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DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12044
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Buchholz, T., Friedland, A. J., Hornig, C. E., Keeton, W. S., Zanchi, G. and Nunery, J. (2014), Mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments. GCB Bioenergy, 6: 305–311. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12044
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Joseph Sassoon: The Ba'th Party documents provide a treasure trove that allows us to understand how authoritarian regimes function and how the Iraqi system was sustained for thirty-five years in spite of wars and sanctions. I was intrigued by the ability to delve into those primary sources to find out how the different organs of the regime operated. For example, among the collection, there are almost two thousand files of the Special Security Organization (jihaz al-amn al-khas), which was, in effect, the security service that watched the other security services and the senior officials and army officers. This organization, headed by Saddam Hussein's second son, Qusay, kept files on every senior official and all those close to the President or those who worked in the presidential palaces. By examining those files, we can come to understand how regimes such as Saddam Hussein's in the past, or the Syrian regime in the present, function. Controlling the population took many forms and the book looks at how the system operated.
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Excerpt from Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime
The uniqueness of the Ba'th regime is that in spite of the turbulent path it followed for thirty-five years it managed to survive against all odds. This book reveals how the Ba'th Party systematically penetrated every stratum of society and built an impressive political machine more powerful than any other group in Iraq, which drew large numbers of people into its sphere of influence. While using extreme violence and terror against its citizens, the regime created a notable parallel system of rewards for its supporters and succeeded in underscoring the necessity and importance of universal support. Another distinctive characteristic was flexibility; Saddam Hussein did not hesitate to change a policy even if it meant a complete reversal of his declared beliefs and actions. He did so in regard to tribalism, religion, and the status of women, and this trait was both his strength and his weakness.
In Iraq, the party was one of three pillars of government, together with the military and the bureaucracy, but it was the most important. This differed from the contemporaneous Ba'th regime in Syria, where the army was far more central because of the military background of the party's leaders. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein deliberately weakened the military as part of his coup-proofing, and the party became the essential core of the political system's command and control. The ideological domination of the armed forces began immediately after the party seized power on July 30, 1968, and the party machinery soon operated in all military ranks. Historically, Iraq had developed a competent civil service that managed day-to-day administration, although the party slowly but surely crept into this bureaucracy and succeeded in bending it to serve its own political ends. Remarkably, the state bureaucracy continued to function during the decades of instability, even though the senior management of every ministry fell into the hands of Ba'thists. By the early 1980s, bolstered by his personality cult, Saddam Hussein had become the final decision maker on almost every important issue. Although the presidential diwan became a center for processing data before decisions were made, the party stayed involved at all levels and orchestrated the execution of major decisions made by Saddam Hussein and the RCC.
Yet the centralization of power and Saddam Hussein's dominating personality cannot on their own explain the regime's durability. Its underlying strength was derived from the remarkable symbiosis that developed between the leader and the party, which kept the regime functioning in spite of its several disastrous decisions. Saddam Hussein was very shrewd at manipulating the rivalries between different blocs of the Ba'th while concentrating state power in his own hands. But he saw the need for a central narrative that could unify as well as control the population, and for an apparatus to create a personality cult that would elevate him to untouchable status. Thus, failures were always blamed on others, never on the president, and even by 2003 there were no signs of a fundamental change in the regime's potency or influence.
[Excerpted from Joseph Sassoon, Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime. © Joseph Sassoon 2012. Excerpted by permission of the author. For more information, or to purchase this book, click here.]
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The troubled eurozone continued to experience turmoil as Moody's downgraded 28 Spanish banks and Cyprus requested a bailout that could amount to more than half its economy.
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2006 Intel Annual Report2006 was a tough year financially for Intel, but a great year for product introductions. We faced increasing competition, and our revenue declined due to greater than normal pricing pressure. Although we ended the year on a strong note and reported our 20th consecutive year of profitability, our 2006 revenue of $35.4 billion was down 9%, and our operating profit of $5.7 billion was down 53% compared to 2005. We responded during the year by launching a comprehensive structure and efficiency review, and by implementing a broad restructuring effort aimed at cutting costs and creating a more nimble, customer-oriented Intel. We also accelerated the introduction of new products, leading the industry into an era of energy-efficient, multi-core computing and ending the year with one of the strongest product lineups in our history.Taking action for the long termOur restructuring process includes cutting non-essential programs and improving organizational breadth and depth. These actions contributed to an overall decline in headcount of 8,400 from mid-2006 to the end of the year, and we expect headcount to decline by an additional 2,100 by mid-2007.To sharpen our focus on our core businesses, we also divested several operations, including certain assets of our communications and application processor business. This action impacted the future utilization of Fab 23 in Colorado, which has been put up for sale.We also made public an innovative process for sustained technology leadership in microprocessors wherein we plan to introduce a new microarchitecture approximately every two years and ramp the next generation of silicon process technology in the intervening years, giving us a roadmap for continuous improvement in our major product lines. We expect that these combined actions will improve our competitive position significantly over the next decade, and will save Intel approximately $2 billion in 2007 and about $3 billion annually beginning in 2008.Read the full 2006 Intel Annual Report.
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Unless you actually bought shares on day one (and didn't heed Ken Fisher's classic advice: "IPO means It's Probably Overpriced"), there are more interesting things to note about the FB offering.
It's the first ever (that I can find, that also isn't something exceptional like coming out from under government ownership) IPO debuting bigger than the weighted average market cap of global markets. This is truly amazing—a big cap growth company IPO! It beats Google, it even beats zingers like EDS back in the go-go days.
This speaks volumes about the likely shift in market leadership from small value to big growth and quality, which in my view probably goes on for some time as the bull market enters later phases.
Fisher Investments on Twitter
As a follow up to the post I did about Twitter May 12, 2011, my company, Fisher Investments, recently announced its foray into social media. An excerpt from the announcement:
"Fisher Investments is beginning with some of the most widely-used social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. Through its YouTube channel, Fisher Investments showcases a number of videos, including educational clips, market commentary by CEO Ken Fisher, and roundtable discussions with the firm's investment decision makers. Flickr is a photo sharing site with photos of the company work environment. OnFacebook and Twitter, Fisher Investments streams snippets of content from its MarketMinder website and Fisher Investments Press book series." The full announcement from Fisher Investments can be found here:http://www.pr.com/press-release/327363
It will be interesting to follow how other financial services companies, hedge fund managers and the like utilize this relatively new technology in the future. You can also follow Investing IQ on Twitter.
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David Brooks in the NYT recently wrote about an ebook that's getting some buzz: The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen.
I read it last night and can't for the life of me tell why it's gotten any notoriety other than it's a first entry in the new phenomenon of shorter books (or, perhaps, longer essays) being published as ebooks and sold for a few bucks. This "invention" is being touted by Amazon and others, and is a good thing—most nonfiction books these days are about 40% too long but editors pad them so they seem more substantial. The essay is the right form for most business and economic non-fiction these days. So I applaud Cowen for being a pioneer here.
As for the book itself, it ultimately amounts to another in a long and great tradition of Americans telling each other how we've gone wrong as a society/economy. You've got to love it: it's the hallmark of a strong and great people that openly derides itself. But there are oodles of books out there telling us how bad we are right now, and they're all mostly myopic to the present moment even if they claim not to be. (For instance, Cowen claims we've been on a multi-decade run of decline in creating jobs, but forgets that US unemployment was at or near historical lows for most of the last decade.) Reading this book, you'd have no sense that US GDP is already back at inflation adjusted new all-time highs, that global stocks are ~100% off their lows, or that the US is leading the developed world's growth right now. To Cowen, we're not innovating, we're not really productive— Stuff like iPods and smartphones, Facebook and other social media, though they're catching on like wildfire globally and were created on US soil, are written off as not really useful for society.
With all due respect to Mr. Cowen, the fallacy of this kind of thinking is easy to see when you realize the basic fact that the US is a developed economy—in fact the most developed in the world! It's not a matter of "eating the low-hanging fruit" anymore—that's precisely what developed economies are supposed to do, and we did it very well thank you very much. Cowen compares now to times like the 1890s. Why? We're a service based economy now, still innovating better than basically anywhere. You're not going to get huge swaths of folks rising precipitously in standard of living brackets because our country is already way high as it is.
Cowen ultimately offers something of an optimistic view about the far-flung future. That's good, but if you want to see a more optimistic future, I still contend Matt Ridley's Rational Optimist is second to none. It's far better to recognize the most recent recession—bad and deep as it was and still with lingering effects (like high unemployment)—was still an example of the cyclical nature of free economies and markets.
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Anonymous visitor tracking is the process by which a company tracks the visitors to its website, in order to glean commercially relevant information as to the identity of those visitors.
In July 2013 Matt Goulart of Ignite Digital claimed that an effort to identify anonymous visitors to corporate or sales websites had become commonplace.[1] One service, Paradot, tracks the IP address of each visitor to a website and then performs a reverse DNS lookup in order to see if a host name with valid information is found—other than a general telecom host.[2] This has been used by some companies to track visitors to their website and create a lead profile from those visitor for the company's sales.[3] Other services place anonymous cookies on the computers of the individuals that visit a corporate website, which allows longterm tracking of customers by alerting companies to repeat visitors and their usage patterns via an interaction with that cookie.[4]
A similar process used by Google is "goal tracking", which provides intermediary pages between clicking on a weblink and reaching the actual website, which ask for personal identifying information. This can be used to add to the personal information derived from anonymous visitor tracking results.[5] More recent methods include the attachment to a unique visitor ID to incoming IP addresses, regardless of whether they sign up for an official account with a website, in order to track their behavior in a similar manner.[6]
In 2008, Martin Jeffers patented software, "wherein the visitor information includes at least an IP address of the visitor and a query string; determining an entity associated with the IP address; determining at least one person associated with the entity; gathering contact information associated with the at least one person; and providing the contact information to the user when the contact information meets a pre-defined criterion of the user."[7] In January 2014 two inventors filed for a patent that described a further evolution of tracking, writing that with their system, "the host system creates a spectrum of fan engagement ('like' to 'buy') with quantity and value with a unique combination of data which may include but is not limited to anonymous visitor tracking, host account tracking, and data from Social Network graphs on host account holders."[8]
- ^ Adam Tanner (July 1, 2013). "Here are Some Companies Who Unmask Anonymous Web Visitors (And Why They Do It)". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "Anonymous Visitor Tracking". Salesforce. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "Now Get More Leads". VisitorTrack. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "Anonymous visitor tracking". Etrigue. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ Sarah Milstein, J. D. Biersdorfer, and Matthew MacDonald (2006). Google: The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ Stephan A. Miller (2012). Piwik Web Analytics Essentials. Packt Publishing. p. 226. Retrieved April 9, 2014.
- ^ "SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING CONTACT INFORMATION FROM WEBSITE TRAFFIC STATISTICS". Retrieved April 11, 2014.
- ^ "Researchers Submit Patent Application, "System and Method of Analyzing User Engagement Activity in Social Media Campaigns", for Approval". Politics & Government Week. February 6, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2014.


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The An Post Heritage Cycle Tour returns to Meath for a sixth year on the 26th & 27th July. New to the event this year are the 3 hills of Meath as part of the 100k – Tara, Skryne and Slane; with the challenging climbs around Loughanlea Mountain being included in the 160k distance. Those [...]
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In worm school, the children learn things like "once bitten, two worms" and "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you should be put before a war crimes tribunal". And every young worm knows the old adage "Worms who'd be great, all should sleep late".
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A Kiss Before Lying
Caleb and the girls notice a fake i.d. belonging to a dark-haired Alison in the video from A's cellphone. Although they try to keep the information to themselves, Hanna finds out and is hurt that everyone lied to her about Caleb's continued involvement. She eventually forgives her friends and boyfriend and also confesses to Caleb that someone has been using information about her mother's bank theft to keep her under control. Hanna also remembers that she saw Alison with the brunette wig once at a salon, except Ali called herself Vivian Darkbloom. Spencer googles the name, finding a connection to the book Lolita and a mysterious claim ticket in Ali's copy of the book.
Meanwhile, Kate comes to Rosewood causing Spencer to remember meeting her years before when she had an unfortunate skin condition. Spencer promises not to tell anyone, but by the episode's end A sends out an text from Hanna's phone that includes a naked picture of Kate.
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We know to important things about A.... 1. A HAS been a student at Rosewood High... I would've said Melissa, because that would have been so perfect, but... 2. A is born in 1994 Jenna.... being blind is not running though the woods... and she's still in school. Ali's twin sister... if she exists and went to Rosewood High, S, M, E and A would know about her... which leads us to ...Paige. She's definately got the rage thing down and is athletic enough. MK said something about A being a woman, so who else is there?
Remember when Mona said she lost her fake ID, but got a new one from a friend? Didn't Maya say her fake ID was taken last week? Even if it was only by her parents, I'm betting that's the ID Mona got ahold of, the question is how? Furthermore, what are the implications of this?
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Article first published online: 3 JUN 2011
DOI: 10.1029/EO062i018p00477-03
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President Ronald Reagan recently said he intended to nominate James Montgomery Beggs as NASA Administrator and John V. Byrne as NOAA Administrator. These two positions are key scientific posts that have been vacant since the start of the Reagan administration on January 20. The President also said he intends to nominate Hans Mark as NASA Deputy Administrator. At press time, Reagan had not designated his nominee for the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.


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Calderon is now wearing a walking boot on his left foot after re-straining his Achilles tendon in Boston on Wednesday and will undergo testing either Friday or Saturday to gauge the severity of the injury. If so, the point guard could have played his last game with the Knicks. Asked if he felt his Achilles could be torn, Calderon, who has been bothered by pain there for a couple of weeks, said, "I hope no. I don't think so. I don't think it's something like that. I think just a little tweak and maybe re-aggravated it a little bit. That's why the pain is a little sharper than it's been. We'll see our doctors [Friday] and figure out and see if it's something more or not, and we go from there.' New York Post
Jose Manuel Calderon: Sad day seeing my friend @Pablo Prigioni go but happy he is heading into a good situation. Good luck!!! http://t.co/CT0vRS3wlh Twitter @JmCalderon3
Tina Cervasio: Calderon said he'd be lying if a trade wasn't on his mind during practice. But in doesn't bother him, happens every year this hour. #Knicks Twitter @TinaCervasio
Steve Popper: Calderon and Hardaway are practicing for Knicks. Goran Dragic is not. Twitter @StevePopper
Jose Manuel Calderon: Only spent a few months with him as a teammate but was great. Thanks for your help. Good luck on your next destination. @Amare Stoudemire Twitter @JmCalderon3
"When you're close to somebody like I am with those two guys, you feel really special," said Knicks guard Jose Calderon, a longtime teammate of the Gasols on the Spanish national team. "We've been working together and playing together for so many years, so it's like a brother, like family. I think it's really great for Spanish basketball, for Spain, even for the NBA. You've got two brothers starting for two different conferences. I don't know if that is going to happen again in basketball." Associated Press
One of the observers said that Calderon is the only keeper on the roster, not because he's played well — he hasn't — since coming over in the Chandler trade, but dealing away one of the few professionals left on the roster just opens another hole. "His money is not crazy," the executive said. "It's a decent, fair contract and you can say, 'I have my point guard,' and address other positions because every one other than Carmelo is a problem." Bergen Record
"It can happen," Calderon said before Wednesday's practice at O2 Arena. "Why are you going to be surprised? They're changing stuff. I don't know what's really on their minds right now. I have no idea what's going to happen. It's the NBA. It's a business. They have a plan. They really want that cap space. That's why they made some of the moves. It can happen again." Newsday
Team president Phil Jackson has started dealing veterans to clear cap space, and said "no one should be surprised" by what the Knicks do before the Feb. 19 trade deadline. Calderon is a prime candidate to be dealt since he makes $15.1 million over the next two years. "It can happen," Calderon said before Wednesday's practice at O2 Arena. "Why are you going to be surprised? They're changing stuff. I don't know what's really on their minds right now. I have no idea what's going to happen. It's the NBA. It's a business. They have a plan. They really want that cap space. That's why the made some of the moves. It can happen again." Newsday
Acquired in June in the eight-player trade that sent Tyson Chandler and Raymond Felton to Dallas, Calderon has had a disappointing season. The veteran point guard is averaging 9.2 points and 4.7 assists. But he said until something changes he will consider himself part of the future. "I came here thinking I was part of it," Calderon said. "I'm still thinking about it. It's nothing different yet. So I'm still part of it." Newsday
The New York Knicks are actively trying to trade veterans Jose Calderon and Andrea Bargnani as part of their ongoing roster clearout, according to league sources. ESPN.com
Calderon, meanwhile, has no shortage of admirers around the league despite his struggles this season, averaging a mere 9.3 points per game on 40.8-percent shooting. But the two years left on his contract after this season -- worth $15.1 million -- could make it difficult to move the 33-year-old Spaniard, who arrived in New York in late June as the Knicks' foremost return in the Tyson Chandler deal with Dallas. Sources say Bargnani, meanwhile, is a candidate to be waived next month if New York can't find a deal for the former No. 1 overall pick and his $11.5 million expiring contract before the Feb. 19 deadline for deals. ESPN.com
"I think or I hope nobody on the team wants to quit. We're going to have to play until the end. I don't care if it's 5-and-100. We have to go out there every night and play hard," Calderon said after the Knicks lost for the 13th time in 14 games. "We're trying to build something. We're trying to get something done here. We don't know what's going to happen, what the future is going to be for us or even what is going to happen tomorrow after all that's going on in the NBA. New York Daily News
"I think Calderon is going to be a huge boost," Anthony said. "I really like his game and I think he's going to be a really good fit in that system. He obviously can shoot the basketball, spaces the floor well, has a really high basketball IQ, he's really good at the pick-and-roll. All those things bode well and he also knows how to play without basketball, which you do more and more within that triangle." New York Post
Al Iannazzone: Knicks say Carmelo, Amar'e and Prigioni had recovery days, and Calderon and Bargnani didn't practice. Twitter @Al_Iannazzone
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I am originally from Sulawesi Island it's another part of Indonesian region.
I come for the first time to Gili T for holiday and instantly love the island.
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Lovely villa, lovely staff, lovely bed. However, location is slightly further, though good for people who want to be away from the main noises etc. Bicycles are provided free, so best if your group can cycle well especially in the dark when coming back at night. Other than that, the area is nice, well kept, just that at night it becomes too much of a mosquito infested area by the pool. The staff were great and provided us with mosquito repellent. Breakfast is slightly disappointing as the previous reviewer had written. Could be much better! Many thanks again to the staff & we will be back again! :D
Mixed feelings... We had a nice stay at villa Ottalia. The villa and pool was really graet and it was soo far from the east cost beach, that you (almost) couldn't hear any music from all the party that is taking place on this Island. Traveling with a baby, that was nice. Since the villa is on the middel of the island, it is great, that there are bikes available for free - you really need one. The food though, was really disapointing! The breakfast was soo poor, that we had breakfast every day at an awesome café called "kayu" - even though breakfast was included. With that standart and with that price you pay, I think villa Ottalia could and should do much better! It was just to expensive for just the room, even though it was nice. We had some trouble with the aircondition since it was placed just above the headboard of the bed. Eather it was to cold or to warm - so we woke up many times during the night to switch it on or of, and actually ended up with sleeping "with the head at the end of the bed". Beside that I had some trouble with my laundry. They didn't use the soap, I had brought and asked them to and they "burned" holes in my calvin Klein underwar, because they tried to iron it. The staff appologised a lot and they refound 50% of the value, but it was just a bad experince. All in all it was an ok stay, but for the money you pay, it should be better than just ok!
Hendra and the team at Les Villa Ottalia did a superb job during our two stays on Gili T. The 1 bedroom villas were very comfortable and just what we had hoped for on our honeymoon. The property's location is a little far inland but they provide you with free use of their numerous bicycles to get to/from the main strip. Would definitely visit them again on my next visit to Gili Trawangan!!!
What a fabulous experience! My friend and I arrived by fastboat, and Hendra had arranged a horse cart to bring us to the Villa. We passed the madness of the main strip, and went inland a bit and arrived in this gorgeous retreat. We LOVED our room, private pool with really comfy beanbag chairs. Great Air Con, shower, etc. There are a ton of bicycles, and we got around (and back to the main strip) via bike. Hendra and the team were wonderful, warm hosts, and made our trip fantastic. I dream of coming back!
I booked the villa for 6 nights as part of a recent holiday in Bali & Lombok & the days spent on Gili T corresponded with my husbands 50th birthday. Hendra was very helpful during my initial enquiries about staying & with the booking itself which i appreciated.we arrived & met the lovely manager Eva who continued through our stay to show great professionalism & care for her guests & I found all staff to be warm,welcoming & professional.the villa was not exactly what I expected having thought it was just one villa & not realising it was part of a developed site of multiple villas.they are very clean & comfortable.i think it would help for the floors to be sealed as they would stay cleaner feeling.i would imagine also that some people might find the pool hard to get out of & a step or ladder would be helpful. I think this accommodation is expensive enough to warrant breakfast & drinking water being included as standard. whilst I found Gili T to have problems that I will review on Tripadvisor I think people will enjoy the efforts made with these villas to create a beautiful (website hidden) prepared for a bike ride to access any part of the coast as advised by others.its sandy & potholed. we also found the development of the site meant it was very noisy at the time we were there with work including the use of power tools starting early & going on till (website hidden) I'm sure the workers are only paid when they work I understand the predicament however a reduced accommodation rate at this time would be reasonable.Eva was very apologetic about this. if you are heading to the Gilis I can recommend the place highly for the staff & the real concern & caring for the guests shown by everyone however do bear in mind my comments here if you feel they would be of concern to yourself.
Les Villas Ottalia is THE place to stay on Gili Trawangan! Beautiful villas with detail to attention and very friendly and helpful staff. This is the perfect location to stay a bit away from the busier locations but still close enough to get there within a short bike-ride. If we come back to Trawangan then we will definitely stay at Les Villas Ottalia again!
I really enjoyed my stay at Villas Ottalia. The villa is tastefully decorated / furnished, fully equipped (simple kitchen, fridge, rain showed, very comfortable bed, private swimmingpool, free bikes, lounge bed in garden) and spotless clean. I have stayed in many locations, but this is one of the best experiences. The location is perfectly situated just off the busy strip in Trawangan east side. About 5 minutes by bike from the beach. Close to many snorkeling spots and good reataurants. I can only reccommend this location to anyone looking for a perfect spot to stay on Trawangan. It's a peaceful heaven to stay ;-) .. Thanks for everything Hendra and the whole crew!
Les Villa Otalia was wonderful. Beautiful, comfortable, private. The stuff were simple lovely and helpful. Recommended!
Les Villa Ottalia was honestly amazing. It was my first time to Gili T and my first time using Airbnb and I couldnt have hoped for a better outcome. It was so easy to get from the harbor to Les Villa Ottalia and every local knows where it is, the owner also owns some of the restaurants down by the beach. Once we arrived at our villa we were welcomed with welcome drinks and shown to our villa and also shown all the amenities and how to work everything. It's very nice and quiet, and the grounds are well kept its beautiful! I cant say how much of a difference it makes to be able to get free bicycles as well! we biked everywhere! everyone is so lovely and i have recommended this spot to everyone who is planning on going to Gili T. well worth it!!
What can I say a paradise, I have stayed in many a motel, villas in indonesia for the last 2 years, this lil bungalow what everything and more than we expected. It was exceptionally clean, the staff were fantastic, nothing was ever a bother for them.Eva is the manager and is a credit to this company. Meet stefan the owner he took time to sit and speak with us and show us around the development, credit to you both and to all your staff. This is a very highly rated place to stay .perfect for romance. Thankyou guys for your hospitality .we will def be back and have told many people about it. Dont change a thing!


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"Joe the King" isn't your usual coming-of-age tale. The movie's 14-year-old hero doesn't get the girl. His experiences growing up in the '70s aren't nostalgic. And his role models are non-existent. What makes Joe memorable is his tenacious spirit, something emphasized by this film's unsentimental approach to his vulnerability. Frank Whaley, an actor making his writing-directing debut, has cast this indie feature with some stars, although the true standout is Noah Fleiss in the title role. From the opening sequence, it's clear that Joe is one of those troubled kids destined for the detention center. In a cameo as a monstrous school teacher, Camryn Manheim proceeds to pull down Joe's pants and spank him in front of his peers after he refuses to acknowledge his father's occupation as the school janitor. Home life isn't getting any better for the youngster. Val Kilmer co-stars as the boy's drunken and abusive dad, and Karen Young plays his absentee mother, who works too much to watch over her family. The boy's closest companion is an older brother (Max Ligosh) who'd rather spend time with his own pals and girlfriends. Ethan Hawke plays a guidance counselor trying to interest Joe in something more substantial than comic books. And John Leguizamo co-stars as the teen's closest thing to an adult friend, a scheming employee at the restaurant where he washes dishes. It would be tempting simply to feel sorry for young Joe. When he's not being berated by his intoxicated pop, he's hounded to cough up the money his dad owes some of the town's less-than-stellar citizens. His employers at the restaurant like to call him all sorts of colorful profanities, and the authorities think he's a criminal in training. But filmmaker Whaley has other designs for his protagonist. For one thing, Joe is a skillful and intelligent petty thief, able to steal candy for his classmates as easily as he pulls off heists to pay for valuables his father has destroyed. Joe's never a total victim, or innocent. The youngster initiates several small crimes, and spends little time trying to channel his energy into more socially acceptable efforts. With pathos, longing and keen instinct, Fleiss endows the young king of the streets with a certain nobility and sadness. Despite his father's abusive behavior, Joe is shown to care deeply about him, just as Joe cares about his mother and brother. The filmmaker's refusal to sentimentalize the boy's nature allows him to develop within a dysfunctional dynamic. At times, Whaley's determination to keep things as raw as possible comes across as hip cynicism, and the film's brutal secondary characters are drawn especially starkly. And although Kilmer conveys the beer-bellied force his role requires, his performance doesn't delve beneath the surface of a man whose destructive tendencies overwhelm his better notions. Leguizamo and Hawke are more affecting in their minor roles, and Young, as Joe's mother, is able to convey both exasperation and affection for her children. Complimenting his smart performance is Whaley's understated direction. As with the screenplay, the filmmaker and his collaborators choose not to lard their drama with unnecessary flourishes. The music by Robert Whaley and Anthony Grimaldi is spare and introspective, which perfectly complements Michael Mayers' simple, effective cinematography. Anchored by Fleiss' strong performance, the film captures a slice of growing up rarely seen in today's adolescent films, and one that's genuinely moving. * MPAA rating: R for language and abusive situations concerning a child. 'Joe the King' Noah Fleiss: Joe Henry Val Kilmer: Bob Karen Young: Theresa Ethan Hawke: Guidance Counselor A 49th Parallel Productions/Forensic-391 Films/Lower East Side Films production; distributed by Trimark Pictures. Director Frank Whaley. Producers Robin O'Hara & Scott Macaulay and Jennifer Dewis & Lindsay Marx. Executive producer Janet Grillo and John Leguizamo. Screenplay Frank Whaley. Cinematographer Michael Mayers. Editors Melody London and Miran Miosic. Costumes Richard Owings. Music Robert Whaley & Anthony Grimaldi. Production designer Dan Ouellette. Art director Mylene Santos. Set dresser Bernadette Jurkowski. Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes.
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