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Monday, January 14, 2013
Wreck of the Fascadale Part 2
Who was the Fascadale's First Mate?
A street in the Natal coastal resort of Southbroom commemorates Captain Alfred Julius Smith, said to have been the person commanding the Fascadale at the time of the wreck. However, there's confusion about this in various sources. The Times report quoted above merely refers to 'the captain', who was washed off the poop and rescued by Frank Whitehead. This would not have been the Fascadale's Captain Gillespie, so presumably it was the First Mate.
www.southbroom.org/street_names.htm gives the following:
'When the Fascadale foundered ... in 1895, her captain was laid up in hospital after having met with an accident whilst unloading cargo in Durban. First Mate, Alfred Julius, was in fact at the helm but it is the registered ship's captain who is the namesake of Captain Smith's Drive'.
According to Malcolm Turner's Shipwrecks & Salvage in South Africa, where he quotes as one of his sources Lloyds Register of Shipping 1894-95, Captain B J Gillespie was the registered captain of the Fascadale. So, was the Fascadale's First Mate 'Alfred Julius' - or Alfred Julius Smith - acting captain at the time of the wreck?
There are also conflicting reports about the Fascadale - her size (but that often occurred, for various reasons, in ship descriptions), where she was bound and from where she had sailed. Turner states that the vessel was on a voyage from Java to Liverpool, The Times gives from Java to Lisbon, and other versions of the story mention she was travelling from Mauritius to Lisbon.
Details concerning Captain Gillespie are similarly varied: he was left behind in Java because he was ill; he had been injured in Durban and taken to Addington Hospital, so the Fascadale had continued her voyage without him. www.southbroom.org/fascadale.htm
Paxie Kelsey's great grandfather was a Captain Alfred Julius Smith, who would have been 23 in 1895; he was in the BSAP by October 1895, and discharged in January 1896. Later in that year he was in the Kimberley Cadet Corps and he went on to be commended for bravery in WWI. Could Paxie's ancestor have been acting captain of the Fascadale - or is the name merely a strange coincidence?
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Ray Burton, Mr. North Country, will not be replaced
Ray Burton's political legacy is unique. Burton made his mark over almost 40 years as a public figure like no other in an institution that doesn't exist anywhere else. While there is a lot that other politicians would do well to copy, it is unlikely that he will ever be replaced or duplicated, and the state will be poorer because of it.
As America celebrated its bicentennial, Ray Burton was elected for the first of a record 18 times to an office that predates the United States and has vanished in every other state. Ray's attention to the details of politics mirrors the detail-oriented focus of the institution he serves.
New Hampshire's Executive Council is a vestige of the old royal councils that existed in England and all of her colonies. One by one the states around us eliminated their councils. Maine's was eliminated in 1975. There is still a council in Massachusetts, but it is largely ceremonial.
In New Hampshire, an Executive Council with five members elected in districts of about 265,000 people must confirm gubernatorial appointments not just for department heads, but for hundreds of deputies, division directors, bureau chiefs and oversight board members. In addition, and uniquely, the council must approve transfers of funds, contracts and expenditures greater than $10,000 for the entire $5 billion state budget.
That level of detail can be tedium for some, but it puts New Hampshire's state government under the microscope at a more detailed level than is the case in most states. Ray Burton became legendary for embracing the detail to the benefit of his North Country district and for making that the defining aspect of his political life and reputation.
Today, most politicians carve out a name in one area and then try to parlay that into something else. They try to climb the political greasy pole. In 40 years, Ray Burton never had a shadow campaign for governor, a manufactured congressional boomlet, or seemed to be jockeying for some lucrative appointment. Instead he became known more and more as the voice and presence of the North Country.
Elected to represent the North of the state, he moved the field of play for the council from the old chamber inside the State House to the mountains and valleys of the state at large.
While the districts are equal in population, Burton's district is geographically more than half the state. Nonetheless, it is not possible to attend an event of any sort with more than a handful of people anywhere in his district without bumping into Ray Burton. His presence at so many events should be surprising, but it has come to be expected.
Although Ray always campaigns "as if he's five votes behind," he hasn't had a close election in decades and his frenetic pace is not electoral in nature. His election is assured, but just as the council immerses itself in the details of the state, so Ray immerses himself in the details of his district. He's not running for re-election when he goes everywhere. Instead he is like the mayor of a giant swath of territory who makes sure that every pothole gets filled and every bridge is on the funding list.
When most politicians enter a room, people ask, "what's he running for?" They then smile politely until that guy leaves and they can get on with our business. Ray's presence was different. His speeches were never about him, but about making sure people knew what was happening and that he could be counted on if they needed help. Tellingly, his retirement announcement this week makes sure people know they can contact his office for anything they need even as he's battling cancer.
Burton's humility and dedication to service are unusual in politicians today. It is easy to describe him as old-fashioned, as if he's an anachronism, a bit of a switchboard operator in an iPhone world. But that misses what Ray Burton is entirely.
Attention to detail is what modern politics lacks. Ray Burton wanted to know every issue in every town he represented. When the state develops its highway plan, he makes sure small-town bridges aren't overshadowed by large superhighways.
Too often, the biggest and most dramatic projects crowd out little ones that can make more of a difference at lower cost. Too often, powerful people from the biggest cities move to the top of appointment lists over good people from tiny towns far from the media centers.
The Ray Burton approach to politics isn't archaic, it's detail-oriented. It is the opposite of modern, blow-dry politics in every good way. Ray's retirement leaves a hole that must be filled and a personality we're all going to miss.
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I must admit, I'm baffled to see LG pull a stunt like this after having faced public backlash over their spying on their customers' TV viewing habits. After backpedaling on the issue last year, they've now done a full 180 and reserve the right to record your entire viewing habits and share this data with everyone and their mom, even in countries with most likely less strict data protection laws. And here's the kicker: if you don't agree to these terms, many of the SmartTV features you paid for will be lost!
That's apparently par for the course cause LG also removed the ability to switch audio tracks on local DLNA playback some firmwares ago (alledgedly due to copyright reasons). And when I set my LG TV to a non-existant gateway to stop it from sending my data to LG (my old Fritzbox does not blacklist), I could not connect to my local NAS anymore despite it being in the same network segment.
Also bad is the fact that, probably due to being embarrassed on a regular basis by all the bugs and removed features of their firmwares, LG does not offer changelogs. So when you've updated your TV's firmware on the slim hope of seeing some improvements/fixes, you'll notice the new terms you'll be forced to agree to only after the fact! And since LG offers no way to downgrade the firmware, you're suddenly stuck with a device with less features and more spying on you than you bargained for.
Fortunately, some Russian hackers felt the need to adress the issue and reverse engineered the firmware update process and made a small business out of giving the LG customers what they want. Others took note and devised a do-it-yourself approach to downgrade your TV (thx, nenif).
How to downgrade your LG TV's firmware
The idea is simple enough: download an older official firmware from the LG website and use your own DNS server on your PC/laptop to trick your TV into thinking it's downloading from the official site. Supposedly this method applies to the 2012/2013 models, I've successfully done it with my 40LN5758 (downgrading from 04.22.xx to 04.04.05) using the instructions below. With more recent firmwares you might have to add some additional steps mentionend in the comments (thanks to all contributers). So if at first you don't succeed, please check em out.
I can't stress that enough! Apparently some people have had weird experiences with their downgrade attempts. If you have other models/versions than those mentioned here as being applicable, don't try this or you might brick your device!
- Download LgDTVUpDater_new.zip and unzip it to your drive c:\ so that you end up with a dir called c:\LgDTVUpDater (another destination will likely result in error messages later on).
- Check out the folder "Antwort" inside the htdocs folder. That's a translation of "response", meaning the server's responses people already received and listed for your convenience. Browsing the files inside you can see links to lots of older firmwares.
- Download the firmware you want to downgrade to and unzip it to C:\LgDTVUpDater\htdocs\
- Open C:\LgDTVUpDater\dns\AcrylicHosts.txt in an editor like Notepad++ and change the IP adress of snu.lge.com in the last line to your PC's address (in my case 10.10.10.40), then save the file. As suggested in the comments, downgrading from more recent firmwares might require to add additional servers: rdvs.alljoyn.org, fi.lgtvsdp.com, us.lgtvsdp.com – one per line – with the same IP address.
- Start C:\LgDTVUpDater\startDNS.bat and then C:\LgDTVUpDater\startHTTP.bat with a double-click resulting in 2 black windows (showing that the Acrylic DNS server and the Apache server are running) and probably your firewall complaining. In that case, allow both.
- On your TV select Settings > Network Connection > Start Connection > Cancel > Manual Setup > Wired (firmware updates are huge and any disconnects over wireless might lead to bricking your TV). Keep IP MODE on Auto Input, set DNS MODE to Manual Input and enter your PC's IP address
- Select Settings > Support > Software Update > Check Update Version but do not update! Close when the check has been performed. This check generates a file with some needed info on your TV's model.
- Open C:\LgDTVUpDater\htdocs\in_dump.txt and copy your TV's model name from inside the MODEL_NM-tag. For my LN5758 it's
- Check C:\LgDTVUpDater\htdocs\ if a file of that name already exists (these are text files with a simple xml structure inside, they have no extension like .txt or .xml). If not, copy one of the other files over to that name
- Edit the new file, in my case HE_DTV_NC4H_AFAAABAA. It will look quite jumbled cause there are no line breaks. If you add them manually, it looks something like this:
- There are only a few entries to change:
IMAGE_URL: the IP of your PC
IMAGE_NAME: name of the firmware file you unzipped
CDN_URLIP: IP of your PC and name of the firmware
You can also change
UPDATE_MAJOR_VER: major version of the firmware
UPDATE_MINOR_VER: minor version of the firmware
but this should only be cosmetic cause the revision number is also stored inside the epk. The FORCE_FLAG set to Y should ensure any current version being overwritten with the one you've downloaded, thus enabling the downgrade in the first place.
Save the file.
- Now close the two command prompt windows and double-click again on C:\LgDTVUpDater\startDNS.bat and then C:\LgDTVUpDater\startHTTP.bat
- On your TV select Settings > Support > Software Update > Check Update Version: a new firmware is found! Update.
- When the update is through (which should be pretty fast since it's done from your PC), the TV will reboot.
- Upon restart, you'll get a message window with another progress bar (in my case a yellow frame with the foreign language text flipped). The firmware you just downloaded to your TV is now being installed. Once this is through, the downgrade is complete.
- For good measure you should reset the TV to factory defaults. Please note, that you will have to scan and sort channels after that. Even if you don't reset, you'll have to agree to this firmware's terms of use before you can use Smart TV functionality. As mentioned above, these should be less restrictive than the ones you had to agree to before. If not, downgrade to an even older version ;)
Feel free to add model numbers of TVs you successfully downgraded or links to firmwares in the comment section.


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|Camels in Berlin at Brandenburger Tor
I arrived at Berlin the day before at noon. So I had time to stroll around in the city and to see some of the famous landmarks such as the Brandenburger Tor (see photo above).
The WW2 memorial is just next to the tor, so my Camel and I went also there.
|Camel at the WW2 memorial
|Unter den Linden, a famous street in Berlin
|Karl Marx and the Camel having a talk
As I was hungry I located a Berliner restaurant nearby Alexander Plats and ordered a Wienerschnitzel, which is famous German cousine.
|Wienerschnitzel and Beers is always good
The organizers have put up signposts with directs for the conference, so it was easy to find.
|Bed Con 2012 is to the right
I sat down for the first talk by Paul and Christopher, from Coinor, who gave a presentation about open source integration with Apache.
|Paul and Christopher from Coinor, giving a talk about open source integration with Apache
A perfect match as they gave a run down of a real life use-case for a bank, where they are using the Apache ActiveMQ, CXF, Camel, and ServiceMix/Karaf for their needs. They gave an introduction to the products, and scratched the surface a bit on each product.
Then my talk succeeded, where I focused on Apache Camel, and gave a talk with a twist of humor. After 25 minutes of slides, we went practical and did live demos, and coding. I got myself into enjoying this, as it helps people see things fall into pieces. I have accompanying slides with highlights of the source code so its easier for everyone to see; as well for people viewing the slides afterwards.
In the demos we have a bit fun with the new twitter and web-socket example I previously blogged about. And with the powers from Fuse IDE we can do runtime introspection into the applications, and see performance statistics as they occur in-real-time.
|Fuse IDE with runtime performance statistics of the twitter web-socket example
(28 messages, with 0 ms avg processing time)
We also gave a little rundown of a Groovy example which allows you to do quick and dirty prototyping from a single .groovy file, without any Maven or other build tools etc.
And lastly we covered how you can create a new Camel project from scratch. For example using the Maven archetype tooling, and/or the Fuse IDE which also can create new projects, fully from within the IDE.
The talk was well received, and the room was packed. I have to give a warm thank you to the organizers, and the sponsors who make this conference possible. Good work and good luck with the conferences in the future.
At the airport I took in my last breathe of Berliner experience at the Berliner Currywurst cafeteria, which is an old used train wagon, located at the D-terminal.
|Train Wagon Cafeteria offering Berliner Currywursts
All together a nice visit to Berlin.
I have posted the presentation to my slideshare account.
To bad that Schalke 04 lost the game yesterday. Nice to see Raul is still going strong. They really love him in Madrid, and his Schalke jersey is among the top sales on the streets there.


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TransAlp Challenge
Stage 3 report by Team Rocky Mountain Business Objects member Lesley Tomlinson
Today's stage was a bit epic. In the 4 years I have been here. We have had the occasional small hike across some mountain pass. Today though, we hiked what seemed like forever up scree slopes into snow, past the Alpine Bovines, more snow to the top of St Pöltener Hütte after 47km of climbing (5km of hiking). It worked in the favour of good hikers for sure.
Andreas Hestler and partner Alison Sydor got to utilize their hard winter hiking on the North Shore of Vancouver and closed the gap to first place and jersey wearers Anna Baylis of Australia and her husband (Jorg Scheiderbauer). They battled all the way to the finish. After passing them on the downhill, Andreas put his head down to TT at 38km per hour for as long as he could into a head wind. There were 40km to the finish from the base of the climb. They almost made it when the Baylis team, who had picked up a good fast group of men, caught them coming into the town. Their race finished in a sprint and Hestler and Sydor took the stage. It should be noted that the mixed teams are allowed to use a towing method to maximize their speed. Hestler and Sydor are going without a tow system, making it very challenging as Alison gets no assistance except for Andreas' wheel to hang onto for the fast flat portions.
They are still 4 minutes 50 down overall and in second place.
Karl Platt and Carsten Bresser had a crash coming into the finish when 5 teams were left together at the finish for the sprint. Bart Brentjens was just off the group, so they added a very small amount of time to their lead over the Giant Team. The Rocky Mountain Business Objects duo are still in the Leaders jersey for day 4.Their finish time was 5 hours and 4 mins.
Lesley Tomlinson ad Gretchen Reeves of RockyMountain Business Objects had a more challenging day taking second place, as after the hike the 3rd and 4th place teams reached the summit at the same time. Although the Canadians put time on them all on the long downhill, they reached the long 40km drag in alone and TT'd by themselves until finally picking up a small group with 10km to go. The other teams were chasing hard in a fast group and the finish gap as small. But Reeves and Tomlinson were second for the 3rd day in a row and keep a significant lead over 3rd, 4th and 5th places.
The duo of Enoccson and Süss are riding incredibly well and maintain their first position with a good lead.
Tomorrow is apparently the hardest stage in the Trans Alp this year and it is currently pouring rain. Stage three was very long due to the massive hike. The distance was just under 100km.
Tuesday will be Lienz Austria to Sexten. 70.4 km but 3684 meters of climbing. The start goes right into an 11km climb of 15 to 22%. How fun is that?
More to come
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Thursday Afternoon Prayer & Tea Time – Come to the PUMC Library on Thursday afternoons from 2:30-3:30p.m., have a cup of tea, and steep in prayer! Enter through the east-side (County Building side) glass doors and go left to the Circle Room and then into the Library; no appointment necessary. We welcome you to be with us as we join in prayer for our world, our nation, our region, and our local community in prayer each week - and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with us as we fellowship in prayer together!
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Weep no more my lady
Oh! weep no more today!
Bravo – Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway!
Attorney General Jack Conway announced that his office filed a lawsuit on January 23, 2013 in Franklin Circuit Court against MERSCORP Holdings, Inc., and its wholly owned subsidiary Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) for violations of Kentucky law. The lawsuit is a result of Attorney General Conway's investigation of mortgage foreclosure issues in Kentucky.
The lawsuit alleges that MERS violated Kentucky law by not recording mortgage assignments with County Clerks when mortgages were sold or transferred from one bank to another.
By law, mortgage assignments must be recorded in the appropriate County Clerk's office and a $12 fee is collected by the clerks on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
"Kentucky's statute is clear. It requires assignments be recorded with County Clerks, and MERS directly violated that law by creating this system that provides no public record of sales or transactions and deliberately circumvents paying recording fees to states," General Conway said. "The process makes it difficult for consumers to access data to find out who owns their loans, and the Commonwealth is ripped off when it comes to recording fees."
MERS was created in 1995 to enable the mortgage industry to avoid state recording fees, allow for the rapid sale and securitization of mortgages, and shorten the time it takes to pursue foreclosure actions. Its corporate shareholders include, among others, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Mortgage Bankers Association.
Currently more than 6,500 MERS members pay for access to the private system. More than 70 million mortgages have been registered on the system. The lawsuit alleges that since MERS' creation in 1995, members have avoided paying more than $2 billion in recording fees nationwide.
Hundreds of thousands of Kentucky loans are registered in the MERS system. As a result of not publicly recording the mortgage assignments and paying the required fees, the lawsuit alleges that MERS violated Kentucky's Consumer Protection Act by committing unfair, false, misleading or deceptive conduct. Under Kentucky law, MERS could be fined up to $2,000 for every violation.
"This process undermines the integrity of Kentucky's public land records," AG Jack Conway said. "Before the bottom fell out of the housing market, banks were bundling and selling loans on the securities market as fast as the ink could dry on the paperwork. When homeowners had trouble paying their mortgages during the economic downturn, they struggled to find out who owned their loans. It made it difficult to find out who to call to request a loan modification or to defend the foreclosure. There is and was no public record of the transfers."
[See also "MERS is not a "holder" under the plain language of the statute."]
In addition, the lawsuit makes civil claims that MERS created this system to unjustly enrich and pad its bottom line at the expense of consumers and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. To view a copy of the complaint visit http://goo.gl/IqkxA.
Other states have filed similar lawsuits against MERS, including Massachusetts, Delaware and New York. What is you AG doing – maybe you should give him/her a call?
"I commend Attorney General Conway for taking action against MERS," New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said. "The banks created this system as an end-run around the public property system and state recording fees. In Kentucky, New York, and across the country, these actions have left financially troubled homeowners in the dark about who owns their mortgages, making the difficult process of negotiating a modification or fighting a foreclosure action even harder. Attorney General Conway's lawsuit is an important step towards accountability for these abusive practices."
Attorney General Schneiderman and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan chair the President's mortgage fraud task force, which President Obama convened a year ago to build on the work of the mortgage foreclosure settlement.
Mortgage Foreclosure Settlement
In addition to the MERS lawsuit, General Conway joined 48 other state Attorneys General in negotiating the historic $25 billion national mortgage foreclosure settlement. The Attorneys General uncovered that the nation's five largest banks had been committing fraud during some foreclosures by filing "robo-signed" documents with the courts.
Kentucky's share of the settlement totals almost $58 million. Thirty-eight million dollars is being allocated by the settlement administrator to consumers who qualify for refinancing, loan write downs, debt restructuring and/or cash payments of up to $2,000. To date, the banks report providing more than $33 million in relief to 944 Kentucky homeowners. The average borrower received more than $35,000 in assistance.
Kentucky also received $19.2 million in hard dollars from the banks. The money went to agencies that create affordable housing, provide relief or legal assistance to homeowners facing foreclosure, redevelop foreclosed properties and reduce blight created by vacant properties.
To learn more about the settlement, visit www.ag.ky.gov.
The Kentucky State Song
My Old Kentucky Home
words and music by Stephen C. Foster
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
'Tis summer, the people are gay;
The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright;
By 'n' by Hard Times comes a-knocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
Weep no more my lady
Oh! weep no more today!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky home,
For the Old Kentucky Home far away.
They hunt no more for the possum and the coon,
On meadow, the hill and the shore,
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,
On the bench by the old cabin door.
The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart,
With sorrow, where all was delight,
The time has come when the people have to part,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.
The head must bow and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the people may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow;
A few more days for to tote the weary load,
No matter, 'twill never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road,
Then my old Kentucky home, goodnight.


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Businesses using Facebook, Twitter to promote services
More and more local businesses are using social networking like Facebook and Twitter to promote their goods and services.
Whether it is a floral shop, tacos or pizza, these businesses are working on improving sales, sharing information or keeping up with friends.
Tom Martin, owner of Taco Box in Clovis and Portales, and his son, Thomas Martin, took over the Facebook fan site a customer created for them.
"I think it had 400 members at that time," said the younger Martin. "I'd never been on Facebook until someone told us about it."
They took over the page a year ago and since then the fan base has jumped to nearly 1,400 members.
Martin said the coolest thing is they get see their fans, hear stories and recommendations for food items.
"We had two customers suggest a burrito so we're naming it after them," Martin said "It is going to be the K&K burrito. It's not exactly on the menu, but it is going on our cash register. If they come in and order it, all they have to say is they want a K&K burrito."
Martin said a lot of comments from fans on Facebook have been about memories, things they ordered, comments from past employees and customers who have stopped by.
Mike Hays, owner of Snappy Tomato Pizza in Clovis, just got started on Twitter.
Hays said he is still working out some of the bugs in getting his Twitter account where his customers can find him on the Internet. Hays said his children are on Facebook, but wants to use the social network for Snappy Tomato.
"It is not about me, it is about the new store," Hays said. "I want people to know it is a new store. We're a franchise that is 32 years-old, but as far as people in this area know, we're just a brand new store."
Hays said he wants to communicate with his customers directly and offer specials to people who follow them on Twitter and Facebook. Hays said he read about a pizza company in New Orleans that increased their sales by 68 percent in one month by using Twitter and Facebook.
Hestands Floral and Gifts in Portales started using social networking last year. They use their Facebook account to advertise store events .
"We used it for our Holiday Open House in 2009," Michele Robertson said. "We put it as an event and sent out event invitations to everyone on Facebook and that gave us an idea of how many people were interested in coming."
The result was a huge turn out because the store's Facebook fans brought their friends. Robertson said she gets a lot of responses because she posts some of the things she is working on or done that day.
"People can see the work that we do," Robertson said. "It helps us to interact more with our customers then we would have if we hadn't had the Facebook page because all those fans on the page get to see what goes on in the store."


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For the whole of FY21, the company reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,724.95 crore, against Rs 1,480.30 crore in the year-ago period.T
NBFC Manappuram Finance on Wednesday reported a 17.62% year-on-year (y-o-y) increase in its consolidated net profit to Rs 468.35 crore for the fourth quarter of FY21.
The Kerala-based gold loan lender, which also operates a home loan, microfinance and commercial vehicle leasing subsidiary, has reported a standalone net profit of Rs 457.95 crore for the fourth quarter of last fiscal, an increase of 34.79% from Rs 339.76 crore reported in the year-ago quarter.
However, sequentially, the lender reported a 1.58% fall in the net profit, from Rs 465.29 crore in Q3 of FY21. The gold loan portfolio also declined quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q) by 5.61% to Rs 19,077.05 crore in Q4, from Rs 20,211.58 crore reported in Q3FY21.
For the whole of FY21, the company reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,724.95 crore, against Rs 1,480.30 crore in the year-ago period.The NBFC's operating income for the year stood at Rs 6,330.55 crore, up 15.83% from Rs 5,465.32 crore recorded in the previous year.
VP Nandakumar, MD & CEO, said, "Our performance is particularly satisfactory given the multiple challenges faced throughout this pandemic-affected year. Despite all disruptions due to lockdowns, the consequent slowdown in economic activity and consumption and volatility in gold prices, we have succeeded in posting our best-ever full-year results, with significant growth in business and profitability."
The company's consolidated assets under management (AUM) stood at Rs 27,224.22 crore, up 7.89% in comparison to Rs 25,234.03 crore in the previous year. Growth was led by gold loans which grew by 12.44% to reach Rs 19,077.05 crore.
The capital adequacy ratio (standalone) is reported at 28.88%. The net NPA position stood at 1.53%, and gross NPA at 1.92% as of March 31, 2021.
The board of directors approved payment of an interim dividend of Rs 0.75 per share of the face value of Rs 2.
Madhu Mohan, general manager, has been re-appointed the chief risk officer for a period of one year with effect from July 17, 2021, the company said in a regulatory filing.
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So Where's That Occupy Wall Street Comeback?
There were no drums when I visited Occupy Wall Street's small protest on the steps of Federal Hall on Wall Street Monday. It was in keeping with the current tenor of the movement, which seems dangerously quiet for what is supposed to be a massive spring resurgence.
It's less than two weeks until Occupy Wall Street's big May Day General Strike, and things have not taken off for protesters since we last checked in on them. More ink has been spilled in the past month on Lena Dunham's sex life than the great populist movement of our time.
Occupy Wall Street is currently staging small sleepovers down on Wall Street itself. Sympathizers frame this as Occupy's triumphant return to its roots, but chances are you completely missed the start of these so-called "sleepful protests" two weekends ago. I almost did—and my job is covering them. A few dozen protesters set up camp on a sidewalk on the corner of Broad and Wall Street, relying on a 2000 court ruling that said sleeping in public as a form of protest was protected by the First Amendment. Protesters chilled on Wall St. until this past Monday morning, when police decided to clear protesters out anyway, arresting four.
Protesters quickly reconvened on the steps of Federal Hall, the former New York City Hall which also was the first capitol of the U.S. I stopped by on Monday evening, and found a few dozen occupiers—many whom I recognized from the earliest days of Zuccotti Park—in good spirits. But there was a definite lack of urgency among the crowd, considering the ambitions of Occupy's plans for a spectacular General Strike on May 1, just a few weeks away. On May Day, Occupy organizers promise that "Millions of people throughout the world… will take to the streets to unite in a General Strike against a system that does not work for us." This is a day whose success even many Occupiers admit will be crucial for the future of the movement.
Judging from Monday's protest, though, Occupy's ability to mobilize even hundreds—much less millions—of people remains severely dampened after a quiet winter. As a National Monument, Federal Hall officially closed on Monday at 5 p.m. and Occupiers, who had no intention of leaving, braced for a showdown. Facebook events called for backup, and major Occupy Twitter accounts summoned protesters down to Federal Hall. A similar call brought hundreds down to Zuccotti Park last winter and temporarily staved off an eviction, but on Monday, turnout was sparse. NYPD arrested at least 10 protesters, and the rest were told to keep it down. You couldn't blame the scant crowds on the weather, as it was the most beautiful day of the year.
Of course it would be foolish to write off Occupy based on a few months of downtime, just as it was foolish for so many to discount it until it blew up in their face in the beginning. And with this in mind, a resurgence is always possible: This could be the calm before the storm as much as it could be the movement's last gasp. But it's also very possible that Occupy has turned into a few hundred of the same people going to the same meetings and getting arrested for doing the same things over and over, spiraling gradually into irrelevance. I hope they prove me wrong on May Day—even if that requires bringing back the goddamn drums.
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INDIANAPOLISFour Indiana museums will receive grants totaling more than $500,000 for special projects.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced the four federally funded projects Thursday.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis plans to use its grant to follow up on a neighborhood planning process and develop education opportunities including preschool, school field trips, after-school learning opportunities and college scholarships.
The Evansville Museum of Arts and Science plans to use its grant to improve technology to enhance visitors' experiences.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will develop a rights and reproductions handbook, and the Eiteljorg (EYE'-tuhl-jorj) Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis will improve its collections storage vault.


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Aspin, Les (Leslie Aspin, Jr.), 1938–95, U.S. politician and government official, b. Milwaukee, Wis. Running as a Democrat opposed to the Vietnam War, he won election as a U.S. Representative from Wisconsin in 1970. Reelected 10 times, he served in the House until 1993. In 1985 he became chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and in that position supported many aspects of President Ronald Reagan's military buildup. From 1993 to 1994 Aspin was Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton. He oversaw the easing of restrictions on homosexuals in the military (see gay-rights movement) and expanded the role of women in the armed forces, but ill health and criticism of his management of the Defense Dept. led him to resign.
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If you took a look at our outline for the project process the other day, you'll know that we're taking an iterative and user centered approach to this project. That means that at regular intervals through out the project, as well as doing all this online stuff, we're also going to sit down with real people in 'real life' and let them use our design work while we observe them and make notes about what is working well and what requires improvement. This is sometimes known as Usability Testing.
Now, Mark & I are going to be doing a bunch of this ourselves, and our friends in the Drupal Usability Group are also going to be helping out as much as they can (thank you!), and Jeff at Acquia will also be helping out – but (as we did with the d.o redesign), we'd like to invite YOU to help out with some usability testing as well!
Why on earth would you want to do this?
As I see it, there are three main reasons why you'd get involved in something like this:
- you'd like to get some (or some more!) experience in usability testing. This is an opportunity get some experience under your belt, or find out what doing usability testing is like. You may have students or interns who need to get some experience, here's a great project to keep them busy AND use their time to contribute to a great project.
- you want to see for yourself how other people interact with the design. One of the main reasons that we do usability testing is that it is very easy to design for ourselves and often incredibly difficult to design for other people. People come to Drupal with all kinds of backgrounds and understandings, and very often what is clear as day for us is impossible to understand for them. (See the video we posted of Mark & I installing Drupal for some evidence to this point).
- you love Drupal and this project and you desperately want to see it succeed: one of the key ways to reduce the risk of failure of this project is to get it out in front of people and see what they make of it. Not only does this ensure that we're not designing and releasing something that is broken and unusable, it makes us feel confident that the decisions we are making are the right ones and that they will have a significant and positive impact on the user experience of Drupal.
As we move forward with this redesign and start to make some concrete decisions, we are going to have some tough discussions about 'what users do' – the BEST way to have these discussions is with *real* experience of our future end users, and not just sweeping statements about users in general. Help us build up that body of knowledge and inform yourself in the process.
How will it work?
As you can imagine, we don't do this kind of thing every day. We tried this on the d.o redesign project and whilst lots of people voiced interest, the only person who actually did any testing was me! However, we still think this is a good idea and we suspect that, with a little more structure and a fixed schedule, it might work. So, here's the current plan:
- one week before Test Time we will release a description of the audience type(s) that will be appropriate for this round of testing. You should then recruit as many people who fit that description as you think you will have the time and/or inclination to interview/test. You should allow around an hour for each interview, but don't schedule more than 4 or 5 in a day (trust me, your brain will melt and you will make a LOT of data to analyse)
- a few days before Test Time we will release:
- the Prototype that you will be using to test (starting off with PDF/Paper prototypes and moving onto web-based interactive prototypes as the project continues).
- an Interview Guide that you will base your interview on, listing all the key tasks and issues we want you to cover in the interview
- During Test Time (or as close to it as you can) you conduct your interviews. If you can (please!) record your interviews on video and post either the entire video or some highlights from it to the YouTube Group (or elsewhere if you prefer). We will also provide a place for you to log your test findings (TBC, we're looking at a few options here, ping me if you have suggestions!)
- We will then include your findings in our analysis of the design work to date and use it to inform our design decisions going forward.
The Testing Schedule:
We have penciled in some dates for 'Testing Time' throughout the project… these are subject to change, but if you are thinking of participating, perhaps see if one or more of these dates works for you:
- 6-8 April
- 15-16 April
- 27-29 April
- 18-20 May
- 1-3 June
- 29 June – 1 July
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Over the coming weeks I'll post some more information that will help provide support for those who aren't seasoned researchers. Things I'm thinking of posting include: tips for a good interview, tips for recruiting, suggested software/hardware for recording/editing sessions… can you think of anything else that would be helpful?
Thank you!
I'm really excited about this exercise and I hope you are too. Please leave a note below if you're interested in participating or if you have any questions, need more information, have any feedback on the proposed process. If you know of people in schools or companies who might be interested in participating, please send this on to them!
I really look forward to working with you on this!
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Dear Dr. Roach: I have a torn meniscus, and it has been recommended that I have arthroscopic surgery. I scheduled the surgery after the orthopedic surgeon stated I would be up and resuming my life three to five days after the surgery. It sounded so matter of fact and relatively easy that I didn't ask any more questions. I could handle this recovery.
Then, as time went on, other people, friends or strangers who had this type of surgery provided recovery stories, but none of them were as short-term as I was lead to believe. Stories varied from "piece of cake" to "oh no, you will be on crutches for two weeks then six weeks of rehab." A physician's assistant in the surgeon's office described an even longer recovery.
I need to know. With my job, I am in and out of my car and walk quite a bit making sales calls. I have a wintertime golf trip planned that I would like to be "good as new" for and enjoy. How far in advance of the trip should I schedule the surgery? - J.D.
Answer: The menisci are doughnut-shaped structures that sit on top of the tibia and provide support for the femur -- both bones of the lower leg - helping to keep the femur from moving out of place, and acting as a shock absorber. A meniscus can be torn by a sports injury, but it also can be torn just by usual movement and some degeneration of the cartilage, particularly in those over age 50. Most tears get better with conservative measures, including physical therapy and anti-inflammatory medications, and only a minority require surgery.
Unfortunately, I can't give you a precise time period for your recovery. I have occasionally seen the three to five days your surgeon reported, but that is certainly the optimistic side of things. Six weeks definitely is on the long side. So much depends on your physical condition going into surgery and the acuity and extent of the tear and surgery required to repair it.
Certainly, physical therapy after surgery is the best way of recovering quickly and as completely as possible.
Dear Dr. Roach: I have plantar fasciitis inflammation in my left heel/foot. My podiatrist recommends having a hyprocure implant put into my ankle joint to alleviate the pain. I am not so sure about having a metal bolt in my ankle. I am 50 years old and in good health, otherwise. Can you talk a little bit about this procedure: pros and cons? - K.K.M.
Answer: Plantar fasciitis is a common cause of heel pain. The plantar fascia is a band of tough tissue that connects the toes with the heel bone, and it can become inflamed from exercise, especially running and jumping. It usually is treated with rest, ice, anti-inflammatories and stretching. Good shoes with padding are essential; wearing heel cups during the day and splints at night helps many people.
Most people with plantar fasciitis get better without surgery. I looked up the hyprocure device but couldn't find anything, apart from information provided by the company that makes the device. I would seek a second opinion prior to any kind of surgery.
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The Day of National Blogging for Real Education Reform was an outstanding success in many ways, and it continues beyond November 22. While this post was originally set up to archive the links, some organization quickly became necessary. The links are now mostly alphabetical by title, but a few have been brought forward–the reflections on the day and the response by Secretary Arne Duncan as well as responses to him. Student voices are also near the top as they are our clients and why we are blogging for real reform. Thank you, students for participating!
An incredible appreciation goes to my superintendent and Ira Socol for devising this original idea on Twitter, to Tom Whitby for picking it up and running with it on October 17, 2010, to Eric MacKnight for archiving the first set of blogs, and to Becky Fisher for thinking up the hashtag, #blog4reform.
And, as always, thanks to the innumerable behind the scenes folks who have supported this day–the amazing, passionate, dedicated educators who give their all in the classrooms and to each other every day in so many unrecognized ways. Co-op Catalyst writers get a special appreciative hug for all of their support of this post and their thoughtful and thought-provoking conversations!
Thanks, also, to the parents, community members and organizations who lent a hand and shared as well. Without you, we would have a much harder time.
Please continue to add your blog4reform links to the comments below and they will be added to this archive. As we have time, we'll add the blog authors as Ira Socol has done on his list.
The Blog4Reform Daily our newspaper
Imagine. November 22, 2010 Pam Moran
Reform Revolution From The Ground Up Dave Britten
Revolutions Start With One Steven Anderson
What #Blog4Reform Did For Me Dave Meister
Selected Quotes from #blog4reform Blog Posts BerkshireCat
Arne Duncan responds: Making Real Progress on School Reform
Duncan's response to #blog4reform in wordle
Responses To Secretary Duncan:
To Secretary Duncan Chad Sansing
Arne Duncan and The Blog For Reform Day Kari Dalane
Secretary Duncan: Here is What Divides Us Anthony Cody
Web 2.0 tools used for blog4reform:
A wordle on Ira's list and this site
Voices for Reform-add your voice to this voicethread on school reform
Twitter Transcript (on google docs)
Student Voices in response to: Should We be Good At School? Tony Baldisaro
- Should We Be Good at School?
- Do I have to be good in school in order to be successful?
- Amanda 2.0 Should We Be Good at School?
- should we be good at school?
- Should We Be Good At School?
- Irrelevant?
- Education Reform
- Should We Be Good At School?
Blog4reform posts
21st Century Education is the Real Reform (VIDEO) Carolyn Foote
$120,000 for 20 Years of Service? Toby Buffenbarger
10 Elements of Good Education Dana Bennis
10 Essential Keys to Education Reform SaraJean
10 Keys to Real Education Reform Sara Schmidt
3 Common Obstacles to Change—and How to Avoid Each Alan M. Blankstein
44 Words Which Bear Repeating Richard Lakin
8 Conditions That Make It Happen The Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations
9 Questions for Reflective School Reform Leaders Peter Pappas
a humble reform John T. Spencer
A Mission From The Heart Walt Sutterlin
A moment for education Garden337
A New Vision for Students in School Reform Adam Fletcher
A Proud Papa-21st Century Learning William Brannick
A Teaching Degree Does Not Make a Teacher Mrs. Ripp
All This Talk of Reform is Making Me Cranky Deven Black
America's Next Best Teacher Mr. Zimmer
An Appreciative Vision Lani Hall
An Awakening of Sorts Marla McLean Atelierista
And I'm Not Saying There's Only One Way Cian Sawyer
Are We Preparing Developers or Producers? Chad Ratliff
Beep, Beep, Doot, Doot, Doot Chad Sansing
Education for Profit and Its Nexus with the DPVA Decision KathyinBlacksburg
Blogging for Real Education Change STELLAPORTO
Blogging For Real Education Reform Bill Ferriter
Blogging for Real Reform Dougpete
Blogging for Real Reform Today: My Rants and Praises Shelley
Blogging for Real Reform: Name Your Reform Eric Juli
Blogging For Reform–First Let's Fire All The Teachers Alice Mercer
Changing Structures Ira David Socol
Changing The Way(s) We Always Do Things In Public Schools Mike Lubelfeld
Computer Based Math-the Silver Bullet for Education JonathanMartin
Creative Courage – Blogging for Real Reform Rick Glass
Critical Time to Truly Make Change Happen Stephanie
Crude & Awkward: Educational Forms & Teacher 2.0 Devon Adams
Data and Collaboration Milena
Day of National Blogging For Real Educational Reform Michael Barbour
Day of Blogging on Education Reform David Finkle
DeSchooling Education Damian Bariexca
Describing Teacher-Run Schools Ted Kolderie and Joe Graba
Document-share-reflect Monika Hardy
Don't Be Stingy or, Forming a Grassroots Organization to Save Public Education Miss Shuganah
Drowning in shallow water": How can we deepen literacy instruction? Corrie H. Kelly
Ed Reform – Critical Time To Truly Make Change Happen Stephanie
Education Deconstructed IceApple
Education Doesn't Need Any More Nip Tuck: Our Normal Approach Is Useless Here Kelly Tenkely
Education for Sane Planetary Citizenship Adam Burk
Education Leaders Identify Top 10 Components of Personalized Learning ASCD
Education Needs Reflective Educators Shelly Terrell
Education Needs Reflective Educators 2 Greta
Education Reform For The Future of our Children Stephanie
Education Reform is Re-establishing, Redefining and Retooling : 2¢ Worth David Warlick
Education Reform Tragedy, and Catharsis David B Cohen
Educational Dilemma – What's Important? Ryan Woods
Educational Reform – changing the way(s) in which we always do things in public schools… Mike Lubelfeld
Effective at What? Effective for Whom? Becky Fisher
Empower Students Kevin Hodgson
ePortfolios Will Be Central to the New-Form Dan McGuire
Even on IDEA's 35th, Special Ed Dollars Aren't Free Rick Hess
Evolving as a Leader Kimberly Eggett
Excellent Educational Model-WPI's Plan David Andrade
Expanded Learning? Extended Learning? Let's Just Make Sure There's More Quality Learning Ron Fairchild
Experience doesn't matter? Mel Riddle
Experience Matters Magistra Mahoney
From Drift to Shift: Celebrating the Transformation of Education Walter McKenzie
Get Rid of the "Students as Widgets" Mentality Anne O'Brien
Go Beyond the Four Walls of the ClassroomMichael Thornton
God Bless Elementary School Teachers Chris Fancher
Golf, Procedural Knowledge, and Ed Reform Ann Etchison
Governor Elect Brown: Please remove Ben Austin from the State Board of Education Robert Skeels
Gowalla and the virtual geography of learning Chad Sansing
Grassroots School Reform- Keep It Local Jeff Delp
How can (I, you, we) work toward ed reform? Jeremy Lenzi
How to Effect Change Karen
If we were really serious about educational technology Scott McLeod
IMAGINING THE GAMES-BASED CLASSROOM Chad Sansing
Incompetent Teachers or Dysfunctional Systems? Fix the system to support the teachers David Andrade
Information vs. Knowledge Lee Skallerup Bessette
Innovate Through Connected Adjacencies Saul Kaplan
It is about Relationships, Stupid David Loitz
It's Time for Serious Discussions About What Works in Schools A Evans
Justifying Injustices Tom Altpeter
Keeping What's Important in Focus Pam Lowe
KIPP Should Change Its Name To CIPP: Updated Marc Dean Millot
Learning For Pleasure-Seriously! Yoon Lim
Less Failure Does Not Equal More Success Stuart Singer
Life Lessons Milena
Loosen Up Your Hold On Classroom Management Lyn Hilt
Meet Me in the Middle David Britten
Mind the Gap Shelley Krause
Mixed Messages Heidi Haas Gable
My blog4reform suggestions ITeachQ
My Ideas for School Improvement Rachel Haen
My Inner Pollyanna's Ed Reform Blue Sky Jason Flom
My Kind of Blended Adrianne Stone
My Vision for a Transformed Education Kristan Morrison
National Day of Blogging for Ed Reform: How Would I Change Education?
National Day of Blogging for Real Education Reform Chris Fancher
New Federal Ed Tech Plan–More Ed than Tech Bob Farrace
New Vision for Students in School
NO, #REFORM IS NOT "TRENDING" David Timony
Normalcy of Public Schools Lauralee Moss
Obsessing over education Nicole Pelton
On Education Reform: Equity Eric Brunsell
One educational reform I would like to see Teacher Ken
One Model Does Not Fit All The Education Traveler
One parent's story of one school Tamar Wyschograd
Overlooking the Obvious Bob Sprankle
Parent/Family Engagement Matters Myrdin Thompson
Passion Driven Conversations David Truss
Passion Drives Us Eric Sheniger
PDK's Commitment Bill Bushaw
Planting… or Uncovering… Brilliance Paula White
Please, take this personally… Walt Sutterlin
Positive Reform: Making it Happen Dave Meister
Power of Integrated Curriculum LeeAnn
Preventing Reading Learning Disabilities Vanessa Peters
Privileging Beautiful Work: Give Change a Chance Mary Ann Reilly
Re-formed Shullamuth
Re-Inventing The Learning Process: Really? Stephen Hurley
Real Ed Reform Edurebel
Real Reform Laura Thomas
Real Reform Begins With Raising Expectations David Britten
Real Reform Goes Backward Michael Kaechele
Reform Education: Get Rid of the "Students as Widgets" Mentality Anne O'Brien
Reform education – one classroom at a time Tyler Trice
Reform Through Action David Wees
Reform Your Perceptions of Geography and "Salvation" Gregory Hill
Reformers Without Chalk On Their Hands Mindsteps
Research+Classroom Application = Real Ed Reform Deanna Senn
Ryan's Recipe 4 Reform Ryan J. Wassink
School Funding and the Kindness of Strangers Julie Woestehoff
Schools a third way Charlie Sutherland
Science for 21st-Century Students Frank Noschese
Sharing Ideas in Teaching Gail Paulin
Six Reasons We're Grateful to Teachers R Jackson
Should We Force Students to Learn? Or How Can we Change Schools to Engage Students? David Andrade
Slow Down and Take a Step Back Steven Anderson
So Close and Yet So Far Bill Ivey
Student's Insights David Keane
Sub-a-Dub-Dub Nancy Flanagan
Take the Power Back: Teacher-Run Schools Mary Beth Hertz
Taking Charge of Our Profession (Again) Renee Moore
Taking The Plunge Shelley Wright
Teacher Evaluation Steve Barkley
Teachers and Education Policy: Two Voices in Dialogue: Part 1 – Living in Dialogue – Education Week Teacher Anthony Cody
Teachers Must be Part of the Conversation on Education Policy Megan Allen
Teaching Teachers To Be Global Educators-an Inquiry Approach Zoe Branigan-Pipe
Technology Training for Teachers – The Right Way Tony Baket
Ten Simple Strategies for Re-engaging Students Andrew Marcinek
Testing is Destroying Our Schools Bill Ferriter
The Best Lists on School Reform Larry Ferlazzo
The "New Normal" of Sec. Duncan Adrianne Stone
The Collective Individual Casey Corrona
The corporate takeover of American schools Paul Thomas
The Passion Bug Is Spreading. Have You Ever Caught It? Kyle Pace
The Rule of Law Dave Britten
The relationship between school building conditions and student achievement at the middle school level in the Commonwealth of Virginia Calvin Bullock
The Same Thing Over and Over Rick Hess
The Third Technology Ira David Socol
THE THIRD UNION Chad Sansing
The trend for appointing CEOs to top ed jobs Mike Klonsky
The Wait Is Over Sean Slade
The WHAT, WHY, and HOW of Education Reformation Chris Fritz
The World Becomes What You Teach: Transforming Our Education Systems to Graduate Solutionaries for a Better World Institute for Humane Education
There ain't no right way to do wrong Sabrina So How Can We Do Right?
There is NO Magic Bullet; Superman Does Not Exist Zeb Bassoon
Thinking about Change David Truss
Those That Inspire… Teach Cathy Brophy
Time for Schools to Stop Damaging Children Ruth Bettelheim
To everything there is a season… except learning Jon Becker
To Improve Teaching, Put Teachers in Charge Carrie Bakken
Transform to Reform Paula Naugle
Transformation Plan, Designing Backwards David Loitz
Trust Me Mark Ahlaness
U.S.: National Blogging for Real Education Reform Milton Ramirez
Unfettered Educational Reform – examine every possibility Jeff Delp
Using Data & Mae West are Connected? #1: It's Not What You've Got; It's What You Do With What You've Got Diana Nunnaley
We Stand Beside Them and Learn Ann Leaness
What #edcamp has to teach us about PD; A Letter to Administrators Dan Callahan
What I Want for Reform Michelle Baldwin
What I Want From My Union Tyler Rice
What is Content? Chris Liebig
What Is Our Purpose? Bonitadee
What Postman & Weingartner said about Ed Reform Bill Gx
What We Can Do—New Teachers Chris Lehmann
What you do speaks so loudly, I can't hear what you are saying Cathleen Richardson
Whatever Happened to Promoting Student Ownership and Responsibility? Sabrina
Who is Responsible for Failing Schools and Students? Everyone! David Andrde
Who Says Our Way Is The Right Way? Jeff Jarvis
Why I Left Teaching: A Personal Example for the Ed Reform Movement Emily Starr
Why Libraries are the Future of School Shullamuth
Win the Battle Lyn Hilt
Yeah, Maybe It's ALL about Finland Sarah Puglisi
Zombies are attacking! Ready the children! EdReformPR
Online Media talking about Blog4Reform:
Bloggers Get Fired Up Over Education Reform
(added by David Loitz) What an amazing day! Over 2,300 hits for Real Transformation in Education Reform! Keep the conversation going!
Added November 18, 2010:
November 22, 2010 has been declared a Day of National Blogging for Real Education Reform, promoted by AASA andASCD. ASCD has gathered 10 articles, in advance of Monday's Day of National Blogging, in The New Faces of Ed Reformthat discuss reforming education with teachers as leaders and partners in meaningful, lasting change.
I can't wait to see Monday's collective voices blogging for positive educational reform. Many blog posts have lamented the fact that educator voices are often left out of the conversations about the future of schools. Many state that the future is here and we simply need to embrace it. Others say we need to embrace contemporary tools to help our students learn in school as well as they do out of it. Many see learning and schooling as not equitable, and some examine how we can better support student learning. National organizations are urging us as educators to add our voices to the cacophony and use our passion, our expertise, our visionary leadership to forge the way and be heard as a united group advocating for positive reform for our students–for meaningful learning and for lasting understanding of growth needs for our educational system.
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A blogging challenge has been set forth for November 22, 2010, to blog for real educational reform. Tom Whitby had also set forth one for October 17 and the blogs are listed here. Please share your ideas then add your blog link on November 22 to the comments here. We'll compile them into this blog so they will be accessible to all, just as Eric Macknight did for October 17. Join us in sharing your vision, browse the list and come read the Co-op's posts for even more!


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You could use any Bourbon you like. The more popular brands like Jack Daniels and Jim Beam are always safe but tend to be on the pricey side. I picked up this bottle of Samuel Grant Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (is the name long enough for ya?) at Albertson's in Los Lunas on sale for $8.99. It turned out to be quite good and just goes to show that it is not necessary to break the bank in order to mix excellent cocktails.
With regard to the Ginger Ale, I highly recommend a premium brand such as Reed's… so much more Ginger-licious than the common brands.
Follow the flow chart
Fill a high ball glass (or mason jar) with ice
Add 1.5 shots Bourbon
Add 3 – 4 dashes of Angostura Bitters
Top off with Reed's Ginger Ale
Garnish with lemon wedge
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Philadelphia – On average, states allowing the medical use of marijuana have lower rates of deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses than states without such laws. Opioid analgesics, such as OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin, are prescribed for moderate to severe pain, and work by suppressing a person's perception of pain. A new multi-institutional study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine and led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, examined the rate of deaths caused by opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2010. Results reveal that on average, the 13 states allowing the use of medical marijuana had a 24.8 percent lower annual opioid overdose mortality rate after the laws were enacted than states without the laws, indicating that the alternative treatment may be safer for patients suffering from chronic pain related to cancer and other conditions.
Approximately 60 percent of all deaths resulting from opioid analgesic overdoses occur in patients who have legitimate prescriptions. Additionally, the proportion of patients in the United States who are prescribed opioids for non-cancer pain has almost doubled over the past decade, indicating the need to do a more focused examination on the safety and efficacy of these and other treatment options. In states allowing the use of medical cannabis, the drugs may be prescribed as an alternative to opioids.
While noting that evidence for the pain-relieving properties of cannabis is limited, some studies have suggested "it may provide relief for some individuals," said lead author, Marcus A. Bachhuber, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Penn and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. "In addition, people already taking opioids for pain may supplement with medical marijuana and be able to lower their painkiller dose, thus lowering their risk of overdose.
Additional results of the study show that the relationship between lower opioid overdose deaths and medical marijuana laws strengthened over time; deaths were nearly 20 percent lower in the first year after a state's law was implemented, and 33.7 percent lower five years after implementation. While safer treatment of chronic pain may help to explain lower rates of overdose deaths, medical marijuana laws may also change the way people misuse or abuse opioid painkillers, as marijuana and opioids stimulate similar areas in the brain's pathways. The authors suggest that as more states implement medical marijuana laws, future studies should examine the association between such laws and opioid overdoses to confirm their findings.
Penn's Brendan Saloner, PhD, is also an author on the paper. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (R01DA032110, R25DA023021) and the Center for AIDS Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center (NIH AI-51519).
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Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2013, Penn Medicine provided $814 million to benefit our community.
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When my friend Stan Heller texted me this morning to let me know that Gary Arlington had died, I was stunned. With all the talk of gentrification and rapid change in San Francisco, the death of Gary Arlington is truly the end of an era in San Francisco.
For kids like me who grew up in the Mission District, Gary was all of our unofficial Uncle, a Marry Poppins of the ghetto. So much of my childhood revolved around his store, The SF Comic Book Co., the first comic shop in the country. If you read his obituaries, they talk about how Gary was essential to the underground comics movement in the Bay Area. The missing story is how much he meant to the youth of the neighborhood in the 70's, 80's and 90's. As a kid I spent every Friday after-school squeezed into his shop rubbing elbows with other kids buying X-Men comics, Cholos buying Teen Angel, and old hippies buying underground and independent comics. Gary and his store influenced multiple generations of artists, activists, and troublemakers.
Outside of my parents, Gary Arlington is biggest reason I decided to become an artist. I'm devastated that he's gone but so grateful for the influence he's had on my life. Rest in power Gary.


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A Living Museum
Traditional crafts and activities bring St Fagans alive.
Craftsmen demonstrate traditional skills in their workshops and their produce is usually on sale.
There are native breeds of livestock in the fields and farmyards at St Fagans, and demonstrations of farming tasks take place daily.
Visit the 18th century Smithy where horses were shod, household items made and mended, and metal tyres put on wagon wheels.
See our resident blacksmith use traditional tools and equipment to make pieces of decorative forgework.
The Woollen Mill produces traditional shoulder shawls and Welsh carthenni or blankets. Built in 1760, the entire process from dyeing the fleece to finishing the fabric happens here.
The Melin Bompren Corn Mill is typical of a Cardiganshire water-driven mill, built to convert corn into flour.
Delicious bread and cakes are made daily at the Derwen Bake House, while the Gwalia Stores, originally built in 1880, sells the finest Welsh foods.
Visit the clogmaker's workshop (from Carnhedryn near Solva in Pembrokeshire) and see him demonstrating traditional techniques.
Our clog-maker is always happy to take orders for his custom-fit, traditional clogs, available in some non-traditional colours too!
»St Fagans National Museum of History


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