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Not just naive but entirely lacking in compassion and empathy. You're right though - they are the one to be pitied for their cluelessness.
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19-02-2012 17:45 #12
Really annoys me that the MIL and DP make me feel guilty about not introducing hot spicey foods to my DD. Ive tried and she wont touch currys so get off my back and I'll feed her what she is actually going to eat.
Not to mention the MIL is a vegitarian so she makes me feel guilty about eating meat. Not like I make comments about her not eating meat. So again MIL leave us alone. sheesh lol
19-02-2012 18:03 #13
"It was in the last place I looked!". Of course it was, you stop looking when you find it.
"I would like to thank..." Instead of liking to thank somebody, why don't you just thank them?
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19-02-2012 18:13 #14
Can I just ask a question?
That is a question FFS!!!
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19-02-2012 18:17 #15
Either 'i mean this in the nicest possible way' 'i dont want to sound mean but' or 'you cant handle the kids you have, you wouldnt cope with a 3rd'
The first 2, obviously your being a b itch so dont try and make yourself feel better and the last one, last I checked, my kids are happy, healthy and well looked after. Yup I get stressed some days, as im sure all mothers do, so shut up and let me make my own decisions about my family and.stop putting me down!
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19-02-2012 18:34 #17
At work when people start a sentence with "I need" or "could you just". How about "may I please have" or "could you please"??!!!
19-02-2012 18:39 #18
Or, when people ask other people about when they're going to have kids / have another. They're probably one of those lucky people who never had a problem conceiving/carrying, or are childless (by choice)!
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19-02-2012 18:50 #19
An old boss of mine used to say every 5 mins ' no one said it would be easy'.. Grrr, this annoyed me no end!!
Oh & everyone telling me to stop stressing cause I dont need it, when my dh & ds are constantly fighting, dh wants to walk out, ds tries to run away, I have 3 other kids 20mths & under & I'm 18wks pregnant.. I KNOW I dont need the stress, but come walk in my shoes for a day before pointing out the obvious, idiot!!
19-02-2012 18:52 #20
"oh but you're sooooo young!" yes and there are people younger than me who are married/engaged/have 3 kids/insert the reason for this idiot's objection here
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More recently, Standish was positively profiled in Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. Works by Standish are in the collection of noted art collector Lewis Manilow, and in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). A November 2008 show by Standish at the Carrie Secrist Gallery of Chicago, Illinois garnered a positive review from the Chicago Tribune, which reported that "Standish's use of logos suggests ironic social commentary, as if, say, Nike or Citibank were 'sponsors' of his street people. It's an oddity one puts up with for the sake of his dazed, tremulous nocturnal vision".
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In this Grow Op Overview, we speak with Matthew Morgan, CEO, and Darren Carpenter, Director of Cultivation for Tryke Companies, the holding company doing business as Reef Dispensaries.
About Tryke
Corporate Structure
Matthew Morgan: Tryke is the holding company for Reef Dispensaries, our trade name. Technically, there are 3 different Tryke companies and each Tryke company works in a specific geographic location: Arizona, Southern Nevada, or Northern Nevada.
The same executive operating team runs all three companies, and each Tryke does business as Reef Dispensaries. We currently have 10 office directors and 250+ employees spread over the three entities.
Tryke Size
Matthew Morgan: Tryke is currently operating about 100,000 square feet of cultivation space between Arizona and Nevada, with the potential to grow another half million square feet, if the demand is there.
Why grow in Las Vegas?
Matthew Morgan: Tryke originally started in Phoenix, Arizona, but we wanted to be financially stable. When we saw that there was a good chance to go recreational in Nevada, we found a building close to the Strip where we could flagship indoor cultivation.
Indoor/Outdoor/Greenhouse and why?
Darin Carpenter: Our operations are designed for indoor cultivation, because of location and regulations. In the Southwest, we have cooling issues to deal with. If we built a greenhouse in the middle of Phoenix, the costs would be as much as an indoor grow.
The Plants
The Numbers
Darin Carpenter: Both facilities combined are growing about 30,000 different plants. Our genetics lockers have about 200 strains, but we are currently growing about 50-60 strains.
Strain Selection
Darin Carpenter: Our strains are selected based on supply and demand with an extra rotation to keep our retails fresh with new inventory so that our patients don't get bored of the same flavor.
Feeding Style and Media
Darin Carpenter: We use a top-down, drip-fed, drain-to-waste system. We grow with Coco Coir and Grodan rockwool.
Darin Carpenter: We make our own nutrients. While the mixture is proprietary, we keep it fairly basic. The mother plants are treated more delicately, so they get a different feeding regimen.
Pest Management
Darin Carpenter: We use a preventative IPM strategy that allows us to pass state requirements. Every room gets looked at every day. I can't disclose too much more because it is one of our competitive edges.
Laboratory Testing
Darin Carpenter: Nevada law requires us to test for:
- Pesticide residue
- Colony forming units (CFU) of microbes and fungi
- Cannabinoids
- Terpenoids
Building Design
Darin Carpenter: About 10% of our facility is propagation, another 15% is for veg, and the flowering rooms are about 75% of each facility.
Darin Carpenter: We follow the industry standard: T5 bulbs for propagation, metal halide lights for veg, and HPS DE for flowering. HPS in veg also works well. We use a custom paint spec for higher reflectivity.
Environmental Controls
Matthew Morgan: We have a building management system that runs automatic nutrient dosing and automatic feeding systems in addition to environment controls. It was custom designed for us by a controlled environment engineer.
The Tryke Perspective
MJ Freeway and the Repercussions
Matthew Morgan: We lost seven figures in revenue because of the MJ Freeway fiasco. People were working 18-hour days to move us over to a whole new platform, but we had no choice.
Now we're using a hybrid system: We use BioTrackTHC and Microsoft accounting software for midsized companies. The software has multiple functions:
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- Tracks our inventory.
- Acts as our accounting system.
- Tracks our analytics.
- Provides redundancy in case another event happens.
Matthew Morgan: We entered Nevada when the market was brand new. We had to quickly adjust in order to stay profitable. Our size as a company can make that difficult.
Matthew Morgan: What's going on in the White House is really making it difficult to plan out our future moves. Our business model requires a thriving recreational market in Nevada, and we don't know what's happening with the current administration.
Matthew Morgan: Tryke is our biggest success. We've grown from one person to over 250 employees. We're in great shape for our third anniversary.
Matthew Morgan: Our biggest regret is not lobbying harder in Florida. We had high hopes and they were dashed by their regulations.
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I'm going to combine my first bat day with the second. I went to see the bats again with my husband and his coworkers a few days later, but you don't need repeat posting, so we'll make this an all out BATastic post.
I knew the bats were at the Royal Botanic Gardens, but only because I read it somewhere. People here don't talk about the bats. They don't think it is a big deal. DUDE. These things are BIG and a DEAL.
When I first entered the gardens I saw what you would expect to find in a place like that. There were fountains with birds.
There were cool trees with roots growing from the top.
There was an art installation of painted beehives (no bees).
There was a tropical center in a pyramid.
There was a turtle swimming in a pond.
I even saw some cool fungi growing on trees,
and pretty spider webs. Then, I turned a corner, looked up into the trees, and…
What is that big thing hanging there?
BATS!! They were everywhere.
They have orange furry heads.
They make creepy gremlin noises and mess with each other while napping.
Here's the deal with the bats. They roost (sleep upside down) in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. The trees they like to hang out on (ha. ha.) get damaged and eventually die. The Botanic Gardens wants to relocate the bats so they don't kill off all their precious trees. They were planning to do this relocation this year, but they discovered that some of the females are underweight (they look plump to me – for some size reference, they are about as big as my head when all wrapped up). If they move them while they're underweight, it will put too much stress on them and they could die. These bats – actually grey-headed flying foxes – are protected by the government, so they can't move them until the females get back to normal weight. I think they should let them stay and just plant more trees, but hey, what do I know…
My husband took this video when he came to see the bats. It is amazing.
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That's some crazy Halloween sh!t.
Once I got over the fact that every time I looked up, I saw hundreds of bats hanging from the trees, I managed to see a bit more of the gardens.
Hmmm… what are those white birds hanging out on the lawn over there?
Oh, just a bunch of cockatoos. They hang out like pigeons around here. Really beautiful pigeons.
After the gardens, we headed to the Domain, a park across the street. The gardens close at 5pm, but the bats fly out around 5:15pm. A lady I befriended who worked at the tropical center said we should go to the Domain when the gardens closed to get a good view of the bats flying out for the night.
First, we saw one of these.
I'm pretty sure this spider kills people.
Then, we waited… and waited… and…
My husband's coworker was hoping that the sky would "turn black," but they don't happen to fly out all at the same exact time. There's no bat alarm clock that goes off at 5:15 to wake them all off and send them all into the skies at once. It was a very cool thing to see, though. Some of them even landed in the trees at the Domain and crawled around looking for bugs and things to eat. They are super creepy when they crawl around with their winged hands.
That night for dinner, we had Yum Cha, Australian for Dim Sum. SO much food. I couldn't even touch the last course.
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Can you tell a short story on Twitter without going stir-crazy with the 140-character limit?
This week, we're reading a short story originally published on Twitter by one of my favorite authors. David Mitchell is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007.
Mitchell isn't afraid to cross genres in his novels, and so it wasn't a big surprise that he made the leap to Twitter. He posted "The Right Sort" in the form of 280 tweets over one week. In the story, a teenage boy named Nathan Bland is dragged to a party at the mysterious posh house of Lady Briggs. He slips one of his mother's Valium pills to help with his anxiety, and from there the story dives into a strange and suspenseful tale that would give Edgar Allan Poe the shivers.
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- Did the Twitter format change your experience of his story?
- Although we experienced reading this story in one sitting in a continuous stream, how do you think Twitter fans would have experienced this story in real time?
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AL.com published an article referencing Alabama Department of Public Health Center for Health's Statistical Analysis Division-VITAL STATISTICS AT A GLANCE • ALABAMA 2014; included in this publication were fast facts about marriages and divorces. I found some of these facts quite interesting and while reading them, I found myself thinking about stories I have heard from other lawyers along the way. Needless to say, any family law attorney's life is never without some interesting moments.
As divorce attorneys, of course, we encounter many unique personalities and marital situations. I should have begun a diary or journal in which I recorded the unique people I have met and their interesting stories.
During my sixteen years as a family law attorney, the oldest party whom I have seen in a divorce action was seventy-eight years of age. He had been married to the same woman for fifty five years! His situation was very close to the statistic for 2014 with the oldest male divorcee at age ninety-five; and the longest duration ending in a divorce as sixty years.
Another case involved a client whose wife had been married six times, and her last marriage ended in my client's filing for a divorce after only two months. He discovered he was number seven! His wife was only one marriage away from tying the 2014 statistic of eight previous marriages.
I spend much of my practice counseling and assisting people with divorces. Interestingly, the report states that 37,945 divorces were filed in Alabama in 2014, and 18,504 divorces were recorded.
An intriguing statistic is that the most marriages occurred on February 14 (683) in Alabama in 2014. An interesting side note closely connected to this fact is that Judge William K. Bell, a retired in Madison County, Alabama, refused to issue any divorces on February 14!
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Fluctuations in Ammonia Oxidizing Communities Across Agricultural Soils are Driven by Soil Structure and pH
The milieu in soil in which microorganisms dwell is never constant. Conditions such as temperature, water availability, pH and nutrients frequently change, impacting the overall functioning of the soil system. To understand the effects of such factors on soil functioning, proxies (indicators) of soil function are needed that, in a sensitive manner, reveal normal amplitude of variation. Thus, the so-called normal operating range (NOR) of soil can be defined. In this study we determined different components of nitrification by analyzing, in eight agricultural soils, how the community structures and sizes of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and archaea (AOB and AOA, respectively), and their activity, fluctuate over spatial and temporal scales. The results indicated that soil pH and soil type are the main factors that influence the size and structure of the AOA and AOB, as well as their function. The nitrification rates varied between 0.11 ± 0.03 μgN h−1 gdw−1 and 1.68 ± 0.11 μgN h−1 gdw−1, being higher in soils with higher clay content (1.09 ± 0.12 μgN h−1 gdw−1) and lower in soils with lower clay percentages (0.27 ± 0.04 μgN h−1 gdw−1). Nitrifying activity was driven by soil pH, mostly related to its effect on AOA but not on AOB abundance. Regarding the influence of soil parameters, clay content was the main soil factor shaping the structure of both the AOA and AOB communities. Overall, the potential nitrifying activities were higher and more variable over time in the clayey than in the sandy soils. Whereas the structure of AOB fluctuated more (62.7 ± 2.10%) the structure of AOA communities showed lower amplitude of variation (53.65 ± 3.37%). Similar trends were observed for the sizes of these communities. The present work represents a first step toward defining a NOR for soil nitrification. The sensitivity of the process and organisms to impacts from the milieu support their use as proxies in the NOR of agricultural soils. Moreover, the clear effect of soil texture established here suggests that the NOR should be defined in a soil type-specific manner.
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Stephanie Diezmann, Lecturer in the Department of Biology & Biochemistry at the University of Bath
Dr Stephanie Diezmann and her lab are studying one of the top three fungal pathogens, Candida albicans. Stephanie explains "Fungal pathogens kill as many patients worldwide each year as malaria or tuberculosis. It is a big but completely underappreciated problem which is in part why we are studying it. Candida albicans normally lives in the mouth and guts of healthy people, but if their immune system becomes compromised, it can cause life threatening infections of the blood stream and organs, killing up to 50% of the people it infects. We are trying to understand how C. albicans operates the switch between living asymptomatically in the body and becoming a life threatening fungal pathogen. We think that a chaperone protein, which assists other proteins in folding, is responsible for that switch. The protein is called Hsp90 and we think this is one of the main regulators. We hope that one day our research will lead to a better understanding of how fungal virulence works and by studying Hsp90 targets, find possible drug targets for later development."
What was it that got you interested in a career in science; where did it start?
I have always been interested in how things work, and that includes me as a 5 or 6 year old unscrewing every clock in the house and every pen, just to see how it looks on the inside. Unfortunately I wasn't so good at putting them back together! So I have always been a curious mind and one thing led to another.
What is the most interesting or successful thing you have worked on in your career?
Probably the two papers that my PhD is based on. They are not the most high impact papers but they got me a PhD in genetics from Duke University, US so it meant a lot to me personally. During my PhD, I studied the genetic and evolutionary basis of the eukaryotic stress response using Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as the brewer's or baker's yeast. I was trying to find out why clinical isolates of this usually benign yeast were more resistant than isolates from rotten fruits and the brewery. I found a single nucleotide that made a difference. Seeing the image showing presence of this particular locus in the vast majority of my resistant isolates was definitely the highlight of my PhD career, as close as I ever got to a Eureka moment. Essentially, I had found the needle in the hay stack, one nucleotide in 12 million.
What are your favourite and least favourite parts of your job in research?
My favourite part is definitely working with students. This can be in the lab, on student projects or in the classroom. I find working with them inspiring because they always provide you with a fresh perspective on things. They shock you with the things they say. Sometimes good but often surprising things!
I also like when my team comes back with results. It is hugely satisfying when you write a grant proposal, and then a year or so later, the post doc walks into your lab and says I've done this western blott and not only did it work but it shows what you were expecting. Very satisfying. The other thing I really like is going on conferences. I like hanging out with my science friends!
Least favourite things… there aren't really any things I outright despise which is probably a good thing! The least favourite thing is, whilst being at a University is an intellectually stimulating environment, it also means you are torn in many directions. Our workload is divided into research, teaching and administration. Very often I find my research falls a bit shorter than I would like it to.
Finally, what recent science news (not directly related to your own work) do you think has been the biggest breakthrough in the last year or so?
Gravitational waves, a bit older than a year now, but another is CRISPR obviously. Gravitational waves because their discovery validated one of the predictions of Einstein's general theory of relativity a hundred years after Einstein formulated it. They provide an unprecedented glimpse into the origin of our universe and importantly, detecting gravitational waves was a massive collaborative effort funded by different countries, emphasizing that we can tackle big problems if we work together.
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"Scientist" Richard Juday's 5-Year Plan would have made Komrade Stalin himself gush with pride. Ahhh, the days of the command economy, "From each according to his ability, to each..." - well, never mind. Let's just take a look at Juday's MENSA-approved, big-government ideas to run business better than the average-joe, 100-IQ, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing Longmonters.
From Juday's DELETED WEB PAGE (cached here), Dick says: "In a somewhat related matter, I would like to explore whether a city can legally require its companies to pay a higher salary than the federal minimum, so that BBS Inc. would know upon coming in that it will have to give its employees a real living wage. In that fashion, low-wage pay does not result in a lowered lifestyle and living standard when BBS Inc. arrives."
Think he'd stop there? What about mom-and-pop shops in Longmont? Should the vaunted "living wage" be avoided by the evil capitalists at Grandpa's Pawn? No, it's a human right!! Right, Dick?
Richard Juday's web site shows he's very open about his belief that any tax that residents DO pass is not to be used for the obvious stated purpose ("I do not think LAVA "owns" the tax money"), but is to be a slush fund for his left-wing friends on City Council.
That is a straw-man argument if I ever heard one; if the ARC organization proposes, pushes and passes a tax for a developmentally disabled home, it looks like Juday would then yank the rug out from under ARC!!! In a Daily Times-Call letter dated 1/15, Juday get called on this power grab: "Voters voted to increase taxes to fund Longmont Area Visitors Associations's tourism efforts (an issue I voted against), but the gang of four [with Juday in lock-step, no doubt - ed.]considers the money to be the council's slush fund. This bait-and-switch approach to taxation is not unique to our city council."


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London City Island
Our Next Step
English National Ballet and English National Ballet School are moving together to a new world-class home at London City Island. This transformational move will give us unprecedented space to develop world-class artists and create outstanding ballet, which we will share with more people than ever before.
Our home will be the cultural anchor in London's newest neighbourhood, London City Island. We will have excellent transport links, served by the Jubilee and DLR lines at Canning Town – 20 minutes from central London and only five minutes from Stratford, where the new Sadler's Wells, V&A and London College of Fashion are opening. Once Crossrail opens in late 2019 there will be another fast link to Canary Wharf and Stratford.
Our new home has been designed by award-winning architects Glenn Howells Architects. At 93,000 square feet, it is four times the size of our current buildings. These world class facilities will not only fulfil our needs now, but for generations to come, inspiring and developing the dancers, choreographers, costume-makers, musicians, participants and audiences of the future.
English National Ballet School will have its own dedicated part on the 4th and 5th floors with world-leading facilities for students including three rehearsal studios, a lecture theatre, their own gym and green room. There are built in windows from the School into the Company's rehearsal studios, giving students a daily insight into class, rehearsal and the creation of new work.
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You can support us and our work by making a donation towards the essential finishing touches we need to make each new space work. Join in and help us make this extraordinary new building a creative hub for current and future generations.


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In his free time he enjoys snow sports holidays and travelling
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Children of War: Kuwait
By Fatima Al Qadiri & Khalid Al Gharaballi
Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi were kids when Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990. In January 1991 an American-led coalition initiated Operation Desert Storm with airstrikes on Iraqi army positions in both countries. On February 26, after the arrival of coalition ground troops, Iraq retreated, setting fire to Kuwaiti oil fields on the way out.
Bidoun: Do you remember when the war started?
Fatima: Oh, I remember it perfectly, I remember the first day. That summer my little sister and I would wake up every morning and watch this Japanese cartoon that was dubbed in Arabic. We were addicted to it. It was the adventures of a talking seal, on an island with turtles. It was so beautiful. So one day we woke up, turned on the TV, and instead of our cartoon there is this black and white, mute broadcast of Saddam Hussein. And of course we've never seen him, we don't know who the hell he is. And we ask our mom, where is our cartoon, who is this guy, why is it mute? Why is it black and white? What is this shit? We were so confused�it was confusing�and we just felt robbed of our cartoon. [Laughs.] She looked really bewildered, and she told us, "The country has been invaded by the Iraqi army. That is Saddam Hussein, he is the dictator of Iraq. And Iraqi soldiers are bathing naked in the streets." Those were her words: We've been invaded. By the Iraqis. That's Saddam Hussein. Iraqi soldiers are bathing naked in the streets. And we were like, what? We just wanted to know about our cartoon, what the fuck. We were such little kids. That was the first day of the invasion.
Bidoun: How old were you?
Fatima: Nine. And my sister was seven. And, we were just like, what? The rest of the day was a blur… I just remember thinking, does this mean there's no school? This is so awesome. It was like… yay.
Bidoun: Did it mean that there was no school?
Fatima: Yeah, of course.
Bidoun: When did you go back to school?
Fatima: A year later. Everybody missed a grade. I skipped… fourth grade.
Bidoun: How did you know that school was going to be canceled?
Fatima: I mean, it was kind of obvious, because the first places that the Iraqis used the schools as barracks. All the schools in Kuwait were turned into barracks. They actually dug trenches in the playground at my school, you know.
Bidoun: What about you, Khalid? What do you remember about that day?
Khalid: We were at our beach house. It was the weekend�the weekend in Kuwait used to be Thursday�Friday. So it was Thursday, and my dad had flown out to Nice, where we were all supposed to go on Friday. The beach house was in the south of the country, almost along the Saudi Arabian border. And I just remember I woke up and the TV wasn't working, and my nanny told me that the Iraqis had invaded, but I didn't really know what that meant. What are Iraqis? I was really, like, secluded.
Bidoun: What did she say?
Khalid: She just laughed at me.
Bidoun: Were you nine also?
Khalid: Yeah. I was kind of retarded.
Fatima: No wait, babe, you were eight. Because your birthday's in November.
Khalid: Oh yeah, I guess I was eight. So it was, like, complete panic… I went outside. Everybody was outside. A lot of my cousins had houses there, too. By the afternoon, we saw rockets flying over us and stuff. So we all got in a convoy of cars, went north to the city, and there were tanks everywhere. The Iraqis were taking the country going south, and we were going north.
Fatima: And they didn't stop you? There weren't any checkpoints yet?
Khalid: They were still, like, invading the country. [Laughs.] We were kind of going against the grain. We went to our house, and got all this crap, and went to Grandma's house.
Bidoun: And you were basically at your grandmother's the whole time during the war?
Khalid: Yeah. Though later, when the air strikes happened, in January, we went across the street to my great aunt's house. She had a bigger place�that was like the bigger slumber party…
Fatima: A lot of the time, it was all just really fun.
Khalid: I was really excited. It was really a change of pace, you know?
Fatima: Mostly, it was no school�
Khalid: Yeah, there was no school, and it was just like�
Fatima: We're going to play video games all day.
Bidoun: Were you stuck at home? Or could you leave the house?
Khalid: No, we could go out, except when they told us not to. I don't know about Salwa, where she was staying, but Keifan, where my grandma's house was, there was a lot of resistance stuff going on, so it was this really crazy area. At the same time there were a lot of Iraqis, people who had been living in Kuwait for a while, so you didn't know where they stood. Like the kid who tricked me into giving him all my toys.
Fatima: Wait…
Bidoun: What sort of toys are we talking about?
Khalid: I had, like, a lot of Thundercats things, you know. I had the castle and the car, and all the things…
Fatima: Accoutrements…
Khalid: And I was just so sheltered. I was this clueless space cadet, you know? Because of the war, everything was different. I was taking out the garbage, all the maids were gone. Suddenly I was spending a lot of time outside, playing with kids who weren't my cousins. It was really, like, sassiness lessons. Like playing with those Iraqi kids, who were these hustlers. I mean, not literally, but they were just street smart. They really fooled me.
Bidoun: How did they do it?
Khalid: They would say stuff like, I don't have any toys, we're poor. So I got this huge garbage bag and put all my toys in it and gave it to this one boy. And then my mom screamed at me. Those kids had a motorcycle and all this stuff. I had just never had any interactions with people like that, you know?
Fatima: That was the cool thing about the invasion�you were kind of forced to play with these children that were your neighbors on the block, not just your cousins or siblings, and you're like, Oh hey, we're both, like, nine, let's play… And it was really crazy, because you went into their homes and saw how they lived. It totally took you out of your comfort zone. Your kinship zone.
Khalid: All of a sudden it was this really egalitarian situation where it was just, like, everybody's game, you know.
Bidoun: Did you get any of those toys back?
Khalid: No. God knows where he is now. I also thought his brother was really hot.
Fatima: Oh, you thought he and his brother were hot?
Khalid: No, I thought his older brother was hot. He had this older brother, who had a dog, who had this really fabulous mullet.
Fatima: You already knew that you liked boys?
Khalid: Oh, yeah. He wore really tight jeans, baby tees, like muscle tees, you know. He was really cool.
Fatima: See for me, the war was how I got my toys. We'd never had that many, just a few teddy bears or whatever. My father was very strict with us. So when the invasion began and we were going from house to house�we were sort of on the run for a while�we were basically toy scavengers, you know, like, we went and picked up�
Khalid: Did you really do that?
Fatima: Oh my god, yeah. We were just going into houses…
Khalid: You went into people's houses?
Fatima: Our relatives' houses. Not just people's houses. But we went to our relatives' houses…
Bidoun: You were robbing people's graves?
Fatima: Yeah, we stole Barbies from church steps. Basically our parents were taking us from one relative's house to another. So the houses that were totally decimated, we just tried to scavenge whatever we could, also to keep it safe for them�
Bidoun: Yeah, right.
Fatima: We increased our toy holdings by, like, two hundred percent. You know, suddenly we had all the Barbie accessories and houses, and we found a Thundercats set, which we were freaking out about. That was our favorite thing.
Khalid: Those were a hot commodity.
Fatima: They really were. And we got my cousin's Atari and all the games, and we were freaking out. It was really amazing. We were just, like, swimming in toys, we invented so many games. That's what we did all day�draw, play video games, play with toys, and watch cartoons.
Bidoun: Were you supervised at all?
Khalid: There was almost no supervision. There's a funny tableau�us playing at my uncle's house. In the neighborhood where we were staying, there were all these houses belonging to family members, like a hamlet or whatever. And a lot of them were empty because people left and stuff, so we would go to my uncle's, which was this really huge, really chic house�
Fatima: Oh my god, it is so cool. I have photographs of it.
Khalid: She has photographs of it. But, you know, with all of the rationing and the food panicking and all that, some people in the family bought, like, livestock. Just in case there's an emergency or whatever. So we were in the middle of the city, in this really pretty townhouse basically in the middle of the city, and there were all these sheep. And we were, like, chasing the sheep, and riding them, taking them inside these beautiful salons…
Fatima: You took the sheep inside?
Khalid: Yeah.
Fatima: Oh my god.
Khalid: You know, there was almost no supervision. My uncle's house had all these really big halls, filled with tiger rugs and chandeliers, and we were just riding the sheep around, smacking them and stuff, pulling their hair, aggravating them…
Fatima: We had a sheep, too, actually. My father brought
a sheep to my grandmother's house while we were staying there,
and we befriended it. My older sister loved it, we gave it a
name and took care of it. We brushed its hair! We really loved
it. And then one day of course it was, like, lying dead, and we
were going to eat it, and it traumatized her so much�it made her
a vegetarian for a little bit.
My sister had a lot of trauma. At some point, one of my cousins who was still in Kuwait had gotten a hold of a Ouija board. Maybe she'd had it from before, I don't know. But she brought it over to our house, and we played with it a lot. One night we used the Ouija board in my sister's room. We were trying to channel Marilyn Monroe, but somehow we ended up with Khomeini.
Bidoun: The Ayatollah?
Fatima: And my sister was so freaked out that she could
no longer sleep in her own room. It's so absurd to think that
there's this war happening, and this occupation, and my sister
is freaking out because she thought the ghost of Khomeini was,
like, living in her room.
I mean, this was when I first developed my obsession with jinn and evil spirits and hauntings and stuff. This was about the same time that we took a trip to Baghdad.
Bidoun: You went to Baghdad?
Fatima: Yeah. Someone was chartering buses to go there, since we were now de facto citizens of Iraq. So there were two buses of parents and their kids. We went to buy stuff and make phone calls�you couldn't make any international calls from Kuwait that whole time�and also my mom had to pick up some paintings from the Saddam Art Center, as she had been in the Baghdad Biennial. Anyway, it was a crazy long journey, like twenty-four hours. It was rough. You know, peeing and doing your ca-ca in the desert? It's fine if you're a nine-year-old, okay, but my sister was twelve going on thirteen. That age? It's like, god, no. And being female?
Khalid: How did you feel, going to Baghdad?
Fatima: It just felt so wild… Basrah looked like a no man's land. It was just like swamps, you know, and everything was destroyed.
Khalid: That's so awful, because Basrah is one of the most beautiful cities.
Fatima: It was just a really bleak journey, you know. Finally, when we made it to Baghdad… actually I have no recollections whatsoever of the city of Baghdad. I only remember the Hotel Al-Rashid. Because that hotel was a city unto itself. It was a huge compound, fortified, with this wall, and lookout points at every corner. Huge gates. And the garden just stretching out as far as you could see, to the horizon. It was really crazy.
Bidoun: How long were you there?
Fatima: I don't know. Ten days? And of course me and all the children were so happy to get out. The garden was just such a maze. There were all these corners, and enclaves, and there were all these lovers making out. We had never seen two people kissing each other before. Live, I mean�like, never. And we were horrified by the sight. So we… totally disrupted them. We would run up and scream at them, you know. And then the lobby of the restaurant at the Hotel Al-Rashid�we would come in, and there's this floor-to-ceiling portrait, maybe thirty feet high, of Saddam. And there was Muhammad Ali�
Bidoun: What?
Fatima: Muhammad Ali was just sitting in the lobby, hanging out, saying hello to the kids, you know. We were like, What are you doing here?
Bidoun: Did you ask him?
Fatima: No. I think one of the kids asked for his autograph, but we were just kind of pissed off that he was there. It was some kind of pro-Saddam thing organized by the Nation of Islam, I guess. Anyway, the restaurant felt like a movie set, it was this fancy hall�you know, it was so fancy, Christiane Amanpour was there, all these reporters, CNN… and then this table of five children. There was not an adult at our table. And we were just like, Charge it to the room. I don't know how my parents paid for it all. My father told me there were flea markets during the invasion, and people would go there and sell all their possessions to the Iraqi army to make money. However else were they able to survive? You know, there was no money�bank accounts were frozen, so you were just selling jewelry, furniture, whatever, you know. Or buying it. I think my father sold his car�we had two, we just kept one. In any case, I ordered steak every day, Steak Café de Paris, and that Steak Café de Paris at Hotel Al-Rashid changed my life. I became addicted to steak for the rest of my life because of that.
Khalid: I can confirm that. I've witnessed it.
Fatima: So what I was saying before about being into jinn and spirits and stuff…there were, like, twenty kids between the ages of five and fourteen at the hotel with us, part of the convoy from Kuwait. And me and this boy who was my accomplice tricked all the kids into believing that there was this evil old lady who was an evil spirit that was haunting the garden of the Al-Rashid. And she had a beard�er, no, it was an old man�he had a beard made of dates. So I covered myself in a white sheet, and I had this date beard, and I went inside this enclave. We told the kids that if you walked around that garden at this certain hour in the afternoon, at dusk, you know, you might see him.
Bidoun: Were you wearing a beard full of dates?
Fatima: I was. I took a sheet from the hotel, and then I found these dates and I stuck them to my face, and I just covered my face with the sheet, the dates kind of haphazardly sticking out of the sheet.
Bidoun: How long did you succeed in haunting the other kids?
Fatima: I think… one day? I can't keep secrets.
Bidoun: That's a great story. I guess I was wondering, back in Kuwait�did you guys have a curfew or anything?
Khalid: Oh yeah.
Fatima: Well, I mean, we'd never stay out at night. But, like, during the day, as soon as we woke up, we could literally just go to some other house or play outside�we were just playing, indefinitely, without any restrictions. I don't remember our parents ever telling us, like, You have to be home. Though there was a little bit of order, in that my father insisted on giving us Arabic lessons every day, which was really annoying. A whole hour of reading and dictation. And actually, the one thing that was actively supervised in our house was the drawing. My sister and I would draw stuff every day, and my mother would just stand over us, waiting. We didn't know why, and we didn't ask her why, but she would just be standing over us. And as soon as we finished a drawing that had anything to do with the invasion�that had an Iraqi soldier in it, you know�she would just quietly snatch it and stick it in the AC vent. She had a hiding place for all of them. Thankfully they didn't find any of them.
Bidoun: Did you see soldiers?
Fatima: I saw soldiers on a daily basis. I mean, every time we left the house. Every ten blocks there was a checkpoint. Every time you went to a supermarket you were stopped, like, twice, at least, if not three times, and then on the way back as well…
Bidoun: Did you see any dead bodies?
Fatima: I never saw one, thankfully.
Khalid: I had a corpse sighting. We went back to our house one time to get stuff, and there was this dead guy right in front of our house. It was the summer, so it was really hot. And the thing was just really bloated and gray… and it was really shocking.
Bidoun: Wait, so how were you watching all these cartoons, Fatima? Were they broadcasting cartoons during the occupation?
Fatima: No, no, the cartoons were in my grandmother's house, she had a huge stash of VHS tapes. She routinely recorded TV, whether Iranian or Iraqi. She had this gigantic VHS archive. She still does�it's, like, taking over her bedroom. You know the Hizbullah TV station, Al-Manar? She records it, like, twenty-four hours a day. If their archive ever gets lost, they should just contact my grandmother. Seriously. Anyway, for whatever reason, she had all these videotapes of Kuwaiti cartoons. They were Japanese cartoons from the 70s, dubbed in Arabic. Grendizer. Tokimeki Tonight, which was about this girl that takes the being of others when she bites them. So if she bites a bird, she'll turn into that bird, until she sneezes, and then she reverts back to herself. And her father is a vampire.
Bidoun: Oh my god, that's awesome.
Khalid: That cartoon is insane.
Fatima: Yeah. Her father is a vampire and her mother is a werewolf, and they live in the normal world, and they have this secret door that takes them to the world of ghosts.
Khalid: Yeah, they go downstairs, and there's, like, the closet, and then there's the vortex that takes them somewhere else.
Fatima: That takes them home.
Bidoun: So awesome.
Fatima: And there was one other one called Kabamaru,
about this ninja who's in love with chow mein, who just eats
chow mein all the time, and it just has really awesome music.
All these cartoons really influenced my visual and musical
taste. The video games, too.
One kid we played with was this Iraqi boy who had a new video game�I think it was the original Castlevania. I was so addicted to the music. I would make any excuse to go to his house and play and listen to the video game music…
Bidoun: So there was never any problem with the electricity or anything?
Fatima: Not really.
Khalid: Not until the air strikes, which was later.
Bidoun: What were you guys eating that whole time?
Khalid: White rice.
Fatima: White rice. We made bread.
Khalid: Canned tuna.
Fatima: Anything in cans, we were eating.
Khalid: Disaster food, you know?
Bidoun: Was stuff still coming in?
Fatima: It was just the surplus inside the supermarkets. Every time you went, there was less and less and less food on the shelves, until there was just, like, Cool Whip. I remember being addicted to Cool Whip. Nobody would eat it, so I developed this crazy addiction to it. I was a Cool Whip connoisseur.
Bidoun: How bad did it get?
Fatima: Well, by the end, there was nothing. Even after liberation, which was the 26th of February, stuff didn't start coming back in for months. For my sister's birthday in March, we had a little loaf of bread for a cake. We dyed it blue to make it festive. Smurf bread! But we couldn't even eat it, because the flour had weevils. We left in April sometime and didn't come back until September for school. By which time, they had paved over the trenches on the playground…
Fatima Al Qadiri is a photographer and musician and Khalid Al Gharaballi is a stylist and artist. Both live in New York.


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News & Events
The choir are very busy this Christmas, with two performances at the United Reform church and one at Aden Court Care Home.
Books Bus Wednesday 19th June 2019
Thank you for all the people who visited the bus. We sold a massive £636!. This means we earned £95.40 for books for school. Thank you.
Ukulele Town Hall
On Tuesday 20th November, a group of year 5 and 6 pupils performed in Huddersfield Town Hall as part of the town's Contemporary Music Festival. The children left school at 12:30 and walked into town where they met with other young performers. Moldgreen joined two other primary schools to create the Ukulele ensemble. Rehearsals took place throughout the afternoon and the children worked with a large group of guitarists and a youth orchestra to practice their pieces. At 5:30 the first of two concerts began and the children performed the ukulele segment of two contemporary compositions of experimental music. In the second concert the children played and sang two ukulele pieces- Budapest and La Cucaracha. They then formed part of the choir and accompanied the orchestra as they played Reach for the Stars. The children behaved beautifully- their good conduct, manners and patience were praised by a number of festival organisers and musicians. They performed with great enthusiasm, paying great attention to the conductors in order to do their very best. The staff accompanying the children were exceptionally proud of the group and would like to thank them for their hard work and team spirit. We would like to extend warm thanks to the parents, carers and friends who supported the school by watching the concert and collecting the children afterwards
Wonder Dome
Recently, we were lucky enough to have the Wonder Dome in school. All three Y5/6 classes were able to enjoy a session in the dome, learning about the Solar System, the Milky Way and constellations with an astronomer.
The Y6 Leavers Play was performed to the rest of the children and staff this morning. The children performed fantastically well and are looking forward to performing it to parents tomorrow!
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James Nicol Visit
Great visit by James today. Great assembly and book signing.
March 2018 - Book Time
On Wednesday 7th March we were visited by Nicola from Lindley Book Shop. She exchanged World Book Day vouchers for brand new books and we gave away over 350 books. Good day.
On Monday 19th March, we held our rescheduled World Book Day, after the issues with the snow. The children had made a real effort and looked brilliant.
On Tuesday 20th March, four boys from Year 6 took part in the Annual World Book Day Book Quiz. We have entered this for the past four years and improved every year. The boys came joint 8th out of 43 teams, the best we have ever done. Well done boys. Another chance to dress up! The boys took away a free book of their choice for their efforts.
We are also squeezing in an author visit next week on Thursday 29th March for Years 3,4,5 and 6. Books will be on sale for £6.99 and they will also be signed on the day.
The Welcome Centre - Reverse Advent Calendar
We would like to say a huge thank you for dontating so generously to the Reverse Advent run by the school Council - we just managed to squeeze it all into Mrs Szewczyk's car. We were totally blown away by your generosity and the Welcome Centre were amazed with the donations you sent. Thanks to you, many, many families will have food over the Christmas Period. The School Council are pictured below with your donations.
Scholastic Book Fair 2017
Thank you to everyone who visited the book fair and to those who purchased some books, poters, pens or pencils. We raised £463.41. This has enabled us to buy the same value of books for school to continue to promote quality reading in school. Thank you.
Homework Showcase April 2017
Year 5/6 Space
Monday 20th March 2017
Spangles McNasty - Steve Webb and Chris Mould
Today KS2 had a visit from author Steve Webb and illustrator Chris Mould.
We had an assembly which included Steve reading sections of his books and telling us about the characters and Chris Mould drawing some images for the school.
The children were able to ask questions and each child who had purchased a book were able to get their book signed by both the author and illustrator.
Thank You to Nicola from Lindley Bookshop for organising this!
Friday 3rd March 2017
Google Expeditions
All the children from Y1 to Y6 were able to experience Google Expeditions today. With the help of 'Google' Daniel and the use of the Google cardboard VR headsets the children were able to: visit space, go inside the human body, walk in World War 1 trenches, visit Australia and go to the North Pole. The children had a brilliant time and learnt more about their theme work using 3D and virtual reality.
Thursday 2nd March 2017
The children came to school today dressed in their pyjamas. They brought their favourite books to school and also some brought their bed time teddies.
The children took part in book activities during the day and were still buzzing about the day before.
Wednesday 1st March 2017
WOW! What a great day!
We were extremely lucky to have a visit from Nicola at Lindley Book Shop to allow the children to spend their World Book Day voucher and take home a free book.
After a short assembly for Year 1 and 2, over 350 children chose a book of their choice to take home. Many children started reading straight away and children even took their books outside to read at play time.
In the afternoon, 4 Year 5 children visited Huddersfield Town Hall to take part in the World Book Day Quiz hosted by Conrad Burdekin.
The children had to answer 36 questions about 24 different books they had been reading. The children had a great afternoon, coming back to school with signed poetry books, a free World Book Day book and free goodies.
Can't wait until World Book Day tomorrow!
Scholastic Book Fair - December 2016
Many thanks to everyone who purchased a book at our book fair. We sold £300 worth of books, so therefore we were able to spend £300 on books for our school library.
Thank You.
Look out for the January offers from the book magazines.
Mastery Homework Project - Friday 4th November
See some of the amazing learning done at home in the video below.
Sponsored walk - Wednesday 5th October
We are continuing to raise money for a memorial bench for Mrs Norris by undertaking a sponsored walk. All children will take part and can choose whether they walk, run, jog or even dance their way around the course! We want this to be a happy, fun event and as such we would like the children to come to school wearing bright colours this day - Mrs Norris loved colour. Keep an eye out below for photo's after the event!
MacMillan Coffee morning (and afternoon!)
To coincide with our sponsored walk we will also be holding a coffee morning and afternoon on the 5th October. Parents, carers, family and friends are invited to join us. More details to follow shortly.
Bloom and Grow 2016
On Tuesday 21st June, 4 Year 2 children and 4 Year 5/6 children helped Mr Simeson represent the school at the above festival. Year 2 were twinned with Moldgreen Reformed Church to help plant flowers and create further communiy links. Year 2 visited the church and shared work we had sent to each other. We planted the bulbs together in school and looked after them in school and at the children's homes. It was a great event in Huddersfield and many people visited throughout the day.


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Couples share a lot of things, but underwear isn't usually one of them.
But thanks to a clothing brand called Play Out, that's all about to change. Co-founders Abby Sugar and Sylvie Lardeux had thought for a long time that the colours and graphics on men's underwear were "more fun and interesting" than women's. So they created an underwear line that borrows some of the design elements of men's undies, such as a wider waistband and extra fabric in the front, and applied them to a unisex garment that can be enjoyed by all.
"In the women's market, you can find a women's boxer brief or boy-short cut, but it is generally going to be pastel colors or relatively boring, with solid colors, simple stripes or polka dots," Sugar told the Daily Mail. "We wanted to have underwear that was not only flattering and fit well, but also exciting to wear, with interesting and cool graphic designs."
The underwear comes in two varieties: trunks and boxer briefs. The boxer briefs have a flat-stiched front and no open fly, making them a better fit for women's bodies. Trunks are a little longer, with extra fabric on the front, making them more ideal for guys.
If you're interested, Play Out's unisex underwear could be yours for as little as $24 for the boxer briefs, and $28 for the trunks.
Just make sure you wash those bad boys in hot water before sharing, or you'll be swapping a lot more than just underwear.


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If you think the combination of fresh orange juice, peach schnapps and booze is refreshing, then this delicious frozen revamp of the classic fuzzy navel cocktail will get you excited. Nearly as yummy and sweet as a smoothie or shake, this frozen cocktail is a great drink that will have you feeling fresh on a hot summer day. Whether you're getting a tan or just chilling by the beach, this drink will help keep your cool amidst the scorching heat. (more…)
Raspberry and Vodka Mojito Recipe
What's the best way to get through a hot day? A glass of cold and minty mojito, of course. But while this refreshing cocktail is perfect for summer, adding in fruit and vodka into the classic mix makes it even better. So get ready to paint your party table pink by serving glasses of raspberry and vodka mojito at your next barbecue or holiday get-together.
Frosé Recipe
Put the colour and taste of summer in a glass and you get this amazing pink slushy called frosé. If you have a bottle of rosé wine and a handful of strawberries on hand, then all you need is a trusty blender to make this frozen beverage that has taken the cocktail world (and perhaps, your Instagram feed) by storm!
Pavlova Spritz Recipe
If your idea of a refreshing drink is the combination of Prosecco and peach-flavoured aperitif, then you're in for a treat with this pavlova spritz recipe by champion distiller James Young. Made with Old Young's award-winning, hand-crafted spirit infused with passionfruit and strawberry, this easy cocktail recipe allows you to enjoy the summery flavours of the classic Australian dessert in a glass.
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Cocktail Hour: The Martini
The classic martini is making a comeback, starting with this traditional recipe served to your guests with your complete set of cocktail equipment from Kitchen Warehouse.


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Boys Day!
On Tuesday, the creative and talented Ileene came in to our classroom to teach us about the Japanese holiday of Boys' Day. We have been looking forward to this since celebrating Girls' Day with her, and it was well worth the wait. We had so much fun creating samurai hats and puppets and kites and toys. We even had a chance to try some new foods. Thank you, Ileene and Reese for sharing your time and your traditions with us!
Finishing our All About Books!
This week, Ms. Wiegand finished teaching her All About informational writing unit. Each student published a piece to share at a class writing celebration on Friday. Students read each others All About books and then gave the writer feedback about what they learned by reading their book. The books were very informative and we learned a lot. The students' books will be scanned this week and posted on e-folios soon.
Coming up this week in PBL ~ Becoming Collaborative African Animal Experts!
To prepare the students for working in their expert animal groups this coming week, we did a collaborative savanna project last week. After teaching them about the group roles we will be using, we assigned each student a role to practice as they worked with their literacy groups to create a collaborative African Savanna. Before starting, each group came up with a fair plan that would ensure that everyone had a chance to draw and help create the savanna. The savannas are proudly displayed on our class bulletin board and show how much our students have already learned about the African savanna.
At the end of last week, we generated a list of African animals we were most interested in learning about and voted on our top 5. Then, students were given a chance to tell us their top three choices for the animal they would like to become an expert on. This year, our animal groups will focus on giraffes, cheetahs, African dogs, leopards and black mambas!
Turning Animal Facts into All About Books!
This week, students will be assigned new table groups that will also be their animal expert groups. Each group will start our work together by assigning group roles and creating group compacts explicitly stating what we need from each other to collaborate in a productive way. After setting the expectations, students will start generating questions they want to know about their animals and then work together to research these questions and write fact drafts for their books. Once groups have generated lots of fact page drafts and feel like experts, they will sort these facts into chapters. When we have all of the pages drafted, we will edit them for readability, marking them up with purple pens and making them sloppy before using them to write our final drafts and publish our books. This editing process will be an important step in creating our books. If we want other people to learn from our books, they have to be able to read our writing.


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— 2019 —
Changing direction
On this post I will explore unexpected change. We all have goals and dreams that we work towards on a daily basis but sometimes life takes you in an unexpected direction which makes you reevaluate your life- new worries and fears arise! … Read More Changing direction


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AirVPN vs NordVPN
Comparison & Test Results 2020
AirVPN is a VPN run by and for online privacy advocates. The service offers above-average domestic connection speeds and good (but not great) customer support.
The provider's reasonable price is a good value for their top-notch privacy protections, which are second to none.
NordVPN is one of the best options around for movie lovers, offering reliable Netflix access, above-average global server coverage and fast international connections.
This provider allows BitTorrent activity on all of its servers around the globe, excellent privacy protection and an above-average number of simultaneous VPN connections.
How to Choose a VPN
In this edition of my VPN faceoffs, I'll be pitting AirVPN up against NordVPN.
In this contest, I'll be looking at the 10 most critical categories to pay attention to when deciding on a VPN service. I'll explain why each category is critical, reveal how well both providers performed and then declare a "winner" for that particular feature.
After I've covered all 10 categories, I'll tally the scores and announce an overall champ.
By the time you finish reading this article, you should have enough information to make an intelligent decision as to which of the two providers is the best for your needs.
Connection Speed
It seems as if everything is connected to the internet. Your computer, your smartphone - even the little Wi-Fi surveillance camera sitting up there in the corner of your office. (Oh, you didn't know it was there? No big deal, just be careful where you scratch from now on. And, um, you might want to get that looked at.)
I test each provider's connection speed through Speedtest.net.
Local Connection Speeds (U.S.)
The local connection speeds test is designed to offer an idea of the type of performance you can expect when you're connected to a VPN server in your own country. (I use a U.S.-based server for this test.)
VPN DL Speed
88.5 Mbps
76.1 Mbps
International Connection Speeds (U.S. to U.K.)
The international connection speeds test offers an approximation of the performance you might see when you're connected to a VPN server located in another country. (For consistency, I always use a U.K. server for this test.)
VPN DL Speed
36.5 Mbps
34.9 Mbps
If you're on the internet, someone is trying to monitor you. Whether it's your ISP gleaning traffic data to sell to advertisers or hackers trying to steal your login or credit card info, someone is always trying to look over your virtual shoulder.
When investigating the level of a VPN provider's privacy protection, ask the following:
AirVPN is based in Italy and follows the privacy rules laid out by the European Union. The provider does not keep any logs whatsoever of their customers' activities while connected to AirVPN servers. The provider accepts multiple forms of cryptocurrency in return for their services.
NordVPN is based in Panama, where they respect online privacy. This means the provider is not required to save logs related to their users' online movements. NordVPN also happily accepts private payments, such as Bitcoin.
Privacy Ranking
Both of the providers in this head-to-head comparison are reasonably priced, falling somewhere in the middle when their pricing is compared to other VPNs that I've ried.
AirVPN will run you $8.21 per month if you opt for a month-to-month relationship, the price dropping to $5.28 per month (payable as $63.34 annually) if you agree to a year's worth of service. Also available are 3-day, 3-month and 6-month options.
NordVPN's price of entry is $5.75 per month (payable at $69.00 per year) when you go for an annual subscription. You'll pay $11.95 per month if you want to subscribe month-to-month.
Monthly Price
(Annual Subscription)
Month-to-Month Price
Money-Back Guarantee Period
3 Days
30 Days
Global Server Coverage
Users will find a VPN provider that offers comprehensive global server coverage to be a valuable asset when they're looking to access video and audio streaming content that might normally be blocked to citizens in their country.
NordVPN has 4,401 servers distributed among 62 countries around the globe.
AirVPN doesn't provide a running count of available servers and countries on their website, so the figures I have - 219 servers located in 20 countries - are an estimate I made by looking at the list of servers inside the provider's app.
Server Count
Multi-Platform Support
I'd venture to say that most of my site visitors own and use more than one device. That's what makes multi-platform support so important when you're considering a VPN provider.
NordVPN provides apps for the iOS, Windows, Android and macOS device platforms. The service can also be used with routers and NAS devices, as well as Windows Phone and Linux devices. Firefox and Chrome browser extensions are available.
AirVPN provides app support for the Linux, iOS, macOS, Android and Windows device platforms. In addition, they supply setup instructions to use the service with Chromebooks, pfSense firewalls, and DD-WRT, Tomato and AsusWRT routers.
# Platforms Supported
Browser Extensions?
Netflix Access
If you're a movie-lover, Netflix is your jam. But, did you know that the content you view in your country isn't the same as the content Netflix streams in other countries? We're talking about a whole new jar of jam here, folks!
NordVPN provides access to Netflix content in 4 regions: Canada, France, the Netherlands and the U.S.
AirVPN doesn't claim to offer access to Netflix. I randomly tested various AirVPN servers and only a Canadian server was polite enough to give me access to Netflix's content.
If you're looking for reliable Netflix access, opt for NordVPN.
Netflix Access?
Customer Support
Customer support is like a spare tire. It's nice to know it's there, but you never want to have to use it. However, when you need it, you do want it fully capable of helping you get back on the (information) highway.
AirVPN provides a contact form, a helpful FAQ section and a forum where AirVPN personnel and customers can discuss issues.
NordVPN customer support doesn't offer a live support chat option, but they do offer quick replies to email inquiries and an easy-to-search support library.
Customer Support Star Rating
A VPN provider's encryption is the special sauce that keeps your online antics, as well as your personal and business-related information, safe from prying eyes.
NordVPN provides AES-256 encryption for their customers' connections via OpenVPN with TCP/UDP, IKEv2/IPsec, L2TP/IPSec, PPTP and SSTP protocols.
AirVPN also uses AES-256 encryption to protect their customers' connections. However, they only use OpenVPN with TCP/UDP - no other protocols.
Encryption Methods
AES-256 encryption, using OpenVPN with TCP/UDP, IKEv2/IPsec, L2TP/IPSec, PPTP and SSTP
AES-256 encryption, using OpenVPN with TCP/UDP
Simultaneous Connections
If you're a small business owner or a modern-day Mike Brady with a large family, you're going to need VPN protection for more than one device. Always look for a VPN provider that allows for as many devices to be simultaneously connected under that same account as possible.
NordVPN provides 6 simultaneous connections.
AirVPN allows 5 simultaneous connections.
# of Simultaneous Connections Allowed
BitTorrent Support
P2P/BitTorrent is a great way to share files.
However, since P2P file sharing is a popular way to share copyrighted materials, like movies and music, many ISPs block the activity on their networks. Plus, depending on where you live, you could pay a fine or do jail time for sharing copyrighted materials.
NordVPN allows P2P traffic on servers in 42 countries.
AirVPN allows P2P activity on all of their servers in the 20 countries they serve.
# of Countries Where VPN Allows BitTorrent Access
Final Score
# of Categories Won
Winner: NordVPN!
AirVPN vs NordVPN wasn't much of a battle, with NordVPN grabbing the lead early and never surrendering it.
NordVPN snagged top honors in the international connection speed, global server coverage, multi-platform support, Netflix access, encryption, simultaneous connections and BitTorrent categories.
AirVPN was top dog in the local connection speed and pricing columns.
The competitors tied in the privacy category, where they both performed admirably, as well as the customer support department, where they could both stand a bit of improvement.
NordVPN has the globe covered well with their servers, provides reliable access to Netflix to all popular devices (all at the same time), and covers your online antics with excellent privacy and encrypted connections, all of which make it the best choice this go-around.


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jJanuary 2018 | Information
Sandy Paton
This is the eighth edition of The CQFLPN Guide to Online Family Law System Resources first produced in 2011 and revised annually by the Central Queensland Family Law Pathway Network. Some web links in previous Guides are no longer accessible however new ones have been included. Further, a number of websites previously listed in the Guide have new or updated resources.
The Guide also provides links to large libraries of publications, including peer reviewed journal articles. Many publications previously listed individually can be found within these sites, if they are currently still available. Some stand- alone publications are also listed separately.
Again the aim is to make it easier for people to find the extensive range of resources and tools currently available to support professionals working in the family law system, and people going through Family Court processes. The information is sourced from the Australian Government, state agencies, not for profit organizations, universities and legal and professional firms.
|CQFLPN 2018 GUIDE TO ONLINE FAMILY LAW RESOURCES.pdf


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The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), on Monday challenged the two suits filed against him at the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to disqualify him from contesting in the forthcoming presidential polls over alleged certificate forgery and perjury.
One Chike Okafor and Max Ozoaka had in separate suits approached the court seeking to stop Buhari.
The court had last week granted an order of substituted service of court processes on Buhari in the two suits.
At the resumed hearing yesterday, Buhari through his counsel, Wole Olanipekun (SAN) who led about seven other Senior Advocates of Nigeria, told the court that he opposed the suit in its entirety.
He also asked the court to set aside the order for substituted service granted in favour of the plaintiffs.
Olanipekun also told the court that his client was still within time to file his process.
He thereby prayed for a short adjournment to enable him file his defence to the suit.
Also, counsel to APC, Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), who appeared with Funke Aboyade (SAN), submitted that with the postponement of the elections as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Saturday, there was no urgency in the matter and as such the order for substituted service be set aside.
He also sought a short adjournment to enable him file his process to the suit.
Plaintiffs in the two suits did not oppose the request for adjournment.
The trial judge, Justice Adeniyi Ademola after listening to all the parties, adjourned till February 23 for hearing of all pending applications.
Okafor premised his suit on the grounds that there was no evidence that Buhari possessed the academic qualifications he claimed.
Okafor, via an originating summons is asking for an order compelling INEC to remove or delete the name of Buhari and his party, APC in the list of persons and political parties eligible to contest for the office of President.
Listed in the suit are Buhari, APC and INEC as first to third defendant.
He wanted the court to hold that the information contained in Buhari's Form C.F 001 stating that his educational qualification in the West African School Leaving Certificate (WASC) is false and was thereby disqualified from contesting in the 2015 general election.
He also wanted the court to declare that the information contained in Buhari's affidavit dated November 24, 2014 stating that the Secretary, Military Board was in custody of his WASC was false and was thereby disqualified from contesting in 2015 general election.
Also, the plaintiff wanted Buhari disqualified from contesting the general election by reason of giving false information on oath in his Form C.F 001 and the affidavit dated November 24, 2014.
In the other suit filed by Ozoaka, the plaintiff raised eight questions for the court's determination, praying for an order disqualifying Buhari from contesting or participating in the election.
The plaintiff had submitted that INEC FORM CF 001 which Buhari submitted to INEC was incomplete because he allegedly failed to accompany the form with all relevant academic credentials.
The plaintiff also raised objections as regards some of the information contained in other documents submitted by Buhari, which included his voter's card.


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I recently needed to make a simple, two dimensional figure of a beta-barrel membrane protein. I went hunting for programs that might take a sequence and/or structure and produce a pretty looking diagram to save me constructing everything by hand. Here are two I found and tried.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Mako templates in Google App Engine: seems to work for me
For some reason which I can't really articulate, I'm not a huge fan of Django templating. I'd actually prefer to use Genshi with Google App Engine, but I need to wait until all the kinks are ironed out, since as far as I can tell it's not quite working painlessly yet. Another templating option is Mako, which I've barely used, but I still prefer to Django templates. One nice thing about Mako: it's faster than most Python templating engines out there. So, here's a quickie on how I got Mako working with Google App Engine. It wasn't tricky at all, but I thought I'd document it anyway.
Checkout Mako from SVN and copy the directory mako/lib/mako to the path of your application, eg, on Linux:
$ cp -r mako/lib/mako myapp
(where myapp is the directory that your GAE app lives in).
In your app, obviously you'll need to import some parts of mako:
Then, whenever you want to render a template as output (say, at the end of a 'get' or 'post' method .. see the GAE templating example for some context), call something like:
foo, bar = "some", "enthralling text"
template_values = {
'some_foo': foo,
'some_bar': bar
# index.mako is the template file in our GAE app directory
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'index.mako')
# make a new template instance
templ = Template(filename=path)
# unpack the dictionary to become keyword arguments and render
An example of some template text that could go into index.mako could be:
One possible modification: I need to look into it, but defining your Template class (eg templ in the example above) in the main() function (maybe as a global) rather than instantiating it every time it is rendered would probably give better performance.
ResolveRef updated : now with auto-suggest and source code
I updated ResolveRef last night and checked in the most current sourcecode to svn at Google Code.
New features include:
- Suggest/autocomplete for journal title field, using the journal title lists provided by PubMed.
- A "Verify" button. Allows a ResolveRef URL to be constructed with the web form and verified as working and valid without actually forwarding the user to the article.
- Some bugfixes (handled the case where there is no DOI in the PubMed record, handled network timeouts to PubMed)
- Refreshed visuals
- Disqus comments box for feedback
In the interest of just getting something working quickly, I implemented the suggest feature in the laziest, possibly most RAM and CPU hungry way possible (the "JQuery Suggest" code queries the web app with substrings as you type each character. At the server side, the app uses a regex to scan a ~1.5 Mb list of journal titles held in RAM). I've already noticed a few "This request used a high amount of CPU" warnings in the logs, with the threat "High CPU requests have a small quota, and if you exceed this quota, your app will be temporarily disabled". If my nasty hack starts heating up Google's datacentre too much, I might have to disable the 'suggest' feature until I can implement it "properly".
ResolveRef : looking at the logs
One of the nice features of Google App Engine is you can easily view logs for your application to quickly see requests generating errors. Browsing the logs of ResolveRef, I've been able to identify an few classes of query which for one reason or another, weren't working.


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Cuticle Remover Exfoliating Treatment
A fast-acting exfoliating treatment that gently loosens and removes dry, dead skin around the cuticles, without resorting to creepy chemicals or cutting.
WHY WE LOVE IT: Because it keeps our shaggy dry cuticles at looking healthy and groomed. Keeps our manicure looking fresh, too!
HOW TO USE IT: Apply liberally where the skin meets the nails and use a cuticle pusher to push the skin back.
GOOD TO KNOW: 5 Free Formula made without Parabens or Sulfates! And it's Cruelty-Free!
DETAILS: .50 Fl. Oz. / 15 mL
Water, Lanolin Oil, Potassium Hydroxide, Acrylates/C10-30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Carrageenan, Glyceryl Stearate, Polyacrylamide, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Laureth-7, Disodium EDTA.