Pattaya Mail - FRIDAY JUNE 1 - JUNE 7, 2018 (Vol. XXVI No. 22)

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HM the King leads sacred Buddhist observances on Visakha Bucha Day

His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun presides over the religious ceremony at Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram in the Grand Palace to commemorate Visakha Bucha Day. Marking the triple occasion of the birth of Buddha, the day of his enlightenment, and his ascension to Nirvana, Visakha Bucha Day, celebrated this year on Tuesday May 29, is one of the three holiest days on the Buddhist calendar. (Full story on page 18.) (Pool Photo via AP)

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Naklua fails test as ecotourism destination Jetsada Homklin Naklua has a lot of work to do before it can be considered a prime ecotourism destination, according to the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration.

The historic fishing village and marketplace scored just 36 percent on a Ministry of Tourism and Sports survey of 168 communities in eight tourism development areas.

That was only good enough for a “C” rating from DASTA, its lowest designation.

A Level A ecotourism destination must score at least

Naklua with its historic fishing village, mangrove forest and marketplace scored just 36 percent on a Ministry of Tourism and Sports survey, only good enough for a “C” rating from DASTA. 80 percent on the survey, which grades product quality, service and promotion. A Level B destination rates at

least 50 percent on the survey.

Pattaya spokesman Pinit Maneerat said Naklua has the potential to reach Level A, but

Chonburi’s oil industry practices spill response Chonburi’s petroleum refiners, Laem Chabang Port and the Royal Thai Navy practiced their response to a marine oil spill at an annual drill in Sriracha recently.

Deputy Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn – who formerly headed Thai oil giant PTT PLC – opened the May 23-25 exercise at the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency.

The conference began with case studies on past oil spills and the lessons learned from them. A panel discussion followed on the integration of public and private organizations in preventing and responding to spills.

Practical drills followed later offshore.

The confab also was open to international observers, with representatives from Cambodia, Singapore and Vietnam attending.

Pairin said the Gulf of Thailand is a valuable resource for both food and commerce, but is considered at risk for industrial disasters, such

The Pattaya City Community Association hosted a seminar to get civilian networks ready to participate in the Eastern Economic Corridor project.

Pattaya Deputy Mayor Vichien Pongpanit opened the May 25 event with association President Orawan Sukananwong at city hall.

farmers and traders well. It also has a modest calendar of tourism spots and events, such as the mangrove forest at the Nok Yang Canal, the Kong Khao Fair and Naklua Eat and Walk.

But Naklua’s many environmental problems and paltry marketing worked against the community. On the tourism

Pattaya Technical College launches jet ski repair courses Jetsada Homklin

Deputy Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn opened the meeting on prevention and response to oil spills. (CPRD) as oil and chemical spills. Response drills are essential to forging cooperation between all the players related to the oil industry and responding to accidents.

Pattaya locals sold EEC’s benefits Warapun Jaikusol

must do a lot more work to solve its problems before it can truly be a showcase fishing village and marketplace.

Pattaya’s bedroom community long has had aspirations of being a tourist spot and, according to the survey, has a strong identity and illustrates the daily lives of fishermen,

front, Naklua must develop tour services, communication, and souvenirs as well build lists of target tourists.

On the environmental front, its natural resources have been destroyed by pollution and overuse, with garbage piling up on roadsides, sewage pouring into the sea and overfishing emptying out local waters.

While Pattaya has tried to reduce the problems, there has been little progress. In fact, Naklua’s lack of controls on tourism and population have made some problems worse, the survey said.

Pinit said city hall is dedicated to making Naklua a Level A ecotourism destination, but success will take the cooperation of residents and businesses working with the government.

Attendees heard an overview of the government development plan covering Chonburi, Chachoengsao and Rayong, educating them on the goals and giving them an understanding of the development planned for the industrial and tourism sectors.

The three provinces, speakers said, will serve as pilot projects for tourism development

Deputy Mayor Vichien Pongpanit speaks to the community about the benefits of the EEC. and the increase in industry will have an impact on people’s daily lives, including creating more opportunities for employment.

The increased focus on education, particularly vocational training, will be good for youths and transportation routes throughout the area will be improved, speakers added.

Considering all the jet skis that Pattaya Beach vendors claim are damaged by tourists, there’s must be a great need for repair services. Enter Pattaya Technical College.

Political advisor to the prime minister Sonthaya Kunplome kicked off the third year of the vocational college’s engine maintenance and electronic repair courses for jet skis with technicians from the Pattaya Jet Ski Club, Prajub Service Shipyard, former politicians and navy officials.

School Director Chartchai Talunjan said the short-term courses are popular because

An instructor shows Sontaya Kunplome a jet ski undergoing repairs. of all the jet skis available for rent in Pattaya and Jomtien beaches.

The courses, he said, were organized to comply with

the government’s policy to support educational institutes to run short courses to develop skills and expertise in the labor force.

Dump’s neighbors glad to see city hall act Jetsada Homklin Residents near Pattaya’s Sukhumvit Soi 3 garbagetransfer yard said they were relieved to see the city removing excess rubbish, but said much more needs to be done.

Ruamkha Advance Tech International, hired by Pattaya for the emergency work, began hauling hundreds of tons of rotting waste to a landfill in Rayong May 15.

Sukumvit Soi 3 dumpsite is being cleared out after verbal wars between the locals and the council 2 weeks ago.

About 100 tons remained after that day, but the site gets 400-plus tons a day, so Ruamkha’s work hardly is a permanent solution.

Nonetheless, residents of the Kratinglai and Ban Rongkeed communities adjoining the dump said it was good to see some action from city hall after months of inaction.

At a May 9 meeting, they had laid out eight demands, including compensation of 5 million baht to those

affected by the pollution and smell. The other demands included removal of excess waste, cleanup and treatment of polluted water flowing from the transfer station, continuous traffic management, quick response to residents’ complaints, and a establishment of a citizen’s committee to monitor use of the dump.

City hall already has rejected demands for compensation and a citizens’ panel, but said it was working on the others.

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Pong factory’s paint-spraying days numbered

District Chief Naris Niramaiwong leads a team to inspect the offending paint factory.

Boonlua Chatree Pong residents suffering ill effects from paint fumes at an auto parts factory soon will get relief. The only question is whether anyone will be arrested for it.

Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong met with sub-district, environmental and military officials May 25 to discuss the lingering problem with Supawuth Industry Co. in Pong’s Moo 8 village.

Pong’s mayor explained

Residents of Pong sub-district are relieved to see the district chief take matters into his own hands. that the sub-district has warned the company several times about excessive paint fumes affecting neighboring Samnuk Tabak village, but the company has refused to take action to reduce its environmental impact.

Police chiefs plan drug war in Pattaya Teerarak Suttathiwong Police chiefs and top regional officers met in Pattaya to strategize how to combat the area’s drug problem.

Deputy national police chief Pol. Gen. Chalermkiat Sriworakan opened the May 23-25 conference at the A-One Royal Cruise Hotel. Attending were 234 police chiefs and the latest class of the Provincial Police Region 2 board.

Narcotics Suppression Bureau commander Pol. Lt. Col. Thachakan Pattamasiri said

Pol. Gen. Chalermkiat Sriworakan and Pol. Lt. Col. Thachakan Pattamasiri are laying down strategies to combat illegal drugs. drugs remain a virulent problem throughout the Eastern

Seaboard and cooperation was needed to combat them.

Encroaching Naklua locals appeal to Prime Minister’s advisor Jetsada Homklin Naklua residents accused of encroaching on two vital flood-control canals appealed to former Pattaya politicians for help in their battle against eviction.

Residents along both the Naklua and Nok Yang canals met with former cabinet minister Sonthaya Kunplome – now a political advisor to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha – and other out-of-office Pattaya politicians during their visit to the region May 23.

Sonthaya said the visit was made to give locals a chance to voice their concerns and to provide them information on the legal process and how they can respond to the eviction orders.

More than 100 families are subject to eviction or demolition of their homes and businesses following a military-led crackdown on those who have exploited public land for decades and, simultaneously, impeded water flow to canals and exacerbated flooding problems.

Many of the property owners have appealed the decision as the law gives those who bought property between 1942 and 1992 and have resided in the area for 20-30 years

Sontaya Kunplome speaks to the residents of Naklua and Nok Yang canals.

Construction of houses and shops on both sides of the canal has narrowed the historic waterway. some wiggle room. Even if they are living on public land, their long-term tenancy can give them the legal right to remain.

However, decisions are made on a case-by-case basis.

Those who bought or built on canal land after 1992 have

no right to appeal.

Pattaya officials are now waiting on satellite imagery from past years to compare to current aerial photos to determine if property owners have exceeded their original property lines.

Backed by the army, Pong and Banglamung officials say they now have the power to stop the pollution, one way or another.

Air samples recently were taken and if the chemical concentration exceeds safe levels, the paint-spraying business will be shut down and company officials arrested.

But even if the air quality is found to be within legally safe limits, the sub-district plans to use the Public Health Act to charge the firm with causing a public nuisance, forcing it to reduce the fumes or stop paint spraying.

Test results are due in early June.

Seeing their fate being decided, Supawuth executives suddenly became more cooperative and have begun dispatching employees to monitor air quality in the neighboring village for three hours a day.

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Parking meltdown at Pattaya School No. 4

Haphazard parking in front of Pattaya School No.4. after Pattaya’s new traffic police commander said he would deploy more officers to school zones.

Pol. Maj. Arut Supanon said in a May 19 interview that he planned to have traffic

cops start working 30 minutes earlier – at 6:30 a.m. – so they are on the job around schools when the morning rush hits.

Of course, it doesn’t matter what time they start if they don’t show up at all.

Sattahip gun-running suspect pleads innocence Nattapumin Panrak The main suspect in a Sattahip gun-trafficking case appeared before authorities to insist that not only was he not fleeing Thailand as rumored, but that he didn’t commit the crime in the first place.

Danupol “Bell Samae San” Yommapong, accompanied

by Pramote Towasakul, president of the Samae San Fishery Association, called on Sattahip District Chief Anucha Intasorn May 21 to plead his innocence.

Police are investigating whether Danupol’s name or signature was used to purchase 63 guns imported from neighboring countries. The gun licenses subsequently were canceled due to suspicions of fraud and Danupol said he was expecting police

East Pattaya was put on alert for rabies after a dead dog tested positive for the disease.

The Chonburi Livestock Department administered rabies vaccinations to 30 people who had come into contact with the golden retriever and warned all residents within five kilometers to keep watch for other animals infected with the potentially deadly disease.

An arrogant Bangkok taxi driver caught in a video dispute with a Pattaya traffic cop was brought back to the city to face charges.

Cabbie Prasertporn Petchthong and Pol. Lt. Wasutorn Eimsam-ang were summoned to put the embarrassing social media scandal to rest May 23.

Police originally planned to charge Prasertporn with threatening the life of a police officer, reckless driving, driving without a license and illegal parking following the May 20 incident. In the end, he only paid a fine for illegal parking.

Wasutorn was reprimanded for abusing his position and overzealously pursuing the Bangkok cabbie.

The officer was caught in a minute-long video kicking Prasertporn’s taxi. But the officer said the clip did not show the entire incident, which began when he tried

Prasertporn Petchthong and Pol. Lt. Wasutorn Eimsam-ang shake hands after ending their feud. to ticket the cabbie for parking in a red-and-white zone.

The driver refused to get out of the car, would not furnish his driver’s license and verbally abused the officer.

When Wasutorn moved to clamp his wheels, the cabbie tried to drive off, nearly hitting him. The officer said he kicked out in fear and anger.

The taxi driver was issued a ticket, which he refused to accept, and also initially refused to comply with a police

order to return to Pattaya.

Pattaya police chief Pol. Co. Apichai Kroppech said Wasutorn “overdid” his job and will be punished accordingly.

Prasertporn admitted he was in the wrong as well, almost hitting the traffic cop by accident while trying to escape. He claimed he later felt guilty and agreed to return to settle the matter.

He said he’s happy with how things worked out and all sides now consider the case closed.

Immigration nabs alien monks Boonlua Chatree

District Chief Anucha Intasorn listens to Bell Samae San as he pleads his innocence. to show up at his door with an arrest warrant.

The suspect denied he had any involvement with the guns or the licenses and said rumors that he was about the flee the country were false.

Pramote said he was a longtime neighbor and friend of the suspect and vouched for his innocence, pledging to bail him out of jail should

he be arrested.

The district chief thanked Pramote and Danupol for coming in and assured them the case would be prosecuted fairly. The district chief downplayed the seriousness of the peril Danupol is in, saying the case rests on only one piece of evidence which is being investigated.

East Pattaya on rabies alert after dog dies Keng Na Songkhla

Traffic cop blamed in video tussle with Bangkok cabbie Warapun Jaikusol

Boonlua Chatree With traffic police missing in action, motorists around Pattaya School No. 4 are parking three across and even on sidewalks, knowing they won’t be ticketed.

Parents have bombarded school management about the chaos, saying a trafficmanagement plan must be submitted, or, at least, Pattaya traffic police called out to control the mayhem.

A spot check on May 24 found the school area overloaded with cars, trucks, buses and vans, some parking on the sidewalk, as the small school parking lot was overloaded.

The School No. 4 parking chaos has continued even

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Additionally, Chonburi Livestock and Pattaya Public Health Department staffers rounded up stray dogs within the same radius for rabies shots.

Dr. Padej Siridamrong, a veterinarian with Nernplubwan Pet Hospital said the dog’s owner called May 23 to report that his golden retriever had died at his Sukhumvit Soi 21 home and that rabies was suspected to be the cause.

The dog’s carcass later tested positive for rabies at the Veterinary Research and Development Center in Ban Bung District.

Chonburi in March was declared one of 13 provinces where rabies is running rampant. The others are Rayong, Chachoengsao, Buri Ram, Chiang Rai, Nan, Roi Et, Samut Prakan, Si Saket, Songkhla, Si Saket, Tak and Ubon Ratchathani.

Four Cambodian monks were arrested and disrobed after immigration police discovered they had entered Thailand illegally.

A squad of Chonburi Immigration Office agents swarmed a hut in a potato field in Sriracha’s Bo Win sub-district where the monks were living May 22.

None of the four – with ages ranging from 33 to 66 – had passports; only monkhood certifications. They were charged with visa violations and stripped of their robes by area

The disrobed Cambodians await their deportation.

Buddhist officials before being deported back to their home country.

Finnish man busted for pot Boonlua Chartee Immigration police arrested a Finnish man for possession of marijuana.

Officers picked up Jussi Eemeli Laukkanen, 34, for “acting suspiciously” on Thepprasit Soi 7 May 26.

Unable to provide his passport, Laukkanen took officers to the Parkland Jomtien Residence where he agreed to

let police search his apartment.

Not only did the officers find Laukkanen’s passport with a valid visa, they also found 105 grams of marijuana in a clear plastic bag.

The Finn admitted to buying it from a Thai dealer for 2,500 baht, police said.

Jussi Eemeli Laukkanen busted for possession of 105 grams of marijuana.

Indian’s ‘mafia’ fairy tale gets him busted for working illegally Boonlua Chatree An Indian man who claimed he was assaulted on Pattaya Beach by “mafia” gangsters in fact, got into a dispute over 3,000 baht and was working in the kingdom illegally, Pattaya police said.

Police chief Pol. Col. Apichai Kroppech debunked Baldeep Singh Gulati’s May 22 story the day after it went viral across the internet. There was no “mafia”, Apichai said, and the Indian himself was partially to blame for the brawl.

He said 41-year-old Gulati and friends were sitting on the beach near Soi 8 when his friend, Gurdwinder Singh, 32, telephoned with a request for him to transfer 3,000 baht to India. But Gulati only had 2,500 baht on him, so Gurdwinder said he’d send a Thai associate to bring him the extra 500 baht.

But when the Thai showed up, he tried to charge Gulati a service charge, which prompted an argument. The Thai man left

Tables turn on the Indians’ allegations of assault and battery. and returned with two other men and the Thais and Indians traded punches.

A Thai beach vendor intervened and told them to fight elsewhere.

Police tracked down all the Thais and Indians involved and fined them all for causing a public disturbance. But, while investigating, police discovered both Gulati and Gurdwinder were working illegally in Thailand. They will now be prosecuted for working without a permit.

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International Fireworks Festival returns June 8-9 Warapun Jaikusol The Pattaya International Fireworks Festival returns this month, exploding in the summer for the first time June 8-9.

Canceled in 2016 due to the royal mourning period and in 2017 after the Interior Ministry nixed its budget, the popular event will unfold again on Pattaya Beach, but this time in June instead of the traditional late November.

Tourism Promotion chief Ornwora Kornpin said May 22 that the “World of Color” pyrotechnics show will begin each night at 7:30 p.m. with participants from Brazil, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

In between exhibitions,

Ornwora Kornpin (center) announces the revival of the Pattaya International Fireworks Festival. attendees will be entertained by concerts from Thai bands including Big Ass, Modern Dog, 25 Hours and Playground.

The entirety of Beach Road will be closed from 3 p.m. to

Midnight both days and security will be strict, with police, soldiers and volunteers searching bags and maintaining two emergency response stations.

We Love the King Club welcomes new members

New members pickup their shirts together with a portrait of HM King Rama IX.

Warapun Jaikusol We Love the King Club of Chonburi welcomed 200 new members with shirts dedicated to HM the late King Rama IX. Club President Peangphon Kanharee handed out the shirts May 22 at the Banglamung District Office.

She told members that the attire should be worn at ap p r o p r i a t e v e n u e s a n d occasions – such as to work or during charitable activities – but not entertainment venues.

The club, dedicated to the late monarch, now has 20,000 members and has been active over the years organizing

alms offerings on HM late King Bhumibol’s birthday and new year ’s, visiting projects run by his charity, following the King’s “sufficiency economy” philosophy to improve members’ homes, and, in later years, visiting Siriraj Hospital to wish the ailing King good health.

Disabled locals apply for generous welfare offer Jetsada Homklin Eighty-seven disabled Nongprue residents will receive 109,500 baht over the next year to support businesses and occupational training.

Sub-district Social Welfare Director Pattama Chiewchan presided over the evaluation of applicants for the government’s Disabled Promotion and Quality of Life Development Project, which provides seed money to businesses operated by the handicapped or funds vocational education.

The money for the stipends comes from both government and private sources, with 11 non-governmental organizations and businesses chipping in the 9.5 million baht for this year’s budget.

Despite the generous size of the welfare payments, few

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Pattama Chiewchan (center) Director of Social Welfare Divison advises residents on how to apply for funds to support their businesses and occupational training. disabled are taking advantage of the program.

Nongprue officials said in December that only one in eight sub-district residents had applied by year-end for the benefits.

Nongprue officials said either people don’t know about what they’re entitled

to or, for some reason, don’t want to claim them.

In 2016, 38 Nongprue families cashed in on their opportunities, earning 109,500 baht each. This year’s class of 87 people sets a record, but the subdistrict is home to about 800 disabled Thais.

Pattaya’s oldest resident turns 101 Jetsada Homklin Nongprue wished a happy birthday to the Pattaya area’s oldest resident, who recently turned 101.

Mayor Mai Chaiyanit and sub-district council members visited the Soi Khao Talo 18 home of Grandpa Ngern Premdecha and presented him with an honorary award for his longevity.

According to a survey by the Banglamung Home for the Elderly, Ngern is the oldest resident living in Banglamung District. The home and local government over the years have always presented gifts and a trophy to anyone reaching the centennial mark.

Grandpa Ngern lives with his grandchildren as he is not in the best of health. But

Mayor Mai Chaiyanit pays his respects and presents a longevity award to 101 year-old Grandpa Ngern Premdecha. he said he is happy and keeps fairly active. He was a hard worker and supported his family as a younger man and now they are looking after him, which makes him happy.

He keeps occupied during

the day by planting trees and doing things around the garden. He also walks daily to keep fit and he eats only fish and vegetables. He avoids all other meats as well as greasy food.

Injured turtle rescued on Koh Larn Pattaya marine rescuers saved an injured sea turtle stranded on a Koh Larn beach.

The large 10-year-old turtle, weighing about 70 kilograms, was discovered by tourists May 23. While its injuries were not life-threatening, they did prevent the beached reptile from getting back in the water.

The giant turtle, which is on the endangered list in Thailand, was taken to the Sea Turtle Conservation Center in Sattahip for care.

(Agencies)

The hapless turtle gets a VIP ride to the Sea Turtle Conservation Center in Sattahip for care and treatment.

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Facebook trash monitors trade keyboards for brooms

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Navy chief-of-staff inspects Sattahip fishing pier

Keng Na Songkhla Naklua expats lambasted for just complaining online about garbage put down their keyboards for a real-world cleanup of Naklua Soi 16/1.

Pattaya Mayor Anan Charoenchasri kicked off the May 20 cleanup with members of the “Rubbish Communication” club, which operates a Facebook page about the failings of the Pattaya’s trash collectors to do their jobs.

Pattaya officials in April scolded the keyboard warriors – most of them Scandinavian expats – and told them to call the city’s call center to report uncollected garbage, not just complain about it on Facebook.

The admonishment came after an early April post about overflowing and neglected garbage bins on

Mayor Anan Charoenchasri participates in the Clean Up Day No.1, inspired by the Rubbish Communication group of Scandinavian and Thai volunteers.

Naklua Soi 16/1. Following the report, garbage crews were dispatched to the condominium-heavy neighborhood to collect all the trash from neighborhood streets.

The late-May cleanup was spearheaded by Rubbish Communication club president

Supada Wongchim who said the Scandinavian expats and their Thai friends are supported by Scandi Cruise Ltd. in their mission to report pollution problems.

Their goal, Supada said, is to create a clean, beautiful living environment.

Pattaya steps up battle against mozzies Jetsada Homklin The Public Health Department has stepped up its campaign in Pattaya neighborhoods for the eradication of mosquitos as the rainy season sets in.

A crew was seen seen May 25 in the Wat Boonkanchanaram Community, with workers led by Anya Chantaramat spraying pesticide, handing out leaflets and distributing abate sand to prevent the mosquito population from exploding during the wet season.

The Charoensuk Pattana and Chumsai communities were next on the hit list.

Mosquitos, which can carry a variety of diseases including dengue fever, breed by laying eggs in standing water.

Eradicating such water

Patcharapol Panrak The Royal Thai Navy’s chief-of-staff inspected Samae San’s fishing monitors as Thailand struggles to meet international standards.

Vice Adm. Banjop Phosdaeng, commander of Navy Region 1, escorted Adm. Pichet Thanasret of the Port-In, Port-Out (PIPO) control center that monitors fishing fleet capacity in Sattahip District

as well as the Samae San Pier.

The admiral was accompanied by representatives from organizations involved in ensuring that Thailand’s fishing fleet, monitors and equipment all meet standards set by the European Union and that boat schedules are following the law.

A mass inspection was conducted on the fishing boats as well to ensure they had proper documentation, legal crewmembers and

carried a Vessel Monitoring System receiver. Security and safety regulations were also inspected, including checks for life boats and vests.

Thailand continues to struggle in meeting standards set by the EU, which has threatened to ban Thai seafood imports if it doesn’t eradicate fishing practices that endanger marine life and employment practices that encourage human traffickers.

Walking Street DJ spins up food for soi dogs Keng Na Songkhla

Health workers inspect high risk areas for any signs of breeding mosquitos. sources is difficult during normal times and nearly impossible during the rainy season.

But reported dengue cases have spiked in the Wat Boon neighborhood, requiring urgent action from the city and more vigilance from residents,

who should empty buckets and pour abate into puddles.

Anya, a registered nurse, said 10,446 people have been diagnosed with dengue fever nationwide this year, an increase of 15 percent. In Pattaya alone, 32 residents have fallen ill of dengue.

Nongprue councilor targets temples in garbage battle Keng Na Songkhla A Nongprue councilman said garbage and organic waste emanating from subdistrict temples could be reduced if people stopped donating cut flowers and also donated electrical appliances in their boxes.

Addressing Nongprue’s continuing trash crisis, Wanchai Saen-gnarm said a major source of waste is the area’s temples, where residents on a daily basis are leaving flowers, petals, televisions, fans and other items to make merit.

He said he went to Boonsamphan Temple to test a theory that the wat could be kept tidier if people brought wreaths and garlands instead of loose flowers.

Wanchai didn’t detail how

Adm. Pichet Thanasret and his team conducted a thorough inspection of fishing boats at Samae San pier.

A Walking Street deejay is spinning restaurant leftovers into food for about 50 stray dogs.

Manoch Puengyod, 48, was spotted May 23 between Thappraya sois 12 and 15 where he said he comes several times a week to feed homeless dogs. Despite rotating among several late-night deejay jobs on Walking Street, Manoch said he doesn’t go home right away.

Instead he goes around collecting scraps from restaurants for the canines.

The next morning he separates the food and puts it neatly out along the Thappraya sidestreets where many soi dogs live.

Manoch said the dogs are always happy to see him, although he regrets not being able to feed them daily. He’s been coming with food for more than five years and

Manoch lovingly feeds two hungry soi puppies. has seen many puppies born, although he advocates sterilization to keep the stray dog population down.

Nong Plalai drainage repairs make floods worse Warapun Jaikusol

Wanchai says wreaths instead of flowers will help reduce rubbish in temples. he implemented the system, but said strung flowers or wreaths proved easier to clean up and the temple grounds were cleaner.

He said people who bring appliances, such as fans and TVs, should also bring the

boxes so that old ones can be disposed of neatly.

Wanchai advocated that all temples should impose such restrictions on flower use and donations to help the subdistrict deal with its overflowing garbage problem.

Residents in Nong Plalai’s Moo 3 village said drains clogged with sand are causing their neighborhood to flood.

Sub-district Councilman Chaloem Khetjae led the media on an inspection following complaints about a recent construction project from Moo 3 to the Mapbon Community that generated an excess of sand.

Even though the contractors were hired for 4.8 million baht to replace drain covers and resurface the road to improve flooding, the workers carelessly flushed sand into the very same sewers, making matters worse.

Resident Somdej Boontuam said the work may look

Sondej Boontuam points at the engineering marvel of the contractors that caused the drains to be stuffed with sand and garbage. better, but making the road five centimeters higher created more problems because the sewer grates weren’t raised and now sand, garbage and other debris funnels into them.

Nong Plalai engineers promised to use high-pressure hoses to clear the drains, but never showed up. So residents rallied and summoned local administrators to see the problems for themselves.

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New co-working space initiative set to launch in Q4 2018 Expected to boost thriving Thai startup scene even more The startup scene in Thailand might be young, but it is extremely active and growing stronger. Offering privileged access to the Southeast Asian market and a friendly and diverse culture, Thailand is among the best places to get a startup off the ground in the area.

Its diversification over the last few years shows a promising future ahead – and plans to open a new digital park in 2018 are set to foster growth even further.

From just 3 startups in 2012, it grew to over 90 startups in 2017 - which had collectively raised more than US$280 million. The country currently has a density of one

venture per 113,000 residents and the numbers keep getting better and better.

This seems to compare poorly to Southeast Asia’s startup capital, Singapore,

The startup scene in Thailand is thriving As Techinasia reports, the startup landscape in Thailand has seen rapid growth.

DPM Somkid content with 4.8% GDP growth in first quarter Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak says the 4.8% GDP growth in the first three months of 2018 reflects an overall economic improvement.

Expressing his satisfaction with the expansion of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter, the deputy premier in charge of economic affairs said the 4.8% increase was the highest in 5 years.

Many sectors including private spending, government spending, agriculture, export, and tourism performed well during the period, said Somkid, noting that these positive signs reflected the country’s overall economic recovery.

Private investments surged for the 4th consecutive quarter in the first three months, which demonstrated the trust and confidence the country has regained among investors.

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak says the 4.8% GDP growth in the first three months of 2018 reflects an overall economic improvement.

The 4.8% GDP growth was revealed by the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB)

earlier last week, prompting the agency to revise this year’s economic growth forecast from 4.1% to 4.5%. (NNT)

Gov’t monitoring consumer products, keen to turn ‘Blue Flag’ retailers into discount stores The Ministry of Commerce is keeping a close watch on consumer products amid fuel price rises, expressing a keen interest in turning stores enrolled in the Blue Flag campaign into discount shops.

Amid fears that the recent gas and oil price increases will affect the prices of consumer goods, Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong said his ministry and responsible agencies are closely monitoring the impact and a r e n o w a n a l y z i n g the cost structure of the production sector.

Easing public worries, he said the ministry has measures and plans in place to make sure consumers don’t shoulder all the burden.

As of now, no manufacturers or producers have sought the Department of Internal

Commerce Minister Sontirat Sontijirawong said his ministry and responsible agencies are closely monitoring the impact of higher oil and gas prices.

Trade’s permission to increase the prices of their products.

In the meantime, he said the ministry will transform 40,000 retailers participating in the Blue Flag project into discount stores. In doing so, the ministry has agreed to terms with Unilever Thai

Trading Limited to manufacture low-cost products for Blue Flag stores.

In addition, the ministry will work with logistics companies to make sure low-priced goods reach Blue Flag stores in remote communities. (NNT)

which boasts an impressive density of one startup per 2,800 residents, yet Thailand has done more with less. In 2014, Singapore devoted 2.2% of its GDP to furthering research and expenditure, while Thailand invested just 0.5% of its GDP. E-commerce, FinTech and e-logistics are among the top startup sectors that show the greatest potential on the Thai scene – but the positive effect of having a robust startup scene can be felt in ripples across other industries as well. A lot of startups that start off in those fields expect - or at least, aspire to - significant growth, so scalable solutions are important. Solutions like a load balancer, which helps distribute traffic across servers in an optimal way and maximize application performance can ensure startups are ready to deal with increased

traffic that can result from success and traffic spikes that write-ups on popular websites can bring to a new business, especially an innovative startup. Therefore, this could mean an increased demand for IT professionals in Thailand and could help boost the viability of the local tech sector.

True Digital Park set to launch in Q4 2018 Now, the situation seems to be changing: the government is looking to promote research in the area, while the private sector shows excitement at the industry’s potential, with many angel investors paying close attention to Thailand. As part of efforts to transform the country into a true innovation hub, Thai company True Corporation is planning to launch True Digital Park within Q4 2018.

The vast co-working space will range over 77,000 square meters (the equivalent of 10 soccer fields) and include over 1,000 workstations, with more than 4,000 square meters dedicated to specialized tech labs and experience centers.

It will also feature 4 dedicated spaces for events, with a maximum capacity of 500 participants, over 200 shops including restaurants and a 24-hour library, and the country’s first Government Digital One-Stop-Service to cut back on red tape. 30% of the park will be devoted to green spaces – the largest such investment by a private developer so far. The park aims to provide not only an efficient co-working space that will forge ties between up-and-coming startups and experts, incubators and accelerators, but also to build a vibrant startup community from the ground up, in an effort to contribute to a startup scene that will last and realize its full potential.

According to Techinasia, there is already much enthusiasm among representatives and founders of startups that will work inside the new park, including spacetech startup Mu Space, online payment provider Omise and online medical consultancy service firm Chiiwii, to name but a few.

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You are an enthusiastic photographer, having sent many rolls through the processors in the days of film.

Where did you put the prints you have taken over the years? Somewhere your friends can look at them and ask the questions where, how, when? Unfortunately, like many other photographers, the prints sit in a drawer in the lounge room.

Then you moved over into the digital era and now have hundreds of thumb nails you can flip through, while looking for the photo you took of your parents 10 years ago. Or even the photo you are particularly proud of in B&W. Worse still, you try to show someone your photographic masterpieces on your mobile phone with its 7 x 13 mm viewing area.

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There is an answer to all this. It is called Wall Art. Wall art is something you should aim towards. Be proud of your images. Be bold. You can keep the images on the wall for as long as you want. And change for others when you want something new.

So what type of image is good for wall art?

First prerequisite is size. A tiddly little 3 x 5 may be fine for looking at in your hand, but you could scarcely hang it on the wall. The smallest you can accept is a 10 x 8, for wall art as size does matter.

Now comes the next problem – if you blow up an average standard print you begin to lose sharpness. Go to 20 x 24 and you will have lost sharpness. This does mean that you have to reject any “soft” images for enlargement and only go for ones that are pin-sharp. Be ruthless with yourself. And don’t listen to anyone else. These are your images for your enjoyment.

Subject matter with wall art pictures is up to you, as all the Thai girls say, but pick one that you enjoy and more importantly, one where the subject fills the frame.

Dear Hillary, I got shown a letter where a guy had written to one of the local bar girls that he was coming back at Christmas and how he was looking forward to seeing her again. I said to her that he sounded like a nice guy, but she didn’t remember him! “Where he come from?” was the reply. When I said Germany, then she remembered that it was either George or Hans! How can these girls keep living like this?

Have they no sense of responsibility?

Amazed Dear Amazed, You should not be amazed, I am amazed that there are still people like you around, who think that there are “rules of association” with girls in bars. Petal, these girls are working there. Their “job” is to look after unattached males in return for financial rewards. Her George or Hans was just another passing face in the crowd, but don’t worry, five minutes after he arrives she will have recognized his wallet and will make his holiday memorable again.

Dear Hillary, I am sure you’ve heard it all before, but I think I am being ripped off. My girlfriend (Thai) has recently started to ask me for more money than she normally gets for housekeeping and the monthly wage I give her. It was just a few hundred baht here and there to start with, but now she needs thousands at a time. When I ask her why she needs the extra she gets sulky and when I really push her for an answer the best I get is “for family – you farang no understand.” Hillary, is there something here that I should

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Now to the frame for wall art: The frame is merely to stop the image being damaged.

The framing shops will want you to get a large ornate, gilded one, because they are more expensive and a wide matte ditto. Reject all those, as the subject for wall art must be the dominant part

of the image. The subject has to be the Hero. A smooth border and a narrow matte is all that is needed. Don’t let the frame maker hijack your art.

However, at the weekend I saw another way to get some great wall art – on a canvas backing on an artist’s frame. The print is stretched

understand, or what? I am getting very tired of the continual cash hand-outs.

Andy Dear ATM Andy, It sounds like there is lots you don’t understand. “Family” is important to a Thai and is one of the strongest bonds for the individual. Family keeps them together, family gets them over problems of all types, financial and otherwise. It is very similar to the Chinese borrowing system – but there is always pay-back time. Your girlfriend may be returning money borrowed from before – in that time in her life B.A. - before Andy.

She may also be helping her brother/mother/father/cousin (delete that which is not applicable) out of a jam. And on the other hand, she may be gambling with it, another very common Thai pastime. You really have to start communicating better with your girlfriend, Petal, if you want to know where the money goes.

If she is the money manager for the household, sit down each week and discuss the family budget. If you do this in a non-threatening way, then you will find out where the money goes. If it ends up in sulkiness or accusations, then it is time to review the entire relationship and handle the housekeeping yourself. I also worry about relationships where the “girlfriend/wife” is paid a “wage” each month.

For what, Andy? For staying with you, putting up with you, or what. We call that having a “mia chow” (rented wife), and a master and servant relationship will always fail, in my experience. Thai women may look meek and mild, but they’re not. They most certainly are not, and when pushed will bite back. That is something else you have to understand, Andy.

over a wooden frame (like an artist’s painting) and it makes for a very dramatic way of display. Not cheap, the one in the shop was a 20 x 24 and they wanted B. 1,500 for it. The framing is actually done in Bangkok and takes 8 days.

The best way is to download

your selected image on to a memory stick and present that to the shop. I always make a copy from the original and present that to the framers, so that you haven’t lost your best image if something goes awry. Oh yes, the name of the shop in the Central Festival was called Eastbourne.

Dear Hillary, I’m another of those stupid farangs. There was one girl that I was a regular with in one of the bars in Nana Plaza.

I liked her a lot and I thought she liked me too, but I didn’t want her to stay with me. Overnight was fine and I thought we had built up a good relationship. She knew what I wanted, so it went on for a few months. Then about a year ago she asked me for some money as she had some problems with her grandmother, so I gave her 40,000 baht. She promised to repay me within six months.

Well it’s now a year and she certainly hasn’t repaid anything, she’s shifted to another bar somewhere and in Bangkok I could spend the next year going from one to another and still not cover them all. I realize that I’ve been stupid, but I just wanted to let everyone else know to not be stupid either. Please do not use my real name, as I am happily married.

Stupid Dear Stupid, I have just called you what you called yourself, so forgive me if it looks insulting. However, you have got yourself into this pickle by being very selfish, Petal. You happily admit “she knew what I wanted”, but you did not find out what she might have wanted, did you? You were happy enough to carry on with a relationship that could have no future, as you are already “happily married”, so what did you expect was going to happen? You wanted casual sex, and you got it. What you did not ascertain was that she wanted money – and she got it! Kiss the 40,000 baht goodbye and be thankful you didn’t have to kiss your marriage goodbye as well.

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Have you had the spring cough?

Have you had the spring cough yet? If not, think yourself lucky, just about everyone else has had it. And it isn’t one of those coughs which goes away in a couple of days, patients are saying it takes at least a couple of weeks. Or even longer.

There are many reasons for epidemics such as these, and most occur with the change of seasons, hot to cold, cold to wet and so forth, but with the vast majority, the common carrier of the bug is the human race. This time we can’t blame an innocent mosquito!

Yes, we are the ones who go to work and spread our germs to the office, exploding an aerosol of potentially debilitating diseases into the air, every time we cough.

This is the commonest way of transferring the bugs, by what we call droplet infection. Every droplet capable of carrying thousands of microbes, each one looking for another human to infect. You. Or even me. In our household, my young son brought it home from school, passing it on to his elder sister and now to me. Thank you so much, Evan.

The latest bout has been a form of URTI, which is our acronym for Upper Respiratory Tract Infection. This is inflammation of the bronchus, that part of your breathing tube to the lungs before it splits to become the right and left bronchus. The medical name is therefore “Bronchitis”.

The clue is in the ending – “itis” which generally means inflammation and / or infection. Thus you can get Appendicitis (inflammation of the Appendix) and Pharyngitis (inflammation of the pharynx), Laryngitis (inflammation of the larynx) etc., etc., you get the picture.

Infection and irritation of the breathing tubes is, as we said in the beginning, very common. The most usual predisposing cause is, however, our old friend cigarette smoking! If you don’t believe that cigarette smoke is irritating, try letting cigarette smoke waft into your eyes and see how they will sting and water. Your sinuses and bronchi do just the same! Once the irritation begins, the mucous lining becomes swollen, and it becomes easier for the germs to take a hold.

With Bronchitis, it generally begins as a slight irritation deep in the back of your throat. There can be some soreness as well, even on swallowing. Unchecked this develops into a ‘productive’ cough, with loads of thick, tenacious gunk being coughed up, which we refer to as ‘sputum’.

One of the signs and symptoms your doctor will want to know is “What color is your sputum?” This gives us a chance to see if your cough is from an irritation or infection.

If you are bringing up large lumps of yellow or green glue then you have an infection, but if the mucous is clear then

you probably do not harbor a nasty bacterium in your throat, but an equally nasty virus. If, however, the sputum is red and bloodstained then you may have burst a little blood vessel in the throat – or of course, this could be an early sign of lung cancer but don’t panic yet!

If the sputum you are coughing up is thick, green and gooey, this is fairly suspicious of a bacterial infection, and sometimes we will attempt to “grow” the bug to identify it. No, this is not for germ warfare, it is just so that we can feed the bug some different antibiotics to see which ones exterminate the bug best. This is a much more accurate way of choosing the correct antibiotic, than selecting ones by the pretty color they are on the pharmacist’s shelves. And I don’t go along with trotting down to local pharmacy and getting “some antibiotics”. That’s how we end up with antibiotic resistance.

If you have gone over a week and your cough is showing no sign of letting up then it really is time to line up with all the other coughers at the outpatients department.

Just make sure you can describe the color of your sputum!

Remember that if you are a smoker, the chances of the cough lasting longer are much higher, as well as your being more likely to catch the cough from someone else.

UN health agency aims to wipe out trans fats worldwide Mike Stobbe New York (AP) - The World Health Organization has released a plan to help countries wipe out artery-clogging trans fats from the global food supply in the next five years.

The United Nations agency has in the past pushed to exterminate infectious diseases, but now it’s aiming to erase a hazard linked to chronic illness.

In a statement Monday, the U.N. health agency said eliminating trans fats is critical to preventing deaths worldwide.

WHO estimates that eating trans fats - commonly found in baked and processed foods - leads to the deaths of more than 500,000 people from heart disease every year.

“It’s a crisis level, and it’s major front in our fight now,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news conference in Geneva on Monday.

Officials think it can be done in five years because the work is well underway in many countries. Denmark did it 15 years ago, and since then the United States and more than 40 other higher-income countries have been working

on getting the additives out of their food supplies.

The WHO is now pushing middle- and lower-income countries to pick up the fight, said Dr. Francesco Branca, director of the WHO’s Department of Nutrition for Health and Development.

Artificial trans fats are unhealthy substances that are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil to make it solid, like in the creation of margarine or shortening.

Health experts say they can be replaced with canola oil or other products. There are also naturally occurring trans fats in some meats and dairy products.

The WHO recommends that no more than 1 percent of a person’s calories come from trans fats.

“Trans fats are a harmful compound that can be removed easily without major cost and without any impact on the quality of the foods,” Branca said.

Countries will likely have to use regulation or legislation to get food makers to make the switch, experts said.

At the WHO news conference Monday, a representative

In this Aug. 8, 2007 file photo, a Milky-Way candy bar is deep-fried in oil free of trans fats at a food booth at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. The head of the World Health Organization called on all nations to eliminate artificial trans fats from foods in the next five years. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) from a leading food industry trade group said companies are working to reduce trans fats in their products.

“We call on food producers in our sector to take prompt action and we stand ready to support effective measures to work toward the elimination of industrially produced trans fats and ensure a level playing field in this area,” said Rocco Rinaldi, secretarygeneral of the International Food and Beverage Alliance.

Dr. Tom Frieden, a former director of the U.S. Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention who worked with WHO officials on the call to action, called its move unprecedented.

“The world is now setting its sights on today’s leading killers - particularly heart disease, which kills more people than any other cause in almost every country,” said Frieden, president of Resolve to Save Lives, a New-Yorkbased project of an organization called Vital Strategies.

In the U.S., the first trans fatty food to hit the market

Health officials: Stay out of the pool if you have diarrhea Mike Stobbe New York (AP) - Health officials say hotel pools and hot tubs are a major source of the stomach bugs people get from swimming. And they’re reminding people with diarrhea to stay out of pools, hot tubs and water playgrounds.

U.S. public health officials report on safe swimming every year. Thursday’s version from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on outbreaks in 2000 through 2014 that were tied to swimming or bathing in treated recreational water spots.

In an average year, there were 15 such outbreaks and about 1,800 related illnesses.

Overall, a third were tied to hotels.

A parasite called cryptosporidium (kript-toe-spor-ID’-ee-um) caused most of the outbreaks. It can survive

This microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Cryptosporidium parvum parasitic organisms in a stool smear specimen, the cause of a patient’s cryptosporidiosis. The CDC said hotel pools and hot tubs are a major source of the diarrheal illnesses people get from swimming.

The parasite can survive normal chlorine levels. (CDC via AP) normal chlorine levels, which is why people with such illnesses are urged to refrain from swimming.

was Crisco shortening, which went on sale in 1911.

Trans fatty foods became increasingly popular beginning in the 1950s, partly because experts at the time thought they were healthier than cooking with butter or lard.

Food makers liked artificial trans fats because they prolonged product shelf life. They used them in doughnuts, cookies and deep-fried foods.

But studies gradually revealed that trans fats wreck cholesterol levels in the blood and drive up the risk of heart disease.

Health advocates say trans fats are the most harmful fat in the food supply.

In the U.S., New York City in 2006 banned restaurants from serving food with trans fats. The same year the FDA required manufacturers to list trans fat content information on food labels.

Many manufacturers cut back, and studies showed trans fat levels in the blood of middle-aged U.S. adults fell by nearly 60 percent by the end of the decade.

In 2015, the FDA took steps to finish the job of eliminating trans fats, calling for manufacturers to stop selling trans fatty foods by June 18, 2018 - a deadline that arrives next month. FDA officials have not said how much progress has been made or how they will enforce their rule against food makers that don’t comply.

“The removal of trans fats from the food supply as an additive counts as one of the major public health victories of the last decade,” said Laura MacCleery, policy director for the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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Estonian municipality put cannabis leaf on flag Copenhagen, Denmark (AP) - The southern Estonian municipality of Kanepi has a cannabis leaf on its new flag - because that’s what its name means in Estonian. Andrus Seeme, mayor for Kanepi’s 2,500 souls, says a referendum was held in late 2017 and 80 percent picked the winning design - a silver cannabis leaf on a green shield - out of seven designs. Seeme said Wednesday the city council adopted it a day earlier. Kanepi chose a new flag after three municipalities merged into one following last year’s administrative reform. Seeme said the leaf has been used as a heraldic symbol by local groups for decades and the new flag has met little opposition in Estonia, where cannabis is illegal.

6 young squirrels rescued from ordeal of tangled tails Omaha, Neb. (AP) - Six young squirrels whose tails were stuck together by tree sap are recovering after a Nebraska wildlife expert untangled them. A Nebraska Humane Society worker rescued the squirrels from a pine tree in Omaha last week. Nebraska Wildlife Rehab executive director Laura Stastny told the Omaha World-Herald that the sap-covered tails became knotted as the youngsters wrestled in their nest. Stastny says they are about 8 weeks old. Resident Craig Luttman spotted the rodents’ predicament, describing it Thursday as “kind of like a tug of war, going in completely opposite directions.” Stastny gave the squirrels a mild painkiller before removing the sticky fur and untangling them. She says some of them suffered injuries to their tails, but she expects all six to be released in a few weeks.

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Down: 1 Children, 2 Easel, 4 Tetchy, 5 Nylon, 6 Admired, 7 Date, 8 Reveal, 13 Terminus, 15 Abstain, 17 Lyrics, 18 Pledge, 20 Erect, 22 Angel, 23 Stem.

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Foam rubber gold bars fool man who burglarized Michigan shop Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP) - Fake promotional gold bars apparently appeared so much like the real thing that someone broke into a western Michigan flooring shop to take them.

WXMI-TV reports Old to Gold Hardwood Floors owner Rowdy Lapham arrived at work Monday to find his store in Grand Rapids burglarized. Foam rubber gold bars featuring the company’s logo were strewn about. A rock was used to break through a window around 2 a.m. Sunday. The burglar was seen on surveillance video roaming through the shop.

Employee Nick Butler tells WZZM-TV that the thief may have walked past a window and saw the stack of bars and “thought, wow, someone forgot to put these gold bars away.” The squeezable bars are for stress relief. Butler says the company’s motto is stress-free flooring.

An easy Sudoku puzzle that should not take long to complete.

The rules of Sudoku are simple. Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. Each row must contain one of each digit. So must each column and each 3x3 box.

Answer next week.

Last week’s answers:

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Ammo box falls from military chopper, crashes into school El Paso, Texas (AP) - Authorities are trying to determine how a box of ammunition fell from a military helicopter and crashed through the roof of an elementary school in Texas.

The Ysleta Independent School District says no one was injured when the ammo box hit Parkland Elementary School in El Paso on Thursday afternoon. The ammo box left a hole in the roof and caused a power outage in part of the building.

Officials at nearby Fort Bliss say they’ll reassess flight patterns as part of their investigation. In a statement, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade commander Col. Jay Hopkins said he was sorry for the damage and grateful no one was hurt.

Message in a bottle washes ashore in Canada 18 years later Gloucester, Mass. (AP) - A message in a bottle that a woman tossed off the coast of Massachusetts has been found nearly two decades later in Nova Scotia. Eighty-year-old Rita Ganim tells the Gloucester Times she dropped the bottle into Ipswich Bay in August 2000 with a short message asking the person who found it to contact her. The bottle was all but forgotten until Ganim received a call from the Buffalo News saying someone found it. Dallas Goreham had been looking for sea glass in the Canadian province last Wednesday when he came across the bottle. The 11-year-old’s mother tracked Ganim down through the newspaper and sent a photo of her son holding the message. While there are no plans set, Ganim says she would love to meet the finders of her bottle.

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Experts: China far side lunar mission potentially historic Christopher Bodeen Beijing (AP) - China’s ambition to soft-land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon later this year faces considerable challenges, but if successful would propel the country’s space program to the forefront of one of the most important areas of lunar exploration, experts say.

China hopes to be the first country to complete such a landing. On Monday, it launched a relay satellite to facilitate communication between controllers on Earth and the upcoming Chang’e 4 mission.

The moon’s far side is also known as the dark side because it faces away from Earth and remains comparatively unknown.

Creating the ability to explore the far side of the Moon is an impressive achievement, John M. Logsdon of George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute said in an email.

“Spacefaring countries around the globe are focusing a great deal of attention on lunar exploration, and this far side capability, if it comes

into being, will put China in a leading position with respect to that objective,” Logsdon said.

However, getting the relay satellite into the proper position will be tricky and marks only a first step in pulling off the landing, he said.

“Doing things in space, especially at a far distance from Earth, remains hard, so success is far from assured, Logsdon said.

A far side soft-landing would be a “world historical first,” said Bernard Foing, head of the European Space Agency’s International Lunar Exploration Working Group, which has collaborated with the Chinese program.

That would offer a “deep science opportunity to study the far side,” which has a different composition from sites on the near side, where previous missions have landed, Foing said.

However, he too warned of the difficulties ahead, saying it would be a “great challenge using the relay orbiter for control and data.”

Such a communications relay link is needed for communication with a spacecraft on the far side because the

China has launched a relay satellite as part of a groundbreaking program to land a probe on the far side of the moon this year. The China National Space Administration said on its website that the satellite lofted into space early Monday, May 21, aboard a Long March-4C rocket will facilitate communication between controllers on Earth and the Chang’e 4 mission. (Cai Yang/Xinhua via AP) moon’s rocky bulk would otherwise block contact with Earth.

China previously landed its Jade Rabbit rover on the moon and plans to land its Chang’e 5 probe there next year and have it return to Earth with samples - the first time that would be done since 1976.

China conducted its first crewed space mission in 2003, making it only the third country after Russia and the U.S. to do so, and has put a pair of space stations into orbit.

Upcoming missions include the launch of the 20-ton core module for the still orbiting

Tiangong 2 station, along with specialized components for a more-than 60-ton station that is due to come online in 2022 and a Mars rover planned for the mid 2020s.

Additionally, China has already obtained the “technological basis” to put astronauts on the moon, the

chief designer of the manned space program, Zhou Jianping, told a conference last month.

“We have had in-depth discussions with many experts about manned lunar exploration, and conducted research on key technologies in recent years,” Zhou said.

Although China’s space program is largely military-run, the Chang’e 4 mission underscores how it is a developing “an ambitious civilian, science-based space effort alongside building up the country’s national security space capabilities,” Logsdon said.

A number of Chinese commercial satellite launchers have also sprung up in recent years on the model, if not the scale, of private U.S. companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Last week, Beijing-based OneSpace Technologies became the first private spaceflight company to send a rocket into space, launching its relatively small 9-meter (30-foot) OS-X for a test flight that ended with it falling back to Earth.

Amazon urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police Gene Johnson Seattle (AP) - Amazon’s decision to market a powerful face recognition tool to police is alarming privacy advocates, who say the tech giant’s reach could vastly accelerate a dystopian future in which camera-equipped officers can identify and track people in real time, whether they’re involved in crimes or not.

It’s not clear how many law enforcement agencies have purchased the tool, called Rekognition, since its launch in late 2016 or since its update last fall, when Amazon added capabilities that allow it to identify people in videos and follow their movements almost instantly.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon has used it to quickly compare unidentified suspects in surveillance images to a database of more than 300,000 booking photos from the county jail - a common use of such technology around the country - while the Orlando Police Department in Florida is testing whether it can be used to single out personsof-interest in public spaces and alert officers to their presence.

The American Civil Liberties Union and other privacy advocates on Tuesday asked Amazon to stop marketing Rekognition to government agencies, saying they could use the technology to “easily build a system to auto-

mate the identification and tracking of anyone.”

That could have potentially dire consequences for minorities who are already arrested at disproportionate rates, immigrants who may be in the country illegally or political protesters, they said.

“People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government,” the groups wrote in a letter to Amazon on Tuesday. “Facial recognition in American communities threatens this freedom.”

In an emailed statement, Amazon Web Services stressed that it requires all of its customers to comply with the law and to be responsible in the use of its products.

The statement said some agencies have used the program to find abducted people, and amusement parks have used it to find lost children. British broadcaster Sky News used Rekognition to help viewers identify celebrities at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle last month.

Amazon’s technology isn’t

that different from what face recognition companies are already selling to law enforcement agencies. But its vast reach and its interest in recruiting more police departments - at extremely low cost - are troubling, said Clare Garvie, an associate at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center.

“This raises very real questions about the ability to remain anonymous in public spaces,” Garvie said.

While police might be able to videotape public demonstrations, face recognition is not merely an extension of photography but a biometric measurement - more akin to police walking through a demonstration and demanding identification from everyone there, she said.

Some police departments, including Seattle, have policies that bar the use of real-time facial recognition in body camera videos.

Amazon released Rekognition in late 2016, and the sheriff’s office in Washington County, west of Portland, became one

Seattle police officer Debra Pelich (right) wears a video camera on her eyeglasses as she talks with Alex Legesse before a small community gathering in Seattle. The ACLU and other organizations on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, asked Amazon to stop selling its facial-recognition tool, called Rekognition, to law enforcement agencies. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) of its first law enforcement agency customers.

A year later, deputies were using it about 20 times a day - for example, to identify burglary suspects in store surveillance footage. Last month, the agency adopted policies governing its use, noting that officers in the field can use real-time face recognition to identify suspects who are unwilling or unable to provide their own ID, or if someone’s life is in danger.

“We are not mass-collecting.

We are not putting a camera out on a street corner,” said Deputy Jeff Talbot, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office. “We want our local community to be aware of what we’re doing, how we’re

using it to solve crimes - what it is and, just as importantly, what it is not.”

It cost the sheriff’s office just $400 to load 305,000 booking photos - which are already public records - into the system and $6 a month in fees to continue the service, according to an email obtained by the ACLU under a public records request.

Last year, the Orlando, Florida, Police Department announced it would begin a pilot program relying on Amazon’s technology to “use existing city resources to provide real-time detection and notification of persons-ofinterest, further increasing public safety.”

Orlando has a network of

public safety cameras, and in a presentation posted to YouTube this month, Ranju Das, who leads Amazon Rekognition, said the company would receive feeds from the cameras, search them against photos of people being sought by law enforcement and notify police of any hits.

“It’s about recognizing people, it’s about tracking people, and then it’s about doing this in real time, so that the law enforcement officers ... can be then alerted in real time to events that are happening,” he said.

The Orlando Police Department said in an email that it “is not using the technology in an investigative capacity or in any public spaces at this time.”

The testing has been limited to eight city-owned cameras and a handful of officers who volunteered to have their images used to see if the technology works, Sgt. Eduardo Bernal wrote in an email.

“As this is a pilot and not being actively used by OPD as a surveillance tool, there is no policy or procedure regarding its use as it is not deployed in that manner,” Bernal wrote.

The privacy advocates’ letter to Amazon followed public records requests from ACLU chapters in California, Oregon and Florida.

More than two dozen organizations signed it, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Human Rights Watch.

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Police probe suspected illegal e-waste recycling

By Tassanee Vejpongsa Associated Press Police have raided several factories near Bangkok that allegedly were using a loophole to illegally import and process electronic waste.

Police and industry ministry officials said that they were still investigating after raids last week on at least four factories in industrial parks in the outskirts of the capital that found nearly 100 tons of electronic waste such as discarded computers, computer display screens, old mobile phones and other items.

“These factories have not received permission to operate and will be closed pending further investigation into the cases,” said Weerakit Runthakithanarat, a ministry official in Chachoengsao province, which is adjacent to Bangkok.

He said another 10 factories were due to be inspected by June 15.

He said police were examining the companies’ import permits and bringing in experts to determine what sorts of materials were being processed at the sites.

The police said in a statement that the factories that were raided last week were ordered to get all the waste stored outside indoors within a week.

No charges had been filed yet.

Television and newspaper reports showed vast industrial sites filled with big bags of waste and big factories where workers in cloth gloves and simple face masks were taking apart the electronics equipment.

Police were questioning managers of a Taiwan company about the how the factories, which were authorized only to handle domestic recycling,

In this photo taken Thursday, May 24, 2018, a factory processing electronic waste is visited by police in Lat Krabang, outside Bangkok. (Royal Thai Police via AP) obtained such large quantities of foreign e-waste. The suspicion was that they used a legal loophole allowing imports of second-hand appliances.

“Thailand does have this loophole where it allows imports of electronic goods — for reuse purposes — when in fact they are mining materials from these old machines without any regard for the environmental and health impacts,” Somnuck Jongmeewasin, a professor at Silapakorn University who has done research on hazardous waste disposal, told The Associated Press.

He said Thailand had eased restrictions on such waste processing and recycling plants last year to help cope with the domestic garbage and waste problem. Instead, some factories are using the opportunity to illegally process waste from overseas.

Electronic waste creates huge health hazards. Many components are laden with lead and mercury, cadmium and other toxins. Lax controls mean that facilities often burn plastics to release encased copper and

use unsafe methods to extract precious metals.

Somnuck said Thai authorities lack the capacity to adequately regulate such facilities. The police raids followed complaints from residents living near the factories over bad smells, overflowing waste and burning sensations on their skin.

“Factory owners have to give assurances to local communities that if there are impacts on environment, like water pollution, they will take preventive measures and be able to pay compensation for any damages,” said Suwit Kumdee, governor of Chachoengsao.

For years, Chinese waste processors, often working in extremely hazardous conditions, have handled a huge share of the world’s e-waste despite a ban on imports of such materials. A ban on other types of waste that took effect Jan. 1 has left many countries struggling over how to cope.

The Thai waste processing facilities were employing mostly migrant workers from Myanmar, officials said.

DIW chief: Electronic waste import can benefit country The import of electronic waste to Thailand could benefit the country from the recycling processes using appropriate technology which prevents negative effects to surrounding communities, says DIW chief.

He said this in response to a public concern that the imported toxic waste would have negative impacts to environment and communities.

The Department of Industrial Works Director-General, Mongkol Pruekwatana, said the import of electronic waste into Thailand can be done only with an advance approval and under strict control from the authorities.

He said the toxic waste in question is mainly the waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which can be disassembled in

proper facilities that use advanced technology and pollution control methods in order to extract iron from the electronic components. This practice is considered the way to make the most out of available resources.

The director-general added that all import of electronic waste into Thailand must be pre-approved by Thai authorities and the authorities from the country of origin in accordance with the Basel Convention, adding that the import approval will only be granted to factories intending to use these components as raw material, not for reselling.

Unauthorized import of electronic waste, or false custom declaration, will result in legal penalties to importers, which could be as high as two years imprisonment.

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European nations preparing for Gen Prayut’s visit European countries are preparing for Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha’s planned visit in June.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai said the Thai premier will travel to European nations this month to visit several countries. Gen Prayut’s visit to Europe was originally scheduled for May, but due to his busy schedule, his trip had to be postponed.

The Foreign Ministry and the host countries are yet to determine the exact date of Gen Prayut’s visit, according to Don. The European Union late last year announced that it would resume political contact at all levels with Thailand after putting relations on hold following the 2014 coup by the Thai military.

PM Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to visit the EU this month.

Since the announcement, Thailand has welcomed many European diplomats and attaches including those from the UK, Italy, and France.

In March 2018, Don visited EU headquarters and met with a number of high-ranking

officials such as the deputy prime minister of Belgium and his Italian counterpart.

Lastly, he said European nations are looking forward to meeting the Thai Prime Minister and discussing a wide array of matters.

Thailand in talks with US on tax waiver for Thai steel The Thai Ministry of Commerce is awaiting a decision from the United States following its request for an exemption of import tariffs on steel products from Thailand.

After the US government resolved to increase duties on steel imports to 25 percent in March, Adul Chotinisakorn, Director-General of Thailand’s Department of Foreign Trade, disclosed that the Ministry

of Commerce had submitted a letter to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), asking the agency to consider exempting Thailand from steel tariffs just as South Korea has been excepted.

According to the DirectorGeneral, the request had earlier been discussed with the USTR during the ThaiUS Trade and Investment

Framework Agreement Joint Council Meeting in early April.

In the meantime, the department has assisted Thai steel exporters to negotiate with importers in the US in seeking tax waivers for certain products.

As the USTR has accepted the request for consideration, Adul confirmed that the Commerce Ministry is keeping an eye out for any decision from the agency.

Thailand to up controls on paraquat, other farm chemicals

By Tassanee Vejpongsa, Associated Press The Thai government said it will allow continued use of the toxic weed killer paraquat and two other farm chemicals despite mounting concerns over health risks, but plans to tighten controls on how they are utilized.

The expert Committee on Hazardous Substances Control asked the Department of Agriculture to come up with new guidelines within two months, Somboon Yindeeyoungyuen, deputy permanent secretary of the Ministry of Industry, told reporters.

“The committee gave many recommendations and ideas to the DOA to consider, for example, allowing only registered sprayers to use herbicides, training farmers on safety measures, restrictions on imports, and rules for buyers and sellers, so that the DOA can come up with measures that would ensure safety for all,” Somboon said.

Environmental advocates have been urging the government to follow the example of more than 30 other countries and ban paraquat. The issue has drawn much attention after a spate of cases of flesh-eating bacterial

Farmers cut grass at a rice field in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand. (AP PhotoApichart Weerawong, File) diseases in parts of northern Thailand that some researchers believe may be linked to exposure to paraquat.

Critics also question the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, though its manufacturer Monsanto insists the chemical is safe.

Somboon said 18 of the 24people on the committee supported continued use of the chemicals.

“The committee considered all the information, including impacts on health and the environment, from both sides, those who support the ban and those are against, and we decided that we don’t have enough data to ban the usage

of these chemicals,” he said.

Paraquat is the main ingredient in Swiss-based Syngenta AG’s Gramoxone — one of the world’s three most widely used weedkillers — but it also is sold under other brand names. Most paraquat is made in China, where authorities plan to ban use of the chemical as of September 2020.

Use of paraquat has risen sharply in Thailand, partly due to growing resistance to glyphosate.

The government experts found that more than half the farmers they surveyed had used paraquat incorrectly, such as in higher concentrations than recommended.

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Public hearing in Phuket to solve monkey problem

CentralWorld promotes world heritage sites to boost tourism

One of the largest shopping destinations in Thailand, CentralWorld, recently hosted a “World Heritage Journey” event in the hope of triggering tourism to ancient provinces.

Presiding over the opening ceremony May 25, Deputy Governor of Phetchaburi province Worapoj Waewsingngam said tourism is the main source of income for Thailand and its people.

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in the number of tourists, partly because the city has been promoted as one of the twelve must-see provinces in Thailand.

The province has a lot to offer for those interested in history and culture, housing a number of Buddhist temples and natural attractions.

Realizing the importance of PR in the tourism industry, the Phetchaburi Tourism and Sports Office and its allies hosted the “World Heritage Journey” event at CentralWorld in

central Bangkok to promote four historic cities, namely Ayutthaya, Sukhothai, Si Thep of Phetchaburi, and Luang Prabang in Laos.

Ending May 27, the event featured an exhibition on the four ancient sites, a photo zone, a performance zone where visitors could enjoy traditional and cultural shows, and a product zone that offered a wide variety of locally-made items including handicraft products and food specialties. (NNT)

The third public hearing to solve the problem of the monkeys in Toh Sae Mountain in Phuket was held last week with the same outcome as in the previous two hearings.

The forum was held to hear public opinions and possible solutions to the problem of the macaques. Local organizations, other related agencies and members of

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Turning up the volume

Gioacchino Rossini.

One of the most obvious differences between classical music and most forms of popular music is that the former invariably makes use of contrasts in loudness whereas the latter usually doesn’t. The

vast majority of pop songs and folk songs tend to be the same degree of loudness throughout. In contrast, classical music makes frequent use of dramatic contrasts between soft and loud passages.

But it wasn’t always thus.

Before the Early Renaissance, the concept of varying degrees of loudness, which we now call dynamics wasn’t given much attention. The 16th century composer Giovanni Gabrieli was one of the first to indicate dynamics in music notation, but did so sparingly - as did everyone else. However, during the Baroque, the emerging violin family permitted far more contrast in dynamics than the older viols and gradually composers began using softness and loudness as a means of expression.

In printed music, dynamics are indicated by abbreviated Italian terms. The indication to play softly is shown by a “p” which stands for the Italian word piano. The opposite is shown by the letter “f” which stands for the word forte.

These two words gave their name to an early kind of piano known as a fortepiano, because it could literally play loudly and softly, which the clavichord couldn’t. By the 19th century, composers had gradually pushed the dynamic boundaries outwards. A passage marked “pp” (pianissimo) or “ppp” is virtually a musical whisper whereas the loudest passages are marked “ff” (fortissimo) or even in some extreme cases “ffff’, which is about as loud as you can get.

The concept of gradually increasing the volume known as a crescendo – didn’t appear until the mid-18 th century. The idea was developed, along with many other innovations by composers

of the Mannheim School, who wrote for the orchestra of Duke Charles-Theodore.

The crescendo and its opposite, the diminuendo became favourite musical devices in the opera. The Italian composer Rossini developed a technique of gradually increasing the volume, a device which he often used in his opera overtures. This dramatic effect has become known, not surprisingly as the Rossini crescendo.

However, these extended crescendi (and note my pernickety use of the Italian plural) are not simply a matter of telling the orchestra to play louder and louder.

There’s much more to them than that.

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868): Overture - La gazza ladra.

Mannheim Philharmonic Orchestra cond.

Boian Videnoff (Duration: 09:38; Video: 1080p HD) Rossini’s opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) is best known for its overture, famous for its use of snare drums which must have taken the audience aback at the opera’s first performance in 1817.

The work contains a splendid example of the Rossini crescendo. Well, two actually. After the percussive

opening and a rumbustious melody the crescendo section begins (04.18) with a graceful lilting melody on the oboe accompanied by light strings and interjections from the clarinet and low brass. Rossini gradually adds more instruments and increases the number of musical events making the music not only louder but busier. It culminates in a joyful climax (06:09) with vigorous descending scales on the trombone – another Rossini trademark.

Then, not one to miss a good opportunity, Rossini goes through the whole routine again (07:08) but this time using different orchestration. As the crescendo develops he changes the harmonies more rapidly giving the effect of increasing tension and increased speed. And towards the end, we hear another favourite Rossini trick (09:08) when he suddenly ratchets up the tempo and brings the overture to a heroic conclusion.

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Boléro.

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Gustavo Dudamel (Duration: 17:31; Video: 1080p HD) Ravel’s most popular work is an orchestral piece that is

built on a long and measured crescendo. It was originally a ballet and a sensational success when it was premiered at the Paris Opéra in November 1928. Nobody was more surprised at its success than Ravel himself.

Boléro begins with a snare drum playing an insistent rhythm pianissimo close to rim and this relentless rhythm dominates the entire work. Then at 00:33 we hear a faintly Arabicsounding tune played softly on a solo flute.

This melody, which came to Ravel when he was on holiday in Saint-Jean-de-Luz dominates the piece and it’s played on different instruments, some rarely seen in the symphony orchestra including the tiny E flat clarinet and the alto and soprano saxophones. Gradually the loudness, the texture and the tension is slowly tightened as more and more instruments are added. There’s a dramatic change of key at 16:27 when the entire orchestra thunders out the melody.

Dudamel and the Vienna Philharmonic give a memorable performance, and just watching Dudamel conduct is an uplifting experience.

Now there’s a man who clearly loves his job.

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Author unravels new view of Cinderella story Lincee Ray Have you ever considered the beloved fairy tale of Cinderella from the perspective of the evil stepmother? What if she wasn’t wicked at all, but a loving woman who cared deeply for all of her children? Danielle Teller’s debut novel, “All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother,” answers this question with a fascinating reimagining of the original tale.

Before Agnes was an “evil” stepmother, she was a laundry girl and a housemaid.

Agnes is strong, independent and a hard worker, but that doesn’t stop her from being seduced by a young man who has no intention of marrying her once it’s evident that she’s pregnant.

Agnes is asked to leave her housemaid job and finds sanctuary in a nearby village. Even though her “traveling husband” is barely around, she eventually makes a home for him and their two daughters. Her determination to survive pushes her forward in life.

When tragedy strikes on all fronts, Agnes is forced to send the girls to school while she takes a job as a nursemaid to the infant daughter of the manor’s Lord and Lady.

The child’s name is Elfida. Everyone calls her Ella.

Agnes develops a sweet bond with Ella and treats the young girl as her own. She raises Ella to be kind, gentle and full of compassion. Sadly, after Ella’s mother suddenly dies Agnes is left running the household, as well as raising the Lord’s daughter. It only makes sense for the two to eventually marry. Agnes doesn’t want to be a spinster. The Lord doesn’t want to raise a young girl on his own. With Ella already attached to Agnes, the union seems logical.

After they marry, Agnes brings her daughters back to live at the manor. Ella is threatened by the unique bond between Agnes and her other daughters. She broods in the attic, befriends rodents and whines when Agnes suggests that Ella isn’t grateful for all her father has given their family. As punishment, Agnes makes her do laundry for an entire day. Soon after, rumors begin to swirl that Agnes forces Ella to live in the attic and do the cleaning for the entire manor. What’s worse is that Agnes has refused to let Ella go to the king’s ball.

“All the Ever Afters” provides a unique view of Ella’s circumstances and how the young girl was far from perfect. Readers will feel empathy for Agnes, consider various misunderstandings and think twice before labeling her as wicked. (AP)

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Insane as ever, ‘Deadpool 2’ doesn’t disappoint

Mark Kennedy Los Angeles (AP) - At a recent screening of “Deadpool 2,” the audience didn’t get up when the end credits came up, patiently sitting through the scrolling names of visual effects supervisors and lighting specialists. Real “Deadpool” fans know to stick around until the ushers toss them out.

That’s because the filmmakers aren’t content with containing their sprawling, anarchic and subversive hero in any conventional box. No, in the world of Deadpool, even the boring end credits are studded with jokes and teases.

So hold onto your seats as Ryan Reynolds once more dons the red suit and katana swords for this saucy, overstuffed and very entertaining sequel to the 2016

massive hit “Deadpool,” which became the second-highest grossing R-rated film in the U.S. after “The Passion of the Christ.” How do we know that? Deadpool happily brags about it in the new film, continuing his breaking-thefourth-wall humor.

Just some of the other things that get derided this time are “Yentl,” ‘’Frozen,” ‘’Stranger Things,” Wolverine, Jared Kushner, cultural appropriation, Brad Pitt, the Norwegian band A-ha, “Basic Instinct,” ‘’Robocop,” fanny packs, “Say Anything,” dubstep, “Sharknado” and Reynolds himself, who mocks his disastrous earlier decision to play Green Lantern.

“Deadpool 2” is as gruesome and violent as the first, but perhaps the biggest victim is the very concept of superhero movies. Our anti-hero adores mocking the moral clarity, earnestness and predictable stunts of his distant cousins. And, as a Marvel property, he especially delights in lampooning D.C. Comics.

“So dark,” Deadpool says to

This image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Ryan Reynolds in a scene from “Deadpool 2.”

(Twentieth Century Fox via AP) another superhero. “Are you sure you’re not from the DC Universe?”

In this film, which reunites the original writing team of Rhett Reese and Paul Warnick, we begin by finding our unkillable mercenary in the same domestic bliss where we left him. But if “Deadpool” was an origin story, “Deadpool 2” is a quest tale and our hero this time encounters the time traveling soldier Cable (Josh Brolin), a motley crew of

mutants he calls X-Force — “Isn’t that a little derivative?” someone asks snarkily — and various superheroes and mutants, all set to a lively soundtrack that includes Air Supply, Peter Gabriel, “Annie” and an original song with filthy lyrics. If something can be oddly sweet while heads are being decapitated, it’s this film.

Some favorites from the first film are back — some only briefly — such as housemate

Leslie Uggams, girlfriend Morena Baccarin and cab driver Karan Soni. The new characters don’t have time to make much of an impression, except for Zazie Beetz from “Atlanta” who has a great turn as Domino, a strong, sardonic superhero who relies on luck. (Someone please write her own film.)

Deadpool, of course, helps us along the film’s convoluted plot with such post-modern cracks as “Big CGI fight coming up!” or the put-down, “That’s just lazy writing” or, after a cool sequence, “Tell me they got that in slow motion.” Director David Leitch replaces Tim Miller but there’s been no noticeable change in tone or corrosion in the franchise’s terrific special effects. If anything, the surprising success of the original has resulted in more money and more insane sequences, like a chase sequence with a truck convoy and a bizarre scene when Deadpool’s legs regrow after he is cut in half, giving him baby limbs for a time.

Reynolds is once again at his arch and nihilist best here, while acting and jumping in so much facial prosthetics that it makes him look like he’s inside melted cheese — or, as the first movie put it, an avocado that had relations with an older avocado.

To really appreciate “Deadpool 2” you have to have seen the original and probably every other Marvel superhero film, too. And be up on pop culture, from Cher to Broadway musicals.

(It’s a good thing there’s no quiz at the end.) Speaking of ends, don’t embarrass yourself by getting up to leave when it seems to be over.

And get ready to happily sit through “Deadpool 3,” too.

“Deadpool 2,” 20th Century Fox release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for “strong violence and language throughout, sexual references and brief drug material.” Running time: 119 minutes. Three stars out of four.

Michael Jackson estate slams ABC TV special on his last days Andrew Dalton

Michael Jackson is shown in this March 5, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

Los Angeles (AP) — The estate of Michael Jackson is objecting to an ABC TV special on the end of the King of Pop’s life, calling it a crass attempt to exploit Jackson without respect for his legacy or children.

The estate said in a statement that “The Last Days of Michael Jackson” is not sponsored or approved by Jackson’s heirs, and violates their intellectual property rights — an assertion ABC denies.

“We believe the special to be another crass and unauthorized attempt to exploit the life, music and image of Michael Jackson without respect for

Michael’s legacy, intellectual property rights or his children,” the estate’s statement says.

But the network said the documentary is a legitimate work of journalism on a newsworthy subject.

“ABC News’ documentary explores the life, career and legacy of Michael Jackson, who remains of great interest to people worldwide,” ABC said in a statement.

Producers said the twohour documentary, aired last week, aimed to reveal new information on Jackson and focus on his apparent decline in the run-up to his death at 50 on June 25, 2009.

Jackson’s estate said ABC

Asia International Guitar Festival & Competition 2018 The Sukosol Hotel in Bangkok will once again host the annual Asia International Guitar Festival & Competition, set to take place from June 7-10.

Organized by the Thailand Guitar Society in association with Savarez Strings, the festival represents South-East Asia’s finest assembly of international guitar players, makers and enthusiasts.

Now in its twelfth illustrious year, the event is the biggest and most vibrant meeting place for classical guitar aficionados and music lovers in the region. This y e a r ’s a g e n d a i n c l u d e s m a s t e r classes, guitar exhibits, competitions Roberto Aussel from Argentina will be one of the star performers at the Asia International Guitar Festival & Competition in Bangkok. (Photo/Savarez)

and concerts by acclaimed world-class musicians hailing from around the globe.

A varied program sees four days of activities, each day culminating in a concert by one or more celebrated guitar maestros.

The event will also feature a guitar competition open to all, with the winner receiving a free guitar, case, string sets, certificate and performance rights at four prestigious events.

All concerts are performed in The Sukosol’s Kamolmart Room.

Evening concert tickets are priced at 600 baht for adults and 400 baht for students (with valid I.D.), inclusive of coffee break. Afternoon concert tickets cost 300 baht for all audience members, excluding coffee break.

Observers of master classes and competitions pay 200 baht.

For more information call 022–470– 123, ext 1916-1918 or visit www. facebook.com/thailandguitarsociety.

was using a copyrighted silhouette and photo to promote the special, but it stopped after demands from Jackson attorneys. The estate said it believed other intellectual property was used without permission, including music, photos and artwork.

“It is particularly disheartening that Disney, a company known to strongly believe in protecting its own IP rights, would choose to ignore these rights belonging to the Estate,” the statement said. ABC is owned by Disney.

ABC responded that the “program does not infringe on his

estate’s rights, but as a courtesy, we removed a specific image from the promotional material.”

An autopsy determined that Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication. The superstar had been taking the prescription anesthetic as a sleep aid during preparations for a series of comeback concerts called “This Is It.” Former cardiologist Conrad Murray was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter for giving Jackson a fatal dose of the drug. He served two years in jail for causing Jackson’s death. Murray’s conviction was upheld in 2014.

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David Bowie: ‘The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust’

mott@pattayamail.com When this album was released in 1972, it was nearly the cause for this Dog to dye his hair fluorescent orange and effect blue eye shadow. Fortunately a stout collar and lead were put in place before this manifestation took place. But nonetheless, this album had a profound effect on the history of rock ‘n’ roll.

In soccer parlance, this album took David Bowie from a relegation candidate in Division Three to a Premier League champion in the

blink of a mascara adorned eye. When Bowie created Ziggy Stardust, he created a monster that would take him on one of the most exciting roller-coaster rides in the history of the entertainment industry.

The songs that Bowie wrote for this album were his strongest so far. Also, by taking the heavy rock from the previous year’s “Man Who Sold The World” and the power pop of “Hunky Dory”, which was only six months old, he created the perfect concept album. Bowie then had the musical nuance to pick the perfect musicians to make his dreams of stardom come true.

With the band standing satin-trousered beside Bowie, Mick Ronson tore every ounce of emotion from his

David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust (right) and Trevor Bolder. guitars and pushed Bowie’s songs into another dimension.

Listen to the gut wrenching savagery of “Moonage Daydream” (the guitar solo at the end of which has often been imitated but never bettered), the glittering riffs in the title track, and the sheer unadulterated, irresistible boogie of “Suffragette City”. This makes you realize that Bowie could never have done this without the platinum haired Spider from Hull, Mick Ronson.

The lyrics are thrust in your face and rammed down your throat. Then there are Bowie’s excursions into the future, such as the image heavy “Star Man” - He’d like to come and meet us but he thinks he’d blow our minds.

This is followed by the album’s final number, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide”, which also closed the live set, with the vocalist entreating the audience to ‘hold’ him before he’s taken away.

Nevertheless, Bowie would soon tire of the Ziggy persona (splitting up the Spiders at the peak of their powers).

This dramatic music with its swaggering saxophones, rough edged guitars, tinkling piano, bombastic drumming and its crisp production cut a swathe through the music industry. It created its own category of glam rock and also changed fashion forever.

The concerts were amazing but you had to have the

music and this album was full of cutting-edge songs that hold up decades later.

Climb into your platform boots, shake out your spandex and, as the Leper Messiah preached, “Let your imagination soar”.

5 stars for the Starman.

Artists: David Bowie - vocals, and acoustic guitars Mick Ronson - guitar and production Trevor Bolder - bass guitar (and the most spectacular sideburns ever seen) Woody Woodmansy - drums Tracks List: Five Years Soul Love Moonage Daydream Starman It Ain’t Easy Lady Stardust Star Hang Onto Yourself Ziggy Stardust Suffragette City Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide Note: Written By Mott The Dog and Hells Bells who can be found in another time warp at Jameson’s The Irish Pub, Soi AR, North Pattaya.

A farewell to the road for Paul Simon David Bauder New York (AP) — Farewell tours don’t always mean farewell, but are a ripe time for appreciation and appraisal. Paul Simon’s concerts and a new biography offer the opportunity for both.

Simon’s “Homeward Bound” tour began last month in Vancouver and takes him across North America, to Europe and an eventual conclusion with three dates back home in New York City.

Simon, who’s 76, isn’t retiring. He has an album due out this fall and promises he’ll still occasionally appear on stage. Since he started writing songs as a teenager, it’s hard to imagine that impulse shutting off forever. He’s done with the idea of long concert tours, though, so if you want to see him perform, this is probably it.

The death of his lead guitarist and friend, Vincent N’guini, last December influenced his decision to step away, Simon said in a statement when the tour was announced. (He has declined interview requests).

“Mostly, though, I feel the travel and time away from my wife and

family takes a toll that detracts from the joy of playing,” he said.

The set list from the tour’s opener in Vancouver indicates that he’s exploring the breadth of his career — from Simon & Garfunkel favorites like “Mrs. Robinson” and “America” to touchstones from “Graceland” and recent fare “Dazzling Blue” and “Rewrite.” With a 16-piece band, he often searches for new ways to tell familiar stories.

“He was far more a curious musician than a self-congratulatory, self-repeating pop star,” wrote Jon Pareles of The New York Times in his review of opening night.

Simon’s musical restlessness sets him apart from many peers, said Robert Hilburn, author of the just-released book “Paul Simon: The Life.” Simon was interviewed

by Hilburn for the book. Many of Simon’s contemporaries aren’t interested in pushing boundaries or have fans who resist if they do.

Simon’s last few albums have been adventurous, earning him critical and commercial success.

Many people forget that Simon spent years as a mediocre writer searching for pop hits until his

Paul Simon is shown performing in Vancouver, British Columbia, May 16, 2018. (Jimmy Jeong/ The Canadian Press via AP) breakthrough song, “The Sound of Silence,” Hilburn said.

“Once he became this great songwriter, he realized right away that you’re always in jeopardy,” he said. “There are always these distractions and temptations. He had this determination and intelligence to know that music is the most important thing — that you could never master it and never take it for granted.”

Hilburn believes that the desire to stretch himself musically was the biggest factor in Simon’s break

with partner Art Garfunkel in 1970, not the famous prickly relationship between the childhood chums. “If he hadn’t left Simon & Garfunkel, he’d have burned out like all the others,” Hilburn said.

The two are more distant than ever after an unpleasant end to the “Old Friends” tour in 2012, and Garfunkel declined requests to be interviewed for Hilburn’s biography. So it would be wise not to expect another reunion soon.

For the book, Hilburn pressed Simon to reveal details of the 2014 incident where Simon and his wife, Edie Brickell, were arrested on disorderly conduct charges for a fight at their Connecticut home. Without setting the record straight, it would remain a defining image of their marriage, he argued. Simon refused; instead, a photo of him and Brickell later renewing their vows at their Montauk, New York, home is in the book, standing as Simon’s testimony to the endurance of their relationship.

Even though two of his three wives — Brickell and Carrie Fisher — were celebrities in their own right when they were married, Simon has

generally been reluctant to feed the media machine. Hilburn believes that has cost him popularity through the years. Instead, people know Simon through his songs, and they’re likely to be remembered long after he’s gone, he said.

In fact, that legacy drives the album he’s been working on for release this fall. He records again some of the compositions he’s particularly proud of that were lost along the way in terms of public attention. One song on the Vancouver playlist, “Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War,” is a likely target.

Even though Hilburn was the first biographer that Simon cooperated with, they had their clashes. Hilburn wrote that he feared the project was close to breaking down. But ultimately he said Simon kept his word that Hilburn would be the final arbiter of what was written, and gradually opened up.

“With all of the success he’s had, he still loves it when people love the music,” Hilburn said. “He wants people to love the music, not necessarily to like him. But I think if they got to know him, they will get to like him.”

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Control your sex hormones the natural way Control your sex hormones the natural way, was the general theme provided by Dr. Pantalee Chuensampan M.D. at the Sunday, May 20, Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) meeting. Dr. Pantalee is from the Health Promotion Center of Bangkok Hospital Pattaya (BHP) specializing in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine.

She spoke about the functions of sex hormones in men, a subject that is almost obsessive with many of her male patients.

She also talked about the female hormones as well. She talked about the classes of hormones, effects of ageing, including metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular and other diseases. She outlined the common laboratory evaluations and treatments, which included pharmaceutical, but she placed her emphasis on natural approaches.

Dr. Pantalee Chuensampan, M.D., from Bangkok Hospital Pattaya, speaks about the functions of sex hormones, testosterone for men and estrogen for women, outlining the effects of low levels and treatments available, but she emphasized on how to increase them naturally through diet.

For men, she explains, the sex hormone testosterone helps to maintain health, stamina, libido, memory and well-being. However, “Low-T” can cause fatigue, mood swings and irritability. This hormone starts to decline in men at around 35 years of age. A chart was presented that showed men, at age 4554 lose about 34% of their testosterone, then by age 65-74, about 40% is lost and after the age of 85, 50% is commonly lost.

Some of the symptoms of low testosterone include reduced sexual desire, loss of body hair, decreased frequency of shaving, height loss, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, increased breast tissue and an enlarged prostate. Symptoms may not appear for 2-4 years prior to actually having “Low-T”. The doctor discussed lab evaluations, including serum “Total-T” having results of less than 300 ng/dL and “Free-T” of less than 5 ng/dL being low.

A test of the salivary is also available. She talked about fasting insulin, fasting blood

This is one of the many slides Dr. Pantalee included in her presentation. This one showing some of the plants available in Thailand that can be used in a natural approach to sex hormone health. sugar and HbA1C, Lipid childbirth. Because a woman’s panel, blood counts, LH, body undergoes various FHA and Dexa scans for bone cycles throughout her life, density as part of applicable hormonal imbalances are inlaboratory evaluations. evitable and don’t necessarThe doctor outlined the re- ily indicate that there’s a lationship between “Low-T” problem. Menstrual and and metabolic syndrome, or menopausal changes are a clusters of conditions that normal part of development. occur together, increasing Estrogen helps to retain risk of heart disease, stroke calcium in bones, regulates and diabetes. A chart outlin- the balance of high density ing five conditions that help lipoprotein (HDL) and lowdefine metabolic syndrome density lipoprotein (LDL) which includes: abdominal cholesterol in the bloodobesity, hypertriglyceridemia stream, and aids the mainte(high levels of triglycerides), nance of blood-sugar levels, low HDL, hypertension and memory functions, and emodiabetes. tional balance. Progesterone Correction of “Low-T” include helps reduce body fat, rethe reduction of insulin sen- duces anxiety, and promotes sitivity/high blood-sugar hair growth. Testosterone in levels, reduction of cholesterol women plays an important and weight loss. If needed, role in the health and wellTestosterone Replacement being. Testosterone affects Therapy (TRT) may be pre- libido, mood, energy, and scribed in either testosterone body fat and helps to protect injection or testosterone against osteoporosis. cream application. A “NatuDr. Pantalee discussed the ral Approach” for “Low-T”, symptoms of menopause, includes the use of DHEA such as systemic weight (DeHydroEpiandrosterone), gain, night sweats, hot flashes, ginseng, finger root, Thai joint soreness, back pain ginseng, black binger, vitamin and urinary issues. She also D and zinc. talked about psychological For women, the two main episodes of dizziness, sleep hormones are estrogen and problems, mood swings and progesterone. The ovaries less interest in sexual activalso produce some of the ity. Menopausal fat redistrimale hormone testosterone. bution was demonstrated, Female sex hormones are with charts that show how important in the continuation this can result in a metabolic of the human species, since syndrome that can lead to they prepare a woman’s cardiovascular disease (CVD). body for fertilization and Lab evaluations are discussed,

Dr. Pantalee and Member Ren Lexander pose for a picture after Ren’s post presentation interview.

including serum estradiol, progesterone, LH, FSH testing, blood-sugar and other tests.

Treatment of low estrogen generally involves the use of a high-dose of estrogen, but she emphasized that such treatment may not lower the risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). She also talked about bioidentical hormones, which are hormones that are made in a laboratory and phytoestrogens which are compounds that naturally occur in plants and plant foods. She emphasized maintaining correct insulin and blood-sugar sensitivity, a decrease of cholesterol and weight loss.

She advocated the natural approach for estrogen health, with such products as soybean, tofu, tao jeaw, tempeh and natto. She also likes flaxseed, coconut water, fenugreek and curcuma comosa.

MC Richard Silverberg opened the PCEC Sunday meeting by thanking Bangkok Hospital Pattaya for providing nurses to give free blood sugar and blood pressure checks to members and guests and then calling on new visitors to introduce themselves by giving their name and where they are originally from.

The common denominator between the genders is the control of insulin-sensitivity/blood-sugar levels, a decrease of cholesterol and weight loss. She recommends increasing insulin-sensitivity with bitter melons, Thai pea eggplant, gym nena silvestre and cinnamon. To lower lipid levels, she recommends the use of roselle juice, plant sterols, safflower, eggplant, Thai garlic, omega-3 fatty acids and tocotrienol. Decrease visceral fat with finger root, Thai ginseng, black ginger, Thai holy basil, garcinia camogie and ginger.

After the presentation, everyone was brought up to date on upcoming events which was then followed by the Open Forum where members and guests can ask questions or make comments about Expat living in Thailand. For more on the PCEC and their activities or to subscribe to their weekly newsletter, visit www.pcec.club.

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Visakha Bucha Day marked by prayer and merit-making Jetsada Homklin

releasing birds, fish, snails and other living beings that they believe to be ‘trapped’.

Doing so also generates good karma for those making merit.

As the sun fell, Buddhists lit candles and marched in the traditional “wien tien” procession around temple halls. Others engaged in meditation after laying flower garlands on Buddha images.

For non-Buddhists, Pattaya seemed as quiet as the temples during meditation.

All bars were closed and alcohol could not be sold from midnight to midnight.

Marking the triple occasion of the birth of Buddha, the day of his enlightenment and his ascension to Nirvana, Visakha Bucha Day is one of the three holiest days on the Buddhist calendar and previously was designated by USESCO as “World Peace Day.” The educational, scientific and cultural organization’s proclamation cited Buddhism’s teaching of humanity, mercy and tolerance as the reasons for the designation.

A foreign resident pays his respects to Lord Buddha.

Pattaya residents crowded temples to mark the birth, enlightenment and death of Lord Buddha on Visakha Bucha Day, the most important memorial day in Budhism.

Believers began the day early, taking children and relatives to make merit at local temples. Food and desserts were given as offerings to monks, who returned the favor by teaching Dharma.

Many elderly worshippers followed tradition in wearing white and eating only vegetarian meals on the holiest of Buddhist holidays.

Local temples held meritmaking ceremonies while at other places, such as Chaimongkol Temple in South Pattaya, people donated items to be consumed in the monks’ morning meal. Others gave cash in envelopes as well as baskets filled with necessities.

Most attending services dressed in white to demonstrate purity.

But holiday activities didn’t end at the temple gate.

Many families were seen on beaches and in local parks

Pattaya residents crowded local temples to mark the most important day in Buddhism.

A mother leads her daughters in giving their offerings of food to the Buddhist monks.

Devotees pray while monks chant from the Holy Scriptures.

The aura of the holy chapel is filled with the chanting of Buddhist monks.

People from all walks of life join in the candle light procession.

People light their candles and joss sticks at the eternal lantern.

The whole family joins in the Wien Thien ‘Candle light’ procession around the monastery.

Thais and foreigners show their respect for Buddhism by joining in traditional rituals.

A Buddhist monk sprinkles holy water on the faithful at Wat Suthawat in Nongprue.

Locals present their ‘Sangkatan’ offerings of food and necessary items to a Buddhist monk.

Mother and child make merit by offering necessities to the monks.

A lady donates funds to the temple.

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Pattaya Rotarians bring warmth and education to kids in India

Maneeya Engelking distributes sweaters to children in the village.

Children line up to receive their sweaters and books from the PE Maneeya.

Dr Margret Deter

Maneeya joins the kids in their tiny classroom.

Maneeya and Dr. Margret pose with the happy children wearing their new red sweaters.

The children are thankful for the love and care of visiting Rotarians from Pattaya.

President Margret Deter and President Elect Maneeya Engelking of the Rotary E-Club Dolphin Pattaya visited Bodhgaya in India’s Bihar state last January when the daytime temperatures can hit as low as 8 degrees Celsius.

Most of the population in that area is very poor, with many going barefooted in the cold and elderly women are seen sitting wrapped in shawls on the roadside.

The two Rotarians handed out 340 locally made sweaters at the two schools which were purchased for about 300 baht each.

Maneeya and her friends serve rice and curries to the poor people in the village.

In addition, Margret and Maneeya gave each student 10 rupees, equivalent to six baht, which can keep them going for one full day in those parts.

Rotarian Engelking travels regularly to Bodhgaya and is very concerned about the welfare of the people there.

She donated an additional 100,000 baht while Deter chipped in another 20,000 baht to help the poor.

Just outside Bodhgaya is

a small community whose residents are quite poor.

There are many children ranging from 6-14 years old who do not get an education.

Kind-hearted volunteer teachers look after at least 12 of these abandoned children. Engelking arranged to buy 400 school books in English and Hindi that were distributed to the children.

They also distributed food and drinks to about 200 poor people in the area.

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Summer School at ISC A great choice for your kids Gede Marfil Alejan The school bell may stop ringing, but Summer School at ISC is a great time to extend all kinds of learning opportunities for your children to enjoy!

We will be taking them on an adventure full of new and exciting activities, challenging explorations and discoveries all together with the help of our brilliant teachers.

Here at ISC, we create a different environment for children to participate in and fully enjoy the learning activities throughout three weeks of summer from July 2nd. It is an ideal place for your inquisitive child to explore and build something authentic out of their creative minds.

We go beyond the four walls of the classroom and provide an excellent opportunity to unplug and engage your children in enriching, creative types of play, interactive learning, field trips, visual arts, as well as plenty of cooling off and splashing

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BHP, Pattaya United team up for ‘Score Your Goal’ Jetsada Homklin

Kids have fun while learning about nature at summer school. in the swimming pool!

During the three awesome weeks of summer school, the children will have a blast while developing thinking and cooperation skills. Subsequently, the development of language, memory, emotions, social behavior and motor skills are consistently evolving among both early years and primary students, no matter their skill level.

I believe that summer school at ISC is a summer time with friends. It is a perfect venue for meeting and making new playmates and an empowering way to spend a deserved vacation. Summer School at ISC is a precious kind of experience that your children will never forget and will be added in their memory banks for all time.

Please call 038-241 085

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya and the Pattaya United Football Club teamed up for the second ‘Score Your Goal’ football camp for kids.

More than 50 children ages 6-13 hit the Khao Noi football field May 19 for the soccer lessons hosted by BHP Assistant Director Dr. Surachai Khampakdee and Dolphins Director Sirima Panichiwa, who handed out gifts to the kids.

Over nearly five hours the kids learned basic football techniques demonstrated by coaches and players from Pattaya United. Head coach Surapong “An” Kongthep demonstrated how to play both offense and defense, control the ball and the best way to score a goal.

Score Your Goal was started

by Bangkok Hospital Pattaya to support the community. It is aimed at promoting health and sports while keeping youths away from drugs.

Kids were taught basic football techniques by coaches from Pattaya United.

A boy is taught how to kick the football correctly.

South Pattaya Community makes evenings fun for kids Jetsada Homklin The South Pattaya Community organized a week’s worth of evening activities to keep neighborhood children away from drugs.

Prasert Lemlae closed out the May 17-24 “developing quality of life” campaign on Soi Batman, which encouraged local youths to try various activities in hopes they find a hobby that will keep them occupied, off the internet and away from drugs.

Throughout the week volunteers led classes from 4-6 p.m. on painting, drawing, English-speaking and games. All the kids also got free refreshments.

Organizers also encouraged parents in attendance to encourage their children to put down Community leaders organized their phones and computers and engage in realworthwhile activities for children in world activities and reduce their time on Facebook, Line and video games. the neighborhood.

Children are taught to draw and paint.

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Articles Businesses for For Sale/Rent Sale or Rent As611/01-52/ Pattaya Mail Cartoonist Michael Baird (M.J.B.) has 3 brand new cartoon E-Books out. These and his other 10 cartoon E-Books can be bought from www.amazon .co.uk or www.booksmango.com.

You will now be able to see all of Mike’s cartoons in FULL COLOUR. His 3 new Kindle E-Books are “Pattaya Cartoon Memories”, “Ladyboy Book 3” and “Pattaya Unforgettable Memories”. These cartoons are for grown-ups and would be unique gifts. You never know You might see yourself in them!

Articles/Services Wanted Aw01/01-52/ Missionary in Rayong sponsoring Little Duck Nursery needs help.

Please - Any unwanted items you have would be appreciated.

(Eng) Rev Stephen 086 600 5682, (Thai) 0875 381 586

Bop10/01-52/ House in Pratumnak, corner Soi 4, with 5 floors; 320sqm, 9 rooms, 8 bathrooms, entrance room, completely restored 2016, garage; 7,500,000 THB; (Ref. 259) WWW. GOPROPERTYTHAILAND .COM, 093- 161 5995.

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Hotel Resort in Koh Samui with 71 rooms; 10,700sqm of land, perfect investment; one of the best hotels with the most beautiful beach on the island; rare opportunity; Price extremely reduced, owner wants to retire; details: GO PROPERTYTHAILAND; 093- 161 5995 Bop03/01-52/ “Paradise for sale” on famous Phuket beach; breathtaking, beautiful resort on 1000-wah (4,000sqm) of land with 7 Thai- teak traditional style houses located directly on the beach; each house is a unique artwork with antique furniture & art; must see; only one of his kind in Thailand; very rare opportunity; details: GO PROPERTY THAILAND; 093- 161 5995

Bop01/01-52/ Hotel with “Hotel license” located 50m from Jomtien Beach, 45 guest rooms, lobby, bar, massage room, maiden rooms; one of the best locations on Jomtien Beach: 75,000,000 THB. Go Property Thailand; 093- 161 5995; jo@gopropertythailand.com

Notices No01/21-25/ Looking for a game of snooker with a retired ex-professional UK snooker player? Tel. Mike on 089 152 3202

Pets Pets03/01-52/ Homeless puppies available for adoption to warm and caring homes! All puppies are healthy, vaccinated and acclimated to people. If you are looking for a friend for life, just call 088 402 6772 or e-mail to karin@carefordogs.org.

Pets02/01-52/ **Free Cats and Kittens** We are still trying to find loving homes for over 40 cats and kittens. Please check the pictures on our website or ring Sandra. Call 085 287 5004 http:/ cats4youinpattaya.webs.com

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Pattaya Emergency Numbers Pattaya Call Center ................................ 1337 Police Station .......................................... 191 - Pattaya ................................................... 038 424 186 - Banglamung ......................................... 038 221 800-1 Highway Police ....................................... 038 392 001 Fire Brigade ............................................. 199 Pat. Int. Hopsital ..................................... 038 428 374-5 Bkk-Pat Hospital ..................................... 038 259 911 TAT Central Office: Region 3 Pattaya . 038 428 750 Tourist Police ......................................... 038 429 371, 1155 . .................................................................. 038 410 044 (FAX)

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Prc202/14-52/ Seaview Studio, View Talay 1A, high floor, Pattaya side, Living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, Flat TV, ceiling fan, clean & nice furnished, air-condition, security door, parking, big pool, located on “10 Baht Taxi route: 9,500 THB/ monthly. Tel. 092- 753 9309 (available from 1 May 2018)

Property for Rent Houses, Villas Prb172/22-41/ House for Rent 7,500 baht: Soi Nernplabwan.

Contact 0619645253 / 0983477786 Prb171/22-26/ TOWNHOUSE, Off Soi Khaotalo, Like new, quiet, safe, two bedroom, one bathroom, patio, carport, Thai kitchen, air-conditioned, FULLY FURNUSHED, Guarded Subdivision, Communal Pool, One Year Lease, Bt.9,500.

Monthly, Bt.19,000 Security Deposit. English, 087-805-5276 Prb170/21-25/ Beautiful House for Rent: 3 bed, 3 baths, fully furnished, private Pool.

Near Jomtien beach. Start from 30,000 baht/month. Phone: 081-782-0206, 084-362-5920, www.rimtalay.com Prb167/14-39/ HOUSES FOR RENT –Rattana Village and Udomsuk Village: 72-120m2, up to 7,000 Baht. Mr. Udom 082 2091452, Mr. Wirat 089 9354369

Condos, Apartments Prc207/19-38/ Royal Park Luxury Service Apartments and penthouse suite, Jomtien: starting at 15,000 baht/month.

56-70sqm, one bedroom, large living area with balcony and European kitchen, Free internet.

Enjoy our rooftop swimming pool. Short walk to the beach.

Monthly and daily rentals, Contact 086 111 7414 or check on our website www. royalparkjomtien.com to see why we are number 1 in Jomtien Prc208/22-41/ Condo for Rent 8,500 baht: Studio 32sqm, in the city, fully furnished, big swimming pool. Contact 0619645253 / 0983477786 Prc207/22-23/ Pattaya Beach Rd. Soi 13, Large furnished studio, safe, poolside + seaview balcony, terrace, 12,500.Tel.091-504-1806 Prc206/19-23/ Markland Studio 48sqm, beach front balcony, refurbished, furnished, pool, fitness, minimum 12 months @ 15,000B/month by owner ian.thailand@hotmail .com, 087 137 1529 Prc205/19-23/ Prestigious Sky Beach Condo, very nice must see - High floor – 54sqm directly at Wongamat Beach/ Naklua with wonderful sea views. Rent negotiable - please contact e-mail: marty111@ outlook.de

Prc201/14-39/ Apartments for rent: 46m2, air-con, hot water, kitchen, in Nongprue area- 4,500 Baht. Tel. Mr. Udom 082 2091452, Mr. Heinz 089 989 0567 Prc199/14-52/ Seaview Studio, Jomtien Beach Road, between Soi 15 – 16: 43sqm, high floor, living-bedroom, kitchen, bath, terrace, office table, clean & nice furnished, air-condition, fitness gym, garage, 25m pool, direct on “10 Baht Taxi route”: 9,800 THB/ monthly. Tel. 092- 753 9309 Prc191/01-52/ Pratumnak Seaview Studio with private access to the beach; Ref: 2016139; located directly on the beach, 3rd floor, no public streets, no buses, no traffic; totally peaceful, sea views from the terrace; living space 51sqm; fully furnished; direct access to the beach; 1 living/bedroom, 1 bathroom, full kitchen; WiFi; security 7/24h; community pool on beachfront; restaurant on pool side, supermarket, laundry; For Rent at 13,500 THB/month; Go Property Thailand; 093- 161 5995; jo@gopropertythailand.com

Property for Sale Houses, Villas Psb31/22-26/ Beautiful 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, Private Pool House not far from Sukhumvit via Siam Country Club: 210m2 Interior and 400m2 Exterior. Spacious rooms Euro kitchen and quality furniture.

Parking 2 cars covered port remote gate. Shops and restaurants close by. 4.9M option to buy as package with Toyota Hilux 2009 in A 1 Condition. 083-102-9293 Psb30/21-25/ Fully-furnished two-bedroom townhouse, quiet village of Siam Country Club Road: 475,000 THB. Contact (Thai) 085 641 560, (English) 093 785 2252 Psb29/13-52/ Semi-detached house in Central Park 2 (Sukkhumvit behind McDonald’s), 2 beds, 2 baths, office, living room, nicely furnished, terrace and “sala” (pergola) in the garden, end of cul-de-sac, nice little garden, quiet and and central location, reduced from 4.9 M Baht to only 3.5 M Baht. Heiner 081 861 19 07

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Condos, Apartments Psc82/22-26/ New Price Down for my Condo Jomtien Porchland 2, 38m2, 1 bedroom 8 Floor, Foreign name, fully furnished, swimming pool, gym cable TV, internet, 5 Years old nice view, 1.50 MLN BHT. Rent: 8,500 baht per Month Tel: 087138-3523 Psc81/20-24/ Beachfront Condo at Bangsaray Condominium: 150sqm. 2-bedrooms, 2-bathrooms, 300m from beach, only 137units in 20 rai of green landscaped surroundings in an exclusive residence. Excellent decoration, fully furnished, TVLCD 50". Hot Sale: 8.9 million THB (59,000 baht/sqm). 0813358102 (owner), for photos: pitipity@hotmail.com, Line: piti.t Psc81/19-23/ Markland Studios, Pattaya Beach Road, finance available: 48sqm, beachfront balcony, furnished, refurbished, pool, fitness, foreign ownership, by owner, 3 MIO baht, 20% deposit + 120 months @ 25000. Other bespoke available. ian.thailand@hotmail.com, 0871371529 Psc74/03-52/ Sea-View Condo Tropicana Pratumnak, modern 2 bedroom apartment, 81sqm, Pattaya City South, beautiful sea and island views; 1 living room with dining area, 1 bedroom, 1 office room, 1 bathroom, 1 shower room, fully equipped European kitchen, fully furnished, high Speed WLAN/WiFi connection, Safe Box, air-con, ceiling fans, 2 swimming pools (roof and ground floor), Fitness Gym, Garage; medical Clinic; ZEN Beauty Clinic; located at the “10 BahtTaxi route; For Sale at THB 4,500,000. Call 092- 753 9309 Psc59/01-52/ In the heart of Jomtien, 2 bedroom condo, (Ref: 2016- 259) 90sqm, 4th floor, big living room, 2 bathrooms,

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Coghlan collects the mug PSC Golf from Tropical Golf Group Tuesday, May 22, Crystal Bay – Stroke The day was planned to be at Bangpakong Country Club but we found late on that they were coring the greens at this time so we changed to Crystal Bay at the last moment. Not a bad change actually as Crystal Bay is much closer and also not as costly.

With a normal ‘Low Season’ number of players we set off on the C & B nines off the white tees. All went well till we reached C7, which is a par-3 island green and was 170 yards or so over water.

Many golfers find this difficult and this being a monthly mug day and a stroke competition, many hopes ended in the water. Certainly I was

5 off the tee here. Trouble was also waiting for us at the first Par 5 on the B nine, which is also a long drive over water and also caused problems for many golfers.

See water, hit water!

The greens were a bit slower than one would expect but the course was playable.

The winner of the monthly mug, sponsored by BJ’s Holiday Lodge, was Mick Coghlan with a fine net 64.

In second was John Davis with a net 69, ahead of Takeshi Hakozaki in third with a net 71. In fourth place was Mashi Kaneta with a net 72 and then we had a count-back on net 73 that saw Dick Warberg in fifth and Brian Parish sixth.

Mick Coghlan (right) with Bill Jones.

Friday May 25, Pattana – Stableford One of the regular courses on our rotation was on tap this day, Pattana Sports Club.

Would we get around without

Cliff burns bright at Phoenix The Jomtien Golf Society Monday, May 21, Silky Oaks Stableford Our first game here for some time and there were two divisions out with the equal cut at 9-15.6 and 15.7+.

A nice change to be back here but the greens on the front nine were so woolley they were incredibly slow and the back nine just a touch quicker.

Nik Evans recorded the highest score of the day, winning division 1 with 37 points while Neil Gamble took second after beating Paul Butler on a 15/14 back-nine countback, both with 32 points.

Joe Peters topped division 2 with 32 points and one point behind was Paul Young who beat Alan Bissell 13/11 on the back six countback after they both scored 15 on the back nine.

Near pins went to (Div 1) Paul Butler and Neil Gamble, and (Div 2) William Chang.

In the ‘2’s today Nik Evans birdied the 6th and Frank Grainger the 8th in division 2.

Wednesday, May 23, Phoenix Gold Stableford Another first round here today for some considerable time for various reasons and with the Lakes nine still closed we were playing the Mountain and Ocean nines.

An almost identical cut as of Monday and with 41

getting wet was the question on everyone’s mind as we headed off after breakfast.

We had received word we would be playing the C & B nines in that order so the usual fear of the opening tee shot facing water both right and left on B-1 was not a worry.

After a quick check in and change in the great locker room, we were off C1 playing “ball-in-hand, through

the green” as carts were restricted to the path only.

This proved to be a wise decision as the fairways, while in very good condition, were sodden and gave up little roll, picking up globs of mud. While C’s greens showed a little coring around the edges they were in good shape and rolling at a fair speed.

Most were caught out by several pin positions where if you got the ball to the hole with enough speed and did not have the precise line, you were faced with a 10 -12 footer coming back as the slope took it well off to the side.

The biggest complaint of the day was the fact the two drink stands on C were not open. Nine holes without a place to replenish ones water supply is not acceptable in these hot and humid weather conditions. The course management was informed of this concern and

we trust they will take appropriate corrective action.

With all groups finished and headed to the showers in less than 4½ hours, the scorecards were collected and we were making our way back to Pattaya without any rain.

With only one flight today and five places up for grabs the scores were very good and those not equaling their handicap were left to applaud and hope one of their 9 hole scores would get them a mention.

With a fine 39 points, Dave “DB” Cooper (C/H 26) took the top spot over a trio at 37 points. In count back order of finish, they were John Davis (13), Steve Truelove (12) and Mashi Kaneta (16). Getting the final call in fifth place was “Buckers” Buckingham (23) with a fine 36 points.

Bob Britton and Dick Warberg took home the “Best 9’s” prizes.

Blake bounces back at Burapha The Tara Court Golf Society Sunday, May 20, Green Valley - Stableford

Steven Cliff and Leo Adam. points Steven Cliff won division 2 ahead of Leo Adam in second on 40, Peter Davies third with 34 and Alan Bissell coming fourth on 32.

A 21/18 back-nine countback saw Ian Speirs beat Paul Butler for first place in the premier flight after they both scored 37 points. Paul Young was third on 33 points and Neil Gamble fourth with 32.

Near Pins were claimed by (Div 1) Paul Butler, Conrad (2) and Neil Gamble, and (Div 2) Leo Adam, Alan Bissell and Frank Grainger.

In the ‘2’s today there was a rollover in division 1 but Leo Adam and Alan Bissell both birdied Ocean 5 to share the division 2 spoils.

Friday, May 25, Eastern Star Stableford The highest turnout of the week with the two divisional

cut coming at 4-17 and 18+ and the Hua Hin champion was successful again as Dave Edwards won division 1 with 39 points. Paul Butler came in second on 36 points, John Batty was third with 34 and Russell Goldsworthy, playing off 4, finished fourth with 31 points.

In division 2, 33 points was the highest score of the day with Leo Adam beating Steven Cliff on a 19/15 countback to take top spot. Peter Davies came in third with 30 points and Tony Thorne finished fourth with 28.

Near pins went to (Div 1) John Batty (2), Dave Edwards and John Hughes, and (Div 2) Leo Adam, Steven Cliff, Frank Kelly and Khalifa Nasser.

Dave Edwards birdied the 3rd and in division 2 Steven Cliff the 6th for the only ‘2’s winners of the day.

We had 13 players today on what was a very hot and humid day. The course was quiet when we arrived and we were away 15 minutes early.

Despite catching a 5-ball by the 6th hole we still got around in less than 4 hours.

The course is in great condition at the moment and this was reflected in the scoring today. In first place was Ian Corica (H/cap 28) with a great 41 points. Not far away in second came Donal McGuigan (18) with 39 points, third went to Kevyn Wright (13) 38 and the fourth and final podium place was won on a count-back, with Pat Carty (20) getting the nod over Joe Peters (21), both with 35 points.

Tuesday, May 22, Plutaluang - Stableford As it is low season we decided to try a course that we have not played for years, Plutaluang Navy. We were told on arrival that the N/W course was being prepared for a large tournament and carts were on the path only, so we decided to try the S/E course which had full buggy access to the fairways: 1200 baht for G/F, cart & caddy or 680 baht walking was a very good price.

The bunkers on the East course looked like they had not seen a rake in many months but the greens were generally good with a couple having some sandy patches on them.

The rain stayed away and we were around in under 4 hours.

As a lot had not played this course before the scoring was not great, with no-one breaking their handicap. First place was decided on C/B with Kevyn Wright (13) beating Kevin Blake (8), both on 35 points. A distant third

Kevin Blake. was Donal McGuigan (18) on 30 points.

Pat Carty had the only ‘2’ today.

Thursday, May 24, Burapha - Stableford We were back at Burapha today where we again played the A and B nines. Although we got no rain it was still very wet and playing long.

We got some very good scores from a small group and Kevin Blake (8) again came out the winner with an excellent thirty-eight points. His playing partner Russell Gilroy (17) gave Kevin a good run for his money and scored thirty-seven points to come second. Russell also had the only ‘2’ of the day so he actually walked away with the most money. Ted Morris (19) came third with a respectable thirty-five points.

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Rees on target at Treasure Hill PSC Golf from Siam Country Resort Pattaya

Paddy Devereux, Jonathan Pratt, Stan Rees and Neil Harvey.

Tuesday, May 22, Mt. Shadow - Stableford On Tuesday we went to Mountain Shadow with a small group. Despite of the rain the course was in quite good condition, but not very much roll on the fairways. The greens were good but the bunkers were sub-par, although with all the rain is it difficult to keep them in good condition.

Jonathan Pratt played solidly today and won with 36 stableford points while in second was Paddy Devereux with 32.

The near pins went to Dave Smith and Paddy Devereux.

Thursday, May 24, Treasure Hill - Stableford Treasure Hill was our venue on Thursday and to avoid the road works we drove down the 7 until Laem Chabang junction and from there to the 331. It was a very good alternative and a fast way to go.

We started with a clouded sky and a nice breeze but by midday the sun came and it became very hot. The course was in good condition and we had an enjoyable game.

Stan Rees played consistent today and won with 38 points and four behind in second was Neil Harvey with 34.

The near pin awards were claimed by Jonathan Pratt and Willem Lasonder.

Goldsworthy gets it right PSC Golf from the Pattaya Links Golf Society Monday, May 21, Pattana - Stableford 1st Russell Goldsworthy (4) 36pts 2nd Stan Stewart (18) 35pts 3rd Mashi Kaneta (15) 35pts 4th John Mason (24) 34pts Clear skies heralded the dawn of a new golfing week on Monday as the society visited Pattana to play a stableford round on the B and C nines.

The course was in fine condition, though a little soft, but the greens on C are obviously next in line for repair and they were patchy and slower than the excellent front nine ones.

Scores were more than respectable as John Mason beat Colin Service on countback for fourth place with 34 points. One point and one place better was Mashi Kaneta with 35 points and he was muscled out of second by Stan Stewart’s better back nine as the Scot enjoyed a rare podium place.

The winner was Russell Goldsworthy, a fine golfer playing off four, who shot the day’s best gross of 76 in his winning round of 36 points.

Consolation awards went to Jon Batty for his best front nine of 17 points and Steve Truelove took the award for the best back nine with 18 points.

Russell Goldsworthy.

The absence of “Boss” Phil saw Len Jones present the prizes and his favourite Booby Bevy went to old friend Ron Matthews after a mediocre score on his first round this trip.

Wednesday, May 23, Pattavia - Stableford 1st Colin Service (20) 37pts 2nd Livio Marrone (5) 35pts 3rd Ron Matthews (12) 33pts 4th Maurice Roberts (13) 32pts Our second group out today had some stories to tell.

One wayward shot crashed through a palm tree, hit another tree, bounced back to the fairway and landed in a cart and became stuck under the pedal. (unplayable?)

Later, another shot went astray which had caddies and golfers diving for cover as the incoming ball hit another golf cart. Happy to report no injuries occurred.

Lloyd swoops in for the win

Colin Service (right) with Maurice Roberts.

Pattavia Century is quickly becoming a go to course. At 1350 baht for green fee, caddy, cart for a golf course presented in such wonderful condition this is great value, and in line with the nearby neighbours.

Here, as at the other courses in this area off the 331, the fairways are well grassed and should you get into the rough, you are not severely punished.

The greens are always the talking point here. Today we found they had recently been cored and sanded, but pretty much settled now. The lightning speed we became scared of is now more sedate and absolutely playable.

A field of 16 players played on a, once again, hot and steamy morning. Some relief came late in the round as the dark clouds began to assemble overhead and create a wisp of breeze.

Colin Service has the best of both worlds. Recently he got to wear the “wig” for recording the lowest score of the day. This time he came out on top of the heap to proudly don the Green Jacket with a score of 37 points.

Livio Marrone, having his first game with us, popped into second place with 35 points off his low handicap of #5.

Ron Matthews, like Colin, has his ups and downs but today he collected third place with 33 points.

Maurice Roberts rounded off the podium finishers in fourth with 32 points.

All four near pins were claimed by Gary Bolger (4), Livio Marrone (7), Maurice Roberts (13), and Nigel Harrison (17).

Consolation prizes went to Tip Briney for a front nine of 19 points and Claude Grossi with 16 on the inward half.

PSC Golf from The Bunker Boys Monday, May 21, Greenwood – Stableford 1st Michael Brett (15) 33pts 2nd Neil Carter (13) 32pts 3rd Jimmy Carr (17) 32pts No golf report is complete without reference to the unseasonal weather we are having in recent weeks and today was no different. Despite thunder and lightning in the area and the ever-present threat of rain, we managed to complete our round dry. Another low season quick round was completed within three and a half hours.

Today the scoring fell below our recent high standard.

The winner on the day was Michael Brett with a very average score of thirty-three points, followed by thirtytwo from Neil Carter who beat Jimmy Carr into third on count-back.

Near pins went to Jimmy Carr, Mike Lloyd, and Michael Brett.

A good finish to the race for golfer of the month is brewing with at least four players in with a shot so it will be interesting to see who can maintain form and take the trophy.

Mike Lloyd.

Wednesday, May 23, Bangpra – Stableford 1st Mike Lloyd (18) 35pts 2nd Stuart Tinkler (14) 34pts 3rd Jimmy Carr (17) 34pts An unusual week for the Bunker Boys where six of our members traveled to Kabin Buri to compete in the Paul Hack four-ball team birthday golf challenge on Tuesday and Wednesday, while those that did not travel played the Bangpra course in our normal mid-week game.

Mike Lloyd, on a flying visit from the UK, continued his good form to take first place with a tidy thirty-five

points. Stuart Tinkler on a slightly longer visit has also shown some really good form and took second place with thirty-four, while Jimmy Carr brought up the rear with thirty-four but beaten on count-back, however Jimmy made up for his loss by taking two near pins, with Les Cobban and Mike Lloyd taking the other two.

In Kabin Buri, the Bunker Boys were represented by Geoff Parker, Neil Carter, Stuart Brown, and Michael Brett. Steve Durey and Les Hall partnered with two other golfers to make another team. The first day’s play was divided into front and back nines due to a massive thunderstorm mid-match which necessitated a delay of ninety minutes. The Bunker Boys achieved second placing on the back nine.

Over the two days, the Bunker Boys were one of only a very few teams to go bogey-free over the thirtysix holes which included a 665-yard par five Kato hole and had eight birdies, so all in all a reasonable showing.

Friday, May 25, Eastern Star – Stableford 1st Les Cobban (8) 33pts 2nd Alan Sullivan (15) 30pts 3rd Geoff Parker (13) 30pts The last game of an unusual week was played at the very difficult Eastern Star course. This is a course that in the past has been in bad shape with very poor greens, but now the whole course is in very good condition.

Even the clubhouse where the change rooms and showers were substandard are now being renovated so much better days ahead for this very challenging course.

The difficulty of the course was reflected in the scoring where most struggled to reach thirty points. Les Cobban took first place with thirty-three points while three players finished on thirty points and had to be separated on count-back, with Alan Sullivan taking second and Geoff Parker third.

Near pins went to Jimmy Carr, Neil Carter, and Michael Brett.

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Thursday Pool League Results & Standings May 24 (week 26) Team P W D L F A +/- Pts Honeypot 26 25 0 1 288 102 186 50 Moonies Kitchen 26 21 0 5 264 126 138 42 Black Moonies 26 20 0 6 243 147 96 40 Diva Sport 26 19 0 7 241 149 92 38 GB Bar 26 17 0 9 220 170 50 34 Blue Moose 26 16 0 10 226 164 62 32 Maya Bar 26 16 0 10 216 174 42 32 Mary Lou’s 26 15 0 11 198 192 6 30 Blue Moonies 26 13 0 13 215 175 40 26 Mucky Duck 26 13 0 13 209 181 28 26 Old Bill CID 26 13 0 13 204 186 18 26 Diva Angels 26 13 0 13 201 189 12 26 Pride 26 13 0 13 200 190 10 26 Moonies Magnet 26 10 0 16 180 210 -30 20 Niftys/bye 26 6 0 20 132 258 -126 12 Ponderosa 26 2 0 24 102 288 -186 4 Roseand Crown 26 2 0 24 93 297 -204 4 Loft Resort 26 0 0 26 78 312 -234 0 Results: Blue Moonies 6 - 9 Mucky Duck, Blue Moose 9 - 6 Black Moonies, Diva Sport 12 - 3 Loft Resort(bye), GB Bar 3 - 12 Honeypot, Moonies Magnet 5 - 10 Mary Lou’s, Old Bill CID 8 - 7 Maya Bar, Ponderosa/Bye 3 - 12 Diva Angels, Pride 4 - 11 Moonies Kitchen, Rose and Crown/ Bye 3 - 12 Niftys

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Rose wins Colonial and moves to No. 3 in the world Fort Worth, Texas (AP) — Justin Rose closed with a 6under 64 and finished at 20 under last Sunday at Colonial for a three-stroke victory over U.S. Open champion Brooks Koepka in the Fort Worth Invitational.

Rose won for the ninth time on the PGA Tour and became the fifth player with multiple victories this season. Rose also won the HSBC Champions in Shanghai in the fall.

The 37-year-old from England earned US$1,278,000 and a plaid jacket for winning at Hogan’s Alley. He moves to No. 3 in the world and will have a mathematical chance to reach No. 1 this week at the Memorial.

Koepka shot 63, but had started the day four strokes behind Rose in the final group.

Emiliano Grillo shot 64 and

Italy’s Francesco Molinari tees off on day four of the PGA Championship at Wentworth Golf Club, England, Sunday May 27. (Tim Goode/PA via AP) finished third at 16 under.

While Rose missed matching Zach Johnson’s 2010 tournament scoring record of 259 because of bogey on the 72nd hole, first-round leader

Kevin Na matched the course record with a closing 61 and finished fourth at 14 under.

“For Brooks to shoot 63 and not win in the final pairing took some doing from

Pattana hosts first round of Golf Challenge 2018

European Tour

Jirapol Kemajaree (center), Golf General Manager at Pattana Golf Club & Resort, poses with the 4 first round winners.

Pattana Golf Club & Resort held the first of its Golf Challenge 2018 series qualifying rounds on Sunday, May 13.

A total of 167golfers attended the event, all striving to achieve a place in the final later this year and earn a chance to

win an all-expenses paid golf trip to Vietnam.

The winners from the first round were Kosit Kunnawong (A Flight) with a net 68, Chanchai Tharnna (B Flight) and Vichit Panayingpaisarn (C Flight), both with net 70s,

me. It was a really fun day to be part of,” Rose said. “Glad that my A-game turned up when I needed it, and I’m glad that I got my mindset right at the start of the day.”

Na tapped in for a birdie at the 435-yard 18th hole to match his career-best score and become the seventh PGA Tour golfer with a 9-under round at Colonial — the first since Chad Campbell in the third round in 2004. Na also shot a 61 in the third round of the 2010 Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.

After an opening 62 that ended with a 92 foot chip-in from the rough when he ended his first round at No. 9, Na fell back in the field with a 73 in the second round and then shot even par Saturday.

Jordan Spieth made a short birdie at No. 18 on Sunday for a closing 68 to finish 5 under and tied for 32nd at Colonial, where he had a win and two runner-up finishes the past three years.

and Pongwan Pongthas who shot the low gross of 72.

The next qualifying round will take place on June 24 and the entrance fee is 1700 baht. For more information, call 038 318 999 ext. 11230 or visit www.pattana.co.th.

Francesco Molinari completed a bogey-free weekend at the Wentworth Club in southern England and closed with a 4-under 68 Sunday to win the BMW PGA Championship by two shots over Rory McIlroy in a duel that never developed.

McIlroy, who led by three strokes after 36 holes, entered the final round tied for the lead with Molinari. He didn’t make his first birdie until the eighth hole, and by then Molinari already was two shots ahead. McIlroy fell four shots behind through 10 holes, and only a birdiebirdie finish for a 70 made it look closer than it was.

“I didn’t feel intimidated at all,” Molinari said of his head to head with the former world No. 1. “It’s just the last couple of holes, he’s basically thinking eagle, eagle.

I’m thinking par, par, and that makes the whole difference.

Molinari won for the fifth

Justin Rose, of England, poses for a photo with the trophy after winning the Fort Worth Invitational golf tournament at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Cooper Neill) time in his career and celebrated his biggest title since beating Lee Westwood in a World Golf Championship in Shanghai in 2010.

“Just a bit of luck at the right time,” the Italian said, with a smile. “If I could pick one tournament to win in my career, it would be this one”.

The victory moved Molinari into one of the automatic qualifying spots for the Ryder Cup. The Italian has not played in the Ryder Cup since beating Tiger Woods in singles at Medinah during Europe’s record-tying comeback.

LPGA Tour Minjee Lee of Australia birdied the 18th hole to close with a 4-under 68 and win the LPGA Volvik Championship by one shot over I.K. Kim in Ann Arbor last Sunday.

Lee, who turned 22 on the final day of the championship, three-putted for a bogey on No. 17, dropping into a tie with Kim, who finished her round of 67 around the same time. Lee needed a birdie to win on reachable par-5 18th. Her second shot landed a few feet to the right of the green, and she calmly chipped to about 3 feet She made the putt to finish at 16-under 272 at Travis Pointe Country Club. It was Lee’s fourth career victory, and her first since 2016.

“It was pretty solid today,” Lee said. “I didn’t make any bogeys. Just four birdies on the card. Yeah, that’s pretty good.”

Kim shot a 32 on the back nine and birdied No. 18, but it wasn’t enough to force a playoff.

Brimble on a roll PSC Golf from The Golf Club Steve Ellison

Monday, May 21, Green Valley (white tees) – Stableford 1st Ian Brimble 40pts 2nd Lothar Egger 38pts 3rd JP Thomas 37pts Rain and lightning greeted our arrival to the Barcelona Valley complex, but things soon turned our way and we mounted the first tee under dry conditions.

As we are all aware, the greens here have been an issue for the last 2 months and are not much better than last week to be honest.

I guess there must be too

much of a good thing with these rains we are getting, but the greens are still borderline.

The English Texan Ian Brimble was the standout today and that magic 40 brought Ian the gold. Ian plays off 10 these days and has always been a consistent player who keeps out of trouble. At least on the golf course!

Lothar had a great round today and took a break from his beachside hammock to gather up a tidy 38 points on the card.

The little lady is back and J.P. Thomas, playing off a 21 handicap, scored 37 points for third place. Hubby Peter

also got into the act with the Caddy Smile near pin to bring home the bacon.

Friday, May 25, Greenwood (white tees0 – Stableford T-1st Ian Brimble 39pts T-1st Gavin Brinkworth 39pts 3rd Billy Eyles 37pts This is not the Greenwood we usually play. It would seem that this lovely golf course has had more than their fair share of the localized rains and many areas should have been marked GUR. Greens were on the slow side but OK and it looked like they were cored a few weeks back.

Scoring was good despite the odd muddy fairway as our ‘lift, clean and place’ policy proved to be the correct option.

Mr. Brimble ruled the day once again but allowed “Curly” Brinkworth to share the glory as both lads tied on 39.

Billy Eyles in the Land of Smiles was a happy chappy and not only claimed third place, but the Caddy Smile near pin as well. Yes, Bill made that birdie putt which leads me to believe it must have been a short one. I.O.U. one little yellow poker chip which will get you a free beer from Scary Mary!

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Greenaway gets the gold PSC Golf from The Billabong Bar Monday, May 21, Phoenix Gold Stableford What started out as a beautiful day for golf turned very wet and we sheltered in one of the huts around the course along with the ground staff while it poured down. After an hour or so we were back on the course in hot but mostly dry conditions.

With only 3 groups today we got away to a later than normal start on a course in great condition and even after the downpour it drained the water off in about 15 minutes.

It did make the greens a little more receptive also.

The scores were good with 37 points from Miss Sasicha taking third place while Capt Bob had a day in the sun, scoring 38 points but being beaten by Paul Greenaway who signed for 39.

There were no ‘2’s recorded.

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his 36 points took third place. Selwyn Wegner did not think he was playing well today but still claimed second place with 37 points, but the runaway winner was Brendon Cope with 44.

Three 2s all went to the ladies today, namely Miss Porn and Miss Nu who had 2 of them.

its brutal rough to make it even tougher.

Brian Farino’s team took third place today with a net 61.1 on a count-back over the Courtyard Cavaliers. Second place went to the defending champions, Paul Greenaway, Andy Butterworth, Bill Marsden and Capt Bob with

a score of net 57.1. The team of Fergus Brennan, Peter Seil, Poopay and Nick Shaw took the top spot with fine score of 56.8, including an eagle on the 18th that secured the win.

The June scramble will be held at Plutaluang as Phoenix will be closed for the Kings Cup.

Friday, May 25, Phoenix Gold – Scramble

(From left) Capt Bob, Sasicha and Paul Greenaway. improvement on their schedule. The new, impressive entrance has, unfortunately, come to a full stop but the fairways have been repaired, the water areas have been cleared of many trees and now most of the greens staff are employed on cosmetic tasks clearing large areas that have, hitherto, been ignored.

In the ladies competition, Miss Lynn should have had a better result for after 6 holes she had 14 points but she then hit a few pot holes and finished with 35 points,

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three behind Miss Yen who started each half with 1 point but lost out to Miss Prae for second place on count-back.

But it was difficult to compete with Miss Porn who had a really consistent round with 21 on the front and 20 on the way home to win the day.

Peter Thomas had an uphill battle today after scoring only 1 point on the first three holes but then moved into top gear with 22 points on the back nine for 35 points.

Lloyd Shuttleworth is proving the man to beat with consistent scores off his 3 handicap and

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The course was in grand shape and even though there were no carts allowed off the carts paths it didn’t seem to make too much difference to the older golfers that can’t walk to far.

As always at Phoenix there was no group taking the course apart today and this was the third month in row that only two teams scored below 60 net. We played the Mountain and Lakes layouts, with Mountain being one of the hardest nine holes of golf you will find anywhere in this area with

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Watson’s century earns Chennai 3rd IPL title Mumbai, India (AP) — Shane Watson hit a belligerent unbeaten century as Chennai Super Kings won their third Indian Premier League title with a thumping eight-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final last Sunday.

It was a perfect comeback for Chennai after a two-year ban due to corruption charges.

Chennai, playing in their seventh IPL final, had previously won back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2011.

“Every win is special, so difficult to pick any one win,” Chennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.

The 36-year-old Watson smashed 117 off 57 balls as Chennai cruised to 181-2 in 18.3 overs against a team known for successfully defending totals.

Earlier, after being put into bat, captain Kane Williamson (47) missed out on his ninth half-century in this year’s IPL and Yusuf Pathan made an unbeaten 45 to lift Hyderabad’s total to 178-6.

The 36-year-old Watson smartly orchestrated the run-chase by hitting 11 fours and eight sixes while keeping strike bowlers — Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0-17) and Rashid Khan (0-24) — wicketless.

Together with Suresh Raina, who scored 32, Watson featured in a 117-run second wicket stand and took the game away from Hyderabad.

Watson, who only scored his first run off his 11th delivery, took charge against seamer Sandeep Sharma (1-52) and Sidarth Kaul (0-43)

Chennai Super King’s player Shane Watson bats against Sunrisers Hyderabad during the VIVO IPL cricket T20 final match in Mumbai, India, Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) with his exquisite pull shots and deft cuts.

“Things fell my way nicely tonight, but to be able to do it in such a big game, it’s very special,” Watson said.

After Giro win, Froome quickly changes focus to Tour Andrew Dampf Rome (AP) — Now that Chris Froome has wrapped up the Giro d’Italia title, his focus will quickly switch to matching the record with a fifth Tour de France title — unless a doping case gets in the way.

Froome is racing under the cloud of a potential ban after a urine sample he provided at the Spanish Vuelta in September showed a concentration of the asthma drug salbutamol that was twice the permitted level.

Froome maintains he has long struggled with asthma.

“I know I’ve done nothing wrong,” he said after lifting the Giro trophy last Sunday.

“Obviously the next challenge for me has got to be the Tour de France,” Froome added. “I’m already thinking about it.”

Still, it remains unclear when the International Cycling Union will rule on the case, which could result in a lengthy ban.

“We’ve been focused on the race here and we’ll look at that in the weeks to come,” Team Sky director Dave Brailsford told The Associated Press.

No rider has achieved the Giro-Tour double since Marco Pantani in 1998.

“I’ve got to celebrate what an amazing victory this was but I’m definitely going to keep things tidy tonight thinking about recovering from this,” Froome said. “I really think it’s possible.”

There are six weeks between

“After those first 10 balls, I was hoping to catch up ... once the ball stopped swinging, it got easier.”

The Australian all-rounder raised his half-century off 33 balls with a six over midwicket off left-arm

spinner Shakib Al Hasan.

He then smashed two fours and three successive sixes off Sandeep in the 13th over which went for 27 runs as Williamson ran out of ideas over how to stem the flow of runs.

Watson completed his second IPL century of the season off 51 balls with a single at cover off Rashid’s last over before smashing the Afghanistan legspinner for two consecutive boundaries.

Hyderabad’s innings lost momentum once opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan (26) was clean bowled by Ravindra Jadeja in the ninth over with the total on 64.

Williamson became only the fifth batsman in IPL history to score more than 700 runs in a season but he was outfoxed by legspinner Karn Sharma and was stumped by Dhoni in the 13th over.

Williamson was the topscorer in the tournament with 735 runs at an impressive average of 52.50 and strike rate of 142.44.

Yusuf and Brathwaite (21 not out), who hit three sixes in the last three overs, lifted Hyderabad’s total.

“We thought it’ll be a competitive total, but the pitch did hold a bit,” Williamson said. “The boys are hurting at the moment, but we’ve fought hard.”

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Britain’s Chris Froome kisses the trophy of the Giro d’Italia cycling race, in Rome, Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) the Giro and Tour, so Froome will need to carefully calibrate the balance between rest, recovery and training.

“There’s a difference between physical and mental rest and switching off completely,” Brailsford said.

“The trick here is to stay in the same gear but obviously you got to recover and then get fresh enough to be able to go again. Switching off totally and relaxing totally is not the way to do it.”

With one more Tour title, Froome will match the record held by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.

Lance Armstrong had won seven Tour titles but was stripped of them all for doping.

With the Tour starting a week later than usual because of the soccer World Cup in Russia, Froome has the luxury of extra time to prepare.

Sky sporting director Nicolas Portal said Froome would likely follow the Giro with

one week of rest, then a training camp at altitude followed by high-intensity training.

The Tour runs July 7-29 and Froome plans to inspect some of the course before it starts.

“We’ve got a few more (stages) to do, then obviously we want to work a little bit on the team time trial and we’re probably going to go through the cobbles again,” Brailsford said. “There’s a bit of work to be done.”

Besides the usual mountain stages, this year’s Tour features a team time trial in Stage 3, a 35-kilometer route starting and ending in Cholet in western France.

Stage 9 could also be tricky, with 15 treacherous cobblestone sections: the highest number since the 1980 Tour, with nearly 22 kilometers altogether.

“He’s pretty confident about it, actually,” Brailsford said. “He’s happy on the dirt, he’s happy on a mountain bike and I think he’ll be happy on the cobbles.”

Paris (AP) — A year after stunning the tennis world by winning the French Open for her initial tour-level title, Jelena Ostapenko is again in rare company: a first-round loser as the defending champion at a Grand Slam tournament.

Something even more unusual happened at Roland Garros, too last Sunday: Venus Williams was beaten in her opening match at a second consecutive major, the only time in her lengthy, distinguished career she’s had such early backto-back exits.

All in all, it was quite a Day 1 at the only Grand Slam site that gets things started on a Sunday. There already is certain to be at least one first-time French Open finalist, because 2010 champion Francesca Schiavone and 2012 runnerup Sara Errani joined 2017 champ Ostapenko and 2002 runner-up Williams on the way out of the bottom half of the draw.

Ostapenko’s high-risk game produced far fewer rewards than problems, with 48 unforced errors to only 22 winners as she bowed out to 67th-ranked Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine 7-5, 6-3 at Court Philippe Chatrier. Over at Court Suzanne Lenglen, things went similarly for Williams, a seven-time major champion, who had 21 more unforced errors than her opponent in a 6-4, 7-5 loss to 85th-ranked Wang Qiang of China.

“Terrible day at the office

Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko returns the ball to Ukraine’s Kateryna Kozlova during their first round match of French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) today for me. I mean, in general, I played maybe, like, 20 percent of what I can play.

Made like 50 unforced errors and so many double-faults.

Like, couldn’t serve today,” Ostapenko said. “I had this unbelievable pressure. I felt that I’m not myself.”

She is only the second reigning women’s champion to exit in the first round of the French Open a year later — it happened to 2005 winner Anastasia Myskina, too — and only the sixth at any major tournament in the professional era.

In 2017, ranked only 47th and 20 years old, Ostapenko became the first woman since 1979 to win her initial tourlevel trophy at a Grand Slam tournament. But the fifthseeded Latvian has had a rough road this season: Her record is just 12-12.

Kozlova, meanwhile, is 24 and

arrived at Roland Garros with an even worse mark for 2018 — 4-6. She wasn’t even sure a couple of months ago whether she could participate in the French Open, because she damaged knee cartilage and resumed practicing for about 15 minutes at a time in April.

“I didn’t expect anything from this match,” said Kozlova, who never had beaten someone ranked in the top 30 and was 1-6 in Grand Slam play before Sunday.

She is now 3-0 against Ostapenko, however.

“Any player who could hit, like, five shots back, I think, probably could beat me today, because I didn’t really play well,” said Ostapenko, who complained about limited preparation ahead of Roland Garros because of a leg injury suffered at the Italian Open this month.

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Bale wonder-goal secures Madrid CL three-peat From page 36 A weeping Mohamed Salah was forced off in the first half with a shoulder injury that foiled Liverpool’s quest for a first continental success in 13 years and left the World Cup hopes of the “Egyptian King” in jeopardy.

Tears also streamed down Loris Karius’ face after the Liverpool goalkeeper’s mistakes gifted two goals in the biggest match of his career.

It might also be his last for Liverpool, who were denied a sixth European title by the aristocrats of the continent.

When all they should have been thinking about is celebrating, both Bale and teammate Cristiano Ronaldo also cast doubts on their Madrid careers.

But while Zinedine Zidane was adamant about the need to keep hold of five-time world player of the year Ronaldo, the Madrid coach seemed far less concerned about the future of the player whose two goals just delivered the club’s record-extending 13th European title.

Bale only came on in the second half. The impact was explosive, scoring the bicycle kick in the 64th minute.

Five years into his Madrid c a r e e r, t h e 2 8 - y e a r- o l d Bale wants to be more than a super-sub.

“I need to be playing week in, week out and that hasn’t happened this season for one reason or another,” Bale said after lifting the European Cup for a fourth time with Madrid. “I need to sit down in the summer and discuss it with my agent.”

Will Bale get assurances over a place in the starting XI? “It might be complicated,” Zidane said. “But everybody looks out for themselves and takes care of their own thing, and I understand that.”

Zidane doesn’t understand why Ronaldo raised fresh doubts over his commitment to the club.

“He must stay,” Zidane said. “He will stay with us.”

While Ronaldo became the first five-time winner in the post-1993 Champions League era, this was a comparatively muted performance in a final for a player who has contributed decisive goals in the three finals Madrid had contested in the previous four seasons.

In the tunnel before kickoff there was a furtive glance

Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (left) scores his side’s 2nd goal during the Champions League Final against Liverpool at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, May 26. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) across to Salah, who has also scored 44 goals this season.

But the showdown between the world player of the year and a contender for his throne never materialized.

Blame Sergio Ramos for that, although the foul that ended Salah’s final was not the Madrid captain at his most cynical. Salah landed heavily on his left shoulder

in a twisting fall after 25 minutes. Ramos stepped away from the scene unpunished and Salah soon managed to step up after overcoming the initial pain.

Not for long. Salah’s final was over after 30 minutes.

Lying on his back, hands covering his face, Salah rose only to leave the field. An incredible debut season at Liverpool came to a crying end.

“Of course it was a little shock to the team,” Klopp said.

There were bigger shocks to come, from Liverpool’s goalkeeping blunders.

After collecting a shot six minutes into the second half, Karius rolled the ball out too casually, neglecting the presence of Benzema who stuck out his right foot and dispatched the ball into an empty net.

The immediate impact of Karius’ blunder was offset

by Mane’s equalizer in the 55th. Dejan Lovren rose above Ramos and headed into the path of Mane, who turned the ball into the net.

But then Bale, so determined to prove Zidane wrong, entered this meeting of the Premier League’s fourthplace team and Spain’s third-place finisher.

“I was very disappointed not to start the game,” he said. “I felt like I deserved it.

The best I can do is to come on and make an impact.”

That was achieved with the goal three minutes after replacing Isco and he netted again in the 83rd thanks to Karius’ second gaffe. The German allowed Bale’s shot to squirm through his hands into the net in the 83rd.

“I just feel sorry for my team,” Karius said. “I know I let them down today.”

It left Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp reeling from a sixth successive loss in a final, including a 2013 Champions League defeat to Bayern Munich while Borussia Dortmund coach.

For Zidane, victory in Ukraine puts the former France great in an elite field alongside Carlo Ancelotti and Bob Paisley as a threetime European Cup winner.

But no one has achieved the feat faster, with each of his three seasons in charge ending by winning the game’s biggest club prize.

“I’m still only starting out as a coach,” the 45-year-old Zidane said. “You’ve got to seize the moment and that’s what I’m doing.”

Aussie drivers first to win Monaco, Indianapolis on same day Julian Linden Sydney (AP) — Two drivers from Down Under — thousands of miles apart and even further from home — unexpectedly found themselves parked together atop the motor racing world after winning the two biggest races in the sport last Sunday.

Just hours after Daniel Ricciardo won the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix around the narrow streets of Monte Carlo, his countryman Will Power won the Indianapolis 500, becoming the first Australian to win the “Greatest Spectacle in Racing” and sharing in a unique double.

Only two other countries — Britain (1965, 1966) and Brazil (1989, 1993) — had provided the winning driver at Monaco and Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the same year, but Australia became the first nation to win both races on the same day.

“A little reminder for the Australian press... please feel free to load front and back pages with motorsport related success stories from Indianapolis and Monte Carlo,” tweeted Mark Webber, who won at Monaco in 2010 and 2012.

Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo of Australia celebrates on the podium after winning the Formula One race, at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco, Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) Webber need not have bothered with his cheeky prod as Australia’s media immediately went into overdrive, extolling the feats of Ricciardo and Power with a stream of television and radio broadcasts at a time when local football codes and cricket normally dominate the country’s sporting news cycle.

As the only Australian driver in Formula One at present, Ricciardo is already a household name in his homeland, partly because of his previous successes but more so because of Australia’s

long and proud tradition in Formula One. Australia has already had two world champions, Jack Brabham (1959, 1960 and 1966) and Alan Jones (1980), and hosts the first Grand Prix of the season while Ricciardo, 28, had won seven races before his maiden victory at Monaco and finished third in the championship in 2014 and 2016. Winning at Monaco will elevate him to a whole new level of fame.

Power, 37, has had even more success but received much less recognition because the Gold Coast Indy race that

Will Power (right), of Australia, apologizes to 2018 500 Festival Queen Scholar Natalie Murdock after dousing her with milk while celebrating the win at the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in Indianapolis Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) was held for nearly 20 years was dropped from the circuit in 2009, preventing Power from racing before his home fans.

His hometown of Toowoomba in Queensland state was only a two-hour drive from the Gold Coast track.

Power was crowned the 2014 IndyCar Series champion and has won 34 races in his career but is better known in North America. He hopes that will change after the

biggest victory of his career.

“To be the first Australian to win the Indy 500, that’s very special,” he said.

“Maybe they might recognize me down there now. I don’t think many people

know who I am down there.”

They may drive in different series’ but there are still plenty of similarities between Ricciardo and Power, as demonstrated by their euphoric, albeit unorthodox victory celebrations.

With members of the Monaco royal family watching on, Riccciardo filled one of his sweaty race boots with champagne and drank it all up. Then later, still wearing his racing overalls, he dived head-first into a rooftop swimming pool at a team celebration.

Not to be outdone, Power celebrated his long-awaited victory at The Brickyard by screaming expletives into his team radio. Then when he got to Victory Lane and, in keeping with the race’s tradition, was handed a bottle of milk to guzzle, he took a sip then poured the rest over his head and his crew.

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Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo of Australia steers his car to win the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix in Monaco, Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Colorado Rockies relief pitcher Wade Davis delivers to Cincinnati Reds’ Tucker Barnhart in the ninth inning of a Major League baseball game Sunday, May 27, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Houston Rockets’ Eric Gordon (bottom) misses on a dunk against Golden State Warriors’ Kevon Looney (center) and Jordan Bell (top) during Game 6 of the NBA basketball Western Conference Finals Saturday, May 26, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/ Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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England’s Jonathan Bairstow is bowled by Pakistan’s Faheem Ashraf during the first day of play of the first test between England and Pakistan at Lord’s cricket ground in London, Thursday, May 24. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Will Power, of Australia, celebrates after winning the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday, May 27. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Italy’s Domenico Pozzovivo leads Dutch rider Tom Dumoulin (right) and Britain’s Chris Froome during the 18th stage of the Giro d’Italia cycling race in Prato Nevoso, Italy, Thursday, May 24. (Daniel Dal Zennaro/ANSA via AP)

Venus Williams of the U.S. prepares to serve to China’s Qiang Wang during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros Stadium, Sunday, May 27 in Paris. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Toyota joins the Cross-Over party My attention was brought to the new Toyota C-HR by two middle-aged gentlemen I met who waxed lyrical over their new purchases. About 30 minutes later I walked out of the Royal Cliff and was almost run over by a blue C-HR. I felt this had to be an omen.

My very first impression was that the blue marauder was a Nissan Juke, but there was the King Ranch logo of Toyota on the tail. However, similarities in size and bulbous bodywork put the C-HR firmly in the crossover category.

In many ways this has to be a ‘halo’ model for Toyota, better known as the manufacturer of motor cars with styling so bland you can lose your Toyota in the supermarket car park, amongst all the other Toyotas. However, the C-HR is anything but bland and makes the Honda HR-V, Mazda CX-3 and Nissan Juke look old fashioned. Styling tricks, such as door handles

Chevy Colorado. registrations so far this year. Navara is ahead of the Holden pick-up with 5699 units year to date, with D-Max (5108) and Mazda BT-50 (4424) close behind.

The reliability and build quality of Thai vehicles is well accepted in world markets these days.

Honda standardizes advanced driver-assist safety technologies

Toyota C-HR. in the C pillars certainly look avant-garde, even though Alfa Romeo had this about 30 years ago!

The interior looks somewhat claustrophobic with the high window sills at the rear, and it is really a 4 seater (or cramped 5 unless your passengers are all Thai).

Performance is satisfactory and could be considered the benchmark in this crossover class because it feels more like

a hatch than a scaled down SUV. I can see why the gentlemen raved about their C-HR’s. If Toyota have managed to combine their legendary reliability with a sporty dynamic they will have another winner. Well worth dropping by the Toyota showrooms.

Finally, did the C-HR nomenclature ‘accidentally’ remind one of the Honda H-RV or does C-HR stand for “Car – Hurriedly Revised”?

B-Quik signs a lady B-Quik will set another milestone as we enter the first lady driver in TSS Super Car class where we will see Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup mentors Rahel Frey and Adderly Fong joining Daniel Bilski in Super Car GTM+.

This year B-Quik is entering an Audi R8 LMS Ultra GT3 in Super Car GTM+, which was shared during the opening round, held in Sepang last month, by Daniel Bilski and Henk J. Kiks. It proved to be a solid debut for the pair in the new GT3 car and they enjoyed a trip to the podium.

In Buriram, on 1-3 June, Henk will switch across to the new second entry into GTM+ and we’re pleased that Frey will be available to pair up with Bilski for the two 1-hour races.

The Swiss racer knows the ‘R8 LMS GT3’ cars inside out

The Australian branch of Chevrolet (GMH) has identified the Thai-built Colorado pick-up as its “number one” model line with which to rebuild its business in Australia, following the company’s exit from local manufacturing last October and a poor start to the year that has seen GMH sales fall 22.5 percent.

Despite the downturns across the board, the Thai-built Colorado still stands as Holden’s top-selling vehicle. GMH has a media’s advertising campaign to assist the Colorado sales in 2018.

How the mighty has fallen, where once Holden was thought of as Australia’s own car, sales are now way behind its competitors.

Sales figures to the end of April show that HiLux (16,230) and Ranger (13,664) remain the dominant forces in the category and that Triton (7870) has pulled well ahead of Colorado, which has only recorded 5407 new

New signing Rahel Frey. so she’s clearly going to be an invaluable addition to the line-up. Her technical knowledge of the machine is unrivalled as she raced across Asia in the Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup from 2013-16, building

Autotrivia Quiz Last week I asked what car suffered from ‘hexagonitis’? Clue was 1967. It was the Lamborghini Marzal released at the 1967 Geneva Motor Show. An amazing styling exercise. When the car was pushed into the hall, everyone just stopped in their tracks.

So to this week. What do the Mitsuoka Orochi and the Chrysler Portofino have in common, not seen on ordinary cars?

For a free beer at the next car Club meeting, be the first correct answer to email automania@pattayamail .com or viacars@gmail.com. And as an additional treat, you can win a Casa Pascal BBQ Breakfast Buffet voucher as well. Good luck!

Marzal hexagons.

on the previous two seasons which she spent as an Audi factory driver in DTM. Moving forward to the third round of the year in Bangsaen, Bilski will be partnered by another Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup mentor, Adderly Fong. His credentials speak for themselves and along with Bilski’s experience with both the car and the Bangsaen Street Circuit we’re confident this is a line-up that can get the job done.

Lastly, B-Quik Racing will make an entry into the final round of the Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup 2018, which takes place at Sepang Circuit on 24-25 November. It will neatly bookend a year that saw Bilski and B-Quik Racing enter the opening round of the ‘one make’ series in Adelaide back in March.

The first next-generation model to receive Honda Sensing, possibly the Jazz light car, will hit local showrooms in 2020.

However, there were some doubts as to whether “safety” was a saleable item these days.

To investigate this, Honda Australia commissioned a survey of 1200 new-car buyers intending to purchase in the next two years, and it found that the local market required education on the importance and benefits of safety technologies such as the Honda Sensing suite.

However, speaking to journalists in Melbourne last week, Honda Australia

director Stephen Collins revealed that the company was considering adding Honda Sensing to current-generation models, likely including the Civic small car and CR-V mid-size SUV. Honda Sensing consists of forward collision warning, autonomous emergency braking, pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise control with stop and go functionality, lane departure warning, lane-keep assist and steering assist.

While most new-car buyers showed a general understanding of airbags, anti-lock brakes and safe body structures, their knowledge of newer safety technologies was low. For

example, lane departure warning, lane-keep assist and blind-spot monitoring were identified by 12 percent of new-car buyers surveyed, while forward collision warning and autonomous emergency braking were identified by 10 percent.

However, once new-car buyers had the safety technology explained to them, their interest increased significantly.

“With this knowledge, we plan to stagger the rollout of Honda Sensing and, at the same time, educate customers, ensuring they walk the journey with us and understand how Honda Sensing will complement their driving experience.”

What did we learn from Monaco?

Well, we were soon reminded that Monaco is an anachronism and totally unsuitable for today’s F1 cars. It was a high speed procession led by a top driver in an ailing car. For the fact that Hamilton couldn’t pass Vettel who couldn’t pass Ricciardo you can also thank Pirelli who are now making tyres that have no relevance to motor cars as we know them.

Kimi Raikkonen summed up the racing at Monaco very succinctly. “Today nothing really happened in the race; to be honest, it was a pretty boring one. We know that on this track, once everybody has stopped, whoever is in front dictates the speed and no matter if he goes four seconds slower on a lap, there’s no way to pass unless somebody makes a big mistake or runs out of tyres. We end up following each other through the whole race.”

However, Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) was easily the standout driver of the entire weekend, being fastest in every pre-race session, and again in Qualifying and again in the race itself. Monaco reflects a driver’s ability as opposed to most other circuits which reflect engine power.

Red Bull, running Renault engines are about 40 BHP down on the Mercedes or Ferrari engines.

Ricciardo’s team mate Vercrashen showed none of his usual gung ho attitude and get out of my way, after crashing on the Saturday and missing the Qualifying

session, so had to start from the rear of the grid. He also had further sessions with the Red Bull team management which has lost its patience with the unruly youngster who may be quick, but doesn’t finish.

All drivers suffered from degradation of the tyres, to the point that Vettel was unable to get the tyres warmed up after the Virtual Safety Car at the end of the race and dropped away from Ricciardo.

All drivers consensus was that the race was boring. We spectators are in complete agreement.

Results: 1 D Ricciardo Red Bull

2 S Vettel Ferrari 3 L Hamilton Mercedes 4 K Raikkonen Ferrari 5 V Bottas Mercedes 6 E Ocon Force India 7 P Gasly Toro Rosso 8 N Hulkenberg Renault 9 M Verstappen Red Bull 10 C Sainz Renault 11 M Ericsson Sauber 12 S Perez Force India 13 K Magnussen Haas 14 S Vandoorne McLaren 15 R Grosjean Haas 16 S Sirotkin Williams 17 L Stroll Williams Retired C Leclerc Sauber Collision B Hartley Toro Rosso (collision) F Alonso McLaren (gearbox) - 52 laps

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Culture Music Festival puts folk, country in spotlight Jetsada Homklin EDM, pop and rock took two nights off as folk, country and Issan music took over Bali Hai Pier for the Thailand Cultural Music Festival.

Pope Thanawan, star of the Muensutorntewah movie series appears on stage to sing ‘Or Jaow’.

Chaichan Eaimcharoen, deputy governor of Chonburi, Pol. Maj. Gen. Anan Chareonchasri, the mayor of Pattaya and Sujitra Jongchansito, deputy governor for Products and Tourism Business Division joined for the opening of the Thailand Cultural Music Festival.

Music fans put up signs to attract attention from their favorite actors.

Naen Watiya gets the crowd going with the song ‘Ter Noh Ter’.

Chonburi Deputy Gov. Chaichan Iamcharoen opened the May 25-26 festival featuring not only music, but regional food and product booths and even movie stars.

Tasty dishes and products from each of Thailand’s four

Zack Chumpae (left) goes up against James Jirayu in a music battle. The live streams for the night reached up to 250,000 views.

Infinity Band perform at the festival.

major regions were on offer, as well as games and activities, such as temporary tattoos, which proved to be quite popular.

Entertainment over the two nights was provided by Anadaman, The Rube, Zack Chumpae, James Jirayu, Pattalung, Mahalai Guachon, Manorah, Kai Liem, Rassamee Isan Soul, GA-PI

Dub, and Lamyai Hai Thongkham on Friday; and Lanna Camin, Beel Siengisarn, Infinity Band and an Issan music battle between Sawadee and Puey Perngmang on Saturday.

The finale featured cast members from the hit “Buphae Saniwat” TV series, who sang songs from the film and lingered afterward for autographs.

Nun Ramida and Luis Scott sing ‘Wan Chuen’, which is also a featured song in the Buphet Saniwat movie series.

The festival was great fun for families.

The theme was ‘culture’, with a ton of activities and tasty dishes for people to try.

Even foreigners couldn’t resist having a dance to the traditional Thai music.

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Events The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be on Sunday, June 3.

Jonathan Finch will be the speaker and his topic will be “Dear Pattaya.” The program starts at 10:30 a.m. with a buffet breakfast available from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. on the 4th floor of the Holiday Inn’s Executive Tower, located behind the Holiday Inn’s Bay Tower on Beach Road.

The BCCT will hold an afterhours Eastern Seaboard business networking event at Jameson’s The Irish Pub on Soi AR, north Pattaya from 5.00 pm – 9.00 pm on Friday, June 1. Entry is free including finger food. Happy Hour from 5 - 9 pm. Drinks on guest’s own account. For more information, send email to greg@bccthai.com.

The spectacular 2018 Pattaya International Fireworks Festival will be held from June 8-9 at Central Pattaya Beach. Starting at 6 p.m. each evening, competing countries will put on short individual displays on the first day while longer 45 minute performances will take place on the second day.

Vendors along the Beach Road will provide a multitude of food and refreshments for onlookers.

The Pattaya International Ladies Club invites you to a Black & White Party at the Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya on June 23 beginning at 19.00 hrs. Enjoy a bubbly reception, buffet, disco, raffle prizes and a free flow of wine, beer and soft drinks: Price 1500 baht per person. Dress code Black & White. Email: specialeventspilc@gmail.com.

YWCA Pattaya Center will hold the 6th Charity Walk-Run on Pattaya Beach on Saturday, June 16 with runners competing for Her Royal Highness Princess Somsawalee’s Cups. The races cover distances of 1.5km, 3km, 6km and 10km and admission cost is 400 baht. Proceeds from the event will go towards charitable projects chosen by the YWCA. To register, visit website: https:// race.thai.run/ The 2018 Pattaya Marathon will take place on Sunday, July 15 with a start and finish point on Pattaya Beach Road.

The categories of competition include a full marathon (42.195km), half marathon (21km) quarter marathon (10km), wheelchair race and fun run. For registration details and more information call 038-253-127 or visit www. facebook/pattayamarathon.

Fax: 038-427596

A Farmers’ Market takes place every 2nd Saturday of the month at the Holiday Inn hotel on Pattaya Beach Road from 10.30 am - 3.30 p.m.

Products range from wellness items, jewelry, freshly prepared food, organic vegetables and fruits. The next market will be held June 9.

A stamp market is held every Sunday from 10.00 a.m. till 3.00 p.m.at Rahnpintang Moe Kata Restaurant, Panji Place, on Soi Ponphraphanimit 7 (200m from the Bangkok Highway underpass). Here can you exchange stamps from the whole world. Call 089 091 3418 for more information and directions.

Dining Benihana Terrace Bar offers a ‘Shushi High Tea’ with fresh sushi and nigiri, California rolls and Temaki, all served with beautiful sea views. High tea served daily from 2pm – 5pm. Price: THB 750++ per set (for two).

Benihana is located at the AVANI Pattaya Resort & Spa. Call 038 412 120.

Hard Rock’s Pattaya’s World Burger Tour is back and ready to take guests’ taste buds on an international flavor experience. In June, enjoy a choice of Aussie Burger from Australia, Olé Burger (Spain), Schnitzel Burger (Germany) and Whiskey Bacon Burger (Belgium).

Hard Rock will also showcase the brand’s world-famous beverage menu made up of refreshing cocktails and nonalcoholic options. For more information on World Burger Tour and to contact Hard Rock Cafe Pattaya for menu details, call 038 426 635 or visit www.hardrock.com/cafes/pattaya.

Special culinary nights at Persimmon restaurant, Pattana Golf Club & Resort: Pizza Pasta Night every Tuesday, 299 Baht; Seafood Night every Wednesday, 399 Baht; Carnivore Night every Friday, 499 Baht. Call for reservation at 038318999ext.11212/11230oremail restaurant@pattana.co.th.

Buffet Theme Nights @ Coast: Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya.

All buffet nights priced at only THB 999 net per person! Wild Wild West Mondays buffet serves a wide variety of dishes including steak, polar fresh seafood, salad, desserts buffet and ice cream every Monday night from 18.30 – 22.45 hrs. Asian Seafood BBQ, served every Tuesday night from 18.3022.45 hrs, with a big selection. Enjoy a BBQ buffet specializing in Korean and Japanese cuisine every Wednesday night from 18.30 – 22.45 hrs. Hawaiian Seafood BBQ buffet spread includes a popular Hawaiian & Polynesian dance show every Thursday night from 18.30 – 22.45 hrs. Samba Night Fridays offer a Churrasco BBQ buffet and live Samba dance show every Friday night from 18.30 – 22.45 hrs. Coast Beach Club & Bistro is located on the beachfront of the hotel at Wong Amat Beach in North Pattaya. Call 038 301 234 for reservations.

In June, Hilton Pattaya invites you to experience a variety of special menus featuring free range chicken.

‘Flare’ Restaurant presents slow cooked free range chicken with Thai herbs at THB 650 net; ‘Drift’ Lobby Lounge & Bar introduces appetizers including deep fried free range chicken with Thai seasoning and herbs at THB 350 net and chicken in massaman curry served with French fries at THB 350 net.

‘Horizon’ Rooftop Restaurant and Bar recommends roasted free range chicken with truffle oil served with riceberry and quinoa pilaf,

Delicious free-range chicken dishes at Hilton Pattaya.

baby carrots, Shimeji mushrooms, and asparagus at THB 850 net. For more information or reservations, call 038-253-000 or bkkhp_fb @hilton.com or pattaya. hilton.com.

The Bay Grill & Buffet at Dusit Thani Pattaya: Dine with a sea view and enjoy seafood and meat barbecue accompanied by Thai and international items from soup, appetizers and main courses to dessert for only THB 1200++ per person. Free flowing beverage for additional THB 599++ per person. The Bay is open daily from 18:30 - 22:00. Call 038 425 611-7 ext. 2149 0r 2150 for more information and reservations.

Big Fish restaurant at Siam@Siam Design Hotel Pattaya enhances its seafood buffet with a Thai marketplace theme: live stations offer traditional Thai cuisine in a unique atmosphere and include Thai salad, papaya salad, lemongrass & shrimp salad, Thai noodle served with beef/chicken and meat ball, pad Thai, fishcake served with chili-pickled cucumber and Thai dessert of mango with sticky rice, luk chub, woon bai toey, tup tim krob and more. All you can eat only at THB 400 net per person and enjoy a special welcome drink from the antique jar. Promotion daily

from 12pm – 2.30pm. For more information and reservations call 038 930 600 or email to fbsec@siamatpattaya.com.

The Thai Garden Resort invites you to an Austrian Heurigen Night on Thursday, June 7 from 6 p.m. – 10.30 p.m. Enjoy a wide variety of traditional Austrian and international cuisine for 399 baht net per person (no charge for children up to 4 years of age). For each paying adult one child under 12 gets to eat at the buffet free of charge. Buy 6 tickets and get one free. Great entertainment provided with traditional Austrian music.

All nationalities welcome.

No extra entrance fee. For reservations call 038 370 614 or make your booking at w w w. t h a i g a r d e n . c o m .

The happy BBQ chef at Thai Garden.

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Royal Cliff deVine and a fresh new face Dr. Iain Corness The Royal Cliff’s deVine Wine Club was host to an amazing young man from the Vanichwathana Company at their recent Culinary Excursion to Bordeaux and Bourgogne wine dinner.

The fresh new face was Vanichwathana’s Wine Sommelier, 23-year-old Guillaume Celante, who worked with the Royal Cliff’s new Executive Chef Peter Held to produce matched courses and wines with a maturity well beyond his years.

In his early twenties he had already worked in Paris and had become the Head Sommelier in a Michelin starred restaurant. A great CV at such an early stage in his career.

The dinner began with a seared scallop on an avocado tartar with a mango dressing.

This was a light beginning and for me I requested some ground black pepper to bring out the flavor of the avocado. This was paired with a Macon Villages Joseph Drouhin 2016, a light

Jan Lorenzen, Resident Manager of Royal Cliff Grand Hotel, welcomes guests and deVine Wine Club Members to an evening of Excellence & Heritage. wine as a palate cleanser.

The next course was an eye-opener with a curried cauliflower veloute being universally popular with the wine club members. This was married to a Bourgogne Aligote Joseph Drouhin 2015, a wine with good body and finish. Veloute’s such as this are considered to be amongst the five “mother

Khun Panga Vathanakul, MD of the Royal Cliff Hotels Group presents a token of appreciation to Sommelier Guillame Celante.

sauces” of French cuisine as described by the famous Auguste Escoffier in the 19th Century.

A little breather and a tamarind sherbet and we were ready for the main course.

This was a roasted Angus beef tenderloin which literally did just fall apart with gentle pressure from a spoon. Chef Peter said this was achieved by slow cooking for six hours before presentation. This was paired with a Beaujolais Villages Joseph Drouhin 2014, a French Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée wine generally made of the Gamay grape which has a thin skin and is low in tannins, and perfectly enjoyable with the Angus beef.

The next course was a real eye-opener being a blue cheese crème brulee served with a grilled pear and a balsamic shallot confit. Tantalizing the taste buds, but what wine would go with this? Guillaume selected a Moulin a Vente

Curried cauliflower veloute married to a Bourgogne Aligote Joseph Drouhin 2015.

Joseph Drouhin 2013 (windmill in French), a red with plenty of body and an inspired partner for the blue cheese.

There was a chocolate based dessert taken with the Chateau Le Thibaut 2014 dessert wine, which unlike many wines of this genre was 12.5 percent ABV, making for a dangerous tipple at the end of a wonderful evening.

This was one of the better wine dinners for the deVine Wine Club and augurs well for forthcoming wine events

The Roasted Angus beef tenderloin was paired with a Beaujolais Villages Joseph Drouhin 2014.

at the Royal Cliff. New dishes included the spectacular curried cauliflower veloute and the blue cheese crème brulee with grilled pear. The latter was paired with a Moulin A Vent Joseph Drouhin 2013, a wine robust enough to meet the blue cheese head on!

On an historical note, French Wine producer Maison Joseph Drouhin is based in Burgundy and was founded in 1880.

These days the estate owns vineyards in Chablis, the

Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune and Côte Chalonnaise, as well as in the Willamette Valley in Oregon.

With many of the kitchen brigade and service personnel being younger professionals on the way up, there was an infectious optimism throughout the dinner, with many club members purchasing bottles of the wines, in my opinion bargain priced, at B. 1,800.

Look for advance notice of the next deVine Wine dinner in the Pattaya Mail.

Executive Chef Peter Held (5th right) and his outstanding team are recognized by the management of the Royal Cliff Hotels Group led by MD Panga Vathanakul, GM Prem Calais, RM Jan Lorenzen together with Sommelier Guillame Celante and Vanichwathana’s Director of Business Development Zoltan Zakor (right).

deVine Wine Club members and guests gather for cocktails before the main event.

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From page 33 Thai Garden Resort is located on North Pattaya Road, 200 meters from the Dolphin roundabout and 200 meters before Tesco Lotus.

Yupin’s Restaurant in Jomtien Complex offers some fabulous culinary options including slow roast soft pork stuffed with garlic and coriander, and served with an onion and red wine sauce, vegetables and a choice of potato at only 395 baht or delicious fresh from the sea, jumbo tiger prawns served with a cream, parmesan and Malibu sauce, and vegetables or a choice of potato at only 495 baht. Special promotions include two set menus plus a bottle of wine for only 1,295 baht or order a two course meal between 6-7 PM and get a free glass of red or white or rosé wine or 250 baht off a house bottle of wine at 545 baht. For more information or reservations, call 038 250394 or visit website: www.yupins.com.

Linda’s Restaurant is large with seating for 200 people, with a covered al fresco verandah outside for

Fax: 038-427596

those who wish to smoke.

Inside, in air-conditioned comfort, there are comfortable chairs and decent sized tables, with white starched napery. The menu is large and covers northern European items, Scandinavian dishes and several pages covering Thai cuisine. Linda’s Restaurant, 315/177-180 Moo 12, opposite the Jomtien Complex. Thappraya Road, Jomtien. Open seven days from 7.30 a.m. until late. Tel: Reservations: 038 252 726, www.lindasrestaurant.com, street-side parking. Email linda@lindasrestaurant.com . GPS 12.901655 N 100.869.

Jameson’s Irish Pub offers daily food specials from Mon-Sat as well as fabulous Sunday roast dinners with all the trimmings, priced from 340 baht – 400 baht.

Jameson’s Irish Pub is located on Soi Sukrudee (Soi A.R.) in Central Pattaya. Call 038 361 874 for more information or visit website: www. jamesons-pattaya.com.

Yamato Restaurant located on Soi Yamato has been around for more than 39 years and the soi was named after its oldest tenant. Just look for the Japanese char-

Garlic and Lime Potato Wedges Potato wedges are a very popular family dish. They are also good to serve with pre-dinner drinks, but this recipe adds just a little something more to the oven fried potato, with the addition of garlic and lime.

Ingredients Small potatoes, cut into wedges Garlic finely chopped Extra virgin olive oil Sea salt Freshly ground black pepper Lime Parmesan cheese, grated Coriander chopped as garnish

Serves 4-6 750 gm 1 clove 3 tbspns 1 1/3rd cup

Cooking method Preheat oven to 375, oven racks in the middle.

In a medium bowl toss the potato wedges with the olive oil, the chopped garlic, a few big pinches of sea salt and a liberal sprinkling of black pepper. Arrange the potatoes cut side down on a baking sheet. Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes, tossing the potatoes with a metal spatula half way through.

While the potatoes are baking, squeeze the lime and set the juice aside.

When the potatoes are cooked through, remove them from the oven, taste, and adjust the seasoning. Add more salt and pepper to taste. Serve in a big shallow bowl, sprinkle the Parmesan and coriander over them and drizzle with the lime juice and present immediately to the guests (with forks)!

acters on the blinds outside.

You cannot miss it. The menu is pictorial, which is a must when trying a different cuisine/language. This is a restaurant to take a few people with you. The prices are certainly not over the top, and the quality is superb. Yamato Japanese restaurant, 219/51 Soi Yamato (13/1), close to Beach Road end, telephone 038 429 685 or 038 421 618.

Open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for lunch and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. for dinner. On street parking (or do some shopping in the Avenue or Royal Garden Plaza).

The legendary Somsakdi Restaurant has been in operation in Pattaya for more than 40 years. Proprietor and Chef Somsakdi is still cooking and running his amazing restaurant at 78 years of age.

The menu is probably the largest in Pattaya, with 374 individual items. Each dish is in Thai with an English explanation underneath. Rather than be swamped by choices, let Somsakdi guide you. After all, who knows his dishes better than he? Somsakdi Restaurant, Pattaya Soi 1, tel. 038 428 987, 038 423 284, 038 429 869, limited parking plus on-street parking in the soi. Hours 11 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven days.

Spa & Hotel Promotions The new Sawasdee ritual at Spa Cenvaree in Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya uses traditional Siamese massage with modern aromatherapy techniques and the uplifting properties of lime, lemongrass and plai for a completely refreshing all-in-one spa session. Priced at THB 2,800++ per person, the package includes a THB 300 retail voucher and is available throughout May and June. For reservations and more spa packages, call 038 301 234 ext 4333.

Entertainment The Asia International Guitar Festival & Competition will take place at the Sukosol Hotel in Bangkok from June 7-10. This year’s agenda includes master classes, guitar exhibits, competitions and concerts by acclaimed world-class musicians hailing from around the globe. Evening concert tickets are priced at 600 baht for adults and 400 baht for students (with valid I.D.), inclusive of coffee break.

Afternoon concert tickets cost 300 baht for all audience members, excluding coffee break. Observers of master classes and competitions pay 200 baht. For more information call 022–470–123, ext 1916-1918, www.facebook .com/thailandguitarsociety.

Enjoy great music from Thomas Reimer, one of the most famous European Jazz guitarists, playing live every evening (except Tuesday) from 6.00 p.m. - 10 p.m. at the Sugar Hut restaurant on Thappraya Road, call 038 364 186 for details.

Community Services The North Star Library on Sukhumvit Road, north Pattaya holds regular Thai language classes Mon - Fri from 10.30 a.m. till 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. till 2.30 p.m. Cost of admission is 100 baht per session for library members and 200 baht for non-members. Private lessons are also available for 200 baht per hour. In addition, the library also holds Yoga training every Tuesday from 1 - 2 p.m. at the Father Ray Foundation. Cost is 1200 baht for 6 sessions (first session free).

For more information, call 081 575 4854 or email wan_nujan@yahoo.com

Groups & Associations Post 12146 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States of America (Ban Chang – U-Tapao, Thailand) meets the second Saturday of each month at 13:00 on the second floor of the Camel Pub in Ban Chang. If you are interested, please contact Membership Chairman Dan Morgan at banchangvfw12146 membership@gmail.com or visit website: www.banchang vfwpost12146.org.

The Royal British Legion Thailand meets the last Saturday of every month from 2 p.m. at the Tropical Bar on Soi Khao Noi (Watboonsampan near the Temple entrance) in East Pattaya. You do not need to have served in the Armed Forces to become a member and can join in the many social events arranged throughout the year. The Legion’s primary aim is the care and welfare of those who have served and/or their dependents. For general enquiries send email to secretary@rblthailand.org, www.rblthailand.org.

Alcoholics Anonymous: The Pattaya Group meets Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. All meetings are closed (alcoholics only) and are held at Soi Skaw Beach (off Pattaya 2nd Rd). Contact Carl 08-456-31671. The Good Morning Pattaya Group meets 9 a.m. every morning. All meetings

are ‘open’: contact 084 564 8479. The Jomtien Group meets every day at noon at Jomtien Long Stay Hotel: Contact, Andrew 086 107 6631.

The Scandinavian Group meets on Tuesdays and Fridays 6 p.m. at the Norwegian Seaman’s Church, Thappraya Road Soi 7: contact Hans 085 135 7755 or Rune (Rayong) 089 754 9515. 10.30 a.m. meetings every day at Satree Pattana Centre on Soi Skaw Beach off Second Road. Call 084 564 8479.

The Samaritans of Thailand English Help Line operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide support to the expatriate community. Englishspeaking staff, trained in crisis intervention will provide active, non-judgmental and empathetic listening services on the phone. All calls will be handled on an anonymous basis and are free of charge.

(02) 713-6791.

Overeaters Anonymous The ‘Up to You’ group meets Wednesdays 9:30-10:30 a.m. in the housing area just behind Pan Pan Restaurant in Jomtien on Thappraya Road.

Call Steve at 038-364-207(h) or 089-250-1359 (cell) for directions or more information.

Narcotics Anonymous Hotline: 082 811 2686. 3 English speaking meetings in Pattaya near Central Festival and 2 in Jomtien each week.

Also regular Thai speaking meetings at 12 noon every Sunday, and Persian Farsi speaking meetings at 5.30 pm on Thursdays. Please call the Hotline for details.

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Pattaya Destroyers capture Gulf of Siam Classic

Pattaya Destroyers team members celebrate with the trophy after winning the Gulf of Siam Ice Hockey Classic at Harbor Mall in Pattaya, Saturday, May 19.

Geraldo LaPortage The Pattaya Destroyers won the second annual Gulf of Siam Ice Hockey Classic, staged over the weekend May 18-19 at The Rink, on the 5th floor of the Harbor Mall on Pattaya Klang Road.

The 4-on-4 competition proved to be a thrilling format for fans and players alike.

Four teams competed in the tournament: the hometown Pattaya Destroyers; Jellonas, a team filled with predominately Finnish expats; a joint Phuket/Hong Kong

squad; and the Bangkok Flying Farangs featuring organizers Scott Whitcomb and Adrian Meyers from Jogsports.

Pattaya stormed out of the gate to win their first two games on Friday by big scores of 10-2 over Jellonas and 15-2 over the Phuket-Hong

Bale wonder-goal secures Madrid CL three-peat Rob Harris Kiev, Ukraine (AP) — With his back to goal but eyes on the incoming cross, Gareth Bale connected with the ball while leaping in the air and sent a scissor-kick arcing into the top of the net.

Fusing athleticism and technique, it was a mesmerizing sight to behold from the Real Madrid forward.

Rarely has there been a finer goal in a European final and Bale followed it up with another to seal Madrid’s third successive Champions League title in a 3-1 victory over Liverpool last Saturday.

Yet with blunders, injuries and intrigue unfolding throughout the night in Kiev’s Olympic

Real Madrid players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Champions League Final against Liverpool at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine, Saturday, May 26. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Stadium, the wonder-goal just enriched this engrossing climax to the European

club season and set the tone for weeks of uncertainty.

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Kong Hitmen. It looked they would cruise to the championship, but late on Saturday afternoon they met a very determined Bangkok squad, who because of their roundrobin overtime loss to Jellonas had to beat Pattaya to advance to the final, and that they did so with a 5-2 triumph over the Destroyers.

That result set up a rematch for the championship game between the Flying Farangs and the Pattaya squad. The Destroyers, led by captain Michael Nakvachara, regrouped in their dressing room determined to make up for their mistakes in the final round robin game.

Before that rematch, the consolation final was held with the Phuket-Hong Kong Hitmen defeating Jellonas 10-6 to take third place overall.

It was the Hitmen’s first victory in the tourney and Michael Azipnikov led the way with five goals while James Cox minded the twine for the Hitmen en route to victory.

Tuomas Kylama had two goals for Jellonas who lost their starting goalie Jason Cotsmire to injury early in the tourney and had to borrow Pattaya’s back-up goalies.

The championship game was up next and started much the same way as the final round-robin game with Bangkok taking an early 1-0 lead on a goal by Mike Wilson.

But then the tide turned and Pattaya scored four unanswered goals, with John McHugh netting two markers and Sebastien Verdy and Aaron Vuorma adding singles.

The final score was 4-1 to Pattaya and the tourney MVP was young Finnish goalie Samuel Pekkala who was outstanding in the final game, turning aside 20 of the 21 shots he faced, including four penalty attempts. In this tournament, if players drew penalties, instead of their team going shorthanded for two minutes, the opposing team was immediately awarded a penalty shot.

Samuel Pekkala was voted the tournament’s MVP.

The Flying Farangs defend as the Destroyers pile on the pressure in the final.

The Bangkok squad fea- their hometown tourney. tured Scott Whitcomb, Adrian The Destroyers had Oleg Meyers, and Scott Murray Kabokov in their line-up who from last year’s Jogsports played in the KHL with former Jerseys winning squad. They NHL star Jaromir Jagr. also had Siam Hockey League The tournament was orga(SHL) captains Brad Wilson nized by Asia Ice Events, (the Sukhumvit Spitfires) with co-sponsors Jogsports and Mike Wilson (Expedia), and SWOT. The Pattaya so they were a force to be team practices every Monreckoned with. But all credit day, Wednesday and Friday to the Pattaya Destroyers for nights from 8:45-10:15pm at coming back and winning the Rink, Harbor Mall.

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