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Dozens of Britain's best loved beaches face shutdown because sewage pipes have been hooked up to storm drains … so …

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PUBLISHED: 13:39 EST, 16 March 2014 | UPDATED: 16:23 EST, 16 March 2014

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Beaches at some of Britain's best-loved resorts could be closed for bathing from next year because of high levels of sewage contamination.

Water quality at popular stretches of coast including Blackpool, Scarborough and Clacton has failed to meet minimum standards.

Now EU rules mean 45 beaches face having to put up signs marking them as unfit for bathing from next year unless expensive steps are taken to remove sources of contamination, it emerged yesterday.

Blackpool Beach is one of 45 that could be declared unfit for bathing from next year under EU rules

Swimmers who ignore the signs would face the risk of going home with an ear, nose or throat infection, or even gastroenteritis.

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7th-grader's effort paves way for smoke-free beaches

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RYE - As soon as ballots were tallied last Tuesday night in Rye, Isabella Hillman took a deep breath, exhaled, and smiled.

Thanks to her efforts, thousands of beachgoers in her town might be able to do the same this summer.

Hillman, 12, led a petition drive to put a warrant article before voters, asking them to approve a nonbinding resolution declaring all town beaches smoke-free. Last Tuesday, residents of Rye complied, approving her Article 24, 1,193 to 471.

"It was great to be able to make a difference like that," said Hillman, a seventh-grader at Rye Junior High School. "My friends and I love to go to the beach, and there's always someone smoking there and we don't like it. Plus, most of the litter picked up off beaches are cigarette butts. This will help."

Hillman said after she decided to take on the task of a smoking ban on local beaches, she approached the Rye Civic League for advice on how to go about it.

"They explained to me everything I needed to do," said Hillman. "They were a big help right from the start."

Hillman gathered 40 signatures for her petition, 15 more than required to have it go before selectmen for placement on the town's warrant. She then addressed the town's deliberative session, successfully advocating for its placement on the ballot.

"She spent months on this," said her father, Steve. "She's a straight-A student, a very determined person. The passion, the drive she needed to get this done . I don't know where it comes from because I don't have it. We're very proud of her."

The smoking ban received the full backing of the town's selectmen and Budget Committee.

According to Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh, because Article 24 is a nonbinding resolution that declares all nine town beach areas as smoke-free zones, signs will be posted asking beachgoers not to smoke, but they will not face a penalty or fine if they do.

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All Gold Coast beaches closed as large swells hit

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GOLD Coast City Council lifeguards weekend supervisor Anthony Lunney said large swells had forced the closure of beaches across the Coast, with only a couple of swimming spots considered safe.

We have a pretty big swell hitting the Coast at the moment and it is unfortunate that it has hit on a pretty hot and muggy day when everybody wants to come to the beach and go for a swim, he said.

Currumbin Creek and Tallebudgera Creek are the best places and the roads are really busy heading south.

We cant force people out of the water, we can only advised them that the beaches are closed and that they are swimming at their own risk.

Swells are reaching 1.8 metres at most beaches on the Coast, but Mr Lunney said little damage had been done.

The swell is supposed to peak today before dropping a bit tomorrow and should hopefully be back to normal by Tuesday, he said.

The beaches have held up pretty well.

Rough conditions at Kirra caused organisers to relocate the Queensland Nipper Titles to Currumbin Creek this morning.

Organisers will monitor conditions throughout the day, as high seas are predicted.

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Front and Center: John Whitmer, SFCC astronomy instructor – Sun, 16 Mar 2014 PST

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Some visitors who attend John Whitmers popular Friday night stargazing sessions expect insights based on the position of celestial bodies, as in when the moon is in the SeventhHouse.

But the director of Spokane Falls Community Colleges planetarium is an astronomer, not an astrologer. Hes more interested in the age of planets than the Age ofAquarius.

Whitmer has taught at SFCC since 1998, and spearheaded the effort to include a planetarium in the colleges new science building, completed in2011.

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Astronomer John Whitmer, pictured in SFCCs planetarium, has been with the college since1998. (Full-size photo)

Year SFCC planetarium opened: 2011

Seating capacity: 52

Public shows: Fridays at 7 p.m. during school year; Thursday afternoons insummer

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Educator Teams Fly on NASA's SOFIA Airborne Observatory

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NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is shown with its telescope door partly open during a test flight for its astronomical observation mission. (NASA / Jim Ross) View Larger Image

PALMDALE, Calif. The first four Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) educators returned safely to Earth at Palmdale, Calif., early in the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, after completing their initial flight on NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA.

That flight launched the AAA program's first full year of operations, during which 26 educators from classrooms and science centers across the United States will fly on the SOFIA as partners with scientists conducting astronomy research using the airborne observatory.

On board for the Feb. 12-13 flight were ambassadors Constance Gartner of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wisc.; Chelen Johnson from the Breck School in Golden Valley, Minn.; Ira Harden and Vincente Washington, both from City Honors College Preparatory Charter School in Inglewood, Calif. The astronomers on the flight included Juergen Wolf and Doerte Mehlert of the German SOFIA Institute in Stuttgart, Germany and Ted Dunham of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.

The SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP jetliner that carries a telescope with an effective diameter of 100 inches (2.5 meters) to altitudes as high as 45,000 feet (14 km). Flying above Earth's obscuring atmospheric water vapor, scientists can gather and analyze infrared light to further our understanding of puzzles such as the processes that form stars and planets, the chemistry of organic compounds in interstellar clouds, and the environment around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

"SOFIA enables educators to work with scientists and to experience a flight mission on the world's largest airborne observatory. Educators then take their experiences back to their classrooms and communities," said Eddie Zavala, NASA's SOFIA program manager. "They can relate the excitement, hardships, challenges, discoveries, teamwork and educational values of SOFIA and scientific research to students, teachers and the general public."

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