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Stakeholders at a days forum on cleanliness of the beaches held in Sekondi have called for the phasing out of the use of plastic materials.
The stakeholders, made up of civil society, fishermen, assembly members and representatives of various institutions came up with the suggestion at the forum organized by the Save Our Beaches Ghana, an Accra based NGO which has focus on the cleanliness of the countrys beaches.
It was held on the theme Our beaches, our heritage and our role.
The stakeholders said though the suggestion might not favour some people and institutions that was the solution to a sound, clean and healthy environment and the beaches as the plastic waste was menace to society.
Dr Augustine Kwesi Amoako, Senior Medical Officer at the Essikado Government Hospital, said 85 percent of pollution at the beaches and sea were plastics generated on the land caused by human activities.
He said pollution at the sea and off shore had health implication as they affected the marine creature which is passed on to humans through consumption thus affecting the human organs.
Mr Kobina Okyere Darko-Mensah, MP for Takoradi, called for the active involvement of traditional authorities in sanitation issues as they were in direct contact with the people and could easily impress on them to take up the task.
Mr Darko-Mensah called for strict enforcement of the regulation on sanitary matters and also empower the City Guards to cause the arrest those who break sanitary laws.
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BOLINAO, Pangasinan - Beyond its pristine white-sand beaches, the coastal town of Bolinao in western Pangasinan has more to offer to visitors.
Tourists can explore Bolinao's caves and coral beds, learn about its history and culture, or enjoy a cruise with lunch on Balingasay River.
Bolinao, facing the West Philippine Sea and with a population of 75,000, is at the end of a four-and-a-half-hour drive from Metro Manila. Buses take tourists to the town on runs that take five and a half hours.
Although the Pangasinan and Ilocano languages are widely spoken in Bolinao, the town has its own language, Bolinao or Binu-Bolinao.
"The Bolinao culture is still very alive, especially on Santiago Island," said Myrna Aguila, the town's tourism officer. The island, located off the northern tip of Pangasinan, has six of Bolinao's 30 villages.
"People there still practice bayanihan. If somebody gets married, everybody helps in the preparation. During fiestas, homes are open and visitors can just go in to eat," Aguila said.
Margaret Celeste, chair of the Movement of Bolinao Concerned Citizens Inc., said residents were fierce defenders of the environment, always ready to stand up to any threat.
In the 1990s, the residents opposed the construction of a P13-billion (S$400 million) cement plant in the town, prompting the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to reject the proponent's application for an environmental compliance certificate.
Tourists appreciate the town and its attractions, and always return, encouraging the construction of resorts and other lodging facilities over the last five years.
Responding to the increase in tourist traffic, Bolinao's tourism office has drawn up itineraries for visitors who want to explore the town.
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SANDY HOOK, N.J. The Jersey shore's 127 miles of beaches are famous for their beauty and natural wonder.
And once a year, they're also famous for the disgusting debris either left behind by beachgoers or washed up with the tides from points unknown.
The Clean Ocean Action environmental group on Monday released its annual list of trash picked up by volunteers during spring and fall cleanups last year.
Items retrieved from the sands included a whoopee cushion, parking meter, bra padding, wig and stun gun. Also found were a clay sculpture of baby Jesus, a trash bag full of loose arcade tickets, and a TV remote. (Yes, THAT's where you put it.)
Plastic pieces were the most common trash, comprising 13 percent of the more than 315,000 items collected from the shoreline.
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JOHNSON CITY Fourteen East Tennessee State University students recently attended a workshop on radio astronomy at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) in Brevard, N.C.
During the workshop, they learned how to use a radio telescope and made astronomical observations at radio frequencies of a variety of objects, including radio galaxies, supernova remnants, quasars, the plane of the Milky Way galaxy and the sun.
Because Earths atmosphere is transparent to most radio waves, radio astronomy can be done from the surface of the Earth, like visible-light astronomy, but unlike X-ray, ultraviolet or gamma ray astronomy, explained Dr. Beverly Smith, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in ETSUs College of Arts and Sciences.
Following the workshop, the college students now are visiting local high school classes to share their experiences in this program, an effort funded by a grant from the Physics Teachers Education Coalition, which is supported by the American Physical Society and the National Science Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Learning Experience in Astronomy and Physics Scholarship fund through the ETSU Foundation.
One of the goals of this program is to provide our students with additional outside-the-classroom, hands-on laboratory experiences, said Smith, principal investigator of the grant.
ETSU physics majors who participated in the workshop at PARI were: Elizabeth Williams, Alcoa; Susan Olmsted, Bristol; Dalton Cody Hunley, Church Hill; Tulsi Amin, David Baldwin, Andrew Boghozian, Bryan Matthew Cannon, David Frost, Hannah Greene and Benjamin Tyler McKinney, all of Johnson City; Ashton Morelock, Jonesborough; Austin Patrick, Telford; Holden Dingus, Clintwood, Va.; and William Asbury, Wytheville, Va.
The astronomy program within ETSUs Department of Physics and Astronomy boasts a faculty of five Ph.D. astronomers. In addition to the on-campus Harry D. Powell Observatory, ETSU astronomers have access to three other visible-light telescopes around the world as part of the departments membership in the Southeastern Association in Research in Astronomy.
ETSU recently started an academic minor in astronomy for undergraduates, which includes courses in Extragalactic Astronomy, Variable Stars, Astrophysics and a new course, Women in Astronomy.
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These stunning photos reveal just how much you can see in the night sky above Greater Manchester.
The pictures, taken by members of Stretford Facebook Astronomy Group and Heaton Park Astronomy Group, include Mars and Jupiter plus galaxies 23 million light years away.
Other more familiar sights include detailed pictures of the moon and the Orion galaxy - recognisable for its belt of three parallel stars.
All the photos have been taken using telescopes with camera attachments in Manchester, Stretford, Bolton and Middleton.
Pete Collins, a member of Heaton Park Astronomy Group for the last eight years, said: From Manchester you can see around 300 stars, if youre lucky - in the countryside its more like 3,000.
Having said that, this does make it easier for beginners to identify some of the most well-known constellations like The Plough.
I think part of the attraction of it for me is standing out under the night sky feeling a very small part of things.
Terry Roberts, 52, who started the Stretford Facebook Astronomy Group for people to share photos, said: Ive been into astronomy my whole life but was only able to afford a telescope and then the filters and cameras a few years ago.
I tried to get funding to set up a group but couldnt so I thought a Facebook group would still let people share photos.
The next major event visible from Greater Manchester in the night sky will be the Lyrid Meteor shower, on April 23.
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When people spend time online, either browsing the internet or communicating with others, their activity helps fill gaps in the machines' knowledge.
This helps computers make associations between words, images and ideas, helping them to make sense of complicated text, improve their language translation, or identify pictures.
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Professor David Roberton of Edinburgh University said the rise in artificial intelligence is helping computer scientists develop smarter search engines and technologies that can adapt to suit the needs of users.
It will help speed the arrival of the internet of things, in which everyday objects, such as domestic appliances and cars, use the web to connect with users and with each other to operate efficiently and smartly, researchers will say.
Further improvements in artificial intelligence could help computers interact with people in a more intelligent way. Computer programmes are now on a par with humans in performing routine tasks - so much so that software is used to check that interactions are being performed by people rather than robots, researchers say.
Prof Robertson, Professor of Applied Logic at the university's School of Informatics, will join Dr Gautam Shroff, chief scientist for Tata Consultancy Services Research in India, in a discussion about artificial intelligence at the Edinburgh International Science Festival today. (monj)
Prof Robertson said: "Artificial intelligence is not a new concept, but we are at the stage of making big developments in smart machines - and the new ingredient in the mix is us. People are connected across the globe like never before, and society is becoming part of the solution to the challenge of developing ever-smarter technologies and tools."
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4 hours ago by Larry Hardesty Two-dimensional images of human faces (top row) and front views of three-dimensional models of the same faces, produced by both a new MIT system (middle row) and one of its predecessors (bottom row).
Most recent advances in artificial intelligencesuch as mobile apps that convert speech to textare the result of machine learning, in which computers are turned loose on huge data sets to look for patterns.
To make machine-learning applications easier to build, computer scientists have begun developing so-called probabilistic programming languages, which let researchers mix and match machine-learning techniques that have worked well in other contexts. In 2013, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an incubator of cutting-edge technology, launched a four-year program to fund probabilistic-programming research.
At the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in June, MIT researchers will demonstrate that on some standard computer-vision tasks, short programsless than 50 lines longwritten in a probabilistic programming language are competitive with conventional systems with thousands of lines of code.
"This is the first time that we're introducing probabilistic programming in the vision area," says Tejas Kulkarni, an MIT graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences and first author on the new paper. "The whole hope is to write very flexible models, both generative and discriminative models, as short probabilistic code, and then not do anything else. General-purpose inference schemes solve the problems."
By the standards of conventional computer programs, those "models" can seem absurdly vague. One of the tasks that the researchers investigate, for instance, is constructing a 3-D model of a human face from 2-D images. Their program describes the principal features of the face as being two symmetrically distributed objects (eyes) with two more centrally positioned objects beneath them (the nose and mouth). It requires a little work to translate that description into the syntax of the probabilistic programming language, but at that point, the model is complete. Feed the program enough examples of 2-D images and their corresponding 3-D models, and it will figure out the rest for itself.
"When you think about probabilistic programs, you think very intuitively when you're modeling," Kulkarni says. "You don't think mathematically. It's a very different style of modeling."
Joining Kulkarni on the paper are his adviser, professor of brain and cognitive sciences Josh Tenenbaum; Vikash Mansinghka, a research scientist in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; and Pushmeet Kohli of Microsoft Research Cambridge. For their experiments, they created a probabilistic programming language they call Picture, which is an extension of Julia, another language developed at MIT.
What's old is new
The new work, Kulkarni says, revives an idea known as inverse graphics, which dates from the infancy of artificial-intelligence research. Even though their computers were painfully slow by today's standards, the artificial intelligence pioneers saw that graphics programs would soon be able to synthesize realistic images by calculating the way in which light reflected off of virtual objects. This is, essentially, how Pixar makes movies.
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CHAMBERSBURG >> Young scientists from across Franklin and Fulton counties will showcase their experimental and technological achievements Friday and Saturday at the 33rd Annual Franklin Science and Technology Fair.
The exhibits will be up for public viewing noon to 4 p.m. Saturday at Chambersburg Area Middle School South, 1150 E. McKinley St.
Students in kindergarten through 12th grade were invited to participate in the annual event. The projects will be judged on Friday evening based on age and project topic.
The divisions of primary, intermediate and juniors will be judged in the categories of earth science, life science and physical science.
In the senior division for high school students, participants will be judged in behavioral and social science, biology/microbiology, chemistry/biochemistry, computer science and mathematics, earth/space/environmental sciences, engineering, medicine and health sciences and physics. Partner exhibits will also be judged.
In addition to awards in each category and division, special awards will also be announced. These awards come from local organizations and recognize projects on the topics of their choice.
The overall champions and grand champions will be announced on April 18. Students who receive top honors this Saturday qualify for the Championship Competition, where participants will be required to present their projects to jurors in the Chambersburg Area School District Administration Building. The award ceremony will take place after the judging is completed at noon.
For more information on the Franklin Science Fair, go to http://www.franklinscience.org/.
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The large prize is being offered by businessman, Dmitry Kaminskiy He hopes money will help create a new group of 'supercenternarians' Jeanne Calment holds the record of oldest person, dying aged 122.5 He has made a $1m bet with Dr Alex Zhavoronkov on who will die first
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Dmitry Kaminskiy is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'
A Moldovan multi-millionaire whose dream it is to live forever has promised to give $1 million to the first person to reach the age of 123.
Dmitry Kaminskiy, a senior partner of Hong Kong-based firm, Deep Knowledge Ventures, is hoping his million dollar gift will trigger a new group of 'supercenternarians'.
He says research into stem cells, tissue rejuvenation and regenerative medicine will allow people to live beyond 120 - an age that has been quoted as the 'real absolute limit to human lifespan'.
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