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and it could happen anywhere in the world. I think we need another campaign like Mr. Awesome

There have been 60 deaths and nearly 50 serious shocks reported over the past 13 years involving electrical hazards in and around swimming pools in USA. (CPSC)

There has probably been another 100 or so deaths in american marinas from electrocution.(Chicago Turbine)

And this video is a lesson on what can happen in a pool http://news.sky.com/story/1267145/kids-electric-shock-in-pool-caught-on-cctv This was in Florida.

At least they have not been brain washed by route learning at that stage.

"Route" learning?????????

Maybe you mean Rote learning.

Give it a try, as you can always walk away, right?

An Ex-colleague, also American had to teach Anuban one and two without any teaching experience. Kids that age are even better in pronunciation than older kids.

It's important to know what and how to teach them ,as just singing- for example- the ABC song without them knowing the letters, when you point at them, isn't really helpful for all involved.

Then it's mostly up to phonetics. There're many programs and if I can help you out,please just page me.

All in all, it's a lot of fun, but also hard work. Games, songs and some dancing will keep you busy. Good luck!-

No one should be teaching phonetics to kindergarten children. Maybe you are confused with phonics.

Apologies for the font glitches. Let me reiterate and elaborate - I have interviewed many aspiring teachers. My experience is that Thais are the best teachers of English for Thai students. If there are any farangs out there who can speak even Patom 1 level, please let me know ;-)

I can.

I wonder the administrative cost of a school with two teachers and a director.

This is what happens when you grow up and get old. Young ones still just go out with money in their pocket

We have them up to 3 metres long around my Moo Bahn in Bangkok. Leave them alone, they don't attack humans, but are pretty useful for keeping the snakes and wild dog populations down. Not to mention the fighting cocks the factory mechanics are breeding up the road.

I wonder how they know the difference between a wild dog and a domesticated one.

I don't suppose they are interested in investigating this video. No didn't think so. It's only a policeman beating up on two ladies.

Like investigate the woman for driving the wrong way up a one way street.

Just goes to show how 'pig-ignorant' these people are!!! Haven't they heard of birth defects before? - I think I can answer that one actually.

Maybe the 'red pig ghosts' were responsible so they should tether a pig outside every house to repel it!!!!

Almost as ridiculous as people having concerns about walking under a ladder or breaking a mirror or Friday the 13th or the chanting "Bloody Mary"

You cannot be depressed and anxious at the same time - they are opposites. Something is amiss here, either in translation or professional competence.

http://www.psychologytoday.com In fact, most mood disorders present as a combination of anxiety and depression. Surveys show that 60-70% of those with depression also have anxiety. And half of those with chronic anxiety also have clinically significant symptoms of depression.

From Time magazine:

ATM theft, it appears, is this recession’s hottest crime. There were more than 100 instances of teller machine robberies in Texas alone in 2010. In San Diego, thieves have snatched or attempted to make off with ATMs 28 times in the past year. That’s up from 2 cases of the crime in the year before. In Atlanta, which has also seen a spike in ATM crime, as many as 35 machines have disappeared this year, up from 12 in 2009. “The suburbs are starting to see some ATM thefts, too,” says Archie Ezell, a supervising gang investigator in the Atlanta Police Department. “This is definitely a crime that has some legs.”

Read more: http://business.time.com/2010/10/07/more-thevies-are-making-total-atm-withdrawls/#ixzz2GjUCcRny

Maybe we should take this time to remember what happened when the Seacrest capsized back in 1989 when Typhoon Gay struct in November of that year.

Any sensible suggestions why so many people do jump to their deaths here?

I imagine excessive alcohol combined with mixed emotions over girls, who give them enormous feelings of pleasure but also equal amounts of frustration, confusion, anxiety and ultimately depression

Got to think with the 'big head' here and not the 'little head'

This is from Travel.aol.co.uk

There have been 13 incidents of young people falling from balconies so far this year. (15 - Aug. 2012)

Three of these cases resulted in death while others have been seriously injured. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office and ABTA The Travel Association, have joined forces on a campaign to help prevent balcony incidents among young people in popular holiday resorts.

In Majorca and Ibiza, two of the UK's top tourist destinations, there have been 9 cases – already matching figures for 2011, despite only being half way through the season.

Most incidents involve young people between the ages of 18 and 35 and whilst not always the case, alcohol often plays a part.

Nothing saying that Thailand is a bigger concern than other countries.

Quoted from www.childrenofthecode.org

According to the latest National Assessment of Adult Literacy report (NAAL), over 90 million (4 out of 10) U.S. adults are living lives socially and economically disadvantaged due to poor reading skills.

But they tell me it is compulsory and my three children do not get a choice in the matter.

Elections in this country are compromised by many groups who resort to all sorts of trickery to get their favoured one elected. The 1997 constitution was devised by a group of sincere people & if the spirit of that constitution had been adhered to I doubt there would be this great impasse which Thailand is facing today. However, all the loopholes were subverted & twisted to suit the ends of those in power. Here we are now going through a convoluted mechanism on which no one can agree so IMO there is little hope for genuine reconciliation. The corruption of power & greed continue to rule the day as long as the plebs can get their daily crumbs from the sumptuous banquet which is rapidly heading down the Greek road.

Even the experts wrote the 1997 version. The courts are too weak here and swing with the day. There is a crying need for tort reform and a move to precedent law to solidify judgements on a day by day basis. But dont tell me that that is accidental. Those with the most to lose if these changes happened are those at the top and the judges themselves.

We don't want to forget that the US President will nominate new Supreme Court Judges...

This is an exchange from their "View Messages" page

http://www.scope.com...MessageList.asp

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Cut off mid-sentence but it's clear where it's going.

The end of the sentence goes like this... "...The customer's own upgrade is likely to cause the machine to adverse"

CEO

Mr. Hernando Garcia 2012-2-4 9:53:03

New Zealand death toll is 16 for the holiday season from a population of just 4 million.

I think, that in our home countries Thais should be given the same treatment as we receive in their country.

That means, for example, here in New Zealand, Thais cannot own land, only the house that it is built upon. You cannot own, operate or take part in farming or agricultural activities whatsoever.

Nor can it own more than 49% of a business, or work in non-skills shortage work classes, no matter what visa they have unless employed as a foreign specialist. When employed, they should be given salary which in many cases is enough for only self-sustenance.

It must be made more difficult for Thai nationals to open bank accounts, and when they do given non-interest bearing accounts so that maximum profit is made from them.

Most of all, our governments should be openly skeptical about Thai people, discriminating between themselves and "foreign criminals".

I really hate to rant like this, but openly discriminating against people trying to improve the country and gain a bit of a profit for a nice lifestyle in Thailand is not the answer. We don't send our money home to our countries in most cases, but Thais working in our countries do, 80% guaranteed! Consider this..

lex talionis "an eye for an eye"

In the civilized world we live in today, maybe we could find something a little more fitting than just vengeful retribution.

I wonder if we might think more in the lines of maintaining our own high standards despite the lower standards of any other nation.

From what I have heard about Resveratrol, the benefits in mammals is very questionable and hasn't actually been proven conclusively.

Yesterday I drove down through Lopburi, Ayutthaya and back to Pathom Thani via the BangPahun-Pathom Thani route and all along the way there is still a huge amount of water laying waste to those normally productive rice paddy fields along both sides of the road. It really is scary to see the extent of water still there.

Even in the area north of Nakhon Sawan there is a lot of land still flooded. Coming down into the ChaiNat area, there is more recovery visible but still plenty of areas where the farmers cannot start planting yet.

It would certainly give the factory owners who are anywhere near the Chaopaya basin something to worry about.

I doubt there will be full recover before the next rainy season begins in another 6 months.

'Still going on about the floods in a mad way, I see!

This should be listed in the "Satire" section.

148 ministers seek to nullify 2554 years of utter stupidity - regarding the issue of flood control - by singling out one individual.

I think we should also Impeach god

In Thailand, there is no crisis until it happens.

When it happens. as is typical of the 9-year old mentality, let's squawk like chickens and flap our wings and run around in circles.

When the natural course of nature removes the problem, in spite of the native efforts to fix it - and subsequently make it worse - then let's forget about it and go back to the catatonic watching of soaps on TV.

Harsh? I don't think so. Stupid is as stupid does. Were this listed under satire, I would commend the article. The fact that this article is listed under "POLITICS" and foolishly attempts a serious lean is exactly that which compels me to be satirical towards it.

I would wager not one of the 148 monsters ministers can go on record and claim that they have made any attempts at flood prevention BEFORE THE FLOOD got there!

Why is that? Because before the crisis there was no crisis.

If the 148 ministers have the time and (according to their lofty thinking) power to impeach someone, then why haven't they shown that they have at least made any attempt to supersede the alleged inaction by coming together and using their parliamentary power to override said alleged inactivity? At least then they would have something to show for it in contrast to their heretofore stupid allegations. At least the people would have benefited from the wisdom and well-conceived ideas of these 148 ministers.

But nay! These 148 ministers aren't interested in using their power to supersede alleged lazy asses. They are more interested in sitting back and waiting for any opportunity to geld the first person whom they think deserves it. TO h@ll with the people, it seems they say.

This is about as stupid as getting an international extradition order against Zeus and seeking to impeach him from his role as The God of the Sky.

So, when there is no crisis, the government uses no forethought to known crisis'.

When that crisis happens, they digress to silly behavior and ignore the reason that got them into this in the first place (i.e all Thais are guilty of not preparing for the annual floods. What part of "annual" do they not understand?). They resort to useless remedies that do not directly address the problem, and instead resort to half-hearted attempts to alleviate the pain.

And when this crisis passes, we move on to the next crisis; which when one looks closely, reveals another issue that was heretofore known, and yet unrecognized before it came about.

How is it possible that one can have sympathy for habitual stupidity, unless one is in it for the money?

No-one is blaming him for the flood, they are criticizing irregularities in his actions.

You seem to have difficulty understanding the roles of the government and the opposition. MINISTERS are members of the government, the opposition has only MPs. As a minority they have no power to propose or alter legislation unless sufficient members of the government decide to vote with them - which would be career suicide in the autocratic PTP.

So many words, so little sense.

more like NO SENSE AT ALL

What a refreshing, informative article. Then I noticed that it wasn't written by Thais or byThe Nation amateurs. The article points out clearly why Thailand is a huge risk for foreign firms. Concentrating a large percentage of supply chain in a very poorly managed country with many risk exposures, political, infrastructure, geography, weather, education level, ..etc. is just very poor management. Seeking better margins on the back of historically lower labor costs exclusively is very myopic. Public foreign companies with major dependencies and operations in Thailand should be scrutinized by their boards as to whether they performed adequate due diligence and how the money is accounted and reconciled in these operations.

Thailand has essentially outlived its usefulness as a manufacturing and distribution hub. They have continually engaged in major examples of risk. coups, political and military uncertainty, military governments, civil strife and almost daily killings in the south, airport closings, civil unrest, bloodshed, and killings, blocking commercial activity, inadequate application of law, blatant corruption and graft, absence of recourse, eg..nightclub fires and mass deaths, unregulated worker and student vans and major deaths, refusal to apply law and ignorance of building safety and zoning considerations. Many more and last but not least, the country's inability to protect its citizens and residents from safety precautions and rapid recovery and any understanding of DRP and BCP (Disaster Recovery Planning and Business Continuity Planning). Think about the standards and procedures implemented to do post flood clean up in clean factories, and warehouses. All of this is magnified considerably by poor communication, misrepresentation of news, facts, censorship, suppression of information, opaque business operations, and the absence of disclosure.

Mentioning a few side points, there were previous photos and content showing Thai factory workers "repairing soaked, wet" , and irreparably damaged hard drive hardware.This article also points out something that was shocking about the low level of awareness and comprehension of Thais by indicating that some Thai manager thought that it was great that "divers" had fished out hard drives to "recover and repair hard drive data." What a preposterous thing to do! Just think about the QA and reliability of those products. If you were running a major foreign company, why would you invest in Thailand? Why would you keep repeating the same decisions and investments expecting the results to be different?

Care to enlighten us to the country that dosen't have all these happenings that you point out and can still supply cheap labor.

Like so many of the TV posters you seem to think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence only you have no idea of what it is really like.

Yes I am sure Thailand will lose some business but they will not be going to countries who have no problems. Some of the big corparations like Toyoto are in the money making bussiness and if they think they can start up all over again in a country that dosen't have the problems you talk of here and still get cheap labor they will be gone in a heart beat.

Wait and see what they do.

After living here for more than 20 years, I would say that Thailand is one of the safest countries in the world from natural disasters. They keep happening in China, India, Vietnam, Australia, USA etc. but very rarely do we see Thailand being hit so hard by natural disasters. There are a few local areas in the south that get hit and then it is generally a cold spell in the north on top of the mountains or a hot summer. The droughts are pretty common but have been for so many years that it has become a way of life rather than such a natural disaster.

This year of flooding is truely an exception and caught everyone unprepared.

Futility. People have known for weeks that it was best to just let the water flow where it wanted, which was through Inner Bangkok. They delayed it and have made things worse for people in outlaying areas, but in the end it's going to happen anyway. It's just that the flooding would have ended much faster and fewer districts put under water if the prideful people in charge had just allowed things play out from the beginning the way they are inevitably fated to go.

And when the inner parts of Bangkok are below sea level, I wonder how you think it will drain out to the sea faster!

... this is as watching a train wreck, in slow motion ... and billions of m3 of water still to pass ... we evacuated, then returned in the middle of last week.

... now believing only what we see and but half of what we hear, we are preparing to re-evacuate.

... our lives and businesses are suspended in a vacuum of freakish incompetence ... what could possibly sabotage the resources available in this modern age of technology and communication?

... this is all so ... absurd.

Some how I think we only hear what we want to hear but, for me anyway, the message has been out there for over a month now. The water is finding its way to the sea and it will either get there by canal or road. The amount of water is, and has always been, more than any of the canals can handle. That has been clearly explained over and over for weeks. The city is in the middle of the shortest path to the sea so it just has to come in. It will come in, it will pass through and exit the other side. How long it will take is anyone's guess but it is more likely to be many weeks than just many days. For some areas it will be months as there is just so much water out there waiting for its path to the sea to show.