Doug Powell

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powell food safety; former professor of food safety

Brisbane, Australia
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  1. 2 hours ago

    we watched The Princess Bride with Sorenne this afternoon while escaping the heat

    Andre the Giant visiting Japan in 1980
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  2. 8 hours ago

    I think, therefore I worry. I worry, therefore I learn. I learn, therefore I know. I know, therefore I do.

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  3. 8 hours ago

    we’re all hosts on a micro planet

    Across Siberia & the Arctic bovines & ovines are dying off as the permafrost melts & entire ecology changes. Microbes release from tundra.
  4. Feb 9

    Guelph continues to strive for mediocrity

    Campus police are searching for a python on the loose at U of Guelph. Student brought it to campus in a backpack
  5. Feb 9

    Everyone has a camera

    Failed restaurant promotion: Customers to have sex in public washrooms?
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  6. Feb 8

    but is great in any role as the drunk uncle, like 48 Hours; sorta how me and chapman met

    Nick Nolte auditioned for the part of Ned Braden, but wasn’t capable enough on skates to get the part.
  7. Feb 8

    I’m looking at you, Wayne (but you were the best player — from Brantford).

    Playing is not coaching: why so many sporting stars struggle as coaches. 's Steven Rynne for
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  8. Feb 8

    I prefer Mystery, Alaska, but Slap Shot was iconic 'Slap Shot' documentary celebrates iconic film via

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  9. Feb 8

    when a state’s electrical system — hydro in Ontario — is run by economists rather than engineers (borrowed line but apt); it’s fucking hot

    Power deliberately cut amid heatwave
  10. Feb 8

    girl’s hockey politics is tough

    B.C. man steps in to pay $700 fines for 2 peewee N.B. girls hockey teams (via )
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  11. Feb 7

    8-year-old Sorenne in bath singing if you want to destroy my shower, just walk away (walk away);

  12. Feb 6

    Wayne's World turns 25 Scarberia (that's outside Toronto, in Canada) boy did good; so much of my yout in that movie

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  13. Feb 5

    stop peddling pseudoscience

    Jessica Alba says she thinks about how she ‘can be better’ as a mom: ‘I certainly don’t think I’m perfect’
  14. Feb 1

    Picard management tip: Tell good stories. The right story can persuade, inspire, or illuminate.

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  15. Jan 31

    Doctors pulled a 6-foot tapeworm out of this guy's mouth: via

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  16. Jan 31

    Brisbane: it's still a cow-town

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  17. Jan 28

    glad I have a couple of other passports to fall back on

    Stunning scene at JFK airport
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  18. Jan 28

    thanks Jim and Terry. Sorenne is already asking when we will return to Canada, probably next year; we traveled to much last year

    Donna and I are happy for you and family as well. Maybe someday you can get your Amy to join us back up on the Algonquin Dome.
  19. Jan 28

    guelph was a great place to raise 4 Cdn daughters, play hockey, be a prof; left cause of ex; happier to be with amy

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  20. Jan 28

    I’m Canadian; that should be enough; but also American and Australian; go figure

    More than 50 years ago, Congress outlawed discrimination against immigrants based on national origin.

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