Sakon Nakhon Make Belief

Is that a donkey he's riding?  Sure doesn't look like a horse

Chilly Nights Again

Yesterday's wind gusts from the north east were a notice of a change in the weather.
Expect three cool nights with temperatures in the low teens (low 50's Fahrenheit).

The temperature roller coaster ride continues

Humidity is 20 to 30% below the average in recent years.
Fire hazards due to dryer conditions.

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	Wat Phra That Choeng Chum  Temple Fair Concerts January 19-26
	Robinson Business Rental Applications January 27
	CM Center Public relations activities  January 24-28   Sales booths (fair). Entertainment .........................................................................................

LIVE Mail

Funny: Italian Auction

The Canadian View of the US

  

Teaching Abstention vs Prevention

Bangkok Post - Every day 370 Thai teens give birth 

•   370 daily

This December 2012 video emphasizes use of prophylactics for aids prevention, but equally applies to pregnancy prevention.

Thai public promotion of condom use has waned considerably in recent years, instead promoting abstention.
Teaching abstention seems to be less effective.

BBC News - Teen pregnancy rate lowest since 1969

•   95 daily

L.A. Times - U.S. teen pregnancy rate highest in developed world

•  1095 daily

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Thai web content is 1% (or less) of all worldwide web content. Suggestions have been made that this number should be drastically increased. I agree.  Unfortunately it's all in Thai. Thereby limited to a domestic audience, with very limited international interaction.

 Fewer children seen frequenting libraries in Thailand

  You can find them on Facebook, music and gaming sites.
  Using pads, phones, laptops, desktops

 
 Thailand: Increase in feed prices push livestock cost

  Thailand hopeful as regional hub for game business

   Thailand is Hub Nuts

       UK man reported missing after failing to return from Thailand

 Study links fast food to childhood asthma

Sakon Nakhon Red Cross Fair Sampler

Sakon Nakhon Red Cross Fair

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You Tube samples of nightly entertainment

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Sakon Nakhon Pre-Season Football

No mosquito killing temperatures, but cool

Jan 13 Jan 14

Judging by the flags at yesterday's football game, we were getting light breezes from the southeast. While the weather arriving from the northeast continues to be dominant. Not much change in night time temperatures.  A few degrees up, a few degrees down Warming trend at the end of the month going into February Downtown Smoke? Smog? Clouds? Hard to tell

Mosquitoes die off at temperatures of 10C/50F or below