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The Comedy Trio Behind "Drunk Trump" Videos
By Sam Zeff & Sophia Zheng • Jul 20, 2016
The first "Drunk Trump" video has captured over 1.2 million views since it was posted to YouTube last October. We talk with the comedy trio behind its creation and learn what the inspiration was for that and the other videos they create through their Friend Dog Studios.
Seth Macchi studied film and theater at the University of Kansas and is a member of the Kansas City Improv Company.
Ben Auxier is the artistic director of the Kansas City Improv Company.
Brian Huther is a writer, performer, musician and improvisor.
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Parents Of Kids With Autism Find Catharsis And Community In Standup Comedy
By Alex Smith • Mar 17, 2015
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Parenting is a tough job for anyone, but raising children with autism, who often have behavioral or communication problems, can be especially demanding.
Research has shown that parents of children with autism are at increased risk of depression.
But in Kansas City, some of these mothers and fathers are finding a measure of respite, and sympathetic ears, through comedy.
On a recent Thursday night, a handful of parents with kids who have autism took a break from parenting and faced down their latest challenge: stage fright.
With Long-Form Improv, These Funny Kansas City Teenagers Go Beyond Reality ... And Back
By C.J. Janovy • Apr 15, 2016
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Long-form improvisation is a grueling strain of comedy. But some of Kansas City's funniest high school students are embracing it. Undaunted, they've spent the last few months trying, sometimes successfully, to master it.
Comedy audiences know about short-form improv, where a random word thrown out from the crowd provokes a three-minute sketch.


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Discover the Gran Torino fresh pasta line
Special flours
At Pasta & Company, we combine respect for tradition and interest in experimentation. This is why our search leads us to make use of different types of flour, each of which gives our products unique properties and flavors.
A special ingredient makes Pasta & Company products unique: curiosity, combined with a desire to experiment.
This is why, besides the traditional recipes, we offer products with something unique to them, something that will make them outstanding, such as the use of flours having recognized and extraordinary nutritional properties.
Products to be savored, dedicated for gourmets and people who enjoy tickling their palate with a variety of special foods.
Senatore Cappelli durum wheat semolina
This is an ancestor of the modern durum wheat, it has aristas (the fibrils that may be observed in grains) and was obtained by Nazareno Strampelli through genealogic selection in Foggia, in 1915. It is highly nutritional in that its lipids, amino acids, vitamins and minerals content is greater than in ordinary wheat, it is highly digestible, it has never undergone any of the genetic manipulation processes that are typical of present-day agriculture, and it is totally organic.
Antiqua stone-ground flour
is a certified short-chain stone-ground flour produced by Molini Bongiovanni. It made exclusively of grains coming from 45 farms, all them situated in the Piedmont region, that have joined to form a consortium. The use of natural millstones preserves all the nutritional content of the seed, which is rich in fibers (both soluble and insoluble ones, promoting intestinal mobility), natural antioxidants, E vitamin and mineral salts, and is poor in carbohydrates, making for a reduced calorie content.
Not very popular in recent years, this cereal was used widely on ancient times; the Romans used it a lot and it is claimed it was the first species of wheat to be cultivated. Spelt has a slightly higher protein content than corn, contains a small amount of gluten and is low in calorie. It is highly recommended in low-calorie diets, since it has a strong satiating power, it takes little to stay one's hunger.
Buckwheat is not wheat; it belongs to a group of so-called Pseudo-cereals, plants that are totally different from cereals botanically speaking, but yield similar products when processed. Quinoa and amaranth belong to the same group. It is gluten free, and hence it is suitable for consumption by celiac patients, but it also has an extremely low concentration of lipids and starch, and very significant amounts of proteins and mineral salts.
The flour obtained from chestnuts is really precious. Used since the Middle Ages, it is one of the most natural, healthiest, less contaminated products in our territory, since it is still processed by hand: harvesting chestnuts, which is the most complex part of the processing cycle, is performed manually, in fact, This flour has exceptional properties: it is gluten free, has a high carbohydrate concentration, making for high caloric power and potassium content.
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Orko to Appear in the New He-Man Movie!
DeVon Franklin, President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment, a first-look production company with Sony Pictures Entertainment, has announced on Twitter that Orko will appear in the new He-Man movie!
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Hudson – Some people think that remains of whole towns were left on the floor of the Quabbin Reservoir. Phyllis Hamilton Frechette, 94, knows for sure that everything was wiped out. She was there.
From 1930 to 1939, four towns in the Swift River Valley – Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott – were leveled and then flooded to create a water supply for Greater Boston.
Frechette remembers that buildings and the railroad – the "Rabbit Road" – were disassembled; cemeteries and monuments were moved; and trees and brush were cut down by men from Boston who were called "woodpeckers" for their lack of skill. Her life, along with the lives of 2,700 others, was changed forever.
In 2011, Frechettte published a small book, "Remembering Millington: A Village Swallowed Up by the Quabbin Reservoir." It's more about her recollections of the town than the Quabbin project.
The book contains a hand-drawn map and details about the occupants of every house and every business in Millington. Frechette, along with her parents and four siblings, lived in a house that had been built by her grandfather.
She describes the wood stove in the kitchen, lack of hot running water, pages of a Sears catalog used in place of toilet paper, a barn near the house, and a big garden where they raised produce for themselves and to sell at a roadside stand.
The village included a brick one-room schoolhouse, a general store, gristmill, "Moore's Hall," and a pond.
Her father had a florist supply business. He collected ferns and other materials, which he shipped by train throughout New England and New York. He hired men to work in their home to assemble Christmas ornaments.
Her family was the last to leave their village. Frechette was 14.
"After the hurricane of 1938, the powers that be would not open the roads. We couldn't get out except for roads that my father hacked his way out. Our house was taken by eminent domain. We had to move, and Millington didn't officially exist at that point," explained Frechette.
At the time of the move, Frechette was a student at a nearby school in New Salem. At the end of a school day, she was taken to her grandmother's house in New Salem, three miles from her home in Millington, which she never saw again.
"My father bought the Millington general store and moved it to New Salem where he turned it into our house. He and my brother went back to Millington to bring it to New Salem, piece by piece. That way we held on to part of our past," she said.
Frechette went on to earn a teaching degree from Framingham State College (now University), and a master's in education. She taught for 32 years in the Newton Public Schools and East Providence, R.I. She has three children, six grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
In 1995, at the age of 75, she graduated from the Andover Newton Theological School in Newton, and was ordained in the United Church of Christ in Canton.
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Dave Wins 2019 Mercury Prize
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Dave took home the 2019 Mercury Prize, the annual award to recognize the best album released in the UK. His debut album, Psychodrama, came out back in March. During his acceptance speech, he brought his mother up on stage. He also thanked his brother, who was convicted of murder and is currently serving a life sentence — Psychodrama is a concept album in the form of a therapy session about his conviction.
Psychodrama beat out a field that included albums from the 1975, Fontaines D.C., Seed Ensemble, Foals, Little Simz, Anna Calvi, Idles, Slowthai, Cate Le Bon, Nao, and Black Midi.
Watch his acceptance speech and his performance of "Psycho" from earlier in the night below.
Elsewhere during the Mercury Prize ceremony, Slowthai ended his performance with Boris Johnson's fake severed head.
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Born and raised in South London. Kashif has been working in the TV industry for eight years in across factual, scripted and media operations at ITV, Discovery Channel, Channel 4, Idris Elba's production company Green Door Pictures, Jamie Oliver Ltd and amongst others.
He has worked successfully in development roles contributing original ideas, finding angles to stories, and writing treatments. He also has extensive experience on location on shows such as Big Brother, The Elaine Paige Talk Show and various Jamie Oliver cooking shows. Kashif can shoot, edit and he's confident with excel, administration, research, and online databases.
He is an Independent filmmaker and produce short films and web series' under his production company Kashif Boothe Entertainment. He is best known for his award winning web series Nate & Jamie which won Favourite Web Ensemble at the Screen Nation Awards in 2018, the multi award winning series Talia Versus which he exec produces, and the short film Black Man Stand which won Best Documentary at the London Short Series Festival 2019.
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Safelite AutoGlass Wins 2015 CX Award from Loyalty360
Safelite AutoGlass®, the largest provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement services in the U.S., has earned a Bronze level 2015 CX Award in the Customer Insights category from Loyalty360. The CX Awards were created to honor brands that are using innovative and best-in-class techniques to deliver customer experiences that ultimately build customer loyalty.
More than 100 brands entered in the 2015 Loyalty360 Awards and competed in six different categories related to customer experience. A group of industry experts reviewed entries and scored them according to strict criteria, narrowing the field down to four finalists in each category.
Safelite earned the recognition for use of data analytics, including text analytics to better understand customer comments, and predictive analytics to forecast part and labor need to ensure the company has the means to help the customer when and where they need it.
Safelite also leveraged customer insights to improve online estimates and appointment scheduling. The company reduced the number of steps and added functionality to reduce call-backs.
"We are honored to be recognized among such a high-profile and respected group of brands," said Safelite Senior Vice President of Customer, Brand & Technology Renee Cacchillo. "We strive to continue to use all of our capabilities to stay ahead of the curve in creating a memorable customer experience."
Safelite AutoGlass® is the nation's largest provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement services with more than 6,500 MobileGlassShops™ and company stores in all 50 states. Last year, nearly 5 million customers chose Safelite for its 24/7 national contact centers, advanced online scheduling, superior repair and replacement systems, and the industry's only nationwide lifetime guarantee. Founded in 1947, the Columbus, Ohio-based company employs more than 12,000 people across the United States. For more information, visit Safelite.com, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Loyalty360 is an unbiased, market driven, voice-of-the-customer focused clearinghouse and think-tank that is committed to bringing customer loyalty to the forefront as a critical marketing strategy. A trusted source for cutting-edge research, best practices, and networking opportunities, Loyalty360 gives members the expert insights and guidance they need to better understand loyalty and develop programs that effectively engage their customers and employees and build stronger relationships with them. For more information, visit http://www.loyalty360.org.


Susy is a helper tool that lets you created ultra customizable grids on the fly easily.
Its been a while since Susy 2 is officially released. If you loved Susy 1, you will definitely love to use Susy 2 because it offers so much more flexibility.
This is a two part tutorial for Susy 2, and in this tutorial, I will be sharing with you how to create the Complex AG Grid with Susy 2.
As I mentioned, Susy is a helper tool that lets you create any kind of grids easily without the need do a ton of math. The beauty about Susy is that it separates presentational CSS from the HTML.
If you have used traditional grid frameworks like Foundation and Bootstrap before, you already know that the grids that come with these frameworks already have fixed widths and breakpoints. Furthermore, classes have to be added to the HTML if you decide to change your layout.
Susy removes this layer altogether. You can immediately target any css class and apply a grid to it.
If you already have Susy installed and have Ruby RVM on your system, you can update the gems.
If this doesn't work, it means you need to try the next method , or install Ruby RVM first.
The second method to installing Susy 2 is a little more manual. Its to uninstall the two gems mentioned above and reinstall them. Its the best way to avoid any errors if you didn't go by the update route.
Now that you're done installing Susy 2, we can now begin setting Susy 2 up.
Likewise to the previous version, you need to require susy in the config.rb file if you were to use Susy 2.
You now need to import and use Susy in your stylesheets.
You'll want to play around with the defaults and try them out depending on how you want to work with Susy. I'll go a little deeper regarding these defaults in another tutorial. You can use Susy with the defaults immediately now, but since I love working with border-box and rem units, I'm going to change some defaults.
Note that Susy uses a fluid layout by default. This means that width of the outer containing element will be 100%.
If you like to use Susy with fixed widths at certain breakpoints instead, change the math key to static. The major difference between these two modes come in when responsifying your styles, which will be covered in another tutorial.
Also note that you'll have to include normalize and compass into the project as well. In all, the initial configuration up to this part should be this.
Since we're going to create the same AG Grid as with the Susy 1 Tutorial , the html will remain exactly the same as before.
Simply speaking, whenever something is found within another div, you should nest it within the previous div.
In this case, AG 4 to AG 7 will be nested under AG 2 while AG 8, AG 9 and AG 10 are nested under AG 7.
The CSS for the grid backgrounds will remain the same as well.
Now that we're all prepped up, we can dive into the some more Susy details.
Before diving straight into using Susy 2 for the grid, lets go through three very important mixins and functions used in Susy. If you understood these things, you can do anything with Susy.
The first thing you need to do is to define a container for Susy to do its magical calulations.
The container mixin has an optional length argument, with allows you to set a max width to the container. If this number is not found, Susy will default to max-width: 100%; instead.
If you are using static grids, Susy advises that you should make it auto instead and let Susy calculate the max width for you.
To keep it auto, you can omit the length argument.
The span mixin is the heart of Susy layouts. Susy made it extremely flexible.
I generally follow the Susy way for writing my layouts.
If you used Susy 1, you would have noticed that this is very similar to the span-column mixin, with very subtle differences.
Let me break this down and full explain whats happening here.
The Span function is similar to the span mixin, with the exception that it only returns the width of the element. You will only need the <width>, <wide/ wider> and <layout> here.
This span function makes life a ton easier by not having the need to remember any margins or padding mixins that susy previously uses. Now, you can just use the span function to get the correct width to pad.
The gutter function takes only one argument, the context.
These are all the important functions you need to know when using Susy 2.
The first the to do when using Susy is to establish the container. Our container in this case is .container.
Since we also know that the container is going to hold floated elements, we're gonna give it a clearfix.
We first need to create the layouts on AG1, AG2 and AG3. Upon inspection, the whole container is supposed to take up 10 columns, where AG1 and 3 are to take up 2 columns each and the rest is taken up by AG2. AG2 needs a clearfix as well since its going to be a container for AG 4 to AG 10.
AG4 and AG5 should now fall nicely in place.
AG6 holds 2 columns and AG 7 holds 4 columns, and AG 7 is the last item in the row. You should probably know the drill by now.
That was how you could use Susy 2 in the nutshell.
In the next article, we will go through how to build a responsive template with Susy 2 using the AG Grid as an example as well.
I hope this was helpful for you. If you have any comments or questions, leave them down and I'll reply as soon as I can.


Tour Melbourne's magnificent Bellarine Peninsula and the wild Surf Coast areas of Victoria, and explore Melbourne's favourite summer playground on a relaxing ride.
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Tour and explore Melbourne by trike on this wonderful day tour that visits many of Melbourne's historic areas, as well as scenic historic, bayside, sporting and parkland locations.
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Silent Night Deadly Night 2XLP
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Death Waltz Recording Co. may be home to some of the scariest music around, but it doesn't mean that we don't get into the Christmas spirit now and again. In that tradition, here's our idea of Xmas cheer as we present the release of Perry Botkin's jolly old score to the controversial 1984 slasher SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT.
Composer Botkin is no slouch in the recording world, arranging for Bobby Darin, Harry Nilsson, & Barbra Streisand. His score is both chaotic and tragic; crashing sounds of distorted percussion are punctuated by both synth and acoustic piano, reflecting the sheer damage that has been done to Billy's mind. The end result is both emotional and terrifying, even more so with the selection of original Christmas songs as composed by Morgan Ames that are spread amongst the film's soundtrack. But a word of caution: If you don't have SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT on the turntable this Christmas we'll have to tell Billy that you've been… naughty. Consider yourselves warned.
Disc 1 - Transparent Green - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Perry Botkin
Disc 2 - Transparent Red - Original Christmas Songs by Morgan Ames
Booklet contains liner notes by composer Perry Botkin, Co-executive Producer Scott Schneid & writer Michael Hickey and also features a host of original reviews including many newspaper clips calling for the film to be banned upon its original release in 1984.
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Home » News » USFDA's Latest Regulations Cause Stir as Food Industry Works to Rethink and Redesign Nutrition Facts Panel and Serving Size Declaration on US Food Labels
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USFDA's Latest Regulations Cause Stir as Food Industry Works to Rethink and Redesign Nutrition Facts Panel and Serving Size Declaration on US Food Labels
[quote align="center"]United States Food and Drug Administration's (USFDA) recently updated Nutrition Facts and Serving Size regulations are causing a stir as food firms rethink how product chemistry is assessed and … Continued
[quote align="center"]United States Food and Drug Administration's (USFDA) recently updated Nutrition Facts and Serving Size regulations are causing a stir as food firms rethink how product chemistry is assessed and reflected and food manufacturers work to completely redesign their labels to meet FDA's latest requirements. This huge undertaking impacts over 800,000 product labels and applies to all food products whether produced in or imported into the United States.[/quote]
Amy Scanlin, M.S., EAS Consulting Group, LLC.
FDA's goal with the revised food labels is a more realistic reflection of the American diet. Serving sizes have been updated to better reflect what is consumed at one sitting, and the nutrition facts on the label have been updated to better meet the latest U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2015-2020).
This sample Nutrition Facts Panel [see below] demonstrates the changes such as an increase in the prominence of "Calories", removal of the declaration of "Calories from fat", changes the reference of "Sugars" to "Total Sugars" and includes a new footnote with updated daily values for certain nutrients, an updated list of mandatory and voluntary vitamins and minerals as well as re-evaluated Reference Amount Customarily Consumed (RACC). Lack of compliance with these formatting and content changes can lead a product to be considered "misbranded" resulting in the receipt of an FDA warning letter or in more egregious cases detention.
Manufacturers must have a clear understanding of the required changes in each nutrient category and how the categories are now referenced, not always an easy task. For instance, in the category "added sugars", those that are free, mono- and disaccharides, sugars from syrups and honey, from concentrated fruit and vegetable juices in excess of what would be expected from the same volume of 100% natural juice and D-tagatose, isomaltulose, and psicose must be included in the definition. However, fruit and vegetable juice concentrate sold to consumers or used for Brix standardization or used to formulate the fruit component of jellies, jams, preserves, or fruit spreads shall not be included. Nor is whole fruit, 100% fruit and vegetable juice, fruit pieces, pulps, purees or dairy products containing lactose to be included.
Similarly there are new requirements for fiber and how mixtures of defined versus undefined fibers and isolated fibers are identified. The results of these changes must also be reflected on the nutrition facts panel.
Certain nutrients on food labels are now required to have updated units of measure, for instance Vitamin A is changed from IU to mcg Retinol Activity Equivalent (RAE). Changes in unit of measure are also required for Vitamin E and Folate.
On the subject of records, FDA now requires records be kept for two years for certain nutrients including added sugars, some dietary fibers and in some cases vitamin E and folate. When analytical methods cannot be used to verify the amounts of declared nutrients, manufacturers must make and keep written records for two years after the food is introduced into interstate commerce. These and other records must of course be provided to FDA upon request during an official inspection.
Compliance with these new requirements must be met by July 26, 2018 for food firms with greater than $10 million US sales annually and by July 26, 2019 for firms with less than $10 million US sales annually. Products being imported into the US need to comply at entry through customs, therefore, foreign firms must schedule for label changes taking into account time required for shipping.
In some cases food manufacturers are finding that outsourcing some of their compliance questions is beneficial from an accuracy and cost perspective. Experts in food chemistry and USFDA labeling requirements can make the transition to FDA's new food label requirements a smoother process and reduce the risk of error. Companies such as EAS Consulting Group, LLC, Almater's newest partner in USFDA regulatory issues is one such option allowing companies peace of mind in meeting USFDA compliance requirements.
Now that the Nutrition Facts Panel and Serving Size requirements have been decided, the food industry awaits FDA's next effort in updating how it defines the claims "natural" and "healthy" made on the front of the food packaging. "It is well accepted that nutrition information on the front of a food package attracts more consumer attention than information on the back," says EAS Independent Consultant, Bruce Silverglade. "Expect FDA's treatment of nutrition and health claims to be just as or more controversial as the changes the agency has made to the Nutrition Facts label." New revisions may be required depending on current claims and in other cases previously unacceptable claims may now be used. Stay tuned as USFDA continues its efforts at transparency in on their food product labels.
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BRC Global Standards – FOOD SAFETY ISSUE 8
[quote align="center"] The eighth version of the BRC Food Safety standard will be published in a few months [/quote] The British Retail Consortium – BRC, announced the release date of … Continued
Organic production: approved the control decree
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Labeling: published in G.U. the Legislative Decree n. 231 of December 15th, 2017
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Q: What is this big Gold and Blue thing in Terraria? I found something in Terraria and I want it, but I don't know what it's called. It looks gold and blue and I think you can get it from the celestial towers.
I tried asking the guide for help, I tried asking players for help, nothing.
What is it?

A: I assume you are talking about the Stardust Guardian from Stardust Armor. That is obtained from crafting using Stardust Fragments obtained from the Stardust Tower with Luminite Bar from Moonlord at the Ancient Manipulator obtained from the Lunar Cultist outside the Dungeon after Golem is defeated.
Note: Ancient Manipulator is dropped by the single Boss-Level cultist that spawns after you killed those four chanting ones outside the Dungeon

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There are four rounds of auditions in Week 11. Applicants who qualify in the 1st round will be admitted to the 2nd and 3rd. Applicants who qualify in the 3rd round will be admitted to the 4th. The 2nd round (aural skills and music theory) and 3rd round of audition is not required for applicants seeking admission directly into the 2nd module (years 3 and 4) of the programme.
You will perform approximately 10 minutes of your listed repertoire programme. Classical voice applicants indicate on the supplemental form which of the two songs will be performed.
Not applicable for students applying to the 2nd module.
The applicant will conduct one of the compulsory works. All compulsory audition materials (scores/sheet music) must be prepared, follow links to the audition materials (scores/sheet music) below. The audition jury decides and announces which work(s) the applicant will conduct at the audition. The content of the audition may vary in accordance with applicant's chosen specialization (choral or orchestral conducting).
The applicant will conduct up to 15 minutes rehearsal with ensemble/choir. The repertoire is the same as for the 3rd round.


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REPORTING · 7th November 2012
NISGA'A ELECTION CALLED INTO QUESTION TONIGHT
Terrace Daily
The polling station at the Best Western Inn for the Nisga'a National Election doors were closed and locked by election staff tonight while people were still lined up waiting to vote.
Those standing outside wanting to vote and the scrutineers waiting to get in stated the doors were locked at 6:00 pm. The voting was scheduled to continue to 8 pm.
The polling station is for president, secretary Treasurer, Chairperson council of elders and Terrace Urban local representative.
"I arrived here at six –forty five and the doors were closed, there was no security outside the area at all", stated Sophia Johnson this evening, "When I asked what was going on, why there was a big line up, they told me they closed the doors. I asked what time they closed the doors and they said six o'clock."
Johnson informed us the staff even refused access to the scrutineers who arrived to monitor the counting of the ballots.
"I've read the election act through and through and they're not supposed to close those doors at all," she added, "unless they have a scrutineer there, and there was none in there.
The Nisga'a election was held today and voting took place in various locations.
The results have not yet been released.


This week I have submitted a patch for #17928 (probably won't make it in this form, but a later solution can be based on the comments tree traversal) and have been working on two more tickets, which I have not solved yet. Since I still don't have an SVN repo (probably because there were different ideas about progress reporting) if someone who can create one for me reads this – please do so, it will be the easiest way for me to submit all my patches for evaluation.
This week I have been working mostly on updating the unit test suite and two tickets that I have been struggling with for some time. Also, it seems that there were some problems with the SVN so I will be remigrating my code shortly.
Another 3 patches ready this week, hopefully I will have completed most of the required tickets by the end of June. Also, I have tuned up a few unit tests to match the tickets.
This week I could finally get busy with annihilating Trac tickets and updating the unit tests. Since we have cleared my doubts concerning preparing diffs and commiting code, I'm just in the middle of preparing my first patches based on my work from the last few days.
Glad to hear that theres some patches on the way, If you can post what you have to tickets after each session, it'll make it easier for us to review it and give any direction needed 🙂 Doesnt matter if the patch isn't complete yet.
I have familiarized myself with the unit tests suite and I think, that I'm ready to begin the bughunt 🙂 I will be starting with some basic issues and if everything goes well – will move to the more troubling ones.
This week I have been playing around with the test suite. Not much to report yet, mostly R&D. I hope to do some work on my first tickets and unit tests during this week.
Not much changed during the last few days, I have discussed the revised schedule with my admins and started playing around with unit tests. Hopefully, during this week I will be able to write some enhancements which I will report next week 😉 We have decided, that 20+15 tickets sounds reasonable as a schedule, in addition to the unit tests improvements and heavy testing of these patches.


Antalya - Sweden's top-ranked Henrik Stenson will miss the remainder of the European Tour season with a freak "Superman" injury.
Stenson suffered a bruised rib in a promotion on the eve of the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai last month before bravely finishing joint runner-up behind England's Justin Rose.
The Swede, however, aggravated the injury during this week's Turkish Airlines Open won again by Rose and this was reflected in shooting a disappointing four-under par tally on the Regnun Carya course in Antalya.
The problem has ruled Stenson out of the season closing Nedbank Golf Challenge in South Africa and the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai.
Last month in Shanghai, Stenson had joined World No 1 Dustin Johnson and China No 1 Li Haotung in a promotion event, 'hovering' above Japan's Hideki Matsuyama who was guarding the trophy he won a year ago.
"I am not Superman given certain people thought I was Superman so if you saw the promotion in Shanghai you know what I mean," Stenson said.
"I have been feeling it when I swing so it has been rough this week and while I was not 100% last week, I guess the travel and the way things progressed it started getting worse rather than better."
He is hoping now to return at the Hero World Challenge at the end of the month.


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Gatekeeping Is No Genuine Substitute For Education
When someone says to you "such and such can't be translated from the Qur'an" and then they proceed to explain what couldn't be translated. pic.twitter.com/lETt693WAM
— Marc Manley (@manrilla) May 11, 2017
Our community is in dire need of a tune up, especially religious leadership. We need people at the helm who truly have the skills to teach, not just regurgitate textual material. I'm not calling for abandoning texts, just that we need folks who can really and truthfully convey the meanings of the texts, amongst many other things, to our community members.
That's why I'm always disturbed when I hear people say, "such-and-such can't be translated from the Qur'an" and then proceed to translate what was apparently locked away in Harry Potter's Chamber of Secrets. In my esteem this is nothing other than such a person disqualifying themselves as a proficient educator. But furthermore, I also see it as part of a fundamental misunderstanding of what translation even means:
from the Latin translatus "carried over", trans, meaning "across, beyond" and latus "borne" or "carried".
So the meaning of the Qur'an can indeed be "carried over" to other languages. Will those new translations be independent of the source from which they are translated from? No. But intellectual gatekeeping (a symptom rooted in a vanquished self-esteem and identity more than anything else) will never be a substitute for true education.


TWLOHA – R U Ok?
As Wednesday swings around again I am linking in with Trish and Tina for Wordless Wednesday. But I'm cheating a bit with a few little words….
This week is National Suicide Prevention Week which ties in nicely with R U Ok day tomorrow 13th September. A timely reminder for us all to think outside out own little worlds sometimes and to ask a simple question to those around us. R U Ok? Simple, yet effective. We've all struggled from time to time and I'm sure will struggle again in one way or another, and we all need support in those times. Sometimes you feel like you are the only one and crave for someone to just speak/reach out to you. You can be that person. You can make a change, a difference. Just three little words.
Considering getting this inked on properly.
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That would be an awesome tatt! Well done for joining in such an important cause.
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Very important cause. Great idea for a tatt!
My dad has struggled for many years with PTSD and depression. All he needed way back then was for someone to ask RUOk, he's lucky that someone did!


This essay employs psychological categories because they have become political categories. The traditional borderlines between psychology on the one side and political and social philosophy on the other have been made obsolete by the condition of man in the present era: formerly autonomous and identifiable psychical processes are being absorbed by the function of the individual in the state--by his public existence. Psychological problems therefore turn into political problems: private disorder reflects more directly than before the disorder of the whole, and the cure of personal disorder depends more directly than before on the cure of the general disorder. The era tends to be totalitarian even where it has not produced totalitarian states. Psychology could be elaborated and practiced as a special discipline as long as the psyche could sustain itself against the public power, as long as privacy was real, really desired, and self-shaped; if the individual has neither the ability nor the possibility to be for himself, the terms of psychology become the terms of the societal forces which define the psyche. Under these circumstances, applying psychology in the analysis of social and political events means taking an approach which has been vitiated by these very events. The task is rather the opposite: to develop the political and sociological substance of the psychological notions.
I have tried to reformulate certain basic questions and to follow them in a direction not yet fully explored. I am [xviii] aware of the tentative character of this inquiry and hope to discuss some of the problems, especially those of an aesthetic theory, more adequately in the near future.
The ideas developed in this book were first presented in a series of lectures at the Washington School of Psychiatry in 1950-51. I wish to thank Mr. Joseph Borkin of Washington, who encouraged me to write this book. I am deeply grateful to the late Professor Clyde Kluckhohn, to Barrington Moore, Jr., of Harvard University, and to Doctors Henry and Yela Loewenfeld of New York, who have read the manuscript and offered valuable suggestions and criticism. For the content of this essay, I take the sole responsibility. As to my theoretical position, I am indebted to my friend Professor Max Horkheimer and to his collaborators at the Institute of Social Research, now in Frankfurt.


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Candidate of the Day: Cindy Hyde-Smith
By Valerie Wells Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:36 p.m. CDT
Courtesy Cindy Hyde-Smith Campaign
Now that state Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won the Republican primary Tuesday in her bid to become Mississippi's agricultural commissioner, she's helping her daughter start a new school year.
Tuesdays are always big days for Hyde-Smith, 52. Her family's Brookhaven livestock business rotates around taking cattle to auction at the stockyard every Tuesday. Her daughter, Anna-Michael Smith, 12, helps with that routine.
Hyde-Smith became a state senator the same year Anna-Michael was born. She's represented Lawrence, Lincoln and Simpson counties for 12 years. For eight years, she's been chairwoman of the agricultural committee in the Senate.
"We make our living full-time from agriculture," she told a crowd at the Neshoba County Fair last week. "We have had a cow farm and a stock yard since 1942." She and her husband, Mike Smith, are fourth-generation farmers. She said one in four Mississippians makes a living in agriculture. "My child is looking for a future in agriculture," she said.
Hyde-Smith is most passionate when addressing private property rights.
"Let economic development start with the land owner," she said at the fair. "If you have a deed to something, that should mean something, and that is your land and no one should take it for private use." The Mississippi Farm Bureau named Hyde-Smith legislator of the year for her stance against the state taking private land and giving it to private companies.
Hyde-Smith will face Democrat Jim Gill and Reform Party candidate Cathy L. Toole in the November election. Incumbent Lester Spell is not running for re-election.
The commissioner heads the Department of Agriculture. Many of the duties of the regulatory agency involve proper calibration of weights and measures, even including gas pumps. The department also conducts meat inspections and other food safety checks.
In May, Hyde-Smith testified before the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service about the need to inspect domestic and imported catfish.
The commissioner also oversees the agricultural theft bureau. "Folks, we still have cattle rustlers out there," Hyde-Smith said at the fair. She also talked about using GPS technology to find stolen tractors.
Hyde-Smith graduated from Copiah-Lincoln Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi.
Umesh Sanjanwala, spokesman for the Hyde-Smith campaign, said voters this summer asked a lot of questions about ethanol and biofuels.
"A concern about ethanol is that it raised the price of corn that you feed to livestock," Sanjanwala told the Jackson Free Press. Yet, Hyde-Smith recognizes a need and a desire to use some kind of biofuel, he said. "She is looking at other options--a cellulose-based fuel."
Sanjawala, a Department of Agriculture employee, met Hyde-Smith last year. "She's been instrumental in keeping this agency going," he said. "She's a hard worker who is focused, meticulous and driven. She really wants to make a difference. I really admire her passion."
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Texas Holdem hardly needs an introduction. Not only is it the most popular poker variation by a long shot (no other game even comes close), but it's also the first game most people think of when you say "poker." If you're want to make a lot of money with poker, this is the game you should learn first. You'll never have a problem finding a little Holdem action wherever you go.
When you break it down like that, it's a fairly simple job to figure out which sites are the best for Texas Holdem as long as you're familiar with a variety of poker sites. Over the course of my poker career, I've probably played at two dozen poker sites and talked with people about a hundred others. With that information at hand, it was easy to narrow it down and give you accurate, reliable recommendations.
Why Should I Play Texas Holdem?
Everyone should know how to play Texas Holdem and have an understanding of basic strategy. Even if you do eventually move to other games, Holdem serves as a great starting point because it is simple to learn, other games are loosely based on Holdem and because it's the one game you can always count on finding wherever you go.
The strategy skills you develop in Texas Holdem will come in useful even when you move on to completely different games. In Holdem, you learn how to manage limited information, estimate opponents' hand ranges and how to deal with bad beats. It doesn't take much to get a grasp of these basic strategy concepts and they will prove useful in the future.
Mostly though, it just comes down to traffic. No matter where you end up playing, the vast majority of the tables and tournaments will be Texas Holdem. It would be a little ridiculous to limit yourself to 2-7 Triple Draw or some other form of poker when those games never run with any real frequency.
Walk into any card room or turn on the TV to any poker tournament and the chances are you'll be greeted with Texas Holdem. This is the game that Doyle Brunson once called the "Cadillac of poker" because it's just so perfect. It is easy to learn, easy to understand and strikes the right balance between information and mystery.
What I mean by that last bit is that the rules of the game reveal just the right amount of information about everyone's hands without going too far in either direction. You are given enough information to make educated guesses about what your opponents may have, but there's just enough mystery to keep everyone guessing.
One glance at the community cards and you know instantly the entire range of possible hands. If the flop comes out with three spades, for example, you know there may be a flush lurking out there somewhere. What you don't know are the contents of each opponent's two hidden hole cards.
Take 5 Card Draw. In that game, no cards are ever revealed through the course of a hand. The only information you have to go on is each person's betting patterns and number of draws. Five card draw games among casual players tend to either grind down to a halt or end up in everyone trying to out-bluff one another. There's just not as much room for strategy with so much missing information.
Texas Holdem is also friendly to fishy players. You don't need to be a student of the game to take a seat and get the general gist of the game. Even the most casual players can get a pretty good idea of what's going on and what possible hands each other person is holding.
Compare this to 7 Card Stud. That game provides a balanced mix of revelation and mystery, but it's a whole lot harder to keep track of what everyone has and what the possible hands are. You have to possess a strong memory to keep track of what everyone has, which cards have been revealed and whether or not any specific hand is even possible.
Texas Holdem doesn't require a photographic memory. Everyone shares the same community cards so you don't have to keep track of who got what, which cards have been discarded and how all the possibilities pan out given that information. It's good for the fish, and the fish are good for the sharks.
This is why I believe Texas Holdem is the perfect form of poker. It's friendly to casuals yet laden with strategy implications. To borrow an old cliché, Texas Holdem is one of those rare games that take minutes to learn but a lifetime to master.


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"Dear children! Open your heart to God's mercy in this Lenten time. The Heavenly Father desires to deliver each of you from the slavery of sin. Therefore, little children, make good use of this time and through meeting with God in confession, leave sin and decide for holiness. Do this out of love for Jesus, who redeemed you all with His blood, that you may be happy and in peace. Do not forget, little children: your freedom is your weakness, therefore follow my messages with seriousness.


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NZ National Party Backstabbers- who are they?
Redbaiter / May 26, 2020
Nats claim the matter of who voted for Bridges and who voted for Muller is a caucus issue and the voters do not deserve to know. That's too cute. Voters should know if their representatives can be trusted to be loyal to the leader, or not. It says a lot about an MP if they're ready to back stab their leader simply as a result of very aberrant polling. We are voters, and we deserve, almost have a right, to know this information. Before we cast our vote in the coming election.
Why is it important this time? Because it is now clear that for sometime, perhaps a year or even more, there has been an ongoing campaign within the Nats to unseat Simon Bridges as leader, including numerous leaks to hostile forces in the media. This kind of betrayal needs to be exposed, and those behind it should not be rewarded with high ranking places, but expelled (by the board) from the party.
So this post exist for the purpose of finding out this information, that the Nats want to keep secret. To be fair, although many of the backstabbers have been identified by public statements and other means there is still considerable speculation in this exercise. However, no one has been branded without there being at least some reason to believe the label is earned.
How many voted which way? There are two reasonably believable claims on this. One says the vote was 28 for Muller, 27 for Bridges. Another says the vote was 30 for Muller and 25 for Bridges. Its hard to say which is correct, although reason would suggest the 30/25 vote was more likely.
As of posting (26/05/20) there are 28 MPs in the backstabber list, and 15 in the loyal soldier list. This gives 43 votes we surmise we know and 12 as unknown. At the most, if reports concerning the majority vote of 30 are true, 2 of remaining 12 would be backstabbers, leaving 10 as loyal soldiers. Its a pity we can't at least identify those unknown loyal soldiers. (Very sorry to see Matt King voted for Muller. Hope this is wrong,)
So the mission is to identify the missing backstabbers, and if necessary, adjust the current list to make it more accurate. Its just possible that some have been incorrectly identified, and if you're an MP, or someone who knows for certain that someone is mistakenly named, please advise in the comments and the necessary adjustments will be made. If you have inside knowledge on the coup, please contact redbaiternz at inbox dot lv Full confidence is assured.
Post updated 04/06/20 to move Paul Goldsmith from Loyal Soldier to Backstabber category. Led Simon Bridges to believe he would vote for him, and then changed sides at the last minute. Worst kind of betrayal, and has radically altered my opinion of Goldsmith. Now have 29 MPs who voted for Muller, and 14 who voted for Simon Bridges. Still 12 unknown.
Post updated 07/06/20 Michael Woodhouse identified as final of 30 backstabbers. Moved from loyal soldier on confidential advice received over the last few days. This gives the 30 as some sources reported who voted for Muller, and leaves 25 supporting Bridges. Please note that if anyone has any firm information that could lead to a change of category, then please advise in the comments section. All information will be given full consideration and of course be completely confidential. Remember these faces when you cast your vote.
The Backstabbers & Loyal Soldiers Identified
May 26, 2020 in NZ Politics, Uncategorized. Tags: backstabbers, Nats, New Post, Simon Bridges, Todd Muller
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6 thoughts on "NZ National Party Backstabbers- who are they?"
Chuck Bird says:
Red, I am not sure how you define backstabbers. I know how I do. I say those who leaked to the media backstabbers. A coup without that is in my view acceptable. Some of those listed would be leakers but I doubt is all were. Muller was aiming to be Leader but not till after the election if National lost. What happened was some low life MPs feared they would would be out of Parliament and panicked and leaked to the media which brought Simon's personal and National Party polls down.
Sorry Chuck do not get your point. Here's the bottom line. Conservatives are now in a completely lose lose situation. IMHO Simon Bridges had a good chance of winning the election, and he's a conservative, and after winning, he could have gone on to set up a reasonably acceptable Conservative govt.
That chance is gone. Because of leaks to the media over a two year period designed to destabilize Bridge's leadership. From Amy Adams, Nikki Kaye and friends like Nicola Willis and Chris Bishop. These arseholes saw the chance offered by the aberrant polling, and took the leadership from Bridges.
They'll lose the election. Nothing surer. They're incompetent leftist fools, and they've already demonstrated just how incompetent in a mere couple of days. So we've now got a liberal National Party led by incompetent jerks that is certain to lose the election.
How can any thinking person see any kind of positive in what has happened?
I do not consider that National had 28+ backstabbers. It is acceptable in National to for anyone to challenge the Leader. However, it is not acceptable to leak to the media to undermine the Leader.
On the chances of Simon having a good chance of winning I disagree. I think he had a slim chance of winning. However, I think Muller has a very remote chance of winning.
Check the betting sites in Oz and this will support this. One could get 20 cents on the dollars better for Labour with Bridges as Leader. Under Muller this dropped to 12 cents. This is on SportsBet.
Brian Johnston says:
The voters do deserve to know which leader the MP's voted for, especially the voters of a given electorate with respect to their own MP.
It is fair to say that an MP who stabs a leader in the back will stab a voter in the back and I would like the reader/voter to think about that.
Every time an asset is sold off shore we are stabbed in the back.
Franco once said: A leader who cheats on his wife will cheat on his people.
We have scumbag MP's and we should know who they are.
They need never have taken the guns.
The voter is also entitled to know how the royalty on NZ oil is created and how much NZ receives. Or to put it another way to know how much NZ is being fleeced/looted.
Clue. The royalty is based on the well head price and it aint much.
It appears a lot of National supporters think the coup was a mistake.
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2020/05/good_summary_on_bridges.html#comments
Its starting to become clear. While the actual number of who voted for Muller is reasonably certain at thirty, I cannot fully classify the remaining yellow question marks until I have that thirty. Even though I am reasonably sure that most of them voted for Simon Bridges. Ian McKelvie for example. Fairly sure he voted for Simon, but feel it is better to wait until I have the full thirty before making it final. At the moment, I'm thinking the 30th vote was Woodhouse. Which means everyone remaining voted for Bridges, but so far, I haven't got anything to convince me it was Woodhouse. So the diagram stays as it is until I get that 30th vote.


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Das Gebäude Judengasse 10 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, einer Stadt im mittelfränkischen Landkreis Ansbach in Bayern, wurde 1409 errichtet und 1558 umgebaut. Das Wohnhaus ist ein geschütztes Baudenkmal. Bei dem Ensemble Judengasse Rothenburg ob der Tauber mit zahlreichen Häusern aus der Zeit um 1400 handelt es sich um eine der ältesten erhaltenen Judengassen im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Beschreibung
Der zweigeschossige Traufseitbau mit steilem Satteldach hat ein Rundbogenportal und ein Fachwerkobergeschoss.
Im Obergeschoss gibt es eine nahezu vollständig erhaltene Bohlenstube aus der Bauzeit.

Mikwe
In dem Haus wurde die bisher einzige bekannte Mikwe (ein jüdisches Ritualbad) der Stadt Rothenburg ob der Tauber entdeckt. Die Mikwe im Gewölbekeller existierte bereits vor Errichtung des darüberliegenden Gebäudes. Sie ist das einzige in Deutschland bisher entdeckte Ritualbad mit dem dazugehörigen Haus aus dem beginnenden 15. Jahrhundert, das sich erhalten hat. Die für ein Haus in der Judengasse ungewöhnlich große Eingangshalle und der Zugang zur Mikwe direkt hinter der Haustür deuten auf eine öffentliche Nutzung hin.

Nutzung
Die Eingangshalle ist als Raum für kulturelle Veranstaltungen vorgesehen. Die Geschichte des Hauses, einschließlich der Mikwe im Gewölbekeller, soll der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht werden. Die Bohlenstube im Obergeschoss wird der Verein Alt-Rothenburg als Sitzungszimmer nutzen.

Literatur
 Frank Seehausen: Kulturerbe Bayern e. V. Spätmittelalterliches Wohnhaus in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ist erster Schützling. In: Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (Hrsg.): Denkmalpflege Informationen. Nr. 169 (2018), S. 20–22 (Online-Ausgabe). (mit vielen Fotos)
 Rudolf Himpsl: Das Wohnhaus Judengasse 10 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Rettung eines spätmittelalterlichen Stadthauses durch Kulturerbe Bayern nach dem Trust-Modell. In: Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (Hrsg.): Denkmalpflege Informationen. Nr. 172 (2019), S. 28–31 (Online-Ausgabe). (mit vielen Fotos)

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 Judengasse 10 (Rothenburg ob der Tauber) bei Kulturerbe Bayern

Baudenkmal in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Bauwerk in Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Fachwerkhaus im Landkreis Ansbach
Umgenutztes Bauwerk im Landkreis Ansbach
Erbaut in den 1400er Jahren
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On the wrong road to Malay
Bill Watson bemoans the arrogance displayed by British academics and the business community towards Malaysia.
When the prime minister of Malaysia speaks British business executives listen nervously, Malaysian students cheer enthusiastically and university-based Malaysia-watchers smile enigmatically. In the past few months it has been fascinating to observe the way in which all three of these constituencies have been addressed in turn by Mahathir Mohamad and his party of government using a rhetoric that is new but which plays on familiar themes.
One of these is Malaysian self-confidence and the elevation of the nation's status in the international arena. The frequently mentioned "Vision 2000" asserts that by then Malaysia will be a fully-developed industrial nation, prosperous and progressive and economically and politically independent. The old rhetoric was one of buying "British last"; the new rhetoric talks of Malaysia's superlatives: the highest buildings in the world; the twin Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur; Dr Mahathir as the first head of state to go live on the Internet. Just recently, however, a new twist has been added to the theme of assertiveness: the projection of the notion of the "new Malay".
This notion, designed to appeal to and encourage young Malay intellectuals - for example, those studying abroad - stresses the importance of Malays being prepared to look outwards and dare to seize the initiative. In this respect there has recently been some debate in Malaysia about whether students are prepared to be more critical and demanding than they were. Certainly some observers think so, and this is a trend which Dr Mahathir wants to encourage.
He has led the way in his outspoken and forthright criticisms of individuals and foreign governments whom he feels want to dictate to Malaysia. Frequently it is not so much the content of the criticism but its tone with its suggestion of a colonial mentality which Mahathir finds so objectionable.
An example of this would be the reference by the former Australian prime minister, Paul Keating, to Mahathir as "recalcitrant" for refusing to attend the Asian Pacific Economic Co-operation Forum meeting in Seattle in 1993. Relations with Australia cooled considerably after the remark, but it was noticeable within Malaysia how much public support Mahathir commanded as a consequence of what was perceived as his determination not to tolerate the perpetuation of a white colonial mentality.
This concept of the "new Malay" and the promotion of assertiveness has considerable implications for the British business community and universities. In the first place it should lead to greater self-searching in relation to the potential justice of Mahathir's charge that we are still influenced by a colonial mentality. Consequently we should be considerably more circumspect in our behaviour.
It is extremely difficult to get this point across either to business people about to take up postings in Malaysia or to academics. Both categories simply fail to recognise how their behaviour and attitudes might be construed as offensive or "colonial". Yet the range of such behaviour is broad and stretches from ignorance of the ways in which body language, forms of address, different eating habits, and even desire to live in expatriate ghettos may be a potential source of disquiet, to exhibitions of bullying tactics in government offices abroad or making unreasonable demands of Malaysian colleagues.
It is no wonder that rather than risk being exposed to such ignorance and rudeness, consciously or unconsciously intended, Malaysians should prefer to do business with fellow-Malaysians or at least with fellow-Asians who do not suffer from the disease of arrogance. Nor is it surprising that large multinational companies in Malaysia should be discouraged from employingexpatriates.
Within British universities the same unconscious arrogance is widespread though its symptoms vary. The irony of the situation is, however, that British academics are blithely unaware of the irritation they cause, since they regard themselves as perfect hosts to visiting Malaysian academics and diplomats, and perfect guests when they in turn visit Malaysia.
I have lost count of the number of times I have been embarrassed at official university receptions when colleagues and senior administrators have talked to a Malaysian visitor about "when we were in Malaysia", how "colourful the batik cloths are", and how they could never get used to "the smell of that awful durian fruit". I have seen the Malaysian visitor make some polite comment, and I have also been able to read her mind and understand her frustration at the way in which her country is constantly being associated with the imagery of a colonial past rather than commended for its present achievements.
I have also observed how as visitors to Malaysia, academics have commented on the funny way in which bahasa forms plurals by reduplication. Their Malaysian counterparts have again smiled while grinding their teeth at such ignorance and superciliousness. Bahasa just means language, not Malay, as the ignorant expatriate thinks - Malay is Bahasa Melayu as English is Bahasa Inggris - and it is of course a failure to observe common rules of courtesy to make dismissive remarks about the language of one's hosts.
The same lack of courtesy and the offensiveness is apparent when expatriates on slight acquaintance express critical opinions on inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia. The latter is an exceedingly complex and sensitive matter and not one which anyone who is not intimately acquainted with Malaysian history and politics should venture an opinion about. But like bulls in china shops, expatriates have no hesitation in expressing opinions critical of government policy.
One underlying reason for the unconsciously superior tone which we in Britain frequently adopt, despite our ignorance of the culture of the non-Western world, is what can be conveniently labelled the Lawrence of Arabia/Kipling syndrome. We sincerely believe that if we turn our minds to it and study the language and culture of other peoples, we can understand their mentality, even better in some cases than they themselves do.
On the other hand, other nations cannot achieve the same understanding of us, and therefore we must talk down to them, simplify and, ultimately, patronise. A measure of the irritation that this cultural arrogance causes can perhaps be gauged from our own experience when the same attitude is displayed towards us by the Japanese who have their own "myth of uniqueness" according to which it is impossible for a foreigner really to understand the Japanese mentality.
The way forward, then, in the first place is to be much more self-aware and sensitive in perceiving how our actions and our speech are likely to be interpreted. In addition, however, it is clearly important that we should demonstrate a genuine desire to know more about Malaysia and Southeast Asia and remedy our woeful ignorance. The United States and Europe should not dominate our understanding of the global situation to the exclusion of other regions of the world. In disseminating an understanding of the non-Western world, clearly the universities have a vital role to play as teaching institutions and as mediators of knowledge to government, commerce and industry, and to the mass media.
It is symptomatic, however, of the condition which Dr Mahathir diagnosed that, far from expanding, our interest in Southeast Asia appears to be contracting. In the last five years the number of centres of Southeast Asian studies in British universities has decreased from three to two. ASEAN nations, then, can hardly be blamed for concluding that Britain still does not take Southeast Asia seriously.
And lest British business stops feeling smug and starts to ascribe our shortcomings to failure in higher education policy it should be pointed out that time and time again academics with an interest in the region have approached British companies for support in promoting Southeast Asian studies only to have been met for the most part with polite dismissal.
This contrasts unfavourably with the situation in other countries. For example, in New Zealand recently a chair of Malay studies was established through the co-operation of New Zealand business funding and Malaysian government initiative. This was the third chair to be so established, the other two being in the US and the Netherlands. Doubtless in time a similar chair will be established in Britain but it will have been too little too late.
Bill Watson is senior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Kent.


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Unpublished Works
Film. tv, theatre
"Pastiche!"
bass clarinet & tape
"Pastiche" for bass clarinet & tape (1992-94) is the first piece by Simon Burgers with electronic sounds. It has been played worldwide. Bart Schneemann made an arrangement for hobo & tape, Hubert-Jan Hubeek for alto saxophone & tape. Choreographer Thom Stuart made a ballet on it, video artist Jan Peter van der Wenden created an animation movie , see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5daMfebGigA
Click here for a recording (1994) with Erik van Deuren, bass clarinet.
Sheet music + cd available by Donemus, https://webshop.donemus.nl/action/front/sheetmusic/8617
Feast in the Fields of Yellow Corn
woodwind Ensemble & tape
Feest in de gele maisvelden was commisioned by the Dutch Woodwind Ensemble. It had its première at the New Years Concert, Januar the 1st, 2004 in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. Theme of the concert was 'Mommy'.
The title of the work can be explained by the two following elements. (1) In the piece, a motiv is woven that was song in the childhood of the composer by his mother on the words Day after day in the fields of yellow corn (part of and old song of American slaves). (2) in the piece a theme is quoted from Fêtes by Claude Debussy.
Click here for an audio version of the live-performance at Januar the 1st, 2004; beneath for the video registration.
Sheet music available by Donemus, https://webshop.donemus.nl/action/front/sheetmusic/10986
Video animation by Alexis Aravantinos (2019), music Simon Burgers; rap performed by Dirk Hamaker
Spring Is Forgetting Us (1999) is a composition for a rapper + tape. In the piece, parts of Chopins prelude in b flat minor are woven. The text is a collection of quotes from letters by Chopin to and about his mistress, the writer George Sand.
The Dutch Woodwind Ensemble put the piece central during its New Year Concert 2001 in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. For that occasion, the piece was arranged in several ways. The concert (and related cd) were entitled Le printemps nous oublie.
In the audio version below (1999) the rap was performed by Dirk Hamaker.
Spring-Is-Forgetting-Us-3
Spin off was written in 1998 for the Dutch Woodwind Ensemble. A special version of ten minutes was made for a musical cross over night in the Concertgebouw, whose big hall had been transformed to a dance floor. Classical musicians performed alternately with dj's.
The NBE gave the premiere of a concert version of five minutes during her New Year Concert, first of januar, 1999. NRC-Handelsblad wrote about this piece: "Aggressif noise, that doesn't give a hopeful image of present and future ".
Click here for an audio version of the live-performance at Januar the 1st, 1999, beneath for the video registration.
violin, cello & piano
The pianotrio was written for Duco Burgers' final piano exam, at the 21th of juni, 2018, at the Utrecht Conservatory.
Click here for a performance (2019) with Carien de Bakker, violin, Camilo Cabassi, cello and Duco Burgers, piano; beneath the video registration.
Chrysoliet
Chrysoliet (1981) is a composition for piano solo. De title is rather associative and refers to the cool beauty of the world of minerals. The piece can be seen as an attempt to translate this cool stringent beauty in a musical way.
Click here for a performance (2019) by Duco Burgers; beneath the video registration.
Sheet music available by Donemus, https://webshop.donemus.nl/action/front/sheetmusic/21
piano & tape
Message is a composition for piano & tape. It was written in 1994 on demand of pianist Ananda Sukarlan.
Sheet music available by Donemus, https://webshop.donemus.nl/action/front/sheetmusic/8750
Click here for a performance (1995) with Ananda Sukarlan, piano.
Bach 2000
woodwind ensemble, amateur musicians, tape
In Bach 2000 were woven more than hundred themes and motives of J.S. Bach. It was composed in the year 2000, two hundred fifty years after Bachs dead. It was a commission by the Dutch Woodwind Ensemble for a project with high school children. The piece has been performed three times: with children in Eindhoven, Enschede and Groningen.
Click here for a part of the live performance at Groningen, 17 december 2000.
Martialis Epigrammata
soprano, 2 flutes, 2 harps, clarinet, viola & piano
Martialis Epigrammata, on texts by the Roman poet Martialis (c. 40 -104 AD) is a cycle of six songs.
Synthese is a work for large symphony orchestra. It was written for the VU Orchestra, that premiered the work in 1983 under Daan Admiraal at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. The work was revisited in 1987.
Score available by Donemus, https://webshop.donemus.nl/action/front/sheetmusic/4000
Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Wind Ensemble
The Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Wind Ensemble (1986) has been performed by several Wind Ensembles in the Netherlands and abroad, with among others Arno Bornkamp as soloist.
For sheet music (and for information about the stringent note systeem that was designed for this composition), see Donsmus: https://webshop.donemus.nl/action/front/sheetmusic/4645
speaker, bass clarinet & piano
In De Jabberglop (1988) Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky (English version or Dutch translation) is performed with musical support of the two instruments.
Torenval / Tower Fall
choir & wind orchestra
Torenval is a music theatre production. written for amateurs in Westzaan. The piece relates the catastrophic collapse of the tower of the church in the year 1843. The piece was performed five times in the big church at Westzaan.
As the music was especcially written for this theatre production, it isn't apt for autonomous performance. An exceptions is the part Dies Irae for mixed choir and brass instruments (or piano reduction), that can be performed separatedly.
Windkracht / Wind Force
trumpet & tape
Windkracht is a music theater production from 2006 – 2007. It was a solo performance by and about trumpet player André Heuvelman, directed by Cherry Duyns; Marc Felperlaan and Igor Lesic created videos. The music for the play was composed and/or arranged by Simon Burgers: compositions for trumpet &t ape as well for trumpet solo, for tape and for voice & tape (a rap). Windkracht has been performed often, for instance in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam and Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht..
Three of its compositions for trumpet & tape are available by Donemus: the March, the Tango and the Blues. These can be performed autonomously. See https://webshop.donemus.nl/action/front/sheetmusic/13058
Nana, an arrangement of a song by De Falla, for trumpet & tape, can be found on this site here.
choir & tape
Taptoe was written in 1996 for the Koor Nieuwe Muziek on demand of Huub Kerstens. The text is the poem Nachtelijke optocht ('Nightly Procession') by the Flemish poet Paul van Ostaijen.
Senza Pedale
Senza Pedale is a short composition, commissioned by the Dutch Harp Federation. It was the mandatory work during the Rosa Spier Harpconcours in 2011. In the whole piece the position of the pedals is the same, hence the title.