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VAN ZANDT - Rick George feared the tilting, rotting tree that loomed over his Emily Drive home, south of Deming.

He said he had asked the Nooksack Tribe, which owns the land, to remove the tree. The process to hire a tree removal company was still in the works when a storm hit the area.

Wind gusts topped 40 mph early Saturday, Jan. 11. Rick George and his wife, Lania, awoke about 2 a.m. to the crash of the tree caving in the roof.

George pulled his wife under him as the tree barreled into their bedroom and onto the spot where she had been sleeping.

Family friend Melinda Mendez, who was staying in George's home the night of the storm, ran into the room right after the tree fell to see George protecting his wife.

"He definitely saved her life," Mendez said.

The tree scratched and cut George's torso, severely enough to require a hospital visit. It heavily damaged the manufactured home, and with much of its roof missing, the interior and family belongings were exposed to rain.

The Georges are staying with friends. People have pitched in to help him clear tree branches from the home. The Mt. Baker Chapter of the American Red Cross provided his children with food, clothes and shoes.

Still, it stings him that the tribe, of which he's a member, didn't act sooner. He had complained about the tree long before the storm. With it leaning toward the home, he couldn't just chop it down for fear it would land on the roof.

"The tribe promised to cut the tree down," Mendez said. "Rick couldn't do it himself."

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A new tree protection bylaw is one step closer to reality.

The bylaw, which aims to set tree removal restrictions for heritage districts, residential and private properties and golf courses, will come in front of council for final approval next week.

Under the proposal, up to two trees with a trunk diameter between 20 and 70 centimetres can be removed from a property without a permit during a one-year period. Golf courses could remove 10 trees of that size within a one-year timeframe, however, a permit would be required to cut a tree larger than 70 centimetres in diameter.

Golf courses, conservation authorities and school boards are excused from the towns tree-cutting rules. This will change once the new bylaw is set into place, forcing each to abide by the new regulations.

Though guidelines will come as reassurance to those supporting the new bylaw, Councillor John Abel believes it is more of a political matter.

This all came about because of an issue with a golf course. Nothing really happened before this bylaw and he believes it will stay the same once the bylaw is passed, he said, adding it is clear a lot of people wish to see it in place.

There are no special protection measures in place for any trees along heritage sites. The new bylaw will ensure necessary removal will require a permit within the heritage district. Golf courses will also require a permit for the removal of 11 or more trees within a 12-month period and trees along residential or private property will require a permit for the removal of three or more trees in the same time period.

Council is being asked to approve the revised and recommended bylaw during the Jan. 21 council meeting.

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WAFF 48 Investigates: Detecting foodborne pathogens WAFF 48 Investigates: Detecting foodborne pathogens

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The city of Athens announced that Lindsay Lane South will be closed for tree removal.

The closure will be from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. Thursday.

City officials said the closure is for the removal of trees required by ATRIP. ATRIP is state funding the city received for road improvement projects.

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More layout flexibility: Windows 8's "snap widgets" essentially serve the same function as old-school windows in desktop mode. Snap widgets make productivity easier on tablets, allowing users to go back and forth between windows. But there is a lot of room for refinement.

Being able to divide widgets into smaller tiles that could be arranged horizontally or vertically along a grid could help users go in and out of various apps much more seamlessly. And being able to quickly take an app into full screen mode and back would go a long way towards making the Windows layout feel less claustrophobic.

Desktop-only mode: Although the Windows 8 tile display is adequate on a standard laptop, it's still not optimal for productivity tasks, particularly on a desktop computer. There are also many apps that only work in desktop mode. The abrupt move between Windows 8's starkly contrasting tile and desktop environments has left a bad taste in the mouths of many users.

Related: Microsoft's Surface 2 still falls short

In Windows 9 -- or whatever the next big revision of Windows will be called -- users will be able to run those "Modern" apps in a window on the desktop, according to WinSuperSite's Paul Thurrott. If Microsoft also gave users the ability to lock their computers in desktop mode, that would help make the experience of using Windows on a laptop feel more consistent.

Microsoft shouldn't give up on the Start Screen, but some users just don't need it.

More consistent trackpad standards: Sometimes it seems like the trackpad on every single Windows 8 device feels different, making use of clicks and gestures in different ways.

For example, unlocking the homescreen requires a swipe on some trackpads, and a click on others.

At their best, exemplified by Logitech's standalone Windows 8 trackpad, gestures in Windows 8 are as quick and intuitive as touching a screen. At their worst, ironically exemplified by Microsoft's Surface tablet, gestures can be incredibly frustrating.

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ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI) A trendy, new, downtown St. Louis dine-in movie theater is shut down.

The sprinkler system is the adjacent parking garage froze and sprang a leak, the theater owner said; yet another casualty of last weeks sub-zero deep freeze.

TheMX Theatre on Washington Avenue just marked its first anniversary this weekwhile it was shut down.

A Fox 2 crew got inside Wednesday night. It sure seemed like people could be watching movies.

Still, it was closed for an eighth straight night.

What happened was some of the sprinkler pipes in the garage burst, which shut down the entire sprinkler system for the building, including the movie theater, said Amos Harris of Spinnaker-St. Louis, which owns the theater.

The actual water damage to the theater was minimal. A few well-placed trash cans caught any drips and spared the carpeting. There was a little bubbling paint and hard to see water damage to one screen.

But the theater cannot reopen until the sprinkler system is working again.

Ground floor restaurants like Pi-Pizza and Snarfs Sandwiches re-opened after just a few days. But the theater is on the second floorand the owner says that has apparently made the repair more challenging.

TheMX is Pita Gonzales favorite theater. So much so shes holding a charity fundraiser Friday atSnarfs sandwich shop next door for the Paul Mitchell cosmetology school, where shes a student.

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A water main break outside a Mill Valley retirement community caused some street flooding that damaged about 10 parked cars early Monday morning, a fire official said.

Crews responded to a report of a medical emergency at The Redwoods at 40 Camino Alto at about 6 a.m. On their way there, they were alerted of a possible water main break at the facility unrelated to the medical issue, Mill Valley fire Battalion Chief Scott Barnes said.

Firefighters looking into the water main break discovered that a line that supplies the facilitys sprinkler system had ruptured, sending water into the street, he said.

Its a large main that encircles the facility, Barnes said.

The line is only connected to the sprinkler system, and the residents did not lose their normal water service, he said. Crews found the shutoff valve and stopped the flow of water to the line, but a pool about 18 inches deep had already formed on Camino Alto, Barnes said.

About 10 cars belonging to employees of The Redwoods that were parked along the street appear to have been damaged by water seeping into their interiors, the battalion chief said. He did not know the extent of the damage.

As soon as the water was shut down, we were able to clear some of the drains that were in the street, Barnes said.

After that, the water drained fairly quickly, he said. Two lanes of Camino Alto were shut down because of the flooding, but no buildings were evacuated and there was no water damage to the interior of The Redwoods, he said.

He said the rupture occurred in an area that is fenced off for construction, but that there was no construction activity under way at the time of the break, and the cause remains under investigation.

Marin Municipal Water District spokeswoman Libby Pischel said the line that broke is on private property and is not a water district pipe.

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