Pattaya Mail - FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22 - FEBRUARY 28, 2019 (Vol. XXVII No. 8)

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Police sweeten Valentine’s Day with chocolates and goodwill Bali Hai gets more ‘no smoking’ signs

Wilaiwan Phulunglua (right), head of the Narcotics Prevention and Rehabilitation Office, passes out pamphlets and puts up stickers at Bali Hai Pier to educate Pattaya residents and tourists about the expanded no-smoking zones in public areas. (Story on page 2)

Pattaya police left a sweet impression on Walking Street patrons, giving away chocolates to tourists on Valentine’s Day. Shown here, Pol. Lt. Col. Piyapong Ensarn leads 20 Tourist, Pattaya and Immigration officers to the nightlife strip and along the beach on a goodwill patrol. He said the show of force reassures tourists about their safety and the chocolates are a way to make connections with foreign visitors. Many of the recipients posed for photos with the officers and thanked them for their service. (Boonlua Chatree)

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Pattaya reminds bus, taxi users about smoking ban Jetsada Homklin Pattaya officials warned public-transport users that smoking in vehicles or at or around terminals is banned by a new smoking law.

Wilaiwan Phulunglua, Chief of Narcotics Prevention and Rehabilitation Section, and Nurse Naanya Jantaraakard told Soi Khopai Community residents Feb. 11 that the updated law applies to baht buses, taxis, minivans, trains, boats and even motorcycle taxis.

Furthermore, smoking is prohibited within five meters of bus stops, taxi stands, bus and train terminals and ports.

Promulgated in November, the amendments to the 2017 Tobacco Control Act and a 2018 Public Health Ministry

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Bali Hai gets more ‘no smoking’ signs The Public Health Department continues to educate Pattaya residents and tourists about expanded no-smoking zones in public areas.

Wilaiwan Phulunglua, head of the Narcotics Prevention and Rehabilitation Office, led health workers to Bali Hai

Pier Feb. 15 to pass out pamphlets about amendments to the 2017 Tobacco Control Act and a 2018 Public Health Ministry directive extending no-smoking zones in and around government agencies and state enterprises to five meters.

Violators can be fined up to 5,000 baht, although they would receive a warning first.

They also put up additional no-smoking signs and told smokers that the city offers free quit-smoking assistance.

For more information, call 038-429-738.

Baywatch Soi Land Office drains cleaned Wilaiwan Phulunglua, Chief of Narcotics Prevention and Rehabilitation Section, and Nurse Naanya Jantaraakard remind public-transport users that smoking in vehicles or at or around terminals is banned by a new smoking law.

directive extends no-smoking 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.

Nongprue sets more lights for Siam Country Club roadwork zone A work crew first pumped out stagnant and smelly water in front of Tesco ExPattaya engineers sucked out clogged press Feb. 16, then sucked out and manudrainage pipes on Soi Land Office after com- ally scraped sewage pipelines to restore plaints about flooding. water flow.

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Health department warns about teen Valentine sex Warapun Jaikusol Motorists have not adapted well to roadwork on a Soi Siam Country Club side street, speeding through the area and failing to dodge concrete barriers in time.

Jetsada Homklin Nongprue officials promised to upgrade lighting and reduce the work zone around roadwork on a Soi Siam Country Club side street.

Motorists have not adapted well to the construction zone, speeding through the area and failing to dodge concrete barriers in time. There have been several accidents, one last week that left a driver in serious condition.

Neighborhood leaders in January put out a similar warning that went unheeded.

Nongprue engineering chief Thongchai Kamlungthai

conceded the stretch of road on Soi Pornprapanimit 18 is poorly lit, so he promised to install lights and warning signs immediately.

In addition, the contractor installing a new drainage system and resurfacing the road pledged to finish the current phase of work quickly so as to reduce the work zone, which takes up a lane of Soi Siam Country Club.

But he told motorists to slow down. Accidents are happening because drivers slam into the barriers when they try to dodge them and fail.

Workers are laying reinforced concrete square

drainage pipes between the beginning of the soi through the bridge connecting Ban Lang Pa Wan and Pornprapanimit Road.

The entirety of Soi Pornprapanimit 18 has been closed for the work with heavy machinery, a back hoe, and 10-wheeled trucks driving in and out to adjust the surface.

A detour to enter to Ban Lang Community was set up with the entrance at the next soi and runs through Soi Pornprapanimit 5 and on to Nongprue.

The work is scheduled to wrap by month’s end.

Pattaya public-health workers warned the parents of teenagers to educate their children about the dangers of pregnancy and disease before Valentine’s Day. Nurse Naanya Jantrakad said Feb. 13 that the holiday of love is often the first time teens have sexual intercourse. Without proper education about condoms and sexually transmitted diseases, youths can get into trouble, she said.

She said parents should closely monitor their children’s activities on Valentine’s Day and talk to them about sex, STDs, pregnancy and prevention.

Nurse Naanya Jantrakad urges a parent of teenagers to educate her children about the dangers of pregnancy and disease.

Baywatch Naklua calls for Nok Yang bridge repair

Jetsada Homklin Naklua residents are calling on Pattaya City Hall to repair the Nok Yang Canal Bridge after damaged bolts were spotted.

Residents complained Feb. 13 that the bolts fastening the bases of railing posts to the bridge were rusted, loose or missing. They feared someone would lean on a rail and fall into the khlong.

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Banglamung civil servants told Ex-legal chief files defamation charge against masseuse to remain neutral in politics who accused him of extortion

Boonlua Chatree

The Department of Provincial Administration warned Banglamung District employees to be neutral during the ongoing election campaign.

Inspector and former Banglamung District Chief Naris Niramaiwong briefed civil servants on the Interior Ministry’s policies during a Feb. 14 visit.

He also reviewed progress on distributing state welfare cards, the program to suppress

human trafficking, budgets and the issuance of identification cards.

He told workers to fully support work by the Election Commission but not take positions on issues or candidates and not share their opinions publicly.

Department of Provincial Administration Inspector Naris Niramaiwong has warned Banglamung District employees to be neutral during the ongoing election campaign.

Baywatch Political signs replace illegal billboards at Nongprue intersection Jetsada Homklin A Nongprue intersection where officials just pulled down a raft of illegal advertising billboards is now being blocked by political candidate signs.

Motorists complained Feb. 16 that election signs have gone up at the junction between Soi Tungkom-Tanman and Pattanakarn Road, blocking their vision.

That’s almost exactly the same spot where Nongprue workers pulled down signs, placards and billboards that obstructed the vision of drivers Feb. 6.

Motorists again called on the sub-district to pull the signs down and keep them down.

Jetsada Homklin Pattaya’s former top lawyer has filed defamation charges against a Jomtien Beach masseuse who publicly accused him of masterminding a plan to have municipal police extort hefty bribes from beach vendors to fund a New Year’s party.

Sretapol Boonsawat, who headed Pattaya attorney’s office before taking over the head of a Jomtien Beach massage association and becoming an advisor to current Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome, denied all accusations

by Pakjira Wuthiphan that he pushed club members to pay city hall regulatory officers up to 20,000 baht to pay for their holiday party.

He said the accusations, leveled on cable television, were false, damaged his reputation and brought public ridicule on him. Defamation, if proved, can carry a penalty of up to two years in prison in Thailand and a fine of up to 200,000 baht.

A group of municipal police were suspended late last month and Sonthaya ordered an investigative panel immediately probe the complaints brought by the beach vendors.

Sretapol Boonsawat (right) denied all accusations and said he had nothing to do with any alleged plot that pushed club members to pay city hall regulatory officers up to 20,000 baht to pay for their holiday party.

The masseuses balked at paying the hefty amounts, complaining that sum was four times the amount in bribes they historically paid to city hall during the holidays. However, the complainants said, those who refused to pay were arrested on made up charges

on “the boss’s orders”.

Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh, who is overseeing the investigation, has not disclosed how many officers are involved in the scandal, but said that, if found guilty, they not only would be fired, they would face criminal charges.

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Chinese online-gambling operation busted in Najomtien Patcharapol Panrak Three Chinese nationals were arrested when police raided an online-gambling operation in Najomtien.

Wu Jer Jin, 31, Jao Lei, 28, and Ko Bo, 28, were taken into custody by local, Chonburi and immigration police in a luxury condominium in the Sattahip subdistrict’s Moo 3 village Feb. 12. Officers seized notebook and tablet computers, mobile phones and bank books.

Najomtien police chief Pol. Lt. Col. Athorn Chinthong accused the Chinese of taking online bets for sports, lotteries and other games of chance.

Police said the three confessed, saying they were

Wu Jer Jin, Jao Lei, and Ko Bo were arrested when police raided an online-gambling operation in Najomtien.

paid by the operator of the website in China to take bets and follow up on debtors, who owned what they lost

plus high interest payments.

About 60 million baht in bets were placed in the past month, police said.

Teerarak Suthathiwong Nongprue police found 17 motorcycles suspected to have been stolen when they arrested two men with three bikes that were reported taken.

Wichien Kradao, 37, and Sunthorn Kongcharoen, 55,

were taken into custody at Cheunlong Market on Soi Nernplabwan four hours after two motorbikes were reported stolen.

Police said the suspects confessed that Sunthorn used a locksmith to unlock one motorcycle and Wichiai drove it to Soi Paniadchang

Sattahip man cut in drunken brawl Patcharapol Panrak A drunken brawl left a Sattahip man in the hospital after fighting with one of his drinking buddies left him with a nasty gash on his forehead.

Wichapol Fai, 40, was bleeding heavily from the

Pattaya-area chop shops raided Teerarak Suthathiwong Police raided three Pattaya-area garages suspected to be chop shops for a gang of car thieves.

Crime Suppression and Central Investigation Bureau officers stormed two garages near the Mabprachan Reservoir and on Highway 36 in Pong before raiding the final site on Soi Sukhumvit 15/3.

There they found the chassis of a gold, four-door Isuzu pickup owned by navy Lt. Jittaporn Angsanam from the Sattahip Naval Base that had been stolen Dec. 9.

Police arrested garage owner Eakarach Kuladnam, 44, charging him with stripping stolen vehicles for parts.

Jittaporn said the truck was stolen from his navy housing at U-Tapao-RayongPattaya Airport. He helped police over the

wound when paramedics arrived in front of a restaurant in Popchok Village Feb. 12.

He was transported to Sattahip Km. 10 Hospital.

Witnesses recounted the drunk victim’s story that he had been drinking nearby with friends when a quarrel broke out.

10 to stash them. Two others were parked at a house in Moo 9 village.

Further investigation turned up 17 bikes police suspected were stolen, although the suspects claimed the owners had pawned them. Police seized the two-wheelers to track down the real owners.

Both men were charged with conspiracy to vehicle theft.

Police arrested garage owner Eakarach Kuladnam for stripping stolen vehicles for parts after finding the chassis of a gold, four-door Isuzu pickup that had been stolen off Sattahip Naval Base Dec. 9.

next two months track down the vehicle.

Police said the shops were all connected to a gang stealing and chopping up cars and trucks for parts.

Fake-watch seller busted for threatening tourist

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Nongprue police uncover 20 stolen, suspect motorbikes

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Teerarak Suthathiwong A knockoff watch seller was arrested for peddling fake jewelry and threatening a tourist who tried to return a wristwatch.

Nattapong Petchsanan, 26, was taken into custody Feb. 15 after a video posted by the threatened tourist went viral on Facebook.

According to the foreigner’s account, his friend haggled to buy a supposed name-brand watch, but realized after he bought it that it was a fake, so he tried to return it. The watch vendor refused to take it, an argument broke out and the watch seller threatened to turn the tourist in to police.

Nattapong confirmed the story, but said he didn’t mean to threaten the foreign visitor. But he was caught with four copied watches and ran afoul of intellectual property laws.

Nattapong Petchsanan was arrested for peddling fake jewelry and threatening a tourist who tried to return a wristwatch.

Australia police say they didn’t know Bahraini was a refugee Rod McGuirk Canberra, Australia (AP) - Australian Federal Police did not know a Bahraini soccer player was a refugee who feared persecution in his homeland when the agency alerted Bahrain and Thailand that he was on a flight bound for Bangkok, Australian officials said Monday.

Australian Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram told a Senate committee he blamed human error within his own agency for a failure to email to police Hakeem al-Araibi’s refugee status in time. But Outram would not concede under questioning by senators that the 25-year-old former Bahrain national soccer team player would not have been arrested in Bangkok on Nov. 27 without the Australian tip-off.

“I apologize for the error that occurred within the ABF, but I can’t say, nor can I accept, that that error necessarily led to his detention in Thailand that would have occurred anyway,” Outram said.

Police Deputy Commissioner Ramzi Jabbour told the committee Bahrain and Thailand were alerted by police almost six hours before al-Araibi landed after a nine-hour flight from Melbourne on his honeymoon.

The bungle drew the Australian government, international soccer bodies and human rights advocates into a toplevel dispute with the Thai and Bahrain governments to gain al-Araibi’s freedom.

He was detained at the airport and was held 76 days under threat of extradition to Bahrain before he was released last week and returned to Melbourne.

In this Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, file photo, detained Bahraini soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi arrives at the criminal court in Bangkok.

Australian Federal Police said they did not know Al-Araibi was a refugee who feared persecution in his homeland when the agency alerted Bahrain and Thailand that he was on a flight bound for Bangkok, a top police official said Monday. (AP Photo/ Sakchai Lalit, File)

The rules of international policing organization Interpol prevent a Red Notice from being issued for an acknowledged refugee to be sent back to the country from which he or she fled persecution.

Australian officials face days of questioning by a Senate committee this week to determine how the bungle arose.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin told the committee that police did not know that al-Araibi was a refugee and did not have access to his visa status when Bahrain applied for a Red Notice to Australia’s Interpol bureau on Nov. 9.

The Australian Border Force did not advise Australian police that al-Araibi was a refugee until a day after he was detained in Thailand, Colvin said.

Interpol subsequently withdrew the Red Notice, but Bahrain did not drop its bid to extradite al-Araibi until last week.

Jabbour said Bahrain issued the Red Notice on the same day Thailand issued al-Araibi a tourist visa.

“I cannot comment as to what was the trigger” of the Bahrain Red Notice, Jabbour said.

On whether Thailand knew before Australia’s notification that al-Araibi was coming, Jabbour said, “We didn’t get a response either way whether this came as news to them.”

Thailand said in a statement two weeks ago, “We would not have become involved in the issue had we not received the Red Notice alert from the Australian Interpol and the subsequent formal request by Bahrain for his arrest and extradition.”

Australian law does not allow for alAraibi’s arrest in Australia under a Bahrain Red Notice and warrant.

Bahrain had wanted al-Araibi to serve a 10-year prison sentence for an arson attack that damaged a police station. The former Bahrain national soccer team player has denied those charges, which he was convicted of in absentia, and says the case is politically motivated.

He said he believed he was targeted for arrest because of his Shiite faith and because his brother was politically active in Bahrain. Bahrain has a Shiite majority but is ruled by a Sunni monarchy.

Al-Araibi says he fled Bahrain because of political repression and that he fears torture if he returns.

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HHN director honored for social work

Amid STD explosion, Pattayarak health clinic expands

Jetsada Homklin The director of the Human Help Network Foundation Thailand was awarded the country’s top prize for social workers at a ceremony in Bangkok.

Privy Council member Palakorn Suwannarat presented Radchada Chomjinda with the Pakorn Prize Feb. 12 at the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security’s annual Pakorn Day commemoration.

Radchada, whose organization runs Pattaya’s Child Development and Protection, ASEAN Education and Drop-In centers, was one of 23 people to receive the award, which was split into categories for professional, volunteer and affiliated social workers. Of the

Naklua’s Pattayarak Center has upgraded its operation to accommodate new patients.

HHNFT Director Radchada Chomjinda receives the Pakorn Prize for outstanding volunteer & social work from Privy Councilor Palakorn Suwannarat.

recipients, 12 were volunteers.

Pakorn Day is sponsored by the Pakorn Angsusing

Foundation which recognizes outstanding social workers annually.

Blind cyclists ride into Pattaya on fund-raising trek Patcharapol Panrak

20 blind cyclists, guided by 20 escorts are cycling 1,500 kilometers across 15 provinces from Feb. 9-22 to raise funds for the ASEAN Vocational Training Center in Chiang Mai that gives blind and disabled people more opportunities to be self-sufficient.

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Forty blind cyclists and their escorts stopped for a photo op in Sattahip during their trek across the country to raise funds for a vocational-training center for the disabled.

Sattahip assistant district chiefs Pikul Sopa and Sittiporn Sangsawang joined Najomtien Moo 6 village chief Duanjit Subna at the “Cycling with No One Left Behind” event Feb. 11.

The 20 blind cyclists, guided by 20 escorts are cycling 1,500 kilometers across 15 provinces from Feb. 9-22 to raise funds the ASEAN Vocational Training Center in Chiang Mai to give blind and disabled people more opportunities to be self-sufficient.

With steadily increasing reports of sexually transmitted disease infections, Naklua’s Pattayarak Center has upgraded its operation to accommodate the rush of new patients.

Dr. Suwanachai Wattanayingcharoen, director-general of Thailand’s Department of Disease Control, joined Pattaya Deputy Mayor Banlue Kullavanijaya at the Valentine’s Day opening of the expanded center behind Lan Po Market.

Suwanachai said the center’s patient load has increased from 5,500 in 2015 to 12,134 in 2017. Meanwhile, though, Thailand has added only 60 new public health clinics during the same time.

Pattayarak Center previously won an award of

excellence from the Public Health Ministry, servicing both sex workers and the public.

Suwanachai provided recent statistics on STD reports, although did not share the percentage increases.

In 2018, 30.4 in 100,000 people in Thailand had contracted syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV), or chancroid. However, the number of cases of teenagers with the same infections equaled 99.9 per 100,000.

Locally, Pattaya-regional centers reported infection rates of 55.9 per 100,000 among the overall population, but a whopping 637 per 100,000 in the 15-24 age bracket.

This indicates a lack of knowledge and understanding of the dangers of the

diseases and the patients’ inaccessibility to prevention and effective medical treatment, Suwanachai said.

Thus, Pattayarak has upgraded and expanded both its facilities and services so as to be a model health center for Thailand’s tourist cities.

The center is being supported by government agencies, as well as private groups including Service Workers in Group Foundation: SWING, Sisters Foundation, HIV/ AIDs Network, Good Shepherd Foundation and teachers and youth leaders from Photisampan Pittayakarn School and Banglamung School.

Pattayarak Center is open weekdays 8.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For information, call 038260-970. (PCPR)

Health screenings in Khopai Community Warapun Jaikusol The Public Health Department offered free health screenings in the Soi Khopai Community to assist those suffering from the effects of air pollution.

Narcotics prevention and rehabilitation chief Wilaiwan

Phulunglua led the team to the South Pattaya neighborhood Feb. 12.

Health workers educated residents about pollution containing particulate matter 2.5 microns or smaller, who is at risk and what preventative measures they can take.

But workers stressed that

smoking is far more dangerous than any PM 2.5 in the air and urged smokers – particularly those in at-risk groups – to stop.

Nurses also offered diabetes, blood-pressure and other health checks, information on sexually transmitted diseases and prevention, and diphtheria vaccinations.

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Maryvit kindergarteners get ‘diplomas’

Maryvit School hosted its 25th graduation ceremony for kindergarten students.

Warapun Jaikusol Maryvit School hosted its 25th graduation ceremony for kindergarten students.

School licensee Chuan

Chanakitikiattisuk and Maryvit Group President Steven Chanakitikiattisuk led the Feb. 9 presentation of certificates to the 253 tykes Feb. 9.

The “diplomas” matter

more to parents than the young students, but are granted to reinforce the importance of education and inspire both children and adults to continue in school.

EEC committee reviews 86 investment projects

Public-health squad swarms South Pattaya apartment after dengue outbreak Jetsada Homklin Pattaya public health teams converged on the Soi Khopai Community after two residents came down with dengue fever.

The health department officers, joined by Surveillance and Rapid Response Team volunteers, destroyed breeding grounds for dengue-carrying mosquitos at an apartment complex on Soi Sukrudee 2 Feb. 11. They dumped water sources, flipped over buckets and containers and dropped abate into puddles and other standing water.

Volunteers then spread out, educating residents about how dengue spreads and advised them to wear longsleeved shirts and apply insect repellant until the threat

The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Policy Committee reviewed 86 projects worth 13 billion baht in a meeting on Friday last week.

Chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, the EEC Policy Committee tabled investment proposals from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labor, the

Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment.

The committee was informed of 86 projects being developed along Thailand’s east coast between 2018 and 2021 and a plan to produce as many as one million skilled workers over the next 12

Pattaya public health teams converged on the Soi Khopai Community after two residents came down with dengue fever.

has subsided.

The visit came after an adult and child living in the complex contracted dengue from mosquitos buzzing around all the standing water there.

Both are being treated at Banglamung Hospital.

Anyone requiring mosquito abate or fumigation can call the Public Health Department at 038-429-738.

Tantrarak School celebrates Leadership Day Warapun Jaikusol Tantrarak School showcased student skills and role models at its annual Leadership Day event.

Pattaya Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome opened the Feb. 11 Leadership Day event themed “Leader Family Power of Protector” with students and parents.

Leadership Day is a school tradition that this year celebrated the success of rule models at the school and give all students a chance to show off their abilities and

The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Policy Committee reviewed 86 projects worth 13 billion baht in a meeting on Friday last week.

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Tantrarak School showcased student skills and role models at its annual Leadership Day event.

leadership skills.

There were exhibits of student works, a talent show, a

“learning bases” rally, a show by kindergarten “scientists”, and a parent volunteer activity.

Naklua residents accuse businesses of polluting Nok Yang canal

years to meet the demand of industries in the EEC zone and other special economic areas.

The 86 projects require a budget of 13 billion baht.

In addition, the committee acknowledged other investment projects including the highspeed rail project connecting three major airports - Suvarnabumi, Don Mueang, and UTapao - as well as phase three of the Laem Chabang Port expansion and the establishment of an aviation maintenance facility in Thailand’s east. (NNT)

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Naklua residents near the Nok Yang canal claim local businesses are dumping sewage and chemicals into the waterway, causing stinky pollution.

Jetsada Homklin Naklua residents near the Nok Yang canal claim local businesses are dumping sewage and chemicals into the waterway, causing stinky pollution.

Locals living near the middle of the khlong alleged the wastewater was released

by hotels, car care centers and a steel factory, but offered no proof as to which ones, if any, actually did.

Nonetheless, the water is black and the middle of the canal is obstructed by both weeds, marine plants and garbage.

Residents called on city hall to dredge the middle of

the canal – they said Pattaya previously only dredged the ends – and hunt down those dumping sewage.

The residents insisted no one in their neighborhood would do such a thing as they all pledged a while back to preserve the waterway which, once long ago, people could swim and fish in.

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CES 2019: A high-tech spin for the old-school peephole Matt O’Brien & Joseph Pisani Las Vegas (AP) - Findings and observations from Associated Press reporters on the ground at the CES 2019 gadget show.

Ding-dong, the peephole is ringing Ring is giving the old-school peephole a high-tech spin.

The company unveiled a new internet-connected video doorbell that fits into most peepholes. The new device is aimed at apartment dwellers or college students who want a video doorbell, but may not be allowed to install one next to their doors.

Amazon bought Ring last year, giving it a shot at competing better with Google’s Nest, which also makes cameras and doorbells. Privacy experts have long sounded the alarm on Wi-Fi connected cameras and how video is stored. Amazon recently filed a patent application for a facial-recognition system involving home security cameras, which would allow multiple cameras to create composites of faces to identify people who may be trying to burglarize a house. It doesn’t appear Ring uses facial recognition yet, as Nest already does, though Ring may add such features over time. Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.

Ring’s Door View Cam will go on sale in March for $199.

Ring’s new device will still

The Soma Innofit bra is displayed at CES International in Las Vegas. The $59 smart bra recommends a bra, from Soma’s line, of course. (AP Photo)

act as a peephole, but will also send alerts to user’s smartphones when the doorbell is pressed or someone knocks the door.

Eye of the beholder?

The makers of a robotic “personal massager” for women won a prestigious CES award. Then organizers took it away.

Its maker, the startup Lora DiCarlo, was also banned from exhibiting on the show floor (though it was in Las Vegas at a separate media event).

The show’s organizer, the Consumer Technology Association, said in an email to Lora DiCarlo that it reserved the right to disqualify any entry “deemed by CTA in their sole discretion to be immoral, obscene, indecent, profane or not in keeping with CTA’s image.”

An independent panel of judges had selected Lora DiCarlo’s Ose vibrator last fall to win a CES 2019 Innovation Honoree Award in the

Users also need to wear a ring with a joystick on their index finger, so they can flip through messages or respond with their thumb. It can also be controlled using the built-in Amazon Alexa voice assistant, but the joystick has to be pressed down for it to start listening.

Getting people to buy smart glasses has been a challenge - Google famously stopped selling its smart glasses to the public about four years ago.

Fresh bread, no baker That smell wafting through the CES show?

Freshly baked bread.

Wilkinson Baking Co. unveiled a 22-square-foot machine that can bake 10 loaves of bread every hour - no baker needed. But a human is needed to dump the ingredients into the machine, which then mixes them, forms the dough and starts baking. Someone also needs to slice the bread, although the company says it’s work-

robotics and drone category.

Gary Shapiro, CTA’s president and CEO, apologized in a separate letter and said the company should have been told it’s “ineligible for entry.”

CTA declined to provide further comment to The Associated Press on why the product was ineligible.

Ose’s makers say it’s sexism, noting that “a literal sex doll for men launched on the floor at CES in 2018.” Lora Haddock, the CEO of Lora DiCarlo, says that makes for a double standard at the tech show already under fire for not including enough women.

Shades that text Smart glasses haven’t been a hit, but at least one startup still sees them in our future.

A company called North will be delivering its $999 smart glasses to customers in the coming weeks. Called Focals

by North, they pair with a smartphone and show text messages, weather and mapping directions on the glass that only the wearer sees.

Yumi Dobashi tries on the Focals smart glasses at the North booth at CES International in Las Vegas.

(AP Photo/John Locher)

Aaron Grant, North’s cofounder, says his product is different because they are designed to look like regular frames. And prescription lenses can be added.

But there’s a small projector on one side, and the frames on the side are slightly thicker.

ing on a way for the machines to do that, too.

The BreadBot, as it’s called, is being pitched to supermarkets as a way to deliver fresh bread to shoppers who are increasingly worried about the ingredients in their foods. The machine is covered in glass, so

customers can watch bread get made. They then select the loaf they want on a touch screen, sort of like a vending machine.

Three local supermarkets are already testing it. The company says a couple of big chains have agreed to try it out soon, but it won’t say which.

Smart bra Is your bra dumb? An underwear company is pitching a solution to an age-old problem for women: finding a bra that actually fits.

In the past, women could get help from an expert human in finding their right size. A simple measuring tape wouldn’t do, as it doesn’t reflect other factors such as the shape of a woman’s breasts. But these oldschool “bra fitters” are hard to find these days.

To address that, a company called Soma has added some circuits to a brassiere and connected it to an app.

The Soma Innofit has four lines of circuitry hooked up to a circuit board in the back, which then connects to an app via Bluetooth.

The $59 smart bra then recommends a bra - from Soma’s line, of course.

The smart bra isn’t meant for regular wearing, though it could be used again if sizes change because of pregnancy or other factors.

The company says people who don’t want to buy one can use it at a Soma store.

Astronomers unlikely victims of Mexico’s violence, crime Mark Stevenson Mexico City (AP) - Astronomers have become the latest victims of Mexico’s violence with activities at two observatories being reduced because their staff suffered crimes while travelling to the remote mountain sites, researchers said Thursday, Feb. 7.

The problems occurred near the Alfonso Serrano Large Millimeter Telescope, or LMT, in the central Mexico state of Puebla. It is the world’s largest single-dish steerable millimeter-wavelength telescope and is jointly run by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Mexico’s national institute of astrophysics.

LMT “has reduced its scientific activities to a minimum level due to the security problems in the region surrounding the telescope,” said university spokesman Ed Blaguszewski.

“The University of Massachusetts Amherst has suspended travel of UMass

personnel to the LMT site, and we have retained security consultants to advise us on security risks in the area and strategies to deal with these risks,” he said.

Mexico’s astrophysics institute said in a statement that “the unsafe conditions that prevail in the region are well known and public.”

The other affected site is the HAWC gamma ray and cosmic ray observation facility. The HWAC is an international collaboration between more than 30 institutions in Mexico, the United States, and Europe.

Both are located on the Sierra Negra volcano near the Pico de Orizaba, Mexico’s highest peak, with its clear air and lack of nearby light pollution.

The area, around Puebla state’s border with neighboring Veracruz, has long been the scene of criminal activity by the now-fragmented Zetas drug cartel.

But in recent years it has also been hit by violence associated with gangs that

The Large Millimeter Telescope stands on the summit of the Sierra Negra peak near the town of Atzitzintla, Mexico. Astronomers have become the latest victims of Mexico’s violence with activities at the observatory being reduced because its staff has suffered so many crimes while traveling to the remote mountain site, researcher said Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/ Dario Lopez-Mills, File)

drill taps into government fuel pipelines to steal gasoline and diesel.

None of the researchers specified exactly what kind of crimes they had suffered,

but local media have reported that people travelling to the Sierra Negra have been carjacked and robbed on roads leading to the peak.

Astronomy Professor F.

Peter Schloerb, the director of the LMT office for UMass Amherst, declined to give specifics but said “we had just one incident that precipitated our recent decision.”

“No one was harmed, and I don’t think that we at LMT are particularly singled out by the criminals,” Schloerb wrote.

“Nevertheless, we do feel that it is important to review the situation carefully before returning to normal operations.”

A Puebla state official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said the only serious incident he was aware of occurred in December, when a person travelling to work at the telescope suffered a carjacking on his way to the site.

The state police have since said they will provide escorts for astronomers and telescope personnel.

Mexico has suffered a rising tide of homicides, which peaked at 33,341 in 2018, a 15.5 increase over 2017.

The violence has affected many areas of public life; 26 priests were killed in Mexico between 2012 and 2018, and even environmental inspectors have been killed after mistakenly stumbling on drug labs. But to date scientists had not been affected.

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Is there a medical place for the “F” word?

Somber and staid are descriptions used for doctor’s surgeries. They are not thought of as places for humor. However, it has been shown to the satisfaction of the medical world, that humor and a good laugh really is good medicine. Some hospitals even employ clowns to brighten up the days of the inpatients. And no, I am not the clown.

However, one of my favorite jokes involves a parrot that was prone to ‘bad’ language, and consistently used the “F” word. After threatening the talkative bird with dire consequences, its owner put it in the freezer chest for five minutes. After being retrieved from the freezer, the parrot was asked if it would now behave. “Yes,” said the shivering parrot, “I won’t say the ‘F’ word again, but please tell me what did the effing chicken say?”

Now, the F word in medicine. Inappropriate use of the F word (there are some appropriate situations, in my mind at least) is part of an interesting condition known as Tourette’s syndrome. These are involuntary movements (and sounds) and can be related to the magic “F” word, and is usually seen in children (not parrots) around the age of 5-7 years. Boys outnumber girls three to one!

So is this just a case of little Johnny parroting off (sorry about that, couldn’t help myself) dirty words he has heard at home? Actually no. This is a developmental problem that comes under the general heading of ‘Tics’ (as opposed to ‘ticks’ that are parasitic problems).

Tic disorders can affect up to almost 20 percent of children at some stage of their development. At one end of the spectrum are children with brief episodes of single tics, whereas at the other are children with chronic multiple tics, including our friend Tourette’s syndrome.

Tics are abrupt and recurrent involuntary motor or vocal actions. Motor tics include eye blinking, grimacing, nose twitching, lip pouting, shoulder shrugging, arm jerking, head jerking, kicking, finger movements, jaw snapping, tooth clicking, frowning, tensing parts of the body, and rapid jerking of any part of the body are simple tics. More complex ones include hopping, clapping, touching, throwing, arranging, gyrating, bending, biting the mouth, the lip, or the arm, head-banging, picking scabs, writhing movements, rolling eyes upwards or side-to-side, making funny expressions, sticking out the tongue, kissing, pinching, writing the same letter or word over and over, and tearing paper or books.

However, the tic can also be vocal, with simple ones being coughing, spitting, screeching, barking, grunting, gurgling, clacking, whistling, hissing, sucking sounds, and syllable sounds such as “uh, uh,” “eee,” and “bu.” The complex vocal tics can involve complete phrases such as, “Oh boy,” “you know,” “shut up,” “you’re fat,” “all right,” and “what’s that.”

Take that a little further and you get repetitive bad language (which we call Coprolalia, because we love big words) and that is the best known example of Tourette’s syndrome.

Children who have these tics can be looked upon as fools by their peers, and there is a no more predatory group than other children. Parents also can feel helpless in these situations. From the medical point of view, one has to treat the entire family, not just little Johnny with the foul mouth!

Most children with tics can lead normal lives, and the tics themselves usually slow down in teenage years.

Parents should be encouraged to get support for themselves from various organizations such as the Tourette Syndrome Association (enquiries@tsa.org.uk). With a good understanding of tics and related problems, including acceptance from teachers and education of the child’s peers, most children with tics do not need regular medical follow up.

Parents and children need to understand, that although all these symptoms relate to an underlying brain disorder, breaking the cycle may be extremely simple—for example, just allowing the child to have a short “tic break” in a long school lesson may be enough.

Drug treatment can be used, though there are differences in opinion on the efficacy, with some researchers claiming only 30 percent can be helped. However, tic severity and frequency can be reduced. Studies of Risperidone in Tourette’s syndrome have shown that it is efficacious too.

Telemedicine’s challenge: Getting patients to click the app Tom Murphy Walmart workers can now see a doctor for only $4.

The catch? It has to be a virtual visit.

The retail giant recently rolled back the $40 price on telemedicine, becoming the latest big company to nudge employees toward a hightech way to get diagnosed and treated remotely.

But patients have been slow to embrace virtual care.

Eighty percent of mid-size and large U.S. companies offered telemedicine services to their workers last year, up from 18 percent in 2014, according to the consultant Mercer. Only 8 percent of eligible employees used telemedicine at least once in 2017, most recent figures show.

“There’s an awful lot of effort right now focused on educating the consumer that there’s a better way,” said Jason Gorevic, CEO of telemedicine provider Teladoc Health.

Widespread smartphone use, looser regulations and employer enthusiasm are helping to expand access to telemedicine, where patients interact with doctors and nurses from afar, often through a secure video connection.

Supporters say virtual visits make it easier for patients to see a therapist or quickly find help for ailments that aren’t emergencies. But many still fall back to going to the doctor’s office when they’re sick.

Health care experts have long said that changing behavior can be hard. In telemedicine’s case, patients

Caitlin Powers sits in the living room of her Brooklyn apartment in New York, and has a telemedicine video conference with physician, Dr. Deborah Mulligan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

might learn about it from their employer and then forget about it by the time they need care a few months later.

Plus emotions can complicate health care decisions, said Mercer’s Beth Umland.

“My little kid is sick, I want them to have the best of care right away, and for some people that might not register as a telemedicine call,” she said.

Some patients, especially older ones, also just prefer an in-person visit.

“Going to the doctor’s office is a big event in their life and something they look forward to,” said Geoffrey Boyce, CEO of InSight Telepsychiatry, which provides virtual mental health services.

Tom Hill is among that crowd. The 66-year-old from Mooresville, Indiana, said he’s never used telemedicine and has no plans to.

“I believe in a handshake and looking a guy in the eye,” said Hill during a recent shopping break at a downtown Indianapolis

mall. “I don’t buy anything online either.”

But the practice does gain fans once patients try it.

Julie Guerrero-Goetsch has opened her MDLive telemedicine app several times since first using it about a year ago to get help for a sinus infection.

The Fallon, Nevada, resident was skeptical, but she didn’t have time to go in person.

MDLive connected her to a doctor soon after she opened the app. She said he started asking questions about symptoms “just as if I was sitting in a doctor’s office” and prescribed an antibiotic.

Caitlin Powers tried telemedicine recently after hearing about it through a friend. The Columbia University graduate student was feeling stuffed up and worried she might be coming down with the flu. She said her appointment started on time, lasted 10 minutes, and she spoke by video with a doctor in Florida while

never leaving her Brooklyn apartment.

“As a student, I don’t really have time to spend three hours waiting to see a doctor, and this was so easy,” she said.

Doctors have used telemedicine for years to monitor patients or reach those in remote locations.

Now more employers are encouraging people covered under their health plans to seek care virtually for several reasons.

Telemedicine can reduce time spent away from the job, and it also can cost half the price of a doctor’s visit, which might top $100 for someone with a high-deductible plan. However, those savings can be negated if telemedicine’s convenience causes people to overuse it.

Walmart said it cut the cost for virtual visits to give another care option to the more than one million people covered by its health benefits.

Employers aren’t the only ones pushing the technology.

The drugstore chains CVS Health and Walgreens are promoting apps that let customers connect to doctors.

Some insurers like Oscar Health are offering it for free to customers as a first line of treatment.

Ease of use is one of the reasons researchers and telemedicine providers think the practice will become more widespread in several areas of care. Those include dermatology and follow-up doctor visits after a surgery or medical procedure.

Mental health visits are another area ripe for virtual care because patients can feel more comfortable talking to a therapist in their own home, said Boyce of InSight Telepsychiatry, which delivers mental health care in about 30 states.

Boyce said people also like the anonymity of a virtual visit.

Mental health visits were the most common use of telemedicine by patients until primary care overtook that specialty a few years ago, Harvard’s Dr. Ateev Mehrotra and other researchers found in a recent study of claims data from a large insurer.

Research firm IHS Markit estimates that telemedicine visits in the U.S. will soar from 23 million in 2017 to 105 million by 2022. But even then, they will probably amount to only about one out of every 10 doctor visits, said senior analyst Roeen Roashan.

MDLive CEO Rich Berner said telemedicine is like the digital video recorder TiVo, which took a while to catch on with viewers.

“People were so used to doing things the other way that it just took a little while to kind of really go mainstream,” he said. “But when it did, it went mainstream big-time.” (AP)

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Indiana town marshal rescues horse that got stuck in tree Winfield, Ind. (AP) - An Indiana town marshal wielding a chain saw rescued a horse that became wedged between two branches of a tree trunk amid subzero cold. Winfield Town Marshal Dan Ball says the horse somehow became stuck in the multi-trunked tree Wednesday morning in the town about 15 miles (25 kilometers) south of Gary. He told The (Northwest Indiana) Times that he feared the horse might die because it collapsed at one point and was growing weak with the temperature hovering near minus 20 degrees (minus 28 Celsius). But when a neighbor brought a chain saw to the scene, Ball braved the frigid conditions for 45 minutes to cut away branches until the horse was able to pull free. The horse then managed to walk back to its barn and eat breakfast.

(Courtesy of Daniel Ball via AP)

House call turns into horse call for police in Minnesota Inver Grove Heights, Minn. (AP) - Authorities say a suburban Minneapolis resident reported a strange intruder in her basement. It was a horse. Inver Grove Heights police arrived at the woman’s home late Friday night to find a palecolored horse walking through various rooms as officers watched through windows from the outside. Police Sgt. Adam Wiederhoeft says the investigation is ongoing and it isn’t clear how the horse got into the house, but that the animal’s owner came by to remove it. A message on the police department’s Facebook page read: “No horses or officers were hurt in this incident and the horse was safely returned to the corral!”

Where’s the beef? NY woman resorts to baseball bat after patty not available New York (AP) - A woman who couldn’t get a beef patty at a favorite New York eatery used a baseball bat in protest.

On Saturday, police released surveillance video of the woman in action in the Bronx - smashing a restaurant’s windows after learning the eatery had run out of her favorite food. Police say the woman at the Back Home restaurant in the Morrisania neighborhood came in on the afternoon of Jan. 15 and ordered a patty. She was told they’d run out, and she got upset. Authorities say she left and came back to the Jamaican restaurant with the bat. The video shows a woman bashing in two windows. She fled and police were still searching for her on Saturday. The video shows a woman dressed in a black and white jacket and matching sneakers, swinging a multi-colored aluminum bat as bystanders tried to stop her before she walked away. No one was injured during the incident. The Back Home restaurant in the Morrisania neighborhood is a simple, affordable spot that offers Jamaican specialties like curry goat and oxtail, drawing people from around the city.

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Across 1 Operatic song (4) 3 City formerly known as Constantinople (8) 9 Nomadic Arab (7) 10 Stir up (5) 11 Killed (5) 12 Broad street (6) 14 Expenditure (6) 16 Middle (6) 19 Tone of voice (6) 21 Sacred song (5) 24 Blunder (5) 25 Side by side (7) 26 Erasing (8) 27 Remain (4)

Down 1 Fire-resistant mineral (8) 2 Asian country (5) 4 Open-toed shoe (6) 5 Assent (5) 6 Bunch of flowers (7) 7 Untruths (4) 8 Obsolete gold coin (6) 13 Branch of mathematics (8) 15 Diplomatic (7) 17 Sell abroad (6) 18 Intense or violent effort (6) 20 Vote into office (5) 22 Asunder (5) 23 Old (4)

Answer to last week’s Crossword Across: 1 Pelican, 5 Chief, 8 Rugby, 9 Canasta, 10 Antenna, 11 Shack, 12 Sadder, 14 Thatch, 18 Coped, 20 Unclean, 22 Release, 23 Anger, 24 Dodge, 25 Blessed.

Down: 1 Perhaps, 2 Light, 3 Cayenne, 4 Nectar, 5 Canes, 6 Instant, 7 Flask, 13 Dappled, 15 Hectare, 16 Hundred, 17 Superb, 18 Cared, 19 Drake, 21 Edges.

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

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

Answer next week.

Last week’s answers:

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Voters reject plan to name streets in German municipality Berlin (AP) - Voters in a municipality in northwestern Germany have delivered a clear message: no street names, thanks.

Official results from a referendum held on Sunday showed 60 percent of voters in Hilgermissen rejected the local council’s plan to name the streets, while 40 percent supported the proposal. The proposed change was intended to make it easier for people - including police, emergency and delivery services - to find their way around the municipality of some 2,200 residents. Hilgermissen was formed in the 1970s out of several villages. Addresses currently consist of a house number and the name of a former village, a system that has become more unwieldy as new buildings are added. Three locals organized the referendum to oppose street names. Sunday’s result is binding for two years.

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The Golden Glow

Do you know the one factor that stands out in professional glamour shots? It is what I call the ‘Golden Glow’. That is what emanates from those wonderful photographs of people positively ‘glowing’ with health and vitality and have you ever wondered whether people actually look like that? Sickeningly brimming full of goodness, and golden hues just radiating from their every pore. Well, I am sorry to tell you, but like so many things in photography, it is a fraud. A photographic ‘trick’ but one that you can use to your own advantage.

A trick that will cost you about 100 baht for the equipment and three minutes to

master.

However, all photographic tricks still have to conform to the basic rules of physics, in particular the rules of light. Light travels in straight lines and will bounce off any non-translucent object. And that, quite simply, is the scientific basis to this trick.

The ‘golden glow’ that comes from the subject in the photo is really just reflected golden light, bounced back on to the subject. People shots benefit from this warm healthy look and when you use the technique properly, the results can be spectacular.

Now in the photographic sense, the natural golden glow comes in the late afternoon, with the sun getting low on the horizon. There are good scientific reasons why this is so, but here is not the place to discuss them. Just accept the fact that late afternoon sun is the “warm” time. Take pictures at this time of day and you will get that golden glow – but our

Dear Hillary, A problem with my Thai GF. In my position at work I have to attend many functions, some during the day which I take my secretary to, so she is the minute secretary. Other functions are in the evenings and at some of those it is expected that I bring my partner. This is the problem, Noi doesn’t want to go, but gets jealous if I take the secretary from work. The secretary, on the other hand likes these functions and gets grumpy when she doesn’t get an invite to the evening ones. The secretary is good at her job, so don’t suggest I get rid of her. The Thai GF looks after me very well. I don’t have to worry about laundry and the like. How do I manage this situation?

Bryan Dear Bryan, Yours is a have your cake and eat it too. Here’s your situation as I see it. Thai GF good around the house but really doing the job of housekeeper (plus added benefits I would presume). Noi the secretary likes the social side of her work for you and is good at her job. Look at it this way – how difficult is it to get a good secretary? The answer is “very”. How difficult is it to get a good housekeeper? Easy (the added benefits you work out). End result is no contest.

photographic trick will allow you to get that warm golden glow at any time of day – and control it as well, something you cannot do so easily with the sun as your light source. The celestial light technician can hide behind clouds at any time.

What you have to do is build a light reflector that reflects that warm color. Go to the newsagent and get some gold foil paper. The sort of wrapping paper you use for wedding gifts. It may be embossed or patterned, and in fact it is better if it is, but must be gold in color.

Glue the gold paper on to a sheet of cardboard or polystyrene sheet approximately one meter square. You do not have to be deathly accurate or neat. If the surface gets a little ‘scrunched up’ that is fine too. Your capital outlay is probably around 50-100 baht. Not bad, so far!

Now you have a reflector, which if you play with it near a window for example, will

shine “gold” on to any subject. You are now ready to impart that golden glow.

The best photos for this exercise are people shots taken outdoors, with the sun behind the subject. This we call ‘back lit’. You will find that the subject’s hair becomes very bright around the edges, almost like a ‘halo’ effect.

Now for the addition of the golden glow. To do this, you position your reflector to shine some sunlight back towards the subject (that is why the sun should be behind the subject). Prop the reflector in the best position to give the degree of golden glow you want (I generally just prop it up with the camera bag, or you can get an assistant to hold it for you) and look through the viewfinder. See what a difference this makes? The ugly chin shadow has gone as the light is coming upwards, and the subject now looks brilliantly glowing and

Keep the secretary, increase her wages. Gently get rid of GF with 25K in her hand for going quietly.

Dear Hillary, I am looking for a partner. Not a wife, but a girl who understands a man’s needs. I’ve tried with girls from the bars. Found what I thought was the answer. Very friendly for the first two days, then wants to go back to the bar and comes home reeking of booze and quite useless. Tried with sideliners and they are only in it for fun and finances. Housekeeping? No way Jose! So where do I go from here?

Grayson Dear Grayson, You have such a lovely name. Hope it was real and not a nom de plume. There is a wonderful word in German, which I can never spell correctly, but sort of goes “eiyerlegendewolmilschsow”. Translates as “an egg-laying woolly milking pig.” And you being a perspicacious lad with an interesting name will soon see what this is in reference to you. You are looking for someone/thing who doesn’t exist. Give up actively looking and one day the right partner for you will suddenly appear. In the meantime, enjoy yourself.

Dear Hillary, She stayed for a week and then took off, with my things as well as hers. What do I have to do to get my

healthy. The one meter square reflector will also impart catchlights to eyes to make them sparkle as well. The end photo has shiny hair, bright eyes and a golden complexion radiating warmth. A fabulous picture.

Now, the downside! It is more difficult to get the correct exposure setting in the

backlit situation. If your camera has a Backlight button, then use it. If not, walk in close to the subject so that the persons face fills the frame, and take your exposure reading from there. Use the exposure lock, or just memorize the readings and put them in on manual mode.

It is worth it.

things back? Nothing of importance, but items of importance to me. She obviously took them to annoy me. Some tell me to report it all to the police, then I hear that is a waste of time. Or should I just chalk it down to experience.

Jerry Dear Jerry, All of life’s experiences are part of the learning curve.

That’s where you are, my Petal. Sitting fair and square on the learning curve. Move right, left or center and you fall off. Of course the police are not interested in your sentiment underpants. No matter how many times you wore them. This is Experience with a capital E. Be more careful next time about ladies you invite to your home for a week. Would you have done that in your own country?

Dear Hillary, My brother is coming over for a couple weeks in April.

That should get him just in time to get wet. Should I warn him or just let it be a surprise? He is a quiet person, works as an accountant and is 42 years old. I don’t expect him to run to the bars every evening, but you never know. I used to be quiet as well.

Mungo Dear Mungo, I am not sure why you have contacted me. A 42 year old accountant would have all the resources at his fingertips and be able to find out within a couple of clicks what is going down in the middle of April. Being a money man he should have a very busy April and will need you to look after him at times. Well done for looking after your brother.

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One school - more than 40 countries

Students from Bhutan, England and Thailand helped celebrate International Day.

Mark Beales Garden International School (GIS) held a special day to celebrate the huge range of nationalities who make up its diverse community.

The school’s annual International Day featured an array of food, performances and costumes from around the world.

Students, staff and parents came to GIS on Saturday

More than 40 countries are represented at GIS.

February 9 in their national dress, then watched a stunning show with performances from Spain, China, the Caribbean, Scotland, and many more locations. In between the performances,

representatives from each nation came on stage to sing their national anthem and wave their national flag.

After the show, there was an international picnic, provided by parents and

Even some of GIS’s youngest students got dressed up.

the Friends of Garden.

There was also a tombola, where a range of top prizes were on offer.

GIS has an incredible total of 42 nationalities in its community - making it the most

international of international schools.

International Day was kindly sponsored by Indorama, Encounter Church, and Aditya Birla. GIS is based in Ban Chang near Pattaya.

Regents International School Pattaya raises 182,186 THB for community partners on International Day 2019 Susan Dineen

The celebrations started with a parade around The Oval.

Satit Udomseuksa School celebrates top IELTS achievements

(L to R) Yuna Shigi, Donya Salee, Shana Power, teacher Mr. David Bird, Thirawat Krairattanasom, Eisen Lance Tamayao De Guzman, Nikita Ishutin, and Nathanial Nattawoot Hill.

Ms. Choochai Satit Udomseuksa School are extremely proud to announce that the English Programme, upper secondary school students, all

achieved very good scores in their I.E.L.T.S. (International English Language Testing System) run by Cambridge University, to enable them to progress to the university degree course

they have all chosen.

Huge congratulations to all the students and our teacher. Special recognition goes to the outstanding score 0f 8.0 overall to Mr. Nathanial Nattawoot Hill.

Last Friday 8 February, the whole school community at Regents International School Pattaya celebrated one of the most highly anticipated annual events of the year – International Day! As one of the largest international schools on the Eastern Seaboard of Thailand, we are made up of 50 different nationalities, making us a truly international and diverse community.

The school grounds were transformed with beautifully decorated country stalls, representing each nationality at our school with traditional games, quizzes and foods to try. At the same time our objective for this huge event was to raise awareness and funds to support the United Nation’s Global Goal 4 – Quality Education for All. The celebrations started with a parade around The Oval with students, parents and staff members dressed in vibrant national costumes, followed by a fashion show, a football World Cup and some brilliant country performances.

The day was made even more special with the help of our wonderful parents, who took over the International Café, providing deliciously cooked foods from all over the world for us to have a taste.

All in all, this year’s International Day was once again a great success. Not only was it a fantastic day out for the whole family but we are proud to announce that we raised a total of 182,186 THB! The International Day committee, made up of Regents students, will shortly be making a decision on how we as a school can use this money to support the education of our community partners.

Regents International School Pattaya celebrates one of the most highly anticipated annual events of the year, International Day.

Parents provided deliciously cooked foods from all over the world.

Sarah Osborne-James, School Principal, said, “As part of Nord Anglia Education, we are very proud to collaborate with UNICEF. Through this collaboration, our students have their social consciousness raised so they care more deeply about the world and the people in it. Students research, develop and debate challenges facing our society, and take positive action to address them.”

Together with UNICEF, all Nord Anglia Education students are challenged to participate in projects on the Sustainable Development Goals in their schools. The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 goals set by the United Nations regarding social and economic development issues

that we hope to collectively achieve by 2030.

Every year, UNICEF challenges students at Nord Anglia Education schools to raise awareness of these goals through creative projects and activities. Whether it’s a recycling project for sustainability, turning plants into bio-fuels, fighting against poverty in their community, or other meaningful activities based on the 17 goals, our students are challenged to lead change.

The focus of this year’s International Day was Goal 4 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education for all. As a result of the fund raising on International Day by our students, staff and parents we will be able to help deliver against this goal, which is so close to our hearts.

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Love & music fill Pattaya Pride Festival

Pattaya Pride kicked off with a parade from the A-One Royal Cruise to Central Festival Pattaya Beach.

Love was in the air as region’s LGBT community came together for the Pattaya Pride Rainbow Festival.

Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh opened the Feb. 914 event at Central Festival Pattaya Beach with local police and tourism officials, along with representatives from the sponsoring YWCA Equality for all.

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BCCT brings a Renaissance to networking evenings

Lionel Blondiau, Senior Manager at Robert Walters, Kevin Shang, and Mavis He of BorgWarner Thailand.

Greg Watkins, Executive Director of BCCT, Heidi Gallant, Executive Director of AMCHAM Thailand, and Jean-Pierre Trabut, Movenpick Siam Hotel Na Jomtien Pattaya.

Special Correspondent

James Holloway, George Strampp and Pairat S.

BCCT’s Vice Chairman Andrew McBean and Chairman Chris Thatcher pose with Tanya Wallapha from Bangkok Hospital Pattaya.

The British Chamber of Commerce Thailand hosted, in co-operation with AMCHAM, AustCham, BeLuThai, CanCham, GTCC, NTCC, STCC & SATCC, the February Combined Chambers of Commerce networking event at the Renaissance Hotel in Ban Amphur. This was the first time the hotel had held such an event and all the guests were impressed with everything the hotel had to offer. The networking itself was on the deck of Pebbles Bar & Grill.

This overlooks the beach and islands as well as the Bang Saray environs. It is strongly recommended for Sundowners as the setting sun going down over the aforementioned panoramic vista can be stunning.

The hotel put on some great British fayre with roast beef, fish and chips as well as some wonderful oriental delicacies. These were much appreciated by all who attended.

There were plenty of new faces at the event which was sponsored by Budget Car & Truck Rental, Bangkok Hamza Cofi, F&B Director, David Williamson, Senior Sales Director of MBS and Denis Richter, GM of Renaissance Pattaya Resort & Spa.

Hospital Pattaya and Renaissance Pattaya Resort & Spa. The usual suspects were there as well and, in the end, around 100 people were in attendance.

Chris Thatcher, Chairman of BCCT was seen in deep conversation with Andrew McBean, CEO of PKF Thailand. Greg Watkins and his wonderful events manager, Rungjit, made sure that the whole shebang ran smoothly and efficiently. George Strampp told Graham Macdonald, director of Macallan Insurance Brokers, that he was departing these shores for a few months but would be back in the autumn.

Frank Holzer, who heads up Anca Sheet Metal and also the newly formed Manufacturing Focus Group, was in full flow with Elmar Kleiner of OIA Architects.

Prizes were handed out for the lucky draw. Denis Richter, GM of the Renaissance Hotel, was delighted to announce that the winner would get a free night at the Renaissance. Bangkok Hospital Pattaya also said they would give a free check up to the lucky person who was next drawn out of the bowl. It is not known who thought this was a good idea or not given that many of the attendees could not be described as being in the finest of physical shape.

Sponsors and organisers line up for a group photo. (l-r) Renaissance Pattaya General Manager Dennis Richter, BCCT Vice-Chairs Simon Matthews and Andrew McBean, BCCT Chairman Chris Thatcher, AMCHAM Executive Director Heidi Gallant, Bangkok Hospital Pattaya Deputy Head of International Marketing Department Wallapha Sawasdikool, SATCC Advisor to the Board Allan Riddell, AMCHAM President Gregory Bastien, Budget Car and Truck Rental Eastern Zone Manager Klapajone Mettajitt and AustCham Director Frank Holzer.

Mike Diamente, Andrea Macdonnell, Macallan Insurance Broker, Rosanne Diamente and Jimmy Howard.

Ben Davis-Hughes, Mark Bateman, Paul Callus, Supa Kukarja, Pattaya Mail Director of Communications, and Martin Roessing, Plant Manager of BorgWarner.

Guldo Heynen, Director of Supermarket Foods Asia, Helmut Buchberger, ABC Asian Business Consulting, and Michael Woelfl, Sales Manager of Supermarket Foods Asia.

Jimmy Howard and Buster Williamson, Sales Manager of MBS, were also chatting away and discussing various topics that usually involved alcohol and food as they are renowned connoisseurs of both. Helmut Buchberger was explaining to the ageless Allan Riddell, representing the South African Chamber, the benefits of his new project the Difference Residence which will bring a completely new concept to the Eastern Seaboard. The

ubiquitous Simon Matthews, CEO of Manpower, was heard expounding the benefits of chamber membership to all and sundry.

All in all, an excellent event and well worthwhile for those who made the effort to get there. The next event will be led by the Australian Chamber of Commerce (AustCham) and will be at the Mytt Hotel on Friday, 15th March. It is strongly recommended you make the effort to attend.

Allan Riddell, Jintana Phenix, Mike Todd-White, Krittapat C., Patrick Heywood, Daniel Parsons and business partner.

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Obscure delights Back in the Old Country on the bleak island where we lived, my parents would often take me for a jaunt in our ageing car, pottering around the familiar country lanes with their high hedgerows and grey stone walls. My father enjoyed taking a road less travelled, with the words, “I wonder where this road leads?” And with that, we’d turn into some country lane eager with anticipation. Sometimes it would lead to a farmstead and we’d end up in a muddy yard surrounded by mystified cows and pigs. Other times we’d find a tiny pebbled beach, a small forgotten forest or come over the brow of a hill to a sudden vista that stretched to the far horizon.

The musical world is full of byways too, along which comparatively few people have ventured. As a teenager, I loved to travel those roads and I still do. For us kids who lived out in the sticks yet wanted to hear classical music, the BBC’s so-called Third Programme was a cultural lifeline. It went on the air in 1946 and for decades played a leading role in disseminating classical music to the farthest flung corners of Britain.

Coming home one day after a jaunt in the car with my

Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959): Serenade for Two Clarinets & Strings.

Omega Ensemble (Duration: 21:17; Video: 720p HD)

Leos Janácek in 1881.

parents, I switched on the radio in the music room. We didn’t have a radio in the car. (“Too distracting,” my father used to say.) The radio was an enormous polished wooden thing and after the valves had warmed up, the sound of cello music emerged from the loudspeakers. It was music I’d never heard before, with oddly angular melodies and captivating turns of harmony. I didn’t realize at the time, at least not until the announcement at the end of the piece, but I was listening to Martinù’s Third Cello Sonata, which had been written only a few years earlier. For years afterwards, I bought every recording of Martinù’s music that I could lay hands on, most of which appeared on the Czech Supraphon label.

Bohuslav Martinu was an incredibly prolific composer and churned out six symphonies, fifteen operas, fourteen ballet scores and countless other orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works.

In his younger day he was a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic and taught music in his home town. As a composer he experimented with different musical styles yet from his earliest work a highly personal sound began to emerge.

Martinu (MAR-tih-noo) had a rather curious childhood. He was born in a church tower in a small town in Bohemia. His father held a part-time job in the church and as a reward was allowed to live in some rooms up in the church tower. The young Bohuslav was a sickly child and frequently had to be carried up the 143 steps to his room on the back of his father or his elder sister. In

adult life, he was quiet, introverted, and socially uncomfortable. Close friends found him to be a kind, gentle and somewhat selfeffacing individual. Research during the last decade has revealed evidence that Martinu was autistic and probably had Asperger syndrome.

If you’re unfamiliar with his music, this 1951 chamber work would make an excellent introduction. It was written when the composer was settled in New York and a splendid example of how Martinu was able to blend traditional Czech idioms with more modern sounds. His characteristic personal sound is instantly recognizable in the opening bars.

Leos Janácek (18541928): Idyll Suite for String Orchestra.

A Far Cry (Duration: 26:39; Video: 1080p HD) In case you’re wondering, A Far Cry is the somewhat unusual name of a string orchestra based in Boston. It is small enough to perform without the need of a conductor. The members of the orchestra tend to play

Jane Harper writes engrossing 3rd novel Oline H. Cogdill The three Bright brothers, bonded by blood, history and the vagaries of the Australian outback, are the true lost men of Jane Harper’s engrossing third novel, “The Lost Man.” “The Lost Man” works as a story about families and also as a tale about surviving in the outback, a “land of extremes where people were either completely fine or they were not.” Certain rules “written in blood” guide life in the Queensland part of Australian — break one and the outback is not just unforgiving, it can be fatal. Here it’s a hardscrabble life, the nearest neighbor may be a three-hour drive away, death from dehydration is a reality and checking in regularly with others is vital.

Oldest brother Nathan Bright is isolated even more than the norm, banished from the town of Balamara for breaking one of those Australian rules and is semi-estranged from his family. He spends his solitary life tending a dying ranch, waiting for those infrequent visits from his teenage son, Xander. He and youngest brother, Bub, are brought together

when the body of middle brother, Cam, is found near the landmark grave of an old stockman, an area icon wrapped up in legend. Cam’s well-stocked vehicle, filled with food and water as it should be, is found miles away from his body.

How Cam, so well-seasoned in the ways of Australia, ended up dead forms the crux of “The Lost Man.” Cam’s death forces Nathan to re-examine his life and how he has thrown himself into the life of a loner. Cam seemed to have it all — an intelligent wife, two daughters and a prosperous farm. He was well liked in ways that Nathan, and to an extent Bub, never could be. But Cam had a dark side that few knew about, as evidenced as secrets begin to spill out.

Solid, believable characters fill “The Lost Man.” But equally important is the exploration of the outback where “too much space” gives way to resentments. Helicopters are used to round up cattle and longrange radios are a necessity in this “perfect sea of nothingness. If someone was looking for oblivion, that was the place to find it.”

Harper’s “The Lost Man” is storytelling at its finest. (AP)

standing up, which gives much more freedom of movement. They give a splendid performance of this littleknown work by Janácek (yah-NAH-check) who today is considered one of the most important of all Czech composers. The suite is an early work written in 1877 when Janácek was aged twenty-three and a penniless music student in Prague. At about the same time, he became the conductor of the Brno Music Society which at least must have brought him a bit of much-needed extra income.

This delightful six-movement work seems to speak

of another age. From the opening notes you can hear echoes of the yearning folk songs and lively country dances of Janácek’s native Bohemia. It’s often said that his musical style absorbed elements of Moravian and Slovak folk music and for many years Janácek took and active interest in his country’s folklore.

Oddly enough, there are moments when the music sounds almost English. Despite being a student work, it’s compelling, charming music yet gives few hints of Janácek’s tormented and powerful musical style which was to emerge in years to come.

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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‘Alita: Battle Angel’ is big eyes and big effects

Mark Kennedy Los Angeles (AP) - Alita is just like a typical teenage girl. She loves chocolate, breaks curfew and crushes on a bad boy with floppy hair, a leather jacket and a motorcycle. But Alita isn’t typical in other ways. For one, she can slice apart a single falling tear with her ferocious battle sword.

Those are the two sides brought up by “Alita: Battle Angel ,” our film entry into the thrilling manga world of artist Yukito Kishiro and imagined for the screen by producer James Cameron and director Robert Rodriguez.

The film crams in so many plot lines that it risks being overstuffed but somehow stays true to its mesmerizing vision and emerges as a scifi success, if not a triumph.

Alita is both machine and human and the big-budget screen adaptation is both live action and computer generated, each element present in Alita herself,

played with equal parts tenderness and ferocity by Rosa Salazar. She’s been given huge CG eyes but they’re not as distracting as you may fear. Somehow, Salazar still conveys deep emotion without a crucial acting tool. The film also has appearances by Jennifer Connelly, who is chilly and mysterious, and Mahershala Ali, who is chilly and dangerous.

The film begins with Alita’s torso found in a junk heap by a compassionate cyber-physician played by Christoph Waltz. The year is 2563 and we are in the crowded, chaotic streets of Iron City, a melting pot of survivors from a post-apocalyptic war. Cyborgs are everywhere and getting fresh parts seems to fuel the economy. (Curiously, plastic umbrellas are still in use. Cities can float in the sky here, but the population still relies on cheap plastic umbrellas.)

Alita’s human core is given a body and she awakens but has no memory of what came before. She must find out who she is and what her destiny is. “Whose rules do I live by?” she asks. Meanwhile, she falls for a human cyborg jacker (bland but

This image shows the character Alita, voiced by Rosa Salazar, in a scene from “Alita: Battle Angel.” (Twentieth Century Fox via AP)

hunky Keean Johnson) who has some moral issues to work out since he’s romancing a cyborg by day and slicing them apart at night.

There are several subplots involving cyberpunk bounty hunters, a ruling elite that lives in the sky and the town’s favorite sport — Motorball, a combination meth-fueled roller derby and Death Race. The film is rated PG-13 but there’s quite a bit

of cyber-gore here, including gouging out eyeballs (more than once) and slicing metal folk in half or amputating them. If these were human, we’d be moving toward an R for sure.

The filmmakers are not afraid of making our heroine absolutely lethal and yet swooningly immature (she actually digs into her chest and offers her own artificial beating heart to her boyfriend,

later laughingly admitting that gesture was “intense.”)

She can give a beat-down to a roomful of hardened killers but still curl up on the couch and put her head on her adoptive dad’s chest. She can do flips worthy of an Olympic gymnast but her dad still wants her to wear knee pads and a helmet while competing at Motorball — against lasers, huge spinning saws and knives.

Alita has a strong moral compass — “I do not stand by in the presence of evil,” she announces — and, thankfully, triggering her special brand of martial arts mayhem must be earned. When a cute dog is senselessly slaughtered (relax, off camera), she dabs its blood on her face out of respect and revenge, squints really hard and coils up like lethal spring. It’s very clear whoever did that will not survive the next 5 minutes.

“Alita: Battle Angel,” which, in the end, needs more humor and less violence, kind of staggers quietly to its end.

A sequel isn’t just hinted at — it’s practically dangled in front of our eyes as Alita looks heavenward to the next battlefield in the sky city. Well, count us in. Like Hailee Steinfeld in “Bumblebee,” Salazar’s Alita is part of a welcome wave of films about complex young women who know how to handle even the worst machines. Girls rule.

“Alita: Battle Angel,” a Twentieth Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 for “sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for some language.” Running time: 122 minutes. Three stars out of four.

Rijksmuseum shows off its Rembrandts in blockbuster show Mike Corder Amsterdam (AP) — For the first time, and likely the last, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is showing off most of its works

by Rembrandt van Rijn in a single exhibition.

From imposing portraits to intimate sketches and prints that usually lie cocooned in the darkness of climate-controlled storage, the Amsterdam museum is exhibiting 22 paintings, 60 drawings and some 300 of its best etchings in the blockbuster show that turns visitors into flies on the walls of the Dutch master’s life.

“I think the exhibition wonderfully explains who Rembrandt was as a person,” said Pieter Roelofs, the museum’s head of paintings and sculpture.

“So we really are brought into his private world and on the other hand it gives a wonderful overview of Rembrandt as one of the most experimental and innovative artists in Western art history.”

Museum Director Taco Dibbits said such a show is unlikely to be repeated.

“This will never happen again because the works on paper are incredibly fragile,” he said.

The museum actually owns 1,300 prints, but is showing only the best in the exhibition, “All the Rembrandts,” that opened this month.

It is part of a raft of shows at museums across the Netherlands this year to mark the 350th anniversary of the artist’s death.

A visitor passes a billboard drawing attention to the exhibit of all the Rijksmuseum’s Rembrandts in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 13.

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The former Dutch queen, Princess Beatrix, formally opened festivities last month at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, home to another

important collection of works

by Rembrandt, including “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” and a poignant self-portrait from 1669,

the year Rembrandt died.

The Rijksmuseum show gives an unprecedented overview of Rembrandt’s progression from precocious young artist to the master of the Golden Age, who was one of the first to depict his subjects warts and all.

“Rembrandt is the artist of human beings and he never idealizes so he really portrays people; how they are in their strengths and weaknesses,” said Roelofs.

The one painting not in the special exhibition wing is the iconic “Night Watch” which remains in pride of place in the museum’s Honor Gallery.

The exhibition includes dozens of self-portraits that show how Rembrandt used what are effectively 17th century selfies to practice

portraying emotions that later reappear in his bigger works; there is an intimate sketch of his wife Saskia lying ill in bed shortly before she died at the age of just 29, and etchings and drawings he made while wandering the streets and lanes of Leiden and Amsterdam.

“I often say he’s the first Instagram and that’s not trying to be a popular,” Dibbits said. “But Rembrandt was decisive in the way that we look at today because he was the first artist who depicted the world around him. Otherwise we would still be making images of gods and goddesses.

Rembrandt is the first to paint us as human beings as we are.”

The exhibition runs until June 10, 2019.

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Eric Burdon and War: ‘Eric Burdon Declares “War”’ mott@pattayamail.com “We the people have declared war against the people for the right to love each other”.

Personally I prefer this second title, but then record companies can be such picky people. Eric Burdon and War was one of those unstable combinations that throws out sparks and heat even as it heads toward meltdown. Looking back it seems amazing that the team up of a British blues/rock singer, a freaked out Danish harmonica player and a Los Angeles–based R&B/jazz/ Latin sextet happened at all.

The combined mixture of ethnic background and musical influences created a sound that was as hard to classify and exciting as it was to listen to. Eric Burden and

War ran that fine line between genius and total excess as their star blazed a fluorescent trail across the musical stratosphere.

The career of the band lasted only two years and two albums, (1969 – 71) and during this brief time together they performed with a sense of daring, risk, imagination, and adventure.

“Eric Burdon declares War” was the first and most successful of the two albums (the other “Black Man’s Burdon” being released the following year) and was recorded after nearly a year of touring. The band went in to the studio and laid down what they were playing on stage with very little overdubs and plenty of ad-libbing.

The music captures the kinetic interplay between Burdon and his band mates.

Their ability to communicate with and improvise off each other gives “Declares War” its power and its glory. The tension between Burdon’s

unpredictable nature, War’s polished instrumental skills, and Lee Oskar’s reckless jamming harmonica runs through the music.

Burdon was an artist with a definite message, and working with a multi-racial band was part of his statement. “War” wasn’t a name to be chosen lightly in 1969 (or even now come to that).

It acknowledged both cultural and artistic conflicts and challenged audiences to deal with such issues - at least that’s my slant looking at the moniker’s meaning.

The free flowing approach of the album starts immediately with “The Vision Of

Rassan”. With its name checks to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, this was the band’s tribute to jazz reed player Roland Kirk, and whets the musical palate for what is to come.

From there, Burdon leads the band into an expanded and exploratory version of “Tobacco Road”. The song had previously been a hit for the Nashville Teens but not much of their version remains as Burdon uses the lyrics as a springboard for an odd erotic sermon, nailed down by War’s tight support play.

The albums best known track “Spill The Wine” is a Latin tinged daydream of a song which became a number 3 in the U.S.A and a number one in the rest of the world.

“Mother Earth” an old blues standard gives us the main theme for the 13 minutes of “Blues For Memphis Slim” and as the band coasts along, Burdon expounds upon sex, birth, and morality, stepping aside to

Peter Jackson making new documentary of Beatles’ ‘Let It Be’ Hillel Italie New York (AP) - The Beatles’ farewell documentary “Let It Be” is getting an encore, and a reinvention.

“Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson has announced he is making a new film out of some 55 hours of footage — shot in January 1969 — that has never been seen by the public. The original movie, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, came out soon after the Beatles broke up in 1970 and has long been viewed as a chronicle of the band members growing apart.

In a Rolling Stone interview given months after the film’s release, John Lennon recalled the making of “Let It Be” as a miserable experience, “set-up

by Paul (McCartney) for Paul.

“That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can’t speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being side-men for Paul,” he said.

But Jackson says the additional footage tells a very different story.

“It’s simply an amazing historical treasure-trove,” he said. “Sure, there’s moments of drama — but none of the discord this project has long been associated with.”

For Jackson, the Beatles movie marks another turn to documentaries after his recent “They Shall Not Grow

This Feb. 28, 1968, file photo shows The Beatles, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. (AP Photo)

Old,” a film that brings World War I to life after the director restored heavily-damaged, grainy footage, transferred it into 3-D and even used expert lip readers to restore lost dialogue.

He is working on “Let It Be” with the cooperation of McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison, the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison. The new project was announced on the 50th anniversary of one of the highlights of “Let It Be,” the Beatles’ spirited performance on the roof of Apple Records in London.

No release date has been set. A remastered version of the original film, which won an Oscar for best original score, is also planned.

In 1969, the movie was meant to show the Beatles

turning away from the psychedelic tricks of “Sgt. Pepper” as they jam on new songs such as “I’ve Got a Feeling” and “Get Back.” But the Beatles seem far older and wearier than the joyous moptops of a few years earlier. Harrison briefly walked out during filming and on camera argues with McCartney over a proposed guitar part.

Harrison would later blame tension with McCartney and unhappiness with Lennon’s then-new relationship with Ono, who is often by Lennon’s side in the movie.

“Paul wanted nobody to play on his songs until he decided how it should go.

For me it was like: ‘What am I doing here? This is painful!’” he said in an interview for a 1990s video anthology of the Beatles.

“Then superimposed on top of that was Yoko, and there were negative vibes at that time. John and Yoko were out on a limb. I don’t think he wanted much to be hanging out with us, and I think Yoko was pushing him out of the band, inasmuch as she didn’t want him hanging out with us.”

“Let It Be” didn’t come out until May 1970, and Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner would speak of Lennon “crying his eyes out” when the two saw it together. Meanwhile, the accompanying album led to a bitter dispute between McCartney and his bandmates. The group had pushed aside longtime producer George Martin and brought in Phil Spector, who infuriated McCartney by adding strings and a choir to the ballad “The Long and Winding Road.” In 2003, McCartney oversaw a new and sparer version of the album, “Let It Be ... Naked.”

Last fall, McCartney hinted at the upcoming revision of the film.

“I know people have been looking at the (unreleased) footage,” he said in an interview aired on Canada’s Radio X. “And someone was talking to me the other day and said: ‘The overall feeling is very joyous and very uplifting. It’s like a bunch of guys making music and enjoying it.’”

Eric Burdon.

allow Charles Miller and then Lee Oskar to strut their stuff.

The album concludes with the vocal workout “Your No Stranger”, a nice return to normality after what has gone before.

The year after this album was recorded, the partnership dissolved but fortunately the music survives and represents a remarkable combination of divergent ancestries and united talents.

Track List: The Vision Of Rassan Tobacco Road

Spill The Wine Blues For Memphis Slim You’re No Stranger Musicians: Eric Burdon – lead vocals Lee Oskar – harmonica Lonnie Jordan – organ, piano Harold Brown – drums Dee Allen – conga, percussion Bee Bee Dickerson – bass, vocal Howard Scott – guitar, vocal Charles Miller – tenor sax, flute

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Cultures shared as USS Green Bay sailors & marines visit Thai schools

Lt. Michael Siy, from Fresno, Calif., quizzes a child on good oral hygiene during a community service project at the Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.

Sailors and Marines assigned to the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) pose for a group photo during a community service project at the Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.

Story & photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class Anaid Banuelos Rodriguez

Operations Specialist Seaman Catherina Watson, from Jacksonville, Fla., hula hoops with a child during a community service project at the Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.

Lt. j.g. Jasmin Nicasio, from San Diego, hula hoops with a child during a community service project at the Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.

Lt. Mick Radiou, from Staunton, Va., and Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Dylan McCurry, from Antioch, Ill., play games with children during a community service project at the Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.

Service members assigned to the forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) participated in two cultural exchange projects in Chonburi, Feb. 8 and 9.

56 Sailors and Marines assigned to Green Bay, Naval Beach Unit (NBU) 7 and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) interacted with more than 700 youth and staff members from Ban Thung Grad School and the Child Protection and Development Center.

“Most of our Sailors and Marines have never been to Thailand before so these opportunities for cultural exchange are great memories for them and an encouragement to continue to get involved,” said Lt. Danny Cho, Green Bay’s command chaplain.

Service members were greeted with a traditional dance performed by the students at Bang Thung Grad School, which provides education to more than 600 Thai primary students.

After exchanging greetings, the students and service members challenged each other to push up and arm-wrestling contests and played soccer, volleyball, basketball, tug of war, jump rope and other games.

“It was a privilege to have the opportunity to participate in both community service projects,” said Seaman Preston Mayer. “It was fun being able to play sports and be involved in different activities with the kids. Even though we don’t speak the same language, we got along great. It was a very rewarding experience.”

The Child Protection and Development Center is run by the Human Help Network

Foundation Thailand which provides support to underprivileged, homeless, abused and broken family children.

At the center, service members introduced themselves, played sports, painted and danced with the children.

Green Bay’s Dental Officer, Lt. Michael Siy, demonstrated to the children good oral hygiene practices. The children performed a dance routine before giving a tour of the animal farm, garden and facilities.

“My favorite part about community service is being with the kids,” said Operations Specialist Seaman Catherina Watson. “I joined the Navy to help people and I think this is the best way to interact with different cultures. Getting to eat and play with them is the best experience.”

Green Bay is in Thailand to participate in Exercise Cobra Gold 2019. Exercise Cobra Gold, in its 38th iteration, runs from Feb. 12-23, 2019 with 29 nations participating including Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, and Singapore.

The exercise emphasizes

Lt. j.g. Jasmin Nicasio, from San Diego, reaches for a vegetable in the Child Protection and Development Center garden during a community service project in Chonburi.

Lt. Danny Cho, from Marina, Calif., paints with a child during a community service project at the Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.

coordination on civic action, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, seeking to expand regional cooperation and collaboration in these vital areas.

Green Bay, a San Antonioclass amphibious transport dock ship, was commissioned by the U.S. Navy in

2009. The ship is forward deployed to Sasebo, Japan as part of Commander, Amphibious Force 7th Fleet and is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency.

Seaman Preston Mayer, left, and Lt. Michael Siy, right, both from Fresno, Calif., pose for a photo during a community service project at the Child Protection and Development Center in Chonburi.

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Meeting the locals

This group from the USS John C. Stennis visited the Father Ray Foundation where they spent a morning not only meeting the children and students, but also having a lot of fun.

Derek Franklin The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis sailed into Pattaya waters recently carrying several thousand military personnel who were due to take part in the annual Cobra Gold Military Exercises.

For the US Navy personnel on board the ship it means a time of sacrifice, being away from family and loved ones and also working in an

environment that can be unpredictable at times.

Coming to Thailand and being part of the Cobra Gold Exercises gives them exposure to another culture and a different way of life than what they are used to at home and on board ship.

One group from the ship recently visited the Father Ray Foundation where they spent a morning not only meeting the children and students, but also having a lot of fun.

The children remind the sailors of their own children.

They played soccer at the Father Ray School for Children with Special Needs, and while they played well it was the local children who won.

When asked if there any basketball players among the visitors, several hands were raised. A few boasted of how well they played at college, and they laughed when it was announced that the students at the Foundation would be giving them a few lessons.

Some military personnel have been away from their own families for many months.

The laughing stopped when they realised they would be playing basketball at the Technological College for People with Disabilities, and they would be playing while sitting in a wheelchair.

Once again the local students won.

Being away from their own children can be difficult for the sailors, male and female, so their visit to the Father Ray Day Care Center brought smiles to everyone’s faces.

You could see the joy in the faces of the visitors, it must have made them think of their own children, and how they were missing them. The toddlers were a bit nervous at seeing so many big people, all wearing camouflage, but once the ice cream was passed around everyone relaxed.

The Father Ray Foundation has been welcoming the US armed forces since the early 1970’s when Father Ray was still starting out with his social work here.

Forty five years later as each year the Foundation welcomes back old friends and makes new ones.

Making new friends.

Break time.

The U.S.A. definitely lost.

Thailand v U.S.A. in the soccer competition.

Ice cream brings friends together.

Not as easy as it looks.

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Foreign currency accounts for foreigners - an ideal way to keep your home currency savings The Pattaya City Expats Club, at their meeting on Sunday 10th February, gave a very warm welcome to Waraporn Srinaka and her team of colleagues from Bangkok Bank.

Waraporn is a Senior Specialist in the Foreign Customer Segments Division of the Global Payments Department of Bangkok Bank, thus she was able to provide PCEC members with a range of banking advice and solutions.

She joined Bangkok Bank’s Private Banking Division at their Head Office in 1993, initiating her highly distinguished professional career in the banking sector. After a few years, she joined her family in pursuing an overseas career, living in various countries before rejoining Bangkok Bank in 2005 as an Account Manager, Property Financing, in Singapore.

After 15 years of living overseas as an expatriate, and a few years at Bank Head Office to further enhance her skills in Business Development and Channel Marketing, she was put in charge of expatriate Banking Projects and Expat Financial Schemes. During her career, she has received

Waraporn with colleagues, and her PCEC certificate.

Road Pattaya, Pattaya Beach, Boonthavorn Sukhumvit and Walking Street Pattaya.

She explained that, when thinking about sending or receiving money from overseas, you need to pay attention to the currency exchanges rates. With Bangkok Bank, you can set up a foreign

Waraporn answering questions.

many commendations, which make her a highly respected banking professional amongst her peers.

As a former expatriate herself, Waraporn possesses a unique insight into the banking issues and challenges faced today by expats throughout Thailand.

Waraporn first introduced herself and her team, which included colleagues from the Head Office and from these branches: Soi Buakhao Pattaya, Pratamnak Road and Jomtien Beach, Second

currency deposit account.

This is useful for foreigners who would like to hold incoming foreign funds without needing to immediately convert the money to Thai Baht.

These accounts are available as both foreign individual and joint accounts, and as savings accounts or, for some currencies, fixedterm accounts giving higher interest. There is no limit to the maximum deposit balance and you can change the money into Thai baht at any time and at a favourable rate.

No documents are required when you withdraw funds or transfer money overseas. A Foreign Currency Deposit account does not have any restrictions on the withdrawal of funds, and it is eligible for the requirements at immigration to obtain a Thai visa or extend a Permission to Stay. For more information on the deposit and withdrawal terms and conditions and fees, you can pick up a brochure at any Bangkok Bank Branch in Pattaya.

Foreigners can also invest in a fixed/time deposit account and enjoy higher interest than a normal savings account; these accounts also satisfy the requirements at immigration to obtain a Thai visa or extend a Permission to Stay.

She added that altogether Bangkok Bank has 32 overseas branches – the largest overseas branch network of any Thai bank. Therefore many customers can transfer funds using the bank’s overseas relationship networks, and they will then benefit from receiving their money faster, more securely and with lower fees.

Waraporn was also keen to point out that foreigners can transfer money both into and out of Thailand. She advised foreigners who transfer money into Thailand and wish to repatriate such funds out of Thailand at a future date, that they must keep the documents showing evidence of the money transfer into Thailand, such as a credit advice, which can be requested at the bank

where the foreigner holds their bank account.

She also suggested that, when transferring money into Thailand they can avoid delays if they supply all the following information: their bank’s Swift Code, which for Bangkok Bank is BKKBTHBK; the bank account name and number; the address in Thailand; the preferred currency; the purpose of the money transfer into Thailand.

Foreigners can also transfer money out of Thailand: this may come from their condominium investments, income earned in Thailand, or money brought into Thailand. For such a transfer, the bank will ask the customer for evidence of the origin of the money transfer, such as an employer‘s letter for the income earned in Thailand, the credit advice from when the money was brought into Thailand, or the sale agreement and title deed for a condominium investment.

Waraporn also explained the upcoming changes for use of Bangkok Bank’s New York Branch to send money to Thailand. An outline of these changes can be found on the club’s newsletter on their web site.

She ended her presentation by answering questions from club members. After this, she was thanked for her comprehensive talk, and presented with the Club’s certificate of appreciation.

During the Q & A session, the Bangkok Bank staff handed out a survey form to all the members.

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Articles For Sale/Rent As611/01-52/ Pattaya Mail Cartoonist Michael Baird (M.J.B.) has 3 brand new cartoon E-Books out. These and his other 10 cartoon EBooks can be bought from www.amazon.co.uk or www. booksmango.com. You will now be able to see all of Mike’s cartoons in FULL COLOUR. His 3 new Kindle

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30 years; 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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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, 087-805-5276 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.

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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 Prc217/08-12/ One-bedroom corner unit, Kitchen, Pool, located Beach Rd. Pattaya: 15,000/month. Tel: 091 504 1806 Prc216/05-09/ Pattaya Beach Rd. Soi 13, Studio, Terrace, Kitchenette, Safe box. Penthouse style, pool. Bt. 13,500.

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Property for Sale Houses, Villas Psb33/06-10/ 3-Bedroom House (very nice) 100sqw, Pool, European kitchen, Daikin Air, Close to exit to 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 3979541, 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, air-condition 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@gopropertythailand.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 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,

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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 Sukhumvit Road; quite & peaceful; 1,632sqm land; living space

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Condominiums Psc98/08-12/ Porchland Condo Jomtien Owner Sale: One bedroom, 48m2, 8th Floor, high quality. All included. 2.1 Million Baht.

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Battersby burns up Phoenix PSC Golf from The Billabong Bar Monday, Feb. 11, Phoenix Gold Stableford The day started out overcast and as we got to the first tee a little shower of rain came but didn’t last long and it turned out great after that.

With seven groups playing we a little late getting away because the course was packed but the golf just flowed along.

Playing Ocean and Mountain loops in that order gives you a chance to warm up before taking on the more difficult Mountain nine, which in the scribe’s opinion would have to be one of the hardest nine holes of golf in this area. The course was in fantastic condition as

usual and everyone had a good day out.

The scoring was very good with fifth place going to Glyn Davies on countback with 35 points. Two points better in fourth spot was Jerry Grocott with 37 points while Noddy Moyle was relegated to third on countback by Nadine Goyons, both with 38 points. Julie Battersby had a day in the sun with a gross 81 for 43 points to take the top spot, and in that score the young lady had three 2s; Vaughn Jackson and Jerry Grocott got the others.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, Green Valley Stableford A busy Green Valley today but it didn’t seem to worry

Noddy Moyle, Julie Battersby and Jerry Grocott.

the Billabong golfers, although the scores were very ordinary to say the least with only3 golfers playing better than handicap. The course was in great condition with fast greens and lush fairways.

Peter Thomas managed 34 points to take fifth place while one step higher was Colin Goon with 35. Brian Orr scored one under handicap 37 points to take third place and his good mate Dougie

Crowe, playing off a 9, managed 39 to capture the silver. The winner was Tony Oakes with a sparkling 40 points. There were only two 2s, coming from Colin Goon and Keith Allen.

In the ladies division Miss Porn took third spot with 34 points, Miss Phin, who is playing very well at the moment was second on 36 and the lady of the moment Miss Phin played 3 under her handicap to shoot 39 points to win the day. There was only one 2, coming from Miss Phin.

Friday, Feb. 15, Burapha - Stableford Burapha was well set up on A and B loops, most of the white tees were on the blues

and it made for an interesting day of golf. Out of 8 groups there was only one golfer who broke his handicap and holes 8, 9 and 10 were impossible to reach in regulation. The course was packed but in great condition and the weather was perfect.

There was a countback between Mark Brosnan and Graham Beaumont for the minor podium places, both scoring 32 points with Graham taking fourth and Mark fifth. AJ Beasley took third with a fine 35 points, Dougie Crowe, playing to his 9 handicap, took second with 36 and Colm Lawler filled the top spot with a great 38 points.

Colin Goon got the only 2 of the day.

‘Ice Man’ thaws the Valley Traveller’s Rest Golf Group Monday, Feb. 11, Silky Oak Stableford Division 1 1st Colin Smith (11) 37pts 2nd Steve Boyle (10) 35pts 3rd Jim Best (13) 33pts Division 2 1st Mike Koh (20) 39pts 2nd Jim Swander (19) 37pts 3rd Mike Lam (20) 36pts Colin Smith, who doesn’t fluster easily and is one of the more competent golfers at the TRGG, has been posting scores in the low-mid twenties for the last couple of weeks but today his game finally came together and he climbed to the top of the leader board with a very respectable

37 points. In division two it was Mike Koh who was leading the way and he needed all of his 39 points to take out the top spot as the strong finishing Jim Swander was hot on his heels.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, Green Valley – Stableford Division 1 1st Alan Thomas (6) 41pts 2nd Paul West (12) 36pts 3rd Mike Rushant (11) 36pts Division 2 1st Mike Lam (20) 39pts 2nd Joe Stranks (15) 34pts 3rd Jim Best (14) 38pts Alan Thomas, affectionately known as the “Ice Man” because of his unflappable

Mann rolls to victory PSC Golf from the Kull Bar Tuesday, Feb. 12, Green Valley Stableford We had four groups raring to go at Green Valley on Tuesday. The course was in great shape and there was a cooling breeze to make ideal playing conditions.

Four places were rewarded and Mr. Consistency Steve Mann lived up to his moniker and took top spot with

40 points. Three points behind in second place was Eddie Bielby with 37 while Bill Peach pipped Brian Scott for third on countback after they both notched even-par 36s.

Three 2s were recorded, by Brian Scott, Eddie Bielby and Steve Mann.

On Thursday 12 players from the Kull supported the PSC Valentines special. It was a great day and all from the Kull enjoyed their golf.

attitude to the game of golf, shot a brilliant one over par off the stick as he cruised to victory, amassing a brilliant 41 points.

In division two Mike Lam was continuing his winning streak as he produced a very respectable 39 points.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, Greenwood – Stableford Division 1 1st Neil Wilkinson (12) 37pts 2nd Bob Newman (10) 36pts 3rd Kwon Young-Jun (12) 35pts Division 2 1st Jim Swander (19) 39pts 2nd Gerry Myers (15) 35pts 3rd Vinnie Connellan (15) 34pts Today it was division one’s Neil Wilkinson and Bob Newman who fought it out for the top spot. Neil had twenty one points on the front nine and was busy writing his victory speech, completely unaware that Bob was coming home strongly and within one shot of spoiling his party. However, Bob couldn’t quite get there and Neil just managed to hold on and earn himself a the coveted first place with 37 points.

Over in division two it was the man from Phnom Penh who was giving us Pattaya boys a lesson in golf. Jim Swander who came second

Alan Thomas.

Jim Swander.

on Monday, made another appearance on the leader board but this time took out the number one position with a fine score of 39 points.

In division two it was Lawrence “Of Arabia” Lee who strode over the dunes of the Lakes and Ocean courses on his camel and annihilated the Bedouin opposition on his way to a glorious victory.

Thursday, Feb. 14, Phoenix Gold – Stableford Division 1 1st Mike Rushant (11) 39pts 2nd Paul West (12) 36pts 3rd Ian Bell (8) 35pts Division 2 1st Lawrence Lee (15) 37pts 2nd Masao Ishikawa (15) 34pts 3rd Ger Lodge (16) 34pts With Tuesday’s third place finish already in the bag, Mike Rushant did what he does best and ploughed his way to the top of the leader board with a superb 22 points on the back nine to finish the day with an unbeatable 39 overall.

Friday, Feb. 15, Burapha – Stableford Division 1 1st Takahashi Akira (8) 35pts 2nd Bob Newman (10) 35pts 3rd Paul Hansberry (9) 34pts Division 2 1st Vinnie Connellan (15) 35pts 2nd John Baxter (17) 34pts 3rd Jim Swander (17) 32pts Every white tee marker was right next to the blue one today and the course was playing to 6700 yards! The extra length certainly had an

effect on the scores and out of thirty-five players not one person shot their handicap.

A very surprised Takahashi Akira took out first place in division one with a mere 35 points. Being an eight-handicap he was probably the only player in the field who was hitting irons into the par fours whilst us mere mortals were hitting rescue clubs.

In division two Vinnie Connellan was up to the challenge, he struggled on the front nine with only fifteen points but worked it out on the back nine and chipped and putted his way to victory.

Saturday, Feb. 16, Pattavia – Stableford Division 1 1st Ole Baadsgaard (9) 36pts 2 nd Takahashi Akira (8) 35pts 3rd Ian Bell (8) 34pts Division 2 1st Frank Hughes (21) 35pts 2nd Kevin Peggs (18) 34pts 3rd Eddie Townsend (17) 33pts The early start today at Pattavia suited Ole Baadsgaard as his 36 points gave him his first win in eleven outings. In division two the newly arrived Frank Hughes got off to a great start with a first place finish in his first game back.

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Connelly posts best of the week The Jomtien Golf Society third with 28 on countback over Mike Fitzgerald on the same total.

Near pins went to (Div 1) Neil Gamble (3) and Ron Miller, and (Div 2) Robert Angel (2), Jim Connelly and Barry Stirling. Birdie 2s were recorded by Ron Miller, Ted Lodge, Frank Grainger and Fred O’Connor.

Monday, Feb. 11, Silky Oak Stableford We had enough signed up for three divisions at Silky Oak on Monday. Barny Sheedy just edged first place in the A flight with 38 points, one up on of Ron Miller and Neil Gamble who both posted 37 points and finished in second and third respectively.

Harry Vincenzi needed a countback on 33 points to win the B flight ahead of Willy Van Heetvelde while Bob Comartin was third with 32.

C flight honours went to Rick Assi after he returned 37 points, second went to Jim Connelly on 35 and Mike Fitzgerald completed the podium in third with 32.

Near pins went to (Div 1) John Hughes, Ron Miller, Dennis Scougall and Barney Sheedy, and (Div 2) Rick

Friday, Feb. 15, Eastern Star Stableford Mick Alleyne, John Hughes and Alan Thomas.

Assi, Mike Fitzgerald (2) and Mike Lewis.

There were ten 2s recorded, coming from Per Forsberg, John Hughes, Ron Miller, Barney Sheedy, Chris Slota and Ian Speirs in division 1 and Rick Assi, Jim Connelly, Fred O’Connor and Mike Fitzgerald in the second division.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, Plutaluang Stableford There were three divisions again at Navy on Wednesday. Ron Miller went one better than Monday and took the premier flight with 35 points ahead of Colin Aspinall (34pts) in second, Neil Gamble (33pts) third, and Pete Sumner (32pts) in fourth.

Paul Butler won division two with a modest 31 points, John Carlin was second on 30, Paul Young third with 29 and Barry Stirling fourth on 26.

Jim Connelly posted 39 points for the best score of the day to win the third flight.

Robert Angel was second on 37 and Alan Bissell placed

Younger triumphs again

Eleven groups out today with the cut at 4-15.2, 15.318 and 19+ and with 38 points the best score of the day came from Pete Seil to

PSC Golf from Café Kronborg A Flight (0-23) 1st Tore Eliassen (22) 38pts 2nd Rob Brown (5) 36pts 3rd Richard Kubicki (10) 35pts 4th Carole Kubicki (23) 34pts B Flight (24+) 1st Jan Lovgreen (25) 34pts 2nd Tiziano Dal Pastro (25) 31pts 3rd Karen Brown (31) 31pts 4th Steen Habersaat (25) 30pts Near Pins: Kenneth Madsen, Carole Kubicki, Rob Brown (x2).

Long Putts: Carole Kubicki, Peter Hammond.

Jan Lovgreen, left, and Tore Eliassen, right, with Dave ‘The Admiral’.

took second place, just edging out Karen Brown. Fourth place was again decided on countback with Steen Habersaat taking it ahead of Peter Hammond, both with 30 points.

Thursday, Feb. 14, Cafe Kronborg played Trea- Bangpakong sure Hill on Monday where Stableford Rob Brown.

Steve Younger, from left, Alex Field, Mikito Homma and Dave Maw.

raised the flag with 38 points, one shot ahead of second placed Mikito Homma while third place went to Colm Mullen.

Thursday, Feb. 11, Pleasant Valley – Stableford 1st Mikito Homma (24) 37pts 2nd Dave Maw (19) 36pts 3rd Alex Field (16) 35pts 4th Steve Younger (14) 35pts Near Pins: Colin Banks, Alex Field, Dave Maw, Dave Maw. Long Putts: Jerry Dobbs, Dave Maw. Fifteen golfers were all saddled up and ready to head out to Pleasant Valley

GC. A great course that is priced better than most, and that is the attraction. The fairways, as always, were good, the greens ran true and the bunkers were clean and raked.

We were only playing the one flight from the blue tees with holes 12th & 14th to be played from the white tees, and of course all novelties were in play.

Mikito Homma hit some form today and returned 37 points, which was enough to see him cross the line first. Second on the podium was Dave Maw, falling a single point behind the leader while third place went to Alex Field on countback over Steve Younger.

Wilson after they both shot 30 points.

Near pins went to (Div 1) Mick Alleyne (2) and Alan Thomas, and (Div 2) John Carlin, Ray Daws (2) and Tony Thorne.

There were four 2s in division 1 with a rollover from last Friday and the happy faces were Mick Alleyne, John Hughes, Bill Shipley and Les Smith. In division 2, Ron Lavett, Mike Lewis and Kevin Shanahan shared the kitty.

Finally, congratulations for a few of our lads who won top prizes at the IPGC club championship at Pattana last week.

Tore tames Treasure Hill

PSC Golf from the Growling Swan A-Flight (0-22) 1st Steve Younger (14) 39pts 2nd Keith Buchanan (15) 38pts 3rd Stu Rifkin (20) net 37pts B-Flight (23+) 1st Tony Cook (28) 38pts 2nd Mikito Homma (24) 37pts 3rd Colm Mullen (28) 35pts Near Pins: Steve Younger (x2), Colm Mullen, Keith Buchanan.

Long Putts: Peter Grey, Tony Cook.

Twenty golfers set out for today’s challenge, Pattavia, a course that does not inflate the pricing for high season and was once again in tip-top condition: fairways were excellent and the bunkers were clean and raked. We took the course on from the yellow tees and with the log jam we started proceedings from the 10th tee with two flights.

A flight saw Steve Younger take the honours with the best score of the day, 39 points. Second home, just a single point in arrears was Keith Buchanan while third past the post and again only a single shot behind was Stu Casa Rifkin.

B flight was also a close encounter but Tony Cook

win division 1. Five points behind in second place Alan Thomas beat Bill Shipley on an 18/17 back-nine countback and in fourth place with 32 points and 13 on the back six, Les Smith beat Paul Durkan on another countback.

Four 33-pointers vied for top spot in division 2 players but the back-nine calculation put John Hughes in first, Frank Kelly second, Harry Vincenzi third and Paul Butler fourth.

Kevin Shanahan with 36 won division 3, Ron Lavett was second on 34 and Tony Thorne with a 20/14 back nine countback beat Max

the yellow tees were chosen to give the players a reasonable chance of beating the course. The course was in great condition and the greens were a lovely pace, not as fast as they can be.

The A flight winner was Tore Eliassen with a superb 38 points, the score of the day, and the only player to beat their handicap. In second place was Rob Brown with a solid 36 points off his 5 handicap. Third and fourth place were taken by the Kubicki family, with Richard taking third on 35 points and Carole coming in close behind.

In B flight the winner, for the second time in a row, was Jan Lovgreen with 34 points while second and third places were decided on countback with both players having 31 points; Tiziano Dal Pastro

A Flight (0-22) 1st Rob Brown (5) 37pts 2nd Richard Kubicki (10) 35pts 3rd Peter Bygballe (18) 34pts 4th Kjeld Jorgensen (20) 34pts B Flight (23+) 1st Kurt Sandgaard (32) 33pts 2nd Peter Hammond (31) 31pts 3rd Karl Beter (33) 31pts 4th Arne Max Pedersen (23) 30pts Near Pins: Kjeld Jorgensen, Richard Kubicki, Carole Kubicki, Rob Brown Long Putts: Ragna Petursdottir, Ulla Ravn.

Cafe Kronborg played Bangpakong on Valentine’s Day and the course was in lovely condition with greens slightly slower than usual.

The course has had some changes in the last year making it a bit harder, added to this a bit of a swirling wind on the second nine and evil

pin positions scoring was not so easy.

Back in the clubhouse the cards bore witness to a Valentine’s Day Massacre of sorts, with only one player managing to beat their handicap. The A flight winner was Rob Brown with a finely crafted 37 points, the score of the day, while second was Richard Kubicki with a hard earned 35. Third and fourth places were decided on a very close countback with 2 players having 34 points. Peter Bygballe triumphed, taking third with 20 points on the back and 8 points on the last 3 holes and Kjeld Jorgensen narrowly lost out, with 6 points on the last 3 holes.

In B flight the winner was Kurt Sandgaard with a respectable 33 points and second and third places were decided on countback with both players having 31 points.

Peter Hammond took the silver with a countback of 18 points, bettering Karl Beter by one. In fourth place was Arne Max Pedersen with 30 points, Arne only taking one week to get on the winner’s podium since coming back to Thailand.

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Roberts rules the roost PSC Golf from the Pattaya Links Golf Society Monday, Feb. 11, Burapha – Stableford A Flight (0-14) 1st Maurice Roberts (12) 42pts 2nd Alan Thomas (7) 39pts 3rd Tommy Marshall (7) 38pts 4th Dave Decaminda (9) 37pts B Flight (15+) 1st Gordon Loviolette (24) 35pts 2nd Stuart Thompson (17) 35pts 3rd Joseph Buchberger (16) 35pts 4th Stuart Kidd (20) 34pts Our nine groups got away on time at Burapha under fine, but warm conditions and had a nice clear run to all finish the round in good time. The course was in its usual first class order and all comments I received were usually of one word, excellent.

Playing off his 12 handicap, Maurice Roberts left the field in his wake to romp in with an impressive 42 points to win A flight and the Green Jacket. The first four placegetters in this flight all had scores of note: Alan

Thomas scored 39 points (76 gross) for second and Tommy Marshall 38 points (77 gross) to take third place.

David Decaminda finally showed his 9-handicap on his last game this trip, scoring 37 points for fourth.

The B flight saw a tight finish for the first three places, with a three-way tie on 35 points. Some countbacks were needed resulting in Gordon Loviolette finally breaking into the winner’s circle and getting the nod over consistent Stuart Thompson and newcomer to Links, Joseph Buchberger, taking third spot.

Then Stuart Kidd held out in another countback for fourth on 34 points.

The four near pins were won by Chris Barker (A3), Stuart Kidd (A6), Paul Durkan (B3), Bill Shepley (B8) Consolation ‘best nine’ prizes went to Colm Lawlor with 19 points on the front side and Wayne Peppernell with 21 on the inward half.

Maurice Roberts, center, with Phil Davies, left and Seamus Byrne.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, Greenwood Stableford A Flight (0-17) 1st Bill Steinmann (12) 39pts 2nd Bill Copeland (13) 38pts 3rd Dave Hewson (9) 37pts 4th Phil Davies (13) 37pts 5th Maurice Roberts (12) 37pts

B Flight (18+) 1st John Pearce (27) 38pts 2nd Derek Phillips (19) 36pts 3rd Kenny Jepson (26) 35pts 4th John Chelo (19) 35pts 5th Stuart Kidd (20) 35pts The society called in on Greenwood on Wednesday to play a stableford competition with the forty-one

Hyland gets the medal The Tara Court Golf Society Sunday, Feb. 10, Green Valley – Monthly Medal/ Stroke Time for our second monthly medal of the year here at Green Valley on what was a very nice day for golf. We had three flights again as the numbers are staying up.

Liam Hyland (H/cap 10) played very well today and was a clear winner by two shots of both the medal and the A flight with a net sixtynine. Craig Hitchens (11) came second in the same flight with a net seventy-one and Jerry Swetnam (11) was third with a net seventy two.

In the B flight Joe McArdle (18) took the win with a net seventy-one and we then had two players tied on net seventy-two - here Lawrie McBride (13) won the countback to nudge Michael Williams (12) down to third.

Terry Mangan (21) was the winner in the C flight with a net seventy-two, John McGarry (23) came second with a net seventy-three and Pat Carty (24) was third with a net seventy-six.

Liam Hyland.

Francis McGuigan.

We had only one 2 today, coming from Bob St Aubin.

3) took first place ahead of his good friend and playing partner Jack Grindvold (3) on countback after both posted 39 points. In third place and also playing in this hot group was Kevyn Wright (10) with a fine 38 points.

B division was won by Francis McGuigan (15) with 35 points, Teddy Lodge (13) was second on 33 and in third was Donal McGuigan (18) with 30.

Playing his last game this trip, Larry Eden (22) won the C flight with 35 points, second went to Gerry Doyle (27) on 28 and one point behind in third was Don Byrne (20).

There were three 2s today, from Teddy Lodge, Wayne Antlitz & Paul O’Callaghan.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, Pattavia - Stableford We had a good sized field today for our monthly visit to Pattavia - a course with good value high season prices and a very well maintained layout. We had 3 divisions with the split coming at “A” up to 11, “B” 12-19 and “C” 20+.

In A flight we had 2 players having their first game with us today and shooting it out for the honours. With both playing level par golf off the stick, Richard Fearby (H/cap

Thursday, Feb. 14, Khao Kheow Stableford We gave a choice of tees today at Khao Kheow, with the majority deciding to play off the shorter whites where

we had two flights. We played the A and B nines and found the course to be in very good condition.

We got what was by far our best score off the longer yellow tees. Francis McGuigan (15) really turned it on and won by a clear eight points from his nearest rival with an excellent forty-two points.

As this is a very difficult course off those tees this was exceptional golf and probably one of our best ever scores here. Ian Speirs (11) got second place with a more modest thirty-four points and to make it a family affair Donal McGuigan (18) took third place with thirty-three. Nick Caulfield (7) completed the podium in fourth with thirty-two and we had one 2 off these tees, coming from Liam Hyland.

In the A flight off the white tees Ted Morris (17) was the only one to play to his handicap and was winner with thirty-six points. Joe McArdle (18) came second with thirty-three and John Walshe (22), who was playing his last game for this trip, went home with money in his pocket as he came third with thirty and also had a 2.

In the B flight John McGarry (23) was the winner with thirty-five points, Joe Peters (23) was second on thirtytwo and Sean Hallahan came third with thirty-one. We had two 2s off these tees, by Sean Hallahan and John Walshe.

strong field divided into two flights at 17 and under.

As always the course was in excellent condition with deliciously consistent greens. The only downside was that the course was damp after the usual early morning irrigation and so it was decided to play the A and C nines from the yellow tees with the preferred lies option on the fairways. This made for a very tight contest in both flights and certainly helped the shorter hitting golfers enjoy the day more on a course which

boasts some long par threes and fours.

In the second flight minor places were decided by countback with Stuart Kidd taking fifth place with 35 points behind John Chelo and third placed Kenny Jepson. Derek Phillips was runner-up with 36 points and the flight was won by the senior golfer in the field John Pearce with 38 excellent points.

The top flight followed the same pattern with countback relegating Maurice Roberts to fifth with 37 points, behind Phil Davies and Dave Hewson, finishing third on his return round, again with 37 points. In second place was Bill Copeland with a fine 38 points and the flight winner was New Yorker Bill Steinmann with 39 points on his debut round with the group. Not many golfers take the Green Jacket on their debut round, so well done Bill!

Near pins went to Maurice Roberts (A2), Bill Copeland (A6) and Gordon Nelson (C6) while consolation nines went to Tip Briney and Chris Barker, both with 21 points in the front and back side respectively.

A Dutch week PSC Golf from Siam Country Resort Pattaya

Ty Anderson, from left, Joop Bijsterbosch and Neil Harvey.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, Mt. Shadow – Stableford On Tuesday we went to Mountain Shadow with 3 groups. The course was in good condition and we had an enjoyable round.

There were 3 players battling for top spot and it made it an exciting game. The decision fell on the last hole again and despite a good par

by Ty Anderson, the 1pointer by Joop Bijsterbosch was enough to make him the winner with 36 points. Ty came second on 35 points and Neil Harvey had to settle for third on 34 points after failing

to score on the final hole.

The near pins went to Stan Rees and Dave Smith.

Thursday, Feb. 14, King Naga Stableford King Naga was the venue on Thursday and unfortunately the course was not in good condition with too long grass on the fairways and slow greens.

Willem Lasonder was in good form today and won with 39 points while some way back in second was Paddy Devereux with 33.

Only one near pin was claimed, that coming on the 4th Par-3 by Jonathan Pratt.

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PSC opens 2019 golf calendar with Valentine’s Day Scramble Pattaya Sports Club (PSC) season opening golf tournament, held on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14), was a 4-person scramble played on the South and East nines at Plutaluang.

84 golfers signed up to play but unfortunately due to work commitments and illness the field was reduced to 76, which was still a very satisfactory turnout.

The course was in fairly good condition, although the fairways were a bit dry and hard in places, with quite a bit of run for a change but that is to be expected at this time of the year. The tees and greens were also very acceptable.

Check-in was smooth and with Tim and Nigel taking care of the PSC reception and of course the Navy staff doing their bit, we were all away on schedule without any fuss.

A couple of groups turned up at the wrong start but they could hardly be to blame as one or two of the caddies did not seem to know which was South and which was East.

Talking of which, standing on the first hole on East looking straight at the sun pointing down the fairway, “that’s North” said one of our players, “not in this hemisphere it isn’t”, Jack swiftly replied!

By all reports and looking

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kick off around 6 – 6.30pm, aiming for the presentation of prizes and raffle at about 8pm. As it is a buffet, the food is ongoing, you don’t have to be there at that time but certainly within an hour.

We are still actively looking for all types for sponsors for hole prizes, raffle prizes and of course major prizes, so if you feel like helping out, we will really appreciate it but

Valentine’s Day tournament winners: from the left, Martin Cooke, Phil Stringer, Nick Townrow & Craig Maldon.

at the scores, the East Course was generally tougher than South but the latter was still a good test of golf.

The competition was fiercely contested and emerging on top was the quartet of Martin Cooke, Nicholas Townrow, Craig Maldon & Phil Stringer (team H’cap 8.62) with a fine net score of 56.38. Just edged out into second spot was the team of Russell Exley, Maurice Roberts, Pete Seil & Phil Davies (H’cap 4.00) with a net score of 57.00 while following close behind and taking the bronze position were Rolf

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Sjoberg, Lennart Olsson, Gerald Sweetman & Mikael Andersson (H’cap 6.28) with a net score of 57.72.

In fourth place came the team of Duangden Galer, Chop Daprakhon, Somchit Kanokhong & Rotjana Neal (H’cap 5.12) with a net score of 57.88 and completing the podium in fifth sport was the 4-ball of Keith Allen, Richard Holt, Dave Stockman & Paul Hack (H’cap 4.83) with a net score of 58.17.

Our thanks go to the Kull Bar on the Darkside for hosting the post-golf presentation

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and supplying a few free nibbles and to Peter, owner of the Classroom, for allowing us to use their stage and facilities and to both venues supplying cool refreshments at happy hour prices.

The next PSC tournament will be the Charity Classic Open on the 6th March at Khao Kheow, which is a 2ball better-ball event with the first tee at 8.06am; followed by an evening buffet at the wonderful Thai Garden Resort, also featuring their live resident band.

That should hopefully all

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Pattana

Eastern Star

Bunker Boys

Pleasant Valley

Khao Kheow

Cafe Kronborg Colin’s Golf

Bangpakong

King Naga

Pattaya C.C.

Pattavia

Eastern Star

Greenwood

Burapha

Phoenix

Le Katai

Pleasant Valley

Greenwood

Lewinski’s

Siam Plantation

Green Valley

Siam Plantation

The Links

Pattaya C.C.

Burapha

Royal Lakeside

Green Valley Crystal Bay

I Rovers

Pattavia

Burapha Treasure Hill

Pleasant Valley

Greenwood K.Kheow/T.Hill

Navy/Pattaya CC

Siam Country

P.Valley/B’pakong

Pattana/Pattavia

Pleasant Valley

Sugar Shack

Eastern Star

Pattana

Harry’s Golf

Pattaya C.C.

Pattavia

Crystal Bay

Parichat

Green Valley

Pattavia

The Golf Club

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Green Valley

Growling Swan

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Next PSC Event - The Charity Classic Open - Weds 6th March at Khao Kheow

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Billabong Golf

probably not as much as the charities we help provide for.

The cost of the day, including the evening is 2150 baht per golfer, which includes green fee, caddie fee, golf shirt and registration/entry fee.

Carts at the special price of 400 Baht extra and guests for the evening priced at 370 baht.

For more information and sign-up, visit website: https://pattayasports.org.

The Players Lounge

C.Bay/Mt. Shadow K.Kheow/G’wood Wangjuntr

Treasure Hill Eastern Star

Eastern Star Royal Lakeside Treasure Hill

Green Valley

Tropical Golf

Treasure Hill

Valley View Hackers

Green Valley

Royal Lakeside Green Valley

Green Valley

Green Valley

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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Pattaya Classic Car Show ready to roll for charity Six months of planning and organization will come to fruition on Saturday, March 2 when the Classic Car Friends Pattaya stages the 2nd Pattaya Classic Car Show at the Asia Pattaya Hotel on Pratumnak Soi 4.

Jo Klemm, founder and president of the Classic Car Friends Pattaya and his associate Martin, the Club’s event manager, have enlisted the aid and co-operation of many generous and benevolent people who have given their time and resources to help support the return of this popular family event.

Joe and Martin’s philosophy is to use classic cars to help underprivileged children in the local community and their idea proved a huge success in 2017 when the

Pattaya will once more witness a parade of classic cars on Saturday, March 2.

Jo Klemm, founder and president of the Classic Car Friends Pattaya, poses with his prized Alpha Romeo.

inaugural Classic Car Show exceeded all expectations. It will be the same again this year as the organizers have teamed up with Radchada

Chomjinda, director of the Human Help Network Foundation Thailand, to help facilitate the disbursement of the proceeds to worthy

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causes. Indeed, one of the highlights of this year’s show will be a performance on stage by children from a local care center.

This year’s Classic Car show starts at 12 Noon when attendees will able to get a close up view of approx.

90 pristine vehicles that represent decades of auto-development and iconic styling. The showground at the Asia Pattaya Hotel provides an ideal venue will its spacious surrounds and

sweeping views over the Gulf of Thailand.

At 4pm the Classic Car Parade will start from the showground and proceed into the center of Pattaya before returning back to the hotel via the Beach Road.

The cars will be escorted by Pattaya Police and members of the MC Club Happy Biker Friends.

A charity dinner will be served in the cliff top pavilion starting at 7pm, with delicious starters, BBQ meat &

seafood, Sushi, delicious summer salads, Thai, Chinese and international cuisine and a creative variety of deserts.

Tickets for the event are still available for 1,000 THB including the BBQ-buffet, free-flow of beer & soft drinks, live show performances by Paul Jackson’s Blues Brothers Band (the best in Thailand) and the Children of the Drop In Center Pattaya. Thai TV superstar Mario Maurer will also be on hand to support the charity auction.

All proceeds from the ticket sales, auction and the charity dinner will be donated to benefit underprivileged children in the local community.

For more information visit the Classic Car Show website: www.classic-car-friendspattaya.com or Facebook/ classic-car-friends-pattaya. com, Tel: (Jo) 092 753 9309 or (Martin) 085 299 6188 or for tickets call the Pattaya Mail newspaper during office hours at 038-411-240-1.

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If you are new to cycling there are some things to bear in mind. Bicycles come in different shapes and sizes as well as different price scales. Make sure you take the advice of a specialist bike

If you are interested in getting back into cycling, check out Cycle Hub at Mabprachan Lake where the friendly staff can provide you with a wealth of experience and professional advice. Trust the specialists and get all the right information before making a decision as to what bicycle to buy.

Cycle Hub also organizes weekly bike rides to suit all levels of fitness and cycling experience as well as full on races for those who wish to test their strength and speed.

If you already have a bicycle, you are welcome to join the Cycle Hub group rides at 6.30am on Saturdays and 7am on Sundays. Rental bikes are also available. Make your weekend one to remember as you go and seek out the hidden gems around Pattaya, enjoy some fresh air and get fit at the same time.

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The 2019 Pattaya Night Run is set to take place on Saturday, March 2 at Bali Hai Pier.

Chonburi Province Office of Tourism and Sports has announced that the 2019 Pattaya Night Run will be held on Saturday March 2 from 7pm – 11pm at Bali Hai Pier.

Runners can experience the night view of Pattaya as they

cover a 5km course that will feature various light, colour and sound displays along the way.

At Bali Hai there will also be a concert featuring the popular band Southside and appearances by Zumba fitness instructor Kru Noom

and actor Sea Games-Max. Runner registration is open from now until February 25 and the cost of entrance is 399 baht per applicant.

For more information, go to https://race.thai.run/ pattaya-night-run-2019.

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Hughes finds the winning key PSC Golf from The Bunker Boys fifth place with thirty points.

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

Monday, Feb. 11, Soi Dao G.C. – Stableford 1st Alan Sullivan 40pts 2nd Richard Mohns 37pts 3rd Neil Carter 36pts With the cancellation of the Kabin Buri trip a small group organised by Keith Norman grew into a much bigger event with a total of twentyfour golfers plus some partners making the trip to the beautiful Soi Dao course for two rounds of golf. As always the course was in pristine condition, the weather was beautiful.

The lowest six handicapped players were selected as captains and they, in turn, picked three playing partners in a draw.

Prizes were on offer for the best three individual scores plus the winning team. On what is his favorite course Alan Sullivan produced the round of the day with a well compiled forty points, not surprisingly Alan was also on the winning team.

Second place went to Richard Mohns with thirtyseven points with Neil Carter third on thirty-six points. The winning team was the Paul Smith team which was comprised of Alan Sullivan, Daryl Vernon and Geoff Cox.

Wednesday, Feb. 13, Bangpra – Stableford

John Hughes.

Tuesday, Feb. 12, Soi Dao G.C. – Stableford 1st Roger Touhy 35pts 2nd Colin Greig 33pts 3rd Paul Smith 32pts 4th Les Cobban 31pts 5th Tony Robbins 30pts After Robby Watts suffered an overnight gastric upset we abandoned the team competition today and instead played individual. Misfortune befell Kate Oatway during the round as she fell into a trench but luckily she suffered no injury, just embarrassment and a bit of mud and water.

Today scoring was more modest with Roger Touhy carrying the day on thirtyfive points. Second, went to Colin Greig on thirty-three, a further point back Paul Smith took third with Les Cobban in fourth and Tony Robbins rounding out the scoring in

Nelly Korda clinches genuine family Grand Slam in Australia

Nelly Korda of the United States tees off on her way to winning the Women’s Australian Open golf tournament in Adelaide, Australia Sunday, Feb. 17.

(AAP Image/David Mariuz)

Adelaide (AP) — Nelly Korda added to her family’s impressive sports pedigree Down Under with a win last Sunday in the Women’s Australian Open.

Korda led by three strokes after the third round, increased it to four with a tapin birdie on the 10th and added a 25-foot birdie on the 11th to make it a lead of five.

She had a third consecutive birdie on the 12th to help claim a two-stroke victory

with a 5-under 67 at The Grange Golf Club, finishing with a 17under total of 271. Defending champion Jin Young Ko was second after a 64.

Korda’s father Petr was an Australian Open men’s tennis champion, winning the tournament in 1998. Her golfing sister Jessica won the Australian Open seven years ago.

And her tennis-playing brother Sebastian won the Australian Open boys’ singles title last year.

1st Eddie Bielby (18) 37pts 2nd Tony Robbins (21) 36pts 3rd Dave Maw (19) 35pts 4th Jim Bracket (7) 32pts With several staying on in Chantaburi to climb Khao Khitchakut numbers were down to sixteen for today’s round at Bangpra. The course was in poor condition, the temperature was high and the pace of play was ok. The course has deteriorated markedly compared to last time we played it and would definitely benefit from some ground staff attention and some rain.

Uncharacteristic poor putting from Tony Robbins (three putts on sixteen and seventeen) allowed Eddie Bielby to sneak through to first place on thirty-seven points with Tony finishing on thirty-six. Dave Maw was third on thirty-five points and Jim Bracket rounded out the winner’s list on thirty-two.

Neil and Yaya Carter.

Near pins went to Colin Greig, Neil Carter, and two to Tom McMurray.

Friday, Feb. 15, Treasure Hill – Stableford 1st John Hughes (20) 40pts 2nd Robbie Watts (9) 36pts 3rd Kob Glover (27) 33pts

4th Nial Glover (17) 32pts 5th Raleigh Gosney (22) 32pts 6th Colin Greig (10) 32pts The last game ever for the Bunker Boys from the M Club was sufficient to lure the biggest field of the year (thirty), out to play Treasure Hill. Even PJ Redmond made his long-awaited return to

the game. This is one of the few courses that is staying in good condition despite high season traffic and lack of rain, a credit to the ground staff and caddies.

Confidence is an essential element of good sporting performance and this was on display today when John Hughes declared “when I want to win I can” and duly went on to shoot forty points and take first place. Robbie Watts returned to form and took second place with a solid thirty-six points while Kob beat husband Nial for third place. Nial, Raleigh Gosney, and Colin Greig all finished with thirty-two and were placed accordingly on countback.

Near pins went to Neil Carter, Jimmy Carr, Robbie Watts, and Colin Greig.

To mark our last game from the M Club a party was held after the presentations and a small presentation of crystal was made to Neil and Yaya before they leave for Canada shortly with young Jack and hopefully some fond memories of their time with the Bunker Boys.

Golfers bitten by Tiger-Tee Tuesday PSC Golf from the Tropical Golf Group Tuesday, Feb 12, Bangpakong Stableford This Tuesday Tropical Golf broke convention and tried something different. As a fun experiment the players could elect to play off the back black (Tiger) tees, or take things as usual. Bangpakong is an excellent choice for this variation as it’s a bit more forgiving. Playing at a mere 7140 yards it’s not just a test of distance but also managing your handicap.

Interesting some golfers with handicaps of 28 decided to get in the spirit, man up and have a go. With a maximum of 5 players in each flight there were 12 prizes spread over 19 players.

Bangpakong was in its usual excellent condition, and for all the fairway woods hit this day it was a big help. Winning scores were divided into two flights, two for the Tiger Teams and two for those taking the familiar route.

In A-Flight Tiger Tees (013), Rob Brown (H/cap 5) hardly noticing the extra yards as he really earned his 33 points. Richard Kubicki (10) held on to take second with his 30 while the best consolation nine holes in that flight went to Landis Brooks with 14 points.

Tom Herrington (14) took the honors in B-Flight Tiger

Tuesday’s winners: Tom Herrington, from left, with Don Carmody, Rob Brown and Carole Kubicki.

Tees (14-29) with a long hitting 32 points and was second overall in the Tiger Tee challenge. He was followed

by Andre Van Dyk (17) with 29 and Fred Tam had the best non-winning nine hole score with 15 points.

In C-Flight (21-24), Carole Kubicki (23) bounced back after losing a record 4 countbacks over the last 2 games to easily take her flight with an excellent 35 points. Mick Coghlan (29) returned a modest 29 points, but it was enough for second. The best non-winning nine score for this flight went to Joe Sparwirth with 17.

Don Carmody (26) conquered D-Flight (25+) with a fine 33 points, just ahead of Graham Buckingham (25) with 32.Best nine here went to Barry Elphick with 14.

Our next challenge will be Front Tee Friday playing off the whites at Pleasant Valley in March.

Friday, Feb 15, Greenwood – Stableford Off to Greenwood which was, as always, in very good condition and they are not afraid to keep it well watered… green and lush. It was back to our staple of Stableford today and only 2 players broke handicap.

John Davis was not one of those but his 33 points off his 11-handicap was still enough to garner first place in A- Flight (0-14). Brian Parish (13) edged Rob Brown (13) out of second place on countback after both posted 32 points overall. Big Deryl Neufeld (14) completed the

podium in fourth place with 40 points. The best nine in that flight went to Alan Sullivan with 16 points.

In B-Flight (15-24), Dave Cooper (24) took top spot with 38 points, two ahead of Joe Sparwirth (22) in second on 36.

Third place went to Mikito Homa (24) with 34 points and a stellar fourth to Andre Van Dyk (17) on 30. Paul Weatherly had the best non-winning nine hole score of 17 points.

Graham Buckingham was the star of the day as he demolished C-Flight (25+) with 45 points off his 25-handicap.

Colm Mullen (28) placed second some way back with 34 points, David Bailey (27) was third on 33 and all round nice guy Don Carmody (26) took fourth with 32. The best nine score for this flight went to Brian Cooper with 17 points.

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Wolverhampton’s Morgan Gibbs-White clears the ball away from Bristol City’s Jay Dasilva, right, during their teams’ English FA Cup fifth round soccer match at Ashton Gate stadium in Bristol, Sunday, Feb. 17. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Cars featuring Chase Elliott, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson, Ty Dillon and Alex Bowman wreck in Turn 3 during the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Sunday, Feb. 17, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)

The Australian team, led by helmsman Tom Slingsby, left, compete in the final match race against Japan in the SailGP event on the harbor in Sydney, Saturday, Feb. 16. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal Khan drops a catch during the one day international cricket match between New Zealand and Bangladesh in Christchurch, New Zealand, Saturday, Feb. 16. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin shows her gold medal after winning the women’s slalom at the alpine ski World Championships in Are, Sweden, Saturday, Feb. 16. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)

J.B. Holmes poses with his trophy on the 18th green after winning the Genesis Open golf tournament at Riviera Country Club on Sunday, Feb. 17, in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ Ryan Kang)

Belgium’s Elise Mertens returns the ball to Romania’s Simona Halep in the final match of the Qatar Open tennis tournament in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Feb. 16. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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Classic Car show getting closer

automania RUF Porsche.

The biennial Pattaya car show, sponsored by the Riviera Group and Liqui Moly, is being held again in the grounds of the Asia Pattaya Hotel. Pencil the date in your diary: Saturday March 2. With an expected entry list of around 70-80 cars there is bound to be something of interest for everyone. One car I have not seen over here is a RUF

Porsche. Twin turbo and exhilarating performance.

Several Fords on display, both UK and American, though my Escort was actually built in Thailand in 1973 according to the build plate. It would have come out CKD I imagine.

A Jaguar 220 has been promised, this being from the Royal Stable I am led to believe. There should be plenty of E-Types, one of the

best looking designs ever.

In the evening there will be a charity BBQ as well and a parade of Blues Brothers. Get the black suit with stovepipes out of the cupboard, and join in.

For a country which makes things very difficult to import classics, with the import duty coming from out of the skies, Pattaya has done well to get 60-70 vehicles from around Pattaya and Bangkok.

rear wheel steering is used, although this increases the turning circle and can affect handling (the geometry is similar to a regular trike operating in reverse, but with a steering damper added).

They usually have a sheet-metal body or open frame that rests on three wheels, a canvas roof with drop-down sides, a small cabin in the front of the vehicle for the driver, an air-cooled scooter version of a two-stroke engine, with handlebar controls instead of a steering wheel.

The smaller motorized trikes are used as delivery vehicles for lighter loads. The larger trikes, with more powerful engines, have larger cargo bays, and they can carry freight within a city.

India would appear to be more advanced than the surrounding economies and since 2012, electric tricycles known as e-rickshaws have become popular, replacing other commercial transports.

The motorized versions are popular for their low cost, because they are put together from salvaged motorcycles and often do not

require the operator to have a driver’s license.

If you have ever driven one (and I had one in Australia that I imported) tadpoles are more stable under braking and more likely to slide instead of roll; front braking hard on a delta requires the vehicle to steer almost straight to avoid tipping. The balance of friction patches and rolling resistance also means that tadpoles tend to oversteer and deltas understeer.

Under some local regulations, while riding a threewheeled vehicle, it may be possible to carry multiple passengers with a motorcycle driving license, to ride a motorcycle-style vehicle with a car license, or to avoid motorcycle helmet use regulations. Every time I drove my Tuk-Tuk the police would stop me. If it was a motorcycle, where was my helmet? If it was a car, where were the seat belts? Up against rigid police thinking, you don’t stand a chance.

However, I used to take it out some nights and have a blast around the block. Fun with a capital F.

Tricycles for big kids Tricycles (trikes) have been around since 1655 when Stephan Farffler (1633 –1689), a Nuremberg watchmaker of the seventeenth century, invented a manumotive carriage which is widely considered to have been the first self-propelled wheelchair.

In Asian and Southeast Asian countries, motorized trikes are used as small freight trucks and commercial vehicles. Nicknamed “tuk-tuks” in popular parlance, they are a motorized version of the traditional pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw. While they are mostly used as taxis for hire, they are also used for commercial and freight deliveries.

They are particularly popular in cities where traffic congestion is a problem, however, they are banned from Pattaya’s streets.

According to Wikipedia, motorized tricycle’s wheels may be arranged in either configuration: delta or tadpole. A delta trike has one wheel in front and two in back, and the tadpole trike has two wheels in front and one in back. Occasionally,

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 is the second half of an article Gavin sent to me, and is very informative.

Bonding There are a number of ways friction materials can be affixed to brake pad back-plates.

A common problem with brake pads is edge lifting, leading to brake noise or even separation of brake material from the back-plate.

This is often caused by moisture ingress (resulting in rust) or bond failure. And we’ve had a bit of moisture recently.

Methods of attachment: Mold-through plug (Rivet) Chemical bond Plug and bond NUCAP NRS™ - ‘The most advanced mechanical attachment technology”.

Brake Pad bonding method Slots - Slots in the friction material help reduce water and gas fade and also help the pad wear evenly.

Chamfer Chamfers are added to brake pads to reduce vibration (noise) and help for a faster bedding in (run in).

Wear pad indicators Electronic sensors which operate a warning light or OBC message when the pad is low work by completing a circuit when the sensor touches the disc because the brake pad has worn thin (common on European cars).

Screech pin, is a metal strip which touches the disc when the brake pad gets thin and makes a noise.

Glowing brake rotor.

Brake Pad character Different brake pad materials give a different brake pedal feeling and different performance characteristics.

A metal based pad may feel hard and grabby where by an organic pad feels soft and has the feeling that it is sucking the pedal or foot as the vehicle slows down.

Choosing correct brake pads Choose a brake pad that suits your vehicle.

A high performance track pad may not be correct for an eco-car used in the city as it may not generate enough heat to work in its effective friction-heat range.

Choose a pad that suits: Annual mileage (performance pads do not last as long).

Driving environment (motorway, city, mountain, off-road, circuit).

Driving style (racing, normal, mixed).

Brakes are very important (obviously) and as a racing driver I have to rely on the braking efficiency of the pad/rotor combination. I use EBC. Gavin is a most approachable chap and you can contact him at chaving@ yahoo.com

A new Audi Talking with Henk Kiks, el supremo at B-Quik, he indicated that he is importing another Super Sedan Audi to run in the Thailand Super Series this year (TSS). This category has come along and the fields are getting bigger with Porsche, Lamborghini and TA2 Mustangs plus other ‘super’ cars.

B-Quik Racing will campaign a new 2019 evolution Audi R8 LMS GT3 in Thailand Super Series next season driven by Henk Kiks and Daniel Bilski in Super Car GTM Plus.

Henk and the new Audi.

The new Audi R8 LMS GT3 is a big step forward for BQuik Racing but it’s a step that they have been steadily working towards and is the culmination of several years of laying the groundwork

and putting a robust platform for the future growth of the team in place.

Emphasising commitment, B-Quik will be the first team in Asia to take delivery of the new 2019 R8 LMS GT3.

A very good second hand Toyota Camry A 2.4 G Camry which has been carefully looked after all its life has come up for sale. I know this car, it being the complimentary customer car,

used to pick up and run diners home and belonging to the Casa Pascal restaurant.

Relatively high K’s (230), but the car has been very well

maintained, even down to new upholstery. Taxed and insured until June 2019. THB 150,000. Contact Pascal on 061 643 9969.

Autotrivia Quiz OK Let’s start with last week’s answer.

I asked where were the pedals on a 1933 Morris Minor? On the floor was only half right. The accelerator pedal was actually in the middle between the clutch and the brake.

So to this week’s quiz question. There used to be a very natty device to stop your

car running backwards on a hill. Not a chock at the rear of a wheel, but something simpler and more efficient. What was it?

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.

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Bungeeing for charity

About to jump.

Rosemary Budding with two of the current students.

Derek Franklin After retiring as Headmistress of St. Anne’s Primary School in the Northern Ireland town of Donaghadee, Rosemary Budding didn’t do what many retirees do and relax to take it easy. Instead she travelled six thousand kilometers from home to volunteer at the Father Leaping into the New Zealand sky.

Rosemary Budding presents the cheque to Father Peter, President of the School for People with Disabilities.

Ray Foundation.

Originally planning to stay for just six months at the Foundation, altogether Rosemary spent four years teaching English at the Redemptorist Vocational School for People with Disabilities.

Upon returning home to Donaghadee, Rosemary was contemplating what to do to commemorate her seventieth birthday. An idea came to her

head, an idea to raise funds for the school and for the students in Thailand she had grown so fond of.

Her idea took her even further than Thailand, half way around the world to the south island of New Zealand where, with long elastic ropes tied to her legs, she jumped off a bridge and bungeed for the students of Thailand.

Rosemary recently returned to Thailand, and to the school where she helped change the lives of the students and donated the proceeds of the money raised by bungeeing off a bridge.

A cheque for ten thousand pounds was donated to the school and will be used to ensure young adults living with a disability can receive an education.

Pattaya does Valentine’s Day like nowhere else Jetsada Homklin

Bancha Pokprasert, 63 and Anong Meebuth, 58, have been together for 20 years, but never actually tied the knot. This year they decided they’d make it official.

Couples take advantage of the heart-shaped photo stage on Beach Road.

Pattaya proved again why it does Valentine’s Day like no nowhere else, offering both wedding rings and condoms to the city’s lovers.

From north to south, Pattaya was decorated in red and pink, celebrating its legacy as Thailand’s city of love. Reaffirming that were 100 couples who lined up from 5 a.m. Feb. 14 to file marriage registrations.

Banglamung District Chief Amnart Charoenchasri and Assistant Chief Amporn Deebua split the day overseeing the marriages, staying after normal working hours to accommodate all the brides and grooms.

First in line was Bancha Pokprasert, 63 and Anong Meebuth, 58. The couple said they’ve been together for 20 years, but never actually tied the knot. This year they decided they’d make it official.

The key to their two decades of partnership? Caring for each other in good or bad times, they said.

The couple, along with the nine in line behind them, received half-satang-weight gold wedding bands from the Central Marina shopping mall and the district office.

In Naklua, public-health workers distributed a different kind of ring entirely. To fulfill Pattaya’s designation of Valentine’s Day as Sexually Transmitted Diseases Day, they handed out information about STDs, AIDS prevention, drug rehabilitation and condoms from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Romantics looking for something in between those two extremes found it in Pattaya gift and flower shops.

Red teddy bears costing 200-3,000 baht and heartshaped pillows costing up to 500 baht were the most popular gifts this Valentine’s Day. Roses, sporting exorbitant prices of up to 30,000 baht an arrangement, were less so.

Florists reported brisk trade, but admitted that prices were much higher than last year – allegedly due to “cold weather” and not greed.

Sellers at the Wat Chaimongkol Market said prices reached 15-baht per rose, up from 10 baht last year, a 50 percent increase. Before Feb. 14, those same vendors estimated prices on Valentine’s Day itself could be three times normal.

Elsewhere, sellers said prices averaged about 20 percent more than last year due to supply shortages.

Red teddy bears costing 200-3,000 baht and heartshaped pillows costing up to 500 baht were the most popular gifts this Valentine’s Day.

Florists reported brisk trade.

The flowers were free, however, for the winner of the Miss Valentine’s

pageant at Central Marina, where the audience also was treated to a concert.

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Events The next meeting of Pattaya City Expats Club (PCEC) will be held on Sunday, February 24. 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 Pattaya Midnight Fun Run will take place on Saturday, March 2 from 7pm – 11pm will a meeting point at Bali Hai Pier. Enjoy concerts and entertainment before and after the 5km run. To register, visit website: https:/ /race.thai.run.

Centra by Centara Maris Resort Jomtien will be holding a Blood Donation event on Thursday 28 February from 9.00-12.00 hours. For more information, call 038 103 333 Ext. 7701.

A Joint Chambers Eastern Seaboard networking evening will be held at the Myatt Hotel Pattaya on Friday, March 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 freeflow drinks and finger food.

The 2019 Honda LPGA Thailand golf championship is taking place at Siam Country Club Old Course in Pattaya from February 21-24.

The tournament showcases 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 can also find opportunities 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 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 freeflow 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.classic-car-friendspattaya.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,

Elephant and onion Stew This recipe is one I bring out every couple of years or so, and it still makes me smile. It was given to me by David Levine, a chef who had been in Thailand for some time, so was au fait with the ingredients. The principal constituent is freely available in Thailand, and in fact, you would probably be in line for a City Administration grant if you took a couple from the streets any night.

The rabbits are harder to find, but I believe you can get them on special order at supermarkets. It is not a quick stir-fry in the wok on the street behind the kitchen, but apparently is worth the effort.

Ingredients Elephant Pepper Salt Onions Water Flour Rabbits (optional)

Serves 3000 1 large ½ pail 2 pails 4 bushels 93 gallons 6 pails 2

Cooking Method Cut elephant into bite sized pieces – preferably put aside around four months for this part. Cook over a kerosene fire for three months, or until tender. Now add onions, salt, pepper and flour and cook until done, generally around two days. If more people arrive than expected then add the rabbits at this final stage (do this only if necessary, as most people don’t like hares in their soup).

Fax: 038-427596

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, stir-fried 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 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 Continued on page 35

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Ali Baba Tandoori and Curry Restaurant With the influx of Indian tourists, Indian restaurants appear to be multiplying. In fact not “appear to be”, but are actually springing up everywhere. What was a massage parlor yesterday is an Indian restaurant today.

However, these new restaurants have yet to prove themselves, while the Indian restaurant we reviewed this week has proved itself many years over as being the number one restaurant of this genre.

The entrance to the restaurant sets the tone for the dining experience. A staircase with faux jewels lining the steps takes you up to a ‘grotto’ with alcoves containing dining areas for two to eight persons plus private dining areas seating up to a dozen diners, complete with curtained windows, Indian paintings and tapestry brocades everywhere. The service staff is in traditional Indian garb, complete with

an explanation of differing styles of Indian cooking on the front cover inside, and Ali Baba is predominantly Mughalai cuisine.

The way in has starters at around B. 120-350, which has all the ‘chats’ and my favorite Onion Bhaji (a popular street food in Maharashtra India) and vegetable samosas.

Indian samosas are usually vegetarian, and often accompanied by a mint sauce or chutney. Vegetarian Onion Bhaji, everyone’s favourite.

Indian dining is a ‘family’ affair, the table was bedecked with delightful curries and nans.

This is Ali Baba (and the 40 Thieves), where you will find the restaurant is at the lower reaches of Pattaya Klang (Central Road), about 50 meters before Beach Road on the left hand side.

Streetside parking (or use Tops up Central Road).

turbans. The background music is also ethnic Indian.

There is no mistaking you are in the land of the Mughalai warriors.

The menu is large (physically as well as number of dishes) and take your time to go through it all. There is

samosas originated in Uttar Pradesh.

Kebabs feature next (B. 355) and includes chicken, paneers (cheeses) and a Murgh Malai (BBQ chicken).

The Tandoori cook is a busy chap with almost every table asking for at least

one item from the tandoor, including the naan breads (garlic and butter naan the most popular). Tandoor items range between B. 300 and 500. (You can recognize the Tandoori chef by the burns on his forearms.)

Kebabs feature next (B. 345) and includes chicken, paneers and a Murgh Malai (BBQ chicken).

Masala’s are around B.B. 200-300 including the ever popular Chicken Tikka Tawa Masala.

Curried chicken dishes range between B.250-290 and the British favorite of a Balti Chicken Madras is available.

Seafood dishes are around B. 350-400, seafood always attracting a premium at the markets and then at the end user.

Lamb is surprisingly cheap, with most around B. 350 including Vindaloo and another perennial Rogan Josh.

Still in the menu, the paneers are under B. 300 and the eight different types of rice

range between B. 60-300.

Breads? There are 17 to choose from, including my favorite garlic naan, mentioned previously.

Since Indian dining is a ‘family’ affair, the table gets loaded down by the end of the evening. We were a group of four and we had Onion Bhaji, Tandoori Chicken (full), Aloo Gobi (cauliflower and potatoes), Butter Chicken, Rogan Josh (aromatic lamb

curry), Raita (curd with mixed vegetables) Garlic Naan, Butter Naan and Pilau rice.

And every mouthful was delightful.

At the end, two of our group asked for Indian tea and they came in a faux Clarice Cliff cup and saucer set, just begging to be photographed.

Highly recommended.

Ali Baba Tandoori and Curry Restaurant, 1/13-14 Central Pattaya Road, Pattaya City, telephone 038 361 620 or 038 429 262 (fax) 038 414 464, open seven days 11 a.m. till 11 p.m.

On-street parking.

Indian ‘chai’ came in a faux Clarice Cliff cup and saucer set.

The world-renowned Tandoori Chicken.

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From page 33 under “buffet reservation”.

Thai Garden Resort is located on North Pattaya Road, 200 meters from the Dolphin roundabout and 200 meters before Tesco Lotus.

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@lindas restaurant.com.

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than 40 years. Proprietor and Chef Somsakdi is still cooking and running his amazing restaurant at 78 years of age.

The menu is probably the largest in Pattaya, with 374 individual items. Each dish is in Thai with an English explanation underneath.

Rather than be swamped by choices, let Somsakdi guide you. After all, who knows his dishes better than he? Somsakdi Restaurant, Pattaya Soi 1, tel. 038 428 987, 038 423 284, 038 429 869, limited parking plus on-street parking in the soi. Hours 11 a.m. until 11 p.m., seven days.

Spa & Hotel Promotions The happy BBQ chef at Thai Garden.

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.

Fines De Claires Oysters at Yupins.

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

BBQ Pork Spare Ribs & Jasmine Rice for only 195 baht

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.

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

The legendary Somsakdi Restaurant has been in operation in Pattaya for more

Hilton Pattaya’s eforea spa offers ‘Timeless Indulgence’, a head-to-toe spa package that allows you to relax your body and mind throughout 120 minutes.

The package is priced at THB 4,300 net per person and THB 8,000 net per couple. A choice of focusing body massage is also available at THB 3,500 net per person for 90 minutes and THB 4,000 net per person for 120 minutes. Advance reservations are recommended. Call 038-253-000 or pattaya.eforeaspa@ hilton.com.

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 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 Regina Albrink will perform a coffee morning piano concert at Ben’s Theatre in Jomtien on Sunday, March 3 starting at 10.30am. Reservations by email to: bens theaterjomtien@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@rotarypattayamarina.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.

Alcoholics Anonymous: The Pattaya Group meets Monday, Tuesday and Friday at 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. All meetings are closed (alcoholics only) and are held at Soi Skaw Beach (off Pattaya 2nd Rd). Contact Carl 08-456-31671. The Good Morning

Pattaya Group meets 9 a.m. every morning. All meetings are ‘open’: contact 084 564 8479. The Jomtien Group meets every day at noon at Jomtien Long Stay Hotel: Contact, Andrew 086 107 6631. The Scandinavian Group meets on Tuesdays and Fridays 6 p.m. at the Norwegian Seaman’s Church, Thappraya Road Soi 7: contact Hans 085 135 7755 or Rune (Rayong) 089 754 9515.

10.30 a.m. meetings every day at Satree Pattana Centre on Soi Skaw Beach off Second Road. Call 084 564 8479.

The Samaritans of Thailand English Help Line operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide support to the expatriate community.

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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VOL. XXVII No. 8

Thai Polo crowned Queen’s Cup Pink Polo champions

The Thai Polo team members pose with the Queen’s Cup trophy after winning the Pink Polo 2019 final: from left, Hazel Jackson Gaona, Daryl Yeap, Pornsupa Malapadtee and Caroline Link.

Marie-Nicole Roy, left, and Angel Zhang, right, won awards for best hat and best dress respectively.

Pattaya’s Thai Polo & Equestrian Club was decked out in hues of pink and filled with good hearted people last Saturday, Feb. 16, for the annual Queen’s Cup Pink Polo 2019 tournament, an event aimed at supporting women in their fight against breast cancer.

Pink Polo 2019 was co-organized by Dr. Harald Link, President of B.Grimm Group and President of the Thailand Equestrian Federation (TEF), and Nunthinee Tanner, Thailand’s first female polo player and initiator of the charity lady polo tournament, together with BMW Thailand and U.S. Polo Assn.

This year’s event was the 11th edition of this all-women polo tournament and was a

On-field action from the final between Thai Polo and 1003 Polo.

feast for the senses, with most in attendance wearing bright pink attire to support the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer Foundation.

Some famous faces were seen along the sidelines of the polo field, including H.E. Georg Schmidt, German Ambassador to Thailand, Siriyos Devahastin Na Ayudhya, Lee and Pattharapol Puengboonpra, M.L. Ubolwadee Jayankura, Luckana Champa, Vee Marr, Krisna and Krittaya Thiengtham, Tommy and Mira Kittichaiwong, Siriporn Panupong and many more.

For this year, in addition to the ladies polo competition, there was a vintage flea market, Lampang horse carriage rides; a fancy dog fashion show held by the Yorkshire Terrier Club Thailand which featured Khun Perfume, the pet of Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana, and a horseback fashion show by celebrities and supported by U.S. Polo Assn.

The main event of the day of course was the polo match between the host Thai Polo Team and 1003 Polo from China. In a thrilling contest Thai Polo Team claimed the championship with a score of 7-3.

As an added attraction, the organizers presented the

‘Best Hat’ award to MarieNicole Roy for her elegant bonnet and the ‘Best Dress’ award to Angel Zhang.

The day’s activities concluded with a glittering fireworks display to bring down the curtain on yet another memorable and successful Pink Polo event.

Prangned Thajai and Jirapha Laksanawisit took part in the celebrity horseback fashion show.

Walking the dog Pink Polo style.

Dr. Harald Link, President of B.Grimm Group and President of the Thailand Equestrian Federation, center, and Ms.Nunthinee Tanner (wearing sunglasses in center), the chairman of organizing committee for Queen’s Cup Pink Polo, pose with celebrities and socialites at Queen’s Cup Pink Polo 2019.

Khun Perfume, the pet owned by Her Royal Highness Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana, entered the spirit of the day.

Pattaya Classic Car Show ready to roll for charity Turn to page 28.

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