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Why former Google employee was set free for hate crime vandalism of Davis mosque
Lauren Kirk-Coehlo, who pleaded guilty to the felony hate crime of vandalizing the Davis Islamic Center in January, was sentenced to five years of probation Friday, meaning she won't spend more time behind bars.
The young woman was unshackled in the courtroom after Judge Daniel P. Maguire issued his ruling in Yolo Superior Court. She was allowed to go home on the condition she would attend weekly psychiatric counseling and stay away from the Davis mosque. She is also required to stay off social media and is prohibited from owning a firearm.
She had faced a possible maximum sentence of six years. Yolo County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Ryan Couzens argued that with anti-Muslim hate crimes on the rise, Kirk-Coehlo had "shattered the safety, security and sanctuary" of the 300-member Islamic Center.
"Her dream is to kill many people, particularly minorities. She talked about blowing up cities," Couzens told Maguire. "It makes me afraid, and it makes me afraid for the community."
The former Google employee and legal intern for the Sacramento County District Attorney's office was arrested Feb. 14 after she was caught on video wrapping pork around the handle of one of the mosque's exterior doors. Muslims are forbidden to eat pork. Kirk-Coehlo, who grew up in Davis, also pleaded guilty to breaking six of the mosque's windows and slicing the seats of several bicycles.
Kirk-Coehlo conducted online searches of other mosque attacks, including the mass shooting on Jan. 29 in Quebec City that killed six and injured 19. She searched online for information about the suspect in that attack, Alexandre Bissonnette. She also applauded the actions of Dylan Roof, 22, who was sentenced to death in January for murdering nine black parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church in June 2015.
Davis police Detective Daniel La Fond submitted evidence that she had talked of mass murder and made derogatory remarks about Jews, Mexicans and African Americans. Kirk-Coehlo had searched websites for information on bomb vests and said in a text conversation that while she had not killed anyone yet, "I have dreams and aspirations" and "I would like to kill..many people," La Fond wrote in his declaration.
Hamza El-Nakhal, former president and CEO of the Davis Islamic Center, said Friday that the idea of Kirk-Coehlo "walking out of this court free is very troubling not only to Muslims, but to African Americans and Latinos I have spoken with. If she'd expressed even some remorse, I'd be much more supportive."
El-Nakhal added that if he could speak to her directly and resolve her questions about Islam, he would feel better. "She's almost family; she went to the school with my two daughters, sat in the same seats," he said. "If she can find a way to be a functioning member of society that would be great."
Kirk-Coehlo's attorneys argued that their client had no intention of acting on her violent words.
In a report to the probation department, Woodland attorney Steven Sabbadini called Kirk-Coehlo "a bit of a feminist" who erroneously thought her actions "were an acceptable way of protesting the mistreatment of women" in Islam.
Sabbadini's co-counsel, David Dratman, argued that his client's inflammatory statements are a sign of times: "Social media is where we share thoughts we don't turn into action ... there is zero evidence of any attempts to procure any type of weapons, no bomb vests were found."
In a hand-written letter to Judge Maguire, Kirk-Coehlo described her conduct as "inappropriate and prejudicial."
"I have no intention of engaging in violence toward any person," she added, and said she looks forward to resuming psychiatric counseling with Dr. Joan Gerbasi "to discuss what happened, why, and to make sure that something like this does not happen again."
Her attorneys noted that the Davis High School graduate had been a girl scout and soccer player who graduated from UC Berkeley with an English degree. Kirk-Coehlo, whose mother is a retired administrative law judge, then worked as a legal intern with the Sacramento County DA. Her next job was as a full-time tech worker on a one-year contract with one of Google's subcontractors in Mountain View, according to court records.
Kirk-Coehlo's father, a machinist in Woodland, said she is welcome to live with him if she is released, her attorneys said in their request for probation. In her letter to the judge, Coehlo said "I am very anxious to get my life back on track, to perform new skills and trades and get back in the working world," she wrote. "I am a person that can learn from my mistakes."
Kirk-Coehlo's mother, Nancy Kirk, told the Yolo County Probation Department that her daughter started experiencing mental problems in high school and was eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She did not improve until she began seeing Dr. Gerbasi. She transferred from community college to UC Berkeley, graduating with honors in 2010.
When she returned to Davis in 2011, her mother said, Dr. Gerbasi's private practice had closed. She became depressed and isolated.
Dr. Gerbasi told the probation department that Kirk-Coehlo's "retreat into extreme radical beliefs is ... a defense mechanism against feelings of loneliness, isolation and failure."
Judge Maguire said Friday he was "cautiously optimistic Kirk-Coehlo could succeed on probation."
"When she's not being treated, she comes off the rails, which happened here," he said. "When she is treated, she can thrive."
Along with five years of probation and weekly counseling, the judge sentenced Kirk-Coehlo to 120 hours of community service, cultural sensitivity training, and "a complete social media ban for the entire five years" of her probation. He said her computer and home would be subject to search at any time. Kirk-Coehlo has already paid $7,612 to the mosque in restitution.
Maguire acknowledged that "given the climate of the U.S. and the world we live in in 2017, a mosque is a vulnerable place." But he but noted that Kirk-Coehlo had no previous criminal record except for misdemeanor trespassing. Maguire also recommended restorative justice, a one-time meeting between Kirk-Coehlo and her victims supervised by the district attorney's office.
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What She Left Behind
A 17 year old girl who has spent half of her life in foster care. An 18 year old young woman wrongly committed to an insane asylum in the 1920's. What could bring these two together?
The answer, it turns out, is Ellen Marie Wiseman. Wiseman, who gained recognition for her debut novel The Plum Tree, is a local author. She grew up in nearby Three Mile Bay. In her second novel, What She Left Behind, Wiseman drew inspiration from The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, by Darby Penney and Peter Stasny. Fascinated by the possibility of finding suitcases that give us insight into the lives of patients from long ago, Wiseman built her own tale, weaving past and present together in a compelling read.
There are two storylines in What She Left Behind. In one, 17 year old Izzy adjusts to a new set of foster parents. Izzy has been in foster care for nearly half of her life, ever since her mother inexplicably murdered her father and changed Izzy's life forever. Resentful of her mother, Izzy refuses to visit her and struggles to make peace with her past. Now that she is 17, she is on the verge of adulthood, on the verge of having to leave the foster care system. The story opens with her being placed with a loving couple and she is anxious to please them. At school, she faces bullying and isolation, but outside of school, Izzy spends her time helping her new parents sort through and record the contents of suitcases uncovered at Willard asylum, located near Seneca Lake.
This is where fiction and nonfiction merge. The actual Willard Assylum for the Insane was located in Upstate New York and in 1995, four hundred suitcases were discovered there. The contents of the suitcases render a poignant glimpse into the lives of people who entered the asylum where they were held like prisoners. Many died there, often buried in unmarked graves, their lives all but forgotten. Photographs of some of the suitcases that were discovered can be found here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338714/The-chilling-pictures-suitcases-left-New-York-insane-asylum-patients-locked-away-rest-lives.html
From this newsworthy discovery, Wiseman creates the life of Clara, a beautiful and vibrant young woman of the 1920's. Like Izzy, she is also on the verge of adulthood. She is young and in love, but she is also the daughter of a wealthy, but cold and domineering man. Angered by her defiance of him, he has her committed to an Insane Asylum. Initially, she is sent to a home for upper class "nervous invalids," but the stock market crash changes that and she is transferred to the public asylum at Willard. At Willard, she is subject to the type of abuse that is a shocking reminder of the treatment the mentally ill had to endure during that time period.
Chapters alternate between Clara and Izzy and we are privy to the struggles of both these characters. When Izzy discovers Clara's journal, she is drawn into the past and she becomes determined to make things right.
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Poor Hailey Young does not really like to play games, but that is not going to stop us. If we want to humiliate her, that is what we will do. Our demands may be varied. They may seem strange to her, but we never told her she needed to understand. All she needs to do is obey. If she can manage that maybe her torment will be over sooner than she thinks. If she can manage......
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Scotiabank Ranks Highest in Small Business Banking Satisfaction in the Inaugural Study
TORONTO: 11 October 2012 — Canadian banks are not fully meeting the expectations of small business banking customers in relationship management, problem prevention and resolution, and differentiated service offerings, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Canadian Small Business Banking Satisfaction StudySM released today.
Overall satisfaction among small business banking customers in Canada averages 728 (on a 1,000-point scale), which is 25 points below the 2012 Canadian retail banking average of 753.1 The consequences of this lower level of satisfaction are pronounced. The study finds that small business customers of banks that fail to deliver a high level of satisfaction are more likely to switch banks. Among highly satisfied small business customers (overall satisfaction of 801 or higher), only two per cent say they "definitely will" or "probably will" switch banks in the next 12 months, compared with 25 per cent of those with low satisfaction (scores of 600 or below) who say they "definitely will" or "probably will" switch banks.
The inaugural study measures small business financial decision makers' satisfaction with their primary financial institution across eight factors (in order of importance): account activities; account manager; facility; fees; product offerings; account information; credit services; and problem resolution. Account activities measures satisfaction with the transactions small business customers conduct at the branch, online, via the ABM, and on the phone. Of these, branch transactions have the highest importance weight, with small business customers being three times more likely to conduct branch transactions than do retail banking customers (an average of 33 vs. 11 times per year, respectively), underscoring the need to deliver a superior in-person experience to these accountholders.
"Because of the value of small business relationships--the average small business customer has almost double the deposits of the average retail customer and four times higher loans--banks should strive to offer a higher level of service to these small business customers than for typical retail customers," said Jim Miller, senior director of banking at J.D. Power and Associates. "The in-person experience is extremely important to small businesses, and banks need to get it right to maintain and grow these relationships."
Account Managers May Not Always Be Beneficial
The study finds that nearly two-thirds of Canadian banks assign account managers to small business banking customers, while just one-half of banks in the United States do the same.2 However, simply assigning account managers is not enough to result in a positive increase in satisfaction. Although overall satisfaction is 828 among small business customers who perceive their assigned account manager "completely" understands their business, it drops to 685 among those customers who perceive their account manager does not fully, or only partially, understands their business, which is lower than overall satisfaction among those not having an account manager assigned at all (693).
"Having a relationship manager is a great contributor to small business customer satisfaction, but only when the manager is knowledgeable of the customer's business and can provide tailored advice and personal attention," said Lubo Li, senior director of Canadian financial services at J.D. Power and Associates. "However, if the manager cannot provide valuable and individualized information, the customer is better off not having an assigned account manager at all."
Problems Push Customers Away
Not only does the occurrence of problems have a dramatic impact on satisfaction, but also small business banking customers who experience a problem are more than three times more likely to say they "definitely will" switch financial institutions in the next 12 months, compared with customers who do not experience a problem.
Considering the impact that problem incidence has on satisfaction (a decline of 98 points) and the rate at which problems occur (30%), financial institutions must focus on preventing and resolving problems or risk losing their small business customers to competitors, said Miller.
Scotiabank ranks highest in small business banking satisfaction in Canada with a score of 733. Following Scotiabank in the rankings and scoring below the industry average are RBC Royal Bank (725) and TD Canada Trust (724).
The 2012 Canadian Small Business Banking Satisfaction Study includes responses from nearly 1,200 small business owners or financial decision-makers who use business banking services in Canada. The study was fielded from July 2012 through August 2012.
1 J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Canadian Retail Banking Satisfaction StudySM
2 J.D. Power and Associates 2011 U.S. Small Business Banking Satisfaction StudySM
About J.D. Power and Associates
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About The McGraw-Hill Companies
McGraw-Hill announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a leading provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, a leading education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide. McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, Platts energy information services and J.D. Power and Associates. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2011, the Corporation has approximately 23,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.
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Beet/Carrot/Apple Juice
I love it when things that taste good are actually super good for us too and I think beets are the PERFECT example of that little fact. They're super bright, sweet, and great roasted, juiced, and just about everything in between. So why are these root veggies so darn good? Read on for a few (awesome) reasons:
- It's been suggested that beets can help lower your blood pressure. One study found that drinking one glass of beet juice could lower your systolic blood pressure by an avg of 4-5 points!
- Beets fight inflammation. We all know inflammation can wreak havoc on the body, and we've heard certain foods are great for it - but now we can add beets to that list too! Beets have a nutrient called "betaine" that can fight inflammation, protect cells, enzymes, and even proteins from stress in their environment.
- Beets can help ward off cancer - that gorgeous beet red color doesn't come outta nowhere folks! The dark, beautiful phytonutrients that lend themselves to that perfect purple-y red shade may also help fend off cancer. Research has even shown that an extract of beetroot helped to reduce tumor formations in animals in certain studies and more are being conducted to learn about it's effects on certain types of cancers in humans.
- Beets are full of fiber + other important nutrients. Choc full of the immune-saving vitamin C, minerals like potassium (essential for healthy muscles and nerves), manganese (important for healthy liver, kidney, and pancreas functioning as well as healthy bones!), folate (a B vitamin) and fiber, you are getting a LOT of nutritional bang for your buck with these veggies.
- Beets help you detox - the "betalin" pigments in beets can support your body's detoxification systems and help to better excrete toxins from the system, including aiding in the purification of blood and liver. Yes please!
And finally, make sure you don't discard those beautiful beet greens. They too can be juiced and contain a wide array of nutrients and minerals - in fact, even more iron than spinach. Who knew?
Juice Recipe for 2 servings:
- 1 large or 2 medium beets
- 1/2 of an apple
- 2 carrots
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- Wash and chop all ingredients. Juice + serve immediately.
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- What the "swiss army knife" of personal growth is.
- What qigong means and how it actually works.
- My personal story with qigong (fair warning: Bambi is involved)
- What qi is and how to cultivate yours.
- How the foods you eat can lower your body's energy potential.
- Why you need to build AND store your qi.
- Why you need to have your qigong practice in the right order to really get the health benefits.
- When the best time to do qigong is.
- How qigong can help you to relax and sleep better at night.
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Richard Bury's work practice & qualifications
I have been involved in Counselling for over 30 years.
I hold a Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Dublin City University (DCU). I also hold a Diploma in Counselling, Psychology and Therapy. I read English, History and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (BA, MA).
I have Training Certificates for Imago Couples Therapy, Teen Counselling, Brief Solution Focused Therapy and Suicide ASSIST.
I run Stress Control Classes (Glasgow Steps) for the general public from time to time.
I regularly talk about counselling topics on East Coast Radio.
Professionally, I am an Accredited Member of Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) and currently I a member and was former Chairman of IACP's Dublin Regional Committee.
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My private practice is based in my house near Ashford in County Wicklow about 10 minutes from the M11 by car. It is a pleasant private location where both privacy and confidentiality are assured.
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- Registered with Laya Health insurance for child counselling;
- an Affiliate Counsellor with Wicklow and Arklow Cancer Support Services.
I work in an integrative way with clients, applying appropriate therapy models to individual circumstances. My professional training includes the following disciplines:
- Person Centred Therapy;
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"Be silent, and listen!": it is found in all the great traditions.
The symbolism is evident in, for example, the statue of the Lohan.
We try, in our study of music, to bring more attention to our listening.
'We hear so little of what goes on around us. In a practical exercise I listened to notes being plucked on a guitar string and heard, for the first time, the upper partials – "inner octaves" – which sound within the original note. We experimented with chanting, and heard the overtones which can come into being when we intone a single note.'
'I decide to listen consciously, with attention, noticing what goes on in me as I hear the music. This is in contrast to the way I am so much of the time – lost in association, interpretation, inner conversations, imagination, anxiety. The ear is still functioning, but I'm preoccupied. When I remember myself and try to be quiet inside, something opens in all my senses. Everything seems to become more vivid. Listening can be like an anchor, bringing me back again to some taste of real life – I, here, now – and to a question, a mystery; who is it, hearing?'


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The sacred not the scriptural
On my first Sunday in Macon as a Mercer student in 1993, I was one of only two students on my dorm floor to go to church. Having grown up in a small town in Louisiana and attended the First Baptist Church of Jackson, Louisiana, it made sense to my 18-year-old self to attend the First Baptist Church in Macon.
A lady who spoke in the pulpit that day advised the congregation that sometimes we get tangled up in scripture and forget the sacred. She said, "We need to be more sacred and less scriptural." I had never heard anyone suggest one could separate the sacred from the scriptural. In fact, what I now know is most often when one claims something is sacred and "soul fulfilling" it makes them personally feel good.
I called my pastor, Joe Nesom, back home in Louisiana. I told him what had happened. "There are no good Baptist churches in Macon. You need to go find yourself a church that has the letters PCA after it," he advised me. Later, he realized Tim McCoy preached in Macon and suggested I go to Ingleside. By then, however, I was going to First Presbyterian Church downtown.
All of this is to say, I am not surprised First Baptist Church in Macon has decided to perform gay marriages. My surprise is that it took them this long. They join a growing list of Christian denominations headed toward paganism, led by the Episcopal Church.
Give it another decade or two and many of these denominations will have removed the Bible from their pews and replaced it with "Where The Sidewalk Ends." Poetry, you know, can be soul fulfilling.
As liberal Christians in America exit Christianity, they decide the Bible does not mean what it says or that 2,000 years of consistent Biblical orthodoxy are wrong, but somehow those of us still standing firm in the faith, are the ones being divisive. No doubt members of the congregation are reading this right now thinking they know the Bible better or they have some secret gnostic insight into its true meaning.
What they cannot do yet publicly is what they have already done privately. They cannot admit they have moved on from scripture because doing so acknowledges they've left Christianity for paganism. They will excuse and explain it all away, lying to themselves that they have a Biblical basis to do the unbiblical. They might think they have a special insight into the Greek in the New Testament that 2,000 years of church orthodoxy does not have or they have a more enlightened view of the Bible than St. Augustine. So when the Bible creates marriage between a man and woman or lists homosexuality as a sin, all the people who came before them were misreading it. This is what happens when churches abandon scripture so they can feel good.
While First Baptist was doing that, I was participating in an event in Nashville with an ecumenical group of Christians across denominations including John Piper, Albert Mohler, Ligon Duncan, Wayne Grudem, R.C. Sproul, J.I. Packer, Rosaria Butterfield, Russell Moore, and more. We joined as the initial signatories to what is being called "The Nashville Statement," an interdenominational statement affirming the authority of scripture in the roles of men and women in marriage. "Will the church of the Lord Jesus Christ lose her biblical conviction, clarity, and courage, and blend into the spirit of the age?" the statement asks. We all said no. First Baptist in Macon said yes.
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CHARLES DODGE – 2 electronic album experiments (1971/76)
This is a duo of albums that was originally posted on 36 15 Moog, pill one of several sites run by a French fellow who goes under the name Paul Durango — but I thought they were cool enough to warrant re-posting here. On the subject of electronic pioneer Charles Dodge's early vocoder experiments, medicine excerpted from an interview on Perfect Sound Forever:
In the early days of computer music in the sixties, viagra one of the few places to actually hear what you were doing was at the Bell Laboratories (in New Jersey). In those days, it was a very special piece of equipment called the digital-analog converter that was used for that purpose. Bell was a friendly benevolent monopoly at this stage. The inventor of computer music, Max Matthews, was there. He encouraged some of us who had access to university computers to make musical sound in digital form on the computers and to listen to it and convert it to a form that could be heard in his laboratory.
That lab was used in the daytime for speech research. When you went there to listen to your music, you often heard speech research going on in the hall. I was fascinated by that and was so struck how much more interesting were the sounds of synthesized speech which were made by the researchers were than the attempts at musical sounds that my friends and I were making.
At some point in the early '70′s, I had the opportunity to work at the Bell Labs in the evening, after hours, in an attempt to make music using some of the software there that had been developed for speech research. I had access to software written by a researching named Joseph Olive, who had a musical background and an interest in music composition. With Matthews' permission and Olive's active help, I was able to go to Bell after the workers had gone home and use the same computers that were used for speech research for music. That was the genesis of the speech synthesis techniques that were used in those pieces.
And, from the liner notes on "Earth's Magnetic Field":
The solar wind may be viewed as pushing against Earth's magnetic field, in turn producing an equal but opposite push on the solar wind. The solar wind is not uniform and consequently any changes in it are quickly reflected at the Earth's surface as changes in the magnetic field …. The Kp index represents the average of the magnetic changes, which are measured at a selected group of magnetic observing stations on Earth and may take on any of 28 distinct values. Every three hours, the observations provide a new value for the index, thereby giving eight values of Kp for each day. As an aid for researchers, the Kp indices are displayed graphically. They look somewhat like musical notation and are popularly called "Bartels' musical diagrams,†after their inventor, German geophysicist Julius Bartels. These diagrams are largely responsible for providing the motivation for the music contained in this album. In a real sense, then, the music on this record represents the sun playing on the magnetic field of Earth.
Charles Dodge – "Synthesized Voices", 1976 (ZIP file)
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We're counting down the top 10 episodes of 2016 on the 1 Simple Thing podcast. Today is number 4 on the list. Episode 547: Silencing Your Inner Saboteur. We hope you enjoy it and Happy New Year!
Glenn Livingston says it's not that complicated, there's you, and there's your inner saboteur. The moment you hear any voice in your head that justifies your unhealthy eating or excuses behavior that you don't want in your life, you know that's coming from your inner saboteur. The key is to draw solid lines in the sand and recognize the inner saboteur when it speaks. There all types of creative rules you can set up for yourself to maximize freedom and control and silence your inner saboteur.
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Sage BASS Rods Review
I am always on the lookout for products that will improve my fly angling experience. After years of fishing for largemouth bass in lakes and pursuing calico bass around the local kelp beds I was certain that that and ideal rod for many situations would be something between 7'6" and 8" for an eight or nine weight rod. I find shorter rods easier to handle from a tube and also reduce the fish's mechanical advantage during the fight, helping the angler haul fish away from cover. I also find shorter rods preferable when fishing from a kayak. Soon after Sage announced the introduction of their 7'11" four piece BASS series rod and line combinations I sought out and received feedback from anglers who had tested the prototypes. Based on their reports I decided to have my local shop order a "Largemouth" model for me sight unseen. Within a few days the package from Sage arrived while I happened to be in the store had and we eagerly opened the package.
The rod is packaged in a light olive cordura covered rod and reel travel case with the Sage logo and rod model embroidered on the side. The rod has a full wells grip and fighting butt as you would expect on heavier weight rods and sports a basic black aluminum reel seat with two locking rings. The cork grip is smooth and of a fairly good quality with a few minor imperfections that were filled in. The blank is a striking golden yellow with red guide wraps. The wraps at the female ferules and the end of the grip are bounded by black borders and gold highlights. Two stripping guides, six snake guides, and an oversize tip top round out the hardware. Absent is a hook keeper, which is not an issue for me since I prefer to hang the fly on a guide with the leader around the reel seat to keep some of the fly line outside the rod tip. A close inspection showed a few gaps in the thread wraps where the blank was clearly visible. This is the first time I have observed this with a Sage rod. The side effect is only cosmetic and then noticed only if you look very closely. The SAGE 330 grain floating BASS line completes the package. When I got the rod home I spooled up a reel with the line, added a practice leader tipped with a big wad of orange yarn, and then went to the back yard to make a few casts. With the first few casts I realized I had a very impressive combination that was just pleasant to cast. The rod is fast action rod but bends well down into the butt section when casting a long line and to me feels light in the hand compared to many nine weight rods I have used. With this combo making both wide loop and very tight loop casts at short, medium, and long distances was not difficult. However, I would need to get on the water to really get a feel for how it would perform.
That opportunity would come soon enough. Within a few days the rod saw its first action, tossing 7" long Gartside Gurglers to calico bass off La Jolla. Casting flies to holes and slots in the kelp beds with a seven to ten knot breeze and a four foot swell can be quite a challenge and the rod was up to the task. I was able to drive that big foam fly at all angles to the breeze and put it on target at distances up to 60 feet, the 330 grain line pulling the gurgler though the air without any special effort on my part. I quickly hooked a calico bass and was able stop it from digging into the kelp. The rod was just what I was looking for. A few weeks later I put the rod to use tossing big Dahlberg divers to largemouth bass on Lake Martinez and the lower Colorado River. On this trip we were plagued by strong winds in the 15 to 20 knot range with gusts over 40 knots on a couple of days. I was again impressed with the rod and line combo's ability to drive casts into and across the wind when necessary. We had some nice calm days too and I was able to put the combo though its paces under more friendly conditions. The combo was excellent for tossing large wind resistant flies and short and medium ranges and pretty darned good even beyond 70 feet. I was able to pick up a hair bug, seven feet of leader, and 40 feet of fly line without much effort. I did not find it at all tiring to use for an all day fishing session. The ability to cast tight loops with bass bugs is often essential when fishing around some types of cover and many anglers find this difficult to accomplish. I found casting tight loops with the combo almost automatic. Executing underhand or pendulum casts to put a fly under overhanging vegetation is a breeze. As expected, the shorter rod length was a benefit compared to nine foot rods when pulling bass from the aquatic vegetation. The Largemouth model is more than enough rod for most bass that I encounter. So I decided to get a Smallmouth model to complement it. The Smallmouth model is a bit lighter and packaged with a 290 grain line. Aside from those differences, it is identical to the Largemouth rod. The lighter line will still carry most of the flies typically used by bass anglers, including weighted streamers like clouser deep minnows. Many anglers find casting bass bugs and other bulky flies to be a lot of work; even novice anglers will find these rod and line combos are so well matched that casting the big stuff is a fun experience.
Since Sage rates the Largemouth and Smallmouth models as 330 grain and 290 grain rods respectively, many curious anglers wonder how they compare with more traditionally rated rods. Since these weights correspond to 11 and 10 weight lines, anglers who have not handled these rods often assume that these rods are 11 and 10 weight rods and overkill for bass. I am fortunate enough have multiple rods in each weight from six through 12 to compare to the Sage BASS rods. I have found that when pulling on fish the Largemouth model roughly comparable to my nine weights and faster/stiffer eight weight rods. It does not have anything near the same backbone as my 11 weight Sage RPLXi, 10 weights Sage VT2, or any of my other 10 weight rods. It is definitely much less tiring to cast all day. It seems to fall nicely between my eight and nine weight Sage RPLX rods in how it fishes. Anglers often up line their rods by one, two or even three line weights when casting bulky flies at short to medium distances and it appears that this is essentially what Sage has done with these combinations. I found the Largemouth model to perform quite well with a nine weight bass bug taper and a 330 grain integrated shooting head. Similarly, the Smallmouth model is roughly comparable to my eight weight and faster/stiffer seven weight rods. I have found this rod to perform well with an eight weight bass bug taper, a seven weight distance taper and 250 or 300 grain integrated shooting tapers.
The Sage BASS lines are an important part of the combo package but are excellent products in their own right and available separately. Though custom designed to match the Sage rods the 330 grain line will help you cast big flies with any nine or ten weight rod and the 290 grain line matches up well with many seven weight rods and any eight weight rod. The lines are a pale olive in color and easy to see in most conditions. According to Sage, these lines feature "a short, heavy belly and quick front taper" which is the secret to why these excel at turning over bulky flies with tight loops with any rod. The line works well in cool through hot conditions. I have put them to use with air temperatures near 100° F in the air and 80° F in the water. The coolest conditions my lines have seen are 60° F air and 65° F water. The lines required a little stretching to start the day under those cooler conditions but otherwise performed fine.
You will recall that my first action with the Largemouth rod was in the saltwater. Don't let the names of the rod models constrain your thinking on how these rods might be employed. The Sage BASS rods are ideal for many freshwater and saltwater applications, especially where short to medium range precisely targeted casts are required such as when fishing mangroves or other visible structure. The Largemouth rod has sufficient backbone for baby tarpon and both models have seen action with acquaintances for snook, snappers, and other species. Stripers, pike, and peacock bass are also worthy targets. The Smallmouth rods will be great for smaller examples of these species as well as smallmouth bass, wipers, trout, walleye, redfish and a host of other finned creatures.
A year after the introduction of the Largemouth and Smallmouth rods, Sage added the "Bluegill" model with a 230 grain line. My experience with this model is limited to lawn casting. Based on this experience it feels to me like a 6/7 weight rod. It is just the thing for some of the big bluegill available in my local lakes but many anglers may find it too heavy for their local fish. It would be great as a light bass rod, and like its bigger brothers it will be useful in many situations. The 230 grain line will help anglers toss small to medium size bass bugs with six and seven rods.
Sage's marketing literature notes that the 7'11" length "slides them just under the strict bass tournament rules for rod length." This is true for some bass tournament tours, but others prohibit the use of fly tackle. If you are contemplating using a fly rod in a bass tournament I suggest you verify the rules for the event you are interested in.
The Sage BASS rods are not the first short graphite fly rods in their weight range. There were some examples in the 7'6" to 8'3" range that preceded them. Other manufacturers introduced similar rods concurrently with and subsequent to these rods' appearance on the market. But the Sage rod and line packages are unique among these offerings and very successful designs that will appeal to novice and advanced anglers alike. With two years of angling with these rods behind me I have found them to be among my most satisfying fly rod investments.


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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which visited Pluto in July, has just returned the first color images of the world's atmospheric haze, and it has a brilliant blue tint.
"Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper Belt?" New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern said in a NASA press release. "It's gorgeous."
Scientists think the atmosphere appears blue because of the way haze particles in Pluto's atmosphere scatter sunlight, similar to why Earth's atmosphere is blue.
"That striking blue tint tells us about the size and composition of the haze particles," New Horizons team member Carly Howett said in the release. "A blue sky often results from scattering of sunlight by very small particles. On Earth, those particles are very tiny nitrogen molecules. On Pluto they appear to be larger — but still relatively small — soot-like particles we call tholins."
Scientists think tholins form when ultraviolet light from the sun breaks apart nitrogen and methane molecules in Pluto's atmosphere and the molecules chemically react and recombine.
New Horizons scientists made a second surprising discovery in the latest Pluto images: patches of water ice on the surface.
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"Large expanses of Pluto don't show exposed water ice because it's apparently masked by other, more volatile ices across most of the planet," New Horizons team member Jason Cook said in the release. "Understanding why water appears exactly where it does, and not in other places, is a challenge that we are digging into."
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STAMFORD, Conn. – Sophomore Laila Samy of the Wesleyan University women's squash team excelled at the 2016 College Squash Individual Championships this weekend at Chelsea Piers in Stamford, Conn., as she advanced to the semifinals of the Ramsey Division (Women's A Division) following two upset victories over Division I athletes.
- In her first match of the championships, Samy upset No. 7 seed Maria Elena Ubin of Princeton in a 3-0 sweep en route to First Team All-America honors.
- Samy improved to a perfect 18-0 on the season as she defeated Elena Ubin by scores of 11-9, 11-8 and 11-3.
- With the win, the sophomore advanced to the quarterfinals.
- In the morning, Samy once again upset her opponent as the Cairo, Egypt native defeated the No. 2 seed in the draw and Harvard's No. 1, Sabrina Sobhy.
- After dropping the first set, 7-11, Samy retaliated with three consecutive victories. She evened the match at 1-1 with an 11-4 win in game two, and advanced with wins of 12-10 and 11-7 in the final two frames.
- Samy moved into the four-player semifinals following the win.
- However, Samy's impressive tournament run was cut short later in the day when she dropped her semifinal matchup to Reeham Sedky of the University of Pennsylvania by scores of 11-4, 11-3 and 11-5. It was her first loss of the 2015-16 campaign.
- Samy concluded her stellar sophomore season with an incredible 19-1 record as she was named a First Team All-America and First Team All-NESCAC honoree.
- In 2015-16, the sophomore helped guided Wesleyan to its third Epps Cup (D Division) title in program history.
- A year ago, Samy was named the 2015 NESCAC Rookie of the Year.


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text: A 17-year-old obese girl comes to the office because of a bifrontal, non-throbbing headache that has been worsening over the past 6 months. It often wakes her from sleep, but improves if she gets up and walks around. She also says that her vision is "not as good as it used to be," but cannot give you more details. Examination is significant for mild optic disk blurring. She went to the local emergency department 5 days earlier with similar complaints and an MRI of the head was performed and reported as normal. The most appropriate next step in managing this case is to A. obtain an electroencephalogram B. obtain a neurosurgical consult C. perform a lumbar puncture D. repeat the MRI of the head E. start propranolol


text: Based on the Billy Wilder film, the musical version of Sunset Boulevard is a tale of faded glory and unfulfilled ambition. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Book and Lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton Based on the Billy Wilder film In her mansion on Sunset Boulevard, faded, silent-screen goddess, Norma Desmond, lives in a fantasy world. Impoverished screenwriter, Joe Gillis, on the run from debt collectors, stumbles into her reclusive domain. Persuaded to work on Norma's "masterpiece," a film script that she believes will put her back in front of the cameras, he is seduced by her and her luxurious lifestyle. Joe becomes entrapped in a claustrophobic existence until his love for another woman leads him to try and break free with dramatic consequences. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award-winning masterwork of dreams and desire in the land called Hollywood includes lush, swelling standards "With One Look," "As If We Never Said Goodbye" and "Perfect Year." Sunset Boulevard has four central characters and an expandable ensemble. With a sophisticated subject matter, the show is best-suited to professional and community theatre groups; it runs approximately 2 hours and 27 minutes, with intermission. Orchestrations by David Cullen & Andrew Lloyd Webber Original production by The Really Useful Group Ltd. The Really Useful Group Ltd. gratefully acknowledges the role of Amy Powers in the lyric development of Sunset Boulevard. Request License Order Perusal


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A lot of people have been asking about what's going on with Jackie's shows this year. As most of you know already, Jackie is out on the road playing as a member of the Black Crowes. It's a great tour that will hit all corners of the globe and will continue through the end of the year. So, that's keeping Jackie pretty busy. Jackie will be doing his own shows here and there, however, during the breaks in the Crowes tour. There won't be many opportunities to see Jackie in 2013 so we hope to see you at one of the few shows …
- June 7 – Jackson, CA : Jackson Rancheria Casino
- June 9 – Hunter, NY: Mountain Jam Festival
- August 24 – Sacramento, CA: Fairytale Town Benefit
- August 25 - Chico, CA: Paradise Performing Arts Theater
What's up for 2014? Jackie is getting songs together for a new album that he plans to record in early in 2014 with an eye to release it in the spring. With the new album, you can count on Jackie to be out in full force playing dates throughout the year.
We'd like to thank everyone that supported Indie record retailers on Record Store Day by buying Jackie's Ltd Edition single. Thanks to you, this year's RSD was the most successful so far and your support helps keep the institution of indie music alive. Keep an eye out for more live recordings to be released throughout the year.
Thank you all for your support and stay tuned for more news through the year!


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Whether you're a new or seasoned band parent, there will come a time when you're faced with the decision of whether or not to buy your child an instrument. Knowing what to buy, where to buy it, and how to part with a significant chunk of your wallet can be overwhelming, so we've got nine tips that will help ease your mind and give you an idea of how to start.
1. RENT If your student is a beginner, it's best to rent the instrument. Professional instruments can cost somewhere between a nice piece of jewelry and a small car. In order to avoid spending a large sum of money on an instrument that may only get used for a year, many band directors will encourage that you rent your instrument from a local music shop for the first year, if not several years.
2. KNOW WHAT YOU'RE PAYING FOR Talk to your band director or private lesson teacher about the best brand of instrument to get. They may recommend certain brands based on quality, your child's playing style, your budget, and intended use. Once you've got a couple of recommendations, do some research for yourself and see what would work best.
3. WORK YOUR CONTACTS Talk to other band parents about their purchases and recommendations. If one of their kids happens to be quitting, see if you can buy or borrow their old instrument. Also, talk to local music directors and musicians to see if anyone is willing to lend/sell/give you an unused instrument they have lying around that just needs a quick fix at the repair shop to be in working order. This brings up…
4. NEW VS USED Like most things, used will be cheaper but somewhat riskier. Don't fear the risk though; it doesn't take much of a trained eye to see if an instrument looks dirty or broken. There's bound to be a bit of normal wear and tear, but if certain keys or valves are bent and not in good working condition, or if the instrument looks like it hasn't been cleaned in 10 years and there's still a reed stuck on the mouthpiece, those are things to take into consideration.
5. TAKE IT FOR A TEST DRIVE When you're going to look at an instrument, bring your child along with you so they can inspect and play the instrument for themselves; they'll be able to tell if something's wrong. If you're unsure about the quality of the instrument, take pictures of the instrument to a local music shop and talk to the employees or the instrument repair worker to see what it might cost to get it fixed, if necessary.
6. ONLINE SHOPPING If you decide to go the online route, Woodwind Brasswind is a great website to check out. They sell a wide variety of woodwind, brass, percussion and string instruments ranging from student to professional level. You can also buy accessories such as mouthpieces, swabs, reeds, metronomes, etc. at www.wwbw.com
Another good site to look at is Music for All. They carry all concert band instruments, but their selection isn't as wide. However, they're a trustworthy source with a "Beat Your Price" feature if you're looking to buy a new instrument. www.musicforall.biz
There are a lot of other independent retailers online; just make sure that they have a reasonable return policy. Don't be afraid to call their customer service line either and ask them to inform you on the quality of the instrument you're considering. Ebay can also be a great source for instrument shopping because you can tell from reviews if a seller is accountable.
7. GREAT RESPONSIBILITY Buying your child his or her own instrument means they will have to take good care of it. Make sure your child is ready for this commitment and will properly clean and put away the instrument daily.
8. MARCHING QUALITY If you're buying an additional instrument for your child in marching band, get one that's super inexpensive. The most important quality in a marching instrument (although band directors will probably tell you different) is that it makes noise. That instrument will have to survive rain, wind, and potential collisions with sousaphone players. For example, you might choose to invest in a plastic clarinet rather than a wood clarinet if you need a slightly cheaper, more durable instrument that can be used in both concert and marching band. Again, talk to your band director, who will know exactly what to recommend.
9. THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE Make sure the investment makes sense. Most parents feel more comfortable after waiting a couple years to make sure their child is going to stick with it. It also helps to encourage your child to participate in music ensembles after high school and college. There are plenty of ways to get involved, such as playing in a community band or playing for a church choir. Not only will this ensure the value of your investment, but it will encourage your child to continue their musical growth through his or her entire life.
Remember, the instrument does not make the musician; the musician makes the instrument. It's possible to make a cheaper instrument sound stellar, and if your child is a beginner, there's no need to worry about getting a professional grade instrument just yet. Define a budget you can stick to for an instrument that fits the needs of your child. We hope these tips help, and feel free to let us know if you have any tips of your own by connecting with us on Facebook and Twitter.
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A little bit of nature never hurt nobody...
Mother Nature is one clever lady, her exquisite blooms lend elegance and softness to the harshest of rooms as you can see above. The contrast of white on black is striking but at the same time quite lush and gives this image depth and contrast. In the room below the billowing, feathery foliage provides texture and interest as well as some lovely colour to this space. It fills a gap between wall sconce, table and chair.
Just a little bit of green adds another accent colour that stops the room below from being boring and dull. The flower spikes add some more height and texture.
Even the kitchen benefits from just a dash of green, it makes it feel fresh, clean and alive. The horizontal shelf of glasses deflects light and is a gentle contrast against the dark walls.
In this dining room the additition of lots of timber (firewood, platters, table and chair legs) provides a neutral colour injection while the potted plant again softens what could be a harsh space without it.
And you could always introduce a little floral motif via your fabrics if you don't have a green thumb (of course fake plants are so realistic these days you could always grab one - try Florabelle's range for a stunning indoor addition).
Enjoy your dark rooms and remember, a little nature never hurt no body...


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Inspired by summer's warm weather, long nights and days drinking in the sun, we posted up on the stunning patio at The Duck Inn to share some booze-inspired stories with an offshoot Between Bites: Buzzed event.
Phillip Foss, Chef/Owner, El Ideas
Maggie Hennessey, Freelance food and drink editor
Jared Rouben, Founder/Head Brewer, Moody Tongue
Anthony Todd, Food and drink editor, Chicagoist
Molly Each, freelance food and drink writer, co-founder of Between Bites
Special thanks to our host The Duck Inn and our sponsors Sipsmith Gin, Terlato wine, Lagunitas beer, and Bittersweet Pastry Shop, plus our podcast guru Adam Miller and our photographer Rebecca Peplinski.
Proceeds from the night were donated to The Trotter Project.


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By Evelyn Perez-Verdia
There are more than a million and a half Hispanics registered to vote in Florida, accounting for 14% of the total registered voters. However, this figure is likely low because there are many cases in which a person does not self-identify as a Hispanic. I am a perfect example of this phenomenon. Legally, I am not required to identify myself as Hispanic when registering to vote. Taking into account the many people that might not identify as Hispanic for whatever reason, surely the number of voters rises to 16% or higher.
It is a fact that many of our elections are decided by a margin of 10% or less, making the Hispanic vote important enough to see it as a 'sleeping giant'. This population is a giant, being that it holds the power to sway an election, such as the upcoming Primary and General elections in fall 2014, when we will choose the next Florida Governor.
Should the Hispanic voters continue sleeping through these important moments? What are we, as Hispanics doing in light of this reality? Are we doing nothing at all, or perhaps we are only registering to vote because of the discount on our property taxes? This is precisely what many of you are doing. And this pleases the many people that do not want us to become citizens. If we do become citizens, then they would revel in the fact we might choose not to participate in the process and marginalize ourselves. Or perhaps, they might realize many of us might vote without knowing any of the candidates well, or without having any real reasons to vote for them. But the reasons are critical. These candidates will be the ones representing you, making laws that impact everything from your childrens' education to the amount of taxes you will be paying. They will be those making decisions impacting the businesses that are at the heart of our economy, and the institutions that are crucial to our health care system. They will be voting on our immigrations laws…they will decide everything!
While some would like to dissuade you from voting and say that you're simply a drop of water in an ocean of people, that's simply not true. Wake up to the reality that you have the strength to unite with many around you until eventually becoming a sea of change! Those who prefer you to stay outside of the system would prefer you to not understand how the government functions. It is better for some this way, because then they do not need to feel accountable to you.
Many advisors to politicians analyze how strong the Hispanic vote is in their area before deciding whether or not to support the laws that the community are passionate about. The fewer the Hispanic votes, the easier it is for many political strategists and directors to ignore these issues. Many times, the lack of a large vote from the Hispanic community means that there is little investment in Hispanic media, making awareness of the campaigns even less than the usual.
So what do you need to remember when it comes to voting. You need to officially become a citizen to be able to vote. If you are not registered to vote, then you should begin to pay attention to the political campaigns early in the process and register as soon as possible. In Florida you must be registered 29 days before an election.
2014 is an important year for our local government and soon enough it will be 2016 and time to decide who will be our next President. Will you be studying the difference between the parties or simply thinking that a certain party represents a certain ethnic or racial group? Will you wait for the last minute to register? Will you be an informed voter knowing who your representatives are and what their voting records are? Will you remember that your representatives are there to help you, free of charge, and that they are seeking to communicate with you around election time? Will you realize that they are accountable to you when they are as accessible to you via internet, just like Shakira or Pitbull?
Will you take this opportunity to vote and get involved, to become a part of the system and thus let the leaders know that you will not be silenced or put off to one side? Democracy has no boundaries and is not limited to simple political parties. Hispanics, wake up from the deep sleep you have been in and use the power you have. You can change the history of this country.
If you are a citizen and you dare to vote but do not want to wait until the last minute to become a registered voter, click here to find the information, by county, for each supervisor of elections in Florida:


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Modified salad dressing recipe from "Blueberry SPinach Salad" on Allrecipes.com. Serve with blue cheese, fresh berries and toasted pecans or sunflower seeds.
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Delicious roasted potatoes
Modified from cooking light (Greek Chicken and Barley Salad)- full recipe not stated - just entering for tracking purposes
For the strawberry spinach salad
Paula Deen's recipe. This makes more than a dressing creuset worth of dressing. I am assuming 24 servings (as written, Paula says 12 servings). Top with strawberries , cinnamon sugar pecans and reduced fat blue cheese.
2 person omelet using leftovers from a burger dinner. Not a true recipe - just for my calculation purposes
From All Recipes, but with basil and butter
Even my 2 year old loves this. Actual calories/fat are probably less after discarding marinade. This is from Annie's Eats blog
Bananas, blueberries and oatmeal muffins
Flank steak stir fry
Calculation for 8 servings may be off
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It's round three of the Rainbow Awards cover contest, which is where the lovely
Elisa Rolle asks for help culling through all the awesome entries and the gorgeous cover art to recognize some of the best LGBT books out there and their associated cover artists. Some of my favorites are still in the running, I especially love this cover art for Acrobat over to the left here. And Mary Calmes is such a wonderful author. Anne Caine did an amazing job with this cover. Whoever your faves are, I hope you'll take the time to stop in and vote. You *do* have to log into LiveJournal to vote, but it will let you do it with a Facebook or Twitter account. Super easy.
The cover for Amy Lane's Chase in Shadow is up as well, done by the fabulous Reese Dante. Reese super awesome, she is actually working on a new banner for this very blog, and I am truly blessed because she is so talented. And Chase in Shadow is a great book. Sexy and emotional. I cried the whole way through, but it was the good kind of crying. So, yanno, vote for whoever, but if you need some suggestions, these'd be good. 🙂 You can see all of the covers here, and the poll itself is here.


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RBI's 31 March deadline on bad loans offers opening to private equity3 min read . Updated: 10 Mar 2017, 11:13 AM IST
Banks will probably get more impetus to convert stressed loans into equity in the delinquent borrowers and sell them, say analysts
Banks will probably get more impetus to convert stressed loans into equity in the delinquent borrowers and sell them, say analysts
Mumbai: An impending round of bad-loan provisioning by Indian banks provides an opportunity for private equity and special-situation funds to pick up soured assets at lower prices.
Brought on by the expiry of a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deadline for lenders to clean up their balance sheets, the expected provisions will force them to recognize lower valuations on bad debt, making them easier to dispose, according to S. Sriniwasan, chief executive officer of the Kotak Special Situations Credit Fund. Meanwhile, banks will probably get more impetus to convert stressed loans into equity in the delinquent borrowers and sell them, said consulting firm EY's Dinkar Venkatasubramanian.
Sales of the assets will gather pace "only when the loans get provided for and appear on the banks' books at a lower value, thereby narrowing the gap between the bidding price and the book value," said Sriniwasan, whose fund is backed by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. "That day is not far off."
The opportunities stem from lenders having to set aside new provisions after the expiry of the RBI's 31 March deadline to get rid of bad loans now worth about $180 billion. That prospect has been increasingly apparent for months as low capital buffers and ineffective tools for loan recovery made it impossible to meet the target. Credit Suisse Group AG estimates banks will have to put aside at least Rs86,000 crore in the next 12 months to comply with higher RBI requirements for older soured loans.
Having to make bigger provisions will encourage lenders to put more pressure on borrowers, forcing them to sell assets to funds directly to make repayments, said EY's Venkatasubramanian, a partner in the firm's transaction advisory services division in New Delhi.
In recent years, Indian lenders have resorted to a variety of ways to remove their bad loans, some involving private equity players—State Bank of India and ICICI Bank Ltd formed joint ventures with PE firms to invest in stressed assets, providing additional funding to revive more viable companies.
There is appetite for the country's distressed assets with firms including TPG, KKR & Co. and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. have expressed interest as they seek cheap avenues to capitalize on the country's economic growth.
Brookfield said in November that it's weighing more Indian investment targets after agreeing the previous month to buy Reliance Communications Ltd's mobile-phone tower business in what was the country's largest deal by a private equity fund. The highly leveraged telecom company sold the tower unit to reduce its debt by about a quarter.
More targets may emerge from the RBI's strategic debt restructuring program, a mechanism launched in June 2015 that enables banks to convert bad loans into equity in the borrowers.
Lenders have either converted, or are seeking to convert, more than Rs1.5 trillion of loans into controlling stakes in at least 36 companies, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Once they convert the debt into equity, the lenders are required to sell at least part of their stakes within 18 months, after which they have to make provisions for the loans depending on the value of their shareholdings.
Banks have taken control of at least four companies including Monnet Ispat & Energy Ltd, a New Delhi-based steel and power producer, and IVRCL Ltd, a Hyderabad-based construction company, though none of the companies have been sold so far, filings show.
"Now that banks have already converted loans to some of these companies into equity, it makes sense to find a buyer sooner rather than later," Venkatasubramanian said. "Lenders will have to take deep haircuts on their exposure to push these sales through." Bloomberg


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