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Lord Williams of Oystermouth – Can We Say What We Like? Language, Freedom and Determinism – Video

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Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth delivers the Gifford Lecture series entitled "Making Representations: Religious Faith and the Habits of Language". Lecture...

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Google Maps’ project to photograph every inch of Florida beaches wraps up

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After four months, 825 miles, two million steps, 7.5 million snapshots and waaaay more naked old people than they care to remember, a trekking team of human cameras trudged into South Pointe Park on Wednesday, finishing the task of photographing all Floridas beaches for Google Maps.

Its certainly the strangest job Ive ever had, said David DeLong of Tampa, one of four men who tramped up and down the coast wearing 45-pound backpacks loaded with 15 cameras, a hard drive and a modem. And at the beginning, before I got adjusted to the backpack, it was kind of tough.

But its like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer it feels great when you stop.

The trek was part of a cooperative venture between the giant Internet company Google and Visit Florida, the states tourism agency. The photos will be stitched together into panoramic, 360-degree views of every inch of coastline beach that, sometime next spring, will be available online through Google Maps Street View.

It will have a lot of uses, said Nelson Mongiovi, a Visit Florida project manager. The Florida Film Commission loves it Hollywood producers will be able to scout locations without getting on a plane. Government agencies can use it to help measure beach erosion.

But, primarily, its marketing Florida from a digital platform. People can take a virtual tour of Florida beaches from their homes and decide which ones they want to visit. Beaches have different personalities: They might be family-oriented. They might be nude beaches. They might be pet-friendly. This will let visitors get a 360-degree look in advance.

It was those nude beaches that took the greatest toll on the four trekkers, at least in terms of shattered illusions. It was pretty hot and pretty hard going when we started in August, Mongiovi said. And some of the guys, I think, were keeping themselves going with the idea that, hey, soon well pass through some nude beaches.

But when we reached the first one, one of the guys told me: The dream died yesterday It turns out most of the people who hang out on nude beaches should probably keep their clothes on.

Other obstacles included seawalls, coastal condos that took a you-and-whose-army attitude when reminded that state law says beaches are open to the public, dive-bombing birds and the occasional mangrove swamp. DeLong still shudders at the memory of a spot on Keewaydin Island off Naples, where he had to wade through murky thigh-high water.

The footing was really uncertain, and youre carrying a backpack with who knows how many tens of thousands of dollars in gear inside, and thinking about what happens if you slip, the 55-year-old DeLong said. Thats a phone call you just dont want to have to make.

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Beaches still top drawcard

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Gold Coast lifesavers on Surfers Paradise beach featured in a Tourism Australia campaign. Beaches are still the biggest drawcard for visitors to the city. Source: Supplied

THE Gold Coast beaches have lost none of their sparkle for visitors -- still topping the list of tourism drawcards for the city.

Tourists surveyed in the inaugural Gold Coast Visitor Profile and Satisfaction Report, commissioned by Gold Coast Tourism and the Gold Coast City Council, said the city's beaches were one of the main reasons for coming here and going to the beach was the top activity during their stay.

Surfers Paradise Beach was the most popular spot visited, followed by Pacific Fair, Burleigh Beach, Harbour Town Shopping Centre and Coolangatta Beach.

`Summers waiting for you on the Gold Coast campaign by Gold Coast Tourism Source: Supplied

The role of events in driving the city's tourism industry was also highlighted in the survey, with most saying that was why they came.

Jupiters Hotel and Casino boss Aaron Gomes said events played a crucial role in topping up the Gold Coast tourism industry's profits.

"Holiday bookings are made up to the last minute so they are difficult to plan around," he said.

"But when people come for events, they make the decision well in advance, so we are able to plan around it and avoid dropping rates."

Surfers Paradise was the most visited area, while Broadbeach, Coolangatta and Burleigh Heads were also high on the list.

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Beaches monitored on Treasure Coast

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FORT PIERCE, Fla.-- Windy weather is leaving its mark on Treasure Coast beaches, with escarpments several feet high in some areas, including Jensen Beach and the Fort Pierce inlet.

Lifeguards near Jensen Beach expect the escarpments to become taller over the next few days as windy conditions are expected to continue.

But, it's not something to be alarmed about. In fact, that's exactly what the beach is supposed to do.

James David, the St. Lucie County Coastal Management Services Director, says officials have been monitoring the beaches for several weeks. They've been noting how far the water is coming up on the beach, or whether any dunes or structures are being threatened.

David says everything is safe.

Some of that credit goes to a 1.1 million cubic yard beach restoration project earlier in the year.

David says most eroded sand will naturally move south. The escarpments will likely even themselves out in little time.

"In a couple of days it will all be gone and everybody will be out here in their bathing suits and little umbrellas enjoying their beach. It's still going to be here."

David said another re-nourishment project is planned for the spring, and likely the spring the following year.

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Can Artificial Intelligence Like IBM's Watson Do Investigative Journalism?

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Two years ago, the two greatest Jeopardy champions of all time got obliterated by a computer called Watson. It was a great victory for artificial intelligence--the system racked up more than three times the earnings of its next meat-brained competitor. For IBMs Watson, the successor to Deep Blue, which famously defeated chess champion Gary Kasparov, becoming a Jeopardy champion was a modest proof of concept. The big challenge for Watson, and the goal for IBM, is to adapt the core question-answering technology to more significant domains, like health care.

WatsonPaths, IBMs medical-domain offshoot announced last month, is able to derive medical diagnoses from a description of symptoms. From this chain of evidence, its able to present an interactive visualization to doctors, who can interrogate the data, further question the evidence, and better understand the situation. Its an essential feedback loop used by diagnosticians to help decide which information is extraneous and which is essential, thus making it possible to home in on a most-likely diagnosis.

WatsonPaths scours millions of unstructured texts, like medical textbooks, dictionaries, and clinical guidelines, to develop a set of ranked hypotheses. The doctors feedback is added back into the brute-force information retrieval capabilities to help further train the system. Thats the AI part, which also provides transparency for the systems diagnosis. Eventually, this knowledge will be used to articulate uncertainty, identifying information gaps and asking questions to help it gather more evidence.

Health care is just the beginning for Watson. Other disciplines that rely on evidentiary reasoning from unstructured documents or the Deep Web, including law, education, and finance, are also on the road map. But lets consider another potential domain here, perhaps less lucrative than the others, but nonetheless important: news and journalism.

Media startup Vocativ identifies hot news stories by trawling the depth of the web, data-mining the vast seas of unindexed documents for information that might point to a story lead. Often journalists pair up with analysts, manually exploring data from different perspectives. The Associated Presss Overview Project aims to build better visualization and analysis tools for investigative journalists to make sense of huge document sets.

What if much of this could be automated? A cognitive computer, like Watson, could search reams of evidence, generate hypotheses, and collect supporting and/or contradicting evidence. Potential news stories would be presented to journalists and analysts who would weigh the evidence, assessing its accuracy, and decide which story ideas to pass on to an editor for further pursuit. In this scenario, Watson would be providing a well-sourced tip.

Adapting Watson to new domains isnt easy. According to a paper from IBM Research that describes the application of Watson in health care, the system has to be able to parse and understand the format of a variety of domain-specific documents. Then it needs to be re-trained so that it learns how to weigh different sources of evidence, and any special-purpose taxonomies or logic that drive the domain also need to be accessible to the system. For investigative journalism, documents might include interview transcripts, legal codes and statutes, social networks, other news articles, PDFs from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), or even requests or document-dumps from sources like WikiLeaks. Through an iterative process, the system would have to be trained, going back and forth with editors as it suggested stories and was told yay or nay, each new vote modulating how the system weighs and integrates evidence.

Given a lot of re-engineering for Watson, how might an acumen for investigative reporting play out in a real-world news scenario? Earlier this year the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published a database of 2.5 million leaked documents about the offshore holdings and accounts of more than 100,000 entities, including emails, PDFs, spreadsheets, images, and four large databases packed with information about offshore companies, trusts, intermediaries, and other individuals involved with those companies. Undaunted, it took 112 reporters 15 months to analyze the data--a lot of human time and effort.

For Watson, ingesting all 2.5 million unstructured documents is the easy part. For this, it would extract references to real-world entities, like corporations and people, and start looking for relationships between them, essentially building up context around each entity. This could be connected out to open-entity databases like Freebase, to provide even more context. A journalist might orient the systems attention by indicating which politicians or tax-dodging tycoons might be of most interest. Other texts, like relevant legal codes in the target jurisdiction or news reports mentioning the entities of interest, could also be ingested and parsed.

Watson would then draw on its domain-adapted logic to generate evidence, like IF corporation A is associated with offshore tax-free account B, AND the owner of corporation A is married to an executive of corporation C, THEN add a tiny bit of inference of tax evasion by corporation C. There would be many of these types of rules, perhaps hundreds, and probably written by the journalists themselves to help the system identify meaningful and newsworthy relationships. Other rules might be garnered from common sense reasoning databases, like MITs ConceptNet. At the end of the day (or probably just a few seconds later), Watson would spit out 100 leads for reporters to follow. The first step would be to peer behind those leads to see the relevant evidence, rate its accuracy, and further train the algorithm. Sure, those follow-ups might still take months, but it wouldnt be hard to beat the 15 months the ICIJ took in its investigation.

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Vector Aerospace to Keep the Lynx Flying

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Vector Aerospace UK (Vector - http://www.vectoraerospace.com), a leading provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, announced today that it has been awarded an extension to the Lynx Aircraft and Component Servicing, Repair and Overhaul contract by the Ministry of Defence. The announcement, which will secure Lynx depth maintenance at the site, has rewarded the company's commitment to the strengthening of relationships with its customers by offering superior service through rigorous implementation of process innovation.

The Fleetlands operation has been the main UK provider of depth maintenance support to the Lynx Fleet throughout its 32 year service and has been the sole provider of this service to the Royal Navy and Army Lynx fleets since 2005.

"Vector Aerospace has an unrivalled record for support to the UK MOD,"said Michael Tyrrell, UK Managing Director. "We are delighted to be extending this service, ensuring that the UK Lynx fleet can meet all of its current and future requirements."

The extension of the Depth arrangement will provide support to the Army and Royal Navy Lynx aircraft up to the end of 2015. Col Darren Crook, Lynx Team Leader said, "We are pleased to have secured an extension to the Lynx Depth arrangements with Vector Aerospace International Limited. It will allow us to continue supporting the Front Line Commands with well maintained airworthy aircraft, which is a fundamental role of the Lynx Project Team."

About Vector Aerospace

Vector Aerospace is a global provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services. Through facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, South Africa, and Kenya Vector Aerospace provides services to commercial and military customers for gas turbine engines, components and helicopter airframes. Vector's customer-focused team includes over 2,700 motivated employees.

More information can be found on the company's website atwww.vectoraerospace.com

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stem cell therapy treatment for Quadriplegic Cerebral Palsy by dr alok sharma, mumbai, india – Video

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improvement seen in just 3 months after stem cell therapy treatment for quadriplegic cerebral palsy by dr alok sharma, mumbai, india. Stem Cell Therapy done ...

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