NEW ORLEANS There were three reactions when we read the report that sources are saying the Celtics plan to swing for the proverbial fences this summer. The mention came in a rundown of teams with money to spend and what their wish lists may be.

The first reflex was to digest the statement and the sections naming of potential Celtics targets.

The next two reactions were accompanied by laughter. Whoever gave estimable reporter Steve Kyler the line about the longball either messed up his metaphor or has a very good sense of humor. I mean, is fence-swinging really the best way to describe any activity involving Danny Ainge? The guy had 721 major league plate appearances and 665 official at-bats with the Blue Jays . . . and hit just two home runs.

The second and more serious response came after hearing people latch on to the fences phrase and treat it as a change in the way the Celtics are approaching their reconstruction process.

This is humorous because, well, has there ever been a time when Ainge did not try to go big?

You have to go all the way back to, lets see . . . last summer to find the Celtics desperately trying to inject themselves into bidding for elite players. They did, in fact, make a call to see if LeBron James might be available to them. And no one expects Marc Gasol to leave Memphis or Kawhi Leonard to leave San Antonio, but its fair to assume the Celts will try.

Last summer, the Cs thought Kevin Love was a more realistic target than James, and they pushed hard to get in on his sweepstakes. Ainge did everything in his asset-laden power to pair Love with Rajon Rondo, even though he knew he was putting himself in a position to have to overpay Rondo when he becomes an unrestricted free agent this summer.

The Celts would have taken that chance if it meant acquiring Love and accelerating themselves out of the hoarding draft picks and hoping enough of them hit so they can be kept or used as trade bait phase.

Ainge and the clubs ownership would much rather be preparing for a serious and deep playoff run now, rather than being appreciative of the collective patience of their following. Dannys the kind of guy whod trade his son and Celts player personnel director Austin if it meant getting a key building block. (Ainge to wife, Michelle: Sure I love him, but we really, really need a knockdown shooter in the backcourt.)

The Celtics also need a defensive presence at the rim, which begat the pursuit of free agent JaVale McGee that fell through yesterday. The club was willing to take a chance on someone with alleged personality issues, but not enough to guarantee him a contract for next year.

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It started with an anonymous Facebook profile, named Susana Martinez, created by a student at Capital High School. Over the next week, a series of posts followed, encouraging a student walkout at both Capital High School and Santa Fe High School on Monday, Feb. 24, to protest the new PARCC exams. The Facebook page read, This walk out has to be all school day so we can get the attention we need from our governor. We will refuse to work and refuse to comply to any orders since it is our right to peacefully protest, dont be worried about getting in trouble Be ready to be outside for more than a couple hours Do not pull any fire alarms, be rude to teachers, make any conflict between each other. When outside go to your designated fire drill area, do not go on any roads.

But thats not what happened. Moments after students left class around 10:30 a.m. Monday, many began walking to their cars and out onto the street, leaving school grounds. Granted, it was bitter cold outside, so maybe no one should have expected shivering students to stand out in the freezing wind all day long. Security guards rushed about, shutting gates and blocking the roads, but not before many students had left. One student used a tow line to pull down a parking lot gate, resulting in the gate being damaged and that student being charged with destruction of property over $1,000.

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Fences on your farm or homestead define property boundaries and separate production zones (garden, pasture, orchard). They provide privacy and security from animal (and perhaps human) intruders. They confine livestock and protect them from predators. They guard crop areas from wild raiders (such as deer) as well as animal allies (such as sheep and goats).

Your first choice for such a multifunctional homestead necessity may be manufactured fencing: woven or electric wire, welded livestock panels, boards on pressure-treated posts, or even virgin or recycled plastic. As the energy and environmental crises deepen, however, such options are becoming less appealing and more expensive. The chemical preservatives, paints, and galvanizing agents used in fence manufacturing and maintenance may have toxic spillover effects in the environment. Furthermore, most manufactured fencing is a one for one solution. A woven wire fence meant to contain livestock, for example, provides that service and nothing more. The key to a more self-sufficient homestead that imitates natural systems is finding solutions that simultaneously solve more than one problem, provide more than one service and support more than one project. Enter living fences.

A living fence is a permanent hedge tight enough and tough enough to serve almost any of the functions of a manufactured fence, but it offers agricultural and biological services a manufactured fence cannot. For instance, it provides edge habitat that supports ecological diversity. As more species (insects, spiders, toads, snakes, birds and mammals) find food and refuge in this habitat, natural balances emerge, yielding, for example, a reduction of rodents and crop-damaging insect populations.

Depending on the plant or tree species you choose, living fences can provide food and medicine or fodder for your livestock. Your animals will also enjoy the shade of a dense hedge. The foliage of some hedge plants, such as elder and Chinese chestnut, contains more protein than the quintessential protein forage crop, alfalfa. Willow and honey locust also make good fodder. Ive been experimenting with Siberian pea shrub recently, as the peas can be harvested to feed poultry.

Leguminous species included in the fence, such as black locust and pea shrub,fix nitrogen in the soil throughout the root zone, and you can harvest some of that nitrogen for garden mulches and compost in the form of leafy prunings. A living fence increases soil humus as its leaf litter and root hairs (which the plants shed to balance loss of top growth to pruning or browsing) break down.

Living fences are windbreaks, which reduce soil drying, wind erosion, and stress on livestock or crop plants, thus increasing yields. Hedges sited along contours can reduce rainfall erosion on slopes.

Living fences can last far longer than manufactured ones for as long as the natural life span of the species used, which may be hundreds of years. Many species can be coppiced, meaning they will send up abundant new shoots after the main trunk has been cut. A living fence of a coppiced species readily renews itself following selective cutting for wood fuel and other uses.

Finally, a living fence, unlike a static manufactured fence, brings an ever-changing beauty to your landscape: flowers in spring, colorful fruit in summer, brilliant colors in fall and a complex, geometric structure in winter.

Though common in ornamental landscaping, living agricultural fences havent been used much in the United States, despite extensive use in countries that supplied Colonial America with most of its new settlers. George Washington tried to carry on the tradition at Mount Vernon because, like modern gardeners and orchardists, he was plagued by deer and other marauders. Washington, concerned by both the labor and the loss of forest involved in producing split-rail fencing, concluded that growing living fences was not only a good idea, but was a necessity.

According to Washingtons diary, the species he settled on as most suitable was Honey locust; the seed of which not to be put more than Six Inches a part; that when they get to any size they may be so close, stubborn, and formidable, as to prevent an escalade [incursion by predators] ... indeed I know of nothing that will so effectually, and at so small an expence, preserve what is within the Inclosure, as this plant.

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