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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.
Industry News
Virtual fencing keeps cows at home
Australian IT, Australia - Jul 30, 2007
A TEAM of scientists in Brisbane is working on a way to make a virtual fence for livestock. Their project involves cattle wearing collars with GPS receivers
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Decking Industry News
Deck Additions - More Fun, More Value
PR Newswire (press release), NY Jul 31, 2007
WILMINGTON, Ohio, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The great outdoors is "in" as homeowners look to their backyards to create a unique, functional "room"
driven by personal style. In fact, the North American Deck and Railing Association found people are not limiting deck enjoyment simply to the summer months, but using their decks more and more throughout the seasons ...
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Local Government Issues
Earlham Cemetery fence removed by state's order
Palladium-Item, IN - Jul 31, 2007
The wrought iron fence surrounding the cemetery's 350 acres was taken down and temporarily replaced with a chain link fence after an order from the state of Indiana, said John Zwissler, the cemetery's general manager...
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Polk milk jugs to get second life as township fence
Allentown Morning Call, PA - Jul 25, 2007
The township supervisors voted unanimously Monday to spend at least part of a $4,100 state recycling grant to buy a fence from Waste Not Technologies of Saylorsburg, which buys baled recycled materials from Polkr...
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Do fence me in
Big Bear Grizzly, CA - Jul 24, 2007
Brownie is one of four partners who own Pleasure Point Marina. They purchased property on Cienega Road in the city of Big Bear Lake not far from the marina for boat trailer storage. They put up the fence to keep trespassers out at the suggestion of their insurance company, Brownie said. City staff ordered the fence taken down, stating that the chain link fence is an accessory to the property,
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New fence aims to contain park dieback
ABC Science Online, Australia - Jul 27, 2007
The 12 kilometre long fence took 17 men almost a month to complete and rings a 400 hectare area of the park which is dieback infected. Malcom Grant from DEC says the fence will keep kangaroos, which can spread the disease, out of the infected area....
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Security fencing for the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Infolink Architecture & Building, Australia - Jul 25, 2007
The new replacement fence provides a safe enclosed area for pedestrians and cyclists. The new replacement fence also prevents people from climbing onto the ...
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Fencing and Schools
Fence to be built around Odyssey Middle School
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Jul 30, 2007
Small-arms ammunition, rockets, hand and rifle grenades, and bombs of up to 600 pounds may have been used at the site, the US Army Corps of Engineers says
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USA Mexico Border Fence
Funds for US-Mexico Border Fence in Danger
Wall Street Journal, NY - Jul 19, 2007
WASHINGTON -- A standoff in the Senate on Wednesday seemed to doom $3 billion in widely backed funds aimed at gaining control over the porous U.S.-Mexico border.
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Mexico Seeks Border Fence Changes
Forbes, NY - Jul 19, 2007
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government said Monday it is seeking changes in a U.S. plan to expand fences along the two nations' border because of the threat to migratory species accustomed to roaming freely across the frontier.
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DIY - Consumers
Good fence can add to privacy, home value
Inside Bay Area, CA - Jul 29, 2007
Wooden fences include a range of styles and materials, from a white picket fence of pressure-treated pine to a cedar split-rail. Prices start at about $2000 ...
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High-tensile fences offer key benefits
Joplin Globe, MO MO - Jul 30, 2007
A booklet, High-Tensile Wire Fencing, can be purchased from any University Extension center. When building a new division or perimeter fence
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Community Issues
Seabrook residents want to pay for broken fence
Hampton Union, NH - Jul 19, 2007
SEABROOK — A Railroad Avenue resident has asked the town for $1,300 to pay for a fence the homeowner claims was broken by a town plow during an April storm.
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Fence spoils park path
Peterborough Examiner, Canada - Jul 25, 2007
Last week the city erected an ugly, shiny grey chain-link fence in Jackson Park, blocking an ancestral path through the forest that has existed since long before white people came here...
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Town plans for new fencing to protect cemetery
Cambridge Evening News, UK - Jul 25, 2007
PLANS to increase fencing around a cemetery to help reduce anti-social behaviour have won the support of a town council. Members of Haverhill Town Council's ...
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Community Fence Projects
Youth ambassadors help spruce up park fence
Ontario Argus Observer, OR - - Jul 26, 2007
Ontario — Several Ontario Middle School youth are doing their part to make a difference. The youth are members of the Academy of Young Ambassadors — a two-week leadership conference at Albertson College of Idaho — and they’re ...
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Fences and Animals
States Seek to Curb Deer-Related Crashes
Washington Post, DC - - Jul 27, 2007
...Fences, whistles, warning signs and guns are just some of the tools that have been used to try to keep the number of deer-related traffic accidents to a minimum...
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Legal, Permit, and Ordinance Issues
Mending fence confusion
Pasadena Star-News, CA - Jul 25, 2007
ROSEMEAD - The city will spend nearly $1,000 to to tell residents about fence heights. Interim City Manager Oliver Chi said last week the city decided to send out letters after two mailers distributed by Councilwoman Margaret Clark prompted an outcry from nearly 100 residents...
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International
Fencing tender soon
Gulf Daily News, Bahrain Jul 25, 2007
The Manama Municipal Council had urged the ministry to fence the bridge. Indian salesman Hamza Maheen, 47, leaped to his death from the bridge in January
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Solar fencing along 500-km forest boundaries
Hindu, India Jul 28, 2007
He also inspected the solar electric fence installed at Velliangiri foothills, about 30 KMs from here. He said that about 1000 farmers had been provided ...
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Weird News
The great wax museum caper
Canoe, Canada - Jul 30, 2007
DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt are missing their clothes and Fred Flintstone and the Teletubbies are just plain missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland’s National Wax Museum...
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