Sandy the Frankenstorm Takes the Ranch
Damage to the roof, the garden coop, and the battlefield. Oops I mean the backyard. Eight trees in all, gone along with the backyard fences on two sides, the entire length of the back Forsythia bushes. It #39;s gonna be a cleanup kind of fall.From:alritondoViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:19More inNews Politics
Brother Bros Episode 6 - Mining for stuff (we make fences, fence gate and wooden slabs too)
HELLO!!! In this 6th episode of MINECRAFT tutorial series for children (and for parents too!), we have Brother #2 showing up how to carefully and safely mine his way to stuff! What kind of stuff you ask? Well, coal, iron, gold, diamond... that kind of stuff. He also shows you how to make fences, fence gates and wooden slabs for small little fortified protection areas for you or your animals. And also a surprise guest shows up. Someone you #39;ve never met! Have a question? Feel free to ask and we will do our best to answer. Comments are welcomed (keep em clean please) and don #39;t forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to be notified when the next episode comes out! Share with your friends and catch you on the flip side!From:07wurdViews:0 0ratingsTime:09:50More inGaming
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[New] My Minecraft Project (Part 2 - Making the first floor)
My Minecraft project http://www.planetminecraft.com Part 2 - Making the walls, the entrance and the windows for the first floor Walls - Stonebricks or Bricks Doors - Fences and a Gate or Netherbrickfences and a Gate Windows - Use Glass or Glasspane Part 3 is coming soonFrom:GoodBadOpinionsViews:1 0ratingsTime:10:24More inGaming
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Professor Jeffrey L. Kasser - Philosophy of Science - Lecture 2
Science can #39;t be free of philosophy any more than baseball can be free of physics. With this bold intellectual swing for the fences, philosopher Jeffrey L. Kasser uses the tools of philosophy to launch an ambitious and exciting inquiry into what makes science science. In this brilliant course you will discuss Why is science so successful? Is there such a thing as the scientific method? How do we distinguish science from pseudoscience? Is science rational, cumulative, and progressive? Focusing his investigation on the vigorous debate over the nature of science that unfolded during the past 100 years, Professor Kasser covers important philosophers such as Karl Popper, WV Quine, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, Imre Lakatos, Carl Hempel, Nelson Goodman, and Bas van Fraassen. All of these thinkers responded in one way or another to logical positivism, the dominant movement influencing the philosophy of science during the first half of the 20 th century. Logical positivism attempted to ground science exclusively in what could be known through direct experience and logic. It sounds reasonable, but logical positivism proved to be riddled with serious problems, and its eventual demise is an object lesson in how truly difficult it is mdash;perhaps impossible mdash;to secure the logical foundations of a subject that seems so unassailably logical: science.From:heretichickViews:1 0ratingsTime:31:21More inEducation
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By JENNIFER NOBLIT
ThisWeek Community News Wednesday October 31, 2012 10:45 AM
Landscaping used as fencing for homes elicited a long debate by Dublin City Council members last week.
The first reading of modifications to the fence code that would remove all references to hedges as fences produced varying opinions during an Oct. 22 meeting.
The changes were prompted by council members who asked the city staff to look into the matter after dealing with a complaint from a resident.
The "least disruptive approach" would be to remove references to hedges from fence code, a staff report to council stated. The use of hedges would still be included in landscaping code.
"The proposed amendment addresses comments from city council and its community development committee, noting that hedges are used in many parts of the city as fences as well as screening and that it should be an acceptable feature of the community," the report said.
Planning and zoning commission members sent the changes to council and recommend disapproval because the current code has "been effective in preserving the original intent of keeping open views along shared property lines," the report said.
Both Cathy Boring and Richard Gerber were worried the changes didn't address the entire problem, but John Reiner said residents have a right to privacy in their backyards.
"I think everyone has the right to screen their own yard from their neighbors," Vice Mayor Amy Salay said, noting that screening can add value to a home. "This is happening in our community despite the fence code."
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By Mike Mount, CNN Senior National Security Producer
updated 6:07 AM EDT, Thu October 25, 2012
(CNN) -- The Air Force wants to rebuild a "fence" around Earth to keep out the riffraff.
Sounds like a Hollywood script to counter aliens or asteroids but it's a real program the military wants to update at an estimated cost of $3.5 billion.
Just don't expect any space cowboys digging post holes and wrangling barbed wire in orbit.
The "space fence" is a series of radar signals managed by the Air Force that has long tracked an ever-growing pile of rocket and satellite parts and other man-made fragments from collisions that zoom around Earth's vicinity at thousands of miles per hour.
The military tracks about 20,000 pieces of so-called "space junk" but the actual size of the problem is ten times larger than that. Pieces that need tracking are as small as a softball to as large as a bus.
Regardless of size, the debris is a danger to manned space flight, such as the International Space Station, and unmanned operations, like the hundreds of satellites circling the planet at any one time.
Those satellites bring in television, run GPS and carry cell service, so the everyday and commercial stakes of managing the problem are high. The military also operates communications and other satellites.
The space station crew has been forced to take shelter in escape capsules because of the possibility of being hit by orbital debris on three occasions. The last incident was in March when a piece of debris from a Russian satellite passed close by.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Texas A&M equestrian senior Emily Williams was named the first-ever Southeastern Conference (SEC) Over Fences Rider of the Month by the conference office today. Williams (Woodbine, Md.) is the only SEC rider in any discipline with a perfect 4-0 record on the season and has defeated her opponents by an average of 10.0, including a 12.7 point difference on the road. The over fences standout owns one Most Outstanding Player (MOP) award on the season, which she earned at No. 1 Georgia. Williams has recorded two scores in the 80s, against top-ranked UGA and No. 3 Auburn. Three of her four victories have been against top-10 teams, and three were earned on the road. The No. 4 Texas A&M equestrian team officially joined the SEC in July as the conference decided to sponsor the sport for the 2012-13 season. The Aggies will host Fresno State (RV) on Nov. 10 at the Brazos Valley Expo Complex (BVEC). To learn more about Texas A&M equestrian, log on to AggieAthletics.com and follow @AggieEquestrian on Twitter.
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The Padres plan for Petco Park to still be a pitcher's park, but just not as extreme as its current dimensions.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The vast outfield at Petco Park will no longer be a place where long fly balls go to die.
The San Diego Padres said Monday that work will begin this week to bring in the fences in right field and left-center, and to move the visitor's bullpen from right-field foul territory to behind the home bullpen beyond the fence in left-center.
After years of angst by their sluggers, the Padres said it was time to change the extreme nature of the downtown ballpark - which some people derisively called Petco National Park - to one that plays more fairly.
"We want the park to play the right away for players and for the fans," Padres president and CEO Tom Garfinkel said. "That was driven first by baseball operations in terms of the right way to construct the dimensions to make it more fair for players. Players know what's fair and what's not. When they crush a ball that would be out in 29 other parks, and it's not out here, they know that it's not fair. We wanted to make it more fair from that standpoint."
For the fans, the changes might result in fewer boring games.
From the right-field porch to the right-center gap, the fence will be moved in from 402 feet to 391 feet and lowered to match the rest of the outfield wall. The out-of-town scoreboard on the right-field wall will be relocated to a new spot above right field as part of seating modifications.
In left-center, the fence will be moved in from 402 feet to 390 feet to allow for the visiting team's bullpen to be relocated, mostly for safety issues.
The dimensions will remain the same down the left-field line (336 feet), right-field line (322) and straightaway center (396).
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The Padres plan for Petco Park to still be a pitcher's park, but just not as extreme as its current dimensions.
Andy Hayt/Getty Images
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The vast outfield at Petco Park will no longer be a place where long fly balls go to die.
The San Diego Padres said Monday that work will begin this week to bring in the fences in right field and left-center, and to move the visitor's bullpen from right-field foul territory to behind the home bullpen beyond the fence in left-center.
After years of angst by their sluggers, the Padres said it was time to change the extreme nature of the downtown ballpark - which some people derisively called Petco National Park - to one that plays more fairly.
"We want the park to play the right away for players and for the fans," Padres president and CEO Tom Garfinkel said. "That was driven first by baseball operations in terms of the right way to construct the dimensions to make it more fair for players. Players know what's fair and what's not. When they crush a ball that would be out in 29 other parks, and it's not out here, they know that it's not fair. We wanted to make it more fair from that standpoint."
For the fans, the changes might result in fewer boring games.
From the right-field porch to the right-center gap, the fence will be moved in from 402 feet to 391 feet and lowered to match the rest of the outfield wall. The out-of-town scoreboard on the right-field wall will be relocated to a new spot above right field as part of seating modifications.
In left-center, the fence will be moved in from 402 feet to 390 feet to allow for the visiting team's bullpen to be relocated, mostly for safety issues.
The dimensions will remain the same down the left-field line (336 feet), right-field line (322) and straightaway center (396).
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The changes to Petco Park involve moving in the fences in both left and right field.(San Diego Padres)
SAN DIEGO -- Dimension changes are officially coming to Petco Park in 2013, changes the Padres hope will allow their downtown ballpark to play more neutral moving forward.
The team announced on Monday that the modifications will affect left-center, right-center and right field. Construction is set to begin this week.
The changes will include:
Moving in the wall that runs from the right-field porch to right-center 11 feet. The wall will also be lowered to match the height of the sub-eight-foot wall in left and center field.
The out-of-town scoreboard in right field will be relocated. Seating modifications in that area will be announced later. In right-center, the wall will move from 402 feet to 391 feet.
The wall in left-center will be moved in from 402 feet to 390 feet.
The visiting bullpen, currently down the right-field line in foul territory, will be moved to center field behind the existing home bullpen area.
The Padres, who moved into their downtown ballpark in 2004, have ranked last in the Major Leagues in runs scored at home four times since 2004 (2006 to 2009) and 29th on two occasions (2005, 2011). Their best finish, oddly enough, occurred this past season, when they ranked 24th.
The Padres pored over offensive data dating back to the ballpark's opening but focused more of their attention on the results of the last three seasons. Josh Stein, director of baseball operations, and his team were the ones responsible for the research.
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