Sunday Symposium - August Wilson #39;s Fences
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Verdict
MAD BRIAN looks set to gain his second success over fences despite having to concede weight all round due to his novice success at Killarney in May. His subsequent runs have been in much better class than this including in the Grade 1 Topaz Novice Chase at Leopardstown where he was by no means disgraced. Irish Thistle, a winning bumper and hurdler, made a very promising start over fences behind Ned Buntline here last month and will have come on enough to pose a threat. Seskinane is a smart performer on his day who hasn't had much luck but neither Our Ollie nor Finisterre look to have the form for this.
Irish Thistle (IRE) 14-1 (11-12) Tracked leaders, 6th 4 out, mistake next, ridden and headway from 2 out, went 2nd at last, kept on same pace run-in, 2nd of 11, 2l behind Ned Buntline (11-12) at Navan 2m 1f beg chs sft in Dec.
Seskinane (IRE) 6-1 (11-7) Chased leaders early, mid-division in 6th halfway, ridden and no impression entering straight, held in 6th when badly hampered and unseated rider 2 out, in a race won by Leish Oscar (11-2) at Down Royal 2m 4f beg chs sft in Dec, 10 ran.
Our Ollie (IRE) 50-1 (11-2) Held up in rear, no impression from 4 out, soon trailing, last of 6, 46l behind Mallowney (11-2) at Naas 2m nov chs sft.
Finisterre 100-1 (11-12) Always towards rear, never a factor, detached 4 out, completely tailed off, 6th of 8, well behind Djakadam (11-1) at Leopardstown 2m 3f beg chs in Dec.
Mad Brian (IRE) 9-1 (11-10) Held up, 4th halfway, progress into 3rd 3 out, ridden in 4th 2 out, no extra in 5th entering straight, kept on one pace, 6th of 7, 19l behind Carlingford Lough (11-10) at Leopardstown 3m nov chs Grade 1 (4yo+) (1) in Dec.
NEW DELHI, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- India's foreign minister said Saturday the dispute over the arrest a diplomat in New York did not mean relations with the United States were in trouble.
Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters that the two nations would sort out their differences of opinion over the arrest of Devyani Khobragade on charges of visa fraud, Voice of America said.
Khobragade, 39, arrived in New Delhi late Friday after being kicked out of the United States. She was expelled after India increased her level of diplomatic immunity so she would not be prosecuted by New York authorities.
"Devyani Khobragade given G1 visa with full diplomatic immunity on 8 Jan 2014. Airborne on way back to India," Syed Akbarrudin, a spokesman for the foreign ministry said in a statement on social media, Britain's The Independent said
Khobragade was arrested last month for allegedly failing to pay her housekeeper minimum wage and lying about it when she applied for her visa to work as the deputy counsel-general for the Indian delegation to the United Nations.
India responded to Khobragade's arrest and her alleged treatment in jail with a protest and the expulsion of a U.S. diplomat stationed in India. Press Trust India said the ousted American, identified as Wayne May, had helped authorities develop their case against Khobragade
Despite Khobragade's increased level of immunity, the U.S. State Department said the charges would remain in effect and she faced arrest if she ever tried to return to the United States.
"We deeply regret that the Indian government felt it was necessary to expel one of our diplomatic personnel," State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Friday.
"This has clearly been a challenging time in the U.S.-India relationship," Psaki added. "We expect and hope that this will now come to closure and the Indians will take significant steps with us to improve our relationship and return it to a more constructive place."
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Police took the car keys from a drunk driver only hours before the same car crashed through three fences and overturned in Thames early this morning, killing an 18-year-old man.
The rear-set passenger died and four other occupants suffered minor injuries when the allegedly unroadworthy car came off Pariwai Rd about 4.25am today.
Waikato police district commander Superintendent Win van der Velde said the police serious crash unit was still investigating.
"However, initial indications are the 37-year-old female driver of the Holden Commodore lost control of the vehicle and left the road, crashing through three fences."
The crash was particularly concerning because it came less than three hours after police had stopped the same car and caught its driver at the time, a 31-year-old man, over the legal breath alcohol limit.
Mr van der Velde said the car was also found to be unroadworthy when police stopped it about 1.30am.
"It was issued a non-operational order and the keys were taken by police so it should not have been on the road at all, let alone being driven at the time of the crash."
Waikato police and emergency services diverted traffic away from the crash scene this morning and had warned of delays. The residential road has since reopened.
The crash brings the number of deaths on Waikato roads this month to two - double the same period last year. It was the sixth fatal or serious injury crash in the region within a week.
Last night, four people were injured, one critically, in a head-on collision on State Highway 24, south of Matamata.
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Twisted Plays Stonehearth - Episode 3 - Fences 101
Stonehearth Alpha is finally here! Man, I #39;ve been waiting for this game for a long long time. And now I can actually play it! It #39;s still a very early version...
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Published: Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, 8:57p.m. Updated 12 hours ago
Vegetable gardens and groundhogs do not mix. These vegetarian mammals can turn even the most peaceable gardener into a vigilante, as the groundhogs take a single bite out of each ripe tomato and chomp lettuce and broccoli plants down to the nub.
As agile climbers and proficient diggers, groundhogs are able to scale a fence just as swiftly as they can burrow beneath one; readily foiling any attempt to keep them out of the veggie patch.
Excluding groundhogs from the garden without resorting to bullets or traps does require a bit of finesse, but it's perfectly doable. If you are looking for a late-winter project to thwart groundhogs during the coming garden season, here's a fencing solution tested by the Humane Society of America and determined to be the most effective groundhog-resistant option. I know several gardeners who have used it, and they all confirm that it works like a charm.
Start with enough 6-foot-tall PVC-coated welded wire fencing (with 1-inch-by-2-inch or 2-inch-by-4-inch openings), or galvanized PVC-coated hexagonal wire mesh, to surround your garden, plus 3 extra feet to construct the gate base.
Hammer a 4-foot-tall studded metal fence post also called a T-stake or T-post every 6 feet around the garden's perimeter, positioning a pair 3 feet apart to flank the gate opening. Be sure the wing-shaped metal bracket on each post is fully underground and the fence clips are facing the garden's exterior. Three feet of each fence post should remain aboveground.
Attach one end of the fence to one of the gate posts by pressing it into the post clips or using plastic zipties; allow 18 inches of the fencing to extend out from the bottom and another 18 inches above the top of the posts. Continue securing the wire mesh by moving from post to post.
Bend the excess lower fencing to form an L against the ground (the base of the L should be to the outside of the garden). Use landscape pins to firmly secure this on-ground portion every 1 or 2 feet. This thwarts the groundhog's excavating endeavors.
Then, bend the surplus top fencing very slightly toward the outside of the garden, essentially creating a sideways U with the opening aimed away from the garden. As the groundhog climbs, his weight folds the U and he drops to the ground outside the fence.
To craft the gate, use a wire cutter to remove the bottom 18 inches of the fence and size the gate's width so it overlaps the opposite post by a few inches. The gate can be held closed by a double-ended snap clip at the top and the bottom. Cut a separate piece of 3-foot-by-3-foot fencing and use landscape pins to secure it flush to the ground under the fence.
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A new UC Davis study found that Caltrans could do more to stop deer and other animals from wandering onto parts of Interstate 280 and getting hit by cars, but the transportation agency is "paralyzed in the 'don't know what to do' state," the study's author said.
Caltrans should build deer-proof fences, wildlife tunnels and overpasses accessible to animals along a stretch of I-280 that is notorious for deer crossings that cause collisions of car and beast and crashes by drivers swerving to avoid deer.
Researchers at the UC Davis Road Ecology Center made these recommendations to Caltrans after spending 30 months analyzing roadkill, accident reports and wildlife habits along I-280 from San Bruno to Menlo Park to determine how and why so many cars strike deer and other wild animals.
"There were places that there were more crashes and I think it is because at those places there was more accessibility" to the freeway, said study author Fraser Shilling, director of the ecology center. "The recommendation would be that you fence off the highway from the habitat and provide a place for the animals to cross."
There are roughly a dozen underpasses and bridges that animals can use to cross the busy freeway, Shilling said. Some were installed for wildlife but some, like those that are actually underpasses for roads or human walking trails, are not always a good fit for wild animals.
Stopping deer from wandering onto the freeway is not just about saving wildlife from becoming roadkill, Shilling said. Collisions between cars and deer can total a car and injure or even kill its occupants.
In 2011, Daniel Strickland, a professor at Santa Clara University, died after his car hit a deer on I-280 and was rear-ended by another car.
"Instead of thinking of collisions with animals as an environment problem, another frame to think of it is, because people have died and been injured, it is a driver-safety issue," Shilling said.
But Caltrans still considers the issue a low-priority environmental issue, Shilling said.
"Caltrans really hasn't figured out how to deal with this issue systematically," Shilling said. "They're sort of paralyzed in the 'don't know what to do' state."
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Topics: beach, bulldozer, fences, fencing, gold coast city council, golden four dr, tugun
EIGHT residents in Golden Four Dr, Tugun, will have their beachside fences demolished by the Gold Coast City Council later this month, for encroaching on public Crown land, News Ltd reports.
Friends of Currumbin coordinated a series of protests which sparked the action, which will see fences, showers and landscaping which pass the public boundary line removed.
Initially residents were given until June 30 by the GCCC to remove their encroaching property if the State Government rejects their application to buy the public beachfront land, but now GCCC councilors have received legal advice the fences could be demolished immediately after the state government decision.
Tugun councillor Chris Robbins told News Ltd that Golden Four Drive residents affected will be given sufficient time to remove encroaching property and fences.
No Tugun Path leader Kate Malouf said that residents would appeal the decision if their application to buy the land is rejected.
"This has been a difficult few months and we have had everything from protests to the poisoning of grass along the boundary line. It's out of our hands now."
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President Barack Obama this week sought to assuage tensions that have crept into the U.S.-Germany relationship following revelations that the National Security Agency had been spying upon Chancellor Angela Merkel since 2002, with outrage in Berlin centred on the surveillance of her mobile phone.
On Wednesday Ms. Merkel was said to have accepted an invitation from Mr. Obama to visit the U.S. in the coming months to discuss, among other things, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations and NATO Summit, and other shared interests.
Although a White House readout of the two leaders phone call suggested that Mr. Obama had principally called Ms. Merkel to wish her a speedy recovery following pelvic injury and to congratulate her on the formation of her new cabinet, their discussion comes in the wake of a bilateral rift over the spying scandal.
While a spokesperson declined to say whether the NSA phone tap had been discussed, the release of top-secret intelligence documents on U.S. spy programmes by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last summer led to Ms. Merkels office warning that bugging friends is unacceptable.
Facts about the NSAs surveillance of targets in Germany came to light along with information on the Agencys monitoring of persons and institutions in a host of friendly nations, including India, the European Union, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, and Turkey. Traditional ideological adversaries and sensitive Middle Eastern countries, were also on the list of targets, reports noted.
Soon after this it appeared that Mr. Obama was seeking to place distance between the White House and allegations that the NSA spied on Washingtons allies in Berlin, with Spokesperson Jay Carney saying, The concerns raised by our allies cause us concern too.
Congressional committees then grilled intelligence bosses such as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA chief Keith Alexander, and some leaders such as Senate Intelligence Committee Chairperson Dianne Feinstein said they were unequivocally totally opposed to the NSAs collection of intelligence on leaders of U.S. allies.
Following a sharp debate on imposing some restrictions on the programmes of the NSA, which in theory operates under rules set by the shadowy Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court, Mr. Obama appeared to be leaning towards recommendations of a review panel to shift responsibility for the bulk collection of telephone records away from the NSA and on to the phone companies, in a bid to restore public confidence.
In a press conference last month Mr. Obama said that in light of the disclosures coming from documents supplied by Mr. Snowden, It is clear that whatever benefits the configuration of this particular programme may have, may be outweighed by the concerns that people have on its potential abuse.
With Mr. Obama likely to make a final decision on reforming surveillance programmes in the coming months, his broad endorsement of reform came on the back of a federal judge saying for the first time ever that the NSAs programmes were very likely to be unconstitutional.
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9 Jan 2014 13:41
Cars, fences and a motorbike were sprayed with paint on four occasions between Sunday and Tuesday.
Police are linking four cases of criminal damage in which paint was sprayed onto cars and fences.
Grey spray paint was used in the four incidents which happened in Woosehill between Sunday and Tuesday.
The first happened in Minden Close when a fence and a motorbike were sprayed with paint.
The second happened between 8am and 4pm on Monday in Trafalgar Close when the car bonnet of a Mini Cooper was sprayed with paint.
Between 9.30pm on Monday and 7am on Tuesday in Culloden Way a fence was sprayed with paint.
On Tuesday between 6.20pm and 7.45pm in Mons Close a garage door and the number plate of a Ford Fiesta were sprayed with paint.
PC Paul Bentley, investigating officer, said: I am appealing to anyone who may have seen someone acting suspiciously or has any information about the incidents to get in touch with us.
Mainly grey spray paint has been used and we believe these incidents are linked.
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