Dead bird tested for avian flu
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- Dead bird tested for avian flu
- Ban leads to wildfowl show delay
- The Arts Column: Less can be more when it comes to music
Dead bird tested for avian flu
é港政åºæ°è網 – Nov 21, 2007
There are no chicken farms within 3kms of where the bird was found. Poultry farmers have been reminded to take precautionary and biosecutiry measures against bird flu. Farmers pet bird shop owners pet poultry licence holders and racing pigeons have been informed to take proper precautions. The department will inspect poultry farms and the wholesale market to ensure proper precautions against bird flu have been implemented. Close surveillance of wild birds will continue. While vigilance over imported poultry and live poultry stalls will continue illegal poultry and bird imports will be deterred and health education bolstered. As the threat of avian flu remains people should take precautions against the disease.
Ban leads to wildfowl show delay
BBC News – Nov 21, 2007
The national championship show of pure bred domestic waterfowl was due to be held in Wadebridge on Sunday. The ban follows a recent outbreak of bird flu in Suffolk. All bird gatherings including falconry displays fairs markets shows exhibitions and pigeon races have been banned in the UK since 12 November. Defra said the ban had been put in place because of the high risk nature of bird gatherings and the current uncertainty of the epidemiology of this disease. Defra will keep the ban under review as the disease situation develops. The show is a British Waterfowl Association 3 Point Championship Association. rganiser Jackie Jarvis said the postponement was a blow and meant cancelling all the entries.
The Arts Column: Less can be more when it comes to music
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 21, 2007
Music is often manhandled in our society: we abuse its power and manipulate its virtue. Something has gone badly wrong for example when my local underground station plays recordings of classical masterpieces in its foyer – during Monday evening’s rush hour the magnificent argument of Beethoven’s 5th poured forth. This I fear is not an attempt to introduce uninitiated commuters to the majesty of the classics but a response to recent research which showed that (rather like pigeons repelled by the pop of an airgun) youths drugged by the aggressive banalities of hip hop find such expressions of the nobility of the human spirit a deterrent to their mugging activities. This is not what Beethoven has in mind. I write as a reformed addict. As a teenager I gobbled music up indiscriminately. I craved it all day long as a creative stimulus and numbing background to every activity from sex to shopping… I suppose in other words I discovered how rich and full silence can be. Then I flew to Australia and in the familiar surroundings of a conventional hotel room I mechanically switched on the radio as I unpacked my suitcase. ut came the sound of Kiri Te Kanawa singing “Dove sono” from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. I cannot properly describe the effect it hit me in the belly and made me feel giddy and tearful. Flooded like some desiccated flower in the desert when the rain finally falls I stood there overwhelmed by the aching sublime beauty of the aria and the gold of Kiri’s voice. It was the nearest I have ever come to the visions of the mystics. Since then I have realised that less will mean more in my love affair with music.
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