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12 Of The Most Strange Beaches in The World When someone says about beach you almost certainly think about orange or perhaps white yellow sand, running waves, vivid natural light along...
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Sept. 7, 2014, 10 p.m.
Limits on off-leash beaches raise ire
Dog owners playing on the off-leash area at Sharkeys Beach. Picture: SYLVIA LIBER
Northern Illawarra dog owners are joining forces and preparing to fight for their off-leash beaches in the face of controversial changes to Wollongong City Council's dogs on beaches policy.
A Facebook page dedicated to the cause has attracted more than 2200 likes, while the Wollongong Dog Community group has gathered 250 email subscribers in less than two weeks.
The community action group, which held its first meeting in Thirroul on Saturday, plans to raise a number of concerns at a meeting with councillors in coming weeks.
Under planned changes to its dogs on beaches and parks policy, the council has recommended dogs only be allowed on Sharkeys, McCauleys and Little Austinmer beaches at restricted times, provided they are on a leash.
Solution wanted: Wollongong Dog Community meets at Thirroul library to discuss proposed changes to the council's policy for dogs on beaches. Picture: CHRISTOPHER CHAN
Of a weekend, northern suburbs dog owners would be forced to drive to Bellambi beach - up to an 80-minute round trip for some residents - to let their dogs run off-leash.
Committee member David Hurley described the proposed changes as "radical" and said owners were struggling to understand why they were put forward.
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ABC Aerial surveillance of Perth beaches has started for the summer season.
Two Perth beaches have been reopened after the first shark sighting of the season, a 3.5-metre white shark 50 metres off Floreat beach.
Surf Life Saving WA said the shark was tracking south, and that Floreat Beach and City Beach were closed as a precaution.
The sighting comes as weekend helicopter patrols begin along the Perth coast for the summer season.
The Surf Life Saving helicopter will fly between Dawesville and Two Rocks looking for swimmers in trouble, and for sharks close to shore.
SLSWA's manager of aviation services Peter Scott said it is a busy time of the year for shark sightings, with a lot of whales and other marine animals in the area.
"We can provide some assurance and also we use the aircraft to verify sightings from the public as well, so we can try and identify if there is actually a shark there," he said.
"But essentially it does provide that extra layer of comfort for everyone."
WA Premier Colin Barnett said the patrols would increase to seven days a week from October 1.
"SLSWA plays a crucial role in protecting Western Australian beaches and it is vitally important to have the aerial patrols in place in time for the warmer weather," Mr Barnett said.
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Perth beaches reopen after sighting of 3.5-metre shark on first day of aerial patrols
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The National Weather Service issued a flood advisory for San Diego's East County and North County Saturday as rain and thunderstorms soaked the mountains and deserts.
The urban and small stream flood advisory was issued at 1:53 p.m. Saturday for East County mountain and desert communities and was to be in effect until 5 p.m. Saturday. The NWS said brief, heavy rain in the mountains Saturday caused ponds of water and shallow streams of water flowing across roadways.
The CHP reported moderate to heavy rain on State Route 76 near East Grade Road in Santa Ysabel near Lake Henshaw.
The NWS said the heaviest storms about 2 p.m. were in Campo and near Lake Morena along State Route 94. The agency announced about 2:30 p.m. the storms in those areas had weakened, but storms in the areas near Pine Valley and Laguna Summit near Interstate 8 had strengthened, as had the storm in Santa Ysabel.
The NWS said the storms are being caused by Hurricane Norbert, a Category 3 hurricane off the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur that was expected to send a 4-6 foot swell to county beaches Sunday. Deep tropical moisture being drawn northward around the storm was causing the rain and thunderstorms.
San Diego County mountains and deserts were expected be under a flash flood watch from early Sunday morning through Monday evening.
The NWS also issued abeach hazard warning, and said the elevated surf and large tidal swings would result in strong and dangerous rip and long shore currents at county beaches through late Monday.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) After four busy nesting years on beaches from Georgia to the Carolinas, loggerhead sea turtles this summer laid their eggs at a much pokier pace.
The sluggish nesting season for the giant sea turtles wrapped up over the Labor Day weekend. And preliminary numbers show volunteers in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina counted far fewer loggerhead nests in 2014 than in recent years.
For Georgia, the slow season snapped a four-year streak of record-breaking turtle nest totals. Final numbers won't be ready until October, but a preliminary count shows 1,191 nests were counted along the 100-mile Georgia coast from May through August. That's the slowest nesting season since 2009, and barely more than half of last year's nest count of 2,289 the most ever recorded in Georgia.
The numbers have taken a dive two years after Georgia wildlife officials declared that steady increases in loggerhead nesting since 2010 showed strong evidence that the threatened species was rebounding. Sea turtle conservationists in the neighboring Carolinas also saw a 2014 nesting slump after a few years of a hatchling boom.
Loggerhead sea turtles, which weigh up to 300 pounds, remain a fragile population that's been protected as a threatened species under federal law for 35 years. Sea turtle experts say they're not surprised, and certainly not alarmed, to see dramatically lower nest counts this summer. Adult female loggerheads don't lay eggs every year, and some take two or three years off after nesting.
"The overall trend is still a statistically increasing trend, so this year doesn't change the fact that we feel like we're in a recovery period," said Mark Dodd, the wildlife biologist who heads the sea turtle recovery program for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. "It would take two or three more low years before we start to say we don't have an increasing trend anymore."
While low compared to recent years, the 2014 nest count in Georgia falls just a hair shy of the state's 25-year average of 1,200 nests annually. Dodd said he saw nothing this year that would explain fewer nests other than natural fluctuations. He said the number of dead, sick and injured loggerheads found on Georgia beaches this summer was 108, down from 165 a year ago.
Each summer, loggerhead sea turtles off the southeastern U.S. coast crawl from the water onto beaches from North Carolina to Florida to dig holes in the sand and lay their eggs.
Sea turtle researchers say two conservation efforts dating back to the 1970s are likely responsible for any rebound in loggerhead populations. Turtle nests discovered on beaches by government biologists and volunteers get covered with a mesh that protects the eggs inside from hogs, raccoons and other predators. Also, shrimp boats in U.S. waters have been required since 1987 to use nets equipped with trapdoors so sea turtles can escape.
In Georgia, loggerhead sea turtles averaged 1,036 nests annually from 1989 to 2009, a period when up-and-down nest counts indicated recovery was flat. In 2010 loggerhead nests in Georgia hit a record of 1,760, and the number increased each year through 2013.
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New Astronomy, Part IV (1/4)
This class covers the opening of Part IV (chapters 41-44), and shows that Mars does not move in a circle.
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Astronomy - Ch. 2: Understanding the Night Sky (12 of 20) How to Find the Popular Constellations
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The Hong Kong Observatory delves into astronomy to deliver moon-watching tips for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, and shares the science behind its observations in popular classes.
All eyes will be on the skies on the eve of September 8, as families gather to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and observe the full moon.
The experts at the Hong Kong Observatory tell us the moon will rise at 5:51pm, and it will reach its highest point known as the transit at 11:55pm.
Hong Kong Observatory Experimental Officer Dickson Lau said the moon will be only about 1,000 kilometres further away from the earth than it was on August 11, the date of the so-called supermoon.
If the weather condition is good, the moon will still be rather bright and round at night, and also look rather big, Mr Lau said.
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AAAI Acceptance speech by robot StarlETH
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John Wilkins - Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience Mind Uploading
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Computer Scientist Charlie Volkstorf shows Artificial Intelligence expert Nick Bostrom who #39;s smarter
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Company identifies areas like cognitive technologies, artificial intelligence, man-machine interface, robotics
Wipro, the Bangalore-based information technology major, is trying to boost internal innovation. The countrys third largest IT services company has identified focus areas for initiatives in this regard and has also allocated budgets for these. Among others, it is investing in innovation in cognitive technologies, artificial intelligence, man-machine interface, robotics, smart devices and open source. The company believes these could become revenue-accretive in two to five years.
Historically, companies have focused on run the business and change the business. With the disruption around us today, innovation has become of key importance. That is the reason why at Wipro, innovation is now directly under the chief executives radar, K R Sanjiv, chief technology officer (CTO), told Business Standard.
If in doubt, innovate
Adding: Typically, the investment budgets for companies used to be 60 per cent for running the business and 40 per cent for the changes that are visible in the marketplace today. Now, we are also seeing a direct budget allocation for innovation. This is happening at Wipro as well. While run the business refers to the core bread-and-butter IT services work, change the business means new technologies like analytics and big data. These are seeing some traction in the market but are not yet huge revenue churners.
Wipro says it has no plan for a separate lab on these, unlike some peers such as Infosys. The company says it wishes to ensure no internal silos or divides. You will not see a Wipro Labs as a separate entity. The CTOs office has a charter for driving change and the strategy office has the charter for building ecosystems. Both will be very strongly intertwined with the business units, said Sanjiv.
Experts believe jugglery between running core businesses and preparing for the future is crucial for Indian IT service companies. Especially with the not-so-successful example of Infosys, the second largest in the sector. It had launched Infosys 3.0 a few years earlier, to prepare it for technologies of the future. However, it lost sight of its core business, resulting in the growth rate dropping to record lows. Once a sector bellwether, Infosys is struggling to return to industry-level growth.
Over recent months, Wipro has increasingly shown interest in benefiting from innovation in the technology system. A few months earlier, it followed the footsteps of some global peers by setting up a venture capital fund to look at investing in early-to-middle stage technology start-ups globally.
The initiative is being driven by chief strategy officer Rishad Premji, also the elder son of chairman Azim Premji. The initial corpus of $100 million will be invested in opportunities in start-up companies focused on niche technologies such as data, open source and industrial internet.
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"Chinese companies are starting to dream," said early investor in Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and managing partner at GGV Capital Jixun Foo. Foo's proclamation was made in an in-depth article by MIT Technology Review, which examined the Chinese search giant's new effort to change the world with artificial intelligence. The company's new AI lab does, indeed, accompany some lofty aspirations -- ones big enough to hopefully help Baidu become a global Internet powerhouse and to compete with the likes of Google in increasingly important emerging markets where the default search engine hasn't yet taken the throne.
But what are the implications for investors? Fortunately, Baidu's growing infatuation with AI looks like it could give birth to winning strategies that could build sustainable value over the long haul.
Even Baidu's home page mirrors Google's. Image source: Baidu.com.
Finding an identity Often referred to as the "Google of China," Baidu is known for unashamedly copying Google's winning tactics in China where it is the dominant search engine and where Google is banned. But as the company looks to emerging international markets, where Internet users are only up and coming, Baidu needs to begin finding its own identity. Baidu's AI push seems to fit the bill.
Baidu first announced its bigger plans for AI in May when it announced the hire of Google's Andrew Ng, who founded the rival search giant's Deep Learning team. Widely regarded as a leading figure in AI, Ng alone brings identity to Baidu. More importantly, his knowledge brings with him an opportunity for Baidu to play a leading role in AI.
Baidu's Silicon Valley AI lab has one "key quest," according to MIT Technology Review's Robert Hof: To create "software that can, in a real sense, learn on its own." In other words, Baidu wants to be the leader in deep learning. Deep learning, a new form of AI that attempts to build algorithms that reflect high-level human learning, is likely to play key roles in the future for companies with infinitely growing sums of data at their fingertips.
But Ng won't stop at deep learning. Heading up all Baidu research, Ng aims to help Baidu stand out in many aspects.
"It's Ng's job to develop cutting-edge technologies that will leave no doubt who is ahead," said Hof.
Ng's contributions over the coming years will likely be instrumental to Baidu's future. As Baidu expands internationally into markets where the company will go head-to-head with the likes of Google and Microsoft in vying for online search traffic, Ng could be the difference between new technologies that set Baidu ahead of competition. Further, the technologies Ng will work on are only those that could "significantly influence" the lives of at least 100 million people, he told MIT Technology Review -- ones that give a company a "lasting base to build on."
A growing number of affordable smartphones and the proliferation wireless Internet is helping bring new active Internet users to the global market. Baidu thinks its experience with new Internet users gives the company an advantage in emerging markets. Image source: Baidu.
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