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Film Friday: Optik OptiColour Is a New Color Film (That Goes By Many Names)

A box of Opti Colour 35mm film sits on a yellow paper, surrounded by other colorful Opti Colour film boxes on a blue background. The central box shows icons for weather conditions and "36 EXP ISO 200.

With this Film Friday Review we are shining a light on a new color film that seems to love traveling the world under a multitude of aliases. While we first met this film as Optik Oldschool OptiColour, you might have crossed paths with it under the ORWO Wolfen NC200 or KONO Color 200 monikers.

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CSotD: Monday Miscellany

This would normally raise questions about how benefits are adjudicated in New Zealand, which I’d probably dismiss as Not Of General Interest. Instead, however, it raises the question of how much of an aging nerd do you have to be to recognize Daleks?We used to occasionally catch Doctor Who on CJOH-Ottawa, but didn’t watch it […]

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Medical school organizations sign on to RFK Jr.'s nutrition requirements

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday that numerous medical school accrediting organizations and assessors have agreed to increase nutrition requirements for U.S. medical education. HHS said in a release that eight medical school organizations had agreed to "increase nutrition requirements at every level of U.S. medical education, competency-evaluation, training, and residency."...

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Hong Kong principal who swore at 2 guards in Singapore suspended; online debate on racism, bad behaviour ensues

SINGAPORE: After the principal of a secondary school from Hong Kong was caught in a viral video where he behaved rudely toward two security guards during a trip to Singapore, reports say that he has been suspended.

San Wui Commercial Society Secondary School in Tuen Mun has apologised for the incident, which is now under investigation by the authorities in Singapore, according to the South China Morning Post.

β€œThe school expresses its deepest apologies regarding this matter. The school and its sponsoring body have always placed the utmost importance on the professional conduct of our faculty and staff,” the statement from the school reads.

Meanwhile, SCMP also said that a debate emerged online in Hong Kong after the incident, over whether racism or poor behaviour was a factor in the principal’s actions.

The incident

A video was spread on Threads last week showing Lee Cheuk-hing,Β the school principal, standing in the doorway of a bus having a heated discussion with two female guards. He then proceeded to taunt and shout at them, despite efforts from at least three onlookers to get him to calm down.

The incident, which allegedly occurred over a parking dispute, is said to have occurred on May 22 at a location in Jurong.

Hours after it was announced that Singapore would be investigating the incident, the manager of the school, Edmund Wong Chun-sek, said that Mr Lee had been suspended as his conduct during the incident did not meet public expectations. Moreover, Mr Wong, a former lawmaker, added that the school’s board wished to show that they were resolved to address the matter.

β€œThough he said he wanted to protect the students, his actions did not meet what the public expects of a school principal,” SCMP quoted Mr Wong as saying.

Online debate

A debate among Hong Kong’s netizens ensued after the video was widely shared and news of the principal’s behaviour was reported on, especially as the guards that Mr Lee had shouted at are South Asian women. Commenters have pointed to the difference between how the principal interacted with the women, as opposed to a female Chinese passerby.

While the principal had shouted β€œYou shut up!” to the guards, he told the other woman that he would listen to her as she was β€œvery polite.”

β€œI like you,” he told her.

That interaction may be found here.

A commenter on r/HongKong wrote, β€œYou just know he’s speaking to them that way because of their race. As soon as he has to interact with the local Singaporeans of Chinese ethnicity, he changes his tactics completely.”

β€œThe moment a Chinese woman says the same thing the Malay security guards are trying to get him to do, he listens,” pointed out another.

Others, however, focused on how the principal’s bad behaviour was a poor example for the school’s students.

β€œIf you are a school principal, regardless of the situation (unless life threatening), it makes most sense you β€˜take the high road’ and lead by example as a good role model in front of your students,” one pointed out.

β€œWhen visiting another country, respect the laws of the country. What is he teaching the students? A principal should be a role model, and yet he isn’t acting as a role model. Every time someone lands in another country, he represents his country of their passport. Funny how he represents his country and his school behaving like he is at home,” another chimed in. /TISG

Read also: Hong Kong authorities say action may be taken after school principal’s swearing incident on Singapore trip

This article (Hong Kong principal who swore at 2 guards in Singapore suspended; online debate on racism, bad behaviour ensues) first appeared on The Independent Singapore News.

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