Question: My peppers look horrible with curling leaves and brown tips. What is the cause and what can I use that is natural to obtain control?

Answer: Growing good pepper plants has been difficult this fall due to an assortment of pests. Often mites, thrips and whiteflies can be feeding on the same plants. These cause the leaf curl plus tips of new growths to pucker and turn brown. A control is needed or the plants eventually decline. All of these pests can be controlled with a natural insecticidal soap or neem oil spray found at your local garden center. Follow label directions and make repeat sprays as needed which could be once a week until control is obtained.

Q: In my community we have 30-year-old oak trees that are dropping little, round, tan puffballs. We haven't seen these before and are wondering what they could be.

A: Those brown, furry balls dropping from oak tree leaves are kind of cute but may also be alarming to residents. Maybe the drop is heavier this year or the wasps that cause the leaves to produce the growths, called wooly galls, have just found the trees.

Wooly galls form on many types of oaks but are most prevalent on the laurel and live oaks found locally. Small wasps appear to lay their eggs in the leaves during spring and the galls gradually develop, being most noticeable in late summer or fall. Their presence on the leaves may encourage an early leaf drop and the galls often slough off individually to accumulate on the ground. They cause little or no damage and can be ignored. Control would be too difficult.

Q: Do you feel renting a machine and aerating a residential lawn would be helpful if I plan to over-seed with a combination of winter rye and bermudagrass seed?

A: A good raking to remove old grass blades and surface debris is probably a better treatment before over-seeding with a winter grass than aerating that punches holes in the ground. If your soil is compacted, has nematodes or is hard to wet then aeration may be considered as an additional treatment to help all the turf growing as your lawn.

Ryegrass is the traditional seed for establishing a temporary lawn. You can select either annual or perennial ryegrass. Both give a good green lawn for the cooler months and then decline during spring. Only add the bermudagrass seed if you want to establish a new permanent lawn type. Many residents consider bermudagrass a weed when growing with St. Augustine, bahia or zoysia lawns. It is best not to mix these grasses.

Q: Our Gold Mound duranta plants are being eaten by small, white insects. We used a disease control product with no effects. Do you have any advice?

A: Most likely your duranta planting is now free of leaf spots and similar blotches but those juice-sucking whiteflies are going to continue feeding unless you switch to an insecticide. Natural products like insecticidal soap or horticultural oils can control these pests but you have to hit the under side of the leaves which can be difficult with these dense-growing shrubs.

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SALT LAKE CITY A Utah dad foiled an attempt to kidnap his young daughter from her bed early Friday after confronting a man carrying her across the lawn.

The 5-year-old girl wasnt hurt in the frightening experience, but the incident has evoked haunting echoes of when 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched out of her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002. She was held captive for nine months before being found.

The suspect in this case entered the home through an unlocked door or window about 4:30 a.m. in Sandy, a middle-class suburb south of Salt Lake City, Police Sgt. Dean Carriger said.

The intruder was in the familys basement searching through things when he came upon the girl sleeping in her bedroom, Carriger said. The suspect took her out of bed and carried her upstairs, making noises that woke the parents.

The girls father went to the door and saw the man carrying his daughter in the front lawn. He ran outside and confronted the man, wrestling away his daughter.

The suspect then fled, and the father called 911.

Officers set up a perimeter, and with the help of police dogs, launched a search. The suspect went into a second home, where the residents heard him and called police.

Police captured the 46-year-old man outside that second home thanks to a police dog that bit the suspect in the upper shoulder, Carriger said.

The family told police they had never seen and dont know the suspect, who police have identified as Troy Morley of Roy, Utah. Police dont know yet why the suspect was in the house or if he had a planned it, Carriger said.

Morley is still at the hospital receiving medical treatment for the dog bite but is expected to be arrested later Friday and booked on charges of child kidnapping and burglary.

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Fair Lawn, NJ (PRWEB) November 04, 2014

Fair Lawns newest dental care office had its gala grand opening last Wednesday evening. Fair Lawns Mayor John Cosgrove helped welcome the crowd and started the festivities by officially cutting the ribbon to announce that Promenade Dental Care is now open and accepting patients. Also in attendance were Dr. Yiska Furman and staff, members of the Fair Lawn Chamber of Commerce, and other community leaders.

Guests enjoyed refreshments while being shown around the beautiful new office. Promenade Dental Care is a paperless office and has installed state-of-the-art dental equipment designed to provide the most comfortable care available. While getting dental treatment, patients can sit back and relax in the heated massage chairs each equipped with its own television. The office has digital X-rays that emit 90% less radiation than traditional X-rays. Dr. Furman is committed to making sure patients understand and participate in every step of their treatment. According to Dr. Furman, Patients better understand their treatment options when I use the chair-side television to show them the X-rays and close-up images of their teeth with the intraoral camera. When patients see and understand what is going on they become more comfortable and at ease.

Dr. Yiska Furman is a graduate of the prestigious University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. She completed her residency at Long Island College Hospital followed by two year intensive surgical and restorative implant studies at NYU. With over 500 hours of continuing education, well above New Jerseys requirement, Dr. Furman is highly skilled and is committed to providing excellent dental care at the Fair Lawn Promenade, which is centrally located on Route 208 North. Her office, Promenade Dental Care, is conveniently located next to Fair Lawns first Starbucks and is easily accessible from all the surrounding towns. She has convenient office hours before and after work and Sunday appointments.

Modern technology and personalized care will help patients stay healthier, and this will be more cost-effective in the long run, explains Dr. Furman. Comfortable financial arrangements are offered in her practice to help patients afford the dental care they deserve. Dr. Furman and staff can speak English, Spanish and Hebrew. Dr. Furman wants patients to be able to communicate in the language with which they are most comfortable.

Dr. Furman is excited to join the community. She looks forward to providing the residents of Bergen County with a positive and rewarding dental experience that focuses on meeting her patients needs. For more information please visit the practice website http://promenadecare.com.

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Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine today announced a lawsuit against a landscaping contractor accused of failing to deliver lawn care services despite accepting hundreds of dollars in advance payment from Ohio consumers.

The lawsuit charges Israel Alex Barrett, of Cape Coral, Fla., with consumer law violations. In the lawsuit, the attorney general seeks consumer restitution and civil penalties.

We wont tolerate businesses that take advantage of Ohio consumers, DeWine said. This contractor went door to door signing up customers but left town before providing the promised services.

According to the lawsuit, Barrett had a principal place of business in Goshen, Ohio. He used various business names, including Pleasant Plain Lawn & Landscape, Alexs Elite Lawn Care, and Elis Lawn Care, which are not registered with the Ohio Secretary of State.

He contacted homeowners through door-to-door visits and accepted about $300 each from consumers. He offered a complimentary aeration and one free treatment as part of the offer. His six-step lawn treatment program was supposed to last from early spring to early winter.

In March 2014, Barrett closed his operation in Ohio. Although he notified customers that he was closing, he did not find another landscaping contractor to apply the lawn treatments, nor did he provide refunds.

The Ohio Attorney Generals Office is aware of 12 complaints from consumers who said that Barrett provided no service or only a fraction of the services for which he was paid.

The Attorney Generals lawsuit, filed in the Warren County Court of Common Pleas, charges Barrett with violating Ohios Consumer Sales Practices Act and Home Solicitation Sales Act by failing to deliver services, performing shoddy work, and failing to provide proper notice of consumers right to cancel a home solicitation sale.

Consumers who believe they have been treated unfairly should contact the Ohio Attorney Generals Office at http://www.OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov or 800-282-0515.

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CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -

One construction worker was killed and two others were injured Saturday afternoon when a brick facade collapsed from the front of a West Lawn building.

About 1 p.m. the facade fell from the first story of a commercial building in the 4100 block of West 63rd Street, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Will Knight said.

Roberto Topia-Gonzalez, 44, of the 2500 block of South Homan Avenue, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 1:41 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

An autopsy performed Sunday found Topia-Gonzalez died of multiple injuries he suffered when he was crushed by a falling brick wall, the medical examiner's office said. His death was ruled an accident.

Another worker, a 30-year-old man, was also taken in serious-to-critical condition to Christ Medical Center, while a third construction worker, a 44-year-old man, was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in fair-to-serious condition, authorities said. A 41-year-old man denied medical treatment, police said.

Mimi Simon, a spokeswoman with the city's Department of Buildings, said the work at the site was being performed by unlicensed contractors without building permits.

The building owner has been instructed to abate the dangerous and hazardous conditions, remove debris and erect a heavy duty canopy for public safety, Simon said in a statement.

The building's owner will be issued several violations upon the completion of a full inspection, Simon said.

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A 44-year-old worker died and three others were injured Saturday afternoon when a brick facade fell from a West Lawn neighborhood building and injured workers, officials said.

The accident happened shortly before 1 p.m., at a single-story commercial building that houses several different businesses across the street from a Mexican restaurant in the 4100 block of West 63rd Street, Chicago Fire Department officials said.

Workers were making changes to the buildings facade when it came tumbling down. Stacks of fallen bricks remained piled on the sidewalk an hour after the accident, attracting a group of gawkers who stood in the parking lot across the street.

A 44-year-old man and a 30-year-old man were taken in serious-to-critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where the older man later died. A 44-year-old man was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in fair-to-serious condition. According to police officials, a 41-year-old man was injured but refused treatment.

Chicago Department of Buildings spokeswoman Mimi Simons said the work at the site was being performed by unlicensed contractors without building permits.

When a full inspection is complete, we expect that we will issue the building owner several violations, said Mimi Simons, spokeswoman for the Chicago Department of Buildings.

The building owner must remove the debris and erect a canopy for the public's safety, she said.

Ramona Lopez, 55, runs a bakery and a small shop selling religious artifacts and plants inside the building. Lopez, who is a tenant in the building, said the workers had been there for three days and described them as hard-working, humble people.

Lopez was working inside the building when she heard a loud crash and saw the accident, she said.

Fighting back tears, she said she was nervous about the future of the building and what its closure could mean for her family.

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MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti) - A second case of Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, has been registered in the US state of Colorado, the Associated Press reports citing state health officials.

A Larimer county resident was infected in July while mowing a lawn, according to Larimer and Weld county health officials. The patient was taken to the hospital in early August after two antibiotic treatment regimens proved unsuccessful, but has since returned home.

The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment says the first case of the disease was reported on July 16 in the city of Broomfield, which was also struck by a rabbit die-off.

Tularemia is an infectious disease spread between humans and animals, with symptoms ranging from swollen lymph nodes, to fever and sore throat. Rodents such as rabbits, hares, beavers and muskrats, are the principal carriers of the disease.

The infection is typically transmitted to hunters butchering infected animals. Human susceptibility to tularemia is extremely high, and without early treatment, the disease can be life-threatening.

The United States experienced Tularemia outbreaks in Massachusetts in 1978 and 2000. Generally, there are 100-150 reported cases of the disease each year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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October 28, 2014 07:30 PM EDT

President Barack Obama delivers a statement regarding U.S. health care workers responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, prior to his departure aboard Marine One from the White House South Lawn. October 28, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Speaking on the South Lawn of the White House today, President Obama provided an update on America's comprehensive response to end the Ebola outbreak. So far, of the seven Americans treated for Ebola, all have survived. Only two people have contracted Ebola on American soil -- the two Dallas nurses who treated a patient who had contracted the virus in West Africa. And the only American still undergoing treatment is Dr. Craig Spencer, who contracted the disease abroad while working to protect others.

The President saluted his service and the service of all those men and women who are working tirelessly to stop Ebola in its tracks. "We know that the best way to protect Americans ultimately is going to stop this outbreak at the source," he said. "And I just had the privilege of speaking with some of the men and women who are working to do just that -- our Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) on the ground in West Africa."

From increasing the number of Ebola treatment units and burial teams to expanding the pipeline of medical personnel, equipment and supplies to launching an aggressive education campaign in-country, American health care workers in Africa are the "strategic and operational backbone of America's response" to the virus.

These are the folks that, from the minute that we saw this Ebola outbreak growing larger than we had seen traditionally, were deployed, were on the ground, and were helping to coordinate the countries where the outbreak is happening to make sure that the response was effective.

And it's typical of what America does best -- when others are in trouble, when disease or disaster strikes, Americans help. And no other nation is doing as much to make sure that we contain and ultimately eliminate this outbreak than America.

Their dedication and hard work is starting to pay off, as the essential public health infrastructure is strengthening. As we work to fight the epidemic at its source, it's critical that we maintain our vigilance at home.

We're going to need to make sure that our doctors and our health care professionals here in the United States are properly trained and informed and that they are coordinated if and when an Ebola case crops up here in the United States. But whats also critically important is making sure that all the talent, skill, compassion, professionalism, dedication and experience of our folks here can be deployed to help those countries deal with this outbreak at the source.

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