CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Deciding on hormone-replacement therapy - weighing the far-reaching benefits and risks - can give a woman a headache. Now researchers say estrogen may dictate what problem-solving strategies the brain uses to solve problems.
According to a study of rats published in the June issue of Behavioral Neuroscience, activation of different parts of the brain may depend on the presence or absence of estrogen. Rats treated with the hormone learned a place-oriented task faster than rats not getting it, but those not on estrogen were faster completing a response-driven task. These tasks are believed to be controlled by different neural or memory systems.
"What we found is that given these analogous tasks that require different cognitive strategies, estrogen biased the rats to use a place, or spatial, strategy," said Donna L. Korol, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Those not given estrogen are better using a response, or non-spatial, strategy. This suggests that estrogen isn't just good for all kinds of memory. Rather, it is very specific in dictating what strategy one takes. Estrogen may enhance some and impair other forms of learning."
In the National Science Foundation-funded study, Korol and Lacy L. Kolo (St. Louis University School of Medicine) used young rats whose ovaries had been removed to decrease circulating estrogen levels. Three weeks later, some of them received injections of estrogen, while others got a placebo, before learning to find food in two similar four-arm mazes.
In the place-training test, food always was at the same place, but the required turn changed, depending on the rats' starting point. Rats on estrogen learned the task faster than the untreated group. For the response-training test, the rats always found food by turning right (or left) at the first opportunity regardless of where they had started. Rats without estrogen learned this task quicker than the estrogen-treated ones.
"If estrogen was simply enhancing learning, the results should have been the same for each task, but that was not the case," Korol said. "It appears that estrogen is enhancing place learning at the expense of response learning. Both these task scenarios are important, because they reveal that estrogen isn't just up- or down-regulating something. It is shifting what individuals are good at solving - without estrogen, they still are good at something."
A postmenopausal woman not on HRT may believe that her ability to solve a problem as she always had is slipping. In reality, the brain may be shifting gears into a different strategy that the woman is not used to harnessing, Korol said.
In a chapter for a book published last year, "Animal Research and Human Health," Korol and Carol A. Manning of the University of Virginia noted that when an aging woman's hormone level declines, her brain might actually shift into a problem-solving mode more common to men. "Women may actually get better at performing a task from a different approach, but they are not used to doing it that way, so they view the change as an impairment," Korol said. "Theoretically, this may be true, but we don't know this for sure yet. The question is, Can you tap into the other strength?"
Korol is among a growing body of researchers studying the cognitive impacts of estrogen. Researchers so far have found that estrogen increases nerve-cell communications and brain excitability, in general, but findings related to memory and learning have often conflicted as to whether cognition was impaired or enhanced.
Many previous studies involved water-escape tests, in which rats are stressed as they begin to learn new tasks. The stress, Korol said, "seems to impair cognition in the presence of estrogen, but when there is no stress estrogen helps the capacity to learn."
The positive-reward, food-based tests used in Korol's lab remove stress from the equation. "Now we are going in and looking at the specific brain structures," she said. "Having estrogen at high physiological levels will shift the strategy that you use to solve a task. It might be doing so by changing the functioning or activity of certain brain areas."


I am playing tennis right now. I was playing tennis last night. I will be playing tennis soon.
I have played tennis. I had played tennis at least 100 times by the time I was twelve. I will have played tennis at least 500 times by the end of the year.
I have been playing tennis since I was four years old. I had been playing tennis for at least a year before my sister started to play. I will have been playing tennis for at least two hours before dinner tonight.


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A global IT services company is looking for a Regional Service Manager in Ho Chi Minh city, leading pre-sales team in 3 countries (Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos) while aligning with regional head office. The role requires solid technical consulting experience and team management across IT Software solutions. You will be reporting to the Managing Director.
A global technology company is recruiting a Project Manager in Hanoi city. The job is to to own the program in all respects including client executive stakeholder management; project team management, program schedule and deliverables. The incumbent shall motivate and provide guidance to project teams, including analysts and consultants consisting of a diverse team from cross cultural backgrounds, locations and disciplines.
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Potential property tax hike: How much would it cost you?
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The county is considering a 2019 public vote to raise the property tax and increase funding for the local school system, but citizens may be wondering how much the increase could affect their bottom line.
By enacting a public vote, the county has the ability to raise the property tax six mills: from 36.5 mills to 42.5 in the city limits and from 29 to 35 outside city limits.
The median Montgomery County home value, according to the most recent U.S. Census data, is $122,000. At that value, a citizen who owns and occupies the home — and lives within city limits — would currently pay $445.30 a year in property tax.
If that increase was enacted, that homeowner would see their property tax increase to $518.50 annually, an additional $73.20 annually or $6.10 a month.
County Commission Chairman Elton Dean said he is considering letting the public vote on an increase due to the more than $100 million in needed renovations, maintenance and construction for Montgomery Public Schools, which also just passed a deficit budget for fiscal year 2019.
The 2019 budget is projected to spend $9.7 million more than the system earns. The state intervention team also forced MPS to sell a school for $9.85 million last year to have a budget that complied with state law. MPS is legally required to keep $18.7 million on hand in reserve; the 2019 budget is projected to finish with $9.2 million in reserve.
The six mill increase would raise $18 million for MPS. MPS currently receives 10 mills, the state minimum and lowest amount of any school system with more than 20,000 students.
Allyson Holland, chief clerk to the county revenue commissioner, said property tax is not a regressive tax: The more a home is worth, the higher the property tax.
In Wynlakes subdivision, for instance, houses range from $200,000 to almost $800,000.
For a median Wynlakes home that costs $400,000, a six mill increase would add about $20 a month to the property tax bill, an increase of $240 a year.
The last attempt by Montgomery County to raise the property tax was in 1994, when 54 percent of citizens voted against it, most in east Montgomery.
A common fear among some voters was that landlords would raise rental prices in conjunction with the property tax increase.
For an in-city rental home valued at $150,000, a six mill increase would raise the annual property tax from $1,095 annually to $1,275, or an additional $15 per month to the owner of the property.
The county showed a bit more willingness to increase taxes during the state's 2004 Amendment One vote, a vote that failed statewide but was approved by 54 percent of Montgomery. Whether or not Montgomery's current population supports an increase remains to be seen.


Interrogative is a term used in grammar to refer to features that form questions. Thus, an interrogative sentence is a sentence whose grammatical form shows that it is a question. Such sentences may exhibit an interrogative grammatical mood. This applies particularly to languages that use different inflected verb forms to make questions.
Interrogative sentences can serve as yes–no questions or as wh-questions, the latter being formed using an interrogative word such as who, which, where or how to specify the information required. Different languages have various ways of forming questions, such as word order or the insertion of interrogative particles. Questions are frequently marked by intonation, in particular a rising intonation pattern – in some languages this may be the sole method of distinguishing a yes–no question from a declarative statement.
Interrogative mood or other interrogative forms may be denoted by the glossing abbreviation INT.
An intermediate form is the choice question, disjunctive question or alternative question, which presents a number of alternative answers, such as "Do you want tea or coffee?"
Negative questions are formed from negative sentences, as in "Aren't you coming?" and "Why does he not answer?"
Indirect questions (or interrogative content clauses) are subordinate clauses used within sentences to refer to a question (as opposed to direct questions, which are interrogative sentences themselves). An example of an indirect question is where Jack is in the sentence "I wonder where Jack is." Note that English and many other languages do not use inversion in indirect questions, even though they would in the corresponding direct question ("Where is Jack?"), as described in the following section.
Languages may use both syntax and prosody to distinguish interrogative sentences (which pose questions) from declarative sentences (which state propositions). Syntax refers to grammatical changes, such as changing word order or adding question words; prosody refers to changes in intonation while speaking. Some languages also mark interrogatives morphologically, i.e. by inflection of the verb. A given language may use one or more of these methods in combination.
Certain languages mark interrogative sentences by using a particular inflection of the verb (this may be described as an interrogative mood of the verb). Languages with some degree of this feature include Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Greenlandic, Nenets, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Turkish, Finnish, Korean and Venetian.
In most varieties of Venetian, interrogative verb endings have developed out of what was originally a subject pronoun, placed after the verb in questions by way of inversion (see following section). For example, Old Venetian magnè-vu? ("do you eat?", formed by inversion from vu magnè "you eat") has developed into the modern magneto? or magnèu?. This form can now also be used with overt subjects: Voaltri magnèo co mi? ("do you eat with me?", literally "you eat-you with me?").
Further details on verb inflection can be found in the articles on the languages listed above (or their grammars).
The main syntactic devices used in various languages for marking questions are changes in word order and addition of interrogative words or particles.
An inverted subject pronoun may sometimes develop into a verb ending, as described in the previous section with regard to Venetian.
This ne usually forms a neutral yes–no question, implying neither answer (except where the context makes it clear what the answer must be). However Latin also forms yes–no questions with nonne, implying that the questioner thinks the answer to be the affirmative, and with num, implying that the interrogator thinks the answer to be the negative. Examples: num negāre audēs? ("You dare not deny, do you?"; Catullus 1,4,8); Mithridātēs nōnne ad Cn. Pompeium lēgātum mīsit? ("Didn't Mithridates send an ambassador to Gneaus Pompey?"; Pompey 16,46).
In Indonesian and Malay, the particle -kah is appended as a suffix, either to the last word of a sentence, or to the word or phrase that needs confirmation (that word or phrase being brought to the start of the sentence). In more formal situations, the question word apakah (formed by appending -kah to apa, "what") is frequently used.
For Turkish, where the interrogative particle may be considered a part of the verbal inflection system, see the previous section.
This word order is also possible in English: "You did what?" (with rising intonation). (Note also that when there is more than one interrogative word, only one of them is fronted: "Who wants to order what?") It is also possible to make yes–no questions without any grammatical marking, using only intonation (or punctuation, when writing) to differentiate questions from statements – in some languages this is the only method available. This is discussed in the following section.
Questions may also be indicated by a different intonation pattern. This is generally a pattern of rising intonation. It applies particularly to yes–no questions; the use of rising question intonation in yes–no questions has been suggested to be one of the universals of human languages. With wh-questions, however, rising intonation is not so commonly used – in English, questions of this type usually do not have such an intonation pattern.
A question like this, which has the same form (except for intonation) as a declarative sentence, is called a declarative question. In some languages this is the only available way of forming yes–no questions – they lack a way of marking such questions grammatically, and thus do so using intonation only. Examples of such languages are Italian, Modern Greek, Portuguese, and the Jakaltek language. Similarly in Spanish, yes–no questions are not distinguished grammatically from statements (although subject–verb inversion takes place in wh-questions).
On the other hand, it is possible for a sentence to be marked grammatically as a question, but to lack the characteristic question intonation. This often indicates a question to which no answer is expected, as with a rhetorical question. It occurs often in English in tag questions, as in "It's too late, isn't it?" If the tag question ("isn't it") is spoken with rising intonation, an answer is expected (the speaker is expressing doubt), while if it is spoken with falling intonation, no answer is necessarily expected and no doubt is being expressed.
Sentences can also be marked as questions when they are written down. In languages written in Latin or Cyrillic, as well as certain other scripts, a question mark at the end of the sentence identifies it as a question. In Spanish, an additional inverted mark is placed at the beginning (e.g. ¿Cómo está usted?). Question marks are also used in declarative questions, as in the example given above (in this case they are equivalent to the intonation used in speech, being the only indication that the sentence is meant as a question). Question marks are sometimes omitted in rhetorical questions (the sentence given in the previous paragraph, when used in a context where it would be spoken with falling intonation, might be written "It's too late, isn't it.", with no final question mark).
Responses to questions are often reduced to elliptical sentences rather than full sentences, since in many cases only the information specially requested needs to be provided. (See Answer ellipsis.) Also many (but not all) languages have words that function like the English yes and no, used to give short answers to yes–no questions. In languages that do not have words compared to English yes and no, e.g. Chinese, speakers may need to answer the question according to the question. For example, when asked 喜歡喝茶嗎？(Do you like tea?), one has to answer 喜歡 (literally like) for affirmative or 不喜歡 (literally not like) for negative. But when asked 你打籃球嗎？ (Do you play basketball?), one needs to answer 我打 (literally I play) for affirmative and 我不打 (literally I don't play) for negative. There is no simple answering word for yes and no in Chinese. One needs to answer the yes-no question using the main verb in the question instead.
Responses to negative interrogative sentences can be problematic. In English, for example, the answer "No" to the question "Don't you have a passport?" confirms the negative, i.e. it means that the responder does not have a passport. However, in some other languages, such as Japanese, a negative answer to a negative question asserts the affirmative – in this case that the responder does have a passport. Conversely, in English "Yes" would assert the affirmative, while in some other languages it would confirm the negative.
Some languages have different words for "yes" when used to assert an affirmative in response to a negative question or statement; for example the French si, the German doch, and Danish, Swedish or Norwegian jo.
Ambiguity may also arise with choice questions. A question like "Do you like tea or coffee?" can be interpreted as a choice question, to be answered with either "tea" or "coffee"; or it can be interpreted as a yes–no question, to be answered "yes (I do like tea or coffee)" or "no (I do not like tea or coffee)".
More information on these topics can be found in the articles Question, Yes and no, and Yes–no question.
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Establishment of a mammalian pre-implantation embryo is the first developmental process during which a single fertilized egg differentiates into different types of cells, including pluripotent cells, which generate all of the cell types in our body through subsequent developmental processes. To understand the mechanism by which the complex multicellular structure of the body is formed spatially and dynamically, it is essential to be able to track and reconstruct developmental lineages. To this end, along with our collaborators, we are developing a long-term and quantitative time-lapse 3D imaging system, automatic cell detection and tracking algorithms, statistical methods to categorize stochastic developmental lineages, and models of embryogenesis. Our methodologies will further contributes to quantifying the states of embryos in reproductive assistance technologies so as to best optimize culture conditions, which critically impacts the success of the artificial insemination (Learn more).
The first step for the lineage reconstruction of a developing embryo is to detect the positions of cells from 3D imaging data. Starting from simple algorithms combining basic and traditional image processing filters, we have developed more complicated algorithms based on integer programming and deep neural networks by feeding grand-truth data obtained from the basic algorithms into more sophisticated algorithms as training data sets (Learn more: , ).
The tracking of dividng cells becomes exponentially more difficult as the number of cells increases through cell divisions. In achieve robust tracking of dividing cells, we have formulated tracking as an integer programming to obtain a very accurate algorithm. The score of the association of cells is then further improved by employing machine-learning techniques.
For comparison of the developmental processes of embryos, the task can be reduced to the problem of comparing lineage trees corresponding to the developmental processes of individual embryos. However, statistical and machine-learning methods for such data are still lacking, mainly because temporally growing branching systems are not common outside of the field of biology. Using the path-integral formulation of population dynamics, we are also constructing new statistical methods to extract the quantitative properties of dividing cells from lineage data.
The spatial positioning of cells in an embryo is an important determinant of the ultimate cell fate. To extract how the positioning and fate of cells are jointly determined through the combination of gene expression and mechanics, we are developing a mathematical model of embryogenesis, which can be integrated with the lineage data obtained by tracking the imaging data.


Microglia in ALS: Helpful, Harmful, or Neutral?
In the complex interplay between neurons and glia during amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), microglia have been painted as both toxin-producing killers and protective defenders. Now a new study suggests that microglia are mere bystanders to the degeneration of motor neurons. Writing in the October 8 Journal of Neuroscience, Jean-Pierre Julien, of Laval University in Québec City, Canada, and colleagues report that when they selectively destroyed proliferating microglia in a mouse model for familial ALS, there was no effect on motor neurons or disease. However, the researchers were only able to eliminate one-third of the microglial population, leading some scientists to question the utility of the results.
Studies have pointed at glia, not the motor neurons themselves, as the culprits in familial ALS caused by mutations in superoxide dismutase (SOD1) (see ARF related news story). Microgliosis is a common feature of neurodegenerative diseases, and both astrocytes and microglia appear to be players in ALS (Yamanaka et al., 2008). Some studies suggest that in ALS microglia are the bad guys, releasing molecules, such as TNFα, that lead to motor neuron damage. Yet other studies imply microglia are good guys that produce compounds, such as IGF1, to shield neurons from further harm (Beers et al., 2008 and see ARF related news story).
Joint first authors Genevieve Gowing at Laval University and Thomas Philips of the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology in Gent, Belgium, and colleagues provide the most detailed analysis to date of what happens to microglia during disease progression in transgenic mice carrying G93A mutant human SOD1. Using flow cytometry, the authors defined three distinct cell populations expressing the microglial marker CD11b: mature microglia, myeloid precursor cells, and macrophages, which express low, medium, and high levels of CD45, respectively. The populations of these cells changed as disease progressed: mature microglia dominated in mice carrying wild-type SOD1 and in presymptomatic mSOD1 mice, outnumbering myeloid precursor cells two to one in mutant mice at 60 days. But by 120 days, there were 1.8-fold as many myeloid precursor cells as mature microglia in the transgenic animals. (Macrophages were consistently the minority.) Microglia also increased overall as symptoms developed; in the transgenic mice, spinal cord sections exhibited 1.7-fold more microglia at 120 days than at 60 days. While the data confirm that microglia proliferate in conjunction with ALS symptoms, it is not clear what the switch from mostly mature microglia to mostly myeloid precursors means, Julien said. In addition, the authors found that in end-stage mice, mature microglia carried the markers CD11c and CD86, which are characteristic of antigen-presenting cells. This suggests that the microglia may be acting to stimulate other cells of the immune system.
Gowing sought to address the role of microglia in what the authors thought would be the simplest possible way: selectively eliminate them from mSOD1 mice. If microglia are toxic, they reasoned, then eliminating them should slow the progression of the disease. Likewise, if the cells were protective, ablating microglia would only make the disease worse.
The researchers crossed the mSOD1 mice with mice that expressed herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (TK) under the CD11b promoter. When they treated the mice with ganciclovir, TK phosphorylated it, creating a nucleoside analog. This caused cell death in CD11b+ cells that were replicating DNA. Normally, this treatment is lethal, since immune cells throughout the body express CD11b, but Gowing and colleagues got around that problem by infusing ganciclovir directly into the spinal cord. Then, using immunohistochemistry, the authors determined that lumbar spinal cord cells expressing the microglial marker Iba1 were reduced by a third, and cells expressing Mac-2, a microglial marker preferentially expressed in proliferating cells, were reduced by 50 percent.
The results were anticlimactic. Compared to single mutant mSOD1 mice, there was no significant difference in the number of motor neurons, motor axons, or innervation of the gastrocnemius in the TK crosses. Body weight and reflex scores were also similar in the TK versus control mice. “It had no effect on the disease, which is very surprising,” Julien said. He theorizes that while normal microglia could be protective, microglia carrying the mutant SOD1 are unable to defend motor neurons, and thus are rendered neutral to the disease process.
However, the large numbers of microglia still present in the TK mice weaken the study in the eyes of some scientists. “With only a 50 percent decrease in their number, he can’t conclude anything one way or the other as regards the role of microglia in the disease,” Ben Barres of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, wrote in an e-mail to ARF. And, the remaining microglia might be sufficient to carry out whatever role they play in ALS. “Microglia are innate immune cells, and in the immune system a few autoreactive cells can control a vast cellular population,” Stanley Appel of The Methodist Hospital System in Houston wrote in an e-mail to ARF.
The authors concede that they may not have killed enough microglia, writing, “It remains possible that eliminating a larger number of SOD1-positive microglia in our model may have influenced the motor neuron degeneration.” However, Julien notes that in other studies, similar levels of microglia ablation did have significant effects, for example, exacerbating ischemic injury (see Lalancette-Hébert et al., 2007), suggesting that ALS is less sensitive to changes in microglial cell numbers. He also points out that if mSOD1 microglia were producing toxins, cutting their numbers by even a third seems likely to ameliorate disease. Based on the current and other studies, he wonders if the possibly neutral microglia are even a worthwhile drug target for ALS treatments.
Amber Dance is a freelance writer living in Los Angeles.
Lalancette-Hébert M, Gowing G, Simard A, Weng YC, Kriz J. Selective ablation of proliferating microglial cells exacerbates ischemic injury in the brain. J Neurosci. 2007 Mar 7;27(10):2596-605. PubMed.


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Attached is the pdf plot of acceleration data from a data logger of acceleration data using the accelerometer board, and SD card board.
I was able to use the data to calculate the drag coefficient for the rocket, velocity during liftoff to apogee.
The data is quite interesting, but the board can collect data every 0.5 msec but the data takes 30 msec to write to the card. One way around this problem would be to buffer the data and write less often. This technique would effect the timing and therefore require some other way to know how much time has passed. I asked in an earlier post if anyone knew how to read the cpu time, because I only need a running time. I assume that the time must be stored in a register - any ideas?
I can't answer your question directly, but I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary. If you know the data collection rate, the data size, and the write time, why can't you simply manage accordingly? Or, is the issue that you need to know the exact time a measurement was taken, and you can't rely on that 0.5 ms being accurate?
Why not use the millis() function?
This gives you (at least) a timestamp in milliseconds (and then buffer in an array of datapoints before writing on the SD card).


NEW YORK -- Nick Cannon is cast as Mariah Carey's lover in her new video -- but has the superstar diva given the young actor a considerably bigger role in real life?
According to several published reports, Carey, 38, married Cannon, 27, on Wednesday. Neither Carey's publicist nor Cannon's manager returned requests from The Associated Press for comment.
If the pair did indeed wed, it would be a whirlwind romance. Word that the two were seeing each other first surfaced in the last few weeks. Last Saturday, Carey was seen sporting a huge diamond ring on her finger at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of her movie, "Tennessee," in which she plays a waitress. Cannon was at her side at the party. Speculation swirled that the couple were engaged.
Latina.com was first to report that the two got married, at Carey's home in the Bahamas. Friday's New York Post also had the pair wed and E! Online quoted a relative of Cannon's as saying that he called his family and confirmed the news.
"He called us and told us all about it. We are happy for him. If that is what he wants then we are happy for him," Linda Cannon, identified simply as a family member, was quoted telling E!
People magazine's Web site reported Friday that Carey had obtained a marriage license in the island of Eleuthera, in the Bahamas, where she has an estate.
Cannon has put out a rap album, but is best known for his role in the movie "Drumline" and a Nickelodeon TV series (yes, Nickelodeon -- Cannon is 11 years Carey's junior). He's featured in Carey's upcoming video for "Bye Bye."
While Carey and Cannon (or is it the Cannons?) were playing coy, the famed jeweler Jacob & Co. was quick to publicize its apparent role in the reputed union with a press release touting the ring Cannon reportedly gave her.
The release described it as "crafted from platinum and features a square emerald cut fancy light pink diamond as the center stone surrounded by 58 intense pink diamonds and two half moon diamonds on each side.
"The total carat weight of the ring -- center stone is 10 carats -- is a jaw-dropping 17 carats with a value of $2.5 million."
Cannon does have experience with engagement rings. The actor, who has previously romanced singer Christina Milian and voluptuous reality star Kim Kardashian, last year gave a 15-carat stone to Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks as he proposed in grand fashion -- on the Jumbotron in New York's Times Square. Cameras were flashing as she said yes. They split just a few months later.
The Carey-Cannon match is already getting considerably more ink, leaving some to wonder whether it's a publicity stunt: After all, she's just released a No. 1 album ("EMC2" is on the top of the charts), and he has at least four movies due out this year.
But then again, Carey is one of the most successful artists in music, and hardly needs a marriage to get her attention: She's already scored a No. 1 hit off the album with "Touch My Body."
This would be Cannon's first marriage but Carey's second. She famously wed top music executive Tommy Mottola in an extravagant wedding in 1993. They had a bitter divorce in 1998.


The Millbank student riots saw the most sustained violence in 27 years, the Metropolitan Police chief said yesterday.
Sir Paul Stephenson has admitted that he got it wrong during the Millbank riots last month when officers battled the most violent protests they had ever seen.
The Met Commissioner said he was taken by surprise by the level of violence on November 10 when 225 police officers were overwhelmed by hordes of rampaging protestors smashing into the Conservative Party headquarters.
He has warned that Scotland Yard now faces the most challenging time in its history.
Sir Paul said a combination of future disorder expected on the streets, budget cuts, the security threat and the forthcoming Olympics were stretching his force.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: 'Just over a month ago, we had some pretty dreadful scenes at Millbank Tower.
'And I have to say up until then we had the situation where we had been, year on year, cutting back on the amount of police officers we had been dedicating to policing public protests in London.
'What happened there was a level of violence we did not anticipate.
SO, SIR PAUL, WAS IT REALLY WORSE THAN THE POLL TAX AND BRIXTON RIOTS?
The rioting against the Community Charge ( Poll Tax) introduced by Margaret Thatcher in 1990 culminated in the 'Battle of Trafalgar' Square on March 31st.
Police were confronted by between 180,000 and 250,000 demonstrators. The rioting and looting started at 11am and ended at 3am the following morning.
More than 100 people were injured, some officers, and 339 were arrested. Government documents released in 2006 under freedom of information legislation, reveal the police believed they had lost control.
The Brixton riot took place in Lambeth, South London, on 11 April, 1981 after locals wrongly believed a stabbed youth had died because of police brutality.
The riot resulted in almost 279 injuries to police and 45 injuries to members of the public.
Over a hundred vehicles were burned, including 56 police vehicles; and almost 150 buildings were damaged, with 30 burned. There were 82 arrests. Reports suggested that up to 5,000 people were involved in the riot. It was called 'Bloody Saturday' by TIME magazine.
'I have been very clear about that and actually said, frankly we got that wrong.
He said that an inspector with 27 years service who had attended some of the Met's most violent protests, was astonished by the behaviour.
In the latest student riots in London on December 9 when protestors attacked the Duchess of Cornwall in her car, the Met deployed 3,000 officers- almost 10 per cent of the force's operational capability.
But now the force is under pressure to make huge spending cuts over the next four years.
The Commissioner went on: 'When you put all the various challenges that face me and my colleagues in the Metropolitan Police service together, this is as challenging a period as we have ever faced.
'I think the challenges we are facing, that stretch we are facing, is not as we have known for a long, long time.
Yesterday Shadow Home Secretary Ed Balls said the Met was in an impossible position.
He said: 'Sir Paul is absolutely right to air his concerns about the funding cuts and unprecedented challenges the Metropolitan Police faces.
'Like police chiefs across the country, Sir Paul has been put in an impossible position by a Conservative Home Secretary who failed to fight the corner of the police in the spending review.
'The Met faces a real-terms cut in Government funding of over £330 million in just two years.
'That's a cut of over 15 per cent - most of which is in the year of the Olympics - and with more cuts to come in the two years after that.
'Ramming through cuts to policing of this speed and scale at a time of rising public protest on our streets, an ongoing terror threat and the security challenge of the 2012 Olympics is a reckless and dangerous gamble by this Conservative-led Government.


Which statement is true concerning the effect of the application of carburetor heat?
It leans the fuel/air mixture.
It enriches the fuel/air mixture.
It has no effect on the fuel/air mixture.


I spent my first full day with a Classmate at school and I have to admit that I was impressed, both by its general usability, as well as the positive responses from students and teachers. Harder performance numbers will be coming this weekend, but for now, I'd like to answer the questions that have accumulated in the TalkBacks based on my experience, inspection of the machines, and a conversation this afternoon with a couple of people working on the project at Intel.
I spent my first full day with a Classmate at school and I have to admit that I was impressed, both by its general usability, as well as the positive responses from students and teachers. Harder performance numbers will be coming this weekend, but for now, I'd like to answer the questions that have accumulated in the TalkBacks based on my experience, inspection of the machines, and a conversation this afternoon with a couple of people working on the project at Intel. Please note that some of the questions below are aggregations of questions or designed to address issues raised in the TalkBacks. I have these laptops for a couple of weeks, though, so keep asking questions and I'll keep looking for answers.
How much do they cost and where can I buy them? Unfortunately, pricing fluctuates based on a variety of factors, so it's difficult to pin down. Intel is developing a model in which they work with local OEMs to enable customization (largely in terms of software) and sale to governments, schools, and other institutions. Pricing can be significantly affected by Microsoft licensing (as little as $3 a pop for certain government agencies all they way up to $180 for other groups, according to Intel); quantity can also influence pricing. It appears that it will be competitive with the OLPC and Asus Eee, but deployments remain largely in piloting phases.
In terms of getting one (or a lot), it's not looking good yet for established markets like North America and Western Europe. While Intel is investigating options here (including potential differentiation of models), nothing is definite and the focus is clearly on emerging markets.
Does it have wireless? 802.11 b/g is built in, as is a 10/100 wired Ethernet connection. Both the Linux and Windows laptops picked up my home wireless without a hitch and my five-year old spent the afternoon playing online games (his new favorite site is starfall.com) as soon as I installed Flash.
Do the Linux and Windows computers have different hard drives? The Windows machine has a 2GB solid state hard drive. The Linux machine actually has a 2.5GB solid state drive, although this particular laptop just came from China where it was being used for demos and is not the standard configuration. While the Classmate website lists both 1 and 2GB drives as options, the 1GB model does not seem very practical and is not being evaluated here.
What ports do the Classmates have? Each has 2 USB ports, a microphone line in, a headphone out, and an RJ-45 Ethernet port. Speakers are integrated beneath the screen; they're tinny, but it is a 7" laptop; I wasn't expecting Altec Lansings.
Can the handwritten characters be pasted into a word processor? This question refers to the ability of the Classmate's optional digital pen to capture handwriting/drawing via a sensor attached to the USB port that clips to a sheet of paper. The answer is yes, although the notes get pasted as an image rather than something that can be run through OCR software. It's a handy way of embedding drawings, formulas, and other notes, though, in a standard Word/OpenOffice document.
The digital pen and sensor were the biggest hit today among teachers and students, by the way. Science teachers, especially, who provide notes electronically to students saw great applications for this little USB device instead of clunky software for generating formulas and diagrams.
Can you install your own version of Linux? These are technically just little computers, so you can theoretically install whatever you want. I, unfortunately, can't test a variety of small-footprint distros since these machines will be headed back out for evaluation soon. However, Intel just signed a deal with Canonical to make Ubuntu/Edubuntu available on them soon and is willing to work with most Linux distributors by providing drivers and support to ensure that a particular distro works with the Classmate. They then make a list of tested distributions available to local OEMs who can decide what they want to install, based on customer demand.
How have your own kids liked it so far? I'm afraid that my 5-year old monopolized the Windows machine this afternoon. The keyboard was just his size and he really liked the touchpad (a small, circular pad that works well without being overly-sensitive). Once he got the hang of it, it seemed easier for him than a mouse. I'm afraid he's going to be heartbroken when I have to send it back. Primary (and to some extent) middle schools are really the target audience for these laptops and I can see why. They're easy to carry, easy to use, small enough for very little hands, and, according to Intel (I haven't tried it), can withstand drops off desks while they are running.
My 12-year old went for the Linux box but was frustrated by the software issues I hit yesterday. He wanted me to let him know as soon as Intel found a solution (it sounds like the problems are actually related to some anti-theft software, but it's taking some guidance from the team in China to find a workaround).
I think this will be the weekend of the Classmate, though. My 14-year old has pervasive developmental disorder (high functioning autism) and I'll have him do his homework on it this weekend; currently, unless he's using a computer for RPGs or to look up cheatcodes for whatever game he happens to be playing, he wants nothing to do with it. However, the personal level on which younger kids seem to connect with these machines just might make them really nice choices for kids on the spectrum. Lots more to come next week, including some hands-on time with other students with Asperger's and PDD at the high school, so stay tuned.


PAKTIA/MIRAN SHAH, May 23 (Online): A rocket attack on an allied base in the Paktia Province, neighboring Pakistani border by unknown attackers has left 8 American soldiers dead and 3 army vehicles destroyed. The attackers managed to escape the scene after looting the entire arsenal from the camp.
Following the destructive raid American helicopter gunships and fighter jets scrambled for support, but they were outrunned by the attackers. The American air support infiltrated the Pakistani airspace by at least a kilometer in their bid to retaliate and martyred five innocent locals of Lawara Mandi who were out on the mountains collecting firewood for homes.
Severe panic gripped the area and the locals of Lawara Mandi have strongly protested against this indiscriminate and blind slaughter of innocents by the violating air forces of allies. It should be pertinent to mention here that Lawari Mandi has been victim of indiscriminate Allied bombardment previous night also, in which mercifully no damage occurred.
The American army Spokesman, Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara has confirmed the news of attack on the American Camp and their chase by air force, but did not give any details of American casualties.
I'm skeptical about the entire content of this article, from the first word, to the last period.
Don't know who to feel more sorry for, the American soldiers or the people who died collecting firewood.
Ideally, The militants should've been sealed off in Afghanistan and not allowed to enter Pak. All in all the bad guys had the last laugh and we'd be bogged down pointing fingers at one another.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Fighting between insurgents and U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces in the country’s troubled east left 12 rebels dead and one U.S. soldier slightly wounded, the U.S. military said Sunday.
The clash occurred Saturday in Paktika province, which borders Pakistan, said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O’Hara.
“It was clearly the insurgents who fired upon us first,” O’Hara said.
O’Hara said the 12 were killed by a combination of direct fire from troops on the ground and coalition attack aircraft, and that the surviving rebels fled across the border into Pakistan after the fighting.
Pakistan’s military reported that some shells from the fighting landed in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal region, but no one was hurt there.
Spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said the U.S. commander on the Afghan side of the border had informed his local Pakistani counterpart that they were engaged in a “skirmish with miscreants” — a byword for militants — very close to the Pakistani border.
“Certain shells did land in Pakistani area but there was no collateral damage,” Sultan said.
After a winter lull, loyalists of Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime and other militants opposed to the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai have ramped up their insurgency with a series of bombings and other attacks.
A U.S. soldier was killed and three others wounded in an explosion as they patrolled in an armored vehicle Saturday in southern Zabul province. A purported Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for that attack.
The death brought to 144 the number of U.S. troops killed in and around Afghanistan since Operation Enduring Freedom began in 2001.
This implying you wish Musharraf and the Pakistani Army stood against the U.S. after September 11th?
mr. moderator what i was implying that they want more $.
The US AF has occasionally been violating airspace ever since 2001. As long as its for chasing terrorists and not bombing or spying, its fine by me. When has Musharraf asked for compensation before?
Ooh you can post an offensive cartoon, you're baad!
I'd rather tell it to my bich first.
Much before then, we had already pledged our support.
That was obviously for the Taliban.
No you didnt. Mushy supported US only after an asskick from Colin Powell.
check the dates. Wait a min, make up your mind. Bush or Powell?
I think the USA has to act more often since Pakitan is going very slow in the Pashtoon areas of its tribal belt.
It is unfortunate that in this raid, the USA did not get those evil people.
Pakistan is not going to stop the US operations on its soil or airspace .They have a tacit understanding. Even if they protest ,it will be just to soothe the nerves of the radicals.
stop being a retard and go check the dates. Musharraf had long pledged his "unstinted support" to the US forces, much before the "With us or without us" comment.
Pakistan has never supported acts of terrorism against US civilians, so it was always "with" America in that regard. The only issue Pakistan backtracked on was their support for the Taliban.
Caught in the never-ending spiralling web of your ********, ay Indiangay?
Pakistan had state sponsored terrorism.Remember i used "had".there where inumerable eveidence o ISI working along with theswe terror organisations before US blacklisting most of them.
Currently Pakistanies seem tobe working with US out of compulsion and not of choice.But thats good for them,atleast for once pakistan will strive for a system which is free of such extremists elements.
True. We had poor governance in the most part of the 90s.
Didn't I say "True"? What you want me to be ashamed? Ok boohoo.
Anyway as of today, the changes we've made are a reason for any Pakistani to be proud for what they're doing.
I don't think it is possible to control the AQ in Pakistan.
Therefore, would it really be not correct, if the Americans use their good offices and war equipment to sort out the AQ?
After all, it is in the interest of everybody that the AQ is finished.
He has been made a scape goat.
is it possible for one man to single handedly proliferate like AQ might have.
AQ might not be innocent but he aint alone either.i belive he had the tacit approval of the pakistani government.
GOP used him made some quick bucks and when he was exposed just dumped him.Isnt that easy???


Special Containment Procedures: Due to the poorly understood nature of SCP-2034, containment at this time is impracticable. Foundation assets and personnel assigned to SCP-2034 are instead to be focused on monitoring outbreaks of SCP-2034 occurring among private citizens, and administering amnestics as needed if and when SCP-2034's effects cease. In the event of a highly public SCP-2034 occurrence (as in the case of a celebrity or other public figure), MTF Upsilon-89 ("Nobodies") are to take measures to minimize the affected individual's public exposure, if practicable, until such time as SCP-2034's effects cease to affect the individual.
Following the cessation, Foundation personnel are to monitor online discussions relating to SCP-2034 and, in cooperation with manufacturers of video and photographic equipment, engage in a disinformation campaign to "normalize" reports of SCP-2034 as much as feasible. Furthermore, Foundation assets assigned to SCP-2034 are to cooperate with major media outlets to suppress certain movies/TV shows/video clips involving minor celebrities affected by SCP-2034. "Out of print" copies of these movies/TV shows are to be purchased from resellers and third-party merchants if practicable.
Description: SCP-2034 is a phenomenon in which a number of individuals2 cease to be perceived as living beings by digital media, such as photographs and video recordings. Affected individuals are instead depicted as an inanimate puppet or "dummy", to be labeled SCP-2034-A. It is unknown whether SCP-2034's effects are sensory or memetic as instances of SCP-2034-A are not identified by sight alone.
Further instances of SCP-2034-A began to come to the attention of the Foundation, either as they were discovered or ascribed after the fact, predominately involving celebrities and/or public officials.3 Additional instances of SCP-2034-A were continue to be positively identified through photographs and video recordings, including footage dated as far back as 1900.
Incident 34-1: At some point between ██/██/2010 and █/██/2011, actor ███████ █. ████████, who had previously been positively confirmed as an instance of SCP-2034-A, ceased to display the effects of SCP-2034. All photo/video footage of the actor depicted a non-anomalous ███████ █. ████████ where previously the image of a ventriloquist dummy was identified. An interview conducted with Mr. ████████ yielded nothing anomalous, either to individuals on the scene or in security footage taken during the interview.
Following the incident, previously confirmed instances of SCP-2034-A were reviewed again by Foundation personnel. Of the reviewed photographs and video footage, 45% no longer displayed the effects of SCP-2034. Additionally, new instances of SCP-2034-A were discovered in previously disqualified footage.
Due to the lack of information regarding SCP-2034's effects, it is unknown if individuals previously affected can become affected once again, or if certain individuals' effects are permanent. As such, a listing of confirmed instances of SCP-2034-A is restricted to personnel assigned to SCP-2034 only.
Addendum: After ██ years of monitoring, a rough timeline of SCP-2034's effects has been established. Of those observed, all but one have experienced a cessation of SCP-2034's effects over a period of 4 - ██ years. The sole remaining case is that of British actress Tobritza Pemberton (1896-1950), whose works continue to display the effects of SCP-2034. MTF Upsilon-89 began to notice a sharp increase in online searches for "Tobritza Pemberton", "Toby Pemberton wooden", and "vintage dummy actress", as well as torrents of Ms. Pemberton's surviving films, all displaying the effects of SCP-2034. Due to the lack of change in the anomaly, the Foundation launched a concerted effort to seize all surviving physical copies of Ms. Pemberton's films, (including original negatives and copies, home video releases, and as many home-recorded copies as possible) and suppress all information of Tobritza Pemberton.
Screen capture of Tobritza Pemberton in "██████████ █████" 1928. Screen capture was taken prior to Ms. Pemberton's SCP-2034-A identification.
- Beginning on ██/█/2012, Foundation agents began to infiltrate British governmental agencies to remove all records and references (including birth, census, contracts, [REDACTED]) to Tobritza Pemberton. Other records were altered to remove or otherwise re-appropriate references to Tobritza Pemberton to female ancestors of picked Foundation agents.
- Surviving friends and family members were administered varying classes of amnestics, removing all memories of Ms. Pemberton's occupation. Family photo albums and home videos were briefly confiscated to allow for manipulated duplicates to replace the originals.
- Attempts to track and delete digital copies of Ms. Pemberton's films were generally ineffective, necessitating action to discredit the supposed authenticity of the films still in circulation. Foundation agents began taking over seeding torrents of the films under new titles and including fictitious introductory credits attributing the voices of Ms. Pemberton's characters to lesser-known voice actresses. As of 2014, the number of torrents bearing the fictitious names outnumber the original torrents by ██%.
1. Doctor's Note: This is in no way an effective or permanent solution, short of amnesticizing much of the world's population. All actions taken in containment are designed to limit the exposure of SCP-2034, and to eliminate any potential patterns from becoming publicly known.
3. Note: This is likely due to the highly public nature of such individuals, rather than any coherent connection between public officials and SCP-2034.


I personally have both types of diaries. I have my electronic calendar on Outlook that is shared with my manager and other administrators. I also have a manual diary that can be used in times of emergency.
Why Is It Important to Have a Manual Diary?
The manual diary that I use is a bound book with three days per page since I don't have many entries for each day.
As I mentioned above, I only use this diary during emergencies. This includes times when I am sick or away from work and am not able to access my electronic diary or when the computer systems are down and Outlook is not accessible.
What Are the Advantages of an Electronic Diary?
I am able to highlight a potential conflict between appointments.
I only need to input regularly occurring events once.
I can access it from pretty much anywhere.
There are on-screen reminders of appointments.
It automatically communicates changes to those involved whose systems are connected with mine.
I sometimes have to book meetings and send meeting invites to colleagues or other delegates, and it is done electronically. Here is how I manage these types of meetings.
I try to input as many details as I can, like date, venue, duration, visitors, etc.
I rarely encounter a situation where a meeting is cancelled or postponed, but if this does happen, I make sure to check the effects that a requested change will have before agreeing to it.
I also gather all relevant information to make sure that everyone attending the meeting or appointment has access to all of the pertinent details so that there is no room for miscommunication.
I typically deal with requests and changes from other attendees in chronological order, but I will prioritize the most urgent requests if I'm dealing with a large volume of them.
When any requests are agreed or changes are made, I make sure that everyone involved is contacted and that it is convenient for them before the changes are confirmed.
I also make sure that every person involved in the appointment or meeting is given sufficient time for planning, travelling, and any other needs so that the meeting goes smoothly.
I am aware that diaries have to be kept up to date when changes have been agreed upon. I make sure that I have deleted any cancelled appointments. A diary that is not kept completely up to date can risk all kinds of confusion. It will also undermine confidence and encourage people to either feel the need to check on arrangements, which is a waste of time or, even worse, keep a separate diary of their own.
On a kind note, please do not copy anything submitted here and display it in your file. This has been published here purely to help you gain an idea/understanding of what they expect you to keep track of. You will have to relate to your own work area and organisation and stick with it while preparing the files. Thank you for your co-operation.
I benefited from the article on diaries. Thank you very much. All the best in the new year.


Planning on putting money down on the upcoming boxing match between rapper Soulja Boy and R&B singer Chris Brown? You might want to put your money on Brown, because Soulja Boy has some insider information.
The rapper added that the match will go down in March, with tickets currently on sale.
The Road to the Ring began for Soulja Boy and Chris Brown earlier this month, after an upset Brown allegedly threatened Soulja Boy because the rapper liked an Instagram photo of Brown’s ex, Karrueche Tran.
The rapper added Tuesday that he will “give an interview on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live'” about the upcoming fight, among other topics.
See Soulja Boy go a few rounds on Twitter below.
Hollywood bad boy Chris Brown is no stranger to legal trouble. TheWrap looks back at some of his most outrageous moments and run-ins with law enforcement.
Brown was 19 years old when he punched, choked and bit then-girlfriend Rihanna. Brown pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault.
"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts asked Brown repeated questions about Rihanna during his visit to the show, after which the artist stormed off set, and threw a chair through his dressing room window.
Brown was injured after an altercation with Drake at a New York nightclub, where bottles were broken and punches were thrown over mutual ex-girlfriend Rihanna.
Brown got hostile with a valet outside a Los Angeles bowling alley, after the parking attendant requested the $10 charge to release the singer's car.
After punching a man outside the W Hotel in Washington D.C., Brown was arrested for felony assault. According to TMZ, Brown said, "I'm not down with that gay s---, I feel like boxing" before attacking the man.
After the Washington, D.C. incident compelled Brown's judge in the Rihanna case to extend his stay at a Malibu rehab facility, he was kicked out and taken into custody for making a threatening comment, failing to submit to a drug test, and touching a female also undergoing treatment, according to the L.A. Times.
According to the Denver Post, a woman in Colorado filed a report for third-degree assault after she claimed she was forcibly thrown off Brown's tour bus for not surrendering her cell phone, which she said was broken in the skirmish.
Michael Guirguis, Brown's former manager once tasked with ameliorating the singer's image, filed a lawsuit accusing the performer of "brutally attacking" him, "punching him four times in the face and neck."
After his performance at a Las Vegas nightclub, Brown was accused of punching a woman who attempted to snap a picture of him, leaving her with a swollen, red eye.
Brown was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon after a woman called 911 earlier in the day claiming the singer pulled a gun on her, according to TMZ.
The embattled singer’s latest arrest in his L.A. home is part of a long (and getting longer) list of brushes with the law and bad P.R.


Extracts of a recorded conversation with life-long Oldbury resident Ruth Collins. Ruth was born in a Toll House and went on to care for both her parents and her husband.
I was born in a Toll House by the canal. The house was getting on for a hundred years old when I was born but only two of the families had ever lived in the house before us and the house eventually, it was set on fire so it was pulled down. That was after my father died. So there were only three families ever lived in the house in a hundred and fifty years.
Ruth and her sister Christine outside the Toll House at Brades Hall Locks on the Gower Branch in Tividale, Oldbury where they were both born.
That was my bedroom with the two windows over, because that was the Toll Office itself there and that was our living room and we had a front room but it faced East, so we didn't use it a lot because it didn't get any sun. That was my Mum and Dad's bedroom and our Christine had the bedroom over the front room, but my bedroom, it was far nicer, I will admit. I mean, we shared it at times but I just loved my bedroom, I thought it was lovely.
I wanted actually to be a nurse, but my Mum persuaded me not to be. She said I cared too much. But my Mum was ill when I was 12. She was diagnosed with Cancer and she fought very hard to stay alive and she said 'I don't want to die I want to see my children grow up'. I was actually 17 when she died, but my sister was only 14, and of course she'd been really ill for five years and it was a difficult time.
For years and years after she died people would come to me in the village and say 'oh your mum was a lovely person'. She just had an aura, an ambience. Very peaceful. Always... that smile was typical. I mean, they'd been married six years before I was born, but I mean definitely they wanted children. So I was a delight when I came into it. I was well looked after. There was just something very special about her.
I think she was burnt quite badly when she was a child. In fact, I once met the person who struck the match. I was at another aunt's house and it was after my Mum had died, but she said 'I was the one that struck the match that burnt your Mum'. They were playing with matches. My Grandad had a field, because he was a builder and an undertaker. Because if you were, in those days, you'd have carpenters and so you'd make coffins. My Mum used to even sew little Forget-Me-Nots on the pillows if they were for children. So family were involved, but they had a field which eventually my Grandad built houses on. They were playing in the field and somebody must have had matches and she dropped the match and it set my Mum's clothes on fire. I mean the skin on her face and a neck and down one side, the skin was all stretched and things. When she had her mastectomy, they actually put some extra skin in to give her extra movement, she hadn't got full movement in her arm. But they did do that for her. But she never bore malice or anything against anybody.
Ruth with her Mum, sister Christine and pet dog, Patch, taken mid 1950s.
Patch, that one was [points to the family dog in the photo - above]. We had Prince. Prince actually saved my Dad's life. You had to keep lock gates free of ice, because the ice would actually damage the wood in the lock gates. So he had to break the ice on each side of the lock gates so it wouldn't damage it. And he'd done that and he was going along the lock side, the one right outside our house and the snow had drifted over the edge of the canal and he stepped on it and he went down and he put his arms out, but the ice wasn't strong enough to hold him and of course he'd got Wellingtons on and they were filling with water and he was shouting and shouting and the dog was barking and barking. My Mum just thought it was the ice boat that had gone past on the top canal and she didn't really take a lot of notice. She thought, 'well he's been barking for a long time'. When she went out the water was right up to there [indicates water level being high]. But she managed to clear a space so that he could hold onto the side of the canal on the side of the lock and there was somebody mending a lorry just down the road and she managed to get him to come and help pull him out. But I mean, we didn't have hot water, so he couldn't have a bath or anything like that to warm him up, but he didn't have a cold or anything afterwards. He said he really did have that stillness come out of him thinking 'this is my last breath'. That was our Prince. She was lovely Prince was. Well Patch was alright, but she wasn't quite as nice as our Prince!
Ruth with her husband, Conrad Collins.
Ruth makes her way to her Wedding with her father, Will King.
Well when my Mum died, my Dad, we needed to get away, he wanted to take us on holiday and somebody said that there was a Christian guesthouse at Barmouth and we went for a holiday. Because one thing about my Dad, he didn't earn very much money, but because the LMS [London, Midland and Scottish Railway] had a controlling interest in Birmingham Canal Navigations we actually got three free passes on the LMS every year. We always had one to London, one for holidays and one for somewhere else, but he also got quarter fares as well. So we were able to get the train to Barmouth. And when I was there, Conrad had gone because his friend was working there. He also knew the people who were running this Guest House as they had been members of the Congregation of the church he went to. We didn't really speak very much during the week, but when it came to it he said 'would it be possible for me to come and see you?'. I'd be 18 then. So he did come to see me and he didn't give up! I don't think his father or brother had ever met anybody quite like me. I think they were frightened of me in a way!
Conrad Collins shows his Father in Law, Will King, a model boat that he had made for him. Some of Will's collection of Canal paraphernalia is housed with the Birmingham Museums Trust and his extensive photo collection appears under the 'Collections' part of this website.
My Dad had a set of boats, but the canal boat didn't match the tug that he'd got, they were different sizes, but Conrad made a tug to match the size of the boat. So he got a pair. In fact, that one, it was in the Thinktank because a lot of my Dad's collection was given to the Science Museum.
But then my Dad was ill, so I had to look after my Dad for several years and then he died and we scraped up enough money. My sister had gone to Canada and we got a cheap flight to New York and then went by Greyhound coaches to Toronto and then they took us round on a camping holiday. So we saw Niagara Falls and the bears in the woods and things like that in the forests, which was good. We came back and then we decided as a New Year's Resolution to start a family. It was a New Year's Resolution but Peter was born on the 6th of October and he was a week late, so I think it was the only New Year's resolution that ever worked!
Conrad Collins with his son, Peter in the family garden, Oldbury, late 1960s.
Conrad Collins and his son, Peter, on holiday together, late 1960s.
But Conrad then began to have difficulty walking and it was when there was lots of things - hospitals were always on strike, the radiographers went on strike, the porters went on strike, you know, and he should have been admitted to hospital for tests but he just kept getting delayed. Our Peter was born in 1967 so it'd be about 1970 to something like '71, '72. Eventually he was admitted to hospital and the same night he was rushed to the Neuro Hospital and said that if he didn't have this operation he would become paralyzed, but nobody bothered to tell us that the operation paralyzed - and I knew as soon as I saw him, they said 'oh no, we'll get him to Oswestry and they do marvellous things there and they walk'. But I knew, you know, he couldn't sit up.
We weren't given a diagnosis. Eventually they said that what it was, it was tumour which he probably had all his life, but as he grown, it had grown. But once he stopped growing it went on growing and it was very unusual because it was inside the spinal cord. Usually tumours are on the outside and press the spinal cord in, but this wasn't, it was inside pressing the spinal cord out. And you know it had paralyzed him. If they had found it earlier and if he'd had gone in at the right time, you know... it's all conjecture isn't it?
Oh it was traumatic, because I mean, our Peter was at school, but he really was very young. He had his sixth birthday in hospital. They kept him [Conrad] in City Hospital for six weeks before they could get a place for him at Oswestry. And then when he went to Oswestry he was put in a room and there were cobwebs all hanging down and everything. And they said 'we've got no food for you because it hasn't been ordered! I mean, you arrived to that? It was devastating!
I was working during the week, every Saturday and every Sunday we used to go to see Conrad. I used to tape all the 'Listen With Mother' stories so that Peter could listen to them on the way there, because he used to like those and we all stopped off at, not Oswestry - there's a castle just before you get to the hospital and we always used to have a little run.
Conrad, Peter and Ruth on holiday, early 1970s.
I looked after my mum, I looked after my Dad, I've looked after people since I was 12 years old. After my Dad died, we had a couple of years and then I had Peter. So, I mean, you know what it's like, if you've got a young child it takes a lot of your time, and then of course Conrad was ill! It gradually got worse, because his kidneys gave up and his heart began to fail and you name it, all his organs were going, and he was just bedridden for the last couple of years of his life. He should have died, but he wanted to live. And he did get to see our grandson. Well when I say saw him, he knew that he got his Degree, and he did get an Honours Degree, so that was nice, and he did know he'd got a job, which was important and he did get a good job. He was hunted by Goldman Sachs, so he worked very hard for it and he deserved it.
But I have been in some very, very difficult situations. I feel I've been, you know, unfairly treated in a lot of ways, but that's life. I couldn't have a home help at the beginning[...] if it had been me in the wheelchair and Conrad was going to work, we could have had a home help, but because it was Conrad in a wheelchair and I was going to work, I couldn't have a home help. I did eventually, when my had a lump sum, I had a room built downstairs with the bathroom, because it made life a lot easier for us. But we never got any help.
Peter and Conrad, probably at Betws-y-Coed, early 1970s.
Conrad and Peter, probably at Betws-y-Coed, early 1970s.
But when he was in hospital, I mean he was just so ill. And they asked Peter and I and we said 'well we don't want him just kept alive for the sake', because I mean, he couldn't even bear you to touch his little finger. He was in so much pain.
The day before he died he actually said, he'd got to the point where he could hardly say a word, but he actually said 'I've had enough' and that was the first time he'd ever, ever said that and really, he didn't say much more after that. You know they give you morphine and things, but he died reasonably peacefully.


A phrase I read more often when fighting pundits discuss the career of Oscar de la Hoya is that'he hasn't defeated a great champ in his prime.' it's a debatable statement to direct at a six division champ who is also the most financially successful non-heavyweight of modern times, having been involved many of the finest fights of the last twenty years. I always find such statements at least a little dubious, not the least as it is sometimes the job of a columnist to stir the pot by making a debatable statement. Also, it always appears the higher a person rises, the more some folk will attempt to deny what he has accomplished. Instead, I'll examine the career of one of de la Hoya's previous rivals : Felix'Tito' Trinidad. No one denigrates'Tito' by exclaiming he never faced and defeated a great fighter in his prime, so let's take some instruction from his career.
Felix Trinidad caught his first welterweight international title in 1993, by knocking out Maurice Blocker in 2 rounds. He was only 20 years old. However , Blocker himself could hardly be called a'great champion;' he fought only twice more after Trinidad against non-descript opposition and then retired.
Trinidad was signed with Don King, who has a habit of only paying attention to fighters like Trinidad when he's not dominating his bread and butter, the heavyweight division. Campas wouldn't win a world title until he moved up to 154lbs, at that point a feeble division.
by that time, Whittaker was extraordinarily far past his game. His close loss to de le Hoya had been almost 2 years before, and it had been more than a year since his tune-up fight with Andrei Pastraev. He fought only once more, losing by knockout to an unknown in 2001.
The big Sep 1999 showdown with Oscar de la Hoya remains questionable to this day, with many commentators who are definitely not de la Hoya partisans saying that'the Golden Boy' was robbedAs for de la Hoya'running,' it was'Tito' who came out of the fight with a busted up face and blood-stained trunks.
He moved up to 154lbs, and took away the WBA title from former Olympian David Reid. However , was either Reid or Vargas really great champions? Reid definitely wasn't. Prior to Trinidad, his two opponents of note were fringe contenders Laurent Bouduani and Keith Mullings. After Trinidad, he never got his career back on course and retired in obscurity.
Don King then set up the unification series for the middleweight title, including Felix Trinidad. In May 2001, he challenged two-time WBA middleweight champ William Joppy in his first fight at 160lbs, knocking out Joppy at Madison Square Garden in five rounds. Out boxed and roughed up,'Tito' lost by twelve th round knockout.
When Felix Trinidad left the 154lbs division, the pieces were picked up by Ronald'Winky' Wright, who went on to become the unchallenged world champ at that weight. The result was Trinidad's second defeat, a humiliating call loss.
Felix Trinidad has enjoyed an illustrious career, and merits his reputation and legion of Puerto Rican fans. Nobody disagrees that when the day comes,'Tito' will merit his place in the Hall-Of-Fame. it is beyond question that the sole great fighter in his prime that Trinidad ever scored a win over was Oscar de la Hoya, and that win remains controversial and contested to this very day.
So what does this mean for Oscar de la Hoya, and all the critics who say Oscar'never beat a great fighter in his prime?' Simply this : the more you achieve, the more the critics try to tear you down.


Congress requires the FISA court to maintain a pool of lawyers friendly to civil liberties who are willing to challenge the Justice Department's applications for a spy warrant. But the court almost never uses them.
In June 2015, Congress adopted modest reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) — the federal statute that allows the Department of Justice to obtain an ex parte order from a secret court to wiretap suspected terrorists and foreign agents, including American citizens. Recognizing the risk of government abuse inherent in such one-sided proceedings, Congress directed the FISA court to create a roster of attorneys willing to appear as amicus curiae, or friend of the court, to challenge the DOJ’s application for a surveillance warrant.
That reform, if properly implemented, could have averted the current scandal surrounding the FISA court order authorizing a wiretap of former Donald Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page — but only if the Obama Administration had also properly disclosed that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign had funded the Steele Dossier.
Let’s break it down: As part of the broader USA Freedom Act, Congress directed the presiding judges of the FISA court to designate as amici curiae at least 5 individuals with expertise in privacy and civil liberties, intelligence collection, or communications technology, who were also qualified to review classified material. For any matter coming before the FISA court that presented “a novel or significant interpretation of the law,” the USA Freedom Act requires the secret court to appoint an amicus curiae to the case. In other circumstances, the FISA court has discretion to decide whether to appoint an amicus curiae.
The amicus curiae, while not serving as an attorney for the FISA target, would assist the court by making “legal arguments that advance the protection of individual privacy and civil liberties,” as well as presenting other legal arguments relevant to the issues before the court.
But the unreliable origins of the Steele dossier were but a fraction of the problem. More significantly, as the Grassley-Graham criminal referral makes clear, the unnamed sources’ claims of potential criminal conduct by Carter Page were not corroborated prior to the government seeking the wiretap. Without corroboration to establish the credibility of the unnamed sources, the Steele Dossier could not establish probable cause.
Had the FISA court appointed amicus curiae to assist in its review of the Page case that lawyer could have zealously advocated for the privacy and civil liberties of Page. But instead, the FISA court heard the one-sided (and incomplete) version presented by Obama Administration appointees.
What if, though, the one amicus curiae the FISA court appointed in 2016 was asked to assist the court in its review of the Page wire-tap application? After all, the statute requires the FISA court to appoint amicus curiae when it faces a “novel interpretation of the law.” One would think that seeking to wiretap a former campaign volunteer of Donald Trump, right before the presidential election, because of his supposed role in a purported conspiracy between the Russians and Trump, would present a novel interpretation of the law.
Still, I find it extremely unlikely that the one case that the FISA court sought guidance from amicus curiae, out of more than 1,500, involved the Carter Page application. But if the FISA court did appoint amicus curiae to assist in the Page case, that is even worse because, according to the Report of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Activities of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts for 2016, “The name of the individual appointed to serve as amicus curiae is Marc Zwillinger.” And Zwillinger was a donor to the Hillary Clinton campaign via Hillary for America.
Further, according to Zwillinger’s webpage, “he appeared before the FISA Court of Review” in 2016. The FISA Court of Review hears appeals brought by the government when its application for a warrant is initially denied, which would indicate that if Zwillinger had participated in the Page case, the original FISA judge would have denied the government’s application for a wiretap warrant.
The Democrats claim this mishmash sufficiently alerted the FISA court to the political bias in play. It didn’t, but beyond that point, without knowing the involvement of the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, the FISA court and amicus curiae — if properly called upon by the court, as Congress intended — would have no way to assess whether an actual conflict of interest existed. Much of the Page FISA fiasco could have been avoided had the FISA court utilized the amicus curiae and had the Obama Administration been forthcoming in the application.
The FISA court has the authority to appoint amicus curiae in every case. Even if that is unnecessary, the judges of the secret court should consider greatly expanding the role of these advocates of privacy and civil liberties or, as former amicus curiae Cline told the Washington Examiner, if the FISA court declines to act, Congress should.
Whether reform of the amicus curiae role comes from the FISA court or Congress, it should entail assurances that apolitical lawyers serve as the friends of the court when the case involves such high-profile partisan cases as that involved in Page warrant. Until now, Congress and the FISA court likely did not anticipate the need to assure the FISA process remained transparently apolitical. After all, since September 11, 2001, the federal government’s use of the FISA court system appeared focused on combatting terrorism. There was no need to consider the potential political bias of the individuals designated by the FISA court to serve in the amicus curiae role when the cases involve international terrorism.
Given the concerns that the FISA process has been politicized, the FISA court should appoint additional amici curiae who do not bear the same potential for bias—and then take advantage of their expertise and advocacy.


The prowess of this sword attack could destroy the entire Earth's ecological system. At the sight of this, the killing intent in Ulpian surged to greater heights, and the silver river seemed to become ten times more violent than before.
"Fang Xingjian, you've really made me angry!"
Just as Fang Xingjian's full-power sword attack turned into absolute darkness to tear apart the silver river and was charging out toward the continent, the several billion people on the ground suddenly noticed that the heavenly river above their heads had suddenly disappeared.
No, it was not as if all of the heavenly rivers had disappeared. At the Central City, not only had the heavenly rivers not disappeared, but its number was increasing at an unbelievable speed.
The seething heavenly rivers were previously just the size of lakes. Yet, in the blink of an eye, their depths had exceeded ten kilometers and they were still continuing to increase. They had turned from lakes into oceans.
All the heavenly rivers that were above the continent instantly gathered in the sky above the Central City.
A silver river that was comparable to the size of the Pacific Ocean seethed in the sky, bellowing furiously. A power that could tear apart the entire continent eventually clashed fiercely against Fang Xingjian's sword attack.
At the instant this collision occurred, Fang Xingjian sensed that something was not right.
Each sword force, impact, and attack that disintegrated all things in the world was negated by a counteracting force.
This was the first time that Fang Xingjian had felt astonished since the battle started. It was because the waves from the heavenly river that soared into the sky had directly negated the All-Conquering Sword's attacks using streams of powers which were the complete opposite from the All-Conquering Sword's.
How complicated was the structure of the All-Conquering Sword that Fang Xingjian had slashed out? It was an extremely destructive power which could instantly annihilate countless amounts of matter instantly. Even Fang Xingjian himself was unable to calculate each and every bit of power it exerted.
Yet Ulpian was currently using such an unbelievable means to negate the All-Conquering Sword. This was a defensive method that Fang Xingjian had never thought of before.
At the next moment, countless seething thunderbolts, flames, and high temperatures were released from the silver river. Clearly, Ulpian was going to activate some sort of technique to wipe out Fang Xingjian completely.
Fang Xingjian looked at the turbulent heavenly river under his feet, and a hint of a smile curled up at the corners of his lips. The Heavenly River Virtual Image that Ulpian had turned into filled up half the planet's surface, preventing Fang Xingjian from being able to attack effectively.
This attack, that was aimed at the land, had caused the heavenly river to gather in the sky above the Central City just like he had expected.
Fang Xingjian's gaze narrowed, and at the next moment, a myriad of sword light burst out from all over his body.
Simultaneously, Edward's eyes were wide-open and his mouth was agape as he looked at the scene in the sky. Or rather, everyone who was able to watch the battle and was strong enough to understand the situation were all so astonished that they were speechless.
Edward sighed and said, "Fang Xingjian's series of attacks is already capable of annihilating mankind, killing me several hundred times over.
"However, Ulpian is even more amazing. If Fang Xingjian is a god, then Ulpian is be the god above all gods."
Just then, the gazes of Ming Wang, Fahui, and Akaryuu Juushirou narrowed. They raised up their Panwei, Thunder Calamity, and Abyss together and darted out toward the sky.
"Fang Xingjian mustn't be allowed to run amok like this."
"We must stop him from annihilating mankind."
In the blink of an eye, the trio soared up toward the sky and smashed their way into the silver river.
At the sight of this scene, Edward was slightly stunned. "Are they crazy? This battle is no longer one that we can interfere in."
Looking at the trio who had charged into the silver river, Ulpian frowned. "Leave the battlefield."
However, the three of them did not listen to him. Their eyes were dazed like they were three marionettes. They raised their longswords and slashed out fiercely toward the silver river around them.
"What are you guys doing?" Ulpian frowned.
At the next moment, his countenance changed. "No, it has already happened."
He had just noticed that the Akaryuu Juushirou and the other two seemed to be images which were one step slower. Under his actual vision, the trio's swords had already come slashing down, shattered, and shot out terrifying sword light.
It was only now that the trio suddenly woke up. Looking at the divine swords they held but had lost control of, their countenances changed drastically.
"What on earth has happened?"
The Thunder Calamity, Abyss, and Panwei Swords had self-detonated. Simultaneously, Fang Xingjian also slashed out fiercely toward the heavenly river from the outside with his White Bone Longsword.
During the process of the White Bone Longsword slashing down, it shattered and also self-detonated.
The three Commanders watched as Fang Xingjian stepped in void space and slowly walked toward them. Wherever he passed by, it was as if the silver river did not exist.
The three people were all surprised by the sight of Fang Xingjian. They were about to make a move when they discovered their bodies were no longer under their control as they charged out toward the three detonating divine swords.
How could the trio not realize by now that they had fallen into Fang Xingjian's trap? In fact, from the moment they had gotten their hands on the three divine swords, Fang Xingjian's illusory arts had slowly taken root in their hearts. Now that the illusory arts were activated, they instantly found a change to enter into Ulpian's heavenly river and the swords self-detonated.
Even Ulpian had been deceived by the illusory arts and could not make it in time to divert the effects of the divine swords' self-detonation from reaching the limits of the microscopic realm.
The moment they summoned all their powers and were about to charge into the self-detonation, Ulpian discovered that what he saw were the delayed effects from the illusions.
The heavenly river's Spatial Translocation ability was instantly activated, and the three Commanders were transmitted out. However, the powers from the three divine swords' explosions had already reached the pinnacle of the microscopic realm and could no longer be transmitted out.
The three divine swordsThunder Calamity, Abyss, and Panweihad depleted Fang Xingjian's countless heavenly and earthly treasures, Divine Equipment, and effort. Each of them possessed the power of a tier five Divine level expert. The powers of their self-detonation were comparable to having several hundred thousand nuclear missiles setting off.
Furthermore, in addition to there being three swords self-detonating within the heavenly river, the White Bone Longsword had also self-detonated on the outside.
The Celestial Eradication Sword Formation that the four swords formed was also appearing faintly in void space, slowly shattering and breaking up.
Fang Xingjian had also caused the Celestial Eradication Sword Formation to self-detonate.
The powers of the self-detonations vaporized the heavenly river crazily. Concurrently, a faint image of a world had appeared behind Fang Xingjian.
Celestial Eradication had collapsed, and Divine Country was being destroyed.
With an explosive bellow, the Divine Country crumbled into dust in an instant. The space that was initially compressed swelled up crazily toward the heavenly river. The two outbursts of power from the inside and outside of the heavenly river seemed to instantly link up the interior and exterior of the heavenly river. At this moment, overwhelming silver waves upsurged, and countless silver rivers and oceans were vaporized.


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