Unprecedented Numbers of Starving California Sea Lion Pups Found on Beaches
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DAVAO CITY -- The high levels of coliform in beaches are not only an environmental problem but for tourism too, an official said.
Davao Tourism Regional Director Roberto Alabado III said beach resorts in the region should observe proper waste disposal system to prevent problem of coliform contamination.
"It is also a tourism problem because it is one of our assets," Alabado said during the I-Speak Forum held at the City Hall on Thursday.
Coliforms are a "broad class of bacteria found in the environment, including the feces of man and other warm-blooded animals".
Alabado said the public must be aware of coliforms in beaches to avoid these disease-causing organisms.
"Even one of the best beaches in the world, naay coliform (there's coliform). Sa akong nalibot nga mga resorts, wala lang na sila naga ingon pero ako makabalo kong anaa nay E-Coli (I've went around the resorts, they may not tell but there's E-coli)," he said.
Councilor Leo Avila III earlier warned that some of the beaches in the city are "not healthy for swimming," as the rivers have been found with high levels of coliform in the recent Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) water quality assessment.
He said results from the 2014 water quality assessment of the EMB showed that the city had "failed miserably."
Copy of the report showed that total coliform found for both downstream and upstream of Davao River was estimated at 4,900 to 1,887,000 most probable number (mpn) per 100 ml wherein the standard level should only be 1,000mpn per 100 ml.
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Above: Bystanders gathered along the beach in Del Mar to watch the huge waves on January 14, 2010.
People who flock to San Diego County beaches this weekend to beat the heat will also have to cope with high surf and powerful rip currents, meteorologists said Thursday.
"A long-period south swell will move into the coastal waters early Friday and will continue through Saturday," according to the National Weather Service. "South-facing beaches will get the highest surf, but all beaches will get some strong rip currents and longshore currents through the weekend."
The agency said waves this weekend are likely to reach 3 to 5 feet with occasional 6-foot sets.
Warmer than usual temperatures could spell larger than normal crowds at local beaches.
"High temperatures in the upper 80s to mid-90s are likely west of the mountains today and Friday," the weather service said, adding the coast will see mostly low to mid-80s.
A slow cooling trend is expected to begin on Sunday.
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THE ANNUAL INVASION of our beaches by Sargassum seaweed, a problem that appears to be escalating, cannot be blamed on the Freundel Stuart Administration.
At least on that we are sure all Barbadians will agree.
Another point Barbadians should be able to agree on with some ease is that this inundation of some of our most popular beaches is not good for tourism especially at a time when that industry appears to be the one area of promise in an economy that is not performing anywhere near its optimum.
And it is here that we have a challenge with our national leadership. We have searched our archives for at least one statement from our Minister of the Environment Dr Denis Lowe that suggested he and his officers believe they have any duty or responsibility to respond to this problem.
There is no public discussion, no mobilisation of state resources, no concerted effort to bring the tourism community together to act, nothing to say there is a rallying cry for civic organisations and community groups to join in a clean-up exercise. It is as though we have accepted that it is an act of God and the Father will remove it when He is good and ready.
When the Sargassum seaweed first became an issue a few years ago, the National Conservation Commission (NCC), which falls under the ambit of Minister Lowes ministry, had significantly more human resources at its disposal as Government had not yet sent home 3 000 plus workers. Is the absence of these workers today an excuse for doing nothing?
Take the case of Texas in the United States where more than 300 miles of beach becomes covered with Sargassum annually. The Texas General Land Office has determined that the US$7 billion tourist industry and US$1.9 billion in commercial fishing business was at risk and has invested significant sums in a Sargassum early warning system that allow them to put mitigation measures in place.
They have even planted signs along the coast to win the support of beachgoers who might otherwise be disconcerted by the phenomenon.
These signs declare Sargassum seaweed to be the eighth wonder of the world and add: Please excuse the seaweed while Mother Nature rebuilds our beaches. Texas also tells visitors that the seaweed is a floating ecosystem, important to create dunes and conserve sand, an invaluable food source for coastal birds, and a natural occurrence along all coastal destinations.
In Barbados, it would appear, we simply leave our guests to be upset when they cant enjoy the idyllic beaches and crystal clear waters we sold them via our travel brochures and television advertising.
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Astronomy - Ch. 8: Origin of the Solar System (7 of 19) The Solar Nebular Theory
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So what's a CEO to do?
1. Expect that Software as a Service (SaaS) will become more and more like "Everything as a Service."
That goes for everything from sourcing talent to getting probabilistic predictions of the sales of your products. Your company needs to keep up with the times, embrace new services and A.I.-based technologies or fall behind. Similarly to what happened a decade ago, when enterprise mobility entered the strategic road map of major corporations, A.I.-enabled technologies will become an integral part of the strategy planning process in the near future.
2. If you think A.I. is not hereat least not in a conspicuous way when it comes to your businessthink twice.
Do your marketing people hire research or customer insights reports? Most likely your contractors are using big data analytics to deliver their conclusions to you. Is your competitor doing so in-house? That may indicate they can react and move faster in decision-making and eventually interact rapidly and more decisively with (your) customers.
3. Conduct an A.I. inventory.
Map out existing internal and external resources of your company and match them to available big data, analytics and A.I.-related technologies and tools.
4. Delegate it.
To make it simple and to monitor A.I. readiness of your company, you should earmark a tech champion in your management team (if there isn't one already). The chief information officer promoted to chief digital officer or chief marketing officer will do for the time being. Task the tech champion to screen for any of these referred tools or technologies currently in use either internally or externally. If the answer is a hard no internally, run a supplier and partner appraisal to understand how far A.I. is from the core of your business. Give yourself a score on a scale of 1 to 10 and start pushing the company to embark on the A.I. journey. You probably already did this when you told your management team to start using mobiles, tablets or smartphones.
5. Think ahead and don't wait; there's no reason you can't, or shouldn't, be the one to A.I.-innovate.
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No level of security screening short of mind-reading could have prevented the crash of Germanwings flight 9525. But what can be done? The New York Times editorial todaycalls for the American standard that requires two crew members be in the cockpit at all times to be adopted by all airlines. Thissuggestion isreasonable,but would not prevent a team of two pilotsfrom accomplishing a similarly evil deed.
The Times correctly assertsAir travel over all remains incredibly safe. The plane in question, the Airbus A320, has among the worlds best safety records and was the first commercial airliner to have an all-digital fly-by-wire control system. Much of the criticism over the years of these fly-by-wire systems has focused on the problem of pilots becoming too dependent on technology, but these systems could also be a means of preventing future tragedies. In fly-by-wire planes, a story on a previous Airbus crash in Popular Mechanicsreports, The vast majority of the time, the computer operates within whats known as normal law, which means that the computer will not enact any control movements that would cause the plane to leave its flight envelope. The flight control computer under normal law will not allow an aircraft to stall, aviation experts say. If autopilot is disconnected or reset, as the New York Times reports it was on the Germanwings plane, it can be switched to alternate law, a regime with far fewer restrictions on what a pilot can do.
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I just happened tohave scheduled an interview with AI pioneer Jeff Hawkins today to talk about the recent upswell of fears about AI and superintelligence that he addressed in a post on Re/code. The Terminator Is Not Coming, his title announces. The Future Will Thank Us. I thought of this story as the news unfolded from the Alps. We are so concerned, it seems, about giving machines too much power that we appear to miss the fact that the largest existential threat to humans isother humans. Such seems to be the case with Germanwings 9525.
Hawkinsis the inventor of the Palm Pilot (the first personal digital assistant or PDA) and the Palm Treo (one of the first smartphones). Heis also the co-founder, with Donna Dubinsky, of the machine intelligence company Numenta. Grok, the companys first commercial product, sifts through massive amounts of server activity data on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to identify anomalouspatterns of events. This same approach could easily be used to monitor flight data from airplanes and alert ground control in real time of the precise nature of unexpected activity. Numenta open sources its software (see Numenta.org) and is known to DARPA and other government research agencies, so multiple parties could already be at work on such a system.
Hawkins approach to machine intelligence, Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), has some distinct advantages overthe highly-publicized technique of deep learning(DL). Both use hierarchies of matrices to learn patterns from large data sets. HTMtakes its inspiration from biology and uses the layering of neurons in the brain as a model for its architecture. DL is primarily mathematical and projects the abstraction of the brains hierarchy to deeper and deeper levels. HTM uses larger matrices and flatter hierarchies to store patterns than DL and the data in these matrices is characterized by sparse distributions. Most important, HTM processestime-based data whereas DL trains mostly on static data sets.
For the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), time-based and real-time data is incredibly important. Systems that can learn continuously from these data streams, like Numentas, will be particularly valuable for keeping track of all of those thingsincluding errant airplanes. Could machine intelligence have prevented this tragedy? Hawkins thinks sobut notes, All the intelligence in the world in the cockpit wont solve any problem if the pilot decides to turn it off. There will need to be aviation systems designed for potential override from ground. What are we the most scared of, individual agency or systematic control? Based on the Germanwings evidence so far, lack of override control from the ground is the greater threat.
I contacted my colleague Dan Reed, who covers aviation and logistics for Forbes.com. He wrote recently on how inexpensive it would be for the airlines to increase their tracking of flights using existing signals. He raised the additional issue of the bandwidth that would be required to control a plane reliably from the ground without significant time delay. Thishardware, he says, would require a substantial investment. Securing those transmissions is also important to make sure that the failsafe does not become a backdoor for bad actors. The most important impediment to controlling planes remotely (even temporarily), is philosophical, he says. Even if machines become statistically safer than humans, as Google contends with cars, how do you prove it would be safer, Reed asks?
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