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I've had the opportunity to speak to numerous brokers in recent weeks and the sad fact remains much of the strategy is stuck in yesteryear. The idea that hiring more analysts and promoting a full deck colour brochure of their supposed 'depth' to clients is somehow more important than the content they can actually provide in a dumbed down compliance constrained world. The game has changed. The regulator has even less understanding than the brokers when it comes to understanding client needs. The buy-side investment community is also becoming highly resource constrained. To have to waste countless hours on admin to set a price on increasingly valueless research does them no favours.
Don't be fooled by Smart Karma or Research Pool or any other 3rd party research aggregator. It is the same dumbed-down research bundled into a convenient pricing structure. I've looked into the economics and unless a research provider has a huge following the returns on contributing to these third party platforms is next to worthless. The more mouths to feed, the less return. On top of that the platform has no real control over what goes into it. It is a convenience store but in that vein, the nutritional value remains relatively low.
The simplest form of strategy is to set up 'Special Forces' type research teams. These teams don't write rated research but charge on a 'per mission' basis. Take GLG. They have no broking license but carry out bespoke requests. Why aren't brokers following this model? It is insane to hire more in sales, research and trading when the regulator is squeezing the traditional proposition to zero.
Two questions:
Did regulators actually ask smaller scale institutional investors what they needed before they imposed rules which will dramatically increase their cost of doing business, the very opposite of the goal the regulator thinks its rules will create?
Are the traders of risk willing to take any risk to fill a gaping hole the very people they proclaim they serve are crying for?
What I see is more of the same. The bunker mentality. Conforming to outdated models to keep their inflated salaries alive for as long as possible pandering to internal politics to survive. Badgering clients to fill in irrelevant polls which serve no purpose but the promise of magical commission dollars in the future to their out of touch bosses at HQ. Some brokers even publish "the best of research" weeklies as a sort of self-appraised quality control mechanism to push on clients. Let's think about that. If all research was properly screened before being published there would be no need to tell clients that this is the tiny fraction of research that isn't (supposed) rubbish. It is actually confirming client's worst fears – sell-side brokers aren't listening (as usual).
The gig is up. Regulators are even more clueless. Instead of trying to provide a marketplace where smaller boutiques can survive they drive the cost of compliance to such a degree that in many cases the teams of internal watchdogs swamps the investment decision makers. That's right! The hottest ticket in finance is in compliance. A headhunter told me the network of compliance officers is so tight across firms there is almost a deliberate 'insider' matrix among them which encourages them all to switch firms to keep driving up their 'collective' remuneration. The people in charge of preventing scams are in fact the biggest operator of insider trading!
We've countless examples of how inept regulators are. Bernie Maddoff the biggest of them all. Despite multiple investigations and the clearest set of breaches presented to them they failed to uncover a $65bn fraud. Many regulators by background are lawyers meaning they are full of theory but devoid of real world practice. Regulators would be better off hiring convicted traders to hunt down fraud and illegal behaviour. As it stands they are as clueless as ever thinking more biting regulations will help the market. Wrong. Free it up but raise the penalties for actual wrong doing. I've never met an investor who doesn't want to keep a useful broker alive. That's why the payment skew is like it is. It isn't just about Michelin 3-star meals and strip clubs. All the regulator has done is make an uncomplicated system almost unworkable. Although if brokers woke up to the fact that providing 'special forces' that clients directly requested and paid for they'd fill a gap which the regultor would have no answer to and make the iTunes research fintech companies obsolete overnight.
MiFID 2 will be the crowning glory of regulatory failure. MiFID 3 will be here before we know it as evidence of the catastrophic bungle it's predecessor already is before it is in effect. Then again it is an EU directive – that ought to have told us something.


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Friday, September 5, 2014
Photo: Grand Canyon North Rim View.
There is a controversy in Arizona because there is a huge coal fired power plant in Page, Arizona, near the east end of the Grand Canyon. The federal government wants to reduce emissions from the Navajo Generating Station in order to reduce haze in the Grand Canyon. State and local business interests want to preserve the economic benefits of the power plant.
This week we have photos of daily life in Ethiopia posted on our Viva la Voyage travel photo site.
8 comments:
- Lois said...
I have only viewed the North Rim from the sky when I took a tour by plane one year during the winter. It was beautiful and covered in a bit of snow. I would love to go back and see it from the ground! These are wonderful pictures.
- September 5, 2014 at 6:29 AM
- Massimo said...
it's magic ! wwwwwhhhhhaaaatt a place !
- September 5, 2014 at 6:40 AM
- Sharon Anck said...
Money vs. environment....the battle goes on.
- September 5, 2014 at 8:47 AM
- Sharon Anck said...
Gorgeous photo!
- September 5, 2014 at 8:48 AM
- glenda said...
Beautiful shot!
- September 5, 2014 at 1:40 PM
Shut down the plant. Can't we at least have the 7 natural wonders of the world free from pollution and smog?
There is plenty of open space elsewhere in AZ to put a power plant.
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Principal Investigators: Lisa Fortuna, M.D. and Michelle Porche, Ed.D.
Funded by the Peter F. McManus Charitable Trust through the University of Massachusetts Medical School
This study examines the influence of gender, adversity, and social learning on the development of drug and alcohol-use patterns in a sample of adolescents undergoing in-patient treatment for drug and/or alcohol abuse.
Mixed qualitative and quantitative research methods will be used to examine variations in the trajectories and narratives of adolescents with a range of drug-use severity and primary drug of choice/addiction. Results will provide a foundation for a larger federally funded project that will assist in the development of gender-specific considerations and adaptations to existing treatment and prevention models for substance abuse and related psychosocial and mental health risk factors.


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Luminor business units in the Baltic States are owned by Nordea and DNB through a holding company, Luminor Group AB (established in Sweden. Nordea and DNB have equal voting rights over the combined bank. Nordea has proportional 56% and DNB proportional 44% of economic ownership level reflecting the relative equity value of their contribution to the combined bank at the time of closing on October 1 2017.
On 13 September 2018 an agreement was signed between DNB Bank ASA and Nordea Bank AB with US based private equity firm Blackstone to sell majority stake in Luminor. As part of the transaction, Blackstone will acquire a 60% majority stake in the bank. Nordea and DNB will retain an equal 20% equity stake in Luminor and will continue to support the bank with long term funding, expertise and ongoing representation on the Board of Directors. Additionally, Blackstone has entered into an agreement with Nordea to purchase their remaining 20% stake over the coming years.
Closing of the transaction is subject to European Central Bank's and local supervisory authorities' approvals and is anticipated to occur during 2019.
Becoming one pan-Baltic financial services provider
On February 19 2018, Luminor took the first steps to fill in prerequisites of the legal reorganization process by submitting a draft Merger Agreement to State Enterprise Register of Latvia and notifications to the Estonian Financial Supervisory Authority for branches opening in Latvia and Lithuania. On June 28 2018 Luminor received regulatory approval from the European Central Bank to carry out the cross-border merger.
On 2 January 2019 Luminor has merged its Baltic entities and finalized the legal integration with a central office in Estonia and brances in Latvia and Lithuania.
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So you've got some extra time on your hands. Perhaps it's due to a recent retirement, or maybe the kids finally flew the coop. Or maybe you're just looking for a good afternoon and weekend hobby.
Sounds like you're ready to learn golf.
Well, if you really are interested in learning a skill that will keep you healthy, active and tan, read on. Plus, you have an excuse to buy new clothes. Golf apparel these days can easily be worn off the course, too. Here are some tips to make taking up golf easy:
• Call your local club and see about taking lessons. There, that wasn't so hard, was it?
In fact, it's much harder to decide on what to wear when you're out there on the green. Golf is the kind of sport where dress protocol matters, but you don't want to get stuck in ladies golf apparel that will restrict your movement or make you look sillier than you feel when you get out there for the first time.
No, you want to look better in those golf skirts than that swing of yours. When shopping for golf clothes for women, do your research. Here's a real tip list to help you get started:
• Order, order, order; try, try, try. Take photos and text them to your friends (a second, third, and fourth opinion always help). Of course, you want to do as much research on something as you possibly can before you commit to buying it. But then again, when you see that perfect color, even if it's out of your price range, it's hard to resist. So don't! If you don't feel comfortable out there on the green, you won't settle down enough to focus on hitting that very small ball into that very small hole a very long way away.
• Once you get visual comfort out of the way, make sure you are physically comfortable as well. It's not worth forking up the dough if you're just going to hate how it chafes your arms or rides up too high. Find a company created by someone in the business; someone who has played the game, who understands how a woman moves, who can boast of womenhood herself, perhaps.
Golf is a wonderful sport. It's relaxing, which lowers blood pressure; physical, which burns calories; and requires a whole new set of clothes, which requires you to shop. Not so bad, right?


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Four years ago, we lost a friend and gained an angel February 15, 2012
Four years later and Ashley's presence is as strong as ever. Just by glancing through her photos, or watching her steal a scene in one of her Isidingo videos, you have Ash right there back in the room with you. Though we all miss having her here, in her own way she'll always be with us.
"Ashley was a woman of grace and style, elegant, charming, sensitive and tender. In the swamp of vulgarity we wade through, she was polished. Crisp as an apple.
I would marvel at having such a fabulous daughter in TV land. If I did have a daughter in real life, Ashley would have been the daughter I would want.
I always thought she would be snatched away by Hollywood. I never dreamt she would be snatched away like this. After all is said I done, I will always wish she was still here."
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The Alexander Twins don't do brevity; nor do Douglas and Wendy of that ilk, especially the latter, have much in the way of small talk.
But, as one of their political opponents vouchsafed to me yesterday – a trifle unkindly I thought – "at least Douglas doesn't have the same hectoring tone as Wendy".
Now that the former leader of Scottish Labour has retired to the groves of academe, her shadow foreign secretary brother must shoulder the entire political burden of that public-spirited family.
Tonight in Edinburgh Douglas will prove his willingness to do just that by delivering a 50-page lecture entitled A Voice of Hope in the Scottish Conversation and a thought-provoking effort it will prove to be. Although a fair bit of his speech concerns what Scottish Labour needs to do to refresh itself there is also a great deal of well-thought-out analysis of the current political situation.
Because of the singular failure during 2012 to cash in on its election victory of the previous year and the continuing unpopularity of the Coalition, the SNP, Mr Alexander will contend, has achieved no significant shift towards independence. The polls continue to say what they've been saying for some time – namely that support for independence is stuck at around one third of the electorate.
As a result, they were now reduced to what he called "nationalist negativity", which tried to make out that the rest of the UK was "foreign" and which painted a stereotype of all voters south of Gretna as being Conservative and thus "irredeemably different from Scottish voters".
The nationalists wanted the referendum to be seen as a choice between independence and a "perpetual, infinite Tory government" or – as he claims spokesmen for the Yes campaign put it – a "social contract Scotland and a welfare obliterating Westminster."
Trying to convince voters that independence was simply a matter of leaving behind a Tory-led government in London insulted the intelligence of voters. The Scots, he says, are not so different from their neighbours, as proved during last year's Olympics when the world saw an image of modern Britishness – "generous, warm, diverse, inclusive, self-deprecating and funny".
Because the vast majority of Scots want to remain in the UK, Mr Alexander reckons that the referendum battle is not a straightforward party political fight but rather "a conflict between the sovereign will of the Scottish people and the settled will of the SNP".
He will urge the formation of a National Convention, after a No vote next year, to explore Scotland's social, economic and constitutional future as part of the UK for the years to 2025. It will include all shades of opinion … even the Nationalists. Whether the latter will be any mood to co-operate if they lose the referendum is, of course, another matter.
Meanwhile, at Question Time Alex Salmond was accused by Labour's Johann Lamont of changing his tone and turning on his "wee quiet voice" when discussing glitches in the NHS because he knew his government was in trouble over badly missed waiting list targets. And Ruth Davidson, the Tory leader, accused him of complacency. "There are targets and you are missing them," she said.
Apparently unabashed, Mr Salmond said that an extra £50 million was being allocated to accident and emergency services and, not for the first time, said Scotland's health service was performing better than England's, under the Tories and Liberal Democrats.
He also managed to drag Wales into his argument, saying Scotland's NHS was also better than that in the Principality, where Labour rules.
As the session ended there was a definite slap on the wrist from Tricia Marwick, the presiding officer, for Mr Salmond and his government over a statement made in Stirling by John Swinney, the finance minister, yesterday on new regulations for industries such as water and energy.
Such announcements should be first made to the Scottish Parliament, Mrs Marwick said following a complaint by Tavish Scott of the Lib Dems. And she urged Mr Salmond to "reflect" on her ruling.
She didn't quite add "Or else", but I think everyone got her meaning.


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Back to Men's Basketball coverage
Marcus Morris old reliable again
Withey gives Jayhawks early lift
1772 total votes.
21 total votes.
Self's X factor
Kansas University's basketball team had a so-so week, claiming an overtime victory at Colorado on Wednesday and 75-64 decision over Nebraska on Saturday in Allen Fieldhouse.
It's nothing to be concerned about, junior center Cole Aldrich said after his eight-point, six-rebound effort against NU.
"Every year that I've been here, coach (Bill) Self writes numbers on the board and says, 'We're going to play great X amount of games. We're going to play OK X amount of games. And then we're going to play terrible X amount of games.' Those games you play all right to bad, you've got to find a way to win," Aldrich said. "That's kind of what we're doing right now. We've just got to defend and make sure they don't get easy buckets any more."
He said Self does that "usually toward the beginning (of season). You've got to find ways to win," Aldrich stressed. "I think we haven't played spectacular defense by any means, so that's one thing we've got to get back to doing is moving our feet and playing good defense because that's going to win us a lot of games."
Technically speaking
Self picked up a technical foul the first half. It was a game both Self and NU's Doc Sadler appeared enraged over the officiating. Sadler stopped to speak with KU athletic director Lew Perkins after the game, apparently discussing the work of the officials.
Frederick award
NCAA officials recognized former KU athletic director Bob Frederick as the inaugural winner of the NCAA's administrator's sportsmanship award at halftime. The NCAA's John Blanchard and Robert Vowels made the presentation to Frederick's widow, Margey. The award goes to an NCAA administrator who "shows the highest respect for intercollegiate athletics, demonstrates respect for competition, student-athletes, coaches and officials, and encourages student-athletes to demonstrate positive sportsmanship and integrity."
The NCAA officials announced Saturday that the award would be named after Frederick.
KU coach Self ripped into the Jayhawks during a timeout early in the second half with NU up, 43-39. The Jayhawks immediately responded on a 28-5 roll.
"He knows how to get you going," guard Sherron Collins said. "He challenged us, and we responded. It wasn't no milk and cookies. Him jumping on us was something we needed. He's a good motivator and that's what he did. He motivated us."
Looking ahead
Much of the postgame was spent talking about Monday's 8 p.m. game at Texas. KU enters 22-1 overall and 8-0 in the league. Texas is 19-4, 5-3 after Saturday's loss at Oklahoma.
"I don't think it's a statement game, but it's a big game. In the Big 12, every game is a statement game," Collins said. "We want to win to keep moving forward."
Stats, facts
KU extended the country's No. 1 homecourt win streak to 55 games, which ties as the second longest in KU history. ... KU has won 15 straight versus NU. ... KU leads the all-time series 168-71, including a 50-7 mark in Allen. ... After KU led 37-33 at halftime, Nebraska took a 43-39 lead, marking the first time KU has blown a halftime lead this season. ... Brady Morningstar dished four assists, marking the 10th game he has had three assists or more. .... With his four three-pointers, Collins moved into fourth place on KU's all-time three-point field goal list. He has 208. ... Collins had six assists and moved into ninth place with 489 on Kansas' career assists list past Ryan Robertson (1996-99).
"no milk and cookies"....that's pretty good Sherron! Beat Texas!
You just have to love Self's mentality. Defense every game no matter what as in some games the shots will not fall. Roy didn't rely on 'd' as much. Run and gun. Although coming back from a first half deficit is fun, not coming back from a first half deficit sucked. Nor was it fun trading shots down the stretch while trying to close the gap. Self's teams are not immune to a lack of focus on the defensive end but for the most part they contain the opposing team well. It makes for better consistency, longer home winning streaks, more conference titles, deeper tournament runs, etc.
Self for President
I dont' want self to be president, because then he couldn't be our basketball coach anymore!!!!!
He could do both.
Jeff Withey impressed me as much as anybody against NU.
The plan may be to bring him on slowly near the end of the season and use him as a surprise in the Big 12 and NCAA tournaments. He could be an impact player more so than TRob. However, yesterday, TRob did more positive thinks than negative for once in his minutes. Just think about next year, Withey, Morris and Morris, Robinson! Great front line!
memhawk..lets all keep posting for Cole's benefit how fantastic graduation is
and that he is so close and an all Big 12 Academic Award winner he would be an inspiration for every kid in America and the NBA will always be there and his parents would be so proud and all his teammates would come back.{ Sherron could come back as his long lost twin brother Derron} and he could win three NC's
and I'm dreaming aren't I!!!!!
memhawk..lets all keep posting for Cole's benefit how fantastic graduation is
and that he is so close and an all Big 12 Academic Award winner he would be an inspiration for every kid in America and the NBA will always be there and his parents would be so proud and all his teammates would come back.{ Sherron could come back as his long lost twin brother Derron} and he could win three NC's
and I'm dreaming aren't I!!!!!
OOPS...I guess my long lost twin was dreaming too!!
The "milk and cookies" was a good comment but his one about Texas takes the cake...
"I don't think it's a statement game, just a big game. In the Big XII, every game is a statement game (except for the one against Texas I guess : )
OakvilleJ -
Maybe, before she died, Cole made his grandmother a promise that he would graduate. We can only hope!
Very few NBA bound players that have left college before graduating have had the academic sucess that Cole has had. Seems like a waste to have acheived such a good standing as Cole has and leave it on the table. Usually, it seems like the ones who left college early for the league would have struggled to have gotten a degree. They probably were better off for leaving early. Cole can only improve his stock by staying, not decrease it. The league will be there. The money will be there. The dental benefits will be there.
Cole - have some more fun compliments of the State of Kansas. You'll still be tall, you'll still be a blocking machine, you'll still have one (and maybe two or three) NCAA championship rings. Plus, you'll have a degree from KU!
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G Hua Hin Resort & Mall, Hua Hin
- Free WiFi and free parking
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G Hua Hin Resort & Mall, Hua Hinfrom $79
- Deluxe Room, Balcony, Pool View
- Jacuzzi Pool Deluxe
- Deluxe Room, Balcony, Pool View
- Jacuzzi Spa Suite (80 SQM.)
- Jacuzzi Pool Suite (100 sqm.)
- Family Double or Twin Room, 1 Bedroom, Pool View
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- Hua Hin Market Village (3-minute walk)
- BlúPort Hua Hin Resort Mall (8-minute walk)
- Hua Hin Beach (14-minute walk)
- Hua Hin Railway Station (14-minute walk)
- Royal Hua Hin Golf Course (15-minute walk)
- Hua Hin Night Market (18-minute walk)
- Cicada Market (23-minute walk)
- Vana Nava Hua Hin Water Park (24-minute walk)
- Rajabhakti Park (3.7 mi / 5.9 km)
Getting around
- Hua Hin (HHQ-Hua Hin Intl.) - 14 min drive
- Hua Hin Station - 22 min walk
- Suan Son Pradipat Railway Station - 11 min drive
- Khao Tao station - 13 min drive
- Free train station pick-up
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
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Hotel size
- This hotel has 79 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 6 floors
Check-in and check-out
- Check-in time starts at 2 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check-in
- Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- One child stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
- Airport shuttle (available 24 hours) *
- Free train station pick-up *
- Free extended parking
- Area shuttle within 5 km *
Payment types at the property
- Cash
In the hotel
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Playground on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- Business center
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- Conference space size (feet) - 2691
- Conference space size (meters) - 250
- Computer station
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built - 2012
- Elevator
- ATM/banking
- Designated smoking areas
- Garden
- Terrace
- English
- Thai
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Bathrobes
- Balcony
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Cable TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
Also popular with travelers from the USA
Special features
DiningPier 94 - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
G Hua Hin Resort & Mall, Hua Hin's small print
Also known as
- G Hua Hin Mall
- G Hua Hin Resort & Mall Hotel Hua Hin
- G Hua Hin Resort & Mall
- Resort G
- G Hua Hin Resort Mall
- G Resort Mall
- G Hua Hin Resort & Mall Hotel
- G Hua Hin Resort & Mall Hua Hin
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
For transfers, guests must contact the property 72 hours prior to arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Optional extras
Rollaway beds are available for THB 1500.0 per day
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of THB 530 for adults and THB 265 for children (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of THB 3500 per vehicle (one way)
Area shuttle service is offered for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
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Fabulous 8.8 From 695 reviews
The G hotel is clean and well appointed and the staff were very friendly and helpful. The pool was quite nice and the breakfasts were good. The location is central and it's a short walk to the beach (use the crossing light!) and to lots of shopping, restaurants, etc. Taxis are also easy to get. It was good value for money.
location is close to shopping mall. staff is nice. good good good.
Rooms were large and comfy! Service excellent as was the location. Breakfast was good only. This is my second stay here!😁
Couldn't fault it. Staff very friendly & helpfull. Great value.
The staff is professional. The fitness equipment is new and working great. You have a secure and save feeling in this resort. Breakfast especially coffee is good. We really love this huge swimming pool. It is very clean in the rooms and outside too. Dry cleaning perfect and fast. We can recommend this place ;-)
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; WD_RST.ASM Program ; ; This program demonstrates the use of the watchdog timer. ; When running, the program counts on port 1 to indicate the device is ; running and periodically resetting the watchdog timer. After counting ; to 16, it stops resetting the watchdog timer, simulating a system fault. ; ; The program begins by checking to see if the WTR bit is set. If so, the ; reset was caused by the watchdog timer, and the program will execute ; the FAULT subroutine. Port 1 is set to F0h to indicate this condition. ; If the WTR bit is not set, the reset was caused by another source and ; execution should continue normally. ;************************************ RWT EQU 0BFh ;Reset Watchdog Timer bit TA EQU 0C7h ;Timed Access Register PCON EQU 87h ;Power Control Register ACC EQU 0E0h ;Accumulator P1 EQU 090h ;Port 1 ORG 00h ;Reset Vector SJMP START ;************************************ ORG 080h ;Program starts at 80h in this example. START: MOV A, PCON ;If reset was caused by watchdog timeout, JB ACC.4, FAULT ; (WTR bit =1) execute fault subroutine. ;********************************** ;A normal power-on reset has occurred. Start initialization sequence. MOV P1, #00h ;Clear P1 to signal start of program. ;Watchdog timer initialization sequence MOV TA, #0AAh ;First restart the Watchdog timer MOV TA, #055h ; using timed SETB RWT ; access. MOV TA, #0AAh ;Next enable the Watchdog timer reset MOV TA, #055h ; function using timed ORL PCON, #04h ; access. ;********************************** ;Main program loop. This simulates a program that is operating ; correctly and then goes awry. After the program has counted to 16 ; on Port 1 it will skip over the watchdog timer reset function. This ; will simulate a fault and allow the watchdog timer reset to be asserted. ;********************************** MAIN: MOV R1, #0FFh ;Create a delay loop. This simulates LOOP1: MOV R2, #0FFh ; a device actually "doing something." LOOP2: JB P1.4, SKIP_WD_RST ;Have we been through loop 16 times? MOV TA, #0AAh ;Watchdog timer reset. In a user application it MOV TA, #055h ; should be placed at strategic locations SETB RWT ; where it will be executed periodically. SKIP_WD_RST: DJNZ R2, LOOP2 JNZ R1, LOOP1 INC P1 ;Increment counter. SJMP MAIN ;Go back to main program loop. ;************************************ ;Watchdog timeout fault. This subroutine would normally have special ; routines to be executed in the event of a system fault. In this example, ; it disables the watchdog reset and sets Port 1 to F0h to indicate a fault. ; In a real application, this routine could either clear the fault and ; restart the software, or signal a fault and halt further operation. ;************************************ FAULT: MOV P1, #0F0h ;Signal a fault MOV TA, #0AAh ;Disable watchdog timer reset MOV TA, #55h ; using timed ANL PCON, #0FBh ; access. SJMP $ ;Halt further operation.


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updates.April 19th, 2011 at 06:32 am
I have been trying to sell some things on eBay lately. Have made a little money, but everytime I sell on there, something goes wrong. Why are my customers always the fussy ones that expect their parcel to have arrived last week? Excuse me, it's Easter! You must be mad if you expect your item to arrive on time!
I bought a skirt which *hopefully* goes with the rest of the outfit I have planned for the wedding party. We just have to find something for DH now. Fingers crossed my items arrive in time. (and that they FIT!)
I have lost a little weight. Really, it is just losing weight that I had gained over the past few months. My teenage sister being around eating all the time means that somehow I will find myself eating when I probably shouldn't be!
So, now the hard part begins where I lose the weight I actually want to lose, not the extra weight I shouldn't have put on in the first place! Gah!
I have finally finally finally done all the paperwork to change our superannuation funds over. Will now be saving $65 a month in insurance costs, and hopefully making more money on our superannuation (retirement) as well, as this fund has better rates.
We have done a bit of de-cluttering lately. I seem to be in the mood for it. Sorted through all my clothes and got rid of about four shopping bags full. Have a few to sell on eBay, but DH will use the unsellable (read: trashed) clothes as rags. Also got rid of appliances that don't work, a whole heap of junky craft items that I will never use, and an assortment of other stuff that basically was taking over my office space. Feels so good to get rid of clutter! Our house is slowly forming into something that can be called 'adult family' rather than 'bunch of twentysomething room-mates sharing a house'.
We have DH's aunt & uncle staying with us for a weekend, end of April. This will definately spur us into more cleaning as well. DH has a lot to do. I know we're married & have been together for 8 years, etc etc, but I still believe he should put away his own clothes & sort out his own paperwork! NOT my job! Alas, he will have to get a move on, because the spare room is covered in boxes of his paperwork and knick-knacks.
I have five days off in a row this weekend (Friday through to Tuesday). So will hopefully get in a few full days of study, one or two of tidying, and maybe one to just hang out with friends and relax!
Oh, and of course, job search! Now that I am able to and have willing referees, I seem to be stalling myself. I don't know why. I guess now there's nothing holding me back except, well, ME. It's my own fault if I can't find another decent job, and my own fault if I don't even try. *sigh*. And I'm scared! Working at the same place for 5 years makes you very comfortable. Time to step out of my comfort zone, I guess...
Though, in preparation I *did* buy some nice interview/office-job shirts. So I guess that's something. Bought one on sale for $10 and another with a gift card. Sheesh, looking at corporate-wear makes me realise what I miss out on. I love corporate wear, but I only have one day a week where I can wear it - and I don't really even have to. I could wear my pajamas and my boss wouldn't bat an eyelid. Sooo many cute shirts...! Anyway. Won't get ahead of myself. Don't have a job yet to wear them to, let alone pay for the shirts, and will probably be provided with my own uniform. Sigh.


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I grew up an hour north of Seattle during the heyday of the infamous grunge scene. Years later when I joined the service and would identify being from Seattle, I often was asked if I had ever seen any of the more renowned bands such as Pearl Jam or Nirvana before they made it big.
That answer would be a big NO! While I identified as being from Seattle, in actuality I grew up in a little hick town that no one had ever heard of. It was just easier to say Seattle and move on with my day.
The music that most impacted my life at that time comes from a band with roots located far from the small town in Washington where I once called home. The first time I was introduced to the band Alabama I knew I had finally found the music I had been searching for my entire life. "Mountain Music" by this iconic country group was my jam and took hold of me like no song before it ever had.
Now the hubs still likes to tease me about my indifference to growing up in such close proximity to one of the greatest musical revolutions of all time. I was so close to the groundbreaking history of alternative music giants such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. The trouble was their songs never seemed to speak to me even the slightest. Don't get me wrong. I love grunge music along with classic rock and other genres, but I will always return to my favorite country music classics without fail.
One day while driving around, Blue Eyes, at the age of eleven sang the last lyrics of song that ended, "You only kiss me when you're drunk." I had to laugh because those are lyrics that I can clearly identify as classic country. There aren't too many songs that get away with lyrics like this, but many in the country world get a pass simply because they are country! Being an avid fan, here is my list of some of these songs lyrics that can only be true country:
- Alan Jackson: "Chattahoochee"
The song begins, "Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee, it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie." That phrase in itself is classic country. I love Alan Jackson and know all his songs by heart. He is as country as country can be, but can you imagine Snoop Dog singing those lyrics? Me neither.
Billy Currington: "God is Great, Beer is Good and People are Crazy"
This song cracked up the hubs, a die-hard grunge fan, so much that he actually went out of his way and learned it. He even mentioned that no other genre could get away with this song and lyrics. By the end of the song, the main character, which only meets this mysterious man once in a bar as they bond over the phrase coined in the song's title, ends being replaced in this man's will instead over his own kids. The man is now rich, drinking a beer in honor of his gracious benefactor. Now, if that is not country, I don't know what is!
Dixie Chicks- "Good-Bye Earl"
Although this song has a serious message speaking out against domestic violence, it shows that country music is anything but transparent. No other genre could boast, "Mary Anne and Wanda were the best of friends, all through their high school days, both member's of the 4-H club, both active in the FFA." Later on, especially if you are able to watch the video, you will see that they poison the man who was about to kill Wanda with black-eyed peas. Unless you are Fergie and have a band named that, only country music can get away with using this southern delicacy as the perfect murder weapon.
Garth Brooks – "Papa Loved Mama"
This list could not be complete without a Garth Brooks song. He is indicative of Country Music and the vibe that follows it. This was my sixteen year olds pick for this category. She felt that only in an upbeat country song could the retelling Mama's untimely death at Papa's hands be so accepted. Throw in the fact that Papa carried out the deed via his truck and this song fits just perfectly with good country standing.
Reba McEntyre- "The Night that the lights went out in Georgia"
Just like "Papa Loved Mama", the upbeat music that accompanies the serious topic at the heart of this song makes its inclusion on my list of song with lyrics that could only be country. All the lyrics are great, but the best part is the line, "A big bellied sheriff grabbed his gun and said why'd you do it?" If that doesn't give you a clear visual of a fat country boy, I don't know what would. The next part continues, "A judge said guilty on a make believe trial, slapped the sheriff on the back with a smile and said supper is waiting at home and I gotta get to it." Now, Country draws us back to the basics of good living and remembering what is important to life in general. The fact that food takes precedence to justice is just so fitting.
Brooks and Dunn- "Boot Scootin Boogie"
Of course we have to include a song with its own dance. "I fire up my pick-up truck and watch the horses run." I would like to see Eddie Vedder sing those lyrics and get away with it.
Morgan Wallen- "The Way I Talk"
A newer song for the list, I feel this one just screams out to the Deep South and the home of many country music lovers. "I sound a little like my daddy, I don't cuss around my mama, got some words you never heard unless you down yonder, the man up stairs get's it, so I ain't trying to fix it." Now, here in the first part of the chorus of this song, Morgan Wallen has included everything country in here, Mama and Daddy and God. The only thing missing is his truck and an old hound dog!
Charlie Daniels Band- "The Devil Went down to Georgia"
Just the title of the song, "The Devil Went down to Georgia" tells you what you need to know about the song.
George Straight- "All My Exes live in Texas"
The merits of country music reign heavily in love and the lack of love at times. In this fun song, George Straight sings that's why he lays his head in Tennessee. Only country music could get by with that sort of verse. I don't see Bon Jovi fitting Tennessee into one of his songs and if for some reason he did, it could never be like King George!
Dolly Parton- "Jolene"
This is the ultimate cheating song. Before Carrie Underwood's and Taylor Swift's ballads that crooned heartbreak, is this classic. Dolly Parton's hit was based on a red haired bank teller that flirted with her husband early on in their marriage. Cheating is indicative of so many country songs and this song has remained popular for over forty years for that very reason.
There are many more songs that could be added to this list. If you are an avid country listener and any of these rang true with you, please leave a comment on my page. If you have your own to add, I would love to hear from you.


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Yogi here today with a sympathy card. Hopefully I won't need it for a long time...
Suzanne recently came out with this new cutting file of a Calla Lily and an open frame card which you can find on the Silhouette onLine store I decided to add a couple more lilies... I used the lattice piece but opted for my own card shape which is 5"w x 7"h
I'm using sentiment stamp ("10 Tiny Sentiments" 10 pce set) on the outside and a quote ("May Each Treasured Memory...") on the inside from Quietfire Design
I scored and folded my white card. Embossed the front using Sheena Douglas "Ivy Frame" 5 x 7 embossing folder.
eCut the frame at 4.5"h from white cardstock. Sponged with various Distress "Old Paper" and browns. Inked with Versamark and embossed with Distress embossing powders, sprinkling a little "Brushed Corduroy", "Pumice Stone" & "Walnut Stain". Heat setting and then brushing off the excess crystals. Adhered to card front.
eCut the lilies from white cardstock, resizing the flower (white part) to 2.5"h and matching the other pieces to the flower to keep them in proportion. (I did this by placing all my elements on the mat, selecting them all, and then resizing in one shot). Added vein lines in the white part of the flower and the leaves using a small balled stylus. Used Distress colors "Shabby Shutters" and a bit of "Crushed Olive" direct to paper, and used a sponge to add the green to the base of the flower. Colored the yellow piece with "Mustard Seed", then added a glob of glue to the upper half and pressed a bright yellow flower soft into the glue. Set aside to dry.
Shaped the flower around a paint brush handle. When I got the shape I liked glued down the edge. Adhered the stem piece shaping it a bit by pinching to round the straight line. Put a dab of glue on the inside of the flower and adhered my yellow pistol.
Adhered the leaves and flower to my card front.
Stamped the sentiment using Versafine Black Onyx onto white cardstock. Trimmed close to stamping, rounded one end and added a green dragonfly brad
On the inside: stamped the quote with the black.
Stamped the Calla Lilies (Flourishes) using "Pumice Stone" all over then using Distress marker "Shabby Shutters" on the leafy areas, misted with water and stamped. Colored the pistols with a yellow colored pencil. Fussy cut around the flower. (actually eCut the shape after creating a silhouette image and then stamping the eCut...). adhered to inside of card.
Added a dotted border using a Faber Castell black marker.
click on any card image to enlarge. Enjoy.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Calla Lilies - With Sympathy - May Each Treasured Memory
3 comments:
- Anne said...
This is so gorgeous and would be a treasured memory in itself. Bravo!
- May 7, 2015 at 1:19 PM
- C. M. Taylor said...
Yogi you continually amaze me! You are so inspiring and creative! TFS this beautiful work of art. I love that you give the details of making this masterpiece so that we can attempt to CASE it! Mine never look like yours in the end. . . . I just hang in there and pray a lot! Someday!!!
- May 7, 2015 at 11:25 PM
- Suzi B said...
Thank you for joining us at MMM with this elegant card
Suzi B x DT
- May 16, 2015 at 1:37 PM
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The remainder of the NFL missed on Alvin Kamara when the New Orleans Saints took the running back 67th overall this past spring.
Through 12 games, Kamara has gained 1,220 yards from scrimmage. Sean Payton admitted the Saints undervalued one aspect of his game during the draft process.
"Look, if we had known what we were going to get as a runner, we wouldn't have taken him in the third round. We would've taken him earlier," Payton said.
One reason Kamara didn't go higher in the draft is he didn't have maximum exposure at Tennessee as he shared running back duties with Jalen Hurd.


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The L-1 visa allows companies or organizations operating both in the US and abroad to transfer certain key employees to the U.S. for up to seven years. To qualify for this visa, the employee must have been employed by the same company/organization (or an affiliate, branch, parent or subsidiary entity) outside of the US for at least one year out of the last three years, and must have served in either a "managerial/executive" or "specialized knowledge" capacity.
L-1 visas apply to two types of high-level employees:
- Managers/Executives(L-1A)
The legal definition of management and executive roles for these purposes is quite rigid, and a detailed description of the duties attached to the position will be required. In particular, a manager should have supervisory responsibility for at least two "layers" of other employees, and/or responsibility for a key function, department or subdivision of the employer. Executives must be responsible for directing a major component or function and establishing goals and policies with minimal supervision. Managers/executives are issued a visa initially for up to a three-year period, which may be extended to a maximum of seven years.
- Specialized Knowledge Employees (L-1B)
"Specialized knowledge" covers individuals who have knowledge that bolsters the company's competitiveness, who are uniquely qualified to inform the U.S. employer of foreign operating conditions, who have been utilized as key employees abroad, and have enhanced the employer's performance, and/or who have specialized knowledge that contributes to the uninterrupted operation of the business. Employees in this category are issued an L-1B visa, initially for three years, which may be extended to a maximum of five years.
Employee Responsibilities:
The employee's past responsibilities and division of time may well be different from those that the employee will have in the U.S. In fact, an individual who in the past was a "Specialized knowledge employee" may apply for a "Manager/executive" visa, or vice versa. However, the importance of carefully documenting both past and future duties cannot be overstated.
Family members of L-1 employees:
An L-1 employee may bring both a spouse and children below age 21 to the United States in L-2 status, and the spouse may apply for a work permit. Children are eligible to study in public or private schools, but are not permitted to work.
Blanket L-1 petitions:
Large companies that regularly file L-1 petitions may wish to explore the "blanket petition" option. This is a procedure that allows a company to transfer its employees through a single petition, without having to file a separate petition for each employee. To qualify for this option, the company must have annual sales of $25 million, a U.S. staff of at least 1,000 individuals, or have received at least 10 approved L-1 petitions within the past year.
Requirements/opportunities after L-1 status:
Unlike the majority of nonimmigrant visas, an L-1 holder is NOT subject to the INA 214(b) presumption of immigrant intent. Thus, an L-1 visa holder may be the beneficiary of a pending immigrant visa petition. However, the I-129 petition must still include evidence of temporariness. As with all other visas, the employee must be careful not to violate the terms of the current visa.
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Our firm assists companies and organizations in obtaining L-1 visas to allow them to transfer key employees to the US from their overseas operations. After approval of the petition by USCIS, employees in this category will apply for an initial L-1 visa for up to three years at the U.S. consulate in their home country. Beneficiaries who are present in the US in another valid non-immigrant status may be eligible to apply to change their status to L-1, while remaining in the US.
As part of our representation, attorneys from our firm discuss the employee's duties and credentials to determine whether the manager/executive or specialized knowledge category is more appropriate, and help companies identify useful documentation to include. It is extremely important to thoroughly and carefully document the qualifications and past and future duties of the employee, as well as the organization, finances, and locations of the company, so as to demonstrate the employee's eligibility for the visa. We pride ourselves on our attention to detail and we make every attempt to thoroughly document the employer and employee's eligibility as part of the initial application.
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Here are some of the most enchanting fairy stories of all time. The brothers Grimm conjure up a world of fantasy, hope and good fortune where the princess meets and marries the right prince (even if he was once a frog), and where the cruel witch, the arrogant wife and the greedy wolf get their come-uppance. It is a magical world which we must all inhabit at one time in our lives and which are as important in this computer age as ever before.
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Designed for 6- to 9-year-olds, Art Adventures sessions provide kids with a guided view of art in the Ackland's galleries, followed by the opportunity to create take-home treasures in an adjacent art studio using newly-learned art-making techniques. Materials are provided. Participants will create pastel landscapes inspired by the Way Out West exhibition.
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I've been able to manually install a device certificate through the
Advanced->TLS menu area and specifying the URL of the device
certificate, but that's cumbersome for a large amount of phones.
In the example site.cfg file, I see the device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1.set
value to set a custom device cert, but when I manually add
device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1 and store the PEM encoded
certificate, the app.log file shows an error that
device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1 is an unknown parameter.
I've even tried storing the device certificate public key here:
sec.TLS.customDeviceCert.1 and the private key here:
sec.TLS.customDeviceKey.1 The parameters are accepted, but the
certificate still doesn't show up in Advanced->TLS->Custom device.
I've even turned on "Debug" level logging for TLS and Configuration,
and it shows no errors.
I've been able to store my custom CA certificate with no problem here:
and here:
Does Polycom even support loading a device cert with config files?
Solved! Go to Solution.
I confess that I have already had the same question, but unfortunatly left unaswered by the Polycom reseller.
I would be very interested in this response.
Hello all,
I actually load for example a LYNC Certificate like this (shortened):
<LYNCCert> <corprootca sec.TLS.profileSelection.SIP="ApplicationProfile1" sec.TLS.customCaCert.1="-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIDtTCCAp2gJL3W9Ng9w5w9yDrpHtwfufG6UevQDcZj2NywtJ1OEu9MSos4dNyypDnI= -----END CERTIFICATE-----" /> </LYNCCert>
Another Option in UCS 4.x.x is to actually load a certificate via the Web Interface onto the Phone, Browse to Settings => Network => TLS:
Above shows my Phone that has already imported a Certificate. You can see in Platform CA 2 that I just specify a HTTP Hyperlink. This was used to enable SRTP for an Asterisk Server.
The Phone will then download the Certificate if Install is pressed.
Ticking the Box next to an installed Certificate will offer you the functionality to delete the existing certificate.
Once this is installed you can check the correct parameters when exporting the Phones configuration.
Any issues that a reseller cannot resolve should be logged by the reseller with Polycom Support.
Best Regards
Steffen Baier
Polycom Global Services
Steffen, we all know how to add CA certs to the phones with config files, and I've been able to manually add device certificates through the phone and the phone's website, but this doesn't work for large numbers of phones. It has to be done with config files.
After 20+ hours of work, and figuring out UNDOCUMENTED settings that are NOWHERE to be found in the manual, here's my definitive guide to certificates on polycom phones with 4.x software. I leave it up to the reader to decide which code snippets to use in their own config files, as it's highly site-dependent on how you want to implement encryption.
CA certificate for Platform CA1:
<device.sec.TLS device.set="1" device.sec.TLS.customCaCert1="-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- blah blah blah -----END CERTIFICATE-----"> <device.sec.TLS.customCaCert1 device.sec.TLS.customCaCert1.set="1"> </device.sec.TLS.customCaCert1>
CA certificate for Application CA1:
<sec.TLS.customCaCert sec.TLS.customCaCert.1="-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- blah blah blah -----END CERTIFICATE-----">
Device certificate loaded as Platform1:
<device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1 device.set="1" device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1.publicCert="-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- blah blah blah -----END CERTIFICATE-----" device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1.privateKey="-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- blah blah blah -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----" device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1.set="1"> </device.sec.TLS.customDeviceCert1>
Device certificate loaded as Application1:
<sec.TLS.customDeviceCert sec.TLS.customDeviceCert.1="-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- blah blah blah -----END CERTIFICATE-----"> </sec.TLS.customDeviceCert> <sec.TLS.customDeviceKey sec.TLS.customDeviceKey.1="-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- blah blah blah -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----"> </sec.TLS.customDeviceKey>
Hello Everyone,
I am new here. I tried Dan1234's suggestion on how to install customdevice certificate using config files and somehow I could not get mine to install on a VVX500. I put it both as custom device credentials platform1 and application1 on the site.cfg of mt tftp config folder.
Any inputs/suggestion is appreciated.
This problem stumped me for a while too. I'm running 5.7, and I needed to set the global ".set" parameter which is needed for updating any <device/> entry.
<device device.set="1"> <device.sec.... etc... /> </device>
Hello all,
This is also documented => here <= and I updated the above post adding the detail.
Best Regards
Steffen Baier
Polycom Global Services
Hello everybody,
I finally succeeded to add manually customer certificate onto the Platform CA through the configuration file.
The most important thing, you will need to activate the device.set="1"
The structure should be like that :
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <change device.set="1" device.sec.TLS.customCaCert1.set="1" device.sec.TLS.customCaCert1="-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- blabla-root CA -----END CERTIFICATE-----" device.sec.TLS.customCaCert2.set="1" device.sec.TLS.customCaCert2="-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- blabla-intermediate CA -----END CERTIFICATE-----"


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Director of Thriller, John Landis said:
"The next potential problem arose with Ola Ray, the actress Landis wanted to play Jackson's girlfriend. "We found out she had been a Playboy playmate. Oh, Jesus Christ! I went to Michael and told him and said, 'Can I hire her?' He said, 'Sure', though I don't think he even knew what I was talking about."
Are you sure about that, Landis?
82 porn magazines dating back to 1991, 1700 pornographic hetero images on just one of the four hard drives in his bedroom, 8 DVDs, dozens of photos of naked women (some reported to be famous), an article on the G spot and one on the Second G-Spot.
MJ in a Playboy shirt aged 12:
Video of MJ flicking through a Playboy during an Interview In 1970, Aged 12:
@ 6:48
MJ: (gets up and browses through magazines on a table, picks one up and goes to sit back down)
Jermaine: Michael, please. No, he got the Playboy. He got the Playboy. (tries to snatch it away from him)
MJ: (fighting his brother off) No, sit down. (to interviewer): Now, I would like to tell you, all the people on (Inaudible "TV") (flicking through it) one of my favorite things…
Brother: (Inaudible)
Michael: … in The Playboy magazine.
Jermaine: Michael, they filming you.
MJ: (looking like he's been caught, looks up at camera and smiles)
@ 8:56
MJ: (flicking through the magazine) This is a big butt. [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Jacksons staying up late to watch X-Rated movies, on tour in Japan, Right On, August 1973 ]
After receiving our individual room keys, everyone rushed upstairs to check out the rooms, order some food and mess around.
I doubt anyone got any sleep that first night, since there was so much of the hotel to see, plus "X-Rated" movies on TV after 11:00.
Ask Jackie, Tito and Jermaine… they'll tell you! Because the next night at 11:00 people probably thought the whole slab of us had gone back to California… you could hear a pin drop. Everybody was in their rooms checking out the "you-know-what." But the funny thing is that if you asked anybody the next day what they did last night or what time they went to bed – they'd crack up and start laughing. That really became the joke of the tour. [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Michael takes Tatum O'Neal out to the Playboy Mansion on their first date, March 1977 ]
Michael, "The next day she invited me to join her at Hugh Hefner's house to watch Roots on videotape. She got sort of bored, so we went outside and got into the jacuzzi. We weren't naked as people have said. We both had on bathing suits, just enjoying ourselves. And that's it."
Michael told Hefner about it, Hugh Hefner on his twitter, Summer 2009
"Michael's first date was in the grotto at the Mansion. All quite innocent, he assured me."[/EXPAND] [EXPAND Ola Ray, the star of Michael Jackson's Thriller, says that Michael told her she was chosen based on her Playboy spread ]
Playboy Centerfold 1980 (link to Ola Ray's Playboy here)
Star in his video for Thriller in 1983, Ola says: "He seemed taken by the fact I was a Playboy model."
"Yes, he had seen (my Playboy spread). Michael said that's how they chose me, because they were looking at the magazine." [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Steven Howell says MJ asked him about it, videographer, early 80s ]
"Once he asked me point blank, "Have you ever shot any pornography, anything X-rated?" Steve Howell said when asked about Michael's curiosity. "I told him I hadn't. 'Are you sure?' he pushed. I was sure. He looked disappointed. Then he started asking me about my girlfriend. What it was like to have a relationship. He was very interested in people's romances." [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Photos of Hoefflin, Michael and Hugh Hefner posing together after a Victory Tour show. Dr Hoefflin says Michael asked him to take him to the Playboy Mansion after Thriller, 1982 ]
Hoefflin, Michael, Hugh Hefner
Dr Hoefflin also said he took the singer to the Playboy mansion, adding: "I know Michael Jackson was not gay. The truth is he lusted after beautiful women.
"I knew he was not gay because in all the time that I knew him that we were best friends – and I was his confidante and doctor – I never had any information that he was anything but straight. We would also spend time together over the years going through books and magazines. Michael would always look at magazines of pretty girls, never boys. And finally, I know factually he had sexual relationships with women."
Dr Hoefflin, 63, said: "Michael loved beautiful women. After Thriller came out he asked me to take him to the Playboy mansion to see the stunning girls. I was friends with Hugh Heffner, made those arrangements and was with him when he described how beautiful and desirable all the women were. All the time I was ever with him – whether it was on tour or off tour – he would always comment to me and others about pretty girls he would see." [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Playboy star Jessica Hahn inscribing his Playboy for him, February 27 1988 ]
Someone who may be confusing herself with royalty these days is Jessica Hahn.
While those two women are her on—screen favorites, when it comes to singers Jessica identifies with Michael Jackson.
Seems Jessica and Jackson share the same plastic surgeon, and when the good doc asked Ms Hahn to sign a photo for the Buckled Wonder she inscribed it thus: "I know how it is when they just don't stop. Hang in there, okay? Love, Jessica." [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Playboy star Jessica Hahn talking about Michael calling her at the Playboy Mansion to ask her to sign his Playboy, 1987 ]
KING: Did Michael Jackson call you at the "Playboy" Mansion?
HAHN: Oh, yes.
KING: What for?
HAHN: We were in a — we were sitting at the "Playboy" Mansion. Dr. Hoflin (ph) was his surgeon and mine. I've since had a new surgeon.
KING: For plastic surgery?
HAHN: Yes. But he decided to call Michael Jackson. That was when he had Bubbles and Michael Jackson asked me to sign a "Playboy" and he said, "Jess, listen to me. I know it's going to be rough," because I was new to this. He goes, "I know it's going to be hard on you, but just understand one thing: It's all going to be OK. They are going to come like scavengers. The press is going to come after you, but it's going to be OK. And by the way, will you sign a "Playboy."" I said, "I'd be more than happy to."
I was — and I've got to be honest. I am happy he is out.
KING: You were rooting for him.
HAHN: I am rooting for him because I feel like I've been blackmailed and I feel like that many times, people attack the well, you know, well-to-do people and they see an opportunity. [/EXPAND] [EXPAND LaToya talks about how Michael was always visiting the Playboy mansion to see the "animals" in the 80s, Donahue Show 1989 ]
"I spoke to Michael the other day, well before it came out, he had seen the pictures prior to them coming out, and we were on the phone for four hours and he didn't say one word about Playboy. And I knew he had seen them because someone at Heff's house said they were having a major meeting about me, and in walks Michael, and they had to grab all the pictures and just get rid of them and Michael claimed he had come there to see the animals, of course.
Why he was there, they don't know, but he said he had come there to see the animals.
And I knew he wanted to see the pictures… so, I spoke to him for four hours, and finally I said, "I heard you were at Heff's."
And he said, "Oh yeah, I was. I wanted to see the animals again."
"But Michael, you always see the animals."
"Well, I wanted to see them again."
So it went on and on and finally I said, "Michael, you know I did Playboy." He goes, "Yeah, I know." And I said, "Well, why didn't you mention it to me?" And he said, "Well, I didn't want to embarrass you. I figured you would mention it first." [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Tatiana Thumbtzen says Hugh refused to do a shoot with her because he was good friends with Michael, 1992 ]
TT: In 1992, I became my own Agent/Manager and I put together a package and proposal for Playboy Magazine. There was much interest and I came close to signing with them. I felt that perhaps it should be the next step in my career, but the deal did not happen.
TR: Why? What happened?
TT: One of Hugh Hefner's assistants told me Hef was good friend of Michael and that he did not want to involve himself with anything that was not "Pro-Michael Jackson." Never did I consider my story against Michael in any way. If anything my story was that of a woman who cared very much about him. However, because I was fired from his tour people thought that I must have been on bad terms with him. [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Michael speaks about visiting the Playboy Club Hotel after tours, Private Home Movies, April 2003 ]
MJ: When I get time off it's a rarity in the first place. It's a real rarity. We always end up our tours in fun places like Florida. It's where the Playboy Club Hotel is. There's bunnies just walking around serving you, you know. They have their little tails on and these little legs and stuff. It's fun. [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Michael posing with Playboy Bunnies at Party for Al Manick, May 25 2003 ]
[/EXPAND] [EXPAND Michael Interested In Purchasing Extensive Collection of Celebrity Nudes, 2009 ]
The owner of an extensive collection of photographs featuring nude celebrities enough to open a "nudeseum"!—exclusively tells E! News that Michael Jackson had been negotiating to purchase his assortment of racy pics before he died.
Website and magazine owner Celebrity Sleuth (that's what he goes by) says that he was alerted to Jackson's interest in the photos by Jack Wishna, the Las Vegas businessman who facilitated Jackson's return to the U.S. from overseas and was trying to organize a comeback engagement for the beleaguered artist in 2006 and 2007.
Turns out Wishna has been working with Sleuth on the nudeseum concept as well, according to the celebrity-skin aficionado.
"Michael was one of the people to show the most interest right away and, up until literally the day before he died, I had an email from Jack saying 'M.J. wants to do this' and so forth," says Sleuth.
He would not reveal the exact amount Jackson was offering, but says it was "eight figures."
Sleuth has amassed memorabilia and photos taken by private photographers dating back to the 1920s. He said that they aren't all of glam-style celebs, but of other public figures as well, such as Adolf Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun.
Where he got this stuff, we can only begin to imagine.
"This goes back to the '20s and the '30s and the '40s," says Sleuth. "They're pictures that I've collected, bought, been given, been given by the celebrities themselves over the years. I'm the only one that has these nudes because I've been able to recognize them so I've been able to go back and find them."
Sleuth says that while some of his photos have been online or published in his magazine, Jackson wanted to buy a never-before-seen collection that had been destined for his Sin City nudeseum.
To avoid legal troubles, Sleuth refused to name the living celebrities in his collection, but revealed that he had pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Bonnie Parker, of Bonnie-and-Clyde fame. He says that he has pictures of just about every current famous actress as well, most of them shots taken before they became famous.
"If you can think of their name and they're famous, then they're in the collection," Sleuth says. "I would say nobody in the last 65 years who is a female celebrity is not in the collection."
Sleuth and Wishna are still currently trying to make a deal with a Vegas casino or private buyer to purchase the secret collection [/EXPAND] [EXPAND Michael owned rare photo of Marilyn Monroe wearing her infamous "nothing underneath" Happy Birthday Mr President dress, CNN, June 01 2010 ]
…Tuesday, which would have been Monroe's 84th birthday, marked the public debut of a rare image of Monroe with Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy together after the May 19, 1962, party.
The black-and-white photo, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, showed Monroe still wearing the infamously tight-fighting, sheer rhinestone-studded dress she wore when singing earlier at Madison Square Garden.
…"There is no other known photo of Bobby [Kennedy] with Marilyn or JFK with Marilyn, and it's not because they were never photographed together," said filmmaker Keya Morgan, who now owns the only original prints of it. "In fact, they were photographed together many times, but the Secret Service and the FBI confiscated every single photograph."
The 10th print was given to singer Michael Jackson two years ago, Morgan said. Morgan was a friend of the pop star's, who was a big Monroe fan. [/EXPAND]


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It's giveaway time again here at Reckless Bliss. Today I've got quite a sparkly treat for you all to get a shot at knabbing. Denise from the lovely Etsy store Beaded Embellishments has kindly offered up one of her fabulous pieces of jewelery to award to one lucky person. First we need to take a look at just what makes this jewelery so darn nice.
Beaded Embellishments specializes in handcrafting unique pieces of beaded jewerly using high quality materials.
Along with gemstones and pearls, Denise uses 925 Sterling Silver in her designs as opposed to silver plated or base metals which do not hold up well over time. Also used is Swarovski Crystals as opposed to Czech glass beads because of their outstanding quality, brilliance and reputation, so you know you are getting a fine piece of jewlery to proudly display.
As Denise says, "A jewelry purchase is an investment in ones self and ones appearance and because of that I prefer to use quality materials and timeless designs so that you may enjoy your purchases for years to come," and I couldn't agree more!
And because Beaded Embellishments wants to make sure that everyone can afford a beautiful creation from the store Denise is generously offering a discount of 10% on any pair of earrings in the Etsy shop for the duration of this giveaway (One Week). You can use the Code: "Olivia" in the message to seller or send a direct message when you purchase your item to receive a refund of the 10% via paypal. And speaking of earrings, here's the fabulous giveaway item featured today!:
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No matter the job — work can get stressful. We have meetings pile up, our project loads double, and we have tight deadlines to make. It's important, however, to continue to take care of ourselves when these stressful points hit. At Two Rivers Marketing, associate health and happiness are just as important as the work we do — and creating that work-life balance atmosphere right at the office allows that happiness to come forth. At the agency we're always looking for ways to foster that balance.
And for the next eight weeks, on every Wednesday over the lunch hour, associates enjoyed a 30-minute yoga session. These classes worked not only the body but the mind, challenging our inner yogi for a brief moment at the office.
At yoga, instead of worrying about when the next meeting will be or when the next deadline will hit, associates are allowed to focus on the present — knowing that when they get back to their desks, they'll have a clear mind that's ready to get back to work. Yoga also allows associates to work with coworkers outside of the traditional workspace. They're able to meet new teammates, push each other through classes, work as a group and hold one another accountable — qualities that can be applied both in and out of the office.
A coworker once told me, "A healthy lifestyle creates a healthy mind, a healthy mind creates a healthy work life, and a healthy work life creates successful work." Here at Two Rivers, we're encouraged to stay healthy and active not only because it will benefit us but because it will benefit our clients as well.
Two Rivers Marketing is not only a place where we come up with genius ideas, create innovative designs, write award-winning pieces and implement top-notch work — it's also a place for energy, reflection and refueling. The perfect work-life balance. You can find other blogs about work-life balance at our agency, here.


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The absurdity of many American tasting notes continues to bewilder me, with their piled-up "organoleptic" adjectives. As it does a local winemaker, who forwarded me the latest tasting note from the commercially very important Wine Spectator for Kanonkop Paul Sauer 2006:
"Rich but racy, with tangy minerality coursing through the core of loganberry, plum and fig fruit flavours. There's also roasted mesquite and iron, adding length to the finish, where a maduro tobacco note lingers."
The score is a very handsome 92 points, incidentally – but in my provincial ignorance I confess I have no idea of what mesquite is (presumably we're not talking about roasted Mexican mosquito?) or if it tastes different if roasted or boiled; nor yet how maduro tobacco differs from just ordinary old tobacco. I don't think (but can one be sure?) that the iron is roasted too…
And I recently came across the tasting note from David Schildnecht, a taster for Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, on a French wine made by a sort-of South African that I recently mentioned myself, the 2007 Matassa Blanc. Unlike my feelings for Wine Speculator, my respect for David Schildknecht is unbounded; he's undoubtedly the great intellect of the international wine world, a deeply experienced taster, with invariably fascinating and profound opinions, frequently and lengthily expressed, on just about everything vinous. (My only problem with him is that he has been the Parker person responsible for South Africa for many years and hasn't yet shown signs of bothering to visit the country.) Anyway his note for Matassa goes thus:
"…salt-spray, exotic, musky flowers, red currant, pomegranate, and mysteriously animal scents in the nose. A striking, shimmering, exchange of saline, alkaline, iodine and crustacean minerality with white peach, tart red fruits, citrus zest, and flowers on the palate, leads to a finish that positively sizzles with mineral, berry, and citrus intensity."
Now what impression can one possibly get from all that? And what has happened to those musky flowers and animal scents by the time one gets to that sizzling finish?
I presume that the point of this sadly common sort of note is to provide the punter with such an array of possibilities that there's bound to be something that he or she can identify with, and feel good about having agreed with the experts. "Ohmigod, yeah – I also get crustacean minerality and pomegranate!"
Just to point up the difference between my little world and theirs, while sticking to the Wine Speculator's Bordeaux blend category, I offer a few no doubt inadequate remarks on some recently released wines our Grape group tasted recently, and which I revisited alone once the bottles had been opened a day or two.
Morgenster, that Italian-owned Helderberg estate with a famous gable, where Bordeaux eminence Pierre Lurton consults, continues to delight and perplex. The former because of the sheer quality of the wines, the latter because we can still not be sure what sort of style they're aiming at with the flagship Morgenster. It does seem certain (sadly for me!) that the cab franc-driven austerity of the maiden 2000 is definitely giving way to the more opulent splendours of a wine oriented to merlot (though merlot is in equal proportion to cabs franc and cabernet). Which is not to say that the latest release, 2006, is not elegant: it is, just more softly plush in its appeal. It's ripe, with a soft gracefulness, and an intensity that is insidiously subtle (like the tannin structure) rather than aggressive. Fairly accessible now, but a few years in bottle will do it good, and it should happily keep a decade at least. Two days later, the wine was still impressive and quietly insistent, though its structure was more apparent.
Cathy van Zyl and Ingrid Motteux and I agreed on 18/20. Angela Lloyd demurred somewhat, finding it less interesting than we did. In fact she preferred the Morgenster Lourens River Valley, the very serious "second label". It has, indeed, a more cabernet character, with a little more dark sombreness than the more expensive label; well balanced and lingering, with a savoury freshness; richly flavourful with firm tannins and acidity; certainly a modern wine, but very far from fruity flashiness. We settled on 17/20. The LRV is something of a bargain at R128 from the cellar, the Morgenster not overpriced at all at R290.
Zonnebloem Lauréat 2007 was stripped of its gold medal at the Trophy Wine Show once it was discovered to have a little shiraz in the blend, disqualifying it from the tightly-described category. The publicity it subsequently received did it enormously more good than a mere gold medal, and apparently it is all sold out – which maybe made our sampling of it particularly un-useful. A score around 16 seemed appropriate to us. Rather too much oak, perhaps, but it was pretty well balanced, with good fruit and a reasonably savoury intensity, the tannins ripely firm – though a little drying on the finish, no doubt thanks to the winemaker's overzealousness with wood.
Now I'm riven with doubts: did I miss out some roasted mesquite on the Morgenster? I've subsequently discovered, as you no doubt already knew along with the Wine Speculator taster, that mesquite is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in northern Mexico. Sounds irresistibly delicious, especially when roasted, though I'm not sure how it got into Paul Sauer.


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Choosing a pediatrician for your new baby is an intensely personal decision. You want to find the right doctor that you can stick with through the years so your child becomes comfortable. Here are some things you ought to consider as you make your decision.
1. Is the doctor accredited? This is usually a simple check that's worth 10 seconds of your time. Is the doctor licensed? Where did he go to school?
2. What are his office hours? Obviously you need someone who holds office hours that work for your schedule. If you work 9-6 and your so does your doctor, you'll constantly be rescheduling your life to make an appointment.
3. What is the staff's demeanor? Your child will be interacting with the doctor and his staff (administrators and nurses). You want these people to be calm and kind to alleviate fear.
4. Can you make phone calls? Are they returned timely? Oddly, some offices don't take phone calls. They force you to make an appointment. But you'll want the flexibility to be able to ask the doctor or a nurse a quick question.
5. Does your doctor have any hospital appointments? If your child is hospitalized, will your doctor play a role in the care or will you have to find a new doctor with hospital access?
6. What are the other physicians like? Many doctors practice in a group. If you need care on your doctor's day off, you'll end up with another doctor, so make sure they are acceptable substitutes.
7. Does the doctor coordinate specialists? If your child develops a complex illness, will your doctor work with the other specialists or push you onto a different pediatrician to handle the load?
8. Does the doctor speak in plain English? You want a doctor who will skip the medical jargon and tell you straight what's going on with your child. Does he throw big terms at you (that you can't possibly know) or speak plainly?
9. Does the doctor care? Or is he just trying to cram as many patients (and billings) into the same day as possible?
10. What are the doctor's values? Some people have some specific requirements in a doctor for spiritual/personal/religious reasons. Your doctor doesn't have to agree with those requirements, but be willing to provide care that fits in line with them.
11. What is his reputation? To answer this question, you'll have to ask around. Ask people you know what they have heard about the practice. Get some testimonials from current or previous patients about their experiences.
Written by Joanna von Yurt, Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant and Co-Founder and CEO of Swanling Innovations Inc.
Joanna von Yurt is the mother of three intelligent, sensitive, and compassionate girls (who all want to be mommies when they grow up). She is first AND foremost a mom! Professionally, however, she is an accountant, controller and serial entrepreneur.
Joanna has a degree in Psychology from Harvard University with an emphasis in child psychology. She worked as an infant caregiver for 12 years and interned as a Child Life Specialist, family/social therapist, and assisted in clinical studies involving children's personality and social psychology. Joanna is a Certified Sudden Infant Death (SIDS) Prevention Professionals, Safe Sleep Educator, Member of the International Association of Child Sleep Consultants, Member of the National Sleep Foundation, and Member of the Canadian Sleep Society.
Joanna has a lifelong passion for childcare and child safety. She enjoys sharing her experiences with other parents about sleep routines, attachment parenting, safe sleep guidelines, and children's natural sleep patterns. Her company, Swanling Innovations, is committed to producing modern, safe and innovative products that meet the expectations of discerning parents. The Slumber Sleeper™ is a 4-in 1 safe sleep solution (mattress protector, flat sheet, fitted sheet and sleep sack all in one) designed to help keep your baby safe, warm and centered.
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text: Lorraine Toussaint Joins Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Drama 'Fast Color' Tonja Stidhum March 17, 2017 Film Lorraine Toussaint (Orange is the New Black, Rosewood) has signed on to the drama thriller Fast Color, joining Gugu Mbatha-Raw, whose casting we recently reported on here at HBR! Fast Color is directed by Julia Hart and produced by Oscar-nominated Jordan Horowitz (La La Land) under his Original Headquarters banner and LD Entertainment's Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon (Jackie). In this upcoming drama-thriller project, Mbatha-Raw will Ruth, a woman who is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Now, years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home. Toussaint will play Bo, Ruth's mother. Toussaint, originally known as a lead actress for her role as Rene Jackson in Lifetime's Any Day Now and her recurring role as defense attorney Shambala Green in NBC's Law & Order. Her other credits include Crossing Jordan, Saving Grace, Ugly Betty, Friday Night Lights, Body of Proof, Forever, and The Fosters. She is a SAG Award and Critics' Choice Award winner and NAACP Image Award nominee for her extraordinary performance as inmate Vee on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black. She also appeared in Selma and is starring in the second season of Fox's Rosewood. Comments comments


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Preciousness: Cam Newton, His Fiancee & Their Three Kids Pose For Their Family Christmas Card
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Some blended family preciousness…
Cam Newton's Family Christmas Card
Cam Newton and his beautiful blended family recently posed for holiday photos. The Carolina Panthers quarterback, his fiancee Kia Proctor, their two kids and Kia's daughter are all in together in the Newton family Christmas card.
The card marks the first time the public's seen Cam and Kia's daughter Sovereign-Dior who was born just a little over a year after their son Chosen.
Kia also shared another photo of her very sexy Vjollca Llapashtica holiday gown.
Okaaaay future Mrs. Newton.
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In an interview last week, cofounder NR Narayana Murthy said corporate governance at the company had weakened and that the out-size severance pay handed out to its departing chief financial officer could raise doubts whether that was "hush money".
The Infosys board held a press conference in Mumbai on Monday where it attempted to address the concerns and stated that there were "cultural differences" with the founders.
Few analysts believe that the matter has ended with it. "While Infosys' board has tried to answer questions, we still don't know if the founders will be satisfied. Murthy said yesterday (Monday) that there were still concerns, and the press conference didn't say anything new if you look at it. I think this will drag on," an analyst at a Mumbai-brokerage said. He declined to be named.
Four out of five analysts ET spoke to said they believed that the battle could drag on for a few more months. But few expect it to be long-term concern.
"Over the last week, we haven't seen an impact on the stock. If the governance issues are simply a matter of perception on whether certain decisions should be taken, which it seems to be, then the street won't care. But if it begins to have an operational impact on the company, then there will be a problem," a second analyst at an Indian brokerage said.
Another analyst said he was less worried about the founders and far more concerned about the statements being made by Infosys' former executives such as TV Mohandas Pai and V Balakrishnan.


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Things have been really crazy around here for the past week. My 14 year old daughter broke her ankle last Monday during Cheerleading. So we have had ER visits and Orthopedic doctor visits. It was a clean break and it was still aligned so no surgery and no pins. Thank goodness. She is in a cast for at least 6 weeks. We go back next week to check it again. She is still pretty swollen. She is all depressed and frustrated as their Comp is on March 14th and she can't compete. But she will be able to go to support her team. She is so bored and it is so hard to keep her sitting still with her foot up. She is 14 and she is her mothers daughter after all. LOL I do have some pictures on my camera that I have to put on the computer and then I can upload. i just have to find the time to do it.
Hope everyone is having a good week.
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