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NFL Power Rankings
Last Week: 4
Seattle Seahawks (6-1)Like his team, Pete Carroll had never before been 6-1 as an NFL coach. He was, however, 6-2 once: in 1999, with New England. That Patriots team, led by QB Drew Bledsoe, then lost six of its final eight games to plummet to .500 and miss the playoffs.
Last Week: 2
Kansas City Chiefs (7-0)At the rate they're currently giving up points -- 11.6 per game, best in the league -- the Chiefs would have to play 37 games to match the number of points allowed by last year's K.C. defense (425).
Last Week: 3
New Orleans Saints (5-1)One of Pro Football Focus' stats ("Total Pressure") counts the combined sacks, hits and hurries for each defender. The Saints' Cameron Jordan is currently sitting on 34 for the season, two more than defending Defensive Player of the Year J.J. Watt, who has played seven games to Jordan's six.
Last Week: 1
Denver Broncos (6-1)Ronnie Hillman has two career rushing touchdowns. Knowshon Moreno has eight this season. So, why exactly did the Broncos try to sneak Hillman into the end zone in the fourth quarter Sunday, down by nine? The decision backfired -- Hillman fumbled inside the Colts' 5, putting the kibosh on Denver's comeback attempt.
Last Week: 9
Indianapolis Colts (5-2)Reggie Wayne, who Sunday night suffered a season-ending ACL tear, will finish 2013 with 1,006 career catches. That's more than the total of every other Colts player combined ... by more than 350 catches. The rest of the roster has 651 receptions among it.
Last Week: 5
San Francisco 49ers (5-2)Colin Kaepernick through seven games of the 49ers' 2013 season: 103-of-182 passing for 1,420 yards and eight touchdowns. Colin Kaepernick through seven games of the 49ers' 2012 season: 5-of-8 passing for 89 yards and no touchdowns.
Last Week: 8
Cincinnati Bengals (5-2)The Bengals have won back-to-back games by the exact same 27-24 score, which by my count is the first time that has ever occurred in NFL history. So ... congratulations, Bengals?
Last Week: 7
Green Bay Packers (4-2)Oh, hey, look at that: The Packers headed into Week 7 battered by injuries, and Jarrett Boykin just happened to lead the team in receptions and yards. The evidence continues to mount that Aaron Rodgers is some sort of wizard.
Last Week: 6
New England Patriots (5-2)A career-high 17 targets for Rob Gronkowski on Sunday. That explains why Tom Brady was following him through the locker room, muttering "Never leave again. Never leave again."
Last Week: 12
Dallas Cowboys (4-3)Haven't the Buccaneers had a bad enough season without George Selvie piling on the misery? Tampa Bay signed Selvie in April and released him in May, paving the way for Dallas to pick him up. All he's done so far in 2013 is record 4.5 sacks, more than doubling his career total.
Last Week: 16
San Diego Chargers (4-3)The Chargers had the ball for 37 minutes and change during their win over the Jaguars, something that has become a trend. San Diego currently has the longest average drive time in the NFL, at 3 minutes and 14 seconds per possession.
Last Week: 19
New York Jets (4-3)If the Jets never get another thing out of running back Chris Ivory, they'll probably still deem their trade for him -- a 2013 fourth-round pick -- a success. Ivory rushing for 104 yards in a dramatic OT win over the hated Patriots makes anything that happens from here on a bonus.
Last Week: 11
Detroit Lions (4-3)Whenever the Lions seem on the verge of jumping into the conversation as a contender, they do something to remind everyone what a difficult journey they have had. Sunday, it was this: Sam Martin averaged 48.3 yards on his first three punts; his fourth traveled 28 yards, short enough to allow Cincinnati to later boot a game-winning field goal.
Last Week: 21
Carolina Panthers (3-3)Yeah, yeah, Cam Newton. Is anyone aware that the Panthers boast the league's second-stingiest defense? With a disruptive front seven, Carolina has masked its issues in the secondary and is coughing up just 13.8 points per game.
Last Week: 10
Chicago Bears (4-3)Josh McCown has been in the NFL since 2002. Sunday's relief performance for an injured Jay Cutler was, by QB ratings standards, his second-best showing ever. He bested his 119.6 mark only with a 125.2 in 2007, when he was the Raiders' QB.
Last Week: 15
Baltimore Ravens (3-4)"We're at a state of emergency now," Terrell Suggs told CSN Baltimore following his team's latest setback, a 19-16 loss in Pittsburgh. There's another storm brewing after a bye -- Baltimore still has six games against teams with records above .500.
Last Week: 13
Miami Dolphins (3-3)Miami's home loss to Buffalo made this team the frontrunner for the "Gotcha!" award, presented last season to a Cardinals team that started 4-0 and finished 5-11.
Last Week: 17
Tennessee Titans (3-4)Despite three straight losses, the Titans remain the second-best team in the AFC South, behind the Colts. Which is like saying that Jaws 2 was the second-best flick in that film franchise.
Last Week: 23
Atlanta Falcons (2-4)Steven Jackson is still sitting on 14 carries this season, after signing a $12 million contract in the offseason. Somewhere, Michael Turner's finishing off a deep-dish pizza and thinking, "Not as easy as it looks, eh?"
Last Week: 26
Washington Redskins (2-4)With his breakthrough performance Sunday (nine catches for 134 yards and a touchdown), Jordan Reed is now outpacing every other tight end taken in the 2013 draft, including first-rounder Tyler Eifert.
Last Week: 27
Buffalo Bills (3-4)The Bills, one game under .500 on the season, have yet to be favored heading into any of their matchups in 2013. That streak may not break until the cushiest road trip any team enjoys this season: at Tampa Bay and at Jacksonville in Weeks 14 and 15, respectively.
Last Week: 25
Pittsburgh Steelers (2-4)Pittsburgh's petition to the league for a "What Happens in London, Stays in London" rule was rejected, meaning that loss to an increasingly horrid Minnesota team will stand.
Last Week: 18
Philadelphia Eagles (3-4)Rookie Matt Barkley threw more interceptions in 20 passes Sunday (three) than Nick Foles and Michael Vick have fired all season in a combined 222 attempts (two).
Last Week: 14
St. Louis Rams (3-4)This is a Sam Bradford ACL-induced ranking for the Rams, who now have to turn over their playoff hopes to Kellen Clemens. In Clemens' last turn as the Rams' fill-in starting QB, back in 2011, the team lost all three games by an average of nearly two touchdowns.
Last Week: 22
Arizona Cardinals (3-4)Is it a good or bad thing for the Cardinals that Larry Fitzgerald's receiving numbers (32 catches, 422 yards) are basically identical to Michael Floyd's (32 catches, 403 yards)?
Last Week: 20
Cleveland Browns (3-4)Each additional Brandon Weeden loss simply adds to the Legend of Brian Hoyer. The Browns were a perfect 3-0 with Hoyer at the helm, compared to a current 0-4 behind Weeden. Rob Chudzinski will look to catch lightning in a bottle a second time this Sunday by turning to Jason Campbell.
Last Week: 24
Oakland Raiders (2-4)Here's a spot of good news for the Raiders coming out of their bye, which followed a game in which Terrelle Pryor was sacked nine times: Pittsburgh, Oakland's upcoming foe, has just eight sacks all season long.
Last Week: 31
New York Giants (1-6)Jason Pierre-Paul finally showed some signs of life (and full health) on Monday night -- good news for a Giants team whose sack leaders (Justin Tuck and Mathias Kiwanuka) right now are stuck on just 1.5 for the season.
Last Week: 28
Houston Texans (2-5)During their five-game losing streak, the Texans are averaging all of 12.2 points. Only the Jaguars' league-worst offense is operating at a worse clip than that (slightly shy of 11 points per game).
Last Week: 29
Minnesota Vikings (1-5)You know the old adage ... When you have three quarterbacks and a fourth quarterback playing wide receiver because you didn't know what to do with him during the offseason, you really have no quarterbacks.
Last Week: 30
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-6)What's a less appealing game for the casual NFL TV viewing audience: Tampa Bay's Thursday nighter this week against Carolina? Or the winless Bucs hosting a Week 10 Monday game against Miami?
Last Week: 32
Jacksonville Jaguars (0-7)Some jerk on Twitter asked Sunday if the Chargers' cross-country trip to Jacksonville might set up an "upset in the making." That thought gave too much credit to the Jaguars, who should first focus on losing by single digits before moving on to claiming a victory.


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Hougham-in-Dover, Kent Genealogy
Guide to Hougham-in-Dover, Kent ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
|Hougham-in-Dover, Kent
|Ecclesiastical Parish
|Civil Jurisdictions
|Poor Law Union
|Registration District
|Records begin
|Parish registers: 1559
|Bishop's Transcripts: 1603
|Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions
|Rural Deanery
|Legal Jurisdictions
|Probate Court
|Court of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury
|Location of Archive
|Kent Record Office
Parish History
HOUGHAM (St. Lawrence), a parish, in the union of Dovor, partly in the hundred of Bewsborough, lathe of St. Augustine, and partly within the jurisdiction of the cinque-port liberty of Dovor, E. division of Kent. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.[1]
Hougham in Dover Christ Church is an Ecclesiastical Parish formed in 1844 from part of the Hougham, Kent Ancient Parish.
The Church stood on the Folkestone Road and was demolished for residential development.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hougham like this:
HOUGHAM, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Dover district, Kent. The village stands near the Southeastern railway, 1 mile from the coast, and 2½ WSW of Dover. The parish contains also the hamlets of Hougham-Court and West Hougham, and the western outskirts of the town of Dover; and is partly within Dover borough. Post town, Dover. Acres, 3, 275; of which 280 are water. Real property, exclusive of the part within Dover borough, £3, 700. Pop. of the whole, in 1851, 2, 639; in 1861, 3, 372.
Houses, 389. The increase of pop. was caused by building operations of a Freehold Land Society, and by the opening of three new brickfields. Pop. of the part within Dover borough, in 1861, 2, 800. Houses, 285. The Heights barracks, the Citadel Engineers' barracks, the Western Heights hospital, the Drop redoubt, the Married Soldiers' quarters, and the Kent Artillery Militia stores are here; and, at the census of 1861, they aggregately had 1, 263 inmates. The property is much subdivided. The chapelry of Christ Church, or of Hougham-in-Dover, is within the parish; was constituted in 1844; and contained 1,803 of the pop. in 1861. The parochial living is a vicarage, and that of Christ Church is a p. curacy, in the diocese of Canterbury. Value of the former, £185; of the latter, not reported.* Patron of the former, the Archbishop of Canterbury; of the latter, Trustees. The parochial church is early English, and has been partially restored. and enlarged. The church of Christ Church is good.—The sub-district contains twelve parishes and an extraparochial tract. Acres, 19, 821. Pop., 8, 242. Houses, 1, 301
Civil Registration
See Dover Registration District
Kent County Council (KCC) has a certificate centre at the Mansion House in Tunbridge Wells which holds all the completed registers for Kent since 1 July 1837 and can supply a certified copy of any Kent birth, death or marriage entry from any register within its custody or a Kent civil partnership registration from the government online database.
The Mansion House
(Certificate Centre)
Grove Hill Road
Tunbridge Wells
Kent TN1 1EP
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.
Church Records
Hougham-in-Dover, Kent Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:
|FMP = findmypast - (£)[2][3][4]
|Hougham-in-Dover, Kent Genealogy Online Records
Census records
Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.
Poor Law Unions
Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Kent Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
See England, Kent, Wills and Probate (FamilySearch Historical Records)
Local Family History Centre
Canterbury Family History Centre, Kent
Maidstone Family History Centre, Kent
- FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Publication of the restricted access images England, Kent, Wills and Probate (FamilySearch Historical Records) and England, Kent, Land Tax Assessments (FamilySearch Historical Records) means that it is advisable to telephone the centre to reserve a computer if you wish to view these
Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 559-562. Date accessed: 15 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury baptism records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 8 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury marriage records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.
- ↑ 'Canterbury burial records coverage', Find My Past, accessed 14 November 2013.

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Hi, Dr. Young. Thanks for helping out all of us newbies. I was wondering if there are credible rankings of infectious disease departments in hospitals throughout the country. I am specifically interested in NY, but I can't find any information about which doctors have the best education, best reputation, contribute most to journals, etc. How can I find this out? How much of a difference can a better doctor make? Thanks.
Response from Dr. Young
Thanks for your comments and questions.
Generally speaking, there are a number of ways to get the inside scoop on who's who in your area- the first is to contact a local AIDS service organization (ASO), a great way to do this is to use TheBody's ASOfinder.com. The ASO can get you information about who they recommend, who's taking new patients, insurance matters, etc.
Secondly, take a peak at the American Academy of HIV Medicine's membership (aahivm.org), these doctors have made a significant investment in HIV medicine.
Thirdly, once you've found a few names, you can search PubMed online for recent publications (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed).
Having an experienced doctor can be a matter of life and death- or maybe it's really an issue where having an inexperienced doctor can result in bad outcomes. There are a number of studies from across the world that indicate that experience matters and persons with HIV live longer and better in the care of doctors who know what they're doing.
There are many highly reputable doctors in the New York area; I'm sure that you'll be able to find a qualified doctor who's a good fit for your situation.
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Hotdog has been back a couple of days but is still trying to unpack his suitcase, however he has decided he has time to squeeze in a blog about his exploits.
The day before we all flew to Switzerland we went to Legoland where Hotdog thoroughly enjoyed posing in front of the mini buildings......well he is a bit of a show off!! Even though it was not the school holidays the place was really busy and the queues were quite long.
The next day Hotdog and family jetted off to Geneva Airport. We went to stay with family in a valley just below Verbier.
This is Hotdog posing on the Balcony.
These beautiful pictures were taken at the top of Mont Fort.
Whilst we were in Switzerland we were lucky to see the tour de France end one of it's stages on the road to Verbier. Wow, we were all in awe at how fast they can cycle!! It took them roughly 20 mins to get from the bottom to the top.....that's the same as a car. The Me of Hotdog and Me wants to post one last picture, yummy cyclists.
The rider on the left with the black and yellow helmet is Lance Armstrong.


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Steel Girded Bridge
This is a steel girdered bridge similar to many of the ones I have seen in the 1970's in West Virginia. Especially on the state routes and US routes before the Interstates became fully built. it is a 120' long section with a total lane width of approximately 35'. The beams have been partially repainted and the pavement has been patched by the highway commission. The supports and support base are adjustable in height and spacing. It can be duplicated expanded to make longer spans. With the structure just recently be inspected it will handle heavy loads with out any problems. This must be placed in GE.
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Rafa Benitez has reacted to the latest speculation about Aleksandar Mitrovic's future.
The striker is expected to lead the line for the Championship leaders against Bristol City at St James's Park tomorrow with Dwight Gayle sidelined with a hamstring issue.
United manager Benitez insisted before last month's transfer window that he had no intention of selling Mitrovic.
And this week it was claimed that Paris Saint-Germain had failed in a bid to sign the 22-year-old in January.
Benitez said: "I can read news about him all the time. That means someone close to him was interested to do business.
"But I said straightaway that he would stay, and his reaction when he was not playing was brilliant. He fought for his position, and I am happy with these kind of problems."
The City game is followed by away fixtures against promotion rivals Brighton and Hove Albion, Huddersfield Town and Reading.
"If we do well, we will have a great advantage," said Benitez.
"If we do not do well, we will still have seven games in April and one in May. We have to carry on. If we do well, much better. If we cannot do what we want, we will still be in a great position."


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text: Date: 10th October 2007 Bike: Yamaha Raid TTR250 Distance: Round trip 1031 kilometers Days riding: 1 Long day, 2 easy days Reason for Ride: Visa Run. I dread to think how many times I have done this trip over the years but it is still one of the most enjoyable rides in the north West if you want fantastic scenery and good roads (most of the time). 9:30am I pack my bag on the bike and head off with the intention of going through to Mae Sariang, stay one night then continue onto Mae Sod, a total one way trip from Soppong of around 500 Kilometers. The weather was absolutely perfect, overcast, no rain and a cool breeze. For me the trip from Soppong to Mae Hong Son is a regular trip being the closest major town to me, always a great trip but after Mae Hong Son the ride starts to feel more enjoyable so I plug on through without breakfast aiming for my first stop to refuel, cigarette and the 7/11 in Khun Yuam for one of their traditional 21 Baht hot dogs and all the salad you can throw on top. From Khun Yuam the road widens a little but still loads of sweeping bends with a few straight sections thrown in for good measure. I haven't ridden for a few months but after 160 clicks and having most of the road to myself, winding through a multitude of corkscrew bends in glorious secenery, with the dulcit tones of Peter Gabriel (Genesis) banging through the Ipod I was really getting back into the swing of things so much so I cant really remember much until I got to Mae Sariang for another 7/11 stop and another of those tasty dogs swilled down with an ice tea and another ciggy. Looking at my watch it was only 12:20 so stopping at Mae Sariang seemed silly but, knowing what lies ahead I did need to consider the situation. For me it's easy to think "oh I'm half way there I might as well carry on" but that last 300 kilometers can be an absolute killer but it was only 12:20 so plug on through...Peter Gabriel (my only companion on the trip) has just started Suppers Ready a 26 minute epic of awesome driving/Riding music so, I fill up and headed on with the scraggy voice of my mate Pete bellowing in my ear. Mae Sariang is the last major refilling station for quite a while apart from a few local gas shops here and there and not all of them carry 95 grade. After Sob Moei (RTE 105) there is a section of seemingly no mans land for about 50 Kilometers going past Mae Ngao national park. This is spectacular with thick forests hilltribes, no westerners, hardly any cars and the road seems to deteriorate very quickly with pot holes, falling rocks, landslides and getting narrower and narrower as you ride. Its hard to believe you are still on a main A road! Be sure you are filled to the brim as the next major fuel station is Mae Rammat. Those doing it on dreams or waves will struggle if you don't get fueled up at Sob Moei! I'm climbing up and up over the mountain and notice the darkness ahead with a serious storm brewing! Obviously rain is never welcome but why here in the middle of bloody nowhere? Should I plow on through or should I stop for a smoke?.... I light up and listen to the contenting sound of nothingness apart from the odd rumble of thunder in the distance it is the most peaceful place. While sitting looking at the awesome scenery I remember of another GT Rider who was chased down a road by a tiger and thought to myself If, there are any wild animals left in Thailand and the Thais haven't eaten all of them, this is where they will be, joyfully playing in the jungle undisturbed by Thailand's equivalent of Jamie Oliver. As I brought out my camera it was like a scene from Dr Doolittle..... animals leaping through the trees, charging down the road, coming out from the jungle came really weird sized Cartoon Tigers normally only seen on a breakfast cereal box but there they roam free, Monkeys bigger than the bike, Pygmy African elephants (he was lost), Minature toy Giraffes (he was following the elephant) Massive Hyenas (he was trying to eat the giraffe) and all of them wanting to be in the photo, ....This part of the North West is Animal magic! I must add at this point if you make it here the African animals will probably have gone home as they were only allowed 30 day visa's and no chance of an extension and if they over stayed they could be imprisoned in Chiang Mai night safari and this they did not want! Talking of Visa's I must crack on and get mine done.... Onwards and upwards and only 250 kilometers to go I turn Peter back on and one of my favorite albums "selling England by the Pound" I head off into that stormy darkness that now looks as if it's just sitting there waiting for me to come along...Sure enough I make it to the top, and tried to slip by un-noticed but the storm saw me and dumped down bucket fulls along with thunder, fork lightning and wind like a mini hurricane. Have you ever noticed those little sitting areas covered in Thai Graffiti usually situated every kilometer or so apart? I think they are made of Sugar because when it's raining they seem to dissolve into thin air not to be found anywhere until the sun comes back out! But this time I find one, still in tact covered in Graffiti and Hill tribe girls phone numbers. Amazing Thailand.. After the storm passed I headed down the mountain into Ban Tha Song Yang. From here the road straightens out a little and you can make up for any lost time however, the road has more wildlife (but of the indigenous kind) especially goats, (bloody hundreds of them), and don't hit a goat for god sake or it will scream like a little kid, Buffalos are in abundance and more cows than you can shake a stick at conveniently sat on the road either just over the crest of a hill or directly on your line on a sharp left hander. Along this straight section there are few guest houses if you feel like splitting up the trip. Per Pron Guest house on the first corner going into Ban Mae Salit Luang on the right. 100 baht per person. Big bungalows over looking the Moei river (which conveniently doubles up as the Burma border.) sleeps 4 people but if you want it to yourself 200 per room. They aren't so keen on doing food and the last time I was there regardless of the questions you ask the girl she always replies with NO! Which made me feel as if she wanted me to die of starvation! Do what I did and totally disbelieve her statements that there were NO shops, Selling NO Beer and NO food in the whole village! Just around the corner is a fine diner selling Burmese and Thai scran and selling posters of famous Burmese movie stars looking like Doris Day on a bad make up day if you feel the urge to make a purchase. Farther on there are 2 more guest houses one on the left hand side which looks dodgy to say the least and another on the right after Tha Song Yang ( about 50 kilometers past BAN Tha Song Yang.) The one on the right looks as if it is undergoing major refurbishment and I think they have changed it from a guest house to a Resort so probably the biggest change there will be the price. Sadly I was still plugging on through and didn't have the time to stop to check it out and I don't write anything down (apart from hill tribe girls phone numbers) and with a memory of a fish I forget the names of the guest houses but I am sure David has them down on his maps. The section 50 kilometers before Mae Sod is a little boring but a gentle relief from the twist and turns, especially after 450 clicks on a TTR seat when your arse is starting to feel it's been subjected to a sick party game at an Elton John bash! Now my Thai is not perfect but I can communicate pretty well with most (especially after a few beers) but it seems that many people in this area dont speak Thai and asking one guy at a petrol station he wasn't entirely sure which language he spoke himself... It was time for another re-fuel so I pulled in took off the helmet smiled and said "Gow hah khrap, Dem dtang Khrap. (trans: 95, fill her up me old cocker) he replies with "50 baht?" "No fill her up please" I reply He looks at me dumb when I said it again.."Fill her up" along with all the sign language pointing to tank etc. Finally he gets it so I go off to buy a red bull. Now I have traveled 175 kilometers or so since the last fill up and was about ready to put it on reserve so I was surprised to be given the price after he had "filled it up" of 60 baht! 50 baht for the fuel 10 for the pick me up drink! I ask him "Khun poot phasaa alai lepau" (Trans:What planet are you from then sunshine?) He replies with "Mai Lou Khrap" (Trans:I dont know). Starting to get a bit frustrated I raise my voice slightly and say in purest Somerset "Are you gonna fill her up? If not get some one over yer that speaks a bloody language and knows how to pump fuel" and with that in went the nossle and he said "Oh Dem Datang OK" and started pumping like a good un. Amazing Thailand. At a respectable 4:20pm I was glad to pull into the 'First Hotel' in Mae Sot to be greated with the language of my choosing Including English,Chinese,Burmese, Thai but as yet not fluent in my native Somerset language. For 450 baht you get a clean room, air con (Mae sod can get hotter than a snakes ass in a wagon rut), clean towels a piece of soap looking like wrigleys double mint only smaller and thinner and decent parking for the bike. Thankfully, security for your bike will be professionally dealt with by 5-6 tasty looking ladies loitering with good intent around the hotel foyer during the wee small hours which is re-assuring as the hotel does back onto the Police station! (Deportation here I come!) I check in and given the biggest bunch of keys impossible to lose. 1 kilo of, Iron spanner (for opening the complimentary water) a dog tag and a stainless steel metal loop with a key threaded through all welded up to make it unable to remove the said key unless your name happens to be David Copperfield. After fumbling with the Wrigleys gum/soap I shower I head out for a night on the town only to be hit with serious biker fatigue so I head for 7/11 for my evening meal of Chicken steak BBQ burger, Hot dog, 4 packets of salted peanuts and 2 big bottles of Leo and head immediately back to the hotel only to find the security guards doing their best to look cool on a Yamaha TTR! After a tentative promise from me that yes "I would probably be keen on a massage a little later" I slip into the room ate the food, drank the beer and next thing I knew it was 7 am in the morning. The Visa Run: Mae Sot is not the easiest and quickest place to do a visa run but Comparing Mae Sod to Mae Sai is like the difference between shopping at the Kwiki mart or Marks & Spencer it's all down to class my dear fellow. The immigration guys are the nicest I have ever met even going to the lengths of welcome drinks on special occasions such as Loy Kratong or on birthdays. I say guys, but there seems to be a mixture of girls and guys which probably helps the whole ambience and friendliness of the place. There is one very stunning girl who hands out the pens that would be more suited on a catwalk. After stamping out, I walk across the bridge which seems over sized about 1 kilometer across when the river is only 15 meters at it's widest? Greetings from the Burmese side at the other end where you will be forced to take a seat pay the 500 Baht get the stamp and back across. Hassle free, no waiting, and always a smile. I timed it from Thai side back to Thai side and walking the bridge (you can get a taxi) total time 16 minutes including purchasing of London Cigarettes. Be warned though...Most of the felang are doing visa runs are NGO's from UN HCR and Red cross etc they don't get too many tourists, one time I was waiting behind a french NGO for over 20 minutes while they were sorting out his 27,000 baht over stay fine, Hell! I went one time with a friend of mine who had been on 30 day stamps from Mae Sai. The Thai side stamped him back into the country but called him inside the office where he was told not to return to Mae Sod immigration again and to go to Mae Sai instead! "Tourist go Mae Sai not Mae Sod"! With all done and dusted at immigration I head off for a relaxing ride back home the same way I came but stopping of at Mae Sariang for the evening where I decided to get some good Thai food (none of that 7/11 krap) and a few beers at the Highway Guest house (the old owner of Sea View guest house) who serves a fantastic fried ice cream and fried beetles MMMMmm, and reasonably priced beers. After there I headed off around 1 am in traditional Thai manner of more beers inside a pokey, concrete building covered in fancy fairy lights with over weight, under dressed girls singing karaoke with the echo pumped up to the max. but thats another story... From Chang Mai if you need a visa run a great ride and a little holiday all mixed together take 4-6 days and do the 1095, 108 and 105 down to Mae Sod. Going back you can either take the road into Tak... from Mae Sod jump on the main highway up to Thoen turn off for Li and take the 106 into Chiangers or.... go back to Mae Sariang hook a right onto the 108 onto Hot and into town. Better still during November the Bua Tong Flowers will be in bloom (actually they already are)for the once per year spectacular when the mountains in Bua tong are alive with the colour yellow from the blooming blooms. In this case come back from mae Sod to Khun Yuam, turn right after Ban Felang guest house to Bua tong flower fields on the 1263 see the blooms and onwards to Mae Chaem and Doi Inthanon. Going to Inthanon this way you will save yourself a bob or 2 on certain (over priced for westerner fees) and then carry on into Chiang Mai. Time for a plug...When you pass through Soppong stop in the Border Bar now fully operational and the trendiest bar in town as depicted with a wine glass on the GT rider MHS loop map. Grab some food, info, fresh coffee ice cold beers and all major sporting events (on the telly not actually played in the bar, its just a small place). By the way, the band is John from Jonadda and his friend John live on stage one night only in March for our opening night!! That's me done and dusted and I believe my first trip report! Coming soon though (December)dont miss 14 days riding Thailand, 6 days Pnom Pehn to Siam Reap, Preah Vehear return with 6 guys looking for shits and giggles and a whole lot of fun. Please reserve some bandwidth for that one.


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After reading the National Association of Realtor's article about the 15 to 19 age bracket and their housing needs, in my previous post. It got me to think about our Region's demographics and I was curious about some "ballpark" estimates on future housing demand in the Twin Cities area.
What kind of numbers are we talking about for the 15 to 19 age group and the 20 to 24 age group? Here is the 2010 Census Chart on Age/Sex of the 7 County Twin Cities Region.
The 20 to 24 and the 25 to 29 age groups have been hit really hard by unemployment and have largely been left out of the housing market. Let's run some assumptions based on the 15 to 19 and 20 to 24 age groups.
Here are the numbers broken down for the age groups.
The 15 to 19 age group consists of 193,289 people in the 2010 Census for the Twin Cities Metro area. We can't assume that all of them will need housing; some will relocate out of State, some will get married, some will choose renting over owning and some will stay home with Mom and Dad. So I am going to run with 50% of them will need housing, it is just an arbitrary percentage I pulled out of thin air – maybe it is too high or too low but it is a nice round number. So 50% of 193,280 of the 15 to 19 age group would be 96,644 housing units. This will be over a period of let's say 10 years for easy math and enough time for those age groups to enter the housing market, they would need 9,664 housing units per year.
If we look at the 20 to 24 age groups at 190,135 people, using the same 50% ratio we come up with 95,067. Over the next 10 years would be 9,506 housing unit per year.
Looking at the 25 to 29 age group gets a little trickier to guess the numbers. This is the age group that should begin to enter the housing market but with the economy many in this age group have been stuck. If we were to run the same ratios we would come up with 110,383 housing units and over 10 years would be 11,038 per year. I don't really like those ratios on this age group, because some have entered the housing market by taking advantage of the First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit. So for these purposes I am going to leave them out of this projection even though there is a fairly large number here that will enter the housing market.
So just looking at people age 15 to 24 we have a grand total of 191,712 housing units or 19,171 housing units a year. Considering we have approx 24,000 housing units for sale, this could put a lot of pressure on the supply / demand ratio. Remember, we have already accounted for the marriages and moving out the region in these figures. We haven't taken into account the deaths and migration in this ballpark estimate, so it is not a figure I would use to do any serious forecasting with.
This estimate does however show us the "Pent Up Demand" that needs to be un-lodged , the only way to un-lodge this pent-up demand is to get these age groups Jobs.
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If you haven't been following developments in Wisconsin, this article at Mother Jones will get you up to speed. But to recap: the first thing you need to know is that Scott Walker, the state's newly elected governor, is in the pocket of the Koch Brothers. (And this is not a new revelation, it came out during the campaign.)
If you've been asleep for the past year or so, the Kochs are the oil billionaires whose company has been described by Greenpeace as a "kingpin of climate science denial". Their family fortune -- built, ironically enough, on seed money obtained from contracts with Stalin's USSR -- is a major part of the bankroll behind Reason magazine, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute. And more importantly, they funded the astroturfing of the whole "Tea Party" farce. As one GOP Republican consultant who has done research on behalf of the Koch brothers said of the Tea Party, "The Koch brothers gave the money that founded it. It's like they put the seeds in the ground. Then the rainstorm comes, and the frogs come out of the mud—and they're our candidates!"
Following the bidding of his masters (whose interests in Wisconsin include coal company facilities in Green Bay, Manitowoc, Ashland and Sheboygan, six timber plants, and a large network of pipelines), Walker is much less interested in balancing the budget than in breaking the backs of unions. The "budget crisis" is of his own making -- Wisconsin just gave away $117 million in tax breaks, and without that and a few other recent decisions, the state's Legislative Fiscal Bureau found that the state would enjoy a surplus. But even if we pretended that the crisis was not a self-inflicted casus belli, it's quite clear that Walker's goal is not fiscal responsibility, but destruction of the public unions' collective bargaining rights -- i.e., of the whole mechanism that empowers unions. When the executive director of the Wisconsin Public Workers Union agreed to the cuts to pension and welfare benefits that Walker was supposedly after, Walker still refused to deal without an end to collective bargaining.
"Well, so what?" say many dupes of the investment class. "Unions are bad, m'kay? They create unemployment and make workers less prosperous." Which just goes to show that if you say it often enough, you can get Americans to believe anything.
Presented here for your review are three graphs: union membership, unemployment, and income distribution. Notice how unemployment was not, in fact, higher during the union's heyday in the 1950s. Notice how, in fact, it generally runs higher after union membership starts a precipitous decline in the 1970s. Notice also how the incomes of lower quintiles flatten out around that same time -- and even the 60th and 80th percent fall off their upward trend from 1950 to 1970 -- even as the top 5% keep absorbing more and more of the wealth.
Unions are one of the few checks left on the power of the extremely wealthy. Of course billionaires have a motivation to want them destroyed. Wisconsin is the first salvo of the new battle: the billionaires, their toadies, and their dupes in the Tea Party, versus the rest of us.
In the late 1970s, the top 1 percent got 9 percent of total income. Now it gets more than 20 percent.
So the problem isn't that "we've" been spending too much. It's that most Americans have been getting a steadily smaller share of the nation's total income.
At the same time, the super-rich have been contributing a steadily-declining share of their own incomes in taxes to support what the nation needs — both at the federal and at the state levels.
Right-wing pundits like to dismiss observations like this as "class warfare". No. Class warfare is what the investment classes have been doing to the rest of us for decades now. The warfare is already going on. The only question is, when will the working people who produce all of this nation's wealth come to understand who's making war against them?


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DescriptionKargon takes place in fantasy land far, far away, where the good King Kargon is killed by his twin brother in order to claim the throne. However, the demons the king's brother Lo-Dama had conjured and ordered to kill his brother murder him as well. With lack of another relative as a successor, a tournament is proclaimed to find a mighty wizard which will become the new king. The game starts at the point where only 10 participants are in the tournament, and the player then tries to defeat the last remaining rivals in up to ten rounds.
Kargon can described as Dungeon Master meets Dynablaster. The wizards fight in a dungeon filled with traps and monsters, which is displayed in the style of Dungeon Master, i.e. ego perspective, 90-degree turns and field-by-field movement. The contestants then try to blast each other to bits using spells, potions and other devices. Multiplayer for two player is supported.
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If Scott were to stop drawing cartoons, I'm pretty sure his self-help books will end up being best-sellers or classics. As such I strongly encourage readers to pick up Scott Adam's How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big which I did feature on this blog some time ago.
a) Systems, not goals.
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The decision to notify customers after a data breach should be largely left to affected businesses, Federal Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim says.
In a submission to the Attorney General's Department, Pilgrim said the need to notify victims of data breaches should be determined according to the severity of the breach.
But the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) would retain the teeth to compel businesses to inform victims, Pilgrim wrote in the submission.
"Both the OAIC and, where appropriate to the circumstances, the affected individuals should be notified about a breach; the decision as to whether to notify should be made by the entity concerned, but the Commissioners of the OAIC should have the power to compel notification," he wrote.
Data breaches ranged in severity from merely failing to conceal personal email addresses in electronic newsletters to losing scores of credit cards and personal data.
Pilgrim said severity should be distinguished by an "appropriate test" which would gauge "real risk of serious harm to an individual".
"There should be a catch-all test that is able to apply to a range of circumstances, rather than a prescriptive test. [This should] include the type of personal information involved in the breach, the context of the affected information and the breach, the cause and extent of the breach and the risk of harm to the affected individuals."
Factors influencing whether an organisation should report a breach included whether the compromised data was exposed to legitimate sources or malicious hackers, and the level of harm caused, ranging from identity theft to financial loss or even risk to physical safety.
Pilgrim said mandatory data breach notification would be vital should the government push ahead with proposed plans to retain telco subscriber data for two years.
"In the event that the proposed data retention policy is implemented, the OAIC reiterates its view that a mandatory data breach notification scheme should be implemented as part of the measures to protect the large volumes of personal information that would be required to be stored by telecommunications carriers and carriage service providers."
Data breach notification was part of the federal Australian Privacy Principles (APP) which would replace the ageing National Privacy Principles (NPP) that govern the private sector and the Information Privacy Principles (IPP) covering government.
The notification reforms were first recommened by the Australian Law Reform Commission in 2008 and are already in place in the US and Europe.
Pilgrim told SC in May the reforms could see small-scale offenders taken to court and fined up to $22,000 for individuals, and $110,000 for organisations. Repeat and serious offenders faced financial penalties of up to $220,000 for individuals or $1.1 million for organisations.
Ultimately he said financial penalties would be a civil matter and should be scalable so that it would serve as a deterrent to cashed-up big business.
"Without notification, individuals affected by serious data breaches are unable to take mitigating steps – steps which only they may be able to take, for example cancelling credit cards or requesting a new Medicare number – to protect their personal information," Pilgrim said.
The OAIC received only 46 data breach notifications in the 2011-12 financial year, down 18 per cent over the previous 12 months.


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My friend Jill had an idea. Lots of people have ideas, but not everyone does something about it. Jill is an entrepreneur. One better, she's also a busy mother of two.
Jill created a product called Lipstix Remix. It's a fabulous lipstick mold that is really easy to use. When you get to the bottom of that favorite tube of lipstick you can get the rest of it out and make a new tube of that shade yourself! Or you can mix colors and create something new.
She did a ton of research and worked with experts on multiple prototypes to engineer a fantastic product — all while running a household with two kids under four!
This is a woman who's got her act together, and I really admire her drive and ingenuity. Jill, I wish you every success with your business. You are one fabulous mompreneur!


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Tierra Allen is the creative mastermind behind the novels "Safe in His Arms" and the "For Better or Worse" series. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and currently resides in Houston, TX. When she's not writing as-real-as-it gets fiction, she's editing works or operating her publishing company, Prettier~N~Person Creations.


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Monday, September 12, 2011
Weekend Sewing.....
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Love your wonky star blocks, Jane!ReplyDelete
Cute stars... I got apples, too!ReplyDelete
Oh my stars! Looking good. I can imagine the smile on your face as you work on these. Quilting for grandbabes always puts a smile on mine.ReplyDelete
REALLY cute stars! It will be an heirloom! Think I need to start a redwork quilt THIS week!ReplyDelete
Your blocks are wonderful. I forgot it was that time of year, will have to go the the orchards next weekend, I love fresh apples.ReplyDelete
I LOVE your stars!!!ReplyDelete
A snowman making angels!! So cute!!!ReplyDelete
Pretty stars, Jane :-)
I love those stars so much. I don't know whether I'm going to have a new granddaughter or grandson in November but whatever it is I'll be making a star quilt for him/her. Last time I just made (sort of) a panel quilt for Oliver.ReplyDelete
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OHh look stars and more stars.. red work is lovely you have been busy....you may have yours done before me...oh oh oh ...ReplyDelete
wonky stars are so coolReplyDelete
Ok, now you can come to my house and catch my sewing up! :)ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, darling blocks, your fabric choices are perfectReplyDelete
Love those Wonkie Stars! Too cute.ReplyDelete
Love the honky wonky stars!! (love your color choices, too! duh!). Apples?? did you say apples? I want an apple tree more than anything. If I plant an apple, do you think I'd get one before next spring? LOL Have a great day!! HUGSReplyDelete
I love your wonky stars....at firs when I started seeing them I was not sure but I so love yours!!ReplyDelete
Love your wonky stars! I want to try these soon. Jealous of the apples--that's on my list too!ReplyDelete


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Im planning on making a combustion cannon, but Im not entirly sure of the saftey of it. I have a few reasons that I want to be able to store it easy so I was wondering if I could attatch the barrel to the chamber by using a male and female adapter. Im not sure of the dimensions but the chamber would be around 4' by 12' for the chamber and 1.5' by 24' for the barrel. the barrel would be able to screw off for easy storage and I am not using propane injection, just normal right guard for the propellant. is there any chance the connection of the 2 adapters would make the gun hazardous? replies and tips would be great! thanks!
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Wearing long sleeves t-shirt which I bought a while ago because it has stars on it (I love stars and everything in the sky), and the skirt is a custom made. Talking about stars, Noah asked me to sing 'twinkle-twinkle little stars' everynight as a breastmilk replacement when he wanted to sleep. But what confused me is when he asked me to sing him about the Moon. I don't know what song talked about the moon.
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The Cambridge Lover Knot Tiara
The above picture is the 1913 Version of the Tiara in which the original pearl spikes are removed.
Queen Mary had made in 1914 to her own design and from pearls and diamonds that were already in her possession.
In 1913, Queen Mary commissioned the Crown Jewelers Messrs. Garrard & Co. to construct a tiara based on the design of the Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara, that was once owned by her maternal grandmother Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, the Duchess of Cambridge, and subsequently owned by her aunt, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
This new lovers knot tiara, also came to be known as the Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara, because of the resemblance of its design to the original Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara, and consisted of 19 arches, and 38 drop-shaped pearls, 19 hanging as pendants and 19 rising up as spikes. The 19 pearls that rose up as spikes could also be dismantled.
Queen Mary wore the new Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara, both with and without the pearl spikes, removing and adding the upright pearls, as and when she deemed it fit.
The tiara was given to Diana as a wedding present from the Queen and to this day the tiara is most frequently associated with Diana. After her divorce from Prince Charles in 1995, the tiara was given back to Her Majesty to make sure the tiara was not passed on to any person outside the royal family or sold.
The circlet of the Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara is made up of a lower semi-circular band, set with a row of round brilliant-cut diamonds. Nineteen inverted arches arise from the lower band, also set with round brilliant cut diamonds. Where two adjacent arches meet a pillar-like structure is formed that rises up and ends in a large round brilliant-cut diamond, forming a diamond spike. There are nineteen diamond spikes of this nature, and the size of these diamonds decrease gradually from the center towards both ends. A combination of lovers knots and scroll motifs is placed at the upper end of each inverted arch. The center of each lovers knot is occupied by a large round brilliant-cut diamond, from which arises two large drop-shaped pearls, one suspended in the space inside the inverted arch, and the other rising above the surface of the tiara as a spike. There are nineteen arches and nineteen drop-shaped pearls inside the arches, and nineteen drop-shaped pearls rising as spikes, making a total of 38 drop-shaped pearls. The largest drop-shaped pearl is exactly in the central arch of the tiara, with nine drop-shaped pearls gradually decreasing in size occupying the nine arches on either side. The pearl spikes that rise up above the surface of the tiara also follow a similar trend in size and arrangement. Thus the Lovers Knot Tiara is perfectly symmetrical about its median line. The tiara is essentially made of repeated units of the same motif, consisting of the inverted arch, with the lovers knot and the scrolls and the two pearls, the pendant and the spike situated inside the arch.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
wearing the tiara above.
Queen Mary wearing the 1913 version of the Cambridge Lovers Knot Tiara, with the pearl spikes removed. 4 of the pearls that were removed are used as pendants on the 4-strand pearl necklace she is wearing.
With the Pearl spikes
*After the divorce of Princess Diana of Wales and Prince Charles the tiara was given back to the Queen.


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The road was closed while the white feathered birds shuffled across all three lanes, chased by an unimpressed officer.
The cops were called by frightened drivers after many of them nearly hit the web-footed animals at high speed.
The pair, who arrived in a patrol car on a section of the Zunyi city expressway, in south-west China immediately found the task difficult.
Footage from the officers dash cam shows the pair moving left and right as they try to herd the geese onto the side of the road.
But the frightened animals were uncooperative, sometimes running directly into the middle of the road.
Fortunately for the officers and the geese, the animals eventually stuck to the hard shoulder and were slowly driven off an exit ramp after over an hour's worth of effort from the frustrated policemen.
Reports said the geese may have wandered onto the elevated expressway from a local farm – but their owner has yet to be found.
This is not the first time that a gaggle of geese has been spotted waddling down a motorway in China.
Authorities recently caught two farmers busy herding more than 1,300 geese across the Songxi River Bridge in China's central Hubei Province, at the same time as cars and trucks were using the road.
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you are dead, either write things worth
reading or do things worth writing."
Thus wrote Benjamin Franklin in what seems to have been a reflective moment. How could those who lived in Franklin's time know just how their actions (and the way those actions were recorded) would change the future? How do any of us know how what we do now will make a difference?
Could Franklin's dictum have been advice given to young up and comers in his day to either do something that might change history or the live of others--or to write about it?
Maybe not. But his thought does raise an essential question for those of us engaged in the art of writing. If the fact that something notable was done is not recorded in some way, will it exist beyond the immediate memory of those who saw it done? Perhaps writing about such things is the literary equivalent of taking note of the proverbial tree falling in the forest.
The significance of the written word is that it becomes the de facto record of what has happened or might happen, whether in fact or only in the creative minds of human kind. So, pick up your pens, cuddle your keyboards and capture what is going on around you or in the lives of the tantilizing characters you create. Will you write poetry, a journal, an essay, an article or a book? Will it be fiction or the real McCoy? Will you entertain or incite? Will you satirize reality, giving life a funny face?
And, by the way, who is your audience? After all is said (whether done or not), will anyone read what you have so meticulously recorded? Will what you have written become its own version of the tree falling in the forest?
Perish the thought! Because thinking that thought may be enough to put an end to the writing. And that we can ill afford. So, take heart, my friend, and keep writing. Make every word count as a grand, bold, essential step forward. toward preserving who we are and what we have done.
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I have been a full-time performer and teacher for over a decade. I hold a Masters degree in classical performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where I studied with Grammy award-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux, and I hold an undergraduate degree from the University of the Arts in jazz performance. My performance career has taken me across the United States, to Europe, and to Asia. Highlights from the 2016-17 concert season include performances with the Columbus Symphony with soloist Rachel Barton-Pine and CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, among others. The 2017-18 concert season includes concerts in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
As a teacher, I'm equally comfortable with kids and life-long learners. I'm very curious and always learning, and I love to share that inquisitive spirit with my students. Lessons will be structured around music that you enjoy, whether that is rock, classical, or jazz. Music theory and technique will be incorporated into the lesson from day one, but never at the expense of making music. I look forward to meeting you!
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text: Delhi, Lalit Jain, 27 secured 41st position in the recently declared UPSC examination. He is the only son of news paper merchant, Shashi Pal Jain, from Kharar. Jain had failed in his first three attempts and was also rejected at the interview by the Haryana Public Service Commission for the Haryana Civil Service. A practising lawyer at Punjab and Haryana High Court, Jain is a law graduate from Panjab University. A nephew of former Chandigarh MP Satya Pal Jain, Lalit is the first to directly become an IAS officer from Kharar. Right since the news of his making the giant leap from a newspaper agent's son to an Indian Administrative Service officer, Jain's home town Kharar, 15 km from Chandigarh, is taking pride. His house in NRI Enclave was swarmed with relatives, friends and neighbours, as newspersons jostled for a glimpse of the simple-looking tall youth.


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SALT LAKE CITY — Once a victim of sex trafficking, Kasia Fackrell now wants to give others a voice.
She may be able to, thanks to the efforts of the Global Poverty Project, a nonprofit organization that works as a platform for charities, with the goal of eliminating extreme poverty globally by 2030.
Fackrell is a station chief for Backyard Broadcast, a nonprofit group that leverages the power of teens to raise awareness of sex trafficking and funds to train police officers how to identify and respond to those being trafficked.
Approximately 100,000 children are exploited through prostitution or pornography annually, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. However, 95 percent of U.S. citizens and 95 percent of law enforcement are not aware of the extent of the problem, according to Stephanie Larsen, co-founder of Backyard Broadcast.
Because of its involvement with the Global Poverty Project, Backyard Broadcast may have a chance at leveraging the power of celebrities to make its voice — and the voices of those being exploited — heard.
Larry King, actress Maggie Grace from the movie "Taken" and the TV series "Lost" joined Utah dignitaries — including Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams, Josh Romney and former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson — at the Grand America Hotel on Saturday for Utah's Night for Global Citizens, with the common goal of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030.
Some paid $150 per ticket for the event designed to recruit and retain partners for the project.
The Global Poverty Project put the evening on with donations from the Grand America, Nicholas and Co., EcoScraps, Peczuh Printing and Hewlett-Packard.
King said he has always been bothered by the idea that anyone is going without food while some countries have so much money.
"I think health is an entitlement. I think food is an entitlement," he said. "No one anywhere in the world should be without food."
We all know that poverty exists and there are people having needless suffering, particularly when it comes to extreme poverty.
–Lindsey Hadley, executive producer of the Global Citizen Festival
The gap between the rich and the poor has always bothered Nikki Eberhardt, event manager for the Global Poverty Project and professor of economics, politics and demographics of globalization at the University of Utah.
"It just kind of hurts my insides to know that's going on," Eberhardt said.
And that's why she joined forces with the Global Poverty Project.
The group drew on the help of Melva Sine, president and CEO of the Utah Restaurant Association, which has helped raise awareness of the Utah event.
"We are such generous people in the state of Utah," Sine said. "We have such big hearts. We are always assisting. We are always aiding whenever there is a crisis or there is a need. We are quick to jump and quick to respond, and I think that gives us value as the state of Utah, value for our (residents) and the opportunity to go out and serve which is what we all need to do."
The Global Poverty Project's main stated goal is to eliminate extreme poverty — the 1.2 million people who live on less than $1.25 per day — worldwide by 2030.
"We believe that we can literally do that, which is kind of a narrative we don't hear a lot about. We all know that poverty exists and there are people having needless suffering, particularly when it comes to extreme poverty," Lindsey Hadley, executive producer of the Global Citizen Festival and chief development officer of the Global Poverty Project, said during an interview with KSL on Aug. 11.
The number of extremely impoverished has been cut in half in the past 15 years, she said.
Saturday's event also raised awareness of the 2013 Global Citizen Festival to be held in New York in September.
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Global Citizen Festival 2013 is a free ticketed event featuring Stevie Wonder, Kings of Leon, John Mayer and Alicia Keyes. Heads of state have been invited to the Festival, which runs during the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 28 in Central Park in New York City.
The President of the World Bank and Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, were also invited. Event organizers plan to ask corporate leaders to fund training for 1 million health workers in sub-Saharan Africa and donate cellphones and coverage plans to those workers.
Last year's event attracted 60,000 people to the lawn on Central Park and raised $1.3 billion.
Proceeds from the concert will support the Global Poverty Project's Global Citizen campaign, which aims to involve the public in humanitarianism, work with governments, media and corporations to advocate for the poor in the world, and use funding and awareness to support charities already involved in these causes.
"We feel like it takes the political, the social and the economic will to make those fundamental, systemic changes," Eberhardt said.
Government corruption can and does occur, she said, but the Global Poverty Project has an initiative aimed at promoting greater transparency in the aid governments give to their people.
The goal is to create a program, popularized by pop culture, that would make citizen involvement inevitable, said Hugh Evans, co-founder of the Global Poverty Project.
People earn tickets to events by becoming a Global Citizen, which involves something as easy as watching an educational video to buying products to support the poor. The Global Citizen project aims to have 1.5 million Global Citizens by the end of 2014.
People can also select from a list of existing charities to donate to their cause. For more information, visit globalcitizen.org.
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Leftists rioted outside the Milo Yiannopoulos speech in February. Milo had to be escorted off campus to protect him from the violent leftist mob.
On Wednesday night Coulter called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate the university for squelching her First Amendment rights.
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Britain women get Olympic ball rolling with win
Britain won the first competitive contest of the London Olympics when a free-kick from Stephanie Houghton gave them a 1-0 victory over New Zealand in the opening match of the women's football tournament at the Millennium Stadium on Wednesday.
Not only was the match the first event of the Games, it was also the first competitive match the British team had ever played and Houghton earned her place in women's football folklore with her 64th-minute shot.
Britain has not competed in Olympic football since the men's team failed to qualify for the 1972 Munich Games because Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland fear for their independent status within world governing body FIFA if they allow their players to compete for a united British side.
As a consequence Britain did not enter the Olympics from 1976, but as hosts, they were obliged to enter a team for these Games ensuring this match a certain historic significance.
Much of the action on the pitch will not live long in the memory.
New Zealand were the first to settle in the hot conditions, but Britain, with Jill Scott and Anita Asante combining well, took a grip on the game and they went close to scoring after 21 minutes.
Kiwi keeper Jenny Bindon, at 39 the oldest player in the competition, did well to punch clear from a corner, then made an excellent reflex save to deny Eniola Aluko what looked to be a certain opening goal.
Britain went close again 15 minutes later when Aluko crossed for Anita Asante but she hit the post with Bindon beaten.
New Zealand made little impression on the British defence and Alex Scott and Casey Stoney nullified what little threat there was from Sarah Gregorius and Hannah Wilkinson.
Even when Gregorius got a lucky break after a mix-up between Scott and Stoney 18 minutes from time, she failed to finish with a weak shot straight at goalkeeper Karen Bardsley.
Amber Hearn did force Bardsley to tip over the bar in the closing minutes, but Britain comfortably played out time for a well-deserved victory in the first of the days six women's games. Brazil and Cameroon, the other two teams in the group were playing in Cardiff later.


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The George Washington Law Review, Issue 76:5
The George Washington Law Review, Issue 76:5 (August 2008)
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David J. Barron, From Takeover to Merger: Reforming Administrative Law in an Age of Agency Politicization, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1095 (2008) [PDF]
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Michael Hurst, After Blackwater: A Mission-Focused Jurisdictional Regime for Private Military Contractors During Contingency Operations, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1308 (2008) [PDF]
Mollie McGowan, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Export of Technical Data Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1327 (2008) [PDF]
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Ross C. Paolino, Is It Safe to Chevron "Two-Step" in a Hurricane? A Critical Examination of How Expanding the Government's Role in Disaster Relief Will Only Exacerbate the Damage, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1392 (2008) [PDF]
Loren Remsberg, Too Many Cooks in the Galley: Overlapping Agency Jurisdiction of Ballast Water Regulation, 76 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1412 (2008) [PDF]
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This one will be easy - minus the raking part. Since our house backs to woods it creates a lot of privacy, but also a TON of leaves! This is a freebie to-do item and I plan on jumping into at least 1 big pile of leaves this fall.
I've been pinning tons of pumpkin themed desserts on pinterest and plan to make at least one of them! Maybe a pumpkin trifle for our game night?!


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Step 1:- Create the Service and Data service contract
Step 2:- Code the WCF service
Step 3:- Copy the CrossDomain.xml and ClientAccessPolicy.XML file
Step 4:- Change the WCF bindings to 'basicHttpBinding'
Step 5:- Add service reference
Step 6 :- Define the grid for Customer Name and Customer Code
Step 7:- Bind the WCF service with the GRID
In this article we will look how we can do database operations using SilverLight. We will first try to understand why we cannot call ADO.NET directly from a silverlight application and then we will browse through 7 steps which we need to follow to do database operation from silverlight.
I have collected around 400 FAQ questions and answers in WCF, WPF, WWF, SharePoint, design patterns, UML etc. Feel free to download these FAQ PDF's from my site http://www.questpond.com/
Silverlight FAQ Part 1:- http://www.dotnetspark.com/KB/WPF/WPFSilverLight.aspx This tutorial has 21 basic FAQ's which will help you understand WPF , XAML , help your build your first silverlight application and also explains the overall silverlight architecture.
SilverLight FAQ Part 2 (Animations and Transformations):- SilverLightFAQPart2.aspx This tutorial has 10 FAQ questions which starts with silverlight animation fundamentals and then shows a simple animated rectangle. The article then moves ahead and talks about 4 different ways of transforming the objects
Below are the different ingredients which constitute SilverLight plugin. One of the important points to be noted is that it does not consist of ADO.NET. In other words you can not directly call ADO.NET code from SilverLight application. Now the other point to be noted is that it has the WCF component. In other words you can call a WCF service.
In other words you can create a WCF service which does database operations and silverlight application will make calls to the same. One more important point to be noted is do not return ADO.NET objects like dataset etc because SilverLight will not be able to understand the same.
Below are 7 important steps which we need to follow to consume a database WCF service in silverlight.
Below is a simple customer table which has 3 fields 'CustomerId' which is an identity column, 'CustomerCode' which holds the customer code and 'CustomerName' which has the name of the customer. We will fire a simple select query using WCF and then display the data on the SilverLight grid.
As per the customer table specified above we need to first define the WCF data contract. Below is the customer WCF data contract.
public class clsCustomer
private string _strCustomer;
private string _strCustomerCode;
public string Customer
get { return _strCustomer; }
set { _strCustomer = value; }
public string CustomerCode
get { return _strCustomerCode; }
set { _strCustomerCode = value; }
We also need to define a WCF service contract which will be implemented by WCF concrete classes.
public interface IServiceCustomer
clsCustomer getCustomer(int intCustomer);
Now that we have defined the data contract and service contract it's time to implement the service contract. We have implemented the 'getCustomer' function which will return the 'clsCustomer' datacontract. 'getCustomer' function makes a simple ADO.NET connection and retrieves the customer information using the 'Select' SQL query.
public class ServiceCustomer : IServiceCustomer
public clsCustomer getCustomer(int intCustomer)
SqlConnection objConnection = new SqlConnection();
DataSet ObjDataset = new DataSet();
SqlDataAdapter objAdapater = new SqlDataAdapter();
SqlCommand objCommand = new SqlCommand("Select * from Customer where CustomerId=" + intCustomer.ToString());
objConnection.ConnectionString = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["ConnStr"].ToString();
objCommand.Connection = objConnection;
objAdapater.SelectCommand = objCommand;
clsCustomer objCustomer = new clsCustomer();
objCustomer.CustomerCode = ObjDataset.Tables[0].Rows[0][0].ToString();
objCustomer.Customer = ObjDataset.Tables[0].Rows[0][1].ToString();
return objCustomer;
This WCF service is going to be called from an outside domain, so we need to enable the cross domain policy in the WCF service by creating 'CrossDomain.xml' and 'ClientAccessPolicy.xml'. Below are both the code snippets. The first code snippet is for cross domain and the second for client access policy.
Silverlight consumes and generates proxy for only 'basicHttpBinding' , so we need to change the endpoint bindings accordingly.
We need to consume the service reference in silverlight application using 'Add service reference' menu. So right click the silverlight project and select add service reference.
Now on the silverlight side we will create a 'Grid' which has two columns one for 'CustomerCode' and the other for 'CustomerName'. We have also specified the bindings using 'Binding path' in the text block.
Now that our grid is created its time to bind the WCF service with the grid. So go to the behind code of the XAML file and create the WCF service object. There are two important points to be noted when we call WCF service using from SilverLight:-
public partial class Page : UserControl
public Page()
ServiceCustomerClient obj = new ServiceCustomerClient();
obj.getCustomerCompleted += new EventHandler(DisplayResults);
void DisplayResults(object sender, getCustomerCompletedEventArgs e)
LayoutRoot.DataContext = e.Result;
You can now run the project and see how the silverlight client consumes and displays the data.
You can download the source code from here.
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Soap opera icon Susan Lucci entertained guests with a funny, self-deprecating song at the Bay Street Theatre's Rock the Dock Summer Benefit on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor Saturday. The Queen of Daytime Television, who received more than 20 Emmy nominations for playing Erica Kane on "All My Children" but only won once, told stories about her career and sang Marvin Hamlisch's "Winning Isn't Everything." The song includes the line, "Winning isn't everything, a nomination is just the same/At the Emmy's there was nothing to report." It continues, "Eighteen years of 'Boy that Susan Lucci' is a sport!' And each year in advance I'd think there was a chance/At least I've got a closet full of fancy dresses." Sandy and Nelson DeMille, Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman, Tracy Mitchell, Karen Ziemba, Peter Scolari and more enjoyed cocktails, a silent auction and a raffle for items like a two-year lease for a 2013 Mini Cooper Convertible.
Susan Lucci suds it up
By PageSix.com Staff
July 25, 2013 | 4:00am