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Our May 2015 trip/Beautiful Africa
On this trip, I visited Botswana between 17-May-2015 and 26-May-2015 and I travelled with 1 other person.
The trip was wonderful. We clocked over 100 new bird species and all the animals we could imagine except rhino. Loved the night sounds--hippo and lions plus others!
We liked all 4 lodges very much. Best were Xigera and Vumbra Plain. Little Vumbra needs a bit of spiffing up. Sandibe was amazing...a bit wierd, but VERY comfy and attractive. Beds everywhere were wonderful.
The staff and the guides were terrific....always knowledgable and very pleasant. Food was excellent -- as was the wine. Perhaps too much food, too often.
Just for you to know, wifi at both Sandibe and Vumbra Plain...and hair dryers. Also outlets for re-charging at every single place.
There were too many high points to mention!
Suggestions to help us improve our trips or our service:
No. You are doing a great job, and we've recommended you (Tracy) and Expert Africa to several friends...even some who were with other safari groups.
Special thanks to Tracy for suggesting to the various camps that we have accomodation close to the center. My knees were very appreciative.
Wilderness planes were not as comfortable or clean as MacAir planes.
Can you send email of general manager of Vumbra Plains or Chris the food/beverage manager?
I stayed at and have reviewed:
|Overall rating
|Xigera Safari Lodge, Botswana
17-May-2015 review: Xigera
|Sandibe Safari Lodge, Botswana
19-May-2015 review: Sandibe Safair Lodge
|Little Vumbura, Botswana
22-May-2015 review: Little Vumbura
|Vumbura Plains, Botswana
24-May-2015 review: Vumbura Plains review


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Thanks to Facebook we all have this newfound ability to know what most of our friends think about most issues most of the time. So much so that I can almost always predict where many of y'all stand on any given topic before you ever even post a single article or outraged update. I'm sure the same is also true for me to some degree (I know this because whenever I post something that doesn't line up with what y'all think I thought I get a deluge of private messages demanding I explain my dissenting opinion).
However, because I'm no longer aligning myself with the Republican party -although, obviously I do lean more Conservative- I'm allowed to make up my own mind up about certain things, like what's going on in Missouri. And I'm horrified. When I see stuff like this happening, ironically, I find myself RUNNING back to my Republican-small government-trust no one-especially not armed militarized police-just go buy guns-roots. And, again, it shows me just how fusterclucked the two party system is, because I see most of y'all running the opposite direction and defending things like tanks rolling down city streets, our first amendment rights being trampled, and a corrupt government using this as an excuse to chip away at our civil liberties.
I guess that's when being somewhat of an outsider actually comes in handy since it allows me to spot this huge inconsistency in what a lot of people are arguing for/against. The same people posting about #obummer and making pro-gun memes (because #tyranny) while "liking" pro-death penalty pages (because #justice) are making my head spin. I guess I just don't understand what you believe. Do you? You curse the very government that allows violence in the womb, then expect them to value your life and the lives of those around you. You don't trust them with our national debt, but you're fine with them giving tanks to local police (which I might add, just a year ago when video of those same police departments doing full on swat training in urban areas leaked so many of y'all were going ape sheeze over it), but now suddenly we're cool with it because #Murica?!
All that to say, just because groups you normally agree with like The Blaze, or Fox News, or whoever your personal Republican Messiah is, have come out taking the side of the militarized police in Ferguson- you don't have to. Use your brain. Don't wait for your party to tell you what you're supposed to think. Be consistent. Find that one thing you know to be true, like idk… how about ALL HUMAN LIFE IS PRECIOUS, and align yourself with that rather than the conservative or liberal agenda that's making you contradict so much of what you stand for.
These are the only Talk Heads any of us should be listening to, IMO.
…But hey, again that's just my 2¢ because remember, we're not letting other people tell us what to think anymore.

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Most smart phones on the market have at least one camera if not two. You may want to leverage these cameras to make the next Instagram or SnapChat type application. Lucky for us, the native Android and iOS camera can be easily accessed using Ionic Framework and the AngularJS extension set, ngCordova.
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As part of its commitment to service excellence in the information technology sector, MITA has partnered with ICT Solutions with modernizing core pillars of the Government of Malta's public sector IT strategy. These changes lay the foundation for continued excellence in eGovernment, ranging from platforms for continuous innovation, to cutting edge identity security & the digitization of public sector processes.
Microsoft Customer Success Story – Malta's IT agency delivers digital government services with Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack. Read More
Laying the Foundation for Public Sector Innovation
The Hybrid Cloud Enabling Infrastructure is the technological foundation for the Public Administration's digitalisation strategic plan. Serving as the cornerstone of Government's Information Systems and Services it will enable its ambitious programme of core application modernisation.
This platform allows Ministries greater agility in creating environments and consuming services, better security, and the latest state-of-the-art cloud services. This has been recognized as the foundational building block to drive a culture of innovation and a core tenant of the government's recently published national AI strategy.
The hybrid cloud breaks the chains of traditional IT – moving from lagging behind the flexibility of the cloud, to embracing a model were services are freely available to all. The Azure Hybrid cloud enables the government to not only empower ministries, businesses & citizens, but also save money while maintaining security and control.
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Citizen centric platform for service agility
Designed as a major building-block for the digitalisation of the Public Administration's business processes, the ICT Workflow solution, based on K2 five, solves the problem of a lack of integration between disparate services and platform within the public sector. It facilitates improved quality and delivery of public services through a unified user experience for internal and external clients of the Public Administration. As a suite of tools, it allows the creation of services that can propagate and update other external information systems to ensure that data is gathered only once.
Through this process of digitization, the public sector can rapidly and easily deploy digital services for the Maltese public, building on the core principals of data only once, and eCitizen flexibility. No matter the systems in use and where data resides, Government actors can design and deploy the right systems to maintain service excellence for citizens and ensure the availability of critical systems.
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ICT Solutions is currently deploying a user identity life-cycle solution for MITA to manage the user identities for the whole Government of Malta. Based on Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM), coupled with the workflow automation capabilities of the K2 platform, this touches the core of identity and security in the public sector, allowing MITA to implement workflows that manage the entire identity life-cycle across all touch points.
With an audit trail of all identity and access management actions performed within Government, MITA will be enhancing cyber-security within the Public Sector, securing the critical citizen data within, and giving Government users control over their digital identities. Furthermore, certain routine, manual and error-prone activities can be eliminated, freeing up human resources to carry out more value-added duties.
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Investment grade bonds outlook 2020
2019 will comfortably claim the record for corporate issuance in euros, with the first 11 months of the year materially eclipsing the entire figure for 2018 (€370 billion compared to €265 billion). The insatiable appetite for corporate treasurers to issue debt has been met by a similar – arguably considerably greater – demand on the part of end-investors to buy the debt being issued.
The structural fundamental reasons behind these trends – namely persistently low (and in some cases negative) interest rates, a moribund global economic outlook and a correspondingly cautious cohort of central banks – show no signs of disappearing. Faced with the alternative of (in many cases) paying a bank to hold their cash, the incremental return of buying corporate bonds remains a relatively attractive option for investors. The long-term structural support for fixed income assets is therefore certainly compelling, and should continue to underpin demand for corporate bonds. So far, so easy…but what about the politics stupid?
Forecasting the impact in recent years of geopolitical events on risk markets has been something of a mug's game. The well-intentioned and earnest corporate bond manager will typically be asked to comment on what are perceived to be the biggest threats to the asset class, and then make an educated comment (guess) on the likelihood of each outcome occurring, and what their impact would be on credit spreads. The last four years have provided ample opportunity to engage in this charade, with at various times Brexit, a Trump presidency, Italian politics and various EM crises (among many) cited as being the (unlikely) event that would precipitate the sell-off. None of this is to underplay the risks of an unanticipated event roiling markets. It is more of an attempt to acknowledge that if and when a sell-off occurs, it is rarely the consensual risk event that causes the sell-off. Predicting such an event is therefore beyond the capability of most.
Taking the long-term structural support for the asset class as read – and in the spirit of avoiding the afore-mentioned (and well-trodden) rabbit holes – what should the focus for corporate bond managers be in 2020? Without making any prediction on what the next iteration of Brexit (or UK politics) will look like, UK-domiciled entities will probably again be one of the focal points for credit investors. UK financials will continue to be hostages to how Brexit plays out. It is difficult to argue that they won't continue to trade with a mild risk premium over the rest of the sector, but they should offer opportunities as perceptions over Brexit ebb and flow. Even after the rally we saw in the fourth quarter of 2019, there is still arguably scope for spreads in these names to rally further, in the short-term at least. It's also possible we may see other UK domestic plays (including utilities) recover, as the UK risk premium dissipates against a more certain political backdrop.


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Do you get angry? I have been sitting here thinking about anger. I react, and I do get ticked off, but do I get angry. My frustration, or disappointment to a situation is usually short lived. I tend to blow, verbalize, get it out of my system and move on. For sure my fuse has gotten longer the older I get. Plus, I believe that when one appreciates and lives in the moment, anger is a waste of emotion. Living in the moment, also means that it doesn't matter what day it is, because every day is a moment and opportunity for something awesome to happen. Just walking out into the sunshine on the back deck can fill me with the joy of being alive to enjoy that moment.
Buddha was asked "What have you gained from meditation? " He replied. "Nothing! However, let me tell you what I have lost, anger, anxiety,depression, insecurity, fear of old age, and death"
Walk softly today, celebrate the day, appreciate the moment.. Travel through space to share this place with me, by simply closing your eyes and hearing the sound of your heart beat. Colour your day with the blessings of life. May the blessings of the day fill your heart with gladness, today, tomorrow and always. Oyashikiri
Thanksgiving Service is at 7 pm. (Church of Perfect Liberty)
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Srinagar, Nov 21: Senior Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader and former finance minister Altaf Bukhari on Wednesday said that people in the state will soon get 'good news' as the PDP, Congress and National Conference have decided to join hands to form the government.
"There is a progress [on the talks] among the three parties. Keeping in view the political situation and special status of the state, the three parties have decided to join hands," Bukhari told Greater Kashmir.
He said that the PDP, Congress and the NC decided to join hands and form a government to defend the special status of the state.
"Article 370 and 35A are our main issues. All this is being done to safeguard them," he said.
Bukhari said that announcement regarding the talks and the alliance will be shared soon with the people of the state.
Earlier in the day, NDTV reported that the "talks between the three parties are at an advanced stage, in order to stymie the BJP's attempts to take power after engineering defections."
"An announcement is expected today or tomorrow," it claimed.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad also confirmed that talks were going on among the three parties over government formation in the state.
"Hum parties ka yeh kehna tha ki kyu na hum ikatthe ho jaye aur sarkar banaye. Abhi vo stage sarkar banne wali nahi hai,ek sujhaav ke taur par baatcheet abhi chal rahi hai (We [NC, Congress, PDP] thought why not to unite and form a government together. Talks are going on but as of now it is only a suggestion…We haven't reached that stage yet where we can form the government)," said Azad, according to ANI news agency.


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Voice Studies Now: January 30-31, 2015 at UCLA
Nina Eidsheim, Conference Chair
Katherine Meizel, Conference Co-Chair
Barbara van Nostrand, Conference Chief Administrator
Thursday, January 29 (Schoenberg Hall 1100)
7:30pm UCLA Sings! A Concert
Reception to follow
Friday, January 30 (Royce Hall 314)
8-8:30am Breakfast & Registration
8:30am Welcome, David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities
8:45-10:30am Panel 1: Producing Voice: Voice as Medium
Jason Stanyek, "Accent in Brazilian Popular Music Performance"
Nandhu Radhakrishnan, "Laryngeal Dynamics of Taan Gestures in Hindustani Classical Singing"
Shane Butler, "What Was the Voice?"
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-12:30pm Panel 2: Sensing Voice: Voice as (Multi)Sensory Phenomenon
Cornelia Fales, "'Voiceness' in Instrumental Musical Sound"
Greg Bryant & Kasia Pisanski, "The Evolution of Voice Perception"
Nina Eidsheim, "Voice as a Lens to Knowledge"
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:15pm Panel 3: Changing Voice: Voice as Barometer
Rupal Patel, "Vocal Identity: A Crowdsourced Definition"
Chloe Veltman, "The Evolution of Singing Culture in the United States"
Ronald Scherer & Katherine Meizel, "Fluid Voices: Practices and Processes of Singing Impersonation"
3:15-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Keynote Artist Address, Diamanda Galás; Schoenberg Hall 1100
5:00-5:30pm Keynote Reception
Saturday, January 31 (Perloff Hall 1302)
8:00-8:45am Breakfast, Registration & Welcome
8:45-10:30am Panel 4: Framing Voice: Voice as Carrier of Meaning
Mara Mills, "The Telephone Voice: From Modulation to Signal Processing"
Alisha Jones, "'Playin' Church:' Remembering Mama and Questioning Authenticity in Black Gospel Performance"
Tom McEnaney, "This American Voice: The Odd Timbre of a New Standard in Public Radio"
10:30-10:45am Break
10:45-12:30 pm Panel 5: Active Voice: Voice as Politics
Elias Krell, "Trans/forming White Noise: Gender, Race and Dis/Ability in the Music of Joe Stevens"
Rosario Signorello, "Voice in Charismatic Leadership"
Jessica Schwartz, "Exposed Populations: Nuclear Power and Vocal Productions"
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:15pm Panel 6: Negotiating Voice: Voice as Transaction
Eve McPherson, "Robot Imams!: Responses to Centralized Call to Prayer in Turkey"
Hyun Kyong Chang, "Voicing Trans-Pacific Modernity: Mission-Led Confessions in Early Twentieth Century Korea"
Daphne Brooks, "'Touch Me in the Morning': Diana Ross and the Voice of Public Sphere Intimacy"
3:15-3:45pm Break
3:45-4:45pm Jody Kreiman, "The Interdisciplinary Study of Voice"
4:45pm-5:45pm Closing Reception with karaoke
The Voice Challenge
In the weeks leading up to the Voice Studies Now conference, we initiated a virtual discussion on the nature of voice. Each week we presented a challenge question, asking participants to engage the issues through vocal exploration. We nominated friends, family, colleagues and others interested in voice to join the conversation by posting a short video. The challenges issued were: "This is my voice in a _______;" "I use my voice to________;" "What is voice?"; "What are the limits of voice?"
Additionally, with the help of Jessica Schwartz (Assistant Professor, UCLA Musicology), the challenge also served to promote awareness of the Marshallese Educational Initiative, which supports a community that suffers a range of vocal limitations and damages due to US nuclear testing. More information can be found at http://www.meius.org/. In lieu of concert tickets or conference registration fee, please consider donating to this important organization.
Bios (in alphabetical order):
Daphne A. Brooks is the author of two books: Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 (Durham, NC: Duke UP), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from ASTR and Jeff Buckley's Grace (New York: Continuum, 2005). Brooks is currently working on a new book entitled Subterranean Blues: Black Women Sound Modernity (Harvard University Press, forthcoming). Brooks is also the author of the liner notes for The Complete Tammi Terrell (Universal A&R, 2010) and Take a Look: Aretha Franklin Complete on Columbia(Sony, 2011), each of which has won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for outstanding music writing. She is the editor of The Great Escapes: The Narratives of William Wells Brown, Henry Box Brown, and William Craft (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007) and The Performing Arts volume of The Black Experience in the Western Hemisphere Series, eds. Howard Dodson and Colin Palmer (New York: Pro-Quest Information & Learning, 2006).
Shane Butler is Professor of Latin at the University of Bristol (UK). His research interests include the history and theory of media, sensation, and cognition. HIs recent books include The Matter of the Page (Wisconsin, 2011), The Ancient Phonograph (Zone, forthcoming 2015), and a co-edited volume, Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses (Acumen-Routledge, 2013). He currently is co-editing Sound and the Ancient Senses (Routledge) and editing A Deep Classics Reader (I. B. Tauris). Later in 2015 he will take up a new position as Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Hyun Kyong Chang (Ph.D., UCLA) explored Euro-American religious choral music in twentieth-century Korea in her dissertation, which she completed in 2014 with the support of an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship. She is currently a lecturer in musicology at UCLA. Her research projects investigate the influence of U.S.'s transnational religious, military, and political engagements on the perception and experience of vocal modernity in U.S.-allied Pacific Rim, particularly Korea and Japan. Her writing has appeared in Music & Politics and Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research.
Nina Sun Eidsheim is on the faculty of the UCLA Department of Musicology. As a scholar and singer she investigates the multi-sensory and performative aspects of the production, perception and reception of vocal timbre of twentieth and twenty-first century music. She is currently working on these ideas and repertoires in two monograph projects entitled Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice (forthcoming, Duke University Press) and Measuring Race: Listening to Vocal Timbre and Vocality in African-American Popular Music. She is also co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies and a special issue on voice and materiality for the journal, Postmodern Culture. In addition, she is the principal investigator for the UC-wide, transdisciplinary research project entitled Keys to Voice Studies: Terminology, Methodology, and Questions Across Disciplines.
Cornelia Fales is Research Associate at Indiana University. She is an ethnomusicologist who specializes in vocal and instrumental timbre, both acoustic and synthetic, in traditional and popular music. Her work has been published in most of the major ethnomusicology journals and she has taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Indiana University. In addition to ongoing research on the traditional music of Rwanda and Burundi, she is working on a book comparing concepts of timbre as they developed in the seventeenth eighteenth centuries with notions of "sound color" as used in twentieth-century electronic dance music.
Jody Kreiman is Professor of Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine. She is interested in all aspects of voice production, acoustics, and especially perception, and is co-author with Diana Sidtis of Foundations of Voice Studies.
Elias Krell is a musician, performer, and a scholar whose current book project centers the singing voice as a sonic lens for the lives and performance practices of contemporary transgender-identified musicians in North America. Krell received a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and Graduate Certificate in Gender & Sexuality Studies from Northwestern University, and currently teaches in the Feminist & Queer Studies Program at Vassar College on a two-year postdoctoral fellowship through the Consortium for Faculty Diversity. In 2014, Krell was named Emerging Diversity Scholar by the National Center for Institutional Diversity at University of Michigan. Krell is currently conducting ethnographic research in South America on themes of coloniality and indigeneity amongst punk musicians who identify as travesti or trans.
Tom McEnaney is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He has written for Cultural Critique, La Habana Elegante, and Variaciones Borges, as well as the sound studies blog Sounding Out! His book project, Acoustic Properties: Radio, Narrative, and the New Neighborhood of the Americas, investigates the co-evolution of radio and the novel in Argentina, Cuba, and the United States, charting how authors in these countries began to re-conceive novel writing as an act of listening.
Eve McPherson is Assistant Professor of Music at Kent State University, Trumbull. Her research concerns vocal timbre, Islamic recitation practices, and Turkish art music genres and has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship, the Institute of Turkish Studies, the American Research Institute in Turkey, FLAS, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. In addition, she performs frequently as a soprano soloist in the Cleveland area with the Northeastern Ohio Vocal Ensemble (NEOVocE). As a singer she has a particular interest in performing and promoting contemporary Turkish art song.
Katherine Meizel earned her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and also holds D.M.A., M.M., and bachelor's degrees in vocal performance. Her research has focused on voices and vocalities, and topics including popular music and media, religion, American identities, and disability studies. Her book Idolized: Music, Media, and Identity in American Idol was published by Indiana University Press in early 2011; she also wrote about Idol for the magazine Slate from 2007 to 2011. Other publications have appeared in Popular Music and Society, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, MUSICultures, The Voice and Speech Review, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, eHumanista, and several edited collections. She is currently co-editor of the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies.
Mara Mills is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, working at the intersection of disability studies and media studies. She is currently completing a book titled On the Phone: Deafness and Communication Engineering. Articles from this project can be found in Social Text, differences, the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies, and The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies. Her second book project, Print Disability and New Reading Formats, examines the reformatting of print over the course of the past century by blind and other print disabled readers, with a focus on Talking Books and electronic reading machines. This new research is supported by NSF Award #1354297.
Rupal Patel is joint appointed across the Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology in Bouve College and the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. She directs the Communication Analysis and Design Laboratory, an interdisciplinary group that conducts research along two broad themes: 1) the acquisition and impairment of speech prosody (the melody of speech) in healthy speakers and those with neuromotor disorders, and 2) the design of speech enhancement and learning technologies that leverage the residual and/or developing capabilities of users. Learn more at: http://www.cadlab.neu.edu
Katarzyna Pisanski is postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland. She received her PhD in 2014 from McMaster University, Canada. Her research interests include vocal communication in humans and other animals from an evolutionary perspective. Currently, she is investigating how hormones affect the voice, and how voice production and perception vary across human cultures.
Ron Scherer, Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Bowling Green State University, teaches voice disorders and voice and speech science courses. His research interests include the physiology, mechanics, and acoustics of basic, abnormal, and performance sound production, and the methodologies involved in such research. He was Senior Scientist at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts voice laboratories and taught in the DCPA's theatre voice and speech trainers program. In 2005 he was a Research Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, a master's degree from Indiana University in speech-language pathology, a B.S. degree in mathematics, and also spent two years as a music major at Indiana University.
Jessica A. Schwartz is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at UCLA. She explores musical representations and sonic histories of militarization and imperial violence, Pacific politics of indigeneity, and environmental concerns, such as nuclear contamination and climate change. She is working on two monographs: Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences, which details how Marshallese musically and textually evoke the consequences of the US nuclear weapons testing program in their country (1946–1958), as exemplified by precarious harmonies composed of irradiated women's voices, and Repertoires of Survival: Civil Defense, Popular Music, and the Business of Atomic Aurality in Postwar America, which offers a sonic ecology of the early American atomic age with a focus on the relationship between US governmental sound design of civil defense, codified motifs in popular music, and the rise of the postwar youth market. In 2013, Prof. Schwartz co-founded and continues to serve as Cultural Programs Advisor to the Marshallese Educational Initiative, Inc., a not-for-profit organization based in Arkansas that raises cultural awareness of and promotes educational opportunities for the Marshallese population. An active guitarist, she composes and performs experimental noise-based and punk music.
Rosario Signorello helds an international double doctorate in Phonetic Science (University of Grenoble, France) and in Social Psychology (University of Roma Tre, Italy). He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Head and Neck Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. He conducts research in voice quality, laryngeal biomechanics, human charismatic voice. He is also interested in topics about voice behavior in non-human primate leadership, multimodal communication, social informatics, and affective computing.
Jason Stanyek teaches at the University of Oxford where he is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Tutorial Fellow at St. John's College. Before arriving to Oxford he was Assistant Professor at New York University, Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University, and External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. His research on Brazilian music and dance has appeared in a range of academic journals and edited volumes. He edited an interdisciplinary issue of the journal Critical Studies in Improvisation on Brazilian improvisation and was guest producer of an hour-long radio show called "The Brazilian Diaspora in the United States" for Public Radio International's programme Afropop Worldwide. An volume on bossa nova (co-edited with Frederick Moehn) and an ethnographic monograph on Brazilian performance in the United States are forthcoming in 2016. He also frequently writes on music technology. The two-volume Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies (co-edited with Sumanth Gopinath) was published in early 2014 and "Deadness: Technologies of the Intermundane"—co-written with Benjamin Piekut and published in TDR—was given the Association of Theater in Higher Education's Outstanding Article Award in 2011 and was also named by MIT Press as one of the 50 most influential articles published across all of its journals over the past 50 years. He currently serves as Reviews Editor of the journal Twentieth-Century Music and as general editor for Bloomsbury's new series 33 1/3 Brazil, an offshoot of their long-running 33 1/3 series.
Chloe Veltman is a Denver-based journalist and broadcaster. She currently serves as arts editor at Colorado Public Radio. Find out more at chloeveltman.com.
The Voice Studies Now concert and symposium are made possible by the generous support of:
The Herb Alpert School of Music Nelson Fund
The Herb Alpert School of Music, Departments of Ethnomusicology, Music, and Musicology
The UCLA Dean of Humanities
UCLA Arts Initiative Award
UCLA Interdisciplinary Workshop, Planning Meetings, and Symposium Fund
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women
UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Program
UCLA Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture
UCLA Department of Communication Studies
UCLA Department of History
UCLA Department of Linguistics
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Jillian Fontaine
Jessica Gonzales
Luis Henao
Norm Hirschy
Kristina Hordzwick
Raymond Knapp
Anahit Manoukian
Tiffany Naiman
Barbara van Nostrand
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Minister Clifford Bunville from the church was the guest speaker. Using Philippians 3: 12-14 from the bible along with the words of Dr. King, he brought a message of moving "forward together." Bunville concluded that are four characteristics that make moving forward possible: unity, peace, passion, and courage. He ended, quoting Dr. King and saying "if you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
Prior to Bunville speaking among other things those who gathered joined together to sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing", the Collins Brothers from Wichita sang several songs, Salina Mayor Karl Ryan read a proclamation, and a biography of Dr. King was presented by Aterriona Chantiel Delaney, a Salina grade school student.
The Sunday event ended with the entire congregation linking arms and singing "We Shall Overcome."
The Sunday afternoon celebration was the marquee event of a week of activities in Salina dedicated to the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Monday, a community-wide youth service will be held at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church beginning at 12 noon.
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Ovarian cancer is defined as a
condition of abnormal cells growth of ovaries, It is one of most
common cancer in US, according to the statistics adapted from the
American Cancer Society's publication, Cancer Facts & Figures
2010, an estimated 21,880 women in the United States were diagnosed
with ovarian cancer and 13,850 deaths.
Depending to the stage and grade of the cancer, chemotherapy such as
cisplatin, carboplatin, paclitaxel, liposomal doxorubicin may be
necessary to prevent the spread and recurrence of the cancer.
Epidemiological studies focusing in vegetables and fruits in reduced
risk and treatment of ovarian cancer have not been
conclusive(a)(b)(c)(d), some herbs have showed to inhibit the
progression of cancer with little or no side effects.
Folate, also known as folic acid, vitamin B9, is a water soluble vitamin, found abundantly in leafy vegetables, citrus fruits, beans, whole grain, etc.
The vitamin plays an important role in synthesize DNA, repair DNA, and
methylate DNA as well as to act as a cofactor in certain biological
reactions, production of red blood cells for anemia prevention.
Epidemiological studies, focusing folate in reduced risk of ovarian cancer have been inconclusive.
Folate, a member of B vitamin plays an important role in DNA synthesis
and methylation, may process an anti proliferative effect in ovarain
cancer cell lines. The Australian Ovarian Cancer
Study (1363 cases, 1414 controls) self-completed risk factor and
food-frequency questionnaires, showed a little evidence to support the
effect of folate in reduced risk of ovarian cancer(1) and ovarian cancer survival(2). Other researchers suggested that no specific dietary factors are consistently associated with ovarian cancer risk, including folate(3), neither folate intake, MTHFR C677T polymorphism(4) nor one-carbon metabolism(5)
A prospective case-control study of the effect of Folic acid and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) against ovarian cancers in 215 ovarian cancer patients and 218 controls (all Chinese) between Jan. 2004 and Jan. 2007, indicated a result of a 2.43-fold increased risk of ovarian cancer among MTHFR 677TT carriers, and a decreased risk of ovarian cancer in individuals with high folate
intake(6). Intravenous administration of composition of FA-NP showed
more potent in anti proliferation than NP against both SKOV3 cells and
SKOV3/TAX cells, but at the same dose failed to induce apoptosis and
inhibit tumor nodule number. Of these results, researchers suggested that the combined use of both
FN-NP locally and targetly might prolong the survival time in patients
with drug-resistant ovarian cancer(6).
The Brigham and Women's Hospital study also supported the evidence of
one-carbon metabolism related nutrients, especially vitamin B(7) and
methionine inlowering ovarian cancer risk, with a 1910 women with ovarian cancer and 1989 controls from a case-control study conducted in eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire from 1992 to 2008(8).
Taking all together, there are either enough evidences supported or
unsupported the effectiveness of folate in reduced risk of ovarian
cancer. Further studies with large sample size and mutli centers studies
are necessary to clarify the effect of folate in ovarian cancer risk.
At the mean time as always, all articles written by Kyle J. Norton are
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(1) Folate and related micronutrients, folate-metabolising genes and risk of ovarian cancer by Webb PM1, Ibiebele TI, Hughes MC, Beesley J, van der Pols JC, Chen X, Nagle CM, Bain CJ, Chenevix-Trench G; Australian Cancer Study (Ovarian Cancer); Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group.(PubMed)
(2) Dietary folate and related micronutrients, folate-metabolising genes, and ovarian cancer survival by Dixon SC1, Ibiebele TI2, Protani MM1, Beesley J2, Defazio A3, Crandon AJ4, Gard GB5, Rome RM6, Webb PM1, Nagle CM7; on behalf of the Australian Ovarian Cancer Study Group.(PubMed)
(3) Dietary intake and ovarian cancer risk: a systematic review, by Crane TE1, Khulpateea BR, Alberts DS, Basen-Engquist K, Thomson CA.(PubMed)
(4) Folate intake and MTHFR polymorphism C677T is not associated with ovarian cancer risk: evidence from the meta-analysis by Li C1, Chen P, Hu P, Li M, Li X, Guo H, Li J, Chu R, Zhang W, Wang H.(PubMed)
(5) Relationship between dietary and supplemental intake of folate, methionine, vitamin B6 and folate receptor alpha expression in ovarian tumors by Kotsopoulos J1, Hecht JL, Marotti JD, Kelemen LE, Tworoger SS(PubMed)
(6) Folate intake and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms as predictive and prognostic biomarkers for ovarian cancer risk by Zhang L1, Liu W, Hao Q, Bao L, Wang K.(PubMed)
(7) Folic acid-coupled nano-paclitaxel liposome reverses drug resistance in SKOV3/TAX ovarian cancer cells by Tong L1, Chen W, Wu J, Li H.(PubMed)
(8) Folate, vitamin B(6) , vitamin B(12) , methionine and alcohol intake in relation to ovarian cancer risk by Harris HR1, Cramer DW, Vitonis AF, DePari M, Terry KL.(PubMed)
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Senator Kamala Harris announced on December 3 that she is officially suspending her 2020 presidential campaign, following five debates and 11 months in the race.
UPDATE, 12/3/19, 1:40pm ET: Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race. Once one of the Democrats' most promising candidates, her popularity waned in recent months as Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg moved significantly ahead of her in the polls. Despite qualifying for the December Democratic debate, the senator was struggling to gain donors and sufficient resources to continue the campaign, according to a staffer who spoke to CNN; dozens of staffers were laid off in November.
Shortly after informing her campaign staffers via phone call, she released a statement on Twitter: "To my supporters, it is with deep regret—but also with deep gratitude—that I am suspending my campaign today. But I want to be clear with you: I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for the People. All the people."
Harris' 2020 co-candidates expressed their support on Twitter. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) tweeted, "My dear friend @KamalaHarris is a trailblazer. I've loved serving with her in the Senate and every moment we've run into one another on the trail. Her campaign broke barriers and did it with joy. Love you, sister. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) tweeted, "Kamala is a good friend and incredibly strong public servant. Sometimes campaigns can tear friendships apart but we have grown closer. Her good work will continue."
ORIGINAL: Kamala Harris is already a remarkable woman and is ready to prove she'll make a remarkable president. The California senator announced on Martin Luther King Day that she will be entering the 2020 presidential race as a democrat. The announcement came on the same week that Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to ever run for president, announced her candidacy 47 years ago. Here's everything you need to know about 2020's newest contender!
1. She started her political career as a district attorney.
Harris was San Francisco's district attorney from 2004 until she was elected California's attorney general in 2010 and was the first woman of color to hold both positions. In 2008, when Hillary Clinton lost the presidential nomination to Barack Obama, The New York Times listed Harris, who was just a DA at the time, as one of the few women who "earned a reputation as a tough fighter" and "might just be president someday."
2. She was elected to the Senate in 2016.
Harris was elected by the state of California in 2016, carrying all by four counties. Following her election, she promised she would protect immigrants for the policies of then-President-elect Donald Trump. She has since visited immigrant detention centers and have been outspoken against the current administration. She also serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Select Committee On Intelligence and the Committee on Budget.
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3. She was a target of the mail bombing attempts in October 2018.
A suspicious package addressed to Harris was intercepted by law enforcement officials at a Sacramento postal facility on October 26, 2018. It was believed to be sent by Cesar Sayoc, who was taken in to custody and accused of sending at least 12 other suspicious devices to CNN, former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, the Clintons, and other key Democrats.
4. In addition to immigration reform, Harris is a supporter of gun control, environmental justice and the decriminalization of marijuana.
Harris is also an advocate for disaster relief, as she was one of eight senators to sign a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, charging the agency for neglecting displaced Puerto Ricans after the devastating hurricane. Additionally, she is against the death penalty and pro-choice. She also campaigned heavily against Prop 8 and Prop 22, and created a Hate Crimes Unit as the San Francisco DA to focus on hate crimes against LGBT children and teens in schools.
5. Harris was born to an Indian mother and Jamaican father in Oakland, CA.
Harris is a California native, born to a Tamil Indian mother and Jamaican father. Kamala's mother was a breast cancer scientist who immigrated to the US from Madras, and her father was an economics professor at Stanford, who immigrated from Jamaica in 1960.
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Alleyn's Chamber Choir has temporarily rebranded as 'Corona Choir' and has recorded its first piece under lockdown.
Coronavirus Information
Alleyn's Senior and Junior Schools transitioned to a full remote learning and support model on Monday 23 March. The School site is closed except for essential staff and for the care of children from our key worker families.
In the light of the Secretary of State for Education's announcement on Wednesday 18 March, Alleyn's transitioned to a full remote learning and support model on Monday 23 March. The site is closed, only allowing access to essential staff and, as mentioned above, for the care of children from our key worker families. We are also offering our key worker families care for siblings who do not usually attend Alleyn's. External use of our facilities by other groups has also been suspended until further notice.
It is our sincere intention that the educational impact of the current crisis on all our pupils is minimised and that we continue to provide holistic support in the best and most practical ways that we can. We are doing everything that we can to support them all during these uncertain times.
Prior to the School closure, staff and pupils were fully briefed as to how remote learning would work in practice. Teachers and pupils followed our advice to have as many of their learning resources, books and notes at home as practicable. Our virtual learning offer is being rapidly developed and enhanced, and we are in regular and direct contact with parents and pupils via Alleyn's Post and the Hub.
The Senior Management Team meets regularly (via Teams) and our Deputy Head (Academic) and Assistant Head (Teaching and Learning) are leading efforts with our Heads of Department and teaching staff to ensure that our offer continues to meet our high standards and parents' expectations. The Director of Studies in the Junior School is performing a similar role.
Safeguarding continues to be at the heart of everything that we do, and we encourage our community to contact Mr Severino (Junior School Headmaster), Mr Skinnard (Senior Deputy Head) or the relevant Section Head or Housemaster with any specific pastoral concerns.
We continue to closely follow the guidelines provided by the government and Public Health England, and our Senior Management Team is reviewing the broader and School-specific picture on an ongoing basis. We are incredibly grateful to all our colleagues, and especially those who run the cleaning side of school operations and who have been managing brilliantly and working exceptionally hard ever since we had the challenge of intensifying our cleaning regime.
We are sending regular and targeted information to parents/guardians about remote learning, via our usual School/home communication channels. Parents/guardians should therefore refer to their Alleyn's Post for specific information related to their child.
This page was last updated on 3 April 2020. As the situation remains dynamic, we shall update this page only when we have new information to share and/or we have further guidance from the relevant authorities.
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North Haven First Selectman Michael Freda wins fifth term in landslide
Republican First Selectman Michael J. Freda won his fifth consecutive term in an overwhelming victory during Tuesday's election.
Results showed Freda securing the seat with 4,616 votes to Democrat Alan Sturtz's 1,094 votes. Freda was first elected in 2009.
"I'm very humbled to win by 85 percent," Freda said. "I take this job very seriously. It demonstrates the public has put their trust in me and I won't compromise that trust. I love the citizens of North Haven. No matter how difficult things get in municipal government, I pride myself on watching over the town. I'm fully energized and committed."
Republican William Pieper outpaced Democrat Sally Buemi 3,654 to 1,761, so he will serve as second selectman and Buemi will serve another term as third selectman. Timothy Doheny did not run for re-election.
"It didn't go the way the party had hoped," Sturtz said. "I'm disappointed but I congratulated Mike on a great campaign. I thanked all the workers who volunteered. I couldn't have done this without them and I feel good about what I did. I look forward working with the administration because, as I said to Mike, we both still live in this town. We have a lot of young energetic people and that makes me feel good."
Sturtz has been reappointed to two-year positions on the Economic Development Commission and the Clean Energy Task Force.
Freda said his priorities have been keeping taxes low while maintaining services and increasing economic development to keep growing the grand list.
Republican swept all other races. J. Stacey Yarbrough won Town Clerk/Tax Collector and Laurie-Jean Hannon won Town Treasurer. James Llanos and Dyann Vissicchio won Board of Finance. Ralph Ricciardelli won Board of Assessment Appeals. Vern Carlson won Planning and Zoning Commission and E. Richard Wilson won a seat to fill a vacancy.
Lewis Borrelli and Joseph Solimene won Planning and Zoning Commission alternate seats. Caren Genovese and Robert Hannon won Zoning Board of Appeals seats, with Andrew Gorry and Caroly Yaccarnio as alternates.
David Monz and Lawrence Lazaroff won Police Comissioner seats and Michael Zuccarelli Jr. and Pasquale Nuzzolillo won Fire Commissioner openings.


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Krohn declare 2016 vintage Port
Krohn have declared the 2016 vintage – announced on St George's Day (23rd April '18) as is customary. The last classic vintage released was the 2011.
Head Winemaker David Guimaraens summarised the '16 vintage:
"Two factors stand out in 2016. Heavy rainfall in spring meant that the vines had plenty of water throughout the summer. Secondly, the ripening season started relatively late and lasted well into September. This led to very gradual and even ripening of the crop with all elements in perfect balance at the time of the harvest. Picking started later than usual on all our estates….
…Harvesting conditions at the end of September and early October were perfect, with cool nights contributing to long fermentations and gentle, complete extraction. As a result the wines are solidly structured with firm, well integrated tannins and display very fine fruit quality."
Krohn's Managing Director, Adrian Bridge, said: "The keynotes of 2016 are purity and refinement. The Vintage Port displays elegance and poise, a wonderful purity of fruit and tannins of great quality… The 2016s are likely to become rarities in future, particularly given the trend towards enjoying Vintage Ports young."


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Mark Littell pitched for the Royals organization from 1971-1977 after being selected by KC in the 12th round of the 1971 draft. Appearing in a combined 123 games while with Kansas City, Littell finished with marks of 18-13, a 3.32 ERA and 28 saves, and would go on to pitch for the Cardinals. The 6-3 right-hander later coached at the minor league level and in 1999, invented "The Nutty Buddy." Littell recently joined Dave O to talk about not only "protecting the family jewels" but also his early days in the Royals minor league system, making it up to KC, the devastation he felt after allowing the infamous home run to Chris Chambliss in the '76 ALCS, reuniting with Whitey Herzog in St. Louis and much more! (Photo Courtesy Kansas City Royals)
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As I was grabbing coffee in the office breakroom this morning, I was subjected to a few minutes of the Dr Oz Show. Unsurprisingly, he was discussing weight loss. Oz had two women on stage with him, at some sort of mock-up restaurant table, and they were discussing weight-loss "rules" for eating out. (Keep in mind that this is a man who has been exposed as a liar and scolded by senators for promoting "miracle" weight-loss scams.) Of course the women on stage (and presumably his entire audience, both in-studio and at home) were hanging on his every word as if he was some sort of prophetic weight-loss savior.
The 3 "rules" I caught before I got my coffee and ran out of the room were as follows"
-Order first – Presumably this is so you will order a 'healthy' option, and not be swayed by the orders of your dining companions.
-Grab the "healthy" stuff when it is passed around – I'm all for choosing options like fresh fruit or veggies, but you should make that choice because you enjoy eating them and/or you like the way they make you feel when you eat them. Oz is pushing this as a "rule" because he is teaching his viewers that if they fill up on the "healthy" stuff, then they won't be "tempted" by the "unhealthy" options. I take issue with the pervasive need to label foods 'good' or 'bad', or 'healthy' and 'unhealthy'. Food is food. We need to stop demonizing certain foods. Demonizing and labeling foods only leads to guilt when we choose to enjoy the "unhealthy" options. The only "rules" anyone needs to follow are: 1) Eat when you are hungry. 2) Stop when you are full. 3) Eat what you want/what makes you feel good. 4) Avoid foods that make you feel yucky. There ya go.
-Take 3 bite of dessert and set it aside (then drink a full glass of water so you will be full and not tempted to eat any more) – Seriously?! This is the last one I heard, and it pissed me off so much that I almost ran (fast walking, I was carrying a hot cup of coffee, remember?) out of the room and back to my computer to start a draft of this post. This makes me angry and sad for so many reasons. It makes me angry because it is again demonizing a particular food, and basically telling women that they can't listen to their own bodies' hunger signals and must therefore set the 'bad' food out of reach so that they will not be 'tempted' to eat more. If all you're going to eat is three measly bites, then why the hell are you even bothering to order the dessert?! Now, if you order the dessert and decide you are full/satisfied after just 3 bites, that's fine. Pack that yumminess up ant take it home for later. But I don't want women to feel like they must stop after 3 bites, if they still want more. Stop because you are satisfied, not because you think that eating more will turn you into some sort of fat monster overnight.
It makes me sad because I know that so many women who hang on his every word and believe what he says, simply because he is a doctor and because they really believe that fat is the worst thing you can be.
It is things like this that lead to the widely-held belief that fat is bad and it is ok to bully, harass, and tease people about their weight, and this impacts our children as well. Statistics from the National Eating Disorder Information Center show that,
"Overweight and obese children are more likely to be bullied than their normal-weight peers. For example:
– In a survey of 11–16 year-olds, 10% of normal-weight children reported being bullied, compared to 15% of overweight and 23% of obese children
– Obese girls were 2.7 times more likely than normal weight girls to be verbally bullied on a regular basis and 3.4 times more likely to be excluded from group activities
Janssen, I., Craig, W. M., Boyce, W. F. & Pickett, W. (2004). Associations Between Overweight and Obesity With Bullying Behaviours in School-Age Children. Pediatrics, 113(5), 1187-1194." (NEDIC)
The other big problem I have with Dr Oz is that he continues to shill his weight-loss snake oil, without having any proof that it is either safe or effective. Guess he forgot about the "Do no harm" part of the Hippocratic Oath, huh?
We've discussed the fact that diets don't work previously here on More Than My Size, but lets look at some different sources for this argument today. In an article from the NEDIC,
"Katherine M. Flegal, PhD, Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, explains, "Although people think there's all this evidence out there showing a high mortality risk associated with overweight, in fact the literature doesn't show it." Far from it. Flegal's research, analyzing 30 years of actual deaths in the US, corrected an earlier CDC report that indicated severe risks related to overweight. She showed instead that being clinically 'overweight' is associated with a lower death rate than so-called 'normal' or 'healthy' weight2. It confirmed much earlier research that had been studiously ignored." (emphasis mine)
So despite the fact that earlier research has shown little to no connection between being overweight and a higher risk of mortality, and despite Flegal's study being published in 2005, those in the medical field are still prescribing weight loss to their patients.
"Further, despite nearly three decades of intense research, obesity specialists fail to show success for any of the current weight loss methods, whether diet, drugs or surgery. All are considered experimental. None are proven safe and effective.
- Dieting causes short-term weight loss lasting no longer than six months, followed by regain, known as weight cycling, which carries its own risks, and can lead to food preoccupation, bingeing, dysfunctional eating and sometimes eating disorders.
- Drugs offer only minimal weight loss of about 5-11 pounds, regained when the drug is stopped, so must be taken long term with increased risk. Of 6 million U.S. adults treated with fen-phen/Redux, the FDA reports that one-third developed leaky heart valves, fatal to some, and others died of primary pulmonary disease.
- Gastric surgery for weight loss carries risk of nearly 5 percent death rate (nearly 50 percent for patients age 75 and over) according to Medicare studies3, and more than 60 complications.
The 1990 Congressional hearings exposed much deception and fraud in the weight loss industry. In 1992 the National Institutes of Health reported not one diet company could produce research showing safety and success for any program.
In their 1998 New Year's Day editorial, Marcia Angell, MD, and Jerome P. Kassirer, MD, editors of theNew England Journal of Medicine, warned, "Until we have better data about the risks of being overweight and the benefits and risks of trying to lose weight, we should remember that the cure for obesity may be worse than the condition." (all emphasis mine)
So why do so many doctors still prescribe weight loss, despite lacking any good science to back it up? Why do so many women continue to fight their bodies and jump on and off of the dieting, weight cycling, self-hatred bandwagon? Because the diet industry tells them to. Remember, the diet industry is now a $60.9 BILLION dollar business. 60 billion dollars is a whole lot of money that they can spend to fund studies that turn out favorable (for them) results, launch body-shaming ad campaigns, lobbying congress, and promoting their products to doctors and other health professionals and organizations.
Unfortunately in the mythic 'war on obesity', the diet industry (and it's cohorts like Dr Oz) are far better armed than those they are waging war against. Unlike an actual war, where the casualties are fairly obvious, the casualties of this war are rarely known.
This is why I write. This is why fat activism is my activism. Because I am sick of seeing the women and girls who have become casualties of this war littering the halls of our hearts and minds. I am tired of seeing more and more young girls losing their spirits and even their lives to eating disorders. I am tired of seeing how preoccupied we are with our weights and with our diets.
It is time for us to stand up and speak out. It is time for us to speak with no only our voices but our wallets. It's time to stop buying into the crap that the diet industry (and it's snake oil salesmen like Dr Oz) are selling. The revolution is beginning.
Are you in?


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What is the name of the K9 in the pictures?
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