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From inmediahk.net:-
無線電視生活台的《全民開講》一般會在播出前兩天錄影。七月二十四日，原本該播放七月二十二日錄影的節目，內容是關於警權的，除了慣常幾位評論人外，來了兩位被警察拘捕及脫衣搜身的年青人。可是，觀眾在七月二十四日看不到這一集，而且，可能永遠看不到。為甚麼？無線的官方說法是，錄音方面出了問題。
七月下旬，無線《全民開講》的負責人，打算以「警察濫權」及修訂的「搜身指示」作為題目，透過邵家臻，找到麥家蕾及王浩賢兩位，他們與其他十幾位朋友，於去年十月五日，抗議市建局清拆利東街，後被警方帶回警署，警察要求他們脫衣搜身，有女示威者更指有男警經過觀看。
麥家蕾與王浩賢於七月二十二日到達無線電視在將軍澳的錄影廠，出席《全民開講》節目錄影，出席的除了主持邵家臻外，亦有何國良、游清源與涂謹申作為評論嘉賓，無線亦曾邀請香港警察公共關係科派出代表出席，但最後不知何故沒有警方代表出席。麥與王兩人在節目內主要講述被搜身的經過，評論人亦討論了警權問題及搜身指引所涉及的問題，全程大概花了兩小時便完成節目錄影。錄影期間及之後，負責製作的工作人員亦沒有表示有任何技術問題。
節目原定七月二十四日播出，但是，王浩賢發現該集節目沒有播出。王浩賢表示，他於翌日致電該節目的一名編導，她解釋說，當日節目的「聲音錄得唔 好」，所以沒有播出來。王浩賢即時說，他們二人可以來無線補拍，因為，他們覺得這議題重要，希望能願市民知道。該編導說，此事她不能作主，星期六開會，會 再跟監製及導演商量。但是，該編導或任何無線電視代表均沒有主動聯絡二人。
七月二十八日，王浩賢再打電話給該名編導，她表示，開會當日沒有正式討論，而接著的星期四，有其他「hot issue」，要錄影也要再遲一段時間，但至於「遲」到甚麼時候，她也表示不知道。
一位在本港電視台參與電視製作差不多二十年的收音師指出，他從來沒有聽過或試過事後才知道錄音失敗，因為，錄影過程中會用多個喇叭監聽，甚至會回帶 （playback）檢查。另一位在電視台工作了十年的編導亦指出，這是幾乎不可能的，他自己亦沒有試過或聽聞發生這樣事情，他甚至斷定，有人故意臨時把 錄影片段抽起，令人懷疑無線受到某些壓力。
一群關注警權濫用的市民組成了「民權行動組」，決定於星期日( 八月三日)晚上七時半，在旺角西洋菜街舉行一次民間版的「全民開講」，並邀請原有的主持及評論人，以及麥家蕾與王浩賢，一起討論警權，並向市民交待無線電視台「臨時抽片」這事件。

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Been running around not getting quite enough sleep, so updates have slowed down.
House moving.

Da Zhao Temple, the home temple of Qing emperor Kangxi.

A big Buddist scripture wheel.

Some fscking!!!! hot!!!! dry chilli pepper. A small one had my mouth burning!!!! for 10 minutes. AVOID. AT. ALL. COST.
We then took the plane and flew to Chifeng in [...]

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The new Hohhot Museum. Gigantic square in front of the museum. WICKEDLY COOL. MUST. SEE.

Free to get in. Sunday morning. Long queue right before 9am.

Astroturf behind the museum.

Handsome museum staff.

Huge dinosaur. It visited Hong Kong not too long ago.

Ancient rock drawings in Mongolia. These are replicas.

Hmm…

Mongolian mobile tent. Genghis Khan had one which could seat [...]

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Taken at the Temple of South Sea God.

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Kids at the Lady’s school have just written an essay on “My Favourite Movie”. Funny one kid wrote about Snake on a Plane, but this is not what I want to write about.
A few kids wrote about 10,000 B.C., but they all mistook the name of the movie as “1,000,000 B.C.”, when homo erectus (the [...]

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I had the pleasure to visit Tai O during the Dragonboat Festival in 2008.
I don’t think the Dragonboat Festival has been a favourite traditional festival of my generation, and certain not for the younger generation. Traditionally there has been live! TV coverage of dragonboat races in different locations around Hong Kong all morning and early [...]

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I expected a lot more hilarous remake of classic movies, but those clips were far too short (lasting only a second or two). I still like the movie.
At the end, the folks made a movie about Fats Waller (who has nothing to do with the local community). Legend was what the people made of it. [...]

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I have attended two field trips in the last few weeks and took my GPS with me. I created two Google Earth KML files from the GPS data and emailed the Guangzhou file to fellow member of the travel group. Except more than half of the group have absolutely no idea what Google Earth is [...]

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The workflow sucks.I am now deeply convinced of the usefulness of the BT wireless microphone. You could pick up much better sound by sticking that mic close to the speaker, plus any conversation between the speaker and the audience. This beats a shotgun mic. Pretty much ideal for my needs. One little nit to pick: [...]

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Light and small.Excellent movie image quality. Reasonable (to my own standard) low-light movie image quality. Good photo image quality.Reasonable audio quality. I have yet to scrutinze the audio quality given by the BT wireless microphone. Next time may be I’ll bring along my Zoom H2 to pick up some decent sound during meetings and presentations.The [...]

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last night.
We went to see some great conservation/preservation sites and museums, and some not-so-great ones. We listened to two great talks given by the heads of the GZ Cultural Department and the GZ Archaeology Team. Conservation and preservation are hard, and the people doing it all seem to be filled w/ heart and enthusiasm, despite [...]

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to visit a few museums and monuments. Back on Monday nite.
Looks like the weather’s going to be sh*t.

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Considering what the Wikipedia has to say about the Olympic torch relay:-

The relay of the flame from Greece to the site of the modern games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem, with the support of Joseph Goebbels, at the controversial Berlin Olympics as a means to promote Nazi ideology.

I don’t see [...]

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We went to the local public library last Sunday w/ Jasper to pick up some English readings. There I found Arthur (ex-NPCer) with his gigantic desktop computer in the children’s section, occupying one round table all by himself. He recognized me so I went up to him and was just about to ask him WTF [...]

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So Crackberries are selling extremely well. While I really enjoy using mine and wish them well, I am a little worried that the good sales may not last and there might be some tight time ahead.
I have been told that one of the major U.S. law firms has entered a serious budget crunch. The normal [...]

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Link. RIP.

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For the modern homo sapiens with very primitive flint knapping skills (that is, me), once the flint core is smaller than say the size of my fist, direct percussion is a dangerous affair, as demonstrated yesterday. The wound on my hand is not too bad, but I could still squeeze a couple of drops of [...]

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In Jared Diamond’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, on the subject of human drug abuse,

However, archaeologists were long puzzled by slender tubes of unknown purpose that they kept finding in Mayan excavations.

The tubes’ function finally became clear with the discovery of painted vases showing scenes of the tubes’ use: to administer intoxicating [...]

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In a history project I am helping out with, there is a need to convert a bunch of dates from Chinese calendar to Gregorian dates. I googled for solutions, found the Perl library “DateTime::Calendar::Chinese”, and wrote a small script on my FreeBSD machine to show that it works.
It would be good to make a long-term [...]

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