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Obituary of Phyllis R. Wittner
Phyllis Gillman Wittner, 89, was born May 20, 1931, in Brooklyn, NY. She passed away May 4, 2021. Phyllis grew up in Far Rockaway and Woodmere, NY, and attended Lawrence High School. She briefly attended Marietta College before transferring to, and graduating from, the University of Vermont where she majored in commerce and economics. Phyllis, her brother and sister, the late Dr. Arthur Gillman and Eileen Veit, were raised by their mother, the late Sadie "Mitzi" Gillman, who instilled in all her children the importance of family. In her youth, Phyllis was a tomboy who loved fishing and the outdoors, passions she held throughout her life.
In 1955, Phyllis married Murray Wittner, her husband of 65 years. She knew Murray as a child, he was her brother Arthur's best friend. It was only after Murray returned from the Korean War, however, that he noticed Phyllis. The two would go for long drives so Murray could practice driving. The couple lived in New York briefly after marrying then moved to Watertown, MA, West Haven, CT, Mamaroneck, NY, ultimately settling in Larchmont, NY, in 1963.
According to legend, Phyllis began her "career" as a community environmentalist–volunteer shortly after Town Supervisor Christine Helwig payed her a visit, urging her to get involved. And involved she did become. Calling herself a "full-time mother and full-time volunteer," Phyllis was active with the local schools, served in a variety of capacities with the Hutchinson River and Westchester-Putnam Councils of the Boy Scouts of America—including being the Algonquin District Advancement Chairperson and a member of the Eagle Scout Review Board. She earned the District Award of Merit for her efforts. In 1986, Phyllis began her long association with the Coastal Zone Management Commission, discovering her true calling, environmental activism and especially wetlands preservation.
It was Town Supervisor Elaine Price who convinced Phyllis to run for town office in 1996. Phyllis ultimately served for 18 years as a councilwoman on the Town of Mamaroneck Board where she worked on a variety of environmental preservation projects. She continued as chair of the Coastal Zone Management Commission and expanded her activities. She chaired both the Long Island Sound Watershed Inter-Municipal Council, and Westchester County Watershed Advisory Committee, served on the Westchester County Committee on Nonpoint Source Pollution in Long Island Sound, wrote the environmental impact statement protecting Bonnie Briar Country Club from developers, and received more than $2.7 million in grants to restore the Premium River tidal marshlands. Phyllis continued to volunteer locally, fighting to protect local wetlands as president of the Premium River–Pine Brook Preservation Association and as an advisor to the Pryer Manor Marsh Preservation Association. In 2007, she published A History of Conservation in the Town of Mamaroneck, 1948–2006.
Phyllis was liaison to the Fire Council and Housing Authority and honorary Fire Chief. She was always proud of "her boys" in the town fire department, who outfitted a golf cart for her to ride in during local parades. The fire department, volunteer ambulance corps, and police department took good care of Phyllis in her later years. She never missed an opportunity to brag about them and we are eternally grateful for their friendship and service.
Phyllis is predeceased by her husband Murray, and is survived by daughter Lisa (Jack Schwarz) Wittner, son David (Hsin Hsin) Wittner, and grandsons Michael and Hunter, as well as niece and nephew Sarah and Theodore Gillman. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Phyllis' memory to the Town of Mamaroneck Fire Department (https://tmfd.org/donation/), Larchmont/Mamaroneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps (https://www.larchmontvac.org/donate.html), or the Sheldrake Environmental Center (https://www.sheldrakecenter.org/donate/).


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Lots of reds and yellows in Dorothy Krause's sumptuous and rich looking deck, now known as the Millennium Tarot. Large gold borders and Renaissance angels make it quite a gorgeous deck -- and it is now in print.
The Minchiate Tarot is a re-illustration of the 16th century tarot-like deck, the Ancient Minchiate. Brian Williams has given a more modern style to the medieval scenes in its 97 cards (there are extras for astrological signs, virtues and the elements).


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Malcolm Jenkins' Criminal Justice Season
The Eagles All-Pro safety goes to prison
By Malcolm Jenkins
Earlier this year, my teammate Steven Means and I visited Graterford Prison, accompanied by Bill Cobb of the ACLU.
The experience had a powerful effect on all of us. We walked through the doors of B Block, and heard them slam shut behind us. The feeling was chilling, to say the least. The warden and a corrections officer then escorted us to a meeting room, where we sat down with six inmates, four of whom were former juveniles serving life without parole. Currently, Pennsylvania leads the nation—and if it were its own country would lead the world—in the number of juveniles serving life without parole.
The warden and C.O. left us alone with the inmates. I'd never been inside a correctional facility before, and it's funny how what you expect is primarily shaped by what you've seen on TV. I expected to feel like I was in a dangerous, hostile situation, but I wasn't. As we talked to the inmates, heard their struggles, heard about the mistakes they'd made when they were teenagers, I couldn't help but self-reflect. I had to challenge what I'd been conditioned to think about people in jail.
Sitting with those inmates and meeting many others, you realize just how much potential we've just locked away. And then, when you read the research, it's clear that our punitive system of justice raises the recidivism rate and damages people, making it harder for them to live in society when they get out.
A couple of these guys made really bad decisions when they were 14. But now they were 35. I thought, I'm 29 and I've changed five times over since I was 14. I know that time must be served for crimes, but at what point do we recognize the maturation of a person?
It's important to make that personal connection, to see the humanity in others. Sitting with those inmates and meeting many others, you realize just how much potential we've just locked away. And then, when you read the research, it's clear that our punitive system of justice raises the recidivism rate and damages people, making it harder for them to live in society when they get out.
But the most powerful moment of many during my visit to Graterford came when we first arrived, when I could tell that walking up to the front doors was an emotional moment for the ACLU's Bill Cobb.
Bill is now the Deputy Director of the ACLU's Campaign for Smart Justice, but in 1994 he pled guilty to criminal charges of robbery, kidnapping, criminal conspiracy, and violation of the Uniform Firearms Act. He was released in January of 2000 after serving six and a half years. And guess where he did his time? This marked the first time he was back at Graterford since regaining his freedom.
Bill Cobb is proof that we shouldn't just discard lives, that everyone deserves a chance to reach their potential and contribute to society.
As we walked into the lobby, I watched Bill greet a man who was dressed in a prison jumpsuit. He was an inmate doing custodial work. Bill, holding back emotions, expressed the guilt he felt now that he had his freedom, as he digested this encounter with a man he had been locked up with. That's when I realized that, standing right in front of me was an example of all that I've been talking about.
Bill Cobb is proof that we shouldn't just discard lives, that everyone deserves a chance to reach their potential and contribute to society. While he was incarcerated, Bill wrote a note to himself, pledging to refrain from behavior that would harm others. He wanted to be part of the solution. He decided that he would rather be homeless than to return to a place like Graterford. Today, Bill likes to say that the "people closest to the problem are the closest to the solution," and, trust me, he knows what he's talking about.
Bill's story proves that, if you give someone a second chance, he or she can go on and do great things. Those guys I met with? They were no longer a threat to anyone. I came away thinking what a waste of talent there is behind these walls. I met potential leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs at Graterford. But if we don't change our system, their skills and talents, along with millions of others, will be wasted.
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Meliboea or Meliboia () was a town and polis (city-state) of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly, mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, as one of the places subject to Philoctetes. It was situated upon the sea coast, and is described by Livy as situated at the roots of Mount Ossa, and by Strabo as lying in the gulf between Mount Ossa and Mount Pelion.

The town was famous for its purple dye. Even down to the 19th century, the shellfish from which the purple dye is obtained were found off the coast of Thessaly.

Herodotus mentions it as the place where several Persian ships under command of Xerxes I crashed during a storm, prior to the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE), while other Persian ships crashed adjacent to Sepias and others in front of Casthanaea.

During the Roman-Seleucid War, it was one of the Thessalian cities that in the year 191 BCE, being held by Athamanians, was taken by a joint army of the Roman Marcus Baebius Tamphilus and Philip V of Macedon. It was conquered by the Romans in 168 BCE and plundered.

Meliboea was taken and plundered by the Romans under Gnaeus Octavius in 168 BCE. Meliboea is also mentioned by Strabo, Stephanus of Byzantium, Pomponius Mela, and Pliny the Elder.

Its exact location is unknown, but it is usually located near the modern Agia, at the place called Kastro Velika, located in the community of Velika, municipal unit of Melivoia, which echoes the ancient name.

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After two weeks of training camp updates, we finally get to take a look at the newest edition of the New England Patriots as they kick off their preseason tonight down in Georgia taking on the Atlanta Falcons.
Be sure to check out the BSMW Game Day Roundtable to see Mike Felger (Boston Herald/ESPN 890) get smacked down on a blog, and also check back on the same page this weekend for a recap of tonight's Patriots/Falcons game. For newspaper and blog coverage of the Patriots this weekend, the Patriots Daily Links page has the headlines for you to browse. You can get the view from the opposition on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but you will need to register.
Saturday night at 7:00 on NFL Network, they will have live "whip around" coverage, as they jump between six preseason games being played that night.
The Red Sox return home to start an 11 game homestand tonight against the Baltimore Orioles. You can keep up with the Sox with the Red Sox Daily Links page and through the Baltimore Sun.
The Little League World Series is also being broadcast all weekend on ESPN.
Once again here is our weekly roundup of sports media columns from around the country, sorted out by region:
Jim Baker looks at Gil Santos preparing to start his 30th season of calling Patriots football games. Baker had also made a cryptic reference to the fire chief of Sudbury being "fired after fund-raising irregularities involving a WEEI personality." This section has been pulled and the Town Manager for Sudbury has issued a statement that the fire chief is in good standing with the town, has been since his appointment and has not been fired. Andrew Neff looks at Bangor sports radio station WZON getting ready for its own all-day Jimmy Fund Radiothon. John Howell covers Tony Kornheiser gearing up for his first season ESPN's new Monday Night Football. Susan Bickelhaupt tells us what we can expect from CBS in tonight's Patriots preseason debut. David Scott glanced over the New England sports pages and concludes "that Boston's "racist sports town image" is alive and well – at least within the area's sports media corps."
Richard Sandomir reports on the death of ABC sports. He's not being figurative, either. ABC Sports is no longer. It has been replaced by "ESPN on ABC". Earlier this week, Sandomir reported on the NFL Network gaining ground in its battle with Time-Warner cable. Neil Best says that new NFL commish Roger Goodell needs to step in and give the Jets and Eric Mangini some lessons in being more helpful to the media. He says:
The Bill Belichick Mini-Me routine already is wearing thin, other than for comic relief. Take the depth chart in the game notes for the preseason opener: Players are listed in alphabetical order.
Danny Abramowicz, you retired too soon!
Early in the week, Erik Coleman's agent was quoted as saying the player had had his appendix removed. Asked about this, Mangini said only, "Erik is working on his illness." Appendix? What appendix?
Sounds like Mangini has learned well. Bob Raissman notes the huge fuss being made over Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca's divorce and notes that the mid-1980's Mets did things far and above Lo Duca's affair, and that their antics went largely unreported. Phil Mushnick reports on more silliness on the YES airwaves, with Al Leiter and Paul O'Neill dismissing the Gold Glove voting as mere popularity contests. Andrew Marchand reports that while CBS will be going without sideline reports on their NFL broadcasts this season, they will have them for the Super Bowl. He also questions Michael Kay's ability to remain objective on his radio show while also being the YES play-by-play voice of the Yankees. Sounds sort of like the Dale Arnold situation on WEEI. Marchand's Memo of the Week forbids Mike Francesa from taking anymore vacations and leaving listeners stuck with an out-of-control Chris Russo.
Laura Nachman reports on Lou Tilley, who is currently out of a job, being nominated for three Mid-Atlantic Emmy awards. She also notes that former Boston College quarterback Glenn Foley is a co-host of a morning show on Sports radio 950, and that she is already sick of his Jets stories. Michael Hiestand looks at another former BC quarterback, Doug Flutie, getting set to start a new career as a pro and college football analyst for ABC and ESPN. Hiestand also offers suggestions as to what FOX Sports should do in terms of the yet-to-be-announced NFL Studio host position. Jane McManus gets opinions from various TV personalities about the value of sideline reporters on NFL broadcasts. Jim Williams looks at the NFL preseason getting ready to kick off in the Washington DC area. Chris Zelkovich looks at changes in store for Hockey Night in Canada.
Jim Sarni has more on Tony Kornheiser's upcoming Monday Night Football debut and other NFL items. He also looks at TNT and PGA.com teaming up for a "multiplatform simulcast" for next week's PGA Championship. Dave Darling looks at former Buc Hardy Nickerson joining the Tampa Bay radio broadcasts as the new analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Gene Deckerhoff. He looks at TV broadcasts for Florida's three NFL teams and notes that while the Bucs will have all 16 games televised, the Dolphins and Jaguars will each only have 12 games televised. Is this really the case? I guess I thought unless there was a blackout, that local fans got to see all their home team's NFL games. Barry Jackson has more on MNF, and like Neil Best in NY, compares the local NFL coach to Bill Belichick in terms of "lack of forthrightness." Barry Horn looks at the Pro Football Hall of Fame ceremonies. David Barron reports on Norman Chad "vacationing" at the World Series of Poker. He also looks at the end of ABC Sports.
The Bill Belichick school of football coaches is rankling media all over the country, as evidenced by Teddy Greenstein's column on Charlie Weis' battles with the reporters covering Notre Dame. Anyone else finding this all pretty amusing? Greenstein also looks at Kornheiser, who has gotten the same advice from everyone he's talked to about his new Monday Night Football gig. In Minnesota, Judd Zulgad checks in on Vikings camp, where new coach Brad Childress actually allows TV crew to film entire practice sessions. He has requested however, that injuries suffered to players in camp not be aired. That has lead to a conflict with a local station that threatens to get ugly. Bob Wolfley reports on Marquette University getting a new radio/marketing partner in WAUK-AM. Dan Caesar looks at the World Series of Poker and NFL football returning to television screens across the country.
John Maffei looks at Rick Sutcliffe, returning to San Diego for the first time since the May 10 incident at Petco Park where Sutcliffe, "after a long hot day on the golf course and too many adult beverages" then went on the local broadcast and…well, embarrassed himself. The NCTimes also has a little feature about the "Most unwatchable ESPN programming." Stuart Scott ranks high. Tom Hoffarth summons a fictional Mr Wise Guy blogger and questions him about the Los Angeles Sports Media. Larry Stewart reports on The Contender actually becoming one under the ESPN banner. Jay Posner looks at Padres play-by-play announcer Matt Vasgersian landing a contract to call NFL games on FOX. Michael Lev has speculation on the Angels plotting a possible radio move. (That the station changed its call letters to KLAA is a clue.) Jim Carlisle checks out ESPN's plunge into Monday Night Football. Joe Davidson checks in with former KNBR host Larry Krueger, who was fired last year for referring to the Giants as "brain-dead Caribbean hitters".
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Nyjer Seed (aka niger seed or thistle seed) is a teeny-tiny, high-oil content seed (~40%) mostly favored by finches and siskins. In order to eliminate waste, there are special thistle feeders with very tiny holes as feeding ports.
Nyjer bird seed is an oilseed crop from the yellow flowering plant, Guizotia abyssinica (pictured), that is cultivated in Ethiopia, India, Myanmar and Nepal.
This "thistle" is sometimes confused with the North American noxious pink/purple-flowered weed. No worries! This is an entirely different plant and is heat treated as an import condition so that it can't sprout.
"Nyjer" is is a trademark of the Wild Bird Feeding Institute. A name change to eliminate product confusion and the offensive mispronunciation of the word niger.
That Nyjer Thistle Seed is the only imported seed in the bird feeding world. Sure it costs a bit more, but if you are looking for a "finch frenzy" at your feeder, buy some pure Nyjer seed today.


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Review: Untombed - Extermination
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Review online: March 4, 2010
Reviewed by: Adam Kohrman
It's always neat to watch a band develop. That's what makes reviewing a demo by clearly talented musicians so exciting. Sometimes the album shows a great deal of promise, but in itself isn't that great (Death, Immortal). On the other hand, some debut recordings are stunning from beginning to end (Crimson Glory, Primordial). Boston natives Untombed (that's right, Untombed, not Entombed) have found themselves somewhere in the middle on their demo Extermination. They can convey sheer intensity and feral brutality quite skillfully, emblematic of the band's talent and experience. At the same time, though, the songs feel strained and lacking, as if the band hasn't fully clicked yet. In other words, this is good, but Untombed can (and probably will) do better with time.
Untombed play a style of stripped down, brutal death metal. Boston metal stalwart Juan Macias' distinctive animalistic bark dominates the vocals, while experienced guitar player Diego Paredes contributes some beastly riffs to this demo. Songs like the title track are skillfully written and multilayered, both intelligent and fierce. Paredes' riffs are straightforward, angry, and sometimes catchy. In whatever case, they slam the listener, forcing them to bang their head. After a while though, that's all these riffs do; but Untombed is a young band, as I've made clear, one full of experienced musicians. I've seen these guys in many previous bands put on great shows and make great music. It's only a matter of time before the same thing happens with Untombed and they reach their creative zenith.


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Jennifer Rea, associate professor of classics, is the second Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty member to collaborate with illustrator Liz Clarke for a graphic history book. Examining issues of power, gender, and religion in the ancient world, Perpetua's Journey: Faith, Gender, and Power in the Roman Empire is a graphic history set in Roman Africa in 203 CE that tells the story of the Christian martyr Perpetua.
Vibia Perpetua was a young mother who lived in Roman Africa and, at the age of 22, chose to publicly proclaim her Christian faith. She died as a result of her actions, though she did not die alone; she was part of a group of Christian martyrs, including several slaves, who were placed in prison and then executed in Carthage during the birthday celebrations of Emperor Septimius Severus's son in 203 CE. Perpetua's diary, which is the first extant diary of a Christian woman, contains her account of the days leading up to her martyrdom.
Says Rea, "I have always been intrigued by Vibia Perpetua's story because her narrative differs from other tales of Christian martyrs. She writes about her feelings in a way that allows us to relate to her, as a young mother and daughter: she describes her fights with her father over the fact that she has become a Christian, she relates how frightened she is to be in prison, and she reveals her deep love for her son.
"When an editor at Oxford University Press (OUP), Charles Cavaliere, approached me about writing a text for OUP's graphic history series, I saw an opportunity to write a book about Perpetua that could offer a unique and immersive way to learn about life in Roman Africa. I also immediately thought about how Perpetua recounts a series of visions she has before her martyrdom. Her visions are incredibly detailed and full of visual imagery that I knew would translate beautifully into sequential art. Making this text was a highly creative process; I had to research what daily life was like in ancient Carthage and write historical commentary on all aspects of it. I then worked with an OUP artist, Liz Clarke, to make Perpetua's story relevant to a modern audience in the graphic portion of the book: I translated her diary from Latin into English, and then turned it into a storyboard, with text that accompanied Liz's pictures."
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I feel like New York is becoming my second home, because I've found myself walking its pretty streets almost every other month in the past year. I try to hit up different cute coffee shops and insta-famous views every time, and last week's NYC trip a success. I think my highlights were Mr. Purple and Pizza Beach. Mr Purple is a really cool rooftop bar on the 15th floor of Hotel Indigo. They have amazinggg food and a beautiful view of the skyline. Pizza Beach is probably the most California place in New York (their website even says "New York meets Malibu") because of their fresh, vegan options, outdoor seating and beach cafe-feel. Mostly, I just like pizza, but I did appreciate a glimpse of SoCal during freezing temperatures.
One night I didn't have a moment for dinner until super late and everything was closed except for a food truck called "Halal Guys." It turned out to be SO good and worth waiting in line for, and I just realized they actually have a location in downtown LA! I ended up having it the again the night I got back from my flight. Have you guys tired either the LA or NYC location?
While I was there, I stayed at one of my go-to NYC hotels, 1 Hotel Central Park. It's literally right next to Central Park, which is one of my favorite spots in Manhattan. Everything there is organic and recycled (even the room keys!), so it creates a really unique, natural environment that I have never seen in another hotel! My favorite things about my room is the cute little nook that has a window overlooking central park (where I chose to eat my lunch one day) and the stunning bathroom (pictured below.) They're also starting a new campaign right now called 1 Less Thing. A box is left in each guest room at all of the 1 Hotel locations and guests are encouraged to leave lightly worn clothing to benefit the non-profit Housing Works. What a cool idea for the new year, when we're especially reminded of how much we have to be grateful for and how we can be making a difference for others.
Love all your looks here!
I love NYC too, I want to go back so bad!
I love your star Saint Laurent!! So fab.
I wish NYC was my second home! Love your style!
NYC looks like such an incredible city!
I love your style, its sophisticated and with unique pieces but its still wearable and somewhat casual. I love New York its one of my favorite cities, next time im there ill try some of the places you suggested.
I like your great style!
The photos look amazing, you are gorgeous!
These are all such fabulous recommendations and whenever I go to NYC next I cannot wait to try these all out! Plus you look so fab in all these photos!
Welcome to NYC! I am glad that you like it here. I bet that there a lot of amazing places that you did not discover yet.


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El Museo Atlántico de Lanzarote se encuentra en las aguas de las costas sur de Lanzarote, España. Es el primer museo submarino del Océano Atlántico y de Europa y figura entre los tres primeros del mundo, así como la Ciudad sumergida de Cleopatra en Egipto. Se localiza a 300 metros de Marina Rubicón, ubicado en la playa de Las Coloradas.

Este proyecto fue ideado por Jason deCaires Taylor para concienciar sobre el destino de los océanos.

El museo «se ha concebido como un lugar de conservación, preservación y educación del medio marino y la naturaleza».

Origen
Creado por el artista Jason deCaires Taylor, el proyecto fue promovido por el Cabildo de Lanzarote y fue cofinanciado por el Gobierno de Canarias y oficialmente inaugurado el 10 de enero de 2017, después de tres años de construcción. Sus obras las crea y construye en el mismo puerto, en un taller cercano. Estas esculturas están ubicadas a 12 metros de profundidad. La elección de este emplazamiento se debe a las características del suelo marino ocupando una superficie de 2500 m², donde se encuentra un total de 300 esculturas. Con el paso del tiempo todas las esculturas ayudarán a incrementar la biomasa marina, desde la primera puesta en 2016 ayudó a que la flora y fauna se incrementase y creciese. El objetivo principal del artista es generar un gran arrecife artificial.

Esculturas
Las esculturas están creadas a tamaño real, la exposición también cuenta con un muro de 100 toneladas y 30 metros de longitud. Las estructuras arquitectónicas que envuelven la exposición están distribuidas por la zona y están creadas en gran tamaño. Las esculturas muestran personas realizando actos cotidianos, puede verse que cada persona tiene una expresión en la cara y una posición distinta. También cuenta con un grupo de personajes híbridos (parte cactus y humanos) llamado el Jardín Híbrido, un personaje mitológico que refleja la superficie del mar.

Gracias a la primera apuesta en 2016, se han recuperado animales y flora que antes se había perdido, también se observan bancos de barracudas, sardinas, esponjas marinas, pulpos e incluso se encuentran ejemplares de tiburón ángel, entre otras especies que han ido volviendo a lo largo del tiempo. Uno de los objetivos es «ayudar al ecosistema».

Exposición
Cuenta con un grupo escultórico de 12 esculturas y cada grupo cuenta con títulos para sus esculturas, esto, para hacerlo más atractivo y sugerente para el público. Algunas de las obras se inspiran en los ciudadanos de Lanzarote: La 'Balsa de la Lampedusa', donde se recuerda a toda la gente que tuvo que venir en pateras o el 'Desregulado', donde muestra la mentalidad del hombre para evadirse de la vida adulta. En todas las obras se nota el cuidado y detalle que presenta el artista con el fin de fusionar el ser humano con la naturaleza.

Para poder visitar este museo hay dos opciones: una de ellas es visitarlo desde la superficie, es decir en snorkel, y la otra manera es sumergirse y bucear con botella junto a las propias estatuas. Todo se ejecuta con visitas guiadas.

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Enlaces externos

 Museo Atlántico de Lanzarote España es cultura.
 El Museo Atlántico de Lanzarote, una insólita aproximación al arte Barceló Hotel Group.

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A former Obama-era immigration official warned the current "zero-tolerance" policy that has led to separating families at the border could result in families never being reunited.
Parents charged with illegal entry can choose an expedited deportation, but it can take years to process children's deportation cases.
This could create "thousands of immigrant orphans" in the United States, the official said.
The former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Barack Obama warned that the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy that has led to the separation of families who arrive together at the border could result in "thousands of immigrant orphans in the US" left behind after their parents are deported.
"Permanent separation. It happens," John Sandweg, the former ICE director, told NBC News on Tuesday. Sandweg served as the acting director of the agency from 2013 to 2014.
Under current policy, parents charged with misdemeanour illegal entry go into federal custody, where most plead guilty. Many choose an "expedited removal process" to be deported back to their home countries in the hopes that they will then be reunited with their children.
But when their parents go to jail, children are placed in a shelter run by government or with relatives in the US. They do not, however, have a similar fast-track option to go back to their home countries along with their parents.
Children are entitled to a full hearing before an immigration judge, a process that takes much longer since they are considered a lower priority for deportation, according to Sandweg.
Shayanne Gal/Business InsiderThe process parents and children go through once separated.
Stories from the border, however, say otherwise. Some parents have already been deported back to their home countries while their children remain in shelters in the United States, such as a Guatemalan woman featured in a recent New York Times story. Another detained migrant woman told The New Yorker she has been separated from her 5-year-old son for six weeks while she awaits deportation.
"If they don't reunite these kids these kids with their parents right away, what can happen is the kids will be stuck here in the United States for years, guardians will be appointed, and the parents will be down in Honduras or Guatemala with no idea where their child is and no meaningful way to reunite," Sandweg said.


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A novel rich in metaphors and symbolism, The Alchemist is a story based on the adventures of a young shepherd boy, who, upon deciding to follow his prophetic dreams, sets on a treasure hunt. This journey introduces him to some remarkable people who leave an indelible and profound mark on him.
The Alchemist was first published in 1988. The protagonist of the story, a young Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago, is plagued with recurring dreams, wherein a mysterious child urges him to look for buried treasure at the base of the Egyptian pyramids. Determined, he leaves Spain and heads towards Egypt. En route, he meets the King of Salem, a man named Melchizedek. Melchizedek introduces Santiago to the concept of a 'Personal Legend' or a personal map or a quest that guides him to what his heart truly desires.
While attempting to cross the Sahara desert on the way to Egypt, he joins a caravan which is driven by an Englishman who is aspiring to be an alchemist. During a stop over in Al-Fayoum, Santiago meets Fatima, a young girl of exceeding beauty who steals his heart. He asks her to marry him, but she declines saying that she will do so only once he has found the treasure he seeks. In the Saharan oasis of Al-Fayoum, Santiago meets a 200 year old alchemist who decides to accompany him on his expedition. He imparts wisdom and valuable knowledge to Santiago, who eventually understands why the supposed treasure keeps evading him.
Having sold over 65 million copies worldwide, The Alchemist is marked by its profound simplicity, the easy flow of the story, and the poignant moral it tries to teach the reader, that worldly possessions and extravagance are immaterial when compared to finding your own 'Personal Legend'.
Paulo Coelho, born in 1947, is an author and songwriter.
He has authored Eleven Minutes, Veronika Decides to Die, The Witch of Portobello, Brida, The Pilgrimage, and The Zahir.
One of the most popular authors in the world, Coelho initially had a very lucrative career as a lyricist and theatre director, but he quit that to become a full-time writer. Having published over thirty books, Coelho also maintains a regular blog called Walking The Path. He has been awarded numerous prestigious international awards such as the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum, the The Honorable Award of the President of the Republic by the President of Bulgaria, and was named the Messenger of Peace of the United Nations in 2007. His wife, Christina Oiticica, and him, divide their time between Europe and Rio de Janeiro.


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Die V-League 2015/16 war die 12. Spielzeit der Profi-Volleyballliga Südkoreas. Die Saison begann am 14. November 2015 und endete am 24. März 2016 mit den Meisterschaftsfinale. Titelverteidiger war Ansan OK Savings Bank Rush & Cash.

Teilnehmende Mannschaften

Saison

Hauptrunde
Die Männer-V-League setzte sich in der Saison 2015/16 aus sieben Mannschaften zusammen, die zunächst in drei Hin- und drei Rückrunden gegeneinander antraten.

Tabelle
In der V-League gilt für den Spielbetrieb folgende Punkteregel: Für einen 3:0- oder einen 3:1-Sieg gibt es drei Punkte, für einen 3:2-Sieg zwei Punkte, für eine 2:3-Niederlage einen Punkt und für eine 1:3- oder 0:3-Niederlage keinen Punkt. Bei Punktgleichheit entscheidet zunächst die Anzahl der gewonnenen Spiele, dann der Satzquotient (Divisionsverfahren) und schließlich der Ballpunktquotient (Divisionsverfahren).

Meisterschaftsrunde
An den Meisterschaftsspielen nahmen die besten vier Mannschaften der Hauptrunde teil. Zuerst spielte im Viertelfinale der Dritt- gegen den Viertplatzierten, und der Gewinner traf im Halbfinale auf den Zweitplatzierten der Hauptrunde. Der Gewinner des Halbfinalspiels traf im Finale auf den Erstplatzierten der Hauptrunde. Im Finalspiel wurde schließlich die Meisterschaft ausgespielt.

Viertelfinale

Halbfinale

Finale

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website
 V-League 2015/16 auf Liveticker.com

2015
Volleyballsaison 2015/16


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ScienceForBrazil.com celebrates the achievements of Brazilian science, identifies research opportunities and funding for foreign scientists working in Brazil, and profiles technology innovation in the academic, public policy, business development and commercial arenas.
Researching In Brazil
New Energy for Oil and Gas Futures
Now it has become a major oil and gas producer, Brazil is hosting a new generation of research activities to optimize carbon-based energy use, with an eye to both sustainability and economic efficiency. A number of research bases sponsored by the oil majors have sprung up in recent years, of which the latest is the …Continue Reading
Pressures force "Superfood" from Atlantic Forest
Although Açaí palm, the Amazon region's "Surfer Superfood," is well known to food faddists around the world for the nutritious purple-black rind on its tiny coconut used to make a yoghurt-like drink, its equally edible first cousin the Jussara palm is hardly known outside the Atlantic Coastal forest that forms its habitat. Rather than stepping …Continue Reading
Carwars: São Paulo seniors forced off street crossings.
You can always measure the metaphorical speed at which a city lives by measuring the time it takes for the impatient driver behind you to start hooting when the lights turn green. In São Paulo. Latin America's largest, most car-congested and frenetic metropolis, the horns start honking when the traffic lights are still – just …Continue Reading
"G Force" Transforms the Drugs Industry
Visitors to Brazil's ubiquitous pharmacies – there seems to be one on each street corner of even the smallest town – will know that whatever the drug cited on their prescription, the sales assistant is likely to suggest a rival medication that "works much better." Often, packaging on the proposed substitute drug bears a yellow …Continue Reading
Scientists warn of 'Brazilian brain drain.'
Dramatic cuts in Brazil's state funding for scientific research threaten to simulate an exodus of scientists, leading to a significant "brain drain" as native talent heads elsewhere. This year's 44% budget cut for the Ministry of Communications, Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTIC) is already leading to an "expulsion" of researchers whose future is threatened, according …Continue Reading
"Vitamin D each day keeps the cardio OK"
Vitamin D is the "guardian of the organism" and may help reduce the risk of heart disease by stimulating healthier probiotic gut bacteria in humans, a Brazilian study has found. Research involving 150 volunteers at the University of São Paulo's Public Health School (FSP-USP) showed that those with higher levels of vitamin D circulating in …Continue Reading
Science to make mega-cities smarter, on a shoestring
Not so long ago, the recipe for transforming any emerging market metropolis was to commission huge, often technically-backward infrastructure projects designed to improve collective urban wellbeing – that generally came at huge cost. No longer: inspiration for today's Smart City is almost the opposite, allowing innovators-turned-entrepreneurs to help rebrand of the metropolis with a scattering …Continue Reading
Sensory chip targets dengue fever outbreak
New technology is coming to the aid of Brazil's once-vaunted reputation for mastery of tropical public health challenges, which took a serious tumble in 2016 when the nation proved incapable of controlling a trio of mosquito-borne human diseases. On the eve of the Rio Olympics, a massive outbreak of three diseases transmitted by the Aedes …Continue Reading
Race for Horizon 2020 Research Funding
Brazil's cash-strapped scientists will need to move fast not to waste a golden opportunity to access some of the EUR 80 billion in funding on offer from the European Union's Horizon 2020 multi-year innovation funding programme. Despite – or perhaps because of – the recent collapse in domestic funding from Brazilian government sources for science …Continue Reading
Filtering the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
An IT innovation from Brazil that reliably filters out unsolicited pornography videos from web and social-media. An artificial intelligence application developed by Brazilian computer scientists has begun to combat the plague of pornographic junk mail and obscene videos besieging billions of mobile phone users around the world. Samsung, one of the world's top mobile …Continue Reading
Brazil's best-known scientist, the veteran nuclear physicist José Goldemberg, in September 2015 took office as the president of the São…
Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on "Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages - 2015"
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Trojans finish season against CCU
By Mike Hensley
The Troy Trojans men's basketball team closes out the regular season when they host Coastal Carolina on Friday and Saturday.
The Trojans enter the final weekend of the regular season with a 4-10 record within the Sun Belt Conference and an overall record of 10-14.
The Trojans are in the midst of a five-game losing streak. Their last win came against Georgia Southern on Feb. 5.
During their five game losing streak the Trojan offense is averaging 60 points per game. The Trojans are averaging a league low 64.2 points per game this season, while their defense is allowing 67.5 points per game, fourth fewest in the conference.
Nick Stampley is averaging a team high 12.3 points per game. Zay Williams and Kam Woods are averaging 10.7 and 10.5 points per game.
Coastal Carolina comes into the final weekend 13-6 overall and 7-5 in conference play, good enough for third place in the SBC East Division.
The Chanticleers are averaging a league best 80.9 points per game this season, while their defense is allowing 67 points per game.
The Trojans and the Chanticleers met in Conway, S.C. in late January. The Chanticleers swept the series with scores of 90-81 and 70-65.
Game one is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Friday. The series finale will tip at 4 p.m.
Trojans close out homestand against Jacksonville


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Q: MySQLi: Non-English Characters I have a Table named "status" Which is used to store objects status. The table has 5 columns and except "symbol" column which it's type is VARCHAR utf8mb4_unicode_ci, All the others are just typical integers.
The problem is that because the symbol column can store English and Non-English characters, It returns NULL(With var_dump($row)) When I use my php file "getStatus.php" to retrieve the data from a row with Non-English symbol but It works well when I use English characters as symbol.
This is my table(the symbol on the second row is "تست"):

This is the php code, "getStatus.php" :
if(!isset($_GET["symbol"]))
        die("please specify the symbol");
$con = mysqli_connect("localhost","root","******","****");
// Check connection
if (!$con) {
    die("Connection failed: " . mysqli_connect_error());
}
$query = "SELECT * FROM `status` WHERE `symbol` =  '" . $_GET["symbol"] . "';";
$result = mysqli_query($con,$query);
if (!$result)
        die("unable to retreive status");
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result);
if ($row["status"] == 1)
        echo $row["percentage"];
else
        echo -1;

I can successfully get data When I execute getStatus.php?symbol=EU which calls mysql with
SELECT * FROM `status` WHERE `symbol` = 'ER';

But When I execute getStatus.php?symbol=تست, I got null! The confusing point is that if I copy the query and enter it in mysql command line It will work but it doesn't work when I send the same query with mysqli in php!!
SELECT * FROM `status` WHERE `symbol` = 'تست';

Why it works in mysql commandline and phpmyadmin but not with mysqli?

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Q: How to Redirect From WebForms to a MVC View? I use an ASP.net WebForm in a MVC application.
I need to redirect to a MVC View or to an ActionResult method in a Controller from WebForm Button Click Event.
Is there a way to do this?
public ActionResult Index()
{
    //Method in MVC Controller
    //Rest of the code
}

Tried as below to redirect to a method in Controller:
protected void btnCreate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Response.Redirect("~/BreakdownReports/Index",false);
    Context.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();
}

A: try it I redirected  from .aspx  to MVC controller page
 protected void btnCreate_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
        var page = HttpContext.Current.Handler as Page;
         Response.Redirect(page.GetRouteUrl("Set hereDefaultroute",
          new { Controller="BreakdownReports", Action="Index"}), false);
        }

A: Try:
Response.Redirect("BreakdownReports/Index");

also
Response.Redirect("./BreakdownReports/Index");


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They Aren't Coming- Debunking the Biggest Immigration Myth
NAM/Eastern Group Publications, Immigration, Commentary, Raoul Lowery Contreras
They keep coming to the United States — the men and women from rural Mexico — to work in the flower fields, nurseries, avocado groves and sundry jobs throughout the country. Some would say that they are coming as criminal invaders.
So say rabid anti-immigrant groups such as the Center for Immigration studies (CIS), a John Tanton uber-radical organization in Washington.
There are an estimated 12 million (or fewer) illegal mostly Mexicans living and working in the country.
"Soon, however, fewer of them will be coming here to work." I wrote these words a decade ago.
Watching the Sunday news shows validated that statement, validated it by the White House that declares that the number of illegal border crossers in Arizona alone is down 20 percent from a year ago. In the past three years, many experts declare the drop is closer to 30 percent. Regardless, fewer illegals are coming to the USA from Mexico.
Is it because of stronger border enforcement or more Border Patrol Agents? Or is it official hysteria in Arizona's legislature with its controversial and likely unconstitutional heavy-handed anti-illegal law, SB 1070?
No. In that column I wrote in 2000, I stated, "The supply of willing Mexican emigres to the United States will shrink in coming years. Within a decade, the number of Mexicans illegally entering the United States will diminish to the point of endangering the production of our food supply." A decade later, illegal border crossings have fallen dramatically.
Reasons: Birth and fertility rates. According to the New York Times and the CIA World Fact Book, Mexican women gave birth to 7 children per in 1965. That rate dropped to 2.5 in 1999 and an estimated 2.31 in 2010. (Aside: The CIS "estimates" that Mexican immigrant women – legal and illegal- in the USA have a 3.5 birth rate, a third higher than the general American population. The CIS camouflages it's anti-immigrant basis for existence thus their "estimates" are questionable).
Results, many American farmers in the West and Southwest complain now that there aren't enough workers to pick crops and crops are rotting in the fields.
The steady decline can be attributed to plunging birth rates, little else counts.
Mexico City with its urban millions led the way in lower births. The declining Mexico City birth rate spread to the rural areas that have long supplied the young men who immigrated to The North, El Norte. This is the result of a 30-year-long birth-control program hustled in every rural village by the Mexican government.
Despite mild opposition from the Catholic Church, the PAN governments of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon persisted in promoting this program, and the country will soon reap the double-edged rewards of a declining birth rate. Mexican women, who traditionally have not worked outside the home have entered the workforce, which also contributes to the drop in national fertility rates.
As Mexico's economy grows and modernizes, more and more real jobs are created. This growth theoretically absorbs those rural farmers who have been displaced by cheaper American corn, a cheap corn that replaces inefficient and money losing small-plot corn agriculture that has dominated Mexico for decades. Mexican consumers benefit by cheaper American corn despite cries from anti-Nafta people that the agreement is "destroying" traditional agriculture.
As the number of young people, especially rural young men, shrinks, an unprecedented situation may come to pass: Mexico will have more jobs than people to work them. Consequently, wages will rise.
Thus, as the promise of NAFTA is becoming reality in Mexico, Mexicans will have all the jobs they can fill in Mexico soon. They won't need to come here looking for subsistence work. At least, that's the theory.
When? The phenomenon actually began five years ago and proceeds into the future.
Mexican demographer Agustin Escobar said in 2000 that for 15 years, the number of working-age Mexicans entering the labor force remained steady. "We needed emigration to help our people find work," he said. "But now we can see that the future is going to be quite different from what we saw in the 1980s and 1990s."
I wrote in 2000, "Escobar thinks that by 2010 the number of Mexican emigrants to the United States will decrease to such an extent that it will pose problems for the U.S. economy—specifically for California's agricultural economy." How prescient—for that is exactly what has happened.
Farm owner groups think that the percentage of illegal aliens in the farm work force might be as high as 80 percent. California depends on illegal- immigrant labor to pick almost all crops in the most productive farmland in the country. If illegals from Mexico aren't there to pick the crops, who will?
We now know two things: (1) smaller numbers of Mexican men will come North as their population cohort decreases; (2) as the Mexican labor market constricts because of lower birth rates, Mexican wage rates will rise obviating the need of entry level working Mexican men to come to the United States.
That is happening today.
Proof: Fewer Mexicans coming illegally to the United States, a trend that started long before Arizona even thought of its infamous SB 1070 law.
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Shape America's Startup Economy
Why A Green Card Does Not Always Have a Signature
USCIS to Implement Filipino World War II Veterans Parole Program
Poll: U.S. Muslims Concerned About Discrimination But Believe in the American Dream
Agustin Escobar, anti-immigrant, California's agricultural economy, Eastern Group Publications, Felipe Calderon, immigrant ideas, immigration commentary, immigration story, Immigration studies (CIS), John Tanton, NAFTA, Raoul Lowery Contreras, rural Mexico, SB 1070, Vicente Fox
Americans Want More, Not Less, Immigration for First Time
Fighting on Two Fronts — Arizona Latinos Stand Against Anti-Gay Bill
What 21 Savage's ICE Detainment Says About Immigration in America
Immigration: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
USCIS Reaches H-2B Cap for Fiscal Year 2015
India's Ban on Gay Sex Could Be Boon for Asylum Seekers


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Adding Download, Rol / User Description, new fields in report and support for large amount users.


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Die Villa Huesgen ist ein großbürgerliches Wohnhaus in Traben, einem Ortsteil der Stadt Traben-Trarbach im Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich (Rheinland-Pfalz). Die Adresse lautet Am Bahnhof 50. Die Villa wurde 1904 nach Entwürfen des Berliner Architekten Bruno Möhring errichtet und steht heute unter Denkmalschutz.

Geschichte
Möhring gestaltete das Brückentor der 1898/99 gebauten Moselbrücke, der ersten festen Brücke zwischen den beiden Stadtteilen Traben und Trarbach. In dieser Zeit knüpfte er Kontakte zu den Weinhändlern und Hoteliers in Traben und Trarbach. In den folgenden Jahren entstanden in der Stadt eine Reihe von Jugendstilbauten, darunter auch die Villa Huesgen.

Die Villa wurde für den Weingutsbesitzer und Weingroßhändler Adolph Huesgen (1855–1949), dessen imposante Erscheinung ihm dem Spitznamen "Moselbismarck" eingetragen hatte, in Nachbarschaft zu den Bauten des Weinguts erbaut. Möhring gestaltete auch die Innenräume des Hauses im Sinne eines Gesamtkunstwerks. Das Dach enthält einen Theaterraum für private Aufführungen. Möhring publizierte 1906/07 verschiedene Abbildungen der Villa Huesgen in der renommierten Architekturzeitschrift Berliner Architekturwelt.

Literatur
 Dehio-Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Rheinland-Pfalz / Saarland. 2. Auflage, Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 1985.
 Ines Wagemann: Jugendstil in Traben-Trarbach. (= Rheinische Kunststätten, Heft 331.) Neuss 1988, ISBN 3-88094-531-4.

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Kulturdenkmal in Traben-Trarbach
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SNS College of Engineering Department of Computer Science and Engineering Expert System Development Tools Presented By S. Yamuna AP/CSE AI 1
Introduction During the last decades ES evolved from a laboratory curiosity into a valuable tool for assisting human decision making. AI 2
Software Classification: Technology Levels Specific expert systems Shells Support tools Hybrid Systems (environments) Programming languages NEW Object-oriented Programming (OOP) Internet/Web/Intranet-based Tools Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, Efraim Turban and Jay E. Aronson AI 6 th ed, Copyright 2001, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 3
Software Classification: Technology Levels (Figure 14. 2) Expert System Applications (Specific ES) Shells Hybrid Systems Support Tools, Facilities, and Construction Aids Programming Languages Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, Efraim Turban and Jay E. Aronson AI 6 th ed, Copyright 2001, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 4
Expert System Development Tools Language: Development time, convenience, maintainability, efficiency and speed determine what language software is written in. Tool: A language plus utility programs to facilitate development (debugging, file management, code generators, text and graphics editors, etc. ) aids for knowledge acquisition, knowledge validation and verification and construction of interfaces to other software packages AI 5
Expert System Development Tools Hybrid Systems: consist of several support tools and programming languages. Shell: A special purpose tool designed for certain types of application in which the user must only supply the knowledge base (EMYCIN). AI 6
Language AI 7
Language Using a language provides flexibility. Once you know what features are needed for the system, you can generate the required code. On the down-side, you need to develop the entire infrastructure, including the traditional subsystems such as the inference engine and explanation facility (OPS provides many of the needed facilities). You will also need, obviously, proficiency in the chosen language AI 9
Preferred Languages in Developing ES: LISP - list processing language (MIT). John Mc. Carthy, 1950 s In the U. S. , LISP was the language of choice. Powerful in its symbolic processing capability, but difficult to master. The many dialects of LISP were the source of migraines for researchers who looked to exchange code. Fortunately, this situation improved in mid-1970 s with the introduction of a LISP standard called Common LISP -- the aspirin of choice for LISP programmers. AI 10
Preferred Languages in Developing ES PROLOG - logical programming language. Marseille, France, 1970. Researchers in the U. K. and Japan adopted PROLOG for developing intelligent programs. It was also the language chosen in Japan for the Fifth Generation effort. Based in a formal wellunderstood logic, PROLOG offers a language to develop exact deductive programs. Like LISP, PROLOG required a disciplined student to master it, thus limiting the number of competent programmers. AI 11
Preferred Languages in Developing ES OPS, Official Production System, has been a very popular choice of expert system developers. OPS is a product of the Instructable Production System Project at CMU back in 1975. It was used by John Mc. Dermott to create one of the classic expert systems called R 1 (later called XCON), to help DEC configure VAX computer systems. Over the years various versions of OPS emerged, the latest being OPS/R 2, which supports backward chaining and objects with inheritance. AI 12
Preferred Languages in Developing ES Given the complexities of these two languages, AI research was confined principally to the academic world during the 1960 s and 1970 s. Also, since these systems were built from scratch, development time was large AI 13
Expert System Shells MYCIN (Shortliffe, 1976) was developed at Stanford University MYCIN took approximately 20 person-years to complete. The system was written in INTERLISP, a dialect of the LISP programming language. AI 14
Expert System Shells During the work on MYCIN, a large amount of LISP code was written for different modules: Knowledge base Inference engine Working memory Explanation facility End-user interface Toward the end of the project, the MYCIN developers realized that because the knowledge on infectious diseases was separate from its control, then the code written for the other modules should be portable to other applications. AI 15
Expert System Shells By removing the knowledge about infectious blood diseases, a system known as EMYCIN (van Melle, 1979) was formed. EMYCIN is a domain-independent version of MYCIN that contains all of MYCIN except its knowledge about infectious blood disease. EMYCIN facilitated the development of other expert systems, such as PUFF (Aikens et al. , 1983), an application for the diagnosis of pulmonary problems. PUFF was produced in about 5 person-years. AI 16
EXPERT SYSTEM SHELL ARCHITECTURE System interface Working memory Explanation Facility Inference Engine External Programs Knowledge Base User Interface Developer's interface User Knowledge Engineer AI 17
Shells and Environments Expert systems components 1. Knowledge acquisition subsystems 2. Inference engine 3. Explanation facility 4. Interface subsystem 5. Knowledge base management facility 6. Knowledge base Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, Efraim Turban and Jay E. Aronson AI 6 th ed, Copyright 2001, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 18
Shell Concept for Building Expert Systems (Figure 14. 3) Tip of the iceberg Knowledge base (rules) Consultation manager Explanation program Knowledge base editor and debugger Knowledge base management facilities Shell Inference engine Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, Efraim Turban and Jay E. Aronson AI 6 th ed, Copyright 2001, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 19
Classification of Tools Rule Based Tools Rule-based tools use if-then rules to represent knowledge. These rules are processed through a backward or forward chaining process, or a combination of the two (called bidirectional inference). Some tools permit the coding of inexact rules and inexact inferencing, possibly using confidence factors and processing methods found in the certainty theory, AI 20
Classification of Tools Rule-Based Shells Exsys Instant. Tea Xpert. Rule KBS G 2 Guru K-Vision CLIPS JESS ESTA Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, Efraim Turban and Jay E. Aronson AI 6 th ed, Copyright 2001, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 21
Classification of Tools Frame-based Tools Today's frame-based tools share many common points with object-oriented programming. The advantage that these tools have over the base language approach is that they enable the coding of knowledge in a natural symbolic language style versus the more rigid syntax of an object-oriented programming language. Though rule-based tools dominated the 1980 s, frame-based ones are dramatically picking up steam during the 1990 s AI 22
Classification of Tools Fuzzy Logic Tools Fuzzy logic expert system tools represent knowledge in fuzzy rules and fuzzy sets. They include statements that contain fuzzy variables with corresponding fuzzy values that are represented mathematically in a fuzzy set. It is most widely used in the area of control systems. Common sense control rules are usually easy to generate. AI 23
Classification of Tools Induction tools generate rules from examples. They are products of AI research in machine learning. A developer enters a large set of examples from the domain under consideration, where each example contains values for a set of domain features, and a single result characterizing the example. The induction tool then uses an algorithm, such as ID 3, to generate a rule or a decision tree. In operation, a user enters information about a current problem and the system then determines the probable result. AI 24
Classification of Tools Case Based reasoning Tools (CBR) In practice, they serve a role similar to induction tools in that they use past experiences (cases) to solve current problems. Given an input specification of a problem, the system will search its case memory for an existing case that matches the input specification. It may find an exact match and immediately go to a solution. Even if an exact match can't be found, the system applies a matching algorithm in order to find a case that is most similar to the input specification. AI 25
Domain Specific Tools Domain Description Control Governing system behavior to meet specifications Design Configuring objects under constraint Diagnosis Inferring system malfunctions from observables Instruction Diagnosing, debugging, and repairing student behavior Interpretation Inferring situation description from data Monitoring Comparing observations to expectations AI 26
Domain Specific Tools Domain Description Planning Selecting and sequencing activities according to a set of constraints to achieve a goal Prediction Inferring likely consequences of given situations Prescription Recommending solution to system malfunction Selection Identifying best choice from a list of possibilities Simulation Modeling the interaction between system components AI 27
Choosing a Tool KNOWLEDGE BASE Knowledge representation This facility defines how you can represent the knowledge (e. g. , rules, frames, decision trees). Inexact reasoning. Procedural processing capability Functions might be needed, or in a frame-based system, methods required to support message-passing AI 28
Choosing a Tool INFERENCE AND CONTROL PROCESS Chaining. When selecting a chaining method, consider the problem-solving activity to be programmed. For example, backward chaining is a good choice for diagnostic and prescription problems, while forward chaining applies well to design and planning ones. Agendas. Some shells permit you to define an agenda of activities for the expert system to perform. This agenda might be a series of goals that a backward chaining system is instructed to pursue in a predefined sequence, or, the shell may permit the agenda to be executed in an intelligent fashion, where certain tasks are performed conditionally based on the system's findings. AI 29
Choosing a Tool INFERENCE AND CONTROL PROCESS Meta-rules. It is usually used to direct the processing of the other knowledge into a new area on the basis of discovered information. Nonmonotonic reasoning. This type of reasoning allows for changes in the reasoning for changes in a given fact. It not only permits the retraction of the given fact, it also causes the retraction of all other facts that were dependent on the changed fact. This requires that the shell has an additional record-keeping facility called a truth maintenance system (Dolye, 1979). Non-monotonic reasoning is valuable in planning, design, or scheduling applications. AI 30
Choosing a Tool EXPLANATION FACILITY An explanation facility provides a transparency to the expert system's reasoning. This is of particular importance in interactive systems, where the user might want to know why a given question is being asked, or how the provided result was obtained. AI 31
Choosing a Tool DEVELOPER INTERFACE Knowledge base creation Debugging utilities. • rule-tracing. • incremental compilation On-line help. AI 32
Choosing a Tool USER INTERFACE Display type. The early expert systems all relied on a text-based display. Questions were posed to the user in text and answers were provided via keyboard typing or by selecting from a menu. Today, most shells provide a graphical-user-interface (GUI) Information entry. There is a wide range of methods by which the user can enter information into the system. It may be as simple as typing an answer to some question, or as extensive as filling out an entire form. AI 33
Choosing a Tool USER INTERFACE Interface control. The user must always feel in control of the session. This includes an easy way of starting and ending a session, and readily accessible ways of activating needed control during the session. AI 34
Choosing a Tool SYSTEM INTERFACE Most shells offer an open architecture that permits the developed system to share information with external software such as databases, spreadsheets, and procedural programs like C and Fortran. Being able to embed an expert system within an established software environment greatly enhances its applicability and improves its portability between applications. AI 35
Choosing a Tool HARDWARE The platform on which the expert system will be developed and, if different, where it will be run, is a major consideration when selecting a shell. Overall, the platforms can be divided into four general categories: personal computers, workstations, Web servers, and minicomputers or mainframe computers. The majority of expert systems have been developed on a PC. AI 36
Choosing a Tool SUPPORT Documentation. Example programs. Training. Help-desk services AI 37
Choosing a Tool COST Licensing costs. License agreement prohibits the copying of the software and requires that it be used on only one computer. In the event the shell will need to be used on several computers at the same site, purchasing a site license may be the way to go. Distribution costs. When the shell is used to develop an expert system to be used on other computers, possible distribution costs should also be considered. AI 38
Support Tools are available for building the various parts of a complex system Knowledge acquisition ACQUIRE (www. aiinc. ca) assists in knowledge acquisition EZ-Xpert (www. ez. xpert. com) Once the knowledge is encoded in it, it is capable of generating 26 different format expert system knowledge base files, including 8 language shells (in 2000) Automated knowledge acquisition tools: CBR: Easy Reasoner (Halley Enterprise Inc. ) uses associative memory to learn in the process mining data into decision trees. Knowledge verification System interface constructors Active. Agent. X fully supports Microsoft's component object module (COM) and integrates into Windows application software AI 39
Hybrid Systems (environments) They enable complex multiple-knowledge representation systems to be built faster than they would if only the programming languages were used. Toolkits – from which the programmer selects the appropriate tools for appropriate tasks ART (Brightware inc. ) contains modules from which an inference engine can be built. • A module for handling measures of uncertainty • A module for handling probabilities (Bayesian procedure) Common KADS Workbench Test. Bench AI 40
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MLB wrap: Cubs, Brewers remain deadlocked in NL wild-card race
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The National League wild-card race is far from over.
By virtue of Cubs and Brewers losses on Wednesday, the divisional rivals remain in a tie for the second wild-card spot in the National League.
Both teams had chances to move to within one game of the Nationals in the top spot, as Washington lost to the Cardinals, but it was not meant to be as Chicago fell 3-2 to the Reds in extra innings and the Brewers took a 2-1 loss to the Padres.
And on a note that can only annoy Cubs fans, Chicago finished the season 8-11 against the Reds. It went 37-18 against all other sub-.500 teams.
Dellin Betances injury update: Yankees pitcher to miss rest of season with torn Achilles
Details emerge from Felipe Vazquez case; Pirates rocked by accusations
Blake Treinen injury update: Athletics lose reliever (back) for rest of season
The Cubs go 8-11 against the Reds this season. Against all other sub-.500 teams they are 37-18.
— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) September 19, 2019
The Cubs have seven games left against the Cardinals this season over their final 10. They have a chance to either overtake the Cardinals or fall behind the Brewers.
Studs of the Night
Rockies outfielder Sam Hilliard went 2 for 4 with two home runs in a 7-4 loss to the Mets.
Royals starter Danny Duffy and A's righty Homer Bailey each tossed seven scoreless innings and struck out a combined 17 batters in Oakland's 1-0 extra-inning win.
Phillies pitcher Zach Eflin tossed seven scoreless innings in a 4-1 win over the Braves.
Gerrit Cole struck out 10 batters in eight innings of work in a 3-2 Astros' win over the Rangers. Cole now has 302 strikeouts on the season and Houston has won 100 games for the third year in a row.
Dud of the Night
Orioles reliever Miguel Castro gave up five earned runs in 2/3 innings in an 11-10 loss to the Blue Jays.
Dexter Fowler robbed a home run in the Cardinals' 5-1 win over the Nationals.
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— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) September 18, 2019
Cardinals (85-67) at Cubs (82-70), 7:15 p.m. ET — The Cubs are three games back of the Cardinals for first in the National League Central. This is the first game of a four-game series between the division rivals. They face off seven times in the final 10 games of the season. The Central will be decided in this stretch.


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The State Government has enacted a disaster declaration for the Gladstone area, meaning emergency services could force people to move or stay from areas, amid warnings the fire threat is set to intensify on Tuesday.
The regions affected include Baffle Creek, Wartburg, Deepwater, Agnes Water, Round Hill, Miriam Vale and Bororen.
The move came after emergency services pleaded with residents to heed all warnings over coming days amid "unprecedented" weather conditions fanning the flames.
Two homes were lost and at least four others damaged as hundreds of residents fled their properties amid a dangerous bushfire north of Bundaberg.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) said dry, windy conditions at Deepwater had caused the bushfire to flare up again on Monday, with more than 17,000 hectares now burnt out by a fire front about 60 kilometres long.
All residents north of Pacific Drive, near Wartburg, were told to leave and remain outside of the area.
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Among six waterbombing aircraft was a Boeing 737 aerial tanker that can dump 15,000 litres of water at a time.
Residents may not be able to return home for at least three to four days, as an "extreme heatwave" is predicted for central and northern Queensland this week.
Authorities remain extremely concerned by the fire threat, with conditions set to worsen on Tuesday including changing wind direction, high temperatures and low humidity.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the conditions were worse than what the state experienced in 2009.
"We really need people to listen to the authorities, especially the emergency services staff, because people's lives will be at risk if they do not listen," she said.
"We've got temperatures in our state between six and 10 degrees higher than we've ever seen before at this time of year.
"We also have large westerlies coming through, we expect dust storms later on in the week and some thunderstorms that may not actually bring rain.
"We have more than 70 wildfires throughout our state."
QFES commissioner Katarina Carroll said the combination of high temperatures, low humidity and variable winds made it extremely difficult for crews.
"In this part of the world we have not experienced these conditions before," Commissioner Carroll said.
"This will continue over the next several days. as has been mentioned, some 17,000 hectares has already been burned, and the perimeter is 66 kilometres," she said.
"The next seven days are extremely concerning for us. I ask everyone to listen to authorities and heed the warnings and to date — thankfully there has been no recorded injuries."
Debra and Bob Wait said they feared for their lives as they fled their Deepwater Road property with their two dogs, leaving behind 13 horses, cattle and poultry.
"We didn't think we were going to get out — I reckon another five minutes and we would've been dead because we couldn't breathe," Ms Wait said.
"We filled our gutters up with water, grabbed some stuff and threw it in the van and the car, and then [the fire] just came in.
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