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PORTLAND, Ore.
Adron Hall was kind enough to stop as he rolled along an 8½-foot-wide bicycle lane painted neon-lime green on Portland's busy SW Stark Street. It almost glowed in the gray of late-fall drizzle. No driver could miss the lane nor mistake its purpose.
"It really makes you feel you belong here with the cars," said Hall, 35, a software architect who rides at least 15 miles a day for his appointments. He said the lane has given his girlfriend, Kristen Mozian, the confidence to commute by bike.
"She would never have gotten out here before," Hall said. "She was too nervous."
Portland is America's top large city for cycling, with 6.3 percent of all commutes being made by bike. No other city has yet cracked 4 percent and Boston is at 1.7 percent, according to 2011 data analyzed by the League of American Bicyclists.
That still places Boston as 14th among big cities. It has been nationally recognized for its efforts to promote biking as a green alternative for commuting. The city's Hubway bike-share program clocked 675,000 trips this year. Boston Bikes interim director Kris Carter said the city hopes to increase the share of commutes done by bicycle to 10 percent over the next decade.
But the death of Christopher Weigl, a 23-year-old Boston University communications graduate student and the fifth cyclist to be killed on the city's roads this year, was a tragic reminder of the lack of safety that keeps cycling primarily a youthful and male pursuit. The white stripes that delineate a five-foot-wide biking corridor on major Boston roads remain mere suggestions as motorists slash across them to park, double park, or make right turns. Carter said the city hopes to soon release updated proposals for more-protected bike lanes in the South End, Roxbury, the Innovation District, and downtown around parts of the Public Garden.
"Obviously the tragedy raises the level of urgency and brings cycle safety to the forefront," Carter said. "We've had a great increase in cycling, but we want a city where everyone from 8 to 80 cycles. We know we won't get there until we give them the feeling that it's safe."
Boston's five deaths are more in one year than Portland's four over the last three years. Two decades ago, Boston, Portland, and many big cities had virtually the same percentage of cycle commuting, about 1 percent. But Portland led the way in taking the risk out of cycling with master planning that today aims for cycling to account for 25 percent of city trips by 2030. The lane on SW Stark was painted and widened two months ago after the city received feedback that a previous six-foot-wide, white-striped lane did not do enough to eliminate conflicts between cars and bicycles.
On other streets, Portland is shifting parking into former traffic lanes to create buffered bicycle lanes next to sidewalks. In areas of newer development, it is incorporating European-style cycle tracks completely segregated from traffic. The city is doing other little things that add up to safety, such as designating areas for cyclists to make turns ahead of cars, synchronizing downtown traffic lights for slower car speeds, and having separate traffic lights just for cycles.
"The five-foot lane was where cities had to start, to get people to say 'we like this,' " said Roger Geller, Portland's bicycle coordinator. "But that is not where we want to be. People now want more." Transportation safety specialist Greg Raisman now has a waiting list of stores who want parking spaces taken out and replaced by bicycle racks. "Shops and cafes are discovering that racks of 10, 20 bikes create more business than two or three cars," Raisman said.
While Portland's current gender breakdown for cycling remains the same as Boston's, with roughly twice as many men as women, two women I hailed down, Kathryn Doherty-Chapman, 30, and Genevieve Moore, 35, said they see more and more women commuting by bike. At the Oregon Health and Science University, several gray-haired cyclists streamed in off a new segregated track.
Bike valets Joseph Sibilia-Young, 22, and Joshua Condon, 24, said there were 250 bikes racked up from the morning commute even on this rainy day. There is space for about 400. "We're stunned how cycling has taken hold," Sibilia-Young said. "Patients are riding in just to fill prescriptions."
Portland is riding the right prescription for city cycling.Derrick Z. Jackson can be reached at email@example.com.


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ESRL News
2006 Stories
NOAA "Rapid Refresh" Provides More Accurate Forecasts for Aviation and Severe Weather
The Nation relies on numerical weather models, complex computer programs, to process millions of weather observations and produce accurate and timely weather forecasts. Developers must make sure that models are both accurate and fast so that watches and warning can be issued with as much lead time as possible. The Rapid Refresh model will be tested this year to support its deployment as the Nation's operational model for aviation and severe weather forecasting. Full Story
By Land, Air, Sea and Satellite, NOAA Seeks Improved Air Quality and It Links to Climate
During the 2000 Texas air quality field study (TexAQS2000), NOAA scientists discovered a major factor that causes the Houston area to experience the highest ozone levels in the United States. Revisions made to the state's air quality management plan based on the 2000 results are expected to save Texas $10B and 65,000 jobs by the year 2010. NOAA returns to Texas this year to extend this research and improve our understanding of the links between air quality and climate. Full Story
NOAA Education Grants Install Science on a Sphere in Four Science Centers
NOAA grants will cover installation of our Science on a SphereTM system and the development of related programming. Grants were awarded to the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, California; the Bishop Museum in Honolulu; the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore; and the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Full Story
Bridging the Gap Between Earth and Space
With a scientific payload developed by NOAA, an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) soared from a southern California desert on the final segments of a successful demonstration mission. Bridging the gap between Earth and Space, these demonstration flights marked the first time NOAA has funded a UAS mission aimed at filling critical research and operational data gaps in several areas, including climate, weather and water, ecosystem monitoring and management, and coastal mapping. NOAA collaborated with NASA and industry to develop the mission. Full Story
"Reforecasts: An Important
Dataset for Improving Weather Predictions" featured in BAMS
March 18, 2006
ESRL researchers co-authored the current cover article for the January 2006 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). The article entitled "Reforecasts: An Important Dataset for Improving Weather Predictions," discusses how weather forecasts can be improved through statistical corrections of the current numerical forecast using many observations and past forecasts from the same fixed model. Full Story
Researchers Swarm the Arctic as Part of the SEARCH Program
March 18, 2006
NOAA-SEARCH is establishing and maintaining long-term detailed measurements that will be used to determine the mechanisms that force Arctic climate change. The program seeks to establish a number of intensive measurements that can be compared between Arctic regions and the NOAA activities in Canada strongly complement the long-term measurements at the NOAA Barrow Observatory in Alaska. Full Story
North American Carbon Program (NACP) Mid-Continent 2007 Intensive Underway
March 18, 2006
Scientists from universities and governemtn met in to consolidate plans for the multi-disciplinary Mid-Continent Carbon Intensive study scheduled for the 2007 growing season. The Intensive is designed to measure the carbon budget at the regional scale using a variety of different research methods and datasets over the mid-continent region covering eastern South Dakota, eastern Kansas, northern Missouri, Iowa, southern Minnesota, southern Wisconsin, and Illinois. Full Story
Science On a Sphere Opens at The Tech Museum
March 17, 2006
View from Space, the newly installed Science On a Sphere® (SOS) exhibit, opens on March 31st at The Tech Museum of Innovation located in downtown San Jose, California. Full Story
Winter Storms 2006 Include Chemistry Study
March 8, 2006
The Winter Storms project is aimed at collecting atmospheric data during severe winter storms originating over the Pacific Ocean that affect the continental U.S.. The program this year will include research to observe ozone transport and the jet stream. Full Story
NOAA Exhibits ESRL Research at AMS 2006
Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences. The AMS annual meeting offers NOAA researchers the opportunity to share research and technological developments with the wider meteorological community. Full Story
"Air Toxics" Reaching North America Lower than Previously Thought
February 8, 2006
A new study on the concentration of hazardous air pollutants (or "air toxics") reaching North America, published in the Journal of the Air and Waste Managements Association, Jan. 2006, shows that the background concentrations of 18 hazardous air pollutants are as much as 85% lower than reported in previous studies. This in turn suggests that regional and local contributions to most urban air toxics concentrations in the U.S. are much higher than previously thought. Full Story
Trinidad Head Baseline Observatory Battered by Winter Storm
January 26, 2006
The NOAA Trinidad Head Baseline Atmospheric Observatory located on the Northern California coastline (41.05 N, 124.15 W), and one of the five NOAA Global Baseline Atmospheric Observatories, was shut down for 3 days due to regional power outages produced by a severe winter storm that battered the California and Oregon coasts earlier this month. Full Story
Winter Storms on West Coast Provide a Flood of Data for NOAA Scientists
NOAA researchers are taking advantage of the soggy start of 2006 on the U.S. West Coast to better understand, predict and prepare for a series of intense precipitation events. A field study that began in December and will continue until March is designed to provide some long-term, as well as short-term, results to improve the predictability of floods to better protect the public from losses of life and property while minimizing economic risks associated with water management. Full Story
"A Global Profiling System for Improved Weather and Climate Prediction" Headlines BAMS
January 24, 2006
"A Global Profiling System for Improved Weather and Climate Prediction", by ESRL Acting Director, Dr. Alexander MacDonald, is featured in the December 2005 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). Full Story
Congressional Delegation Tour South Pole Baseline Observatory
January 12, 2006
A Congressional delegation visited NOAA/ESRL Atmospheric Baseline Observatory at South Pole where they received a briefing on the measurements conducted at the facility. Most of the Congressmen were members of science-related committees and showed an intense interest in the science of global climate change and ozone depletion and the related measurements being conducted by NOAA at the South Pole. Full Story
The Dark Side of Ozone Chemistry: New Paper Published in Science Magazine
January 6, 2006
Scientists have discovered a new aspect of nighttime chemistry that influences the daytime production of ozone pollution and hence air quality. The work has implications for air quality improvement strategies related to ozone, nitrogen oxide emissions, and sulfur emissions. The previously unrecognized dependence of the N2O5 reaction on aerosol composition has further implications for predictions of the global levels of ozone and other oxidants. Additional work is needed to quantify the importance of this effect and its regional dependence. Full Story

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HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — Back and Forth With Bones is an e-mail exchange between NBA.com's John Schuhmann and NBA TV's Brent Barry during a Monday night game. This week, they sat down (Schuhmann at home in New Jersey with his leftover Halloween candy, Barry in the studio in Atlanta with Matt Winer and Dennis Scott) to watch the big Western Conference matchup between the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers.
Schuhmann: Hey Bones, we got Rockets-Clippers tonight. Here are some early numbers…
The Clippers lead the league in offensive efficiency and rank last in defensive efficiency. Chalk it up to small sample size (one game against Steph Curry and another against the carefree Lakers), but they've allowed their opponents to shoot 48 percent from 3-point range (29th) after ranking 26th in 3-point defense last season. And of course, they have three games against two of the most dangerous 3-point shooting teams in the league – Houston and Miami – this week.
The Rockets, meanwhile, are the only team in the top 5 in both offensive and defensive efficiency thus far. They're a minus-1 in 34 minutes with both Omer Asik and Dwight Howard on the floor together, great defensively, but bad offensively. With only one of the two on the floor (and with Francisco Garcia shooting 10-for-20 on threes off the bench), they've been terrific on both ends. And obviously, it's a long-term question if they're better off keeping Asik or shopping him for someone who better complements Howard and James Harden.
What will you be watching for tonight?
Barry: I'm interested to see how Doc Rivers uses Blake Griffin while Houston plays big. Tough for them to cover stretch fours, but Blake is not that. So let's see if he uses quick moves or takes comfy Js.
Clips bigs must stay out of foul trouble or else Mullens might get some run to stretch the lineup.
I'm not sure how Harden gets defended, but I would hope guards press up a bit since they are not good at the line. It's a bad matchup for the Clips if they think they can outscore them.
Schuhmann: Griffin is 1-for-9 from outside the paint through the first three games, so yeah, he's not going to make Dwight think twice about hanging out in the paint.
1st quarter
The Clippers shot 16-for-23 in the opening 12 minutes, scoring 42 points on 27 possessions. J.J. Redick led the way with 15 and Jared Dudley found himself wide open beyond the arc as well. Even Blake Griffin got in the act, hitting a pair of jumpers. Dwight Howard, meanwhile, picked up two fouls by the 6:24 mark and had to sit. He returned late in the period, but then picked up his third less than a minute later. The Rockets' offense found a rhythm with just one big on the floor, but a hole had already been dug.
Schuhmann: J.J. Redick is hunting shots early and making Harden work on D. Clips have scored 15 points on 10 possessions.
Barry: Fouls and hot start forces Chandler Parsons switch.
Barry: Houston, coming off the Utah game, does not look to be nervous about being down but this is NOT the Jazz and this point guard does not like to lose.
Classic foul trouble disrupts rhythm.
2nd quarter (LAC leads, 42-25)
The Rockets' cut the Clippers lead from 17 to six by scoring 22 points on their first 10 possessions of the quarter, with their third center – Greg Smith – scoring eight of the 22. The Clippers steadied themselves when their starters returned and led by 12 at the half.
Schuhmann: Last year's LAC second-unit gave them great D with Eric Bledsoe, Matt Barnes, Lamar Odom & Ronny Turiaf, and Jamal Crawford scored enough to build on leads. This is one of my big questions with them this year.
Barry: Agreed. Much different complexion of the bench and Barnes takes a ton of chances on D that hurt their schemes.
Barry: Barnes not healthy either, aggravated injury there. Starters prepped for pace but 2nd unit not up to speed.
Schuhmann: CP with 10 dimes in 12 minutes and I can't say that he's had to work hard for them. They can come easy with so many weapons who are willing to run the floor and move without the ball.
Barry: Both J.J. and Jared taking practice shots.
Halftime (LAC leads, 78-66)
Schuhmann: That was a ridiculously fast pace. 56 possessions each in the first half. I would think that Houston would be the team that would prefer to slow it down, to get Dwight involved both offensively and defensively.
Barry: Doc said he wants pace before the game, interestingly enough.
3rd quarter
With the Rockets going back to their twin-tower lineup to start the third, the pace slowed. They got Howard into the game offensively, but were unable to cut into the lead.
Schuhmann: As much as I love the Rockets' pick-and-roll, the Clips bigs are pretty poor defensively in the post. DeAndre Jordan offering no resistance to Howard there.
Barry: And I don't like, other than CP3, who they have come to double down.
Barry: No big lineup for the Clips. Mullens doesn't count.
4th quarter (LAC leads, 104-89)
Scoring on their first five possessions of the period, the Rockets cut the deficit to nine and had the ball back. But Garcia missed a three and Jordan took a nice feed from Jamal Crawford to push the lead back to double-digits. Paul then took over – 10 points and three assists in 3 1/2 minutes – and the Clippers put the game away.
Schuhmann: Harden has 15 & 5, but has been pretty terrible tonight, especially defensively.
Barry: Pretty much mentally out of it. Clips with no control of pace without Paul has hurt them tonight.
Schuhmann: Downside to Dwight post-ups: As much as he's killing them down there, it's too easy to just foul him.
Barry: Clips' D not very disciplined yet. Rotations and awareness not together.
Schuhmann: Yep, just takes a ball reversal to give Omri Casspi a lane to the basket.
Final: Clippers 137, Rockets 118
Barry: When Clips reach a point in the year when it looks easy for the collective unit to operate, they will have arrived. They are good but can be really good if they stay the course and find it.
Schuhmann: Yes, and they can't just rely on their offensive firepower to get them through the season. I think that's what the Knicks' problem was last year. They were too good offensively for their own good.
I don't know that Jordan/Griffin will ever be a reliable defensive frontline and I do know the Clips aren't getting any D from their bench. Still, their offense is a thing of beauty. Looks like Paul/Griffin side pick-and-roll with Redick or Crawford coming off a pindown on the weak side is their go-to play.
Thoughts on Houston after tonight? Tough to evaluate when they get a stinker from Harden, but his defense probably isn't going to get better.
Rockets pace & efficiency through Monday
|On floor
|Asik + Howard
|Only Asik
|Only Howard
|One of the two
Pace = Possessions per 48 minutes
OffRtg = Points scored per 100 possessions
DefRtg = Points allowed per 100 possessions
NetRtg = Point differential per 100 possessions
Barry: You have to wonder what Asik can get you in the market (D-oriented stretch 4) if they feel they can play without a back-up. But they are a dangerous team that can keep pressure on you at any point in the game. Issue is if you don't get intimidated, you can get back at them too.
If you have the "best" 2 and the "best" 5 you should be a home-court qualifying team for the playoffs.
Plus, no Patrick Beverley tonight. That adds something to their point pressure.


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To me, every record has a time of day, season and even day of the week.
But there are some records that represent the night so much, I can't even listen to them unless it's almost midnight or before the sun rises. Few records encapsulate the night as perfectly as Trinity Session by Cowboy Junkies. Margo Timmins' voice lulls you in from the start. From the mournfully spare a cappella "Mining for Gold" until the sultry strut of "Walking After Midnight" – once you start to listen, you just can't switch it off until the very end.
I was in high school when Trinity Session came out, and almost immediately, I thought it was one of the most beautiful records I'd ever heard. It was so alien to me. It was so quiet. Almost everything in the 1980s mainstream was about bombastic rock, power ballads or over the top pop. All of sudden, here was a group with a singer who sang so softly, you had to strain to hear her. I remember the first single was "Sweet Jane". Everything about it was so minimal. I wasn't yet familiar with the Velvet Underground so had no idea it was a cover. But as much as I've come to love Lou Reed and his former band, I still prefer the Cowboy Junkies' version.
The highlight of Trinity Session (so named because it was recorded in a church), though, is "Blue Moon Revisited". It's maudlin and sexy at the same time. And I've always been a sucker for songs which could soundtrack an Edward Hopper painting.
Nearly 25 years later, Trinity Session is still as night-time as it ever was.


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ESL 082 English as a Second Language Level 2 • V1-10 Cr.
Prepares English-as-a second language students to communicate using routine statements related to personal needs, desires, and feelings in familiar social contexts. Students learn to write basic messages, interpret maps, bills, and schedules, and follow written and oral instructions. This is beginning ESL. Students must show progress in three quarters of instruction. Course is credit/no-credit. Prerequisite: Placement by assessment.
After completing this class, students should be able to:
- Apply active listening strategies to understand and respond to learned words and phrases in simple questions, statements and high-frequency commands as part of short conversations, explanations, instructions, and narratives where the linguistic complexity is simplified.
- Use a few simple formulas to convey understanding, and ask for repetition or clarification and one or two simple strategies for gathering missing information and/or repairing problems in communication.
- Speak so others can understand to recall and use a limited set of learned words, phrases, and short sentences related to basic personal information, basic objects, and immediate needs in familiar, predictable, and straightforward communication tasks.
- Apply simple strategies (such as gestures, eye contact, and simple, repeated requests for feedback from listener) to monitor effectiveness of the communication and to meet the speaking purpose.
- Read with understanding by decoding and recognizing familiar everyday, simple words in short, simple text by breaking words into parts, tapping out/sounding out syllables, applying pronunciation rules, using picture aids, and recalling oral vocabulary and sight words.
- Demonstrate familiarity with learned words, phrases, and simple sentences.
- Convey ideas in writing by following a highly structured plan to organize ideas around a single familiar topic.
- Appropriately use everyday, familiar vocabulary and simple sentence structures to produce a few sentences on a topic, and make simple edits of grammar, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation based on review and feedback from others.


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The coolest dance experience for kids is back -- Just Dance Kids 2 on Wii! Featuring 40 fun and crazy dance routines to kids favorite songs, including hits from today's most popular artists, TV shows and movies. Just Dance Kids 2 gets kids of all ages up and dancing with colorful graphics, super-fun dance moves, and kid-friendly gameplay!
Also known as: Dance Juniors 2
Release Region: United States
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Publisher: Ubisoft
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Release Date: November 4, 2011
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Release Date: November 3, 2011
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Moiety is a form of social organisation in which people are divided into classes or categories. The word derives from a Latin term for 'half'. For many Australian Indigenous groups this concept has determined skin groups, family and even your marriage partner. My work references my great-grandmother's segregation and the historical governance of Indigenous people – storytelling we should not forget.


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In a Scientific American blog post Deep thought is dead, Long live deep thought, a bioinformatics analyst broods on the question, 'Where are these jobs that will require such rapid "searching, browsing, assessing quality, and synthesizing the vast quantities of information?" and decides quiet a lot of information can be gained by this type of superficial processing of large quantities of material.
"Our ability to produce data is outstripping our ability to understand
it. In fact, the need to make sense of these mountains of information is
so great that it's given rise to one of the hottest interdisciplinary fields on the market: data mining and predictive analytics."
Perhaps it's a trade-off. A lot can be gained from slowly and deeply reading a dense but wise text, but a different sort of knowledge (and equally legitimate) can be arrived at by superficial processing of large quantities of material. This more superficial processing may be particularly well suited to inductive problems where principles may be extrapolated from different examples or instances.
researchers in Neuroimage found that the striatal-thalamic regions (blue left) were important for the extrapolation step in inductive problem solving. This is all very interesting because of the association of striatal structures with curiosity and novelty.
One wonders whether strong caudate learners should be considered as a distinct learning style - novel, curiosity driven, inductive learners who learn best by engaging primary or direct experiences- then reasoning back to first principles.
We see many of these types of learners in high tech / computer engineering fields - and that probably also jives with the video gamers have bigger brains (caudates) research.


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Space crunch at CEGEPs a problem
Parents from the Lester B. Pearson School Board are so concerned about
the space crunch in English CEGEPs that they have written to the
minister of Education to demand that students be admitted to colleges.
"There are still students with good marks who can't get in," said
Laura Derry, chairperson of the board's Central Parents Committee.
"It's ridiculous. CEGEPs are a continuation of high school and they
have to have spots for everybody."
The letter, sent to Education Minister Line Beauchamp, urges her to
reconsider a "waitand-see" attitude and suspend the penalty to CEGEPs
who exceed their enrolment cap.
The parents received an acknowledgement, but no commitment from the minister to do anything to address the issue.
Last year, the Quebec government had to invest new money to deal
with the space problem at Montreal Island's crowded CEGEPs and allow
several colleges to take in more students during this school year.
And CEGEPs are still coping with an enrolment bubble that is expected to last at least a few years.
Geneviève Lapointe, director of communications for the Service
régional d'admission du Montréal métroplitain, said the number of
applicants for the second round of admissions this year is very similar
to last year.
Last year, for example, there were 19,231 applicants and 6,718 of
them were new candidates. This year, there are 19,101 applicants, with
6,911 new candidates.
That means that space is still going to be an issue, although
government officials have been saying they are merely monitoring the
A group that represents Montreal Island's 12 public CEGEPs has asked
the provincial government to commit extra resources for next fall
because it expects a large demand.
But Derry said parents are worried.
"Kids who don't get into CEGEP can end up working at fast-food
restaurants," she said. "Parents want that cap on CEGEPs lifted and
want them properly funded to accommodate all students."
As she said in her letter, "all students who meet the requirements
for graduation and receive high school diplomas deserve the right to
further their education."
She noted that while the Education Department has put demands on
school boards to set measurable targets to boost graduation rates,
there is no plan in place to accommodate those students in college.
"It is imperative that there are an adequate number of spaces to
accommodate all students applying to CEGEPs, so that all qualified
students have access," Derry wrote.
The Pearson board has floated the idea of introducing a Grade 12 in
some schools, at least, in part, to give students who don't get into
CEGEP a chance to continue their education.
"The government has to act now," said Derry. "We owe this to our children and our future society."


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Restoration Council of Shan State/ Shan State Army
သွ်မ္းျပည္ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရး ေကာင္စီ (သွ်မ္းျပည္ တပ္မေတာ္ - ေတာင္ပိုင္း)
Government: Shan State Army - South
Founded: 1964/1996
Leader: Lt. Gen. Yawd Serk
RCSS also known as SSA-S was formed from the Shan United Revolutionary Army (SURA)
Affiliations: Former Communist Party of Burma (CPB), Shan United Revolutionary Army
Chief of Civil Administration and chief of peace
*RCSS is known as Shan State Army - South as well as a member of Committee for Shan
Ceasefire & Peace Process
4th ceasefi re signing group.
Post ceasefire conflict:
Official delegation team
Chief Negotiator: Brig Gen Pawng Kherh
Liaison offices
Alliances: PPST, PPWT/CT, UPDJC, JMC member
|Armed Group Rep
|Govt Rep
|Thai-Shan border
|Yawd Serk
|Aung Min
|nformal ceasefire
Other SSA-S delegates: Sao Khuen Sai
Mediators: Nay Win Maung, Dr Kyaw Yin Hlaing and Tin Maung Than, Harn Yawngwe
|Sai Lu
|Aung Min
|State level 8 point ceasefire
Other govt delegates: Khin Maung Soe, Col Aung Thu, the minister of Border Affairs and Security; Shan State Chief of Justice Maung Maung; and General Staff Officer (Grade-1) of Triangle Regional Command Lt-Col Zaw Tun Myint.
|U Khin Maung Soe
|Preparatory meeting
|Sai Baung Khe
|Aung Min
|Union level 11 point ceasefire
Other govt Delegates: U Win Tun, Minister of Forestry; No 2 Electric Power Minister, U Khin Maung Soe; Sao Aung Kyat, Chief Minister of Shan State; Deputy Minister of Defense, U Zaw Win; Attorney General, U Tun Tun Oo; Minister of Shan State Border Security, Col Aung Thu; Col Kyaw Soe Lin (Defense ministry); Triangle Region G1, Col Zaw Tun Myint and Central Eastern Region G1, Col Zaw Min Aye.
|Yawd Serk
|Aung Min
|To keep the peacemaking talks on track, reached a 12-point agreement
Myanmar Deputy Commander-in-Chief Gen Soe Win, Union Minister for Energy U Than Htay, Union Minister forElectric Power No.2 U Khin Maung Soe, Shan State ChiefMinister U Sao Aung Myat, Commander of EasternCommand Maj-Gen Soe Htut, Commander of Central EastCommand Brig-GenTo keep the peacemaking talks on track, reached a 12-point agreement Myanmar Deputy Commander-in-Chief Gen Soe Win Union Minister for Energy U Than Htay, Union Minister forElectric Power No.2 U Khin Maung Soe, Shan State ChiefMinister U Sao Aung Myat, Commander of EasternCommand Maj-Gen Soe Htut, Commander of Central EastCommand Brig-Gen Tun Tun Naung, Commander of TriangleRegion Command Maj-Gen Than Tun Oo, Deputy AttorneyGeneral U Tun Tun Oo, Shan State Minister for Security andBorder Affairs Col Aung Thu and Col Kyaw Soe Win ofCommander-in-Chief (Army)'s Office Tun Tun Naung, Commander of TriangleRegion Command Maj-Gen Than Tun Oo, Deputy AttorneyGeneral U Tun Tun Oo, Shan State Minister for Security andBorder Affairs Col Aung Thu and Col Kyaw Soe Win ofCommander-in-Chief (Army)'s Office
|Pawng Kherh
|Col. Aung Thu (Shan State border affairs)
|Tripartite 9 point anti-drug agreement between SSA-S, government and UNODC Observer: Jason Eligh (UNODC-Myanmar)
|Yward Serk
|Thein Sein, Aung Min,Soe Thein, Myanmar Peace Center
|President said to cooperate Reposition of Arms groups,Resettlement of People,Job Creation,Education and Developmental Project.For constitution amendment, Hluttaw will proceed. RCSS said they are fighting not for Confederation State, it is for Federal, Democracy, Self determination, Participation.
|Chiang Mai, Thailand
|MPC Technical Team
|MPC in Yangon
|Col. Sai La
|Hla Maung Shwe, Aung Naing Oo and Dr. Min Zaw Oo
|they discussed about nationwide ceasefire and political talks. RCSS also claimed Govt forces retreats from near the RCSS military camp. it's an informal meeting.
|Ethnics' technical team led by KNU and RCSS discuss on Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement with MPC technical team.
|Nay Pyi Taw
|RCSS + KNU+ CNF (Gen. Mu Tuu Say Phoe, Maj. Tu Tu Lay from KNU, Maj. Sai La and Maj. Sai Mein from RCSS)
|"Vice president Sai Mauk Kham - Vice Senior General Soe Win, U Aung Min, U Thein Zaw"
|UPWC president Sai Mauk Kham expected to get nation wide ceasefire in October. (1) commitment of ceasefire (2) framework from both sides negotiation for political dialouge (3) all inclusiveness in Conference (4) midterm working process negotiations is proposed by KNU- RCSS. It's an informal meeting.
|RCSS/SSA, PNO, Ya La La Pha
|Shwe Mann/ Aung Than Htut
|Informal meeting
|Chiang Mai, Thailand
|MPC-Aung Min/ Khin Yee/ MPC
|Informal meeting
The 14 point draft nationwide ceasefire accord presented by the ethnic armed movements was in principle accepted by the government's technical team, according to the briefing given by Karen and Shan representative at the Working Group for Ethnic Coordination (WGEC) meeting held in Chiangmai last Friday, 6 September."The wording as well as some specifics need some touch-up," the Karen National Union (KNU) and Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) representatives were informed on 23 August in Rangoon.Specifics include Human Rights issues (Point #13) where the WGEC has proposed regional independent Human Rights Committees be established. "A National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has been set up by the government," the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) was reported as saying. "The proposition therefore will need some careful treatment."
|U Aung Min (UPWC)
|Informal meeting
This is an informal meeting between UPWC and RCSS, SSPP, and PNLO in Taunggyi city. U Aung Min and delegations from RCSS, SSPP and PNLO attend the Shan-Kayah-Mon state Trust Building Conference holds on 21-23 Sept 2013. RCSS seems to discuss about the recent clahes betwenn RCSS and Myanmar army in southern Shan state.
|Chaing Rai, Mae Khong river bank, Golden Triangle
|Gen Yawd Serk -
|Aung Min and MPC
|Informal meeting
Govt representatives U Aung Min with MPC people and RCSS leader have dinner at the bank of the Maekong river in Chaing Rai, Thailand.
|Chiang Mai, Thailand
|Maj. Gen. Paung Khur, Col. Sai Hla, Col. Sai Nguen, U Khun Hseng (PI)
|Hla Maung Shwe, Dr. Min Zaw Oo, Dr. Andrew, Aung Naing Oo, Nyo Ohn Myint
|Informal meeting
They discussed about next round of peace talk and other peace related issue. This is an informal meeting between RCSS and MPC technical teams.
So far the local monitoring group is yet to be formed. U Aung Min said earlier that he was still drafting rules and regulations for the said body.
Points presented for the first step of peace process:
|U Aung Min
Liaison offices
- Taunggyi, Kengtung, Kholam, Tachilek and Mongton
- Two sides to conduct joint field survey
- A peace-monitoring group will be formed before the end of July 2012 after thenomination by the two sides of suitable persons"
- RCSS organized a meeting of the Shan State scholars on 22-23/08/2012 and formed this Peace Monitoring Committee consisting of 19 members
- the SSA field team leader Brig-Gen Pawng Kherh told SHAN, 19 people, some of them highly regarded in the Shan community, have volunteered to become Peace Monitors to be watchdogs against truce violations between government troops and the armed resistance.
- U Aung Min, the government's key negotiator, said on 1 July that regulations for peace monitors were still being drafted and that the body would include people nominated by the government, the resistance and the media."
- Coordinate with each other in advance before moving with arms out of designated positions.
- The two sides will remain at positions agreed upon by both sides.
- Designation of areas will be discussed further at the Union level talks.
- Government will assist families of the RCSS/SSA members to earn adequate.
- National ID cards will be issued to members, family members and people residingwith the RCSS/SSA.
- Special industrial zone will be set up and controlled by the RCSS.
- RCSS/SSA is permitted to request assistance from and coordinate with NGOs and INGOs.
- The 10-day visit inside the country from 15-24 January 2012, included the signing of the Union level agreement for security and development and meetings with both Shan political parties and civil societies. Shan State Army – (RCSS/SSA) leaders concluded a seven-day tour of businesses. At the invitation of the government peace team led by Railway Minister Aung Min, a seven-member RCSS/SSA team visited Rangoon and Mandalay and a three-member team visited Muse in northern Shan State
- Has set up a 6 companies under the name Shan Taung Tan Cherry on 14 May 2012, these include travel and tours gems and jewelry, trading, services, industry and hotel.
- Government will assist the RCSS/SSA in the preservation and promotion of Shan literature and culture
- RCSS/SSA will be allowed to register its Tai Freedom news agency after the new media law comes into effect
- Members and supporters of RCSS/SSA who are in prison will be released except for those who have been imprisoned on criminal charges.
- Two sides will continue to build up mutual trust to enable the RCSS/SSA to be totally withdrawn from the list of unlawful associations.
- The RCSS/SSA is free to hold political consultations with individuals, groups and communities throughout the country
- A small team of SSA led by Awng Hseuk spoke to the public gathering in Pongpakhem, located 16 km north of the Thai-Burma border and announced that the SSA-S will stop collecting taxes and recruits from the ordinary people. (19/01/2012)
- The RCSS/SSA will urge the people for their participation in the political negotiations with the government during the upcoming 2013 (14/12/2012)
- Government, UNODC and RCSS will undertake survey in Mongnai and Mongpan townships
- Choose sites for crop substitution pilot project
- Plans for the crop substitution pilot project will be jointly drawn up, explained and discussed with the people, and then implemented
- The crop substitution pilot project at the chosen sites will be implemented by the government-UNODC-RCSS as soon as possible*
- UNODC will render technical assistance to the government-RCSS crop substitution project sites and discuss with international donors for the provision of immediately needed funds for the project
- RCSS will keep the local people as well as its members informed on protection against the dangers of drugs, reduction and total eradication of opium cultivation, cooperation in the control of drugs and implementation of the crop substitution project
- For effective implementation CCDAC, Shan State Police Force and RCSS will each appoint contact persons and exchange information through email, telephone and other appropriate means
- Security issues in the joint CCDAC-UNODC and RCSS crop substitution project sites will be presented to the higher authorities
Clashes + Ceasefire Breaches
|68 clashes GVT Army - 44 PMFs - 24
|Kyaukme, Mawkmai, Mongkeung, Kunheing, Mongnai, Mongpiang, Mongton, Mong Yawng, Tachilek,
|RCSS/SSA captured 69 assorted weapons, killed 113 and wounded 129
People in Laikha township, Shan State South, where the Shan State Army (SSA) 'South' is active, has been warned by military authorities to steer clear of the SSA or face charges on Section 17-1 (unlawful association) 22/10/2012
The UWSA and RCSS/SSA had a military standoff in mid-June 2012 when Wa troops surrounded the SSA-S camp of Lwal Kaw Wun, based in Mong Hsat, eastern Shan State, after Shan soldiers apparently trespassed into Wa areas.The two armed groups plan to have further negotiations to solve the border dispute so that future confrontations can be avoided. The UWSA released around 20 soldiers from the RCSS/SSA following a meeting between representatives of the two groups in August 2012.
RCSS and UWSA held a second meeting for counteract narcotic drugs and harvest replacement planning (28-29 December 2012),
Shan Conference named "Trust building for peace" held in Taw-win-ninsi hall, Shwegontai, Yangon on 26 November 2012. Minister Aung Min, chief negotiator, gave the opening speech. Minister Aung Min and Minister Soe Thein attended the meeting. Some 150 Shan Representatives from SNLD, SNDP, TNDP, RCSS/SSA, SSPP/SSA, NDAA and others attended the meeting.
SNLD chairperson U Khun Tun Oo visited Mongla on 6-9 Dec 2012 and he met Mongla leader U Sai Leun and was accompanied by RCSS/SSA liaison officers.
PNLO anti-drug partnership
International Partnerships
UNODC - tripartite agreement
2/9/12 : Representatives of the Myanmar Peace Support Initiative, Norwegian Refugee Council, the Shan State Army –South/Restoration Council of Shan State, and Shan Relief and Development Committee met to discuss the proposed pilot projects under the MPSI. The participants agreed to conduct an assessment among internally-displaced persons' camps, to learn their concerns, needs, and aspirations for the future. 'Needs' will mean both immediate needs in their host communities and in areas of return. This survey will be conducted at the end of the rainy season 2012, approximately late October, and will be implemented by local Shan organisations. Press Release
Business concessions:
11 Feb 2016 - RCSS released a Statement on the armed conflicts between RCSS/SSA and TNLA
09 Dec 2015 - RCSS released a Statement concerning the armed conflict between TNLA and RCSS/SSA
15 Oct 2015 - RCSS released a statement on NCA signing
08 Oct 2015 - RCSS released a position statement on the NCA (Eng)
08 Oct 2015 - RCSS released a position statement on the NCA (Bur)
08 Oct 2015 - RCSS released a statement on signing the NCA
16 Sep 2015 - RCSS released a statement to stop election campaign in its control area (Eng)
16 Sep 2015 - RCSS released a statement to stop election campaign in its control area (Bur)
17 Aug 2015 - KNU, DKBA, KNU/KNLA Peace Council, and RCSS released a joint statement on signing the NCA
04 August 2015 - RCSS released a statement on current political situation
03 July 2015 - RCSS/SSA released a statement after bi-annual meeting (Bur)
June 26, 2015 - RCSS released a statement on International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (Shan)
June 26, 2015 - RCSS released a statement on International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (Eng)
June 3, 2015 - RCSS released a statement on the NCA (Eng)
June 3, 2015 - RCSS released a statement on the NCA (Bur)
April 28, 2015 - RCSS released a statement on Pangsan trip
Jan 15, 2015 - RCSS released a statement on 15 Jan 2015 after annual meeting (Shan version)
Oct 04, 2014 - SNLD, SNDP, RCSS, and SSPP released a joint statement
Oct 03, 2014 - Shan leaders sent an open letter to president
Oct 03, 2014 - RCSS released a statement on Myanmar army launch military operation on SSPP
Jun 26, 2014 - On International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Feb 14, 2014 - RCSS leader Lt Gen Yawd Serk interview by Irrawaddy
Feb 14, 2014 - RCSS leader Lt Gen Yawd Serk reselected for chairman
Feb 13, 2014 - RCSS recruited new 4,000 members with 4 years
Dec 23, 2013 - RCSS's analysis over pilot drug eradication project with UNODC and govt - Bur
Dec 23, 2013 - RCSS's analysis over pilot drug eradication project with UNODC and govt - Eng
Dec 09, 2013 - Interview with RCSS leader Yawrt Serk
Nov 09, 2013 - RCSS statement on 11 common position - Bur
Nov 09, 2013 - RCSS statement on 11 common position - Eng
Nov 02, 2013 - An interview with RCSS representative Col Sai Hla in 7 days news.
Oct 26, 2013 - KNU and RCSS joint Statement - Bur
Oct 26, 2013 - KNU and RCSS joint Statement - Eng
Oct 01, 2013 - RCSS statement to ask govt and army to follow the agreement.
Jul 17, 2013 - KNU & RCSS Joint Statement
Jun 29, 2013 - RCSS statement on peace talk with UPWC
Jun 26, 2013 - International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Feb 16, 2013 - RCSS leader interview on Irrawaddy news
Jan 19, 2013 - RCSS-Statement 13th Annual Meeting Headquarters Loi Tai Leng
Dec 14, 2012 - RCSS/SSA launched their 5 aims for the future politics on one year anniversary of ceasefire agreement
Dec 13, 2012 - Brig Gen Pawng Kherh said if anyone were to be prosecuted with Section 17-1 (unlawful association) for assisting in the peace process, the first one should be his Naypyitaw counterpart U Aung Min.
Nov 08, 2012 - Further violations of the ceasefire by the government army may result in the collapse of the treaty, warned Lt-Gen Yawdserk
Oct 29, 2012 - RCSS Statement Standpoint SNLD
Oct 26. 2012 - A meaningful and successful political dialogue means both sides must be willing to make concessions - Lt-Gen Yawdserk
Oct 19, 2012 - RCSS/SSA launched a statement that it supporting to the standpoint of SNLD
Sep 12, 2012 - RCSS/SSA commanders say they are frustrated with the government in trying to establish a true ceasefire, saying it was only with Naypyidaw, but not the government army.
Aug 24, 2012 - A recent report submitted by the month long RCSS/SSA field trip to its leadership says most people, despite the on and off clashes with the government Army, have recommended continued talks to reach a political solution is the best option available at present
Jul 02, 2012 - Statement to urge Shan State people
Mar 21, 2012 - RCSS Statement: Policy to be implemented during ceasefire
Jan 27, 2012 - Statement on Union Level Peace Negotiation
Jan 13, 2012 - Statement on the release of Sao Khun Htoon Oo and political prisoners by Burmese government
Dec 10, 2011 - Statement on the ceasefire agreement between Burmese government and RCSS/SSA
Oct 20, 2011 - RCSS Statement Seeking Opinion and Suggestions possibility of peace talks
Aug 15, 2011 - Statement on the Accusation of RCSS/SSA by Burmese Government Press Conference
Jun 26, 2011 - Statement on the World's Anti-Drugs Day
Mar 27, 2011 - Statement of condolence on the damage caused by the strong earthquake in Loi Muay, Tachilek and Keng Tung, Eastern Shan State
Mar 04, 2011 - Statement on Shan State Army launched a raid on the drug refinery of militia unit of Wan Zit tract, NamZarn Township
Nov 09, 2010 - RCSS Statement on Battle Between Dkba and Spdc
Nov 07, 2010 - RCSS-Statement-on Election
Aug 21, 2010 - SRCS Letter-to UN For bilateral dialogue regarding Union of Burma
Jun 26, 2010 - Statement on World Anti-Drugs Day
Mar 27, 2011 - Statement of condolence on the damage caused by the strong earthquake in Loi Muay, Tachilek and Keng Tung, Eastern Shan State
Apr 30, 2010 - Statement on SSPP/SSA's Transformation into Home Guard Force
Jan 18, 2010 - RCSS-Meeting-Statement


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text: Using beer or ale as a coolant for a Beowulf is thus a spectacularly bad idea, although one pleasant side effect of having a nice, cold server room with a wee bit of extra room for a few fermentation vessels and a stack of aging cases on one wall is the possibility of using it as a coolant for Beowulf >>operators<<, who have heat loss and power provisioning problems of their own. This efficient re-use of a carefully temperature controlled environment that is otherwise too cold for normal humans to spend much time in is one that I can heartily approve of. At some point I may mount a full time wall unit that cools the in-garage "shed" of my house so that it can serve as a double duty brewery and server room. We can only hope that, properly stimulated, the art and science of beowulfery is lifted to new heights by this confluence of benign apparatus. Following RGB's suggestions, here is what I have implemented in my garage.. Cooled air goes into storage area for wine at roughly 12C, passing through to another box roughly at same temperature, but with controlled humidity, for curing of sausages, thence exhausts into the general vicinity of the server, fiber drop, network switches, and GPS disciplined time reference. This was evolved from a former, less effective system using the small 4 cubic foot "bar refrigerator" used to cool beer/ale/whathaveyou along with a set of metal tubes bonded to the "freezer" compartment of the bar refrigerator that carried coolant pumped around through tubing in the wine cooling area. Why change from liquid cooling to air cooling? 1) pumping losses.. the coolant pump actually puts more heat into the liquid than the fan puts into the air. 2) corrosion.. even with anti-corrosion additives (chromates and such as found in commercial antifreeze), the tubing on the freezer plate corroded away. I tried both copper and aluminum in various forms, and they ALL fail eventually. I do not like having antifreeze on the outside of the beer bottles. 3) design of liquid to liquid or liquid to air heat exchangers is a black art with which I am not skilled. In fact, even using commercially available exchangers (various and sundry heater cores and radiators), it is VERY difficult to get predictable performance from the system. 4) Too many failure points. For instance, if a critical amount of flow doesn't flow through the freezer heat exchanger, the coolant freezes and the pump then pumps against a blocked tube, adding heat to the system. (obviously, this was a time when I did not have antifreeze mixed in). 5) you still need a fan of some sort to transfer the cold from the chilled coolant to the wine bottles. I suppose one could go out and get a surplus lab chiller, etc. invest in a few dozen feet of stainless steel tubing and fiittings, etc. When one can buy a perfectly good tiny air conditioner at the end of summer for around $50, and cobble together some hose and cardboard with duct tape, it's just a lot easier. The smallest A/C is around 6000-8000 BTU/hr, which is an enormous amount of cooling for what is basically a large, warm refrigerator.


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The Isle of Man (in Manx, Ellan Vannin) is an island in the British Isles, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland. It is a British Crown dependency (and therefore not part of the United Kingdom itself); the UK is responsible for defence and foreign affairs. The island has its own government (headed by a Chief Minister) and parliament - "Tynwald" (consisting of the democratically-elected "House of Keys" and the nominated "Legislative Council".) The Isle of Man is not a full member of the European Union, but an associate member.
Temperate; cool summers and mild winters; overcast about one-third of the time. The Island typically enjoys 'British' weather tempered by the effects of the Gulf Stream that runs through the surrounding Irish Sea. Exposure to sea breezes keeps average summer temperatures in the early to mid twenties centigrade, while winters tend to hover around 9 degrees and snow sometimes strikes in late February/ early March. The thick sea fog that occasionally smothers the island's lowland areas is known locally as Manannan's Cloak, a reference to the Island's ancient Sea God swathing his kingdom in mist to protect it from unwanted visitors.
A plain in the far north, with hills in north and south bisected by central valley. One small islet, the Calf of Man, lies to the southwest, and is a bird sanctuary. The highest point is Snaefell, at 621 meters above sea level.
The Isle of Man was part of the Norwegian Kingdom of the Hebrides until the 13th century when it was ceded to Scotland. The Duke of Atholl sold the sovereignty of the isle to the British crown in 1765, henceforth the British monarch has also held the title "Lord of Mann". Current concerns include reviving the almost extinct Manx Celtic language.
A number of airlines operate regular services to the Isle of Man from regional airports throughout the British Isles such as Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, Belfast, London (Gatwick, Luton, London City) and Birmingham.
The Isle of Man Airport is located at Ronaldsway, near Castletown, in the south of the island. There are regular bus services from the Airport to Castletown and Douglas.
There are many flights operating from the island's Ronaldsway airport to several destinations in England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the Channel Islands. The only airline based on the island, Manx2 operates flights to Belfast from £15 one-way including tax.
Ferries operated by the Steam Packet Company to Douglas from:
The island has two main historic narrow-gauge railways, both starting from (separate) stations in Douglas.
In the south of the island, the Isle of Man Railway is a historic narrow-gauge steam railway operating between Douglas, Castletown and Port Erin (except during winter months).
In the north of the island, the Manx Electric Railway runs between Douglas and Ramsey (using the original historic tramcars from the 1890s.)
Additionally, the Snaefell Mountain Railway (to the summit of Snaefell) starts from Laxey, where connections with the Manx Electric Railway are available. The Groudle Glen Railway is a small steam-operated railway (take the Manx Electric Railway from Douglas and change at Groudle Glen.)
Cars can be hired from various locations on the island, including the airport and Douglas Sea Terminal. Local agents operate on behalf of major international rental firms.
The Isle of Man has a very extensive road network which is passably well maintained. Congestion is low (outside Douglas at rush hour). Rules of the road closely mirror those of the United Kingdom with the exception that there is no overall speed limit for private vehicles (in other words, in a derestricted zone there is no blanket 70 or 60 mph limit like there is in the UK). Drive on the left. It is illegal to use a hand held mobile phone whilst driving. Petrol is expensive, even by UK standards.
Many of the country roads are narrow with substantial stone walls on each side, making evasive driving potentially tricky. Despite the absence of speed limits outside urban areas, caution is advised.
Caravans (camper trailers) may not be brought to the island.
The Isle of Man has a quite extensive public transit system using mostly buses. With a bit of planning, it is possible to get almost everywhere on the Island using this transit system.
The island's capital, Douglas, has horse drawn trams operating along the Promenade (linking with the Manx Electric Railway). This is really a novelty available during the summer rather than a serious way of getting anywhere in particular.
English is the first language of all but a very small number of native speakers of Manx Gaelic. All children on the Isle of Man have the option to study Manx at school, and there have been efforts to revive the language. It is a descendant of Old Irish, along with Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic. One of the most striking elements of the language is many consonant mutations can occur, e.g., Doolish (the Manx name for Douglas), can easily become Ghoolish.
Many UK chain stores are represented in the Island (mainly in the capital, Douglas); for example, Boots, WH Smith, Waterstone's, Marks and Spencer, Next, B&Q. The island has its own supermarket chain, Shoprite, with branches in Peel, Douglas, Ramsey, Castletown and Port Erin. UK-based supermarkets (such as Tesco) also have branches. There is a small 'lifestyle' shopping centre at Tynwald Mills near St John's, with a number of outlets selling upmarket clothing, furnishings and gifts.
Uniquely Manx products include Smoked Kippers and Manx Tartan.
Manx food is often very good and continues to improve. Some good restaurants and bistros can be found. Fish and chips are also popular. Crab baps are available from a kiosk on Peel Quay.
There are several varieties of Manx cheese. Boxes of Manx kippers can be ordered for delivery by post.
A local speciality worth trying is chips, cheese and gravy, similar to the Canadian dish poutine.
Another favourite available as a takeaway is a baked potato with a topping such as chili.
The Isle of Man has two breweries, Okells and Bushy's. The Isle of Man has a beer purity law that permits no ingredients in beer other than water, yeast, hops and malt. Accordingly, a well-kept pint of Manx beer is worth seeking out.
Wine is quite reasonably priced and readily available in food stores.
The majority of hotels are located in Douglas, including the traditional seafront hotels on the Douglas Promenade. Standards can be variable - some are rather dated and in need of refurbishment. More luxurious hotels (up to four stars) are also available.
There is no university on the island, although the University of Liverpool runs some courses. There is an Isle of Man College, and an International Business School .
The Isle of Man has very low unemployment, largely because of the financial sector. Seasonal work in the tourism industry is available, but note that a Work Permit is required to work on the island (including persons from the UK) obtainable from the Isle of Man Government.
The Isle of Man is generally a fairly safe place. In an emergency contact the Isle of Man Constabulary (the island's police force) on 999.
Town centres have real glass in bus shelters and graffiti has become a thing of the past.
Health conditions are very similar to the UK. The island has a well-equipped modern hospital (Noble's Hospital, near Douglas) but some complicated medical conditions may require removal to the UK.
The Isle of Man is still a fairly socially conservative place, although some major social reforms (in line with the rest of western Europe) have been legislated for by Tynwald, the Manx parliament.
Capital punishment for murder was officially abolished as recently as 1993 - although no execution had taken place on the island for over 100 years. Corporal punishment has also been abolished - it was used for young male offenders until the mid 1970s.
People from the Isle of Man are known as Manx. The Manx are very proud of their identity; the Manx flag will be frequently seen. To dismiss the island as just a "tax haven" may cause annoyance; the finance industry is the major employer and considerable efforts have been made by the Manx authorities to improve the regulation and propriety of this industry. Nevertheless, taxes are considerably lower than in the UK - although Valued Added Tax is the same by agreement between the Manx and UK Governments.
The UK is often referred to simply as "across" (i.e., travelling across to the UK.)
The international dial code for the Isle of Man is the same as the United Kingdom and as part of the UK telephone system has the dial code 01624