Video from the Pacific Ridge School press conference held June 15, 2009 by Head of School Dr. Eileen Mullady and Chair of the school’s Board of Trustees Rick Sapp, whose 15-year-old daughter is one of the 35 students currently being held in quarantine.
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At an afternoon press conference June 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM at Carlsbad’s Pacific Ridge School Dr. Eileen Mullady, the Head of the School, (pictured right) and Rick Sapp, Chair of the school’s Board of Trustees, gave reporters an update on the 35 students and seven faculty members who are currently being held in swine flu quarantine in Yichang, China after several students and teacher got sick during their 13-day educational tour:
Since the evaluations on June 11, we have nine students and two teachers currently in a hospital in the city of Yichang undergoing further evaluation. Our remaining 26 students and five teachers are quarantined in a nearby hotel. We have been told that seven people [six students and one teacher] have tested positive for H1N1 on the initial screenings and they are recovering. Our teachers have informed us that in the last 24 hours, there have been no additional confirmed cases of H1N1 in our group.
Unfortunately, Mullady did not know when the students and teachers would return home. “We could have students out of quarantine by the end of the week.”
For Dr. Mullady’s entire statement (and photos) follow the jump or click here to watch the video.
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On Saturday night, June 20, 2009 Dr. Tim Lee, a UCSD-trained biologist with a PhD in ecology from UC Davis, will be performing his twisted brand of science comedy through Powerpoint at the Carlsbad Village Theater. He was interview recently by the San Diego Union-Tribune and explained exactly what kind of people enjoy his shows:
I’ve found that, in general, the people who come out to my shows are very bright and possess a strong intellectual curiosity. I feel really lucky to have an audience like that. When I started out in comedy, I spent countless nights performing to a room full of drunks. They want you to get dirty as quickly as possible. I felt like a stripper. Now that I’m doing my own shows, it’s like teaching a class full of gifted students. I trust they understand what I’m talking about and go with it. If you talk down to them, they’ll get bored.
If you think you’re smart enough, click here to buy tickets for the June 20, 2009 show.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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In a Wall Street Journal blog post writer Nick Timiraos throws out some pretty appaling Real Estate statistics from the neighborhood:
In Carlsbad’s 92009 zip code, where Zillow tracks a median home price of more than $500,000, nearly one in 50 homes had received a notice of default in the 12 months ending in February, according to RealtyTrac.
Times are tough indeed.
[Link: Wall Street Journal]
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Black Label Skateboards will be holding the world premier of their new skateboard film God Save the Label on Wednesday night June 17, 2009 at Henley’s Flying Elephant Bar & Grill.
If you don’t enjoy the company of skateboarders it would probably be a perfect night to drink elsewhere.
[Link: Black Label Skateboards and Hensley’s Flying Elephant]
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It’s summer in this desert we call Carlsbadistan and that means one thing: water conservation. Beginning July 1, 2009 the Carlsbad Municipal Water District’s new watering schedule goes into effect as part of the Level 2 Drought Alert.
For all the details on exactly what you can do with water this summer, follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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The Carlsbad lagoon is a working lagoon and San Diego Union-Tribune writer Michael Burge checks in on one of the lesser known aspects of the aqua farming business: sea horse ranching.
“I call it a living reef,” said John Davis, Carlsbad Aquafarm’s owner. “You go out there, you come out of the water and you’re alive with things.” . . Behind the aquafarm’s gates on the lagoon’s south shore are tanks where the shellfish grow from larvae to mature adults. The 18 employees also cultivate micro-and macroalgae as food, and brine shrimp, the oats for the sea horses. . . .Davis, a tall, silver-haired former Navy and airline pilot, said he began raising the sea horses about five years ago.
Now, Davis sells sea horses to “Legoland’s Sea Life and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and to wholesalers who sell them to private individuals.” Cowboy up!
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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The first thing we thought of when we heard about the Battle of Aviara was what would it mean for people who owned timeshares at the Four Seasons Resort and were faced now with the possibility that their timeshare was no longer being attached to a The Four Seasons hotel.
In today’s San Diego Union-Tribune writer Lori Weisberg explores the timeshare side of the disagreement between Aviara owners Broadreach Capital and management company the Four Seasons.
“People are definitely concerned, and everyone I’ve heard from is not happy about it,” said Steve Tuttle, who owns a title company in Utah and has at various times bought 25 time shares around the country, including a week at the Four Seasons Residence Club at the Aviara resort. . . “You buy into a lifestyle that now has the potential to be seriously altered. I worry the maintenance fees may go up and access to hotel facilities could be altered.”
According to the story experts don’t exactly agree on what will happen with the timeshares if the Four Seasons leaves the property. Follow the link for the rest of the story.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
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When eight USA Volleball beach teams head to Scandinavia at the end of this month for the 2009 SWATCH FIVB World Championships presented by ConocoPhillips to be held June 25-July 5 in Stavanger, Norway, Carlsbad’s Lauren Fendrick will be among them.
The event features pool play matches June 25-July 1 to set the field for the 32-team single-elimination brackets that begin July 2. The women’s medal matches will be July 4 followed by the men’s podium placement matches July 5. The winning teams will share $60,000.
With Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh out of the competition maybe Fendrick and her partner Ashley Ivy have a shot at the world title. . . good luck.
[Link: USA Volleyball Photo: AVP.com]
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Our favorite Carlsbadistan based life sciences company Life Technologies has just awarded $2 million to three grant recipients working to advance science including DNA–PROKIDS, the New York Academy of Sciences, and Science Museum in London, England.
“We are proud to support these innovative organizations that advance scientific understanding,” said Greg Lucier, Chairman and CEO of Life Technologies. “The grantees we have chosen are working to demystify science to the public by providing training and access for using biology to make life even better.”
Nice to see a company giving back. For all the details follow the jump.
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