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The tree that stood across the street from the Edkinses' house came crashing into their Radnor yard during the ice storm.

The power went out. They got a generator, and the Edkinses prepared themselves for the days ahead. Responsibility for the tree, luckily, was not an issue.

"We talked to [our neighbors] ahead of time, and we said that since it was shared . . . we would just split" any cost of removal, said Christine Edkins. "When it happened, everybody came out, because everyone is so close."

The Edkinses called local tree services and learned the cleanup would cost at least $700. A township crew came by, though, and did most of the cutting to open up the road, leaving behind a much smaller pile of tree debris to clean up.

"I imagine it could have been $1,000-plus," Edkins said. "We were very, very fortunate that [the tree] didn't hit the house."

Nearby the Edkinses' home, a different set of neighbors was brought together against their will.

"Yeah," said a woman on Beechtree Lane, who was concerned about offending a neighbor and declined to give her name.

She indicated that she would pay for removal if one of her trees fell on a neighbor's property. During the storm, her neighbor's tree fell across the street onto her driveway.

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The Hassan City Municipal Council (CMC) and Hassan Cooperative Milk Producers Societies Union are at loggerheads over setting up temporary sheds in vacant plots sanctioned by the CMC, to sell Nandini products here.

While the CMC has alleged that the milk union was constructing permanent structures in the guise of temporary sheds, the union defends its structures as non-permanent.

The CMC had sanctioned 16 plots at a monthly rent of Rs. 150 to Rs. 300. Among them, nine were allotted by the CMC in May 2010, while the remaining seven in June 2013.

So far, sheds have come up in 10 plots. Construction of the remaining was under progress. The union allots these structures to those interested, through tender process, and the highest bidder gets the shed for two years. The union earns a monthly rent varying from Rs. 2,000 to Rs. 6,000 and shopkeepers are permitted to sell only KMF products.

CMC Commissioner V.H. Krishnamurthy said he took objection to the construction of one such structure at Basattikoplu road near Slators Hall, and pointed out that the union had violated the conditions laid by the CMC.

He said a notice had been issued to the union on January 29 stating that it had taken up construction of a permanent structure. He appealed to the union to remove the permanent structure and erect a temporary shed in its place.

The issue got political significance after the former Minister H.D. Revanna, who is president of the union, took objection to the CMCs notice.

He reportedly called up the CMC Commissioner and warned him of dire consequences if he failed to follow his words.

Mr. Krishnamurthy, on Saturday, told The Hindu, the plots were allotted to support sale of KMF products. The union cannot go for permanent structures, which cant be removed. But, the union is constructing brick walls. They should place only sheds, which can be removed in case the plots are required by the CMC for road widening or any other projects.

The milk union, however, said the structures were all temporary.

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Your physical height can affect your emotional state of mind, according to a new study.

We already know that language bestows positive value on people of tall stature: We look up to them rather than down. And various studies have found correlations between being taller and earning more.

Now virtual reality is adding to the understanding of the short state of mind. A study conducted at Oxford University and published in December 2013 used avatars to let participants go through the virtual experience of riding a subway at their normal height and then at that height reduced by ten inches.

For the study, 60 womennone with a history of mental illness, but all of whom had recently reported mistrustful thoughtsdonned headsets and viewed monitors as they participated in two 3-D virtual-reality trips on the London subway system. They were able to move and interact with other virtual passengers, exchanging glances or looking away from others, for instance.

The virtual train trips journeyed between subway stations, took about six minutes each, and were programmed and animated identically except for one thing: In one ride, the avatar representing the participant was reduced in height by 25 centimetersa little less than ten inches. That's "approximately the height of a head" in the words of Oxford clinical psychologist and lead researcher Daniel Freeman.

The results: Participants reported that during the ride in which they were made to feel shorter, they felt more vulnerable, more negative about themselves, and had a greater sense of paranoia. "The key to this study was there were no reasons for mistrust," says Freeman. Yet when the participants saw the world from a height that was a head shorter than usual, "they thought people were being more hostile or trying to isolate them."

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That doesn't suggest that if you're short you're always less trustful or more paranoid, says Freeman. But the findings do reinforce common perceptions about height. "Height seems to affect our sense of social status," he says, and being taller tends to be socially desirable.

"The implication is that greater height can make you more confident in social situations," he says. "All of us can recognize that when we feel worse about ourselves, we can hunch up and stoop and take up less space, but when we feel more confident we feel taller and take up more space."

There may be some reality to the virtual reality, too, as expressed in a comment from a study participant. "I noticed the second time I was shorter. People, even suitcases, were feeling high. I was frustrated to feel like a child again, felt out of place on the tube, because I wasn't an adult." Being shorter, in other words, replicated the sense of vulnerability of a little child, not yet grown into the full height of adulthood.

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ABC Firefighters have forced entry to a restaurant in the bus interchange.

Police and work safety inspectors will investigate a large blaze in the historic Sydney Building in Canberra's CBD.

Investigators say there is nothing to suggest the fire is suspicious but they do have concerns that a gas leak might have caused an initial explosion.

The building, which is one of the oldest in Canberra, has been significantly damaged by the large fire.

It is believed the fire started in a Japanese restaurant in the Sydney Building at about 9:45am.

Thick, dark smoke has billowed high above the city skyline as the fire moved from the ground floor restaurant into the roof.

Neighbouring business owners reported hearing a large explosion and seeing the restaurant's shop frontage blasted out.

"We just heard a loud bang and we came out to see what had happened," a chef at a nearby cafe, Peter Spencer said.

"The front of the shop had popped out from the explosion."

Office workers from around the CBD watched the blaze from behind police safety lines, with many posting pictures of the fire and smoke on social media.

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'12 Years A Slave' director Steve McQueen was told by a teacher at school he'd never be anything more than a plumber.

Steve McQueen was told by a school teacher he'd never be anything more than a plumber.

The 44-year-old director - who suffers with dyslexia - saw his film '12 Years A Slave' honoured as the Best Film at the BAFTA awards last night (16.02.14), but he admits he was once told he'd only ever make it as a tradesman.

He said: ''No one cared. No one invested any time or care into these people -- many very talented -- who they'd marked for manual labour.''

The gripping movie tells the true story of black New Yorker Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, before being subjected to racism by his white ''owners''.

He added to The Sun newspaper: ''I think there is amnesia about this subject and I just wanted to wake people up.

''I'd always thought it would be interesting to do a film about slavery. There were no films about it and I wanted to fill that void and see if I could grapple with it.''

While accepting his award last night, McQueen said he hoped the number of people living in slavery would decrease and there would be no need for another film addressing the horrifying issue.

He said: ''[There are] 21 million people in slavery now as we sit here. I just hope there will not be another 120 years of ambivalence that allows another filmmaker to make a film like this.''

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