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Lesbians, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) who are out to others have lower stress hormone levels and fewer symptoms of anxiety, depression, and burnout, a new study has found
Researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (CSHS) at Louis H. Lafontaine Hospital, affiliated with the University of Montreal, were behind the study.
Cortisol is a stress hormone in our body. When chronically strained, cortisol contributes to the 'wear and tear' exerted on multiple biological systems. Taken together, this strain is called "allostatic load".
"Our goals were to determine if the mental and physical health of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals differs from heterosexuals and, if so, whether being out of the closet makes a difference. We used measures of psychiatric symptoms, cortisol levels throughout the day, and a battery of over twenty biological markers to assess allostatic load," explained lead author Robert-Paul Juster.
"Contrary to our expectations, gay and bisexual men had lower depressive symptoms and allostatic load levels than heterosexual men. Lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals who were out to family and friends had lower levels of psychiatric symptoms and lower morning cortisol levels than those who were still in the closet," he stated.
Montrealers of diverse sexual orientations were invited to the laboratory of Dr. Sonia Lupien, Director of the CSHS. Lupien's team recruited eighty-seven men and women, all of whom were around twenty-five years of age. Over the course of several visits, the researchers collected psychological questionnaires, asked participants to provide saliva samples to measure cortisol over two days, and calculated allostatic load indices using results from blood, saliva, and urine samples.
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I ended up picking up an new frame and I was thinking of getting some Easton Delta force bullhorns. Do any of you guys ride carbon bars without worry? I'm about 265lbs and when i stand I do put a decent amount of stress on my current Al ones.
Why? At 265# the few grams weight savings won't matter. And, regardless of marketing hype, they don't really dampen anything.
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carbon bars are a waste for big guys and small guys. i wouldnt run them but it is up to you.
I love carbon anything but see no value other than bling in carbon bars.
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Thanks. Wasnt doing it for weight savings. More so for ride quality.
You'll notice a lot more difference in dampening just by running 10 lbs less in your tires or going to a slightly larger tire anyways. Both of which are significantly cheaper than carbon bars.
I also prefer aluminum handlebars for durability, and have not noticed any increase in comfort with carbon fiber bars. I've found that the best way to dampen vibration and make my hands more comfortable, is to put a thin layer of closed-cell foam along the top of my handlebars and all the-way up to the shifters.
I got the idea from those foam inserts that Specialized puts on their new bikes, especially the plush models like the Robaix. I noticed that the foam looked a lot like the stuff that they pack new computer parts in that we get in at work all the time. I shaped and shaved some foam from work to look like a slightly thicker version of the type that Specialized sells, and used double-sided carpet tape to place it on my handlebars. Then, I compressed it down about half-way with my bar tape to make it a bit smaller and firmer. I did not have any problems covering the foam with regular Specialized bar tape.
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Justin & Jordyn: Our How We Met Story
I love telling our "how we met" story, because if you don't know us, it's pretty unexpected. And, if you do know us, well, our beginnings make a lot of sense.
We met three years ago in Guatemala City, both having traveled there for a photography workshop. My first impression of Justin was that he was a skinny hipster. (You'll have to ask him what his first impression of me was.)
On (what we now realize was our first date) we climbed an active volcano just outside of Antigua. At the top we roasted marshmallows on the volcano's natural heat sources and felt like we were on a completely new planet. On the way down, distracted by taking pictures and pausing to climb trees, we got momentarily separated from the group and started practicing, in our very limited Spanish vocabulary, the phrases we might need to get a ride back into town. Eventually, we found our bus back.
Afterwards, covered in dirt, we went out for dinner.
A few months later, on a camping trip in Pennsylvania, Justin broke his T-12 vertebrae and severed his spinal cord incompletely. After being life flighted to a hospital, a seven-hour surgery, and a week in the ICU, we both felt the intensity and realness of our relationship. (I've written previously for IFF about how I processed praying for Justin, when our faiths were so different.) The next few months I traveled back and forth between Boston and the rehabilitation hospital in Philadelphia where he was recovering.
These days we live just outside of Boston in Salem, Massachusetts. We're both photographers, and I'm part of the communications team at Keshet. Our day-to-day life of marathoning TV shows, looking for photography work, and teaching ourselves how to cook is punctuated by weekend adventures—it's not abnormal for me to go into work on a Monday and answer the question of "what did you do this weekend" with "we ended up in the middle of New Hampshire and met some people who were ice fishing in the middle of a frozen lake…"
Our proposal story is the flip side of how we met—but, much like our first date, it makes complete sense if you know us.
There was no big romantic moment, but a long discussion. After several years of dating we knew how we felt about each other—the question was more how we felt about marriage. In many ways, deciding to get married made a lot of sense. In other ways, it was more of a stretch. We went back and forth about wedding hypotheticals and what would be important to each other. For me, having a Jewish ceremony was the most meaningful part of taking our commitment to the next level. For him, having a large gathering where all of our family and friends could be part of a celebration was essential.
Our decision to get married was just that—a joint, mutual decision. We both asked each other, we both agreed. We kept the news to ourselves for a while, just to see how it felt. A few weeks later we got a ring from my family, and we made it official. And, we've set a date: 9.26.15.
We're pretty excited to share our story with IFF's Wedding Blog. Storytelling—with photos and with words—is a big part of who we are. We'll be navigating how to put together a ceremony that feels comfortable and right for my Judaism, appropriate to Justin's secular belief, and understandable for all of our guests. We're trying to plan something on a modest budget, and we're hoping to do so without going crazy. I'm sure there will be some surprises along the way, but right now we're looking forward to our next adventure.
I Can't Wait To Marry My Fiancé
Hi, my name is Reva Minkoff, and I absolutely cannot wait to marry my fiancé, Derek. That sentence, or a derivative of it, is something my grandfather used as part of a marketing campaign for a bridal magazine about fifty years ago, but I guess it's universal and transcends time.
Derek and I have been dating for over four years and have lived together for the past year, but his proposal still took me by surprise on August 15th. For those of you that are fans of the show Friends, I joke that he pulled a Chandler—he spent about six weeks convincing me that he was not going to propose anytime soon. "What if I promised you that we would get engaged in ten years?" He'd ask. I think that number started at fourteen. By the time he proposed, I'd gotten it down, year by year, to four more years until a proposal. In the car ride up to Michigan, where he proposed, I had essentially resigned myself to the fact that I was never getting married.
So to say I was surprised by the proposal is probably an understatement. But of course, we both knew that my answer would be yes.
As much as I wanted to marry Derek, it increasingly became less and less of a question or a choice as to whether I would be with Derek, regardless. Ok, that's not entirely true—I was considering leaving over this whole "why won't he marry me" issue—but as I said, by the end, I really think I might have stuck around.
You see, Derek and I weren't looking for each other. We met at a friend's Hanukkah party. She and I had met at Break Fast that year and were becoming close friends. She and Derek worked together. I had been on a great date the night before the party, and while evaluating my options, wasn't actively looking. I have no idea what was in his head. Over wine and latkes, we laughed, talked, and bonded over the "movie quote" game my brother and I made up years ago.
Over the next seven months, Derek and I kept winding up together. Our friend likes to throw dinner parties, and we were both on the invite list. One night at a blues club, we started flirting. His cousin told him she thought I might be into him. A few weeks later, after the friend's birthday party, my roommate counseled that he thought Derek liked me. I didn't believe him.
But eventually we both independently (and unbeknownst to each other) asked our friend for permission to go out with the other person.
On our first date, he thought I wouldn't be interested in a relationship with him because I was Jewish and he wasn't (not true: I have always dated people who aren't Jewish and had no problem doing so), and that I was seeing someone else (kinda not true, as our mutual friend made me promise never to see that guy again if she were going to give me permission to go out with Derek).
As for me, I liked how he pushed me and challenged me. I liked how he made me laugh. But I was afraid that he wouldn't be strong enough to handle someone like me. I was afraid I would walk all over him. Which, as it turns out, could not be farther from the truth.
In the beginning, every six weeks or so he would want to have a serious conversation to remind me that he wasn't looking for anything serious. I would ask him if he was happy and if he had a good time when we were together. He would say yes. I would say then let's just take it one day at a time. After about four months, those conversations stopped.
Four years later, we have an amazing partnership, and I cannot wait to walk down the aisle with him. People often say that love comes when you aren't looking for it—and perhaps in many ways we are a great example. I wasn't looking for him. He wasn't looking for me. But we found each other. And now, the campaign that my grandfather came up with for a bridal magazine rings true. I cannot wait to marry him and share our journey to our October 11, 2015 wedding with all of you.
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East Coast Meets Midwest: Ryan and Lisa's Wedding Blog Introduction
Welcome. Shalom. My name is Ryan Mount and I am a great story teller, but as far as writing goes, this is new ground. Ring-bear with me while I try to introduce myself. (Please excuse the How I Met Your Mother jokes and references; it has been a favorite of Lisa, my fiancé, and became a favorite of mine. I also tend to think I have a great How I Met Your Mother story, but that post is for another time.)
My name is Ryan and as you can see I am a terrible at telling jokes, a self-proclaimed great story teller, and I am getting married in November to my fiancé Lisa. This blog is hopefully going to be an adventure of how a Jewish kid born and raised on the east coast got mixed up with, fell in love with and is now planning an interfaith wedding with an Ohio native and soul mate, Lisa.
Lisa was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio (right outside of Detroit, which I mention because I never heard of Toledo, before I met Lisa). She has been a Cincinnati area native for 12-13 years and lived here her entire adult life. Lisa was raised in a tight knit Polish neighborhood by mainly her father and her extended family. She has an older sister who is seven years older than her who also happens to be getting re-married one month after our upcoming wedding. Overall, her family dynamic is much different than my own and it certainly brings up a lot of conversation during our wedding planning. Lisa went through 12 years of Catholic School and church was a strong part of her young life.
I was born and raised in a small suburb of New Jersey called Westampton, but if you ask me where I am from the answer is always, "Philly." I come from an interfaith home where Dad was raised Catholic and Mom was raised Jewish, but neither practice. Christmas was always about Santa and Easter was always about the giant bunny. Jewish holidays stood as a staple of tradition, like Pesach/Passover, but no one kept kosher during it. We celebrated Hanukkah, which would end up growing to be one of the most important parts of my spiritual development as a Jew, but I would not come to realize that until much later. I have two sisters, one nine years younger, and one two-and-a-half years older. Somehow in the middle of all this non-practice growing up, I endured some personal hardships and continue to grow spiritually in the Jewish religion. I do not know if I classify myself as devout, but am a Friday night attendee of Temple and pray/meditate every day.
Who are we? (That is actually a sports chant Lisa and I both say every Tues/Thurs/Sun.) You see now we both live in Cincinnati, and initially met through the sport of Roller Derby. We are both skaters and each other's coaches for our teams. I am a Jewish professional working for the Federation system and she works for a custom box making company in Northern Kentucky.
Our wedding date is November 8, 2014. This blog will explore more about our relationship, our upcoming wedding plans and the challenges it takes to make a true interfaith wedding. We are striving for something more than just a Jewish wedding in a chapel (which right now is actually the plan). It is not just about a merging of two faiths, but also two very different cultures meshing together and hoping for a lot of laughs and only tears of happiness. So again, welcome and shalom.
Blog Post #1 – Introducing Jess & Erik
Hello IFF Community!
Check out me (Erik) and my fiancee Jess as we introduce ourselves via our first Hitch posting. We are super excited to be a part of the IFF community, to share our story and get your thoughts and opinions as we prepare for our interfaith (Buddhist/Jewish) wedding in November.
Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and we look forward to your comments and thoughts as we begin our journey with IFF.
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Welcome Erik and Jess!
As Yolanda and Arel wind down their blogging (after all, they did get married in January!), I'm excited to let you all know that we have a new couple blogging for us as they prepare for their marriage!
Erik is originally from Wisconsin and has lived in DC for 9 years. He works on Capitol Hill as a Chief of Staff for a Member of Congress from his hometown. A lapsed Catholic, Erik found Buddhism while in college and has been practicing, including hosting meditation at his apartment, for over 12 years.
Jess, who is Jewish, hails from Montreal, but moved to south Florida when she was a young girl. She currently works as the Director of External Affairs at a federal government agency and previously had spent several years in the Public Relations field and running Congressional campaigns.
They originally met in Wisconsin during the fall of 2000 while working on a rally for Joe Lieberman. After the rally they didn't see each other for 10 years and were reconnected via e-harmony in the fall of 2010. The rest, as people say, is history.
Give them a big welcome, and stay tuned for their own introductory post!
Who are we? Arel and Yolanda introduce themselves
Hi everyone!
Check out me (Yolanda) and my fiance Arel as we introduce ourselves via our first vlog (video blog) and hear a little bit about your story and upcoming wedding plans. We're very excited about this journey and look forward to learning more about Judaism as we figure out how to have a Jewish wedding with a mostly interfaith guest list.
We would love to hear from all of you out there. Please comment and show us some love or give your opinion. This wedding is a work in progress and we are eager to hear from y'all.
Introducing: Yolanda and Arel!
While Mia and Ethan are off enjoying their honeymoon (mazal tov again!), I'm excited to introduce a new couple to this blog:
Presenting, Yolanda and Arel! They're eager to get going, blogging and vlogging (that's video blogging) about their upcoming nuptials.
Don't forget to update your RSS feeds, keep an eye on our tweets and Facebook posts and you won't miss a single wedding blog post!
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Hi from Ethan and Mia
Welcome to all of our readers and thank you Benjamin for giving us this opportunity to share a little window into our lives with you.
So where to begin…well, if you read Mia's post from last spring, you know that we established open and honest communication about our different religious/spiritual beliefs from Day 1. Mia continued to learn more about Ethan's beliefs and attended more high holiday services with his family, and Ethan joined Mia at another Christmas celebration, this time fully prepared!
We are positive that such honesty helped bring us to where we are today: preparing to celebrate our decision to spend the rest of our lives together! (As Mia would say "forever and Ever and EVER!" in a children-of-the-corn type voice.)
Usually these conversations have been hopeful and thoughtful, but sometimes they have been somewhat emotional. For example, a few months into our relationship, there was a misunderstanding about Mia's involvement in a family event that prompted her to 'fess up to some ongoing concerns she had been harboring without realizing how deeply they were affecting her. This lead to a sudden outburst of "but what if…" questions on Mia's part, accompanied by tears and sniffles. One such question was, "but what if we get married, (sniffle) and have kids, (sniffle) and our kids go to Jewish day school, (sniffle sniffle) and the other kids know our kids' mother isn't Jewish. (Deep breath leading into high pitched voice) Will our kids get beaten up in the playground?"
Ethan chuckled as he pulled Mia into a hug. "First of all," he said, "we Jews are not known for our physical aggressiveness, Israelis not withstanding. Second, given how tall we both are (6′ and 5′ 11″), our children will be the local giants."
All joking aside, we both acknowledge that there are some communities that won't accept us or our children. This is quite sad, but we have been overwhelmed by the support and love of our friends, families, and communities.
It was clear early in our discussions of our wedding that the ceremony itself would be a blending of our traditions.
On the Jew hand, it is important to Ethan to have the Seven Blessings, a huppah and ketubah, and of course the breaking of the glass (I mean really, how often do you get to smash things in public?). On the more diverse hand, Mia wants influences from her myriad backgrounds, including Celtic and Native American blessings.
To accommodate ourselves we've agreed to have co-officiants, the cantor from Ethan's step-father's shul and a longtime and well-spoken dear family friend of Mia's. We're still working on a lot of the specifics of who will do which readings and if there will be songs, etc… But it's a start. And we look forward to sharing the process with all of you as we continue on this wild ride!
Most of the time, we plan to blog together, but occasionally you might get one of us who was suddenly caught up by the muse! Look out! Thank you for reading and helping us create another special community! Talk soon!
Introducing Our New Couple!!
For those of you who have been around a while, you'll remember that we've had interfaith couples blogging about their wedding preparations, and the ceremony itself, from time to time. The last couple to blog was Lulu and Alx, and you can scroll down to look back on all of that.
But this blog has been vacant for a while… I've been keeping my eyes and ears open, trying to find an interesting couple who would want to share their experiences with us. And then I found them: Mia and Ethan. Mia wrote an article for InterfaithFamily.com last spring, in which she shared details of their relationship, how they shared holidays and family meals with each other.
So when I saw Ethan's family (I'm good friends with two of his sisters) congratulating the couple on Facebook, I pounced.
Ethan and Mia will start blogging here about their plans for their wedding, the decisions they're making about religious elements, and more. (I personally hope that Ethan's step-father, a rabbi, will chime in…)
So update your RSS feeds, keep an eye on our tweets and Facebook posts and you won't miss a single wedding blog post!
Let us introduce ourselves!
It dawned on me this afternoon as I was finally able to log into the blog as an author for the first time that most of you will probably know nothing about us. Yes. I know. You have read our articles here before, and you have spent many a bored workday looking at our Facebook profiles, but you haven't formally met us.
Well. Nice to meet you.
I'll just start by saying that it is an honor for Lula and me to be able to share our thoughts and feelings about our impending nuptials with the interfaithfamily, family.
So Lula was brought up in a family that didn't stick strictly to a single faith. Her Japanese mother was influenced as a child by Christian missionaries. Her Trinidadian/French Father was brought us in a southern Baptist family in Texas. What a world! When they started their family during the Vietnam War, I don't think that they put too much thought into religiosity. What that left were children who celebrated Christmas and had maybe had an Easter ham or two.
I was born and raised as a Jew from a Jewish family. Too much food. I still have the belly to prove it. We were brought up in the conservative movement where I have pretty much stayed. I work for the Jewish Publication Society here in Philadelphia and couldn't love it more. I wouldn't call my self observant, but Lula might. I feel like I learn more about Judaism each day and each time I learn more, I relate better.
We have a son, Raiden who is also Jewish just like his pop. Rai is almost 10 months old and will be 16 months when we tie the knot on June 7th 2009 here in Philadelphia.
I think that we will have much to say. I feel like this wedding is a process that comes along inch by inch every day.
We look forward to chronicling the journey here.
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Located in Xuhui, this hotel is 0.9 mi (1.4 km) from Shanghai East Asia Exhibition Hall and within 3 mi (5 km) of Jing An Temple and French Concession. Shanghai Stadium and Metro City are also within 1 mi (2 km).
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Ok for over 6 months now, the spin instructors have been experiencing technical difficulties with the stereo system in the spin room. One week ago I ended up having to wear my iPod because the volume on the system kept cutting in and out and goi... Read more
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What a morning! For once the forecasters were somewhat right in that we certainly got snow. It was of course, more than they predicted, but indeed we did get blanketed with about 8 inches. When I went out this morning to start my car-no garage-I... Read more
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Computational Management Science
, Volume 8, Issue 4, pp 355-370
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Progressive hedging innovations for a class of stochastic mixed-integer resource allocation problems
- Jean-Paul WatsonAffiliated withDiscrete Math and Complex Systems Department, Sandia National Laboratories
- , David L. WoodruffAffiliated withGraduate School of Management, University of California Email author
Numerous planning problems can be formulated as multi-stage stochastic programs and many possess key discrete (integer) decision variables in one or more of the stages. Progressive hedging (PH) is a scenario-based decomposition technique that can be leveraged to solve such problems. Originally devised for problems possessing only continuous variables, PH has been successfully applied as a heuristic to solve multi-stage stochastic programs with integer variables. However, a variety of critical issues arise in practice when implementing PH for the discrete case, especially in the context of very difficult or large-scale mixed-integer problems. Failure to address these issues properly results in either non-convergence of the heuristic or unacceptably long run-times. We investigate these issues and describe algorithmic innovations in the context of a broad class of scenario-based resource allocation problem in which decision variables represent resources available at a cost and constraints enforce the need for sufficient combinations of resources. The necessity and efficacy of our techniques is empirically assessed on a two-stage stochastic network flow problem with integer variables in both stages.
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- Progressive hedging innovations for a class of stochastic mixed-integer resource allocation problems
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Computational Management Science
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- 2011-11
- 10.1007/s10287-010-0125-4
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Jean-Paul Watson (1)
- David L. Woodruff (2)
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- 1. Discrete Math and Complex Systems Department, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS 1318, Albuquerque, NM, 87185-1318, USA
- 2. Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616-8609, USA


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Asia > Southeast Asia > Philippines > Mindanao > Caraga Region > Bislig
Bislig is in Mindanao.
Bislig is in Surigao del Sur on the eastern side of Mindanao island.
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Bislig is 208 km from Davao City, 158 km from Butuan City and 161km from Tandag.
There are buses and vans from Davao City (5-7h) and Butuan City (4-5h) The nearest airports are in Davao City, Butuan City and Tandag and the nearest sea port is the Nasipit port, 27 km from Butuan.
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Many tricycles 1st 2kms p8.00.
- Enchanted River Hianatuan. Entrance fee: ₱30.
- Tinuy-an Falls. 55 meters high. 18 km from town, a 30-minute tricycle ride.
- Tonys Super store, Abarca street, corner of P.Lindo street. 09.00-18.00. A big supermarket.
- PNB Bank, Espritu street.. two 24 hours Visa card ATMs.
- G-mars Department store, Picasales street. 9am-7pm. Has a supermarket.
- Novo department store, Spiritu street Mangagoy. 9am-7pm.
- Bayalas comercial store, Abarca street. 9am-7pm.
- Zams, Espiritu street.
There are many budget inns and pension houses to stay at in Bislig.
- Hotel One Eleven, A Barca street. Fan single/double.a/c rooms. ₱150/250/380.
- Casa De Babano, p-4 caramam, ☎ +63 86-853-1097. Fan single room. double A/C room. outside bathrooms. ₱250/500.
- Shielah Penson house, Espirito street, ☎ +63 86-853-1510. Fan single/double outside bathrooms. A/C rooms. ₱250/450.
- St Francis Pension House, Espirita street. Fan single/double with shared bathroom. ₱150/300.
- Sleep inn, R. B Castillo street. Fan single or double rooms. ₱150/300.
- Violys Pension House., ☎ +63 86-628-2369. a/c single. a/c double with own bathrooms. p350/400.
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The life of a baseball player is never as easy as it seems. The Chicago Cubs had this one prospect, Adam Greenberg, in 2005. Greenberg stepped into the batter's box against Florida Marlins pitcher Valerio De Los Santos. Not sooner did he step in the box did he receive his first pitch. De Los Santos' first 92-mph fastball targeted the back of Greenberg's head.
He would never be the same.
Greenberg suffered continually from post-concussion syndrome, dizziness, headaches, double vision and nausea. Greenberg never made the major leagues ever again and dropped out of baseball altogether after a brief stint in the Independent Leagues.
Fast forward to 2012 and Greenberg is getting another shot with the team that ultimately damaged his potential. The 31-year-old, thanks to the Miami Marlins, will get a one-day contract and make a plate appearance with the team next week when the Marlins play the New York Mets. The Mets will be starting R.A. Dickey in his continued pursuit of the NL Cy Young award.
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It was only a few days ago in Oregon that a gunman opened a fire in a mall and killed two people. The American public is very familiar with this story because it's been very common for the last several years. A gunman enters a public area, sometimes a school, sometimes a movie theater and sometimes a mall, and opens fire on a group of people. Yesterday, in Newtown, Connecticut, it happened again. A gunman entered Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed 27 people, 20 of whom were little kids.
It is definitely apparent that mass shootings have been more common and visible in the US than in other countries. The American public is now trying to understand what lies behind the mass shootings.
Today's Zaman interviewed experts and scholars in the US to understand what the mass shootings mean for the American public.
Frank Scandale, former editor-in-chief of New Jersey daily The Record, who covered these types of mass shootings in the past, says the shootings are happening more and more and that makes it scarier. "The US for sure is not the only place it happens -- Norway, Scotland, for example -- but it seems to be happening with regularity. Surely there are more guns here."
"The easy availability of guns is obviously the heart of the problem," says Professor Carol Wilder of the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York. She also believes that a cinematic culture in which everything has to be larger than life to gain attention makes the situation worse. She sees this exacerbated by widespread cultural anxiety and instability and says that it is a miracle these unspeakable crimes don't happen every day. She says that the deliberate murder of little children takes this massacre to a new level that just might change public opinion, at least on the issue of gun control.
Dr. Lauhona Ganguly, on the other hand, thinks there are some specific policy gaps and some larger social-cultural issues that need to be accounted for. In terms of specific policy gaps, she also sees the lack of gun control laws playing a big role: "You may have heard a similar case of a mentally unstable man attacking schoolchildren in China this morning. But there were no dead children in that case because there was no gun in the hands of the man. He had a knife and certainly wounded some but the level of injury and scale of attack could be contained."
No doubt, guns are just very efficient killing machines. With more guns in circulation, more such mass killings are likely to happen. There are numerous studies on this, particularly comparative studies that suggest the availability of guns plays a role in such events.
Ganguly says that the US needs specific gun control laws. "It is beyond ridiculous that one can walk into a store and buy milk, baby diapers and a gun in the same store at the same time. I am talking of guns sold at Walmart, for example, which is simply wrong, to my mind, let alone all the gun fairs and other mechanisms that make it so easy to have a gun [licensed or unlicensed] in the US."
But on another level, aren't there are also some larger social, cultural and philosophical questions that need to be asked? Such as how the discourse of masculinity, warfare and social alienation in the modern economy impact American society?
Ganguly has very interesting insights on the question: "We give guns as toys to little boys; teenage boys play violent video games in their bedrooms, at homes … involving killing, rape, theft, etc., all of which are considered 'normal' as part of popular culture; we tell our boys and men that emotional expressions or crying are signs of weakness, which discourages them from seeking mental health services that could address the increasing stress levels that the modern capitalist economy entails; the country has been fighting wars for the last 10 years, filling our media with images of warfare that have become part of everyday life and consumption. Such a social-cultural context is alienating us and eventually making us immune to acts of violence -- which social psychologists and commentators have suggested leads to loss of human empathy, ability to relate to the pain of others."
Dr. Hasan Tahsin Arslan from Pace University's Criminal Justice and Security Department thinks that the shooters in fact are inspired by other shooters and focuses on their motivation.
"First, I believe that these are copycat killers. Just on Tuesday we had a shooting in Oregon. They were encouraged and inspired by other shooters. [They are] seeking fame in pursuing a horrific act, because it might be the only way to 'achieve the success' after several failures in their personal lives. Once they have seen 'others' doing it, then they act upon it," he says.
Dr. Arslan also points out that most shooters have multiple mental conditions and problems. "Signals [of such problems] were sent at different times and places but there were no receptors on the other side. Again, it is hard to detect them most of the time, especially for strangers. Only relatives or the people around them could identify and interpret those signals prior to a possible horrific act."
But are the guns the root of the problems? Arslan says that it is the lack of education and the entertainment world -- video games and the media with its "if it bleeds, it leads" approach to news. "There is already a black market for guns; thus, [passing] laws can only delay the shootings but will most likely not terminate them. However, a cultural transformation must be done for this."
It is so interesting that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution proclaims the right to bear arms. But why?
Anthropologist Professor Jenny White of Boston University has an insight on this. "Many people think that it is an important part of American independence that every citizen is allowed to own a gun so that no one can invade the country, so that people can stand against tyranny, and can express their individual freedom."
"There is a push for more gun control, for instance by banning the type of guns and ammunition that only have a military purpose, rather than handguns and rifles that people use for target shooting, self-defense and hunting. There is, however, a powerful lobby that stands in the way of strengthening gun laws. They argue that 'guns don't kill people; people kill people'," Professor White adds.
It's obvious that mass murders gain considerable media attention. Every time there is mass shooting, the way the media covers it raises question. Actor and musician Micheal McGlone believes that American media plays it like a show:
"As to the shootings I think their increase and type have in part to do with the speed and growth of a desensitization to human experience and empathy [from] the vast resources of stimulation and gratification of the age of information."
"Exposure to the worst is so constant, and the media plays it as if it is an ongoing show."


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A photo of legendary film director Alfred Hitchcock and three kids (most likely his grandchildren) screaming in a sledge – followed by a rider. We couldn't find out when and where this shot was taken but it looks like they are having a great time.
Apart from his movies – my favorite's North by Northwest, but it's hard to pick one out of his great filmography – I can highly recommend this book by François Truffaut: The Definitive Study of Alfred Hitchcock.
At this point we'd like to call this a series: "single photos with overly descriptive titles" – see our previous installment Frank Sinatra Stepping out of His Helicopter With a Whiskey Glass in Hand.
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