Current Priority Me

Current Priority: Me advocates for the power of self-love + self-prioritization. 365 thoughtfully curated doses of empowerment from author, entrepreneur and speaker Ashely Adana. Imagine waking up every morning feeling invigorated and excited for the day ahead of you. Current Priority: Me is the kind of book I wanted when I was exploring how to elevate self-love, how to honor my current self, and how to be more compassionate to others on their growth journey. Current Priority: Me is filled with powerful inspirational quotes from black voices including poets, thought leaders, celebrities, scholars, and my personal tribe. This book is meant to amplify a year of positive thinking, one day at a time. The words will speak to anyone who is pursuing a dream, trying to triumph over adversity, enjoying the beauty of that life offers, or on a quest for wholeness. Gift yourself energizing words to conquer the day, every day. Each quote is accompanied by my personal thoughts and ends with an affirmation to help you have victory over the day. This beautifully designed, power-packed book offers a 365-day journey that will give you strength, wisdom, and an internal fire to move towards the best version of self, each and every day.

365 Empowering Quotes & Affirmations from Black Voices. Words to inspire you to choose yourself daily.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From an award-winning journalist, a poignant and gripping immersion in the life of a young, homeless single mother amid her quest to find stability and shelter in the richest city in America LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • “Riveting . . . a remarkable feat of reporting.”—The New York Times Camila is twenty-two years old and a new mother. She has no family to rely on, no partner, and no home. Despite her intelligence and determination, the odds are firmly stacked against her. In this extraordinary work of literary reportage, Lauren Sandler chronicles a year in Camila’s life—from the birth of her son to his first birthday—as she navigates the labyrinth of poverty and homelessness in New York City. In her attempts to secure a safe place to raise her son and find a measure of freedom in her life, Camila copes with dashed dreams, failed relationships, the desolation of abandonment, and miles of red tape with grit, humor, and uncanny resilience. Every day, more than forty-five million Americans attempt to survive below the poverty line. Every night, nearly sixty thousand people sleep in New York City-run shelters, 40 percent of them children. In This Is All I Got, Sandler brings this deeply personal issue to life, vividly depicting one woman's hope and despair and her steadfast determination to change her life despite the myriad setbacks she encounters. This Is All I Got is a rare feat of reporting and a dramatic story of survival. Sandler’s candid and revealing account also exposes the murky boundaries between a journalist and her subject when it becomes impossible to remain a dispassionate observer. She has written a powerful and unforgettable indictment of a system that is often indifferent to the needs of those it serves, and that sometimes seems designed to fail. Praise for This Is All I Got “A rich, sociologically valuable work that’s more gripping, and more devastating, than fiction.”—Booklist “Vivid, heartbreaking. . . . Readers will be moved by this harrowing and impassioned call for change.”—Publishers Weekly “A closely observed chronicle . . . Sandler displays her journalistic talent by unerringly presenting this dire situation. . . . An impressive blend of dispassionate reporting, pungent condemnation of public welfare, and gritty humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews

365 Empowering Quotes & Affirmations from Black Voices. Words to inspire you to choose yourself daily.

My hunt for a Dall ram in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska became an epic adventure and stretched me beyond my limits, or so I thought. High on the rocky face of a steep mountainside, I found myself both physically and mentally spent. Exhaustion and confusion are a dangerous combination in a spot like that. Sweat stung my eyes and ran off my nose. My heartbeat pulsed in my ears and my arms and legs were limp with fatigue. I reached deep for a little more grit and climbed on. At the top of the next pitch I found a flat section of grass about the length of my body, an oasis and a reprieve from the misery. Life altering epiphanies come at a price. Amid the northern nights in the Chugach Mountains I found a bigger world than I'd ever known.

Process tabular data and build high-performance query engines on modern CPUs and GPUs using Apache Arrow, a standardized language-independent memory format, for optimal performance Key Features • Learn about Apache Arrow's data types and interoperability with pandas and Parquet • Work with Apache Arrow Flight RPC, Compute, and Dataset APIs to produce and consume tabular data • Reviewed, contributed, and supported by Dremio, the co-creator of Apache Arrow Book Description Apache Arrow is designed to accelerate analytics and allow the exchange of data across big data systems easily. In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow begins with a quick overview of the Apache Arrow format, before moving on to helping you to understand Arrow's versatility and benefits as you walk through a variety of real-world use cases. You'll cover key tasks such as enhancing data science workflows with Arrow, using Arrow and Apache Parquet with Apache Spark and Jupyter for better performance and hassle-free data translation, as well as working with Perspective, an open source interactive graphical and tabular analysis tool for browsers. As you advance, you'll explore the different data interchange and storage formats and become well-versed with the relationships between Arrow, Parquet, Feather, Protobuf, Flatbuffers, JSON, and CSV. In addition to understanding the basic structure of the Arrow Flight and Flight SQL protocols, you'll learn about Dremio's usage of Apache Arrow to enhance SQL analytics and discover how Arrow can be used in web-based browser apps. Finally, you'll get to grips with the upcoming features of Arrow to help you stay ahead of the curve. By the end of this book, you will have all the building blocks to create useful, efficient, and powerful analytical services and utilities with Apache Arrow. What you will learn • Use Apache Arrow libraries to access data files both locally and in the cloud • Understand the zero-copy elements of the Apache Arrow format • Improve read performance by memory-mapping files with Apache Arrow • Produce or consume Apache Arrow data efficiently using a C API • Use the Apache Arrow Compute APIs to perform complex operations • Create Arrow Flight servers and clients for transferring data quickly • Build the Arrow libraries locally and contribute back to the community Who this book is for This book is for developers, data analysts, and data scientists looking to explore the capabilities of Apache Arrow from the ground up. This book will also be useful for any engineers who are working on building utilities for data analytics and query engines, or otherwise working with tabular data, regardless of the programming language. Some familiarity with basic concepts of data analysis will help you to get the most out of this book but isn't required. Code examples are provided in the C++, Go, and Python programming languages.