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I have two broad goals for my ELA classes: 1) I want my students to become life-long readers and 2) I want them to be able to communicate clearly in writing. In order to try to achieve goal 1, I model what it means to be a reader. I read with them, talk books with them, recommend books to them, take their book recommendations, and talk about my reading life. I think it's important that kids know that Readers read for a variety of purposes—one of those might be for escape. I read for entertainment, as well, but in my mind escape is different from entertainment. Reading for escape happens when life gets too intense or causes too much stress or anxiety. I use books that I can fall into as my coping mechanism. These escapist reads might have strong setting, strong plot, strong characters or any combination of those three. If I struggle to get into the book in the first 10 pages, it is put aside until my brain is quiet enough to return to it.
This week I've dedicated my posts to series – why I'm burned out on them and why my students can't get enough.
I might need to revise my post from Tuesday, April 24. I'm not burned out on series. I repeat – the series lives!
As a middle school teacher, I reserve the right to change my mind. I've changed my mind. Looking for the May Schmidt's Pick, I grabbed Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl off a pile of books in my office. I had just finished Fear by Michael Grant and wasn't too keen on starting another series – especially a series that a) hasn't been finished yet and b) consists of 500+ page books. But I knew this isn't really about me, it's about my students and providing them with access to books they'll actually read so they may actually beat the odds and read more than 1 book after high school. Literacy is important to me. That's no shock to anyone who knows me, so if I have to "take one for the team" to keep the kids reading, I'll do it.
Earlier this week I wrote about my love/hate relationship with series. I found myself, once again, stuck in the doldrums of YA series. There was nothing fresh about my reading because all I did was read one book after another that continued a series I had already started. I'm happy to report that I have sailed out of the doldrums, but more about that in a later post.
For now, I want to talk about my students. On Wednesday after we finished round three of state tests, I had the opportunity to just sit and have a conversation with my students. I haven't had this opportunity in quite some time since I've been hosting a student teacher. On Wednesday afternoon, I found myself alone with my seventh graders for the first time in 3 months. Furthermore, they were a bit spent from testing all morning. So when they came into the classroom, I had them sit down, pull out their independent books, and start reading. They read for only a few minutes. I just wanted them to center themselves more than anything. At the end of their reading session, I had them discuss their books with their friends. Pretty standard stuff.
As much as I love young adult fiction, a steady diet of one thing is bad, and so I've found myself reading a lot of adult fiction during the late winter and spring. At first I told myself that it was because I had "homework" for Booktopia 2012, which I recently attended in Manchester, VT. Me being me, I did feel compelled to read the latest books by all of the authors in attendance, and I did start some of the back catalogue as well. However, as I look at my nightstand, desk, coffee table, and pretty much any flat surface that holds books in my house, I realize that I'm still grabbing adult fiction. This is not Booktopia's fault. I recently read Marisa de los Santos' newest book and A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve – neither author attended Booktopia. So why am I grabbing adult and leaving YA to sit collecting dust?


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A Weak UN Ensures a Weak Secretary General
There are many angles of interpretation relevant to the startling admission by Ban Ki-moon that he succumbed to undisguised diplomatic pressure when removing Saudi Arabia from the 'shame list' of countries whose armies are found responsible the maiming and killing of children, earning them dishonorable mentioned in an annex to the annual UN report on violations of children's rights. The scale and severe nature of such violations, committed in the course of the Yemeni intervention carried out by the Saudi led coalition of countries is beyond serious doubt, detailed in the UN report and strongly endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. These most respected of human rights NGOs reacted with moral outrage that the SG would give way to such unseemly and crude pressure, which has the effect of undermining the precarious stature of the UN making visible for all to see how geopolitical considerations outweigh even these most fundamental of humanitarian concerns, the protection of children in war zones..
There is more to this incident than one more demonstration that this particular SG lacks the political will to uphold the integrity and autonomy of the UN. On display, as well, was the crude manner in which the UN Saudi ambassador, Abdullah al-Mouallami, threw around his political weight without enduring any backlash. This diplomat openly is accused of threatening the UN with 'adverse consequences,' and also with issuing a warning that UN emergency programs in such distressed areas as Gaza, Syria, and South Sudan would lose their Saudi (and Gulf coaltion) funding. Apparently, rather pathetically, Ban Ki-moon, thought it better to give ground, and so explained removing Saudi Arabia from the shame list until a joint review determined what to do as the lesser of evils. The greater evil the SG suggested would be to lose financial support for vital programs that affect a far greater number of children.
The ambassador made clear that this face saving procedure to review the listing was not to be construed as consenting to an objective inquiry, declaring that the removal of Saudi Arabia from the list was 'unconditional and irreversible.' Whether the disclosure of these sordid happenings will challenge the Saudi insistence remains to be seen. What is evident, and offers the world a glimmer of encouragement, is that Saudi Arabia, despite its notorious human rights record, takes seriously enough its international reputation as to make such use of strong arm tactics that are as demeaning as the UN report itself. The SG retreat also shows to the world that being a monetary heavyweight can matter in the UN as much as being a P-5 member or geopolitical leader.
What Saudi Arabia had achieved by relying on its economic leverage, Israel and the United States manage to gain more subtly by persuasion. Both governments leaned heavily on the SG to ensure that Israel would not be on the shame list in view of its violations of the rights of children in the course of the bloody 2014 Gaza War. In an earlier massive attack started at the end of 2008, the SG dutifully buried a report strongly condemning Israel for deliberately targeting UN facilities where Palestinian civilians were receiving shelter. So it is important to appreciate that Saudi Arabia is not by any means alone in applying extra-legal pressure to avoid losing face by adverse findings. The fact that the U.S. special relationship with Israel includes helping Israel cover up such serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights standards is also an added reason for disappointment.
The good news is that governments do their upmost to avoid moral and legal opprobrium as a result of UN initiatives, and this is because it matters. Recall the furious Israeli reaction to the infamous Goldstone Report of 2009 that found Israel guilty of numerous violations of the law of war in the course of its attack on Gaza months earlier, which had the effect of burying the report's recommendations for further action but did validate the allegations of criminality made in civil society, contributing to the discrediting of Israel's occupation policies and practices, especially as enacted in Gaza. The bad news is that the leverage of the powerful and rich consistently leads the UN to buckle beneath the weight of backroom influence.
What gives this Saudi event salience is the transparency and effectiveness of the inappropriate behavior, which includes the SG's unusually candid acknowledgement of what took place, producing a media shout out that encourages a critical assessment of the UN and its leadership. Perhaps, Ban Ki-moon in his final months as SG has decided to tell it like it is, having kept his mouth shut and mostly doing what he was told to do for the nearly ten years that he occupied the highest UN post.
There are two ways to view Ban Ki-moon's handling of Saudi pressure. The first impulse is to condemn the SG for cavalierly disregarding the values of the UN Charter, human rights, and international law. From this perspective, Ban Ki-moon reinforced his overall image throughout his two terms as a weak international civil servant who is blown in whatever the direction of the prevailing wind happens to be. A second line of interpretation is more charitable, suggesting that Ban Ki-moon was confronted by a 'Sophie's choice' dilemma: either to insist on the integrity of the shame list or balance the competing costs, and thus exhibit flexibility by opting to keep the economic assistance flowing to places of dire need.
What both interpretations suggest is the subordination of UN operations to geopolitical realities, not only as this incident unfolded, but also more tellingly with respect to the underlying structural characteristics of the UN. The manner of choosing a SG, requiring endorsement by each of the P-5, virtually guarantees the selection of a person of weak character and strong ambition. The fact that there have been some partial exceptions among the eight SGs that have so far served is mainly an indication that the gatekeepers have not always succeeded in doing their job of making sure that a person of unshakable moral character is ever selected. Political astuteness, which is understood to me a realistic willingness to be responsive to geopolitical pressures has been part of the job description all along. We can still hope for another Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant, or Kofi Annan who will somehow get through the gate, imparting dignity once more to the office of Secretary General, but from a structural point of view such a happy outcome must still be viewed essentially as an accident.
Closely related is the even more fundamental recognition that the funding supply chains of the UN are tied directly to these geopolitical levers of influence. The UN is kept on a short financial leash so that the leaders of the Organization will not get the wrong idea, and think of themselves as independent political actors owing primary loyalty to the UN Charter and the ideals set forth in its Preamble. It would be a simple matter to impose a tax on international financial transactions or international flights that would generate the revenue needed to fund the entire UN system. This idea has been around for decades, earlier discussed as 'the Tobin tax,' named after the Yale Nobel Prize economist, James Tobin, who is credited with first proposing such a tax in 1972. Why it has never happened should not be a mystery. Those who control the UN have no incentive to loosen their grip. Civil society, although supportive of such an initiative, has never been sufficiently motivated to mount the sort of transnational campaign that succeeded in getting the International Criminal Court established despite geopolitical resistance. Absent political will from above or mobilization from below there is no prospect of achieving the degree of financial independence that would allow a SG in the future to react with anger to the sort of demand made effectively by the current Saudi Arabia ambassador.
It is evident that the combination of a discretionary veto conferred upon the P-5, which is a legalized exemption of unlimited scope from UN authority, and the leverage provided by the way the Organization is financed, ensures the primacy of geopolitics in the principal operations of the UN. This is what was intended from the beginning of the UN, and this is what has happened all along. It is written into the UN Charter, which provides the constitutional framework and is veto proof against any geopolitically unwanted modification intended to make the UN more responsive to international law rather than to the grand strategies of its dominant members and their closest friends.
Despite such disappointments and shortcomings, the UN plays a vital role on the global stage, and its contributions, actual and potential, should not be overlooked. The UN provides a forum available to all states, raising to global visibility the concerns of the weaker governments in a manner that can make a difference. The UN also provides the principal auspices for multilateral diplomacy, as in relation to such lawmaking events as the Paris Climate Change Agreement of a year ago.
As an organization of states, the UN fails to address the agendas of the peoples of the world, especially those so marginalized and vulnerable as not to be adequately represented by governments. Proposals for the establishment of a Global Peoples Assembly, parallel to the General Assembly, have been forward over the years, but have not been realized because opposed by the representatives of a state-centric world order that are unwilling to share the formal stage of authority with civil society representatives even as the actualities of globalization have drained power and energy away from states.
Perhaps, the most overlooked, yet significant role of the UN is to be a major player in Legitimacy Wars, throwing their weight on one side or the other in the many ongoing struggles around the world. The UN can also issue reports and gather reliable information that disclose 'inconvenient truths,' which are influential with world public opinion, and provoke the sort of awkward responses that led to Saudi embarrassment, followed by anger, leading to the even more embarrassing accommodation by a much compromised Ban Ki-moon. At the same time, the incident also called wider attention to the abuse of children in the Yemen intervention than would have followed by its inclusion in a UN report. Political influence and change work in strange ways, and we cannot yet know whether the disgraceful, yet understandable, behavior of the SG will yet persuade the Saudi led coalition to abandon quietly their intervention in Yemen, or at least modify their tactics.
What needs to be understood is that symbolic issues with law, morality, and justice have exerted a major impact on the resolution of conflicts since 1945. It is the normative revolution principally brought about through the achievement of the right of self-determination that has changed the map of the world, and indicated that the anti-colonial flow of history has shaped the narrative of recent decades to a greater extent even than the series of startling innovations in the weaponry and tactics of warfare. The UN seems weak when challenged by geopolitics, yet its mark on the history of our time is the clearest demonstration that its presence still matters, and will continue to do so despite the likelihood of future weak SGs and in the face of its deep structural failings to fulfill the promise of the stirring words set forth in the Preamble of the UN Charter.
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10 Responses to "A Weak UN Ensures a Weak Secretary General"
Gene Schulman June 13, 2016 at 3:05 am #
The UN is not weak. It is merely a tool and undemocratic facade of the Empire. Like the American Constitution, the UN Charter has been cast aside for the convenience of those who would rule the world – the US, NATO, Israel – in what Halper calls 'The War Against the People.' Not wanting to be left out, the Saudis are only doing what's asked of them.
sudhan June 13, 2016 at 3:19 am #
A factual narrative about the role of the present Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who seems to be more swayed by the political leverage of the powerful and influential states than the responsibilities of his office in the UN. That is something we should oppose and take steps to change the situation. In fact, that amounts to breach of trust of the people of the world, who had/have some high expectations of this global organisation.
Kudos to Dr Richard Falk for making a principled stand to protect UNO and show where it stands in power politics and power games!
Beau Oolayforos June 14, 2016 at 9:06 am #
Dear Professor Falk,
Thanks once again for such an informative essay. Saudi Arabia reminds me of Dylan's lyric – "Money doesn't talk, it swears.." I find it hard to believe that the UN actually needs Saudi funding for anything. They kill more people than they could ever save. And since BDS is getting traction, why not boycott the Saudis? Are we so addicted to their dirty oil and dirtier money?
Bless the suffering children,of course, but how about the others? How long would any of us oldsters last in Gaza or Fallujah? And who would even care?
Laurie Knightly June 15, 2016 at 5:28 pm #
Beau: I wondered about the special reference to children – as though killing their parents et al might not be that important. The Resolution – 1612 contains other issues – abductions, child soldiers, sexual violence etc where very young age escalates the situation. The UN also addresses the issue of child labor, forced marriage – that sort of thing. There's an increased vulnerability that does make sense.
Yes, the way Saudi Arabia treats its own citizens is enough for some of us to recoil. Hard to imagine that we sent US military personnel/weapons to protect them. It gets oily in many ways,
Under the hashtag, What's In Blue, one can get regular postings on the issues being discussed in the Security Council. It's posted often and it's interesting to be aware of where their attention is focused.
Fernando Sancho June 14, 2016 at 9:52 am #
Dear Mr. Falk, thanks so much for your brave and ethic work.
I will like to ask you a question about a book so please, Could you give me an email to write you please?
Richard Falk June 15, 2016 at 5:15 am #
I can be reached by email at I look forward to your message. RF
For some of us a review of the SG position requirements and selection process was in order. One candidate submitted by the SC to the GA for a 'fair' election? Some procedure!
Although the SG is purported to rise above the partisan interests of the P5, and favor/consider the broader membership, that seems highly unlikely in most cases. The fate of the 8 elected SG's thus far includes a resignation, subsequent SG position vetoes, and none seeking a third term – albeit this is described as the world's top diplomatic post. That seems very suspect.
There may well be more to the 'shame' of Saudi Arabia. than the issue of funding threats. They could counter accuse their critics using a similar criteria. The killing of children, bombing schools/hospitals can be labeled collateral damage or other euphemisms readily available. It depends on who is doing the investigation/filing a report and the particular nature of the crime.
As to various suggested structural changes in the UN, if the rules/funding/equity/justice/veto etc were solved, the SC member[s] would quit. What's the point? The present structure may have been appropriate following WW2 but is currently hampered/outmoded. There are advantages to the world leaders meeting for discussion and attempting to achieve peaceful negotiations but then what follows? Some nations are expected/forced to cooperate and others are exempt. The crimes might be labeled appropriately – their validated accusers, however, are blasted as biased/unfair and plans made for their ruin. So the issue is dropped/shelved/postponed etc.
Again, I appreciate being tweaked into some study of important/current geopolitical issues – especially with the major research components so well summarized. These essays will live on and be of historical significance. It still staggers me that we have the technology that makes this possible and there are noteworthy public intellectuals with epidermis thick enough for contemporary comment sections – a peculiar arena of the times.
As an addendum:
This essay proved to be a well received topic in two of my discussion groups. The shame list, naming Saudi Arabia, was an attention grabber which morphed into a renewed interest in the UN Security Council itself – for which cynicism prevailed.
I added some info, often controversial, about US ambassadors to the UN including the gender difference of 24 men and four women – two of the four by Obama administration. Background material about the selection of the Secretary General was of considerable interest.
The question arose as to who, or if, the US ambassador is vetted when submitting testimony. The recent tirade given by Samantha Power, accusing the UN of bias, generated the inquiry. It did not sound like Obama. I could not answer that question then, nor have I been able to do so with subsequent research.
I don't a lot about this, but at her confirmation hearings SP gave strong reassurances
that despite her support of Palestinian claims in the past, she would be reliably pro-Israeli
if confirmed, and has kept her promise. I was the target of a couple of attacks while in my
UN role, despote the fact that we had a past cordial relationship, and she knew better. As far as I know,
Obama is comfortable with her behavior even if he doesn't indulge similarly.
Laurie Knightly June 21, 2016 at 11:16 am #
Some of us are unable to reconcile the testimony stated by Samantha Power at the UN. There was a demand which requires unequivocal support for Israel – plus an adamant opposition to bias. An oxymoron possibly? Most of our leaders are in sync with this position. Even Bernie Sanders claimed to be neutral on the subject of Palestine – and 100% pro Israel. Chin in hand and furrowed brow will achieve nothing productive here.
A blind person could feel it with a stick.

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The explosion was not reported until the Addis Standard published interviews with survivors Tuesday. The government has been criticized for not disclosing the Aug. 8 blast.


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Q: Why my image is rotate? I have big problem with image which has higher height then width. Look there:
http://www.ledgreen.cz/test.html
I don't understand why this image is rotate can you someone explain it to me?
Thanks
Michal

A: According to Wikipedia :

Exchangeable image file format (officially Exif, according to
  JEIDA/JEITA/CIPA specifications) is a standard that specifies the
  formats for images, sound, and ancillary tags used by digital cameras
  (including smartphones), scanners and other systems handling image and
  sound files recorded by digital cameras.

With different words :
Almost all digital cameras and smartphones save photos with EXIF data. Those informations like camera settings, image orientation... are recorded by the camera into the image file.
The EXIF data of the image you are using (as shown in the same link you provided: regex.info) has an orientation attribute set to 90° (Orientation : Rotate 90 CW).
Some navigators or image editor softwares (like GIMP, Photoshop, OS X Preview, OS X Finder) respect the EXIF orientation flag, and display the image upright. But others may ignore it.
I found this linked bug in Chromium issue pages where according to thakis@chromium.org :

As of webkit r132525, this is done when
  viewing image files directly. That change missed today's canary by 15
  revisions, but it should be intomorrow's.
Images referenced from html files in  elements are not affected,
  intentionally for web compat -- this might be addressed through an
  explicit opt-in via css as suggested by noel in comment 8, but that's
  not done at the moment.

It doesn't look to be yet fixed to me as shown within your exemple while I did notice that some google services like Gmail will consume the EXIF metadata with attached images to output it with the expected orientation.
I think an ordered list of possible solutions to this starting from the most recommended would be :

*

*Checking settings of any camera or device before taking any picture
to disable rotation within EXIF metadata when those pictures are
meant to be used on web pages due to incompatibilities with several web navigators.

*Use an image editor. to reorient the image or disable the reset
orientation EXIF meta flag.

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I Love It ist ein Lied der US-amerikanischen Rapper Kanye West und Lil Pump, der Gastgesang von der Komikerin Adele Givens enthält. Es erschien am 7. September 2018 über GOOD Music, Warner Bros. und Def Jam.

Hintergrund
Kanye West war der Creative Director der ersten Pornhub-Awards am 6. September 2018. Nach einer Live-Performance mit Teyana Taylor präsentierte West das Musikvideo zu I Love It, einem neuen Song mit Lil Pump. Ähnlich wie auf I'm In It und XTCY handelt es sich um einen Song mit deutlich explizitem sexuellen Inhalt.

Am 7. September 2018 erschien eine etwas harmlosere Version unter dem Titel I Love It (Freaky Girl Edit) im iTunes-Store. Diese spielten Kanye West und Lil Pump am 29. September bei Saturday Night Live, wobei den beiden jedoch einige Schimpfwörter herausrutschten. Der Auftritt von Lil Pump war eine Überraschung, da er eigentlich im Gefängnis sitzen sollte, da er seine Bewährungsauflagen verletzt hatte.

Der Song ist außerdem auf Lil Pumps zweiten Studioalbum The Harverd Dropout erschienen.

Produktion
Das Lied wurde von West selbst zusammen mit DJ Clark Kent und CBMix produziert, mit zusätzlicher Produktion von Ronny J. Der Songtext wurde von West, Lil Pump und dem amerikanischen Rapper Smokepurpp geschrieben.

Musikvideo
Das Musikvideo für die Single wurde bei den Pornhub Awards 2018 uraufgeführt. West und Lil Pump tragen riesige, rechteckige Körperanzüge in Form einer Box, die an Charaktere aus dem Videospiel Roblox erinnern. Sie gehen durch einen Gang mit sich bewegenden Frauenstatuen an den Wänden und verfolgen eine große Frau.

Das Video wurde von Spike Jonze als Executive-Produktion produziert und von West und Amanda Adelson inszeniert. Das Musikvideo erreichte in der ersten Woche nach der Veröffentlichung weltweit 76 Millionen Aufrufe auf YouTube und übertraf damit This Is America von Childish Gambino als schnellster Erfolg eines Hip-Hop-Videos in der ersten Woche nach der Veröffentlichung auf YouTube.

Es entwickelte sich in der Folge zu einem populären Internet-Meme. In der Netzkultur wurde die Darstellung in dem Musikvideo oft mit den Computerspielen Roblox und Minecraft in Verbindung gesetzt und brachte einige Parodien hervor. Ebenfalls wurde unter dem Hashtag #ILoveItChallenge von der Netzgemeinde versucht, das Musikvideo nachzuahmen.

Kommerzieller Erfolg
I Love It stieg auf Platz sechs der US-amerikanischen Singlecharts ein. Es verkaufte sich rund 16.000 mal in der Veröffentlichungswoche. Am 16. Mai 2019 wurde es mit Platin ausgezeichnet. In Österreich, der Schweiz, Deutschland und im Vereinigten Königreich belegte es ebenfalls Plätze in den Top-10. In Großbritannien erhielt es eine Gold-Auszeichnung. In Kanada erreichte es Platz 1 der Charts und war damit Wests dritter und Lil Pumps erster Nummer-1-Hit.

Auszeichnungen für Musikverkäufe

Kontroverse
Am 13. September 2018 beschuldigte DJ David Morales West, die Basslinie von I Love It aus einem Remix seines 1991 erschienenen Songs What Is This Thing Called Love gestohlen zu haben. Wests Ex-Freundin Amber Rose beschwerte sich ebenfalls am 18. September auf ihrem Instagram, dass er und Pump, sich von ihrer SlutWalk-Bewegung inspirieren haben lassen, aber das nicht angegeben haben.

Weblinks
 Lyrics auf metrolyrics.com

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Kanye-West-Lied
Lied von Kanye West
Platin-Lied (Vereinigtes Königreich)
Mehrfach-Platin-Lied (Vereinigte Staaten)

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Q: Invoke an intelliJ run/debug configuration from command line? I've got some Run/Debug Configurations defined in my JetBrains IDE, and to run them obviously you'd normally press the green 'play' icon;

However, I want to combine that with scripts I've got on my machine which detect file system changes and re-run some validation steps in the background;

Now what I'd like to do is to say something like 'when the CLI detects that something is stale, start the run/debug configuration in the IDE'.
So in pseudo-bash, something like
# if any "*.rs" file changes, press the green button in intellij;
watch-files *.rs -x "run-intellij-config 'check controlplane'

Is it possible to invoke tasks within IntelliJ like this?

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My book, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution will be out in October 2015! I am super excited and a lot of this has to do with the awesome cover designed by the marketing department at the UNC Press (with a little help from me!).
My favorite image of Haitian independence is a 1999 painting by the great Haitian artist Ernst Prophète, now in the private collection of Jack Rosenthal and Holly Russell (New York City). A representative of the "naïf" style, Prophète's great work shows Dessalines at the center of a group of generals, standing on a stone platform in the town square of Gonaïves, reading the text of his January 1 address to a throng of cheering Haitians, their hands raised triumphantly above their heads in pride and joy. To the right, Prophète depicts a group representing the free people of color of Saint-Domingue, their reaction to the announcement somewhat obscured by the leaves of the palm trees that tower above the crowd and gesture to the seascape that lies beyond.


More than 20 countries recognize Spanish as their official language. As the number of Spanish speakers worldwide continues to grow, so do the uses and interpretations for common Spanish words and phrases.
The way I speak Spanish is from growing up Mexican in the small Central Washington town of East Wenatchee. It's an intimate experience that can only be felt and understood by native Spanish speakers who grew up in the states and share my heritage.
We have a rooted insight into our language that the growing world of non-Native Spanish speakers can't ever access no matter how fluent they become.
In East Wenatchee, nearly half of the community was Latino/a, so practicing English as a small child wasn't easy. Before starting kindergarten, my parents put me in an all-English-speaking daycare to lose my Spanish accent.
Though I was raised to appreciate the economic value of being comfortably bilingual, I didn't understand the deeper value of my native tongue — a priceless gift from my parents. It wasn't until I entered college that I understood it as a powerful form of resistance to mainstream, anglo culture.
The language of my loved ones creates a sense of home and comfort for me that English never could.
So here's to the first words I heard in my mother's womb, the language of telenovelas and childhood memories, and of my grandmother's love spoken over the phone from Mexico.
The word chismosa (cheez-MOE-sah) translates to "gossiper," which sounds awful, and frankly, just doesn't cut it.
Prying like this is a form of caring and a way for the family to keep tabs on each other in a harmless way. It's a lifestyle born more out of love than anything else, but most of the time, it's just annoying as hell!
"¡Órale!" (or-AHL-eh) is kind of one of those wild cards in an Uno deck. If I find myself in a situation where I don't know how to respond, "¡órale!" usually works since it's an exclamation that fits many contexts.
Greñuda/o (grey-NYEW-dah) is an adjective that specifically describes untamed hair that has a mind of its own. It can personify rebellious, frizzy strands that refuse to follow orders when you try to calm them in the morning.
It can simply be used to describe someone who is wearing a messy bun (estás greñuda) or for a man whose beard hasn't been trimmed in awhile (estás greñudo).
People often use this word for young ones when their trencitas (braids) are coming undone after running around and playing, but in my grandparents' eyes, this word is for everyone, and used as a term of endearment.
You are in deep trouble, my friend, if the word vergüenza (behr-GWEN-zah) is being hurled at you. Vergüenza translates into English as "shame" but implies that the action you committed requires a whole lifetime of reflection and regret. It's often imposed by an elder as "¡Tengo vergüenza!" In Mexican families, your biggest mistake would be making a spectacle of yourself. Not only does it erode your personal dignity, but it makes your family look bad. And they'll make sure you never forget!
At this point, no one can save you from the proverbial chancla.
This phrase is by far the most complicated to explain out of my five words. The literal translation of te quiero (teh kee-YEHR-oh) is "I care/desire/want you," and it's commonly used in family settings as an expression between "I love you" and "I care about you." We use "te quiero" when we are saying goodbye to friends, family or relatives or with a significant other, whereas the more exclusive "te amo," which literally means "I love you," is reserved more for spouses or immediate family.
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Marion Romero is a self-identified Xicana transplant from Central Washington who came to Seattle to get a degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Washington. She is currently a Rainier Valley Corps Fellow placed at Got Green, where she works to address Environmental Justice issues through political advocacy.


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'I Am So Happy': Missing Since Saturday, New Canaan Dog 'Oreo' Is Found Alive and Well [UPDATED]
By Michael Dinan | December 11, 2018
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Here's Oreo Valiquette soon after he was found following a three-plus day ordeal where he'd gone missing amid sub-freezing temperatures in New Canaan. Photo courtesy of Gabrielle Valiquette
Update 10 p.m. Tuesday
Oreo Valiquette, the 15-month-old dog that went missing Saturday afternoon from a Four Winds Lane home, was found at about 9:30, according to his owner.
A neighbor who had received one of the 'Missing Dog' flyers from Gabrielle Valiquette phoned at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday saying "we hear a little dog, we don't see anything but we can hear something," she said.
"My husband went over with a flashlight and he was there, on the property, clean and unharmed and warm," Valiquette told NewCanaanite.com.
Oreo, a 10-pound Havenese and Poodle combination, has been missing since he chased after a deer in the Valiquette's backyard on Saturday.
He ultimately was found about five houses away, though it isn't clear where Oreo has been all this time.
"I am still in shock, I can't believe it," Valiquette said. "I am so happy. I thought we'd say we found him, but not alive after three-and-a-half days. He is alive and safe and sound."
Asked whether the family is going to make any changes, given that another deer could pass by their house, Valiquette said, "The bottom line is any time he is out of the house, he is going to be on a leash. Never off leash again unless he's inside the house with all the doors locked."
She thanked all of those in town who have offered assistance and support during this very difficult itme.
"It takes a whole village like New Canaan to make this happen," she said.
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A local family is asking for help in finding their beloved 15-month-old dog who has been missing since Saturday afternoon.
Oreo Valiquette has been found after more than three days missing in New Canaan. Contributed
Oreo Valiquette, a Havanese-Poodle or "Havapoo," chased after a deer around 2 p.m. on Dec. 8 from his backyard, toward the area below Greenley Road between Ponus Ridge and Chichester Road, according to his owner, Gabrielle Valiquette.
"We are absolutely devastated—still waiting for a scratch at the back door," Valiquette told NewCanaanite.com. "
Calling the past few days "a bad dream," Valiquette said that Oreo has been like a sibling for her two young daughters.
"There is just a part of our family that is missing now," she said.
Oreo was wearing a black leather collar and small paw print name tag at the time he went missing, she said.
Animal Control sections of both the New Canaan and Stamford Police Departments have been notified that he's missing, according to Valiquette. Oreo is micro-chipped and the microchip company also has him listed as missing, meaning that any shelter, veterinary hospital or government agency that scans for the chip will get Valiquette's contact information.
The neighborhood also have been posted with 100 flyers about Oreo that Valiquette has also put into mailboxes.
Though at all of 10 pounds, Oreo has a "Napoleon complex" shared by many smaller dogs, Valiquette said, the barking he normally does around large dogs may have changed since he's in survival mode.
The family's biggest fear is that Oreo has suffered due to low temperatures and wildlife such as coyotes, though it's also possible he's been picked up, Valiquette said.
"The town is absolutely amazing, I've gotten phone calls from people I've never met, one woman showed up with flashlight to help search and people have been sharing my posts [on social media] and sending well wishes and prayers," she said.
Oreo has been a member of the New Canaan family virtually since birth, according to Valiquette.
"We have had him since he was a baby," she said.
Anyone who has information on Oreo's whereabouts is asked to please call Gabrielle Valiquette at 203-918-5255.
Gabrielle Valiquette
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Andrea Sandor on December 11, 2018 at 6:47 pm said:
I posted this on nextdoor.com for neighbors in Northwest Darien which includes South West New Canaan and North Stamford (11816 families). Would encourage other nextdoor areas to post as well.
Sharon Daley on December 12, 2018 at 6:26 am said:
So happy for your family ! Wrlcome home to your baby.
Richard P Vachula on December 12, 2018 at 10:30 am said:
A Christmas Miracle !!!!! Thank You God !!!


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Of Dice And Men: The "Axis Of Civil"
RESTON, VA - The CIA wants you to know they are more than cloak-and-dagger government infiltrators. "The mission is to maintain peace, not just support war," said former Director of the CIA, John M. Deutch. "This new product puts that vision before the American public. I think it's a perfect play on the Iraqi Playing Cards idea." Deutch is describing the CIA's newest PR campaign, making available a pair of over-sized dice bearing the faces of men and women around the world that they do not need to worry about. "These are the Good Guys," said Deutch, "An Axis of Civil, as it were."
The dice measure two inches on a side and are made from a durable plastic polymer, "making them weigh comfortably in the hand, like a small bocce ball. The faces are printed into each side of the dice, so they won't easily scratch off. They are really just lovely pieces," said Holly Augmum, lead designer on the project. Augmum's firm, Uneek Designs, was chosen out of a pool of five firms to generate the new product. "The CIA told us they wanted to say something positive, they wanted it to be fun and relevant, and they wanted to keep the unit cost low enough that people could buy it on impulse."
At $24.95 and $6 shipping, it isn't exactly an impulse buy. Still, orders have been brisk. "We're seeing more orders every day. People order several sets," said Fulfillment Director Artie Cleese, "This keeps up, we'll need to open up another line of production."
The full list of faces and pictures as well as ordering information, is available on the CIA's website.


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Configuration of this Trendnet router is simple and easy by utilizing the WPS button located on the side of the router. By utilizing this button you can avoid the confusing setup and configuration of wireless networking. Along with easy one touch configuration, you can also take advantage of advanced wireless security features up to WPA2-RADIUS.
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With 4 LAN ports you have the option to connect up to 4 Ethernet capable devices directly to the router. These ports offer a secure wired connection allowing up to 100Mbps transfer speeds. Auto-MDIX automatically detects the required cable connection type and configures the connection appropriately, removing the need for crossover cables to interconnect switches or connecting PCs peer-to-peer. This enables you to easily connect your devices ensuring each device has a secure two way connection.
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My New York series is less history based and more about the vibe of the city than anything else. I love the architecture and energy of the city. I want to present my own view of New York. I don't want it to be cliché, it's just me and I love NY! This is my view of it and part of an ongoing series.
"The Phone Booth" - Photo Overlay. 2016.
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Please join us for an introduction to one of our favorite regions for all things cheese and wine. We'll explore spicy reds, zippy whites, tangy sheepsmilks, funky blues and everything in between this region that covers parts of Spain and Portugal. $45 inclusive of tax and gratuity.


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Al-Farabi
Al-Farabi (Arabic: ابو نصر محمد الفارابي / Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī;[1]) known in the West as Alpharabius[2] (c. 872[3] in Fārāb[4] – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951 in Damascus[4]), was a scientist and philosopher of the Islamic world. He was also a cosmologist, logician, and musician.
↑ Dimitri Gutas, "Farabi" in Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. accessed April 4, 2010. [1]
↑ Alternative names and translations from Arabic include: Alfarabi, Farabi, and Abunaser
↑ Corbin, Henry; Hossein Nasr and Utman Yahya (2001). History of Islamic Philosophy. Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7103-0416-2 .
↑ 4.0 4.1 Dhanani, Alnoor (2007). "Fārābī: Abū Naṣr Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Tarkhān al‐Fārābī". The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Ed. Thomas Hockey et al.. New York: Springer. 356–7. (PDF version)
Name Farabi
Alternative names ابو نصر محمد الفارابي (Arabic)
Short description scientist, philosopher
Date of birth 872
Place of birth Fārāb, either in Otrār in Central Asia or Faryāb in Khorāsān
Place of death Damascus
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NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Gold slid on Friday, closing its worst week since June, as profit-taking by investors and a spike in the U.S. dollar outweighed the desire for a safer haven.
Gold tumbled in early U.S. hours on apparent investor liquidation, but clawed back much of its loss by mid-afternoon as the resignation of European Central Bank policymaker Juergen Stark reignited aversion to riskier assets.
But even as U.S. stocks fell nearly 3 percent and other commodities tumbled, gold came under renewed pressure as two weeks of extreme volatility for bullion rattled some confidence in its bull run — despite the prospect of a second recession.
"The weakness in stocks and the drop in bond yields to new lows have helped gold come back today, but I doubt people are building new long positions ahead of the weekend," said James Steel, metals analyst at HSBC in New York.
By 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT), spot gold was down half a percent at around $1,858 an ounce, off an earlier low under $1,825. For the week, however, the spot price, which tracks trades in bullion, was down 1.4 percent — its sharpest loss since the week ending June 26.
U.S. gold futures for December delivery settled up 0.1 percent at $1,859.50, after touching an intraday low at $1,825.50.
The spot and futures prices hit record highs above $1,920 an ounce on Tuesday, before logging daily swings of up to $87.
Wall Street stocks, oil and copper fell about 3 percent. U.S. Treasuries joined gold in moving up, amid demand for so-called safe havens.
Worries that the U.S. Congress was unlikely to approve much of President Barack Obama's $447 billion plan to get jobless Americans working again added to investor angst.
"Gold's working into a quiet Friday close after being pushed around again from lows to highs," said George Nickas, a futures broker at FC Stone in New York.
The strong dollar was suspected to be another factor restraining gold from breaking out into a new rally. The U.S. currency was up 1.2 percent against a basket of currencies after the euro fell around 1.6 percent.
Some expect gold prices to turn volatile again after a weekend meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers, at which officials of industrialized countries are expected to come under heavy pressure to revive economic growth.
France has called for a coordinated response from the G7 after anxiety over Europe's debt crisis led world stock markets to drop in recent weeks, though differences between the economic problems facing the United States, Britain and euro zone states are complicating the task.
Some traders said gold also came under pressure from platinum, which looked increasingly attractive to some investors after the white metal's prices fell below gold's this week.
"Historically gold is about half the price of platinum," said Lars Steffenson, managing director at Ebullio Capital Management. "In the last two, three weeks you've actually seen gold spike to levels where it shouldn't be.
Spot platinum was down 1.2 percent at around $1,832 an ounce.
Prices at 2:19 p.m. EDT (1819 GMT).


While these changes may not appear to be significant when looking at the actual numbers, we see that 81,000 Nebraska kids were living in poverty in 2013, 100,000 children were living in families where their parents lacked secure employment, 119,000 were living in a home with a high cost burden, and 4,000 Nebraska teens were not in school and not working. These are big numbers and we must do better to ensure that all Nebraska kids have an equitable opportunity to thrive. There is much to be done to turn these trends around and Voices for Children is active in advocating for policies that will help do just that, like fighting the cliff effect, increasing ADC payments, and being mindful of the family bottom line.
In addition to economic well-being, the National KIDS COUNT Data Book includes sections on education, health, and family and community. Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we investigate each of these sections further and continue to blog about our policy work attempting to make Nebraska the best state in the nation to be a kid.


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VOICE & EMPOWERMENT
Society may have come a long way, but there is still a way to go. We believe young people are at the heart of making sure that equality for all is being addressed within the local community, to make it a fair and safer place to live for future generations.
Our Black History Month quiz on 24th October aims to challenge how much people really know about black history and raise awareness of the many important contributions to society by the black community.
Listen to our Youth Commissioners talk about what Black History Month means to them, below...
Our Quiz is presented by Ashley J, MTV presenter, Live Nation event presenter, Actor and the voice of 'Jared' in CBeebies series, JoJo & Gran-Gran.
He'll be joined by Tee-J, who is known for his role in CBBC television show Kerching! He's recently taken part in MTV, Channel 4 and E4's Dubplate Drama.
The quiz is open to all, £10 per household and the winning team gets a Caribbean feast delivered to their door from DUB Kitchen.
BUY TICKETS (on sale 17th Oct)
While we may not have been able to celebrate Pride in the way we are used to this year, that didn't stop our Youth Commissioners marking the occasion!
Calling all
Our Youth Commissioner Emily reviewed a series of books for National Book Lovers Day, including a selection of books with the theme of equality and justice.
READ EMILY'S BLOG
Would you like to support this project? Visit the main Southend YMCA website to find out more about becoming a Southend YMCA stakeholder.


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Egzorcysta ist eine seit 2012 monatlich erscheinende polnische Zeitschrift zum Thema Exorzismus. Die Gründung der Zeitschrift war eine Reaktion auf einen Exorzismus-Boom in Polen.

Die Verlag Polwen startete mit einer gedruckten Auflage von 15.000 und erreichte wenige Jahre später 40.000.

Im Januar 2021 erschien die 100. Ausgabe. Die Zeitschrift kostet 12 Złoty.

Die Internationale Standardnummer für fortlaufende Sammelwerke (ISSN) lautet: 2299-2197. Herausgeber ist der promovierte Physiker Mariusz Błochowiak.

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Religiöse Zeitschrift
Exorzismus in Kunst, Kultur und Medien
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Home / New Music and Video / Interviews and Features / How Her Experience as an Iranian-American Shaped the Songwriting of sami.the.great
How Her Experience as an Iranian-American Shaped the Songwriting of sami.the.great
By Ellen Eldridge on January 11, 2012
"A huge inspiration for me is heartbreak. It's not always about love either; the heartache from grieving for childhood or the heartache from putting my whole life and love into music without always feeling rewarded."
"I think growing up I felt I wasn't fully American or fully Iranian, and I never felt like I had a real place. I never had a clique."
Through heartache, finding a place to fit in, and connecting life experiences through the medium of music, singer/songwriter Sami Akbari, aka sami.the.great, takes comfort in the catharsis of creating a place for herself in her songs. When asked why she chose her stage name, she humbly replies, "My last name, Akbari, means 'the greatest' and I wanted something fans would remember after seeing a show; something easy to Google and something more memorable than my name."
Dresser Drawer by sami.the.great
Many singer/songwriters would take a choppy childhood where they felt pulled from one place to the next as fodder for tormented music, but Sami takes her experiences traveling the world, and living in Iran as well as America as fuel for positive inspiration. Sami says, "My mom's a Jewish lady from Queens and my dad is Iranian – you don't get that every day!"
The fact that she didn't feel like she fit in well with cliques in either country's schools created a place for her to fit into music. Sami says, "I think growing up I felt I wasn't fully American or fully Iranian, and I never felt like I had a real place. I never had a clique; I was friends with different people. With music, I found something where I felt like I belonged to it and it belonged to me. I started my connection with music from feeling disconnected from my surroundings."
Not to give the sense that her childhood was tormented, though, she explains, "The song 'Candyland' has more to do with how awesome my childhood was because of visiting family in Iran, and having that connection always there," Sami says. Though it may seem contradictory, her experience with traveling formed her personality and allowed her to express her feelings in music, when she feared not fitting in with any one group of people. Here lies the heart of what Sami offers her fans – a connection to a cultural dichotomy with which many people identify.
Not only does she fall into a category of singer/songwriters from mixed cultures, her Iranian-American background makes her a target for prejudice from political attacks. She says, "My whole family is there [Iran] except a few people. I am affected by the politics. I'm really happy about the events of last summer because now people know that not all the people are 'crazy Muslims' – those people aren't all the same as their government."
The balance of counteracting possible prejudice with the humanistic drive all people feel to fit in with sullen songs, like the opener to her full-length release sami.the.great (2012), "Your Only Fool," makes an instant connection to her fans that she never felt with friends in life, but connected to in music. Such remains its beauty and the strength of its catharsis.
Sami draws from a deep well of distilled heartache – and not just heartache from romantic relationships. "A huge inspiration, for me, is heartbreak. It's not always about love either; the heartache from grieving for childhood or the heartache from putting my whole life and love into music without always feeling rewarded," Sami says. "The material on my first two EPs came from a lot of the dating heartbreak, and even some of the newer material on sami.the.great comes from a rough patch my current boyfriend and I hit," she says.
When asked what she would do if she suddenly found her prince charming and "happily ever after," she said she would try to find inspiration in those events. Sami admits, "Well, I would hope to find inspiration in the upbeat details of my life, and I would look to others' sadness for darker inspiration. I don't think I will ever be 100% satisfied, though, because I find happiness in setting, achieving, and pushing myself toward bigger goals."
On the other side of the coin, Sami confesses she would feel lost without music as an outlet for catharsis. She says, "If I suddenly lost the ability to create music as an outlet, I would write in a journal. Writing in a journal is like going to a therapist. If I could no longer write, I would just clear my mind by getting outside and walking. I've been doing a bit of water-painting lately, too."
Sami Akbari always felt the pull toward writing songs and music. She majored in history at Roanoke College, but always felt inspired by and compelled to pursue songwriting. "I've always been singing and writing beginnings of songs and poetry all my life. I never really took it seriously until college. I had this amazing experience helping with hospitality for visiting musicians in school during my first year. Over the days that I helped out with these musicians I got the chance to experience their day. When they left, I actually felt depressed!"
Her songs pay homage to the moodier themes without sinking into clichéd ideas. Her tribute to the music from the '50s and '60s comes from her parents' love of The Beatles and other bands that she grew up listening to. "Making Eyes" has a present sense in theme and mood, but the harmonies and sha-boom-bop-style phrasing turn back the clock. Sami says, "I wanted to draw inspiration from the time period in some, not all, my songs because growing up I listened to The Beatles and wanted to mess around with the style in a new way. I looked at the chord progressions from the time while thinking about my own life in the present, which gives 'Making Eyes' that modern twist."
The fact that Sami makes music mostly as a solo artist means that she has to find passionate people with the same vision to back her in bands. She says, "This past time [recording sami.the.great] Felix McTeigue brought in another band he had been producing, 28 North, and they became my backing band. Felix and I also played on the songs as well. We had a great energy that worked on this album. In the past, I worked with friends of mine that I knew were good or I had played with. It's hard to hold on to musicians because as a solo artist I have to pay people and I don't have a lot of money myself yet. I'm trying to find a balance of people who will be on board with my projects even if they won't get paid right now, but will in the future, hopefully."
Sami said the process of deciding song order on sami.the.great was a collaborative effort, but the closing track, "Acrobat," was written the longest ago. Sami says, "It was never really a favorite, but I loved the way it turned out so much that I considered putting it first on the album. It gives a good mood feeling." The raw emotion of the chorus line, "don't mess with my heart anymore," resolves melodiously and without superficial aggression – but the supplication in those lines calls to those who have been through an on-again-off-again relationship. That relationship could have been with a lover, a label, or with a time period in someone's life, and that makes the music Sami Akbari records, great.
photos by Shervin Lainez
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Ever wonder how some people just make health and fitness look easy? While they're over there cooking pretty meals and sweating on the regular, you're struggling to keep up with life.
It can seem like a never ending roller coaster. One week is awesome, the next... well not so much.
You may think that kind of lifestyle, where health just feels natural, is just reserved for health and fitness professionals, but I'm here to bust that myth and give you the 4 steps it takes to create that.
It's going to require some patience and persistence, but I promise the payoff is sweet.
By following these steps, along with the Well-being Roadmap you'll be right on track to align fitness, nutrition, and strong mindset skills seamlessly into your life, which will ultimately lead to more freedom and happiness.
While working out and healthy eating may be two obvious steps, you may be wondering what the other 2 could possibly be!
Think of these four keys as the spokes on a wheel. You must have all of them in order for the wheel to be balanced and turn. If one spoke on the wheel is missing, the wagon (aka your body) is more likely to break down.
Every goal should start with a vision. Where are you going and how will you know when you've arrived get there? What does success look like to you?
Defining this is a MUST no matter what level you are, beginner or advanced. It's time to dream big, craft a vision, and set realistic goals (a must) so you can go get 'em!
Working out should not feel like a burden. It should build you up, not break you down.
It's also important to note that movement in any form is a beautiful thing. If it's making you stronger, and healthier, you're winning. Don't get caught up in the "shoulds."
Experiment with what you enjoy, craft a plan (it can be as detailed as you like), and map out small actionable goals that will support your overall vision from step 1.
Want to know the number one struggle I hear from my clients? Quite obviously... it's nutrition.
While this is often the hardest part of health and fitness, it can really be broken down into simple steps.
Remember that you don't have to fit into a box. There is so much overkill in the diet industry with promotions on keto, intermittent fasting, calorie counting... the list goes on.
Focus on one small nutritional change at a time. This has much more lasting power than going ALL IN and trying to be perfect.
If you're doing everything perfect, but missing the mindset piece, sadly you won't get very far in your health and fitness endeavors. Admittedly, this is my weakest category of the 4 we've talked about.
Identify and break down any limiting beliefs or negative words you may be saying to yourself. This, in itself, can be a challenge because we often don't sit down long enough (un-stimulated by technology) to hear or feel our thoughts.
Lean into appreciation and respect for your mind by taking time to center yourself and slooow the heck down.
Sometimes taking in all the information is great. But you may be wondering "how do I put it into action in a way that makes sense and works for me?"
Now that we've discussed the 4 steps it takes for lifelong health and fitness, you're READY for the Road Map. This is something I created just for you, so you can easily take these 4 steps and seamlessly weave them into your life.
Oh yeah, and it's totally free.
Think of the [thrive_2step id='1126']Well-being Road Map[/thrive_2step] as a journey.
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The same goes for your health!
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The other great thing? You can start today. Like, right this minute!
Head on over to Well-being Road Map page to download it now.
Download the Road Map, start on week 1, and watch the exciting changes take place! I'm here to help you along the way.
>>For more tools to simplify & elevate your health and fitness, check out my other free resources.
Let me know your overall goal in the comments section!


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Abstract: John K gets the scoop from Danny on the oodles of new RTL functions and the cool new language features in Delphi 6. Now with MP3 Audio.
Interview by John Kaster, Borland Developer Relations. Danny and John talk about enhancements to the Object Pascal language, the "bazillions" of new RTL functions, and a variety of other technical enhancements.
All Borland brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corporation, formerly known as Inprise Corporation, in the United States and other countries. Other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of the party using such names. This release contains forward-looking statements. All statements that are not historical are forward-looking. Forward-looking statements may relate to, but are not limited to, Borland's future financial performance, capital expenditures, revenues, acquisitions, earnings, costs, product development plans, global expansion plans, estimated size of potential customer markets, demand for our products, the projected acceptance by existing or potential customers of new technologies and the potential features of, or benefits to be derived from, the products developed, marketed or sold by Borland, market and technological trends in the software industry and various economic and business trends. Such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve a number of uncertainties and risks that may cause actual events or results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include, among others, the following: general economic factors and capital market conditions, general industry trends and the potential effects on us of competition in computer software product and services markets, growth rates in the software and professional services markets that we participate in, rapid technological change that can adversely affect the demand for our products, shifts in customer demand, market acceptance of new or enhanced products or services developed, marketed or sold by us, delays in scheduled product availability dates, actions or announcements by our competitors, software errors, reduction in sales to or loss of any significant customers, our ability to successfully integrate acquisitions, any failure by us to protect our intellectual property rights, the dependence of certain of our business units on licenses from third parties, our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel, and other factors described in our latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and our latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed by Borland Software Corporation with the SEC, copies of which may be obtained from the SEC at www.sec.gov. Borland undertakes no obligation to update any information contained in this release.
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package liquibase.ext.vertica.change;

import liquibase.change.*;
import liquibase.database.Database;
import liquibase.ext.vertica.customlogic.CustomLogicNamespaceDetails;
import liquibase.ext.vertica.database.VerticaDatabase;
import liquibase.ext.vertica.statement.CreateProjectionStatement;
import liquibase.ext.vertica.structure.GroupedColumns;
import liquibase.ext.vertica.structure.Segmentation;
import liquibase.statement.SqlStatement;
import liquibase.util.StringUtils;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Created with IntelliJ IDEA.
 * User: vesterma
 * Date: 11/11/13
 * Time: 13:00
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
 */
/**
 * Creates a new projection.
 */
@DatabaseChange(name="createProjection", description = "create projections", priority = ChangeMetaData.PRIORITY_DATABASE)
public class CreateProjectionChange extends AbstractChange implements ChangeWithColumns<ColumnConfigVertica> {

    private String tableName;
    private String projectionName;
    private String schemaName;
    private String viewName;
    private String columnAliases;
    private String objectType;
    private Boolean reducedPrecision;
    private Boolean usingIndex;
    private String tableSpace;
    private Boolean forUpdate;
    private String orderby;
    private String    ksafe;
    private List<GroupedColumns> groupedColumns;
    private Segmentation segmentation;
    private String segmentedby;
    private Integer offset;
    private String nodes;
    private String subquery;

    private List<ColumnConfigVertica> columns;
    private String remarks;

    public String getColumnAliases() {
        return columnAliases;
    }

    public void setColumnAliases(String columnAliases) {
        this.columnAliases = columnAliases;
    }

    public CreateProjectionChange() {
        super();
        columns = new ArrayList<ColumnConfigVertica>();
        groupedColumns = new ArrayList<GroupedColumns>();

    }

    public String getProjectionName() {
        return projectionName;
    }

    public String getSchemaName() {
        return schemaName;
    }

    public String getOrderby() {
        return orderby;
    }

    public void setOrderby(String orderby) {
        this.orderby = orderby;
    }

    public void setProjectionName(String projectionName) {
        this.projectionName = projectionName;
    }

    public void setSchemaName(String schemaName) {
        this.schemaName = StringUtils.trimToNull(schemaName);
    }

    public String getTableName() {
        return tableName;
    }

    public void setTableName(String tableName) {
        this.tableName = tableName;
    }

    public void addColumn(ColumnConfigVertica column) {
        columns.add(column);
    }

    public List<ColumnConfigVertica> getColumns() {
        return columns;
    }

    @Override
    public void setColumns(List columns) {
        this.columns = columns;
    }

    public String getKsafe() {
        return ksafe;
    }

    public void setKsafe(String ksafe) {
        this.ksafe = ksafe;
    }

    public void removeColumn(ColumnConfig column) {
        columns.remove(column);
    }

    public String getSubquery() {
        return subquery;
    }

    public void setSubquery(String subquery) {
        this.subquery = subquery;
    }

    /*public Segmentation getSegmentation() {
        Segmentation seg = new Segmentation();
        seg.setNodes(nodes);
        seg.setExpression(segmentedby);
        seg.setUnsegmented(segmentedby==null  ? true : false);
        seg.setAllNodes(nodes==null || nodes.contains("ALL") ? true : false);
        seg.setOffset(offset);
        return seg;
    }

    public void setSegmentation(Segmentation segmentation) {
        this.segmentation = segmentation;
    }
*/
    public SqlStatement[] generateStatements(Database database) {

        CreateProjectionStatement statement = new CreateProjectionStatement(getSchemaName(),getProjectionName(),getTableName(),getColumns());
        statement.setGroupedColumns(getGroupedColumns());
        statement.setSchemaName(getSchemaName());

        statement.setOffset(getOffset());
        statement.setNodes(getNodes());
        statement.setSegmentedby(getSegmentedby());
//        statement.setSegmentation(getSegmentation());
        statement.setSubquery(getSubquery());
        statement.setOrderby(getOrderby());
        statement.setKsafe(getKsafe());
//        statement.setColumnAliases(getColumnAliases());
//        statement.setObjectType(getObjectType());
//        statement.setReducedPrecision(getReducedPrecision());
//        statement.setUsingIndex(getUsingIndex());
//        statement.setTableSpace(getTableSpace());
//        statement.setForUpdate(getForUpdate());
//        statement.setQueryRewrite(getQueryRewrite());

        return new SqlStatement[]{statement};
    }

    public String getConfirmationMessage() {
        /*List<String> names = new ArrayList<String>(columns.size());
        for (ColumnConfig col : columns) {
            names.add(col.getName() + "(" + col.getType() + ")");
        }

        return "Columns " + StringUtils.join(names, ",") + " of " + getTableName() + " modified";*/
        return "Projection " + getProjectionName() + " has been created";
    }

    @Override
    protected Change[] createInverses() {
        DropProjectionChange inverse = new DropProjectionChange();
        inverse.setSchemaName(getSchemaName());
        inverse.setTableName(getTableName());
        inverse.setProjectionName(getProjectionName());
        inverse.setCascade(Boolean.FALSE);

        return new Change[]{
                inverse
        };
    }

    @Override
    public boolean supports(Database database) {
        return database instanceof VerticaDatabase;
    }

    public ColumnConfigVertica createColumnv(){
        ColumnConfigVertica col = new ColumnConfigVertica();
        columns.add(col);
        return col;
    }

    public GroupedColumns createGrouped(){
        GroupedColumns group = new GroupedColumns();
        groupedColumns.add(group);
        return group;
    }

    public Segmentation createSegmentation(){
        segmentation = new Segmentation();
        return segmentation;
    }

    public List<GroupedColumns> getGroupedColumns() {
        return groupedColumns;
    }

    public void setRemarks(String remarks) {
        this.remarks = remarks;
    }

    public String getSegmentedby() {
        return segmentedby;
    }

    public void setSegmentedby(String segmentedby) {
        this.segmentedby = segmentedby;
    }

    public String getNodes() {
        return nodes;
    }

    public void setNodes(String nodes) {
        this.nodes = nodes;
    }

    public Integer getOffset() {
        return offset;
    }

    public void setOffset(Integer offset) {
        this.offset = offset;
    }

    public String getSerializedObjectNamespace() {
        return CustomLogicNamespaceDetails.CUSTOM_LOGIC_NAMESPACE;

    }

}

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Q: geom_contour and stat_contour fail I'm trying to make a simple contour plot, similar to the example here. However, it fails with "Computation failed in stat_contour(): no proper 'z' matrix specified".
library('MASS')
library('tidyverse')

generate a gaussian density:
den = kde2d(x = rnorm(10000), y = rnorm(10000), h=.5, n=100)
zdf = data.frame(den$z)
colnames(zdf) = den$y
zdf$x = den$x

melt similar to documentation example:
melted = melt(zdf, id.vars = 'x', variable.name = 'y', value.name='z')
colnames(melted)
# [1] "x" "y" "z"
dim(melted)
# [1] 10000   3

ggplot(melted, aes(x, y, z=z)) + stat_contour()
# Warning message:
# Computation failed in `stat_contour()`:
# no proper 'z' matrix specified

'melted' seems to be formatted exactly the same as the volcano example, with x as the fast index and one entry in z for each unique combination of x and y. I can't figure out what the difference is.

A: When melting, the column names were cast to integer type in the y column (although they still print as though doubles?) Adding the following line fixed the problem:
melted$y = as.double(melted$y)


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              @include omega();

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            @include omega();

              @include span-columns(5);

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              @include omega();

              @include span-columns(6);

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Nesting columns

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            @include span-columns(4);

            @include span-columns(8);

              @include span-columns(4 of 8);

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Table grid

          @include outer-container;

              @include fill-parent();

              @include row(table);

                @include span-columns(4);

                @include pad();

                @include span-columns(8);

                @include reset-display;

Shifting columns

          @include outer-container;

              @include span-columns(6);

              @include shift(3);

Automatic rows

          @include outer-container;

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