steeped for 24 hours—get it? 24) featured in the original, the addition of Chinese Green Tea and Japanese Sencha Tea makes for a totally different gin.
So, how about a few recipes? Here's what they were serving up at the party:
Triple Citrus 24 by Dan Warner:
1 ½ oz. Beefeater 24
3 oz. Q Tonic Water
Build in an ice-filled Collins or highball glass. Garnish with a lemon wheel, lime wheel, and orange wheel.
24 Martini by Dan Warner:
2 oz. Beefeater 24
1/3 oz. Lillet
3 dashes Regan's orange bitters
Stir all ingredients until ice cold. Strain into a chilled martini glass. Garnish with a grapefruit twist.
The shifting Sands by Sasha Petraske:
1 ½ oz. Beefeater 24
½ oz. Maraschino Liqueur
¾ oz. grapefruit juice
½ oz. fresh squeezed lemon juice
Dash of simple syrup
Top with soda water
Shake first five ingredients. Strain into an ice-filled Collins glass. Top with soda water. Garnish with a grapefruit wedge.
The launch party brought out the likes of Gary Reagan, Audrey Saunders, Simon Ford, and Charlotte Voisey, among many others. Dan Warner, brand ambassador for Beefeater, chatted up the crowd while Desmond Payne served as the honorary Mad Hatter. Check out the bartenders in their fab top-hats. It was so much fun and the drinks are so tasty—perfect for warmer weather!
Next week we'll be examining the product even closer and creating more great cocktails so stay tuned! Chip chip cheerio!


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The Tamiya M-Chassis platform has been around since the early 1990's. Now in its 7th generation, the M-07 Concept is a significant evolution from its predecessors. Designed by the same designer who brought the TA-07 Pro Touring Car chassis to life, this chassis takes a number of design cues from Tamiya's touring car models and features a largely changed design from its numeric predecessors. The goal set forth with this new platform; ease of maintenance and responsive drive characteristics, all of which were attained during its development. The all-new features incorporated into the M-07 CONCEPT make it truly rewarding to drive for those who would like to experience the excitement of R/C racing.
Requires: Radio Control System with 1 Servo, Electronic Speed Controller (ESC), 7.2v Battery & Charger, Bodyshell and suitable Paint for the Bodyshell, Tyres, Tools for Assembly.


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Zakat is one of the five main pillars of Islam and one that directly feeds into the faith's emphasis on social justice.
Social justice, fairness play essential roles in Islamic financesZakat is one of the five main pillars of Islam and one that directly feeds into the faith's emphasis on social justice. It's also a hallmark of what Islamic finance tries to do. In fact the system is very dependent on Shariah or Islamic law.
It's also a hallmark of what Islamic finance tries to do. In fact the system is very dependent on Shariah or Islamic law.
The key feature of Islamic finance is that Allah or God is the owner of all wealth in the world and people are just the trustees.
Humans need to manage that wealth according to God's commands.
So Islam doesn't allow for a society where only a small number of people enjoy most of the wealth while a lot of people have very little.
The religion's financial system also calls for responsible market behavior that benefits the greatest number of people.
One of the main ways Islam tries to establish social justice is seen how some business contracts are drawn up.
When it comes to Islamic finance, the practice of mudaraba is when one partner supplies the capital while the other provides expertise. Both parties share the profit on an agreed upon percentage. But if the investment goes bust, the investor is the one who loses money.
Musharaka calls for two parties to both provide capital, skills and labor. They share the profits and or loss.
In Ijara, a bank buys an asset on behalf of a client- for example a tractor- and rents it out for a fixed payment.
The bank owns the tractor but will gradually transfer ownership to the client when he or she meets all payments. Ljara means rent in Arabic.
Murabaha is an installment credit agreement to buy goods. The seller's profit is part of the price- but that markup has to be agreed upon by both parties.
Payments can be in a lump sum or installments.
The contracts involve shared risk and make it easier to avoid exploitation.
Professor Hossein G. Askari on Islamic finance
For more about what are the merits of Islamic banking over its conventional peers, CCTV America's Rachelle Akuffo spoke to Hossein G. Askari, Professor, George Washington University.


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I was the last person to use a subway token to pay for a ride on the New York City subway.
I was the first person to order all twelve pillows from the Benjamin Hotel Pillow Menu.
I was the only person to appear live on all three major-network morning television shows. On the same morning.
No wonder I so love this city. It's the only place I know where I can eke out a triumph.
Those triumphs were achieved while I was covering New York as a feature writer and columnist for Gannett Newspapers. But I've always considered my biggest triumph to be that of getting a job writing stories about a city with so many ways to be triumphant.
I first wrote about New York as a freelancer for The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, among other papers. When I got my job, my first assignment was the Feast of San Gennaro. I believed I had reached the top. I couldn't have imagined the Pillow Menu.
I liked the personal-victory stories, because they allowed me to select only the sorts of challenges to which I was able to rise. But I have always been captivated by the city's classic haunts, because they represent the real New York, and they represent actual victory.
I wrote of long-running places that have since faded away, like the Schapiro Kosher Winery and the New York Doll Hospital, and of places that survive, like the Tenth Street Baths' Russian Radiant Heat Room, which I never exactly entered because I burned my hand on the doorknob.
I won prizes including Columbia University's Mike Berger Award, named for the first writer of The New York Times' "About New York" column. I liked to think of an award as a decision from a worthy panel of judges that it was all right for me to keep my job. So far.
New York City is always changing, but now it's changing into another city. I can't stop it. But I can do at least three things:
Celebrate its charming old stuff, spotlight its quirky new stuff, and occasionally ridicule its ridiculous stuff.
I'm doing my best.


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What happens at O'Hare reverberates throughout the country, and that's why a new runway at that airport could help ease congestion from time to tome around the nation.
A new $1.3 billion runway is open at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
Planes started landing and taking off on the 10,800-foot runway at 6 a.m. on Thursday. Officials say it will begin to ease the airport's congestion and eliminate flight delays that have a ripple effect across the country.
Chicago Department of Aviation officials say the new runway will allow there to be nearly 90,000 more flights every year while cutting delays in half.
The opening of the runway also marks the end of the first phase of the O'Hare Modernization Program. It started ten years ago and is projected to cost $8 billion.
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Photo Credit: Travelers walking to a ticketing desk at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press


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Bathsheba is spotted bathing on her roof by the voyeur King David. She is confused trying to choose between him and her righteous husband, who's been shipped off to war.
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"Condemnation", Solace, www.magnatunes.com
Opening and closing theme: "Women of Faith," Lynn Cooper, www.lynncoopermusic.com
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Marks & Spencer IT chief moves to Reckitt Benckiser
Arup uses Snow to recoup Microsoft and Adobe licences
European Commission and Telefonica hold Think Big School event
UK reaches key milestone in cyber security
CIO interview: Smoothing the transition from decentralised to global IT
Turkey adopts new tactic to block social media
UK update to copyright law imminent
Samsung opens Digital Classroom at Royal Albert Hall
BT and government under fresh fire over rural broadband
Government failed at promoting competition over BDUK, say MPs
Cyber security is economic opportunity for the UK, says government
Case study: Video as a service brings benefits across the NHS
Snowden revelations have changed attitudes to cloud, study claims
Duke of York and Nominet launch iDEA Digital Enterprise Award scheme
Case study: Haulage firm Palletline overhauls network
FCA to probe banking IT
UK finally launches national cyber emergency team
Tech inefficiencies in UK policing cost £221m a year
Ministry of Justice to invest up to £375m in court and tribunal technology reform
Analytics jobs increase by 80% in India
Case study: Alquist uses Celsius to decrease energy consumption
Business counts cost of cyber attackers' secret weapon
Thales to secure connectivity of Highways Agency
Gartner: Tablet market heads towards saturation
BlackBerry posts massive loss, but turnaround remains on-track
All companies can help fight cybercrime, says Microsoft
Nationwide transforms to hybrid HR
Last Bletchley code-breaker dies
Claire's Accessories uses mobile to connect with younger customers
Google throws down cloud gauntlet with massive price cuts
M&S uses social media to make customers happy and drive sales
Insolvencies at IT firms continue to rise
Online sales hit £1bn as Sainsbury's seeks multichannel success
Indian businesses to switch to biometric authentication
Google says government data requests are up 120% since 2009
Turkey now targeting YouTube
SAP partners with Uni of Cambridge to launch autism intern programme
Microsoft releases Office for iPad
Confidence in IT job security slowly on the rise
Security an unnecessary expense, say one in six techies
Atos pays "substantial financial settlement" for DWP contract release
Will Cisco's $1bn Intercloud bridge the way for enterprise customers?
State surveillance keeping a third of firms from the cloud
Samsung and Code Club hold MP drop-in day
Russian ministers ditch iPads over security concerns
Twitter expects Turkey to lift ban after court ruling
Case study: Logicalis helps Birmingham and Loughborough universities with networking challenges
CRM critical to digital transformation in India
Blinkbox serves videos through Microsoft Azure
UK plans to professionalise infosec are too rigid, says (ISC)2
Code Kingdoms teaches children to program through gaming
Asia Pacific ranked badly by Gartner on privacy and security for offshore IT
Government predicts 2013 IT savings will exceed £500m
TechUK criticises OFT's reporting of IT cartel accusations
ICO updates corporate plan for better data protection
Facebook pays $2bn for virtual reality company Oculus
Labour calls for mandatory cyber breach reporting
Rural broadband needed to push forward with G-Cloud services
Study supports economic approach to tackling cybercrime
Broadband users lose out with ISPs failing to deliver advertised bandwidth
OFT tells government how to improve IT procurement
Parliament must speed up internal processes to push forward with G-Cloud
Hacker black markets outbid IT companies in bidding for zero-day exploit disclosures
Case study: City of York connects citizens with Ruckus Wi-Fi
SITA harnesses Indian suppliers for finance and procurement systems
SAP signs up with Adobe to make Hana attractive to marketing
Marks & Spencer IT chief Darrell Stein to leave company in summer
White House wants to overhaul NSA phone data collection
China demands explanation of NSA spying on Huawei
Two Cambridge graduates teach kids to code with robots
Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services
Microsoft set to roll out anti-cybercrime strategy in Europe
Lincolnshire County Council outsources to Serco
Why should Indian businesses implement ISO 22301 standard?
Analysis: Care.data – where next?
What do Indian IT giants think of Meghraj?
CompTIA to launch Advancing Women in IT community in UK
DCMS to fund rural trials of superfast broadband
Devon school wins $25,000 in Microsoft's The Pitch competition
Turkey attempts to increase block on Twitter
Call for creative IT career opportunities for young women
NSA infiltrated Huawei, claim Snowden leak documents
Open University announces new computing qualifications
London data science summer school approaches PhD grads
Customer privacy an ongoing challenge, says Unilever
EU project aims to boost urban datacentre efficiency
Symantec hunts for new CEO
Mobile satellite firm outsources core system project
NSA considers publishing transparency report
Shortage of web developer talent causes retailers to struggle
Lack of social media archiving creates legal minefield
Interview: Dan Taylor, head of BBC iPlayer
Google encrypts Gmail to protect against NSA snooping
Samsung unveils digital classroom at Prince's Trust Kennington
Turkey blocks access to Twitter
Sport Relief launches 'mobile first' campaign
Microsoft in hot water over email search
Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients
Seventeen parliamentarians become Digital Industries Ambassadors
Technology focus in securing BYOD is a mistake, say experts


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Welcome to Episode 6 of the "UM, Access to Fun" show with University of Minnesota student host Josh Lee. In this week's episode, join Josh for non-stop thrills as he takes the Metro Transit Blue Line to the largest mall in the country, the world-famous Mall of America.
"UM, Access to Fun" is all about finding fun by transit. The series was created and produced by CTS video student John Kerber as part of a summer project.
Of course, Josh doesn't have a monopoly on fun. So remember to tell Josh where to go, and look for more fun here soon!


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Often overlooked, potable water is the source in the vast majority (75%) of Legionella outbreaks. It is critical for hospitals or long-term care facilities to address risks in their water environment. Healthcare professionals and facilities need to become part of the solution in the fight against diseases caused by Legionella, Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Listeria, Salmonella, E.coli, and other waterborne bacteria. Our approach to treating water focuses on a broader range of critical water quality solutions including UV and Copper Silver Ionization (CSI) for microbial disinfection, paired with Point-of-Entry (POE) Filtration for sediment/particulate control. Upon implementation, a LiquiTech program will establish a best in class, thoroughly proven, and effective water treatment program with the goal of achieving and sustaining non-detectable levels of Legionella.
LiquiTech has had on-going success by teaming up with our customers to ensure not just rapid results but successful long term results. We offer 24/7 service and support. In addition, our understanding of complex plumbing system and exposure to the nature of Legionella and other bacterial problems from our experience in thousands of facilities, means we are committed to effectively eliminating Legionella in a variety of drinking water applications, where other treatment methods and organizations failed to do so. Our team of qualified engineering staff are trained to identify root cause issues and proactively manage them to mitigate risk. Our innovative and evolved technologies are all environmentally friendly and meet all EPA, ETL/UL, and NSF certifications. Most importantly, LiquiTech makes a commitment and has shown the consistent ability to achieve non-detectable levels of Legionella post remediation.
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Pets allowed in the cabin
Dogs and cats are accepted as carry-on and are considered pets. We have ceased to allow the transport of birds and will not accept them as either carry-on or carga on international flights and domestic flights within Panama.
All pets that do not fall within these parameters will not be accepted as carry-on luggage.
Remember to check restrictions to/from specific destinations.
General terms and conditions for the transport of pets in the cabin
- Passengers are responsible for all documentation required to ensure the exit and entry of your pet, both to cities of departure, transit and destination of your trip. This includes any requirement or additional or special document required by laws and regulations in force in the countries of departure, transit and destination. To know the requirements your pet must fulfill, please contact the sanitary authorities of each country.
- Copa Airlines does not accept the transport of pet in Business Class.
- It is the policy of Copa Airlines to transports pets in the passenger cabin from Monday through Friday on International flights. This restriction does not apply to domestic flights within Panama. The transport of pets is allowed daily for passengers traveling on domestic flights (origin and destination) with no international connection.
- Copa Airlines will not allow pet reservations or accept pets for any flights departing on Fridays and which arrivals falls at any time on Saturdays
- The transport of Pet in Cabin is subject to availability.
- Contact our Reservations Center at least 48 hours before the flight's departure to ensure room for your pet.
- Pets 8 weeks old or less will not be accepted for transport travelling alone in a cage.
- Minors traveling alone are not authorized to travel with pets.
- On international flights, the customer must provide a health certificate for their pet, emitted by the appropriate authority, as well as all necessary documents for entry at their next destination(s). For domestic flights within Panama, owners must show proof of current vaccination and health certificate. Important that the pet has the anti - rabies vaccine.
- The health certificate of pets flying from Colombia to the United States must indicate that they are free of screw worms.
- Passengers must travel on the same flight as their pet and use a cage that is appropriate for its transport.
- Passengers are responsible for enclosing their pet in its cage, as well as for removing it.
- Traveling with pets is not permitted on flights that connect with another airline.
- In case of emergency, oxygen will not be administered to pets.
- Pets are not allowed in Business Class. ConnectMiles PreferMember Passenger traveling with pets in cabin will not be eligible for complimentary upgrades.
- Pets are not accepted on board if your itinerary includes interline segments or a connection on an airline other than Copa Airlines.
- If you are traveling with a pet that does not meet our requirements for traveling in the cabin, please contact our Copa Pets department. Copa Pets does not accept pets if your itinerary includes interline segments or a connection on an airline other than Copa Airlines.


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Genius Brands International Issues Letter to Shareholders
BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/15/16 -- Genius Brands International, Inc. (OTCQB: GNUS)(OTCQB: GNUSD) a global brand management company that creates and licenses multimedia content, issued a letter today from Chairman & CEO Andy Heyward to its shareholders as follows:
Producing the animated film that opens the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting for the last 20 years has given us the extraordinary privilege to spend quality time with Warren Buffett and learn so many valuable lessons. Producing the Secret Millionaires Club animated kid series with Warren has given us at Genius Brands an opportunity to share those lessons in stories for kids. One of the lessons we have learned from Warren is the value of powerful brands. Today we released our 10Q for the third quarter of 2016. To fully appreciate it, is to understand the vital importance of brands.
At Genius Brands International we have been developing brands for kids. Brands which are creatively and commercially powerful, as well as international and evergreen.
We have associated our brands with powerful broadcasters, licensees, promotional partners, and distribution systems, including YouTube, Netflix, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Music, Target, Toys"R"Us, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Walmart, among others. These brands occupy unique places in the marketplace and form a diverse portfolio of complimentary assets for Genius Brands. Some are for boys, some are for girls, some are for tweens, some are for toddlers. Our brands sit on different places on the viewing screen and different places on the retail shelves.
I share this with you as Genius Brands is amidst a period of unprecedented growth, and where many of these brands are now being established and coming into both the retail and media marketplace, which can become revenue drivers for our company. We've seen growth in the number of properties we have in production and development, the number of licensees of our brands, the number of big-box retailers carrying our brands, and we recently doubled the number of households, which have our Kid Genius Cartoon Channel available, bringing the total to 42 million households.
Since doing our reverse stock split last week, I have been on a 'road show' meeting investors on the west coast and starting today a four-day road show with Institutional Investors on the east coast. As I have told our story and shared where the company is going, our stock has risen to $6.50/share reflecting an 8% increase since the reverse split.
Today we released our 10Q for Q3 2016.
There are three important items I would like to draw to your attention:
- DEFERRED REVENUE - Total Deferred Revenue and Advances increased from $958,539 as of December 31, 2015 to $3,118,730 as of September 30, 2016.UP 225%. Deferred revenue=coming revenue. It reflects increased activity and advances around our brands, notably Secret Millionaires Club, Thomas Edison's Secret Lab, SpacePOP, and two distribution agreements with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, which will be taken upon meeting certain revenue recognition criteria.
- INCREASING FILM AND TELEVISION COSTS - Costs went up because we are growing and expanding our slate of brands and catalogue. Film and Television costs increased from $1,003,546 as of December 31, 2015 to $1,602,236 as of September 30, 2016 or 60%. These increases represent the continued investment in the production, development and completion of our film assets, notably:
- Twenty-nine SpacePOP webisodes on YouTube
- Fifteen 11-minute Llama Llama scripts in various stages of completion and the selection of Jennifer Garner as the voice of Mama Llama. These are important investments in programs which have been sold to broadcasters and have a growing list of licensees and retailers behind them who pay us money and carry our licensed products from which we will earn royalty income.
- INCREASING PREPAID ASSETS - Prepaid assets increased from $65,464 as of December 31, 2015 to $319,142 as of September 30, 2016 or 388%. This increase reflects, in part, continued investment in all of our brands, notably an on-going marketing campaign related to our SpacePOP brand, which is launching at retail in Q4 at Kohl's, Claire's and Toys"R"Us.
At Genius Brands, we are investing in our brands either via the actual production cost or the marketing spend, because it is the key to success and ultimately creates hits and drives enduring sales and revenue. We are beginning to see now the fruits of that investment. Over the coming months and beyond, more and more products will come into the marketplace, and their impact on the company overall will be cumulative.
We couldn't be more excited!
Andy Heyward
Chairman & CEO
Genius Brands International, Inc.
About Genius Brands International
Headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, Genius Brands International, Inc. (OTCQB: GNUS)(OTCQB: GNUSD) is a publicly traded global brand management company that creates and licenses multimedia content. Led by award-winning creators and producers, the Company distributes its content worldwide in all formats, as well as a broad range of consumer products based on its characters. In the children's media sector, Genius Brands International's portfolio features "content with a purpose" for toddlers to tweens, which provides enrichment as well as entertainment, including tween music-driven brand SpacePOP; preschool property debuting on Netflix Llama Llama; award-winning Baby Genius, re-launched with new entertainment and over 40 new products; adventure comedy Thomas Edison's Secret Lab®, available on Netflix, public broadcast stations and Genius Brands International's Kid Genius channel on Comcast's Xfinity on Demand; Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club, created with and starring iconic investor Warren Buffett. The Company is also co-producing an all-new adult animated series, Stan Lee'sCosmic Crusaders, with Stan Lee's Pow! Entertainment and The Hollywood Reporter. Additionally, under Genius Brands International's wholly owned subsidiary, A Squared Entertainment, the Company represents third-party properties, including From Frank, a humor greeting card and product line, and Celessence Technologies, the world's leading micro encapsulation company, across a broad range of categories in territories around the world. For additional information please visit www.gnusbrands.com.
Forward Looking Statements:
Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Words such as "may," "might," "will," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "continue," "predict," "forecast," "project," "plan," "intend" or similar expressions, or statements regarding intent, belief, or current expectations, are forward-looking statements. While the Company believes these forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on any such forward-looking statements, which are based on information available to us on the date of this release. These forward looking statements are based upon current estimates and assumptions and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including without limitation those set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), not limited to Risk Factors relating to its patent business contained therein. Thus, actual results could be materially different. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Source: Genius Brands International, Inc.
Released November 15, 2016


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Just what is 'Tourism Intelligence'?09.03.17
So you want to market your destination more effectively. But how do you generate some really useful intelligence from a load of data that you've collected from existing or potential visitors?
This is the conundrum that faces most destinations. If information is data with a story attached, intelligence is information with a strategy attached - or at least some strategic pointers. Intelligence should clearly assist the user to make some decisions - it gives direction.
If you Google search Tourism Marketing Intelligence System you are unlikely to find anything significant. Put simply, the concept doesn't really exist in any meaningful form. Some destinations have developed computer-based programmes that help interpret data, most typically relating to visitor arrivals, but these tend to be few and far between. The tourism sector, it seems, is remarkably uninventive when it comes to developing systems that help interpret data and give users some clues with regards to what they should do next.
I have just arrived in St. Lucia in the Caribbean, and this week we are gathering together representatives from all nine Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) countries to thrash out what will become the bones of a Tourism Marketing Intelligence System for the region.
The options up for discussion vary widely from a system that will provide intelligence on air and cruise visitors, through to the monitoring and analysis of social media campaigns to provide intelligence on their effectiveness.
Whatever is agreed upon when all the talking is over, one thing is for sure, the system will interpret the data and turn information into intelligence that will give all nine countries some clear direction on what they need to do to be more competitive in the region. Hopefully it will also inspire other destinations to think more about being creative with their data, and start making it work for them.


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Point Wells
Upcoming Meeting:
The Snohomish County Design Review Board (DRB) will hold a public meeting on March 15 at 6:00 PM. The DRB is an advisory body that takes public input and makes recommendations on design issues of projects proposed under Snohomish County's Urban Center zoning. The DRB does not make final decisions on development proposals.
Meeting Location:
3000 Rockefeller Ave,
1st Floor Hearing Room,
Administration Building East,
Everett, WA 98201
Recent Steps:
- February 22, 2018. Snohomish County sent postcard notice (PDF) of the March 15, 2018, Design Review Board Meeting.
- January 24, 2018. The Snohomish County Planning Director sent a letter to BSRE's representatives denying their request for an extension (PDF) to the project expiration date. The project will therefore need to go to hearing far enough in advance of the June 30, 2018, expiration date for the Hearing Examiner to render a decision on the project. The hearing has not yet been scheduled.
- January 19, 2018. Snohomish County responded (PDF) with a clarification regarding future communications between representatives of BSRE and county staff.
- January 19, 2018. BSRE sent a letter (PDF) to Snohomish County saying that resubmittal materials would be available by April 30, 2018. This letter also made reference to a conversation regarding protocols for future communication.
- January 19, 2018. Snohomish County responded (PDF) to BSRE's assertions about the January 8, 2018, resubmittal deadline. This same letter stated that the request for an extension of the June 30, 2018, project expiration would be addressed separately [and at a later date].
- January 12, 2018, BSRE submitted a letter to Snohomish County (PDF). Among other things, this letter requests an extension of the June 30, 2018, application expiration date and makes several assertions regarding the meaning of the January 8, 2018, resubmittal deadline.
- January 9, 2018. Snohomish County sent a letter dated 1/9/18 (PDF) to the applicant's representative advising them that Planning and Development Services (PDS) will "complete final review and processing of the application materials it has recieved." Since Blue Square Real Estate (BSRE), did not provide corrected plans by January 8, 2018, as requested by PDS, the January 9 letter means that PDS will process the April 17, 2017, version of the plans through to a decision by the Hearing Examiner before the June 30, 2018, expiration of the project applications. The January 9 letter notes that "if PDS concludes that the Applications as submitted substantially conflict with the applicable plans, ordinances, regulations or laws, this process may result in a recommendation of denial [to the Hearing Examiner] without further preparation of an EIS".
- December 29, 2017. On behalf of the applicant, BSRE, Karr Tuttle Campbell submitted a letter to Snohomish County informing the County that BSRE is preparing revisions to their plans but that those revisions will not be submitted to the County by the January 8, 2018, date by which Snohomish County has requested those revisions.
- On October 6, 2017, Snohomish County completed its review of revisions to the project that the applicant submitted on April 17, 2017. Snohomish County is asking BSRE to submit corrections and missing information by January 8, 2018. The information requested by Snohomish County is necessary for the project to move forward to a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). It would be premature to put on date on when to expect publication of the DEIS because Snohomish County will need to receive and review the required information first.
- The Review Completion Letter dated October 6, 2017 was accompanied by a second letter addressing project deadlines (PDF) and two sets of plan markups. The first set of markups is on the Urban Center Site Plan (PDF). The second set of markups is on the Short Plat application (PDF) that would create lots for phasing. The 10/6/17 short plat markups supersede an earlier draft and a draft memo on relating to the short plat application was incorporated into the overall review completion letter.
- The review of the April 17, 2017, version of the Point Wells proposal includes several technical review memos:
- Technical Review Memos on the April 17, 2017 version of the plans:
- Point Wells April 2017 Resubmittal and Preliminary Review Comments May 10 2017 (PDF)
- Traffic Review Comments -EO portion- dated May 23 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
- Grading and Drainage Review Comments dated June 15 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
- Fire Review Comments dated June 15 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
- Critical Areas and Shoreline Review Comments dated June 21 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
- Traffic Review Comments -MB portion- dated June 23 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
- Building Review Comments dated June 27 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
- Flood Hazard Review Comments dated June 27 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
- Traffic Review Comments -MU portion- dated July 12 2017 for April 17 2017 Submittal (PDF)
Point Wells is a lowland extending into Puget Sound with a proposal by Blue Square Real Estate to redevelop the current industrial uses into 3,081 condominiums plus amenities such as restaurants and public beach access. It is at the extreme southwest corner of Snohomish County, with access to the site from Richmond Beach Drive. Redevelopment would take place in four phases. Each phase would have a single underground parking garage with multiple buildings on top. The image below is from the project application and gives a sense of the overall layout. The total property area is approximately 61 acres, of which 16 acres are tidelands that will remain largely undisturbed and 45 acres are proposed for the redevelopment.
Snohomish County is working with a team of consultants on an Environmental Impact Statement, or EIS, for the redevelopment project. This EIS will evaluate things like traffic impacts, landslide risks, noise, and fiscal impacts from the project on local governments. There will be a Draft EIS (DEIS) published first. Snohomish County will invite the public and various agencies to comment on the DEIS during a formal 45-day comment period after publication. If you would like notification of publication, please email Ryan Countryman and request to be a "party-of-record" for Point Wells.
Application Documents
Submittal Documents - Applications, Plans, Reports and other documents.
Project Numbers: 11-101457 LU; 11-101461 SM; 11-101007 SP; 11-101008 LDA; 11-101464 RC
Environmental Review Documents
Determination of Significance and Request for Comments on Scope of EIS (PDF)
Second DS and Request for Comments on Scope of EIS (PDF)
Comments Received
Agency, Organization and Public Comments (PDF) (Updated 10-04-11)
Urban Center Information
Current Snohomish County Code - 30.34
Applicable Snohomish County Code - Urban Center Ordinance 09-079 (PDF)
Urban Center Application Materials
Related Links
Point Wells Developer's Website
City of Shoreline Point Wells Website
Locate the Project
Past Milestones
- April 17, 2017: Blue Square Real Estate responded to Snohomish County's review by submitting revised plans (PDF). These revised plans retain the basic overall concept in the original submittal, but add a second access road (PDF) through the Town of Woodway and make some adjustments internal to the site in response to County comments. The April 2017 resubmittal includes 11 new documents that are now on our Point Wells Documents page that also has many of the original and intermediate documents. Procedurally, the resubmittal includes revisions to the Urban Center Site Plan application and the Short Plat application, as well as a new request for a variance related to parking (PDF).
- November 15, 2016: Snohomish County sent the applicant a letter requiring changes (PDF) before further work can proceed on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the project.
- April 12, 2013: Snohomish County completed the first review comments (PDF), including requests for changes.
- January 7, 2013: Washington State Appeals reversed the ruling that the Point Wells urban center development application was not vested to the Snohomish County codes and ordinances in effect at the time that BSRE (applicant) made application for urban center permits. The judge dismissed (PDF) the November 2011 injunction (PDF) barring Snohomish County from processing the urban center application.
- March 4, 2011: Blue Square Real Estate submits three permit applications. Permit 11-101457 LU is a Land Use permit for the proposed urban center site plan. Related to this are 11-101461 SM (a Shoreline Management permit for work in the area regulated under the Snohomish County Shoreline Management Program) and 11-101464 RC (a permit for retaining walls in the slope on the east side of the railroad tracks). Approval for these permits depend on completion of an Environmental Impact Statement.
- February 14, 2011: Blue Square Real Estate submits two applications. Permit 11-101007 SP is a Short Plat application that would revise parcels lines on the site to reflect the proposed phasing. The second permit, 11-101008 LDA, is a Land Disturbing Activity permit that would address grading and other site work to prepare for construction. Approval for both permits depend on completion of an Environmental Impact Statement.
Get Involved
Submit Comments or Become a Party of Record
To submit comments or become a Party of Record for Point Wells, send a letter or email Ryan Countryman and include the project file number, project name, and your name and address. Read more about what it means to be a Party of Record.
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