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School Cafeteria Food Essay
School Cafeteria Food Essay
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First of all, students aren't motivated to eat unhealthy, not-tasty food. If you observed students buying lunch in the cafeteria, you don't often see them buying these kinds, but not limited to, foodstuffs: burritos (which are just beans wrapped in tortillas), "burgers" (meat slapped on two slices of bread), etc. Even the chicken nuggets aren't very popular. And the prices! $3.75-$4.75 is not worth such "garbahge", as a teacher would say. Out of the twenty five students I surveyed, 56% stated that they would like to see their cafeteria changed. The reasons being were, "The same stuff everyday – it gets boring", "Tastes like plastic", ...
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There is a good reason, which will soon become apparent, why I begin this article with a long quote from a story in The New York Times. It covered the reception the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, received at an event organised by the large Indian diaspora in the US. "They wore his face on their chests, waved it on posters, chanted his name and quoted his slogans, 19,000 fans drawn to a single star. His image stared down from the big screen at Madison Square Garden and emerged on canvas in a live speed-painting onstage. And when the man himself emerged, the capacity crowd on Sunday, September 28, in New York's most storied arena roared as one. 'Modi! Modi! Modi!' the audience chanted, drowning out the announcer's attempt to introduce the man who needed no introduction: Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, whom 19,000 people had travelled from around the country and Canada to see speak on his first visit to the United States since being elected in May… The event was broadcast live around the world and watched in 'super Modi' parties across the United States."
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When someone threatens the life of the President of the United States, the Secret Service reaction is usually swift and severe: casually joke in front of an agent about taking a shot at the President, and you'll wind up in jail quicker than you can say Go. When members of Congress are threatened, by contrast, the response typically is not nearly as intense. Threats can languish in the clogged voice-mail inboxes of any number of staffers dispersed across many offices in different parts of the country. Capitol police must work backward to reconstruct caller-ID records, usually in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local authorities. And the offenders often turn out to simply be irritated voters, angry over this bill or that congressional resolution; a rap on the knuckles has often been considered sufficient punishment.
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This goes back to what mayberry said about abstraction in his speech where all the reasons he gave were level 4 abstractions and why you keep saying the same drivel about his giveing an eloquent well thought out speech about it. Well thought out yes in that he was careful NOT to say because he is black. That I am sure you'll agree would have been stupid of powell to say so he didn't and any other reasons he gave were all full of colorful pretty adjectives but NONE had anything to do with things like EXPERIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS, ACCOMPLISHMENTS, etc. you know the meat and potatos kind of thing you'd expect from someone like powell. So one can only speculate why he would have over looked all that and his being Black is the most obvious item on the list. Unless of course you really think Powell is that stupid to vote for him merely because Obama is "Charming" .
Powell may be Racist but he aint stupid.
As for the harm this discussion may cause?
You ever listen to an Obama ad ?
Originally posted by GamerGal
And don't forget Scott McClellan, and Barry Goldwater's grand kids, and a couple Republican Govs., and... A bunch of WHITE Republicans. Or will you Republicans claim they are all secretly black like Obama is secretly Muslim?
No, if you had been following this thead, It appears Blacks will Vote for a white guy when the choice is between two white people.
White people will vote for a black guy and have now proven will vote for a black guy between a choice of one black and one white,
BUT Blacks will generally NOT vote a white guy if their is a Black alternative.
When are you liberals going to stop equivocating between the Ideas that if I don't like Obama, it must be because I am racist. If someone DOES vote for him it can't POSSIBLY be Racist ESPECIALLY when the person has more reason to then I or any white person would.
BLACKS LIKE OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS BLACK, and that's ok because when it comes to voting on substance and the issues, they simply failed to show any other reason BUT race
Originally posted by JohnnyElohim
You didn't even try to answer her point, so your criticism that she hasn't been following the thread strikes me as feeble.
Originally posted by Avenginggecko
I'm confused. Do you find it odd that African American's would prefer a candidate that is more like them?
Originally posted by JohnnyElohim
What? Source your claims, for goodness sake. I haven't seen you say a single thing in this thread which is "proven". Who cares that some white folks will vote for a black man? Why does it have to be about race? Damn.
Frankly, it doesn't bother me that a marginalized group of people who represent a statistical minority would support a candidate who is likely to share some of their cultural experiences and is thus more likely to support their interests.
No one said you were racist for not supporting Obama. A lot of people have said your vitriol towards Powell is suspect, though.
So rather than say it like it is they choose to make flowery descriptions of the man like being "Electrifying" and transformational but nothing like being qualified or having any experience is mentioned and ya know why?
and THAT is the reason Powell never gave any of THOSE REASONS!
Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president on Sunday morning as a candidate who was reaching out in a "more diverse and inclusive way across our society" and offering a "calm, patient, intellectual, steady approach" to the nation's problems.
Mr. Powell told reporters after the taping of "Meet the Press" that he had been disturbed in recent weeks by the negative tone of Mr. McCain's campaign, particularly its focus on Mr. Obama's passing relationship with William Ayers, a 1960s radical and founder of the Weather Underground. The McCain campaign has sought to promote the idea that Mr. Obama is "palling around with terrorists," in the words of Mr. McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, because of Mr. Obama's weak links to Mr. Ayers.
"I thought that was over the top," Mr. Powell told reporters. "It was beyond just good political fighting back and forth."
"As gifted as he[McCain] is, he is essentially going to execute the Republican agenda, the orthodoxy of the Republican agenda, with a new face and a maverick approach to it, and he'd be quite good at it," Mr. Powell said. "But I think we need a generational change."
Mr. Powell's endorsement exposed a fundamental policy rift in the fractious Republican party foreign policy establishment between the so-called pragmatists, a number of whom have come to view the Iraq war or its execution as a mistake, and a competing camp, the neoconservatives, whose thinking dominated President Bush's first term and played a pivotal role in building the case for war.
Mr. Powell, who is of the pragmatist camp and has been critical of the Bush administration's conduct of the war, was said by friends in recent months to be disturbed by some of the neoconservatives who have surrounded Mr. McCain as foreign policy advisers in his presidential campaign.
Mr. Powell met with both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama in June in preparation to make a possible endorsement. He has said repeatedly in recent months that he wanted to wait until after the political conventions and the presidential debates before making a decision.
Originally posted by Avenginggecko
Oh, and just so you know, the fact that Powell endorses Obama means he believes he is qualified for President. He doesn't need to go out and say, "Obama is qualified", because his endorsement and the reasons above show why. Powell doesn't like the war, the NeoConservatives that have corrupted Republicans, or the NeoConservative social agenda. All of this has been known and hasn't been a surprise. He took his time, researched, and waited after the debates to make his endorsement because he wanted to make an informed decision. And he did.
[edit on 27-10-2008 by Avenginggecko]
Oh, and just so you know, the fact that Powell endorses Obama means he believes he is qualified for President. and doesn't have to explain why
Let me quote some reality for you
"As gifted as he[McCain] is, he is essentially going to execute the Republican agenda, the orthodoxy of the Republican agenda, with a new face and a maverick approach to it, and he'd be quite good at it," Mr. Powell said. "But I think we need a generational change."
Originally posted by Avenginggecko
Do you have any proof that African Americans always choose a black candidate? Please refrain from blogs or partisan sites, I only accept factual sources.
"African American's would prefer a candidate that is more like them
Yes blacks are turning out in higher numbers for Obama, but it's not just because he's black, it's because he's offering what black people desire. "
Originally posted by SectionEight
Back on topic.
Powel resigned in shame and disgrace as a failed diplomat. He was a good millitary man, as a diplomat he failed. The last time he stood up with his reputation and asked people to believe him was at the UN with the faulty intelligence reports.
Now the same people that hated him for it are madly in love with him, gotta love politics and the pure hypocricy.
Originally posted by Avenginggecko
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You're ability to misconstrue and misunderstand is monumental. Perhaps one day you'll take your blinders off, but that is surely not today. When you grow a few years and add life experience and a little bit more world knowledge to your skill set, I invite you to revisit this thread and try your best to understand what people are saying instead of warping it out of context. Until then, peace to you, you obviously need it.
Edit: I read the rest of your posts, and I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do or say to convince you that Colin Powell endorsed Obama for anything other than his skin color. It's obvious of that. My suggestion would be some serious meditation and soul searching to get rid of what some might see as your own racist agenda. Have a good day, I'm done with this thread.
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Dynamic equilibriaTuesday, December 15th, 2009
What am I going to do when I finally live in one place?
I've moved more than a few times in my life. During my early years I moved within New Jersey, one time that I can't remember, and five or six that I can. Actually most of those moves were within the same town. Then at some point I went off to college, where moving in and out of one's dorm room each year is part of the natural ebb and flow of semesters coming and going. Nowadays I find myself living in DC for some reason, and I have the feeling moving will be commonplace for the foreseeable future.
I kind of like moving around. That's not to say I don't like staying in one place — because I do. But there is no better way to get one's material possessions in order than to pack them all up and head on out. One reason college is awesome is that you can pack up all your worldly belongings into a car and then drive away. There is something liberating about living with as few possessions as feasible. Then again, unpacking thereafter is a necessary consequence. I think I still have some boxes still packed in my basement from younger moves, and that's been quietly nagging at me for years.
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The Celtics (5-1, 4-0) are the only undefeated team in the Private School League after Saturday`s 20-7 victory over Aurora Central Catholic (4-2, 2-1)
It`s the same old story in New Lenox. And Providence football fans couldn`t be happier.
The Celtics (5-1, 4-0) are the only undefeated team in the Private School League after Saturday`s 20-7 victory over Aurora Central Catholic (4-2, 2-1)
in Aurora. Providence has won the league championship three of the last four years.
After Saturday`s triumph, Providence coach Matt Senffner and Aurora Central Catholic coach Bob Williams exchanged handshakes and one-armed hugs. Senffner then hugged a few of his players, some friends and his son, Matt, who quarterbacked the Celtics for three years.
The elder Senffner was feeling spry and young again. His Celtics had met and overcome what should be their biggest obstacle in retaining the league title. Providence`s only setback this year was a 20-14 double-overtime loss to Leo in the season opener.
``We easily could have been 6-0,`` said coach Senffner. ``We`ve got two more conference games. Every one of them is a must. Now that we`re at the top, Luther South is going to come at us.``
Saturday`s 21-0 loss to Nazareth Academy dropped Luther South to 2-1 in the league. Providence, which plays its remaining three regular-season games at home, meets Luther South Saturday.
To beat Providence, Luther South will have to control tailback Rick Labiak. Aurora officials raved about Labiak Saturday. The 5-foot-11-inch, 173- pound senior ran over and around the Chargers for 235 yards and two touchdowns on 32 carries. Labiak, running behind center Kevin Saunders, guards Matt Slattery and Mike Motto and tackles Tom Foster and Bill McGory, had 170 yards on 18 carries in the first half.
``He can go in there and take a shot with the best of them,`` said Senffner. ``I just wish he had a little more weight on him. He`d be a real fine prospect.``
``He`s a big-play kid,`` Williams said of Labiak, who averaged 7 yards a carry last year. ``He`s a heckuva back. There`s nobody around that wouldn`t want him.``
Aurora Central Catholic has quarterback Jeff Pawlowski (11 of 28 for 144 yards, 1 TD) and three good junior running backs, but the Providence defense kept them in check most of the day.
``We did a nice job defensively,`` said Senffner, whose team led 20-7 at halftime. ``We came out in the second half and shut them down. They throw the ball so well.``
Pawlowski tossed a 12-yard touchdown pass to running back Jeff Watkins to give Aurora a 7-6 lead in the first quarter. But Labiak, whose 46-yard run put Providence ahead 6-0, ran it in from a yard out to give the Celtics a 14-7 lead late in the first quarter.
The game`s final score came with 50 seconds left in the first half when Providence`s Ralph McCallum caught a 21-yard TD pass that was tipped by an Aurora player in the end zone.
``Big plays like that happen,`` Williams said. ``That`s what makes great teams great. They needed that play at that time and that`s what they got.``


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Monday, October 16, 2006
The Nokia N95 could be a mobile rocket
Nokia has really leaped ahead with its latest NSeries the N95. This is the first time one can make parallels to the Audi RS series or BMW M series or the Mercedes AMG series in a credible way. The N95 is stunning technology statement, and it still looks cool. It is small enough to not be a joke.
I had an opportunity to play with a prototype and I was really pleased with the design choices. I like the fact that they made it a bit wider and put in a bigger screen. The 240x320 (QVGA) resolution is not grainy. It is of course not as crisp as the N80 352x416 screen. I liked the fact that it has a 3,5mm headset jack. I welcome the standard USB. As an avid liferecorder I love the fact that it packs a 5MP camera and shoots VGA video at 30fps. Finally not visible was the GPS, WiFi, HSDPA all should add real value.
When you put it next to a N70 which in many respects was the first mass market Series 60 device the N70 fades grey, when you put it next to N90, a longtime favourite, it makes the N90 sink into gadget sediment. When I put it next to the N93, I am really sad on behalf of anyone who has bought one. When I compare it to the N73 and k800i I still think they are great and will continue to sell a lot. I really have to go back to the 7650 to find a worthy benchmark. For me the 7650 was iconic, it was the first cameraphone. At the time I thought it was so important that I donated one on behalf of Nokia to the George Eastman house, a wonderful place for camera enthusiasts. Its archive holds all important cameras in the past century. I suspect the N95 could again qualify, they are nicely 5 years apart, a meaningful time in a larger scheme of things.
The device raises two concerns. First will the battery be sufficient, like in the N73 or disastrous like in the N80. It was a new battery which I had not seen before, so it is hard to judge. The second thought is around SW quality. To date the Nokia S60 3.0 have not impressed me with SW quality. Nokia claimed that this was going to be launched in Q1 and looking at the maturity now, I am carefully optimistic.
The Nokia N95 is according to my definition a transformer, a device which by user action can be transformed to three or more optimal states. The N95 can be compact for transport, expanded for input and voice ergonomics and lightly expanded for multimedia control. With Simple mechanical camera control this is not a lowest common denominator tool, but a true transformer. I still cannot qualify the N95 or any of the NSeries devices as Multimedia Computer, because of poor text input. The E61 is the closest thing to a multimedia computer, but it does not have a good camera.
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Taking Random House for a Shakespearean Ride
The Tragedy of Arthur
In offering a novel that incorporates an entire five-act tragedy purporting to have been written by Shakespeare, complete with scholarly annotations, Arthur Phillips is writing in a tradition of Shakespearean imitation, parody, burlesque, and travesty that extends back to the playwright's own time. To give but a few examples, Shakespeare's contemporary Francis Beaumont parodied lines from Henry IV Part One in The Knight of the Burning Pestle and from Hamlet in The Woman Hater only a few years after those plays were written. Ben Jonson and his collaborators have a melancholy if laconic footman called Hamlet in Eastward Ho! (1605). In 1699 Colley Cibber, introducing his radical adaptation of Richard III, wrote, "I have done my best to imitate [Shakespeare's] Style, and manner of thinking."
Soon after this Lewis Theobald wrote his Double Falsehood (1727), which he claimed to have based on a lost manuscript of a play called Cardenio written by Shakespeare in collaboration with John Fletcher. Late in the eighteenth century, the young William Henry Ireland perpetrated a long string of forged Shakespearean documents that included two complete plays, Henry II and Vortigern and Rowena; Richard Brinsley Sheridan put on the latter at Drury Lane with the great John Philip Kemble in the leading role. (It was booed off the stage.)
The nineteenth century saw an outburst of travesties of Shakespeare's plays both in England and in America. John Poole's Hamlet Travestie (1810) anticipates Phillips by imitating not only the text of Shakespeare's play but also the notes of commentators. In her mad scene Ophelia speaks of "a rope of onions"; Alexander Pope wishes to emend this to "a robe of onions," but Dr. Johnson comments:
Rope is, undoubtedly, the true reading. A rope of onions is a certain number of onions which, for the convenience of portability, are, by the market-women, suspended from a rope: not, as the Oxford editor ingeniously, but improperly, supposes, in a bunch at the end, but by a perpendicular arrangement.
And he adds:
For the hints afforded me in the formation of this note, and for those contained in the note upon pickled mutton, I am indebted to a lady celebrated at once for her literary acquirements, and her culinary accomplishments.
More recently, the Royal Shakespeare Company's The Wars of the Roses (1964) included some fourteen hundred lines of fake Shakespeare written by the codirector, John Barton. Richard Curtis—author of Four Weddings and a Funeral—composed a foulmouthed Skinhead Hamlet (1982). Gary Taylor has written a conjectural reconstruction of the lost play Cardenio, performed in New Zealand and elsewhere, and Robert Winder's novel The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare (2010) fills a gap in the canon of Shakespeare's history plays by including…
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The city has settled a discrimination suit filed by a black Fire Department employee who claimed he was denied a promotion and punished because of his race, The Post has learned.
McLaughlin Harris, 50, an assistant architect, alleged he was passed over for supervisory positions in favor of a less-qualified white candidate.
As part of the settlement, the city agreed to promote Harris and to pay him $50,000 in lost wages and other damages, according to court papers.
He remained an employee in a civil-service position after filing the complaint.
The FDNY has long been under fire for the small number of minorities on the force.
The Justice Department has launched a probe into alleged hiring discrimination in the FDNY, where whites make up more than 90 percent of the s 8,700 firefighters and 97 percent of its supervisors.
Harris, hired in 1998, helped maintain the department's numerous firehouses and other facilities.
In the suit, Harris said his immediate supervisor, Gerrit Geurs, recommended him to succeed him as construction coordinator.
Geurs believed Harris was more qualified than a white candidate who had less experience and who had been given a "subpar" job-performance rating, according to legal papers. Geurs is white.
But the chief supervisor, Joseph Mastropietero, who is also white, promoted the white candidate in 2001 instead of Harris, who was not even interviewed for the job.
Harris also said he was harassed after filing civil-rights complaints with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission.
The EEOC report concluded that Harris wasn't promoted "because of race."


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My loving partner has been widowed for five years after a 20-year marriage and has two college-age children. She says she does not consider herself "married" anymore. The question is, when we begin living our lives together, is it appropriate for her to continue using her deceased husband's surname or revert back to her maiden name?


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Guy Sebastian May Be Ditching The X Factor
Well there are some definite shuffling on chairs on The X Factor Australia this year, with Mel B heading back to the US with a judging role on America's Got Talent. However there are also rumours that Guy Sebastian won't be returning this year. There was a similare rumour last year as well but this time he has had some success in the US and may not want to be tied to being Australia because of a reality show.
It is expected that Natalie Bassingthwaite will return as will Ronan Keating. It might be difficult finding replacements as Channel NINE are looking for international stars for Australia's Got Talent. Sharon Osbourne is strongly rumoured to be signed on. It is a tad ironic that she was a judge on America's Got Talent where Mel B is heading. The other rumour doing the rounds is Chris Issak, and hopefully that rumour is true.
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- 1 Georgie { 02.22.13 at 7:41 am }
Bye Guy and take Chris with you.
- 2 A.P { 02.22.13 at 8:14 am }
Its like they only use us for an audition and as soon as they get the chance they leave us for greener pastures in the USA, take Keith Urban for example.
The big "stars" in USA probably only come here if they can't get anything better offered to them there.
- 3 brain dead dave { 02.22.13 at 8:49 am }
Altijan Juric would make a great judge.
- 4 VioletsRBlue { 02.22.13 at 9:06 am }
Well who can blame them, population of over 300 million as compared to just over 20 million! In an industry where publicity is everything that's is no brainer!
While they are forced to make some changes they should get rid of Natalie B as well as she is absolutely hopeless as a mentor. She has no idea how to match music and performing style and has failed to bring the best of her team even when she had a top talent. Just terrible!
- 5 Golo i Wesolo { 02.22.13 at 10:40 am }
Rats jumping a sinking ship.
Time to can this trash.
- 6 VioletsRBlue { 02.22.13 at 10:54 am }
Seriously Golo I Wesolo could you be any more tragic???!!
- 7 Helen { 03.17.13 at 1:42 am }
This program is rubbish, I don't blame those for leaving. Australia's Got Talent? obviously not


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Greg Rusedski crashed out of Wimbledon amid an ugly stream of expletives after one of the most controversial incidents in the tournament's history.
The British number two had lost the first two sets of his match against American Andy Roddick.
But he had broken back in the third and was leading 5-2 when at 15-30 a spectator called a Roddick forehand out.
Rusedski hit the ball back but turned away believing the decision to have been called by a linesman and Roddick planted the winner. to The score was called by umpire Lars Graff as 15-40 and an incensed Rusedski called for the point to be replayed.
His appeal was refused and when he lost his serve he turned and smashed a ball into the back canvas, narrowly missing a lineswoman.
He then returned to his chair at the changeover and launched an Anglo-Saxon volley of abuse at the umpire which prompted commentator Barry Davies to apologise for the content to viewers watching events unfold on BBC2.
``I can't do anything if the crowd ****** calls it,'' fumed Rusedski. ``It's ******* ridiculous. A ****** in the crowd changes the whole match and you allow it to happen. It's absolute ****''.
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Over the last nine years, the Canadian Science Policy Centre has made significant contributions to a range of areas that include developing a national network and community of science policy stakeholders, building an online hub, including the community in an online forum, and raising the profile of science policy. The Centre is also connected to the mainstream media and the public at large, providing a gateway for the next generation of scientists and policymakers to the science policy arena. These accomplishments have contributed to a multifaceted and dynamic science and innovation policy dialogue across the country, leading Nature magazine to hail the conference as a "sign of hope for science policy in Canada."
The Canadian Science Policy Centre is a non-profit organization that supports the objective of broad stakeholder engagement by bringing together a pan-Canadian network of multi-sector expertise to discuss science and innovation policy issues in a neutral, non-partisan forum. The Centre, with limited resources, has had remarkable achievements, including:
Website and Online Platform: An online hub
Comprehensive Collections of Publications
Social Media Platforms
Since its inception, the Centre has established a national network of stakeholders across sectors, providing a sense of community through connecting stakeholders from various sectors, disciplines, and regions who are not directly connected to each other. Salazar and Holbrook (2007) highlights "the particular importance of networks in Canada owing to the country's low population density, distribution of research institutions and political system."
With respect to this crucial need to build networks between stakeholders across the country, Dr. Merli Tamtik, Assistant Professor at the University of Manitoba has indicated: "....Yet more research is needed in order to create a comprehensive system of policy coordination that can be adopted by policy makers. One example of an initiative to bring together government representatives, academia, and industry leaders is provided through the Canadian Science Policy Conference—a forum dedicated to building the bridge between policy experts, academia, and industry representatives."
The Centre has provided a unique gateway for the next generation of scientists and policy makers to enter the science policy arena. Over 500 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career professionals from various disciplines and across Canada have served on various committees that assist in the development of each year's conference. Their engagement for each conference is usually between minimum five to 12 months and most of them repeat this experience for several years. Through the Centre, they have been able to connect and interact in an inclusive environment, generate discussion, and gain the expertise necessary to meaningfully impact the Canadian science policy landscape. This volunteer experience provides them with their first exposure to the intersection of science and society, policy discussions, individuals, organizations, etc. Many become inspired to change their career course and enter the science policy field as their career path. CSPC is the only environment in which they can earn invaluable experience, learn, and also contribute to building and impacting the community.
The Centre has been keen to be at the forefront of science policy discussions, and to introduce novel topics to the Canadian science policy community. The Centre has pioneered many new concepts in Canada including:
a) Science Diplomacy: Hosting both science advisors to the past three US Secretaries of State and organizing two national symposiums on science diplomacy are among the Centre's impacts. The CBC website noted the importance of the issue and covered it in the news.
b) Evidence-Based Decision Making: Organizing two symposia, in 2015 and 2016, and conducting numerous panel sessions on training public servants to collect, analyze, and structure evidence for decision making, exploring methods of evidence assessment, and establishing a framework for evidence to encourage integration of science into practice. The need to hone evidence-based decision making is supported as a priority for the Canadian Government in appointing Dr. Mona Nemer as Canada's Chief Science Advisor in 2017 and was comprehensively discussed in a candid one-on-one with Dr. Nemer and Mr. Hariri at CSPC 2017.
c) Diaspora Scientists: In 2015, the inaugural CSPC Diaspora Symposium addressed the topic of diaspora scientists and their potential to strengthen international science and technology collaboration. The symposium aimed to mobilize and connect existing diaspora scientific communities in Canada, provide networking opportunities, explore the potential of diaspora scientists, and form a Canadian Network of Diaspora Scientists that would also include a database of organizations and individuals who are active in science and science policy fields. This symposium further demonstrates the Centre's commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in the science policy sphere.
Through the annual conference and other organized lectures, panels, meetings and collaborations each year, the Centre is successfully fostering important discussions and amplifying these messages through media outlets such as Science, Nature, Globe and Mail, CBC, TVO, CPAC, Hill Times, and iPolitics among others.


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I found this photo of my kids from way back, in 1994 and I love it, they were close then, they still are. Kieran had to be strapped onto the tricycle to be able to stay on.
Anyway, I created the background, with stamping and stenciling. I had this pinwheel stencil in my stash, which reminded me a little of the spokes on a bike. As the photo is a bit older, I decided to give the layout a little vintage touch as well, with some doilies.
I added a wood veneer bike, and also a bike flair from Funky Flairs Studio. To top it all off, a Charms Creations heavenly heart finished it off.
I really enjoyed creating this layout and playing along with this challenge.
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1987 Nonsuch 30
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- Year:
- 1987
- Length:
- 30'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Single / diesel
- Located In:
- Shotley, Suffolk, United Kingdom
- Hull Material:
- Fiberglass
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The Nonsuch 30 is a substantial and well built thirty footer with a surprisingly roomy interior. The wishbone cat rig is simple and effective, giving good performance with supreme ease of handling. Her decks have been refurbished and have a light grey non skid paint finish. Asking price reduced!
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Boat Name
Julie Marie
Builder: Hinterhoeller Yachts
Designer: Mark Ellis
Keel: Full
Hull Shape: Monohull
LOA: 30 ft 4 in
Beam: 11 ft 10 in
LWL: 28 ft 9 in
Maximum Draft: 5 ft 0 in
Displacement: 5227 kgs
Ballast: 2045 kgs
Total Power: 33 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: Universal
Year Built: 2006
Engine Model: 33
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Engine Hours: 530
Propeller: 3 blade propeller
Drive Type: Direct Drive
Engine Power: 33 HP
Cruising Speed: 5 knots
Maximum Speed: 7 knots
Fresh Water Tanks: (105)
Fuel Tanks: (28)
The accommodation offers five berths in two cabins. There is standing headroom, good stowage and ventilation throughout the boat. Forward cabin has a double berth to port. En-suite access to heads compartment. Marine toilet, shower and washbasin. There is also separate access to the heads from the saloon. The galley is at the forward end of the main cabin. Two burner gimballed gas cooker with grill and oven. Refrigerator. Stainless steel sink. Pressurised cold water system. 105 gallons freshwater capacity. Settee berth to port with chart table over. Dinette to starboard converting to doubleberth. New upholstery 2007. Eberspacher diesel fired hot air central heating.
Mechanical Systems
Located abaft the companionway, Universal (Mitsubishi based) three cylinder 33hp diesel engine, installed 2006. Electric start. Freshwater cooled via heat exchanger. Shaft drive to three bladed propeller. Twin lever control. 28 gallons fuel capacity in alloy tank giving approximately 250 miles range at 5 knots cruising speed. maximum speed under power 7 knots. The engine has only completed some 530 hours running time since new.
Electrical Systems
- 3 x 12 volt batteries
- Alternator charging
- Battery charger
Spars & Sails
Free standing wishbone cat rig. Terylene running rigging (2007/9). Slab reefing mainsail. Lewmar 40 self tailing sheet winch. Lewmar 40 and Lewmar 16 self tailing control line winches. Maxwell Nielsen electric halyard winch.
- Mainsail - Parker & Kay - 2004 - good
Deck Equipment
- 15kg Bruce anchor with chain
- Electric anchor windlass (2013)
- Saltwater washdown (new pump 2013)
- Stainless steel pulpit, pushpit, stanchions and guardwires
- Gates port and starboard
- Teak coachroof grabrails
- Amidship cleats
- Two dorade vents
- Sail cover
- Sprayhood with cockpit tent
- Cockpit table
- Cockpit cushions
- Various warps and fenders
- Stainless steel boarding ladder
- Cockpit shower
- Winter storage cradle
- Boathook
Navigation Equipment
- Ritchie steering compass
- Stowe boatspeed and log
- Stowe depth
- Stowe windspeed and direction
- Silva GPS repeater
- Icom DSC VHF radio
- Cobra handheld VHF radio
- Garmin 128 GPS
- Navman 5600 chart plotter
- Yeoman plotter
- Navtex
- Clipper Weatherman
- ICS Navtex
- Raymarine ST 6002 autopilot
- Prosser tideclock
- Prosser barometer
- Radio/CD player with cockpit speakers
- Masthead and deck level navigation lights with LED bulbs
- 6" clock and barometer are excluded from sale
Safety Equipment
- Five fire extinguishers
- Fire blanket
- Gas alarm
- Jackstays
- Cockpit harness attachment points
- Radar reflector
- Two EPIRBs
- Foghorn
- Lifeguard 4 man liferaft (last serviced 2012)
- First aid kit
- Two horseshoe lifebuoys
- Danbuoy
- Manual bilge pump
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Jasper — The City of Jasper's defense in the lawsuit filed by Healthy Dubois County, Inc. in August of 2011 has cost city utility ratepayers over half a million dollars so far.
The city has paid Bingham Greenebaum Doll, LLP, the firm representing the city, $514,547 on a nearly monthly schedule over the course of the 25 month litigation. These payments are made by the city's electric utility through a special account funded by ratepayers' utility payments.
On August 5, 2011, the Jasper Council and Utility Service Board approved the lease agreement with Twisted Oak in a joint special meeting. Twisted Oak Corporation, founded in 2003, is a firm from Atlanta, GA, interested in converting the Jasper power plant from a coal-fired power plant to a biomass power plant.
Dr. Norma Kreilein, Rock Emmert, and Healthy Dubois County, Inc. (HDC), a grassroots organization composed of local citizens concerned about the health and economic impact of a biomass burning power plant being developed in Jasper, filed the original lawsuit concerning alleged violations of Indiana's Open Door Law August 5, 2011. After the hearing in December of 2011, special judge Lucy Goffinet ruled in favor of the City of Jasper.
Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP had billed the city 722.80 hours at a cost of $190,952.50 to get to this point.
HDC filed an appeal, and a three judge panel of the Indiana State Appeals Court reversed Goffinet's decision based on several factors including questioning the members of a group of volunteers who met to work out essential details concerning the contract with Twisted Oak. In the ruling by the appellate court, HDC was allowed to depose members of this controversial volunteer group that met without public scrutiny about 12 to 15 times during negotiations with Twisted Oak CEO Jay Catasein.
The firm billed 436.7 hours from January 3, 2012 to January 3, 2013, the timeframe it took to get through the appeal, for a total of $109,081.00.
Since January 3, 2013, the city has paid Bingham Greenebaum Doll, LLP an additional $214,513. 50 for 691.9 hours of work in preparation for the second trial scheduled for January 16 and 17 of 2014.
Besides advising the city in its defense, Bingham Greenebaum Doll assists the city in several other areas including: vetting documents regarding the lease and the volunteer group at the heart of the appeal before releasing them to HDC's counsel; representing members of the volunteer group and city employees during depositions' providing the city council and Utility Service Board with updates as the lawsuit progresses; and Bingham Greenebaum Doll will also be deposing members of HDC.
Recently, over 12,000 documents were released to HDC's lawyer, Too Keller, who is with the firm Keller Macaluso, LLC of Carmel, IN.
According to City Attorney Renee Kabrick, whose office is responsible for collecting and vetting the documents before they are released to HDC or any other entity, the requests about the power plant lease agreement and lawsuit comprise the vast majority of the information requests received by the city. "From my perspective for the most recent records requests, it takes a lot of time to compile," Kabrick stated.
Kabrick and her department's legal assistant, Valerie Cockerman, are responsible for reviewing the documents for privileged information before they are provided to any outside source. "Writing a check for legal fees is easy to calculate," Kabrick said, "When it comes to compiling the data, that is just my time and my assistant's time, that doesn't take into account the amount of time it took for every member of the Utility Service Board, every member of the council, staff members who are affected, managers who are affected, to go back through and look at all their emails or all of their files to compile their information. Then I go through it or I forward it to Bill's (Kaiser) office (Bingham Greenebaum Doll, LLP). There is a lot of time consumed every time we get one of these fishing expedition request for records."
The city is requesting a summary judgement from Judge Gilmore in regards to what information the city has to provide to HDC —information about the executive sessions or the volunteer group sessions. The city says the information about the volunteer group is the only thing applicable under the appellate court's ruling. The summary judgement is scheduled for October 16.
Little has been done with the power plant since the lawsuit was filed in August of 2011. The city has complained that it has not received any of the quarterly lease payments from Catasein since the lease was approved and signed in December of 2011, but they approved a resolution then to relieve Catasein of the obligation of those lease option payments until the lawsuit was resolved.
HDC's ultimate goal is the abandonment of the power plant biomass conversion, and they have stated publicly that no settlement offer would be accepted if it did not include that stipulation. From an earlier story concerning the recent settlement offer made by HDC, Dr. Norma Kreilein provided this statement. "While Jasper officials have been blaming HDC and its Open Door Lawsuit for their ills, perhaps potential partners and purchasers realize the liability and risky business plan that Jasper refuses to acknowledge. While government transparency is still a critical issue, as informed, educated citizens, we firmly stand by our allegations and find that although our treatment by city officials was demeaning and deplorable, the necessity of the lawsuit specifically to oppose the biomass plant appears to be lessening. We offered a settlement because it was the right thing to do, just as opposing the plant and filing the lawsuit were and are the right thing to do. We are waiting for Jasper officials to represent all citizens, not just their own interests."
The plan for the power plant from the beginning was to revitalize a stranded asset. According to a report completed by Bingham Economics in 2011, the city would realize $14.5 million over the 20 year lease of the plant through the option, lease and royalty payments. It would create approximately 30 jobs and increase property tax revenues for the city. A copy of the report is at this link http://www.duboiscountyfreepress.com/press-conference-regarding-the-economic-impact-for-the-jasper-clean-energy-center/.
HDC contends that no amount of money is worth the lives of those who could be adversely affected by the pollution released through the burning of miscanthus and natural gas. A peer reviewed article released by Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Philosophy, the University of Notre Dame, predicted 40 deaths (compared to 2 from coal), 75 heart attacks, 730 asthma attacks, and greater than 4000 lost work days annually from the Jasper Clean Energy Center. In the study, Dr. Shrader-Frechette stated the particulates released would "cause undeserved family tragedies and cause annual losses of $110 and $220 million" for the ratepayers.
According to Wayne Schuetter, the city will continue to defend itself and not abandon the biomass conversion. "That (the lease) is not part of the litigation," he said about the lawsuit and recent settlement offer from HDC requiring the city to abandon the project. "To me that is trying to slip something in that is not part of it. We are saying we did not violate the open door law, we have a standing lease agreement; we aren't going to throw that out because someone has sued us over the open door law."
HDC has not commented on the amount they have spent in the lawsuit against the city. However, they announced in July that the Indiana Utility Rate Payers Trust had awarded the organization a sizeable grant for its efforts in the open door lawsuit.


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6 Migration and mobility of sex workers in the Netherlands – Th. van der Helm
8 Prostitution in Spain, health and policies – A. Rodriguez Arenas
10 Colombian women, sex work and health in Galicia, Spain – L. Oso
12 Migrant sex workers in Europe: STI/HIV prevention, health and rights – L. Brussa
15 The vulnerability to HIV/AIDS of migrant sex workers in Central America and Mexico – A. Dreser, M. Caballero, R. Leyva and M. Bronfman
17 Human rights issues in semi-legal foreign sex work in Panama – C. Carrington-Betts and C. Betts
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President Obama and U.S. Senate Democrats say they're "united" on the goal of overhauling the nation's health insurance system. But when it comes to hammering out the actual legislation, the party has been far from unified.
The House adjourned last week after its health reform bill cleared a key committee by a slim, three-vote margin. Five of the Democrats on that committee sided with Republicans and voted "no."
The full House is expected to vote on the measure in September. And a key voting bloc will be the "Blue Dog" Democrats -- 52 moderate and conservative Democrats, who represent rural and suburban districts.
U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, a DFLer who represents the northwestern part of Minnesota, is a member of the Blue Dog coalition. He's said he can almost guarantee he will vote against the health care reform bill.
"Frankly, I just don't think this is sustainable," Peterson said on MPR's Morning Edition. "[The Blue Dog coalition] made some changes, but I read the bill, and there are just things in there I think are problematic."
One of Peterson's biggest concerns has been that the Medicare system pays less to doctors in Minnesota than it does to doctors in other parts of the country. The state's entire congressional delegation has expressed concerns about that same issue.
"Frankly, I just don't think this is sustainable."U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, DFL-Minn.
Rep. Betty McCollum said late last month she had reached a resolution with House negotiators over their concerns about the Medicare reimbursement inequities. She said she convinced her colleagues to add language to the bill that would eventually fix Medicare payment disparities that penalize Minnesota.
The language was an agreement to commission a one-year study of the geographic variation in Medicare expenditures. The agreement further requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to "implement a payment rate that takes into account this study." But Peterson is skeptical that McCollum's deal will address his concerns.
"I don't think it's got the teeth," Peterson said. "I don't think it requires that at the end of the study that it be implemented."
The proposed language would also allow Congress to scuttle changes to the Medicare payment formula by passing a joint resolution "of disapproval."
Peterson also said he doesn't think the federal government should put more money into the health care system at this point.
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Washington has always been home to the nation's most notorious stakeouts. Remember the winter of 1999, during the height of the Monica Lewinsky-President Clinton impeachment brouhaha, when the dark-haired intern was her own news beat?
That's when journalists camped out in front of the Mayflower Hotel — temporary home to Lewinsky — for so long that the freezing pack actually became a part of the sightseeing circuit of tour buses, tacked on after the Lincoln Memorial.
Back then, the media had to bring "bags of quarters so when something happened, we could go run for a pay phone," recalled veteran stakeout queen Debbie Pettit, a producer for NBC News. Pettit spent Wednesday morning in Washington running her vehicle's heat, bundled in a winter coat and guzzling cups of Starbucks black coffee.
This time, she was staking out a grand Mount Pleasant Georgian Revival mansion where Paula Broadwell — biographer of David Petraeus — is said to be holed up. Revelations of Broadwell's affair with her subject led Petraeus to resign as CIA director last week.
Pettit was joined by a group of peering photographers and television cameras in both the front and back entrances of the $2 million, seven-bedroom, 51 / 2-bath home in the 1800 block of Park Road NW, just a few blocks from Rock Creek Park. The cast included TMZ, "Inside Edition," the New York Post and Daily News, ABC, several bloggers and a Washington Post photographer and reporter.
"These days, I have an iPad," Pettit said, scrolling through the latest news on Broadwell. "Oh, this Web site says this is apparently her brother's house and she's crashing there. See, back in the Fawn Hall days, we would have to find a pay phone or use a walkie-talkie — yes, remember those things? — and call the newsroom to get breaking news updates. Life moves much faster now. "
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There was a late-night seizure of boxes of material from Broadwell's North Carolina home Monday, but not much was happening in Mount Pleasant, a sought-after, happy sort of neighborhood known for its leafy streets and great jogging areas.
On Tuesday, Politico's Byron Tau tweeted, for instance, that "After an hour in the cold, I can report that Paula Broadwell eats food and wears sweaters." She was photographed through a window, wearing a hot pink turtleneck and holding what looked like a glass of red wine.
Not much happened Wednesday morning either, although reporters manning the shift said they spotted Broadwell returning to the house about 6 a.m. after a run.
The most action Wednesday came when a group with Cultural Tourism DC's Mount Pleasant Heritage Trail stopped by to peer at the house. The home, which is set up on a hill and shaded by half a dozen wide-brimmed trees, was previously owned by the Deanes, the neighborhood's first black family. White neighbors in 1950 tried and failed to kick the family out.
Many of those who were sent to the stakeout were longtime pros in covering the capital's lengthy list of political scandals. The veterans offered tips to young bloggers on the scene, advice that would work just as well for a hike through autumn woods: Make sure you have eagle eyes; bring water and snacks; wear warm clothes.
The young bloggers said they were more likely to need smartphone-friendly gloves and lots of car chargers to juice up their equipment.
Despite long, largely boring hours and difficulty in finding bathrooms, many of the old hands said they don't mind the drudgery.
In the past, the press earned plenty of overtime staking out some of Washington's newsworthy residents, including then-Mayor Marion Barry after he was nabbed in the winter of 1990 smoking crack with a lady friend in a downtown hotel. They racked up overtime in 1987, first by staking out Fawn Hall, the National Security Council secretary who shredded telephone records of her boss, Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, and then hid some papers in her dress; and by shadowing then-presidential contender Gary Hart after the married former senator's relationship with Donna Rice — not his wife — became public.
"I paid for my home's down payment and part of my kid's college with that OT," said a television cameraman who asked not to be named so that he could speak candidly about the industry. "These days, the economy the way it is and the media losing money, we may have to cut back on this whole round-the-clock media stakeout biz."
But maybe not anytime soon.
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Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).
More from the executive vice-chairman's meeting with the THFC Supporters' Trust, where David discusses the subject of White Hart Lane, possible expansion or re-location.
DB: Early days in terms of thinking about the ground. There are a number of issues I will throw out at you.
The issue of White Hart Lane as it exists; we played to 98 per cent of overall capacity during the last season and seasons before. If we can play to 98 per cent when we're doing lousy — what is it going to be like when we're doing well?
I think therefore that we have to look at what the situation is regarding White Hart Lane. I have to be honest with you - I've got a real attachment to this ground. This has been like a second home for me in a way, and probably for most of us. It's difficult to gage, new stadiums have been built and are outstanding, but I think we've got one of the best stadiums in the country at the moment and think we can improve both the East and West stands.
We have applied for planning permission for the East stand which would increase our capacity for where it is to around the 44,000 mark which I think will be a real improvement. I think the West Stand has got a lot of capacity for improvement, but we have a number of different problems, we have issues of access, parking and transport to the ground.
There is a new stadium being built out at Picketts Lock where they are hoping to extend the underground link. If that happens, one of the things I'm going to press for is that they put a stop at Tottenham — that will make a big difference.
There is also European licensing regulation that is coming onto stream. If that comes on in its present form, we as a club won't conform. We don't have wide enough facilities within the stadium and stands — our club will not conform to those exacting standards that UEFA are trying to introduce within Europe.
It is still under discussion, and I will say to you that probably 60 or 70 per cent of clubs in Europe would conform to those standards. So we have to understand where this is all going before we finally commit ourselves to exactly what our future is.
It is not an easy choice; people have said to us 'why don't you ground share with Arsenal?' I can't see that, can you? I know it works in some countries — that would be a very difficult one.
There have been other possibilities. Could we be a sitting tenant at Wembley? But that's quite a long way away from where we are. Is there a site at Kings Cross? Could we go to Picketts Lock?
There are a number of possibilities, none of which really attract me or Daniel to the degree of what we might be able to do in terms of staying here — this is our historical home.
But there is a journey to travel because, what we can't afford to do, if we want to play in the top leagues, is not to have a criteria which is possible within UEFA and we have to work out what that is — and how we can conform to it within our existing ground.
Their criteria also goes to space outside the ground and parking, it does go much wider than just playing football. We have to plan for a capacity that is going to be right for the club, bearing in mind a possible effect of pay-per-view on crowds.
I'll give you a comment on that. To me there is nothing like going to a football match, you can't get the atmosphere on TV. You have to be there, experiencing the atmosphere first hand — so I think PPV is for those who cannot get there due to distance or family commitments — like wife's birthday when you could sit in the corner and switch on…
I'm not sure PPV will have a huge effect on capacity, but we have to have a club that is capable of having the right capacity.
I promise you that before we make any decision which might mean abandoning White Hart Lane, which I think is a very remote possibility, we'll be coming to the Trust and supporters and talking to you about it.
I think it is much more likely that we will do what we can here within the ground, subject to any external matters such as UEFA's proposals.


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