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American Wedding
Jim Levinstein has a conundrum. Several of them, in fact. He's just proposed to his girlfriend of three years, Michelle, and more than anything in the world he wants their wedding to be perfect. But first he has to ingratiate himself with his future in-laws whose demeanors make glaciers seem balmy. (Note to Jim: It's always wise to introduce yourself to your fiancée's mother and father before she becomes your fiancée.) Then there's the wedding dress, the flowers, the cake and all the other details that go into one's nuptials. To make "perfection" even more impossible, Jim's potty mouthed, sexually obsessed "pal" Stifler is determined to snag a major role in the ceremony. Not because he's interested in holy matrimony, mind you, but because he's dying to deflower Michelle's hot-to-trot, virginal sister, Cadence. Jim had better find some solutions quick, because before he can say "raunchy sex comedy," it'll be time to walk down the aisle.
More than one would expect from a movie that has American Pie and American Pie 2 in its pedigree. Michelle's parents insist Jim provides for their daughter and he spends most of the film trying to live up to their expectations. When Michelle gushes over her idea of the perfect wedding, the groom-to-be goes out of his way to make her dream come true. Also, some of Jim's friends try to help him by doing all they can to smooth out rough spots in the wedding.
Michelle comes to the conclusion that love isn't just a feeling; it involves treating others with kindness and consideration. Jim praises his father for always being available when he needed counsel. When Stifler almost destroys the wedding by accidentally killing all the flowers, he goes to ridiculous lengths to rectify the situation. And although the despicable lech pretends to be a complete gentleman in order to jump into the sack with Cadence, his deception is found out in the end. (The strength of his correction is mitigated when Cadence offers herself to him almost as soon as he apologizes.)
As an exotic "performer" unexpectedly yanks off her shirt, Michelle's shocked mom crosses herself. Jim's grandmother initially rejects Michelle because she isn't Jewish.
Unremitting. Puerile gags involve erections, sodomy, fellatio, orgasms, bestiality and pubic hair. Michelle sneaks under a restaurant table to perform a sex act on Jim (when he's forced to stand up by a patron, the camera glimpses his bare rear). Stifler rearranges the letters on a cake to spell out a crude sexual term. Later, he unknowingly stumbles into a gay bar and unintentionally attracts the attention of a number of men while flirting with a woman. When reality hits he concludes it's all okay since "everyone wants a piece of the Stifmeister." He then begins to dance—with writhing hip thrusts and crotch grabs—to demonstrate just how attractive he can be to both sexes. (During the scene various homosexual couples passionately kiss.) Cadence dumps her frumpy boyfriend because he refused to have sex with her and concludes that she doesn't have the same regard for chastity that her parents do. At one point both Stifler and the camera ogle her underwear-clad form. A bachelor party features topless strippers who gag and blindfold a guest, smack others with a riding crop and joke about sex toys. In a twisted series of events, Stifler accidentally has intercourse with Jim's grandmother and one of Jim's friends has a sexual encounter with Stifler's mom. A song by Matt Nathanson vividly describes a nocturnal rendezvous.
While trying to dance with Michelle at a bar, Jim accidentally throws her into a waitress. After cracking a crass joke, Stifler punches a man in the crotch.
Over 50 f-words appear along with about 60 other profanities. There are more than 20 abuses of God and Jesus' names. Around 25 uses of slang terms for male and female genitalia show up, as do about 15 uses of slang terms for sex. Characters make a number of obscene gestures.
From formal receptions to bachelor parties to casual conversations at home, alcohol flows freely at this Wedding. Champagne, beer and wine appear in just about every other scene.
A number of Jim's friends ridicule marriage as being overly confining and not as pleasurable as their swinging singles' lives. Stifler filches champagne. A man eats a "truffle" that, in reality, is dog feces. When Michelle's parents question her virginity on her wedding night, Jim's dad lies about her encounters with his son in order to assuage their fears.
"It's more of the same," actor Jason Biggs, who plays Jim, says of American Pie's third incarnation. "We stuck to the formula." For those unfamiliar with the "formula," it's sick and simple: Throw inordinate amounts of kinky and perverse sex at the script and see what sticks. To say American Wedding dredges the depths of deviancy for material is generous. Bestiality, bondage and public sex all get screen time. And while a few positive themes appear (the nature of true love, the need to be genuine and loyalty to one's friends), they don't just get submerged, they get forcibly drowned by messages belittling virginity, sexual temperance and the institution of marriage. There is one thing to celebrate, though. Series scribe Adam Herz says American Wedding is the franchise's finale. Just don't serve any Pie at the party.
Jason Biggs as Jim Levinstein; Alyson Hannigan as Michelle Flaherty; Seann William Scott as Steve Stifler; January Jones as Cadence Flaherty; Eddie Kaye Thomas as Paul Finch; Eugene Levy as Jim's Dad; Molly Cheek as Jim's Mom; Deborah Rush as Mary Flaherty; Fred Willard as Harold Flaherty
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The other day, a client of mine brought up this topic concerning the value of a specialist compared to that of a generalist.
As a business lawyer, he challenged the notion that in our society, specialists are much more appreciated – and paid! – than generalists.
My client reasoned that if a GP misdiagnoses you and sends you to the wrong specialist, or to none at all when he or she should've, the results can be catastrophic.
He gave another example closer to home for him; business law. As a "first response" business lawyer, he gets all the questions and cases thrown at him. He is a generalist who knows a little about a lot. He enjoys communicating and collaborating with lots of different parties and functioning as a "bridge" between all of them.
I firmly believe we'll be seeing more and more organizations that do value the "jack-of-all-trades" aka generalist aka cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural employee that brings an understanding to the table of more than the little square in front of him.
This trend has already started with globalization and technology.
What do you think? Are you a generalist yourself? If so; do you feel you get the credit for your role that you deserve?
I've always enjoyed this quote by Robert Heinlein (1907-1908) Novelist, short story author, essayist, screenwriter.
I am indeed a generalist and while I used to feel this was a disadvantage (didn't know much about anything…), recently I started to use this to my advantage for indeed the reasons mentioned above: I realized I always look at the big picture and am able to communicate well with the various parties involved – bridging that gap, connecting, able to help others make that shift.


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Q: Joomla check for empty string with JInput Following this guide to sanitize my inputs, I'm wondering if an empty string is covered with this?
$jinput = JFactory::getApplication()->input;
$this->name = $jinput->get('name', '', 'STRING');

Typically without Joomla I'd be checking for an empty string as well. Something like:
if (!empty($_POST['name']))

Looking at the JInput get method I see that it checks if it is isset:
public function get($name, $default = null, $filter = 'cmd')
{
    if (isset($this->data[$name]))
    {
        return $this->filter->clean($this->data[$name], $filter);
    }

    return $default;
}

Not the same thing, as isset will only check for null. However that is the default value for using the get method. So if I specify an empty string for the second parameter am I covered here?
$this->name = $jinput->get('name', '', 'STRING');

A: It's not up to Joomla to decide whether your empty string is valid value or not. They have to use isset(), because if they would use empty() and you return '0' which you would expect as normal, Joomla would return default value instead of that '0'.
So it's completely normal that they just use isset() to check if variable is set, and it's up to you to decide what values you accept.
If the value isn't set, and you set as the second parameter empty string '', you'll get an empty string returned.
In your example an empty string would be returned, which is expected behaviour.

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BMW Chooses Anomaly London as Lead Global Agency for Mini Brand
Selection follows a pitch involving seven agencies
Anomaly London has a new client under its belt. Mini
By Minda Smiley
Anomaly London has come out on top in the race to win BMW's Mini brand.
The agency has been named Mini's "lead international communications agency" and will handle all things digital and creative. Seven international agencies pitched the business, making it "the most ambitious pitch ever" in the history of the brand, according to Mini. A source close to the pitch said R/GA, Ogilvy and AnalogFolk are believed to have participated, but it's not clear which other agencies were involved.
Moving forward, Anomaly London will begin working on parts of the business that were previously handled by different agencies. In a statement, Mini's head of global brand management Sebastian Beuchel thanked "longtime partners Jung von Matt and KKLD for the successful and good cooperation." Jung von Matt and KKLD are both headquartered in Germany, as is BMW.
"Alongside its creative claim and international approach, the decisive factor in appointing this new lead agency was its strong digital focus," Beuchel said in a statement.
An Anomaly spokesperson said the global pitch took place virtually because of the coronavirus lockdown.
Droga5 London won the Mini Electric account in 2018, while The Brooklyn Brothers, which has offices in New York and London, won the brand's U.K. business in 2016. Droga5 stopped working with the brand last summer after its "rolling project" with Mini Electric ended, a source familiar with the matter said. A spokesperson for The Brooklyn Brothers said it will continue to serve as lead integrated agency for Mini in the U.K.
In the U.S., Pereira & O'Dell and 360i were named Mini's agency partners in 2017, with the former taking on creative work for the brand and the latter focusing on digital and social efforts. A spokesperson for 360i said it now works with the brand on a project basis, as Critical Mass has since joined the brand's agency roster in the U.S. to pick up some of its digital work.
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Anomaly London and Mini will begin working together in June. Next year, Mini plans to debut an integrated brand and product campaign. The brand said Anomaly London's responsibilities will include "development of creative ideas, implementation of digital communication and the development of an 'always-on' editorial approach."
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Mallika Set to Shock Viewers!
Movies, News | May 17, 2010 | | by Prathna Tiwari
Mallika Sherawat simply can't contain herself from making the news wherever she goes. The latest stunt to be pulled by the actress will be making her unforgettable to not just audiences in India but also those across the globe. The Murder actress is currently attending the Cannes Film Festival where she'll be unveiling the promo of her Indo – American film Hissss which is being produced by brother Vikram Lamba. However, it's not the unveiling of this film that is the reason to draw your attention to Mallika at this star studded event but rather the performance she'll be doing for the media and audiences prior to the unveiling. The actress is said to be performing a Nag Puja ceremony on May 16th at Hotel Magestic followed by a dance in which she'll be accompanied by a 15 foot long python. Mallika, who's known for always being one of the bravest names of the industry, has been working hard for the past four days rehearsing for this event.
Mallika's look for the evening will be the works of a top designer and her styling will be done by Claus Hjelmbak and Ivvan Bitton who had styled her earlier appearance in Cannes Film Festival when she walked the red carpet for her film The Myth alongside Jackie Chan.
Hissss also stars Irfan Khan and Divya Dutta and is directed by Jennifer Lynch. Mallika is said to play a snake woman aka nagin who seeks revenge from her enemies. One may recall that 'nagin' flicks were all the rage in Indian cinema in yester years and in recent times the only film on similar subject that we've encountered was Jaani Dusham which was a multistarrer that proved to be quite the disaster at the box office.
Bollywood's theory of a snake woman has been quite simple in the past. She's always been depicted as having a magical photographic memory in which she stores the image of her enemy, and with that in mind she never fails to seek revenge from them. Only time will tell if this 21st century Nagin thriller that is said to be quite the unique film takes a new take on the usual Bollywood theory.
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The Legend of Zelda Wii U may have been snubbed in today's Nintendo Digital Event, but we'll still have a chance to journey through Hyrule again this year.
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes will see up to three players team up as their own Link, as they work co-operatively to take on the toils of inventive dungeons and devious bosses. Rewarded with loot along the way, you can create wearable outfits that will each have a different boost or ability.
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The Republic of Korea ushered in a new era in air mobility today with the delivery of the country's first two C-130J Super Hercules aircraft at the Lockheed Martin facility here. With today's delivery, South Korea became the 14th country to fly the proven C-130J.
South Korea's new Super Hercules will be operated by Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) aircrews, which currently operate a fleet of C-130H legacy aircraft.
"For almost three decades, Republic of Korea Air Force crews have relied on C-130s to support humanitarian and peacekeeping missions in the Pacific Rim region. The arrival of South Korea's new Super Hercules fleet ensures that these critical missions not only will continue, but extend for many more decades the added capabilities only the C-130J can provide," said George Shultz, vice president and general manager, C-130 Programs. "Lockheed Martin values its longtime partnership with South Korea and we are honored to welcome it to the Super Hercules family."
The ROKAF's new Super Hercules is the longer fuselage or "stretched" combat delivery variant. Lockheed Martin is also contracted to provide a two-year support program to the ROKAF, including C-130J aircrew and maintenance training.
Sixteen countries have chosen the C-130J Super Hercules to meet their air mobility needs. With more than 1 million flight hours, the C-130J is the standard by which all other airlift is measured in terms of availability, flexibility and reliability. Over the past decade, C-130Js have been deployed in two combat theaters where they operate at a very high tempo efficiently and reliably.
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Q: Excel Interop Sorting I have an c# project which automates excel using the excel interop. One issue that I am running into is sorting using the excel filters, when I protect the sheet using C#, I am disabling sorting, when I unprotect it I am able to use the filters in the ListObject to sort. Given that I need to protect the sheet is their a C# event that can tell me when a user selected the header of the list Object column and select Sort A to Z or Largest to smallest
Thanks

A: You're not going to get anything in C# that isn't available via the Excel object model. If such an event exists, it would probably have some form of it on the Application object (the Application object has events like SheetBeforeDoubleClick that are duplicates of the events that happen on the individual books/sheets like the BeforeDoubleClick event of the Worksheet object).
The SheetTableUpdate event may help you.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/microsoft.office.interop.excel.application_events.aspx

A: This is kind of outdated and you mention no Excel version but from what I gather, I think this may be able to help you.
Sort Excel table (ListObject) on protected sheet using Excel Interop c#


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Interview with Shani Boianjiu: "I wish I had been more afraid because the army was a big shock for me"
Shani Boianjiu became famous worldwide after her debut novel, The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, was released in 2012. Until now, her book was published in twenty-three countries and was selected as one of the ten best fiction titles of 2012 by The Wall Street Journal, as one of the Pakistani Herald's best books of 2012 and as one of the Swedish Sydvenskan's best books of 2013. She was also the first Israeli writer to be long listed for the UK's Women's Prize for Fiction and the youngest recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 award, among other nominations and prizes. Citeşte tot articolul
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A St. Louis jury just awarded a former police chemist $175,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought in 2011.
The former police chemist alleged that she was terminated after she complained about drug testing errors at the city's crime lab, according to The Daily Journal. The jury deliberated about five hours before reaching its verdict in the one-week trial.
The ex-crime lab worker brought her lawsuit in May 2011 after having been fired in 2010, which ended her 25-year career with the St. Louis Police Department. She alleged that expressing her worries about about a co-worker's mistakes three years prior caused her dismissal, The Daily Journal reported. For their part, state prosecutors said that she lost her job because she disobeyed orders when she worked on a homicide case despite being told that drug casework was her only priority.
The whistleblower told The St. Louis Post Dispatch, "I'm a scientist…. If the reports are in error, they should be corrected, because people's lives are affected by it." The award was made based on a retaliation claim filed against Lt. Angela Coonce, commander of the intelligence division.
The whistleblower had complained on a number of occasions, both within and outside of the lab, concerning two 2008 criminal cases in which a fellow chemist failed to detect benzylpiperazine (BZP), which is a component of the drug known as "Ecstasy," The St. Louis Post Dispatch wrote.
According to the whistleblower's attorneys, the department retaliated against her because she aired its "dirty laundry." Attorneys for the police argued that the whistleblower was terminated in October 2010 for entirely different reasons and said that she had gone against orders by working, in May 2010, on a fatal arson case after being told that drug cases were her priority, reported The St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The department, which at that time had a 24-hour turnaround time on drug tests, argued that the whistleblower went outside of her chain of command to complain and then lied about what occurred. One of the whistleblower's attorneys said this was just a ploy to fire his client.
Ultimately, officials agreed that the whistleblower's analysis of the drug was correct. Officials testified that the whistleblower was reported to internal affairs for claiming a colleague intentionally altered the test's results. A review found that the colleague had followed the protocols that were in place at the time, according to The St. Louis Post Dispatch. The department has also since adopted the whistleblower's method of detecting BZP.
The whistleblower alleges that she never received a reason for her termination.


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ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: La promesse
by Maurice Ulrich
Translated Tuesday 22 September 2009, by Isabelle Métral and reviewed by Henry Crapo
On Sunday afternoon, Fadwa Barghouti and Denise Hamouri will stand on the great stage of l'Humanité's Festival, side by side with workers actively involved in conflicts. For at our festival, social struggles and international solidarity support and complement one another; both raise public awareneness and mobilize energies. Fadwa and Denise will each bring their testimony.
Fadwa Barghouti is the wife of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been held in an Israeli prison ifor the last seven years, regardless of international law and the Oslo accords. Denise Hamouri is the mother of the young Franco-Palestinian Salah Hamouri, who has already spent more than four years in prison, also in Israel, on an incredibly flimsy charge. He merely drove past an ultra-racist rabbi's house once and was accused of plotting an attack against him. Without any proof of course.
Fadwa Barghouti will also preside over a night of solidarity at the" world village", and she will also be present at the "books' village" to sign her book, a collection of texts by her husband with a preface of her own: The Promise: texts written in prison, 2002-2009. The title evokes two towering figures among others: one is Antonio Gramsci, a former leader of the Italian communist party who was imprisoned in the 1920s. His writing and letters were put on stage in Saint Denis a few years ago. A lone man walked on stage, recited the texts: among the audience were all the pupils of a lower secondary school form, none of whom said a word or gave any sign of impatience. On coming out they said how deeply moved they were by the struggle of this man, whom they did not know before.
Years in prison. Let us remember this. No more than 2% of the French knew Nelson Mandela's name when in the seventies the Young Communists (who else?) launched a big campaign for his liberation. Nelson Mandela has since become a symbol. Towns had then decided to put up his portrait in their public buildings until he was liberated. Today, Marwan Barghouti's portrait has been (or is about to be) put up in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, Stains, Ivry, Valenton, La Courneuve, Verrières, Gennevilliers (suburban towns around Paris) and will probably be placarded in dozens of other cities. In l'Humanité's columns we constantly relay all the initiatives taken for the release of the Palestinian leader.
The call for Marwan Barghouti's release is legitimate in respect for justice and humanity. But it is also a major political struggle, for Israel and for Palestine, but also for the whole world, since the situation in the Middle-East has repercussions all the world over. A clear-sighted man with firm convictions, he thinks that there can be no peace as long as the occupation continues.
French people have learned by experience the price and value of resistance: they know he is right. The Palestinian leader, a fighter and a man of culture too, knows this country well enough, having written a memoir on the relations between France and Palestine. And he is open to other cultures: at his trial, he pleaded his case in Hebrew. Far from being an anecdote, this fact has great symbolic value.
Indeed, reading his book one discovers a man who is sincerely convinced of the strength of democracy, who rejects corruption, who stakes his country's future on the Palestinian youth and the intelligence of the Palestinians (all of them), and who, provided he is liberated, is the one man who can champion the people's hope for Palestine and peace with Israel. In Israel, some of those who have understood this keep him in prison for this very reason. In Israel and all over the world, and at l'Humanité's festival this week-end, all men and women who love peace will demand his release and that of Salah Hamouri.


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Travelers Questions and Answers about Gibbon
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Does the gibbon really sing?
Yes, gibbon monkeys are the monkey species that sing the most of all monkey species. However, it is not an accident that gibbon monkeys are equipped with a singing voice, on the contrary. Gibbon monkeys are endowed with an extremely beautiful singing voice that has two purposes.
Every morning when the sun rises, one can hear the sound of the gibbon monkey's singing voice over the treetops of the rainforest. This song is repeated twice a day. Namely when the sun rises and when the sun sets. Each song is unique, which is made by both the male and the hungibbon monkey in a pair. The pair use the song to make other gibbon monkeys and animals aware that the area is occupied and therefore cannot be occupied.
The song can be heard up to 5 kilometers away and is also a proof of the gibbons' love for each other. It is also important for gibbon monkeys to tell other gibbon monkeys that the two are together and nothing can separate them. The song is therefore a duet between the male and the hungibbon monkey. Each song takes about 30 minutes and is also called a love song.
Is man related to the gibbon monkey?
For many years it has been debated back and forth whether the gibbon monkey is related to man. Especially because it differs so much from the behavior of man himself than the other apes we know.
But, yes the gibbon monkey is a great ape. The gibbon monkey, however, is the human ape that is least related to us humans. The gibbon monkey differs from the other great apes such as the chimpanzee, the bonobo, the gorilla and the orangutan. It does so because it is smaller and does not make nests to sleep in. In addition, gibbon monkeys form monogamous pairs, where they only live with a partner and their young. Conversely, the other great apes live in groups with a dominant male or alone.
Are gibbon monkeys acrobats?
Yes it's gibbon monkeys to that degree.
Gibbon monkeys, with their unique physique, are some of the best at moving up the tops of trees. With their very long arms, they can easily move around in the trees and can quickly grab onto various branches. Gibbons use their arms at both arm movements or as balance bars when running down the branches. Gibbon monkeys are also good at taking chances, by jumping into the air in a neck-breaking style and grabbing hold of the neighboring tree with its strong fingers. The gibbon does this when going from one tree to another. If they do not fall down, do you think so enough? But no that is not the case at all. Gibbons are extremely good at moving around in the trees. Tree changes therefore occur easily to them, and it is therefore very rare for a gibbon monkey to fall down from the tops of the trees. Although gibbon acrobatics can look very dangerous, it is not.
Is the gibbon monkey a pet or food for man?
Unfortunately, the various gibbon species are highly endangered. They are because there are many of the people of the forest who capture the monkey to eat it. Eating Gibbonabe is considered a form of delicacy in the Southeast Asian countries. Not only that, there are also many people who catch gibbon monkeys, to sell them in the big cities, where they are then used as pets. In addition, the gibbon monkeys are partly threatened because their habitats, which are the rainforest, are shrinking. It has become so that in more and more countries people are starting to cut down the trees in the rainforest.
Are gibbon monkeys romantics?
YES, it can be said without blinking.
Gibbon monkeys are more romantic and prefer to stay with the same mate for the rest of their lives. It is such that when a gibbon he and she are found together, it takes almost death and destruction to separate the two. Most often it happens that the couple is together for many many years and has many children together. If the gibbon monkey loses its stomach, it can have fatal consequences for it. Some gibbon monkeys develop stress due to the loss, and go and die from it – This can be called romance.
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Q: Co-occurrence calculations from a presence-absence matrix I have this great presence-absence dataset in which I need to calculate a C score (CS) for each species pair (BABO, BW, RC, SKS, MANG) to measure species co-occurrences.

ki and kj denote the numbers of occurrences of species i and j
and K is the number of co-occurrences of both species.
I have looked at articles like Find the pair of most correlated variables and Turning co-occurrence counts into co-occurrence probabilities with cascalog but was unable to determine the most efficient way to go about it in R. I have tried creating a function but was unsuccessful.
My data:
data <- structure(list(group_id = c("2008-2-11.C3_900", "2008-2-11.C3_960",
"2008-2-11.C3_1200", "2008-2-11.C3_1230", "2008-2-11.C3_1460",
"2008-2-11.C3_1490", "2008-2-22.Mwani_0", "2008-2-22.Mwani_110",
"2008-2-22.Mwani_600", "2008-2-22.Mwani_1650", "2008-2-20.Sanje_150",
"2008-2-20.Sanje_410", "2008-2-20.Sanje_3000", "2008-5-9.C3_900",
"2008-5-13.Mwani_750", "2008-5-13.Mwani_800", "2008-5-13.Mwani_900",
"2008-5-13.Mwani_1080", "2008-5-13.Mwani_1800", "2008-5-13.Mwani_2200",
"2008-5-13.Mwani_2900"), BABO = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0), BW = c(1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0,
0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1), RC = c(0, 0, 1,
1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0), SKS = c(0,
1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0),
    MANG = c(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
    0, 0, 0, 0, 1)), row.names = c(NA, -21L), class = c("tbl_df",
"tbl", "data.frame"))

group_id               BABO BW RC SKS MANG
<chr>                  <dbl><dbl><dbl><dbl>
2008-2-11.C3_900        0   1   0   0   0
2008-2-11.C3_960        0   1   0   1   0
2008-2-11.C3_1200       0   1   1   1   0
2008-2-11.C3_1230       0   1   1   0   0
2008-2-11.C3_1460       0   0   1   0   0
2008-2-11.C3_1490       0   0   0   1   0
2008-2-22.Mwani_0       0   0   0   1   1
2008-2-22.Mwani_110     0   0   1   0   1
2008-2-22.Mwani_600     0   1   0   0   0
2008-2-22.Mwani_1650    0   0   0   1   0
2008-2-20.Sanje_150     0   1   0   1   0
2008-2-20.Sanje_410     0   0   1   0   0
2008-2-20.Sanje_3000    0   0   1   0   0
2008-5-9.C3_900         0   0   0   1   0
2008-5-13.Mwani_750     0   0   0   1   0
2008-5-13.Mwani_800     1   0   1   0   0
2008-5-13.Mwani_900     0   0   1   0   0
2008-5-13.Mwani_1080    0   1   1   0   0
2008-5-13.Mwani_1800    0   1   0   0   0
2008-5-13.Mwani_2200    0   1   0   0   0
2008-5-13.Mwani_2900    0   1   0   0   1

A: First define a function to compute CS for a given pair of species; then use combn() to generate all possible pairs; then pass each pair to the CS() function using purrr::map2_dbl().
library(dplyr)
library(purrr)

CS <- function(i, j, data) {
  K <- sum(data[[i]] == 1 & data[[j]] == 1)
  ki <- sum(data[[i]])
  kj <- sum(data[[j]])
  ((ki - K) * (kj - K)) / (ki * kj)
}

names(sp_data)[-1] %>%
  combn(2) %>%
  t() %>%
  as_tibble() %>%
  set_names(c("i", "j")) %>%
  mutate(CS = map2_dbl(i, j, CS, data = sp_data))

# A tibble: 10 × 3
   i     j        CS
   <chr> <chr> <dbl>
 1 BABO  BW    1
 2 BABO  RC    0
 3 BABO  SKS   1
 4 BABO  MANG  1
 5 BW    RC    0.467
 6 BW    SKS   0.438
 7 BW    MANG  0.6
 8 RC    SKS   0.778
 9 RC    MANG  0.593
10 SKS   MANG  0.583

(Side note: using the equation you provided, species with little co-occurrence end up with high CS scores, and vice versa. If this isn't what you expected, perhaps your equation should be subtracted from 1?)

A: In base R, we may use crossprod
t1 <- crossprod(as.matrix(data[-1]))
v1 <- diag(t1)
c1 <- v1[col(t1)]
r1 <- v1[row(t1)]
((c1 - t1) * (r1 - t1))/(c1 * r1)

-output
     BABO        BW        RC       SKS      MANG
BABO    0 1.0000000 0.0000000 1.0000000 1.0000000
BW      1 0.0000000 0.4666667 0.4375000 0.6000000
RC      0 0.4666667 0.0000000 0.7777778 0.5925926
SKS     1 0.4375000 0.7777778 0.0000000 0.5833333
MANG    1 0.6000000 0.5925926 0.5833333 0.0000000


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May 14, 2017 May 15, 2017 Quintus Curtius FilmCome And Find Me, Crossing Point, Tank 432
This was a great week. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: discovering unexpectedly good films in out-of-the-way places is one of the things that keeps my faith in cinema alive. There are good things happening out there; you just have to be persistent and know how to wade through all the sewage.
Tank 432 (2016)
Director: Nick Gillespie
A weird psychological drama that straddles the boundary between war film and horror film. The plot: a group of mercenaries in an undisclosed location are on some kind of operation that involves transporting prisoners from point A to point B. Right away, we get the feeling that the entire team is on edge and dealing with frayed nerves. Nothing goes right, they scream and shout at each other, and ominous, unseen enemies stalk them everywhere they go. They eventually take "refuge" in an armored vehicle sitting the middle of nowhere. This turns out to be a big mistake. To make things worse, they find vials of orange powder in the tank that apparently are linked to hidden physical powers.
If all this sounds bizarre, it's supposed to be. This has to be one of the most claustrophobic movies ever made; the tension is real and is sustained for the entire film. But this is not really a "horror" film, unless we consider horror to be the disintegration of the human psyche under stress (which it is). I was disappointed to find out that this film received negative reviews after its release. Perhaps it's not for everyone, but I love these kinds of British movies. The UK seems to have a long, distinguished tradition of supernatural story-telling: ghost and horror stories are taken seriously there (as well they should be). And things are done in an intelligent way that never condescends to the audience.
So don't listen to the critics on this one. Think of this as a film version of one of those "Weird War Tales" comics that used to be published in pulp form decades ago. This is an imaginative, well-done exercise in psychological horror and emotional breakdown that succeeds on every level. Well done.
Crossing Point (2016)
Director: Daniel Zirilli
Another success here. The plot: innocent American dude Michael (Shawn Locke) is on vacation with his Mexican girlfriend in Baja. Everything looks lovey-dovey until she gets kidnapped by a drug dealing gangster who gives Michael an ultimatum: either carry a load of drugs across the border to the US, or your girlfriend will be killed.
Michael begins his odyssey of compliance. On his trail is an honest Mexican cop from Tijuana and a few other sinister figures, among them Tom Sizemore (glad to see he's still making movies). Part chase movie and part thriller, this film delivers on every level. The action is unrelenting and never lets up; what's even better, this is not your typical Hollywood fantasy. The bad guys here are truly bad, and there are double-crosses waiting around every street-corner. Even worse, it becomes clear the love of Michael's life turns out to be quite different from what he originally thought, to put it mildly. See this movie.
Come And Find Me (2016)
Director: Zack Whedon
This was a big disappointment. What a wuss film. I'd call it the polar opposite of Crossing Point, reviewed above. The plot: beta nice guy David (Aaron Paul) falls in love with a "mysterious" girl named Claire he meets in Los Angeles. We have to endure scene after scene of their fake lovey-dovey bliss, so that the director can hammer home the point that they are into each other. OK, we get it. Then mysterious woman goes missing. David mopes around for a year, feeling terrible about it, and decides to go off on a quest to find her. It turns out–of course–that Claire was some kind of "secret agent" leading a double life. The trail gets more and more dangerous as David closes in on the mystery.
What really irritated me about this movie was the standard Hollywood role-reversal that we've come to expect in recent years. The man here is portrayed as a simpering housepet who can't live without his lost "girlfriend." For her part, she seems to find him tolerable at best. Of course, the woman is given the role of the alpha character: she's an assertive, decisive, girl-power infused, ass-kicking secret agent, and all the other bullshit that Hollywood dumps into the feed-trough of moviegoers these days. The boyfriend spends the entire film following in her footsteps, a pathetic whiner chasing after some chick who doesn't seem to care very much about him.
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against strong female characters in action roles. Nothing at all. But it has to be done realistically. You can't just stack up one totally ridiculous scene after another and expect audiences to believe it. There's got to be balance and realism. Here's an example. The best female action film heroine in history was Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (1986). I loved this movie and thought she pulled off something very, very rare in films: she created a female action character that was both a take-charge, action-oriented person and at the same time conveyed vulnerability and femininity. I can't think of any actress who has pulled off a similar feat. Her role in this movie (and in the earlier Alien) was my kind of female action hero.
But this is how these writers and directors see gender relations (or how they want us to see them). There is zero subtlety and zero nuance: everything is in comic-book black-and-white. We get schlock films like Come And Find Me, that rub our noses in unrealistic bullshit and expect us to enjoy it. I don't accept this, and you shouldn't either.
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These pieces are very helpful in my never ending search for a good movie. Thanks.
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I love that the trailer for Tank 432 mentions Dog Soldiers, another great claustrophobic Brit horror. A group of squaddies get trapped in a cabin (at night, of course), fighting werewolves.


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A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick.
Sterne, Laurence.
Stamford, CT: The Overbrook Press, 1936. One of 175 copies. Pictorial titles printed in brown and gray in addition to the printed titles. Printed on dampened hand-made paper. Typography and composition by Margaret B. Evans. Presswork by John F. MacNamara. Light offsetting from pictorial title. Some very light scuffing and rubbing to binding extremities and corners, else books are near bright and near fine. Full polished calf with red morocco spine label stamped in gilt and marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt and pages untrimmed in both volumes. Marbled board slipcase. Two volumes, small octav 170; 170 pp. (Item ID: 16123)
The Overbrook Press was founded in 1934 in Stamford, Connecticut, by Frank Altschul, an investment banker and civic leader, who was interested in printing. Altschul first pursued printing as a hobby and experimented with it in his apartment. In 1934, he met designer Margaret B. Evans, who had been working for Ashlar Press, which was in the process of closing. Altschul set up a press on his Stamford farm. He hired Evans as a designer and compositor and John MacNamara as pressman. The Overbrook Press went on to print a diverse array of books and pamphlets, as well as ephemera. It operated for almost three decades before it closed its doors in 1969.


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Q: Chart.js annotations in Vue.js break when defined in data () I've run into a problem using chartjs-plugin-annotations in a Vue.js application
We've been successfully embedding ChartJS charts in our Vue applications for a while with the config for the chart defined in the data () section of the components.
However when we have added in the chartjs-plugin-annotation plugin we have been unable to get the annotations working unless we define the config locally and return the new Chart directly. This obviously causes problems with updating the chart.
This is the basic model we are using with Annotations
  async setChart (ctx) {
   const config = {
     type: 'bar',
     data: {},
       ..
   }
   // populate the dateset for the chart
   await this.setChartData(config)
   // populate the annotations for the chart
   await this.setAnnotations(config)
   // create the chart
   return new Chart(ctx, config)
 }

A full example fiddle is here
This is fine (or at least works) when we are using the charts statically however we have at least page where we need to change the chart depending on selections on the page. In this instance the new Chart is rendering the new data but keeping the old chart as well. The browser then flicks between charts when moused over. This can be seen in the example above.
Ideally we should be using the update() method of chartJS in this case, but as we are not assigning the chart to a global we cannot access it after creation
Any thoughts?

A: This question: Annotations are not displayed in Chart.js links to the solution
There is an issue with annotation and Chart.js 2.9.4, the solution is to downgrade to Chart.js 2.9.3


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School Section > Arabic Curriculums > Pre-K - 2nd Level > Reading Teacher معلم القراءة >
Reading Teacher (Part 2) - To Help Students Read Quickly and Speak Fluently
معلم القراءة -(الجزء الثاني)- اعداد طفل سريع القراءة أديب العبارة
Reading Teacher (Part 2) - To Help Students Read Quickly and Speak Fluently معلم القراءة -(الجزء الثاني)- اعداد طفل سريع القراءة أديب العبارة
Abdul Majid Amer
Author: Abdul Majid Amer
Abdulmajeed Abdul Hamid Amer
Publisher: Abdulmajeed Abdul Hamid Amer
Ages: Pre-K - 2nd Level
Prepare students to read quickly and express themselves elegantly!
This curriculum teaches quick reading through pictures and colors, as well as the principles of dictation and tajweed. It increases linguistic outcomes and students' vocabulary. It can be considered the first illustrated dictionary in a child's life. This book is intended for kindergartners, first grade students, non-Arabic-speakers, students with special needs, late beginners, and students of tajweed.
إِعْدَادُ طِفْل سَرِيعِ الْقِرَاءَةِ أَدِيبِ الْعِبَارَةِ
يعلم : القراءة السريعة من خلال الصور والألوان
يعلم : قواعد الإملاء ومبادئ التجويد.
يعلم : الحصيلة اللغوية ويزيد الثروة اللفظية.
يعد : القاموس المصوّر الأوّل في حياة الطفل.
للروضات ، لصفوف الحلقة الأولى ، لغير الناطقين باللغة العربية ، لذوي الاحتياجات الخاصة ، للمتأخرين دراسيا وتنقصهم بعض مهارات القراءة ، لراغبي قراءة اللغة العربية بالتشكيل وقراءة القرآن الكريم.
Dimensions: (8.3" x 11.4" x ")
First Publishing Date:
Current Publishing Date: 7/1/2018
Current Edition: 10th
Item Weight: .937 pounds
Noorart Code: CBRTRS2
Journey with Al-Qaidah An-Noraniah from Alef to Ya'a: Pre-KG Level, Part 1 (4-5 Years) رحلة مع القاعدة النورانية من الألف إلى الياء الجزء الاول
This book aims to teach Arabic language writing skills using the Noranian Rule.
Furqan Group for Education & IT
Mohammed Farooq Al Ra'ee
This book aims to teach Arabic language writing skills using the Noranian Rule. It is ideal for kindergarten students as the child is trained to hold the pen, introduced to Arabic letters as well as reading, writing and the meanings of letter (أ ) to letter (ج), numbers (1 to 5) and concepts ( length, size, quantity and directions). It also assists the teacher in teaching children good values and manners with meaningful educational stories that feature expressive examples from history.
Learn and Color the Arabic Alphabet تعلم ولون الألفباء
An enjoyable book for beginners to learn to write the Arabic letters.
Al Uwa'il
Dr. Hosni Kandil
An enjoyable book for beginners to learn to write the Arabic letters. Letters are printed in large size that allows small hands to color in the shapes. Helps familiarize the beginning student with letter recognition and drawing practice.
My First Book of Arabic Writing
IQRA's Program of Arabic Studies has been specially designed for teaching Arabic as a second language to students whose first language is English.
Lynda Soltana
IQRA's Program of Arabic Studies has been specially designed for teaching Arabic as a second language to students whose first language is English. This book, My First Book of Arabic Writing, is part of a series of Arabic textbooks and workbooks, and it is intended to teach beginners the Arabic alphabet along with a basic vocabulary.
It allows students the opportunity to practice their Arabic handwriting, first with each individual letter and then with complete words. Moreover, this book can be used in conjunction with our Charts of Arabic Letters as well as IQRA Alphabet Educational Cards. The activity book Up and Away with Arabic Numbers and the Chart of Arabic Numbers can also be used as educational reinforcement.
Arabic in Kindergarten Textbook: Level Pre-K 1 (From 3 Years) العربية في الروضة كتاب التلميذ
This series provides a new, integrated approach for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.
JSF Editions (Jeunesse Sans Frontiere)
Dr. Al Habeeb Al Affass
This series provides a new, integrated approach for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers and covers these educational levels:
Pre-K 1 level, starting from 3 years old
Pre-K 2 level for 4-5 year-old
and KG 3 level for 5-6 year-old.
This series presents the Arabic language clearly and inclusively to meet the needs of Western learners.
The curriculum sees language as both a general skill and a set of specific actions a child should to learn through communication, discovery, realization, and then application. It takes a systematic, three-part approach. Each part has certain objectives, enabling the learner to generate language accurately in a variety of modern ways.
The system takes into account these three elements:
Linguistic competence: this includes the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing; and the three elements of language: phonetic sounds, vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Communicative competence: the ability to communicate with the people of language and writing words.
Cultural competence: looks at patterns of the Arab culture in an engaging and exciting manner for children in this age-level, helping Western children connect with their Arabic speaking peers in other parts of the world.
This series concentrates on classic Arabic, without using spoken dialects. The curriculum uses guided-art methods and techniques (recommended by experts in foreign-language instruction), and takes into account the unique nature of the Arabic language and its distinct characteristics.
Supplemental audio CD is sold separately.
Easy Arabic Reading and Expression - Lessons and Exercises: Preparatory Level (Level Pre-KG) القراءة والكتابة أنشطتي الأولى
A new integrated approach to teaching Arabic to non-Arabic speakers.
Granada Editions
The book روصتي My Kindergarten is an introduction to an educational, academic and complete program, the two series Al-Amal and Easy Arabic.
This series' preparation, publication and choice of subjects were the elite choices of experts in the fields of language, social and cultural sciences, and persons specialized in educational science and methods of teaching. Also involved were knowledgeable individuals with years of experience, teachers, artists and workers related to printing and distribution.
The two series and their programs were written according to an Islamic system for education, science and culture -ISISCO.
Features of these books:
It is referred to as a modern curriculum for learning. It caters to the psychological, mental and cultural needs of the learner.
It is constructed on advanced methods to motivate.
It provides similar examined methodologies in dictation, demonstration, and exercises.
Its beauty is both in appearance and deepness of its contents.
Advanced technology and high-quality methods for printing and artistic publishing were used.
It approaches and enhances the knowledge of the learner.
This program is an accompaniment for its time. It has taken modernity into consideration and is truly loved and stimulates the minds of its learners. We have substituted the physical papers with high-quality digital material, and have created a CD for every level*. It reflects the contents and information that is in the textbook and enriches it with activities. In addition to this are its lightness, amusements, easy access and quick automatic answers. It can be used either in the classroom during the lesson or outside, with or without the help of a teacher.
*CD sold separately.
There are a total of 16 titles in this series including the student books, student audio-visual CDs, and teacher book.
Arabic in Your Hands: The Letters حروف العربية بين يديك – مدخل للكتاب الأول
A preliminary handbook for beginner students, it precedes the first student book from the Arabic in Your Hands series.
Arabic for All
Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Fuzan
A preliminary handbook for beginner students, this book precedes the first student book in the Arabic in Your Hands series. It teaches reading and writing. This book presents the letters in their separate and connected forms. Letters are arranged beginning with the easiest letters to draw (they change the least when connected).
Students begin writing by passing the pen over the targeted letter in its different shapes and then progress to writing the letter, passing the pen over the word, and finally, writing the word. The words used are common words, so that students will not be distracted by searching for the definitions. This method is free from the negatives of the traditional method. It can be taught in two school weeks.
ICO Learn Arabic Textbook: KG1 (4-5 Years, With Access code) تعلم العربية - مستوى الروضة
The Kindergarten books prepare the student for the elementary school level by including a variety of writing activities, thus enabling children to master the core language skills of reading, listening, speaking and writing.
Dr. Mahmood Saleh, Dr. Mukhtar Hussein and Nasif Abdul Aziz
Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Books (4-6 years):
The Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten levels consist of three books for each stage: a student book, a workbook and a teacher's guide. Lessons for these two grades are built so that the three books are integrated and coordinated, where the student book contains 8 educational units, and each unit includes several lessons, each of which presents one Arabic letter.
International Curricula Organization was keen on making the books within these two grades as family-friendly as possible, to enable children to interact and achieve the educational goals set out by the books. To achieve this, two delightfully childlike characters that live in realistic families appear in the books: the Bulbula figure in the Kindergarten books and the Katkoot figure for the Pre-Kindergarten books, both of which help bring the educational material closer to the hearts and minds of children.
I Love Arabic Textbook: KG Level أحب العربية كتاب التلميذ
Used by a number of full-time Islamic schools throughout the U.S. and comes highly recommended.
Arabian Education Office of Gulf Countries
The student's book presents 64 lessons and 128 activities. It's designed in an attractive way especially for children.
The book relies heavily on pictures so students can happily complete their exercises and participate in some of their favorite hobbies and games.
This book is designed for KG students, 5-6 years old. The book follows a step by step format, and is easy to follow. At the same time, it provokes children's imagination and strengthens their creativity.
The book contains 64 lessons, with each lesson spread across two pages. After finishing two lessons, students move on to the activity book to do one activity. This book:
Provides a linguistic base, enabling children to communicate orally by asking and answering questions, requesting information, giving information, and asking for directions.
Develops thinking abilities in a child; this includes: recognizing differences in pictures, knowing what people use for riding and transportation, recognizing odd words, recognizing similar pictures, sorting things from the fastest to the slowest, and learning to categorize from tallest to shortest.
Provides exercises to increase dexterity, such as coloring pictures and shapes, matching between words and pictures, matching between letters and words, and rewriting over dotted letters.
Teaches Arabic as a primary language
Uses vowelled letters (diactrical marks, or tashkeel)
Textbooks focus: listening, writing, reading, and speaking
Workbooks focus: exercises and games that support the textbook
Evaluations follow every 5 lessons
Exposes students to common terminology
Illustrated dictionary plus vocabulary list
Ideal for Western students; themes are heavily cultural, not necessarily Islamic.
A comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers in full-time Islamic and public schools
Discover the Letters: Level 1 اكتشف الحروف
A set of book activities accompany the child in their fun trip, in which they discover the letters and numbers through pretty lines, colored drawings and purposeful exercises.
Hachette Antoine S.A.L
Amal Tanner and Lilian Khoury
A set of book activities accompany children on a fun trip to discover the letters and numbers through pretty lines, colored drawings, and purposeful exercises. Decorating letters and coloring them, delineating numbers and counting them, these pages combine fun and benefit in firm pedagogical steps that support proper writing.
The activities in both Discover the Letters and Discover the Numbers, in the first and second levels, respect the mental, dynamic, psychological, and social abilities of children in the 3–6 age group. As such, it includes a set of varied, attractive, and dynamic activities in terms of form, gradation in content, and difficulty level:
Pre-writing activities in order to decorate and draw the main lines
Activities for drawing the letters, which are accompanied by drawings that start with or include the targeted letter
Activities for drawing the numbers, which are accompanied by drawings showing the number
These activities seek to develop children's independence, so each page includes the following:
A clear lesson accompanied by a drawing, which shows children what action is required
A model of the line, drawing, letter, or number that is required, while specifying its starting point, the direction of delineation, and its path with guiding arrows
A detailed explanation through drawings and arrows, with simple steps, that clarifies the correct way to write every letter and number to the adult
To summarize, each page of Discover the Letters and Discover the Numbers is an integral and purposeful educational activity with a precise path.


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Posts by Dmitry Gorenburg
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Russian Foreign Policy Narratives
Дмитрий Горенбург 11-12-2019
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(RMR blog) Here's my latest policy brief from the series on Russian strategic culture and leadership decision-making, written for a collaborative project organized by the Marshall Center with support from the Russia Strategy Initiative. This one is on Russian foreign policy narratives. As with the previous ones, I am posting the full text here with permission from the Marshall Center. Please go to the Marshall Center website if you would prefer to read a ...
Russia, Gorenburg
Russia's Naval Strategy in the Mediterranean
(RMR blog) One more in the series of policy briefs on Russian strategic culture and leadership decision-making, written for a collaborative project organized by the Marshall Center with support from the Russia Strategy Initiative. This one is on Russian naval strategy in the Mediterranean, written in June but only recently published. As with the last one, I am posting the full text here with permission from the Marshall Center. Please go to the Marshall...
Gorenburg, Russia, NATO, Mediterranean
Strategic Russian Strategic Decision-Making in a Nordic Crisis
(RMR blog) Here's the second in a series of policy briefs on Russian strategic culture and leadership decision-making, written for a collaborative project organized by the Marshall Center with support from the Russia Strategy Initiative. This one is on Russian strategic goals in a Nordic crisis. With permission from the Marshall Center, I am posting the full text here, though please go to the Marshall Center website if you would prefer to read a PDF...
Gorenburg, Russia, Russian Military Reform, Military
A Guide to Becoming an Admiral in the Russian Navy
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(War on the Rocks) (Co-authored with Kasey Stricklin) It is widely acknowledged that general and flag officers are important actors. Senior uniformed leaders are, of course, crucial in determining the trajectory of a country's military development and in some cases even of its foreign policy. Yet, with vanishingly few exceptions, even those Americans who closely track national and international security focus little on the generals and admirals of other...
Gorenburg, Russia, Russian Military Reform, Military/Defense
5 things you need to know about last week's explosion in Russia
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(WP Monkey Cage) (Co-authored with Michael Kofman) An Aug. 8 accident at Russia's Nonoksa missile testing facility left seven dead and caused a brief radiation spike in a nearby town. What went wrong Vague and potentially misleading statements by Russian authorities have only added to speculation that scientists were working on a nuclear propulsion system for one of the country's more secretive weapons projects, possibly the Burevestnik nuclear-powered...
Gorenburg, Russia, Military
How Much Did Orthodox Church Help Revive Russia's Military and Nuclear Complex? [Book Review]
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(Russia Matters) "Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy," an important new book by the Israeli scholar Dmitry Adamsky, explores the critical but highly understudied juncture between religion and the military. Focusing on the role played by the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in the restoration and development of the Russian nuclear weapons complex in the post-Cold War period, Adamsky highlights the organizational and ideological impact of the church on the gradual...
Gorenburg, Russia
Russian Strategic Culture in a Baltic Crisis
(Russian Military Reform | Marshall Center) As part of a collaborative project on Russian strategic culture and leadership decision-making, organized by the Marshall Center with support from the Russia Strategy Initiative, I have published a policy brief on Russian strategic goals in a Baltic crisis. Here is the executive summary and some highlights. The full brief is available through the Marshall Center website. Executive Summary This policy brief...
Gorenburg, Baltics, NATO, Russia
Strategic Analysis December 2018: The Kerch Strait skirmish: a Law of the Sea perspective
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(Hybrid Co) "The November 25 naval skirmish between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the Kerch Strait highlighted the fraught legal status of the strait and the Azov Sea, a status that Russia has been exploiting in recent months to exert political and economic pressure on Ukraine" writes Dmitry Gorenburg, a Senior Research Scientist in the Strategy, Policy, Plans, and Programs division of CNA. The status of the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait is regulated by...
Gorenburg, Russia, Ukraine, Kerch Strait
Russia and Ukraine had a short naval battle. Here's what you need to know
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(Monkey Cage) (Co-authored with Michael Kofman) The Nov. 25 skirmish between Russian Border Guard and Ukrainian navy ships in the Kerch Strait has escalated tensions not just between the two countries, but also between Russia and NATO. Two Ukrainian navy small-armored boats and a tugboat attempted to cross into the Sea of Azov via the Kerch Strait. A Russian Border Guard ship rammed the tug. Russian forces eventually captured all three boats, holding them...
Gorenburg, Kerch, Azov, Ukraine, Russia
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НАТО и Россия продолжают разговор на фоне учений и ракетных стрельб
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Командующий ВМС США в Европе и Африке считает, что скандинавские страны готовы к отражению любой агрессии. 31 октября на севере Европы началась активная фаза учений сил НАТО под названием Trident Juncture – учений, которые считаются крупнейшими со времен окончания «холодной войны», и в которых, по данным Североатлантического альянса, принимают участие около 50 тысяч военнослужащих, 250 самолетов, 65 кораблей и 10 тысяч различных единиц боевой техники из...
НАТО, Россия, Горенбург
Дмитрий Горенбург
CNA; Harvard University
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Q: Accidentally run command rm -R in Amazon EC2. Unable to login I'm using Amazon EC2 for Magento website and WinScp to access SFTP.
Sometimes I'm using terminal in WinScp to execute command.
Today I need to delete some files so I used rm -R /* and forget to mention folder name.
Now i am unable to login using winscp to my server and the website is not working. I am getting this error in winscp:
"Authentication log (see session log for details):
Using username "ubuntu".
Server refused our key.

Authentication failed."

How can I login again and undo the massive erase?

A: You can recover the instance data by deploying your SSH key to a new copy of the instance, see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3260739/add-keypair-to-existing-ec2-instance