Who would have thought it, the 2013 Marathon des Sables turned out to be a great year for British performances. Danny Kendall placed the highest ever overall placing with 10th and Jo Meek placed 2nd lady overall. It was a stunning performance by a relatively unknown. Armed with a new belief in her ability, Jo will has now planned to switch from the heat of the Sahara and test herself in the heat and humidity of a Costa Rican rainforest at The Coastal Challenge. I caught up with Jo at the end of August and we had a chat about MDS and her expectations for TCC.
IC I bet April and the Marathon des Sable (MDS) seems such a long time ago?
JM Yes, it does seem ages ago. Considering I am walking now in late August in the pouring rain. It's wet and miserable… it doesn't seem that long ago in regard to memories. I just watched the video that was available for download and it brought it all back.
IC So sitting at home, watching everyone running in the sand with a tear in your eye?
JM Definitely no tear, I think I am happy not be running in the sand. I am still surprised how I adapted especially considering I am now at home running on the road again.
IC Amazing eh that you can be in that environment, the sand, the wind, the bivouac, no washing, you are eating dried food and you adapt and then post race when we got in a luxury hotel, you said, you wished you could go back, you loved it didn't you! You loved being in that environment. It was preferable to the clean hotel.
JM I did. Yes, I actually think I could be quite a 'skanky' person really. I am far happier roughing it than in luxury. I guess it sounds romantic but I like being at one with nature, eating, running and sleeping. Perfect. But I guess the other memory is the one from those clean white cotton sheets; that was quite special.
IC I have to say, the first shower, all that fresh hot water and then all the sand starts to escape from all the nooks and crannies. As you say, no more sleeping bags and a lovely comfy bed, it is quite a pleasure.
JM My roll matt was about the size of A4 to keep it light and small, so my hip was pretty sore after a week in the bivouac. I have to say the cushioning of a bed was welcome.
IC The Bristh performed really well at MDS. No disrespect to you but we had no idea who Jo Meek was before MDS. We knew Laurence Klein was outright favorite and we knew Meghan Hicks was back, she had performed well previously but outside of that it was all unknown. On the first day you were up at the front and then continued to perform at the front of the race for the whole race. You had this great battle with Meghan. Laurence had a convincing lead but it all fell apart on the long day when she had to drop with dehydration. This opened it up for you and Meghan. Meghan had a great long day but I remember standing on the finish of the final day, it was the marathon distance, you nailed it. You said the marathon was your distance and you wanted to stamp your authority on it. You placed second overall, many look at MDS as one of those iconic mult- day races, how did you go from a relatively unknown to getting second. What was it in you that enabled you to focus and become so efficient in the sand?
JM A few things really. I am very good at setting a training plan and sticking to it. When I race, I always race. I don't just enter to complete it. So, looking at the conditions I set myself up in a heat chamber and did training that was specific. I didn't want heat to be an issue so I acclimatized. What was interesting over the six days was that I became less scared of what the heat could do. On the last day I thought, what have I got to loose. I do think back now and wonder could I have gone harder but it was an unknown. I didn't know what would happen so I played cautious. Meghan taught me a lot without her realizing it. I followed her on a couple of stages and I watched how she tracked across the sand looking for the hard sand, even if it was out of the way. She would deviate and look for the harder and faster sand. Also her style, it's a definite technique to sand running. You don't want to be a toe runner.
IC For sure, you need a flat foot.
JM Yes, you also want to shuffle. You don't want big strides. A little like being in the army again. I learnt lots. I learnt also from training. I had done some awful ultras that were definitely worse than MDS. One race, a 40-mile race across Exmoor and the weather was awful… they said 40 but it was 43-miles I am sure. The last 3-miles were awful.
IC That can be good, a bad training experience. If you have had some tough and hard training and the race works out easier then that has to be a good thing. It's a real positive.
JM I had no doubt that I wouldn't finish the race. I had said that I wanted the podium at MDS but I had no idea what I based that on.
IC To put things in perspective you are a 2:46 marathon runner. Ability and speed are there. Many would die for a 2:46 marathon but also you are in the army. Does the combination of those two things make a good MDS runner?
JM I think the marathon pace and training was key in terms of the speed. I didn't have the same endurance as Meghan over the ultra distance. Many of the days were shorter in terms of ultra distance so I knew I had that potential. In terms of tent life and conditions, maybe the army helped but that is me… I like that. The army helped with discipline; eating, drinking and so on… it was feet first, food and then wash. You need to look after yourself.
IC Give us an insight into your background, you are a roadrunner really?
JM Yes, but I do like cross-country. I came second in the Nationals. Essentially I have done road running. I started in my teens to loose weight and then just kept going. I wouldn't say I have natural talent in terms of speed but I have something that works, particularly over distance.
IC How long have you been running?
JM 18 years, maybe 20!
IC So you have a great base of running and plenty of experience?
JM Yes. I always thought that maybe I should do ultra earlier and I thought, no rush! Particularly with how you develop with age and aerobic capacity. It seemed like the correct time for MDS. As you know, you don't just enter MDS you have to enter years in advance.
IC Post MDS you really wanted to improve your marathon time. You put yourself on that path and recently you run a half marathon but you were disappointed with the performance. Many factors can affect a race, a conclusion you have arrived at is that you are now going to pursue trail and ultra running. So, you are going to another multi stage in early 2014 but this time you are going to a Rainforest. It's a race that I was at earlier in 2013, The Coastal Challenge in Costa Rica. Also known as the Rainforest Run. What's the attraction?
JM I am always very attracted to a country that is hotter than the UK. That is a no brainer! It's the challenge, the opportunity to compete in something so different. This race I don't need to carry all my kit, so, unlike the MDS I will be able to just run but admittedly for repeated days. It will be interesting and it should mean I can go faster.
IC The race is very different to MDS. Some things carry over such as the multi day. As you say, you don't need to carry all your kit but you do need safety kit, food, water and just essentials. But you are correct, all your clothing, tent etc is moved for you and then food is provided. It's a hot and very humid environment and even when it rains it is not a problem, it is so warm. All the daily campsites are in beautiful idyllic places. It's such a wonderful environment. It's a great combination of providing daily challenging runs but with just a touch of comfort. It's perfect for those who may want an introduction to multi day racing.
JM In some ways it will feel easier but in an evening you will be able to eat as much as you like and so will the competition, in theory you are all the same come the following day. But at MDS it is about survival and balance. It is more about balancing and economy and how you ration your food and water.
IC The race has so much more elevation than MDS and in particular, the terrain is much more varied. You have single track, double track, rocky sections, forest, dense forest, beautiful beaches and then some tough climbs and descents. The next edition of the TCC celebrates its tenth year so it may have a little more climbing than normal, we shall see? The variety is amazing. If you are lucky, you'll see wildlife. You hear it but don't always get to see it.
JM I'm so excited. I can't wait. I have some road races to do in the coming months and then I will start my TCC training three months out. I will use a heat chamber again. The heat chamber I used for MDS prep was stuck on 80% humidity so I have an idea of what conditions will feel like and I know what my sweat rate is like.
IC Costa Rica is very humid. It is almost 100% but it is not unpleasant. You really do sweat all the time, particularly when running. You need to be on the ball and balance your hydration.
JM I like it harsh and hard conditions. In some ways, the harder the better.
IC How do you prepare for a multi day race? In some ways you had to guess for MDS and that worked! So, what do you take away from that experience and what will you do in preparation for TCC. The longest stage is around 50k and not 80k so that will make a difference. As we have said humidity and terrain are the key differences and you won't need to carry a heavy pack.
JM I will do far hillier off road training. For MDS I had to train with the weight too, however for TCC I will just use essential kit and I will do plenty of back-to-back training at a faster pace. I will try to replicate the race really. In some respects it won't be too different from my marathon training. The key will be the back-to-back runs..
IC We have so many different ways to look at training. Some runner's just head out of the door and run on feel. No time set, no distance set. It all goes on feel. Are you like this or do you have a plan that has everything planned out?
JM I work full time so I must have a plan. I don't have the luxury to say go out and run for three hours when I feel like it. I have commitments. I get up at 05:30 and I do what I can and then I add to this at lunchtime or the evening if required. I make every session count so I fit in threshold running, speed work and so on. I need to be very specific. At weekends I have more time and if I need three days consecutive I take a day off work.
IC Do you do core stability, stretching, strength and core.
JM Oh yes, I am a proper geek when it comes to this. I am a physio too so I have no excuse. I stretch everyday, I do two strength sessions and I do two core sessions per week.
IC Wow, you are the perfect example for all of us. So often I ask this question and I get a blank answer. We all know we should do it but few of us apply it!
JM I am disciplined and I see the benefits. You have to be disciplined but it still doesn't stop me getting injuries.
IC Ah well, injury can be caused with so many factors.
JM For me it is usually over doing it or being tired.
IC Yes, distance and speed increase injury risk. Slower and longer has more impact but you don't overstretch muscles or tendons. Listen to your body and all will be good.
JM I never listen to my own advice… I am lucky, we have a gym at work so it makes strength work easy. If I didn't have that available it would maybe be harder. I have been strict with this for four to five months and I can feel the difference.
IC TCC is still months away, are you planning on doing any trail races for late season in the build up?
JM Yes, I love to race. I will enter races, from experience, if I enter races too far in advance I get injured, so I have entered a couple of marathons on the road for training and speed. In December and January I will look for options. Of course, options are reduced and conditions will be a little different to Costa Rica.
IC Late and early season events do crop up specifically designed to help people get ready for MDS so you will have some choice. Final question, many may be reading this and they are going to MDS or they may be tempted by TCC. What advice would you give to these people?
JM It very much depends on what you want to get out of it? I shared a tent at MDS with people who wanted to just complete, they wanted to enjoy the race and that is what they did. Set an objective and train accordingly. Ultimately it is all about fun and enjoyment.
IC If you had to give three tips. Three lessons you learnt at MDS that you would take to any race.
JM Good question. I learnt specifics like running in the sand but I guess the need to watch and keep on top of nutrition. Start eating early and don't wait. Also, keep any eye on hydration and drink to thirst and then finally enjoyment is key! You must enjoy it.
IC I am sure you're going to really enjoy TCC and Costa Rica. Many thanks for the time and insight into your progression and have fun in the Rainforest.
JM Thanks, as you say, really looking forward to it. It will be a real adventure.
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IC Patrick, welcome. In 1984 you took a solo journey across the Algerian Sahara. Why, what inspired you?
PB In 1984 I decided to take a self-sufficient journey of 350km. It took me 12 days; because of my self-suffiency my pack weighed 35 kilos. I needed enough food water for the whole journey. I had no help. It was an incredible undertaking.
IC What was the motivation, It must have taken some planning?
I said to my brother you must help with a camera and sponsors. Just three weeks later I left to take the journey.
IC That journey influenced the rest of your life but importantly it changed your immediate life in the mid 80's. In 1986 you decided to share that experience and create Marathon des Sables. What gave you the confidence to create such a race? How did you know you would have a market?
PB I realized when I did a presentation to my village. I had friends and sponsors present. It was a thank you but I had awoken curiosity and interest. Local runners did not want to make the journey alone, so, I decided to organize it. No other event compared, maybe Paris-Dakar. It was a ground breaking moment.
IC In the early years, was participation mainly French?
PB Yes, French with the exception of one Moroccan. We had 23 runners at the first edition. It took 24 months to plan and create. Little did those 24 know that they would be the pioneers of one of the most beautiful stories that will soon be 30 years old?
IC In the early 1990's you contacted 'The Best of Morocco' to introduce British and Irish runners, was this a long term plan to expand the race?
PB We already had contact with this agency (Best of Morocco) but by 1990 I had already done 5 editions of the Marathon des Sables. I wanted to expand internationally and I wanted as many countries present as possible. We started in a tentative way and today we have as many English runners as French and potentially more in the future.
IC British entries have reached 250+. The race is known worldwide. Did you know it would become so big?
PB I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined it would be what it is today. When a race is over, I start immediately on the next year. I have a passion and I don't think about it all the time. I want to be more strategic with my long-term vision. 2015 is the 30th edition; I like to plan 3 years ahead so I already anticipate higher demand for 2015.
IC What is it that makes the race so special. You appeal to novices and experienced runners. It is a difficult balance but you do it so well.
PB I think it is the concept. The cocktail of the desert, running and the self-sufficiency. Nobody at the beginning thought it would be possible to run with a pack. The expedition was an extra bonus…. You need to manage everything; calories, water, clothing, rest etc. All these elements combine to create the ultimate experience. It was new! Today we have additional security. Runners tell us that the safety element is key. Believe it or not, the average age is 40yrs+. These participants have families and children so risk is not negotiable. We want to offer security and safety for all these participants. We have helicopters, planes and insurance to make sure everyone is protected. Finally, it is about testing your limits; in our busy lives we find going back to basics a wonderful experience. Under the stars with friends, sat around a campfire, simple conversation and no luxuries. It is primal. It brings out true values that we may have forgotten. Because the desert facilitates all that is around us, the stars, the universe, you don't need a book to tell you that ultimately we are all insignificant.
IC What is it that makes runners that go back year after year?
PB Yes, we have some people returning for the 22nd or 23rd time. But it is not the same for all. If everyone came back we would have the same race, this would not be good. But we have a faithful family that we have created from the start. We have affinity and we love to find each other in the desert. We are also happy to find new friends. Maybe we have people return years later to celebrate a key moment such as a 50th birthday. We have a fraternity side, we share values. We have a respect for difference and other countries. All the languages that are spoken. These are the experiences that make the event. It is the combination of so many elements that make it great. We have an edge I think and that brings people back.
IC What is the future of the race? Will the race become bigger with more runners?
PB Yes, I think we will have more participants in 2013. We will have 350 from the UK. We had a meeting with worldwide representatives some time ago and it was decided that we would all work together on a communication strategy and we discussed the 30th edition. We have had great demand; we have refused more than 2,000 entries. I get messages about the 30th edition asking if it will be 300km as the 25th edition was 250km. Because of the worldwide economic crisis we may need to take more entries so that we can ensure the quality of the race such as safety. This is why we prepare 3 years ahead.
IC As a race director can you give us an insight into the Marathon des Sables?
PB The advise to the runners is repeated every morning, like, hydration, protecting your head, sun block and more specific advice concerning the course. Storms can just arrive and then last a half-day or even 4-5 days. A few years ago we had floods… that year we had to plan from day-to-day. It wasn't easy. The biggest problems are usually weather related. For the rest of us, it is a safe country. We have government backing should we have a problem, for example we have military assistance. We have trucks and soldiers who transport the tents everyday and we have 400 people who work on the event. If you add journalists, drivers, volunteers etc. then we have more like 450 people. I have 110 people who directly report to me.
IC It is so impressive, the tents, the staff, and the helicopters. A circus!
PB It is a little like the circus. Up and down, load up and move. I am always impressed. It is fantastic.
IC Since the beginning can you pinpoint any highlights?
PB The feeling you get from every event. We have an extraordinary experience. We share values with participants and it creates a bond. Some say 'never again' and then two years later we see them again. We all strive for equilibrium to balance the experience and we all strive for positive thoughts. If we have them then we can share beautiful things.
IC In 2005 you had an Opera singer to sing before the start. A magical experience.
PB Yes, for the 20th anniversary we had a spectacular start with an Opera singer and musicians. She was Japanese. It was a moving experience. Classical music is in harmony with the desert. At the beginning the runners are still fresh so they can enjoy the experience.
IC What do you think of Olympian James Cracknells performance at Marathon des Sables, he is not your 'typical' desert runner?
PB He was an excellent champion, a top-level athlete who understood how to test the limits. So I think he had a new experience in the Sahara. He asked himself what he was doing at the race several times I think. Discovery Channel did a documentary on him. He demanded respect as an athlete. As a man I did not get to know him but as a sportsman I am sure he has great values.
IC Has the race become easier over time or have you made adjustments to make the experience more challenging?
PB The race is not easier. The distance has increased over the years but water can be a key issue and we now have great water supplies which was not so in the past. In the past water was an issue. But we all have short memories. We forget the hardships. Every year has new demands. We now have more positive incline. We used to spend time in the valleys.
IC True, we all forget hard times very quickly. We always remember the good times and they are our memories.
PB At the end you have sore feet and blisters… but your mind is selective. We filter the negative to retain the good. The human and sport experiences. We forget the soreness and remember the positive.
IC Do you still run, do you have the time?
PB Yes, I run after the sponsors, I run after my planes, I run after my trains… I started cycling a little and I do a little running. It's not a good time for me. But then again, I always have an excuse. It is difficult but I am motivated to try to be more regular with my own exercise.
IC Patrick, it really has been excellent to get an insight into such an iconic race. Thank you so much.
Difficult to believe that this was just over a week ago but this movie nicely compresses six incredible days in the Costa Rican rainforest.
All things must come to an end…. the atmosphere around camp was a little subdued. Some participants looked relieved that they didn't have to squeeze a pair of shoes onto blistered feet. For others, they seemed sad that another day on awesome Costa Rican trails didn't await.
Ultimately every person had a story. A unique story, personal to themselves that they would hold within them forever. No matter how low the low points, the day after never seems so bad. If it was easy, everyone would do it…. The Coastal Challenge offers some very testing terrain with relentless heat and humidity to provide an overall race experience that will test each and every person. To cross the line on the final day requires commitment, dedication and some luck.
A key aspect of this race is camp life. An opportunity to relax in beautiful locations, make new friends and sleep under the stars. Strangers by the end of day 1 became best friends by day 2. The comradeship, the willingness to sacrifice time to help another is a great thing to see. One persons suffering was taken on by others and the burden shared.


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It's an exciting and romantic tale: a future Roman hero has to be cut out of his mother's womb as she's dying in childbirth. The procedure is later named after the famous baby who survived — Julius Caesar. Alas, the story is as mythological as the one about storks delivering babies down chimneys. Hang on, I just heard a tiny thumb and a muffled cry coming from the living room…...
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The Cuban Embassy in Washington DC re-opened yesterday, symbolizing the thaw in US-Cuba relations in the past year. This is all warm and fuzzy, but we look at one of the most important historical myths of US-Cuba relations since the start of the Cold War. There were many more missiles in the Cuban Missile Crisis than you probably think. And the "eye-to-eye" showdown between Kennedy and Khrushchev had both sides blinking!
#36 - Black Adder and World War 1 0
It's time to go over the top, Buzzkillers! We interview Professor Richard Grayson about the wildly popular BBC television series, BlackAdder, and how close it was to historical reality. There are probably more myths about war than any other part of history, and BlackAdder addressed many of them. Let's "go forth!" and see if they got their history right.
#35 - Mini-Myth: Hitler and the Volkswagen 0
Herr Hitler gets credit for an awful lot, Buzzkillers, including the invention of the Volkswagen. The story is that he demand a "people's car" that the average German could afford. Alas, Buzzkillers, the story is much more complicated than that, and Adolph played only a small part in the invention of the cute, little VW Beetle.
#34 - The Houses of Parliament 0
#33 - Mini-Myth: Abner Doubleday and Baseball 0
Abner Doubleday didn't invent baseball, and he didn't do it in Cooperstown in 1839, Buzzkillers. Once again, a second- or third-hand story created a persistent myth. It was Alexander Cartwright in Manhattan in 1845. The Baseball Hall of Fame is still a great place to visit and I hope to run into you there sometime, Buzzkillers!
#31 - Mini-Myth: JFK Not a Jam Doughnut 0
Cold War Berlin was a tense place, and certainly not the place to make an embarrassing gaffe in a major speech. So it's a good thing that President Kennedy didn't call himself a jam doughnut while speaking to a massive crowd in front of the Berlin Wall. Imagine the warning bells that would have gone off in Washington DC and Moscow if Cold Warriors suddenly thought, "oh no, we're in a pastry war"!

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Noah says "You can do it!". Be your best in 2013!
Happy New Year beautiful readers!
I am completely, totally, head-over-heals in love. The object of my affection has, in a most clichéd fashion, completed me. I am a calmer, more patient, more compassionate woman, and I am living in the moment in a way I had assumed was lost to me. Of course I'm talking about the love I have for my wee son Noah. What a beautiful blessing to cruise into a new year with!
I am happy to report that I'm back to normal, in all ways post-partum, and breastfeeding is a piece of cake. In fact, I love it. We do it anywhere and everywhere, and sometimes even in our sleep. My body rhythms fell into place just in time for me to return to work with Les Coquettes and get back on stage to host our New Year's Eve show in Brantford. It was a blast. The matinee performance to a crowd of nearly 300 people with an average age of 75 was an experience I won't soon forget.
As the holidays approached, something big happened for me. The horrific shooting in Connecticut rocked me to my core. I think it impacted me just as much as that September 11th horror from years ago. I think about those beautiful little munchkins and their families every single day. The headlines may have moved on to other subjects, but that particular event really cemented how precious life is. CNN may not be thinking about that city anymore, but I sure am. I wonder if I would have been affected the same way if I wasn't a mom?
I'm working with my amazingly talented brother Kyle to get into hella shape this year. Both of my partners and I are on board to streamline our lifestyle in order to promote optimum health. We're eating low carb, low sugar, and starting to make sure we get daily exercise.
I'm organizing my home from top to bottom, and taking on household management and mothering as my new full-time job. I'm crafting and creating, and looking for fun new ways to enjoy my children, and hopefully get more involved at their school.
I invested in a session with a financial advisor as a Christmas gift to my partners, so we can make the most of our resources and work towards realizing more of our dreams of travel.
In 2013, I'm going to take the biggest bite out of life yet, and I want to share it all with you here. I'll give you the inside scoop on my fitness routine, my dietary changes, my creative exercises, and my experiences in personal growth. What are you resolving to do this year?
I am so proud of you Catherine. Mother hood does change a person for the better for sure. Would not change it for the world. Love you lots.


Norv Turner spent six years as the Chargers' coach.
The Minnesota Vikings have targeted Norv Turner as the offensive coordinator under new coach Mike Zimmer.
Turner told the Associated Press in a brief phone interview Thursday that he and Zimmer have been talking about the job. Turner said nothing was finalized yet.
"Hopefully it works out," Turner said.
Zimmer was hired Wednesday, and he's assembling his staff.
Turner would be a smart place for Zimmer to start with his staff.
Zimmer will be a first-time head coach after spending the last 14 seasons as a defensive coordinator for three different NFL teams, the last six with Cincinnati, but Turner has 15 years as an NFL head coach on his résumé. Six of those were spent in San Diego from 2007-12.
Bengals name Zimmer's replacement: Cincinnati promoted linebackers coach Paul Guenther to defensive coordinator, keeping continuity for a unit that finished No. 3 in the NFL this season. It's also the second time in two weeks that Cincinnati replaced a coordinator with an in-house candidate. They elevated running backs coach Hue Jackson to offensive coordinator after Jay Gruden was hired by the Redskins.
Jets, Ryan agree on extension: New York signed coach Rex Ryan to a contract extension, removing the lame-duck label and keeping him with the franchise for at least the next two years. Ryan is 42-38 in the regular season over five years and 4-2 in the postseason.
Browns' Bess might be in trouble: Cleveland wide receiver Davone Bess posted a potentially incriminating photograph of a small package containing what appears to be marijuana on his Twitter account that could jeopardize his future with the team — and possibly lead to NFL discipline. The photo, which has been deleted, shows a green-and-brown colored substance out of the bag and on a table.


When you decide to build a new reusable vue component, you probably want to see it in action in different environments without much effort.
vue-dev-server is a small development server for building vue components. It takes different environments (own components) and makes them available in your browser, of course with hot reload functionality.
By default vue-dev-server will look in the dev folder for vue files. Just create a someName.vue file there. Require your component from there normally.
All environments will then be accessible under http://localhost:8080/.
./dev/env1.vue // links your component. Contains an environment to interact with your component.
./comp.js // your component compiled down to ES5 (for examply by `vue-compiler`).
If you need more examples check out vue-comps. I'm using vue-dev-server for all my components.
If you need you own, put a webpack.config.js /.coffee/.json in the dev folder.
Copyright (c) 2015 Paul Pflugradt Licensed under the MIT license.


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Mystery still surrounds Charles Carl Roberts' 2006 murderous rampage in West Nickels Mine, Pa., where he killed 5 Amish schoolgirls
By Mara Bovsun
Aug 23, 2014 | 9:40 PM
An Amish girl is seen in the funeral procession for Mary Liz Miller and Lena Miller, two of Charles Carl Roberts' victims in the 2006 massacre at a schoolhouse in Pennsylvania. (MARY ALTAFFER/AP)
Four suicide notes were not enough to explain the actions of Charles Carl Roberts on a sunny Monday, Oct. 2, 2006. He was a steady worker, a devoted father, and the kind of husband, his wife would recall later, who never said "no" to helping her change a diaper. He had no criminal record.
Nothing in his upbringing or in his family life could have predicted that Roberts, 32, would bust into a classroom and murder children, a spree killing known as the Amish schoolhouse massacre.
Roberts, a milk-truck driver from Bart Township, Pa., in the heart of Amish country, had worked his regular hours, collecting milk from local farms. He finished his route about 3 a.m., went home, and was up five hours later, in time to help his wife, Marie, 28, prepare his two oldest children, a son, 5, and daughter, 7, for school and walk them to the bus.
Before the children got aboard, he called them back, just to tell them that he loved them. Marie didn't think much about it at the time, but a day later understood he was saying goodbye forever.
Roberts told Marie he was going over to a neighbor's to borrow a truck to move some lumber. She went to a prayer group at her church. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until a little before 11 a.m., when she called her cell phone, which Charlie had taken with him, to find out where he was.
"I am not coming home. The police are here," he told her. He said that he had committed a terrible sin, molesting two young relatives, 20 years earlier.
Then he said he had written four notes for her and the children.
In part, the notes recounted a tragedy that struck the couple about 10 years earlier, the death of their baby girl, Elise, just a few hours after she was born. "I am filled with so much hate, hate toward myself, hate toward God and unimaginable emptiness. It seems like every time we do something fun, I think about how Elise wasn't here to share it with us and I go right back to anger," he wrote.
Charles ended the call, and Marie had no idea where he was until about an hour later, when television news told the world what he had done.
Charles had borrowed the neighbor's pickup and loaded it with a cache of tools he had purchased during the week and hidden in a backyard shed. Many were ordinary items — bolts, two-by-fours, nails, toilet paper, flexible plastic ties and a change of clothes. Along with those were three guns, 600 rounds of ammunition and a stun gun he had bought the day before for $35. He also brought along a tube of K-Y Jelly.
Roberts drove the loaded truck to the West Nickel Mines School, a one-room Amish schoolhouse on the edge of a cornfield. He let 15 boys go, but kept the girls. A teacher, her mother and one female pupil somehow slipped away and dashed for help.
He nailed boards across the doors and tied up his 10 captives, who were between the ages of 6 and 13. When police arrived, Roberts, the son of a police officer, called 911 and said that if the cops didn't leave in two seconds, he'd start killing.
Then there were gunshots.
Troopers broke through the windows moments after Roberts turned the gun on himself.
All of the girls had been shot, and three were already dead. One of the slain girls was Marian Fisher, 13. Survivors said she begged the gunman to shoot her first and let the others, including her little sister, go. Marian's sister survived. Another girl died in a state trooper's arms, and a fifth would hold on, but not for long. Five survived, with lasting effects from the attack. One of the girls would remain severely disabled.
As horrifying as it was, the notion of such an attack in a schoolhouse was not the most stunning aspect of this crime. Sadly, such rampages were becoming, if not common, at least more frequent. There had been two other fatal school shootings within the past week.
What proved most surprising was how the Amish community, including the parents of the dead and wounded girls, reacted, choosing forgiveness over vengeance.
News coverage and books on the case — such as "Amish Grace," by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt and David L. Weaver-Zercher, and "Think No Evil," by Jonas Beiler with Shawn Smucker — veered back and forth between true crime and theological theory.
Despite their grief, the Amish prayed for the killer of their children. Members of the community reached out to Roberts' wife, visiting her the very evening of the massacre and shielding her from media glare during her husband's funeral.
They helped his parents come to grips with the horror of having a mass murderer as a son. Years later, his mother continues to make weekly visits to one of the victims, a girl so severely injured that she must use a wheelchair and cannot speak.
Ten days after the massacre, the schoolhouse was torn down and a new one was built at another location.
No one could ever figure out what turned this quiet truck driver and family man into a maniac. An autopsy found no signs of drugs, a brain tumor or any other physical problem that might have spurred his violence. It remains yet another example of the Lord moving in mysterious ways.
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KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — The PGA Tour might be taking another step toward connecting players with television viewers. Several years ago, it asked players in contention on the weekend to allow for TV interviews before their rounds, usually as they were arriving or leaving the practice range. Now they are looking for volunteers willing to do interviews on the course during their rounds.
Europe's Justin Rose, center, and Europe's Henrik Stenson are interviewed after winning a foursome match on the second day of the 42nd Ryder Cup at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, outside Paris, France. The PGA Tour is experimenting this year on whether to have short interviews with players during their rounds.
It's in the experimental stage at the Sentry Tournament of Champions, and the willingness to take part depends on the player. Brooks Koepka, the reigning PGA Tour player of the year, nixed the idea last year in Shanghai but said he might be OK with it now.
"Don't they do that on the Champions Tour?" he asked. Justin Thomas? Not so much. Thomas talks plenty during his round, usually to himself or with caddie Jimmy Johnson. The idea of stopping for a quick interview was not appealing to him.
Marc Leishman has experience doing on-course interviews when he plays in Australia, and he didn't mind the concept. "If they do end up having them, my advice would be to have someone who has played on tour to do it, to be a little sensitive of the questions and the timing of the interview," Leishman said. "But anything where you can be more accessible to the viewers is a good thing. We want to bring more people to the game. It might be a way to give more insight to what we're thinking at the time."
"I've been approached in Europe because they've done it for a couple of years," McIlroy said. "And I've said, 'No,' every single time." NEW RULES Two days before the new year, Bubba Watson already was trying to bone up on the news Rules of Golf.
Watson posted it on Twitter and asked the USGA: "Is this a penalty? I'm an amateur when it comes to the new rules." In this case, the answer would appear to be yes. The decision to remove (or tend) the flag stick, or leave it in, must be made before the stroke.
Bryson DeChambeau has said he will leave the pin in, even on short putts. Justin Thomas could not imagine leaving it in under any circumstances. "I wouldn't be able to take myself seriously," Thomas said. "I just feel like it would be very, very weird."
Rules officials attended a seminar in December to get up to speed. Players still have some work to do. "I know a few of them," Rory McIlroy said. "I don't know many of them. Putting with the flag stick in. Tapping down any imperfections on your putting line. I think some people might get carried away with that."
DIVERSION SCUTTLED Justin Thomas has two days between the end of the Sentry Tournament of Champions and the pro-am at the Sony Open, enough time for him to fly from Maui to Santa Clara, California, watch Alabama play Clemson for the national title, and then get back to Honolulu.
Thomas, who won a national title in golf at Alabama, won't be going to the game. The thought did cross his mind. "There were a couple of scenarios that would have made it possible, but it's too much," Thomas said. "It would have involved someone being here who had a plane that I could have swayed into going to the game, and he provides the plane and I provide the tickets and then I go back to the Sony."
Would that have been a player who made a late decision not to play at Kapalua? "Yes," Thomas said with a laugh. Maybe someone who knows the area near Levi's Stadium because he went to Stanford? Another laugh, without ever mentioning Tiger Woods by name.
GARY GEARS UP Gary Woodland won for the third time in his career in 2018 and is more excited than ever about the new year. "I'm starting to putt good," Woodland said. "And that changes everything." What brought him to Kapalua for the third time was his victory in the Phoenix Open. What made him so confident was a tie for 67th in the British Open. That was the week he began working with putting specialist Phil Kenyon.
DIVOTS A new year brings equipment changes, none bigger than Justin Rose's. He has signed a deal with Japan-based Honma. ... Brooks Koepka experienced something new during his six weeks off. He went to the wedding of Austin Johnson, the brother of Dustin Johnson. "My first wedding," Koepka said. ... Satoshi Kodaira, who won at Hilton Head last year, will be hitting the first shot of 2019. ... Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas and Patrick Reed are the only past champions at Kapalua who qualified for the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
STAT OF THE WEEK Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas have won each of the last four years, the longest active streak on the PGA Tour. FINAL WORD 'It's not like I'm out there practicing like, 'OK, this shot is to get to No. 1 in the world.' It's just part of the process." — Justin Thomas, on trying to get back to No. 1.


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A tale of two anarchists
The Jewish Review of Books published an intriguing piece in its latest edition, featuring two books about anarchists, both of them Jews who had recently immigrated to the US from Tsarist Russia. The anarchist movement has been largely forgotten amid the later polarisation of the world between Communism and Capitalism. But in the US alone, in the early 20th century there were several hundred thousand anarchists, and they outnumbered Marxists in the country. They stood for the creation of a peaceful, stateless anti-authoritarian society, in which people would freely join together to govern themselves. Anarchists played a significant role in both the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Spanish Revolution of 1936.
Jewish immigrants from working-class families were prominent in the anarchist movement in the US, pursuing arguments in New York's lively radical Yiddish-language subculture. They were not ashamed of their Jewish heritage, but rejected Judaism and held an annual Yom Kippur Ball, mocking the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Jacob Abrams was born in present-day Ukraine in 1886, coming to America in 1908. He gained fame and notoriety in the US after he organised a protest in August 1918 in reaction to Washington's decision to send 15,000 troops to intervene in revolutionary Russia. They distributed leaflets in English and Yiddish around New York's immigrant district, the Lower East Side, calling for workers to participate in a general strike. "An open challenge only will let the government know that not only the Russian Worker fights for freedom, but also here in America lives the spirit of Revolution."
Abrams and his co-conspirators were swiftly arrested and tried under the espionage act, receiving sentences of up to 20 years. Their appeal went to the US Supreme Court and became famous as a trial for free speech, and a compromise was reached offering the prisoners' release provided they leave for Russia – their birthplace – at their own expense and never return to the US. In November 1921 they set sail for the Soviet Union.
Abrams spent five years in the USSR, and quickly gained the impression that it was not the workers' utopia that he had dreamed of. He and his wife were assigned a space in a communal apartment, a single room shared with three other people. He found people hungry and dressed in rags. He gained permission to set up Russia's first automatic laundry, which operated out of the basement of the foreign ministry. But his protestations about inefficiencies and graft were ignored and eventually led to charges of anti-Soviet activity being brought against him. He quit his job and was immediately evicted from his home as his accommodation was tied to government service.
He eventually managed to convince the authorities that he would be of more value to the revolution if he continued his work abroad and, surprisingly, he and his wife were given passports. They left for Mexico, where Abrams became director of the Jewish Cultural Centre and published Yiddish books and newspapers, and later became a close friend of the exiled Leon Trotsky.
Sam Dolgoff was born in Vitebsk, in present-day Belarus, in 1902. His father Max had been a rebel back in Russia, where he enraged his own father, a rabbi, by renouncing religion. He left for America to avoid being conscripted into the army, and was joined by his wife and son in 1905. Sam was a socialist by the age of 14, but he soon concluded that the socialists were mere reformers who were not really interested in uprooting the capitalist system or transforming society. When he started expressing these views at meetings and publishing his ideas he was expelled from the socialist party for insubordination.
He joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1922, becoming a migratory worker and activist. He is described as having "a strong face, a rugged Russian Jewish face, wild black hair swept back, acute black eyes behind the glasses, a prominent nose," and apparently looked like he combed his hair with an eggbeater. Later, in New York City, he joined with a group of Italian anarchists to found the Vanguard Group, an anarcho-communist group that largely propagated the ideas of the 19th century Russian revolutionary anarchists Mikhail Bakunin and Peter Kropotkin, and in 1954 he helped form the Libertarian League, which held weekly forums featuring non-anarchist speakers.
In the 1960s, Dolgoff despaired of the new wave of anarchists, whom he described as "half-assed artists and poets who reject organisation and want only to play with their belly buttons". He scorned the young radicals' embrace of the new Cuban leader Fidel Castro, decrying him as a Stalinist dictator, and campaigned on behalf of the Cuban anarchists that Castro had attacked and exiled.
As the review concludes, both these men accomplished little, they failed to achieve the goal of an anarchist society and to attract enough believers to their cause to keep the movement alive. But "they were dreamers… their dream was a noble one and worthy of being remembered".
For the full review, click here https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/3222/free-radicals/
The J. Abrams Book: The Life and Work of an Exceptional Personality by Jacob Abrams, trans Ruth Murphy
Left of the Left: My Memories of Sam Dolgoff by Anatole Dolgoff
The North American shtetl
It was a real thrill for me to visit Canada last month, to catch up with relatives, some of whom I had not seen for many years, and to get to know dozens more that I had never met before. It was my first visit to Winnipeg, where my family immigrated to when they left Russia and the town where father was born and brought up. Of particular interest was a trip to Winnipeg's North End, where so many of the Jewish community settled.
The area centres around Selkirk Avenue. The Manitoba Historical Society has some great descriptions of Selkirk Avenue in the early 20th century. The street is named after Lord Selkirk, who was the first to encourage European settlers to the area and helped establish the city of Winnipeg. A four-block miniature park nearby was also named after him.
The street was the heart of the Jewish North End. There were Jewish bakers, kosher butchers and two grocery stores owned by Goldenberg and Rosen. A confectioners called the Five Cent Store was owned by a Mr Saidman, who sold no item over five cents, mostly candy, ice cream, pop, popcorn and sunflower seeds, which made him famous. And a fur and cap store stood on the corner of Selkirk and Charles Street. The Hebrew School was around the corner, and next door to it lived the chief Rabbi. The Queen's Theatre was on Selkirk and played to capacity with Jewish talent.
The Pritchard pool, police station, chicken and egg dealers, barber shops, a church, synagogues, horse barns, watch makers, a tent and awning store and sign painter were all located within a block or so. In fact, the North End of Winnipeg around Selkirk Avenue was just like the shtetl that the Jews had left behind in Eastern Europe, a shtetl that they recreated for themselves half way around the world. And here in Winnipeg, even the climate was familiar, with long, fierce winters and brief, hot summers.
Little is left of the Jewish North End today. A lone Jewish baker's shop sits on Selkirk Avenue, selling all variety of knishes, over a dozen different types of bagels, blintzes and the most enormous cinnamon buns. Now the area reflects subsequent waves of immigration from other parts of the world, while the Jews have largely resettled in fancier parts of town or moved away to other cities across Canada and the US.
In the main public library, Henderson's Winnipeg Directory is an amazing resource that was published annually from 1882 listing all the city's inhabitants by name, along with their address and place of work. Searching the directory for 1926, I found my grandmother listed, living on Euclid Avenue and working at Globe Bedding, and my grandfather at 303 Flora Avenue, the house where my father would later grow up. That section of Flora Avenue has since been destroyed, but I am guessing that this photo of my grandmother with my father as a little boy, taken around 1935, may show the house in the background.
After one of my talks in Toronto, an audience member asked me, why did your family choose Winnipeg? My response, that I didn't think anybody actually chose Winnipeg, drew laughter among the cosmopolitan audience. But another attendee pointed out that trains bringing settlers from the boats docking in Halifax, Nova Scotia, made no stops until they reached Winnipeg. Canada was inviting immigrants to settle the prairie regions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, giving away or cheaply selling off fertile farming land. Winnipeg, the meeting point of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers, was the gateway to this new frontier land.
Some Jews joined farming cooperatives and settled the prairie land. But Jews had been deprived of the right to own land back in the Russian Empire and most felt that farming was not for them. Instead they settled in Winnipeg in great numbers, as did Ukrainians, Mennonites, Germans and Scandinavians, although some of these groups assimilated more quickly than others.


You probably remember the childhood story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears". Goldilocks walks into the Three Bears' house, where she discovers a trio of chairs.
One chair is "too hard" for her taste, one is "too soft", and the last one is "just right". That "just right" chair – believe it or not -- is a lot like Swedish Massage.
Swedish Massage Therapy, also called classic massage is probably the most common, best-known type of massage in the USA and the rest of the western world – and with good reason.
Enjoy a relaxing Swedish Massage.
If you are looking for a basic massage that will leave you feeling relaxed, rejuvenated and ready to tackle the world, Swedish is the way to go.
It has been proven to ease pain and joint stiffness and is helpful to patients with osteoarthritis in the knee. It can also improve circulation.
Swedish massage techniques uses long, smooth, gliding strokes that are neither too hard nor too soft, but "just right" for anyone looking for a basic massage that releases tension, improves relaxation and just feels all-out wonderful.
Swedish massage therapists traditionally use an oil or lotion to ensure their hands glide smoothly over your skin.
Other techniques used during the massage include kneading of individual muscles to ease tight spots, the use of friction or rubbing, tapping on certain muscles to release tension, and vibration.
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While Swedish Massage Therapy is hardly the oldest type of massage available, it is among the oldest Western forms of massage, having been around for almost two centuries.
Most massage historians believe it was developed back in 1812 in Sweden (as the name suggests), at the University of Stockholm in 1812, by a physiologist named Henri Peter Ling.
However, others disagree, claiming that this particular form of massage was not actually a component of the "Swedish Gymnastic Movements" that Ling developed, or part of the curriculum at Ling's Royal Central Gymnastic Institute.
They instead believe that Johan Georg Mezger, a Dutch practitioner, actually created the technique later in the 19th Century.
He is credited with adopted the French names for the basic strokes -- effleurage for stroking, petrissage for kneading, tapotement for tapping and frictions for rubbing.
Whoever actually created Swedish Massage Therapy, it steadily increased in popularity throughout the 19th century as people sought new and innovative treatments for the aches and pains of everyday life.
By the year 1890, several physicians and other experts (and some so-called experts) had published books detailing the basic Swedish massage therapy techniques developed earlier in the century.
Those techniques were frequently used in many famous sanitariums, including the famous institute run by breakfast cereal magnate John Harvey Kellogg, M.D.
This method of massage has remained the western standard into modern times, and has continued to be a staple on spa menus throughout the 20th century and into the 21st.
Perhaps this is because the gentle rubbing, stroking, kneading and tapping motions are the foundation of so many other, more modern forms of massage that are used today including deep tissue massage, aromatherapy massage and sports massage.
The techniques are basic, but two centuries of history don't lie -- they definitely work wonders!
After arriving for your massage, your therapist will take you to a private room. The temperature will be comfortable so you will be able to undress and cover yourself with just a sheet and not feel chilled.
In fact, Swedish Massage Therapy is where the technique of "draping" the client with sheet actually began.
You will lie on a massage table, either face down or face up, with your head placed on a special pillow. The massage therapist will warm some oil in his or her hands, and begin the massage.
It will begin with a gentle stroking motion, and progress to include kneading and rubbing of tight muscles, and tapping on some muscles to release tension.
Remember it is perfectly okay – and encouraged – to tell your therapist if anything feels uncomfortable to you.
If the pressure is too strong, it can be eased up – and if you want a little more pressure, feel free to ask for that too!
Your session should end with all the muscles in your body feeling relaxed and stress free. You will then have a few minutes to get dressed and collect yourself before leaving the treatment room.
"On the day of the surgery, (Swedish) massage was significantly more effective than usual care for affective and sensory pain. On the second day after surgery, massage was significantly more effective than usual care for distress. Vibration was found to be significantly more effective than usual care for sensory pain and distress."
University of Virginia Health System's Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies, Cancer Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Department of Health Evaluation Sciences. Authors: Ann Gill Taylor, R.N.; Daniel L. Galper, Ph.D.; Peyton Taylor, M.D.; Laurel W. Rice, M.D.; Willie Andersen, M.D.; William Irvin, M.D.; Xin-Qun Wang; and Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D. Originally published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2003, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 77-89.
"(Swedish) Massage alleviates anxiety, depression, eating disorder symptoms, poor body image and biochemical abnormalities for women diagnosed with anorexia nervosa."
The Touch Research Institute. Authors: Sybil Hart, Ph.D.; Tiffany Field, Ph.D.; Maria Hernandez-Reif, Ph.D.; Graciela Nearing, Psy.D.; Seana Shaw, M.D.; Saul Schanberg, M.D., Ph.D.; Cynthia Kuhn, Ph.D. Originally published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 2001, Vol. 9, pp. 217-228.
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And today's Last Straw they've-gone-too-far-this-time is… →
Did we find out who cancelled the flights and why?
Posted on August 13, 2019 by biglychee
The Hong Kong government is dormant right now. Its only active – not to say frenzied – component is the police force, which seems to have been placed under Beijing's control. Similarly, the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office is now doing the press conferences.
Yesterday's, following Sunday's assorted protest mayhem, was the third in two weeks. The spokesmen turned the rhetoric up a notch to 'signs of terrorism'. (This is switch position 6 on the official propaganda Freakometer.) State media released more footage of security forces trundling menacingly around Shenzhen.
At the same time, a huge crowd turned up at the airport to protest police brutality. Most of them left after a few hours.
Did the government really cancel all flights in an extreme and melodramatic attempt to portray the protesters as a public menace ruinous to the economy? And/or to trap the kids for mass-arrests?
Regular and peaceful sit-ins in the arrivals hall on previous days haven't disrupted operations. A charitable view would be that the authorities panicked at the sheer numbers of yesterday's turnout (largely filling both arrivals and departures) and had genuine safety-related grounds to shut down flights.
A more cynical view – bearing in mind that Beijing officials are calling the shots now – is that Mainland overseers saw an opportunity and ordered flight cancellations to create maximum inconvenience to the public and thus score a PR blow against the evil foreign-backed separatist forces. As we know from their involvement in humdrum local elections, Liaison Office meddlers take stage-management of events almost absurdly seriously.
The fact that we even ask the question is a mark of how crazy things are.
Which brings us to another illuminating thread on Beijing's strategy. As this one points out more specifically, the Hong Kong rebellion of 2019 is not about an extradition bill or crap governance – it is a battle in which a Leninist-dictatorship elephant is trying to subdue a free-society mouse.
One remarkable feature of this struggle is the sheer ineptitude of China's leadership in coming to terms with this tiny but obviously alien place.
The messaging is laughably bad. The usual excuse for this is that Beijing-speak is aimed at domestic audiences – but you have to wonder why, in that case, none of them can spare a few minutes to communicate directly to the local population.
The analysis ('a few radicals backed by foreign forces', 'large silent patriotic majority') is apparently self-deluding – though no-one knows for sure if they really believe it.
Beijing's basic approach is: try what works on the Mainland; then, when that proves counter-productive and makes things worse, try even more of what works on the Mainland – and repeat, over and again. They cannot conceive of an easier way.
While kids display creativity and courage, Hong Kong's own dismal, cronyistic 'elites' wallow in pathetic helplessness. After 1997, these tycoons and bureaucrats had power and status handed to them on a plate. They could have given a damn. But no, they just squeezed every drop from the city while strutting around as if they had some shred of merit or talent. The Chinese Communist Party is now (oh-so predictably) flicking them aside – hanging them out to dry or openly extorting squeals of loyalty from them. They are of little further use. To anyone. Whatever happens.
13 Responses to Did we find out who cancelled the flights and why?
Des Espoir says:
So, PC Plod now admits that some of the "protestors" in black with yellow helmets were actually C.I.D. (=Coppers-In-Disguise)… If the police HAVE been sowing "agents provocateurs" amongst the "protestors", would this perhaps explain their strange conduct in backing off and allowing Legco to be trashed..? Were there too many of their own amongst the Legco hordes, so they decided to stand back..?
old git says:
The HK Government's 2019 Honours List is here https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/201907/01/P2019062900825_313411_1_1561867126208.pdf
For us of more suspicious mind, is it a coincidence that they mentioned the fear of "total blackout" after some protesters turned out some lights as one of the justifications for a retreat from defending Legco, and this recent use of green glow sticks to identify "friendlies"?
From CNN quoting Stephen Lo (https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/hong-kong-july-1-protests-intl-hnk/index.html)
Some protesters were tampering with the electrical box, turning some of the lights off in the legislative building. The commissioner said he was worried about all the lights going off and a "wrong move" would be made on either side in the darkness.
Let us recall they did not disperse the radicals when they were a small minority banging on the door outside. Not enough to discredit the fringes if you want to reject reasonable demands entirely.
Peter Woo seems to give a damn…about his beloved Carrie and his masters in Beijing.
But I'm sure he's also quietly moving assets to Switzerland, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, etc.
Private Beach says:
@old git – as with most Honours Lists, the worthiness of the recipients is in roughly inverse relationship to their prominence on the list – i.e. shoe-shiners at the top; lifesavers, carers and cat rescuers at the bottom.
Four O'Clock Blow Sir says:
Leon Lai got a Silver Bauhinia.
Reactor #4 says:
The live feed from the HK International Airport at 5.44 pm on Tue 13 Aug 2019 will wipe the smug grins of many of the commenters on this blog.
https://tv.on.cc/index.html?page=live&liveID=event_20150319_154536_28740
With every passing day, it's getting more like Lord of the Flies.
Chef Wonton says:
At the handover the call was "rule of man' is replacing "rule of law'
Two decades in, the "rule of man" is up 1-0
Cassowary says:
When Beijing cannot get support it will settle for resentful compliance. They don't need the majority of the population to like them, they are just betting that the majority fear career suicide more than they hate authoritarianism. Then they'll plaster a gold sticker on it and call it good for a few more years.
There's a half decent chance that they will lose this bet.
Er, that can't be at 5:44pm because in the video it is dark outside. So that must be, at some level, fake news.
But, yes, it is a bit messy at the airport at the moment!
PSB undercover: Foreign forces at last says:
@Reactor #4
I'm going to hazard a guess that 17 minutes of "Ah Wong's burst of chilli", one old fart's lacklustre call for calm (despite the fact his Cantonese is mainland-speech-style annoyingly slow) isn't really going to "wipe the smug grins of many of the commentators on this blog" — unless you're aiming to replace said smug grins with a slightly baffled expression of bemusement at a virtuoso "對牛彈琴" performance.
Not so much "Lord of the Flies" as "Bored of the Lies".
Start again. Think carefully. Check the link.
PC Bulletbag says:
Well reactor4 – after the applauding the gave the cop violence the other day, it's shocking – but almost inevitable – that the fringe upped the ante.
One can't think of a more smug and classic tankie reference that Lord of the Flies
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Parking lots can be a dangerous place for experienced drivers. For 16-18 year-olds who are new to driving, the risk factor increases dramatically- especially in our school parking lot. More safety precautions must be put in place to decrease the frequency of accidents.
In North parking lots, collisions happen often because traffic laws are not as heavily enforced, and it is difficult for many drivers to see when backing out.
Additionally, some students drive aggressively as they feel rushed to get to their first class on time or are anxious to get home. To avoid the irrational decisions that come along with emotional driving, North needs to provide more stop signs and reposition the campus officer to control traffic.
Some people may argue that paying for these adjustments may not be cost-effective. However, 700 North students paid $100 for a parking permit as of the beginning of September. The $70,000 in generated parking revenue should be utilized to increase safety.
When double-sided sign panels, sign posts, and foundations add up, it can seem pricey. However, installing one sign would actually only cost $470 using district laborers (Trafficsign.us). However, North would need 13 of these to create three-way stops, one along each aisle of the two main parking lots. That would leave almost $63,000in parking pass revenue this year alone. If a new sign is placed along the main road at the opening of each of the rows of parking lots, stop signs could direct the flow of traffic by letting those in parking spots get out of the lot and into the line to either exit the school or enter the lot. This would create a safer traffic flow.
While the position of the busses has changed allowing students to access the 119th Street exit before 2:20, the problems created in the parking lot bleed over into the exits, making exiting the school hard to navigate. Letting approximately 700 cars figure out how to leave a parking lot simultaneously is not safe. Reassigning the school safety officer to direct traffic at the most congested corner would keep order, decreasing the frequency of crashes, speeding, and reckless driving.
The attention to safety that North enforces inside the school building must be extended to the outside of the campus as well.
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