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They probably still pick up the cheque from the Social as well.

Get a grip, you're boring.

Sorry to hear that aneliane. I understand a bit better now why you'd be looking towards alternative treatments.

I've assumed you've seen 5 doctors in Thailand. Any way you can get back home for another opinion?

I'd just be wary of following alternative treatments / medicines that are questionable at best (and that you read about online for example).

Good luck, keep us posted.

great now that I am down in abyssal health forum, no more answers

thank you bookman & david

Anyboby here ???

You are awake late tonight aneliane?

Has to be at least 3.30am on Sunday morning in Thailand?

Can't sleep?

Hey ... they are fine folk down in the Health Forum .. don't go dissin' them.

The Mod there was voted the best on TV recently with her caring and thoughtful replies.

If you are going to get a sensible answer to your OP, it would be from her, for sure.

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Can you please stop asking me to go to health forum?

I was there for 2 hours waited for nothing

THIS IS NOT AN HEALTH RELATED PRODUCT

I just asked the moderator to put me back here, and it took me 2 hours of waiting for this

Again, PH papers ARE NOT PRIMARILY USED FOR HEALTH in THAILAND

I just wasted a day going to 8 different places learning that the hard way

I am not well I cannot sleep, I need to get tested and really does not need to delay my search furthermore

so please stop bothering me

See a doctor then and stop trying to do the impossible!

Swimming pool supplies or a toy shop that sells chemistry kits for kids. Maybe even Central. Worth a call.

As an aside, your body and your blood maintain a stable pH that *never changes significantly* no matter what you eat or drink!

Further, your digestive system is a closed system - nothing enters the body itself without being processed and filtered first. Thus, the only way to check the body's pH level is by checking your blood.

Last, ask any medical practitioner or even med student and they will tell you that it’s impossible and that the blood or body cannot change pH based on what you eat. It just doesn’t work that way.

So, I hope you do find the litmus test papers. But, 1. Testing your saliva or urine tells you nothing and 2. Blood pH remains near constant (if it didn't you'd have serious health issues and probably be dead).

Good luck

Work and study programmes. So much work for students on these courses - a lot of the tourism and hospitality sector is staffed in this way.

With relevant experience and good English she could even qualify for a professional placement (IT, insurance, business etc).

Applicant must qualify for a Tier 4 visa. Biggest hurdle is English level, CEFR B1 required.

This is the easiest route to achieve what your wife's friend wants.

The old question of the chicken and the egg

You do need a browser to download FF or Chrome

so IE needs to come with the package.

But not bound in, so that it cannot be removed later.

Win 7 allows safe removal of IE leaving any required dependencies (finally!)

The old question of the chicken and the egg

You do need a browser to download FF or Chrome

so IE needs to come with the package.

But not bound in, so that it cannot be removed later.

Not quite. There are other ways to download software than with browser.

ftp, scp, wget, ..

The rule to require MS to offer other browsers has been probably smartest rule from EU. It has woken up web services to make their products to work with other browsers as well. This has reduced the need to have Windows (IE) while using web based products.

And none of those protocols will work without first having access to the Internet. And AFAIK consumer-grade routers are all configured with a browser!

What happens in the event when you go home on 25th july and when you are back in uk the embassy tells you to come collect your passport? refused or not. Can embassy not give your decision by email instead of getting people to go all the way to bangkok again to collect the passports and decision?

The embassy don't keep the sponsor's passport.

They usually want a copy, but wont keep the original. If they did then you would not be able to go home as you need it to both leave Thailand and enter your destination country.

They are also, of course, well aware of the Thai law requiring foreigners to produce their passport to the police on demand.

They do keep the applicant's passport, which they need to enter the appropriate visa into. The applicant, of course, cannot enter the UK until and unless they have been granted the visa or entry permit.

There is a facility to have the passport and returned documents couriered back to the applicant, negating the need to return to Bangkok to collect them. This should be arranged when submitting the application.

The UKBA say that they wont email or text etc. the result of an application as it is confidential between the applicant and them and that emails or texts could be opened and read by a third party.

But so could an envelop[e containing the passport!

Yes but around the world it's a criminal offence to open mail addressed to someone else and act maliciously.

There is no such protection if you leave your mobile on the table or email open (or indeed opened post).

Yes, the latest changes may well fall foul of this. The reasoning being ( I think ) that the guidance concerning where the applicant/sponsor's minimum income level comes from has never been laid before Parliament, and is, therefore, not law. It is merely "guidance". Now where have we heard this argument before ( and UKBA lost that battle too ) ? As I read it, the immigration rules specify that the source of income must be " specified", but at the moment it is only guidance ( not specified in the immigration rules). So, the 18,600 a year, or the savings required, can come from anywhere ( including, I guess, from third party support ).

Here is an interesting snippet from The Guardian: ( my bold type)

As a result, legal commentators anticipate an onslaught of legal challenges to the new rules, which rely extensively on accompanying guidance. Yet this is not the only challenge that Theresa May faces. On July 6 the High Court granted permission for a judicial review challenging the minimum income threshold required of certain applicants, and on July 4 the House of Lords issued a report questioning the validity of May's approach to garnering parliamentary support for changes to the way in which human rights law should apply in immigration decisions.

Here is the full article:

http://www.guardian....migration-rules

It looks like they've now tried to overcome the "Alvi" judgement, with another Statement of Changes to the Rules laid before Parliament yesterday and effective immediately. It includes this little gem:-

"3.2 The Government regrets that for these changes it has not been possible to comply

with the convention that changes should be laid before Parliament no less than 21 days

before they will come into force, but invites the Committee to note that these changes

have no operational impact on applicants, sponsors or caseworkers. The changes only

incorporate existing requirements, currently set out in guidance or lists external to the

Immigration Rules, into the Rules themselves to protect against further legal challenge."

I wonder whether they'll get away with that....

The Family Members stuff is from page 276 onwards.

http://www.ukba.home...pdf?view=Binary

Successive governments have been flippant in this regard.

In reality the impact is very small. Slap on the wrist, laid before Parliament, passed in one session.

This happened with Tier 4 PBS. I think affected applicants still had to seek legal redress - there was no automatic review of refused applications during the period. If memory serves me well of course.

wow guys thanks for all the information,didnt have a clue so all your help saved me headake and sure money.I have one more stupid question.sorry not so god in English but i try to explain.Is the picture going to proportion to size of TV,hmmm I mean,I will get exempel the windows logo big?Icons on the desktop will be big?I would like to have exempel same size as I have on my 23inch?So i can have 20 open documents at the same time.or do I need some extra softwere?Sorry hope some one understand what I try to say?

I'm using a 51" full HD samsung Plasma for my computer monitor. 1920x1080 gives text that is far too small, so I run the PC output at 1280x 720. For best effect.

You should run screen calibration and then adjust icon and text size to taste.

Remember too that the most important aspect of picture quality is contrast ratio, second is colour saturation, third is color accuracy.

1. IE isn't dominant so what's the problem

2. If the OS doesn't ship with a browser, how are you supposed to get online in the first place?

3. Is MS therefore expected to ship - and continually update - all browsers with their OS and offer a choice? Or offer the choice once a user is online?

Here's an idea: talk to her about it.

Isn't it a natural talking point anyway?

The argument is that joining it will throw away the advantages of being an island, eg those 'refugees' that were encamped near Calais (but I think have since been moved on by the French) will be able to enter the UK unhindered. As will any of the people who are currently entering the country by hiding in trucks etc.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

And, have you not heard of air travel? Yet you maintain the "we're special cos we're an island" nonsense.

Thanks for making my point that the same defunct arguement gets trotted out.

It makes sense for the UK to fully enact the Schengen Agreement - the UK has already negotiated the right to pick and choose which parts it wants.

It'll never happen though because immigration and border control are so political in the UK.

How many times do we have to listen to the defunct argument that the UK is an island and therefore special....blah blah blah.

It's one of the things I miss most.

Raving through from Fri night to Mon morning...Ministry, Fabric, The Vauxhall, The End....those were the days. The last Ram night at The End? I flew to London for the weekend just to attend.

Don't even get me started on Carnival, Clash of the Titans, Valve, the after-parties........

I enjoy going out in BKK but there's nothing like the scene in London.

Main difference between the two is that Bangkok’s scene mostly runs on alcohol and methamphetamines while London’s raving scene was fuelled by XTC and lovey dovey people dancing with glow sticks.

Different vibe really.

The main difference is UK gave birth to many different genres. They developed with illegal parties and pirate stations. That's why the scenes are so much better.

The same is true for rap in th UK v US argument. Battle nights are eveywhere Stateside, but less in UK.

Thailand just doesn't have cultural depth in that regard.

No raves in abondoned car parks in Bangkok. Just aerobics!

Yeah some good DJs and live PAs pass through Thailand for sure. But the appetite is not the same.

And someone else nailed it on the head: a wicked night out at Q - which I love - is still nowhere near the same as raving till dawn in what used to be an abatoir!

It's one of the things I miss most.

Raving through from Fri night to Mon morning...Ministry, Fabric, The Vauxhall, The End....those were the days. The last Ram night at The End? I flew to London for the weekend just to attend.

Don't even get me started on Carnival, Clash of the Titans, Valve, the after-parties........

I enjoy going out in BKK but there's nothing like the scene in London.

IMAP or POP?

Do you have large subfolders in Gmail?

Version of OE?

How often is OE auto-checking for new messages?

I think it was VP who who first posted about this and here follows an update from JCWI:

Link: http://jcwi.org.uk/blog/2012/07/03/resistance-builds-against-rule-changes

Get involved if you have a story to tell.

// Starts

Things are hotting up for the day of action on Parliament we are co-organising with the Migrants’ Rights Network for Monday. We’re marking the introduction of the new family immigration rules laid before Parliament by Theresa May earlier in June with a Day of Action centred on Parliament.

We start things off with a protest at the Home Office, Marsham Street SW1P 4DF at 4.30pm, we will be joined by activists from various groups such as Kanlungan, Action for ESOL and Unison, the trade union.

Right after that, we’re encouraging people to go and see their MP to explain their concerns about these disastrous new rules, how they will affect real lives and the dangers of generating immigration rules when thinking only about numbers and not human beings. Make an appointment to see yours now.

Parliamentary meeting will be packed

After that, perhaps the showpiece event of the day. We’ve been working with MRN and Lord Judd to pull together a meeting in Parliament, we’ve been hard at it, asking MPs and Lords to come and speak, we have people affected by the rules, campaigners and activists from all around. With almost a week to go, we’ve so far received 123 registrations for the meeting. Because of this we are having to move the meeting to the larger Grand Committee Room in Parliament, as the committee room we had previously booked would not be large enough for such an attendance.

We urge you to register for the meeting. A big show of opposition in front oof the Government's very nose is a vital stage in this campaign. The day the rules are implemented does not mark the end of our campaign, it will continue until we achieve justice for all cross-border families, regardless of income.

The new family migration rules: dividing families, disrupting integration

Grand Committee Room, House of Commons 6.30pm Monday 9 July

-use St Stephens Gate entrance, be early to get through security.

MPs who have been good enough to accept invitations to speak are:

Kate Green MP (Labour, Shadow Spokesperson for Women and Equality)

Keith Vaz MP (Labour, Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee)

Fiona McTaggart MP (Labour, Slough)

Jeremy Corbyn MP (Labour, Islington North)

George Galloway MP (Respect, Bradford West)

Lords coming along are:

Lord Judd (Labour)

Lord Avebury (Lib Dem)

Lord Dholakia (Lib Dem)

You may have spotted the complete lack of Liberal Democrat MPs attending the meeting. This is despite the fact that we have invited every single one of them to speak. It’s an easy gig, speakers are welcome to come along, say a few words and leave. The meeting is in the same building they work in, but time and again we’re getting replies that diaries are full and previous engagements are looming.

It must be a busy time, playing such a vital role in this inhumane government.

// Ends

1. No

2. True

I think a lack of research based degrees hinders Thai university rankings internationally.

As for me, I had a place at a top 5 UK uni but chose to join the Army instead (to the disgust of my family).

I have since got a degree but didn't think it was that useful to be honest.

Even in the UK, university is not about education anymore, but job preparation/training.

Bring back uni for thinkers and pollys/apprenticeships for do-ers.

There's some nice hotels in Pattaya. Why not? What's wrong with going down for the weekend for the resort? Just because it's in Pattaya you say no?

Crazy IMO

I hope they (fans) can keep it alive as it has been my e-mail client of choice for years now.

I agree. It's really quick even with multiple identities. Extensions etc are brilliant too.

On the face of it all looks OK. The thing that would annoy me if I were you, is paying fees for a legal professional to write a letter that contains so many grammatical errors and typos.

If you bought it, use their tech support.

I think you get a new reference once it hits the Thai system.

Found it: http://track.thailandpost.co.th/trackinternet/Default.aspx?lang=en