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A FORMER Ryedale police officer has written his first novel set around the infamous 2013 landslip beneath Whitby Abbey.
Steve Pearce, who was based as a sergeant in Malton, decided to put pen to paper after retiring from the force three years ago.
"I have always thought about writing a book and over the last 12 months I found the time to dedicate to doing that," Steve said.
"I took a factual event, that of the landslip and tied it in with fictional events of a missing girl and murder enquiry."
'Finding Jane' focuses on a teenager brought up in a strict Methodist household who goes off to university and begins to find out more about herself and life as she becomes involved in the Goth community in Whitby.
When a body is discovered beneath the town's Abbey following a landslip links are made to a missing persons case in Leeds.
Steve said having worked in Whitby, he was familiar with the town and was also helped by his daughter Jofi who has links with the Goth community.
"She was able to provide me with a lot of background and obviously working in the police force for 25 years I was able to draw in my own experiences although the characters are entirely fictional."
Steve, who lives at Great Barugh with my wife Gilly, said he had enjoyed writing the novel .
"I did it in my own time and with no deadline to meet I could take my day and write as much as I wanted each day," he added.
"When I'd finished my family's feedback was really positive so I asked a few friends for their comments and was persuaded to get it published."
Steve is now planning to take part in a series of book signings and is already planning his next novel.
"I have started to research another book which will again be based in North Yorkshire and use some of the police characters I have created in Finding Jane," he added.
"I always knew I had a book in me and I am delighted that dream has now become a reality.
Finding Jane is available from local bookshops and Amazon.
For more information visit http://stevepearse59.wix.com/finding-jane-06-2014

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Commotion in the Belgian blogosphere
November 23, 2007 in blogosphere | Tags: belgian blogosphere, belgium, blog, blogosphere, concentra, influence, job, linkedin, metatale, most influential, rank | 4 comments
Yesterdag, the whole Belgian blogosphere was thrown into commotion. The reason? Metatale published its top 100 of most influential Belgian blogs. It is based on some kind of calculation, measuring the amount of entries a blogger posts, the comments a blogger gets on his blog or posts on other blogs etc. And of course, everybody is curious whether they are in the top 100 or not. And like always, some bloggers (usually the ones that are not in) question the analysis tool used, others praise it to heaven (usually because they are more popular than expected). At any case, the Belgian blogosphere was more alive than ever 🙂
And some more striking things:
- About Metatale: my personal blog has a rank of 14 according to Metatale. Since the top 100 ends with rank 17, I'm not that far off this top. Especially because I hadn't been posting that much lately, I was kind of surprised. So the logarithm has counted in my advantage 🙂
- About my company: A manager at my company is looking for an employee. She asked me to use my LinkedIn network to spread the word. I think it's quite good that the management values social networks. Even though I think they're pretty desperate to find a new employee (a market researcher, so in case you know anyone 😉


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How do I take PrEP?
There are a number of different studies that look at ways that you can take PrEP. However, here in Australia, our recommendation is that PrEP should be taken every day. When PrEP is taken every day, what we know is that there is enough drug within the system to reduce the risk of HIV infection by up to 99%. It's very important that you find a regular routine to take the tablet. For some people, I say find something that you do on a reliable basis every day and then attach taking that drug at that time. For example, if every morning you have a coffee, take your drug, put it beside the coffee jar as a reminder to take the medicine every day. Sometimes, using an app on your phone can be helpful as a reminder to take your tablet. It may also be useful to get a small container and place one or two tablets of your PrEP inside that container and throw it into your work bag. That way, if you forget to take a tablet, you've got one with you and you can take it straight away.


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Vanessa Lopez, administrative manager in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, has been chosen to receive a President's Staff Award.
Lopez was among 30 staff members and two supervisors cited as having had a significant impact on the university. They were recognized at the May 13 President's Staff Awards. The program honors and recognizes the invaluable contributions of non-teaching staff whose outstanding dedication, competence, conscientious performance, and excellent customer service has had a significant positive impact on the university. Each Outstanding Staff Award recipient received an honorarium of $1,500.
In 2008, Lopez moved from Fort Worth's University of North Texas Health Science Center to work as an administrative associate in UT's Office of Sponsored Projects. She was promoted to a senior grants and contracts specialists in OSP before joining the college's Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in 2012. In August 2015, her title changed to administrative manager of college research.
At the same awards ceremony, college staff members with service anniversaries were recognized for their loyalty and contributions to the success of the university. The UT tower was lit burnt orange in honor of the staff award recipients on May 13.
College of pharmacy honorees included:
35 years – Janice Sutton
30 years – Jennifer Ridings-Myhra
25 years – Yolanda Camacho and Diane Ginsburg
20 years – Greg Caldera
15 years – Susan Brown
10 years – Sherri Bendele, Angela Clapper, and Terry Weaver.


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Acknowledgement: Klevius is certainly no fan of Assad. Not only because of the accusation of Syrian involvement in the February 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and support for muslim anti-Jewish terror groups etc, but also because of him being a muslim who happily and shamelessly, like most others, utilizes islam (the worst crime ever against humanity) for his agenda.
And those muslims who don't fit in either category need to face Erdogan, OIC and Human Rights violating Sharia - or finally admit they are no real muslims
Klevius comment: I for one cannot see the slightest space for political islam in a democratic society based on the belief in Human Rights. Can you?
Not taking responsibility for the evilness in one's ideology is pathetic. Klevius will elaborate on this in the next posting. In a way so most muslims should understand - if they dare to admit it.
Why do Western politicians support islamic terrorists? Is it because Western tax payers are ignorant and misinformed about what islam really is? But the truth is that the victims' bodies are all labeled 'political islam'!
Fly Qatar islamofascism while bowing towards the Saudis
When George W Bush in a week managed to topple Iraq's chemical weapons using dictator Saddam Hussein (whose Sarin victims were counted in tens of thousands) he was spat on by many. However, in Syria everything seems the opposite. The Sarin is used by the terrorists but Obama & Co are asked to topple Assad. How come?! The answer is simple: Saddam was Sunni and Assad is Shia.
The fact that launching indiscriminate biological attacks makes absolutely no sense militarily for Assad means it's far more likely that such attacks are being staged by rebels – many of whom are being led by Al-Qaeda/Al-Nusra islamic terrorists – with support from the likes of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.
William Engdahl: In the text of (Saudi) Al Arabiya's article we read that the "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens of people were killed, including children, in fierce bombardment." Now the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has been the source of every news report negative against the Syrian Assad government since the war began in 2011. More curious about the humanitarian-sounding SOHR is the fact, as uncovered by investigative journalists, that it consists of a sole Syrian refugee who has lived in London for the past 13 years named Rami Abdul Rahman, a Syrian Sunni muslim who owns a clothing shop and is running a Twitter page from his home. Partly owing to a very friendly profile story on the BBC, he gained mainstream media credibility. He is anything but unbiased.
The other aspect of the suspicious reports is the "convenient" fact they coincide with the arrival two days earlier of an official UN weapons inspection team, allowed by the government, to investigate allegations of chemical weapons use in the Syrian war. It begs the most obvious question: What conceivably would Bashar al Assad stand to gain from using banned chemical weapons just at the time he has agreed to let a UN chemical weapons team into Syria?
Sarin and its distribution
Paul from Allen Vanguard:
How long would it take Sarin to become harmless, or dissipate? In general terms are we talking minutes, hours, weeks?
This is difficult to answer because of the variables that could exist but Sarin is a non-persistent and highly volatile liquid which disperses and vaporises rapidly dependent on conditions of temperature and air flow. A single projectile of Sarin fired in a hot, sunny featureless environment during a windy day could feasibly take minutes to dissipate. At the other end of the spectrum, a sustained bombardment/barrage in an urban area during a period of no wind and no sustained periods of sun would be more likely to create a scenario where pockets of exposed Sarin would last for days, unexposed Sarin could last for weeks and CW UXO could remain in the area for years.
Dan Kaszeta, a US Army Chemical Corps veteran:
Submuntions: A highly effective way of dissemination would be a munition that scattered bomblets or submunitions at some height, with the submunitions designed for ground impact detonation. Other factors being equal (…but they often aren't), submunitions are generally considered a more efficient method of dispensing Sarin.
In Tokyo it had been intended initially to aerosolise but ended up being stabbed bags left to evaporate (which is pretty good due to the speed at which it evaporates).
The canisters recovered from the scene of the attacks matched canisters also recovered from an attack reported in Sheikh Maqsoud in Aleppo, where there were again claims of them being dropped from a helicopter, with photographs showing the canister remains covered in white-grey powder.
The same design of canister has also been filmed in a cache of weapons reportedly captured by the Syrian opposition from the Syrian military, and a journalist in Syria has shown the image of the canister to various armed group, many of which have claimed to have seen them in the possession of opposition fighters, claiming to have captured them from the Syrian army.
Another type of grenade, using an identical fuze, was also photographed in Syria, with the photographer being told it was a normal smoke grenade.
The Russian government has claimed the Syrian opposition was responsible for the Khan al-Assal attack, with a DIY rocket delivering a payload of Sarin.
What do you think would be involved in putting together a DIY chemical warhead for a DIY rocket?
Crude devices are not that hard. Removal of explosives or whatever payload had been carried, followed by introducing the agent. You would need protective gear and it wouldn't be very safe doing the filling.
Accuracy would be lost (if a missile) and performance of rockets could be affected by different weight distribution. I don't really want to go in to too much detail about the how, lest I give ideas or advice, but early CW munitions were very simple.
If you don't really care where it goes then its achievable.
Considering the Russian government's claim that a DIY rocket was used in the attack, what would be the most effective dispersal method once the rocket reached it's target?
Air burst or base ejection were used by military munitions but require more complex fuses. If aimed at hard targets then you'd get a level of dispersal by simple impact, but if it hit the earth then the payload could just get driven in to the earth.
Syrian Rebels use D-30 Howitzers capable of distributing Sarin
The D-30 is a Russian-made 122 mm towed howitzer that first entered service in the 1960s with the Russian army. The D-30 is designed to defeat unsheltered and covered manpower, weapons and military equipment of the enemy at the forward edge of the battle area and to the regiment mission depth. The D-30 has been widely exported and used in wars around the world, notably in the Middle East, and particularly in the Iran-Iraq War.


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It's down to the final four in our March Madness: Miami Eats tournament.
That's right. We're so close to finding the single best thing to eat in Miami. We started out by finding the best restaurant that serves each dish, and now we're putting those dishes head-to-head.
Here's how it went down: arepas from La Latina beat out croquetas from Islas Canarias, subs from La Sandwicherie beat out ceviche from CVI.CHE 105, Jamaican patties from Jamaica Kitchen beat out empanadas from Graziano's, and bagels and lox from Coral Bagels beat out griot from Macillon Grio and Fish.
We got into the kitchens of the winners of the Final Four to learn how they make their secret sauce.
Bagels and Lox at Coral Bagels
Subs at La Sandwicherie
Jamaican patties at Jamaica Kitchen
Arepas at La Latina
You have until Thursday afternoon to make your next pick. On to the championship round!


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Biomass and renewable resources
Biomass - definiton
A variety of terms and definitions are used when referring to biomass. Defining the term broadly, biomass denotes the totality of all living entities, of the present or the past, including the dead matter that remains from organisms that once lived. In the context of renewable energies, all organic matter of plant or animal origin that can be used as an energy source is characterised as biomass.
In its Renewable Energy Directive, the European Union defines biomass as follows: biomass is the biologically decomposable part of products, waste and residual material based on agriculture and of biological origin (including animal-based and plantbased substances), from forestry, and from associated sectors of business, including fishing and aquaculture. According to this definition, the biologically degradable part of waste matter from industry and households also counts as biomass.
Thus, biomass is (among other things)
- plants, constituent parts of plants, and the energy sources produced from plants and their constituent parts;
- waste and by-products (of plant and animal origin) from agriculture, forestry and fisheries and the respective downstream processing operations;
- waste wood from the forest-based industry;
- material from landscape conservation and various organic matter obtained by maintenance of water bodies, including their banks;
- waste wood and
- municipal organic waste.
The term biomass does not encompass biogenic fossil fuels such as petroleum, coal, natural gas and peat, as these do not replenish anytime soon, so they do not fulfil the criteria of renewability.
Wood, with its various points of origin, is currently the most significant energy source from biomass. Wood does not solely come from the forest. Apart from forest waste wood, the following should be mentioned as significant providers of wood (among others): waste/used wood from industry, wood from landscape conservation activities and from agriculture (like agroforestry or shortrotation coppice).
Read more about biomass considered within BIO-PROM.
Biomass - biochemical basics
In essence, biomass emerges through photosynthesis by plants. By means of solar energy, the carbon dioxide of the air, water and various nutrients combine to form biomasses which can be subdivided into the following groups of substance:
- wood and stalk-materials (lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose)
- sugar, starch and cellulose (carbohydrates)
- oils and fats
- proteins
Photosynthesis takes place with oxygen being released in the process. The biomass produced as a result mainly consists of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Solar energy thus stored as chemical energy, e. g. in the form of wood, sugar, oils and fats. Photosynthesis is often displayed with a simplified formula, using sugar as an example.
6CO2 + 6H2O + light = C6H12O6 + 6O2
If biomass is used as energy, depending on the type of use, the carbon dioxide cycle remains closed to a large degree. Thus the CO2 balance is decidedly positive compared to fossil-based fuels, because the CO2 re-released at the time of use was removed from the atmosphere at the time when the plant grew and formed chemical bonds. However, the CO2 calculation should include the additional energy expended in harvesting, transporting, processing and converting the organic matter (into heat, electricity or fuel), in so far as this use of energy is not covered by renewable sources. For wood fuels such as firewood (typically logs), wood chips or wooden pellets, this additional expenditure of energy is particularly low, accounting for less than 5 percent of the fuels' energy content.
If fossil-based fuels such as coal or petroleum are substituted by biogenic energy sources, this makes an important contribution to avoiding additional CO2 emissions.
Energy crops
Viewing the possibilities and potentials, energy crops will have the largest contribution to make in the planned expansion of energy generation from biomass. Energy crops are cultivated specifically as an energy source and, according to choice, provide
- substrates for biogas production (cultivation of maize, grass, grain, sorghum, sugar beets and other crops);
- woody biomass or biomass containing lignocellulose for use as a solid fuel (e. g. rapidly growing trees, miscanthus and other tall grasses) and/or
- sugar, starch, or plant oils for biofuels (e. g. cultivation of rapeseed, grain, maize or sugar beets).
Energy crops generate regular and sustainable yields of biomass, as one-year and multi-year crops. Energy crops are part of renewable resources.


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Community enCompass McLaughlin Grows Urban Farm has launched a new initiative call Muskegon Prescribes Food for Health providing low income residents with locally grown produce coupled with nutrition and cooking education. According to the USDA website, "Food Desert Locator", nearly all of the City of Muskegon qualifies as food desert. A food desert is defined as an area without access to fresh fruits, vegetables, and other nutritious whole foods. Participation in the program is prescribed by medical providers at Hackley Community Care, a neighborhood health clinic. The goals of Muskegon Prescribes Food for Health are to increase food through local farms, increase participants' knowledge of cooking and nutrition, and create lasting, sustainable, positive change in the behavior of the participants and the medical community.
The Osteopathic Foundation of West Michigan was honored to award Community enCompass a grant for $10,000. Muskegon Prescribes Food for Health fulfills the Foundation's goal of providing lasting resources that inspire Lakeshore residents to live healthier lives. The funds will be used to grow additional vegetables at the McLaughlin Grows Urban Farm and will be distributed to participants of the Muskegon Prescribes Food for Health program. The grant will also help to expand the garden to a site located at Nims School. Please click here to find out for more information about Community enCompass.


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Data to Knowledge in Agronomy and Biodiveristy (D2KAB – www.d2kab.org) is an ANR funded project (2019-2023). D2KAB's primary objective is to create a framework to turn agronomy and biodiversity data into –semantically described, interoperable, actionable, open– knowledge, along with investigating scientific methods and tools to exploit this knowledge for applications in science & agriculture. We shall provide the means –ontologies and linked open data– for agronomy & biodiversity to embrace the semantic Web to produce and exploit FAIR data. To do so, we will develop new original methods and algorithms in the following areas: data integration, text mining, semantic annotation, ontology alignment and linked data exploitation.
D2KAB project brings together a unique multidisciplinary consortium of 11 partners to achieve this objective: 2 informatics research units (LIRMM, I3S); 5 INRA/IRSTEA applied informatics research units (URGI, MaIAGE, IATE, DIST, TSCF) specialized in agronomy or agriculture; 2 labs in biodiversity and ecosystem research (CEFE, URFM); 1 association of agriculture stakeholders (ACTA); and 1 partnership with Stanford BMIR department.
ANSWER stands for Advanced aNd SecuredWeb Experience and seaRch17. It is a GDN project (Grands Défis du Numérique) from the PIA program (Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir) on Big Data. The project is between four Inria research teams and the Qwant company.
The aim of the ANSWER project is to develop the new version of the Qwant18 search engine by introducing radical innovations in terms of search criteria as well as indexed content and users' privacy. The purpose is to strengthen everyone's confidence in the search engine and increase the effectiveness of Web search. Building trust in the search engine is based on innovations in (1) Security: computer security, privacy; (2) Completeness: completeness and heterogeneity of (re)sources; and (3) Neutrality: analysis, extraction, indexing, and classification of data.
Increasing the effectiveness of Web-based research relies on innovations related to (1) Relevance: variety and value of content taken into account, measurement of emotions carried by query results; (2) Interaction with the user: adaptation of the interfaces to the types of research; and (3) Performance: perceived relevance of results
and response time.
MONALIA 1.0 and 2.0
The MonaLIA 1.0 project is a preliminary study on the coupling of learning methods (Deep Neural Networks) and knowledge-based methods (Semantic Web) for image recognition and the enhancement of descriptive documentary records. The approach is applied and evaluated on the collection and data in the Joconde database in order to identify the possibilities and challenges offered by this coupling in assisting in the creation and maintenance of such an annotated collection. MonaLIA 2.0 will extend this work by proposing a complete prototype.
IADB, Integration and Learning on Biomedical Data, is a project funded by UCA JEDI Labex (Université Côte d'Azur). The goal of the project is to leverage medical prognosis and decision making in the clinical domain with big data analysis techniques, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The partners are: I3S, Wimmics, CHU Nice and BCL (Bases, Corpus, Language) Laboratory.
INCERTIMMO, Uncertainty in Real Estate Spatial Modeling in the City, is a research and development
partnership funded by UCA and Kinaxia company. UCA partners are: I3S, ESPACE, and IMREDD.
SIDES 3.0 is an ANR project (2017-2020) which started in fall 2017. It is led by Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and its general objective is to introduce semantics within the existing SIDES educational platform for medicine students, in order to provide them with added value educational services.
Inria Federated Query Scaler
Federated Query Scaler is an Exploratory Research Project (PRE) funded by Inria, together with the Dyliss team at Inria Rennes. The topic of this project is the study of distributed SPARQL queries in the context of bioinformatics.
MIREL, MIning and REasoning with legal text, is a Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) project, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant, duration: 2016-2019. The MIREL project will create an international and inter-sectorial network to define a formal framework and to develop tools for MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, with the aim of translating these legal texts into formal representations that can be used for querying norms, compliance checking, and decision support. MIREL addresses both conceptual challenges, such as the role of legal interpretation in mining and reasoning, and computational challenges, such as the handling of big legal data, and the complexity of regulatory compliance. It bridges the gap between the community working on legal ontologies and NLP parsers and the community working on reasoning methods and formal logic. Moreover, it is the first project of its kind to involve industrial partners in the future development of innovative products and services in legal reasoning and their deployment in the market. MIREL promotes mobility and staff exchange between SMEs to academies in order to create an inter-continental interdisciplinary consortium in Law and Artificial Intelligence areas including Natural Language Processing, Computational Ontologies, Argumentation, and Logic & Reasoning.
The ANR project WASABI started in January 2017 with IRCAM, Deezer, Radio France and the SME Parisson, consists in building a 2 million songs knowledge base of commercial popular music (rock, pop, etc.) Its originality is the joint use of audio-based music information extraction algorithms, song lyrics analysis algorithms (natural language processing), and the use of the Semantic Web. Web Audio technologies then explore these bases of musical knowledge and provide innovative applications for composers, musicologists, music schools and sound engineers, music broadcasters and journalists (check for example these videos).
The theme of this new project with DGA is counter argumentation against fake news. Its duration is 2018-2020.
The goal of ALOOF is to enable robots to tap into the ever-growing amount of knowledge available on the Web, by learning from there about the meaning of previously unseen objects, expressed in a form that makes them applicable when acting in situated environments.
AZKAR is a two years french project funded by BPI (Banque Publique d'Investissement), focused on Fast Control of Mobile Robots over the Internet, using web technologies such as WebRTC and semantic web technologies. See this video.
In the SEEMPAD joint team we decided to focus on a very precise goal, i.e. generating, annotating and analyzing a dataset that documents a debate.
SMILK (Social Media Intelligence and Linked Knowledge) is a joint laboratory (Labcom, 2013-2016) between the WIMMICS team and the Research and Innovation unit of VISEO (Grenoble). Natural Language Processing, Linked Open Data and Social Networks as well as the links between them are at the core of this LabCom. The purpose of SMILK is both to develop research and technologies in order to retrieve, analyze, and reason on textual data coming from Web sources, and to make use of LOD, social networks structures and interaction in order to improve the analysis and understanding of textual resources.
Topics covered by SMILK include: use of data and vocabularies published on the web in order to search, analyze, disambiguate and structure textual knowledge in a smart way, but also to feed internal information sources; reasoning on the combination of internal and public data and schemes, query and presentation of data and inferences in natural formats.
Wimmics is awarded a software development grant for two years (2014-2015) from Inria to leverage Corese:
- W3C Recommendations RDF 1.1, RDFa
- Distributed Query Processing
- Graph Indexing
- Approximate Search and Semantic Distance
QAKiS is a system for open domain Question Answering over linked data. It addresses the problem of question interpretation as a relation-based match, where fragments of the question are matched to binary relations of the triple store, using relational textual patterns automatically collected. There is an online version of the system and a screencast of it too.
Discovery hub is an exploratory search engine which helps you to discover things you might like or be interested in. It widens your cultural and knowledge horizons by revealing and explaining unattended information. Based on Wikipedia data, Discovery Hub is cross-domain and works on numerous topics including music, cinema, literature but also politics, automobile and much more. It allows performing queries in an innovative way and helps you to navigate rich results. As a hub, it proposes redirections to others platforms to make you benefit from your discoveries (Youtube, Deezer and more). There are several recorded demos of Discovery Hub as well as an online public version (old version here).
ZONE-project provides a new, innovative way to follow news. At its core, the system is aggregating news items from various RSS feeds. Using the power of semantic web we are able to efficiently tag & annotate each news.Those tags are the basis of filters. Filters allow users to see only news that are relevant. For instance users can retrieve all news containing a tag, or on the contrary never see news containing specific tags. Basically it means that each user can create custom news feeds according to his interests. Though it may be tedious for John Doe to build its own filters, thus it will be possible to exchange filters with other users, or read specific news feeds built by other users. This will enable users to create news group feed focused on specific topics such as technology, heath, industry, transport, agriculture, communication, environment… No field can escape from the ZONE search and news feed mechanism!
Christophe DESCLAUX is currently working full time on this project thanks to Inria. In fact this project won the BoostYourCode 2012 contest which was created in order to promote free & open source software.
Design and Implementation of a version of DBPedia for Wikipedia in french, French Ministry of Culture.
CrEDIBLE is a project funded by the MASTODONS (Défi Grandes Masses de Données Scientifiques) projects of the CNRS Mission Interdisciplinarité. It aims at studying the scientific locks when constructing systems sharing distributed and heterogeneous data in the domain medical imaging.
The objective of OCKTOPUS ANR project is to increase the potential social and economic benefit of the large and quickly growing amounts of user-generated content, by transforming it into useful knowledge. We believe that it is possible to considerably improve upon existing generic Information Retrieval techniques by exploiting the specific structure of this content and of the online communities which produce it. Specifically, we will focus on a multi-disciplinary approach in order to address the problem of finding relevant answers to questions within forums and question-answer sites.
Development activity (ADT) with support from INRIA (2010-2012) on Semantic Graph Visualization providing the SemanticWebImport Gephi Plugin. The action focus is on coupling Corese and Gephi Open Graph Visualization Platform to provide a framework to query and visualize RDF data taking into account their schemas.
The Kolflow project (ANR project, 2011-2014) proposes to extend collective intelligence with smart agents relying on automated reasoning. Smart agents can significantly reduce the overhead of communities in the process of continuously building knowledge. Consequently, continuous knowledge building is much more effcient. Kolflow aims at building a social semantic space where humans collaborate with smart agents in order to produce knowledge understandable by humans and machines. Humans are able to understand the actions of smart agents. Smart agents are able to understand actions of humans. Kolflow targets the co-evolution of content and knowledge as the result of interactions of humans and machines.
DataLift (2010-2013) is an experimental research project funded by the ANR French national research agency. Its goal is to design a platform to publish and interlink datasets on the Web of data. Datalift will both publish datasets coming from a network of partners and data providers and propose a set of tools for easing the datasets publication process.
DataLift brings raw structured data coming from various formats (relational databases, CSV, XML, …) to semantic data interlinked on the Web of Data.
Isicil (2009-2012) this three year project proposes to study and to experiment with the usage of new tools to assist corporate intelligence tasks. These tools rely on web 2.0 advanced interfaces (blog, wiki, social bookmarking) for interactions and on semantic web technologies for interoperability and information processing. For more information see the description of the ISICIL project or contact the project leader Fabien Gandon.
Previous, bilateral collaborations
- Research and development collaboration with Mnemotix in particular on the outputs of the ISICIL project
- Alcatel Bell Lucent: PhD Thesis of Nicolas Marie on Pervasive sociality through social objects (2011-2013)
- SAP Research: PhD Thesis of Corentin Follenfant on Semantic Web and Business Intelligence (2011-2013)
- University Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal: Semantic and Social Web Platform for Communities Knowledge Sharing, (accepted AUF project 2011-2013)
- University Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algérie: Personalization and socialization of e-learning systems based on semantic web models (CNRS/DPGRF project 2010-2012)
- CSTB: PhD of Khalil Riad Bouzidi on Modeling regulatory documents (2009-2012)
- IGN Cogit: Master Thesis on Semantics for Cartography (2011)
See also older projects in the Edelweiss research team.


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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the afterglow of the Big Bang, cooled to the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum by the expansion of the Universe for ~14 billion years. Across the entire sky radiation at 2.7 K is evident once local sources are removed. It is not completely uniform in temperature however, with deviations to 1 part in 100, 000.
According to standard cosmology, the CMB gives a snapshot of the Universe around 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The temperature of the expanding Universe cooled until it reached about 3000 K, at which point electrons and protons combined to form hydrogen atoms. Radiation was scattering in the free electrons and protons of the younger, hotter Universe, but once hydrogen formed radiation could travel unimpeded. The Universe therefore became 'transparent' to radiation, which we see as the CMB. This time is generally known as the 'time of last scattering' or the epoch of recombination.
Cosmologists have realised that measuring the angular variations, or anisotropy, in this radiation would provide important clues to why matter (like galaxies and clusters) is distributed the way it is today. The regions that are slightly more dense than others gravitationally attract photons, causing them to lose some energy in transition. These regions thus appear to be at a lower CMB temperature. Regions that are less dense suffer less from this effect and the radiation appears to be at a relatively higher CMB temperature.
In 2004 while examining a map of the CMB obtained by the WMAP satellite, astronomers discovered the Cold Spot, a larger-than-expected unusually cold area of the sky. The physics surrounding the Big Bang predicts warmer and cooler spots of various sizes in the infant Universe, but a spot this large and this cold was unexpected.
The Planck satellite also detected the CMB Cold Spot (as well as other suggested anomalies initially seen in the WMAP data.). The Cold Spot deviates by about -70 µK from the average CMB temperature and is centred on (l, b) ~ (209°, -57°) in Galactic coordinates. The Cold Spot is perhaps the most significant among the 'anomalies' in the CMB that are potential departures from isotropic or Gaussian statistics.
Explanations of the Cold Spot range from a statistical fluke through to unknown physics, an imprint of a parallel universe, to the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect from a ~200 h−1 Mpc supervoid, which is an area lacking in galaxies, centred on the Cold Spot.
In the ISW effect photons from the CMB can be gravitationally redshifted or blueshifted due to intervening gravitational fields. If photons have to travel through a dense cluster of galaxies they gain energy by "falling" into the cluster's gravitational potential. As the photons "climb" out of the cluster potential they lose energy, but not as much as they have gained since the Universe expanded in that intervening time. The net effect is that these photons are slightly warmer. For photons travelling through a void the effect is the opposite. The photons exit the void with less energy and therefore at a longer wavelength, which corresponds to a colder temperature.
Hence the ISW effect is driven by the intervening galaxy distribution and can slightly alter the temperature of the CMB photons that we detect. If correct, the void that could cause a Cold Spot in the CMB would be readily detectable in large-scale structure surveys of galaxies.
So what is the origin of this CMB Cold Spot? A recent study by István Szapudi of the University of Hawaii and collaborators of galaxy properties in and around the Cold Slot has recently been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This new work uses the extensive WISE-2MASS all-sky infrared databases and Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) data set of galaxies that have a mean z ~ 0.14.
They find a very large void – a large under dense region of galaxies – in the constellation of Eridanus with a radius Rvoid ~ 220 Mpc centred at z = 0.22. This equates to a void that is 1.8 billion light-years across, in which the density of galaxies is much lower than usual in the known Universe. This corresponds to a 3.3σ fluctuation in a CMB expected for a Λ Cold Dark Matter model for the Universe.
Overall the detection of a very large void in the galaxy distribution is a viable cause for the CMB Cold Spot. However the current estimates of the ISW effect are smaller than the observed -70 µK deviation. Could the void in Eridanus actually be much larger than ~220 Mpc? This is possible. The team that studied the Cold Spot in Eridanus is now taking a look at another CMB cold spot near the constellation of Draco. These further studies should give us better insight into the physical properties of the CMB.
For more information, see
- Enormous hole in the universe may not be the only one, Carole Mundell, The Conversation, 22 April 2015
- Detection of a supervoid aligned with the cold spot of the cosmic microwave background, Szapudi et al. 2015, MNRAS, 450, 288. [Swinburne Library SIMS access for the full paper]
- Detection of a Supervoid aligned with the Cold Slot of the CMB, Dark Light
- Cold cosmic mystery solved: Largest known structure in the universe leaves its imprint on CMB radiation, Phys.Org
[Glen Mackie]


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Lord, Pour Out Your Spirit
I have been praying a simple prayer the last few months as I have been seeking the Lord and here it is….
"Lord, pour out your Spirit." A simple, but powerful prayer that works when you pray it. It comes from Acts 2:17-21 where the Lord states that He will pour out His Spirit in the last days.
What are the last days? The last days started with the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ and they continue on until today and will end when Jesus Christ returns. We know we are in the last days because of the signs of the times that are all around. Some of the signs of the last days, the days right before the return of the Lord are:
– Violence will fill the land
– Corruption will increase
– Wars and rumors of wars
– Pestilence and earthquakes
– Fear will grow among the culture
– Financial instability
– False prophets and doctrines will arise
These are just a few of the signs of the last days before the return of the Lord happens. But one of the signs that will happen before the Lord returns is the subject I am speaking about today. It is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The Lord says in Acts chapter 2 that He will pour out His Spirit upon all flesh across the globe. So while chaos, corruption and violence fill the earth as in the days of Noah, there will also be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Millions of people will be saved and receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. Many believers will rededicate themselves to Jesus. Many people will be delivered and rescued from the grips of addiction and sin. There is going to be a wonderful spirit of renewal and revival one last time before the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So join with me and continue to pray this prayer until the Lord comes, "Lord, pour out your Spirit. Pour out your Spirit upon the United States, on marriages, on young people, at the workplace, at home, in our neighborhoods, in our communities and across the globe. As we pray this simple prayer, the Lord will answer and accomplish great and wonderful things for His glory and honor.


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WHO/Europe Studies Find Baby Foods are High in Sugar and Inappropriately Marketed for Babies
Two new studies from WHO/Europe show that a high proportion of baby foods are incorrectly marketed as suitable for infants under the age of 6 months, and that many of those foods contain inappropriately high levels of sugar.
"Good nutrition in infancy and early childhood remains key to ensuring optimal child growth and development, and to better health outcomes later in life – including the prevention of overweight, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – thereby making United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages much more achievable," says Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe. "Foods for infants and young children are expected to comply with various established nutrition and compositional recommendations. Nonetheless, there are concerns that many products may still be too high in sugars," says Dr João Breda, Head of the WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases.
Although this is permitted under European Union law, it does not pay tribute to the WHO International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes or the WHO Guidance. Both explicitly state that commercial complementary foods should not be marketed as suitable for infants under 6 months of age.
WHO developed a draft Nutrient Profile Model (NPM) for children aged 6–36 months to guide decisions about which foods are inappropriate for promotion for this age group. This was put forward to Member States and stakeholders for consideration and further discussion. In 3 of the cities, half or more of the products provided over 30% of the calories from total sugars. Around a third of the products listed sugar, concentrated fruit juice or other sweetening agents as an ingredient. These added flavours and sugars could affect the development of children's taste preferences by increasing their liking for sweeter foods.
Although foods such as fruits and vegetables that naturally contain sugars are appropriate for infants and young children, the very high level of free sugars in puréed commercial products is also cause for concern. The draft NPM for infants and young children was developed by following recommended WHO steps, and was informed by data from several sources, including a literature review. It refers to existing European Commission directives and Codex Alimentarius standards, and reflects the approach used for the WHO/Europe NPM for children over 36 months.


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In 2011, inmates held in long-term solitary confinement in California prisons held two hunger strikes to protest their treatment. Because prison officials have not met the inmates' demands, another hunger strike is planned for July 8.
To assist their protest, families of prisoners in solitary confinement and human rights advocates across California are now in the early planning stages for a demonstration to be held at Corcoran State Prison on July 13.
"It's basically to show solidarity and support, and heighten the awareness of what is going on," said Bilal Ali, an organizer for the protest. "Hopefully out of this . . . is something that sets up . . . a statewide movement."
The last hunger strikes, which originated at Pelican Bay State Prison, quickly spread to 11 other prisons across California and involved thousands of inmates at its peak.
The prisoners have five core demands, one of which calls for the end of long-term solitary confinement. Some California prisoners have been imprisoned in such conditions for decades.
Human rights advocates and numerous studies have deemed long-term solitary confinement to be torture. In October 2011, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, said the practice should be banned in most cases, saying it was "contrary to rehabilitation, the aim of the penitentiary system."
"Considering the severe mental pain or suffering solitary confinement may cause, it can amount to torture," he said.
The practice of long-term solitary confinement is not exclusive to California. Most notably, Bradley Manning, the Army private who is now on trial for handing over thousands of classified documents and diplomatic cables to Wikileaks, was held in solitary confinement for 18 months prior to his trial. A little less known, however, is an inmate in Louisiana who has been languishing in the hole for over 40 years.
"It's sensory-deprivation," said Ali, who considers long-term solitary confinement torture. "You're in a small, confining space, you're not allowed to get any sunshine [or have] any kind of contact with a human being . . . They are not given adequate heat; their lights are on, constantly, 24 hours. People have been known to lose their minds in there and, because of that, also commit suicide."
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has argued for the use of long-term solitary confinement in what it calls its "Security Housing Units" or "Administrative Segregation Units." They say the practice is necessary to isolate its worst offenders and reduce gang activity. Critics, however, say that is not so, citing the high number of inmates in solitary confinement who have filed complaints against the prisons or help other inmates with their legal issues.
The previous hunger strikes did win the inmates a dialogue with prison officials. Prisoners were granted a few items, such as knit caps and sweat suits to stay warm, handballs and a few additional canteen items, although it is far from what the prisoners are asking to receive. They are also requesting adequate food, an end to group punishments and "debriefing," which is the practice of an inmate disclosing another inmate's alleged gang affiliation in order to be released from solitary confinement.
Dolores Canales, an organizer with California Families to Abolish Solitary Confinement and whose son has been in the hole for 12 years, remains hopeful. She sees the concessions as a sign that things may change for him.
"It is the start of change, and it is the sign to keep moving forward," she said.
Canales, who participates in weekly conference calls with prison reform advocates, said that in her last conversation the subject of preparing for the possible deaths of prisoners who will be on the hunger strike was discussed.
"As a family member to hear that, it's hard," she said. "It's been emotional for me. But [reform] is long, long overdue."


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About Me
- Ganeida
- Quaker by conviction, mother by default, Celticst through love, Christ follower because I once was lost but now am found...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Cat Tales.
The girls have guarded their hearts, loath to love until love was a sure thing, so I was the sucker putting out food & water for our stray. It spent Monday, which was bitter & wet, perched on the verandah. Iss hissed & spat at it through the glass door but any time the door was opened the stray tried anxiously to get in.
While I was out Dearest, who was cooking chicken, gave both Iss & the stray a wing ~ the first crack in Dearest's armour. Poor man. He has a houseful of soft~hearted females but when I took biscuits & water out to the stray when it arrived yesterday afternoon Dearest stood there aghast & furious. The poor thing was too frightened to eat, desperate for some affection even more than food & thin to the point of emancipation. It has been beaten &/or attacked, probably by a large dog; we've plenty of vicious ones round here. He went himself & found a good sized box as last night looked like being another bitter wet night but the stray was too frightened to find a box comforting & in the end Dearest just said; " Let it in & let them sort it out."
I have had more pleasant evenings. My friend Siano, who works in a cat shelter, says Iss displays all the characteristics of an alpha male so an un~neutered male was bound to send him rank. The horrible part was Iss wasn't in the least bothered by the intruder eating his food, using his litter box or wandering through his territory. What Iss really didn't like was the way Sir Ginger clung to me, sitting at my feet, walking at my heels, parking his butt under my chair ~ all Issi's spots. As Dearest commented, two protector purties & I could barely move. Both cats know exactly where I am & what I'm doing at all times.
I thought bedtime was going to be a nightmare but ginger slept with Liddy like a lamb & I took Iss to bed with me as per usual. We had no trouble until just before I got up when Iss discovered ginger had snuck up the stairs. I stepped on him as I attempted to negotiate the dark room.
I have never seen such a small cat eat so very much! Not a lot at any one time but it keeps going back to the food bowls unable to believe that there is always food available & the people aren't chasing it away, though in an effort to sooth Iss's injured feelings I have been feeding him little speciality tid~bits just for him ~ & he knows it!
We have almost always been a two cat household, mostly because it is easier to share 2 cats between the number of children than just one & we have almost always had wonderful cats. Ever since we lost Gyver the girls have been angling for another cat because Iss is most definitely mine but Dearest was adamant one cat was adequate & the resident cat wasn't to be unnecessarily upset. This has been hard on us girls. We all adored Gyver. He was the sort of cat that made you want another cat ~ affectionate, amusing, sweet tempered, vocal. Liddy suffered from that last the most as her room is by the front door & that is where Gyver made his requests to come in or out known.
Liddy has taken to calling ginger Pippi. I'm struggling with that. Ditz wants Mozart now but I can't see me crying that round the neighbourhood. I am considering Purcy, short for Purcell. He's definitely something of a vocalist!
10 comments:
- Diane Shiffer said...
ahhh, there is something very special about a stray cat who takes you as his own isn't there? if i could afford it, i'd probably have a houseful. sadly our little kitties will have to find other homes as i simply cannot afford the vet bills. food i can manage though, so we have lots of pathetic kitties visiting our front porch to get their tumms filled. i guess i'll have to get my kitty fix that way!
- June 16, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Molytail said...
Your dearest sounds a lot like Blair - gruff & grumblin', then caught with cat-in-lap. ;-)
This little fella knew just where to go, didn't he. They always do. :-)
Hmm... Mozart doesn't quite have that 'calling' ability..but Amadeus would... Am-a-daaaaaaay-us, where are youuuuuuu LOL...
- June 16, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Sandra said...
Great story, lucky kitty! I like Ginger. : )
- June 16, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- Unknown said...
Awh, how lucky this cat is to find his home with you. It sounds like he will be well-loved! I like Purcy. :)
Thanks for popping by my blog to comment on the whole comment/response to comments discussion... bottom line, I think we all do the best we can do with the time constraints put upon us by our lives. Different response methods work equally well, and certain methods work better for some of us. Blogging is a serious undertaking and I never realized it would take up so much of my time! But so far, I do enjoy it and have met so many wonderful people. :)
- June 16, 2009 at 6:47 PM
- seekingmyLord said...
The naming of a cat is not a thing lightly done. Even an alley cat requires at least three names, but don't listen to me. I have a backward habit of making a pet's nickname far longer than his name. For instance, the hamster Dan's nickname is Poofy Dan the Mystery Man.
Tossing in another one name with how your family is honoring the Hebrew traditions, you might consider the Hebrew name Zahava, meaning "golden one."
- June 16, 2009 at 8:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
What a lucky cat that one is!
Your husband sounds a lot like mine - all bluff, but soft as butter underneath. My husband brushes the cats here - all three of them.
- June 17, 2009 at 12:27 AM
- Happy Elf Mom (Christine) said...
Oh, I like Pippi better! But, I'm sure your cat is not freckled with little red braids. :]
- June 17, 2009 at 4:15 AM
- kimba said...
I like Purcy. His lordship will also pass up food in favor of a cuddle. By the way I take it you meant emaciation rather than emancipation.
- June 17, 2009 at 5:54 PM
- Allison said...
Aw, what a lucky, lucky kitty! (How about Lucky?)
- June 17, 2009 at 6:55 PM
- Ganeida said...
Kimba: at this point who knows what I mean but no doubt you are right.
Allison: I think we've been scammed. The cat appears to have another home ~ of sorts anyway. Iss is going ballistic & I've asked them to please desex their animal. I wish he was ours but he's not & I can hardly steal someone e;se's animal much as I might like to! :(
- June 17, 2009 at 7:51 PM


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Tutorial – Demonic Summon
Hello makers! I'm here to bring the second winner tutorial for the Battle Motions from the last voting. The Demonic Summon is a skill that summons a demon that changes the background and drags the targets into a vortex. The video has a setp-by-step setup for the whole action sequence.
Now talking about the next plugin release, the Conditional Turn Battle (CTB) plugin is advancing greatly. The mechanical part of the plugin is fully working. Now all that is missing is the order display interface. This means that it will be complete soon.
Posted on July 11, 2016, in RPG Maker MV, Updates and tagged battle motions, rpg maker mv, victor engine. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Hi, In the game i'm making I have a summoner character, when she cast a summon I want to switch out all party members as the summon comes in cast a spell or using a skill then leaves and party members come back. Like Final Fantasy 7 summons. Do you know of a way I can do this? any help will be greatly appreciated.


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People with dry eyes lack sufficient lubrication and moisture on the surface of the eye. Inadequate tear production and poor tear quality are among the most common causes of dry eyes, but it was only recently that researchers realized that a vitamin D deficiency can also trigger this eye condition.
Impaired Eyesight: What Causes Diabetic Retinopathy
Over 30.3 million people in the U.S., or 9.4% of the overall population, have diabetes, a chronic disease caused by a deficiency in the production of insulin in the pancreas. Diabetes is also the leading cause of vision loss in America for people under the age of 74.
Q and A With the Pros: All About LASIK
Apart from prescription eyeglasses and contact lenses, Innovative Eyecare also offers LASIK co-management as part of our vision correction options. It's a safe, effective and lasting solution to your refractive error. Today, your eye doctors answer commonly asked questions about LASIK.
Farsightedness 101: Cause, Symptoms and Management
Are you having a hard time seeing things that are close to you? You may have hyperopia. More commonly referred to as farsightedness, this refractive error affects roughly 14 million Americans.
Dry Eyes and How LipiFlow® Works
Constant tear production is necessary to maintain your visual health and comfort. In addition to keeping your eyes lubricated, tears wash away foreign matter in your eyes. Any irregularities with the quality or quantity of your tears may result in dry eye syndrome.
Q and A With the Pros: All About Ortho-K
Most people with refractive errors wear eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct their vision. While these types of corrective eyewear are effective, Innovative Eyecare offers an equally effective alternative that's quickly gaining popularity: orthokeratology.
Experience Improved Visual Health With Innovative Eyecare
Welcome to Innovative Eyecare's blog section. This is where you'll find regular updates about the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in the optometry field. We'll also post things you should know about common eye conditions and tips on taking care of your eyes.
Our Innovative and Leading-Edge Products and Services
At Innovative Eyecare, we prioritize our every patient's comfort and satisfaction. Your eye doctors are always up-to-date with the latest techniques and technologies in the optometry field. We use advanced equipment to ensure we reach an accurate diagnosis of your current visual health, allowing us to provide reliable eye care.


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Yesterday I picked my son up from football and another mum said "You've lost a lot of weight haven't you?". I agreed that I had. "Have you been trying to lose weight then?" she continued. Well, I've been watching what I eat so yes a little bit. "Right then. How much have you lost?" She asked. I'm not sure how much weight I've lost but I am sure the specifics are none of her business so I just smiled and said "a bit". She wasn't to be put off. She started trying to guess. She told me, no offense, but it must be more than a stone because you wouldn't really notice a stone so it must be a lot and how much was it. Awk-ward. Eventually she gave up and we chatted about dogs. Much easier.
Everyone comments on my weight loss. Mostly complimentary. My mother-in-law, bless her, hasn't acknowledged that I've lost any weight. No, instead she keeps giving me tips: hot water concoctions and Slimming World recipes. I'll confess these are kind of mixed messages but she means well, I presume.
It's frustrating as hell being on Quetiapine – a drug known to cause weight gain – and trying to lose weight. I fact I don't think any more will come off. Nothing significant. I know I can't eat any less really so here I am stuck, right on the bmi borderline between healthy weight and overweight. Is it so wrong to want to be a healthy weight? Why must everything in my life revolve around the word borderline?!
I've been exhausted all day, just mental wear and tear. The sedative effect of Quetiapine won't be helping either. Once dinner had been sorted, and I had built my daughter a scooter I just lay flat out on the living room. I joked to my husband that I could fall asleep right there. He stood over me. He was wearing shorts so I was trying to perve up his shorts. "You need new pyjamas" he told me. I agreed. Mine were all far too big now. He told me that my bum looked tiny in the pyjama trousers I wore last night. I laughed. As if! As he continued it took me a minute to realise he was actually concerned. He told me he had concerns about my eating, he doesn't know if I eat when he's at work, he even used the word anorexia. I didn't stop to tell him that it's a physical impossibility for someone with my bmi to be anorexic as that might look like too much knowledge. I reassured him about my bmi and funnily enough he told me that he wasn't concerned now as he'd checked me out in the jeans I had on and, apparently, my butt is big enough to dispel any concern! "Oh right so it turns out I've got a fat arse after all?" I laughed but I was confused again.
Really all I want is a healthy bmi and it frightens me that people are starting to get involved in something that is actually very private to me (she says posting on the internet!) Surely I should be able to choose how, what and when to eat without feeling that this is also something I do for other people? Christ, does even my eating have to be for other people?!
I wonder if there is any bit of me that is just for me? Now I'm exhausted so I really must sleep.


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How Reliable Is a Glucose Tolerance Test for Diabetes?
A glucose tolerance test for diabetes is more effective when diagnosing gestational diabetes. The test can be effective in the diagnosis of type two diabetes, but may need to be administered several times. Some individuals who test outside of normal ranges may not develop diabetes if they modify their diet and physical fitness habits. In terms of long-term accuracy, the glucose tolerance test for diabetes is good at predicting the eventual development of the disease.
The purpose of a glucose tolerance test for diabetes is to measure how an individual's system responds to a high level of sugar. If the pancreas is unable to produce enough insulin to control the amount of blood sugar that circulates at one time, these levels can become higher than 140 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl). Anything between 140 and 199 mg/dl indicates a glucose intolerance, which is considered to be a pre-diabetic condition. When a glucose tolerance test for diabetes yields results of 200 mg/dl or over, it can indicate that the individual has fully developed the disease.
In order to be as effective as possible, a glucose tolerance test for diabetes must be administered under certain conditions. The patient should fast for at least eight hours prior to the taking the test. Anyone who undergoes glucose tolerance testing needs to be aware that the results can be affected by other underlying diseases or conditions. Some doctors recommend consuming a high carbohydrate diet at least three days prior to taking the test.
When the test results indicate that a patient could have type two diabetes, a second or third test may be administered in order to confirm the diagnosis. This is because there are so many circumstances that might skew the test results, including physical activity level, mild illness, inability to fast properly, and timing. Some individual test results might indicate borderline blood glucose levels, which may need to be re-checked and evaluated for accuracy.
Glucose tolerance tests are not necessarily given to diagnose a case of type two diabetes. They tend to be used to determine whether a female has developed diabetes as the result of her pregnancy. The test is usually given to someone who has a good health history, is relatively physically active, and is not on any prescription medications that might skew the results. Drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes on the day of the test can also dramatically alter the test's accuracy.
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A glucose tolerance test has a reliability of about 80-85%, i.e., repeating the test gives a different result in about 15-20% of cases. It also depends upon what you consume for three days before the test. You must consume some carbs (150gms) for at least three days before the test. If you consume less then you may show false insulin resistance. Some researchers think it is an obsolete test and should be discarded. It is not physiological - no one consumes 75gms of glucose in 10 mins in real life.
@turkay1-- I think it depends on the doctor. I didn't have to go for a second test, I think my doctor trusts the lab at my hospital a lot. Some doctors might ask for a confirmation test.
What happens is that you have to go to the hospital in the morning without eating or drinking anything. They will take your blood and then they give a glucose sugar solution for you to drink. One hour after drinking the solution, they take your blood again. One hour later, another blood sample is taken.
After that you can eat, you just wait for the glucose tolerance test results. You might also have to give blood for an insulin test to see how much insulin your body produces.
Can anyone tell me what is done exactly during a fasting glucose tolerance test? If the test shows that I have diabetes, do I have to go for a second test later?
A glucose tolerance test is reliable. However, many people forget that there are different types of diabetes. Some people's blood sugar levels are too high after two hours of eating, others are too high after one hour. Both of these are considered type two diabetes. The difference is that if the doctor asks for a 2 hour glucose tolerance test, where only blood sugar levels at the second hour are checked, diabetes might go undiagnosed.
I have type two diabetes and I did a lot of research about the topic before I asked my doctor for a glucose tolerance test. I had all the symptoms and I didn't want to be misdiagnosed so I specifically asked for a 3 hour glucose tolerance test.
My blood sugar levels at starvation and after two hours were normal. But my one-hour post-meal blood sugar level was 240mg/dl which is too high. This is how I was diagnosed.
If anyone suspects diabetes, please ask for a 3 hour glucose tolerance test where blood sugar will be tested at every one hour interval.


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The global pressure to manage existing water resources more efficiently and to provide sustainable water solutions in terms of water reuse, recycling and desalination plants, adopting smart technologies and reducing carbon footprint, promises attractive upside potential for the water design-build-operate (DBO) market. The demand for integrated water operation and management will further extend outsourcing of water supply and wastewater services, delivering good opportunities for DBO companies specialized in overall project and service provision.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the global municipal water DBO market earned revenues of $84.68 billion in 2011 and estimates this to reach $185.21 billion in 2020.
Rapid urbanization, uneven distribution of water services, poor water quality and myopic exploitation of existing resources are urgent issues that sustainable water management solutions can address. A key factor that has resonated profoundly in the water market in the last few years is the need for local solutions in a globalizing marketplace. These factors increase the pressure for high-quality water and wastewater services, shaping the global water DBO.
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Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem: In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Welcome to my blog and praise the Magnificent Lord as you enter: Allahu Akbar: Allah is the Greatest .
May the Peace and Blessing of Allah Azza wa Jal, our Lord Glorified and Praised be He, be upon our beloved Prophet, his Family, and Companions.
The Forgetfulness of Adam Alaihi Salaam.
وَلَقَدْ عَهِدْنَآ إِلَى ءَادَمَ مِن قَبْلُ فَنَسِىَ وَلَمْ نَجِدْ لَهُ عَزْماً
(115. And indeed We made a covenant with Adam before, but he forgot, and We found on his part no firm willpower.)
وَإِذْ قُلْنَا لِلْمَلَـئِكَةِ اسْجُدُواْ لأَدَمَ فَسَجَدُواْ إِلاَّ إِبْلِيسَ أَبَى
(116. And (remember) when We said to the angels: "Prostrate yourselves to Adam." They prostrated themselves (all) except Iblis; he refused.)
فَقُلْنَا يـَادَمُ إِنَّ هَـذَا عَدُوٌّ لَّكَ وَلِزَوْجِكَ فَلاَ يُخْرِجَنَّكُمَا مِنَ الْجَنَّةِ فَتَشْقَى
(117. Then We said: "O Adam! Verily, this is an enemy to you and to your wife. So let him not get you both out of Paradise, so that you will be distressed.")
إِنَّ لَكَ أَلاَّ تَجُوعَ فِيهَا وَلاَ تَعْرَى
(118. "You will never be hungry therein nor naked.")
وَأَنَّكَ لاَ تَظْمَؤُا فِيهَا وَلاَ تَضْحَى
(119. "And you (will) suffer not from thirst therein nor from the sun's heat.")
فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِ الشَّيْطَـنُ قَالَ يـَادَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَى شَجَرَةِ الْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكٍ لاَّ يَبْلَى
(120. Then Shaytan whispered to him, saying: "O Adam! Shall I lead you to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that will never waste away")
فَأَكَلاَ مِنْهَا فَبَدَتْ لَهُمَا سَوْءَتُهُمَا وَطَفِقَا يَخْصِفَانِ عَلَيْهِمَا مِن وَرَقِ الْجَنَّةِ وَعَصَى ءَادَمُ رَبَّهُ فَغَوَى
(121. Then they both ate of the Tree, and so their private parts became manifest to them, and they began to cover themselves with the leaves of the Paradise for their covering. Thus Adam disobeyd his Lord, so he went astray.)
ثُمَّ اجْتَبَـهُ رَبُّهُ فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ وَهَدَى
(122. Then his Lord chose him, and turned to him with forgiveness, and gave him guidance.)
Surah 20 Ta Ha, Verse 115-120
Tafsir Ibn Kathir
Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Ibn `Abbas said, "Verily, man was named Insan only because he was given a covenant, but he forgot it (Nasiya)." `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported the same from Ibn `Abbas. Mujahid and Al-Hasan said that he forgot means, "He abandoned it." Concerning Allah's statement,
(And when We said to the angels: "Prostrate yourselves to Adam.") He, Allah mentions how Adam was honored and what respect was given to him. He mentions how He favored him over many of those whom He created. A discussion of this story has already preceded in Surat Al-Baqarah, Surat Al-A`raf, Surat Al-Hijr and Surat Al-Kahf. It will also be mentioned again at the end of Surah Sad. In this story, Allah mentions the creation of Adam and that He commanded the angels to prostrate to Adam as a sign of honor and respect. He also explains the enmity of Iblis for the Children of Adam and for their father, Adam, before them. Due to this Allah says,
(They prostrated themselves (all) except Iblis; he refused.) This means that he refrained from prostrating and became arrogant.
(Then We said: "O Adam! Verily, this is an enemy to you and to your wife…") here wife refers to Hawwa'.
(So let him not get you both out of Paradise, so that you will be distressed.) meaning, `Do not be hasty in doing something that will get you expelled from Paradise, or else you will be fatigued, discomforted and worried, seeking your sustenance. But here, in Paradise, you live a life of ease with no burdens and no difficulties.'
(Verily, you will never be hungry therein nor naked.) The reason that Allah combined hunger and nakedness is because hunger is internal humiliation, while nakedness is external humiliation.
(And you (will) suffer not from thirst therein nor from the sun's heat.) These two characteristics are also opposites. Thirst is the internal heat and being parched from lack of water, while the suns heat is the external heat.
(Then Shaytan whispered to him, saying: "O Adam! Shall I lead you to the Tree of Eternity and to a kingdom that will never waste away") It has already been mentioned that he caused them to fall through deception.
(And he swore by Allah to them both: "Verily, I am one of the sincere well-wishers for you both.") [7:21] It has already preceded in our discussion that Allah took a promise from Adam and his wife that although they could eat from every fruit, they could not come near a specific tree in Paradise. However, Iblis did not cease prodding them until they both had eaten from it. It was the Tree of Eternity (Shajarat Al-Khuld). This meant that anyone who ate from it would live forever and always remain. A Hadith has been narrated which mentions this Tree of Eternity. Abu Dawud At-Tayalisi reported from Abu Hurayrah that the Prophet said,
(Verily, in Paradise there is a tree which a rider can travel under its shade for one hundred years and still not have passed it. It is the Tree of Eternity.) Imam Ahmad also recorded this narration. Concerning Allah's statement,
(Then they both ate of the tree, and so their private parts became manifest to them,) Ibn Abi Hatim recorded that Ubayy bin Ka`b said that the Messenger of Allah said,
(Verily, Allah created Adam as a tall man with an abundance of hair on his head. He looked like a clothed palm tree. Then, when he tasted (the fruit of) the tree, his clothes fell off of him. The first thing that became exposed was his private parts. So when he noticed his nakedness, he tried to run back into Paradise. However, in the process a tree caught hold of his hair (i.e. his hair was tangled in a tree), so he ripped his hair out. Then, the Most Beneficent called out to him saying, "O Adam, are you fleeing from me" When he heard the Words of the Most Beneficent, he said, "No my Lord, but I am ashamed. If I repent and recant would You let me return to Paradise" Allah replied, "Yes.") This is the meaning of Allah's statement,
(Then Adam received from his Lord Words. And his Lord pardoned him.) [2:37] However, this narration has a break in the chain of transmission between Al-Hasan and Ubayy bin Ka`b. Al-Hasan did not hear this Hadith from Ubayy. It is questionable as to whether this narration can be correctly attributed to the Prophet . Allah said,
(And they began to cover themselves with the leaves of the Paradise for their covering. ) Mujahid said, "They patched the leaves on themselves in the form of a garment." Qatadah and As-Suddi both said the same. Concerning Allah's statement,
(Thus Adam disobeyed his Lord, so he went astray. Then his Lord chose him, and turned to him with forgiveness, and gave him guidance.) Al-Bukhari recorded that Abu Hurayrah said that the Prophet said,
(Musa argued with Adam and he said to him, "Are you the one who got mankind expelled from Paradise because of your sin and you caused them grief!" Adam replied, "Are you the one whom Allah chose for His Divine Messages and His direct Speech Are you blaming me for a matter that Allah wrote upon me before He created me") Then, the Messenger of Allah said, (Thus, Adam defeated Musa.) This Hadith has various routes of transmission in the Two Sahihs as well as the Musnad collections.
قَالَ اهْبِطَا مِنْهَا جَمِيعاً بَعْضُكُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ فَإِمَّا يَأْتِيَنَّكُم مِّنِّى هُدًى فَمَنِ اتَّبَعَ هُدَاىَ فَلاَ يَضِلُّ وَلاَ يَشْقَى
(123. He (Allah) said: "Get you down, both of you, together, some of you are an enemy to some others. Then if there comes to you guidance from Me, then whoever follows My guidance he shall neither go astray nor shall be distressed.)
وَمَنْ أَعْرَضَ عَن ذِكْرِى فَإِنَّ لَهُ مَعِيشَةً ضَنكاً وَنَحْشُرُهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيـمَةِ أَعْمَى
(124. But whosoever turns away from My Reminder, verily, for him is a life of hardship, and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Resurrection.")
قَالَ رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرْتَنِى أَعْمَى وَقَدْ كُنتُ بَصِيراً
(125. He will say: "O my Lord! Why have you raised me up blind, while I had sight (before).")
قَالَ كَذَلِكَ أَتَتْكَ آيَـتُنَا فَنَسِيتَهَا وَكَذلِكَ الْيَوْمَ تُنْسَى
(126. (Allah) will say: "Like this Our Ayat came unto you, but you disregarded them, and so this Day, you will be neglected.")
Surah 20 Ta Ha Verse 23-26
Tafsir Ibn Kathir
Allah says to Adam, Hawwa' and Iblis, "Get down from here, all of you." This means each of you should get out of Paradise. We expounded upon this in Surah Al-Baqarah.
(Some of you as enemies to others.) [2:36] He (Allah) was saying this to Adam and his progeny and Iblis and his progeny. Concerning Allah's statement,
(Then if there comes to you guidance from Me,) Abu Al-`Aliyyah said, "This (guidance) means the Prophets, the Messengers and the evidence."
(Then whoever follows My guidance he shall neither go astray nor shall be distressed.) Ibn `Abbas said, "He will not be misguided in this life and he will not be distressed in the Hereafter."
(But whosoever turns away from My Reminder,) This means, "Whoever opposes my command and what I have revealed to My Messenger, then he has turned away from it, neglected it and taken his guidance from other than it."
(verily, for him is a life of hardship,) meaning, his life will be hard in this world. He will have no tranquillity and no expanding of his breast (ease). Rather, his chest will be constrained and in difficulty due to his misguidance. Even if he appears to be in comfort outwardly and he wears whatever he likes, eats whatever he likes and lives wherever he wants, he will not be happy. For verily, his heart will not have pure certainty and guidance. He will be in agitation, bewilderment and doubt. He will always be in confusion and a state of uncertainty. This is from the hardship of life. Concerning His statement,
(and We shall raise him up blind on the Day of Resurrection.) Mujahid, Abu Salih and As-Suddi said, "This means he will have no proof." `Ikrimah said, "He will be made blind to everything except Hell." This is as Allah says,
(And We shall gather them together on the Day of Resurrection on their faces, blind, dumb and deaf; their abode will be Hell.) [17:97] This is why Allah says,
(O my Lord! Why have you raised me up blind, while I had sight (before).) This means in the life of this world.
((Allah) will say: "Like this Our Ayat came unto you, but you disregarded them, and so this Day, you will be neglected.) Meaning, "When you turned away from the signs of Allah and dealt with them in the manner of one who does not remember them after they were conveyed to you. You neglected them, turned away from them and were heedless of them. Therefore, today We will treat you in the manner of one who has forgotten you."
(So this Day We shall forget them as they forgot their meeting of this Day.) [7:51] For verily, the punishment will be a retribution that is based upon the type of deed that was done. However, forgetting the words of the Qur'an, while understanding its meaning and acting upon its legislation, is not included in the meaning of this specific threat. Yet, forgetting the words of the Qur'an has been warned against from a different aspect. It has been reported in the Sunnah that it is absolutely forbidden and there is a serious threat against one who forgets Qur'an (that he previously memorized).


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Biota presents well spacing case studies on 200+ wells from the Permian Basin in World Oil March 2018 magazine
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Subsurface DNA diagnostics aid well spacing decisions in the Permian
Lessons are learned from more than 10,000 produced fluids and cuttings samples from more than 200 wells.
Liz Percak-Dennett, Biota Technology
The oil and gas industry's newest diagnostic tool, subsurface DNA diagnostics, has recently hit an important milestone: 10,000 subsurface samples from the Permian basin. To date, Biota Technology has sequenced more than 10,000 produced fluids and cuttings samples from more than 200 wells, resulting in 388 million subsurface DNA markers. Data science and machine learning tools have been coupled with this unprecedented dataset to translate the millions of DNA markers into actionable insights for Permian operators.
The integration of these findings has helped to resolve the complex picture of the subsurface by revealing significant out-of-formation contribution from stacked laterals, and well-to-well communication during completions.
Well spacing decisions are paramount for maximizing EUR and net present value in the highly stacked Permian. However, operators face several key challenges in their quest to optimize field design. Efficient lateral spacing is confounded by lateral heterogeneities and stratigraphic changes within the basin. Vertical spacing requires time-lapse drainage height monitoring to ensure adequate calibration. In addition, translating science-well findings into generalizable knowledge requires a great deal of data, both within a wide geographic range, as well as a temporal basis through the lifecycle of a field.
The scalability of DNA sequencing has enabled time-lapse drainage height findings and rapid upscaling from individual wells and pads to field-wide characterization. These advancements are helping operators place increasingly closer laterals and stacked targets into subsurface sections, and monitor drainage volumes through their fields' lives.
Liz Percak-Dennett is Technology Director at Biota Technology. She works to deploy DNA sequencing to maximize reservoir economics through a broad skill set in geology, microbiology, geochemistry, and oilfield operations. Prior to Biota, she worked as a geologist for Hess Corporation with teams in the Bakken and offshore Guyana. She holds a BS in geology from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MS and Ph.D. in geoscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she researched geomicrobiology in subsurface environments as part of the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
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Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor best known for playing British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985, beginning with Live and Let Die.His most notable television role was playing the main character, Simon Templar, in the British television series The Saint from 1962 to 1969. He also had roles in some American television shows and films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including replacing James Garner and portraying Beau Maverick in the Maverick series in 1960–1961. Moore starred with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders television series in 1971 to 1972, and had roles in several theatrical films in the 1970s and 1980s. Moore was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for services to charity. In 2007, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry. In 2008, the government of France made him a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.WIKIPEDIA