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Gee he blocked me too when I tried to check put his ad just now. I don't recall ever asking him to unlock his pics. I rately do exvept for the odd time I am intending to hire someone and they don't show face pucs.

I resemble that remark. I'm from Montreal too! 😆

It's nice to see a smaller museum than the one I am associated with in my home town. I helped design it and was recently appointed curator. It's a part time job and we have only one other employee who conducts tours and helps me arrange exhibits. I have donated some of my own family artifacts to help round out the collection. It's a museum themed on our local history and my family goes back 6 generations to the early 1800's. The town itself has a very interesting history given it only got started in 1784 when the first settlers arrived, fleeing the American Revolution.

What a depressing song.😞

I wasn't familiar with his porn so checked it out. An extensive listing over 10 years. Most of the ones I saw were by Boysnextdoor. A very talented top and versatile too. He matured in his looks over that period but was still very hot and kept his body in great shape. Went bald but sexy that way too. What a loss.😞

This is very sad. A life cut short. As the saying goes: you never know the demons prople are dealing with until it's too late.

Have you had any experience with Markus Kage or just seen his videos? He is currently advertising on RM in Montreal but I don't remember him having any reviews, certainly nothing recent iirc.

The thing to keep in mind is that strippers are not escorts, unless they advertise that fact. In my extensive experience with strippers a couple of decades ago when Montreal had the best stripper clubs in North America, I rarely encountered strippers who would provide the full services of escorts. Eventually I resorted to only hiring escorts because the value for money just wasn't there with strippers. With escorts you can be pretty sure what it is they will do or not do. Their business model is different from that of strippers.

Interesting article in NYT today about uncertain outlook for California's drought conditions. This winter's higher than normal precipitation has not apparently banished possibility of return to water scarcity if summer brings back hotter and drier weather like last three summers. While many reservoirs are restored underground acquifers will take longer to recover. And the Colorado River is still dangerously low.

I am amused at this exchange on the question of how quickly a provider should respond to an enquiry about their services. Since I never (almost) have tried to set something up on the same day or even the next day or two, I patiently wait for responses. Of course in my initial text, I always point out the date is for a time in the next week or two. I imagine I come across as a dream client, which I am.😊

Reminds me of exploding Pintos years ago.

The way I understood the story was that the Embassy was contacted almost immediately after her death was discovered and before her family was notified. The Embassy sent this representative who met with the hotel manager where she had been staying. He got the passport from the manager(in those days you left your passport at the front desk when you checked in). He discovered the irregularity with the photo. So this passport didn't come across his desk and I imagine he or someone else at the embassy notified her family. I seem to recall Ms. Davis was travelling with an assistant or caregiver so they may have notified the family back in the States.

I think that's another explanation of why she did it. The embassy official who told me the story said her attempt to fool anybody by pasting another picture on top was clumsy and immediately obvious. They would have peeled off her photo which is why the auctioned one shows the real passport photo. I thought it was a great story and probably would have increased interest in the auction had it been known to the auction house.

Well, looking at the picture that was the official one in the passport Bette looks every bit as old as her then age of 78. The story I was told was that she simply pasted a more flattering and youthful portrait over top of the official one. She probably was used to being whisked through customs without anyone actually looking inside her passport, she was so famous. It only caught up with her when she died abroad and the passport became a vital document to be examined for ID purposes.

I beg to disagree. I read his interview and it's one of the most intelligent and interesting ones I have seen on RM. Not sure I would hire him but that's based on other considerations.

As I understand it the Fed has made their discount window available to all banks in the US with looser rules since last weekend. Now they can borrow funds in exchange for the security of the bonds they hold at face value and not the depreciated values as a result of the rise in interest rates. The NYT is reporting this evening that banks are making great use of this and tens of billions have been borrowed from the Fed this week to increase banks' liquidity to meet any demand on their deposits by customers withdrawing their money.

I'm surprised the arts organization shared your contact info after you had made a cash contribution to them. For a number of years I made an annual donation to a small theatre company on whose board of directors I was a member. I was listed on the annual program which was distributed at each performance to audience members. I was in the top tier of donors each year but never got a followup contact from any other arts organization. But just my name appeared on the program and the theatre company never gave out my contact info as far as I am aware.

I lived in Switzerland for 4 years and had a Swiss lover who of course worked in a Swiss bank along with many of his friends, who also became my friends. They were so proud of their banks almost to the point of being arrogant whenever they talked about banks in other countries. Once I accompanied a young man to collect a suitcase of money at a Swiss bank in Geneva for his foreign lover from a Latin American country. He counted the money in front of the Swiss banker in his locked office while I watched. I was a friend of the lover who asked me to accompany the youngster to make sure he went from the bank directly to the airport. Lol.

I just got my monthly auto renewal and it's still $9.95 and I still have all the advantages of premium membership. So all good.

That's the difference between a stripper and an escort. The stripper is covered in one dollar tips.

I am just the opposite. I always allow my donations to be published with my name and the amount or the range if that's how they classify donations eg. $1000-$5000. It helps charitible entities fund raise in several ways, including by providing an incentive to donors to show their support for the causes they like. Also the entities can demonstrate a community of supporters. This is particularly important for community based organizations as opposed to national orgs. I give very little to the national orgs and concentrate on my community as my contributions make a bigger impact at that level. I'm not donating $millions or even $100's of thousands but in the range of four figure amounts to my favorite causes. These smaller groups appreciate every thousand they receive. And I have never received solicitations from unknown groups for donations. Maybe it's a Canadian thing. May be different in US.

Interesting article. It clarifies that the large US banks participating are in effect making available $30B in cash deposits to FR. For 4 months. And FR has another $30B in cash reserves and othrr sources of liquidity from the Fed. They have huge liabilities though totalling over $650B and 70 percent are in uninsured deposits. It is therefore questionable whether the cash injection will be adequate. The stock ended the day up 10 percent but will that stem the tide of withdrawals? The article says that on after market trading the stock declined by 20 percent. Not a good omen.

I don't yet know the details of the cash injection made by the 4 largest US banks into First Republic but they are being characterized as deposits formerly held by those banks. I wonder if the depositors have been consulted about transfers of their money to uninsured accounts at FR?

So yeaterday saw all the gains in the markets on Tuesday wiped out by the increasingly grim news facing the international banking sector in Europe and elsewhere. I saw where shares of First Republic resumed their downward movement with a 21 percent decline on Wednesday. As this thread started on the question of whether First Republic was in any danger of failing, what is the feeling now? Is there any sense that a run on deposits could occur especially by those holding amounts above the FDIC guarantee limit of $250k? If that were to occur what would the authorities do in Washington? Having made whole the depositors at SVB and Signature, could they refuse to lift a finger to help FR's depositors? These questions must be causing some sleepless nights for the parties concerned.

This banking crisis is not over yet. Today banking stocks around the world are in serious decline, even in staid old Switzerland, where Credit Suisse has halted trading after a 20 percent decline in its share value. US markets are expected to open lower, erasing the gains of yesterday. What is apparent to me is that banks are now exhibiting the ill effects of the rapid increases in interest rates by central banks everywhere over the last 12 months. Inflation has eased somewhat but there are several factors at play underlying inflation that interest rates alone cannot control, such as the war in Ukraine and climate induced food shortages. Confidence is the only thing that sustains the banking sector. After all you are entrusting your money to someone else to safeguard it and return it to you on demand. If that assurance weakens by facts on the ground like SVB's failure, then all bets are off.