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Westerly engineers non-biodegradable system to protect beaches
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These Cali beaches are greedy as fuck.
Took this cali girl out and she ate more than i did.
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PUBLISHED: 12:42 EST, 5 March 2014 | UPDATED: 13:30 EST, 5 March 2014
My seven-year-old daughter bursts into tears and flings herself on to her immaculate white bed. I dont want to go home! she sobs as I zip up our cases.
Weve just come to the end of a week-long, all-inclusive stay at the Beaches Negril Resort in Jamaica, and according to Lily-Rose its been: The best week of my life.
Which is why she doesnt fancy returning to rainy London.
Paradise found: Beaches resort is set in 20 acres of wooded grounds on Negril's famous seven-mile beach
It feels good to know that shes had such a fantastic experience.
Having been a single parent for more than six years I know that holidays can be tricky when youre not in a conventional family set up.
You worry that youll be desperately craving adult company after a day, or that your child will get bored with no dad to throw them around the swimming pool.
I even worry about whether it will look odd just me and my little girl dining out in the evening - will people feel sorry for me?
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Just in time for swimsuit season, federal researchers are touting a faster, more accurate water-quality test to keep beaches open and people healthy. But its expensive
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Just in time for swimsuit season, federal researchers are touting a faster, more accurate water-quality test to keep beaches open and people healthy.
But its expensive, and most of the nations cash-strapped cities and counties can afford it.
Local officials traditionally check for bacteria in ocean and lake water with tests that take about 24 hours to complete. Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recommending testing at the molecular level tagging DNA and counting bacteria which provides results within hours.
Water quality can change significantly in 24 hours. This way were identifying threats to human health almost immediately,said Meredith Nevers, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is studying theEPAs new DNA test.
An estimated 3.5 million people get sick every year after a trip to the beach because of E. coli or other pathogens from sewage overflows, spills and polluted runoff, according to the EPA. Exposure can cause gastrointestinal illness, skin rashes and infections.
About 43 percent of beaches along the East and West coasts and the Great Lakes had at least one water-quality advisory in 2011, according to EPA data.
Counties and cities test beaches routinely often weekly but depending on the location and season. Beaches also are tested after spills to determine when they can be reopened.
Slow results Traditional tests involve waiting 24 hours to allow E. coli, coliform or enterococci to grow in a water sample, then counting the colonies. That means decisions to close down beaches are based on samples collected the day before.
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EAST London beaches were closed to bathers yesterday by Buffalo City Metro marine services officials after a red tide algal bloom was seen in city waters.
Marine services assistant programme manager Siani Tinley yesterday said the closure was a precautionary measure to allow officials time to test the bloom that was blown on shore by days of north-easterly winds.
COASTAL ISSUES: Eric Ngwani says hell be fishing until somebody warns him not to. This is after the red tide flowed into East London yesterday Picture: MARK ANDREWS
She also warned surfers to stay out of the water until the tests had been conducted.
Red tide is the common name used for a colony of red-brown micro-organisms which bloom at certain times of the year.
Although the red tide is believed to be the same non-toxic species that has been off the coast from False Bay to the outskirts of East London for several months, Tinley said it would be best to conduct tests before giving local beaches the all-clear.
Tinley said it was difficult to determine whether it was the same species of red tide found off the rest of the coast without doing tests.
It could be the same as the Port Elizabeth red tide which is relatively harmless.
However, we decided to close the beaches as a precautionary measure, she said.
Tinley said cold water from north east winds resulted in an upwelling of nutrients, and this encouraged the algal bloom.
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Thank the gods, or at least the licensing people: in the new stage version of Beaches, we get to hear The Wind Beneath My Wings. It arrives during Act 2 of this amiable throwback of a musical, and the actress who lands it, Alysha Umphress, presents it to us in a delicate caress, as if it were a family heirloom, to be shown to the assembled guests on special occasions.
Its not the only pleasing musical interlude of this Signature Theatre world premiere, based on Iris Rainer Darts hearts-and-flowers novel, about lifelong bosom buddies who need, needle and nourish each other. Dart who has written the lyrics and co-written the musicals book with Thom Thomas fashions with composer David Austin some frisky uptempo numbers, especially a witty send-up of disco, (Im) All I Need, and a song for the shows stars, Normal People, that recalls the merry backstage brio of movie musicals like Singin in the Rain.
But trying to navigate the storys stormier pathways leads the writers up some muddier alleys, in particular, to a lifeless ballad for Mara Davi, playing Bertie White, doomed pal of Umphresss singing sensation Cee Cee Bloom, that sends us blandly into intermission. And the music for the talented Matthew Scott, in a turn as Cee Cees overshadowed husband, John, disappears from memory almost as rapidly as Gabriel Mangiantes 10-member orchestra strikes it up.
So approach this Beaches with your expectations a tad in check. Be prepared for a few hiccups; be armed with the knowledge that its not quite the five-hanky schmaltz-fest you might be hoping for. (Signature is optimistically selling packs of Beaches tissues at the concession stand.) If you come with the thought that theres a bit of tinkering still to be done, youll find that director Eric Schaeffers production is as comically engaging as this slightly dated material will allow.
Beaches, of course, is a pop-culture artifact as a result of the 1988 movie adaptation that featured Barbara Hershey and Bette Midler as a pair of unlikely best friends, one classy, one brassy, who wash up together in early midlife, clutching each other as they stare into the abyss. The novels accounts of Berties horrible marriage redeemed by the birth of a child and Cee Cees yo-yo-ing career as an entertainer, provide a vigorous framework for a musical, offering patented opportunities for commentary on the pitfalls of show business and a well-deserved microphone for the sultry-voiced Umphress. She grandly takes up the gauntlet from Midler, who turned the films signature love theme, by Jeff Silbar and Larry Henley, into her personal anthem.
Chronicling the good times and bad times in the 1950s through 80s between Cee Cee and Bertie the two characters are portrayed by three sets of actresses at various ages, and all six are excellent the stage version seems primed to carry on Beaches time-honored tradition of allowing the tears to flow freely. So why does the novels unalloyed sentimentality feel underserved here? Though the shows final scene raises a lump in the throat, thanks in part to the endearing portrayal by little Svea Johnson of Berties daughter Nina, the musical as a whole doesnt adequately capitalize on one of Beaches most potent selling points.
Having just read the novel, I wondered how the musical would handle one of Darts most moving passages, a scene in which bitterly estranged Cee Cee and Bertie reconcile at the bedside of Berties dying mother, Rose (Helen Hedman). In the novel, Bertie is stunned to find Cee Cee in the hospital singing a lullaby to the unconscious Rose. What might communicate love and loyalty with more emotionality? The musical merely portrays Cee Cee showing up stalwartly at the hospital after their roaring row, to lend Bertie support. Beaches is one of those properties that feels as if it is not fulfilling its mission unless it goes a little over the top.
Dart and Thomas, with Schaeffers guidance, do a darn good job of propelling an audience through a considerable volume of exposition. In concert with choreographer Dan Knechtges, Schaeffer and the songwriters come up with deftly inventive ways to integrate Little Bertie and Cee Cee into numbers with their older selves. As the littlest embodiments of the main characters, Brooklyn Shuck and Presley Ryan are delightful. But with the exception of Michael Bunce as a Sarasota obstetrician who falls for Cee Cee, the male roles are all rather thankless.
Derek McLanes totemic set high walls made out of desks, bureaus, lamps and tables, interlocking items furnishing two lives is a pleasantly unconventional backdrop, and costume designer Frank Labovitz is in fine form, dressing the high- and low-living Cee Cee in wild 60s paisleys and 70s sequins.
The main event, however, has to be in the electricity that crackles through the central love story, that of two obstinate women drawn inexorably into each others arms. Umphress and Davi are well-matched for ignition to occur (though, come to think of it: how can it be that Bertie has nearly as good a voice as Cee Cee?). One waits with a pack of Beaches tissues at the ready, for the water works to come as readily as do the amusing sparks.
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Northern Beaches
Growth potential: This five-bedroom home at 961 Barrenjoey Road, Palm Beach, sold for $7 million last September through LJ Hooker Palm Beach.
The hammers and saws are getting a workout on the northern beaches as buying and remodelling older properties takes off on the back of a much-welcome recovery in sales.
"There is a lot of renovating," says Century 21 Dee Why principal Brett Read. "There's not so much knockdown and rebuilding - most buyers are stretched just to buy a property and most do it with a view to renovate slowly over time as they can afford it."
961 Barrenjoey Road, Palm Beach.
A shortage of properties under $1 million has agents on the northern beaches wishing for more supply.
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"Anything under $1 million is attracting a lot of attention," says Read. "There are just not enough to satisfy the buyer demand. From Manly to Palm Beach that's really the case."
David Mackay, principal of LJ Hooker Avalon, agrees. "The bottom end of the market up to around that $1.2 million mark is very, very hot," he says. Buyers who fall in love with a property in that price range might need to move fast. "What we're seeing unfortunately is gazumping," says Mackay. And there are also many buyers wanting to seal a deal before auction. "In previous years, we just haven't experienced that," says Mackay.
First homebuyers on the northern beaches are thin on the ground. Century 21's Read says directing first homebuyer grants to new property has "really caused this".
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News Release: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
More sea turtles nest on Floridas sandy beaches than on any other U.S. coastline. Biologists at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) hope the 2014 nesting season that started March 1 will be as successful as others in recent years.
This month, leatherback sea turtles begin to emerge onto beaches to lay their eggs along Floridas Atlantic coast, from Broward to Brevard counties. A few months later, people in other coastal counties also may notice loggerhead and green sea turtle crawls, the distinctive line of tracks they leave behind in the sand.
Three species of sea turtles nest in abundance on Florida beaches: leatherbacks, loggerheads and greens. Loggerheads are the most abundant, and approximately 90 percent of all nests for this species in the southeastern United States occur in Florida. Sea turtle biologists were surprised and pleased in 2013 when a record number of more than 36,000 green sea turtle nests were counted in Florida.
The great news is that so many sea turtles nest on Florida beaches more than anywhere else in the United States, said Dr. Robbin Trindell, who is responsible for sea turtle management at the FWC. Florida had a record number of loggerhead nests in 2012, followed by a record number of green turtle nests in 2013.
Typically, sea turtle nesting season runs from March through the end of October, but nesting continued well beyond that in 2013. Green turtles generally nest later than the other sea turtle species in Florida. FWC biologists would not be surprised if nesting season extends later into the fall again this year, and they caution beachgoers that marked nests on the beach may hatch well past the official end of nesting season in October. The actions that people take are critical to maintaining Floridas success with sea turtles, Trindell said. Remove chairs, canopies, boats and other items from the beach at night, because they block the movement of turtles and hatchings. Dont forget to turn off or shield lights on the beach, to prevent hatchlings from getting confused and going toward land instead of the salt water where they belong.
In Florida, sea turtle landings on the beach are documented by volunteers, who assist the FWCs researchers. About 2,500 FWC-permitted volunteers regularly patrol more than 800 miles of sandy shoreline to identify, mark and protect sea turtle nests. They collect nesting data and also share their knowledge with beachgoers on how to help conserve sea turtles.
Support Floridas sea turtles by purchasing the Helping Sea Turtles Survive license tag at BuyaPlate.com. Tag funds are spent on sea turtle research, rescue and conservation efforts. People also can donate $5 and receive an FWC sea turtle decal. Learn more about sea turtles at MyFWC.com/SeaTurtle.
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