Lodestone
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Not sure of the relevance of sexual orientation of the person involved in this story
The relevance is obvious to me. Saying only 'A woman set a fire, trying to kill herself and another woman' leaves out a great deal about the motive. On that alone you could easily imagine there was a business dispute or some other reason behind it.
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This probably also has a greater than 50 percent correlation to adding the day's loose change to an ever growing pile rather than simply spending it as you get it.
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I've blown a few seals....does that count ??
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China Airlines SFO-BKK round trip economy next week for about US$1240, booked from their Web site. How does that compare?
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Thada's body was found slumped on the driver's seat with five bullet wounds in his head
Must've been resisting arrest.
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We knew there was a monitor lizard racket.
Me too.
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In an unprecedented move, top commanders came out yesterday to declare there would definitely be no military overthrow of the government.
Of course, by 'the government' they mean only the current one, with their assurance becoming void should the government change following an election.
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FWIW (not a lot):
Average TOEFL iBT Score by Country
EDIT:
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Whoa! That came out all funky, format wise. oh, well it's not really useful enough to bother with trying to fix it. Never mind.
Average TOEFL iBT Score by Country
Rank Country Score (out of 120)
1 Netherlands 101
2 Denmark 100
3 Luxembourg 99
4 Singapore 99
5 Austria 97
6 Belgium 97
7 Finland 97
8 South Africa 97
9 Estonia 96
10 Germany 96
11 Portugal 96
12 Iceland 95
13 Slovenia 95
14 Argentina 94
15 Israel 94
16 Mauritius 94
17 Norway 94
18 Costa Rica 93
19 Romania 93
20 United Kingdom 93
21 Uruguay 93
22 Croatia 92
23 Canada 91
24 Czech R. 91
25 Hungary 91
26 India 90
27 Reunion 89
28 Zimbabwe 89
29 France 88
30 Greece 88
31 Italy 88
32 Malaysia 88
33 Pakistan 88
34 Philippines 88
35 Poland 88
36 Puerto Rico 88
37 Slovakia 88
38 Spain 88
39 Belarus 87
40 Bulgaria 87
41 Faroe Islands 87
42 Latvia 87
43 Lithuania 87
44 Brazil 86
45 El Salvador 86
46 Mexico 86
47 Serbia 86
48 USA 86
49 Zambia 86
50 Bhutan 85
51 Honduras 85
52 Macedonia 85
53 Moldova 85
54 Russia 85
55 Bosnia-Herz. 84
56 Botswana 84
57 Ecuador 84
58 Nicaragua 84
59 Paraguay 84
60 Ukraine 84
61 Venezuela 84
62 Chile 83
63 Monaco 83
64 Montenegro 83
65 Armenia 82
66 Bangladesh 82
67 Colombia 81
68 Hong Kong 81
69 Kyrgyzstan 81
70 Lebanon 81
71 S. Korea 81
72 Sri Lanka 81
73 Bolivia 80
74 Dominican Rep. 80
75 Egypt 80
76 Fr. Polynesia 80
77 Georgia 80
78 Neth. Antilles 80
79 Turkmenistan 80
80 Uganda 80
81 Guatemala 79
82 Indonesia 79
83 Jamaica 79
84 Albania 78
85 Albania 78
86 Cuba 78
87 Cyprus 78
88 Madagascar 78
89 Nigeria 78
90 Iran 77
91 Morocco 77
92 Nepal 77
93 Tunisia 77
94 Turkey 77
95 Bahrain 76
96 China 76
97 Ethiopia 76
98 Ghana 76
99 Jordan 76
100 Kenya 76
101 Syria 76
102 Uzbekistan 76
103 Algeria 75
104 Mongolia 75
105 N. Korea 75
106 Azerbaijan 74
107 Iraq 74
108 Kosovo 74
109 Taiwan 74
110 Thailand 74
111 Congo 72
112 Sudan 72
113 Afghanistan 71
114 Chad 71
115 Gabon 71
116 Macao 70
117 Myanmar 70
118 Palestine Terr. 70
119 Viet Nam 70
120 Niger 69
121 Rwanda 69
122 Sierra Leona 69
123 Somalia 69
124 Cambodia 68
125 Guinea 68
126 Liberia 68
127 Togo 68
128 Angola 67
129 Japan 67
130 Kuwait 67
131 Tajikistan 67
132 Yemen 67
133 Cote D'Ivoire 66
134 Mozambique 66
135 Oman 66
136 Tanzania 66
137 Burkina Faso 65
138 Senegal 65
139 Benin 64
140 Libya 64
141 UAE 64
142 Mauritania 62
143 Saudi Arabia 62
144 Congo 61
145 Qatar 61
146 Lao 60
147 Gambia 59
148 Mali 57
149 West Bank no data
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For twelve years straight I kept one of these in my toiletry bag when I traveled. The worst airport security had done (most never noticed and/or commented on it at all) was seal it in a large envelope and check it as baggage. And then on a Penang visa run some security kid at Suvarnabhumi insisted it had to be confiscated -- tiny, worn, scratched up, and dull not withstanding.
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I'm not that inspired by the idea of americans teaching their 'brand' of English, although I have to say it's pretty prevalent in Thailand, with US terminologies being used. Maybe they will specify that it's BBC-type English, which I think is what european countries base their English on. I have to say that some european and countries which were british colonies from ww2 onwards, seem to teach english better than schools in england.
With Thailand, you have the added complication of a script rather than the alphabet, which is very difficult to 'translate' and a language which is structured a lot differently to english,
Well, regarding the UK vs US computer technology issue, 1st modern computer, Betchley park, WW2, 1st commercial software, Jo Lyons (The cake and tea-shop business, which also made the first commercially available computers too) The founding father and person who formulated of the Internet, is/was an Englishman. Regarding the dictonaries on MS software, a few years ago, Bill Gates proposed they were going to only US-English and not UK-english ... Until a whole raft of countries and individuals threatened not to use Word if he went ahead with this, because they wanted 'Proper' English! He then promptly abandoned this proposal ....
I haven't gone further than Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia....of_the_Internet (and linked articles) ), but the only Englishman of note I've found in the pre-1980 history (note, I'm referring to the history of networking computers and not a prior computerless form of communication like telegraphy) is Donald Davies. In the early 1960s, Paul Baran, a Polish-American, invented a technology where a decentralized network sent data using 'message blocks.' A few years later, Davies independently came up with pretty much the same thing. The notable difference in terminology was Davies's use of 'packet switching' instead of message blocks, with Davies's term eventually being adopted as standard. If you're referring to Davies above, I'll grant he made very important contributions, but to call him 'the founding father' is a great overstatement, at least from what I've read so far. Did you have someone else in mind?
I've not taken the time to check any of your other claims.
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local authorised representatives of copyrighted foreign-made products would be issued a special card that could lead to facilitating arrests in future.
Which will work until the cards start being copied.
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ISP: csloxinfo, 1MB ADSL
Modem/Router/firewall: ZyXEL P-660R-T1 v2 (default configuration)
uTorrent operates fine with download speeds maxing at about 100 kbps. The only problem is I essentially can't do any Web browsing while it's running. Sites and pages time out trying to load or don't connect at all I've done some searching and it seems to be related to uTorrent using too many simultaneous connections. I've lowered uTorrent's maximum connections to 50 but that hasn't helped much. I didn't have this problem with my BiPAC modem (now fried from a power surge), so I'm guessing there are settings on the modem to change, but I'm not sure which. What should I do? Thanks.
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Which one's the ladyboy?
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I need to get a new Non-B (teaching) because my old one is about to expire and is only for a now shut down branch of the school I work for. I was told by my school that my best option is Singapore and that if I get to the consulate when it opens to submit my application, I can pick up my visa the same day. I was also told I'll only need to bring the application, photo, university degree, teaching certificate, and that in my specific case I should write "Looking for a new job." on the form rather than mention my school.
Can anyone confirm all this? According to the MFA site ( http://www.mfa.go.th...482.php?id=2492 ) quoted below, not only is there more I need to bring, but they seem to specifically require I put down the school I'm intending to work at.
Last time I simply had my existing tourist visa 'converted' to a Non-B and never had to leave the country. I'm not sure now if simply going out and getting a TV instead might be the better option and have all the paperwork and visa conversion handled again by the school. Any suggestions/advice. Thanks!
Edit: I'm an American (U.S. passport) living in Bangkok.
2.4 Non-Immigrant Visa Category "B" (Teaching) Foreigners who intend to take up employment as school teachers at the levels below university level in Thailand must submit the following required documents:- Passport or travel document with validity of not less than 6 months
- Completed visa application form
- Recent passport-sized photograph (4 x 6 cm) of the applicant taken within the past 6 months.
- Letter of acceptance from employing institute or school in Thailand.
- Letter of approval from government agencies such as the Office of the Private Education Commission, the Office of the Basic Education Commission.
- Evidence of educational qualification such as diplomas or teaching certificates.
- School license or business registration, list of shareholders and school profile.
- Applicant's resume.
- Police certificate verifying that applicant has no criminal record or equivalents or letter issued by authorised agencies in applicant's country. (The requirement of the submission of such police certificate is optional. The applicant must submit it if consular officer requests he/she to do so. This requirement is effective as from May 2007)
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You freely admit to living in Nana? You are a brave man.
Sorry, I guess I don't read enough posts in the General forum. What's wrong with living in Nana (other than actually on Soi 4 itself, which I don't)?
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Starting at about 10am this morning, and for half an hour, a yellow helicopter kept hovering and circling over my building in Nana. What's going on?
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I was going through some old coins I have and found one (image attached) I couldn't identify. It appears to be some kind of ten baht commemorative coin but I'm not sure of anything more. Can anyone tell me more? Thanks.
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Sorry.
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A lot of it is simple ripping-off of Western sitcoms. And not just sound effects. A girl was watching a Thai TV show in my room and suddenly I started hearing the Andy Griffith Show whistling theme music. She didn't believe me when I told her that music was stolen from a 50 year old American TV show until I played her a
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Anyone notice the removal of litter bins from 7-11s?
You are correct. I wonder why they removed them. Now the tab goes to the floor
They may have moved them from fear of having a bomb put in one of them with what is going on at the moment, nearly all bins were removed from train stations and underground stations in england because of this reason.
That is what happened. During the 2006 coup a bomb was put in (maybe a bank ATM slip) trash can. After that all trash cans in Bangkok -- banks, 7/11, Family Mart, even the small public ones attached to poles -- were removed. There was a subsequent effort to replace them with frames holding clear plastic garbage bags but that never caught on much (maybe because of poor durability). The only one I can think of still around is next to the bus stop bench in front of Ploenchit Center.
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Anyone notice the removal of litter bins from 7-11s?
You are correct. I wonder why they removed them. Now the tab goes to the floor
They may have moved them from fear of having a bomb put in one of them with what is going on at the moment, nearly all bins were removed from train stations and underground stations in england because of this reason.
That is what happened. During the 2006 coup a bomb was put in (maybe a bank ATM slip) trash can. After that all trash cans in Bangkok -- banks, 7/11, Family Mart, even the small public ones attached to poles -- were removed. There was a subsequent effort to replace them with frames holding clear plastic garbage bags but that never caught on much (maybe because of poor durability). The only one I can think of still around is next to the bus stop bench in front of Ploenchit Center.
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One Women Dead Another Seriously Injured In Restaurant Fire
in Pattaya News
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We 'glean' that the motive might be a lovers' quarrel.