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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan is sending a top official to the Afghan capital this weekend to try to mend fences with its uneasy neighbor, and hanging in the balance are U.S. efforts to arrange peace talks with the Taliban.

The trip comes roughly two weeks after the Taliban closed their newly opened political office in the Gulf state of Qatar following angry complaints from Afghanistan that the Islamic militant movement had set it up as a virtual rival embassy, with a flag and sign harkening back to the days they ruled the country.

The political office was part of a U.S. plan to launch peace talks with the Taliban to end the protracted war, with American and other NATO combat troops scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year. But the talks ended before they could even begin amid the uproar last month.

Pakistan, which had helped persuade Taliban to agree to sit down with the Americans - and possibly with the Afghans after that - now contends that intransigence, suspicion and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's reluctance to invite his political opponents at home to the negotiating table in Qatar is hobbling efforts to start the talks.

"They (Taliban) listen to us. We have some influence but we can't control them," Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's special adviser on national security and foreign affairs, told The Associated Press in advance of his trip to Kabul on Saturday.

"But they (Taliban) also say that the High Peace Council is not fully representative," Aziz said, referring to Karzai's 80-member negotiating team. "President Karzai should invite other people to join them."

Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council, told the AP that if the Taliban were making wider representation on the negotiating team a condition to restarting talks, then it "would be worth considering." But he was suspicious of Pakistan, wanting assurances first that the demand was from the Taliban and not Pakistan.

Rancor and suspicion between Pakistan and Afghanistan run deep. Kabul blames Islamabad for not cracking down on Taliban militants who use the border area as a base to carry out attacks on Afghans and international forces in Afghanistan. For its part, Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of sabotaging peace efforts with its provocative statements, overtures to India and refusal to acknowledge the bloody war Islamabad is waging in its border regions.

One senior Western official, who is deeply familiar with the peace talks, said the depth of the animosity between the two countries hinders efforts to reach a negotiated peace with the Taliban.

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Podcast: Toby Stephens and Anna Chancell... PODCASTS Listen to the post-show Q&A from our latest Outing, to Paulette Randall's acclaimed revival of August Wilson's Fences at the Duchess Theatre

Lenny Henry and Tanya Moodie Nobby Clark Last night we took 120 theatregoers to see the Theatre Royal Bath revival of August Wilson's Fences starring Lenny Henry.

The production, which is directed former Talawa artistic director Paulette Randall, opened in Bath in February and arrives in the West End following a national tour. It runs at the Duchess Theatre until 14 September 2013.

Wilson's 1983 play, which forms part of the late dramatist's epic ten-play cycle about the black experience in 20th-century America, centres on Troy Maxson (Henry), a former baseball star who is now a garbageman and consumed by bitterness.

Following the show we were joined by cast members for a post-show Q&A.

To listen to the Q&A, which was hosted by Terri Paddock, click the 'play' button below; or to subscribe and download from itunes, click here.

As always, please feel free to email your comments and thoughts about the show, as well as any of your favourite insights from last night to feedback@whatsonstage.com and don't forget to tweet using #wosouting! We would love to hear from you.

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Podcast: Toby Stephens and Anna Chancell... PODCASTS Listen to the post-show Q&A from our latest Outing, to Paulette Randall's acclaimed revival of August Wilson's Fences at the Duchess Theatre

Lenny Henry and Tanya Moodie Nobby Clark Last night we took 120 theatregoers to see the Theatre Royal Bath revival of August Wilson's Fences starring Lenny Henry.

The production, which is directed former Talawa artistic director Paulette Randall, opened in Bath in February and arrives in the West End following a national tour. It runs at the Duchess Theatre until 14 September 2013.

Wilson's 1983 play, which forms part of the late dramatist's epic ten-play cycle about the black experience in 20th-century America, centres on Troy Maxson (Henry), a former baseball star who is now a garbageman and consumed by bitterness.

Following the show we were joined by cast members for a post-show Q&A.

To listen to the Q&A, which was hosted by Terri Paddock, click the 'play' button below; or to subscribe and download from itunes, click here.

As always, please feel free to email your comments and thoughts about the show, as well as any of your favourite insights from last night to feedback@whatsonstage.com and don't forget to tweet using #wosouting! We would love to hear from you.

For details of other upcoming Outings, click here.

Tags: Lenny HenryFences

By providing information about entertainment and cultural events on this site, WhatsOnStage.com shall not be deemed to endorse, recommend, approve and/or guarantee such events, or any facts, views, advice and/or information contained therein.

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The Padres took on the Rockies on a drizzly afternoon at Petco Park.

The Padres on Friday return from the All-Star break to a three-game series in St. Louis, where their road woes may well continue against the first-place Cardinals.

At home in San Diego, though, they are 27-23 this season, seemingly undeterred and, in some respects, boosted by the reconfigured Petco Park.

Its much more fair, Will Venable said recently of the previously cavernous ballpark. It definitely is making a difference.

Its dimensions shortened last offseason, Petco Park is serving up more home runs per game than in any year since 2006. While overall run production has yet to budge in a venue that remains distinctly pitcher-friendly, the Padres appear to have shed a bit of the psychological baggage gained in 2004 with the stadiums opening.

With the walls in right field and left-center moved in by an average of 10 feet, Petco Park has seen an average of 1.92 home runs per game this season, making it the National Leagues ninth-toughest ballpark in which to homer. (Petco Park has seen a higher home run average only in 2006, at 2.06 per game.)

Last year Petco Park saw 1.35 home runs per game, making it the NLs second-toughest ballpark in which to homer. Only San Francisco's AT&T Park (1.04) presented more of a challenge.

Its better having it this way, Chase Headley said, because when you hit a ball like that, it deserves to be a homer and there were times last year when it wasnt.

Fifty home games into this new era, there have been 16 homers hit at Petco Park that wouldnt have cleared the fences last year. Opponents hold a 9-7 advantage. That ratio is consistent with the 102 home runs allowed by the Padres overall this season, compared to the 88 hit by San Diego.

"Park factor" compares the rate of stats at home vs. the rate of stats on the road. A rate higher than 1.000 favors the hitter. Below 1.000 favors the pitcher.

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Pakistan is sending a top official to the Afghan capital this weekend to try to mend fences with its uneasy neighbor, and hanging in the balance are U.S. efforts to arrange peace talks with the Taliban.

The trip comes roughly two weeks after the Taliban closed their newly opened political office in the Gulf state of Qatar following angry complaints from Afghanistan that the Islamic militant movement had set it up as a virtual rival embassy, with a flag and sign harkening back to the days they ruled the country.

The political office was part of a U.S. plan to launch peace talks with the Taliban to end the protracted war, with American and other NATO combat troops scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year. But the talks ended before they could even begin amid the uproar last month.

Pakistan, which had helped persuade Taliban to agree to sit down with the Americans and possibly with the Afghans after that now contends that intransigence, suspicion and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's reluctance to invite his political opponents at home to the negotiating table in Qatar is hobbling efforts to start the talks.

"They (Taliban) listen to us. We have some influence but we can't control them," Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan's special adviser on national security and foreign affairs, told The Associated Press in advance of his trip to Kabul on Saturday.

"But they (Taliban) also say that the High Peace Council is not fully representative," Aziz said, referring to Karzai's 80-member negotiating team. "President Karzai should invite other people to join them."

Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, a senior member of the Afghan High Peace Council, told the AP that if the Taliban were making wider representation on the negotiating team a condition to restarting talks, then it "would be worth considering." But he was suspicious of Pakistan, wanting assurances first that the demand was from the Taliban and not Pakistan.

Rancor and suspicion between Pakistan and Afghanistan run deep. Kabul blames Islamabad for not cracking down on Taliban militants who use the border area as a base to carry out attacks on Afghans and international forces in Afghanistan. For its part, Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of sabotaging peace efforts with its provocative statements, overtures to India and refusal to acknowledge the bloody war Islamabad is waging in its border regions.

One senior Western official, who is deeply familiar with the peace talks, said the depth of the animosity between the two countries hinders efforts to reach a negotiated peace with the Taliban.

"It's kind of a no-win situation," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. "When they're (the Pakistanis) not helpful, there's a lot of suspicion (from Afghanistan) that they're being unhelpful, and when they are helpful there's a lot of suspicion that if they're helpful then maybe this isn't something that's good for Afghanistan."

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By Tony Tomeo

Silicon Valley Community Newspapers

Good old-fashioned suburbia will never be the same. Bigger modern homes on smaller modern parcels leave little space for gardening and trees. What is not shaded by the taller homes is shaded by the taller fences, which are needed for privacy since the homes are closer together. Building codes in most municipalities limit the height of fences, but lattice screens are often added on top for extra height.

Because lumber is not of the quality that it was when shorter light-duty redwood fences were built decades ago, relatively expensive modern fences do not last nearly as long. They might last longer if they would get repaired instead of replaced when only the posts rot. Green technology seemed to work better before it became trendy.

Ironically, no one wants these bigger and bolder fences that are closer to home to be so prominent in the landscape. We try to obscure them with vines that can tear them apart, or shrubbery that can push them over. Watering these vines and shrubs accelerates rot in the posts.

Shrubbery intended to obscure a fence should not be so voracious that it wants to displace the same fence that it is intended to obscure. Some types of pittosporum work nicely because they support themselves without leaning against other features in their surroundings too much, even if they eventually get quite large. However, they do get quite thick, and can obscure a fence so well that no one would miss the fence if it

Many types of vines can be kept much closer to a fence than shrubbery can, but most tend to be more destructive. Star jasmine works nicely if allowed to climb a trellis directly in front of the fence, but should not be allowed to get between planks in the fence or to get too intertwined in lattice. If it gets too fluffy, it can be shorn back like a light hedge.

Clinging vines like creeping fig can be very appealing on fences and can be shorn like hedges, but will eventually necessitate the replacement of the fences that they climb. For those who appreciate such a tailored appearance, replacement of the affected fences every few years is a fair compromise.

Flower of the Week: Toadflax

Toadflax really does look like baby snapdragon, which is its other common name. The tiny, half-inch-wide flowers are similarly bisymmetrica and arranged in small trusses, although the diminutive leaves are distinctively narrow.

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UFC Hall of Famer and former champion Ken Shamrock said he's ended his longtime feud with adoptive brother Frank Shamrock to work on a hush-hush MMA project he believes will "challenge a lot of the top promotions."

"I think this is something that the MMA fans have been waiting for and that they deserve," Shamrock recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "They shouldn't have to choose. They should love both and be able to share in both."

Shamrock (28-15-2) said the two discussed their contentious past and mended fences while filming the project earlier this month.

"We sat down, and we had some discussions, from childhood to the fight, to the argument, to the separation, to the not going to my dad's funeral (and) the reasons why," he said. "We hashed it out right there on video, and there's a lot of stuff in that that's emotional."

The adoptive brothers fought their last respective bouts in 2010, but they've remained at each other's throats for more than a decade. They grew up as adoptive brothers in the group home of Bob Shamrock and laid the foundation for one of MMA's first super camps, Lion's Den. Ken Shamrock was one of the UFC's biggest stars while Frank Shamrock won the UFC middleweight title.

They split, however, after a fiery confrontation about their respective careers, during which Frank said Ken threw a computer monitor at his head. Ken continued on with the Lion's Den, and Frank formed his own team. Several times the feuding Shamrocks were linked to a potential fight as they bashed each other in the media.

Ken Shamrock said that despite his enmity, he never wavered in his belief that Frank Shamrock deserved recognition for his accomplishments namely, a spot beside him in the UFC Hall of Fame.

"My brother Frank is an icon in MMA," he said. "I trained him. I got him where he needed to be, but he has a place, and I have a place. And the sad thing is two brothers in MMA ... who helped make MMA what it is, and then to have the Shamrocks, who are the other brothers in this, to really have the rivalry with the Gracies, not to be able to share this glory with the people who helped build it."

A rivalry with UFC President Dana White continues to keep the younger Shamrock off the honor roll, though he has found a place in the sport as a commentator and, most recently, a coach on Spike TV's "Bellator MMA: Fight Master."

Not long ago, Ken Shamrock might have taken a swipe at his brother's new gig. But he said those days are over.

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A gate and a property fence is a clear symbol to outsidersthe perimeter of your property is accessible only when granted. A gate gives you control over the entry-points to your home.It talks about the interior and it is more than a metal structure before your building. Want a gate and fence? Consider the materials and purposes of home gate and fence systems

Types

Automated gates

Driveway security gates can be made manual or automatic. Most home-owners usually opt for an automatic gate. This is electrically or wirelessly opened and closed from somewhere within the home. Two-way voice and/or video intercoms make it possible to answer the gate from a base station within your home.

Decorative

There are several types of decorative gates. Some of the most common include wrought iron, the picket style gate fence, and the chain link fence. The type of decorative fencing chosen usually varies according to the location, needs, and preference of the owners.

Factors such as security also affect the fencing and gate choice. In many cases, it is possible to choose ornamental fences and gates and still enjoy functionality and a high level of security, based on the needs of the home or business.

Wrought iron: This is one of the most common and well-loved style of decorative gates. They vary from very simple, plain with understated designs, to wildly ornate designs with elegant loops and twists. Wrought iron gates are traditionally tall, ranging from 48 inches to 72 inches.

You can paint them white or in other varying colours to make them visually noticeable and interesting.

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