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ST. HELENA Beringer Vineyards and the St. Helena Tree Committee are asking for the publics input on possibly removing two trees from the Highway 29 elm tunnel for safety reasons.

The two trees closest to the Beringer driveway make it hard for drivers leaving the property to see traffic, whether theyre turning right or left, said Debra Dommen, vice president of government and community relations for Treasury Wine Estates, which owns Beringer.

When you exit Beringer, youre practically halfway in the street before you can see traffic coming southbound, Dommen told the Tree Committee last Thursday. There have been numerous accidents.

Beringer is committed to the elm tunnel, which is part of our story, Dommen said. We love the trees, but this is about safety, she said.

Members of the Tree Committee stressed that no decisions have been made. They urged the public to provide feedback about the idea at the committees March 12 meeting, scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Committee chairwoman Susann Ortega said the State Historic Preservation Office and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, should be consulted. Thompson has previously helped the city, Beringer, Caltrans and other state officials broker deals involving maintenance of the tunnel.

Ortega said the speed of traffic contributes to the problem. The speed limit changes from 45 mph north of the tunnel to 35 mph, which is still way too fast, she said.

Committee members Edie Kausch and Kacey Stotesbery said its too early to make any decisions, but the issue is worth exploring.

City arborist Jim Haller said the two trees nearest the Beringer driveway are in good health, but he agreed they pose a safety hazard.

When Im trying to pull out of there, the front of my truck is sticking out in traffic and Im leaning out the window trying to see, Haller said. It is a hazard.

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Families evacuated from a block of flats in Bebington yesterday after a man began hurling tiles from the roof were allowed back home this morning.

Residents in Conway Court had to find somewhere else to stay last night after the amount of damage caused in the incident meant necessary repairs could not be carried out yesterday.

A large area around the block of flats was cordoned off on Tuesday after a shirtless man climbed on the roof and began ripping off tiles.

Police spent several hours negotiating with him after he went back into one of the flats, and the situation was resolved when a 47-year-old from Birkenhead was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage and affray at 2.30pm.

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He was kept in custody overnight and was being questioned by officers at a police station in Merseyside today.

Magenta Living, which has nine flats in Conway Court four owned by leaseholders, including the one involved in the incident spoke to residents last night about securing temporary accommodation and kept an officer on site to offer advice and support to those affected.

The housing association has now confirmed that residents were able to return to their homes this morning after the roof was made safe.

Repair work was set to get underway today by roofing contractors, with hopes it will be completed by the end of the week.

A spokesman for Magenta Living said: Work to make the damaged roof safe, secure and watertight was completed last night, and residents were able to return to their homes this morning. Our roofing contractor is now installing scaffolding to the site so that the major works that need carrying out to the roof can start.

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State officials charged with overseeing the $272.7 million State Capitol renovation are warning that the projects cost could go up as a result of a dispute over how space will be allocated in the renovated building.

The Capitol Preservation Commission was supposed to approve a major work package for the project Wednesday, but it delayed action because theres no agreement in place yet for space allocation.

A Thursday deadline for approving the work package loomed before the commission. The package, which includes mechanical and electrical work and finishes, needs to be approved to keep the overall project on track.

Delays could add up to $680,000 a month to the projects cost, the commission said Wednesday.

The commission agreed to meet again Jan. 22 to consider approval of the work package. The hope is that the tenants will have reached a deal by that time, so the project can stay on schedule and avoid cost overruns.

The main tenants the House, the Senate, and the offices of the governor, the attorney general and the chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court have to sign off on the space plans before the work package can be approved.

Gov. Mark Dayton, who chairs the commission, declined to go into specifics about whats holding up a deal. But he said progress has been made and he expressed confidence that a deal will be in place by Thursday, Jan. 22.

We know we have to get it done by next Thursday, Dayton said after Wednesdays meeting. The contractor [JE Dunn] just told me that they can live with that. I can never give a 100 percent guarantee, but I will give a 99 percent guarantee that we will have this project approved next Thursday.

At issue is work package 4, which includes mechanical and electrical work such as fire-protection systems, light fixtures, historic lighting restoration, data and fiber-optic cabling, and distribution of mechanical systems from the vertical shafts.

It also includes finishes such as interior stone repair, restoration of wood doors and historic hardware, restoration of wood finishes, finish carpentry, casework and millwork, ceramic tile floors, bathroom finishes, painting, flooring and window treatments.

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A 36-year-old Tingalpa man will front court on an array of drug offences on Thursday afternoon, following the discovery of a clandestine laboratory in South Brisbane in the early hours of the morning.

A sprinkler system alerted to police to the alleged drug production set-up shortly after midnight.

Emergency services were called to the Edmonstone Street unit complex following the activation of the alarm about 12.30am.

Police will allege the remains of a chemical laboratory were found after they were cleared to enter the complex.

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The scene suffered extensive water and chemical residue damage but was forensically examined by the Illicit Laboratory Investigation Team.

Police later raided a home in Hanley Street, Tingalpa, where a number people were arrested.

The 36-year-old Tingalpa man has been charged with producing dangerous drugs and five counts of possession of illicit drugs and drug production paraphernalia.

He is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court Thursday afternoon.

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A man has been charged after police stumbled upon a secret drug laboratory in South Brisbane.

The 36-year-old Tingalpa man is facing seven charges, including producing and possessing dangerous drugs, and possessing drug-making utensils.

He's also been charged in relation to an unauthorised stash of bullets.

Emergency services discovered a clandestine drug laboratory in an Edmonstone Street unit complex after an alarm set the sprinkler system off about 12.30am on Thursday

Police say several rooms were extensively damaged from water and chemical residue.

Several men fled the scene and detectives later went to a property in Tingalpa, in Brisbane's east.

Police have not confirmed how many people are being questioned over the incident, but a man is scheduled to appear before the Brisbane Magistrates' Court on Thursday afternoon.

Investigations are continuing.

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A tiny Siberian fish fossil thats a whopping 415 million years old may be part of a group of fish that was ancestor to all the jawed vertebrates living today, according to a team of European scientists.

Described online in the journal Nature, the fossil fish, Janusiscus schultzei, could help researchers flesh out - and perhaps redraw - portions of the ancient fish family tree.

The fossil, discovered near the Sida River in Siberia in 1972, is a strange, chimeric mishmash of features of very different lineages, which makes it valuable to scientists who have long struggled to sort out the ancient fish family tree between 443 million and 358 million years ago, during the Silurian and Devonian periods.

The vast majority of fish in the Earths waters today are bony fishes descendants of a group known as osteichthyans. But back in fishes heyday, around 400 million years ago, osteichthyans werent the only group around. There were also cartilaginous fish called chondrichthyans (whose descendants include sharks and rays) as well as extinct armored fishes called placoderms.

These different groups of fish were all descended from gnathostomes, or jawed fish, and scientists want to know what those ancestral gnathostomes look like in part because the answer could affect how we see our own origins.

Heres a brief family history. Osteichthyans, the bony fishes, split into two main groups the ray-finned fishes, which make up the vast majority of fish in the ocean today, and the lobe-finned fishes, whose descendants eventually crawled onto land. Those descendants, the "tetrapods," evolved into all four-legged vertebrates on Earth today, from reptiles to mammals (and, yes, including humans).

So what did the ancient ancestors of all jawed vertebrate life on Earth today look like? It was long thought that gnathostome species would look more like the cartilaginous chondrichthyans their living members, the sharks, are seen as "primitive," living fossils that havent changed much over time. Bony structures, like the ones in our own bodies, appear much more complex, so it was assumed they evolved later. But recent studies have found that shark-like, cartilaginous bodies may have been a later development and that the bony fishes might be the ones who inherited the more primitive traits.

For this study, the researchers subjected the fossil skull of this fish to an X-ray CT scan to examine tell-tale structures in the animals skull. Like other recently examined specimens, the Janusiscus schultzei fish fossil also has a strange mix of features that seem like theyre both from the bony osteichthyans and the cartilage-bodied chondrichthyans.

The structure of the skull roof bones look a lot like those of osteichthyans, but a number of features, including a flat-based braincase, dont match osteichthyans at all. In fact, certain features of the braincase actually look a lot more like those in early chondrichthyan species.

Janusiscus presents an unexpected suite of osteichthyan, chondrichthyan and generalized gnathostome traits, the study authors wrote.

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Home Movies Divergent First Insurgent featurette sheds light on mystery box, introduces Fours mother

A lengthy behind the scenes look at Insurgent explains the mystery box first seen in the trailer and where we find Tris and Four at the beginning of the film.

Amongst lots of behind the scenes footage are several highlights: A great fight between Peter and Tris, as well as our first look at Naomi Watts in the role of factionless leader Evelyn (the mother of Four).

Were also promised no more world building a frequent complaint about the first film, Divergent.

The great thing about this movie is that weve gone through the setup of this world, says Four actor Theo James. Adds Ansel Elgort, who plays Tris brother Caleb, We already have all of the characters introduced. Now we can just tell a great story.

The movie begins with Tris being chased amongst factions and never let[s] up, according to producer Lucy Fisher. Like the book, the films story begins in Amity where Tris and Four are taking refuge. We see the unveiling of Tris new haircut and several simulation sequences including the one found in the teaser trailer. Douglas Wick, the films second producer, confirms that Tris and Four will be brought to the factionless compound but its not clear if they get there by jumping into a train coincidentally full of factionless like in the book.

As for that mystery box seen in the second trailer which left lots of fans stumped? The box takes a lot of my favorite scenes from the book and puts them in the same place at the same time, author Veronica Roth explains.

In the first movie you dont really know exactly what Erudite is up to. In Insurgent, its crystal clear, adds Kate Winslet who plays Jeanine.

These comments fit with a theory one of Hypables readers presented when the mystery box appeared in the trailer. The reader believes that the Edith Prior video, found by Tris and Four at the end of the Insurgent book, is in the box, and Jeanine needs someone with three faction aptitudes, like Tris, to open it. For the film, Tris is probably the only character capable of opening it.

Insurgent opens in theaters this March.

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