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Why would someone who spends five weeks exploring an area need to copy and paste and plagerise ?

OP- We spent a few days there and I had a similar impression. No matter what time of day , the traffic was terrible. I don't see how anyone living there could do their shopping and avoid it.

It struck me as a mini Pattaya without the walking street. We didn't go to any hooker bars but there were advertisements all over.

In plain speaking English, what TF does this actually mean, We're travel bloggers

Have you ever spent any time in HH?

Have you ever been in Thailand?

Or you one of these new Digital Nomads we keep hearing about?

The same ones who plaigiarise, copy and paste, and knock out a review from some place like Cambo?

It's easy to get nice things once you own a gun.

An armed populace sounds good in theory but lax gun laws just make it easier for people with bad intentions to get a gun. The U.S. has open, and concealed carry laws in many states yet the per capita rate of homocide by firearms is many times higher than it is in countries where every hoodlum and crack addict can't get a pistol just for the asking.

Given that the life expectancy of a heroin addict is around 15 years, the highly unlikely chance they would die of cardiac arrest during one or two Ibogaine treatments still provides a better outcome. Ibogaine and ayahuasca are widely used and there are few fatalities. Like I said, I know of three people who were treated with Ibogaine and haven't used narcotics since. The earliest was 14 years ago. Chances are at least one of them would be dead by now. Ibogaine saved their lives. I don't think people should be making money off it though. Pay for the Ibogaine and let someone with experience administer it.

I spent a few minutes and found quite a few reports on successful treatments.

http://www.iceers.org/docs/science/iboga/Alper%20et%20al_1999_Acute_Opiate_Withdrawal.pdf

The outcome of the above study was all positive except for one woman who died from using heroin after treatment. They found charred tin foil in her effects. She didn't die from Ibogaine.

Here are some more:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929313.900-mindaltering-drug-could-offer-life-free-of-heroin.html#.VKBDcUBAJQ

http://www.ibogaine.desk.nl/treatment.html

http://www.ibogaine-therapy.net/index1626.html?PAGE=14

Even with a DEA license, scientists have a difficult time being able to conduct studies and have them published on non-mainstream drugs, especially if they have any pleasant side effects.

You can study the effects of poisons and carcinogens all day long but if you study something that gives you a little buzz like cannabis, it's an uphill battle getting approval.

Any lack of peer-reviewed studies of the efficacy of Ibogaine treatments would be due to the same reasons there are so few published university or government studies on the effectiveness of cannabis on seizures or cancer while there are thousands of cases with anecdotal evidence. Time-lapse shots of melanoma disappearing or children's seizures stopping after it's administration.

Iboga has been well proven by modern pharmacological and medical studies to be effective in treating various substance addictions ... esp. opium, morphine & heroine addictions.

Could you provide a link to a reputable, peer reviewed scientific journal which reports such studies?

I rather suspect you can't, but if you can I'd be most appreciative.

Sorry, I'm not understanding. HerbalEd says "Iboga has been well proven by modern pharmacological and medical studies", so there can't be "any lack of peer-reviewed studies". I'm sure HerbalEd can't be mistaken making such a bold assertion. I just wanted a few references to look up.

Searching Google Scholar* I see articles about how Ibogaine destroys brain cells, its biochemistry, and its effects on rats and mice, but only one article** in the first few pages which records a trial in a non-clinical setting where 1 out of 33 patients died. It only followed the patients for 72 hours and even in this short period some of them continued their drug seeking and/or continued to experience withdrawal symptoms.

* http://scholar.google.co.th/scholar?hl=en&q=Ibogaine

** Alper, K. R., Lotsof, H. S., Frenken, G. M. N., Luciano, D. J. and Bastiaans, J. (1999), Treatment of Acute Opioid Withdrawal with Ibogaine. The American Journal on Addictions, 8: 234242.

Any lack of peer-reviewed studies of the efficacy of Ibogaine treatments would be due to the same reasons there are so few published university or government studies on the effectiveness of cannabis on seizures or cancer while there are thousands of cases with anecdotal evidence. Time-lapse shots of melanoma disappearing or children's seizures stopping after it's administration.

Iboga has been well proven by modern pharmacological and medical studies to be effective in treating various substance addictions ... esp. opium, morphine & heroine addictions.

Could you provide a link to a reputable, peer reviewed scientific journal which reports such studies?

I rather suspect you can't, but if you can I'd be most appreciative.

A lot of people seem to have difficulty reading this article. He died. BEFORE he started Ibogaine treatment.

A treatment that is usually very effective and safe.

I guess the "staying clean for five days prior to treatment" part is the most difficult. Too bad the guy wasn't able to or he would most likely still be alive today and probably have no interest in heroin anymore. I know of three people who successfully beat their addictions after one Ibogaine treatment.

I want somtam.

Nowhere in the Koran does is say the 72 virgins are women. Enjoy the afterlife sausage-fest you brave warriors.

As far as I can tell, everything is 8.5 PVC. It wasn't the builders who advised against a bigger pump, it was the developer/general contractor. I don't think it was because she knew they did a crappy job, The same crew built her house too. I think she just wanted to avoid any blame if anything did go wrong and decided low flow/low pressure for us was better than taking a chance that a bigger pump would cause problems.

Don't they use air chambers in the pipes here to work as a hydraulic shock absorber to avoid "water hammer" and a quick increase in pressure when turning off a distant tap?

I don't see any visible. Couldn't I just add an upright pipe after the pump before the line goes inside the house, or does it need to be a ways from the pump to work properly?

I think we paid 35฿ a square. I think its's per m2.

That included delivery and installation with one foreman and two laborers.

It must have been the laborers first job because I heard the foreman keep yelling

"Dan si khiao khun".

Isn't this an annual occurrence here? They store up whatever they confiscate during the year and in December, burn whatever's left?

What variety of grass is best for Issan and/or what variety is the sod they use here?

I've had sod laid but I'm not happy with all the bare areas between the small squares of sod and I'd like to obtain some grass seed in my travels to fill in the bare areas.

I have a new house, new pipes, new pump and a 6000w on demand heater and the water pressure in the upstairs shower is low, AND the water's not as warm as where I used to live that had a 2500w heater. It was one of the highest powered and most expensive water heaters and I expected better.

I also asked for the biggest pump possible and the builder put in a small one, even though I would have been charged more for a bigger one so he wasn't just being cheap. I asked why he didn't put in a bigger pump, he said the PVC pipes would burst. The pressure in the kitchen, nearest the pump doesn't seem anywhere high enough to burst pic pipes, even if a new pump had twice the pressure. All the pvc lines and joints are incased in concrete and terminate even with the wall with a threaded metal connection. How could pvc lines in concrete burst? What are the bigger pumps for , copper plumbing?

That's just two 555 timers driving some Darlington power transistors. There's no modulation, just an adjustable, single frequency output. I don't think it would do as well as a circuit that modulates (varies) the frequency.

I had one where I could turn the modulation off and the dog was less effected by it than when the modulation was on.

Pretty decent power though, up to about 30 watts output. You can find piezo transducers or tweeters or horn tweeters at just about anyplace that sells audio components, Radio Shack, Conrad, E-bay, http://www.parts-express.com/cat/tweeters/17?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=INT_Canada_B&utm_group=tweeters_17_B

If you build it you'll need big heat sinks and thermal conductive gel to draw heat from the transistors.

What's the advantage of extension of stay based on marriage rather than retirement, other than not having to maintain 800k in the bank (or show 65k in income)?

Do you still need a multiple entry or reentry stamp to leave and return if it's based on marriage, or do you need one either way?

Retirement visa does not allow you to work or have a work permit. With a work permit you can import household goods duty free, with a retirement visa, you can't.

Is it easier to put a vehicle in your own name, easier to get a loan

Does it make it easier or shorten the process to apply for a residence permit or citizenship if it's based on marriage?

The retirement is simpler and you get your stamp the day you apply rather than getting a conditional approval and a stamp a month later for marriage but what would the OP be giving up by switching to retirement? What would I gain for going from retirement to based on marriage?

Doesn't anyone ever die from an accidental overdose or suicide in your country?

His (presumably American) wife went back to the US two weeks ago. It seems more likely that she left him and he was depressed and OD'd either by accident or on purpose than whatever other scenario people are implying happened instead. The cops found piles of white power. I don't know about you but I keep my baking power and Ajax cleanser in their containers. Piles of white powder and a dead body nearby sounds like coke or speed. The police said there was no sign of a fight and didn't mention his wallet or anything was missing.

I swear, a terminally ill farang here could have a 10 page notarized and apostilled suicide note, signed by witnesses, filed at the embassy, posted a week in advance on social media sites, record video of himself committing suicide and fifty people here still wouldn't believe it and half of them would call the police idiots.

Suicide, accidental overdose, chronic abuse, heart condition. That is always the official reasons for dead farangs here. Once in a while they find a burmese scapegoat.

I read that Alcatraz was the only federal prison at the time that had warm water for the inmates showers so they couldn't use cold water showers to condition themselves for a cold water swim escape attempt.

If it was my property and I was leasing it out to someone and they broke the key off in the lock, I'd be the one paying for the repair.

However, if I was leasing a house from someone else and I broke the key off in the lock, then I would be the one paying for the repair.

Hope this helps...

If you're using an adaptor other than the one that came with the device make sure the polarity is the same. There should be a diagram on the device and the adaptor showing if the center of the connector is positive or negative. If the adaptor and device aren't the same, you'll blow it up.

Higher frequencies are more directional than lower frequencies and you're not going to hear them as well as lower frequencies if you don't have a line of sight.

Some dogs are afraid of thunder but replicating that with an amp and speaker would be difficult. Most dogs don't like fireworks. Neighbors might wonder about you doing that though.

Maybe if there was only one religion and everyone belonged to it. As it is, there's probably less peaceful coexistence than there would be with no religion at all.

No mention of ganja, glad their priorities are in order.

Increasing the input voltage for a circuit designed to operate within a certain voltage range will either blow it up or cause it to fail prematurely.

Even if you knew how high you could go with the input voltage, you're probably not going to get that much more out of it.

Someone mentioned one used 6 batteries, that's 9v. If it was possible to get more output by increasing the input voltage, the manufacturer could include a 12v or 18v or 24v AC adapter for about the same price as the 9v one and be able to claim for example "60dB output on batteries, 70dB output on AC power" (twice as loud). Since they don't, that tells me the circuit was designed for 9v nominal input.

If you want to modify that one, you need to find a point on the board where you have a line-level signal (where it goes into the power amp) and run that into a higher power amplifier that has frequency response of at least 30-35k. Maybe you could just use the output to the piezo transducer and possibly put an attenuator on it so it doesn't distort. Most audio amps roll off fast over 16kHz and have a lot less output at 20kHz and almost nothing at 30kHz. And to handle the higher power, you'll want to have the amp drive a horn tweeter with a frequency range of up to 30-35kHz.

I think it was around 22-25kHz where mine worked the best but it you just have an oscillator that outputs a steady sine wave, to the dog it would be like listening to the hi-pitched noise of an old CRT TV flyback (about 15kHz), it's a little annoying if you can hear that high but you get used to it, so would the dog.

What you need, and this device probably has it, is a modulated, sweeping frequency like you can hear here, except at ultrasonic frequencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMyY3_dmrM

Steps involved:

Open the device and locate the line-level signal.

Find or build an ultrasonic audio amp and a power supply

Buy a suitable horn tweeter.

Box it up and connect the device to the amp and amp to horn tweeter.

It's not as simple as turning the existing device up to 11.

If I had problem dogs near my house I'd probably build one, the bigger, the better. Bark-activated so if the dog's not barking, the thing's not outputting any sound.

My only annoyance now is roosters.

what frequency / wavelength works best and does a dog get familiar with it and ignore it ?

do other animals hear it too ?

Can you make one that is directional like a radar gun ,

Does a dogs bark have a certain frequency / wavelength ? then you could make it the trigger at that frequency / wavelength to turn it on.

and how much does it hurt other non barking dogs who can not get away from your dog silencer ? maybe they are in a cage or restricted area?

I do not have a dog problem how as they moved , but who knows the future and I hate to hurt a non barking dog to try and "teach" a barking one

The devices on the market at present don't "hurt" the dog, they distract it or irritate it, rather like their barking irritates the neighbour, I think the problem is they get used to it, rather like the Thais do their dog's barking. Even the loudest of these devices is only 1.6watts, which is not that loud, even though it is at high frequency.

According to another poster 1.6watts is enough, so that is what I would like to aim for, hopefully by increasing the input power to mine using a variable voltage DC mains supply.

I thought I made it clear from the start this is not about inflicting pain in some sort of clandestine attack on the neighbour's poor dog, it is about shutting the dog up from nuisance barking. So nuisance dog owners stop trolling this thread, if there was a product I could aim at the like's of you instead of your dog, I would prefer that, but there isn't. Remember, you are the real problem here.

As I have said before, the woman next door has a barky dog, but after a quiet word she takes her dog in at night and does her best to train her dog the rest of the time. The new guy on the other side, however, has the attitude, "my house, my dog, my country, so go back home if you don't like that." So I have to deal with that, if I want any peace.

So really I am looking for some technical help, for this very solvable problem.

I'm not sure why I have both and I'm not sure why immigration gave me a multiple reentry if I didn't need it.

On my extension of stay it says" To keep your stay permit (,) reentry permit must be made before leaving Thailand" ( I added the comma for readability).

Which to me implies that I either need a multiple entry permit, or apply for some other reentry permit before I leave.

I know how to get a multiple reentry permit and it's good for a year and I don't have to do anything to get back in and there's no risk of forgetting and having my extension of stay cancelled when I return. Can I apply at the airport before I leave?

How can I come and go as I please with an extension of stay? How can I get a reentry permit?

I think I've got everything sorted except for this "Up to date Kor Ror 2 marriage registry." What is it?