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  1. A low-key celebrations for Pattaya By Night magazine party will be held inside Dollhouse on Tuesday night 24 April. The den will play host to some of the best dancers from Club Boesche (Soi 16) and the nearby Living Dolls Showcase as well as their own collection of chrome pole huggers, and copies of the third issue of Pattaya By Night magazine, which, will be on sale. :o

  2. Yep, even hbo, cinemax, starmovies and all the other suspects are regular TV.

    The receiver boxes distributed by UBC simply can't do HDTV, additionally they only have an RF out plug, a composite video and s-vhs video out...

    Not even component out to hook up to a decent quality LCD/Plasma or projector :o

    :D ditto

  3. There is no hdtv being broadcast at all in Thailand, on top of it ubc (truevision) uses quite high compression so you get hefty pixelation in fast moving scenes...

    The only hdtv programming available in Thailand is this channel

    You would need to find your own hdtv capable receiver box and aim the dish to the eutelsat w5 dird (70.5 degrees east)

    monty thanks for the information ......... LCD's are so cheap now it is a shame that broadcasting in local areas is so behind .... almost all the major networks and movie channels content is now exclusively Full 1080 HD .

    ...... are you saying that with true-vision even HBO and the movie channels are not HD ?

  4. Is True Vision in Pattaya Real HDTV ? Does the box have and HDMi output ? Need to find the best cable setup for the LCD's in the house and I am not sure True Vision really brings true HDTV and HD-movies to your home and have a way of getting them to your LCD's digital like with HDMI . Thanks in advance .

  5. bump !

    thanks for the feedback ... I see why these beautiful condos that get built look like hel_l in a year or so . Again any numbers , companies , leads would be appreciated . Hard to believe in a town with so many out of work broke people walking around it is so hard to find people who want to work and make money .......... even the girls prefer short time right .. :o

  6. Anyone have a number a a great cleaning person , I have a great job for someone that wants to work .. was using the cleaning people that clean the other condos in the Condo building that I live in but they are seriously not cutting it unless watched and pushed and that does not even get them motivated ...

  7. Second that. Dr. Amorn did a face lift on me a year back and the results are fabulous, I look 10 - 15 years younger. No one believes my age and no one believes I've had a face lift, eiither, because it looks so natural.

    Sheryl pictures ? I heard Dr. Preecha was the number one guy .... saw Dr. Amorn and was not impresed again Dr. Preecha seemed to be in a whole different league

  8. http://www.dryaremchuk.com/index.htm

    here is an artist , just like Daniel Baker in NY but these guys are big $$ but you get what you pay for and while you may get good work in Thailand you will not find talent like this in Thailand close maybe but not the same . It is your face and you only get one chance so why not have the best or wait until you can have the best . Again there are really good Dr.'s in Thailand but the real talent goes to the big city's in the states because that is where the money is . I know this statement will not go over well but it Tom Cruise or Katy Holmes is going for work on their face they are going to the top artist in the states like these guys not to Thailand . Breast augmentation and lipo another story , but the face is in a whole different league when it comes to talent needed and variations in results , the face takes a real artist who is up to date on the latest procedures . Most people are going to Thailand for a facelift because it cost less there not because the top Dr.'s for the face are there that is the bottom line .

  9. I am very wary of posting in this thread as I almost certainly will step on some toes, but feel the need to say something simply because of the close association I have had with so many cases of depression, some suicidal and some not.

    I am not qualified in psychology, but have had a lifetime of experience in it. It is probably my strongest point.

    I personally have yet to see or hear of a successful psychiatric intervention. Successful to me means long-term healing, or improvement to the point where the person can lead a fairly 'normal' life. The best I have seen is temporary alleviation of the symptoms, either by medication, therapy or hypnosis. All too often this is followed later by a deepening of the original problem as the sense that nobody seems able to help you sets in.

    Mind altering drugs are dangerous, and should only be used as a temporary platform allowing you the space to find the real problem and address it. Unfortunately, professionals seldom have the time to really understand you, so inevitably you are categorised and filed under a wide 'heading'. This will seldom result in a satisfactory outcome.

    Nobody knows you like yourself. You have to find the problem, even if led by a psychologist or hypnotherapist. And YOU have to come to terms with the problem once you found it. (Excluding of course a 'hard' chemical or other brain problem. Most cases are 'software' problems, experiences, fears etc,)

    Point is, there are some posters on this thread giving some good advice, sleepyjohn for one. Depression is a tough nut to crack, and just putting your faith in professionals are unlikely to cut it IMHO. Sure use them, but the bulk of the responsibility in finding the root cause will almost certainly be on your own shoulders. You have to know yourself, many people never really do.

    OlRedEyes nice post

  10. Some people actually become depressed or more so on opiates, not surprising since they are depressents.

    In any case there are 2 major drawbacks to opates that you do not mention: 1)they are physically and psychologically addictive and 2) tolerance develops to them (especially to the euphoric effects) with use requiring larger and larger dosages to get the same effect. This does not happen with the SSRIs.

    In any case you are entitled to your opinion but opiates are not approved for treatment of depressiobn in any country to my knowledge and you will be hard pressed to find a physician who uses them in that way, and you certainly won't in Thailand. In fact, it has been my experience that Thai doctors and hospitals are very hesitant to use opiates, much more so than is the case in the west. If you want to continue liong-term opiate use, Thailand is not going to be a very good choice for you.

    It was suggested that I bring a prescription with me while I am there looking for surgery to fix the condition . Sherry thanks for you rely you have a vast knowledge of things and I respect and value your suggestions , you do go by the book(a book I sometimes have a problem with) but again I do value your reply thanks again.

  11. In adition to helping with pain I think opiates help depression like no other anti-depressant. Especially the "official" anti-depressants (SSRIs, in particular, but basically all of them). Not only do they take weeks upon weeks to work (assuming they are going to work at all) but their long-term effects are completely unknown. The pharmacology of these anti-depressants is largely unknown, and the side effects that come with them (including an increase of depression sometimes) are much more debilitating than the opiates.

    The opiates, on the other hand, are natural chemicals existing in nature. And rather than waiting 6-8 weeks just to see whether or not they are helping, they show a significant decrease in depression on the first medication. Opiates are also the safest class of psychoactive drugs in existance in terms of not causing harm to your body. (However, consuming opiates during pregnancy or going through withdrawal during pregnancy may potentially threaten the life of the unborn child, but I haven't studied this subject enough to know how great the danger is.)

    As long as you can bear to live constipated and with a non-existent sex drive, then using opiates for your entire life will not destroy your health in any way. The benefits by far outway such "negatives" (assuming you consider decreased sex drive to be a negative side effect at all).

    The only reason today's anti-depressants are heralded as something "great" and "revolutionary" is because they -- unlike the opiate class -- do not produce any euphoria when administered. In other words, the pharmaceutical companies have preferred to create worthless pills and tablets that do very little or nothing for depression (and sometimes make it worse) simply because they have no "abuse potential." Is there any logic behind this?

    "Abuse potential" should NEVER be a factor in producing a helpful medicine; what should be the most important factor is if the product can do its job correctly and be safe. And, apparently, this is not what's going on today in the pharmaceutical industry.

    As for giving amphetamines to depressed people, how is this any better than giving them opiates instead? Amphetamines produce just as much euphoria as opiates -- just in a highly different way. They, too, have the dreaded "abuse potential." But the difference between amphetamines and opiates are this: with amphetamines you will crash and likely feel suicidal when they wear off whereas with opiates you will never crash or feel suicidal as a result of their effects diminishing. The only time you might feel suicidal is if you abruptly stopped taking your meds and went into withdrawal. But that's a choice; unlike amphetamines which force you to feel terrible every time the effects of the dose wear off. So, amphetamines are probably not the answer in curing depression with those with suicidal tendancies. And all of this does not even start to mention the dangers associated with amphetamine use over prolonged periods of time.

    However, while I consider opiates to be superior to any type of anti-depressant available concerning depression, I consider benzodiazepines (as long as the right ones are used and at the right dose) to be superior to the anxiolytic effects that opiates can produce in quelling anxiety. Not to say that opiates don't do a good job in relieving anxiety -- they do; it's just that, at least in my experience with clonazepam, that benzos do the better job.

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