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		<title>If You’re Gonna Read, Read Something Productive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the best advice I ever got was something my aunt told me back when I was still a university student. I have always been an avid reader, but at that point I had gotten to reading a lot of fiction and not much else. I was on a trip to visit a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government Will Not Act Until You Speak Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work in government in the public service, and I see government from within the offices and hallways of the bureaucracy. I operate in the public service which means I do not see what happens in the political wing of democratic government, but I see what happens in the administrative middle-ground between the political decision-makers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do the Taliban Train Young Boys to Be Suicide Bombers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 18:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the most important things we in the privileged world can do to make the world a safer place is to make it a better world for all. Not just ourselves, not just our neighbours, but for all. Economic development because it brings hope and options. Literacy and freedom of information because it enables [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Is More Than Just Fuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have at least two friends for whom “food is just fuel.” One tends to look at the world through a scientific lens, trained in his profession to trust only that which is based on solid, peer-reviewed scientific study. The other just inexplicably doesn’t care, though it may be from living too long in rented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verify the Veracity of Advice You Receive by Email — Even When It Comes from Trusted Sources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bad information flows around anywhere, even within networks of emergency management professionals. Just yesterday, there was an article credited to Doug Coup flying around the email system. It came to me from an individual in my branch, who got it from someone at another branch with a lot of emergency response experience, who got it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don’t Suffer From A Knife Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love good cooking knives. Some say I suffer from a knife addiction, but I’m not so sure about it. Yes, I have strong desires for more knives, different knives, all in a quest to experience what else the artisans and craftsmen of steel have created to make cooking more enjoyable, more elegant, and flat-out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Course China has Spies in Canada!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Director of CSIS, Canada’s intelligence &#38; espionage agency (read: “spy agency”), said a number of interesting things in his interview with the CBC. The one that has generated a fair bit of media buzz and which has ruffled the feathers in Ottawa and British Columbia is his statement that China has spies in Canada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Search of Excellence — but Y’Aint Gonna Find It in Government!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government performs a wide range of absolutely essential services, and many public servants work very hard. However, that alone does not an excellent organization make. At least in the back-office side of things — if not always the front service counters everyone in the public interacts with — I see people putting in long hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever Considered Not Using an Office Chair at Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m getting old enough now that I actually spend time thinking about how to take better care of myself. One thing that’s been bothering me lately has been my chair at the office. Simply put, the one I use right now sucks, the one before it sucked worse, and the one before that was about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Justice Mission (IJM) — Fighting Injustice in the Developing World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early last week, I found out about a unique non-profit, humanitarian organization called International Justice Mission (IJM). I was invited to an info session and, though I knew nothing about the organization other than a basic premise of helping people in developing countries, I attended with an open mind. What I found out about IJM [...]]]></description>
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