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AHN Swimming wins district championship
Lauren Ayers, Senior Staff Writer|November 7, 2013
Photo Credit: Helen Dawson
The district win is bittersweet for the Dawson sisters, Kristen and Cara. As Kristen is a senior, this will be their last season together.
Academy held swim team districts on its own pool deck on Saturday, October 28. The event started around ten o'clock and was over by one o'clock. The AHN swim team came out on top at districts, winning the meet with a score of 677 points. The girls that participated in the district meet will be moving on to regionals this Friday.
The event was extremely crowded because of the numerous teams that participated in districts. The energy was electric as the teammates cheered each other on and hung out on the deck. Academy swimmers dominated in every event. The 100-backstroke left our four Academy swimmers in the top four spots of the event.
Our swimmers have worked hard to achieve this win. They have been practicing hard all season and have been tapering for the district meet. They will continue to work hard as they continue to regionals and hopefully grab another win.
The seniors on the team feel sentimental as they participate in their last state series. Margret Shumake says the team has made a large impact on her high school experience. "It is a great group of girls and I will really miss the team atmosphere when it is over."
To follow the path of the swim team leading up to the district win, check out the links to these other articles:
https://www.achonaonline.com/sports/2013/09/29/academy-and-jesuit-team-up-for-annual-spike-and-splash-for-the-cause-rtp
https://www.achonaonline.com/sports/2013/10/28/spike-splash-raises-a-record-amount-of-donations/
https://www.achonaonline.com/sports/2013/09/27/ahn-swim-team-makes-a-splash-against-hillsborough-high-school/
https://www.achonaonline.com/sports/2013/09/13/22738/
Lauren Ayers, Senior Staff writer
This is Lauren Ayers's first year as a part of Achona. Lauren is a member of the swim team and president of Spanish club. On the weekends she enjoys eating...
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Sony today confirmed that filmmaker Woody Allen has chosen Sony CineAlta for his first ever digital shoot. For this special project, Allen will be shooting with Sony's CineAlta F65 camera and the film will be mastered in 4K. The F65 has long been the choice among filmmakers around the world, including critically acclaimed cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who will be working with Allen on the currently untitled film.
In 1977, the classic film, Annie Hall, won four Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. In 1979, Allen wrote and directed the film Manhattan, which was filmed in widescreen photography. At the time, filming in widescreen was usually reserved for larger action based films.
Storaro, the three-time Academy Award winning cinematographer for Apocalypse Now, Reds and The Last Emperor, is highly regarded as one of the best in the business. Over the last several years, Storaro has dedicated his professional work to digital technologies.
Storaro first began testing with Sony in 1983, and was impressed by the accurate colour composition and HD quality of the era's technology. He credits these tests with the confidence he brought to the set of Apocalypse Now, which ultimately won him the Academy Award. Both Sony and Storaro have come a long way since 1983 – new workflows and imaging techniques have been developed to grant great storytellers the ability to connect with audiences in more impactful ways. 4K is the latest example of this, guaranteeing the most stunning and immersive images available to filmmakers and cinematographers. Allen and Storaro know this well, having chosen to master their new project in 4K.
On his decision to use the F65, Storaro said: "I had seen that the Sony F65 was capable of recording beautiful images in 4K and 16 bit-colour depth in 1:2, which is my favourite composition. So when Woody called me this year asking me to be the cinematographer of his new film with the working title "WASP 2015", my decision was already made. I convinced him to record the film in digital, so we can begin our journey together in the digital world. It's time now for the Sony F65!"
"Sony is deeply honoured that Woody Allen has chosen Sony CineAlta for his first ever digital shoot", said Ainara Porron, European Marketing Manager, Cinematography, Sony Europe. "This further demonstrates our commitment to the movie industry and showcases Sony CineAlta as the top choice for directors and cinematographers.

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Marvin Jones
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2021 Receiving Stats
2021 Receiving Projections
Age hasn't slowed Jones much. At 30, he managed to score another nine TDs (the same number he posted in 2019), averaged 8.5 YPT and hauled in 19 catches of at least 20 yards (T-8th) on 115 targets. At 6-2, 198, and running a 4.46 40 at the 2012 combine, Jones has always been a good athlete and a downfield playmaker. And he remained efficient last year despite being Matthew Stafford's primary target most of the season with Kenny Golladay down. This year, he'll play in Jacksonville with mega-prospect Trevor Lawrence under center. DJ Chark and Laviska Shenault will get their looks too, but the team doesn't have much at tight end, and Jones should be involved after signing a two-year, $14.5 million deal. Read Past Outlooks
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Jones recorded seven receptions on eight targets for 88 yards and a touchdown in Sunday's 26-11 win over the Colts.
Jones continued his recent trend of alternating between strong performances and duds. He landed on the positive side of that variance Sunday to top 70 receiving yards for the third time in his last five games. Jones' performance was highlighted by four receptions that went for double-digit gains while also finding the end zone for the fourth time this season -- and the first time since Week 6 -- on a three-yard catch late in the third quarter. Even while playing in an inept offense, Jones managed to top 60 receptions and 700 receiving yards for the third consecutive campaign.
How do Marvin Jones' 2021 advanced stats compare to other wide receivers?
Air Yards Per Game
The number of air yards he is averaging per game. Air yards measure how far the ball was thrown downfield for both complete and incomplete passes. Air yards are recorded as a negative value when the pass is targeted behind the line of scrimmage. All air yards data is from Sports Info Solutions and does not include throwaways as targeted passes.
Air Yards Per Snap
The number of air yards he is averaging per offensive snap.
% Team Air Yards
The percentage of the team's total air yards he accounts for.
% Team Targets
The percentage of the team's total targets he accounts for.
Avg Depth of Target
Also known as aDOT, this stat measures the average distance down field he is being targeted at.
Catch Rate
The number of catches made divided by the number of times he was targeted by the quarterback.
The number of passes he dropped divided by the number of times he was targeted by the quarterback.
Avg Yds After Catch
The number of yards he gains after the catch on his receptions.
% Targeted On Route
Targets divided by total routes run. Also known as TPRR.
Avg Yds Per Route Run
Receiving yards divided by total routes run. Also known as YPRR.
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Jones missed the season's last three games with an ankle injury, but he had been reasonably productive and efficient to that point - 12.6 YPC and 8.6 YPT - despite losing quarterback Matthew Stafford midseason. Jones also scored nine touchdowns for the second time in three years, and in 2018 was on pace for another nine scores before getting hurt. Part of that is due to his goal-line use - nine targets inside the 10 (tied for 10th) in only 13 games. At 6-2, 198, Jones has decent size and ran a 4.46 40 at the 2012 combine. He turned 30 in March, so he's probably lost half a step, but he should figure prominently in the offense once again behind big-play No. 1 wideout Kenny Golladay and alongside promising tight end T.J. Hockenson and slot receiver Danny Amendola. Moreover, the return of a healthy Stafford should benefit the passing game as a whole.
Coming off his 2017 breakout, Jones regressed roughly as expected last year before getting hurt. Through nine games, Jones put up a 62-35-508-5 line, numbers that prorate to 110-62-903-9 over a full season, more or less what one would have expected. His efficiency dropped from 10.3 YPT in 2017 to a pedestrian 8.2 last year, a rate more in line with his Bengals days. At 6-2, 198, and with 4.46 speed, Jones is fast enough to get open downfield and also has reliable hands (only one drop). While the anemic Lions offense and Matthew Stafford's subpar season probably had a lot to do with it, Jones didn't haul in a single play of 40-plus yards last year and only five of 20-plus. Contrast that with 2017 when he had six and 20, respectively. With Golden Tate gone, Jones should be a co-No. 1 target with Kenny Golladay. Danny Amendola will fill Tate's slot role, but he's 33 and probably won't match Tate's volume, and No. 8 overall pick T.J. Hockenson may be a year away from a significant pass-catching role at tight end. But the Lions could throw less often with Darrell Bevell taking over for Jim Bob Cooter as offensive coordinator. On the bright side, the deep knee bruise which cost Jones seven games last year isn't expected to affect his preparation for his age-29 season.
Jones trained with Randy Moss last offseason, and then had a career year - in non-PPR Jones was the No. 5 receiver, thanks to 10.3 YPT (2nd), 18.0 YPC (1st) and nine TDs (T-4th). He had six catches of 40-plus yards (T-4th) and 20 catches of 20-plus (5th). Jones saw more red-zone work than teammate Golden Tate, but his 15 looks in that area ranked only 18th, and Jones' overall volume (107 targets, 61 catches) in a full 16 games was modest. Part of the problem is the presence of Tate and tailback Theo Riddick, who get fed often in the short passing game, a staple of the team's offense. At 6-2, 198, and with a 4.46 40 time, Jones has above-average size and decent speed. He'll have to compete for downfield and red-zone targets with emerging second-year man Kenny Golladay (6-4, 213, 4.5 40), but the 28-year old Jones is still the team's top downfield wideout and for what it's worth he's training with Moss again this year.
Houdini has nothing on Marvin Jones. After putting up 23 catches for 482 yards over the season's first four weeks, Jones had only 32 catches for 448 yards over his final 11 games, as Golden Tate took over as the team's No. 1 WR. At 6-2, 198, Jones has decent size, and he can get downfield with 4.46 40 speed -- 16 catches of 20-plus yards, four of 40. Moreover, he averaged a highly efficient 16.9 YPC (3rd) and 9.0 YPT (10th). The problem for Jones -- aside from all his production coming early in the year -- is the Lions have become a dink-and-dunk passing offense, and that favors Tate and running back Theo Riddick. On the bright side, there's little depth behind Jones -- rookie third-rounder Kenny Golladay is still a project, and former sixth-rounder T.J. Jones has 32 career NFL targets -- so he should remain the team's No. 2 target.
An odd choice to fill the departed Calvin Johnson's shoes, Jones should nonetheless immediately find himself in a more prominent role in Detroit opposite Golden Tate. At 6-2, 198, with 4.46 speed, Jones profiles as a useful complementary threat, able to stretch the field (four catches of 40-plus on 103 targets last year) and capable of making plays in the end zone, given his height and wingspan. Jones wasn't especially efficient last year – 12.6 YPC, 7.9 YPT – but that could change if he sees more downfield targets. It's unclear, though, whether Tate, who used to be a field stretcher, will reprise his dink-and-dunk role from last season. Either way, there should be plenty of targets left over for Jones, even after accounting for the team's pass-catching backs and tight end Eric Ebron.
A broken foot and subsequent ankle injury cost Jones the entire 2014 season, but at press time he's expected to be a full participant in the team's offseason workouts and training camp. Before the injury, Jones had a strong 2013 campaign, with 14.0 YPC, 8.9 YPT and 10 touchdowns on just 80 targets. At 6-2, 198, with good (4.46 40) speed, Jones is a fluid route runner and has good hands. His ceiling is likely capped by the presence of star A.J. Green, and it's conceivable Jones could begin the year behind Mohamed Sanu, who saw 98 targets in 2014 when the Bengals receiving corps was decimated by injuries. But Jones has been a better and more efficient player than Sanu and has more upside should something happen to Green.
Jones had a mini-breakout in Year 2 – at least as much of one as he could opposite target-hog A.J. Green. Jones averaged 14.0 YPC and 8.9 YPT last year, while scoring 10 times despite only 13 red-zone looks. At 6-2, 195, Jones is on the small end for a red-zone threat, but he has good speed (4.46 40), is a fluid runner and has good hands. The Bengals threw the ball quite a bit last year, and there's a chance Jones' role could grow after a strong showing down the stretch and in the playoff loss to the Chargers. Just keep in mind there are a lot of mouths to feed in this offense and that an August foot injury is in line to delay the start of his 2014 campaign.
Jones caught just 18 balls (on 32 targets) for 201 yards and one touchdown last season. However, his conclusion to the 2012 campaign (at least four targets in each of the last five games, including the playoffs) makes him an interesting prospect entering his second season in 2013.
Jones has the chance to make an impact during his first NFL season due to the uncertainty surrounding the Bengals' number two wide receiver position. Additionally, Jones has potential in the return game, so he is worth keeping an eye on.
Totals 46 yards in blowout
Jones caught two of six targets for 46 yards during Sunday's 50-10 loss to the Patriots.
Receives season-high 13 targets
Jones gathered in eight of 13 targets for 74 yards during Sunday's 26-21 road loss to the Jets.
Held to 14 yards
Jones caught two of four targets for 14 yards during Sunday's 30-16 loss to the Texans.
Gets back to relevancy
Jones recorded six receptions on seven targets for 70 yards in Sunday's 20-0 loss to the Titans.
Coach denies rift
Jaguars coach Urban Meyer denied a report that surfaced over the weekend that he and Jones had a big argument in practice, Fox's Jay Glazer reported on Sunday's pregame show.


Stocks columnist Lauren Rudd breaks down the number of Apple's stocks and the impact iPhone X has had on it.
Given the many facets of uncertainty facing the financial markets, does Wall Street still make sense? Absolutely. The opportunities to invest in the shares of quality companies are abundant in any economic environment.
However, to seize the moment requires a willingness to make decisions with prodigious confidence and the fortitude to stick to those decisions despite the entreaties of others.
Take Apple (AAPL) for example. I have been besieged with phone calls and email messages asking whether to buy, hold or sell Apple's shares. Moreover, perusing a variety of news and financial websites brings forth a cornucopia of bullish articles on the company as well as a comparable number of bearish ones. The confusion is no surprise.
There are approximately 43 analysts who currently write about Apple. Of those, 15 have a buy recommendation, 14 have a hold, and the remaining have an outperform, sort of a "middle of the road I cannot make up my mind designation." There are no sell recommendations; a welcome change from last year.
Much to the consternation of many of the Street's doomsayers, Apple's second-quarter numbers did, from my perspective, knock the cover off the ball.
Apple posted second-quarter revenue of $61.1 billion, up from $52.9 billion over the same period a year ago. The Street's consensus was for $60.8 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Average selling price for iPhones was $728, compared with Wall Street expectations of $742. The figure is up more than 10 percent from $655 a year ago, suggesting that Apple's iPhone X, which starts at $999, has helped to raise prices.
Analysts had feared the high price was muting demand for the iPhone X, but Apple's Chief Executive Tim Cook said it was the most popular iPhone model every week in the March quarter.
Earnings were $2.73 per share, versus expectations of $2.68 per share, up from $2.10 a year ago.
The company's guidance for the June quarter calls for revenue of between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion, versus a $51.6 billion consensus. The share repurchases in the March quarter drove Apple's cash, net of debt, down slightly to $145 billion.
The results marked a significant acceleration compared to its fiscal first quarter when revenue and earnings per share increased 13 percent and 16 percent respectively, year over year. Furthermore, this extended the company's streak of consecutive quarters of accelerating year-over-year revenue growth since it returned to growth in the first fiscal quarter of 2017.
In 2016, disappointment with the iPhone 6S sparked talk that Apple had lost its edge, and the stock underperformed the S&P 500 multiple for several quarters. Apple's more generous payout to shareholders should take some of the sting out of any similar disenchantment today. But the company will face increasing pressure to show it has more tricks up its sleeve.
Meanwhile, Apple lavished cash on its shareholders during the first three months of the year and it intends to keep doing so. With substantial overseas cash freed up by the tax bill, Apple bought back $23.5 billion of its own stock in the March quarter, a record amount for any company and it added $100 billion to its target for future repurchases.
Apple's dividend increase will be reflected in a cash dividend of 73 cents per share payable on May 17. Its current payout is 63 cents a share.
And while Apple's share price has not been in a tailspin, the price has been a bit moribund following the launch of the iPhone X. Maybe now things will change.


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#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {

    char string[1000];
    char alfabeto[26];
    char misterio[1000];
    int N, i, tam, j, indice,z;

    scanf("%s", alfabeto);
    scanf("%d", &N);

    for(i = 0; i < N; i++) {
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        for(j = 0; j < tam; j++){
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}

A: Oi, pelo que entendi você quer que as palavras sejam impressas nessa ordem que você colocou, então arrumei seu código para fazer isso. Talvez não seja a solução mais limpa, mas é bem prático:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {

    char string[1000];
    char alfabeto[26];
    char misterio[1000];
    int N, i, tam, j, indice, z, aux=0;   //adicionei a variável aux

    scanf("%s", alfabeto);
    scanf("%d", &N);

    for(i = 0; i < N; i++) {
        scanf("%s", string);
        tam = strlen(string);

        for(j = 0; j < tam; j++) {
            string[j] = toupper(string[j]);
            indice = string[j] - 65;
            misterio[aux] = alfabeto[indice];  //atenção aqui. aux nunca é zerado, sempre incrementado
            aux++;
        }
        misterio[aux] = '\n';  //adiciona o char que pula linha
        aux++;  //passa para a próxima casa do vetor
    }
    misterio[aux] = '\0';   //adiciona char que encerra a string

    printf("%s", misterio);

  return 0;
}

Eu coloquei a variável mistério pra guardar todas as palavras que você "traduziu". Basicamente, a string mistério guarda a palavra traduzida e então coloca um '\n', e segue assim até que acabem as entradas. Por fim é adicionado um '\0' para encerrar a string e printar sem símbolos errados.

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Professor Arsène Verny has many years of experience in advising and representing companies, associations and public institutions in the field of international and supranational commercial law, as well as international arbitration and representation in front of national and European courts. In the area of German law, Arsène Verny specialises among others in commercial and corporate law, competition law, labor law, commercial private law and distribution law.
He was responsible as Principal Advisor on behalf of the European Commission in the context of the eastward enlargement for the adoption of the acquis communautaire in the national legal systems. After years of working as Jean Monnet Professor of European Law, Full Professor and Honorary and Visiting Professor at various European universities, Professor Verny teaches as an honorary professor at the renowned Danube University Krems the innovative specialisation International Dispute Resolution. He is also acting as an external expert for the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst DAAD.
From 1993 to 2001 he headed the Prague branch of the international law firm Gaedertz Rechtsanwälte (now CMS Hasche Sigle).
In 2001 he founded, together with the scientific director of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, Prof. Dr. med. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Manfred A. Dauses the renowned law firm VERNY & DAUSES Rechtsanwälte / Advokáti / Arbitrators. Until the death of Professor Dauses in 2016, the two namesake members served as notable reviewers and litigators in the field of European commercial law with a focus on institutional, negotiating and European litigation including numerous representations of public institutions and private organisations in front of the European Court of Justice.
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Numerous publications on European and Central European Economic Law, the course of European integration and effects of eastward enlargement in the Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
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Hong Kong Birds on Flights to Oblivion
Home Wildlife Hong Kong Birds on Flights to Oblivion
Like canaries in a coal mine, endangered species are signs of danger facing planet earth, our life support system
Perhaps for many people, learning of endangered species involves wildlife that lives "out there" somewhere – like giant pandas in bamboo forests, polar bears in the Arctic, miniature monkeys in Brazil. Yet if you are a birdwatcher, like me, the endangered list can be far more personal, with species found close to home, many of which seem like old friends.
The list of these threatened birds keeps growing as populations shrink, sometimes at startling speed. In a report titled State of the World's Birds, Birdlife International noted that 13% of around 11,000 bird species alive today – or roughly one in eight – are globally threatened with extinction.
For Hong Kong, the proportion is slightly lower, at around 10 percent of the 522 bird species recorded here. But this is no reason for feeling upbeat, as Hong Kong was deforested centuries ago, wiping out forest specialists, and leaving breeding birds that are mostly adapted to living in areas fashioned by humans.
As the report notes, it's humans who are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in our planet's 4.5 billion year history. We're doing so especially by wrecking habitats and rampant exploitation, and while these have mainly affected the kinds of birds that were restricted to remote islands or mountaintops, nowadays even familiar species are becoming endangered.
Yellow-breasted Bunting – the "Rice Bird"
These include the yellow-breasted bunting, a songbird that was so abundant in China – including Hong Kong – that it was known as the "rice bird". I first saw yellow-breasted buntings in the mid-1980s at Beidaihe, a migration hotspot on the east China coast. An ornithologist who studied migration there early last century wrote that during September these buntings "swarm in the crops", and while numbers were lower by the 1980s, they were still common. To me, they were always a welcome sight – especially the breeding plumage males, which are like sparrows but bright yellow below with black hoods, brown chest collars and white wing patches.
In Hong Kong, too, yellow-breasted buntings were abundant in autumn, with a peak count of 3000 near Yuen Long in 1950. But numbers here and elsewhere began falling, so in 2004 it was added to the endangered species list, in the category "Near Threatened". Four years later, Birdlife International assessors for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ranked it "Vulnerable" to extinction, before in 2013 the bunting was shifted another category nearer extinction, rated "Endangered". Then, last year, yellow-breasted bunting gained the dubious distinction of being rated "Critically Endangered", joining 221 species that are now so rare and threatened, several have not been seen for decades. The rating was supported by a study that found the population collapsed by up to 95 percent from 1980 to 2013.
Ywllow-breasted Buntings at Yi O, Lantau
This is an astonishing decline, for a bird that once bred across much of Eurasia – from Finland east to Japan, and migrated to China in autumn, then mainly spent winter in southeast Asia. The chief reason is that "rice birds" are a popular delicacy in south China, especially because of fanciful notions they boost sexual vitality. While trapping was outlawed in 1997, it continues, supplying a thriving black market.
Nowadays, perhaps a few tens of these buntings each year can find sanctuary in Hong Kong, resting and feeding at places like Long Valley in the north New Territories. This is way too few to ease fears that yellow-breasted bunting might become "the next passenger pigeon" – in a grim rerun of that north American bird's story of being formerly abundant, yet hunted to extinction.
Spoon-billed Sandpiper Among Threatened Waterbirds
The global population of another Hong Kong bird, spoon-billed sandpiper, has also plummeted in recent years. But while renowned among birdwatchers for being the only shorebird with a flattened tip to its bill, this sparrow-sized sandpiper is far from familiar to many people. Away from its tundra breeding grounds in northeast Asia, it frequents tidal flats on migration and in winter – and is something of a Goldilocks bird, preferring areas that are not too muddy or too sandy, but with silt that's just right for bulldozing through to expose shrimps and other prey.
Unfortunately for the sandpiper, these tidal flats often seem just right for reclamation by humans, to create new land for farming and building new towns and cities. While piecemeal reclamations have long changed coastlines, the Birdlife report singles out the Yellow Sea between China and Korea, where two-thirds of the intertidal habitat has been reclaimed since the 1950s. This includes key migration sites for the sandpiper, and with these gone its numbers tumbled, from around a thousand pairs at the turn of the century, to little over a tenth as many today. Though spoon-billed sandpiper was always scarce in Hong Kong, with a record count of just five at the Deep Bay wetland (too muddy, it seems), it is nowadays hard to find even one here.
Other shorebirds are also suffering, with even common species joining the Red List. Great Knot – a chunky sandpiper that breeds in the far northeast of Asia and mainly spends winter in Australia – maybe numbered close to 300,000 in 2007, yet has become Endangered because of an abrupt 80 percent decline in the past couple of decades. Together with spoon-billed sandpiper, it's among 15 Hong Kong shorebirds that are threatened with extinction – all of which occur at Deep Bay including Mai Po Marshes, making this wetland an ever more vital link along migratory flyways between Australia and eastern Siberia.
Dalmatian Pelicans among Deep Bay birds; decades ago!
Hong Kong's largest birds – like bulky Dalmatian pelicans with a wingspan of around three metres, and Oriental storks that are up to 1.5 metres tall – are also among our threatened waterbirds. So too are 16cm long, insect-eating Styan's grasshopper warblers, which breed on islands in northeast Asia and in winter are almost unknown outside Mai Po. A kind of diving duck, Baer's pochard, was not on the Red List when I first arrived in Hong Kong in 1987, yet is now Critically Endangered. The declines of these birds reflect destruction of lakes and swamps, along with intensive hunting.
As Deep Bay hosts a wealth of waterbirds, Birdlife International includes it among over 12,000 Important Bird Areas that are especially significant for protecting the world's birds.
Declining Songbirds and Seabirds
Hong Kong has another such area in the central New Territories, covering forest and scrubland on Tai Mo Shan and nearby hillsides. Birdwatching is more challenging here, as it's often hard to see the birds for the trees. But the rewards include some of Hong Kong's most beautiful birds, like male Japanese Paradise-Flycatchers, which in spring are maroon above, whitish below, with black heads and tail streamers twice the length of their bodies. Sadly, these gorgeous flycatchers and a drab brown relative are becoming scarcer as the southeast Asian forests where they spend winter are being felled. So too another scarce migrant, Fairy Pitta – a relative of thrushes so lovely it is known as the "eight-coloured bird".
There's a fourth threatened species to be found around Tai Mo Shan, mainly on the highest slopes. This is the rather mysterious Chinese grassbird, which local birdwatchers once thought may be a kind of warbler but studies revealed to belong to a different family, and even a species that was new to science. It is indeed a grassland specialist, recorded from Bangladesh west to south China, and is nowhere abundant, especially as grasslands have been converted to farmland. With estimates of up to 490 found on grassy slopes of Tai Mo Shan and other hills, Hong Kong seems to be the grassbird's last main stronghold.
Aleutian Tern
Seabirds are suffering, too. They include Aleutian tern, which is like a small gull that's grey above, white below, with a neat black cap, and specialises in catching fish at sea. Though first discovered in 1869, for over a century it was almost unknown from its nesting colonies on islands between Alaska and the far northeast of Russia – which the terns left in early autumn, only to return the following summer. Then, in autumn 1992, keen-eyed birdwatchers in Hong Kong saw several hundred Aleutian terns in southern waters, where they had surely long occurred but were confused with similar common terns.
This was a marvellous discovery, filling in a huge blank in our knowledge of the tern, which since proved to be a regular spring and autumn visitor to Hong Kong. But pleasure in seeing these terns is nowadays tempered by also knowing that in October last year, it was added to the Red List in the Vulnerable category, following reports that numbers on the Alaskan colonies had plummeted by around 90 percent in 33 years.
No one knows exactly why Aleutian terns are in such decline, though ideas include more intensive predation of their eggs and young by introduced foxes and rats, and disturbance by humans. Probably, however, the issues are more wide ranging. Over-fishing seems a plausible culprit, with WWF noting that two-thirds of the world's fish stocks are either fished at their limit or over fished. Compounding the problem is global warming, which is raising ocean temperatures, and perhaps causing shifting currents in the Pacific – where an unprecedented pool of warm water nicknamed "the Blob" appeared off western North America from 2013 to 2016.
Global Warming, and Canaries in the Coalmine
As you might expect, global warming is already having profound effects on birds. According to Birdlife International, "Rising temperatures are driving species' distributions towards the poles and towards higher ground. Migratory and breeding cycles are changing, leading to disrupted relationships with prey, predators and competitors. In many cases, these effects have driven population declines." Here in Hong Kong, these effects evidently include some formerly regular winter birds that are tending to spend the season further north than a decade or two ago. Small flocks of Dalmatian pelicans used to frequent Deep Bay from December to March each winter, but the last sighting was a lone individual in 2009, and birds in China's small wintering population – numbering only around 50 – now fly no further south than Fujian province.
In tandem with global warming, we humans are using far more than our fair share of the earth's resources. State of the World's Birds mentions our outsize ecological footprint, which means that, "effectively, the planet's ecological services are being used 1.7 times faster than they can be renewed."
Black-faced Spoonbill
At this stage in an article on endangered species, it's customary to add some rays of sunshine, show there is hope. The Birdlife report is certainly laudable in this regarding, pointing out that, "At least twenty-five bird species have been brought back from the brink of extinction so far this century." These include Hong Kong's star bird, the black-faced spoonbill – a white, heron-like bird with a rounded tip to its flattened bill. It's an annual visitor to Deep Bay, and seemed of little interest until 1988, when Hong Kong based birdwatcher Peter Kennerley investigated all known sightings, and found the entire world population was only around 288. Suddenly, the spoonbill was ranked Critically Endangered.
This prompted efforts to protect the coastal wetlands where black-faced spoonbills spend winter. There were intensive surveys, too, and the spoonbill gained a measure of fame, including here in Hong Kong. Its population rose, passing 2000, and in 2010 its classification was changed to Endangered, reflecting a short flight back from the brink of extinction.
But it's not enough to just respond once species become Critically Endangered, or conservationists will be caught up in a sort of perpetual game of whack-a-mole, always trying to play catch up while falling further and further behind overall. Halting and reversing declines will require something far grander. At its core, the State of the World's Birds report says, "To achieve a genuinely 'green economy' we need a new economic goal, one that seeks to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet."
It only takes a quick look around – whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere – to see this new economic goal seems worthy but far-fetched. We're doomed … because we're so dependent on the burning of fossil fuels," Mayer Hillman, senior fellow emeritus of the Policy Studies Institute, told The Guardian, questioning whether we can move to zero emissions, and reduce our population, without a collapse of civilisation.
In the past, coal miners took caged canaries – small songbirds – down to the coalface with them. If there were build ups of invisible toxic gases, the canaries would die first, showing there was danger, so the miners could escape. Now, we have a multitude of endangered birds as a clear sign of danger – not in a mine, but affecting the earth, our life support system. There's nowhere to escape to.
With such a gloomy prognosis, what to do? Importantly, remember we still share the planet with a wealth of biodiversity, including birds, which can be the source of immense pleasure and wonder. On one level, birds are great to watch because they're so varied, with some appearing exotic, brilliantly colourful. But also as you look at birds – whether black kites soaring over the harbour, or bulbuls and robins in city parks, remember they are all descendants of dinosaurs. And even tiny songbirds can navigate and travel long journeys between the Artic and the tropics, partly as they are equipped with a newly discovered eye protein that helps them see the earth's magnetic fields.
If you too take up birdwatching, perhaps you can also spread word of the wonders of birds and other wildlife. Just maybe, if ranks of birdwatchers swell, we can somehow help build impetus towards a transition to a green economy. Otherwise, simply enjoy the birds we have, while being prepared to occasionally mourn a species' passing.
[Written for the South China Morning Post]
Published or Last Updated on 13 February 2022


Jazz musicians, students and enthusiasts are invited to hang out at The Nash this summer, jam with other students, learn new techniques, or try out different styles of jazz. From bop to brass, guitar to vocals, the popular jazz club will be buzzing as musicians work with instructors in a wide range of classes and workshops.
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Providing housing for undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Southern Indiana creates the opportunity to attract and retain new and young talent to our region. Having a balanced population of youth enriches a community with diversity, ideas and innovation.
When there was a housing shortage at University of Southern Indiana, Morley was entrusted with the initial 12 million dollar job of developing homes for students, which later expanded into a multi-phase project.
During the initial phase, the goal was simple: create as many student housing buildings as possible, with as many apartment units as possible and enough parking space for residents. During this phase, maximizing revenue was the client's focus. The site was designed using a grid-like technique, which assisted in maximizing its capacity. The project sold multiple times during construction, due to potential return on investment.
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France Sets Up Burka Commission
France is to set up a commission to study the extent of burka-wearing in the country, after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the veils reduced dignity.
He said the burka - a garment worn by Muslims that covers the body from head to toe - "deprived women of identity".
The French National Assembly has appointed 32 lawmakers on a fact-finding mission to look at ways of restricting its use.
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PAULA RADCLIFFE admits nothing can ever compensate for last year's Olympic misery but believes the strength she has subsequently acquired will serve her well at the forthcoming World Championships in Helsinki.
The 31- year- old dropped out of the 10,000 metres days after failing to finish the marathon at last summer's Athens Games but has again chosen to potentially double up at the event which starts next week in the Finnish capital.
However, the schedule means Radcliffe could use the 10,000m as a final training session as it is on the opening day of the competition with the marathon to come eight days later.
While she knows it would be a demanding programme, Radcliffe insists her decision to double up was one she came to gradually and claims it is a test she can handle.
She said: "Nothing will make up for what happened last year. It happened. I will never be happy with it. But I have moved on and put it behind me. It's nothing to do with last year. It was just something that was offered this year by the timetable."


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NBA Playoffs, Lakers Vs. Nuggets Game 4 Preview: Andrew Bynum Firepower Needed
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Fighting to stay alive by tying the series in Game 4 on Sunday, the Denver Nuggets expect Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum to make some noise. Bynum, after blocking 10 shots and registering a triple-double in Game 1, followed up with a playoff career-high 27 points in Game 2.
But Bynum said he had no firepower and wasn't prepared for Game 3 at Denver, where he finished scoreless in the first half of a 99-84 loss to the Nuggets. The only way to control the tempo early is pure dominance from Bynum, who can get off to a good start by staying disruptive inside that could limit the Nuggets from driving strongly to the basket. It wasn't easy without Bynum's toughness in Game 3, a game that the Nuggets finished at the rim.
The seven-footer is substantial to the Lakers' run for a championship, and can rebound with great footwork and energy. The 24-year-old center, who overcame a slow start in the first half, scored all 18 of his points in the third and fourth quarters and finished Game 3 with 18 points, 12 rebounds and 2 blocked shots.
He is their star, and his absence has diminished the Lakers. His weakness was exposed, when he was confused by Denver's double-teams, attempting only three shots in the first half. He couldn't corral rebounds, as well, but he wasn't too pleased with himself after it was over.
The Lakers, with their big man citing that he'll be ready on Sunday, have insisted they will be much better than the prior loss that raised a few eyebrows. When Bynum is playing at full strength, JaVale McGee, who had 16 points and outrebounded him in a breakthrough performance, won't have a chance at bullying or even scoring double-digit points.
He's really that player who can change the dynamics of a game with his size, balance and footwork. McGee knows that all too well. If Bynum plays superbly, McGee and the Nuggets are no match for him.
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Today we went to Lanterfanten festival and it was very nice! We worried about the weather but as soon as we got there the sun came out. I didn't have a chance to make a lot of photo's, but I did make these and a couple of Instagram ones I will maybe show in another post. It gives a small impression of this wonderful initiative and I do hope next year there will be another edition! I especially loved DJ Blue Flamingo a.k.a. Ziya Ertekin. I just love that kind of music! Thank you so much Joëlle and Marielle for organizing this day!


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Anytime parents are divided, children are put in the middle, regardless of the intentions of the parents. And when the division revolves around matters of child custody and religious beliefs, it is essential that the parties understand what the law does and does not allow. A top-tier San Diego area family law attorney at The Law Office of Thomas M. Huguenor can help you navigate these complex issues.
Leaving questions of religious beliefs aside for the moment, it is helpful to understand the basic concepts of child custody. In a situation where parents are separated or divorcing, ideally, they will be able to work together to reach an agreement on how the child will spend his or her time with both parents as well as all other matters. Of course, not every situation is ideal.
When parents disagree, the court can intervene and award either legal or physical custody of the child to one parent or the other. This is when the court investigates the circumstances of the family to make a decision that is in the best interests of the child.
Physical custody has to do with where the child will primarily physically reside or spend the majority of his or her time. This type of custody can be awarded either jointly, where the parents share equally, or solely to one parent or the other.
Legal custody, however, is an entirely different matter. This concept reflects the stark reality and responsibility of parenting a minor child and defines the roles of the parents. Again, legal responsibility can be awarded jointly or solely. This means that the parents can equally share the decision-making, or that one or the other can be primarily responsible. And the adoption of religious practices falls within this concept of legal custody.
Because of the separation of church and state, there is a fine line for the court in handling religious differences of parents in a custody dispute. The parents, of course, have their individual First Amendment rights to the free exercise of their religion, while the court's job is to act in the best interests of the child.
California follows the standard that a parent's right to raise their child under their religious beliefs will only be imposed upon if that right creates an actual or substantial harm to the child. Simple exposure to multiple religions does not, in and of itself, rise to that level but engaging in religious acts that might cause harm could be considered by the court.
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Q: Regarding the security of javascript for submitting proper data to servers I was wondering if it was possible for users to edit the javascript on a page.
For example, if a submit button event handler in javascript has a condition like this:
if (!txtName.match(/^[\w ]+$/)) {
    alert("Please use only letters, numbers, underscores and spaces in your name.");
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Do I also have to validate the name on the server or can I trust that an improper name cannot be sent to the server? Basically, can the javascript be manipulated by the user to bypass this sort of check?
If not, could packet injection be used to submit an invalid name? I don't know much about security so I was just curious about these sorts of issues.... Okay thanks!

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Do I also have to validate the name on the server

Yes

or can I trust that an improper name cannot be sent to the server?

No

Basically, can the javascript be manipulated by the user to bypass this sort of check?

Manipulated.
Turned off.
When it comes to validation, it can only be used to save the user time (but avoiding server round trips), not security.

Could packet injection be used to submit an invalid name?

Yes.
Manually constructing an HTTP request would be much easier though.

A: You must perform server-side validation too. As you've pointed out, there are numerous ways to inject information. For one, they can just turn Javascript off. Or, they can intercept and modify the network request.
Client-side should only be used to supplement, and not replace, server-side validation.

A: Always validate on the server side. You should never trust data posted to your server and can lead to serious security risks.


CHICAGO — Chicago police and representatives for Jussie Smollett weren't speaking publicly about the investigation into a reported attack on the Empire actor a day after authorities said the case had "shifted" and they wanted to interview Smollett again.
The trajectory of the investigation "shifted" after detectives questioned two brothers about the attack and released them late Friday without charges, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Saturday. He said police also reached out to Smollett's attorney to request the follow-up interview with him.
Smollett's lawyers said late Saturday that the actor felt "victimized" by reports that he played a role in the assault, adding that, "Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying." The statement from attorneys Todd Pugh and Victor P. Henderson also said Smollett would continue co-operating with police.
"It is impossible to believe that this person could have played a role in the crime against Jussie or would falsely claim Jussie's complicity," they said.
Producers of the Fox television drama have supported Smollett, saying his character on Empire, James Lyon, was not being written off the show.


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Pak Kadiak: Smartphone may cause trouble in GE-13
February 28, 2013 by dinobeano
by Hazlan Zakaria@http://www.malaysiakini.com
A veteran media practitioner believes that the common smartphone, and its more than common capabilities, may cause trouble in the 13th General Election (GE-13), if authorities are not prepared for it.
"This coming election may not be as smooth if the people involved in the process do not pay attention to the power of the smartphone," said blogger and veteran editor A Kadir Jasin at a forum on the changing landscape of media in the face of the upcoming general election in Kuala Lumpur today.
"In GE-13 things can be complicated and go wrong if you don't preempt. Unless you can ban the smartphone, there may be problems," he argued.
Kadir said that this is because all sorts of rumours, chit-chat and false news can be conveniently spread on the devices which can lead to low voter turnouts or crisis situations. He warned that a single picture of an alleged unverified incident somewhere going viral through smartphones may cause untold problems at the thousands of voting centres nationwide.
His views of the ascendancy of smartphones were shared by fellow forum panellist and The Star Executive Editor Wong Sai Wan, though with a different tack.
Instead of believing that smartphones are key to chaos, Wong said that they are the kingmakers of GE-13 which he argued will not be won by issues or debates but by a single picture of a political personality doing something controversial.
"Much like the photo of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah which cost Semangat 46 quite a few votes," recounted the senior journalist. The 1990 photos of Razaleigh, popularly known as Ku Li, allegedly wearing a headdress with a the Christian cross on it caused a stir in Malaysian politics and brought down his hopes of victory in that year's general election.
In GE13, either side may use this method and use the smartphones' instantaneous means of information transfer to great effect, said Wong.
'Info spread more effectively via handphones'
The viral nature of smartphone information transfer and its possible use to stir chaos or win elections, whether in a dirty way or not, is supported by findings made by the third member of the forum panel, Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) journalism doyen Syed Arabi Idid.
During his speech, Syed Arabi said that information is spread more effectively via handphones rather than through newspapers or even radio and television.
He cited a case on the passing away of a prominent personality, when he said that most people found out about it almost immediately from handphone calls and word-of-mouth.
The almost instantaneous speed of information transfer available via gadgets in the numerous hands of the public has led to a sea-change in politics and campaigning, as instead of controlling its flow, even governments are at the mercy of social media and handphone-wielding members of the public.
Experts stress that information now is no longer for mass distribution but for individual consumption.
Posted in civil society issues, Democracy, Elections, History, Human Rights, Politics.
Former ISA Detainee admits to processing I/Cs for Illegals In Sabah
by Zulaikha Zulkifli @http://www.malaysiakini.com
A former ISA detainee has claimed she and her group had helped process "thousands of identity cards" for Sabah illegal immigrants in the early 1990s to help topple the PBS state government.
Sixty-three-year-old Siti Aminah Mahmud (right) was detained under ISA in 1995 for two years for her alleged involvement in the IC project.
Speaking at a press conference in Petaling Jaya today, she described how she had been tasked with collecting information for the illegal immigrants' IC application and handing the issued ICs to village chiefs throughout Sabah, to be issued to foreigners who were mostly Indonesians and Filipinos.
Siti Aminah said she had been instructed to facilitate the issuance of ICs for the foreigners as part of a plan to help UMNO take over Sabah."It was in the early 1990s, I was told to help UMNO to contest in Sabah and defeat PBS by conducting Project IC in Sabah.
"There were five tasks for me – helping to campaign, increasing Malay voters, locating villagers in rural areas especially those who have no IC at the border of Sabah-Indonesia, and ensuring the victory of UMNO in toppling PBS," she said at the press conference, where PKR Wanita Chief Zuraida Kamaruddin was also present.
Originally from Sabah and residing in Skudai, Johor, Siti Aminah was a member of Johor Baru UMNO then and was asked by her cousin, who was also an UMNO member, to help the party in Sabah.
She was continuously involved in the covert operation from 1990 to 1994, before she was detained under the ISA in 1995 over the operation.
Siti Aminah claimed the instruction was from the late Sabah UMNO chief Datu Mustapha Datu Harun, who allegedly told her that the project was led by the then Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and executed by the Deputy Home Minister Megai Junid Megat Ayub and Mahathir's Political Secretary Aziz Shamsuddin.
"I knew about it because Datu Mustapha told us not to be afraid about getting arrested. He said this is Mahathir's and Megat Junid's project, and he said if he helps UMNO to win, he would be appointed as state governor. He said so during a mass briefing at the UMNO office in Sembulan, Kota Kinabalu in the early 1990s," she claimed.
'Documents prepared within a month'
Elaborating on the operation, Siti Aminah said the related documents were prepared within a month after the forms were processed.
"We gave out the forms and later handed them over over to the National Registration Department (NRD) and the UMNO office in Sembulan. After that, we just distributed the completed ICs to Village chiefs.I don't know (the village chiefs). We went in a group of five. One recorded (the details), one collected fingerprints, and I sometimes arranged forms. I went to Sabah twice a week.We found a village, we gathered several people without ICs. The motive was indeed (to give them ICs)," she explained.
Among others, the IC were given to a group of Indonesians in a Felda area in Sandakan, she claimed.
"After collecting the forms, we handed them over to the NRD and the UMNO office. Not some but in bags. The process to get ICs would be completed in a month or slightly more than that.After we submitted the forms, the process took a month and the ICs will be completed and distributed back to the villages."
Siti Aminah claimed that those ICs can be identified by the special code printed on the back of the ICs.
"The project IC code is 04 and 05. It is on the back of the ICs. Only NRD people can identify them."
From 1990 to early 1995, when Mahathir was Prime Minister, the average number of ICs given to Filipinos and Indonesians was nothing less than half a million, according to her estimation.
"The areas with the highest numbers were Tawau, Sandakan, Lahad Datu and Kota Kinabalu, as well as areas at the Tawau-Indonesia border. Another area was Semporna. Many were given there because many Filipinos were there."
Some 100 persons in her team were individuals who were not working with NRD. They also told the Village chiefs who collected the ICs from them to help inform those IC holders to vote for UMNO.
She did not know whether the Village chiefs had received any money, but she and her team received no pay except a transport allowance.
"I volunteered myself and I went there to fight for UMNO because I was an UMNO member in Johor then. Hence, I was called to campaign in Sabah."
Although not summoned to testify in the ongoing public hearing of the royal commission of inquiry on the Sabah immigrants issue, Siti Aminah hoped she will be given the opportunity to tell her story to the Royal Commission.
Posted in civil society issues, Democracy, Elections, Governance, History, Human Rights, Justice, Politics, Religion, Security.
Former UMNO Treasurer sued for cheating, deceit and forging documents
by Hafiz Yatim@http://www.malaysiakini.com
Sixty British investors through Fiscal Capital Sdn Bhd have filed a RM12 million suit against a firm owned by former UMNO Treasurer Abdul Azim Mohd Zabidi for cheating, deceit and forging documents in the purchase of six telecommunication switches.
The investors had approached the Chambers of Kamarul Hisham and Hasnal Rezua and had filed the suit on February 20 at the Kuala Lumpur High Court. Ampang MP Zuraida Kamaruddin, in a press conference today, said the investors had lodged a police report on October 5, 2011, but they complained that action had been slow.
She claimed that they only started investigations last month. Zuraida said the matter had been brought to the attention of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and also Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Mukhriz Mahathir while they were in the United Kingdom, but there had been no progress.
Lawyer Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin said the matter has been fixed for case management on March 21. He, along with partner Hasnal Rezua Merican, said the Police have sent the case to the Attorney-General's Chambers but he got to know that the A-G had returned the papers to the Police.
"We cannot understand the slowness of the authorities' action despite a police report having been lodged more than a year ago. Following this, our clients have asked us to come out to exert pressure," he said.
The investors, through Fiscal City Sdn Bhd, named Doxport Technology (M) Sdn Bhd, and its directors Abdul Azim (left), Gurmeet Kaur and Sivalingam Techinamoorthy as defendants. Abdul Azim is also the chairperson of Doxport Technology.
Complaint to House of Lords
The victims had also complained to British politicians including Lord Ahmed of Rotherham, who will bring this matter up at the House of Lords next month.
Lord Ahmed, who was not present, said in a statement that a number of British MPs have been aware of the background to this unsettling case for several years, where British citizens and investors have made serious allegations involving misappropriation of funds.
"I have personally raised this issue with senior members of the Malaysian government. As the investors have stated to me, their demand is non-malicious and plain. They are seeking natural justice to take its course and any alleged perpetrators brought to book," he said.
"I appeal to the executive and its representatives to continue to support and facilitate the due process, which is in the interest of Malaysia's international reputation as a reliable hub for inward investment and trade," he said.
According to Hasnal, the investors had invested US$4 million (RM12 million) since 2008, to purchase the switches and have a stake in Doxport Technology.
The plaintiffs claimed that they had paid RM6.9 million for the purchase of the switches and another RM5.8 million to purchase the stake. The six switches were then purchased and placed in Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Saigon, Singapore, Manila and Hong Kong.
They claimed that since the switches were in operation it had generated revenue and that the investors should have received the return for their investments, for helping purchase the switches.
The investors claimed Doxport Technology had made false representations, based on fraudulent documents. They approached Lord Ahmed and also the British High Commission over Doxport's failed business.
The plaintiffs further claimed that the defendants had made a misrepresentation to them resulting in them to suffer further economic losses.
Hence, the defendants are seeking RM6.9 million which they had fork out to purchase the switches and another RM5.8 million for the stake in the company along with general, aggravated and exemplary damages.
Posted in business, Corruption, Finance, Language, Legal Suit, Politics.
BN likely to win between 123 and 135 seats, says ASLI
by Dr. Michael Yeoh@http://www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: The upcoming 13th general election will be a much-anticipated, most exciting and nail-biting election in the country's history.
Speculation on the election date has gone on for almost one year. The options for the election timing is getting shorter. It is expected that the GE will be held on April 14 or 21.
There are three possible outcomes for the coming election:
Scenario 1: The present status quo remains
Scenario 2: A reduced majority for BN
Scenario 3: BN regains two-thirds majority
There are 222 parliamentary seats in the country, of which about 150 are Malay–Bumiputera seats, 30 mixed seats and 42 Chinese-majority seats.
In the 2008 elections, BN won 140 seats and the Opposition won 82 seats. A further breakdown shows that UMNO won 79 seats, MCA 15 seats, MIC three and Gerakan two, PKR won 31 seats, DAP 28 seats and PAS 23 seats.
From our analysis, it is becoming quite clear that the rural population has largely returned to BN, in particular rural Malays has largely shifted back to UMNO. In this regard, UMNO is expected to win more seats than in 2008. It is likely that UMNO may win 85 to 90 parliamentary seats, up from their existing 79 seats. There is also a clear trend that Indian voters in rural and semi urban areas have also shifted back to BN. However, the urban voters are largely still with Pakatan Rakyat.
Even though urban Malay voters may support Pakatan and even if more urban Malays were to support Pakatan in the urban seats, it will not increase seats for Pakatan as these urban seats are already held by DAP. However, the urban voters are still very much with the opposition in particular. The urban Chinese are very strongly supporting the DAP.
As high as 85 percent of urban Chinese may vote for the DAP. This will increase the DAP's numbers of seats won to 35-40 seats, up from the 28 seats DAP won in 2008, making DAP the biggest Opposition party in Pakatan.
Chinese voters still pro-Opposition
The Prime Minister's hope is that his various outreach programmes to the Chinese community can win over some of the undecided Chinese voters but that is still a difficult challenge. Most of the Chinese seems to have made up their mind.
Some older Chinese and the Chinese business community may want to give Najib Abdul Razak a chance. They value peace, stability and prosperity and like Najib's engaging style, like his presence at the Dong Zong Chinese New Year open house.
In a recent roundtable and study on the main concerns of the Chinese community organised by ASLI's Centre for Public Policy Studies, it was determined that the main issues of concern to the Chinese community are crime and corruption, education, cost of living, fairness and justice, cultural and religious issues, lack of civil service participation and lack of meritocracy.
These have caused frustrations among the Chinese voters. However, if the Malay and Indian swing back to UMNO-BN is strong, it will help MCA and Gerakan in the mixed seats where Malay voters account for higher than 40 percent and Indian voters are between 10-15 percent of the constituencies, such as Padang Serai and Gopeng.
Many of the undecided voters will want to see who are the candidates being put up by the parties and how the campaign unfolds. A gaffe or a mistake can be very costly during the campaign period.
The campaign can be a dirty campaign with a lot of personal attacks and accusations thrown by both sides. Surprises can be revealed during the campaign.
Najib (right) will campaign from a position of strength. His popularity and personality and his hard work and tenacity can win him a lot of support. Obviously, he is more popular than his party.
Najib's proven track record in the transformation programmes and economic performance with the 6.4 percent GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2012 stands him and the BN government in good stead.
On the other hand, there is some urban dissatisfaction on the abuses of power, human rights violations, crime and corruption.
BN should win Kedah and Perak
In Sarawak, Chief Minister Abdul Taib Mahmud will deliver 100 percent of his PBB seats to the BN and hence secure the majority of Sarawak seats. However, the PRS and SPDP may lose a couple of Dayak seats to PKR.
The SUPP will come under a strong challenge from DAP and could lose all its Chinese majority seats to DAP but win back Sibu with a new strong candidate and retain the Dayak majority seat of its deputy president Richard Riot, hence winning two out of its six parliamentary seats.
In Sabah, Sabah UMNO should be able to do well, leading the BN to regain control of the state government. Again DAP will win in several more Chinese-majority seats.
In Peninsular Malaysia, the MCA seats that will hard fought are Gelang Patah, Kulai and Tanjung Piai in Johor and Lumut in Perak. These seats can be vulnerable.
On the other hand, MCA has a good chance of winning back Padang Serai, Gopeng and Selayang should there be a strong Malay and Indian vote swing back to BN.
In the state contests, Pakatan should retain Kelantan and Penang but will face a strong challenge from BN. In Penang, if the Malay swing is strong, UMNO may win 17 Malay seats and if MCA and Gerakan can win just four more seats, BN will narrowly regain Penang.
The fight for Selangor will be the toughest and it is 50:50 for either side. BN should win Kedah and Perak where the Malay swing back to UMNO could help UMNO win back PKR and PAS state seats in Perak although the DAP will still likely hold on to all its Chinese-majority seats in Perak.
Margin of BN's victory uncertain
In the final analysis, the BN will win the 13th general election. The only uncertainty remains in the size of the majority.
From our analysis, BN is expected to win between 123 to 135 seats. This is the most likely outcome. However, if the Malay and Indian vote swing back to BN is very strong and Najib is able to bring back more undecided Chinese, BN can win up to 150 seats, which will restore the BN's two-thirds majority. This outcome will be a difficult challenge.
The third scenario is the BN retains about the same number of seats around 140, which it won in 2008. Nevertheless what can be certain is that the two big winners in the coming elections will be UMNO and DAP.
What is also important to consider is the shape of the post-GE13 government. Will there be a new political realignment? Will UMNO seeks a new alliance with PAS for Malay and Muslim unity? How will this impact on the non-Malays and non-Muslims?
Will the two big expected election winners UMNO and DAP seek a new political realignment?Nothing is impossible after the general election. After all, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies in politics. These are the sort of post-election scenarios that need to be also considered.
Dr. MICHAEL YEOH is Chief Executive Officer, Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (ASLI) and Deputy Chairperson of the Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS).
Posted in civil society issues, Democracy, Elections, Governance, Politics.
The Lahad Datu Standoff: Another Point of View
by Lt Gen (Rtd) Datuk Seri Zaini Mohd Said | panglima_sauk70@hotmail.com
LIKE many happenings in the realm of national security, the ones often thought unlikely and even impossible to happen will. Old military hands had already learned this and will constantly remind themselves to expect the unexpected to occur, somehow.
Long ago, the United States experienced Pearl Harbour and then the 9/11 attack. We had among others, things like the Al Maunah arms heist at our military camps, the two-person samurai sword attack in Putrajaya and now the incursion and entrenchment in Sabah of armed soldiers of the Sultanate of Sulu on Feb 12. All of these were mostly unexpected.
Those in the business of defence and security are conscious of threats that can emanate from outside or from within the country. However, they can never predict and picture fully the actual and detailed form these threats can manifest themselves. These, therefore, can still surprise.
We were surprised by the incursion of the soldiers and their demand for Sabah to be handed back to the Sultanate of Sulu or else they would fight — to the death if necessary. It was also some surprise to many as to the manner they made their demand, with more than 100 armed men, in Sabah, and, headed by a royal member from the sultanate.
Not unexpectedly, many are questioning why they were able to land in the first place and why it is taking so long to evict or apprehend them, forcibly if need be.
Understandable, questions from reasonable minds but since the operation and delicate process of urging them to leave is ongoing, it is best to let the authorities go about doing their job and wait for the complete answers to come once there is full closure of the matter.
In the meantime, there is little need for worry or cause for alarm. Indications are that the authorities and Police are on top of the situation and are prepared for any eventuality.
The Sulu soldiers are also reported to begin to lose their nerve and tiring fast. Even our military is close by and ready to come in if needed. It should not be too difficult for the security forces to end the standoff by use of force at all.
We should, however, pray that this will not be necessary. It would certainly affect and jeopardise the effort and our role as the facilitator towards getting the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Manila peace accord finalised and the establishment of the Bangsamoro state in southern Philippines.
If force were to result in many casualties on the Sulu side, then Malaysia's plans and prospects of helping and participating in the development in the land of the Moros will diminish. It cannot be easy when there are to be vengeful and angry people from within the population there.
In any case, it is believed that they had not come intending to fight us or our security forces. That they came led and dressed in recognisable military uniforms with clear insignias is not to appear intimidating but to be identified as a bona fide and organised military body and not terrorists or common criminals.
A recognition that would entitle them to be regarded and treated under all the provisions of the international law on land warfare and the Geneva Convention as military combatants. A status they could nevertheless lose if they were to make monetary or other material demands over what has already been stated.
This must have been clear to our authorities and that probably explains the present strategy of urging them to leave peacefully and not giving in to any inappropriate demand, being the most appropriate option to pursue.
Avoid the shooting part at all costs for it will never ever end in that part of the world and not with the Moros.
Posted in ASEAN, civil society issues, Defence, Diplomacy, Elections, military affairs, Philosophy, Poetry.
Pakatan Rakyat Manifesto for GE-13: Some Glaring Omissions
by Malaysiakini (02-26-13)
Pakatan Rakyat has drawn up many bold and far-reaching promises in its manifesto, which has the potential of transforming Malaysia at its very core. However, the document – dubbed as 'The People's Pact, The People's Hope' manifesto – does contain some glaring omissions, which made it inconsistent with the coalition's policies.
A list of five key issues, chosen by Malaysiakini, follows:
1. Goods and services tax
The BN government has been playing around with the idea of implementing the goods and services tax (GST) since the Abdullah Ahmad Badawi administration.
And although the necessary law has since been tabled in 2009, all the signs are pointing to a post-general election implementation. The Najib Abdul Razak administration, however, had argued that the GST is essential to help sustain the debt-laden federal government, and in widening the tax base beyond the present crop of 1.7 million taxpayers.
Pakatan was opposed to the idea, with PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim stressing that the new tax will burden the lower-income group. However, there is no mention of any move to scrap the proposed Goods and Services Bill in the Pakatan Rakyat manifesto.
2. The Indian and disabled communities
Most of the nation's minority groups, from Orang Asli to the indigenous people of Sabah and Sarawak, received considerable mentions in Pakatan's manifesto, with the exceptions of the Indian and disabled communities, who had been left out.
The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has long highlighted the main problems that are faced by the Indian community – such as obtaining equal economic opportunities and land concessions for the construction of Tamil schools – that has so far not been resolved during Pakatan's reign in the Penang and Selangor states.
It has also been considered strange that Pakatan did not outline its policies for the disabled community. In Selangor and Penang, the state government had ensured that there was representation from the disabled community in the local government bodies to formulate policies for barrier-free access.
3. Local government elections
Local government elections were suspended in 1964, and since then, DAP has been actively championing the restoration of the elections which it argued would bring about greater efficiency and transparency to the operations of local authorities.
Last year, the DAP-led Penang government passed a law which was designed to allow such elections, but the Election Commission (EC) had decided not to comply. The matter is expected to be brought to court soon.
That was as close as DAP has gotten thus far. But judging from Pakatan's manifesto, which makes no mention of the matter, they might not get much further even if Pakatan takes over Putrajaya.
It is widely believed that PAS and PKR are not in favour of the idea, and are comfortable with the present system of having political appointees in the running of local government bodies.
4. Freedom of information
In many modern democracies, public access to government documents is a right. Both Selangor and Penang have passed the necessary laws meant to facilitate this service, but in truth, the mechanism for such a service has yet to be in place.
Perhaps the fact that the laws are currently still window-dressing for both the Selangor and Penang administrations, resulted in this policy being left out of Pakatan's manifesto. On the other hand, BN has been noted to be opposed to such measures.
5. Asset declarations
Pakatan has been hounding the BN leaders who hold public office to declare their assets, but the former had not pledged to do so in their manifesto. However, the coalition has implemented this system for the state cabinet members in Selangor and Penang, whereas the Kedah and Kelantan states had chosen not to follow suit.
Posted in civil society issues, Democracy, Elections, Governance, Human Rights, Justice, Politics.


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