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PHOENIX -- A showdown is brewing in Sunnyslope community of Phoenix over a neighborhood landmark.

Jayden Bucoy, 11, lives at the Casa del Norte townhomes near 12th Street and Northern Avenue. There's a big tree there.

"I love it!" she said about the tree. "It's just really fun to play with, and we use the bark as little boats."

The eucalyptus tree towers over everything.

"It's a large tree. We don't know how long that it's been there, but it's approximately 50 years," said Mayme Wilhem, community manager for Associated Property Management, the company which has been hired by Casa del Norte's homeowners association to run the neighborhood.

In 2013, the tree started damaging the sidewalks around it, and APM got a warning from the city of Phoenix.

"If we did not make the repair, we would be charged $3,000 by the city of Phoenix," Wilhem said.

APM paid for the repairs and elected to keep the tree, she said. But now, Wilhem said that it's causing new problems.

"It is lifting the sidewalks," she said. "We don't know what it's doing to the plumbing, piping and fire hydrant. It could be damaging the roof of the building that it's adjacent to, as well as the structure."

Fearing another threat of fines, APM sent someone out to cut the tree down last week.

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BENZIE COUNTY -- Work has already begun on a controversial road project in Benzie County.

Just a few days after the Benzie County Road Commission voted to move forward with the Deadstream Road project, crews and equipment were cutting some of the hundreds of trees marked for removal.

"Its a travesty," says John Lewis, a property owner on Deadstream Road for more than 30 years. "It really is. There is no need to cut these trees back as far as theyre cutting them back."

At a meeting last Thursday, road commissioners heard from several property owners about their concerns for the project which includes making the road a uniform width: 11 foot lanes, three foot paved shoulders, and two feet of gravel.

"We all understand that it needed to be resurfaced," says Sally Casey, a third generation property owner on Deadstream Road. "And we were even willing to accept, many people were willing to accept the widening of the three feet plus two feet. The killer was when they marked these trees and they said the state standards that we have to follow because we got money from the state means that we need to go seven to ten feet further back than that. And that has been the real killer for a lot of people."

One road commissioner said he hadnt received a single email from someone against the project.

He was then told the emails were sent, not to his personal email account, but one associated with the road commission.

Still, without reading them, he and the other commissioner present voted to award the almost 1.2 million dollar contract to Traverse City-based Team Elmers.

Opponents had talked about a lawsuit to stop the project, but Team Elmers began removing trees this week.

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A San Francisco Catholic church announced it would remove a sprinkler system that was reportedly dousing homeless people as they slept near the building's sheltered doorways.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco said Wednesday that the sprinklers outside St. Marys Cathedral would be turned off following a backlash after a KCBS report about the watering system.

There are several tall doors with sheltered alcoves that attract homeless people at night, KCBS reported. Though there are no signs warning people, the sprinkler system turns on several times during the night, the news station reported.

Water pours from a hole in the ceiling, about 30 feet above, drenching the alcove and anyone in it, KCBS reported.

The water runs for about 75 seconds in all four doorways, and KCBS reporters said they watched as the sprinklers soaked homeless people and their belongings.

Were going to be wet there all night, so hypothermia, cold, all that other stuff could set in, a homeless man named Robert told KCBS. The sprinkler system is keeping the church clean, but it could make people sick.

The news station said there were syringes, cigarette butts, soggy clothing and cardboard in the area but no draining system, allowing the water to pool on steps and sidewalks. St. Marys Cathedral is the principal church for the archdiocese.

In its statement, the archdiocese said the sprinkler system in its back doorways was installed about two years ago after other ideas were tried and failed.

The archdiocese said the sprinklers were modeled after systems in the Financial District as a safety, security and cleanliness measure to avoid the situation where needles, feces and other dangerous items were regularly being left in these hidden doorways.

The archdiocese said the problems with homeless people sleeping in St. Marys doorways was particularly dangerous because students and elderly people pass the areas en route to school and mass daily.

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A sprinkler system at St. Marys Cathedral has been drenching homeless men and women who seek shelter there for two years.

The sprinkler system was installed after church officials learned that this was a popular method in the city's financial district, according to a statement provided by church spokesman Larry Kramer.

The system was installed as a "safety, security and cleanliness measure to avoid the situation where needles, feces and other dangerous items were regularly being left in these hidden doorways," the church statement reads. The bishop said he was worried about students and elderly people passing by the church in these conditions.

WhenSt. Marys Cathedral'ssprinklers were spotlighted in the media earlier this week, the bishop backtracked, and said the church's aim was never to douse people.

At a news conference Wednesday, Archdiocese of San Francisco Bishop William Justice promised the sprinklers were already being removed at the iconic church on Gough Street, which turned on at least once every hour, spraying those who slept there. The bishop noted the Cathedral is a hub for "hundreds of homeless people," and opens its doors to help those in need "more than any other Catholic church."

The bishop said that those who regularly slept in the doorways of the church were told in advance about the sprinklers.

The "idea was not to remove those persons, but to encourage them to relocate to other areas of the Cathedral, which are protected and safer," the church statement read.

Still, the church conceded that leaders now realized the system needed a permit and "may violate San Francisco water-use laws," and work to remove the system has already started.

"We are sorry that our intentions have been misunderstood and recognize that the method used was ill-conceived," the statement read. "It actually has had the opposite effect from what it was intended to do, and for this we are sorry."

The church made its announcement only after KCBS radios Doug Sovern first reported the story, alleging that the church installed the watering system to keep the homeless from sleeping in the Cathedrals doorways.

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In diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the body produces too much mucus, making breathing difficult. New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provides clues to potentially counteract inappropriate mucus production.

"The new study lays the groundwork for developing treatments for diseases such as asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis and even certain cancers," said senior author Thomas J. Brett, PhD, assistant professor of medicine. "It also solves a 20-year mystery about the role of a protein that has long been associated with these diseases."

The study appears March 17 in the journal eLife.

About two decades ago, the protein CLCA1 was identified. High levels of CLCA1 in cells lining the airway have long been linked with an overproduction of mucus. Studies at the time suggested CLCA1 was an ion channel, a small opening in the cell membrane that allows charged particles to flow into or out of the cell. CLCA1 was labeled a chloride channel because it appeared to be moving chloride ions across the cell membrane. In general, the movement of different ions into and out of cells govern many important processes from mucus production, to heart rhythms to brain function.

"Originally, CLCA1 was misidentified as a chloride channel," Brett said. "When cells express CLCA1, they produce chloride currents. But as we became better at understanding the three-dimensional structures of proteins, researchers in the field started to realize that CLCA proteins couldn't be channels. So the question arose, how do they activate these currents if they're not channels?"

Only seven years ago, a protein that proved to be this elusive type of channel was first discovered in mammals. Called TMEM16A, it is a channel that is ubiquitous in the cells lining the airway. Too much TMEM16A, like elevated levels of CLCA1, were also associated with the mucus-overproduction typical of airway diseases, including asthma and COPD.

The new research now has linked the two, demonstrating that increased expression of CLCA1 increases the number of TMEM16A channels present in nearby cells, according to Brett and his colleagues, including co-authors Colin G. Nichols, PhD, the Carl F. Cori Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, Monica Sala-Rabanal, PhD, research instructor in medicine, and Zeynep Yurtsever, graduate research assistant.

"We don't think that CLCA1 actually opens the channel," Brett said. "In fact, the channel can function without CLCA1. We think it simply keeps the channel on the surface of the cells for a longer period of time. The reason you get more current is you have more channels there. You're just accumulating more holes for the ions to travel through. This is a unique finding. We don't know of any other examples of this type of interaction between a protein and a channel."

The study also suggests it may be worthwhile to investigate the larger families of these two proteins. If closely related members of these protein families also interact with each other, it could expand the implications to disorders as diverse as cancer and cardiovascular disease.

For example, TMEM16 channels and CLCA proteins have been associated with certain types of cancers including breast tumors that spread to the lungs and in some cardiovascular disorders such as irregular heart rhythms and heart failure, demonstrating a possible broad impact of future work in this area.

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