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Q: Find External Key of Data Extension from JourneyID Can we find the External Key of Data Extension related to the Journey Builder using JourneyID? Is this possible to be done by SSJS or SQL?

A: Yes you can via the REST API and WSProxy.
First you would need to find the journey data via GET /interaction/v1/interactions (SFMC doc) and grab the triggers. Within the triggers you can find the event definitions which you can use to find the ObjectId of the trigger Data Extension by calling the endpoint GET /interaction/v1/eventDefinitions/{id} (SFMC doc).
As soon as you have the ObjectId of the associated Data Extension you can use WSProxy (gortonington blog's get you started) to retrieve all informations about this Data Extension.
Sounds complicated?
I have written a quick solution for you which should get you what you need. Please note, that anything in regards of Server-2-Server REST API integration and token generation has been left out of the code. Here are great articles by Ivan Razine to get you started on this one as well.
Furthermore, the code makes many assumptions and ignores if a journey has been stopped.
Code:
    <script runat="server">
        Platform.Load("Core", "1.1.5");

        try {

            var restBaseURI = 'https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.rest.marketingcloudapis.com/',
                // a SFMC access token
                token = 'eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IjQiLCJ2ZXIixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
                prox = new Script.Util.WSProxy();

            var journeyId = 'DDD4FDB8-34F7-4133-9406-EE316052CE2D',
                journeyVersion = 13;

            // get journey data by id
            var journeyData = getJourneyByID(journeyId,null,journeyVersion),
                journeyTriggerEventDefinitionId = journeyData.triggers[0].metaData.eventDefinitionId;

            if (journeyTriggerEventDefinitionId) {

                // get triggered EventDefinition data
                var journeyEventDefinition = getJourneyEventDefinitions(journeyTriggerEventDefinitionId),
                    journeyTriggerDataExtensionObjectId = journeyEventDefinition.dataExtensionId;

                // get Data Extension Key based on object id
                if (journeyTriggerDataExtensionObjectId) {

                    var dataExtension = retrieveDataExtensionByObjectId(journeyTriggerDataExtensionObjectId);

                    Write(dataExtension.Name);
                    Write(dataExtension.CustomerKey);
                }
            }

        } catch(e) {
            Write(Stringify(e))
        }

         /**
         * Retrieves a single journey by ID or key.
         *
         * To call this resource, assign your API Integration the Automation | Interactions | Read scope.
         *
         * @param   {string}    id                  ID of version 1 of the journey in the form of a GUID (UUID).
         *                                          Required if not using a key.
         * @param   {string}    key                 The key of the journey. Required if not using ID.
         *                                          Prefix the parameter with key:. For example: key:{key}.
         * @param   {number}    [versionNumber]     Version number of the journey to retrieve. If not provided,
         *                                          version 1 is returned.
         * @param   {string}    [extras]            A list of additional data to fetch. Available values are:
         *                                          all, activities, outcomes and stats. Default is 'all'.
         *
         * @returns {object}
         *
         * @see {link https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.noversion.mc-apis.meta/mc-apis/routes.htm#detail_getInteractionById|getInteractionById}
         *
         * @example
         * // using id
         * var resp = getJourneyByID('DDD4HDX8-34F7-4143-9406-EE916052CEAD');
         *
         * // using key
         * var resp = getJourneyByID(null,'key:DDD4HDX8-34F7-4143-9406-EE916052CEAD');
         *
         */
        function getJourneyByID(id,key,versionNumber,extras) {
            var config = {
                    url: restBaseURI + "interaction/v1/interactions/",
                    contentType: "application/json",
                    header: {
                        Authorization: "Bearer " + token
                    }
                };

            if (!id && !key ) {
                throw '(getJourneyByID)\n\tRequired Parameter missing';
            }

            config.url += (id)?id:key;
            config.url += (versionNumber)?"?versionNumber="+versionNumber:'?versionNumber=1';
            config.url += (extras)?"&extras="+extras:'&extras=all';

            var req = httpRequest('GET',config.url, config.contentType, null, config.header);

            if (req.status == 200) {
                return req.content;
            } else {
                throw '(getJourneyByID)\n\tRetrieve Journey failed';
            }

        }

         /**
         * Retrieves an individual event definition by ID or key.
         *
         * @param   {string}    id                  ID of version 1 of the journey in the form of a GUID (UUID).
         *                                          Required if not using a key.
         * @param   {string}    key                 The key of the journey. Required if not using ID.
         *
         * @returns {object}
         *
         * @see {link https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.noversion.mc-apis.meta/mc-apis/routes.htm#detail_getEventDefinition|getInteractionById}
         *
         * @example
         * // using id
         * var resp = rest.getJourneyEventDefinitions('DDD4HDX8-34F7-4143-9406-EE916052CEAD');
         *
         * // using key
         * var resp = rest.getJourneyEventDefinitions(null,'key:DDD4HDX8-34F7-4143-9406-EE916052CEAD');
         *
         */
        function getJourneyEventDefinitions(id,key) {
            var config = {
                    url: restBaseURI + "interaction/v1/eventDefinitions/",
                    contentType: "application/json",
                    header: {
                        Authorization: "Bearer " + token
                    }
                };

            if (!id && !key ) {
                throw '(getJourneyEventDefinitions)\n\tError: Required Parameter missing';
            }

            config.url += (id)?id:key;

            var req = httpRequest('GET',config.url, config.contentType, null, config.header);

            if (req.status == 200) {
                return req.content;
            } else {
                throw '(getJourneyEventDefinitions)\n\tError: Retrieve Journey failed';
            }

        }

        /**
         * Retrieve informations about a single DataExtension based on the object id.
         *
         * @param {string}  objectId  The internal identifier for the DataExtension.
         *
         * @returns {object} Result set of the request.
         *
         */
        function retrieveDataExtensionByObjectId(objectId) {
            var cols = retrievableCols('DataExtension'),
                property = ['Name','CustomerKey'],
                req = {};

            var req = prox.retrieve("DataExtension", cols, {
                Property: 'ObjectId',
                SimpleOperator: "equals",
                Value: objectId
            });

            if( req.Status == 'OK' && req.Results.length > 0 ) {
                return req.Results[0];
            }
            throw '(retrieveDataExtensionByObjectId)\n\tError: Cannot find DataExtension with ObjectId: '+objectId;
        }

        /**
         * Retrieves all retrievable columns for the given object.
         *
         * @param {string} objectType The SFMC Object to retrieve cols from.
         *
         * @returns {array} A list of al retrievable columns.
         *
         * @example
         * // retrieve cols for DataExtension
         * var cols = retrievableCols('DataExtension');
         *
         * @see {@link https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.noversion.mc-apis.meta/mc-apis/getting_the_fields_available_for_retrieval.htm|Get the Fields Available for Retrieval}
         */
        function retrievableCols(objectType) {
            var cols = [];

            var req = prox.describe(objectType);
            var props = req.Results[0].Properties;
            if( props.length > 0 ) {
                for(var i=0; i<props.length; i++) {
                    if( props[i].IsRetrievable ) {
                        cols.push(props[i].Name);
                    }
                }
            }
            return cols;
        }

        /**
         * Perform an HTTP request allowing the usage of API methods.
         *
         * @param {string} method           The method to use e.g: POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE
         * @param {string} url              The url to send the request to
         * @param {string} [contentType]    The contentType to use e.g: application/json
         * @param {object} [payload]        A payload for the request body
         * @param {object} [header]         Header values as key value pair
         *
         * @returns {object} Result of the request
         */
        function httpRequest(method,url,contentType,payload,header) {
            var req = new Script.Util.HttpRequest(url);
            req.emptyContentHandling = 0;
            req.retries = 2;
            req.continueOnError = true;
            req.method = method;
            for( var k in header ) {
                req.setHeader(k, header[k]);
            }
            if(typeof contentType !== 'undefined' && contentType !== null) { req.contentType = contentType; }
            if(typeof payload !== 'undefined' && payload !== null) { req.postData = Platform.Function.Stringify(payload); }

            try {
                var res = req.send();

                return {
                    status: Platform.Function.ParseJSON(String(res.statusCode)),
                    content: Platform.Function.ParseJSON(String(res.content))
                };

            } catch(e) {
                return {
                    status: '500',
                    content: e
                };
            }
        }

    </script>

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Alice Springs (June Newton): Portraits
News, Photo Exhibitions	 13 July 2018 0
In June's Room, on the occasion of the 95th birthday of June Newton, who worked under the name Alice Springs, are around 30 portraits, some previously unseen, from the foundation's collection. In the context of the Sozzani collection, they are mainly of artists, photographers, and fashion designers.
Alice Springs started working in the 1970s on her own photographic oeuvre, which has also often been featured at the Helmut Newton Foundation. The artists, actors, and musicians she portrayed reads like a who's who of the international cultural scene from the past 40 years on both sides of the Atlantic – from Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld to Billy Wilder and Diana Vreeland, and even the Hells Angels. Although many of her subjects are from the jet set, their social status was not a priority for her. Her photographs range from commissions for magazines between Paris and Los Angeles to independent projects. Her keen ability to both reveal and penetrate a person's façade might be traced back to her solid foundation in acting. She often closed in on people's faces, framing them in a tight bust or waist shot. There are only a few studio portraits; most of them use natural light, taken in public spaces or at the protagonist's home.
Alice Springs (June Newton)
2 June – 18 November 2018
Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstr. 2
helmutnewton.com
Alice Springs: Ralph Gibson, Paris 1984 © Alice Springs
Alice Springs: Diana Vreeland, Paris 1983 © Alice Springs
Alice Springs: Yves Saint Laurent, Paris 1978 © Alice Springs
Alice Springs, Featured, Helmut Newton Foundation, June Newton
Steven Arnold: Revelations
Biography: 19th Century Pioneer German Women photographer Emilie Bieber

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The Beef Brisket Benedict (Potato hash, pulled beef brisket, pickled vegetables, poached eggs and sriracha hollandaise) was fairly average. I found the brisket was flavoured too strongly with pepper and as a result it overwhelmed all the other flavours on the plate. The cauliflower was meant to have the acidity to balance it as did the creaminess of the egg yolk but it just wasn't enough. Trying it with the less peppery pieces of brisket did allow me to see how it should've worked though. Potato hash was the shining light through it all though and I wish there was so much more of it to be a worth adversary to the brisket and be a vehicle to reduce its flavour.
The Banana Brûlée Waffle Belgian Waffle (Banana brûlée, vanilla ice cream, fresh summer berries, popping candy, meringue and chocolate sauce) were another so-so dish. It really didn't need the chocolate and it actually worked against the dish - overwhelming the other fresh flavours. The crunch of popping candy and the caramel was more than enough crunch on the plate so the crunchy meringue was not necessary, a softer meringue would've been better suited. Honestly there was so much going on that I couldn't really taste the waffle in it all. Overall, not a very complementary dish and not much to be impressed about - the ice cream and berries were the highlight…?
The Iced Mocha was SO YUM. Perfect sweetness and flavour, might've been my favourite dish of the day.
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After a bit of a hiatus, brunch is finally back! This trendy cafe has all the trimmings of an insta-cafe with the beautiful decor and perfect lighting so it made sense to be the setting of my birthday brunch (YAY me...not really).
Finally had a chance to visit the sister cafe to the now legendary instacafe - the Glass Den. Apprehensive at best due to my fairly average experience there I wanted to give this a shot to see if things were better on the other side of town...but were they?!


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In November 2016, following evaluation of the Trial, the Scottish Government announced that beavers would be allowed to remain and their population naturally expand from Knapdale and Tayside. This marked the first successful reintroduction of any wild mammal to the UK.
Our Director of Conservation Susan Davies said: "Reinforcement of the population of beavers at Knapdale is an essential step to encourage natural recolonisation of beavers from Knapdale into mid-Argyll. We have been greatly encouraged by the support received from both the local community and national stakeholders during the public consultation undertaken as part of the licence application process.
"Beavers are fantastic natural engineers and we've seen first-hand in Knapdale how a relatively small number of animals can create new wetlands and improve riparian woodland. They also bring wider benefits to a range of other species, from insects and birds to otters and water voles.
"In addition, beaver tourism is giving a boost to the local economy as the presence of these animals is proving to be a strong draw for visitors to mid-Argyll.
Ben Harrower, RZSS Conservation Programme Manager, said: "Following the approval by Scottish Natural Heritage of a species licence to release beavers into the wild in September, we have been working on the translocation of three beavers to Knapdale, this involved detailed health screening as well as genetic analysis. Our monitoring suggests that they are adapting well to their new home.
"We will continue to closely monitor the progress of the beavers with a view to releasing more animals in early 2018 and over the next three years. By the end of that period we hope to see some of the translocated beavers paired up with the existing population and producing kits.
"This is a significant milestone for the conservation of beavers in Knapdale. We are grateful to Forest Enterprise Scotland for hosting the Knapdale population as well as Mechanical Engineering Services for their support during our activities and surveys".
The reinforcement project carried out by Scottish Beavers follows the best practice set out in the Scottish Code for Conservation Translocations. An important step in the process was effective consultation with, and building support from, the local community and national stakeholders.
The reinforcement is being carried out under a licence from Scottish Natural Heritage, and with permission and support from Forest Enterprise Scotland, which manages Knapdale Forest.
Please support our beaver appeal. Your gift will help to reinforce the beaver population in Knapdale, making sure the population is healthy and can continue to thrive.


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10 of Music's Most Bizarre Alter Egos
buzz | By Tom Hawking | October 23, 2012
This week sees the release of the utilitarianly titled Banks, the first solo release under his own name by Interpol singer Paul Banks. It's not his first solo release, though — Banks has already put out an album and an EP under the pseudonym Julian Plenti. He appears to have retired the alter ego now, which only makes the whole thing more bizarre — despite the fact that Julian Plenti's records sounded awfully like Interpol, Banks even insisted on being interviewed in character, reputedly refusing to answer questions that weren't addressed to "Julian." In memory of Julian Plenti, then, here are a selection of music's most strangest and most memorable alter egos.
Julian Plenti
See? Totally different! Um…
Bono David Bowie Eminem Garth Brooks Johnny Otis Joni Mitchell kings of leon Norah Jones Of Montreal Paul Banks


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import imaginet.task
import imaginet.defn.lm as lm
import imaginet.defn.visual1h as visual1h
from scipy.spatial.distance import cosine
from urllib2 import urlopen
from subprocess import check_output
import numpy
import scipy.stats

# Conversion to phonemes

def espeak(words):
    return phon(check_output(["espeak", "-q", "--ipa=3",
                        '-v', 'en',
                        words]).decode('utf-8'))
def phon(inp):
    # get rid of accents
    return [ ph.replace(u"ˈ","").replace(u"ˌ","") for word in inp.split() for ph in word.split("_") ]

# Cosine distance from precomuted representation table
def cos(R, word1, word2, layer=-1):
    return 1-cosine(R[word1][layer,:], R[word2][layer,:])

# Precompute representations
def reps(model, data):
    R = {}
    vocab = set()
    for x in data:
        if x[0] not in vocab:
            vocab.add(x[0])
        if x[1] not in vocab:
            vocab.add(x[1])
    words = [ w for w in vocab]
    ipas  = [ espeak(w) for w in vocab ]
    reps = [ imaginet.task.pile(model, [ipa])[0] for ipa in ipas ]
    for i in range(0,len(words)):
        R[words[i]] = reps[i][-1,:,:]
    return R

# Human judgements
def judge(url):
    result = []
    f = urlopen(url)
    for line in f:
        fields = line.split("\t")
        if len(fields) == 3:
            result.append((fields[0], fields[1], float(fields[2])))
    return result

M_old = imaginet.task.load(path="/home/gchrupala/repos/reimaginet/examples/vis/model.10.zip")
M_new = imaginet.task.load(path="/home/gchrupala/repos/reimaginet/examples/emnlp-2016/phon-gru.8.zip")
menurl = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kadarakos/wordsims.io/master/wordsims/word-sim-data/EN-MEN-TR-3k.txt"
MEN = judge(menurl)
human_m  = [ x[2] for x in MEN ]

R_old = reps(M_old, MEN)
R_new = reps(M_new, MEN)

# Print correlations for MEN
print "OLD"
for layer in range(0,3):
    system_m = [ cos(R_old, x[0], x[1], layer=layer) for x in MEN ]
    print layer+1
    print "MEN", scipy.stats.spearmanr(human_m, system_m)

print "NEW"
for layer in range(0,3):
    system_m = [ cos(R_new, x[0], x[1], layer=layer) for x in MEN ]
    print layer+1
    print "MEN", scipy.stats.spearmanr(human_m, system_m)

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Michael Manning Weatherly, Jr. (* 8. července 1968, New York) je americký herec.

Životopis
Narodil se v New Yorku a vyrůstal v Connecticutu. Jeho rodiče, Patricia a Michael Weatherlyovi, jsou velmi bohatí. Michael má jedenáct sourozenců, ale pouze jeden z nich má stejné rodiče jako on. Jeho otec ho vydědil poté, co se Michael rozhodl stát hercem. Studoval v Massachusetts a v Paříži (American University of Paris), ale školu kvůli herectví opustil. V letech 1995–1997 byl ženatý s Amelií Heinle, se kterou si také několikrát zahrál a se kterou má syna Augusta Manninga, narozeného v roce 1996. Předtím chodil mimo jiné s Jessicou Alba. V lednu 2009 se oženil s Bojanou Jankovic a v dubnu 2012 se jim narodila dcera Olivia.

Nejznámější je díky rolím v seriálech Černý anděl a Námořní vyšetřovací služba, kde hraje zvláštního agenta Anthonyho DiNozzo. Objevil se také v seriálech Loving, Čarodějky, Ally McBealová, JAG a dalších a hrál i v několika filmech.

Filmografie

Odkazy

Reference

Externí odkazy

 Oficiální web

 Česká fanstránka

Narození v roce 1968
Narození 8. července
Žijící lidé
Američtí herci
Muži
Narození v New Yorku
Absolventi Americké univerzity v Paříži

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package nl.hugojanssen.sqlgraph.shared;

import static org.fest.assertions.Assertions.assertThat;

import org.testng.annotations.BeforeTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class SQLPropertiesTest
{
	private SQLProperties properties;

	@BeforeTest
	public void setup()
	{
		this.properties = SQLProperties.getInstance();
	}

	@Test( groups = "construct-properties", description = "Tests constructor" )
	public void testConstructor()
	{
		assertThat( this.properties ).isNotNull();
	}

	@Test( dependsOnGroups = "construct-properties", description = "Tests getProperty" )
	public void testGetProperty()
	{
		assertThat( this.properties.getProperty( null ) ).isNull();
		assertThat( this.properties.getProperty( "" ) ).isNull();
		assertThat( this.properties.getProperty( "idonotexist" ) ).isNull();
		assertThat( this.properties.getProperty( "db.vendor" ) ).isEqualTo( "dbvpostgresql" );
	}
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Swiss Museum of Transport also called as Verkehrshaus der Schweiz which can be translated to Transportation House of Switzerland and was inaugurated in the year 1959 in the month of July. All forms of means of transport are exhibited in the museum including automobiles, locomotives, ships, aircrafts and much more. There is also an amazing collection which displays the communication technology. It is one of the most popular museums of the city and also of the country of Switzerland. The famous painter and sculptor, Hans Erni's work is also housed in the museum's collection. Some other attractions include the planetarium housed in the premises of the museum, a large format cinema and a 1:20,000 scale aerial photo of the country.
The Kapellbrucke is a foot bridge made of wood and has been named after the chapel located nearby, the St. Peter's Chapel. The uniqueness of the bridge comes from the paintings that are housed in its interior. Many of the paintings have been destroyed in the destruction of the old bridge, however, some of them are still intact. The bridge has been restored now and is also considered as the oldest bridge of the city. It is one of the oldest surviving truss bridges as well. The bridge is regarded as the symbol of the city and one of the main attractions of the country. The paintings that are intact are almost 50 in number which escaped the fire that destroyed the rest of them. Originally, there were 158 paintings. The paintings are framed in triangular frames which are embedded on the roof of the bridge on the insides.
The city Lucerne is located on the shores of the Lake Lucerne. The meaning of the name is the Lake of the Four Forested Settlements. It is located in central Switzerland and is counted as one of the largest in the country. The shape of the lake is unique and also complicated. There are four arms to the lake with several sharp bends. The lake starts from the Reuss Valley and continues till the Gersauer Becken, which is the deepest point of the lake and ends at the Reuss in Lucenre. The European Rowing Championships has used the lake in its tournaments and events twice as one of its major venues and spots for sports. The first time it was a venue was in 1908 and the second time in the year 1926. Rotsee has also been using the lake as a rowing regatta since 1933.
Glacier Garden of Lucerne houses a garden, a park, a natural monument, mirror maze and also a historical museum. All of this at one spot to keep you busy in enjoyment for the entire day. A day will surely be less to explore the entire Glacier Garden of Lucerne. The best part of the garden is the mirror maze which is quite adventurous as it will leave you puzzled and you can be a part of the same like the thousands others who visit the park. There is also a Swiss Rail which will take you to the tour of the entire garden. The garden has numerous plantations and tress which make the garden look colourful with their leaves, flowers and sometimes fruits. The museum also has a great collection of items portraying the culture of the city and the country. The rock formations at the garden are amazing and look stunning. A few fossils are also embarked at the garden. The wood work is gorgeous. A café is also present in its premises.
Pilatus is a mountain massif and is also referred to as Mount Pilatus. It is located in central Switzerland. There are a number of peaks composing the mountain of which the one that is the highest is the Tomlishorn. 2 peaks right next to the stations are Esel and Oberhaupt. The legends believe that dragons resided over the mountain which had healing powers. The mountain is snowy and covered in white during most of the part of the year. The sunsets and the sunrises are astonishingly beautiful from the peak. A must visit place if you are in the city. It is one of the major attractions of the city and also the country.
The Old Town Lucerne is situated between the Chapel Bridge and the City Hall in the city. It is located along the river Reuss. There are a number of old buildings and restaurants that are lined in the town. The restaurants have nicely arranged tables and serve authentic food which is been running their culture since long.
Located in the centre of Switzerland, Lucerne is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and they have the same name. It is one of the most populous cities of the country, housing almost 81,057 people according to the census of 2013. There are 17 municipalities in the urban area of the city and 3 different cantons too. It is situated on the shores of Lucerne Lake and has an amazing arena of views and sights. The city is beautiful with a lot to see and capture. There are a number of attractions to visit and come across and you will be entertained the entire time ranging from their cultural attire, dishes or places to visit including a number of arks, gardens, museum and other recreational spots.
The warm months starting from April are the best time. The crowd is less and the hotels are cheaper. You can also enjoy sightseeing a lot.
Trains are available from Zurich and Bern which will take you to the main station of the city Lucerne. The Lucerne city is nearby the station and can be reached within hours. However, a different route might take a little more time. A direct flight from Zurich is also available.


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Q: When will a group be Abelian? My Attempt:
$1.$ $G$ is abelian if and only if the mapping $g\mapsto g^{-1}$ is an isomorphism on the group $G$.
$2.$If $G$ is finite and every irreducible character is linear then $G$ is abelian.
$3.$If $\operatorname{Aut}(G)$ acts on the set $G-\{e\}$ transitively then $G$ is abelian.
$4.$If $\mathbb Z_2$ acts by automorphism on a finite group $G$ fixed point freely then $G$ is abelian.
$5.$ If $\forall a,b\in G$ $ ab=ba$ then $G$ is Abelian.
My Question:
The above are the things which I already use to show a group  will be Abelian.

Is/are there any other way(s) to show a group $G$ to be Abelian?

A: If $G/Z(G)$ is cyclic, then $G$ is abelian.
and its corollary for finite groups:
If $|Z(G)| > \frac {1}{4} |G|$, then $G$ is abelian.

A: If $G$ is finite of order $n$ and $n$ is an abelian number, then $G$ is abelian.
$n$ is an abelian number when $n$ is a cubefree nilpotent number, that is, if $n = p_1^{a_1} \cdots p_r^{a_r}$, then

*

*$a_i < 3$

*$p_i^k \not \equiv 1 \bmod{p_j}$ for all $1 \leq k \leq a_i$
(adapted from this answer)

A: How about if $G = Z(G)$, or if $\operatorname{Inn}(G) \cong 1$, ($\operatorname{Inn}(G)$ is the group of inner automorphisms).
These two criteria are related to eachother quite directly by the isomorphism $\frac{G}{Z(G)} \cong \operatorname{Inn}(G)$.

A: If you know a generating set for the group $G$, so a set $S$ such that $G=\langle S\rangle$, then $G$ is abelian if and only if $xy=yx$ for every $x, y\in S$.
That is, you just need to check commutativity of the generators rather than of all elements.

A: If we know (e.g. by Sylow's theorems) that there exist an abelian normal subgroup $H \unlhd G$ and another subgroup $U$ such that $HU = G$ and $H\cap U = \{e\}$, then $G = U \rtimes H$. If the only group action of $U$ on $H$ (i.e. the only homomorphism $U \rightarrow \operatorname{Aut}(H)$) is trivial, the group is abelian.
This worked for me in practice in a few undergrad problems on finite groups. Not sure if it's helpful elsewhere.

A: (1) A group G is abelian iff G is equal to its center
(2) A group G is abelian iff G is isomorphic to an abelian group.
(3) If G is a group and every element in G has order 1 then G is abelian.
(4) If G is a group and every element in G has order 2 then G is abelian.
(5) Every cyclic group is abelian.
(6) If a group G has prime order then it is abelian.
Proof of (6): Let G be a group of prime order, p. Let $g\in G$ be such that $g$ is not the identity, by lagranges theorem , $<g>$ divides $|G|$. Since the order of G is prime, the order of $<g>$ is either 1 or p. Since $g$ is not the the identity, it follows that G is cyclic, and thus abelian by (5).
(7) A subgroup H of G is abelian if G is abelian.
(8) Let G be a finite group and H an abelian subgroup. If the order of H is the order of G then G is abelian.

A: A finite group $G$ is Abelian if and only if every irreducible complex representation of $G$ is one dimensional.

A: You could show the first derived subgroup,  the commutator, is trivial.   It's the group generated by all $[x,y]=xyx^{-1}y^{-1}$ for $x,y\in G$.  Denoted $[G,G]$ or $G'$.

A: A group $G$ is abelian if and only if the multiplication map $\circ:G\times G\to G$ is a homomorphism.


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Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX
In 2020, Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX had a population of 162k people with a median age of 36.4 and a median household income of $64,955. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX grew from 156,735 to 161,953, a 3.33% increase and its median household income grew from $61,100 to $64,955, a 6.31% increase.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX are White (Non-Hispanic) (55.9%), White (Hispanic) (25.5%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (5.91%), Other (Hispanic) (4.27%), and Two+ (Hispanic) (3.73%).
29.9% of the households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
89.1% of the residents in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX are U.S. citizens.
In 2020, the median property value in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was $181,900, and the homeownership rate was 72.8%.
Most people in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 33 minutes. The average car ownership in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was 2 cars per household.
Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX borders Brazos Valley COG (Outside Brazos County) & Milam County PUMA, TX, Deep East Texas COG (West) & Walker County PUMA, TX, Liberty & Chambers Counties PUMA, TX, Montgomery County (West)Conroe City (West) PUMA, TX, Montgomery County (South)The Woodlands (North) PUMA, TX, and Montgomery County (Southeast) PUMA, TX.
Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX is home to a population of 162k people, from which 89.1% are citizens. As of 2020, 15.3% of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX residents were born outside of the country (24.9k people).
In 2020, there were 2.19 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (90.5k people) in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX than any other race or ethnicity. There were 41.3k White (Hispanic) and 9.58k Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
The most common non-English languages spoken as the primary langauge in households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX are Spanish (41,818 households), Swahili or Other Languages of Central, Eastern, & Southern Africa (297 households), and Urdu (292 households).
As of 2020, 89.1% of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX residents were US citizens, which is lower than the national average of 93.4%. In 2019, the percentage of US citizens in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was 88.8%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been increasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The 3 largest ethnic groups in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX
34.2% of the people in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX are hispanic (55.4k people).
The following chart shows the 7 races represented in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX as a share of the total population.
As of 2020, 15.3% of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX residents (24.9k people) were born outside of the United States, which is higher than the national average of 13.5%. In 2019, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was 15.6%, meaning that the rate has been decreasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
Swahili or Other Languages of Central, Eastern, & Southern Africa
29.9% of the households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language, which is higher than the national average of 21.5%. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
In 2020, the most common non-English language spoken in households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was Spanish. 27.8% of the households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX reported speaking Spanish at home as the primary shared language between all members living in the household.
Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.5 times greater than any other conflict.
The economy of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX employs 67.3k people. The largest industries in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX are Construction (6,994 people), Elementary & secondary schools (6,551 people), and Restaurants & Food Services (5,497 people), and the highest paying industries are Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers ($211,988), Household appliances & electrical & electronic goods merchant wholesalers ($159,579), and Air transportation ($156,915).
The workforce of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX in 2020 was 67,275 people, with 43.6% woman, and 56.4% men.
The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX.
From 2019 to 2020, employment in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX grew at a rate of 4.84%, from 64.2k employees to 67.3k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX, are Elementary & middle school teachers (2,255 people), Cashiers (2,112 people), and Janitors & building cleaners (1,888 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX, are Construction (6,994 people), Elementary & secondary schools (6,551 people), and Restaurants & Food Services (5,497 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX, though some of these residents may live in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2020 are Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($80,907), Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($72,008), and Public Administration ($71,078).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2020 are Manufacturing ($52,069), Construction ($41,979), and Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($41,263).
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX in 2020 were High School or Equivalent (36.4k), Some college (30k), and Secondary Education (25.2k).
The median property value in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was $181,900 in 2020, which is 0.792 times smaller than the national average of $229,800. Between 2019 and 2020 the median property value increased from $169,100 to $181,900, a 7.57% increase. The homeownership rate in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX is 72.8%, which is approximately the same as the national average of 64.4%.
People in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX have an average commute time of 33 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
Median household income in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX is $64,955. In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was Flower Mound Town & Highland Village City PUMA, TX with a value of $141,330, followed by Austin City (Northwest) PUMA, TX and Fort Bend County (West & South) PUMA, TX, with respective values of $130,920 and $121,555.
The following chart display owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX the largest share of households pay taxes in the $3k+ range.
The chart underneath the paragraph shows the property taxes in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies.
In 2020, 72.8% of the housing units in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX were occupied by their owner. This percentage grew from the previous year's rate of 72.1%.
This chart shows the percentage of owner in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
In 2020, the PUMA with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was Flower Mound Town & Highland Village City PUMA, TX with a value of $141,330, followed by Austin City (Northwest) PUMA, TX and Fort Bend County (West & South) PUMA, TX, with respective values of $130,920 and $121,555.
The following map shows all of the PUMAs in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
In 2020, the median household income of the 54.2k households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX grew to $64,955 from the previous year's value of $61,100.
The following chart displays the households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $75k - $100k range.
2020 Wage GINI in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX
In 2020, the income inequality in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was 0.464 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 2.63% decline from 2019 to 2020, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The GINI for Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX was lower than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
In 2020, 79.3% of workers in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (11.3%) and those who worked at home (5.98%).
Using averages, employees in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX have a longer commute time (33 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.9 minutes). Additionally, 4.02% of the workforce in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX have 2 cars.
13% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX (20.8k out of 160k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is higher than the national average of 12.8%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 35 - 44, followed by Females 25 - 34 and then Males 6 - 11.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX is White, followed by Hispanic and Black.
78.8% of the population of Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX has health coverage, with 42.7% on employee plans, 15.6% on Medicaid, 10.4% on Medicare, 9.01% on non-group plans, and 1.15% on military or VA plans.
In 2020, insured persons according to age ranges were distributed in 28.6% under 18 years, 20% between 18 and 34 years, 38.5% between 35 and 64 years, and 12.9% over 64 years.
Between 2019 and 2020, the percent of uninsured citizens in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX grew by 1.38% from 20.9% to 21.2%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Montgomery County (Northeast)Conroe City (East) PUMA, TX changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
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Ooops, something you didn't expect right there, Arabelia.
Anyways. I've been creating two pages every week for some time now, and I feel this is a good point in the story to speed things up. Even if I may need to slow down to one page a week under special circumstances, I think I'm ready for the rule to be two pages every week.
Thank you! I'm both super excited and terrified with the new schedule, haha!
Congrats on the new update schedule! Exciting!
Also, have people been rewriting history maybe?
I love that you think like Arabelia would do in that situation.
I'm sure in Everstrom, the word 'fricking' is the vernacular expression, specifically used by distraught librarians, to describe the mutilation of a book, either physically or through misinformation contained within. Perfectly suitable and no doubt, very apt in what we'll soon learn.
Love your story so far and I know I'll never be disappointed!
She can't believe Dylion was right about something.
And she won't! Arabelia's stubborness is unmatched, haha.
HAHAHA. That was my plan B.


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Court says Ciao! – Mother permitted to move children to Italy in custody dispute
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice made a surprising rendering in its recent decision in Trisolino v. De Marzi. Specifically, the court permitted a mother to move her children to Rome, in spite of the father's vehement protests to the contrary.
So what factors motivated the Court to make this decision?
The parties met in Italy in 2001, where the mother worked as a lawyer and the father was vacationing. The father eventually moved to Rome and the couple married and had two children, aged 6 and 9 at the time of trial.
In 2007, at the father's insistence, the family decided to move to Canada. Upon relocating, the parties eventually secured an apartment and the father obtained employment. The mother enrolled in an LLM program at the University of the Toronto, which she successfully completed. The court found that in order to practice law in Ontario, the mother would have to write the LSAT, gain admission to law school, attend three years of law school, article, and pass the bar admission course.
After over four years in Canada, the mother claimed to feel isolated, frustrated at her inability to pursue her chosen career, and controlled by the father. In addition, the mother required surgery on her knee and would need constant care, which she could receive easily in Italy from her parents and family.
Notably, the parents both continued to reside in the matrimonial home at the time of trial, and there was no Separation Agreement in place or divorce application before the courts.
At trial, both agreed that the only issue that required immediate adjudication was whether the mother was permitted to move the children to Rome.
The court began by summarizing the law with respect to mobility in child custody cases as articulated in the case of Gordon v. Goetz.
At the first stage of the test, the parent seeking to move the child must demonstrate a material change in the circumstances affecting the child. Once this threshold has been met, the court must consider what is in the best interests of the child, an inquiry that involves an analysis of the following factors:
The existing custody agreement and the relationship between the child and the custodial parent;
The existing access arrangement and the relationships between the child and the access parent;
The desirability of maximizing contact between the child and both parents;
The views of the child;
The custodial parent's reason for moving, only in the exceptional case where it is relevant to that party's ability to meet the needs of the child;
Disruption to the child of a change in custody;
Disruption to the child of consequent on removal from family, schools and the community he or she has come to know.
In completing its analysis, the Court noted that although the parties were neither separated nor divorced, the mother had always been the primary caregiver of the children. In addition, the Court observed that while the father was involved in the children's lives to the extent that his full-time employment would allow, it was the mother who was chiefly concerned with their well-being and activities.
In its holding, the Court recognized that both parents were devoted to and loved their children. Moreover, Justice Penny found that if the mother was permitted to move to Italy, the children's contact with their father would be detrimentally impacted. However, based on the father's testimony, the Court found that there was nothing stopping him from following the mother and the children to Italy. In addition, the court found that the mother's desire to return to Italy was multi-faceted and held significant benefits to the children's best interests if they could be cared for by a well-functioning, happy, and financially better off primary caregiver. While the father stressed that the move would cause disruption to the children, the court found that the particular circumstances surrounding the case, including the children's fluency in Italian, indicated that they would be able to adjust.
Ultimately, the court's decision left the father with a particularly difficult choice regarding his future and the nature of his relationship with his children in the years to come.
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New Texts Out Now: Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror. New York: New York University Press, 2015.
J: What made you write this book?
Amira Jarmakani (AJ): The impetus for this book came when a dear friend and colleague, Evelyn Alsultany, sent me a link to a website called "Sheikhs and Desert Love." The website, which now appears to be defunct, was operated by desert romance fan Erika Wittlieb from 2001-2007 and then seems to have been operated by Amazon for a few years. The latter shift demonstrates the popularity of desert romances (in other words, it was lucrative enough for Amazon to want to capture the desert romance fans who were visiting the site). At its height, the website catalogued so-called "desert romances"—mass-market romance novels featuring a sheikh, sultan, or desert prince as the primary (alpha male) hero. Though I did not have much experience with mass-market romance novels at the time, I was intrigued by the fact that sheikh-heroes had experienced a rise in popularity after the events of 11 September 2001. After investigating a bit, I was even more interested to discover that romance readers and writers alike denied any relationship between the increased popularity of this sub-genre and the concurrent war on terror. Despite this denial (which I would come to understand as disavowal), the desert romances themselves clearly engaged with the war on terror through plot twists that involved WMDs, uranium-enriching antagonists, and terrorist threats to the sheikh hero.
The sheikh has a long history as a caricature in US popular culture and, though his aggressive, potent virility is common in the realm of romance novels, what makes him curious is his steady rise in popularity in the intervening years since 11 September 2001. Because this same time period has seen a rise in depictions of Arab masculinity as violent and backward, it has provoked disbelief even within the romance novel industry that an Arab male—overwhelmingly associated with terrorism in the contemporary US-Anglo context—could serve as an object of erotic desire. If romance novels have long been the subject of vibrant feminist inquiry, the increased popularity of the sheikh character in mass-market romances in recent years suggests that they also have something to tell us about contemporary US imperialism, particularly as exemplified in the war on terror.
Not all romance fans enjoy the sheikh-hero. In fact, most do not. When I started investigating the sub-genre—by reading the novels, attending the 2008 Romance Writers of America conference, and following major romance blogs—I discovered that many readers attributed their dislike of the sheikh to the fact that the "reality" of violence and terrorism in the Middle East was too present for them to be able to fantasize about an Arab or Muslim hero. Because of this perceived surfeit of reality surrounding the sheikh-hero, authors have had to craft their desert romances in ways that can maintain a believable romantic fantasy for at least some readers. Precisely because of this inherent tension between fantasy and reality in the novels, they (perhaps inadvertently) demonstrate how fantasy and reality are co-constitutive in upholding the war on terror.
Desert romances are overwhelmingly set in fictionalized Arabia, a landscape I describe as "Arabiastan" for reasons explained in the book. As if to corroborate the argument that desert romances bear no relation to actual events, virtually every novel takes place in a country invented by the author, and the creation of fictional settings is one of the key tactics authors use to circumvent the surfeit of reality that threatens the viability of the sheikh-hero. Another tactic the authors employ is to use distinct ethnic, cultural, and religious markers to exoticize sheikhs without overtly racializing them or associating them with terrorists. Consequently, desert romances speak directly about race, gender, and religion, even as they claim to be universal and "color-blind" fantasy stories.
Desert romances therefore offer a unique perspective on the war on terror through their development of an under-analyzed figure: the liberal-enlightened Arab leader who chooses to ally with the US in the war on terror. Precisely because desert romances must combat what the general reader thinks she already knows about the reality of the Middle East in order to operate as fantasy narratives, they demonstrate how desire—at the collective, social level—mobilizes and animates contemporary US hegemony. As fantasy narratives that nevertheless obliquely reference reality, desert romances serve as immensely useful indirect articulations of the way that desire motivates contemporary technologies of imperialism mobilized in the war on terror. Focusing on the three specific imperialist technologies of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, An Imperialist Love Story demonstrates romance to be a salient lens through which to understand how the war on terror works, and how it perseveres.
AJ: The book mainly takes up the topic of the war on terror in order to ask what fuels it. An Imperialist Love Story argues that desire operates as a primary means of perpetuating the war on terror. Though the US has clearly used overt forms of imperialism as a tactic in the war on terror—for example, in the invasion and occupation of Iraq—desert romances perhaps inadvertently chart some of the more covert tactics of contemporary US imperialism, namely those coded with positive or humanitarian connotations. The book argues that contemporary US imperialism adapts the structure of a love story. Cultivating the desire for security and stability so common to classic romantic narratives, the imperialist love story orients us toward willing subjugation to imperialist power, an orientation that enables the war on terror to persevere.
In desert romances, the architecture of imperialism in the war on terror manifests in a desire for wholeness that resonates simultaneously at the levels of the individual and of the state. Through its own self-presentation as a stable and benevolent force, the nation-state installs and magnifies the desire for hegemony, as exemplified through its key technologies. Another key concern of the book, then, is to understand contemporary US imperialism by investigating how it functions. I argue that it does so by deploying three technologies of imperialism —security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism (described in chapters one, two, and three, respectively)—which obscure their own repressive nature while simultaneously training the characters of desert romances and subjects of the state to desire them. Through the example of the war on terror, the three technologies are alive and well in most desert romances. I demonstrate that the first technology, the quest for security, actually cultivates more violence and insecurity. The second technology bills itself as freedom, when it is actually about submission. The third technology masquerades as an exercise in tolerance and respect for differences, when it actually aims to manage, tame, and discipline difference. The final chapter of the book investigates the ambivalent architecture of desire in the imperialist war on terror, focusing on how it shores itself up through the promise of wholeness as exemplified in the framework of the love story. If the three technologies of imperialism reveal how desire can be oriented toward hegemony, the structure of the love story reveals how desire for hegemony can be perpetuated: the narrative drive toward wholeness trains desire to invest in the teleology of the stable, happily-ever-after ending.
As a book focused on romance novels, and popular literature more generally, An Imperialist Love Story is situated at the intersection of cultural studies and popular romance studies. In this sense, it is interested in the broad question of how everyday (popular) culture both shapes and is shaped by larger collective concerns. In short, it takes romance novels seriously and understands them as rich cultural artifacts through which one can chart, in this case, popular engagement with the war on terror.
J: How does this book connect to and/or depart from your previous research?
AJ: Working in the fields of Arab American studies and women's, gender, and sexuality studies while employing cultural studies methods, my research generally focuses on gendered orientalist formations in US popular culture. My first book, Imagining Arab Womanhood: The Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in US Popular Culture, investigates popular representations of Arab and Muslim womanhood in US popular culture in order to understand how they function as cultural mythologies. It argues that orientalist representations of Arab and Muslim womanhood—the most common among them being those that could fall into the broad categories of the veil, the harem, and the belly dancer—operate as myths that have served to both shore up US anxieties related to expansionism and modernity as well as to justify US military action in the Middle East. An Imperialist Love Story extends my earlier work by continuing to ask questions about the stories told in US popular culture about the Middle East, while shifting toward more of a focus on masculinity (through the figure of the sheikh-hero) and on the war on terror and US imperialism. It also takes up a different set of materials, since it works with romance novels along with supporting blogs in the romance industry. It therefore remains within the field of cultural studies while moving away from a primary focus on visual materials.
AJ: Everyone wishes for their book to have the widest readership possible, and along these lines the book appeals most broadly to anyone interested in the war on terror and the stories we tell about it. In terms of scholarly conversations, the book engages with the fields of Middle East studies; cultural studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; critical ethnic studies; and, of course, Arab American studies.
In terms of impact, the book aims to intervene in, and contribute to, broad discussions about the contours of contemporary US imperialism. It considers contemporary US imperialism to operate through the three technologies of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism (mentioned above). These three technologies orient subject-citizens to the presumably positive values of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, while actually operating in a way that undermines the basic tenets of these values. One way to think about this phenomenon is through the common trope of US exceptionalism (that is, the idea that the US is exceptional in its defense of liberal-democratic freedom and respect for multiculturalism)—when one looks closer at the framework of US exceptionalism during the war on terror, it becomes clear that it often works through a state-of-exception logic, which actually curtails civil liberties in the name of freedom and security.
The book could be adapted for a wide range of teaching contexts—from courses focused on militarization and the Middle East; to those focused on popular culture, romance novels, and cultural studies; to those interested in questions of US imperialism. I am currently developing an Instructor's Guide to be released in conjunction with the book. It will offer additional resources, sample assignments, and discussion questions for use in the classroom, and additional explanations of some of the more technical and theoretical terms used in the book. The guide will be available and downloadable (free of charge) on the New York University press website.
AJ: One immediate project that builds on the book is an article about the etymology of the phrase "weapons of mass destruction." Because WMDs appear in desert romances as a popular term, it got me thinking about the various valences the term has, what it has come to mean, and what kind of myth is built around it. For example, despite the preponderance of evidence that WMDs were not present in Iraq when the US invaded in 2003, the threat of WMDs still has tremendous power in narratives about the war on terror. The article explores how WMDs have been reterritorialized, both in terms of shifting attachments to geographical territories (that is, the use of these types of weapons in the domestic US context, for example in Ferguson), and in terms of what it means. For example, while earlier definitions focused on biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, in the last decade it has become more capacious to include high explosive weapons and cyberattacks.
Another, more long-term project, is focused on comparative orientalisms in the Americas. Belly dancing has enjoyed a surge in popularity in South America, as evidenced by its appearance in popular telenovelas (for example, El Clon) and in performances by the famous pop singer Shakira. Like the recent belly dance craze in the United States, the popularity of belly dance in South America seems to be linked, at least in part, to its marketability as a trendy new form of exercise. What distinguishes it from the phenomenon in the United States, however, is a parallel interest in flamenco that valorizes narratives of authenticity (a narrative replicated in popular engagements with belly dancing). Looking comparatively at the interest in flamenco and belly dance leads to a set of questions about their transnational trajectories: How do the connections between Spanish and Muslim cultural formations in Andalusia manifest, if at all, in a country like Argentina that has both a legacy of Spanish colonialism and a history of significant Middle Eastern immigration? How are these dance forms marketed in a way to capitalize on the narrative of a search for authentic roots? New scholarship on the Moorish Atlantic has uncovered some interesting and fruitful intersections of what Ella Shohat calls the "discovery doctrine"—a form of settler colonialism forged in Andalusia and deployed to the Americas. The framework of comparative orientalisms in the Americas therefore enables critical inquiry into the concept of settler colonialism as understood through the paradigm of the discovery doctrine.
J: How do you see your emphasis on popular romance as providing an opportunity to think differently about questions related to the so-called "war on terror"?
AJ: The book's emphasis on romance novels and fantasy provides another angle of interpretation. Shifting away from fear as the primary frame of reference for the war on terror, which is a preoccupation fueled by the logic of the security state, the book turns toward desire. It asks: How are citizen-subjects oriented toward oppressive policies (like increased surveillance) as necessary and even appealing? How are they trained to desire hegemony (in the form of curtailed civil liberties, for example)?
The scope of the book's argument reaches far beyond a strict focus on the desert romances themselves. To be clear, despite their increased popularity after 9/11, desert romances are not widely popular in comparison to other subgenres in the industry. Consequently, An Imperialist Love Story does not argue that desert romances are directly representative of larger cultural associations with the war on terror. Instead, it argues that the whole range of identifications, disavowals, and rejections of the sheikh-hero are broadly reflective of a complex set of cultural associations and identifications with the war on terror.
Rather than directly expressing the US view of the war on terror, desert romances indirectly articulate that which cannot be said: they offer a glimpse into the way that desire motivates contemporary technologies of imperialism as manifested in the war on terror. They do this precisely because of the exemplary ways in which they must negotiate the boundaries between fantasy and reality in representations of the sheikh-hero. Though the sheikh has a long history as romance hero, reaching all the way back to E. M. Hull's 1919 novel The Sheik, contemporary desert romances have had to find ways of clearly distinguishing the sheikh-hero from popular associations with the fanatically violent Middle Eastern terrorist. In both the ways that they succeed in casting the sheikh as a hero in spite of powerful and overwhelming images of Arab and/or Muslim terrorists, and the ways they fail to make the sheikh desirable (for romance readers who repudiate the sheikh), the novels reveal a great deal about the imbrication of fantasy in the realities of the war on terror.
Romance novels are often denigrated as silly or trashy fantasies—escape narratives that bear no relation to reality. When accused of being naive and duped by the genre into leading an oppressed existence, avid romance readers often respond by explaining that the (usually feminist) critic is herself the dupe, since she assumes that the readers cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality. At the same time, romance readers and writers also defend against the accusation that romance novels are trashy fluff by arguing that they learn a lot of historical and geographical facts by reading and/or writing them; indeed, good writers are deemed to be those who have done solid research and who get their historical and geographical details correct. In other words, defenders of the genre use both fantasy and reality as a means of validating the genre and of making it culturally meaningful. In so doing, they demonstrate that fantasy and reality are far from mutually exclusive; they are integrally, and sometimes inexplicably, bound up in one another. Because of the subgenre's imagined (or disavowed) relationship to the war on terror, then, desert romances provide a means of investigating the way that often-unacknowledged fantasies guide and shape the realities of the war on terror.
Excerpt from An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
From "Introduction: The Romantic Sheikh as Hero of the War on Terror"
A finger of fear stroked her spine as he advanced. His look intent, he radiated such masculine force that she doubted she could stop him. — Bonnie Vanak, The Sword and the Sheath
But even without looking directly at him she could feel the effect of the unleashed power and the blatantly sexual aura he radiated lying like a stone fist in her chest. — Kim Lawrence, Desert Prince, Defiant Virgin
His body tightened as if in preparation for attack, his emerald eyes radiating the intent. — Olivia Gates, To Touch a Sheikh
He was full of left-over nervous energy, enough to power his own nuclear weapons. — Linda Conrad, Secret Agent Sheik
A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called desert romances. Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and sexy, this desert prince emanates manliness and raw sexual power. Though his aggressive, potent virility is common in the realm of romance novels, what makes him curious is his steady rise in popularity in the intervening years since 11 September 2001, years that have seen a concomitant, and dominant, rise in depictions of Arab masculinity as backward, particularly in relation to what is understood as a violent nature, and therefore as repulsive. In this respect, the figure of the sheikh-hero as a romantic figure demonstrates a set of ambivalent associations that thrive on the mix of violence or danger with the thrill of pleasure and desire. Indeed, this may be why the metaphor of radiation is put to much use in desert romances. Radiation invokes a potent reservoir of seemingly endlessly available and potentially dangerous energy. It is thrilling precisely for its potency; it remains on the exciting side of danger with reassurances (built into the overall plot narrative) that the heroine and the sheikh himself ultimately know how to harness and control his radioactive energy. Despite the "finger of fear [that] stroked [the heroine's] spine" as the sheikh-hero approaches, despite the fear that she might not be able to stop him, even if she wants to—on the contrary, perhaps because of these things—the heroine is irresistibly drawn to the sheikh-hero. In these instances, her fear activates her desire—not because romance novels particularly appeal to duped, naive women, but because the books serve as abundantly fruitful materials for investigating how desire functions, particularly in relation to potent sociopolitical realities. The "nuclear weapons" that Sheikh Tarik in Secret Agent Sheik can power with his "left-over nervous energy," it turns out, do not invoke terror in the heroine, which would be a logical response, given popular associations with Arab /Muslim men and nuclear weapons. She does not fear the sheikh-hero, because by this point in the plot, she has encountered the sheikh's opposition—the real terrorists, who truly do seek nuclear power for evil means. The connection of the sheikh to nuclear weapons therefore serves as a way of highlighting his exceptionality. As a force of good, he has demonstrated himself to be allied with global US-Anglo powers that similarly seek to vanquish the terrorists. Radiation works as a powerful metaphor in this local example because of its ambivalent associations. The sheikh can simultaneously demonstrate his link to the thrill of risk and danger, while assuring the heroine that he has the ability to control the awesome power that radiation can release.
In this way, the novels' invocations of radiation also reference contemporary discursive associations with radiation. If unleashed by the wrong hands, radiation can be globally catastrophic. Conversely, if organized and controlled by responsible, benevolent powers, it can be harvested as an alternative energy source beyond coal and oil, ensure global stability by keeping rogue forces in check, and even function as a palliative force in specific, focused medical contexts. Such narratives suggest that people must learn to subject themselves to the terrible power of radiation, even when they know about its potentially dangerous consequences. This book examines how people learn to submit to power through their own desire for subjugation. Radiation therefore also serves as a powerful metaphor for the larger concern of this book, which is to investigate how desire can serve as a primary engine to consolidate imperialist power, specifically in the power of the (US) nation-state to wage seemingly endless war. How does desire undergird the perpetuation of the war on terror, an operation that by its very name seems to be focused exclusively on fear?
The metaphor of radiation also invokes the realities of resource scarcity (and therefore energy scarcity). Though the Middle East is most commonly associated with oil as a key natural resource, the contemporary political and military focus on nuclear enrichment and on whether the goal of enrichment is to create energy or weapons demonstrates that radiation is at least equally as important. The prospect of resource scarcity seems to operate through the mechanism of fear—energy security is figured as central to national security, which is in turn oriented toward fear through its focus on defense. Security is conceived in terms of defending against those forces that may threaten it. This idea, however, fails to acknowledge that fear cannot function as subtly and effectively as desire in manufacturing consent.[1] Hegemonic power here works by fomenting the desire for security and protection from that which is feared.
In both desert romances and mainstream narratives about the war on terror, the objects of fear are the evil forces who want to do harm to the protagonists because of their own spite, backwardness, or greed. Illuminated by the metaphor of radiation, then, desert romances demonstrate how desire works as a permeating, yet invisible, driving force of the war on terror on both a micropolitical and a macropolitical level. Stimulated by the thrill of danger, the protagonists in these stories learn that to be their own, true selves, they must subject themselves to love. While this basic plot description is characteristic of the romance genre as a whole, desert romances extend the love story to the context of the war on terror. These are love stories that play out on both the individual and the national levels—between both the sheikh-hero and the heroine and their respective countries. As the exceptional leader of his fictionalized Arab (or vaguely Middle Eastern) country, the sheikh-hero learns to love the (usually) US-Anglo heroine precisely because she can help him navigate an alliance with global superpowers; she, in turn, learns that subjecting oneself to the power of love is its own kind of freedom—one not captured by her liberal feminist orientation toward independence and equality. The hero and heroine's love story necessarily also plays out on the world stage; in the narrative arc of the story, their coupling will literally lead toward world peace.
One reason desert romances increased in popularity after 9/11 is that they offer a supreme narrative obstacle—ethnic and cultural differences heightened by the threat of terrorism—that the characters must overcome to achieve a happy ending to their love story. What makes the stories remarkable objects of study is not that they portray a happily-ever-after ending between a sheikh and a US-Anglo heroine, but the way they do so—in the narrative choices the authors make to write successful romance novels. To be believable, the desert romances must engage with popular discourses about the war on terror, shifting the usual orientation of fear into one of desire. In orienting us toward desire, they demonstrate the war on terror, too, to be a classic, if imperialist, love story.
The imperialist love story of the war on terror does not have a happy ending—neither for the subjects of imperial power nor for its targets—despite the discursive energy expended on resolving the project of benevolent imperialism into a happy ending, or as corporate-bureaucratic speech might have it, a win-win situation. The lack of a happy ending, though, is nothing to lament. Reading the story with this realization can instead be an impetus for seeking an end to the war on terror, for freeing up the desires bounded by contemporary technologies of imperialism, and for spinning them toward truly liberatory aims.
[1] Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, trans. Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (New York: International Publishers, 1987); David Harvey, The New Imperialism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
[NOTE: The full introduction is available here.]
[Excerpted from Amira Jarmakani, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror, by permission of the author. © 2015 by New York University. For more information, or to purchase this book, click here.]
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Q: How can one modify PS1 to display time in right most corner? Currently it is displayed as follows
export PS1='${white}[\t] ${blue}\W:${red}$(__git_ps1)${white} \$ '

I'd like to experiment with the same set up, but time displayed in the right most corner.
How can i modify my PS1 export for this to happen please?

A: Don't think there's any way to right justify items on the prompt using PS1 in bash (pretty sure there's easy ways to do this in zsh though). You can try writing a function for the PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable and have it print the time with right justify, something along the lines of:
print_pre_prompt ()
{
    TIME=`date +%H:%M`
    printf "\e[1;37m%$(($COLUMNS))s" "${TIME}"
}
PROMPT_COMMAND=print_pre_prompt

Here, the \e[1;37m is the "white" color.

A: Is this your output prompt looking for ?
export PS1="\u@\w [\$(date +%k:%M:%S)]> "


Creativity is at the core of my well-being. Years ago, feeling depressed and with a sense of something missing, I visited with my minister. After some conversation, she asked a life-changing question: "What was the last time you did something with your hands?" Surprised, I thought about, and realized I couldn't recall the last time. I used to make jewelry, but I hadn't in years. There was a new bead shop in town, and it had caught my eye, but I had yet to visit it. She suggested I go there, and make something for someone else.
I did exactly that, making a pair of bracelets for a couple in my congregation. It was a wonderful experience making them and gifting them. I soon found myself visiting the store more and more often. I dug out old jewelry tools and learned new techniques. I even participated in a few shows at the store, and was their featured artist for a month. I had found what was missing.
Eventually, the everyday demands of life took over again, and I spent less and less time making jewelry. Again, something was missing. This time, I rediscovered it during a workshop at a weeklong retreat. When I signed up for the workshop, "The Art of Happiness", I looked guiltily at the workshops I felt I "should" take, one on leadership, one on social media. I set that aside, and reminded myself that you can't draw water from an empty well, and my well felt pretty dry.
That week was glorious. I spent as much time as I could in the workshop room, at my table, creating. I had forgotten how much joy I found in it, how meditative it was, how the hours flew by. I came home determined to keep this spirit alive in my day to day life, to make room for creating. I went to the craft store and bought tools and paints similar to what we had used in the workshop. For the next year, they sat on a shelf next to my abandoned jewelry making supplies, gathering dust. The excuses piled up as well – I had no time, no space.
But, the third time is the charm, as they say. Finally, I broke through all my inner voices saying "no" with a giant YES. I went into our spare bedroom, home to my husband's (mostly abandoned) stamp collection, and carved out a small space for myself. I went to the store and bought a folding table to work on. I dug out my meager stash of supplies and started playing.
Soon, I found myself getting up early to play before work, and staying up late to create just a little longer. I loved the weekends, when I had big blocks of hours for creating. I joined Facebook groups for mixed media artists, and became a regular at my local Michaels. I cleaned more of the spare bedroom, and my husband (after some prodding) took charge of his stamp collection. Eventually, everything except my growing stash of art and craft supplies was out of the room. I had my own space to create in.
I still forget to create sometimes. There are occasions that I spend more time organizing stuff or reading crafty Facebook groups or browsing craft stores than I do creating. But I know now that the act of creation is my meditation when I am frazzled, my water when I am parched, my medicine when I am heartsick. When I return to creating, set pen to paper, pick up a brush, make a card, pull a print, I feel whole again.
There's so much that could be said on this subject, and many different perspectives. Please visit the links below for some posts from my fellow creative folks.
The act of creating is my meditation too 🙂 Thanks for sharing mabout what makes you YOU!
My pleasure! This topic is near and dear to my heart.
Nice! Another way to do meditation!


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Who will perform my DEXA and write the report?
At Lake Imaging your examination will be carried out by a Radiographer (or Medical Imaging Technologist) who has a degree in Medical Imaging and is accredited by the Australian Institute of Radiography. Our Radiologist (a medical Doctor specialising in the interpretation of medical images), will prepare a report for your referring doctor detailing the findings of your examination.
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Help with 14 Day Driving Tour of Ireland -- 11 actually!
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