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This weekly email searches main media outlets finding stories that may be of interest to contractors in the fencing and access control industry. It is published by de facto, inc., which also publishes fencebids.
 History of Fences
In the beginning - there were no fences
FenceWeek Blog- Jan 16, 2007
You wouldn't have thought anyone could really do a "history" of the fence. After all, where does it begin? At the walls of Jericho? With the Chinese wall? From the beginning of man-on-earth? Well, believe it or not, it's been studied
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Industry News
New pool fencing posts
Infolink Architecture & Building, Australia - Jan 10, 2007
Easyfit Balustrading have released their newest product - conical pool fencing posts. They are available from January 2007. ...
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Decking Industry News
Ten new home products merit a closer look
Cincinnati Post, OH - Jan 12, 2007
What it does: A highly engineered polymer, Eon fencing (and decking) has the look and feel of wood plus the durability of vinyl...
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Fence Contractors in the News
A journey from labs to fences
Amarillo.com (subscription), TX - Jan 15, 2007
As a high school student, Tee Jay McDaniel envisioned a career working in a lab as a scientist. Little did she know that years later she would be measuring fence posts and swinging a hammer for a living...
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Pool Safety
Pool fences fail tests and toddler drownings up
Infolink Architecture & Building, Australia - Jan 16, 2007
Protect your kids - make sure your pool fence does not fail. With summer heating up and fences found to fail safety tests, all homeowners with swimming ...
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The Famous and Their Fences
Church Fence Looks Set To Stay
Post Chronicle - Jan 13, 2007
Welsh pop star Charlotte Church is breathing a sigh of relief after news her local council is expected to green light giant fences she erected to keep away ...
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Fence has Church in trouble with neighbors
StTammany.com, LA - Jan 12, 2007
Charlotte Church's decision to build a fence without required permission has the singer in trouble with her neighbors in the Welsh capital of Cardiff. ...
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Fences in the Courts
Va. Supreme Court rules fence can stay
Staunton News Leader, VA - Jan 16, 2007
In Oct. 2005, Circuit Judge Thomas H. Wood ruled the fence in the Chetola Hills subdivision must come down, stating it was a nuisance...
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Local Government Issues
Couple fights ruling about fence on property
Marin Independent-Journal, CA - Jan 12, 2007
A Kentfield couple has appealed a county Planning Commission requirement they remove two fences straddling a creek near their home. ...
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OB gives cemetery new fence
commercialappeal.com (subscription), TN - Jan 16, 2007
The Board of Aldermen this evening will consider a request to authorize the city to seek bids for additional fencing. About $50000 has been budgeted to ...
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Plan would preserve historic stone fences
Kentucky Post, KY - Jan 15, 2007
If approved, fence owners could take a credit for half the cost to repair or restore dry-laid stone fences and 35 percent for repairing fences made with ...
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Rail fencing plan over vandals
Express & Star, UK - Jan 13, 2007
The registered charity, which is run by volunteers, is proposing the erection of new security fencing around the perimeter of Chasewater Heaths station in a ...
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Local Government Permits & Regs
Special use permit issued for fence
Coldwater Daily Reporter, MI - Jan 11, 2007
COLDWATER – Verizon Communication will construct a seven-foot, wrought– aluminum, decorative fence behind its Monroe Street offices, after a special use ...
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Fence codes still being developed
Burbank Leader, CA - Jan 9, 2007
Interior rear fences can be up to 8 feet in height. Having tackled only the fence- and wall-related portions of the standards, the task force has been ...
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State farming regulations may hamper farmers
News 10 Now, NY - Jan 15, 2006
The new regulations include higher fencing, increased animal identification and more consistent testing. One Washington County farmer says its cost him $1.5 ...
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Community Issues
Cliff death site reinforced by fence
Los Angeles Daily News, CA - Jan 14, 2007
On Thursday, city workers installed chain-link fencing at Point Fermin Park in a small gap between a metal fence and a concrete balustrade. ...
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The Art and Culture of Fences
TR Fehrenbach: With a fence, any man can be king
San Antonio Express, TX - Jan 13, 2007
Fences don't just make good neighbors; they are the bedrock of civilization. Perhaps you never thought about it, but before we had fences and land titles in ...
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Schools and Fences
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Gross fence reappears
Calgary Sun, Canada - Jan 14, 2007
Neighbours say they are at wit's end after a Dover resident re-built a fence made of garbage and junk around her entire house, after bylaw officers tore it ...
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USA Mexico Border Fence
Environmental rules waived for border fence
MSNBC - Jan 15, 2007
AP. TUCSON, Arizona - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff waived environmental rules to clear the way for a border fence to be constructed along ...
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Cost estimate for fence disputed
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Jan 13, 2007
By DAVE MONTGOMERY. WASHINGTON - The nearly $50 billion estimate for building and maintaining a 700-mile fence along the Southwestern US border is more than ...
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Proposed fence may hit snag in Congress
Albuquerque Tribune, NM - Jan 15, 2007
Several members of Arizona's new congressional delegation and a just-retired congressional veteran doubt the fencing will be built, at least not as ...
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Valdez to urge 'virtual fence' on border
Del Rio News Herald, TX - Jan 15, 2006
The act, according to a summary of the Secure Fence Act on the White House web site "authorizes the construction of hundreds of miles of additional fencing ...
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International
Jerusalem fence a failure
Ynetnews, Israel - Jan 14, 2007
The defense minister declared last week that he was freezing construction work on the separation fence in the Judean desert. Earlier, in the framework of ...
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Baloch parties reject border fence
Daily Times, Pakistan - Jan 14, 2007
Addressing a news conference after the APC, National Party President Dr Abdul Hai Baloch said all Baloch political parties opposed the fencing of the border ...
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Weird News
Battle brewing over birthplace of the hamburger
Canoe - Jan 16, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A burger battle is brewing between a Texas state legislator and the owners of a New Haven restaurant who claim the hamburger was invented in Connecticut...
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