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Drawpile Sketches
Featuring SquishiSprite's Step the mouse
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Hi there! I’m learning Spanish and was wondering what are some common idioms or unique ones that a beginner would find useful? Thank you for all your efforts with this blog
Here are some very standard idioms that probably everyone should know:
llover a cántaros = "to rain cats and dogs"
[lit. "to rain by the pitcher"]
¿Quién te ha dado vela en este entierro? = "Who asked you?" / "This has nothing to do with you." / "No one asked for your opinion."
[lit. "Who gave you a candle in this burial?"]
Perro que ladra no muere. / Ladra pero no muere. = "All bark and no bite."
[lit. "a dog that barks doesn't bite"]
entre la espada y la pared = "between a rock and a hard place"
[lit. "between the sword and the wall"]
valer un ojo de la cara = "to cost an arm and a leg"
[lit. "to cost an eye from the face"]
la media naranja = "soulmate"
[lit. "half an orange"; some funny things will also show an orange sock because la media in some countries means "sock", so you might see jokes about finding your media naranja but with a sock]
el pez gordo = "the boss", "the big cheese"
[lit. "the fat fish"]
la flor y nata = "the best and brightest"
[lit. "the flower and cream"]
pan comido = "easy as pie/cake"
[lit. "eaten bread"]
estar en paz = "to be even", to not be in debt
[lit. "to be at peace"]
ser un sol = to be a delight, to be very nice
[lit. "to be a sun"; I was also told that you can also make it even nicer as ser un sol de primavera "to be a spring sun"]
de brazos cruzados = "without doing anything", "just standing around doing nothing", "sitting back, doing nothing"
[lit. "with arms crossed"; it generally gets used when someone could do something or could help, but they're doing nothing... it's often used as quedarse de brazos cruzados which is literally "to remain with arms crossed" or "to sit back and do nothing"]
dar en el clavo = "to hit the nail on the head"
[lit. "to strike on the nail"]
valer la pena = "to be worth the effort"
[lit. "to be worth the sorrow/pain"]
meter la pata = "to screw up", "to mess up"
[lit. "to stick one's foot (in something)"]
la gota que colmó el vaso = "the straw that broke the camel's back"
[lit. "the drop that overflowed the glass"]
el príncipe azul = "knight in shining armor"
[lit. "blue prince"]
tomar el pelo = "to pull someone's leg", "to tease someone"
[lit. "to take/grab the hair"]
con las manos en la masa = "red-handed", "with (someone's) hands in the cookie jar"
[lit. "with hands in the dough"]
más a gusto que un arbusto = "happy as a clam"
[lit. "more in their pleasure than a shrub"; can also be "snug as a bug in a rug"]
al pie de la letra = "to a T", "to the letter", "exactly"
[lit. "to the foot of the letter"]
de pies a cabeza = "head to toe", "through and through"
[lit. "from feet to head"]
ahogarse en un vaso de agua = "to make a mountain out of a molehill", to worry about things that don't matter
[lit. "to drown in a glass of water"]
I would also add this one which is more slang than anything, but it's very common in many countries to refer to money as (la) plata which is literally "silver". The other one is (la) lana which is "wool"
So, instead of (el) dinero you can sometimes hear people calling "money" or "cash", plata or lana depending on the country. Of course there are other terms, but these are probably the most recognizable ones
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Just tried to draw in a different style…I guess
Characters that are here: @1hazelnut1 @manikro-cat @cosmotiger-kiara Nata and mine
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Omega Radio for March 28, 2015; #80.
Eternal Summers “Together Or Alone”
Le Volume Courbe feat. Kevin Shields “The House”
DMA’s “Laced”
Brain F≠ “Sicks”
Thee Mighty Fevers “Sunday Breakdown”
Heavy Times “Denim Girls”
Reigning Sound “Your Love Is A Fine Thing”
BI “Surf ‘N Turf”
Notekillers “Punk Song”
Psycho Surgeons “Wild Weekend”
Spider Bags “Friday Night”
Catholic Spray “Black Cat”
Exhaustion “Pure Duty”
Joint Damage “Hooked”
Avey Tare “Tape Player Chants For Winter”
Users, The “Kicks In Style”
Lightning Bolt “The Metal East”
Tropic Of Cancer “Distorted Horizon”
Bremen “Entering Phase Two”
Fidlar “Whore”
Lync “Pennies To Save”
Thee Oh Sees “Soda St. #1”
Anthroprophh & Big Naturals “SRR”
Freshkills “Why Are You So Unforgiving?”
Henry’s Dress “Hey Allison”
Man…Or Astro-Man? “Clean Up On Aisle #9 (Turn Up The Monitors)”
Parquet Courts “Donuts Only”
Radical Dads “Flight to NZ”
XO Skeletons “Asthmagasm”
White Mystery “San Francisco Dream”
Spectres “Mirror”
Galaxie 500 “Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste”
Japanther “Divorce”
Lipstick Pick-Ups “Sealed With A Kiss”
No Joy “Wrack Attack”
Personal Best “This Time Next Year”
Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes”
Saints “Demolition Girl”
Japandroids “Heavenward Grand Prix”
Viet Cong “Throw It All Away”
Young Prisms “Dead Flowers”
Erase Errata “Another Genius Idea From Our Government”
Axxa/Abraxas “Late Night, Shifting Light”
Unwound “Usual Dosage”
Ride “Vapour Trail”
Hospitals “Rich People”
Team Dresch “#1 Chance Pirate TV”
Big Naturals & The Heads “You Are Rust: Undoing Of The Circle”
Predator “No”
Asian Women On The Telephone “Spaceman”
Together PANGEA “River”
Single Mothers “Nice Dresses”
Paint Fumes “Sevol Natas”
Breather Resist “X’s And Y’s”
Metz “Acetate”
Carbonas “September Gurls”
Veda Rays, The “Wait For Teeth To Show”
Destruction Unit “Day Of Your Death”
Spectres “Sky Of All Places”
This Will Destroy You “New Topia”
Oblivians “Bad Man”
Cribs, The “Arena Rock Encore With Full Cast”
Explosions In The Sky “Let Me Back In”
Godspeed You Black Emperor! “Piss Crowns Are Trebled”
Lightning Bolt “Snow White (& The Seven Dwarves Fans)“
Double deluxe five-hour broadcast; garage, psych-, indie, and punk.
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A quick list of (free) yarn patterns
Trying to gather stuff to make for the craft fair, or at least plush patterns to try. I am aiming for knits, as crochet hurts my hands a bit more; seems like most of 'em are crochet, though.
Anything I've already tried, I'll mark in bold. And these are just links to @agalmacoppelia posts, so you gotta click through to get to the patterns themselves.
Of the projects in this image, I'm only willing to make another bikini cat, aka Cat Days of Summer by Gabrielle Ryan
I can't upload the individual pic of that cat, so you get a group shot.
non-plush
c - DIY Pretty Coasters by Maize Hutton
c - Lemon Crochet purse by spookydonuts
k - Baker Street Scarf on knitty
k - Hespera cowl - on knitty
misc plush
k - Grumpasaurus by JustCraftyEnough
c - baby dragon by Rainbow Reverie
c - Amigurumi mouse cat toy by Lion Brand Yarn
c - Teeny Tiny Lobsters pattern by Maggie Menzel
c - DIY Little Snails by Natas Nest
plush cats
c - Cat Days of Summer by Gabrielle Ryan
c - Three Fat Cats by Sara Lyons
k - Cat knitting pattern by Natural Suburbia
c - Sleepy Kitty draft dodger by Lion Brand Yarn
c - Amigurumi cat (rectangle) by Lion Brand Yarn
k - Parlor Cat Pattern by Sara Elizabeth Kellner
plush owls/birds
c - Austin Owl Amigurumi by Allison Hoffman
c - cute amigurumi owl by fukuroucrafts
c - Mr. Murasaki owl by Craft Passion
k - Autumn Wreath, owl - by Lion Brand Yarn
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There were def more in the archive. Some of the owls looked derpy. Others looked too complex for the task. There were some stitch motifs and patterns that would make for nice (non-hooded) cowls or scarves. Didn't mark those, though.
I've already talked plenty about the scarf and cowl. They're such good patterns, and I really love wearing the cowl.
Regarding the crocheted lemon purse, I want to adapt that motif to make coasters. If I get ~fancy~, I'd make a little coin purse out of 'em, complete with zipper. There's a watermelon slice version, btw. Could probably poke a hole with scissors, rather than using that specialized too.
I have already made (or partially made) multiple cat-toy mice. It's such a great pattern; very small and quick. Bikini cat is another fav, though I haven't made new ones yet. No buttons on those, though. Just embroidered faces.
As for the other bolded patterns, I am only willing to subject myself to the mini lobsters. Solely because I'm in Maine, and lobsters are A Thing (TM). The snails weren't that much fun, but neither were the lobsters. Grumpasaurus is cute, but I still haven't finished sewing mine together, and he's been "done" for years. (Might need to knit the tail still, but the limbs are done.)
I also have this long-legged cat thing I've made. Here's how he looked while still in-progress, in 2014. He needs a face, still.
So yeah, that's all I've got for now.
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Mariupol was almost completely destroyed during the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine. While the city took artillery fire, many residents, including a number of children, hid in the Priazovskyi State Technical University. The kids sheltering there wrote messages on the building’s walls. After Russian troops captured Mariupol, construction workers from Russia entered the city. Among them was Alexey, a native of Mykolaiv, who left Ukraine for Bashkortostan, in Russia, in 2014. He found the messages left by children hiding from shelling on the basement walls of Priazovskyi University. Journalists from news outlet The Village published photos of the children’s words and drawings. With The Village’s permission, Meduza is sharing photos and English translations of the words left by children hiding in a basement from Russian bombs.
I’m hiding out from war.
Hi, I’m Nata, it’s March 19, 2022. The 24th day of war. I’m from the east myself, on February 24 they shelled us and we fled our home. This story will end and leave only memories, fear, and blood. Everything will work out. If anything happens, here’s my Instagram [redacted], you can check and see if I’m among the living, write to me if you see this.
Hi, I’m Elya, I’m nine and a half. I’m hiding from the war, I live on the eastern bank. I’m leaving here today. I’m glad you’re reading this text. Live, little bunny.
This is just a little cat.
Dina, 16, Marik [Nickname for Mariupol]
Leningradsky district on the eastern bank
Hoping we survive
Rostik [age 11] March 19, 2022, 24th day of war
Hi, it’s me again, Nata. We settled down in this corner, slept on chairs, cooked over a fire. Today is March 19, 2022, we’re finally planning to leave tomorrow. There’s no light, water, or other comforts here. We’ve been hiding in the basement for 24 days, basically. Shelling and missiles haunt us everywhere. PGTU [the university] took six direct hits. Mariupol is a ruin, a specter. It’ll be very interesting to see how this ends, whether there will be a Ukraine. I’m tired of waking up to explosions and [missiles] screaming overhead. There’s no glass [in the windows] anywhere, and it’s super cold outside.
I’m 17, I was planning to enroll in medical school, everyone sitting here had many plans and goals. But, unfortunately, no one needs us. No one was even planning to officially evacuate us, we’re on our own, at our own peril and risk. Of course it’s really boring here, but I made friends with Dina. I only want one thing — peace! I really hope that where we’re going, we’ll find a home and build a life.
Important: Today is March 25, 2022. Tomorrow, we’re going to Manhush. It’s 25 kilometers away [15 miles], we’re going as a group. We’re going to wake up at 5:00 am. Wish us luck…bye!
It’s too bad that you won’t see any more news from me, but don’t be upset!
If there are no more messages, we got out!
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By: Gregory Brown
Published: Sep 1, 2023
About the Author
Dr. Greg Brown is a professor of Exercise Science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney where he also serves as the Director of the LOPERs General Studies program. His primary teaching responsibilities are undergraduate and graduate courses in Exercise Physiology, but he has also taught courses in Introductory Anatomy & Physiology, Sports Nutrition, Research Methods, and Professional Development in Exercise Science. His research has evaluated the effects of nutritional supplements on the physiological response to exercise, the physiological responses to various types of exercise, effective teaching in the exercise science program, and sex-based differences in sports performance. He has authored or co-authored over 50 peer reviewed publications and serves as a peer-reviewer for over two dozen academic journals. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and the Association of American Educators (AAE).
He and his wife (Amber) have two adult sons and one daughter-in-law. Sadly, both their cat and dog passed away in the past year. His hobbies include running, hunting, fishing, studying history, and watching movies.
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In the current battle over women’s and girls’ rights to female-only sports, a commonly heard mantra is that there are no sex-based differences in sports performance before puberty. Those who make this claim often contend that if a male is put on puberty blockers before age 12 (or Tanner development stage 2; whichever comes first), he can compete fairly in the female category. But is this really true?Are there really no differences in athletic performance between boys and girls before the onset of puberty? Do puberty blockers administered to children really erase male sex-based athletic advantages? Below, I’ll try to provide answers to these questions.
Like many things currently being put forth in public discourse as settled science, the presence or absence of sex-based athletic differences before puberty is not an open and shut case. There are few databases of records for children’s competitive sports performance and there has been limited scholarly research evaluating sex-based differences in competitive sports performance before puberty. Currently, there are no consensus statements from professional organizations such as the North American Society for Pediatric Exercise Medicine (NASPEM), the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA), the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), or the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) stating that there are, or are not, sex-based differences in athletic performance before puberty.
Below, I will cover the main reasons our data on pre-pubertal sex differences in athletic performance is relatively poor, and draw some preliminary conclusions based on the data we do have that indicates such differences are actually quite significant.
Lack of Records
One challenge that arises when trying to determine whether there are sex-based differences in athletic performance before puberty is the limited availability of records documenting competitive athletic performance in children. For adults participating at the Olympic and collegiate levels, meticulous record-keeping is the norm, and these records are readily accessible online. A simple internet search yields numerous listings of Olympic and collegiate records spanning various sports such as swimming, track and field, cross country, bicycling, and more.
Similarly, records for sports in secondary schools are also carefully maintained. In the United States, it is fairly easy to obtain the results of the most recent state high school track championship from news sources and on the state scholastic athletic association websites. Most secondary schools additionally showcase records for track and field, cross country, and other sports. The abundant availability of records in the Olympic, college, and secondary school arena makes it very easy to compare male and female athletes competing in the same events at the same level of competition. Such comparisons vividly illustrate that once puberty sets in, males outperform females by 10-30 percent (depending on the sport and event).
However, most sports involving pre-pubertal children operate outside the jurisdiction of state scholastic athletic association or even the local primary school. Instead, these activities are typically organized by local clubs or community recreation departments. Children’s sports often prioritize recreation and skill development over competitiveness. As a result, records pertaining to race times, throwing distances, weightlifting achievements, or other athletic benchmarks for children are not as meticulously maintained or as readily accessible as records for high school, college, or Olympic sports. Some have interpreted the lack of records for children’s sport as an indication that any sex-based differences in athletic performance before puberty are negligible or insignificant.
Lack of Scholarly Attention
Adding to the challenge of limited records detailing competitive athletic performance before puberty is the constrained number of available scientific evaluations. For example, Handelsman [1] analyzed publicly accessible data on swimming, running, and jumping in children and adolescents. Although his data clearly illustrate that boys aged 10 and under run faster, swim faster, and jump farther than girls of comparable age, he published these findings in 2017 in a paper titled “Sex differences in athletic performance emerge coinciding with the onset of male puberty.”
In 2019 Senefeld et al. [2] drew upon data from USA Swimming and found that, before age 10, the top 5 girls swam faster than the top 5 boys. However, no disparities in swimming performance were observed between the 10th-50th ranked girls and boys. Additionally, in 2020, Huebner and Perperoglou [3] reported that there were no sex-based differences in competitive weightlifting performance before age 10. To my knowledge, these studies represent the only scholarly examinations of competitive performance in children before puberty.
Taken together, the scarcity of sports records for pre-pubertal children and the limited scholarly output on children’s competitive performance has led some to conclude that there are no differences in athletic performance between boys and girls before puberty. Some have even gone so far as to erroneously asserting that a broad consensus exists regarding the absence of sex-based differences in athletic performance before this developmental stage. However, this does not appear to be true, and in the sections below I will present information that demonstrates the existence of sex-based differences in athletic performance before puberty.
School Based Fitness Testing
In contrast to the limited records available for sports performance and the scarcity of scholarly evaluations regarding children’s competitive sports performance, there exists a plethora of scholarly evaluations focused on school-based physical fitness testing in children as young as six years old. Various tests, such as the Presidential Fitness Test, FitnessGram, Eurofit Fitness Test Battery, and other school-based physical fitness assessments, consistently show that boys tend to outperform girls of the same age in tests measuring muscular strength, muscular endurance, running speed, aerobic fitness, ball throwing, and kicking distance. On the other hand, girls tend to perform better than boys in tests assessing flexibility.
A small sampling of publications evaluating school-based physical fitness testing includes a longitudinal evaluation of 240 German boys and girls aged 9-12 years [4], an analysis of 85,347 fitness test results among Australian boys and girls aged 9-17 years [5], an evaluation of 424,328 Greek boys and girls aged 6-18 years [6], a study examining 1,142,026 performances in a 20-meter shuttle run among boys and girls aged 9-17 year from 50 countries [7], and an assessment of 2,779,165 Eurofit performances among boys and girls aged 9-17 year from 30 countries [8].
Collectively, these studies (along with many others not listed here) indicate a consistent pattern: before puberty, boys tend to outperform girls of the same age in tests measuring muscular strength, muscular endurance, running speed, aerobic fitness, ball throwing, and kicking distance. Conversely, girls typically exhibit better performance in tests focused on flexibility. While physical fitness tests do not always accurately predict success in competitive sports, physical fitness is often a prerequisite for success in sports.
Sports Records
USA Track and Field (USATF) sanctions youth track and field meets in most states, including regional and national championship events. The youngest age categories in USATF are the 8-and-under and the 9-10-year-old age groups, both of which can reasonably be assumed to represent pre-pubertal athletes. Upon evaluating the performances at the USATF state-level Junior Olympics, it becomes apparent that boys frequently jump and throw farther, and run faster than comparably aged girls.
For instance, if we examine the race times for the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m races, along with the distances achieved in shot put, javelin, and long jump events in the 2023 USATF Nebraska Association Junior Olympics [9], for both boys and girls in the 8-and-under age group, we find that no girl would have outperformed a boy to secure the gold, silver, or bronze medals in any of these events. For the same events in the 9-10-year-old age group, only one girl would have secured a gold medal (out of a possible 8), while two girls would have clinched silver medals (out of 8), and another two girls would have won bronze medals (out of 8). Of course, one could reasonably argue that data from a single youth track meet in Nebraska may not be representative data for pre-pubertal athletic performance as a whole.
So, if we make the same comparison in the same events (100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m races, and the distances for shot put, javelin, and long jump) in the 2023 USATF Arizona Association Junior Olympics [10], we observe that girls in the 8-and-under age group would have secured zero gold medals, one silver medal, and two bronze medals. In the 9-10-year-old category, a girl would have tied with a boy for a single gold medal, and three girls would have taken home bronze medals. Yet, once again, one could reasonably argue that the combined data from track meets in Nebraska and Arizona may not accurately represent the broader spectrum of pre-pubertal athletic performance.
So, if we make the same comparison for the same events (100m, 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m races, and the distances for shot put, javelin, and long jump) at the 2023 USATF National Youth Outdoor Championships [11]—an event that includes athletes from many different states—we discover that girls in the 8-and-under age group would have won two gold medals (out of 8), three silver medals (out of 8), and no bronze medals. Girls in the 9-10-year-old age group would have won a single gold medal, two silver medals, and two bronze medals. Collectively, looking at these three track meets, placing side by side the race times for the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m races, as well as the distances for shot put, javelin, and long jump for boys and girls in the 8-and-under and 9-10-year-old age groups, it’s clear that if girls were to compete against boys, they would have secured only 23 out of 144 medals. Within this tally, girls would have received only five out of 48 gold medals.
Of course, one could reasonably argue that the examples above represent only a single year and only three specific track meets. However, if we evaluate the overall youth records for the best performances in running, throwing, and jumping from USATF [12], the USATF National Junior Olympics [13], and the School Sport Australia Track & Field Championships [14], they collectively indicate that boys aged 10 and under outperform girls of the same age across all recorded events. On average, boys outperform girls by 3 percent in running, 9 percent in jumping, and 16 percent in throwing events. Similarly, records for boys aged 10 and under in USA Swimming show faster times than girls' records in 18 out of 22 events [15].
While examining medal counts at specific track meets offers valuable, albeit somewhat anecdotal, insights into performance differences between boys and girls before puberty, these counts do not qualify as a rigorous scientific evaluation. Though scholars often use evaluations of overall records for best performances to showcase sex-based differences in adult athletic performance, disparities in pre-pubertal children’s performance are frequently dismissed as being too small to be meaningful. Moreover, the overall youth records from USATF have not been updated since 2018, the records from the USATF National Junior Olympics have not been updated since 2019, and the School Sport Australia Track & Field Championship records have not seen updates since 2016. It’s unclear why these records have not been updated, but it does raise some questions about the accuracy of these records.
Nonetheless, by considering scholarly assessments of school-based fitness test data, several youth track meets, track and field best performance records, and swimming best performance records, it certainly seems like there is an emerging pattern of pre-pubertal male sex-based athletic advantages.
Scholarly Evidence for Sex-Based Sports Differences Before Puberty
Some colleagues and I have recently presented an assessment of sex-based differences in athletic performance before puberty at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine [16]. Drawing upon a national database of track and field performance (athletic.net) and evaluating the top 10 performances for boys and girls in the 8-and-under and 9-10-year-old age groups over a 5-year period, we observed consistent trends. Boys consistently (and statistically) ran almost 5 percent faster, long jumped 6 percent farther, threw the shot put 20 percent farther, and threw the javelin 40 percent farther than girls of the same age. At the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, a separate team of researchers from a different university used the same database, albeit with slightly different evaluation methods, and came to similar conclusions regarding the pre-pubertal advantages of male athletes [17].
In light of these findings, it is reasonable to conclude that male athletes indeed possess advantages in sports performance before reaching puberty. This conclusion is founded on extensive scholarly evaluations of fitness tests in schools, data gleaned from youth track meets and records, as well as youth swimming records for best performances. My personal analysis of the top 10 national track and field performances for boys and girls within the 8-and-under and 9-10-year-old age groups across a 5-year period supports this, further corroborated by similar outcomes from another team of researchers. Admittedly, the sex-based disparities before puberty are less pronounced than after puberty, but they exhibit a consistent pattern that yields a statistically significant difference favoring male athletes.
What about Puberty Blockers?
Whether there are, or are not, sex-based differences in athletic performance before puberty still leaves questions about how puberty blockers affect athletic performance. The truth is, we don’t have enough information to answer questions about how puberty blockers affect athletic performance. There are no published studies evaluating the effects of puberty blockers on muscle strength, muscle endurance, running speed, aerobic fitness, as well as throwing or kicking distance in children, whether in school or laboratory settings. Similarly, there is no research on how puberty blockers might impact performance in competitive sports. Limited studies have touched upon the effects of puberty blockers on body composition and height.
Two long-term studies investigating the impact of puberty blockers on body composition and height indicate that the sex-based differences in lean body mass [18] and height [19] persist even after 2 years on puberty blockers followed by an additional 6 years of so-called “gender-affirming hormone therapy.” It is undeniable that male advantages in lean body mass and body height translate to athletic advantages as adults. It’s reasonable to assume that these advantages also extend to athletic performance among children and adolescents. The sex-based differences in performance in children may be smaller than in adults, but small differences can mean the difference between a gold medal and no medal in sports.
Conclusion
Readers of Reality’s Last Stand will be familiar with the important sex-based differences between males and females. These differences begin at conception and continue throughout one’s life. Sex-based anatomical and physiological differences confer inherent athletic advantages to males when compared to females of the same age, possessing similar talents and undergoing similar training, across all age groups, even before puberty. Having a transgender identity, with or without the use of cross-sex hormones, does not eliminate sex-based differences in anatomy and physiology, nor does it erase sex-based differences in athletic performance.
It is my opinion that, in order to maintain a level playing field for female athletic competition, transgender identified males (i.e., “transgirls” and “transwomen”) should not be allowed to participate in the female sports category before or after puberty even when puberty blockers are used.
#Greg Brown#sports#female sports#male sports#womens sports#girls sports#mens sports#boys sports#athletics#female athletes#male athletes#cheating#sex based differences#sex differences#anatomy#physiology#athletic performance#gender ideology#queer theory#gender identity ideology#genderwang#gender identity#puberty#puberty blockers#religion is a mental illness
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the friend group dynamic is simple
i like cats, andrey likes ducks, nata likes sheep and kris likes beam attacks
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It's Portugal Day
#art#pantufa the cat#pantufa#cat#drawpile#portugal#portugal day#francesinha#tremoços#bolinhos de bacalhau#pastel de nata
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my blog is turning into a jeno fanpage and i'm not even the slightest bit ashamed about it 😽
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sitting in the garden with the cat, bubble tea, a pastel de nata and a trashy yet super engaging romance book. if you ignore the fact that my emotions are 99% thesis stress, life is pretty okay
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Random thoughts about my two-days-and-a-half Milan trip
Public transport: the best thing ever invented? I think so
(Trenord not included. Public transport should be public get those greedy private businesses away from it) (the trains were good bc Milan is rich but god the prices were excessive)
I had breakfast in a small place that made coffee and pasteis de nata and they were respectively the best coffee and the best desserts i ever had
The hotel I stayed in had a cat!!! Her name was Minou, she was completely white and didn't trust me at all
Traveling is expensive 🥲 I was lucky to have a Lidl and an Esselunga nearby but I still spent a lot - even though the most expensive place I ate in was the airport's Burger King...
I didn't envy people who live in Milan until I entered a (small-ish, peripheral) Libraccio bookshop. So many great books of fantastic smaller publishers front and center 🥲 the kind of books I have to look for and order bc my local bookshops need to put front and center the kind of mass-appeal books I don't really care about but let the shops survive 🥲
I didn't buy anything at Libraccio but then I entered an indie bookshop with a super nice bookseller and I ended up spending 35€ 😶🌫️ (one of the main reasons I didn't have much money left in my budget at the end of the trip)
The heatwave was bad but at home it was worse temperature wise and I've been through worse heatwaves, so it wasn't unbearable for me. Milan is less warm than Sardinia, the sun doesn't hit as hard and it's often covered, but on the other hand the air is heavier and less breathable (bc of geography and air pollution and the way they interact)
The festival's organization not letting people bring water bottles for a 6h+ long show during a heatwave then selling water inside for 3€/bottle should have been tried in the Hague, but they narrowly avoided it by distributing free water bottles after a couple hours (not enough for everyone though)
A shooting star fell while Florence sang Cosmic Love. I had no idea it happened until the next day when I saw the video
I did see the double rainbow before her set though :)
When I got back home my cat looked at me as if she'd seen a ghost. I was away for less than 3 days and she already thought i was dead 💀 she's now accepted that I'm back and is sleeping on a chair next to me right now
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@gardenenbloom replied to your post “There's a cat that is not my cat in my sink. Good...”:
Good morning Valera, good morning Sink Cat.
Good morning Nata, did you sleep well?
Sink cat stretched and then went back to sleep, so they certainly did.
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Cole Brauer
Chi naviga in solitario deve essere in grado di fare tutto, anche se si è esausti. Il mio obiettivo è sempre stato quello di essere la prima donna americana a regatare intorno al mondo. Spero di aver dimostrato che questo sport e questa comunità, dominati essenzialmente da uomini, possono diventare più aperti e meno ‘tradizionali”.
Cole Brauer è stata la prima statunitense a completare il giro del mondo in solitaria in barca a vela.
Una spedizione durata 130 giorni nell’ambito della Global Solo Challenge, difficile gara di 26.000 miglia nautiche iniziata ad ottobre 2023 al largo della costa di La Coruña, nella Spagna nord-occidentale. Un viaggio che l’ha portata dalla costa occidentale dell’Africa all’Oceano Antartico, raggiungendo il Pacifico e il punto più a sud dell’America Latina, prima di fare ritorno proprio nella penisola iberica.
Ha documentato il suo viaggio a bordo della First Light, monoscafo a vela di 40 piedi capace di ospitare un equipaggio di massimo due persone – con i suoi 459.000 follower su Instagram, che ne hanno seguito in diretta anche l’atteso arrivo al traguardo.
La prima donna che aveva circumnavigato il mondo in solitaria, però, era stata Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz, skipper polacca che ha percorso 31.166 miglia nautiche tra il 1976 e il 1978.
Velista poliedrica, Cole Brauer, nella sua carriera sportiva ha spaziato dalla vela offshore a quella inshore.
Nata il 24 marzo 1994, è cresciuta a Long Island. La passione per la vela è iniziata all’Università delle Hawaii, mentre studiava scienze della nutrizione. Ha iniziato a gareggiare per la squadra del college, diventandone presto la capitana della squadra.
Dopo la laurea si è trasferita nel Maine, dove ha iniziato a insegnare vela al Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club e a fare transfer per consegnare barche sulla costa atlantica. Nel 2018 ha conseguito la licenza di capitana da imbarcazioni di 100 tonnellate.
Nel giugno 2023, con la sua co-skipper, Cat Chimney, ha vinto entrambe le tappe della regata Bermuda One-Two di 668 miglia nautiche da Rhode Island alle Bermuda e ritorno, nessuna donna l’aveva fatto in precedenza.
Nella Global Solo Challenge 2023-2024, conclusasi il 7 marzo 2024, si è classificata seconda stabilendo un nuovo record di velocità intorno al mondo per barche da 40 piedi.
Aveva iniziato la gara il 29 ottobre 2023, era l’unica donna e la più giovane tra i sedici concorrenti.
Nel lungo periodo trascorso da sola in barca, si è ferita a una costola, ha sofferto di disidratazione e si è somministrata liquidi per via endovenosa. È riuscita a connettersi a internet tramite satellite e ha pubblicato sui social media i suoi progressi, diventando così un fenomeno del web.
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È morta Cat Janice, i diritti della sua ultima canzone al figlio di 7 anni
Si è spenta a soli 31 anni, per un sarcoma, la cantautrice Cat Janice. Una morte precoce, per una vita e una carriera consumate in un arco tanto luminoso quanto breve.
Nata Catherine Janice Ipsan nel 1993 in Virginia, a soli 6 anni Cat impara a suonare il piano e il violino, per poi iniziare a scrivere musica a 12 e a produrre i propri brani poco dopo. Il suo primo album ufficiale è del 2014, il…
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