Stanford Novice Fences B Sunday

By: gh170

More here:
Stanford Novice Fences B Sunday - Video

TREVZ: Swingin 4 The Fences (Mixtape Vol. 1)

By: Trevor Jenkins

Go here to read the rest:
TREVZ: Swingin 4 The Fences (Mixtape Vol. 1) - Video

Stage 3 Theatre Company of Sonora has postponed the opening of Fences, the first play in its 2013 season.

Fences, a Pulitzer Prize winning drama by August Wilson, was scheduled to open tonight but instead will open next Friday, Feb. 15 so that the company has more time to prepare.

This is the first time weve had to do this, said Don Bilotti, the plays director and Stage 3s artistic director. This production is too important to the theater and the community to not give it our absolute best shot.

A benefit preview Thursday night went on as scheduled.

Fences tells the story of Troy Maxson, a star of the Negro baseball leagues whose career was strangled by racism. After scraping his life together, forces at the dawn of the Civil Rights era threaten to rip apart everything hes struggled to build.

The New Yorker magazine called it Gorgeous. Thrilling. Unmissable.

Here is the original post:
‘Fences’ opening postponed at Stage 3 theater

Devin Coldewey , NBC News 12 hrs.

Managing livestock with fences and gates is so medieval. The future, says one USDA scientist, is equipping cows with GPS units and coraling them via augmented reality. It may sound crazy, but it could be the best thing to happen to the industry in a century.

The millions of cattle who roam the world's pastures are generally enclosed in fences of wood or wire, a technique that has worked well for hundreds of years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Dean Anderson thinks that it's time to bring the industry up to 21st century standards.

Grazing efficiently is tough because the landscape is unpredictable. Cows may find themselves clipping the weeds on their side of the fence, while lush green grass grows just a few feet away because of weather or erosion patterns. Sure, you can move the fence, but that's an expensive and time-consuming process. So why not remove the physical fence altogether, and replace it with a virtual one?

"It never made sense to me that we use static tools to manage dynamic resources," Anderson told Venue in a recent interview. He's working on a system somewhat like the electronic fences used to keep animals in the yard without a physical barrier but, naturally, a bit more sophisticated.

It builds on the popular method of rotating stock through multiple smaller paddocks, which gives better control over how the animals and land interact with each other. If you could do that without having to worry about dozens of fences and gates, wouldn't you?

The Directional Virtual Fencing system works by equipping cows with GPS headsets (they look strange, but the cows apparently don't mind) that constantly report the animal's position to a central location. Soft boundaries are set by whoever's managing the herd, and can be moved by miles to new pastures or shifted just a few yards to nudge the herd towards fresh grass.

As the cows approach the edge, they get corrected first with a gentle noise, then a loud one, then a light shock. Anderson tested the shock gear on himself to make sure it wasn't excessive, and he's sensitive to animal welfare. These cows may be destined for the dinner table, but until then, they're living creatures and must be treated with care.

It works like a charm with most animals, although some ("Like myself," jokes Anderson) are not amenable to the system. And it's useless without solid infrastructure (water and shelter), intelligence (where there's rain or dangerous terrain), and, critically, human backup. Anderson explains:

You need that flexibility, and you always need to ground-truth. The only way you can get optimum results, in my opinion, is to have someone who is trained in the basics of range science and animal science, to know when the numbers are good and when the numbers are lousy. Electronics simply provide numbers.

Here is the original post:
GPS-equipped cows would stay inside virtual fences

Fences and Barricades - Malice Aforethought (LIVE)
Fences and Barricades - Malice Aforethought (LIVE at RHB PAMBANSANG MUZIKLABAN AUDITION TENT)

By: yummydingdingify

Go here to read the rest:
Fences and Barricades - Malice Aforethought (LIVE) - Video

Hunt seat equitation over fences
small state fair horse show last summer! first time crunchy has every jumped a full course for me at a show. so so so proud of this ride, even though its not perfect. I love my horse so much! His name is Oreo Cookie Crunch and he is a registered appaloosa gelding, 15 years old and 16.2 hands. I have owned him for 5 years now, so proud of him and everything we have accomplished together!

By: CrunchyLove15

See the article here:
Hunt seat equitation over fences - Video

Fences and pavers by design
3864780000

By: Vadim Abuzov

See more here:
Fences and pavers by design - Video

A relatively straightforward technological innovation -- GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices -- could profoundly reshape our relationships with domesticated animals, the landscape, and each other.

When European farmers arrived in North America, they claimed it with fences. Fences were the physical manifestation of a belief in private ownership and the proper use of land -- enclosed, utilized, defended -- that continues to shape the American way of life, its economic aspirations, and even its form of government.

Today, fences are the framework through the national landscape is seen, understood, and managed, forming a vast, distributed, and often unquestioned network of wire that somehow defines the "land of the free" while also restricting movement within it.

In the 1870s, the U.S. faced a fence crisis. As settlers ventured away from the coast and into the vast grasslands of the Great Plains, limited supplies of cheap wood meant that split-rail fencing cost more than the land it enclosed. The timely invention of barbed wire in 1874 allowed homesteaders to settle the prairie, transforming its grassland ecology as dramatically as the industrial quantities of corn and cattle being produced and harvested within its newly enclosed pastures redefined the American diet.

In Las Cruces, New Mexico, Venue met with Dean M. Anderson, a USDA scientist whose research into virtual fencing promises equally radical transformation -- this time by removing the mile upon mile of barbed wire stretched across the landscape. As seems to be the case in fencing, a relatively straightforward technological innovation -- GPS-equipped free-range cows that can be nudged back within virtual bounds by ear-mounted stimulus-delivery devices -- has implications that could profoundly reshape our relationships with domesticated animals, each other, and the landscape.

In fact, after our hour-long conversation, it became clear to Venue that Anderson, a soft-spoken federal research scientist who admits to taping a paper list of telephone numbers on the back of his decidedly unsmart phone, keeps exciting if unlikely company with the vanguard of the New Aesthetic, writer and artist James Bridle's term for an emerging way of perceiving (and, in this case, apportioning) digital information under the influence of the various media technologies -- satellite imagery, RFID tags, algorithmic glitches, and so on -- through which we now filter the world.

The Google Maps rainbow plane, an iconic image of the New Aesthetic for the way in which it accidentally captures the hyperspectral oddness of new representational technologies and image-compression algorithms on a product intended for human eyes.

After all, Anderson's directional virtual fencing is nothing less than augmented reality for cattle, a bovine New Aesthetic: the creation of a new layer of perceptual information that can redirect the movement of livestock across remote landscapes in real-time response to lines humans can no longer see. If gathering cows on horseback gave rise to the cowboy narratives of the West, we might ask in this context, what new mythologies might Anderson's satellite-enabled, autonomous gather give rise to?

Our discussion ranged from robotic rats and sheep laterality to the advantages of GPS imprecision and the possibility of high-tech herds bred to suit the topography of particular property. The edited transcript appears below.

Read this article:
The Land of the Free: How Virtual Fences Will Transform Rural America

A Palestinian farmer near the fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip (Reuters)

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has ignored a high court ruling to pull down two illegal fences around settlements in the West Bank which block Palestinian farmers from reaching their own land.

The IDF had vowed to remove the fences after the Palestinian villages of Jaba and Silwad lodged petitions in protest, with the support of human rights group Yesh Din and lawyers Michael Sfard and Shlomi Zacharia. They claimed that illegal fences had been built around the settlements of Adam and Ofra cut off Palestinian farmers' access to their fields.

But Haaretz reports that the IDF, which said it would take down the fences by 2012, has not even started to plan the dismantling.

After the petitions, the Israeli government presented to the high court a plan to build alternative security fences in the area.

"As part of the background work to map the illegal fencing in the Binyamin area and after examining their legality, a draft has been prepared of a comprehensive operational demand with regard to the security of the settlements, intended to regulate the establishment of alternative security components in the hope of limiting damage to private property as much as possible," read a 2011 statement.

It also established a timetable for erection of the new fences "to be carried out at the end of 2012, subject to completion of preparatory work, authorisation and budget". The fences were listed as high priority.

Following the state's resolution, the High Court of Justice cancelled the petitions, assessing the proposal as "sufficient" to solve the problem. However, the IDF did not obtain defence ministry approval of funding to build new fences and did not tell the high court that it would be unable to meet the timetable.

To report problems or to leave feedback about this article, e-mail: To contact the editor, e-mail:

See the rest here:
IDF Snubs High Court Ruling to Remove West Bank Fences

Cooper over fences
Eligible green pony; easy going; shown at A and AA rated shows; auto-changes

By: perfectpartnercooper

Read more:
Cooper over fences - Video