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Clippers-Mavericks: The Questionable Blogger answers your Dallas questions
For the second meeting between the Clippers and Mavs in 12 days, I turned to the citizenry to come up with Mavs questions for Rebecca Lawson from Mavs Moneyball.
By Steve Perrin Jan 15, 2014, 6:00am PST
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The Clippers defeated the Mavericks 12 days ago in Dallas in a game in which Chris Paul separated his shoulder. For the rematch in Los Angeles, I allowed you, the citizens of Clips Nation, to ask questions for the bloggers at Mavs Moneyball to answer. Rebecca Lawson has answered a bunch of them below (with some help from some of her friends).
Be sure to head over to MMB for my answers to their questions as well. (Spoiler alert, I yell at one of the questioners.)
Rebecca: First, I just wanted to say how great everyone's questions were! I wish I could have gotten to all of them, but due to some real life and some getting ready to fly to Los Angeles limitations, I couldn't quite. Here are a few answers that hopefully give you guys some better insight, though.
Citizen Byarin: Have the Mavs made any progress in anointing a sure fire closer? Seems like Dirk is the logical choice. I've watched two entire games this year (@GS, vs LAC) where the Mavs blew 4Q leads because they alternated between Dirk and Monta going 1 on 1 in the final 3 min.
Rebecca: This is a great question that I think we all wish we knew the answer to and about which all of us MMB editors seem to have strong feelings. The fact is, the Mavs have any number of capable shooters who can close the game, and it has frequently been a combination of them all (or whoever has the hot hand) closing. Though, even going back to last season, Carlisle seemed, and sometimes still seems, determined to put the ball at the end of the game in the hands of his guards. So this often means Vince Carter or Monta Ellis take the final shot just as often as Dirk.
The short answer is, it should always be Dirk. But Carlisle has been vocal this season about attempting to monitor Dirk's minutes, and Dirk will frequently rest for a somewhat maddening portion of fourth quarters these days -- which might explain those blown fourth quarter leads a little. So it's probably going to continue to be closer by committee, which will in turn continue to feed the wine shortage in my apartment (or the restrained cursing from press row) as I stress over when Dirk will come back into the game.
Citizen agolden: Does Monta, in fact, have it all?
Rebecca: Yes. In fact, his son has it all, too.
Citizen Byron Piggie: On paper, Vince Carter seems like a decent sixth man. He can get his own shot, create for others, hit threes. And occasionally, his box scores look decent, but as a person who watch the Mavs regularly, how would you assess his contributions? Is he still a legitimate third, fourth option on a decent team or is it time for him to move to 9th/10th man status?
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Rebecca: I think somewhere in between, if that makes sense. He still does things very well, but this season he has needed to adjust a little bit. Last season, if the Mavericks had been in the playoffs, I have a hard time seeing how Vince doesn't get very strongly considered for 6MOY. In a season where the Mavs only got half of Dirk and generally awful guard play, Vince was an unexpected breath of fresh air. I expected that to continue this season but it really hasn't -- that is, until Brandan Wright came back from injury. For whatever reason, VC seems to play very well off of Wright, and should benefit even more when Devin Harris returns. In fact, our own Jonathan Tjarks tackled this in a piece earlier this season. Carter is still a very useful role player, and as Jonathan notes, is an important piece for the Mavs' bench (and likely could be for another team), but he has had to adjust somewhat to a slightly different role with some new faces in Dallas this season.
Citizen osamu: Bynum to the Mavs seems to be a thing. So how about that Bynum guy?
Rebecca: No, no and HELL no. (I have strong opinions here, clearly.)
For a slightly more nuanced answer, we actually did something of a very informal Twitter poll on this the other day and "no" was the most popular response. The Mavericks' front office passed on Bynum in the offseason, not even making him an offer after being "in contention." The Mavs had their own run-in two seasons ago with a player who wasn't interested in playing basketball (Lamar Odom), so I very much doubt the front office is eager to repeat that. They have a cohesive locker room and a team in playoff contention, so no need to shake things up with a wild card like that.
Citizen UC.Clipper: Who is the #1 free agent target for the Mavs this coming off season? What are the chances?
Rebecca: For the answer to this question, I actually tagged my fellow editor, Kirk Henderson. Here is Kirk's answer:
Kirk: The biggest needs this off season are probably center and small forward, so I assume they'll try to pursue Luol Deng first, because he's the best guy not named Lebron/Chris Bosh in the entire free agency class. I hate this idea, because he's going to command a ridiculous $13 million a year for at least three years from what I've been led to understand. I also suspect they'll pursue folks like Anderson Varejao or Amir Johnson and hope they can get one for a reasonable price to shore up the merry-go-round starting center spot.
Personally, I'd love to see Dallas go all out for Lance Stephenson. He's a true unrestricted free agent at age 23 and he's been insane this year. But I don't see Dallas going that route because they're too busy trying to fight the slow decline and signing a third guard to a big contract doesn't make much cap sense (though it alleviates a ton of the back court defensive problems which hang over this team like an executioner's axe). This is a fairly stupid year to have cap space because there aren't a lot of players worth the money they're going to make. The market at work!
Citizen FlyByKnight: Brandan Wright is one of the most efficient big men in the NBA and has been for a couple years. Why doesn't he play more? Every time I watch him play, I come away liking him. I liked him when he came out of North Carolina so perhaps I'm biased there.
Rebecca: I don't think you're biased. Brandan Wright has very quickly become a fan favorite in Dallas, and we were all thrilled when he waited to re-sign with the team this off-season, and frustrated when he started the season injured. (In fact, since his return, "Brandan Wright #NBABallot" is now something of a Mavs Twitter inside joke.)
I think the reason he doesn't play more is that Carlisle has a pretty set idea of what he wants his center rotation to look like. He likes Sam Dalembert, DeJuan Blair and Wright for different match-ups, and has said so more than once in response to postgame presser questions. But I think (despite a couple recent off-games) Wright has more than earned a little increase in minutes, and in fact, he has been playing a few more than average the past two or so games. That could easily be because of Shawn Marion's injury and having to play a little more backup four behind Dirk, however, so I'll be interested to see if that trend continues.
Citizen mikelipert: What has your experience been watching Dirk come into the league to his MVP and NBA championship? Any advice for us here at Clips Nation watching Blake grow and transform his game?
Rebecca: This was a delightful question, and I'm again turning to Kirk, since I've only been following the Mavs for a couple years so I haven't seen Dirk as much as he has. Kirk's answer:
Kirk: What a great question. Dirk had a much slower path to stardom than Blake; after his year recovering from his knee problems Blake was so good so fast our expectations outgrew reality in a hurry. That Blake has taken 4 years to round into a consistent force shouldn't be surprising...big men just take longer to develop. Above all else, I recommend two things: patience and appreciation.
Patience in his development is straightforward. He's a few months short of 25 and is just about to enter what is traditionally thought of as the "prime" of his career. There will be pitfalls and set backs as he learns and adjusts to whatever new and creative strategies the coaching minds of the NBA come up with to stop him. Remember Dirk getting shut down in 2007 by the Warriors and Matt Barnes? Looking back, that was just a bump in the road and he was 29 then.
Secondly, I recommend trying to appreciate Blake as much as you can. Dirk's exceptionally rare in that his game ages well because it's based on his size and shooting ability, which aren't decreasing with age. Blake's athleticism will depart him one day, and it's bound to do so in a hurry. So be glad you have him, even when you are frustrated. He's a generational talent and a basketball wonder. This whole fandom thing is supposed to be fun, so relish your time with him, as it will be over before you know it.
Thanks to Rebecca (and Kirk) for providing such thoughtful answers. Kirk's reference to Matt Barnes defending Dirk in 2007 reminds me of when the Clippers used to defend him with the likes of Cat Mobley and Quinton Ross -- quite effectively. What an amazing job of developing his game and improving upon his weaknesses well into his career Dirk has done.
It should be a great game tonight, and I am going to get to meet Rebecca face-to-face and sit next to her high in the rafters of STAPLES Center. Maybe we'll even have a twitter war, who knows?
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A tasty, crunchy, salty, cheesy salad, made with stuff we had lying around in the fridge.
Mix the lemon juice, balsamic, olive oil and mustard to make a dressing. Pour over all of the ingredients except the greens and coat thoroughly. Spoon over mixed greens.
Tasty, rich and packed full of veggies.
We were on our way to Brick, a place we'd been to and liked before, when we realized that Saha, a place we'd been meaning to try for a while, was right next door. We were seated in less than 10 minutes, despite having made no reservation. The service was very friendly, however, it was a bit slow. They seemed understaffed, which may have been the case since this was the beginning of a long holiday weekend. The decor was chic and sophisticated without being stuffy. Giao and Alexis each ordered the prix fixe menu, which included choice of soup of the day or salad, a small plate and an entree for $35. It was quite a good deal seeing as the cheapest combination of those dishes was at least $40 and our options included just about everything on the menu. Also, it was an even better deal for us, since most 3 course prix fixe menus include a dessert as the third course, which we generally choose not to partake in. Overall the food was good, but I think we'd stick to small plates if we go a second time.
This bread smelled oddly sweet, although it didn't taste sweet.
This salad was a pleasant surprise in that the dressing was not nearly as sweet as once would have expected. The ingredients were fresh and all of the flavors melded well.
A chopped salad with tomatos, onions, feta, kalamata olives and quinoa, dressed with a rather tart combo of lemon juice and olive oil. Pretty tasty.
This cracked wheat dumpling liberally stuffed with crab and shrimp was quite delicious. Served over a thin layer of lobster bisque and topped with a tart, herbacious sauce, this was Alexis' favorite dish of the meal.
These simply prepared prawns were fresh and not overcooked at all. The buttery, garlicky, herby dipping sauce was finger-licking good, literally.
Tender beef in a stew of prunes and almonds, this was a bit too sweet for our taste.
Tender cubes of lamb and caulflower in a yogurt based sauce. The harissa added quite a pleasant kick, and this dish was ok, but it wasn't a standout.
We'd heard of the famous bacon dog stand in the Mission, but we'd never happened across it. We were walking down the street and Giao was hoping out loud that we might walk by the bacon dog stand, when all of a sudden we did. We bought one on the spot.
What could be better than standard foremeat wrapped in bacon, then grilled and topped with your choice of condiments.
Heart attack in a nice paper wrapping. Pretty good today.
Alexis had lunch with an old friend who was in town briefly. She'd been to Rocco's once before and it was a pretty hearty breakfast. At 10:30 am on a weekday though, the ambiance left something to be desired. We were the only customers and 80s soft rock was blaring.
A very large omelette. It was decent, but not great. And since Alexis doesn't eat much potatos or bread, maybe not worth the cost.
When there is no bacon in the fridge, diced salami makes a nice accompaniment to eggs.
The leftovers were quite good, making a perfectly proportioned food-pyramid meal.
Tasty, but it certainly smells up the office kitchen.
We had some new friends over for dinner. They brought several scotches for tasting and Alexis cooked up a hearty meal that would stand up to the scotches.
This leg of lamb was marinated for 24 hours, then roasted to a perfectly succulent medium rare. This recipe is as impressive as it is easy. It takes about 5 minutes of hands-on prep time.
Put the leg of lamb in a large bowl and pour the marinade over it. Rub the marinade into every nook and cranny of the boned leg. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate for 4 to 24 hours. Place the leg on a roasting pan and roast on 375 until the internal temperature reads 125. (I use an internal electronic thermometer that stays inserted in the middle of the leg of lemb throughout the cooking process. Remove from the oven and let rest for at least 20 minutes. During this time the internal temperature of the lamb will rise to about 135, a perfect medium rare.
Fewer carbs and more flavor than potatos. This often over-looked root vegetable is delicious when slow roasted.
Coat the rutabaga and with the olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place the rutabaga in a baking dish and cover with foil. Bake on 375 until tender, about 45 minutes to an hour.
Sautee the garlic in the butter and olive oil until just beginning to turn golden. Add the green beans and sautee, moving the beans frequently, over medium heat until the beans are tender and the garlic is browned. Season with salt and pepper.
Fruit tarts with a homemade crust are one of the easiest desserts to make. They are quite healthy since I add no sugar, and thus the full flavor of the fresh fruit shines.
Mix the cold pieces of butter into the flour with your hands until the mixture resembles cornmeal. Then add water, a tablespoon at a time until you can form it into a ball. Press the dough into a buttered pie pan and push up the sides to create the crust. Pre bake on 350 for 10 minutes, until just beginning to color, and dry to the touch. Add the blueberries and bake for another 1/2 hour or so, until the fruit is bubbly and the crust is golden.
Today Giao ate the pesto chicken salad that Alexis had yesterday. It was still delicious.
Alexis had a great salad with spinach, grilled tender filet mignon, cucumber, sundried tomatos and toasted pumpkin seeds, all enveloped in a creamy blue cheese dressing.
Back to our old standard.
Alexis wasn't quite sure what to make for dinner, but she had a variety of seafood and some brocolli and made a quick stew, seasoned with Thai chili paste, that turned out to be quite tasty.
Puree the tomatos, bell pepper, chili paste, garlic and onion in the food processor. Pour the mixture into a large pan and rbing to a boil. Add the seafood and simmer for a minute or so. Add the brocolli and simmer until tender. Season to taste nd sprinkle with chopped fresh cilantro. If we weren't low carb, we'd probably eat this with brown rice.
A very yummy dessert, that's (sorta) healthy.
A tasty use of a Costco rotisserie chicken. Also, Alexis had a bunch of basil that was going to go bad if she didn't do anything with it, so pesto was the obvious option. Although you could buy prepared pesto, it is easy and cheap to make at home, as Alexis does.
Mix the mayo and pesto until smooth, then mix thoroughly with the other ingredients. Serve on a bed of mixed greens or spinach.
Puree in a food processor and adjust ingredients to your own taste.
Giao orders 2, and mixed the meat together in a single bun.
Usually leftovers mixed with eggs, then scrambled make a great breakfast. It turns out that this particular combination of leftovers (cucumbers, noodles in fish sauce, and steak) was not very good for breakfast. Actually, I think it would have been fine without the cucumbers, which were rather odd when hot.
Boil the noodles in the chicken broth until tender. Combine all of the other ingredients in a bowl and set aside for 1/2 hour. Drain the noodles and combine them with the other ingredients.
Comfort food. Looks bad, tastes good.
Giao is not too sure why he tried the tofu again, but the results were the same as last time.
Mmm, home-cooked food again. A tasty, protein packed, hand held breakfast.
With and hour or so to kill before we had to head to the airport, we decided to check out Portland's largest mall, Lloyd Center. And we chose a place to eat based on the fact that it had a bar and it was not in the food court. It was not very good, but we were not expecting good.
Plentiful chicken tenders, but they were a bit soggy and both of the sauces were too sweet. The creamed spinach and brocolli were edible. This dinner was far too expensive for what it was.
Not bad and pretty big.
The cheese was good, the bread was not.
After we'd finished eating our too-expensive-for-what-it-was dinners, we headed to the bar section only to discover that the happy hour offered $2, $3 and $4 appetizers. We weren't really hungry at all, but we had to see how big the $3 cheeseburger was. We thought it would be a slider, but, no, it was a full size burger and it was then we learned we'd been royally ripped off in the sit down side of this restaurant.
We had a brunch at Mother's Bistro, a place recommended by both our hotel and Alexis' parents hotel (and the local tourist map). It was by far the busiest place we'd seen in Portland. The service was great, very friendly and informative. We do have a bone to pick with who's ever in charge of the pricing. The standard pricing of the meals is fine, it's when you attempt to do substitutions that you get screwed. In general, when you make substitutions at a restaurant, they either don't charge you, or at least tell you what the extra charge will be so that you can make a decision prior to ordering. This place did neither, and then charged unnecessarily exhorbitant sur-charges for our relatively innocuous subtitutions.
The full order was $9, so they knocked off $2 and gave us 1/2 the amount. Ridiculous. The mac cheese sauce itself was good, but the use of penne was a bit disturbing. Mac n' cheese should be made with elbow macaroni, every time, without fail. Also, we ordered the standard mac n' cheese and were given the one with sausage, which wasn't bad, but we're not sure if we were charged more for that either.
Served with the standard breakfast potatos AND toast, this dish would have been only $8.95. however, because Alexis wanted a few greens instead, they added a $2.50 surcharge. To add insult to injury, the salad was inedible--limp greens, oily dressing and raisins (?!?). The scramble itself was plentiful and tasty, if a bit salty.
This dish was described by the waiter with such enthusiam we assumed it would be a stand-out. It was good, but not to-die-for. Ditto the above on the ridiculous salad surcharge. This meal would have been $10.95 without that inedible substitution.


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If our business wanted to sell directly into the USA is it the case that we would have to 'Register as an Establishment' and renew this registration on an annual basis, or is it not as straight forward as that?
Thanks for your question. We tend to get quite a lot of good respondents to questions regarding the FDA, so hopefully you'll get some good answers.
We would be able to assist you in this matter. As an International freight forwarder, we have a vast level of experience in helping companies set up direct distribution links with the US, and also have experience of working with companies within your industry.


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Between now and April 27, you will be able to earn items and trade them in for player items via Squad Building Challenges (SBCs). Special versions of players (at their base card rating) will be available at various points over the next few weeks through Daily/Weekly Objectives, the Daily Knockout Tournament (DKT), and other modes. There's twelve to earn in total and they can be spent on Swap Deals players of varying quality and price.
For example, the first item that can be earned is Alvaro Negredo, and you can get him by winning the DKT sometime between now (April 4) and 2 am ET on Friday morning (April 6), when the Weekend League begins. That's the only way to get the card and he is one of the 12 Swap Deals that will be on offer over the next few weeks.
You can either save up the items you earn by playing the game, such as the Negredo card, for the more expensive players, or trade in early for the cheaper ones. Since there's only 12 to earn, you're limited on what you can unlock.
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September 10, 2018 | Beaverton, MI USA
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Breaks Ground on Beaverton Site Expansion
The expansion by Beaverton's largest employer will create 60 jobs for skilled workers in the manufacturing industry.
Beaverton, Mich. – September 10, 2018 – The Life Science business unit of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest building materials companies and manufacturer of innovative material solutions, today officially broke ground on the expansion to its site in Beaverton. The site is part of the Life Science business unit of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, which is focused on developing and manufacturing high-performance components and systems that enhance patient care. Distinguished guests at the groundbreaking included Beaverton Mayor Ray Nau, Beaverton City Manager Heath Kaplan, and Michigan State Representative Jason Wentworth.
The expansion project will increase development and manufacture capacity for Single Use Systems (SUS), the components and assemblies utilized in the manufacturing of life-saving drugs and vaccines. This project will also create 60 additional jobs for skilled workers in the manufacturing industry and allow the company to remain the largest employer in Beaverton.
"For more than 20 years, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has served as a strong partner of our City, and this expansion is another step we are taking together to further support Beaverton's economic development," said City Manager Kaplan. "We are grateful that Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has chosen to continue to invest in our city, our people, and our community."
The expansion will be constructed using non-combustible materials and designed to add floor space to host extrusion, molding, and assembly in ISO Class 7 production space. Additional warehouse space, a new Development Center, Materials Test Lab, and a new two-story office space are also included in the expansion plans.
"The site expansion will allow potential employees to experience the positive impact they can have by manufacturing products that save lives around the world," said Sue Shay, Plant Manager at Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics in Beaverton. "From competitive salaries to strong training offerings for continued growth, potential employees will be able to experience how fulfilling a career in manufacturing can be."
The Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics expansion project is expected to be complete in December of 2019.
To learn more about career opportunities at Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics' Beaverton location, please visit: https://www.saint-gobain-northamerica.com/careers and type "Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics" into the keyword search bar.
About Saint-Gobain in North America:
Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest building materials companies and manufacturer of innovative material solutions, helps create great living spaces by combining comfort and sustainability. For more than three-and-a-half centuries, Saint-Gobain has been enhancing the wellbeing of people everywhere, whether it's by addressing climate change, delivering true sustainable development, advancing the information revolution, participating in medical breakthroughs or playing a vital role in space exploration.
In North America, Saint-Gobain has approximately 150 locations and more than 15,000 employees. In the United States and Canada, Saint-Gobain reported sales of approximately $6.1 billion in 2017. Learn more about Saint-Gobain North America by visiting www.saint-gobain-northamerica.com and connect with Saint-Gobain North America on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
About Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures and distributes materials and solutions which are key ingredients in the wellbeing of each of us and the future of all. Saint-Gobain products are found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, infrastructure and in many industrial applications. They provide comfort, performance and safety on a local level while addressing global challenges such as sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change.
$46.1 billion in sales in 2017 globally
Operates in 67 countries
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About Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain):
Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics is one of seven businesses within the Innovative Materials Sector, which is spearheading the advancement of innovation within the Saint-Gobain Group. Performance Plastics is a recognized leader in the advanced polymer technology market with access to state-of-the-art manufacturing and research and development facilities around the world.
About Saint-Gobain Life Sciences (A division of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics)
Dedicated to improving quality of life, Saint-Gobain Life Sciences develops and manufactures high-performance components and integrated solutions that touch a broad range of patient care, from the development of new therapeutic cancer treatments to biopharmaceutical production, on through to intravenous therapies for drug delivery. Along with material science expertise and collaborative design services, our focus on global quality and regulatory affairs allow us to be the trusted partner to organizations reaching every part of the globe. Combining our technical expertise, global manufacturing capabilities and research and development resources, Saint-Gobain Life Sciences is dedicated to meeting the evolving needs of bioprocess, medical and pharmaceutical customers around the world.
About Saint-Gobain Bioprocess Solutions (A unit of Saint-Gobain Life Sciences)
The Bioprocess Solutions business unit of Saint-Gobain supplies the bioprocessing, pharmaceutical, cell therapy and laboratory industries with high-performance assemblies and fluid path components. Its industry-leading product portfolio and material expertise provide customers with the answers and assurance they need when processing pharmaceutical products.
Shari Rosen
Brownstein Group on behalf of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics
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On the Boston Review, Paul Bloom has a provocative article titled "Against Empathy." It's not advocating an uncompassionate approach to life, and in fact central to his thesis is that there is a distinction between empathy, which he says can limit and exhaust us, and compassion, which he points out is more sustainable.
It is worth expanding on the difference between empathy and compassion, because some of empathy's biggest fans are confused on this point and think that the only force that can motivate kindness is empathetic arousal. But this is mistaken. Imagine that the child of a close friend has drowned. A highly empathetic response would be to feel what your friend feels, to experience, as much as you can, the terrible sorrow and pain. In contrast, compassion involves concern and love for your friend, and the desire and motivation to help, but it need not involve mirroring your friend's anguish.
Or consider long-distance charity. It is conceivable, I suppose, that someone who hears about the plight of starving children might actually go through the empathetic exercise of imagining what it is like to starve to death. But this empathetic distress surely isn't necessary for charitable giving. A compassionate person might value others' lives in the abstract, and, recognizing the misery caused by starvation, be motivated to act accordingly.
Summing up, compassionate helping is good for you and for others. But empathetic distress is destructive of the individual in the long run.
It might also be of little help to other people because experiencing others' pain is exhausting and leads to burnout. This issue is explored in the Buddhist literature on morality. Consider the life of a bodhisattva, an enlightened person who vows not to pass into Nirvana, choosing instead to stay in the normal cycle of life and death to help the masses. How is a bodhisattva to live? In Consequences of Compassion (2009) Charles Goodman notes the distinction in Buddhists texts between "sentimental compassion," which corresponds to empathy, and "great compassion," which involves love for others without empathetic attachment or distress. Sentimental compassion is to be avoided, as it "exhausts the bodhisattva." Goodman defends great compassion, which is more distanced and reserved and can be sustained indefinitely.
One sees a similar contrast in ongoing experiments led by Singer and her colleagues in which people are either given empathy training, which focuses on the capacity to experience the suffering of others, or compassion training, in which subjects are trained to respond to suffering with feelings of warmth and care. According to Singer's results, among test subjects who underwent empathy training, "negative affect was increased in response to both people in distress and even to people in everyday life situations. . . . these findings underline the belief that engaging in empathic resonance is a highly aversive experience and, as such, can be a risk factor for burnout." Compassion training—which doesn't involve empathetic arousal to the perceived distress of others—was more effective, leading to both increased positive emotions and increased altruism.
Very interesting. From the pov of working as a counsellor and therapist-a profession in which burn out is rife- I am curious about this distinction and how it works in practice. I am also wondering how the practice of tonglen would fit it with this. I've wondered about tonglen and how healthy it is, how it may lead to burn out. Thanks.
Yes, I find this from personal experience to be true for me. I am too empathetic with certain people and it is exhausting. I'm not even sure how accurate it is. I can see how compassion would be more sustainable. To some degree, empathy might be a projection of your own feelings on how you think someone else is feeling. Perhaps they are not feeling as badly as you think they are.
This is interesting. I'm curious how one would see this intersecting with the work of Heinz Kohut, who viewed empathy as an essential element of healing in therapy. I think this perspective you offer reminds us to take care of ourselves and to beware of burnout and can be helpful. However, I wonder if the appropriate response to avoiding burnout is to toss our attempts to establish empathy altogether? Rather, I see a need for both compassion and empathy and would personally be wary of any practitioner (or person) who thinks that empathy is a liability. I see empathy as what makes us human, and I at times feel a concern for perspectives that call to not be attached, wondering if this can at times serve as defensive protection against the scary act of being vulnerable and attached to others.
I'm not familiar with the work of Kohut, I'm afraid. I posted an extract from Bloom's article because it's provocative and might promote reflection, rather than because I agree with him. I happen to think that empathy (anukampa) is a valuable basis for compassion, and I'm not confident that when a researcher like Bloom talks about empathy he's really talking about empathy, which is the felt response to another person's suffering. I suspect he's actually talking about the "Oh, that's terrible! This shouldn't be happening!" response, which can arise on the basis of empathy, but is neither empathy nor compassion. Instead it's a form of "grief, sorry, and lamentation" (the Buddha's second arrow), which of course becomes exhausting and prevents us from being able to act in a helpful way over a sustained period. Upatissa, the 1st century commentator, said in fact that "sorrow is failed compassion." I think Bloom is actually contrasting not empathy and compassion, but sorrow and compassion.
A compassionate response starts with the same felt response to another's suffering, but the desire is simply to relieve the suffering. The Bodhisattva isn't wallowing in sorrow, nor exhausted by empathy. We can no more have "compassion fatigue" than we can have "kindness fatigue" — if our compassion is genuine and not the "near enemy" of sorrow.


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The Trump administration accused Russia on Thursday of a concerted operation to hack the U.S. energy grid and other critical infrastructure including aviation, and separately imposed sanctions on a raft of Russian officials for alleged high-tech interference in the 2016 American presidential election.
The moves were the strongest to date against Russia by the administration, which critics have complained is being soft on Moscow.
U.S. national security officials said the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and intelligence agencies had determined that Russian intelligence and others were behind a broad range of cyberattacks beginning a year ago that have infiltrated the energy, nuclear, commercial, water, aviation and manufacturing sectors.
The officials said the Russian hackers chose their targets, obtained access to computer systems, conducted "network reconnaissance" of systems that control key elements of the U.S. economy and then attempted to cover their tracks by deleting evidence of their infiltration.
The U.S. government has helped the industries kick out the Russians from all systems currently known to have been penetrated, according to the officials, but the efforts continue. The officials, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive national security information, left open the possibility of discovering more breaches, and said the federal government was issuing an alert to the energy industry to raise awareness about the threat and improve preparation.
That alert, published online by Homeland Security, said the hacking effort was a "multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors who targeted small commercial facilities' networks" to gain access and plant malware, which was then used to monitor activity as well as to move laterally into other, larger industrial control systems.
It also said the hackers exploited open-source material from companies' public websites to mine seemingly innocuous information that was later used to infiltrate networks. In one case, the alert said, hackers downloaded a small image from a company's human resources page that when blown up was actually "a high-resolution photo that displayed control systems equipment models and status information in the background."
The accusations and accompanying Russian sanctions were the most severe yet by the Trump administration in connection with hacking and other efforts to sow discord in America's democracy and compromise its infrastructure.
Also Thursday, President Donald Trump, who has been publicly skeptical of the election allegations, joined the leaders of Britain, France and Germany in a joint statement blaming Moscow for the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy who was living in England.
Reaction from Russia was swift.
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow was greeting the sanctions calmly, but he warned that Russia had already started "to prepare a response." He suggested the Trump administration had timed the sanctions to come ahead of this weekend's presidential election in Russia, in which President Vladimir Putin is expected to win an overwhelming victory.
"It is tied to U.S. internal disorder, tied of course to our electoral calendar," Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the Russian state news agency Tass.
The list of Russians now under U.S. sanctions includes the 13 indicted last month by U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his Russia-related investigation into alleged election interference. The sanctions are the first use of the new powers that Congress passed last year to punish Moscow for meddling in an election that Trump won over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
"These targeted sanctions are a part of a broader effort to address the ongoing nefarious attacks emanating from Russia," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. He said others would face punishment in the future under the new sanctions law "to hold Russian government officials and oligarchs accountable for their destabilizing activities."
Altogether, 19 Russians were cited. Also sanctioned were five Russian companies, including the Internet Research Agency, which is accused of orchestrating a mass online disinformation campaign to affect the presidential election result.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced the sanctions amid withering criticism accusing Trump and his administration of failing to use its congressionally mandated authority to punish Russia. The sanction targets include officials working for the Russian military intelligence agency GRU.
Thursday's action freezes any assets the individuals and entities may have in the United States and bars Americans from doing business with them.
The Treasury Department said the GRU and Russia's military both interfered in the 2016 election and were "directly responsible" for the NotPetya cyberattack that hit businesses across Europe in June 2017, causing billions of dollars in damage by disrupting global shipping, trade and medicine production. It noted that the attack caused several U.S. hospitals to be unable to create electronic medical records for more than a week.
Among those affected was Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is known as "Putin's chef" and who ran the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, and 12 of the agency's employees. They were included in Mueller's indictment last month.
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"The IRA created and managed a vast number of fake online personas that posed as legitimate U.S. persons to include grass-roots organizations, interest groups and a state political party on social media," the Treasury Department statement said. "Through this activity, the IRA posted thousands of ads that reached millions of people online."
The sanctions also affect the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, and six of its employees for cyberattacks more broadly, including those targeting Russian journalists, opposition figures, foreign politicians and U.S. officials. The Americans include members of the diplomatic corps, the military and White House staffers.
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South Africa: Political party funding
Represented Political Parties Fund Reports
See also FICK, G 1997 South Africa: Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act
In 2018, the president signed into law the Political Party Funding Act, the Act seeks to fill a gap in the law where the private funding of political parties was previously unregulated.
Represented Political Parties Fund and the Multi-Party Democracy Fund
Section 44 of the Constitution affords Parliament legislative authority to pass legislation with regards to any matter, including the regulation of the private funding of political parties. To this end, Parliament passed the Political Party Funding Act of 2018. The Political Party Funding Act of 2018 repealed and replaced the Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act of 1997.
Two funds are created by the Act, with oversight and allocation invested in the Independent Electoral Commission, for the purpose of enhancing multi-party democracy through the funding of political parties represented in Parliament or provincial legislatures (Political Party Funding Act 2018, 2 (1), 3(1)). The Represented Political Parties Fund recieves income from parliamentary appropriations while the Multi-Party Democracy Fund is funded by private donors.
The Multi-Party Democracy Fund may not receive income from (i) organs of state (ii) state-owned enterprises and (iii) foreign governments or agencies (Political Party Funding Act 2018, 3 (4)). Private donors may request to remain anonymous, alternatively they may request the amount they are donating not be disclosed.
The IEC is responsible for allocating resources from the Funds to the various political parties that are represented in the National Assembly and/ or the provincial legislatures based on the number of seats won in the respective structures (Political Party Funding Act 2018, 6 (1) -(3)). Payments to political parties are made quarterly (Political Party Funding Act 2018 7 (1)).
The money received from the Fund may be used "for any purpose compatible with its functioning as a political party in a modern democracy" (Political Party Funding Act 2018, 2 (1)). This includes:
the development of the political will of people;
bringing the political party's influence to bear on the shaping of public opinion;
inspiring and furthering political education;
promoting active participation by individual citizens in political life;
exercising an influence on political trends; and;
ensuring continuous, vital links between the people and organs of state.
Political parties may not use the funds for the remuneration of party officials who hold elected office or people employed or contracted by the state (Political Party Funding Act 2018 7 (2)(a)). Furthermore, political parties may not finance or contribute to any matter or cause in contravention of any code of ethics binding on the members of Parliament or the provincial legislature (Political Party Funding Act 2018 7 (2)(b)). Parties may not use the funds for business related purposes or acquiring property that is not for the direct use of the political party. Party funds may also not be used to settle the legal costs for internal party disputes (Political Party Funding Act 2018 7 (2)).
Accountability for funds
The chief executive officer must provide an annual Report to Parliament and to the Auditor-General (Political Party Funding Act, 2018 22 (1(c); Electoral Commission Act 1996, 13 (3)). The accounting related information that must be supplied with the Report includes income, allocations, expenditures and the current record of the capital and liabilities of the Funds for that year.
The effect of public funding on party performance
Whether or not public funding helps or hinders the development of a multiparty democracy depends on way in which public funds are distributed amongst the various political parties. Susan Booysen & Grant Masterson have argued that public funding in South Africa has helped to consolidate the dominance of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the expense of other political parties. They point to the huge disparity between the amount of public money allocated to the ANC by comparison with the two largest opposition parties: "Of the R88 million that the IEC distributed to parties in 2009, R61 million went to the ANC, R10.5 million to the DA [Democratic Alliance] and R5.4 million to the Inkatha Freedom Party" (Booysen & Masterson 2009, 415). In other words the ANC received about 5½ times as much of the taxpayer's money in 2009 as the next two parties combined. The effects of public funding, added to the fruits of long incumbency, were overwhelming: "The ANC had become extremely well-resourced, also reaping benefits from beneficiaries of its period in government and investment and direct business interests - and other political parties found it hard to compete" (Booysen & Masterson 2009, 415).
Private funding of individual parties
Private funding before 2018
Until the passing of the Political Party Funding Act private direct funding of individual political parties was wholly unregulated. Tom Lodge and Ursula Scheideggar (2005, 17) observed at the time: "There are no legal limits on how much parties can spend on electioneering or any requirements for disclosure of the sources or amounts of private donations". The sources of funding in particular became a subject of increasing concern. Khabele Matlosa (2004, 5,6) summed up the unease by pointing out:
The main problem around this type of funding is simply this:
Donations often come with strings attached;
Donations are never ever disclosed publicly; and
Donations are not regulated the same way as public funding.
Given the above problems, the greatest danger for African democracies, including South Africa, is the corrupting tendency of undisclosed funding...
Susan Booysen and Grant Masterson (2009, 414-415) reported that, "the practice of private funding of political parties was challenged in the Cape High Court in Cape Town in 2004 by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa), who lodged an application to force the 'big four' political parties, the ANC, DA/DP, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) to open their financial books to public scrutiny. The parties in question strongly opposed the motion, arguing that forcing the disclosure of financial backers would intimidate potential donors considering support for a particular party out of concern for the possible fallout of that support in the event that the party which they supported was defeated at the polls. In particular, the DA and IFP argued that they feared some of their financial backers would not be prepared to guarantee further support should such contributions be made public".
Moreover, "The case was suspended after the political parties in question agreed to legislate on the matter rather than force the judiciary to rule on a matter, which was in their view the responsibility of parliament to resolve. To date (2009), no legislation regulating private funding of political parties had been presented in or passed by the National Assembly".
2018 Political Party Funding Act regulation
Political parties may not accept donations in excess of R15 million from a single source within a given financial year (Political Party Funding Act 2018 8 (2)). Futhermore, the Political Party Funding Act, 2018 proscribed parties from receiving funding from any of the following sources (Political Party Funding Act 2018 8 (1)):
Foreign governments or their agencies;
foreign individuals and corporations unless for skills or policy development;
organs of state; or
state-owned enterprises.
Political parties must disclose all donations received above R100,000 to the IEC (Political Party Funding Act 2018 9 (1)).
Enforcement and accountability
The IEC is tasked with monitoring compliance with the Act (Political Party Funding Act 2018 14 (1)). To this end, parties must disclose relevant information including books, records, reports and other documentation needed for the IEC to monitor compliance (Political Party Funding Act 2018 14 (2)). Parties refusing to comply with requests may be taken by the IEC to the Electoral Court for an order to compel compliance with that subsection (Political Party Funding Act 2018 14 (3)).
Furthermore, if the parties fail to comply with any parts of the Act the IEC may issue a directive to a political party after affording the party an opportunity to make representations (Political Party Funding Act 2018 15 (1)). If the political party fails to comply with the directive, the IEC may, depending on the nature of that infraction, impose any of the following sanctions (Political Party Funding Act 2018 15 (2)):
Suspension of payment of allocated money;
recovery of money irregularly accepted or spent; or
the imposition of an administrative fine.
Appeals may be made to the Electoral Court on any decision made by the IEC (Political Party Funding Act 2018 20 1, 2).
BOOYSEN, S & MASTERSON, G 2009 "Chapter 11: South Africa" IN Denis Kadima and Susan Booysen (eds) Compendium of Elections in Southern Africa 1989-2009: 20 Years of Multiparty Democracy, EISA, Johannesburg, 390-391.
POLITICAL PARTY FUNDING ACT, 6 OF 2018.
LODGE, T & SCHEIDEGGAR, U 2005, South Africa: Country Report based on Research and Dialogue with Political Parties, International IDEA/EISA, [www] http://www.idea.int/parties/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=15063 [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 26 Feb 2010).
MATLOSA, K 2004, "Public Funding of Political Parties" IN EISA Election Update: South Africa 2004 3 [PDF document], 2-6.
PUBLIC FUNDING OF REPRESENTED POLITICAL PARTIES ACT, 103 OF 1997, [www] http://www.elections.org.za/content/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=985 [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 9 Mar 2010).
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Alongside a monumental Jean Dubuffet painting, Phillips will auction works by Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Tamara de Lempicka, Mark Tansey, Andy Warhol, John Currin, and Mickalene Thomas in its upcoming 20th century art evening sale in London on April 15.
Among the postwar works headed to auction is Rothko's Untitled (Black Blue Painting), completed in 1968, at the apex of his career, which will be offered at a price of £2.5 million–£3.5 million ($3.5 million–$4.5 million). It will be sold alongside Stella's vibrant painting Scramble, Ascending Spectrum/Ascending Green Values (1977), from his "Concentric Square" series, which is estimated at a price of £2.5 million–£3.5 million ($3 million–$4 million). An Art Deco portrait of a woman by Tamara de Lempicka titled Figure esquissée sur fond doré, painted ca. 1930, is estimated at £1.5 million ($1 million).
Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q, a 1964 riff on the Mona Lisa from an edition of 35 divided between the artist and his close friends, is estimated at £200,000–£300,000 ($277,000–$415,000). Other versions of it reside in the collections of institutions such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, and the Israel Museum of Art in Jerusalem.
Among the emerging artists in the sale is Joy Labinjo, whose untitled double-portrait of a woman and child from 2018 is estimated at £20,000–£30,000 ($27,000–$42,000). Labinjo's market has ascended since the sale of her family scene Visiting Great Grandma (2018), which was auctioned for $189,000 this past December at Phillips; it had been estimated at $10,000. Meanwhile, Mickalene Thomas's Clarivel Right (2018), featuring a recurring female figure in her work, is estimated at £220,000–£350,000 ($305,000–$457,000).
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School Drug Search Leads to One Arrest
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"Their faces were all plastered to the windows," said Bolton Police Chief Vince Alfano of students at Nashoba Regional High School on Monday, May 19. They were watching a team of law enforcement officials conduct a K-9 drug search of the parking lots, moving from car to car in quick succession. Alfano describes the operation as part of a 3-prong effort to combat the presence of drugs at the high school, planned and executed by Bolton Police, State Police and the Nashoba administration.
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Those hoping for a new regional agreement for Minuteman High School this year will have to wait. But there is a movement to try to make the proposed agreement more acceptable to some of the vocational school's 16 member towns.
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The annual road race to benefit the Stow Conservation Trust was once again a success despite the unpredicatable weather of Springfest weekend.
The Independent Clause… May 29, 2014
There have been several sightings, in opposite ends of town, of what appears to be a non-native yellow golden pheasant. Last week, I received several photos of the bird from a Boxborough Rd resident, but unfortunately I couldn't get the photo up to print quality. This week, we received another photo of the bird, at […]
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2014 Fall Football and Cheer Registration is Now Open! Nashoba Youth Football & Cheer is a recreational program open to children who will be in grades 1 – 8 (2nd grade for football) in September from the surrounding towns of Bolton, Harvard, Lancaster and Stow, regardless of size or ability. NYFC strives to instill a […]
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By Kristen Kerouac Excerpts from the Public Safety Logs. Please note, arrests are made based on probable cause but do not determine guilt or innocence until proven in court. Monday May 19, 2014 7:38am ANIMAL A caller on Gleasondale Road reported that a woman was walking an emaciated and sickly looking dog along the road. […]
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Last night's Nashoba School Committee meeting focused on how the district measures success among both students and staff, with a view toward how these measures could change in the future.
One Committee discussion centered on whether to become part of a new, national student testing system. Superintendent Michael Wood announced that Nashoba must decide, before the end of the school year, whether to continue participating in the national PARCC (Partnership for Readiness for College and Careers) testing system. A few classrooms throughout the district participated this year, though those students also took their required MCAS tests.


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Editorial: Ensuring access to health care in English
Advocacy, not only by the community, but at the individual level, has an important role to play.
Montreal Gazette Editorial Board
Jan 28, 2021 • January 28, 2021 • 4 minute read • Join the conversation
When we are at our most vulnerable, we want to ensure that we are fully understood, and that we in turn can fully understand the medical advice and explanations we are being given. Photo by Bill Keay /Postmedia
This is the third in a series of editorials focusing on the challenges facing English-speaking Quebecers .
On March 11, 1996, Premier Lucien Bouchard famously told English-speaking Quebecers, "when you go to the hospital and you're in pain, you may need a blood test, but you certainly don't need a language test."
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Speaking at the Centaur Theatre only a few months after the 1995 referendum, and seeking to reassure the English-speaking community, Bouchard spotlighted the central importance to anglophone Quebecers of having access to health care services in English. When we are at our most vulnerable, we want to ensure that we are fully understood, and that we in turn can fully understand the medical advice and explanations we are being given. When it comes to mental health and social services, English services are all the more important. And the availability of health-care services in English is not only important for humanitarian reasons, but also because it is an acknowledgment that English-speaking Quebecers belong.
Now, 25 years later, where do we stand?
In principle, English-speaking Quebecers have a right to receive health care in English comparable to the services that francophones receive in French, but that does not mean all such services, at any location and at any time. Beyond the problems all Quebecers face accessing health care, not all health care institutions have the capacity or human resources to provide service in English, nor are they obliged to.
In fact, the services English-speaking Quebecers have a right to receive in English are the ones that have been specified in the institutions' legally required access programs. This in turn depends on an array of practical considerations, including how many English-speakers live in the area, and what capacities the institutions may have.
Thus, the strength of the right depends on the quality of the programs, and that in turn depends of the quality of the process that produces them. That process is complicated, and has some shortcomings. Gaétan Barrette's centralizing 2015 health care system reorganization (Bill 10) meant that the system for creating and approving access programs had to be re-created, which has been a slow process. The programs are drafted by health care "institutions," which are mostly the centres intégrés — the CISSSes and CIUSSSes — created when Bill 10 grouped together hospitals and social service agencies and centralized their administration, in the process erasing the self-governance of traditionally English institutions. These plans then go to regional English-language access committees for review, and then to a provincial English-services access committee, for ultimate approval by the government. The appropriate committees, composed entirely of members recommended by the English-speaking community, are now in operation and the new access programs are in the pipeline. However, the committees, whose members are often are very highly qualified volunteers, do not have adequate research and organizational support. Meanwhile, the old programs remain in place, but they do not reflect current structures and realities.
While it would be premature to judge the quality of the access programs that will emerge from this process, one issue is already evident. And that is, the structural focus on the delivery of service by institutions leaves a big gap. It does not cover the growing number of health care services that are delivered not by traditional institutions, but by contracted providers. Another constraint is that the right to health care in English comes up against another right: that to work in French. There is often resistance to requiring bilingualism as a condition of hiring. Access programs must ensure that institutions actually have the human resources capacities to deliver appropriate services in English. In regions outside Montreal, appropriate personnel may be harder to find.
In practice, it is often possible to receive care in English beyond what is provided for in access programs thanks to the good will and capacities of the individuals involved. But access to health care in English should be seen as a right, not a favour.
Another gap was seen last spring, in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when the Quebec government did not originally make available a printed version of its Self-Care Guide in English along with the French version it sent to all households in the province. While the English version was available online, that was much less helpful, particularly to seniors, who also were less likely to be comfortable with the printed version in French. After a major hue and cry, a printed English version was finally distributed, but not before some of its advice had become out of date. Since then, however, Quebec has done a much better job of including English in its COVID public health messaging.
Certainly, advocacy, not only by the community, but at the individual level, has an important role to play in ensuring the widest possible availability of English health services. In a context where access to health care is not what it should be for anybody, many anglophones may happily opt for care in French if it means receiving care more quickly. There is also a natural tendency of those who are feeling vulnerable not to want to rock the boat, fearing that doing so will provoke ill-will from care-providers. Those are both understandable attitudes. But for there to be supply, there must be demand. One can safely predict that the Quebec government will not supply a higher level of care in English than is being sought.
At the same time, the onus should be on the health care system to ensure that the public knows exactly what services are available in English, and where, so that English-speakers can receive those services. Providers of English-language health care services should also be expected to adopted the "active offer" approach, not leaving it for the recipient to have to ask to be served in English. These things should not be too much to ask.
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University Of Waterloo Prof. Emmett Macfarlane Tweets "Burn Congress Down"
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In what he believes to be an act of enormous heroism, Emmett Macfarlane, tweeted "Burn Congress Down" if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attempts to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
One would think that someone who specializes in constitutional law and the Supreme Court of Canada would know that McConnell and Trump have every constitutional right to seek a new nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. He does know. But in the world of academia today it is standard for professors to manipulate the truth, historical evidence, liberal-democratic principles, whatever evidence they encounter, to serve the ultimate goal of destroying Western civilization in the name of diversity, the breakup of the nuclear family, and the elevation of foreign non-whites and sexually disturbed individuals to the highest offices.
As Breitbart reported, right after he tweeted this call to blacks to destroy Congress, Emmett Macfarlane "protected his account on Twitter." You can be sure The University of Waterloo, where he teaches, will protect him, and Twitter will not suspend him.
I interacted with Macfarlane in Twitter. He is one of countless academics who have snitched to the authorities against me over the past decade, and asked Twitter to ban me. He is a typical white male academic without ideas of his own who simply regurgitates what he heard as an undergraduate. He is afraid of thinking critically about the major ideas and policies currently dominating the Western world. He accepts everything TD Bank, Costco, Walmart, and Tim Hortons say about diversity and "gay pride".
The way for white academic men to advance in academia is to triple down against "whiteness" and "patriarchy". You can imagine what this entails. It entails the most pathetic forms of degrading behaviors a man could ever do. It means walking on all fours in front of women and foreign immigrant men.
Foreign academics have an incipient, instinctive revulsion against white male academics. It is a law of nature. No one can respect someone who trashes his own ancestors, history, and family. They are disgusted by this, but, of course, they love getting handouts and using their positions to advance brown immigrants against "white racists".
But students see through these cowardly, closed-minded academics. Check Macfarlane at Rate My Professors. Most of the students say he is "Awful". "BOOOOring!" "Mediocre lecturer". He does not lecture much: "His power points just consist of pictures and graphs, but you can't really make notes from what he says - The majority of the class session is just students talking".
Terrible reviews of his teaching have made it to Twitter: "Boring prof...He's a midwit who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. He doesn't like contrarians so you learn quick to regurgitate if you want an A."
I can't emphasized enough how awful most of the leftist academics dominating our universities are. The feminists fit every stereotype you can imagine: lazy, childless, excitable, and unattractive.
As far as publication record goes, Macfarlane is reasonably competent. His main flaw is the flaw of every white male academic: he is terrified to think in a masculine manner.
In our Twitter exchange, I asked him a simple question: "Can you show me how a moratorium on immigration is inconsistent with Canada's constitutional principles and the principles of liberalism"? His response was to babble a few things about "racism", and to question my credentials on the basis of an article where I am identified as a "White Supremacist".
This is the standard reply of those currently dedicated to "higher learning". I asked him for a debate. He then ran away. They are afraid to debate us because we would clearly win the debate. It is very simple, really: Why are whites the only race obligated to diversify their nations, trash their history, show "humanitarian compassion" for violent blacks and Pakistani rape gangs, celebrate the mediocre achievements of non-whites, and suppress their vastly superior achievements?
Contact The University of Waterloo, Sheila Ager, Dean of Arts: sager@uwaterloo.ca
Ask her why she tolerates a person who is calling for violence and for the destruction of government buildings? Ask her why she thinks that questioning mass immigration is a greater crime than objecting to reckless violence against innocent Americans?
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ONE MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S LIFE | ELIAS ALLEN
Elias Allen is a character. He prides himself on his impersonations of actors and sports analysts, never misses an Instagram moment and has a pretty sweet man-crush on Batman. But there's also a polar side to the 26-year-old, Hilo native. As the Operations Manager of Atlas Recycling for the west side of the Big Island, it's a must.
In 1984, Mike Allen, Elias' father and Atlas founder, began buying aluminum cans for $0.25 per pound from people in Kona to fill two voids: he was unable to land a decent job, and to recycle what people thought was simply just trash. He then sold the aluminum cans he garnered to a company in the mainland for a profit. Over time, Atlas gradually expanded and when the State sanctioned "Bottle Bill"—commonly known as "HI-5"—was passed, the incentive for people to recycle only drew more attention and business to the company.
"They just published an article in West Hawaii Today actually," says the younger Allen, who now resides in Kailua-Kona. "Right now, almost 80% of every single redeemable beverage container is being recycled around the state." He went on to say, "Once the bottle bill was passed in [2005], people kind of got it in their minds that recycling was better for the environment and kept materials out of the landfill, but it also put some money into your pocket."
Unable to grasp the intricacies of business as an adolescent, Allen absorbed his father's knowledge on a daily basis; whether laboring on the recycling yard or overhearing the recycling business jargon, he became well versed in the culture of Atlas. Unlike many who take a few years to figure out the right direction and degree for them, Elias was naturally led into the world of business. But textbooks and lectures can only offer so much understanding.
"The Shidler College of Business [at the University of Hawaii at Manoa] provided a good open door for me," explains Allen, "as far as opening my eyes to a lot of things that go on behind the scenes of a business. But things that you do in your day-in-and-day-out routine at work, you'll never learn in school. Especially in business, you never really learn things until you get your hands dirty and experience everything for yourself."
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