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Charles Hamilton - Swinging For The Fences
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Budding flowers in springtime giving hope to a fresh, beautiful start. Bamboo stalks swaying in the breeze, sending nostalgia of the calm, carefree life in the countryside. Water raging from the top of the mountains like the surge of emotions of a passionate lover, mountains and cliffs covered with trees and moss evoking the mysteries of nature these are just some of the themes of the ink paintings of esteemed Chinese artists Chen Lyusheng and Sun Jiangtao.

Chinese ink painting focuses on the concept, the feeling. So, its not just like you draw something and make it similar to the real object. It focuses on the peoples feelings, its what you can see, what you can get, after seeing these pictures, Lyusheng, through an interpreter, told GMA News Online.

And capturing the feelings through painting is one of the things that Filipino and Chinese artists have in common, said National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) chairman Felipe De Leon Jr. during the opening of the exhibit titled Ink Paintings from China: Chen Lyusheng and Sun Jiangtao at the Metropolitan Museum on June 19.

Im very happy that Chinese art has very close realities to Philippine art. Both conditions do not simply copy what is seen by the eyes, because the Chinese and Filipino artists capture what we know rather than what we see, De Leon said in a speech.

Chinese artists capture the essence of things. They capture the soul of the mountains, of a tree, a river. This is also true for Filipino paintings, he added.

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Letter-writer S. Cunningham suggests this photograph demonstrates that gates and fences do little to protect people.

image credit: Contributed photo

Editor:

The submitted photo (above) demonstrates the futility of erecting gates and fences to protect the public on White Rock beach.

On a daily basis you can see people standing on the tracks in front of an oncoming train or dashing across the tracks just before the train reaches the point of crossing.

S. Cunningham, Surrey

In the past 45-plus years of going to the beach as a child and adult, Ive realized the more fences, gates and railings they put up, the more people are going to hustle and bustle to achieve access to the beach by the quickest means possible.

When we were kids, there were no barriers, yet a constant warning alarm, a ringing bell on the trains and drop-down barriers at crossings.

When there was not this convoluted rat maze of impediment of barrings, the majority 98 per cent of people getting hit by the trains were the drunk, drugged, the unaware. Less is more.

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Properties along the Palm Beach beachfront have taken over land in front of their properties. Picture David Clark Source: News Corp Australia

PROPERTY boundaries stretching out onto the sand will stop an oceanway from ever being built at Palm Beach according to local councillor Daphne McDonald.

Cr McDonald made the comment after it became clear that several homeowners on exclusive Jefferson Lane had fenced off parts of Palm Beach because their property extended beyond the high-water mark and onto what people thought was a public beach.

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This week Cr McDonald said one of the downsides to the situation was the fact that council could not build a boardwalk along Palm Beach for the general public to enjoy.

Controversial fences along Palm Beach. Picture by David Clark Source: News Corp Australia

We would have to put it in front of the private land and that would place it too close to the ocean, she said.

If it was there, it would soon be washed away and council would be criticised for wasting public funds.

A string of blocks on Jefferson Lane, many of which are home to prestige properties, have fences and gates around the section of beach in front to stop the general public from accessing the area.

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Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer detects some hypocrisy in President Barack Obamas reluctance to build a fence along the entire border between the United States and Mexico. After all, he asked on The OReilly Factor Tuesday night, If fences dont work, why is there one around the White House?

Krauthammer argued that if America could fully secure its border, then the American people would be far more willing to legalize the 11 million undocumented immigrants who are currently living in this country.

But how would Krauthammer secure the border, OReilly asked. You start with a fence, he replied.

People say, Oh, fences dont work, you make a ladder. Well, then you build two fences, triple-strand fences, Krauthammer continued, stopping short of a Herman Cain-style electrified fence with a moat full of alligators.

If fences dont work, why is there one around the White House? he asked. If they dont work, why is it that the Israeli fence, which separates Israel from the West Bank, has cut down terror attacks within Israel by 99%. Fences work.

Krauthammer admitted that its not entirely practical or even possible to build a fence that covers all 1,989 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico, but said we should be covering as much of it as we possibly can.

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MY BEACH: Some property owners at Palm Beach have put up fences on the sand to where their boundary stretches. Picture: David Clark Source: News Corp Australia

GOLD Coast Mayor Tom Tate is determined to knock down the fences erected on Palm Beach by residents marking out the boundaries of their prestige oceanfront properties.

Yesterday Cr Tate described the fences, put up by some of the citys richest residents, as ad hoc.

Safety is the main issue for me, he said.

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If a (Cyclone) Oswald visited again and knocked out those fences, it would be unsafe. (The debris) could take out property and people.

Cr Tate said that the fences would have be removed anyway after new State Government legislation was passed this year guaranteeing beach access.

Those fences are going to be classed as illegal and they will have to come down, Cr Tate said.

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The track's barns, parking area, fences, signage, press box and other "major parts of the complex" suffered damage, according to the suit.

A $20 million dispute over insurance coverage for damage caused by Superstorm Sandy at the Monmouth Park racetrack has been moved from state court to federal court at the request of the insurer, Lexington Insurance.

The filing, called a "notice of removal," was made last week based on the fact that Monmouth Park, its subsidiaries and the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority the plaintiffs in the case are all New Jersey-based, while Lexington is based in Boston.

The policy calls for a $1 million flood deductible and a $500,000 wind-and-hail deductible, and the parties disagree on the specific cause of the damage at the Oceanport horse track from the storm in October 2012. The track's barns, parking area, fences, signage, press box and other "major parts of the complex" suffered damage, according to the suit.

There also is a dispute about whether Sandy qualifies as a "named storm" according to the policy, and thereby is subject to the higher deductible.

Representatives of Monmouth Park say no. "It is clear that Sandy was not a hurricane but was declared a post-tropical storm prior to landfall in New Jersey," Dennis Drazin, an attorney whose firm runs the tacks, said in the suit.

Drazin also maintains that an executive order issued by Governor Christie prohibits insurance carriers from applying a hurricane deductible to Sandy-related damage.

According to Monmouth Park officials, delayed or unpaid claims at the racetrack have resulted in putting off numerous repairs as well as out-of-pocket expenses that have yet to be repaid including $400,000 incurred by the sports authority and postponement of work on revenue-generating new amenities like an amphitheater and boardwalk, now not scheduled to open until next summer.

Damage to the barns on the backstretch was so severe, according to the suit, that two contractors recommended they be demolished and replaced at a cost of $20 million. The partial payments have been insufficient so far to allow for such a replacement, according to the suit.

Reimbursement for $1.4 million also is sought for damage at the track grounds because of the site becoming an emergency staging area for thousands of first responders and other personnel in the months after Sandy. Additional, unspecified compensation for "punitive damages for willful and wanton violation of the executive order" also is sought.

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