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Campus Crimes against Women
Campus crimes occur much more frequently than any of us realize. Crimes on College Campuses and crimes nearby college campuses 
- frequently go unreported and/or under reported. A recent study by The U.S. Department of Justice on The Sexual Victimization of College Women reveals some disturbing statistics. Among the findings:
- Annually 4.9% of college Co-Eds experience a rape. In other words, the victimization rate is 49 rapes per 1000 female students.
- When one considers that the average college career now lasts 5 years, there is a 25% likelihood of a rape between Freshman Orientation and Graduation Day.
- This data becomes more disturbing when analyzed by the number of incidents rather than the number of victims. When the analysis is based on incident count the rate increases by nearly 30%. This takes into account women who have been victimized more than once.
- Crimes categorized as sexual victimization other than rape touched 3.4%, or 34 per 1000, college Co-Eds annually.
- This data also becomes more disturbing when analyzed by the number of incidents rather than the number of victims. Analyzed this way, the rate increases by a whopping 397%.
- 9 out of 10 victims know the person who sexually victimizes them.
- 71% of sexual victimization of college women occurs on a date – known more commonly as date rape.
- 88%of sexual crimes against women occur between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am.
- Sexual victimization of college Co-Eds most often occurs in a residence (on or off campus), with nearly 60% occurring in the victim’s own residence, 30% occurring in other campus living quarters and 10% at a Fraternity.
- Overwhelmingly, data indicates that women who attempt to protect or defend themselves avoid becoming the victim of a completed rape. While protecting or defending oneself is not a 100% guarantee, it is overwhelmingly the best action to take in order to avoid becoming the victim of a completed rape.
- In the instances where women used force or a self-defense product like pepper spray, Mace, a stun gun or a Taser, just under 31% of the attempted rapes resulted in completed rapes.
- Shockingly, fewer than 5% of completed or attempted rapes are actually reported to law enforcement officials. Reasons indicated for not doing so include: Not serious enough to report; not clear a crime was committed; not wanting family or others to know; lack of proof; fear of reprisal by the assailant; fear of hostility by police and fear police would not believe the incident occurred or was serious enough.
- Another frequent and unwanted violation of women on college campuses is stalking. An annual incidence rate 156.5 stalkings per 1000 Co-Eds is reported. Clearly this is a bigger problem and requires further attention, study and consideration.
If you are assaulted or in a dating violence relationship PLEASE REPORT THE INCIDENT to your campus police department AND PRESS CHARGES! ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS PRESS CRIMINAL CHARGES! And, I strongly suggest that you go to the local DV or Rape Crisis agency in your college community as well as filing a POLICE REPORT WITH THE TOWN/CITY POLICE DEPARTMENTS! Cover all of your bases. Do not leave any rock unturned. Too many assailants, universities and colleges are getting away with sweeping college crimes under the carpet. DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN TO YOU! Remember, YOU DID NOT DESERVE IT! IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!
CBS’S LARA LOGAN REVEALS SHE STILL STRUGGLES WITH EGYPTIAN SEXUAL ASSAULT: ‘IT DOESN’T GO AWAY’
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:33am by 
Jonathon M. Seidl
It was a story that finally revealed to the world that the “Arab Spring” might not have been as peaceful as some would have liked to think. CBS journalist Lara Logan was viciously sexually assaulted while in a crowd of male protesters in Egypt. They screamed “Jew” as they ran their hands over and through her body and tried to rip off her scalp. She detailed the incident back then, and now, she reveals she still struggles with it.
“People don’t really know that much about (post traumatic stress disorder),” she told the New York Daily News. “There’s something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I’m not.”
“It doesn’t go away,” she added. “It’s not something I keep track of. It’s not predictable like that. But it happens more than I’d like.”
Logan was eventually rescued from the assault by a woman clad in black who wrapper her arms around Logan. Other women eventually closed ranks. But while the physical damage has healed, the emotional scars still exist.
“Your family is critical,” Logan, the married mother of two, said. “You can’t do it alone. My husband is a great support. He understands, he doesn’t hide from it, from what happened. He knows everything, more than anyone, what they did to me.”
However, some of the worst times are when she lies next to her daughter as she falls asleep.
“When I’m lying there, waiting for my daughter to go to sleep, I have time to think about things. Those can be dark moments. You ranger through, you have to. You’re aware of how much you have and it’s so much more than what you’ve lost. You have a responsibility. Life is not about dwelling on the bad.”
But despite the residual effects, Logan is fighting. Not only is she fighting to give a prominent voice to the many women who have suffered from sexual assault, she’s also fighting not to be defined by the attack.
“Goddamnit,” Logan said, “I’m not going to give them everything.”
Read the entire interview from the Daily News.
18 Tips for Improving food Discipline
For many, the question isn’t whether we believe in eating junk food, but whether we can help it. Our society offers indulgence as a virtue and discipline as a punishment. But discipline is not a punishment; it is a virtue and the key to health and happiness. Without it we become lazy and unfulfilled, and our bad food choices lead to ill-health. With a little practice, though, we can improve our discipline, change our habits, and change our lives.
There are a couple of different types of Paleo people out there: ones that have major health problems to overcome and ones that don’t.
Those that don’t have big health problems might just like the idea of Paleo on an intellectual level, maybe eating Paleo soothes digestion, maybe it offers more energy, relieves PMS, lowers triglycerides, etc.
Others suffer of serious mental problems like depression or schitzophrenia, major hormonal imbalances like PCOS and endometriosis, debilitating arthritis or, worse yet, many of these combined. The more a body deteriorates the harder it is to hold it together – the more important maintaining a strict diet becomes. It is those with the major health problems that have the biggest job ahead and absolutely must learn to develop better discipline if optimal health is to be achieved.
Whoever you are, you could probably benefit by improving your discipline. Most people in this indulgent society of ours could. Following are some tips that have helped me to become very disciplined in my food choices.
1. Think of the consequences. Short term consequences might include gas, bloating, fast or slow digestion, pimples, bags under your eyes. Is tomorrow a good day for feeling and looking this way? Long term consequences include the return of symptoms of major health problems. Frequent indulgence will make conditions worse or not improve at all. How important is it to you to reverse your health conditions? There are many foods I still love that I don’t eat anymore. Chips are among them. But chips scratch and tear their way out of my digestive system. All I have to do is think about the gas and bloating that ensues and I won’t lay hands on them.
2. Think of the example you are setting for your children. It’s not like kids aren’t watching. They know how often you cheat and how seriously you take your health. All the words in the world won’t make up for the example you are setting when you indulge again and again. If you choose to hide your cheating from your kids, they will have no choice but to think that eating well doesn’t really help since their parent supposedly eats well and still doesn’t feel good.
3.Think of the example you are setting for those you hope will follow you down the road to health. Most of us want our spouses to go Primal too. But if they see that we aren’t getting results, they won’t bother with it themselves. But if you can show your spouse that it’s easy, it works, and it’s worth sticking to it, you’ll make a better impression.
4. See the light at the end of the tunnel. If you have been feeling depressed or moody as a reaction to your poor food choices, remember that eating clean, real food changes our gene expression and reverses even life long conditions. You know those people you envy who always seem happy, who look great and feel vibrant? You can be one of them too.
5. Put it off just one more day. Postpone the cheat another day. On the next day, you may do the same and so on and so on, postponing the cheat day further and further out. Doing this consistently will make cheating a pretty rare occurrence.
6. Sever undesirable neural connections in your brain. Behavioral patterns are very strong neural connections in our brains. When we do anything our brain makes a connection. The more we do that thing, the stronger that connection becomes until we don’t even think about it. We just do it. This is pretty useful for directions, for good habits like exercising. But for bad habits like sitting on our butts and eating unhealthy food, the ease with which we do it can be overwhelming. Until we make a conscious and constant effort to change where our neurons fire our bad habits will continue to undermine any attempts at self-discipline. Discipline is a muscle if you will. It takes time to strengthen it, but in time it gets easier.
7. Start by having less not none. If you are an over-eater who can’t put it down until it’s gone, start by making yourself put it down half way. Your neurons are almost forcing you to eat the whole thing because that’s what you’ve taught your brain to do. Break those neural connections by making the change. Even if you put it down half way and then pick it up again in ten minutes, you’re still starting on the road to severing that habit.
8. Reward yourself. At the end of the day if you’ve managed to keep your diet clean as a whistle, give yourself a piece of candy. No I’m kidding, have a piece of cake. Oh wait, no, have a special Christmas eggnog latte. No? Ok, why don’t you buy yourself a new outfit. Wait that would get expensive day after day. This isn’t working. Food or buying things at malls is about the only kind of reward that we know of in our culture. What is meaningful to you that you could reward yourself with?
9. Remove temptation. Cupboards full of tempting, sweet or comfort foods can be irresistible when the going gets tough. Your new found discipline will only take you so far for so long before you either feel so good you think you’re invincible or you feel so bad that you just don’t care anymore. I don’t keep tempting foods in the house. My family supports the weakness that I have admitted to and they eat foods that I can’t handle outside of our house.
10. Stabilize blood sugar. Blood sugar problems contribute to poor and impulsive decisions. Eating plenty of healthy fats can help even out blood sugar as can staying away from allergens and sweets.
11. Enjoy life. Find something to enjoy other than food. If you don’t have any hobbies now, find some. Start rock climbing, painting, learning a new instrument. Join a social group. Start a movement. Looking to food for fun robs you of moments you could have spent enjoying all the many things this world has to offer. You may argue that food is a great source of fun. Occasionally that is fine, but if you find that food is the only kind of fun you know how to have, it will probably be very difficult to give up the foods that harm you since they are also your only source of pleasure. Find other sources of pleasure. You’ll thank yourself for it.
12. Set a goal. Maybe you have some weight to lose. Maybe you have skin you’d like to see clear up. Maybe you want to stop arguing with your spouse or kids. Maybe you’d like a toner body but just don’t have the energy to get to the gym often enough. Set goals to keep in mind why you are doing what you’re doing. Remember these goals each time you are confronted with temptation.
13. Remove the stressors that cause you to eat emotionally. This could be a bad family situation, financial problems, a hectic lifestyle, too many responsibilities, not enough sleep, not enough personal time, or no allowance for creativity. When stress is high, when fulfillment is low, food consoles.
14. Breath deeply and stay calm. This takes practice but it can be amazingly effective when everything around you is crazy. When you can maintain calm, you can deal with more and control yourself better. I took up singing years ago just because I had wanted a better voice. I was surprised to find how it changed my breath and relaxed my jaw. Singing turned out to be, for me, a huge stress reliever.
15. Turn off the TV! Yeah, there’re cool programs on TV but there are also cool people to hang out with, cool books to read, and a plethora of cool things to do. Television is bad for the brain, encourages mindless eating, and wastes loads of time which could be spent doing things that make us feel good about ourselves.
16. Read Shogun. Taking a step outside of our indulgent culture that is lacks self-discipline, and into a culture that radiates discipline can bring a better understanding of how people do discipline. While I’ve always been more disciplined than most, it wasn’t until I read Shogun, 4.5 years ago, about the ancient Japanese people, that I discovered discipline on another level. It was then that my health soared, which is what I had always hoped for.
17. Consider your future health. Even if you don’t suffer of any serious health conditions now, picture your parents or coworkers who do. Do you want to turn out like them?
18. Think of the money you could be saving by forgoing treats. Treats cost a lot of money! A pint of good organic ice cream costs about $4 and so do the ingredients for a nutritious chicken bone broth soup. One is dinner and one is, well, extra calories after dinner.
Which of these suggestions do you plan on implementing right now to improve your food discipline? What other methods have worked for you?
Originally posted on: http://theprimalparent.com/
Grounded: Why using Jiu Jitsu in the street will get you hurt or killed
There are a lot of myths out there in the world of fighting and self defense. One of the most often repeated myths is that 90% of all fights go to the ground. There is actually no evidence to support such a claim. This is a claim that many Jiu Jitsu schools will use in their marketing or in their presentation of Jiu Jitsu as an effective self defense system. The problem with this type of marketing or presentation is that Jiu Jitsu schools very rarely if ever actually demonstrate their system in realistic enivironment or under realistic scenarios that occur during a violent altercation.
I love Jiu Jitsu. I think that it is the most mentally challenging of all the systems. In the ring especially an MMA ring, a fighter who does not know how to operate on the ground is significantly limited in the fight. That being said it is foolish to look at training for a ring situation in the same light as training for survival in the street.
Jiu Jitsu by itself is not enough to survive a violent street attack. The training environment at most Jiu Jitsu schools is geared toward sport based Jiu Jitsu. In other words they are learning how to prepare for a fight that is governed by rules, regulations and most importantly it is void of true violence. They are preparing for a “fair” fight. A fair fight is when two or more combatants agree to a location, time, rules and decorum in advance. Often times in Jiu Jitsu schools students are “Rolling” with opponents who are within 10 15lbs and the size difference is fairly managaeable.
In the street none of these comforts exist. In fact the victim will in most cases be significantly smaller than the attacker. There are also other factors such as clothing, stress, the surface the fight is taking place, armed attackers and of course multiple attackers. My point is that Jiu Jitsu does not effectively address any of these issues.
A Ground Survival system that addresess these issues in a tactical manner is what is most appropriate for street altercations. The system must combine a basic understanding of wrestling and Jiu Jitsu and it must be infused with a combat mentality that leaves all avenues for damaging the attacker open. Biting, goughging, pinching, striking the groin, small joint manipulation and other “dirty tactics” are the foundation of an effective ground survival program, not an after thought.
The prevailing attitude of the practioner should be that of a rabid animal. There should be controlled mayhem sprinkled with ballistic violence that is being used for the purpose of preserving the practioner’s life.
The system itself is to be taught as a principle based system that does not deal in absolutes, it addresses the totality of combat. It deals with multiple attackers, armed attackers and the high stress that comes with ground survival.
When I speak to Law Enforcement officials regarding the type of training that officers are exposed to, I am often very dissapointed when I hear that the officers “roll’ at a MMA or Jiu Jitsu gym. When I ask why they chose that gym they usually tell me a name of a famous MMA fighter or Jiu Jitsu coach in order to justify their decision to train there. When I ask how they train, they tell me that they roll for hours per week working submissions and escapes. When I ask them how they are dressed when they roll, they usually respond with Gi, or No gi. But that is not what I mean. If you are training for real survival you must train in your regular street clothing from time to time. If you are in law enforcement or the military you must train in your uniform with all of your gear as you wear it during the course of performing your duties. To train in a Gi exclusively or in MMA gear exclusively is a death sentence.
If you don’t know and understand the limitations, disadvantages and advantages that that your clothing/uniform provide for you, then I would submit that your training is far too sterile and not at all preparing you for the realities of ground survival.
In closing, there are far too many factors that can drastically change the outcome of an altercation that leads to a fight on the ground. Sport based training will not provide the most direct answers to situations like this. Only a tactically sound, no holds barred style that is taught with a warrior’s mindset will get you home safe. So leave the Jiu Jitsu for the dojo. Learn and perfect a serious ground survival system!
POSTED BY KRAV TALK AT 11:39 PM 11/13/11
