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If you had told me nine years ago that one husband, one dog, a business and two kids later I'd be inconsolable over leaving Los Angeles, or even more implausibly that I would have lived there long enough to accomplish such things, I would have assumed that you were mistaking me for someone that, if not free-spirited or adventurous, at least drives on freeways. But a few weeks ago with our twin boys Sweetlips and the Bean snug in the backseat for our return trip home as a family, I blubbered with conviction as Mike pulled the car onto the freeway, heartbroken over saying goodbye to a place I had, against all odds and traffic, come to love.
I spent the weeks before we left in a haze of nostalgia, always taking the long way home to keep the familiar streets of a sprawling and only partially traversed city fresh in my head and ran along the ocean every morning as a masochistic reminder of how different the Hudson River looks from the PCH. As Jeff Buckley's ballad "Hallelujah" mournfully played background on my iPod to the rolling credits that were playing in my head, I would stop to look out at the Pacific or gaze longingly at the familiar site of Santa Monica Pier's Ferris wheel, an amusement that I had never actually ridden. In spite of my many years proselytizing about how much better the bagels and even burritos were in my beloved Manhattan, I was suddenly glorifying my staple LA restaurants, proclaiming that I'd never be able to get a Turkey Reuben in New York as good as the one I get in Malibu — or at least one that comes with a side of ocean view. And this is without any mention of the friends, who in a city so transient, inherit the roll of family, forced to rely on one another in a way that you had only thought possible of those that, being your parents, have no choice.
I don't know where those nine years went and it's hard to say when I began to even come to an understanding with LA, as I was initially so surprised every time I overheard people speaking English. When did I get used to its idiosyncrasies, complaining about them like a seasoned insider and expertly navigating oddities like June Gloom (it's the Marine Layer!) to confused visitors?
Don't get me wrong, I am a New Yorker to my core. As Mike always says, his heart beats differently when he is here. But from the time Bean could walk, he pretended every toy and book was a skateboard, mimicking the big kids on the ramps at our Brentwood neighborhood park. And Sweetlips has long insisted that he sleep with "The Beach Book," an ode to his favorite place. He's also a bit of a hoarder and brings a minimum of eighteen stuffed animals into his crib. You'd need to go back to the Dewey Decimal System to sort through what's going on in there. But we often hear him muttering about sand and buckets and ocean as he drifts off to sleep, so we've attached meaning to this necessity because any honest parents' uncertainties are manifested in their children's bedtime stories. In full disclosure, Mike laments that I moved to and from LA with an unsentimental and altogether random egg of Silly Putty. But if it made it from childhood to college, doesn't it seem like bad luck to get rid of something now that's so small and easily stowed? I too am a hoarder. Not that I'm projecting.
Ultimately, there's no denying that, despite their roots, there is a bit of LA in those kids and I couldn't decide if I was tearing them from the life they knew or bringing them home to live as the New Yorkers they were meant to be – with a dose of laidback Cali engrained in their still innocent minds. Soon I worried, Los Angeles would simply be the place where they were born, a badge of honor to brag to their friends or bunkmates who only know Hollywood from the movies, so foreign from Great Neck or Scarsdale that it might as well be Mars…or Des Moines.
Maybe it was because we were our own team in Los Angeles, just the four of us and our pooch Lola figuring it all out together. It was an adventure and in spite of inexperience and total independence, our little family thrived. I started to realize that my world was, without intention, contained in Los Angeles and by leaving it was not just the view of the Pacific or my go-to restaurants that would suddenly be out of reach. I guess that part of me worried that with so much influence from "home," our little gang would be broken up and the free-spirited dynamic of my brood would be changed forever.
As I was packing, I found some old manuscripts, including one I had written during my very first months of living with my boyfriend Mike in Los Angeles. This long-forgotten essay seems so optimistic and full of not only bewilderment, but an underlying sense of youthful excitement that I can almost remember.
There were no kids then…just the two of us, driving the PCH every weekend in our two-seater convertible (isn't that what you're supposed to drive there?) reassuring each other unconvincingly about "making it here" – all in our attempt at blissful survival by living a cliché. We were also young and stupid.
When I wrote this there was not even a thought that we would one day embark on a desperate journey to have children. Years later, only a few miles from those fortifying and idealistic road trips, I underwent one of many procedures in my pursuit of motherhood. Post surgery, a chipper nurse wheeled me drugged and disoriented into a recovery room. She generously slipped me an extra shot of the pain killer Propofol, noting as she pushed the syringe into my IV, "This stuff is amazing. It's what killed Michael Jackson."
Everyone knows that under the best of circumstances I will never turn down drugs in a room where I am sure there are heart paddles. So, heartbroken and hopeless, but determined to focus on the perks, I truly appreciated the nurse's kind gesture. With the protective disposition of a mama bear, she then rubbed my arm reassuringly and talked to me about her kids and how, when I saw my own one day, I would know that they were worth the fight.
And then she slipped me her son's headshot. She did this with the discretion of a stage mom whose midwestern life plan rested on the next casting call for the Mickey Mouse Club. Turns out, she heard from my surgeon that my husband was "in the business." I was literally brought to the car in a wheelchair with my discharge papers and the name of some kid's agent on my lap. We made it after all!
Life in LA gave me plenty of material. Plus, I don't care how many times people say it, you really can't beat the weather. But I think that the reminiscent longing for my adopted city was ultimately more about us and what we built than the inherited sushi, sand and smog that I now truly appreciate. Mike and I went there alone with nothing but naivety and his childhood dream and decided that we would together either sink or swim. Some days we did both.
And yet there we were a lifetime and a family of our own later, driving back home completely altered by this ironic joint independence and self-reliance that we had now earned, and the only thing that remained the same was that we were doing it together, reassuring each other for the new road ahead.
Part of this piece from nine years ago feels so dated…smoothies and wheatgrass shots were on everyone's radar and juicing was not yet a verb on either coast. Yet, many of my first perceptions of Los Angeles still ring true and, at some point, I stopped observing these nuisances as strange and just started accepting them as, if not normal, at least standard. Here is how, in 2004, I described my first encounter with LA…
"If I Can Make It There"
I come from the city that inspired the song lyrics, "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere." Clearly Sinatra never drove in L.A.
I just wish someone had prepared me for life as a "transplant" – and yes, transplant is an actual moniker given to people like us; people that leave the safety and comfort of cheese steaks in Philly, the Red Sox in Boston, shuffleboard in Florida, and subway muggings in New York, for the sun, surf and road rage of Los Angeles.
I was here for a solid month before I could enter a Jamba Juice, order a smoothie (the state drink of California) and know how to respond to the cashier's inevitable question, "Would you like a free energy boost with that?"
The first few times I stared back dumbfounded, the rest of the line confidently waiting to order their Mango A-Go-Go's with a shot of Immunity Boost, knowing that I was a recent arrival, completely out of touch with the trans fats that were surely coursing through my veins.
So, one day, after ordering a Strawberry Nirvana, when I was asked the inevitable "Would you like a free energy boost with that," I simply responded "Yes". At least I would appear to know what I was doing in the smoothie store.
But, then the cashier replied, "Um…which one?" As it turns out, energy comes in different flavors.
Like the cynical New Yorker I am, I still think it's funny to order one and turn to my boyfriend every five minutes and say, "Whooaaa. I am feeling like soooo energized." But, at least I can get one and get out without looking like the only addition I've ever added to my order is "fries with that."
So, while some aspects of LA life still elude me, I have mastered the smoothie, which is one more step towards assimilation in my new land.
You see, when I left my beloved New York for Los Angeles, people warned me about the smog, the traffic, and the Botox. They told me I wouldn't see a "real" piece of pizza until I landed back at JFK. They mentioned if I wanted a good bagel, or even a good shmear for that matter, I could pretty much fuggheddaboudit. The basics.
But, no one seemed to mention that at times the smog would be so bad that after a sweaty hike I could actually wipe it off my face, revealing so much soot on the cotton ball that I might as well be a chimney sweep out of Mary Poppins.
No one said, "Don't forget to pee before you drive to the supermarket – that fifteen-minute jaunt might become a two-hour road trip. Oh, and before you go, lefts on reds are legal and STOP signs are actually STOPTIONAL signs."
No one mentioned that due to lack of lights at major intersections, in order to make certain left hand turns you must hurl yourself into eight lanes of oncoming traffic and wait for the light to turn red. But, as long as you don't look you will probably survive. No one told me that my first fender bender would be a right of passage.
No one mentioned that when people asked what part of "the industry" I am in that there is only one industry and I would confuse people when I tried to explain that I'm not in it.
"So, what do you do in the industry?," they ask.
"Oh, I'm a writer," I respond.
"For sitcoms?," they usually say.
"No, magazines," I explain.
"So, you're working on a screenplay," they infer.
"Yes. You got me," I usually agree. You get the picture.
No one said, "Make sure to know the release of all feature and independent films, the basis of any script that might be 'floating around,' and the comings and goings of every major studio head for conversation purposes." No one hinted, "Oh, by the way, if you don't know who the 'major players' are, what compromises the 'A-list,' what 'deals' are on 'the table,' and who has 'attached' themselves to what 'project,' which is waiting to be 'greenlit,' you can pretty much forget about having basic interactions with a 'young executive' on 'the lot' at 'the studio' or anywhere else for that matter." No one told me that if you don't know what any of this means you would be considered "green."
No one insisted that people really do take wheat grass shots, nor did they mention that wheat grass is actually a meadow stuffed through a juicer. No one hinted that while you watch in terror, people will tilt their heads back like they are on a bender or a pub-crawl and take a swig. But, rather than putting you into a welcomed psychedelic haze, this is actually meant to make you see life more clearly, which as far as I'm concerned defeats the purpose of a shot altogether. It's like watching a cow go to pasture, except I think that if the cows had the choice they, like me, would take a whisky sour over the neighbor's lawn.
No one mentioned that you are better off not asking questions.
No one whispered that on a gorgeous, clear, eighty degree, Los Angeles Saturday, there would still be more people at Fred Segal than at the beach.
No one stressed that this place is literally crawling with celebrities like a well-dressed ant farm. No one said, "By the way, if you slam on your breaks on Sunset to avoid plowing down the pedestrian that jumps in front of your car, the person you came close to running down would, and even could, be Benicio Del Toro."
No one warned me that if I stuck a pin in the majority of women at my gym, they would not bleed, but rather leak.
No one insisted that when people say you valet your car everywhere in LA, everywhere includes Kinko's.
No one told me that the local news would give advice for road rage that lists not making eye contact with other drivers, for then it will be your fault when they shoot you with a Glock 9.
Don't get me wrong, New York has it's own idiosyncrasies and even not-so-hidden dangers, but I was accustomed to them. So, because no one prepared me as I am preparing you, I unfortunately spent my initial time in La La Land not enjoying sun and sand in November, but in this bizarre haze of confusion, constantly evaluating every aspect of life in Hollywood and asking the unanswerable, "but, why?"
"Why would you build a mansion on a mudslide?"
"Why would you spend $250 on a ripped, bleach stained sweatshirt at the most exclusive store on Robertson in order to make homeless seem like a fashion statement?"
"Why would you not eat in order to drive a BMW when you make $19,000 a year as the assistant to the assistant to the second assistant of the president of the production company that is underwritten by a subsidiary of Universal?"
What I have finally realized is that Los Angeles is a place where you can get up early, drive a couple of hours to go skiing and be back in time to catch some good waves – yet, it is difficult to see all of the possibilities through the initial culture shock (and the smog). When I finally stopped comparing Los Angeles to New York, something that most New York transplants have actually made a hobby of, I realized that I might actually like it here.
Like New York's idiosyncrasies, once you can start joking about them, you can start identifying with them, and suddenly it's the girl behind you at Jamba Juice that doesn't know she needs her antioxidants and you are just another Angeleno catching a juice buzz before braving the harrowing roads in a fit of car induced rage on your way to yoga.
While I'm enjoying my beloved NY, I will be visiting my sentimental city of LA often. Here are those go-to food staples and restaurants for when I arrive back in La La Land…


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MCC News
MCC Board of Trustees Meetings February 2019 (01/22/2019)
Monroe Community College
Board of Trustees
February 2019 Schedule of Meetings
Board of Trustees
February 2019 Schedule of Meetings
- Board of Trustees Meeting Monday, February 4, 2019, 4:00 p.m.
(The meeting may enter into an Executive Session.)
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Editor's Note: Parking is available in Lot V – Visitors Lot at the front of the campus.
For further information concerning Board of Trustees meetings, including the agenda and minutes, please refer to the Board of Trustees website www.monroecc.edu/depts/trustees.
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* To monitor human rights situations in Mon territory
and other areas southern part of
* To protect and promote internationally recognized
human rights in
human rights foundation of monland
Human Rights Report 4/97 (September, 1997)
Conscription of Forced Labour by the SLORC
in Mon Areas' Development Projects
Report One
Ye-Tavoy Railway Construction
Report Two
Ye-Magyi Truck Road
Report Three
Kya-lnn-Seikyi-Taungbauk Truck Road
Some Acronyms
SLORC - State Law and Order Restoration Council,
- New
KNU - Karen National
KNLA - Karen National Liberation Army,
IB - Regular Infantry Battalion of SLORC,
- Light Infantry Battalion of SLORC,
Conscription of Forced
Labour by the SLORC
in Mon Areas' Development Projects
Introduction of road construction in Mon areas
When the military regime, SLORC, seized power in
While SLORC is implementing
various infrastructure development projects in the whole
In Mon areas, the SLORC has built mainly motor and rail roads by forcing the local Mon villagers. In this report, we would like to explain three road construction projects which has used many thousands of Mon villagers to contribute free labour. And we also focus on-going situation of construction of forced labour in previous 9 months of 1997.
The three road construction projects are:
(1) 110 mile (160 kilometers) long Ye-Tavoy railway construction
(2) 15 mile long Ye-Magyi truck road and
(3) 15 mile long Kya-Inn-Seikyi-Taungbauk Truck road.
The above Ye-Tavoy railway construction is an infrastructure development project of the government while the other two projects are local development implemented by the local SLORC authorities. Even the later two truck road constructions are considerably small development projects, thousands of villagers are conscripted as forced labourers to work in there and they are effected with various difficulties in their daily life.
Appalling condition in the work-site and Mistreatment by the military
Through for many years since the military conscripted the local villagers to build the railway and motor road, they were never provided any assistance by the military. They have to bring their own tools and foods to work in the construction.
Under the instruction of the military, the villagers were also put with burden works such as digging the earth, building embankment, collecting fire-woods and rails bed stones and etc.,. Since they have to contribute labour mostly in burden works, they have no rest time. In any work-site, they were never provided any shelters, foods, and other needs in the construction. Besides the help provided by the military, they also collect extortion from the villagers such as security tax in the area, money for hiring labourers and others.
While they are working in the construction, if their workforce is not met the satisfaction of the soldiers, they are severely punished. Or, if they took a rest in the construction site, they must be severely punished by the soldiers. If they are late to work, they also must be punished by the military again.
For instances,
In third week of March, a column of IB 61 which came from Ye to try arresting some robbers who actived in area between Koemile and Yapu area. When the soldiers launched a patrol inside the forest, they met about 20 villagers from Paukpin, Natkyisin villagers who were gathering firewoods. They arrested and beat all those villagers although they met the evidence that the villagers were cutting trees and sawing to get the needed length of fire-woods. The villagers explained to the soldiers they were instructed by LIB 408 to collect fire-woods for railway construction in making bricks, but the soldiers did not accept the complaint.
In second week of April, 1997, a sick man from Paukpingwin village working in the Ye-Tavoy railway construction was severely beaten by LIB 408. His name is Nai Seal, 54 years old, and he was conscripted as forced labourer although he got sick. While he was working, he tired and took a rest. Two soldiers who guarded the labourers came and beat him with their gun butts. He lost consciousness for a while and after he recovered the soldiers forced him to continue working.
In the last week of April, 1997, three villagers from Paukpingwin, Nai Aung Ngwe, Nai Gale, and Ah Lon (13 years old), were arrested in their farm while they were reaping the crops. They were detained for half day in the military outpost of LIB 408 in Paukpingwin village and the soldiers beat them with accusation they escaped the work-duties instructed by the soldiers, (see interview # 1)
In first week of March 1997, a man from Weithalee village of Kya-Inn-Seikyi township, Nai Nyae (60 years old), was beaten by the soldiers from LIB 356. He could not work like other villagers in building the embankment of Kya-Inn-Seikyi-Taungbauk truck road and one soldiers came and beat him severely. Then other two soldiers came and joined him in beating the old man. (The interviewee, 75 years old, in the below interview # 3 was also beaten by soldiers)
Normally, the villagers who are hardly working in construction under the bad weather conditions such as hard rains and sunshine always get sickness. But the military have never provided them with medicines and no health worker is assisted in the construction sites. The villagers brought along with them and when they are sick, they have to buy medicines and treat themselves.
Report One
Ye-Tavoy railway construction
Long-term conscription of forced labour and the situation in 1997
Sine the month of September,
1993, this railway construction was started with forced labourers of local
villagers from four townships namely Ye
The SLORC always claimed that
this road was built with self-help of the concerned community. In the beginning
half year of 1996, huge number, about 200, 000, of villagers and town residents
from lower section of
In mid 1996, to counter the mounting of international pressure against its use of forced labour, SLORC reduced uses of forced labourers in the railway construction and in stead of using villagers they replaced with soldiers from local battalions to work with available payment. The battalions from LIB 401 through 410 has received payment from government and but at the same time, thousands of villagers have been still forced to work in the construction. From September through October, the villagers were conscripted again by these local military battalions From October 1996 up to the beginning of 1997, the conscription of massive villagers were stopped for a while. However, villagers from some village tracts were also forced to do many jobs supporting the construction such as collecting materials to build camps for soldiers in the work-sites along the road, gathering fire-woods and bring logistics and water, etc..
In February 1997, the
conscription of forced labour was resumed again. SLORC had hurried to complete
another section of construction from Ye to Koe-mile,
the end point of
Besides building the embankment, the villagers all village tracts along the road were forced in works such as cutting trees to get fire-woods in making bricks for bridge construction, to gather rails bed stones from the streams and forests and crash it to be a needed size and bring it to the embankment. And some were forced to cut hard-woods for rails sleepers.
At the same time, in April 1997, the military conscripted the villagers to find rails bed stones in the area. It was also a hard work. In every morning, the villagers had to travel to stream and collect the big stones. Then they crashed it into the needed pieces and brought it to rail road embankment. When we conducted interview with villagers, they explained that the whole family members including mother, sons and daughters had no time to work in their farms, plantations and fishing. They have considerably no income for the whole dry season.
Almost the construction of railway embankment was completed for the whole route, since the beginning of 1997, and as a next step SLORC has planned to complete building of bridges along the route. Estimately, there are 26 bridges to be built across big river and small streams along the route. In 1996, its local troops forced the villagers for a preparation in each bridge such as filling dirt and wood beside the stream or river banks and make it to be strong.
In each of bridge building, it needs a lot of bricks. A total of 26 bridges need many hundred tons of bricks and SLORC local troops could not bring it from the brick-making factories far from the area. Then it planned to make bricks in the places close to each bridge. In the process of making bricks, they needed huge fire-wood. The huge fire-wood must be used to burn the earth to become a good quality bricks. To get these fire-woods, the villagers in Natkyisin and Yepu village tracts were forced since the beginning of 1997 to find it in forests.
According a villager from Paukpingwin (in Natkyisin village tract), each family from this village tract had to provide at least 4 kyins of fire-woods per month. (100 cubic feet is a Kyin) They were instructed to provide the fire-woods from February through May. The villagers had responsibility to bring their fire-woods from forests to the railway and put it beside the road. At the same time, about 10 oxen-carts of each village were asked by the military for the transportation of these fire-woods to the designated places. Once when one village sold his oxen-cart as he cleverly refused from the conscription of oxen-cart from him, he was severely beaten by the military.
After many trees were cut in nearer forests, the villagers have to go further inside the forest to get fire-woods. The military will not accept the bad quality of fire-wood and the collection of it was a hard work-duty for all villagers to complete in set time. According to a villager who reached to a Mon refugee camp, he said that if one person of the family to get one Kyin of firewood and bring it to the designed places, he may have to spend at least 7 days. Thus, all family members have to hurry to get the set quota of fire-wood by the military or they will face punishment. For the villagers who could not provide fire-woods must have to hire substitute or buy it from other villagers. One Kyin of fire-wood costs about 1000 Kyat.
While some villagers from the same village tract were facing to find fire-wood, some villagers from another village tract to find rails sleepers. The villagers from Yapu village tract who have no responsibility to find fire-wood were forced to provide rails sleepers. The military need the high quality of hard-wood to make sleepers. These villagers were instructed to bring totally about 2,500 pieces of sleepers. The measures of a sleeper is six inches square in block and six feets in length.
At the same time, the villagers from both village tracts were forced to collect stones for rails bed stones without any payment. All families in these villages were also consistently forced to collect rails bed stones in the streams or hills and bring to the embankment of railway, crash it into the needed size, and lay it on the embankment.
Each family was forced to work these works at least one week per month.
In 1997, the construction of
this road section was used with forced labour of about 500 prisoners. Those
prisoners were normally brought from
The role of soldiers in the construction
Since mid of June, 1996, through the beginning of 1997, only two battalions of SLORC's LIB 401 and 407 have continuously worked in the construction. The both battalions' soldiers received payment from this project and before they started the projects, each battalions received about one million Kyat advance payment from the government. The government agreed to give contract and whenever they completed some processes of the construction, they must surely receive the possible payment from the government again.
The above mentioned LIB 401 and 407 have taken contract to work in the construction section between the Eindayaza and Hsinku village. The LIB 408 also took contract from the government and worked in the construction section between Paukpingwin and 14 miles area for two months in September and October, 1996, and later the soldiers abandoned the agreement and stopped working.
When the soldiers forced the villagers in the construction, they did not feel how the works were hard and when they really worked even with payment, they knew all works in the construction were hard. When the soldiers agreed to work in the construction and took contract from the government, the villagers had already completed the building of rail embankment which is the most hardest works among all processes of the construction. When the soldiers started working, they did not have to build the embankment and just collected rails bed stones and laid on the embankment. This work was the last process of construction before laying iron rails.
Up to May 1997, only two battalions LIB 401 and LIB 407 left in the construction and the other battalions returned to their barracks and stopped working. Most soldiers felt disappointed for hard work in the construction and abandoned it, but the government never took actions to their men. Previously whenever the villagers escaped from the conscription of forced labour or work-force was not met satisfaction of the soldiers, they must have been severely beaten or mistreated by the soldiers.
After many soldiers disagreed and abandoned working in the construction, the government could not finish this construction in time as it hoped. That was why the conscription of forced labour from the local villagers was resumed again at the beginning of 1997. The population number working in the construction was not huge like previous years in 1995 and 1996. According to villagers in the Hsinku and Eindayaza village tracts, although the LIB 401 and 408 are working in the construction, the villagers were also asked by these battalions to build the labour camps, to make cooking, to collect fire-woods for the military. At least 2 male villagers from each village have been constantly asked by the military.
In the Paukpingwin-14-mile construction section, after LIB 408 stopped working, the higher SLORC authorities tried to get another troops to replace. But no troop came and agreed to work. Then, the officers from LIB 408 started conscripting the villagers again.
SLORC hired and gave contract to the skill workers who came from other areas to make bricks for bridge construction. Those skill workers received 600 Kyat per kyin of bricks from the factories. (One Kyin of brick is in measures of 100 cubic feets.) According to them they receive about 2,000 Kyat per Kyin when they sell it to the private or construction companies. But they satisfied with the price the military paid them because they did not have no duty to collect firewoods.
Thus, the villagers have been
suffered from the conscription of forced labour for the whole time and when they
could not provide manual labour they have to contribute payment to the military
or hired the substitute. As a result, the local villagers abandoned their
villages, homes, farms, lives-stocks and then escaped into border area's
refugee camps or
Interview # 1
Name: Nai Aung Ngwe
Age/ Sex: 37 years/ male
Nationality/ Religion: Mon/Buddhism
Occupation: Farmer
Native Place:
Interview Date:
When did you arrive here (a plantation in east of Ye-Tavoy motor road because he was internally displaced) and why?
I arrived here about three days ago. The Burmese Army and the village chairman forced us to work in that railway construction very often. We had no time to work in our own farm. We had to work for them for the whole time and later we faced food-shortage and then I moved here.
Which part of road you had to contribute labour?
This year (in 1997), we almost had to work in work-site closely to our village. The section from our village to 14 mile village (about 5 mile long section). Last year (in 1996) we had to go to Tavoyan area (in southern part of the railway), in section between Ye Bone and Kalein Aung.
How many days in one month you have to work in the work-site close to your village?
About 20 days in one month. We had no extra time to work in farm. We had to go to the work-site everyday in the morning. We brought our own tool and foods from our homes and worked for them (the military).
Besides your village, did other villagers have to work like you?
Yes. There were many hundreds of villagers from Waepeal, Natkyisin, Kyaukadin and others worked in the construction sites like us. But they worked in the respective section close to their village. The military defined the construction section for those villagers.
What were the main works you had worked as the whole time you were used as forced labourer?
We had to collect a lot of fire-woods. The soldiers told us to collect it and bring to brick-making factories, to burn the earth. The bricks were used to build bridges. We went into forest and cut many small trees and carried it to the factories or to the construction site and then the oxen-carts came and brought it to the factories. The military and the village chairman (village leader) told to every family in the village, each of them must provide four kyins of fire-woods in one month. We had to provide 4 kyins of fire-woods every month from February through May in this year.
Where the brick-making factories were established?
Normally, the factories were built beside every bridge along the route. We had to walk at least 2-3 hours from the forest we cut fire-wood to the factories.
Did you receive any payment for fire-wood from the military? Did the workers in the brick-making factories receive payment for their labour?
No. We, the villagers, did not receive any payment. But the workers in the factories received payment from the military. They received about 600 Kyat per kyin of bricks produced from their factories. Most workers came from Ye northern area's villages and they were not native villagers.
Did you have to work only collecting fire-woods? Or, did you have to contribute labour in other works related to railway construction?
No. Not only collecting fire-woods, but we also had to gather stones to lay on the embankment. Besides collecting fire-woods, at least about four days every month we had to gather bigs and small stones to embankment and crashed to get the needed size. We gathered these stones in streams and hills. Every day about 40 villagers from the village had to work this stone-gathering work and on a rotating basis, each family had to work about 4 days per month.
How many days you have to spend to collect one kyin of fire-woods?
At least five days. We went into forests for three days to cut some 10 inches or one feet diameter of trees and bring it to the factories. We cut trees about three days and then spent two days to bring it to the factories. Every family had to send two members to complete this work within five days.
How did the military conscript the villagers to work in the construction?
They conscripted the villagers to work in the construction and other works related to the railway construction through our village chairman. They have all lists of family and population number with them. The LIB 408 discussed and sent instruction to village chairman that how many kyins of fire-woods they needed from our village or how many villagers they needed to gather rail bed stones.
If someone refused to work according to the instruction, how he/she was treated by the military or your village chairman?
If someone refused the order, he must be severely beaten by the soldiers from village's base. Nobody dared to refuse because they knew behaviour of the soldiers. But when the villagers were late to reach to work-site on the set date, they were severely punished by the soldiers. Our village chairman is very bad in treating his villagers. He always follows according to military instructions and he also likes to beat or punish his own villagers. He also owns an small detention cell in his house's compound. The village chairman, himself, told to the villagers that "If you refuse to collect fire-woods or rails bed stones, please leave from this village soon. I wouldn't like to see you faces anymore".
Did the military beat the villagers in the construction sites or in their bases? Did the soldiers ever beat you?
In both places. Yes, I was beaten by the soldiers from our village base, LIB 408. Once at the beginning of January, when I worked reaping rice in my farm, village chairman and four soldiers came and arrested three of us, me, my brother and my 13 years old son. We were brought to the bases. The soldiers told us why we escaped to the farm and refused the order that the military need 20 villagers to work in the railway. I told them just three days ago, I came back to home after collecting two kyins of fire-woods for the factories. The village chairman did not remember our work-duties that he gave and did not support our complaint. Then the soldiers beat us with gun-butts, jungle-boots and fists. On the next day they sent us to the work-site again.
Will you stay here longer or return to your village?
would not like to abandon my farm. If the situation is better I will return or
the situation is worse I will go into
Report Two
This road is divided into two
sections. The first section is from Ye to Khawza village and the second section
is from Khaw Za to Magyi village, the edge of
In 1995, under the supervision of IB 61 and LIB 304, the first section of 10 mile long truck road was completed by forcing the villagers nearby to contribute unpaid labour. In 1996, some part of this road was destroyed by flood water and the local troops collected cash from the local villagers to repair it. When they actually repaired it, the troops asked unpaid labour from the villages again.
The remaining section is shorter than the first one and it has only 5 miles long. The construction of this section was started since mid 1996 and the military defined the route along the old cart-track. In enlarging the width of the road, the military confiscated many acres of rice farmlands without any payment along the route.
In building the embankment, all families from the villages along the route namely Khaw Za, Yinye, Yindein, Thabya, Khonkanya, Mitawhlagyi, Mitawhlagale, Magyi, Taungkhon, Kyauktayan, were conscripted by the military to contribute unpaid labour. At least 30 to 50 villagers from each village had been working to build the embankment since January to May of 1997. They had to work in the construction at least one week in every month. The main work-duty was to dig the earth from outside of the route and fill it in the defined embankment up to 3 feets in height. If they hired a substitute labourer they have to pay 200 Kyat per day.
When the route crosses the rivers and streams, the villagers have been also forced to build the bridges and the military never provided any machine support. The villagers have to build these bridges according to instruction by the military by their own hands. There are totally 7 big bridges on the route. Some bridges are already completed building. The villagers themselves have to find big logs to use for poles and surfaces of the bridge and the villagers' oxen-carts and fishing boats were also asked by the military without payment to bring these logs from the islands or forests.
At the moment, almost the embankment of the whole road Ye to Magyi is completed and there is no exact plan by government whether they create this road as proper one by laying tar or not. Anyhow, because of forced conscription on villagers to provide unpaid labour and cash collection to complete this road, many local Mon villagers abandoned their villages and escaped the forced labour.
Interview # 2
Name: Nai Kyi
Age/Sex: (33) years, Male
Nationality/ Religion: Mon/ Buddhism
Occupation: Farmer
Native Place: Khaw Za village, Ye Township,
Interview Date:
When did you arrive to this village (a Mon refugee camp)? And why?
I arrived here about one week ago. We were always forced to work for the military while we were in village. We had to work for the military for the whole time such as building the road, portering, building barracks and etc.. Because of regular tax extortion by the military, last year I sold my farm and became a day-labourer. In this year, I had very few day to work for income to support my family. At the end, I have to come here with my family.
Which road you have to build?
Ye-Magyi truck road. We have to build this road in the section close to our village. What kind of work did you have to work?
For the whole dry season, we had continuously worked building the embankment of this road. We dug out earth from outside of embankment and filled it on the embankment. They (the military) need the embankment with 3 feets in height. The width of the embankment is about 12 feets along the whole route. We dug the earth outside of the route, carried and filled it on the embankment up to its height was reached about 3 feets.
How did the military define work-duty for each family and how many day did you have to work in each month?
They instructed the order to the village headmen that how many yard of road embankment for our villagers and the village headmen defined the work-duty to all villagers. On a rotation basis, every time they demanded villagers, about one third of the whole village had to go and build the embankment. The village headmen instructed to complete about 4 feet of embankment for each family. We had to complete this work-duty about three days and then we could return. Sometime, we had to work for four days. In one month, we were asked to work like this work-duty for three times. Thus, we contributed labour at least about 10 days in the construction.
Besides the building of embankment, did you have to work another works related to this construction?
Yes. We had to build bridges in every stream which crosses the route. All bridges were built by men and the military did not provide any mechanical assistance to the villagers. In building these bridges, the oxen-carts and boats were also conscripted by the military. The villagers cut big trees to make poles and surfaces of the bridges. The villagers had to carry these big trees by boats along the seacoast or by oxen-carts.
Did the soldiers guard the villagers while you were working in the construction?
No. Sometimes, the commanders and his soldiers came from Ye and checked the construction situation of the road every week. When they pass along the embankment, the soldiers always shout the villagers to hurry up to complete work-duty. The villagers were also afraid when the soldiers. Sometimes they also kicked the men when they dissatisfied on their workforce. If they met someone taking a rest, he must be kicked.
How much your income for one month? Is it enough to feed you family?
As a day-labourer, I earn about 3000 Kyat per month. I worked in a fishing boat and went into sea to catch fishes. We gave fishes to the boat owner and received salary from him. If I didn't have to work for the military, I received full salary. But later when I often worked for the military in construction or building the military barracks, the boat owner cut my salary. It made me very difficult to support my family. That was why I flee from my native village.
Report Three
This truck road is about 15
miles long and situating inside
The whole construction project is administrated by IB No. 32, which bases in Kya-Inn-Seikyi town and Taungbauk village. So the instructed orders for the conscription of villagers were come from the military commanders of this military battalion. The villagers from villagers namely Taungbauk, Htipaukhlo, Waitharlee, Pharkapo, Bokadaw, Lakepoke, Kalortort Chaung, Badargyi, West Waitharlee, Tadarpyat, Kyaukpon, Kyaukya and others, were constantly forced to build the embankment of this road. The most villages are around the construction area and some are situating on the bank of Zami river.
About, at low estimation, 500 villagers were asked by the military in every day construction work. The biggest village such as Taung Bauk and Wai Thar Lee village had to provide at least about 50 villagers per day to work in the construction. Due to the population numbers of a village, the village headmen had to arrange to send the villagers according to instruction by the battalion. Even a very small village with 40 households had to provide about 10 villagers every day. Hence, each men or women from each family had to work in the construction about ten days within one month.
The road passes through the rice-fields and rubber plantations owned by Taungbauk, Htipaukhlo, Waitharlee and Bokadaw villagers. Although the road runs along former cart path, the embankment was enlarged and the lands along the route were confiscated. Besides for the width of embankment, about 10 feet of the lands in each side of the route were also confiscated to get earth from these spaces and fill it on the embankment. All these lands were confiscated by the military without compensation. The width of the embankment is about 15 feet and the height of it has about 5 feet at highest place while about 3 feet at lowest place.
At the beginning of 1997, the
villagers around the area were also suffered by arresting of porters by the
military to launch the military offensives against the KNU/KNLA. The arrests
and ransom related to the portering forced the villagers to leave their home
villages in the dry season. Many poorest families in the area reached to
Interview # 3
Name: Nai Aung Kyi
Sex/ Age: Male/ 75 years
Nationality/ Religion: Mon/ Buddhist
Occupation: Farmer
Native Place: Wai Thar Lee village, Kya-Inn-Seikyi township, Karen State
When did you arrive to this village (Halockhani refugee camp) and what is your main work in your native village?
I arrived here two days ago. (He has no house and his whole family stayed with other refugees' houses.) While I was in my village, I had a small farm and I grew rice. But the soil is bad and we could not get much crops. I also cut fire-woods in the forest and sell it to make income. After the end of rainy season, I grew vegetables and sell it in the village.
In this year, after I gave rice to the government (the government officials buy rice from local farmers with low price, and. the farmers feel likely they give their rice to government with free of charge), I left only 200 baskets of rice. In March, one of my sons was arrested by soldiers to use him as porter and I gave 25, 000 Kyat to the military in Kya-Inn-Seikyi town to take him back. Many villagers were arrested by soldiers were arrested by soldiers and they were sent to the front-lines in offensives against the Karen soldiers.
Besides the arrests of the porters in dry season, did the soldiers forced you to provide free labour in the construction?
Yes. The soldiers forced us to build the road that came from Kya-Inn-Seikyi town. The Burmese troops from IB. No. 32 from Kya-Inn-Seikyi town always came to our village and called the meetings with village headmen and sometimes, with villagers. Normally, every time they came they asked for regular porters or labourers to build the road.
The villager labourers were used to build the Kya-Inn-Seikyi-Taungbauk road construction. Since last year November, about 50 villagers from our village had to work in the construction everyday. Some rich villagers paid cash to military through village headmen and avoid the forced labour. But they were very little number.
Where is the work-site? Did the villagers sleep in the work-sites?
No. The work-site is not so far from our village. We can go early morning and take foods along with us. We completed works about in the evening. The villagers far from the work-site who came from Bokadaw, Lakepyot, Pharkapo, Thadarpyat, Badargyi and other villagers slept in our village's monastery and left to the work-site together with us.
How did the military instruct conscripting the villagers who were far from the construction?
They gave the orders directly to the village headmen and instructed the number of villagers to work in the construction site. If the village headmen refused, the military threatened the villagers that they will burn down the villages. The soldiers could not reach very often to these villages but while they launched patrol with huge number of troops they could burn down the villages into ashes. So the villagers were afraid and went to the construction.
Did the soldiers guard the villagers while they were working? Did they mistreat the villager?
Yes. Most soldiers from Kya-Inn-Seikyi town were guarding the villagers while working. They walked around and along the embankment and if they met the villagers stopped working, he must be beaten by them. Once, I was also beaten by two young soldiers. As I was an old man, while I was taking a rest under a small tree in the rice-field, the two soldiers met and shout me to continue working. I could not move fast to the construction and because of I was slow, they came and beat me severely. They beat me with their strong fist. One soldier tied me up with his strong arms and other one beat my face with his fist. My whole face became black and two teeth broke. I got severe injury.
Were the other villagers beaten like you?
I think very few. Most young villagers could work for the whole time and met satisfaction of the soldiers. The old man like me we could not work hard and that made the soldiers to anger.
Besides the conscription of forced labour in the road construction, can you explain me what other abuses have been committed by soldiers?
The arresting of the porter is very constant in our village. Sometimes, in the normal situation when there were no fightings with Karen troops, they always asked for regular porters to carry supplies and ammunitions for their patrol. From February through May, they came into village very often and arrest the villagers to use as porters in their big offensives against the Karen troops. About 50 villagers from our village were arrested and they were sent to the frontline. Before I came here, as I knew, three villagers disappeared and I thought they will die in the battles.
Related to portering case, how did the villagers have to pay the military?
If one of your relatives, your son or husband, was arrested you must have to pay the military from 10, 000 Kyat (in February) to 25, 000 Kyat (in March) to get him back. The portering fee for each family every month is around 300 Kyat. While they have offensives against the Karen troops, they asked about 1000 Kyat per month.


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Chris Janson
Warner Music Nashville/WAR's Chris Janson revealed the artwork for his upcoming new album, "Real Friends," on last night's (8/7) episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" While there, Janson performed his current single, "Good Vibes," along with another song from the ... more »
Aug 8, 2019
Brad Paisley
Arista Nashville's Brad Paisley appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" this week (8/6) to help celebrate some new American citizens. Paisley performed a song he wrote specifically for the new Americans, with hilarious lyrics covering everything they have to look forward to as citizens. ... more »
Aug 8, 2019
Luke Combs
River House/Columbia Nashville's Luke Combs will release his new, full-length album on Friday, November 8th, with more details -- including the title -- to be announced in the coming weeks. Combs will resume his "Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour" in late September, and has already ... more »
Aug 7, 2019
John Hiatt
Singer-songwriter John Hiatt will receive Broadcast Music Inc.'s (BMI) Troubadour Award honoring his songwriting at a private dinner on Monday, September 9th in Nashville. The event will feature tribute performances and guest speakers. Hiatt is only the third writer-artist to ever receive the ... more »
Aug 6, 2019
Scotty McCreery
Triple Tigers' Scotty McCreery plans to take his music overseas this Fall with his first headlining shows in the United Kingdom and Germany. McCreery will play a total of four shows, beginning Wednesday, October 23rd and continuing through Sunday, October 27th. The shows will take place ... more »
Aug 6, 2019
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert's MuttNation Foundation will partner with Tractor Supply Company to support pet adoption and shelters around the country. As part of the project, Lambert created a line of dog beds, toys and supplies to be sold exclusively at Tractor Supply stores and online. Proceeds from the ... more »
Aug 6, 2019
Thomas Rhett
The Valory Music Co.'s Thomas Rhett has partnered with Chubbies for a new Summer collection of the weekend-wear brand. The first pieces in the line, called "The Rhettro Collection," were released yesterday (8/5), and include '90s-inspired swimwear for the entire family including ... more »
Aug 2, 2019
Riley Green
BMLG Records' Riley Green will release his debut album, "Different 'Round Here," on Friday, September 20th. The 14-track project will include his #1 song, "There Was This Girl," his current single, "In Love By Now," and his latest additional tune, "I ... more »
Aug 2, 2019
Florida Georgia Line
BMLG Records' Florida Georgia Line has added more talent to their upcoming festival, "FGL Fest," set for Saturday, September 7th at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana. Blanco Brown, Canaan Smith and Payton Smith will perform alongside the previously announced Country acts Dan + ... more »
Aug 2, 2019
Brantley Gilbert
The Valory Music Co.'s Brantley Gilbert will release his fifth studio album, "Fire & Brimstone," on Friday, October 4th. The new project will feature collaborations with Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson and Colt Ford, as well his current single with ... more »
Aug 1, 2019
Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks' "Teammates For Kids Foundation" has teamed up with Major League Baseball's (MLB) "Home Plate Project" to support childhood hunger prevention and battle food insecurity. Also involved in the initiative is "Big League Impact," a foundation founded ... more »
Aug 1, 2019
Toby Keith
Show Dog Nashville's Toby Keith will release "Greatest Hits: The Show Dog Years" on Friday, October 25th. The project will feature 16 tracks from the singer-songwriter, including classics like "Made In America," "American Ride," and "Red Solo Cup," as ... more »
Aug 1, 2019
Brett Young
BMLG Records' Brett Young will partner with Levi's and the department store chain Kohl's to showcase Levi's back-to-school denim styles. Young will be featured in the marketing campaign and appear in behind-the-scenes videos that highlight the jeans, as well as a few of ... more »
Aug 1, 2019
Justin Moore
The Valory Music Co.'s Justin Moore appeared on NBC-TV's "TODAY" show yesterday (7/31). Moore performed the song "Why We Drink" off his new album, "Late Nights And Longnecks." Enjoy the performance here. For more information on Moore information visit ... more »
Jul 31, 2019
Blanco Brown
BBR Music Group/BMG's Blanco Brown will appear on FOX-TV's "Teen Choice Awards," airing on Sunday, August 11th at 8p (ET). Brown will perform his current single, "The Git Up," which can be heard on All Access' Cool New Music page. Find more on Brown by ... more »
Jul 31, 2019
Chris Janson
Warner Music Nashville/WAR's Chris Janson will release his third studio album, "Real Friends," this Fall. The project, due Friday, October 18th, will include Janson's current single, "Good Vibes," which can be heard on All Access' Cool New Music page. Janson has ... more »
Jul 30, 2019
Carrie Underwood
Capitol Nashville's Carrie Underwood surprised choir students from Andrew Jackson Elementary School in Old Hickory, TN after a video of them singing her song "The Champion" caught her eye. The students were invited to perform the inspirational song in front of 50,000 fans during CMA ... more »
Jul 30, 2019
Justin Moore
The Valory Music Co.'s Justin Moore announced his "Late Nights And Longnecks Tour" at his album release party on Monday night (7/29) in Nashville in front of a music industry crowd. Moore also revealed he has invited Tracy Lawrence on the tour as a co-headliner, and will ... more »
Jul 29, 2019
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes will embark across the East coast on her seventh annual "You And Me Christmas Tour" this Winter. Rimes will kick off the project in Waterloo, NY on Saturday, November 30th and continue through 10 additional cities, including Pittsburgh, Atlantic City and Augusta before ... more »
Jul 29, 2019
Lady Antebellum
Big Machine Records' Lady Antebellum appeared on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America" on Friday (7/27) as a part of the show's summer concert series. The trio performed their current single, "What If I Never Get Over You," as well as their song "You Look ... more »


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Times-Union Jaguars beat writer Michael C. Wright breaks down the top free agents by position. NFL teams can begin signing free agents on Friday.
1. Kurt Warner 6-2, 218ARICardinals likely to meet contract demands.
2. Kerry Collins6-5, 245TENBig-game experience makes him valuable.
3. Jeff Garcia6-1, 205TBLong in the tooth but can still play.
4. Byron Leftwich6-5, 250PITFormer Jaguar wants to be a starter.
5. J.P. Losman6-2, 212BUFBecame expendable with rise of Trent Edwards.
RUNNING BACKHt./Wt.TeamComment
1. Derrick Ward5-11, 228NYG1,627 yards in eight starts over two seasons.
2. Maurice Morris5-11, 216SEAOdd man out in crowded backfield.
3. Cedric Benson5-11, 220CINCharacter issues will always be a concern.
4. Correll Buckhalter6-0, 217PHISolid runner plagued by numerous injuries.
5. Dominic Rhodes5-9, 203INDMakes good addition as a No. 2 RB.
WIDE RECEIVERHt./Wt.TeamComment
1. T.J. Houshmandzdeh6-1, 199CINStrong route runner; dangerous in red zone.
2. Lance Moore*5-9, 190NOImpressive burst and works well in space.
3. Nate Washington6-1, 185PITDeep threat needs to improve route running.
4. Jabar Gaffney6-1, 200NEA solid No. 3 WR with big-play potential.
5. Devery Henderson5-11, 200NOAveraged 24.8 yards per catch last season.
OFFENSIVE LINEHt./Wt.TeamComment
1. Jahri Evan*6-4, 318NOPass-blocking specialist will receive high tender.
2. Stacy Andrews6-7, 342CINComing off reconstructive knee surgery.
3. Tyson Clabo*6-6, 332ATLUp-and-coming player yet to reach potential.
4. Jon Stinchcomb6-5, 315NOProbably not worth the money he'll receive in FA.
5. Donald Penn6-5, 305TBStill developing, allowed 8 sacks last season.
TIGHT ENDHt./Wt.TeamComment
1. Owen Daniels*6-3, 247HOUWill likely be given a high tender.
2. L.J. Smith6-3, 258PHIDespite consistency, Eagles don't want him back.
3. Jeff King*6-3, 260CAROne of the best blocking TEs of the FA class.
4. Justin Peelle6-5, 255ATLJourneyman is a solid all-around contributor.
5. Stephen Spach*6-4, 240ARICardinals will take chance and offer low tender.
DEFENSIVE LINEHt./Wt.TeamComment
1. Albert Haynesworth6-6, 320TENOnce he's paid big bucks, will he become complacent?
2. Gabe Watson*6-3, 332ARIRun-stuffer commands double teams inside.
3. Chris Canty6-7, 299DALA 3-4 DE; not considered a pass-rusher.
4. Antonio Smith6-4, 285ARINoted for his high motor, shined in playoffs.
5. Chauncey Davis6-2, 274ATLReserve last season, wants to be a starter.
1. Ray Lewis6-1, 250BALRavens will make him a priority.
2. Bart Scott6-2, 240BALHasn't missed a game in two seasons.
3. Jonathan Vilma6-1, 230NOPlayed every snap last season, led team in tackles.
4. Michael Boley6-3, 223ATLComing off a down year.
5. Keith Brooking6-2, 241ATLLikely out as Falcons look to get younger, faster.
1. Bryant McFadden6-0, 190PITSteelers hope to bring him back.
2. DeAngelo Hall5-10, 200WASBust in Oakland; solid with the Redskins.
3. Domonique Foxworth5-11, 180ATLA surprise standout last season.
4. Jabari Greer5-11, 180BUFLikely forced out by Leodis McKelvin's emergence.
5. Leigh Bodden6-1, 193DETExperience with Tucker could bring him to Jaguars.
1. Jermaine Phillips6-2, 220TBDisruptive run stopper with solid ball skills.
2. Brian Dawkins6-0, 210PHIJacksonville native still a productive player at 35.
3. Sean Jones6-1, 220CLE14 INTs, 286 tackles in four years.
4. Dawan Landry*6-0, 220BALSpinal cord concussion in '08 a concern.
5. Anthony Smith*5-11, 192PITHas a penchant for biting on the pump fake.
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Huttoft Beach Swell Statistics, September: All Swell – Any Wind
This picture describes the combination of swells directed at Huttoft Beach through a typical September and is based upon 2880 NWW3 model predictions since 2006 (values every 3 hours). The wave model does not forecast wind and surf right at the coast so we have chosen the most applicable grid node based on what we know about Huttoft Beach. In the case of Huttoft Beach, the best grid node is 29 km away (18 miles).
The rose diagram describes the distribution of swell sizes and swell direction, while the graph at the bottom shows the same thing but without direction information. Five colours show increasing wave sizes. The smallest swells, less than 0.5m (1.5 feet), high are coloured blue. These were forecast 65% of the time. Green and yellow show increasing swell sizes and highest swells greater than >3m (>10ft) are shown in red. In either graph, the area of any colour is proportional to how often that size swell occurs.
The diagram indicates that the most common swell direction, shown by the longest spokes, was N, whereas the the dominant wind blows from the WSW. Because the wave model grid is out to sea, sometimes a strong offshore wind blows largest waves away from Huttoft Beach and offshore. We group these with the no surf category of the bar chart. To avoid confusion we don't show these in the rose graph. Because wind determines whether or not waves are clean enough to surf at Huttoft Beach, you can load a different image that shows only the swells that were predicted to coincide with glassy or offshore wind conditions. Over an average September, swells large enough to cause surfable waves at Huttoft Beach run for about 10% of the time.
IMPORTANT: Beta version feature! Swell heights are open water values from NWW3. There is no attempt to model near-shore effects. Coastal wave heights will generally be less, especially if the break does not have unobstructed exposure to the open ocean.


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The Dreen® Magna slabs are 6 cm thick and available in the formats 80x80 cm and 100x100 cm. Using these slabs, you can create a large surface with a minimum number of joints. The result is a rooftop terrace with clean lines and a spacious look. For heavy load-bearing applications on the roof, we recommend the Dreen® Robusto.
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New Extra Question Pool Released/
The ARRL have added new Amateur / Ham Radio Extra questions to the question pool, placing greater emphasis on Digital, SDRs and Propagation
The extra questions will become part of the question pool from 1st July 2016, and will be valid through to 30th June 2020. There are also some minor corrections to existing questions.
Some questions were removed due to the topics being of less importance than currently valued by the Amateur / Ham Radio community.
The amended question pool now stands at 712 questions.
ARRL Story - http://www.arrl.org/news/new-amateur-extra-question-pool-puts-greater-emphasis-on-digital-sdrs-propagation
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Government says homegrown terrorist threat getting bigger
The Department of Homeland Security released a joint intelligence bulletin in August and it shows the government becoming more and more concerned about homegrown terrorists targeting civilians:
The bulletin states that a combination of factors ranging from "perceived lower levels of security" as well as "violent extremist messaging glorifying recent attacks on civilians" have motivated this shift in tactics. The bulletin also highlights a newer trend which has led HVEs to select "familiar targets of personal significance to simplify plotting," often capitalizing on preexisting grievances or a desire for revenge. This is particularly relevant to cases such as the December 2015 attack on the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, during which Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed fourteen people at a training event and Christmas Party hosted by the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health. Farook, who worked for the county as a health inspector, had been attending the event earlier in the day prior to conducting the attack. In another example cited in the bulletin, an eighteen-year-old freshman at the University of California at Merced named Faisal Mohammad stabbed a classmate and three other individuals at the college before being shot by a campus police officer. The FBI later stated that Mohammad had been viewing extremist material online and they believe the attack was inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
To help prevent HVE attacks, the bulletin recommends that state and local authorities be vigilant and "report suspicious activities related to potential mobilization to violence in the Homeland by US-based individuals inspired by foreign terrorist organizations."
There can be no doubt that the threat of lone wolf attacks, which are later claimed by or traced to larger, international terror organizations, has become a greater concern.
The question is how, besides noting suspicious behavior, the government intends to combat the threat.
Here's one simple thing they could do right now, at no cost: call the attacks what they are...radical islamic terrorism.


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The Centre for Science Communication offers three endorsements in the PGDipSciComm: Creative Non-Fiction Writing in Science (CNWS), Science and Natural History Filmmaking (SNHF) and Science in Society (SSOC).
Students are required to take six papers from the list below. For full-time students, the degree can be completed in one academic year and allows flexibility for the CNWS and SSOC students to begin coursework at the start of either semester. Part-time students can spread their 120-credit degree requirements over the course of two years.
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Can be mixed with oil to improve engine life protection agent.
Automotive additives on the market are messy. Including lead, zinc, chlorine, molybdenum, phosphorus, graphite and other harmful substances in a large number of additives. The role of such products is to deal with oil, hoping to change the oil viscosity and composition to increase the wear resistance of oil. However, it is extremely harmful during actual use. It mainly causes the corrosion of machinery and easily leads to the blockage of the oil circuit and the oil, making the three-way catalytic converter ineffective and causing air pollution. Such additives have been banned in foreign countries for a long time. State Bureau of Technical Supervision, the State Environmental Protection Agency is also preparing to issue a document, forbidding the sale of such products in our country. Consumers in the choice of automotive additives when the best choice by the relevant state departments or certified by the authority testing of qualified products.
For propane, natural gas synergies, can improve propane volatilization, natural gas combustion temperature, the natural gas combustion temperature can be increased 400
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Concrete additives can significantly improve the physical and chemical properties of concrete to improve the strength of concrete, durability, saving the amount of cement, reduce the size of structures, so as to achieve energy conservation and improve environmental and social benefits of a class of material.
According to the main function is divided into four categories:
(1) additives to improve the rheological properties of concrete mixes, including various superplasticizers, air entraining agents and pumping agents;
(2) adjust the concrete setting time, hardening properties of additives, including retarders, early strength agents and quick-setting agent;
(3) additives to improve the durability of concrete, including air-entraining agents, waterproofing agents and rust inhibitors;
(4) additives to improve the performance of other concrete, including air entraining agent, expanders, antifreeze, colorants, waterproofing agent and pumping agent.


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The Ontario Federation of Labour released a report alleging that the WSIB ignores opinions and recommendations from some healthcare providers. The report, Prescription Over-Ruled: Report on How Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Systematically Ignores the Advice of Medical Professionals, was produced with the assistance of six registered psychologists, who originally raised the alarm about the WSIB's management of medical care and medical evidence as it relates to benefits recipients.
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This ServoBelt is a variant that has the bearing rails attached on adjacent faces of the Bosch extrusion. It is adjusted to track a straight line in the Y-axis to within +/-.0002" when up on edge, used as the bridge in a gantry setup. Since we are operating within the dimensional limits of an extruded beam, this bearing mounting allows us to tune in one axis perfectly, so in this case, the customer needed dead straight in Y axis (along this beam), and the Z axis then is limited, but still, amazingly within .002". Sealed encoders are used as this is a laser cutting gantry.
Next time, I think we will pitch the customer on Renishaw magnetic encoders. It will be far less expensive than the Heidenhain sealed glass scales, which were selected solely for the environment.


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TradCatKnight Radio, Dr. James Fetzer "Censorship, False Flags & World of Lies"
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Dr. Jim Fetzer, a former Marine Corps officer, has published widely on the theoretical foundations of scientific knowledge, computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and evolution and mentality. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton who majored in philosophy, he earned his Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science. He has received many awards and forms of recognition for his teaching and scholarship.
McKnight Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he has also conducted extensive research into the assassination of JFK, the events of 9/11, and the plane crash that killed US Sen. Paul Wellstone.
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[This is an old but regularly requested post of mine from BIDN in 2011, updated due to my renowned grammar]
Today I wanted to quickly mention a technique to pivot a one to many data structure into a one column list of items. I know it has been mentioned before a bit differently in previous blogs before on BIDN.
The problem?
We have three tables
Instructors – InstructorClasses – Classes
In the instructors table we have the instructors name, ID, and yada yada. InstructorClasses is our junction table and links all of the instructors to their list of classes and finally classes is our simple list of classes. Now assuming we have a web page that needs to show them as below?
Instructor: Jim Bean
Classes: Rowing; Yoga; Bartending;
Now assuming you are unable to format in code or perhaps you are archiving data and needing to convert it during ETL. To get the expected results we can utilize the XML Path command in SQL Server to provide us a pivoted view of classes as demonstrated in the example below.
SELECT Left(Main.Categories,Len(Main.Categories)-1) as Classes, Instructors.FirstName + ' ' + Instructors.LastName as InstructorsName
FROM Instructors
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Where ST1.InstructorID = ST2.InstructorID
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