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Q: Multiple CASE in SQL when adding a Column I have a database with a table called 't'. in 't' there is a column called 'y', which contains a year, and a column called 'c' with an integer (names are for simplicity of the question). I'm trying to do the following:
Select all the rows from the table where 'y' is more than 1990, add a new column called 'x' to the selected rows (not to 't' table) and check b, in the following way (I've written in Java since I couldn't get the SQL CASE to work)
int current_year = (current year...)
if(current_year-year<=8 && c<20000)
x+= ((20000-c)/1000)+1

else if(current_year-year<=12 && c<17000)
x+= ((17000-c)/1000)+1

else if (c<14000)
x+= ((14000-c)/1000)+1

(Please note how x+= and not x= , because I need it for something else that is hard to explain)
I'm a beginner in SQL - I've tried writing a query but there were so many CASE in it I confused and never got it to work well. Also, I didn't manage to add the 'x' column to the selected rows. The only part that did work was
SELECT * FROM t WHERE y>1990

A: Your if logic would turn into something like this:
select (x +
         (case when current_year - year <= 8 and c < 20000 then ((20000 - c) / 1000) + 1
          end) +
         (case when current_year - year <= 12 and c < 17000 then ((20000 - c)/ 1000) + 1
          end) +
         (case when (c < 14000) then ((14000 - c)/ 1000) + 1
        ) as x
from . . .

A SQL case statement doesn't have the concept of altering a value within a statement (as in +=), so you just add the different components together conditionally.

A: The following statement worked for me:
DECLARE @cy as int

SET @cy = YEAR(GETDATE())

SELECT CASE WHEN @cy-y <=8 AND c<20000
THEN  ((20000-c/1000)+1
ELSE CASE WHEN @cy-y<=12 AND c<17000
        THEN ((17000-c)/1000)+1
        ELSE CASE WHEN c<14000
                THEN ((14000-c)/1000)+1
            END
    END
END AS X


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Mikhail Yasnov
Michail Yasnov. Poet, translator, children's writer.
Born 8th January 1946 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).
Graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the Leningrad State University in 1970.
A member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Writers since 1982.
Currently a Board member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Writers, Head of the Literary Translation Section of the Union of Writers, and a member of the Russian PEN Club, he runs a literary translation workshop at the French Institute (Institut Français) in Saint Petersburg.
Lives in Saint Petersburg.
In 2002, he received an Honorary Diploma from the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) for translating into Russian Pierre Griparis' book Les Contes de la rue Broca (Tales of the Rue Broca).
In 2003 he received the Maurice Vaksmakher Literary Award established jointly by the French Government and the Embassy of France in Moscow to recognize the best translations of French literature, for his 2002 translations of Guillaume Apollinaire's L'Enchanteur pourissant (The Rotting Magician) and Le Poete assassiné (The Poet Assassinated).
In 2005 he received the Samuil Marshak Award for Best Children's Poetry (The Holiday of an ABC-Book, 2004).
In 2006 two of his books, The Condemned Poets and French Poetry for Children received honorary diplomas at the Nevsky Book Fair [Nevsky Knizhny Forum] in Saint Petersburg. The Condemned Poets (2005) was awarded the Book of the Year Prize at the Federal Agency of Press and Mass Communications Competition at the 19th Moscow International Book Fair (MIBF).
In 2007 Children's Time (2007), a book of children's poetry, won the Book of the Year Prize in the "We Grow Up Together with the Book" category. It also came first in the Poetry section at the "The Scarlet Sails" children's writers competition.
In 2008 he received the Enlightener Prize awarded by the Inostrannaya Literatura [Foreign Literature] magazine for outstanding achievements in the fields of translation and the study of foreign literature. The prize was awarded for the bilingual edition of The Condemned Poets.
- The same year the Zvezda [The Star] magazine awarded Mikhail Yasnov their special prize for the best poetry publication in 2007.
- The "Masters of Literary Translation" Guild recognized his translations of works by G. Apollinaire and P. Picasso, as well as his translation of a two-volume edition of French lyrical poetry by offering him a "Master" Award.
In 2009 he won the Korney Chukovsky Literary Award for outstanding creative achievements in Russian children's poetry.
2011 - awarded the A.P. Chekhov Literary Prize "For Contribution to Russian Literature" (the Russian "Golden Pen" Award).
2012 - awarded the Russian Federation Government Prize in Culture for Children's Time, his book for preschool and primary school children.
2014 - awarded the International Reading Association "Reflections on the Little Prince" Prize for his work in introducing children to reading.
- Awarded the Diploma for the best publication in 2014 in the "Educator" category by the "School Library" magazine (the Lessons on Children's Poetry series of articles, No. 3-5 / 2014).
- As part of the celebration of the decade of the Samuil Marshak Award, he was recognized as the "Author of the Decade" for his work in promoting foreign children's literature and for translating the best books by Western writers into Russian.
2015 - finalist of the Enlightener Prize in the Humanities Section for his A Journey to Wonderhood. A Book About Children, Children's Poetry, and Children's Poets.
2016 - Order of the Golden Eagle "For the High Creative Achievements" awarded jointly by the European Union of Writers and the International Award Union.
- A Commemorative medal of the Organizing Committee of the Year of Literature recognizing his extensive contribution to book publication industry.
2017 - A Letter of Commendation from the Governor of Saint Petersburg for the Complete Collection of Poems for Children.
He is the author of 9 books of poetry:
In the Rhythm of Surf. Leningrad , 1986.
Irregular Verbs. Moscow , 1990.
Underground Cross-walk. Saint Petersburg , 1995.
The Alphabet of Separation. Saint Petersburg , 1995.
Theater of Shadows. Saint Petersburg, 1999.
Immured Amour. Saint Petersburg , 2003.
Ambidexter. Saint Petersburg, 2010;
Partly. Saint Petersburg, 2013;
Once and For All // Selected poems 1965-2015. Moscow, 2016
Mikhail Yasnov started writing children's poetry at the end of the 1970s, and has published approximately 100 books of children's poetry and prose since. He has also compiled a series of anthologies and collections the 20th century children's writers. In 2014 he published a collection of essays and articles on children's poetry titled A Journey to Wonderhood. A Book About Children, Children's Poetry, and Children's Poets.
Mikhail Yasnov does literary translation - mainly of French poetry and prose, - and is also invested in the study and research of the history of French poetry and prose. In 2011, the Knigovek Publishing House printed a volume of his Select Translations which included translations of French and Francophone Poetry. In 2016 the Rudomino Book House published a volume of Fragments and Experiments. Excerpts from French poetry. Translations. Commentary. Notes. In 2017, his study On French Poets and Russian Translators was released by the same publishing house.
In addition, more than a hundred books of children's poetry and prose translations have been published.
His work in compiling anthologies and preparing editorial series should be separately recognized. In 2005 he was made the head of the "Foreign Poet's Library" series with the Nauka [Science] Publishing House, and in 2011 he led the "Masters of Literary Translation. The Saint Petersburg School" series with the Petropolis Publishing House. The Klever [Clover] Publishing House launched the "Mikhail Yasnov's Library" series in 2016 to introduce its youngest readers to contemporary children's literature.
Original poetry by Mikhail Yasnov has been translated into English, French, German, Polish, Estonian, Latvian, and Romanian. He has also contributed to the work of several French, Belgian, and British Literary Translation Centres as a resident translator and poet. In March 2008 he represented Saint Petersburg at the Leipzig International Book Fair.
A large number of records, tapes, and CDs with poems and songs for children has been recorded and released over the years. In 2007 he launched his own series of audiobooks.
An important part of Mikhail Yasnov's activities focuses on his work with gifted children. In 1995 – 1997, in collaboration with the International House of Poetry in Brussels, he organized the Happy Duck Competition for young poets in Saint Petersburg. In 1996 – 1998 he developed the Children Translate Children project as part of a cultural exchange programme between Saint Petersburg and Western Michigan (USA). He is currently working on the "ABC Poetry" series, translating poems by European children's poets, and preparing them for publication. He has broadcast a children's radio show on the Saint Petersburg radio since 1992, and he has led the Literary division of the "Kindergarten all Around" newspaper since 2001. He has presented and helped lead the creative workshop organized at the annual Young Writers at Detgiz [Publishing House] Festival since 2009. He also teaches at the young writers' workshop organized by the Detskoye Vremya [Children's Time] Publishing House, and is a permanent member of the jury at the "Living Classics", "Children Read Poetry", and the "Glagolitsa" youth competitions. Meeting children, teachers, and parents, as well as organizing poetry workshops and reviewing children's literature on specialized websites also makes up a significant part of his work.
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By Prithvi Varatharajan | 18 November 2016
As I was writing this review a friend asked me about the ethics of poetic ventriloquy: about the ethics of an Australian man inventing Latin American poets. The question was posed around the time that Lionel Shriver gave her speech at the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival, on the topic of cultural appropriation. In this speech she argues that what is referred to as cultural appropriation is at the heart of fiction, and that writers of fiction need by necessity to write from cultural perspectives outside of their own, in order to write at all. The main counter-argument to this, which played out in the media afterwards, was that writers in positions of cultural power (white, male, heterosexual) have a responsibility when they appropriate the voices of the colonised or the historically oppressed, a responsibility to represent them in full rather than stereotypical ways so as not to do more damage.
The question startled me somewhat, as I hadn't been thinking of Ghostspeaking in this way. In reading the book I'd been struck foremost by the formal aspects of the writing, the beauty of the language, and the generosity of imagination behind these creations. I'd been thinking of aesthetic matters. But when I consider the political implications of Boyle's ventriloquy: yes, he invents Latin American, French, and Québécois poets, but he does so with a depth of knowledge about the literary culture and history that these poets are embedded in. Boyle has published translations of other (real) Latin American, Spanish, and French poets, and is versed in these literary cultures. The poetry is self-aware, too, evaluating what it is doing while it is doing it. Take these lines by The Montaigne Poet:
Anyone could have written this poem. I say it to myself. Maybe I wrote this poem – or maybe a young girl who wants to feel what it's like to write a poem, or maybe an elderly man who wants to feel what it's like to be a young girl dreaming of writing a poem.
The effect of these lines lies in their provocation to lyricism, to expectations that come with lyric poetry. The lyric tradition has encouraged coherence of voice in the poet, and has encouraged the reader to map this coherent voice onto an individual person. There are not many poets in the English-speaking world who have challenged this tradition by experimenting with heteronyms. Alongside Ghostspeaking are: Georges Zuk: Selected Verse (1969), The Underwear of the Unicorn (1975), and Zuk (1982) by Canadian poet Robin Skelton, featuring 'translations' of a heteronymous French surrealist; Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis (2000) by Canadian poet David Solway, featuring a heteronymous Greek poet; Usher (2009) by American poet B H Fairchild, which contains poems by his heteronym Roy Eldridge Garcia; Philip Salom's The Keeper of Fish (2011) and Keeping Carter (2012), 'written' by Alan Fish and M A Carter respectively; and Boyle's own Apocrypha. Such books look beyond individuality in lyricism, and suggest that the lyric might also be dramatic, that it might sing in a polyphony of (ghostly) voices.
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Prithvi Varatharajan is a Commissioning Editor at Cordite Poetry Review. He holds a PhD from the University of Queensland, where he completed a thesis on the adaptation of contemporary Australian poetry by ABC RN's Poetica, paying particular attention to its programs on John Forbes, Ouyang Yu, Vicki Viidikas, and Ali Cobby Eckermann. He is a producer of cultural radio programs and audio books, and has contributed to Red Room Company, RN's Poetica, Earshot, Lingua Franca, Weekend Arts, and First Person. His writing (poetry, reviews, interviews, scholarship) has appeared widely in local and international journals.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Post-Apartheid Lawmaking
(p.57) Chapter 3 Spectacles of Statecraft
Why was the democratic state unable to monopolize violence despite massive judicial reforms? By considering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, one of the most important early state-building institutions, the chapter shows the state has had difficulty disciplining relations between citizens such that they would turn to the law to resolve disputes rather than violently doing so themselves. Specifically, it examines the Victor Kheswa hearings in Sebokeng where, despite Kheswa's alleged involvement in one of the worst massacres in South African history, his mother was put on stage as a victim of human rights abuses. The chapter argues that by proclaiming Kheswa's mother as a victim, the TRC went against local notions of justice, as she was widely considered to be an enabler of violence, not a victim. This infelicitous performance mirrored the state's challenges in getting citizens to turn to the law for justice, as many citizens considered suspects' procedural rights as putting the law on the side of criminals.
Keywords: democratic state formation, lawmaking, juridical capital, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Sebokeng, Khetisi Kheswa


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Manzanares el Real – miasto w Hiszpanii we wspólnocie autonomicznej Madryt, leży 50 km na północ od Madrytu u podnóża gór Sierra de Guadarrama i nad sztucznym zbiornikiem wodnym utworzonym tu przez rzekę Manzanares. Piąte co do powierzchni miasto regionu (128,4 km²) z liczbą ludności 7,2 tys. mieszkańców.

Miasta we wspólnocie autonomicznej Madrytu


by The IJ Staff Feb. 23, 2018 09:45 a.m.
Vanguard Investments Canada announced Feb. 22 that it has filed a preliminary prospectus with Canadian securities regulators to offer four low-cost, actively managed mutual funds. This will be Vanguard's first suite of mutual funds in Canada. The firm currently offers 36 Exchange Traded Fund products in the Canadian market.
Vanguard says its mutual funds are each expected to have a maximum management fee of 0.50 per cent for Series F. The funds will be managed by Vanguard and several subadvisors including Baillie Gifford Overseas Limited, Pzena Investment Management, LLC, Schroder Investment Management North America Inc., The Vanguard Group, Inc., and Wellington Management Canada LLC.
The four new Vanguard mutual funds are the Vanguard Global Balanced Fund, the Vanguard Global Dividend Fund, the Vanguard US Value Windsor Fund and the Vanguard International Growth Fund.


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REVIEW: Dead Cells: The Bad Seed DLC
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
By Jason Quinn / April 1st, 2020
Motion Twin
Platformer, Rogue-like
PC, Switch, PS4, Xbox One
T for Teen
Dead Cells is a 2D platformer rogue-like. This review is focused mainly on The Bad Seed DLC, however I'll be going over some basics of the game itself as we don't have a review of that. You are The Beheaded, a prisoner trapped on some island that's been laid to waste by some ailment known as the Malaise. So you sally forth to see what's what. The story in this game is fairly light, being mostly contained in "lore rooms" that are sprinkled throughout the various levels. There's even an option to turn them off if you just really don't care. The reason why you play this is the gameplay.
I'm gonna cover the basics of the game just for context, but I'm also going to assume folks reading this are mostly familiar with the game, as it would take a significantly longer review to cover the game in its entirety. Its a rogue-like, so you proceed from area to area, exploring, finding loot, and killing enemies. That really sums the gameplay up quite nicely, but the combat is just absolutely superb. There's so many varieties of weapons, so many different possibilities, and all with controls that are just buttery smooth. Enemies are wonderfully varied and all have distinct behaviors that make combat really engaging and fair. Every attack is telegraphed well in advance. Because of all of this, if you die, it really just feels like your own fault. You will die quite a bit too, as you're learning.
However a concept pushed by the developers is that "death is only the beginning" and that rings true. Every time you go back in, you're a little bit better, and a little more knowledgeable. Or for a more tangible difference, you'll occasionally unlock permanent upgrades called runes that open up whole new areas to explore. This is where the metroidvania influence comes from. There's one that lets you teleport between certain statues, one that lets you grow vines to access certain areas, one that lets you destroy specific floors, and one that lets you wall jump. Each one of these upgrades unlocks a potential different path to take, giving a lot of variety to each playthrough.
It should be noted that this Dead Cells DLC requires you to have the Vine rune and the Teleportation rune, which are found in two of the other first areas, Promenade of the Condemned and Toxic Sewers. This DLC aims to increase some early game variety. The game can broadly be split between two main "paths", and this kinda adds a third one for the first few areas of the game. There's two new areas, one new boss fight, and an assortment of new weapons. The first new area is the Dilapidated Arboretum. Its a level filled with really densely packed rooms, and the notable new enemy is a giant mushroom man called a Yeeter. He uh, "yeets" little mushroom babies at you. This is particularly troublesome as the mushroom babies become enemies themselves that can knock you about and do a surprising amount of damage. In terms of difficulty, I think its easier than Toxic Sewers, but harder than Promenade of the Condemned. Its a good middle ground.
The second area is Morass of the Banished. I think this area really ramps up in difficulty. There's giant flea monsters that serve as mini-bosses, blow-gunners that can harass you from afar and can jump away to avoid you, spear wielders that can drop down from the ceiling, among other nasty things. It's just as dense as the Arboretum, though this level is much more vertical, whereas the Arboretum was very horizontal. In terms of aesthetics, I really like what both bring to the table. Arboretum is this lush greenhouse type area, and Morass is a sort of dirty swamp type area.
This brings us to the boss fight, Mama Tick. In terms of first boss fights in this game, I think this one is my favorite. I really get the sense that their boss design has improved since the base game, as my favorite boss fights are all from the DLC. This one just has really fun patterns, and you can absolutely melt through it if you're really good at parrying. Its also reasonable to not get hit during the fight, allowing you access to a legendary weapon after it. The other fights, Concierge and Conjunctivius are both pretty tough to not get hit, especially if you have a melee build.
After this, you get access to two of the mid-game areas, Stilt Village and Graveyard, though the second is only available with the spider rune. This is one of my favorite features of the DLC, being able to access the Graveyard from a different path. Before, the only way to get there was by traversing the sewers and fighting Conjunctivius, which is my least favorite fight. So in terms of levels, this DLC accomplishes what it set out to do and then some. It adds variety to the early game, and opens up other areas that previously could only be accessed in one certain way.
Lets get to the weapons now. There's three melee weapons, one ranged weapon, and two powers. The first melee weapon are the Flashing Fans, a set of fans that can parry projectile attacks, after which it gains critical hits for several seconds. A really fun weapon that gives you some defensive options if you don't have a shield, though the damage outside of critical hits is pretty low, so you better be good at parrying. The second weapon are scythe claws, unique because they take up both weapon slots. If you alternate between the left and right claws, you can get critical hits. This weapon is really slow, but the damage is insanely high, well worth foregoing defense for it. The third weapon is a stringed instrument called Rhythm 'n' Bouzouki. This hits slow like the greatsword, but if you time your attacks correctly, you'll do massive critical hits that hit all around you. If you have really good timing, the weapon essentially has an endless combo. Tricky to learn, but so rewarding.
The ranged weapon is the blowgun. Nothing really fancy here, but you get critical hits if you attack from behind an enemy. The first power you get is a smoke bomb that makes you invisible for several seconds, and increases the damage your next attack does by 50%. The second power is the mushroom boi. It gives you a tiny little mushroom baby as a pet that will follow you around and attack enemies. Its attack has quite a lot of knockback, so it can definitely get kills in with good positioning. You can also tell the mushroom to explode, which of course kills it, and also probably kills anything in the immediate vicinity. All the weapons are a lot of fun, and it's hard to pick favorites. I've had successful playthroughs utilizing all of them, so they're all pretty strong.
There is one thing I dislike about the DLC, which is what happens when you don't actually have it. The door that leads to the Arboretum is still there in the first area, the game just tells you that you need the DLC. I really kinda dislike this sort of thing, where it feels like the game is dangling a carrot in front of you to get you to buy it. Its always gonna be there as a constant reminder. If it just didn't show up, I'd find that to be preferable. As it is now, the game is gonna feel pretty incomplete to folks that don't care to put more money on the game down.
Still, I do think the DLC is well worth it if you like Dead Cells. It's more of a good game, and I'd argue that it's some of the better content, at least as far as the early game goes. The weapons are all really fun too. It's $5, and even though you can technically see all of the content within 20 minutes, this is a rogue-like. You're gonna be replaying it quite a lot, and on a larger timescale, which adds quite a lot of variety. The base game is $25, and while that might seem somewhat steep for what the game is, I've put over a hundred hours into the game, so it's well worth it.
Review copy was provided by the publisher.
About Jason Quinn
Been playing video games since before I could form coherent sentences. I love a wide variety of games, from fast, technical action games to slow RPGs. Aside from video games, I have a love of music, film, and anime.
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He Touched Me - Bill Gaither
Source: EPE
The gospel song 'He Touched Me' was written by songwriter and music producer Bill Gaither and recorded by the Bill Gaither Trio in 1963.
Bill Gaither grew up on a farm in Alexandria, Indiana. He became a high school English teacher and part-time church music director. In 1962 he married fellow teacher Gloria Sickal. Over the years the two have collaborated on over 600 songs, numerous recordings, videos and books. They have three children and four grandchildren. Bill Gaither has been awarded many music accolades including Grammy awards, Dove awards and seven times being named the Gospel Music Association's Songwriter of the Year. Recently he and Gloria were named Songwriters Of The Century by the American Society of Composers and Publishers. Today they continue in their full-time music ministry through the popular Gaither Homecoming concerts and videos. One of the more popular Gaither television and video projects is a documentary focused on the profound part gospel music played in the life and career of Elvis Presley. It is entitled 'He Touched Me, The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley.'
Bill Gaither's inspiration for the writing of the song 'He Touched Me' came very late one night. He had been asked to play the piano for a revival meeting in Huntington, Indiana. He was accompanying Doug Oldham, who was providing the music for his father, Dr. Dale Oldham, the speaker for the evening. After the meeting, as the three rode back to Bill's home in Anderson, Indiana, they discussed how deeply they had felt the Spirit at the meeting. Dr. Oldham dropped Bill off at home and his parting words were, 'You should write a song that says, 'He touched me' oh, He touched me.' Gaither couldn't sleep and he couldn't get the preacher's words out of his head. He remembered how many of the people at the revival meeting seemed to have come in heavy laden and had left uplifted with joy and hope. The next morning his wife Gloria awoke to find him still up and working on the song. Soon Doug Oldham began performing the song at revivals and concerts and he recorded it, as did the Bill Gaither Trio and many others.
Elvis recorded 'He Touhed Me' on May 18, 1971 at RCA's Studio B in Nashville. He was backed vocally by The Imperials, Millie Kirkham, Ginger Holladay and Temple Riser. It was first released in March 1972 as a single with 'Bosom of Abraham' as the B-side. Then it was released that April 1972 as the title song of the album 'He Touched Me.' Elvis received the second of his three Grammy awards for this album, which was named Best Inspirational Performance for 1972. The album includes the songs 'Amazing Grace', 'Lead Me Guide Me' and 'I John' among others.
- Elvis Presley Gospel CDs
- Elvis Presley Gospel DVDs
https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/he-touched-me.shtml


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How do you make a picture more transparent in Word 2010?
Need to make the background of a picture opaque or transparent I am trying to use a picture that has a white background. When I import it into a label program that white background is a big white square...I would like the yellow color that I have selected for my label to show thru.... Need to make the background of a picture opaque or transparent I am trying to use a picture that has a white background. When I import it into a label program that white background is a big white square...I would like the yellow color that I have selected for my label to show thru.
Need to make the background of a picture opaque or transparent I am trying to use a picture that has a white background. When I import it into a label program that white background is a big white square...I would like the yellow color that I have selected for my label to show thru.


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Q: Invoke bean method from h: or p:button I'm using JSF2.2.
Can I invoke a bean method from onclick attribute of h:button?
Or can I do it from PrimeFaces p:button component?
I want to use button in order to apply bootstrap css.

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Mobilities, work-family psychology, transportation, technology, accessibility, and disability rights.
As a Futures Initiative Fellow, I am responsible for website design, development, and maintenance, as well as WordPress administration for a multisite supporting more than 50 child sites and 900 users. I also design marketing materials and plan events related to accessibility issues in higher education.
Murray, J. (2016). A48⁎-A Systems Analysis of Access-a-Ride, New York City's Paratransit Service. Journal of Transport & Health, 3(2), S33.
Murray, J (2014). Work-Life Experiences for People with Mobility Disabilities in New York City. Masters Thesis, City University of New York.
Implemented and customized a new theme for multisite with accessibility considerations. New design elements were created to refresh the look of graphics, and necessary clean-up work helped speed page loading times.
Teaching at the largest urban university in the country requires attention to the environmental context of New York City. This session focused on physical accessibility in the context of transportation disparities, physical access to buildings, and features of accessible classrooms, as well as considerations for information access in multicultural and socioeconomic contexts.
Murray, J. (2016, December). OAER: Open Accessible Educational Resources. CUNY IT Conference, 2016. John Jay College, CUNY.
Murray, J. (2016, June). A Systems Analysis of Access-A-Ride, New York City's Paratransit Service. International Conference on Transport and Health (ICTH). Mineta Transportation Institute/San Jose State University.
Murray, J., & Daiute, C. (2016). Presentation of Narrating America Game. CUNY Games Festival. January 2016. Convened at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Murray, J., & Daiute, C. (2015). Narrating America Game Concept. Narrating America in the Community College Forum. Convened at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Daiute, C., Murray, J. & Kreniske, P. (2015, October) Narrating America in the Community College Forum. Convened at The Graduate Center, CUNY.


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Joy's Talent Spotlight: Andrea Balsa
June 17, 2019 By Joy Kingston Leave a Comment
Andrea Balsa is a fascinating young woman who is setting the world on fire with her outstanding talent in bilingual voice over. The day I interviewed Andrea, I was sitting in my home in Las Vegas, NV and she was sitting in her room…in Poland! Yes, Poland, doing a huge voiceover project. She was hired to do a job for a big U.S. department store, and had to hunt for a studio to record the project in Poland. That's just one of the projects Andrea is currently working on.
All this talent was inside a little girl growing up in Mexico City who was fascinated with voices and radio. In 2004, Andrea moved to Las Vegas after she married. She soon started working at Univision as a reporter, advancing to producer and then becoming a news anchor.
She then started working for the Venetian Hotel and Casino in the communications department where she was responsible for English and Spanish translation for orientations and in-house corporate memorandum for 11,000 employees. Although Andrea is immensely grateful for the amazing experience she acquired at both Univision and the Venetian, she found that these fields just did not fulfill her.
She then experienced some serious medical issues, causing her to take some time off. It was during this time that she found TVAS's Intro to Voice Over Class offered through UNLV.
Andrea feels that finding Melissa Moats and TVAS gave her a brand-new beginning and a start to a whole new life. She is so grateful that Melissa recognized her potential and has been guiding her every step of the way. Andrea feels that TVAS provided the opportunity to finally work for herself, not having to lend her voice to others.
Andrea hit the marketing road head-on, jumping on a plane and flying to Los Angeles, knocking on doors, and talking to everyone. Her voice over journey is running at full speed and all Andrea's determination and hard work has paid off.
This past June, Andrea was signed with the CESD Talent Agency. Here are links to two of commercials that she voiced and wanted to share:
Holiday Memories AmeriCash Loans
Moments FAMSA USA
Andrea sees her future in voice over as bright and exciting. Heck, it's already taken her to the other side of the world!
Andrea is also training to become a yoga teacher and practices what she learns in her everyday life. And while living in Mexico, Andrea was an assistant dolphin trainer!
Thank you, Andrea! It was such a pleasure connecting with you.
Please visit Andrea's website at: andreabalsa.com and contact her at: andreabalsa@me.com.
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Feb. 10, 2019 – Washington Co., WI – Welcome to a Sunday series about neighbors across Washington County who are paying it forward by helping a senior citizen in need.
Florence has declining vision but she has great faith and a green thumb. "One ice cube every week is all I give my orchids," said Florence.
Kathy helps Florence get to doctor appointments and the grocery; both need each other and both are thankful for the experience they receive at Interfaith Caregivers.


The use of Web fonts (Web typography) is increasing massively due to improving support by Internet Browsers, widening ease of use within Websites and increased standardisation such as the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and the introduction of HTML5 and CSS3. The use of Web fonts extends the number of fonts that may be used on websites as well as the ease with which additional fonts may be included. In most Websites a standard set of fonts are used as all major brands of computers and Browser support this core (but small) set of font families such as Arial and Times New Roman. With Web fonts (using the @font-face CSS rule) the font to be used is referenced and, if it isn't already in the installed set on the visitor's computer/Browser, the font is downloaded from the reference (link).
Is using Web Fonts Slow?
It seems logical that if a font needs to be downloaded before it is used, then that will slow Page load speeds. Unfortunately this is a downside of using Web fonts! Not only will extra data (i.e. the font) need to be downloaded by the browser, but there will also be additional http requests which may negatively impact Page load speeds. As the use of Web fonts increases so will the chance that the Web font used on a Page has been downloaded in the past by the Browser and so needn't be downloaded again.
There are also steps being taken by both Web font distributors and Browser developers to improve the visitor experience when downloading Web fonts is necessary. For example most of the Web font distributors are compressing the fonts for faster download and Mozilla Firefox uses 'Flash of unstyled text' where the text is displayed in a default font until the Web font has been downloaded at which time the font changes to the Web font (Google Chrome and Apple Safari display a blank space until the font has been downloaded whereas with Internet Explorer the action taken depends on where the stylesheet <link> tag is placed in the head section).
WordPress Website/Blog/CMS is easily achieved. I have recently been playing with the 'WP Google Fonts' WordPress Plugin which makes using the free Web fonts from the Google Font Directory (using the Google Font API) with WordPress very simple (well done to Adrian Hanft, the Plugin author). The Google Font Directory offers a fairly limited selection of fonts to use but the number offered is sure to grow substantially as the use of web fonts increases. The great thing about the WP Google Fonts Plugin is that it allows the use of additional CSS controls for use with the Web font family used (e.g. drop-shadows) so the 'look and feel' of the Web fonts can be easily amended. Although the WordPress plugin page notes that the Plugin is compatible up to WordPress v2.9, I have tested it with WordPress 3 and with Artisteer templates and haven't encountered any errors. This is a great way to use Web fonts in WordPress and I recommend using this Plugin.


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Event focuses on native landscaping
MARK ESTES, Correspondent
Mar 28, 2012 at 12:01 AM Aug 15, 2012 at 11:54 AM
Renee Stambaugh, owner of Native Plant Consulting and Native Gardens Nursery, handed growing tips of a vine called Smilax, a native vine commonly known as greenbriar, to a few people in a crowd of about 50 as they walked path in Washington Oaks Gardens State Park on Saturday.
"Eat the tip," she instructed the lucky few.
Although skeptical, they nibbled on the greenery.
"It tastes like asparagus, doesn't it?" she said.
One person nodded. "It tastes green," said another, but he kept on eating.
The occasion was a special "walk and talk" program, "Wake Up and Plant the Natives," about how to use native plants in the home landscape.
"Smilax is a valuable native vine," Stambaugh said. "Some have thorns, others don't. Train it to grow somewhere in your landscape. You shouldn't have to buy it, it will probably show up in your yard."
Stambaugh said she had three purposes for conducting the program.
"I want to educate others about native plants, make these plants available to you and teach others to do what I do," she said. "Please share this information, tell people there are ways to get native plants, particularly to save water. I would like to give you permission to turn off your irrigation system. We want to free our yards from life support."
Landscaping with Florida native plants offers a number of benefits in addition to saving water according to Stambaugh. Natives that have evolved in North Florida are hardy, require no special water, are less vulnerable to pests and the vagaries of Florida weather. She pointed to the State tree, the Sabal or Cabbage palm as an example.
"Three Sabal palms in a landscape will shade your roof from the west side," Stambaugh said. "They will not blow down in hurricanes, they are salt tolerant, they will not freeze back and you do not need to water them. Why are we bringing in palms from Madagascar and every other country and then watching them die after a hard winter."
Florida native plants are those plants that existed in Florida prior to the coming of Europeans, before 1513. For those who wanted to use them in their landscaping, however, acquiring native plants was difficult in the past.
"You have to be careful when buying native plants," Stambaugh said. "You may go to a nursery, ask them where the native plants are and they will point you to a group of plants. However, they didn't tell you to which county they are native."
During the walk, Stambaugh stopped to discuss a number of Florida natives in Washington Oaks Gardens, from the larger trees of the canopy to ground cover and how natives can benefit the home landscape, but must also fit the landscape.
"A red cedar tree gets 40-feet wide, " she said. "If you don't have a 40-foot landscape, don't get a red cedar. You can limb it up (cut the lower limbs), but that's not what it's meant to do. It's in the bottom two feet in which the St. Augustine hairstreak butterfly exists. So everyone who cuts out those lower limbs has eradicated the habitat for that butterfly."
By the same token, she suggested that St. Augustinegrass may not be the best choice for a landscape.
"St. Augustinegrass is happy at four feet tall; it doesn't tolerate being four inches tall very well and never will, " Stambaugh said.
"Grass does not grow in the shade no matter how many sod people tell you there are three types of St. Augustinegrass and one type grows well in the shade."
She recommended a couple of alternative native groundcovers, all of which flower as well.
"Sunshine mimosa (Mimosa strigillosa) is a hardy and beautiful ground cover with pink flowers," Stambaugh said. "One plant will cover a 20-foot diameter area. You can mow it, but why would you? You'd cut off the flowers. Don't irrigate it, if you water it twice a week, you'll kill it. Other good native ground covers are dune sunflower and Gaillardia (Indian Blanket). They all like hot dry areas and are salt tolerant."
Carol Giles of Palm Coast was enthusiastic about the program.
"We've been to Washington Oaks before, it's a lovely spot," Giles said.
"We came here to one of the lectures before. It was very good. She's fantastic."
Stambaugh recommended "Florida's Best Native Landscape Plants" by Gil Nelson as one of the best books on native landscaping in Florida.
For more information of using Florida natives in landscaping go to Stambaugh's web site at nativeplantconsulting.com.


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Q: AHK How to make one SetTimer launch other, and than reversal Goal of a code:
Timer CheckStart iterrates every 3 seconds until it find a choosen color.
If it finds pixel - it stops itself and start CheckStop timer, to look for another pixel every 3 seconds.
Rince and repeat
Also there is a keybind to check which timer was launched last.
#NoEnv
SendMode Input

checkstate = 0 ;just for checking state
SetTimer, CheckStart, 3000
Return

CheckStart:
    PixelSearch, xx, zz, 710, 460, 730, 480, 0x385982, 0, Alt RGB
    if !ErrorLevel {
        checkstate = 1
        SetTimer, CheckStart, Off
        SetTimer, CheckEnd, 3000
        Gosub, CheckEnd
    }
Return

CheckEnd:
    PixelSearch, xx, zz, 670, 160, 725, 200, 0xE60014, 0, Alt RGB
    if !ErrorLevel {
        checkstate = 0
        SetTimer, CheckEnd, Off
        SetTimer, CheckStart, 3000
        Gosub, CheckStart
    }
Return

^!z:: ; Control+Alt+Z
    MouseGetPos, MouseX, MouseY
    PixelGetColor, color, %MouseX%, %MouseY%, Alt RGB
    MsgBox (checkstate%) colour: %color%.
return

What I'm getting:

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*Before i feed needed color to 1st timer, keybind works delayed, shows state only between iterrations. Can i make it async?

*After i feed needed color to 1st timer, checker became "1", but CheckEnd timer not starting. (and so keybind start to work immediately)

What i'm doing wrong? or its just prohibited to launch timer by timer?

A: There is no such pixel search mode as Alt, that's only for PixelGetColor.
I'm going to assume the problem here is just the pixel search taking forever.
Add in the Fast mode.
So instead of Alt RGB try Fast RGB.


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Professor Asher Shadmon ( July 29, 1922 - May 10, 2011) is an Israeli engineering geologist who served as the first President of the International Association for Engineering Geology (IAEG). He has served on the United Nations International Commission on Building Stones and is a distinguished international consultant on stone as a building material.

Shadmon's expertise in mining and quarrying is credited with singlehandedly fostering those industries in Israel. He is one of the world's experts on marble and other building stones, having written many books on the subject.

Books and monographs
Shadmon, Asher (1965), Marble in Israel, Jerusalem: State of Israel, Ministry of Development.
Shadmon, Asher (1972), Stone in Israel, State of Israel, Ministry of Development, Natural Resources Research Organization.
Shadmon, Asher (1983), "Mineral Structural Materials"; In: AGID Guide to Mineral Resources Development.
Shadmon, Asher (1989), Stone: An Introduction, Practical Action Publishing; 2nd ed. 1996, Practical Action and ITDG Publishing (now Practical Action Publishing),( ).
Shadmon, Asher (1997), The Use of Natural Slabby Stone Deposits for Wall Construction.
Shadmon, Asher (1997), The Boulder Concept in Buildings Walls.
Shadmon, Asher (2002), "Stone: What Is in a Name? Interdisciplinary Implications—An Overview", In: Prikryl, Richard and Heather Viles, eds., Understanding and Managing Stone Decay, Prague: Karolinum Press, Charles University.

References

See also
Meleke

Geotechnical engineers
Israeli geologists
1922 births
2011 deaths