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SEREMBAN - The eight dogs taken away from a farm in Lenggeng near here will be quarantined for two weeks before their fate is decided.
State Veterinary Services Department head for health, Dr Nur Azlina Che Zabani, said the canines were now housed in its compound for observation.
"We will check if the dogs are healthy or otherwise. Only then will we decide on the next course of action," said Dr Nur Azlina, who added that department records showed that the animals had not been vaccinated.
Asked if there was a possibility of the dogs being put to sleep even if they were disease-free, Dr Nur Azlina said this was for the department's enforcement section to decide.
Contractors from the Nilai Municipal Council seized the dogs from the farm on Thursday after another two from the same pack attacked three people the day before.
Two dogs had attacked a 50-year-old Indonesian maid outside her employer's home. The maid, Rukimah Juandi, suffered a torn scalp as well as a broken arm due to the attack.
Stall owner Hoosni Anwar Hamid, 44, who witnessed the attack, then tried to scare the dogs by honking causing them to run away.
However, the dogs pounced on Hoosni when he went back to his stall and bit him on the mouth and limbs.
A policeman from the Lenggeng station who happened to pass by tried to stop the attack but was also bitten on the ankle.
L/Kpl Mohd Naser Sulaiman then rushed back to the station and returned with a shotgun before shooting dead the two dogs, which were still lurking in the area.
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JEFFERSONVILLE When the Kennedy Bridge was constructed in the early 1960s, Jeffersonville was very different than it is today. And another bridge nearby was still in use.
The Big Four Bridge, at the time, was still used as a railroad span. The railroad river crossing has long-since ceased operations, but is tied to the construction of the new bridge work because it is providing pedestrian access to area residents.
I remember as a little kid, I saw trains going over it, said Jack Vissing, Jeffersonville attorney and member of the citys redevelopment commission, of the Big Four Bridge.
In the late 1960s the trusses were removed and the bridge became inactive, until recently when Louisville opened its access to the bridge.
Early plans for a new downtown Interstate 65 span called for a pedestrian walkway, as required by the Federal Highway Administration. However, because plans were in the works to convert the former bridge to nowhere into a bicycle and pedestrian crossing, it allowed bridge planners to cut the pedestrian access out of the new downtown corridor. Pedestrian access is still required, and is still part of the plan for the east-end bridge.
That railroad and the interstate bridge running through downtown made Jeffersonville a different place than what exists now.
Vissing said the location of the Mountjoy, Chilton, Medley LLP the former McCauley Nichols building off of Court Avenue, between the Clark Memorial Bridge and I-65 was a railroad yard where the cars were switched out.
It was a nasty, noisy dirty kind of place down there, Vissing said. It was really an industrial site. It was an undesirable place to live.
The residents in the area, comprised largely of low-income and minority populations, were displaced when the I-65 bridge was built.
With many residents displaced near the riverfront, the area remained largely an industrial center and the population of city moved farther away from the river and bridges.
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Horses will have some four-legged friends this summer at Pilot Knob Hill, a historic site in Mendota Heights that eight years ago was threatened by development but instead has been restored to its natural landscape.
Great River Greening plans to bring in grazing goats as part of its multiyear management plan for the 24-acre public, city-owned site at the east end of the Mendota Bridge, south of Minnesota 55.
Last summer, the St. Paul-based environmental nonprofit introduced horses to Pilot Knob to chow down on smooth brome, wild rye and other grasses. The plan is to bring them back this summer and the next.
Goats will help control an overabundance of Canada goldenrod, as well as buckthorn and other broadleaved plants, said Wiley Buck, a restoration ecologist for Great River Greening, which started its 10-year restoration plan for Pilot Knob in 2007.
"Canada goldenrod is very invasive at the site," Buck said. "Without (goats), we'd need to control it with mowing, and we'd much prefer goats. Mowing is clear-cut, where the goats actually prefer goldenrod and will munch that down once there."
Prescribed grazing has been shown to be an effective management tool for prairies -- a way to increase the biodiversity of the landscape and allow native species to thrive and non-native species to be kept in check. Although still rare in the metro area, the practice is gaining in popularity in other parts of Minnesota, including at some state wildlife-management areas, Buck said.
The Mendota Heights City Council this month approved Great River Greening's 2014 management contract, which besides grazing goats includes controlled burning, oak tree planting, bird monitoring, trail and overlook maintenance, and expanding work to a state Department of Transportation hillside between the north boundary of the Pilot Knob site and Minnesota 55.
Pilot Knob Hill, considered a sacred American Indian burial ground, is the place where Dakota Indians ceded 35 million acres to European-American settlers in the 1851 Treaty of Mendota. It's referred to as "Oheyawahi," or "the hill much visited."
In 2005, the city bought an 8.5-acre portion of the hill for $2 million from the owners of Acacia Park Cemetery and dashed the hopes of developers who wanted to build 157 upscale townhomes there. Two years later, the last 15 adjacent acres were secured with help from preservationists and state and local funds.
"I went to the site the other day, and it looks wonderful," Mendota Heights City Council member Liz Petschel said to Buck at this month's council meeting. "I think the grazing has been an enormous success in terms of your attempts to restore the oak savanna. Compared to where we were and where we're getting to ... I think it looks wonderful."
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LONG HILL TWP. The Thursday, May 8, meeting of the Long Hill Historical Society will feature Professor Hsu, a Chinese-American artist who, as a resident of Long Hill, has been inspired by the natural beauty of the area.
The meeting starts at 7:30 p.m.
A long time friend of the Hsu family, Jane Hecht will share her perspective on Professor Hsus local landscape paintings.
Included in the paintings to be discussed will be those on permanent display in the Long Hill Municipal Building and the library.
Ming Hsu will talk of her fathers devotion to art and his popularity in China as a world class artist. Professor Hsu will join the group if health permits.
For more information call (908) 647-2111.
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Down by the sally garden: the willow in spring. Illustration: Michael Viney
A blaze of golden yellow halfway down the garden proclaims an invader to our small estate, where a self-sown goat willow, Salix caprea , offers glorious catkins to the spring.
Others of its kind light up my morning march, leaning from the banks of streams beyond the snowy sparkle of whitethorn. These are all male willow catkins, despite the feminine flourish of the pollen: a twig or two, bracing narcissi in a vase, spread the table with gold dust.
The new trespasser more than earns its niche. But the acre we came to had a willow of its own, couched in the hollow where the hill stream cuts through beside the house.
The tree is now quite huge, leaning big, mossy elbows on the opposite bank of the stream. In summer its canopy blots out the mountain from our windows; in winter it cradles the summit and the rise of the moon.
Being so big, it is probably some class of white willow, Salix alba . I am allowed to be that vague, as the hybridisation of willows in Ireland is botanically remarkable. The old Webbs Irish Flora , everyday bible of Irish botanists, detailed 15 species, most of them native to the island but some half-dozen introduced.
Triple hybrids The new edition, updated in 2012, adds no more species but has plenty to say about how difficult it has become to tell one willow from another. John Parnell and Tom Curtis write that 18 hybrids have now been recorded in Ireland, with probably more to come. Even triple hybrids are known, but it is even more difficult to determine their parentage.
Our big white willow should have leaves made silvery green by a coating of silky white hairs. I remember a breathtaking tree of such pure heritage beside a river in Leitrim, a county made especially beautiful by its riparian willows in spring. Our trees leaves are bald and dull, but, hybrid or no, it has every ambition to spread its genes. Its winged seeds will float in a feathery blizzard for days and then spring up from every outdoor flower pot or root stubbornly into crevices in paths or walls.
The Salicaceae evolved for the cool moist soils of the northern hemisphere, into the High Arctic, where I walked on its catkins in a long-past July.
In Ireland it was one of the first plants to colonise the postglacial tundra; it survives in prostrate form now on coastal mountainsides and in the hollows of dunes.
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Pune: The Baramati city police on Friday arrested a police sub-inspector (PSI), his jeweller friend and his associate for allegedly murdering a Mumbai-based interior designer at a farm near Baramati MIDC area, about 100 km from Pune, on the night of October 30 last year. The primary investigations have revealed that the Pune-based jeweller had asked the interior designer to bring his 2 kg gold parcel from one of the traders at Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai. However, the designer did not give him the parcel claiming that he had misplaced it while travelling. As a result, the jeweller, the PSI and his associate hatched a plan and murdered the designer by hitting him on his head with a blunt object. The arrested PSI has been identified as Suresh Kallappa Chavan (48), his jeweller friend Shrenik Bhandari and his associate Pathan. Bhandari was arrested from Pune while Chavan was picked up from Kolhapur where he is posted. All the suspects have been remanded in police custody till April 27. The deceased designer Sudhir Ramchandra Yerunkar was a resident of Mira Road and used to take interior designing contracts. Speaking to dna, superintendent of police (Pune rural) Manojkumar Lohia said, "Sudhir used to come to Baramati quite often and during one such visit he came in contact with Bhandari, who had given him a contract for interior designing of his house. On October 30, Bhandari asked Sudhir to bring his 2 kg gold parcel from a trader at Zaveri Bazaar. However, Sudhir did not give the parcel to Bhandari following which the latter along with his son had a fight with Sudhir.." Thereafter, Bhandari, Chavan and Pathan hatched a plan to kill Sudhir. On October 31, Bhandari called up Sudhir asking him to come to his farm near Baramati MIDC area. Accordingly, Sudhir went to the farm where the three were waiting for him. After a brief argument over the issue, Bhandari, Chavan and Pathan started assaulting Sudhir and one of them hit a blunt object on his head killing him on the spot. The trio then put the body in Bhandari's SUV while Chavan came back to the police station, said Lohia. Bhandari and Pathan drove the body to Naldurga area in Osmanabad district and dumped it on the roadside and returned to Baramati. The next day, the local police found the body and lodged an FIR against unidentified persons. "After the incident, Chavan immediately went on a leave citing family issues. He along with Bhandari also went to the district to inquire the status of the investigation," Lohia added.
How the case was cracked
Sudhir's wife got suspicious after Bhandari started avoiding her calls. She submitted an application to the police alleging that jeweller may be behind her husband's disappearance. Police found that Bhandari was the last person who had contacted Sudhir and thereafter his phone was switched off. Later, the police got information about Pathan and took him into confidence. He spilled the beans and revealed the role of Bhandari and Chavan in the murder case.
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America's Next Top Model alum Lisa D'Amato teamed up with interior designer and turquoise-la.comfounderVanessa De Vargas to create the ultimate baby room.
TheANTM All-Starswinner welcomed baby boyDaxel Vaughnwith her husband,Adam Friedman,last September and they have finished sprucing up their little man's adorable play space. Vanessa met the model mom almost four years ago through their significant others and together created some adorable designs.
We caught up with Vanessa to get the scoop on Lisa's darling redesign.
How did you come up with the overall room design? You were talking and said it took you over two months?It was pretty quick. Lisa came to me and said she really wanted a circus theme, so we've been kind of calling the room cirque du LA, which I thought was cute. In this case, we decided to do a little bit of that vintage and modern style, and so we pulled images from vintage circus. I just wanted a little collage, great storage for his little sunglasses, more books, hats, etc. It's nice to have these things out so that Lisa can pull from them.
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How did you come up with this design?I wanted a section where Lisa could pull different books or when the baby comes in he can pick which book he wants as she holds him coming into the room. It's also sort of becomes like this little library. A lot of the books are vintage, and some of them also came from Lisa's baby shower as well, and others came from The Land of Nod.
And the bookcase has vintage pieces as well as from Land of Nod, the D is vintage, the little clock is vintage, the piece of artwork found online, the Walt Disney book is actually Adam's book from when he was little, and I also found these incredible original series of nursery rhymes, like the Jungle Book.
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What made you think of making the nursery black and white?I've been wanting to do a black room for a while, and it's not something normal, obviously. But I think because the room has a lot of white, it bounces off all the black, and black is a versatile color. When I chose the black Valspar I decided to think of what colors were in a circus. Well, there's a lot of grey and there's a lot of red. So pulling from that was my inspiration.
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Your home, sweet home, might be trying to kill you. Here are four silent killers that could be lurking in your home.
Poison Gases
Its a problem that affects nearly 1 in 15 homes in the U.S. and is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Potentially deadly radon is a colorless, orderless gas that seeps up from the soil through cracks in the foundation when naturally occurring uranium decays. Modern homes are well insulated from the elements, which allows the gas to build up to potentially toxic levels. A radon alarm, which costs as little as $15, should be installed in the home, particularly in basements where radon is more likely to pool. Elevated radon levels are a pretty easy fix. Contact a contractor to seal up cracks in the foundation and install a ventilation system to prevent the gas from building up.
Radon isnt the only potentially deadly gas you need to worry about. Carbon monoxide occurs when burning fossil fuels, which means a CO leak can be caused by a malfunctioning heating system, a poorly ventilated barbecue or a gas-powered generator. Carbon monoxide causes more than 400 deaths each year in the U.S., and is responsible for 20,000 emergency room visits. As with radon, a simple alarm can warn you when dangerous levels of carbon monoxide start to build up in the home, and many states have started requiring these alarms to be installed alongside smoke detectors. If you alarm sounds, dont panic. Open your windows to provide ventilation, leave the home and call 911.
Garden Plants
A garden can be an idyllic green space, but it can also contain hidden dangers, particularly for curious pets and children. Unbeknownst to many gardeners, many common garden plants can be extremely toxic and even downright deadly. Castor bean plants are a common favorite with gardeners, but the plants bean contain enough of the toxin ricin to kill a small child. Water hemlock one of the most deadly plants around is a very common weed, which can easily be mistaken for edible plants such as wild carrots or water cress. Curious cats love to attack plants, but a few bites of a common lily can be enough to kill your beloved pet. If you have pets or children, double-check before planting to make sure youre not growing anything thats potentially harmful.
Old Wiring
Old home have their charms but they also harbor many dangers behind their antique walls. Knob-and-tube wiring was a common electrical setup in the late 19th and early 20th century that featured rubber and cloth insulation around the wiring. Over the years, the insulation becomes dry and brittle, exposing the bare wires a problem that is commonly seen in crawl spaces, basements or other places where the wires are out in the open. If your home was built before the 1940s, you might consider getting it checked for this old style of wiring. While an upgrade will be expensive, its a lot better than losing your house to an electrical fire.
Open Water
Backyard pools are a wonderful way to spend a sun-baked summers day, but they are also a leading cause of death for small children. Parents with small children should install a child-proof fence and gate around the pool and children should never be allowed to use the pool unsupervised. Assuming that the shallow depths make them safe for unattended play, many parents overlook the danger posed by small wading pools. But any amount of water could prove deadly for children, particularly those under the age of five. If you have a portable pool, make sure you monitor the kids while it is in use and drain it when the kids are finished playing.
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