Posted: Apr 17, 2020 / 01:49 PM CDT / Updated: Apr 16, 2020 / 04:58 PM CDT

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If you have a trellis or fence that needs vine covering, there are several vines from which to choose, and after some consideration, Cross Vine might make the top of your list.

Cross Vine, botanically known as Bignonia, is a native vine to the southeast. It uses claw-like tendrils to climb, and can climb to 30, 40, or even 50 feet long. It is a fast growing vine, but it isn't invasive and can easily be controlled.

Cross Vine features bright orange flowers that bloom in April and continue sporadically until late summer. The long, deep throats of these flowers will attract hummingbirds throughout the season.

This vine does prefer full sun, but you can often find that it will grow in a bit of shade. In addition to its attractive flowers, Cross Vine is a semi-evergreen plant in the winter and has a little bit of a purplish leaf that holds on in the winter.

This is one of the easiest vines to grow, so look around and see if you can find a place for it in your yard.

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Earlier this spring, FENCE offered a special program on how to attract and protect the beloved Eastern Bluebird.

The presenter, Joe Sanders, is a local expert on this most beautiful native bird species. Following his talk volunteers at FENCE decided to spring into action using the knowledgeshared at the program sponsored by the Kirby Fund of the Polk County Community Foundation and FENCE.

There is lovein the airat FENCE.It involvesBluebirds!

FENCE is excited about the cheerful song of our bluebirds! With nesting season currently underway, FENCE is happy to announce the installation of several new nesting boxes. Bluebirds stay in North Carolina year-round and males begin to search for nesting sites in March, usually natural cavities or in nest boxes. Males are known for their brilliant blue color, rusty breast and white belly. Females have similar coloration, though their coloration appears duller.

Bluebirds feed almost exclusively on insects, though they are also known to eat the berries of dogwoods, hollies and elderberries. Bluebirds were once considered rare due to competition with more aggressive species and habitat loss. Their populations have been recovering significantly in recent years, largely through conservation efforts and the help of homeowners in creating nesting boxes specifically tailored to the species.

Interested in welcoming bluebirds into your own yard?

Consider constructing a box or planting native plants! Elderberry is an excellent choice for attracting and providing for bluebirds. Boxes should have a fixed floor, approximately 55 inches, and four walls. An entrance hole should be approximately 1 inches, though no larger to avoid invasivebirdspecies that will outcompete the bluebird, like the European Starling. Be sure to include ventilation and drainage holes in each corner of the box. An additional note, perches are not recommended for bluebird boxes. Boxes can be mounted on wooden, metal or PVC poles, approximately 5 feet high.

Male bluebirds begin to locate nesting sites as early as March and as late as June, so it is best to have new boxes installed by February. When selecting sites for box installations, keep in mind that bluebirds are known to be territorial during nesting season and typically will not build within 100 yards of another bluebird nest. Select a site that is near an open area that also has spots to perch nearby.

Already have bluebird boxes installed?

Monitor the boxes weekly. A bar of soap can be rubbed on the underside of the roof to repel wasps and other species. If you find a nest keep in mind that bluebirds construct nests using a combination of dried grass and pine needles and that their eggs are blue in color.

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With respect, the far-reaching nature of this overly restrictive curfew appears to be a gross and ill-advised overreach of government power and an extreme AND illegal violation of basic civil rights.

If it was just used to enforce the termination of large gatherings, parties, etc., thats one thing. A good argument can be made that local and state governments can employ such temporary powers to ensure public health and safety in extreme circumstances.

Even so, I would remind yall that Gov. DeSantis rightly gave religious gatherings an exception superseding the initial actions of Sheriff Chronister because the governor considered the more broad constitutional considerations of violating Freedom of Religion thats enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.

Still, Sheriff Chronister, rather than making more of an effort to work with ALL religious leaders about social distancing during services and other religious meetings, decided to instead use his intimidating deputes to barge in like a rampaging army for a Godless dictatorship.

The sheriff no matter how well-intentioned MISUSED the weight of the government power entrusted to him to make church arrests. Meanwhile, he also used the powerful lever of law enforcement to bully other congregations into submission across the county.

There were MANY alternatives. How about making a full-court-press at video conferences to work with AS MANY RELIGIOUS LEADERS AS POSSIBLE before rushing in like a bull in a china shop?

Wouldnt that be good community policing and community relations?

This also applies to the CURFEW. City and county officials, if they were really honest with each other, should conclude that they did NOT make the maximum effort to truly think this out.

Come on. You can get arrested now for walking your dog after 9 p.m. or jogging by yourself or a properly separated exercise partner before 5 a.m.?

Its really come to this?

How about also making more of an effort to use every available option to stress the importance of social distancing during gatherings of more than 10 people? People are at home, yes, but these days there are SO many ways to reach them from social media to texting to working with local media.

Heck, even the pull-back by the Tampa Bay Times on how many days it prints the paper might actually represent a communication OPPORTUNITY.

Perhaps local governments could pay to use their print and delivery capacity (OR, it might even be funded with enough advertising) to use a specially printed smaller-than-normal newspaper (or at least create government pages online) to deliver a consistent, unified message county-wide.

Local government could use this approach to periodically inform, re-emphasize key messages AND also as a significant forum for citizen feedback.

I fully realize that journalists are normally averse to working with the government. Freedom of the Press as enshrined in the Constitution has always meant a fundamentally adversarial relationship.

Still, its worth at least exploring. Yall may even be able to obtain some state or federal funding if such an endeavor could be characterized as valuable now AND as an experiment for future crises.

These are clearly different times. Perhaps a temporary media-government arrangement shouldnt be so easily dismissed without exploring.

It might even include online video presentations, interviews with health, law enforcement officials and experts from across the local spectrum (hospitals, universities, corporations, etc.)

These would be done by local reporters at local TV stations that would also be easily available for smartphones and other devices. The stations could air content by their own reporters but also make it available for such a centralized effort to disseminate news.

There are many, many potential solutions to this problem. Yet it seems the curfew-oriented committees first instincts were to flex the broad, powerful muscle of government instead of the making attempts at more civil persuasion endemic of a democracy.

Their heavy-handed actions feel more like what youd see in Communist China or some other despotic nightmare than the United States of America.

Government, whenever possible, should ALWAYS try its best to work with EVERYONE. (Exceptions might include instituting Marshall Law during war or other extreme emergencies).

The government should ALWAYS err on the side of civic persuasion and, more importantly, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW to convince the many and diverse communities within our county about the highest and best interests of our entire population.

Instead, it appears that the local governments knee-jerk reaction no matter how well-intentioned was to forcibly mandate sudden change by using the intimidating force of government and gun-carrying law enforcement officers to ram such extreme changes down everyones throats.

To someone who didnt sit in on the curfew decision, it appears to have been made without ANY minimal constitutional considerations.

For instance, consider Commissioner Les Millers statement in Mondays Tampa Bay Times and the apparent concurrence by Sheriff Chronister (who tried to downplay the government overreach as mostly informational), and others who voted for the curfew.

To even consider arresting people and putting them in jail for up to six months, not to mention the fine, for merely walking their dog by themselves after 9 p.m. or jogging alone OR in small, socially distanced groups before 5 a.m. is absurd on its face.

There can be no other interpretation that such macro enforcement is a GROSS, inane and illegal violation of civil rights, let alone common sense.

I dont know the sheriff or Commissioner Miller personally, or for that fact of the matter, Tampas mayor or anyone else on this decision-making government body.

That said, your overly broad application of the curfew against the responsible and law-abiding citizens of the city and county is just plain wrong.

Its fundamentally un-American.

In fact, yall ought to be ashamed of yourselves for committing such an outrageous violation of the public trust.

Since youre asking for my input, I would urge yall in the strongest terms to IMMEDIATELY correct whatever misconceptions and conclusions about your motives that many citizens have come to.

You must emphasize that people can still jog and walk their dogs and still shop at convenience stores and express that your constituents still possess ALL of the individual and small group FREEDOMS that our constitution guarantees.

Yes, people are dying from the coronavirus.

But MANY MORE PEOPLE DIED to fight and uphold these sacred civil rights.

You should honor this noble sacrifice by generations of

Americans by bending over backwards to apologize as you emphasize that this curfew ONLY applies to groups larger than 10.

Moreover, you ought to further emphasize your adherence with the Governors exception granted to religious groups.

Such beliefs and faiths are often deeply held and VERY important to the mental health of large populations within the people you serve.

City and county officials should recommit themselves to talk and communicate by every means necessary to arrive at reasonable accommodations with religious groups while also stressing the overall necessity for good health practices.

WORK with people instead of trying to wield the heavy club of an oppressive government.

Well get through this crisis eventually and emerge stronger than before.

But the time to mend fences is definitely NOW.

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Most part of the week Bitcoin has been controlled by bears that managed to push the price of the first digital coin below $6,500 before bulls woke up and engineered a strong recovery above $7,000.At the time of writing, BTC/USDis changing hands at $7,070, which is only marginally higher than seven days ago and slightly lower than at the beginning of the year. Bitcoin's market capitalization is registered at $129.4 billion, which is 64% of the total market of digital assets.

Traditional markets show some resilience despite terrible economic statistics and disappointing corporate reports.S&P 500 extended the recovery and hit the intraday high at 2884, which is the highest level since March 10. Obviously, investors were inspired by Trump's promise to re-open the economy by May 1 and German's intentions to let their citizens out of the homes.

Positive news has been popping up now and then, reducing the sense of gloom and despair. This trend is set to continue, as more countries will consider canceling the lockdown or loosening it up, virologists will proceed with vaccine development and experiments with the medicine for COVID-19. Even though the global economy will feel the consequences of this coronavirus pandemic for years, the good news is very welcome now; it adds some optimism, which is reflected in investors' behavior on the markets.

Meanwhile, the cryptocurrency market is getting ready for bitcoin's halving. The event is less than 30 days away, and it is a key conversation topic in the industry. The forecasts range from a sharp growth to a non-event or devastating collapse. It only means that halving will bring more uncertainty to the market and may trigger sharp volatility either ahead of the event and right after it.

This is one of the reasons, why traders and investors have been taking their assets from exchanges to stored in wallets. People prefer to wait-out the risk, which is understandable as many cryptocurrency exchanges, even such behemoths as BitMEX and Binance, tend to have technical issues amid high volatility.

From the technical point of view, Bitcoin regained ground above $7,000, but it is still vulnerable to losses if it fails to clear the next barrier created at $7,150 by a combination of strong technical indicators, including the previous recovery high and 50%Fibo retracement for the downside move from February high.Once it is out of the way, the upside is likely to gain traction with the next focus on $7,500 that stopped the previous bullish assault. A sustainable move higher will allow for a sharp recovery towards the next critical barrier of $8,000-$8,200. This resistance area is created by a combination of daily SMA200 and 61.8%Fibo retracement for the downside move from February 2020 high. A sustainable move higher will unleash Bitcoin's bullish potential and create FOMO environment on the market.

Considering the downward-looking RSI on a daily chart, BTC/USD may undergo abearish correction towards the lower barrier of the previous range of $6,500. This area is likely to serve as a backstop and a jumping-off ground for another upside wave. Otherwise, the bearish sentimentsis likely to gain traction with the next focus on $6,150 (the lower boundary of the daily Bollinger Band) and $6,000. This development will negate the bullish scenario and bring deeper correction on the table.

The Forecast Poll showed a mixed picture as the expectations worsened on a monthly frame and stayed bullish on a weekly and quarterly basis. While it means that the market is more optimistic in the long-run, the price expectations on all time-frames are below $8,000, while the monthly forecast suggests that BTC may have another dip under $7,000.

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The other side of the back property line where we live has what we lovingly refer to as a fence rat a cute little dog who sticks his head under the fence and yaps every time I come or go. I tried to make friends by giving him dog biscuits.

Lens afraid his collars going to get caught on the bottom of the fence and hell be stuck there until someone comes to his rescue. Greedy little bugger! (referring to the dog), See what you started? (referring to me).

The neighboring dog reminds me of the monkey traps described in Robert Pirsigs Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, where certain tribes leverage the monkeys greed to their advantage. They hollow out a gourd, leaving the opening just large enough for a monkeys hand to go through to reach a sweet treat.

When the monkey (unaware that the vine attached to the gourd is staked to the ground out of sight) reaches in to get the treat, the opening is too small for its now-clenched fist to pass back through. Escape is entirely possible if hell just let go, but he wont because he chooses to hang on to the treat. At this point, the tribespeople come along and its easy pickings

What wont you let go of?

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Some Americans have had a rough go of it in the last few weeks under lockdown orders amid the coronavirus pandemic but James Callahan says hes loving the hell out of it.

A retired federal agent, the 54-year-old independent voter lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico,and says hes basically been quarantined for the last four years, engaging in few social interactions besides the occasional errand or when grabbing a bite to eat.

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Callahan spent the bulk of his career with the US Marshals, after serving as a border patrol agent in San Diego, California. The border, and specifically illegal immigration, are key issues to the former lifelong Republican.

I hate the Republican Party and I hate the Democratic Party, so theres really nowhere else to go, Callahan says in a recent interview with The Independent about why he chose to drop his affiliation with the GOP nearly two years ago.

He cites the failure of the Republican Party to get anything done for the reason as to why he switched to an independent voter status, which forbids him from partaking in his states closed primary system.

Callahan is a former member of a Young Republicans club in Tampa, Florida and often agrees in principle with the partys platform. But as a federal agent living in Washington, he says he saw the corruption first-hand before retiring nearly nine years ago. It made him loathe politicians in general, and led him on a path to whohe is today: a voter that helped Donald Trump secure the White House, but now has second guesses about giving the incumbent his ballot a second time over.

There was a short period of time when the Republicans had the Congress, the Senate and the presidency, and they failed to get anything done particularly on immigration and the national debt, he says.

Callahan says he voted for Trump in 2016, and he supported his agenda in the White House despite having previously donated to Florida Senator Marco Rubios failed 2016 campaign. His frustrations with the GOP leave him at an interesting crossroads, he says.

Im going through a struggle with family and friends over this very issue: Im a philosophical conservative, libertarian is probably the best way to describe it, he says. But for the first time in my life I started looking at Bernie Sanders. I get he has his issues too, but hes been singing the same song for years, hes not nearly as corrupt and clearly we have a corrupt system. And youre talking to a lifelong Republican.

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I spoke to Callahan after Sanders, the progressive Vermont senator who was once seen as the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primaries, announced he was dropping out of the campaign and endorsing former vice president Joe Biden.

Callahan says he wanted to hear more about what Bernie had to say and for him to more clearly outline his views on democratic socialism.

Socialism doesnt work, neither does communism my own philosophy is that all isms are designed to fail, he says. Capitalism is doomed to fail, too. Its just the best of the worst, and it had a great run.

Of course, Sanders is no longer an option in the race against Trump, as he plans to support Biden rather than launch an independent bid. Not that Callahan would likely have voted for him anyway I voted for Donald Trump, and if I had to pull the switch today, Id vote for Donald Trump again, he says.

But the presidents inability to fulfil his campaign promises such as building a big, beautiful wall that spans the entirety of the US-Mexico border has led Callahan to the point where he says hes on the fence about casting his ballot for Biden.

He considers the choice to be some form of protest against the Republican Party: Im looking at all these Republicans who I used to support, and now theyre OKwith bailing out peoples mortgages and paying their student loans. What does that tell somebody like me?

Callahan says he pays a disproportionate amount of taxes and is concerned about what he describes to be excessive spending during the pandemic.

People are dying, I understand that, he says, adding that some measures must be taken to help flatten the curve and avoid the crisis worsening. But he also notes thatfederal debt has soared past $23 trillion and now it seems to him even the Republicans have washed their hands of the problem.

This thing hit the whole damn world, he says. But we have to remember our priorities.

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Some Utahns are trying to track down a group of vandals, saying fence smashing has gotten out of control.

Police in Draper and Sandy told 2News they received four reports of damaged fences over the weekend two in each city. Some of the homeowners said theyve been targeted before.

Rebecca Yu of Draper said a group of people smashed her vinyl fence near 1000 East 12000 South just after midnight on Friday (early Saturday morning). Its the second time her fence has been hit in two years.

Theres not a point to fixing it continually when its going to keep getting broken again, she said.

Another homeowner in Draper, who had her fence repaired by Monday, said she saw about seven young men in hoodies slam their bodies into her fence, then take off in two vehicles.

People have been talking about a trend, a disturbing trend, Yu said, where high school students are pushing their bodies into the fence and breaking it.

RELATED: Are 20+ cases of fence vandalism in northern Utah part of a viral challenge?

I would never even think to do that, she added. I dont understand the psychological reasoning for that.

Yu said she may put up a chain-link fence thats not as easily destroyed.

Parents, please talk to your children, and I hope that there can be some honest communication with whats your child doing when theyre not home at midnight and 1 in the morning, Yu said.

A resident of Sandy told 2News in an email:

2News has documented at least 30 cases of similar fence vandalism in past years:

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Against Columbia, the men won the sabre, 5-4, but lost the foil and the epee to finish with an 18-9 defeat. The women found their first victory of the day against Columbia with a 16-11 win, taking the sabre and the epee by scores of 7-2 and 5-4, respectively.

Both teams picked up a win against the fourth opponent of the day, Haverford. The men won, 16-11, after winning both the sabre and the foil by scores of 6-3. The women earned an 18-9 win after taking both the sabre and the foil, securing a dominant 9-0 victory in the sabre.

For North Carolina's last matchup of the event, both teams faced the host school, Penn State. The men lost to the Nittany Lions, 20-7, after dropping both the sabre and the epee by scores of 8-1, but the Tar Heels picked up a 5-4 win in the foil. The women fell, 19-8, to Penn State, dropping the sabre, foil and epee.

The women's team found its first win of the day in the third matchup, setting the team up with a 2-1 deficit heading into the final two matches. The women were able to earn a 2-2 overall score after beating their fourth opponent, Haverford, but the Tar Heels were unable to come up with a third win against their final opponent, Penn State.

The men's team didn't find its first win until the fourth matchup, which was too late to mount a significant comeback.

Three Tar Heels finished the day with individual winning records. On the women's side, sophomore Aubrey Molloy was the hero, finishing 8-3 on the day. She earned 2-1 advantages against Yale and Penn State and picked up a 1-1 record against Columbia.

Charlotte Summers, another sophomore on the women's team, finished 7-4 overall. She also picked up 2-1 advantages over Yale and Penn State.

For the men's team, James Mulligan, the recipient of the team's Newcomer Award in 2018-19, went 5-4 in the invitational.

North Carolina put in strong performances against some solid teams, ramping up for the postseason that is now only three meets away.

UNC heads to Philadelphia on Saturday for the Philadelphia Invitational Duels, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania.

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At any given time, there are about 250 wild horses along the Salt River, according to Salt River Wild Horse Management.

Tonto National Forest officials say workers plan Monday to begin installing 4 miles of steel fencing along and near the lower Salt River east of metro Phoenix to prevent wild horses from crossing the Bush Highway and to keep livestock from mingling with the horse herd.

Forest officials say the fence work starting Monday is the second phase of a project that saw workers on Friday complete installation of 10 miles of barbed wire fencing. That work began in November.

Forest Service and state Department of Agriculture officials said previous fences didn't prevent horses from getting onto the highway, resulting in the deaths of 20 or more horses annually.

The Forest Service said the project includes installing 35 gates at designated trails and historically-used access points.

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