AsianAtHeart

Ignorance feeds dependence on others and their knowledge. The more uneducated one is about health, the more revering one will be of the doctors, and the less likely one will be to question the doctors or to think oneself capable of selecting a good home treatment. Furthermore, as fear accompanies ignorance, the lack of education may cause some to assume the condition is worse than it actually is--causing an increased felt need to seek treatment.

Actually, check your network connection. Are you working through a proxy? I went ahead and tried the site you linked, and it works for me. http://site.ksp.or.th/ ...or did I just happen to catch it as it came back online?

That's not the URL I used. I was registering at this one: https://selfservice.ksp.or.th/ksp-esv/login.jbx (Click on the "registration" link at the very bottom if not yet registered.)

MY OPINIONS: 1) Google Earth is not terribly accurate. It suffers some of the same flaws as the GPS units do with respect to elevation. The problem is that the triangulation with satellites yields more unstable results as those satellites near the horizon--and it is those nearest the horizon which should, in theory, provide the best depth perception. A satellite that is directly overhead cannot easily read the surface terrain. 2) Neighbors' reports are unreliable. Before we bought some land, we were led to believe flooding would be no issue. After the purchase, the tune changed. Sure enough, flooding was an issue, and we ended up trucking in tons of earth fill. Rather disappointing on that count. 3) Because barometric pressure is unstable, it may require having close calculations, but, in theory, with a barometer to give the exact barometric pressure, and a very good thermometer to measure the temperature of water boiling, in addition to calculations of atmospheric temperature and humidity, an elevation can be calculated. I do not know exactly how accurate this method is, but I know, on the basis of the boiling water, that Dr. David Livingston was able to quite accurately map parts of Africa many years ago. I believe that, given accurate data and accounting for all of the complicating variables, it is possible to be quite accurate with the altitude. Here are some links to get started with the information, though none of these seems to be a complete and perfect fit to your needs by themselves: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/boiling-points-water-altitude-d_1344.html https://www.omnicalculator.com/chemistry/boiling-point-altitude https://waterinformer.com/boiling-temperature-of-water-at-different-altitudes-across-the-globe/ To be able to get precise enough for this to work, though, you'll have to have a very precise thermometer. Fifty feet in elevation will change the boiling temperature of water by only about 0.1 degrees. So if you want 5-foot accuracy, you'll need a digital thermometer that gives temperatures in hundredths of a degree -- in addition to having accurate data and equations for the calculations which properly account for other factors (starting with pure, distilled water, to help eliminate inaccuracies, for example).

All of you posting violent answers as "solutions" are in need of some enlightenment. Some of you are very fortunate that the bullies did not muscle up and wreak revenge in their own way. There is another answer that is superior, and safer. Kindness. Yes, you read that right. My brothers met up with a bully in school. They took homemade cookies and gave them to the bully. The bully knew good and well that he did not deserve such kind treatment, having caused them much distress--and this kind act shocked him. They took more cookies to the bully the next day. After this, not only did the bully cease his bullying, but he also stood up for my brothers and defended them against anyone who might dare to cause trouble. The bully became the protector. Far better it is to win someone over than to merely scare him or her off.

Bullying in answer to bullying will accomplish nothing. Who is the bigger bully? In this case, the slasher might be tried for attempted murder--that's a much more serious charge than bullying.

It sounds a bit like entrapment--some kind of sting operation, no doubt.

I don't believe the hearing of voices saying negative things is so much a mental issue as a spiritual one. You might wish to find a good pastor who can give proper counselling and instruction regarding the unseen battle for her soul. Some things find answers only through prayer.

I'm not sure what you may be seeing, but I just registered on the site--have yet to get results back--and I had considerable difficulty with the identification number. The form kept removing the "Send" option if I tried to fill in that field. I finally narrowed it down to that specific field, as none of the others presented a problem for me. I checked the page source, saw the javascript code that was returning "false" if the number did not have 13 digits, and then typed in my identification number in a separate text editor, copied and pasted the full 13 digits all at once into that field in the browser window, and voila! I was finally able to submit my form without it disabling itself. Of course, to have a 13-digit ID number, a foreigner must have the pink card, or at least the yellow "tabien ban." I've heard that many foreigners do not have this number (and it can be a bear to obtain), so they go through the school that employs them, having the school do the online submission for them, using the school's own numbers. I'm not sure exactly how that works, but it is certain that one cannot register for Kurusapa without the 13-digit identification number.

"much online merriment as acting PM dozes" He's pretty good to be "acting" at the same time he "dozes."

No one is saying he deserved to die, least of all me. I'm not sure why it seems you took it that way. What came across to me in the OP was the mother's repeated insistence that her son was "a good and lively boy who was never in trouble", "a great kid who never got into trouble", and the article also claimed that "Neither of the boys were ever in trouble and were not mixed up in drugs." It may be simply that the mother is going through the denial phase of the stages of grief, where she wants to believe that it could not have happened, justifying her denial with telling herself things like this. It may also be that she is, subconsciously, trying to put out of her mind some of her own suspicions as to the real truth, and therefore making these claims to herself as well as to others. It may very well be true that the kid was innocent--but, again, we simply do not know what happened or what led to it. We can hope that more of the facts will come to light. We still do not know, for instance, what the murderer's motive was. Did he even know the boys? We do not know, do we? We have to be careful about prejudging what happened when we don't have these important facts. That's all I'm saying.

It's hard to know what really happened. The mother may not be up to speed on what her son was into, seeing as she had left him to the care of grandparents and was not living with her son. No guardian was present when the tragedy took place. No one wishes to think ill of one's deceased relatives--it is natural to defend them, even if they were not exactly spotless. Perhaps the child was innocent, but we simply do not know all the facts to be certain of this.

Even a helmet wouldn't save you with a direct hit on a pole like that. He may well have broken his neck, in addition to cracking his skull.

In that short of a time, with the cloud cover that seems evident from the photo, this one was not yet so close to a tragedy. I'm sure the little lad was just fine. Had the father gone for his nap without discovering the boy, though, the story could certainly have ended differently. Children definitely like to play with keys. This is rather normal behavior. I always like to keep a spare key outside the vehicle, just in case I were to lock myself out. Even if the car alarmed, because the security system had not been deactivated, at least I could get inside to retrieve the fob for the car.

Zero tattoos for me or mine, thanks.

Now, if instead of pumping this runoff all out to sea they made a slurry of it with some trucked-in silt and sand and pumped it all underground, perhaps they could reverse the sinking trend for the city and come out on top.

This won't work. First, the students do not arrive in the classroom within 15 minutes. The van can arrive back at the school as much as a half hour before the start of school, and before the students enter the classrooms, they have their morning routine at the flag raising ceremony where teachers also take opportunity to give some public instruction, such as following the school rules, or they may make extended announcements--all this before the first class begins. Secondly, not every school is equipped, technologically, to be scanning QR codes for every child as they enter a classroom. As much as I would like to see children arrive in school more safely, I don't think this is necessarily the answer. The COI in having this company promoting its own product to meet this need is huge, and doesn't bode well for a good fit for anyone beyond the company's coffers.

Vitamin C levels take a hit with covid, which is one reason doctors have been prescribing some. But smoking a cigarette costs vitamin C as well, so you may already be behind the curve on this one. It couldn't hurt to try taking some. Personally, I like a B-complex anytime I'm sick--it seems to be more effective for me than the vit. C. It all depends on what the body needs most at the time.

Wow, really? I guess I'm out-of-date. That's interesting. It seems, then, that they did indeed dislike the American answering all the questions, to the point of making it impossible. And I guess two decades plus is "many many years ago." Maybe you're a bit younger.

I have just one suggestion to add to the mix. When you go to your visa interview at the embassy, have your Thai wife do as much of the talking as possible--even if her English is limited. There's just something about seeing an independent/capable streak in the woman that seems to help sway the balance. I watched a young man ahead of me in line answer all the questions for his fiance, and she just stood there mostly silent beside him. The visa was denied. Two weeks later, at our interview, I had my wife do most of the talking, and only answered for her when she had not comprehended the question. Her fiance visa was accepted. I have heard that at the time there was a 100-visa/year quota on those; well, we got one. Note that this advice is merely my opinion, based on just one or two cases which I was privy to. And this comes from decades ago. But something about the American spirit seems to resist the idea of meek and submissive, "mail-order brides." (And please know that I am not intending to be offensive in any way here.) On the other hand, I also know of a Thai lady, unmarried, who had a high-paying job, a house, and a car, who was denied a tourist visa in order to accompany her own elderly mother on the airplane. Her mother had proper documents to stay in America, and was not merely a tourist. The woman wanted to escort her mother, stay about two or three weeks, then return to Thailand. But, no, it was not to be. Single, marriageable women have a more difficult time obtaining a visa, because America seemingly doesn't want them to quickly marry and then have a path to citizenship. Too late for this now, but I think it's easier to get a fiance visa, then marry in America, than to get a visa for her after you're already married.

You can always request that your appointment be scheduled a little sooner if they have received the results back from the head office (in my case it's all sent to Chiangmai and returned to my local province). The kind folk at the office have been able to let me come in on a Thursday or a Friday instead of waiting until the following Monday on more than one occasion. That may not change the schedule enough to make this worthwhile in your case--or maybe it would. For us, the immigration folk called to confirm--or we did, I don't remember--that the results had come in, letting us know that we were free to come on in for the stamp, etc. It's up to them, of course, but I don't think it hurts to ask--unless you think they're already bothered about your case and in no mood to make exceptions.

The heartbeat waveform is completely missing. It appears that the number may be simply the oxygen monitor--and, like a fish out of water, there just might still be some oxygen exposed to the sensor from the room atmosphere. On a living person, that oxygen should usually be over 90, not 45 as in the display. Below about 45, a person won't live for very long.

Evolutionists point to the fact that their "theory" is really "fact" because "the theory of gravity" is also a "fact." The mathematics of gravity are well understood, and it is more "scientific" than the "theory" of abiogenesis and naturalistic evolution. But gravity is still understood to be "theory" because we still do not know what causes it. (This is actually a good evidence for the existence of God if ever there was one.) With evolution, it is nowhere near the level of "fact" implied by the word "theory." Even "hypothesis" is overestimating it. "Myth" is more accurate, or perhaps "fable." The evolutionists are forced to doctor their data to protect their theory, and they are often forced to make radical changes to what they had previously touted as "fact" in order to accommodate some new piece of evidence that has come to light. There are zero transitional forms found in the fossil record to date. There have been zero successes at creating life in a laboratory. There has been no evidence of any major evolution of any animal from one class of animals (Biblical "kind") to another, e.g. horse to dog or vice versa, in recorded history. Dogs breed and make dogs--even if they might have radically different features. Horses breed and make horses, regardless of whether they might turn out to be 18 inches tall or 8 feet tall. The sheer paucity of these evidences in the face of the tremendous volume of claims made in favor of them speaks for itself. Of course, if you believe life came into existence by itself, I'm sure you can believe that these rocks stacked themselves, or that it happened in a dust devil. That stack of rocks is far less complex than a single strand of DNA.

Thailand is not so exceptional here if they do not require seatbelts in buses. What country does? Buses are safer. They have a long wheelbase, are driven by professionals (in my country, a bus driver must have a commercial driver's license plus a passenger endorsement, plus removal of air-brakes restriction, plus current first aid/CPR certification, plus current health certificate, etc.), and buses have extra wheels on the ground for traction. They typically are equipped with air brakes, and have many safety features built-in to their design. Furthermore, any front-side impact is mitigated somewhat for passengers by the cushioned seats in front of them. Having a seatbelt on in an accident could impede egress, especially for smaller children, the elderly, or the incapacitated who might struggle to remove it. This might be because a seatbelt could cause considerable spinal damage or neck injury (if using a shoulder strap, possibly even decapitation) to someone seated sideways in the event of an impact. Rear-facing means you would, theoretically, have your back rested against a seat that would effectively prevent much motion.

I don't speak without personal experience. I've been in rollover highway accidents, both with and without a seatbelt. I'm still here to tell the stories. Firsthand experience is a great teacher. As I said, in most cases, the seatbelt will be helpful. But there are some cases where it can actually be the cause of a fatality. As a child, I witnessed the burned-out wreck of a car at the foot of a 480-foot cliff. The woman driving the vehicle had lost her way in blizzard-like conditions, and, not seeing the road and fearing she had gotten off the road, she reversed her car and backed up, looking for the road again. With all of the whiteness of the snow, in the gathering darkness, she did not realize where she was when suddenly she found herself tumbling over the edge of the cliff. A rocky abutment caught the car near the top of her descent and flipped it, throwing her out. She was fortunate to not have been wearing her seatbelt. Had she been strapped in, she would have tumbled all the way down, and been killed--probably upon impact, but if not, in the fire which ensued. Seatbelts can save lives, and often do. They can also kill. The media rarely tells this other side of the story, choosing to reinforce the times when seatbelts should have been worn, and ignoring these times when they were detrimental. The media tells a lopsided story, and many people never hear about these cases where seatbelts would have been harmful. As pertains to Thailand, it will be interesting to see if the seatbelt laws have any impact whatsoever on road fatalities. My guess is it will be far, far less beneficial than anticipated--if at all. Will they make motorcyclists wear them? (This would not help at all, obviously.) And most of the fatalities in Thailand are of those on two wheels.