| Sixth Swan Tests Positive For H5n1
A sixth swan from a sanctuary has tested positive for avian flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed. The news comes after restrictions on the movement of poultry or other captive birds in the Wild Bird Monitoring Area around Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset were lifted at 3pm on Friday. However, movement restrictions in the Wild Bird Control Area remain in place, according to a Defra spokesman. The spokesman added: "Defra has today confirmed that a sixth mute swan collected on 21 January as part of wild bird surveillance in the same area in Dorset has tested positive for highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza. "This is not unexpected, and our enhanced surveillance of wild birds in the area is continuing, including active patrols to look for dead wild birds.
Bill helps boost draft registration
Well, with luck, this legislator will soon get defeated and then can volunteer, if he wants, to join up and salute his superiors with more stripes than he has. But this will probably not happen -- those politicians that are most warlike generally, and not specifically, are those that avoided it at all costs when they could have gone.Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 1:08 pm .
Consumers at heart of stimulus plan
In Salt Lake City, Munn Powell is used to funding a family of six on a bit of an economic roller coaster. A self-employed videographer, his income varies yearly and usually drops when times get tough. "After 9-11, it was a measurable drop," said Munn, 37, who's a father to 3-year-old twins, a 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl. Under the Bush stimulus plan, the family would qualify for about $2,400. Munn says he hasn't discussed a possible rebate with his wife of 12 years, Cristy, but said the family has a fairly set financial plan. "I imagine we'd be somewhat conservative with any little windfall," said Munn, who just finished a spending splurge remodeling his basement. "Honestly, it's probably going to back into our reserves. That's probably not what Bush is hoping for." ___ Associated Press writers Dinesh Ramde in Milwaukee and Jennifer Dobner in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
Rolling Up the Online Newspaper Coverage
Ironically enough, it was in a data-based article about the future of the newspaper business, which has been turning shareholders into sob sisters for years now without more than vague promise for a reversal. If you can find a single hard fact to support the hope that they'll get out of their roiling cauldron, do let me know. But here's the data on the future of newspapers: Nielsen compiled numbers showing that newspapers saw 6% growth in online readers for 2007 vs. 2006. Alone, this is bad news. If newspaper companies like Gannett (GCI - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) and New York Times (NYT - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) are going to replace enough of their exponentially more profitable print readers with the fly-by-night, cheap-o Internet ones -- well, they gotta' be growing their readership base by more than this or my name ain't Rupert T.
Bathinda, January 25
Bhucho (Bathinda), January 25 Sukhbir Badal, the acting president of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is only trying to bluff people with his plans for mega projects, said Captain Amarinder Singh, the former chief minister of Punjab.
Former CM Captain Amarinder Singh speaking to media persons near Bathinda on Friday. Tribune photo: Kulbir Beera Subsidised medicines at civil hospitals
Faridkot, January 25
With a aim of providing medicines at subsidised rates to the patients, the state would offer shops in all civil hospitals of the state to private players and non-government organisations (NGOs) after a competitive bidding. Health minister, Punjab, Lakshmi Kanta Chawla, informed this during a state-level function held to observe Anti-leprosy Day in Nirog Bal Ashram at Kotkapura near here today.
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