Ribbons on St. Paul Chapel Fence Commemorate 9/11 Attack Responders

[caption id="attachment_296" align="alignright" width="300"] St. Paul's Chapel Fence - photo from DNAinfo.com[/caption]

You may remember that the old iron fence around St. Paul's Chapel in Downtown Manhattan is decorated with ribbons in memory and honor of the responders to the 9/11 attacks.

It's been 11 years since terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center towers, and more than a year-and-a-half since President Barack Obama signed into law a bill meant to compensate responders and survivors sickened from exposure to the hazardous debris and toxins of Ground Zero.

According to the Huffington Post, they may have to wait more than a year more before seeing any of the funds authorized in the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act.

"It's going to be a process, and I think it's going to take a year or two until that process really gets moving," said Sheila Birnbaum, the special master of the $2.775 billion 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. "People have to get medical records, they have to do all kinds of things, and they're going to have to get certified that they meet the criteria."

See a slideshow from DNAinfo.com here.

24 mile long Art Fence on this Day in 1976

[caption id="attachment_289" align="alignright" width="300"] Running Fence by Christo and Jeanne-Claude[/caption]

On September 10th in 1976, exactly thirty-six years ago today, the married artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude completed a 24.5 mile long art project called Running Fence. It project was installed in the hills of Sonoma in Marin County, California. The 18-foot (5.5 m) high fence was composed of 2,050 panels of white nylon fabric hung from steel cables by means of 350,000 hooks. The cables were supported by 2,050 steel poles stuck into the ground and braced by steel guy wires anchored to the earth. It was removed by the builders 14 days after completion, leaving no visible trace.

[caption id="attachment_290" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Color photograph by Wolfgang Volz[/caption]

 

250 Mile Electric Fence to Stop Elephants

 

[caption id="attachment_280" align="alignright" width="300"] Elephants challenging an electric fence. Photo: L. Osborn from african-elephant.org[/caption]

According to the BBC, the Kenyan conservational charity Rhino Ark are going to build a fence around Mt. Kenya to prevent elephants and other wild animals from venturing down into farmland and destroying badly needed crops.

The fence will encircle over 700 square feet of indigenous forests, which also includes many rivers outflowing in all directions down the mountain.

The fence, which will have five electrified strands, will discourage wild animals from straying from the mountain's forests and devastating crops on the small holdings on the other side of the fence.

It discharges a shock, but not one that endangers people or animals.

Building the first phase of the fence, which will be 50km long, has already begun and is expected to be completed by the beginning of 2014, Rhino Ark says.

Minister of Finance Njeru Githae is to drive a post into the ground to officially inaugurate the project on Friday.

BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says the scheme may seem wildly optimistic, but Rhino Ark has already fenced in the Aberdare mountains, which provide water for Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

That fence took 12 years to complete. This one is expected to take 5 years.

An Old Tom Sawyer Trick gets the Fence Painted

[caption id="attachment_274" align="alignright" width="300"] Tom Sawyer Art Fence outside of the Altharetta Yeargin Art Museum - photo by Alan Warren from YourHoustonNews[/caption]

When Mark Twain's classic character Tom Sawyer was faced with whitewashing a fence on a summer day, he made the task look so appealing that his friends begged to help. Soon Tom was rolling in wealth, and the fence had three coats of whitewash.

Like Tom, those going to the Altharetta Yeargin Art Museum (AYAM) are faced with “thirty yards of board fence nine feet high,” but co-curators Leann Newton and Kathy Goss rose to the challenge of calling attention to the museum.

Tucked away at the back of The Westchester Academy of International Studies and behind Spring Branch ISD’s south transition campus, the museum can be hard to find.

So Newton and Goss turned to Spring Branch ISD art students for help. Now the fence (made of wire in this case) is covered with banners of art from students at 30 Spring Branch ISD schools.

Read more at YourHoustonNews.com

Feisty Kangaroo

A newly captured kangaroo was brought into a small city zoo.
She was very wild, leaping all around the enclosure most of the day.
Early next morning the old keeper gets a call that she's leaping down the road into town.
Apparently the six foot fence wasn't high enough so they raised it to eight feet.
Next morning she's out again. They raise it to ten feet.
A polar bear in the next enclosure asks, "How high do you think they'll go?"
The kangaroo replies, "As high as the trees I imagine if they keep leaving the gate unlocked".

A Bowed Fence and the Rules of Golf

[caption id="attachment_266" align="alignright" width="225"] Bowed Golf Fence[/caption]

A tip for you golfers from the San Antonio Express-News:

Part of a boundary fence is bowed toward the course so that it is inside the boundary line formed by the fence posts. A player’s ball comes to rest against this part of the fence. Is the player entitled to relief?

No. A fence defining out of bounds is not an obstruction even if part of it is inside the boundary line formed by the fence posts.

Rule courtesy of Gene Riley, member of San Antonio Rules of Golf Group and USGA Regional Affairs Committee

Green Bay Packers Interactive Fence

[caption id="attachment_224" align="alignright" width="300"] Packers Fence Painting source: Green Bay Press Gazette[/caption]

The famous fence across from Lambeau Field, where the Green Bay Packers play (referred to as the "crown jewel of the NFL") is famous for it's annual community painting project.

This year, as last year the Packers had a contest to develop the years slogan, which is "Donald and the Pack: Back to the Big Dance".

"People love to get involved with this and it makes a lot of sense," said Bruce Kiel, creator of the fence slogan.  "Nothing fancy, it's a good time, just back the Pack."Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy agrees that the event is a unique way for fans to support their Green and Gold."

It's a great tradition, to me it kind of signifies and personifies, the unique nature of the Packers organization, and relationship we have with our neighbors and with the community and we're very supportive of it," said Murphy.

The slogan was inspired by Packers all-star wide receiver Donald Driver's win on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" this past spring.

See a photo gallery of the painting process here.

Source: WBAY News