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Novice Fences: Dominique riding Groovy
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Denzel Washington has revealed he is interested in directing the Fences film.
The Oscar-nominated Flight star is eyeing up a stint in the director's chair for the big-screen adaptation of August Wilson's Broadway play, which he previously starred in with Viola Davis, reported Empire.
"I really do want to direct [the film version]," he told the magazine.
It would mark Denzel's first directorial project since 2007's The Great Debaters - he also directed Antwone Fisher in 2002, both of which he starred in. He did not mention if he would also star in the Fences film.
The two-time Oscar winner has revealed that starring in the play, in which he won the Tony award for best actor in 2010, "reawakened" him.
"It reawakened me about the work, and my commitment to the work," explained the 58-year-old.
"I said to myself: 'I've got to dig deeper. The reason I did Fences is that Scott Rudin sent me the script August Wilson wrote - the only one of his plays that he wrote as a screenplay - to act and direct."
The 50s-set drama focuses on a rubbish collector, who is haunted by his unfulfilled dream of becoming a baseball star.
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BEEF producers Phil and Shirley Ballin, Camden, Nanango, rate the 2013 floods similar to those experienced in 1984 and 2011.
The Ballins trade in beef cattle and grow Lucerne on their property, which is at the junction of Barkers Creek and Meandu Creek.
Mr Ballin said significant rain upstream in the Bunya Mountains had contributed to the flooding.
"Here at home we've had 255mm - we recorded 190mm in just one night, and we'd had 45mm prior to that," Mr Ballin said.
"The creeks have come down, but they're still flowing across the flats.
"The D'Aguilar Highway heading into Kingaroy has been washed out, but there are people repairing it now," Mr Ballin said.
"The worst part for us is the debris and the fencing, because the posts and wires all come out together. We put up brand new fences two years ago after the last floods, and now it is all gone.
"We lost a couple of irrigation motors as well, because we just couldn't get to them."
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama Shortly after he was re-elected Saturday as Alabama Republican Party chairman, Bill Armistead pledged to "mend fences" to unite the party.
But in the moments before ballots were cast in the heated race for the state GOP's top job, Armistead was criticizing one of the party's most formidable figures: Rep. Mike Hubbard, the speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives who opposed Armistead's bid for a second term.
"...They say there is disunity in our party but I don't believe that," Armistead told Executive Committee members minutes before they would cast ballots to choose between him and challenger Matt Fridy. "Let's be honest. Divisions in this party have been caused by one person."
Armistead didn't call out Hubbard's name. He didn't have to because he then launched into a strong defense of his decision to seek a financial review he calls it an audit of the party's spending in 2010, Hubbard's last year and his most successful year as party chairman.
It was a year that saw the party sweep to overwhelming control of the Legislature for the first time in 136 years and much of the credit for the victory went to Hubbard who had recruited candidates and raised millions of dollars to give Republicans control in the state Senate and the Alabama House, which would select him as the first Republican speaker since Reconstruction.
The so-called audit found what Armistead and his closest supporters inside the party believe was questionable financial moves by the party then under Hubbard's control which resulted in an Auburn printing company that Hubbard has part ownership in earning over $800,000 through a contract to print political flyers mailed to voters across the state in 2010 supporting GOP candidates.
Hubbard has said he had no involvement in awarding his company the contract and that the $9,000 in profits he made from the deal he invested back into the company. Hubbard has also pointed out that in 2010 he donated $40,000 of his own money into the GOP's efforts to win control of the Legislature.
Armistead told committee members Saturday that his decision to seek the audit was the right thing to do but that doing it had angered powerful elements in the party who only became angrier after The Birmingham News/AL.com in November reported the findings after having been leaked a copy of the audit.
"I didn't release that audit ... but its release is why we are here because some decided that 'we've got to bring that chairman down.' That's what this is about," said Armistead.
If Armistead has fences to mend with Hubbard, he also has them to mend with Gov. Robert Bentley who personally recruited Fridy to run against Armistead. In a strongly worded letter this week Bentley urged committee members to support Fridy and reject Armistead.
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Frustration as Tesco fences off public footpath
7:00pm Friday 1st February 2013 in News By Damian Fantato, covering Summertown, Jericho and North Oxford. Call me on 01865 425429
TESCO is facing a backlash after it fenced off a public footpath and a piece of green space at a controversial site in Marston.
The company has been planning since 2008 to turn the old Friar pub at the corner of Marston Road and Old Marston Road into a supermarket despite local opposition.
With work yet to begin Tesco has erected a fence around the site because of concerns about its state of repair.
But the fence has sparked uproar as residents claim it is blocking off a public footpath and much-loved green space.
Crotch Crescent resident Eric Perkins, 54, accused Tesco of using bully boy tactics.
He said: This fence has blocked off the footpath in front of the old pub and also the area of grass and trees in front of that.
In Marston we are very passionate about our green space and our trees because it gives a feeling of open space to the area.
There was no public notice about this fence. Someone just turned up and started to erect it, blocking off a public right of way.
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FLOOD fencing is in full swing in the Mackay hinterland as rainfall from 177mm to 400mm and more brought an end to near-drought conditions.
Property owners with large frontages to roads have braved floodwaters to get their fences up and keep motorists and stock safe.
It's essential to get the floodway fences fixed immediately, as cattle will find a broken wire and get out if you don't fix it.
Throughout Queensland, property owners will be out flood fencing boundaries with roads and highways a priority.
Flood run-off from creeks in the Nebo-Valkyrie area are joining other floodwaters to raise the height of the Fitzroy River and affect roads around Rockhampton.
In the Valkyrie Access Rd area and properties further down the Fitzroy catchment, beef producers had to shift cattle from flood-prone country up to high ground which did not have sufficient feed due to the extended conditions.
Rainfall varied on properties from 150mm upwards within short distances.
"Five men went out this morning with two Toyotas and two ATVs to start repairing the Codrilla fences on the Fitzroy Development Road," Di Pullen said on Friday morning. Codrilla, 55km from Nebo, has 38km of boundary fence with the Fitzroy Development Rd and 14km with Valkyrie Access Rd.
"It's essential to get the floodway fences fixed immediately, as cattle will find a broken wire and get out if you don't fix it," she said.
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Simple 'blast' fences called baffles could deliver improvements in air quality for people living near airports, new research has found.
Placed behind a runway, the baffles could serve as a 'virtual chimney', funnelling emissions from aircraft engines upwards where they can disperse more effectively, thereby reducing the environmental impact on people living nearby.
Prototype baffles have been tested by a team of researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University, Cranfield University, University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge, with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
After preliminary wind tunnel testing of various baffle shapes carried out by Cranfield University, an array of three rows of baffles was tested using laser scanning (Lidar, which is the optical equivalent of Radar) and chemical sensor techniques at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire. This demonstrated that the aircraft exhaust plume could be made to leave the ground within the airport's boundary fence, using prototype baffles of less than a man's height and constructed out of low-cost agricultural windbreak netting on lightweight frames.
Dr Mike Bennett, who led the project, says: "Airfield surfaces are typically covered with grass, over which the wind can blow freely. An array of baffles makes the surface rough in an aerodynamic sense. This sucks the momentum out of the exhaust jet, allowing its natural buoyancy to come into play. By suitably angling the baffles, we can also give the exhaust an upwards push, encouraging it to rise away from the ground.
"The baffles we tested were tilted at angles between 40 and 60 in order to optimise this vertical flow and to ensure the baffles didn't blow over! Although the exhaust will still disperse to the ground eventually, it will do so at a lower concentration. We might hope to see a reduction in surface concentrations of around 50 per cent at the perimeter fence behind the place where aircraft are taking off."
Long-term ground-level nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations around many major airports in Europe already exceed the legal limit enforced by the EU.
The aim of the trial was essentially to test the baffles' aerodynamics. As the prototype installation was temporary, it was constructed very differently from how a permanent installation might be made. Each baffle must be sufficiently robust to withstand the 80-90 knot blast from a jet engine, but flimsy enough to collapse harmlessly if an aircraft were to hit it. In the trial, this was achieved by restricting the prototype baffle widths to about two metres but it would be feasible to make them much narrower in a permanent installation. For full-scale use an area of baffles in the order of a thousand square metres would need to be erected behind a runway.
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