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Good Value Cats
It's a fact that some cats are better value than others. I have an opinion that most cats are good value cats and only a very few are a waste of time, money, and space. This opinion is disagreed with by some of my friends, but people do have differences of opinion on some things, you know.
Good value cats, or "Good value-for-money" cats, are cats which are members of the family, are fond of people, do cute things, can be stroked / picked up, etc. Some good value cats actually think they are people, and they have a sense of internal morality such that if they accidentally thith at people they feel upset and ashamed to think they have done such a heinous thing.
Poor value cats are basically feral cats that take advantage of the free food that humans (who think they "own" them) are daft enough to feed them with. They don't feel any sympathy with the people and don't have much contact with them. They scratch the furniture, poo on the carpet, and the cats aren't well behaved either!
Is it just luck that you may have a good value cat or a bad value cat? No. It's to do with how the cat was brought up, and also how you interact with the cat. I'll talk about these things separately, as you can only do things about the present time and future, and not change the past.
* A good value cat is typically brought up well in a good home. The mother cat is typically also a good value cat, but crucially the kittens are brought up to get to like people from an early age. If treated well by humans initially, the kittens grow up to be good value cats that are fond of people. If you want to own a good value cat, you should seek people who have an active female cat with a good home, and ask them if they can provide you with one of her offspring at some time.
* A cat of any type, regardless of their initial fortunes in early life, can be made better value than otherwise, by good nurture. You may have to tame the cat yourself, but if you interact with the cat and treat it well, the cat may get to regard you as a friend rather than just someone who provides food and shelter from the filthy weather.
It's important to appreciate the quality of good value cats, and to encourage the evolution of cat-kind into being even better value. Even if you can't breed from your own cat, as most (but not all) good-value cats are of the "neutered" type, you can be a connoisseur of good value-for-money cats and you can make a note of the locations of any that are producing kittens. Good value pregnant cats are especially worth looking out for. The key feature is that kittens born of good cats into good homes tend to grow up to become good value cats!
Even if you see verminous pseudo-feral cats at large going around reducing the reputation of cats generally, this doesn't change the fact that there are good value cats.
Also see Cats , Cat Valency , Cat Table , and Pictures of Cats


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If you are a filmmaker or aspiring, you've probably received a variety of advice such as taking a class, networking, finding authentic stories, overcoming fear and rejection, etc. But how often have you been advised to take care of yourself, particularly when your film covers a dire topic? Heidi Yewman, the director and producer of the debut feature documentary, Behind the Bullet, believes the emotional well-being of the filmmaker is not discussed enough in the industry. Yewman found herself emotional during the making of her film, which profiles four individuals who divulge the impact that shooting someone has had on them.
"When I'm interviewing somebody, and I found this true when I was interviewing for the book as well, you're taking on a lot of energy, and you're seeing this trauma being told to you, and you can't help but take on that energy," the Columbine graduate told So Booking Cool. "And so, I found coping mechanisms throughout the process of like 'if I just take on this energy and this sadness, and it just stays with me, it's going to crush me.' And so, when I would get done with an interview, I would go in my car, drive away a few blocks, and then just cry."
Behind the Bullet, the film, which was released just last month has garnered praise from Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter, and was officially selected by five festivals including the 2019 Slamdance Festival (Utah); Cinequest: Film & Creativity Festival (California); and the upcoming Dumbo Film Festival (New York). The documentary started as a book that Yewman wrote in 2009, titled Beyond the Bullet: Personal Stories of Gun Violence Aftermath (DASH Consulting, INC.) but it is quite different from the film.
"The book is a series of nineteen stories of people who have been impacted by gun violence," Yewman said. "So it's people who either lost a loved one to gun violence or they had been shot and survived, and they tell their story in their own words. I was really interested in this topic and it became apparent that I wanted to know what happens to you when you're on the other side of the gun and you shoot somebody. How does that impact you? That's the question I was trying to answer with the book."
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Winter in Lofoten
Oricât de dur ar fi anotimpul rece, pe toți ne fascinează peisajele de iarnă. Zăpadă proaspătă, versanți semeți și o cabană cochetă de munte. Toate astea sunt în mintea noastră, când se apropie sărbătorile de iarnă. Da… căldura asta ne face și pe noi nostalgici. După ceva rece. Singurul lucru care nu ne lasă rece este clipul de astăzi, filmat în una dintre cele mai frumoase regiuni norvegiene. La pachet cu aurora boreală. Răcoreală plăcută!
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The sun rises and covers the landscape in a soft pink light. The rugged cliffs cast a long shadow. Winter has the island under control. The snowy mountains tower above the frozen fjords. The streets are empty and just a few tourists are en route. The sun is shining. The turquoise water is glittering in the sun. The day is marked by unpredictable weather changes. Quick rages the snow and the sea is stirred up by the storm. The fishing boats cross the rough sea to catch some codfish, while the already gutted fish hanging to dry on the stockfish racks and wrap the island into a fishy smell. In the evening the island comes to rest. The fishing boats return to the port. The small towns, with the famous red Rorbuers are brightly lit and tranquility settles in. The sun sets and the sky turns into a dark blue. As night falls in Lofoten, the sky comes to life and you will experience an exceptional spectacle of nature that is hard to put into words. The Northern Lights flicker across the sky and cover the landscape in a green light. For hours they dance in the sky before the sun finds its way over the horizon. A new winter day starts in Lofoten.
In March this year I spent a week in Lofoten. I knew the islands already from a previous visit in the summer, however, I wanted to go on Aurora hunting this time. The weather and solar activity play a decisive role, so that a reliable forecast isn't possible. Everything was more than uncertain and the unpredictable weather changes were the biggest challenge but I was lucky during my visit. In addition to the breathtaking scenery, I was able to experience one of the most impressive natural phenomena.
Thanks Lofoten, I'll be back!
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This Israeli online campaign for the New York backpack brand "Yak Pak" is pretty creative yet controversial, since it touches a raw Israeli nerve – terrorism.
The video, which went viral earlier this month, features a bunch of teenagers who place cans of graffiti paint in a backpack and then leave it unattended at a bus station. Since Israel is the capital of "see something, say something," it is only a few minutes before the bomb squad shows up. Say what you want, but when that "Short Circuit" bomb robot (I always wanted to control one of those) activates the controlled explosion of tons of paint, it actually looks pretty awesome.
The youtube info says that the entire video, including the police part, is completely fake, though that didn't stop them from getting some internet hate over Facebook.
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Twenty-two Bitcoin companies received a letter from New York's top banking regulator to determine whether they respect the current financial regulatory guidelines. More importantly, the authority wants to create a new set of rules to make sure that bitcoins are not used for illegal activities.
"We have also seen instances where the cloak of anonymity provided by virtual currencies has helped support dangerous criminal activity, such as drug smuggling, money laundering, gun running, and child pornography," Financial Services superintendent Benjamin M. Lawsky said in a statement. "Taking steps to root out illegal activity is both a legal and business imperative for virtual currency firms," he added later in the statement.
Companies include Bitcoin startups Coinbase and BitPay, as well as major Bitcoin investors such as Winklevoss Capital Management, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Founders Fund and Union Square Ventures. They will have to show what they are currently doing to prevent money laundering, to protect customers and more generally where the money is coming from and why they care about Bitcoin.
A federal judge already declared that Bitcoin is indeed a currency and should therefore follow the same regulation guidelines as any currency. The original appeal of Bitcoin was that there was no central bank, but financial authorities now want to tax its transactions. Finally, as a result of today's news, Bitcoin companies will have to register as money transmitters in the state of New York.
With Federal Services overseeing Bitcoin companies, it will become harder to found a Bitcoin startup. Yet, the authority is very confident that it will actually increase Bitcoin's legitimacy. It even considers it an entirely new industry. Bitcoin offers great new opportunities for entrepreneurs, investors and traders, and Bloomberg terminals now even provide a Bitcoin ticker — a first step toward widespread Bitcoin trading.
But the virtual currency now faces a great challenge. If it is regulated and taxed like U.S. dollars, will it actually be useful? Let's hope that it won't just become a financial instrument for traders, like any stock on the NASDAQ or NYSE. You can't pay your web-hosting provider using General Electric shares.
In May, the feds took down Liberty Reserve because it was used for child porn activity. In his statement, Lawsky goes so far as to say that Bitcoin's existence depends on the responses to those subpoenas. "If virtual currencies remain a virtual Wild West for narcotraffickers and other criminals, that would not only threaten our country's national security, but also the very existence of the virtual currency industry as a legitimate business enterprise."
According to Forbes, here's the full list of companies subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services:
– BitInstant
– BitPay
– Coinabul
– Coinbase Inc.
– CoinLab
– Coinsetter
– Dwolla
– eCoin Cashier
– Payward, Inc.
– TrustCash Holdings Inc.
– ZipZap
– Butterfly Labs
– Andreessen Horowitz
– Bitcoin Opportunity Fund
– Boost VC Bitcoin Fund
– Founders Fund
– Google Ventures
– Lightspeed Venture Partners
– Tribeca Venture Partners
– Tropos Funds
– Union Square Ventures
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The End of Suburbia
The End of Suburbia: Peak Oil and the Collapse of The American Dream
The suburbs are an unsustainable way of living. Developed in the post-war era of cheap oil and the car, the lifestyle was spruiked as the 'escape' from the industrial city to a more pastoral and rural way of life. However, they quickly evolved into a place that had neither of these qualities. Now, part of the problem of getting out of the suburban mentality is that a generation has grown up believing it to be a 'normal way of life' and even a life of entitlement, something which they will not give up without a fight…


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One work by Eddie Chambers, in the Arts Council Collection, (African Icons, 1987, mixed media on four panels, each 77.8 x 65 cm) was included in The 1980s: today's beginnings? The exhibition, took place at the Van Abbe museum in the Netherlands, from 16/04/2016 - 25/09/2016, included in the section - Thinking Back. A montage of Black Art in Britain, Curator: Nick Aikens, Van Abbemuseum.
Introduction to the section as follows:
In 1980s Britain a powerful conversation emerged amongst black artists, film makers, thinkers and institutions. It was the outcome of artists trying to understand their relationship towards Britain's colonial legacy, an increasingly divisive contemporary politics and the space of culture within which ideas of resistance, expression and identity formation could coalesce. Thinking Back will present a number of key artworks, films and archival material from this pivotal moment in British culture outside the country for the first time.
Artists: John Akomfrah, Rasheed Araeen, Black Audio Film Collective, Sonia Boyce, Chila Burman, Eddie Chambers, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Mona Hatoum, Lubaina Himid, Gavin Jantjes, Claudette Johnson, Isaac Julien, Keith Piper, Ingrid Pollard, Donald Rodney, Marlene Smith, Maud Sulter.
Archives: Blk Art Group Research Project, African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive (Chelsea College of Arts Library, University of the Arts), The June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive (including films by Imruh Bakari and Amani Naphtali), Making Histories Visible Archive (Centre of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire), The Stuart Hall Library, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London.
African Icons was made for Eddie Chambers' exhibition at Africa Centre, Covent Garden, Marcus Garvey: The Blackest Star, commemorating the birth of Marcus Garvey in 1887.


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A new study on risk factors in cardiovascular disease in Asia has foundthat blood pressure is more strongly related to coronary heart diseaseand stroke in Asia, as compared with Western countries such asAustralia and New Zealand.
A paper from the George Institute for International Health on theoutcomes of the study, to be published in the October 2005 issue of theEuropean Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, notesthat high blood pressure is a key risk factor for haemorrhagic stroke,which is relatively more common amongst Asian populations. A 10mmHgincrease in systolic blood pressure was found to be associated with a72% greater risk of having a haemorrhagic stroke in Asian groups,compared with 49% in Australia and New Zealand.
Recent data suggest that hypertension (high blood pressure) ishigher in many Asian countries than in Australia. For example, around28% of people in China are estimated to have hypertension, comparedwith 19% in Australia. In India and Japan, the percentages are higherstill.
Prof. Mark Woodward, Director of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics atthe George Institute, who authored the paper, explained that"Cardiovascular disease is already the leading cause of death in manyAsian populations, but the relationships between risk factors andcardiovascular disease can differ in Asian and Western populations.
"A lack of data in the past has prevented the reliable quantificationof such differences, which, if shown to exist, would suggest thatdifferent cardiovascular prevention and treatment strategies arerequired for Asia, as compared to western countries.
"By far the greatest amount of evidence for the treatment andprevention of cardiovascular disease has come from the West, with verylimited evidence from Asia. However, Asia is a huge region, where Chinaalone accounts for approximately a fifth of the world's population. Ifwestern evidence is to be used as a basis for cardiovascular medicinein Asia, it is crucial to establish that the risk factors act at leastin a qualitative sense in Asia just as they do in western populations",said Prof. Woodward.
In Asia, stroke is proportionately more common than in Westerncountries; in some Asian countries (such as China) stroke is morecommon than coronary heart disease, the predominant form ofcardiovascular disease in the West. Haemorrhagic stroke, which is morelikely than ischaemic stroke to be fatal, is proportionately morecommon in Asia than in western societies.
"By 2020, the annual mortality from cardiovascular disease will reach25 million and will have the greatest impact on populations from thelower and middle-income countries of the Asia-Pacific region.Identifying regional differences in the strength and nature of therelationships between risk factors and cardiovascular disease mortalitymay assist in the allocation of limited resources for the primaryprevention of cardiovascular disease in countries in which healthsystems are often severely under-funded and overburdened," Prof.Woodward noted.
"Given that increases in blood pressure were more strongly associatedwith haemorrhagic stroke and coronary heart disease in Asianpopulations compared with Australia and New Zealand, population-widemeasures to lower blood pressure, such as reducing the consumption ofsalt, should be of particular benefit in Asian populations", he said.###
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Virtual Manhood Is Better Than No Manhood At All
Wednesday night I stumbled onto a link in a twitter twat from Ben Howe at RedState directing me to…this, which is essentially some nutter pointing out that Sandra Fluke's boyfriend (the would be the same boyfriend that the oily residue left behind by Andrew Breitbart, by which I mean Dana Loesch, said should pay for Fluke's slutty-sex contraception)…anyway, according to our intrepid blogger this boyfriend comes from a long line of jewy Jews from Jew York and also: Jew.
Yes. Someone went there.
Erik Loomis at LG&M breaks it down for you if you don't want to get out of the boat and get any on you.
After sharing the link to this very serious, thoughtful argument about Jew/Catholic sexual congress that has never been made in such detail or with such care on my twitter machine…. all hell kind of broke loose and linking and twittertwatting ruled the night, most of which I missed because I have a life. However upon returning to my computer later in the evening I did notice that the writer of said post did take them time to extend his fond wishes for driving all of that traffic his way.
As in:
There was this one aimed at Steve Silberman who writes for Wired:
…but my personal favorite was:
I can imagine him Travis Bickleing in front of the mirror, practicing saying it:
War. BITCH, GET some (pause…deepen voice) WAR. BITCH, get some (pause, give bad-ass smirk) war bitch, get SOME (use 1000 yard stare been practicing on the cat) war HOMESLICE, yeah, I said it, muth-a-fuck-a… (too ethnic)… WAR. Bitch. get some. (Okay, that's it, but without the giggle at the end).
And Andrew Malcolm wonders why dirty hippies don't engage on the internets.
The good news is that most conservative bloggers are staying clear of this guy realizing that this type of creepiness may not be conducive to The Cause. And I say "most" because, well, some just can't help themselves from retweeting this kind of crap:
Well played, CNN.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
Teddy Witch & Teddy Pumpkin!
28 comments:
Awwww...just the cutest hun..:o)ReplyDelete
Big hugs Vicky xx
This is gorgeous,love the images and lovely details.xxxReplyDelete
This is so cute - love the colours:-) TFSReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 6, 2012 at 7:05 AM
OMG, Shirl! The cutest thing EVER!ReplyDelete
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That is so cute, what a lovely bearsReplyDelete
hugs Linda
This card makes me smile!! I love, love those adorable bears in their Halloween costumes!! So super fun!!ReplyDelete
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very Adorable!!Sweet Outfits!TFSReplyDelete
Talk about cuteness overload! This cartridge is a burst of sunshine. :o) I love the sweet outfits and the gorgeous border you layered behind them. :o) The background paper is perfect! So much to enjoy about this sweet card, my dear friend!ReplyDelete
And YES, I have a marvelous apple crisp recipe, which I posted last year! It uses a skillet, which makes it extra fun. You can find it here: http://kaleidoscopicsparkles.blogspot.com/2011/11/monochromatic-winter-and-sweet-saturday.html
If the link doesn't work right in comments, just go to my blog and click on the Recipes tab on top. :o) This is a delicious recipe and I just might make it this weekend to use up my leftover apple cider! :o)
Hugs and blessings!
Aaw, this is so cute Shirl! I may have to check out this cartridge! Looks like a fun one to have!ReplyDelete
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Shirl so need this cart your bears are too cute to spook just adorable....KarenReplyDelete
Oh that is a super delightful Halloween card. I love teddy bear themed cards Keep it up...can't wait to see what you create next.ReplyDelete
Your bears are so so CUTE!. Love it. Now I need this card.ReplyDelete
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ahh, how super cute shirl! hope you're having a great weekend!ReplyDelete
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This card is so cute!!!! Happy World Card Making day to you my friend... hugs...xoxoReplyDelete
This card is so cute, love it ! hugs, MarionReplyDelete
So cute Shirl, hope you're having a fab weekend! Finally got me some Spectrum Noir pens.....love them!ReplyDelete
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OH HOW FUN! I was waiting for this....TOO CUTE! I'm so glad you are enjoying this cartridge because I am enjoying all of your cards you are making with it:)ReplyDelete
Have a GREAT night!
I love it, I love it! the bears are darling and I like the border you put behind them!!ReplyDelete
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AWESOME job with the new teddy bear cartridge Shirl!they are ADORABLE,I LOVE it!!!!:)ReplyDelete
Wow, this is fabulous! I LOVE all the detail, you are very patient! Hugs, KarenReplyDelete
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"I thought I'd send through some feedback that may help the small businesses you counsel to get more consideration for federal contracts. I'm hearing through the [agency] grapevine that small businesses are not updating the Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) area in the System for Award Management (SAM). This DSBS is used by contracting officers (COs) during the market research phase to find qualifying small businesses. If the DSBS section is left blank in SAM then the DSBS query does not pull them in for consideration. This could be particularly important when it comes to smaller dollar projects where COs send requests for quotes (RFQ) directly to three small businesses and the RFQ is not placed on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website or another government point of entry (GPE) such as a bulletin board or internet site."
We have said it before and we will say it again… FILL OUT YOUR DSBS!
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Swedish actress Alicia Vikander's fresh-faced beauty and poise has received significant attention from the fashion industry over the last few years. Her roles in critically acclaimed films such as "Testament of Youth" and "Ex Machina" sparked the interest of a number of major fashion titles and she has been featured on the cover of American Vogue, Elle, LOVE, Porter, Interview and W magazines. She has also featured in a number of editorials, most notably for W Magazine shot by Willy Vanderperre and British Vogue shot by Tim Walker . Vikander is also a muse for Louis Vuitton's creative director, Nicolas Ghesquiere, and has starred in several campaigns for the storied French fashion house, including its Cruise 2016 campaign and its "Twist" handbag campaign, both shot by Patrick Demarchelier.
Born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1988 to a stage actress mother and psychiatrist father, Vikander trained from the age of nine with the Royal Swedish Ballet School in the hope of becoming a principal dancer. When an injury brought an end to this dream, she abandoned dance in favour of acting, with breakthrough roles in Joe Wright's "Anna Karenina" and the acclaimed Danish film, "A Royal Affair", which won her the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Oscar following the latter film's debut. In early 2016, Vikander won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her turn in "The Danish Girl".
The Swedish actress has cited the screenwriter and director, Lisa Langseth that cast Vikander for her first film at age 20 as a style mentor. She has also expressed a liking for the Swedish brands Acne Studios , Rodebjer and Totême. In 2019 alone, Vikander graced the covers of the Japanese, Chinese and Spanish editions of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar US.


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At the George Floyd memorial in Madrid, Spain, this week, Shannon Evora Lopes Rodrigues, born in Madrid to parents from the West African nations of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, recalled a soccer game in the Lavapiés neighborhood that ended in a police confrontation.
Related: World responds to protests sparked by George Floyd's death
"They decided to stop us because we were a group of 10 guys and girls together. I don't know what they thought we looked like, but we were just playing football. We were doing nothing out of the ordinary but they stopped us and asked us for ID. I got so angry at that moment and I didn't want to hand [my papers] over because I did not understand why I had to," she said.
"[White Spaniards] don't care, because as long as immigrants carry on doing jobs that nobody here wants, they are going to keep thinking of us as slaves."
Evora Lopes Rodrigues, who "climbed and climbed" her way up to become a restaurant manager, said she wants white Spaniards to confront the racism that categorizes her and other people of color as servants — or worse. "They don't care, because as long as immigrants carry on doing jobs that nobody here wants, they are going to keep thinking of us as slaves," she said.
Related: In France, the killing of George Floyd invokes the memory of Adama Traoré
The death of George Floyd, a black man killed by asphyxiation under the knee of a white police officer in Minnesota in the United States, has resonated in Spain, where black people are seven times as likely to be stopped by police as white people.
Related: Police killing of George Floyd strikes a chord in Kenya
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The organizers of Madrid's George Floyd memorial originally planned a quiet remembrance ceremony for 200 people in front of the US Embassy. In the end, 3,000 showed up on June 7 to pay their respects and share stories of police harassment, racial discrimination and erasure from public life in Spain.
Spain is a multiracial country, with at least 1.2 million residents from Africa who are not Spanish citizens, and 1.3 million from Latin America, according to official statistics. But this country of 47 million people does not keep any breakdown of Spanish citizens according to race.
Non-white faces are a rarity on TV, in Congress, in cultural institutions, and Spain's first black lawmaker was only elected in 2015.
Spain's long record of racial profiling and police harassment has at times caught the attention of the international community. In 2018, the United Nations found that Spain had "major gaps between law and practice in protecting people of African descent from racism" and that racial profiling of people of African descent was "endemic."
"They don't treat me like a regular person. As a black person here in Spain you are always being watched."
Related: Somali Americans share grief and pain over George Floyd's killing
It's a description that Flava Mendy, a computer science student, recognized without hesitation. He told The World that walking alone at any time of day could mean a humiliating stop-and-frisk by the police. "They don't treat me like a regular person. As a black person here in Spain you are always being watched," he said.
He came to the memorial to ask to be treated the same as anyone else, he added. "We are speaking the same language, and looking at each other with the same eyes, and we bleed the same way, and all we ask for is respect and equality."
While chants at the memorial began in English, with "No justice! No peace!" — echoing protests held across the United States — they later rang out in Spanish: "Ninguna persona es ilegal!" ("No person is illegal!") and "Policía asesina!" ("Police kill").
Related: America's BLM protests find solidarity in South Korea
As the protesters pointed out, the Spanish police's racial profiling, often of migrants, has cost lives. While Spain does not have the same record as the United States for police killings, many recalled the death in 2018 of Mame Mbaye, a Senegalese man who suffered a heart attack after being chased by police through the streets of Madrid. He had spent 14 years living in Spain without receiving citizenship documents. Africans are not eligible for citizenship without continuous legal residency, marriage to a Spaniard, or a work contract.
Mor Sylla, also Senegalese, jumped to his death from a balcony during a police raid in 2015, in the seaside resort of Salou, sparking protests and riots for days.
With a police force and state institutions that all too often view black people as foreigners or associated with crime, black Spanish citizens feel the precarity of their position in society.
Related: 'No justice, no peace': Thousands in London protest the death of Floyd
Moha Gerehou, a black journalist born in the provincial Spanish city of Huesca, has spent most of his career trying to educate the Spanish public about racism through his work as an activist and now as a writer for the digital news site ElDiario.es. Gerehou points to the troubles black people face in accessing the housing market, and racist insults at soccer games, as examples.
"When you go to view a house and they won't rent it to you because you are black, in the end, it's the same story whether you are in Minnesota or Madrid."
"When you go to view a house and they won't rent it to you because you are black, in the end, it's the same story whether you are in Minnesota or Madrid," he said.
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Spain's school curriculum erases black contributions to history, he added, while university students are overwhelmingly white. "You have to ask yourself what is happening when this racial diversity exists — we see it in schools and in the street — and it doesn't reach universities. Universities are places that give access to jobs and other places with more visibility and power in society. There is structural racism behind that which places obstacles in the way," Gerehou said.
While anti-racist slogans are part of left-wing politics in Spain, the current progressive government does not prioritize the dismantling of systems widely viewed as racist, he believes.
In the closed world of Spanish journalism, Gerehou can name every black colleague. "There are no more than 10 black journalists in Spain, and that's a problem because it doesn't reflect the reality of the streets, and above all, it doesn't take into account a racial perspective when stories are made, beyond us as victims, always dying or suffering, or as the bad guys.
Beyond that, we don't exist as experts in anything else, like the economy, or politics, or to talk about the coronavirus in Spain," he said.
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Here's How I Know You'll Survive This
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There's a survival secret that not a lot of people talk about, and it's how I know that more than likely, you're going to survive whatever is coming at us next.
It's easy to get swept away by the doom and gloom and the pending disaster of the moment. At times like this, it feels like we have annihilation bearing down on us from every angle: the economy is almost kaput, nuclear powers like Russia and China aren't our biggest fans, and civil war could erupt at any moment. And that doesn't even take into account random natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, or horrific accidents like the train derailment in Ohio.
It's enough to make you wonder how on earth you're going to manage to live through what's coming.
Suddenly there's an avalanche of overwhelm, and it's the kinds of questions that keep preppers up at night. Do you have enough supplies? Can you trust your group? Are you really ready? What if you forgot something vital? How can you get more money to get prepped? What if…what if…what if…
Let me stop you right there.
Spoiler: You're probably going to survive it.
I have a lot of evidence supporting that. Here's what you need to consider whenever you feel like you're not going to make it.
Your ancestors survived.
First of all, you need to remember that you yourself come from a long line of survivors. It's quite literally in your blood.
If your ancestors had not survived for dozens of generations, you wouldn't be here. It's not enough to simply have reproduced. Someone had to get the next generation to adulthood so that they, too, could procreate.
So while some probably died during horrible events in the past, plenty did not. Your ancestors have survived it all. They've survived big things like plagues, wars, the Great Depression, the threat of annihilation from various enemies, and natural disasters during times we couldn't predict them and warn people using the news. They've survived smaller things, too, like floods, hurricanes, the S&L crisis, childhood diseases, the high price of gas, bad storms, hyperinflation, accidents, and governments running amok.
Enough of your ancestors got through such events that you are here: alive, well, and fretting about the future.
Look to the past, and you will see that you have everything within you to survive what's coming for us, too. Survival is in your blood and in your bones. You, my friend, are the result of thousands of years of overcoming obstacles. You come from a line of people who avoided being killed by enemies, marriages, wars, pestilence, and love.
You are genetically wired for survival.
People regularly survive horrible events.
Another thing to consider is that people quite often survive terrible things. While some people do succumb to disaster, grief, or ill fortune, most people do not. Let's look at some more recent history.
Sure, we can look back and say, "21 million people died from the Spanish flu." But in 1900, eighteen years before that event, the population of the world was 1.6 billion people. So you could roughly extrapolate from that that one billion five hundred seventy-nine million people survived it. (1,579,000,000) Those are pretty decent odds, right?
And what about the Great Depression? This paper suggests that the only cause of mortality that increased was suicide, and this article says that the life expectancy of people actually increased during that time. In fact, it says that more people live longer during times of economic downturn, referencing the paper mentioned previously.
…historical research shows that during the 20th century, increases in U.S. mortality often occurred during times of economic prosperity, while decreases occurred during economic depressions or recessions.
In the first few years after the 1929 stock market crash, the only major cause of death that increased was suicide, says José A. Tapia Granados, a professor of politics at Drexel University and co-author of a 2009 research paper in PNAS about life and death during the Great Depression. While suicides went up, Tapia found that deaths from cardiovascular and renal diseases stabilized between 1930 and 1932, the worst years of the depression. Traffic deaths dropped in 1932. Deaths from tuberculosis, the flu and pneumonia also declined.
Around 100,000 people died during the Balkan War, and more than two million had to flee their homes to survive. The population of that area was about 4 million people, so again…while the death toll was horrific, more people survived than did not.
I'm not sharing any of this to belittle the horrendous things that have occurred throughout history. Any death that comes from a disaster or a war or a genocide or an economic catastrophe is a terrible thing. But the fact is that more people live through terrible events than succumb to them.
Some of it is out of your hands.
All of this is why we prep. We want to put ourselves firmly on the side of those who make it through to the other side. We want our families to suffer less from terrible events. But even people who've never heard of prepping, who've never stacked up a five-gallon bucket full of food, and who haven't read any books or articles about the topic still have a decent chance of making it through.
Of course, some things are completely out of our hands. If you happen to be at Ground Zero when a nuke hits, there is no amount of preparation that can save you. The same thing goes for a terrible accident at the workplace or a collision with a drunk driver. If there's an extinction-level event like a giant meteor, we're all done. Sometimes your ticket gets punched, and it's your time.
There are also some personal circumstances that can prevent survival, such as reliance on daily medication or equipment. Again, this is largely out of our hands, and there's only so much we can do about it.
We prepare to give ourselves the very best odds possible, and we are right to do so. I feel much better knowing that I have skills and supplies put back that just might give me an edge during hard times. I will always be glad that I have taught my children vital prepper knowledge. Maybe we won't just live through it but find a way to thrive in doing so.
Survival is how we're wired.
But even without these things, humans are wired for survival. Even the silly ones. (Although sometimes you have to wonder about some of the folks you see these days – it seems like they can barely survive a day at work or school without "safe spaces," much less an epic disaster.)
Our operational objectives as human beings are to survive and to further our species by protecting our young. We can adapt to the most astounding things in our efforts to do so. We've done it since humans first existed, and we'll continue indefinitely.
Things may be very, very hard. The world could change dramatically and for the worst. We may wonder how on earth we'll do it if we lose our house, our car, our way of life, and our stability. (I've been there.) And you know what? That will really suck if it happens.
But eventually, we'll come out on the other side. And even while things are bad, we'll love people, we'll find reasons to laugh, we'll enjoy whatever it is we're eating, and we will do our best to keep in touch with the things that make us human. We need to focus on those simple joys instead of focusing on what we've lost.
We just have to keep going.
If we do, we'll probably survive.
You're going to make it.
So if you're wondering whether or not your going to be able to survive this, you know what? You probably are. The statistics are all in your favor. You were born to be resilient.
You keep on doing the best that you can. Prepare to the best of your ability and learn new skills to make it a little bit easier. Be ready to adapt to changing circumstances. Control what you can and let go of what you can't control. Remember to find happiness wherever you can.
And don't forget who the heck you are.
About Daisy
Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging, adventure-seeking, globe-trotting blogger. She is the founder and publisher of three websites. 1) The Organic Prepper, which is about current events, preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty; 2) The Frugalite, a website with thrifty tips and solutions to help people get a handle on their personal finances without feeling deprived; and 3) PreppersDailyNews.com, an aggregate site where you can find links to all the most important news for those who wish to be prepared. Her work is widely republished across alternative media and she has appeared in many interviews.
Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books, 12 self-published books, and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses at SelfRelianceand Survival.com You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Gab, MeWe, Parler, Instagram, and Twitter.


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The Filipino Community of Seattle presents a dinner and cabaret show featuring cabaret artist Arnaldo! on Sept. 7 titled, "An Evening with Arnaldo! and Friends." Arnaldo! is based in the Seattle area and has won many awards, including the 2008 New York Bistro Award and top 10 cabarets selected by the San Francisco Bay Times' "Jazz and Cocktails." Proceeds from the evening will benefit a show held in October — which is Filipino American month — called "Floradora Reimagined," an adaptation of a Broadway musical set in the Philippines in the 1890s. Tickets for the show costs $25 per person. (end)
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KEYSTONE XL: A State Department environmental impact statement released Friday says Keystone XL will have little impact on climate change, but also says the U.S. can meet its energy needs without it; environmental groups say they'll continue to fight the project. (Washington Post, NPR)
MEANWHILE: Canadian oil finds its way to market via railroads. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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BAKKEN: North Dakota's largest drilling companies want to put an end to natural gas flaring, drilling costs in the state are dropping, and companies pool resources to protect Lake Sakakawea from oil spills. (EnergyWire, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Grand Forks Herald)
MICHIGAN: Enbridge is refusing to pay $800,000 to complete two studies assessing the damage from the 2010 Kalamazoo River oil spill. (Detroit Free Press)
SOLAR: Wal-Mart installs solar panels at 12 Ohio stores, increasing the state's solar capacity by 10 percent and making the retailer the state's largest consumer of solar energy. (Dayton Daily News)
WIND: Wisconsin regulators refuse to reconsider their earlier rejection of a permit for a proposed wind farm in the western part of the state, and a Minnesota utility releases a resource plan calling for more wind power. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Duluth News Tribune)
NATURAL GAS: Natural gas challenges the coal industry in Ohio, and the climate impact of methane leaks comes under scrutiny. (Los Angeles Times, Washington Post)
NUCLEAR: A Nebraska congressman questions the NRC over delays restarting the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant, and rising costs diminish political support for new nuclear plants in the South. (Omaha World-Herald, Associated Press)
EPA: Enforcement of environmental laws "has really taken it on the chin" thanks to congressional budget cuts. (National Journal)
COMMENTARY: Wisconsin lawmakers go nuclear on renewable energy. (Midwest Energy News)


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In this funny Halloween story, Jonathan is disturbed by stories told to him by his mother about his aunt Karen being a witch and he's frightened to no end; he's convinced the stories are real.
Real witches ride around on broomsticks. They wear black cloaks and hats. They are wicked, cunning, hateful women who disguise themselves as being friendly, ordinary ladies. Believing that his aunt might be a witch, his thoughts turn to fear the split second his mother drops him off at his aunt's house for a night of Trick-Or-Treating.
His unexpected hideaway in the kitchen will be a safe haven until he suspects she will cook him in a big black pot.
And there resting in the corner is the witch's broom.
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Understand, focus and believe at Mass
Three eighth-grade girls came into my office recently and asked, "Mrs. Hunt, can we tape you as you answer our question for a religion class project?" "Sure," I said. "What is the question?" "We want to know how to make the Mass more interesting for people our age."
Quickly, I mentally regrouped. They wanted an answer that minute. I asked the Holy Spirit to give me something good because I had nothing! As usual, the good ole Holy Spirit was right on it. The answer came to me as I spoke:
"There are three keys to bringing the Mass to life: understand, focus, believe. First, we Catholics need to find out why we do what we do at Mass. Most of us have no idea what the four parts of the eucharistic liturgy are and what is the purpose of each. We stand, sit, and respond with no idea of what we are doing. It should be the job of each of us to find out and then discover the reasons for the awesome tradition of this ancient rite. Once you understand, it will 'blow your mind' (as the girls said). For instance, when we receive the Eucharist, we are to make a simple bow and say a clear 'Amen' after the words 'The Body of Christ.'"
When I asked the girls why we said these words, they had no idea. I told them that during Mass they will see two kinds of bows — profound and simple. Why do we make these bows, and when do they happen? They had no idea. Then the "Amen" problem: I told them that saying amen means "Yes, I believe" and that the distributor gives them the Body of Christ only after "Amen" is said. Sadly, when receiving Communion, too many adults as well as children say nothing or just grunt at this moment of encounter with the Real Presence when Jesus waits to hear our leap of faith.
Next, focus! "Pay attention! Don't let your mind wander," I told the three girls. "Our minds often wander away from the profound to the ordinary: the reading from Isaiah seems boring so we start thinking about weekend sports, what's for breakfast, how out of style Mrs. Callahan's coat looks. Try as hard as you can to listen to the priest and pray with him," I said. "Focus on the readings from the Bible as if it is a personal message from God meant just for you. When you listen to the homily, find one little point and remember it. Write it down and read it every day during the next week. I know that some homilies are just plain boring and that not every priest can preach well. But God can take even a boring homily and give you an inspiring message if you are willing to let Him."
"Try to pray out loud, sing, and be mindful of what is happening. The Mass is not just a surface experience, an hour of entertainment. It is something very deep, even mystical. Only a few people seem to understand that. It is not about what you can see and hear, it is about the unseen and unheard that is happening beneath the surface. Learn to pray with your eyes. Watch what is going on: the movement of the priest's hands over the bread and wine, the host held high while we say a prayer of adoration. Keep your heart and mind in touch with the Mass and fight distractions with all your heart."
Then, most importantly, I concluded for the girls, "believe that the Mass is a real encounter with God. God comes to eat with us, speak to us, and nourish us. The Communion we receive is Jesus Christ. Faith is believing in things unseen, and faith is a gift. Ask Jesus to give you the faith to believe the unbelievable. The Catholic Mass is truly a mystical experience, and each of us is invited to be a mystic. What we witness and participate in at Mass is nothing short of a miracle. God enters our bodies and souls. We become one with Him."
When my three young visitors left my office, I sat awestruck by the conversation. I realized this was not just a lesson for 13-year-old girls. It was a lesson for me, too — and you.
This edition of Jeanne Hunt's Catholic Thoughts originally appeared in the March 2014 print edition of The Catholic Telegraph.


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It's Friday, Friday…
Fridays are funny things. We look forward to them Monday through Thursday, then mourn their loss as soon as Monday rolls around again.
For many people, Friday is easily the best day of the week. It's not like it's any easier to get out of bed on a Friday, mind you, but there's definitely a certain cheer in the air around town; unmistakeable positivity and excitement brightening the eyes of even the most hungover of souls in the office. Again, it doesn't mean people necessarily want to be at work on Friday. In fact, quite the opposite might be true; but daydreaming about the weekend ahead is a wonderful and welcome distraction for most.
Speaking of welcome distractions, if you're tied to your desk and need a little booster (boss is on your back, I get it), check out this little depiction of Friday in hourly tweets… can you relate?
Tweet time: 6am
I hit snooze like three times already. I don't want to get out of bed 😩
— Ohhh Kayy COURT (@AsToldBy_COURT) May 31, 2016
Tweet time: 7am
Slept in because I'm in a bit of a grump this morning, now I'm running hideously late. Grumpy and stressed! #watchoutworld
— Chloe (@Chloe_Diana) November 8, 2013
Tweet time: 8am
People have no manners and I hate public transport I am a snob
— ChloeTweddle (@chloetweddle) September 20, 2016
Tweet time: 9am
Ew I hate when people tell me to smile when I'm at work lol Let me be miserable! 😂 I don't want to be here anyways
— Genesis (@segagenesisx3) September 14, 2016
Tweet time: 10am
wow, what a boring meeting…at least it's Friday!
— Dan Taylor (@DanTheDaddy) February 5, 2010
Tweet time: 11am
I have leftover meatloaf and mashed potatoes in the fridge.
Is it lunch time yet?
It's nice to have something to look forward to.
— Tony Troxell (@IndianaGeeking) September 16, 2016
Tweet time: 12pm
Tweet time: 1pm
in my humble opinion we should go back to work now
— killian? (@gothcat_ebooks) August 25, 2016
Tweet time: 2pm
okay enough now. time to go do some work lmao
— maryam (@maryam_fcb) November 7, 2015
Tweet time: 3pm
could this day drag on for any longer??
— Michelle Govender (@MishGov) November 22, 2011
Tweet time: 4pm
So many emails, so many meetings and never enough hours in the day
— Morgan Rumpf (@MorganRumpfTV) September 13, 2016
Tweet time: 5pm
— Kaitlyn (@Kaitlyn98_) September 22, 2016
Tweet time: 6pm
Tweet time: 7pm
Tweet time: 8pm
'I'll only go for one drink' just never happens does it
— CaptainGregor (@gregor_evansx) August 21, 2016
Tweet time: 9pm
Tweet time: 10pm
FACT: the greatest bop of all time is i wanna dance with somebody
— more like watermelon BOOGER amiright (@macknightly) September 14, 2016
Tweet time: 11pm
Hi, can I please have a large big mac meal with steam bun and big Mac sauce on the side
— B (@BRANDONVUONGGG) September 2, 2016
And there you have it… 6am-11pm in tweets.
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We needs cookies, sooo hungry!
UK priests abuse child witches
Children are being branded witches by preachers in the UK who supposedly exorcize youngsters by beating, starving or even murdering them in the church.
Activists say children are increasingly facing horrific tortures that may even lead to their death -- as in the case of Victoria Climbié -- across the country only for accusations of being haunted.
According to Debbie Ariyo, founder of Africans Unite against Child Abuse (Afruca) the social disaster is "growing".
"We are seeing more of it. At the very least, we are talking about dozens of cases every year" Ariyo said.
Police have acknowledged that the scale of the crimes is much wider than it appears to be as people cover up their woes for fear of being stigmatized.
Jason Morgan, a detective with the Metropolitan Police's Project Violet which is a special child protection unit said "it is a hidden crime that is very difficult to measure. There may well be a large number of cases that never come to light [...] it is a national problem".
Police covert investigation of a number of churches has demonstrated certain priests carry out acts of "deliverance" for their clients from among their church audience and pocket large sums of money.
One of the victims has reported being sexually abused 21 times at the age of 18 as a guarantee that her family is freed from a curse that caused them problems with another woman saying her husband committed suicide after a London church pastor told him his wife and son were witches.
Bishop Joe Aldred, secretry of minority ethnic Christian affairs at Churches Together in England has criticized the current trend of giving license to people to establish their churches saying "at the moment you can set up a church anywhere, anytime".
He said "in the same way we wouldn't tolerate somebody setting themselves up as a lawyer or surgeon without proper training and regulation, we shouldn't expose the souls of people to anybody who happens to think they can set up a church".
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Emma Pooley, the once crowned UCI TT World Champion, Olympic and Commonwealth medallist talks about making the transition back to road cycling.
Guest post by Hannah Troop: The women's peloton is growing and each spring we see it blossom. With fiercer competition and new teams rising, it's an intimidating environment to re-enter after a two-year hiatus. Especially shouldering a glittering palmarès like Emma Pooley's. Her return back to the pro-peloton from long distance triathlon and duathlon is a bid to secure selection on the women's Olympic squad in Rio. Can she regain her old racing form?
Emma chatted to us this week about transitioning between cycling and multi-discipline sport, the road to Rio, Aviva Women's Tour and the guilty pleasure of clocking up QOMs.
How did you find moving over to the triathlon / duathlon world after being in cycling for so long? What's different?
When I was doing triathlon before I was racing age group, not pro, I guess the scene is very different from cycling. Much more independent, there isn't so much of a divide between pro and amateur. You get "fun" amateur bike races out there, but they're very separate from the pro races.
The thing I like most about triathlon is you all do the same race, normally on the same day or even at the same time.
You see people of all different levels and you get to chat to them and it makes the race environment. It's not just spectators standing behind barriers cheering, they're doing the same race with you on the same day, albeit mostly a bit slower. It's a different relationship with people in the sport. It's not necessarily more relaxed but it just reminds you of why you do it. I prefer the vibe at a triathlon in all honesty.
How have you felt about coming back from triathlon into cycling? Cyclists can sometimes have a slight superiority complex over triathletes, can't they?
Yeah, tribalism I think is what they call it. I don't really know what other people think about it and I'm not really interested to be honest. I have enough to worry about without taking on what other people are thinking. Personally how I feel about it—once I got the idea that I could do road racing again, there was a little bit of fear. I was never really confident riding in the bunch. I was always quite a nervous racer. There are things I miss about cycling—the teams and the camaraderie.
What I hated about it to be honest was being stuck in the peloton, it stressed me out.
On the other hand, it's so hard physically when you have to stay on somebody's wheel or cover an attack. You put a lot of big efforts down in a road race and it's very hard to mimic that in training – so road racing was always good for my fitness, I think.
There's a lot to do to get form back, I'm doing the Aviva Women's Tour and probably the Giro. If at the end of that I'm still not selected for Rio, obviously I'll be disappointed (with myself, for not being good enough), but I also know that the process will have been really good training for triathlon. Road racing is bloody hard but it has advantages! And anyway, I don't want to be selected for the time trial in Rio if I'm not on form to potentially do well.
Riders within the peloton talk about how the level has improved over the last couple of years, what do you think? Did you find that at the Tour of Yorkshire?
I've heard the same about women's cycling, I think what has changed is the base level has improved. People at the top are always very good. I think what has happened is the medium and lower percentiles have improved.
I think it was impossible for me to tell in Yorkshire, because it was a one off race. My feeling of how hard the race was, is totally coloured by my current level compared to the others. I hadn't done a bike race for nearly two years. I'd done a half Ironman the weekend before and had quite a lot of travel and very little sleep—so to be honest it was always going to really tough, and it was! So I don't know whether that's because the level has improved or whether that's because I'm just a bit rubbish! Quite possibly a combination of both.
How easy is it to make a living in triathlon compared to cycling?
It's similar in that the people at the top do quite well and you don't have to go much further down to find people who are struggling. Obviously the prize money is at the top and the sponsorship as well, I'm a bit ignorant on this, I don't know what the top women in cycling or triathlon are earning.
I can just about make ends meet in triathlon like I did in cycling, and I'm really lucky that I can concentrate on sport full time. But I'm not going to get rich off it unless I get a lot better at triathlon. But that's ok because I like the racing, I like to push myself and (occasionally) win. I think the difference with triathlon is you have to find your own sponsorship and your own deals and that's actually quite time consuming.
If you're on a cycling team you like, but don't like the bike or the saddle it's difficult to reconcile that. At least now I have sponsors whose equipment I believe in wholly and I'm passionate about and I want to represent them. And yes of course that means there's some equipment I simply buy, because either I'm not at a level where it would be worthwhile for a sponsor to support me (swimming for example, I'm just rubbish), or I'm quite particular about the kit I want to use. But that's fine, obviously!
I can't imagine anything much worse than having to ride for hours on a saddle that isn't comfortable…
One year I had to—in the end I cut the leather off, cut it to the shape I wanted and then stuck the leather back down. People actually said to me "Oh wow where did you get your saddle from" I had to tell them it was home made
How have you found the gender balance between cycling and triathlon? Are there any lessons to be learnt from one to the other?
Well, I'm trying to get less cross about it, because it doesn't seem to help. I mean, when I say cross I think I got a reputation for being outspoken in cycling, just because I pointed out what I thought could be improved. There isn't equal media coverage and the races are very different. Many people who've grown up with cycling just think that's fine, because it's always been that way. But as an outsider who came from running, it just seemed mad to me that the scene was so different for men and women, and I just said what I thought. I'm not the only person who speaks up about it.
There's so much potential to grow women's cycling, that I think could be better encouraged.
Maybe that's why I feel a bit more relaxed in triathlon because (for example) I'll get asked to attend the press conferences, and the questions they ask are about my race, what my tactics are, how I was feeling before the race, how I was feeling after… Rather than: "How do you feel about men versus women?" I got fed up of being asked that in cycling – the question totally misses the point anyway. Gender parity is not so much of an issue in triathlon, because the sport is mostly very egalitarian, and that's just normal and seen as one of the strengths of the sport.
What's your aim for the Aviva Women's Tour?
Ok, this is very important…my aim is to race really hard and suffer, which I'm quite sure is going to happen.
I know it takes a few weeks of hard, back to back racing to get that top level again. There's no way I could get that from triathlon training, especially with the running. I don't think I'm expected to get a result. The Great Britain team are not taking me there to win a stage, they know I'm there to get race fitness back and so I'm trying to look at it with no pressure, just to race it hard.
On the other hand it's a home race and the first stage is Norwich, and it would be nice to win but I don't think I'll be winning any stages. I'm looking forward to the process and racing in the UK again.
Are you looking forward to the Peak District stage?
Yeah I guess it will suit my riding better, but we'll see, they're so unpredictable, but who knows I might be out the back in the Peak District as well. It would be madness to think I could be up there after not racing really for two years.
With the data side of the sport and community how do you find communities like Strava?
It took a lot of persuading to get me on Strava at all, I'm not really a techno, I do a bit of social media. I'd rather see friends face to face and social media is time consuming. But on the other hand I live a long way away from my friends and away from my boyfriend and so it can be useful.
I didn't want everything in my life to be documented, I wanted to leave my training to be free from outside observation. I was worried it was going to feel a bit like being stalked, but I've actually found it really positive. There are certain things I wanted to keep private, I didn't want people to see, for example I'd been to Rio to recce the course or how fast up the hill I went, but you just leave it private, it's easy.
I find you get loads of positive feedback from people and ok, maybe I'm worried I care a little bit too much about QOMs. But it can be a really useful tool. Especially if I get a QOM on a hill I ride a lot: then I know I'm going well. Although one day it might be really depressing to think I might not get another QOM because I won't be training full time and it will be harder. But I like the community, a bit like triathlon, it's a much more genuine interaction with real cyclists who ride their bikes. People can see where I've ridden and where I've stopped for coffee—which happens quite a lot!
Follow Emma Pooley on Strava, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram keep up to date with the Aviva Women's Tour and the competition for the Strava Queen of the Mountains Jersey.


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Liberals and conservatives found something to agree on about last night's State of the Union:
"If the speech seemed frequently strong and inspiring, and seemed like a campaign speech—in fact, a 2008-style campaign speech…."
"'The president last night gave a standard campaign left-wing speech,' the former House speaker said…."
Barack Obama hasn't been on the campaign trail, but his campaign has begun, as they've matched the Republican candidates with offices in primary states. Last night's address was another step towards November.
It's worth reading or listening to the speech in the context of Ryan Lizza's outstanding new New Yorker piece, "Barack Obama, Post-Partisan, Meets Washington Gridlock." It's a long exploration of how Obama, temperamentally a centrist who sort-of campaigned as a liberal Democrat, navigated a partisan political environment. Carrying the weight of the liberals who helped him get elected, he ran into the headwind of an organized, conservative Republican party after the midterms. The conclusion Lizza comes to isn't much of a reveal—"the private Obama is close to what many people suspect: a President trying to pass his agenda while remaining popular enough to win reëlection"—but the process of getting there is the interesting part.
As his approval rating declined through 2009, he looked for ways to restore his credibility as a moderate. He became intent on responding to critics of government spending and, as White House memos show, he settled into the role of a more transactional and less transformational leader.
Obama's moderation didn't sway Republicans, nor did his attention to interest groups or his cuts to beloved liberal programs. Through the rest of 2009, as the anti-government Tea Party movement gathered strength, and conservative voters began to speak of creeping American socialism, Obama's aides quarrelled over how the President should respond.
This reminded me of something I read about Jon Huntsman the other day:
Soon enough, Huntsman's talk caught the attention of David Plouffe, Obama's former campaign manager (whose official return to the fold begins this week, when he enters the White House as a senior adviser to the president). Asked in early 2009 which Republican he feared most in 2012, Plouffe said that Huntsman is "really out there speaking a lot of truth about the direction of the [Republican] party."
Rahm Emanuel is said to have felt the same way:
Huntsman's campaign has been, from the beginning, a fantasy driven by a fundamental misunderstanding of his own party. ("I still don't understand why [White House Chief of Staff] Rahm [Emanuel] was so obsessed with him," a top Democratic official marveled Sunday night.)
I don't exactly blame the White House shop for this. I greatly misunderestimated the appeal of Rick Santorum's strict social conservatism, and Newt Gingrich's angry-bear routine. I assumed Huntsman or Romney would appeal to the Republican electorate, because they'd want to win: either would peel off a sufficient number of centrist votes and give the party a better chance in November. The "center" is growing, but it's more complicated than the word implies:
In this environment, many political attitudes have become more doctrinaire at both ends of the ideological spectrum, a polarization that reflects the current atmosphere in Washington.
Yet at the same time, a growing number of Americans are choosing not to identify with either political party, and the center of the political spectrum is increasingly diverse. Rather than being moderate, many of these independents hold extremely strong ideological positions on issues such as the role of government, immigration, the environment and social issues. But they combine these views in ways that defy liberal or conservative orthodoxy.
The most visible shift in the political landscape since Pew Research's previous political typology in early 2005 is the emergence of a single bloc of across-the-board conservatives. The long-standing divide between economic, pro-business conservatives and social conservatives has blurred. Today, Staunch Conservatives take extremely conservative positions on nearly all issues – on the size and role of government, on economics, foreign policy, social issues and moral concerns. Most agree with the Tea Party and even more very strongly disapprove of Barack Obama's job performance. A second core group of Republicans – Main Street Republicans – also is conservative, but less consistently so.
In a base-oriented primary, it's much easier to build a core bloc from across-the-board conservatives, for whom Gingrich and Santorum are much more appealing than the feckless pseudo-moderate Romney (who's pretty moderate if you take the mean of his many positions). But is Gingrich even a conservative? Daniel Larison argues that he just plays one on TV:
He is unusual in that he manages to combine an absolutely conventional "centrist" set of positions with what conservatives perceive to be the worst traits of post-1994 Republican governance and a temperament and rhetorical style that everyone else perceives to be unhinged and extreme…. "On paper," Gingrich is more of a moderate than Romney is today, but Gingrich's contempt for his opponents (which Kornacki correctly identifies as a general election weakness) masks this and cancels it out.
To paraphrase Saul Alinsky, Mitt Romney has the money and Newt Gingrich has the people—the 99 percent, to be specific. I tend to think the money and the moderation will win in the end, but obviously I've been wrong very recently. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is rallying the base a bit… while quietly hedging its bets. America might be ready for a third party, but the center's not going to hold it.
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May faces confidence vote but vows to fight on
Prime Minister Theresa May vowed today to fight a challenge to her leadership of the Conservative Party, saying a change now would delay or even imperil Britain's planned divorce from the European Union.
With less than four months left until the United Kingdom - and with it Gibraltar - is due to exit on March 29, Brexit has been thrown up in the air by the failure of Mrs May's divorce deal among British lawmakers and a mutiny inside her party.
Speaking outside her Downing Street residence just over an hour after a confidence vote in her leadership was announced, Mrs May said she would fight for her job with everything she has got.
In a stark warning to Brexit-supporting opponents in her party, Mrs May said that if they toppled her then Brexit would have to be delayed and perhaps even stopped.
"A new leader wouldn't be in place by the Jan. 21 legal deadline, so a leadership election risks handing control of the Brexit negotiations to opposition MPs in Parliament," Mrs May said.
"A new leader wouldn't have time to renegotiate a withdrawal agreement and get the legislation through Parliament by March 29. So one of their first acts would have to be extending or rescinding Article 50, delaying or even stopping Brexit when people want us to get on with it," she said.
Sir Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party's so-called 1922 committee, said the threshold of 15 percent of the parliamentary party seeking a confidence vote had been exceeded.
A ballot will be held between 1800 and 2000 GMT on Wednesday in a room at the House of Commons and an announcement made as soon as possible afterwards, he said.
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The President Blames the Messenger on ISIS Strategy
Does the president underestimate the importance of messaging, or does he exaggerate it?
For a guy who rose to the presidency in large part by relying on his abilities as a communicator, Barack Obama seems to have little regard for messaging. The president evinces a view of public relations as a distasteful business—one that is necessary, he grudgingly acknowledges, but also an essentially cosmetic, irrelevant one.
During an interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Obama again tried to reassure citizens that ISIS is not an existential threat to the United States. "They can hurt us, and they can hurt our people and our families," he said. "The most damage they can do, though, is if they start changing how we live and what our values are."
He said one reason for the problem is his own communication. "Now on our side, I think that there is a legitimate criticism of what I've been doing and our administration has been doing in the sense that we haven't, you know, on a regular basis I think described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat ISIL," Obama said. Meanwhile, he blamed "the media" for "pursuing ratings."
The president also said during an off-the-record conversation with columnists last week that his Oval Office address hadn't gone far enough, a shortcoming he attributed to his own failure to watch enough cable news to understand the depth of anxiety.
In other words, the strategy is working, and the White House just needs to communicate that better. The fights against domestic terror and ISIS alike are going great, if only people would understand it. But Obama's impatience with the media and messaging is also clear. In some ways he may be right about the strategy. Despite the carnage in San Bernardino (and in Paris), ISIS is losing territory. That may be a long way from defeating them, but things are moving in the right direction. (Obama noted with some satisfaction that "those who are critics of our administration response, or the military, the intelligence response that we are currently mounting—when you ask them, well, what would you do instead, they don't have an answer.")
This is humblebrag politics: I'm not great at explaining it, but man, am I great at policy. But does it accurately understand the problems, or what messaging entails? Obama views battlefield success against ISIS as the goal, and messaging as a simple process of telegraphing that. Messaging can be something greater than just the wrapping paper on the policy solution he has chosen. It's about persuading people to come around to your side, not just telling them why your side is right.
This isn't the first time Obama has insisted that everything's going great and it's just the wrapping paper that needs sprucing up. After the 2014 midterm election, which saw defeats for Democrats on all fronts, Obama told Bob Schieffer the problem was that he hadn't communicated how well his administration was doing:
One thing that I do need to constantly remind myself and my team are is it's not enough just to build the better mousetrap. People don't automatically come beating to your door. We've got to sell it, we've got to reach out to the other side and where possible persuade. And I think there are times, there's no doubt about it where, you know, I think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we are trying to do and why this is the right direction. So there is a failure of politics there that we have got to improve on.
After the 2010 midterm "shellacking," Obama was somewhat more conciliatory,saying, "I think that what I think is absolutely true is voters are not satisfied with the outcomes." But even then, he wasn't saying Republicans were right to oppose his stimulus; he was saying he hadn't enacted an aggressive enough approach to create enough jobs. He wasn't saying the price tags for the stimulus were too large; he was saying they seemed too large to many people.
In fact, many economists agree that he should have pursued a larger stimulus. There is widespread support for many components of the Affordable Care Act taken singly, despite the many more people who oppose the law in total. But it's likely that many people would have opposed these efforts anyway. Some would have done so out of partisan, tribal loyalty, which motivates many people's political positions. Others would have done so out of essential opposition to big-government programs. (Obama actually got at this, saying, "I think people started looking at all this and it felt as if government was getting much more intrusive into people's lives than they were accustomed to"—though that "accustomed to" seems to again presume that with enough time and the right wrapping, they could be convinced.)
Many Democrats have long thought that white, blue-collar voters, who have gradually deserted the party since Ronald Reagan was running for president, were just waiting for the right approach to lure them back. Democrats look at them as clear allies who are voting against their own interest, if only they could be made to see that. Obama touched on that idea in his Inskeep interview, too:
But I do think that when you combine that demographic change with all the economic stresses that people have been going through because of the financial crisis, because of technology, because of globalization, the fact that wages and incomes have been flatlining for some time, and that particularly blue-collar men have had a lot of trouble in this new economy, where they are no longer getting the same bargain that they got when they were going to a factory and able to support their families on a single paycheck, you combine those things and it means that there is going to be potential anger, frustration, fear. Some of it justified but just misdirected. I think somebody like Mr. Trump is taking advantage of that. That's what he's exploiting during the course of his campaign.
This is really just a more delicate articulation of Obama's infamous comments in 2008 about voters who "get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." (Inskeep, in fact, mentioned those comments later in the interview.) And it's not unlike Tom Frank's What's the Matter With Kansas? thesis, about citizens voting against what liberals see as their own self-interest.
Many of the disagreements here are about more than messaging. Perhaps those white, working-class voters aren't getting what they want out of the Democratic Party. (Group identity, rather than policy ignorance, probably goes a long way to explaining the discrepancy.) Maybe people wouldn't be radically more supportive of Obama's domestic-policy agenda if they just understood it better. The fact that no one else has a better idea for combating ISIS may indicate the magnitude of the challenge, not vindication for Obama. Explaining to voters why you're right often requires first taking seriously why they think you're wrong, and adapting underlying policies to address their concerns. Someone should figure out how to message that to the president.