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At the same time, those measures alleviate the problem of overcrowding in urban areas.
The town of Bowen is suffering destructive winds, torrential rain, network problems and the weather conditions are stopping people for getting around the town.
It's not yet clear what kind of structural damage will be left in the wake of the storm.
Our reporter is in Bowen, south-east of Townsville, and joins me now.
According to Cuprinol, who might possibly have an interest in the result, the average Briton spends five months of their life in the garden shed. Of course, these days it's bound to be more than just a shed that this average Briton – surely a man rather than a woman – is "just popping down" to. Anything from a modular garden room, custom Dutch barn or Finnish log cabin down to the humble British overlap 4' x 5' does the trick. But what exactly is its trick? A den, a repository of all things that a man needs, or might one day come in useful, like that 40 foot roll of speaker cable that has been inexplicably and cruelly banished from the home? A retreat from the world? A refuge from domestic order? Solitary confinement of the type that all writers from George Bernard Shaw to Roald Dahl crave? (Shaw put his shed on a rotating platform so that he could keep it permanently in the sun.) Who knows? But it is one of life's enduring institutions.
• This article was amended on 11 April 2012. The original subheading referred to five days of average Britons' lives being spent in a shed. This has been corrected.
Luxembourg royals leave hospital following birth | HELLO!
June 17, 2014 - 09:23 BST hellomagazine.com Following the birth of their new baby daughter Amalia, Prince Félix and Princess Claire of Luxembourg have left the hospital in which she was born.
Prince Félix and Princess Claire of Luxembourg have taken their newborn daughter home.
The royal couple beamed with happiness as they left left the Grand-Duchesse Charlotte Maternity Wing at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg with two-day-old Princess Amalia.
Prince Félix shook hands with hospital staff as Princess Claire looked on. Amalia, meanwhile, was oblivious to all the excitement she had caused, sleeping peacefully in her mother's arms.
The pair welcomed their little bundle of joy on Sunday and only a day later gave royal watchers the first look at Amalia in her very first oficial photograph.
In it, Princess Claire, 29, is seen cradling her tiny, day-old baby, who is dressed in a pink-and-white hand-smocked dress. Doting dad Prince Félix, meanwhile, sits beside his wife and places a protective arm around his girls.
In a statement to announce her birth, the royal palace of Luxembourg said: "The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess are very happy to announce the birth of the first child of their royal highnesses Prince Félix and Princess Claire. The baby was born on 15 June 2014 at the Grand-Duchesse Charlotte Maternity Wing at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg."
Félix and Claire paid tribute to their respective mothers, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa and Gabriele Lademacher, with their daughter's middle names.
"The young princess will bear the names Amalia, Gabriela, Maria Teresa. She weighed 2.95kg and measured 50cm at birth," confirmed the statement, which also told how Félix was present at the birth and that mother and baby are doing well."
It ended: "The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess as well as Mr and Mrs Lademacher and their families expressed their best wishes and joy at the happy news."
Second-in-line to the throne Prince Félix and Princess Claire, née Claire Lademacher, married in September of last year in a romantic ceremony surrounded by their family and friends.
JACKSONVILLE -- Reminiscent of John F. Kennedy Jr., a boy stood at attention at a cemetery here Friday and saluted as the hearse carrying his distant cousin crept by.
As when John-John's father died, the boy was only one of many mourners.
Hundreds of police officers from around the state gathered at Jacksonville National Cemetery for the burial of James Louis Anderson Jr., the St. Johns County deputy who was killed by a wrong-way driver as he drove to work last week.
Anderson's wife and children sat underneath a canopy, sheltered from the glaring sunlight, as the pallbearers wheeled his American flag-draped coffin in front of them.
After a bagpiper played "Amazing Grace" and a 21-gun salute to honor Anderson's 20-year career in the Marines, Kelly Kemp, a St. Johns County deputy and the agency's chaplain, said a prayer.
"One day we will see him again, when we see you," Kemp said. "Now, God, wrap your arms around this family, this sheriff's office, and all our brothers and sisters in law enforcement."
Anderson, a St. Johns deputy since 2007, died the morning of Jan. 14, hours after a head-on crash on State Road 9A on Jacksonville's Southside.
Kris E. Caudilla, 26, of Jacksonville, the driver of the northbound vehicle that crashed into Anderson's patrol car, remained hospitalized Friday.
Charges have not been filed in the wreck, though a spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol said charges were likely to be filed against Caudilla.
Anderson's family requested members of the media to stay outside of Bethel Baptist Institutional Church during the funeral Friday morning.
Before going in to the service, Sgt. Steve Briggs, who oversees the beach patrol for the sheriff's office and worked with Anderson for a few summers, said Anderson was a warm man who spoke often of his family and saving up for a long and happy retirement.
"You look at him, he's this big burly guy, and you say ... 'I'm not going to cross him,'" Briggs said. "He was a teddy bear."
Dell Jackson, one of Anderson's brothers-in-law, said the late deputy pushed those around him to become better people.
At least that was Jackson's personal experience, saying his brother-in-law helped him become a more productive, more responsible man.
"I'll remember that for the rest of my life," said Jackson, who lives in Atlanta. "You just can't measure it. Never. Wonderful guy. Very wonderful guy."
There were many at the services Friday that had never met Anderson, didn't know he existed until he no longer did.
Sgt. Chuck Mulligan, a spokesman for the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, said the outpouring of support from police agencies across the state was typical for a line-of-duty death.
But it's a tradition police like to practice as seldom as possible.
Leaving the cemetery, a St. Johns deputy thanked a motorcycle officer from another agency who was there to assist in the processional.
"Let's hope this is the last," the deputy said.
From left, standing: Gregg Gentry, Erlanger’s Chief Administrative Officer; Michael Spiegel; and Don Mueller, Vice President and CEO of Children’s Hospital at Erlanger. Sitting: Judy Spiegel; Kevin Spiegel, Erlanger’s President and CEO; Christy Gillenwater, Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce CEO; and Brad Gillenwater.
More than $35,000 was raised for Erlanger Health System Foundations during this year’s annual Dinner of Distinction held on Friday.
Dr. Mack Worthington, Dr. Larry Schlabach, JoAnne Favors and the late Dr. Francis Fesmire were honored during the event.
Drs. Mack Worthington, Larry Schlabach, and Francis Fesmire were selected by previous Dinner of Distinction honorees and were recognized for their enduring commitment to foster quality medical services to this community, as well as for demonstrating unquestionable character and human compassion. Additional criteria used to choose honorees includes: a person who has contributed a lifetime of medical benefit to the community and a person committed to the healing mission and values of Erlanger Health System, said officials.
The Erlanger Foundations also honored recently-retired Tennessee State Rep. JoAnn Favors with the “Gordon Street Distinguished Leadership” award. This award, added in 2010, is given annually by Erlanger to community leaders who have championed the advancement of healthcare in the Greater Chattanooga region, committed to improving the health of people throughout our community and to the healing mission and values of Erlanger, said officials.
For more information about Erlanger Health System Foundations, visit www.erlanger.org/giving.
Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal said efforts to end the bitter feud with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were deadlocked because of Israeli and US meddling, and his men would stay in control of Gaza.
And he warned that, despite renewed efforts to forge peace between Israel and the Palestinians, resistance remained the only option for Hamas.
"Mediation efforts are at an impasse because they [Abbas' Fatah faction] have shut all the doors, and rejected Palestinian and other Arab mediation, including initiatives by some Fatah officials," Meshaal said in a telephone interview from Syria.
"Israeli and American interference is responsible for blocking the reconciliation," he said.
Meshaal said: "We have not taken Gaza in order to give it back to them ... We have defended our legitimacy against 'warlords' who were preparing a coup with the help of the Americans and the Israelis."
Aid agencies have warned of a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, now effectively sealed off from the outside world by Israel.
"Israel threatens the Palestinian Authority president to prevent a dialogue with Hamas ... and the US puts pressure on all parties in the region to prevent any meeting between Hamas and Fatah," he said.
"Dialogue is the only solution to resolve the internal Palestinian crisis."
But he said that any dialogue should cover rebuilding Palestinian security services, and placing them under a national government that would govern in both Gaza and the West Bank, where Abbas has his power base.
Meshaal also blamed some leaders within Abbas' Palestinian Authority of preferring to revive stalled peace negotiations with Israel than opening dialogue with Hamas.
"Those who are counting on American and Israeli support, and who are rushing to talk to the Israelis ... will discover that their bets are only illusions," Meshaal said.
"As long as Israel does not put an end to its occupation and its settlements, and as long as it does not recognize Palestinian rights, our policy of resistance will be the only option," Meshaal said.
The Hamas political supremo - who escaped an attempt by Mossad agents on his life in Amman in 1997 - also said he did not expect any change in US policy should a Democrat win the 2008 presidential election.
"American bias for Israel never changes," he said.
He also described as "an illusion" reports that Abbas is mulling changes to Palestinian law that would effectively exclude Hamas from future elections, after it initially swept to power in a January 2006 vote.
"No one can exclude Hamas from the political process. The United States and Israel tried in vain to do that for 20 years, but they did not succeed."
Meshaal also dismissed reports that Al Qaeda was present in Gaza, saying they were propaganda aimed at giving Hamas "a negative image."
Britney Spears appeared unusually camera shy as she arrived at LAX airport yesterday.
Looking pale and tired, the 26-year-old singer left the airport with a white shawl draped over her long blonde locks. Perhaps was trying to cover her rather greasy-looking hair.
It was a far cry from how she had looked just the night before when she went to dinner at Soho House in New York, looking fantastic in an electric blue dress.
It's no surprise really that Britney's looking a little bit pooped. She's been staying in New York since Sunday where she has been promoting her new single Womanizer.
While in the Big Apple, she also saw a Broadway show called The Heights, visited several stores and dropped into a school in The Bronx where she donated a $10,000 (£5,000) cheque to its music programme and signed autographs for delighted pupils.
Over the last few days, the mum-of-two looked healthy and groomed, especially on Wednesday night when she dined out at Soho House in a stunning blue dress.
But it all must have taken its toll because when she arrived at JFK on Thursday to catch her flight back home to LA she looked worn out.
No wonder she wanted to go undercover when she touched down at LAX.
The original suit stems from a dispute over rights to the patent for a data processor unit developed by Cornell researchers. The processor, which was the first of its kind to be able to perform multiple tasks at once, was developed by Prof. Hwa Torng, engineering, in 1989, according to a previous article in The Sun. The suit was first filed in 2001, and took seven years of preparation before the University sued for $900 million.
Though the most recent outcome has granted the University only a fraction of what it first asked, H.P. has vowed to continue the fight, hoping to bring the number down further. Vice President for University Communication Tommy Bruce said last summer, after Cornell was awarded $184 million, that he expected the case to continue.
The Cornell lecturer who was struck last semester by a weight that rolled down Libe Slope in a wrestling team practice gone awry is considering a lawsuit against the University, yet Cornell maintains she does not have standing to sue, according to her attorney.
Joanna Luks, who is still out on medical leave, suffered multiple serious injuries as a result of the accident on Oct. 9.
The incident occurred after members of the wrestling team dropped a rubber plate they had been using during an exercise on Libe Slope. The 45-pound weight rolled down the Slope and across West Avenue. It struck Luks, who was walking down Baker Staircase, and knocked her down the stairs, according to The Sun’s archives. She was later airlifted to Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira.
“We looked at proposals from five different suppliers, including the incumbent."
CodeBlue has taken on board the 320 seat Blind Foundation IT infrastructure in just one month, implementing a service desk and integrated remote monitoring service to achieve a service desk resolution rate of better than 85 percent in the first month of operation.
According to the tech company, the Blind Foundation’s infrastructure is relatively complex, required to support the delivery of essential services for the 11,700 Kiwis who are blind or have low vision.
Currently the foundation has more than 300 full time and part time staff work from 15 offices around the country, supported by more than 2000 volunteers.
Around 155 of the staff are blind or have low vision requiring the use of specialised software to support their use of computers for their daily work processes.
Highly specialised applications include teaching materials and exams produced in braille for hundreds of blind children. From guide dogs to talking books, home help, mobility services, counselling - the cradle to grave services require a highly sophisticated and unique IT infrastructure.
The Blind Foundation’s head of IT, Bruce Walton, says the business drivers behind the switch to CodeBlue were around the requirement for a more integrated, proactive and comprehensive outsourced support service able to span the foundation's entire 320 IT seat infrastructure including workstations, servers, networking and software applications.
“We had an incumbent service desk provider doing our help-desk and ticketing,” Walton says.
“But we wanted a more comprehensive service spanning server and network support in a proactive way.
“We looked at proposals from five different suppliers, including the incumbent. On paper, all of them could have met our needs.
According to Walton, CodeBlue was running best practice technology in terms of help-desk and knowledge base.
“We wanted to move fast with just a month between signing the contract and going live,” Walton adds. “So we didn’t give them much time and they had a lot of work to do.
“We had little documentation and they had to build their knowledge base pretty much from scratch.
“CodeBlue did a remarkably good job evidenced by a completely seamless cutover. We had no fall out or any real issues arising from cutover process - which we were nervous about only giving them a month to get it done.
Walton says delivering level one support for all the Blind Foundation's software applications required CodeBlue to work with the foundation's accessibility advisors on braille interfaces, and to invest considerable time in understanding specialised applications such as the foundation’s Razor’s Edge fundraising software and Aurora library software used to manage the digital library of talking books.
In addition to the specialised applications, the foundation is a sophisticated user of Microsoft applications including SharePoint, AX and CRM.
With the immediate support issues sorted out, Walton says he will be engaging further with CodeBlue in developing a three year strategic plan - this will include a cost-benefit analysis around moving in house servers to the cloud.
CodeBlue will also contribute to a major new development still under wraps for launch later in the year. This will see the foundation deliver a desktop and tablet application that will give blind users instant mobile access to news and magazines as well talking book content.
“Our mission is to empower and support people who are blind or have low vision so they have the same opportunities and choices as everyone else,” Walton adds.
“We equip people with the skills needed to participate fully in society, which includes support in living independently and getting around, help with technology, ways to continue reading and communicating, and advice on staying in or looking for work.
Just over 72 percent of those who responded to The Gisborne Herald weekly webpoll agreed with the Gisborne District Council decision to convert 800 hectares (71 percent) of its Pamoa pine forest to native species.
A total of 336 people responded to the webpoll, with 243 answering “yes”, 76, or 23 percent, “no”, and 17, or 5 percent, “undecided”.
One “yes” respondent said there was no cost to establish an indigenous forest when the natural seed source was adjoining, as in this case.
Another said long-term native re-vegetation was the best solution to much erosion-prone East Coast land.
One “yes” respondent applauded the council.
“Much of the area of Pamoa which will not be planted in a second rotation of pine will naturally regenerate into a diverse native forest without actually planting native species because of the adjacent Waingake Bush and regenerating bush around the Mangapoike dams.