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By Daniella Walsh on April 24th, 2014

Laguna artist Mike Tauber and one his tile paintings on display at John Wayne Airport through April.

The painting is titled The Hunter and depicts an egret intent on securing his next meal. Rendered in vivid purples against an orange sky, the bird wades through waters reflecting hues of his surroundings. The image, along with a number of luminous landscapes such Merced Reflections, Woods Cove and Laguna Looking North has been rendered on tile, the medium of choice for Laguna Beach artist Mike Tauber.

They are among 22 paintings currently on exhibit in the John Wayne Airport terminals, a display venue for Orange County art and artists.

Titled Golden State, Taubers work depicting bucolic scenes from throughout California can be seen at the airports three terminals in the arrival and departure areas.

Inspired by hiking, biking and kayaking trips, Tauber has immortalized the most scenic spots from Yosemite National Park to Woods Cove in Laguna Beach.

I have been working on this series for a couple of years; the paintings are all new and have never been shown before, said Tauber.

While the airport provides Tauber with perhaps his most diverse audience yet, he is a veteran of other public art commissions in Laguna Beach and elsewhere. His talents are visible on the facade of Lagunas Whole Foods market, a mural at the Susi Q Community Center and the school of metal fish that swim across the Hagan Place apartment building on Mermaid Street.

He is also in a current group show titled Yosemite Renaissance at the museum in Yosemite Valley, here his work earned third place among 49 shown in the best of show category, he said.

Last year, Tauber finished a large tile mural of a citrus grove at Citrus Ranch Park, commissioned by the city of Tustin.

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An overnight fire at the Fresno County Office of Education (FCOE) building in downtown Fresno triggered the sprinkler system, causing flooding on the first floor and knocking out power to the building.

The small fire started just after 3 a.m. in the electrical room. The cause of the fire is unknown.

The FCOE and the Educational Employees Credit Union (EECU), located on the first floor ofthe building, remained closed Thursday while crews worked on water damaged floors.

"This is the origination point of the fire," says Jeff Becker, director of facilities, while pointing to an electrical panel in a room located on the first floor. "It was extinguished quickly by the one sprinkler head in the room."

Only one sprinkler went off because the system is triggered by heat, and the fire was confined to one room.

But a single sprinkler was enough to send water flowing from the electrical room throughout the first floor.

"The sprinkler head in a typical scenario puts out about 15 to 30 gallons a minute. It was probably expelling for 10 to 15 minutes at least," says Ron Stogdell, a battalion chief with the Fresno Fire Department.

Fire crews say the water streamed for 75 feet in each direction of the sprinkler.

Operations at the FCOE were limited Thursday while cleanup efforts continued.

"We do have staff that we had to release. There's also staff that we've relocated to other areas and staff that are working off site," Becker says.

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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An electrical fire wiped out power to two downtown businesses early Thursday morning, tripping the sprinkler system and causing a major flood.

The fire started around 3 a.m. in the electrical room inside of a building located at the corner of Van Ness and Fresno Streets. The eight story structure houses both the Fresno County Office of Education and Educational Employees Credit Union.

When firefighters arrived, they found hundreds of gallons of water spilling out onto the street through the front doors.

Fresno County Office of Education facilities director Jeff Becker said an aging electrical panel maybe to blame for sparking the fire.

"The electrical panels are original to the building so it's 1970's vintage so we'll be able to upgrade those at this point, but we'll also might have a hard time finding some parts for them," said Becker.

The outage forced about a hundred employees to be released or relocated, while restoration crews worked to remove about two inches of standing water from the first floor.

"Computers, phones, lights, air conditioning aren't functioning at this point so we've relocated staff," said Becker. "We've got people on the patio, in the lunch room."

Kevin Kelley of Belfor Property Restoration said workers put down an anti-microbial solution to prevent mold from forming on the vinyl.

"We have about 3,500 to 4,000 square feet of the building affected so we had to extract the water with our equipment," said Kevin Kelley of Belfor Property Restoration.

Just before noon, a backup generator was brought in to temporarily restore power until a more permanent fix can be made.

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A Chinese fossil is the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid, part of a group of flying reptiles that ruled the skies some 163 million years ago, scientists report.

Winged creatures called pterosaurs evolved from a primitive form that lived about 228 million years ago into the largest flying creatures that ever existed. The new specimen helps fill in an important gap in that evolution, researchers say.

"This guy is the very first pterodactyloid he has the last features that changed before the group radiated and took over the world," said paleontologist Brian Andres of the University of South Florida, a co-author of the study detailed today (April 24) in the journal Current Biology. [ Photos of Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs ]

The fragmentary remains of the Kryptodrakon progenitor found in northwest China are seen in an undated illustration.

(Researchers avoid calling pterodactyloids "pterodactyls," because the term is sometimes used to mean all pterosaurs and sometimes to mean just pterodactyloids, which include members of one of two suborders of pterosaurs.)

The finding extends the fossil record of pterodactyloids by at least 5 million years, to the Middle-Upper Jurassic boundary 163 million years ago, Andres told Live Science.

Pterodactyloids are not ancestors of modern birds, which evolved from feathered dinosaurs.

Scientists named the new species Kryptodrakon progenitor, meaning "ancestral hidden serpent," because it was found in the area where the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was filmed.

But this creature was no fearsome dragon. "He is a small guy, and [the fossil is] very fragmentary," Andres said.

The researchers analyzed the fossil fragments and found that Kryptodrakon had a wingspan of about 4.5 feet (1.4 meters), a far cry from the creature's enormous descendants, whose wingspans stretched up to 30 feet (9 m) as large as a small airplane.

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A Cape Coral woman received a big check Thursday from the city as reimbursement for paying for sewer services for decades that she apparently was never connected to.

Ronnie Tribulas, 90, of 1911 S.E. 45th Street, was hand-delivered a refund check for $3,410.24. The city also extended a "goodwill credit" toward the current balance due on her water bill of $59.91.

"We will never know for certain what happened 36 years ago when this home should have been connected to the sewer system," said City Manager John Szerlag said in a prepared statement.

"What we can do is refund the sewer usage charges Mrs. Tribulas has paid over the years, clear her account and give her a clean slate to start her monthly water/sewer billing," Szerlag continued.

Stepdaughter Joan Tribulas said Tribulas was "totally ecstatic" to receive the check.

"We couldn't believe the city came through with any money," she said.

Tribulas had been paying monthly sewer charges since moving into the home in the late 1980s. A city sewer project was completed in her area in 1978, and homes were noticed to connect that May. When Tribulas experienced a sewage problem in October, a plumber discovered her home was still on septic.

Tribulas did not have funds to pay for the sewer line connection, which was complicated by a burrowing owl nest positioned between the connection point and the home. Dennis Rohaley, owner of Rohaley & Sons Plumbing Contractors, eventually learned of the situation and offered to help.

"I've been putting sewers in the Cape since 1976," he said, when asked why he stepped forward. "I thought it was the right thing to do. It's a a good feeling to do that for somebody."

Rohaley said Tribulas cried when she learned of his plans.

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Published: Friday, April 25, 2014 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 11:18 p.m.

Things could change between now and May 2, when the legislative session ends. But many people will be disappointed, especially since they had such high hopes just a couple of months ago.

That was when five influential state senators created an ambitious, comprehensive bill that would have set the groundwork to restore some of the state's most damaged springs. The original bill, the Springs and Aquifer Protection Act, would have required the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the state's water districts to identify the most problematic septic tanks and hook them to municipal wastewater systems if possible at state expense.

The act also would have developed more stringent standards for wastewater treatment plants and farm fertilizer application.

And unlike many other legislative measures that came before, this bill would have been funded to the tune of nearly $400 million annually from real estate taxes.

But since its initial proposal, and most recently during a Senate committee this week, the bill that once was hailed as the most progressive in years was left almost unrecognizable.

Resistance from business lobbies, property owners and local governments have taken a hefty toll. Some of the things taken out of the bill:

tougher nitrogen discharge standards for wastewater treatment plants in spring zone areas;

a requirement that farmers and ranchers in spring zones follow best management practices;

tough deadlines for establishing minimum flows and levels and implementing springs recovery and prevention strategies;

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