In 2021, many pan-democrats were purged from Hong Kong District Councils for taking part in the July 2020 primary elections and/or oath-taking technicalities (here and here). The authorities then started to hear complaints that the friendly young people who used to help elderly and other neighbourhood residents were no longer around. So the government decided to fill the gap with ‘community care teams’ run by ‘patriotic’ and pro-government – United Front – organizations.
Now the government plans to train team members as ‘tutors … to promote national security education’…
On Friday, [Home and Youth Affairs Secretary Alice] Mak said was no “strict indicator” for the number of tutors a care team should have. But each tutor should promote national security awareness to around 30 residents in their district per year, through organising various activities, visits, talks, or by handing out publicity materials, the official said.
What other new tasks will these teams get in future?
Sorting out photos from my recent trip to the UK. Curious sign in a rail station somewhere in Northern England (maybe Leeds?). At the bottom it says ‘20m 43ch’. Turns out it is a distance marker showing the location to be 20 miles and 43 chains from somewhere else. A chain is one 80th of a mile – 22 yards, or 66 feet.
The NT village I have lived in for nigh on 20 years is not a listed village and thus has no elections for tsuen cheungs – nor anyone squeezing for car parking…
However, it was granted a Mutual Aid Committee by the District Office which operated effectively for the benefit of all who lived here. Until…
In 2022? we were politely informed that our services were no longer required and sent a nice letter by The Director of Home Affair (sic) – which I have filed away in case I ever need to produce it in mitigation.
I look forward to one-on-one tutoring by my new local care team in due course.
Perhaps I can in return educate them (as I used to visiting Mormon ministers) in the revelations of John Allegro’s “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross”?
That might be fun.
Look up “Chain (unit)” in Wikipedia and you will find a very informative article on this unit of measurement. The only thing I remembered from schooldays is that it is the length of a cricket pitch.
A chain is also the length of a cricket pitch
Said Community Care Teams sound like a pale imitation of Mainland style neighbourhood committees, the smallest unit of local government staffed with nosy aunties. In the days of the One Child Policy, one of their key functions was reporting unauthorized pregnancies.
Ten chains to a furlong, as any fule kno
Re Din Gao: I have requested information a number of times from FS as to what mechanism is in place re assessment of and tax payable on the revenue generated by village “Temporary Public Vehicle Park for Private Cars and Light Goods Vehicles”. Many of them incluse portions of Government Land.
To date no response but will continue to knock knock.
I recite from memory.
12 inches : 1 foot
3 feet : 1 yard
22 yards : 1 chain
10 chains : 1 furlong
8 furlongs : 1 mile
I used to live in Hull. About 20 miles and 43 chains from Driffield. Not a lot of people know that.
@Din Gao – I once knew a fella who invited in two Jehovah Witnesses who came a knocking. They drank two cups of tea he had made with some sacred mushrooms and it made for a lively, somewhat cosmic, theological debate.
Is that anything to do with Johnny Allegro?
Railway designers still talk about chainage to represent the distance from point to point along an alignment. “Chainage” is measured in km for new designs, previously it was in miles, or parts (chains) thereof. Lots of old infrastructure is still in miles, if you are a nerd, check out http://www.railwaycodes.org.uk/electrification/mast_prefix1.shtm.
Or maybe not.
Any of you extremely fine people going to LKF on Thursday to “celebrate” Halloween? If so, make sure to wave at the cameras. There are hundreds of ’em.
Why the name chain? Before the invention of wheelie mileometers (and now laser thingies) surveyors measured distances with, indeed, a real metal chain 22 yards long. It must have been a tedious job.
BTW the facial recognition at the airport is optional. In the Personal Information Collection Statement posted in several obscure hard to find spots it says you can opt out. Unsurprisingly this is not widely or prominently advertised. Also so they can detain you all the more easily if they find you undesirable for untransparent reasons or to sell data about your wandering round the airport to luxury stores. I’d not be surprised if this was effectively unlawful as a result. I suspect they probably keep the data for long then they’re allowed to too.
Knownot,
You are forgetting my old favourite, the Rod (otherwise known as the Perch or Pole), which comes in at 16½ Feet or 5½ Yards. In other words ¼ of a Chain.
Isn’t the metric system dreary?