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Posted by Behind the Aegis | Sat Jul 19, 2014, 05:39 AM (1 replies)
1 in 6 men have experienced abusive sexual experiences before age 18
Researchers have found that 1 in 6 men have experienced abusive sexual experiences before age 18. And this is probably a low estimate, since it doesnt include noncontact experiences, which can also have lasting negative effects.
If youve had such an experience, or think you might have, you are not alone.
If you wonder whether such an experience may be connected to some difficulties or challenges in your life now, you are not alone
Myths & Facts
Here we address some myths that everyone absorbs to some extent, especially boys and men whove had unwanted or abusive sexual experiences. These myths are big obstacles to understanding and healing, so its really important to know just how wrong they are.
Before addressing the myths, lets review some key facts:
Boys and men can be sexually used or abused, and it has nothing to do with how masculine they are.
If a boy liked the attention he was getting, or got sexually aroused during abuse, or even sometimes wanted the attention or sexual contact, this does not mean he wanted or liked being manipulated or abused, or that any part of what happened, in any way, was his responsibility or fault.
Sexual abuse harms boys and girls in ways that are similar and different, but equally harmful.
Boys can be sexually abused by both straight men and gay men. Sexual abuse is the result of abusive behavior that takes advantage of a childs vulnerability and is in no way related to the sexual orientation of the abusive person.
Whether he is gay, straight or bisexual, a boys sexual orientation is neither the cause or the result of sexual abuse. By focusing on the abusive nature of sexual abuse rather than the sexual aspects of the interaction, it becomes easier to understand that sexual abuse has nothing to do with a boys sexual orientation.
Girls and women can sexually abuse boys. The boys are not lucky, but exploited and harmed.
Most boys who are sexually abused will not go on to sexually abuse others.
Myth 1 The myth that boys cant be sexually used or abused, and if one is, he can never be a real man.
Everyone absorbs the myth that males arent victims, to some extent. Its central to masculine gender socialization, and boys pick up on it very early in life. This myth implies that a boy or man who has been sexually used or abused will never be a real man. Our society expects males to be able to protect themselves. Successful men are depicted as never being vulnerable, either physically or emotionally. (See How It Can Be Different for Men and How Being Male Can Make It Hard to Heal.)
Whether you agree with that definition of masculinity or not, boys are not men. They are children. They are weaker and more vulnerable than those who sexually abuse or exploit them who use their greater size, strength and knowledge to manipulate or coerce boys into unwanted sexual experiences and staying silent. This is usually done from a position of authority (e.g., coach, teacher, religious leader) or status (e.g. older cousin, admired athlete, social leader), using whatever means are available to reduce resistance, such as attention, special privileges, money or other gifts, promises or bribes, even outright threats.
What happens to any of us as children does not need to define us as adults or men. It is important to remember that that 1 in 6 boys are sexually abused before age 18 (see The 1 in 6 Statistic), and that those boys can grow up to be strong, powerful, courageous and healthy men. Examples are found on our website (see Other Guys Like Me), and there are many others out there.
This can be a difficult and emotional topic. My friend, one_voice, posted this in another group and I am reposting because I feel this is something men do need to discuss, without shame, prejudice, and blame. What was interesting for me was upon reading this I remembered an assault I endured during my high school years. It was odd how I had not thought about it, even in the years I was a rape crisis counselor. I guess it is one of those things some men do in order to not think about the situation.
The other issue is being able to talk to male children about this in a way that doesn't make them fearful or feel ashamed. In my estimation, most people don't really think to consider boys as potential victims, yet, as the above shows, it is more common than most think.
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Tue Jul 15, 2014, 02:28 AM (20 replies)
Bereaved Israeli family consoles father of murdered Palestinian teen
Two bereaved families, one Israeli and one Palestinian established contact Sunday, during a condolence visit by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at the Nof Ayalon home of Naftali Fraenkel, one of the three Israeli teens kidnapped and murdered in the West Bank.
During the visit, Barkat called Hussein Abu Khdeir, the father of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a 16-year-old Palestinian whose body was found in the Jerusalem Forest last week. Barkat offered his condolences, and at the end of the call asked Hussein Abu Khdeir and Yishai Fraenkel, Naftali Fraenkel's uncle, if they wish to speak. Fraenkel expressed his condolences, and added that he was horrified to learn that Khdeir's murderers were Jews.
The two agreed that the families of the three Jewish victims would soon pay a condolence visit to Abu Khdeir's family over the death of their son.
more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.603443/1.603443
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Posted by Behind the Aegis | Mon Jul 7, 2014, 01:50 AM (16 replies)
Europe must face up to the new antisemites
The New York Met this week cancelled its planned global telecast of John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer, the opera that portrays the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1985. While emphasising that the work itself is not antisemitic, the Met's general manager, Peter Gelb, said that he recognised concerns among Jews "at this time of rising antisemitism, particularly in Europe". Regardless of one's view of either the opera or the Met's decision, Gelb is unfortunately spot on about Europe.
A survey of global attitudes towards Jews conducted by the Anti-Defamation League recently found that 24% of people in western Europe (37% in France, 29% in Spain, 27% in Germany, 69% in Greece) and 34% in eastern Europe (41% in Hungary, 45% in Poland, 38% in Ukraine) harboured antisemitic views. By this it meant they agreed with six or more classical stereotypes about Jews from a list of 11 including "Jews have too much control over the US government", "Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars", and "People hate Jews because of the way Jews behave".
Such beliefs are translating to support at the ballot box. At last month's European elections, three countries Greece, Hungary and Germany elected neo-Nazi MEPs. Germany's NPD openly describes itself as national socialist. Antisemitism is also leading to violence against Jews. Four people were murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels just days before the European elections. Facing trial is Mehdi Nemmouche, a French Muslim radicalised in Syria with an expressly antisemitic agenda. In 2012, a rabbi and three children were murdered at a Jewish school in Toulouse by Mohammad Merah, another radicalised Muslim with similarly antisemitic views. There were 170 antisemitic acts reported to the Paris-based Jewish Community Protection Service and the French Ministry of the Interior in the first three months of 2014. Jews in Kiev, Bucharest and Stockholm have been attacked, the Jewish cemetery in Andrychów desecrated and the president of Rome's Jewish community was sent the head of a pig in a box.
When antisemitic attitudes are so widespread across Europe, these tragic and terrifying incidents are the real and disturbing consequences. No wonder Jews all over Europe are feeling increasingly worried. Over half of French Jews now think that "Jews have no future in France". As many as 75% of French Jews say they are considering emigrating. Many already have. One of my closest friends recently moved from France to Canada, because he felt "the situation there is no longer safe for my children".
more: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/20/europe-must-face-new-antisemites?commentpage=1
Fat chance.
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:55 AM (0 replies)
Debunking the myth of the 'ungrateful Holocaust survivor
In Poland, they were known as the ungrateful Jews. These were Jews who survived the Holocaust because of the selfless acts of thousands of Polish rescuers who put their lives on the line for them but were never properly thanked. As soon as the war was over, these Jews headed out to greener pastures overseas, never again to establish contact with those who served as their guardian angels.
Its one of the popular narratives that emerged in post-war Communist Poland, but according to Holocaust scholar Joanna Michlic, its a big myth.
Yes, its true that many Jews broke off contact with their rescuers, she says, but that was done deliberately to protect them because anti-Semitism was so rampant at the time that had suspicions been raised that they had saved Jews, they would have been punished by their neighbors for being traitors. So while many Jews would have like to stay in contact with their rescuers after the war, they decided it was best to stay away.
Michlic, a visiting Fulbright scholar this semester at the University of Haifa Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research, is currently working on a book about relations between Polish rescuers and the Jews they saved in the post-war period. Her findings are based on a large cache of letters she discovered at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. It includes more than 500 letters written by Jewish survivors to Jewish organizations on behalf of their rescuers, and by Jewish survivors to their rescuers in the first several years after the war.
more: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.599683
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:45 AM (2 replies)
Jim Keegstra, Holocaust denier who took hate speech battle to Supreme Court, dead at 80
Jim Keegstra, who has died aged 80, was a Holocaust denying high school teacher, mechanic, and mayor of Eckville, Alta., whose prosecution for the wilful promotion of hatred went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, where the controversial law was upheld as a fair limit on free speech.
He died June 2, and his funeral was last Friday in Red Deer, where he worked for many years as the custodian of an apartment building. The cause was an enlarged heart after a prolonged illness, according to his son, Darren Keegstra.
Fixated on the anti-Semitic forgery, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, Mr. Keegstra denigrated Jews to his students in the 1980s.
I got onto this through the scripture, he told the journalist Robert Mason Lee in 1985. Here was a people who denied everything about Christ, yet they were called the chosen people. That is a contradiction.
more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06/13/jim-keegstra-holocaust-denier-who-took-hate-speech-battle-to-supreme-court-dead-at-80/
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Sat Jun 14, 2014, 03:04 AM (4 replies)
Seven-Year-Old Boy Launches Anti-Bully Club To Repent For His Days As A Former Bully
A seven-year-old boy in Beaumont, CA is employing a bit of positive peer pressure to help his classmates understand the damaging effects of adolescent bullying.
Cameron Thompson, a second-grader at Tournament Hills Elementary school, recently found himself in hot water after making fun of another boy for bringing a Barbie doll to school for show-and-tell. I didnt really mean to tease him so much that I made him cry, Cameron told Today.
His punishment was to write an apology letter to his classmate, but according to his mother, Camerons guilt didnt fade over the following weeks. He came to me a couple of weeks later and he said, I still feel really bad about what I did to him, Camerons mother Jessica Southard recalls. He said, How do I get that feeling to go away?
To help others learn from his mistakes, Cameron and his mother joined forces with the boy Cameron bullied to form an anti-bully club, which drew a whopping 76 kids in to its first meeting, far exceeding the schools expectations. Since I was sad, I thought I could make it up to him and he could feel better and I could feel better too, Cameron said.
more: http://www.queerty.com/seven-year-old-boy-launches-anti-bully-club-to-repent-for-his-days-as-a-former-bully-20140605
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Thu Jun 5, 2014, 04:35 PM (4 replies)
Anti-Semitism: Not a Threat to American Jews
There are plenty of things for American Jews to worry about, but anti-Semitism is not one of them.
Anti-Semitism is not a threat to the security and well-being of the Jews of America.
This is not to deny the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe or the explosion of Jew hatredoften disguised as anti-Zionismin much of the Muslim world. The reappearance of these murderous lunacies in certain regions of the world is a solemn reminder that anti-Semitism never disappears from the human heart.
Nonetheless, a little perspective is in order. The just-released study by the Anti-Defamation League on global anti-Semitism, which suggests that one-quarter of the worlds population is anti-Semitic, argues that 21 million Americans can reasonably be classified anti-Semites. This has caused much dismay among some American Jews. Twenty-one million may be fewer than 10% of all Americans, but it is still a very large number.
Nonetheless, I am counted among those who see no cause for alarm. It is important to remember that the ADL survey is an attempt to measure anti-Semitic attitudes, which are notoriously difficult to gauge; and it does so using methodologies that are much in dispute. What it does not do is measure anti-Semitic behaviors, which are a reasonably objective matter and the means by which Jews traditionally determine their progress in gaining full acceptance in America.
more: http://time.com/2798435/anti-semitism-not-a-threat-to-american-jews/
I call "bullshit!" It may not be at the level of Europe, but to pretend, and that what this is, that we shouldn't be concerned is naïve at best and flat-out suicidally stupid at worst. There are no train carts on the rails, but to act as if there isn't a problem worth concern is myopic. I find it interesting the Rebbe doesn't mention the shooting at the Jewish Centers in Kansas. According to FBI stats, 'attacks' against Jews are higher than other groups, and a few years, higher than all other groups combined!
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BULLSHIT! "Kill the Jew" in Chicago based on a video game (one day suspension for the students involved); The "Is the Holocaust a Hoax?" in California and Massachusetts; "Getting Jewed" as stated by an Oklahoma legislator and the list goes on and on. It starts at the ground-level, just like every other movement, not top down as the Rabbi seems to suggest.
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Thu Jun 5, 2014, 02:48 AM (4 replies)
D-Day: A German Jew survives the Holocaust to fight the Nazis
His is a different war story, one of survival long before he got into World War II.
Henry Hirschmann was born a Jew in Grossauheim, Germany, in 1920, shortly after the end of World War I. Germanys economy was in shambles and Hitler used his countrys vulnerabilities to rise to power in 1933.
For the first few years, I didnt feel the impact of his dictatorship, said Hirschmann, now 93. Then on Nov. 9 in 1938, I experienced one of the worst events of my life.
It was called Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass the night of Nazi violence that signaled the beginning of the Holocaust. The Nazis torched 200 synagogues, ransacked 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses and murdered scores of German and Austrian Jews. They rounded up 70,000 more Jews mostly men for the concentration camps.
They sent Hirschmann to Buchenwald, one of Germanys first and largest concentration camps. But with sponsorship from an aunt and uncle in New York, they released him after six months.
He arrived in the Bronx in May 1939, four months before Hitlers army invaded Poland, starting World War II. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, drawing America into the war, he ached to join the U.S. Army so he could return to Europe and fight the Germans. He got his chance in 1943, and a month after D-Day landed at Normandy, France, with an Army field artillery battalion loaded down with howitzers.
more: http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/2014/06/03/2452912/d-day-a-german-jew-survives-the.html
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Thu Jun 5, 2014, 02:13 AM (7 replies)
Far-right Rise Unites EU Muslims, Jews
ANKARA Raising concerns of followers of both faiths, the sweeping victory of far-right parties in the European parliament elections has led to an unlikely unity between European Muslims and Jews against anti-immigration, xenophobic parties.
We must learn to work together effectively on the both grass roots and leadership levels," Imam Ahmed Miktar, president of the Association of the Imams of France and a member of the Gathering of European Muslim and Jewish Leaders, told Reuters on Tuesday, May 27.
"Muslims and Jews Our communities can no longer afford the luxury of standing apart."
After the vote, the Gathering of European Muslim and Jewish Leaders, an interfaith group affiliated with the American Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, vowed to work closely together to fight Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and xenophobia and prevent the far right parties from realizing their goal of passing a common legislative agenda in the European Parliament severely restricting the rights of religious minorities," FFEU founder Rabbi Marc Schneier explained.
Just as European Muslim and Jewish leaders joined forces in recent months in successfully combating an effort by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to outlaw circumcision and to protest Denmarks new law banning kosher and halal slaughtering, we will now stand together and speak with one voice against efforts by the extremist parties to implement their hateful agenda."
more: http://www.onislam.net/english/news/europe/472977-far-right-rise-unites-eu-muslims-jews.html
Posted by Behind the Aegis | Wed May 28, 2014, 02:51 AM (3 replies)


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Reveal the beauty of Argentina during an El Chalten Trekking tour.
Famed for its treks and vicinity to striking Mt Fitz Roy, El Chalten is one of Argentina's premier destinations for both serious hikers and novice walkers alike. Led by a knowledgeable local tour guide, this trip takes you along two of the El Chalten region's most famous treks – Laguna de los Tres and Laguna los Torres. Spend six days navigating the spellbinding rocky and rugged mountainous paths under the shadow of the Fitz Roy Range, journeying past beautiful lakes, lagoons and glaciers, stopping to take in the awesome landscapes that will simply take your breath away and camping under star-lit skies after a rewarding day of hiking.
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Day 1 El Calafate
Welcome to the bustling town of El Calafate. Usually fairly busy with tourists, there are plenty of things here to enjoy before the trekking begins. The main drag, Av Libertador, is peppered with cafes and restaurants and provides a good spot to watch the world go by until meeting fellow trekkers in the evening.
Day 2 Perito Moreno Glacier/El Chalten
Today, the main event – a day tour of the spectacular Perito Moreno Glacier. Sitting some 70 metres tall and around five kilometres wide, this is one jaw-droppingly enormous slab of ice. The highlight of the southern region of Los Glaciares National Park, the glacier is one of only three in Patagonia that are not retreating and one of 48 fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Observe the power of nature from the safety of a catwalk as the glacier creaks and groans and mammoth chunks of ice break and crash into the water below. It's also an option to take a short boat trip out onto the lake to get up-close and personal with this overshadowing wall of ice.Return to El Calafate in an travel to El Chalten where your trekking adventure begins.
Days 3-5 El Chalten
Journey to El Chalten, the trekking capital of Argentina and the star of this South American adventure. With the snow-capped magnificence of the Fitz Roy Range nearby, keen trekkers flock to the area to make the most of the spectacular mountain scenery and the world-class hiking and camping. The first of two hikes, Laguna de Los Tres is the most famous trek due to its proximity to Mt Fitz Roy. Trekking from El Chalten in a fairly straight path, take in spectacular views of the lagoon and De los Tres Glacier; this trek is the quintessential excursion into this area and a perfect way to spend the day. Led by an experienced local tour guide, there is no better way to learn about local wild and plant life and the history of the surrounding mountains. The Laguna Los Torres also offers incredible scenery and rewarding trekking - and there's ample opportunity to be awestruck by the sheer might of the jagged Mt Fitz Roy. Travel back to El Calafate for some well-deserved downtime before the trip comes to an end.
Day 6 El Calafate (departure day)
Rest weary feet or wander around El Calafate in search of some tasty local treats.
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MAXWELL ANDERSON: This painting by Jasper Johns, called Three Flags, was made in 1958. Todd Gitlin is a sociologist at NYU and a scholar of American culture of the 1960s:TODD GITLIN: He's neither celebrating the flag nor stabbing it in the heart. He's to use a later term, deconstructing it. Another way to put it is that he's inviting you to become innocent. He's inviting you to look at these things as if you were a martian. And just to stare at them and to take them as natural artifacts.The question is not just why is Johns painting these flags and numbers and letters but why are other people buying them, exhibiting them, find them interesting. There is an argument to be made that he is retailing in the fifties a sort of soft aestheticizing of the sacred national symbol in a way that flatters or honors the nation but without genuflection. That is, he's appropriating with a frisson of individuality an attitude of approval which incorporates a brief moment of disapproval and so he's sort of signing on to Americanism as a graceful dissenter.And in a world that's increasingly cluttered by symbols—cluttered with artifacts that are mass produced, cluttered with noise and slogan and so on—that the proper attitude to take toward all of that is a kind of amused, distant, as Rolling Stone would later put it, cosmic giggle. But in the meantime I think he's also saying, and it's part of his appeal to the zeitgeist that he's saying to the world of intellectuality, shut up. Just shut up. Shut up and look.
In this video blog (or, "vlog"), educator and artist Christine S. Kim discusses Jasper Johns' iconic painting Three Flags.
Jasper Johns, Three Flags
Jasper Johns is an American painter who typically makes use of pre-existing symbols and icons in his work, such as flags, maps, targets, numbers and letters. His focus on these icons is not personal— he examines how they are seen in the external world, rather than engaging in personal expression or dialogue. Take, for example, the letter A… we come in contact with the letter A on a daily basis in its printed form. An example of Johns' approach can be observed in his use of the letter A. He stretched and changed its form and placed it in a repeating pattern. Upon examination, it is no longer readable as the letter A but has become something else, something more purely formal. Let me show you an example.
One night in 1954, Johns had a dream, a vision in which he saw the American flag with its stars and stripes. Johns pondered this image and one year later he painted his first American flag. Three years later, Johns was still focusing on the flag motif, and felt he needed to do something more with it. He created a sketch for a painting layering three flags of different sizes. The work here is entitled "Three Flags". To create this work, Johns used a traditional technique known as encaustic painting, which involves mixing colorful pigments with warm wax. Using this mixture, one cannot paint in a leisurely fashion— rather a quick process of rapid brush strokes is required before the mixture hardens. This also creates layers of texture in the piece, highlighting the contrasts between the depicted image of the flag, which is flat and geometric and its textured, rippling surface.
An interesting fact about this piece is that it contains only 48 stars, not 50. In 1958 when it was painted the American flag only contained 48 stars. The following year, in '59, Hawaii and Alaska were voted in to the United States, making it a total of 50— despite this, Johns consistently continued painting only 48 stars in his works.
We encounter the American flag daily, whether on the subway or hanging from a flagpole. This is a familiar symbol to us, one that needs no explanation. But have you ever really taken the time to investigate the flag up close? I had the opportunity to do so and I realized my context was evolving and being reframed, and thus it has altered my experience of how I look at the flag.
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State officials have put up signs that alert drivers that work to lift the 50-cent toll on GA 400 and demolish the toll plaza will begin on Friday.
"I think it's well overdue, isn't it?" asked Patti Lance, who drove in on GA 400 to shop in Buckhead on Monday.
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This blogroll code was first published on July 20, 2007. It was hosted with blogrolling.com at that time and rose to a high count of 758 listings! On May 27, 2009, it was finally moved to be hosted with bloglines. Dead links and blogs without posts over 6 months were removed. The new list begins with 487 blogs. Since bloglines will alert me to feeds that are no longer working, in addition to sorting from newest to oldest posts, I can better keep the list current.
On September 23, 2010, the blogroll was moved to Google Reader as Bloglines (owned by Ask.com) was closing the first of October. The list contained 806 blogs.
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Having it on your own blog would make it easy for you and your readers to quickly find someone else's blog. In addition, the posts are set to sort with the blog most recently to post at the top. What a great way to just waste some time visiting other blogs right from your own blog!
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The chief executive officer or dean must be a veterinarian, and the officer(s) responsible for the professional, ethical, and academic affairs of the veterinary medical teaching hospital must also be a veterinarian.
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I've written for publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Glamour, Marie Claire, Wine Spectator, and Time Out NY Kids and websites including Babble, AOL/Huffington Post, BN Review, MSN, and Salon. My work has been anthologized in the book "Maybe Baby" and eBook "Welcome to My World" and honored with a MADD Media Award. My proudest accomplishments, however, are a son who says I look like a teenager and a daughter who draws princesses and labels them "Mommy."
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Guess what -- good news! Los Angeles may soon do something about its daytime curfew and truancy laws, which can result in kids getting handcuffed by police, searched, and fined hundreds of dollars just for arriving at school a few minutes late. Who-hoo! ... I'm sorry, what? Kids are getting handcuffed and searched and fined hundreds of dollars -- money their families need to make rent and pay for food -- just because they're a few ticks behind schedule? What country are we living in again?
There are so many reasons not to like going to the dentist, so many things to fear: cavities, fillings, drills, root canals, bad-tasting pastes, those things you have to bite down on for X-rays (really hate those), even the look of disapproval on the dental assistant's face when you admit you may not floss every day. But now there's something new to fear: Legionnaires' disease.Yup, the death of an 82-year-old Italian woman who had been infected by Legionnaires' disease -- which people get from breathing in bacteria-infected particles of standing water and which causes symptoms that are sort of like a severe case of pneumonia -- was traced to the water line in her dentist's office. And it turns out that dental water lines are a known potential source for Legionella bacteria, which can cause Legionnaires' disease.
If I told you that pollution is bad for your health, would you be surprised? Yeah, didn't think so. Yet two new studies underscore that even levels of regular old everyday pollution previously considered totally safe, from a health perspective, can, in fact, increase your risk for heart attack and stroke. If the results of the study are confirmed, experts say it may change the way public-health officials respond to pollution, inspiring stricter standards and tougher regulations. It could also change the advice doctors give to people with cardiovascular disease and lung problems, prompting them to suggest they be more careful and take greater care even on days when smog had not previously been considered at levels that could cause difficulty.
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Personally, I've been thrilled not to be freezing my you-know-what off out there, shoveling snow off my walk and digging out my car. (Remember last year's endless blizzards?) And I've even managed to escape (so far, at least) catching my usual winter cold. But from a health perspective, there's actually a downside to all of those remarkably unfrosty winter days: Allergies. (Sniff-sniff!)
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The proof copy of my upcoming novel, A Country of Ghosts, arrived yesterday and got approved. Now we're just waiting a couple of weeks for the first print run to arrive!
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Anarcho-Geek Review: The Oregon Experiment, by Keith Scribner
The Anarcho-Geek Review is a new project that reviews pop culture media from an anarchist perspective as well as media created by or representing anarchists.
The Oregon Experiment
by Keith Scribner
2011, Knopf
Review by Margaret Killjoy
Recommended? Sure, why not.
I'm going to cut this review into two parts. The first part, the shorter part, is just my "why you might like to read this book, why you might not." The second part is a longer analysis of the ways in which mainstream sympathetic fiction is portraying anarchists.
So, The Oregon Experiment, by Keith Scribner. Scanlon and Naomi are a middle class couple that moves to small town Oregon, and soon their American dream crashes into the rocks of anarchists, secessionist hippies, and the repression thereof. Scanlon is an academic who studies radical social movements, Naomi is a depressed "nose" who was forced to retire from the perfume business when her mental health destroyed her ability to smell. Scanlon gets mixed up with Sequoia, a sexy hippie mama who wants to peacefully secede from the US, while Naomi spends too much time a Clay, a depressed, angsty anarchist who hates everything. Hijinks ensue.
It's a short, entertaining novel with interesting enough characters. I read it, I enjoyed reading it, and it left me awake thinking after I'd put the book down for the night. While the plot focuses on the gulf between academia and radical action, the themes of the book are much more about parenting and relationships, which I appreciated quite a bit. I appreciated the often-realistic and incredibly flawed characters, though the intensity of male desire directed at mothers—on the basis of them being mothers—is kind of intense. Overall, the book made me nostalgic for early-aughts Oregon.
But frankly, I read the book because I care about the ways that anarchists are represented, and I was curious to see how we came across. I probably wouldn't have given up on the book without that motivation behind my reading, but I probably wouldn't have bothered to pick it up in the first place either.
I admit I took a weird sort of glee in studying the book. There I was, an anarchist author who researches the ways in which literature represents us, studying a book about an academic whose field of research is radical social movements. And of course, the book itself was written by an academic who researched radical social movements (perhaps getting tangentially involved just as our Scanlon did? I can only guess.).
So how did he represent us? Hereafter in this review I discuss spoilers.
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Van Life: Weather
In this series, I explore some of the practicalities of living in a van in the United States. For context, I am relatively privileged: white, perceived as male, raised middle class, able-bodied, in good physical shape. My advice may or may not be useful for others in my or similar situations.
I'm one of those stupid travelers who rarely takes seasons into consideration when I travel, so I find myself up north in the winter and in the southeast in the summer with an alarming regularity. Yes, it can get really hot or really cold in my van. It's rarely unbearable, however.
The single most important thing I've done for my van is put in thick, multi-layered, light-proof curtains. All the back windows are covered with curtains made out of blackout fabric sewn between two layers of thick, black felt. These are screwed into the wood and/or plastic sills above the windows, and part in the middle so I can tie them back. I've got another curtain that goes from ceiling to floor right outside my bed, blocking light and visibility as well as keeping the bed area well-insulated. I bought all the fabric new, and probably spent a bit more than $100 on all of it. One of the best investments I've made.
I rarely sleep with my windows open, because I don't want anyone able to break into my car as easily as that, and because it seems (to me) to make it more obvious that someone is sleeping inside. I do have three small vent windows that open a crack, which help, but honestly not much. What I've learned is to master parking in the will-be-shady-in-the-morning, put the sun shield on the windshield, then pull my curtains tight. The sun and heat will rarely force me out of bed before, I don't know, 10am. By midday, however, the van is essentially unbearable. I keep a clip-on fan, with a separate battery pack, hanging above the bed, and this gets me through the worst nights or the worst naps. In the future, I think I'll just get another fan. Some people put second AC units in their vehicle that run off of a battery, but unless I move to the desert or something I doubt this is really necessary.
I do wish I had windows that slid open, and if I did, I'd get screens—keeping out bugs is obviously pretty important in the summer.
If you're somewhere where it might be socially acceptable to do so, it's also possible to idle the engine and run the car's AC to sleep. I would never recommend making this a habit, and I've only done it once, myself, when it was 100+ degrees out and I need to sleep during the day, but it appears that it only burns about 1/4 a gallon per hour to do so. Anyone who would give you shit for it might want to realize that if they ever drive 5 miles just because they want to go pick something up, they've burned more gas than your hour-long nap.
If the curse of summer van life is that it's hard to sleep in, the curse of winter van life is that it's hard to get up. The answer to winter sleeping is honestly pretty simple: close your curtains, put an extra blanket down on the bed (an amazing amount of cold comes in through the bed platform and futon mattress), then get inside a sleeping bag or two, pull a blanket up over your head, and wait uncomfortably during the few minutes it takes to warm up.
Then, in the morning, you're all cozy and warm and look over and see your frozen water jug and think to yourself, "damn, maybe I'll just stay in this sleeping bag and read a book."
When All Else Fails
Or, you can do what most travelers secretly do in extreme weather: take their friends up on offers of floor space and/or couches.
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On Writing Interactive Fiction
In this series I explore the writing and editing processes behind some of the books I've put out. Obviously, I am not really an expert on this process, but I'm learning as I go and am happy to share what I've figured out.
My first "novel," What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower (Combustion Books, 2011) is what is known as interactive fiction. Commonly, these books are referred to as Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) books, but that is a trademarked term and the company that owns that trademark does, indeed, defend it. So my book was an Adventure Of Your Own Choosing and I recommend that if you put one of these out you also avoid the CYOA label.
I get asked about the writing process behind that book fairly often. So I'll lay out what I learned by writing it.
Van Life: Money
In this series, I explore some of the practicalities of living in a van in the United States. For context, I am relatively privileged: white, perceived as male, raised middle class, able-bodied, in good physical shape. My advice may or may not be useful for others in my or similar situations.
Spending Money
Money is probably one of the first things on people's minds when they ponder living in a vehicle. How much does it cost? Most people who move into vans are probably saving money. Me, I'm spending it, because it's a hell of a lot more expensive than living out of a backpack. But that said, my expenses are pretty low. A good running used van likely costs in the 3-10k range. After that, it's insurance, gas, repairs, increased cost of food, and the occasional short-term rent.
Insurance: this apparently varies a lot from person to person and state to state. I hear rumors about RV insurance being a lot cheaper. I pay roughly $80 a month, with a clean driving record.
Gas: My van gets about 15mpg. My minivan got 22-23. Other people get better mileage—particularly diesel engines. Some people convert to veggie oil, but that is its own huge can of worms. I personally estimate that it costs me $15 an hour to drive anywhere. This is based on paying $4 a gallon and driving 60mph. In reality, it's a little bit cheaper, probably $12-15 an hour, but I estimate at $15 when I decide whether I can afford a given trip.
Repairs: This is the big one, and the always-unexpected one. Actually, I can reliably estimate when I will need repairs: as soon as I get a decent paycheck. As soon as I get a decent paycheck, something breaks on my van and eats all my money. DIY work helps a lot, of course, though vans are harder to work on than trucks, because the engines are more compact.
Food: When I live in punk houses instead of in vans, I pay barely anything for food, because we buy in bulk, dumpster, and generally just share and eat communally. But I'm really lazy about cooking for myself, so I eat out a lot. Usually cheap food, like burritos, but not always. I pay more for food living in my van than otherwise—probably twice as much. It doesn't have to be that way, however. I have a pretty functional kitchen, just no fridge to store vegetables or leftovers.
Rent: What? Rent? This is about living in a van! I know, but if you're parked in someone's driveway for a month you might want to kick down for rent and utilities. And if you pay your share, you can often run an extension cord out to your van. Also, when you move to Minneapolis in December, you're better off subletting a room for the month and parking.
Making Money
It's hard to hold down a "regular" job while living in a vehicle, particularly if you're on the move. But plenty of people do it anyway. You can get gym memberships for showers, or have a own shower in your RV-converted vehicle, or "bird bath" in public bathrooms, or take showers at friends' houses, etc. and then just use a friend's address for a legal address.
But a lot of people, like me, live in a van because we'd rather be nomadic. Regular work is out. What's left? Getting money can be tricky, but it's not impossible. I'll stick to legal methods of getting money herein.
Freelancing: This is what I do, for most of my work. I'm a freelance graphic designer, photographer, and editor, so most of my work can be done anywhere. Nothing beats settling down in a town's anarchist cafe to get some work done. If you want to support me, you could buy some of my books. Other people freelance with skills that aren't telecommuting, like tutoring; teaching music or language classes; dancing; modeling; or housecleaning.
Seasonal work: This is really classy, because it fits the 100+ year old definition of hobo. Most of the time, people work intensely for a few months and then live off the proceeds for the rest of the year. Agricultural work is common at harvest time. Other people work summers at or near national parks, or work in fisheries in Alaska. Apparently a lot of people with RVs do something called workamping (or workcamping… they are two different things I guess?), where they work part- or full-time as campground hosts in exchange for a place to park and maybe some money.
Odd jobs: Odd jobs are your friend. Get paid for the day to plant strawberries or tear down a house. Housesit, petsit, or babysit. Paint some walls. Whatever. I mostly get my odd jobs by letting my friends in own know I'm broke, and they usually let me know if they hear about something.
Medical studies: Some people sell their bodies to medical science. There's good money in it, sometimes, but it's not always easy and it's not always safe.
Crafts: Make things and sell them. I make jewelry and buttons and sell them on Etsy or while I'm tabling.
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Van Life: Introduction
In this series, I explore some of the practicalities of living in a van in the United States. For context, I am relatively privileged: white, perceived as male, raised middle class, able-bodied, in good physical shape. My advice may or may not be useful for others in my or similar situations.
So… I live in my van. I have for 3-4 years now.
Here's where you say "Oh! Is it…. 'down by the river!'"
Which is really a very clever reference to Saturday Night Live and definitely something I've never heard before. You're very original. Congratulations.
Yes, I live in a way that is both unconventional and somewhat cliche. I'm comfortable with this.
Why Live In A Van
For me, van life is actually a step up in terms of stability and longterm access to resources. I've spent at least five or six years living out of one backpack or another. I've been nomadic more or less my entire adult life. So when I think about the advantages of living in a van, I'm likely thinking about it from the opposite point of view as others do.
- I live in a van because it offers me a sense of home. I have my own bed. You should see the look on people's faces when I explain I'd rather sleep in my van than on their couch. It's as though I've told them I'd rather sleep in brambles than in a hotel. But I like having my bed and my home.
- It offers me a sense of freedom. I know that at any point, if I needed to, I could leave almost any situation: just get in my van and go.
- It gives me a place to keep my stuff. I've got a million semi-professional hobbies, and by living in a van I can keep bins and boxes and bags of tools and supplies and equipment.
- I live in a van because I like to wander. I like forests and I like cities and I'd hate to have to pick between the two. I also tour a lot, usually as a writer, and a van is obviously quite good for such things.
- I live in a van because it's awesome.
What's Crappy About It
- Sometimes people break into your van and you're stuck replacing the window and/or whatever was stolen. Also, very few people steal houses. (Banks do, though.) Also, getting your house towed is awful and stressful. You'll never take parking lightly again.
- I can't stand up in my van—some people can, I can't. I also have a harder time curbing my wanderlust when getting from place to place is just so easy and convenient.
- There's social stigma, which I feel more and more as I get older, but honestly I don't really care. I've been a weirdo my whole life. Now I'm a guy named Magpie who lives in a van and wears women's clothes. Whatever.
- It's probably dangerous. But honestly, I apparently drive as many miles as the average american (15-30k a year), so maybe I'm not increasing my risk of dying in an accident at all. I do spend too much of my time sitting though, what with all the driving.
- It's an anchor. If I want to leave the country or even just fly somewhere for awhile, I have to find somewhere to park my van and ideally someone to let the engine turn over once a week.
- It keeps me from getting a normal-people job. I'm not sure whether this goes here or the "Why Live In A Van" section.
- It's a money pit. I throw almost all my money into my van, and then when I run out of money, I run out of van until I get more money to throw into the money pit. But then again, other people do this with their houses, so whatever.
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Writing a utopia
In this series I explore the writing and editing processes behind some of the books I've put out. Obviously, I am not really an expert on this process, but I'm learning as I go and am happy to share what I've figured out.
Last month I finished my last edits on my first linear novel (since What Lies Beneath the Clock tower is non-linear), a utopian novel called A Country of Ghosts. The book is going to be released this March by Combustion Books, and I've been thinking a lot about what it means to write a utopia (and a bit about my own process).
I remember the battered, moldy, hardcover copy of Aldous Huxley's Island I got or borrowed or stole from my high school girlfriend, back when I was probably fifteen or sixteen. More than any book I'd read, it felt heavy with importance–even before I read the first page.
Dystopias are all the rage, these days. Dystopias are safe. You can teach a dystopia in high school because, hey, we all know that fascism is bad. It's safe to be critical. What's hard is to offer alternatives. Note that I mean this primarily in the realm of words, rather than action… obviously, it is not safe to act against oppressive systems, and those who do so are to be lauded. Being critical is safe–doing something about it, or even offering alternative proposals, that's what draws ire.
I'd probably already read and been pretty indifferent to Brave New World by the time I picked up Island. Brave New World was full of bad things happening to people… it was like any book I'd read. But Island… Island was different. It's been half my life now since I read it, and maybe there wasn't that much that stuck with me, besides the call to be "here and now," the admonishment to really savor your meals and your life alike. But that book felt important, at least to me, at least then.
A few years later, I became an anarchist–because I found a group of people willing to articulate and work for a world without oppressive systems. Many years after that, I learned that Huxley too had been pretty excited about the whole anarchist thing–in the introduction to Island, apparently he'd talked about how the world needed decentralization of a Kropotkin-esque manner.
Then came a bit more than a decade of social struggle, fighting for the earth and for liberty and for a world where we don't fuck one another over to survive. And when it came time to reflect on what it was I was fighting for, the answer seemed obvious: I should write a utopian novel.
A utopian novel–any book, actually–shouldn't ever be understood as a blueprint, or a road map. Sure, I'd love to live in the San Francisco of Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing, but if by some miracle we're ever in the position to rewrite society, we'd be fools to follow her book over our own lived experiences. This is actually one of the many places in which anarchists have an advantage over other political philosophies: we know we shouldn't adhere to rules or programs set out by anyone other than ourselves and our immediate communities.
So I didn't write "A Country of Ghosts" to say "this is what society should look like. Exactly like this." I don't want us to ratify the accord of Hron and just assume that what works for 19th-century mountain villagers and exiled revolutionaries would work for us. This is one of the reasons why A Country of Ghosts is set in a fictional world, actually–to reduce any chance that anyone might confuse it for prescriptive.
While I have no interest in writing out a set of instructions for how we might live, however, I am interested in showcasing the ideas of my community. I'm interested in showing the world an example of how we could get along without government or capitalism. I'm interested in showing that anarchism is a viable political system, which, while probably not perfect, has an awful lot going for it when compared to the ecocidal, racist, classist system we live in today. I'm interested in creating work that might help inspire, not direct, revolutionary change.
The challenge left to me, in writing the thing, was to showcase a society without boring the reader to tears. Another reason dystopias are more common than utopias is that a dystopia has a built in sense of conflict, one that immediately resonates with the average reader: being in a totally screwed up situation and wanting to escape or change it. But I, and so many others, do have the experience of being part of defending something beautiful and functional from outside attack–which is a perfectly realistic source of conflict for utopian fiction.
Practically speaking, I had to balance plot with quite a bit of exposition, since I not only had to show the landscape and culture of Hron, I had to explore plenty of its inner workings. I hope that I succeeded–I'm cautiously optimistic.
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2013 in review
I've been doing these year in review posts for awhile now. See: 2012, 2011, 2009, and 2008.
So, in 2013:
- I put out another photo book, Being the Explorations #6.
- Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness released The Super-Happy Anarcho Fun Book.
- I did a lot of crafts. I learned how to make kikko armor from hardened leather. I made a ton of jewelry and eventually opened an etsy shop, dragonpunk.
- I finished my first linear novel, A Country of Ghosts, which should be out from Combustion Books in March 2014.
- I wrote a novella, the name of which I'm not revealing just yet.
- I wrote two introduction-to-anarchism zines, Life Without Law and Propaganda of the Dead. The title of the latter one I've been sitting on for like 5 years, waiting to do something awesome with.
- I basically just gave myself permission to be a writer again. Which, appropriately enough, has come with a lot of financial hardship.
- I helped design the world for Penumbra City, a tabletop RPG to be released by Black Flag Games.
- I went on tour to discuss the political repression of anarchists in the US.
- Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness, a zine publishing collective I work with, turned 10.
- I visited the last few states I needed in order to have visited all the lower 48 states.
I focus on projects in these lists because, by and large, I keep my personal life private. But it's been an intense year for a lot of people I'm very close to, with its share of grief and hardship. I look forward to the days growing longer once more.
I have a tumblr!
I realized that tumblr is a good platform for broadcasting things and for collecting snippets of projects. At the moment, I seem to be posting photos from my travels and quotes from the anarchist quote book project I'm vaguely working on.
My tumblr is nomadicwarmachine.tumblr.com.
The Super-Happy Anarcho Fun Book
At long last, it's here! For the past 3-4 years, we've been trying to get this book out with one press or another, but finally Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness has put out The Super-Happy Anarcho Fun Book! This book is 224 pages of hand-drawn comics, that appeared in zine form as well as illustrations for The Earth First! Journal, the Indypendent Reader, and elsewhere.


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D2L Gradebook (W51-D2L)
In this workshop you learn how to use the gradebook in D2L. This will include how to set up your gradebook options, using the gradebook wizard, gradebook views, how to view and grade items in the gradebook, and how to import and export your grades.
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