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10 Tips for Setting Boundaries Online
By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.
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Good boundaries are important for healthy relationships, but when it comes to our online lives, we rarely think to create clear-cut borders. The most important reason to set boundaries online, according to psychologist and coach Dana Gionta, Ph.D, is for your "safety and protection." Personally, you don't want to give out private information to the world, and professionally, you don't want to compromise your credibility and reputation, she said.
So whether you're using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any other social media website — or just writing email — it's important to proceed thoughtfully with your time online. Here, Gionta doles out key advice on devising and defending your boundaries.
1. Give yourself permission.
Many people think that they don't deserve to set boundaries in the first place. We think we should automatically accept anyone who wants to befriend us on Facebook or go out of our way to help a colleague of a colleague with a recommendation on LinkedIn. Give yourself the permission to set boundaries and say no, Gionta said.
2. Consider your purpose.
According to Gionta, what helps when setting boundaries is thinking ahead about how you'd like to use social media. Ask yourself: What purpose does social media serve for me?
Are you using Facebook to keep in touch with friends, to network professionally or both? "What would make you feel safe in terms of how many people you allow [as your friends]? Do you want an open or closed profile? [Are you going to] not put up much personal information and limit access?"
Remember that if you've got 800 friends on Facebook — many of whom, it's safe to say, are acquaintances, at best — all 800 are privy to your personal facts. And that can be risky, Gionta said. So consider what kinds of information you want out there.
3. Set boundaries surrounding time.
Let's face it: Sites like Facebook can become a black hole, sucking your time into its abyss — if you let them. It's easy to feel powerless, especially if you're using social media sites professionally and want to build a supportive circle. The Internet is like a moving target, and with that comes the expectation that we need to respond to people's comments right away, return email within a day or even hours and stay plugged in so we're continuously in the know.
But remember that you do have a choice, and "there is no requirement," Gionta said. Rather, figure out what works best for you. Blocking out 15 minutes a day for catching up on comments and your community can still help you make and maintain connections — without feeling stressed and overwhelmed, she said.
Interacting with others
Interacting online can get tricky. Below, Gionta offers additional tips specifically for interpersonal communication.
4. Take things slow.
Relationships on the Internet move fast. And we're not just talking romantic relationships, but interactions of all kinds. When you're chatting away on your computer in the comfort of home (or the nearest Starbucks), particularly with like-minded people, it feels like you know them intimately. But take your time.
It takes about six to nine months to get to know someone's character, Gionta said. Since people usually want to present themselves in a positive light — as Chris Rock famously joked, "When you meet someone for the first time, you don't meet them, you meet their representative" — it takes time to see their true personality. That's when you see red flags or inconsistencies in their character.
In online interactions, you might get to know the person faster, but either way, "it's generally better to take it more slowly and approach [your relationships] in a thoughtful and careful way." Give yourself time to get to know the person before revealing too much about yourself, she added.
Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.
Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. is an Associate Editor and regular contributor at Psych Central. Her Master's degree is in clinical psychology from Texas A&M University. In addition to writing about mental disorders, she blogs regularly about body and self-image issues on her Psych Central blog, Weightless.
Tartakovsky, M. (2018). 10 Tips for Setting Boundaries Online. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 21, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/lib/10-tips-for-setting-boundaries-online/
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Origins of a Global Campaign
Lord Loomba's mother, Shrimati Pushpa Wati Loomba, the inspiration for International Widows Day
New York, December 21, 2010. The 65th General Assembly of the United Nations was gathered in the General Assembly Hall for its 75th plenary meeting when Ali Bongo Ondimba, president of the Republic of Gabon, a sub-Saharan country located on the Atlantic coast of Africa bordered by Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo, rose to speak.
The topic of President Ondimba's address was the desperate plight of millions of widows all over the world, women who for no reason other than the loss of their husband are ostracised by their communities; deprived of their livelihood and possessions; unable to support their children and all too often condemned to a life of indignity and destitution.
It does not take a genius to figure out that such injustice undermines the very communities that perpetuate it; that aside from the moral wrongs, this widespread and deeply embedded discrimination entrenches poverty and suffering, and destabilises the social fabric. What is most shocking about the plight of widows is how widespread it is, yet at the same time how invisible.
In his resolution, President Ondimba emphasised that economic empowerment of women, including widows, is critical if we want to eradicate poverty. Women, including widows, should be an integral part of the state they live in, he said, calling on all Member States, the UN itself and other international organisations, to give special attention to the plight of widows and their children, and to raise awareness about this issue around the world.
President Ondimba called on the General Assembly to institute an annual day of action to highlight this important cause and to fight discrimination against widows. The day was to be called International Widows Day, and it would take place every year on 23 June.
The journey to that General Assembly session in New York began more than half a century earlier in Dhilwan, a small rural town in the State of Punjab in India, when Raj Loomba's father passed away and his mother became a widow at the age of 37. The date was 23 June 1954 (See Our story).
Widows in India
For millions of widows from poor backgrounds in India, the situation is bleak. It is not unusual for them to be blamed by the family for the husband's death. Property and wealth is often taken away. A young woman who is widowed shortly after marriage cannot return to her own family, as she is thought to bring bad luck. The fate that awaits many widows is that they must wear plain white clothing, cannot work, find it difficult to remarry and are unable to pay for their children's schooling. It is not unusual for older widows to be abandoned by their families and even child widows can face a life of destitution.
So in 1997, after his mother had passed away, Raj and his wife Veena established a Foundation in his mother's memory to focus on the injustices suffered by widows and their children in his native India, building up a nationwide programme that has transformed the lives of more than 100,000 people.
But soon he began to see that the problem is by no means confined to India alone. Widows face unimaginable abuse and discrimination in many countries, including in Asia and Africa, where they are often subjected to degrading treatment, deprived of the means to support themselves and their families. There was little or no prospect of this changing: the problem was quite simply not seen or acknowledged anywhere.
"It can be said," a report by UNIFEM (the predecessor of UN Women) stated in 2001, "that there is no group more affected by the sin of omission than widows. They are painfully absent from the statistics of many developing countries, and they are rarely mentioned in the multitude of reports on women's poverty, development, health or human rights published in the last 25 years."
But saying there's a problem is not the same as doing something about it. In the early 2000s, there seemed no chance that this issue would ever rise to the consciousness of the international community.
So it was that Raj Loomba, half a century after that fateful day in Dhilwan, resolved on a plan to transform the fate of millions of the most disadvantaged and marginalised people in the world. A plan to eradicate discrimination against widows.
So deep-rooted are the customs and prejudices that have sustained this injustice for centuries that Raj knew he would need the support of governments, international organisations, NGOs, researchers, educators, philanthropists and all people of goodwill to bring about changes not only in legislation and targeted support, but in attitudes and cultures the world over.
On 26 May 2005, Raj Loomba rose to address a meeting in the Cholmondeley Room at the House of Lords in London.
"The plight of widows," he told his audience that day, "is an important hidden issue in many countries. Millions of widows and their children are the poorest of the poor, often invisible, forgotten and unheard. In many countries across Africa, Asia and elsewhere, widows can lose their human rights, land and property, and can be exposed to violence and abuse."
Before an audience of leading politicians, businesspeople, humanitarian activists and journalists from the UK, India and around the world, Raj Loomba and Foundation President Mrs Cherie Blair launched an annual, global day of action to tackle the prejudice that lies at the heart of widows' suffering. The day, they announced, was to be known as International Widows Day. The date on which it would take place each year was 23 June: the date on which, as a 10-year old boy, Raj had lost his father and witnessed first hand the injustice of what happened to his mother because she became a widow.
On 23 June 2005, exactly four weeks after the launch, Raj Loomba and local schoolchildren released 1,000 multi-coloured balloons into the sky at Tower Bridge in London to mark the first International Widows Day, and similar events took place in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Uganda and South Africa.
So International Widows Day was born.
Raj Loomba knew that no amount of scholarships, sewing machines and fundraising events – so effective in transforming the lives of tens of thousands – could be leveraged to make a lasting impact on this global problem. To change the culture globally, the international community must be engaged. Governments must be persuaded, cajoled or shamed into helping. Communities must be encouraged to collaborate. Aid programmes must be focused not only on today's need but on educating and empowering people to break the cycle of deprivation. So the first International Widows Day was never an end in itself: it was the beginning of a journey.

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When we first opted for the Vodkatrain trip the main luring point was the chance to visit Saint Petersburg. The Vodkatrain package offers a two night stop in the city but as we were making our own way across Europe instead of flying directly to Russia we decided to extend our visit to six days. This gave us ample time to explore the major sights.
The magnificent State Hermitage Museum (also known as the winter palace) is a decadent delight with it's hundreds of beautifully designed rooms full of thousands of artefacts ranging from ancient oddities to famous artwork truly leaves you feeling awe inspired and wanting to never visit another museum again. If you visit pre-book the tickets online and arrive for opening hours to allow for a whole day of exploration.
Another famous sight was the Church of the Resurrection. The Orthodox Cathedral is hard to miss with its multicoloured towers. Inside this unique cathedral visitors are left astonished by a colourful plethora of wall to wall mosaic images of orthodox religious events all "modestly" famed in gold leaf. This feat of architecture is even more impressive when you learn that much of the church was destroyed by a shell fire in WW2 and has been painstakingly restored to its former glory.
If you visit Saint Petersburg you must take a boat tour along the canals and onto the Neva river. The cruise is a great way to get your bearings and grab a fantastic view and photo opportunity from the river. The tour covers views of most of the main sights including the Winter Palace, Peter and Paul Fortress, Admiralty Headquarters, Cruiser Aurora, Marble Palace and Kunstkamera. Plus if you buy a few tins of booze before hand it's a great opportunity to relax and enjoy the view.
During our stay in Saint Petersburg we met up with our friend Dina who we met in Budva a month or so previous. Dina along with her friend Adrianna were kind enough to guide us on the river cruise as we jumped on the Russian tour and invite us out around the local pubs and bars. By chance it coincided with a Russian holiday celebrating the countries paratrooper regiment. It's basically an excuse for people from the regiment to get totally pissed and all over the city scary Russian men wearing their blue uniforms walk from pub to pub waving flags, drinking, driving like nutters and acting aggressively (more so towards the evening). The experience was great although you had to watch out for the crazy drivers as over the course of a night we saw many accidents. We stayed out until 7 am and although we wrote off one morning through sleep it was definitely worth it to enjoy a few too many beers and vodkas with a good friend.
A special mention must also be made to our friendly couchsurfer guide Anna who was kind enough to give us a guided tour of the city on our penultimate evening. Many of the city tourist sights were sadly closed but it is always nice making new friends.
Saint Petersburg definitely surpassed our expectations and Jono and I definitely would take up a chance to visit again to see the sights we failed to visit, venture around the city suburbs and visit surrounding towns.


I wish I was healthy and pretty.
healthy we cant help. you can. to a degree. you are pretty. so theres that.
What is your definition of pretty?
To me, you are pretty on the outside. But anyone can look pretty on the outside with makeup, clothes that fit them, and other materialistic things. Real beauty comes from within. When I think about the people I truly admire, I see that it's not their outer beauty that touches me, it is their strength, bravery, boldness, and how they live their passions not caring what anyone thinks about them.


Last Friday the Golden Nugget released their annual "Games of the Year" odds. As you might expect, several feature the Dawgs and, frankly, the odds paint an interesting picture (full list available here via ESPN). They cover every conference game on the schedule minus Vandy, Kentucky, and (wait for it) Auburn.
1. It's really early. Like REALLLYY early. So don't get too excited. Most of these will change. But still, you are reading this correctly in that Vegas basically has UGA at mostly even money to have a helluva season.
2. The Bama game as a pickem' is the biggest surprise on this list. You could read that one of two ways: On the one hand, you could say that some Vegas oddsmakers don't think UGA will have a problem at QB or at least that it won't keep them from having a shot in games like the Bama game. On the other hand, you could read this as continuing mistrust of a Bama team that does seem to have lost a step (albeit just one single baby step) on the Saban monstrosities of yore. Either way, with Brice Ramsey about to play the biggest game of his life I'm really surprised Bama isn't a -1 pick here.
3. Vegas is obviously really high on Tennessee as they should be. Tennessee could very easily live up to the hype and run away with the East this season. Going to Neyland the week after the Bama game sets the stage for a trap game to end all trap games. It might surprise you, however, to learn that the oddsmakers favor Alabama by 10 over Tennessee. Granted, the Vols do travel to Bama.
4. Second prize in the "best surprise" category probably goes to South Carolina line. The oddsmakers have UGA favored by 11 which I can only assume means they've never watched a UGA-South Carolina game in their entire lives. Either the ole ball coach has a real turd of a team on his hands or UGA is getting a lot of love when the line should probably be more economical.
5. Only favored by one at Tech because reasons.
Tight end Garrett Walston has committed to UGA over my other school, the University of North Carolina. While most sites apparently only rank him as a three-star recruit, I have a couple of different insights to add here.
1) Being a member of the Inside Carolina message board, it was readily apparent that he was the top TE on the Heels' list. With Eric Ebron just 13 months removed from being the tenth overall pick in the NFL Draft, Carolina has a legitimate claim as a good school for receiving tight ends.
2) Being a native of the 910 area code, of which Walston's hometown of Wilmington, N.C. is, scouts don't often get to the sparsely-populated area. Without doing research, the last 4-5* recruit from the large Southeastern Coastal Plain of N.C. was Xavier Nixon, a 5 star OT from Fayetteville.
What I'm saying is that Walston is probably underrated by the recruiting services. I'd be surprised if he didn't end up a 4-star.
3) I made a rare post defending Georgia's commitment to throwing to the TE on IC.
4) Todd Gurley. Keith Marshall. JEBBLAZE. Garrett Walston. Georgia is planting some strong 'crootin boots in North Cack.
It has long been established that Phil Steele is the best in the college football preview magazine business. Two chock-full pages on every team in the country, predictions, advanced statistics, predictive models…it's glorious.
Well, with 352 pages of content and a limited amount of time for fact-checking, I guess even ole Phil can get one wrong every now and then.
Georgia longsnapper Trent Frix (who, interestingly enough also had a brother and father serve in the same role) is listed on GeorgiaDogs.com at 6'0, 211.
Steele's magazine has him at a significantly higher weight.
If he can still snap weighing 1209 lbs., sign me up for some #fatmanfootball.
The best compliment for a special teamer is that you don't know his name. If Frix hits the field at over half a ton, I'm afraid he will be anonymous no more.
Richt Transfer Redux: THE READERS GOT IT RIGHT!
On Friday, I posed a question to our loyal, patient (I got my Phil Steele magazine today, production officially ramps up tonight), and intelligent readers: Is Mark Richt too lenient on outgoing transfers?
The results are in, and…by God, we actually agree that CMR is doing it right!
I may be an idiot, but I couldn't figure out how to see results without voting.
Under those circumstances, it's perfectly understandable as to why Richt would allow guys to carve out their paths as they so choose. Under the legal/school category, you have unfortunate Jonathan Taylor situations, and you have the ones like a Tray Matthews or Nick Marshall that could bite you on the field, but establish a little bit more credibility with parents. Given that, a little roster attrition (probably 20-30% per recruiting class) should be expected, and allows fans who follow recruiting to get all lathered up when the Dawgs line up another top 5 recruiting class.
Anyway, I'm proud of y'all for agreeing with me and the rest of the DudeYouCrazy team, and I want to thank the solitary jokester/crazy person who expects the rest of the league to fall in line with Georgia.


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The seminar in RSUH dedicated to Vladimir Zinchenko
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Vladimir Petrovich Zinchenko 10.08.1931 - 06.02.2014
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I may regret this, but I'll wade back in.
> >> to vote in >saner policies and politicians.
I'm an Eagle Scout myself, so don't take it the wrong way when I say: Idealistic of you. "Take back your government!" But it is clear on the evidence that what I mean by "rational" does not include most of the voters. It probably never has, even back in ancient Athens. Most of the politicians are perfectly sane. They're just selfish, meretricious and venal. And the system rewards them handily.
Ergo, the aforesaid rationals have to convince the sheeple to vote in [etc.], and they have to manage to convince the politicians to "stay bought" or be honest.
It is a lot more work when there's no moral ground to stand on. This is not a complaint or a harkening back to some mythical good old days. It is easiest to push peoples' BIG buttons. And a big lie makes the best bell-push..
resounds with the wishes and desires of the voting populace enough to inspire volunteer support (see Jesse Ventura, who was hardly a celebrity).
And it takes luck, or convincing the existing power structure that they can "work with you". Or both. Salmon swimming upstream have the fire in the belly worse than I ever hope to. It's not enough. "Any kid can grow up to be President." --"And looking around me, I'm beginning to believe it." --MMB, after Mencken.
Maybe; to some degree, yes. You sound very sure. But consider: The common law definition of fraud fits on a 3x5 card and can be explained to a jury in five or ten minutes. The SEC fraud regs are something like 9 feet of bookshelf, deep, fine print. I do not believe a factual case can be marshaled in support of this. Perhaps you do.
Once upon a time, though, the legal coastline, measured with a yard stick (common law), really could be said to be x miles long. And common people could understand the law, for the most part. Now, the ever-more-fractal legal landscape greatly supports an expanded, "richer" ecosystem of niches and their habitues. In the conspiracy of bears to honey, nobody who spent tens of thousands of dollars and decades of their life to be a specialist attorney/consultant wants _their_ ox gored. So simplifying the legal landscape becomes out of the question... unless one contemplates Alexander's Gordian option. One need not be a pimply fresh Randite to do so.
I think they knew full well about the Eighteenth-Century equivalents, incl.
rabble-rousing, amphigory and the tricks of rhetoric. But they had, I think, some hopes that the gentry (who were originally all who could vote) might be expected to keep at least one eye cocked skeptically, more often than not.
Whew-wee! Nice shootin' Tex, but all that high and mighty system description is being choked to death by weeds. Maybe you're so in love with the blueprints you can't see the rust on the working model.
So, to the point you raised in your first (pre-tub) clause: Mike Lorrey may or may not; me, I've got a million experiments to try. Find me a million spare universes to try them out in, and we can talk; in this one, in real time, with all those specialists defending their oxen... get real. I'm busy trying to walk down the fractal coastline while avoiding the land sharks.
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Q: Rounding with BigDecimal? I have been trying to round using bigdecimal in java and have been running into a java.lang.ArithmeticException error that is showing Non-terminating decimal expansion.
Can anyone explain the origins of the error as I am pretty new to java? and help me with my code?
Thanks
protected BigDecimal p;
protected BigDecimal q;
protected BigDecimal d;
protected BigDecimal det;
protected BigDecimal exp;
protected int e;

    this.p = pq.getP();
    this.q = pq.getQ();

    det = ((p.subtract(BigDecimal.ONE)).multiply(q.subtract(BigDecimal.ONE)));
    exp = new BigDecimal(String.valueOf(e));

    d = (det.divide(exp).setScale(2,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP));

The variable "d" is where i believe the error is arising.

A: You need to set the scale when you do the divide.
d = det.divide(exp, 2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);

Note: using double with rounding is likely to be cleaner and less error prone.
exp = new BigDecimal(e); // does the same thing if e is an int

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Killer Nun (1979) - Blu-ray Disc
Suor Omicidi
**/**** Image B Sound B- Extras C+
starring Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Lou Castel, Alida Valli
screenplay by Giulio Berruti and Alberto Tarallo, from an idea by Enzo Gallo
directed by Giulio Berruti
by Bryant Frazer It sounds like a grand old time, all right. First, there's that title. Killer Nun. Adjective noun, conveying irony and promising subversion. Then there's the cast. How can you not want to see Anita Ekberg star with Joe Dallesandro in a killer-nun movie? And the premise (dope-addled sister at a convent hospital starts abusing patients) does not disappoint--imagine a season of "Nurse Jackie" under showrunners Dario Argento and Abel Ferrara. Yet somehow, director Giulio Berruti blows it: A derivative slasher pic and an only mildly lascivious sex film, Killer Nun is the sort of sleepy-eyed misfire that could give nunsploitation a bad name.
Buy at Amazon USA
Buy at Amazon Canada
ASPECT RATIO(S)
1.85:1 (1080p/MPEG-4)
English 2.0 DTS-HD MA (Mono)
Italian 2.0 DTS-HD MA (Mono)
English SDH
English (for Italian-language version)
Ah, nunsploitation! Typically, nunsploitation films were period pieces that depicted an isolated group of women of religious devotion, sheltered and supposedly celibate, who are nonetheless driven to extremes by their oppressive surroundings. WIKIPEDIA traces the genre to as far back as the Polish film Mother Joan of the Angels, but it has clear roots in the masterful Black Narcissus by Powell and Pressburger, as well as the devilish silent movie Häxan, which contains a sequence set in a convent. Still, the real granddaddy of nunsploitation is Ken Russell's amazing The Devils (based in part on the same historical incident of supposed demonic possession that inspired Mother Joan...), one of the greatest--and, not coincidentally, most perverse--films ever made on the subject of religious repression and persecution.
Killer Nun lacks that kind of gravity, but it does trot out an eye-rolling Mother Superior (Alida Valli), whose slow reaction to the crisis at the convent hospital under her watch reads as an opportunistic critique of a system that fails to humanely treat addiction and mental illness. "Sister Gertrude," she says, casually popping a pill while denying Gertrude's increasingly desperate requests for hospitalization, "it is a nun's vocation to suffer."
Addicted to morphine and suffering from blackouts following her recovery from brain surgery, Ekberg's Sister Gertrude becomes a hypochondriac, a nymphomaniac, and a sadist. She mistakenly believes that the tumour plucked from her head was cancerous, in spite of her doctor's insistence to the contrary. Fairly early on, she loses it at the dinner table in impeccably campy fashion, snatching a geriatric female patient's dentures out of a glass of water and smashing them to tiny, toothy bits with her foot. The old woman suffers a fatal heart attack soon after, and although the film draws a straight line from Gertrude's behaviour to the woman's death, none of Gertrude's co-workers are prepared to do the same--save sweet Sister Mathieu (Paola Morra), who declares her love to Gertrude, no matter what.
Ekberg is, I think, pretty good as this stuff goes. She portrays the nun more like a steely headmaster presiding over a student body than like a nurse dealing with patients. She has to play hysterical, too, collapsing and writhing on the floor in a drug-induced stupor, weeping as she watches an elderly man in a wheelchair enjoy a blow job in the rain, and throwing herself against the walls of a hospital hallway, crying out repeatedly, "I am not a murderer!" Morra, meanwhile, is resplendent in a body seemingly made for Eurocult frivolity. Her two nude scenes with Ekberg (who remains mostly covered) aren't especially sexy, though the second one gets a weird charge from Gertrude's demands that she a) put on silk stockings, and b) call herself a dirty little prostitute. Lesbian action is, alas, absent, though Morra's final-reel come-on to Dallesandro's Dr. Roland is genuinely erotic--largely because she commits to the requisite dont-you-want-me-baby shtick in full religious habit, which is kind of the point of this particular fetish. I'd like to see her in a movie that's less serious about itself than this one.
More intriguing is an amazing sequence about a third of the way into Killer Nun. Berruti has Gertrude experience a series of feverish visions involving a hospital patient, a corpse in a morgue, and her own bloody brain, visible through the hole in her skull during surgery. The shots are carefully- planned and timed, with matched cuts between dream and reality suggesting confusion and disorientation. What's more, the startlingly contemporary music cue underneath this sequence, composed by Alessandro Alessandoni, is perhaps the film's single most distinguishing feature. (Alessandoni is best-known to movie buffs as the musician who performed the twangy guitar part on Morricone's main title for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.) The same gimmick becomes a little tired later on, when Berruti intercuts a prickly murder with a dull conversation between Roland and a hospital administrator, only drawing attention to the now-crushing banality of the film's storyline, but this scene by itself is almost worth the price of admission.
Killer Nun is a reasonably compact 88 minutes, but it feels longer, especially in an increasingly distended second half that introduces new major characters to an already busy mix. (Sometimes it feels like Berruti's actively padding the runtime, with redundant edits extending some scenes to the breaking point; I'm guessing there wasn't much footage left on the cutting-room floor.) Berruti seems to be on the fence about whether he's directing a full-on exploitation flick, and maybe he thought that careful attention paid to Gertrude's helpless descent into madness would make up for a more generic approach to matters of sex and death. A twist ending brings the movie in line with the popular Italian thrillers of the 1970s, but Berruti doesn't have the heart for the spectacular cruelty in which his compatriots specialized. Despite weak echoes of both Argento and Fulci, the bloodletting is executed without much conviction or imagination. Frankly, death-by-cotton-ball (the fate of that poor chap in the wheelchair) is never going to pass muster in the Giallo Hall of Fame. It may be wrong to pile on a director for not being crass enough, but face it--this ain't Fellini. With a title like Killer Nun, crass is what you're selling.
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THE BLU-RAY DISC
While connoisseurs will differ on the value of Killer Nun related to its Eurocult brethren, most of them will be happy with the usual Blue Underground Blu-ray presentation. I dont want to belabour the issue, but the grain/noise situation is in the same ballpark as the company's other releases of similar vintage. (A patina of grain is clearly visible even when the picture dips to black.) Users with bigger screens and/or larger viewing angles may find this to be nettlesome, but from a more typical viewing distance it's not a huge bother. The picture is perhaps a mite soft but almost entirely clean, while the film blemishes that are apparent when scrutinized on a frame-by-frame basis suggest that a noise-reduction pass has cleared the lion's share of dirt and scratches.
The 1080p transfer was encoded using AVC and is slightly windowboxed to exactly 1.85:1. Average bitrate is just shy of 31 Mbps, and I didnt notice any compression artifacts under normal viewing conditions. The image is occasionally a mite jittery and goes briefly wobbly in a couple of shots, probably the result of damage to the original camera negative--the source for this transfer, according to Blue Underground.
Audio comes in twin DTS-HD MA tracks for English and Italian listening, both of them split across the left and right front channels. Although the English-language dub isn't so bad, the track is much brighter than the Italian version, with a higher noise floor and less low end. By contrast, the Italian track is significantly cleaner and the bass elements of Alessandoni's score land with a much more satisfying thump. Subtitles are keyed to the audio tracks, the main subtitle stream providing a SDH transcription of the English dub and the "English for Italian" subtitles generally more closely reflecting the Italian dialogue. French and Spanish subs are here, too.
Also on board the disc is "From the Secret Files of the Vatican", a 14-minute talking-head interview (in standard-def) with Berruti, who discusses the concept for the film (snatched from a newspaper headline about a Belgian nun who worked in a nursing home with an unusually high mortality rate) and notes correctly that the not-really-a-lesbian-scene lesbian scene "didnt cross the line," ascribing his decision to soft-pedal the sex to his respect for Ekberg. He complains about edits that were forced on the picture by its distributor, ruining some parallels he intended to draw between sacred Catholic rites and Gertrude's own drug rituals, and blames the casting of Morra on his producer. ("I couldnt say no in the face of his tears.") The title of this featurette is tongue-in-cheek: it refers to the director's discomfort with marketing tactics designed to make the film more notorious than he would have liked. The slim helping of extras additionally includes Killer Nun's spoiler-filled U.S. trailer (3 mins., 1080p HD).
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Just wondering where the New Releases section of the website can be found now?
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Is China aiding Timor-Leste, or vice versa?
Yesterday, the Macauhub news service published East Timor signs agreements with China for aid and to boost cooperation.The article begins "The government of East Timor Friday in Dili signed two agreements with China for Chinese aid to Eat Timor's development ..." and ends "In 2010 trade between China and East Timor totalled US$43.08 million, which was a year on year rise of 80 percent."
"Eat Timor" in the first sentence may be appropriate. The last sentence is more misleading.
Virtually the entire $43.08 million is partial payment for the ill-fated national electricity project that the government of Timor-Leste is buying from China Nuclear Industry 22nd Construction Company (CNI22).
According to the budget execution report, Timor-Leste spent $89,995,951 on the national electricity project during 2010. Of this, $40 million went to PT Puri Akraya Engineering (PAE, the Indonesian company to which the power stations were reassigned from CNI22 last September) on 30 December, and about $2 million went to ELC/Bonifica, the Italian joint venture which is supervising the construction. The remainder, minus a few thousand dollars in administrative costs, would have been paid to CNI22.
According to ELC/Bonifica, RDTL's payments to CNI22 during 2010 totalled $45.01 million.
If the Macauhub article is correct, there is no trade between Timor-Leste and China other than our Government's purchase of the electricity system from a Chinese company.
Importansia atu estabelese padraun prevensaun ne'ebe maka'as.
Definisaun statutu Funsionariu Publiku la klaru.
Kodigu Penal tenke koresponde ba Lei Anti Korupsaun.
Lei bele foka liu ba korupsaun nivel altu duke korupsaun nivel kiik.
La limita masimu pena multa nian ka aumenta ba $100,000,000.
Estadu iha direitu atu prende eransa koruptor.
Atu hetan informasaun tan, bele liga ba iha ne'e.
Iha 25 Maiu, Konseilu Ministru Timor-Leste nian aprova Dekretu-Lei atu kria Kompania Mina-rai Nasional ho naran Timor GAP, EP (hodi troka naran PETRONATIL). Prezidente Jose Ramos-Horta tenke deside atu promulga ka veta ba Dekretu-Lei ne'e.
Iha nasaun seluk, kompania mina-rai estadu nian ne'e dala barak akompanha ho pratika anti-demokrasia no illegal, korupsaun, estragus ambiental no konsekuensia negative seluk-seluk. La'o Hamutuk fiar katak kria kompania mina-rai nasional sei fo impaktu ba futuru Timor-Leste no tenke halo ho kuidadu, no tuir maneira Konstitusional.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional ne'e perigozu, no ita tenke aprende husi falansu no susesu husi rai seluk.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional tenke estabelese husi lei Parlamentu, laos dekretu lei Governu nian.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional tenke serve povo Timor-Leste.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional tenke tuir regulamentu ba ajensia estadu nian.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional presiza atu transparante no akuntavel.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional tenke dezeinha atu prevene korupsaun.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional labele hetan poder ne'ebe maka'as liu fali saida mak nia hakarak.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional nia lukru tenke ba liu Fundu Petroleu, laos investe deit iha kompania.
Kompania Mina-rai Nasional labele hetan poder atu halo impresta ka fan asoens (bonds)/obligasi.
Tuir ligasaun ida ne'e atu hetan informasaun no analiza tan kona-ba asuntu ne'e.
On 25 May, Timor-Leste's Council of Ministers approved a Decree-Law to create a national oil company (NOC) named Timor GAP, EP (the name has been changed from PETRONATIL). President Jose Ramos-Horta is deciding whether to promulgate or veto this Decree-Law.
In other countries, state-owned oil companies are often accompanied by anti-democratic or illegal practices, corruption, environmental destruction and other negative consequences. La'o Hamutuk believes that creating an NOC will impact on the future of Timor-Leste and must be done in a careful, Constitutional manner.
National oil companies are dangerous, and we should learn from failures as well as successes.
The NOC should be established by Parliamentary law, not decree-law.
The NOC should serve the people of Timor-Leste.
This Decree-Law must be written clearly.
The NOC should follow the rules for state agencies.
The NOC needs to be transparent and accountable.
The NOC should be designed to prevent corruption.
The NOC should not be given more power than it needs.
The NOC's profits must be paid into the Petroleum Fund, not reinvested in the company.
The NOC should not be empowered to borrow or issue bonds.
Follow this link for more information and analysis about this issue.
In April 2011, the Australian auditor Deloitte Touche Tomatsu presented a report on EDTL to the Prime Minister, who delivered it to Parliament on 27 May. Deloitte did not perform a financial audit, but reviewed a number of administrative and technical aspects of the current and future electricity supply in Timor-Leste and made about 50 recommendations.
The report covers EDTL's activities from 2009 through September 2010, and discusses the agency's administrative, financial, procurement, fuel, governance and maintenance problems, as well as how it interacts with the Ministry of Infrastructure, Pakote Referendum contractors and management contractor Manitoba Hydro.
Deloitte also reveals quite a bit about the heavy oil power plants and national electricity grid currently being built by Puri Akraya Engineering, Wartsila and Chinese Nuclear Industry No 22.
La'o Hamutuk has just published Cowboys, Ogres and Donors: A Decade of Corporate Social Responsibility in Practice by Mandy White, who represented Woodside in Timor-Leste in 2007-2008. The paper sharply criticizes Woodside's "ogres at the helm" and "sycophantic senior staff" for taking a Public Relations approach to Social Responsibility, "not making even tokenistic efforts" to develop Timor-Leste. Whyte describes the company's "blundering arrogance" in the negotiations over the Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields: "Woodside steadfastly refused to regard the Timor-Leste Government as a partner in the development of the Sunrise fields, seemingly characterising them not only as a 'thorn in the side,' but also as devious and untrustworthy. ... [D]riving forward to a final investment decision without the Timor-Leste Government demonstrates an arrogant lack of regard for the relationship."
Follow this link for information about the debate over Greater Sunrise.


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Basketball NBA Season: What is Kyrie Irving's contract with the Brooklyn Nets for...
NBA Season: What is Kyrie Irving's contract with the Brooklyn Nets for 2022–2023?
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NBA Season: With the Brooklyn Nets, Kyrie Irving is in the last year of his deal. Before turning free agent, the seven-time All-Star will earn close to $37 million in 2022-2023. As Irving enters the final year of a four-year, $136 million contract, the Nets have been hesitant to offer him a long-term maximum salary extension.
Irving would be qualified for a contract extension worth 35% of the salary cap with the Nets, who still own his Bird rights, as a player with more than ten years of experience. With a rumoured $134 million salary cap for 2023–2024, Irving's starting pay would be roughly $46.9 million if he signed a five-year maximum deal. Additionally, he would be qualified for an 8% salary increase each year of the agreement, bringing the deal's total value to $275 million.
Irving, the 2011–2012 Rookie of the Year, appears set to hit the free agent market in search of his desired contract because the Nets don't seem willing to extend him such a costly deal. As a free agent, Irving would only be qualified to sign a four-year contract worth 30% of the salary cap.
Kyrie Irving would receive $40.2 million in the first year of a max salary contract with a new team if he left the Brooklyn Nets. Without his bird rights, Irving's four-year contract would be worth about $173 million, as the annual increase that a new team would be qualified to give him would be 5%.
Kyrie Irving's future with the Brooklyn Nets is uncertain.
Kyrie Irving has many financial reasons to want to stay with the Brooklyn Nets, but the team hasn't yet given him the contract he wants. However, as his free agency draws closer, the team must take into account the potential effects of his departure on the rest of the roster, especially co-star Kevin Durant.
Durant joined the Nets to play with Irving, but he has already requested to leave Brooklyn after having disagreements with the team. Allowing Durant's best friend, who also happens to be the team's second-best player, to go for a free agency might cause irreparable harm to his rapport with the management.
Brooklyn may or may not offer Irving a maximum deal, but the team does have some negotiating power. They may permit the three-time All-NBA selection to shop around and accept any contract offer he receives while matching or exceeding it. Of course, being tough might result in Irving being forced out of town.
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Content Marketing Most Certainly is Not Dead
By Gini Dietrich January 28, 2016
Yesterday, I was recording a podcast with David Reimherr (which, at the end, we argue about Making a Murderer so stay tuned!) and I told the story of how, when I graduated from college and went into PR, my dad said something along the lines of, "I can't believe you're not going to be a writer."
Fast forward to today and let's just say I figured out how to take that passion and turn it into not only a career, but a business.
And, not only have I figured out how to make it a business, but a pretty, darn good one. Content has become the center of pretty much everything we do.
Heck, this very blog is a great example. Who would have thought, just 10 years ago, we would live in a world where bloggers could write about the things they love and make money doing it, too?
That was reserved for the journalists and everyone else had to rely on them.
No longer! It's a beautiful, beautiful world in which we live.
Where We Are in the Hype Cycle
That's why I get a little frustrated when I hear things such as "content marketing is dead" or "content marketing doesn't work" or "we have content shock and that's why it's not sustainable."
The 2016 Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends research from Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, shows that business-to-business organizations have seen a decrease in the effectiveness (from 38 percent in 2015 to 30 percent in 2016) of content marketing.
This does give great fodder for people brushing it aside and saying it doesn't work. I mean, it decreased by eight percent! But, let's be real, only 38 percent saying it's effective to begin with is still a failing grade.
Yes, I agree we are overly saturated. I agree a good majority of the content isn't good. But that doesn't mean it's dead or doesn't work. It doesn't even mean no one is paying attention.
It means we must do better.
In Joe Pulizzi's editorial for the December issue of Chief Content Officer, he shows the five-step hype cycle that shows the adoption curve of any disruptive technology.
Before last year, we were at the "peak of inflated expectations" level and, starting around the time Mark Schaefer wrote about content shock 18 months ago, we began to hit the "trough of disillusionment," which is where I believe we still sit.
But you can see we'll be coming out of that soon to the "slope of enlightenment" and then to "productivity."
Content Marketing Must Be Honed
It always makes me laugh to hear marketers and executives complain about all the junk in their inboxes, in their RSS feeds, in their Flipboard accounts, and on the web, in general, but when they get behind their computer screens at work they contribute to the gross mess.
They buy lists and spam via email. They only talk about themselves and their latest sale or their latest hire or their latest award. Their content is dull and has no personality. They quote industry experts, but never offer an opinion of their own. They're scared to put anything out there because it might mean their competitors will copy them.
And so we sit in the trough of disillusionment, wondering if all this time and all of those resources around content marketing were worth it.
Sure, that kind of content marketing doesn't work because NO ONE CARES.
Think about the kind of content you read or watch or listen to and can't get enough of.
Let's take the aforementioned Making a Murderer (to the two of you who don't have Netflix, you can watch it for free online with a free month's subscription…chop, chop!).
Tony Gnau wrote a great piece here, not about the show, but about how the video work, the production style, and the storytelling got much, much better with every episode.
If you've seen the show, you likely remember the first episode where people were walking into the camera, the shots weren't set up at all, the lighting was horrendous, and it made you a little motion sick to watch.
In fact, it was so bad, I almost didn't make it to episode three, but kept watching because everyone said, "Just wait until episode four." (And, yes, just wait until episode four.)
The point is that they didn't stop telling the story because they weren't any good at it in the beginning. They told the story because they believed there was something to it and they honed their craft as they went along…and took us with them.
The Slope of Enlightenment is Coming
Every September, I republish our very first blog post both to remind myself how far we've come (I'm really bad at stopping to smell the roses) and to show all of you that overnight success takes years and years of honing your craft.
It's not pretty. In fact, I'm embarrassed just thinking about it.
It's almost as embarrassing as getting your Facebook memories or Timehop mentions from seven years ago when we still spoke about ourselves in third person.
I roll my eyes nearly every day at how bad it was.
But we got better. Though I wouldn't call posting on Facebook a craft, with practice, we all figured out how to use it (and how not to use it).
We will hit the slope of enlightenment with content marketing and it's coming soon.
Be in that 30 percent of organizations that content marketing works for because you've honed your craft, you've put yourself out there, you've told a story people care about, and you didn't give up.


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Martinson, from long experience conceived that this must be a matter of family misconduct—a son, daughter, wife.
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Two men claim that Luke Martinson never had any rights here—that the old Martinson claim to the island was a false one.
Martinson, who had two daughters of his own, observed the suggestive movement.
"A relative of yours—possibly, I suppose," remarked Martinson, tactfully.


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We have never opened the door to The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huang who had the Terracotta army built for himself.
The tomb itself has not yet been excavated. Archaeological explorations currently concentrate on various sites of the extensive necropolis surrounding the tomb, including the Terracotta Army to the east of the tomb mound.[1] The Terracotta Army served as a garrison to the mausoleum and has yet to be completely excavated.[2][3]History Archaeological studies Disputes over possible excavation
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Beginning in 1976, various scholars proposed to explore the underground palace, citing the following main reasons: The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is in a seismic zone, so underground cultural relics need to be unearthed for protection;
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to prevent grave robbery.[18]
However, opponents of such excavations hold that China's current technology is not able to deal with the large scale of the underground palace yet. Many mistakes were made in the case of the Terracotta Warriors. For instance, scientists were unable to preserve the colored Terracotta Warriors, which resulted in the rapid shedding of their painted decoration when exposed to air.[19][20] Also the situation of the underground palace still remains unclear, so any rash digging may cause damage.[21]
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Goaltender Vitek Vanecek gives Devils huge boost between the pipes
New Jersey Devils goaltender Vitek Vanecek celebrates the team's 3-0 win over Chicago Blackhawks in an NHL hockey game Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)
By Mike Ashmore | | For The Trentonian
NEWARK – The game puck from Vitek Vanecek's second shutout of the season sat at his stall as he addressed the media following the New Jersey Devils' 3-0 win over the Chicago Blackhawks at the Prudential Center on Tuesday night.
It will one day serve as a memento of yet another individual accomplishment in a season already full of them for a 26-year-old Czech-born netminder that has far exceeded any expectations put on him after he was acquired in an off-season trade from the Washington Capitals.
Tuesday was not that day.
Asked if he ever expected for things to be going this well this early for him with a new team – he's an All-Star Game candidate thanks to a 2.10 goals against average and .922 save percentage in his first 17 games, and has emerged as the team's unquestioned starter regardless of if or when Mackenzie Blackwood returns – Vanecek responded with the same kind of selfless approach that's been contagious on a team that's once again on top of the National Hockey League standings.
"It's not just me, the team is playing really good," Vanecek said. "Everybody's happy when we're winning, and it's always fun. So, it's not just me, it's the team."
Fair enough. But even the team is pleasantly surprised with how well he's played.
"I'd heard a lot of great things from Washington in saying that we were lucky we were to have him, but I didn't know 'V' to be this good and this competitive and to bring it every day," said defenseman Brendan Smith. "I'm happy for his success because he puts a lot into it, and you've got to tip your cap to him."
Goaltending as a whole has played a big role in the Devils historic run; their 21 wins in their first 26 games is a franchise record, and falls just one shy of tying a league mark that the Boston Bruins set all the way back in the 1929-30 season that was subsequently tied by the San Jose Sharks in 2008-09.
Only the Boston Bruins, who have played two fewer games this season, have allowed fewer goals as a team than the Devils thus far this year, who have given up just 57 over the first third of the year.
"I think you can just look at what both goaltenders have done for us," said head coach Lindy Ruff. "'V,' obviously, has played more games, but Akira (Schmid) stepping in and playing the way he has, both guys have been rock solid for us. You want to talk about the team, they've been a big part of it. They gave us games when we haven't been very good. We've been able to get them some goals the odd night when maybe they let a couple in."
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Situated on the cliffs of Chaweng Noi, nestled amongst tropical foliage and overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, the highly-acclaimed Dr Frogs Bar & Grill commands breath-taking views of the panoramic coastline. The restaurant consists of two covered, open-sided pavilions with wooden decking and fans throughout. The gorgeous view and welcome ocean breeze make it an idyllic spot to sample their renowned authentic Italian or Thai cuisine.
Dr Frogs was established 12 years ago, and has continually been at the forefront of catering to the needs and desires of discerning guests who seek an exceptional and authentic dining experience. Recent developments include a new lounge and bar area, and expansion of the kitchen, which is now under control of the highly talented French-Canadian chef, John DesBiens.
Chef John is half Italian, and credits his Italian grandmother, who passed down all her secret family recipes, for his skill and passion in the kitchen. He owned a number of highly successful restaurants in Vancouver Island, where Dr Frogs hunted him down and made him an offer he couldn't refuse. He brings a wealth of eclectic experience, fusing French techniques with Italian and Thai cuisine.
Of paramount importance to Chef John, is the concept of 'nourishing gently'. This idea refers to a commitment to serving delicious food whilst minimising any negative impacts on the environment. Chef John is careful to use non-genetically modified ingredients, 'Ocean Wise' seafood, organic chicken and natural heirloom vegetables.
Overfishing is currently a huge threat to the world's oceans. Roughly 90 percent of the world's fish stocks are now fully-fished or overfished. Seafood consumption is rising, and so is the need for sustainable and healthy protein sources. Choosing to eat 'Ocean Wise' recommended sustainable seafood helps to relieve the pressure on overfished species and ensures that we will be able to continue enjoying seafood for generations to come.
Heirloom vegetables are naturally open-pollinated; the seeds saved and handed down through multiple generations. They usually cost less than hybrid seeds or the ultra-expensive GMO varieties and always give tastier and more nutritious produce. Chef John works with local farmers to encourage, order, plant, nurture and ensure future non-GMO produce to be available all-year-round.
He loves to go off-menu, and be as flexible as you need him to be, the quirkier, the better! He has already added a number of vegetarian and vegan dishes to the menu, as well as gluten-free pasta dishes. His Canadian upbringing ensures that he encourages teamwork in the kitchen, and focuses on the strengths of his staff. His southern Italian ancestry means absolutely no shortcuts in his cooking methodology!
So what is on the menu? Dr Frogs has an all-day menu, chock full of classic Italian and Thai favourites. Starters, soups, salads, meat and seafood mains, pizza, pasta, risotto and desserts. You might want to start with the Prawns Rockefeller, a Dr Frogs favourite - Sautéed black tiger prawns, feta and baby spinach poached in heavy cream and flambéed to perfection in Sambuca; Pad Prik Ka Gop, a Dr Frogs Classic - Pan-fried frog's legs with chilli paste, garlic, lemongrass and lime. Then maybe try the Maple Whiskey Glazed Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon, Canadian style and served with jasmine rice and heirloom vegetables; Bistecca Con Funghi - Pancetta wrapped Angus fillet on a bed of sautéed mushrooms and shallots served with broccoli and gorgonzola mashed potatoes with heirloom baby carrots and asparagus or the Ribolitta - a Tuscan vegetable stew of baby eggplant, zucchini, kale, carrots, onions, tomato, Italian parsley with chilli flakes, sage and cannellini beans served with rustic focaccia bread.
All the lobster, oysters and mussels, along with prime beef and lamb are imported to maintain freshness and quality. At Dr Frogs, all the stock, sauces and soups are made on site and only the freshest vegetables are used.
There is also a Tapas and Light Bites Lounge menu, offering delights such as Calamari Friti and Baked Meatball Ciabatta, as well as all the pizza combinations that Dr Frogs is famous for.
The extensive wine list includes over 60 high-quality wines at affordable prices. There is a great selection from Italy, France, Argentina, America, Chile, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria and Australia and you can buy many wines by the glass. The bar is extremely well stocked, and has a great selection of specialist whiskies, Grappa and some surprise cocktails.
Songkran (Thai New Year) happens on 13th April, so look-out for some 'special dishes with a twist' this month, inspired by the New Year traditions. With Chef John at the helm, anything could happen! Expect some imaginative interpretations!
Located on the ring road in Chaweng Noi between Boujis Boutique Resort and the viewpoint, and open every day from 7:00 am until 11:00 pm, Dr Frogs comes highly recommended and is the ideal location for your breakfast, lunch or dinner, party or function. It can get busy, particularly in the evenings so ensure you book ahead. On Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday there is live music from 7.30 pm from Samui's favourite resident artists: Oliver Jones, Nok La Fiesta and Mark James.
Delicious and imaginative cuisine sets Dr Frogs apart from the rest. The menu is a perfect balance, offering diners both authentic Italian and traditional Thai cuisine that 'nourishes gently'.


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His understanding of the possibilities of painting was evolving rapidly; from studying Hals he learned to portray the freshness of a visual impression, while the works of Paolo Veronese and Eugène Delacroix taught him that colour can express something by itself. This led to his enthusiasm for Peter Paul Rubens and inspired his sudden departure for Antwerp, Belgium, where the greatest number of Rubens's works could be seen. The revelation of Rubens's mode of direct notation and of his ability to express a mood by a combination of colours proved decisive in the development of van Gogh's style. Simultaneously, van Gogh discovered Japanese prints and Impressionist painting. All these sources influenced him more than the academic principles taught at the Antwerp Academy, where he was enrolled. His refusal to follow the academy's dictates led to disputes, and after three months he left precipitately in 1886 to join Theo in Paris. There, still concerned with improving his drawing, van Gogh met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, and others who were to play historic roles in modern art. They opened his eyes to the latest developments in French painting. At the same time, Theo introduced him to Camille Pissarro, Georges Seurat, and other artists of the Impressionist group.
In November 1959, Van Dyke made his Broadway debut in The Girls Against the Boys. He then played the lead role of Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie, which ran from April 14, 1960, to October 7, 1961. In a May 2011 interview with Rachael Ray, Van Dyke said that when he auditioned for a smaller part in the show he had no experience as a dancer, and that after he sang his audition song he did an impromptu soft-shoe out of sheer nervousness. Gower Champion, the show's director and choreographer, was watching, and promptly went up on stage to inform Van Dyke he had the lead. An astonished Van Dyke protested that he could not dance, to which Champion replied: "We'll teach you". That musical won four Tony awards including Van Dyke's Best Featured Actor Tony, in 1961.[16] In 1980, Van Dyke appeared as the title role in the first Broadway revival of The Music Man.[17]
Between February and April 1890 Van Gogh suffered a severe relapse. Depressed and unable to bring himself to write, he was still able to paint and draw a little during this time,[168] and he later wrote to Theo that he had made a few small canvases "from memory ... reminisces of the North".[169] Among these was Two Peasant Women Digging in a Snow-Covered Field at Sunset. Hulsker believes that this small group of paintings formed the nucleus of many drawings and study sheets depicting landscapes and figures that Van Gogh worked on during this time. He comments that this short period was the only time that Van Gogh's illness had a significant effect on his work.[170] Van Gogh asked his mother and his brother to send him drawings and rough work he had done in the early 1880s so he could work on new paintings from his old sketches.[171] Belonging to this period is Sorrowing Old Man ("At Eternity's Gate"), a colour study Hulsker describes as "another unmistakable remembrance of times long past".[90][172] His late paintings show an artist at the height of his abilities, according to the art critic Robert Hughes, "longing for concision and grace".[114]
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Alongside Angela Lansbury, Norman Lloyd, William Daniels, Christopher Lee, Mickey Rooney, Ernest Borgnine, Betty White, Edward Asner, Adam West, Marla Gibbs, William Shatner, Larry Hagman, Florence Henderson, Shirley Jones, Hal Linden and Alan Alda, Van Dyke is one of the few actors in Hollywood who lives into their 80s and/or 90s without ever either retiring from acting or having stopped getting work.
Van Gogh's stylistic developments are usually linked to the periods he spent living in different places across Europe. He was inclined to immerse himself in local cultures and lighting conditions, although he maintained a highly individual visual outlook throughout. His evolution as an artist was slow, and he was aware of his painterly limitations. He moved home often, perhaps to expose himself to new visual stimuli, and through exposure develop his technical skill.[224] Art historian Melissa McQuillan believes the moves also reflect later stylistic changes, and that Van Gogh used the moves to avoid conflict, and as a coping mechanism for when the idealistic artist was faced with the realities of his then current situation.[225]
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During this period Van Gogh mastered the use of light by subjugating shadows and painting the trees as if they are the source of light – almost in a sacred manner.[252] Early the following year he painted another smaller group of orchards, including View of Arles, Flowering Orchards.[254] Van Gogh was enthralled by the landscape and vegetation of the south of France, and often visited the farm gardens near Arles. In the vivid light of the Mediterranean climate his palette significantly brightened.[255]
The same thing happened at the Church of Belgium: In the winter of 1878, van Gogh volunteered to move to an impoverished coal mine in the south of Belgium, a place where preachers were usually sent as punishment. He preached and ministered to the sick, and also drew pictures of the miners and their families, who called him "Christ of the Coal Mines."
His film work affected his TV career: the reviews he received for his role as D.A. Fletcher in Dick Tracy led him to star as the character Dr. Mark Sloan first in an episode of Jake and the Fatman, then in a series of TV movies on CBS that became the foundation for his popular television drama Diagnosis: Murder. The series ran from 1993 to 2001 with son Barry Van Dyke co-starring in the role of Dr. Sloan's son Lieutenant Detective Steve Sloan. Also starring on the same show was daytime soap actress Victoria Rowell as Dr. Sloan's pathologist/medical partner, Dr. Amanda Bentley, and Charlie Schlatter in the role of Dr. Sloan's student, Dr. Jesse Travis.[29] Van Dyke continued to find television work after the show ended, including a dramatically and critically successful performance of The Gin Game, produced for television in 2003 that reunited him with Mary Tyler Moore. In 2003, he portrayed a doctor on Scrubs. A 2004 special of The Dick Van Dyke Show titled The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited was heavily promoted as the first new episode of the classic series to be shown in 38 years. Van Dyke and his surviving cast members recreated their roles; although nominated for a Primetime Emmy,[30][31][better source needed] the program was roundly panned by critics. In 2006 he guest-starred as college professor Dr. Jonathan Maxwell for a series of Murder 101 mystery films on the Hallmark Channel.
Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime, and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge".[6] His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists. He attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist. Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings to have ever sold at auction, and his legacy is honoured by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings.
After his recovery, and despite his antipathy towards academic teaching, he took the higher-level admission exams at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and in January 1886 matriculated in painting and drawing. He became ill and run down by overwork, poor diet and excessive smoking.[99] He started to attend drawing classes after plaster models at the Antwerp Academy on 18 January 1886. He quickly got into trouble with Charles Verlat, the director of the Academy and teacher of a painting class, because of his unconventional painting style. Van Gogh had also clashed with the instructor of the drawing class Franz Vinck. Van Gogh finally started to attend the drawing classes after antique plaster models given by Eugène Siberdt. Soon Siberdt and Van Gogh came into conflict when the latter did not comply with Siberdt's requirement that drawings express the contour and concentrate on the line. When Van Gogh was required to draw the Venus of Milo during a drawing class, he produced the limbless, naked torso of a Flemish peasant woman. Siberdt regarded this as defiance against his artistic guidance and made corrections to Van Gogh's drawing with his crayon so vigorously that he tore the paper. Van Gogh then flew into a violent rage and shouted at Siberdt: 'You clearly do not know what a young woman is like, God damn it! A woman must have hips, buttocks, a pelvis in which she can carry a baby!' According to some accounts this was the last time Van Gogh attended classes at the Academy and he left later for Paris.[100] On 31 March 1886, which was about a month after the confrontation with Siberdt, the teachers of the Academy decided that 17 students, including Van Gogh, had to repeat a year. The story that Van Gogh was expelled from the Academy by Siberdt is therefore unfounded.[101]
As an a cappella enthusiast, he has sung in a group called "Dick Van Dyke and The Vantastix" since September 2000. The quartet has performed several times in Los Angeles as well as on Larry King Live, The First Annual TV Land Awards, and sang the national anthem at three Los Angeles Lakers games including a nationally televised NBA Finals performance on NBC. Van Dyke was made an honorary member of the Barbershop Harmony Society in 1999.[43]
Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925, in West Plains, Missouri,[4] to Hazel Victoria (née McCord; 1896 – 1992), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne "Cookie" Van Dyke (1898–1976), a salesman.[5][6][7] He grew up in Danville, Illinois. He is the older brother of actor Jerry Van Dyke (1931–2018), who is best known for a role on the TV series Coach. Van Dyke has Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry,[8] with a family line that traces back to Mayflower passenger John Alden.[9]
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On March 16, 1966, at 704 East Broadway in Anaheim, California, brothers Paul Van Doren and James Van Doren and Gordon C. Lee opened the first Vans store under the name The Van Doren Rubber Company.[5] The business manufactured shoes and sold them directly to the public. On that first morning, twelve customers purchased Vans deck shoes, which are now known as "Authentic". The company displayed three styles of shoes, which were priced between US$2.49 and US$4.99, but on the opening day, the company had only manufactured display models without any inventory ready to sell—the store rack boxes were actually empty.[6]
The album "Songs I Like By Dick Van Dyke" was recorded on Friday, November 22, 1963. Early in the recording session, the artists and orchestra were informed of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. In spite of the tragic news, and a deadline from Command Records that had to be met, the recording session continued to a successful conclusion - albeit in an emotionally-charged atmosphere. He said that he scarcely remembers the session because he was in such a state of shock after hearing the news.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 into a Dutch Reformed family in Groot-Zundert, in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands.[16] He was the oldest surviving child of Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Van Gogh was given the name of his grandfather, and of a brother stillborn exactly a year before his birth.[note 2] Vincent was a common name in the Van Gogh family: his grandfather, Vincent (1789–1874), who received a degree in theology at the University of Leiden in 1811, had six sons, three of whom became art dealers. This Vincent may have been named after his own great-uncle, a sculptor (1729–1802).[18]
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From 1961 to 1966, Van Dyke starred in the CBS sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show, in which he portrayed a comedy writer named Rob Petrie. Originally the show was supposed to have Carl Reiner as the lead but CBS insisted on recasting and Reiner chose Van Dyke to replace him in the role.[21] Complementing Van Dyke was a veteran cast of comic actors including Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Richard Deacon, and Carl Reiner (as Alan Brady), as well as 23-year-old Mary Tyler Moore, who played Rob's wife Laura Petrie. Van Dyke won three Emmy Awards as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, and the series received four Emmy Awards as Outstanding Comedy Series.[23]


The Lowering Emissions in Asia's Forests (LEAF) program is a five year programme funded by the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA). The programme's goal is to strengthen the capacity of target countries to achieve meaningful and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry-land use sector, and so allow them to benefit from the emerging international REDD+ framework.
To meet its goal, the Programme employs a regional approach, collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders, partners and regional organizations to implement and/or support sub-national interventions in six countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea and Malaysia) and sharing lessons learned and best practices to scale-up innovation in and/or from potentially six other countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines).