Recognize the wealth of historical information contained in your pipeline – it tells you how well you performed over time. Over the past three years, what percent of new opportunities did you win? Anything in the 60 to 70 percent range is a good target and something to celebrate. But do you use this data to make future predictions? Revenue goals don't need to be based on gut instinct. Use your historical data to determine how much potential revenue you can expect based on what's in the pipeline at any given time. If you calculate the amount of time something stays in the pipeline, you can begin making assumptions on how soon some of those items may turn into actual dollars. In addition, you may want to look at things like the type of work in the pipeline, individual win/loss rates and how much is typically added throughout a year to use in your predictions. This exercise will help you determine if you are truly on-target to hit established revenue goals. Team members can then adjust strategy and behavior, if needed. The plan is for you to use this data to set realistic goals in future years.
In forecasting and calculating market share, it's also important to understand the buying behavior of your existing clients. How much revenue does the firm generate from a typical manufacturing client? How about a construction client? Let say you have equal market share in both of those industries, but the average manufacturing client pays you $23,000 a year and the average construction client pays $16,000. Where do you prioritize? The data says manufacturing and that is something that you need to give serious consideration. Track buying behavior monthly and complete year-over-year comparisons to help with goal setting.
It would be easy to base all decision by numbers alone, but that's not the case. That's where the "science" of marketing must work in conjunction with the "art" of marketing. Many people only see the art side of marketing. But there is a science to what marketers do, too. Strategic marketing relies on research using mathematical models. Only when you have a complete and quantitative understanding of your clients, prospects and competitors, do you have the foundation on which to build strategy. You should aim to have the numbers help show you the way to reach your desired goals.


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Currently listening to: "This is My Father's World," rendition by Fernando Ortega.
With the flooding that has destroyed so many people's lives just miles from our home and with many other sad events going on around the world, this song has been a great encouragement to me lately. I find much hope in the line, "This is my Father's world. O let me ne'er forget that though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet."


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Q: How to call ajax on input box rather than select box with jquery?
I am working on code igniter. i have one dynamic form where i want to
  populate some data with the help of one dropdown list. I want to
  display that data into input box rather than another option value. I
  got one online code that populate data with ajax call into another
  select box its working for me. but if i used input box then its not
  working for me.

My ajax call :
var baseURL= "<?php echo base_url();?>";
  $(document).ready(function()
  {
    $('#employee').change(function(){
      var EMPLOYEE_ID = $(this).val();
      // AJAX request
      $.ajax({
        url:'<?php echo base_url()?>/Responsible/getEmpData',
        method: 'post',
        data: {EMPLOYEE_ID :EMPLOYEE_ID },
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function(response){
        alert(response);
          // Remove options
          $('#sel_depart').find('input').not(':first').remove();
          $.each(response,function(index,data){
             //$('#sel_depart').append('<option value="'+data['DETAIL_ID']+'">'+data['NI_NUMBER']+'</option>');
             $('#sel_depart').append('<input type="text" class="span8" name="ni_number" value="'+data['NI_NUMBER']+'"/>');

          });
        }
     });
   });
 });

As you can view my commented code of option value is working.I am trying to same thing on input box but my $('#sel_depart').find('input').not(':first').remove();  this line is not working.
My input box:
<input id='sel_depart' type="text" class="span8" name='ni_number' value=""/>
My controller :
public function getEmpData()
    {
      $postData = $this->input->post();
      $this->load->model('Pay_slips_model');
      $data = $this->pay_slips->getEmpData($postData);
      echo json_encode($data);
    }

Model :
public function getEmpData($postData)
            {
                $response = array();
                $this->db->select('ed.DETAIL_ID,ed.NI_NUMBER');
                $this->db->where('EMPLOYEE_ID', $postData['EMPLOYEE_ID']);
                $q = $this->db->get('employee_details ed');
                $response = $q->result_array();
                return $response;
            }

I am getting duplicate or multiple NI_NUMBER for each EMPLOYEE_ID.In my table employee_details I am having only one NI_NUMBER for each EMPLOYEE_ID.  If i inspect my input box after ajax call i can see duplicate data in input box but its not showing on form.What is is the solution for both the problems.

*

*Not able to display data in input box rather than select box.

*how to prevent from duplicate rows from table.

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Makings of a Voice: the SkirtsAfire premiere brings Dana Wylie back to the theatre
Posted on March 7, 2021 by Liz Nicholls
Dana Wylie in Makings of a Voice, SkirtsAfire Festival. Photo by April MacDonald-Killins.
"I don't know who I am and where I fit into this world…."
It's one of those thoughts that touches down universally, and comes with its own personal question mark. And for a creative artist like singer-songwriter Dana Wylie, a questing traveller of an artist if there ever was one, it was a provocation.
It happened when Wylie was seven months pregnant with her second child in 2019, prompted by the companion thought that "in order to bring this child into the world I need to know…." And it's the seed of Makings of a Voice, a solo "theatrical song cycle" that premieres Monday on the SkirtsAfire digital "mainstage."
It marks the return of Wylie to theatre and acting, the world she left a decade ago to forge a career in music. It's not exactly a play, as she describes, though there are characters (and an alter-ego protagonist named Dana). And it's not exactly a musical revue or a cabaret, though it's a memoir of sorts, and full of her original music. Part of her unusual creation is a story about storytelling: "The story I'm telling — it's quite non-linear — is me trying to find my story and trying to tell that story."
The setbacks and careening turns in that process are part of the story. "Just before I started writing it, I was told a story I'd never been told before…" says Wylie, who's impressively insightful about artistic creation. "My great grandmother had marched in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, had been arrested for hitting a cop over the head with something, and had spent the night in jail." A mystery: why was this not something the Wylies tell and re-tell, she wondered, a highlight of every Christmas dinner?
So Wylie felt empowered. "For the first time the character senses a point of connection with (her) maternal line … with a lefty, a socialist, a bad-ass rabble-rouser," as Wylie puts it. I can feel like I come from somebody awesome…. Great Baba Millie becomes a real protagonist!"
"And because I was trying to engage with her past," Wylie consulted Google. And there it was, in a junior edition of the Winnipeg Tribune in 1920, a picture of Great Baba Millie as a 12-year-old, part of a group of kids who'd won a Christmas writing competition." And Wylie did the math, and knew the Strike story couldn't be true. "It pulled the rug out from the writing process."
"It had to go into the show," says Wylie, of this deflating news. The story gods giveth and they taketh away. She found that revelation to be "personally as well as dramatically rich." As the show took shape, it dislodged a narrative with a hero, "a bad-ass super-hero," into a zone that's "much more culturally complex than … the narratives that belong to our contemporary Western patriarchal culture."
Dana Wylie, creator and star of Makings of a Voice. Photo by April MacDonald Killins.
"Then I'm just left with myself, and ultimately I have to be OK with that, with knowing, from my family history, that people have lived complicated lives and haven't done heroic things. I can't continue to insist to myself I be defined by a story based on a hero's journey." Identity, lineage, and more specifically motherhood, make other kinds of demands than owning a heroic backstory. "It requires so much more than individual anything!"
There's nothing predictable about the Wylie story, with its unplanned route from theatre into the world of music (and critically acclaimed albums). Not long after she graduated from MacEwan, and was out in the world working in musical theatre, "I just started writing songs; I'd never written songs before and I don't exactly remember why.…" And not long after that came the realization that "this is what I want to do, I'm a musician in my heart more than I'm an actor. As I met more and more musicians I knew 'this actually is my tribe'."
Makings of a Voice, by and starring Dana Wylie. Photo by April MacDonald Killins.
At first her songs were of the musical theatre ilk, she laughs. "That was the world I was coming from; they all had a dramatic arc and went somewhere and someone learned something. I wasn't well-versed in folk music, and certainly not pop, where you can be overcome by a feeling and just ruminate, where you can be in a place, and just be…."
Then Wylie up and moved to Taiwan, in search of a job teaching English and a cheaper way to live.
"Unbeknownst to me there was a rich scene of ex-pat artists of all kinds and music in particular that I fell into," says Wylie. "And I ended up cutting my teeth (as a musician) there. I played in so many different kinds of bands, blues, bluegrass…. I really learned how to be a musician there, how to do gigs, how to do the equipment."
Though big-cast musicals at the big regional theatres, the Citadel, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary and others, occasionally came her way (Camelot, Evita…) a singer-songwriter had been born. "I didn't know myself well but I had a sense that I wasn't driven enough" to be in the high-stress world of auditioning actors, "living in a big city, being hungry and hustling for jobs…. I came into theatre working with (the late Edmonton musical theatre indie) Leave It To Jane. And I loved its smallness, the inventiveness of having four boxes instead of a set. There's something that fires my imagination about that."
Says Wylie, "I'm the same in the recording studio. I don't mind having limits, budget or technical. That's when my imagination comes alive…. Here's what we can do!"
Maybe that's why she hasn't been entirely flummoxed by the serial pandemical limitations that have seen Makings of a Voice re-thought from a cancelled Fringe premiere last summer to a cancelled live premiere for a live SkirtsAfire audience, to the digital solo production shot at the old Army & Navy in Strathcona, minus the three musicians who were to have been onstage with her. "It's a team of amazing creative people, really up for it!" she says feelingly of SkirtsAfire. "People who just take on the limitations, happily, and say 'let's come up with cool ideas….'."
It was during three years in England, living in a little village north of London, that Wylie took a deep dive into the great "folk tradition," and began to explore the sacred canon, Dylan and Mitchell and the rest. She and her English musician boyfriend constantly jammed in folk clubs and pubs. "It sounded very foreign to me at first; my ears didn't quite get it. But once I got into it, the whole idea of a roots, of a deep cultural tradition, was very appealing to me, especially as a western Canadian."
Just back from England in 2008, Wylie got a gig at the Mayfield, in the musical The Full Monty. And she actually lived at that hotel for a while. But musical theatre couldn't woo her back. Wylie thinks of Makings of a Voice as "a way of integrating my background in music (which includes a U of A degree in musicology) with my background in theatre."
After 10 years (her last theatre appearance was Kenneth Brown's Cowboy Poetry), Wylie says "I don't really consider myself an actor any more…. I feel more comfortable with storytelling; that's what I love to do onstage, between songs. I'm a performer; that's who I am. That's what I do."
But, under the direction of Vanessa Sabourin, a fine actor herself, Wylie has been nudged towards embodying the characters she's written into the script. "And I've been looking forward to finding out what it feels like to be an actor as the person I am now, a 41-year-old instead of a 31-year-old."
"It's been a personal process," says Wylie of creating Makings of a Voice. "And at points I've thought 'who cares? does the world really need this story right now? is it just my story?'. And that's all part of the narrative…. We don't know how much we share; that's the beautiful thing about sharing stories."
In a world steeped in not-knowing, "I feel more seen, and I hope other people watching feel more seen too…. What I'd like to put out into the world, is whoever you are, wherever you are, however messy this all feels, you're good!."
Makings of a Voice
SkirtsAfire Festival 2021
Created by and starring: Dana Wylie
Directed by: Vanessa Sabourin
Where: streaming on Fringe TV
Running: March 8 to 14
Tickets: skirtsafire.com
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The five X's each dotted in the center with a small recycled white diamond spread evenly across a bar ring are just the start to the marvelously airy detail in this ring. The band itself is hand carved to a faceted texture making the Starlight Diamond Band the farthest thing from ordinary this side of the Milky Way.


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Straight/Curve: A Must-See Documentary That Explores Society's Unrealistic Beauty Standards And Their Damaging Effects On Women And Girls
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Straight/Curve, a documentary film that explores society's unrealistic beauty standards and their damaging effects on women and girls, is now available for download. Additionally, in an effort to encourage conversations among viewers about body image, representation and diversity, the team behind the film has created a free house party screening kit.
The kit contains activities and discussion questions about media literacy, social media responsibility, health, body shaming and stigma, all developed to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies. The guide also gives examples of how viewers can positively influence change.
"We have to start talking about diversity and inclusivity in the fashion industry and media. Consumers have to demand to see themselves represented and the industry will be forced to listen," Jenny McQuaile, the film's director, told WYSK.
Jenny along with her producers Yael Melamede and Jessica Lewis, have received support for their film from several industry heavy hitters including, Lane Bryant, Aerie, National Eating Disorder Association, CFDA, Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Harvard School of Public Health, among others.
"Straight/Curve is creating the imagery we want to see more of in the media," Jenny said. "We want to show every woman can be beautiful in many sizes, races and ages. If you've ever wished there was media out there that made you feel better about yourself instead of worse. There is now."
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Desirable European specification "Plexi-Nose" Daytona. Conversion to Spyder configuration by European Auto Restoration. Beautifully presented, excellent running, and immensely enjoyable to drive .
This 1971 365 GTB/4 is an original, European specification left-drive car, completed on September 1, 1970. The car was sold through the official Ferrari dealer, Motor S.a.s. di Carle Allegretti in Bologna, Italy and originally finished in Argento Metallizzato over blue leather. Serial number 13729 is an original and desirable "Plexi-nose" car, featuring fixed headlamps behind a full-width Plexiglas panel that was unique to early European models. In the late 1970s, this car was exported to the USA, with Larry Crossan of Loomis, California noted as the earliest known American owner.
In 1981, Mr. Crossan handed the car over to Michael Sheehan's European Auto Restoration where it received an expert conversion to Spyder configuration. Mr. Sheehan had performed a number of these conversions, and his cars, along with those of Richard Straman, are among the most authentic and widely accepted. The quality and attention to detail make them difficult to distinguish from the Scaglietti-built originals. Aside from the sheet metal changes, Sheehan's conversions also included a reinforced front sub-frame, strengthened windscreen frame, and steel inner fender panels to ensure no compromises to the handling and performance.


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A collector coined term to describe hardcopies produced in the early 1990s using original molds still in storage at Kenner. Generally, many of these hardcopies were cast for the sole purpose of selling on the secondary market and seem to have turned up in the greatest numbers between 1993-1995 and filtered throughout the market since then. A number of different Micro Collection 4-Ups (including unproduced characters), indiviudal limbs from 3 3/4" figures and even random pieces from playsets and pre-school Ewoks were cast in this fashion. No vintage hardcopy should be blue in color! More on this subject can be ready in Chris Georgoulias' article on 12Back.com describing the differences and aspects of "Blue Harvest" pieces.


Bhavik Mishra graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington. Mr. Mishra holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Engineering Management. Mr Mishra is one of the most determined and persistent team members of Eitches Management Group. His knowledge and experience within construction management coupled with his immense education make him an irreplaceable asset for Eitches Management Group.
Mr. Mishra is always innovative and forward thinking – constantly finding ways to effectively improve the construction process. His responsibilities include construction budgeting, managing subcontractors, and delivering weekly progress reports on projects to David Eitches and Daniel Simons.


Dr. Annegret Middeke (Universität Göttingen) is assigned editor of the series "Materialien Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache (MatDaF)" on behalf of the "Fachverband Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache e.V. (FaDaF)". The series comprises research results from the annual meetings and symposia of the research group as well as theses papers and other important reports within the international context. The series has been published by Goettingen University Press from volume 78 onwards. Volumes 78-96 have been published as "Materialien Deutsch als Fremdsprache"


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Eileen Maxson is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, performance and installation. Her works humorously and critically lament the vanishing borders between imagination and consumer coercion; technology and true personality. With that in mind, Eileen reconstitutes cultural detritus, material and fleeting, into assemblages of memory, merchandise and persona.


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Firstly, we would like to show our appreciation for having the opportunity to accomplish this assignment. This assignment was completed by all of the group members putting our efforts, giving credit to our lecturer who led us along the assignment. Besides, we would also like to thank to our family members as well as friends for giving us moral supports and advices throughout the whole assignment. Moreover, we would like to thank in particular our lecturer Assistant Professor Dr. Fatokun who encouraged us in completing this assignment. His enthusiasm to teach and guide us had motivated us exceedingly in completing our assignment.
Case control is an observational studies which compares the patients who have disease otherwise outcome of interest with patients who are in healthy controls. It also interpreted as a study which used to determine the frequency of the factors that different from case and control.1 The frequency of exposure to risk factor is compared retrospectively that exists in each group in order to determine the relationship between risk factor and the outcome.2 First step of case control is to categorize between the case group which is the group with disease and control group where the patients in that particular group has no disease then determine if the groups differ with respect to suspected exposure factors.
In this assignment, the critical appraisal of evidence on the article titled "Tamoxifen and risk of contralateral breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: a case-control study" is discussed by using the reference Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement checklist. There are total 22 items which act as a guideline in facilitating the process of critical appraisal of research studies.
In this article, the author had indicated the study's design with commonly used term at the top of the page with the title mentioned it was a case-control study.
The abstract had also provided relatively informative and balanced summary including the background, methods, findings and interpretation on what have they done and found in the study.
18002251805940The background of a study is vital as it allow the authors to report the significant history to the current study, describe the focus and gives an overview of what is known on a topic. It helps to summarize earlier findings as well as limitations that may be addressed by from the reported study. This may assist the readers to understand the rationale of the conducted study and to evaluate the study. In this study, the authors had summarizing data of previous findings.
Objectives are the aims of a study, where sometimes include specified hypotheses. In this study, the author stated the objective of the study which was to investigate the potential benefit of tamoxifen in the reduction of risk of contralateral breast cancer among BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers. However, the hypotheses of this study were not stated by the authors. This may due to insufficient evidence from previous studies.
The author did not clearly presented the key elements of the study design and this will cause the readers unable to understand the basics of the study early in the paper. Thus author should stated clearly in order for reader to get informed.
Describe the setting, location, and relevant dates, including periods of recruitment, exposure, follow-up, and data collection.
In this article the study location, year in which the study was conducted and periods of recruitment are not described. Yet the follow up period are not specific in method part and it can be found in results part which clearly defined it.
15621008505825History of tamoxifen use for first breast cancer was obtained by interview or by self administered questionnaire which were collected between 1980 and 2000.
However this study consist of weakness as setting and relevant dates of study conducted were not mentioned yet follow up period and exposure were given but it were not specific in method part.
in the study. In addition the rationale for the choice of cases and controls were welly discussed under method section.
(b) For matched studies, give matching criteria and the number of controls per case.
Matching can help to increase a study's efficiency by ensuring similarity in the distribution of variables between cases and controls in particular of the distribution of potential confounding variables.
In this study , age matched control with unilateral hereditary breast cancer and residence matched at time of diagnosis were studied . The ratio of control to cases was 1 to 34 bilateral disease cases .
Clearly define all outcomes, exposures, predictors, potential confounders, and effect modifiers. Give diagnostic criteria, if applicable.
Characteristics of cases with bilateral disease and of controls can be found in Table 1 while factors associated with treatment of first breast cancer was described in Table 2.
Diagnostic criteria that reflect the different features of a disease (heterogeneity), with a view to accurately identify as many people with the condition as possible was discussed under mutation analysis.
Cofounder is a variable that associate with the exposure and influence the outcome. It is clearly described in this passage where besides tamoxifen use the intervention of chemotherapy , oophorectomy and radiotherapy affect the risk of contralateral breast cancer in women with pathogenic mutation in BRCA1 OR BRCA2 gene.
For each variable of interest, give sources of data and details of methods assessment (measurement). Describe comparability of assessment methods if there is more than one group.
The source of data was clearly mentioned under study protocol. In this article it used primary data collection technique in which data were collected by interview or self –administered questionnaire.
Describe any efforts to address potential sources of bias.
Bias causes systematic deviations of study results from the truth. It is significant for viewers to understand the methods used to minimize the possible bias throughout the study. It is ideal that the examiners review the possible causes of bias before conducting their studies, and is advised that the contributors habitually appraise and describe the probability of bias while reporting the study, particularly the direction and magnitude.
In the study being appraised, the bias was stated under the method section, but not the ways to reduce it. Besides, the direction and magnitude of bias was not discussed.
To reduce the bias caused by the potential cofounding, the cofounders were included in the multivariate analysis.
In the discussion section, the authors did mention that they minimized the effect of survivor bias but again, the method of doing so was not described.
Explain how the study size was arrived at.
This study did not explain how the study size was arrived at. It did mention that the 209 eligible patients were selected from 1243 cases, but the calculation of sample size was not displayed and explained.
For the viewers, confidence interval shows the precise statistic gained at the end of the study. In the article, the study size validity was mentioned to be 95% confidence level and p value less than 0.05.


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IDleaks is a non-profit organization committed to better communication on international development. IDleaks considers representation and discourse as integral to the production of the Global South and sees the communication on (the needs of) developing nations and peoples by government, industry, NGOs and the media in the Global North as part of the problem of (the failure of) international development and worldwide issues of poverty, inequality and injustice. In other words, IDleaks does not consider humanitarian communication as a means to an end, but as part and parcel of the end itself.
We aim to contribute to an environment in which all players in international cooperation can and will dare to learn more from each other, so that we can work more effectively towards a world without poverty, inequality and injustice that we all aspire to. On this website you can read how IDleaks tries to make a contribution. Most visibly, we organize various awareness events, notably the IDleaks Awards and the IDleaks Thesis Award, and provide ID organizations QuickScans, i.e. reports that evaluate their humanitarian communication (strategies). In addition, we host or participate in various other events throughout the year.
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Wouter Oomen is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University, working on a dissertation on humanitarian communication. Before, Wouter obtained his master's degree in media studies worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam for four years. Alongside working on his dissertation, he took an active role in the PhD communities of the RMeS and UGlobe and went to study at the London School of Economics as a visiting PhD. As the chair of IDleaks, Wouter hopes to broaden discussions about what good communication on international development actually is, by means of knowledge exchange and the organization of events.
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Marianne Oomen works at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she aims to encourage sustainable practices and measures in operations management. In 2017 she graduated in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology from Leiden University. One of her topics of interest was the positioning of the 'Self' and 'Other', sometimes bypassing the 'We' in between that is responsible for constructing these very images. To be aware of this process is pivotal in communication about development, especially since the move to a multipolar world order challenges former boundaries of wealth and power.
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There was a moment this morning that I will cherish, when my son told me that he wished he'd grown in me. I've never experienced such a flood of joy, achievement, contentment... I pursed my lips to keep it in and hugged him awkwardly as we got on the train (well, you know these moments usually happen in strange places). I'm keeping that forever.
Total meltdown. I could hear him running after me so knew he was OK. Running and roaring abuse: "I hate you, why are you so, so stupid? You're the stupidest person I've ever met. Arrghh!" I put on those special blinkers that came free with the kid – you know, the ones that block out loaded looks from strangers – and ran on, reaching the train with a minute to spare.
Once aboard, the tirade continued. "I hate you so much, and I really mean it, and I'll always hate you, and I'm going to deliberately ruin your journey. It's so unfair! You stupid, fat noo noo (?)", and so on and on. I explained why we had run for the train, then read my book. In the ten-minute journey he didn't let up and I moved seat three times to get away from him, then finally offered him chewing gum to shut him up err I mean calm him down. Bad mummy. But I didn't shout - I kept it all in.
Then, the only way I could think to get him off the train was by promising I would carry him half way back home. He'd already forced me to carry him to the station earlier and knew that he was too heavy. At that point I realised that I am creating my own problems. I'm so frightened of denying him anything that I run off, just gambling that he'll follow because he'll be scared on his own. I'm so frightened of asserting power that I bribe him with promises of carries, when he is far too big.
This is how you spoil a kid, isn't it? It' s a penny-drop day. No wonder he expects me to do and give him everything he wants. He rules me!
Since writing that, I've had another half-hour tirade of insults, some lovely cuddles, a chat about grief and displaced anger and a "Love you, Mum" (which is all I ever wanted). Ups and downs... at least I learn something every day.
Ha ha .... sorry I don't mean to laugh but that sounds like my life. Nothing like an articulate, tall, gorgeous girl using big girl expletives in a 3 year old tantrum way!!


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Name: Water Tower
Location: Wentworth (rear of hospital)
Use: Water Tower
Constructed: 1885
Demolished: 0
Theme: Services & Community Facilities
Statement of Heritage Significance:
Architecture/Environment:
The ornate structure is comprised of a tall pre-stressed tower of nine cylindrical iron columns bolted in four sections, supporting a water tank with galvanised iron polygonal roof and decorative wrought iron finial.
The water tower was made by Hudson Brothers Ltd, of Clyde and imported to Australia. The towns water supply commenced in 1888. The impressive tower is an important feature of the Wentworth skyline and a fine representation of the provision of services in the initial years of municipal government.
Conservation. Prevention of deterioration. Maintenance of surrounding open area. Improved road and information board.
J Whyte
Recording Date: 15/11/1988
Film Frame Nos:
0906/8,15,18,25


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Needham St Peter
St Peters Church Needham
St Peters church is located in Needham, a Norfolk village just to the south of the A143, and about 2 miles southwest of Harleston.
This church is now permanently locked, see website for details
Tower and porch from south-west
Visiting Needham St Peter
St Peter's church in Needham seems to be permanently locked now – at least according to the current information on the parish website. That means it will probably be impossible to see the interior of this church in the future. We were lucky insofar as it was open on one of the occasions we visited it.
There is much brick, of different ages, to be seen in this Church. The 13th century south nave is now rendered, and has 15th century windows, but the south porch is red brick, built in the early 16th century. It has a stepped gable with a short pillar either side, all in brick. The moulded bricks have quatrefoils round the entrance arch, in the base course and below the gable. There are trefoiled bands round the pillars. The circular part of the flint tower had four triangular-headed openings, (two are now blocked, one of which had been enlarged), framed with brick, near its top. This was the 14th century belfry, but in the 15th century a new octagonal belfry was added, on top of a stone string course. This belfry has much Tudor brick in its quoins, framing the belfry openings, and in their mullions. The parapet has a different 19th century red brick. There is also a flint, rounded stair turret on the south side, against the nave, added late 15th or 16th century. The chancel was rebuilt in red brick in 1735, with windows of 1884.
The nave roof has arch braces, with later tie beams going across. These beams are more carved nearer the east end. The 15th century lion font has seated lions round the stem, and the bowl has the symbols of the Evangelist alternating with Tudor roses. These double roses indicate that the font dates from after 1485. The Evangelists's symbols are the winged man (Matthew), the winged lion (Mark), the winged bull (Luke) and the eagle (John).
The pews have re-used 15th century bench ends with fleurons, and there are also two traceried bench ends. The backs of the pews have later woodwork, re-used from an old chest, and an old screen with the text "Use wel thy tyme for dethe is comyng M : The sentence of God All mighty is everlasting E" (M E may be the initials of the donor).
Conclusion: a church that seems to be permanently locked now
Lion font
Chancel with altar


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OPEC Crude Output Cuts Should Help U.S. Shale Profits In 2021
US crude oil production has fallen 2 million barrels per day in the last year as low prices and demand forced output cuts.
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A decision by OPEC and allied countries to cut crude production through March delivered a late Christmas present for U.S. shale firms that have slashed costs, but any rise in prices spurred by the unexpected move may be just a modest stocking stuffer.
U.S. crude oil production has fallen 2 million barrels per day in the last year as low prices and demand forced output cuts. Investors had already been pressuring the industry to curb spending and boost returns before the pandemic hit.
On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, said it would voluntarily reduce its production by 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in February and March, after Russia pushed to increase output, worried about U.S. shale capitalizing on the group's cuts.
Russia and Kazakhstan will increase their output, reluctant to cede market share to the United States. Overall, OPEC+ had been due to restore 500,000 bpd in each of the two months. Saudi officials were concerned new increases would outpace demand during new coronavirus lockdowns.
Prices for West Texas Intermediate on Friday topped $52 per barrel, and the 12-month futures' price, which producers use to plan spending on new wells, hit $51.37 a barrel, up from $44.63 at the start of December.
BOTTOM LINES TO BENEFIT
Crude prices are high enough to bolster U.S. producers' earnings given recent cost cuts and commitments to keeping output flat, but unlikely to draw producers off their promises to use any additional cash this year to boost investor returns or pay down debt.
Rising prices in recent years have "tended to be a bit of a mirage," said Thomas Jorden, chief executive of Cimarex Energy. "We're going to be highly disciplined in setting a budget," he added at a Goldman Sachs conference on Thursday.
In top two U.S. shale fields, oil and gas companies are profitable in the $30 per barrel to low $40s per barrel range, according to data firm Rystad Energy. This year's higher prices could push the shale group's cash from operations up by 32%, Rystad said.
Another factor that will benefit producers is low oilfield service costs. Excess capacity at the companies that provide fracking sand and services cut fees and have not been able to raise them.
"Margins are terrible," said Chris Wright, chief executive of Liberty Oilfield Services, the second-biggest fracking company in North America. "They're slightly better now then they were six months ago, but they're still terrible."
ACTIVITY REMAINS DEPRESSED
Liberty has kept existing customers through the pandemic, but pricing remains so low it has not made sense to go after new clients. Demand for fracking services is improving but falls short of levels that would boost U.S. shale production, he said.
Shale producers historically lifted production budgets with rising oil prices, said Linda Htein, senior research manager at consultancy Wood Mackenzie. But "this time is maybe a little bit different" because global demand remains uncertain, she said.
Oil would have to hit $60 to $65 per barrel to restore U.S. output by 1 million bpd while improving investor returns, said Raoul LeBlanc, a vice president at data provider IHS Markit.
Energy executives in Colorado, Oklahoma, Wyoming and northern New Mexico in a Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City poll released Friday said oil prices would have to average $56 per barrel for them to substantially increase drilling.
The industry pulled back activity so much last year that oilfield work this year will mean "mitigation of declines rather than growth," said Sarp Ozkan, a senior director at analytics firm Enverus.
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3FWB – 3Friends3Weeks3Boards is a collective that produces travel documentaries incorporating action sport since 2013. The main-films present the journey of friends on the search for fresh snow and glassy waves. For many the perfect trip, including both Surfing and Snowboarding.
In addition the film gives local insight and portrays personalities that are living for their sport. Interspersed with images and travel stories the film is sparking the wanderlust of the audience. For previous projects the crew travelled to destinations like Galicia, the Pyrenees, Sierra Nevada, South-Tyrol, Corsica and Sardinia, the High Atlas in Morocco as well as the Atlantic coast of Morocco. This year ́s project is about the stunning nature in front of our door-step.
Five local sportsmen with passion for board sports tell their story whilst snowboarding around Innsbruck and surfing in nearby Italy. The film showcases that long distance trips are great but not necessary to score, appreciating the gems that are around the corner. Alongside Benno Postert and Maximilian Meisberger, the Innsbruck Locals Peter Sandner, Manuel Bernert and Sani Alibabic hopped on board. Together they are telling a story about the diversity and beauty that the mountains and the Ocean in their vicinity have on offer.


Lea began her career as a law clerk for Justice Bryner of the Alaska Supreme Court. In private practice since 2003, she provides counsel regarding commercial and labor and employment issues to private businesses and public entities. She also provides advice regarding student issues, including special education, to school districts. She has public election law experience and has served as Election Judge for ANCSA corporations. Her litigation experience includes trial and appellate work in administrative, civil and domestic matters, with reported decisions from the Alaska Supreme Court in Polar Supply Company v. Steelmaster, Inc., 127 P.3d 52 (Alaska 2005) and Western States Fire Protection Co. of Alaska v. Municipality of Anchorage, 146 P.3d 986 (Alaska 2006). She has served on the Alaska Court System Family Law Self-Help Center Advisory Committee and in 2008 received the BP / AAVA Golden Heart Outstanding Community Service Award in recognition of her volunteer work for the Center.


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Interior In*te"ri*or, n. 1. That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside. 2. The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom. Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department. Secretary of the Interior, the cabinet officer who, in the United States, is at the head of the Department of the Interior.
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Magpies End West Ham's Unbeaten Run
West Ham United suffered their first defeat in April against Newcastle United at St James' Park in today's early kick-off but unlike in recent games, where the East Londoners have held on to a 3-2 scoreline, this time they were on the wrong end of it. However, they were 2-0 behind at one stage.
With Aaron Cresswell and Arthur Masuaku both injured, David Moyes had to make two changes to the side that had beaten Leicester City last weekend. Angelo Ogbonna made his long-awaited return from an ankle injury sustained in the FA Cup fifth round tie against Manchester United in February, while Ben Johnson also came into the starting line-up.
Mark Noble had sufficiently recovered from the injury to his arm sustained against the Foxes last Sunday in order to retain his place. There were also two welcome additions on the bench, as both Andriy Yarmolenko and Manuel Lanzini were included in the matchday eighteen.
The Magpies came into this game off the back of some good form having picked up four points from their last two games and were creative in the early stages of this encounter. Craig Dawson was booked for halting a counter-attack but just seven minutes later, they really started piling on the pressure through Allan Saint-Maximin. Fortunately for the visitors though, the Frenchman had his well-struck effort saved by Łukasz Fabiański.
The Hammers' faithful watching from afar would have seen that there wasn't much to choose between the two sides in the opening half-hour but a mad few minutes definitely tipped the balance of the game in favour of the home side.
Saint-Maximin assumed the responsibility to help the hosts push on. He ran into the box and shot past Fabiański and although Issa Diop tried to clear the ball off the line, he ended up applying the final touch and West Ham found themselves a goal behind.
After suffering the disappointment of the goal, there was then more pain for the East Londoners, as Dawson was given a second yellow card for a challenge on Joelinton.
It soon became clear that it wasn't going to be a good day for Moyes and his side, as Steve Bruce's men increased their advantage. Fabianski, who is usually so reliable was under no pressure, following Jonjo Shelvey's corner but somehow, he managed to drop the ball and Joelinton was in the right place to knock the ball past the Pole.
With Leicester City and Chelsea both involved in FA Cup semi-final action this weekend, the Hammers knew that should they get anything from this game, they had the chance to jump into third place. Well you'd have to say that looked a distant dream, as referee Kevin Friend blew the half-time whistle.
It was not known what Moyes said in the away dressing room but whatever it was, the Scotsman seemed to have got a reaction from his players when the action recommenced. Vladimír Coufal was kept at bay by goalkeeper Martin Dúbravka, before Diop headed in following Jarrod Bowen's right wing cross.
With his side having got one goal back, Moyes decided to make a change soon after as Saïd Benrahma replaced Noble.
Having been uncharacteristically out of sorts for most of this game, the visitors were awarded a penalty after VAR had discovered that Ciaran Clark had handled the ball. Friend was advised to go over and review the replay on the pitchside monitor. On doing this, he then had no hesitation in awarding West Ham a penalty.
With Noble having just been substituted, it was left to Jesse Lingard to reduce the arrears. Although Dúbravka was beaten, Lingard saw his kick go into the net off the post.
No sooner had the East Londoners levelled the contest, Newcastle had edged ahead again as Arsenal loanee Joe Willock headed past Fabianski to seal the points.
The Irons have lost some key players in recent weeks and with three minutes of normal time to go, the Manchester United loanee went off with what looked like a hamstring injury so, Lanzini took his place.
Twice in recent weeks, Moyes has seen his side almost relinquish a three-goal advantage. Well, this time the away side were given real hope of getting a third goal themselves when eight minutes of stoppage time were added.
Deep into that allotted period, West Ham made their final change as Ryan Fredericks was brought on in place of Johnson. Despite both the change and the lengthy amount of time in which they had to grab a point, they couldn't make it happen and the Magpies held on to claim an important three points.
Moyes' men could have done with taking something from this game, as it is Chelsea's turn to visit Stratford next Saturday.


I finally bought a Canon fixed focus lens! The Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 STM Lens AKA Canon Nifty Fifty to be precise.
My company works out of Project Spaces – a coworking space with a kickass lounge. Here's the team lounging around.
The logo for Project 33 was actually made via my new company! Do you like it? Can you tell me in the comments, please?
L We went to Lynn Valley Park today to check out the Lynn Valley Suspension Bridge and the rainforest. Going around Vancouver and enjoying the rainy day was truly a treat.
Of all the things I did in Vancouver, visiting Lynn Valley was by far my favourite.
M In this Darshan, Ma came to me as that Radha and at the same time as Lakshmi. The Divine Mother gave me Darshan today.
V We went to Larabee State Park with Guruji, Paramahamsa Vishwananda, today. It was a dream come true to meditate on a rock next to the ocean with him.
D Follow my Guru Paramahamsa Vishwananda on Twitter @vishwananda. The Darshan today was pretty amazing. I didn't get to work very much which is very unusual for me since I've had a pretty intense job at the last 5 Darshans I've been in.
B We arrived in Bellingham today and I flew with Gurudev on the same plane! Aaah! It was also my first time in the West Coast (apart from going to LA with my family when I was 17) and it was my first time seeing the Rockies.
Today was incredible. Somehow in the morning, I got to find out that Guruji would be going for a private visit to the Krishna Temple in Culver City in LA and hustled over there with some friends.


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import sys

def prepare_data(path):
    data = pd.read_csv(path, sep='\t').dropna()
    X = np.array([encode_input(x) for x in data['name']])
    y = np.array([label_to_number[x] for x in data['label']])
    return X,y

charcnn = load_model('tf_charcnn.h5')

def predict(name):
    x = encode_input(name)
    return labels[np.argmax(charcnn.predict(x[np.newaxis,:,:]))]

if __name__ == '__main__':
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Throughout the Hebrew Bible, God guides and saves his people through the words of his prophets. When the prophets are silenced, the people easily lose their way. What happened after the incarnation, death and resurrection of Christ? Did God fall silent? The dominant position in Christian theology is that prophecy did indeed cease at some point in the past -- if not with the Old Testament prophets, then with John the Baptist, with Jesus, with the last apostle, or with the closure of the canon of the New Testament. Nevertheless, throughout the history of Christianity there have always been acclaimed saints and mystics-most of them women-who displayed prophetic traits. In recent years, the charismatic revival in both Protestant and Catholic circles has once again raised the question of the place and function of prophecy in Christianity. Scholarly theological attitudes toward Christian prophecy range from modest recognition to contempt. Mainstream systematic theology, both Protestant and Catholic, has mostly marginalized or ignored the gift of prophecy. In this book, however, Niels Christian Hvidt argues that prophecy has persisted in Christianity as an inherent and continuous feature in the life of the church. Prophecy never died, he argues, but rather proved its dynamism by mutating to meet new historical conditions. He presents a comprehensive history of prophecy from ancient Israel to the present and closely examines the development of the theological discourse that surrounds it. Throughout, though, there is always an awareness of the critical discernment required when evaluating the charism of prophecy. The debate about prophecy, Hvidt shows, leads to some profound insights about the very nature of Christianity and the church. For example, some have argued that Christianity is a perfect state and that all that is required for salvation is acceptance of its doctrines. Others have emphasized how God continues to intervene and guide his people onto the right path as the full implementation of God's salvation in Christ is still far away. This is the position that Hvidt forcefully and persuasively defends and develops in this ambitious and important book.


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Monitor from anywhere using the mobile apps for Apple and Android smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops.
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Epidemiological Study of Thyroid Carcinoma Using Principal Component Analysis
MR Bricha1*, EM Hamzaoui1, Y Aboussaleh2, A Mesfioui2, A Soulaymani2 and H Aschawa3
1DPR Laboratory, National Centre for Nuclear Enregy Sciences and Techniques (CNESTEN), Rabat, Morocco
2Faculty of Sciences of Kenitra, Genetics - Neuroendocrinology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco
3Department of Nuclear Medicine, IBNRochd de Casablanca Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco
MR Bricha
DPR Laboratory, National Centre for Nuclear Enregy Sciences and Techniques (CNESTEN)
Rabat, Morocco.
Received date: March 13, 2018; Accepted date: March 21, 2018; Published date: March 26, 2018
Citation: Bricha AMR, Hamzaoui EM, Aboussaleh Y, Mesfioui A, Soulaymani A, et al. (2018) Epidemiological Study of Thyroid Carcinoma Using Principal Component Analysis. J Clin Epigenet. Vol.4:9. doi: 10.21767/2472-1158.100094
In this paper, we present a new epidemiological study of thyroid carcinoma, spread over three years (2005-2008), in a sample of 399 Moroccan patients who underwent total thyroidectomy followed by metabolic radiotherapy with Iodine-131. Indeed, in addition to calculating descriptive statistics, we adopted a classification approach, based on the principal component analysis method, to classify our data. The study focused on three types of the thyroid carcinoma: papillary, follicular and undifferentiated. This method allowed us an epidemiological classification according to four criteria: age, sex, type of carcinoma and the region the subject came from. The results obtained show that papillary carcinoma remains the most dominant form among the three histological types of thyroid cancer, with a high incidence in urban coastal areas. Vesicular carcinoma is also present in these areas with a slightly lower impact. Thus, unlike other cancers, thyroid cancer can be developed in cases of a young age. 54.63% of people affected by this disease are between 20 and 45 years old. Also, this study showed that women with thyroid cancer accounted for 87.97% compared to men (12.03%). Of these, 54.13% are between the ages of 20 and 45, followed by women over the age of 45 (44.44%). While among men, we found that 48.63% of cases are older than 45 years, 47.88% are of average age (between 20 and 45 years) and 3.49% are under 19 years old.
Descriptive statistics; Iodine-131; Metabolic radiotherapy; Principal Component Analysis; Thyroidectomy; Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid cancer is gaining increasing interest around the world as its incidence has increased since the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents [1]. In Morocco, although geographically distant from these areas, a rapid increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer has been clearly observed. Indeed, this increase can be explained by several factors including access to diagnostic means and the increasing performance of these resources that have identified and track subjects developing a given form of thyroid cancer. Effective cancer therapy always necessitates a sound understanding of cancer pathophysiology [2]. Some epidemiological study can give some answers: aims to investigate the causes of diseases and the factors or markers of risk that influence their occurrence in a population
Several epidemiological studies based on the use of first-order statistics have been conducted in Moroccan hospitals. Thus, some studies conducted a retrospective epidemiological study to evaluate the influence of sex, age, tumor size and histological type [2,3]. Ainahi A. et al., Ainahi Abdelhakim et al. ont étudié un échantillon de 30 individus: 9 patients indexés atteints d'un carcinome médullaire de la thyroïde (MTC) correspondant à 3 sujets avec une évidence clinique de MEN2, 6 avec MTC apparemment sporadique (sMTC), et 21 proches ayant été étudiés pour des mutations RET [4].
This research work has the particularity of introducing a new approach to analyze and to classify our data using the principal component analysis (PCA) method [5,6]. This method is widely used to solve data reduction and classification problems as well as to help formulate hypotheses that will need to be investigated using inferential statistical models and studies [4,6]. The PCA is based on the calculation of certain statistical measures such as mean, variance and correlation [5,6]. This is why we have found it useful to couple it with a simple descriptive statistical analysis of our data [7], in order to make a contribution to the classical epidemiological approaches to thyroid cancer in our country.
The study is carried out on a sample of 399 Moroccan patients, suffering from a form of thyroid cancer, and having followed metabolic radiotherapy with iodine 131, during the first 3 years of the opening, of the Medical Service. Nuclear University Hospital Ibn Rochd of Casablanca, Morocco (2005 - 2008). This event resulted in a 21% increase in the number of patients treated as shown in the graph in Figure 1 below [8].
Figure 1: Evolution of the number of patients treated from 2002 to 2007 in Morocco [7].
The data collected relate to the patient's age, sex, region of origin and the type of thyroid cancer he has developed. We are interested here in the three types of cancer whose histological classification was published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2004: papillary, vesicular and undifferentiated [9,10-12].
To be able to perform the analysis by the PCA, the data must be quantitative (discrete or ordinal). For this reason, we quantified the patient's sex, region of origin and type of cancer parameters by assigning numerical values [5].
Principal component analysis
The principal component analysis (PCA) is a multidimensional statistical factorial method which allows to obtain, from a matrix of data , including quantitative variables p values for n individuals, geometric representations of these units and these variables. When the data space E is large, it is difficult to find an adequate representation to visualize the space of points. The PCA is used to find the best subspace with a reduced dimension (L = 2 to 3 for example), in which the cloud of the data contained in X is best represented.
The essential steps of the PCA can be summarized according to the following points [5,6]:
• Presentation of the data: the n rows of the matrix X constitute the individuals (observations) and the p columns represent the variables;
• Calculation of basic descriptive parameters: mean, variance, correlation;
• Calculation of the matrix of correlations: this matrix gives a first idea of the associations existing between the different variables. The calculation of its eigenvalues makes it possible to detect the percentages of inertia.
• Calculation of the eigenvectors of the correlation matrix: these vectors, ranked in descending order of the associated eigenvalues, make it possible to constitute the orthonormal basis of the data projection subspace.
• Principal component analysis: starting from the matrix X of the data, which is normalized so that the average of each variable is null and that its standard deviation is equal to 1, we obtain the coordinates of the projected of the individuals in the previous orthonormal basis. This allows us to represent the projected cloud of the initial cloud of weight.
Analyse descriptive
The descriptive analysis of our data was based on the calculation of percentages of representation relative to the sample (Figure 2). Thus, a first analysis consisted of representing the distribution of the percentage of cancer patients according to their regions of origin. The Figures 3 and 4 shows that the most affected region is Greater Casablanca with a percentage of about 40%. Also, it should be noted that 65.71% of people from non-coastal cities develop vesicular carcinoma and 60.98% of these people from coastal cities suffer from papillary cancer. The other data collected were the subject of a descriptive statistical study, the results of which are summarized in Table 1 [8].
Figure 2: Geographic distribution of thyroid cancer in Morocco.
Figure 3: Evolution of the variance explained in X according to the number of principal components used by the PCA.
Figure 4: Data classification by sex of patient, region of origin and type of thyroid carcinoma.
CancerPapillary
CancerVesicular
CancerUndifferentiated
[0, 15] 0,25% 0,25% 0% 0% 0% 0%
[16, 19] 1% 0,25% 0% 0% 0% 0%
[20, 45] 44,86% 5,76% 2,76% 0% 0% 0%
Plus que 45 ans 33,58% 5,1% 5,26% 0,75% 0,25% 0%
% tout âge 79,69% 11,36% 8,02% 0,75% 0,25% 0%
Table 1: Summary Table of the Distribution of Thyroid Cancer in Morocco by Age, Sex and Histological Classification of Carcinoma Developed.
Analyse par la PCA
The collected data were presented in the form of a matrix whose rows represent the 399 observations and the columns represent the variables: sex of the subject, his age, the type of carcinoma developed, and his region of origin. The latter is based on the administrative division of the kingdom that cuts Morocco into 17 different regions [12]. The choice of the dimension of the projection subspace is calculated automatically. Figure 3 illustrates the graph of the variance explained in X as a function of the number of principal components used by the PCA that we programmed under the MATLABTM environment [13]. The results obtained show that the minimum number of components to be used is three.
We calculated a performance index (PI) to evaluate the method used. This index is given by Equation (eq.1) below. A performance index of zero (PI = 0) indicates the best performance of the method. In practice, the smallest PI value obtained reflects the good performance.
Where Y is the set of original observations and all projected data
In our study, the best performance of the PCA corresponds to a performance index of PI = 0.1168, and the optimal orthonormal basis of the data projection subspace consists of three vectors: {"Region", "Sex of the patient", "Type of carcinoma of the thyroid"}.
The analysis of the representation of the projected in this database, allowed us to conclude that the parameter "region" is not relevant in our case, since it made it possible to classify the data according to only two classes of regions (Figure 4). This is also reflected by the high value of the method's performance index. For this reason, we have opted for a reorganization of the observation matrix by separating the variable "region" into two variables according to the proximity or not to the sea and according to the urban or rural character of the agglomeration.
Applying the PCA to the new observations matrix, we were able to improve the performance index to reach PI = 0.0574. In addition, we obtained three possible configurations for the orthonormal database, namely:
- Base 1: {"Urban / Rural Character", "Proximity to the Sea", "Type of Thyroid Carcinoma"};
- Base 2: {"Subject Sex", "Proximity to the Sea", "Type of Thyroid Carcinoma"};
- Basis 3: {"Subject Sex", "Urban / Rural Character", "Type of Thyroid Carcinoma"};
In each of these bases, the PCA allowed us to represent the entire projected cloud as shown in Figure 5 below.
Figure 5: Classification of data by the PCA. (a) In the base 1. (b) in the base 2. (c) In the base 3.
It appears from the analysis of the representations obtained by the PCA, that the regional administrative division made it possible to obtain a classification of the data in only two classes, whereas a division according to the proximity or not of the sea and according to the aspect urban and rural areas has led to better results. This can be explained by the large area of administrative areas that are inhabited by heterogeneous populations from the point of view of crops and diets. The second geographic approach is based on the results of a recent study on Moroccan household consumption patterns, which states that urban dwellers consume twice as much seafood (fish, crustaceans, mollusks) than those living in rural areas and this consumption is accentuated in coastal areas.
This may explain the results obtained by the application of PCA that show that papillary carcinoma remains the most dominant form among the three histological types studied, with a high incidence in urban coastal areas (Figure 5a). Vesicular carcinoma is also present in these areas with a slightly lower impact. In addition, (Figures 5b and 5c) show that women are more likely to develop all three types of thyroid cancer than men, especially in coastal urban areas. These graphical results made it possible to confirm the descriptive statistics of our sample. Thus, unlike other cancers, thyroid cancer can be developed in cases of a young age. 54.63% of people affected by this disease are between 20 and 45 years old. Also, this study showed that women with thyroid cancer accounted for 87.97% compared to men (12.03%). Of these, 54.13% are between the ages of 20 and 45, followed by women over the age of 45 (44.44%), and teenage girls make up only 1.14%. While among men, we found that 48.63% of cases are older than 45 years, 47.88% are of average age (between 20 and 45 years) and 3.49% are very young age (under 19 years).
In terms of cancer histology, it was revealed that in both sexes papillary carcinoma is the most dominant form (90.98%) of which 93.75% in men and 79.69% in women. The vesicular form is less frequent (8.52%). It occurs much more in women (91.18%), while men developing this carcinoma are older than 57 years and represent 8.82% of the sample studied. Undifferentiated carcinoma was not recorded in any male subject during these 3 years of study. In contrast, only one woman, aged 45, was identified during this study period.
In this study, we combined principal component analysis (PCA) and descriptive statistics to analyze data on thyroid cancer developed by Moroccan patients. The results of the PCA made it possible to classify the data by projection on bases composed of three characteristic vectors. These graphic representations showed that women are the most affected by the three types of cancer studied and that the high incidence is recorded in urban and coastal areas. This allowed us to assume that there is no direct relationship between the consumption of iodine-rich foods and the risk of developing thyroid cancer. Also, she showed that the majority of patients in this sample develop a welldifferentiated thyroid cancer without good prognosis metastasis and well-coded treatment.
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/** \author Michael Dixon */

#include <gtest/gtest.h>

#include <pcl/point_types.h>
#include <pcl/io/pcd_io.h>
#include <pcl/filters/approximate_voxel_grid.h>

#include <pcl/keypoints/sift_keypoint.h>

#include <set>

using namespace pcl;
using namespace pcl::io;
using namespace std;

struct KeypointT
{
  float x, y, z, scale;
};

POINT_CLOUD_REGISTER_POINT_STRUCT (KeypointT,
    (float, x, x)
    (float, y, y)
    (float, z, z)
    (float, scale, scale)
)

PointCloud<PointXYZI>::Ptr cloud_xyzi (new PointCloud<PointXYZI>);

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
TEST (PCL, SIFTKeypoint)
{
  PointCloud<KeypointT> keypoints;

  // Compute the SIFT keypoints
  SIFTKeypoint<PointXYZI, KeypointT> sift_detector;
	search::KdTree<PointXYZI>::Ptr tree (new search::KdTree<PointXYZI>);
  sift_detector.setSearchMethod (tree);
  sift_detector.setScales (0.02f, 5, 3);
  sift_detector.setMinimumContrast (0.03f);

  sift_detector.setInputCloud (cloud_xyzi);
  sift_detector.compute (keypoints);

  ASSERT_EQ (keypoints.width, keypoints.points.size ());
  ASSERT_EQ (keypoints.height, 1);
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.points.size (), static_cast<size_t> (169));
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.header, cloud_xyzi->header);
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_origin_ (0), cloud_xyzi->sensor_origin_ (0));
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_origin_ (1), cloud_xyzi->sensor_origin_ (1));
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_origin_ (2), cloud_xyzi->sensor_origin_ (2));
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_origin_ (3), cloud_xyzi->sensor_origin_ (3));
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_orientation_.w (), cloud_xyzi->sensor_orientation_.w ());
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_orientation_.x (), cloud_xyzi->sensor_orientation_.x ());
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_orientation_.y (), cloud_xyzi->sensor_orientation_.y ());
  EXPECT_EQ (keypoints.sensor_orientation_.z (), cloud_xyzi->sensor_orientation_.z ());

  // Change the values and re-compute
  sift_detector.setScales (0.05f, 5, 3);
  sift_detector.setMinimumContrast (0.06f);
  sift_detector.compute (keypoints);

  ASSERT_EQ (keypoints.width, keypoints.points.size ());
  ASSERT_EQ (keypoints.height, 1);

  // Compare to previously validated output
  const size_t correct_nr_keypoints = 5;
  const float correct_keypoints[correct_nr_keypoints][4] =
    {
      // { x,  y,  z,  scale }
      {-0.9425f, -0.6381f,  1.6445f,  0.0794f},
      {-0.5083f, -0.5587f,  1.8519f,  0.0500f},
      { 1.0265f,  0.0500f,  1.7154f,  0.1000f},
      { 0.3005f, -0.3007f,  1.9526f,  0.2000f},
      {-0.1002f, -0.1002f,  1.9933f,  0.3175f}
    };

  ASSERT_EQ (keypoints.points.size (), correct_nr_keypoints);
  for (size_t i = 0; i < correct_nr_keypoints; ++i)
  {
    EXPECT_NEAR (keypoints.points[i].x, correct_keypoints[i][0], 1e-4);
    EXPECT_NEAR (keypoints.points[i].y, correct_keypoints[i][1], 1e-4);
    EXPECT_NEAR (keypoints.points[i].z, correct_keypoints[i][2], 1e-4);
    EXPECT_NEAR (keypoints.points[i].scale, correct_keypoints[i][3], 1e-4);
  }

}

TEST (PCL, SIFTKeypoint_radiusSearch)
{
  const int nr_scales_per_octave = 3;
  const float scale = 0.02f;

  KdTreeFLANN<PointXYZI>::Ptr tree_ (new KdTreeFLANN<PointXYZI>);
  boost::shared_ptr<pcl::PointCloud<PointXYZI> > cloud = cloud_xyzi->makeShared ();

  ApproximateVoxelGrid<PointXYZI> voxel_grid;
  const float s = 1.0 * scale;
  voxel_grid.setLeafSize (s, s, s);
  voxel_grid.setInputCloud (cloud);
  voxel_grid.filter (*cloud);
  tree_->setInputCloud (cloud);

  const PointCloud<PointXYZI> & input = *cloud;
  KdTreeFLANN<PointXYZI> & tree = *tree_;
  const float base_scale = scale;

  std::vector<float> scales (nr_scales_per_octave + 3);
  for (int i_scale = 0; i_scale <= nr_scales_per_octave + 2; ++i_scale)
  {
    scales[i_scale] = base_scale * pow (2.0f, static_cast<float> (i_scale-1) / nr_scales_per_octave);
  }
  Eigen::MatrixXf diff_of_gauss;

  std::vector<int> nn_indices;
  std::vector<float> nn_dist;
  diff_of_gauss.resize (input.size (), scales.size () - 1);

  const float max_radius = 0.10f;

  const size_t i_point = 500;
  tree.radiusSearch (i_point, max_radius, nn_indices, nn_dist);

  // Are they all unique?
  set<int> unique_indices;
  for (size_t i_neighbor = 0; i_neighbor < nn_indices.size (); ++i_neighbor)
  {
    unique_indices.insert (nn_indices[i_neighbor]);
  }

  EXPECT_EQ (nn_indices.size (), unique_indices.size ());
}

/* ---[ */
int
  main (int argc, char** argv)
{
  if (argc < 2)
  {
    std::cerr << "No test file given. Please download `cturtle.pcd` and pass its path to the test." << std::endl;
    return (-1);
  }

  // Load a sample point cloud
  if (io::loadPCDFile (argv[1], *cloud_xyzi) < 0)
  {
    std::cerr << "Failed to read test file. Please download `cturtle.pcd` and pass its path to the test." << std::endl;
    return (-1);
  }

  testing::InitGoogleTest (&argc, argv);
  return (RUN_ALL_TESTS ());
}
/* ]--- */


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Prince's Bay 132-home community may finally be developed
Updated: Jan. 03, 2019, 11:19 a.m. | Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 2:20 p.m.
By Tracey Porpora | porpora@siadvance.com
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The 37 acre site -- of which 22-acres can be built on -- is owned by the Queens-based Muss Development for more than 40 years, and once housed the S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Plant. (Rendering provided by Rampulla Associates Architects)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A long-stalled Prince's Bay luxury home community on the Raritan Bay shorefront may finally get built if a developer purchases the property and plans for the 132-home community.
The 37-acre site -- of which 22 acres can be built on -- is owned by the Queens-based Muss Development for more than 40 years, and once housed the S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Plant.
Plans for a shoreline luxury residential community were delayed over the last 20 years due, in part, to the need for a full remediation of PCBs and contaminated soil at the site.
Last year the property was listed with a Manhattan-based broker that boasted "approved, permitted and shovel-ready" plans for the site.
The property didn't sell, and while there was no definite price-tag, the ballpark price for the parcel that was floated was $30 million.
"While a ballpark asking price was set for Princess Point almost two years ago, there is no current asking price," said Helen Hwang, senior executive managing director, Meridian Capital, the new Manhattan-based listing broker for the property.
A spokesman for Muss Development said Meridian Capital has some parties interested in developing the project and is accepting bids on the land.
A LONG HISTORY
The site, which stretches 1,900 feet along the Raritan Bay shoreline, housed S.S. White plant from 1865 to 1972. During the 1980s it was transformed into a mall, known as the Prince's Bay Trade Mart.
Muss Development razed the plant in 1986 after a suspicious two-alarm fire destroyed many of the vacant buildings the previous year. In 1989, Muss Development received approval to build 396 condominiums at the site. In
1997, the developer began a state-mandated cleanup of the site where PCBs were found once the dental plant was gone.
Remedial work was completed in February 2001. In 2004, Muss downsized the original plan from 396 condominiums to 133 detached one- and two- family homes.
THE 'FACTORY BY THE SEA'
When the S.S. White plant left Staten Island's South Shore in 1972, it marked the end of an industry that had operated in the borough for more than a century.
In 1865, the Johnston Brothers bought a palm oil processing plant in Prince's Bay at the foot of Seguine Avenue and converted it into a dental supply factory. In 1881, the company merged with a firm owned by Samuel Stockton White to form the S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company.
In the 1890s, S.S. White was the largest employer on the Island, with 425 workers. By 1927, the horseshoe of 14 interconnected, four-story brick buildings had become the largest maker of dental equipment in the world, with 1,900 workers.
Tool and die makers, electricians, engineers and other technicians turned out dental chairs, drills, metal fillings, toothpaste, mouthwash, dentures and bottled anesthetic gas.
The "Factory by the Sea," as it was called, was proud of maintaining a safe, comfortable workplace with good recreational and health care facilities.
The Prince's Bay plant was closed in 1972. It reopened as the Prince's Bay Trade Mart, but by 1980 only 40 of the original 100 businesses remained. The ailing mall was then turned into a Factory Center of discount outlets. But the idea never really took off, and in 1982 the Factory Center was closed.
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