This is almost full guide for this game about achievements, some tricks and secrets. Some of the achievements is easy some of them not but its all doable.
Here is some tips about achievements. To collect them all you'll need to play the game in 3 playthroughs because of characters. Some achievements can be achieved with different ways. I'll try to explain at least most of them.
You can't miss it. Just achieve 2nd level.
In order of story line of any character you'll need to escape Thole. Can't miss.
Just achieve 10 lvl. Can't miss.
Just achieve 20 lvl. Can't miss.
You must defeat Evanger. Story line. Can't miss. Possible it may unlock in Sewers or in Low Kyalisar. I got this in Sewers.
Defeat Valkarin. Story line you can't miss it.
The end of 3rd chapter. Can't be missed.
Finish the game. Simple as that.
Evia's playthrough. In order with Main story line you shall meet Evia's story line about her past. You should discover how did she died. It possible to achieve in almost end of the game in one of the Imperial Tombs. Just search in every Imperial Tomb and you'll not miss that.
Jasker's playthrough. In order with Main story you'll meet Kiri Malfagon(also she is avaiable for other characters). But this achievement only for Jasker. You must help her all the ways. I got this achievement just for entering Prolocutor's House when Kiri asked me to kill him. Just enter the building and possibly you can get it. Seems it means return of Jasker to his duty. Actually just play all Jasker's story line and you can't miss that.
Kalig's playthrough. You should spare Nemek in Werewolf castle boss arena (you should kill boss first, then Nemek gives up). You will get it after you speak Krenze in Oracle chamber in Sura Lands, return to Thole and fight Blind demon.
I still need to get this achievement. Thats a description from man with nickname Rivarzar. I think thats the way of getting this achievement but I still need to check it myself.
Side story line. Actually you'll need to do that because its 2nd member of party that you can get. Unlocked in Thole's discovering.
In order of story line you'll came to Taimurian's Lands. That achievement almost can't be missed. To get Wasp you should go to South in Taimurian Forest right after exit from Taimurian Camp. As well for Wood you should go to the North. So achievement can be unlocked in 2 playthroughs.
Or you can save your progress before that moment and take one minion, then restart you save file and get second minion. I think that works too. But only one of them avaiable in one playthrough.
Zaar's storyline. You'll meet him in order with storyline. To get this achievement you should complete at least one quest - Bring offerings to the spirits of the Moon. So offerings is a Totems. It placed in different places. An Altart where you should place all Totems is placed in the middle of Moon Wilds in Taimuria.
Kogog'Aak - 1st Totem is placed here. You may it in Broken Spear Pass if you go to the North of the map. There you should solve some puzzle on West of Kogog'Aak and there you'll find it.
Taimurian Wilds - Here the puzzle which you should solve to get a Moon Totem 3. Hidden Fortress - During the quest about Werewolves-Anarchists you should fight and kill 5 of them in Hidden Foretress. So Totem can be found after killing Werewolves-Anarchists's Boss in his room.
Dura'Tyr - On the North way in the corner of the map you'll find a last Totem. Isn't hard.
After all get back to Ataka, a Captain of Taimurian Camp and talk a dialogue with her. Be sure that you didn't told her whenever about you're Demon.
Kinda hard achievement. To get this one you can try that with diferent ways.
In order with Werewolvers-Anarchists quests avoid doing that untill you finish buisness in Taimurian's Counsil in the end of Dura'Tyr. It is story line so can't be missed. You should say to Werewolves-Berserkers that you wanna save them and already placed 2 Totems to Spirits. Avoid agression all the ways. I can recommend you to save before that moment.
That way I found on forum, didn't tried that but possibly thats the way too. During the Lower Kyalissar quest to obtain Werewolf Shaman Staff. In the end you should chose to give the staff to inquisition Mages, they left without fighting and after that achievement could unlock.
Obtain Darius and Falona. Different playthroughs, different storylines. To obtain Darius you should help to Kiri Malfagon with killing Tiberius. To obtain Falona you should betray Kiri and help Tiberius to gain Medal of Lord Protector.
This achievement can be unclocked after Infiltration of Penta Nera. You awake in prison and after you'll catch a rat you'll get this achievement.
Perhaps it can be unlocked as "Wasp and Wood" too. Save your progress before that moment and try both characters.
Darius's achievement. I got this just for obtain Darius in team.
Falona's achievement. When you obtain her you should avoid fights with Sura Warriors, at least dont kill named Sura Warriors. Best way to do that just run in shadows all the way to Falona's allies. Then speak "that was a problem not to kill them" or something like that. After that you can annihilate all of them after you get that achievement.
I still need to complete that achievement, but I found a description of that on forum.
Imperial tombs quest with bonekeys. Third Shadowhand offers you his soul. To complete achievement you should deny him, take last bonekey and proceed to last Tomb. Kill boss and take his soul.
Actually it can't be missed. Nothing special.
This achievements actually cannot be missed if you play through all quests and doing everything. But its not story line so someone can skip it.
Slay spider queen from Arashaad's quest.
Saleen's quest. You face demon in the cave (West part of Outlands). If you accept pact and kill man, you get evil karma, if you accept pact and refuses you get good karma, if you deny pact you stay neutral. If you fulfill the pact demon gives sword without fighting. If you want legendary armor pieces of Devourer you should choose one of two left variants.
Again Arashaad's quest. Outland caves where 4 entrances are near each other.
Falona's quest line. Just follow that and you'll meet him.
Lower Kyalissar. Speak with werwolves miners, you have to complete quest before Kiri/Tiberius quest, or you will not be able to open House Eagle doors.
In moon wilds you find secret door. Answer for riddle is Moon. No matter what you choose (fight or not fight Inquisition mages) you get achievement when you pick staff.
You should complete "Taimurian curse quest" and replace Werewolf Shaman in Cave with shaman in Conclave before speaking with Evanger/Valkaryn. Achievement doesn't depend whom of them you speak to enter Penta Nera speakings. First of all avoid any quotes about some of you party members or any deals you've done.
I failed to find Krenze.
Do we have any other enemies we should carry about?
Or other threats (choice between them influence nothing).
You may say about Taumirian curse was vanished or Conclave is over, its no matter in which order you'll say that.
Then Mara(or you, depends on previous quote) say the Conclave is over and you'll get the achievement.
Just break everything you can. The score continues if you start new game with new character. Score along with rat kills is general for your account.
Just complete all side quests, search coffins, break jars, also greedy choices in quests can help.
There some rats in game. They just living on maps and do nothin against player. Just kill them by pressing shift and aim at them.
After exit from first map you may find a well\hole in basement. So just click there 1k times to waste(or spend?) 1k gold. After that you'll get an achievement and legendary hammer Mjolnir.
You should find all teleports on the maps. Here is screenshots with its locations.
Actually you need to explore that map more than on my screenshot but you can open that door only if you helping to Blind Demon.
Equip all parts of Legendary Inquisitor's Armor. It can be found in Kogog'Aak.
Just play and kill every spiders and any other creatures like that. It counts with different playthroughs.
You should find all books and notes in game. Kinda difficult. I cannot include all screenshots of that cause I didn't got them. Just explore everywhere and be look carefully. Actually I got this achievement just by playing an looking everywhere on Evia's playthrough.
This achievements requires patient and carefully gameplay. Also you should open every dialogues and know what to do.
You should have 10 points of differnece between your Good Karma and Evil Karma. So it requires 10 points of Good Karma.
You should have 10 points of differnece between your Good Karma and Evil Karma. So it requires 10 points of Evil Karma.
Hard achievement. You should find a way to avoid fight with Grabaak. First of all you should solve Kogog'Aak's puzzles. All of them. It placed on the North of Broken Spear Pass. Also you should find all 4 fragments of Sun Stone.
A cave where you came for the Reaper Sword. Just solve a candles-puzzle and you'll get it.
A sequence of candles can be different then on screenshot. But it IS the place where you'll find it.
Taimurian Camp. Solve a puzzle with Totems\Statues and you'll find a fragment on that altar(in shadows).
Dura'Tyr. That fragment could be found in the chest in THAT room as you can see on screenshot.
Ziggurat of the Sun. Last fragment is placed here. Just change a mirror near the teleporter on that hole and you will get it.
When you got all fragments get back to Kogog'Aak. Before to open Room of Sun Queen you should find Fire, Ice, Acid\Earth, Air\Lightning elements. Their locations in Kogog'Aak as well. Place them on altarts and push a leavers. But before doing that clear the paths from "friendly" elementals. After that carefully avoid traps and place it. There will spawn a "Elemental Slave"\"Elemental Disciple"( I'm sorry I dont know their names on english exactly). Dont kille them, but bait them to another altar with pentagram where you should sacrifice\kill them. I recommend you to do that one by one.
Put an Element on altart.
Bait an Elemental Disciple to another altar with pentagam to sacrifice.
After that you will be able to enter the Sun Queen's Room(where you can find last parts of Legendary Inqusitor's Armor as well) and in shdows you can try to stole a Serpent Crown from her. The just fight her. After that keep it until you meet Grabaak.
When you'll meet Grabaak you should avoid fight with all ways. Btw you should save your progress before talking with Grabaak. Dont ask him anything that can make him angry. A final quote will be something like "Okay, I amused you enough, maybe we'll finish here and you tell me how to destroy The Crucible Of Souls?". After that you'll get the achievement.
Complete the game on Extreme difficulty. Simple enough to understand, right?
Before start a new game put an option near difficulty "enable old-school mode". That will disable quests markers. Simple enough for second playthrough.
Finish the game on non less than "Hard" difficulty without dying with any character. It means if anyone of your puppets died you cannot revive him on Altar. But you should restart your last save and play again. Just save your progress more often and you can make it.
You should lose your puppet and revive him on Altar. Repeat that 100 times. I dont know if that counts with different playthroughs or you just need to "farm" that with one playthrough. Just die somewhere and revive and again. And again. More or less simple just may take some time.
2. "Hell On Earth" - Devourer resists the puppet's desire to save the world. He believes that they have done nothing for which he could sacrifice himself.(cause if we have Evil Karma we made many "crimes" and was cruel and greedy; check "Devil" achievement). The Crucible Of Souls destroying the Heretic Kingdoms and Demons invade to the World.
3. Ah...) Thats my favorite. A "Perfect Ending". This was the reason why it was necessary to save the Serpent Crown for a while. Before talking with Mara in the end, save your progress(as always). In talk with her she offer you to kill Krenze. Accept it. Next step will be... Grabaak. Go the him and Gift him the Serpent Crown. After that return to the Oracle and confront Krenze. With dialogue say him that you can't attak him. Unlock some ways to ask Grabaak for help. Then return to Grabaak as well. He will ask you to fight with you, or he will not help you. Accept it, but you can tell him to fight with him after his help with The Crucible of Souls. Then Grabaak will return you to fight with Mara but HE will eat her. Seems like the end?... Your characters talking about what will happend, but Grabaak return for unfinished fight.
After all you'll unlock that achievement. You'll see what will be in The End, I dont wanna spoil that cause that Ending is wonderfull.


World of Final Fantasy (PS Vita/PS4) Pre-Order Contest Announced – 3WIREL!
Square Enix is launching a World of Final Fantasy for the PS4 & PS Vita later this month but they want you to consider pre-ordering the title. Why would you want to pre-order? To be entered in some sweepstakes event of course! If you pre-order the game on Square Enix's website, you can be entered for a special contest.


The Monastery of Agios Ioannis, also called Rodháki Monastery is located 5 km south of the village Vournika, near Rodháki, is referred to as one of the most interesting monasteries of the island. Still preserved are the ruins of this ancient temple as well as the columns (which are broken down by Doric ensemble of columns) and parts of the paved ground. On the edge of the Sanctum, for example, you can still admire the impressive figure of Platitera.
The Monastery was probably built in 1654, on the foundations of a former ancient Doric temple of Dimitra, the goddess of agriculture and fertility. According to an old superstition, a childless couple, that is praying in church and one hears steps outside the front door, will given birth to a child.
In the late 18th century, the monastery was transferred to the government, and in 1797 the Monastery of Asomatos a Vafkeri was granted. The main church in the wide area, which is well preserved, has been extended many times. The cells of the monks were increased together with adjoining rooms. Fragments of the mural on the east wall of the Catholicon are maintained with exceptional techniques. On the edge of Sanctum you can admire the imposing figure of Platitera.


Abstract: Relying on the explosively driven setting of one-end detonator initiation and using the Doppler velocimetry and high-speed framing camera, we diagnosed the expansion and fracture process of the cylindrical shell. The results obtained from our experiment provide the velocity-time history of the shell surface and its dynamic snapshots referring to expansion deformation, crack initiation and propagation, and explosion product leakage. The results from the SPH simulation are in reasonably good agreement with the experimental findings. Systemic analysis of experiments and simulations determine incident angle of shock wave for cylindrical shell, releasing angle of explosion wave, velocity and pressure profile of internal wall and deformed strain, fracture process of cylindrical shell.


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Japan pitches C-2 for New Zealand transport fleet
By Nigel Pittaway
Kawasaki Heavy Industries will offer its C-2 transport aircraft to New Zealand for the country's Future Air Mobility Capability program. (Nigel Pittaway/Staff)
MELBOURNE, Australia — Kawasaki Heavy Industries will offer its C-2 transport aircraft to New Zealand for the country's Future Air Mobility Capability, or FAMC, program, a company representative confirmed Tuesday.
New Zealand has a requirement to replace its aging Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules and Boeing 757-200C aircraft with a new capability. The FAMC program seeks to deliver a strategic and tactical airlift capability, which may involve a mix of two different aircraft types, or a single type able to meet essential requirements in both roles.
Speaking at the 2019 Avalon Airshow, the official said that Kawasaki Heavy Industries, or KHI, had been in discussion with the Royal New Zealand Air Force for several years regarding its requirements.
"We have just started marketing the aircraft," the official said. "We expect the C-2 to be in production for at least 10 years."
A C-2 from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's 3rd Tactical Airlift Wing is on static display at Avalon, and one aircraft had visited New Zealand in November 2017.
The C-2 has been designed against JASDF requirements for an airlifter capable of both strategic and tactical missions to replace the existing Kawasaki C-1 aircraft. Seven aircraft and two prototypes have been delivered to date, against an ultimate requirement of between 20 and 30 aircraft. The aircraft entered service with the JASDF in March 2017, and the official revealed that KHI recently delivered the seventh aircraft to the customer.
The official also said KHI was in discussion with "several other countries" regarding C-2 sales, but he declined to name a specific nation or region. He said the company was consulting with the Japan Defense Agency and Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko for export approvals.
About Nigel Pittaway
Nigel Pittaway is the Australia correspondent for Defense News.
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2018-19 Udall Center Fellows Announced!
05/21/18 06:41:pm
The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018-19 Udall Center Fellows award. Please join us in welcoming our new cohort:
Corey Abramson, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Melanie Hingle, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences
Kevin Anchukaitis, Associate Professor of Geography and Development
Christopher Weber, Associate Professor of Government and Public Policy
The Udall Center Fellows Program, the longest standing such program at the University of Arizona, seeks to promote an interdisciplinary approach to public policy and decision-making by providing faculty an entire semester to focus on policy-relevant research and securing extramural support. The program, which is supported by the Office of Research, Discovery and Innovation, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Udall Center, began in 1990 and has since given more than 140 faculty members the opportunity to work on public policy research and the preparation of proposals for external funding to support research and discovery relating to public policy.
Meet this year's Fellows and what they plan to accomplish:
Corey Abramson, PhD
Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology
Title: Using novel social scientific methods to address health disparities
With this Fellowship, Professor Abramson intends to expand funding for three of his current policy-focused projects, which concentrate on: (1) using hybrid data sets to chart and address systemic disparities in cancer care, (2) understanding the unequal determinants and consequences of extreme bodyweight in youth, and (3) developing new social scientific methodologies connecting scaled field observations with "big data" techniques for policy application.
Melanie Hingle, PhD, MPH, RDN
Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Title: Developing a model of diet-sensitive disease prevention for food insecure populations
Dr. Hingle will dedicate Udall Fellowship time to developing a model of diet-sensitive disease prevention for food insecure populations in partnership with colleagues at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and El Rio Community Health Center. The resulting program will be designed for sustainable delivery to individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes within the context of existing services offered by these organizations. The proposed work will contribute to building a "culture of health" in southern Arizona, in which adequate and nutritious food are mainstays across geographic, demographic, and social sectors, and all Arizonans have the opportunity to make healthy nutrition and lifestyle choices consistent with their beliefs, customs and core values.
Kevin Anchukaitis, PhD
Associate Professor in the School of Geography and Development
Title: Climate, culture, forests, and water: Toward the co-production of environmental knowledge in highland Guatemala
Having already laid the groundwork for tree-ring based reconstructions of climate variability as an earth systems geographer in Guatemala, Professor Anchukaitis plans to submit a proposal to the National Science Foundation's "Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems" program that would allow him to conduct integrated physical and social science research on the connection between climate change, water, and indigenous forest management, specifically in the western highlands of Guatemala.
Christopher Weber, PhD
Associate Professor in the School of Government and Public Policy
Title: Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Partisan Policy Divide
Professor Weber's focus lies heavily on how psychological backgrounds shape policy attitudes and participation. With this Fellowship, Dr. Weber will prepare a book-length manuscript that will explore the effects of authoritarianism with respect to sorting, political polarization, and policy debates over the past several decades, as well as submit several grant applications to fund a large-scale survey during the 2020 presidential election campaign, which will examine the role of populism, media choice, and authoritarianism in the 2020 election.
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ROSS TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — Bargain shoppers get ready.
Empty store fronts and "For Lease" signs at the Shoppes at Northway in Ross Township are slated to disappear as two large, upscale discount retailers and an Italian restaurant are slated to move in.
"It's going to be exciting, especially for the community because this will give them more places to come," Sara Miller, a Northway shopper, said.
"I am so excited because the last time I heard they were going to close down this whole mall," Amy Andreas, from Avalon, said.
According to the Pittsburgh Business Times, unidentified sources say a recent site plan for Northway includes Nordstrom Rack, Saks Off Fifth and Maggiano's Little Italy.
Brooke White, a spokeswoman from Nordstrom, confirmed the high-end retailer is currently scouting the Pittsburgh area for a Norstrom Rack location.
Point Park University's Elaine Luther, a professor of business management, says putting the discounted retailer so close to the Ross Park Mall location follows what Nordstrom's done in other major cities.
There's no word on a timetable for the stores to move in.


Pirates operating off the Somali coast will not be defeated by force alone, a top European naval officer says.
"It is arguable how much of a deterrent effect counter-piracy forces are having," Thomas Ernst from the EU's anti-piracy task force NAVFOR said.
More should be done to stop the money flow to pirate gangs and to target their leaders, he added.
International naval forces have so far stopped 120 pirate attacks this year, compared with 21 in 2009.
Somali pirates have "developed their capabilities and now have influence over a vast area", said Mr Ernst, who is Navfor's deputy operations commander.
The presence of international forces off the Somali coast and in the Gulf of Aden has pushed pirates further afield, where they hijack larger vessels.
Recently, pirates have operated as far south as Tanzania and Madagascar, with the easternmost attack just short of the southern Indian coast on 5 December.
"The rewards from piracy continue to outweigh the risks," Mr Ernst said.
He criticised that a weak legal system means that "the chances of getting caught are relatively low and the probability of being tried is even smaller".
Counter-piracy efforts should include support for the Somali government to improve the country's prison system, Mr Ernst said.
Of the 400 pirates captured by Navfor this year, only 15 are to stand trial, he added.
Around 470 seafarers aee currently being held hostage by Somali pirates.


What are mug match holders?
Match holder mugs or steins primarily date from the 1890s to the 1920s and are near exact replicas of standard size mugs in a smaller scale.
They generally measure between 2 3/8" and 2 1/2" tall with the majority measuring 2 1/4".
What differentiates a mini mug match holder from simply being a miniature mug is the presence of a circular pattern found on its base which acts as a striker. It is not uncommon to find mini mugs listed as toothpick holders. A smaller number of mini mugs can be found with an attached hinged-pewter lid, or (fewer still) with an attached tray.
Mini mugs are generally made of ceramic ( e.g. pottery, porcelain, or glass). Many were made in Germany as blanks and sent to various factories where a printed label was applied and then fired in a kiln which fixated the glaze colors on the ceramic surface.
Some of the manufacturers known to have produced minis include Thuemler, Villeroy & Boch, Arthur Schiller & Co., Meriden, Connecticut Decorating Works, Homer Laughlin, Bauer, Lenox, and Uhl.
Many mini mugs were given away as souvenirs or sold as promotional keepsakes. Some, such as those produced by Villeroy & Boch do not have a striker, but have a manufacturer's mark and the words "Made in Germany" instead. Since match striker mugs do not have a manufacturer's mark, determining who produced them is difficult.
Although there is an abundance of modern mini mugs found in varying shapes and sizes, vintage advertising mug or stein match holders infrequently come up for sale and are quite rare. This makes building a collection a test of patience.
'Stein Match Holder' with prices from the C.F. Monroe Opal Glass Decorating Works in Meriden, CT.
Hugo Thuemler operated out of Rochester from 1898 to 1901. From 1901 to 1908, the Pittsburg mark was used on his wares.
Villeroy & Boch steins technically may not be considered match holders since no striker is present.


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Q: How can I make a SWT table's cell editable in Eclipse RCP? My question is that I have a SWT Table in Eclipse RCP project. I want its cells to be editable when I desire. How can I achieve such a functionality in Eclipse RCP, suggest me. Or, can we achieve exactly this functionality with JFace, Nebula Table controls ?

A: There are a couple of ways to do this. Please have a look at the following snippets:

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*SWT Snippet: edit the text of a table item (in place)

*JFace Snippet: Snippet88 - Demonstrates different CellEditor-Types in one COLUMN with 3.3-API of JFace-Viewers

Hope these examples are useful to you..

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Atishoo! Atishoo! You need a tissue!
Why Do You Need a Tissue?
First, think of a small particle of pollution – it looks like something like a ball with spikes. Now think about this prickly invader entering your nose and sticking to the soft membranes within. These mucus membranes are present on our bronchial and nasal passages and have immune cells. The immune cells or mast cells are loaded with histamines and receptors that work like a panic button.
When allergens – such as particles of pollution, dust, pollen, perfumes, mold or animal dander – touch the receptor cells, it alerts the mast cells, which cry out "STRANGER DANGER!" and release the histamine.
A runny nose, scratchy throat and rheumy eyes is because the histamine has reacted to the battle cry of the mast cells and is trying hard to get rid of the intruder. We then think we have allergies. But wouldn't it make more sense to shore up your defenses *before* your body goes into attack mode?
Here is where Ayurveda can help with natural treatments to build immunity as well as show you how to relieve allergies fast by knowing what kind of allergy you have.
Your primary dosha, or mind-body constitution, can lead you to understand your allergies better. If you don't know your primary dosha, you can take our quiz to find out.
Depending on what your dosha is your allergies will manifest different.
Fiery Pitta shows up as red eyes and inflamed, itchy nose and sinuses. You could also have a low-grade fever and feel irritable all around. If you go out into the sun, you will start sneezing non-stop. Pitta allergies can also manifest as a skin rashes and pounding headaches. Pollen is the main culprit behind Pitta allergies.
To pacify Pitta, Ayurveda advises cooking with cooling herbs such as coriander. Apart from these herbs such as guduchi, amla, aloe and neem are natural remedies for allergies and sinus. They can boost immunity as they are packed with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Eat foods that are rich in ghee to soothe the sinuses and calm any inflammations.
A Kapha allergy can be heavy and moist (think lots of mucus) just like the dosha. If you have a dull, heavy feeling in the head, a clogged nose and stuffy sinuses, sleepiness and swollen eyes, it's a Kaphagenic allergy attack. Damp, moldy allergens are the prime offenders of this type of allergy and can even lead to asthma in some.
There is a reason that Neti pots look like Alladin's lamp. They can magically flush away the allergens and clear out Kapha from the head and sinuses. Use a Neti pot with a saline solution to breathe better. A tea made with warming spices such as ginger, cinnamon, pepper, cardamom and turmeric can be extremely healing and relaxing. Place a few drops of eucalyptus, camphor or juniper essential oils diluted in sesame oil into each nostril (nasya) for a natural decongestant.
Chyavanprash is a time-tested remedy for enhancing immunity and keeping Kapha-related allergies at bay. Another excellent Ayurvedic remedy for allergy and sinusitis is triphala. Steep half a teaspoon of triphala in boiling water. Strain and drink up! Ayurveda recommends staying away from Kapha-causing foods like wheat and dairy products at this time.
Dust can bring on a Vata allergy attack which could cause the throat and lungs to run dry. You know you have a Vata allergy if you have a feeling of excessive dryness and discomfort in the throat, nose and sinuses. You will also suffer from headaches, achy muscles, dry eyes and feelings of restlessness. Asthma attacks with spasms may occur in very severe cases.
Natural remedies for allergies and sinus related to Vata dosha can be placing a few drops of sesame oil into each nostril to lubricate the dry nasal passages. Drink licorice (mulethi) or ginger tea to relieve the raspy throat. Immune modulators like ashwagandha can be of great help for Vata allergies. Dissolve a teaspoon of ashwagandha in a cup of warm milk during bedtime.


The Northern Lights project was a mass participation documentary film project that invited members of the public to submit footage about 'their' Scotland as a means to create a unique national self-portrait. Fifty-five filmmaking workshops were held with groups whom traditionally might not engage with large scale arts and media projects. The result was 1500 individual submissions that in turn generated over 300 hours of video footage that became a 98 minute documentary portrait of Scots at a time when the very politicalfuture of the nation is in question. The final film was the first ever Scottish documentary to be released in a commercial cinema chain.
Prof Nick Higgins, the producer and director of the project, will present clips from the feature film and explore the relationship between user-generated footage and the construction of Scottish identity in the context of the Independence referendum.
Nick Higgins is Professor of Media Practice and Director of the Creative Media Academy at the University of the West of Scotland. He is also the producer and director ofseveral award winning documentaries; including Hidden Gifts: The Mystery of Angus MacPhee, A Massacre Foretold and The New Ten Commandments. His films have been broadcast internationally on channels including German, Swedish, Dutch and Finnish television and his most recent film, We Are Northern Lights, a crowd sourced exploration of Scottish identity, was the first ever Scottish documentary to be released in the cinema multiplex chain, Cineworld.


Knowing how to contact the right person at your child's school can make you a more effective advocate. Take the time to learn who does what and how to best communicate with that person or department.
At the start of each school year, gather the information in the list below. Keep it on hand so that when issues arise you can go straight to the right person.


>> Cooking With Toddlers: What You Can Cook and What You Can't?
Let's face it; cooking with a toddler can be fun or frustrating. While cooking with such small children, you need to have some toddler-friendly recipes. These recipes should be super forgiving and written by experienced moms.
If you want your kids to learn how to cook, it is best to start early when they're toddlers. Cooking with a young child can be challenging but also fun and rewarding as well. You can help your child develop a love for cooking which is great.
Hygiene comes first when cooking; therefore, wash your child's hands first because he is definitely going to touch everything in sight.
Protect the child's clothes with an apron because messes are going to be made. You can make the kid's size apron at home or buy one at the store.
Pull up a chair or a stable stool. This will help the toddler see what you're doing and follow the process.
Start by showing your child what is being done before you let her go at it.
Explain clearly so that your toddler understands what you're doing.
Let the little one do the simple things like pushing the button to start the mixer, stirring batter or emptying out a measuring cup into a bowl. Toddlers love to do these simple activities.
Keep the toddler away from hot things. This is pretty obvious and you need to ensure that when you're opening the hot oven or cooking on the stove, your child is not near enough to get burned.
Space rock cakes are perfect for toddlers as they are forgiving, there's no need to follow strict instructions. All you need is some butter, plain flour, baking powder, brown sugar, raisins, an egg, milk and edible glitter to use as the space dust.
Jam tarts are sweet treats that toddlers will enjoy making. Ingredients include some all-purpose flour, lard, margarine, salt, cold water, and jam. You will need a mixing bowl, a sieve, a tablespoon, a table knife, rolling pin, pastry cutter, teaspoon and a bun tin.
Cupcakes are superb for kids as they will love the decoration part. To make some simple cupcakes you need two eggs, margarine, sugar, self-raising flour, and vanilla extract.
Cookies such as rainbow crush cookies and strawberry jam thumbprint cookies are interesting cooking ideas with toddlers. To make the rainbow crush cookies all you need is some margarine, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, a big egg, vanilla extract, self-raising flour, sugar-coated candy, milk chocolate chips, and raisins.
Ice pops are nice during the hot summer weather. All you need is some juice, Cool-aid or concentrated juice and some water.
All the above sweet treats are easy to make with toddlers. There will be messes made but all in all, it is a fun learning experience.
Homemade Bruschetta's are a great way to get the children to create their own meals. Provide the selections and guide them on how to make a fast and easy dish that they will enjoy making themselves.
Squashed tomato pasta sauce may be a bit messy but it tastes great and your toddlers are bound to enjoy the sensory cooking task.
Lettuce wraps are nice as they don't need any cooking.
Patacones are also great but caution should be taken here. The kids can mash the green bananas, but an adult should probably do most of the frying as the oil is hot.
Crockpot stone soup is also perfect for toddlers because once all the ingredients are put in, your kids can move away from the source of heat.
Making sweet or savory bread is quite fun to make with toddlers. Make sure that it's a very simple recipe so that the bread will rise and taste delicious.
Hedgehog rolls are a great form of themed bread.
Pizza is pretty easy and fun to cook with toddlers.
It's the love season; you can make some valentines chocolate cupcakes. You can give them a heart shape and kids will love these treats as they share with the ones they love.
Some traditional Easter cookies and a chocolate nest are perfect for making with toddlers. Utilize Easter shaped cookie cutters to make the decoration process more interesting.
Witches Cauldron cakes are superb for this creepy season. Have fun as you make them with your little ones.
Cheese puffs which are definitely very easy to make.
Number cookies which will help your young one learn more about counting.
Small children are very sensitive, therefore, there are some things you should not make in the kitchen with your toddler.
Onions make the eyes teary, so it's not wise to cut onions with your small child.
Spices are also not good to make with toddlers as they can get into the child's eyes accidentally.
Your child can help you prepare the ingredients and do the easy parts, but when it comes to dealing with a source of heat your child should stay away. Don't let him near hot oil, boiling water, oven, etc.
All in all, while cooking with toddlers, caution should be practiced to avoid accidents. Keep a keen eye on your little one during the whole process.


If you are one of the lucky few who has a Macbook Pro Retina in their possession AND you happen to be a Lotus Domino developer, then this article is for you! This will perhaps not appeal to the broadest of audiences, but to the selected few – I hope it will be of value.
There are a surprising number of Domino Developers who choose to run on Mac, myself included. If this is just because we have good taste, or because of something else I leave to you, my beloved readers, to judge. For a Domino Developer there really isn't much of a benefit, as we still need to run Wintendos since Domino Designer isn't available on OS X just yet. (From what I hear it won't be anytime soon either). There are a number of options that are available to you when your forced in to the Windows environment using a Mac: Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop or Vmware Fusion being the most popular.
Personally, I prefer Parallels Desktop 8. I did run with Vmware Fusion 4 for a while, but decided to give Parallels a shot and haven't looked back! In all fairness: I haven't tried Vmvare Fusion 5, but to be honest I haven't found a reason to switch from Parallels. It performs better in general and just feels more complete (comparing previous releases), especially with the new 8 release.
Parallels claimed Retina support even with R7 and that was just a bunch of crock, in plain english. But with R8 they have delivered!
Now, finally, we're getting to the really juicy bits!
Plenty of space for code!
Follow @jBoive for updates and/or stay tuned!
I was hoping for more setup info. I have Parallesl 8 and rMBP but my text sizes and icons are tiny at the default settings. I played with various resolutions in Windows 7, Parallels and rMBP but haven't found anything that show normal sized icon/fonts like your screen shots.
If something still is unclear then hit me back.
I had not seen that. Thank you.


Tamil Wedding – Shagun – Shubh Aarambh | All about the Indian Weddings, The Themes, Customs, Arrangements, Pre wedding Preparations all in one Place.
Tamil marriages are not very showy and extravagant as Tamilians believe insimple living. Tamil people are very particular about their customs and traditions. However, Tamil weddings are attended by distant relatives and friends and hence are held on a large scale. There are many wedding rituals which are observed by them, without which the marriage is deemed incomplete. The important Tamil wedding rituals are given below.
The wedding rituals begin with Panda Kaal Muhurtham, wherein the families of the bride and the groom pray to the Lord for an uninterrupted wedding ceremony. After this, the groom is welcomed with the traditional aarti by the bride's side on the day before marriage. He is offered sweets, sprinkled with rose water and even a coconut is broken to ward off any evil. Next is Vratham, which is a small puja organized before marriage. Following this is Pallikai Thellichal ceremony, as per which grains are sprouted in earthen pots, which are later immersed in a pond to feed the fishes.
The next ritual is Naandi, in which Brahmins are given gifts and sweets to seek their blessings for the wedding alliance. Nicchiyadharatham is the formal engagement ceremony, wherein the bride and the groom exchange rings. After this, the Reading of Lagna Pathirigai takes place, which is formally announcing the wedding and reading out aloud the wedding invitation, to inform everybody about the formalizing of the alliance.
On the day of the wedding, Mangala Snaanam takes place, as per which the bride and the groom take purifying bath. Before the bath, oil and haldi-kumkum are applied to them. Another interesting ritual is Kashi Yatra, wherein the groom threatens everyone to leave for Kashi and lead a life of ascetic. He is stopped by the bride's father, who promises to give his daughter to her. After this, the groom heads towards the mandap, where he meets the bride.
Then the exchange of garlands takes place between the bride and the groom. This is followed by the Oonjal ritual, wherein the couple is seated on a swing and given milk and banana to eat. Rice balls are used to prevent them from evil eye. This is followed by Kanyadaanam, in which the bride's father gives away his daughter to the groom. After this, Muhurtum ritual takes place wherein the groom ties mangalsutra and puts vermillion to the bride. Subsequently, they take seven rounds and seven vows around the sacred fire called Saptapadi.
After the wedding, both the families exchange gifts with each other. This is called Sammandhi Mariyathai. After all the wedding ceremonies are over, the bride leaves with her husband for her marital home. Here, she is welcomed by her new family with the traditional aarti. This is known as Grihapravesham. In the evening, the Reception party takes place, which is an informal event. The guests meet the newly wed couple and give them blessings. This is followed by sumptuous dinner.


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The councils in Dorset are in the process of preparing a Dorset-wide Gypsy and Traveller (including Travelling Show people) Development Plan Document (DPD) to allocate permanent and transit sites for the next 15 years.
An assessment of the accommodation available in Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole was prepared for the councils by consultants Opinion Research Services.
The number of sites and pitches needed were reviewed in the light of revised government guidance.
Find out how we currently respond to unauthorised Gypsy and Traveller encampments in the borough.


Live the Peaceful life here in this charming ''A'' Frame custom built home! RIVER ACCESS WITH NO RIVER TAXES! Makes this a perfect retreat for the one who wants to have quiet time away from the busy life! Like to fish? This could be yours. Beautiful 2 acre lot with large oaks perfect for shade as you relax on the back deck overlooking the St. Johns River. As the weather gets cooler you can sit in front of the fireplace and enjoy the coziness of cabin like living!


Figs and Prosciutto, savory and sweet they're a match made in heaven! Add some fresh mozzarella, peppery arugula and balsamic dressing and this salad will make you swoon with every bite.
It's the start of fig season, and California Figs sent me a ton of figs to play around with. I've been eating them as is, adding them to my overnight oats, but one of my favorite ways I've enjoyed them is in this delicious salad which also happens to be quite beautiful.
I still have lots of figs to use up before they go bad, what's your favorite way to eat figs?
Combine the oil, balsamic, lemon juice, salt and pepper and whisk.
Place the arugula on a large platter, top with proscuitto, cheese, basil and figs and drizzle with dressing.
Loved this! Minus the cheese but this was fantastic for sure!
Substitute for the figs please ? Thank you !!
I love to stuff figs with a bit of ricotta and then drizzle with honey and a sprinkle of cinnamon. Its a great light breakfast for next summer's fig season!
This is delicious! I added 2 pear slices because it was so easy and delicious! I used an apple slicer to cut the pear into slices. Then I carefully cut the slices into smaller pieces. I added them to my salad. Then chopped up the rest for a lovely dessert post-lunch.
I made this without arugula and just with the spinach I had around. I also used dried figs and found this premade roll of prociutto and basil wrapped mozzerella. I simply chopped everything up and made my balsamic dressing and tossed it for lunch. It was amazing! Thanks for the idea!
I've been making this for years but I use Parmesan shavings i/o mozzarella. It's stunning and absolutely heavenly!
T his looks so good! I tried many of your recipes and all of them were delicious. The Lavash Flatbread Pizzas were something else. The only thing is the number of SmartPoints isn't given because the recipe goes back to 2011, I think. I'll try the Recipe Builder and start to use that.
I just had this for lunch. I absolutely loved it! A new menu item for my rotation! Thank you for sharing all these wonderful recipes! I haven't been disappointed in any of your recipes!
This came across my email this morning & I just had to make it for dinner… Mission figs were bogo at Publix & I had a fridge full.. Let me just say it was AWESOME!!! We just loved the way all the flavor came together! Since it was just the two of us I made half the recipe but made the full dressing! We will definitely be having this again this week! Thanks for another great recipe!
Yes skins on and sure you can use the packaged figs.
That is a beautiful salad! I like to slice figs and put on top of crackers with boursin cheese. Figs are always so pretty!
Roast the figs and substitute goat cheese for the mozzarella. Amazing.
When your recipes show saturated fat as just a g does that mean 0 grams? For my entries on WW smart points it is necessary to show saturated fat grams. Other nutritional entries in your recipes show 0g but this one does not. It looks delicious and your recipes have truly helped me keep at my WW goal weight for 3 years.
No I left it out. I calculate the smart points with WW recipe builder, the calculator is not accurate as vegetables and fruit are 0 but would not be if you plugged them into the calculator.
I am swooning over this right now. Prosciutto and mozzarella are two of my favorite foods!
I'm making this asap! Thanks Gina!
Serrano ham is a dry-cured, Spanish ham. A suitable substitute for the prosciutto, I would think.
Serrano ham is a dry cured Spanish ham.
I happen to have all ingredients in my fridge! (well, not prosciutto but serrano, but I'm not afraid of tweaking recipes). Guess what I'm having for lunch!
This salad is very similar to my favorite fig recipe.


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Lautsprechersignale sind die Signale, die bei der üblichen Stereo-Tonaufnahme erzeugt und bei der Stereo-Lautsprecherwiedergabe zur Richtungslokalisation und zur räumlichen Auffächerung, sowie zur Tiefenstaffelung des Klangkörpers benötigt werden. Sie stehen im Gegensatz zu den Ohrsignalen, die durch die beiden Ohren des Menschen aufgenommen werden.

Grundlagen
Die Signale zwischen den Lautsprechern bilden frequenzneutrale (!) Pegelunterschiede, als Interchannel-Pegeldifferenz, sowie Laufzeitunterschiede als Interchannel-Laufzeitdifferenz, die für das Stereoverfahren maßgeblich sind. Das ist die übliche "Stereofonie", also die Lautsprecherstereofonie. Die Hörereignisrichtung der Phantomschallquellen auf der Lautsprecherbasis können mit den Panpots (Panoramareglern) und den damit zu regelnden frequenzneutralen Pegeldifferenzen eingestellt werden. Δ Lmax = 18 dB (16 bis 20 dB) gelten für volle Seitwärtsrichtung aus einem Lautsprecher. Auch mit den Laufzeitdifferenzen der Mikrofonsysteme sind die Phantomschallquellen auf der Lautsprecherbasis zu verändern. Δ tmax = 1,5 ms (1 bis 2 ms) wirken signalabhängig bei voller Seitwärtsrichtung aus einem Lautsprecher. Diese je nach Schalleinfallswinkel unterschiedlichen Differenzen werden von den jeweiligen Stereo-Mikrofonanordnungen erzeugt, die damit auch den wichtigen Aufnahmebereich des Mikrofonsystems liefern.

Gegensätze
Im deutlichen Gegensatz hierzu stehen die interauralen Signaldifferenzen ("zwischen den Ohren") beim natürlichen Hören und bei der Wiedergabe von binauralen Kunstkopfsignalen über Kopfhörer. Hierbei werden frequenzbewertete Signale ILD = Interaural Level Difference und ITD = Interaural Time Difference genannt. Das sind die Ohrsignale, als speziell frequenzabhängige Pegeldifferenzen, die Spektraldifferenzen genannt werden, sowie dem Ohrabstand entsprechende Laufzeitdifferenzen (ITDmax = 0,63 ms), die von einem binauralen Kunstkopf durch Mikrofone in den Ohrmuscheln hergestellt werden und die über Kopfhörer abgehört werden müssen. Im englischsprachigen Raum heißt diese Kopfhörer-Stereofonie unverwechselbar "Binaural Recording and Reproduction" und unter "Stereophony" wird dort allein die übliche Lautsprecher-Stereofonie verstanden.

Beide Verfahren stehen sich gegenüber und sind unbedingt sorgfältig auseinanderzuhalten.

Kunstkopf-Aufnahmen, die über Stereo-Lautsprecher wiedergegeben werden, und übliche Stereo-Mikrofonaufnahmen, die über Kopfhörer wiedergegeben werden, müssen ein in Klangfarbe und Richtungsabbildung verändertes falsches Klangbild liefern. Es ist müßig, eine Kompatibilität (Übereinstimmung) herbeizureden, die hierbei nicht vorhanden ist.

Es gibt zahlreiche Versuche mit Laufzeit-Übersprechkompensationen (Crosstalk Canceller) und Filterentzerrung, um Kunstkopfaufnahmen, wenn auch nur für einen relativ kleinen Abhörbereich, für Stereo-Lautsprecherwiedergabe anhörbar zu machen (Transaural-Stereo). Umgekehrt gibt es Versuche mit Laufzeit- und Filter-Entzerrung, um Stereo-Mikrofonaufnahmen auch für Kopfhörerwiedergabe anhörbar zu machen, d. h. um besonders die "Im-Kopf-Lokalisation" zu beseitigen.

Die Einteilung in "raumbezogene Stereofonie" und "kopfbezogene Stereofonie" ist wenig glücklich, weil jegliches Stereohören unseren Kopf mit den Ohren benötigt, also kopfbezogen ist. Wir kommen mit den klar zu unterscheidenden Begriffen: "Lautsprecher-Stereo" und "Kopfhörer-Stereo" aus.

Literatur
 Thomas Görne: Tontechnik. 1. Auflage, Carl Hanser Verlag, Leipzig, 2006, ISBN 3-446-40198-9
 Michael Dickreiter, Volker Dittel, Wolfgang Hoeg, Martin Wöhr (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Tonstudiotechnik, 8., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, 2 Bände, Verlag: Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-028978-7 oder e-ISBN 978-3-11-031650-6

Siehe auch
Stereofonie | Laufzeitstereofonie | Intensitätsstereofonie | Äquivalenzstereofonie | Lautsprecherstereofonie | Elevation |
Interchannel | Interaural | Hörereignisrichtung |  Lokalisation (Akustik) | Abstandsgesetz | Lateralisation |
Stereobasis | Stereodreieck | Lautsprecherbasis | Summenlokalisation

Weblinks
Hörereignisrichtung in Abhängigkeit von der Interchannel-Pegeldifferenz Δ L (PDF-Datei; 114 kB)
Hörereignisrichtung in Abhängigkeit von der Interchannel-Laufzeitdifferenz Δ t (PDF-Datei; 112 kB)
Phantomschallquellenabbildung auf der Lautsprecherbasis (PDF-Datei; 188 kB)
Die beiden gegensätzlichen Stereo-Verfahren (PDF-Datei; 36 kB)

Beschallungstechnik
Raumklang

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Monday was a holiday here in the States - Labor Day - and all week I've been thinking that today was Tuesday instead of Wednesday. I usually post my Tumblr Favorites on Tuesday but with the holiday this week I lost a day! Humm! So, I decided to go ahead with my Tumblr Favorites today - "Feelin' Fallish"!
I hope you enjoy this random selection of Fall images from my Tumblr blog. They are some of my favorites and will definitely get you in the mood for the season! Enjoy!


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Q: Interaction.Behaviors does not work in SplitView? I use SplitView for my XAML page. Inside the SplitView, trigger behavior doesn't work.
For example:
<SplitView.Content>
 <Grid>
  <Button x:Name="Button">
    <Interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
      <Core:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="Click" >
         <Core:GoToStateAction StateName="SplitViewState />
      </Core:EventTriggerBehavior>
    </Interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
  </Button>

 </Grid>
</SplitView.Content>

When clicking the button, nothing happens. It works on elements outside the SplitView.

A: I guess you missed setup TargetObject value.
<Button Content="click me"
        HorizontalAlignment="Center"
        VerticalAlignment="Center">
    <I:Interaction.Behaviors>
        <Core:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="Click" >
            <Core:GoToStateAction TargetObject="{Binding ElementName=MySplitView}"
                                  StateName="OpenOverlayLeft"/>
        </Core:EventTriggerBehavior>
    </I:Interaction.Behaviors>
</Button>

UPDATED
Look at behavior with 4 buttons which placed inside SplitView.Content, SplitView.Pane and outside. All works very well.
<Grid Background="{ThemeResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
    <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <ColumnDefinition/>
        <ColumnDefinition/>
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    <SplitView x:Name="MySplitView"
               PaneBackground="Gray"
               DisplayMode="CompactOverlay"
               IsPaneOpen="True"
               CompactPaneLength="50"
               OpenPaneLength="280">
        <SplitView.Pane>
            <Grid>
                <Button Content="close inside"
                        HorizontalAlignment="Center"
                        VerticalAlignment="Center">
                    <i:Interaction.Behaviors>
                        <core:EventTriggerBehavior EventName="Click" >
                            <core:GoToStateAction TargetObject="{Binding ElementName=MySplitView}"
                                                  StateName="Closed"/>
                        </core:EventTriggerBehavior>
                    </i:Interaction.Behaviors>
                </Button>
            </Grid>
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\section{INTRODUCTION}

Breast cancer is a leading cause of mortality in women \cite{desantis2017breast}. Its early detection through large-scale screening is critical for timely intervention but requires the manual evaluation of a large number of mammograms \cite{miller2014twenty}. However, only a small proportion of the entire screening population actually exhibits salient markers for malignancy. Thus, automated diagnostic tools can reduce the Radiologist's workload by referring only the suspicious cases to them and may also aid in minimizing the inter and intra-expert variations in diagnosis.

Breast cancer is primarily characterized by the presence of malignant lumps or tumors called mass in addition to other secondary indications such as the distribution of microcalcifications, asymetries,  and architectural distortions \cite{birads}. A non-cancerous benign mass typically has a smooth and regular shape while a malignant mass is usually characterized by irregular and indistinct margins.
Many recent methods for screening breast cancer \cite{dhungel2017fully}, \cite{kooi2017large} first segment the lesions and then extract features from the detected lesions for image-level classification into a benign or malignant class.  In \cite{dhungel2017fully}, the lesion segmentation maps for multi-view images of the same breast were provided as input to an ensemble of ResNet models for breast level classification. In \cite{kooi2017large}, handcrafted features were augmented with Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) features to improve classification.  A transfer learning approach was employed in \cite{shen2019deep} where a patch level classifer was first trained to detect the lesions and then extended using additional convolutional layers at the end to obtain the image-level classifier. Alternatively, few single stage Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) approaches \cite{miccai_mil}  have been explored which extract features from dense patches obtained from the entire image without lesion segmentation. The sparse patch level prediction scores from a classifier are aggregated into image-level predictions using a max operation \cite{miccai_mil}.

\begin{figure}[]
 \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.48\textwidth]{graphical_abstract_mammogram.pdf}
 \caption{Pipeline of the proposed method.}
\label{Fig:pipeline}
 \end{figure}

 \begin{figure*}[]
 \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.9 \textwidth]{stage1_detection.pdf}
 \caption{The block diagram and CNN architecture used in Stage 1 to detect the bounding boxes of the mass regions in the mammogram.}
\label{Fig:localization}
 \end{figure*}

The image-level screening of mammograms is a challenging task. Since a mass occupies a very small region (around $2 \%$ \cite{miccai_mil}) in the entire mammogram, the classifier must learn to attend to localized suspicious regions while ignoring the large healthy background tissue. Moreover, discriminating between a benign, malignant mass and a dense healthy fibro-glandular tissue is a challenging task as they often share a similar intensity and texture profile.
Finally, the explainability of an automated system in terms of an approximate localization of the mass which led to the prediction of cancer is critical for deployment in a real-world scenario.

To address these issues, we explore a two-stage framework depicted in Fig. \ref{Fig:pipeline}. A localization network is trained in the first stage to extract local candidate patches in the mammograms that may contain either a benign or malignant mass. In the second stage, a Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) formulation is employed to obtain a global image-level feature representation from the extracted image patches to classify the mammograms. In contrast to the existing single stage MIL methods, we hypothesize that restricting the MIL framework only to the regions detected in the first stage may make its task simpler resulting in improved classification performance. The proposed method has been found to provide a robust mass localization and competitive image-level classification performance on the INbreast dataset \cite{moreira2012inbreast}. The efficacy of utilizing the localization network in improving the image-level classification performance has also been demonstrated experimentally. The details of the proposed method is presented in Section \ref{Sec:Method} followed by a discussion of the experimental results in Section \ref{Sec:result} and concluding remarks in Section \ref{Sec:conclusion}.

\section{METHOD}
\label{Sec:Method}
The proposed method employs a two-stage framework (see Fig. \ref{Fig:pipeline}) to ensure that it only attends to the clinically relevant localized regions in the mammogram for its predictions. The first stage is a \textit{localization network} that detects multiple bounding boxes in each image which are the candidate regions in the mammogram that may contain either a benign or a malignant mass. A set of image patches are extracted from the detected regions and employed in the second stage for the image-level prediction. The second stage employs a MIL strategy to obtain a global image-level feature representation by computing a weighted average of  patch-level features. Both the aggregation weights and the patch-level features are obtained by applying a CNN model to each image patch. Further details are discussed below.

\noindent \textbf{Image Preprocessing: }
A tight crop around the breast region is obtained by roughly segmenting it using Otsu Thresholding to remove the dark background and resized to $640 \times 320$ pixels. The images are whitened to zero mean and unit variance. During training, the data augmentation is performed with random vertical and horizontal flips, translation and scaling within a range of 0.2 times the image dimensions, and rotations within $\pm 30 ^\circ$ to improve generalization.

\noindent \textbf{Stage 1, Localization of Mass: } The localization network employs a Fully Convolutional Network similar to U-Net \cite{ronneberger2015u} with the number of convolutional filters in each layer modified for our task as depicted in Fig. \ref{Fig:localization}. The output of the localization network is a softmap where the value at each pixel is the probability ($\in [0,1]$) that it belongs to a mass. It is post-processed to obtain the detection bounding boxes as follows. First, the softmap is binarized by thresholding at $0.5$ and a morphological closing operating is applied to remove small spurious regions and smooth the boundaries of the detected regions. Thereafter, a tight bounding box is extracted around each of the detected connected components.

A linear combination of the weighted binary cross-entropy (WCE) loss (with a weight of 0.8) and the soft Dice loss \cite{milletari2016v} (with a weight of 0.2) is employed at a pixel-level to train the localization network. A weight of 28 is given to the positive class in the WCE loss based on the ratio of the number of foreground to background pixels in the Ground Truth (GT) bounding boxes.

\noindent \textbf{Patch Extraction: }
Once the localization network has been trained, 5 candidate patches (one at the center and four from each corner) of size $64 \times 64$ pixels are extracted from each of the detected bounding boxes. We note that not all the extracted patches are malignant as some will contain benign masses while a few of them may be False Positives containing healthy fibro-glandular tissues that have a similar intensity and texture characteristics as that of a mass. In rare cases, where no masses were detected, a set of 5 patches were randomly selected from the bright regions in the entire image.

\begin{figure*}[]
 \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.9 \textwidth]{CNN_stage2Copy.pdf}
 \caption{ The Multiple Instance Learning Framework in Fig. (a) extracts a set of local features $\vec{f_{i}}$ and corresponding scalar weights $\alpha _{i}$ by applying a single CNN model which shares the same model weights across the different patches. The image level feature $\vec{f}_{glbl}$ is obtained as the weighted average of the local features and used for benign vs. malignant classification using a FC layer. The architecture of the patch level CNN is detailed in Fig. (b). }
\label{Fig:mil}
 \end{figure*}

\noindent \textbf{Stage 2, Image-level Classification:}
In Stage 2, our objective is to perform  a benign vs. malignant classification at the image-level by only attending to the set of $N$ candidate patches denoted  by  $\lbrace \vec{p}_{i}| 1 \le i \le N, i \in \mathbb{Z}^+ \rbrace$ which were extracted in the previous stage. $N$ may vary across different images. An image belongs to the positive class if \textit{at least one} $\vec{p}_{i}$ contains a malignant mass while \textit{none} of the $\lbrace \vec{p}_{i}| 1 \le i \le n \rbrace$ in a benign image can have a malignant mass. However, the GT class labels are only available at the image-level and not known for each individual patch. No specific ordering is assumed among the image patches. This image-level classification task can be posed as a MIL where each image is treated as a \textit{Bag} of $N$ \textit{Instances} which represent the image patches $\vec{p}_{i}$.

\textit{In contrast to the MIL approach in \cite{miccai_mil} which attempted to combine the individual predictions for each $\vec{p}_{i}$  using sparsity constraints and max-pooling operations, we directly obtain the image-level prediction without explicitly classifying each $\vec{p}_{i}$ individually.} We employ an embedding-level approach similar to \cite{ams_mil} which is depicted in Fig. \ref{Fig:mil} (a). Each image patch $\vec{p}_{i}$ is encoded  into a 512-dimensional feature vector $\vec{f}_{i}$ using a CNN model which additionally computes a scalar attention weight $\alpha _{i}$. Each $ \alpha _{i}$ is normalized using the $Softmax \left( \left ( \alpha _{1}, \alpha _{2}, ... \alpha _{N} \right ) \right ) $ operation. Finally, the global image-level feature is computed as $\vec{f}_{glbl}= \sum _{i=1}^{N} \alpha _{i} . \vec{f}_{i} $ and used for binary classification using an FC layer with 1 neuron and $Sigmoid()$ activation. The binary cross-entropy loss was used to train the entire MIL architecture in Fig. \ref{Fig:mil} (a) and the class imbalance was handled during training by oversampling the instances of the malignant class with data augmentation.

The $Softmax \left( \left ( \alpha _{1}, \alpha _{2}, ... \alpha _{N} \right ) \right ) $ operation normalizes the attention weights to sum to 1 thereby ensuring that the scale of $\vec{f}_{glbl}$ is invariant to $N$ and also induces a regional competition among the image patches. The same CNN model with identical network weights is applied to each $\vec{p}_{i}$ to obtain $\vec{f}_{i}$ and $\alpha _{i}$ whose architecture is detailed in Fig.  \ref{Fig:mil} (b).

\section{EXPERIMENTS}
\label{Sec:result}

\noindent \textbf{Dataset: }
Similar to \cite{miccai_mil}, the proposed framework has been evaluated on the  INbreast dataset \cite{moreira2012inbreast}.
It consists of 410 Full-field Digital Mammographic images in both MLO and CC views from 115 subjects  out of which 310 are benign and 100 contain malignant masses. The Ground Truth (GT) contains a rough localization of the masses and the class labels for benign (0) or malignant (1) for each image. If a mammogram with cancer has multiple masses, at least one (or more) of the masses will be malignant but the GT for each mass is not available as class labels are only available at the image level.

A stratified five-fold cross-validation was performed for evaluation. In contrast to \cite{miccai_mil} which partitioned the dataset at an image-level, we partitioned the five folds at the subject level thereby ensuring that the MLO/CC views of the same breast do not occur simultaneously in both the train and test splits in any fold. This ensures that the performance evaluation is not biased due to overfitting. The implementation of \cite{miccai_mil} made available by its authors\footnotemark is re-trained on our fold partitions for a fair benchmark comparison.

\noindent \textbf{Training Details:}
The first and second stages are trained separately. Once the localization network has been trained, it is used to extract the image patches which are then used to train the second stage. The localization network in Stage 1 is trained  for 300 epochs with a batch size of 8 and 36 batch updates per epoch. The Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) optimizer is employed with a learning rate of 0.001, weight decay of 0.0005 and the learning rate is decayed by 0.1 after 50, 200 and 250 epochs.

The MIL network in Stage 2 is trained for 100 epochs using the SGD optimizer with a learning rate of 0.001, weight decay of 0.0005 and the learning rate is decayed by 0.1 after 50 epochs. During implementation, each training batch is of a variable size $N$ and is composed of all image patches extracted from a single image.

\noindent \textbf{Implementation Details:} The proposed method is implemented in Python 3 using the PyTorch 1.0 library and trained on a server with $2$ Intel Xeon E5-2620 CPU with $64$ GB RAM, $2$ TB HDD and 3 Nvidia GTX TITAN X GPU with $12$ GB RAM.

\noindent \textbf{Performance of mass localization: } The objective of the localization network in Stage 1 is not an accurate semantic segmentation but to obtain an approximate localization of the masses in terms of bounding boxes to enable the extraction of the candidate image patches for the second stage. We also note that the MIL framework can learn to ignore the False Positives (FP) from the first stage by assigning $\vec{\alpha _{i}} \approx 0$ for these patches. A predicted bound box is treated as a True Positive (TP) if it has an Intersection over Union (IoU) greater than 0.5 with respect to the GT bounding box. The localization network performed reasonably well with an average \textit{Precision of $0.76 \pm 0.09$} and an average \textit{Recall of  $0.80 \pm 0.12$} across the five-fold cross-validation.

\footnotetext{github.com/wentaozhu/deep-mil-for-whole-mammogram-classification/}

The localization performance has also been evaluated at a \textit{pixel} level using the FROC plots presented in Fig. \ref{Fig:plots} (a), where the TP (FP) is defined as the number of pixels in the predicted regions that lie within any (outside all) of the GT bounding boxes in each image. \footnote{Additional qualitative results for mass localization are available online at: \url{http://bit.do/EMBC2020_mammogram}}

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 \centering
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 \caption{(a) FROC curves for the localization of mass in Stage 1 for the five folds. (b) A qualitative result of the mass localization in Stage 1 for the mammogram in left is depicted in the right image, with the GT marked in Red and our result in Green. (c) The ROC curves for the proposed image level benign vs. malignant classification for the five folds. The ROC curves for \cite{miccai_mil} is also plotted for each fold using dashed line of same color.}
\label{Fig:plots}
 \end{figure*}

\noindent \textbf{Performance of Image-level Classification: } The average image-level classification performance of the proposed method across the five folds and the corresponding ROC plot are presented in Table \ref{Tab_stage2} and Fig. \ref{Fig:plots} (c) respectively.
The performance of employing the proposed MIL-framework alone without using the localization network in Stage 1 was also evaluated by extracting a dense set of overlapping image patches with a stride of $8$ pixels from the entire breast region and retraining our MIL framework. The proposed two-stage framework was found to significantly outperform Stage 2 alone (see Table \ref{Tab_stage2})  demonstrating the efficacy of the localization network in simplifying the classification task in the second stage by restricting it to the suspicious regions in the image.

Our method with an average AUC of $0.91$ outperforms the existing MIL based method in \cite{miccai_mil} by $\frac{0.91-0.89}{0.89} \times 100=2.25 \%$ in terms of AUC. Moreover, our method has a \textit{significantly better Sensitivity-Specificity trade-off in comparison to \cite{miccai_mil}} (see Table \ref{Tab_stage2}) which is desirable in screening systems.

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\caption{\scriptsize{Average five-fold cross-validation performance for image-level Benign vs. Malignant Clasification. The Sensitivity (Sens.), Specificity (Spec.), Balanced Accuracy (B. Acc.) and Area under ROC curve (AUC) are reported as mean $\pm$ standard deviation.}}
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Proposed               & $0.96 \pm 0.04$     & $0.77 \pm 0.13 $     &   $0.86 \pm 0.08$     &  $0.91 \pm 0.06  $  \\
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\section{CONCLUSION}
\label{Sec:conclusion}

Mammograms are commonly employed in the large scale screening of breast cancer which is primarily characterized by the presence of malignant masses. However, image-level detection of cancer poses many challenges due to the small size of the mass regions in the entire image and the difficulty in discriminating between malignant, benign mass and healthy dense fibro-glandular tissues.

In this work, we propose a two-stage framework to address these issues. In the first stage, bounding boxes around the mass regions are detected which are used to extract a set of candidate image patches. The second stage  employs a MIL strategy to obtain a global image-level feature representation by computing a weighted average of patch-level features learned using a CNN. Our method performed reasonably well on the task of localization of masses with an average Precision/Recall of $0.76/0.80$ and achieved an average AUC of 0.91 on the image-level classification task outperforming a state-of-the-art MIL based method.
Finally, performing a more fine-grained 6-level classification in the second stage to predict the BIRADS severity scale \cite{birads} presents a challenging direction for future work.

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