[LJ] The Dark Knight

Since we are doing crime and punishment this term, I thought that it will be apt to watch the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, who is the vigilante of Gotham City.
Proposed date is this coming Friday evening 5 or 6 plus, West Mall.
Interested peeps, please inform me.

[LJ] Terrorism talk on 21 Aug

Resisting the Temptation of Military Force: Non-Military Strategies to Manage Global Risks in the Other War on Terror

> Speaker: Mr. Yee-Kuang Heng (Lecturer inInternational Relations & Research Fellow, Centre for the Study ofTerrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), School of InternationalRelations, University of St. Andrews, U.K.)

> Date: Thursday, 21 August 2008

> Time: 12.15 p.m. - 1.30 p.m

> Venue: Seminar Room 3-5, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772

> Synopsis: Critics of American unilateralism and its predominant focus on ‘hard’ military force tend to overlook multilateral practices that have emerged to combat global terrorism. These have unfortunately gone largely unnoticed, quietly slipping under the radar screen of both public opinion and academic scrutiny. President Bush’s address to the Joint Session of Congress on 20 September 2001 made clear that his war on terror would include dramatic ‘hard’ military strikes which have inevitably garnered the lion’s share of attention, but other initiatives would be less publicised, ‘secret even in success’. This paper seeks to address this imbalance by examining some less noticed cooperative ‘soft’ initiatives against global terror, and reflecting on the implications for International Relations theory, in particular risk and security studies.

Anyone wanna go? Tag or tell me personally.

[LJ] Bioethics Forum 16 Aug (Sat)

Invitation to a Public Forum on "Mixing Human and Animal Tissues: Is such research ethical?”

The Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) has a public forum on human-animal combinations in biomedical research on 16 August 2008, from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm.

If you would like to go, please inform me (in person or tag my blog) by 18 July (Friday)

The Forum seeks to promote discussion on ethical issues relating to human-animal combinations that were raised in the BAC's consultation paper issued early this year, on this subject.

A copy of the Consultation Paper is available at the BAC website: http://www.bioethics-singapore.org/uploadfile/55655%20PMHuman-Animal%20Combination.pdf

[PW] Heritage Fest

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
Christopher Reeves (1952 - 2004)

The Singapore HeritageFest has a segment on "Who's Your Hero?” which is related to the Task 1 on ‘Journeys’. The exhibition is at Suntec City from July 12 to 27.
Anyone interested to go? We can do a learning journey. =D

Another contest which you might be interested in joining is the Heritage Marathon, ala Amazing Race to learn about local heroes and have fun at the same time.

Date	Saturday, 19 July 2008
Time	8.30 to 2.30pm (Registration from 7.45am to 8.15am)
Start Point and End Point	Suntec City Mall's Fountain of Wealth
Registration Fee	$25 (inclusive of GST) per team of four
Registration Closing Date	17 July 2008

[Admin] GP SEM Survey

Can the following students complete an online GP Sem Survey?
Please inform your classmate if they do not have the habit of checking the blog.
If you forgot their MI Link password, please get someone from your class to replace you AND inform me of the change by tagging on the board.
When you have completed the survey, tag my blog. Thanks~

Instructions
Please go to MI Link and click on Survey.
Ensure that you complete EVERY question.
Complete it BEFORE Saturday. Thank you.

07S1
1) Jasmine
2) Adnan
3) Aisyah
4) Kenny
5) Pavan

07A2
1) Christina
2) Jai
3) Bernadette
4) Melvin
5) Melinda

07B4
1) Man Ting
2) Eugene
3) Syazwani
4) Belinda
5) Vans

[Rehearsal] Wed IRP period

Pre U Sem presenters please take note.
Mrs Meya & Mdm Mesenas will be viewing your presentation on Wed IRP period.
We have booked LT 1 for rehearsal.
Please be prepared and bring the necessary materials for presentation.
Powerpoint slides and MM video.

[GPP] Submission

After going through 3 groups of GPP,
the main problems are
1) Aims & plan don't match
2) Task requirements not met
3) Steps of plan are not clear or specific enough
4) No timeline
5) No plan to gather information

The solutions proposed are
1) Think of activities that will match the aims
2) Check the aims and plan meet the task requirements
3) Specify what needs to be considered
4) How to gather info? Survey/ Focus group/ Interview

1st draft: 09 May (Friday)
Final draft (Soft Copy & Hard Copy): 13 May (Wed)
Official submission deadline: 16 May (Fri)

For the upcoming hols, you are to do your individual EOM (drafts) & gathering of relevant primary info. Please spend your time wisely. Revise for MYE! Even if you score for PW and fail your exam, you will still repeat 1 year.
So long as individually, do your EoM which will be useful to the group's project but you are not expected to meet up more than once.
Use IT platforms effectively. Eg. Wetpaint, NLB Digital Resources, Email, MSN to communicate and compile resources.

Any question, drop me a message! =)