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🇨🇦 加拿大「救生艇計劃」詳情 —— 「青年人才」政策
隨著北京政府強行通過《港版國安法》並取消四位民主派議員議席,加拿大移民部長於本月12號公佈「#救生艇計劃」,希望填補英國及澳洲現有計劃的空缺,為更多香港抗爭者提供安全離開香港的機會。
加國「救生艇計劃」主要分為三個部分,其中一個針對「#青年人才」,政策內容如下:
優先處理香港學生之留學簽證申請;
為任何持有香港特區或英國公民(海外)護照的大專院校畢業生(過去五年內畢業)提供三年工作簽證,成為將來入籍的途徑。同時,申請者的伴侶及兒女亦可申請留學或工作簽證;
為畢業於加拿大大專院校的香港人、或擁有最少一年加拿大工作經驗並符合語言以及教育要求的香港人,包括申請者身處當地的直系親屬提供入籍成為永久性居民的途徑。
我們將於明天、後天繼續講解「#庇護」以及「#家庭團聚」政策,欲知更多詳情亦可留意Hong Kong Watch 社交平台或加拿大政府移民、難民以及公民部網站。
🇨🇦 Explainer of Canada’s Lifeboat Scheme —— “Young Talents Policy”
Following China's brutal imposition of the National Security Law and the National People’s Congress’ decision of disqualifying 4 pro-democracy legislators, Canada joined the U.K. and Australia in offering a “Lifeboat Scheme” to Hongkongers.
Canada’s Lifeboat Scheme was split into three major distinctive components, including “Young Talents”, “Asylum” and “Family Reunification”.
Details of "Young Talents" Policy are as follows,
Prioritizing Hong Kong students’ study visa applications.
Providing a three-years work visa for individuals with a Hong Kong passport or BN(O) passport who have graduated from post-secondary institutions in the past five years. Eligible spouses or common-law partners, as well as dependent children, can also apply for a study or work permit.
Providing pathways to citizenship for former Hong Kong residents who have graduated from a post-secondary institution in Canada and individuals who have gained a minimum of 1 year of authorized work experience in Canada and meet other criteria such as minimum language and education levels. In-Canada spouses, partners, and dependent children of applicants will also be included.
For more details, please refer to our website or Canada’s Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Department.
📍更多資訊 MORE DETAILS
🔗 Hong Kong Watch’s Explainer
https://www.hongkongwatch.org/all-posts/2020/11/24/canadas-lifeboat-scheme-for-hong-kongers-hkw-explainer
🔗 Guidance for special measures to support Hong Kong residents to come to Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/service-delivery/hong-kong.html
🔗 Canada announces immigration measures supporting Hong Kong residents and Canadians in Hong Kong
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2020/11/canada-announces-immigration-measures-supporting-hong-kong-residents-and-canadians-in-hong-kong.html
#HongKongWatch #香港監察
#CanadaLifeboatScheme #加拿大救生艇計劃
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交通大學IBM中心特別邀請到ECE Department at New York University 的 Prof. H. Jonathan Chao 前來為我們演講,歡迎有興趣的老師與同學免費報名參加!
演講標題:CFR-RL: Traffic Engineering with Reinforcement Learning in SDN
演 講 者:Prof. H. Jonathan Chao (ECE Department at New York University)
時 間:2020/01/20(一) 15:00 ~ 17:00
地 點:交大工程四館816室
活動報名網址:https://forms.gle/k5txEfTX6jM7PBR98
聯絡方式:曾紫玲 Tel:03-5712121分機54599 Email:tzuling@nctu.edu.tw
Abstract:
Traffic Engineering (TE) is one of important network features for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with an aim to help Internet Service Providers (ISPs) optimize network performance and resource utilization by configuring the routing across their backbone networks. Although TE solutions can achieve the optimal or near-optimal performance by rerouting as many flows as possible, they do not usually consider the negative impact, such as packet out of order, when frequently rerouting flows in the network. To mitigate the impact of network disturbance, one promising TE solution is forwarding the majority of traffic flows using Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) and selectively rerouting a few critical flows using SDN to balance link utilization of the network. However, critical flow rerouting is not trivial because the solution space for critical flow selection is immense. Moreover, it is impossible to design a heuristic algorithm for this problem based on fixed and simple rules, since rule-based heuristics are unable to adapt to the changes of the traffic matrix and network dynamics. In this talk, we describe a Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based scheme, called CFR-RL, that learns a policy to select critical flows for each given traffic matrix automatically. It then reroutes these selected critical flows to balance link utilization of the network by formulating and solving a simple Linear Programming (LP) problem. Extensive evaluations show that CFR-RL outperforms the best heuristic by 7.4% - 12.2% and reroutes only 10% - 21.3% of total traffic.
Biography:
H. Jonathan Chao is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at NYU, where he joined in January 1992. He is currently Director of High-Speed Networking Lab. He was Head of ECE Department from 2004-2014. He has been doing research in the areas of software defined networking, network function virtualization, datacenter networks, packet processing and switching, network security, and machine learning for networking. He holds 63 patents and has published more than 265 journal and conference papers. During 2000–2001, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Coree Networks, NJ, where he led a team to implement a multi-terabit router with carrier-class reliability. From 1985 to 1992, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bellcore, where he was involved in network architecture designs and ASIC implementations, such as the world’s first SONET-like Framer chip, ATM Layer chip, Sequencer chip (the first chip handling packet scheduling), and ATM switch chip. He is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for “having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.” He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks. He received Bellcore Excellence Award in 1987. He is a co-recipient of the 2001 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He coauthored three networking books. He worked for Telecommunication Lab in Taiwan from 1977 to 1981. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1977 and 1980, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University in 1985.
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longtailbutterfly, an NSF serving in SCDF, shares a day in his life on Reddit. Thank you for your service.
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"Let's tell a story.
I'm working my 24 hr (work 24 hours, off 48 hours) duty. It's 1100 and I just finished morning lecture (equipment drill and familiarisation) in the engine bay of my fire station. It's a Saturday so our rota (platoon-ish) orders nasi lemak. Coding comes in over the loudspeaker and we turn out to a case of locked door, suspected DOA (decomposing body). Traffic doesn't give way to our LF (red rhino), as per usual (smh). We arrive at the HDB unit and instantly we smell the dead body. The knowledge of smell will come with experience. The niece, who called 995, asks me if her uncle will be ok. I already know the body is decomposing but I reply "We're unsure, but we'll try our best". I lie to her face. My pump operator (PO, and the only regular in the crew) looks at me and grimaces. We've been in this situation together many times before. We easily break the door and the smell intensifies. I go in first, followed by the ambulance (alpha) paramedic. We find the body on the bed in the master bedroom. The paramedic tells me, "About two weeks". The body is severely bloated, skin green and black. The face is unrecognizable as it has bloated too much. Bile attempts to escape from between the discolored lips creating bubbles. The smell is sweet but rotten and my fireman gags. I get the relevant information I need and step out for a breather. The niece looks at me and asks what is going on. I look at her and I know she knows he's dead. "You uncle... has passed away". I turn away to avoid the emotions. Emotions are killers in this line of work.
We get back in time for nasi lemak lunch. The chicken is a bit soggy this week. The smell of rotten flesh lingers in my nostrils. I watch the Malay romantic drama that my enciks chose on the TV. It's ok, the girl is cute.
Before dinner we get another call - unit fire confirm case. We race there and reach before the fire engine (pumper). They're caught in traffic and will take another few minutes. Two firefighters and I proceed to the unit. Instantly the thick black smoke chokes my throat and waters my eyes. I struggle with my breathing cylinder because the air hose delivery tool is stuck between my backplate and my back. I say fuck it, neighbours are already screaming for us to hurry. The pressure escalates but I close myself off from the members of public, just like normal. We all focus. The only things I listen to are my matra (radio) and my fireman. I just wear my facemask for minimal protection and crawl in. The fire is well alight on the stove and I shoot at it. The smoke limits my visibility to 0, I now can't see my fingers as I stretch out my arm. I crawl back out and get stuck on a fallen wire. I panic as I think of my family. Emotions are dangerous. A fire biker crawls in and frees me. We step out and I tell the crew the fire is almost finished but our CAF backpacks are finished (water foam sprayers). I send the firefighters down to set up water supply from hydrant and crawl back in with the firebiker. The smoke makes it feel like someone just threw hot ash down my throat. We extinguish the fire using an ass-washing hose from the kitchen toilet. I am coughing badly but he sprays my face with the hose. The kitchen is badly burnt. I can feel the smoke damage in my lungs. The owner and neighbours pat me on the back and thank me for saving their home as I walk out. I smile but I know I took another step closer to death.
We get back at 2200 and order McDonalds. It is the best Double McSpicy I’ve eaten in a while.
At lunch the next day my friend (SAF LTA) tells me how stressful being an instructor at SAFTI has been recently. I remember as my cylinder got trapped on the fallen wire, and how I thought of my family in those few struggling seconds. I nod my head and grunt. " SAF has it tough with JCC and everything huh?" I joke. He agrees enthusiastically.
All in a day’s work for the NSFs in SPF/SCDF. If we fail, someone dies from our direct actions. Welcome to NS. No second chances or semula. Just death. I wish the public knew the risks that some NSFs take each day. We might not be as fit as NDU or as garang as commandos, but we put our lives on the line literally every day.
As an NSF I can say I have saved many lives, fought many fires and contributed to Singapore. No play acting or training for a war that will never happen (though I understand the incredible need for an armed military). I love my job, I love NS and wouldn't trade it for anything else (maybe an EMT vocation).
I am still amazed that many members of public still associate NS with army. I wish people would know. There's no greater feeling in this world than knowing some uncle I helped rescue on my first duty at 0200 will live to eat his favourite mee pok or talk cock with his kakis because of my direct actions. Pride and care right?
At least I get paid $1400 a month (;
UPDATE: Thanks for overwhelming suppourt. If I knew how big this would get I would have proofread my writing more 😒 (some might say it spread like fire in dry grass during lalang season). I would tell more stories but I know that it would compromise my anonymity so I'll just shut my mouth, and unfortunately since this is a throw away you guys probably won't be hearing from me again.
What were my goals for this post?
To bring awareness to the nature and extent of NSF work in SCDF.
To just get some words off my chest.
This post was NOT meant to:
Bash SAF. I know the importance of a trained military (I believe I addressed this point in my initial post). If we didn't have the National Service Scheme, invading Singapore as Indonesia or Malaysia would be easy af.
Over-dramatise our work. I tried my hardest to write from a neutral stand point and deliver facts about incidents as cold, hard, and true as the Ben&Jerrys ice cream in my freezer however what we do on a daily sometimes makes me ask "Am I in a Michael Bay film?". It happens to the best of us.
If you were offended, I apologise. My intentions were merely to raise awareness for the often overlooked and under-praised "little brother" NSFs in SCDF/SPF. So many of our kind deserve recognition for what they deal with.
One last short bit before signing off.
EMTs (medical assistants in ambulances) have some of the roughest calls out there, no contest. I was having dinner with my buddy from BRT who later became an EMT at a high volume station when he dropped Fat Man 2.0 on me. Traditionally he and I have always been tuned to similar wavelengths as the chaos-utopia nature of our jobs is only shared between a select few.
He's an NSF like me -- 18-22, male, horny. As per the norm we were sharing gossip about events or big incidents in the Force, latest happenings and where that one cute paramedic at 33 is now. We were just digging in to our chow when he told me "I had a casualty die in my hands for the first time".
According to him it's not common for that to happen. I nod my head as I spool my pasta. It's has a thick green sauce and I can't help but think of my last DOA. I throw the idea out of my mind. Work is work, recreation is recreation. Usually when EMS arrives the casualty has a high chance of surviving, albeit sometimes with long lasting or even permanent injuries, or the casualty is dead. "Case of fall from height. The skull was completely smashed," he told me between mouthfuls of food, "I had the guy in a head grip but the harder I held his skull, the more my fingers just... pressed into his brain. There was no structural integrity left in the skull." We continued eating, he had told me of a similar case before. It wasn't new news to either of us. The pasta burns my tongue and I sip on my lemon tea. Too sweet. "Then he just stopped breathing. CPR AED didn't work." It was the first time witnessing the transition from alive to dead. They couldn't resuscitate. We paid the bill and started chitchatting about soccer on the way to the MRT. It was one of eight calls on his 8 hour duty. The food place was way too expensive and I made a mental note to never go back (unless I'm with my parents). Who charges $5 for ice lemon tea? Christ.
There are many duties where I don't get a call the whole 24 hours. If it's a busy day we'll get 3-4. 3-4 for him is a light day. Alpha (ambulance) guys really get it the hardest.
If you know someone who has a similar job, just listen to what they have to say. It's not easy for everyone to transition from seeing a broken family outside a unit containing a dead body to eating breakfast with their fam at their favourite prata house while being all happy smiley. We all get desensitised to death and risking everything but desensitisation doesn't mean it doesn't take a mental toll on our minds and well-being. We don't admit it because it's not garang, but everyone needs to get their thoughts off their chest every once in a while. You can help them by lending a ear (or a hug)."
via: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/4iexp5/a_rant_on_national_service_from_an_nsf/
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英國宣佈持 BNO 可入英藉計劃,香港人終於多條出路!
記得CLS支持下啊
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香港政府工作假期計劃:https://www.whs.gov.hk/en/partners.php?location=uk
英國青年流動計劃:https://www.gov.uk/tier-5-youth-mobility
英國駐香港總領事館:https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/british-consulate-general-hong-kong
申請香港特區護照:https://www.immd.gov.hk/hkt/service/travel_document/apply_for_hksar_passport.html
申請renew BNO:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-apply-for-a-british-national-overseas-passport-from-hong-kong
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