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BPH issues PM 2.5 warning for at-risk Pattayans

Makha Bucha Day falls on Tuesday, February 19 this year Banks, offices, bars will be closed This year, Makha Bucha Day (Buddhist All Saints Day) falls on Tuesday, February 19. Government offices, banks and many businesses will be closed. This holy day commemorates the miraculous event when 1,250 disciples of

the Buddha, Gautama Sakayamuni, traveled to meet with the Buddha with no prearranged agreement, at Weluwan Mahawiharn Temple in the area of Rachakhryha, India. Continued on page 2

Cobra Gold 19 is here Cobra Gold 19, in its 38th iteration, is being held from Feb. 12-23, 2019 with up to 29 nations participating including Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, and Singapore. The exercise emphasizes coordination on civic action, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, seeking to expand regional cooperation and collaboration in these vital areas.

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya has warned pregnant women, the elderly and those suffering chronic illnesses to take extra precautions as Pattaya battles poor air quality. Pattaya’s air quality is markedly better than Bangkok’s, but has at times reached the lowest of the unhealthful levels. Dr. Supakit Vechapanitch, director of health promotion, suggested that at-risk groups should avoid areas with high concentrations of particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or smaller, which includes Bangkok and on certain days, Pattaya.

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Pattaya launches random checks Makha Bucha Day falls on to enforce new anti-smoking rules Tuesday, February 19 this year Banks, offices, bars will be closed

Jetsada Homklin Pattaya has begun daily random checks around public buildings, restaurants and other public places to enforce amendments to Thailand’s anti-smoking laws that took effect Feb. 3. Buppa Songsakulchai of the Public Health Department’s Consumer Protection Office, said city hall regulation-enforcement officers are checking schools, public parks, beaches and other sites ensuring that smokers stand at least five meters from prohibited areas. Promulgated in November, the amendments to the 2017 Tobacco Control Act and a 2018 Public Health Ministry directive extends nosmoking zones in and around government agencies and state enterprises to five meters. Those caught lighting up in prohibited spaces face fines of up to 5,000 baht. Warnings will be given first. Buppa said many people are aware that smoking is not allowed in most public buildings, and now on the beach, but most are unaware they can’t simply go

From page 1 Devout Buddhists are expected to turn out in the thousands at local temples to conduct religious ceremonies. Since this is one of the major Buddhist holidays, it is

Buppa Songsakulchai of the Public Health Department’s Consumer Protection Office, said city hall regulationenforcement officers are checking schools, public parks, beaches and other sites ensuring that smokers stand at least five meters from prohibited areas.

outside, lean against a wall and light up. Athapol, a Thai tourist visiting Pattaya, was one of those. He didn’t know about the new restricted zone, but approves of it as he realizes many people don’t like second-hand smoke.

Jaywalkers ignore Pattaya traffic lights, for good reason Jetsada Homklin With most of the city’s pedestrian-crossing lights broken for the past decade, Pattaya’s tourists can be forgiven for jaywalking. That hasn’t stopped some locals from complaining about those crossing against the light on North Road by the Terminal 21 shopping mall. They say it slows down traffic and risks accidents. The signal – which allows people to cross the busy thoroughfare to catch baht buses headed to Sukhumvit Road and the Pattaya Bus Station – actually does work. But the 15-second delay before the light changes to green apparently is too long for many visitors. Of course, frequent visitors to Pattaya probably just assume the light is broken, as so many are. A random check on Beach Road found one of two lights broken with a police officer doing the work

against the law for businesses to distribute alcohol from midnight Monday, February 18 to midnight Tuesday, February 19. This includes bars and restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores, department

stores, and community retail stores. An amendment to the decree exempts hotels from the ban. Those caught breaking the law can face up to six months in jail and fines up to 10,000 baht.

Happy Valentine’s Day It’s that time again, when Cupid was out on the hunt. Love is still in the air, and if you needed an excuse to spoil that special person in your life, Valentine’s Day last night offered the best opportunity. Pattaya-area merchants stocked up on flowers, pillows and dolls in hopes of putting an extra spark into Valentine’s Day sales, and most hotels and venues planned romantic events just for this day. The city once again set up a special photo op on

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Pattaya Mail.

Beach Road (shown here) for lucky lovers to commemorate the day.

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Pattaya Mail Media.

PEA cleans up Soi Paniadchang wires Jetsada Homklin

With most of the city’s pedestrian-crossing lights broken for the past decade, Pattaya’s tourists can be forgiven for jaywalking.

of a mechanical light outside the Soi 9 police station and Central Festival Pattaya Beach. Traffic and transport officials claimed as recently as last March that the muchmaligned pedestrian-crossing lights do, in fact, all work, but a lack of enforcement has allowed drivers to simply ignore them.

Seventeen of the 42 signals installed in 2010 are located on Beach Road and were repaired before the International Fleet Show in 2017, as were lights on Second Road. Those away from sight of the VIPs were ignored, however. Even Pattaya police have been guilty of ignoring red lights, as videos have shown over the years. The police force’s lack of enforcement has made drivers feel comfortable in doing the same.

Workers from the Provincial Electricity Authority organize low-hanging utility wires on Soi Paniadchang.

The Provincial Electricity Authority organized and rehung low-hanging utility wires on Soi Paniadchang. Pattaya’s complaint center had received many complaints about the internet and telephone lines hanging so low they were snagged by vehicles or even obstructed pedestrians. The city directed the PEA to clean up the mess, bringing in telephone and cabletelevision technicians to help clean up the wires and hang them at a correct height.

East Pattaya locals complain herd of wild boars roaming area Jetsada Homklin Soi Khao Talo residents want Pattaya to help catch 30-40 wild boars roaming the nearby woods eating trash and biting people.

Soi Khao Talo residents want Pattaya to help catch 30-40 wild boars roaming the nearby woods eating trash and biting people.

Residents of Eakmongkok 4/1 village met with Nongprue Sub-district Councilman Metasit Samala Feb. 4, saying that construction workers living nearby originally had a couple boars as pets. But they bred to create a herd as large as 40 animals.

Residents complained the wild pigs rummaged through trash bins and even bit a few people. They want Pattaya to catch the animals and restrict them to a pen where they can be cared for and not bother people.

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Hobbled for years, Dolphin Roundabout fully reopened to improve traffic Jetsada Homklin After years of being crippled, Pattaya’s Dolphin Roundabout has been restored to its original working design. Pattaya blocked off lanes of the landmark traffic circle in 2015 to prevent vehicles from circumnavigating the roundabout, arguing that it would improve traffic flow. In fact, it made congestion worse. It has taken four years, but the light bulb finally went on for traffic planners and police who now have fully reopened the traffic circle for most vehicles. Traffic police inspector Pol. Maj. Aruth Sapanon said Feb. 9 that large vehicles – specifically tour buses – will

be barred from the roundabout during evening rush hour on weekdays and after 7 p.m. on weekends. Drivers of smaller cars and trucks and motorcycles can go around in circles to their hearts’ delight. Aruth said the reopening is conditional and will be evaluated again at the end of next month. For Pattaya authorities, the reopening of the traffic circle marks a long-overdue realization that roundabouts – a design dating back to 1768 in the U.K. – have been scientifically proven to be more efficient and safer than convention intersections. They allow more cars to pass through at a time and studies have shown they reduce injury accidents by 75 percent.

Of course, those studies were done in the West where drivers are better educated and policed. Thailand, by contrast, has the eighth-highest roaddeath toll in the world. Pattaya’s solution to the dual problem of careless, aggressive drivers and poor traffic policing was to place flower bases across lanes, making it impossible to circumvent the rotary. Once the barriers went up, so did congestion levels. Sanit Boonmachai, at the time a city councilman, blasted the move a failure. Cars coming from Naklua were blocked from going around the circle to go to Beach Road and instead had to continue 400 meters to the intersection near Big C and turn there. Vehicles coming from Second

Pattaya Beach rebuild to wrap by March – Marine Dept. Boonlua Chatree The promised year-end completion date for the rebuilding of Pattaya Beach came and went without a word from city hall, but officials are now vowing the work will wrap this month. Pattaya Marine Department Director Ekaraj Kantaro said Feb. 7 that contractor Marine Construction Co. is down to the southernmost 100 meters of beachfront. Only leveling of the sand and sand bag work remains. Once complete, the Marine Department has set its sights on Jomtien Beach as the next

The promised year-end completion date for the rebuilding of Pattaya Beach came and went without a word from city hall, but officials are now vowing the work will wrap this month. (Photo by Jetsada Homklin)

target for erosion mitigation. The Marine Department has requested a 590-million-baht

budget for a restoration project to cover three kilometers of Jomtien.

BPH issues PM 2.5 warning for at-risk Pattayans Warapun Jaikusol Bangkok Hospital Pattaya warned pregnant women, the elderly and those suffering chronic illnesses to take extra precautions as Pattaya battles poor air quality. Dr. Supakit Vechapanitch, director of health promotion, suggested that at-risk groups should avoid areas with high concentrations of particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or smaller. Topping that list is Bangkok, which has been strangling on the so-called PM 2.5 for weeks. Pattaya’s air quality is markedly better, but has at times reached the lowest of the unhealthful levels. Supakit said exposure to too much PM 2.5 – typically by sitting in traffic or working in factories – can cause

Bangkok Hospital Pattaya’s Dr. Supakit Vechapanitch, director of health promotion, says at-risk groups should avoid areas with high concentrations of particulate matter measuring 2.5 microns or smaller.

short-term coughing and burning in the throat and nose. Long term, the microscopic dust, which cannot be filtered out by the body before it embed in the lungs, can cause dyspnea, bronchitis, gastrointestinal problems and lung infections.

The doctor stressed there is no-short term cure – other than the rainy season – for the record air pollution. Thailand must change and enforce its environment regulations and people must care more for the environment, he said.

The Dolphin Roundabout has been reopened in North Pattaya.

Road met cars coming from North Road with everyone having to reduce speed to go around the partial circle to the right in order to head to Naklua Road or turn left at the Dusit Thani Hotel. Rather than blame their own poor engineering or insufficient traffic enforcement, authorities claimed there were too many people in Pattaya for a roundabout,

despite the fact they’re specifically designed for highvolume traffic areas. So, in 2017, officials proposed just ripping out the entire roundabout and putting in at least four sets of traffic lights. That plan died a quiet death in August that year. But the barriers remained. However, the opening of the Terminal 21 shopping mall at North and Phettrakul

roads last year made that untenable. From the mall’s opening day, traffic has been impossible and officials finally realized forcing cars from the traffic circle to make U-turns there was making things worse. Tour buses will still be banned from the circle during rush hours as, officials said, they have trouble navigating the circle in heavy traffic.

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Sattahip joins motorcycle taxi crackdown

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Murderer arrested for handbag theft on Walking Street Boonlua Chatree

Soldiers and district officials check taxi stands in Sattahip.

Patcharapol Panrak Sattahip officials joined an area-wide crackdown on motorcycle taxi drivers following the attempted sale of a registered vest. District Chief Anuch Intasorn and Pol. Maj. Wiroj

Jaritrum of the Sattahip Police Station, led 10 officers, soldiers and district officials check of taxi stands Feb. 6. Drivers were checked for proper licenses, public-taxi registration, proper dress and use of motorcycles meeting code. Those found without proper

registrations were told to do so by April 30 or face prosecution. The check follows a vigorous crackdown in Pattaya after a driver on Soi Yensabai tried to sell his registered taxi vest – and thus his license to work as a taxi driver – on Facebook for 120,000 baht in violation of the law.

A convicted murderer and arsonist was arrested on Walking Street for allegedly stealing a Chinese tourist’s handbag. Petchlada Anguranon, 43, was charged with theft at night after police recovered the Cross bag belonging to tourist Huan Siqing, 28. Inside the bag was 2,980 baht, credit cards, mobile phone and passport. Huan said he was sitting in a bar and was approached by Petchlada. He excused himself to go to the restroom and left his bag at the table. When he returned, the bag and the woman were gone. Police found her a few

Petchlada Anguranon was arrested on Walking Street for allegedly stealing a Chinese tourist’s handbag.

doors down. Officers said her criminal record includes arrests for

theft, arson and murder for which she spent 18 months in prison.

Gold snatcher caught after 10 days

2 Uzbeks busted for robbing Pakistani Boonlua Chatree Two Uzbek women were arrested for robbing a Pakistani tourist in Pattaya. Akhmadiva Nargiza, 29, and Sidikova Nasiba, 43, were charged with colluding to steal and receiving stolen goods. Nasiba additionally was hit with charges of overstaying her visa. Nothing was reported about possible prostitution charges. Shakeel Ahmed, 35, reported Feb. 7 that he had taken the Eastern European prostitutes back to his hotel room and had fallen asleep. When he awoke, the women were gone along with 21,000 baht and his smartphone and ATM card.

Pittaya Darin reenacts the crime for the cameras. He was arrested at his Soi Nonghin apartment after he allegedly snatched Russian tourist Valentina Mzheenko’s gold necklace.

Teerarak Suthathiwong Police said the women were known to them and found the suspects on Walking Street.

Police said the women were known to them and found the suspects on Walking

Street. The mobile phone and ATM card were with Nargiza.

It took 10 days, but Pattaya police found the man who stole a Russian tourist’s gold necklace. Pittaya Darin, 26, was arrested at his Soi Nonghin apartment Feb. 8. Police said

he confessed and dug up the gold necklace and cross he had snatched from the neck of Valentina Mzheenko, 47, on Jan. 30. Mzheenko had been walking on Soi Wat Boonkanchanaram 5 around 8 a.m. when Pittaya drove by on his motorbike

and snatched the pendant. Security cameras showed his escape, but he shed the black shirt and helmet he had been wearing and police lost him. However, his motorbike popped up again on city CCTV cameras outside his apartment and police swooped in.

Remains of foreigner Pattaya prison readies first found floating off Koh Larn family-visit day for 2019 Boonlua Chatree Police are checking missing persons reports to try to identify the remains of a foreign man found floating off Koh Larn. The badly decomposed body of the obese white

male, around 160-165 centimeters, was found of Nuan Beach Feb. 6. He was dressed in shorts and black shirt and had a carp tattoo on his back. The body, which had been floating in the sea for about a week, was transported to

Banglamung Hospital before being sent to Bangkok’s Police Hospital for a forensic examination. Police are checking missing persons reports and with embassies to determine if any foreign national has been reported missing.

People line up to register to see family members at a recent family-visit day.

Boonlua Chatree Pattaya Remand Prison will host its first family-visit days of 2019 March 25-29. Warden Watcharawit Wachiralurphan said Feb. 6 that well-behaved inmates meeting certain requirements

will be able to meet with family members face-to-face and share a meal together. The visits are aimed at easing family tensions as well as giving prisoners incentives to be well-behaved. Eligible for visits are firsttime offenders sentenced to

prison terms of 10 years or less. Visitors must be blood relatives or spouses. Family members wishing to visit must submit applications with a copy of their Thai identification card or passport from March 11-15.

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Royals’ roles in politics vary, but few join electoral fray

Elaine Kurtenbach Bangkok (AP) - An order by HM the King that ended a bid by his older sister to run for prime minister illustrates the sensitivity of royal involvement in politics in many nations. Most but not all modern monarchies steer clear of direct involvement in electoral politics or governing. Here is a look at the status of royals and government across the globe:

Queen Elizabeth II, the world’s longest-reigning living monarch, mostly lives a life of ceremonial duty, world travel and great wealth. She also acts as hostess for

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. (Toby Melville /Pool Photo via AP)

Princess Ubolratana, 67, declared her candidacy last Friday with the Thai Raksa Chart party. It would have pit her against the military’s preferred candidate, current Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who led a 2014 military coup that ousted Thailand’s last elected government. It would also have upended a tradition of the palace playing no public role in politics. But late Friday, King Maha Vajiralongkorn issued an order read on television stating that no member of the royal family should be involved in politics.

state visits. As a constitutional monarch she and her family are prohibited from getting actively involved in politics, though she has a consultative role, meeting regularly with the prime minister. She signs legislation and is at the center of many political rituals, such as opening Parliament by reading a speech and a government agenda she plays no role in preparing.

The late Emperor Hirohito renounced his status as a living god and assumed a symbolic role under a U.S.-

The Gulf States King Letsie III of Lesotho. (AP Photo/ Michael Sohn)

Bhutan The South Asian country in the eastern Himalayas, the region’s last remaining Buddhist kingdom, transitioned from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy in 2008. The country’s fourth king introduced a concept of gross national happiness in the 1970s, embracing sustainable development, education and health over economic growth. His son and current king, the U.S. and British-educated Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (affectionately known as K-5)

Brunei Southeast Asia’s smallest nation is an absolute monarchy ruled by the wealthy, autocratic Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, who is also prime minister, defense minister and finance minister. He has ruled through emergency decree since 1984 and the country’s last election was in 1962. The country’s national ideology invokes Islam and history in support of the sultan’s absolute power.

speech, he said: “Norwegians are girls who love girls, boys who love boys, and girls and boys who love each other” and also that many Norwegians have emigrated from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Poland and other countries and that they “believe in God, Allah, the Universe and nothing.”

Japan

Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Thailand

Princess Ubolratana. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, March 24, 2010)

has overseen his country’s democratization and land reforms.

Britain

Then Japanese Emperor Hirohito waves as Crown Prince Akihito, left, looks on. (AP Photo)

inspired constitution adopted after Japan’s defeat in World War II. The imperial family eschews involvement in politics and are seen as resisting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to give the emperor a bigger role in order to restore pre-war paternalistic social values.

known as Swaziland, King Mswati III is an absolute monarch who during his more than three decade long rule has been accused of suppressing human rights.

Norway Like fellow Nordic royals Denmark’s Queen Margrethe and Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf, Norway’s King

Lesotho

Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

The poor, mountainous kingdom encircled by South Africa has had a ceremonial, constitutional monarchy throughout decades of political instability since its independence from Britain in 1966. King Letsie III has openly criticized politicians for manipulating the military and shown interest in a more active political role. In the southern African kingdom of Eswatini, formerly

King Harald of Norway. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Harald mostly keeps to his traditional role as a figurehead. But he has spoken out in support of gay rights and diversity. In a 2016

The kings and sheikhs who rule the Arab countries lining the Persian Gulf preside over some of the few remaining absolute monarchies in the world. King Salman of Saudi Arabia assumed the throne in 2015 following the death of his half-brother. Saudi Arabia does not allow political parties and has only held elections for some municipal council posts. Neighboring United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven states, has as its president the hereditary ruler of Abu Dhabi, the largest and richest of the emirates. Dubai, the commercial hub, holds the posts of prime minister and vice president. The hereditary ruler within each emirate has widespread powers to rule by decree. The sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, is the absolute ruler over a country that lacks the vast oil wealth of Saudi Arabia or the UAE. Tiny Kuwait holds regular elections, though its emir retains vast powers, including the ability to dissolve parliament.

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Baht bus, taxi drivers lectured about ripping off tourists

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Chinese New Year food sellers inspected Jetsada Homklin

About 500 baht bus and taxi drivers learned basic first aid and were lectured about overcharging and unruly behavior in a meeting with top Pattaya city officials and police.

About 500 baht bus and taxi drivers learned basic first aid and were lectured about overcharging and unruly behavior in a meeting with top Pattaya city officials and police. Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome opened the Feb. 8 meeting with representatives of Bangkok

Hospital Pattaya, the Chonburi Land Transport Department and Pattaya Police Station. The songthaew, motorcycle taxi and metered-cab drivers were told of the criminal penalties for ripping off tourists, behaving badly, blocking traffic and driving recklessly.

All the drivers then received lessons in primary first aid and CPR. Pattaya officials also called on the drivers to work together to promote tourism and be the “eyes and ears” of police out on the streets to cut crime. (PCPR)

9 embassies visit Pattaya

Pattaya public-health officers checked Naklua food vendors to be sure the meat and pastries they sold for Chinese New Year weren’t spiked with chemicals to make them look nicer. Buppa Songsakulchai of the Consumer Protection Office led a team of inspectors to the Naklua Market area where copious amounts of raw meat and fish, stuffed dough pyramids, Chinese pastries, sticky rice cakes and Thai sponge cake were being hawked for the Year of the Pig celebration. Stalls were randomly checked to ensure food wasn’t contaminated with additives to keep the meat looking fresh and the cooked foods colorful.

Buppa Songsakulchai of the Consumer Protection Office led a team of inspectors to the Naklua Market area to check that meat and pastries sold for Chinese New Year weren’t spiked with chemicals to make them look nicer.

Results of the checks were not immediately available, although one stall was

warned about proper packaging after an insect was found in one dish.

Dead dolphin found on Pattaya Beach Teerarak Suthathiwong The carcass of a dead dolphin washed up on Pattaya Beach. The mammal – about two meters long and weighing almost 50 kilograms – washed ashore early Feb. 7. It had been dead about 3-5 days. Pattaya officials had the carcass transported to the Chonburi Natural Resources and Environment Department for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Beach vendor Veerapat Cherdphan reported the dead dolphin when it washed

A dolphin about two meters long and weighing almost 50 kilograms washed ashore early Feb. 7.

ashore, but said Pattaya city hall police only took photos and left. He had to call again

when the uncovered dolphin began to smell and attract the attention of tourists.

Naklua road repaved Diplomats from nine countries called on Pattaya’s mayor to meet with the city’s business leaders.

Diplomats from nine countries called on Pattaya’s mayor to meet with the city’s business leaders. H.E. Raushan Yesbulatova, ambassador for Kazakhstan, led the delegation of emissaries from Brazil, Egypt, Finland, Norway, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Turkey to meet Mayor

Sonthaya Kunplome Feb. 8. They were welcomed by top officials from city hall, the local Tourism Authority of Thailand office, and tourist, Pattaya, and immigration police. The group also met with Pakamon Wongyai, president of the Thai Hotels Association Eastern Region,

Thitipat Siranatsrikul, president of the Chonburi Tourist Attraction Association and Krit Jiramongkol, vice president of the Pattaya Business & Tourism Association. The visit was organized to discuss business opportunities between Pattaya and the nine countries and foster closer ties. (PCPR)

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Pattaya maintenance workers repave the road in front of the local Disease Control Department office, which had deteriorated into a swampy mess.

Jetsada Homklin Pattaya repaved the road in front of the local Disease Control Department office, which had deteriorated

into a swampy mess. A work crew spent two days laying crushed rock in front of the office by Lan Po Public Park Feb. 5-6 and covering it in asphalt.

The road was severely pockmarked by potholes, which filled with water and dirt during rainstorms, making the entire street a muddy swamp.

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January was officially Australia’s hottest month on record Rod McGuirk Canberra, Australia (AP) - Australia sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continued with wildfires razing the drought-parched south and flooding in expanses of the tropical north. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology confirmed the January record last week as parts of the northern hemisphere had record cold. Australia’s scorching start to 2019 - in which the mean temperature across the country for the first time exceeded 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) followed Australia’s thirdhottest year on record. Only 2005 and 2013 were warmer than 2018, which ended with the hottest December on record. Heat-stressed bats dropped dead from trees by the thousands in Victoria State and bitumen roads melted in New South Wales during heatwaves last month. New South Wales officials say drought-breaking rains are needed to improve the

Australia sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continues with wildfires razing the drought-parched south while expanses of the tropical north are flooded. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

water quality in a stretch of a major river system where hundreds of thousands of fish died in two mass deaths during January linked to excessive heat. A South Australia state government report found that too much water had been drained from the river system for farming under a management plan

that did not take into account the impact of climate change on the river’s health. The South Australian capital Adelaide on Jan. 24 recorded the hottest day ever for a major Australian city a searing 46.6 C (115.9 F). On the same day, the South Australian town of Port Augusta, population 15,000,

recorded 49.5 C (121.1 F) - the highest maximum anywhere in Australia last month. Bureau senior climatologist Andrew Watkins described January’s heat as unprecedented. “We saw heatwave conditions affect large parts of the country through most of the month, with records broken

for both duration and also individual daily extremes,” Watkins said in a statement. The main contributor to the heat was a persistent high-pressure system over the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand that blocked cold fronts from reaching southern Australia. Rainfall was below-average for most of the country, but the monsoonal trough has brought flooding rains to northern Queensland State in the past week, leading to a disaster declaration around the city of Townsville. Queensland’s flooded Daintree River reached a 118year high in January. Emergency services also reported rescuing 28 people from floodwaters in the area. “The vast bulk of the population will not have experienced this type of event in their lifetime,” State Disaster Coordinator Bob Gee told reporters, referring to the extraordinary flooding. Townsville Mayor Jenny Hill described the torrential rain as a “one-in-100-year event” that had forced authorities to release water

from the city dam. The water release would worsen flooding in low-lying suburbs, but would prevent the Ross River from breaking its banks. In the southern island state of Tasmania, authorities are hoping rain will douse more than 40 fires that have razed more than 187,000 hectares (720 square miles) of forest and farmland. Dozens of houses have been destroyed by fires and flooding in recent weeks. The Climate Council, an Australian independent organization formed to provide authoritative climate change information to the public, said the January heat record showed the government needed to curb Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions which have increased during each of the past four years. “Climate change is cranking up the intensity of extreme heat, and January’s recordbreaking month is part of a sharp, long-term upswing in temperatures driven primarily from the burning of fossil fuels,” the council’s acting chief executive Martin Rice said in a statement.

Remember virtual reality? Its buzz has faded at CES 2019 Mae Anderson New York (AP) - Just a few years ago, virtual reality was poised to take over the world. After decades of near misses, the revolution finally seemed imminent, with slick consumer headsets about to hit the market and industries from gaming and entertainment to social media ready to hop on the bandwagon. But the buzz over VR has faded to a whisper. At the CES 2019 tech show in Las Vegas, Facebook’s Oculus unit isn’t holding any glitzy press events, just closeddoor demos for its upcoming Oculus Quest, a $399 untethered headset due out in the spring. Other VR companies are similarly subdued. HTC announced two new headsets - one with only sketchy details - while Sony has some kiosks for its $300 PlayStation VR set in the main hall. It’s a world away from the scene a few years ago, when VR products from Samsung, Oculus, HTC and Sony seemed omnipresent and unstoppable at CES. These days, VR is mostly a niche product for gaming and business training, held back by expensive, clunky headsets, a paucity of interesting software

and other technological shortcomings. “VR hasn’t escaped the early adopter, gamer-oriented segment,” said Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder - himself an early adopter who chafed in 2016 at delays in shipping Facebook’s thengroundbreaking Oculus Rift system. Gownder said many existing VR setups are still too hard to use; even simpler mobile systems like Samsung’s Gear VR, he said, don’t offer “a clear reason for the average non-gamer to get involved.” VR proponents are still dreaming big, although the challenges remain formidable. Shipments of VR headsets rose 8 percent in the third quarter compared to the previous year, to 1.9 million units, according to data research firm International Data Corp. - an uptick that followed four consecutive quarters of decline. Nearly a quarter of a million units of Facebook’s Oculus Go and Xiaomi’s Mi VR - the same stand-alone VR headset, sold under different names in different markets shipped worldwide in the quarter, IDC said. Those still aren’t huge numbers for a technology that seemed to hold such

People use Oculus VR headsets at the Panasonic booth at CES International in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

promise in 2012 when early demonstrations of the Oculus Rift wowed audiences so much that Facebook acquired Oculus for $2 billion two years later. Despite large sums plowed into the field by Facebook, Sony, Samsung, Microsoft and Google, VR hasn’t yet made much of a dent in the real world. Some of the biggest consumer complaints involve expense, laggy or glitchy graphics and the fact that many systems still tether the headsets to gaming consoles or PCs. “Technology

is still what’s holding VR back,” said eMarketer analyst Victoria Petrock. Upcoming stand-alone headsets like the Oculus Quest could solve some of those problems. More alarming, though, VR still suffers from a lack of hit software. Many major game publishers have largely avoided the field so far, and venture funding for VR software development has nosedived this year. SuperData, a digital games and VR market research company owned by Nielsen Holdings, estimates that

consumer VR software investments dropped by a stunning 59 percent in 2018, to $173 million from $420 million the year before. Software makers are retrenching. IMAX said in late December it was shutting down its VR unit. Jaunt, a startup focused on cinematic VR and once backed by Disney, restructured this year. Its new focus? VR’s cousin technology, “augmented reality,” which paints consumersimulated objects into the real world, a la the cartoony monsters of “Pokemon Go.”

A few games have been modest hits. “Beat Saber” a VR game in which players move a lightsaber to music, sold over 100,000 copies in its first month and became the seventh highest-rated game on Steam, according to Forbes. But such titles are few and far between. There’s one other problem: VR isn’t very social, Petrock said. There’s no easy way to share the experience with others on social media or within the games themselves, making a VR experience less likely to go viral the way, say, “Fortnite” has. “You have your headset strapped on and you’re in a virtual world but it is solitary,” she said. VR “is still is the next big thing, but anything good takes time and effort,” said Gartner analyst Tuong Nguyen. “The industry as a whole did overhype it.” He compares the current VR industry to the TV industry when HDTV first came out. People bought new high-definition sets but were disappointed when there wasn’t anything to watch in the new format. For VR, “the kind of breadth and depth of content isn’t all quite there,” he said.

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The black snake Have you read a wonderful item penned by American writer Dave Barry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald, about his recent trip to his gastroenterologist for a colonoscopy? According to Dave, he was sure he was going to be attacked by 17,000 feet of garden hose inserted through his fundamental orifice. If you haven’t read it, do a Google search, it is worth it. Serious laughter will result, but here are the final two paragraphs. “And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like. “I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. ... The next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. Andy (the gastroenterologist) was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that it was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. “I have never been prouder of an internal organ.” So that was Dave Barry’s colonoscopy. After days of agonizing, it was a non-event, but what exactly is a colonoscopy? A colonoscopy is test where the colonoscopist (a doctor who has specialized in the Gastro Intestinal system) looks into your colon, the large bowel. The last part of

this tube leads into the rectum where the stool is stored before being passed out from the anus. The instrument is called a colonoscope, and is a thin, flexible, fiber-optic tube with a small video camera at its head. This is sometimes called “the black snake” and is controlled by the colonoscopist who directs it up the rectum and into the colon, right around to the end of the small intestine. The colonoscope also has a ‘side channel’ through which the colonoscopist can take tissue samples (biopsies) of any suspicious growths inside the colon. A colonoscopy may be advised if you have symptoms such as bleeding from the anus, pains in the lower abdomen, persistent diarrhea, or other symptoms thought to be coming from the colon. The sort of conditions which can be confirmed include: Ulcerative colitis (which causes inflammation of the colon). Crohn’s disease (also causes inflammation of the colon). Diverticula (pouches which form in the lining of the colon). Polyps of the colon. Cancer of the colon. Various other conditions may also be detected, but probably one of the most important conditions is polyps, little grape-like growths which can turn cancerous if left for a long time. There is also a rigorous preparation for a colonoscopy,

which is designed to clean all the feces out of the colon before the procedure is done. Incidentally, there is a procedure called a ‘virtual’ colonoscopy, by which a CT scan of the abdomen is converted into images of the inside of the colon. In the hands of experienced technicians and radiologists, the accuracy of this procedure has improved, but the ‘real’ colonoscopy is still the gold standard. By the way, the same preparation is also required, to ensure the colon is clean. It is also necessary to introduce air into the colon, via the anus, to be able to electronically ‘see’ the inside of the colon. There is another similar procedure to regular colonoscopy called a gastroscopy, in which the fiber-optic tube is inserted via the mouth and then down into the stomach to allow a direct vision look at the upper gastrointestinal tract, and biopsies of suspicious ulcers and lesions can be taken at the same time. And no, Veronica, it isn’t the same black snake! Having had a gastroscopy myself, I speak from personal experience, the only downside was gas. Since air is pumped in, that air has to get out somewhere. I compared the sensation to that of a rabbit being chased by a ferret around the burrow. You get gurglings right the way through to veritable abdominal explosions. As soon as you can, a trip to the toilet is in order. And yes, we are geared up to carry out both upper and lower gastroscopies at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya.

Hospital: Doc gave near-death patients excessive pain meds Kantele Franko Columbus, Ohio (AP) - An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped, an Ohio hospital system announced after being sued by a family alleging an improper dose of fentanyl actively hastened the death of one of those patients. The Columbus-area Mount Carmel Health System acknowledged the doses were larger than needed to provide comfort for dying patients. That raises questions about whether there was an intentional or possibly illegal use of the drugs to accelerate deaths. The system said it has fired the doctor, reported findings of an internal investigation to authorities and removed 20 employees from patient care pending further investigation, including nurses who administered the medication as well as pharmacists. Mount Carmel said the situation came to light because an employee reported a safety concern. The health system shared no information about what might have prompted employees to approve and administer the excessive dosages. “Regardless of the reason the actions were taken, we take responsibility for the fact that the processes in place were not sufficient to prevent these actions from happening,” Mount Carmel President and CEO Ed Lamb said in a video statement. “We’re doing everything to understand how this happened

The main entrance to Mount Carmel West Hospital is shown Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. An intensive care doctor ordered “significantly excessive and potentially fatal” doses of pain medicine for over two dozen near-death patients in the past few years. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh Huggins)

and what we need to do to ensure that it never happens again.” The attorney who brought the lawsuit said, in that case, either layers of safeguards repeatedly failed to flag a “grossly excessive” dosage of fentanyl, or the medical professionals intended to accelerate the death of the patient, 79-year-old Janet Kavanaugh. “On balance, it’s hard to believe the former occurred rather than the latter. ... This is not just a simple situation of an error,” lawyer Gerry Leeseberg said. The lawsuit was filed in Franklin County against the health system, a pharmacist, a nurse and the doctor, whom it identifies as William Husel. Case records listed no attorney yet to comment on Husel’s behalf. There is no public personal phone listing for him, and other numbers linked to him weren’t accepting calls Tuesday. Husel’s case emerges amid a national debate over physician-assisted death. In such cases, physicians prescribe medications in life-

ending amounts to terminally ill patients. Five states - California, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and Colorado - allow the practice, and 20 have considered but not passed legislation to do so, according to the nonpartisan National Conference of State Legislatures. A Montana court also legalized it there, though there’s no regulatory framework in place. In Ohio, the practice remains illegal. A bill that would have allowed terminally ill, mentally competent patients to self-administer a prescription to end their lives failed to gain traction in the last legislative session. But Joe Carrese, a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, said that such laws are carefully crafted. He said that if Husel administered lethal quantities of drugs to unwitting patients in order to end their lives, his acts didn’t meet the definition of physician-assisted death. “In this case, if that was the intent, this was essentially

euthanasia, which is not legal anywhere in the United States and not at all the same as physician-assisted death,” he said. Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien confirmed that his office has met with doctors, hospital executives and attorneys and that an investigation is underway, but he wouldn’t discuss details. He said they’ve received cooperation from Mount Carmel, which operates four hospitals around Columbus, and from parent organization Trinity Health, one of the country’s largest Roman Catholic health care systems. Records show the State Medical Board in Ohio has never taken disciplinary action against Husel. It’s unclear whether that board ever received a complaint or conducted an investigation about him, as such records are confidential under Ohio law, and outcomes are made public only if the board takes formal action. Husel was a supervised resident at the Cleveland Clinic from 2008 to 2013, according to a statement from the medical center. It’s now conducting an internal investigation of his work, but it said a preliminary review found that his prescribing practices were “consistent with appropriate care provided to patients in the intensive care unit.” Carrese, from the bioethics institute, commended Mount Carmel for encouraging a culture in which medical staff and other employees can come forward without fear, but he said the extent of the allegations is concerning. “The fact that there may be

other patients, up to 26 other patients, really calls into question whether the culture of safety and reporting that they’re shooting for, whether there’s more work that needs to be done,” he said. The allegations carry echoes of prior Ohio cases in which patients were killed. Nurse’s aide Donald Harvey, dubbed “the Angel of Death,” claimed responsibility for killing more than 50 people in Cincinnati and Kentucky hospitals during the 1970s and ’80s, mostly by poisoning. Many were chronically ill patients, and Harvey claimed he was trying to end their suffering. Admitted serial killer Michael Swango, the former

physician dubbed “Dr. Death,” pleaded guilty to killing four people, including one while interning at an Ohio State University hospital, and was believed to have poisoned dozens as he moved between hospitals in various places. Leeseberg, the attorney in the Mount Carmel lawsuit, said an important difference in this case is that multiple people were involved in the patients receiving the drugs. “The pharmacist has an obligation to question an order, and the nurse has an obligation to question the order as well,” Leeseberg said. “All of those safeguards were overridden or ignored. It’s like nothing I’ve ever seen.”

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Swiss museum laments Facebook ban of images of naked statues Geneva (AP) - A Geneva art museum says Facebook has banned using images of a nearly-naked Venus statue and a nude, kneeling man that it had hoped to post on the social media platform to promote an upcoming exhibit. The Museum of Art and History used Twitter to say it had wanted to promote the 3-1/2 month run of “Caesar and the Rhone” that opens Friday using the two images, but Facebook “prevented us from it, because of their nudity.” The museum put the images on Twitter on Friday with the French word for “censored” over their private parts, adding: “Maybe it’s time that this platform changes its policy for museums and cultural institutions?” Facebook didn’t immediately respond to an email from the Associated Press seeking comment.

‘It’s too cold!’ Mr. Hot Dog says no school in South Dakota Parker, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota school district is using a talking hot dog to announce closures due to the extreme cold. In a video posted to the Parker School District’s Facebook page, Mr. Hot Dog says: “I’m a hot dog! I need some heat! I’m not a cold dog! ... You cannot have school! It’s too cold outside.” Mr. Hot Dog - complete with eyes, teeth, a bun and mustard says he spoke with Superintendent Donavan DeBoer and that school will be closed Wednesday. Mr. Hot Dog suggested students can instead watch Netflix or bake a cake, but “No Fortnite!” DeBoer told the Argus Leader that he created the video using Snapchat. (Courtesy of Parker School District Superintendent Donavan DeBoer via AP)

Taking tune from “The Office,” man helps save woman’s life Tucson, Ariz. (AP) - A classic scene from a decade-old episode of “The Office” helped an Arizona mechanic save an unconscious woman’s life. The Arizona Daily Star reports that 21-year-old Cross Scott found a woman locked in her car this month and broke in, finding she wasn’t breathing. He doesn’t have any emergency training but thought of the show where Steve Carell’s character does CPR to the tune of the Bee Gees’ song “Stayin’ Alive.” The song has the correct tempo for chest compressions. Within a minute, the woman was breathing, and she was taken to a hospital and later released. Scott, who shares the last name of Carell’s character Michael Scott, had help from two women who also stopped when they saw the car and called 911.

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Games and challenges for Book Week Mark Beales

Land ahoy! A pirate enjoys some landlubber games.

Who wants to be a pirate?

These four students picked up some bargains during Primary Book Week.

Several parents popped in to the reading cafe to read to their children during Book Week.

Students enjoyed a range of reading activities during a fantastic Primary Book Week at a local school. There were many reading-related activities and events during Primary Book Week at Garden International School (GIS). Chon, the Library Manager, organised a competition where students had to get clues from teachers to work out all their favourite books. All through the week, groups of Primary students went to read with the younger students in Foundation and they all loved Primary students loved checking out new titles that! The book fair was well-at- during book week. tended and had some very good books for all ages. Primary Book Day was a fab finale to the week starting with a pirate parade, then a whole day of reading fun. Through the day, two stories were being created, starting in Year 1 and being finished by Year 5, finally being performed by Year 6 at the assembly. Thanks to Mr Paul for organising the day. In Foundation, parents were also encouraged to join a ‘reading café’ and spend time reading to their children. GIS is based in A Primary student browses the books. Ban Chang near Pattaya.

Study: Many small kids in US are using too much toothpaste Thousands of Belgian teens skip school for 4th climate march

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New York (AP) - Too many young kids are using too much toothpaste, increasing their risk of streaky or splotchy teeth when they get older, according to a government survey released Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. About 40 percent of kids ages 3 to 6 used a brush that was full or half-full of toothpaste, even though experts recommend no more than a pea-sized amount, the study found. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention findings were based on a survey of parents of more than 5,000 kids ages 3 to 15. Health officials recommend that all people drink fluoridated water, and that everyone 2 or older brush twice a day with fluoride toothpaste. But the amount is important. Children under 3 are only supposed to use a smear of toothpaste the size of a grain of rice. Kids 3 to 6 are supposed to keep it to a pea-sized amount. “Fluoride is a wonderful benefit but it needs to be used carefully,” said Dr. Mary Hayes, a pediatric dentist in Chicago. Young kids may push for independence in brushing their teeth, but kids’ toothpaste tastes sweet. “You don’t want them eating it like food,” Hayes said.

A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, says too many young kids are using too much toothpaste, increasing their risk of streaky or splotchy teeth when they get older. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

“We want the parent to be in charge of the toothbrush and the toothpaste.” Fluoride is a mineral found in water and soil. More than 70 years ago, scientists discovered that people whose drinking water naturally had more fluoride also had fewer cavities. That led to efforts to add fluoride to tap water, toothpaste, mouthwash and other products. Experts say fluoride had helped drive down rates of tooth decay in U.S. teens and adults. But too much fluoride when teeth are forming can lead to tooth streaking or spottiness - known as dental fluorosis. In extreme cases, teeth can be pitted by the mineral, though many cases are so mild only dentists notice it. Past studies have suggested fluorosis has been increasing for at

least three decades, and can affect as many as 2 out of 5 adolescents. The new study did not follow the kids through time or try to determine how many developed streaked or spotty teeth as a result of using too much toothpaste. The authors acknowledged other limitations. Parents might have misremembered how much toothpaste kids used when they were younger. Also, the survey didn’t ask specifically about what kinds of toothpaste were used; not all kinds of children’s toothpaste have fluoride in them. The study found about 60 percent of kids brushed their teeth twice a day. It also found that roughly 20 percent of white and black kids, and 30 percent of Hispanic kids, didn’t start brushing until they were 3 or older.

Thousands of youngsters crowd the streets as they march during a climate change protest in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Thousands of teenagers in Belgium have skipped school for the fourth Thursday in a row in an attempt to push authorities into providing better protection for the world’s climate. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Brussels (AP) - Thousands of teenagers in Belgium skipped school for the fourth Thursday in a row Jan. 31, in an attempt to push authorities into providing better protection for the world’s climate. Police say the march through Brussels drew at least 12,500 students, and another march in eastern Liege had at least as many protesters as the youth movement spread further across the country. In Leuven, close to Brussels, there were more than 3,000

protesters, including many primary school pupils. The sustained success of the marches comes despite some school measures to dissuade students who continue to stay away every Thursday. It started with a few thousand four weeks ago and swelled to 35,000 last week. The protests have kept a focus on climate change as a political pressure point before national and European Union elections, after 70,000 demonstrators held a

climate march through Brussels on Sunday. “They left us a planet in a bad shape so it is our job to change that,” said 17-yearold student Manon Wilmart. “But we can do it. We are younger and we know that we can do it. We are in the mood to change the climate, to change everything.” On top of the student march itself, about 3,400 academics also published an open letter in support of the grassroots movement.

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Suvarnabhumi Food Guide Pilots at Taiwanese liner strike during Lunar New Year rush program revealed Suvarnabhumi International Airport has unveiled the Suvarnabhumi Food Guide program, providing passengers with affordable food. Under the new initiative, participating food vendors under the King Power International Group and Master Mind Consultant Company Limited submit their affordable offerings to airport authorities who will then make ‘Suvarnabhumi Food Guide,’ which will be publicized to the passengers. According to Wing Commander Suthirawat Suwanawat, general manager of Suvarnabhumi Airport, the menu is divided into three tiers - Saved Price, Budget Price, and Valued Price - offering items with price tags of 50, 125, and 280 baht respectively. He further elaborated that King Power will provide assistance in publishing ‘the Suvarnabhumi Food Guide.’

Wing Commander Suthirawat Suwanawat, general manager of Suvarnabhumi Airport, unveils the Suvarnabhumi Food Guide program.

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find a myriad of affordable foods at two affordable cafeterias ‘Airport Street Food By Magic Food Point’ and ‘Food World.’ The former is located at Exit 8 on the first floor and the latter is located next to the eastern garden, also on the first floor. He also mentioned ’Aimm Cup Corner’ on the B1 floor next to the Airport Rail Link entrance which also offers affordable dishes. (NNT)

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Taipei, Taiwan (AP) - Pilots from Taiwan’s China Airlines went on strike in the middle of the Lunar New Year travel rush, forcing the cancellation of at least 18 flights and stranding thousands of passengers. Hundreds of the stateowned carrier’s 1,300 pilots were believed to have joined the action over complaints of long work hours on longhaul routes and the refusal of management to make improvements in order to suppress costs. “We chose this date to strike because we are left with no other choices. Since we announced on February 1 that we will go on strike, we were expecting a positive response,” union leader Chen Pei-pei told reporters. The union is calling for an additional backup pilot to be added to flights lasting 8 hours or more, a more transparent system of promotion, a year-end bonus and other concessions. The airline has said it is willing to continue negotiations

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Pilots from Taiwan’s China Airlines went on strike during the Lunar New Year travel rush Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, in Taiwan, forcing the cancellation of 18 flights. (AP Photo/Jerome Favre, File)

but that the union’s demands in talks are different from those it makes in public, according to Taiwan’s official Central News Agency. The airline said on its website that 18 flights had been canceled, including those bound for Hong Kong, Bangkok, Los Angeles, Manila and Tokyo. Earlier reports said 26 flights were expected to be canceled and the number of cancellations is expected to rise if the strike drags on. “We deeply apologize to all the customers for any inconvenience about the pilots’ strike,” CAL said on its

Facebook page. “Most colleagues in China Airlines still stay at their position and provide the best flight service.” The strike led to chaotic scenes at Taiwan’s three main airports as angry passengers demanded answers from airline staff. The Lunar New Year is Taiwan’s busiest travel period, with thousands flying home to island or taking trips abroad. CNA said a one-day strike of the airline’s flight attendants in 2016 forced 76 flights to be canceled. Founded in 1959, China Airlines is one of the island’s two largest carriers with a fleet of 88 aircraft.

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A few times in a lifetime you get the chance to say “I was there”

How else to grab a coffee.

Well, many of us felt that way last Sunday at the Pattaya Expats Club when Jerry Limb gave his first ever public talk “Out on a Limb”. He admitted after that he was nervous as hell, and was shaking much of the way through - but no one noticed as the power of his story spoke for itself. Many people came away saying it was the most inspiring presentation they had ever seen. Jerry Limb was one of 100,000 babies born between 1957 and 1962 with the effects of thalidomide. Of those, only about 10,000 survived beyond birth and of

With such a start anyone might expect his story and talk to be pretty depressing ... on the contrary — it was a totally uplifting talk that is a tribute to the human spirit and the ability to use what you’ve got rather than complain about what you haven’t. During his life Jerry Limb has achieved so many things that one would say were impossible. He has driven fast cars at 165 mph, without getting nabbed by the cops! He passed the driving test using a specially adapted Mini in which he could use his feet to steer, but normally he simply uses his feet

directly on the steering wheel. He paints and draws to a professional standard — using his mouth and feet: this does take him longer than other artists — in one case, four months to finish one painting. He is a black belt in Karate, of which his dad was supremely proud, and he passed his Royal Yacht Association exam, which included having to demonstrate the ‘man overboard’ life-saving ability and tying bowline knots with his toes. His dream was to ride a motor bike so he had one made with handlebars extended to his upper body. There is a

response he got from the audience and her face was a picture of the pride and love that was in all of us. His talk gave all of us the opportunity to see how powerful and inspiring the essence of us can be — how by playing big in life we get the best rewards. I have known Jerry for 20 years, but not well until the last few weeks in Pattaya when I had the privilege to read his upcoming autobiographical book “Out on a Limb”, and to spend lots of laugh time with him and Michelle. Equally as amazing as what he mentioned in the talk, is what he left out — glossing

Jerry in action.

Jerry addresses the PCEC. Many people came away saying it was the most inspiring presentation they had ever seen.

those 10,000, there are only just over 450 still alive. Jerry was told over 40 years ago that he had a life expectancy of just 7 years. Thalidomide was an antimorning sickness drug that resulted in terrible deformities in the foetus. Every part of the body and its organs could be affected. In Jerry’s particular case it resulted in him having no arms. When his Dad saw him for the first time after he was born, he fainted. The compensation originally paid out in a shameful agreement with the UK government was just £7000! This was in the sixties, so it would be equivalent to only about £120,000 today. The parents were pressured into signing a permanent waiver for the future.

video of Jerry shooting along on his motor bike, with that trademark smile and his gold front tooth flashing defiance to anyone who thought he could never do it. Jerry has children and grandchildren, whose nappies he would change with his toes and who he would pick up to carry in his teeth. Animals and children have a natural sense of affinity with Jerry and they instinctively adapt their behaviour to the fact he has no arms. Dogs brush up to his feet for a stroke and babies hang on round his neck or stay perfectly still to have their nappies changed. Jerry ‘s beautiful girlfriend Michelle was there to see the

Jerry, Michelle and friends.

over enormous achievements in a single phrase, and there is not an ounce of self pity in the man. Be pleased if you were there on that Sunday. I believe that when the book comes out, and he gets out there to speak to more audiences, Jerry Limb will take the spotlight as an inspiration to millions. He has achieved nearly everything else, so who says he cannot star as himself in a Hollywood film? Nothing surprises me about the courage, spirit and abilities of Jerry Limb: he is a celebration of life and we should all be proud to call him our friend and inspiration.

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Staying in tune Tuning an orchestral instrument is an unwelcome chore for every musician who plays one. You might reasonably ask why tuning is necessary, because you could argue, the instrument should be in tune anyway. If only that were true! The problem is that the pitch of most musical instruments drifts with temperature, humidity and other environmental factors. Although modern concert halls are kept at a constant temperature musicians bring their instruments from home. On the way to work, the instruments are exposed to jolting or vehicle vibrations and possibly extreme outside temperatures. By the time they arrive at the concert hall, they’ll need tuning again, especially stringed instruments which are drastically affected by movement and temperature. The pitch of stringed instruments is determined by the tension of the strings and the tuning mechanism tends to slip especially when they are carried around. In lower temperatures stringed instruments become “sharper” which means that their pitch goes up. Trombones and trumpets tend to stay in tune more accurately but they too

Henri Vieuxtemps is shown in this sketch by Marie-Alexandre Alophe.

are affected by atmospheric changes. As brass instruments warm up, their pitch goes down because the metal expands. Although the change is microscopic, it’s enough to make a difference. As you might expect, larger instruments are affected more than smaller ones. This is why an orchestra often retunes during a concert. Some woodwind instruments are dismantled before they’re put in their case and have to be reassembled before use. They are built in such a way that small adjustments can be made to the tuning and these must be checked every time before playing. Harps are notorious for going out of tune with the result that harpists usually

spend more time tuning their instruments than actually playing them. There’s an old joke among musicians which asks, “How long does it take to tune a harp?” The answer is that nobody knows. Musical instruments are tuned to a precise pitch. These days it is pretty well standard at 440 vibrations per second usually written as 440 Hz (Hertz). In musical terms it’s the note “A” six notes above “middle C” on a keyboard and it’s the note an oboe plays at the start of a concert. In the past, the note was obtained by striking a tuning fork but today a digital device or a Smartphone is more common. The pitch has fluctuated over the years though some ensembles especially those that use historical instruments - often tune to a different pitch.

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621): Suite from Terpsichore. Voices of Music (Duration: 10:01; Video 2160p UHD) Michael Praetorius was a versatile German composer and considered the greatest musical academic of his day. He had the distinction of being born on 15th February

and dying on the same day of the month, fifty years later. He was a successful writer of choral music but in 1612, he published a massive volume containing more than three hundred popular instrumental dances most of which come from the French dance repertoire. In keeping with Renaissance taste for classical themes it was entitled “Terpsichore” (it rhymes with “hickory”) referring to the Greek goddess of dance. In the introductory notes, Praetorius states with touching modesty that he merely arranged the pieces but didn’t compose them. They’re mostly French court dances though Praetorius also included some Spanish and English dances. The dances are all quite short and thus began the performance custom of stringing two or three numbers together to make a more substantial piece. Although popular in the early seventeenth century the music fell into obscurity for years until the Renaissance revival of the 1960s. If you enjoy these charming dances, plenty of others can be found on YouTube.

‘Stalker’ by Lars Kepler is a wild ride Jonathan Elderfield When the lead detective in a crime novel is introduced as an expert on “serial killers, spree killers, and stalkers,” you know you’re in for a rough ride. And when you read the descriptions of the killings in the early chapters of “Stalker,” you’ll feel like you’re plunging down the first steep descent on a roller coaster — you’ll want to scream with abject terror. The beginning of the new book from husband-and- wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, writing as Lars Kepler, was as gripping as it was disturbing. Police in the Swedish National Criminal Investigation Department receive a link to a short YouTube video showing a woman in her bedroom, putting on a pair of black tights, filmed secretly from the outside. Soon after, the woman is found murdered, her face mutilated by multiple stab wounds in a horrific attack. When a second video is received, Detective Margot Silverman knows a serial killer is on the loose. The accounts of the killings are very explicit, written in vivid, sickening detail, and the first chapters felt excessively

graphic. Once the hunt for the killer begins in earnest, I was happy to leave the horror of the early murders behind. Silverman enlists a hypnotist and psychiatrist, Erik Maria Bark, to help unlock the mystery, and Detective Joona Linna (from previous Lars Kepler novels) returns to play a starring role. Bark tries to discover clues to the killer’s identity by hypnotizing a brain-damaged ex-priest who had been imprisoned for a crime similar in nature to the newest stalker-video-murders. Bark scours the broken memories of the ex-priest, wondering if he had an accomplice or if he didn’t in fact commit the earlier crime and the killer has been on the loose the entire time. As “Stalker” unfolds, you’ll encounter false leads, angry thugs, a drug den, closely kept secrets, jealous co-workers and improbable escapes. It’s a wild ride as the killer hunts for victims and the police pursue the stalker. The fast-paced chapters and devious plot twists left me hypnotized and eager to find the stalker’s identity. Now, I might just want to be hypnotized to have the images of the murders purged from my memory. (AP)

Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881): Violin Concerto No 5 in A minor, Op 37. Nikita Borisoglebsky (vln), Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra cond. Clemens Schuldt (Duration: 20:33; Video: 720p HD) You’d be forgiven for not immediately recognizing the name of this composer, whose birthday also falls on this weekend. Vieuxtemps was born in the Belgian town of Verviers which at the time was part of Holland. He gave his first violin concerto performance at the age of six

and became one of the leading violinists of the nineteenth century. He composed seven concertos for the violin for which he is best-known. Vieuxtemps completed this attractive work in 1859 and it was published a couple of years later. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Vieuxtemps never indulged in musical fireworks just for the sake of it. Although he was technically brilliant himself, sheer virtuosity for its own sake was not his thing. In some ways, this three-movement concerto is quite conservative but it’s none the worse for that and has some lovely melodies and many magic moments.

To watch these YouTube videos, either use your Smartphone to read the QR codes or go to this article online, click on the “live” links and go direct to the videos. If you have a laptop, sound quality can be improved significantly by using headphones or external speakers.

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Rap artists and women take center stage at Grammy Awards David Bauder Los Angeles (AP) — Rap artists and women have felt shunned by the Grammy Awards in recent years. But this year, they both took center stage. Childish Gambino’s disturbing look at race relations, “This is America,” won record and song of the year on last Sunday’s telecast. It was the first time a rap-based song won both of those awards, considered — with album of the year — the recording industry’s most prestigious.

Kacey Musgraves won top album and matched Childish Gambino with four Grammys total. A year after many women felt left out of the Grammy telecast, they delivered the night’s most memorable performances. The best new artist winner, British singer Dua Lipa, also cast major shade on the outgoing recording academy president. Lady Gaga and Brandi Carlile won three Grammys apiece, and former first lady Michelle Obama was a surprise guest at the top of the show on CBS.

Cardi B (left) accepts the award for best rap album for “Invasion of Privacy” as Offset looks on at the 61st annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 10, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Childish Gambino, the stage name of actor Donald Glover, and another prominent rap nominee, Kendrick Lamar, both declined invitations to perform or attend Sunday’s show. Some rap

artists feel the Grammys have been slow to recognize how the genre now dominates popular music. Ludwig Goransson, a songwriter and producer on “This is America,” said

backstage that he was surprised the victories were so historic. Just listening to the radio, watching the culture and seeing how many rap songs are downloaded is evidence of rap’s impact. “It’s about time something like this happened with the Grammys as well,” Goransson said. Cardi B became the first solo woman to win best rap album, although Lauryn Hill was the lead singer of the Fugees, which won the same award at the 1997 Grammys. Dolly Parton starred in the best of the night’s two tributes to veteran artists, performing a medley of her songs with Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Maren Morris. The highlight of Diana Ross’ night was the cute introduction by a grandson with a mountain of hair. The Grammys took some online blowback by having Jennifer Lopez deliver a tribute

to Motown, once the nation’s preeminent label for black artists. Despite her hustle, Lopez was outshone by show host Alicia Keys and Smokey Robinson delivering one verse of “Tracks of My Tears” a capella. Obama appeared on the show’s opening with Keys, Gaga, Lopez and Jada Pinkett Smith to describe the role music had played in their lives — seemingly a pointed reference to last year’s controversy over women artists. “Music has always helped me tell my story,” Obama said. “Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share ourselves. It allows us to hear one another.” Another ex-White House resident was awarded a Grammy on Sunday. Former President Jimmy Carter, who is 94, won an award for best spoken word recording. It’s his second Grammy.

Screen legend Albert Finney dies at 82 Gregory Katz London (AP) — Albert Finney, one of the most respected and versatile actors of his generation and the star of films as diverse as “Tom Jones” and “Skyfall,” died last week. He was 82. From his early days as a strikingly handsome and magnetic screen presence to his closing acts as a brilliant character actor, Finney was a British treasure known for charismatic work on both stage and screen. Finney’s family said he “passed away peacefully after a short illness with those closest to him by his side.” He died Thursday, Feb. 7 from a chest infection at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, a cancer treatment center. Finney burst to international fame in 1963 in the title role of “Tom Jones,” playing a lusty, humorous rogue who captivated audiences with his charming, devilmay-care antics. He excelled in many other roles, including “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning”,

a 1960 drama that was part of the “angry young man” film trend. Finney was a rare star who managed to avoid the Hollywood limelight despite more than five decades of worldwide fame. He was known for skipping awards ceremonies, even when he was nominated for an Oscar. “Tom Jones” gained him the first of five Oscar nominations. Other nominations followed for “Murder on the Orient Express,” ‘’The Dresser,” ‘’Under the Volcano” and “Erin Brockovich.” Each time he fell short. In later years he brought authority to bid-budget and high-grossing action movies, including the James Bond thriller “Skyfall” and two of the Bourne films. He also won hearts as Daddy Warbucks in “Annie.” He played an array of roles, including Winston Churchill, Pope John Paul II, a southern American lawyer, and an Irish gangster. There was no “Albert Finney”-type character that he returned to again and again.

In this Jan. 15, 1970 file photo, British actor Albert Finney waves his cane while playing the title role in “Scrooge,” at Shepperton Studios. (AP Photo/R. Dear)

In one of his final roles, as the gruff Scotsman, Kincade, in “Skyfall,” he shared significant screen time with Daniel Craig as Bond and Judi Dench as M, turning the film’s final scenes into a master class of character acting. “The world has lost a giant,” Craig said. Although Finney rarely discussed his personal life, he said in 2012 that he had been treated for kidney

cancer for five years. He also explained why he had not attended the Academy Awards in Los Angeles even when he was nominated for the film world’s top prize. “It seems silly to go over there and beg for an award,” he said. The actor also maintained a healthy skepticism about the British establishment and turned down a knighthood when it was offered,

declining to become Sir Albert. “Maybe people in America think being a ‘Sir’ is a big deal,” he said. “But I think we should all be misters together. I think the ‘Sir’ thing slightly perpetuates one of our diseases in England, which is snobbery.” Instead of cashing in by taking lucrative film roles after “Tom Jones,” Finney took a long sabbatical, traveling slowly through the United States, Mexico and the Pacific islands, then returned to the London stage to act in Shakespeare productions and other plays. He won wide acclaim before returning to film in 1967 to costar with Audrey Hepburn in “Two for the Road.” This was to be a familiar pattern, with Finney alternating between film work and stage productions in London and New York. Finney tackled Charles Dickens in “Scrooge” in 1970, then played Agatha Christie’s sophisticated sleuth Hercule Poirot in “Murder on the Orient Express” — earning his second Best Actor

nomination— and even played a werewolf hunter in the cult film “Wolfen” in 1981. Even during his extraordinary run of great roles, Finney’s life was not chronicled in People or other magazines, although the British press was fascinated with his marriage to the sultry French film star Anouk Aimee. He played in a series of smaller, independent films for a number of years before returning to prominence in 2000 as a southern lawyer in the film “Erin Brockovich,” which starred Julia Roberts. The film helped introduce Finney to a new generation of moviegoers, and the chemistry between the aging lawyer and his young, aggressive assistant earned him yet another Oscar nomination, this time for Best Supporting Actor. His work also helped propel Roberts to her first Best Actress Oscar. Still, Finney declined to attend the Academy Awards ceremony — possibly damaging his chances at future wins by snubbing Hollywood’s elite.

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John Eddie: ‘Who the Hell is John Eddie?’

mott@pattayamail.com Who the Hell is John Eddie? Well, let old Mott the Dog tell you. John Eddie is a rocker from New Jersey, very much in the mould of Bruce Springstein, John Cougar, or Jon Bon Jovi, who is definitely over the age of forty and has written the ultimate road album. …and here it is for your perusal. John Eddie spent the first twenty years of his life trying to be a rock icon. He was always respected in the music business but his partying lifestyle was one of legend and always left him with a bad boy reputation to

live down. However, it was his rock & roll contemporaries who went on to fame and fortune, playing to the large stadiums while Eddie has yet to make that final step. But I can comfortably predict that this album will change all that. Eddie has surrounded himself with a bunch of his mates to form a band who fortunately include some of the finest musicians that are available in the United States of America. Like any road dog, Eddie has had his ups and downs, kicks, scrapes, and formed views on other beings that have crossed his life. So that’s what you get in the songs; a potted history of life, sometimes uplifting, sometimes depressing, or full of sorrow, or just good old outrageously funny. Stretched over the twelve songs on this album you run the full gamut of all these emotions.

The guitars are played by Kenny Vaughn and PK Lavengood, sometimes belting out the licks and at other times laying down sympathetic simple chords to add emotion to Eddie’s thoughts. Jim Dickson does a wonderful job with the keyboard arrangements, keeping it simple while not leaving any holes, and Kenny Aronoff puts the

backbone into all the rhythms, whilst on bass guitar is the wonderful Kenny Aaronson, all long sideburns, shades and violently colored jackets who adds his own distinctive style to proceedings. Welcome to the world according to John Eddie, sometimes interesting, always controversial, heartbreaking if he wants to be, and very irreverent. However, you cannot help but forgive a guy

John Eddie.

who has written two songs such as “Forty” (although this song was written in 2003 and John admits to being 43 in the song, maybe on the reissue it should be called “Sixty”) and “Play Some Skynyrd” - the latter being a

wonderful anthem to any band that has ever been heckled from a loudmouth in the crowd to play something he knows rather than make an effort to listen to something new. “Forty” will put a wry smile on the lips of anybody

who has reached that remarkable milestone (Mott is 329 in dog years, you work it out.) In “Play Some Skynard” you also get the answer to the meaning of life, what more do you want for your buck? Well, actually you do get a bit more. If you leave your CD on play after the last official song it does not take long for you to discover two extra, hidden, un-credited songs tacked onto the end. Album Rating: 5 Stars Track List: If You’re Here When I Get Back Let me Down Hard Jesus Is Coming Family Tree Low Life Everything Place You Go Nobody’s Happy Sh*thole Bar Forty Play Some Skynyrd It Doesn’t Get Better Than This (Plus two bonus tracks) Musicians: John Eddie - vocals and acoustic guitar Kenny Aronoff – drums PK Lavengood – guitar Kenny Vaughn – guitar Jim Dickson – keyboards Kenny Aaronson - bass guitar

Open the vaults: Unpublished Salinger work to be released Hillel Italie New York (AP) — One of the book world’s greatest mysteries is finally ending: J.D. Salinger’s son says previously unpublished work by his late father will be coming out. In comments that appeared recently in The Guardian newspaper, Matt Salinger confirmed longstanding reports that the author of “The Catcher in the Rye” had continued to write decades after he stopped publishing books. He said that he and Salinger’s widow, Colleen, are “going as fast as we can” to prepare the material for release. “He wanted me to pull it together, and because of the scope of the job, he knew it would take a long time,” Salinger said of his father, who died in 2010 and had not published work since the mid-1960s. “This was somebody who was writing for 50 years without publishing, so that’s a lot of material. So there’s not a reluctance or a protectiveness: When it’s ready, we’re going to share it,” he said. Salinger, who helps oversee his father’s literary estate, says any new work might be years away and did not cite any specific titles or plots. He did indicate that

This Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, file photo shows copies of J.D. Salinger’s classic novel “The Catcher in the Rye” as well as his volume of short stories called “Nine Stories” at the Orange Public Library in Orange Village, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

the Glass family made famous in such fiction as “Franny and Zooey” would be seen again. “I feel the pressure to get this done, more than he did,” he said, adding that the unseen work “will definitely disappoint people that he wouldn’t care about, but for real readers - I think it will be tremendously well received by those people and they will be affected in the way every reader hopes to be affected when they open a book. Not changed, necessarily, but something rubs off that can lead to change.” J.D. Salinger published just four books in his lifetime:

“Nine Stories,” ‘’The Catcher in the Rye,” ‘’Franny and Zooey” and a volume with the two novellas “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.” The last work to come out in his lifetime was the story “Hapworth 16, 1924,” which appeared in The New Yorker in 1965. Salinger rarely spoke to the media and not only stopped releasing new work but rejected any reissues or ebook editions of his published material. This year marks the centennial of his birth and signs of a new openness emerged in 2018 when his estate permitted

new covers and a boxed edition of his old fiction to come out for the 100th anniversary. A Salinger exhibit is planned later this year at the New York Public Library, and other promotional events are in the works. Over the past half-century, rumors and speculation intensified over if any new books existed and if they were of publishable quality. A former lover, Joyce Maynard, and Salinger’s daughter, Margaret, have both contended that the author continued to write books, allegedly stored in a vault in the author’s home in Cornish, New Hampshire. A 2013 documentary and book by Shane Salerno and David Shields cited two “independent and separate sources” in predicting five new works. One of the Salinger books would center on “Catcher” protagonist Holden Caulfield and his family. Others would draw on Salinger’s World War II years and his immersion in Eastern religion. Matt Salinger has dismissed the contents of the Salerno-Shields project, but never definitively said that no new work would appear. Salerno wrote in an email to The Associated Press that “it was always his (J.D. Salinger’s)

intention — and specific direction — to have his work published after his death.” “I’m thrilled that Salinger fans around the world will finally get to see this important

work from one of America’s finest writers,” Salerno added. “As the stories roll out over the years, I think you will find that all of our reporting was correct.”

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Cobra Gold 19: US Army Reservist

U.S., Indian, and Royal Thai service members and students at the Ban Wang Mai Daeng School participate in a group push-up activity during Cobra Gold 19 at Ban Wang Mai Daeng School, Chanthaburi, Feb. 6, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

U.S. Navy 1st Lt. Pamela Foss teaches students from the Ban Man Kroi School about nutrition during exercise Cobra Gold 19 at Ban Man Kroi School, Rayong, Feb. 5, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

U.S. Navy service members and students from the Ban Man Kroi School play soccer together during exercise Cobra Gold 19 at Ban Man Kroi School, Rayong, Feb. 5, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

Staff Sgt. Ron Keenan U.S. Army Pacific Public Affairs Office U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Antonio Martinez smiles as he lifts two playful elementary school students into the air at the Ban Wang Mai Daeng School in Chanthaburi Provence, Thailand. Curious students gather around Martinez, a towering figure at 6 feet 3 inches, to get a closer view. Martinez is here to build relationships with the community, but he didn’t expect to make a few friends along the way. Martinez, a U.S. military civil affairs non-commissioned officer assigned to the 416th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) in San Diego, is participating in Cobra

Gold 19, a Thai-U.S. co-sponsored exercise that represents the longstanding friendship in the region between the Thai and American people. A native of San Diego, Martinez has traveled more than 8,000 miles to participate in this exercise. His team is spending one month in Thailand meeting with local officials, educators and visiting key infrastructure sites. “We are here to build community relations between the United States and the Thai people,” said Martinez. “My team is overseeing a site project where Navy Seabees are building more class-rooms for a school.” For many of the Thai students, Cobra Gold was the first time they have met with Americans in the military. Natthawut Deeman, a

13-year-old seventh grader at the school explained that he didn’t know that American service members did projects like building schools in other countries. Fourteen-year-old Kanyanut Tantod lives less than a kilometer from the school and wants to be a nurse when she grows up. Tantod met U.S. service members prior to the exercise while they were conducting the initial site surveys. “They are so kind and generous,” said Tantod. “I’m excited and grateful for the military to be here and build this.” Martinez says it is these kinds of projects that encouraged him to join the Army Reserve and pursue a career in civil affairs. In his civilian job, Martinez is an emergency medical technician, but he says the

U.S. and Royal Thai service members and students from the Ban Man Kroi School come together for a group photo during exercise Cobra Gold 19 at Ban Man Kroi School, Rayong, Feb. 5, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

Students from the Ban Man Kroi School enjoy items given to them by U.S. service members during exercise Cobra Gold 19. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

U.S. and Royal Thai service members along with staff and students from the Ban Man Kroi School come together for a group photo during exercise Cobra Gold 19. The students were excited to receive new backpacks from U.S. service members. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

U.S. Marines greet students during a cooperative health engagement event as part of exercise Cobra Gold 19 at Ban Wang Mai Daeng School, Chanthaburi, Feb. 6, 2019. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

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st builds friendships at Thai school skill set he uses in his civilian career directly enhances his job in the military. “In a nutshell you’re a caretaker, you’re nurturing, you’re helping people,” he explained. In a few weeks, Martinez will return home with the other soldiers from his unit. They won’t work together in uniform for another month, but he says he’ll never forget the lessons he learned in Thailand and the contributions he believes his team has made. “You definitely get that warm and fuzzy when you see a little kid looking up to

you and saying ‘pick me up,’” he said. “You would look at it like they may not have much in comparison to the United States, but they would give you the shirt off their back.” Exercise Cobra Gold 19 participants also did community service work at Ban Man Kroi School in Rayong. Exercise Cobra Gold 19 emphasizes coordination on civic action, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief events, developing interoperability and unity of action in crisis contingencies.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Autumn Williams, Left, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Jamarcus Bell, Right, help hand out backpacks to the students from the Ban Man Kroi School during exercise Cobra Gold 19 at Ban Man Kroi School, Rayong. Williams, a native of Poca, West Virginia and Bell, a native of Orlando, Florida are builders with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez.)

Sgt. Antonio Martinez, US Army reservist assigned to the 416th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne), plays with two Thai school children at Ban Wang Mai Daeng School during Cobra Gold 19. (U.S. Navy photo by Lieutenant Junior Grade Travis Weger)

Blind property tycoons Derek Franklin

He won $100 in a beauty contest.

Learning to make key rings.

Making new friends.

It is estimated that since its creation in 1935, more than two hundred and fifty million games of Monopoly have been sold. It is a game of skill and patience, with the longest games taking seventy days to complete. It is also a game that has been the cause of disappointment and many family arguments, and yet more than two hundred and fifty million sets of Monopoly have been sold and it is estimated that a billion people have played the game. Originating in the U.S.A., the game became popular in the United Kingdom when the names were changed from streets in New York to those in London. The students and teachers at the Pattaya School for the Blind recently got to play the game for the very first time, thanks to a group of blind young adults, together with their helpers, who visited Pattaya from the Blatchington Care Trust in Brighton, England.

They had spent a few days getting to know the local Thai students, making new friends and learning new skills. On the final day of the visit the local students were teaching the visitors the art of beading and making saleable gifts by using beads. Then one of the teachers produced a box of Monopoly, specially designed for the blind and visually impaired. The design was the same, streets, avenues and railway stations all in the same place. Chance and Community Chest cards were in Braille, as was the information on all the property cards. The board had raised edges around each location, which was written in Braille for the players to read. Khun Chid, Principal of the Pattaya school, was having a great time, buying property, collecting rent and even winning $100 at a beauty contest, but with the highs come the lows, and it wasn’t long before he realised being a property tycoon does have its downsides.

The cards are bigger and with Braille for easy reading.

New property owner.

No one raised their voice in anger.

The blind teaching the blind.

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South Koreans tee-off at Pattana Golf Club & Resort

Australian reunion at Yupins

Representatives of the Gangwon F.C., K League Classic from South Korea were guests at the at Pattana Golf Club & Resort recently where they were greeted by Eakgapon Poyprakon, Commercial Sports Director who presented them with gifts to mark their visit.

Alan and Denise Hollibone flew in from Australia to visit their friends Barry and Jang Pething and what a better place to celebrate their reunion than having a lovely dinner and exquisite wines at Yupins Restaurant in Jomtien Complex.

Pigeon auction and race at the Royal Cliff Beach Hotels Group

Panga Vathanakul (left), MD of Royal Cliff Hotels Group, and General Manager Prem Calais greet Dhanin Chearavanont (centre), Chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group who attended the world class event.

Dusit Thani Pattaya receives G-Green environment award

Top ranked pigeons were auctioned off for top dollar.

The Racing Pigeon International Association (RPIA) Pattaya held their awards presentation ceremony and the Pattaya International Pigeon Race (PIPR) Auctions 2019 at the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel recently. 3230 pigeons from 27 nations competed in the races, the main ones being the 330 km race from Buayai District in Nakhon Ratchasima, the 430 km race from Khon Kaen and the 530 km race from Udon Thani. Prizes for the winners were worth more than 25 million baht plus a brand new luxury car.

Children’ Day activities at Bangkok Hospital Pattaya

At an event held recently by the Department of Environmental Quality Promotion, Larry Choi, Executive Assistant Manager of the Dusit Thani Pattaya received the “G-Green Emblem Award - Gold Class” from General Surasak Kanchanarat, the Minister of Natural Resources & Environment. The hotel was recognised for passing an evaluation by G-Green to be an environmentally friendly establishment. Dusit Thani Pattaya received the award in the ‘Eco-friendly/Green Hotel’ category.

D Varee Jomtien Beach, Pattaya Blood Donation Drive 2019

The Bangkok Hospital Pattaya organized activities on Children’s Day for young inpatients and invited kids from the surrounding communities to join in the fun. The hospital also donated funds to help organize activities for children in the Ton Krabok, Baan Hua Tung, Photisampan and Nong Tabaek communities.

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D Varee Jomtien Beach, Pattaya with the cooperation of the Queen Savang Vadhana Memorial Hospital at Sriracha organized a blood donation drive recently encouraging staff and guests to donate blood to the Thai Red Cross Society.

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11,950,000 THB o.n.o.; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com Bop01/01-52/ Big Shophouse; located close Sukhumvit Road / Central Road; commercial space 200sqm; 19,950,000 THB o.n.o.; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info @gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com

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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.

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Property for Rent Houses, Villas Prb06/04-08/ 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 Minimum, Bt.9,5000. Monthly, Bt.19,000. Security Deposit. English, 087805-5276 Prb07/52-11/ For Rent: Bt.10,900 Per Month, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 3 A/C, Furnished, Pool, Clean, Beautiful, Soi 53 Nern Plabwan at Soi 45. Tel: 084-351-8254

Condos, Apartments Prc218/42-09/ 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 Prc216/05-09/ Pattaya Beach Rd. Soi 13, Studio, Terrace, Kitchenette, Safe box. Penthouse style, pool. Bt. 13,500. - Tel: 091 504 1806

Property for Sale Houses, Villas Psb34/07/ Pratamnak, 3 bedrooms with en-suite, Euro kitchen, Plus 1-bedroom self-contained apartment, Pool, Quick sale: THB 5, 500,000. Phone: 061 513 0372 or 084 539 1134 Psb33/06-10/ 3-Bedroom House (very nice) 100sqw, Pool, European kitchen, Daikin Air, Close to exit to

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motorway, golf courses, markets, 2 minutes from 300 yard golf driving range, close to entrance, Siam Place: 4.9 million. Contact Lek: 061 536 1126, Sugar Ray: 087-142-9155 Psb32/05-09/ Lake Mabprachan house for Sale: 3 bed, 2 baths pool home. Sale: 3.8 million baht. Tel: 087 802 1018 Psb31/46-08/ House for sale: 1,850,000 Baht. Location in Soi Nernblabwan. Tel: 096 397 9541, Line ID: domicil24, Email: duangpee.domicil @gmail.com Psb29/01-52/ Pool Villa located in Chaiyapruk 2, only 10mins from Pattaya City, land size 52sqw (210sqm), 120sqm, 1 living room, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, fully furnished, 2 TVs, aircondition in all rooms, quiet and peaceful area. THB 4,500,000B, (350), GO PROPERTY THAILAND Tel. 093- 161 5995 (Eng/German), 062 191 7894 (thai), info@gopropertythailand.com Psb28/01-52/ Villa on Pratumnak Hill, 2 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, bathroom with Jacuzzi in master bedroom, 2.5km to Walking Street, only 700 meters from Dongtan Beach, land size 100sqw, living area 170sqm, fully furnished, 3 air-cons, 1 living room with flat TV, European kitchen, alarm system,

private swimming pool, garden, private car park with automatic gate. 12,000,000 THB, (340), GO PROPERTY THAILAND Tel. 093- 161 5995 (Eng/German), 062 191 7894 (Thai), info@goproperty thailand.com Psb27/01-52/ City Villa in the heart of Pattaya; completely renovated; close to 3rd Road / LK Hotel; in walking distance to Soi Buakhao; 120sqm living space; land approx. 150sqm; 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchenette; fully furnished; 2 new Flat TVs; 3 air-cons; big storeroom; garden, carport & parking; NO THROUGH ROAD- very quite; 3,950,000 THB; 092- 753 9309, info@ gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com Psb25/01-52/ Villa located on Pattaya East Side, only 5 min. from Sukhumvit/Thepprasit Road; Land size 760sqm, living space 350sqm; partly furnished; living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, guest toilet; Jacuzzi; European kitchen, security 24/7; private pool; tropical garden; garage; parking; 15,500,000 THB; 092- 753 9309, info@ gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com Psb24/01-52/ Big Villa with 5,200sqm park similar land; located close to Huay Yai

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Road; living space 650sqm; fully furnished; 1 living/dining room; 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, full European kitchen; terraces; WiFi; private pool 10m x 5m; outdoor shower and toilet; small lake with sala; air-con in all rooms; fitness gym; many storerooms; 85sqm office in separate building; alarm; own well; pantry & laundry room; double garage; automatic gate; 3 BBQ’s; the property is completely walled in: 24,950,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com Psb23/01-52/ 3-storey modern “BAUHAUS-Style Villa” and a wooden “Traditional Thai Style house” on 1 Rai of land located in Pratumnak, Pattaya; 360sqm living space on 3 floors with gallery; Thai house has 100sqm living space; short distance to the beach; both properties are partly furnished; open living room over 2 floors; dining room; 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1 kitchen; terraces; WiFi; storage rooms; private parking; 75,000,000 THB; Go Property Thailand; 093 161 5995, info@gopropertythailand.com, www.gopropertythailand.com Psb22/01-52/ Big Villa located in a clean & well maintained Resort in East Pattaya, 12 min drive to

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Condominiums Psc98/03-07/ Porchland Condo Jomtien Owner Sale: One bedroom, 48m2, 8th Floor, high quality. All included. 2.1 Million Baht. Info: 087 138 3523 Psc90/46-08/ Condo for sale: 750,000 Baht. Location in Soi Nernblabwan. Tel: 096 397 9541, Line ID: domicil24, Email: duangpee.domicil @gmail.com Psc79/01-52/ 1-Bedroom condo located on Jomtien Beach, 12th floor, 49sqm, close access to the beach, fully furnished, 1 living room, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom,

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Kubicki scores a double, bags monthly mug PSC Golf from the Tropical Golf Group Tuesday, Feb 5, Khao Kheow – Stableford A-Flight (0-15) 1st Richard Kubicki 37pts 2nd Rob Brown 32pts 3rd Tom Herrington 31pts 4th John Davis 31pts B-Flight (16-25) 1st Graham Buckingham 36pts 2nd Brian Gabe 35pts 3rd Walter Baechli 33pts 4th Dave Cooper 32pts C-Flight (26+) 1st Karen Brown 39pts 2nd Colm Mullen 29pts 3rd Henry Wong 28pts 4th Roland Raeber 26pts This Tuesday the Tropical golfers decided to really test themselves and booked a round at Khao Kheow. Twentysix golfers decided they were up to the challenge, though it would be seen later many were rather optimistic.

Khao Kheow (literally “mountain green” in Thai) is a course that everyone knows to stock up on golf balls before heading out. Course management is at a premium here, and “risk-reward” shots have very few “reward” most times. Playing C then B, the island green was saved for the end. There were some high scores but they dropped off quickly. A generous fourteen of the twenty-six golfers had some cause for cheer however. Special notice goes to Karen Brown who smashed her flight by ten shots, and Richard Kubicki who his by five! If there was an “I missed out on everything” award it would have gone to Carole Kubicki after she was being beaten on 3 countbacks for fourth place in B flight and then lost out in the best front 9 and best back 9 prizes,

Graham Buckingham (from left), Karen Brown and Richard Kubicki.

those being won by Andre Van Dyk and Paul Weatherley.

Friday, Feb. 8, Crystal Bay – Medal Crystal Bay was hot and humid, but a steady breeze kept playing conditions from being too unpleasant. We played the B and C nines, and the greens were in good

Mullen mauls the field PSC Golf from the Growling Swan Monday, Feb. 4, Mt. Shadow Stableford A-Flight 1st Dave Maw (19) 33pts 2nd Keith Buchanan (14) 32pts 3rd Mashi Kaneta (15) 31pts B-Flight 1st Andrew Allen (33) 32pts 2nd Mikito Homma (22) 25pts 3rd Patrick Poussier (28) 24pts Near Pins: Mashi Kaneta, Patrick Poussier, Stu Rifkin, Don Richardson. Long Putts: Patrick Poussier, Keith Buchanan. Twenty golfers came to play Mountain Shadow today and the course seemed to be in good condition with plush fairways, true greens and clean bunkers. But if you ventured from the fairways you could find yourself in deep trouble. We attacked the course from the blue tees and had two flights with three places in each. A Flight saw Dave Maw top the podium with 33 points, hotly pursued by Keith Buchanan who fell one point shy. Third place went to Mashi Kaneta a further point in arrears. B Flight had Andrew ‘Turtle’ Allen take the lollies with 32 points. Second place went to Mikito Homma a full

condition. However the C greens were considerably slower than more reasonable speed of the B nine. The change in green speeds didn’t slow down Richard Kubicki, who must have been able to fine-tune his putting feel to match the conditions. Richard shot a net 70, from his handicap of 11, to win the February monthly mug. We had a total field of 27 players, with sixteen winners,

spread over three flights. In the A flight (0–15) John Davis came first with 74 net from his handicap of eleven, on countback over Brian Parish (H/cap 13). Third was Steve Truelove (10) with 76 net. Fourth and fifth place were decided on countback with Takeshi Hakozaki (12) taking fourth over Landis Brooks (7), both with 77 net. In the B flight (16–22), Andre Van Dyk (17) took first with a net 72, Jadwiga was (21) second with 76, third went to Josef Buchburger’s

(16) net 77, and Dave Cooper (22) and Joe Sparwirth (21) both scored net 79 but the countback went in Dave’s favor. Sadly Carole Kubicki missed out on countback once again. In the C flight (23+), Graham Buckingham (25) took first place with a net 71, Roland Raeber (28) was second on net 73 and Colm Mullen (28) came third with a net 76. Barry Elphick (28) and Karen Brown (30) both tied with 80 net but Barry’s back nine gave him fourth place on countback.

Ford on fire at Pattavia PSC Golf from Siam Country Resort Pattaya

Keith Buchanan (front left) with Colm Mullen. Photo bombing are Casa and Cookie.

7 points behind the leader and third past the post was Patrick Poussier a solitary shot behind Mikito.

Thursday, Feb. 7, King Naga – Stableford 1st Colm Mullen (28) 41pts 2nd Keith Buchanan (14) 37pts 3rd Tony Cook (28) 36pts 4th Alex Field (16) 36pts Near Pins: Denis Steele, Steve Younger, Bill Wilkinson, Keith Buchanan. Long Putts: Steve Younger, Shane Young. The challenge today was King Naga GC, and the course was in good nick and offering quite a bit of run on the fairways which had only just

been mowed. Bunkers were clean but the greens were very misleading - some were on the quick side and some less so. Our numbers dictated that we would be playing one flight only with four places on the podium. Colm Mullen set things alight, returning to form with a great score of 41 points and second was a golfer that is rarely out of the frame, Keith Buchanan, who was four shots behind the winner. Third place went to a three-way countback on 36 points that was won by Tony Cook, leaving Alex Field to take the fourth and final spot on the podium and Dave Maw just missed out.

Stan Rees, Stephen Ford and Neil Harvey.

Tuesday, Feb. 5, Plutaluang Stableford On Tuesday we went to Plutaluang with 4 groups and played the North & West course. It was a nice day and the course was in good condition, but not easy. There were 4 players battling for top spot all the way to the final hole. Ty Andersen had the lead but failed to score on the last green but his challengers were unable to take advantage of his

slip up, giving Ty the win today with 37 points. He was followed home by Stephen Ford on 36 points, he beating Willem Lasonder, and Joop Bijsterbosch on countback. The near pins went to Stan Rees, Ty Anderson and Bob Edwards.

Thursday, Feb. 7, Pattavia Stableford Pattavia was our venue on Thursday where we played the B & C course which was in very good condition with

tricky greens. We had nice weather sun with clouds and not too much wind. It was a day that Stephen Ford won’t forget quickly as he played very consistently with good drives and solid shots to the green. He made 3 birdies and a handful pars to come home with a fabulous 43 points. At a modest distance was Neil Harvey on 35 points and in third was Stan Rees with 33. The near pins were claimed by Bob Edwards and Dave Smith.

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Beavers finds joy at Riverside PSC Golf from the Pattaya Links Golf Society Monday, Feb. 4, Bangpakong Riverside - Stableford A Flight (0-18) 1st Paul Smith (4) 39pts 2nd Huw Phillips (13) 37pts 3rd Tommy Marshall (7) 36pts 4th Maurice Roberts (12) 35pts 5th Takeshi Hakozaki (12) 35pts B Flight (19+) 1st Darren Beavers (20) 43pts 2nd Barry Oats (27) 36pts 3rd Walter Baechli (21) 34pts 4th Bart Bingham (20) 33pts 5th Phil Burton (20) 33pts The society turned out in style at Bangpakong on Monday when ten groups took on the challenge of this glorious course in a stableford competition. The field was divided into two flights at eighteen and under and scores were predictably good. In the top flight Takeshi Hakozaki took fifth place with 35 points, losing on countback to Maurice Roberts, and a point behind third placed golfer Tommy Marshall. In second was Huw Phillips with 37 points but the flight was won by Paul Smith whose gross 73 gave him 39 points. The second flight golfers found the test a little tougher, with one exception. Fifth place went to Phil Burton with 33 points, again losing on countback to Bart Bingham. Third place belonged to Walter Baechli with 34 points

Darren Beavers (center) with Richard Dobson (left) and Jim Ferris.

and senior golfer Barry Oats made amends for his previous round with a fine 36 point return. The winner by a country mile was Darren Beavers with a splendid 43 points. After weeks self doubt with his game everything came good again today and last week’s wig became this week’s Green Jacket. Beavers’ beaming smile could not have been broader. Near pins went to Petur Petursen (4), Pete Seil (7), Lachlan Gotz (13) and Barry Oats (16). The best front nine (non winners) was posted by Colm Lawlor (18 points) and the best back nine (non winners) award going to Soren Hansen with 19 points on countback.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, Treasure Hill Stableford A Flight (0-18) 1st Masa Takano (8) 33pts 2nd Steve Truelove (10) 31pts 3rd Tony Browne (18) 31pts 4th Maurice Roberts (12) 31pts 5th Ray Banks (13) 31pts B Flight (19+) 1st Len Jones (31) 35pts 2nd Mike Tottenham (19) 34pts 3rd Paul Chesney (20) 33pts 4th Darren Beavers (20) 33pts 5th Gordon Loviollette (24) 32pts Treasure Hill is always a tough test and yet one of the most popular venues on the schedule. The course was in excellent condition as always and, with forty golfers in the field, an earlier start than booked was offered

and the group got away safely. Traditionally this course always provides a close competition and there were no less than seven ties for the minor positions, all requiring countbacks to resolve the results. In the top flight Ray Banks came fifth with 31 points, behind Maurice Roberts, Tony Browne and runner-up Steve Truelove, all with the same score. The flight winner was popular Japanese golfer Masa Takano with 33 points. In the second flight Gordon Loviolette lost countbacks for third and fourth, ending up fifth on 33, behind Darren Beavers and the returning Paul Chesney. Second place went to Mike Tottenham with 34 points. The flight

PSC Golf from the Billabong Bar

Monday saw our usual trip to Phoenix Gold where there was some confusion at the start as some caddies were at the temple for the Chinese New year, but finally our 6 groups teed off only ten minutes later than scheduled. The course as usual was in great condition, although some greens were a little slower than of late. As the rest of the world celebrated the start of the Year of the Pig, the Billabong celebrated the day of the dragon, a Welsh dragon that is, as Steve Dodd, straight from the valleys, had a magnificent day in the sun to score of 44 points (including one 2). Second place went to another Welshman, Glyn Davies, with a good score of 39 points and one 2, and the minor podium spots were filled by Peter Davies in third with 37 points and Thiery Petrement fourth on 36.

There were only three 2s, going to Selwyn Wegner, Mark Brosnan and Miss Sasicha.

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Steve Dodd, Nok and Glyn Davies.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, Green Valley – Stableford Today the ladies once again excelled, with Miss Sasicha (H/cap 21) managing to come only third with 38 points, mainly down to some pick me up or other she managed to acquire 22 of those on the last nine holes. Seven pars in her round contributed to 39 points for Miss Porn (21) but she lost out on a countback for top spot to Miss Phin (10) who had 21 points on the way home.

In the men’s flight there were four golfers on 34 points but Mark Brosnan (16) came out on top in the countback to get fourth place. Peter Rooke (10) could only blame his third place on 6 holes with one point on each for a total of 35 points, two behind Jeff North (11) who lost his impetus at the turn with a spell of only 2 points in three holes and second place. Jeff finished just 1 point behind the eventual winner, Mikael Anderson (14) on 38 points.

Friday, Feb. 8, Pleasant Valley Stableford A Flight (0-18) 1st Tony Browne (18) 40pts 2nd Masa Takano (8) 38pts 3rd Tommy Marshall (7) 38pts 4th Ray Banks (13) 38pts 5th Russell Exley (11) 37pts

Tony Browne (center) with Hilary Stoker (left) and Maurice Roberts.

Welshmen on song at Phoenix Monday, Feb. 4, Phoenix Gold – Stableford

winner and recipient of the Green Jacket was Len Jones with the day’s best of 35 points. Near pins went to Derek Phillips (6), Jack ? (13) and Phil Davies (17) with no-one sullying the green on the long second. The best front nine was recorded by David De Caminda (15 points) and Frank Hughes recorded 17 points on the back nine for the other consolation prize.

Burapha was packed with golfers today and we went out to play the Aand B loops, which were in fantastic condition. There were some visitors from France and Germany playing with us, one lady from Germany was 82 years old and her son 62 and both had a great day out. There was a countback between five golfers on 35 points with Thiery Petrement taking fourth place with 19 points on the back nine, third went to Steve Dodd with 20 on the inward half, but Auke Engkles, with 22 points on the homeward stretch took second spot. There was a runaway winner by a whopping 10 points in the form of Brian Orr who had his own day in the sun, scoring a fantastic 45 points. There six 2s, coming from Steve Earey, Noddy Moyle, Dougie Crowe, Stephan and Brian Orr had 2.

B Flight (19+) 1st Stuart Kidd (20) 38pts 2nd Len Jones (31) 37pts 3rd Alan Walker (28) 36pts 4th Panda Aree (26) 34pts 5th Tip Briney (27) 32pts

The society visited Pleasant Valley on Friday to play a stableford competition on a course which was in reasonable condition but with greens which were variable in pace on the back nine. Scores were close in both flights and the second division saw US golfer, Tip Briney, post 32 points for fifth place, a couple behind Thai lady golfer Panda Aree in fourth with 34. A level par round by senior golfer Alan Walker nudged him into third place, one behind Wednesday’s winner Len Jones on 37 points. The flight was won by Stuart Kidd with 38 points. The top flight was just as tight with Russell Exley taking fifth place with 37 points, on countback from Phil Davies. Three golfers vied for the other minor places with 38 points, countbacks placing Ray Banks in fourth place behind Tommy Marshall and Masa Takano. Poor Masa, “bridesmaid” again! The flight winner and Green Jacket recipient was Friday Man Tony Browne who followed his previous week’s forty points at Pattavia with another forty points haul this week. Near pins went to Chris Barker (5), Tommy Marshall (8), Ray Banks (13) and Masa Takano (17) The best front nine ( non winners) was reserved for Phil Davies’ 22 points, David De Caminada holding the best back nine award with 27 points, after countback.

Plant & Hoddy take the spoils PSC Golf from the Kull Bar Tuesday, Feb. 5, Green Valley – Stableford

Thursday, Feb. 7, Green Valley – Stableford

1st Steve Plant 34pts 2nd Colin Simpson 31pts 3rd Ben Plant 29pts 4th Tim Knight 28pts A somewhat depleted field due to various tours being conducted made the trip to Green Valley. The course conditions were good and there was a cooling breeze which helped considerably. With the absence of any 2s four prize places were up for grabs and Steve Plant laid claim to the top spot with his 34 points.

1st John Hoddy 34pts 2nd Steve Plant 32pts 3rd Ben Plant 29pts 4th Tim Knight 28pts An experiment was carried out by booking a midday time and although we started in the heat, towards the end the temperature had significantly cooled making the last 6 holes very enjoyable. John Hoddy posted 34 points to take top spot ahead of Tuesday’s winner Steve Plant. Ben Plant and Tim Knight completed the podium in second and third respectively.

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Raleigh’s Raiders bag the loot PSC Golf from The Bunker Boys Monday, Feb. 4, Pattavia – Stableford 1st Steve Durey (21) 40pts 2nd Tim Winder (23) 35pts 3rd Roger Touhy (12) 35pts 4th Neil Carter (12) 34pts 5th Tony Robbins (21) 34pts 6th Peter Kelly (12) 33pts A good field of twenty-five golfers assembled for today’s game at Pattavia. Curiously, the greens which are normally very quick were slow today and it wasn’t because they had been overwatered, maybe they needed mowing a bit more closely. During the round, Daryl Vernon had four 4-pointers but that was bettered by the day’s winner Steve Durey who had a remarkable five 4-pointers, quite a tremendous feat. Steve ended on forty points whilst Daryl didn’t figure in the winner’s circle. Tim Winder took second place with thirtyfive points while Roger Touhy also shot thirty-five and took third on countback. Neil Carter placed fourth with thirty-four points, Tony Robbins was fifth on the same score and Peter Kelly rounded out the scoring with thirty-three. Near pins went to Geoff Parker, Ian Rattray, Ken Elmore, and Jimmy Carr.

Steve Durey.

Raleigh’s Raiders.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, Khao Kheow A & B – Memorial Trophy/ Stableford Individual 1st Soren H ansen 41pts 2nd Peter Kelly 40pts 3rd Bart Bingham 40pts Team 1st Raleigh’s Raiders 119pts 2nd Travelers Rest 119pts 3rd Colins Cohorts 114pts One hundred & thirty-five golfers took part in the fifth annual memorial competition held at the Khao Kheow A and B courses in remembrance of those golfers no

longer amongst us. Sixteen generous sponsors provided thirty-six technical prizes with one on offer on each hole for each flight. In addition, the Bunker Boys provided beautiful crystal glass trophies for the first three individual highest scores and the top three teams, as well as an assortment of other golf-related prizes, golf balls, umbrellas, towels etc. This competition continues to grow in popularity each year, and for that we are indebted to Geoff Parker, Colin Greig, and Neil Carter

for their tireless efforts to make the day run smoothly. The post-match dinner and presentation of prizes were held at the Robin Hood where a good night was had by all. Raleigh Gosney’s team took out the major prize, a team that included two holidaymakers (a Canadian husband and wife team) plus Guey the pro from Kabin Buri. Second went to Travellers Rest, a team that included the individual winner Soren Hansen, while third went to Colin’s Cohorts not surprisingly from Colin’s Bar.

Peter Kelly shone in the individual taking second place with Bart Bingham in third. Technical prize winners were too numerous to mention, however, one deserves a special mention. Keith Norman on his last hole promised to do something very special for his playing partners if he managed to sink a forty-foot swinging right to left putt. Remarkably he managed to nail it and was somewhat disappointed when his playing partners declined his generous offer!

Friday, Feb. 8, King Naga – Medal 1st Keith Norman (12) net 72 2nd Robby Watts (9) net 73 3rd Keith Hemmings (21) net 76 4th Tim Winder (23) net 76

5th Colin Greig (10) net 76 The week’s golf ended with twenty-one golfers playing the medal round of the month at King Naga. This course is generally seen as the best layout in Pattaya and would flourish if better maintained. Keith Norman bounced back to his best form and took first place with a round of seventy-two, followed closely in second place by Robby Watts one point adrift. Three players; Keith Hemmings, Tim Winder and Colin Greig all finished on net seventy-six and were placed in that order on countback. Daryl Vernon is becoming a near pin expert and claimed one today along with Robby Watts and Keith Norman, the latter who bagged two. Great news for all Bunker Boys, we have found a new home. Our new venue is Woody’s Bar in Soi Skaw Beach midway between 2nd Road and Soi Buakhao behind Treetown. This is an excellent venue, centrally located with ample free parking. Lockers are available upstairs. Our first game out of our new home will be on Monday the 18th of February.

Soren flies the flag for TRGG Traveller’s Rest Golf Group Monday, Feb. 4, The Emerald – Stableford Division 1 1st Ted Senior (15) 37pts 2nd Roger Wilkinson (15) 35pts 3rd Stefan Nyberg (2) 33pts Division 2 1st Saito Toshikatsu (24) 37pts 2nd John Baxter (17) 36pts 3rd Lee Sung-Bok (30) 35pts We start the week at Emerald where in division one two local lads, Roger and Ted went head to head in an attempt to claim the first of the week’s prizes. After turning with only one point between them, the cream (as Ted put it) rose to the top and a delighted “Father Ted Senior” finished the round with 37 points to emerge victorious. In division two it was also a close finish but having posted twenty points on the front nine John Baxter ran out of

steam and Saito Toshikatsu left him standing as he romped home with twenty one on the back nine to beat the flailing Baxter by a single point.

Tuesday, Feb. 5, Green Valley – Stableford Division 1 1st Paul West (13) 40pts 2nd Neil Wilkinson (13) 39pts 3rd Andy Kelleher (14) 36pts Division 2 1st Gerry Myers (15) 38pts 2nd Mike Lam (24) 34pts 3rd Lee Sung-Bok(30) 33pts Paul West, a member at Green Valley, took full advantage of his local knowledge today and posted twenty two points on the back nine to finish the day with a solid round of 40 points to fend off the strong finishing Neil Wilkinson. In division two Gerry Myers was having a day out on the

Soren Hansen.

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front nine, amassing an amazing twenty three points but didn’t turn up on the home run, scoring a measly fifteen points. However, unbeknownst to him his 38 points was more than enough to leave the opposition trailing well behind.

Hansen took out first place in the individual singles category, beating over 120 players to win this prestigious trophy. Soren who played the B & A courses also picked up the number one position in the TRGG’s daily stableford competition with an unbeatable 41 points to edge out his nearest rival and playing partner Bart Bingham. Meanwhile over on B & A course a young lady was giving the men a lesson in how to play golf. Nit Noi (little) by name was by no means overawed by the occasion and stood tall as she strode to the podium to collect her prize.

Wednesday, Feb. 6, Khao Kheow – Stableford B & A course 1st Soren Hansen (18) 41pts 2nd Bart Bingham (20) 40pts 3rd Stefan Nyberg (2) 36pts A & B course 1st Nit Noi (8) 40pts 2nd Paul Colfar (03) 36pts 3rd Paul Smith (04) 36pts Today we took part in the 5th annual Bunker Boy’s Memorial Challenge and Soren

Thursday, Feb. 7, Phoenix – Stableford Division 1 1st Greg Vink (11) 38pts

2nd Stephen Baines (13) 37pts 3rd Mike Rushant (10) 35pts Division 2 1st Brian Kinsella (16) 35pts 2nd Martin Christman (19) 34pts 3rd Peter Williamson (15) 34pts With forty-eight players signing up for Phoenix you would expect that there would be some pretty high scores, but this was not the case as only two players shot better than their handicap and not by much. One of those players was Greg Vink who took out division ones first place with only 38 points whilst in division two it was a very surprised Brian Kinsella whose 35 points claimed the number one spot.

Friday, Feb. 8, Burapha – Stableford Division 1 1st Bob Newman (10) 38pts 2nd Andy Kelleher (10) 37pts 3rd Bob Hannon (13) 36pts Division 2 1st Jason Choi (18) 41pts 2nd Mike Lam (22) 40pts 3rd Joe Stranks (15) 36pts Our regular outing to Burapha always attracts good numbers and today was no exception. In division two Jason Choi was certainly enjoying his day

out, posting his first ever win with the TRGG with the joint best highest score of the week of 41 points. In division one Bob Newman got his name on the leader’s board with a very respectable 38 points which was also his first win for the 2019 season.

Saturday, Feb. 9, Mt. Shadow – Stableford Division 1 1st Bob Newman (13) 37pts 2nd Gerry Fernandez (10) 32pts 3rd Neil Bramley (12) 30pts Division 2 1st Saito Takao (20) 35pts 2nd Kim Jong-Hong (21) 33pts 3rd Vinnie Connellan (30) 30pts Mountain Shadow is not an easy course but only one out of thirty-seven players scored better than their handicap today. Bob Newman posted back to back wins with 37 points and took out the number one spot in division one. In division two the mild mannered Saito Takao plodded his way around the course and accumulated 35 points which was good enough to walk away with first place.

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Clegg bags 40 points and shot of the day PSC Golf from Café Kronborg Monday, Feb. 4, Pleasant Valley Stableford A Flight (0-22) 1st Kjeld Jorgensen (21) 37pts 2nd Ronnie Ratte (22) 36pts 3rd Ty Andersen (13) 35pts B Flight (23+) 1st Gordon Clegg (26) 40pts 2nd Tiziano Dal Pastro (24) 37pts 3rd Birgit Jorgensen (31) 35pts Near Pins: Gordon Clegg, Ragna Petursdottir, Gary Tuthill, Richard Kubicki. Long Putts: Ragna Petursdottir, Kjeld Ravn. Cafe Kronborg played Pleasant Valley on Monday where the course had recently had some rain and was soft in places, but not on the greens, which were unusually hard and unreceptive. Some players coped with the conditions better than others and only three people managed to beat their handicap, of which only one was in the A Flight off the blue tees. That player was Kjeld Jorgensen with a superb 37 points ahead of Ronnie Ratte in second with a sound 36. In third was Ty Anderson with a very respectable 35 points.

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Kjeld Jorgensen (left) with Gordon Clegg (right) and Dave ‘The Admiral’ Richardson.

In B Flight Gordon Clegg was the winner with another glorious 40 point haul, leaving the rest of his flight trailing in his wake. Gordon’s tee shot from 160-yards on the par-3 fifth hole was quality

and worthy of any single figure handicapper. It rolled to a finish less than 5 feet from the flag and a near pin prize and 4 point birdie was the result. Tiziano Dal Pastro was second with a superb 37 points and third was Birgit Jorgensen with 35, ensuring both of the Jorgensen family were in the prizes.

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A Flight (0-22) 1st Kenneth Madsen (14) 38pts 2nd Kjeld Jorgensen (21) 36pts 3rd Richard Kubicki (11) 35pts 4th Akitoshi Ito (9) 35pts

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circle after a short period in the doldrums. Second and third place were taken by the French connection. Patrick Poussier made 33 points to claim second spot and Pierre Dardenne took third place with 32, relegating Steen Habersaat into fourth on countback.

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countback with 2 players having 35 points. Richard Kubicki took third place having an impressive 21 points on the back nine, beating Akitoshi Ito into fourth place with 17 points. In B Flight the winner was Jan Lovgreen with 35 points, Jan returning to the winner’s

Green Valley

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B Flight (23+) 1st Jan Lovgreen (25) 35pts 2nd Patrick Poussier (28) 33pts 3rd Pierre Dardenne (25) 32pts 4th Steen Habersaat (25) 32pts Near Pins: Jan Lovgreen, Rob Brown, Kjeld Ravn, Richard Kubicki. Long Putts: Kenneth Madsen, Richard Kubicki. Cafe Kronborg played Plutaluang Navy course (North and West) on Thursday where the Lighthouse waters awaited any slightly mishit shots. The greens weren’t as fast as they could be, but downhill putts were still a challenge. The yellow tees were the tees of choice, giving the A flight a respite from the back tees of recent rounds. Scores were expected to reflect the shorter distance, but it didn’t quite pan out like this. The A Flight winner was Kenneth Madsen with a magnificent 38 points, the score of the day and he was the only player to beat the course. In second came Kjeld Jorgensen with a solid 36 points while third and fourth place were decided on

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Harry’s Golf

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The Golf Club Green Valley

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Valley View Hackers

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The Bunker Boys meet at the M-Club off Pattaya 3rd Road for golf outings every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (www.bunkersociety.com). Transportation leaves from Cafe Kronborg on Soi Diana Inn at 8:15 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, (contact Dave on tel. 038 602 2117). Colin’s Bar plays golf Sun/Mon/Wed & Fri (www.colinsbar.com). The Growling Swan plays golf on Monday & Thursday (www.thegrowlingswan.com). Lewinski’s in Soi Pattayaland 1 (Soi 13/3), play Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Transport is available, call Marcus on 089 503 9179 for further information and booking. The Pattaya Links Hotel Golf Society departs from Soi Buakhao on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Call Phil on 0625 933 380 or visit www.thelinkshotelpattaya.com. The Golf Club is located on Soij LK Metro. Call Phil on 090 769 3778. Tropical Golf meets at BJ’s Holiday Lodge at 8am on Tuesday’ & Friday. Call Derek on 089 034 0629

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France routed by England in Six Nations, Wales equal win record From page 36 “We’re playing the greatest Welsh side ever, so we’ll have to be at our absolute best,” Jones said. There seems little doubt England will be. Where England overwhelmed Ireland with power and pressure, this time they showed savvy and smarts to keep pickpocketing the French with chip kicks and grubbers and canny chasing. France’s decision to put two centers on the wings, and a wing at fullback, was ruthlessly exposed as three of England’s four tries in the first half came from expertly weighted kicks in behind the defense, where no blue jerseys were anywhere near. “It’s very painful when they score try after try,” France captain Guilhem Guirado said. “The pressure was constant and we never managed to get out of that.” By halftime, England had the bonus-point fourth try. Winger Jonny May had a hat

Wales’ Thomas Young (center) is tackled by Italy’s Luca Bigi during their teams’ Six Nations rugby union international at Rome’s Olympic Stadium, Saturday, Feb. 9. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

trick in the first half-hour. May scored England’s first try after just 64 seconds, the third straight match he’s scored in the first two minutes. More remarkably, it was the fifth consecutive match England has scored in the first two minutes. With his

12th try in his last 12 tests, May eclipsed New Zealand’s Rieko Ioane to be test rugby’s highest try-scorer since the start of 2018. Down by 30-8 at halftime, France only reduced the bleeding in the second period as England threw on

Chelsea routed 6-0 by Man City for biggest loss in 28 years Manchester (AP) — Chelsea were handed their heaviest loss in 28 years last Sunday when Manchester City routed Maurizio Sarri’s side 6-0 in the Premier League. The meeting of the last two champions was a complete mismatch as Sergio Aguero scored a hat trick for the second successive weekend. City regained top spot from Liverpool in their title defense as 2017 champions Chelsea ended the weekend by dropping out of the Champions League places into sixth. Raheem Sterling scored twice — City’s opener in the fourth minute and the sixth in the 80th — and Ilkay Gundogan also netted. It was Chelsea’s third consecutive away loss in the league, following a 2-0 collapse at Arsenal and 4-0 humiliation against Bournemouth. And Sarri completing his first season in charge is now far from certain. “I don’t know, you have to ask the club,” said Sarri, who was hired after leaving Napoli. “I am worried about my team, I am worried about the performance but my job is always at risk so I am not worried about the club — you have to ask the club. “I didn’t see my football (against City). At the beginning (of the season) it worked. So now we need only to understand the reasons why

reserves and rested stars such as Mako Vunipola, George Kruis, Ashton, and Sinckler in the third quarter. By then, Ashton had bombed a try by dropping a lob pass from Manu Tuilagi, but earned a penalty try

when he was tackled off the ball from behind by counterpart Gael Fickou. Farrell scored the sixth and last England try, and converted it, after Youngs’ quick tap penalty from 70 meters out and Farrell’s kick ahead was messed up by France under pressure from May. The last 25 minutes went scoreless, with Jones saying he was pleased England didn’t relax in the second half. In Rome on Saturday, Wales equaled their all-time record for consecutive wins after overcoming a plucky Italy 26-15. Italy scored the only try of the first half to trail by 12-7 at halftime. Wales didn’t score a try until the 53rd minute and finished with only two. Italy scored a second try, too, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Wales from an 11th successive victory, tying the Welsh record set 109 years ago. Italy extended their own record streak with a 19th straight

defeat in the Six Nations since 2015. Ireland kept alive their Six Nations title defence at Murrayfield in Edinburgh by grinding down Scotland 2213 on Saturday. After being crunched by England on the opening weekend in Dublin, Ireland had to rebound far from home against a Scotland side confident they had the steel and flair to end Ireland’s championship reign in the second round. But after a breathless first half which the Irish edged 1210, they scored a third soft try for some breathing room and their defence limited Scotland to just a penalty. Ireland’s game management was made easier by Scotland committing 15 handling errors, more than twice as many as the Irish. Scotland also lost three throw-ins. Unlike in the first half, the Scots couldn’t get a foothold in the Irish 22 or sustain an attack.

Stuhec spoils Vonn’s farewell party at skiing worlds Steve Douglas

Manchester City’s Oleksandr Zinchenko strikes the ball during the English Premier League match against Chelsea at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, Sunday, Feb. 10. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

at the moment it isn’t working ... It is not easy. At the beginning, we played better away than at home. Now we are playing better at home than away.” Chelsea had not lost by six goals or more since April 1991 — a year before the inception of the Premier League — when Nottingham Forest beat the west London club 7-0. Liverpool briefly reclaimed the Premier League lead on Saturday with a convincing 3-0 win over Bournemouth as Juergen Klopp’s team showed no sign of jitters in the tightening title race. Goals from Sadio Mane and Georginio Wijnaldum essentially decided the

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game after just 34 minutes, and Mohamed Salah added the third in the 48th minute. Tottenham beat Leicester 3-1 on Sunday to put the north London club five points behind front-runners Manchester City and Liverpool. It was third-placed Tottenham’s fourth successive league win without injured top-scorer Harry Kane. Manchester United moved into the Premier League’s top four by beating Fulham 3-0 at Craven Cottage on Saturday, with Paul Pogba scoring two more goals to continue his resurgence under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Norwegian manager has now steered the club to eight wins in nine league games since taking over from the fired Jose Mourinho in December.

Are, Sweden (AP) — The Lindsey Vonn circus had rolled back into town, and that suited Ilka Stuhec just fine. All the talk at the world championships last Sunday was whether Vonn could mark the last race of her career with a victory in the downhill. The spotlight, as ever, was almost totally on the American. Stuhec ended up spoiling the party. With Vonn sitting on the leader’s throne and the potential of a glorious finale increasing by the minute, Stuhec produced a virtually flawless run from No. 9 in the field to top her rival and become the first woman to retain the world downhill title since Maria Walliser in 1989. “She has won everything, won so much, and I was really honored to be there (on the podium) with her for her last time,” the Slovenian skier said of Vonn. Vonn, who finished third, still hogged the limelight. She was the last skier to leave the finish area after all the celebrations with her family and friends, the person the legion of photographers wanted to snap, the one Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark had traveled to watch. But this was also a day to savor for Stuhec, who — like Vonn — has proved capable of bouncing back from serious injury. She missed all of last season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in her left

Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec (left) celebrates on the podium with third placed United States’ Lindsey Vonn after winning the women’s downhill race at the alpine ski World Championships in Are, Sweden, Sunday, Feb. 10. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

knee during a crash while training on the glacier in Pitztal, Austria. She watched the Winter Olympics last February from home, getting up at 3 a.m. like a “crazy fan.” Initial results this season were mixed but Stuhac underlined her threat ahead of the worlds by winning the downhill and super-G at Val Gardena in December. She was way too good for the rest Sunday, winning by 0.23 seconds from Corinne Suter and 0.49 from Vonn, to successfully defend her title from St. Moritz, Switzerland, in 2017. The fact it was a shortened course, because of fog and wind, made the margin of victory even more impressive. “From a surprise point of view, this one was a bit bigger,” she said. “Two years ago, I was really winning a lot, having a great season and having a lot of self-belief. This season was a comeback season.”

With Vonn gone, the 28year-old Stuhec might be ready to dominate speed racing like she did in 2017. “There’s probably nobody doing a better tuck on the circuit than she and she is extremely aerodynamic,” said Norwegian skier Ragnhild Mowinckel. “I know how hard she has worked for this. She deserves it.” Retiring at age 34, Vonn’s 82 wins are the most all time by a female skier and trail only the 86 won by Sweden’s Stenmark. Vonn became the first female skier to win medals at six different world championships. It’s also her fifth downhill medal at a world championship, matching the record established by Annemarie Moser-Proell and Christel Cranz. “Thank You Lindsey: Forever A Star,” read one sign positioned by the side of the course.

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Mickelson finishes off a 5th win at Pebble Beach if I play at my best, it will be good enough to win tournaments. The challenge is getting myself to play my best. It’s a lot more work off the course, it’s more time in the gym, it’s more time eating, it’s more time focusing, it’s all these things that go into it. Making it even more special is Pebble Beach, where he made his pro debut at the U.S.

Doug Ferguson Pebble Beach, Calif. (AP) — Phil Mickelson is closing in on three decades on the PGA Tour and a half-century on Earth, and he still feels his best golf is good enough. He was at his best at Pebble Beach, and no one had a chance. A Monday finish brought on by rain and a freak hail storm was only a minor inconvenience for the 48-yearold Mickelson. He played two holes just as well as the previous 16 and polished off his bogey-free final round with one last birdie for a 7under 65 and a three-shot victory over Paul Casey in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Mickelson won at Pebble Beach for the fifth time, matching the record set by Mark O’Meara. He has gone 28 years since his first PGA

Phil Mickelson poses with his trophy on the 18th green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links after winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament Monday, Feb. 11, in Pebble Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/ Eric Risberg)

Tour victory and his 44th, and he joined Tiger Woods as the only players to surpass $90 million in career earnings.

“It’s a lot more work and effort to play at this level,” Mickelson said. “And I have believed for some time that

Honda LPGA Thailand aims to take Asian golf to the next level From page 36 Leading the charge for the home players at Siam Country Club will be Ariya Jutanugarn who made her debut at this event back in 2007, aged just 11 years old. Her prodigious talent was already apparent even at that early age and she has since gone on to fulfill her potential, winning major titles around the globe and topping the world player rankings on two separate occasions. Joining Ariya at Siam Country Club will be her older sister Moriya Jutanugarn, who recorded her maiden victory on the LPGA Tour last year at the HUGEL-JTBC LA Open in Los Angeles and in doing so made her and Ariya only the second pair of siblings to win on the Tour after Sweden’s Annika and Charlotta Sorenstam. Making up a triumvirate of local stars to watch will be the always colourful and popular Pornanong Pathlum who came agonizingly close to capturing the Women’s British Open title at Royal Lytham & St. Annes last year, a tournament where 15year old Thai golfer Atthaya Thitikul won the leading amateur title just a year after becoming the youngest ever winner of a ladies professional golf tournament at the 2017 Ladies European Thailand Championship. Thidapa Suwannapura, Wichanee Meechai, Sherman Santiwiwatthanaphang and Pannapat Thanapolboonyaras will also be flying the flag for Thailand as they aim to take on the world’s best players in Pattaya. The main international

Atthaya Thitikul is one of a host of young players looking to make an impact at this year’s Honda LPGA Thailand golf championship.

challenge is expected to come from defending champion Jessica Korda and 2016 winner Lexi Thompson of the USA, Canadian superstar Brook Henderson, Lydia Ko and Minjee Lee representing New Zealand and Australia respectively and the leading South Korean stars Sung Hyun Park, So Yeon Ryu, Inbee Park and two-time Honda LPGA Thailand champion Amy Yang. The tournament will feature 70 female golfers, including 57 professionals from the 2019 LPGA Priority List, the winner of the 2019 ISPS Handa Vic Open and the 2019 ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open, which will wrap up on 17 February. On top of that, another listed golfer is Eun-Hee Ji, the winner of 2019 Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions, as well as nine invited players, including Benyapa “Gift” Niphatsophon, the winner of the Honda LPGA Thailand National Qualifiers. The week leading up to the tournament will also include a ‘Dream Big’ charity night where the LPGA players will

auction off personal items of memorabilia, with all the proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity Thailand, a foundation which initiates sustainable housing projects in disadvantaged communities. Home to the tournament since 2007, Pattaya’s Siam Country Club will provide a spectacular setting for the 13th Honda LPGA Thailand event and the ‘Old Course’, measuring in at over 6,500 yards and frequently rated a ‘favourite’ on the LPGA Tour, will test all the players’ skills and fortitude to the maximum. To complement the action out on the course, there will be a multitude of fun and interactive golf exhibits for fans and spectators to enjoy in the corporate area set out in front of the clubhouse on each day of the tournament. It all points to the 2019 Honda LPGA Thailand being the biggest and best edition yet of this prestigious event which continues to advance the game the golf in Thailand and beyond. For ticket information, visit website: www.hondalpga thailand.com.

Open in 1992, where he won the first of his five titles in another Monday finish in 1998, this one in August because of rain. It’s where his grandfather, Al Santos, was among the first caddies when the course opened in 1919, and Mickelson still uses as a marker the 1900 silver dollar his grandfather kept in his pocket to remind him he was not poor.

Mickelson finished at 19under 268. Casey needed Mickelson to make a big blunder on the two closing holes, and there was little chance of that. Casey at least birdied the 18th for a 71 to finish alone in second, the difference of $152,000. He also won the Pro-Am with Don Colleran, the chief sales officer for FedEx.

McBride top scores at Green Valley The Tara Court Golf Society Sunday, Feb. 3, Green Valley – Stableford A Flight 1st Lawrie McBride (14) 38pts 2nd William Bishop (16) 37pts 3rd Paul Pavloff (5) 35pts B Flight 1st Donal McGuigan (18) 37pts 2nd Larry Eden (22) 36pts 3rd Joe McArdle (18) 36pts C Flight 1st Ian Corica (27) 35pts 2nd Pat Carty (24) 31pts 3rd Frank McGowan (25) 30pts A large group out and three flights here today at Green Valley on what was a very pleasant day for golf, not too hot and no rain. Although a few of the bunkers were showing signs of the very heavy rain, the course was in excellent condition so we got reasonably good scoring in all flights.

Lawrie McBride.

We got our best score of the day in A flight and here Lawrie McBride was the winner with thirty-eight points. William Bishop came second with thirty-seven and Paul Pavloff after his excellent round here on Thursday and his new handicap of five came third with thirty-five.

In the B flight Donal McGuigan was the winner with thirty-seven points. We had two players with thirtysix and Larry Eden won the countback to come second and Joe McArdle lost it and had to settle for third. In the C flight the scoring wasn’t quite as good and here Ian Corica was the winner with thirty-five points. Pat Carty came second with thirty-one and then we had three players with thirty points and here Frank McGowan won the countback to come third and both Sean Hallahan and Joe Peters lost out. We had five 2’s today, coming from Joe McArdle, Shaun Merriman, Russell Gilroy, Ian Corica and Sean Hallahan.

Pattana Golf Club hosts pro-football academy

Soccer coaches and lecturers pose for a group photo at Pattana Golf Club & Resort in Si-Racha.

Thanasak Suraprasert, Vice President of the Football Association of Thailand recently presided over the opening of the AFC Pro Diploma Coaching Course at Pattana Golf Club & Resort in Si-Racha.

The AFC coaching course is the pre-eminent training series for football coaches and is being held in Thailand for just the second time. The course lecturers come from Iran, Malaysia and Thailand while the attendees are

coaches, trainers or technical assistants from many well-known football clubs in Thailand. Coaches from clubs in Japan, South Korea, Australia and Malaysia are also attending the course which will continue until Feb. 23.

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Slovenia’s Ilka Stuhec reacts in the finish area after the women’s downhill race at the alpine ski World Championships in Are, Sweden, Sunday, Feb. 10. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Chelsea’s David Luiz (left) jumps for the ball with Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero during their teams’ English Premier League soccer match at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, Sunday, Feb. 10. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

French supporters wait for the start of the Six Nations rugby union international between England and France at Twickenham stadium in London, Sunday, Feb. 10. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Cars are involved in a pileup during the NASCAR Clash auto race at Daytona International Speedway Sunday, Feb. 10, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/ Phelan M. Ebenhack)

India’s Dinesh Karthik bats during the twenty/20 cricket international against New Zealand at Seddon Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday, Feb. 10. (AP Photo/David Rowland)

Silver medal winner Elizabet Tursynbaeva of Kazakhstan performs during the women’s free skate competition at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Friday, Feb. 8, in Anaheim, California. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Australia’s Kimberly Birrell returns a shot against United State’s Madison Keys during their first-round Fed Cup tennis match in Asheville, N.C., Saturday, Feb. 9. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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A Guide to Brake Pads

A Fortuner encrusted with diamonds? Rolls Royce has gone offroad (and off its rocker in my opinion) with its new SUV, known as the Cullinan (after the diamond), stating on their website that Cullinan is the culmination of years of design refinement, the manifestation of an audacious vision to make luxury offroad travel a reality for the first time. Supreme liberty says the brochure. This is freedom absolute. The first all-terrain SUV from Rolls-Royce is claimed to be the pinnacle of effortlessness. Want a premium SUV, then start with Bentley with the Bentayga, the first full-blown luxury SUV that gathered fine upholstery, state-of-theart tech, fancy features, and high-performance under one roof. At the time of its launch, it was the quickest, fastest, and the most expensive SUV. Two years later and RollsRoyce delivered its first salvo called the Cullinan, and although it’s not faster than the Bentayga, it’s definitely the more expensive. The Rolls-Royce Cullinan is the first SUV to be launched by the Rolls-Royce marque. It is bigger than a Fortuner with a 6.75 L N74B68 twinturbocharged V12 dragging a kerb weight of 2,660 kg from a body 5,341 mm long. With the world deciding that we’re not going to run out of oil after all, the automakers have been busy bringing vehicles to the market that can climb over rocks and trees, and carry seven people in relative comfort. While the premium segment is packed with SUVs from European, American,

Cullinan.

and Japanese automakers, the range-topping luxury market is still very small. With no other products around, Bentley and RollsRoyce are the only firms fighting for supremacy here. The Cullinan and the Bentayga will attract the richest, most pretentious customers out there are for years to come. Much will depend upon the little luxuries being trotted out. The RR has a center console incorporating a drinks cabinet with whiskey glasses and decanter, champagne flutes, and refrigerator. A three-seat layout is also available, and this configuration comes with a 60/40 split to create an almost flat loading surface. The Cullinan can haul up to 68 cubic feet of luggage and can be fitted with a glass partition to separate the seating area from the trunk. It also has dinky little RR badges on the center of each wheel, which always sits vertically even when stopped. If you are interested in emissions (though with all that money, who cares), the values of fuel consumptions,

Autotrivia Quiz Last week I asked, two brothers bought a championship winning Kremer Porsche and raced it at Le Mans. Later they were arraigned for money laundering. Who were they? They were the Whittington brothers. So now to this week. Where were the pedals on a 1933 Morris Minor? For the Automania dehydrated beer this week (just add hops and water), be the first correct answer to email automania@pattayamail.com or viacars@gmail.com. Good luck!

CO2 emissions and energy consumptions shown are determined according to the European Regulation (EC) 715/2007 in the version applicable at the time of type approval. The range shown considers optional equipment and the different size of wheels and tires available on the selected model and may vary during the configuration. The values are already based on the new WLTP regulation and are translated back into NEDC-equivalent values in order to ensure the comparison between the vehicles. For the assessment of taxes or other duties based (at least inter alia) on CO2emissions the CO2 values may differ to the values stated here. Further information on official energy and fuel consumption and the official specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars can be found in the “Guide to Fuel Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Electricity Consumption of New Passenger Cars”, which is available at all outlets free of charge and at carfueldata.direct .gov.uk in the United Kingdom, dat.de/angebote/ verlagsprodukte/leitfadenkraftstoffverbrauch.html in Germany, or your local government authority. How much would it costs here? I’ll guess at around 40 million baht, or more than I will earn in a lifetime. It puts a new emphasis on the word pretentious.

I have a good friend Gavin Charlesworth who is the Thailand agent for the famous brake pads and discs branded as EBC. I have run these on my race car for the past few years and described the EBC pads as the next best thing to a brick wall. The following article was sent to me from Gavin, and is very informative. Brake pads are used to stop moving vehicles; they do this by converting the kinetic energy of a moving vehicle into heat. How effectively brake pads generate heat will determine how well they work. It is important to choose the right brake pad for the correct application. There are three main variables that affect brake performance. Brake pad material and its friction properties Hydraulic pressure Brake rotor / disc size Braking performance can be improved (or made worse) by changing any one of the above components of the braking system. Are your brakes genuine? Pad Certification

Brake pads.

OE brake pads and aftermarket brake products In UK, Europe, USA (actually most places in the world) are made to a very high standard. ECE R 90 - certify that the replacement brake pads are at least equal to or better than OE parts. Test for performance, cold performance, bedding in. ABE (TÜV) – replaced by ECE R 90 for brake pads but still valid for brake discs. AMECA (US) – friction material testing and registration, edge coding It is illegal to sell uncertified braking products in most countries. Insurance companies will refuse to pay out compensation after an accident if un-certified braking products were used on a vehicle involved in an accident.

Brake Pad materials Metal-based – relatively cheap to make using steel fiber, often an aggressive initial bite that some may like. High disc / rotor wear, high dust levels, dust sticks to wheels, often noise issues. Organic based – made from organic aramid fiber (such as Kevlar) and binding resins. Organic pads give a softer more progressive pedal feel and have a light dust which does not stick to wheels. Generally less noise than metallic based brake pads. Ceramic – semi-metallic or organic brake pads filled with ceramic particles giving lower dust, longer life. Carbon Ceramic – reserved for Supercars as they very expensive. Contact gaving@yahoo.com

Classic Car Show A couple of years ago, a Classic Car Show was held in the grounds of the Asia Pattaya Hotel. This was so successful, we present the Car Show on Saturday March 2 from noon until 10 p.m. In the evening there will be a Charity BBQ with live music from the 60s and 70s and a Blues Brother or two wandering around. Telephone the Pattaya Mail on 093 161 5995 to reserve a place at the party BBQ. Anyone with an interest in “classics” will enjoy the day, with many of the cars very rarely seen outside their airconditioned garages. My 1973 two door Ford Escort racer will be there, which can still blow the doors off some much younger cars (and drivers). The car is obviously heavily modified now with a 350 BHP engine, five speed gearbox, limited slip differential and a five link rear end. If you had an Escort when you were young, come along and be photographed with this one. A few E-Type Jaguars will be present, probably the best looking car in the world, some MG T-Types and last time even a Kubelwagen and a Schwimmwagen. At the upper range, a 1964 Bentley is immaculate, while the enthusiastic Alfa Romeo group will be there. Just

Jaguar 220.

look for the red cars. Like Ferrari they look best in red. Sponsors include the Riviera Group and Liqui Moly. Some of the classics of the show Austin 8 Convertible, 1947 Corvette Singray, C3, 1970 Ford Mustang Fastback, 1969 Ford Escort, 1971 Volvo 122, 1966 Volvo Station wagon, 1966 Bentley Mulsanne, 1966 Renault Caravelle, 1966 Opel Commodore GS, 1968 Lancia Beta, 1987 Porsche 356, 1962 BMW CSL, 1972 Jaguar 220, 1990 Buick Le Sabre, 1960 BENZ 190 C, 1963 Porsche 911, 1990 Benz 220 S, 1965 Benz 280 S, 1072 FIAT 132 GLS, 1976 Dodge, 1972 Austin Frogeye, 1959 Chevy Stepside 3100, 1955

Chevy Impala, 1968 AUDI 90 Super, 1965 Mustang Coupe, 1966 Escort RS, 1973 Dodge Challenger, RT 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, 1970 Fiat 1100 E, 1949 Alfa Giulia Super 1971 VW Kombi, 1966 Triumph Stag, 1973 Mustang Coupe, 1966 VW Beetle, 1969 MGA 1500, 1960 Lincoln Continental, 1979 Austin Healey 3000, 1967 Corvette C3, 1971 Ford Thunderbird, 1968 Ford Cougar, 1971 Ford Aurelia, 1960 Jaguar XJ, 1993 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000, 1972 Alfa Giulia Ti, 1966 Karman Ghia, 1961 Alfa Romeo Spider 1750, 1969 Opel, 1909 Bentley S3, 1964 The organizers expect 70-80 cars on March 2.

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Future superstar Sina Theil makes fans in Pattaya Derek Franklin The name Sina Theil may not yet be known in many households, but the singersongwriter, who hails from Germany but now resides in Ireland, made several new fans on a recent trip to Pattaya. Carrying her guitar under her arm Sina received a greeting fit for a superstar when she recently arrived at the Father Ray School for Children with Special Needs. In Pattaya for just a few days she spent her last afternoon performing for one hundred teenagers who loved what they were hearing.

As a writer of her own songs, the children were hearing them for the first time, but the set list was interspersed with songs they did know. Not only did they sing along, but many were soon on their feet and dancing along to the music. After two songs there was a long line of children asking for requests, and while Sina may not have known all the word to the requested songs the children very much appreciated the performances. Here is a young lady who has had two number one singles in Ireland. She has a talent to write and perform her own songs, play the

Always time for a selfie with a new fan.

Sina Theil.

guitar and hold a crowd in the palm of her hand, definitely someone to watch out for in the future.

Sina Theil with her new army of fans.

It wasn’t long before the teenagers were up dancing.

HHN children help celebrate benefactor’s birthday Jetsada Homklin Pattaya community leaders turned up celebrate Heiko Klimanschewsky’s 50th birthday at the Poseidon Restaurant. The restaurant was festively decorated for the Feb. 8 party, with ice carvings of two pandas placed on a red carpet at the entrance and tables adorned with red and white roses. Amongst the guest list was Radchada Chomjinda, director of the Human Help Network Thailand, who brought. Other than the children showing off their singing and dancing talents, the Bangkok Grand Opera also vowed the guests with their repertoire of famous classic songs.

Gerrit Niehaus owner of Thai Garden Resort Pattaya and his lovely wife and Anselma wish happy birthday to Heiko Klimanschewsky.

Heiko Klimanschewsky welcomes to the party Radchada Chomjinda, director of the Human Help Network Thailand, and children under her care.

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Events The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be held on Sunday, February 17. The PCEC program varies, but usually involves a guest speaker on a topic of interest to Expats. The program starts at 10:30 am with a buffet breakfast available from 9:00 to 11:00 am on the 4th floor of the Holiday Inn’s Executive Tower located behind the Holiday Inn’s Bay Tower on Beach Road. The Indian Embassy to Thailand is holding a consular camp in Pattaya for all kinds of consular services (except visas) on Sunday, Feb. 17 from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm at the “Aroma Restaurant” on Naklua Soi 18, north Pattaya. Visit website: https:// embassyofindiabangkok.gov.in. The Pink Polo 2019 equestrian tournament under the patronage of HM Queen Sirikit will be held at the Thai Polo & Equestrian Club in Pattaya on Saturday, Feb. 16 starting at 12 p.m. Running alongside the polo action will be a fashion show on horses, Lampang carriage rides, a flea market, lunch, snacks and high tea. All proceeds will go to breast cancer care for needy women. For more information and directions, visit website: www.thai-polo-club.com. A Joint Chambers Eastern Seaboard networking evening will be held at the Renaissance

Pattaya Resort & Spa on Friday, February 15 from 6.00 p.m. – 9 p.m. (last drinks at 8.30 p.m.). Entrance cost is THB 500 on the door for members and THB 1,000 for non-members. Admission includes free-flow drinks and finger food. The 2019 Burapha Bike Week will take place from Feb. 14-16 at the National Indoor Stadium on Chaiyapruek 2 Road in Pattaya. During the festival, live concerts will take place throughout the day and evening; there will be many food stalls, fireworks, tattoo displays, dancers, motorcycle parades, stunt shows and more. For updates and more information, check Burapha Bike Week Pattaya on Facebook. The 2019 Honda LPGA Thailand golf championship will be held at Siam Country Club Old Course in Pattaya from February 21-24. The tournament will showcase 57 of world’s best LPGA players and 10 rising stars in women’s golf from all ages to win the prize purse of $1.6 million. Spectators will also find opportunity to relax and enjoy the “Festival Village” with exhibitors, retail outlets, interactive activities and local food stalls. For ticket information and further details, visit website: https:/ /hondalpgathailand.com. The 2nd Charity Classic Car Show Pattaya will be held at the Asia Pattaya

Pork Buns on Mondays! This is a very common western dish, usually made on Mondays, using the leftover pork roast from the traditional Sunday roast. Don’t worry if you haven’t had a traditional roast on Sunday, use freshly cooked pork instead. It is popular with both children and adults, though be careful not to be too heavy-handed with the paprika and cayenne pepper. The recipe as printed here will only take 20 minutes in total including preparation. Get soft, fresh hamburger buns for the best result.

Ingredients Butter (margarine) Worcestershire sauce Lemon juice White sugar Paprika Salt Cayenne pepper Boneless pork, cooked and cubed Hamburger buns

Serves 4 50 gm 60 ml 2 tbspns 2 tbspns ¼ tspn 1/8th tspn 1/8th tspn 225 gm 4

Cooking Method Melt butter (or margarine) in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add the Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, sugar, paprika, salt and cayenne pepper. Mix together and slowly bring mixture to a boil, stirring often. Now add the cooked pork and let simmer just until pork is heated through. Divide into four equal portions and spoon into each hamburger bun. Serve with plenty of tissues!

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Hotel, Pratamnak Soi 4 on Saturday, March 2 from 12 noon – 10pm. The event features a classic car parade, charity dinner and musical entertainment from the Blues Brothers Live Show Band and VIP guest Mario Maurer. Tickets priced at 1000 THB per person include entrance to the event, buffer dinner and free-flow of beer. Proceeds from the event will go to the Human Help Network Foundation Thailand. For more information and tickets, call 093 161 5995 or visit website: www.classiccar-friends-pattaya.com. The Eastern Seaboard Businessmen’s Dinner is a monthly event taking place at the Mantra Restaurant at the Amari Pattaya Resort on the last Thursday of the month. It brings together business leaders from various backgrounds including Automotive, Aerospace, Real Estate, Architecture, FMCG, Electronics, White Goods, Logistics, Recruitment, Legal, Consulting, and others in a relaxed atmosphere. If you are interested in attending please contact Anuttra.Sukruen@tinfish.co.th. 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 March 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 Persimmon restaurant at Pattana Golf Club & Resort offers 3 weekly theme nights for customers to enjoy exciting dining concepts. Pizza/ Pasta Night, 299 Baht net per person, every Tuesday invites you to personalize your favorite Italian dishes. Wednesday is Seafood Night, 399 Baht net per person, with unlimited amounts of the freshest seafood from the local market. On Fridays, enjoy a variety of barbecued meats during the Carnivore Night at 499 Baht net per person. Book your seat prior and enjoy your dinner at

Tel. 038 318 999 ext. 11230 or email to: restaurant@ pattana.co.th. Hilton Pattaya invites you to experience a variety of special creations from sugarcane throughout February. Flare Restaurant presents Vietnamese braised pork belly with sugarcane at THB 350 net while Drift Lobby Lounge & Bar features grilled sugarcane-skewered seafood priced at THB 350 net, smoked chicken wing with spicy BBQ and sugarcane sauce at THB 350 net, and chocolate banana sugarcane at THB 150 net. Horizon Rooftop Restaurant & Bar introduces braised and roasted duck in sugarcane served with cooked riceberry, tea egg, fried ginger, stirfried Hong Kong kale and pickled carrot, priced at THB 1,050 net. For more information or reservation, please call +66(0)38 253 000 or bkkhp_fb@hilton.com or pattaya.hilton.com. L’Olivier Restaurant invites you to enjoy a daily cold buffet and 4-course menu comprising soup, salad bar, main course and dessert for only 395 baht. The buffet menu is changed every two days. The restaurant specializes in French Provencal cuisine, traditional Thai food and rare Vietnamese dishes. Dine in air conditioned comfort or on the terrace. Located on Jomtien Walking Street between View Talay 2 and Jomtien Complex on the main taxi thoroughfare. For reservations, call Ms. Wan on Tel. 061 854 4848 (French, English & Thai spoken).

Delectable buffet offerings at L’Olivier Restaurant.

Saturday Night Buffet is back at AVANI Pattaya Resort & Spa. Experience regional favourites galore, street dishes an artisan desserts, as you relax with classical Thai dance and live music. Every Saturday night at Sala Rim Nam Restaurant from 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Priced at THB 599++ per person. Kids under 5 eat free. For more information and reservations, call 038 412 120 Big Fish restaurant at Siam@Siam Design Hotel

Pattaya enhances its seafood buffet with more premium catches and live music entertainment. The restaurant offers a nightly Seafood BBQ Buffet at only THB 777 net or THB 1,099 net with free-flow wine. Enjoy highquality, premium seafood cuisine as you listen to acoustic guitar and piano music from prominent local artists. Seafood BBQ Buffet at Big Fish is available every night from 6:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. For reservations call 038 930 600 or email fbsec @siamatpattaya.com. After 14 years as the Landlord of an Irish Pub, the name Kim Fletcher has not disappeared. Kim may have gone from Jamesons, but his wife Goy has ensured that the name Fletcher has not died by opening Fletchers’ Folly, a boutique pub on the Dark Side. Kim is trying to get used to being retired, but the new ‘pensioner’ loves regaling the drinkers with stories from his lifetime in pubs, punctuated with his characteristic laugh. Fletchers’ Folly is on Siam Country Club Road, opposite Maxxis tyres and 300 meters before the “Chicken Crossroads”. Food and drinks at very reasonable prices. Pizza and Pasta All You Can Eat at Mövenpick Siam Hotel Na Jomtien: Twist Restaurant features Italian classics like creamy Carbonara or meaty Bolognese with a choice of pasta, or the delicious Prosciutto Pizza with your choice of regular or whole wheat dough. The menu also includes original Thai-fusion pizzas and pasta

such as the Tom Yam pizza with chili paste, prawn, squid and Thai herbs or the tasty Green Curry Pasta. Available all day from Sunday – Thursday at only THB 500 per person, with a glass of soft drink. For more information or reservation, call 033 078 888.

The happy BBQ chef at Thai Garden.

The Thai Garden Terrace Restaurant offers nightly dining presentations with different themed “all you can eat” buffets at the resort poolside: Monday – Italian buffet; Tuesday – BBQ buffet; Wednesday – multi-cuisine buffet; Thursday – German buffet with roasted pig; Friday – Thai buffet; Saturday – international buffet; Sunday – steak & skewers buffet. The buffet starts from 6 p.m., runs until 9 p.m. All this for just 399 baht net per adult. What you see is what you pay, no additional service charges or VAT. For reservations call 038 370 614 or make your booking at www. thaigarden.com under “buffet reservation”. Thai Garden Resort is located on North Continued on page 35

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L’Olivier -Totally French Provençal multi-talented Maneewan Pongso (Wan) who was previously running restaurants in France and the UK for some 15 years. Wan describes the L’Olivier cuisine as French style Provençal, and has a Vietnamese chef, though she can take over at any time. Vietnamese cuisine is a cross

There is an a la carte menu with most items under B. 400 but what caught our eye were two fixed price dinners at 395 baht and 555 baht. Both of these had ample choices both in starter and mains, and were so inviting we ordered one each. Both specials begin with the soup of the day, which

Duck l’Orange earned top marks.

Central salad bar included ‘quiche’.

This week we made another foray into the Jomtien Complex, looking for a restaurant called L’Olivier. There are two entrances to the complex and the one you are looking for is the closest to Thepprasit Road, with the Poseidon restaurant on the corner. Walk down about 50 meters and L’Olivier is on your right. There is an al fresco area at the front to walk through to the main restaurant which encompasses a triple shophouse. The tables are large and covered with white linen tablecloths. Condiments are

already on the tables, including a pepper grinder. Mention should be made of the cutlery, heavy and artistic and fun to use. Chairs are large rattan and cushion style and comfortable. One wall is devoted to a traditional mural, whilst the other walls have a more European feel to them. The far wall houses the bar. When you open the door to this restaurant you know immediately it is French. There are tables of voluble francophones looked after for the past couple of years, by the “Maitresse d’ the

Brochettes Provençal.

between Asian and French and there is a page of Vietnamese favorites and a few pages of Thai items as well, with most around B. 200. We began by looking at the wine list and were immediately taken by the prices. With wines from both the old and the new worlds, there was a standard bottle price of B. 995 for all but three, which were only B. 1295. (One diner was so impressed with the performance versus price that he insisted a photo of him be taken!)

on our day was a vegetable, hot to the table and generous in volume. Along with the soup there is a central salad bar with upward of a dozen items including quiche (French remember), cold cuts, stuffed tomatoes and cheeses. One of the most comprehensive salad bars in Pattaya. Madame began with a prawn cocktail which had three juicy prawns along with the usual lettuce and Thousand Island. From there it was into our

choices of mains. Madame going for Duck l’Orange to which she gave top marks. Lamb chop was another choice at our table, judged as being flavorsome and tender. For myself, I chose the pork cordon bleu. The pork was correctly cooked and the chips and vegetables not overpowering. A great choice. Our youngest member chose the brochettes which were tender and not overdone, as these sometimes can be.

This turned out to be an amazing evening. Good quality food, good portion size, attentive serving staff and far too cheap. Despite the low prices this is not a bargain basement style of restaurant. All members of the Dining Out were in agreement. Do try, you will not be disappointed. 413/9-10 Jomtien Complex, Thappraya Road, Open 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily, telephone 038 251 669, fax 038 250 249, (Mobile) 061 854 4848 (Wan), street side parking on Thappraya Road.

Crêpe with vanilla ice cream.

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E-mail: comhaps@pattayamail.com From page 33 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 Fines De Claires Oysters arriving fresh ‘Par Avion’ from Normandy in France. Served on ice with lemon and on request a spicy Thai sauce for dipping. An amazing experience. Only 595 baht per six oysters. Yupin’s fantastic French onion soup is now available again! For more information or reservations, call 038 250394 or visit website: www.yupins.com.

Yamato Restaurant located on Soi Yamato has been around for more than 39 years and the soi was named after its oldest tenant. 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.

Linda’s Restaurant is large with seating for 200 people, with a covered al fresco verandah outside for those who wish to smoke. Inside, in air-conditioned comfort, there are comfortable chairs and decent sized tables, with white starched napery. Linda’s Restaurant is located on Thappraya Road opposite the Jomtien Complex. Open seven days a week from 7.30 a.m. until late. For reservations, Tel: 038 252 726, visit www. lindasrestaurant.com, or Email linda@lindasrestaurant .com.

BBQ Pork Spare Ribs & Jasmine Rice for only 195 baht

massage and International Buffet Dinner at Garden Cafe for one at only THB 2,700 net. Advance reservations required, contact AVANI Spa at Tel. 038 412 120.

Entertainment

Yamato’s mixed sashimi plate which had octopus, salmon, tuna, crab sticks, sea bass, squid and mackerel.

Fines De Claires Oysters at Yupins.

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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 Aromatherapy Massage promotion at Ayatana Spa, Pattana Golf Club & Resort: 90 min massage only 1,800 baht, get free 30 min body scrub worth 500 baht or 100 baht discount. This promotion is valid until the end of Feb 2019. For bookings, call 038 318 999 ext. 11143 AVANI Spa offers a spa buffet package: 90-minute AVANI signature touch

Regina Albrink will perform a piano recital at Ben’s Theatre in Jomtien on Saturday, March 2 starting at 8pm. The concert will feature music from Chopin, Mozart, Gershwin and more. Tickets are priced at THB 750 pp including free drink of choice. Reservations by email to: benstheaterjomtien@gmail.com, call 089 983 3351 or send a message on LINE to benben. Despacito Fridays at Siam@Siam Design Hotel Pattaya –Start off the weekend with a sensual step Latin night at the Roof Sky Bar, every Friday from 4pm – 10pm with DJ Ro-Bi-El Gordo and DJ Rocky, plus zumba classes. Free admission, ladies enjoy a free drink until 5pm. For more information, call 038 930 600. 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 Rotary Club of JomtienPattaya (English) meets

every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at Royal Cliff Grand Hotel, Pattaya City. Fellowship begins at 18.30 hrs and Dinner meeting at 19.00 hrs. President Vutikorn Kamolchote Email: <vutikornk@hotmail.com> Rotary Club Eastern Seaboard (English) meets at the Siam Bayshore Hotel, 17.30 hrs for 18.00 hrs on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of every month, followed by dinner (Fellowship) President Brian Songhurst Email: <bjs2904 @yahoo.com> Rotary Club Phönix Pattaya (German) meets every Tuesday at the Holiday Inn Pattaya at 19.00 hrs. President Peter Schlegel Email: info@rotary-phoenixpattaya.org. Le Rotary Pattaya Marina, seul Rotary Francophone d’Asie, vous accueille les premier et troisième vendredis de chaque mois, début des réunions 19h, à l’hôtel Pullman G Pattaya Wongamat 445/3 Moo 5 – Soi 16 – Pattaya Naklua Road. Venez agir avec le Rotary pour changer des vies. Pierre Yves Eraud Président 2018-2019 Email: < info@rotarypattaya marina.org. Rotary Club of Pattaya (Thai-English) meets at the First Pacific Hotel, Central Road on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. Meetings begin at 19.00 hrs. President Stephen Devereux Email: < stevecarlow@gmail.com> The Thai Stamp Alliance is a new internet and social media group created to share information, including posts of events like Exhibitions and Auctions. If you live on the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand and have an interest, email thaistampalliance@gmail. com. or find us on Facebook. 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 at Sinthavee Park Condo, 2/ 1 Moo 5, in Ban Chang. If you are interested, please contact Membership Chairman Dan Morgan at <banc hangvfw12146membership@

gmail.com> or visit website: www.banchangvfwpost12146.org. The Royal British Legion Thailand meets on the last weekend of every month at various locations around the city. Please join and like the Face Book page and you will see the all the social events listed. You do not have 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 an email to - chonburi. secretary@rbl.community. AlcoholicsAnonymous: 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 08-45631-671. 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. English-speaking 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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International sailors descend on Pattaya for Dart 18 World Championship Preparations have been fervently underway for the prestigious International Dart 18 Catamaran World Championship, to be sailed on the waters off Royal Varuna Yacht Club in south Pattaya from February 16-22. Sailors, including several former world champions have been arriving all week from 14 nations to compete in this two-person flying machine contest. Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh chaired a Feb. 6

safety-planning meeting with top police, Marine Department, tourism and security officials to provide full support for the event which kicks off on Saturday, Feb. 16. Races commence the next six days with the awards ceremony on Friday, Feb. 22. The Dart 18 is a one-design 18-foot (5.5 meter) glass-fiber sailing catamaran designed to be sailed by two people and can achieve speeds of up to 20 knots. The great advantage of these boats is that

Spectacular sailing action is a staple of the annual Dart 18 World Championship.

they can be crewed by teams ranging from 10 to 75 years of age, both male and female. All in a spirit of friendly competition and accompanied by the Dart legendary après-sail parties, for which the class is famous. This month’s event is the first time the annual championship has been staged in Asia (last year saw the event being held on Lake Como in Italy) and Royal Varuna Yacht Club is proud to play host to yet another major International competition. The event format will consist of 10 races, with up to 3 races per day of 50 minutes duration. The teams with the best results posted over the length of the competition will be declared the winners. Four former world champions will feature among this year’s favourites, including the husband and wife pairings of Thierry & Christine Wibeaux from Angoulemme in France and Dave & Louise Roberts from Stokes Bay, UK. However double world champion Dan Norman from

France routed by England in Six Nations, Wales equal win record

Royal Varuna Yacht Club in Pattaya will play host to the championship from Feb. 16-22.

the Isle of Sheppey the UK remains the one to beat. What of the local challenge? Two-time Asian Games catamaran gold medallists and all round expert sailor brothers Damronsak and Quesada Vongtim will be carrying Thailand’s hopes, and a podium place is a real possibility. Fiji is expected to be in the mix also, represented by Graeme ‘Fish’ Southwicke, a current world masters Hobie catamaran champion.

Gareth Owen, a locally based expat from the Wirral, UK and a former Dart world champion will team up with his sailing partner and compatriot Hebe Hemmings to form what promises to be Royal Varuna’s best hope of a medal. Although retired from top class competition and claiming to be washed up and past it, Gareth is making a one-off comeback bid for glory. Other, strong contenders hail from Australia, Italy and Portugal and there are several

young teams who are expected to upset the established pecking order. With the south-west monsoon wind set fair, combined with the glorious sunny conditions, it promises to a fantastic sailing championship week. The action will be visible from Jomtien beach each day between 12 and 4 pm. Daily result updates will feature on the Pattaya Mail website and for more information, visit website: www. Dart18Worlds2019.com.

Honda LPGA Thailand aims to take Asian golf to the next level

England’s Jonny May (right) breaks clear to score his second try of the game during the Six Nations rugby union match against France at Twickenham Stadium in London, Sunday Feb. 10. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP)

Foster Niumata London (AP) - Two rounds into the Six Nations, only two teams remain unbeaten. And they meet next. England ensured the showdown with Wales next week in Cardiff will be extra spicy

by crushing France 44-8 at Twickenham last Sunday. Coach Eddie Jones promised England would be even better after demolishing reigning champions Ireland in Dublin on the opening weekend, and his side was merciless in their biggest win

against France in 108 years. England have two hugely impressive bonus-point victories, and Wales have equaled their best winning streak of 11 from more than a century ago. Continued on page 28

‘Dream Big’ is the concept theme for the 2019 Honda LPGA Thailand women’s golf championship and it’s a message that Thailand’s female golfing stars will carry with them when the tournament tees-off in Pattaya next week. The 13th edition of this key stop on the Asian swing of the LPGA Tour will once again be held at its traditional home, the pristine Siam Country Club ‘Old Course’ from February 21-24. Interest in the home players will greater than ever this time around as Thailand, inspired and supported by more than a decade of Honda LPGA Thailand tournaments, is beginning to reap the rewards of a grass root programme that continue to identify and nurture young golfing talent through the

Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand, the current world number 1 ranked player, will spearhead the home challenge for glory at the 2019 Honda LPGA Thailand women’s golf championship, being held at Siam Country Club ‘Old Course’ in Pattaya from February 21-24. (AP Photo)

junior ranks and up to the professional level. The results have been spectacular and the kingdom is now on the verge of challenging the

established powerhouses of South Korea and the USA for dominance on the LPGA Tour. Continued on page 29

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