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Not Trump, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-12/mnuchin-says-boeing-woes-could-lop-a-half-point-from-u-s-gdp

Le Pub is now sporting a new sign on Walking Street.

Good point. While not the lowest point in the area, anything on the floor is going to get soaked from flooding after any major downpour.

The new Nirun market has a new structure going up. Looks like another first class, Thai quality concrete pad. The other structure has been stocked with household goods. Best to bring a hydration pack when shopping though as it only opens on the front side, so it's going to be bloody hot in there.

Looks like a DeLorean to me, although it appears the rear thrusters got photoshopped out of the pic for some reason..

Not surprisingly, as the day progresses the slow downs are getting worse.

While Google Maps doesn't show areas under construction, it does a pretty good job of showing where traffic is moving slow.

For international trips, only had one missed connection out a couple decades of travel. Thought I was safe with an 1.5 hour layover in ICN, but a very strong headwind ate up most that time. This is where the extra cost of a BC ticket pays dividends. On exiting the plane there was a very long list of passengers that were directed to a desk to handle reticketing, and a much shorter list where there was a gate agent handing out pre-printed cards that when presented at the gate would get you a boarding pass. In my case I got ticketed on an Asiana A380 flight to BKK. Result was I was only an h

Here's a very detailed accounting of what happened, straight from the guy that would know. Surprised at his candor, not something we normally see after a tragic incident such as this one. Commander of the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Amir-Ali Hajizadeh has, in a press conference, outlined the details of an “unintentional” downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane, which crashed in Tehran Wednesday. At several stages, the Alert Level 3, which is the highest level, is communicated and emphasized to the entire network. So all air defence systems were at h

The list of airliner shootdowns is a long one. 2 1930s 2.1 Kweilin Incident 3 1940s 3.1 Kaleva OH-ALL 3.2 The Chungking 3.3 KNILM PK-AFV 3.4 BOAC Flight 777 3.5 AB Aerotransport SE-BAG Gripen 4 1950s 4.1 Cathay Pacific VR-HEU 4.2 El Al Flight 402 5 1960s 5.1 1961 United Nations crash 5.2 1962 Aeroflot Flight 902 6 1970s 6.1 1973 Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 6.2 1975 Malév Flight 240 6.3 1978 Korean Air Lines Flight 902 6.4 1978 Air Rhodesia Flight 825 6.5 1979 Air Rhodesia Flight 827 7

I have two tanks. The one that's topped up from the city water supply is underground so can't tell when the supply is cut. The second one is above ground and topped up from the underground tank. That tank then feeds the house through a pressure booster pump, so always have good water pressure. Since my lady's main hobby is her garden, I estimate we use about 100L every two days for watering the garden. For that I just installed a 1000L tank to collect rainwater runoff from the roof gutters. All we need now is a good downpour to fill that tank and we're good for 20 days with no rain.

Time for another bi-weekly update on the shrinking Mabprachan Reservoir. For this update the Google Earth screenshot below has markers that identify where a picture was taken. It will also give you a good idea of how much water has been lost from the reservoir. Satellite image is from Nov 5, 2018. Pic 1 Best estimate, down another 1/2 m from the last update on 26 December. Pic 2: Pretty soon the pumping station will be sucking more sand than water. This water intake has been left high and dry for some time now. Pic 3: The water in the channel is n

I imagine the concrete pad won't survive the first trucks that drive on it to deliver tables, shelves and cooking stoves.

Read a report that not releasing the black boxes to the NTSB and Boeing is due to the US sanctions against Iran. As for speculation on the cause, doubt it was an engine exploding as the cowling is designed to contain the pieces to protect the rest of the plane.

And the report is Iran is refusing to hand over the black boxes.

Interesting discussion on the professional pilots forum about the crash. Some of the pictures of the wreckage strongly hint at shrapnel hits from a missle strike. https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/628650-ukrainian-aircraft-down-iran.html

No doubt this is a temporary market next to Nirun judging by thin layer of concrete with no rebar reinforcing.

I think the reason @hyku1147 probably posted in members only section is the funnies in the open section where "racy pictures" are not allowed. Perhaps we need a "Quirky Humor" topic in members only.

At least Bangkok recognizes there is an immediate drought problem. Same cannot be said for the governor of Chonburi. Chonburi Governor reassures residents that Pattaya and Chonburi has enough water to last to the rainy season The only way Chonburi is going to make it to the next rainy season is if they start water rationing now. My estimate is our main supply, Mabprachan Reservoir, is dropping 1/2 meter every two weeks. Pic of the pumping station for the reservoir taken on 26 December. In another week I'll update the following topic to see if my estimate of 1/2 me

I wonder if you tried to book it if the airline would let it go through. Most airlines have minimum connection times allowed for a reservation to go through. Booking sites are probably not smart enough to take that into consideration when throwing up flight and route options.

Looks like a new Thai market going up behind Nirun.

My go to place for glasses is Euro Optic on 2nd Rd. https://www.facebook.com/eurooptic96/

Chernobyl was a great series, but like with most docuseries the producers do take a few liberties with the facts of what happened. HBO's 'Chernobyl' just won 10 Emmys — here's what it gets right (and wrong) about the world's worst nuclear power plant accident

No worries with using the eye test results here. I've done the same several times as the numbers are universal.

City of Life and Death, about the Japanese occupation of the Chinese capital of Nanjing in 1937 and the atrocities committed against the inhabitants. To borrow one reviewer summary, "Amazing piece of cinema, powerful, dramatic, moving".