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life with an eating disorder jina mousseau hunger strike page 14 camosun’s student voice since 1990 camosun’s student voice since 1990 contents These stories (except pages 20, 21, and 22) were originally published in Nexus during the fall ‘10 and winter ‘11 semesters.

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Phone: 250-370-3591 4 Gender mashup 16 Chateau of Costa Email: [email protected] By Erin Ball By Jina Mousseau Website: nexusnewspaper.com It’s time to finally change the Matt Costa just keeps moving way we think of gender. forward, no matter what. And Publisher: Nexus Publishing Society he likes to read books, too! NEXUS PUBLISHING SOCIETY STUDENT BOARD MEMBERS 5 Butt out of smokers’ business Carol-Lynne Michaels By Tyler Rowe 17 Steppin’ on up Adam Price Smokers: the latest minority By Erin Ball Chesley Ryder group to face discrimination. Dubstep is the latest musical Dylan Wilks craze to grab college students EDITOR-IN-CHIEF by storm. Next up = djent! Greg Pratt 6 Kindle = e-kindling MANAGING EDITOR By Dylan Wilks Jason Schreurs ...and e-readers still haven’t 18 indiana Canadiana replaced books. By Tyler Rowe STAFF WRITER is helping define the Dylan Wilks new age of Canadian indie rock. ADVERTISING SALES 7 Persevering pubs Jason Schreurs By Pam Oliver 250‑370-3591 (local) Victoria has a rich history of 19 Will comes alive! Campus Plus neighbourhood pubs. By Dylan Wilks 1-800-265-5372 ext. 225 (national) William Gibson, that is. Yes, the DISTRIBUTION one and only William Gibson. Nicolle Rushton 8 Break it down CONTRIBUTORS: By Julia Loglisci Erin Ball The local breakdancing scene 20 Poutine dream Jenna Cotton is coming back strong. By Ed Sum Alex Haro And we quote: “There was love in the Emily Laing meat that’d been pounded into a patty.” Julia Loglisci 9 mma bashing stereotypes Jina Mousseau By Emily Laing Pam Oliver We’ll say it again: look at those 21 Restaurant review times two Adam Price washboard abs on page 9. By David Ingram-Chadwick and Nate Amanda Richardson Jones Tyler Rowe Stir It Up’s roti rules; Stages rages. Jessica Tai 10 more bashing stereotypes! Dylan Wilks By Emily Laing Wheelchair rugby players are 22 Local, Live and taking the sport to new places. By Dylan Wilks Check out some summer The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors, not of the Nexus Publishing Society. One copy of concert highlights here. Nexus spring magazine is available per issue, per person for 11 social 2.0 free. Nexus is printed on recycled paper. Please recycle your copy when you are done. Thanks! By Amanda Richardson The new generation of 23 Laughing out loud social media is here. A selection of some of our favourite comics from the past year. 14 Lightweight By Amanda Richardson What do you think of the articles in here? A look at eating disorders through email [email protected] or the eyes of someone who’s living it. TEXTBACK to 604-223-0076.

Summer 2011  VIEWS VIEWS Challenging gender roles AI T A Thinking this way is JESSI C dangerous—it labels the people who don’t fit comfortably into a gender role as different and therefore an outsider.

Nexus editorials are written by the Nexus student editor on behalf of the editorial committee.

Erin Ball staff writer A Camosun instructor has done the same experiment in her anthropology of women class for the last three years. She asks her class, at the beginning of the semester, to make two columns on a piece of paper—one labelled “feminine” and the other “masculine.” stereotypes used to describe the sexes were driven are still criticized for not paying The students were asked to brainstorm purely cultural. enough attention to their family life and and write down 10 words they associate For example, men were described as are also, at the same time, expected to be with each. They were told not to think too insensitive, aggressive workers, while the superwomen—a successful career, a per- hard about what they should write down, women were sensitive, nurturing, affec- fect mother, and a dedicated housekeeper just what pops into their heads. In this tionate, and gentle. But in some cultures the and cook. day and age of equality, the results were men take care of the children and, in others, And men are in a similar boat. Men who surprising. the men are very affectionate towards each may decide to challenge gender roles and The instructor found that the words other—they hold hands in the street and stay at home to raise the kids are seen as written down were stereotypical of each kiss each other on the cheeks. lazy or poor providers. A man who’s very gender and fit into traditional western It brings up the question: will western sensitive is perceived as weak. We foster gender roles. Words like “pretty,” “emo- society ever rid itself of the gender percep- aggression in boys and then we turn around tional,” “motherly,” and “nurturing” were tions ingrained in society? and wonder why some of them are violent near the top of the list for feminine, and The media bombards us with images as adults. words like “strong,” “muscular,” “sports,” of how both male and females should look, And we know that we shouldn’t be and “cars” were near the top of the list for act, and fit in. These messages perpetu- perpetuating the division between genders, masculine. ate our traditional definition of male and but we still do it. These gender roles are The exercise brings to light the fact female. But thinking this way is danger- rooted in our society, and even though we that stereotypes and gender perceptions ous—it labels the people who don’t fit know we shouldn’t, we judge those that are still very strongly ingrained into our comfortably into a gender role as different challenge the roles. brains, even those of critical thinkers like and therefore an outsider. But if we talk about gender roles and college students. These days little girls are taught that perceptions more often, and challenge The instructor pointed out that some they can be anything they want when them, we can break through the stereo- of the words that came up were biological they grow up. When our mothers and types. And this will lead to a greater under- characteristics. But, looking towards grandmothers were young that wasn’t the standing of each other as individuals—our other cultures as a contrast, most of the case. But women who decide to be career- goals, beliefs, and our true identities.

 Nexus VIEWS VIEWS College attacks smokers o r x h a e l a

The last bastion for smokers at the Lansdowne campus. tyler rowe campus is no different than campaigning tion probably finds the clearest path to Contributing writer for a more aesthetically pleasing campus fairness in continuing to limit smoking The rights of a minority group are be- without ugly buildings or ugly people. to designated areas. Those with allergies ing trampled here at Camosun, and no one If the problem is being subjected to and sensitivities to smoke can actively seems to care. Are these rights forfeited second-hand smoke against one’s will, avoid such areas while smokers can still because the group is poor or invisible? No, then we must direct our attention to the continue to engage in their perfectly legal, it’s because they are the last group that no fact that most of the data we have on the if ill-advised, habit. one will scold you for openly and gleefully harmful effects of second-hand smoke But such a balanced action wouldn’t hating. They are the smokers. comes from the effects of second-hand carry with it the verve and “forward- Camosun College’s administration smoke indoors. thinking” panache of a full ban, now, has moved to make both the Lansdowne Do we know for sure that second-hand would it? and Interurban campuses completely smoke is more harmful than the exhaust Bravo, Camosun. You’ve made social smoke-free by winter semester 2012, and fumes that we as city dwellers breathe in pariahs of a minority group for no reason has gradually ushered this initiative in by every day that contain benzene, polycyclic except that you could. banning smoking everywhere except a few hydrocarbons, formaldehyde, and nitrogen designated smoking areas. The current ban Via Textback: dioxide (which also emit from the very “Comparing smokers to a minority group is ridicu- started on February 1. profitable campus parking lots)? lous—it’s a choice; more importantly, it affects non- The impetus for this action is said to The funny thing is the administra- smokers. I won’t breathe your choices.” be the response to a survey conducted by the college in May 2009, where 86 per- cent of respondents said they “agreed” or “strongly agreed” that “non-smokers have a right to a smoke-free environment.” myvirtualtypist.com This very question is where the invalid- ity of the ban begins. Most non-smokers, if they were asked if they would prefer Deborah J. Driedger smoke-free air, would say yes. The answer was predictable, at best, premeditated at worst. There was no question on the survey (214) 230-2897 of whether or not adults should be free to smoke in the open air. Of course non-smokers would prefer a [email protected] smoke-free campus. Aesthetically, clean air smells better. But if the ban is for aesthetic reasons, then crying out for a smoke-free Summer 2011  NEWS LIFE E-books still not catching on with students o r x h a e l a

It’s hard to beat the classics... and the classic format. dylan wilks Tessa Brethour, another English stu- Reclaiming space in libraries to create Contributing Writer dent, finds e-books really hard to concen- areas where people can read is one of the Despite the hopes of companies who trate on. immediate and obvious benefits of shifting are in the e-book market, the ability to carry “With a book you can isolate yourself to e-book libraries. around dozens of books in a conveniently and bring it wherever you want. With an “You don’t have to worry about space,” small package hasn’t yet brought about e-book, I get distracted and don’t remember says Gascoyne, “you can make it our library a massive shift in how people read. This anything of what I’m reading.” and turn the space over to people.” holds true for students, who cite required English Instructor Debbie Gascoyne Another obvious benefit of e-book reading for classes as one of the biggest understands the reluctance and believes libraries is how much more widely access- reasons they don’t read recreationally, be the costs of e-books to be another contrib- ible a particular book is. With e-books any it with a physical book or an e-book. uting factor. number of people can have that book at a “I love to read but hardly ever have the “To me, the e-book is a lesser experi- given time. time, unless it is a non-fiction book related ence,” she says. “If I’m going to pay 50 In fact, the Camosun Library allows any to a research paper or assignment,” says bucks for a book, I want a book. I want student access to their complete catalogue Camosun creative writing student Marlie the object.” online on campus or at home. Van Roy. Gascoyne does believe that once e- Still, this won’t spell the end for li- English student Ryan Abbot agrees, books are established, like how music has braries or physical books just yet—there adding that the heavier the workload is, been through iTunes, they will become will always be collectors wanting a first the less time a student has for reading any much more attractive. edition or a rare autographed copy of a kind of book. “It’s going to be great for reissuing book, but it should serve as a wake-up call “Extra-curricular reading for students copies of books that have gone out of print, to bookstores. is difficult at best,” says Abbot, “especially publisher’s backlists, and things that are “The physical bookstore may dis- for those with four, five, or six courses.” no longer available,” she says. appear,” says Gascoyne, “because they’re When she can find time to read, Eng- The Alan Batey Library & Learning becoming expensive and unrealistic.” lish student Michele Hornell goes for an Commons on the Lansdowne campus is Camosun chief librarian Sybil Har- old-fashioned physical book as opposed well into the transition to e-books, with rison sees e-books as the future—one to an e-book. more than 56,000 electronic books as of that Camosun has been working towards “I do not like to read e-books at all,” March of this year. It’s easy to walk into since 1997. says Hornell. “I prefer to flip the pages the library and wonder where all the books “It is where we as libraries need to go,” myself.” are (they’re hiding upstairs). says Harrison.

 Nexus NEWS LIFE Local pubs and the perseverance of fun o r x h a e l a

Persistence and determination, and good beer, are part of a long-lasting legacy of great neighbourhood pubs in town. pam oliver ments are packed with students,” says Out in View Royal, The Six Mile Pub contributing writer Maude Hunters manager Norm Wilson. opened in an old sawmill in 1885, proving In 1889, a parrot was occasionally “And at the music bingos students really that Victoria has a long history with the tethered to a tree outside what is now get into it, singing along and pounding neighbourhood pubs. Four Mile Bar and Grill, on the Old Island those daubers.” But it’s a history that has proven that Highway. Victorian passengers, dragged Maudes celebrated their 25th back on the local taverns have had to have a lot of up the long hill by stagecoach, heard its February 5 with 1986 prices, ’80s nachos, perseverance to survive. loud “Whoa!” as their lumbering vehicle music bingo, and a best ’80s costume All the pubs in town were closed during passed by. At the command, delivered in contest. the long years of prohibition from 1917 a perfect mimic of the driver’s voice, the By contrast, the Knockenback Grill, to 1921. lead horses would veer left into the yard just a stone’s throw from Camosun’s Not since the days when stagecoaches behind the pub. Interurban campus, has a ’90s flavour, labored up the Four Mile Hill have pubs “An early example of an effective adver- but the potential to become a favorite to experienced a tougher licensing climate tising strategy,” jokes Four Mile Bar and students is high—they claim to make the than they do today. No one gets by on a wink Grill dining room manager Tate Dunnes. best gravy and wings in the ‘burbs. and a nod these days, with pubs carefully “Nowadays, we prefer to promote a pub as “We get a lot of students here during carding for ID. an experience that includes all the senses exams,” says office manager Tobi Minnis. Different in focus and ambiance than coming into play.” “They come down to celebrate and fill up their downtown cousins, neighborhood Regardless of whether it’s 1889 or on food and drinks.” waterholes all have the same thing in 2011, pubs do what they can to get the Fun doesn’t have to burn a hole in an common—they share the tenacity of wandering attention span of potential pa- empty wallet either. Over at 1550s on Cedar perseverance as they scramble to keep the trons, many of whom are students. Maude Hill Cross Road, a cheap-drink night has suds flowing. Hunters, situated between Camosun’s long been a favourite for those on a tight “A neighbourhood pub is an institute,” Lansdowne campus and UVic, is currently budget. says Wilson, “a gathering place where you celebrating 25 years in the business, his- “Students, for years, have loved our hi- can forget the drudges of everyday life. It’s torically no mean feat for a pub. ball night,” says 1550’s pub bar manager a place to let go and meet with friends in a “Our Rock, Paper, Scissors tourna- Keith Campbell. warm and friendly environment.”

Summer 2011  LIFE SPORTS Breakdancing scene battles hard gl isc i o l ia ju

Kevin Jinn is helping to bring breakdance back to Victoria. breakdancing in 2004, so it died out,” he face, of body, any type of movement. The “Breakdancing keeps says. breaking community is growing in Victoria Some breakdancing groups, such as and it’s nice to have someone like Robin me balanced.” the Reflex Foundation, broke into smaller put together an opportunity for people to groups, and most of the talented breakers see why freestyling is fun.” kathleen ellis from Filthee Feet moved to bigger cit- Kevin Jinn, another one of Campbell’s local dancer ies like Vancouver to continue dancing, students, held a breakdancing workshop simply because there was nothing going in town earlier this year. He’s bringing on in Victoria. breakdancers—known as b-boys—in “There are benefits to having a small from out of town to help reintroduce the julia loglisci community,” says Campbell. “The youth breakdance scene again. contributing writer are much more connected to one another “The b-boys I am bringing to Victoria It appears the breakdance scene in and they have a lot less to do.” are internationally known,” says Jinn. Victoria has lost its flame. Dance compan- Campbell’s talent and passion for “B-boy Taiyo from South Korea is a ies such as Karen Clarke and Dansko no breakdancing keep him focused and enable world champion in the breaking world. Just longer offer breakdance classes. But there him to teach others. He teaches classes watching them dance, interacting, seeing are a few passionate individuals who are every Sunday night at Dance Victoria how much they inspire… that’s where the keeping the fire burning. Studios. culture is,” he says. Robin Campbell, a 23-year-old breaker Kathleen Ellis is a student at UVic Jinn says it doesn’t matter what kind of with the Filthee Feet Crew, has been very who attends Campbell’s classes. She says people come into a class.Dancers are seen involved in the breakdance community breakdancing is the one part of her busy by their moves, not how they act outside of since 2001. schedule that allows her to escape. dance. Inside the hearts of many, there lies In fact, Campbell is one of the few “It keeps me balanced,” says Ellis. a special place for breakdancing. breakers left in Victoria. “Breaking is important to me because it’s “I value this dance so much,” says Jinn. “None of the kids in high school were all about communication by expression of “It’s my life.”  Nexus LIFE SPORTS MMA league fights to be understood

“Mixed martial arts started as very barbaric, but now it involves numerous rules and regulations to make it safe.” Jason Heit MMA fighter

emily laing staff Writer The Armageddon Fighting Champion- ships (AFC) is the pinnacle of mixed martial arts, which is a hybrid of boxing, jujitsu, and wrestling; it represents the highest level of accomplishment in hand-to-hand battle. In his last 15 years as a boxer and mixed martial arts fighter, Jason Heit has received stitches above his eyes over 20 times. Interest in the sport stemmed from a destructive curiosity for Heit, and it quickly developed into a lifestyle. “I was an aggressive child and I didn’t have a way to channel it, so I was put into Just look at those amazing washboard abs on Jason Heit! boxing and mixed martial arts,” says behaviour still occurs during the MMA difficult to get the proper acknowledgment Heit, who is also executive producer of fights. over the years.” the Victoria-based AFC. “It has given me “The training is the biggest challenge In an effort to get that acknowledg- tremendous focus in my years.” and the reward is the feeling I get from ment, the AFC has attempted to better Mixed martial arts has long been con- fighting,” says Kaufman. “I admit to their image by working with sports com- sidered a very risky sport for its participants, being a little crazy in the cage because I missions, which are increasingly regulat- but with the success of the mainstream Ul- go out there smiling and I always have a ing mixed martial arts and establishing a timate Fighting Championships, it’s risen great time.” combined set of rules. to the mainstream in Victoria. Kaufman explains there have been The AFC itself has also begun a major “Over time it’s evolved into an extreme many preconceived notions in regards to national expansion effort and has con- sport; it started as very barbaric, but now mixed martial arts, which are believed to tinued to generate an audience primarily it involves numerous rules and regulations be similar to raw back-alley fights where between the ages of 18 and 35, according to make it safe,” says Heit. blood is shed, veins bulge, and faces go blue to Heit. World champion Sarah Kaufman as fighters seem intent on just choking out “The sport is misunderstood by older has been involved in the world of MMA their opponents. generations,” says Heit, “but younger for over five years, and has been encour- But this is not always the case, accord- people seem to get it.” aging the community to recognize this as ing to Kaufman. Via Textback: a professional sport rather than human “The sport involves intensive training “About time MMA isn’t painted as a savage sport cockfighting. and incredible skill,” says Kaufman. “It’s and rather an art form. Shawn O’Hara’s 2009 Nexus But some of that illicit cockfighting been misinterpreted and has been very article smeared MMA as a bunch of jocks.” Summer 2011  SPORTS FEATURE Wheelchair rugby thrives in spotlight ain g l ly

Wheelchair rugby is rising in popularity in Victoria and elsewhere. I had to get a spinal cord injury just to be on the nature of their injuries. “I love hitting people able to play this,” he says. According to the rules, a team can have Despite his sense of humour, the sport no more than four players on the court at in wheelchairs.” provides some serious competition for Mc- once, and cannot exceed eight points in Norman McCaffrey Caffrey. He also plays on the BC provincial classification value on the court. Wheelchair rugby player team and has brought in two gold and two VWRC coordinator Calen McDougall silver medals in his time with them. has always thrived in full-contact sports. According to Shaun McKenzie, another He was introduced to wheelchair rugby member of the Victoria Wheelchair Rugby while in rehabilitation for injuries in a Club, the game’s gripping action has con- cliff-jumping accident in 2002. He’s earned emily laing tributed to people recognizing wheelchair a reputation on the court as a fiery com- staff writer athletes. petitor with intensity and, occasionally, It used to be called murderball, but the “I love the contact,” says McKenzie. recklessness. striking title scared off some corporate “Most people would be surprised to find “For anybody who comes from a con- sponsors. In the past five years since the out that I’m here every Wednesday night to tact-sport background, this is a great release of the Academy Award-nominated smash around in a wheelchair, but the inter- outlet,” says McDougall. “We all share documentary film Murderball, the sport est for wheelchair sports is growing.” similarities, since most of us were injured of wheelchair rugby has been thrust into Created in the late 1970s by athletes from doing extreme things.” the spotlight. with disabilities, wheelchair rugby is now McDougall wants the public to view Six years ago, Norman McCaffrey was played in several countries. All players have the rugby team as athletes who train hard driven to play the sport and decided to a loss of function and most are classified and can compete at an elite level just like join the local squad, the Victoria Wheel- as quadriplegic. able-bodied athletes. chair Rugby Club (VWRC). McCaffrey, a Combining the elements of wheelchair “A common misconception is that some quadriplegic, has no trouble recalling his basketball, rugby, and hockey, the game is people view this as a disabled sport as they introduction to the sport. McCaffrey jokes played indoors on a basketball court. To be pat us on the heads,” says McDougall. that he hasn’t been able to put the ball down qualified to play, athletes are assessed by “But, in reality, this is a very competitive since his first practice. physiotherapists and then classified on a sport, especially if you get to a national “I love hitting people in wheelchairs. numeric system from 0.5 to 3.5, depending level.” 10 Nexus SPORTS FEATURE

Amanda Richardson CONTRIBUTING WRITER Graphics by Jessica Tai

On a quiet day in February all else fails. 2004, an encompassing, en- “On Facebook it’s about who you know Hollywood producer, writ- gulfing presence came online, and what you want them to know about er, director, and animation casting a shadow a mile wide mastermind Tim Burton began and obliterating all social- you; on Flickr it’s about your photos and an unconventional Twitter media networks that dared to what people think of them, without account last November called stand in its way. The internet Tim Burton’s Cadavre Exquis. had a new godfather, known knowing or caring who is behind those Steering clear of the typical only as Facebook. celebrity Twitters that are all Five-and-a-half years later, comments.” to commonly used to whore Facebook is, without a doubt, Daniel German out cheap as-seen-on-TV loot on top of the social-network- University of Victoria and soapbox about how an- ing pile and shows no signs of noying they think paparazzi loosening the stronghold on its are, Burton opted for building 500-million-plus users. While Twitter has gotten a bad reputa- a creative collective. After the initial shock of being dropped tion as chapter one in The Stalker’s Guide Hoping to create a new adventure for like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, other online to Celebrities, it does have legitimate uses his character, Stainboy, the story-telling social communities are once again start- outside of discovering Britney Spears’ experiment calls on fans and writers to ing to cautiously pop up across the world latest Starbucks must-have drink. contribute tweets to expand on Burton’s wide web. With print newspaper sales declining, beginning line, “Stainboy, using his ob- Facebook, secure in its role as North online readership has skyrocketed. Smart- vious expertise, was called in to investigate America’s biggest distraction, is content phones and e-book readers like Kindle mysterious glowing goo on the gallery now to run quietly in the background of and Nook make online newspapers easily floor…” people’s lives, allowing a new generation accessible, but still feature traditional full- People had a set amount of time to con- of online communities to emerge from length articles. tribute story lines with the best of each day founder Mark Zuckerberg’s virtual Le Many people who find themselves in being chosen by Burton and officially added Brea Tar Pits. need of a speedy news fix are now turning to the story. The hope is to collaboratively These new, phoenix-like networks to Twitter for quick and dirty headline build a Stainboy adventure, as well as draw have read the handouts, taken notes, and updates. attention to Burton’s upcoming art exhibit crunched the numbers, determined not to Local newspapers like the Times Col- at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. repeat the follies of their predecessors. onist, Monday, the Saanich News, and Taking yet another approach to Twitter, Shaking tar from their wings, sites Nexus have all started Twitter accounts local musicians Jon and Roy have created like Twitter, Flickr, and Tumblr are find- with multiple updates every day, keep- an account to keep their name in good ing a niche market and hanging on for ing readers up to date on all the day’s top standing with fans as well as to attract new the long haul. stories. people to their music. After winter’s sudden arrival on Nov- Jon and Roy’s manager, Stephen A little Twitter told me… ember 21, with Victorians flying into their Franke, says it’s important for hometown Twitter has become a beacon of light in usual snow-induced frenzies, local papers bands to have a strong online presence, but this modern age of waning attention spans kept snow-bound citizens informed by that bands need to be selective about where and hectic lifestyles. tweeting bus-route updates after the BC they dedicate their efforts. Every corporate entity and their dog has Transit website crashed from thousands “Every social media site if different, a Twitter account, sending out 140-charac- checking in about bus cancellations. and each has their own purpose,” says ter blasts updating followers on everything Not only are these Twitter pages keep- Franke. “We use Facebook to showcase from press releases and pending mergers, ing followers in the loop about community and market the band, like a traditional to what the VP had for breakfast and the and world events, but they are also keeping website. MySpace is a dinosaur, and it’s awesome shoes she just bought. their respective papers in people’s good not very good for much, but it does work graces by serving as a public bulletin when Summer 2011 11 FEATURE

ges to the website, with a significant increase to allotted uploads and the addition of video capabilities. Often lumped in with other online photo-sharing sites, such as Photobucket, Picasa, and SmugMug, Flickr has gradually come to be a well- respected site for photographers to display their portfolios. A budding photojournalist, Uni- versity of Alberta student Sam Brooks began networking and making contacts in the photography community. as a platform for spreading music.” With a little prodding from friends, community, you also know that the com- While Franke isn’t sold on the notion Brooks created a Flickr account of his own, mentary posted on the photos are coming that tweets will be the key to launching quickly realizing the benefit of a site that’s from other photographers,” says Brooks. the band into the musical stratosphere, he visible to non-members. “That lends itself to being much more of admits that there’s a fuzzy logic to having “It doesn’t have the same exclusivity an insightful critique of your work rather an account. as something like Facebook does,” says than just goofy comments your friends “Our biggest reason for having a Twit- Brooks. “A lot of my friends don’t have make.” ter is to create a culture around Jon and a Facebook page, so I was able to share Daniel German, a political science pro- Roy,” says Franke. “It’s about having a photos with them more easily.” fessor at the University of Victoria, says that presence so we’re not left behind, but it’s The user-friendly site is accessible a major difference between networks like definitely not our main site.” to anyone with a computer and doesn’t Facebook and Flickr are how individuals The band also maintains a presence on require an account to browse other users’ behave on each site. music-sharing sites like last.fm, and video- photos. But as Brooks found out not long “Facebook is about social interactions sharing sites like YouTube. Ultimately after joining, membership does have its and who you know, and Flickr is about what though, Franke says it’s important to stay benefits. you can create and the people that create focused on the real objectives and not get “As I dove further in to Flickr, I realized things that are similar or that resonate,” too caught up in the social-media craze. that it’s a completely different internet says German. “Each one changes the way “You need to focus on the music,” he community. It attracts a more professional you interact on them, because on Facebook says. “Focus on the music and the networks caliber of photography than other sites,” it’s about who you know and what you want that work, and ignore the bad ones. Music, says Brooks. “The way people use Facebook them to know about you, and on Flickr it’s or whatever it is you’re doing, needs to is to dump all the photos from an event or about the photos you take and what people come first. All the marketing in the world other part of their life on a page and get think of them, without actually knowing or won’t help if you don’t have good music. their friends to make comments. There’s a caring who is behind those comments.” But if the music is good, the marketing will demand with Facebook that when an event take care of itself.” occurs, there be photo documentation of Are you RECording? said event, no matter how repetitive or While Flickr is making the buck by Say “aged Gouda” terrible the photography is.” specializing and catering to a very specific Flickr, which also launched in February Brooks says one of the best parts of niche, other sites, like hitrecord.org, are of 2004, was developed by Vancouver- being a member of an online photography diversifying. The site is a multimedia site based company Ludicorp, and was bought collective is having the opportunity to learn developed by actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt out in 2005 by Yahoo. from other photographers. and has recently become a professional 2006 through 2008 saw huge chan- “Because Flickr is a photographers’ collaborative production company.

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Users agree that the work they post can ing, on Tumblr in June, gaining upwards of be taken by other members to be remixed 1,700 followers in just under six months. and remade into something new, as long “I’m still shocked that anyone other as the original creator is credited in the than my husband, who is obligated to resources. like my cooking, is enjoying it,” laughs In a video on hitRECord, Gordon-Levitt Jordan. says that “remixing isn’t considered theft. With positive feedback and reviews, it It’s an honor.” comes as no surprise that Jordan’s blog is This new approach to copyright and bringing real attention to her recipes. fair-use agreements reflects Gordon- “People on my blog have been pester- Levitt’s belief that current copyright laws ing me to put an actual print cookbook are out of date. And while the site itself together, so I used a print-on-demand must conform to the laws of the land, the “It is kind of cyclical in that we had all company and am making it available to members within the site have the power these communities on Usenet that were not whoever wants it.” and freedom to share their original work really moderated,” says German. “Then we Jordan is careful to protect her online within their own community. started to see the fragmentation of the web identity, saying that people can never be Czarina De Leon, a hitRECord member where people started to pull the informa- too careful when divulging personal infor- out of Chicago, Illinois, says that she was tion onto their own websites, and then the mation. When the trend is to tell everyone immediately blown away when she first problem was actually finding it. Now we everything about yourself, it can be easy to visited the site after hearing about it on have this sort of resurgence where we have forget that the web is in fact worldwide. Twitter. people saying, ‘Let’s make communities “My blog is completely private. You “I couldn’t believe the creativity in centralized again.’” would never know that it’s me,” says Jor- the collaborations, and it made me want “The beauty of Usenet and any other dan. “I don’t have my photo or my name to become a part of it, a part of this huge medium on the internet is that it’s been anywhere on it, because out of 1,700 people production,” she says. able to actually bring people together following my blog, I know five of them. I The site, which features contributions that wouldn’t have been able to before,” don’t want the rest to know personal in- of audio, video, pictures, illustrations, and continues German. “So now the distance formation about me. I’ve mentioned that text, not only fosters art, but also helps to doesn’t actually matter. Now we have the I live on the west coast, but that could be motivate people to be more creative. ability to create communities around topics anywhere from Alaska to Mexico.” De Leon says sites like hitRECord can that otherwise would have been impossible help bring skills typically learned in school to foster because the subjects were too Welcome to the family? to people who might not otherwise have obscure, or people wouldn’t have been Many people, like Jordan and Franke, the opportunity. able to meet up in person.” check into multiple accounts on a daily “We have film schools that can easily basis, with the hope of having a broad and teach us how to make videos, but what about No Tumblr-weeds here diverse online presence. people who can’t go to those schools?” asks Blogs are one of the broadest, and con- The future of social media will see a De Leon. “It takes more than one brain to sequently most vague, online networks out simplified amalgamation of networks, create a whole entire project; hitRECord there today. Blogs can be anything—some- according to German. is a way to help build relationships with one’s personal website, an expert advice “When the ability is there to filter and others and work together.” column, a topical photo-journal… classify your groups, and say, ‘For this For UVic student Renée Jordan, blog- group I am this persona, and for this other A nod to Usenet ging was a way to stay busy after a car group I am this other one,’ but still have German explains that long before Web accident forced her to take a year off of everything centralized within one account, 2.0 and social media as we know it today, a university. many people may start to migrate,” says program called Usenet was the main hub Jordan confesses that when she got German. of online interactions. married last summer she couldn’t boil Presumably, the next wave of online Usenet was developed in 1980 by Duke an egg, so when her husband began the communities will recognize the need for University graduate students Tom Truscott Crossfit training program, she quickly efficiency and will be able to manage all and Jim Ellis and was similar to an online realized she’d need to learn how to cook other social-media sites within one central- bulletin board. It’s often thought of as a more than just cereal. ized user interface. hybrid between email and online forums. As Jordan began to hone her kitchen It remains to be seen if Facebook will German says that he’s not surprised craft, the rave reviews from friends began continue to play the role of The Godfather’s to see interest rising in community-based rolling in, as did the recipe requests. Vito Corleone, or if there’s an Emilio Bar- sites that have a strong focus on person- To simplify things she began her blog, zini lurking in the wings, waiting to be the to-person interactions. focusing on healthy eating and clean cook- new leader of the social-media world.

Summer 2011 13 FEATURE lightweight anorexia, bulimia, and the road to recovery

The average adult consumes approxi- way of coping that gets out of control, it “Every morning I would eat a specific mately 1,500–2,000 calories per day. For initially works on some level. And then, in amount of bread, with a certain amount the last two years, 18-year-old student some people, it gathers momentum and the of peanut butter, and if I didn’t have my Whitney Patricia (not her real name) has coping mechanism becomes the problem,” measuring device for the peanut butter, barely managed that much in a week, and says Robinson. I would lose it,” says Patricia. “My whole at 5’1, weighing in at just 93 lbs, Patricia’s Secretly taking people’s shock at her day would be off.” frail frame could pass for your average weight loss as a compliment, Patricia’s Within a year and a half, Patricia went 10-year-old. condition rapidly spiralled out of control. from 150 pounds to 87 pounds. Despite Patricia began her journey into the She says her original, healthy weight-loss missing school because of her inability dark world of eating disorders at the age plan became an addiction. to focus on anything other than food, of 15. “I think of it as a line,” says Patricia. and concern from her family members, “I was a really chubby kid. That’s prob- “There’s healthy eating, and healthy Patricia’s eating disorder continued to ably where my whole story starts,” she exercise. And then there’s a line, which is build momentum well into her grade 12 says. “I don’t know if that’s what helped really thin, that crosses into obsession. It year in high school. cause my eating disorder, but that’s where got to the point that if I didn’t get a certain It wasn’t until showering one morning it started.” amount of exercise every day, or someone that Patricia realized the gravity of her Conscious of her weight in a hometown tried to make me eat something that I didn’t situation. she says was filled with thin, pretty, blonde make for myself, I would have a temper “I got out of the shower and was brush- girls, Patricia decided to start exercising tantrum, or I would beat myself up about ing my hair,” says Patricia. “I looked down and watching her diet. it for days.” and the brush was covered in hair. Then “My weight was a big thing for me, Robinson says that most women she’s I ran my hand through, and my entire so I joined a gym,” says Patricia. “It was counselled for eating disorders are motiv- hand was covered in hair. Just covered. I a really healthy decision, because I was ated and bright. For one reason or another, freaked out, because I didn’t know what only going a couple times a week, and not they just seek comfort in the ability to to do. That was the thing that changed my really pushing myself. My parents were on control something. eating disorder and really turned things board, and I was thinking, ‘Good for me.’ I “There’s a big piece of disordered around for me.” started cutting out sweets, then. Over time, eating that has to do with control,” says A visit to the doctor and a series of blood as I lost more and more weight, people Robinson. “It’s a coping mechanism. It tests later, it was clear that the anorexia would say, ‘Oh, you look so great,’ until gives people something to hold onto when was to blame. it got to the point when people would ask things get chaotic.” “That’s when my family really got on me if I was okay.” me,” says Patricia. “I had to go to a counsel- Liisa Robinson, a counsellor at The downward spiral lor and a nutritionist, I saw a psychiatrist, Camosun College’s Interurban campus, and that’s when I was actually diagnosed says that people engage in disordered Patricia’s restrictive behaviours led to as anorexic. And every day since, it’s been eating behaviours because it initially an increasing need for control, regimenting a struggle.” pays off. her diet to measured portions and up to two However, the diagnosis isn’t the end of “Just like with addiction, or any other hours a day spent at the gym. Patricia’s story; it’s a mile marker. 14 Nexus FEATURE o

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“All these horrible things are happening to you, and that should make you want to change, but the fear of gaining weight is so much stronger than knowing that your body is eating itself.” Whitney Patricia Local student

“After a couple of months, I did man- may seem like a choice, Patricia believes says Patricia. “It’s enough to help to push age to put on some weight, and then the that it’s not as cut and dry as that. me along in my own recovery, because I weight was too much for me to handle,” “I really think of it as a disease,” says can’t help others until I help myself.” says Patricia. “So I went back to my normal Patricia. “I’m extremely strong willed, and Patricia hopes to help people not just diet, and back to exercising, but the weight I think that if it was as simple as making a at their worst, but those who haven’t yet wasn’t coming off, and that’s when I turned choice, I would have fixed it before now.” been affected by the disorder but are at bulimic.” Like a cartoon devil and angel, Patricia risk of it. Patricia regressed into bulimia, keep- says that having an eating disorder is like “Get help as quick as you can, because ing it a secret from everyone in her life. It having another person in her head. She says it spirals down so fast, and then it’s just wasn’t until five months in that her family that the bad part picks on the good part of a mess. For a lot of people, it’s not too began to realize that her eating disorder the brain, perpetuating the disease. late.” was, unfortunately, far from gone. “It’s never, ‘I am’ something—too fat, Robinson says that it’s important to That was three months ago. too disgusting, too gross. It was always, look for cues other than weight loss if you Though a daily struggle, Patricia says ‘You, you, you,’” says Patricia. “It’s like are concerned about someone potentially she feels that she’s getting control over her another person. It can be so mean, because having an eating disorder. condition, however the full extent of the the names that I call myself in my head is Watch for signs that may indicate an damage done by years of self-starvation like the worst bully you can imagine. Things unhealthy amount of time dedicated to is not yet known. Because she stopped I would never say to another human, I say thinking about food. menstruating three years ago due to the to myself.” “You cannot look at someone and see anorexia, doctors are unsure whether Sarah Atkinson, a psychotherapist whether or not they’re struggling with Patricia will be able to have children in the and registered clinical counsellor at Vic- disordered eating,” says Robinson. “A future. There has also been severe damage toria’s Cedric Centre, says that women’s lot of the warning signs are going to be done to her liver and other organs. unhealthy relationships with food often recognizable by the person with the dis- “It’s funny,” says Patricia, “because all stem from society’s flawed and unrealistic order, but may not be obvious to someone these horrible things are happening to you, perception of beauty. on the outside.” and that should make you want to change, “Women try to live up to the media’s Patricia knows that there is definitely a but the fear of gaining weight is so much unrealistic standards,” says Atkinson. “As a long road ahead of her, but she is confident stronger than knowing that your body is society, we perpetuate this distorted image and determined to keep her recovery on eating itself.” of beauty and health. We live in a society track, and she’ll be inspiring others along that supports the belief that thinness leads the way. Mind vs. body to happiness.” “No matter how long it takes, it’s pos- Even though Patricia is just in the sible to get healthy,” she says. “There isn’t While everyone’s experience with anor- beginning stages of her recovery, her de- a quick fix. It might take 10 years, but one exia is unique, Patricia’s was rooted in re- termination is undeniable. day, you’ll go a whole day without worrying striction and depression with an abundance “My goal is to be able to help other or thinking about food and exercise in an of exercise. And while her extreme dieting people deal with their eating disorders,” unhealthy way.” Summer 2011 15 ARTS ARTS Gettin’ mobile with Matt Costa

“There was a mobility to all the things involved with creating the record.” matt costa musician

Jina mousseau Contributing writer It may not be the most decadent tour accessory, but California singer-songwriter Matt Costa likes to have a couple of good books with him when he’s on tour. More than a couple, actually—he admits that he brings more books than he can read on the road with him. “I usually have a box full of them,” says Costa in his quiet twang. “I end up just look- ing at a lot of them, but I like knowing that they’re there, like a little piece of home.” With the release of his third , Mobile Chateau, Costa is getting ready to leave home for a tour across North America. This album is a change from his previous two records, which were indie- rock based, focusing on his love for ’60s psychedelic rock. Costa’s inspiration for the disc comes from classic acts such as Donovan, Fairport Convention, and the West Coast Pop Experimental Band, to name a few. Mobile Chateau began in the French Singer-songwriter Matt Costa contemplates what to read next. countryside, just outside of Paris in the middle of winter. Costa was staying in an the artwork involved… they all came from recording himself, a task he tackled for the old chateau with his wife, and after she a lot of the creative friends and people that first time with the album. made a mobile with different objects that are close to my home here, and people that And fans can look forward to a little she had found, inspiration for the album I have gotten to know over the years,” says something different again when it comes began. Costa. “So I really feel like it’s my sort of time for his next release—while writing “She hung it in our room, and I wrote version of that; that’s what the mobile Mobile Chateau, Costa also wrote songs a song about it that night,” says Costa. chateau is.” for something quite different: an upcoming “So there was this mobile in the chateau, Costa concentrates on the positives in Americana album. literally, and that transformed out of the his life when writing music, and takes songs “Right now Mobile Chateau is the one record as I recorded more of it.” as they come naturally. He focuses on what I feel most passionate about, but I held on But the literal meaning of the album goes into his brain, taking the good from to them separately so that each idea can ended up taking a back seat to a more meta- amidst the, as he puts it, “chaos going on be fully realized and become a complete phorical interpretation as time went on. in the world at any given time.” sound,” he says of his Americana material. “There was a mobility to it, to all the Costa took the lead on this Mobile “It’s been a very prolific time, these past two things involved with creating the record, Chateau, doing all the production and years. We’ll see what happens next.” 16 Nexus ARTS ARTS Dubstep explodes in BC

Dubstep DJ Skrillex. And his hair! erin ball to practically every personality type you Stewart says that in the last two years staff writer could imagine.” there’s been an enormous shift from the It’s a testament to the growing popu- Although it’s much more mainstream four main genres of breakbeat, trance, larity of dubstep and similar genres in in the UK and other parts of the world, elec- electro, and drum n’ bass to a variety of Victoria Skrillex’s last show in town sold tronic music in Canada has seen a slower slower tempo ones. out, fast. build in fan base since the ’90s. Young “The biggest and baddest of these is, The success of recent dubstep shows in superstar DJs like Rusko and Skrillex are of course, dubstep,” says Stewart. “How- Edmonton and Kelowna, with enthusiastic more common in the UK, which makes ever, since its creation, DJs have begun to fans packing the venues in both towns, the quick success of Los Angeles-based branch off and combine older sounds with illustrates that BC is a prime destination Skrillex a rare find on the scene. But fans new dubstep beats to form subgenres like for big-name DJs. in the US and Canada are embracing his drum step and glitch hop.” The Victoria Skrillex show was a huge hardcore brand of electronic beats. Of course, Skrillex doesn’t limit his success, which isn’t surprising considering “There’s a really strong scene in Can- sound to dubstep alone. His music is a other big-name dubstep shows that have ada. Everyone really embraces dubstep,” unique mix of dubstep, electro, and glitch, also sold out in town. Shows by DJs like says Rusko. “The venues are awesome and with big dance-floor beats containing huge Bassnectar, who plays Victoria often and the sound systems are tough. The west bass drops and lots of synth melodies. always sells out, and Rusko, who sold out coast knows how to get down.” Call it what you will: it’s certainly not at Sugar last fall, prove that Victoria has a Rusko says the opportunities are end- just dubstep. growing and evolving core of fans. less with a genre like dubstep. It’s evolved Skrillex started turning heads with the “Dubstep has exploded and almost since the earliest releases in the late ’90s, independent release of My Name Is Skrillex every big name that comes to Victoria is but it’s only started to gain popularity last summer and the Scary Monsters and sold out between a week and two months worldwide the last three years or so. Nice Sprites EP on Deadmau5’s Mau5stap prior to the show,” says university transfer “It’s fun and new to a lot of peoples’ label. student and electronic-music fan James ears,” says Rusko. “It’s at the perfect speed, Via Textback: Stewart. “I’ve also noticed that the type of it’s appealing to singers and rappers. It “Ever wonder if dubstep artists hire the same people people attending these shows has changed brings tons of energy to the club. That’s as pharmaceutical companies to come up with their from a very small close-knit group of fans why I love it.” names?” Summer 2011 17 ARTS ARTS Bryson explores Canada with

Jim Bryson (centre) is at home amongst his hatted musical pals The Weakerthans, who backed him up on tour. Bryson says he doesn’t ignore the big As for what these ideas have to do with “I’ve never been a things, they’re just not what he writes Canada, Bryson says that to him, there about. isn’t one Canada, but rather there is many big-issues writer. The “I’ve never been a big-issues writer. The Canadas. more time goes by, more time goes by, the more nuanced it “Everybody’s eyes is what it is,” he gets, rather than less. I really like the impact says. “We as a nation have a lot of things the more nuanced it of a great line and the way words mash up we come together on, which gets glorified together even if it isn’t a linear story.” and played up; we play up the unity. But gets.” But Bryson is not entirely without pol- everyone’s situation, life, and experiences jim bryson itical ideas. On his new album, The Falcon are different. I ponder a lot what blanket musician Lake Incident, written and recorded with statements mean.” his pals The Weakerthans, the song “Fell He’s had time for lots of pondering off the Dock” explores the nature of the lately, having just completed the Ontario/ nation. The album is just the latest in a long Quebec portion of his nation-wide tour line of collaborative efforts from Bryson; with The Weakerthans (sans vocalist/ tyler rowe he’s previously partnered up with Sarah guitarist John K. Samson) backing him up. Contributing Writer Harmer, Lynn Miles, , And that’s backing him up, not playing the Ottawa’s indie-folk songwriter Jim and The Tragically Hip, to name a few. show as well, a fact lost in at least someone Bryson is a man who prefers the small “Part of that song came from a really in every city the show is hitting. things in life. Where he lives is small, and bad car commercial where John Cougar “No matter where I am, there are always what he writes about is human. Mellencamp said, ‘This is our country,’ a few people who think The Weakerthans “I definitely like the nuances of things and I thought, Well, what’s our country? are playing these shows, and they’re not,” between the cracks,” he says. “The concept Everyone has a different concept of space, says Bryson. “It’s The Jim Bryson Weak- of pulling over and just watching things go geography, politics, and social politics. erthans Band, and it is what it is. I don’t by. I spend a lot of time around the house Social politics plays a big part in what I do. make any excuses about what we are—I’m just reading and listening to late-night CBC Just what everybody’s role is and what your just up front about it so no one is screaming and NPR radio.” small corner of the universe means.” at me on stage.”

18 Nexus ARTS ARTS Chatting with the father of cyberspace

“If the internet weren’t a waste of time, it wouldn’t be working.” william gibson author

Dylan Wilks Contributing Writer It could be argued that William Gib- son created the internet. The author, who invented a language for cyberspace—a phrase he himself coined in his short story Burning Chrome—also helped inspire its evolution. “The internet is the thing that we did after we did cities,” says Gibson. “Cities are really, really quite highly advanced and incredibly complex human artifacts. The only thing we’ve done that is more highly advanced and more highly complex than The man who invented the word “cyberspace.” cities is the Internet.” “I think the internet has the capacity granted. If you got somebody who grew up Gibson once said that the internet is to addict you because it is, in a sense, un- with reality TV it would never occur to them a waste of time, which is exactly what’s regulated,” says Gibson. “It’s largely free that I’d committed that act of prognostica- right about it. He applies this same logic space, and when you have free space you tion by getting that in.” to cities. can feel like you have free time.” Gibson’s first novel was 1984’sNeuro - “Any city that is devoid of ways to Gibson—who was recently in Victoria mancer. In it, he created a world filled with waste time, in my mind, isn’t a very good promoting his new novel, Zero History— what he called console cowboys (now city,” says Gibson. “I want cities with flea has a prophetic talent with his writing, known as hackers) who would connect to markets and slums and red-light districts having most recently explored viral market- the matrix (a visualized internet), and exist and everything that cities have traditionally ing in his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition, in cyberspace. offered. I don’t want a cleaned-up version, years before it was widely exposed to the In coming up with terms like these, I don’t want the Disney version—I want public consciousness. Gibson created a language and an icon- the real messy deal.” “What I had was some early evidence of ography that’s still evolving and is still in Gibson also wants the real messy what would later be called viral marketing,” use today. internet. He says the internet has always says Gibson. “All that stuff really jumped Gibson’s idea for visualized inter- been just that. out at me. I thought, ‘This could really make net inspired the way the online world “A lot of people would like to clean it into the future. It could be really big or it evolved–specifically what we know as the it up, but there are systemic aspects of it could be really horrible.’” world wide web. that don’t actually make that possible,” This talent for seeing, and writing It took Time magazine 10 years to men- says Gibson. “That’s what makes it work. about, future trends dates back to his tion the novel, but in 2005 Neuromancer If it weren’t a waste of time, it wouldn’t Bridge trilogy, released in the ’90s. In that was included on their list of the 100 best be working.” series, Gibson wrote about what is today English-language novels written since These days Gibson is active on Twit- called reality television. 1923. ter and blogs—things he had avoided “And it’s almost as spectacularly dumb “People don’t realize what a stretch until they became “such a magnificent as reality television is today,” says Gibson. some of it was at that time,” says Gibson, opportunity to waste time” that he could “The funny thing is that somebody reading “and I’m kind of proud of that, because it no longer resist. those novels today would take that stuff for means that it worked.”

Summer 2011 19 COLUMNS COLUMNS A bit of Montreal flavour in town Ed Sum

Contributing Writer d sum e La Belle Patate 1215 Esquimalt Rd., 250-220-8427 4/5 bites

Designer poutine is a craving that’s easy to satisfy at La Belle Patate in Esquimalt, offering a variety of flavours and extras for such a simple sin. To have the works can La Belle Patate has delicious poutine. easily scare away the health-conscious, but have to burn off in the next few weeks. the response I received. The operator said it didn’t stop me from ordering the Mont- I also had their basic cheeseburger they’d never do that, or destroy a burger real smoked meat version ($7.40). ($5.60) with the best tasting sauerkraut with ketchup. With that kind of attitude, I enjoyed the supple crunch and soft that I’ve ever had, and it’s hard to balance I can easily find myself visiting this place squeals coming from the curd, gravy, such a delicacy with the other tender fla- often. Now I just have to be careful with and potato combination. The gravy was vours. There was love in the meat that’d one of the seven deadly sins: gluttony, I lukewarm, which didn’t melt anything, been pounded into a patty. It was like eating must avoid. but that’s to be expected when the order a perfectly aged medium rare steak, and Taster’s tip: To get the cheese curds to is eaten right away. There were also some when it was placed in a tenderly warmed melt properly, let poutine sit for 5-7 min- bisqued pieces of fatty ham in my dish, and bun, the rest was history. utes. When getting takeout, leave the tray that made for a beautiful serving that I’ll I asked for no pickles and appreciated sealed to ensure even heat distribution.

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