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Fringe Process and Recovery (And I reveal my secret identity! :O!)
It may be obvious that play production consumed my life, leaving little time for anything else since last November. As time passed, I lived and breathed my play, sleeping as little as possible. There were nights I got no sleep. I hardly wrote down anything but dreams, saving myself, my words, and my thinking only for CATAMITUS, only for Ganymede.
Even when I went out with friends, they were professional friends- I often feel my life is one which will only allow friends aligned with my professional and spiritual interests- my vocation, I suppose. I see that I am also fated to have no close friends who are not very aligned with my quest, though I have many, many friends. It's in my stars too. And while my friends and I were out drinking, close or professional or both, even then we'd discuss our work and technical issues, and I'd be wrangling actors with mass-thumb-e-mailing on my phone.
I did still make time for a few special events with my special someone. As I've mentioned in this diary, after parting with Luken, it was time to deal with my polyamory. Or, as my lead (Will, the man who played my version of Ganymede) and I decided to call it- polyeroticism. He told me it didn't make sense to put Latin and Greek roots together, and so asked me what would be a better root to use. I can't believe Will schooled me on grammar like that! Anyhow, after Luken, I saw no reason not to love whomever I wanted, physically, at least, and so I did, and it was just fine, despite the false mores which have been so ingrained in the egoic minds of so many. I follow the Law of Love, despite what others may think. And I do take sex seriously, as do many others like me, such as Will. Sex is perhaps the most holy experience, such union being a microcosm of the macrocosm of the everlasting union of the self-loving, self-birthing Universe. Yet, while I was not looking for deep neurological bonds, just loving, positive relationships- yes, I developed a special someone. I'll call him Iakov.
Iakov and I were just looking for fun love. I told him straight from the beginning that I'd just got out of a bad relationship and wasn't looking for anything serious- I was just going wherever my whims took me and following my heart and my body. I had no desire for a relationship, only my quest. He found this pleasing, coming from a very similar situation- he'd finally acknowledged he was done with a very bad relationship, and had moved on to happy fun with other partners as well. He didn't want anyone that was looking for a relationship either. Yet one night turned into night after night after night, date after date after date, and we realized that we had so much in common, and our quests were so similar, and our pansexual, polyerotic, adventurous natures were so compatible, and we could talk to each other about anything. We were more naked and vulnerable with each other than we had ever been with anyone. We care for each other deeply now, and have been together for more than a year- since Fringe 2011- and we support each other through everything. Our lives keep us apart in some ways, but our souls are always together. I am glad he was there to share my company in my quest, and I with him for his, and that we will continue to do so as our quests move forward and take new forms.
After Fringe 2011, while I was enjoying love freely (but responsibly mind you), I took time to breathe for a while. I enjoyed the little things. Life slowed to a crawl while the world went on around me. I meditated, performed my asanas, and experienced further Yoga, further Union, in many ways with Ganymede, God, the Universe, the Divine. I argued with Him a lot, as I used to do- still do. I'm better about it now. I view the relationship as one I would have with someone more anthropomorphic, to whom I would take care speaking words, and mind that I should be more loving, more forgiving. I felt betrayed often, and angry most of the time, but I was happier than I had ever been as I began to develop such a close relationship with God. One I would not have previously thought possible.
Then came November. I'd looked at the world around me. I'd looked at the world within me. I'd looked at the worlds beyond and between worlds. I was being called to my quest. It was difficult for me to drag myself up out of my asceticism- it still is. It was time for me to do something. It was time for me to realize the destiny that had been set before me, of which so many people and signs had reminded me. It was time to transform the illusions of reality. Given what I knew, what I had been told, the signs I had seen, it seemed obvious to begin with theatre. Theatre will save the world, I was told. Though it had fallen through in 2011 with Luken, I knew that I would have to produce a play in 2012, and I would do it myself, though I started from nothing.
I started with nothing, but I booked my venue, wrote my play, found a director, found actors, rehearsed, stage managed, helped to make props and costumes and slide-shows, and so much more. And, being theatre, the beautiful collaborative art that it is, the more people I found, the more people I found to help me. As I focused more on my play and indeed began to live and breathe it, I had no time for frivolities that were not connected with my show, and had no time for people who were not helping me along my quest. I dropped most all of my relationships I'd been enjoying in my polyeroticism, keeping only Iakov.
I started with nothing and somehow pulled off something amazing. Yesterday I tutored someone on Fringe, so to speak, telling him about most of its aspects and my personal experience. He was worried to book a venue without all these things I've described. I told him I'd had nothing to start with, but I'd made it happen. Sometimes you have to take risks. And, somehow, I paid for it all. There were times I felt worried about money, pulling things off on time, everyone getting their lines on time, everyone getting choreography in on time, even getting in and out of the space on time. But I had faith in God, in Ganymede, and I told him so many times. And it all worked out, of course.
Now I have successfully produced my first play here in 2012, and I knew that I had to do something, as my director knew- we know that Now is the time to make things happen. Now is the time to change the world, and to change our worlds.
So, you may have noticed that I am no longer anonymous. It is difficult to promote oneself in my field anonymously. Years ago when I began this blog as a diary of magic so esoteric even I didn't understand it- I began to understand it as I wrote it down- I did not expect anyone to read it, nor did I know where it would take me. It was only something to get myself doing something besides existing. I wrote vaguely and hid all my truths in metaphors easily discernible in their innate truth. I rarely gave specifics. I wanted to be as free from labels, identifications, and identity as possible. I did not want to draw attention to my identity at all. That's one reason I like the name Kora Kaos- as I've mentioned, it simply means "Girl in the Void." It was as devoid of identification as I could manage. I also didn't want to reveal myself for the reason that I was being so brutally honest about important things in life. Then, as time went on, slowly I realized that I would have to put in details here and there to proceed in my story and my magic. So, I mentioned that I lived in Los Angeles. I mentioned that I attend theatre (big surprise considering I'd mentioned Dionysos so often). I mentioned this or that about my quest. I made a cartoon picture of myself at Pride. And, though I remained anonymous as long as possible, it was time to take off my mask. As enjoyable as it was, and is. I will continue to use the identity of Kora, here. It is still my wizard name, after all!
First, I connected my Twitter with my blog- which is very telling. Then, I began to promote my show, CATAMITUS: Love Slave to God. It used to be a secret I would only tell friends in theatre. Now I will pretend no longer that I am not Brynn Sillyman, that girl you see around in theatre, with so many labels but none of them fully accurate. Actor, Writer, Producer, Yogi, Wizard, Cleric of Ganymede- all these things describe me in a way, but ultimately mean nothing. There! You have this superhero's secret identity.
I had read other bloggers' reasons for keeping their identities secret, and they were good. They didn't want to be ostracized or put their careers in jeopardy. I do not think my career is in jeopardy, nor will I be ostracized. Some are worried that calling themselves labels like witches and wizards and druids will garner them a little discrimination. Most everyone I know says it's "cool" to my face, and they accept it and are very curious. There are those who are minorly afraid- but I never really talked to them anyway. People might call me "insane", but if they do, they're generally the sort who recognize that we are all quite insane, and they certainly don't mind. Once a former lover said, "I like you and I think you're a nice girl; I don't care what they say about you," which makes me wonder what "they" say about me. But I don't care. Like Aslan says, we shouldn't care what others think about us, because it doesn't really mean anything. And that former lover was probably only trying to get a little jab in- I mean, really, who says that? There's a reason we only dated for so long; our energy was not compatible.
At least he told me that my Ganymede, my water-bearing God, my Guardian Angel, my Aquarius, came to him as an alien Kachina dancer from Sirius; which was an interesting conversation. Searching for a visual representation I found this as the single result on DA for "Kachina" and "Sirius":
There is one more thing. Pagans sometimes fear for their safety, and that is why they do not come out of the pagan closet or use their real identities online. I once read a Pagan- a Druid, I think, though he knew as well as I that labels are meaningless- say that he would no longer follow that practice, because we must have the courage to stand up for our faith and our truths. Indeed we must all stand up for them like the Christian martyrs if we must (though, mind you, never be a martyr unnecessarily; there are battles to choose and your soul to protect). He was right. Though I was never "in the closet" in my "real life", because I just can't shut myself off and am completely open and completely Me, I will no longer hide online.
I once had a dream that I was at a theatre party, with many of my theatre friends present. We were happy and celebrating. I looked at a man who had come before me. "Stop acting like Jesus!" he shouted at me, before raising a gun to shoot me in the head. I fell backwards into the arms of my Priest of Hermes, and he wept while I died. I felt my spirit release into the entire Universe, and I became It. Death was not so frightening then as it has been during the NDEs of my life, though I was sorry for my priest friend's pain. As I died great disasters befell the Earth.
So for that reason, too, I have occasionally been afraid to be Me. Assassination and all that. But we cannot be afraid.
That is not the only time someone told me to stop acting like Jesus. My mother once told me the same. I didn't understand. She was the one who raised me in Catholicism; is not being Christ-ian being Like-Christ? But she couldn't understand the person I'd become. She'd tried to have me exorcised.
The other occasion such occurred, I was leading a young man upon a shamanic journey. He'd heard I could do it and was very excited to try. Four of us had been hanging out at a theatre and so we all went to try. I laid down a Tree of Life as I usually do, explaining the steps and the chakras along the way in colorful, metaphoric language, leading my new traveler through the process a bit like it were Church.
At this point, Luken began to interrupt. We were still together back then. His best friend and roommate was with him- the same man who had interrupted me while I was reciting the Hebrew prayers for lighting my candles at Hanukkah with much the same sorts of pronouncements. I am not usually one to call anything blasphemy- lawl I mean look at me- but Luken interrupted my service with such pronunciations as, "What's the point? Why are you using this language? It means nothing. Why are you saying all this?" He interrupted my religious ritual, basically. He was just being rude. I became very frustrated with this interruptions and finally gave up, stalking off.
My new traveler became upset. "No, let her finish!" he said. I went off to cry somewhere, but because I could hear him arguing that he'd wanted to finish, I wiped away my tears and came back. We induced traveling. My new traveler described it in euphoric terms, saying it had been like when he'd gone on a meditation retreat. He felt peaceful and at One with everything. He told me months later that the experience changed his life, that he still thinks about it, that he is glad I took him with me.
Luken and the roommate experienced it as, "Oh, well, that's odd," for all I could tell, in words saying they'd experienced something, but not being changed for it.
I experienced it with some difficulty as usual. I was the last to come back. I was arguing with the spirits. The roommate thought I was arguing with him. He said, "It'll be alright." I waved him away. But he insisted, so I said fine, bid the spirits goodbye, and came back. By this time I had fallen down into the arms of said roommate. And Luken became incensed upon seeing me there, in the arms of another man, though perfectly platonic. He'd been drinking and became belligerent. He said, "What, who do you think you are? Stop acting like Jesus! Have you lived 145 times?" Because he has, apparently? Then he ran off, left the building, and down a couple of streets, before falling down to roll around in a be-littered, gasoline-spotted gutter by a 24-hour doughnut shop. The rest of us chased after him and removed him with some difficulty, giving him the attention he so clearly wanted, because we felt we had to do so rather than leave him there.
I have no idea why I induce this kind of ire in others for trying to further Christ's work. Life. Man.
At any rate, I move beyond all such things. Here I am. I'm Kora Kaos. I'm Brynn Sillyman. Here I am naked and vulnerable before you. See where I have been, if you choose- I expose the dark and light parts of myself, life, and God. In reading my goetic diary, witness my transformation from an abusing and abused arrogant youth full of ennui to a slightly-less-arrogant, peaceful, independent artist out to change the world, if you choose. I have a mission to transform the illusions of reality. I've started on my way with my play CATAMITUS. Praise Ganymede.


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Last Christmas
Disclaimer: All characters belong to Cassandra Clare.
Author's Note: This takes place during City of Lost Souls after Alec and Magnus broke up.
Time: City of Lost Souls
Genre: Romance and Angst
Rating: PG-13
Date Finished: November 13, 2012
Alec looked out his bedroom window onto the New York skyline. Snow was gently falling creating a winter wonderland over the city. Through his open window, he could hear the soft sounds of Christmas music coming from the shops below. The faint glow of Christmas lights shone on his face. The world was a cheerful place this time of year, but Alec did not feel the cheer.
Magnus did not want anything to do with him and it still hurt.
Last Christmas they had given each other their hearts, but this year it was all tears. Alec could not get into the Christmas spirit without Magnus by his side. Sure, he had gotten along just fine previous Christmas without a lover. Now, that he knew what love was and did not want to spend another one alone.
Technically, he would not be spending Christmas alone, but it would feel like it. Magnus was his other half. The warlock was the only person who Alec could think about spending the holidays with. There was just something about sending the holidays with Magnus that made the Shadowhunter feel all warm and gushy inside. It made him feel like a newly baked cookie. This Christmas, Alec felt like the lump of coal that was given to naughty children by Father Christmas.
Alec stepped back from the window. He had thought that the pain would go away. It had, after all, been months since the breakup. It was supposed to get better with time. For Alec, the more time went on, the more it hurt.
Alec had seen Magnus yesterday at the local mundane market. The warlock had been picking up mistletoe. Alec wondered who would be under the mistletoe with Magnus this year. Last Christmas, it had been Alec. It made Alec's heart hurt to know that Magnus had moved on from him.
Somewhere deep within the Institution, Alec could hear his own family's preparation for their own Christmas celebrations. He found that he could not join them. He could pretend to be merry nor could he stand them asking him what was wrong. Instead, he was playing sick.
Instead, he was living in angst because the person who he had given his heart to last Christmas had thrown it away. This year to save himself from the trouble, Alec would give his hear to no one and would keep it locked up.
Magnus sat on his apartment sofa with a small, glittery Christmas tree in front of him. Chairman Meow sat next to him staring at the tree. The warlock was not in the Christmas spirit this year. This was the first Christmas that he would be spending alone in a long time.
He had seen Alec at the market yesterday. The boy had not even looked at him and seemed to be happy. The warlock had picked the closest thing to him and bought it to escape Alec. Seeing that Alec had moved on from their relationship so quickly, made the hurt even worse.
Magnus leaned back against the sofa and stared at the Christmas tree. He thought that playing with glitter would cheer him up and put him in the holiday spirit, but it failed to.
Last Christmas, he gave his heart to Alec and this Christmas he was spending it alone.
He put on an act to make it seem like to the world that he was okay, but he was not. He wanted to spend this Christmas with his darling Alexander, but knew that was not going to happen.
Magnus looked at the mistletoe that he had thrown on the sofa. Last Christmas, he and Alec had spent much of the holiday under it. This year, no one would be under the mistletoe.
Through the curtains, Magnus could see that the snow had picked up. In the distance, church bells rang announcing the arrival of Christmas.
"Merry Christmas, Alexander," Magnus muttered, "wherever you may be."


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New York: Rinehart, 1951. First edition. VGVG/Hardcover no dustwrapper Light browning. Black cover rubbed with light wear, staining. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. (Inventory #: 225069)


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The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas
(Literary Masterpieces, Volume 9)
Following his definitive biography of Dylan Thomas in 1977, Paul Ferris has completed a further labor in the same field, a collection of more than a thousand of Thomas' letters, covering more than nine hundred pages of text. This collection (originally published in England in 1985) chronicles a period of more than twenty years, ranging from the wordy exuberance of the adolescent poet in the 1930's to the increasingly sad and desperate letters written in the years immediately preceding his tragic death in 1953 in New York as a famous, and notorious, figure. Seven hundred of these letters have not been published before, and although they will not lead to any radical reassessment of Thomas' life or character—the Thomas story is too well-known and documented for that—the collection as a whole does give continuous insight into one of the brightest and wildest literary figures of the twentieth century.
The bulk of the early letters are to Pamela Hansford Johnson, an aspiring poet, later to succeed as a novelist, who had written to Thomas following the publication of one of his early poems. An enthusiastic and lengthy correspondence followed, in which they exchanged and criticized each other's work. The young Thomas, writing from his boyhood home in Swansea, Wales, gives many clues to the spirit that motivated his early, obscure, self-absorbed poetry, which caused such a stir in literary circles when his first collection, 18 Poems, was published in 1934.
Not yet fully confident of his own powers (hardly surprising in a young man of nineteen), Thomas acknowledges to Johnson that he may be only a "freak user of words." Although he is "in the path of Blake," he is "so far behind him that only the wings on his heels are in sight." When Thomas digs into some of the conceptions and assumptions underlying his work, however, many of his comments are illuminating. When Johnson complains of the "ugliness" of much of his poetry, by which she probably meant his excessive use of anatomical imagery, he declares, "Every idea, intuitive or intellectual, can be imaged and translated in terms of the body, its flesh, skin, blood, sinews, veins, glands, organs, cells, or senses. Through my small, bonebound island I have learnt all I know, experienced all, and sensed all." In another early letter, this time to Trevor Hughes, a friend from Swansea living at the time in London, he writes that "it is my aim as an artist . . . to prove beyond doubt to myself that the flesh that covers me is the flesh that covers the sun, that the blood in my lungs is the blood that goes up and down in a tree," a concept brilliantly realized in many of his youthful poems, most notably perhaps in the complex, unified and unifying imagery in the famous "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower." To another early literary acquaintance, Glyn Jones, Thomas describes this as "the cosmic significance of the human anatomy." In his own curious and self-occupied way, he was intuitively grasping an ancient idea: the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm—that man is a world in little and the universe is a man writ large.
Thomas freely admits to the obscurity that riddled his early poetry. In a previously unpublished letter to Desmond Hawkins, who was at that time literary editor of the magazine Purpose, he writes, "I agree that much of the poetry is impossibly difficult; I've asked, or rather told, words to do too much." Sometimes he is severe in his self-judgments, as, for example, regarding 18 Poems: "a poor lot, on the whole, with many thin lines, many oafish sentiments. . . & much highfalutin nonsense." He confesses to Glyn Jones that his sonnet sequence "Altarwise by Owl-Light," in which he seems to reach new heights of opacity, reads almost like a "mad parody" of his own style. (His explanation of the first two lines of the first of these sonnets is particularly illuminating, since it is hard to see how anyone could have divined it without Thomas' help.)
Thomas disliked theoretical discussions of his own, or anyone else's, poetry. He writes to an inquiring friend, "You asked me to tell you about my theory of poetry. Really I haven't got one," and to Hawkins he says that "it isn't theories that choke some of the wilder and worser lines, but sheer greed." To his early critics and correspondents, he denies any connection with surrealism ("I have very little idea what surrealism is") or any suggestion that his poetry is the product of automatic writing. On one of the few occasions that he gave any detailed explanation of his method or technique, he explained to Henry Treece, a young poet who, as early as 1937, was preparing a book-length study of Thomas' poetry: "Each image holds within it the seed of its own destruction, and my dialectical method. . . is a constant building up and breaking down of the images that come out of the central seed, which is itself destructive and constructive at the same time." Out of this conflict of images, he attempts "to make that momentary peace which is a poem. . . . All warring images within it should be reconciled for that small stop of time." Thomas returns more than once to this Blakean idea of the conflict of opposites, most notably in the newly available letter to Hawkins. In an explanation of his poem "I Make This in a Warring Absence When," he comments that "I made as many contraries as possible fight together, in an attempt to bring out a positive quality," and in a note at the foot of the page Thomas adds, "negate each other, if they could; keep their individualities & lose them in each other." The debt to Blake is clear.
By the mid-1930's, with the publication of his second book, Twenty-five Poems, Thomas was building a reputation for himself as an exciting and promising new poet. He now spent much of his time in London, and the friendship with Pamela Johnson had turned into a brief love affair that did not long survive Thomas' wild behavior. It was during this period that he began to cultivate carefully another kind of reputation—as the Bohemian poet, always likely to flout convention and behave outrageously, especially when drunk (which Thomas frequently was).
These years set the pattern for the future. Thomas refused to earn money from anything but the sale of his poems and short stories, claiming that he...
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|2001 Saab 9-5 SE 3.0L Brake Lights VIN: YS3EF48Z91
Car came in shop with check eng light on p1576 and brake lights on even with car off and key out of ignition.( headlights also )Checked brake light swith with new one. No change, checked harness in trunk and all seems well. Car also has excessive emissions on ...
|1999 Volkswagen Passat GLS 1.8L abs VIN: WVWMA63B2X
the vehicle was towed in with locked up brakes. vehicle owner had replaced pads a few weeks before? not really sure of the timing of that repair. we could do no more than drive it into the shop since the oil pan was damaged by the tow company. so, no road test...
|1999 Volkswagen Cabrio GLS 2.0L Tack/Speedometer VIN: 3VWBB81E4X
This VW came into shop with the tach and speedomter not working, codes p0135 p0135, wipers only work on high and Wont Park and an air bag light. The customer said the problems started a few months after the switch was changed. (And doesnt remember if they all...
|2002 Volkswagen Jetta GLS 2.0L no speedo VIN: 3VWSB69M62
speedo quit working pcm had po500 vss circuit, checked power and ground no signal from vss order new sensor vw has in stock install new sensor still no signal re check power and ground and signal line for short, all's good order another sensor. Install and sti... Trouble codes: P0500
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|2001 Audi Allroad Quattro 2.7L upper contol arm VIN: WAUYP54B21
Hi to all, thanks for the replies. What I ended up doing was buying a top of the line Snap On air hammer and with a little drilling and making some custom adapters I was able to drill and hammer the broken bolt out. I was a little worried about breaking the en...
|1988 Mercedes-Benz 260E 2.6L shift
Thanks to all that responded to my Mercedes problem. Unfortunately my customer has given up on his car and any further work done to it. What I can add to this update is that the transmission fluid and lines were 100% clean and clear of any trash. My best guess...
|1994 Mercedes-Benz S350 3.4L motor VIN: WDBGB34E4R
Disassembled engine and found #5 cylinder with excessive wear. Vehicle apparently was consuming oil excessivly before original problem that came into shop for. Customer does not want to fix. Thanks to you who replied.
|2000 Volkswagen Jetta GL 2.0L Key VIN: 3VWRC29M0Y
Thanks for all the replies. the dealer took us right in the next morning and programmed the key and did not even charge us said that they may need a favor some day, for we have quite a bit of experience w/ Audi's. I use to work for them as a Audi tech and have...


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We then had two weekends of A Day Out With Thomas
The weather was a bit damp the first Saturday but that didn't stop visitors coming to see Thomas, Daisy, Mavis, Trevor and of course, Sir Topham Hatt who made sure everyone behaved. New for this year was a 7 1/4" Toby who looked very cute.
The four days were a great success, and seeing the faces of some of the children as they saw Thomas made it all worthwhile


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Dianna Muldrow | September 1, 2015
The world of criminal justice policy is changing. This process is not beginning now, but its life is still relatively short. Communities and taxpayers, fed up with inefficient use of resources and public safety redundancies, have begun uniting behind common sense reform proposals. This is occurring across the country, but has been repeatedly hailed as successful in Texas.
Texas has truly been a leading state in conservative criminal justice reform. Beginning in force in 2007, Texas has succeeded in dramatically lowering the incarceration rate and most importantly, the crime rate within its borders. The state has saved billions in averted costs and hundreds of millions in reduced costs by following what many are hailing as the "Texas Model." This 'model' involves prioritizing effectiveness and efficiency by focusing on incarcerating high-risk individuals, monitoring low-risk individuals in communities, and providing individuals that have mental health or drug and alcohol needs with treatment, lowering recidivism.
Marc Levin, Director of Right on Crime, acknowledged the 2007 reforms in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram this morning, but also recapped the massive reforms that Texas has continued since, as well as the reforms in 2015 alone:
"In the 2015 session, lawmakers preserved the funding for alternatives to incarceration and adopted numerous new laws that will continue Texas' progress […] In addition, the most significant juvenile justice legislation since 2007, will redirect even more troubled youths from costly, remotely located state youth lockups to community-based programs that have proven more effective, saving taxpayers $80 million over five years."
Claims that Texas has resisted reform are contrary to fact. When reforms began – as a recent op-ed stated – Texas was incarcerating 710 people for every 100,000 Texans. Today that ratio has dropped to 602. There are critics, often those who are reluctant to find results in conservative movements. Their confusion possibly results from a misunderstanding of the math regarding the growing Texas general population. A basic understanding of fractions could demonstrate that when the denominator increases, and the numerator decreases or even remains the same, the size of the fraction decreases as well. Unfortunately, confusion over this remains.
Texas is not finished with criminal justice reform. Its legislators will continue to improve the system for their communities. However, giving credit where credit is due, the Texas Model has done much, and done it well.
DIANNA MULDROW is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, where she focused on criminal justice and education policy. She has interned in the Governor's Office, for the Chair of the State Board of Education, and most recently at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Center for Education Freedom and Center for Effective Justice. She is now employed as a policy analyst for Right on Crime, focusing on juvenile justice. Muldrow has worked on many research papers and articles – for Texas and several other states – advocating for reforms in criminal justice that protect public safety in a cost-effective manner.


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I mean c'mon !!! Koala bears are barley even cool!
I mean c'mon !!! Koala bears are barley even cool!
Have an opinion?
I don't know but I'd have one for a pet if I could :)
They are SUPER CUTE!!! I've held one in my arms before.
Lol can we talk about Koalas and Pandas seem like they want to die? like seriously.
yes they are.
Are you american? No, theyre not bears. As an Australian, definitely not bears
I do not think they are
No, theyre not bears. A quick google search would show that theyre not even related to bears in any way
no, they're marsupials
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Pantheon Reachs TD at Jumonville #2, Conducts Electric Logging
Pantheon Resources issued the following drilling update on the company's onshore Gulf of Mexico property, Jumonville:
Operational Update - Jumonville #2
The Company advises that the Jumonville #2 well is currently at 14,100 feet and has reached total depth. Electric logging is currently under way over the Cib Haz Formation, the last of the objective intervals. Mudlogs over the Cib Haz did not record any hydrocarbon shows similar to the three other objective intervals.
Once electric logging is complete and evaluated, a decision will be made to complete the Jumonville #2 for production through one of the hydrocarbon bearing zones which at this stage looks like being the Miogyp Formation.
As previously advised, the Jumonville #2 well encountered approximately 20 feet of Miogyp sand formation which is believed to be oil bearing and is confirmed as being up dip from the current oil production from the Miogyp interval in the Jumonville #1 well located some 1,000 feet away. The results to date are consistent with Jumonville #1 and importantly confirm the distribution of this reservoir across the oil and gas field. Sidewall cores have been taken and are presently being evaluated.
In addition, oil and gas shows were also recorded across the shallower Camerina interval. Further evaluation of this objective is required to determine its significance.
- Pantheon: Fracking Permission for VOS#1 Granted (Jul 08)
- Pantheon Resources: VOBM#1 Spuds, 2 Well Drilling Program Starts (Jul 28)
- Vision Operating Completes Site Works at Tx. Well (Aug 15)


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The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky Trailer (1995)
"The year is 1919 - a time when being a ranger meant forest fires were fought with guts and courage." 15 June 1995 Drama, Action, Western 92 mins
A young ranger in the Montana wilderness discovers the great forces of nature while learning the importance of honor, trust and integrity. Legendary veteran ranger Bill Bell educates the young man and guides him toward manhood. The year is 1919-a time when being a ranger meant more than operating expensive equipment. Forest fires were fought with guts and courage, not chemicals and airplanes. Bill Bell was the toughest ranger in an elite crew of very rugged men. A figure of heroic proportions, he was generally feared and respected by all. It was even rumored that he had at one time killed a sheep farmer, which only fueled his already enormous reputation. The young ranger does everything to remain in the good graces of Bill Bell, the senior ranger he idolizes. Their tentative rapport grows into a friendship through a hilarious and heroic rite of passage in which the younger ranger meets the test-and the woman of his dreams.
Watch the official The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky 1995 trailer in HD below or find more The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky videos on Vidimovie.


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There are two styles of Global Raised storage areas, these are a timber decked style and a steel decked style, ask one f our friendly sales consultants which is the best for your application.
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Everyone should consider the matter of his future security with too much concern as future planning is quite important for spending a happy life. And to assure the security of your future, you must make a proper future planning from today as your one right step of today will bring you a number of benefits for your future. As a result of the growing consciousness of people of having an insurance policy, a huge range of insurance policies are available in the market nowadays. And when the concern is to have a useful insurance policy, you must consider of having an overseas policy as this is the only way through which you will be able to assure your future security at the time when you are not capable of working anymore. On the other way, it can be said that overseas policy is that particular type of policy which ensures your future security after your retirement.
When should you start to continue an overseas policy?
It is quite evident that at some point in their life everyone needs to focus on their retirement. But don't let your retirement be the end of your happy life and fund your life overseas before five years or more when you plan your retirement. With an effective strategy, you will be able to meet your every requirement perfectly. A number of people may have the questions that how a retirement will help them to secure their future life and the answer to the question is quite simple as a retirement plan can open a number of ways for the complete security of your future. No matter, whether you need to pay your home rent or need a health treatment, your savings in the retirement policy will allow you to serve any purpose properly.
How can you make a proper investment?
There are a number of companies in the market which offer retirement policies. And to get the best from policy, you must survey the market first to know which particular policy will bring you the leading benefits. To have a clear idea about the benefits of retirement policies, you can get fix appointment to the brokers who will be able to provide the right guidance so that your policy works perfectly to fulfill your every requirement of future. Another better option that will help you to make the right decision about your investment is that you can visit the websites of several companies to get free quotes.
How will you get your retirement cash?
The most important thing to avail the benefits of a retirement policy is that you have to make a long-term future planning which means you have to start saving money from your income. So it will be right to say that the earlier you will start to fund your life overseas, the more benefits you will be able to get. Hence, make your strategy of expense today and be tension free about both your social and health security of future.


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ADTRAN, a provider of next-generation open networking solutions, has announced that it has achieved record growth in its solutions for gigabit service delivery for service providers including utilities, multiple system operators (MSOs), land developers and incumbent and competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) providers.
In total, over 350 communities have selected the ADTRAN gigabit services architecture to enable broadband connectivity for homes, schools and businesses, and the company noted that in particular non-traditional operators are increasingly beginning to deploy broadband solutions to serve communities.
In addition to ongoing projects with traditional Tier 1, 2 and 3 carriers, ADTRAN stated it has worked with non-traditional providers to help provide gigabit services to help communities transform, grow and connect:
ADTRAN reported last August that it had been selected for gigabit broadband initiatives by 200 communities.


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Fisher exits CS equity syndicate
Joss Fisher, managing director has stepped down from his role as head of equity syndicate non-Japan Asia at Credit Suisse.
Fisher, who took on the top syndicate role in June 2011, is believed to have stepped down at the end of last year after spending nine years at the bank. The bank is is yet to appoint a sucessor, Asiamoney PLUS understands.
He was promoted from being head of ECM distribiuon for equity sales in Asia Pacific and replaced Ross Baildon who left Credit Suisse after being offered a role as head of Asia ECM syndicate at UBS, Asiamoney PLUS reported at the time.
It is not clear whether Fisher will be joining another bank. He was unable to be reached for comment. Credit Suisse declined to comment.
Yacenda joins BoA-Merrill as Asia COO
Jennifer Taylor, chief operating officer (COO) of Asia Pacific has been named COO of Europe and emerging markets (ex-Asia) at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to an internal memo dated February 28, seen by Asiamoney PLUS.
She will relocate to London in the second quarter of this year, and report to Steve Tighe, global banking and markets chief of staff and Alex Wilmot-Sitwell, president of Europe and emerging markets (ex-Asia) at the bank. Taylor has worked as COO for Asia since 2007.
She will be replaced by Richard Yacenda, who will join the bank at the end of May. He will be based in Hong Kong and will report to Tighe as well as to Matthew Koder, president of Asia Pacific.
He joins from Deutsche Bank, where he was managing director and deputy COO for Asia Pacific since 2006. Before this he worked at Goldman Sachs for 21 years. He has worked in Asia for the last 16 years, in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore.
Credit Suisse Apac COO departs
Dumith Fernando, chief operating officer (COO) for Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse, is leaving the bank. He will be replaced by Andrew Morgan, global head of tax and chief financial officer (CFO) for Asia Pacific.
He will take on the title of COO in addition to his current role. Fernando joined the bank in 2007 and was named regional COO towards the end of 2010.
BoA-Merrill's Sharma joins Credit Suisse
Ashish Sharma has joined Credit Suisse as head of loan syndications for Asia Pacific, as reported by Asiamoney PLUS's sister publication EuroWeek Asia.
He joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was head of Asian loan syndications, and he replaces Justin Crane three months after he left the bank. Sharma will be based in Hong Kong, reporting to Ali Abbas Alam and Riddhi Shah, co-heads of emerging markets financing at the Swiss bank.
Sharma worked at BoA-Merrill for the last 16 years, and was head of Asian loans since January 2009.
Houstone to head RBS Aussie DCM
James Houstone has been appointed head of debt capital markets (DCM) for Australia at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). He joined the bank in March 2007 and was named head of financial institutions DCM for Australia and New Zealand in 2012.
He will report to the bank's country head Andrew Chick. Before joining the bank he was head of DCM for Nomura in Australia. In addition, Gwen Greenberg has been named head of corporate DCM, having worked for the bank's DCM team since 1998.
Barclays appoints head of Asean equity research
Anand Ramachandran has been promoted to head of Asean equity research at Barclays. He will be based in Singapore, and continues to report to Jon Scoffin, head of research for Asia Pacific.
He joined the bank in 2011 as head of telecoms, internet and media sector in Asia ex-Japan equity research, and will continue with these responsibilities in addition to leading and developing the bank's Asean equity research business.
StanChart hires commodity structured finance chief
Standard Chartered has appointed Michael Jakubik as global head of commodity structure finance. He is based in Singapore and reports to Arun Murthy, global head of commodities at the bank.
He joins from Standard Bank in London, where he was head of commodity structured solutions.
Pimco's Apac head retires
Ki Myung Hong has left his position as Hong Kong based head of Asia Pacific, at Pimco. He will be replaced in the near term by Douglas Hodge, the firm's global chief operating officer (COO).
Hong joined the firm in July 2010, from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he was regional vice chairman and president of Asia Pacific. Before this he was Asia co-head of credit and rates at J.P. Morgan.
GIC Asset Management names new president
Jeffrey Jaensubhakij has been appointed president of GIC Asset Management (GAM), taking over from Lim Chow Kiat, who will focus on his role as chief investment officer (CIO) for the group. He was named CIO on February 1.
Jaensubhakij moves from his current role as the firm's president for Europe, and will relocate from London to Singapore. He joined GIC in 1998. Lim Kee Chong, current deputy president of GAM and director of global equities will take on the position of deputy group CIO. Lim has been working for GIC since 1987.
Ang Eng Seng will take on the role of GIC's president for Europe and will be based in London.
Lam to head ECM at China Renaissance Securities
Jason Lam has joined China Renaissance Securities as managing director and head of equity capital markets (ECM).
He moves to the role from his position as co-head of technology coverage for Asia at Credit Suisse. He will be based in Hong Kong and report to Frank Au, president of China Renaissance Securities. Before working for Credit Suisse, Lam was with UBS Investment Bank's Asia technology team.
Brown Brothers Harriman shuffles securities lending
Robert Lees is relocating from Hong Kong to London as part of a reorganisation of the securities lending team at Brown Brothers Harriman. He will report to Mark Payson, global head of trading. Lees has worked for the firm for ten years, spending the last three in Asia, where he oversaw the launch of the securities lending trading desk in Hong Kong.
In addition, Zubair Nizami has joined the firm from Robeco Hong Kong, to head the Asia trading desk in Hong Kong, reporting to Lees. In his previous role he was responsible for securities lending trading for Asia.


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An interesting twitter conversation today emerged from Paul's initial comment below on the topic of employee option pools. I found the conversation fascinating because: 1) it's interesting to hear people's thoughts on employee option pools, 2) it's even more interesting to hear it debated among Atlantans I know and respect, and 3) the twitter format forces interesting word choices (and Rob often takes the cake for good one-liners).
I do not really have much to add personally to the conversation. I've never raised venture capital. I've only ever raised convertible note rounds, and we ended up paying off the notes rather than converting them to equity. So I have no first-hand experience with the feelings that are associated with negotiating employee option pools in a term sheet.
I do have two initial background comments:
- To understand the debate, read what others have written about it. Fred Wilson is a good source (here and here).
- This whole debate centers on the way employee option pools are included in the terms of a financing round. No one is debating the goodness of granting employees options. Everyone believes that early employees should be able to have a path to participate in the equity upsides of the business.
Here is the Storified version of the conversation with selected tweets:
I think the key points in all those tweets are accurate. Summarized, the points are:
- Employee option pools are a term that equates to lowering the price for investors. They are a knob of the negotiation.
- There is a risk that founders do not realize the diluting effect of these pools in the term sheet. They sound so innocent.
- Founders really do not have an excuse to not understand their term sheets. They should both learn good negotiation skills and have good legal representation.
- Since employee option pools have such a bad rap these days, there is an associated feeling that investors attempting to use the term might be the kind that like to pull tricky maneuvers.
The debate really boils down to one's personal perception of the investor's attempt to include founder-diluting employee option pools into a term sheet.
It's great to be in Atlanta and part of these interesting debates. Wonderful to see so many participants in the discussion!
What are your thoughts on employee option pools in term sheets?


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Last evening I used two different 8X8 pieces of pyrex bakeware; one to cook a turkey burger and one to cook a salmon burger. Both were cooked at 400 degrees F. The salmon burger was in the oven for 20 minutes, the turkey burger for 30. As normal, I took each piece of pyrex out of the oven when necessary and placed them both on my stove top. The pyrex containing the salmon burger had a longer chance to cool than the pyrex containing the turkey burger before I put water and dish detergent in them to soak. This is pretty standard operations in my kitchen whenever I make this meal.
What I did not expect, was for the turkey burger pyrex dish to explode in my hands. And just so we're clear – I am not using the word "explode" for hyperbole or some other literary effect to endear you into reading future posts of my blog. The dish literally shattered into hundreds of pieces right in my hands with a sharp, loud noise, and fell sizzling into my kitchen sink.
The first thing I remember yelling into the living room was that I was OK, because I heard Mike scramble as he ran into the kitchen. I asked him later if I screamed. He said I did. I'm pretty sure I jumped too. I know Noah did. To be honest, it was a bit unnerving. I had never witnessed anything like that, so up close and personal, in my life.
It is true, I had not let the pan cool as long as I normally do, but this was actually to my benefit. Because the dish was still warm, I used pot-holders and ran the dish under water at the sink (rather than pouring water from a cup into the dish on my stove). Those two things, along with God's grace, saved me from an otherwise pretty probable trip to the emergency room.
I felt kind of silly afterward. I convinced myself it might make sense that if you run cold water over hot glass it could break. I considered not posting anything to my facebook page – but I'm so glad I did.
Turns out other people I know personally have had similar experiences. What's more, there are other reported cases of people across the country that have sustained what I would call some pretty major injuries. At least they seem pretty major to me when you're talking about injuries coming from seemingly harmless bakeware that is in the majority of American homes. The one that scared me the most was from a woman in Connecticut whose bakeware exploded when she removed it from the oven. Pieces of glass were found ten feet away in the back of her two year old's chair (who was in the chair at the time, but fortunately unhurt).
I found two websites that I felt were helpful as I researched more about this phenomenon. One is from ConsumerAffairs.com from 2008. The other is from the local CBS Chicago page from December 2010.
I encourage you to check into this if you've purchased pyrex since 1998 when the brand was transferred from the Corning company to World Kitchen. From what I've gleamed in my very limited understanding, there is speculation that the composition of pyrex changed from borosilicate (which is still used in Europe where they have no similar stories of exploding pyrex) to soda lime glass. There is also speculation that current pyrex is not tempered correctly and thus is more likely to break (or shatter).
At this point, I've contacted the Consumer Product Safety Commission (firstname.lastname@example.com or 800-638-2772) to share my story, and Mike and I have decided to remove pyrex from our kitchen (it will be will saved in hopes a US product recall might be issued). We don't want to chance it. With a very busy two year old, and another baby on the way, I can't chance having a baking dish explode when I remove it from the oven, or place it on the counter, or try to run water over it. The risk to my babies is just simply not worth it. I'll scrub a little harder on some other product that promises to do what it says it will without any dangerous surprises.


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Whether you're a college junior thinking about grad programs—a near-completion doctoral student looking at the faculty job ads—an assistant professor anticipating your tenure review—or a dissertation advisor hoping to help your own students thrive in the academic marketplace—The PhDictionary has knowledge, wisdom, and tools that will aid you in your task. In this book, I bring both current data and personal stories into definitions of 150 key phrases and concepts you will need to know (or pretend to know) as you navigate your academic careers.
I started work on the book in 2013, and the first entry I wrote was for Curriculum Vitae, or CV. When I was applying to graduate schools in 1991, they all asked for a CV, and I had never even heard the term. I read all kinds of resume manuals, none of which used the term CV anywhere, and finally cobbled something together. Fast forward to 2011, and one of my own graduate students was applying to a doctoral program. She said, "Could I get a copy of your CV? I've never seen one before." And I suddenly realized how many things I'd learned over twenty-some years that I once didn't know, things I mostly learned on my own.
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Bogus UA Bankruptcy ReportSeptember 12th, 2008 | Sources: NY Times
Steve Jobs got a chuckle this week when he addressed recent speculation about his health by borrowing an old Mark Twain line. "Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," he said.
Perhaps United Airlines should post something similar on its web site after a series of errors led investors to believe the airline had tanked again and the subsequent sell-off wiped out $1 billion in UA's market cap before things got sorted out.
What actually happened is a matter of dispute right now. One story is that a reporter with Income Securities Advisers was doing a routine Google search for bankruptcy filings in 2008 when he came across a link on the web site of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The link had a fresh date on it, but connected to a 2002 Chicago Tribune article describing UA's bankruptcy filing in that year. The reporter included the link in a post to Bloomberg News, which in turn released a headline citing the article.
The bogus news caused UA shares to tumble 25% in less than an hour before UA officials figured out what happened. Thereafter, NASDAQ temporarily halted trading, Income Securities and Bloomberg issued corrections and the frenzy settled down quickly although UA stock closed down 12% for the day.
The Sun-Sentinel denies ever posting the story on its web site and its parent, Tribune Co. provides an equally plausible account that blames Google.


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The HTC Vive 2 has been the subject of much speculation in recent times. There are rumors of the release date being delayed for this behemoth. However, nothing has been officially confirmed yet.
HTC Vive 2 Release Date Delayed?
The HTC Vive 2 release date may well be delayed according to the Bitbag. The company is still in the development phase as per reports. The HTC Vive released to a rapturous response in April 2015. VR Gamers have been raving about the Vive ever since.
However, several gamers have also been eagerly talking about the Vive 2 release date. The company has already clarified that no official update releases are on the cards. However, this has not kept rumor mills from buzzing about version 2.
Also Read: PlayStation VR vs Oculus Rift vs HTC Vive: Price, Specs & Game
HTC is reportedly considering a new version of the Vive which will be more suited for arcade gaming. The design for the Vive 2 or arcade version will emphasize more on design and performance. There will be a new wireless feature for this VR headset as per reports.
HTC Vive 2 Rumors
HTC has already shown the VR gaming accessory for the Vive which enables wireless performance. The TPCAST has been developed by HTC Vive's Chinese division, allowing for wireless running minus any hassles.
Also Read: HTC Vive Arriving Early April, Preorder Next Week for a Meager $800
HTC has also tied up with Quark VR from Bulgaria to create wireless connectivity accessories for the European Vive customers. The Vive can be purchased from the online store of HTC and several other retailers. It has been one of HTC's biggest hits in recent times.
It is priced at $800 and the bundle encompasses two controllers, headset and two sensors. The HTC Vive requires you to possess a high powered computer. It is no different from the Oculus Rift in this sense. The Intel i5 is capable enough but you must have the Radeon R9 290 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphic cards for using this satisfyingly.


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Spot showers today led to a beautiful double rainbow. I grabbed my widest angle lens and quickly shot a few 5 exposure HDR photographs.
In Boston to attend Scott Kelby's Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It LIVE! seminar. I took the train to South Station and walked to the Boston Commons, through the Boston Gardens and then through Back Bay to the Hynes Convention Center next to the Prudential Center on Boylston Street. The morning was mostly gray and overcast and the sun poked out a bit in the afternoon — the perfect opportunity to shoot some HDR landscape photos of the city.


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A new way to fight poverty
Development organizations have long grappled with the question of how to lift millions of people out of poverty. For decades, funds earmarked for the poor were funneled to local governments or international agencies. Money was poured into large construction projects designed to build infrastructure and improve living conditions in developing nations. New roads, dams, and bridges dotted the landscape of countries in which the poor remained alienated from the formal economy and depended on handouts to survive.
The idea of lending capital directly to those who needed it most seemed too risky or impractical. The poor were unfamiliar with the workings of the credit system and lacked assets to use as collateral for loans. Without jobs or steady income prospects, they could hardly be expected to pay back the original amount.
Or so the thinking went until the mid-1970s, when an economics professor in Bangladesh who was frustrated with conventional approaches set out to prove that lending on a small scale could have a broad and lasting impact.
Mohammed Yunus began by lending a small sum to help a struggling furniture maker and then went on to found Grameen Bank, an institution that has made business loans to people with no other access to the financial system. The bank and its partner institutions have distributed billions in small loans to nearly 7 million clients in 27 countries around the world by pioneering a practice commonly known as microlending, also called microcredit or microfinance. In 2006, Mohammed Yunus and Gameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In that year the Microfinance Summit Campaign Report (see link at the end) estimated that there were more than 3,000 microfinance institutions serving 100 million poor people in developing countries. As its name suggests, microlending essentially consists of the disbursement of small loans to people locked out of the banking system, the idea being to help them to start or expand small businesses that generate income – for example, a one-cow dairy. Some loans are as small as $2 but typically they range from $50 to $1,000 and are made without conventional credit checks or collateral requirements.
The great majority of microlending's beneficiaries include people working in the informal, or underground, economy, and residents of remote rural areas. Many lenders have targeted women, traditionally discouraged from engaging in commercial ventures. Grameen Bank, for example, reports that 95 percent of its borrowers are women.
For the most part, microlending has proved that a small loan can become the start of a virtuous economic cycle, the benefits of which extend beyond individual borrowers because their businesses generate jobs and help improve living standards in their communities. Grameen's founder has seized on microlending's success to argue that credit should be at the top of the chain of other universally recognized human rights such as the right to food, the right to work, and the right to shelter. Once access to credit is established, Yunus has said, the individual recipients of a loan have the means to make the other rights possible through their own efforts.
Other microlenders, however, note that people lacking food and shelter are unlikely to benefit from their services. The Bangladesh Rural Action Committee, that country's largest microlender, has found that the very poor drop out of its program and that for many people microfinance is not a viable alternative to direct aid. Research in Bangladesh and elsewhere has found that until an appropriate level of economic security is reached, the poor are unable to risk taking on credit in order to generate income through small business activity. They need to be healthy enough to run a business, after all, and their customers – often, neighbors or people in nearby villages – also must have money to spend, even if it is a very modest amount.
Studies in Bangladesh also have shown that microcredit borrowers tend to use their loans for the same limited range of small-scale activities – setting up a teashop or husking paddy, for example – and that they soon reach a ceiling on the amount of income they can earn. In any given place, there is a limited range of economically viable small-scale activities available to poor people with limited skills and limited demand for their products or services.
Even so, microlending has dispelled the notion that those on the lowest rungs of the income ladder are not able to follow basic rules of commerce. Rather, the poor have proved that they are as entrepreneurial as graduates of top business schools and fully capable of launching a business and earning profits.
Despite early misgivings and a few setbacks, discussed below, microlending has turned out to be good business, boasting loan repayment rates – as high as 97 percent for some institutions – far in excess of those seen in commercial lending.
Because their business has been so far removed from the worlds of high finance, microlenders in a number of developing countries weathered financial crises so deep and widespread that they left almost no domestic commercial banks standing in their wake. In a few cases, as in some Andean nations, microlenders emerged as the only source of private sector funding after financial crises obliterated almost every commercial lender operating in the market.
Most microlenders have developed a loyal following among their customers. Not only have they become the sole source of funding for entire communities, they also lend at interest rates below those charged by traditional local moneylenders. Because they are part of the community and know their customers, microlenders can generally make an educated estimate of the risk involved in lending and they are able to contain that risk by organizing clients in groups or by operating revolving funds within a neighborhood. Thus, borrowers feel pressure from the community to repay the loan on time and can risk social isolation if they do not.
Industry growth sparks debate about goals and directions
Growth and diversification in the microlending industry has sparked debate about its mission and the direction it should take. There is no clear consensus on the best approach for microlenders, especially when it comes to striking a balance between profits and the loftier goal of poverty eradication.
Some microlenders have emerged as competitive banking powerhouses in the countries where they operate and have expanded their services to include savings accounts, debit cards, consumer loans, and retirement funds. Grameen Bank, for example, has sought to finance all its operations from its own funds and has gone beyond banking to offer telecommunication and health services in Bangladeshi villages.
While many microlenders are run as nonprofit organizations, relying on aid donors and development banks for funding, others have sought to attract investment. Bolivia's BancoSol, for example, issued a $5 million bond in 1996, opening the way for other institutions such as Mexican microlender Compartamos, which placed a $10 million issue in 2002. BancoSol was incorporated in 1992 as the first licensed bank exclusively dedicated to providing microcredit. Since then, it has lent more than $1.75 billion in loans to 320,000 customers, more than any other bank in Bolivia, and it now offers full banking services.
Across the world in Asia, Bank Rakyat Indonesia, a state-controlled microlender, sold a 30 percent stake through an initial public offering in 2003 and is now the second-largest bank by market value in the country, even though still some 80 per cent of its loans go to villagers and small enterprises.
For some who follow these developments in the industry, this kind of growth and pursuit of investment isn't just an interesting evolutionary aside. Rather, it represents the best hope of expanding microlending's benefits to an even larger public. Demand for microcredit outstrips current demand, they reason, so it becomes necessary for microlenders to achieve financial sustainability, to diversify their business, and to borrow from investors in order to enlarge their operations. In addition, it is thought that the process of raising investment capital will help microlenders – already among the most effective financial intermediaries in their markets – to achieve greater efficiency.
However, others question how a microlender preoccupied with becoming a full-blown financial entity can stay focused on its original mission of providing loans to the poor. In their view, the requirement that microcredit institutions be financially sustainable and preferably profitable has favored strictly financial programs at the expense of those which combine loans with training and other services to help people start and build their own businesses. Such broad-based programs can offer the best hope of creating jobs in the community but their costs and risks run higher than those of more narrowly focused microlending schemes. As a consequence, the broad-based initiatives attract less investor interest.
Microlending spawns a new cottage industry in support services
Ongoing debate about goals and directions notwithstanding, many microlenders have borrowed business practices from corporate boardrooms and Silicon Valley. In turn, a number of privately funded organizations run by former bankers have emerged in recent years to provide business support and consulting services to the microlending industry.
One such organization is Unitus, a self-described ''microfinance growth accelerator'' that works closely with microlenders in Asia and Latin America. Using techniques common among venture capitalists, Unitus helps selected microlenders to secure donors and investors. Often, the process involves transforming a nonprofit microlender into a regulated business entity.
BlueOrchard Finance SA, a microfinance investment advisory firm based in Geneva, Switzerland, manages an investment fund dedicated exclusively to microlending institutions around the world. Started in 1998, the fund, known as the Dexia Micro-Credit Fund, targets small microfinance banks in emerging economies. It is 60 percent invested in Latin America, and the rest is divided among East Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Even with the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007/08, defaults have remained low for most funds (as recently as late 2008, the Dexia Micro-Credit Fund had registered no defaults since its inception 10 years earlier). This is because recipients of the loans are far removed from the turmoil of the global financial markets and economy.
A need for financial regulation
This does not mean that microlending is without risk. Microlending was a booming business in South Africa until May 2002, when the government had to bail out one of the largest microlending institutions – Saambou Bank, at the time the eighth largest in the country overall – after the central bank froze all accounts to forestall bankruptcy. An estimated 60 percent of South Africa's 43 million people lack direct access to the financial system via a bank account and can only receive funds through microlenders. Aware of the relevance of Saambou for the country's general economic well being, the government stepped in until the microlender was sold and resumed operations.
Saambou Bank and similar cases in other countries raised questions about the need to regulate microlending institutions.
Being profitable does not exclude risks, and microlenders are generally perceived to be more vulnerable to certain risks than are traditional commercial banks. Because their loan exposure often is concentrated in a specific geographical area, microlenders are vulnerable to natural disasters and other such economic shocks, as rating agency Standard and Poor's has noted.
In 1999, South Africa created its own Micro Finance Regulatory Council, charged with promoting the sustainable growth of the microfinance industry. Similar organizations in several countries have been working with development institutions to establish basic accounting and financial analysis procedures and to set appropriate interest rates.
In the private sector, an independent risk analysis agency called Microrate (see link below) has been tracking a number of microfinance institutions in Africa and Latin America since 1997. Based in Washington D.C., Microrate is the first rating agency solely dedicated to evaluating microlenders. Its stated objective is to create a transparent operational framework that microlenders would want to follow when seeking private funding in capital markets. Microrate has developed a ranking of the top performing microlenders in the areas it covers as well as a database that includes more than 200 microlending institutions. Microrate also has worked with development and multilateral institutions such as the Inter-American Development Bank, Women's World Banking, and the International Network of Alternative Financial Institutions.
Efforts such as Microrate's are aimed at responding to needs that are common to both profit-oriented and nonprofit microlenders: the need to operate within the legal system of the country in which they work, and the need to have a legal and regulatory system that can accommodate the peculiarities of microfinance.
Just as important is the need to establish broad standards that can apply to, and that can be used to gauge the performance of, all microlenders. This is a complicated business, as microlenders operate in different cultures and regulatory frameworks, and the definition of who should have access to small loans also tends to differ widely.
The Inter-American Development Bank has noted that the problem of creating widely accepted practices is compounded by the fact that the microlending marketplace is diffused by thousands of small organizations that operate in widely different ways. Finding the right organization to educate these institutions about the benefits of adopting accounting practices and external audits will take time.
One initiative under way is run by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), an association of more than 30 bilateral and multilateral donor agencies involved in microfinance. The CGAP publishes a set of Microfinancing Consensus Guidelines designed to provide transparency and to encourage the industry to agree to common and consistent standards to measure performance.
The details of regulation and business practice standardization may seem arcane but this work will determine, in large part, the future course and complexion of an industry that so far has evolved unevenly. Of Latin America's 400-plus microlending organizations, few are constituted as banks. Microlending has done well in Central America and the Andean region but was slow to take off in Mexico and Brazil. Despite Grameen Bank's international prominence, microlending has not expanded widely through Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
And although it has taken root in some wealthy countries with more advanced financial sectors than those of developing economies, its growth has been very limited. In the United States, for example, a microlending program was started in 1992 using nonprofit intermediaries that extend loans mainly to small businesses with average loans in the $2,000 range. But the clientele and experience of such efforts remain distinct from those in developing countries, so there is little scope for institutions in rich and poor countries to replicate each other's models.
Tips for covering microlending
- There are thousands of microfinance institutions throughout the world and they use distinct approaches. Since there are few generally accepted guidelines to measure performance, it can be difficult to get past an institution's good intentions to find out if it is well run and to gauge the impact it has on the ground. Reporters who have physical access to the microlender's area of operations should question actual loan recipients about their experiences. How much have they benefited? How do they keep up with loan repayments? Was the money used as intended and if not, why not? (Some women have reported, for example, that their husbands took the money they borrowed, nevertheless leaving the women liable for repaying the loans. Some lenders have developed ways to protect their customers against such losses; others have not.)
- Because many microlending programs are in remote areas, journalists who can't reach borrowers should at least try to contact workers at these institutions to get a sense of the day-to-day operations. Reporters also should seek out analysts who follow microfinancing. Useful links to some analysts appear below. In addition, a number of countries have established microfinance regulatory agencies and reporters should try to locate and consult these.
- Aid groups with operations in areas served by microfinance institutions often provide their own assessments of microlenders' impact on the ground. Some aid groups also support microfinance programs and tend to have distinct views about what direction the industry should take. Many of these groups are local but some of the larger international non-governmental organizations also have produced reports on microfinance. They include Action Aid, Christian Aid, and Oxfam.
- Most microlenders say they enjoy very high repayment rates. Although this may be true, it is important, when reporting on the financial performance or sustainability of a microlending institution, to look at the extent to which that institution remains dependent on donor funding. It would not be surprising for a fairly new institution to rely quite heavily on donors not only to provide it with lending capital but also to subsidize its daily operations. But is this also the case for older, more established institutions? If so, why?
- On a related point, how do donors or investors choose which microlenders to support or invest in? Financial accountability is an obvious criterion but how much weight do donors and investors attach to impact in terms of actual poverty reduction, and how do they define and measure this impact? The answers to these questions can help explain the relative strengths and weaknesses of different microlenders.
- Finally, if microlending is supposed to help the poor build wealth and become creditworthy, then how many borrowers actually ''graduate'' from microlending to mainstream banking? Apart from providing a critical framework in which to look at the industry as a whole, this question can provide a useful starting point for examination of trends within the industry or within a specific country or region.
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So Saturday I was at my friend's birthday party.
I met this guy who I thought was pretty cool.
I was sobering up by the fire, and he sat next to me and we started talking. It was a good conversation; went on for a couple hours, we got all philosophical and science-y, and we talked about ourselves. We danced. Also, he was the only guy I met at that party who didn't try to push shots/drinks on me, and I liked that.
Anyway, to cut it short we were kissing, ended up in his car and making out, touching, etc. He was in the middle of going down on me and my friend knocks on the car door (luckily the windows were fogged up), and she says our cab's here. Sucks, but okay, I have to go, so he puts his number in my phone and calls himself so he has it too.
Now it's been five days. I've been swamped studying for finals this week so I didn't quite realize it, but it's really been that long. I feel like he isn't a shy type of guy though, and if he wanted to text or call, he would've. Maybe he's been busy too? Or was it just a one-time thing for him? I don't know, but now I'm wondering if I should text him, or if it's kinda late for that?
To add to all this, he guessed (correctly) that I haven't had sex before, and he seemed fine with it at the time, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it? sigh.
The other problem is I don't even know what I want in this situation, because he lives so far away that I'm not sure anything would come of it, and I'm not jumping at the bit to contact him which makes me feel like maybe I'm not as into him as I thought, so arghhh, I don't know. :/
I might meet him at another random party, who knows, but for now I'm trying to figure out what I want to do... Any help/insight?
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he could be waiting for you to make the first call, I dont think he would have put put his phone number in your phone if he didn't want you to call. He prob thinks you aren't interested. Send a friendly text telling him how much you enjoyed the other night :)11|00|0


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