Franklin Lakes The Borough Council last week turned down a proposal to allow eight-foot-high deer fences after debating over several months whether to introduce an ordinance adding them to its building code. Currently six-foot fences are allowed, but effective deer fences are two feet higher.

"I've decided it doesn't make sense," Mayor Frank Bivona said at the councils meeting Nov. 6. "First I was for it and now I'm against it."

Bivona said he had spoken with residents and the code official and determined the issue is better left alone.

"The fences work better where there are large lots," Bivona said. "I reviewed Alpine's ordinance and they have more property up there."

"I think you're right," Councilwoman Ann Swist said. "We don't have that kind of space here."

While the mayor and council agreed there is a deer problem in the borough, they worried about the appearance of such fences.

"These fences won't fix our deer problem," Bivona said.

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PHOENIX Sandy Alderson expects Citi Field to have "pretty close" to similar dimensions to Shea Stadium next season. The Mets have already begun work on moving in the walls in right-center and right field.

At Shea, right-center field ranged between 358 feet at its shallowest and 396 feet at its deepest. Right center-field was 390 feet from home plate at Citi Field this season.

"I don't think what we're doing should be that controversial," he said.

Alderson says that with the new fences the Mets would have hit 17 more home runs last year and given up 10 more, so a net gain of seven for the season. Alderson has said that Curtis Granderson would have netted seven more home runs in 2014 with the changes.

"Last year was an off year for David (Wright) so it's hard to make a measurement there," he explained. "Curtis will definitely be benefiting. Lucas (Duda) would be benefiting from it. And our goal on the pitching side is just to make sure that we got pitchers that strike people out and have a decent ground ball ratio and aren't at risk.:

The move was made, in part, Alderson said, because of aesthetics. He cited an appeal to see more scoring and runs.

"I actually have a preference for a little more offense in games," he said. "We do want to entertain people. At some point, 2-1 loses its cache, panache."

He added: "I think we're in the entertainment business. ...Those are great and I love those games but I like 10-8 too."

Alderson wanted Citi Field to become more of a "neutral" ballpark.

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To ease public access to gardens and maidans in Mumbai, the civic body has begun to remove the fences around them. This will also help monitor the maintenance of open spaces, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation says.

The civic body on Tuesday removed the fencing around the one-acre garden beside Oval Maidan near Churchgate; and around a garden in Vikhroli East. "We have also started work on the garden north of Oval Maidan, facing the high court building, and should complete the work in the next two days," said a gardens department official, adding, "We will then move on to the other reserved grounds and play grounds in the city."

Additional municipal commissioner SVR Srinivas, who is in charge of open spaces and gardens, said, "It is important that all open spaces remain open to people. The fences around open spaces were not only making them inaccessible to people, but also blocking the view."

He added that with fences removed, the BMC can monitor the maintenance of the open spaces more more effectively. "We can check if the contractors responsible are cleaning up the garden regularly," he added.

The civic body owns 1052 vacant open spaces in the city, and has already awarded to private contractors the maintenance contracts for around 700 of these.

The removal of fences around open spaces comes at a time when the BMC's comprehensive policy on open spaces is pending with the group leaders of the BMC for almost eight months. It is yet to be sent to the state government.

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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. The U.S. government now patrols nearly half the Mexican border by drones alone in a largely unheralded shift to control desolate stretches where there are no agents, camera towers, ground sensors or fences, and it plans to expand the strategy to the Canadian border.

It represents a significant departure from a decades-old approach that emphasizes boots on the ground and fences. Since 2000, the number of Border Patrol agents on the 1,954-mile border more than doubled to surpass 18,000 and fencing multiplied nine times to 700 miles.

Under the new approach, Predator Bs sweep remote mountains, canyons and rivers with a high-resolution video camera and return within three days for another video in the same spot, according to two officials with direct knowledge of the effort on condition of anonymity because details have not been made public.

The two videos are then overlaid for analysts who use sophisticated software to identify tiny changes perhaps the tracks of a farmer or cows, perhaps those of immigrants who entered the country illegally or a drug-laden Hummer, they said.

About 92 percent of drone missions have shown no change in terrain, but the others raised enough questions to dispatch agents to determine if someone got away, sometimes by helicopter because the area is so remote. The agents look for any sign of human activity footprints, broken twigs, trash.

About 4 percent of missions have been false alarms, like tracks of livestock or farmers, and about 2 percent are inconclusive. The remaining 2 percent offer evidence of illegal crossings from Mexico, which typically results in ground sensors being planted for closer monitoring.

The government has operated about 10,000 drone flights under the strategy, known internally as "change detection," since it began in March 2013. The flights currently cover about 900 miles, much of it in Texas, and are expected to expand to the Canadian border by the end of 2015.

The purpose is to assign agents where illegal activity is highest, said R. Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol's parent agency, which operates nine unmanned aircraft across the country.

"You have finite resources," he said in an interview. "If you can look at some very rugged terrain (and) you can see there's not traffic, whether it's tire tracks or clothing being abandoned or anything else, you want to deploy your resources to where you have a greater risk, a greater threat."

If the video shows the terrain unchanged, Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher calls it "proving the negative" showing there isn't anything illegal happening there and therefore no need for agents and fences.

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Hundreds of police are warned to expect an "unpredictable" G20 as Premier Campbell Newman says "I am apprehensive".

Security barricades have gone up around four key locations in inner-city Brisbane overnight ahead of the G20 summit.

They are the foundations of what will be the G20 city's fortress.

Roads are being progressively closed, with lanes blocked at the Fortitude Valley end of Adelaide Street, at Macrossan Street and at Grey Street at South Brisbane.

Brisbane visitors Karen and George Goodman outside the Marriott Hotel. Photo: Tony Moore

Further road closures come into effect in the cityand for South Brisbanefrom Wednesday, Thursday and then for the weekend.

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The heaviest security appears to be around the Marriott Hotel at the top end of Adelaide Street near Petrie Bight, where traffic comes in from the Ivory Street road tunnel.

At the Marriott Hotel, on the corner of Adelaide and Queen streets, there is a two-metre high reinforced steel barricade outside the hotel's front door.

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HI GEORGE, whose one and only outing over fences saw him gain a notable success at Catterick last season, makes his eagerly awaited reappearance at Sedgefield today.

Trained at Norton by Malcolm Jefferson, the gelding gained a narrow success at Catterick over Holywell, who went on to become one of the best novice chasers of the season and is now among the favourites for the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

While beating Holywell, who took a while to get the hang of jumping fences, may well have flattered Hi George, there is no doubt that he's an exciting horse.

He should be a tough but to crack in the featured Hellens Group Handicap Chase. Brian Hughes has the mount.

Distime, trained by John Quinn - Jefferson's neighbour - should be hard to beat in the Nortonthorpe Industrial Estate Huddersfield Novices' Limited Handicap Chase.

Restricted to only two outings last season, the eight-year-old returned from a lengthy absence to finish second at Aintree a couple of weeks ago to Baileys Concerto, who has been in unstoppable form lately and who has won again since at Musselburgh.

Distime should have benefited from his comeback outing and is napped to go one better this afternoon, despite having top weight to carry.

The opening Newcastle Flooring Novices' Hurdle is the target of Irish raider Balbriggan.

Trained by Gordon Elliott, whose horses are always to be feared in Britain, Balbriggan successfully mixes chasing and hurdling. The seven-year-old is already twice a winner this season. He can make it three.

Recent winners Accordingtoscript (2.50) and Agent Fedora (3.50) are also worth considering.

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Champion boxer Danny Green has jumped suburban Perth fences to recover his potty-mouthed lorikeet.

Boxing champ Danny Green has jumped suburban Perth fences and scaled a tree to recover his potty-mouthed lorikeet Bozo.

Earlier he'd taken to social media to ask for help to find the beloved bird, which went missing around Watermans Bay and North Beach on Monday morning.

"Whistles like a trooper. Says f*** you, big boy and an array of other mumbo jumbo," the world champion said on Facebook.

Two hours later, he posted details of "a stressful but epic end to a funny story".

"I found Bozo! Ten metres up a Norfolk palm tree freaking out!"

After losing hope and "getting very odd looks from people in the streets" as he called for the errant parrot, Green heard a faint response from his feathered companion and began jumping fences "chihuahua in my arms, chasing the whistle".

"In n out of backyards, vacant lots n then knock on a few doors to ask to go out back n check," he wrote.

A pool maintenance man held Green's dog while the hunt continued, with the boxer climbing up the side of a house to reach Bozo in the tree.

"He was stoked to be on my shoulder. Thnx heaps to everyone for their help."

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A fence stood in the way of Hanif Dhakiri, Indonesias new manpower minister, as he checked on practices at a recruitment business in Jakarta. When the door wasnt opened, Dhakiri vaulted the barrier.

Dhakiri found an inhuman shelter crammed with workers, and promptly shut the company down for breaking regulations, he said in an interview with Bloomberg TV Indonesia last week. Such are the lengths President Joko Widodo has his cabinet going to to overcome corruption, bureaucracy and wasteful spending that weigh on Southeast Asias largest economy.

Since starting work on Oct. 27, his ministers have promised to do his bidding, cut fuel subsidies and overhaul permits for investors. Widodo, known as Jokowi, has told leaders of Indonesias regions to start financing development or face penalties, as he seeks to revitalize an economy that slowed to its weakest in five years last quarter.

Jokowi has targeted small changes that add up to a pretty interesting change in approach and that shows momentum, said Paul Rowland, an independent political analyst in Jakarta. Theyre all practical things. That does augur well. And theyre happening quickly.

The moves show Jokowi, a former furniture businessman, is starting to gain traction on his election promises, even as challenges remain from the opposition gaining control of parliament to a lack of power within his own political party.

Foreign fund investors have sold almost $1 billion of Indonesian stocks in the past three months as they scale back expectations that Jokowi, the former Jakarta governor, will be able to deliver reforms.

Among Jokowis next steps are to dismantle fuel subsidies that consume a 10th of the national budget, a change that has eluded his predecessors.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Sofyan Djalil has said a fuel price move will come this month, yet the magnitude and timing is yet to be decided. Jokowi, speaking to business leaders in Beijing today, said he wants to channel the money from the subsidies to build dams, ports and railways.

On Nov. 3, the government started distributing cards that will eventually give more than 15 million low-income families access to free health care, as well as education for 160,000 children of school age and cash to soften the effect of higher fuel costs. Success with the card program and significantly reduced subsidies would be a reasonably good start, said Marcus Mietzner, an associate professor at the Australian National University in Canberra.

His rapid launch of key programs and a number of PR-attracting actions by some of his ministers have distracted from the less-than-revolutionary line-up of his cabinet, Mietzner said.

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