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Thanks to Paul Kirkby and BBC Online News for the Headline.

The whale who has managed to strand itself on the German Coastline and became a cause celebre in the German news. All in all the whale has spent three months , and used a special channel dug by volunteers to move back out to sea, but unfortunately moved further down the Coast and ended up stranded off the Island of Poel.

Two entrepreneurs have paid for a barge which will transport the whale out to sea , out of German waters and into the North Sea. Whether the whale will survive is questionable as it’s condition may well have deteriorated , the lack of salinity in Coastal Conditions affecting it’s skin and also the lack of it’s normal diet. It’s really an unclear situation, and they may release the whale and it might just drown.

This certainly is not a warm and fuzzy story, particularly when you consider the whale first got into trouble because it became entangled in netting.

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Thanks to Laura Gozzi and BBC Online News for the Headline

In the realms of what is happening in the World, perhaps the role of Opera seems irrelevant .

However in Italy , well specifically in Venice, at the Teatro La Fenice the appointment and then firing of a new music director has caused much of a furore.

In truth Beatrice Venezi had a bit of a pedigree to qualify for the job , she became an orchestra conductor at twenty two and has worked as a conductor in Italy and Internationally in Armenia, Uruguay and Argentina.

I say a bit of a pedigree, not enough for the old soaks who make up the Musician’s Union and basically the Orchestra which she accused of being “Nepotistic” and that La Fenice needed a thorough broom sweep to rid it of the passing on of orchestra positions to family members.

My experience is that music ability can be “genetic”, but that’s only an opinion and there’s always exceptions to rules. But Beatrice espousing her views on this with an Argentinian Newspaper has lead to her demise.

Hysterically, the fact that Beatrice has been friends with Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy has been one factor that has made her unpopular, as well as protests by the patrons of the La Fenice who left printed leaflets at recent performances with the “Music is Art , Not Entertainment.”

Well perhaps the real problem is finance, get ready to faint Covent Garden Opera Lovers, you can pick up tickets for La Fenice for under a Tenner. ( No pun intended). Perhaps Beatrice wanted to jazz the repertoire up a bit and raise prices, perhaps the old water logged Venitian Building needs updated. A possible venue for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Whatever, it’s never going to happen, it looks like the old soaks have won and people will continue to be able to afford to go and see the Opera, perhaps just as it was one hundred years ago or more. That I think is not a bad thing, particularly in Venice .

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Thanks to Warren vand der Sandt and The Pulse for the Headline.

After the rumble of the last dump truck had dumped it’s hardcore and left the field and the shiny new solar panels glistened in the hot sun ,on the acres of land allocated to them, to begin to generate much needed power. A nature miracle happened.

The San Joaquin kit fox is a native of California’s Central Valley and has been struggling to survive for decades, it’s natural habitat and food being eroded by human encroachment.

They have, however, found a quiet ,sheltered place among the silence and peace of the solar panels. The area is fenced off and thus excludes the larger predators and so the foxes thrive having a ready made food source (lots of voles and small animals to prey on) and also shelter underneath the panels from the hot sun.

The foxes have shown their natural behaviour as they roam around the large site,sleeping safely underneath the panels. Replicating their natural roaming behaviour.

Result. I’m only sad that this is in America and not in the UK , as I think we’ve decided on sheep to graze on the grass between the solar panels on our sites.

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