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Suicide awareness campaigns

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Awareness campaigns in general in social media. They became popular once social media political initiatives were scientifically shown to be highly influential (The Political Power of Social Media: Technology, the Public Sphere, and Political Change http://www.jstor.org/stable/25800379?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents ). That’s unquestionable. However, here we are talking about organized virality orchestrated by an interest group (frequently a political […]

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Unwanted attention: female muscularity, its admirers and distractors

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The spectrum of male admiration/attraction for strong women and female muscularity and how to react to different levels of (sometimes unwanted) attention No, it’s not an article, just some thoughts: For some guys we are disgusting. For some, we are pretty. For some, we are VERY pretty, meaning very sexually attractive. That’s ok – everything

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The gym as the home: Brewhouse Barbell

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This article is a case study partly based on ethnographic analysis about a strength training gym. The goal here is to explore the concepts related to “homeness” on the choice of the training environment. It sets the ground for subsequent essays on alternative training settings and facilities and the concepts involved in their evolution. This

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The beauty of team work in sports: organizing meets is a very specialized occupation

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I have been the president of a national powerlifting organization in a powerlifting and ethics-unfriendly country. Our organization never really grew: the corruption tradition was so strong that the IPL/USPA project could hardly be understood by people who were already lifters. Our chance were the newcomers. I didn’t have the time: I moved away. I

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Something about principles, right and wrong, good and evil, coherence and violence

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(because many of the issues we discuss concerning sports governance, politics and interpersonal relations boils down to this – take it as a warmup for a discussion about performance enhancing drugs and the hidden agendas of the war on drugs) Principles are guidelines or beliefs by which one lives one’s life, makes one’s decisions, etc.

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“The Jenn” – a quick note from the Judge’s corner

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This is just a quick note written at the hotel lobby (the Hampton Inn) before I hit the road headed to the Treasure Coast. This is not a writeup and not even a properly thorough acknowledgements article. Let’s say this is a good-bye-see you soon note with many thank-yous and some interesting comments. Florida is

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The Healer

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When you learn to quiet your mind, you’ll hear them speaking to you.” Qui-Gon Jinn, to Anakin Skywalker. Midi-chlorians are microscopic, intelligent lifeforms that live within the cells of all living beings.   Since the dawn of cultural humanity, tribes and other types of societies have had healers. Today, “healer” is employed when describing traditional

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Never cross, step on or even approach too closely a loaded bar

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The bar is a sacred object for the lifter. No, I’m not taking poetic license here: sacred means that something is connected to something transcendent. The loaded bar a lifter is ready to lift is sacred to the bone. Be especially watchful with the deadlift bar. It’s on the ground, you might (if you are

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