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A blog post from March 12, 2007 discusses the the by-election for the district council representative in the Kam Ying Constituency of the Sha Tin District Council:

Commentators at the blog pointed out that the pro-Beijing elements have apparently adopted a strategy — in middle-class districts (such as Kam Ying), they will run professionals or local powerhouses as candidates without any apparent political affiliation (only to be revealed after winning the election); in their traditional strongholds, they will obviously raise their banners high. Tong Po Chun may be the first test case of a “submerged professional.” Have we reached an age in which party affiliation is a political liability?

On May 21 there was another by-election, this time for the Kai Yip district Kwun Tong. The result? “On this day, it would seem that both sides got all the votes out that they could. But the DAB happened to have more votes.”

On June 21 there is a discussion in this post by Derek Greyhound of why the pan-democrats have not done well against the DAB in DC by-elections after 2003.

Hong Kong’s most famous and influential English-language blogger, Roland Soong, has taken an interest in our coverage of the District Council elections. He writes: “District Council election can be very interesting because one can bring in demographic data, history, personalities and local party politics.” This week he posted a series of translations of blog posts on district council elections written by “a former political insider.” You can click here to read the whole thing.

A blog post from March 12, 2007 discusses the the by-election for the district council representative in the Kam Ying Constituency of the Sha Tin District Council:

Commentators at the blog pointed out that the pro-Beijing elements have apparently adopted a strategy — in middle-class districts (such as Kam Ying), they will run professionals or local powerhouses as candidates without any apparent political affiliation (only to be revealed after winning the election); in their traditional strongholds, they will obviously raise their banners high. Tong Po Chun may be the first test case of a “submerged professional.” Have we reached an age in which party affiliation is a political liability?

On May 21 there was another by-election, this time for the Kai Yip district Kwun Tong. The result? “On this day, it would seem that both sides got all the votes out that they could. But the DAB happened to have more votes.”

Today we start the class with veteran photographer Siuki Yip, who will discuss what makes a good news photograph. He will take a look at some of the photographs you posted to the NMW Flickr group and pick out a few examples for discussion about what works and what doesn’t work.

We will then go through a quick and dirty Photoshop tutorial to make sure that everybody knows how to crop, adjust, resize, and save their photos for the web.

Other important Photoshop how-to’s from the J-lab:
Preparing Images and Photos for the Web
Checking and Changing Resolution
Getting Familiar with Photoshop I
Getting Familiar with Photoshop II
Editing Photographs

We will then upload our properly cropped and resized photos onto our blogs, and learn a little bit about custom formatting with a little HTML.

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This is me, teaching.

Here are some of my students.

Download: Test audio

This is a sample post to show how I would like this week’s assignment to be constructed. I want you to write one or two paragraphs introducing your subject in this space. Here is how the assignment is described on the Course Schedule:

Assignment: (DUE BY END OF SUNDAY APRIL 1ST FOR BJ AND END OF WEDNESDAY April 4th FOR MJ) Interview one of your classmates about the topic of his or her final project. Edit this into a 3-minute audio segment. Create a blog post that includes three things: 1. the audio file; 2. a picture of the classmate; 3. a picture he or she took related to his/her topic; 4. 200 words describing the classmate’s topic and motivations for doing the topic. The text should not be a repeat of what was said in the audio segment; it should help to introduce the person and draw our interest to listen to the audio interview. (Check out the course schedule for many links that will help you to edit audio with Audacity on any computer.)