A Variety of Philippine Beaches – Experience A Great Beach Vacation – Video

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Beaches Resorts Turks and Caicos – Italian Village Family Suites – Video

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Resorts at risk of failing tough new water quality targets

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Warning that beaches including Weston-super-Mare and Blackpool may not hit new EU regulations

Dozens of beaches are at risk of failing tough new standards for water quality, the Environment Agency said as it launched its summer monitoring programme.

They include beaches at resorts such as Weston-super-Mare and Blackpool, which are hugely popular with people from the West Midlands.

From next year, more stringent European Union regulations will be brought in for bathing spots around England, and the agency is warning that around 40 beaches are on track to fail if action is not taken to tackle pollution ending up in the sea.

They also include Scarborough South Bay, Lyme Regis Church Cliff beach, Southend Jubilee beach, Ilfracombe Wildersmouth and Morecambe and Walney.

If beaches fail on water quality standards under the EU rules, local authorities will have to display a sign advising against swimming.

More than 400 beaches will be tested weekly between now and September, with a total of 8,400 samples taken, and the Environment Agency said nine out of 10 swimming spots were already meeting the new standards.

But there were still areas where pollution was a problem, caused by agricultural run-off, sewage overflows, animal and bird faeces on beaches and households and businesses with badly-connected drains, the agency said.

In some areas as many as one in five houses have their drains misconnected, which means sewage is being accidentally flushed into rivers and ending up on beaches.

Water companies, local authorities and the Environment Agency were working to sort out the problem.

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Florida Beaches Face Dangerous Rip Currents

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By Gabe Gutierrez

Memorial Day Weekend was the unofficial start of summer. The beaches were jam-packed, as last winters polar vortex has become a distant memory. But Floridas Volusia County has been hit with a wave of trouble.

Monday, there were more than 120 water rescues, mostly due to dangerous rip currents. On Sunday, lifeguards rescued about 100 swimmers from rough waters. Red flags dotted the sands in Daytona Beach, Florida, warning swimmers of possible danger.

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I had a panic attack. My heart almost stopped beating, and thats why I have to leave the beach right now, said Teresa Lattimore, a mother whose 10-year-old son was among those caught in the potentially deadly currents.

Rip currents are powerful channels of fast-moving water. Theyre caused by shifting sands that can move at speeds of up to 8 feet per second. Lifeguards say your best bet against them is to swim parallel to the shore.

In total, Florida lifeguards rescued 220 people this holiday weekend, more than they usually rescue in two full weeks.

First published May 26 2014, 2:52 PM

Gabe Gutierrez is an NBC News correspondent based in Atlanta, Ga. He joined the network in March 2012, and reports for all platforms of NBC News, including "TODAY," "Nightly News with Brian Williams," MSNBC, NBCLatino.com, and NBCNews.com, as well as Telemundo.

Gutierrez came to NBC News from KHOU 11 News in Houston, Texas, where he worked as the station's City Hall reporter. Prior to working in Houston, Gabe was a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WJRT-TV, the ABC station in Flint, Mich. While at WJRT, he regularly produced and hosted the station's public affairs program in addition to covering the state legislature and the auto industry. His first on-air job was at WBOY-TV, the NBC affiliate in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he anchored weekend newscasts and reported during the week. While in college, Gutierrez interned at Telemundo in South Florida and at ABC News' satellite feed in Chicago.

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Beaches, beer, Great Lakes mysteries abound along Michigan Triangle

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ST. JOSEPH Getting lost at Lake Michigan is nothing new.

This is a truth discovered by the crews and passengers of vessels that sailed the Great Lakes and disappeared, either without a trace or found years later as wrecks on the lake floor.

The 58 people aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, missing since it started westward out over Lake Michigan in 1950 near South Haven, are among them.

Those who subscribe to fantastical explanations of matters where details are scarce call this area of numerous wrecks the Michigan Triangle. An imaginary border links Benton Harbor/St. Joseph, Ludington and Mantiwoc, Wis., creating an alleged area of mysterious happenings similar to the famous Bermuda Triangle.

The Atlas Obscura, an online resource of strange happenings all around the world, features an entry on the Lake Michigan Triangle. It mentions the 1921 incident of the Rosa Belle, a ship carrying members of the Benton Harbor religious group House of David, being discovered overturned with all the people missing.

The Travel Channels Mysteries at the Museum show highlighted the Michigan Triangle, even bringing UFO activity into the mix.

At South Havens Michigan Maritime Museum, the explanations are a little more reasonable.

Director of Education and Administration Eden Morris said there are about 8 to 10 shipwrecks near South Haven alone, and that people regularly search for evidence of more.

Still, people shouldnt worry about being swallowed into a wormhole to another dimension, abducted by aliens or anything else that defies description.

Many of the wrecks, Morris said, were caused by more mundane matters.

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A Day In The Life of an European Southern Observatory Astronomer – Video

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Green Bank Telescope helps chart underground features on Moon, provide 3-D image of asteroid

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The National Radio Astronomy Observatorys Green Bank Telescope in Pocahontas County and the Arecibo Observatorys huge radiotelescope in Puerto Rico teamed up earlier this month to generate images of subterranean rock clusters and changes in the composition of dust up to 50 feet below the surface of the moon.

To produce the images, radar signals beamed from the Arecibo telescopes powerful transmitter penetrated 33 to 50 feet through the lunar surface and rebounded back to Earth, where they were detected by the sensitive receivers on the Green Bank Telescope. One image was taken of a portion of the moons Sea of Serenity, not far from Apollo 17s landing site in 1972. Changes in the composition of lunar dust and differences in the abundance of sub-surface rocks could be seen in the radar observations.

A second image was made of a 34-mile wide, 2-mile deep impact crater known as Aristillus, where a dark, halo-like feature surrounding the crater was determined to have been caused by pulverized debris flying out of the crater. The image also shows traces of lava-like features produced when lunar rock heated during impact flew beyond the perimeter of the crater.

According to a release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatorys headquarters in Charlottesville, Va., the subterranean lunar images will help scientists interpret the history of the moon, which is often obscured by billions of years of dust accumulations. They will also help space program researchers better understand the geology of previous lunar landing sites and plan for future landings on the moon.

In late April, the Green Bank Telescope teamed up with the Arecibo scope to observe a passing asteroid known as 2006 SX 217. Once again, radar pulses from Arecibo were bounced off the asteroid as it passed about 3 million miles from Earth, and then received and decoded by the West Virginia observatory. Since the asteroid was heading away from Earth and into the glare of the sun, optical telescopes were unable to observe its passing.

Because the asteroid is spinning, astronomers will be able to analyze how the returning radar signals are spread out, and after careful analysis, be able to construct a 3-D model of it. Preliminary observations indicated that the asteroid is about 4,000 feet in diameter larger than previously thought and unusually dark. An astronomer at the Arecibo observatory described the asteroids color as being about as black as toner in a copier.

The asteroid will not pass close enough to Earth for similar observations until 2066.

The 305-meter Arecibo radiotelescope, perched atop a limestone sinkhole and the 100-meter, fully steerable Green Bank Telescope have cooperated on a number of similar observations over the years, using a technique known as bi-static radar. In 2001, the West Virginia telescopes first scientific observations of the cloud-shrouded surface of Venus and of a smaller asteroid were made in conjunction with the Puerto Rico telescope, using the bi-static technique.

Both observatories are funded through the National Science Foundation. In 2012, an NSF review committee recommended that the Green Bank Telescope be divested from the portfolio of observatories the NSF funds by 2017, while keeping the older Arecibo scope, completed in 1963.

Reach Rick Steelhammer at 304-348-5169 or rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com.

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21-year-old makes astronomy breakthrough

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At just 21 years old, a California college student has made an incredible discovery: Michael Sandoval and his astrophysics professor at San Jose State have spotted what they believe is one galaxy that was swallowed up by another.

The result is a dense system of starsapparently the densest ever found. They're calling it a "hypercompact cluster," since no word for the object currently exists, the San Jose Mercury News reports.

The finding occurred as Sandoval took the first course he'd ever taken on the subject, NBC Bay Area reports. "Some people take years and never find" such space phenomena, says astrophysics professor Aaron Romanowsky.

Sandoval took about a week to find it, inspired by the work of a classmate who'd found what had previously appeared to be the densest known bunch of stars.

To make the story even more impressive, Sandoval's find came as he grieved for his mother, who died in October. He'd been living at home in recent years to take care of her during an illness, sometimes having to take her to the ER before heading to class the next day.

"I didn't want to be sitting home, feeling sorry for myself," Sandoval says. "That's not what she would have wanted, anyway." (Another recent space discovery involves an ancient space collision.)

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Public invited to astronomy party

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DeKALB The Northwest Suburban Astronomers, in cooperation with the DeKalb County Forest Preserve District, will host a public star party on Saturday, May 31, at Afton Forest Preserve's north entrance.

Look at stars, galaxies, nebulae and star clusters with the help of Northwest Suburban Astronomers member telescopes. Observing highlights will be a slender crescent moon and Jupiter early in evening, the planets Mars and Saturn, globular/open clusters M3, M13 and M44, the Ring Nebula (M57), the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) and galaxies M81 and M82, among others.

Participants should dress for a chilly evening and bring a flashlight covered with red plastic or cellophane, as red light preserves night vision. Bring your own insect repellent, if needed. Arrive around 8:30 p.m., or arrive early and hike the trails. Participants are welcome to bring their own telescope or binoculars. In the event of inclement weather, the event will be canceled. There is no cost to attend and no registration is required.

Afton Forest Preserve is located at 13600 Crego Road, DeKalb, about one mile east of Illinois Route 23 and one mile south of Perry Road. Park in the main parking lot and walk to the west. For more information, visit http://www.dekalbcounty.org/ForestPreserve or http://www.nsaclub.org.

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Starry Eyed for Last Time

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Last Thursday, students participated in one of their last opportunities to spend A Night with the Stars at the UC Irvine Observatory.

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Hosted by ASUCIs Department of Academic Affairs in collaboration with the Department of Astronomy, Thursday marked the second to last opportunity for Anteaters to visit the observatory, which is being relocated next year to make way for future housing developments.

Over 500 undergraduates made their way toward the outskirts of campus via campus shuttles, which ran throughout the night, to visit the observatory before its moved to an off-campus location.

The first Night with the Stars, held back in fall attracted only 200 visitors, so the number of attendees came as a pleasant surprise to the students and faculty who worked to plan the event.

As soon as the e-mail came out, we got over 500 RSVPs overnight. Its great, and its definitely unexpected in the sense of how passionate students actually are about going on a little field trip to discover something they have never seen before, Skyla Zhang, the vice-president of ASUCIs Academic Affairs, said.

Tim Carleton, the observatorys director of outreach, kicked off the evening with a talk that explained the functions of the observatory as well as some basic concepts about astronomy and space.

According to Carleton, the telescope is typically only used for educational and community outreach purposes, as it isnt powerful enough to conduct research with.

Because its a smaller telescope, its a great telescope to learn on, Carleton said. If youre a young, developing astronomer you can do some interesting projects that dont require as vast an amount of resources that some of the bigger projects require.

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Should we be worried about digital artificial intelligence? | Prof Freeman Dyson | UCD, Ireland – Video

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