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January 23, 2014 03:00 PM by Suzy Kerr

NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak are gal pals once again. The Real Housewives of Atlanta stars have decided to hug it out and end their bitter feud, which started way back in season 1 of the hit Bravo show. Four years later, the two are finally FINALLY putting their differences aside. Maybe theres hope that some of the other Housewives will follow suitLOL.

Back when Kim Zolciak was on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, she and co-star NeNe Leakes were good friends. The show was just starting, the women were getting to know one another, and things were great between Kim and NeNe. Enter Sheree Whitfield, NeNes archenemy, and things suddenly went from friendly to foe-ly between Kim and NeNe. In other words, it got all Housewifey up in there.

Fast forward four years, and while NeNe is still part of the RHOA cast, Kim has moved on and is focused on family and other ventures. Apparently, the distance and time have done the women well, as RadarOnline is reporting that Kim and NeNe have been working to restore their friendship. A source close to the two told Radar Theyve had their ups and down, but really want to get their friendship back on track theyve moved on from the on-camera drama.

And that certainly seems to be the case. Recently, Kim confessed that she missed NeNe and hoped to be friends again, and it seems that NeNe has been harboring the same feelings. The two have even been working to schedule a visit so NeNe can come see Kims new twins, and it looks like maybe that visit has already happened. On Jan. 21, NeNe tweeted about her friend-again Kim, saying Just had the best convo with @Kimzolciak. She cracks me up every time. On my way with Pampers!

Awwww..I just love a happy ending.

What about you? Did you think NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak would ever be able to put aside the differences we saw play out on The Real Housewives of Atlanta? Tell us in the comments!

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SINNED AGAINST AND SINNING: Troy Maxson (Esau Pritchett), former Negro League baseball star, confronts death and an abundance of domestic and social adversities in McCarter Theatres production of August Wilsons Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences through February 16.

James Earl Jones was the star of the original production of Fences, at Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985 and on Broadway in 1987, where it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for Best Play. Then it was Denzel Washington, in a 2010 Broadway revival, in the larger-than-life role of Troy Maxson, his name itself evoking the grandeur and tragic fall of the unforgettable protagonist of Wilsons drama. But in McCarter Theatres searing, deeply moving production of this masterpiece, its August Wilson, the playwright himself, who emerges as the star of the show.

This poetic drama is set in 1957 in the early years of the civil rights movement and focuses on the struggles of a former Negro League baseball player, now a Pittsburgh sanitation worker, and his family. The dialogue is at the same time natural and poetic, and so powerful, humorous, and moving. Wilson, who died in 2005 after completing his highly acclaimed Century Cycle of plays set in every decade of the twentieth century, frequently cited the influence of the blues on his work, and Fences in its sympathetic, suffering characterizations, in its bitterness and solace in alcohol, humor, language, music, and humanity resonates with the rich life and tone of a blues song that sticks in the mind and soul.

Fences depicts a family in conflict. Troy (Esau Pritchett), the middle-aged patriarch, is at odds not just with the society that barred him from the major leagues through the 20s, 30s, and 40s and consigned him to a job carrying garbage, but also with his wife Rose (Portia) and sons, 34-year-old Lyons (Jared McNeill) from a failed earlier marriage and 17-year-old Cory (Chris Myers). Troy is indeed a victim of the racism of his time and environment, but he is also a victim of his own bitterness, his personal excesses, and his wary detachment from family and friends.

Early in the first of two acts Troy and Cory clash over Corys hopes of gaining a football scholarship to college. Troy, who hit 43 home runs in one season in the Negro League but was born too soon to break the color barrier in the Major Leagues, distrusts the white mans enticements for Cory and also harbors his own resentment and jealousy over this opportunity that he never had. The conflict grows increasingly hostile as Cory attempts to assert his independence from Troys influence, and Troy, seeing his authority and control challenged, fails to accept the changing world of America on the cusp of upheaval, along with his sons entrance into adulthood and his own aging.

The shattering of the fragile family is complete when Troy comes home, early in the second act, to announce to Rose that he has fathered a child with another woman.

August Wilson and his characters are brilliant storytellers. In the tradition of Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman in particular where intense family conflict plays out its tragic drama of the common man against a background of powerful destructive social forces, Fences is a story about families, a marriage and, especially, through the generations, fathers and sons, with the sins of the fathers repeatedly being visited on the sons. It is also a play about the power of speech as our greatest weapon in shaping our stories and our lives and in battling against oppression and death.

In McCarters production, in association with Long Wharf Theatre where it opened last month, Mr. Pritchett as Troy is convincing, powerful, charismatic as a man past his prime, finding himself in a new world, on unfamiliar ground with wife and sons. Hes a storyteller, angry but loving his family, his friends, his life, and fighting, as a great athlete fights to win the game, his battle to turn back mortality. Mr. Pritchett, of course, lacks the physical magnitude of James Earl Jones (Rose describes Troy: when (he) walked through the house he was so big he filled it up) and the instant star- recognition of Denzel Washington, but Mr. Pritchett thoroughly engages the audience in his joy and loves, his frustrations, and his anguish. He radiates a gift for spell-binding storytelling, a warm humor and a virtuoso musicians gift for delivering the music of Wilsons rich poetic language.

Portia establishes Rose as a worthy counterpart and counterbalance to Troy. She is enormously sympathetic as she moves through the rich territory of emotions required as wife and mother in her fight to keep her family together. Troy and Rose may be the most finely, fully, and convincingly developed husbandwife portrayal in all of Mr. Wilsons ten plays.

Jesus, be a fence all around me every day, Rose sings as she hangs out the laundry at the start of the second scene. The fence that Troy and Cory are building emerges on both sides of the stage as the action progresses. It becomes a symbol of the security and protection from white America, from his own inner demons, from death itself that Troy seeks. And it also represents Roses struggle to keep the family together against the forces that threaten to pull it apart.

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Malcolm Gladwell brings 'David and Goliath' to Michigan Theater

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of David and Goliath Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants, will read from and answer questions about his book during an event at the Michigan Theater.

The book is really about how being big doesnt guarantee that youll win, and how sometimes being small and nimble counts for more than having a large presence, said Nicola Rooney, owner of Nicolas Books, which is presenting the event at the Michigan Theater. Its classic Malcolm Gladwell in that it doesnt have a lot of statistics, but rather examples and anecdotes to illustrate points.

Gladwell will also be signing books.

7 p.m. Monday, Michigan Theater, 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor. Nicola's Books: 734-662-0600 or http://www.nicolasbooks.com. $35 main floor; $150 for VIP, which includes copy of the book, main floor seating, first-in-line book-signing access and a meet-and-greet with the author; $85 for Gold Circle, which includes copy of the book, main floor seating and second-in-line book-signing access. The $15 balcony tickets are sold out.

More than 100 international, regional and local craft beers will be served at the Royal Oak Music Theatres Annual Craft Beer Fest.

There also will be food and music by Yorg and Sheehanm. Proceeds will benefit Camp Casey, a nonprofit that offers horseback-riding programs and therapy for children with cancer.

7 p.m. Saturday, Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth, Royal Oak. 248-399-2980 or http://www.royaloakmusictheatre.com. General admission tickets, which include 20 drink samples, cost $40 in advance and $45 at the door; VIP tickets, which include entry at 6 p.m., VIP balcony access, rare and specialty brews and 20 drink samples, cost $60 in advance and $65 at the door. $5 tickets for designated drivers at the door.

The Wayne State University Maggie Allesee Department of Theatre and Dance will offera staged readings of Fences on Saturday.

August Wilsons play exploring the African-American experience is set in the 1950s.

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By Andrew Clarke

Last updated at 12:08, Thursday, 23 January 2014

A HERD of deer is set to be culled after being trapped between two fences at Sellafield.

The wild roe deer are to be shot after it emerged that their habitat has been enclosed in a large area between two newly-erected security fences at the sites south perimeter.

Sellafield Ltd is acting on the advice of experts from the Deer Initiative Partnership (DIP), who say that the most humane and practical course of action is to cull the animals, thought to be between five and 15 in number. The cull will take place between February and April.

However, neighbouring Seascale Parish Council has strongly objected to the unnecessary move.

Coun David Ritson said: This seems a quick, convenient and cheap fix for a problem for which there is another solution.

Would it not be a better and more humane solution to temporarily remove one section of fence and herd the offending animals back into the natural environment where they could live a free life, continuing to provide pleasure for those who seem and to enhance our beautiful Cumbrian landscape?

Sellafield Ltd says that this option had been considered by its own wildlife team and the DIP experts on whose advice it is acting.

A spokesperson said: Their advice to us was that deer are not animals which are easy to round up, as they tend to run and hide when spooked.

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Tearing through the fences of a Pearl neighborhood -an Wednesday afternoon grass fire is just one of many burning in the Greater-Jackson area.

Charles Fairley, who lives on Pearl's Lanell Street, said his garden hose could not control the spread of flames in his grass.

"I thought I had a safe burning place in an old stump so I dumped some ashes in there the other night and yesterday the wind had come up real strong and thrown some leaves in it and it caught afire," Fairley said.

Not far away only an hour later Pearl firefighter battled quarter-acre wide flames at the East Magnolia Place neighborhood.

And in Jackson around 4:30 p.m. fire crews needed to pull over on I-220 near the Metro Center Mall to stop a spreading fire off the exit.

Hinds county was still under a burn ban on Wednesday. It was set to expire at the end of the day.

The Mississippi Forestry Commission reported online that Rankin County burn ban is in effect until further notice.

"If we see somebody burning maybe ask them to put it out. If that's a problem then call the fire department and we'd be glad to come out there and ask them to extinguish any open fires they might have," Pearl Assistant Fire Chief Brad Thornton said.

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CARSON (CBSLA.com) Some Carson residents are against a new city Planning Commission proposal that would prohibit the use of chain-link fences in residential neighborhoods and business areas.

If passed, people would have three years to comply to the new rules.

Residents Penny Subiate and Douglas Chaney are concerned about how people are going to come up with the money to replace their current fences.

I can understand the beautification that they want to do, but I think they are creating a hardship on some of the residents, Chaney said.

Im retired. My husband is retired. There are only so many dollars coming in. Do I have to make a loan I cant afford because the city doesnt like my fence? Subiate said.

In addition, residents are alarmed because its easier to tag certain kinds of fences with graffiti.

We border right up against big-time gangs, and they just love to come and write. They write on the sidewalks, they write on the fences, they write on the side of your house. Its ugly, Subiate said.

Carson Mayor Jim Dear said while he supports the ban on some business fencing, he said there was a mix-up and residential fences were not supposed to be part of the discussion.

That was not my initiative, it was never part of the initiative from the mayors office, so there is a little disconnect there, he said.

Subiate and Chaney plan to circulate a petition in opposition of the ban. They will present it to the Planning Commission at a Feb. 11 meeting.

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Alex Massey, Phoebe Wearne and Angela Pownall The West Australian January 22, 2014, 4:47 am

Angry Northam residents say they do not feel safe after another escape from the Serco-staffed Yongah Hill immigration detention centre yesterday.

Four detainees broke out, sparking a big manhunt and calls for the "unscalable" perimeter fence to be upgraded.

Three were soon captured after climbing at least three fences about 3pm. The other man was found later.

It was the fourth breakout since August and two of the 14 escapees are still on the run.

In a statement through a spokesman, Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison expressed strong dissatisfaction at the performance of the Yongah Hill centre.

He had asked the department to review detainee placements there to ensure those at a higher risk of absconding were in more secure facilities.

Northam Shire president Steven Pollard said the escapes proved people could climb the fences "relatively easily".

It seemed the fences could be scaled in a minute or less, which made it difficult for Serco staff to respond fast enough.

Mr Pollard said the main perimeter fence was meant to be "unscalable", which meant it had no hand holds or attachment points and the top leant inwards.

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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

By Wade Rouse

01/21/2014 at 07:00 AM EST

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills certainly were Monday night, as the ladies got into a boxing ring to learn self-defense while Brandi Glanville took the gloves off with her own father.

"I love that man like crazy," Glanville, 40, said of her father, whom she had upset by wearing a very revealing Oscar dress and also referencing his days as a hippie in her memoir Drinking and Tweeting. "I said he was a drug dealer. He was a marijuana grower."

Continued Glanville: "I haven't talked to him in months. He won't even answer my texts."

But she got the chance when her father and family attended a book signing at a gay pride event in her hometown of Sacramento, where Glanville was the featured speaker.

"I've never seen Brandi this vulnerable and nervous," said Yolanda Foster, who accompanied Glanville and served as mediator, therapist and friend.

Glanville, 40, had the crowd wish her father, Guy, happy birthday and shared the story of how her parents invited the son of their best friends to move into their home after he came out and was kicked out of his family's house.

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