In assisting a relative close an account at IndyMac bank, I learned information may be useful to others needing to pull out their money. As of Friday, July 18th 2008 at 10:50am, it looks at though the Costa Mesa branch is the best place to withdraw your money while Huntington Beach branch has the longest [...]
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IndyMac Lines in Orange County & Other Banks that May Fail
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bank failure, FDIC, IndyMac, Orange County, Texas ratio on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Congrats to Divya & Avinash!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baltimore, Friends on May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Divya Vyas and Avinash Savani were married yesterday in Baltimore, MD.
The Five Bucks Club
Posted in Uncategorized on June 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
There’s an fun little experiment that I’ve been lucky enough to help out with. Its called the Five Bucks Club. Check out the premise and the online diary to read some touching stories that are part of Jayeshbhai’s every day life.
Dog Compassion
Posted in Uncategorized on June 2, 2006 | 2 Comments »
While feeding the dogs that live on the stairs of my building some milk biscuits, I suddenly notice how healthy and energetic the littlest dog seemed to appear. Two weeks ago, most of his body was covered in mange and to call him sickly would be an understatement. I almost suspected that one day I [...]
Friends Without Borders in Five
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2006 | 11 Comments »
Check out my latest 5 minute film on the campaign that’s rocking South Asia. Right click any of the links below and choose ‘Save Target As..’ RealMedia (4 MB) Lo Bandwidth WMV (3.3MB) Higher Bandwidth WMV (9.8MB) Ultra Bandwidth (31 MB)
Resisting the Flow
Posted in Uncategorized on April 5, 2006 | 5 Comments »
C-O-UGH Mine was almost instantly echoed in the cough of a ragpicker woman outside my taxi window. She and her picking partner were crossing the road and stopped on the median to await the opportune moment to scurry across the busy Bombay road. The fact that our coughs were nearly synchronous seemed not the least [...]
Cleansing
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2006 | 16 Comments »
Anjali and I decided on an early arrival in the tekra to spend the morning with twelve-year-old Jayshree and her ten-year-old sister Bharti. I walk from a dirt road to tar road, to catch a rickshaw to the ashram where Anarben drives us to the edge of the slum. I N N N N N [...]
Twenty Four
Posted in Uncategorized on February 19, 2006 | 5 Comments »
There was a hit series a while ago called ‘24’ which captured 24 hours in the riveting life of some secret agent played by Kiefer Sutherland. Now in India for just over 24 hours, I feel like the last 24 hours in my life have been like watching something like a ‘service 24’ worthy of [...]
External Hearts
Posted in Uncategorized on February 9, 2006 | 5 Comments »
A girl in Raipur, India was born in November 2005 with an external heart– which she was holding in one of her hands! –Ripley’s Believe it or Not Comic, 1/25/06 I found myself inexplicably thinking about this baby girl intermittently for the last few weeks. The very literal truth about her situation is so unusual [...]
Chronic Poverty
Posted in Uncategorized on December 6, 2005 | 1 Comment »
The prime source of extreme chronic poverty and destitution globally is the unsustainability of livelihood options for people living in rural communities. My first reaction to that statement was that it depends on what you mean by ‘unsustainability’. Villages in India have had specialized members of the community in hereditary crafts and trades for hundreds, [...]
