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Dr. Binienda joined UA in 1988. He is the chair of the Civil Engineering department and the Co-Director of the Gas and Turbine Research and Testing Laboratory. He has been recognized by NASA for the Turning Goals Into Reality Award and he received the Award for Outstanding Service from the Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund. Dr. Binienda is a Fellow with the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Energy impact simulation, fracture and damage of materials with emphasis on advanced composites, explicit and implicit finite element analysis, smart materials, structural design as well as optimization, characterization and constitutive equation development for ceramics, metals and polymer matrix composites, analysis of the Polish governmental plane crash in Smolensk, Russia on April 10, 2010
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How To Open Talenti Gelato Container? (Solved)
To open the jars, they're employing various tools such as wrenches, screwdrivers, and knives. Remove the knife (or can opener, or wrench, or chainsaw) from the table if an extraordinarily tight lid has just prevented you from delving into your favorite flavor of Talenti gelato.
Why is it so hard to open Talenti gelato?
Talenti explained that the overtight caps were caused by a problem with a capping equipment, which has now been resolved. 'We had a problem with an overzealous lid-tightening machine, which has now been completely resolved. In time, when new pints hit shop shelves, there will be less and fewer pints with tight lids available,' she said.
Is there a trick to opening Talenti ice cream?
To open the jars, they're employing various tools such as wrenches, screwdrivers, and knives. Putting down the knife (or can opener, or wrench, or chainsaw) and backing away gently may be necessary if an extraordinarily tight lid has just prevented you from delving into your favorite flavor of Talenti gelato. +1 for the Talenti's ongoing battle.
Does Talenti have a seal under the lid?
MY TALENTI PINT NO LONGER HAS A PLASTIC SEAL AROUND THE LID, AS I HAD DISCOVERED. IS THIS A NORMAL EXPERIENCE? Talenti began removing the non-recyclable plastic bands that were previously used to secure the lids of our goods in January 2019.
Does Talenti have a seal 2021?
Because there is no seal on the interior or outside of the container, I do not feel comfortable eating them.
How do you remove labels from Talenti jars?
From ice cream to beads, there is something for everyone.
Studio tools are housed in peanut butter jars. A Swarovski flatback is shown in a jelly jar made of glass. The Talenti jars have been cleaned and are ready! Jar of talents, which has been wrapped with a cotton cloth. Acetone is being poured into the Talenti jar. Remove the cotton rag that has been moistened and rub the label off.
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Does Talenti gelato come sealed?
;Peanut butter jars loaded with studio supplies. ;Glass jelly jar decorated with Swarovski flatbacks. Cleaning and prepping the Talenti jars! Jar of talents, which has been covered with a cotton cloth. Acetone is being sprayed into the Talenti container. Remove the cotton rag that has been wet and gently wipe the label off. •
How do you eat Talenti gelato layers?
The fact that it was tough to go all the way to the bottom and eat all five layers in one bite suggests that the recipe worked out too well. But, even though I only got a few bites, they were all delicious—I'd simply recommend scooping them into a bowl instead than eating them right out of the jar.
More: How Do You Eat Talenti Gelato Layers? (Solution)
What is the best Talenti flavor?
Talenti gelato is one of the most popular brands of gelato available in supermarkets. Some of the tastiest flavors include Caramel Cookie Crunch and Sea Salt Caramel, to name a couple. The Peanut Butter Pretzel flavor was voted the best of the bunch.
Is Talenti Gelato bad for you?
The gelato shop Talenti has developed its own cult following, but because many of the pints are heavy in sugar and calories, they are frequently considered off-limits to dieters. This low-calorie, low-sugar beverage has a significant amount of protein (24 grams per serving!) in every pint.
What is Talenti sorbetto?
Make this easy and delectable dairy free ice cream substitute. Talenti Sorbettos are gluten-free, non-GMO project-certified, and kosher-certified products. In addition to being vegan and gluten-free, Talenti Roman Raspberry Sorbetto does not contain high fructose corn syrup.
See also: Why Use Whole Coffee Beans In Fruit Gelato?
What can you do with Talenti containers?
Allow them to take the place of your mason jar addiction. In addition, because the large aperture makes it easy to get tools in and out, you can use Talenti jars to prepare overnight oats, pack a salad, or even use them as cereal containers for on-the-go breakfast. Pour the milk into the container when you get there.)
Are Talenti containers dishwasher safe?
And, despite the fact that you may have been putting your inverted empties in the top rack of the dishwasher, this is not suggested. Neither is the use of a microwave. Unilever warns that exposing them to high temperatures may cause the jars to become deformed or no longer suitable with the tight-fitting lids.
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The Indonesian poet and writer, Dorothea Rosa Herliany, was born in Magelang/Central Java in 1963. She studied Indonesian language and literature at Sanata Dharma University in the Javanese town of Yogyakarta.
Herliany already started writing at the age of 16 and worked for various newspapers and magazines during her studies. She belongs to the post-colonial generation of Indonesian writers for whom expressing their national identity and writing in their own language is a natural thing. Her first volume of poetry »Nyanyian Gaduh« (tr.: Raucous songs), was released in 1987 and caused a furore in her native country. In a patriarchal and highly religious society, Herliany wrote abut taboo subjects like the female body, sexuality or violence against women. The woman is not subordinate to the man in her poems, is no longer merely the object of male desires, but turns the situation around and renders the man subordinate. She has often been called a feminist because of her criticism of outdated gender roles, but it is a title that Herliany herself rejects. For her, she maintains, it is all about giving a voice to those who are not heard. In her poems, she also deals with the political abuses in Indonesia's recent and eventful history. As such, »One day in July« is about 27 July 1996, when a peaceful demonstration against the then dictatorial ruler General Suharto ended violently when he sent in his militias against the protestors. Although many of her works deal with real events and circumstances, the poet always emphasises the fictional nature of her poems. She describes a transient reality and the reader is called on the use this to create his own reality. In fitting with her provocative subject matters, Herliany's language is very direct, but without being objectionable. The deliberate provocation in her poems tends to come across subtly, concealed within a language that is rich in imagery, but also lyrical. In addition to several volumes of poetry, Herliany has written prose, above all short stories and stories for children, as well as essays and reviews of art and theatre. 2009 saw the publication of a selection of her poems in German titled »Schenk mir alles, was die Männer nicht besitzen« (tr.: Give me everything that the men possess). At the same time, she received a grant from the Heinrich boll Foundation.
She has been awarded many prizes, among these the Poetry Prize of the Jakarta Arts Council (2000), the Art Award of the Indonesian Ministry for Culture and Tourism (2004) as well as the renowned Indonesian Khatulistiwa Literary Award in 2006. Dorothea Rosa Herliany lives with her family in a small town in Magelang. She is currently a guest of the DAAD Artists' Programme in Berlin.
http://www.dorothearosaherliany.com
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Irish net-maker outlines Scottish salmon farming expansion plans
SNG Aqua's current facility in Lerwick. The company plans a big expansion at Toft. Photo: SNG Aqua.
Irish net manufacturer Swan Net Gundry (SNG) has told Fish Farming Expert about its plans to become an integral part of the Scottish salmon net services industry following the creation of its Shetland-based subsidiary, SNG Aqua UK, last year.
SNG has been in operation in Ireland for over 50 years, and its aquaculture division has been active at the company's Killybegs manufacturing unit in Donegal since 2005.
The company has recently submitted a planning application for a new net cleaning and repair plant on a 10,000m² site at Toft at the north end of Mainland, Shetland.
The Toft facility will include storage for clean and dirty nets as well as a net cleaning facility, a welfare staff building and a filtration unit that will recover copper from the waste water. SNG plans to grow from one 60m³ washer, which can deal with the largest of nets, to two in consecutive years.
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SNG Aqua plans a net cleaning and repair facility at Toft at the north end of Mainland, Shetland.
SNG Aqua UK manager Philip Nicolson, a Shetland native who has spent more than 30 years working in aquaculture in various parts of the world, said he hoped to have the facility working before the end of the year.
Nicolson said the project has so far been a huge success, with the Irish and newly-developed UK team working very closely together. He added that the UK team head been greatly enhanced by SNG's acquisition of Shetland company KG Nets, owned by Gary Anderson, who has a wealth of experience in the aquaculture industry.
SNG Aqua UK has major plans for expansion and growth in the forthcoming years for the Toft area development, with staff numbers expected to grow from five to 20 employees in the next five years, explained Nicolson.
With this in mind SNG Aqua UK is working closely with Highland and Islands Enterprise (HIE) to develop an apprenticeship scheme in order to support the local community and develop the company's in-house skillset.
"We were looking at a type of apprenticeship that could encompass more of what an apprenticeship used to be, over several years, to gain all the aspects of the job," said the manager.
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The Trenton factory on East State Street was reportedly built in 1920, although the advertisement below indicates that the company was operating in Trenton by 1917. Lee employed as many as 600 people at the factory before closing in 1967. Two years after that, the Lee company, now known for its denim jeans, was purchased by Vanity Fair Mills. That company later became the VF Corporation and also owns the Wrangler, Timberland, and The North Face brands. The New Jersey building, just a short walk from the Trenton Transit Center, has been vacant for many years.
Source: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, November 1, 1917.
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Tricycle Media buys into Peach House
London-based investor and indie accelerator Tricycle Media has taken a minority stake in a fledgling talent management and production company.
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George Monkland and Rowena Wallace have joined forces to launch London-based Peach House, which has a slate of film and TV projects in development.
These include the event miniseries for television Tigers in Red Weather, in collaboration with Stephen Garrett (The Night Manager), as well as features Lit, from filmmaker Laura Kirwan-Ashman, and Killing Dad, a comedy from Peach House client Henry David.
It will also represent a variety of emerging and established actors, musicians, writers and directors across the film, TV and theatre industries, both in the UK and internationally.
Its current clients include Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir (Woman at War), Thibault de Montalembert (Call My Agent, The King), Ingvar Sigurdsson (A White, White Day, Succession), filmmaker Ben Bond (The Drifters) and writer/director Matt Chambers (The Bike Thief).
Prior to Peach, Monkland has worked in talent representation for over a decade at some of the UK's major agencies, including 42, Independent, CDA and Finch & Partners.
Rowena Wallace and George Monkland
For the last seven years, Wallace has worked in production, assisting some of the industry's leading directors and producers. She began her career working in-house, first with Michael Robinson, then in production at 42, before freelancing as a producer in commercials and shortform content for Smuggler, Pulse and Black Sheep.
Wallace was associate producer on Max Minghella's directorial debut, Teen Spirit, and assisted filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos on his features The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Bafta and Oscar winner The Favourite.
"George has an amazing ability to discover new talent which will be of enormous value as we push forward with the diverse slate of film and TV projects at Peach," said Wallace.
Financial details of the deal with Tricycle Media were not disclosed.
Tricycle is the talent management collective founded by talent management and media veteran Sara Curran in January 2019. The collective currently provides management in six key areas: books, music, digital, voices, film and television.
Curran was a key executive and MD at the UK's largest talent management company, James Grant Group (now YM&U), which merged with Troika in 2017. Over her career Curran has participated in the development and/or production of numerous film and TV projects including Ali G Indahouse, The Night Manager and The Favourite.
"I am delighted to be working with Rowena again and I am hugely excited about the possibilities within Tricycle for our clients – especially the reach into books, music, digital, voices and the expertise offered from welcoming Sara Curran to our board," said Monkland.
"I met Rowena when we worked together on various productions when she was at 42. Early last summer, Rowena introduced me to George and I'm thrilled that they are now joining forces at Peach, allowing them to offer their writer, director and actor clients outstanding management with a personal touch and the possibility of producing their next film or television show in-house," said Curran.
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Actor Sterling Hayden served with distinction as a clandestine operative for the OSS during World War II.
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Cantor Fitzgerald Lowers Price Target On Jushi Holdings Cannabis Co. After It Pre-Announces Q2 2021 Financial Results, No Signs Of Slowing Down In IL And PA – Markets Insider
Vertically integrated cannabis company Jushi Holdings Inc. (CSE:JUSH) (OTCQX:JUSHF) recently pre-announced its second-quarter 2021 financial results, with no signs of slowing down in its core states of Ilinois and Pennsylvania.
Cantor Fitzgerald's Pablo Zuanic kept a 'Neutral' rating on Jushi's stock but lowered the 12-month price target to $5.25 from $6.15 due to sectoral derating.
A 15% sequential and 220% year-over-year growth in revenue to $47.7 million that the company reported in its latest earnings report was at the upper end of the guidance range, Zuanic noted, adding that it "is slightly ahead of the company's underlying market growth."
Adjusted EBITDA came in positive at $4.6 million, accounting for 9.6% of revenue, and according to the analyst, that was "not much improvement" from 7.1% in the prior quarter.
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The company recently launched its 13th store in Pennsylvania, with additional stores slated to open by the year-end, which makes Jushi one of the companies with the largest retail footprints in the Keystone State. Moreover, the company expects to nearly double the square footage of its subsidiary's grower-processor facility in Scranton to 110 000 square feet by the second quarter of 2022.
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"PA and IL account for close to 80% of company guidance for FY21, with PA guided at $103million and IL at $75 million, taking the midpoint," Zuanic disclosed.
In May, the company substantially strengthened its presence in Virginia by acquiring a 93,000 sq. ft. facility operated by its subsidiary, Dalitso LLC, for around $22 million. That deal also included almost nine acres of surrounding land in Prince William County, Virginia.
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Counos Decentralized Exchange
As we know that Blockchain technology is envisioned to be an open-source initiative where a decentralized distribution of power exists instead of concentrating it all in a single central authority. Counos Decentralized Exchange adopt Blockchain technology and operate on a peer to peer protocol. Peer to peer (p2p) protocol is basically a decentralized communications model in which nodes are computer systems or devices which are connected to each other via the Internet. Transactions are shared directly between nodes on the network without the need of a central server. In other words, each node on a P2P network becomes a Transaction server as well as a client.
Moreover to ensure the security of users when carrying out any online transactions Counos Decentralized Exchange combine both the Timestamp and proof of work consensus mechanism in this way that when a transaction is broadcasted to the network , the proof of work algorithm in the platform creates a computational challenge that is solved by a network of connected computers (nodes). Once this challenge is solved, Counos Dex then completes the transaction and within a short period of time.
How Counos Decentralized Exchange is different from other exchanges?
As we know that there are more than 200 cryptocurrency exchanges to trade on. Based on their type of operation, we can classify them into centralized or decentralized and to understand these concepts one should know What is Blockchain? In short "Blockchain is a distributed, decentralized, public ledger" So If we see in this reference centralized exchanges directly defy the blockchain values as the assets are controlled by a single central entity that raises serious trust issues and our experts are also addressing this challenge from few years they believe that Having a centralized baseline itself is dated and limits crypto's potential, further bringing along lurking threats and the possibility of fraudulent activities.
To solve this challenge and to bring elasticity and further growth of crypto exchanges, the dedicated team of counos coin have launched a decentralized cross-blockchain exchange model. Counos decentralized Exchange is an all-in-one platform for trading cryptocurrencies. The users can sell a wide variety of their cryptocurrencies or take measure in buying directly from other different users via Offer board at Counos. This model focuses on a decentralized network that distributes clients and in return, minimizes risks like cyber-attacks, single point of failure, and denial of service events.
Unique features of Counos decentralized
Counos decentralized Exchange supports all credible cryptocurrencies of the world, such as Bitcoin, Counos Coin, and Ethereum and A unique feature of Counos DEX is that all exchanges take place on the infrastructure of Counos Escrow. This escrow service is one of the best online escrow services available with respect to innovation and security. This is the Most Secure Way to Do the Trades Using Escrow, Counos will not give the final verification until the final verification is announced on the part of two trading parties. Applying Multisig service in Blockchain technology, the final verification will be preceded by the buyer and seller's agreement. There is no limitation at Counos decentralized exchange to create different sale offers or enter the trades to buy them.
The most important feature that Counos decentralized Exchange provides is the Ability to change fiat money to cryptocurrencies this feature is added in reference to solve the problem of users facing in many decentralized exchanges, that there is no possibility of exchanging cryptocurrencies with fiat money or buying cryptocurrencies through them. It causes many problems for the users, since many users are willing to buy cryptocurrencies directly through valid currencies such as U.S. dollar or euro. Counos decentralized exchange has made possible changing cryptocurrencies to fiat money or vice versa for the users. At Counos, fiat currencies such as USD, CAD, Swiss franc, and Euro can be used for selling or buying in the trades.
Traditional decentralized Exchanges VS Counos decentralized Exchange
In recent times we see in different surveys about Exit Scam of exchanges as they first create fake volume by doing fake trades to attract users and when big whales deposits their coins in there exchanges than they exit or stop to provide withdraw service in this way all the funds of users are lost keeping this challenge in mind the developers of Counos decentralized exchange develop the deposit payment algorithm. With this algorithm, the users who create a new sale offer should put 3% of the total amount of their cryptocurrency exchange request as the deposit in a safe shared wallet. It will remove the possibility of making fake sale offers.
Moreover the users can buy one of Counos Decentralized exchange packages as the deposit is according to the degree of their cryptocurrency buying and selling. This charge is received just as the guarantee for the real trades of the users and all the users can return all the money they have paid to receive the package.
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With the new changes expected in the algorithms of the Google search engine, it's rather instructive to look back and see the history of these changes since Google first hit the scene in 1998. By understanding where Google has been, we can see how this ever-growing company is aiming towards the elimination of irrelevant, though it still is a persistent problem and promoting social media in their SEO accountability.
What follows are the highlights to what Google have done for 19 years as we stand on the precipice of new change. In looking over the history, it's clear that this evolution has gone in fits and spurts but it also has been driving towards specific goals.
Google launched its search engine in March of this year.
In September, Google made its first significant change to their PageRank system, although the specifics of what they did were not very clear.
2003: In February, Google announced at the SES Boston that they were using algorithm combinations to refresh their monthly index which some people coined as "The Google Dance". In April, the "Cassandra" update helped to eliminate hidden links and hidden texts from being counted. By May, the "Dominic" update changed how back-links were counted. The "Google Dance" ended in July with the index being updated on a daily basis. In November, Google made major progress against keyword stuffing in their "Florida" update.
2004: Google started the year in January with the "Austin" update which may have included updates to their algorithms. They did continue their assault on On-Page tactics like keyword stuffing and invisible text. The next month the "Brandy" update added Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) which changed keyword analysis.
2005: Again in January, Google agreed with Microsoft and Yahoo with "nofollow" link attribution to clean out spam. In June, HTML sitemaps change with XML sitemaps which gave SEO the ability to influence indexation and crawling. From the end of 2005 until 2009 there were no major changes, although there were some significant developments in how Google algorithms changes subtly over this time period.
2009: February marked the arrival of the "Vincent" update which seemed to favor big brand websites, though this was denied. In August, Google previewed the massive changes to their infrastructure and in December Google News, Twitter and other feeds were integrated into the system.
2010: In December, an e-commerce site was reviewed to have search rankings based on negative reviews. This altered the algorithms in this area. Social media sites gained even more prominence as well.
In this year Negative SEO was born. I have been fighting with this issue since then.My own website went under attack of many negative SEO and DDos attacks.
2011: In February, a huge update with the arrival of Panda Farmer in Google algorithms occurred which affected over 10% of search results, this update hit Europe in April with similar effects. By March, Google had placed their "+1" button which helped influence both organic and paid search results, this was a direct response to Facebook and Twitter. Panda was in turn updated through the year, but in June Google launched their own social media which accumulated over 10 million users in just two weeks.
2012: Search + Your World was launched in January, incorporating user profiles and social data into SERP.
Hummingbird algorithm: It focuses on parsing searches as complex questions. It works like Facebook graph search and replies to ambiguous queries such as what is my friends' favorite restaurant.
Penguin Update 5 October 04, 2013 Penguin 2.1 (Penguin 5th edition) was released in Google's continuing battle against web spam. We see a corresponding spike in the Rank Risk Index on October 5th.
Undisclosed Activity November 15, 2013 There are a lot of chatter in the various webmaster and SEO forums and blogs about SERP changes, but no official announcement from Google.
Authorship Rich Snippet Update December 18, 2013 In what may be the most dramatic Google update of 2013, Authorship & Rich Snippet results dropped as much as 15% as Google tightened the qualifications for rich snippets. Authors reported problems and were advised to refer to Google's rel="author" FAQs to ensure they're following the rules.
February 06, 2014 Google's Page Layout Algorithm targets pages with disproportionate number of ads above the fold in relation to page content. Google's Matt Cutts confirmed this algorithm refresh in a Tweet. Page Layout Algorithm's goal is to make users' search experience more efficient and quick, enabling them to reach the content they're seeking.
March 24, 2014 Webmaster and SEO forum rumors of a Soft Panda update around March 24th match up with the red zone dates displaying in our Rank Risk Index, however, no official announcement has been made by Google.
April 18, 2014 The Rank Risk Index has been indicating volatile activity by Google for much of April. Lots of chatter in the various webmaster and SEO forums and blogs about dramatic SERP changes, but no official announcement from Google.
May 18, 2014 Google announced the release of an update to their Spam Algorithm that targets the type of queries that return an excessive number of spammy results. This specific update was an international roll out that is reported to affect different languages to different degrees and noticeably impacts English queries by about 0.2%. Matt Cutts Tweeted: "This past weekend we started rolling out a ranking update for very spammy queries." Search Engine Watch reported "Over the weekend we began rolling out a new algorithmic update," a Google spokesperson told SEW. "The update was neither Panda nor Penguin – it was the next generation of an algorithm that originally rolled out last summer for very spammy queries."
May 20, 2014 Our Rank Risk Index has been showing sharp fluctuations in recent weeks causing lots of chatter in SEO and webmaster forums. By mid-May we started to see a relative calm, but suddenly the red alert went up again and shortly after that Matt Cutts announced on Twitter that Google had launched Panda 4.0 and plans to be rolling out more updates. The goal of Panda has been to penalize poor content quality and scraper sites, while boosting sites with great content up in the SERPs and thereby providing Google users with high quality results. Google's Matt Cutts announced Panda 4.0 on Twitter.
June 12, 2014 Google rolled out an update to their PayDay Loan Spam Algorithm. Version 3.0 targets the queries for 'payday loans', 'casinos', 'accident claims' and a variety of others that return an excessive number of web spam results. Google's Matt Cutts announced this algorithm update on Twitter.
July 24, 2014 Google launched an update to their local search algorithm to help them provide more accurate and relevant local search results. The chat in the Webmaster World Local Search Forum suggests that the update was causing inconsistent results, with "major flux" still occurring a week after the rollout. Small Business Trends provides an analysis of how this update affects local businesses.
A new Panda algorithm is rolled out. Matt Cuts confirmed in a message on G+ about this update. Based on user (and webmaster!) feedback, Google's engineers have been able to discover a few more signals to help Panda identify low-quality content more precisely. This results in a greater diversity of high-quality small- and medium-sized sites ranking higher.Depending on the locale, around 3-5% of queries are affected.
April 21, 2015 The algorithm scans each page on the site, checking for load times, responsive design elements, and mobile best practice. For now searches on tablets won't be affected.
Panda refresh has affected about 2%-3% of English language queries, which is relatively small compared to the past updates.
RankBrain is the first system within Google's search algorithm to employ machine learning to process huge volumes of search queries submitted to Google, including voice search. It attempts to understand what those queries mean and use that understanding to provide better answers.
It was launched on September first 2016 and impacts the local search results mainly directory listing. It catches spam directory listings on the local search results such as Google Maps, Google Places and Map Pack.
This algorithm penalizes websites which have pop-ups that block content, especially on mobile devices. Google encourages simple and easy to use access to content on mobile and if your website has pop-up which blocks the content, Google algorithm will penalize it.
Note:Those who follow me on social media have seen my warnings about not using too many pop-ups. There you have it, Google updated Penguin algorithm to stop annoying pop-ups. I have seen 99% of SEOs and marketers use pop-ups in the middle of their content pages to capture leads. They write lies about how these annoying content blocking elements generate leads for them. Well, they don't. I click away from websites with annoying pop-ups. If you use it don't put it in the middle of your website to block content. It annoys visitors. Your website get penalized by Google.
Fred Algorithm puts a higher emphasis on link quality. This algorithm has a focus on low value content, Private Blog Networks with low quality back links and content which are generated to earn revenue via Google Adsense and affiliate ads.
It targets keyword permutations on different pages. Many travel, real estate, e-commerce and affiliate websites lost ranking in December 2017 due to this algorithm update.


EVERY year about a million Americans attempt suicide. More than 38,000 succeed. In addition, each year there are around 33,000 unintentional deaths by poisonings. Taken together, that's more than twice the number of people who die annually in car accidents.
The tragedy is that while motor vehicle deaths have been dropping, suicides and poisonings from medications have been steadily rising since 1999. About half of suicides are committed with firearms, and nearly 20 percent by poisoning. A good way to kill yourself is by overdosing on Tylenol or other pills. About 90 percent of the deaths from unintentional poisonings occur because of drugs, and not because of things like household cleaners or bleach.
There is a simple way to make medication less accessible for those who would deliberately or accidentally overdose — and that is packaging.
We need to make it harder to buy pills in bottles of 50 or 100 that can be easily dumped out and swallowed. We should not be selling big bottles of Tylenol and other drugs that are typically implicated in overdoses, like prescription painkillers and Valium-type drugs, called benzodiazepines. Pills should be packaged in blister packs of 16 or 25. Anyone who wanted 50 would have to buy numerous blister packages and sit down and push out the pills one by one. Turns out you really, really have to want to commit suicide to push out 50 pills. And most people are not that committed.
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If you are an Australian resident and fail to vote, you are hit with a fine, and forced to provide a reason for your failure to vote.


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Upcoming Sequel Alert!!! - Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)
Scared yet? Just wait. An iguana pops out in the end.
With yet another sequel (Paranormal Activity 3) being released next week, I thought I would try something new. The week before a sequel is to be released I'll post a review of the previous installment in the series. Maybe this will help jog your memory or just bring you up to speed with a series you've missed a chapter of. This week the film is Paranormal Activity 2. This is a review I wrote right after seeing the film in the cinema. It's actually one of a group of reviews that inspired me to start up this site. Without further ado, Paranormal Activity 2:
I like scary movies. Sure, they aren't always the most well-crafted films but they are often more than entertaining enough to get the job done. I thought the first Paranormal Activity was a classy and clever little film that earned it's big scares. It wasn't threatening to nab any major artistic awards, but it certainly hit more often than it missed. I went into Paranormal Activity 2 hoping to find more. More of what worked and less of what didn't. I can't say that I was completely disappointed, but I definitely was not impressed.
Paranormal Activity 2: Electric Boogaloo is about a family who kinda sorta maybe thinks there is a ghost in the house after a pot falls from a rack. It's shot with a mix of handheld HD camcorders and wall mounted security cameras. After sitting through 20 minutes without any activity even slightly paranormal taking shape I thought to myself, "Self, the only way this movie can redeem itself is to end in an all out bloodbath." To say that this movie starts off a little slow would be like saying War and Peace is a little long. This is mainly because the bulk of the first half of the film is composed of drawn-out security cam shots edited together. I think these are meant to build tension...but they only build tension simply because it's a horror movie and bad stuff eventually has to happen in horror movies. This tension isn't earned by any tangible means. The movie feels much more like a parody of the first than a serious sequel. You see multiple nights worth of the same repeating shots where nothing at all abnormal happens.
As the story develops it forces a link to the first film that felt extremely unnecessary and, in doing so, blows open plot holes bigger than the national debt. Since Paranormal Activity 2 is a horror movie however, this doesn't ruin it for me. I understand suspension of disbelief. All I ask is that a movie keep playing by the rules and logic that it creates. We're wandering close to spoiler territory here so skip to the next paragraph if you want to avoid it. The demon in the film is after the family's bouncing baby boy to settle a debt to said demon that was incurred generations earlier. I'll swallow that, but what I won't swallow is the demon having a perfect opportunity to reap this boy's soul and not capitalizing on it. The demon actually lifts the boy from his crib and summons him down the stairs to the cellar door, where the demon "lives". Having just proved it is strong enough to open doors this should have been a done deal. However, the next shot reveals the boy crawling back up to his room and his parents find him in bed. Not only did the demon not take the brat, but he helped him back into his crib! Nonsense.
What PA:2 promised was a creepy atmosphere and jumpy scares. Once PA:2 does start to take off it delivers a fair amount of these scares and tense moments, but not quite enough to warrant the sluggish build up or clunky plot. If you didn't like Paranormal Activity this just isn't the movie for you but, if you did, be warned. I didn't hate this movie but it didn't do what sequels are supposed to do. It didn't give me more. It gave me the feeling of squeezing out the last bit of toothpaste from the tube. In the end you get just enough out of it to be satisfied, but you know there isn't anything left. Only two installments in and the Paranormal Activity franchise is dead in the water. Grade: C
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With cries of misconduct and conspiracy still resonating from the 2000 election, the country was on edge and waiting to see what would go wrong this time. The director of a feature, Nightowls of Coventry, and another doc, Shadow of the Swan: A Composer's Story, Paglin was originally hired to be one of a team of filmmakers shooting polling places all over the state. But when that larger project fell apart, she decided to go anyway and chose an inner-city polling location at random. By heading out solo without plan, Paglin set herself up to encounter technical difficulties, from microphone irregularities to tape mangled by her faulty camera. Yet in spite of some distortion and messy footage she would have to fix in post-production, she would not have missed making this film. "It's about how hard it is to do what should be a simple, basic thing; which is to vote," she said.
Upon arriving in Cleveland, Paglin discovered that voting, at least in certain parts of the country, is not simple at all. She originally positioned herself on the sidewalk in front of the polls. "I didn't want to be obnoxious sticking my camera in someone's face. You don't want to intimidate voters," she explained. "But I asked people coming out if anything was going wrong and they said, 'Oh, it's terrible' and they said, 'Here, come on in.' It was like being invited into someone's house." What she found inside and captured on camera was a roomful of disgruntled people— some in tears, others arguing with one another—who had been waiting for at least an hour and a half to vote.


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Sophistication personified, light and refreshing. Yardley Feather is a floral fragrance for the woman of today. This feminine scent possesses a blend of lilac, white lily, rose and violet, accompanied by amber, white musk and a hint of sandalwood.


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EU NAVFOR Warship Blocks Pirate Camp
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EU NAVFOR HNLMS Johan de Witt has effectively blocked known pirate camp on the Somali coast from access to the open sea.
As an amphibious ship, HNLMS Johan de Witt is able, from a dock within the ship, to launch a number of smaller vessels, LCVPs (Landing craft for vehicle and personnel transport), that can provide a blockading role on selected known pirate areas of the Somali coast.
Under orders from the Swedish EU NAVFOR Force Headquarters Ship Carlskrona, the warship Johan de Witt was positioned on the Somali coast to provide surveillance and reconnaissance patrols with the aim of gaining useful information while restricting and interdicting pirate movement on the coast. With the onset of the monsoon, increasingly poor weather conditions making pirate activities very difficult, creating an urgency amongst the pirates to get to sea quickly.
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Woodcut of 'Bressla'/Wrocław from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
› So Where Exactly Am I?
So Where Exactly Am I?
As a city under constantly shifting rule, Wrocław has been known by many names throughout its history. In fact, the national status of Wrocław has changed more often than any other city in Europe. Passing hands from the Polish Piasts (1000-1335), to the Kingdom of Bohemia (1335-1526), to the Austrian Hapsburgs (1526-1741), to the Kingdom of Prussia (1741-1871), into the German Empire and Third Reich (1871-1945), and finally back to Poland (1945-today, and hopefully tomorrow as well), Wrocław cannot be claimed as the by-rights homeland of any one nation or people despite the past efforts of politically motivated revisionist historians to prove otherwise (the Recovered Territories Exhibition of 1948, for example). The city's makeup has always been diverse culturally and religiously with Poles, Germans, Bohemians, Austrians and Jews all making significant contributions to Wrocław's development. With so many influences and upheavals, Wrocław (as we know it today) has seen more than its fair share of names used in common parlance throughout the years, including Vratislava, Wrotizla, Wretslaw, Vraclav, Vretslav, Prezlav, Presslaw and Bresslau (to name a few).
It's not uncommon to still see and hear Wrocław referred to by its old German name, 'Breslau', particularly by and for the German nostalgia tourists who come here to seek their roots. The Polish name 'Wrocław' apparently predates the German name, and is thought to have been derived from the name of the Czech sovereign 'Vratislav'. Variants of the German name began appearing in documents shortly after Poland lost control of the region in 1335. Some sources claim that Frederick the Great changed the city's name to Breslau in 1741, though this is subject to historical dispute. With the German population expelled in 1945, and Poland's borders shifted westwards, post-war Wrocław was repopulated with citizens from what is now the Ukrainian city of Lviv (formerly Polish Lwów). The tens of thousands of migrants who arrived from the east not only changed the ethnic make-up of the city, but also its cultural life by bringing much of their former home's cultural relics with them. Treasures taken from Lviv and moved to Wrocław include the Fredro statue in the main square, the library collection of the Ossolineum, and the epic painting the Racławice Panorama.
The problem of Wrocław's complex titular nomenclature was a challenge historian Norman Davies encountered when writing his thorough history of the city; Davies eventually settled on 'Microcosm' as the title of his excellent book in acknowledgement of the city's standing as a constant crossroads for Central European cultures and concerns, and the unfairness of putting such a wide-ranging study under a title with a limited representation of its history. And while the temptation to re-title this little tome 'Microcosm In Your Pocket' is ever-present, we've got enough connotative problems as it is…
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In Repair order process when i'm using transsaction code IW59 to display the service notification i'm getting an error tha " no objects are selected".Can you pl sexplain me how can i proceed?
Please go through the Below Notes on Repair Order which will help you.
When the customer contacts the service provider with a request for his or her defective product to be repaired, you create an in-house repair order in SAP CRM.
You create an in-house repair order in SAP CRM.
The customer uses a call center or a Web application to report, for example, one or more defective products that he or she wants to send or bring in for repair.
Reference objects can be products, components of installed bases, or individual objects. The reference object can be used to determine an existing warranty.
The system performs an automatic warranty check.
If a warranty is determined, this is apparent from the assigned warranty product and the accounting indicator. The accounting indicator influences pricing.
The relevant services and spare parts and their related discounts are defined in the warranty. The internal receivers to whom the incurred costs should be charged are also defined in the warranty.
The system determines existing service contracts for the business partner for each complaint item.
Assured response times are determined based on the Service Level Agreements (SLA) defined in the contract. You can monitor these response times and escalate them if necessary.
You create a subitem of category Return for the main repair item.
The Return item shows that an inbound delivery is expected for the upper-level item. The unique RMA number (Return Material Authorization) is made up of the unique number of the in-house repair order and the item number of the returns item. The customer uses the RMA number to send the defective product in for repair.
After the product sent in for repair is received, a service employee performs a technical analysis (diagnosis) and enters the inspection result. A HTML file is provided for you to document the inspection results for the diagnosis item. This can be tailored to meet your requirements.
The technician uses the inspection result to decide what action should be taken, that is whether to scrap or repair the product, and plans the necessary repair services and spare parts.
The necessary repair steps and required spare part items are defined as subitems of the repair request item.
After saving the in-house repair order in SAP CRM, it is replicated in the SAP R/3 system for the purpose of logistics processing. This means that the returns item for the in-house repair order is replicated in the SAP R/3 sales order as a returns request item. A sales order with the same document number as in SAP CRM then exists in SAP R/3. A unique RMA number is thereby also available in SAP R/3.
You create a loan device delivery for the repair in SAP CRM.
You have an option for sending loan devices to customers during a repair, therefore bridging long repair times.
After saving the in-house repair order, the CRM system replicates the loan device delivery item to the sales order in the SAP R/3 system. The delivery of the loan device is executed.
In SAP CRM you create a return delivery for the repairs.
After completing the repairs, the product is returned to the customer.
After saving the in-house repair order, the returns delivery item is replicated by the CRM system as a returns delivery item in the sales order in SAP R/3.
You create a loan device pick-up request in SAP CRM.
After repairing and returning the repaired product to the customer, return delivery of the loan device is triggered.
After saving the in-house repair order, the pick-up request item is replicated by the CRM system in the sales order in SAP R/3.
Sales document for recording all the business processes that are involved in processing faulty goods that a customer sends in for repair.
Actions that have to be performed in order to fulfill the customer repair request.
The Repair Procedure that is assigned to the repair request item determines which actions are required.
You require a repair order to manage repairs processing.
Use the material determination function to find suitable service products via the material number of the serviceable material.
When you enter the service product and serviceable material in the repair request item, the system creates a return order item automatically for the serviceable material. The repair procedure controls this.
You must enter a service product in the RA repair order before the service technician can begin the repairs.
The customer contacts the service provider with a request for his or her defective product to be repaired. You create an in-house repair order in SAP CRM.


Partnership with ITOCHU and TEPCO Group subsidiary launches smart tariff and raises prospect of 100MWh virtual power plant services.
UK smart battery company Moixa has rolled out its GridShare artificial intelligence platform to manage batteries for 3,500 homes in Japan, it revealed today in a joint announcement with ITOCHU Corporation, one of Japan's largest trading houses, and TRENDE Inc., a new venture of TEPCO Ventures Inc., a subsidiary of the country's biggest utility Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO).
At an event at the British embassy in Tokyo they also launched a new smart tariff enabled by GridShare, that will reward home battery owners with lower prices for using electricity outside peak times.
GridShare uses artificial intelligence to optimise battery performance to help households minimise energy bills. It can also help utilities deliver smart tariffs and aggregate spare battery capacity to deliver a range of services to the grid.
GridShare is now included as standard in ITOCHU's Smart Star home energy storage systems and Moixa currently manages what is believed to be the world's largest live cluster of batteries with a combined capacity of more than 35MWh.
Simon Daniel, CEO of Moixa, said: "We expect to use GridShare to manage a significant proportion of batteries in Japan, one of world's largest markets for home storage. GridShare uses artificial intelligence to learn about each owner's energy use and develops a unique charging plan to meet their needs and maximise savings. It can also use spare battery capacity – or flexibility – to earn income by providing services to the grid that support more renewable generation and help manage electric vehicle charging.
Both ITOCHU and TEPCO Group have invested in Moixa, which has pioneered the management of distributed batteries, and holds international patents on aggregating batteries for grid services.
GridShare uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to optimise the performance of batteries and electric vehicles for each owner, developing a charging plan to maximise savings tailored to their needs and behaviour. It learns patterns of home energy and electric vehicle use, calculates generation from solar panels, and takes into account weather forecasts and smart tariffs.
GridShare can also manage large fleets of batteries, aggregating owners' spare capacity to act as a virtual power plant, importing and exporting energy to deliver services to the electricity grid. ITOCHU is selling 800 10kWh Smart Star L systems a month, so in a year Moixa could be aggregating nearly 100MWh of flexible capacity.
As well as selling own-brand batteries, ITOCHU is also a major supplier of materials and components for leading international energy storage brands, and it plans to work with Moixa to promote GridShare into the world's battery supply chain.
Japan is a prime market for GridShare. It is the world's fourth biggest solar market, with 11GW generated by home systems, and one of the world's leading markets for home batteries, with more than 125,000 energy storage systems in 2016. It also has more than 200,000 electric vehicles on the roads, making it the world's third largest market.
In recent years earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters have caused widespread power outages, driving interest in solar power and storage systems, which reduce households' dependence on the grid.
Growing numbers of homes are also looking to install batteries so they can maximise consumption of the electricity they generate from solar panels, with many coming to the end of their feed-in-tariffs. Japan's feed-in-tariff system, introduced in 2009, only pays homes for exporting energy to the grid for ten years.
TRENDE, a renewable energy retailer, was launched earlier this year and its smart tariff aims to offer solar owners a new opportunity to save on their energy bills, offering discount rates for charging their batteries off-peak.
GridShare is currently delivering similar services across the UK for contracts supported by major utilities, network operators and public bodies such as the European Regional Development Fund, the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for Energy and Climate Change and Innovate UK.
Moixa (www.moixa.com) is the UK's leading home battery company. We make Moixa smart batteries and our GridShare software manages batteries of all kinds, optimising their performance for each individual owner and using their spare capacity to support electricity networks. Our goal is to manage the world's batteries, helping everyone from homeowners, to councils and grid operators to manage energy flows and cut their electricity bills. We're the partner of choice for leading installers, housing associations and utility companies.
Moixa has an unrivalled track record in the UK home battery market, with over 10 years of research and development, strong international patents and proven technology. It has installed Moixa Smart Batteries in more than 1000 homes nationwide with a combined capacity of over 2MWh and nine million hours of use. It has worked with councils and housing associations, energy utilities and network operators to deliver more than £6 million of projects. It has received over £5 million in grants and pilot awards in addition to equity investments.
The Moixa Smart Battery is a compact, cost-effective, wall-mounted unit that fits easily into homes and is easily installed. It is an all-in-one Lithium Ion Phosphate battery system, requiring no additional equipment, and AC-coupled, so it can take advantage of smart tariffs by importing electricity from the grid when it is cheap, and provide options for back-up power. It has a 20-year lifespan and comes with an extendable ten-year guarantee.
Moixa smart grid patents are cited by hundreds of international companies and include US20140159485, US9379545, AU2013353807, GB2510804, GB2539317, EU 13815546.0, US20100076615, US8849471, GB2476213, EU 09756537.8, GB1810314.3.


What's behind the "getting things done" behavior?
[MUSIC] GTD Syndrome, do you have it? And if so, should you do anything about it? I'm Brian Cooley from CNET, in search of the next big thing. GTD or getting things done syndrome. It really is the lifestyle mark of our age, isn't it? It means living your life around things like clearing your inbox, running your life by your calendar, Stay on top of social media constantly, being on top of text all the time, acknowledging and being present and doing a lot of it through lists and clearing all the time. If you feel like those behaviors and a quick sandwich at your desk thrown in are the majority of your life You're not alone. And among the ways it manifests itself is one crowd that goes after inbox zero where you feel like something's driving you nuts if you've got more than a few emails in your inbox. You wanna clear them all the time or feel like you're getting overwhelmed. Like there's a snowball coming your way, but others are lately turning to a new breed of apps and services that move you more toward results and less on emphasizing a crude checklist behavior. This more goal oriented view of tasks and projects can be seen in OmniFocus, Clear To do things and anydo all among this new breed. And others are finding there's a new balance in their lives between analog and digital. Between pen and paper where you work out ideas and get them a little more digested before you then commit them to keyboard and mouse. [MUSIC] Know what's next at CNET.com/NextBigThing. I'm Brian [UNKNOWN].


I feel like super-flexible, low-hassle housing in big cities is going to be a growth industry. Why can't I just go and live in New York for six months? I realize that extremely rich people flit around like this all the time. How about something for everybody else? Something like a housing system with buildings in big cities such that it's easy for you to "swap" your studio in San Francisco for a studio in London.
It's a tough thing. Most people don't have the employment flexibility to easily move. On the other hand, if you lose your job or need to change jobs, the inflexibility of housing (especially if you own) WAY reduces your ability to move in order to find new work.
At the same time, it seems like there ought to be an alternate equilibrium to the one-year lease with first-last-security deposit. Month-to-month leases (in lieu of one-year contracts) or five-year-mini-mortgages (in lieu of ownership) may ultimately be better options than what we have now.
Also, it'd be interesting if there were a new chapter of limited bankruptcy (I'm serious!) — if you lose your job or your ability to pay, you can restructure your housing arrangements and other long-term financial commitments without having to declare full-blown bankruptcy.
Ultimately, though, big-time structural change probably isn't going to happen unless the residential market craters. Demand for cars collapsed, which is why people have begun getting creative with their financing. Demand for apartments in New York, even with the financial crisis, just isn't there.
Another thing: perhaps this is an issue that can only be addressed in places with sufficient population density and a migratory work population.
For instance, Hong Kong is a city that sees several thousand short-term expat workers vying to live in the few "desirable" neighborhoods on the Island. To meet the demand, we have a few dozen serviced apartment complexes of varying price & quality. The renter gets all the benefits of hotel living, but the space feels like his own. Additionally, fully furnished apartments are quite common.
It's a great solution overall. But could something like this take hold in say, Cleveland, Philly or Phoenix?


Methodius (Grecco script: Μεθόδιος) was a hermit who defeated the first Avatar of the God Maelignos 4000 years ago. After being banished from his home, he learned to coexist with the spirits, deciding to help bring balance between them and the rest of mankind, a quest that eventually led to him becoming the first Grand Master of the Templars Order.
Living in poverty, Methodius stole to survive and feed his friends. To achieve that goal, he regularly stole from the rich families However, one day, after snatching food from them, he was chased down the streets of the city by the three angry brothersfrom a noble family. He managed to outrun them at first by making his way across rooftops, though when he stopped to eat, the brothers caught up to him. He attempted to escape again, but was tripped by one of the brothers and subsequently captured. His sack of food was taken away from him, and he was thrown into a muddy pen with pigs. Methodius returned to his family's tree house, bringing ¿his siblings what little food he had managed to salvage in his tunic. He gave away his own portion to several hungry animals, lamenting their impoverished lifestyle and wishing they could live like the Nobles. During that time, however, he devised a plan to gain more power so he could change his life.
Methodius joined the group of four hunters that were preparing to leave the city and venture into the wilds to collect food for the city. Although the lead hunter was skeptical at first to let Methodius join, Methodius was allowed to accompany them since there were no other willing volunteers. As such, the young man traveled with the hunters to face the great lion, the guardian of their city, to receive the power of magic, which enabled them to defend themselves against the hostile spirits living in the wilds. Soon after the group set off, Methodius pretended to chicken out and was subsequently ordered to go back to the lion to return his newly acquired ability. However, Methodius did not return to the lion and instead returned to the city directly, keeping his magic. With it, he inspired several other poor people to disguisedly join him on a raid on the palace. Although the raid was going smoothly at first, the Nobles called in reinforcements, and Methodius was captured and unmasked. He was brought before the lion, and although the creature permitted him to keep his Magic at his request, Methodius was banished to the wilds for his crimes.
As he wandered the wilds, Methodius was on edge, shooting at every creature he encountered. While running away from a large frog that wanted to trample him, Methodius got eaten by a plant, though managed to save himself with his bending. He ran on until he collapsed from exhaustion on an open grassy spot. However, much to his surprise, the grass started to wrap itself around him and pulled him under. He used his magic to save himself from a certain death by suffocation and continued his journey through the wilderness. Afraid to lower his guard in the hostile environment, he remained awake the entire night.
By morning, his hunger and exhaustion prompted him to stop at what he perceived to be a fruit-carrying tree. As he tried tosink his teeth in what he thought was a fruit, the fruit turned out to be a swarm of bees hurdled together that promptly attacked Methodius for his disturbance. Methodius's desperate attempt to get away from the angered insects led him to fall off a cliff. As he landed, he found himself looking at a peaceful island-like oasis with more fruit trees. Still hungry, he made his way over toward the little island, though found his path blocked by a Djinn, who appeared out ofnowhere before him and told him he was not welcome at the oasis. Methodius tried to reason with the spirit, telling the entity that he was hungry and in need of sleep. However, when the spirit coldly told him that it was not his problem, Methodius attempted to force the spirit aside by magic at him. Enraged, the spirit met Methodius's challenge, easily evading his attack by teleporting behind him, grabbing him, and throwing him aside in the nearby bush. Methodius walked away in defeat, but when he noticed that several other spirits were granted access to the oasis, he covered himself in leaves and branches, disguising himself as "Bushy, the Bush Spirit". He briefly managed to fool the oasis guardian, but the latter was able to discover his deception through his human scent. When ordered to return home, Methodius revealed that he was banished. The other spirits took pity on him and suggested he find other lion cities, but the guardian refused to give him directions.
Methodius subsequently set out to find these mentioned cities on his own. While traveling through the wilds, he spotted a deer caught in a net. Still hungry, he approached it with the intent of eating it, though after seeing the creature up close, he climbed the tree in an attempt to free it. At that moment, however, the group of hunters he was supposed to accompany arrived and they intended to kill the deer. Methodius throw magic at the hunters and ran off, hoping the men would forget about the animal and chase him. Having discovered the dangers of the wilds for himself, he used the wilds' hazards in his advantage to get rid of two of his pursuers. Before he could free himself completely from the hunters, Methodius was knocked unconscious by a fire blast. However, before the men could do anything, the Djinn, touched by Methodius's selfless act, intervened and saved him. Methodiuswas brought back to the oasis by the spirit, where he was placed in the spirit waters, healing him. Deciding he had had enough of humans, Methodius chose to stay at the oasis and learn the ways of the spirits, which earned him the nickname "Stinky" from the Djinn spirit.
As time went by, Methodius befriended the spirits and developed his magical skills by learning the old techniques from a white dragon, training himself to the point where his magic became an extension of his own body, not just a tool. He used his abilities to protect the spirits and drive off hostile humans.
Two years after his banishment, Methodius wanted to travel the world to find the other lion cities. During his journey, he was disturbed by a stampede of fleeing spirits, who ran away from the raging fight between the "all-powerful spirits". He went to investigate, as the battle risked wiping out the entire valley. Concerned about the destruction of the environment, Methodius approached the two raging spirits, oblivious to their identity, and ordered them to stop. The white spirit, Lucero, told him off, saying that the fight did not concern him. However, when he objected, telling her that it was his concern when the lives of spirits and animals were at stake, the dark spirit, Maelignos, begged him for help. Upon hearing that the dark entity had been tortured by his counterpart for ten thousand years, Methodius used his magic to break the hold Lucero had on Maelignos. It was only after Maelignos had already fled that Methodius learned the error of his actions, as Lucero explained who she was and what her purpose was.
Feeling bad about his mistake, Methodius offered to help Lucero track down Maelignos, but was told to stay out of the conflict. After the light spirit flew away, he resumed his goal of finding the other lion cities. Along the way, he came across harvesters with the ability to control the air, and followed them to their city, which was built atop a flying turtle. Having no ability to naturally ascend to the flying turtle city, Methodius constructed a catapult from a living tree to fling himself toward the creature. While conversing with the people living there, Maelignos arrived and his presence turned the peaceful spirits living in the town into raging dark entities. Methodius used his Magical ability to protect the people until Lucero showed up and knocked Maelignos down. After Maelignos left, Methodius noticed that Lucero was growing weaker. To rectify his previous mistake, he promised to help Lucero despite her disdain for him. In order to do so, Methodius requested the airbending turtle to grant him the ability to control air. Although no human had ever held two elements before, Methodius insisted that he was unlike other humans and could learn to do so. The turtle decided to give him the power of air; however, Lucero would have to hold the power for him until he mastered it. Together, the two set out to train. Eventually, Lucero gave the element of air to Methodius by passing through his body and combining their energies. Although a dangerous undertaking, Methodius survived the ordeal, and the small alliance set out to find the waterbending and earthbending turtles to receive the last two elements.
Over the course of a year, Methodius and Lucero worked together, training to master the four elements in order to be ready to face and defeat Maelignos. As the event drew near, Methodius and Lucero came across a village in the Wilds near the lion that was inhabited by Methodius's former friends. However, the hostile attitude of the settlers fomented the ever-increasing discontent between mankind and the spirits. When a gathering of spirits led by the Djinn spirit approached the village, Methodius attempted to resolve the conflict peacefully. However, Maelignos avatar's arrival caused the spirits to turn dark and the conflict escalated, prompting Methodius and Lucero to intervene. In order to be powerful enough to control the four elements simultaneously, Methodius and Lucero merged their energies, but this strained Methodius's body, one that he could not keep up with, and he passed out. When he woke, he found the village destroyed, and the avatar of Maelignos informed him that all the humans had been killed. As that creature left, Methodius found a severely weakened Lucero behind a rock. He gently picked her up, placed her in his teapot for easy transportation, and set out toward the Southern regions.
The dark avatar challenged Lucero, but Methodius stepped forward to defend her. Using his magic, Methodius attacked the Dark Avatar, though the spirit easily evaded his blasts and retaliated with his tendrils and energy beams. Realizing he was no match for the Dark avatar, he called upon Lucero to help him by merging their energies. Although the merge put him in mortal danger, Methodius refused to give up and kept fighting The Dark avatar. However, the spirit managed to knock him down and pin him to the ground near the dimensional door. When the sealing ritual began, Methodius placed his hand on the deimensional portal, permanently bonding his spirit with Lucero's. With his newfound strength from the fusion, Methodius managed to trap Maelignos in a dimensional cage and imprisoned him in the hollow of the Membran in another dimension.
As time passed, Methodius tried to maintain the balance in the world, urging the different groups of people to coexist peacefully. However, this proved to be a daunting task, one that he would work at his entire lifetime without ever seeing it come to an end. Years later, an armored and elderly Methodius lay resting in the aftermath of a battlefield. Before passing away, Methodius apologized to Lucero for failing to bring peace to the world.
Methodius was initially reckless and quick to anger when he felt that he or those close to him were being treated unjustly, although he preferred to use trickery to get what he wanted as opposed to violence. He kept an open mind though, not afraid to envision things being different and going against the advice of others in pursuit of doing what he felt was right or necessary. Nonetheless, when he did make mistakes, he felt remorseful, even to the point where he willingly risked his life to make things right. Though initially not concerned with the outside world, he developed a curiosity and a desire to learn about nature, spirits, and other human cities. Although he trained to be one of the most powerful humans of his time, he was humble, learning the ways of the spirits despite their early disdain for him, and establishing the position of the Avatar in an act of duty rather than to assert his own will over others.
In his later life, Methodius was much less impulsive, and though willing to fight for peace, he preferred to settle disputes between different groups through diplomacy, believing that people needed to learn to live together in peace. He spent his whole life trying to maintain balance in the world, showing himself to be a compassionate, optimistic, and courageous individual who primarily put the needs and safety of others; spirits, humans, and animals above his own.


Ellen Moroney is someone I know from college, a bright, hilarious girl who gave me tips on eye makeup before and after our Gender Comm class. She's one of those people I loved seeing updates from after we graduated since she worked in Denver and was involved in local politics. Then, I saw the awful news: she'd been diagnosed with brain cancer.


Students should be offered the chance to learn entrepreneurial skills at university before they enter the job market, according a report by the higher education standards watchdog.
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) worked with higher education and careers experts, as well as business organisations, to produce the report, Enterprise and entrepreneurship education: Guidance for UK higher education providers.
The QAA reports how current provision for enterprise and entrepreneurship education is fragmented. Some higher education providers offer stand-alone degree programmes in the subject, while others offer training and development as part of preparation for employment.
It recommends universities should encourage membership of student enterprise societies and participation in community-based projects or in business "incubators", which offer opportunities for students to create their own new businesses while still at university.
Laura Bellingham, a development officer at the QAA said. "Graduates will require skills in enterprise in order to compete in a changing job market or to create self-employment opportunities. If enterprise is embedded into the curriculum, it can springboard interest toward extra-curricular support."
The guidance document follows a review of business education earlier this year by Sir Tim Wilson, former vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
The Wilson Review identified the need for enterprise education and entrepreneurship opportunities for students in higher education, including more opportunities for postgraduate research students to engage with industry.