Huge crowds flock to local beaches

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SAN DIEGO - Huge crowds flocked to local beaches on Saturday to enjoy the warm, sunny weather.

Kayakers near the La Jolla Cove took in the scenery while taking advantage of calm waters.

Dozens of others waded near the water's edge at the cove or crowded on the sand across at La Jolla Shores.

San Diego lifeguards tell 10News that Saturday's crowds were large for this time of year. Fortunately, calm waves have kept rescues to a minimum.

"The beach has been really busy today with the crowds and a lot of people in the water because the water has warmed up," said lifeguard Sgt. Troy Keach. "We're lucky the surf is kind of small so it's more preventive lifeguarding and we're not making a lot of rescues, but we've got a lot of activity out here."

10News did catch one rescue by SeaWorld sea life experts. A 300-pound sea lion stranded near Boomers at La Jolla Cove will now head to SeaWorld to be rehabilitated.

"We got a call from lifeguards that there was a stranded adult male California sea lion in distress and so we came down here to assess the situation found out that he did indeed look sick and we just rescued him," said Heather Ruce, who is with SeaWorld San Diego. "We're going to take him back to SeaWorld, we're going to rehabilitate him and then return him to the wild."

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Brown algae can still bring odors to North Shore beaches

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For more than 100 years, beachgoers in Lynn and Nahant called it the smell. It came from a rare algae that settled and decomposed on local beaches. For decades, scientists were puzzled about how to eliminate the odor. Finally, in 2008, the Department of Conservation and Recreation decided to send out work crews with front-end loaders to scoop up the algae every morning from April to November.

That plan worked for five years. But last July, the odor returned for about six weeks when the brown algae, known as Pilayella littoralis , was allowed to cake up on Nahant and Lynn beach. As it decomposed in sand under the hot sun, the algae, which can rise up like a bronze carpet on hundreds of yards of sand, released a sulfide odor akin to the smell of rotten eggs.

DCR Commissioner Edward M. Lambert Jr. said he is confident that the smell will be contained this summer. He attributed last years reoccurence to a change in staff that led to a 10-day gap in algae removal.

We had lost one position, Lambert said. It was a retirement, and it happened to coincide with someone who was out on vacation at the same time. And the staff got behind.

By late August, DCR crews had caught up with the algae bloom, removing thousands of pounds of algae each week. Lambert said the state spends $150,000 each year on removal.

Robert Tucker, president of the Friends of Lynn & Nahant Beach, called last summers odor a hiccup, but said it was an example of how the algae can change the areas quality of life if not contained. He said the lobby of his oceanfront apartment building smelled for several days.

You cant play Russian roulette with it, Tucker said. You have to get it daily.

Last summers smell reminded many of the decades when the odor was taken for granted by those who live by the sea. Bathers stayed away from the water and sand. Drivers closed their windows, and residents did the same. Some, like Suzanne Ryan, occasionally held their breath.

It was pretty bad, said Ryan, a Lynn resident who walks regularly along Lynn Beach. I had my Mom with me, who is 89, and she was just aghast at the smell. It was making her nauseous.

Brian Quade of Swampscott considers the algae an afterthought when he rides his bike along the beach. I realize its algae, and its a natural thing, but it just stinks, he said.

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Astronomy Day Attracts Stargazers

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SPARKS, Nev. It's something that comes up everyday but thanks to the Astronomical Society of Nevada, some lucky people got a peak at the Sun as well as some other celestial bodies.

"The first reaction is 'Wow', the second reaction is 'Cool', and 'I didn't know you guys existed," Jim Fahey of the Astronomical Society of Nevada said.

As a clear sky and warm weather drew people out to the Sparks Marina, many were surprised to see a handful of telescopes scattered across the grass.

It was all part of the National Astronomy Day, a nationwide out reach designed to give access to telescopes to the general public.

During the day, people were given a chance to look at the moon, as well as the sun through the use of special telescopes.

"It was really cool, because we saw the sun as kind of red, I mean kind of orange, and the outside is black," eleven year old Aisha said.

The event sparked the interest of people of all ages.

"Through the telescope, I could see the craters on the moon, I could see the different parts of the moon," Adam Fliess said.

Fliess, along with many other people, came back to the Marina as night fell to get a peak at some other astronomical bodies as well.

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Sharing the love through good nutrition

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Upholding the value of good nutrition for Filipino children, fast-growing food chain Minute Burger recently launched a nationwide feeding program called "Share the Love."

Spread throughout communities with Minute Burger stores, the burger joint distributed food products to public schools and daycare centers in Manila, Pampanga, Cebu, and Davao.

Reflecting the brand promise of affordable but high-quality products, the children were treated to Minute Burger's beefy cheeseburger with special dressing and a slice of cheddar cheese; and vanilla flavored Good Milk, which meets the required daily bone-building dose of calcium and is infused with other essential nutrients.

"This feeding program is our way of giving back to the communities that have supported Minute Burger through the years," says Minute Burger president Judy Wong-Guevara, who personally spearheaded the project and personally visited the sites with the company's team of managers.

Minute Burger plans on conducting this feeding program regularly across all the communities served by the stores.

"We want to nurture the bright future of children across the Philippines through good nutrition," concludes Wong-Guevara. "We are thankful for this opportunity for Minute Burger to make a difference at the grassroots level, in the life of communities throughout the country."

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'Nutrition Week' at Hardyston Middle School yields healthy meals, community service, sweat

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Published Mar 26, 2013 at 3:10 pm (Updated Mar 27, 2013)

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HARDYSTON Local Hardyston Middle School student Adriana Purcell with help from the brand new Pass It Along chapter which she helped to begin saw her idea for a Nutrition Week realized from inception to completion during the week of March 11.

With inspiration from the National Nutrition Week initiative, started in 1973 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Purcell spearheaded efforts to shape a health-conscious menu for an entire week; helped put together a healthy cooking class that served as both an instructional tool for student participants as well as a charity effort, since all food products produced in the class were donated to local food pantry Manna House; and recruited teachers as instructors for the capstone event for the week, a free exercise class open to students, staff and middle school parents comprised of 90 minutes of combined instruction in kickboxing and Zumba.

Obesity is not only a problem in our country, but is now an epidemic," said Purcell, a seventh-grader at Hardyston. "Since I am a first-hand witness of the way Hardyston Middle School students eat, my job as a student is to educate my friends."

When words didn't work, the only other way to help my school that I could think of was to incorporate fun into education, and that is exactly what I did," Purcell continued. "Everyone had a great week, and it feels even better that my friends, for the most part, listened.

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In the spirit of volunteerism, all instructors, faculty and staff involved in Nutrition Week events donated their time, effort and expertise. Chapter members Shawn Gindhart and Zackary Epright, also in the seventh grade, helped Purcell facilitate events for the week, and helped increase visibility of the events and attendance through the bulletin board they designed.

Megan Kowalski, a sixth grade Language Arts teacher at the school, served as the kickboxing instructor, and brings in outside subject matter knowledge from her work at the Franklin CKO Kickboxing franchise. Katie Kuplin, the middle schools Family Consumer Sciences teacher, donated her classroom space and teaching time to the cooking class, and also served as the Zumba instructor for the exercise portion of the initiative.

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Canada’s national lab to work on H7N9 flu virus

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Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press Published Saturday, April 20, 2013 11:07AM EDT Last Updated Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:06PM EDT

TORONTO -- If all goes according to plan, a vial containing the worrisome new H7N9 virus should arrive at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, where scientists are eager to begin work on the new pathogen.

Scientific Director Dr. Frank Plummer said China readily agreed to share a sample with the Canadian lab after Winnipeg asked for live virus with which to work. In fact, the emailed request drew a positive reply in a matter of a couple of hours.

"I was extremely pleased when I saw the response from China. All they wanted was an official letter and they were getting ready to send it to us," Plummer said in an interview.

In contrast to its secretive behaviour during the 2003 SARS outbreak, China has been openly sharing information and virus samples since the start of the outbreak of the new H7N9 flu. As of Friday, China had reported 91 confirmed infections and 17 deaths from a virus first identified less than a month ago.

All of the World Health Organization's collaborating centres and essential regulatory laboratories for influenza have had copies of the virus for more than a week. And elsewhere, key influenza researchers are also getting samples of the virus to help in the international effort to decode the mysteries of this new flu strain.

Plummer said his lab's willingness to share the H1N1 virus with China in the early days of the 2009 pandemic probably contributed to China's prompt and favourable response to Canada's request.

The national lab director said the Winnipeg facility is also growing up a synthesized version of the virus, put together from genetic sequence data that China has shared through an international databank known as GISAID. While that's both great practice and a fallback in case the Chinese sample is delayed, Plummer said having the real thing is important.

"Genome sequence is great, it allows you to do certain things. But it only gets you so far. You need the whole virus," he said, adding Canada has also asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control for a sample of H7N9.

Earlier this week a joint assessment issued by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency decreed that the H7N9 virus should be worked on in laboratories with a Level 3-enhanced biosafety and biosecurity designation. But Plummer said NML scientists are probably going to work with it in a laboratory with an even higher designation in some cases.

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Kashmir Varsity organises health camp for houseboat owners in Srinagar

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Srinagar, April 21 (ANI): Kashmir University has organised a 26-day-long health awareness camp for houseboat owners at the idyllic Dal Lake here.

The Directorate of Lifelong Learning and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Kashmir University (KU) in collaboration with Indian Thyroid Society and All India Institute of Medical Sciences (New Delhi) organized "Free Health Camps" in the Mir Behri area of Saida Kadal.

The aim of the health camp was to create awareness among locals about self and family hygiene.

Director Lifelong Learning Kashmir University Gulam Hassan Mir said that free medical tests were conducted for locals.

"People living in this area are not aware with a lot of issues. There is a very low level of understanding in terms of sanitation, health hygiene, family welfare or taking care of their children's health, so after taking everything into consideration we have organised this free heath and medical awareness camp. We are also giving free health checks and diagnostic tests. The aim is to aware the people," said Mir.

Till now, 500 patients have been treated at the camp. Prominent endocrinologists and members Indian Thyroid Society attended the camp.

Bilal Ahmad, a patient at the camp, appreciated the initiative taken by the authorities.

"We are benefitting from this initiative and we hope there will be more health camps, at least once in a month. There are a lot of financial problems in Dal area. There are road problems also. Eighty percent of illnesses in this area are because of infection. The roads are dirty and there are other problems. We are happy that this medical awareness camp has been organised," said Ahmad.

Such periodical free mobile medical camps provide facilities to deal with hypothyroidism, diabetes and other allied endocrine problems.

The sewage from the houseboats and waste from hotels and homes on shore empty into the lake. Pollution had turned few portions of the lake waters into brackish green in the past. But with the efforts of the authorities, the cleaning project of Dal Lake is in progress since March. (ANI)

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