CaptHaddock

How would you go about restoring a Duplicati-encrypted image to a bare metal machine (a machine that has no running OS.) Does Duplicati allow you to make a restore CD that would run some kind of OS and connect to the backup site, unencrypt the backup and restore it to your bare metal machine running the CD? If so, I'm interested.

No. It does a file system backup not an image backup. So, it can't do a bare metal restore. It's for your data which you specify, not the whole system. If you lost your system you would need to have the logon information to the cloud server and the duplicati password that you set. You would have to build a new system, install your applications, install duplicati, and then do a "restore from target." You would specify the latest version or as of a specific date. Duplicati would download the database for the backup and then restore the files you selected or all of them.

In my opinion the best way to run Windows is as a virtual machine. I use Vmware Workstation running on Fedora linux. This approach has many advantages such as the ability to revert to a snapshot very quickly thereby undoing damage, etc. In that configuration the windows vm is just a bunch of linux files. Duplicati will run on linux. So it would be possible to backup up your whole Windows vm to the cloud. Then if you lost your machine, you would download and reinstall Fedora, install Vmware Workstation, and then restore your Windows vm via duplicati and you are back. I don't do that because it would take more bandwidth than I have. My windows vm is 62 GB whereas the actual important data on Windows is only 3 GB.

Thanks for all the input. I was really surprised about the claimed life of the m-disc and as it happens my laptop DVD/BD drive will write those. I work with a few guys who live in the USA so will probably get a pack of those that way to ensure they are what they claim to be and not a local Thai version. That will be for long term storage of video's and photo's.

Shorter term and for distribution will be one of the better named DVD's. I have had to many flash drives die on me to really trust them and it is easier for my older relatives to just place the DVD in the drive and follow the existing step by step procedure to view the DVD. I have learned with the older relatives if it works, do not mess with it.

For my backups PC I have a USB hard drive and I will probably simply buy another and have one stored in my fire rated safe at all times and simply swap them around. I will have to investigate getting some additional cloud storage for additional critical item storage. I also visit Australia twice a year and have another fire safe there and already keep another backup there.

So pretty good with the backups, but you never really know until you need them.

Cheers

If you use cloud storage you might look at duplicati backup software from duplicati.com. Use version 2.0. Duplicati takes backups and pushes them to any of many cloud servers. The key point is duplicati's backups are encrypted by duplicati and then sent to the cloud servers. It will will keep as many versions of your files as you wish and updates by sending deltas. This is preferable because letting the cloud service mirror some directory on your computer to the cloud means that damage to your files, such as an accidental deletion, would be propagated to the cloud version defeating the backup purpose.

The longevity of magnetic tapes might be good but accessing your data is a pain. Large capacity HDDs are pretty cheap so you can have a lot of redundancy - external USB, internal duplicate HDD which can be imaged to, NAS and Home Server. You can also save your images online. I use both One Drive for Business and Bitcasa. I can't count the number of copies of my data that I have. And you thought you were anal?

And this is the point. DVDs and tape make verifiying your backup so difficult that you aren't going to do it. You'll find out that your backup is no longer readable when you go to restore from it. That's why multiple hard drives are the only practical solution because you can script verification and detect failure promptly enough to take action to save the data. It's not the longevity of HD, but the ease of access that makes it the best choice.

DVDs are not for long term storage; they are for distribution. My understanding is that they have an expected life of ten years on average. Best for long term storage is one or more external hard drives that can be verified frequently. Then you can detect when a copy has failed and copy the data to a new target.

IMO, compared to English, Thai is not a very rich language. Many tings can be described as being positive or negative, can do, cannot do, but it lacks nuance. I think many Thais hear a lot of "can not" through the course of their lives and it stifles ambition.

But that's because you want to say in Thai just what you say in English. The Thai language is most suited for Thai purposes, not yours or mine. The richness of Thai is found especially in its wealth of pronouns which are used constantly by the Thais to negotiate, affirm, modify, etc. subtle differences in status, friendship, degree of closeness, etc. By comparison English is quite poor in its ability to express such refinements. For example, in Thai I can insult you strongly just with the rude version of "I" (กู). One of my teachers explained that he once deliberately cut off a friendship permanently simply by shifting to a more formal "you" than he had been using for years with that person. Those Thai usages can be expressed in English only in a clumsy way.

I remember being a little shocked when I learned French well enough to notice the absence of the use of a shift in style from high style to low style as a source of the humor with which American English is richly endowed from Mark Twain to the Three Stooges. In French, everyone aspires to elegance. Politicians flaunt the subjunctive, et. But then after reflection one gives up looking for English in the other languages of the world to enjoy them for their own virtues.

While you make an interesting point, I disagree. I'm not looking for pronouns that tell me what you think of me or what our comparative statuses are. I'm looking for adverbs and adjectives and modifiers that more completely describe what the hell it is you're talking about. To be fair, I don't look for that only in Thais. I look for that in English speakers as well, and not always with good results.

I know what you're looking for and missing, I am only trying to point out you, by the way, are missing out on what's there. It's like joining in the vigorous discussion on TV as to the best hamburger in Bangkok. On the one hand I can (with effort) sympathize on missing a good burger, but on the other hand cannot help but wonder why, if you want a really good burger, are you not in, say, Kansas?

Really learning another language well, particularly one as distant from English as Thai, involves a progressive giving up, if only provisionally and just in bits at a time, on our original worldview. That might be stressful or disturbing, but it might be exhilirating also. What's certain is that viewing Thai as merely a defective variety of English is an impoverishing viewpoint.

IMO, compared to English, Thai is not a very rich language. Many tings can be described as being positive or negative, can do, cannot do, but it lacks nuance. I think many Thais hear a lot of "can not" through the course of their lives and it stifles ambition.

But that's because you want to say in Thai just what you say in English. The Thai language is most suited for Thai purposes, not yours or mine. The richness of Thai is found especially in its wealth of pronouns which are used constantly by the Thais to negotiate, affirm, modify, etc. subtle differences in status, friendship, degree of closeness, etc. By comparison English is quite poor in its ability to express such refinements. For example, in Thai I can insult you strongly just with the rude version of "I" (กู). One of my teachers explained that he once deliberately cut off a friendship permanently simply by shifting to a more formal "you" than he had been using for years with that person. Those Thai usages can be expressed in English only in a clumsy way.

I remember being a little shocked when I learned French well enough to notice the absence of the use of a shift in style from high style to low style as a source of the humor with which American English is richly endowed from Mark Twain to the Three Stooges. In French, everyone aspires to elegance. Politicians flaunt the subjunctive, et. But then after reflection one gives up looking for English in the other languages of the world to enjoy them for their own virtues.

Many others are going to be in this same boat when their Required Minimum Distribution kick's in and there is no way around it

I'm far removed from the $170,000 surcharge threshold for filing jointly, even with RMD. But, since having to take the RMD for the last few years, I found out that I should have started earlier, cashing in those IRAs to the extent they remained in the 15% tax bracket. Now I find that the RMD is nearly all in the 25% bracket. Oh well.

Rather than taking distributions, you should have converted them to a Roth IRA to the top of the 15% bracket before the RMDs and then those assets would have grown or produced income tax-free forever.

Too late now, Roth Conversions are treated as income in the year they are made so they can up you to past the thresholds, granted only for one year

What most people don't understand is that Medicare is allowed to count income using their formula that is called MAGI (modified adjusted gross income) which includes, tax free income, capital gains, the sale of property, withdrawals from an IRA or conversion from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA

Since it includes tax free income (primarily government bonds) I have my doubts that they can't MAGI your Roth Distributions

I thought that they couldn't touch my tax free munis which turned out to be not applicable to the Medicare MAGI

I am not worried about Roth distributions being included in my MAGI.

Earnings within a Roth IRA are tax free, so are these earnings included in the modified adjusted gross income which is used to determine Roth IRA eligibility?

By Denise Appleby

A:

There are two possible answers to this question, depending on whether or not the distribution from the Roth IRA is qualified.

Earnings on investments within a Roth IRA are neither subject to income tax nor are they included in the IRA owner's income. Instead, they accumulate on a tax-deferred basis and are tax free when withdrawn from the Roth if the distribution is qualified.

If an individual receives a distribution from his/her Roth IRA and the distribution is qualified and therefore tax free, the amount is not included in the individual's income - therefore, it is not included in the modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) to determine Roth IRA eligibility. However, if the distribution is not qualified, then the amount attributable to earnings is included in the individual's MAGI to determine Roth IRA eligibility.

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/iraearningsmagi.asp

A qualified Roth distribution is one that meets the seasoning and age requirements.

It doesn't follow at all that lack of competence to give legal consent means lack of responsibility for harming others. Where would you get that idea? You're always responsible for what you do to others, but when you are intoxicated you are not responsible for what they do to you because your ability to protect yourself has been diminished.

Cosby has been indicted, not judged. A jury will do that at the trial at which time the question of what proof they have will be answered fully. What is "a man like Bill Cosby" anyway? He should be free from accusation because he is rich? Or famous? Or funny? Those people should be legally held above suspicion? Would that include O. J. Simpson?

The US legal system is indeed inherently unfair because access to the system depends overwhelmingly depends on wealth, but Cosby is not an example of an unfortunate who lacks access to legal representation, for instance. Cosby is already using his financial clout to silence his accusers by suing a number of them for defamation knowing that the financial burden of defending themselves is likely to ruin some of them. Trials in criminal cases are not the norm at all despite white most Americans think. 97% of criminal cases never go to trial, but are resolved through plea bargaining for which lack of money to pay defense lawyers is one of the major reasons. Cosby will not have that disadvantage, you can be sure.

Its quite different to be slipped some drug without you knowing it or taking it knowingling (and usually knowing what will happen). I know from experience as I have used my fair share of drugs back in the Netherlands. Drugs can be great enhancement of sex or a really scary experience if you did not know you had taken them. Drugs that incapacitate people like GHB (knock out but if dosed right fun for the user). If you slip that to someone (hard to do as it tastes real salty I have used it on myself) you can knock them out and have your way.. that would be rape.

I wonder if all those people posting here have any experience with drugs themselves, all armchair expert. Drugs are a double edged sword, depending on how they are used and if the user knows he / she has taken them. What Cosby allegedly do is slip them unnoticed and then incapacitate the victim and use them. That is totally different from taking drugs together with someone who knows what they are doing.

Read again! Cosby offered her drugs and she willing accepted them. She was not forced or hidden in her drink. Although now she claims she didn't know what she was taking. Who takes drugs willing from a stranger and not know what they will do or not expect something to happen? The real question was did she willing accept sexual advances from Bill Cosby. Her past history after this events suggest she did.

I think just about anyone who lived through the Hippy Era has some experience with drugs in there younger years. I know I have.

Ok, I thought that it was slipped that was the case in an other Cosby case. If taken willingly, then its her own responsibility. (unless of-course it was given under a false pretense as here is some aspirin for your headache)

You don't understand how the legal code works. If you invite a woman to your place and she accepts and then you offer her drugs which she accepts and then she becomes intoxicated to the point where she is no longer competent to give legal consent, and then you have sex with her, then you have raped her. It wouldn't matter if she had brought her own drugs.

Intoxicated people, like children, are not competent to give legal consent. If that were not the case, once a person had become intoxicated she would lose all protection of law allowing a predator to do whatever he wished with impunity. We don't permit that for children and we don't permit it for a stoned person.

Let's not forget that part B isn't real health insurance. It covers only an incident that requires an overnight hospital stay. It doesn't cover doctor visits, office procedures such as lab tests or X-rays or even an MRI which is about $3,000.

If one of you folks develops a big and expensive medical condition that won't go away ever, and you need regular care for it... I thought I was healthy until right about the time I turned 65 and then... I should live a long time and be pretty much OK, but my health care costs are astounding. I doubt if there are many expats who could afford it even in Thailand, especially dragged out for perhaps 20 years.

The $250+ dollars a month I pay for insurance including Medigap is peanuts.

Cheers.

It's certainly true that Parts A & B are not adequate health insurance, but Part B does indeed cover doctor's services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Medicare Part B (medical insurance) covers medically necessary services and supplies needed for the diagnosis or treatment of your health condition. This includes outpatient services received at a hospital, doctor’s office, clinic, or other health facility. Medicare Part B also covers many preventive services to prevent illness or detect them at an early stage. Together, Medicare Part A and Part B are known as Original Medicare.

Many others are going to be in this same boat when their Required Minimum Distribution kick's in and there is no way around it

I'm far removed from the $170,000 surcharge threshold for filing jointly, even with RMD. But, since having to take the RMD for the last few years, I found out that I should have started earlier, cashing in those IRAs to the extent they remained in the 15% tax bracket. Now I find that the RMD is nearly all in the 25% bracket. Oh well.

Rather than taking distributions, you should have converted them to a Roth IRA to the top of the 15% bracket before the RMDs and then those assets would have grown or produced income tax-free forever.

The idea that language determines or limits how we see the world is an idea that pops up again and again in linguistics where it is known as the Sapir-Whorf or Whorfian Hypothesis. Experimental support is largely lacking except for rather weak examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

^^^ Were you there?

When 27 women accuse a man of sexual assaults, it would seem appropriate for a court to decide whether a crime has occurred.

The reported bonus levels surprised me as well. Would be interesting to know what the salary levels are.

Blackcab, thanks for the detailed info. May I ask what industry your business is in?

Real estate.

So, are we talking about commissioned sales people? Did the salaried employees do as well?

The reported bonus levels surprised me as well. Would be interesting to know what the salary levels are.

Last year i got 4.5 months bonus, my salary is north of 200k per month.

And what is your industry, if I may ask?

By the way, here is how to make an ultra strong password.

Think of a sentence.

"I got my password and 100 bottles of beer at the 7 11"

That is --- igmpa100bob@t711

That, dear friend, is an example of a strong password.

(Example) My password to EBay is 30 mixed characters .. good luck hacking that.

Definitely a good approach if you can remember the decoding sentence/phrase and the sites you log onto will accept the letter-number-symbol combo. Problems with that approach can occur when some sites require a password change every X-months and also keep track of you last X-number of password changes and will not allow you to reuse older passwords. If sticking with the decoder sentence approach then you begin having multiple sentences to remember.

For me using a password manager that encrypts your logon credentials and automatically inserts the credentials into the login screen which bypasses keylogger issues is a good way to go. No need to remember password sentences.

That's right on the password manager. And then be sure never to store your password data, even encrypted, in somebody's cloud.

The reported bonus levels surprised me as well. Would be interesting to know what the salary levels are.

Blackcab, thanks for the detailed info. May I ask what industry your business is in?

What books are you reading in Thai and at what level? The way to improve you language usage in any language including your own is to read more, well-written books.

The way to improve your Thai spelling is to practice Thai spelling. I recommend the Anki flashcard program, free from ankisrs.net, to memorize vocabulary. If you configure Anki to require a typed response to the English prompt, rather than just pronouncing the Thai word, then Anki will flag your spelling errors for you. And or course you will expand and maintain your vocabulary as well. You can even learn to touch-type Thai in the process.

The best study is with a qualified Thai teacher, of course. I study in person with a highly qualified teacher, who has also taught several ambassadors, at the Sumaa Language and Culture Institute here in BKK. They do skype sessions also. Contact at sumaa.net.

It's excellent to aspire to a high-level of fluency. Good luck to you.

I buy a box of 60 Size 13 hearing aid batteries from Amazon for about $15. The box lasts me a year or so. I priced the same box here at $81 recently. Even with the shipping Amazon is a better deal.

" Costs are easily comparable as is the health of the population. " - and there your argument falls down....

i'm talking about the prmise that if there are problems tyhat look similar in other healthcare systems then people argue that the problems in Thailand are in common with the rest of the wworld - when in reality they are quite individual for the reasons I've cited.

"but I have never encountered actual data" - precisely one of the problems I've referred to...there is no real monitoring of healthcare in Thailand

..and why oh why do you keep referring to the US system as if it is either a yardstick or some mitigation for the Thai system?

as for "cost & efficiency - well quite apart from actually defining criteria like these, they are just a couple from a multiple of criteria you could choose to justify a healthcare system, but why pick those as if they are the be-all and end-all? I'd go for quality, equitability and primary care myself....

So, your claim is what exactly? That the Thai healthcare system is sui generis with problems that cannot be compared to other countries and which can only be due to the unique and uniquely deplorable aspects of the Thai social system? If so, what are these unique problems? Misdiagnosis like the OP compains of? Not unique, wrong diagnoses abound in the US as I pointed out. The fee-for-services model instead of pay-for-performance? Not unique either, the US has the same system resulting in the same preponderance of specialists. The hierarchical nature of society and its presumed inhibition on the supervision of doctors leading to substandard treatment? There is no evidence that treatment in Thailand is below standards of OECD countries. Even if that were true, it would be hard to believe that social hierarchy would explain it since other hierarchical societies like Taiwan, Japan, and Singapore have among the best healthcare in the world.

So, you have not made the case at all that Thai healthcare has unique problems that require explanation. You haven't even bothered to try as far as I can see since to you it's all self-evident But you are nevertheless certain that the cause of these nebulous "problems" lie in that old catch-all, the unconscionable Thai national character.

Am I being unfair? If so, please state succinctly what your claim is and what your evidence for it is in preference to unsubstantiated opinion.

While I have no trouble believing that diagnostic errors among Thai doctors could be high, the question arises, "Compared to whom?" This New York Times article, "Why Doctors So Often Get it Wrong", points out that US doctors misdiagnose fatal illnesses 20% of the time. Furthermore, the rate of misagnosis is the same now as it was in the 1930's!

http://www.isabelhealthcare.com/info/newyorktime.html

There is a telling quote in the article: "You get what you pay for," Mark B. McClellan, who runs Medicare and Medicaid, told me. "And we ought to be paying for better quality." The US healthcare system is, with a few exceptions, based on the fee-for-services model, just like the Thai system. When you pay doctors for performing services you get a lot of services, but you don't necessarily get good results. Misdiagnosis doesn't cost the doctor anything, unless it rises to the level of malpractice, so it persists.

In the US there are some alternative systems to fee-for-services, such as the Veteran's Administration's total lifetime coverage of medical costs for veterans, or the private "integrated care" model practiced by the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic. We would expect misdiagnosis, as well as treatment errors, to be less frequent when the organization must routinely bear the cost of them, but I can't find side-by-side statistical comparisons. It must be true that much of the reason that the UN rates the French healthcare system as number one in the world while the US system is number thirty-eight is due to system effects and not just the sum of individual qualities of the practitioners.

So in that sense I agree with Mr. Grain-of-Salt, that the nature of the healthcare system itself has a huge effect on the resulting quality of care. As a consumer of medical services however I will naturally seek out the best practitioner I can find.

Compared to whom - is a n interesting point....in many cases it is "apples and pears"

The fact that some healthcare systems have problems does not mean they are all the same......Thailand' problem are in many ways unique.....partly due to the rigidly hierarchical nature of the system, partly due to the almost total lack of comeback and impunity of doctors and for a large part the effects of corruption on every aspect of healthcare right from training to administering of hospital finances and services offered.

These factors set Thailand apart from most of the countries that expats come from....including even the USA which has the most inequitable and decrepit system in the western world....but it's faults are publicised and discussed....

at the end of the day when we watch programs or rad reports about western health systems have failed their customers, we do BECAUSE WE CAN - there are people and bodies that INVESTIGATE, gather stats and analyse our healthcare systems and expose their failings - in Thailand this happens so infrequently as to be negligible.

It's not "apples and pears" at all. Healthcare systems may easily be compared in various ways. Costs are easily comparable as is the health of the population.

We might focus on how well the system does the overall job of providing care to all of its citizens, factoring in access, cost, and quality along with measurements of outcome like longevity. Or we might evaluate them from the narrow perspective of what quality of care we expats can expect to receive. In my opinion the former is the better measure, although I myself do care very much about the quality of the care my family and I receive.

One way of comparing is by the relative efficiency of the system, i.e. cost as a percentage of GDP vs. health benefits. In Bloomberg's annual survey for 2014 the US ranked number 46 out of 48 countries while Thailand ranked 29th. Singapore was number one. The US spends 18% of its GDP for healthcare while Thailand spends 4.1%.

http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-efficient-health-care-2014-countries

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that corruption is a factor in Thai healthcare, but I have never encountered actual data. Do you have references? It's true that some aspects of the deplorable US healthcare system are widely discussed, such as the extremely high cost, but the low quality of average care is seldom mentioned and few Americans know how bad it is. And the vested interests in the healthcare system were completely effective at preventing even discussion of a single-payer system when US Senator Max Baucus managed the passage of the ACA in the Senate. So the most important items are not discussed.

I don't find your identification of the sources of weakness in the Thai system to be particularly persuasive. It's true that Thai doctors enjoy relative impunity for poor job performance compared to US doctors who live in fear of malpractice suits. However, I don't think US doctors practice better medicine as a result. At least, I haven't seen evidence.

As to the relative bedside manners, most Thai and most US doctors are arrogant and insufferable, but in culturally different ways. I doubt that the differences are actually important though. Salience is not importance. Focusing on personalities as a fundamental explanation is generally a mistake.

OP: how can the health care program possibly have reduced poverty in Thailand by 30%? Did all the jobless retrain as doctors and suddenly made lots of money?

That's actually a very good question, "How does Universal Coverage reduce poverty?"

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/views-healthcare-thailand-story-inspire-confidence-080006336.html

It has been shown that the UC Scheme has contributed significantly to reducing instances of catastrophic healthcare expenditures, especially in impoverished areas of the country. Based on the recent evaluation of the ten years of the Scheme, the number of impoverished households dropped from 3.4 per cent in 1996 to 0.8-1.3 per cent between 2006 and 2009, thus contributing to poverty reduction, building greater financial stability to vulnerable households and improved long-term livelihood security. In addition, it helps Thailand to attain the principle of the right to health for all. In a country with high income inequality as measured by the Gini Coefficient, access to affordable healthcare is a bridge that helps mitigate many of the socio-economic inequities that still plague this nation.

Also, Universal Coverage in Thailand is cheap:

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), its total health expenditures (THE) is estimated at 4.1 per cent of its GDP or $328 per capita, which is relatively low for the health outcomes achieved. The extensive network of primary healthcare facilities implemented through district health systems supplemented by some of the excellent research outfits undoubtedly played a crucial role in improving health outcomes especially for the rural population.

In general there is a large literature on the relationship of access to health care and poverty reduction in the world generally and in developing countries in particular.

From the UN WHO:

Universal health coverage has a direct impact on a population’s health and welfare. Access and use of health services enables people to be more productive and active contributors to their families and communities. It also ensures that children can go to school and learn. At the same time, financial risk protection prevents people from being pushed into poverty when they have to pay for health services out of their own pockets.

Universal health coverage is thus a critical component of sustainable development and poverty reduction, and a key element of any effort to reduce social inequities. Universal coverage is the hallmark of a government’s commitment to improve the wellbeing of all its citizens.

http://www.who.int/healthsystems/topics/financing/uhc_qa/en/

Thailand's 30 baht scheme is one of the great achievements of which the nation should be proud. Instead the reactionaries are chomping at the bit to return the poor to the abysmal conditions of the past.

While I have no trouble believing that diagnostic errors among Thai doctors could be high, the question arises, "Compared to whom?" This New York Times article, "Why Doctors So Often Get it Wrong", points out that US doctors misdiagnose fatal illnesses 20% of the time. Furthermore, the rate of misagnosis is the same now as it was in the 1930's!

http://www.isabelhealthcare.com/info/newyorktime.html

There is a telling quote in the article: "You get what you pay for," Mark B. McClellan, who runs Medicare and Medicaid, told me. "And we ought to be paying for better quality." The US healthcare system is, with a few exceptions, based on the fee-for-services model, just like the Thai system. When you pay doctors for performing services you get a lot of services, but you don't necessarily get good results. Misdiagnosis doesn't cost the doctor anything, unless it rises to the level of malpractice, so it persists.

In the US there are some alternative systems to fee-for-services, such as the Veteran's Administration's total lifetime coverage of medical costs for veterans, or the private "integrated care" model practiced by the Cleveland Clinic and the Mayo Clinic. We would expect misdiagnosis, as well as treatment errors, to be less frequent when the organization must routinely bear the cost of them, but I can't find side-by-side statistical comparisons. It must be true that much of the reason that the UN rates the French healthcare system as number one in the world while the US system is number thirty-eight is due to system effects and not just the sum of individual qualities of the practitioners.

So in that sense I agree with Mr. Grain-of-Salt, that the nature of the healthcare system itself has a huge effect on the resulting quality of care. As a consumer of medical services however I will naturally seek out the best practitioner I can find.

In related news as reported in the same newspaper under the title, "PM Slams Populism, Poor", the unelected PM urged the middle classes to come out and vote (in the unspecified future when voting is again permitted by the soldiers) to "stop parties pitching populist policies to the poor from regaining office." The unelected PM said, "If they [political parties] use the same old campaign strategy, they will come [to power] with the votes of the poor who want more money to make their life better," he said. That's the old problem with democracy is that the majority gets to elect the government.

Could be called "Returning Happiness to the Rich and the Middle-Class Wannabes at the Expense of the Poor." But then that was the whole purpose of the coup from the beginning after all.

CaptHaddock: Thanks for the referral. I can't find anywhere to register on the website to obtain a login and password though.

You can checkout a purchase as a "guest" without a login or I think you can create a login during the checkout.