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Corbyn sat down with IRA without pre-conditions but won't meet me on Brexit, says May
January 23 2019 12:59 PM
Theresa May asked Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn why he was prepared to meet the IRA without pre-conditions but not talk to her on Brexit on a similar footing.
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She made the comments in the House of Commons as the Labour leader pressed her on taking a no-deal Brexit off the table and if she would reverse her policy on no customs union with the EU.
The Prime Minister has asked MPs from across the Commons to meet with her. However, Mr Corbyn has rejected the invitation until she rules out a no deal possibility on the UK's departure.
Mr Corbyn said that while her door may be open, "minds were closed".
He said: "After the overwhelming defeat of her deal, the Prime Minister says she wants solutions to the Brexit crisis that command sufficient support in the House.
"The Chancellor and Business Secretary agree, and I quote, there is a large majority opposed to no deal, so will the Prime Minister listen to her own Cabinet members and take no deal off the table?"
Mrs May said the way to avoid no deal was to work with her to agree a deal and asked why Mr Corbyn refused to meet her without pre-conditions. She said the way to avoid no deal was to work with her.
"He has been willing to sit down with Hamas, Hezbollah and the IRA without pre-conditions, yet he won't meet me to talk about Brexit," she told MPs.
Mr Corbyn urged Mrs May to confirm whether she rules out a customs union with the European Union, to which the PM said she wants to sit down with the Labour leader to work out his plans on the issue.
She said: "If he won't talk about it there's only one conclusion - he hasn't got a clue."
In his concluding remarks, Mr Corbyn also told the Commons: "The door of her office might be open but the minds are closed and the Prime Minister is clearly not listening.
"She has shown no flexibility whatsoever.
He went on: "Across the country people are worried about public services, their living standards and rising levels of personal debt.
"While a third of her Government are at the billionaires' jamboree in Davos, she says she's listening but rules out changes on the two issues where there might be a majority - against no-deal and for a customs union, part of Labour's sensible Brexit alternative.
"If the Prime Minister is serious about finding a solution, which of her red lines is she prepared to abandon?"
Mrs May fired back to Mr Corbyn: "He makes claims about minds being closed, he asks about red lines - why doesn't he just come and talk about it?
"He talks about people up and down this country and what they're seeing.
"Well, let me tell him what we've just seen this week: borrowing this year at its lowest level for 16 years; the IMF saying that we'll grow faster than Germany, Italy and Japan this year; UN figures showing foreign direct investment in the UK up last year; employment rate up, number of people in work up, wages up; and the biggest threat to all of that would be a Labour government."


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USS LST-767 was an LST-542-class tank landing ship in the United States Navy. Like many of her class, she was not named and is properly referred to by her hull designation.

LST-767 was laid down on 19 July 1944 at Ambridge, Pa., by the American Bridge Co.; launched on 4 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Helen Stanhope; and commissioned on 30 September 1944.

Service history
She was commissioned after voyaging down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, Louisiana, and passed through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean in mid-November. She then went to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where in mid-December 1944 she took on board military passengers, the tank landing craft LCT-749, pontoon causeway sections and other materiel. Late in the year LST-767 left Hawaii for Leyte, in the Philippine Islands, where she arrived at the beginning of February 1945. During the next two months the landing ship travelled south to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, then returned north to Ulithi, Caroline Islands, and finally, in early April, to Okinawa, arriving a few days after U.S. forces commenced a long and bloody campaign against the island's Japanese defenders.

After launching LCT-749 and disembarking her passengers and their equipment, LST-767 left Okinawa and began several months of transportation service in the central, south and western Pacific. She was in the Solomon Islands when Japan's mid-August 1945 agreement agreed to surrender brought the great Pacific War to an end. During the last part of September LST-767 landed cargo on Okinawa, an undertaking that was interrupted by the need to put to sea to ride out an approaching typhoon. In the early morning darkness of 1 December 1945, while beached at Kana Wan, Okinawa, LST-767 was wrecked by another storm. When it was determined that salvage would be impossible for several months, she was ordered to be stripped and disposed of. LST-767 was placed out of commission in early March 1946 and stricken from the Navy list later in that month. Her hulk was later sold, with final disposition taking place in May 1947.

LST-767 earned one battle star for World War II service.

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External links
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 United States Coast Guard archive
 Naval Warfare:USS LST-767

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World War II amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
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A Dutch Treat for Drivers
Jay Palmer
I have been a fan of automotive GPS units since long before they became popular. And, for the most part, I have preferred Garmin's. But now my favorite is the GO 2505 from TomTom.
First, its five-inch screen is clear and easy to read under all conditions, even in searing sunlight. Second, the glass capacitive touchscreen is super-responsive, with crisp graphics.
Finally, the new TomTom software not only interfaces well with touch commands like swipe and pinch, but also delivers the ultimate goods for a GPS unit: fast, elegant and–as far as I could tell–optimum route selection.
TomTom GO 2505
Price: $319.95, but widely discounted
Stats: 5.63 inches wide by 3.5 inches high; weighs 9.2 ounces
Features: 5-inch touchscreen. Warns of traffic congestion. Voice commands
Website:www.tomtom.com
Unlike other GPS units, the 2505 relentlessly took me where I wanted to go by routes I would think ideal. And when traffic slowed, it suggested sensible detours.
The GO 2505's other features include voice-command routing, Bluetooth phone connection, traffic-congestion reporting and unlimited free map updates, with extras such as traffic-camera locations. Running short of gas? Ask for a gas station and the nearest pops up! And one other plus: The dashboard docking mechanism works really well.
The GO does have some shortcomings. Right now, there is no compass, no FM transmitter to play directions through the radio and no live services, such as Google's gas-station pricing. Nonetheless, this is TomTom's best, and one of the best available.
TomTom (ticker: TMOAF) recently reported good 2010 results, but the company predicted essentially no gain in 2011, which helps explain why its stock, after a strong run late last year, is again trending lower.
E-mail: jay.palmer@barrons.com
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yesterday, i linked to a new york times article which revealed that the election assistance commission had altered many of its key findings in a recent report on voter fraud.
there has been a growing discussion in the media and blogosphere in the past few weeks, as it's become increasingly clear that the white house—and thus the national GOP—has become pathologically obsessed with "voter fraud"... despite the fact that most experts agree that it doesn't exist on any significant scale.
today, tdw links to rick hasen's election law blog. hasen was looking through the original draft of the EAC report and discovered that indiana secretary of state todd rokita was a member of the EAC's working group on voter fraud.
1. Mr. Rokita questioned whether the purpose of the present project ought to be on assessing the level of fraud on where it is, rather than on developing methods for making such measurements. He believed that the methodology should be the focus, "rather than opinions of interviewees." He was concerned that the EAC would be in a position of "adding to the universe of opinions."
2. Mr. Rokita questioned whether the "opinions" accumulated in the research "is a fair sampling of what's out there." Ms. Wang responded that one of the purposes of the research was to explore whether there is a method available to actually quantify in some way how much fraud there is and where it is occurring in the electoral process. Mr. Rokita replied that "Maybe at the end of the day we stop spending taxpayer money or it's going to be too much to spend to find that kind of data. Otherwise, we will stop it here and recognize that there is a huge difference of opinion on that issue of fraud, when it occurs is obtainable, and that would possibly be a conclusion of the EAC." Ms. Sims responded that she thought it would be possible to get better statistics on fraud and there might be a way of "identifying at this point certain parts in the election process that are more vulnerable, that we should be addressing."
3. Mr. Rokita stated that, "We're not sure that fraud at the polling place doesn't exist. We can't conclude that."
4. Mr. Rokita expressed concern about working with a political scientist. He believes that the "EAC needs to be very careful in who they select, because all the time and effort and money that's been spent up to date and would be spent in the future could be invalidated by a wrong selection in the eyes of some group."
what rokita seems to be saying is that he doesn't care what all the experts say: like believing in faeries, rokita believes in polling place fraud and nobody will be able to dissuade him. this is the same type of stubborn delusion he exhibited last november when he insisted that november's election was "one of indiana's finest hours" despite the many obvious problems.
In my view, there's no way that the EAC can design a sound methodology for a new study of voter fraud without the help of well-trained political scientists (or other social scientists well trained in appropriate research methods). It cannot subject the selection of such a political scientist to some kind of litumus test that excludes a good political scientist whose choice offends some interest group. This is part of the EAC's new pathology generally: it is afraid to release any data that might offend some group or take a side. (Under pressure, the EAC has now released that Eagleton/Moritz study on voter id and turnout that it has disowned).
In the end, I get the sense that no amount of evidence from the most eminent political scientist would convince Sec. Rokita that voter fraud at the polling place is not a major problem. From the report: "Mr. Rokita stated that, 'We're not sure that fraud at the polling place doesn't exist. We can't conclude that.'"
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CHINA'S 'social credit' system blacklists "lazy" citizens who get into debt or spend their time playing video games in a creepy initiative that could have come straight out of Black Mirror.
Analysing users' social media habits and online shopping purchases, the nightmarish system also grants real financial credit to citizens whose lifestyles are deemed to be more wholesome.
While the social credit scheme will become mandatory in China in 2020, it is currently being tested in pilot schemes which have been rolled out through private financial companies.
The most high profile of these is Sesame Credit which has been developed by Ant Financial and uses computer algorithms to score people from 350 to 950, reports The Guardian.
Likened to an episode of dystopian horror series Black Mirror, Sesame Credit rates people on factors including "interpersonal relationships" and consumer habits including buying video games.
It appears the authoritarian one-party state believes that someone who plays a PlayStation or an Xbox is an "idle person", reports the BBC.
Those with a low-rating are "blacklisted" meaning they are unable to book a plane flight, prevented from renting or buying property and are unable to secure a loan or stay in a luxury hotel, reports MarketPlace.org.
One of the largest schemes currently operating is in Shanghai where jaywalking, traffic violations and skipping train fares can get you blacklisted.
But that's not all. Citizens who do not visit their elderly parents or do not sort out their garbage into the appropriate recycling bins can also be penalised and effectively frozen out by the state.
Businessman Xie Wen spoke with MarketPlace.org after he was blacklisted following a financial dispute in which he never paid a debt to a client who sued his company.
He was then added to the Chinese Supreme Court's list of "discredited" people.
Not only was Wen banned from going on a plane or a high speed train but he was unable to send his child to private school.
The same report published in February this year says that since October 2013 nearly 10 million people have been added to the same list.
As the mandatory 2020 date looms, President Xi Jingping has cemented his grip on power by scrapping the country's two term presidential limit making him the most dominant Chinese leader since the murderous Chairman Mao Zedong.
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'Baskets' On FX: The Clown Comedy That Forgot To Be Funny
by Adam Buckman , Featured Columnist, January 21, 2016
If TV comedies have evolved to the point where they are to contain no actual comedy at all, then "Baskets" on FX represents the pinnacle of contemporary comedy achievement.
This is the kind of show that one could even praise as being an anti-comedy of the highest order -- but only in cases of extreme intellectual denial. For this is a show that expects its viewers to be too embarrassed to admit that they don't get the joke.
Instead, they are probably supposed to gaze upon the triumvirate named in the show's credits as its co-creators and genuflect. These three are Louis C.K., mastermind of the FX comedy "Louie"; Zach Galifianakis, star of the "Hangover" movies and others (including "Birdman"); and Jonathan Krisel, whose name will be familiar to anyone who is cool enough to have watched "Portlandia," on which he is a producer, writer and a director.
However, if "Baskets" demonstrates anything, it's that a project can go horribly wrong when a TV network cedes total creative control to the boldface names who brought them the show's concept and then got the network to agree to simply leave them alone while they produced the show.
This may or may not have happened in the process of producing "Baskets," but the show plays like it did. "Baskets" premieres Thursday night (Jan. 21) on FX. It is a supremely unattractive TV show about a bunch of losers, starting with Chip Baskets, the lead character played by Galifianakis.
He is a misfit from Bakersfield, Calif., who we first meet in a classroom somewhere in Paris. We quickly learn it's a clown college and Chip has come all the way to France to receive a "classical" education in the low art of professional clowning. He has no aptitude for it and basically flunks out. So it's back to Bakersfield for him.
There, he is hired as a rodeo clown and christened "Baskets the clown" by the rodeo's manager. He makes almost no money and lives in a motel. And that, my friends is the show. Clearly, the executives at FX who OK'd this mess must not have been paying attention during the elevator ride in which this pitch was made.
The other characters who populate the sad, charmless and irredeemable world of Chip Baskets include a dull-witted, monotonal young woman named Martha who works at Costco; Chip's mother, Christine (played inexplicably by comedian Louie Anderson in drag); and Chip's twin brother Dale, also played by Galifianakis.
Yes, their names are actually Chip and Dale, which made me wonder: Why Chip and Dale? What was wrong with Mutt and Jeff, Tom and Jerry, Heckle and Jeckle or Frick and Frack?
The fact that this show's creators decided to make Chip and Dale twins, thus casting Galifianakis in two roles, marks "Baskets" as a vanity project for him. His playing of two roles does nothing at all for the show, which may have benefited from casting someone else in the brother role.
On the other hand, they could have cast the most charismatic actor in the known universe in the role of Dale and even that wouldn't have lifted "Baskets" out of the misery it seems intent on wallowing in. The very existence of "Baskets" proves that it's possible to make a TV show in which no aspect of it whatsoever is in the least bit attractive -- not the characters, not the settings, not the situations.
If producing such a show was your goal, then you would probably wind up making a show like "Baskets," a situation-comedy with barely a situation at all, and no comedy.
"Baskets" premieres Thursday night (Jan. 21) at 10 Eastern on FX.
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Jim Meskauskas from Media Darwin, Inc., January 21, 2016 at 2:59 p.m.
You do realize that Chip and Dale are the chipmunks from the Disney universe, right? It's not a reference to male strippers. Chip was the clever schemer, Dale the goofy dolt.
Adam Buckman from MediaPost.com, January 22, 2016 at 10:25 a.m.
Thank you for leaving a comment here, Jim Meskauskas. And thank you for reading. Please let the record show that I am familiar with Disney's Chip 'n Dale characters. -- ABuckman
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Diaphragm is a muscle that divides the abdominal cavity and the thorax. It is a dome shaped muscle, the superior surface of the dome becomes floor for the thoracic cavity and the inferior of the C shape forms the roof of the abdomen. There are two diaphragms each on either side the chest. The main function of diaphragm is to assist easy respiration. Contraction of diaphragm increases the volume of the chest cavity and the air gets inspired into the lungs. Diaphragm is innervated by phrenic nerve which takes its origin from cervical nerve.
Its movement is controlled by this nerve. Paralysis of diaphragm occurs when the phrenic nerve or the cervical nerve or brain is damaged. Lung cancer, systemic lupus, GB syndrome, and various other conditions can cause damage to the nerve leading to paralyzed diaphragm. Diaphragm paralysis can be unilateral or bilateral. Patient suffering from it complains of distressed breathing when lying down and during exertion, low oxygen saturation in blood etc. Once diaphragm paralysis is diagnosed treatment can be conservative management in mild or unilateral form or surgical intervention especially if both the diaphragm are paralyzed.
Bronchical and lung cancer. The tumor can grow and compress the phrenic nerve.
Unintentional trauma to the nerve during cardiothoracic surgery or surgery of cervical spine.
Infants and newborns can be affected with diaphragmatic paralysis during child birth. During child birth, the phrenic nerve may get damaged.
Spinal cord injury, tumor, or compression in cervical spine, neck trauma, chiropractic manipulations etc.
Diseases such as multiple sclerosis, muscular atrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus etc.
Thyroid disease or any autoimmune disease that affects the function of muscles and nerves.
Paralysis or weakness of diaphragm can be unilateral or bilateral. If paralysis develops only in one diaphragm, the symptoms may mild and may not be easily noticeable. If the paralysis is bilateral, the symptoms tend to be more severe. It also depends on whether a pre-existing lung disease is present. Distressed breathing and shortness of breath while lying flat or while walking are characteristic of this condition. Paralysis causes reduced lung capacity and hence there is low oxygen saturation in the body. Low oxygen level is more at rest and even during exercise and sleep. Low oxygen is common when both the diaphragms are affected. Newborn experiences more respiratory distress than adults because of weak muscles. Newborn crying is weak and sometimes there is associated distress in the gastrointestinal tract leading to vomiting. Abdominal pain, night sweats, severe breathing difficulty when lying down, pain in shoulder, fatigue, are frequent symptoms in case of acute paralysis of diaphragm.
Physical examination and medical history: When the patient lie flat the abdomen moves inwards while inhalation which in normal circumstance must move outwards.
Arterial blood gas test to detect the saturation of oxygen level and carbon dioxide level.
Mild or moderate symptoms in adults with unilateral paralysis of diaphragm may need observation as there is chance of spontaneous recovery of the condition.
In some cases where patient complains of breathing difficulty during night while is lying flat may need supportive oxygen therapy.
In case of severe form of paralysis, surgical correction may be need. The surgery is called diaphragm plication. In this procedure the paralyzed diaphragm is sutured and pulled so that it becomes taut. With this surgery the lung gets enough space to expand and breathing improves.
A pacemaker may be used if the phrenic nerve is functioning normally as in case of cervical spine injury or ALS.
The prognosis of unilateral paralysis of diaphragm is good, especially if the patient does not have any other illness of lung or heart. In case of bilateral paralysis of diaphragm, the overall health of the patient may decide the prognosis.


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Dr Flibble July 2012
The Gaming Gods finally fucking listened to me!!
November 1, 2012. PS3 Exclusive. No idea if it will see a release outside of Japan.
Sunflower July 2012
Hopefully I see it over here, and hopefully they'll keep the original voices. Yakuza 1 was...special... in its own way.
Why can't we get Kenzan :(
Slixshot July 2012
:) Solid, I'll pick it up if it makes it to the U.S.
FirLocke July 2012
I'd rather the Yakuza games we never got, but anyway.
*Still wants SQEX HD games*
CapnRedChops September 2012
Any news on international releasage?
Dr Flibble May 2013
And now, coming to the WiiU.
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SpaceOfSoul May 2013
Never played a Yakuza game, but with the hype I have seen in Tobin and Yuzos podcast and the noobtoob community. I just might pick it up.
Scirm May 2013
Damn, man, you have to pick it up. These games are crazy awesome.
The previous Japanese Nintendo Direct gave us hope that Yakuza 1 & 2 HD might see the light of day in the West after it was announced for the Wii U in Japan, but Sega's chief creative officer Toshihiro Nagoshi says it is better described as 'an experiment' to gauge people's reactions.
In an interview – which can be seen here – the Yakuza producer was asked a series of questions pertaining to the release of the series, due out in Japan August 8, and whether we'd see it, eventually, come to the Nintendo 3DS. Here's what Nagoshi had to say, published by Kotaku:
"To be honest, we're not aiming to see if the game will be a smash hit. Our real intention is that we want to see how people respond. The existing [Wii U] users are different [from PlayStation owners], so isn't it hard to say if it makes sense? It isn't jumping ship to Nintendo hardware – Yakuza 1 & 2 are coming out on the Wii U, and this is what it is.
"[A 3DS version] is not possible. I'd do it if it were okay to have a Yakuza game without many people walking around the city… But it would be forcing it, no?"
From: http://mynintendonews.com/2013/05/28/toshihiro-nagoshi-yakuza-is-an-experiment-on-wii-u/
DRUMMZ79 May 2013
Never played it, but if it hits the US for the Wii U, that'll be a reason to pick one up!


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Title: Women's sports
Subject: Major women's sport leagues in North America, Women's association football, Women's sports, Wiki Ed/Louisiana State University/Intro to WGS (Fall 2015), Women in the workforce
Collection: Women's Sports
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Women's sports include amateur and professional competitions in virtually all sports. Female participation in sports rose dramatically in the twentieth century, especially in the last quarter, reflecting changes in modern societies that emphasized gender parity. Although the level of participation and performance still varies greatly by country and by sport, women's sports have broad acceptance throughout the world. In a few instances, such as figure skating, rival or exceed their male counterparts in popularity. An important aspect about women's sports is that women usually do not compete on equal terms against men.[1]
Ancient civilizations 1.1
Early modern 1.2
19th and early 20th centuries 1.3
United States 1.3.1
Canada 1.3.2
21st century 1.4
United States: Title IX 2
Implementation and Regulation 2.1
Effect on women's sports 2.2
The battle for equality 3
Media coverage 4
Women's sports today 5
Further reading 6
Roman women engaged in sports. Mosaic at the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina in Sicily
Before each ancient Olympic Games there was a separate women's athletic event, the Heraean Games, dedicated to the goddess Hera and held at the same stadium at Olympia. Myth held that the Heraea was founded by Hippodameia the wife of the king who founded the Olympics.[2]
Although married women were excluded from the Olympics even as spectators, Cynisca won an Olympic game as owner of a chariot (champions of chariot races were owners not riders), as did Euryleonis, Belistiche, Zeuxo, Encrateia and Hermione, Timareta, Theodota and Cassia.
After the classical period, there was some participation by women in men's athletic festivals.[2]
During the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, women played in professional Cuju teams [4][5]
Chinese ladies playing cuju, by the Ming Dynasty painter Du Jin
The first Olympic games in the modern era, which were in 1896 were not open to women, but since then the number of women who have participated in the Olympic games have increased dramatically.[3]
19th and early 20th centuries
The educational committees of the French Revolution (1789) included intellectual, moral, and physical education for girls and boys alike. With the victory of Napoleon less than twenty years later, physical education was reduced to military preparedness for boys and men. In Germany, the physical education of GutsMuths (1793) included girl's education. This included the measurement of performances of girls. This led to women's sport being more actively pursued in Germany than in most other countries.[4] When the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale was formed as an all women's international organization it had a German male vice-president, and German international success in elite sports.
Women's sports in the late 1800s focused on correct posture, facial and bodily beauty, muscles, and health. In 1916 the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) held its first national championship for women.
Few women competed in sports in Europe and North America until the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as social changes favored increased female participation in society as equals with men. Although women were technically permitted to participate in many sports, relatively few did. There was often disapproval of those who did.
"Bicycling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." Susan B. Anthony said "I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride on a wheel. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance."
The modern Women's World Games, which attracted participation of nearly 20 countries and was held four times between 1922 and 1934.[7] The International Olympic Committee began to incorporate greater participation of women at the Olympics in response. The number of Olympic women athletes increased over five-fold in the period, going from 65 at the 1920 Summer Olympics to 331 at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[8][9]
Most early women's professional sports leagues foundered. This is often attributed to a lack of spectator support. Amateur competitions became the primary venue for women's sports. Throughout the mid-twentieth century, Communist countries dominated many Olympic sports, including women's sports, due to state-sponsored athletic programs that were technically regarded as amateur. The legacy of these programs endured, as former Communist countries continue to produce many of the top female athletes. Germany and Scandinavia also developed strong women's athletic programs in this period.
Women's sports in history
Young women wearing swimming competition medals, around 1920.
Fraulein Kussinn and Mrs. Edwards boxing, 1912.
Fencer Sibyl Marston holding a foil.
Edith Cummings was the first woman athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine, a major step in women's athletic history.
In 1972 the United States government implemented Title IX, a law stating that any federally funded program cannot discriminate anyone based on their sex.[10] Participation by women in sports increased dramatically after its introduction, amid fears that this new law would jeopardize men's sports programs.[10][11] In 1990, Bernadette Mattox became the first female Division I coach of a men's basketball team at the University of Kentucky. A year later, goaltender Jenny Hanley of Hamline University became the first women to play on a men's college ice hockey team.[12] By 1994, the number of females playing sports in high school had increased threefold since Title IX was implemented, and ground was broken for the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, the first such hall of fame devoted to exclusively women athletes. In 1996 the number of female high school athletes reached 2.4 million, including 819 football players, 1164 wrestlers, and 1471 ice hockey players.[12]
Sports are high priority in Canadian culture, but women were long relegated to second-class status. There were regional differences as well, with the eastern provinces emphasizing a more feminine "girls rule" game of basketball, while the Western provinces preferred identical rules. Girls' and women's sport has traditionally been slowed down by a series of factors: girls and women historically have low levels of interest and participation; there were very few women in leadership positions in academic administration, student affairs or athletics; there were few women coaches; the media strongly emphasized men's sports as a demonstration of masculinity, suggesting that women seriously interested in sports were crossing gender lines; the male sports establishment was actively hostile. Staunch feminists dismissed sports as unworthy of their support. Women's progress was uphill; they first had to counter the widespread notion that women's bodies were so restricted and delicate that vigorous physical activity was dangerous. These notions where first challenged by the "new woman" around 1900. These women started with bicycling; they rode into new gender spaces in education, work, and suffrage. The 1920s marked a breakthrough for women, including working-class young women in addition to the pioneering middle class sportswomen.[13]
Heather Watson broke one of the last taboos in women's sport when she openly admitted after a poor performance in a tennis match that the reason behind it was the fact that she was menstruating.[14]
United States: Title IX
Implementation and Regulation
In 1972 women's sports in the United States got a boost when the Congress passed the Title IX legislation. The United States Congress passed this law as a part of the additional Amendment Act to the 1964 Civil Rights Act.[15] Title IX states that: "no person shall on the basis of sex, be excluded from participating in, be denied benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance..."[16] in other words, Title IX prohibits gender discrimination in schools that receive federal funds through grants, scholarships, or other support for students. The law states that federal funds can be withdrawn from a school engaging in intentional gender discrimination in the provision of curriculum, counseling, academic support, or general educational opportunities; this includes interscholastic or varsity sports.[17] This law from the Education Act requires that both male and female athletes have equal facilities, equal benefits. The equal benefits are the necessities such as equal equipment, uniforms, supplies, training, practice, quality in coaches and opponents, awards, and cheerleaders and bands at the game.[18] In practice, the difficulty with Title IX is making sure schools are compliant with the law. In 1979, there was a policy interpretation that offered three ways in which schools could be compliant with Title IX; it became known as the "three-part test".
Providing athletic participation opportunities that are substantially proportionate to the student enrollment. This prong of the test is satisfied when participation opportunities for men and women are "substantially proportionate" to their respective undergraduate enrollment.
Demonstrating a continual expansion of athletic opportunities for the underrepresented sex. This prong of the test is satisfied when an institution has a history and continuing practice of program expansion that is responsive to the developing interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex (typically female).
Accommodating the interest and ability of underrepresented sex. This prong of the test is satisfied when an institution is meeting the interests and abilities of its female students even where there are disproportionately fewer females than males participating in sports.
Although schools only have to be compliant with one of the three prongs, many schools have not managed to achieve equity. Many schools attempt to achieve compliance through the first prong, however, in order to achieve that compliance schools cut men's programs which is not the way the OCR wanted compliance achieved.[19] Equity is not the only way to be compliant with Title IX. To be considered compliant with Title IX, athletic departments simply need to show that they are making efforts to achieve parity in participation, treatment, and athletic financial assistance.[20]
Effect on women's sports
The main objective of Title IX is to avoid the discrimination of anyone due to their sex in a federally funded program. It was also used to provide protection to those who are being descrminated due to their gender.[21] However, Title IX is most commonly associated with its impact on athletics and more specifically the impact it has had on women's participation in athletics at every age. Today there are more females participating in athletics than ever before. As of the 2007-2008 school year, females made up 41% of the participants in college athletics.[22] To see the growth of women's sports just look at the difference in participation before the passing of Title IX and today. In 1971-1972 there were 294,015 females participating in high school athletics and in 2007-2008 there were over three million females participating, meaning there has been a 940% increase in female participation in high school athletics.[22] In 1971-1972 there were 29,972 females participating in college athletics and in 2007-2008 there were 166,728 females participating, that is a 456% increase in female participation in college athletics.[22] In 1971, less than 300,000 females played in high school sports. After the law was passed many females started to play. By 1990, only eighteen years later, 1.9 million female high school students were playing sports.[15] More females are getting involved and finding a love and passion for sports that were once seen as something for men. Increased participation in sports has had direct effects on other areas of women's lives. These effects can be seen in women's education and employment later on in life; a recent study found that the changes set in motion by Title IX explained about 20 percent of the increase in women's education and about 40 percent of the rise in employment for 25-to-34-year-old women.[23] This is not to say that all women who are successful later on in life played sports, but it is saying that women who did participate in athletics received benefits in their education and employment later on in life.[23]
"In 1971, fewer than 295,000 girls participated in high school varsity athletics, accounting for just 7 percent of all varsity athletes; in 2001, that number leaped to 2.8 million, or 41.5 percent of all varsity athletes, according to the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education. In 1966, 16,000 females competed in intercollegiate athletics. By 2001, that number jumped to more than 150,000, accounting for 43 percent of all college athletes. In addition, a 2008 study of intercollegiate athletics showed that women's collegiate sports had grown to 9,101 teams, or 8.65 per school. The five most frequently offered college sports for women are, in order: (1) basketball, 98.8% of schools have a team, (2) volleyball, 95.7%, (3) soccer, 92.0%, (4) cross country, 90.8%, and (5) softball, 89.2%. Since 1972, women have also competed in the traditional male sports of wrestling, weightlifting, rugby, and boxing. Parents have begun to watch their daughters on the playing fields, courts, and on television. A recent article in the New York Times found that there are lasting benefits for women from Title IX: participation in sports increased education as well as employment opportunities for girls. Furthermore, the athletic participation by girls and women spurred by Title IX was associated with lower obesity rates. No other public health program can claim similar success." [24]
"However, as part of the backlash against the women's movement, opposition quickly organized against Title IX. Worried about how it would affect men's athletics, legislators and collegiate sports officials became concerned and looked for ways to limit its influence. One argument was that revenue-producing sports such as college football should be exempted from Title IX compliance. Another was that in order for schools and colleges to comply, they would have to cut men's sports such as wrestling. Others argued that federal legislation was not the way to achieve equality or even parity. Finally, conservative opponents of women's rights believed that feminists used Title IX as an all-purpose vehicle to advance their agenda in the schools. Since 1975, there have been twenty court challenges to Title IX in an attempt to whittle down greater gender equity in all fields of education—mirroring the ups and downs of the women's movement at large. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, female students received 1.3 million fewer opportunities to participate in high school athletics than their male peers in the 2006–2007 school years. Yet as a result of Title IX, women have benefited from involvement in amateur and professional sports and, in turn, sports are more exciting with their participation." [24]
The battle for equality
Today, the battle for equality between men's and women's sports rages on. Women make up 54% of enrollment at 832 schools that responded to an NCAA gender equity study in 2000, however, females at these institutions only account for 41% of the athletes. Before Title IX 90% of women's college athletic programs were run by women, but by 1992 the number dropped to 42% since Title IX requires that there are equal opportunities for both genders.[15] This violates Title IX's premise that the ratio of female athletes to male athletes should be roughly equivalent to the overall proportion of female and male students.[25] Many of the issues today often revolve around the amount of money going into men and women's sports. According to 2000-2001 figures, men's college programs still have many advantages over women's in the average number of scholarships (60.5%), operating expenses (64.5%), recruiting expenses (68.2%) and head coaching salaries (59.5%).[25] Other forms of inequality are in the coaching positions. Before Title IX, women coached 90% of women's teams, in 1978 that percentage dropped to 58, and in 2004 it dropped even more to 44 percent.[26] In 1972, women administered 90 percent of women's athletic programs, in 2004 this fell to 19 percent and also in 2004 18 percent of all women's programs had no women administrators.[26] In 2004 there were 3356 administrative jobs in NCAA women's athletic programs and of those jobs women held 35 percent of them.[26]
The 2012 London Olympics were the first games of their kind in which women competed in every sport.[27]
Researchers have shown that media coverage for women's sports has been significantly less than the coverage for men's sports. Millions of young women from all over the world play sports every day. However, the number of women playing sports does not correspond to the amount of media coverage that they get. In 1989, a study was conducted that recorded and compared the amount of media coverage of men and women's sports on popular sports commentary shows. Michael Messner and his team analyzed three different two-week periods by recording the amount of time that the stories were on air and the content of the stories. After recording sports news and highlights, they wrote a quantitative description of what they saw and a qualitative of the amount of time that story received.
During that first year that the research was conducted in 1989, it was recorded that 5% of the sports segments were based on women's sports, compared to the 92% that were based on men's sports and the 3% that was a combination of both. In 1999, women's sports coverage reached an all-time high when it was recorded at 8.7%. It maintained its higher percentages until it reached an all-time low in 2009, decreasing to 1.6%. The researchers also measured the amount of time that women's sports were reported in the news ticker, the strip that displays information at the bottom of most news broadcasts. When recorded in 2009, 5% of ticker coverage was based on women's sports, compared to the 95% that was based on men's sports. These percentages were recorded in order to compare the amount of media coverage for each gender.
When researching the actual amount of time that women's sports stories were mentioned, they focused specifically on differences between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Women's National Basketball Association. They recorded two different time periods: when they were in season and when they were off-season. The WNBA had 8 stories, totaling 5:31 minutes, during their season, which was less than the NBA, which had a total of 72 stories, totaling approximately 65:51 minutes. During the off-season, the WNBA did not receive any stories or time on the ticker, while the NBA received a total of 81, which were approximately 50:15 minutes. When compared, the WNBA had a total of 8 stories and 5:31 minutes while the NBA had 153 stories and 1:56:06 hours. The actual games had several differences in the way the games were presented. The findings were that WNBA games had lower sound quality, more editing mistakes, fewer views of the shot clock and fewer camera angles. There was less verbal commentary and visual statistics about the players throughout the games as well.[28] The quality of the stories has also significantly changed. In past studies, women were sexualized, portrayed as violent, or portrayed as girlfriends, wives and mothers. Female athletes were often included in gag stories that involved sexual dialogue or emphasized their bodies. In Australia, the wives of the men's cricket team members were given more media coverage than the players on the women's cricket team, who also had won more games than the men's rugby team.[29] In 2009, SportsCenter broadcast segments called "Her Story", which was a commentary that highlighted women's athletic careers.[30]
In newspapers articles, coverage on men's sports once again had a greater number of articles than women's sports in a ratio of 23–1. In 1990, a study was conducted that recorded and compared the amount of media coverage of men and women's sports on popular newspapers. They analyzed four different sports magazines for three months and recorded the amount of women's sports stories that were featured and the content of the stories. Women's sports made up 3.5%, compared to the 81% of men's coverage. The lengths of these articles were 25–27% shorter than the length of men's articles.[31] There was an international frenzy in 2012 when the first woman that represented Saudi Arabia in the 2012 Olympics competed in track. That was the most women's sports coverage that there had been in several years. Exactly 12 months later, the newspapers returned to featuring only 4% of articles on women's sports.[32]
Dr. Amy Godoy-Pressland conducted a study that investigated the relationship between sports reporting and gender in Great Britain. She studied Great Britain's newspapers from January 2008 to December 2009 and documented how media coverage of men's sports and women's sports was fairly equal during the Olympics and then altered after the Olympics were over. "Sportswomen are disproportionately under-represented and the sheer quantity and quality of news items on sportsmen demonstrates how male athletes are represented as dominant and superior to females." She also documented how women's bodies were sexualized in photographs and written coverage, noting that the women featured were either nude, semi-nude, or wearing revealing clothing. "The sexualisation of sportswomen in Sunday reporting is commonplace and aimed at the mostly male readership. It promotes the idea of female aesthetics over achievements, while the coverage of women not directly involved in sport misrepresents the place of women in sport and inferiorizes real sportswomen's achievements." [33] The media has the ability to create or prevent interest in women's sports. Excluding women's sports from the media makes it much less likely for young girls to have role models that are women athletes.[34] According to Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota 40% of all athletes in the United States are women but women's sports only receive about 4% of sports media coverage.[35] This amount of coverage has decreased in the last 20 years although there has been a major increase in women athletes.
The media coverage received by women athletes has increasingly become sexualized. This representative data is showcasing a main part of the minimal interaction the media has with women athletes. Scholarly studies (Kane, M. J., LaVoi, N. M., Fink, J. S. (2013) show that when women athletes were given the option to pick a photo of a picture that would increase respect for their sport, they picked an on-the-court competency picture. However, when women athletes were told to pick a picture that would increase interest in their sport, 47% picked a picture that sexualized the women athlete.[36] The UK is more representative than the United States with the BBC giving women's sports about 20% of their sports coverage (BBC spokesperson). Many women athletes in the UK do not see this as adequate coverage for the 36% of women who participate in sports.[37]
Women's sports today
Girls' and boys' participation rates in sports varies by country and region. In the United States today, nearly all schools require student participation in sports, guaranteeing that all girls were exposed to athletics at an early age, which was generally not the case in Western Europe and Latin America. In intramural sports, the genders were often mixed, though for competitive sports the genders remained segregated. Title IX legislation required colleges and universities to provide equal athletic opportunities for women. This large pool of female athletes enabled the U.S. to consistently rank among the top nations in women's Olympic sports, and female Olympians from skater Peggy Fleming (1968) to Mary Lou Retton (1986) became household names.
Tennis was the most-popular professional female sport from the 1970s onward, and it provided the occasion for a symbolic "battle of the sexes" between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, enhancing the profile of female athletics. The success of women's tennis, however, did little to help the fortunes of women's professional team sports.
Women's professional team sports achieved popularity for the first time in the 1990s, particularly in basketball and football (soccer). This popularity has been asymmetric, being strongest in the U.S., certain European countries and former Communist states. Thus, women's soccer was originally dominated by the U.S., China, and Norway, who have historically fielded weak men's national teams. However, several nations with strong and even dominant men's national teams, such as Germany, Sweden, and Brazil, have established themselves as women's powers. Despite this increase in popularity, women's professional sports leagues continue to struggle financially. The WNBA is operated at a loss by the NBA, perhaps in the hope of creating a market that will eventually be profitable. A similar approach is used to promote women's boxing, as women fighters are often undercards on prominent male boxing events, in the hopes of attracting an audience.
The National Women's Hockey League is an American women's professional ice hockey league, established in 2015.
Today, women compete professionally and as amateurs in virtually every major sport, though the level of participation typically decreases when it comes to the more violent contact sports; few schools have women's programs in American football, boxing or wrestling. However, these typical non-participation habits may slowly be evolving as more women take real interest in the games, for example Katie Hnida became the first woman ever to score points in a Division I NCAA American football game when she kicked two extra-points for the University of New Mexico in 2003.
Modern sports have seen the development of a higher profile for female athletes in other historically male sports, such as golf, marathons or ice hockey.
As of 2013, the only sports that men but not women play professionally in the United States are football, baseball, and Ultimate Frisbee.
Recently there has been much more crossover as to which sports males and females participate in, although there are still some differences. For example, at the 1992 Winter Olympics, both genders were allowed to participate in the sport of figure skating, previously a female-only sporting event. However, the programs for the event required men to perform three triple jumps, and women only one.
Women athletes today
A female athlete from the University of California, San Diego playing soccer.
Olympic Games track gold medalist Meseret Defar of Ethiopia.
Master Hao Zhihua, the most accomplished female Wushu athlete in China's history.
Dutch cyclist Ellen van Dijk, at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Fernanda Brito of Chile playing women's doubles tennis at Wimbledon in 2010.
A collage of Italian international sportswomen
Dong Jinxia: Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding Up More Than Half the Sky, Routledge, 2002, ISBN 0-7146-8214-4
Allen Guttmann: Women's Sports: A History, Columbia University Press 1992, ISBN 0-231-06957-X
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj: Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality. Women's Press, 1986.
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj: Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and Sexualities. Women's Press, 2003.
The Nation: Sports Don't Need Sex To Sell - NPR, Mary Jo Kane - August 2, 2011
Else Trangbaek & Arnd Krüger (eds.): Gender and Sport from European Perspectives. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen 1999
History of Women in Sports Timeline
Timeline of women's sports
List of sportswomen
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According to the 2019 Corn Cost-Return Budget in Northeast Kansas, cash rents comprise approximately 19 percent of the expenses necessary to produce a corn crop. The soybean number is 27 percent (assumes the same rental rate on a farm in a corn-soybean rotation with differing expense structures based on crop). We can argue what that number is or should be, but the fact is: land rent is a big expense line item when it comes to producing a crop.
Because of the impact cash rents have on both landlords and tenants, finding that right number is often the key to a successful agreement. There are lots of ways to do so. K-State's Department of Agricultural Economics website – www.agmanager.info – has an entire section devoted to the topic. On it, you can find results from USDA surveys, a spreadsheet tool to help calculate an equitable arrangement, rental rate projections, and even copies of presentations by KSU Economists that help explain where the numbers come from. It's a great resource – but there are often still questions that persist that discussion with a human could help answer.
One of the 'answer' folks is also one of the major contributors to the information at AgManager. Dr. Mykel Taylor is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University and has authored many of the presentations and publications available on leasing on the website. She is also our guest for the 2019 KSU Lease School coming up on February 19th in Corning, Kansas. The Lease School be held at the Corning Community Building starting at 1:30 p.m., and will consist of ninety minutes of excellent information on everything from factors affecting the land rental market to projections for the future to how to structure a rental arrangement to help make your farm partnership better. She'll explain where the numbers from surveys and projections come from, while sharing background information that can help landlords and tenants further understand what to expect for 2019 – and beyond.
There is not cost to attend or need to RSVP. If you would like further information or if inclement weather becomes an issue, please contact the Holton Office of the Meadowlark Extension District at (785) 364-4125 or e-mail me at [email protected] or Jody Holthaus at [email protected] . Landlord, tenant, or both, this workshop will have something for you. Hope you can attend.


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Q: Load SharedPreferences in MainActivity and Update in an secondary activity Good morning everyone,
I'm having problems again in my proccess to create my first app. This time with the SharedPreferences file.
I have 2 activities that must use the same SharedPreferences file. The first one is the MainActivity and the second one an edit layout for the data.
In the MainActivity I have the following method where I use the data to connect to a PLC:
        //initialize the SharedPreferences variables for the PLC Data and Connection
    m_DataPLC = getSharedPreferences("CFTPreferences",CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
    m_DataEditorPLC = m_DataPLC.edit();

    //Gets the number from the IP Address for the connection with the PLC
    //As default, the system takes the value of a static string value
    //This is when the SharedPreferences file is empty
    m_IpAddress = getResources().getString(R.string.ip_Address);
    m_NewIpAddress = m_DataPLC.getString("newIpAddress", m_NewIpAddress);
    if(m_NewIpAddress == null)
    {
        m_DataEditorPLC.putString("newIpAddress", m_IpAddress.toString());
        m_DataEditorPLC.commit();
        m_OldIpAddress = m_NewIpAddress = m_IpAddress;
    }
    else
    {
        m_OldIpAddress = m_IpAddress = m_NewIpAddress;
    }

    //Start the connection with the PLC
    m_Connection = new ModbusConnection(this,m_IpAddress);
    inet = m_Connection.loginPLC();

In my second activity, I have to load the same data and be able to modify it. What I do first is the login to the SharedPreferencesFile:
dataPLC = getSharedPreferences("CFTPreferences",CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
dataEditorPLC = dataPLC.edit();

Then I do the writing with a click action of a button:
    public void setIPAddress()
{
    if (!newIpAddress.equals(etIPAddress.getText().toString()))
    {
        dataEditorPLC.putString("oldIpAdd",ipAddress.toString());
        dataEditorPLC.putString("newIpAdd",etIPAddress.getText().toString());
        dataEditorPLC.commit();
    }
}

I dunno if I'm doing wrong calling the same file twice or if I have to do something extra to mend this. It looks like it does the update, but it doesn't refresh the MainActivity. If someone had some sort of the same problem, I would appreciate the help on this one!!!.
Many thanks in advance!!!

A: I think you are accessing the value of Shared Preferences in onCreate() of first Activity. That will be your problem. Beacuse when you come back from second activity to first activity, your onCreate() is not called, instead onResume() is called. So the better thing to do is move the code where you access SharedPreferences value to a seperate function and call this function in both onCreate() and onResume().
for e.g.
public void getSharedPrefernces() {
  m_DataPLC = getSharedPreferences("CFTPreferences",CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
  m_NewIpAddress = m_DataPLC.getString("newIpAddress", m_NewIpAddress);
}

Hope this Helps..!! Cheers...

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San Bernardino Community College District Chancellor Bruce Baron announced last week that he has selected Dr. Kevin Horan, vice president of instruction and student services of Los Medanos College, as his choice to become the ninth president of Crafton Hills College in Inland Southern California.
The SBCCD Board of Trustees approved the terms of Horan's appointment during a special public meeting on November 19. He will assume the presidency on January 7, 2019. Dr. Audre Levy will continue to serve as interim Crafton Hills College president until the end of the semester.
"Kevin Horan brings two decades of leadership expanding career training and higher education opportunities for low-income and first-generation students and a refreshing zeal for building bridges, and trust, with people from all walks of life," said Chancellor Baron.
Horan, an accomplished leader in the California Community Colleges system, was selected among more than 50 prospective candidates. As Crafton Hills College's president, he will mobilize the campus community to achieve its long-range educational and facilities master plan.
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Normally the first destination for visitors to the State Hermitage Museum, the State Rooms on the first floor of the Winter Palace are accessed by the Jordan Staircase, to the right of the main visitor entrance. Reflecting the remarkable wealth and extravagant tastes of the Romanov Tsars, the State Rooms have witnessed some of the most significant events in Russian history, and provide a fascinating glimpse into the rituals and ceremonies of the Imperial Court.
Designed and decorated for the most part by the court architects who built the Winter Palace and its adjacent buildings, including Bartolomeo Rastrelli and Giacomo Quarenghi, the State Rooms owe their current guise to Vasiliy Stasov, who was responsible for their restoration after a major fire in 1837, and whose strict neoclassical tastes went some way to toning down the rococo excesses of his predecessors.
Most visitors will enter the Hermitage displays via the splendid Jordan Staircase, which leads them to the east wing of the Winter Palace, and the rooms known as the Great Enfilade. These are some of the most majestic spaces in the Hermitage, rich with the symbolism of Imperial Russia and its military might. Featuring white walls, neoclassical columns, rampant gilt decoration, and beautifully varied parquet floors, they include the spectacular Armorial Hall, with its large stucco warriors and ornate chandeliers, and the Hall of St. George, the palace's main throne which measures 800 square meters. The Small Throne Room is dedicated to Peter the Great, with wall coverings of deep red velvet embroidered with the Romanov eagle. The 1812 Gallery, meanwhile, celebrates Russia's victory over Napoleon, and was modeled on the Waterloo Chamber at Windsor Castle. It features rows of portraits of Russia's military commanders, crowned by vast equestrian portraits of Alexander I and Frederick Wilhelm III of Prussia. The Grand Enfilade also contains the Winter Palace Cathedral, the Tsars' private chapel, with its soaring domed ceiling, and the splendid, pale-blue Alexander Hall, which was also designed to celebrate victory in the Napoleonic Wars.
The rooms of the Neva Enfilade, which runs west from the Jordan Staircase, have spectacular views across the river to the Strelka on Vasilevskiy Island, and the highlights among them are the Malachite Drawing Room, decorated for Alexandra Fedorovna, wife of Nicholas I, using over two tones of Ural malachite, the Nicholas Hall, which was used as the palace's main ballroom, and the Gallery of Russian Tsars, which contains multiple portraits of all the Romanov Emperors.
Although this is more than enough to overwhelm most visitors, the Hermitage also features a nearby display entitled Russian Palace Interiors of the 19th Century, which features recreations of the Winter Palace's more private rooms, including Nicholas II's Gothic Library and the charming, Russian Empire Music Room. At the southwest corner of the Winter Palace, a further cluster of rooms has been preserved, amongst them the incredibly extravagant Golden Drawing Room, a pastiche of traditional Russian styles that leaves barely an inch ungilded.
Many other rooms in the Hermitage feature beautiful - arguably more tasteful - interior decoration, but for a picture of the Russian Empire at its most grandiose extravagant, they are not to be missed.


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Tele Vue adapters allow solid, accurate attachment of smart phones and digital cameras to appropriate Tele Vue eyepieces for "afocal" imaging (Digiscoping). "Afocal" means collimating light between the telescope eyepiece and camera lens.
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Q: Eligibility traces in TensorFlow According to Sutton's book - Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, the update equation of Network weights is given by:

where et is the eligibility trace.
This is similar to a Gradient Descent update with an extra et.
Can this eligibility trace be included in the tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer in TensorFlow?

A: Here's a simple example of using tf.contrib.layers.scale_gradient to do elementwise multiplication of gradients. In the forward pass it's just an identity op, and in the backward pass it multiplies gradients by its second argument.
import tensorflow as tf

with tf.Graph().as_default():
  some_value = tf.constant([0.,0.,0.])
  scaled = tf.contrib.layers.scale_gradient(some_value, [0.1, 0.2, 0.3])
  (some_value_gradient,) = tf.gradients(tf.reduce_sum(scaled), some_value)
  with tf.Session():
    print(scaled.eval())
    print(some_value_gradient.eval())

Prints:
[ 0.  0.  0.]
[ 0.1         0.2         0.30000001]


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Sometimes Josh and Andrew like to tag team an engagement shoot. Josh kicked off their Austin engagement photos at the graffiti wall (the Hope Outdoor Gallery) and Enchanted Rock State Park. Andrew took over on day two with Austin Skyline engagement photos from the town lake board walk and sunset engagement photos from the Oasis on lake Travis.
Josh kicked off Sonie and Rahul's Austin engagement with engagement photos at the Graffiti park at Castle Hill. As luck would have it, someone has recently painted the word "Love" over and over along one section of the wall.
Sonie and Rahul have a great casual (and goofy – in a super fun way) personality that didn't take themselves to seriously.
After the crowds of the graffiti park, Josh headed to Enchanted rock for a little more solitude. Of course, their personality was still there shining through.
Josh stole a page from Andrew's normal play book and make a star-trail with the couple in it. The really bright star is the setting crescent moon.
In case you are wondering, no, they didn't have to sit there that long. This type of shot is made by setting up the camera and taking the photo of the subject (Sonie and Rahul) and then letting the camera take a time lapse from the same position. You put the two together digitally. Everything was shot at the same place and time, but it saves on sitting still for hours.
Andrew took over for day 2. Things kicked off on the board walk on town lake. It's always a busy spot, and it is quickly becoming an iconic part of Austin with it's view of the growing Austin skyline.
Sonie and Rahul had their first date at the Oasis so they wanted to return there for engagement photos. Luckily the Oasis is super cool about allowing things like this. We picked an unoccupied balcony (we where there on a weekday which helps) and enjoyed the sunset.
Central Texas is full of beautiful texture and color. Stephanie and Daniel live in Kyle, a small town that is no exception. We decided to have a little fun with the travel theme and the old railroad depot and caboose and then just enjoy the texture and nice weather.
Been a bit of a whirlwind this summer with assignments and shoots around the big state of Texas. And truth be told this engagement session in Dallas had me a bit nervous. See, Antonio is a photographer himself and has high expectations. Michelle's older brother turns out to be a running friend of mine. So we had a bit of pressure on either side to turn in something fairly epic. The shoot itself took place mostly in the Arts district in downtown Dallas and finished in a secret parking garage to get twilight skyline views. The pressure went out the door the moment we pressed the first shutter. Tonio and Michelle are just a riot to work with; funny, smart, charming and a very beautiful couple. We had a bunch of fun playing with water, light and lines in ways to tell their love story. My favorite is the last photo in yellow… comfortable in front of the camera much?
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We are loving a new trend in our engagement photography, to stay in the neighborhood of our clients and photograph in the places that are meaningful to the couple. For Emily and Joey's Travis Heights engagement session we focused on areas that Emily found on her running routes from her house. We started with the uber-Texan Mockingbird and Bluebonnet graffiti wall off Riverside, found a great tree on a corner street (that was gone a week later!), utilized some huge agave plants near little Stacey Pool, and then finished up by strolling around St. Edwards at sunset. We hope to see this trend continue because we think it adds to the intimacy of the photographs to have meaningful locations as a layer in the final images.
Laughing around Austin is seriously all we did for Noah & Vanessa's engagement session. Our goal was to hit up fun spots around Austin while staying away from the cliche spots (I am looking at you Jo's Coffee Shop). We managed to get 5 locations in 3 hours and only had to slide through one chain link fence to get our East Austin Skyline photographs. We all were laughing the entire shoot, even when I broke one of my flash tubes, or kept losing my balance. Vanessa and her infectious Jennifer Garner smile kept us all in good spirits. Noah you have your hands full with that one I tell ya. Truly one of the nights when I didn't want to stop shooting, if only to stop and have a beer and hang out with this super fun couple.
We are excitedly looking forward to their August wedding with reception at Brazos Hall, all planned by one of our fave event teams, 11:11 Events.