Treasure Coast Community Health (TCCH) has opened its fifth location in Indian River County in the K-Mart Plaza, 1555 U.S. 1, Suite 105, Vero Beach; offering pediatrics, primary medical care and behavioral health. TCCH is a complete healthcare home to nearly 20,000 IRC residents.

An open house, including tours, will be held Wednesday, December 14th from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., followed by a ribbon cutting at 5:30 p.m.

TCCH accepts Medicare, Medicaid, most private insurances, or charges on a floating fee scale for the uninsured. For more information, or to make an appointment at a location near you call 772-257-8224.

Judyth Piazza interviews Steve Dorrance, Executive Director of Treasure Coast Community Health Foundation…

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SEBASTIAN, FL – “Thousands of dead fish were found washed up on the shore of a Florida state park.

The animals were found along the beach of Sebastian Inlet State Park in Melbourne Beach, FL, on Friday.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials believe the fish died because of the lack of oxygen.

‘Just because there’s such a large school of them, they use up the oxygen really quickly, and because they are coming closer to shore, there’s not as high of a water turnover rate and sometimes when you’re in an area with not as much tidal flow,” said Kelli O’Donnell, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.’” Read More

Photo by Steve Johnson, Vero Beach, Florida

The New Year started on an ominous note, with hundreds of dead birds falling on the town of Beebe, Arkansas. This oddity was immediately followed by thousands of dead fish found in the Arkansas River, and in the weeks and months since there have been reports of mass death of fish, birds, crabs, and other animals all over the world.

In recent weeks the amazing events in Yemen, and Egypt have grabbed the headlines, but the phenomenon of mass death of animals continues unabated.

Photo by Steve Johnson, Vero Beach, Florida

It’s now the turn of the good folks in Melbourne Beach, FL to wonder what the heck is going on. Officials say that some fish are prone to die from lack of oxygen when they swim close to the shore in large numbers. Sorry, for the pun, but that explanation sounds fishy to me.

Cougar Cameron Diaz feeding Alex Rodriguez popcorn, Joan Rivers appearing in a commercial in leather hot pants and a low-cut top, American Idol without Simon Cowell, dead fish in the rivers, and dead birds dropping from the sky.

These are the Biblical signs of the End Times! I have my trusty bong, let the end times roll!

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Whether cultivated for use as a lush, permanent lawn that is pleasing to the eye or a hearty meadow grass for grazing horses and sheep, Fescue grass is the choice for many yards and fields.

Fescue grass is easy to maintain; it is also available in a variety of custom choices and blends which are specific to the region, climate, growing season, and soil conditions of the grower. For example, “tall” Fescue varieties typically have a coarse, wider blade that is dense-clumping and grows well in shaded Northern climates.  This type of grass is good for pastures.

Another type of Fescue grasses is “fine”.  This grass consists of a shorter, narrower blade and is more suitable for drought-prone conditions. Blended varieties have been developed and are customized to promote better drought and disease control, year-round.

Tall and Fine Fescues are best planted in the fall, with early fall being the preferred season of many turf experts as this time promotes the longest growing season under ideal conditions – when soil temperatures are between 50 and 60 degrees F. Planting can be done in summer, but adequate irrigation may be an issue during hot summer months. Temperatures above 90 degrees, but below 50, can affect seed growth or result in dormancy.

Other “new” blends of Fescue include the following: Festuca Ovina (“sheep’s fescue”) which is a blue-green colored, cool season perennial variety densely tufted and capable of growing to a height of 16”, ideal for grazing sheep. Red Fescue (“creeping red”) is a fine-bladed variety that is deep green in color with stems that spread sideways to produce a shade-tolerant turf that requires minimal fertilization and irrigation. Because of newly developed Fescue grass blends together with prescribed grazing, it is possible to achieve a better quality range-land than was possible a century ago.

By Robert Paul Reyes

“Manatees, sea turtles and fish in the Sunshine State are dying in record numbers because of the unusually long cold snap.

With temperature in central Florida dipping down again this week, conservationists are bracing for more animal and plant deaths due to unusually long winter cold snaps that have resulted in record wildlife losses.

Manatees have been among the hardest hit, with over 200 killed in January alone, and carcasses continuing to wash ashore. The highest number of manatee deaths for a single calendar year in Florida waters is 429, so local officials are closely monitoring these endangered marine mammals.” read more

Floridians may not want to read another article about the cold snap that has wreaked havoc in their state, but we must make people aware of the toll that the cold weather is taking on the state’s wildlife.

We all know that Florida’s citrus crops has been hit hard by the prolonged cold temperatures, but not everybody is aware that the unusually cold temps have resulted in the death of many of the Sunshine State’s wildlife.

Manatees can’t tolerate water that’s below 68 degrees for an extended period of time, and hundreds have succumbed to the frigid temperatures.

Thousands of sea turtle were rescued from the chilly waters last month. Thanks to volunteers many turtles were removed from the cold waters and temporarily placed in warm salt water. Almost all of the rescued critters have been returned to the ocean.

Manatees and sea turtles may not be as cute as puppies and kittens, but we must still do all that we can to save them. Get in touch with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission if you want to help.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun’s inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.

The most technologically advanced of NASA’s heliophysics spacecraft, SDO will take images of the sun every 0.75 seconds and daily send back about 1.5 terabytes of data to Earth – the equivalent of streaming 380 full-length movies.

“This is going to be sensational,” said Richard R. Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “SDO is going to make a huge step forward in our understanding of the sun and its effects on life and society.”

The sun’s dynamic processes affect everyone and everything on Earth. SDO will explore activity on the sun that can disable satellites, cause power grid failures, and disrupt GPS communications. SDO also will provide a better understanding of the role the sun plays in Earth’s atmospheric chemistry and climate.

SDO is the crown jewel in a fleet of NASA missions to study our sun. The mission is the cornerstone of a NASA science program called Living With A Star. This program will provide new understanding and information concerning the sun and solar system that directly affect Earth, its inhabitants and technology.

The SDO project is managed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA’s Launch Services Program at Kennedy Space Center managed the payload integration and launch.

For launch coverage, briefing materials, and multimedia, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/briefing-materials-20100209.html

For more information about the SDO mission, visit:

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov

and

http://www.nasa.gov/sdo

Source: NASA