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That sounds a little high to me. I'm not saying your quote is necessarily unreasonable. Who really knows post-Covid, but I'd get at least a couple of consults with dentists who have a lot of positive reviews before deciding. Google Maps review are an excellent way to find a good dentist ????

Just passing it on; I had the same problem and it was driving me crazy. Of course Lazada drives me crazy in more ways than this. Lazada has got to have one of the worst search engines I've ever seen.

@Mickeymaus has the correct strategy and it's very simple to do (at least in Chrome): Right click with your mouse anywhere on a Lazada page and select "translate" from the list. It will automatically translate to whatever language you selected in Chrome Preferences for languages. Note: Do NOT add Thai to the Google preferences for Languages. The list is only for languages you want to translate TO, not from. Don't even bother using Lazada's language button which usually will not translate reviews or even work on all pages.

You may be correct but I also have an Apple Magic Mouse that is now over 7 years old. It was my sole mouse until a few years ago when I switched to LogiTech, and it still works perfectly. As I mentioned, the mechanical switch for left-clicking seem to work fine. It's only when I try to drag an object across the screen that it fails. To me, that sounds like something having to do with software, not hardware, and I have seen it mentioned online more than once that the software from LogiTech that's needed to configure the mouse is very buggy and has not been updated in several years. For the kind of work I do, I need a very precise mouse. If it only cost 105 baht as you mentioned, I wouldn't complain either but the one from LogiTech that I have had fail 3 times now costs over 4,000 Baht, so I'm complaining very loudly LOL!

I am now on my third Logitech mouse and am really disappointed! All three developed the same issue which virtually turned them into expensive paperweights, and I need to find a different brand that has the same features I need but will last longer than one year LOL! Logitech tech supports has done little to help me solve the issue, and after three different mouses have developed the same exact problem, I think I am done with Logitech for good, and want to find a more reliable mouse with the features I need The features I need are fairly simple: 1) Good laser sensor for precision 2) Wireless 3) Adjustable DP but really only need it between 800 - 1200I 4) IMPORTANT: It must allow precision horizontal scrolling and not where you click the scroll wheel left and right. Either a separate horizontal scrolling wheel like the MX-Masters, or a way to assign a hotkey that turns the vertical scroll wheel to horizontal. Any suggestions would be appreciated

I was considering that but it could take up to 28 days to get here by fastest USPS option. I found out a lot since I posted this thread yesterday. It might be help for for others: My consolidator in the US (company that warehouses your US purchases and then combines them into a single shipment, and ships at far greater discounts then you can get on your own) advised me to have them ship by "FedEX DPP". This is new shipping option where FedEx calculates the VAT + duty based on the HS codes of the item(s) you are shipping, rather than trusting your declared value that you normally write in yourself. As long as an invoice is included, they assign a value and you prepay the VAT + duty. Their estimated value resulted in under $10 USD for VAT and duty. Why it wasn't free, I don't know but I guess the shipping charge of $50 is why. My consolidator said it is a new thing that pretty much avoids any surprises from Customs, and in all likelihood I should receive the item delivered to my door with no fuss At any rate, it sounds good to me! $60 shipping & fees, and 6 days until I receive it! Keeping my fingers crossed ????

It's an old, beat up 4tB hard drive. I already explored the idea of a cloud transfer, and not as easy as you may think. Perhaps a professional company might be able to do it for me but that would be far more expensive than shipping the drive. In the end, shipping the drive itself was the best option, since delivery time is only 6 days and shipping cost by FedEx (through my consolidator) is just $50 USD.

Yes, my consolidator told me that FedEx now refers to this as DPP (duty prepaid). Many stores have offered this, but according to my consolidator, FedEx has now made it much more efficient so that there are no unpleasant surprises. According to my consolidator, when I fill out the customs declaration and include an invoice in the box, the FedEx server looks up the HS codes and then quotes a precise cost for VAT and duty that Customs will rarely dispute. In other words, they are not just basing it on what I write in as declared value. Keeping my fingers crossed to see if this all is actually true since I have had horrible experiences with Customs in the past.

You sound like you are well versed in nutrition but my posts are directly more towards people who only get their information from seeing a few You Tube video (mostly directed towards weight loss). My point is very simple. The human body has a remarkable ability to maintain a proper and healthy ratio of stored fat vs lean body mass provided there is a hormonal balance. By "hormonal balance" I simply mean where insulin levels are able to get low enough to allow stored body fat (triglycerides) to easily be converted to fatty acids that can be burned as fuel. That shift can not happen efficiently if you are continually in a fed-state since your glycogen levels will always be too high to allow that to efficiently occur. The whole point of getting yourself into a ketogenic state is simply to restore that balance quickly; in a sense to shock the body with a hard reset and really nothing else. It only takes a week or two for that to occur. In sports nutrition circles, it's referred to as becoming "fat adapted" or "keto-adapted" and it's practiced by many endurance athletes to optimize fat metabolism, and thus avoid the need for things like sports gels and energy drinks. It's done for a week or two, and then the athletes return to consuming as much carbs as they desire. The goal is basically to restore the body's ability to efficiently utilize stored fat as a fuel source. Like many things in human physiology, if something is not regularly used, it becomes atrophied. If muscles are not worked, they get smaller and less strong. It's no different in fat metabolism. If the body is not regularly made to shift from burning glucose to burning stored fat, it becomes less able to do so. IMO THAT IS THE CAUSE OF OBESITY, not simply consuming too many calories. IMO, Ketogenesis is simply a fast and efficient way to restore this ability to shift from glucose to fat as a fuel source, which is referred to as fat-adaptation or keto-adaptation. I think it should be considered as a short-term strategy, not a long term lifestyle Once fat adaptation is achieved there is no need to continue such a rigorous regime , and who would really want to? I mean limiting yourself to less than 50g of carbs a day is not very pleasant!. Once you are fat adapted, all that's required is to make sure that optimal hormonal balance is maintained. You don't have to limit carbs to do that; you just need to make sure your body deplete glycogen daily to the extent that fat metabolism can efficiently occur. Athletes do it simply through exercise, and they can do that while consuming copious amounts of carbs since they are easily burning them off. Less active people just need to either eat less carbs or space their consumption of them to an extent that glycogen stores are not always in a fully fed state...and that does not require abstaining from carbs or keeping them below 50 grams per day which is the usual keto benchmark. I embrace this, and it works for me, allowing me to lead an active lifestyle without restricting carbs to an uncomfortable level. If I occasionally cross over the line, which easily happens during the holidays or on vacations, a multi day (i.e.: 72 hours) water fast is my preferred way of restoring metabolic balance so I don't really think of that as "keto". What I am real rigorous about though is allowing enough time between meals so that I know my glycogen stores get depleted often enough to maintain good fat metabolism. If I am exercising intensively (i.e.: 5K runs, long bike rides, etc) I don't really need to think about it, but if not, than I just eat once a day. I'm not advocating that to anyone else unless they first understand the underlying physiology of it all, but it actually has a number of benefits that go far beyond what merely being in a ketogenic state can provide, but that's another topic entirely. Anyway, bottom line...getting into a ketogenic state (eating under 50g of carbs per day) is a short term strategy for restoring metabolic health, not something I would adopt as a long term nutritional lifestyle. I have NEVER implied that carbs in themselves are bad for you; what is bad for you is being in a continually fed state with them to the point that you are no longer fat-adapted (as defined above).

Does anyone have advice on how to describe this on Customs Declaration form so that it might (hopefully) just pass through Customs, free of duty and VAT? I mean, it's an old beat up hard drive that's probably not worth much so it's not about the money. The issue is that if I must pay, it means I have to waste the better part of a day travelling to and from the nearest post office which is two hours away from me.

I think you are missing my point, even though i appreciate that we seem to be more or less on the same page . The reason I get upset when I hear the term "keto diet" is because the popular concept of it does not acknowledge what the real cause of obesity is in the first place. The real cause of obesity is not excessive calories. The real cause is a metabolic imbalance caused by too many consumed carbohydrates. This is not a biased theory. It is a basic biochemical fact that has been well understood by scientist for decades. The human body is intended to be fueled by BOTH glucose and fats equally...BUT stored body fat can not be accessed until glycogen stores start to become depleted. This is also not a biased theory. It is simply a biochemical reality. If glycogen stores are always full (i.e.: you are always in a fed state), the body is incapable of breaking down stored body fat from triglycerides to fatty acids which can be used as fuel. It's really that simple! So, always being in a fed state (i.e.: eating meals throughout the day and snacking in between) prevents the body from accessing stored body fat, and over time, this state becomes the "new normal" so that if you miss even one of those snacks, you will feel hungry, and now you are on the slippery slope to becoming obese. All that a "keto diet" is supposed to accomplish is to break this cycle so that the proper metabolic balance between glucose and stored fats can be restored. THAT is the ONLY goal of inducing ketogenesis. Thus, it is not a weight loss diet at all. The goal is not to be in a ketogenic state until you are no longer fat, or to practice it as a lifestyle. The goal is simply to restore the metabolic balance between how the body uses glucose and stored fats. Once that happens, then it is simply a matter of controlling carb intake so this balance is not lost. If it is maintained, the human body is perfectly capable of restoring proper levels of stored fat. In other words, you will shed the extra fat...BUT it is not a "keto diet, or any other diet that makes that happen. It is simply your own body doing it naturally. When people don't respect the underlying metabolic science, and instead think that that the solution is to just cut calories, they are doomed to failure. Caloric restriction diets have been around for over one hundred years under all sorts of names, and yet not one of them has ever worked in the long run. The fact that obesity is now considered an epidemic in most Western countries is all the proof you need that conventional weight loss diets simply do not work.

LOL, I enjoyed reading your post but with all your acronyms I'm not sure what you were saying. "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl!" ??? I am guessing that must be a gaming term, yes? ALl I was really saying is that coding that goes into Microsoft products is incredibly bloated compared to Apple's clean and efficient coding. Apple ran a series of ads back in 2007 comparing Macs to PC's and they were hysterical to watch. Here is one of them that kind of sums up what I am saying:

You are not reading my posts carefully. You misunderstand what I am saying entirely. I am not advocating that anyone follow my own personal nutritional protocol. All that I am saying in all of my posts is that people should base their nutritional beliefs on the underlying science, not the fads. My message is very simple! The moment you use terms like Keto, OMAD, IF, Carnivore DIet, Basic AF, etc... it's obvious you are not basing your decisions on the actual underlying metabolic science of nutrition, and instead are basing it on fad diets promoted by health gurus who cherry pick bits and pieces of information that supports their own personal narrative. That can only make you a follower, not a true thinker. I am NOT a believer in any of the tags you speak of. I used to do that until I realized I was just being lazy and found it easier to accept other people's interpretation of the science. When I talk about carbohydrates, calories, obesity, Diabetes, high fat vs high carbs, etc... I am talking about biochemical based science, and WHY I BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE. That is quite different from advocating that you follow my own personal protocol. WHen I say to explore the underlying science, I'm NOT talking about only looking at research studies that support your preconceived notions, but objectively exploring information that not only supports what you believe but also contradicts it. Constantly challenging your beliefs is the key. That takes detached objectivity and a LOT of due diligence. Even when you have the confidence you are on the right track, you have to still be flexible in your thinking to adapt to changing science. Therefore I don't think of nutrition as a specific "diet". Rather it is an evolving lifestyle, and a lifelong pursuit. The ONLY message I offer on this thread is to ignore third-party interpretations of science, and do the hard work of exploring the science FOR YOURSELF! As long as you are willing to simply accept other people's interpretation of the science, you will never find the truth.

I have a lot of programs that are windows-based so I still have to use those on my macbook through virtual-windows but that makes my machine run like it is in molasses with the fan at max speed ????. Windows is such a bloated OS compared to Mac.

I can understand that most office environments demand you use Excel, and yeah shortcut hot keys are real important to me too in many of my daily applications like Photoshop and Adobe Premiere, not to mention Mac OSX. As far as anything to do with Microsoft, I'm not a fan. I had so many issues with Windows and MS software, when I got the famous "blue screen of death" and "Fatal Error" that's when I switched to Apple, and never looked back. This was the TV ad that made me switch...still cracks me up watching all of those old Apple Ads with those two guys that sort of look like Steve Jobs and BIll Gates. There were 66 ads in that series it was so popular.

The main reason I prefer Google Sheets is because it's cloud-based. Since I use multiple devices, it just makes life a lot easier keeping everything in sync. I use Excel for certain things that Google Sheets can't do, but sometimes Excel can be a little overwhelming with all of its' advanced functions...all very important for some people, but not so much for me.

Thanks! It was the "something else" I forgot to account for. I got confused by your reply at first but when @Lemsta69 showed an example it all made sense. I would never have gotten this right without the help of all of you...MOST appreciated!

I love Google Sheets. It usually points out errors in syntax when you insert formulas but in this case it didn't help me at all. Glad there are some smarter people than me on this forum when it comes to stuff like this. BTW, AN is always up to its' usual tricks. That's what makes it so entertaining!

Thanks to everyone for who replied. You all are the best!!

Works like a charm! Thanks ????

Sorry but as ScubaScuba3 pointed out, I forgot to state the value of Cell #13 if #14 + #15 is less than 2000. So the correct expression I'm looking for is: "If the sum of cell #14 + #15 is equal to or greater than 2000, cell #13 = 0 and if the sum of cells #14 + #15 is less than 2000, the value of cell#13 = 521.8"

Sorry, you're right...I forgot to mention the value of Cell #13 if the sum of Cell #14 + #15 is less than or equal to 2,000. So, the formula I need is: "If the sum of cell #14 + #15 is equal to or greater than 2000, cell #13 = 0 and if the sum of cells #14 + #15 is less than 2000, the value of cell#13 = 521.8"

Thanks! Is there any way it can show the numeral "0" instead of "false"? That was how it was working before. Not a big deal I guess since "FALSE" still computes as zero, but the numeral "0" just looks cleaner on a spreadsheet.

What ever is at https://docs.google.com/. I really am not an expert with the specifics of Google Sheets, but I'm pretty sure the formula is more or less universal, and I remember it was very simple.

Thanks but that I was using something similar and I just couldn't get it to work. I remember it was a very simple formula. I must be making a syntax error but I can't figure where, so hoping somebody can just write it out for me so I can plug it in.