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Alumni in Tanzania organized a "Fun Day" for students in need of a smile.
By Rijja Ahmed (YES 2018-2019, Pakistan, hosted by AIFS/AYA in Timmonsville, SC)
I gave ten presentations at South Florence High School i.e. my American High School and two at Francis Marion University. Approximately, 300 students attended my presentations. My presentation had so many things and I tried to tell as many things as I could about my country.
Many people do not know where Pakistan is and very few of them know that Bangladesh had been a part of Pakistan. So, I talked about its geographical location and history. Besides that, I told them about the life in Pakistan, including all the cultural aspects which was really fun. I told them about my language, currency, the types of clothes that we wear, the diversity, the educational system, the types of weddings that we have. Apart from all that, I also told them some interesting and fun facts about Pakistan like American singers are very popular and we also watch American movies.
I went through the most important part, which was the negativity or the obstacle between the two countries. I did not mean that whatever they heard from media or stereotypes was wrong but not everything was right. They were so astonished to know about all the positive things. I showed them the handicrafts from my country which are very traditional. The best part was the interest and acceptance that they showed of my culture when I asked to write their names in my language and do Henna; a popular tradition for girls in Pakistan.
I was asked so many questions which were really funny such as the types of food brands we had, the types of cars we drove. Many students asked me the drinking and driving age. I think most of the students found it really strange that love marriages are not common since, our marriages are arranged by parents and we do not date. They asked me so many questions just on this topic.
It's been two weeks since IEW ended but still many of the teachers want me to come to their classes and present, which is indeed a great pleasure for me. Therefore, I went to two different classes and presented. Now, I plan to make food for my friends as they love learning about my culture.
My exchange year has been going great so far. I volunteer almost every week with the exchange students of my placement organization. I was required to do 50 hours of community service but I wanted to serve as much as I can because of the fact that America is my second home which has given me so many good people and so many exciting things. So, I have volunteered in theatre, tennis court, festivals and science society. My family does a lot for the horse shows. So, I also helped in distributing ribbons. I am Muslim but religion does not matter to me when it comes to serve people. Therefore, I also volunteer in churches. I have completed 75 hours of volunteering and am looking forward to do more.
I participate in the activities with my host family and go to church on Sunday as I love learning about their religion. I have made so many friends and teachers also love me. I have all the straight A's in all my classes. I celebrated Thanksgiving for the first time and thanked my family for everything they have been doing for me.
I have also applied for CEW and WYLET and am hopeful to fully participate in case of selection.
Looking forward to engage in as many exciting activities as I can in this short period of time!


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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
Edith Wharton
My favorite quote from Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth notwithstanding, vanity in all its forms, is often a great equalizer. Even the humblest of us has it for something – looks, talent, success, significance.
For the last several years, a person/company without weight or reputation began data mining and harvesting websites and email lists for names in order to prey on that vanity – specifically, the vanity of the small business owner – by acknowledging their contribution to the community and offering awards and plaques.
Unfortunately, these vanity awards which have no significance (except in the mind of the recipient) are all over the internet, plastered with pride on small business web pages all over the country. The recipients are "honored" and "humbled" and "proud" and I don't blame them one bit, but with a little research they would have avoided being duped. (Since the recipients haven't taken down the award notice from their websites, it's a safe bet they still don't realize the award is simply a scheme to make money off unsuspecting business owners. Either that, or they believe their customers won't know the difference.) If you've fallen for it, don't feel too bad. You are definitely not alone.
Formerly linked to US Commerce Association and now simply called, cleverly enough, Awards Program (the personalized letter you receive is from the Insert-Your-Town-Here Awards Program), they pull company names from mailing lists and websites and send an email with a "press release" and a link to a picture of a crystal award and/or plaque that can then be purchased…
Wait – what? Purchased? Who has to buy their own award? I think I bought an Academy Award once from a gift shop in Hollywood. I thanked my peers, looked thoughtfully into the distance – and then plunked down my $22.95.
Do I have vanity? Of course I do, but when I received my letter – paranoid, suspicious soul that I am – I said to myself, "huh?"
The first thing I did was plug a phrase from the letter into Google and I was off and running sorting through piles of links to not only other websites who were displaying the award and letter but also to a host of Better Business Bureau sites (among others) that warned of this vanity award scam. First, they lure you with praise and a picture of a pretty award and then they try and get you to buy it. As a fake award, though, even a little bit is too much.
Part of the issue is that there are so many businesses falling for this, it almost appears legitimate. And while the businesses in question may very well deserve the recognition, it propagates the myth and gives more ammunition to the "award" company who is only in it to make money by preying on our desire to be noticed.
That's just mean-spirited. Shame on them.

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The news that the 2012 Olympic Games had been awarded to London sent the Stock Exchange Index up to a three-year high — the biggest gains in share price were for a company that specialises in wiring sports stadia and other landmark attractions. Clearly many companies hope for an economic bonanza, especially those involved in construction and the hotel industry. Staging the games may be enormously expensive, but some firms at least will make an awful lot of money out of it. The Olympics, after all, are only in passing about sport; they are also about nationalism and, primarily, profits.
Only a small part of the income will come from ticket sales — the overwhelming majority is from the sale of broadcasting rights and corporate sponsorship. So important is this last point that companies who aren't official sponsors are likely to be banned from associating themselves with the games in any way (Evening Standard 7 July). The government will guide an Olympics Bill through parliament, designed among other things to prevent 'ambush advertising', where companies pass themselves off as somehow linked to the games, whether as sponsors or not. However ludicrous this sounds, it's not unique. The 2003 cricket World Cup in South Africa was sponsored by Pepsi, and spectators drinking Coca-Cola were ejected from venues; moreover, this was sanctioned by new marketing laws introduced by the government. (In No Logo Naomi Klein mentions an American high school which held an official Coke Day with lots of promotional activities, but where one student was suspended for going to school in a T-shirt with a Pepsi logo.) At the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, companies had to pay to use any kind of Olympic name or logo (including some that had been established for years under the name of 'Olympic').
One of the principles of capitalism is that ownership of something gives you exclusive rights over its use, including whether, and how, you allow others to have access to it. This applies not just to physical things such as land, oil, rivers and factories but also to ideas and inventions — hence the development of patents and protection for 'intellectual property', and the clamping down on counterfeit and imitation goods. And, as we can now see, it also holds for particular names and logos, and for advertising space.
The International Olympic Committee jealously guards its control over the Olympic name and advertising at the games venues. Companies who pay hefty fees for sponsorship buy the 'right' to advertise and sell their products, to the exclusion of any direct competitors. Just as football stadia are now named after corporations and products such as Reebok and Walkers' Crisps, and clubs do their best to stop the sale of bogus 'official' kit, so the Olympic 'movement' says that only companies who stump up the money to them can gain any kudos from the magic O-word and the five rings.
Naturally money has long been talking the Olympic language with regard to the 2008 games in Beijing. Three levels of corporate involvement are envisaged, including partners (cost $40 million), and sponsors (over $20 million). Budweiser, for instance, is the official international beer sponsor, giving its owners Anheuser-Busch the right to use the 2008 games logo for promotional purposes in China and many other countries. And it's not just a matter of getting money in for 2008. In the words of one marketing expert, 'The Beijing Olympics will not be about sport, it will be about creating a superbrand called "China"' (http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/public/0501/ogilvy.html). So as China flexes its muscles in terms of currency revaluations and provides financial support for Mugabe's thuggish regime in Zimbabwe, it also competes in staging the Olympic free-for-all and marketing itself within world capitalism.


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The External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee published its report (PDF, 4MB): Changes to freedom of movement after Brexit – implications for Wales, on 8 November 2019. The Welsh Government responded (PDF, 636KB) to the report on 20 December 2019. The report and response were debated in Plenary on 22 January 2020.
Alongside the publication of their report, the Committee produced a series of videos to present their findings.
The first video provides a summary of the inquiry and can be viewed below:
YouTube-Here https://www.youtube.com/embed/q-MfSFPXBHc
The second video focusses on the EU Settlement Scheme and can be viewed below:
YouTube-Here https://www.youtube.com/embed/LfYQ9UKCgSA
Evidence gathering
In order to inform their inquiry, the Committee gathered evidence from academics, stakeholders, and members of the public.
The Committee took evidence from academics on 13 May 2019 in order to understand some of the key issues on freedom of movement raised by Brexit in order to inform future work, if any, in this area.
On 9 July 2019 the Committee launched a consultation into changes to freedom of movement after Brexit – implications for Wales. The consultation closed on 10 September and 16 submissions (PDF, 920KB) were received.
The Committee held a focus group (PDF, 108KB) on 30 September 2019 with EU nationals and partner organisations to gain an understanding of their lived experience.
In September 2017, the Welsh Government published a paper entitled 'Brexit and Fair Movement of People' (PDF, 1MB) which set out the Welsh Government's position on the future freedom of movement rules after Brexit.
The UK Government published it's White Paper on future immigration policy entitled: 'The UK's future skills-based immigration' (PDF, 14.6MB) in December 2018. The paper sets out the government's plans to introduce a new single immigration system, ending free movement.
In March 2019, the Wales Centre for Public Policy published research, commissioned by the Welsh Government, on 'Migration in Wales: The impact of post-Brexit policy changes'.
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In The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction, I aimed to start a conversation, not end one. I am thus grateful for the generosity of the many fine scholars who in the preceding pages have graciously accepted the invitation to converse. And I am especially grateful for the extraordinary hospitality of the University of Richmond Law Review, which has kindly given a home to this conversation.
Recommended Citation
Akhil R. Amar,
Response: Continuing the Conversation,
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|This article is about a/an three-part episode in Power Rangers Time Force.
The End of Time is the 38th, 39th & 40th episodes and three-part finale of Power Rangers Time Force.
Part 1
As Ransik prepares to attack the city, Alex orders the Time Force Rangers to return to the future. The crystals are causing disruptions and if they don't leave they might not be able to return to their own time. He tells them Wes has to stay in his own time. The Rangers refuse, and try to prevent the attack. Wes knows his friends can't stay in the present, and has a plan to send them back to their own time.
Part 2
Wes sends the team back to the future. Now it's up to Wes and Eric to resolve their issues, and defend the city. In the future, the Rangers discover what happened to the city and their friend. They're ordered to have their minds erased of their adventures in the past so they can adjust back to their lives in their own time. They're not willing to give up their memories, and decide to go back to help their friend.
Part 3
When the four Time Force Officers return from the future to assist Wes, Doomtron is defeated, destroying the brainwashed Frax along with it. Ransik ignores Nadira's pleas, and takes on the Time Force Rangers personally. During his rage against them, he accidentally strikes out against his daughter, and a baby she saved. This snaps Ransik out of his vengeance-filled state of mind, and he willingly gives up to Time Force. With all the mutants now captured, Jen and the gang return to the year 3000. She and Wes reluctantly part ways, their relationship coming to a premature end. In the end, Wes agrees to his father's wishes of his becoming co-commander of the Silver Guardians (alongside Eric, of course), though for nonprofit work only.
Part 1
Ransik tells the Cyclobots to find the Rangers and to capture Frax. At the same time, Alex tells the Rangers that the future has been shifted and that they must return immediately, knowing that they'll die if they stay in the present. The time ship arrives. Later, Nadira and Trip start fighting, but the fight is cut short when they have to help a pregnant woman who is in labor. When the woman's baby, a little girl is born, the event shows Nadira the spirit of Humans. Frax finishes his latest creation, Doomtron, but is captured by Ransik. Meanwhile, the Rangers decide to stay in the present, but Wes has other plans when he finds the auto-pilot instructions. Frax is brainwashed and attacks the city with Doomtron (although there is a struggle with Nadira telling her father that she doesn't want to attack humans anymore, and apologizing to Frax for what was done to him, in one of the most emotional scenes ever seen in Power Rangers). Meanwhile, in another emotional scene, Wes traps the Rangers and Circuit in the time ship and sends them to the future, sacrificing himself for the security of the others. Wes and Eric face Frax's menace, ready for their doom.
Part 2
The battle continues, as Doomtron knocks the Q-Rex out cold. Eric is also injured, and climbs out of the rubble in bad shape. A group of Cyclobots shows up to finish Eric off. Wes appears and saves Eric, then drags him to safety. As the two hide out, Wes has a little chat with Eric about what it means to be a Power Ranger. The other four Rangers wake up to find themselves back in the year 3000. Alex tells them that Wes died saving the city, and that they will need to have their memories of the past wiped. When a Cyclobot discovers that Wes and Eric are in the clock tower, Ransik shows up for a raid. As Wes and Eric try to regroup, Wes admits he has no way of knowing if his friends are all right. The brief peace is shattered when a swarm of Cyclobots bust in. Wes and Eric try to fight them off, but the sheer numbers force them back. Wes finds the Electro Booster and he sets it to self destruct, destroying the tower and several Cyclobots as well. The two leap out, smashing through the clock face, and morph just in time to be caught by the Strata Cycle and the Time Force Eagle. Mr. Collins wanders the city in ruins, looking for his son. When he finds him, the two hug. A Cyclobot arises and takes aim at the father and son. Eric jumps in the way and takes the blast, saving Wes and his father. Badly wounded, Eric gives Wes the Quantum Morpher, along with deactivating the voice recognition, so he can use the Quantum Defender. Wes bravely storms into battle. A lone Ranger against hundreds of Cyclobots. Jen and the others step into the memory acclimation machines, as they recall their time with Wes. Jen storms out of the machine, as do the others. They decide to go back and help Wes. Jen gives Alex back the engagement ring. Alex tells them to use the Megazord in jet mode to go back. The Rangers race to the dock to help their friend and take control of their destinies.
Part 3
Wes continues his struggle against hundreds of Cyclobots. Doomtron and the vortexes continue taking their toll on the city. The Rangers board the Time Force Megazord, and take off to the past. The jet enters the past, and knocks Doomtron out with a tornado. The Rangers head for the heart of the destruction to help Wes. A few high flying moves and mega sized blasts later, and the Cyclobots are reduced to a junk pile. Wes asks the Rangers why they came back to help him. They've decided to make their own destiny, and help him fight to save the city. At the Cryo Prison, Ransik gets ready to head out and oversee the battle. Nadira begs him to stop the fighting, but Ransik isn't having it. Gluto has had enough excitement, so the coward freezes himself back into a containment unit. Trip modifies the Quantum Defender. Wes must use it on the Q-Rex to neutralize its Trizyrium crystal. Doomtron is back on its feet, and renews its assault on the city. As the Time Force Megazord finds itself outmatched by Doomtron, Wes zaps the Q-Rex and successfully converts the Yellow Trizyrium crystal into a blue one. Using the power boost, the Q-Rex finishes off Doomtron with an immense blast, with Wes standing atop. The vortexes in the sky disappear. In the wreckage of Doomtron, Frax makes his last face, and falls apart in front of Ransik and Nadira (who is lamenting Frax's death). Nadira tries again to make Ransik stop the hate, but he scolds her for mourning over Frax, and knocks her down. Nadira runs to the aide of an abandoned baby, a little boy. Scared and confused, she takes him and hides out. The Rangers track down Ransik and corner him. With authority, Jen tells him he's under arrest and has no one left to fight for him. Ransik won't go without a struggle. He fights with fierce determination, and brutalizes the entire team. Wes powers up the Battle Warrior armor, and goes one on one. In a huge explosion, Wes hits the ground, and powers down. And Ransik emerges in a haze, with his armor blown off, revealing a disfigured face with a misplaced eye. A battered Jen stands up to Ransik. She vows to take him in, and taunts Ransik into chasing her. Ransik chases Jen into a factory. When he spots some movement, he unleashes a powerful blast at it. After being blasted by Jen, Ransik discovers, to his horror, that he blasted Nadira, still holding the baby in her arms. Nadira asks him how the baby is and Ransik says that the child is fine. Nadira then asks Ransik how he can hate something as beautiful as a human baby. Ransik tells his daughter that his heart had been filled with hatred towards humanity for so long and that it nearly cost him the one who he truly loves. Nadira is touched by Ransik's love for her and convinces him that mutants can love too and they're not so different from humans after all. Ransik hands Katie the baby and turns himself in. Later, Wes meets the others at the time ship, as they say their goodbyes before heading back to the future. Jen and Wes finally admit that they love each other, as they part ways with an emotional embrace. Mr. Collins then offers Wes to be part of the Silver Guardians, who will now protect the entire city free of charge. Wes accepts his father's offer to lead the Silver Guardians, but only with Eric as his partner. Mr. Collins is happy with Wes and agrees to the partnership. Wes then tells them that he thinks the future looks pretty bright and he looks at the Time Force badge that Jen gave him, which then glows.
- Jason Faunt as Alex & Wesley Collins (Red Time Force Ranger)
- Erin Cahill as Jen Scotts (Pink Time Force Ranger)
- Kevin Kleinberg as Trip (Green Time Force Ranger)
- Michael Copon as Lucas Kendall (Blue Time Force Ranger)
- Deborah Estelle Phillips as Katie Walker (Yellow Time Force Ranger)
- Daniel Southworth as Eric Myers (Quantum Ranger)
- Brianne Siddall as Circuit (voice)
- Edward Albert as Mr. Collins
- Ken Merckx as Dr. Michael Zaskins
- Douglas Fisher as Philips
- Jeff Griggs as Dr. Louis Fericks
- Vernon Wells as Ransik
- Kate Sheldon as Nadira
- Neil Kaplan as Gluto (voice)
- Eddie Frierson as Frax (voice)
- Todd Senofonte as Guardian
- Katherine Hawkes as Mother
- Shannon Muchow as Pregnant Woman
- Monica Louwerens as Time Ship Computer (voice) (uncredited)
- Stephen Silberkraus as Businessman (uncredited)
VHS/DVD Release
- The End of Time was released on the VHS Power Rangers Time Force: The End of Time.
- Gluto, before freezing himself, had an echo in his voice that he never had before.
- When Ransik ambushed Frax in his lab during Part I, he was alerted to the attack by being hit by a massive explosion but everyone had yet to enter the building yet so who could have fired the laser to do that?
- Time Force wasn't able to send the Time Force Megazord back to fight Doomtron in Part I due to the time holes, however the Time Force Megazord Jet Mode was able to go back in Part II despite them still being present.
- During the Cyclobots battle in Part III, Lucas highkicks at a Cyclobot but doesn't make contact and yet it falls down anyway.
- One of the shots of Wes shooting the Q-Rex in Part III (specifically the visor shot) has DV Defender on part of his visor which is the Timeranger name of the Quantum Defender.
- Eric was originally going to die in this episode like his Sentai counterpart, but it was changed to him injured and handing Wes his Quantum Morpher because higher management was unsatisfied with the original ending and with the exception of the original Magna Defender), no Ranger has ever been killed off on a permnant basis.
- Ransik is the only villain to surrender himself in Power Rangers history as well also one of the few villains the Rangers never defeated in straight combat without them being able to overpower him eventually,.
- Part 2 marks the final appearance of Alex. He is last seen seeing the Rangers off to the past.
- Part 3 marks the final appearance of Mr. Collins, Frax, and Gluto.
- Time Force's computer system sounds very similar to DECA. It is unclear if it was voiced by Julie Maddalena
- After the final scene in Part III, there is a promo clip for Power Rangers Wild Force, with a song that was originally intended to be the series theme song, but was changed due to rights issues when the Power Rangers franchise was sold to Disney. This clip has been kept intact on the Time Force DVDs from the 20th Anniversary Legacy Set & the Seasons 8-12 DVD set released by Shout! Factory and in the eye catches on Fox Kids.
- Jen was originally going to stay with Wes in 2001.
- Unlike his Sentai counterpart, Wes doesn't lose his powers after the rest of their respective teams return to the future (although this isn't made clear until next year's team-up).
- Last season finale to fully air on Fox Kids.
- It's revealed in Wild Force's Reinforcements from the Future that despite her crimes, Lucas managed to get it set up so that Nadira was not in serious trouble when she returned to the future. Indeed, she's shown a free woman taking care of kids, presumably stemming from the love she developed for kids in The End of Time. She's also shown to possibly be in a relationship with Lucas.
- In Reinforcements from the Future, following this episode, Ransik is imprisoned on an island, but not cryofrozen as he was to be before. Nadira, thanks to the efforts of Lucas, stayed out of serious trouble and is a free woman. What happened to Gluto, if he was ever recovered from the prison in the forest, is unrevealed (in fact, it is never revealed what becomes of the prison itself). Reinforcements from the Future also shows Ransik as genuinely remorseful and he nearly sacrifices himself to destroy the Mut-Orgs, an enemy he himself created. His efforts render him fully human and he sees the Rangers as his friends by that point. Jen also lets go of her hatred towards him between The End of Time and Reinforcements from the Future.
- Even though it was never used, Wes had the power to morph into the Quantum Ranger and could use the Mega Battle Armor. He did however use the Quantum Defender and control the Q-Rex.
- The Time Force Rangers would later return to team up with the Wild Force Rangers in "Reinforcements from the Future" while Wes and Eric reappear in "Forever Red" and Wes reappears in "Legendary Battle", "Outfoxed" as a cloaked figure along with Gemma and Koda, "Dimensions in Danger" and "The Poisy Show".
- Part 2 marks the only time that Eric enters the top of the Clock Tower.
- Final time that the original Silver Guardians SUVs are used. It is unknown why they weren't used in "Reinforcements From the Future." Instead they would use Chevy Trailblazers. Its possible they simply changed vehicle types.
- Eric doesn't appear morphed in Part 3.
- During the final scene, both Wes and Eric are shown wearing their respective morphers. This means that in the time gap between this scene and the previous one, Eric had been given back the Quantum Morpher upon recovering and was in control of both his powers and the Quantasaurus Rex once again.
See Also
- Case File 47: The End of the Don - Super Sentai counterpart in Mirai Sentai Timeranger. See comparison page. (Gluto final appearance)
- Case File 48: The Return to the Future - Super Sentai counterpart in Mirai Sentai Timeranger. See comparison page. (fight footage and story)
- Case File 49: Beyond the Millennium - Super Sentai counterpart in Mirai Sentai Timeranger. See comparison page. (fight footage and story)
- Case File 50: To an Infinite Tomorrow - Super Sentai counterpart in Mirai Sentai Timeranger. See comparison page. (fight footage and story)
- Super Sentai Compilation - Super Sentai counterpart in Mirai Sentai Timeranger. See comparison page. (Wild Force Teaser & Debut)
|List of Power Rangers Time Force episodes
1 & 2: Force from the Future • 3: Something to Fight For • 4: Ransik Lives • 5: A Blue Streak • 6: A Parting of Ways • 7: Short-Circuited • 8: Jen's Revenge • 9: The Time Shadow • 10: Future Unknown • 11: Uniquely Trip • 12: Worlds Apart • 13: The Quantum Quest • 14 & 15: Clash for Control • 16: Bodyguard in Blue • 17: The Legend of the Clock Tower • 18: Trust and Triumph • 19: Trip Takes a Stand • 20: Quantum Secrets • 21: The Last Race • 22: Lovestruck Rangers • 23: Full Exposure • 24 & 25: Movie Madness • 26: Time Force Traitor • 27: Frax's Fury • 28: Dawn of Destiny • 29: Fight Against Fate • 30: Destiny Defeated • 31: Undercover Rangers • 32: Beware the Knight • 33: Time for Lightspeed • 34: Reflections of Evil • 35: Nadira's Dream Date • 36: Circuit Unsure • 37: A Calm Before the Storm • 38-40: The End of Time
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A senior Sinn Féin member has denied allegations that the party "rolled over" on welfare reform.
In an in depth interview in this week's Andersonstown News the Sinn Féin six county chair, Bobby Storey, said the party "ensured the poorest and most vulnerable members of our society were protected from the Tory welfare cuts".
He said: "We maintained our opposition to the Tory welfare cuts agenda when others gave up and said nothing more could be achieved. Our determined position ensured that unique protections in the North were put in place in the Stormont House Agreement to protect the poor, which stand in stark contrast to the cuts-driven system in place in Britain."
He said as a result of the agreement reached "there will be no reduction in benefits under the control of the Assembly".
"We successfully negotiated £565m in welfare protections for at least the next six years, £125m in a Supplementary Payment Fund, which will top-up the benefits of those who may be affected by reductions to their benefits. These protections will apply to new as well as existing claimants.
"That is far from rolling over. We negotiated hard in the face of opposition from other parties who told us it could not be done and that no further money was available."
You can read the whole interview with Bobby Storey in this week's Andersonstown News.
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Removing the XPAntivirus bug that's going around
To kill this wee begger and it's friends (from WinXP), do this; {I take no responsiblity if you cabbage your PC though}
1) Scan the HD out of band if you can. Ie remove and use a USB-IDE/SATA adapter if you've got one, or build a Bart-PE CD with the latest version of Clam-AV on it and boot up on the CD and scan from that.
2) Once scanned out-of-band, boot back up into safe mode (F8 repeatedly while turning the pc on)
3) Run regedit; navigate to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
4) In here is an entry 'Userinit' - It should usually only have 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,' in there - if there's anything else appended to that line remove it from the entry, take it back to the trailing ',' after userinit.exe
5) Then go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Backup this reg key and then clean out anything you think is remotely dodgy. Do the same for HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run & HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
6) If you weren't able to log in during (2) as the first infected user the above steps can be done as the local admin - once these are done, to get into the other accounts (network ones) reboot, go into safe mode with networking. Then you can sign in as the network users. Use regedit to clean out HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run for each other affected user.
7) Now that the registry is clean, reboot into normal mode, and run a local virus scan. You need to download and install spybot1.60 from www.safer-networking.org and let spybot clean out some more crap from the registry.
Ta-Daa. Virus gone but not forgotten.
IMHO Symantec Enterprise 11 MR2 does a nice job of ferreting out the nasties out-of-band, and Spybot does a good job of the cleanup afterwards. AVG8 works OK too inband though haven't had to use it in anger out-of-band yet.
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Nathan, and his wife, Terri, were in nearly similar positions when they died a few years ago. Again, Terri died two years earlier, then Nathan died. Everything was jointly owned. The difference between these two couples was that Nathan and Terri owned real estate, a car, a stock account (not a retirement account so it could not be designated to anyone), and Nathan owned a business selling things on eBay.
For this couple, again, I did little about Terri except to file her Will. For Nathan, the process was more complicated, but still relatively easy. I opened a probate case in the Court. The Wills named each other as the personal representative and didn't say what should happen if both of them were gone. It also said no bond was required for the personal representative they had named. When there is no Will, or someone who wasn't identified as the personal representative is serving at that job (i.e., the named person died or declined), then the court has to assume that the deceased person didn't particularly trust someone else. We have to assume that if the deceased person had trusted someone else, then he would have named that person in the Will. Since the eldest son wasn't named in the Will as the personal representative, we had to get a bond, similar to an insurance policy, to guarantee that money isn't misused. The bond has to cover the entire value of the estate, so it had to be large enough to equal the value of the home, the stock account, etc. The Will also said that the Court should treat this case as "non-intervention", which means that the Court would allow the personal representative to act without constant supervision as soon as we have proven that we've secured an appropriate bond. It's expensive to get a bond; on the other hand, it's more expensive to operate without non-intervention powers, because I'd be back in Court asking for permission to do everything.
The personal representative had to set up an estate account, so that any money coming in for Nathan's estate could be put into its own safe place. If we think the probate will be relatively short and if the assets are not in mega-dollars, then I usually tell people to get an account that doesn't pay interest. That way we can avoid an estate income tax return. When anything is sold, if payments from the eBay sales come in, if he gets a tax return, it all goes into the estate account. (I'm assuming that Nathan was organized and left someone the passwords to his eBay business.) He'll need a tax identification number to open the account, which we do with him when he's in the office.
After opening the case at the Court, we published the Notice to Creditors in the newspaper the next day. Now creditors only had four-months to file the claims. Then we took the list of creditors that we knew about, using the bills that came in the mail, and we sent each of them a Notice to Creditors and a Claim Form, as well.
This is an important point: a bill is not a claim. Just because a bill arrives by mail doesn't mean that the personal representative is going to pay it. The creditor has to fill out a claim form and then both file it in the Court AND mail it to the personal representative (or his attorney). If the creditor doesn't do both of those things within the four-month period, the creditor doesn't get paid. It doesn't matter how many bills they send: no claim = no payment. When people tell me they want to avoid probate, I point out that the creditor claim process oftentimes makes bills go away. Credit card companies are notoriously bad at following the process. More than once, I've been able to send creditors away empty-handed because they didn't file claims on time. While you may think that this is somewhat unethical, remember our first purpose for probate. We protect the spouse and small children, and we want a reasonably swift settlement of the estate. On two occasions that I can recall, a husband had collected tens of thousands of dollars in credit card bills and the wife knew nothing about them. In each of those cases, the wife had small children, no job and little cash. The only thing she had was the equity in the house. We sent out the creditor notices to the credit card companies, they didn't file claims and they got nothing. The wife was able to keep the equity in the house.
There are some special notices that we have to send out, even if we know for sure that they are not needed. By law, we must notify the Office of Financial Recovery. If the State helped with medical bills or long-term care services for the deceased person, then the State has to be paid back. They have to be given notice, even if the family believes that there is no possibility that Nathan ever used those services. We also notify the Department of Revenue, because Nathan had a business and he might owe some sales tax. In this case, neither office sent a claim.
When claims arrive at both the Court and my office, then we ask the personal representative to accept or reject them. They have to be accepted if they are filed on time, and if they are accurate and real. The creditor has to give some proof of the claim. I've only seen one false bill in over 20 years of probate work, so rest assured that it's unlikely you'll see a fake claim. If the personal representative doesn't believe that the bills are correct, then he rejects them. Once rejected, the creditor has 30 days to file a lawsuit to collect. If the creditor doesn't file suit, again, the creditor gets nothing. No lawsuit = no payment.
In the meantime, the house had to be sold. That means the house had to be cleaned out and the items inside either sold, given to the heirs, or given to charity. This is one of those areas where the case can go sideways. "Mom promised it to me" is heard often! Fortunately, Nathan and Terri have kids that all get along, won't fight over the great stuff in the house, and generally cooperate with each other. It doesn't always happen that way. Since the personal representative had non-intervention rights, he could sell the house without Court permission.
The house brings up the question of tax for the first time. We have to pay tax on things we own, if we sell them for more than we paid for them. The home is the major exception, because there is no tax due for up to $250,000 of gain on a personal residence for a single person. You'll have to get an accountant involved, first to calculate the gain, and second, because the "estate" is an artificial person and has to pay income tax. That benefit only applies to the person owning the house, or to the estate at his death. So if you are considering giving away the personal residence to heirs before death, seek the advice of an attorney before you do it. There could be a huge tax consequence to doing this.
Once we'd wrestled out the bills and four-months had gone by, the house had been sold, and the accountant had figured out how much the taxes will be (if any), then I advised the personal representative to distribute most of the money. It makes sense to hold back some of it, just in case some odd-ball thing comes out of left field. Life is strange, and despite all I've said, things go wrong. So we wait just a little bit more. Then he gave out the rest of the money a few months later, and we closed the estate. Closing is easy. The family got along, and with non-intervention powers, we only had to give the Court written notice that we were closing the estate. We were not even required to file an Inventory of the assets in the Court, although the personal representative was very careful to share the information with the others in his family. After 30 days, the file was closed and that was the end.


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So as I said in my last post, I was really disappointed at not being able to attend the ARE. But for some reason my disappointment lingered over the weekend. At first I wasn't understanding why I was so upset, other than I'd been waiting for months, and would have to wait months again to attend the next one. But still. I felt kind of silly putting so much weight on this. But as I thought about it, I came to the realization is that my disappointment was probably compounded by something that had happened earlier in the week.
My husband and I drive to work together with me dropping him off and picking him up. He's finished an hour later than I am, so I usually just stay at work and plug away at whatever I'm working on. This particular day, I didn't feel like working any more, so I decided to check out a website that profiles children up for adoption within the province, called Adopt Ontario. I go on this site daily; once in the morning, and then usually again later in the day to see if any new profiles have been added. (Yes, I'm obsessed, lol!) This afternoon, there happened to be 3-5 additions which is a lot, so as always, I got excited to see who these new little faces were.
So I started scanning the familiar profiles looking for one tagged "new", and came across a light brown haired, beautiful little girl with a gentle smile and a ribbon in her hair. I'll call her Avery. I noticed as I was clicking on the link for her full profile, that there was also a sibling link on his page. I clicked on that one to open in another window while I read Avery's profile. She was five years old, loved girly things and art. The whole profile sounded really good, so I excitedly clicked on her sibling's profile and found a boy with freckles and a sweet smile, that I'll call Matthew. His profile also sounded great; he was seven years old, was getting straight A's in school, bonding with his caregivers, both very happy children who by all accounts were adjusting well to their foster home. I was definitely interested, when I noticed on his profile, that the "sibling" link, actually said "siblings". I clicked it, surprised that there was a third child. This was the first time I had seen a sibling trio on the site. When I clicked on the final sibling link, there was a tiny little brown haired boy I'll call Carter, with a mischievous air about him. He was three and again, had a very positive sounding profile. All the siblings were said to get along and play well with eachother. The fact they were bonding with their foster family was great, because that signals that if they're bonding with them, they'll be capable of bonding/attaching to others, specifically their adoptive parents. Attachment is a huge issue in adoption, for obvious reasons.
Upon reading the profiles, I immediately texted my friend E. She adopted her son, and volunteers with CAS. My text was something like, "Omg! If we were adopt ready, I would express interest in three little ones on Adopt Ontario right now! They're gorgeous!" That was it, no prefacing it with a "Hi, how's your day?", or "Hey E!" Nope, my words spilled out as quickly as my emotion was about to….cue the tidal wave. As soon as I sent that, all of a sudden, I started tearing up, my heart was racing and a whole spectrum of emotions hit me like a ton of bricks. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and it was freaking me out. I tried to stifle it, because if I let go and laughed, it would have been this psycho freakishly scary laugh, and if I full on cried, it would have been a serious ugly cry. One of those ugly cries where it's SO ugly people can't tell if you're happy or sad. It was not an attractive moment for me, and I had to shut my blinds to the hallway. I was terrified of someone walking by and seeing me bawling amidst my facial twitches I was sure I was having as my muscles wrestled between frowning and smiling. (Thank God it was after hours and there weren't many people around!)
Meanwhile, E's response to my text was exactly like this: "DO IT!!!" (Have I mentioned before that I love her? Lol!) I wrote back that we didn't have room for three, or I would in a heartbeat. I was a mess, so I had to share. I told E that I didn't know what was happening, but that I was completely overcome with emotion and couldn't contain myself. It was all rather unsettling. I don't know if I've ever experienced emotions that sudden and that conflicting before. I just kept telling her I was a mess and I didn't know what was wrong with me. She put it totally in perspective: I'd made a connection with these kids. She told me something about them just clicked and that's what happens when you see a child or children that you can really identify yourself potentially parenting. Really??? No sooner did I ask myself that, than I realized that's exactly what was happening. I honestly didn't think when I saw a child or children and I thought may be ours, that it would garner that reaction. I envisioned it as you being drawn to them, requesting more information, and just being able to see yourself with them and feelings growing stronger, the more you got into the process. I never imagined it being this powerful and immediate!
A few months after we decided to adopt and I'd been looking at profiles, I'd come across two little brothers that I just couldn't get out of my head whenever I thought about adoption. I must have looked at their pics and re-read their profiles a hundred times over, even after learning they had an allergy to cats. Their allergy was a definite no, because we couldn't part with the two cats we have. They're our first babies, so we need cat friendly kiddos. That was the only thing that held me back from requesting more info for us. Eventually, I saw their profiles come down, and I had mixed emotions. It seemed foolish because we couldn't adopt them, so obviously I should have been completely happy to see their profiles come down. I was very happy that they were potentially being adopted, but selfishly, I was going to miss those little faces. Up to this point, I really thought that I had a strong connection with them, but my reaction to them was absolutely nothing in comparison to these three.
So after E made sense of my breakdown, lol, we kept talking about the possibility of adopting these kids if we were really interested. She said "Do it!" and "Just do it!" about a dozen or so times, while I kept giving reasons why it wasn't feasible. First it was that we didn't have two spare bedrooms; the boys would have to have a room and Avery would have to have one, as per CAS they can't room together after a certain age. E told me that CAS may be willing to assist us if we were to rent a bigger place temporarily until we could buy a house that fit a family of five. Then it was, well before I go expressing interest, I really should talk to Mike about this. We talked about adopting a sibling duo, but I didn't know how he'd feel about three. (Had I even really considered three?!?) So yeah, I'd talk to him and see how he felt and then if he was on board, I'd email for further information. E had an answer for that, which I'm sure you can guess what it was. Then before I could even express concern about financially taking on 3 children at once she had an answer for that too, telling me that there could be subsidies for these kids being there were three. She kept encouraging me to request further information, and I really wanted to but something was holding me back. What was it?
I think it was a combination of the emotion catching me off guard, the fear of my requesting info and it not working out, and just the fear and excitement that this could potentially be the start of our path to our kids. E of course said all the right things and asked what was the worst that could happen? We would either move forward in the process, or be told we weren't going to be considered. There was no mystery, we knew the possible outcomes. And she brought up the point that if she were in my position, she wouldn't be able to not inquire and always wonder, "what if?". I knew, like her I would always wonder, so I agreed to call. E had contacts there, so she told me who to get in touch with. So my fingers nervously dialed the number and as the phone rang, I just kept thinking, "This could be it. Oh my God! This could be it!!!" Of course, as if I weren't anxious enough, I got her voicemail. It was Friday afternoon, and almost 5 o'clock, so it was to be expected. I just was not looking forward to waiting the entire weekend to see where this would go. So I wrapped up with E, with promises to text her the minute I heard anything on Monday, and I was on my way (profiles in hand), to go pick up Michael.
We left his parking lot, and I think we drove a block or two before I said at the stop light, "So I did something today….", as I reached into the back seat for their profiles. Michael starting looking at them and said, "Yeah they're really cute, and they sound healthy." Surprised that there was no comment about them being a trio, and noticing that he hadn't yet looked at Carter on the second page, I said, "There's three of them." All he said was "Yeah.", as he kept looking at the profiles. He flipped the page and still nothing. I then told him they were siblings, and I had requested more information. He said, "You did, yeah?", then there was a pause and he said, sounding somewhat alarmed, "Wait, there's three of them? They're all siblings???" And once again, my eyes welled up, and all my emotions started tumbling out of my mouth in a big jumble as I recounted my reaction, and my conversation with E. I told him I figured he would think I was crazy inquiring about three, but I just had to. Once again, wonderful and amazing as always, he told me that he wasn't concerned about there being three. He said it would be a challenge, but he knew we were capable of it. It was just a matter of us having room for three. My heart had a big exhale at those words. So I recounted my conversation with E, and we agreed to wait to hear from Adopt Ontario on Monday. He just added that he didn't want me to get my heart set on these little ones just in case. I assured him I wouldn't, despite my reaction I was still not all in just yet.
As excited as I was, I just wasn't sure if we were willing to potentially pack up and move to a temporary rental accommodation, sell our house, and look for a larger house, while trying to help these little ones adjust to us and us to them, while we all adjusted to a new life? It would also mean likely moving to a house in the future because on average, it takes about a year for families to form the basis of attachment, and for the kids to adjust. Moving is also traumatic for foster kids because they've had the experience of moving out of their childhood home, and often, moving through multiple foster homes. So we would have to play it by ear and see how it went if were indeed to be chosen for these children. That in turn conflicted me because I was thinking that if I wasn't willing to move for these kids, was I really the best choice to parent them? Shouldn't I be willing to do anything right from the start? Then I felt I was getting ahead of myself. Ultimately, we were interested in these children, but we really didn't know much about them yet, nor did we know their story and how they came into foster care. A lot could change. But I still couldn't stop my heart from smiling and whispering, "But what if???"


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Most marketers understand the basics of putting up a website, but rarely get a glimpse into what is likely the most important part of the process: testing. Done properly, testing is time-consuming. When the schedule (or budgets) are tight, unfortunately, it is the first thing to go. And when this happens, errors creep in that can destroy user trust, and sap long-earned brand equity.
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The Level 4 team consisting of Molly, Ashley, Rylee, and Kacy placed 2nd at this meet in the team competition. Molly was the gold medalist on Vault, Beam, Floor, and in the All-Around with a score of 35.55. Molly was 3rd place on Bars. Ashley won 3rd on Vault, 2nd on Bars, and 2nd in the All-Around. Rylee earned 3rd place in the All-Around, Floor, and Vault. Rylee was also 2nd place on the Balance Beam. Kacy was 2nd in the All-Around in her division, also placing 2nd on Beam and Bars, 3rd on Vault, and was the gold medalist for her Floor Exercise.
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Former New Japan Pro-Wrestling star KUSHIDA recently debuted with NXT.
He has wrestled on the house shows, typically against the Undisputed ERA in tag team situations.
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About a month has passed since I moved to Florida. Looking back on this month, I have spent a long time as if it has already been about a year. I was in a state where I didn't understand the new practice environment, food, housing, English, Matches…but I feel that a little more open time has been created recently.
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Page Contents: Section | Significance | Background | Location & Dates | Taxonomic Contents | Documentation | Description of Collection | Collection Inventory | Collection Assets | Specimen Condition | Container Condition | Label Condition | Label Content | Level of Taxonomic Identification
Quintana Roo, Mexico 2001
Section Responsible for Processing (Top)
Significance (Top)
This is a collection of polychaete specimens from Caribbean Mexico. Many were identified by regional experts. This material an excellent baseline for comparison with many other polychaetes collected by LACM personnel throughout the greater Caribbean.
Background (Top)
Leslie Harris (LACM Polychaete Collections Manager) was invited by Dr. Sergio Salazar-Vallejo (El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico) to be an instructor in a two week graduate level course on polychaete taxonomy and systematics. During the course the class made several collecting trips to sites along the Quintana Roo/Yucatan coastline and to offshore islands. Specimens were deposited at the LACM have been used in several theses and papers; more papers are in preparation.
Tovar-Hernandez, M.A., Salazar-Vallejo, S.I. 2006. Sabellids (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from the Grand Caribbean. Zoological Studies 45(1): 24-66.
Tovar-Hernandez, M.A., Knight-Jones, P. 2006. Species of Branchiomma (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) from the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Coast of Panama. Zootaxa 1189: 1-37.
Tovar-Hernandez, M.A. 2003. Sabelidos (Polychaeta) del Caribe mexicano con una clave taxonomica para el Gran Caribe. Master thesis, El Colegio de la Frontera Sure, Mexico, 147 pp.
Salazar-Silva, P. 2003. Polinoidos (Polychaeta) del Gran Caribe y analisis preliminar de las relaciones filogeneticas entre las subfamilias. Ph.D. thesis, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico, 215 pp.
Salazar-Silva, P. 2003. Redescription of Harmothoe aculeata (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) and description of three new similar species from the Grand Caribbean region. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83: 55-64.
Salazar-Silva, P. 2006. Scaleworms (Polychaeta: Polynoidae) from the Mexican pacific and some other Eastern Pacific sites. Invest. Mar., Valparaiso 34(2): 143-11.
Delgado-Blas, V.H. 2004. Espionidos (Polychaeta: Spionidae) del Gran Caribe. Ph.D. thesis, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico, 270 pp.
Delgado-Blas, V.H. 2008. Polydora and related genera (Polychaeta: Spiionidae) from the Grand Caribbean region. Journal of Natural History 42(1): 1-19.
Carrera-Parra, L.F. 2003. Revision de Lumbrineris de Blainville, 1828 y Lumbricalus Frame, 1992 (Polychaeta: Lumbrineridae) del mundo. Ph.D. thesis, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Mexico, 170 pp.
Collection Location and Dates (Top)
No information available.
Taxonomic Contents (Top)
This collection consists of 287 lots of polychaetes. Many lots consist of mixed species which still need to be separated.
Documentation (Top)
Field notes and electronic files are available from the Polychaete Section. All collection data are also available electronically from the MBPC database and this website.
Description of Collection (Top)
All specimens were fixed in 10% formalin, later rinsed in fresh water and transferred to 70% ethanol for long-term storage. Lots were sorted to family or to the level of genus and most await further taxonomic identification. The collection is in the process of curation (11 March 2009). After processing it will be housed in the Polychaete Section Collection Room.
Collection Inventory (Top)
Brought to the museum in 287 individual vials and whirl paks.
Collection Assets (Top)
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Specimen Condition (Top)
|4: New alcohol needed immediately (specimens will otherwise be irreparably damaged)
|3: Containers need to be 'topped off'
|2: New alcohol needed within next 6-12 months
|1: No curation needed at present
Container Condition (Top)
|4: Immediate short-term (less than 5 years) storage container replacement needed. Present containers are inadequate. Curate in the short-term with plastic buckets, whirltop bags, or similar.
|3: Specimens contained in museum-grade long-term (greater than 5 years) storage containers. Jars need new closures (e.g. replace Bakelite and metal lids).
|2: Transfer to museum-grade long-term storage containers. Replace or transfer to new jars and glass vials, replace cotton and closures.
|1: Containers are museum-grade and meet highest curation standards.
Label Condition (Top)
|4: New labels needed immediately (original labels in poor condition, paper torn/worn, legibility poor).
|3: New labels needed within next 1-2 years (original labels beginning to wear, pencil writing fading, low quality paper was used).
|2: New labels needed are as a result of curation and accretion of collection.
|1: No new labels needed at present.
Label Content (Top)
|2: New label or additional label needed because original label data is incomplete and supporting documentation provides additional collection data which greately enhances significance and value of each lot.
|1: Label content complete. All collection data are contained on label.
Level of Taxonomic Identification (Top)
|7: Not identified
|6: Phylum
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|4: Order
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I called hello to Tony Jenkins across the yard and fell into step with him. 'Is it true then, this rumour?' he said.
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'Talk is cheap', I replied 'and these careless remarks are intended to satisfy their audience', before adding that Mike had told me I was being overpaid but not to worry, he wouldn't actually reduce my salary.
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Hurrah! Another memo from Martin Bollom, this time to announce that all the depot except Coventry and Beckenham are to be closed on 15 Dec. And also to say 'I understand what a shock it is', and how deeply sorry he was, and how much he loved all his loyal workers.
The furtive mister Green was leafing through our 'Beetle' catalogue and asked about a powder grade melamine. This is someone who carefully returns solvent cans to the cupboard before we can catch sight of them. Young master Green is really secretive (7 Nov 2000); keeps his raw mat samples in containers labelled 'resin 1', 'latex 1' etc. Spends hours painting H-shaped steel blocks, recording results in the notebook which never leaves his pocket. Has his own office, own furnace, own Brookfield, own computer etc. Doesn't report to PG, and never discusses work with anyone.
Journal Entry, 5 Nov '11:
Tonight on the BBC they're showing 'V for Vendetta' – an amazing remake of 1984.
Meanwhile, I went to the Cornerhouse to see 'Weekend', a brilliant movie about a couple of perfectly ordinary gay guys who just have a one-night stand. And then…
Everything about the film was superb – the acting, the actors, the sex, the music (there wasn't any).
Journal Entry, 3 Feb '12:
Last night went to see 'Haywire', a disappointing thriller from Soderbergh – not quite Salt, not quite Bourne, faintly Lara Croft.
Fight scenes but no blood.
There was only me and one other couple in the cinema. Then went to Rice for dinner and Paddy's for one pint.
At work, during lunch in the canteen, they were all talking about prostate cancer. Moira asked if I had ever had my prostate examined. 'Not by a doctor, no' I replied.


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