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Does anyone have experience with fingerprint door locks for uPVC doors? Some producers claim, that it cannot be installed into their profiles.

We have tried one from Haefele. Is there any uPVC supplier which offers sliding doors with such locks? 
Thanks for information.

"and whether the venue was open beyond the legal limit of 2am."

Before it was reported the fire was at 4 am?? slightly over limit then?

... too much for me to read the entire thread, but has anyone considered the carnage if the high speed rail is not built fully above grade? ... the open exposure along hundreds of kilometers of rail bed just boggles the mind ... everyone knows the history of rural train derailments here ... can you imagine what a pick-up truck would do to a passenger train at 300+ KPH?

.... Thailand is a country in which the image of modernity is far important to Thais than the uncivilized reality that belies this nation ... for example:

• BKK is a city jammed with traffic lights, all of which are still, manually switched on and off by Thai traffic cops sitting in little boxes at each intersection - yet the BKK traffic is world class gridlocked;
  
• Thailand has a heavily developed systems of dams and water channels - yet the nation still floods like Bangladesh;
  
• Suvanabhumi Airport is Asia's newest airport - yet suffers from crumbling runways, an air traffic control system that abruptly goes dark, and was near overcapacity on the day it opened.
  

... will a high speed rail system be any different? ... don't get me wrong, I love high speed rail service in civilized nations ... but, like a Thai-built and Thai-operated nuclear power plant, I am quite uncomfortable about a high speed rail system here.

... is modern technology exceeding the capabilities of a culture unprepared for the responsibilities and obligations that attend it a good thing?

Don't think too much about it! It will never come as the cost to build and maintain overexeceeds the income by wide margin and it will such a tragic loss making venture, that it will not be built as no-one wants to sink his good money into a drainage hole.

Some of the big distribution centers (north of BKK) are out of action. Some roads are closed. Mass panic buying and hoarding empties shelves. It is not going to be solved quickly. Hopefully the new Don Muang distribution point will help logistically. CP have also announced they will take stock from provincial distribution centers and send it to BKK. In Chonburi many 7/11s yesterday lacked bread, water, noodles etc as either local panic buying took hold or an invasion of Bangkokians seeking supplies occured

here a report from my friend in Rangsit from today.

All vital functions of this suburb seem to die offslowly. After restricted communications since a while (the communication groundnetwork stopped operating) as the wireless network is completely saturated,waterworks ceased operation yesterday morning. Now we are on our emergencywater; a filled garbage can and rows of filled-up bottles. Strict water restrictionpolicy is now in vigor for all inmates, as a matter of survival - for the onesremaining in this area, another burden. No place to go …The water is now insome places so deep, that it is hardly possible to walk through. The boat isthe only communication with the outside world. But what outside world? Allaround is only a sea of brackish water. Where is the land? It remembers me amovie called “Water World”. Soon the pirates will arrive ….

Then the cable TV broke down just before 08.00 Hr in the morning. Now we weretotally blind: very poor internet access, no television, no radio. There mustbe somehow a media God, because suddenly late afternoon, the cable TV came backto life and Somchai of Jayasoft even managed to get me a 100 hours Internet package.

There are many dramatic events, due to the wrong estimation of the size of thisflood by the authorities. Thammasat University in Rangsit opened a gymnasium asa temporary shelter for 3,500 people of Ayutthaya and Bang Pa-In, victim of theflooding since "the fall of Ayutthaya" on 8 October. At this momentthere is a water front hundred kilometer wide from Nakhon Sawan to Bangkok overa distance, close to 300 Km in many places 2-3 meter deep. Flood prevention atRangsit Campus failed and the university compound was flooded yesterday with alevel varying from 30 cm until 2 meters of water. People are still able to stayat the center, but the electricity broke down and all supplies for the refugeeswere flooded. Will be harsh times for the refugees.

me and a friend

If an autopsy is needed?

That's a strange comment or is this a huge misinterpretation?

Although the cause of death may appear obvious, an autopsy must be conducted in order to legally establish the cause of death and forward ahead as a murder investigation..

Do a search on Google and you will be amazed at how many farangs meet a drastic end per year in Thailand. It`s almost wholesale slaughter and if this wasn't so tragic it could almost be classified as a joke.

I have to wonder what these people are doing here, what and who they become involved with?

I think you use wrong wording - "whole slaughter" is just ridiculous. Most of the cases are solved when foreigners are involved. In Hua Hin in 5 years I only become aware of 2 murder cases involving a foreigner and 2 suicides and I mean suicide. The murder cases have both been solved and culprits apprehended.

It is very boring, everytime someone dies, I read the same silly comments. A bit more facts and details would help.

Midnight two days ago at 7Eleven: two kids one about 16 the other maybe 18 both could buy alcohol without questions asked. What is the whole fuss about new rules and regulations if no one cares about it and is able to enforce it. Just a farce.

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