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« Reply To This #10 on: June 19, 2007, 08:49:10 AM » |
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I'm starting to really like Prisma!! I love the KIVA 'Choice' Idea and/or KIVA gift certificates - utilizing Amazing Mail (or some company like it) imagine....gifting to your 8 year old neice ...she gets a card with the stats and photo of who the loan gets made to, then each time there is a journal entry you get notified and are able to punch a button and send the entry to your neice via the same mail service. My neice could card catalog her group of KIVA Clients and then her friends would get jealous and cry and whine to there parents until their parents join Kiva and get them a larger collection of cards and then ...  All second life KIVA's should place a tomato on their head this week and place it as their forum photo!  I helped buy computers today. |
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Henry
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« Reply To This #11 on: June 19, 2007, 10:34:50 AM » |
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Have no clue how to share a photo...so click my name then my lender page and then click my photo and see a sample post card. baseball cards or KIVA lender cards!  ** if your reading this after June 26, 2007 the photo will not be there ** |
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Laurie
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« Reply To This #12 on: June 19, 2007, 10:58:46 AM » |
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TomatoHead Henry, you make me laugh! How can you say "Have no clue how to share a photo" when you can computer-create something as totally cool as your current avatar? I love it! Plus, you have a Second Life, which is still completely and totally a mystery to me (and has to stay that way unless I want to give my life over totally to the computer).
Thanks for the laugh, and for sharing your creation.
Safe travels,
Laurie
Writing today from Hood River, Oregon, USA
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Julia
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« Reply To This #13 on: June 19, 2007, 01:40:51 PM » |
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unless I want to give my life over totally to the computer).
You say that like its a bad thing or something  Julia, who is currently sitting in front of THREE computers. |
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I get up in the morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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Henry
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« Reply To This #14 on: June 19, 2007, 04:49:22 PM » |
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Laurie = i'm laughing too.... new computer video card burnt up today while on secondlife. Once uninstalled by the grace of someone my computer came back up. Had to air out the house for a while....burnt electronics YUCK. I really don't know how to post a picture here in the forum. And don't have a webpage I could have uploaded it to for viewing. To my new second life friends, tomorrow I will talk with Best Buy regarding a new computer. Once I get my important stuff transferred to the new computer, then I'll insert a new video card in this one and try to rejoin you. I still want my magic chair that rewards a KIVA gift certificate to the winner of the game...I just haven't decided what my game will be yet. Wish 2nd life would run on VISTA. I'd be back sooner. Off to windex something!  |
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michael
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Glen Allen, VA
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The camera adds 10 pounds. 8 cameras are on me.
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« Reply To This #16 on: June 20, 2007, 10:37:21 AM » |
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 House repairs, clothing sales and shoe sales for the most part. I'm waiting for something more interesting. My wife draws the line at loaning money for MFI home repairs. Seems she wants me to give HER the money for our own needed roof replacement if we are going to improve housing infrastructure. Go figure. Maybe if you all send her $25 each......... no? |
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Kivafriends.org scrambled and respelled is "Risk And Forgive." Of course, it also can be respelled "Asked For Virgin" and "Darer of Vikings" and even "Vinegar For Kids" but those are a lot less interesting.
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Smack a man upside the head with a fish and you have his complete attention.
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« Reply To This #17 on: June 20, 2007, 11:21:59 AM » |
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I don't have a problem with home repairs, education etc as all the loans provide some assistance to better the conditions of the borrower. I think that if we knew more about the people, where they worked etc they would be funded more quickly. Many in Mexico are employed, they are hard working people who also need a hand up.
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Henry
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« Reply To This #18 on: June 20, 2007, 04:00:19 PM » |
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good points, i also love to read, they have sucessfully repaid a loan or two prior.
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Laurie
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« Reply To This #19 on: June 20, 2007, 06:49:46 PM » |
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I, too, initially resisted home improvement loans. Then I thought about the many unsafe, unfinished, dirt-floored houses we have seen on our travels in Mexico... and started to think that improving the living conditions for children (and adults), or providing capital to build a room in a house where a borrower could perhaps open a small store, or begin selling home-cooked food - it probably was a good idea.
If the borrower has income, so can repay the loan, well... I've had home improvement/repair loans myself in the past! It can enhance their living situation AND help build their credit rating (if actually having a credit rating is a possibility).
So, I got over my initial negative feelings about these loans. Hmmmmm... on the other hand, I do notice I have not funded any of them! I still find myself attracted to the artists and craftspeople, or the farmers or bakers, who needs money to expand/increase their business.
Safe travels,
Laurie
Writing this evening from Kelso, Washington, USA
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