(Liver cancer) passed away on 27th April 2011. He was a writer, translator, and tutor of puppet play. Zolfagari joined to Unima individually in 1974.
Since then, he became the consultant of executive board, member of UNIMA Asian and Pacific committee and member of Mobarak UNIMA (Iranian branch of UNIMA).
Mobarak UNIMA remembers the gentle spirit and helpful nature of Javad Zolfagari, and will always remember him as an exceptionally special and giving person. The funeral will be held on Saturday, 30April, 2011, at 10 AM in front of Vahdat Hall.
Zolfagari was born in 1952.His place of birth was Hamedan. After spending some years on learning English, painting and drawing, was accepted in Dramatic Faculty of Tehran University in 1972. He could obtain the M.A and graduated in 1978.
During his artistic activities, he experienced different field such as teaching, translating, directing and publishing related books."Almas Friends", "Hame Ba ham"(Everyone Together), "Boz –e- Zangule Pa", "Kado-Ghel-gheleh-zan", "Siyavash-Farangis" and "Alibaba and the Forty Thieves" are among his works. The last work of Zolfagari is called "Samak-E-Ayar" and still it is on stage.
Zolfagari estabilished a cultural and artistic institute called Norooz-e-Honar and started working as a publisher. Due to his influential role on theorical aspect of puppet play, he published "Kharamshir", "Boz –e- Zangule Pa", "Kado-Ghel-gheleh-zan", "Siyavash-Farangis", "Baziy-E-Pesar –Va-Gorg" (The Play of a Boy And a Wolf), "Dom Duz" . Additionally, he translated many works Such as Five Puppet Plays by Federico García Lorca, Using Performance to Make Politics and The Aesthetics of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal, Art of the Puppet by Bill Baird and My Profession by Sergey Obraztsov.
More over he became an editor of seasonal journal,named Tajir (For two Issues) .It was the first journal which was exclusively about puppetry and published during the International Puppet festivals.
Asian puppets, World Permanent Exhibition of dramatic art in Vahdat Hall and 16 research workshops on puppet play.
He also was a member of Society of puppeteers in Khane Teathre and office of puppet productions.
Finally, he was honoured to receive the first art degree from Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
Javad Zolfaghari is considered as a pioneer in the field of drama, writing and directing theater as well as teaching.


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Animals I Live With: Joshua Errett and his friend Boston
By Joshua October 26, 2018
Animals I Live With is an occasional series in which we profile people and their pets. Want to be featured? Get in touch here.
Joshua is a cofounder of Because Animals. He's been a lifelong cat person, and today he's talking about his cat Boston.
How many animals do you live with?
I live with three cats, but today I'm only talking about Boston, a senior, Medium Short Hair Cat who is all black except for a great white tip at the end of his tail. Boston is a wonderful guy but in my house, he gets the least amount of attention of anyone, which is why I wanted to pay tribute to him here.
Names, please.
Boston used to be called Austin. That was when we found him abandoned on the street, on the coldest night of an extremely cold winter. He was in rough shape, unfixed, and when I took him to the vet, they found he had a microchip, which is how I know he used to be called Austin.
I wanted to keep that name as a reminder of his past – specifically how he overcame the odds. However, a little boy across the street also has the name Austin so it became confusing for everyone involved. So we switched it to another state capital, based on the phonetic similarities and an autocorrect of his name once from a cat sitter.
Long answer to this question, eh?
How long have you known each other?
Five years.
How did you meet?
He came to our front door. When I saw him, this cool looking guy with a white tip on the tail, I thought for sure he was someone's cat. But after a couple visits to our door, it was clear he was abandoned. We tracked down his owner, who had moved and left him behind.
What's really sad is this cat was originally in a shelter. That's where the previous owner got him.
So he was homeless, got adopted, and then found himself homeless again. What a rough life – no animal deserves that. Humans failed him not once, but twice.
Knowing that, anything Boston wants, I do my best to get him.
Was it love at first site or do you recall the moment when you knew it was love?
Boston was pretty wild when we took him in. He was very very scared to be inside, and the vet said he likely was on the street for some time. I was off work at the time and spent a lot of time with him.
At that time, I thought I had enough cats in my house and I would be fostering Boston for a short time. I learned a couple lessons:
1) You can never have enough cats (as long as they all get along moderately well and it's not a symptom of mental distress/hoarding, which is no joke).
2) I could never let Boston leave again.
How do you guys best like to spend time together?
He likes cuddling – a lot. He sleeps on my pillow.
What's the funniest habit your pet has?
He just walks around the house grumbling. It's not chattering or meowing. It's honestly grumbling.
What's their most annoying habit?
To build a bit on the last answer, he is generally a very loud cat – grumbling, snoring, yawning, licking, scratching. Endless noise disturbances from this guy.
What is your pet's current state of mind?
He's still a stressball. Always worried if we'll feed him or if someone will hurt him. It's post-traumatic, I think, from being abandoned twice.
What makes your pet happiest?
He just likes to be near me. He goes to bed when I go to bed – not because he's tired, he sleeps all day, but just to be next to me. But I suppose he's also food-motivated if we're being honest.
What things do you do to keep your pet healthy or to optimize their health?
Boston struggles with his weight. I think it's from years of malnourishment or the effects of abandonment, but he is almost always looking to eat. It's very hard to keep his weight down because he's getting so old, and the diet food from the vet has horrible ingredients so we don't feed that stuff to him.
What does your morning routine with pet look like?
Grumbling starts around 6 am, and then he eats and goes out on the back porch to lie down.
And what about the bedtime routine?
He'll lie on the couch or somewhere else. Then when he hears me go to bed, he'll make his way up to sleep directly next to my head.
When you look deep into your pet's eyes, what do you think he/she is really thinking?
Sadly, I see fear. He needed a lot of love and care to be who he is today, but I can tell he is always wondering whether he will have to go back to living on the street. (He never, ever will.)
What does your pet dream about?
Probably about this blanket he loves in our living room. And food. I think he also has nightmares.
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Q: Reactsjs Hide button on certain paths I have a header
const Header = () => (

Sport shop

    Add a new shirt
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);

This is a common component but once I am on the route '/addshirt' I only want to show the back button. Similarly when I am in the homepage I only want to show the 'add a new shirt button'
I am suing react router
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          <Route exact path="/" component={home} />
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      </Router>

A: You can use the same <Route /> component for this! It renders the passed component or render function only if the <Route /> matches the given path.
Try something like
const Header = () => (

Sport shop

    <Route exact path="/" render={() => Add a new shirt} />
    <Route exact path="/addShirt" render={() => back to homepage} />

);

Also check out the docs for the Route component.

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280115Z CJTF82 Taliban Claims Harvest of Operations, Downing US Helicopter 26 Jul
On 27 July, "Murasil al-Fallujah" posted to the Al-Fallujah Islamic Minbar website a statement issued by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan-Taliban in which the group claimed responsibility for downing a US helicopter in Helmand Province. This operation is part of a harvest of operations against US and Afghani forces on 26-27 July 2007. A harvest of operations is a type of statement that compiles attacks carried out by a terrorist or insurgent group, usually covering all the attacks by that group within a specific time period. Some operations listed in the harvest could have been previously posted as individual statements. The statement was attributed to the spokesmen of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan-Taliban in the eastern and western areas of the country, Qari Muhammad Yusuf and Dhabihallah (mujahid). The Al-Fallujah Islamic Minbar at www.al-faloja.com is a jihadist forum that carries news and messages and posts statements about the jihadist groups in the Muslim world and about the insurgency in Iraq. A translation of the statement follows: "Peace be upon you, grace of God and his blessings. "This is the news report and harvest of military operations that were carried out by your brother mujahidin of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan-Taliban today Friday, 27 July 2007. "Downing a Helicopter of the American Enemy by Missile in Jarayshik District of Helmand Province "(Al-Hafiz/Muhammad Yusuf)--Yesterday the mujahidin of the Islamic Emirate [of Afghanistan] downed a helicopter of the American enemy. That was by an anti-aircraft missile launched from land. [The missile] directly hit the enemy helicopter in the Mirmindu area of Jarayshik District of Helmand Province. That resulted in downing the aircraft in the area controlled by the mujahidin. The enemy was not able to recapture the aircraft. Therefore, the war plane of the enemy bombarded the helicopter crash. That resulted in immediately killing all those who were on board. "Information: The spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan-Taliban "Qari Muhammad Yusuf Ahmadi for the southwestern and the northwestern areas of the country "Dhabihallah (mujahid) for the southeastern and the northeastern areas of the country "God is the greatest and honor belongs to Allah and His Messenger and to the Believers. "The Information Front of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan-Taliban"


The House plenum rejected on Friday, with 25 votes against and 23 for, the regulations providing for personalised car licence plates.
The bill, discussed by the House transport committee, was to allow car owners to acquire personalised licence plates through auction.
The owner of such a plate was to be allowed to use it on his or her vehicle or sell it to another person following approval by the authorities.
The licence plates were to be the same size as conventional ones and bear up to eight digits – numbers and letters –but not mixed, so that they were easy to read.
The measure was aimed at increasing the transport ministry funds through the purchase of theselicence plates.
Toward that end, Transport Minister Marios Demetriades issued a decree last year giving the opportunity to owners of unregistered vehicles to either bid on or directly choose and buy online the numbers of their licence platesfor €100. The decree concerned numbers only.
Plenty of chavtastic people in Cyprus as in the UK, so why not? It would raise gazillions into the coffers!
The Representatives are wise, and, perhaps, prescient, in rejecting vanity/personalized plates. One of the charges of corruption in the trial of an Illinois governor, not too long ago, was that he used his influence to ensure that donors to his reelection campaign got coveted vanity plates, instead of allowing the department of motor vehicles to make that decision unimpeded or to auction the plates off to the highest bidder. Why would the Esteemed Members of the House want to create yet another trap for themselves, when they keep falling in the existing ones, again and again and again?
Why not? If you saw a car leaving the scene of an accident with the number SAVVAS 1 you would have a far better chance of remembering it than several random letters and numbers.
The UK is by far the "worst", with the exception of the US maybe or Dubai, but yes, tons of money can be collected via this disguised chav-tax.
Only the vulgar consider it prestigious. But you're correct it's a missed opportunity, it's a tax by stealth on the vain and unclassy. Should it be encouraged? It highlights the number of tasteless people in a country which is detrimental but brings in the coffers. Which is needed most?


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UN Secretary General calls for leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency
United Nations Secretary General at the Climate Ambition Conference called for all leaders to declare a climate emergency.
While previously aknowledging that we have a climate emergency, this is the first time Antonio Guterres has called for all Government leaders to declare a climate emergency.
The pandemic has cancelled this years UN climate change conference - COP26 - scheduled for Glasgow December 2020. But an online conference of leaders was organised to mark the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement: the Climate Ambition Summit.
Antonio Guiterres told the summit: "I call on leaders worldwide to declare a State of Climate Emergency in their countries until carbon neutrality is reached.
"Five years after the Paris Agreement, we are still not going in the right direction.
"Let's make the promise of a net zero world a reality."
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The Australia Clause and Kyoto Carryover Credits demystified
Worth watching this for demystification of The Australia clause and Australia's Kyoto Credits.
Close your ears children for an Honest Australien Government ad on use of Kyoto Carryover Credits.
No, really. This really does cut through all the bullshit and explain how Australia has cheated the global community, and ourselves, for ther last 23 years.
Most other countries see through the bullshit. While they have set targets to actually reduce emissions, Auustralia was allowed to increase our emissions. No wonder Scott Morrison was not given an invite to speak at Climate Ambition Summit tonight (1am-6am) when Australia offers exactly zero ambition.
Thanks The Juice Media for an excellent piece of demystification
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5 Year Fossil Awards - the Paris Agreement Five years on and Australia
It's been five years since the UNFCCC climate conference in Paris in 2015. Five years of annual conferences. Five years of Fossil of the Day awards at those conferences. The year of pandemic has thrown a curve ball to annual negotiations with COP26 due to be held in Gasgow right now delayed to 2021.
Nations have continued to push ambition even during this pandemic year. Co-convened by the United Nations, the United Kingdom and France, and in partnership with Chile and Italy, have decided to hold a Climate Ambition Summit, a digital event.
The Climate Action Network provided its own alternative Fossil of the 5 years special event too.
11 December 2020: Five years after the Paris Agreement, countries continue to outdo each other at being best in doing the worst to fight the climate crisis. But some are always better than others (hint: surprise they haven't been invited to the Paris Agreement Birthday Party).
Through a fair and democratic voting process (that required no recounts), Climate Action Network, the world's largest network of 1,300 civil society organisations working on climate change in over 130 countries, chose the USA as the overall winner of the Colossal Fossil of Five Years to mark the 5th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement. USA also won a second Fossil Award for Not Providing Finance and Support. Australia won a Fossil Award for Not Honoring the 1.5°C Commitment, and Brazil won two Fossil Awards for Not Protecting People from Climate Impacts and Not Listening to the People and Shrinking Civic Space.
USA: Colossal Fossil of Five Years
Let's be honest, the USA has never been the loudest cheerleader for climate action. In some ways President Trump simply said the quiet parts aloud. 'America First' has always been the north star guiding the US' official line in international climate talks, like when verbally bulldozing proposals for climate compensation and finance for Loss and Damage to vulnerable countries, arm-twisting poorer nations into accepting weak climate targets from rich countries and flexing their diplomatic muscle to break or make deals, all the while with handshakes and smiles. Until….2016.
A Colossal Fossil of Five Years can never capture the depths of ineptitude and damage of the Trump years: from amplifying climate denialism, to dismantling domestic environmental policies to undermining progress in multilateral spaces like the UNFCCC, the IPCC, the G20 & G7 and the GCF.
USA: Fossil for Not Providing Finance and Support
In the Trump years, the USA has been particularly stingy on finance for climate action. Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement was bad enough but the USA used its bully pulpit to obstruct finance to developing countries. By ceasing all finance to the Green Climate Fund (inspiring other countries like Australia) it deprived millions of people in poor countries critical resources to adapt to the climate crisis. Funding to the IPCC was also summarily halted, unsurprisingly some might say, by an anti-science administration.
So when it comes to climate change, 'America First' only means the USA's outsized lead as the largest historical carbon emitter. To be clear, this is not a fossil award to the American people. We salute them for voting out a climate denier! Polls consistently show Americans want a climate-safe future and President-elect Biden must act on this mandate. He must take a seat at the international table and ensure the US does its fairshare on cutting its domestic emissions drastically by 2030 and substantially increasing international finance. Rejoining the Paris Agreement and recommitting money to the Green Climate Fund will be the starting steps in this new journey. It is time for the wealthiest nation to put the planet and all its people first.
Australia: Fossil for Not Honoring the 1.5°C Commitment
Before Scott Morrison became Australian Prime Minister, he once brandished a lump of coal in parliament. That was in 2017, when he accused his opponents of having a "pathological fear of coal". A few short years later, the only pathological behaviour remains his government's ongoing infatuation with fossil fuels when the rest of the world has moved on. As the largest exporter of coal and gas, Australia's federal government has done virtually nothing over the past five years to tackle the climate emergency. The government's woefully inadequate 2030 Paris Agreement target is in line with a catastrophic 3°C rise. And it has tried to cheat by using carryover credits from the Kyoto Protocol to meet around half of it. The Australian government has refused to set a national long term target (net zero by 2050)despite every State and Territory of Australia having now set a long term net zero climate target. Australia's current emission reduction trend will reach net-zero in 300 years! And to top it all, Australia has withdrawn funding entirely from the Green Climate Fund.
The world watched swathes of Australia's bush burn last summer contributing to significant biodiversity loss and impacting the most vulnerable people. Besides stinking up the planet, Australia appears to be reneging on acommitment to net zero emissions made to Pacific Island Neighbours in October 2019. How does Australia face its Pacific Island neighbours, many of whom will be displaced in the next two-to-three decades unless we scale up efforts to limit global warming to 1.5°C? Australia must get sensible fast otherwise the Morrsion government is staring at a dark legacy of climate inaction. Will future generations have to view plastic replicas of the Great Barrier Reef in a museum of climate horrors alongside stuffed mounts of the critically endangered Mountain Pygmy Possum?
Brazil: Fossil for Not Protecting People from Climate Impacts
An alarming climate tipping point could happen much sooner than expected when the dense, green canopy of the Amazon rainforest turns into a dry open savannah, an irreversible process that is being hastened by increasing fires and logging. The policies of "Chainsaw" Bolsonaro have ensured that the '"Cooler of the Planet"' is now a scarred, choking mess. This year's fires are among the worst in ten years with a 14% increase in fires compared to the already catastrophic figures from last year. The world's largest tropical wetland, the Pantanal, was consumed by flames this year, wrecking the lives of Indigineous communities there and all its biodiversity. Things look grim in Brazil as Bolsonaro offers concessions to agribusiness and mining magnates, turns his back on Indigenous communities and repeatedly denies climate change. Just to prove the point, Brazil has pledged over 70% of funding under its existing energy plan to fossil fuels and has extended subsidies to offshore oil exploitation until 2040!
Brazil: Fossil for Shrinking Civil Space
Despite tough competition from Russia, Brazil was voted for a fossil for its escalating crackdown on civil society groups resisting its regressive policies and fighting for the rights of Indigenous communities. A leaked document shows Brazil's military plans to control "100% of NGOs working in the Amazon" and is set to advance policies to starve NGOs of funding. It is no wonder that Brazil ranks number three in the world for the murder of environmental defenders. "Civil society, despite being threatened in Brazil, must strengthen itself to pressure, nationally and internationally, for effective emission reduction measures, to preserve our forests and protect Indigenous Peoples", said Nayara Castiglioni Amaral, general coordinator of Engajamundo, a Brazilian youth organization.
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About the fossils: The Fossil of the Day awards were first presented at the climate talks in 1999, in Bonn, initiated by the German NGO Forum. During United Nations climate change negotiations (www.unfccc.int), members of the Climate Action Network (CAN), vote for countries judged to have done their 'best' to block progress in the negotiations in the last days of talks.
About CAN: The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 1,300 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in more than 120 countries working to promote government and individual action to limit human0induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. www.climatenetwork.org
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By studying algae reports from different localities of the country during the past 87 years, about 6000 records information including 2567 species and infra-specifics were analyzed and distribution maps were drawn. The algae studies in the Iranian islands of the Persian Gulf, especially around Bushehr and the Khark Island by Borgesen (1930), the oldest available document is used in this study. Many of the scientific names of the references used were synonyms with authorities in the field of algae taxonomy, such as AlgaeBase (Guiry & Guiry 2015) were changed to valid names.
Using the capabilities VB.Net programming (Foxall 2015) under a model of software named as "Explorer for Algae of Iran" was designed and developed.
با بررسی گزارش‌های معتبر از جلبک‌های نقاط مختلف کشور طی 87 سال اخیر، اطلاعات حدود 6000 رکورد دربرگیرنده تعداد 2567 گونه جلبک مورد ارزیابی قرار گرفت و نقشه پراکنش آن‌ها ترسیم گردید. هدف اصلی در این پژوهش، طراحی یک ابزار تحقیق برای پاسخگویی به پرسش‌های می‌باشد.


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Wrecked (a short story about my car accident)
"Are you sure you don't want to do delivery?" My brother-in-law asked me while holding out his phone. "I have Walmart Plus, delivery is free."
I pursed my lips in contemplation.
"Nah, that's okay," I decided. "I want to make sure I have it in time and it's really not hard to pick it up."
He shrugged and left me to revel in the post-pandemic convenience of loading a shopping cart from my phone. It was my first time as a mother slogging through the long list of back-to-school supplies. I had never even heard the word "Ticonderoga" before.
The order would be ready soon. I was scheduled to pick it up between four and five PM. I thoroughly distracted myself reading about a true crime on my phone until it was now-or-never. The boys were sitting on Jack's bed playing a tablet together. In the back of my mind, I had already said 'yes' and buckled them in if they asked to come with me. They did not.
"Mommy's running to the store to get Jack's school stuff. It'll be super quick and I'll be right back."
"Bye Mommy."
Brother-in-law was on the downstairs couch, binging Stranger Things and holding the baby.
"I'm picking up the Walmart order, I'll be back in ten."
"Sounds good," he said through a big yawn.
I jangled keys, slid on flip flops and buckled myself into my silver Dodge Caravan. Mystery crumbs carpeted the floor mats and several Matchbox cars rattled to one side as I turned wide onto Higley. I scanned through the radio looking for that perfect Sunday afternoon classic rock song. My cruising speed was 45-50, the standard speed limit of the extra wide Arizona roads.
I was only a couple of minutes away from my destination when a VW crossover pulled up to the stop sign of a neighborhood side street. The gray VW began to roll forward and then stopped roughly. The hairs on my arms stood and a primal instinct inside of me sensed danger like a deer hearing a twig snap in the woods.
"Don't pull out," I said aloud to the car.
And then it did. That silver VW swung out directly in front of me. My hand slammed on the horn, and I stomped the pedal to the floor. My brakes gave a panicked squeal but there was no distance to save me. The side of the VW came into full view of my windshield and then cut to pure white like an instant transition in a movie.
Somehow, I didn't feel the impact. I completely disassociated from my body in that split second, as if I were watching the accident from behind the eyes of a camera. I was vaguely aware of a jolt and pitch, not to mention the horrifying crunch that is unique to car wrecks. But I was helplessly out of my body.
The airbags deflated with a loud hiss, and I came to. Cracks webbed my windshield. The unique smell from the airbags was something I had never experienced before. It was a cross between fireworks and hot pavement.
A middle-aged man with glasses approached me. My hands were shaking as I undid my seat belt. I reached for my door handle and noticed that the airbags had skinned a chunk of my arm. The car door had to be opened with a bit of force on my part, but I was able to step out and meet the man in the middle of our two smashed cars.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"I think so, I just have a cut here." I showed him the large friction burn on my arm. "But I'm okay."
I didn't dare look back at my car. My stunned expression gazed in every other direction.
"What do we do?" I asked the man.
"We call the police," he said.
Right, yeah. I had never been in a situation like this before and felt completely out of my element.
"Okay. You call the police," I said. "I'll call my husband."
He walked away from me putting his phone by his ear. I called Daniel who was working only a few blocks away.
"Baby, I just got into a very serious car accident."
"… are you serious? Are you hurt?"
"Mostly just cuts and bruises I think," I said. "But the car is done. The airbags went off and everything."
"Um, a little way onto Southern. Like… Like a little past Higley. Like a couple of blocks." I could hear the shakiness in my voice despite my best effort to stay calm.
"Okay, I'll be right there."
"Thank you." I said with such a relief.
I met the man in the middle of the road, and he informed me that the police were on their way. He then walked to the driver's side of the VW and opened the door.
"Alright. Come out," he said.
A wiry, young girl slid from behind the deployed airbag of the driver's seat. She couldn't have been more than sixteen. Her curly loose ponytail draped over a green volunteer shirt from a local Christian church. She kept her eyes on the road, not daring to look at me as I dared not to look at my car.
I had the strongest human urge to hug her. Not out of forgiveness or reassurance, or even for her at all, but for myself. I was so shaken that I needed an embrace from anybody, even the stranger who had caused my situation. Not hugging that student driver would later become a life regret to me.
"I don't think either one of our cars are driveable," the man said.
"Yeah," I said even though I still refused to turn and see.
"Let's get out of the road here."
We shuffled onto the sidewalk.
As I stood there staring at the blinking hazard lights of the back of my car, I debated what to say. Due to my chronic apologizing, my husband had thoroughly trained me to never say the word 'sorry' at the scene of a crash as that would technically be admitting fault. I couldn't think of a single other thing to say so I came out with:
"Wow, crazy how fast your whole day can change, huh?"
"Yup," he responded with the irritated tone of a father.
The girl continued to stare at her feet. Her hands white-knuckle clasped in front of her.
"Here, let's go over here," he said to her, ushering her with a hand on her back.
As they walked away from me, I started to feel my foot. Pain. And a lot of it. I finally looked down and checked out the injuries on my body. Huge welts and bruises covered my shins and knees. More friction burns. My right foot that had floored the brake was beginning to swell.
I sat on the curb to take the pressure off, watching the traffic jam as cars slowly navigated around my van and its front bumper in the middle of the road. The VW looked mostly okay besides a bent back wheel and the airbags. I found that irritating. That their car would make it out better than mine.
The dad came back over to me as I re-examined the injuries on my legs.
"Are you sure you're okay?" he asked.
"Uh…" I turned my foot. "I think so. My foot might be broken, I'm not sure. I can't tell with the adrenaline."
Dan's black Honda pulled in, just before the cop cars did. The constant grief I give him about prioritizing work, and he had beaten the police to the scene.
The father left me to talk to the officers and I hobbled toward my husband. I threw my arms around his bright turquoise scrubs and broke down into tears.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I cried. He held me tight. Tight, tight.
"Hey," he said softly. "You look pretty beat up. Come sit down."
He jogged over to his car, opened the passenger side door and turned on the AC. I was grateful for the little added touch since the temperature was 113 degrees outside.
I sat in the car and could really feel myself shaking now. Dan jumped into the driver's side. He had tears in his eyes.
"I'm so sorry about the car," I choked out.
He shook his head. "I don't care about that. I really don't."
By then an officer arrived at the window. He was a younger, nice-looking guy. He asked about my injuries first if I remember correctly. Which I reiterated that I thought I was okay but couldn't tell because of the adrenaline. And then he asked for my side of the story.
As I listened to myself tell what happened to the cop, I realized that there was nothing I could have done differently. Nothing about it was my fault. And I had acted on the best-case scenario. If I had tried to dodge her rather than hit her head on, I could've swerved into oncoming traffic, a cement wall or even have seriously injured the teenage driver.
The officer and I bounced back and forth with questions and answers.
"How fast were you going?"
"45, 50? Whatever the speed limit on the road is."
"So just your normal cruising speed. Were you in this near lane here?"
"Yeah, I was, because I was headed to Walmart so I wanted to be able to turn from there."
"Okay." He had a resolute sound in his voice, and I could see on his face that it was pretty clear who was at fault for the accident.
"Do you want us to call paramedics for you?"
"Uhhh…" I looked at my foot again. It was starting to turn purple already. "I don't know," I said hesitating.
"She just had a baby," Dan said, his voice trembling. "She just had a baby a few weeks ago and I'm worried about internal bleeding."
The cop nodded sympathetically. "Let's just call them as a precaution. And if nothing is wrong then great. But at least we can get them here to take some vitals and check you out."
"Alright," I agreed, feeling sort of stressed out about not knowing whether I had an injury to warrant paramedics.
The firetruck arrived fast I remembered. I think Dan and I talked a little before they came. He told me that my brother-in-law had reacted very sweet to the whole thing. After we told him about the accident, he called my husband and told him NOT to chew me out if it were my fault. He wouldn't have anyway. Well, not in the moment probably.
The firetruck arrived and a group of paramedics showed up at the side of my car. They took my blood pressure, asked me simple questions, and examined my injuries. They wanted to know if I could move my foot, if I walked away from the crash site, if I had any numbness or tingling. I also remember they asked me to pull down my shirt to check if the seatbelt or upper airbag did any damage to my chest. Thankfully there was nothing.
They told me I had "textbook blood pressure". As in perfectly normal healthy blood pressure. Which was impressive considering that I was shaking like a freaking leaf. They said everything seemed fine, but they didn't have the equipment to x-ray or check anything internally.
"Do you want us to call an ambulance for you?"
No. That sounds expensive as hell.
"I really think I'm okay. I was mostly worried about my foot."
I felt like apologizing. Sorry for wasting your time with my mild injuries. Sorry I didn't break a leg.
Dan leaned over. "I can take her to the hospital if she needs to go."
The kind paramedic shifted his gaze to me. "Do you feel like you need to go?" he asked.
I groaned internally. I had just endured a sixty plus hour labor with my daughter and really had no interest in sitting in a crinkly hospital bed ever again.
"I think I'm okay," I said. I really did feel okay.
The paramedic looked back at Daniel. "If things get worse, you can always take her in."
They talked me through a few things. Icing my injuries and all that. I was warned that my injuries would feel even worse the next day. Oh goodie. And I was also told that my neck and back would probably be stiff and pained. I then had to sign something that stated they had offered an ambulance and I had said no.
Then it was a waiting game for the tow truck to take my lovely van away.
The firefighters asked me if there was anything valuable in the car that I needed. I said no at first but then they started listing off things. "No keys? Purse? Car seats?"
"Oh! Car seats! Yes!"
I watched as one by one, those firemen brought the car seats out of the car. And that turned out to be one of the most beautiful sights of my life. Three empty car seats. Three car seats that had no children in them during the accident. My children and my newborn baby were safe at home.
I suddenly was filled with a joy that is difficult to express. I realized what could have been and what was. My kids were safe. I was not going to the hospital. The young driver was alive and didn't need the paramedics to look at her. I had been gifted a moment of a close call. Instead of having a smashed-up car and bruised legs, I had a deep appreciation for my life. For my children's safety. For my husband's profound care for me. For the strangers around me and their safety.
I had just been in a severe car wreck. But strangely so, after the firefighters removed the car seats, I smiled the entire trip home.
12 Thoughts I Had Watching Stranger Things Season 4
October 6, 2022 August 23, 2022 valmanwill1 Comment
Spoilers obviously. Because I'm too lazy to edit myself.
1. I like Eddie. But probably because he is straight ten under that Glam Metal wig. Haha hey Doja Cat ain't wrong.
2. There are too many antagonists to keep track of. We got The Russians, Russian demogorgon, Russian demodogs, Russian peanut butter smuggler, Brennar, Sullivan, Brennar's men, Sullivan's men, Vecna, the serial killer from the 50s, the serial killer that turns out to be Henry that turns out to be 001 that turns out to be Vecna, Angelica, the entire skating rink for some reason, the other psychic kids at the lab, Jason, the basketball team, the angry hicks, bats, vines, vague mind flayer references, Will's haircut.
3. The way the Duffer Bros does bullies is so weird to me. Remember in season one when the kid forced Mike to jump to his death or else he'd cut out Dustin's teeth with a pocket knife (like holy sh*t what haha)
4. I don't know who I want to complain more about, Jason or Sullivan… Alright Jason.
5. What the eff is this guy doing? I totally get being upset about your girlfriend's murder but breaking into people's houses with baseball bats, buying guns and tormenting little girls at the playground are not it bro. IMHO I think Jason should've just been a normal non-asshole kid who is trying to solve his girlfriend's murder and gets caught up in the cult theory. It still could have culminated to the showdown with Lucas at the end and it would have been more intense stakes vs annoying af.
6. My favorite thing about Jason is how much of a better suspect he would have been over Eddie. He has connections to two of the victims. His attempts to pin things on Munson are SO over the top and violent. The police quite literally find him at the scene of the crime. And yet when he incites a riot of townspeople they're like 'This is fine.' LOL Just reiterating, it would've been far more interesting to have him be a normal kid trying to clear his name instead of an irritating little 💩
7. Also the interpersonal conflict between protagonists is sooooo stale. Literally the only conflict is "You don't romantically love me as much as I romantically love you." It's boooooring. I'm booooooored. Can't they do two characters disagreeing on a plan? Or like some misunderstanding? Maybe Steve or Nancy really believes Eddie is bad news like idk please anything else.
8. Most of the original characters are so blah now. I find Will to be a tragically underused character. Here is someone who literally lived and survived in the Upside Down for months, was connected into the hive mind, and yet no one comes to him for advice or seems to care about him in general. In season one, they repeatedly talked about how he was the smartest of the kids, but in seasons three and four he spends all his screen time crying.
9. The Russian storyline is kinda stupid… but not as stupid as the season 3 Russian base under the mall. THE. MALL. "Wherre should we poot top secrret base?" "How about underrneath public place with hundreds of civilian fooot trraffic?" HAHAHA remember how they discovered it too? They heard the damn kiddie carousel in the background of the Russian transmission. Why would the carousel be audible in the transmission!?!? Was he riding it while he recorded it? THE MALL BASE PLOT IS SO STUPID.
10. Is it just me or did Robin's personality completely invert?? Like last season she was a snarky genius who learned Russian in a day or whatever (lawls). But this season she's been reduced to this ditzy "Oh noooooo but what if I trip!?!?!?" I mean idk maybe I don't remember her in last season very well.
11. Wait WHAT!?!?!? What do you mean Jamie Campbell Bower did the Vecna voice with no alterations. What??? WHAT??? How is that range humanly possible? Here I'll link a video you can see how talented he is. https://youtube.com/shorts/kbUnmdCHcX4?feature=share
12. R U serious? Those mother-duffers always kill off the best ones. Can't wait to see Eddie come back as a vampire next season.


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Willis: Late-afternoon fireworks kickstart the Masters
Ken Willis @HeyWillieNJ
AUGUSTA, GA. — For so much of the day, it looked like the pin-setters had dulled the first round of the Masters into a numbing affair, with legions of golfers bunched together with 69s and 70s in the upper reaches of the scoreboard.
Sensing softer grounds due to recent rains, the pins were apparently placed in devilish spots in an effort to put some fear into the world's best golfers. It worked for a while.
But the late-afternoon pairings were stacked with fire power, and by day's end the onlookers were treated to one of the splashiest opening rounds in recent memory.
Normally, the northern-most rungs of the leaderboard include one or more gate-crashers, golfers previously unknown except to your nearest golf nerd. Not this time.
READ MORE: It's Tiger, Rory and all the rest
Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka, with their own brands of uniqueness, played late and played remarkably. Each had four-birdie streaks on the back nine and shot 66 to share the lead.
DeChambeau is the man who has turned golf into a physics calculation, though he has much more emotional fire than your average scientist. His final three holes included a near-ace on 16, a chip-in birdie on 17, a near deuce on 18 from the fairway.
"What a magical back nine," said DeChambeau, who also birdied 12 and 13 before a bogey on 14.
Magical, maybe, but never easy, he's learned in just two previous Masters attempts.
"No, you're always on the tip of your toes out here," he said.
Koepka is the guy who just wins majors — or so it seems — and does it with the calm confidence of, well, a scientist.
Again Thursday, as he's shown in winning two U.S. Opens and a PGA over the past two seasons, he delivered that rare gift of a heavyweight's punch from the tee and a jeweler's touch around the greens. A short but slippery birdie putt slid by the edge on 18 and kept him from 65 and the outright lead.
"I just enjoy the big stage, I enjoy the major championships," he plainly explained. "That's what you're remembered by."
You need more names on the early-Masters marquee? How about Phil Mickelson next in line at 5-under 67? The three-time Masters winner, now 48, is presumably aiming at June and the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, his next chance to finally win the one major that has eluded him. But now he's re-entered the Masters discussion after being mostly a non-factor since his 2010 win.
And right behind Lefty is Dustin Johnson, like Koepka a golfer who can overwhelm at times with his combination of length and touch. DJ's 68 was matched by plucky Ian Poulter, the British Ryder Cup horse who's now 43 and looking for chances to take a run at his first major championship. So far, so good.
Of everyone at or near the top, DeChambeau is the most intriguing.
A lot is made of Augusta National demanding a healthy dose of imagination from its participants. The angles, contours and speedy track have always suggested that a paint-by-numbers approach is doomed. But there was never a better A-to-B-to-C golfer than Jack Nicklaus, who counted six Masters (and four runners-up) among his 18 majors.
DeChambeau is no Nicklaus, at least not now, and that's no crime, of course. But he's also no Seve or Lefty or Bubba, multiple Masters winners whose jazz-musician approaches to golf — often by necessity — are far removed from DeChambeau's analytical ("mad scientist," some suggest) way of getting the ball from here to there.
One pure-Augusta feature he does bring to the Masters, however, is a love of the game's history, much of which has been written on this pine-draped acreage.
"It's an honor to play here," he said Thursday.
It's also a challenge, which he knows and some others had confirmed Thursday.
Among golf's truest truths, there's this: You can't win the tournament on Thursday, but you can lose it. Some likely did, including World No. 1 Justin Rose, who shot 75, as did three-time major champ Jordan Spieth, while World No. 11 Paul Casey shot 81.
Tiger Woods definitely didn't lose it. Golf's leading man shot 70 but it could've been a bit lower if not for a few short putts that skittered off line.
"I feel very good," Tiger said afterward. "I feel like I played well and I controlled my golf ball all day. I've shot this number and won four coats, so hopefully I can do it again."
Um, three. Tiger's first three Masters wins came after opening with a 70, the fourth began with a 74. But when you have four Masters among 14 majors, you're forgiven for losing count.
Now, as much as everyone wants to remain focused on the leader and chasers, the weatherman will join the discussion. A chance of rain Friday gives way to better chances (worse?) on Saturday and an even higher-percentage chance Sunday, and the word "thunderstorms" is included in the forecast.
Rain can often be managed; lightning clears the course.
With their futuristic methods of drying rain-softened greens and maintaining near-flawless fairways, the lords of Augusta have found ways to control so many facets of a golf tournament. A game plan to stiff-arm the thunderclouds, however, remains off their radar.
For now, anyway.
Reach Ken Willis at ken.willis@news-jrnl.com


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1. Access information efficiently and effectively. 2. Evaluate information critically and competently. 3. Use information accurately and creatively.
4. Pursue information related to personal interests. 5. Appreciate literature and other creative expressions of information. 6. Strive for excellence in information seeking and knowledge generation.
Creating a web page hunt will allow others to topics A Large Collection of treasure hunts Internet Scavenger about creating and using scavenger hunts to teach.
Students investigate the impact of posters during WWII. Activities, focus questions. Requires Internet access. Video available. From Discovery.com.
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Academy One : It is an international online educational resource for students, educators, parents and administrators of grades kindergarten through twelve. Come check the calendar for special events and look for student projects. The Animabets : Question: What do you get if you cross the alphabet with a bunch of fun animals? Answer: The Animabets. This is a fun, education web site for children. It provides safe, wholesome activities and games to teach basic subjects. Each of the animabets characters are uniquely designed to cover an individual topic with their own personality. For example, Boris Bear is an exercise instructor, Claude Camel is a cook, etc. As kids visit and interact with these characters, they identify and learn from their favorites. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations : Can search for them by looking for key words! Britannica Online : Answer the question of the moment, do serious research, or satisfy your curiosity!
Jefferson Elementary School is a Louisiana Challenge Grant Site. It received Professional Improvement and Competitive Grants for three consecutive years to enhance a Professional Development Program. INTRODUCTION Throughout the developmental training, (1996-97) DEVELOPMENTAL TRAINING teachers were demonstrating and presenting methodologies and using on-line resources to enhanced their classroom delivery. During the second year,(1997-98) we focused on refining these methodologies as well as training teachers to create Web-based instructional activities to bring back to their classrooms. Web-based instructional activities provided the structured vehicles for content learning as well as for methodology. The instructional models used in this training, Activity Formats (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/formats.html) , provided developmentally appropriate experiences that progressed from open exploration tasks (HOTLISTS) , to knowledge-building tasks (TREASURE HUNTS) , to problem solving tasks (WEBQUESTS) , while transposing teacher-learners from beginners to experienced web-based teachers, one-step at a time.
teach students how to cite internet resources. web Quests guide groups of students in longer activities using web sites to complete the tasks treasure hunts.
Question: How do I use the Internet in my classroom? Answer: There are many ways to use the internet. The best ways for your situation depend on your computer skills, and the hardware and software available. Browse through these ideas.
This is the most common way of using the internet in most secondary schools. Students are asked to find information on a subject they are researching and spend hours trying to find the right web page. Here are some hints to make this work better.
WWW4teachers, teachnology. Schoolworld Internet Education - Projects, Educational web Adventures - a must!!!!! KidLink, Cyberbee treasure hunts.
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• The Net Users Guidelines and Netiquette http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/index.html This site really deals with user responsibility in having access to vast services, sites, systems and people on the Internet. The user is ultimately responsible for his/her actions in accessing network services and it is important that teachers know and understand their responsibilties not only as personal users but when their students are users as well.
Presentations are a part of teaching. When students pictures that do with words, they have a much better idea of what to do. That's one reason to use a presentation program such as PowerPoint. When you are finished with this part o the course, you will have created a presentation that you can use in your classroom.


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Kowloon Junior School Parent Teacher Association Limited
The Kowloon Junior School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is non-profit organization. Its purpose is to facilitate close cooperation and contact between KJS parents and teachers to support student's general welfare. As with other ESF parent teacher associations, our PTA has been incorporated as a limited company by guarantee and granted non-profit organization status by the government.
The PTA manages and operates the uniform shop on Perth Street and reflects parental concerns to the School and/ or the English Schools Foundation. It also provides a forum for discussion of educational issues. The PTA also raises funds to purchase of equipment for the enhancement of children's learning where funding is not supplied by ESF.
As defined in the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Kowloon Junior School Parent Teacher Association Limited, there are three classes of members: Parent, Teaching Staff and Principal membership.
Membership PTA Committee Members for 2017-2018
Parent Name Student name Class Position
Saloni Melwani
(Anjana Daryanani) Serena Melwani
Saria Melwani
Riaan Melwani
Anna Royton
Raytpm Sasha
Suzanne Yiu Ayden Au 2B Vice Chair
Pooja Daryanani Aakash Daryanani 5D Secretary
Carmen Chong Ethan Poon 5M Treasurer
Teacher Name Position
Neill O' Reilly Principal
Jane Parker Teacher
Ciarian Fay Teacher
Greta Holmes Teacher
Zoe Brinkworth Market & Design
Each Parent is automatically a Parent Member. Each Parent Member is entitled to receive notice of, attend and vote on all general meetings, provided that each family will only have one vote, regardless of the number of the students the family has in the School. The membership of any Parent Member who no longer has a child as a KJS student shall terminate automatically without notice unless they retain membership in any other capacity.
The Teachers shall automatically become Teaching Staff Members by virtue of their appointment at the School. Each Teaching Staff Member is entitled to receive notice of, attend and vote at all general meetings. Each Teaching Staff Member shall have one vote. The membership of any Teaching Staff Member shall cease automatically upon termination of their employment as a Teacher unless they retain membership in another capacity.
The Principal shall automatically become the Principal Member by virtue of his appointment at the School. The Principal Member shall be entitled to receive notice of, attend and vote at all general meetings. The Principal Member shall have one vote. The membership of the Principal Member shall cease automatically upon termination of their appointment as the Principal unless they retains membership in another capacity.
A Parent who is also a Teacher shall be regarded as a Parent Member and not as a Teaching Staff Member. The Principal shall be regarded as the Principal Member even if they are also a Parent.
By virtue of the ESF Ordinance, the annual membership fee is payable by the Parent Members of the PTA. The membership fee for the KJS PTA is HK$400 per family per year, payable by the parent during the first month of the academic year, or where a student is admitted to the School during the course of the school year, at the time at which the school fee for the first month following the student's admission to the School becomes payable. Payment can be made by cheque payable to the "Kowloon Junior School PTA Ltd.".
Recent Projects Undertaken by PTA
Over the past few years, the KJSPTA has contributed to the following:
Increasing the New Uniform Items
Extending The Shop Opening Hours
Providing more Family Events
We are always looking for parents volunteers. It is a great way to connect with other parents and get to know KJS better. If you are interested to help out in any events, please send us an email to let us know.
PTA Uniform Shop
The PTA also operates a uniform shop. The opening hours are:
From Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. & 2:30p.m. to 3:30p.m.(Excluded school & Public holiday)
In order to minimize the wait to purchase uniforms at the shops, parents are encouraged to place their uniform orders in advance by sending in a cheque, together with the completed order form, to the PTA office. Parents will be notified by phone when their uniform order is ready to be picked up in person. Should you wish your child/children to take the school uniform order home, please mark it on the order form (near the parent signature area). Please note that the PTA takes no responsibility for any loss or damages incurred.
PTA Administrator: Ms. Naomi Chow
PTA Administrator: Ms. Candy So
Kowloon Junior School, 20 Perth Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong
We would like to know your thoughts – we welcome comments and suggestions from all PTA members. Please send them to the Chairperson via the PTA's email address: pta@kjs.edu.hk


ProCrystal™ protein crystallization covers are designed for high throughput protein x-ray crystallography in 96-well plates. The ProCrystal material is extremely hydrophobic to maintain drop footprint and segregation, even with protocols using MPD, glycerol or detergents.
The ProCrystal cover is also UV compatible with the highest optical quality available. Our stringent manufacturing process and quality control ensure clean, particle-free material shipped ready to use. Our protein crystallization covers are available in uncut, or pre-cut format that allows removal of covers from individual wells at different times.
Protein crystallization is a key assay for structural studies of proteins. The protocols for crystallization of protein are challenging due to the stringent requirement for pure samples and control of environmental conditions during the crystallization process. Vapor diffusion using hanging drop is a preferred method for obtaining quality crystals with high throughput. This protocol requires a coverslip (or protein crystallization cover) on which a drop of protein solution is placed on top of a reagent reservoir. The progression of crystal formation is observed through the cover, and then the cover is removed to capture the crystals. This process is often conducted in multiwell (96-well) plate format for high throughput screening.
Grace Bio-Labs has collaborated with leading crystallographers to develop the ProCrystal™ protein crystallization covers using materials with the highest optical quality and stringent manufacturing processes to ensure clean, particle-free covers. Our protein crystallization covers are compatible with SBS-compliant microtiter plates and TTP Mosquito® Instruments.
For other products used in Protein Crystalization see the HybriSlip Hypridization Covers.


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Q: Populate current date time using XSLT 2.0 I am trying to convert XML to another XML using XSLT 2.0. Below is the code that I am using.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:eof="http://style.rbsfm.com/EnrichODCFeed"
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0"
            xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions">
 <xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:element name="tradeArrivalTime">
            <xsl:value-of  select="fn:current-date()"/>
        </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
 </xsl:stylesheet>

On Testing this XSL using Junit , I am getting below Error
(Location of error unknown)javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Instance method
call to method current-date requires an Object instance as first argument
On Testing it using Eclipse XSLT complier , I am getting below Exception :
17:56:08,138 ERROR [main] JAXPSAXProcessorInvoker  - Cannot find external method
'xpath-functions.currentDate' (must be public).
javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: Cannot find external method
'xpath-functions.currentDate' (must be public).

Please suggest . I am not able to figure out the mistake

A: That error suggests that the XSLT processor you're using does not support XSLT 2.0.  The default javax.xml.transform processor is 1.0-only, if you want to use XSLT 2.0 then you need to use a 2.0-compatible processor such as Saxon.
Saxon supports the same javax.xml.transform APIs so the only change you need to make to your code in order to use Saxon (once you have added the relevant JAR file or dependency to your project) is to replace
TransformerFactory.newInstance()

with
new net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl()

Note that a 1.0 processor will not necessarily complain if you pass it a stylesheet that says version="2.0".  Instead it will use a "forwards-compatible" processing mode where xsl: elements and functions it does not know about will not be treated as compile-time errors (only as run-time errors in cases where they are actually called).


Many people (including artists) will agree that Posca paint markers are the perfect tools to color on almost any kind of surface. Posca markers are water-based, but the paint is both opaque and a fluid, smooth and dense with wide coverage. It can be mixed, diluted and overlaid. The final rendering is actually similar to that of acrylic.
So, how to mix colors?
You can mix them directly onto the surface as long as the paint is wet. There's no need to pre-mix them in a different bowl or palette.
As Posca's paint is opaque and dense, it's ideal to overlay colors. As the pain dries quickly, you can cover a layer by a new one within a minute and without smudges. Even light colors can perfectly overlay with dark ones.
What do you mean by Watercolor effect?
How to choose the correct tip size?
Posca PC-5M (medium 2.5mm), PC-8K (broad 8 mm) and PC-17K (extra-broad lines 15mm) works great for Flat Tints.
Posca PC-1MR, PC-1M (extra-fine 1mm) and PC-3M (fine lines 1.5mm) are great for drawing neat outlines.
How can I correct a mistake?
Posca's paint is permanent on porous surfaces, but as it is a water-based pigment, it is removable on non-porous surfaces such as glass.
If you applied it on porous surfaces, the best way to correct a mistake is to overlay. You can do this as many times as needed. All you need to do is wait until the previous layer has dried before applying a new one.
Finally, what kind of materials can I use my Posca markers on?
Posca's quality and resistance has been tested on a vast number of surfaces. It has been tested in detail on more than 55 different materials' including wax, eggshell, photo paper, tracing paper, denim, porcelain, vinyl, leather, fabrics, rocks, metals, clay, wood, etc.
Posca marker adhere perfectly to all types of paper and cardboard. It won't bleed and is ageless. The adherence can be further enhanced with varnish.
Posca works wonderful on clays, stones and rocks, cement, etc. Its adherence is perfect and the line definition is fine. You can apply a varnish or bake in the oven (depending on materials) to optimize its adherence and resistance.
Posca is ideal for ceramic and porcelain. Once baked in the oven at a low temperature for half an hour, they will become permanent. Just notice that it is not suitable for dishwasher use.
Posca is ideal for cresations on wood. Depending on the kind of wood and it surface, you may have to perform some actions to optimize the adherence.
Posca has been tested on indoor and outdoor metal surfaces and the general adherence, line definition, resistance to rubbing and water is very good. It's suggested to varnish with a spray (two or three coats) for a better resistance.
Posca can write on any type of fabric and is resistant to washing once it has been ironed. Of course, the resistance will depends on the type of fabric. To fix colors, iron the fabric on the reverse side, using no steam.
The results will depend on the type of plastic. Please refer to the file at the end of the post.
Please refer to the following file for more details on materials in this Posca Markers Official Testing Chart– of course, you can try it on any surface and share with us the results!
We'll be sharing more handy tips on Posca markers in the future. So wait no longer and try out Posca markers to start easily expressing your artistic flare!
1.Can I use it on pvc sole..??
4.after used clr should I heated sole by blower etc..


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Tech View
John Agsalud
How to pick a password that won't get passed along
A few years back, right around this time of the year, we had an experience that still makes us chuckle.
This was before the Internet had taken off, and VPN's were non-existent.
We had shipped a server to Washington D.C. to test out remote access over satellite. The company we were working with in D.C. had assigned a very polite, technically capable guy whose accent divulged the fact that he was not born in America.
One day we called upon our affable fellow and asked him to log in to our server as the administrator. The password was "superbowl." He tried it and reported that he was unsuccessful. This went on for several tries until we spelled it out for him, s-u-p-e-r-b-o-w-l.
"Oh!"he exclaimed. "SuperBOWL. I was typing in superBALL. What kind of word is that-- superbowl?"
Since we had a lot of work to do, we didn't have time to explain the enormity of the Super Bowl in the U.S. But this little anecdote does shed some light on one of the biggest issues facing many computer users today, that of selecting a password.
First and foremost on everyone's mind is how to prevent their password from being "cracked." That is, we don't want bad guys to figure out our password.
By now, most folks, regardless of their country of origin, know not to use seemingly common words or phrases. Rather, a complex password, consisting of and both upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and even special characters such as @ and & are encouraged.
In fact many systems require that such passwords be composed in such a fashion. Employing such a password helps stymie thieves from accessing your online accounts.
Furthermore, don't use one password for all of your online accounts. Once that password becomes compromised, all of your accounts are vulnerable. Instead, rotate two or three passwords around.
Also, don't be afraid to forget your password.
In the old days, say, five years ago, forgetting your password was one of the biggest problems you could encounter.
Consequently, for service providers, staffing the "I forgot my password" call center was one of its biggest costs. So the service providers implemented pretty good password recovery systems, which most of the bigger Web sites employ.
So stop putting post-its with your password on your screen or under your keyboard.
Finally, to bring the Super Bowl example back into play, be careful when devising passwords that will be shared among people, such as system administrator passwords, or passwords for devices that are only capable of storing a single password.
To avoid confusion, we've found it best to avoid using letters or numbers that could be mistaken for others. Primarily, this involves the numbers 0 and 1 and the letters o and l.
John Agsalud is president of ISDI Technologies Inc., a Honolulu-based IT consultancy. Call him at 944-8742 or e-mail jagsalud@isdi-hi.com.
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