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We realised we haven’t been updating in a while and is terribly behind on updating the Study Group Tactics, we are a few weeks behind on that. Just an update on how things are going with our website and development of the classes locally, we are confirmed to open a class in the North Shore on the 10th of December. Aside from that, we would like to open two additional classes, a Starter Class in Mt Eden and also a Beginner Class in the North Shore. We will be working to open those two classes towards the start of next year.
We will look to write some more new articles this week so stay tuned for that!


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I was born in Siracusa on August 22nd, 1979.
• 1998-2003: Master Degree in Theoretical Physics. University of Catania. Title of my Thesis: “Historical and Epistemological aspects of Quantum Mechanics and “Non-locality” consequences”.
• 2006-2010: Ph.D. (with fellowship) in History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science. Title of my Ph.D. Thesis: “Reversibility and Universality in Quantum Computation”.
• 2009: Member of Project (supported by Regione Sardegna): Regional programme (POR Sardegna 2000-2006, Misura 3.6, Azione 3.6.a) against high school wastage.
• 2009: Elected “Expert on the subject on Logic” – University of Cagliari.
• 2010- 2012: Post-doc fellowship “Foundational research for young researchers – POR Sardegna FSE 2007-2013, L.R.7/2007” sponsored by Regione Sardegna. Principal Investigator of the project: “Logical-Algebraic Approach to Quantum Computing: Theoretical Aspects and Possible Implementations” (120.000 euro).
• 2010: Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.
• 2012: Fellowship for the National research project P.R.I.N. 2009: “Non-classical Logics for the ontology representation in the informatics archives ”, University of Cagliari.
• 2013: Member of the project: “Modeling the uncertainty: Quantum Theory and Imaging Processing”, supported by Regione Sardegna (Legge Regionale 7 Agosto 2007, n.7, Promozione della ricerca scientifica e dell’innovazione tecnologica in Sardegna).
• 2013: Member of the P.R.I.N. Project: “From Models to Logic: Structures Logification and the Equivalence between Logics”.
• 2013: National Scientific Qualification for the position of Associate Professor (Scientific Area 11/C2: Logic and Philosophy of Science).
• 2014-2016: Researcher at the University of Cagliari, for the F.I.R.B. project: “Structures and Dynamics of Knowledge and Cognition” (M.I.U.R. code: RBFR126ZA6) funded by M.I.U.R.
• 2014: National Scientific Qualification for the position of Associate Professor (Scientific Area 01/A1: Mathematical Logic).
• 2015: Member of the European project “Syntax Meets Semantics: Methods, Interactions, and Connections in Substructural logics” (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 code: 689176) funded by the European Commission.
• 2016-current: Tenured Researcher at the University of Cagliari.
• 2017-current: Principal Investigator of the Project: “Logical-time evolution of correlated microscopic systems“, Founded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (50.000 euro).
• 2017-current: member of the Ph.D in Philosophy, Epistemology and Cultural history – University of Cagliari.
• 2017-current: Secretary of the Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS).
• 2017-current: Principal Investigator of the Project: “Strategies and Technologies for Scientific Education and Dissemination“, Founded by Fondazione Sardegna (64.500 euro).
• 2018: National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor (Scientific Area 11/C2: Logic and Philosophy of Science).
• 2018-current: Member of the project: “Superposiciones cuánticas en el procesamiento de información cuántica: un enfoque lógico, categorial y computacional“. Project number 80020170100058UJ (Resolución: N° 148/18 de fecha 29/06/2018), principal investigator Dr. de Ronde. Founded by UNAJ (Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche) (12.000 pesos).
• 2018-current: Member of the Council of the International Quantum Structure Association (IQSA).
• 2018-current: Member of the project: “For a semantic extension of the Quantum Computational Logic”, founded by Regione Sardegna.
• 2019-current: Local Coordinator of the project: “For an interdisciplinary dialogue among Logic, Philosophy and Communication Science”, founded by Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) (130.000 euro).
M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, R. Leporini, G. Sergioli (2018). Quantum Computation and Logic – How quantum computers have inspired logical investigations; TRENDS IN LOGIC, n.48, ISBN:978-3-030-04470-1, Springer.
M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, G. Sergioli, R. Leporini (2016). Abstract quantum computing machines and quantum computational logics. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM INFORMATION, Vol. 14, 1640019. ISSN:0219-7499, World Scientific. Download.
M. Giunti, A. Ledda, G. Sergioli (2016). I modelli nelle teorie scientifiche. CAROCCI, ISBN: 978-88-430-8221-6.
• 2005: Member of S.I.F. (Italian Physics Society).
• 2008: Member of I.Q.S.A. (International Quantum Structures Association).
• 2009: Member of the Alophis research group (Applied Logics, Philosophy and History of Science, University of Cagliari).
• 2010: Member of S.I.L.F.S. (Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science).
• 2012 : Member of S.I.F.A. (Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy).
• 2005: I was awarded with the prize S. Notarrigo, by S.I.F. (Italian Physics Society) for my master thesis: “Historical and Epistemological aspects of Quantum Mechanics and “Non-locality” consequences” (1000 euro).
• 2017: Winner of the “funding of basic research activities” (Ffabr) (3000 euro).
Reviewer for the Research Fund Flanders (FWO) Foundation (Brussel).
Reviewer for the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education and Research) for the evaluation of the quality of the research (VQR).
“Quantum, Logic and Music” – Special Issue of Soft Computing (Springer), with M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, E. Negri, S. Smets.
“Logic, Pluralism and Translation” – Special Issue of Topoi (Springer), with F. Ervas, A. Ledda, F. Paoli.
“Quantum Structures & Quantum Information Theory” – Special Issue of Soft Computing (Springer), with M. Bosyk, H. Freytes, F. Holik.
• 2004: 13-17 September. VII summer school on Philosophy of Physics University research center on Philosophy and Foundation of Physics. Cesena.
• 2004: National conference: “Foundation of Quantum Mechanics. State of art and further developments”. University of Lecce.
• 2005: National conference: “Natural Processes and Models of Computation”. University of Bologna. Bologna.
• 2005: National conference: XCI National Conference of S.I.F. (Italian Physics Society). University of Catania.
• 2005: International conference: “Second Florence-Vienna workshop on Logic and Computation”. University of Florence.
• 2006: June. International conference: “Ordered Structures in Many-Valued Logic”. Massa Lubrense (Sorrento). Naples.
• 2007: 5-6 October. Organizer of the International meeting: “First Catalan-Sardinian Workshop on Algebraic and Fuzzy Logic”. Title of my talk: “Algebras and logics from quantum computation”. University of Cagliari.
• 2008: May. International conference: “ManyVal ’08: Applications of Topological Dualities to Measure Theory in Algebraic Many-Valued Logic”. Title of my talk: “Stone -Weierstrass Type Theorem for Density Operators”. University of Milan.
• 2008: 6-12 June. International conference: “9th Biannual IQSA Meeting, Quantum Structures, Brussels-Gdansk”. Title of my talk: “Approximation in Quantum Computational Logics”. University of Danzig.
• 2008: 24-29 October. International conference: “Italian Quantum Information Science Conference”. University of Camerino.
• 2008: 11-12 December. International conference: “Studia Logica International Conference, Trends in Logic VI”. Title of my talk: “Reversibility and Irreversibility in the Logic of Quantum Computation”. University of Bruxelles.
• 2009: 10-11 September. Italian Conference: Research on “Logic in Italy”. Title of my talk: “Logic and Quantum Computation”. University of Milan.
• 2010: 6 October. Invited Speaker at the Logic Seminar, Mathematics Department. Title of my talk: “Irreversibility and Universality in Quantum Computation”. Indiana University, Bloomington.
• 2010: 8 October. Invited speaker at the Colloquium Series, Spring 2010. Department of History of Philosophy of Science. Title of my talk: “Entanglement – From an Embarrassment to an Asset”. Indiana University, Bloomington.
• 2010: 1 December. Invited speaker at the Logic Seminar, Mathematics Department. Joint talk with Amit Hagar. Title of the talk: “Counting your steps: A New, Finitist and Objective Interpretation of Probability in Physics”. Indiana University, Bloomington.
continuous t-norms in quantum computation with mixed states” and (joint talk with Amit Hagar) “Counting your steps: A New, Finitist and Objective Interpretation of Probability in Physics “. University of Bergamo.
Bochum-Cagliari workshop on Non-Classical Logic”. Title of the talk: “Epistemic Quantum Computational Structures”. Ruhr University of Bochum.
• 2012: 12-14 June. Cagliari/Urbino Workshop “Metafora e Argomentazione”. Title of the talk: “Metaphor and equivocation fallacy” (joint talk with C. Ternullo). University of Cagliari.
Quantum Structures. University of Cagliari.
• 2012: 13-14 December. Florence. First Annual Conference of the Humanistic Informatics and Digital Education. Title of the talk: “L’ontologia BIA-Net: una base per la ricerca di informazioni secondo rapporti di rilevanza nella Bibliotheca Iuris Antiqui.” (joint talk with M.Giunti, G. Vivanet). University of Florence.
• 2012: 12-15 September. S.I.F.A. (Analytic Philosophy Italian Society) 20th anniversary conference. Title of my talk: “How Do Metaphors Influence Quaternio Terminorum Comprehension?” (Joint talk with F. Ervas). Alghero. University of Sassari.
• 2012: 26-28 September. Italian Quantum Information Science (I.Q.I.S.) conference 2012. Title of my talk: “Knowledge Operations as Quantum Channels”. University of Padua.
• 2013: 27-28 May. Metaphor, analogy, reasoning. Title of my talk: “Entanglement and holistic structures in quantum computation”. University of Urbino.
• 2013: 29-31 May. Silfs2013 Postgraduate Conference. Title of my talk (joint talk with E. Gola, F. Ervas, A. Ledda): “The Persuasive Force of Metaphors in Argumentation”. University of Urbino.
• 2013: 15-17 June. Logic, Quantum and Music. International Conference. Title of my talk (joint talk with E. Beltrametti, R.Leporini):“Quantum Entanglement and Logical Semantics”. University of Florence.
• 2013: 16-18 September. Language, Logic and Mind. 3^th SIFA Graduate Conference. Organization Committee. University of Cagliari.
• 2014: 17-20 December. Vagueness via Nonclassical Logics. International Conference. Title of the accepted abstact (joint abstract with A. Ledda): “Vagueness, uncertainty and fuzziness in quantum computational logics”. Talk introduced by A. Ledda. University of Sidney.
• 2014: 8-9 January. Invited speaker at the “FoPim – Foundations of Physics” meeting. Title of my talk: “Holistic structures in Quantum Computation. An application to Werner and Isotropic States”. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence.
• 2014: 18-22 February. Graded Logical Approaches and their Applications. 35^th Linz Seminar on Fuzzy Set Theory. Title of the accepted abstract (joint abstract with M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, R. Leporini): “An approach to first-order quantum computational semantics”. Talk introduced by M.L. Dalla Chiara and R. Leporini. Johannes Kepler Universitat, Linz.
• 2014: 31 March-2 April. Invited speaker at the Amsterdam Quantum Logic Workshop (joint talk with H. Freytes): “Fuzzy Structures in Quantum Computation with Mixed States”. Univesiteit Van Amsterdam.
• 2014: 18-21 June: SILFS triennial conference 2014. Title of my talk: “Entanglement and Holistic Conjunctions in Quantum Computation”. University of Roma3, Rome.
• 2014: 23-27 June: 12th biennial IQSA meeting. Title of my talk: “Entanglement and Holistic Conjunctions in Quantum Computation”. University of Olomouc.
• 2014: 23-25 July: Member of the organizing committee of the International Meeting “Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information. Physical, Philosophical and Logical approaches”. Title of my talk: “Quantum Computation with qutrits. A work in progress”. University of Cagliari.
• 2015: 30-31 January: International Meeting “Quantum Computation, Quantum Information and the Exact Sciences”. Title of my talk: “Non-separability in the representation of Fuzzy Structures in Quantum Computation”. Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwing-Maximillians Universitat, Munchen.
• 2015: 20-21 February. Invited speaker at the “FoPim2 – Foundations of Physics” meeting. Title of my talk: “Non-separability in the representation of Fuzzy Structures in Quantum Computation”. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence.
• 2015: 10-13 June. International Symposium “Quantum Theory: Advances and Problems – QTAP”. Title of my talk: “Quantum Turing machines, quantum computational logics and cognitive processes” (talk introduced by M.L. Dalla Chiara). International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics, Engineering, Economics, and Cognitive Science Linnaeus University, Växjö-Kalmar.
• 2015: 23-24 July. Organizing Committee of the II International Workshop Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information: Physical, Philosophical and Logical perspectives. Titles of my talks: “Non-separability in Quantum Computation: representing continuous t-norm” and “Quantum Pattern Recognition”, VUB Brussels free University.
• 2015: 24-26 September. SIFA Conference: Truth and Persuasion. Titles of my talk: “Does Expertise Favour the Detection of the Metaphoric Fallacy?” (join talk with F. Ervas, E. Gola, A. Ledda; talk introduced by F. Ervas), University of Sassari.
• 2015: 21 October. Model of explanation: logic, science and cognition. Titles of my talks: “A non-standard application of Quantum Theory: modeling the uncertainty”, University of Bologna.
• 2016: 2-6 February. Linz Seminar on Fuzzy Set Theory – Functional Equations and Inequalities. Titles of my talks: “Equations and Inequalities in Quantum Logics”, (join talk with M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, A. Ledda, R. Leporini; talk introduced by M.L. Dalla Chiara), Johannes Kepler University Linz.
• 2016: 13-16 June. International Symposium “Quantum and Beyond”. Title of my talk: “Quantum Pattern Recognition”. International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics, Engineering, Economics, and Cognitive Science Linnaeus University, Växjö-Kalmar.
• 2016: 16-18 June. III International Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information. Title of my talk: “Quantum Pattern Recognition”. Physical, Philosophical and Logical Perspectives. Sadaf – UBA, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• 2016: 22 June. Seminarios y Coloquios. Title of my talk: “Quantum Pattern Recognition”. Istituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
• 2016: 11-15 July. Biennial Meeting of the International Quantum Structures Association “QS Leicester 2016”. Title of my talks: “Qudit-spaces and a many-valued approach to quantum computational logics” (join talk with M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini, R. Leporini; talk introduced by M.L. Dalla Chiara) and “Fuzzy representation of Fredkin gate for a conservative quantum computational logic with mixed states” (join talk with R. Venkatrama; talk introduced by R. Venkatrama). University of Leicester.
• 2016: 3-4 November. Organizer of the International Workshop on Applied Mathematics & Quantum Information . Title of my talk: “A Quantum-inspired version of the Nearest Mean Classifier”. University of Cagliari.
• 2016: 12-14 December. Invited speaker at the VI Conference on Quantum Foundations. Title of my Skype-talk: “Quantum Computational Logic with Qutrits”. Science and Technology Center – Conicet, La Plata.
• 2017: 21 March. Invited to introduce the book “I Modelli nelle teorie scientifiche”. Scuola Superiore Catania, University of Catania.
• 2017: 3-7 July. QPL/IQSA meeting 2017 (Quantum, Physics & Logic / International Quantum Structures Association meeting 2017). Title of my talks: “Entanglement, Holism and Contextuality in the Logic of Quantum Computation” (with M.L. Dalla Chiara, R. Giuntini and R. Leporini) and “An Operational Approach to Quantum Circuits“, Radboud University, Nijmegen.
• 2017: 25-26 September. BuCal2017 – First Bucharest-Cagliari Logical meeting. Title of my talk: “A Block-matrix representation of Quantum Circuits. Towards a new approach to the Quantum Computational Logic“, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest.
• 2017: 29-30 September. Invited Speaker at the Worlds of Entanglement Symposium. Title of my talk: “A Quantum approach for Pattern Recognition“, Free University of Brussels.
• 2017: 6-8 November. QTML2017 – Quantum Technology in Machine Learning. Title of my talk: “A Quantum inspired version of the Nearest Mean Classifier“, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona.
• 2017: 6-8 December. Invited Speaker at the International workshop of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information – Physical, Philosophical and Logical perspectives. Title of my talk: “Towards a multi-target quantum computational logic“, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis.
• 2018: 16-20 July. 14th Biennial IQSA Conference. Title of my talk: “A Block-Matrix representation of Quantum Circuits: towards a Multi Target Quantum Computational Logic“, Kazan Federal University, Kazan.
• 2018: 08-10 October. Organizer of the Quantum Cagliari 2018 – Quantum Structures & Quantum Information Theory. Title of my talk: “Quantum-inspired version of the Classification Process“, University of Cagliari, Cagliari.
• 2019: 14 March. V International Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information. Physical, Philosophical And Logical Perspectives. Title of my Skype talk: “Quantum-inspired version of Binary Classification“, Conicet, Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Quantum Computation, Quantum Communication and Quantum Logic; Game Theory; Logic and Argumentation Theory. Non standard application of Quantum Theory.
2006–2010: Cofacilitator for the chair of Logic and Basic Mathematics, at the Department of Education Science. University of Cagliari.
2006–2010; 2012-2013: Cofacilitator for the chair of Logic and Critical Thinking, at the Department of Communication Science . University of Cagliari.
2009: Creation of a SCORM course on Logic and Methodology of Science for e-learning application.
2008–2010; 2012-2013: Cofacilitator for the chair of Logic and Methodology of Science at the Department of Communication Science . University of Cagliari.
2012: Logic and Basic Mathematics, at the Political Science Department. University of Cagliari.
2013: Creation of a SCORM course on Logic for e-learning application.
2014: Basic Mathematics, at the Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy. University of Cagliari.
2014: Physics Laboratory, at the Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy. University of Cagliari.
2015-2016: Laboratory of Didactics of Mathematics, at the Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy. University of Cagliari.
2016: Methodology of Applied Sciences, at the Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy. University of Cagliari.
2016: Logic and Basic of Mathematics, at the Department of Medicine. University of Cagliari.

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Big Brother Season 17 Finale Recap: Super Fan & Trombonist Wins Big Brother!
The 90-minute season finale of Big Brother 17 was an exciting finish; well at least for two people. But first, the final three houseguests were competing to win the final HOH as all three were holding on for their life to survive and win the first part of a three-part competition. Plus Dr. Will Kirby from Season 2 came back to visit the jury members to discuss about the final three and who they feel should win the half million dollar prize and title of Big Brother winner. If you missed last night’s finale, you missed a blindside, tears and the announcement of America’s Favorite houseguest. Which spoiler was James, who won over the other 15 eliminated houseguests as well as over John and Jason. Here’s my recap of last night’s roller coaster of emotions!
Liz, Steve and Vanessa all held on to their life for survival in the Big Brother house. The houseguests were holding on as they were being swung into a wall, dipped into liquid and being hit with powdered sugar and rock candy for the first part of the three-part final HOH competition. Each houseguest wanted to win this first part to secure their place in the third part of the final HOH, which would be taking place on finale night. This competition went on for hours. After the three-hour mark they houseguests were informed to move from their disc and down to the ball so sit on as they continued to be swung, dipped and hit. Steve was the first to be eliminated. After being eliminated he knew if he wanted to secure himself into the final two he would need to now win the second part of the final HOH competition. Vanessa being the poker player she is started to work over Liz into falling off, saying she could go on for hours. But secretly as Vanessa was stating in her DR, she was starting to lose her momentum, but told Liz she needed this win badly. Somehow Vanessa was able to convince Liz, assuring her she’d take her to final two if she won and thus winning the first part of the final HOH competition.
For the second part of the HOH competition, it involved a huge crossword from the BB Gazette, where Liz and Steve had to correctly fill out the crossword about events that happened this summer. I was pleasantly surprised it was about events rather than putting up the order of evicted houseguests. The real challenge for each houseguest was essentially time and without seeing how the other was doing, they each had to work fast to guarantee themselves a spot in the third part of the final HOH competition against Vanessa. In the end it was a few minutes apart that separated Liz and Steve. However Steve was faster and took the second part of the competition, leaving Liz’s fate to either Steve or Vanessa.
Big Brother legend Dr. Will Kirby gathered the seven evicted houseguests together to discuss the final three. But before he could discuss the final three, the jury members had to meet the eighth member and Julia didn’t want to see her sister walking in, while Becky didn’t want to see either Steve or John coming to join them. Sadly it was double evicted houseguest John that came to join them, which excited Julia as her twin sister was still in the game. The best part of Dr. Will coming to talk with the jury was to make sure none of them have BJS, which stands for “Bitter Jury Syndrome.” BJS has influenced the winner from many seasons past and so being an outside voice of reason and someone the houseguests who knows how it feels to win and lose the game, take the role of deciding the winner very seriously. However there were definitely a couple jury members that had some bitter feelings towards two of the final three competitors. The biggest person with BJS was Austin, as he wants to see Vanessa evicted from the house and in jury. I was surprised to see John have hard feelings for Steve but no surprise for Vanessa. Meanwhile Liz was a hugely debated topic about why she should deserve to win because it seemed as though for many of the jury members her game moves were solely made to help other houseguests in their game as opposed to her own. Another surprise was how Meg was being an advocate for Liz making it to the final three. After Dr. Will finished his chat with the jury, it only made my excitement to see what they’d ask the final two houseguest even more surprising and which final three member would be sitting with them. Would the final evicted jury member have BJS and that answer is yes, that person DEFINITELY had some BJS when it came to crowning the winner.
For the third and final part of the final HOH competition it was a matter of balancing the scales in their favor as Steve and Vanessa faced off. As I predicted but know from knowledge from previous seasons of Big Brother, the two houseguests had to correctly guess how a jury member would finish a statement. The very first question split Steve and Vanessa as each chose the answer opposite answer from the other. Steve guessed correctly earning him a point. The second question both of them got wrong, the third both got correct and by the seventh question they again were split, but this time Vanessa answered correctly. So the eight and final question would determine the winner and this is where Vanessa ultimately lost the game as Steve guessed correctly.
From watching after Steve won, Vanessa’s head was spinning and sadly could see her game fall to the wayside. Vanessa knew that she needed to win the final HOH to ensure herself a spot in the final two. But leaving it in the hands of Steve in deciding whether he should evict her or Liz was difficult decision. However this decision could cost him a half million dollars or ensure himself as the winner. HIs speech was very well thought out but also filled with nerves and excitement, as he not surprisingly voted to evicted Vanessa. The biggest reason is he didn’t want to pull a “Cody,” from last season when Cody took Derrick to the final two and cost him the game. Steve being the super fan of the game knew he could not win with Vanessa, whom he called “one of the best female players, in Big Brother.” So Vanessa Rousso, the 32-year-old, professional poker player from Las Vegas, NV joined the jury in crowning the winner of Big Brother 17. Her admission to the jury members that she was professional poker player didn’t come across as a shock but rather a “don’t forget about me,” scenario to myself and to many other audience viewers. Vanessa shouldn’t be sad about losing the money since she has plenty, but Vanessa knowing she lost Big Brother definitely gave her some BJS and it read all over her face. Also I really wanted to burn that green hat she wore.
Liz was completely shocked at Steve’s decision to keep her in the game over Vanessa. Liz was thanking him for keeping her and ensuring one of them at least $50,000. This was ultimately where Steve won the game. As a super fan, Steve had been practicing what he would say to the jury all week if he had the opportunity to be int he final two. He himself knew that if Vanessa won, she would have evicted him and admitted so during her post eviction interview with Julie Chen. Meanwhile Liz’s downfall was the lack of preparation in answering jury questions. One by one, each evicted jury member had their opportunity to ask a question to either Liz or Steve. Steve had to answer a lot of questions that involved him being seen as a floater in the game, what were some of his biggest game moves and most importantly why should he win Big Brother over Liz. This is where Steve really shined as he took the jury members back in the season to key points of the game where he made big game moves that helped himself advance, how he really wasn’t a floater, but in my opinion slightly still was and it was clear he was a student as well as a fan of this game. His preparation was very reminiscent of Ian Terry, winner of Season 14, where he won over our Michigander Dan Gheesling. Steve was very eloquent and genuine about his time in the game, that he knew he needed to really tell the jury how he deserves the win. This is because Steve knows the jury could have all had BJS and just awarded the game to Liz.
The voting took place and it was clear by some of the statements the jury made whom they were voting for. When Vanessa cast the final vote, it was a commercial break before we would know who would be crowned the winner and going against the norm of tradition, Julie Chen decided to start with Vanessa’s vote first. Vanessa stated she was voting for the person that best represented this season and her vote was for Liz. So Vanessa was either saying it was a season of “strong women,” or a case of BJS or a little bit of both, and my prediction is the latter. By a vote of 6 – 3, Steve Moses the 23-year-old college student from Gouverneur, NY won the crown of Big Brother 17 over Liz Nolan the 23-year-old Marketing Coordinator from Miami, FL. With a wave of emotions Steve walked out of the Big Brother house victorious and very excited to see his mom and dad.
It has been a roller coaster of a season; from 14 houseguests it turned to 17 with a few twists from Big Brother Take Over and a Twin Twist. There were three double evictions, a returning jury member return but then get evicted from the game and finally a winner being crowned. I want to say thank you to all who’ve continued to read my recaps for this season as well as past seasons here on the CBS Detroit website. It’s always a pleasuring getting to give my insight, passion and love of the game to readers. Big thanks to CBS Detroit for continuing to have me come back every season to write again and lastly thank you Big Brother. My summers would be boring if I didn’t have it to watch! So stay tuned, I’ll hopefully be back next year to give my recaps or who knows you might just see me in the house. I just got to get through casting, hey Robyn Kass, where’s my invite? Let Alison Grodner and the other executive producers as well as CBS reps that I’m looking to be on the show! Until then connect with me via social media, email or in person! I’m looking forward to next summer already for Big Brother Season 18!

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"If you’re making this ahead of time, cover and put it in the fridge. Take salad out about 3o minutes before serving to take chill off. Stir in ccrispy pancetta just before serving.
"If I'm making this a day ahead, do i still cook the pancetta but hold it out till serving or do i cook the pancetta right before serving?
Yes, I recommend making the pancetta the same day you serve the salad so it stays crispy. You could fry the pancetta an hour or so ahead of time and just keep on a plate at room temp until ready to serve. The other option (if you want to make sure you get some pancetta drippings incorporated into the onions) is to do it all the day before, but take the pancetta out of the pan before it gets too brown. Store it overnight in an airtight container at room temp, and then re-crisp it in the oven right before you serve the salad. Let me know how it works!
It is not my recipe, but if I were making this ahead of time and was able to prepare the pancetta just before serving, that's what I would do!

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


text: Our set of 3 unframed Adventure themed kid's room prints would look great in a wilderness or woodland nursery. The art prints feature our trees, typographic 'Let The Adventure Begin' mountains and teepee designs in grey and blue. Perfect for mini adventurers!


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Tape measure in light quality for everyday use.
Yellow on one side, white on the other.
Available as a small customer present in the candy wrapper (tape 10 mm wide).
Top-selling, solid, multi-purpose quality tape measure with colour decimetre divisions.
One side in 10 cm colour divisions, reverse side yellow.
Professional tape measure in outstanding quality for demanding use. Heavy duty polyfibre fabric in yellow.
High-grade premium qualtiy tape measure for demanding use. Original cefes®fibre with sealed edges.
CEFES® CONTROL, the certified tailor tape measure with EEC type license. Precision tape measure manufactured according to Category II of the European Standards Directive.
Measuring tape in modern colors with modern scale in white.
High-quality poly-fiber fabric - green, blue or pink on both sides.
Tape-measure for the bust. One side with cm scale and bra sizes, reverse side cup sizes.
Basic colour green, pink or blue.
Measuring tape for shoe lasts for professional use.
One side cm-mm-graduation (or cm-inch combined), other side English size + French stich.
Circumference tape with slider and press button. Quick and accurate circumference measurement using patented slider with press-button closure.
Tape measure for the blind with braille, clearly palpable.

industry_corpus2: Manufacturing


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There are two members of the Cypress family used frequently in home landscapes. The Leyland Cypress [LAY-land SIGH-press] is a handsome, hardy tree. The name Leyland cypress is used to describe a group of trees where all the members are sterile hybrids. There are no naturally occurring Leyland cypress. They must be propagated by rooted cuttings. This tree is a hybrid of Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) and Alaskan cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis). In 1888, six seedlings were discovered by C.J. Leyland at Leighton Hall in the South of Wales. The two parent trees were growing on the Estate and cross bred purely by accident. Intergeneric crossbreeding is a rare occurrence in plants and particularly in conifers.
The Arizona Cypress (Cupressus arizonica) has become a valued Christmas tree. It is primarily available at choose and cut Christmas tree farms in the south, southwest and along the east coast of the U.S. It is also used as a landscape plant in that same area. The wood of the Arizona cypress is hard, heavy and durable. It has been used as fence posts and as timbers in mine shafts.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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This event finished on 20 October 2018.
In The Mood is a 1940s theatrical musical revue show, featuring singers, dancers and a big band orchestra direct from America.
2018 sees the show’s fourth Australian Tour combined with celebrating the show’s 25th Anniversary.
Comprising approximately 30 shows around the country over 4 weeks and entertaining audiences throughout major city and regional venues across October and November, show goers will be taken back in time and be toe tapping along to up-tempo Swing hits such as Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, In the Mood and Chattanooga Choo Choo.
The show features a live orchestra, together with the In The Mood singers, dancers, fabulous choreography and plenty of colourful costumes.


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bills, I get fined $1000.00 for the privelege.
wander the earth with extra free hardons.
insurance in the first place.
ROFL. I too am a big believer in catastrophic health insurance. My home insurance does not cover broken light bulbs and leaky plumbing. My car insurance does not cover air filters. Why does my health insurance have to cover routine stuff? I pay for my own health care and this is exactly how my family handles both dental and medical: We pay regular visits but have catastrophic coverage for major health breakdowns.
Jeez, I wish I had written that email and could take credit for it. The blog does not reveal the emailer's identity, but whoever you are you're welcome to guest blog here any time.
Update 2: I am sure I will get the response, "but the supporters promise that the bill will halve the cost of private health insurance. Right. Here is a clue: Except for the reform plan in California pushed by Gov. Arnold, every single state attempt to "reform" workers comp. has resulted in my premiums going up. I am sure we are all holding our breath for the price drop in passenger rail service and first class mail.
This plan removes the last people from the market who are price sensitive shoppers of individual medical services (i.e. those who pay expenses out of pocket rather than having them covered by medical insurance). If you drive down the marginal cost to all consumers to the level of the copay from the much higher true-cost of the procedure, then you are going to get a lot more use of all medical procedures. Higher use = higher cost. Higher cost = higher premiums, even when spread over more people.
I am constantly stunned that this concept has to be explained to people. Let's consider a test that costs $1000 to administer that can detect a very rare type of cancer that only occurs in 1 in 100,000 people. Well, if they charged you anywhere near the $1000 cost, few people would choose to pay for a test to identify something so low-risk. But if you could take the test for a $20 copay? Sure doc, let's do it! So the insurance pool has to fork over $1000 for a procedure that you might only value at $20. Also see this post for more along the same lines. And here too.


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I parked my car at the Tuolumne Meadows Lodge parking lot and checked in.
Tuolumne Meadows Lodge Office & Dining Room.
I guess I should say that I’m not guilty, but that’s not exactly correct. Let’s just say that what I did shouldn’t be a crime. My childhood friend Gina was dying. She had an advanced inoperable brain tumor. She’d been publicly outspoken about her right to end her life on her own terms. She wanted to make the point to help others in her predicament come out of the shadows and be able to end their lives gracefully. As a doctor, I helped her with the research, the methods and getting the drugs. I had to avoid crossing the line of ethics and legality. As her disease grew worse and she was on the verge of losing control of the situation, she left gracefully, surrounded by family.
She offered a taped interview as evidence of the rightness of her actions. She had made her point and even though I think I stayed on the right side of the law, the district attorney in Alpine County was set on making his reputation by charging friends and family with everything from conspiracy to fraud, saving the harshest charge, second degree murder, for me. Maybe it would all blow over, maybe not, but I was terrified. There would be no one-armed man to save my bacon, so, for now, I ran.
Detective Singer, who had been assigned to find me seemed to have a special vendetta, intent on tracking me down.
I contacted an old friend Mark who immetiately offered to help without reservation, for which I am eternally grateful. He let me use his credit card and internet access to avoid being traced by the authorities. I knew they would be looking for my car but Gina’s brother said I could take her car. It wasn’t likely that they’d be looking for that and they could retrieve it after I was in the clear.
I headed up to Yosemite, shaving off my beard and got a short haircut along the way. Mark drove my car down to LA using my credit card for gas and lunch, leaving a trail all the way to long term parking at LAX. I wanted them to track down my car at LAX. Hopefully they would focus on looking for a bearded guy with long hair who had fled to LA, where he may or may not have caught a flight from LAX to somewhere. Now, if I can manage to avoid a traffic stop, and the authorities don’t manage to connect me with Mark, I’m in the clear. I know that this isn’t perfect but, at the very least, I’ve bought some time.
So, here I was at Yosemite trying to stay out of sight, so I decided that the best policy was to act like any other tourist.
I thought about driving the 20 minutes back through Tuolumne Meadows to Tenaya Lake to the west and the fabulous Olmstead Overlook for a hike to clear my head.
But I decided that I should stay away from the car and I took a long hike through Tuolumne Meadows. Though it was late summer, the river meandered through the green grass.
I looked up at Lambert Dome to the east rising 1,000 feet above the meadow. I always try to visit at least once a year and often make that climb, but there wasn’t enough time today.
You can scramble up the granite, which is harder than it looks. Or there’s a relatively easy 2.5 mile trail past Dog Lake and around the back. When I first crest the edge of the dome there’s a view that I never want to leave.
On one ascent, when we made the top of the dome, we saw ranks of thunder heads heading up from the south that were just about to break over us. This wasn’t good at all.
Our hair was standing on end from the static charge. Still it was hard to pull ourselves away. One rarely sees such a scene and lives to tell the tale. We were lighting rods, standing alone on bare granite. We headed down, drenched to the bone by the time we got back to the lodge.
I had been prepared to backpack into the YosemitE high country when I left Tuolumne Meadows, but while still in the Bay Area, I had managed to get a last-minute spot at the High Sierra Camp. Normally you enter a lottery each November to try to secure a slot, but for years I had never been successful. For last minute cancelations you log into the High Sierra Camp Waitlist. Sometimes, if you’re flexible and a small party you might snag a slot. I got the last two days of the season at Vogelsang Camp.
The next morning I headed out in full pack. When I checked out, I chatted with the two young women at the desk, asked a lot of questions, cracked jokes and tried to be as charming as a man in his sixties can be with girls in their twenties, without being creepy. I asked a lot about going backpacking to Young Lakes, a beautiful group of lakes 6 miles to the north and the jumping off point to the ascent of 13,000 ft. Mount Conness and the connection to the Pacific Crest Trail, which continued for miles beyond that.
I wanted them to remember me and, if Singer ever arrived, to say that I had probably headed to Young Lakes. I circled around and started my hike up to Vogelsang in the opposite direction.
I passed almost nobody as I headed out and felt that I’d made good on my false trail. If they ever tracked me this far, they could stake out that car forever, I was never coming back and now I was really off the gird and hard to trace.
The hike to Vogelsang was not too challenging, seven miles with an almost 2,000-foot climb. I could almost forget my situation and enjoy the hike and the views.
From the Tuolumne Lodge the trail crosses two parts of the Tuolumne river which cut through huge granite boulders. At the second crossing there are pools and little beaches where you can wade in the ice cold water or take a quick plunge. That plunge is a lot more inviting at the end of a long hot hike than the beginning. Or maybe just soak hot tired feet.
After the crossing, it’s an easy walk across meadows and forest up Lyell Canyon. You can continue that hike for three hours or more along the river stopping for a picnic and swim, or just a nap.
For the more hearty and adventurous the trail continues 12 miles up to Donohue pass at just over 11,000 feet, where you pass by the Lyell and Maclure glaciers.
Just over a mile after the crossing, the trail to Vogelsang splits and rises steeply though the forest, climbing up to the tree line at about 9,200 feet. From there the trail winds through high sierra meadow.
I didn’t see a single person until I passed a train of mules, three groups of 5, each led by a cowboy. Everything that goes in or out of the High Sierra Camps does so by mule. As they approached, I moved aside and said, “You go ahead, you’re working, I’m on vacation.” An almost stunning young woman in a big wide brimmed had with a big feather in the brim said, “This doesn’t feel much like working.” Since I was a kid I’ve always jealously imagined working at Yosemite.
I continued along the path, stopping religiously each hour for a brief rest and hydration. At each stop I was astounded at the beauty of where I found myself, all alone. I have always loved the sound of the wind here. The whistle of the wind through the pine trees is different of the hiss of the wind over the bare granite.
After about 4 hours, I arrived at the High Sierra Camp. Despite being tired, I felt the exhilaration of arrival, slipping off my pack and savored the accomplishment. The High Sierra Camps provide a tent cabin with linens, toilets, showers and a dining hall. All you really have to carry up is your clothes and water, not a forty-pound pack, which makes the trip much more accessible. Yosemite even has a Mule trip to the High Sierra Camps, so even after you’re too old to make the hike, you can continue to go as long as you can sit upright. If you’re a small party, you might have to share a cabin as they try to fill every bunk. The camps are all 7 to 10 miles from each other and some people make the grand loop through them all.
There are five Yosemite High Sierra camps. Vogelsang is one of the most beautiful. It’s a collection of tent cabins along a stream with a couple of stone buildings that served as the kitchen, toilets and showers and a larger tent for the dining room.
A short hike away is Vogelsang Lake, a strikingly blue and cold Alpine lake nestled among 11,000-foot peaks.
It was one of the last few nights of the season and fortunately I had a small cabin to myself.
I dropped off my gear and took a hike to the Lake, settling on a grassy patch next to the lake, off the trail, trying to keep a low profile. I hadn’t expected my flight from the law to include a a beach event, so I had no suit. Stripping down, I eased my way into the very very cold water. Thrilling. I climbed out and sunned myself on the grass. First one side then the other. I did this a few times. On my last plunge I noticed a group of hikers, on the far side of the lake, coming to Vogelsang camp from the south. I ignored them and they came no closer.
Eventually I came back to camp, cleaned up and headed for dinner.
I sat at an empty table in the back hoping to eat alone, but eventually all the tables filled. The group who sat with me chatted amiably. They told their story and I invented a story about who I was. When they asked what I had done this afternoon, I said that I had taken a swim. They laughed. “You’re the naked guy.” So much for low profile. I remained the naked guy for the rest of my stay.
A ranger naturalist arrived on Friday afternoon with her brood of four women in their sixties who had hiked from Sunrise camp that day. She was six feet tall slim with brown hair in braids, maybe 35 and wore a ranger outfit complete with the round brimmed hat. She was crane-like and awkward and seemed a little self conscious. She lived in Ithica NY and had been a ranger naturalist for ten years. She loved Yosemite but in the winter worked as a guide at a Nature preserve in Upstate New York.
That evening she gave two talks to all the guests, one at twilight and one under the stars. There‘s no place quite like the wilderness at over 10,000 feet, perfect clear air and no lights whatsoever. In her talk all of her awkwardness disappeared as she read poems and sang an adaptation of the Star Spangled Banner about Yosemite, of course missing the high notes. Her talk was a little goofy, a rambling rendition of all the the things she loved about Yosemite, but she managed to get twenty-five middle aged people to lie out on large granite slabs in the cold and dark, oohing and aahing at every shooting star.
Saturday was the last night of the season at Vogelsang. A crew would arrive on Sunday. By Wednesday it would all be gone, stored for the winter. Then on the Merced Lake, Sunrise, Glen Allen, May Lake, all the High Sierra Camps. After that, on to Tuolumne Meadows. There are over 150 tent cabins, the store, the stable, everything had to be put to bed. In all they would be at it until mid-October. The road might be open for months when there is a late winter and hikers can come and go. But once the first snow comes the road becomes impassable quickly and it’s closed for the winter.
The staff was what you would expect, all young all sun-kissed. The manager was an Irish girl in her twenties, very outgoing. There were two guys, also in their twenties who did the food service, one a sandy haired guy, a typical California lad living in the wilderness. The other, dark haired with a very full beard, like Paul Bunion. At first he seemed like just another college boy in the woods, but I noticed that several of this front teeth were missing and began to construct an alternate story. We hardly saw the others, except sitting together in the sun between work shifts. There were not so many work shifts.
They all gathered together in the dining hall after the campers turned in, lit the room with candles, played ping pong and music and, I would guess, enjoyed a beer and whatever the drug of choice was in Yosemite in 2103. Who knows who was sleeping with whom.
The next morning, I shared a table with Tim a tall thin man about 40, long light brown hair, you would call it strawberry blond, but you would never call him a strawberry blond. It was kind of stringy but in a, “ I’ve been in the wilderness for days,” not “I never wash my hair,” sort of way.” He had one of those no chin long thin faces, pleasant enough, in a Slim Pickens way, but nobody would call him good looking. He was wearing nondescript outdoor wear and a stocking cap. We were exchanging the normal pleasantries as hikers do and I noticed his jacket had Merced Lake 2000.
Clearly he was or had been on staff. When I asked, he told me that he was the advance man on the breakdown crew. He was friendly, but slow to engage. I was a customers and customer service wasn’t his job. When I showed interest, however, he was happy to tell me all of how the camp was broken down, how things were dismantled, what was stored up at the camp and what was taken down the mountains by the cowboys.
He told me about coming up here in the middle of winter, skiing up and digging their way through the snow into the stone kitchen building. The inner circle of the maintenance staff left provisions and kept the gas hooked up. They were party to a private mountain top winter retreat, one that took plenty of doing just to get there. They were at least 25 miles and 3,000 feet from the closest all weather road.
I took a chance and told him that I was between jobs and asked Tim if there was a slot on the breakdown crew. It was a long, shot but he radioed his manager who said that they were a man short. There was some paperwork to do later but if I were willing to take the risk he would be OK to try me out for the Vogelsang breakdown. So my backpacker self disappeared and melted into a crew of workers out in the wilderness.
A couple of weeks later, our team hiked back down to Tuolumne Meadows heading for the next camp. I wasn’t paying attention and by the time I realized where we were, we were walking through the parking lot where I had left Gina’s car. I just had to keep going.
There was the car, covered in dust surrounded by several ranger trucks and an Apline County Sheriff’s car. They were hooking it up to a tow truck. Singer was standing there talking with a deputy.
They found this much sooner than I had hoped. Was Mark in deep weeds? We walked right by the car carrying our big packs. I was dirty and wearing a hat, but I think that most people would have recognized me, if they looked… but nobody did. Hopefully they were looking for a hiker up north in the Sierra and there I was, dismantling the camps, right where I started, invisible, at least for now.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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All information on Ilsenhof. Get all new information on fishing districts and fishing licences for Ilsenhof!
The lake Turnersee has a water surface of 44 hectares and a depth of 13 meters. The Turnersee has been designated as a European protection area for several years. The lake is owned by the Association Kärntner Grenzland, the Ilsenhof has the sole right to fish there. The fishing is allowed by boat on the entire lake, only at bathing entrances and jetties fishing is not allowed. The fish population consists of pike, catfish, carp, tench, perch and bream. For common fish, all usual baits are allowed, fishing with live bait is prohibited!


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In the sustained communal offensive against the secular character of the Indian Constitution, the term ‘secular’ is in serious danger of becoming a casualty.
This is largely because the notion of ‘secularism’, itself a modern concept which cannot be delinked from democratic principles and rights of citizenship, has often in this communal ideological onslaught been equated with a worldview that has no place for religion, or a state of being irreligious. Such a misrepresentation, essentially malicious, has encouraged a tendency to equate secularism with immorality in an attempt to render it unpalatable at the popular level.
For instance, the present Governor of Tripura who holds an important constitutional position is reported to have stated, some time back, that ‘I am not secular, I am a Hindu’. He then went on to say that the word ‘secular’ according to him means ‘bereft of religion’. Going through the text of the interview one can see that what he implied was that he does not believe in the ideals of secularism because that would not allow him to engage in the politics of religion, and the politics of religious identity.
Gandhi would have immediately pointed out the problem with such an understanding: being secular does not mean being ‘bereft of religion’ or being irreligious.At the same time being secular implies not using religion for political purposes.
Communalism involves the use of religion and religious symbols to promote hate. In many ways, Gandhi’s understanding and practice of secularism was the product of his being deeply spiritual and religious. For him, spirituality meant striving to be compassionate and a better human being, rather than using religion for political purposes.
Gandhi’s religiosity prevented him from cynically mixing politics with religion, even though he affirmed that his politics was imbued with his own personal religious ideals.
At a time when the meaning of secularism is being distorted for communal purposes we need to strengthen the legacy of secularism inherited from our national movement, the dominant trend in a struggle that was overwhelmingly secular which in turn, was a major achievement of Gandhi. This was a trend that survived the terrible communal violence which accompanied Independence and partition, though its collapse at that critical moment due to factors that are complex, is very obvious.
In the two-volume Shorter Oxford English Dictionary three lengthy columns are devoted to the various definitions of ‘secular’, ‘secularism’, etc. Almost all shades of meaning define ‘secular’ in terms of the separation of religious matters from worldly affairs: ‘secular—belonging to the world and its affairs as distinguished from the Church and religion’; ‘secularism—(i) the view that religion and religious considerations should be deliberately omitted from temporal affairs, (ii) the view that education, especially that which is publicly funded, should not promote religious belief or include religious instruction’.
Most of these meanings derive from the long struggle in early modern Europe to separate the state from the Church, and to keep religion in the private domain.
Secular nationalism in India modified this understanding creatively. Gandhi contributed in no small measure to articulating this modified understanding.
In the words of Mukul Kesavan (Secular Common Sense), ‘Indians are sometimes scolded for misunderstanding secularism. They are reminded that secular, in its original, western sense, means a commitment to public life fenced off from religion—not an equal pandering to all religions”. According to Kesavan “Indian secularism grew out of the peculiar circumstances of anti-colonial nationalism”.
Kesavan makes an important observation about the Congress understanding of the relationship between secularism and nationalism, “For the Congress being secular meant making different types of Indians equally welcome; secularism in this context was a way of being comprehensively nationalist”. He concludes with the statement that, :In economic nationalism, the Congress found a non-denominational way of being patriotic”.
Gandhi’s secularism was shaped by his eclecticism, an eclecticism that has not received the appreciation it deserves. During the crucial formative years of his early youth spent in England, and his long residence in South Africa, Gandhi was exposed to and imbibed unorthodox ideas which played an important role in his intellectual evolution.
Many of these came to him through his engagement with vegetarianism. For Gandhi vegetarianism was not a fad, nor was it part of a divisive political agenda, nor was it a dietary preference which he might seek to impose on others through intimidation. Over the years it became integral to his spiritual quest as an individual. His vegetarianism was defined in terms of abstinence and control over the senses. Through his vegetarianism Gandhiji sought to discipline himself rather than police the kitchens of others.
As Kathryn Tidrick in her very fine study of Gandhiji (Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life) observes, control of the palate was for him ‘part of a religious effort to transcend his material nature’.
Pyarelal added that “Whatever [he] absorbed in this extremely impressionable formative phase of his development abode with him for life”’.
One might mention that some of those associated with Esoteric Christianity in South Africa, and England, were strongly committed to vegetarianism (‘control of the palate’) and Gandhi’s contacts in these often overlapping circles prepared the ground for his engagement with Tolstoy and Ruskin, making him receptive to their powerful ideas.
In other words, Gandhi’s was a highly intellectual eclecticism, complex and broad-minded.
Today when in India narrow-minded opponents of secularism, utterly lacking in compassion and so fond of the good things of life in a vulgar material sense, trivialize him by representing him through the symbol of a pair of spectacles, they mock a great man for whose broadmindedness they have absolutely no respect.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Respectful adventurer - nomad lifestyle is my happy place.
Colorado native looking to discover new locations and live a nomad lifestyle. Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. :) I don't think I belong in one place for long and I love adventuring while at the same time learning from locals and living like a local, wherever that may be. Been working in jobs I just have to pay the bills, looking to discover what I love again!! Open the mind and soil and just go!
To see and experience more from a local perspective and to try something new.
I've had experience in dozens of jobs fields from a nanny to marketer to server and bartender, office administrator, sales, production, etc that have taught me a wide set of skills and talents that most have not. I'm respectful and can handle pretty much anything thrown at me.


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Steve Williams: Hi, Bjorn. How are you doing?
Bjorn Junker: Very good. And I think you’re good, too, because Pasinex has come a long way since we first talked, a couple of years ago when it is now.
Bjorn Junker: Zinc prices have rallied since then, and you were one of the first I can remember talking about it, certainly before the mainstream media. So tell us what does this kind of zinc prices means for the bottom line of Pasinex Resources?
Steve Williams: Oh, wonderful. What to say? Every cent or dollar that the zinc price goes up, it’s just going straight to our bottom line. It’s as simple as that. I mean our costs are in Turkish Lira. Our costs are not depending on the zinc price, so it just depicts our revenue and just goes to the bottom line. It’s a wonderful time right at the moment, and I actually think we still got some upside on the zinc price. So, yeah, it’s really nice.
Bjorn Junker: Well, it’s a good summary. It’s not only the zinc prices that have been rising, also production at Pasinex has been going up. I think last quarter was the sixth in a row that you had higher production.
Bjorn Junker: Are you planning on that continuing? What are your plans for this year and next year?
Steve Williams: Yeah. Well, you know, why has our production going up? Our production went up because we put in a new added over September last year, and so the immediate impact of that added enabling us to pretty much double production. And secondly, this year we’ve been doing a lot of underground development, actually, it’s still ongoing.
Steve Williams: It will be sort of doing underground development until November. But this underground development is opening up more mining areas, so enabling us to push the production up. I think that we should see some, you know, positive production numbers in the second half of this year. And so I’m expecting, hoping that we should continue that upward trend. However, it’s not going to…there’s a limit. It’s not so much about our ability to mine, it’s about the resource. We have to mine within, you know, what we see the resource as and not get too in front of ourselves in terms of our resource growth. So, yes, I expect, you know, a little bit of upside in the second half. Then going into 2018, I think we’ll sort of hold up there certainly at this stay. That’s my thinking at the moment.
Bjorn Junker: That’s the planning. Well there’s certainly… and I notice way of having upside for your earnings, which you announced a while back that you are starting to mine sulfide ores, now, which is not only even more high-grade than the what you have been mining before, but can be sold at a higher price, if I understand correctly.
Bjorn Junker: How is that going? How was the percentage of sulfides to oxide ores developing?
Steve Williams: Yeah. We’re currently about, broad numbers about 85% of our production is oxide, and about 15% are sulfide. But that’s up from, you know, you go back a year an a half that was sort of zero. So, you know, the sulfide you quite right. Not only is it a higher grade, but the payable component of zinc in a sulfide is greater than an oxide, so we get a double whammy. So it’s a valuable product. Going forward, a lot of our resource at the moment is still oxide just because, you know, you start high up in the deposit and that’s what you get. You get oxides and you grade down the sulfides. So, going forward, I think the next couple of years that ratio’s gonna be in about where will be maybe 80 20, something like that. But our resource I expect to grow in sulfides, so as we continue to drill I expect that we should add more sulfides. So, you know, you take a longer-term view, you know, three, four, five years then you’ll start to see a significant increase in sulfide production.
Bjorn Junker: Interesting. And you’ve been talking about resource so far, let’s say, I called it an internal resource because you haven’t published any MY43101 compliant numbers yet but you announced you’re working on it. Can you give us an idea when that might come out, and how far along you are with the work?
Steve Williams: We’re very advanced. You know, these are never easy processes, Bjorn, and so, you know, we’re very advanced but there are a few issues that we have to address. So we’re close but not quite at the finish line, but it’s close. It’s certainly imminent. I can’t give you an exact date at the moment, but it’s imminent. Obviously, we’re very conscious that the market is waiting for that independent resource, and we’re pushing hard to get it done.
Bjorn Junker: So, these issues, does that have to do with the nature of your deposit? Certainly, you’ll have to do a lot more drilling if you have one big ore body, right?
Steve Williams: Yeah. Now, this is a… you’re quite right. This is a…It’s not like a porphyry copper which is, you know, a big blob of disseminating copper, I’m being simplistic and the porphyry copper geologists will hate me for that but anyhow, yeah. But it’s a lot more irregular. It pinches and swells, and it’s controlled by the faults. And so, yes, it creates challenges in terms of drilling, and it also creates challenges in terms of when you finally come to do a resource on it. So, yeah, you’re quite right. It is to do with the nature of the mineralogy and the ore.
Bjorn Junker: Okay. Well, but going back, let’s talk about something you announced in or said in a release in August, I think, that you’ve been stockpiling 6,000 tons of ore for big lump sum delivery.
Bjorn Junker: Did you do that transaction yet? And if not, how big it’s going to be?
Steve Williams: It’s not quite completed yet. It’s actually going to be a 10,000-ton sale, Bjorn. And the reason, 10,000 tons is that’s the size of the boat. It’s a bigger boat but it’s a boat. And so it’s still not quite completed, and so we’re working on it. But meantime, you know, there has been a lot of other sales, obviously, going on. Basically, the boat is all about on the Mediterranean, then going into Europe. So when we sail into Europe with something through boat for shipping, whereas we’re also sailing into Iran. A lot of the oxide will go to Iran and that’s going to be by truck and train. So those tend to be, you know, hundreds of tons, up to thousands of tons, lots on the truck or train. So there are a lot more frequent sales, whereas the boat is a lot more lumpy if you like.
Bjorn Junker: Well, okay. Understandable if you explain it like that. We’ll have to go back to the drilling. You’ve said… we talked about the resource, obviously, a lot of the drilling has gone into defining that. But I think drills should be turning in Turkey also for exploration. Can you give us an update on that because I haven’t read anything?
Steve Williams: Yeah. No, we are due for getting a news release out to the market and I’m conscious of that. There’s been a couple of issues. The first single biggest issue has been finding our resources, that is people I’m talking about here, and there’s no question… we’ve been very focused in the last three months on the 43101 and, you know, that’s been an all in effort it, then it taken some of our people and resources. Meantime the drills have continued.
The second issue we’ve had a little bit of a delay for about six weeks in our drilling. A lot of our drilling is from underground particularly with the sulfides, you know, we’re drilling to go to look for the sulfides as they go deeper. So the way we have to look for that or drill for that is from underground. I mentioned a bit earlier that we’ve been doing a lot of underground this year, but a lot of that has been in the wrong area for drilling. It’s been to open up resource into the northern and higher up section of deposit for future mining. So that’s where we’ve been doing underground development. We’ve done a lot there, we’re still doing it, which is being good for future mining. It enables us to have access to all this ore for mining over the next couple of years, but it was in the wrong direction for drilling.
Steve Williams: The development going down deeper to give us access for the deeper sulfide. So we had to wait, you know, again it’s resources just how many people and equipment you can employ with this underground development. So we’ve had to wait a bit. We’re back at it now and we’ve got it now a significant new drill pad at depth that, as I said, we did have to wait for it. So it was a bit of a, just need a couple of, you know, just operational issues beyond that, of course, there are some delays in the last few months.
Bjorn Junker: Okay, very interesting. So I guess we’ll be hearing from you quite a lot about the… among the coming weeks and months.
Bjorn Junker: Let’s see if there’s been progress on one or the other front when we meet again in Munich. Thank you.
Steve Williams: Yeah. Thanks, Bjorn.

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First things first: apologies for the radio silence.
Next, the truth. Two weeks ago Thursday, I put a pot of coffee on, fired up my laptop and began typing here when my husband (Simon) gave me a terrible reason to pause. He relayed something shocking he’d read online; I- not quite believing it- messaged a few people, then paced our apartment nervously. As we anxiously monitored the Internet for developments, a confirmation text arrived: someone dear to many of us had died.
I must digress… O.U.A.T. (Once Upon A Time), in a galaxy far, far away, I did time as a music personality (Lolly Pop), the star gate into which was a tiny video stint with Prince.
Story condensed: During the mid-1980’s, I knighted him my fictitious big brother; arriving in Minneapolis in ’94, I was lucky enough to be cast in Get Wild, which- when paired with hard work- would change my life. There’s more of course, but I probably won’t be qualified to pen that book for another decade. Something deep will surface at some point, but I’m just not ready to swim through that sea yet.
Now, speaking of points: all that followed led me here, to this precise moment with you. So… THANK YOU. Thank you for tuning in. Thank you for caring. And as several of you transitioned here from my life in music, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOYALTY.
Last… My friend Brian Gallagher (Prince‘s saxophonist circa NPG; also one of the founding members of Greazy Meal) likewise very suddenly passed away in March. You can read a bit about his life here: www.startribune.com/brian-gallagher-of-greazy-m…. While Brian was an infinitely talented musician and songwriter, he was also an amazing Dad to three beautiful, smart as well as loving children (Ava, Cesar and Magdalena), whom he would have given ANYTHING for. He loved to paint, cook, landscape and laugh. Brian is survived not only by his music, but by his parents, sister (Kristin), children, his partner (Gina), by his nieces, nephews, friends and co-workers.
Given the unexpected ascension of these two bright souls, I’ve needed time to reflect. It’s been a surreal month to say the least. It is my hope that you’ll forgive delays pertaining to In Praise of Men, and know that things will be back on track shortly.


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All the angst fades when you’re the country’s latest self-publishing sensation who has, pretty much single-handedly, managed to sell 32,000 copies of a book nobody would touch. It also feels nice to be on the verge of paying back the ₹ 5 lakh bank loan you took to do this. To go from new author with no credit line to favourite customer at the country’s largest commercial printer in a couple of months. It’s great when the country’s biggest English language book distributor takes you on board because they know it makes commercial sense, political affiliations be damned.
Along the way, independent journalist Rana Ayyub was called a jihadi on Zee News; Newslaundry’s Madhu Trehan asked her in an interview, that aired live on Facebook, if she wrote her book because she was a Muslim.
One reviewer of Gujarat Files: Anatomy Of A Cover Up said Ayyub’s claim that the mainstream media was ignoring her book because it was scared of the ruling establishment was simply a “marketing" or “positioning" device. That’s not entirely true.
While the book has been reviewed by most print publications, television has largely ignored it (it’s easier to air the Sheena Bora tapes than Ayyub’s Gujarat tapes). Newspapers and magazines have been reluctant to carry excerpts—monthly journal The Caravan and digital media start-ups such as Scroll.in and The Wire were the exceptions. While the regional media have been extremely supportive of the book, even exhorting readers to buy a copy, only one English language publication, Frontline, interviewed Ayyub. That’s probably because she rarely thinks before speaking.
It’s this couldn’t-care-less attitude that makes Ayyub a hit at college campuses like Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, where she spoke to students from midnight to early morning in June. The audience included student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid. So many students tell her they want to be journalists, she says.
Even the relatively sophisticated crowd at the Bangalore International Centre, where she launched her book last month, seemed impressed by the resolve of the then 26-year-old reporter who went undercover as film-maker Maithili Tyagi for eight months in 2011 to investigate the riots, custody killings and 2003 murder of Gujarat home minister Haren Pandya. The investigation, originally commissioned by news magazine Tehelka, was never published. Several years later, Ayyub has self-published it as The Gujarat Files. It takes a single-minded madness to do what she did.
“Don’t you ever feel scared?" philanthropist Rohini Nilekani asked Ayyub that evening. Well she did get addicted to sleeping pills while she was undercover in Gujarat (because she was too scared to sleep at night and had to pop pills to sleep during the day) and she does see a therapist regularly but she says she worries more about her dad (a prolific Urdu writer) falling ill than anyone trying to get back at her for her work. The 60 copies Ayyub carried to the Bengaluru event sold out fast.
The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress have ignored the book (its revelations are uncomfortable for both political parties), hoping it will quietly disappear off the shelves. That it’s not been debated to death on prime time by rival politicians may have actually contributed to its success. In an age where news is noise, surely readers wonder about the silence?
The abuses from the paid foot soldiers on Twitter bounce off her spiral curls smoothly. When some people tweeted images of her book in the toilet, saying there was only one use for it, she responded: “Thank you for buying my book in huge numbers to use it as toilet paper. It’s boosting sales each day. Gratitude."
That nobody has denied anything that appears in the book or filed any lawsuits against her in the three months since its release has also worked in Ayyub’s favour.
In fact the biggest criticism has been that the book is shoddily edited and lacking in context—nobody has criticized its content. It certainly seems to have whetted the taste buds of Masala Nation. Ayyub is currently in the process of translating the book into several languages. The Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam and Punjabi editions will be out by November.
Her former editor Tarun Tejpal, whom the author alleges refused to publish the sensational series of interviews she recorded in the elaborate sting operation, said he didn’t carry her story because it was “simply incomplete". Why didn’t the veteran of so many hard-hitting investigations help her complete it, I can’t help wonder.
Ayyub says publishers refused to touch her book because it was controversial. Publishing industry sources say Ayyub was unwilling to provide additional narrative context to the interviews that appear in the book. Personally, I think readers are relieved that Ayyub doesn’t analyse the riots, or tell us what she thinks about the main players. We created our contexts and wildly differing perspectives about 2002 a long time ago. Fourteen years later, we don’t need anyone to tell us how to view that time.
But all this is moot when you have self-published (and self-promoted) successfully in a country where readers love Chetan Bhagat (and not much else) and where 2,000 books sold is considered a job well done.
Last month, India Book Distributors (IBD) jumped on board to distribute the book and they have already sold around 8,000 copies. “I thought it was a controversial book, why not distribute it," says Harkin Chatlani, chairman and managing director of IBD, whose political views differ dramatically from Ayyub’s. That doesn’t matter—commerce comes first.
Not bad for an author who set aside a mere 350 copies of her book to sell on Amazon (and 500 copies for the launch), right? Within days, supply couldn’t keep pace with demand. Amazon was taking 20 days to deliver the book. The small distributors from Ansari Road in Old Delhi demanded copies. Mumbai’s Kitab Khana bookshop wanted to know how to get its hands on the book. Khan Market’s Bahrisons Booksellers decided to stock it. Bookshop owner and literary agent Anuj Bahri, who believes he’s got another Amish Tripathi on his hands (he helped Tripathi, one of India’s most successful authors, self-publish), appointed himself Ayyub’s literary agent. “I’m so tired," says Ayyub. “My dad says beta don’t stop the push to promote, publish, distribute and get it reviewed. I’ve given myself till December—my life is a hashtag #GujaratFiles."
Not bad for a book that was never going to be a book.
Priya Ramani shares what’s making her feel angsty/agreeable every fortnight. She tweets at @priyaramani and posts on Instagram as babyjaanramani.

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The Alabama Writers Hall of Fame will induct nine authors in its second class this fall. Jeanie Thompson, executive director of The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a co-founder of the Hall of Fame, said the next class will again represent authors from a broad range of Alabama history.
The 2016 inductees include one born in the 18th century, one born in the late 19th century and seven born in the 20th century. Four of these are living and are invited to the September 29th event in Tuscaloosa.
Sequoyah (1760–1845) was born in Monroe County, Tennessee, and lived among the Cherokee nation in North Alabama. His syllabary made it possible for Cherokee spoken language to be codified, and it promoted literacy among his people. He is being recognized for his significant contribution to Alabama letters in a special Hall of Fame category. T.S. Stribling (Florence, 1881-1965) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1934 for his novel The Store, part of a trilogy set in Florence. His short story, “Birthright,” was adapted for the screen as a silent film, with sound added later. Poet and novelist Margaret Alexander Walker (Birmingham, 1915-1998) and fiction writer and memoirist Mary Ward Brown (Hamburg, 1917-2013) both made their mark as writers of the American south. Truman Capote, born in New Orleans in 1924, spent formative years with his extended family in Monroeville. They lived next door to Nelle Harper Lee. Capote and Lee’s association as writers and friends has been widely documented.
“We are pleased that our four living authors will be with us,” said Thompson. They include Edward O. Wilson, Honorary Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Wilson, a world-renown biologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, has been recognized with scientific prizes across the globe for his advances in bio-diversity, of which he is considered “the father.” Wilson received the 2016 Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of the Year.
Wilson is currently boosting conservation of wild lands across the globe and hopes that the plan to develop a National Park along the Gulf Coast will come to fruition soon.
Rounding out the list are Birmingham native Fannie Flagg (b. 1944), Falkville native and poet Rodney Jones (b. 1950), and Trussville native and playwright Rebecca Gilman (b. 1965). Flagg is an internationally-known screenwriter and novelist whose work often depicts Southern personalities with humor and compassion. She makes her home in Santa Barbara, California, and Fairhope, and she often visits her home state. Flagg, Jones, and Gilman have all received the Harper Lee Award.
Both Jones and Gilman have been awarded prizes in their respective genres. Jones began publishing collections of poetry shortly after graduating from The University of Alabama in the late 1960s. He is recently retired from Southern Illinois University. Gilman has been recognized as a significant American playwright in her own country and in London, where she has had a number of plays produced. She makes her home in Chicago, is associated with the Goodman Theatre, and teaches at Northwestern University. Both Flagg and Gilman are graduates of Birmingham Southern College.
The Alabama Writers Hall of Fame was founded in 2014 through a partnership between the Alabama Writers’ Forum, a statewide literary service nonprofit, and the Alabama Center for the Book, housed in the University Libraries at The University of Alabama.
“The mission of the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame is to generate awareness of literary works written in Alabama from the early days of our state to the present," said Donna B. Adcock, director of public relations, Alabama Center for the Book.
The nine Alabama authors will be inducted during a gala dinner at the Bryant Conference Center in Tuscaloosa on September 29, 2016. Tickets go on sale April 14, 2016. For information contact Emily Burnett at ekmims@ua.edu.
Other plans for the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame include an interpretive exhibit suitable for a number of public venues and the development of public programs and educational curricula associated with the Hall of Fame. Support for the Hall of Fame outreach has been provided by major presenting sponsor Books-a-Million (BAM!) and grants from the Support the Arts Car Tag Fund, and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. The Alabama State Council on the Arts provides operating support to the Alabama Writer’ Forum for public programming and service to writers statewide.
The Alabama Center for the Book is an affiliate of the National Center for the Bookat the Library of Congress. It was established in 2000 at Auburn University and relocated in 2010 to The University of Alabama Libraries.
The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a statewide service organization and partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts since 1993, has been integrally involved in the evolution of the Alabama Center for the Book since its inception.
For author photos, contact Danny Gamble at the Alabama Writers’ Forum at 205-665-7986 or gambledanny@bellsouth.net.


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Q: I recently heard a recording in which a doctor pronounces “atropine” as if it were spelled “atropin.” Is this legitimate?
A: Yes, there are two standard pronunciations of the organic compound that eye doctors use in solutions to dilate pupils: AT-ruh-peen and AT-ruh-pin.
In fact, “atropin” was the original spelling of this poisonous compound obtained from belladonna and other related plants. Several standard dictionaries still list that as a variant spelling.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.), for example, cites both spellings, with “atropine” pronounced AT-ruh-peen and “atropin” pronounced AT-ruh-pin.
However, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) has only the “atropine” spelling and At-ruh-peen pronunciation.
In addition to being used in solutions to dilate eyes, the naturally occurring alkaloid atropine is used, among other things, in medicine to inhibit muscle spasms.
The word “atropine” comes from atropa belladonna, the scientific name of the perennial plant that’s also known as deadly nightshade.
English borrowed belladonna from the Italian name for the plant (it comes from the Italian words for “beautiful woman”).
However, the plant’s name is ultimately derived from Atropos, one of the three Greek Fates, according to the OED.
In Greek mythology, Atropos was the Fate responsible for deciding how people died and cutting their threads of life with her shears.


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GB/T 7714 Wei SJ,Li-Jun Cao,Qiu-Ling Wu,et al. Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangement Within Genus Gasteruption (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae)[J]. Zoological Systematics,2016,41(2):133-139.
APA 魏书军,Li-Jun Cao,Qiu-Ling Wu,&朱朝东.(2016).Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangement Within Genus Gasteruption (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae).Zoological Systematics,41(2),133-139.
MLA 魏书军,et al."Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangement Within Genus Gasteruption (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Gasteruptiidae)".Zoological Systematics 41.2(2016):133-139.

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