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How effective is Oahu's smoking ban?

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The new year is a time for resolutions and some may want to give up smoking. It is something Oahu started banning at beaches and parks a year ago. But how is that law working out?

Click here to watch Paul Drewes's report.

Even with cooler winter temperatures, many still spent their Sunday at Ala Moana Beach Park. While there may be a little chill in the air, there is also less smoke.

"Before when we would come to the beach we would find a lot of littering and older people smoking with the kids running around. Second-hand smoking is not good. The air wasn't as clean," said Aiea resident Sheri Nii.

Now that a smoking ban has been around for a year, Nii and others are breathing a sign of relief.

"It helps that they put the ban on. The air is a lot cleaner," said Nii.

Not only is the air cleaner, so are picnic areas and beaches.

"I've seen a big difference in the amount of cigarette butts on the beach, sidewalks and on the coastlines," said Kahi Pacarro, with Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii.

How bad were things before?

"On Maui we did a cigarette butt sweep of the entire island and in two hours we found 14,000 cigarette butts," said Pacarro.

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Kozhikode beaches not spared of garbage

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With night surveillance of the coastline on the decline, beaches in the city are fast turning into a waste dump. Festivals make the situation worse, with waste safely dumped under the cover of darkness.

On Saturday, plastic and food waste was found dumped on the beach adjacent to the Gandhi Road junction. The cleaning staff of the city Corporation also seemed to give the beach a miss.

Street vendors along the main beach say waste is mostly brought here from venues of private parties and social gatherings. Food and other waste from wedding celebrations too are dumped in the sea, they say.

Night vigil on the beach is insufficient to dissuade anti-social elements. Only two or three security personnel are posted to guard several kilometres of the coastline.

Rajeesh V.T, an employee of a hotel on the beachside, says some groups of people bring large quantities of food and have it on the beach, but leave bundles of waste behind. We have come across instances wherein beachgoers have warned such groups and asked them to take back the waste, he says.

Sameer Ahmed and K.V. Faisal, who regularly frequent the city beaches, say even a small quantity of waste thrown by visitors can spoil the beaches as hundreds of people come there every day. The cleaning workers of the Corporation are finding it difficult to collect the garbage daily as the quantity is on the increase, they say.

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'Super Bowl of Astronomy' Blasts Off in Seattle This Week

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A huge meeting of space scientists kicks off this week in Seattle, Washington, as thousands of attendees descend on the coastal city.

The winter 2015 meeting of the American Astronomical Society will play host to 2,600 scientists, journalists and educators this year, according to a press kit released by AAS. Space.com reporters will be on-site covering the news coming from the large gathering of planetary scientists, astronomers and other space researchers sometimes dubbed the "Super Bowl of Astronomy."

"This 225th AAS meeting will feature more than 1,900 scientific presentations, including prize and invited lectures, short oral talks, and posters," AAS representatives wrote in the press kit. Scientists will present finding about new alien planet findings, far away galaxies and other new space discoveries throughout the conference, which runs from Jan. 4 to Jan. 8.

Officials from NASA, the National Science Foundation and other space organizations will host town hall meetings throughout the conference to discuss funding and science outlooks in the coming year. Attendees will also give special presentations about everything from astronomy throughout history to the legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope, which will be in space for 25 years in 2015.

"The Seattle meeting offers no fewer than 17 prize and invited talks by distinguished astronomers, beginning with the Kavli Lecture by Daniel Baker (University of Colorado, Boulder) on the Earth-girdling Van Allen radiation belts and ending with the Berkeley Prize Lecture by David Weinberg (Ohio State University) on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's contributions to astrophysics," AAS representatives added.

The winter meeting of the AAS is usually the first of two AAS meetings per year; however, this year will be different. The International Astronomical Union is hosting its general assembly in August in Hawaii, therefore, AAS will combine with the general assembly in lieu of a summer meeting.

The last AAS meeting was held in Boston, Massachusetts in June 2014.

Interested people unable to attend the conference in person can participate in and follow the conference online by using the hashtag #aas225 on social media. Space.com staff writers Miriam Kramer (@mirikramer) and Calla Cofield (@callacofield) will be in Seattle covering the conference.

Find out more about the astronomy conference directly from the AAS: http://aas.org/meetings/aas225. Visit Space.com daily this week for the latest news from the American Astronomical Society meeting.

Follow Miriam Kramer @mirikramer. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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January will be quiet, but theres plenty to see when you look up

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This new column about astronomy is for those of us who are interested in the subject but don't have the patience to process a lot of numbers.

I am an amateur who gets a thrill every time I look up at night and see the stars. I have been that way for as long as I can remember.

This column is for those of us who just want to know what's happening in the sky and in the field of astronomy and don't want a lot of other stuff to distract us from the wonder of it all.

Our objective will be to get all of the information out to anyone who reads this with a minimum of effort and a maximum of satisfaction.

This month is a fairly quiet one but there are still plenty of things to see when you look up.

The most interesting sight this month could be comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy which should be arriving in the southeast and progressing gradually towards the North Star Polaris during the month. It will be faint, most likely binoculars will be needed to see it, but there is a possibility it will grow in brightness to be visible to the naked eye.

It will be closest to us on Jan. 7, a bit less than half the distance from Earth to the sun. It will continue to recede into the distance after that.

A second sight this month, but again a bit disappointing, is the Quadrantid meteor shower, peaking around Jan. 4.

Normally, this is a good shower to watch for, but this year it will be poor only for one reason the full moon on Jan. 5. Strong moonlight is the bane of meteor watching, and this shower will be washed out by the moon.

The shower will radiate from a point a bit to the left of the Big Dipper.

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IT Digest: Artificial intelligence studied

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January 4 at 3:07 PM

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Scholars to study artificial intelligence

Stanford University is anchoring a study to examine the long-term effects of artificial intelligence.

Led and funded by Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft research and a Stanford University alumnus, the 100-year study will be overseen by a committee with rotating members who will track progress at five-year intervals.

They plan to pay close attention to focus on how artificial intelligence affects national security, psychology, ethics, law, privacy and democracy, among other topics.

So far, professors from Stanford, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of British Columbia are joining.

[W]e feel obliged and qualified to host a conversation about how artificial intelligence will affect our children and our childrens children, Stanford President John Hennessy said in a statement.

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