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If you are looking for a Pfizer jab as your 4th injection, and you are elderly or otherwise at risk, follow the updates as they are posted on Bangkok Pattaya Hospital's Facebook page. A series of vaccinations events will be held at Central Festival Pattaya Beach. Apparently, reservations will be required. For the moment they are specifying a 4 month interval but that might drop to 3 months. Depending.

I would expect that the mobile app is smart enough to prevent that from working. But, if it were me I would give it a try.

The key word is "forced". Every bank clerk I've engaged with has recognized the term "force update" and complied. BTW, an advantage to Fixed Accounts: you don't need to keep the bankbook updated throughout the year in order to avoid summarized entries. Immigration, in an ordinary savings account, if they see a period of transactions collapsed into a single line, how can they be certain you maintained the minimum balance?

Oops. I read too quickly, thought it was the same I had before: Cigna would write a check and mail it to my retirement benefits administrator who would then send the check to me in Thailand. It was very cumbersome, especially since the checks had an expiration date. The mobile banking app made it a pleasure.

My U.S. has a mobile app that features the ability to scan both sides of a check then make an immediate deposit. Then you can put the voided check in your filing cabinet. Might be true for your bank too.

Only a small minority of single-family homes in Thailand are connected to an actual sewer. The rest have septic tanks (if anything). Back in the 80's they too were made of brick or concrete formed on site. The OP, if the ground is settling nowhere near the drain connection, might have a broken septic tank or simply a broken connection at its exit.

The most common situation is a broken connection where the lateral empties into the street main. The boxes were not pre-cast in cement like today. They were hand built of brick. After a few decades the mortar lets go, bricks fall out, and water from the lateral washes sandy soil into the box. There are several sidewalk boxes in our mooban where we needed to dig away the dirt around the pipe/box connection and repair the masonry. Note: the "pipe" from the house may actually be concrete boxwork poured in forms rather than terra cotta.

Our mooban was built 40 years ago. The land is basically flat, so gently sloped that it's not noticeable. The lots are 84 wah on average, with lateral drains between and shared by every house running just below the surface. They empty into sidewalk boxes for the street drains that are about 1 meter below. The lateral drains have two 30cm x 30cm covers on each side of each house that are flush with the ground. Even in a downpour they prevent the water from getting more than a centimeter deep, and only for a few minutes. So it works, works well unless a sidewalk box loses a chunk of old mortar and a brick pops out; then the sandy soil will erode. "Now those pipes "we believe" are creating a sucking action that is sucking the sand in the yard..." If that is indeed what is happening, then it seems you are lacking vents in the yard drain covers. The vacuum in the main street pipe sucks soil from your yard because there is not enough air available to prevent that.

This drawing shows the DIY system that is spread out over several rai. There are currently 11 cameras in service.

Let's talk about POE: CCTV cameras require 12 volts DC power. In almost every case, this power is sent to the camera on the same Ethernet cable which carries the video and other IP data. This is simple because there are eight wires in the cable and only four are needed, so the other four conductors are doubled up to carry the power. There are two ways to do this. You can buy an NVR with 4 or 8 or 16 sockets on the back, each socket providing a data connection and 48 volt power to the camera cable. Notice that it's 48 volts. This allows a maximum cable distance of about 100 meters. You must purchase cameras that are optioned for POE. Inside the camera the voltage gets dropped to 12 volts. Or, as I prefer, you can set up a cabinet with a 12 volt supply, something like 5 amperes, and use a Y-connector for each camera cable to inject the 12 volts onto the spare conductors. At the camera end, your cable must connect to a different style of Y-connector which extracts the 12 volts and connects it to the camera via a different socket. If arranged this way, you will need to provide a cheap 100Mbps Ethernet switch to combine the data from all the cameras; this can then be connected to the NVR's single RJ45 Internet-type connector. A third and very appealing alternative is to buy a 100Mbps Ethernet switch which applies power to each camera cable. The overall cost (compared to buying a POE NVR) is about the same but it gives you much more flexibility in physical design. Don't be tempted to "simplify" your design by providing 12 volts DC from individual nearby transformers located in the attic or anywhere else distant from the NVR. The best arrangement is to have the camera wires come together in a closet, storage room, or garage to get their power, with a single Internet cable running to the location (office, living room) of the non-POE NVR and its display. If you can picture the power design, you can see that buying an NVR with built-in POE ports forces you to run all the camera cabling to wherever you place the NVR and monitor. This is inconvenient, usually ugly, and not conducive to future growth and changes. This decision, buying an NVR with POE ports versus using a POE Ethernet switch to do that function,, is where you must begin. Plenty to read on the 'Web about this topic.

I will be mentioning in an upcoming post that there is a lot of risk in allowing connection of your camera network to the Internet, especially since that usually also includes connectivity to your computers and mobile phones (via your router's Wi-Fi). Each of these clever little Chinese cameras run Linux. They are feature-rich and love to "call home" whenever they have the chance. I keep them completely air-gapped from everything else I own.

Random thoughts on DIY CCTV: If you don't want it as a hobby, don't do it. Hire someone. Are you at ease on an extension ladder? If not, consider hiring someone just to do the cabling and camera installations. Take your time making a plan for the NVR location, the cameras, and how the cabling can be routed. When you think you've got it all worked out, buy one camera and enough cable and connectors to get it working on your PC. Clamp the camera on a step ladder and move it around, be sure you like the result. Wait until dark and repeat, consider where you may have to add infra-red or visible lighting. Do not consider any use of Wi-Fi. It's not suitable. IP cameras and NVRs are not much available in Thailand so you must accept having to order most everything from Ali Express. It's more reliable than you might expect but it's definitely slow. The big items are the NVR (~2,500 baht), cameras for around 1,300 baht each. Outdoor cat5e cable can be bought from Lazada vendors for 1,400 baht per 100 meters.

TERMS: IP Internet Protocol POE Power Over Internet MP Megapixels - Full HD, aka 1080p, is 2 MP NVR Network Video Recorder Cat5e The type of Internet cable that is used to connect IP cameras to the NVR Bandwidth The total amount of video data moving through a device, in bits per second Mbps Million bits per second, "megabits"

My cameras, though cheap, are capable of human detection and face detection but I don't use those features, can't say how well they work outdoors. Besides, I get 15 days of storage from a 3 TB hard drive. I have not consulted a Thai attorney but it has been explained to me that a system set up for the common good may include views of people's homes as long as that is incidental, that no one is targeted. Peeping tom cameras, however, are not allowed. Audio recording that might pick up conversation, even by accident, is forbidden. Near the entrance there are two signs indicating the village speed limit and the presence of CCTV.

I have a technical background plus an interest in photography, so CCTV appealed to me as a hobby. I'd seen enough of it to know that well-lit interiors (e.g. 7-11 shops) are easy and that exteriors at night are never like you see in Hollywood movies. I don't believe CCTV prevents much crime but it can often help solve crimes and there is some satisfaction in that. For me, in a near-zero-crime gated neighborhood, in a house with few views, I just liked the idea of expanding my world with some live cameras. I ended up with half a dozen IP cameras scattered around outside this little house, connected to a recorder whose hard drive holds about 15 days of full-quality video. With that done, I then designed and slowly pieced together a 10 camera system around the gated entrance to the mooban. The intent was not crime prevention, more like "where's the gardener?" or "is the guard awake?". The main challenges were camera placement and cabling.

I have a mix of facts and opinions that I could share regarding a modest CCTV project that I just completed in and around the guard shack of our mooban. Happy to discuss it if there's an interest. The topic does not involve rocket science but some general computer/electronics knowledge will be needed. Cheers.

I was told that a lease is the only option if the house is second-hand. That in general you get a usufruct before construction of the house.

Or, the ruble may continue to sink and never return to pre-war levels. You could get hammered. Worst case: ruble gets replaced by a New Ruble, and your old ones turn to dust.

I think they're not in season now but Ratanakorn is a good place to start. Also check the TOPS at Central Festival.

As mentioned, there was a reference to name fields earlier in this thread. I looked at the website's data entry page, looked at the old site and the mobile app, suddenly it was pretty obvious. Before that I did make several attempts during the week, just to see if I could wear them down. Same as 90 days ago, I would have walked 6 blocks to Immigration, sat under the tent for 30 minutes while my passport was inside getting processed. Who knows, I might have been lucky and found a bit of intelligent, friendly, and less cynical conversation.

I made several attempts the past few days. Rejected, no reason given. Inspired by one of the postings above, I changed how I entered my name. The original paper TM47 asked for your full name in one field. John Douglas Smith. The Internet systems asked for Given Name + Family Name. The new system asks for Given Name + Middle Name + Family name. Don't do it! Just enter Smith as your Family name, John Douglas as your Given name, and leave the Middle name blank. That was the only change I made and it was approved in 3 hours.

"The bars are full of folks not wearing masks and the hospitals completely empty apart from poor <deleted> ckers who have been locked up with no symptoms just for the Baht" Stunningly illogical and false. Where to begin? In Thailand the only COVID inpatients have no symptoms but were admitted for purposes of profit? Since the majority of patients are in government hospitals, what profit are you referring to? One thing to appreciate about breathing tubes, they prevent people from talking.

Yeah, the country that sent people to the moon AND brought them back didn't anticipate home appliance problems. Oh, wait, they did. Outlets for 220vac are a special (different!) design to handle the current and prevent idiocy.

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