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Google Brassica Oleracea and you will see this plant has many subspecies. I don't know how much of the amazing diversity of this species is due to man or nature.
Specifically it's Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra. See https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B0%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%89%E0%B8%B2
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Thailand accepts holographic wills. No need to get witnesses to sign if the will is handwritten and signed by you.
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Had you considered getting one that is read by touch? E.g. https://www.dezeenwatchstore.com/shop/all/bradley-mesh/
Alternatively, there are speaking clock apps in Thai, e.g. http://th.mobomarket.net/download-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AA-%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%87-tts-%E0%B8%9E-%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AC-%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A5-%E0%B8%81-for-android-4294432892.html
And finally, here's what appears to be a Thai speaking clock: http://siamshopping.tarad.com/product-th-666674-3233814-%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%AC%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2+%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%94%E0%B9%89.html
And a video of the Mayita brand one being used
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You kind of threw a curve at me with the word holographic. Can you explain what you are referencing to using this term. It is just a handwritten will with 2 witnesses.Yes, she can be the executor but as others have said cannot be a witness to the will
A holographic will (which is what the OP is writing about) does not involve any witness.
Thanks
There are three standard forms of will in Thailand. One of these is handwritten and signed by the person making the will. No witnesses.
For further details about this form and the other forms see, for example http://www.expatfocus.com/expatriate-thailand-wills
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Yes, she can be the executor but as others have said cannot be a witness to the will
A holographic will (which is what the OP is writing about) does not involve any witness.
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The same thing happened to me almost exactly a month ago (see http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/855306-problem-with-reentry-permit-at-suvarnabhumi-today/ ).
Why they don't have a computer backup for when their primary system is down is a mystery. I mean, how much does a second computer and a webcam cost?
Or is it that the "200 baht for photos - no receipt" is a nice little earner for someone?
Still, OP, you were fortunate to have "fast track". I had to go though the usual queue. Oh how I love being denigrated in the name of security theatre!
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To be honest, I haven't particularly noticed a problem with the dress of foreigners at Chaeng Wattana. The British Embassy, however, is a totally different bouilloire de poissons. Flip-flops, shorts, wife beaters, unshaven and undeodoranted are apparently de rigueur.
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I feel sorry for the dogs' lungs. Have they developed smoker's cough yet?
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Another newspaper reports that dozens of baby crocodiles escaped, and that farm didn't bother covering the drainage pipes with grates (which is how the baby crocs escaped when their pits flooded).
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Did they still apply the 200 Baht 'processing fee'?
No. That was waived. Just 1000 baht, so the total cost was the same, plus I now have spare photos.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app
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The system for processing reentry permits was broken meaning that they had to be done manually. That meant having to leave the secure area and go to the police station on the second floor to get photos for 200 baht (no receipt). Then back through security. This added about an hour to the usual time. I'll be taking a photo with me in future in case it happens again.
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Get message to visit my local immigration office....entered before 2013 (in 2008) and haven't left country since plus renewed passport once. Nice system for those last entering 2013 or later; it's a don't work system for those last entering before 2013. Sad immigration couldn't have done a better job of including everyone in the initial database---they have all our info in their system.
Except much of that system is in manual ledgers (particularly in the provinces). They would need to go back through years of ledgers, work out if somebody is still in the country and then manually enter the data into the computer system. A Herculean task. They had to cut off somewhere.
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Not died a death. Still going ahead. There's been a lot of consideration on how to fund it. Arkhom Termpittayapaisith (new Transport Minister) recently said that bidding is now expected to start before the end of the year.
This project is one of the cornerstones of the junta's plans to stimulate the economy (and a great opportunity for graft). I'd be surprised if it were dropped.
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As you have discovered open source operating systems do have limitations!
Why not think about creating a dual boot system?
To be honest, this was the first time in more than 10 years that I have needed to use Microsoft Windows. The real limitations are with developer who in this day and age don't develop using official Internet standards and who don't test on platforms other than Internet Explorer/Microsoft Windows. I find it particularly ridiculous that Immigration's application was developed exclusively for a browser which Microsoft themselves had said they are committed to abandoning.
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if the problem is that you are a Mac user, csn do it in Safari which has a function that lets it work on dites tjay only take IE. Develop ---> user agent --->select IE.No problems, Chaengwattana. Darned annoying though, to have to use a friend's PC and have to learn how to use Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer to do so. (Working out how to print the receipt was particularly challenging.)
I think there is a similar function for Firefox but might require an add-on.
Thanks for that, but I'm on Linux. For me changing the user agent in Chrome and Firefox didn't work. The developers have used non-standards compliant techniques in their application - techniques which aren't supported by the two browsers I tried.
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No problems, Chaengwattana. Darned annoying though, to have to use a friend's PC and have to learn how to use Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer to do so. (Working out how to print the receipt was particularly challenging.)
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Proof of sufficient funds.. please tell me where that states that is has to be cash ?But if you show a Thai bank book with more then 20k it should be ok and not subjected to the 200bt fee. So that is making up their own rules.
No. The rule is that you have to show cash. There's no "making up their own rules".
If a Thai bank book were to be acceptable (which it's not), there would need to be a letter from the bank confirming the balance and a transaction in the book dated the same day if the letter is not dated the same day. Those are the standards which Immigration uses to accept a bank balance as proof of wealth.
The OP either didn't bother checking the rules or chose to ignore them, so having to pay the 200 baht is his own fault.
Otherwise your just hot air.
It doesn't have to be cash. Travellers cheques are also acceptable.
A bank book is not because it is not "proof of sufficient funds". The account holder could have withdrawn all the money and not updated the passbook.
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But if you show a Thai bank book with more then 20k it should be ok and not subjected to the 200bt fee. So that is making up their own rules.
No. The rule is that you have to show cash. There's no "making up their own rules".
If a Thai bank book were to be acceptable (which it's not), there would need to be a letter from the bank confirming the balance and a transaction in the book dated the same day if the letter is not dated the same day. Those are the standards which Immigration uses to accept a bank balance as proof of wealth.
The OP either didn't bother checking the rules or chose to ignore them, so having to pay the 200 baht is his own fault.
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Just more of SAME SAME !
Corruption & SCAMS @ Thailand Immigration.
Yes, isn't it great. In other countries, with stricter enforcement of the rules, the OP would have been turned away for not having adequate funds. That could have cost him a lot more than the 200 baht tea money.
Yes but in this country they keep moving the goal post & I O make up there own rules.
The 20,000 baht rule has been there since at least 2010. That's hardly "moving the goal posts" or "making up their own rules".
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Just more of SAME SAME !
Corruption & SCAMS @ Thailand Immigration.
Yes, isn't it great. In other countries, with stricter enforcement of the rules, the OP would have been turned away for not having adequate funds. That could have cost him a lot more than the 200 baht tea money.
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yes it's scientific :
the plants are autotroph : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotroph
the human and animals are heterotroph : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterotroph
only the plants are able to transform inorganic minerals into organic minerals (the only one usable by us or animals)
this is the reason why we cannot eat some soil/ground (you can eat it, but the inorganic minerals would not be assimilated)
Did you both reading the first sentence of the heterotroph article you linked to? It reads:
"A heterotroph... is an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth."
Absolutely nothing to do with transforming inorganic minerals into organic minerals.
As I wrote before, this is some of the most unscientific nonsense that I've read in a long time.
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only plants can use inorganic minerals in the water, they are autotroph, while we can't get minerals this way, we are heterotroph, we cannot get minerals from the ground or the rivers
we get our minerals only from fruits or vegetables, or from an animal (who ate fruits and vegetables, or grass)
the bottled waters often write on the label "rich in calcium" or "rich in magnesium", but we cannot use these minerals, they are going directly to the toilet,
it's not false advertising, these waters are rich in calcium, but we cannot use it this way, and the water companies like the people don't understand that, because it's sold as a plus value...
actually in france the more sold bottled waters are the less mineralised waters (TDS < 100mg/liter)
these packs of waters are often sold out
the water we drink is not to mineralise us, but to clean our bodies, and the more TDS there are the less the cleaning is efficient,
it also means that if you are fat or obese and you begin to drink waters with very low TDS, your body will work a lot (detox) giving the feeling to be sick for a while,
so when you start to drink distilled water or reverse osmosed water it's better to mix with common bottled water for a while, the time for the body to adapt better to this change
This is some of the most unscientific nonsense that I've read in a long time. I don't even know where to begin to critique it, so I won't.
However, if it were true, then there would be no problem consuming vast amounts of salt or (for that matter) cinnabar (mercury sulphide). Both are inorganic minerals.
Incidentally, common bottled water is reverse osmosed water, so that statement also appears to be gibberish.
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Drinking distilled water can be positively injurious to health. The body needs the salts and minerals that are in water.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/372479-what-are-the-dangers-of-drinking-distilled-water/
http://www.mercola.com/article/water/distilled_water.htm
(It also tastes unpleasant.)
Thai kale ... what is it really?
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Oh, the younger generation! If only they'd studied Latin at school.
Alboglabra is from "albus" meaning "white" and "glabrus" meaning "hairless".