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The day I didn't get shot on the Line of Control, Kashmir, India
How Cambridge carpenter Alex Magilton's ski break ended up on the disputed border in Kashmir
This is Alex Magilton’s account of the day a skiing adventure became a battle for survival. It was written on 11th February 2018.
Our gondola had arrived at the Phase 2 station, high above Gulmarg village in Kashmir, Inida. We were already at 3,920 meters and still had a 30-minute hike ahead of us to access the best of the Gulmarg area backcountry skiing.
There were six of us, brought together by the Raja hut, the basic accommodation in Gulmarg that we had wound up in.They imcluded Josh and Lydia, friends from back home, who had been here a week already and whom I had met up with two days previous. Plus David, Lydia’s brother, who had just arrived from his work place in China, and Tommy, an American, living in Inida and teaching.
Finally Shanti, from Amsterdam, who was on travels and had also come to Kashmir for the adventurous skiing potential.
We were like-minded wannabe adventurers with a wealth of travel experiences and stories behind us. We had wound up in Kashmir to ski for the adventure potential of skiing in a dangerous place, the high avalanche risk, and the ongoing border conflict with Pakistan.
Josh soon noticed a crack in his ski binding, so he headed back down while the five of us scoped for fresh snow fields while catching our breath from the ascent to 4,000 metres.
We thought an easy warm-up day would be idea as I had only had one ski day here and the three boys were experiencing the mountain for the first time.
We soon found a pitch that had a few tracks down it and was in the general direction we wanted to go. The snow was fair, variable, but we could still put some nice turns in. Letting ourselves get carried away by the snow field, we continued to descend and enjoy this untouched landscape of India.
Before long there were no other ski tracks and we had dropped into another lush natural bowl.
We had a choice, hike back up over a ridge in deep snow, at altitude, to the other tracks which would be a short run back to the main ski area, or drop down into an inviting natural gully run, tantilising us with the thrill of making fresh lines beyond anywhere we had already explored.
It wasn’t a hard choice, I was sure the gully would curve round and lead us back to the main, controlled ski area. I took the lead as I have some level of mountain experience and guiding in the relatively safe environment of a European ski resort. We were headed in a north-westerly direction.
We dropped in, one by one to reduce the risk of a snow slide. The gully was fantastic, a natural ‘half-pipe’, untouched and unridden.
“Why has nobody else skied down here?!”
We lost altitude and continued to ski down, exhilaration bringing with it whoops and shouts of joy.
I continued to trust that this gully would take us back to where we needed to go, besides, we were on our way now, there wasn’t much choice but to carry on.
The gully narrowed, with a stream exposed through the snow: we couldn’t continue to ride down so we had to hike/climb up a face to get over the ridge.
The altitude was crippling: using my snowboard as a wedge in front of me, I tried to discipline myself to take 5-10 steps before stopping for breath.
Lydia was a Trojan, trail-brazing with a determination to get to the top of the ridge to try and make out our whereabouts.
Looking around from our view point, the terrain wasn’t going in the direction we had hoped. The gorge continued to fall eastwards, while the village was to our west.
Knowing we didn’t really have much choice but to follow the terrain, I lead us down the next pitch, loving making fresh lines down an untouched snow field and without too much concern about where we were headed.
We met another natural dead end in the terrain. We couldn’t follow the stream we had got to, so we crossed it and climbed up the next ridge. Each step was uncertain, holding our snowboards, Lydia, Shanti and myself trudged through the deep snow. With one step we would sink to our knees, the next to our waist, and so on.
It was exhausting, we hadn’t eaten since a bowl of porridge at 8.30am and now it was gone 2pm.
We needed to climb over this buttress ridge. We trudged on.
The next point of reference was no better. A large steep ridge was blocking our hopes to traverse back to Gulmarg. We must follow the line of the stream and hope it ends up at a road.
Taking on a swig of chai tea from the flask and sharing a snack bar, there was more descent ahead.
The ridge we had climbed steepened to a cliff, but to a skier’s right there was a beautiful pitch down a steep slope through an opening in the trees. That was us, the only way down, this was a run of a lifetime. Given it was a terrain trap with high risk of sliding, but without any other options, I figured we might as well enjoy it while we were here!
Snaking turns in amazing fluffy snow through the birch forest, this was what a snowboarder dreams of.
We all made it down safely: in high spirits and morale-boosted, we were heading further into the unknown.
Back at the stream, and another crossing, along with a need to assess the situation. We all knew it was far from ideal. Gone 4pm with darkness due to arrive at 6pm, we had no idea where we were. We filled our bottles up with crystal clear mountain water, drank up and tramped up to another ridge, carrying our gear and hoping for the best.
As I looked over the ridge, my heart sank, but I didn’t allow myself to realise it.
The line of the river was messy, cutting a snaking path down a shallow valley, with the water having eroded itself into a steeper gorge.
We must continue. It was going to be tough, three of us were on snowboards which meant we couldn’t ride on level ground, we had to walk, which was extremely arduous. Tommy and Dave, both on skis, lead the group as they could ski-tour efficiently, spreading their weight over each ski to slide over the surface.
With strong minds and draining energy, we decided that we would make a call back to Raja hut at 6pm and not before, the time night would fall and the guys back at the hut would start to be concerned.
I have read that in expeditions facing troubled times, the individual’s mind can flip either way, positively or negatively. The strongest person in normal life can lose it when on the limits of their own life. They may become extremely selfish and only look for their own survival. On the other hand, the underconfident can shine when the edge is close, helping and spreading positivity and encouragement. When pushed to the limits, one’s inner best or worst will be displayed.
The whole group were displaying amazing positivity as the level of peril increased and our levels of energy was deteriorating - always encouraging each other and putting on brave faces. We hoped for the best, and prayed.
With fading light and no sign of getting out of this never-ending valley, we were all contemplating spending a night in the trees. With temperatures well below zero, we were unlikely to all make it through the night.
Unspoken thoughts and prayers were had, each of us pushing our physical and mental limits as we still had no choice but to follow the path of the stream.
Hearing gunfire echoing in the distance, it was a reminder that we were not in our usual ski setting of the Swiss Alps.
More river crossings were necessary. Snow bridges had been formed due to intensely cold conditions as the stream slowly froze.
While crossing one of these snow bridges, Dave hesitated and suddenly a circular cracking sound formed around him. Ditching the ski and jumping to the solid snow bank saved him from being waist deep in freezing mountain water, but meant he was down to one ski. This was pointless, so the remaining ski was left: this could probably be collected another day.
It had gone 6pm. The day had passed, the night had arrived. We called out to each other to determine where each member of the party was. It was time to call the Hut with Lydia’s Inidan phone. No signal. This was not good. We needed to make contact to let the others at the hut know we were alive and not killed in an avalanche, which we knew would be the obvious reason for us being missing on the mountain. With no signal and all of our phones being killed off by the cold, there was nothing we could do.
In perilous situations, there are still positives to be seen and had... at this moment we were treated to God’s amazing creation display of the night sky, the most incredible I had seen for many years - a true blanket of stars with no light pollution and in bitterly cold clear sky. This was God showing us what he is capable of. I prayed that we would find a path or road, knowing that our situation was in God’s hands, I felt content, pleased to be in this adventure, feeling alive, thankful for being in this place at this time.
Completely lost, facing a night in the woods, the cold was our biggest danger, but we had also been following the paw prints of the elusive snow leopard alongside bear tracks, all adding to the danger of our precarious position.
Scrambling in the pitch black up a steep bank, we needed height to try and find a path, or lights - anything to determine where on the earth we had gotten ourselves to.
Way down the mountain, a cluster of lights could be made out. It could be Gulmarg, home. Too far for us to hike, this would mean a certain night in the woods, and the strong possibility of not making it to the morning. We continued to climb and the faint sound of a generator could be made out, along with occasional dog barks.
Hope. Something was out there.
Gaining height, we could make out two bright floodlights up the hill.
We had to go there, shouting, whistling and howling, if there were dogs and lights, there must be people.
The state of Kashmir is on the Indian Pakistan border and has been in conflict for many years. Political border disputes, never resolved, ensure daily gunfire across the border in the mountains. This is a real conflict zone, with no sign of peace: there is tension in the air, with both sides hating each other, trigger-happy and keen to kill the opposition.
The lights were our only option, but it wasn’t a safe one. We knew this must be an army base, but we didn’t know where we were. Was it Indian? Was it Pakistani? Either way, our perilous situation had now risen significantly.
As we continued to find our footings up the hill we came to a rough road. ‘Thank you Lord for answering prayer in bringing us to this road!’ Lydia checked her phone with fading battery and had signal! She managed to connect to Raja at the hut to let them know we were alive. At 7.45pm, we had made contact. She let them know we were making our way to some kind of military base and we would call back in 10 minutes.
Shouting out to the lights of the base, a searchlight surveyed the land as we walked towards it, carrying our ski equipment.
Unbeknown to us, at 9am that morning, there had been a Pakistani terrorist attack on a different military base further down the mountain. Four soldiers having been killed, the order was shoot to kill anyone seen in the area.
Of course, we didn’t know of this tense situation. We walked up to the bank which the high razor wire fenced base was situated on.
Shouts came from the darkness,
“Who are you?!, Where are you from?!”
We shouted up,
“Help, we are from England, we are very lost!”
“Stay there! Do not move!” was the reply.
Savage sounding dogs barked and growled, we were beyond caring about being mauled by a dog, but being shot was now a real possibility.
We waited on the road. Beams highlighted us from the base: two strong flashlights were coming towards us down the road.
Shouts from the soldiers with the lights repeated,
“Who are you?! Where are you from?! What are you doing here?!”
I assumed leadership of our party and walked towards the flashlight shining brightly in my face.
“Drop your bag, put your hands up!”
I felt like I was in a movie scene. ‘I am actually in this position’, I clearly thought, ‘I am walking towards a soldier with a bright light in my face with my hands in the air, I’m in a military conflict zone on the front line, wow, what an experience!’
“We are English, we are very lost, we have come from Gulmarg skiing, My name is Alex.”
“How did you get here?! Why are you here!?” was the response from the light.
“We are lost, we are from England.”
I approached the soldier, took off my glove and extended my hand to shake.
“Salam, hello,” I clearly said.
It was greeted with a hand shake.
“Give me your Identification!”
I had previously thought about the possibility of needing my ID to hand so I had my passport in my pocket.
I handed it over and he studied it. Having never seen a British passport, he made out the words and read aggressively,
“Ireland!? Are you from Ireland.”
“No, the United Kindgdom, includes Ireland, but I am from England”, I responded quickly to dispel the idea he didn’t seem to like.
Further questioning followed while our group waited a few steps behind. There were two soldiers on the road with us and we were being lit up from the high fence and could no doubt being seen through the scopes of many rifles.
We were ordered to follow the soldiers up the track briskly.
We followed on, into the darkness, towards the barks of savage dogs.
Up a small hill there was a shabby corregated iron fence, heavily covered with razor wire. A gate stood ajar and armed soldiers appeared around us.
To our right was a further track, some kind of outpost hut and another compound.
We were ordered to sit down, freezing tired and hungry, our belongings dumped in a pile as we were given two plastic chairs, with the others told to sit down on the floor.
“Are you thrsty? Do you like wine and beer?!”
The soldiers joked as if they were about to bring out cans of Kingfisher and India’s finest.
“Do you know where you are?! You are on the front line, the Line of Control, you are 2km away from Pakistan. You are very lucky! If you went there you would be dead already! We are the Indian Army, we are at war with Pakistan.”
We had got ourselves into an extreme situation. We could have been shot on sight if it was a Pakistani outpost, but we couldn’t afford much comfort from these words as we didn’t know our future, sitting on the dirt road of this military base.
Cold water in glasses was brought to us on a metal tray. We politely accepted as we clung on to the glasses of water shaking in our hands.
We were in various states of cold, hypothermia, shock and anxiety.
More questions were asked, we were surrounded by the armed soldiers, all wanting a look at this odd party who had effectively dug their own graves.
“Are you cold? Why are you here? How did you get here?”
“Yes we are very cold, we haven’t eaten since this morning, we are very lost, we are English, we are from Gulmarg phase 2,” we replied.
“It is not possible to get here from Gulmarg, it is too far,” said the soldier.
At this point I slyly removed the memory card from my GoPro which I had been taking footage on and put it in a hidden pocket. I presumed we would be searched and cameras taken away but I didn’t want to lose the footage of the day!
A soldier dumped some kindling and logs in front of us and doused them in petrol. They were making us a fire as were obviously freezing cold.
‘Is this what enemies do before interrogation?’ we each thought to ourselves. Were they softening us up before taking us to individual rooms for questioning, or worse?
“Alex, who is Alex?”
I stood up.
“Come with us now!”
Leaving the group and following twoi soldiers through the snow down the line of the corregated fence, we joined two more soldiers and dogs burrowing in the snow.
A soldier was on the phone, obviously coming to this outcrop to gain signal.
He asked me more of the same questions and information about each of the members of the group.
“What are their names, where are they from, how do you know them?!”
He relayed the information to whoever he was talking to.
When Lydia had managed to call the Raja hut and make contact, the guys in Gulmarg had contacted the police and a small search party was scouring the slopes. We had been walking towards the base. The order was at this point “shoot to kill”. The word that five skiers were lost on the mountain was immediately relayed to the military commander. The call from the base was that five suspected terrorists were making their way towards them on the mountain. The order to shoot on target was changed to ‘hold your fire’, for now.
The chain of timings was out of our knowledge and control. This was God’s work as the fact we only were able to call 3-5 minutes before walking to the fence of the base meant we were not shot and labeled as, ‘disappeared on the mountain, presumed killed in an avalanche’. The Indian army would have no benefit in making public the fact that they had killed five western tourists, our deaths would be unknown.
We were not safe, but we were not dead.
The phone call had been to the police and there was a vehicle with Raja and Josh driving up to the gate post to meet us.
We continued to sit obediently around the fire: reference photos were taken non-stop, capturing every moment.
The soldiers then decided that it was too cold for us to be outside on the dirt road and we were ordered to leave all our gear and follow them through the shabby corregated gates. Within the gates was a large muddy compound, rather like a building site. There were typical curved roof bunkers on our left and right and some other buildings further down the yard.
We were led into one of the white bunkers: after opening a heavy steel door, we were shown the room with two basic wooden beds and a small heater in the corner. More photographs were taken of each of us individually and then we were left to it, with the heavy door shutting us in.
I felt privleged to be seeing inside this Indian army base on the Line of Control, knowing that very few civilians will ever gain entry made every minute a moment to cherish.
Five minutes passed and the door was pushed open.
“Alex, come with us.”
The order was given for me to follow two soldiers out and down the yard to a building at the far end. As I had initially spoken to the soldiers on the road, I was the point of contact and information for everyone.
I was shown to a window on the outside of a wall and a phone receiver was handed to me.
On the other end of a faint line, a man introduced himself, telling me of his high rank in the Indian Army. He went through all the questions we had already been asked, but more detail was needed about the group members jobs, home, ages... He informed me that we are very lucky not to have ventured another 2km which would have meant certain death by the Pakistani Army.
He went on to say that we are in good hands, and ensured that we had been given a drink.
After a five-minute phone conversation I was taken back to the room with the others.
We all remained calm, unsure of what was happening. It seemed unreal, a dream-like experience.
A few more minutes passed and we were taken back outside to the fire, which had been put out.
A military truck was waiting on the track. The vehicle had a canvas roof and infantry sitting on either side.
This was our ride down the hill. I made sure to shake as many hands as possible, apologised for our actions and thanked them very much for treating us well. It was heartfelt, but I also felt I still needed to be as polite and friendly as I could.
We bundled into the back of the truck, us on one side, a row of armed soldiers in winter fatigues opposite.
It was dark in the back of the truck but the back door was left open and we could see the road behind us. It was a rough, bumpy track, and we had a 20-minute ride down the hill to another military checkpoint gate.
We were ordered to get out of the truck, and get into the back of a small van. Squeezing in, the driver’s rifle was leaned up pointing directly at us, which was disconcerting.
The ride took another 20 minutes or so, we couldn’t believe how far out the way we had got ourselves, and if we hadn’t gone towards the base, we would have had to spend a night in the woods.
There were lights below us and we presumed we were entering the town of Gulmarg where we were staying. Instead, we drew up at a larger military base with razor wire reeled across the road.
We stopped on the road and had to get out the van, a man was waiting to tell us more of what we had already heard - that there had been a terrorist attack that morning and everyone was on high alert. He made us very aware of just how lucky we were not to have ended up in Pakistan, then told us we must have a guide with us.
Back in the car and through the gates of the base. Josh and Raja were waiting for us and had been for some hours.
A soldier came out of the building we had pulled up next to and we followed him through the doors to an elaborate waiting room.
Carpeted and decorated with medals and trophies, we sat on the ornate sofas around the room. There was a tiger and leopard skin-plus-head adorning the wall.
A smart middle-aged man entered with other armed soldiers. He repeated what others had said and wanted us to know that the Indian Army are here to help us and assist, but we have also been very stupid. We agreed and thanked him for his kindness to us.
We were in the Officer’s Mess of the Indian Marta Army.
Suprisingly to us all, we were treated to a sit-down meal in the dining room. More photographs were taken and forms to fill in.
Having said goodbye, we were finally on our way back to Gulmarg, but not before a trip to the police station. It was gone 12 midnight as we went through the gates and were led into a small office. More details were taken, we thanked them and finally headed back to the Raja hut, which we had left 14 hours previous.
We were all exhausted and couldn’t sleep due to the adrenalin running all day.
It had been one of the best days of my life.
Over the following few days, we had become legends, without sense. The word had got around and people were talking about the five skiiers who went to the Line of Control.
Our story was written up in brief in the local newspaper and went online. Famous in Kasmir at last!

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Book: The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
Source: Purchased through Audible
Release Information: May 16, 2013 from Hachette Audio
Summary (from GoodReads): A brilliant debut mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.
Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
Thoughts: I had thought about reading this novel before everyone found out that it is written by J.K. Rowling. However, knowing who wrote it definitely motivated me to purchase it and read it more quickly. I’m so glad I did. For those of you who are afraid to read this, because you didn’t like The Casual Vacancy, give this one a try. The Cuckoo’s Calling is only like the literary novel in that there is language and content suitable for adults and more mature teens.
Cormoran Strike is rough around the edges, but the more I learned about him, the more I loved him. His father, who he barely knows, is a rock star, his dead mother was a groupie, and Cormoran himself lost a leg in the army. Early in the book he gets a temporary receptionist, who he can’t afford, but who excels are her job and work well with him. She has a very straight-laced fiance who wants her to have a more respectable job, but she excels at helping Cormoran with his detective work and more than that, she loves it. I loved watching their professional relationship turn into a sort of friendship.
The mystery, too, is enjoyable. It feels very noir and those familiar with the classic detective stories and films will probably guess the killer early on. Certainly, I recognized the possibility. Still, the mystery was bigger than I imagined and came together in ways I didn’t expect. J.K. Rowling is excellent at writing secondary characters and this genre suits that skill perfectly. Every character is hiding something and the fun part is figuring out what that something is, even if it isn’t connected directly to the mystery. In the end, I was left satisfied with the mystery, but also like I had gotten to know Lula Landry and was sorry she was gone so young.
Something that Harry fans may love–Cormoran gets death threats written on pink paper with gamboling kittens along the bottom. This is a turn of phrase that I always associate with the decorative plates in Umbridge’s office. Other similarities to our favorite wizard books: a damaged hero easy to root for, a richly imagined story, complicated characters, and friendships formed along the way. Even though the story is present day London, Rowling’s words have magic and she has created something that felt new.
Moments I Loved: When Cormoran meets his temporary secretary, Robin–hilarious. I would tell you what happened, but I think it’s better if you are shocked for yourself! Also when Cormoran faces the killer at the end!
WTF Moments: One of the big problems that Cormoran has to solve is that the witness who heard Lula arguing with a man before she fell to her death could not have actually heard the argument from inside her apartment. The police think that she is lying about being a witness, but what Cormoran discovers shocked me more than anything else in the book.
Narrator: The narrator has a somewhat gruff voice that matched the main character and overall tone of the novel perfectly. He had voices and accents for each of the characters that added to the story without being ridiculous. I loved this audiobook and will definitely listen to it again.
Overall: This is exactly what I expected from a J.K. Rowling novel and I am eagerly awaiting more stories about Cormoran and, hopefully, Robin.
The Cuckoo’s Calling gets a FakeSteph rating of…

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Latitude: 50.9611 / 50°57'40"N
Longitude: -0.299 / 0°17'56"W
OS Eastings: 519556
OS Northings: 119342
OS Grid: TQ195193
Mapcode National: GBR HKV.P72
Mapcode Global: FRA B68K.MCY
Plus Code: 9C2XXP62+CC
Entry Name: Old Priors
Listing Date: 22 September 1959
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1026871
English Heritage Legacy ID: 299701
Location: West Grinstead, Horsham, West Sussex, RH13
County: West Sussex
Civil Parish: West Grinstead
Built-Up Area: Partridge Green
Traditional County: Sussex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Sussex
Church of England Parish: West Grinstead St George
Church of England Diocese: Chichester
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C17. Two storeys. Four windows. Red brick and grey headers on ground floor,
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For the second time in three weeks, CBS’ Survivor led Fox’s The Masked Singer among adults 18-49, taking the demographic crown on the broadcast networks Wednesday night. NBC’s Chicago Fire was the most watched show of the evening, tying its season high with the departure of longtime regular Jesse Spencer.
Survivor inched back over the 1.0 rating mark in adults 18-49, recording a 1.01 for its best same-day mark since its Sept. 20 season premiere. It averaged 5.63 million viewers, on par with last week. Tough as Nails (0.41, 2.75 million) and CSI: Vegas (0.35, 3.54 million) both declined some.
The Masked Singer inched down on Fox, coming in at 4.53 million viewers and a 0.95 in adults 18-49 (versus 4.6 million and 0.99 a week ago). Alter Ego (2.17 million, 0.37) also dipped.
Chicago Fire‘s 200th episode drew 7.36 million viewers, matching the Sept. 29 installment for its best mark of the season so far. Its 0.81 rating in adults 18-49 was in line with last week. Chicago Med (6.77 million, 0.73) and Chicago PD (5.57 million, 0.69) fell off by small amounts.
ABC’s comedies had a down night as The Goldbergs (2.91 million viewers, 0.54 demo rating), The Wonder Years (2.08 million, 0.39) and Home Economics (1.66 million, 0.29) had season lows in total viewers. The Goldbergs and The Wonder Years also had below average 18-49 ratings (The Conners and A Million Little Things had the night off). The CW was relatively steady with Legends of Tomorrow (521,000 viewers, 0.08 in 18-49) and Batwoman (487,000, 0.08).
On cable, TBS’ telecast of the National League championship series averaged 5.34 million viewers and a 1.35 in adults 18-49, with the latter figure leading both broadcast and cable in primetime. FS1’s American League championship coverage drew 3.51 million people, while ESPN had its best NBA season opener (1.96 million) in eight years.
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It seems like every week there's another story about a girl getting "dress coded" at school–a.k.a. the school says a young woman's outfit is too inappropriate. This practice of governing what girls and young women are allowed to wear is problematic–it implies that men objectifying women is acceptable, it encourages victim-blaming, and it ultimately perpetuates rape culture. Seriously.
And today, we have yet another example of a school shaming a young woman for her clothing choice–but with a twist. Eleanor, a high school senior, recently took to Twitter to express her frustration about her senior photo being rejected due to her clothing. "Here's my senior picture. Because you can see my part of my bralette, it was 'too inappropriate,'" she tweeted. "Yet, here's the boys swim team picture." Her tweet included both her senior picture and the boys swim team photo.


Post-punk and noise rock with abundant optimism / Dreamy, dark, vocal-forward rock
Burning deep in Girl Friday's music is an unquenchable will to survive.
The LA-based band don’t blunt the impact of the themes they work through in their ferocious, knotty rock songs, but they don’t let the more harrowing aspects of being alive and young in the 21st century daunt them, either.
Taking full advantage of the dystopian shades of post-punk and noise rock palettes on their arresting debut LP, Androgynous Mary, Girl Friday nevertheless suffuse their music with abundant optimism.
The seeds of the band were first planted when guitarist Vera Ellen walked into a friend’s house at UCLA and saw Libby Hsieh playing bass on the couch. Drawn by her unique playing style, Ellen introduced herself, and the two musicians immediately bonded. After a year of playing together, they decided to grow their collaboration into a full band.
Taking cues from longtime boundary-pushers Sonic Youth, Girl Friday depart from traditional song structures, favoring the rush of jarring turns over the safety of well-defined pop taxonomy. Looking to queer provocateurs like Placebo, they cherish the frisson of incongruous musical elements soldered together: “really dark, heavy things mashed up with quite beautiful things, whether that be a distorted guitar line and a sentimental vocal or vice versa,” as Ellen puts it.
Alone, we suffer under the weight of everything designed to keep us down. Together, we stand a fighting chance. Girl Friday place their hope squarely on that chance — on what we can do when we show up for each other, where we can go when we’ve got each other’s backs.
Cryogeyser is making dreamy, dark, vocal-forward music dealing with the themes of truth, transcendence, and longing. They are a three-piece rock band out of Los Angeles, fronted and formed by Shawn Marom on guitar and vox and Hunter Martinez on bass in early 2018. Since then, the project has recorded three albums, and has welcomed new bass player Will Kraus and drummer Nich Santana.
Cryogeyer’s most recent release, Love is Land, produced by Stella Mozgawa earlier in 2020, is part of a double-album, Love is Land/timetetheredtogether, produced by Jack Shirley, set to release on Terrible Records on October 29th.
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ASUS unveils ROG ARES II graphics card
ASUS has tossed a new piece of hardware into its Republic of Gamers line but if you think it’s just another ASUS something then you are hugely mistaken!
This time the acclaimed company has prepared the ROG ARES II graphics card, which may easily compete for being the fastest video card solution on the planet right now. The ASUS ROG ARES II comes with two AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition GPUs and a dual slot cooling solution that combines air and liquid cooling into one. Available in just 1000 units the ARES II sports DIGI+ VRM and 20-phase Super Alloy Power for improved stability, longevity and improved overclocking.
The specs list includes two Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition cores that operate at 1050 MHz (1100 MHz in Turbo mode) and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory at 6600 MHz effective clock speed. There are DVI-I, DVI-D and Display Port outputs as well as ASUS GPU Tweak – special software that allows the user to tweak its graphics card.
According to ASUS the ARES II is the fastest graphics card right now scoring up to 13 per cent better than the competing dual-GPU GeForce GTX 690 solutions. Apart from limited availability though the only downside is price – the ARES II costs USD 1500.


Cars will be received by those customers of the brand who have booked a “welcome” modification of the battery SUV under the name Founder Edition. The startup offered its fans a large crossover, the length of which is 5.2 meters, with a rather eccentric appearance. This electric car will accelerate to “hundred” in 3.9 seconds, and it is sold for 800,000 yuan.
Under the hood of the model is a twin-engine power plant with a return of 590 hp. It is known that three large touch screens, premium acoustics and a fragrance were installed in the HiPhi X cabin.
The battery-powered SUV can be purchased with a six-seat passenger compartment and in a special luxurious design with four separate seats. It is worth noting that this configuration gives rear passengers a personal multimedia experience.


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This release brings us closer to the next official release, which will hopefully be tomorrow if all continues to look well with this new version. The manual has had some minor tweaks, and more importantly a fairly major (but also somewhat rare) graphics issue from the post-engine-upgrade betas has been fixed
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It’s about time! I am so excited that companies like Disney (Maleficent) and Pantene are changing the face and roles that women have socially and without an apology. Recently, my daughter was handed a music box (ironically by the other woman) that had a prince and a princess on the cover, on the verge of a kiss (yes, it was a Disney music box). Did I mention my daughter is 6? Why is this important and why would another woman or a company like Disney want a little girl to grow up with this false sense of reality? Worse, how do we as parents sit back and not say ENOUGH? Haven’t enough of us (men and women) suffered from the false promises of being rescued from ourselves? Really? Look, I am guilty too for believeing in the knights, the princesses and the alure of being rescued and frankly by the Disney model but that’s not how I want to raise my kids. The position I took when my daughter came home with the gift apparently came off as controversial eventhough it seems so straight forward and clear to me. I don’t want my daughter to give up her life, who she is, what makes her unique, or her position simply because she thinks a prince is standing in front of her promising all those things a knight in shinning armor promises. The idea of anyone needing rescuing is a disservice to my little girl (and my son) who at 6 is now forming her ideas and beliefs about life. Worse, why would anyone want a 6 year old to begin creating images of a relationship with anyone beyond the parameters of friends and family, especially when the concept of family is a moving target for kids of divorce? Learning about friendship far out values the social push to be in a “relationship.” And, at 6 I would hope that she is learning all of the valuable skills of friendship.
Luckily, I am not a single mom on a solo journey. Mothers and fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and friends have been speaking up long enough that companies are finally taking notice. A shout out to Pantene (The Dove campaign for real beauty deserves a mention as well as others) for changing how society looks at gender roles. I appreciate Pantene for actually having the guts to talk about the pervasive use of the word sorry that is uttered by women everywhere all the time. The commercial (click or paste link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/18/pantene-not-sorry-shine-strong_n_5507461.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000046) is a sign of the growing trend changing the themes that women have upheld for far too long. Pantene’s campaign #ShineStrong “Not Sorry” is a great example how we as women often take the preemptive approach by saying “sorry” even when the reality is that other words would better replace that term. As I look back at the divorce process I recall that after three months of silence form my X, I sent him an email apologizing. Since I had no idea what was happening, since he refused to speak to me and without knowing the significance of his affair, I simply apologized for all those things that made me “me” and I was sorry for that. I had no clarity at that point but my need to ease his pain over mine drew to the words “sorry”. I look back now realizing that at the time I had nothing to be sorry for. I was left with the kids, the house and the dog without even an explanation or direction and yet here I was apologizing. I tried over that first year to reach out, ask questions but everything was “I don’t know.” My friends and family warned me about reaching out to someone capable of leaving his family from one day to another but I kept thinking of our history and the family we had created and so I tried. I tried for all the wrong reasons and with no armor but at least I tried.
The following months, years, I had to learn to forgive myself for wanting his forgiveness and for asking for his humanity. It has been a process to understand that giving that respect, forgiveness and humanity to myself first is imperative if I hope to change the the way in which my children see the world. For now, I am grateful for the changing perspective and hope that when my son and daughter are ready to face the world as adults they understand their obligation to community, their families and humanity. I hope they know themselves enough (essentially flawed and all) to never have to lie their way through life or any relationship.


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Achieving unity of effort across the whole of government for stability operations is a complex problem that must be solved to avoid repeating the failures of the early stages of Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF. While National Security Presidential Directive - 44 NSPD-44 effectively addressed interagency coordination at the national level and set the course to solve the lack of civilian resources necessary for stability operations, it failed to establish a baseline command and control model at the operational level for stability operations in a hostile environment. Instead, NSPD 44 stated that supportedsupporting relationships will be determined. This paper analyzes historical case studies of U.S. stability operations during World War II, Vietnam, and OIF and critiques possible operational level command and control models to identify the most effective. It concludes that unity of effort across government institutions is required at the operational level to plan and execute the transition from combat to post-combat operations and can best be achieved with a civilian deputy to the military operational commander. The civilian deputy should lead a hybrid civilian-military organization in the planning and execution of stability operations and synchronize efforts with combat forces. Finally, recommendations are made on how to institute this operational command and control model as U.S. policy.
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Downtown Tulsa Temporary Public Art Project Recognized with National Award
Downtown Tulsa, OK (October 27, 2021) - At its national conference in Tampa, Fl last week, the
International Downtown Association recognized Downtown Tulsa temporary public art effort Project Hope
Unity Compassion with the Downtown Achievement Award of Excellence for its resourceful approaches
related to public art and place enhancement efforts. Project Hope Unity Compassion was implemented by
the Tulsa Downtown Coordinating Council in June 2020 through January 2021 prior to the transition of
staff and management efforts to the Downtown Tulsa Partnership. The Award of Excellence
acknowledges an excellent response to an urban place management challenge, demonstrating
application of industry knowledge and exceeding jury criteria.
Project Hope Unity Compassion was among 24 qualified entries in the category of Public Space
Management and Operations which IDA identifies as one of the seven professional urban place
management practice areas. A jury of peer professionals reviewed, deliberated, and evaluated all entries
in the 2021 Downtown Achievement Awards. This category features unique organizational approaches
and projects in the areas of clean, safe and hospitality, placemaking and activation and facilities
management. The award was accepted by Downtown Tulsa Partnership.
In June 2020, Downtown Tulsa business owners proactively took steps to secure their storefronts in
anticipation of large crowds following the announcement of a presidential campaign rally. These boarded
up windows provided an opportunity to show a broad national audience the core values of Downtown
Tulsa and the community’s resilience. More than 300 artists responded to a last-minute call for art and
within hours commissioned artists began painting storefronts thanks to permission from businesses and
the generosity of an anonymous donor. Within two days, more than a dozen artist and artist teams were
mobilized to paint murals and messages inspiring hope, unity, and compassion across Downtown during
incredibly tense time in our nation.
“Throughout history, downtowns and town squares have served as the foundation of society’s freedom of
expression and discourse, and this effort sought to highlight the resilience of Downtown and our
community during an historic event,” said Brian Kurtz, President and CEO of Downtown Tulsa Partnership
and former executive director of Downtown Coordinating Council. “On behalf of Downtown Tulsa
Partnership board and stakeholders, I express immense gratitude to our partner organizations and artists
who made this effort possible in such a short timeline, and to our peer jurors around the nation for
recognizing the importance of public art in community conversations.”
Following the campaign events and as Downtown reopened, each storefront was carefully deconstructed
and stored until they could be reassembled for an exhibition at Living Arts in January 2021. The original
works and photographs of each piece in their original locations were auctioned off with proceeds
benefiting the Historic Greenwood District Main Street program. Project muralists were also featured in
the PBS American Portrait series.
“Downtown Tulsa has demonstrated skillful application of urban place management principles with Project
Hope Unity Compassion,” said David Downey, IDA President and CEO. “This public realm enhancement
effort should serve as a framework to all member communities within IDA.”
Additionally at the national conference, the Strategic Plan for a Downtown Tulsa Management
Organization endorsed in late 2020 was regarded by IDA as an industry best practice. The planning and
community engagement process led to the incorporation of Downtown Tulsa Partnership and the new
public-private partnership that exists today with the City of Tulsa.
Washington, DC-based IDA is the premier organization for urban place professionals who are shaping
and activating dynamic city center districts. Downtown Tulsa Partnership is the urban place management
organization representing the interests of property owners in Downtown Tulsa.
Additional information about Project Hope Unity Compassion can be found at https://www.downtowntulsaok.com/downtownmurals
Additional information about the Strategic Plan for a Downtown Management Organization can be found


Mi A2 in Gold colour
Xiaomi's Mi A2 smartphone is getting an all-new Red edition in India. The Chinese company confirmed the launch in a tweet on Wednesday and also revealed that the new Xiaomi Mi A2 Red Edition will be going on sale starting Thursday. The Mi A2 has been currently available in Black, Blue, and Gold colours and the Red will be the fourth colour variant.
Priced at Rs. 16,999, the Mi A2 will be available via Amazon India and Mi.com starting tomorrow. It will be available with Rs. 2,200 instant cashback from Reliance Jio with up to 4.5TB 4G data. The new Red edition of the Mi A2 has been announced shortly after the launch of Red Redmi Note 5 Pro in India.
Talking about specs, the Mi A2 comes with dual camera setup with 12-megapixel and 20-megapixel sensors while there is a 20-megapixel front camera on board as well. The rear camera comes with features like portrait mode, single colour temperature flash, light enhancement technology, HDR, Panorama mode, Burst mode, face recognition, AI Beautify 4.0 and Group selfie. The phone comes with 4K video recording alongside 1080p video shooting and 720p video shooting. The phone also supports Slow motion video and EIS for video recording.
The phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 AIE processor coupled with 4GB of RAM with 64GB storage. The smartphone sports 18:9 display measuring 5.99-inch full-HD+ display with 1080x2160 pixels resolution. There's a 3010mAh battery on-board.
The smartphone supports 4G dual-SIM with dual VoLTE support. The handset comes with rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. The handset packs USB Type-C for charging. The retail box will ship with USB Type-C to 3.5mm audio dongle.


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Researchers, policymakers, and planners are always in search of easily accessible and accurate data. Data on Blindness and Visual Impairment in the U.S. offers such easily accessible data and much more. Based on the secondary analysis of large data sets, this work is a valuable resource for professionals working in the field of blindness and visual impairment.
Kirchner's book is a collection of 28 statistical briefs on the social and employment characteristics of America's blind and visually impaired, and the delivery of services to this population. Each brief is rich with up-to-date, easily retrievable information.
The author assists the reader in finding the needed data in several ways. First, she begins each brief with a summary entitled "Issues." Next, the sources of data are listed. Then, throughout each brief, Kirchner displays figures and tables of data. Every brief closes with an extensive list of references. The collection is convenient to
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Dutch Art Institute - Using the museum
Dutch Art Institute Using the museum
Since 2011 the Van Abbemuseum has been a guest tutor at the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. Our staff have, with the artists at the DAI, been looking at the notion of the museum’s ‘use’ in the 21st century, taking as our starting point the notion that art’s perceived role in and value to society is changing. Exhibitions such as the Museum of Arte Útil or the collection display Once Upon a Time… The Collection Now have been used as case studies to examine how the museum and artists have deployed different means to negotiate this ongoing shift.
As part of the course artists from the DAI will present a number of installations, performances and interventions in the museum that can be seen throughout the building opening on the 28th September. These projects draw on the collection, exhibitions or the institution’s infrastructure – questioning and challenging accepted ideas of the museum and how it produces, displays and mediates artistic thinking. As such ‘Using the Museum’ seems a valuable experiment, for the artists involved, the Van Abbemuseum and its public - and as a means to think through how the museum might be used as a pedagogical tool
Including projects by: Hanan Benammar, Michelle Browne, Eduardo Cachucho, Voitka Group, Anneke Ingwersen, Louis Liu & Artémise Ploegaerts, Sofia Ocana Urwitz, Marie-Andree Pellerin, Abner Preis, Kim Schonewille, Tommie Soro, Malina Suliman, Silvia Ulloa.
Programme, 28th September
2.00 pm: Introduction by Gabriëlle Schleijpen (director Dutch Art Institute) and Nick Aikens (curator Van Abbemuseum), (Studio)
2.40 pm: Sylvia Ulloa, 'From this to That', performance (Studio)
2.55 pm: Malina Suliman, Dear Van Abbe, performance (Studio)
3.20 pm: Anneke Ingwersen, Chasing your own shadow, workshop (Studio)
3.20 pm: Michelle Brown, The Van Abbe Mystery (meet at John Kormeling's pink house)
4.00 pm: Marie-Andree Pellerin, Housekeeper, performance (2nd floor New Building)
5.15 pm: Graduation ceremony (auditorium)
Hanan Bennamar - Antiphony
Answer machine message
Antiphony is an answering machine service set up for the Van Abbemuseum's phone number +31 (0)40 238 1000.
The museum's main phone number is occupied by a new service, offering callers the chance to select and speak to someone about 12 words redefined under the constraints of desert landscapes such as failure, chaos and borders. The goal of the project is to challenge these notions and perform an alternative, subjective and human immaterial data journey.
Silvia Ulloa - From This to That
Vitrine, collage, drawings, photographs, video (Studio)
From This to That is a film dispositif. It is a cinematographic performance, where a set of still images, arranged in a vitrine, will be captured with a camera and transformed into moving images. They will be simultaneously projected onto a screen generating a movie that will subsequently be on display alongside with the remnants of the performance.
Anneke Ingwersen - Chasing Your Own Shadow
Video and workshop (Studio)
How can we use the museum as a place for dialogue? Chasing Your Own Shadow is a workshop, where you are invited to engage in a conversation and an exercise: Ingwersen proposes the act of tracing your own shadow as a metaphor for questions of identity and difference and will link this to other artistic approaches in the exhibition Once Upon a Time...
Marie-Andree Pellerin - Housekeeper
Performance (2nd floor New Building)
Housekeeper consists of a performative action in which Pellerin will sweep under a carpet the remains of her own artistic production. These objects, previously spread out on the 2nd floor of the museum in the collection display, will be collected while carrying the carpet through the exhibition rooms. This seemingly absurd task is a means to question the possibilities of inhabiting the museum through her own art practice's strategies and mythology.
Louis Hothothot & Artemise Ploegaerts - Her
3 channel video, archival material and single channel video (Studio)
Her is a multimedia installation in two parts, a video projection in which anonymous body parts from a dancer are choreographed through a split screen. The archive on an adjecent wall includes biographical documentation relating to the unidentified dancer, introducing Ying Matthijsse. These two elements, the bodily and the biographical, are brought into dialogue within the museum.
Michelle Browne - The Van Abbe Mystery
Performative museum tour
There is a rumour that the Van Abbemuseum will acquire the Arte Util archive. Is this the next big shift in art collecting? Jan and Ron are American collectors. They are coming to the Van Abbe to find out. Taking you on a tour through the Van Abbemuseum, follow these characters as they ask how you can collect Arte Util.
Sofia Ocana Urwitz - Dialogues of an intersection
Single channel video (Studio)
This film is a reflection on spaces, procedures and cultural practices through the design of a scripted architecture in what it is, is meant to be used, and what it isn't, is used to fulfill its role as a generator of new drafts and possibilities.
Kim Schonewille - The Hair Archive
Sound installation, archive, performance (Cloakroom and entrance hall)
During opening hours of the Van Abbemuseum, hair of the visitors is collected and stored into a growing archive. This archive is part of the Global Hair Project, a research about hair, identity and privacy.
Voitka Group - Has anyone seen these works lately?
Sound (Museum index, 2nd floor New Building)
In 2000 the Van Abbemuseum introduced a new system to register the location of the artworks in the collection. It shows that a 120 works, acquired between 2000 and 2014, went straight from the artist to the depot and have never left the storage since. The project Has anyone seen these works lately? frames and gives visibility to what is not there.
Tommie Soro - Prestige
Digital print (1st floor New Building & Museum shop)
Responding to the theme 'Using the museum', Prestige questions the economies integral to the relationship between artist, institution and consumer. Prestige reifies its use of the museum, tracing the processes of symbolic capital between the Van Abbemuseum and Soro.
Eduardo Cachucho - Interruptions
HD video with stereo sound (Studio)
Drawn from interviews with the museum's curators and technical staff, based on their experiences in the formulation of the collection exhibition Once Upon a Time..., Interruptions is a constructed narrative of excerpts from these interviews focusing on moments where a certain trajectory of thought was interrupted or diverted.
Abner Preis - The Van Abner Museum
Mixed media (various locations)
The Van Abner Museum consists of an online intervention and a series of workshops in the museum. What started out as a gesture, a simple idea to change the name of the museum, developed into a conversation about ego, history and the inner-workings of the museum, the fight to make a work and ultimately attempting to break down the hierarchy of the museum object, so that the observer in The Van Abner Museum becomes the coveted, and cherished work of art.
Malina Suliman - Dear Van Abbe
performance and mixed media installation (Studio)
Dear Van Abbe seeks a dialogue between the museum and the public addressing how a relationship is created between them. Using an audio recording and hand written letters derived from different archives and found material online, it sees the museum as a living body which goes beyond the bricks and mortar of the museum or the objects housed within it; it shares feeling emotions, advice, politics and religion with its public.


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China-EU agreement good news to Shaoxing wine
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A bilateral agreement between China and the European Union (EU) on geographical indications (GI) took effect on March 1.
The indications are used to identify the geographical origin of a product, and are an important type of intellectual property right.
According to the agreement, more than 500 products, including some from Zhejiang province, such as Shaoxing Yellow Rice Wine, will enjoy commercial protection in the market.


Grampian Autistic Society (GAS) organises an Open Day at Carnie Drive to celebrate World Autism Week 1-7 April
An Open Day ‘’Increasing Autism Awareness’’ will take place on Monday 1 April 11am to 3pm at the charity’s premises in 35, Carnie Drive, Aberdeen AB25 3AN
Autism is a lifelong condition that affects how people communicate and interact with others.
Awareness of this condition is important. It is estimated that 1 in every 100 people in the UK is autistic, but with the right support, many autistic people live fulfilled and active lives.


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- How do you calm down neuropathy?
- How can I reverse neuropathy naturally?
- What kind of toxins cause neuropathy?
- Can nerves regenerate from neuropathy?
- What are the signs and symptoms of neurotoxicity?
- What causes neuropathy to flare up?
- What are signs of toxicity?
- What’s the difference between neuropathy and peripheral neuropathy?
- What toxins cause tingling in hands and feet?
- Does toxic neuropathy go away?
- Can toxins cause nerve damage?
- When should I be worried about tingling?
How do you calm down neuropathy?
Managing Peripheral NeuropathyTake care of your feet, especially if you have diabetes.
Check your feet daily for signs of blisters, cuts or calluses.
Eat healthy meals.
Avoid prolonged pressure.
Acceptance & Acknowledgement.
Find the positive aspects of the disorder.More items….
How can I reverse neuropathy naturally?
8 natural treatments for peripheral neuropathyVitamins. Some cases of peripheral neuropathy are related to vitamin deficiencies. … Cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper contains capsaicin, an ingredient in hot peppers that makes them spicy. … Quit smoking. … Warm bath. … Exercise. … Essential oils. … Meditation. … Acupuncture.
What kind of toxins cause neuropathy?
Common toxins that cause neuropathy include: exposure to lead, mercury, arsenic and thalium. Some organic insecticides and solvents can result in neuropathies. Sniffing glue or other toxic compounds can also cause peripheral neuropathy.
Can nerves regenerate from neuropathy?
Once neuropathy has developed, few types can be fully cured, but early treatment can improve outcomes. Some nerve fibers can slowly regenerate if the nerve cell itself is still alive. Eliminating the underlying cause can prevent future nerve damage. Good nutrition and reasonable exercise can speed healing.
What are the signs and symptoms of neurotoxicity?
Paralysis or weakness in the limbs.Altered sensation, tingling and numbness in the limbs.Headache.Vision loss.Loss of memory and cognitive function.Uncontrollable obsessive and/or compulsive behavior.Behavioral problems.Sexual dysfunction.More items…•Sep 16, 2019
What causes neuropathy to flare up?
It’s usually caused by chronic, progressive nerve disease, and it can also occur as the result of injury or infection. If you have chronic neuropathic pain, it can flare up at any time without an obvious pain-inducing event or factor.
What are signs of toxicity?
General symptomsfeeling and being sick.diarrhoea.stomach pain.drowsiness, dizziness or weakness.high temperature of 38C (100.4F) or above.chills (shivering)loss of appetite.headache.More items…
What’s the difference between neuropathy and peripheral neuropathy?
Neuropathy, often called peripheral neuropathy, indicates a problem within the peripheral nervous system. Your peripheral nervous system is the network of nerves outside your brain and spinal cord. Your brain and spinal cord make up your central nervous system.
What toxins cause tingling in hands and feet?
Toxin exposure heavy metals, such as mercury, lead, and arsenic. acrylamide, a chemical used for many industrial purposes. ethylene glycol, which is found in antifreeze. hexacarbons, which can be found in some solvents and glues.
Does toxic neuropathy go away?
The peripheral nerves have a great ability to heal. Even though it may take months, recovery can occur. However, in some situations, symptoms of neuropathy may lessen but not completely go away. For example, nerve injury caused by radiation often does not recover well.
Can toxins cause nerve damage?
More than 200 chemicals exist that are neurotoxic to humans, and 24% of all peripheral neuropathies in the US are caused by drugs or toxins. Peripheral axons (the long nerve appendages) are vulnerable to toxins that interfere with axonal transport or energy metabolism and may experience axonal degeneration.
When should I be worried about tingling?
Also, any symptoms of confusion, vision or speech changes, weakness, or loss of consciousness should prompt a visit to a local emergency department. Numbness and tingling associated with neck or back pain, arm or leg pain, muscle spasms, or rash require a call or visit to your physician but are less urgent in nature.

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Welcome to our website! The North Carolina Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association (NC ACDA) is a non-profit organization whose membership is composed of over 500 choral musicians from school, college, university, church, community, professional groups and the music industry. NC ACDA is dedicated to the advancement and enrichment of the choral art throughout the state of North Carolina.
NC ACDA is part of the American Choral Directors Association, one of the world's largest professional organizations for choral musicians with a membership of over 18,000 directors representing one million singers.
Membership in NC ACDA is attained through membership in the national American Choral Directors Association.
- Student Scholarship to 2017 National Conference
NC ACDA is participating in the "Student Scholarship to the 2017 National Conference" offered through the ACDA national office. ACDA is offering five scholarships to each state that will completely cover conference registration fees for students to attend the 2017 ACDA National Conference in Minneapolis, March 8-11, 2017. The deadline to apply is October 15, 2016. More information and application are available here on ACDA National Website.
- 2015 Hoggard Award Winner
Each year the NC ACDA honors a member for "Distinguished Service in Choral Music in North Carolina." We proudly announce that the 2015 recipient is Welborn E. Young.


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Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets and dabbling in experimental taxidermy to his ground-breaking research into the mysterious ways of the bumblebee and his mission to protect our rarest bees. Dave Goulson's passionate drive to reintroduce it to its native land is one of the highlights of
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"[Goulson's] book is not only enormously informative, but also hugely entertaining: its light touch and constant humour make cutting-edge research a pleasure to read about. For anyone interested in the natural world, this is essential reading."
Independent||"Goulson reminds himself that he 'began studying bumblebees not because they are important pollinators but because they are fascinating, because they behave in interesting and mysterious ways, and because they are rather loveable.' It's worth readingA Sting in the Talefor the same reasons."
Literary Review||"A worthy book of the year."
Observer||"Goulson has plenty of wondrous biological stories to tell, as well as the tale of his own struggle to return the short-haired bumblebee to Britain."
Guardian||"This isn't one of those natural science books that simply tells you things - it admits how much we don't know."


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Shade trees are the largest elements in the landscape. With each passing year, big trees grow more valuable, increasing the worth of your property. Learn about shade trees you can use to enhance your landscape.
WHAT'S INSIDE: TREES, SHRUBS & VINES
- General Tips for Trees, Shrubs & Vines
Silk tree is the heartiest mimosa and adds a tropical flair to northern gardens. Learn how to grow and maintain silk tree and enjoy the pink powderpuff blooms in your yard.
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OAKLAND -- A running theme with the A's this season is the way a defensive play ignites the offense. In the ninth inning at the Oakland Coliseum, that is exactly what played out. With a runner on second base and two outs, pinch-hitter Jesus Montero hit a screaming liner that first baseman Brandon Moss made a full extension, run-saving, diving catch. The A's then stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth and tied the game. Josh Reddick drew a walk and Josh Donaldson hit a two-run homer to center field that made it a 4-4 game. With the Rangers and Angels huddled in their respective clubhouses waiting out a rain delay in Texas, all they could do is watch helplessly as the A's mounted a comeback of elephant-sized proportion. As the game entered the 10th inning, the Reddi-Wip was, well, ready.
OCTOBER QUEST: Angels-Rangers postponed
Instead of tasting the agony of defeat, Moss delivered a walk-off, three-run home run to defeat the Mariners 7-4, and tasted the sweet post game pie -- two of them to be exact -- hand delivered by Reddick and Brandon Inge."It's whipped cream," Moss said with the stuff still in his beard. "I ate a lot of it. Last time I didn't eat any but this time I ate a lot of it. My mouth was open." Moss' home run was his 21st of the season. It delivered the A's their 90th win, and their Major League Baseball-leading 14th walk-off victory. "There isn't much better a feeling than that," Moss said. "When you are playing a game as a little kid in the backyard that's kind of what you dream of doing. There isn't anything better you can do in the game." Donaldson isn't jealous that he didn't get to taste the pie. When he stepped to the plate with Reddick on base in the ninth inning he had one thing on his mind: Going deep. He took a huge hack at the first pitch he saw and missed. Since Mariners' closer Tom Wilhelmsen threw a fastball for the first pitch, Donaldson says he was expecting a breaking ball to come next and he got it. "I was really trying to hit a home run, I don't know how else to say it," Donaldson said. "It was great to try and tie the ballgame up but Moss was the hero of the game. He won it for us." The A's rallied for six runs in the final three innings but they were stumped by Mariners' starting pitcher Jason Vargas. He lasted seven innings and only gave up one run on five hits. That run came in a very unconventional way. With Yoenis Cespedes on first base, Moss hit a routine single to right field. Cespedes took off on contact and never stopped. As he approached third he ignored third base coach Mike Gallego's stop sign and kept an eye on right fielder Casper Wells who had just fielded the ball. Wells hesitated for a moment, thinking Cespedes would stop, but he didn't. The Cuban-born slugger went barreling for home and beat the throw there on a headfirst dive. "I don't know that he could have stopped him as fast as he was going at that point," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "He got from first to home about as quick as you'll see." "He was flying," Moss added. "The way he went into home plate, he was flying."Believe it or not, that was the second weirdest play of the game. In the second inning the A's gave away the lead on a play in which they were charged two errors. With a runner on first base, Moss fielded a ball, tagged first, and tried to throw to second for the double play but missed and chucked the ball into the outfield. Cespedes got to the ball and tried to gun down the runner at third but instead tossed the ball into the A's dugout which allowed the run to score. It looked like a little league play. While most managers would be angry about a play like that, Melvin was relieved."It almost hit our Purell container in the dugout and that would have bothered me because I use that quite often," Melvin said jokingly. "That would have been really devastating if it knocked over the Purell container. We can take a run, we just don't want to lose that." A's starting pitcher Dan Straily's ERA was sanitized of that run, but he allowed three others. They both came as a result of the long ball. Straily lasted just four and one third innings, the shortest outing of his Oakland career. "I wasn't good," Straily said. "I left two mistakes up and that's kind of the story of my day games here at the Coliseum. I just need to continue making adjustments and keep working hard to fix that." Straily fell behind to 15 of the 20 batters he faced. He said afterward that he struggled with his command. He left the game with runners on the corners in the fifth inning and was picked up by another overtime effort of the bullpen. Pedro Figueroa entered the game in relief of Straily and struck out both batters he faced to end the inning. The bullpen ended up throwing five and two-thirds scoreless innings. If Straily has another start this year it will come in the postseason. He is on turn to start the Wild Card playoff game if that is where the A's end up. The magic number to clinch a spot in that game is now at three. Oakland is two and a half games behind Texas. They have three home games against the Rangers to end the season. The Rangers and Angels game got postponed on Saturday, so they will play a doubleheader on Sunday. Oakland could pop the champagne as soon as Sunday if Tampa Bay loses and the Rangers beat the Angels in both games of the doubleheader.

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You can use it also as a supporting command-line tool, that parses your files and generates an index for your own search engine, no matter if it is for a web or for the desktop applications.
Product features at a glance
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It's not all Tom and Jerry
The men and women behind Britain's animation boom are a strange lot. Long live the weirdos, says Steven Poole
Friday 26 May 1995
The first film (Wed 10.55pm) profiles Alison Snowden and David Fine, who won this year's Oscar for Best Animated Short Film with the wonderful Bob's Birthday, a poignant and hilarious piece about a surprise 40th birthday party that goes horribly wrong. These hand-drawn characters have noses like gigantic boils but remain ineffably cute, in vivid contrast to the almost nihilistic portrait of married life in the story. This is quite worrying: Snowden and Fine are married themselves. But they're not letting us in on their private life, merely admitting demurely: "I suppose there is an undertone of bleakness in our films."
Indeed, what may be surprising to those unacquainted with modern animation is the genre's elasticity of theme: an animated film can be a light comedy, or a serious dissection of modern mores, or just a weird, abstract fairytale, like Petra Freeman's Jumping Joan, which would be impossible to do in any other medium. Paul Vester has even made a film about UFO abductees, crawling with animated aliens. So it's not all Tom and Jerry. Clare Kitson, C4's commissioning editor for animation, agrees: "There is an assumption, which I have to fight against all the time, that animation is just for kids and intellectuals."
The variety of techniques used is also confusing for those who would pigeon-hole animation as a genre ghetto. Cell animation, as in Disney films, is one thing, but then there is 3D stop-motion stuff. Think of the army of skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts, or the baroque weirdness of Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas. Or Morph. And these days, those infernal computer things can also get in on the act. Secret Passions showcases Ange Palethorpe's brilliant Alter Ego, which mixes live-action film (of a real actress) with fluid pencilled cell animation, and a two- horned stop-motion devil, all put to the purpose of a lashing satire on the modelling industry. (Modelling, geddit?)
Yes, animation can be about issues, too. Tamsin Gilbert dramatised her own battle with bulimia in a harrowing film done with cut-out bits of paper and pictures from magazines. But generally, probably because it's such a broad church, animation does not lend itself to over-politicisation. For example, the second Secret Passions programme focuses exclusively on animators who are female, but they all balk at the suggestion that they might be making "women's films". Says Gilbert: "I would never like to make a film that excluded men."
Well, if we're not going to be sexist, we can at least be patriotic. British animation is booming, and so it should be, with places on art- school animation courses massively oversubscribed, with Channel 4's long- sighted encouragement, and with a climate dank enough to discourage healthier pursuits. Clare Kitson generously points out that there is some very interesting work being done in France - but then, they don't win half as many awards as we do. "I don't honestly think there is a British take on animation," she says, "but whatever they do, they do it wholeheartedly and you know what they're doing."
There remains the niggling suspicion that what they're doing is a deviant activity. Animators lock themselves away for years on end to come up with a few short minutes of film, and even the most well-adjusted will happily compare finishing a work to "childbirth without the marks". Still, you don't have to swallow Freud whole to realise that any kind of artistic activity is deviant, so long live the weirdos.
'Secret Passions', Wed 10.55pm C4
MusicThe band accidentally called Londoners the C-word
Film 'I've never been comfortable on-screen', she says
Arts & Ents blogs
- 1 Exodus Gods and Kings: Ridley Scott never considered casting 'Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such' in lead role
- 2 This letter from a reader explains why women can’t play football
- 3 'You should come to my house and eat cheeses with me': 4-year-old sends adorable love letter to girl at school
- 4 Scientists predict green energy revolution after incredible new graphene discoveries
- 5 Michael Buerk wishes he'd killed Jimmy Savile when he had the chance - by pushing him overboard a cruise ship
I'm A Celebrity 2014: Jungle security stepped up after murder and 'suspicious death' close to camp
This house and dental clinic 'piled up like bricks on the brink of collapsing' is why Japan wins at architecture
Exodus Gods and Kings: Ridley Scott never considered casting 'Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such' in lead role
James Cameron hypes up Avatar sequels: 'You will s**t yourself with your mouth wide open'
Marilyn Manson denies involvement in shocking Lana Del Rey rape video
Ukip says babies born to immigrants in the UK should be classed as migrants – which would include Nigel Farage’s own children
The young are the new poor: Sharp increase in number of under-25s living in poverty, while over-65s are better off than ever
Tamir Rice: 12-year-old boy playing with fake gun dies after being shot by Ohio police
Rochester aftermath: Sacking of Emily Thornberry will make work of Labour MPs '10 times harder'
Ed Miliband's 'north London set' must be demolished to save Labour, say critics
Green Party Caroline Lucas interview: 'We could be on the edge of something very big'

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Introducing 1st Rare Disease Advocacy World (RDAW) USA 2015 Meeting
Patient advocacy groups are one of the most important powerful stakeholders that contribute to the success of orphan drug development and changes in policies for global regulatory agencies.
Just recently in September 2014, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announces the launch of a pilot program to involve patients in the benefit-risk evaluation of medicines at the regulatory agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP). CHMP is the EMA committee responsible for preparing the agency’s opinions on questions concerning human medicines – it conducts the initial benefit-risk analysis of medicines. In August 2014, Rona Ambrose, Canada’s Minister of Health, announces the launch of a pilot project “ … targeting patient input from Canadians with rare diseases to help inform future reviews of orphan drugs …. The Pilot Project will simulate how input from patients will be gathered and incorporated into the drug submission review process once the Orphan Drug Framework is in effect.” The FDA has started the Patient-Focused Drug Development (PFDD) initiative to obtain and better understand a patient’s perspective about their disease and to get patient feedback on treatments.
In recognition of the power, strength, passion, and compassion of patient advocacy organizations, there is a new portion of the World Orphan Drug Congress USA 2015, devoted to this trend. Rare Disease Advocacy World (RDAW) is a conference of its own which leverages the success of the world’s largest orphan drug event – The World Orphan Drug Congress USA – to grow the breadth and scope of the event even further and embrace and empower rare disease advocacy like never before. RDAW brings stakeholders together at this co-located conference. RDAW will be a 2-day event that will provide opportunities for patient advocacy groups to learn more about:
• Achieving a scientific mindset
• Understanding your disease
• Characterizing your patients
• Developing a strategic plan
• Raising awareness and raising funds.
Several experts in the field will be hosting a series of case studies and workshops:
• Pat Furlong, President & CEO, Parent’s Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD)
• Nancy Goodman, Founder & Executive Director, Kids V Cancer
• Eric Hoffman, Director, Research Center for Genetic Medicine, The George Washington University.
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Boston – In late 2015, a homeless man named Emory Ellis was jailed after he tried to make a purchase at a local Burger King. He approached the counter and attempted to buy breakfast with a $10 bill. The cashier thought the currency looked fake, and called police. Instead of verifying whether or not the money was fake, police apparently assumed it was, and arrested Ellis.
Because Ellis was on probation, the arrest violated the terms of his release and he was booked back into jail where he spent the next three months. It took that long before prosecutors realized the money was actually real and ordered his release in early 2016. Now Ellis is suing Burger King for discriminating against him based on his external appearances.
Ellis' attorney, Justin Drechsler, said he believes Ellis was discriminated against because he is a poor Black man, and he insisted that a rich White man would never have endured such humiliation.
"A person like me would've gotten an apology, but a person like Emory somehow finds his way in handcuffs for trying to pay for his breakfast with real money," Drechsler said.
According to a report from SFGate, Ellis' misery did not end after he was refused breakfast and arrested:
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Ellis was arrested in November 2015 and charged with forgery of a bank note. His arrest triggered a probation violation and he was held without bail until his final probation violation hearing, according to the lawsuit. He wasn't released from jail until February 2016, when prosecutors dropped the forgery charge after the Secret Service concluded Ellis' bill was real, the lawsuit says.
Ellis is now seeking $950,000 in damages from Burger King, which told the press it will not tolerate discrimination of any kind. The 37-year-old man would likely still be in jail had the Secret Service not confirmed the currency's legitimacy. His lawyer said it is a travesty of justice. "Nobody deserves to be treated the way that Emory was treated," Drechsler said.
Ellis' story highlights several talking points demonstrating precisely what is wrong with modern day policing, the judicial system in the United States, and the way society treats the homeless.
Any cashier or law enforcement officer worth his weight in salt could have quickly visited the federal reserve's website on how to determine if a currency is fake. That didn't happen. Equally disturbing is the fact the man was held without bail. Ellis, being homeless, should have been allowed to go to his street corner and wait for a full investigation to have been completed before being arrested, especially since it was not conclusive that the bill was not counterfeit. But most disturbing of the allegations is the fact Ellis was left imprisoned a full three months before authorities learned what they could have discovered on the spot.
The bill was real, a man was arrested, his probation was violated, and he was forced to spend a quarter of a year before anyone seemed to care. Ellis is not alone. Thousands of Americans have been accused of crimes, arrested, and jailed, without a speedy trial.
As The Free Thought Project has reported, Americans who are homeless routinely face abuse from police, and they are often targeted, harassed and even arrested simply because of their homeless status. The system is broken and must be fixed.


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Lessons In Making A Better Documentary
How to make your documentary better – check out these important lessons from documentary filmmakers.
If you’ve not bothered to pay for a formal film school education*, you can learn plenty online for free thanks to these documentary filmmakers sharing their wisdom and experiences on the whole gamut of filmmaking tasks involved in producing a gripping and entertaining documentary. Take some time out and learn about everything from shooting your documentary to creating story enhancing motion graphics. Sit back and absorb.
*Film school can be worth paying for a) for the experience b) for the connections and c) for the opportunity to watch a lot of movies.
In this 45 minute documentary editing seminar Richard Speziale, walks through the entire process of building a documentary from the ground up. A must watch for those new to documentary editing.
Documentary Story Structure
Fernanda Rossi, know as the Story Doctor, delivers a very interesting talk on the way in which many documentaries that end up as wild successes start out as failures. In this (unfortunately low-res recording) story workshop she demonstrates the kind of before and after story structure work she specializes in. It’s a rare window into how to shape a documentary, sometimes just to get it into festivals.
After Effects for Documentary Editors
Steve Audette a highly experienced documentary editor, delivers this brilliant lecture on how to best use After Effects in the documentary edit suite. If you enjoy this you’ll definitely want to check out Steve’s exemplary lecture on documentary editing.


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Dating and courtship in china doctor dating former patient
It is only given to someone you are intended to marry.
Chinese dating is just as confusing, and wonderful, as any other type of dating.
People who live in ethnically diverse cities will have many chances to meet and talk with people who are Chinese or Chinese-American.
Each country has its unique customs when it comes to dating, and Chinese courtship is no different.
Chinese courtship rituals for beautiful Chinese women.
It is supposed to seal the deal to your upcoming nuptials.
Intimacy is never taken lightly in Chinese courtship.
This way, they can interact freely, getting to know the other to see if one is fit for the other’s criteria of a suitable spouse without being subjected to the humiliation of a right out turn down.

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We’ve already had the Da’Rick Rogers suspension laid on us, but there are a few other things popping up on the radar all of a sudden that may be worth monitoring:
- It looks like there may be a little more to that Mississippi State coaching change than was first described, as now the school confirms an NCAA investigation. Dan Mullen can try the “remain calm, all is well” approach if he likes, but you never know how big a distraction these things can turn out to be until you’re in the middle of it.
- I don’t know about you, but I tend to think having a running quarterback who has to miss practice due to back spasms with a week to go before the season starter isn’t a good thing.
- And they’re really having to stretch to patch together an offensive line at Missouri right now. That may turn out to have a much bigger impact on the Georgia game than the suspensions, in case anybody in the media cares to pay attention. I guarantee you Todd Grantham is.