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Three Olympic Fencers Face 50 Untrained Opponents In a Scene Worthy of an Action Movie
By Lucia Peters
You know how in the movies, the hero of any action flick invariably ends up facing off against a gigantic hoard of minions? You know how each enemy patiently waits to attack said hero one by one, ultimately allowing him or her to best them all singlehandedly without even breaking a sweat? Have you ever wondered what would happen if that scenario played out in real life? I know I have — and now we can see this movie scene come to life thanks to this bizarrely mesmerizing video of three Olympic fencing masters battling 50 untrained opponents.
The video was first uploaded to YouTube in December of 2012, but it resurfaced on Digg the other day, allowing a whole new generation of Internet addicts to take in its glory. According to The Daily Dot, this stunt was filmed for a Japanese game show in 2012. The show asked three of the country's Olympic fencers — Kenta Chida, Ryo Miyake, and Suguru Awaji, who all won the silver medal in the team foil event at the 2012 Summer Games — to face down 50 amateur opponents. The rules of the game? Everyone had a balloon strapped to their chest (red for the Olympians, green for the amateurs); if the balloon popped, down you go. For the curious, looking at standard foil fencing here, which means your target is limited to your torso, you can only poke with your blade (no slicing and dicing), and your weapon has a tiny little hand guard. How did they do? Astonishingly well — but alas, this isn't the movies:
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So close! The first Olympian went down at about the 3:40 mark; the second lasted until the five-minute mark; and the third? Oh, the third! Although he had a mere two opponents left, his balloon burst at the 6:22 mark. Sadness! But they definitely made a valiant effort, so props to them for besting 48 out of 50. A 96 percent success rate ain't too shabby.
Also, am I the only one who thinks American reality television should start taking their cues from videos like this? It's way more fun to watch something like this than it is to listen to the Real Housewives whine about their latest legal issues.


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Don't Read Into Jim Herrmann's Visit Last Week
Posted on December 17, 2018 at 1:00 pm
The Pittsburgh Steelers brought in some names this week that grabbed the attention of the media and fans, though half of them really shouldn't have, according to Mike Tomlin. While it was obviously significant that they brought in kickers to compete for Chris Boswell's job, Shaun Suisham's presence, the head coach said, was nothing uncommon.
Nor was the visit of veteran linebackers coach Jim Herrmann, who spent time observing the Steelers' practice this past week. Following some notable defensive struggles, particularly in the fourth quarter, and with many itchy trigger fingers when it comes to the likes of defensive coordinator Keith Butler and the linebackers coaches, Hermann's presence raised some eyebrows.
"It's really just allowing an unemployed coach to visit. I don't necessarily view it as helping with practice, to be honest with you", Tomlin told Bob Labriola before yesterday's game. He said that outside personnel being brought in for observation is a common practice in 'old school' football, and it rarely draws much of any attention.
"Visiting coaches are part of old-school ball. We've brought in Monte Kiffin in the past. We brought in a guy named Don Yanowsky, which probably didn't register on the radar because the name isn't familiar", he pointed out. "We've also had a special teams assistant in here twice already this year by the name of Todd Yoder. Again, that probably didn't register because that's not a household name".
Tomlin's point is fair, but there also tends to be smoke when there's fire, and there's no denying that the Steelers' defense has been smoking lately—in the pejorative sense. Butler has been receiving a lot of criticism and fielding weekly questions about his job security from the local media.
He said that he and Herrmann have a history. While they never worked together directly, he described Herrmann as "on that same speaker circuit together, two young guys cutting our teeth in the profession". Herrmann was with Michigan while Tomlin was coaching at the University of Cincinnati.
So while he may have an established resume which most notably includes a Super Bowl championship during his time with the New York Giants between 2009 and 2015, that doesn't mean he is interviewing for a job.
He most recently worked with the Indianapolis Colts, where he coached Jon Bostic last season during what was the best year of his professional career, making 14 starts in 14 games. Bostic has been a starter for the Steelers for most of the year but looks to have been surpassed by L.J. Fort in recent weeks.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — A longtime clerk of courts employee in Ohio who was accused of leaking search warrants and warning potential law enforcement targets has pleaded guilty.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports Yakyma Boyd entered her plea Monday to felony charges of bribery and tampering with evidence. She is expected to receive a six-month prison sentence as part of a deal with prosecutors.
The 45-year-old woman worked for the Hamilton County Clerk of Courts office for 22 years, and prosecutors say she affected an unknown number of cases.
Officials say she was paid about $1,000 per search warrant that she shared.
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Jetty co-founder and President Luke Cohler beside Jetty co-founder and CEO Mike Rudoy
Jetty, the New York City rental insurance startup, is beefing up its executive hires to support a national expansion.
The firm, led by Mike Rudoy and Luke Cohler, will employ Kevin Murphy as vice president of real estate sales, according to a company statement.
Murphy, a former director of national accounts at RentPath, will be charged with building a national Jetty real estate team. Patrick Briggs, a former director of marketing and merchandising for eyewear licensing platform Eyponym, will join the company as vice president of growth.
Kevin Dinnie, a former managing director at the Blackstone Group real estate business and founder of real estate investment and consulting company Kingston Hill Partners, will come on board as senior adviser.
"To support our rapid growth in both consumer demand and property management partnerships, we're thrilled to add three industry leaders with a proven ability to scale organizations," Jetty co-founder and CEO Mike Rudoy said.
Jetty officially launched in April with $4M in seed money, and raised $11.5M in a Series A funding round led by Peter Thiel's Valar Venture in August. Since June, it has been working with Blackstone and Ivanhoé Cambridge to fill Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village.
The company provides a a three-in-one product to apartment applicants. Jetty Renters Insurance and Jetty Passport Deposit allow renters to pay a one-time payment to Jetty in lieu of a security deposit.
Through Jetty Passport Lease, the company acts as a guarantor for renters. It first launched in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Georgia, and is now available in 43 states, according to the release. The company said it is aiming to roll out the service nationally in 2018.
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Lost sharks, dying amphibians add to growing extinction list
"It's certainly possible [that the lost shark survives]'," Professor Simpfendorfer said. "We can't rule it out."
The European bison (pictured here in 1986) has shown signs of recovery. Credit:AP
Sharks and rays in broadscale decline in many parts of the world, with overfishing "the major problem that's driving them towards extinction", he said, adding that half the species in the Arabian Sea are threatened. In Australian waters, gulper sharks and the whitefin swellshark are among those at risk.
James Watson, a professor at the University of Queensland, said many threatened species were "in the hospital on the way to the morgue".
Professor Watson this week was an author of a Nature Communications paper that found just 40 per cent of the world's forests were considered to be of high so-called landscape-level integrity, with just 27 per cent of that located in nationally protected areas.
"Forests hold half the world's species," he said, adding that 60 per cent "are in serious decline".
Most of the best remaining forests are located in Canada, Russia, the Amazon and Papua New Guinea, but these face severe threats from logging and other pressures, he said.
Forests are still a major source of global wildlife.
Globally, amphibians such frogs are more at risk than bird species, with 14 per cent threatened, and mammals at 26 per cent, the IUCN said.
"Many amphibians have very restricted ranges to begin with and, to top it off, they are being pummeled by an onslaught of threats," Kelsey Neam, IUCN's Programme Officer for the animal group, said.
"The top three threats to amphibians worldwide are human-caused: expanding agriculture for crops and livestock grazing, logging of forests, and the expansion and ecological footprint of towns and cities," she said.
One threat is the spread of chytridiomycosis, a deadly disease caused by a fungus that affects their ability to breathe through their skin or absorb nutrients. Climate change, particularly extreme droughts, are another stressor and may be operating with disease to exacerbate population declines," Ms Neam said.
Some 80 of the 96 harlequin toad species, for instance, are listed as endangered, critically endangered, or even extinct like the Chiriqui harlequin toad (Atelopus chiriquiensis), according to the latest Red List.
Still, some amphibians can make a comeback. Researchers in Costa Rica rediscovered the American Cinchona plantation treefrog in 2007 and it now survives in several protected areas in Costa Rica and Panama.
"It goes to show that if we invest in conservation by protecting critical habitats, we can help these species have a fighting chance at long-term survival," Ms Neam said.
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Q: Denoising using particle filter in matlab I am trying to denoise an image using particle filter. Its not a full implementation of particle filter, I am just using the some part of it. I am new to matlab and I am getting the following error
"Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

Error in particle_filter_denoising (line 42)
         Xkposeterior=[EImg(i,j-1);EImg(i-1,j);EImg(i-1,j-1)];"

I tried debugging, but I am not able to find why the code is going wrong.
    Img = imread('a.jpg');
Img= rgb2gray(Img);
Img=im2double(Img);
V =0.001;
clc;

x_N=V ;
x_R=V *2;
NImg=imnoise(Img,'gaussian',Var);

subplot(1,3,1);imshow(Img);title('Original Image');
subplot(1,3,2);imshow(NImg);title('Noisy Gaussian Image');

[r  c] =size(Img);
EImg=zeros(r,c);
EImg(1,:) =Img(1,:);
EImg(:,1)=Img(:,1);
A=[0.35 0.35 0.3;0 1 0;0 0 1];

%Initial state
Xkposeterior=[EImg(2,  1);EImg(1,2);EImg(1,1)];
X_prior = A*Xkposeterior;

%particles
N=100;
X_Particle=[];

X_P_wi=[];

for i = 1:N
    X_Particle(i) = X_prior(1) + sqrt(V) * randn;
end

%%Xkposeterior=[EImg(2,1);EImg(1,2);EImg(1,1)];
for i=2:r
    for j=2:c
         Zk=NImg(i,j);

         Xkposeterior=[EImg(i,j-1);EImg(i-1,j);EImg(i-1,j-1)];
         X_prior = A*Xkposeterior;
         for k_particle=1:N
             X_Particle(k_particle)=X_prior(1) + sqrt(V) * randn;
             X_P_wi(k_particle)=(1/sqrt(2*pi*x_R)) * exp(-(Zk - X_Particle(k_particle))^2/(2*x_R));
         end
         X_P_wi = X_P_wi./sum(X_P_wi);
         for m = 1 : N
            X_Particle(m) = X_Particle(find(rand <= cumsum( X_P_wi),1));
         end

         EImg= mean(X_Particle);

    end
end

subplot(1,3,3);imshow(EImg, []);title(' Particle Denoised Image');

A: The error means that i or j is larger than the number of rows or columns in EImg.
The reason why that is happening is that you are overwriting EImg on each iteration of the loop, at the line: EImg=mean(X_Particle). This makes EImg a different sized array, and so it wont have r rows and c columns anymore. I can't tell you how to fix the problem, because I don't know what the code does, but that is why you are seeing the error.

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NEW YORK -- A 500-year-old da Vinci painting once belonged to a king who died on the chopping block.
On Wednesday, it fetched a king's ransom -- on the auction block. It sold for $450 million late Wednesday -- which included the buyer's premium that is paid to the auction house -- in a bidding war that spanned nearly 20 minutes. The price hit $300 million about midway through the auction.
Christie's tweeted that it set a world auction record for any work of art sold at auction. Officials didn't immediately identify the buyer. Audible cheers and applause could be heard inside the Christie's auction house in New York when bidding completed.
"'Salvator Mundi' is a painting of the most iconic figure in the world by the most important artist of all time," said Loic Gouzer, co-chairman of post-war and contemporary art at Christie's. "The opportunity to bring this masterpiece to the market is an honor that comes around once in a lifetime."
Six years ago, art collector Robert Simon made a discovery that would rock the art world. He bought and restored what he thought was a merely a copy of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci's long lost work, the "Salvator Mundi" (Italian for "Savior of the World"). He got it at a bargain, for $10,000.
"My hope was that this could be an interesting version or copy by a student of Leonardo ...," Simon told CBS News, "... not by the master himself."
But turns out, it was a bona fide da Vinci -- one of only 15 the artist had ever created. Wednesday evening at Christie's, it was expected to go for at least $100 million -- but finally went well beyond that as bids poured in.
The painting to have held the record for the most paid ever at auction was $179.4 million for Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)" in May 2015, the Associated Press reports.
AP writes that the highest known sale price for any artwork was $300 million, for Willem de Kooning's "Interchange," which sold privately in September 2015.
Simon was originally skeptical, because of the thick layers of paint covering cracks and chips in the work.
"When I realized what it was, I was frightened," Simon said. "This was such a momentous object … and there was one in my hands. Yeah, it was scary."
Da Vinci painted it in the 1500s, but since then, it's changed hands many times.
Once owned by King Charles I of England, it disappeared in 1763 for over 100 years before resurfacing in London. In 1958, it was auctioned off for about $100, dropping off the grid once again for another 50 years before Simon picked it up in the U.S.
It's a work that has a universal appeal -- not only because of the work, but because of the artist.
"I view him as the greatest representative of our species," Simon said.
A masterpiece that got lost in the pages of history finally has its renaissance.
CBS News' Peter Martinez contributed to this report.


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Spain has many great cities, all worth a visit and with lots of tourist attractions. Madrid and Barcelona are among the most popular, but also Sevilla, Cordoba and Granada attract many visitors.
The great country of Spain that sits at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea is without doubt a holidaymaker`s dream. Spain is popular and diverse, friendly and accommodating. It positively brims with history, boasting more World Heritage Cities than any other country. After Italy it has the second most UNESCO World Heritage Sites, so along with its inviting climate, its folklore, festivals and its vibrant seaside resorts, it remains the top European tourist destination.
In the southern region of Andalusia, the city of Cordoba is one of Europe`s great cultural reference points. Given that it has been both a capital of a Roman province and of an Arab state in its glorious multicultural past, it will probably come as no surprise that Cordoba is a World Heritage Site and that the Mezquita, a mosque turned cathedral can lay claim to being Spain`s most majestic building. And that really is saying something!
The capital Madrid oozes class and sophistication. Home to over six million people in its metropolitan area, it is particularly well known for its rich artistic heritage with the El Prado museum at its cultural hub. Echoes of its imperialistic past still resonate throughout this historical epicenter. The Royal Palace is no less than magnificent as are countless architectural tributes to its colorful, cosmopolitan past.
Spain`s 4th largest city and the capital of Andalusia is Seville. Sitting on the Guadalquivir River which divides the city in two, Seville has long been a center for economic trade, particularly in agricultural goods. It`s also a bustling seaport and has been since Roman times, through Muslim rule and then via trade with the Americas. Much of its prominent architecture is Gothic in style and since the 19th century it has been gaining a reputation as a very desirable tourist center featuring in Europe`s Romantic "Grand Tour" and continuing similarly to this day. The Barrio Santa Cruz or `Jewish Quarter` with its winding streets and colorful shops is often regarded as the most charming part of this elegant city.
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Q: How to make Excel send an e-mail to a specific recipient containing a specific sheet from a workbook I need excel to pick a specific sheet from an open workbook and send it to a specific recipient at the end of each month.

A: This will save the open sheet to a specified path, with the sheetname as filename, then create an Outlook-Mail to a specified Receiver, and attache the newly saved Excel-sheet...
Sub SendMail()
    Dim Anrede As String, Text1 As String, Text2 As String, path As String, sheetname As String
    path = "\\enter\your\path\here\"
    sheetname = ActiveSheet.Name
    Anrede = "Dear Sir or Madam,"
    Text1 = "blablabla"
    Text2 = "Kind regards, "
    Sheets(sheetname).Copy
    ChDir path
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:= _
            path & sheetname & ".xlsx", FileFormat:= _
            xlOpenXMLWorkbook, CreateBackup:=False

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    On Error Resume Next
    With CreateObject("Outlook.Application").CreateItem(0)
        .To = "mail@adress.here" 'specify receiver mail here, may be a variable too
        .Subject = "Your subject here "
        .Body = Anrede & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & Text1 & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & Text2
        .Attachments.Add path & sheetname & ".xlsx"
        .Display 'Or use .Send
    End With
End Sub


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Mother's fundraising in memory of son to help parents and premature babies on Neonatal Unit
To mark what would have been her little boy Sulaymaan's first birthday, Farah Hussain decided to raise funds to thank staff on the Neonatal Unit at Leeds Children's Hospital.
Since setting up her fundraising page on the 18th June 2019, Farah has raised a phenomenal £1,765 to benefit staff, patients and babies on the unit.
Aside from developing gestational diabetes, Farah had an entirely normal pregnancy. On the 18th June 2018 she was at St James's Hospital for a physio appointment when she became concerned that her baby wasn't moving as much as usual.
Farah, who was just 30 weeks pregnant, was put under observation to monitor her baby's movements and was told she needed to go to the delivery suite.
A scan revealed that Farah's baby was pumping excessive blood to his brain, so, that afternoon, Farah was rushed into theatre for an emergency c-section.
Sulaymaan had to be resuscitated at birth and was taken to the Neonatal Unit, while a midwife stayed by Farah's side and called the ward several times over the next hour for updates on Sulaymaan's condition.
Farah says, "All of the staff were so considerate, I was given a bed on the post-natal unit away from mothers with their new babies. It wasn't until around 9pm that I was taken to see Sulaymaan and even then, I just got a quick look at his face and wasn't allowed to touch or hold him. My husband at the time and I were able to go back to the ward at 11 that night and stroke his little hands while he was on the ventilator."
After three days in hospital, Sulaymaan was taken off the ventilator and onto CPAP (Continuous positive airway pressure therapy), a machine used to help him breathe normally. However, lowering the sedatives showed that Sulaymaan was still very unresponsive, and wasn't flinching when having blood tests in his feet.
The consultants looked into this further and realised the situation was worse than they had first imagined, so transferred the family to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Leeds Children's Hospital for specialist care.
Here, Sulaymaan was put on a ventilator to help build his strength after an ECG machine revealed his liver function was compromised. Sulaymaan still was yet to cry properly, and Farah remembers feeling so helpless, "I remember another baby crying on the ventilator next to us and thinking, I just wish my baby would cry, that's the first thing you expect to hear when your baby is born and Sulaymaan still didn't have the strength."
On the family's ninth day in hospital, after seeing a cardiologist, geneticist, neonatologist and endocrinologist Sulaymaan was diagnosed with GACI (Generalized arterial calcification of infancy), a rare genetic disorder that affects the circulatory system in addition to other body systems. This affects just 1 in 391,000 babies and has just a 50% survival rate.
The family were told that Sulaymaan's heart function was just 17% and to prepare to say their goodbyes, but it wasn't until they'd spent eight weeks on the unit that he sadly died.
Farah is so grateful to staff on the unit who went above and beyond to make the short time she had with her son special, "Sulaymaan was put in an open cot so I was finally able to pick him up and give him a cuddle. The staff became like my family, I could tell they truly cared and they made sure I had lots of things to treasure my son's memory, like a blanket he'd used and his footprints. It was the little gestures that made a real difference. There is no one more deserving of this money."
Published: 1st June, 2021
Updated: 3rd August, 2021
Author: Joanna Parker
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Today, students may still fight to get the last reserve copy of a course text but there are systems in place that permit students to renew a book online up to five times, as well as a scan & deliver service that allows students to freely request scanned copies of chapters and articles from materials held at the Harvard Depository and participating Harvard libraries. If Harvard doesn't have a book, students can Borrow Direct from the libraries of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. This fall, to better support the different needs of students (collaborative work, quiet study. etc.) the library has designated zones for specific activities.


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Why atheists make terrible dictators
In 1971, John Lennon pleaded with us all to imagine a godless utopia,
"Imagine no possessions…and no religion, too. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people, living life in peace!"
Luck would have it, imagination isn't required; we have examples of societies without religion and possessions. We have several examples in history – even in the last century! – of atheist governments.
How have atheist societies fared?
Turns out, they've committed atrocities that dwarf any of the infamous religious atrocities.
It's hard to convey just how terrible atheist societies have acted. So I've put together a visual to help you comprehend the ugly state of atheist societies:
(View the live chart here)
Analyzing the data
We hear so much of religious abuses like the Salem Witch Trials, you'd think it was some great travesty, yet in comparison to the murders of innocents committed by atheists dictators, it's hardly a blip on the map.
Let's dig in to these statistics:
Mao Zedong, atheist, 63 million murdered: Perhaps the most famous Chinese atheist, Mao Zedong ruled China from 1949-1976 and brought China into the modern age while forcing his political (left wing, Communist) and atheist views upon the massive population of China, turning it from a diverse feudal backwater into a unified Communist, atheist state.
During his regime, enemies of the state were labeled as 'black elements', comprised primarily of religious leaders, land owners, rightists, philosophers, and the wealthy. These undesirable groups were oppressed through imprisonment, forced labor, re-education, organized food shortages, and executions carried out by the notorious Red Guard.
His tenure is labeled by historians as the top incident of democide in the history of humanity, with conservative figures listing 40 million deaths, while others suggesting 70 million Chinese deaths, plus an additional 1.2 million Tibetan deaths.
Joseph Stalin, atheist, 7.5 million murdered: Stalin, a staunch atheist and atheist re-educator, ruled Soviet Russia as dictator from 1925 until his death in 1953. He followed the position that religion was an opiate that needed to be removed in order to construct the ideal communist society. His government promoted atheism through special atheistic education in schools, anti-religious propaganda, the antireligious work of public institutions, including the popular militant atheist Society of the Godless, discriminatory laws, and a terror campaign against religious believers. By the late 1930s it had become dangerous to be publicly associated with religion.
Pol Pot, atheist, 3 million murdered: Dictator-for-life of the Cambodian Communist Revolutionary party from 1963 until his death in 1998, Pol Pot banned all religion and dispersed minority groups, forbidding them to speak their languages or to practice their customs. They especially targeted Buddhist monks, Muslims, Christians, Western-educated intellectuals, disabled people, and the ethnic Chinese, Laotians and Vietnamese. Some were put in camps for interrogation involving torture in cases where a confession was useful to the government. Many others were executed. In 1976, undesirables, especially the religious and the intellectuals, were marked for destruction through a reduced ration program which led to mass starvation and death.
Adolf Hitler, secular, 11 million murdered: Secular. Scientific. Survival of the fittest. Anti-religion. This is Nazi Germany. While Hitler would often give lip service to Providence in his public speeches, biographer Alan Bullock wrote that, though raised Catholic, Hitler was a rationalist and materialist, who saw Christianity as a religion 'fit for slaves', and against the natural law of selection and survival of the fittest. Hitler is quoted as saying,
'The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that's left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity."
Adolf Hitler, via transcript of recorded conversation
In 1999, a discovery of 150 bound volumes were found, post-war volumes showing Nazi war crimes, documenting Nazi persecution of religious organizations, especially Christian Churches. In a 108-page outline titled "The Nazi Master Plan", the British Office of Strategic Services investigators argued that the Nazi regime planned to reduce the influence of Christian churches through a campaign of systematic persecutions. "Important leaders of the National Socialist party would have liked to meet this situation [of church influence] by complete extirpation of Christianity and the substitution of a purely racial religion," said the report. The most persuasive evidence came from & systematic nature of the persecution itself."
The Crusades, religious, 1.5 million murdered: Initially a war by Christians to reclaim the lands taken by Muslim aggression, the Crusades turned murderous thanks to the mostly-untrained peasant armies who indiscriminately killed non-Christians encountered on the journey. The last of the series of Crusades would see Christians fighting other Christians, suggesting a political war more than a religious one. The number of non-combatant deaths may be around 200,000, but the total number of deaths including military are estimated between 1 and 2 million.
All witch executions, religious, 50,000 murdered: Even though the medieval Church had ruled that magic and witchcraft were illusory, by the 1500s superstition and moral panic had resulted in the creation of legislation against witchcraft. This resulted in some 50,000 executions over the span of 300 years.
The Inquisition, religious, 6000 murdered: The Roman Catholic Church organized inquisitions -- queries and trials -- of suspected heretics. Over the span of 500 years, some 6000 persons were killed as heretics of the Catholic Church, mostly targeting faux Christians, especially new converts, whose genuineness was called into question.
Salem Witch Trials, religious, 24 murdered: No, that's not a typo. Exactly 2 dozen people were killed. The highly publicized and ever-Hollywoodized Salem Witch Trials have been held up as an example of religious intolerance and extremism, even cited as 'the rock on which the theocracy shattered'. During this clear abuse of religion, the largely Puritan community executed 24 individuals. In the graph above, the Salem Witch Trials are displayed, but are virtually invisible when placed alongside the staggering number murdered by atheist dictators like Mao Zedong.
Atheists have historically been a minority. And yet, when they've reached power, their abuses dwarf any of the famous religious abuses throughout history.
Why the imbalance?
I hypothesize that the reason for this is because atheists hold the belief that nothing is above them. One can aspire to power without ever being accountable for how that power is accomplished. Brutalize the opposition? If never having to answer to anyone, what's to stop you? Crush those with different views? If it means advancement of your career; if it catapults you to power, the means matter little, the end result is everything. Contrast this with religious people who genuinely believe that God judges a person's works, in this life or the next.
A second reason, I hypothesize, is that atheists ultimately deny the reality of evil. While claiming to champion ethics and morality, they undermine the foundations of right and wrong. There is no true evil, everything is relative. There is no absolute good, and no absolute evil, so if a powerful atheist decides the best path forward is to liquidate the undesirables, who's to say it's wrong?
It's not to say all atheists are evil people. There are plenty of morally and ethically good atheists, and plenty of evil religious people. The truth is, evil men will use whatever means to accomplish evil, and that includes using religion.
But this empirical evidence – the examples of atheists-with-absolute-power abusing it in the worst way – suggest that atheists are quick to abuse power and crush human rights with a swifter means and on a grander scale than any religious feud in human history. I believe this is because atheism, in a veiled way, promotes lawlessness through the belief that humans ultimately have no one to answer to for their actions, good or bad.
Fine Kineti readers, why is it that atheists have been the worst abusers of power in the history of humanity?
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Q: SCOPE_IDENTITY, multiple inserts, carries value from previous insert if current insert doesn't insert **Edit: RESOLVED - Thank you all! I can't 'vote up' any of your replies due to my low rep, but I appreciate them all!
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ok, I have a sproc that runs a few inserts, assigning the new record identity to a variable, then inserting those into another table. The issue is that some of the inserts don't insert (if no data to insert) but the SCOPE_IDENTITY(); carries from the previous insert...
in the code below, I would expect @NewId2 to be null, but it contains the id from the previous insert. What should I do to prevent @NewId2 from having the "wrong Id?"
CREATE TABLE #tempdemo (
theId int IDENTITY(100,3),
theField varchar(20)
)

DECLARE @NewId1 int
DECLARE @NewId2 int

INSERT INTO
#tempdemo
    (theField)
SELECT
    'test1'
--this would have a "from table" in a real situation
WHERE
    1 = 1

SET @NewId1 = SCOPE_IDENTITY();

INSERT INTO
#tempdemo
    (theField)
SELECT
    'test2'
--this would have a "from table" in a real situation
WHERE
    1 = 2 --obviously fails, in my real situation there are times the insert has nothing to insert

SET @NewId2 = SCOPE_IDENTITY();

select '@NewId1 = ', @NewId1, '@NewId2 = ', @NewId2

drop table #tempdemo

A: After you insert, save scope_identity() in a variable if @@rowcount is greater than 0.
EX:
DECLARE @MY_NEW_ID INT

INSERT INTO TABLE2 (COL1)
SELECT VAL1
FROM TABLE1
WHERE X=Y

IF @@ROWCOUNT>0
BEGIN
   SET @MY_NEW_ID  = SCOPE_IDENTITY()
END

/* DO MORE INSERTS HERE ... */

IF @MY_NEW_ID IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
   INSERT INTO TABLE3 (NEWID) VALUES @MY_NEW_ID
END

A: You can try this:
IF @@ROWCOUNT<>0
  SET @NewId2 = SCOPE_IDENTITY();

A: You can check the number of rows inserted using @@ROWCOUNT.
E.g.
IF (@@ROWCOUNT > 0)
BEGIN
    -- Other inserts
END


UNIVERSITY CENTER -- The SVSU Swim & Dive teams hosted the Ashland Eagles and Hillsdale Chargers on Saturday afternoon and posted a sweep over their opponents at the Gerstacker Regional Aquatic Center.
The Cardinal women defeated Hillsdale by a 214-80 margin and defeated Ashland by a 217-74 score. The men only competed against Ashland, defeating the Eagles by a 184-103 count.
Wilhelmina Francisco set a new program record of 299.20 in the 3 meter diving event, finishing 1st. She added another 1st place showing in the 1 meter dive with a 238.85.
Elizabeth Caird finished 2nd in the 1 meter diving event with a score of 238.25.
The 200 Medley Relay team of Amanda Thielen, Lydia Mattar, Alexa Bloom and Melanie Soenksen took 1st with their time of 1:47.79.
Soenksen and Bloom finished 1st and 2nd in the 50 Freestyle, respectively, finishing with marks of 24.72 and 24.87 seconds.
Thielen added a 1st place showing in the 1,000 Freestyle, touching the board in a time of 10:47.81. Alexandra Davis finished runner-up with a time of 10:50.29. Davis added a 1st place showing in the 500 Freestyle with her time of 5:17.90.
Thielen added another top finish in the 100 Backstroke, taking 1st with a mark of 59.43. She would claim 1st in the 200 Backstroke as well with a mark of 2:07.85, right ahead of Martinez with a 2:08.58.
Taylor Grashuis claimed the top spot in the 200 Freestyle, turning in a time of 1:58.45.
In the 200 Butterfly, Rebeca Martinez was 1st after clocking in a time of 2:09.23. She added a win in the 400 IM with her 4:36.81 showing.
Soenksen finished 2nd in the 100 Freestyle after her performance of 54.84 seconds. Grashuis was right behind in 3rd with her 55.49 second time.
In the 200 Breaststroke, Mattar was the top time with her mark of 2:25.41.
Bloom took 1st in the 100 Butterfly with her time of 59.33 seconds, finishing ahead of Kimble Darbee (1:02.43) and Sarah Thompson (1:02.66).
The 200 Freestyle Relay team took 1st as well, timing a 1:39.06 with nice performances from Bloom, Davis, Grashuis and Soenksen.
Kevin Aziz took first in the 3 Meter Diving with a score of 226.95. Justin Ott finished 2nd in the same event with a mark of 216.85.
Ott took 1st in the 1 meter dive with a mark of 250.60 while Aziz was 2nd with his score of 237.90.
The 200 Medley Relay team of Dalton Pokley, Shaun Yap, Dylan Kopacki and Kyle Amick took 1st with their mark of 1:34.63.
Peter Lin finished 2nd in the 1,000 Freestyle with his time of 10:09.65.
Jayden Hutchinson was 1st in the 200 Freestyle, clocking in in a time of 1:45.58. Teammate Nick Berens was 2nd with his time of 1:48.69. Hutchinson also finished 2nd in the 500 Freestyle, clocking a time of 4:48.16.
In the 100 Breaststroke, Yap claimed 1st with his time of 57.44 seconds. He was 2nd in the 400 IM with his mark of 4:15.79.
Connor Henninga and Pokley were 2nd and 3rd in the 200 Butterfly, turning in times of 1:58.50 and 1:58.95, respectively.
Amick was 1st in the 50 Freestyle after his time of 21.78 seconds. He added another top showing in the 100 Freestyle, timing in at 47.98 seconds right ahead of Michael Spears (49.03).
Philip Billiu and Henning had sub-two minute times in the 200 Backstroke, posting times of 1:58.07 and 1:58.30, respectively.
Yap claimed 1st in the 200 Breaststroke, touching the board with a time of 2:12.27.
Pokley led a charge of the top-four finishers in the 100 Butterfly, finishing 1st with his mark of 51.42 seconds.
The 200 Freestyle Relay team was 1st with their time of 1:27.79. That team consisted of Kopacki, Lin, Billiu and Amick.
"It was great finishing the regular season with strong wins against some very good teams. We had some very good performances led by Will Francisco who won both diving events and set a new program record in the 3 meter diving event. She also achieved an NCAA Championship Dive in Meet score in the 3 meter event for the 4th time this season. This meet was also the last home dual meet for our 4 seniors, Wilh Francisco, Beca Martinez, Melanie Soenksen, and Shaun Yap. It was great for them to finish the final dual meet of their careers with team wins and they all played an instrumental role in the victories."
The Cardinals are back in action February 14-17 when they travel to compete at the 2018 GLIAC Championships. The meet is slated to take place at Jenison High School.


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Q: Adding custom validation checks (VB for applications) I have fairly sophisticated validation checks that I'd like to add to an Excel sheet. I prefer to code these rather than to use Excel's standard validation.
I am looking for a basic VBA validation example (sort of a "hello world") so that I can generate my more sophisticated validation off of it. To make things concrete let's say that if I have this sheet:
   |     A        |       B        |       c       |
   -------------------------------------------------
1  |Name          |Length          |               |
   -------------------------------------------------
2  |Johnny        |6               |               |
   -------------------------------------------------
3  |Alex          |2               |               |
   -------------------------------------------------

then I want to mark a cell in the "B" column as invalid if it does not match the length of the of the string in column "A". In the example above, the B3 cell should be marked as invalid since its value (2) does not match the length of "Alex" (4).

A: If you're trying to capture users making changes to cell values then you'd use the sheet's Worksheet_Change event:
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
    Dim rng As Range, c As Range, rw As Range

    Set rng = Application.Intersect(Target, Me.Range("A2:B1000"))
    If Not rng Is Nothing Then
        'assuming Target is a contiguous rectangular range
        For Each c In rng.Columns(1)
            Debug.Print c.Address()
            Set rw = c.EntireRow
            If rw.Cells(2).Value <> Len(rw.Cells(1).Value) Then
                rw.Cells(2).Interior.Color = vbRed
            Else
                rw.Cells(2).Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
            End If
        Next c
    End If
End Sub

Note that if cells will be changing as the result of a formula recalculating then you'll need to use the Worksheet_Calculate event.


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Q: Outputting data from a for loop Can you please help me in getting data out of this for loop. It actually should print the names of 3 months, which it does if i dont use the $ period variable in there and use echo instead. But I want to put the value into the $period variable, so I can use it else where in my script. Right now, it print out only one month.
for ($i=1; $i<=3; $i++)
  {
  $period = '<option value="">';
  $period .= date('F, Y', strtotime('+'.$i.' month'));
  $period .= '</option>';
  }

  echo $period;

A: You're overwriting the value of $period on each iteration. Try the code below:
$period = "";
for ($i=1; $i<=3; $i++)
{
    $period .= '<option value="">';
    $period .= date('F, Y', strtotime('+'.$i.' month'));
    $period .= '</option>';
}

echo $period;

A: you need to output the value of your $period with each iteration.
for ($i=1; $i<=3; $i++)
{
    $period = '<option value="">';
    $period .= date('F, Y', strtotime('+'.$i.' month'));
    $period .= '</option>';
    echo $period;
}

A: Try this:
$numPeriods = 3;
$period = '';

for($i=1; $i<=$numPeriods; $i++)
{
    $period .= '<option value="'.$i.'">';
    $period .= date('F, Y', strtotime('+'.$i .' month'));
    $period .= '</option>';
}

echo $period;


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SDN explores new agricultural methods and models in Niger Delta
A burgeoning artisanal oil industry in the Niger Delta is endangering regional environmental health and stability, according to a recent research by Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN)
SDN explores the most effective method to boost farming in the Niger Delta. (Image source: SDN)
"Many people are propelled into the illicit industry through a lack of alternative livelihoods. SDN, with funding from the UK Government, seeks to test and showcase viable alternative livelihoods in the Niger Delta by undertaking agricultural pilot projects," Florence Kayemba, programmes manager at SDN, said.
One pilot project will test a variety of approaches to swamp rice farming to establish the most effective method that can be scaled-up in other creek locations. It will be implemented with ex-participants of the artisanal oil industry, building on research and engagements which indicate productive alternative livelihoods can remove actors from the industry, and deter new entrants.
Another pilot project seeks to reduce the barriers of land ownership, access to capital, and low-interest credit to commercially viable initiatives developing in the Niger Delta.
Testing innovation in agricultural methods
SDN seeks to test a variety of approaches to swamp rice farming to establish the most effective method that can be scaled-up in other creek locations. This pilot project employs and provides training to ex-participants of the burgeoning artisanal oil industry in the region who are looking for safer and more legitimate livelihood alternatives.
A team of agricultural specialists will test and compare the results of the rice grown in 12 separate plots of land across six hectares and report to inform future varieties and inputs to maximise return on investment and make this a viable livelihood alternative for communities living in the creeks of the Niger Delta.
Testing innovation in agricultural models
Alongside testing what agricultural methods perform best, SDN has partnered with Alluvial, a private sector provider, to reduce the risks and barriers to 100 smallholder and unemployed farmers, using different methods to maximise crop yields over 200 hectares. Alluvial uses the Community Block Farm model that involves the provision of a full range of services to farmers, including land preparation, project management, inputs, and market access - in exchange for an agreed percentage of the final crop sale.
SDN's partnership is intended to test how the productive potential of the private sector can be harnessed for development gains by incentivising 'social investment.' In this case, access to credit has been provided by SDN, with funding from the UK government, to Alluvial to facilitate their engagement with youths, women, and men in a socio-economically disadvantaged community impacted by oil spills.
Potential for livelihood diversification and development
The results of these pilot projects are expected to indicate the potential of these innovative approaches to deliver commercial viability, quality employment and to alleviate some of the drivers of conflict and instability in the region. The outcomes of the pilot projects are expected to be of particular interest to civil society organisations, international agencies, and Federal government agencies involved in development processes within the Niger Delta.
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One hundred years ago today, a new literary voice was released on the world — one that would come to define a generation. The debut novel sold out its first printing of 3,000 copies in just three days and would go on to sell a total of 41,075 copies
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November Tour Dates with Declan O'Rourke
November 4, 2014 Event, Fiction, Film, Fitzgerald, Songwriting
I'm appearing next week in New York at Rockwood Music Hall 2, World Cafe in Philly and FTC in Fairfield. I'll be playing original songs and reading an excerpt from my novel: My Year as a Clown — which incidentally was chosen by Amazon this month to be part of their Kindle Big Deals.
Thursday, November 13 @ 6:30 Rockwood Music Hall 2, New York City
Friday, November 14 @ 8:00 World Cafe Upstairs, Philadelphia
Saturday, November 15 @ 8:00 Stage One, Fairfield Theatre Company, Fairfield, CT
I will also be appearing at the Ridgefield Library on Thursday, November 20 @ 7 to talk about the documentary I'm making with Deej Webb.
Here's a clip I took with my iPhone while in the studio with legendary drummer Omar Hakim:
July 3, 2014 Culture, Songwriting
Had a great day up in Rhinebeck, New York, playing music and hanging with old friends — dinner selfie with Jimmie Dale and his wife Janet:
Fairfield/Westport's Top Ten Musicians of the Last Hundred Years
January 20, 2014 Culture, Event, Songwriting
Last week we launched the Fairfield Ten — an exhibit at the Fairfield Museum celebrating the great musicians and songwriters that have lived here the past hundred years.
I was on the committee to choose the list. It wasn't easy because so many great artists have lived in this area. My work on the Fitzgerald film has provided a keen insight to the breadth and depth of talent here dating back to the early 20th century so I knew selecting ten musicians was not going to be easy.
Quite frankly, you could find ten interesting nominees every decade or at least in each category of music, from classical to rock, Broadway to jazz, punk, funk, even disco — our task was to choose the best of the best, while at the same time including various eras and genres.
First thing we did was invoke the 25-year rule — nominees had to have started their professional careers prior to 1989. Nominees also had to have a permanent residence here for more than a few years. That alleviated the pressure of addressing the abundant crop of current players worthy of consideration or those that were here for just a short visit. Here's our list:
Nick Ashford & Valerie Simpson, The Remains, Leonard Bernstein, David Brubeck, Jose Feliciano, Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth, Richard Rodgers, Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards, Keith Richards and Donna Summer.
Upon reflecting over this list, I realized that it doesn't matter what sort of music floats your boat, each of these artists has touched you in some way. These songs were part of growing up, celebrating graduations, birthdays and weddings, they've been in the movies we love and these songs have gotten us threw tough times too. These artists made music that mattered. And as I've been listening to their tracks over the past few months, its clear that these artists made music that endures.
Because it was too damn hard to whittle our list to just ten, we also identified another 11 great names and profiled them on the museums' website.
Opening night we had a panel discussion and I was fortunate to be asked to moderate. In the photo above from that night, I felt like Forest Gump because I had no right to be in a photo with such an esteemed list of musical talent, even if I was a player behind the scenes. Still, it was a wonderful experience to have the honor of introducing each of these incredibly talented musicians.
The exhibit runs through April, so if you're in the area, check it out.
One Hundred False Starts by F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 21, 2013 Fiction, Film, Fitzgerald, Personal, Songwriting
Last week I obtained a copy of 'One Hundred False Starts,' an essay written by F. Scott Fitzgerald that ran in the March, 1933 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The essay captures what appears to be real 'false starts' Fitzgerald had experienced as a writer.
Snippets, phrases, names, scenarios, often unintelligible scraps of thought, all captured on paper to jog his memory to flush out the idea at a later date. As a writer who has dropped the ball on countless sparks of so-called brilliance, it was comforting to feel the struggle, the joy, and the confusion over bubbles of inspiration that felt flat upon later inspection.
Fitzgerald concluded that the key to avoiding a future filled with false starts is to begin with an emotion, one that's close to you, one that you can understand. He was talking about himself, but his words resonated because I've grappled with false starts for years. My output is not nearly as prolific as others. I often lose interest in an idea that at first glance appears to be the mother lode.
This fool's gold typically lacks an emotional connection, it's one of the reasons I struggle to co-write songs, all too often the team is writing about things that have no meaning for me. I might intellectually get the concept, but I'm not feeling it, it doesn't pump through my veins with urgency.
Fitzgerald also said in the essay:
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves—that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives—experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
People often ask why I didn't write a memoir about my divorce. They wrongly believe that My Year as a Clown is a thinly disguised novel for what actually happened in my marriage. My Year as a Clown works because I understood the underlying emotions that were in play during those difficult days. Perhaps more important, I put enough distance between the writing and the events to create a narrative that harnessed those emotions in ways that made my characters feel real even though most of the facts are fictitious.
When I set out with my partner, Richard Webb, to do this Fitzgerald film for the Westport Historical Society, I had no idea what I was really getting into. I got chills holding letters from Scott and Zelda when we were in Princeton reviewing personal correspondence. And now, as an added bonus, I'm learning about Fitzgerald's process. This is like taking an MFA in Fitzgerald at a University without all the hassle or tuition.
The adventure continues . . .
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Q: Random Forest Regression: Extracting the training samples in the terminal nodes of each tree I want to implement the Predictive Prescription approach from Bertsimas et al. (2020) where they combine a machine learning approach with optimization. For that, I need to look at the terminal nodes (disjuct regions) of each decision tree in the forest.
Specifically, I want to know the following things for each tree:

*

*In which region do the training samples fall?

*To which region do the test samples belong?

I hope my question becomes clearer with the following picture of one decision tree:
Regression Tree Example
Here, for the first terminal node, I am not interested in the prediction m but rather in the values y1, y4 and y5 that form the basis for the prediction.

The perfect result would be a matrix-like structure, where each column represents one tree and each row represents one training (test) sample. For each sample and tree, the structure should give me the ID of the region/terminal node where the sample can be found!
I looked at the randomForest as well as the ranger package but had no luck finding anything relevant... some paper mentioned implementing the method with the caret package, but they didn't mention anything on how to bypass the prediction.
Here's a reproducible regression example using ranger:
library(MASS)
library(e1071)
library(ranger)

#load data
data(Boston)
set.seed(111)
ind <- sample(2, nrow(Boston), replace = TRUE, prob=c(0.8, 0.2))

train <- Boston[ind == 1,]
test <- Boston[ind == 2,]

#train random forest
boston.rf <- ranger(medv ~ ., data = train)

Any help is highly appreciated. Cheers!

A: one way I've found so far to get this information is to use the randomForest package with the option keep.inbag=T - this allows you to retrieve the information which samples are used in order to create each tree - and the method getTree to retrieve the tree structure of each tree in the forest.
I created a function to retrieve the terminal node id given the tree structure from getTree.
# function to retrieve the terminal node id given a rf tree structure and a sample (with numerical only features)
get_terminal_node_id_for_sample <- function(tree, sample){
  node_id=1
  search <- TRUE
  while(search){
    if(tree$status[node_id]=="-1"){
      search <- FALSE
      break
    }
    if(sample[as.character(tree$split.var[node_id])] < tree$split.point[node_id]){
      node_id <- as.numeric(tree$left.daughter[node_id])
    } else {
      node_id <- as.numeric(tree$right.daughter[node_id])
    }
  }
  return(node_id)
}

And used it like this:
library(randomForest)
library(MASS)
library(e1071)

# load data
data(Boston)
set.seed(111)
ind <- sample(2, nrow(Boston), replace = TRUE, prob=c(0.8, 0.2))

train <- Boston[ind == 1,]
test <- Boston[ind == 2,]

# train random forest and keep inbag information
model = randomForest(medv~.,data = train,
                     keep.inbag=T)

# get the first tree of the forest
treeind <- 1
tree <- data.frame(getTree(model, k=treeind, labelVar=TRUE))

# loop over each sample in inbag of the first tree
for (sampleind in which(model$inbag[,treeind]>0)){
  sample <- train[sampleind,]
  node_id <- get_terminal_node_id_for_sample(tree,sample)

  ##########################
  # do whatever with node_id
  ##########################

  print(paste("sample",sampleind,"is in terminal node",node_id,sep=" "))
}

Need to mention: I've tested this only for numerical features.


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Trump Makes Surprise Visit To Troops In Afghanistan
November 28, 2019	Donald Trump, Military
President Trump paid an unannounced Thanksgiving visit to American troops in Afghanistan on Thursday, and said that he had restarted peace negotiations with the Taliban less than three months after he scuttled talks with the group. "The Taliban wants to make a deal, and we're meeting with them," Mr. Trump said here during a meeting with Afghanistan's president, Ashraf Ghani.
"We're going to stay until such time as we have a deal, or we have total victory, and they want to make to make a deal very badly," said Mr. Trump, who reaffirmed his desire to reduce America's troop presence here to 8,600, down from about 12,000. Mr. Trump made his first visit to Afghanistan under a shroud of secrecy, arriving in a darkened airplane on a trip that the White House had concealed from his public schedule for security reasons.
CBS News reports:
During his whirlwind trip, the president served turkey to troops. Military personnel told reporters on the ground there were roughly 500 troops in the rooms where the president went.
"There's nowhere I'd rather celebrate this Thanksgiving than right here with the toughest, strongest, best and bravest warriors on the face of the earth – you are indeed that," the president told the troops.
Last year, just after Christmas, Mr. Trump made his first-ever visit to a combat zone as commander-in-chief when he and first lady Melania touched down in Iraq to pay a surprise visit to U.S. troops based there.
BREAKING: President Trump makes remarks during a surprise Thanksgiving visit to US troops in Afghanistan, his first trip to the country. https://t.co/Hn1vs1CSZK pic.twitter.com/hvhUDVQgZT
— CNN (@CNN) November 28, 2019
#NEW: Pres. Trump during a surprise Thanksgiving visit to the troops in Afghanistan, says peace talks with the Taliban have resumed:
"The Taliban wants to make a deal… and they only want to make a deal because you're doing a great job."pic.twitter.com/hbIGWHh20h
— Jennifer Franco (@jennfranconews) November 28, 2019
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This apartment is adorable and soft in each and every space. The highlight of interior designers Traco Magenta's sweet design is the nursery, outfitted with soft pastel comfort. Those without kids might prefer the heavenly master bedroom, a plush and serene space.
This is the perfect space to host movie night in. It's sophisticated but has plenty of plush cushions and pillows. The carpet looks thick and matches the champagne tones used throughout the space.
The blue accent colour we saw in the living room has hit center-stage in this space. The chairs look very comfortable, but still elegant, especially against the glass dining table. The light fixtures are a perfect compliment to the overall space. They're a little whimsical, but still sophisticated.
This bedroom is ideal for an older kid. It's very bright, the photo wall is highly personalized, the futon makes the most of the limited space, and the office area is distraction-free.
You might be wondering, where the softness in the teen room? Here it is, in the lovely thick carpet. It has a very unusual pattern, perfect for teens who are seeking a space that feels as unique as they are. You can find more kid bedroom ideas, for any age, in our gallery!
Here is the delicate nursery, full of soft furniture and toys. In particular, we love the round white carpet and the round pink seat. The tepee is a clever idea, like a built in blanket fort for the children to play in. Then there's the lovely round yellow light fixture. It looks fluffy! What a nice touch.
Of course, mom and dad need a soft space to relax in too! Again, there's a great balance between whimsy and sophistication here. The faux fur blanket and the white sheets look sophisticated, but the pink pattern on the pillows and bench is whimsical and bright!
Check out another family home tour by homify, like this dream house for the suburbs!
What do you think about this home's soft nursery? Let us know in the comments!


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Ricoh has introduced their new Ricoh Pro C9200 Series of digital sheet fed colour presses. Building on the highly successful Ricoh ProTM C9100 technology platform, the Pro C9200 Series offers increased image quality with registration.
Expanded media capability is delivered with enhanced long sheet capability of up to 1,030mm auto duplex 1,260mm simplex and increased media support up to 450gsm.
HP Inc., announced two new six-colour PageWide ultra high-volume inkjet web presses for pre-print corrugated packaging, the HP PageWide T1190 and HP PageWide T1170, offering higher productivity and quality for productive digital packaging presses.
Agfa has reported declines in both its revenue and gross profit in the first quarter of 2018. The Belgian manufacturer recorded sales of €549m in the period, down 6.7% on Q1 2017, while its gross profit dropped by 7.5% to €178m. The groups gross profit margin dipped slightly to 32.4%, from 32.7% in Q1 2017.
Group recurring EBITDA was down by 3.5% to €37m but represented 6.8% of revenue, up from 6.6% in Q1 2017.
EFI Fiery FS300 Pro – the newest Fiery digital front end (DFE) platform to date – is now available for the Konica Minolta AccurioPress line of digital presses, including new AccurioPress C3080 and C3070 series products.
Electronics For Imaging, Inc. and Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. jointly announced updated EFI Fiery DFEs offering a range of improvements that help users maximize productivity, minimize touch points and achieve superior colour and output quality.
EFI has launched a new textile printer which offers up to 12 colours that can be printed in a row.
Reggiani Colors gives users the ability to print nearly any configuration of inks in 1.8m, 2.4m and 3.4m widths – including using special inks, inks of different chemistry types, and chemistry for special treatments such as for higher-penetration printing, all at the same time, EFI said.
The TX801 – Mouvent's new digital textile printer was one of the attractions at this year's ITM, in Istanbul, Turkey. The TX801 is an 8-colour multi-pass digital textile printer producing highest print quality on textiles with up to 2,000 DPI optical resolution at high printing speeds. With four live demonstrations a day, plus an international press conference, the Mouvent booth was a constant center of activity at the congress, as attendees gathered to witness the new technology in action.
The European Rotogravure Association (ERA) is to host its second Digital Forum event, focusing on the status of digital printing technology in packaging and decorative printing, and its industrial use in these segments.
Xerox debuted a high speed, six station colour press that combines four-colour printing with up to two specialty dry inks in one printing pass. The Xerox Iridesse Production Press is the only digital press that can print metallic gold or silver dry ink, CMYK and clear dry ink in a single pass.
Heidelberg has enhanced it's new Versafire digital printing generation which is fully focused on the customer's benefit and the market requirements. The JD Druck GmbH in Lauterbach, Hesse is the first company for field testing the new Versafire EV.
Kodak is laying claim to "the most versatile sheetfed digital press on the market" with the launch of Nexfinity – the next evolution of the NexPress platform.
Kodak said the $885,000 press is designed for lower running costs, higher speed and higher imaging quality. It is targeted at high-volume printers that focus on direct mail, marketing collateral, short-run publishing, short-run labels and tags, retail signage and POS.
UPM Raflatac has launched digital printer recommendation tool, which offers a comprehensive database of paper and film materials so customers can find a material that's suitable for a variety of digital printing technologies. This new tool provides up-to-date and accurate product information about UPM Raflatac's digital label stock materials as well as ratings for how they will perform on various digital printers, ranging from small desktop models to industrial-scale digital presses.
HP has launched a new workflow application for its Indigo 20000 press that it said will enable wallpaper manufacturers to benefit from the decor opportunities available with digital printing.
The HP Indigo 20000 Digital Press Wallpaper Solution is an optional add-on that HP said will not be available as standard with new 20000s. However, it can be retro installed on any existing machine out in the field, of which there are more than 100, as an additional application.
Xerox and Electronics For Imaging (EFI) have jointly developed a new Fiery digital front end (DFE).
Ricoh is releasing the Ri 100 direct to garment (DTG) printer, which the company will sell as an entry level machine for apparel printing.
Price point for the Ri 100 has not yet been released, but it will be below $10,000, with release date as yet unscheduled, however Ricoh Australia is indicating it will be launched here in May or June.
Epson has unveiled the SureColor SC-F2100, its latest direct-to-garment (DTG) printer, as an answer to calls for greater printing speed on colour t-shirts.
An advancing of technology debuted in the manufacturer's SC-F2000, the new model boasts greater speed and reliability, with lower targeted total cost of ownership and installed Garment Creator design software.
Konica Minolta has enhanced its production print portfolio with the addition of the AccurioPrint C759 which is a successor to the bizhub PRO C754e. It is available from December 2017.
Nettl parent company Grafenia has launched what it says is the world's first augmented reality (AR) app for fabric displays, BeholdAR.
The app, version 1.0, which is available on iPhones 6S, 7 and 8 and iPads, both with IOS 11.0, enables clients to visualise their designs on fabric exhibition displays in situ. It features 3D models of Nettl's best-selling fabric displays, including curved and straight displays, deckchairs, booths and cocktail tables.
Ricoh's new direct-to-garment (DTG) Ri 3000 and Ri 6000 printers which are ideal for commercial printers looking for ways to 'cross-skill' their employees with simple-to-understand processes.
PV Nano Cell announced the closing of its acquisition of DigiFlex, a digital printer manufacturer. The all-stock transaction was valued at $10 million and represents 25% of PV Nano Cell on a fully diluted basis, post transaction.
Additionally, certain shareholders of DigiFlex and its subsidiary, JetCU P.C.B. Ltd., committed to investing $1,100,000 in PV Nano Cell, of which $500,000 has already been invested, and an additional $600,000 is expected to close by the end of 2017.
Ricoh has premiered its first wide-format UV flatbed, the Ricoh Pro T7210.
The T7210 was shown at Viscom Italy 2017 in Milan and will be available to EMEA customers from early 2018. Pricing has yet to be finalised.
EFI moved into the LED market with the launch of the Pro 24f LED flatbed printer.
Laminating films manufacturer KDX has launched a new thin-gauge gloss laminating film range.
Launched at Ipex in October, the BOPP gloss laminating film joins the Chinese-headquartered manufacturer's range of thermal laminating films, wet films and lenticular products, with price dependent on volumes and specification.
Fujifilm announced that its Superia ZD processless plate made its debut at Ipex.
The plate develops on-press, requiring no chemistry, and is suitable for use with LED inks. It was demonstrated live on an eight-colour RMGT 928P LED-UV press at the show held at the Birmingham NEC.
Screen has launched a new series of thermal platesetters for plate sizes up to and including 16-up.
The PlateRite Ultima 16000N series, which replaces the PlateRite Ultima 16000II range of CTP systems, is said to offer enhanced productivity, operability and energy efficiency.
ShanghaiTex 2017 which is to be held during November 27-30, 2017 in Pudong, will showcase the new digital printing technology and applications under the "customisation" trend, bringing its great development potential towards industry 4.0. The focus will be on short production cycle, low-volume and on-demand production in the special Digital Printing Machinery Zone.
Kodak has announced the addition of new capabilities of dynamic print planning to its Prinergy cloud services.
Dynamic Print Planning is analytics-enabled for harnessing data into 'actionable, data-driven decisions'.