Permanent Rare Character Drop Rate Increase: Beginning on November 24, drop rates for rainbow crystals that contain top-tier characters will be tripled from the current rate, giving players a greater chance to acquire highly sought after units.
New FINAL FANTASY XV Characters: Gladiolus, Cor and Iris join Noctis and the Kingsglaive cast as playable characters. A new Final Fantasy XV-themed event will accompany the debut of these characters in the coming weeks.
Ability Upgrades for Noctis: The star of Final Fantasy XV will receive a number of boosts to current abilities in addition to receiving new abilities.
Black Friday & Cyber Monday Specials: A special Black Friday bundle providing players with a 10+1 Summon Ticket, a 10% Trust Moogle, an equippable ability, and a powerful new weapon will be available for purchase using in-game currency. Additional generous bargains await players from November 24 – 30, with discounts up to 60%.
The first anniversary celebrations for Final Fantasy Brave Exvius will conclude next month with the final Fan Festa Event in Los Angeles at The Wiltern Theater on December 9.


Sentinel-2B will be the next satellite launched for Europe's environmental Copernicus programme.
In 2017, it will join its identical twin, Sentinel-2A, to supply high-resolution images for numerous applications, from monitoring the health of the world's vegetation and changes the way land is used, to mapping regions struck by natural disasters.
The two satellites orbiting 180° apart and their 290 km-wide swaths allows Earth's main land surfaces, large islands, and inland and coastal waters to be covered every five days.
This is a significant improvement on earlier missions in the likelihood of gaining a cloud-free look at a particular location, making it easier to monitor changes in plant health and growth.
Before Sentinel-2B joins its twin, however, the satellite and its instruments have to be thoroughly tested to make everything can withstand the rigours of launch and the harsh environment of space.
In mid-June, after being assembled and tested to make sure everything is in perfect working order at Airbus Defence and Space's Friedrichshafen facility in Germany, it was shipped to ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands for a series of stringent 'environmental' tests.
Once unpacked and checked after its journey, the four-month campaign began with 'thermal vacuum' testing in the Large Space Simulator, which is the largest vacuum chamber in Europe. High-performance pumps remove all the air within the chamber to produce a vacuum, while liquid nitrogen in the walls mimic the cold of space.
ESA's Sentinel-2 assembly, integration and testing manager, Paolo Laberinti, said, "Sentinel-2B is our second baby.
After experiencing the Large Space Simulator, the satellite will be moved to the Maxwell chamber, which is designed to screen out all external electrical signals for 'electromagnetic compatibility' testing. Essentially, this makes sure that it is immune to electromagnetic interference and that it can communicate properly with its ground station.
Mechanical testing will follow in the Large European Acoustic Facility to simulate the noise from the rocket during liftoff and ascent into orbit. Then, a final suite of tests will check that all of its systems have survived exposure to these simulated environments.
The test campaign will last until the end of October.
A final review will then confirm it is ready and the various teams will prepare for the last steps so that Sentinel-2B can double the production of wide-area multispectral data for its users across Europe and the world.
Sun glitter reveals coastal waves19 May 2016 Sentinel-2A is demonstrating how it can be used to help forecast ocean waves around our coasts: sunlight reflected from the water surface reveals complex waves as they encounter the coastline and seafloor off the tip of Dorre Island, Western Australia.


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Jennie Adams (born Jennifer Ann Ryan; 1963 in New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian writer of romance novels since 2005. She is a Waldenbooks bestseller and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award winner. She has sold hundreds of thousands of her novels in over a dozen foreign-languages in countries as South Africa, Spain, Poland, Russia, India, and Japan. She also has had articles and short stories published in magazines and periodicals in Australia and overseas and children's publications.

Biography
Jennifer Ann Ryan was born in 1963 in a small country town in New South Wales, Australia. She had three adult children.  She worked part-time in the health care industry. She obtained an accreditation in Writing Studies from The Writing School. She is active in encouraging Aboriginal artists.

Bibliography

Single novels
The Boss's Convenient Bride (2005/Mar)
Parents of Convenience (2005/Jun)
Memo: Marry Me? (2007/May)
To Love And To Cherish (2008/Jan)
Promoted: Secretary to Bride! (2008/Nov)
Nine-to-Five Bride (2009/Fev)
What's A Housekeeper To Do? (2010/Jun)
Passionate Chef, Ice Queen Boss (2010/Sep)
Daycare Mum to Wife (2011/2) a.k.a. Daycare Mom to Wife
Once Upon a Time in Tarrula (2011/Sep) a.k.a. His Plain-Jane Cinderella
Invitation to the Prince's Palace (2012)

Gable Sisters
Her Millionaire Boss (2006/Aug)
The Italian Single Dad (2007/Jul)
The Boss's Unconventional Assistant (2007/Oct)

MacKay Brothers
Australian Boss: Diamond Ring (2009/Dec)
Surprise: Outback Proposal (2011/Jan)

References

External links
Jennie Adams at Harlequin

1963 births
Australian romantic fiction writers
Living people
Women romantic fiction writers
Australian women novelists

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Happy Mothers' Day! I hope you all have been enjoying this gorgeous spring weather. You will be receiving a 'save the date' some time this week, but as a head's up, the First Grade Poetry Reading is during the afternoon on Friday, June 7th. More information will follow.
Reading : We wrapped up our inferencing unit last week by talking about using the illustrations to deepen the inferences we make while we read. To practice this, we read Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg. This is a great book that forces readers to infer meaning beyond the text. Wordless picture books are also great books to do this with. Try finding a wordless picture book at the town library for your child to practice his/her inferring. All you have to have them do is tell the story using the pictures. Often wordless picture books have an incredible amount of detail, and if you look closely, there is a very complex story being told.
Writing : We started our new poetry writing unit last week! We kicked off the unit by taking some time to immerse ourselves in many different kinds of poems. We noticed lots of different things that poet Then, we started writing some poetry ourselves. Last week we worked on list poems.
Math : We wrapped up unit 8 last week by deepening our understanding of fractions by investigating equal shares. We used pattern blocks and geoboards to apply what we've learned.
Word Study : Adjectives were our focus last week. The students now know the three main types of speech - nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Adjectives will be very useful in our poetry unit.


Information und configuration hints for SIP provider Interoute.
Interoute is offering registerless SIP trunks. This means that the authentication is based on the public IP address of the SwyxWare server. Therefore, you need a static, public IP address from your ISP assigned to the SwyxWare server.
Interoute is operating with a number of different servers. Therefore it is not possible to preconfigure the Proxy Server in the "SIP" tab of the Trunkgroup Properties dialog. In this field, please enter the IP address that BT has named you.
One single SIP trunk from Interoute is able to handle multiple sites, even international ones.
Important: From SwyxWare2015R4 on, the provider profile for Interoute is available in the list of provider profiles and the CustomProviderProfiles.config is no longer necessary.
During creation of the SIP Trunkgroup, the profile 'Interoute' must be selected.
If the SIP trunk handles public numbers from different sites, a site must be created in the SwyxWare with just the Public Line Access Prefix, but no country or area code etc. This site hast to be assigned to the SIP trunk group. Additionally, for each site that is handled by the SIP trunk, an appropriate site hast to be created in the SwyxWare. These sites have to be assigned to the particular user.
Important: If the SIP Trunk handles multiple sites, it is necessary that each SwyxWare user has assigned one public number. Only in this case, it can be ensured that the provider can determine the actual site of a SwyxWare user who performs an outbound (emergency) call.
Interoute expects a Session interval of 600 (seconds) on outbound calls. The prevent reINVITES which would slow down the call establishment, underneath the registry key HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Swyx\LinkMgr\CurrentVersion\Options two new DWORD values SipMinSessionTimerIntervalSeconds and SipSessionTimerIntervalSeconds can be created with an assigned value of 600 (decimal). After creating this value, the LinkMgr service must be restarted.


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Q: What's the file format to move an html bookmark file into Firefox 26 Running Firefox 26.0 under XP, I exported my bookmarks to an Html file, to clean up and then import them to my new computer running Windows 7 64-bit professional.  The file is down to about 2500 url shortcuts and no other content.
What I need now is the exact file format to import this into Firefox 26.0 under Win7.
How do I represent the folder and subfolder names and their description, and the bookmark description.
I assume the url shortcuts stays as I now have them. I don't have any tags but how would I do them.
Also, after a folders with subfolders, how do I indicate the start of a new main folder.
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Macquincourt Tunnel
The tunnel is 5,670 metres long and an electric chain barge is attached to the first boat; subsequent boats are tied together and all pulled through in a 'train'. There are only 2 trips in each direction per day, starting from the South (the other side to us). It takes about 2 hours plus tying/untying time.
Saturday 11th we trundled on towards the summit and the tunnel, knowing that we had 1 more day's cruising to reach it. At lock 9, a manned control lock, G was asked when we wanted to travel through the tunnel. The only choices were 9.00 am or 5 pm – with no time to think about it he booked 5 pm Monday. We stopped at Tordoir that night and I didn't want to move on on Sunday in case we didn't have a TV signal in the cut close to the tunnel as I was heavily into the tennis. I cajoled G into cycling back to re-book the tunnel for 9 am on the Tuesday.
When we left on Monday morning it was peeing with rain and we steamed in full wets. Fed up, we moored at Honnecourt, 3 locks short of the tunnel. I'd mentioned on FB that we were going through the tunnel in the morning and someone pointed out that Tuesday was the 14th (Bastille Day) so we were very unlikely to be going anywhere – like most boaters I had been totally unaware of the date. Yet again my intrepid cyclist set off for lock 9 – further away now – to check out the validity of our Bastille Day booking. The lockie confirmed that the tunnel and locks, of course, were not going to be open (clearly the lockie that took the booking in the first place had no more idea of the date than we had!) so he re-booked for 9 am Wednesday only to be told that we had to be at the muster point at 8 am. It was going to be tight as we had 3 locks and 5.5 km to run and the locks won't operate until 7 am when a man in a van comes and turns each one on individually.
We were up at 5.45 (gasp!) and hovering outside the first lock at 6.55. We arrived at the red light/muster point by the entrance to the tunnel at 7.58 and waited. And waited, and waited, and waited. At 9.20 we phoned the controller at lock 9 who responded with, "no, no, no – 1700 hours" (only in French). We protested but met with a brick wall – I was a long way from being a happy bunny. We were the only boat waiting to go North/South and we could only deduce that no boats wanted to come South/North so they wouldn't come through 'empty' just for us.
Trying to make the best of what was going to be a long day – we now had no chance of mooring on the South side until at least 8 pm – I started to put together a cooked breakfast when I heard the sound of a small engine. It was a little sailboat with an out board which had just come through the tunnel. There in front of us and throwing ropes in our direction was the chain barge – it was 9.40 and we were off!
As we were the only boat in tow we made good time and were through and untied in just under the 2 hours. The guys on the barge were off for their obligatory lunch before their final out and return starting at 2.30/3.00. The guy in the so-called 'control' lock clearly hadn't the faintest idea what was going on and, as is normal over here, there seemed to be absolutely no communication.
After 7 km there is a 2nd tunnel – Lesdins, a mere baby at 1,098 metres long. No problem with this one as we were allowed through under our own steam. We moored quite early at Lesdins village for lunch and an afternoon snooze.

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Q: Write true XML fragments to file from object list I'm trying to take a list collection of objects and write them as individual nodes to a master XML file.  Essentially the problem is I need to strip the header (xml declaration and root) from the results of XmlSerializer.  I can't do this with XmlWriter because I believe what's happening is Conformance Level rules of the XmlWriter determine my xml is then not well formed.  The whole objective here is i'm pulling data from an API in chunks and write those chunks to file, repeat.  Keeping my data footprint small.
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                    XmlWriter xw = null;
                    XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
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                    settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
                    using (xw = XmlWriter.Create(sw, settings))
                    {
                        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(PSCatalog.Item), "Item");
                        foreach (var o in list)
                        {
                            serializer.Serialize(xw, o);
                            xw.Flush();
                            sw.Flush();
                        }
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                        result = true;
                    }
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            Debug.WriteLine(ex.Source);
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When i run this it goes through the foreach loop and writes 1 fragment to file.  Then on the second loop it throws the following error:

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Getting Bill Murray (The Sequel): He Doesn't Sign Contracts
By Bryan Alexander
Published Aug 10, 2010 at 3:07 PM | Updated at 2:43 PM EDT on May 30, 2012
We've written before the many hoops the "Get Low" filmmakers had to jump through to get Bill Murray to star in their movie -- from sending materials to a P.O. box and simply waiting for a response from the star.
It was only after they finally nabbed the actor to commit, with the shooting deadline rapidly approaching, that they found out that Bill Murray doesn't bother with those pieces of paper others calls contracts. His word is his bond.
"The drama was about the investor who wanted a contract to show for himself that he had the actors to justify his investment," director Aaron Schneider tells PopcornBiz. "And then we find out that Bill doesn't do contracts."
That doesn't fly these days, But then again, this is Bill Murray.
A hasty meeting was called at Murray's lawyer's office where the investor and the actor agreed to the unusual terms.
"The investor met the lawyer and shook Bill's hand," says Schneider. "And to Bill's credit, his word is his contract. He showed up."
Once Murray was on the set, the quirky actor was a pro. Schneider tells stories of Murray entertaining cast and crew on set with a boom-box of music between takes and even helping the crew move pieces of equipment during quick set changes. "He was moving sandbags around the set," says Schneider. "He was always pitching in."
It was just getting him there that was tough.
"The way he does things is so unusual," says Schneider. "It throws people off."


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Michael O'Leary "Fuelling the Industrial Unrest in Ryanair" According to Leading Pilots Union
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Exclusive: This WILL Be the Brand New British Airways New Club World Business Class Seat
The combative chief executive of Ryanair, 57-year old Michael O'Leary has once again angered unions with inflammatory comments that were reported in Saturday's edition of London's The Times newspaper. The article in question was examining Ryanair's responsibility to pay out compensation to passengers in the event of strike action (like the kind that affected thousands of customers in the summer) with quotes attributed to O'Leary seemingly calling his workers "layabouts".
"If you have to pay compensation every time someone goes on strike, you remove management's ability to face down the unions," O'Leary was quoted as saying. He continued: "They know you have to roll over. It'd be the only industry where a bunch of layabouts can go on strike and run up a big compensation bill."
His comments follow an unprecedented legal move by the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to take enforcement action against the Dublin-based airline over its refusal to pay out the so-called European Denied Boarding compensation for flight disruption resulting from industrial action. Ryanair was forced to cancel hundreds of flights in the summer after pilots and cabin crew staged walkouts in several European countries.
O'Leary has previously said that Ryanair has no responsibility to pay out compensation, which can amount to as much as €600 per passenger, for industrial action that is beyond its control. Under the EU 261 legislation, airlines can avoid compensation claims if they can prove the delay or flight cancellation was beyond its control. Until recently, strike action was thought to be an "extraordinary circumstance" exempt from compensation claims but a recent court judgement about a wildcat strike at TUI Fly does raise doubts about that thinking.
The comments have done little to improve relations with the powerful British pilots union, BALPA. In a statement, the union's general secretary, Brian Strutton slammed O'Leary, saying that his "true colours seem to be showing through once again."
BALPA signed a union recognition deal with the airline in January to represent British-based Ryanair pilots. The recognition deal is just one hurdle in negotiating a full collective labour agreement that will protect workers pay, benefits and working conditions – so far, BALPA and Ryanair have not agreed a formal deal.
"Ryanair's true colours seem to be showing through once again as O'Leary talks about "facing down the unions" and insults his staff as "a bunch of layabouts," Strutton explains.
"I don't know if he's goading the unions into more strikes or if he just can't control what he says, but he's fuelling the industrial unrest in Ryanair every time he speaks about it."
It was recently revealed that Ryanair has only signed union recognition deals in eight out of 21 countries in which crew are based. The airline agreed to start recognising unions for the first time in its history late last year after workers threatened mass walkouts in the run up to Christmas. The airline's chief marketing officer, Kenny Jacobs claims O'Leary "has changed" in his attitude to unions but many critics say he doesn't have the right mindset to change Ryanair's working culture for the better.
Mateusz Maszczynski 17th December 2018
Financial Headache: Etihad Airways is Being Sued for up to €2 Billion Over Failure of Air Berlin


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The "Lies" story arc runs parallel with and explores Diana's search. No longer able to get into Mount Olympus, Diana tracks down Barbara Ann Minerva, the Cheetah, to get help.[161][162] Cheetah agrees to help in exchange for Diana aiding her in killing the god Urzkartaga and ending Minerva's curse. The pair battle their way through Urzkartaga's minions, the Bouda, and defeat Andres Cadulo, a worshiper of Urzkartaga that planned to sacrifice Steve Trevor to the plant god. Once reverted to her human form, Minerva agreed to help Wonder Woman find her way back to Paradise Island. During this time, Wonder Woman reconnects with Steve. Minerva eventually realizes Paradise Island is an embodiment of emotion instead of a physical place, so Wonder Woman and Steve head out to find the island. They succeed and Wonder Woman is greeted by her mother and sisters, though Steve senses something is wrong. Wonder Woman comes to realize nothing is as she remembers and, upon using the Lasso of Truth, discovers everything she thought she knew was a lie: she never really returned to Themyscira after departing with Steve years earlier. The revelation shatters Diana's mind and she is left nearly insane. Veronica Cale, a businesswoman who has been desiring to find Themyscira and the leader of Godwatch, sends a military group called Poison after her, but Diana's state has left her vulnerable and oblivious to the danger she and Steve are in. Steve wards them off long enough for them to be rescued, and reluctantly places Diana in a mental hospital so she can get help. While there she comes to grasp the reality she thought she knew was false, eventually coming out of her stupor and able to rejoin the others in tracking down Veronica Cale, who is trying to find Themyscira.
Wonder Woman's advocacy for women rights and gay rights was taken a step further in September 2016, when comic book writer Greg Rucka announced that she is canonically bisexual, according to her rebooted Rebirth origin.[258][259] Rucka stated, "... nobody at DC Comics has ever said, [Wonder Woman] gotta be straight. Nobody. Ever. They've never blinked at this."[256] Rucka stated that in his opinion, she "has to be" queer and has "obviously" had same-sex relationships on an island surrounded by beautiful women.[260][261] This follows the way Wonder Woman was written in the alternate continuity or non-canon Earth One by Grant Morrison,[262] and fellow Wonder Woman writer Gail Simone staunchly supported Rucka's statement.[263] Surprised at the amount of backlash from her fanbase, Rucka responded to "haters" that consensual sex with women is just as important to Wonder Woman as the Truth is to Superman.[264]
In 2016, "Issue #48" of Sensation Comics, featured Wonder Woman officiating a same-sex wedding, drawn by Australian illustrator Jason Badower. "My country is all women. To us, it's not 'gay' marriage. It's just marriage", she states to Superman. Inspired by the 2015 June Supreme Court ruling that established marriage equality in all 50 United States, Badower says DC Comics was "fantastic" about his idea for the issue. In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, he said his editor "Was like 'great, I love it! Let's do it.' It was almost anticlimactic."[253] "Diana's mother, the queen, at the very least authorized or in some cases officiated these weddings," Badower says. "It just seems more like a royal duty Diana would take on, that she would do for people that would appreciate it."[238]
Thus although by the modern depiction her accomplishments at the time seem ordinary, in that era they were more so. Diana Prince was originally an army nurse, but quickly attained the rank of lieutenant in Army Intelligence. This was partially a creative convenience so that she could be close to both Steve Trevor and received information which she needed to pursue her superheroics. In the real world though, this role in Army intelligence, even as the secretary to General Darnell, was still a rare position for a woman to hold in society. At this time as well, the character had her only real sidekicks in her history in the form of Etta Candy and the Holliday Girls. These characters gave the Wonder Woman a degree more of levity while also allowing the writers to focus on some issues which were more related to women. When Marston left the character, the strong driving force of the character to act as a strong moral guide and role model for female readers left as well and the character became more sensitive to the forces driving the industry as whole. Thus Wonder Woman changed somewhat to a more stereotypical woman. Her main interest was not always fighting crime, but for a time it became all in the interest of keeping Steve Trevor happy and interested in her for marriage. Also the backup stories featuring the Wonder Women of History were slowly phased out and replaced with features on marriage customs from around the world and trivial facts on random household objects.


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A Few Bits from RPS Superintendent Da Silva: BOE Public Hearing, Parent Workshop Rescheduled and More: A Few BITS from Ridgefield Public School Superintendent Dr. Susie Da Silva Board of Education In addition to the full-day Budget Workshop on Saturday, January 22, we also have a Board of Education Public Hearing and meeting on Monday evening. View agenda here.
The Discovery of a Rodin Masterpiece: Learn the Story at the Ridgefield Library on February 2: Learn about the exciting discovery of a true masterpiece on Wednesday, February 2nd at 7:00 p.m. at the Ridgefield Library via Zoom. While cataloging the artwork housed inside of the Hartley Dodge Memorial, Mallory Mortillaro, who serves as the Curator of
Prom Dress Collection Drive for Bridgeport High School Girls "Cinderella's Closet": "Cinderella's Closet" Bridgeport Police Community Services Division is hosting their first annual Prom Dress Collection Drive for Bridgeport High School girls that want to attend the prom who might not have the means. If you have a clean gently used formal gown,
Ridgefield residents named to the President's List at Siena College: Siena College named Ridgefield residents Matthew Misurelli and Tyler Munson to the President's List for the Fall 2021 semester. The President's List requires a 3.9-grade point average or higher. Founded in 1937, Siena College is a private, Catholic Franciscan, residential, liberal arts college with
The Bald Soprano Opens January 28 at Ridgefield High School: The Ridgefield High School Visual and Performing Arts Department will stage the absurdist comedy "The Bald Soprano" by Eugene Ionesco in the RHS Black Box Theater beginning January 28, 2022. The play is considered a modern classic and a seminal work
Ridgefield Weekend Lineup: ACT's Nickel Mines Opens, Aldrich for Families, Lords of 52nd Street and Ballet at The Playhouse: Ridgefield Weekend Lineup Please feel free to add any events we may have overlooked! You are also welcome to add your events to our EventHub HERE. Friday - January 21 Nickel Mines at ACT of Connecticut Nickel Mines Talk Back Series Disco Skate at Winter Garden Saturday-
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Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance Spring Semester Runs from January 3 through May 7, Registration Opens TODAY!
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On the heels of Nutcracker, Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance (RCD) is accepting registrations for their Spring Semester, which runs from January 3 through May 7. Dancers aged kindergarten and up can participate in
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A Step towards a Greener Planet: Climedec Technology can generate Hydrogen Energy and Other Useful Biodegradable Products from Brine Waste
by Michael Stewart
With the advancements in desalination technologies, seawater has become an important water source to tackle the freshwater shortage challenges. Seawater is desalinated either using membrane processes or thermal processes. After desalination, brine waste is produced, containing extremely high concentrations of salts such as sodium chloride and various contaminants, depending on the desalination method used.
These byproducts are difficult to treat because of their complex composition and purification methods.
Recently, Pact Renewables Pty Ltd has developed a unique zero-waste technology platform, known as Climedec, that uses metals and minerals extracted from brine waste to store hydrogen energy in a solid-state and capture carbon dioxide (CO2) for the production of degradable products in an integrated process cycle.
It is being looked at as a major breakthrough because it can enable the world to transition from fossil fuel to a hydrogen economy.
Climedec uses core saltwater and wastewater processing technology to derive hydrogen energy and CO2-containing degradable products. The technology was developed by Dr. Aharon Arakel and his team, whose efforts have been heavily influenced by Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and hydrogen storage technology development projects. The technology has been publicly demonstrated and tested at several locations. It was licensed for the first time in 2000.
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February 11, 2014 by Casey Gagnon
Phoenix Coyotes Forward Lauri Korpikoski Will Compete For Team Finland (Rick Osentoski-USA TODAY Sports)
The Phoenix Coyotes are well-represented at this year's Winter Olympics, with five players earning a roster spot in Sochi to compete for their respective countries. Four out of the five selected will compete in their first Olympics, and will represent four different countries, all considered medal contenders. This seems quite fitting for a group of competitive NHL standouts playing under Coyotes head coach Dave Tippett, himself a former Olympian, having captained Team Canada at the 1984 games in Sarajevo.
Tippett (ex-Olympian): My advice is to enjoy the Games but focus on the task at hand…because to go & not get a medal is very frustrating."
— Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) February 10, 2014
Before last Saturday's home game versus the Chicago Blackhawks, the Coyotes treated their Olympians, along with the ten Chicago players headed to Sochi, to a spectacular send-off ceremony, featuring special guests Mike Eruzione, Ken Morrow, and other members of the 1980 "miracle on ice" Team USA hockey squad. The 1980 team was honored for achieving one of the greatest accomplishments in American sports history, and then the former Olympians helped give the Sochi send-off to all fifteen current Olympians before they hit the ice for an NHL contest.
Here's a closer look at the five Phoenix Coyotes selected to compete in Sochi:
1.) Martin Hanzal (CZE)
Czech forward Martin Hanzal is in his seventh season with the Phoenix Coyotes (Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Hanzal currently centers the Coyotes' second line. He casts a formidable presence on both ends of the ice at a towering 6'6″ and not only screens opposing goaltenders in the offensive zone, but also provides scoring production of his own by tipping in slapshots and banging in rebounds. Hanzal has registered 36 points so far this season, coming on 14 goals and 22 assists, already a career high. A native of the Czech town of Pisek, Hanzal spent four seasons working his way up the Ceske Budejovic league before the Coyotes selected him as their first round pick in the 2005 NHL entry draft. He also has recent experience playing hockey on the world stage for his native Czech Republic at the IIHF World Championships in both 2008 and 2013. During his first foray into international competition in 2005, Hanzal was named to the all-star team at the IIHF under-18 World Championship.
Although Hanzal is often considered no more than a large body with overly aggressive presence on the ice (he leads the Coyotes this season with 71 PIM), Coach Tippett is quick to point out than Hanzal also puts points on the board. Tippett also says that he's seen Hanzal singled out by officials simply because of his size, which explains the excessive penalty minutes.
"He's a big strong guy that can defend well and play well positionally, but he has the capability of putting points on the board too," Tippett said earlier this season when asked about what Hanzal brings to the team.
Coyotes captain Shane Doan recently added that Hanzal "does so much for us . . . He's a big body that provides us a bit of bite up front."
Once of Hanzal's teammates on the Czech squad is legendary forward Jaromir Jagr, who will compete in his fifth olympics. When Jagr and his New Jersey Devils team ventured to Arizona recently for a road game against the Coyotes, Jagr said that both Hanzal's size and toughness will be a valuable asset to the Czechs in Sochi, commenting that Hanzal "is no pickle checker."
Hanzal has perhaps been one of the most underrated forwards in the league since he started his NHL career in the Arizona desert. Having established himself as a solid two-way player, his immense size also doesn't prevent him from moving quickly down the ice when needed, as evidenced by this breakaway goal he scored earlier in the season versus the Detroit Red Wings.
2.) Zbyněk Michálek (CZE)
Michalek owns the distinction as the only Olympic veteran amongst the five Coyotes headed to Sochi. He also competed for the Czech Team in the 2010 games in Vancouver. For the second straight Olympics, his brother Milan will join him on the team as well. Michalek and Oliver Ekman-Larsson currenly comprise Phoenix's top blue line pairing. Considered a stablizer in penalty killing situations, Michalek has played at a +7 overall this season. During Michalek's two stints this season on injured reserve due to a hip injury, the Coyotes struggled on the penalty kill, which was at one time ranked only 28th of 30 in the league (well below 80%) without Michalek's quiet yet effective leadership. Since Michalek returned to to ice on January 22, the Coyotes are 36/43 (83.7%) and have now improved to 24th overall in the NHL, just above 80% for the season.
"It's a dream come true," Michalek says about playing in the Olympics. "As a kid you dream about being in the Stanley Cup final and you dream about playing in the Olympics
Like Hanzal, Michalek started playing for the Coyotes in 2005, and rejoined the team last season after a two year hiatus with the Pittsburgh Penguins. In addition to prior Olympic experience, Michalek played for the Czech Republic at the IIHF world championships on five separate occasions. He originally hails from the town of Jindřichův Hradec.
"Michalek is a very important player for us, kind of a stabilizer on our blue line," says Coyotes GM Don Maloney.
Adds Coach Tippett, "He's the type of player that gives you everything he's got and that's what we're looking for right now."
3.) Mike Smith (CAN)
Unlike the other four Coyotes who earned a Sochi invite, Smith's selection was considered far from a sure thing. Even though Team Canada executive director Steve Yzerman was eying Smith as a goaltender for Canada's Olympic squad even before the NHL season started, Smith was kept in limbo before receiving the official word on January 7. Smith's wife, Brigitte Acton, competed for Team Canada at both the 2006 and 2010 Olympics as an alpine skier, and both of Acton's parents were also Olympic skiiers.
"Mike Smith continues out in Phoenix, he logs a lot of minutes, he faces a lot of shots and he's won a lot of games this year," Yzerman said.
A native of Kingston, Ontario, Smith has faced a heavier workload this season than any other net-minder in the NHL, facing exactly 1,500 opposing shots on goal (only 14 goaltenders have faced over 1,200). Signed by the Coyotes as a free agent prior to the 2011-2012 season, Smith previously played with the Dallas Stars and Tampa Bay Lightning. Ironically, Dave Tippett was the head coach in Dallas when Smith played for the Stars, and Yzerman the GM when he played for the Lightning. Smith's stellar performance in net helped lead the Coyotes to the 2012 NHL Western Conference finals. He finished the regular season with a 38-18-10 record and a .930 save percentage (4th best in the NHL) and set a franchise record with eight shutouts. In the 2012 playoffs, Smith went 9-7-3 with a .944 save percentage and three shutouts.
The current season has been somewhat rough for Smith thus far. Heading into the Olympic break, he's currently 20-17-9 with a .913 save percentage, leading many to question Yzerman's rationale for selecting Smith over other Canadian goaltenders with better numbers on the season. However, Smith returned to true form in his final four starts before the Olympic break, registering a spectacular save percentage of .957 in the four contests, including a shutout over the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks.
"I've put a lot of pressure on myself this year to be really good," Smith said. "I've worked the last few games just to be more calm in there and let pucks find me, and it's worked out."
In fact, Maloney previously expressed concern that Smith was putting too much pressure on himself, especially because he yearned deeply for a spot on Canada's Olympic roster, and the distraction was negatively affecting his overall play.
"I think Mike put a fair amount of pressure on himself to get on that Olympic team," Maloney contended. "He's trying to be too precise, too exact. He just has to play."
When Smith does settle down in net and focus on the task at hand, he stakes his claim for inclusion amongst the best goaltenders in the NHL, along with an Olympic spot, able to get the job done regardless of the workload thrust upon him.
4.) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (SWE)
Ekman-Larsson Has Quietly Established Himself as One of the NHL's Premiere Defensemen
Considered by many the most underrated blueliner in the NHL, Oliver Ekman-Larsson skates with Michalek on Phoenix's top blueline pairing. He has registered 29 points on the season (8 points, 21 assists) and is playing at a +3 overall, which is impressive considering that the Coyotes have allowed 2.84 goals per game this season, tenth highest in the NHL. Originally from Karlskrona, Sweden, the 22 year old defenseman was selected by the Coyotes as the sixth overall pick in the 2009 NHL entry draft. In 2009-10 Ekman-Larsson played in the Leksand professional league in his native Sweden and led all players under the age of 19 in scoring. The prior season, he posted that league's best player ratio at +44.
Ekman-Larsson also boasts an impressive international playing résumé. In 2011, he helped lead the Swedes to the silver medal at the IIHF World Championship, after having led his team to a bronze medal only one year prior at both the IIHF World Championship and the IIHF Junior Championship. At the WJC, he led his team with the most points by a defenseman.
"For now, I'm just trying to take my game to the next level," Ekman-Larson told the Edmonton Journal during a recent road trip. "I'm a pretty quiet guy, but I want to be a leader."
During the same road trip, the Calgary media described Ekman-Larrson as "a crisp playmaker who can close the gap."
Coach Tippett consistently lauds Ekman-Larsson's playing abilities, although many are still quick to overlook him due to his young age and scrawny physical build compared to other NHL blueliners. Competing at the Olympics will afford Ekman-Larsson the chance to shine on the world stage and to show that he is Norris Trophy material.
"Ollie was all-world," Tippett said after a recent Coyotes win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. "That's an unbelievable game by him… His stick work is phenomenal in traffic. He's so good. It's not just with the puck. He defends very well."
5.) Lauri Korpikoski (FIN)
Finally, Korpikoski will skate for a Finnish team recently dealt a major setback with the loss of two of their top scoring forwards due to injury. Korpikoski is a native of Turku, Finland, and was selected by the New York Rangers as the 19th overall pick in the 2004 NHL entry draft. The Rangers traded Korpikoski to the Coyotes just before the 2009-10 season. He posted career highs during 2010-11 in goals (19), assists (21), points (40), playing at a +17 for the season. Plagued by injuries the past few seasons, including an upper-body injury earlier this season that kept him on injured reserve for nearly an entire month, Korpikoski has still racked up 20 points (7 goals, 13 assists) in 42 games.
A scouting report from The Hockey News notes that Korpikoski is a solid two-way forward and that "speed is his best attribute, which he uses with aplomb in defensive situations. Plays with lots of energy and spunk. Versatile, he can play all three forward positions and kill penalties. Is also adept in the face-off dot."
Korpikoski represennted Finland at the IIHF World Championships in both 2010 and 2013. He was also a member of Finland's bronze medal team and the 2006 IIHF World Junior Championships. Although not the highest scoring forward, Korpikoski still plays at an elite level when healthy and won't hesitate to light the lamp when needed.
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I live in Arizona and cover the Phoenix Coyotes. I also run a blog covering all Phoenix professional sports teams as well as ASU Sun Devil athletics. I have a graduate degree in Education and taught K-12 public school for several years before pursuing free lance sports writing full time. Follow me on Twitter @CaseyPSH
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Алексе́й Влади́мирович Карда́шин () — советский военный, танкист. Подполковник. Участник Великой Отечественной войны. Герой Советского Союза (1945).

Биография
Родился 21 февраля (по другим данным — 5 марта) 1921 года в деревне Кардаши (ныне — в  Кировской области) в русской крестьянской семье. Окончил неполную среднюю школу и в 1937 году — школу ветеринарных фельдшеров. В 1940 году был призван в Красную Армию, служил в танковых войсках на Дальнем Востоке. Участник Великой Отечественной войны с октября 1941 года. В 1943 году окончил Пушкинское танковое училище. Принимал участие в боях на Волховском, Центральном, 1-м и 2-м Украинских, 1-м Белорусском фронтах. Член ВКП(б) с 1944 года. Особо отличился в боях на территории Германии, при форсировании реки Одер в апреле 1945 года.

В 1945 году был командиром танковой роты 48-й гвардейской танковой бригады 12-го гвардейского танкового корпуса 2-й гвардейской танковой армии 1-го Белорусского фронта, гвардии старшим лейтенантом.

15 апреля 1945 года танковая рота Кардашина форсировала реку Одер. Танкисты захватили и удерживали рубеж, отразив несколько мощных контратак противника. 19 апреля рота Кардашина первой ворвалась в немецкий населённый пункт  (северо-восточнее города Букков). В этом бою гвардейцы уничтожили 1 самолёт, 4 пушки, 9 пулемётов, 70 солдат. Тяжело раненный в ноги Кардашин не вышел из боя и ещё час управлял ротой. День Победы встретил в госпитале.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 31 мая 1945 года за образцовое выполнение заданий командования и проявленные мужество и героизм в боях с немецко-фашистскими захватчиками гвардии старшему лейтенанту Кардашину Алексею Владимировичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда» (№ 6755).

После войны продолжил службу в армии. В 1950 году прошёл курсы переподготовки политсостава Белорусского военного округа. В 1956 году окончил Харьковское танковое училище.

В 1959 году в звании подполковника вышел в запас. Жил до смерти в 1984 году в городе Обнинске Калужской области. Первый директор обнинского кинотеатра «Мир»; в 1965 году открывал мемориальную доску на Морозовской даче. Похоронен в Обнинске на .

Двоюродный брат жены Кардашина, Иван Одарченко, был моделью для скульптора Евгения Вучетича при воплощении образа воина-освободителя с мечом в одной руке и ребёнком на другой в монументе в берлинском Трептов-парке.

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 Медаль «Золотая Звезда» Героя Советского Союза
 Орден Ленина
 Орден Александра Невского (СССР)
 Орден Отечественной войны 2-й степени

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 Имя Героя увековечено на мемориальной доске в честь Героев Советского Союза — уроженцев Кировской области в парке Дворца пионеров города Кирова
 Имя Героя высечено золотыми буквами в зале Славы Центрального музея Великой Отечественной войны в Парке Победы города Москвы.
 На могиле героя установлен надгробный памятник.

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The day of the show we arrived at the studio at 8:30 and were ushered into waiting area one. We filled out paper work, got our iconic name tags and chatted with the pages (who really did look exactly like Kenneth Parcell that one time he worked at CBS). After 2 hours we were moved to the second waiting area where we…waited. and were constantly reminded by staff that anyone, anywhere could be a Price Is Right producer so you better behave if you want to win a car. This is probably just their way of bribing tired, cranky strangers to get along.
As hoped, our T-shirts got us a lot of attention – several people commented on how clever they were and they made for great conversation starters. Around hour 4 when we were finally interviewed by THEE all powerful producer our shirts did spark some silly banter between us and I thought for sure he would remember our cute little faces come "come on down" time.
After 5 hours of waiting we were finally let into the studio and yes, it was fabulous, tacky, magic. We were beyond excited when we were led to our seats in THE VERY FRONT ROW. The show started and the room erupted into chaos. The cheering and screaming and clapping was so out of control I couldn't even tell what was happening. It was thrilling and exhausting. As we watched the reactions of each person called down, called on stage, or told they had a chance to win "A NEW CAR" it became apparent to my sisters and I that being a contestant on this show required a level of crazy we did not ourselves possess.
Better luck next year right? And to all of my elderly and unemployed friends, the show will air mid October – look for us on TV!!!
I love it! I've always wanted to go on that show as well, so good for you three getting out there and doing it! Sounds like the three of you beauties were so lovely that they didn't want to waste you by making you contestants, they wanted you on air as much as possible! 😉 So fun!


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Body of Wicklow man identified in Welsh grave 36 years after disappearance
The body of Greystones born Conor Whooley was identified in a grave in a Welsh cemetery 36 years after his disappearance.
Whooley, who was residing in Rathmines Dublin at the time, disappeared at the age of 24 in August 1983.
The discovery of Conor's body came after his mother and brother Sean both provided DNA samples to aid with investigations taking place on both sides of the Irish Sea.
They had been encouraged to do so after watching RTE's Crimecall two years earlier when Gardaí made an appeal to families of long term missing people to provide DNA samples, which could be compared with unidentified bodies across Ireland and Britain.
After much testing, it was discovered that the body, which has laid unidentified in Menai Bridge Cemetery for 36 years, was Conor Whooley's.
Conor's brother Sean said – "This has really come as a bolt from the blue. For the first four or five years that Conor was missing we were hoping for a call, but 36 years later to get this news, it really came out of the blue.
"Conor is one of a family of seven, he's the third eldest. Our father passed away in 2015 still wondering what happened to Conor. Our mother is still hale and hearty, and it was she who gave DNA after seeing a report on RTÉ.
"It took two years from giving that sample to get this news. It is good that we finally know what happened to Conor."
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Q: Allure xml files created with steps. Index.html inside site folder is empty - Allure Maven TestNG I tried command mvn clean test site command to generate allure report. xml file inside allure-results folder is created properly with all steps. Howvever, index.html file inside site -> allure-maven-plugin folder is empty. There are no test case results displayed in Overview or any other sections available in Allure report. I am using Selenium WebDriver with Arquillian and TestNG.
Please find my POM file below:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>ABC</groupId>
  <artifactId>XYZ</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <properties>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      <version.org.jboss.arquillian>1.1.12.Final</version.org.jboss.arquillian>
      <version.org.jboss.arquillian.drone>2.1.0.Alpha1</version.org.jboss.arquillian.drone>
      <version.org.jboss.arquillian.graphene>2.1.0.Final</version.org.jboss.arquillian.graphene>
      <version.screenshooter>2.1.0.Final</version.screenshooter>
      <version.javax.mail>1.5.6</version.javax.mail>
      <jackson.version>2.7.0</jackson.version>
      <aspectj.version>1.8.3</aspectj.version>
      <allure.version>1.4.11</allure.version>
      <version.maven.surefire>2.19.1</version.maven.surefire>
   </properties>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
        <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
        <version>6.11</version>
    </dependency>
        <dependency>
        <groupId>ru.yandex.qatools.allure</groupId>
        <artifactId>allure-testng-adaptor</artifactId>
        <version>${allure.version}</version>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>junit</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>${jackson.version}</version>
    </dependency>
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.testng</groupId>
         <artifactId>arquillian-testng-standalone</artifactId>
         <scope>test</scope>
      </dependency>
    <dependency>
         <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.graphene</groupId>
         <artifactId>graphene-webdriver</artifactId>
         <version>${version.org.jboss.arquillian.graphene}</version>
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.graphene</groupId>
        <artifactId>arquillian-browser-screenshooter</artifactId>
        <version>${version.screenshooter}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
        <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
        <version>2.8.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.jsurfer</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsurfer-core</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.8</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.sun.mail</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.mail</artifactId>
        <version>${version.javax.mail}</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
  <dependencyManagement>
      <dependencies>
         <!-- Arquillian Core dependencies -->
         <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian</groupId>
            <artifactId>arquillian-bom</artifactId>
            <version>${version.org.jboss.arquillian}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
         </dependency>
         <!-- Arquillian Drone dependencies and WebDriver/Selenium dependencies -->
         <dependency>
            <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian.extension</groupId>
            <artifactId>arquillian-drone-bom</artifactId>
            <version>${version.org.jboss.arquillian.drone}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
         </dependency>
      </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>
   <build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${version.maven.surefire}</version>
            <configuration>
                <testFailureIgnore>false</testFailureIgnore>
                <argLine>
                    -javaagent:${settings.localRepository}/org/aspectj/aspectjweaver/${aspectj.version}/aspectjweaver-${aspectj.version}.jar
                </argLine>
                 <suiteXmlFiles>
                     <suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
                  </suiteXmlFiles>
                  <properties>
                    <property>
                        <name>listener</name>
                        <value>ru.yandex.qatools.allure.testng.AllureTestListener</value>
                    </property>
                  </properties>
            </configuration>
            <dependencies>
                <dependency>
                    <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
                    <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
                    <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
                </dependency>
            </dependencies>
          </plugin>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.6.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <source>1.8</source>
                <target>1.8</target>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
    </plugins>
   </build>
   <reporting>
        <excludeDefaults>true</excludeDefaults>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>ru.yandex.qatools.allure</groupId>
                <artifactId>allure-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/allure-reports/</outputDirectory>
                    <allureResultsDirectory>${basedir}/target/allure-results</allureResultsDirectory>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </reporting>
</project>

Please guide me. Thanks.

A: Above pom.xml works fine. Looks like default browser to view the report is Firefox. When opened in IE and chrome, index.html is shown empty.  Results are displayed in firefox browser. Need to find the way to change this default configuration.