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Eggman Fleet
Energy Field
Pre-Super Genesis Wave characters, Mobians, Females,
Dark Freedom Fighters
Ken Penders' creations
Jani-Ca
This character exists primarily or exclusively within the Pre-Super Genesis Wave continuity.
You may be looking for Lara-Su from the Light Mobius timeline.
Jani-Ca, from Sonic Universe #28.
Sonic the Hedgehog #106
Biographical overview
Relative(s)
Julie-Su (mother)
Knuckles the Echidna (father)
Lara-Su
Mobian/Echidna
Pink, purple
Black vest lined with blue
Blue gloves with black cuffs
Black boots with blue toes
Alignment and character traits
Julie-Su
Knuckles (before becoming Enerjak)
Dark Enerjak
Prelates
Chaos Powers
Jani-Ca (born 3246), formerly known as Lara-Su, is a character that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog comic series and its spin-offs published by Archie Comics. She was Knuckles and Julie-Su's daughter in an alternate future timeline. She first came to Mobius Prime to prevent her father from being killed by Constable Remington, as her mother explained that was how Knuckles had died in their timeline. She proved unsuccessful, though she managed to thwart a Dark Legion plot to assassinate Julie-Su. Returning to her home timeline, Jani-Ca became the leader of the Dark Freedom Fighters, fighting to liberate their home from Dark Enerjak. Eventually, with the help of Silver the Hedgehog, she succeeded and became the new incarnation of Enerjak herself.
Concept and creation
Jani-Ca's rough concept design was created by writer Ken Penders; in this early version her vest appeared padded and she wore a black V-neck shirt. Her rectangular glasses (interpreted as shades) were inspired by fan Noelle Carballo.
Lara-Su is a red Echidna with violet eyes and pink hair tipped in purple. She wears a braid on her left. Her outfit is generally blue accented in darker blue/black; she wears a vest, laced boots/shoes, gloves (featuring dark lines on the backs), and a red shirt matching her fur. The vest has varied between appearances, sometimes being blue with darker patches, other times being dark with a lighter trim.
Later on, Lara-Su's appearance changed slightly to reflect the hardship of her battle against her father; more hardened, she now wears a black shirt under her vest and heavier boots. Additionally, she wears studded cuffs and white wraps on her arms; her bangs sweep to the right and she carries a sword in a scabbard on her back.
Born in an alternate future version of Mobius, Lara-Su spent much of her early life growing up inside a base with her mother and other people. She had to stay inside at all times because of the danger of the Dark Legion whom she knew were mean to people, which forced her to stay indoors. It was because of these things that she came to hate the Legion, and hoped that Julie-Su and the others would soon win and make the bad people go away so that she could go outside one day. Vector the Crocodile, whom Lara-Su called Uncle Vector, occasionally visited and she looked forward to it as he would bring her gifts and told her stories about his adventures. She liked when Vector came by, and she liked to hear about things outside the base since she was not supposed to leave. During this young age, she also had a secret that she was practicing; Lara-Su discovered she could move things just by looking at them. Unaware of her family's tie to the Chaos Force, she decided she would show it off to Julie-Su and Vector the next time he came back, hoping that they would be surprised.[1]
One day, Remington came to the base and had a fight with Julie-Su. From the argument, Lara-Su was able to figure out that the fight with the Dark Legion was not going very well, but she then heard that Uncle Vector was lost. Lara-Su comprehended this as Vector not knowing where he was, which she questioned how, since he lived on Dark Mobius his whole life and was so smart. Too young to understand and not exactly knowing what was going on, she thought that she heard Remington say that Vector was with somebody called "Prelate", and she hoped he would show Vector the way back. Since Julie-Su seemed so upset, Lara-Su thought that she would show her the surprise, and got a few things in the room to move around just by thinking about them. That did not make Julie-Su happy, and instead escalated her fight with Remington. As a result, Lara-Su ran up to her room still hating the Dark Legion and the war.[2] Lara-Su also began to hate Remington from that point due to him fighting with her mother.[3]
Over the next few years, Lara-Su was trained for survival and combat in practice sessions with her mother. Things were never easy for her as Julie-Su would snap at her if she was even a second late for training. One day her mother was the one late for practice, which made Lara-Su uneasy. By the time Julie-Su arrived, she felt like giving her a piece of her mind, but saw she had brought in a box with some people she never saw before. Assuming they were more rebels, Lara-Su opened the box and saw it held the robotic head of an echidna. Not realizing this head was the last remains of her ancestor Dimitri, she was shocked when he began to speak to her and revealed that he knew her, her mother, and about her powers. Explaining that she had been channeling the Chaos Force, Dimitri told Lara-Su that he would train her to access it more and use it to fight the Dark Legion. Lara-Su agreed to this idea, though she had forgotten Dimitri's name at that point.[4]
Trip to Mobius Prime
Lara-Su grew up thinking that her father Knuckles had been killed by Remington when she was younger, and became determined to undo that tragic event.[5] Deciding to take the initiative, she applied the training Dimitri gave her and spent a few weeks building up enough power to create a space-time portal and rescue her father. Even though it was risky and dangerous, the war was not going well, and she wanted to do something about it.[6]
Lara-Su arrives on Mobius Prime, from Sonic the Hedgehog #106.
Traveling to present day Angel Island in Mobius Prime, she arrived during the period in which all the inhabitants except for Knuckles, Julie-Su, and the Dark Legion had been teleported to the Twilight Cage by the Quantum Beam, Lara-Su was rather confused to find Echidnaopolis deserted. Her confusion multiplied when Chaos Knuckles, using his immense powers, undid the beam's effects. Lara found herself surrounded by the returned Echidnas, among them Remington-the very Echidna whom she had been told by her future mother, Julie-Su, had killed Knuckles.[5] Deciding to go undercover until she could make sense of things, Lara-Su made the constable's acquaintance, claiming to be one "Jani-Ca." Almost immediately afterwards, she ran into her grandmother and namesake, Lara-Le, and then the past versions of her parents. She was quite astonished to see Knuckles in his green form, which had apparently never happened in her knowledge along her timeline.[7]
Lara-Su trying to stop Remington from shooting Chaos Knuckles, from Sonic the Hedgehog #108.
Regardless, she continued in her quest to protect Knuckles from being killed during a meeting between Dimitri and the Mitre of Angel Island as the Dark Legion and Echidnaopolis negotiated reunification. Lara-Su arrived just in time to prevent Remington's attack on the true assassin, whose shot was aimed at either Dimitri or the Mitre.[8] The shot was caught by Knuckles, who then faked his own death. Heartbroken, Lara-Su was left confused as Remington was not responsible for firing the shot that killed Knuckles. She then overheard Lien-Da talking with the Dark Legion sniper Syntar about taking out Julie-Su and the Mitre. She knocked out Syntar just before he had a chance to fire his shot. Lara-Su realized that she may not have gone back in time to have saved her father, and that perhaps there was a reason her mother did not talk about her younger years. At that moment, Lara-Su began to transport back to her own future reality, despite wanting to stay longer and gain some more answers.[9]
Upon arriving back in her own time, she confronted her mother and learned from her that the Knuckles in their timeline was now leader of the Dark Legion, having absorbed a massive amount of Chaos energy and gone insane. Julie-Su had hidden the truth from her daughter by saying he was dead, but the time had come for Lara-Su to confront her deranged father.[9] She realized she had been given false information, wound up in a whole other zone and accomplished nothing. Lara-Su then followed her mother into an uncertain conflict to defeat Knuckles, but not without hating her for lying about his death. She felt that she could have used her power for something more proactive, regardless if Julie-Su was trying to protect her.[6]
The last Resistance
Lara-Su and her mother soon became part of a much larger resistance; they organized what became an army of Freedom Fighters and were nearly successful in taking down Knuckles, who at this point had assumed the mantle of Enerjak, but he crushed the resistance shortly after with the added power of the stolen Chaos Emeralds.[10] Scarlette Rabbot brought Lara-Su the news one morning that Julie-Su was gone due to a raid gone bad. Numb from the shock, a day passed with her just staring at the walls, though she believed she cried at some point, unable to remember when. With her mother gone, she was officially in charge and renounced her name to cut all ties to Enerjak, something she could not bring herself to perform in front of Julie-Su. Eventually Lara-Su took on her old alias of "Jani-Ca", and was left with just a handful of allies.[11]
At some point, Cutlass Depardieu informed Lara-Su of Sir Charles Hedgehog and arranged a meeting for him with her. Reading Cutlass' letter of introduction, she took into account Charles' poor self-presentation and temperament as it went on to mention that he was amazingly brilliant and knew of a medical technique that was sure to save some lives for the greater good, particularly Blockbuster, who had previously been injured and was in need of Charles' Roboticizer.[3]
Leading the remaining Freedom Fighters, Jani-Ca continued to fight against Enerjak and his Prelate army, which she started by following up on Julie-Su and Elias' request to obtain the Sword of Acorns. Jani-Ca hired her world's version of Nack the Weasel to find the Sword for her, balking at his exorbitant finder's fee, but agreed to it regardless. When she next heard from Nack, it was through a letter he sent claiming that he had found the Sword on Downunda at great personal risk, which made his rate triple. Following Nack's instructions, Jani-Ca got the money together by the end of the month for delivery at the agreed spot, and Nack upheld his end of the bargain. With the Sword of Acorns now in hand, Jani-Ca was able to form a plan; to ambush Enerjak when he dropped his guard and use the Sword to drain away his power.[3][11]
The Silver Saga
Jani-Ca drags Silver along, from Sonic Universe #26.
When her team discovered someone being attacked by the Prelates, Jani-Ca's team moved in to save him; the would-be victim turned out to be Silver the hedgehog, who had traveled from another reality following one of the Prelates. Silver and Jani-Ca got off to a rough start (due to him mistaking her for another reality's version of herself and using her old name), and she almost cut him down until Blockbuster intervened to allow the hedgehog to explain himself. After hearing Silver's story about how he was a time-traveler and met another Lara-Su, Jani-Ca accepted his story outright. She then had him accompany her team to their secret base and Jani-Ca outlined their situation and plan to him while also briefly explaining that she believed his story from her own time-travel experience. However, they soon found themselves ambushed in their own base by Enerjak who claimed to have always known where they were and kept them around for entertainment value until Silver had arrived. Joining hands with the rest of her team, she told Demo to clear a path for them and was lifted out of the crumbling remains of their hideout by Silver, only to be captured in Enerjak's chaos energy. Jani-Ca was able to break free of his hold with the Sword of Acorns however, and remained defiant in the face of her corrupted father and his summoned minions. She became especially enraged when he revealed a new Prelate especially for her; one based upon her mother, whom Enerjak had rendered into a Core. As she engaged her new foe in attempt to hold it off with the rest of Enerjak's soldiers, Jani-Ca told Silver to help the others and leave her to fight her mother.[10]
During her fight with Prelate JS, she spoke to it thinking that her mother might be able to somehow hear her from inside, promising that she would save her. Before Jani-Ca could deliver the killing blow though, Silver interrupted the fight, using his power to freeze JS. Jani-Ca was furious as Silver had no right to intrude on a personal matter, but as he pointed out her team was losing and needed her, she agreed he was right and went to help Scarlette and Blockbuster in their battles with Prelates V and M. With the fight over, she destroyed the immobile JS so Silver could add her core to the others he rescued from Enerjak. Noting afterwards that the demigod had just been watching them and brooding for a while, she ordered her team to move until he approached, applauding their efforts. Jani-Ca realized Enerjak himself was about to attack and told everyone to scatter, but it was pointless as he quickly caught and removed the cores of each of them one at a time until just she was left. Even while in her father's grasp, Jani-Ca still defied him as he noted how much wasted potential she still had until Silver attacked him, causing Enerjak to let her go.[12] She stayed back as Silver went to confront Enerjak in tremendous final showdown, and gathered up her friends' lifeless bodies. Promising to restore them soon, Jani-Ca turned to the battle at hand and waited to make her move.[13]
Jani-Ca becomes Enerjak, from Sonic Universe #28.
Jani-Ca offers to help Silver, from Sonic Universe #28.
Jani-Ca rushed to Silver's aide when he was overwhelmed by a horde of Prelates, and helped him fight their way through them until Silver was close enough to reach Enerjak. Telling Silver to go finish his fight with the demigod, Jani-ca turned her attention to dealing with the Prelates and held them off single-handedly. Eventually she saw that Enerjak was completely focused on crushing Silver and quickly jumped in, stunning him with the Sword of Acorn's magic, and recited a variant of Tikal's Prayer to drain his power. Following a flash of light, Jani-ca was shocked to find that by taking Enerjak's power away from him, she had become the next incarnation herself as a demigoddess. With a quick test of her new powers she was able to summon her mother's core and realized she could restore everyone and rebuild Mobius. She then destroyed the Sword to prevent her father from regaining his power and offered to help Silver's world in thanks. He declined though, as he still did not know how things went wrong and she accepted that, saying she would not be Enerjak for long. She gave her word as Guardian that she would not miss this opportunity to save her world. She then wished Silver luck in his quest as he departed, remaining hopeful that she could restore her father as well.[13]
Now as Enerjak, Jani-Ca began to think about how to repair the damage to Mobius and decided to first restore the cores to their owners. Though she would have rather stayed away from there, she went to the former Enerjak's abode, the Citadel where the Prelates came from. She felt it was still too soon to forgive Knuckles or regard him as her father again, but brought him with her as her only source of insight. With Knuckles guidance, she gained entrance by concentrating on wanting to go in, and they arrived at a small room with a throne. Hesitantly following his instruction to sit, Jani-Ca extended her will again and the ceiling vanished with the entire height of the spire, and every victim who had fallen to Enerjak, revealed to her.[3]
Surveying all of the sad and frightened looking figures preserved by the magic that had robbed them of their cores, Jani-Ca stopped on one man in particular. Knowing him only through his legendary evil, she asked her father if it was Dr. Eggman, as she thought he had been vaporized. Knuckles confirmed it was Eggman, explaining he was not in complete control of his power then, and it took a great deal of experimentation to restore him since the doctor was the first person he stole a Core from. As Jani-Ca learned the bodies were all preserved as far as Knuckles knew, but that he never restored a core to someone, she found herself not knowing where to begin or even how.[3]
When Knuckles inquired, Jani-Ca affirmed her plan to restore the cores to their owners, but remained unsure if she could figure out how. Knuckles warned her that she could err without mastering her powers, and might destroy the body, the core, or both. She listened as Knuckles suggested he could coach her in the process, but when he mentioned doing so by example and sharing her powers with him, she silenced him with a look. At this point, a dark voice began to make itself known in her mind, whispering malicious ideas, but Jani-Ca ignored it as she knew that kind of thinking led to the misery she grew up in and refused to perpetuate it. However, she realized she would not be able to resist the whisper forever, and had to restore the cores and Mobius quickly.[3]
Jani-Ca was still uncertain who she would try to restore first when Knuckles asked. As he suggested her mother, only to add that Jani-Ca would not start with her because she would not want to risk botching it and losing her forever, she seethed at his accuracy. She reluctantly nodded, but told him that she did not want any more sacrifices when he suggested using Dr. Eggman or another villain who would not be missed, nor that anyone else would be lost to his machinations. She then turned to a familiar face, Remington, and realized she never really knew him. She hated him in her childhood purely from principle, and his heroism only confused her as she grew up. Finally understanding that he had given everything to try to protect everyone, Jani-Ca believed he would have volunteered himself if he knew it could save the world. Hoping she was right and that Remington could forgive her if she was wrong, Jani-Ca summoned a core and offered it to the body, softly begging him to please wake up.[3]
Lara-Su using her Chaos powers on an officer, from Sonic the Hedgehog #108.
As Knuckles' daughter, Lara-Su commands Chaos energy through a link to the Master Emerald. This allowed Lara-Su to knock an unsuspecting EST officer unconscious. She also commands Knuckles' strength, and has fist spurs similar to his, which she can retract at will.
Later on, Jani-Ca wielded the Sword of Acorns, which she uses to take the power from Enerjak. Upon doing this, she absorbed her father's powers, becoming the next incarnation of Enerjak.
This Lara-Su exists in an alternate reality. A different version of Lara-Su appeared later in StH #131—144, StH #166—167, and SU #5—8.
The differing personalities of the two were the subject of an Off Panel strip, in which the alternate Lara-Su convinced Enerjak to stop his evil ways through cordial discussion, whereas Jani-Ca demanded King Shadow's surrender at sword point.
The origin story of this Lara-Su was taken from the cancelled storyline Knuckles: 20 Years Later.
This Lara-Su's pseudonym, Jani-Ca, has a real-world parallel, Janica, which means "God's Gracious Gift" in Hebrew. Her name also shares the traditional Echidna female suffix of her adopted maternal grandmother, Floren-Ca. Whether this was intended as a means of retaining a connection to her mother's family through her new name is unknown.
Concept artwork
Jani-Ca sketch by Tracy Yardley
Concept sketches from Sonic Universe Volume 7: The Silver Saga.
Jani-Jak
Jani-Jak's mask
↑ Dark Mobius - Jani-Ca's ascent. Archie Comics.
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Dark Mobius - Knuckles' Descent
↑ 5.0 5.1 Sonic the Hedgehog #106, "Reunification Part 1"
↑ 6.0 6.1 Dark Mobius - Jani-Ca's ascent. Archie Comics.
↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #107, "Reunification Part II"
↑ Sonic the Hedgehog #108, "Reunification Part 3"
↑ 9.0 9.1 Sonic the Hedgehog #109, "Reunification: The Conclusion"
↑ 10.0 10.1 Sonic Universe #26, "Fractured Mirror Part Two: Warped Reflections"
↑ 11.0 11.1 Dark Mobius - Jani-Ca's ascent. Archie Comics.
↑ Sonic Universe #27, "Fractured Mirror Part Three: Shattered"
↑ 13.0 13.1 Sonic Universe #28, "Fractured Mirror The Finale: Picking up the Pieces"
Jani-Ca at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.
Retrieved from "https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Jani-Ca?oldid=2129828"
Pre-Super Genesis Wave characters
Mobians


Discussion in ' Shows' started by gary lopez - Jun 10th, 2018 4:32 pm.
I will continue to take orders for tables (confirmed with payment) until we are filled. We are getting close. If we fill up and I receive a check after we max out on tables, I will notify you of that. If you are still coming, I will deposit your check, and refund you, less the registration fee due, for tables paid for. Show Special $110(registration, two tables, t-shirt, etc.) requests will be given preference. Table layout in the Convention Center has now been finalized with the Center. Table assignments will be provided at event registration.
All registrations should be mailed before the 7th of July. For those that send in after that, confirmation will be made at the show. If I have not received your payment from you prior to beginning of show (I am coming in Sunday from 2 hours away and I will not have mail available received that week of the show), you are not registered, and registration will be $40 at the show. We have given six months for advance registration. PRE REGISTER to avoid hassle.
This is in addition to your club renewal payment that must be verified at registration as well. If you haven't renewed yet, I recommend doing that before last week in June, in order to be on the list I obtain from our Secretary (first week in July). that list I receive will be considered final and used at registration and prior to confirm all is good.
All registered members and only their registered guests (as per our guidelines and registration form) will receive badges, which are required to be displayed for room trading and attendance/participation during show and events held.
Contact either Dan Peltz or myself with any questions.


Discussion in 'iOS 12' started by luckyluca, Mar 16, 2019.
Has anybody else noticed the iphone's tap spacebar and hold doesn't always work?
sometimes only 50% of the times on my Iphone Xr.
Is this being looked at / fixed in upcoming ios updates?
You just have to wait longer after typing, then press spacebar.
luckyluca and twintin like this.
I haven't experienced any issues with holding the space bar and entering cursor mode but the post above is the solution.
You don't tap the space bar to move the cursor. Press and hold instead.
That's not a space bar thing. You can use your whole keyboard as a trackpad.
True, but without 3D Touch the trackpad mode must be started from the space bar.
OK. Thanks. I didn't know that.
Yeah, I kind of find myself using that more often than 3D Touch these days. However, one annoyance/limitation is that by starting things on the spacebar you are already at the bottom of the screen, which limits your downward movement (unlike the 3D Touch method that could be initiated higher up in the center of the keyboard essentially).
correct it was me, holding 4 longer works!


I am often asked about how I go about writing a book. Today I finally finished HOME so it seems like an appropriate time to step back and dissect the various steps that have brought me here. There is nothing very mysterious about it. As any writer will tell you, the main thing is to start and then keep going. And how do you get to be a writer? By writing, mostly.
HOME had been in my mind and a part of my conversations for a long time before I began to work on it seriously. Once I decided to try and make it happen, the first thing I did was a spidergram – a big, messy splurge of all the ideas, themes, thoughts and threads that might possibly be relevant. Once I had that to work on, I asked myself what need the book would address – if in fact there was a need. Did anyone other than me want to know where their home was? And I had a good long think about whether I had enough to say on the topic, or anything to offer. I didn't want to write waffle for the sake of getting something published.
The next step was to work on a coherent structure. I came up with a provisional chapter outline, and decided I would use my life story as the skeleton. It was my editor who encouraged me to have a more substantial biblical element, so that came later.
When you write non-fiction, you only have to submit an outline and one or two chapters to potential publishers. So I wrote a chapter, rather randomly choosing to write chapter three first. I've written about how I got a contract here.
In April last year, I finally had a publisher, a word count and a deadline, which was the end of October. I know I can write roughly 500 words an hour, and I had 60,000 words to produce. I got out my diary, and identified writing slots. With my part-time job, freelance commitments, church, family, friends and the general demands of life to work around, it was a little challenging! In the end, I used every Saturday morning and two weeks of annual leave, along with every other available space. It was a question of sitting down with my laptop and pounding out the requisite number of words, whether I felt like it or not.
This produced a fairly rough first draft, which I sent off to a team of first readers , seven people who were kind enough to give me their reactions and critique. Their suggestions got worked into the manuscript, and after that it went to my editor at Hodder.
My editor was very thorough and there was a lot to work on after he'd gone through it, but I managed to turn it around in two weeks. My second draft met his approval – hurrah! But it wasn't finished yet. There was still all the copy editor's queries and amends to go through, a final proof to read and check and a proof-reader's finds to approve. There have been times in this last stretch when I have felt heartily sick of the whole thing, but also very exciting and encouraging things like getting to see the cover design, and reading the lovely endorsements.
(p.s I did some drawings too).
Nice! And good-day from us Nuts and Bolts!
Sounds like a pretty efficient process, all in all!
Firstly, huge congratulations on your achievement – I shall look forward to reading it!
One question: you mention a 'team of first readers' – what kind of people are they? Did you get your MSS professionally edited, or was it more informal?
That small glimpse of your art-work is tantalising – gifted you are!!
My first readers are kind friends and family whose brains and way with words I respect and who give their time from love. Most writers I know ask people they know to have a first look at what they've done and wouldn't expect to have to fork out for it. A traditional publisher will do a professional edit on your book and you won't have to pay them for that. If you go the self-publishing route it is well worth the money to pay a freelance editor.
Thanks for your encouragement re the pictures – feeling pretty nervous about them!


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/* eslint-env mocha */
import { expect } from 'chai';
import getStyles from '../../src/profile/get-styles';
import styles from '../../src/profile/styles';

describe('Profile.getStyles', () => {
  describe('root', () => {
    it('should get styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.root();

      expect(style).to.deep.equal(styles.root);
    });

    it('should combine styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.root({ color: 'red' });

      expect(style).to.have.property('color', 'red');
    });
  });

  describe('cover', () => {
    it('should get styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.cover();

      expect(style).to.deep.equal(styles.cover);
    });

    it('should combine styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.cover({ color: 'red' });

      expect(style).to.have.property('color', 'red');
    });
  });

  describe('coverImage', () => {
    it('should get styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.coverImage();

      expect(style).to.deep.equal(styles.coverImage);
    });

    it('should add image styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.coverImage(
        { backgroundImage: 'url(https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/6596471?v=3&s=400)' }
      );

      expect(style).to.have.property(
        'backgroundImage',
        'url(https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/6596471?v=3&s=400)'
      );
    });

    it('should combine styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.coverImage({}, { color: 'red' });

      expect(style).to.have.property('color', 'red');
    });
  });

  describe('avatar', () => {
    it('should get styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.avatar();

      expect(style).to.deep.equal(styles.avatar);
    });

    it('should combine styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.avatar({ color: 'red' });

      expect(style).to.have.property('color', 'red');
    });
  });

  describe('header', () => {
    it('should get styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.header();

      expect(style).to.deep.equal(styles.header);
    });

    it('should combine styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.header({ color: 'red' });

      expect(style).to.have.property('color', 'red');
    });
  });

  describe('secondaryText', () => {
    it('should get styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.secondaryText();

      expect(style).to.deep.equal(styles.secondaryText);
    });

    it('should combine styles', () => {
      const style = getStyles.secondaryText({ color: 'red' });

      expect(style).to.have.property('color', 'red');
    });
  });
});

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Pattaya's Soi 6
Stickman's Weekly Column › August 22nd, 2010
Well away from Pattaya's nightlife central, Walking Street, is one of Sin City's more infamous naughty boy areas. Running from Beach Road up to Second Road is Soi Yodsak, or as it is also known, soi 6. It might only be a few hundred metres long, but soi 6 is home to more than 50 bars and perhaps 1,000 naughty girls.
Soi 6 has it all, with open-air beer bars, sports bars, a few gogo bars, a traditional English pub, massage houses and even a number of regular, mainstream businesses such as a dive shop. But the main feature of soi 6, and the reason so many guys visit, are the short time bars. With such bar names as Route 69, Hole In One, Love Club and Horny Bar, there's no second-guessing what soi 6 is all about.
Gogo bars and beer bars need no introduction, but the short-time bar format is less common. Short-time bars are just that – a bar you go to for a drink and to take the girl for a short-time experience.
In the short-time bars of soi 6, girls typically sit outside in sexy, skimpy apparel showing plenty of flesh and call out to any and every guy passing by. Competition is fierce with bars offering the same services at the same prices lined up next to each other.
If you decide to enter a bar, you should choose a girl before passing through the curtain and into the often dark bar area. A drink for you and one for her and she will cut through the BS and do everything in her power to convince you to take her upstairs. There's no pretension about what's on offer and not even a hint of the girlfriend experience. What soi 6 offers is cheap, readily available sex, much as I expect prostitution is like in the West. You walk into a venue, order a drink, choose a girl, go upstairs and do the business.
The short-time bars open for business late morning but things don't really get going on soi 6 until around midday or later and peak late afternoon when most have a full compliment of girls. Some bars put their girls in uniform and on the right day you might see a bunch of sexy Thai girls wearing nurses' uniforms or other sexy theme. In addition to their uniforms, one of the hallmarks of soi 6 is the way many girls go totally over the top with make up. Garish eye shadow in pastel pinks, blues and greens seems to be a feature of the soi.
Soi 6 is a favourite for many Pattaya-based Westerners, but I often wonder what all the fuss is about. My memories of soi 6 in the past is of walking past bars with a line up of dreadfully ugly girls, many heavily tattooed and some who could have done with dropping 20 kg or more. It was quite possible to walk up and down the soi and not see one girl you even remotely fancied and making it worse, many seemed desperate. It would be a thrill to walk along and have dozens of girls screaming at you, pleading for you to choose them, but is that really that great when they don't look too flash?!
But things have changed somewhat and in fairness to the soi, it is one of the few bar areas which seems to have improved in recent years. While there are still plenty of uglies to be found, it seems to have shirked the industry trend of girls getting bigger and bigger. Dare I say it, on my last stroll along soi 6, I thought some of the girls were quite pretty.
The prices on Pattaya's soi 6, which is also known as Soi Yodsak, used to be a street-standard 200 – 300 baht barfine, which covered a short-time barfine and the use of a grotty room above the bar. Then there was the girl's fee which was typically 500 baht. Throw in a drink each and a tip and all in you'd be up for around 1,000 baht. Prices are said to have moved a bit with 300 baht being the standard barfine / room fee and 700 baht most girls' expected compensation. So with drinks it's going to run closer to 1,200 baht all in, still a fair deal.
In what I find to be a curious development, soi 6 has become a hunting ground for gogo bar owners who trawl the soi often, keen to recruit new girls. Ironically, pretty girls on soi 6 can potentially make a lot more money on the down-market soi of brothels. Those who making several trips a day upstairs could make 5,000 baht upwards a day, a figure few Pattaya gogo girls reach. But there's a stigma with soi 6, even amongst the girls, and there is a certain pride in being offered a position in a gogo bar, which says to the world that "I have got a hot enough body to get out of this environment and join the crème de la crème of Pattaya bars." The soi 6 bars are little more than brothels – and the girls know it.
In some ways soi 6 reminds me a little of Soi Cowboy with some girls living on site in the rooms above the bars. Apparently this was more common in the past than it is now and more girls live outside, the same as it is at Soi Cowboy.
Soi 6 is not somewhere I spend time hanging around. I guess that more than anything it just doesn't feel welcoming to those who aren't participating. For someone like me who likes to linger, sip on something non-alcoholic and people watch, you're given a very definite look that you're really not welcome.
The soi attracts some pretty grotty characters. Like the Beach Road, some of the local characters who spend time on soi 6 have seen better days but with that said, the lane happens to be a favourite with some youngsters too.
Customers on soi 6 are very much the Pattaya crowd of yesteryear – white guys, Westerners. Certainly the Russians, Indians and Middle Easterners who make up the bulk of the Walking Street lurkers these days don't seem to have found soi 6, at least not en masse. You'll always get the odd stray, but for the most part they're strangers to the area. Signs in Russian which can be seen up and down Walking Street can't be found on soi 6. Yet.
Soi 6 is a high traffic bar area. I'm not talking cars, motorbikes, or pedestrians. Some of the girls, the pretty girls who make up a small percentage of the girls in the soi, can turn as many tricks in a day as an English teacher does lessons. Some years back a notorious whoremonger who wrote outrageous sexpat reports under the pseudonym of Ranger told of a particular favourite of his on Soi 6 who did 180 short-times in one month. Hardly the norm, of course, but the traffic can be considerable.
I've seen plenty of photos taken inside the rooms above the bars and they're grim, often worse than what 150 baht gets you on Khao San Road. That said, some bars are said to have been done up with nice rooms similar to what 1,000 baht would get you in a Pattaya hotel. In fact many of the bars don't just rent out rooms by the hour but by the night. The hardcore could check into soi 6 and spend their entire stay in the heart of the action.
Many of the bars on the south side of soi 6 – that would be the right-hand side if you were waking up from the beach – back out on to its sister soi, soi 6/1. Few venues can be entered from soi 6/1 and that lane is more like a thoroughfare with service entrances for the bars and other businesses. Soi 6/1 is worth a stroll if you're into ladyboys and features a bunch of giant ladyboys, some of whom can be quite aggressive, making very direct offers about what's available and on offer. There are also a few ladyboy bars, or bars with a mix of girls and ladyboys, on soi 6.
In some soi 6 bars anything goes and bars where anything goes right inside the bar – the main drinking area – are sometimes referred to as diddling bars. Venues such as My Friend You Bar have no restrictions on what happens in the bar so don't stick your head inside if you're shy!
Not everyone likes soi 6. I'm ambivalent about it, as much as anything because I don't partake. Hardcore Pattaya sexpat residents love it whereas those who are picky about the girls tend to prefer the gogos. A Pattaya media mogul once said to me that soi 6 is the one part of Pattaya he really doesn't like and would rather it didn't exist. I have to admit a degree of surprise that it still operates as it does, with girls frequently yelling out all sorts of interesting phrases in English to passers by, often gesticulating and sometimes even flashing them. Like everywhere it faces crackdowns from time to time but things always return to normal quickly.
Soi 6 doesn't attract mainstream tourists like Walking Street or Bangkok's nightlife areas do. The sort of ambling up and down soi 6 with a camera or video camera that is the norm on Walking Street won't win you any friends on Soi 6. Pulling out a camera gets a similar reaction to pulling out a gun.
Comparisons between soi 6 and the Coconut Bar are inevitable. You'd have to say that liaisons in soi 6 would be safer and the chances of being ripped off are remote. In fact at least one bar on soi 6 used this as part of their promotion using the slogan "get laid without getting scammed!" The girls found on soi 6 are for the most part more attractive than those loitering on Beach Road. It is more expensive but at a thousand or so baht all in, it's hardly going to break the bank. Given that everything takes place on the premises, a better comparison may be with the massage parlour experience.
You can get a cheaper beer elsewhere and if you're down to your last few baht, you can always find a cheaper bonk on the beach, but for the combination of the laid-back atmosphere of the Pattaya of old and a relatively stress-free experience without tourists gawking at your every move, soi 6 remains a favourite afternoon spot for many Pattaya locals.
Pattaya's Soi 6 offers a purer form of prostitution than what you find in other Westerner-oriented nightlife areas where customers seem to want to know the girl's life story and hope that she will treat him like her boyfriend. Whereas other areas are about fun, entertainment and the girlfriend experience, Pattaya's soi 6 is simply about sex.
Last week's photo was taken looking up Sukhumvit soi 7. Heaps of readers thought it was soi 11. Wrong! The first person to email with the correct location of the picture wins a 500 baht credit at Oh My Cod, the British fish and chips restaurant. The second person to correctly guess the photo wins a signed copy of Stephen Leather's superb Private Dancer, which many refer to as "the bible". It's widely regarded as the best novel set in Thailand's bar scene! The third person to get the photo correct wins a 500 baht voucher from one of the very best farang food venues in Bangkok, and the home of Bangkok's best burger, in my humble opinion, Duke's Express. Duke's is very conveniently located in the Emporium shopping centre in central Bangkok.
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EMAIL OF THE WEEK – Bragging can lead to an early death.
I would like to comment on the ongoing situation as it pertains to older pensioners as they seem to expire with tragic circumstances in the Land of Smiles on a regular basis, all of whom have a significant other who just happens to be a Thai lady. The story of the incapacitated elderly gentleman who was sitting at the table waiting for the inevitable with only a stun gun really ripped at my heart. And the barbecue fed to the tigers is another example. I would suggest that folks do not divulge their net worth to anyone! I have family in the U.S. who have no clue as to what I am worth. It is all stipulated in a certified trust that I set up years ago. My Thai partner of 6+ years also has no clue. I am not a braggart and I do not have to be. The best compliment to that effect was from my son who once said, "If I did not know better I would think you were poor."
Soi Cowboy service failure 1 – don't take your lengthy weapon there! <Bar name removed>
Quite often this bar is good with friendly staff, reasonable prices and attractive girls. We went there, had a good time, and the bill ran to 13,000 baht as we were treating the staff to a good time. All of us took out some girls and we headed to Bed Supper Club. Reaching the club, two of the girls could not produce an ID card, so persuasion was necessary, a 1,000 baht tip, for the doormen to allow them to enter. After the bar closed we were in a taxi, and were stopped at a police checkpoint. At this point we found out that two of the girls were 14 years old! We took them back to the bar, as they reside above the bar itself. I was saddened that a bar would employ girls at such a young age. The next day, we returned to complain to the mamasan who we had treated to numerous drinks the evening before, only to be told the bar only employs girls 18+ years of age! While sitting at the bar the next night, we noticed rounds of drinks appearing, only to notice upon leaving it was us who was buying the rounds and being lied to again! Underage girls, padding of bills, it's all quite improper and not to mention a very bad situation that could have arisen if we had done something with the underage girls. The bar is managed / owned by a Thai woman who was present the second day we complained and did not seem at all interested in what we had to say.
Soi Cowboy service failure 2 – even the most popular bar isn't perfect. <Bar name removed>
My friend paid for a girl in an ultra popular Soi Cowboy bar to stay with him for 12 days. The bar fine is 600 baht but he was told it was 600 + 400 (because she did not work!). Almost every night for a week, we spent over 10,000 baht in the bar as we just wanted to have a good time. My friend spent evenings with the girl in question, residing at her condo and on the last day of his stay in Bangkok he took two additional girls from the same bar. We went to the after hours club Spicy to find one of the girls he took had called her French boyfriend to meet her! As anyone would, he mentioned to the girl that he paid for her to leave the bar and it was inappropriate to ask another man to meet her there. A brawl ensued with the girl scratching my friend and the security guards throwing her out of the bar with her boyfriend. He was left with the first girl, and one additional girl and decided it was time to return home. On the way, one of the girls mentioned she wanted to go home and asked the taxi driver to stop and she demanded 4,000 baht from him. He politely paid, and returned back to the remaining girl's condo where the girl pulled a knife and said "All British men are the same!" He spent one week with her and paid her 28,000 baht not to mention the daily barfines, countless drinks etc. The girl threatened to kill herself or kill him if he did not pay her 500,000 baht and she called his ex-wife in Australia to make matters even worse. My friend is a very polite man with a great job and spent way too much money during his stay, but was not concerned because he has money and wanted to treat the girls well and have a good time. Again we complained the next day to the bar manager, but our complaints were met with the comment "You can go to another bar, if you not like it here."
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Even the dogs at Cowboy are out to get us!
I was in Soi Cowboy the other evening with my lady who stopped to buy a couple of kebabs. While we were waiting I felt something knocking my lower leg. I turned and it was a dog hitting me with his paw asking for food! Of course I bought one for him too and fed him off the stick. Then he did it again. Nice trick he's learned. It's not only the girls there who have learned to get what they want from a man!
The benefits of tipping in the Thermae.
That old gal you took a photo of outside Thermae has been around forever. She's pretty good on customer service so when I was going there I would give 50 or sometimes a 100 baht tip. When I go to the Thermae, I get drinks in larger glasses for the same price. Word will get around quick if you are a good tipper or not and at least at the Thermae they will show their appreciation in this way. So I don't mind tipping more than 10 or just 20 baht if I go there.
Compared to Bali.
I have just returned from a 2-week break in Bali. When I visit nice places like Bali it makes me wonder why the Thais tolerate the thousands of beer bars, gogo bars and the infestation of hookers in just about every tourist hot spot in Thailand. It just looks awful. Imagine scenes like that in your home country! I would be ashamed. I know that the Thais are obsessed by money but why can't they just move on and develop instead of Thailand remaining as a large brothel. Of course girls are available in the tourist areas of Indonesia but the absence of cheap tacky beer bars gives a much better impression of the people and the country.
Passport validity.
Interesting to read of your friend's incident with Jetstar in Melbourne because of the validity of his passport. I have flown with many carriers on multiple occasions between Australia and Thailand; Thai, Qantas, BA, Singapore, Malaysian, Emirates, Air Asia and Jetstar. Curiously Jetstar has been the only carrier to have asked me for proof of onward / return travel on both occasions at check in. I believe that technically most nations require visitors to enter on a passport with at least 6 months of validity available for a number of reasons, however it is rarely enforced by nations who shall we say aren't immune to waiving regulations for a 'fee', or just plain lazy to fight layers of red tape to enforce it. What's more, foreign airlines would be subject to heavy fines by governments who breach this rule, and technically other regulations, such as an inappropriate or no visa, no return / onward ticket etc. In addition they are obliged to return the passenger at the airline's expense. Hint: if this happens to you, demand an upgrade or some other form of compensation for the inconvenience. Surprisingly most will comply as, after all, they are at fault for flying you in the first place and not intervening at the beginning of the journey. National carriers are exempt from penalties (except for returning you home), and I would be surprised that if your friend had wandered across to Singapore Airlines or the like he would have been able to fly.
The Supersport TV channel which is used for sports broadcasts by many Western pubs in Bangkok is history. That means that there will be less rugby, less cricket, less football, in fact less of just about all live sports shown on pub TVs in Bangkok, at least for the time being. Up until two weeks ago, the Supersport signal available here in Bangkok was being broadcast out of South Africa but apparently the network had been setting up a new HD signal broadcast during which time they kept the old signal open. Presumably with all of the kinks out of the new system and the HD signal up and running, they have killed the previous signal which local bars could pick up. Western pubs and sports bars are scrambling to find alternatives and Internet connections seem to be the way some are going. That said, I have not been at all impressed by the quality of the picture of live sports broadcasts via Internet connections. Apparently up in the north you can still pick up Supersport. Maybe all of us Bangkok sports lovers need to move to Udon Thani?
Washington Square might not be as popular as Nana Plaza but its future is mooted and pained over almost as much as that of the sex shopping centre. In fairness, and I mean no disrespect to those older timers who call Washington Square "home", the whole area is a run down dump and if you pulled out Bourbon Street and Sportsman there wouldn't be much left. Rumours about the future of the area run the full gamut, but for sure, converting it into something else, no doubt a shopping centre with an adjacent hotel / office tower will be the new format. The corner of Sukhumvit Road and soi 22 is already seeing construction while the latest round of rumours have it that the venues of Washington Square have until the second quarter of 2011 to move on. True or not, I have no idea…
The Dollhouse in Soi Cowboy is running their rainy season special with Heineken draft available at 80 baht all night long.
Spanky's will hold a dance contest in their Patpong soi 2 gogo bar on August 27, that's this coming Friday. More than a thousand flyers have been handed out so this could be big!
A popular venue at the foot of Soi Diamond for a long time, it is said that Louis is getting out of Paris A Gogo and the venue is changing hands.
Cowboy 2 on Soi Cowboy seems to be making a real effort to entice punters inside. First of all they renovated the bar and improved the seating and now the some of the dancers are dropping their knickers.
#3 is back in Tilac. A real cutie, she had a boyfriend for several months but things didn't work out as she had hoped so she is back to square one, on the hunt for her next victim, ooops, I mean boyfriend! Unless you're no fan of shorties – she can't be 5 foot tall, she really is quite the looker.
Larry is back at Secrets! A month to the day after he stopped working and three weeks after going under the knife, popular manager Larry made it back to Secrets this week. Punters and girls alike were thrilled that he was back and he was in fine form, with his usual jokes, quips and upbeat attitude.
Speaking of Secrets, there's a Vietnamese girl on the staff who has been getting lots of attention. To my eyes she is nothing to write home about…
On Second Road, approximately opposite the Royal Garden Shopping Centre and Marriot Hotel, was a small slightly upmarket beer bar called Lineker's. It looked nice enough but with a glass front and no other beer bars nearby I always felt that those inside would feel like a fish in a fishbowl, being gawked at by everyone passing by. The venue has undergone both a name change and renovations and is now known as Silhouette. The glass front has been replaced by a solid wall but the location is still kind of questionable. I haven't been inside myself but what I've heard from those who have really makes me wonder. Similar services to soi 6 are offered at twice the price, and barfines run the same level as Bangkok's soi 33! The concept of Silhouette is unique and one has to wonder just who the target market is.
There are a heap of cuties in Toyz A Gogo, which is down in the Convent Garden area, next to Club Boesche. It's a shame to see such a well-run bar with a bunch of pretty, friendly girls as well as a generous happy hour – before 9:30 all drinks are 65 baht – with so few customers.
Beach umbrellas on Pattaya's Beach Road are advertising True's 3G mobile service as being available in Pattaya now. What a shame that no-one in the mobile phone shops I inquired about it in had a clue.
Are there more younger girls entering the industry as well as fewer mothers, at least here in Bangkok? There don't seem to be quite as many older women in some bars, although this may just be a temporary blip. I am talking about the bars for Westerners in Bangkok and NOT bars in Pattaya where the average age, especially away from the gogos on Walking Street, is much higher than what you find in Bangkok.
I maintain that many white guys who get involved with women in Thailand are weak and get walked all over. But not everyone is weak and a mate told me a story this week that made me laugh. He's a good friend, all round good guy and is much too switched on for any girl to be able to pull the wool over his eyes. He seldom takes bargirls, preferring to trawl the internet which he finds easier, cheaper and ultimately provides a better return. Anyway, recently he not only paid the barfine for a bargirl, he took the girl back to his place. About to take a shower, she grabbed a towel from his cupboard. He stopped her and told her that she had taken a towel from the wrong pile. As she expected to be paid for her services, she would be given the use of one of his used towels from the to-be-washed basket!
It's well known that many Thai women working as prostitutes, particularly those dancing in gogo bars, have a Thai boyfriend. In a recent column I relayed how a Western bar manager had said that 95% of the girls in the bar he manages had a Thai guy in the shadows. But did you know that a few – not many I imagine, but for sure, a few – have a Western boyfriend they live with? These situations tend to be a bit more complicated. Sometimes she truly loves the guy and is willing to support him because he is broke. Other times she simply likes the comfort of a Western guy to come home to and sleep next to (after she has done the business with a customer or two). For the guy, it can mean free sex and for her it is companionship. It's a weird world we live in.
Down in Patpong, Black Pagoda will host its next party this coming Saturday, August 28, with the Super Fly party. They've got a new Martini menu with an interesting selection including their own original Thaksin-tini!
The latest issue of restaurant delivery service Food By Phone's monthly newsletter dropped in letterboxes this week. Fan Of The Month is the Country Manager for British Airways and Qantas, Neil Ager, who has been in Bangkok for just over a year. And what does Englishman Neil like about life in Bangkok? "I love the beach life, street life and the food delivered by phone, on the street or in the many brilliant restaurants, and the opportunity to go barefoot at some point every day." So if you see a bewildered, balding, barefoot Brit wandering around Sukhumvit looking for the beach, say hello to Neil and point him in the right direction. Let's hope his pilots have a better sense of direction!
The British Embassy has changed its procedure for obtaining passports this month – effectively now anyone applying for a replacement passport has to apply to the Consulate General in Hong Kong and use a courier service to the tune of almost 1,000 baht. First passports, i.e. for kids born in Thailand, are still processed in Bangkok. The good news is that you don't have to hand in your old passport when you apply for a new one anymore – the old one will be cancelled electronically so you can keep the old one with any important visas in it. All you have to send to Hong Kong with your application is a photocopy of your passport photograph page. The Consulate insists on payment by Visa or MasterCard but will only accept credit cards and NOT debit cards. And to add insult to injury, the Embassy in Bangkok will no longer answer questions on passport renewals and instead refers all enquiries to a premium charge phone line in the UK which costs a cool 69p a minute. But here's the crazy thing – lost, stolen or damaged passports will still be replaced by the Embassy in Bangkok! So if you are planning to get your passport renewed while in Thailand, leave it in your jeans during your weekly wash, or just report it lost. You'll save yourself the courier fee and be able to pay in cash at the Embassy!
What could be worse than being rejected by a bargirl, an indignity suffered by a mate this past week. He had been chatting away with a lovely in a Soi Cowboy gogo bar, had bought her a couple of drinks and eventually decided that he would like to buy a little of her time. When he offered to pay the barfine, she refused, claiming that it was that time of the month. The funny thing was that she was dancing naked, completely naked – and given that Thai women do not use tampons, but rather pads – you know when they're on the rag. Despite having recently reached the half century, this guy is clean cut, polite, in shape and dresses well – making him one of the last people you'd expect to be turned down by a lady of the night. But turned down he was – and none too happy it made him!
Russians continue to flock to Pattaya en masse. They used to predominantly flock there when it was brass monkeys in the Motherland, but now visit year round. If the current growth rate of Russian visitors to Thailand continues, in less than two years they will represent the largest group of white visitors to the Kingdom, overtaking the Brits. Of course some people will tell you that Thailand, and particularly Pattaya's, tourism landscape isn't changing…
Not everyone thinks that 1,000 baht is a lot to pay to barfine a coyote dancer. This week a guy barfined 9 (yes, NINE) coyote girls from a Pattaya night spot. The imagination goes into overdrive at the sort of fun that he was planning. The fellow in question is holidaying in Pattaya and a mate of his was flying in to the country to join him. As a way of welcoming his mate, he barfined the 9 girls, hired a minivan and took them to the airport to be the welcome committee for his pal. And the total cost for this little exercise? Given that the barfine for each girl was 1,000 baht, each was to be given 2,000 baht to compensate them for their time, plus the hiring of the van and no doubt a food stop or two, this gesture of friendship would have run about a thousand dollars. Now that's what I call a real mate!
The train connecting central Bangkok to the airport commences service this week. Tickets will cost 100 baht and the train will dump you at the Makkasan terminal in just 15 minutes. I really hope the new service does well but I am a little cynical, but given where it terminates, most people will have to either get a taxi in what is a very congested part of the city or drag their luggage to the nearest skytrain and with the skytrain very crowded these days, overcrowded some would say, and without any provisions for those carrying cumbersome luggage, this sounds like a major hassle to me. Airport to city train links work well in cities where taxis are expensive – which is absolutely not the case in Bangkok. For me personally, I think the only time I will use the new airport link is if I have reason to go out to the airport to meet someone who is arriving. I can hardly see myself using it to get in to the city after arriving on a flight.
I took photos of the girls standing outside a Pattaya bar and promised I would return the next day to present them with prints. What a song and dance it was to find a store to print them at a reasonable price. In Bangkok, 4 x 6 prints run around 3 baht and the quality is generally OK, not great, but ok. In Pattaya, the posted prices are 6 – 10 baht BUT what they don't tell you is that if you are printing less than 50 then the price is 10 – 15 baht. I eventually found a shop which would print any quantity at 6 baht but it took some hunting. Most things are cheaper in Pattaya than Bangkok, but not everything!
Perhaps a year or so back there were articles in the local newspapers about red light cameras being set up at various intersections in Bangkok. It didn't take long for taxi drivers to start complaining as they received ticket after ticket in the post for running reds. What I don't remember being reported was that the boys in brown have also set up speed cameras, not just in Bangkok, but all around the countryside. This week a mate was caught on the race track, oops, I mean the expressway, between Bangkok and Pattaya, a road I know well, and a road in which you can pretty much test your car's top speed with relative safety (at the right time of day and under the right weather conditions, of course). The ticket was accompanied by a photo and stated exactly where and when the infringement occurred. The fine for breaking the speed limit? A paltry 500 baht.
Oh, I almost forgot, the obligatory Nana Plaza ground floor update photo! Most unusual for a construction site in Thailand, progress is crawling at a snail's pace and not much has changed in the last week. When I swung by the workers were sitting on the rubble, chatting away, enjoying the view over a brew!
Quote of the week comes from a Pattaya gogo bar manager, "I don't recognise that bum, oh, she must be the new girl!"
Reader's story of the week is a fantastic read from Mega, "Som Nam Na (AKA Conversations With My Conscience)".
Police in Hua Hin are hunting for a bargirl alleged to have killed the farang editor of the Asia Times.
Some Thais find themselves enslaved in Utah.
The Bangkok Post ran an interesting article on freedom of speech online and how it relates to Thailand.
The Australian red shirt pleaded guilty and will be sent back to Australia.
A fugitive Jock wanted for horrific sex crimes is tracked to Soi Cowboy!
On the off chance you want to know more about male strippers in Bangkok, CNN covered it this week.
The TTR Weekly says that Pattaya is struggling to recover lost ground.
Pattaya taxi motorbike riders are helping police to spot suspicious characters and behaviour.
Ask Sunbelt Legal
Question 1: I would be interested to know about the legality of street photography in Thailand as it relates to posting or publishing images where there were no model releases signed. I am well aware of the international standards in connection with this question; however this is Thailand and perhaps different rules apply; or are perceived to apply to a farang. I belong to a great local photography forum that consists of many professional photographers as well as amateurs who derive a means of livelihood from selling their images that depict recognisable images from individuals who have not given formal consent to being photographed. When I posed this question to the forum, no-one was really interested. Now, I realise that the average Thai food vendor captured picking his nose or picking his feet for that matter is not going to be searching the internet for images, however the chance always remains that someone somewhere will see their photo on the internet or in a book. Then what?
Sunbelt Legal responds: The law on individual privacy is contained in the Constitution of Thailand BE 2550 (2007). Part 3 concerns the Rights and Liberties of an Individual and Section 35 provides:
Section 35. A person's family rights, dignity, reputation and the right of privacy shall be protected. The assertion or circulation of a statement or picture in any manner whatsoever to the public, which violates or affects a person's family rights, dignity, reputation or the right of privacy, shall not be made except for the case which is beneficial to the public. Personal data of a person shall be protected from the seeking of unlawful benefit as provided by the law.
So the crux of the argument for being able to use people's public images is that it is "beneficial to the public". Using photographs as part of the news or public discourse can arguably be beneficial to the public. A look at the law in New York, USA may be illustrative. New York law protects individuals from having their image used for trade or in advertisements without first providing their consent to the publisher of the image but a person may be photographed in public and that image used as part of the "news" without the individual giving their consent (See Arrington v. New York Times Co., 434 N.E.2nd 1319 (N.Y. 1982) (Cert. denied by U.S. Supreme Court). Also, under NY law, when an individual voluntarily joins a "newsworthy event" (as in Gaeta v. HBO, 645 N.Y.S.2d 707 [N.Y. Civ. Ct. 1996] when a passerby sued after being filmed and her image used on TV when she joined a crowd to see a publicity stunt in New York) the individual has no privacy invasion claim under the law. When individuals have "highly public lifestyles" their consent to be photographed is "implied" under NY law (See Galella v. Onassis, 487 F.2d 896 [2d Cir. 1973) but that doesn't give photographers the right to harass the person. As Thailand is not considered a litigious society it is unlikely that an individual would file a lawsuit based on an invasion of privacy if their image, while out in public, was used in a non-commercial manner but photographers need to be aware of the Thai Constitutional protections that are in place. As such, if you are in doubt, it is best to get consent to use their image or make sure the images do not degrade the individual's "family rights, dignity, reputation".
Question 2: A British expat friend recently died whilst back in the UK. He was unmarried but had a Thai bank account and owns a car in his name. There was no will so the UK family inherits his assets through the UK laws of intestacy. How do they go about claiming the money in his Thai bank account and ownership of the car for later sale? There have been suggestions that a family member needs to come to Thailand. Surely a Power of Attorney could overcome that?
Sunbelt Legal responds: An executor of the estate (in Thailand) must be established through the Thai court. If the individual has already been appointed as the Executor in the UK, he / she must obtain certification of the UK court ruling (that he / she has been appointed as the Executor in the UK) at the British Embassy in Bangkok. Then the Certified Court Order must be translated into Thai language. The next step is to certify the Court order and its translation at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Once the above process has been completed, this could then be used as a supporting statement / evidence towards the UK Executor getting appointed to be the Executor in Thailand through the Thai court system. After being appointed, the Executor could then approach the bank to close down the bank account and repatriate the funds and to contact the Department of Land Transport to proceed with the transfer of the motor vehicle. As for the requirement to travel to Thailand, the ones that are going to be appointed must travel to Thailand to proceed with the court appointment. This is in fact optional for the rest of the family members, providing that the designated executor has the trust of the family members. But the court appointment may be simpler if the family members travel to Thailand to attend the court session and sign an acknowledgement stating that they agree with the appointment.
It's always nice to receive positive feedback and in recent times I have received positive feedback not from readers, but from advertisers. Three different advertisers, none of whom know each other as far as I am aware, individually let me know that advertising on this site had met their expectations and been effective. What is interesting is that each of the three advertises on another Thailand site, a major forum, sometimes referred to as SlyGeezer. Each advertiser indicated that they get more traffic from this site than they get from that other site. And unlike that other site, I don't do high-season advertising rates, am not fussy about your banner's design and my rates are lower! If you would like to promote your Thailand-based or Thailand-related business, why not place an ad here? The support of advertisers helps keep this site going.
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If I choose any option other than pay creditors in full won't my credit be ruined forever?
Not forever, but a bankruptcy stays on your credit record for ten years. On personal financial statements you may always have to acknowledge it.
Shouldn't this be a major consideration?
The effect of a bankruptcy on your credit rating must be judged based on your present rating. One way to find out your current rating is with our Free Online Credit Report.
I have no clue what my present rating is, how do I find out?
Once you understand how banks view credit reports you will probably have a good idea of how yours looks. Before making a final decision on your financial direction you should obtain a true copy from one of the three major reporting companies. Again, you can access this information via our Free Online Credit Report.
How do banks view credit reports?
To get most major credit cards, or a mortage loan at the lowest rate you'll need a flawless report or just some minor glitches with good explanations.
At what point does a late payment become a black mark on my report?
At 30 days late; many clients become nervous their credit has already been ruined at 15 or 20 days late. Even though you may be assessed a late charge for a 20 day late payment it most likely will not show up on the credit report.
So once I've passed 30 days late the damage has been done?
There could be a chance that a particular creditor does not provide information to the credit reporting agencies, otherwise your slide has started.
Other than those who do not report, each piece of credit I have should be on the report?
Probably, but commercial loans should be an expection.
Sure, once you go over 60 days late that will be noted. Again at 90 days and 120 days, sometimes 150 days; each brings a new black mark.
What happens after 150 days?
By this time an account will shift to the creditor's collection department, which may also be noted on a credit report. Eventually if the debt goes uncollected the creditor "charges it off" - the blackest of black marks for a single consumer debt item.
Does a charge off mean they have forgiven the debt?
Not at all, you still owe it and they may still try to collect it. Charging off a debt just means they have written it off for accounting purposes.
What if I think I still have flawless credit?
Trying to keep it that way will rank very high on the priority list, and should be watched very carefully.
What if I already have many charge offs.
Keeping good credit has already become a dead issue.
No matter how bad it is now, won't a bankruptcy make it much worse?
Not in the short run. A debtor with many unpaid charge offs is just as unbankable as one with a bankruptcy.
What about in the long run?
Bankruptcy stays on your credit report for ten years. Most consumer debt drops off the report after seven.
Is there any advantage to bankruptcy on a credit report?
Surprisingly there can be. Some banks prefer to see an old bankruptcy rather than old unpaid charge offs.
Why might that be better?
An old unpaid charge off means you still owe the money and creditors may force you to pay them rather than the new creditor considering your request. An unpaid charge off also indicates an unwillingness to deal with your debt. As bad as a bankruptcy can be, it shows you have dealt with the debt. Also, you might still file for bankruptcy with an unpaid charge off. Once you file a chapter 7 you can't do it again for 6 years.
Once my credit has gone sour can it be made better?
Better yes, but the scars may still be there.
If you do not file a bankruptcy, deal with your unpaid items by paying them off or working them out. In any case start building new credit and be careful to keep up timely payments on it.
How do you build new credit when no one will give you a loan?
Start with charge accounts at stores or service stations. Many people get secured credit cards.
Will I be able to buy a car?
Vehicle loans may be obtained by putting a large percentage of the price down as cash up front. Expect to shop several banks or dealers to find someone willing to loan money to someone with bad credit, but it can be done.
Probably, but the level of your credit will determine who you should look to for a mortgage.
It will depend on how bad your credit has become. With good credit or minor flaws the lowest rates, smallest down payments and most prevalent today are what I call secondary market loans.
What is a secondary market loan?
These loans may be made by a mortgage company or a local bank. Soon after the loan closes it sells to an investor in the "secondary market", most times these loans end up guaranteed by a governmental agency like Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. To qualify for these loans you need good credit.
What if I have black marks on my credit?
Some local banks make mortgages they keep "in-house", this means they will not be sold in the secondary market. These loans may carry higher rates and larger down payment requirements but you will always deal with your local banker who might be willing to take a more lienient approach to your credit history. Be sure to ask if the bank keeps their loans "in house" when calling for information.
What if all banks turn me down.
There should be mortgage brokers in your area specializing in making loans to people with bad credit. Expect these rates to be quite high and down payments needed up to 50%, but even those with bankruptcies and the nastiest credit will be eligable. I have prepared a directory of these lenders on a page called Alternative Mortgage Sources USA.
In summary, the best way to address your current Credit situation is by applying for your Free Online Credit Report so you know exactly where you stand financially.


The results include a top ranking five-star ANCAP rating for the new VW Polo, as well as four star results for Australasia's newest hybrid vehicle, the Toyota Camry Hybrid, and the Great Wall Motors (GWM) X240 SUV.
NZTA's Group Manager Access and Use Ian Gordon said passenger vehicles are now scoring consistent four and five-star safety ratings, which is great news for motorists and their families.
"Crash statistics show that occupants of four or five star-rated vehicles are much less likely to receive life-threatening injuries in a crash than occupants of lower rated vehicles. With today's safety technology we expect five star ratings to increasingly become the norm."
Mr Gordon encouraged consumers to study crash test results before making a purchase.
Vehicles crash tested by ANCAP are scored on a scale of zero to five stars based on how well they protect their occupants and pedestrians.


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Home News Northern Uganda MPs Threaten to Boycott Speakership Election
Northern Uganda MPs Threaten to Boycott Speakership Election
Members of Parliament from Northern Uganda have resolved that the Election of Speaker in the 11th Parliament be reserved for the region following the death of Jacob Oulanyah.
The loose coalition brings together 102 Members of Parliament from Acholi, Lango, and West Nile sub-regions of the country. Their resolution follows the nomination of 13 MPs by the ruling National Resistance Movement – NRM party on Tuesday.
According to the resolution, Northern Uganda overwhelmingly voted for the NRM government in the January 2021 general polls where President Yoweri Museveni and NRM party won in the region for the first time in three decades.
Denis Hamson Obua, the Ajuri County MP in Alebtong District who expressed interest to contest for the speakership race on the NRM party ticket says that the position of the Speaker was allocated based on the performance of the party in last year's general elections.
Obua says that CEC must allow a candidate from the North to finish the term started by Oulanyah.
Lillian Aber, the Kitgum District Woman Representative says that currently politics in Uganda is based on regional balance as recently demonstrated in the East African Legislative Assembly – EALA by-elections.
In the elections, the NRM Central Executive Committee ring-fenced the position that fell vacant following the death of Mathias Kasamba who succumbed to Covid-19 in April 2021, and James Kakooza, the former Kabula County MP was elected unopposed to replace the deceased.
Gilbert Olanya, the Kilak South County MP in Amuru thinks that MPs from Northern Uganda are expecting CEC to maintain the same precedence in the race to replace Oulanyah.
The Late Speaker died from a Hospital in Seattle, USA on March 20th where he was admitted for specialized treatment. He was the first sitting speaker ever to pass on since colonial administration in Uganda, serving for only 9 months.
The other MPs from the Northern region who have expressed interest to contest include; John Amos Okot (Agago North County), Lee Jackson Alima Guti (Arua City Central Division), Felix Okot Ogong (Dokolo North), and Dr. Ruth Jane Aceng (Lira City Woman Representative).
"The three Parliamentary groups from Northern Uganda have unanimously endorsed all persons who have expressed interest from the Acholi, Lango, and West Nile sub-regions.
The Northern Region has therefore expressed interest for the speakership position through them. We expect CEC to select one name amongst them who will be forwarded for election. If more than one name is selected from our list we demand a meeting to come up with one name as the NRM flag bearer", the regional bloc's resolution read.
"If CEC fails to select any candidate from among them, the 102 members shall not turn up for the elections of the speaker on Friday, March 25th, 2022. We shall instead congregate at the Rt Hon Speaker Jacob Oulanyah's residence to continue to console with the family and mourn with our brothers and sisters from the three sub-regions", said the resolution.
The concerned MPs from the three regions have also demanded an urgent meeting with the National Organising Committee (NOC) on Wednesday to address concerns relating to burial activities, programs, and budgets.
The MPs also demanded clear participation of cultural, religious institutions, and local governments from the three sub-regions because Oulanyah doubled as the National Vice Chairperson for NRM in Northern Uganda.
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require 'rails_helper'

describe Case::OverturnedICO::SARDecorator do

  let(:overturned_sar)    { create(:overturned_ico_sar) }
  let(:decorated_case)    { overturned_sar.decorate }

  describe '#type_printer' do
    it 'pretty prints Case' do
      expect(decorated_case.pretty_type).to eq 'ICO overturned (SAR)'
    end
  end
end


On 16th December, to coincide with Local Charities Day, we released our second annual Local Charity and Community Group Sustainability Report.
Using data from a survey of 598 local charity representatives carried out of the summer, this report provides a fascinating insight into the state of the local voluntary sector as we approach 2017.
The last year has seen a continued escalation in demand for the services of local charities. Coupled with ongoing volatility in the funding landscape, this has left many groups fearful for their long term survival.
Just 46% of local charities are confident they will be able to sustain themselves over the next five years.
67% of groups were still predicting stagnation or a downturn in their financial position over the coming year.
78% of groups predict an increase in demand over the coming year, of these groups just 18% feel that they are sufficiently resourced to meet this demand.
Reductions in staff numbers pose a serious problem, impacting on the continuity of services and affecting overall skill levels. 76% of respondents had seen a reduction of staff over the last year.
60% of respondents know of one or more local groups that have been forced to close in the last year.
77% of charities do not believe that they have the skills to run a successful fundraising campaign.
We conclude our report by laying out a number of recommendations for the coming year and beyond. We are particularly concerned about the urgent need to bring sustainable funding sources in the sector and to address the continued overreliance on under or unskilled staff.
We hope that the results of this report will not only inform our own work over the coming year but also inspire other stakeholders in government, business and civil society to tackle the challenges facing the local voluntary sector.


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/**
 * Created by juliushofler on 10.05.15.
 */

function formatGlobalElements() {
    $('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip();
    $('[data-toggle="checkbox"]').radiocheck();
    $('[data-toggle="switch"]').bootstrapSwitch();
    $("select").select2({dropdownCssClass: "dropdown-inverse"});
}

var contextIconSrcDictionary = {
    // scenario (Lernszenario)
    "CI_CURRENT_LEARNING_UNIT" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-scenario-current-learning-unit.png",
    "CI_FINISHED_LEARNING_UNIT" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-scenario-learning-unit-completed.png",
    "CI_EXPECTED_TIME_NEEDED_FOR_COMPLETION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-scenario-time-for-completion.png",

    // personal (Persönlich)
    "CI_USER_DID_PERFORM_ACTION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-user.png",
    "CI_USER_AGE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-user.png",
    "CI_USER_CURRENT_LEARNING_STYLE_INPUT" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-knowledge.png",
    "CI_USER_CURRENT_LEARNING_STYLE_PERCEPTION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-knowledge.png",
    "CI_USER_CURRENT_LEARNING_STYLE_PROCESSING" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-knowledge.png",
    "CI_USER_CURRENT_LEARNING_STYLE_UNDERSTANDING" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-knowledge.png",
    "CI_USER_ROLE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-role.png",
    "CI_USER_STATE_OF_MIND" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-personal-user-state-of-mind.png",

    // situational (Situationsbezogen)
    "CI_CURRENT_APPOINTMENT" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-situational-appointment.png",
    "CI_NEXT_APPOINTMENT" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-situational-appointment.png",
    "CI_TIME_UNTIL_TIMESTAMP" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-situational-timeduration.png",

    // technical (Infrastruktur)
    "CI_AUDIO_OUTPUT_AVAILABLE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-audio-available.png",
    "CI_DEVICE_TYPE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-device-type.png",
    "CI_DISPLAY_RESOLUTION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-display-resolution.png",
    "CI_EXTERNAL_DISPLAY_AVAILABLE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-display-available.png",
    "CI_HAS_SCREEN_READER_FUNCTIONALITY" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-screenreader-available.png",
    "CI_MICROPHONE_AVAILABLE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-micropone-available.png",
    "CI_PHOTO_CAMERA_AVAILABLE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-photo-camera-available.png",
    "CI_PRINTER_AVAILABLE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-printer-available.png",
    "CI_VIDEO_CAMERA_AVAILABLE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-technical-video-camera-available.png",
    //TODO: missing but important : battery status

    // physical (Umwelt)
    "CI_CURRENT_AIR_PRESSURE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-air-pressure2.png",
    "CI_CURRENT_AMBIENT_NOISE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-ambient-noise.png",
    "CI_CURRENT_HUMIDITY" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-humidity.png",
    "CI_CURRENT_LUMINOSITY" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-luminosity.png",
    "CI_CURRENTLY_RAINING" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-raining.png",
    "CI_CURRENTLY_SUNNY" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-sunny.png",
    "CI_CURRENT_TEMPERATURE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-temperature.png",
    "CI_CURRENT_TIME" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-physical-time.png",

    // location (Ortung)
    "CI_USER_DESTINATION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-goal.png",
    "CI_DID_ARRIVE_AT_LOCATION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-arrived.png",
    "CI_DID_LEAVE_LOCATION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-goal-mirrored.png",
    "CI_IS_AT_LOCATION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-location.png",
    "CI_USER_LOCATION_ADDRESS" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-address.png",
    "CI_USER_LOCATION_BUILDING" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-building.png",
    "CI_USER_LOCATION_COUNTRY" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-country.png",
    "CI_USER_LOCATION_DISTANCE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-distance.png",
    "CI_USER_LOCATION_LATITUDE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-latlng.png",
    "CI_USER_LOCATION_LONGITUDE" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-latlng.png",
    "CI_USER_LOCATION_REGION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-region.png",
    "CI_USER_MEANS_OF_TRANSPORTATION" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-transport.png",
    "CI_USER_MOVEMENT_SPEED" : "img/icons-context-information/ci-location-speed.png"
};

// format in selection context information
/**
 * Function sets format for the context information in the selection bar (icon + text).
 * @param {Object} item Context information which was selected in selection bar
 * @return {String} Concatenation of an img (icon) and span (text) DOM, if no icon available return text only
 * */
function formatContextInfos(item) {

    // find the right context information
    for (var key in contextInfoDictionary) {
        if (contextInfoDictionary[key] == item.text) {
            return '' +
                '' + item.text + '';
        }
    }
    return item.text;
}

// format for multi selection context information
/**
 * Function sets format for the context information in the multi selection bar (icon only).
 * @param {Object} item Context information which was selected
 * @return {String} img DOM if icon available, else text only
 * */
function formatMultiContextInfos(item) {

    // find the right context information
    for (var key in contextInfoDictionary) {
        if (contextInfoDictionary[key] == item.text) {
            return '';
        }
    }
    return item.text;
}

// format icons in units
/**
 * Function sets format for the context information in the learning units (icon only).
 * @param {Object} selectedInfo The selected context information
 * @return {String} specific img DOM if icon available, else context class icon
 * */
function formatUnitIcons(selectedInfo) {

    var selectedInfoID = selectedInfo.getID();
    // get corresponding context class
    var contextClasses = contextList.getClasses();
    var classIndex = getFirstMatchingClassIndex(selectedInfo, contextClasses);
    var classNameTranslation = translate_contextClass(contextClasses[classIndex]);

    return (
        // find the right context information in icon dictionary
        ''
        ||
    // no icon was found --> return context class icon
    ''
    );
}

function chooseMetaIcon(metaDataName) {
    switch (translate_metaData(metaDataName)) {
        case "Bild":
            return "fui-photo";
        case "Film":
            return "fui-video";
        case "Text":
            return "fui-document";
        case "Navigation":
            return "fui-location";
        case "Test":
            return "fui-radio-unchecked";
        case "Audio":
            return "fui-volume";
        case "3D Umgebung":
            return "fui-windows";
    }
}

// get the specific color for each context class
/**
 * Function finds specific color of a context class.
 * @param {String} cc Contains a context class.
 * @return {String} Returns the specific color.
 * */
function getColor(cc) {
    switch (cc) {
        case "Lernszenario":
            return "#3287C8";
        case "Persönlich":
            return "#AF46C8";
        case "Situationsbezogen":
            return "#91F52D";
        case "Infrastruktur":
            return "#969696";
        case "Umwelt":
            return "#FADC3C";
        case "Ortung":
            return "#F03C32";
    }
}

// get the color of each context class' label (depending on background color)
function getClassNameColor(classText) {
    // a little bit cumbersome but slightly easier to maintain
    switch (classText) {
        case "Lernszenario":
        case "Persönlich":
        case "Infrastruktur":
        case "Ortung":
            return "white";
        case "Situationsbezogen":
        case "Umwelt":
            return "#555555";
    }
}


The pooch appears to be a die hard Haringey Borough supporter called Bertie.
The FA Cup first round got off to a flyer on Friday night, but the star wasn't a player on the pitch – or even two-legged.
Non-league Haringey Borough fan Bertie the dog was in attendance at their game against League One's AFC Wimbledon and the little fan caught the eye of the TV cameras.
Haringey are 18th in the the Isthmian League Premier Division, English football's seventh tier.
Although more than 2,700 were crammed into Coles Park on Friday evening, Haringey's average league attendance so far this season is 262.
According to tweets from one of those rare attendees, the doggie superfan appears to be a Borough regular called Bertie.
Bertie, if that is his real name, proved a hit with fans watching on BBC Two.
Watching FA Cup match on telly ( not my choice). There's a dog sitting watching. In a scarf.
And the little die hard supporter also made his way onto Twitter account and bastion of dogs that watch non-league football, @nonleaguedogs.
Unfortunately for Haringey, Bertie didn't prove to be the good luck charm they might have hoped.
Haringey had a goal disallowed for offside in the second half before the game finished 1-0 to Wimbledon, as Mitchell Pinnock cruelly snatched a winner in the 90th minute.
A tale of dogs, scarves and heartbreak.


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Q: Linux Virtual machine can't ping Google, while Host can do it Assumptions:

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*You have a Windows 7 Ultimate as your host.

*You have a Linux Kali 2 as a VMWare Workstation virtual machine on this host.

*Your network adapter is bridged on the VMWare(Version 10.0.3).

*Host IP address = 10.0.0.81

*Virtual Machine IP address = 10.0.0.38

*Host Gateway = 10.0.0.60

*Virtual machine Gateway = 10.0.0.60

*Virtual Machine and Host can ping each other and also the gateway successfully.

Problem:
While Host can ping 46.228.47.114 (Yahoo) successfully, the virtual machine can't! In the other words, ICMP requests from host to Yahoo, have ICMP reply packets, but ICMP requests from the virtual machine haven't!
What am I did so far?

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*I replaced my host IP address with the virtual machine IP address, and vice versa, but nothing changed.

*I tried other virtual machines. For all Linux virtual machines I have this issue, while all Windows virtual machines are working fine!

*I tried different versions of VMware® Workstation and VMWare VSphere softwares. Issue doesn't solved for my Linux virtual machines.

Differences between ICMP requests:
Windows 7:

Kali Linux:

As you see above, there are some difference between requests. Is these difference origin of the problem? If so, how can I handle it?
Note that:
Formerly I even can't ping the Gateway on the Virtual Machine! By sniffing I noticed that MAC address of gateway in the Virtual machine is not correct, so I set it statically with the correct value and after that I pinged it successfully. Now this is the new problem!
Update:
I'm just see that I have Internet access on the virtual machine! I only can't ping it!
Look:

Any way I need to see the ping reply packet!

A: As a workaround (or arguably a fix), disable any network offloading settings on the physical NIC on the host.

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*Open Control Panel, System, Device Manager

*Expand "Network Adapters"

*Double-click on your physical NIC to bring up properties.

*Select the "Advanced" tab

*Disable all properties with "Offload" in the name (varies by network card).

NOTE: You may want to record the initial settings should you want to revert later.

A: Try using a static IP address, even if it is static, set a static IP at no-ip.com and then try to ping that IP from both machines. Also see if you can ping the router gateway?

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Whitetail Hunting
Virginia Bans Deer-Urine Lures
Last year Virginia officials asked hunters to voluntarily stop using urine-based lures. This year, however, the state will forbid the...
By Phil Bourjaily | Published Jul 1, 2015 1:00 AM
Last year Virginia officials asked hunters to voluntarily stop using urine-based lures. This year, however, the state will forbid the lures outright, according to a new ruling by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. DGIF biologists fear that the lures could spread Chronic Wasting Disease among deer, as the agent that causes the sickness has been found in infected deer's feces, saliva, and urine.
During the public-input period, comments ran 2-1 in favor of continuing to allow urine-based scents. Urine-scent lure manufacturers were among those opposed to the ban. Steve Lovern, who runs Reaper Scents, in Stoney, Virginia, spoke in favor of the scents at the June meeting. He believes the new rule will hurt his business and does little to stop the spread of CWD. Lovern told the Roanoke Times that his urine comes from farms in New York where the deer are randomly tested for CWD, avoiding the spread of the disease. Also, he contends that deer are unlikely to lick urine in the woods, which some attribute to CWD outbreaks, and he asserts feeding deer are at greater risk of spreading sickness. "As they eat, saliva drips from their mouths and other deer eat that saliva," he said. "This is how CWD is transmitted."
Virginia has recorded seven recent cases of CWD, all of which were found near the West Virginia border. The ban will take effect July 1, through synthetic urine lures will still be allowed.
Vermont's Fish and Wildlife board voted earlier this year to ban lures made from urine or other fluids beginning next year. Alaska banned urine-based lures in 2012.
The Biggest Mule Deer Bucks of 2022
2022 was a great year for mule deer hunting in the West. Here are some of the biggest bucks of the season
Hunting Couple Captures Rare Video of Buck Challenging a Decoy
Sherry and Donnie Monroe were filming a hunt...
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