Orac

London Airports will be open from 1900 Tuesday for minimum 24 hours - this has been advised to airlines operating at LHR from Airline Operators Committee

I have heard that NATS have announced UK airspace will reopen Tuesday - Scotland 0600, Midlands 1200 and Southern 1800. Got this from an intl airline but not seen anything direct from NATS

Update - info confirmed now by General Secretary of Airline Operators Commitee for LHR. Times are GMT

Have been stopped many times, mainly for speeding, but have never had a gun pointed at me ???

To me it sounds fairly obvious that the reds are motivated by money and, in Thailand, i would be surprised to find many that were not. At the moment in our village everyone is very hard at work in the fields which is vital in providing an income for them - it would be highly irresponsible of them to leave this unless there was some recompensation to cover this loss of vital income.

If she is insisting it is harmless and you aren't going to get it tested why don't you give it her back and ask her to take it herself?

dam_n locals spoiling your view - they should be ashamed of themselves!

I agree a rough budget for the year with my wife to include all our expenses in Thailand including holidays, house improvements or a new car and then transfer this into her bank account.

It sounds to me like a relationship that has gone bad because one of the partners has strayed. I had something very similar happen to me 20 years ago where I was engaged to marry a girl I had known for 3 years who was a couple of years older than me. We had bought a house together but a couple month before we were due to get married she started being evasive and coming home late. After a couple of weeks of this I went to her work place and found her with another bloke. The difference here was that this all happenned in the UK.

Though this may be something that happens more frequently here it is not specific to Thailand and relationships that break down because one of the people meets someone else happen the world over. At least in this situation the OP didn't end up out of pocket too much.

My wife came to live in the UK three years ago for a year and, within a couple of weeks, had more friends than I did.

Surely you should speed up whilst flashing your headlights vigerously.

Hi Marc

For a single trip you may be better off just with on old fashioned paper map - surely once you are in the right general area your wife will know where she is going??

My wife has family that live in some 'jungle' locations and the powermap X2 my sat-nav uses is pretty useless but she is able to direct me.

Orac

I have deleted my own post as I was replying to Cognos and it was not the right place to do so in view of the events that have taken place.

A slight detour --

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2...true&cat=15

What do people think about the idea of pumping sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere from both poles through 24 km garden hoses floating in the air via balloons? This simulates major volcanic eruptions which provide about a year of cooling. Lets face it, we are not going to stop carbon emissions anytime soon, and even if we stopped cold turkey right now (impossible) much of the existing global warming causing carbon will last for hundreds of years.

This garden hose suspended on balloons pumping sulfur dioxide idea carries risks. If we try it, we won't really know the effects until then, even with thorough modeling and testing. However, as man made global warming is real, if such options prove promising, and global cooperation over carbon remains way too slow, what real choice (other than fiddling while Rome burns) would we have other than to take this kind of risk? It is only a stopgap emergency tactic until we figure out a way to really become carbon neutral (which clearly can't happen for many decades).

This sulfur dioxide pumping idea is big. We will likely be hearing a lot more about this.

To the global warming skeptics, you are really irrelevant and I don't know why people waste time arguing with your conspiracy theory silliness. The proof is there that man has caused this situation. The only major question is how many years we have before massive disaster, such as the Gulf Stream just stopping.

It is certainly something worth exploring though there is a lot of opposition from environmentalists including Al Gore who apparently has describe the idea as 'nuts'.

I posted the attached links on JRTs climate change rant thread a week or two ago that has a few more details plus a link to the realclimate website which is against the idea.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/envi...icle6879251.ece

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archi...comment-page-7/

Since the political will does not appear to be there at the moment to deal with the issues we face with regards to the environment, of which I am not convinced that CO2 emmisions are neccessarily the most pressing/serious then it will make us far more reliant on a technological solution in the future, be it energy issues or geoengineering, and it would therefore make a lot of sense to be funding this research seriously rather than all the spending on 'hot air' at the moment.

Sorry Mick - never tried it.

Trying to get the kids DVD playing in the rear monitor - can't do it!? The DVD only plays on the front monitor....guess it's time to start going through all the setting to find out how to do that.

If it is the same as mine you need to select AV setup and then select the '2' tab on the top ('1' tab is for the front screen). This should allow you to select the screen input (set to DVD). For some reason the front screen seems to automatically select the input but the rear screen I have to set depending on DVD or ipod video.

I am totally disgusted at what these 'world leaders' have managed to achieve at Copenhagen and how they can pass it off as anything other than a disaster is beyond me.

At least those here on TV that argue the warmist case make an effort to fight their case and stand up for what they believe in rather than the pathetic display of leadership that we have just witnessed.

I suppose a lot of it has to do with the nature of your surroundings and your comfort level within them. As has been stated by others, the community spirit in our small village is far removed from anything I have seen in the UK and it appears to be more of a case that, not only does everyone know everyone else but everyone seems to have decended from three familys here with many links between them - it is virtually impossible here to find anyone who cannot be expressed as related in some way.

Also, rather than take my lead from the media and what I hear from other sources which seem to thrive on a climate of fear and worry, I am happy with my own observations of the people surrounding my daughter, particularly the other children in the village where, despite there being a lot of poverty, the kids are all healthy, polite and well behave. Despite the poor conditions here they have clearly being well brought up and are a credit to their parents - if I can do as good a job as they have then I will be a very happy.

I think you may be overreacting a bit here. I am in a similar position to you be the sound of things having a 9 month old daughter however, I am very greatful for the support we get from the people that live around us, including the men. If our girl crys for more than a couple of minutes one of the neighbours will appear to see if there is a problem. Also, since she still is not sleeping through the night and waking up at 6am, it is great to be able to step outside our front door first thing in the morning and within a couple of minutes someone will come and take her off me for an hour or so which gives us an ideal break first thing in the morning.

As far as abuse is concerned, as a previous poster stated above, everyone in the village knows everybody else (apart from me that is!) and, yes, there are some characters I wouldn't trust near her but the ones that I do trust know them far better than I do!

I must say that I almost agree with you on the levels of hygene in the village what are a far cry from western standards, however, it doesn't seem to be doing the locals much harm and, by being exposed to a slightly harsher environment at a young age is not neccessarliy a bad thing and will hopefully make her more resilient as she grows older.

The one thing I am very sure of is that we made the right decision to spend the first couple of years after she was born in the village with the natural support structures that it offers rather than elsewhere in Thailand or the UK. Unfortunately the one major thing lacking here is the access to a good education.

They probably hold on to them just to annoy us. I know that, as a Brit, if the rest of Europe vote to get rid of 1p and 2p coins the UK population would probably be up in arms no matter how useless they were.

Is this it??

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Help-Please-...ed-t322776.html

Um, guys, its nearly 2010 not 1010. Women stopped being chattel a few years ago. Get over it.

your term,chattel has to do with treating woman badly, not women being a certain way.

Have you considered investing in a new dictionary?

Whether our governments respond properly or not is a totally separate issue than about the truth of the theory.

Indeed so.

Although they are technically seperate issues what would you say is the more important one - what we do about it or if it is true or not. Surely if you are taking the position that it is an incontrovertable truth then the actions we take should be far more important. To just argue the existance of AGW seems like a pointless exercise if we are not looking at the options we have for dealing with it unless the aim is to be able to say 'I told you so' in a few years.

It's a very good point and, as you say, something which everyone ducks. I remember reading on The Oil Drum someone pointing out that if you point out to most environmentalists "I've just heard the remainder of the Larsen Ice Shelf is disintegrating" they will unanimously be unhappy; if you say "the recession's over and the economy's growing", they'll - probably - unanimously be happy. This doesn't make any sense because - as sure as eggs is eggs - a growing economy is bad news for the Larsen Ice Shelf. There's a lot of talk about the green economy, green collar jobs, green growth but that all strikes me as <deleted>. How can, for example, we expect the British economy to be in 40 years time using 10% of the fossil fuel it currently uses and this not to have consequences for the economy? A healthy economy needs to grow at something like 2 or 3% per annum. That means doubling in size every 25 to 35 years. And doubling the size of the economy means, if not doubling, at least increasing dramatically inputs, including energy...but the world is a finite place. You can't grow indefinitely in a finite environment. That's obvious. A hundred years ago, economic growth had only a relatively slight impact on the global environment and it was possible - it probably even made sense - to ignore it. That's no longer the case. We need to convert very rapidly to a steady state economy and that poses very serious, in fact almost certainly fatal, consequences for capitalism. Your second point about poverty is also valid. Wealth inequalities and poverty survive because of economic growth. Without economic growth you have a hel_l of a problem and the only solution is wealth redistribution, both within and between nations. It means - for the West and elites in the global South - getting a lot poorer. Well, tough shit.

Of course, I don't expect this to happen; countries go to war for an awful lot less (as this decade has shown, as if it needed any more evidence). I can't imagine that in a choice between giving up wealth now and bequeathing a damaged world to our children later, anyone other than a small majority is going to select the former.

Personally I don't believe that the global governments have the balls to make the decisions required of them IF AGW is as real and dangerous as is being suggested though, since they are shouting their green credentials from the rooftops, we should get an indication of how much of this is hot air by seeing what decisions come out of Copenhagen.

I would be interested in knowing peoples thoughts on the linkage between economic growth and climate change. They appear to be treated as two seperate subjects, however, surely there is a correlation between economic growth which basically seems to involve more and more consumption of raw materials, including the fossil fuels, that it is argued are having a significant effect on the climate unless there are significant technological changes ahead, specifically on the energy front.

The UK government seems very much behind the current climate agenda, however, both major UK political parties have stressed that there primary concern from a policy perspective for the upcoming election is the economy and, apart from the blip in interest in climate change brought on by Copenhagen, the media still seems focused on the importance of economic growth worldwide.

Another arguement being made is that economic growth is a major factor in lifting the poor of the world out of poverty with China leading the way but needing to achieve growth of 8% just to maintain the current status quo.

I am not looking to deflect the AGW arguement to an economic one but as neither a scientist of economist would be interested to know if one debate can be as totally divorced from the other as appears at the moment.

A few days ago there was a post about a rider which died in a similar accident in udon.Can't find the post anymore.Are we talking about the same accident or not.

Sounds very much like the same accident- condolences to the friends and family of the deceased.

Moral of the story- NEVER assume you have the right of way when you're on a bike. Regardless of the color of the light, the consequences of failing to LOOK before you proceed through an intersection can be fatal.

RIP

The other thread about this (if indeed they are the same accident) read as if the threads author witnessed the accident.

I cant find it either.

is this the post being refered to:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Beware-Ridin...amp;hl=accident

Since Marshbags states that the lorry driver didn't stop it may be a different incident.