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Microsoft installing Windows 10 in Xiaomi's Android devices
Updated on Mar 21, 2015 by Guest Authors
While Android and iPhone devices are enjoying favorable market dominance, Microsoft continues to struggle with dwindling market share in an era of mobile eruption. Now the software company is making ambitious inroads into overtaking Android devices with its Windows 10 operating system.
It seems Microsoft has been convinced that the way to beat Android is to join it, and so it has managed to please Xiaomi to install Windows 10 in Mi 4 devices that run the Android OS. Well, at the very least it is an optional installation, meaning Microsoft will work with individual Mi 4 users to accomplish its goal.
In a way, Microsoft's decision to introduce Windows 10 to Android users is a confirmation of the poor market performance of its own devices, from low- to mid-range gadgets that have attracted a scanty portion of the mobile market. Perhaps this time, it will make a dent in Android's market share, given Xiaomi's impressively growing user base. The Chinese phone maker has been making headlines lately for its expansion in the mobile tech landscape, inching even close to huge rivals on a global scale.
Partnering with Xiaomi will provide Microsoft a lucrative opportunity to invade Android's turf, particularly in China, which represents a considerable portion of that market.
The partnership will also allow Microsoft to install its entire suite of software products in Mi 4 Android devices, such as Cortana, Office, OneDrive and Skype, in addition to the Windows 10-based ROM. The installation will be fast, Microsoft assures users, so it won't be hassle for users should they want to shift to Windows 10 from Android. Whether Microsoft would give users the option to dual-boot their phones to support both disparate operating systems remains vague.
Read also: Xiaomi Mi 4 device pre-installed with malware, security test shows
Xiaomi, however, clarifies that it is not directly collaborating with Microsoft. The Redmond giant will work directly with Xiaomi users to flash their devices with the Windows 10 OS, and submit feedback on their experience with the change in operating system to Xiaomi and Microsoft. Both companies plan to use the feedback to further the improvement of their product integration and individual offerings.
At present the partnership is only available in China. We have yet to hear from Microsoft whether it also plans to expand the scheme to the rest of the consumer world.
But once the Windows 10 system is available to Xiaomi's Mi 4 users, developers will be able to also port the OS to other Android devices, so it will only be a matter of time before we actually see a real Windows 10 invasion on Android devices worldwide.

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Congratulations to DRW's Todd Carlisle.
Our attorneys live DRW values in their non-working hours too. We'd like to congratulate Todd Carlisle, a Senior Attorney on our Treatment Facilities team on his recent award! Todd was a recipient of the Tacoma Pierce County Bar Association's 2018 Distinguished Service Award for his work as a co-founder the Pierce County Chapter of Lawyers Helping Hungry Children (LHHC). The group has organized annual fundraising breakfasts in Tacoma for over ten years, raising over $100,000 for local emergency food programs.


Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Birds poems. This is a select list of the best famous Birds poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Birds poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of birds poems.
Search and read the best famous Birds poems, articles about Birds poems, poetry blogs, or anything else Birds poem related using the PoetrySoup search engine at the top of the page.
Like the sea, like time.
It is the hour of departure.
Put me out of love with God.
"To see," they told me, "what sort of moth would come.
For space to dry its wings.
And shut it in a match-box.
For the moth to fly.
I hate to think of it.
In that dingly little valley.
It rained; it always rained.
Everything's too late after the first seven years.
Of a white dog looking into a gramaphone.
How dull and greasy and grey and sordid it was!
And look at it from the window.
And a humming of wires overhead.
Full of brownish foam bubbles.
And a few relics of the Romans -- dead also.
And a salt dirty smell from the little harbour.
Which flutter through the vines at Capri.
As that damned little town.
At school it was just as dull as that dull High Street.
And the swings, which were for "Board-School children,"
From Baptist and Evangelical and Catholic churches.
They had a Salvation Army.
"Which is a good name but he thinks too much of it --"
That's what I heard people say.
Except to play trains with the hymn-books.
And of a letter from Raleigh after the Armada.
Beating its wings against the dingy prison-wall.
When the birds took shelter among the boughs, and the flowers folded their petals, and tremendous silence descended, I heard a rustle of feet though the grass.
I took heed and saw a young couple approaching my arbor.
The say under a tree where I could see them without being seen.
After he looked about in every direction, I heard the young man saying, "Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future; be merry, for the sparkling days rejoice with us.
"My soul is warning me of the doubt in your heart, for doubt in love is a sin.
"Soon you will be the owner of this vast land, lighted by this beautiful moon; soon you will be the mistress of my palace, and all the servants and maids will obey your commands.
"Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
"My heart refuses to deny you its secret.
Twelve months of comfort and travel await us; for a year we will spend my father's gold at the blue lakes of Switzerland, and viewing the edifices of Italy and Egypt, and resting under the Holy Cedars of Lebanon; you will meet the princesses who will envy you for your jewels and clothes.
"All these things I will do for you; will you be satisfied?"
In a little while I saw them walking and stepping on flowers as the rich step upon the hearts of the poor.
As they disappeared from my sight, I commenced to make comparison between love and money, and to analyze their position in the heart.
I was still wandering in the vast desert of contemplation when a forlorn and specter-like couple passed by me and sat on the grass; a young man and a young woman who had left their farming shacks in the nearby fields for this cool and solitary place.
After a few moments of complete silence, I heard the following words uttered with sighs from weather-bitten lips, "Shed not tears, my beloved; love that opens our eyes and enslaves our hearts can give us the blessing of patience.
Be consoled in our delay our delay, for we have taken an oath and entered Love's shrine; for our love will ever grow in adversity; for it is in Love's name that we are suffering the obstacles of poverty and the sharpness of misery and the emptiness of separation.
I shall attack these hardships until I triumph and place in your hands a strength that will help over all things to complete the journey of life.
"Love - which is God - will consider our sighs and tears as incense burned at His altar and He will reward us with fortitude.
Good-bye, my beloved; I must leave before the heartening moon vanishes.
A pure voice, combined of the consuming flame of love, and the hopeless bitterness of longing and the resolved sweetness of patience, said, "Good-bye, my beloved.
I looked upon slumbering Nature, and with deep reflection discovered the reality of a vast and infinite thing -- something no power could demand, influence acquire, nor riches purchase.
Nor could it be effaced by the tears of time or deadened by sorrow; a thing which cannot be discovered by the blue lakes of Switzerland or the beautiful edifices of Italy.
It is something that gathers strength with patience, grows despite obstacles, warms in winter, flourishes in spring, casts a breeze in summer, and bears fruit in autumn -- I found Love.
I believe in a heaven I'll never enter.
face to face with the ocean's spray.
and we don't now and never did lie to each other.
Give me the jewelled joy of birds!
What ecstasy moves them to sing?
The dewy rapture of the rose?
The adoration of the heart?
That makes each crystal note a gem?
Oh mavis, lark and robin - hail!
For lovely largesse - bless you, Birds!


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Kewaunee County Calendar of Events
Send your organization's events and activities to editorial@gokewauneecounty.com or P.O. Box 86, Kewaunee, WI 54216, preferably two weeks in advance but no later than noon Tuesday for the Saturday edition.
Friday, Nov. 3
• PRESCHOOL STORY TIME, 10:30 a.m., Kewaunee Public Library, 822 Juneau St. 920-388-5015.
• PRESCHOOL STORY TIME, 10 a.m., Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St. Fun books, songs and activities for pre-K children and their caretakers. 920-487-2295.
• ART RECEPTION, 5:30-8 p.m., James May Gallery, 213 Steele St., Algoma. opening of final exhibit of the year, featuring work by Cassie Marie Edwards, Max Manning and Michael Ryan; talk by Edwards at 6:30. Exhibit runs through Jan. 1. 262-753-3130 or www.jamesmaygallery.com.
Friday-Saturday, Nov. 3-4
•POPPY DRIVE, by VFW Auxiliary Post 3392; Piggly-Wiggly, 931 Marquette Drive, Kewaunee.
Saturday, Nov. 4
• TOYS FOR TOTS REGISTRATION, 10 a.m. to noon, Kewaunee Public Library, 822 Juneau St. Families in need sign up to receive new toys for the holidays donated through the program. Must bring photo ID for all adults in household, proof of current address and proof of birth for all children ages 16 and younger. Also Nov. 11 in Algoma and Nov. 18 in Luxemburg. Toys will be distributed Dec. 16. 920-388-7177.
• MASS OF THE BLESSING OF THE GUNS, 4:30 p.m., St. Hubert Catholic Church, E3081 County X, Casco. Hunters and their guns will be blessed; music by Forester Men's Choir; refreshments follow in Fellowship Hall. 920-837-2852 or www.stpeterandsthubert.com.
Monday, Nov. 6
• SHEEPSHEAD, 1 p.m., Kewaunee Community Congregational Church, 502 Center St. Public cards the first and third Mondays of the month; Golden Age cards, second and fourth Mondays.
Tuesday, Nov. 7
• TOPS WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM, 8:45-10 a.m. Tuesdays, Knudson Hall, 620 Lake St., Algoma (use Clark Street entrance). Visitors welcome. 920-487-2797.
Wednesday, Nov. 8
•MATINEE, 1 p.m., Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St. "The Shack," PG-13 movie about a man who receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God. Bring a lunch. 920-487-2295.
• USED BOOK SALE, 3-7 p.m. Wednesdays, 1325 Ellis St., Kewaunee. Sponsored by Friends of the Library.
• ALGOMA AA GROUP, noon-1 p.m. Wednesdays, Algoma Parks & Recreation Department, 620 Lake St., Algoma.
•VETERANS DAY CONCERT, 7 p.m., Performing Arts Center, Algoma Elementary School, 514 Fremont St. Veterans present the flags followed by patriotic songs by the Algoma Community Band and The Lakeshore Singers. Reception after the concert with the veterans and musicians.
Thursday, Nov. 9
•AA MEETING, 7-8 p.m. Thursdays, St Mary's Catholic Church, 1412 Main St., Luxemburg. 920-845-2056.
• PORT CITY AA MEETING, 8-9 p.m. Thursdays, Community Congregational Church, 502 Center St., Kewaunee.
Friday-Saturday, Nov. 10-11
•COOKBOOK SALE, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., The Book Corner, 401 Third St, Algoma. Cookbooks available for half-price. Sponsored by the Algoma Library Friends. 920-495-8440.
• TOYS FOR TOTS REGISTRATION, 10 a.m. to noon, Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St. Families in need sign up to receive new toys for the holidays donated through the program. Must bring photo ID for all adults in household, proof of current address and proof of birth for all children ages 16 and younger. Also Nov. 18 in Luxemburg. Toys will be distributed Dec. 16. 920-388-7177.
• 'BREWS AND TUNES,' 2-9 p.m., Thumb Knuckle Brewing Co., E0208 State 54, Luxemburg. Smoked meat sandwiches by Smoked to the Bone food truck until 7 p.m.; acoustic music by Taylor Popour starting at 5. 920-323-6543 or www.facebook.com/ThumbKnuckleBrewingCo.
Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 11-12
SMOKE ALARM CHECK, Village of Casco. The Casco Fire Department checks and cleans smoke alarms or changes batteries for village residents. To have the department check your alarms, call Bruce at 920-536-0429.
•PATRIOTIC SERVICE, 9:30 a.m., St. Paul Lutheran Church, N4118 County AB, Luxemburg. Special worship service for veterans in the school gym with instrumental music and patriotic anthems by the adult and children's choirs. Veterans interested in marching into the service with other veterans should meet in the hall outside the gym. Booyah, sandwiches, and dessert available after, $6. 920-845-2095 or www.stpaullux.org.
• BINGO, 5:30 p.m. doors open, 6:30 p.m. bingo, All Saints Parish, 145 St. Claude St., Denmark. Wisconsin Progress Jackpot, cash prizes. Concessions, hot sandwiches, homemade desserts. Betty Duckett, 920-863-8211.
• ANIME CLUB, 3:30 p.m., Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St. Meets second Mondays of the month. Learn about sushi and make candy sushi. 920-487-2295.
•JOYCE CLUB, 9 a.m., Northwater Bakery Galley Room, 133 N. Water St., Algoma. 920-487-9130 to reserve a spot.
• COMFORT CAFÉ ... FOR THOSE WITH MEMORY LOSS, 2:30-4 p.m. third Wednesday of the month, Amy's Coffee House, 406 Milwaukee St., Kewaunee. Share stories and socialize with others living with memory loss. Also, volunteers needed. 877-416-7083.
• LITTLE SPROUTS PLAYGROUP, 9:30-10:30 a.m. first and third Thursdays of the month, St. Paul's Lutheran School, 1115 Division St., Algoma. Bible story circle time, play room and gym time for newborns to age 5 with their caregivers.
• TOYS FOR TOTS REGISTRATION, 10 a.m. to noon, Algoma Public Library, 406 Fremont St. Final day for families in need sign up to receive new toys for the holidays donated through the program. Must bring photo ID for all adults in household, proof of current address and proof of birth for all children ages 16 and younger. Toys will be distributed Dec. 16. 920-388-7177.


The Project Substance Alchemist open beta has been launched at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2019. Current Substance subscribers have unrestricted access to this new Substance material tool that pulls together the resources in Substance to give artists a way to author, augment and manage complete libraries of materials.
Different creation techniques - procedural, capture-based, AI-based and manual – can be used to build entire material libraries and export them to other applications. Project Substance Alchemist comprises a straightforward workflow and user interface designed for speed and simplicity, making the complexity of its functionality more accessible and efficient with simple tools like parametric sliders and filters.
Alchemist is also adaptable. Users can access materials in several ways, including downloading materials directly from Substance Source, finding materials contributed by the Substance community or by uploading their own or other photographs. From there, they can extend and update their own libraries of materials. For instance, a cobblestone street can be honed to exact specifications within Project Substance Alchemist, whether the artist needs a brand-new look with polished surfaces, or a broken down feel with moss and damaged tiles.
Substance Alchemist supports artists who work with scans with quick, reliable tiling, plus an an AI-powered delighter. Trained with thousands of images, the delighter can balance the shadows and light tied to photos and scans in a few moments, so that lighting remains even and consistent. Designers who need to iterate rapidly on a material can also output a great array of variations by instantly creating material collections based on a single image or a moodboard.
You can tweak and mix existing materials, and bring elements together to create a new, modifiable material. Project Substance Alchemist can analyse the artist's material and then automatically generate suggestions on colours and textures, to make sure of compatibility and lead to further creation options.
Although designed as a standalone tool, Alchemist remains an integral part of the existing Substance environment. Artists can search through their Substance Source downloads, import materials and filters made in Substance Designer or swap creations through the Substance Share artist exchange. Imported materials can then be added to the artist's personal library for later use, or applied to an asset in Substance Painter. Because the Substance format has become a standard, materials created in Substance Alchemist can be exported and used in 3D content creation applications including Unreal Engine, Unity, 3ds Max, Maya and others.
Project Substance Alchemist will continue to develop in order to adapt to the evolving demands artists and designers experience. The open beta is available now.
At the same time the Substance Source library, which now holds about 1,750 ready-to-use materials available to download, has expanded with a Signature Series collection that adds 15 new materials, created for Source by Senior Material Agent for PlayStation Visual Arts Service Group, Javier Perez. Each material is customisable and shares the theme of the conquest of space.
Working with digital scenes above the Earth is exciting, but making realistic digital 3D space vehicles and habitats is a challenge for artists. The real-world composites needed to make space accessible are complex in their build and look, which generally means artists who need photoreal recreations must start from scratch. This collection works as a head start on digital scenes that contain man-made objects such as spacecraft, satellites, space stations and other objects associated with space travel and exploration.
His 15 materials fall into three categories - Space Station, Space Shuttle and Living Quarters. Like all materials in the Source library, each material is customisable and serves a different purpose for artists designing scenes in space. All materials were procedurally created specifically for this collection and are based on images of and reference points connected to NASA missions.
The Living Quarters category, for example, include what an artist would need to create the functional, rugged look of an astronaut's habitat, including reinforced walls and built-in storage to combat the effects of zero gravity. The Space Station materials have slightly softer edges, mixing in cloth and specialised polymers like those found onboard the International Space Station (ISS). As in real-world space exploration, everything serves a purpose, and combinations of materials can be used to mimic the sophisticated, fragile feel of living in space.


You probably already know it but I'm just going to say it again: I'm ridiculously proud of this countdown. The fact that so many incredible acts got involved means a lot to me and I couldn't be happier to be able to present you a month of live music.
Today the wonderful Dan Dietrich plays us a song.
Dan Dietrich is a singer/songwriter from Darmstadt, Germany.
His own material could be classified as acoustic/folk-rock and is inspired by artists such as Bob Dylan, Melanie Safka and Tracy Chapman.
So far Dan released a six track EP, played a countless amount of gigs on his own and with bands, he supported Canada's Morgan Finlay and Scotland's Martin and James and built a loyal fan base over the years.
Alright, I still can't believe it but this song has been written for our Birthday Countdown! It doesn't really get into my head how hard Dan worked on his performance of "Our Song" and I'm absolutely happy to have him on the blog.
Many, many thanks to Dan for three years of supporting each other, for amazing gigs and lovely chats. And for this awesome video!


The original item was crocheted in 1895 by Mabel Turner (later Mabel Turner-Irwin) for her hope chest. She was my Uncle David's grandmother on his father's side. The original bedspread was done in size 10 crochet cotton thread in white. When I went to visit my uncle and aunt in Pennsylvania farm country in the summer of 2014 they showed me this bedspread (as they knew I was an avid crocheter) and asked me if I thought I could repair it, as it had been attacked by mice in their attic storage. A few months later a package arrived from my aunt and uncle - it was the bedspread with the hope that I could repair or replicate it. I riffed on the original pattern to make this throw for my easy chair in my living room.


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Фізи́чна культу́ра, фізкультура, руханка — складова частина культури, пов'язана з системою фізичного виховання, організації спорту, спеціальних наукових дослідів, технічних засобів, потрібних для фізичного виховання і спорту, суспільної та особистої гігієни, раціональної організації активного відпочинку тощо.

Фізична культура є важливим засобом підвищення соціальної і трудової активності людей, задоволення їх моральних, естетичних та творчих запитів, життєво важливої потреби взаємного спілкування, розвитку дружніх стосунків між народами і зміцнення миру.

Основними показниками стану фізичної культури і спорту є:

 рівень здоров'я і фізичного розвитку різних верств населення;
 ступінь використання фізичної культури в різних сферах діяльності, рівень розвитку системи фізичного виховання, самодіяльного масового спорту;
 високі досягнення спортсменів України в окремих видах спорту;
 рівень забезпеченості кваліфікованими кадрами, спортивними спорудами та майном.

Аспекти фізичної культури
 Діяльнісний аспект, який включає доцільну рухову активність у вигляді різних форм фізичних вправ, спрямованих на формування необхідних в житті рухових умінь і навичок; розвиток життєво важливих фізичних здібностей; оптимізацію здоров'я і працездатності.
 Предметно-ціннісний аспект представлений матеріальними (матеріально-технічні засоби) і духовними (наукові знання, методи) цінностями, створеними суспільством для забезпечення ефективності фізкультурної діяльності.
 Результативний аспект характеризується сукупністю корисних результатів використання фізичної культури, які виражаються у володінні людиною її цінностями, надбанні нею високого рівня фізичної дієздатності. Найсуттєвішим результатом повноцінного використання фізичної культури є виховання готовності людини взяти на себе відповідальність за свій фізичний стан і здоров'я після закінчення шкільного курсу «фізична культура».

Вищі навчальні заклади

Україна
 Олімпійський коледж імені Івана Піддубного (І рівень акредитації, Київ)
 Харківська державна академія фізичної культури (IV рівень акредитації)
 Львівський державний університет фізичної культури (IV рівень акредитації)
 Дніпропетровський державний інститут фізичної культури і спорту (III рівень акредитації)
 Запорізький національний університет (IV рівень акредитації)
 Херсонське вище училище фізичної культури (II рівень акредитації)
 Миколаївське вище училище фізичної культури (I рівень акредитації)
 Донецький державний інститут здоров'я, фізичної культури і спорту (III рівень акредитації)
 Національний Університет фізичного фиховання та спорту України         (IV рівень акредитації)

Користь для здоров'я

Всесвітня організація охорони здоров'я (ВООЗ) вирізняє такі головні позитивні впливи фізичної активності на здоров'я:

 Фізична активність має значні переваги для здоров'я серця, тіла та розуму.
 Фізична активність сприяє запобіганню та лікуванню неінфекційних захворювань.
 Фізична активність зменшує наслідки депресії та тривоги.
 Фізична активність покращує навички мислення, навчання та прийняття рішень.
 Фізична активність забезпечує здорове зростання і розвиток молоді.
 Фізична активність покращує загальне самопочуття.

Люди, які регулярно виконують фізичні вправи здоровіші, щасливіші, живуть довше й молодші епігенетично, та мають нижчий ризик захворюваності, зокрема, на хвороби серця та онкологічні захворювання. Такі люди частіше мають здорову вагу тіла (індекс маси-тіло), більше м'язової тканини та менше жирової. Дослідження показують, що фізичні навантаження знижують ризики смертності від усіх природних причин, а саме 2,5 години на тиждень (відповідно 30 хвилин помірної активності на день протягом 5 днів на тиждень) порівняно з ніякою активністю, пов'язано зі зниженням ризику смертності від усіх причин на 19 %, тоді як 7 годин помірних навантажень на тиждень — на 24 %.

До того-ж довільна фізична активність (фізичні вправи, прогулянки, активний транспорт) пов'язана з нижчим рівнем смертності від усіх причин, натомість важка фізична активність на роботі чи городі, не має такого здорового впливу на організм або обумовлена вищим рівнем фізичної завантаженості, що може бути пов'язано з меншим внеском аеробного навантаження під час фізичної роботи. Таким чином, дозвільна фізична активність потрібна і для людей, залучених до важкої фізичної праці.

Регулярні фізичні вправи є потужним регулятором чутливості до інсуліну та загального системного метаболізму як через швидкі реакції, викликані кожним тренуванням, так і через хронічну адаптацію. Завдяки цьому, регулярні фізичні вправи значно знижують ризики хронічних метаболічних захворювань, зокрема діабет 2 типу та неалкогольну жирову хворобу печінки.

Добровільні фізичні вправи можуть покращити навчання та розумову працездатність, покращити нейропластичність і пам'ять (покращити кровотік в мозку, підвищити рівень нейротрофічного фактора мозку (BDNF) та інших факторів росту), стимулювати нейрогенез та підвищити стійкість мозку до негативних чинників.

Також ціла низка наукових досліджень доводить дієвість використання крокомірів або подібних мобільних застосунків, для підвищення рівня фізичної активності, і навіть доводить, що їх використання сприяє поліпшенню стану здоров'я людей. Вони показують, що після початку використання крокоміра, рівень фізичної активності людей підвищувався, а разом із ним покращувалися й їхні фізичні показники.

Див.також: Здоровий спосіб життя, Фізичні вправи, Фізичне виховання, Силові тренування, Спорт, Туризм.

Історія фізичної культури

Радянська Україна

Після Другої світової війни посилено спортові контакти із Заходом, розгорнуто масовий фізкультурний рух, підвищено рівень спортової майстерності. У зв'язку з цим посилився і фізкультурний рух в УРСР. Українські спортсмени, включені в репрезентацію РССР, здобули чималі успіхи в міжнародних змаганнях (Б. Гуревич, Я. Куценко, Б. Шахлін, В. Чукарін, Л. Латиніна, О. Гончаренко, Є. Буланчик, В. Куц, Н. Откаленко, Л. Лисенко-Шевцова, А. Бондарчук та ін.).

На основі постанови ЦК КПРС і Ради Міністрів СРСР від 9 січня 1959 року «Про керівництво фізичною культурою і спортом у країні» Комітет фізичної культури і спорту при Раді Міністрів УРСР перетворено на Союз спортивних товариств і організацій УРСР, підпорядкований Всесоюзному спортивному союзові. Обласні, міські, районові й місцеві ради фізичної культури керують працею всіх спортивних організацій, які поділяються на добровільні спортові товариства, колективи фізичної культури (на заводах і фабриках, у колгоспах і радгоспах) чи спортові клуби.

В УРСР діяли 4 республіканські відділи всесоюзних добровільних спортових товариств профспілок, студентське «Буревісник» з бл. 400000 чл.; «Водник» (профспілка річкового та морського транспорту) з бл. 30000 членів; «Локомотив» (профспілка працівників зал. транспорту) з бл. 380 000 фізкультурників; «Спартак» (комсомольське товариство) з бл. 900 000 чл. Працівників міністерства внутрішніх справ і безпеки охоплює «Динамо». Існують дві республіканські спілки «Авангард» (об'єднує працівників промисловості і будівництва) з понад 2 млн чл. і «Колос» (колгоспники, працівники с.-г. організацій) з бл. 3,3 млн чл. (1981). Авіація, парашутний спорт, планеризм, автомобілізм, мотоциклізм, радіо, підводний, водно-моторовий, стрілецький та ін. воєнно-технічний види споргу підлягають контролеві українського республіканського відділу всесоюзного добровільного товариства сприяння армії, авіації та флоту.

З метою пропаганди Фізичної культури і спорту за кордоном, головно у міжнародних спортивних федераціях, Комітет Фізичної культури і спорту при Раді Міністрів СРСР постановою від 26 лютого 1969 ухвалив створити 48 Всесоюзних федерацій для всіх видів спорту, що стали єдиними правними чл. міжнар. спортових федерацій. Цією постановою українські федерації підпорядковано всесоюзним і тим позбавлено їх самостійного членства у міжнар. спортових організаціях, наслідком чого укю. змагуни репрезентують тільки СРСР.

На початку 1981 в УССР було близько 45000 фізкультурних колективів з 15 млн чл., 5 млн значківців ГПО (Готовий до Праці й Оборони), понад 4 300 спортсменів розрядників, понад б 500 майстрів спорту СРСР, понад 300 майстрів спорту СРСР міжнар. класи. бл. 60 заслужених майстрів спорту СРСР; бл. 150000 платних фізкультурних працівників (у тому ч. бл. 65 000 з вищою освітою), 3 000 тренерів та інструкторів, 2 500 класифікованих спортових суддів; понад 315 000 інструкторів ГПО. Спортові споруди: 160000 спортових майданчиків, у тому числі 20 000 футбольних полів; понад 13 600 спортових зал, бл. 300 басейнів, 600 лижних баз, 8 000 стрілецьких тирів, 901 стадіон, плавацький центр у Харкові, веслувальний у Херсоні та ін. Популярний в Україні туризм диспонує понад 50 туристичними базами і понад 800 туристичними й відпочинковими таборами.

Кадри фізичної культури готують інститути й технікуми у Києві, Львові, Донецьку, Дніпрі, Івано-Франківську та факультетах фізичної культури при педагогічних інститутах. У ряді міст діють народні університети фізичної культури і спорту (1980 їх було бл. 50). Після війни укр. спортсмени встановили у різних ділянках спорту понад 80 світових рекордів, багато євр. та респ. і союзних рекордів (В. Голубничий, В. Цибуленко, Ігор Тер-Ованесян, Валерій Брумель, Г. Кутенко, В. Борзов, Ю. Сєдих, В. Ященко, В. Крепкіна, Н. Олізаренко, Н. Ткаченко, Л. Жаботинський, С. Рахманов, Ю. Зайцев, І. Мате, С. Полторацький, А. Писаренко, Г. Прозуменщикова, Ю. Фесенко, О. Сидоренко та ін.). Багато українців виступає у збірних командах СРСР на міжнар. арені. 1975 футбольна дружина «Динамо» (Київ) здобула європейський кубок кубків та суперкубок і стала чемпіоном СРСР. У міжнар. змаганнях успішно виступають й ін. клуби України (але тільки під маркою СРСР).

З 1952 СРСР бере участь в Олімпійських іграх з участю укр. спортовців (1952 на 15 Олімпійських іграх у Гельсінкі укр. спортовці здобули 5 золотих, 7 срібних і 1 бронзову медаль; 1980 на 22 ігрищах у Москві — 38 золотих, 19 срібних, 10 бронзових медалей; встановили 3 світові та 6 олімпійських рекордів.

З 1956 влаштовуються спартакіади з масовою участю змагунів на область й районному рівні та по м. Відбуваються і спартакіяди школярів; їх фізичному вихованню, Ф.к. і спортові присвячується багато уваги вже з дошкільного віку. Основні форми фізкульт. вправ: лекції, ранкова зарядка, рухливі гри, позашкільне і позакласне фізкульт. спортове і оздоровче виховання. У нижчих класах вивчаються основні гімнастичні елементи, нескладні рухливі гри, згодом їх ускладнюють і вводять елементи легкої атлетики, лещетарства, плавання тощо Багато уваги приділяється значкові ГПО (пересічно 2 млн значківців на рік). Існують також дитячо-юнацькі спортивні школи (бл. 900 шкіл, з понад 321 000 дітей і підлітків). У цих школах і спеціальних класах культивується 43 види спорту.

Інформації про спортове життя дають «Спортивна газета» (тричі на тиждень) і «Старт» (місячник), органи Комітету фіа. культури і спорту при Раді Мін. УРСР та Укр. респ. ради профспілок.

Фізична культура у діаспорі
У діаспорі з виїздом нових емігрантів за океан почалася організація спортового життя на нових поселеннях. У США й Канаді наплив нових спортовців скріпив спортове життя й поширив його на різні ділянки: футбол («сокер»), теніс, відбиванка, плавання, лещетарство та інші. Посилилася фізкультурно-виховна праця серед молоді у спортових товариствах і таборах; щорічно влаштовуються спортові грища.

1959 у Нью-Йорку відбулося свято молоді з різними спортовими змаганнями.

1980 року Українська Спортова Централя Америки й Канади спільно зі спортовцями інших поневолених в СРСР народів організувала «Вільну олімпіаду», що відбулася в Етобіко-Торонто (Канада). Українська репрезентація здобула на ній 11 золотих, 8 срібних, 7 бронзових медалей і здобула друге місце після латишів. Ця олімпіада відбуватиметься раз на 4 роки Молоді люди з України досягли видатних результатів, зокрема, Річард Сандрак у вісім років був визнаний найсильнішою дитиною у світі.

В інших країнах фізкультурно-спортовий рух зосереджується при організаціях молоді та нечисленних спортових клубах.

Див. також

 Фізичні вправи
 Фізичний розвиток
 Спорт
 Спорт в Україні
 Здоров'я
 Здоровий спосіб життя
 Валеологія

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ASU Baseball: Sun Devils announce 2015 schedule
Find out when the Sun Devils season begins and when the team hosts rival Arizona.
By Ryan Bafaloukos Sep 30, 2014, 2:32pm MST
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A new era of Arizona State baseball is set to begin in the spring and the Sun Devils took the first step on Tuesday afternoon with the announcement of their 2015 schedule. This upcoming season marks the program's first at Phoenix Municipal Stadium, after 40 years on campus at Packard Stadium.
It will also mark the Sun Devils first season under the leadership of former Indiana University skipper Tracy Smith, who was hired in late June after Tim Esmay resigned from the position.
The 2015 campaign will kickoff Feb. 13 when Arizona State welcomes 2014 Big 12 Champion Oklahoma State to Tempe. The Cowboys are coached by former Sun Devil assistant coach Josh Holiday and advanced to the super regionals last season.
The following weekend, Arizona State hosts 2014 College World Series participant TCU. The Sun Devils begin the season with 18 consecutive games at home including a weekend series against Long Beach State (March 6-8) and a midweek contest against UNLV. Both teams made the NCAA tournament in 2014.
"Our 2015 schedule provides us with an opportunity to prove ourselves against some of the best teams in the nation as well showcase the new home of Sun Devil Baseball, " said head coach Tracy Smith in a statement. "We are looking forward to moving into our new home as we begin the next chapter of ASU Baseball."
Arizona State will host the inaugural Phoenix Muni Classic from Feb. 26 to March 1, with Cal State Bakersfield, Purdue and Gonzaga participating.
Pac-12 play begins for the Sun Devils March 13 when Arizona State hosts Oregon State. Arizona will make the trip up to Tempe on April 10 for a weekend series. The Sun Devils will play midweek games in Tucson on April 22 and April 28. Other conference foes to visit Tempe include Stanford, Washington State and USC.
Here is the full schedule for the 2015 baseball season.


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Brown Vetoes MJ Research Bill
September 21, 2018 Earlier this month the US Drug Enforcement Administration authorized UC San Diego's Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) to import cannabis from a Canadian corporation, Tilray, to test its effectiveness in reducing "Essential Tremor," a condition affecting 10 million US Americans. (As reported here.)
Last week Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill allocating $2 million to the CMCR. Brown's statement said the bill would violate California's Adult Use of Marijuana Act, passed by the voters in 2016. Asked which provisions of AUMA were supposedly violated, Dale Gieringer of California NORML forwarded this explanation from the office of Assemblyman Tom Lackey (Republican of Antelope Valley-Santa Clarita, who introduced the vetoed bill):
The Governor was taking a rigid interpretation of language in Prop 64 regarding the CMCR's mission:
(e) The Controller shall next disburse the sum of two million dollars ($2, 000, 000) annually to the University of California San Diego Centerfor Medicinal Cannabis Research to further the objectives of the Center including the enhanced understanding of the efficacy and adverse effects of marijuana as a pharmacological agent.
AB 1996 envisioned a slightly broader mission for CMCR, eg:
(2) The program shall develop and conduct studies intended to ascertain the general medical safety and efficacy of cannabis and, if found valuable, shall develop medical guidelines for the appropriate administration and use of cannabis. The studies may examine the effect of cannabis on motor skills, the health and safety effects of cannabis, and other behavioral and health outcomes.
Gieringer added, " They were suprised by the veto and believe it reflects a misunderstanding by the Governor. In fact, CMCR is already doing such studies. It's hoped that the misunderstanding can be ironed out in legislation next year. Meanwhile, yet one more year of unnecessary bureaucratic delay and obstruction for MMJ research. Among other things, AB 1996 would have finally authorized the CMCR to cultivate its own marijuana for research purposes."
Brown also vetoed a bil, AB 1863, allowing cannabis businesses to deduct expenses on their state income tax. And, as our friends at Cal NORML note, "he insulted marijuana users as not caring about climate change in an interview with the New York Times."
Jerry Brown Gets Real
Recently Jerry Brown appointed Juan Pedro Gaffney, an old school chum, to the Workers Compensation Board, a $153,000/year job. Willie Brown noted in his SF Chronicle column that Jerry was finally coming out as a pol who does favors for his friends.
Jerry Brown's well-publicized favor to Gaffney was a misdirection play that deflected attention from the $15 billion gift the governor lavished on his friends at PG&E by signing legislation —which his staff helped push through— that will make California taxpayers financially responsible for the 2017 Wine Country fires, every one of which was caused by fallen PG&E power lines or sparking transformers. PG&E's responsibility for starting each of the 11 fires was documented by phone calls to fire departments. There was no ambiguity as to cause.
While the legislators were being lobbied to let PG&E off the hook, a media campaign bombarded the public. Earnest ads emphasized the reality of hotter summers and greater fire danger in the years ahead, which we, the people, have to expect and budget for. No mention was made of exonerating PG&E financially for 2017. The ads were all about the future.
Another arm of the campaign featured a computerized war room from which highly alert PG&E operatives will from now on scan the forests of California while monitoring all the emergency phone lines.
The obvious way to reduce the fire danger in Northern California — bury the power lines— never gets mentioned. It would be labor-intensive and the workers would have to be paid.
PG&E ads are always politically correct in terms of personnel. The recent non-stop campaign (which ended as soon as Brown signed the bill) emphasized that PG&E interacts closely with police and fire departments and should be honored as First Responders.
PG&E should bury its power lines like the corporate media buried the $15 billion giveaway story in the print edition (left, below) and online.
Collision in My Memory
News of Jerry Brown rewarding his old friend —plus the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR) not getting a $2 million allocation— caused a collision in my memory.
When California passed Prop 215 in November, 1996, I started compiling a chronology of the medical marijuana movement. I was then managing editor of Synapse, the internal weekly at UCSF, staffed mainly by medical students, and I was in close contact with Tod Mikuriya, MD, the world's leading authority on cannabis as medicine, and Dennis Peron, who was fighting in court to reopen the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club. Their input helped inform the chronology.
Here's the entry for February 6, 1997:
"Bay Lawmaker Aims to Help Pot Law" —SF Examiner headline. State Sen. John Vasconcellos announces that he will introduce legislation to "help implement" Prop 215. Americans for Medical Rights claims credit for helping to draft the aptly named "enabling legislation." Dennis Peron is suspicious. "Prop 215 doesn't need any help."
Marijuana reform advocates considered Vasconcellos a major ally, but Dennis's suspicions would turn out to be well-founded. "One key provision of Vaconcellos' measure," the Examiner story stated, "would be a $6 million grant to the University of California to study possible medical uses of marijuana." Eventually Vasconcellos did get the legislature to grant $8.6 million (paid out over three years) to create the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at UC San Diego. It would be co-directed by Igor Grant, MD, and Drew Mattison, a clinical psychologist.
One day from my desk at Synapse I telephoned the CMCR and reached Drew Mattison. As diplomatically as possible I asked why the UC research center was being established at UC San Diego rather than UC San Francisco, where there were cannabinoid researchers on the faculty —Donald Abrams, Lester Bornheim, Ian Meng, Reese Jones— and a community that would support research projects. San Francisco was the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic and the movement that led to Prop 215. The research center belonged there.
Mattison was astonishingly candid. He said Vasco had steered the Center to San Diego out of friendship for Mattison's life partner, David McWhirter. Almost the first thing he told me was (paraphrase) "I'm a gay man and I've been in a monogamous relationship for 20 years with an older man named David McWhirter and we have published a book on the subject of gay relationships. Vasco was David's very close friend in high school."
And that is how the world works.
Tod Mikuriya deplored the research agenda set by the CMCR. He pointed out that California voters intended Prop 215 as a rebuke to the federal government. We revised state law in defiance of the federal prohibition and despite the warnings of the medical establishment. Vasco's CMCR restored compliance, going hat in hand to the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Drug Enforcement Administration to request cannabis grown at the University of Mississippi. Tod thought the CMCR —created in response to Prop 215— should study the effects of the cannabis being grown and used legally by Californians. The CMCR applied to NIDA and after a year of bureaucratic stalling and DEA inspections of each researcher's lab to make sure that the Devil Weed would be locked in a safe that was properly embedded in cement, a product from Ol' Miss would be shipped. In the years ahead, six studies would be conducted under CMCR auspices and all would confirm that cannabis provides medical benefit. .
When Prop 215 passed, Mikuriya was known as the only MD in California who would readily approve cannabis use for less-than-grave conditions. The Clinton Administration response to Prop 215 —announced at a December 30, 1996 press conference starring Drug Czar McCaffrey, Attorney General Reno, Health & Human Services Director Shalala, and Alan Leshner of NIDA— was to threaten to pull the licenses of any cannabis-approving doctors. On display was a chart entitled "Dr. Tod Mikuriya's (215 Medical Advisor) Medical Uses of Marijuana." The list had been culled from the internet by an Army officer named DesRoches, one of many aides brought over from the Pentagon by McCaffrey. The federal officials
The Soros-funded "professionals" who had taken control of the Prop 215 campaign immediately sought an injunction to prevent the Drug Czar from punishing California doctors who authorized patients to use cannabis. This very good deed was orchestrated by Ethan Nadelmann, director of the group now known as the Drug Policy Alliance. It was also a very bad deed because Tod Mikuriya was excluded form the long list of co-plaintiffs.
John Vasconcellos had been in on the decision to exclude Mikuriya from co-plaintiff status. Nadelmann regarded Tod as "a loose cannon who couldn't be trusted to stay on message," according to Randy Nathan, a confidante of Vasco's. Marcus Conant, a UCSF professor who had treated Kaposi's Sarcoma patients, was an excellent good choice for lead plaintiff. But there were some 20 co-plaintiffs, and not including Mikuriya was blacklisting plain and simple, a consolidation of power by Nadelmann's faction. Randy Nathan recalls Vasco chuckling over the choice of Conant: "We knew he'd stay on message because he was trained by the Jesuits."
If Tod Mikuriya had been one of the co-plaintiffs on Conant v. McCaffrey, the Medical Board of California might have thought twice about prosecuting him. His outspokenness would not have kept federal judge Fern Smith (a Reagan appointee) from ruling in favor of Conant on First Amendment grounds. Nor would Tod's name on the list of co-plaintiffs have led to a different Constitutional interpretation from Judge William Alsup, who made Smith's temporary junction permanent, forbidding the feds to punish California doctors who discuss cannabis as a treatment option with their patients.
Excluding Tod Mikuriya from the Conant suit was blacklisting. There's no other word for it. Removing him and Dennis from the leadership of the medical marijuana movement were necessary first steps on the road to Legalibition.
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To Michelangelo, the left hand meant life.
I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about being lefthanded while growing up. Raised in a house full of righthanders, I simply adapted to unfriendly can openers and blister-causing scissors and got on with life.
Life as a lefty, though, meant drawing a certain amount of flack. And flack is fuel for stubborn individualism.
For 1 in 10 people (a number consistent through history and all cultures), being lefthanded (and thus predominantly right-brained) has generally meant being chided for daydreaming, considered clumsy, nonconformist, possibly criminal, definitely different.
Right-brainers live in the vivid moment.
Reading Rik Smits' book The Puzzle of Lefthandedness (2011) makes me glad I wasn't born to a tribe that crippled lefty children's dominant hands with fire to force them to use their right, or live in a time that deemed lefthandedness "sinister" and equated it with magic and witchcraft. Who wouldn't be a recluse or rebel if everyone you met made the sign of the cross?
Exercising your left brain is definitely a good idea too.
The book's a great romp through history, superstition and science. Smits concludes that swimming against the tide of 90% of humanity in fundamental ways of thinking makes lefthanders self-reliant and independent, attributes that made me a determined solo traveler while still in my teens.
Work – much of it secretarial (the QWERTY keyboard is one of the rare tools that favors lefthanded users) – had one purpose: to fund missions to see my personal grails. Wide-eyed and (in retrospect) remarkably unworried, I pursued my obsessions like Super Mario, leaping obstacles as they popped up in an era before the safety net of cellphones, internet access, ATMs or easy overseas dialing for a parental bailout.
These days, I plan more but can still find trip inspiration in a single painting, building, artist bio, old photo, film, fairytale illustration, myth, legend, even the occasional nursery rhyme.
But when it comes to travel, left-brainers may be better at making it happen. Logic, time management, finance and planning skills go a long way towards turning an idea into reality. And coming up with ways to turn costly "vacations" into viable travel-related businesses.
But do right-brainers (and you don't have to be lefthanded to be predominantly right-brained) get more out of it?
I believe travel is addictive because it stirs and satisfies the creative, emotional, sensation-seeking right brain in all of us. Every step we take frames new pictures. New smells, tastes, even atmospheric conditions, rivet our attention in the moment. The rocking of a train, even the disorienting twilight of an overnight flight through multiple time zones, eases us into a meditative state that quiets our thoughts, makes our minds more receptive, allows us to feel, not just observe.
Travel is a direct ticket past your corpus collosum into the vivid, dreamy realm of your right brain. Whether you maintain permanent residence there or just visit from time to time, it's a groovy place to find yourself.
>This is a very interesting topic. This is good stuff to know and now I understand why my brother does a majority of the things much differently than me.
Going to continue to do more research on this topic.
>Life definitely seems to look more colourful as a lefty.
I should look up that book. I'm a lefty and don't know too many others. Totaly into color n photography, tho.


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Day 42: Pizza and Piazzas
A walking tour of Rome's famed piazzas, traditional cookies in Trastevere and tossing coins in Trevi Fountain.
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A Roman redux. Back in Rome where the adventure began six weeks and 10 countries earlier.
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One last day in Vienna walking through the up-and-coming Wieden district.
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Pseudo-science alert: For $9,500, Politico provides disinformation about crop biotechnology, GMOs and pesticides
Andrew Porterfield | March 19, 2019
The Politico news website is known for its political coverage in the United States, posting stories on a wide range of topics, mostly cataloguing the infighting in the nation's capital.
But more recently, the site strayed into territory outside of its comfort zone, into science and the controversial issue of agricultural biotechnology — GMOs and the pesticides used by farmers, organic and conventional — and its ideological naiveté and lack of science expertise showed through, much to the embarrassment of the political news site.
The site's graphics editor, Patterson Clark, who has no background as a working scientist or journalist writing about crop biotechnology, produced an infographic that illustrated how food has been genetically modified by corporations, and purported to offer a "deep dive" into gene editing — for as much $9,500! But the information they offered was poorly sourced and inaccurate. And when given the chance to address the actual science behind the issue of breeding, they declined.
Here's the story.
The free version of Politico displayed an infographic that appears to have been a watered down interpretation of one that appeared on the Genetic Literacy Project site a few weeks previously.
Clark and Politico botched the free infographic, mislabelling "gene editing" as "mutagenesis." Mutagenesis is a different process, entailing subjecting seeds to radiation or harsh chemicals to create millions of random mutations. Over the years, 'atomic energized seeds' as they were once called have led to more than 2,000 fruits, vegetables and other foods. Love organic Ruby Red sweet grapefruit or durum wheat used in gourmet Italian organic pasta? They are products of mutagenesis. Mutagenesis is unregulated.
Unlike classic transgenics, which have been used to create biotech seeds that its opponents label 'frankenfood GMOs,' gene editing works within the genome of a plant, which is why in most countries, including the US, it's regulated more along the lines of conventional breeding rather than as a GMO.
That regulatory trend alarms traditional GMO critics who have come to loathe biotechnology, claiming it encourages a "corporate stranglehold" over seed creations — even though gene editing is so inexpensive that it is effectively challenging the concentration of power found in agro-business.
Environmentalists love it; most anti-GMO campaigners, who cut their eye-teeth on opposing a different but related technology — transgenics — hate it, because it threatens to undermine their campaign against modern agriculture, which is poised to adopt CRISPR gene editing — unless countries, spooked by the GMO controversy, adopt punitive regulations.
That's already happened in the European Union, which, standing almost alone in the world, rejected guidance by its science advisors and instead imposed nearly 20-year old regulations designed to regulate GMOs, effectively banning gene-edited crops. As a result, the European science community is in rebellion against the politicization of agricultural research and farming.
Politico's fumbled journalism and ethics
While the original graphic appeared in the free section of Politico, it served as a teaser to get media outlets or concerned readers to pay more. Another version of the graphic appeared on a version of Politico that requires a base "Politico Pro" subscription of $8,000, plus an additional "Data Point" feature that costs $1,500, according to a subscriber to the service.
In a paragraph in the middle of the pay version of the graphic, the editors note a "debate" between "GMO proponents" and "detractors," referring to some proponents as "GMO businesses." Further, Politico quotes a 2015 publication by Claire Robinson, Michael Antoniou and John Fagan, saying that "Chronic diseases in the United States have dramatically increased since the introduction of GMOs and certain pesticides," and that "Ruling out a correlation would require thorough studies on the health and environmental effects of GMOs, which they say cannot be done effectively without the labeling of GMO foods, access to patented seeds from agribusinesses and full disclosure of herbicide ingredients." The original paragraph can be seen below:
When contacted by the Genetic Literacy Project (which was cited as one source for the graphic although no one at Politico contacted the GLP or any science-based media organization or science expert), and after the GLP provided a list of scientific blunders and out-of-context claims in its infographics and commentary, Politico reconsidered its wording. After internal consultations with Director of Pro Graphics Todd Lindeman, graphics editor Patterson Clark informed us that they had decided to modify the paragraph — barely.
Politico ignored GLP's suggestion to consult with more mainstream critics of crop biotechnology such as New York University's Marion Nestle or Washington University's Glenn Davis Stone. Stone and Nestle are, like almost all critics of crop biotechnology, outside the scientific mainstream but they at least have solid, university credentials.
Politico made three minor changes. The revised paragraph is here:
It substituted the phrase "Agribusinesses" to replace "GMO business." It added the National Academy of Sciences as a "proponent" (note in the original version it cited only "GMO businesses and US federal regulatory agencies" as organizations that claim crop biotech seeds are safe, when in fact more than 280 global agencies have come to the same conclusion and not one reputable regulatory or research agency has claimed that foods from genetically engineered seeds pose and dangers). It additionally changed the last sentence to read "Critics contend that ruling out a correlation would require thorough studies," without changing the bizarre quote lifted from Robinson, Antoniou and Fagan.
Politico did not respond to numerous follow up questions from the GLP about its news gathering and sourcing policies after the graphics editors changed the paragraph in the graphic, but did appear to threaten the GLP, sending a question asking if the GLP was funded by Monsanto [GLP receives no donations from corporations and as a non-profit is required to report its donations to the Internal Revenue Service; read GLP policies here], which is the contention of Robinson, Antoniou, Fagan, and the websites they support.
More than one kind of debate
Even in its revised form, the claims illustrate a significant misconception of how science is carried out, and elevates one group of anti-GMO activists. Science is not a political enterprise, conducted by "debate." Someone's opinion or financial incentive is not equivalent to data, reliably obtained and verified through peer review and (sometimes) replication via further testing.
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In the case of genetic engineering of seeds, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that genetically modified crops and foods are safe. While individuals and organizations may have moral or societal objections to genetic manipulation, about 2,000 studies, published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at professional meetings, have not uncovered introductions of disease (chronic and otherwise) and have not shown any adverse effects on health.
So far, hundreds of scientific societies have determined that GMO food poses no harm. Because of this consensus, regulatory agencies, including the US FDA, USDA, National Institutes of Health, European Food Safety Authority, European Chemicals Agency, HealthCanada, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, the British Medical Association and the French Academy of Sciences all have determined that credible science has found no detrimental effects in genetically engineered food.
The trio cited by Politico as the 'reasonable' half of the supposed debate over GMO food safety are associated with the Maharishi International University, based in Fairfield, Iowa, the global home of the transcendental meditation (TM) movement. Robinson, Antoniou and Fagan are considered fringe even among biotechnology skeptics, which is saying something.
This group espouses the long-since discredited work of Gilles-Éric Séralini (Antoniou has been a frequent co-author with Séralini), whose paper associating tumors with GMO consumption was retracted by Food and Chemical Toxicology in 2013 (it was republished in 2014 in a non-peer-reviewed journal, but the methods in the study were never deemed credible). [Read the GLP's recent assessment of Séralini's legacy here.]
Robinson is the co-editor of GM Watch and creator of the GMOSeralini website, a hub for disseminating Seralini's activities and views. Fagan is an emeritus professor at Maharishi University and a long-time opponent to genetic modification in food, and the founder of what is now called FoodChain ID, a company that tests food for the Non-GMO Project as well as for submission to the USDA's National Organic Program. He also founded Earth Open Source, a London-based group propagating anti-GMO messaging. Antoniou has published with Séralini, declared that glyphosate, an herbicide formerly known as Roundup and used with plants genetically modified to resist it, is toxic (no credible scientist has shown that it is), and has defended the retracted Séralini paper.
Many Maharishi followers claim that they can levitate and fly, thanks to TM. One devotee is Jeffrey Smith, the former Marketing Director at Genetic ID under Fagan. Smith, the author of Seeds of Destruction and producer of the documentary "Genetic Roulette," was a ballroom dance instructor before becoming a flying yogi and critic of GMOs.
Robinson, Fagan and Antoniou's book, "GMO Myths and Truths," published in 2015 and a similar paper in 2012 published by Earth Open Source present the correlations quoted by Politico. Their findings also have been criticized by legitimate scientists.
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Chronic disease, patents and labels, oh my
The chronic diseases cited by the three (and by Politico) as potential warning signs that genetic tinkering could create health problems include Parkinson's, diabetes and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). The correlations between GM and all these diseases do not — as even these authors admit — translate into causation. Current scientific research on all these diseases have shown a host of risk factors, such as obesity in cancer and diabetes, an aging population and certain (non-agricultural) chemicals with Parkinson's and a range of risks with the at least two dozen types of NHLs, which have different causes, prognoses and treatments. No organization, not one, links any of these diseases to genetically engineered foods.
Moreover, not all chronic disease rates have been increasing, dramatically or in any other way—cancer rates, in fact, have dropped 27 percent in the past 25 years, according to data from the American Cancer Society. The correlation, then, is no more meaningful than another false correlation, that of autism and vaccinations (see chart below).
Patented genetically engineered and conventional F1 hybrid seeds are, contrary to Politico's graphics claim, accessible. They are for sale, and require a registration with the manufacturer, all of which are common practices by owners of intellectual property. Currently, for example, an order of GE Roundup Ready alfalfa can be purchased through seed dealers for $399—significantly less expensive than a subscription to Politico's Data Pro.
Herbicides, like other pesticides, are registered with the EPA and other agencies, and the makers are required to disclose active ingredients. Their formulations, which include certain additives like dispersal agents, emulsifiers, and other so-called "inert" ingredients, also are labeled. This is true of all pesticides, not just those applied to genetically engineered crops.
Society's debate, not science's
Just as with any new, disruptive technology, genetic engineering has been met with resistance because of moral, ethical, or societal issues which apply to any type of agriculture. Should farms be local and family owned or run by corporations? Should any genetic change be applied to foods and crops? Can we trust politicians and other government officials to keep our food and crops safe?
Professional resisters such as those associated with the Maharishi cult, which Politico chose to elevate into 'science experts,' have a financial incentive, including support for business that monitor GMOs and non GMO foods, organic food companies or suppliers [see GLP's report on Seralini's conflicts of interest and his ties to the organic industry], sell dietary supplements for profit, or file lawsuits against companies and/or government agencies, and profit from their legal involvement in cases.
Political journalists like those at Politico have shown they can report on societal, and political divisions and issues. This subscription-only infographic sows doubts of their ability to report on scientific issues.
Andrew Porterfield is a writer and editor, and has worked with numerous academic institutions, companies and non-profits in the life sciences. BIO. Follow him on Twitter @AMPorterfield


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Ла-Фар-ан-Шансо́р (, ) — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Прованс — Альпы — Лазурный Берег. Департамент коммуны — Верхние Альпы. Входит в состав кантона Сен-Бонне-ан-Шансор. Округ коммуны — Гап.

Код INSEE коммуны — 05054.

Население
Население коммуны на 2008 год составляло 418 человек.

Экономика
В 2007 году среди 210 человек в трудоспособном возрасте (15—64 лет) 155 были экономически активными, 55 — неактивными (показатель активности — 73,8 %, в 1999 году было 75,3 %). Из 155 активных работали 138 человек (76 мужчин и 62 женщины), безработных было 17 (6 мужчин и 11 женщин). Среди 55 неактивных 11 человек были учениками или студентами, 26 — пенсионерами, 18 были неактивными по другим причинам.

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"I want to taste you."
The first couple of days after the snap were spent in a daze. Everyone who was left was steel reeling from their losses, unable to accept it was over. It was over and the Avengers had lost. Of all of them, she told herself that she'd lost the least. Never mind that she lost most of the only family she's ever known.
There was only so much one could compartmentalize before there was no room for anything else. She held herself together by a thread, stamping down her feelings, knowing that if she let herself crack at all, she would shatter. The Black Widow wouldn't shatter, no matter what Natasha Romanoff wanted to do.
This could be considered team-building, right?
Thor and Natasha mount a rescue of sorts while Tony and Nebula have an idea.
Forced into an arranged marriage with Prince Loki of Aysgarth, Tony knows that he is not the ideal husband to the son of a king, but he still hopes that he might find true love with his husband like the stories he loves to read of adventures and happily-ever-afters.
Prince Loki, however, does not wish to be married, and he makes this clear to Tony even after their vows have been said before the priest. Life is no better for Tony in Castle Aysgarth than it was back in Iron Reach - he is as unwanted by Loki as he was by his father.
But slowly, things change. There is a steadily growing affection between them, something that might, perhaps, grow into more and Tony can only hope his love for Loki might one day be returned.
But then an assassin strikes unexpectedly, pirates attack, and Tony very well might be living an adventure from one of his books, but it looks like happily-ever-after might be too much to hope for.
Bucky and Natasha didn't discuss their time in the Red Room. They didn't need to. Certain things were just off limits, and that was one of them.
Nobody questioned it. Nobody talked about it. So whenever Bucky and Natasha showed a united front about anything or, heaven forbid, said they both needed something, everyone listened. Because that's what teammates do.
Tony: Someone's h-h-hurting me...i-it hurts here...Captain...please...Dad said you were a type of savior. Please find me.
the one where your alpha or omega's name is written across the inside of your wrist until the day you meet.
The Avengers may be used to saving the world over and over again, but they're not used to what comes next.
What goes down when nobody's in danger? When the six find themselves dealing with unexpected situations that can't be solved by throwing a shield or firing an arrow at someone?
One-shot collection detailing the various romantic and platonic relationships between the Avengers.
T'Challa is unconsciously terrorized and terrified by his heat. His heat had always been a horrifying blind few days out of the year. He hadn't ever had a good heat before, and his father only made it worse. He would bend him over and roughly do things to him that T'Challa hated. It was so forced that he could barely breathe. He'd cry for days on end after a heat with his father. As T'Challa got older, it only got worse, and even past age twenty-three, T'Challa was still being ripped apart by his stubborn, insensitive father. Abuse, in general, came with the token of secret heats. That was another thing--no one could know. If T'Challa dare even speak about it, his body became a punching bag for T'Chaka. In the end, the only way to stop it was to kill T'Chaka. But T'Challa made the mistake of believing if the death was by his own bare hands the mental turmoil would end: it only magnified.
But T'Challa didn't have time to process it--it was kingdom, war, protect, treaty, Avengers. There was never time for him. When the Avengers drifted to Wakanda, leaving Bucky to spend his last moments in peace, T'Challa had to figure out the dying man, had to find out why he was dying, had to know how to stop it.
Much drinking and bad gambling. And a little romance.


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"Locker Room Talk" Is Not Just Talk
By Kristine Cherek • October 18, 2016•Writers in Residence, Careers, Issues, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, and Other Forms of Discrimination
As a former "big firm" attorney and the former General Counsel of a privately-held corporation, I built my career in a male-dominated world. Like many women of my 40-something generation I've experienced my share of sexism, bias, and exclusion. I got used to people assuming I was a secretary or paralegal just because I am female. I've been called sweetheart, girl, little lady, and a variety of other demeaning terms. I learned to ignore the occasional lewd joke or crass comment. I cringed when my colleagues referred to a young female intern as "the body" rather than by her name. And I was speechless when a very senior and powerful person suggested I wear skirts more often so he could "have something to look at." If you doubt that gender bias exists in the professional world, please let me know. For I have more examples I can share.
My experiences pale in comparison to the sexism, discrimination, and outright bias endured by women of prior generations. From the fight for women's suffrage in the early 1900s, to the battle for equal treatment and equal rights under the law throughout the 20th century, to the Mad Men era of blatant discrimination, the women who came before us forged a path on which we must now continue. To that end, I have spent the better part of the last year writing about my experiences and sharing my insights and advice with the hope that it provides some guidance, support, and inspiration for the young women of the next generation.
History teaches us that, with each generation that passes, the playing field becomes more and more level for women. With each generation the possibility for true gender equality becomes more attainable. That is, perhaps until now…
As I began writing this article news broke of a video in which a major party candidate for President of the United States was caught on camera boasting about sexually harassing and assaulting women. [1]. The video is not an isolated incident, unfortunately. It is a pattern of behavior. For many months we have witnessed the candidate making sexist comments to and about women ranging from news anchors to Presidential candidates to talk show hosts to beauty queens. But this video…this is something entirely different.
Before you dismiss this as partisan rhetoric, I assure you I am not a diehard liberal. I am not even a Democrat. But I can no longer sit by quietly and say nothing.
This is not about politics. It is not about one political party or even a particular candidate. It is about the movement that has grown within a segment of the electorate that reveals the hidden (or not so hidden) biases that exist within our society. In the days following the release of the now-infamous video, the collective reaction has been inconsistent. While many – including several prominent leaders within the candidate's own party – have condemned the video, many others have not. While influencers ranging from media personalities to professional athletes to movie stars have disavowed the offensive comments, others have described it as just harmless talk. It seems one cannot turn on a television without hearing some supporter dismiss the video as just "boys being boys." THAT is what this is about. It is about the hidden bias that existed within a segment of society all along, only to reveal itself in the wake of the video's release. It is about recognizing and admitting that hidden (or not so hidden) gender bias still exists today.
We cannot dismiss the video as "locker room talk" as we have been urged to do. For "locker room talk" is anything BUT just talk. It is not harmless. It is thought. It impacts those who hear it. It sends the message that powerful men can do whatever they want to women. It is action. It is an indication of one's true beliefs and thoughts. It exemplifies one's values. It is the demonstration of character. And it affects us all.
As best stated by First Lady Michelle Obama in a speech she delivered in the days following the release of the now-infamous video:
"It reminds us of stories we heard from our mothers and grandmothers about how, back in their day, the boss could say and do whatever he pleased to the women in the office, and even though they worked so hard, jumped over every hurdle to prove themselves, it was never enough. We thought all of that was ancient history, didn't we? And so many have worked for so many years to end this kind of violence and abuse and disrespect, but here we are in 2016 and we're hearing these exact same things every day...". [2].
I do not want to go back to the world of our mothers and grandmothers. I do not want to go back to a time in which the boss can say and do whatever he pleases to women. I do not want to return to an era in which I am not judged by my intellect or accomplishments, but by my gender. We, and the generations of women who came before us, have fought so hard to get to where we are today. Yet it feels like the clock is being turned back on us. On equality.
In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, thereby granting women the right to vote. Yet here we are, nearly 100 years later, still fighting to be viewed as equal. To be treated as equal. To BE equal. Women will never be equal in the professional world, the community, or in our personal lives if we live in a society in which at least some segment so clearly views us as inferior.
If we accept the "locker room talk" explanation, then what message are we sending to women? To little girls and boys? To society as a whole? What can I possibly do or say that could help the next generation of women if we live in a world that views us as less than equal? What advice could I share, what encouragement could I give, if I know that young women are entering a professional world in which they can never fairly compete?
If you doubt that "locker room talk" is a symptom of a larger problem I ask you to check your social media feeds. Right now. As I write this, #repealthe19th is trending on Twitter. The "19th" of course, refers to the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which granted women the right to vote. You read that correctly. News outlets are reporting that a faction of the candidate's supporters are advocating to repeal the 19th Amendment. [3]. At least some segment of society is rallying to take the right to vote away from women. If this alone does not signify that "locker room talk" is more than just talk, I don't know what else I can say.
This is not about politics. This is not about a particular candidate. It is not about Republicans vs. Democrats, nor about ideology. It is not about party platforms or policy positions. This is not a matter of national security, foreign policy, or the economy. Yet it just might be the most important issue on which we must decide this November.
This is about equality. Respect. Decency. Humanity. Moral character. It is about the centuries-long fight for gender equality and our obligation to ensure we do not go backward in time. This is about continuing the fight for ALL people to be treated with equal respect and dignity. This is about recognizing and admitting that gender bias still exists. And about combatting that bias. This is about having the courage to stand up for what is decent, what is moral, and what is right.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of any entity or organization with which the author currently is or has been affiliated.
To read the entire series, follow me on Instagram @kcherek and on Twitter @kristinecherek.
[1] The video is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY8FwWwIVyQ.
[2] First Lady Michelle Obama's speech is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ45VLgbe_E.
[3] Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy, "Trump Supporters Rally for Women to Lose the Right to Vote With #Repealthe19th." Yahoo, October 13, 2016, https://www.yahoo.com/style/why-repealthe19th-is-trending-171133471.html.