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The scene of destruction at Lahinch promenade, west Clare, where massive walls and quarter-tonne wall cappings were tossed across the carpark during the storm. Photograph: Press 22

Families were forced from their seaside homes as windows and patio doors were blown in by massive waves during stormy conditions yesterday morning.

Residents of several apartments and homes in Lahinch had to be taken to safety by fire personnel and garda after some of the worst storms ever witnessed in the west Clare resort town.

Dozens of mobile homes and caravans were left under water after the Atlantic surged several hundred metres inland.

A fishing boat was swept up on to the pier at Seafield near Quilty, while the only access to the quay was flooded by sea water for the first time in living memory.

Members of the Kilkee unit of the Irish Coast Guard evacuated several homes, with personnel carrying elderly people through waist-deep water.

Further storm-force winds and several tidal surges were expected last night.

The worst of the storms was felt in Lahinch, where large concrete wall cappings were tossed over 50m across the main promenade car park. Signs buckled under the pressure of the storm surge, while large sections of metal fencing along the shore front collapsed.

Clare County Council said Lahinch promenade would remain closed to the public until further notice. Members of the public have been advised to stay away from the seafront for their safety.

The first alarm was raised at around 5.30am when residents reported their properties being flooded. Several homes in Saddle Lane, close to the promenade in Lahinch, had to be evacuated. A family of eight was taken to safety from their home by Fire Brigade personnel while garda evacuated other properties.

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A 10-year-old girl working as a maid was allegedly tortured to death by her employers in Pakistan's Punjab province for stealing Rs 100, police said today.

Police in the provincial capital of Lahore arrested a man named Altaf Mahmood, his wife Nasira and son Ibrar for allegedly killing the maid. A murder case was registered against them.

Superintendent of Police Omer Riaz told PTI that Mahmood, a resident of Lahore Cantonment, had employed Iram Ramzan of Okara district about three months ago.

Mahmood, his wife and son had confessed to torturing the young girl with plastic pipes, he said.

Iram, who was employed for a monthly salary of Rs 3,000, was the youngest of six siblings. Her father died some time ago.

Quoting the accused, Riaz said they had tied the girl and tortured her for two days. "When her condition deteriorated yesterday, they took her to Services Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead," he said.

Mahmood told police that Iram had recently stolen Rs 100. He claimed she had stolen money several times in the past. "We wanted to teach her a lesson this time," he said.

The autopsy report said there were 23 marks of torture on the girl's body.

A court here today remanded the three arrested persons in police custody for three days.

Emerging story. Watch this space for updates as more details come in

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January 4, 2014 Rockport Police/Fire: Storm keeps crews busy Rockport Police/Fire

By James Niedzinski Staff Writer The Gloucester Daily Times Sat Jan 04, 2014, 12:00 AM EST

ROCKPORT Through road closures, the toppling of a giant lawn chair and reports of minor flooding, Rockport police and emergency crews were dispatched for various medical and service calls.

Friday at 3:42 a.m., a telephone pole near the Five Corners intersection in Rockport was reportedly leaning. Police said National Grid was notified, and dispatched a crew to address the problem.

A woman who fell outside the Pigeon Cove Ledges housing complex declined medical treatment after crews responded and assisted her at around 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

At 2:34 p.m. Thursday, a man on Bradley Wharf was taken to Addison Gilbert Hospital in Gloucester.

A Gannon Court woman was taken to the Gloucester hospital at 5:40 a.m. Friday, while a woman from Atlantic Avenue was taken to Addison Gilbert Hospital Friday around 2:45 p.m.

A disabled motor vehicle on Nugent Stretch had to be towed at 5:30 p.m. Thursday.

James Niedzinski can be reached at 978-675-2708 or at jniedzinski@gloucestertimes.com.

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It was a single tree a fairly average-size cedar elm that in any other Central Texas landscape wouldnt have seemed remarkable.

But leafless, painted white, seemingly hovering over the middle of Lady Bird Lake and accompanied by 14,000 prayer flags that lined the nearby lakeshore path, that tree became arguably the most-seen work of art in Austin in 2013.

A project sponsored and funded entirely by the nonprofit arts organization Women & Their Work, Thirst was a collaboration between artist Beili Liu, architects Emily Little and Norma Yancey and landscape architect Cassie Bergstrom. Conceived as a symbol of the more than 300 million Texas trees lost to the recent drought, Thirst withstood two floods and drew enormous attention and chatter, with images of it ricocheting around social media.

And in combination with other progressive public arts projects that debuted last year, Thirst also suggested a turning point for art in Austins public realm. In the past year, significant public art projects have been launched at the University of Texas, in East Austin and at the Contemporary-Laguna Gloria.

I think Austin is beginning to get to the point where perhaps we realize we dont have to resort to the standard conventions of public art, says Doug Dempster, dean of UTs College of Fine Arts. Perhaps were beyond the bronze age of considering heroic bronze statues as the only kind of public art.

Just a couple of weeks after Thirst debuted in late September, James Turrells The Color Inside opened on the University of Texas campus. The curvilinear chamber on top of the Student Activity Center is one of Turrells skyspaces, a roofless structure designed to capture a view of the sky.

The structures aperture is surrounded by computer-controlled LED lights that illuminate the walls with changing color during an hourlong program every sunset and sunrise and radically yet subtly alter a persons view of the heavens.

A pioneer in the use of light as an artistic medium, Turrell is one of the most important living American artists today, and the October opening of The Color Inside a $2.1 million project by UTs public art program, Landmarks garnered national attention. And the buzz continues.

Demand to view The Color Inside has been so strong, in fact, that UT officials have had to extend the reservation system to see the piece even though original plans had been to dispense with reservations a month after the piece premiered. (Viewing The Color Inside is free, and the work is available for viewing any time the Student Activity Center is open. Reservations to see a sunset light sequence are needed and can be made online at turrell.utexas.edu.)

Meanwhile, during the wildly popular East Austin Studio Tour in November, the citys Art in Public Places program launched Tempo, the citys first temporary public art initiative.

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This rendering shows what the southwest view of the intersection of Avenida Bernalillo and the access road to Interstate 25 will look like when a planned landscaping project is complete. (Courtesy of the town of Bernalillo)

Bernalillos southern entry point from Interstate 25 is about to get a makeover that will replace mounds of earth with natural landscaping.

Town officials awarded a contract to Lee Landscapes on Dec. 23 to redo the corners of Avenida Bernalillo from the I-25 interchange to South Hill Road.

The intersection was reshaped a few years ago as part of a larger project to widen the freeway between the town and Albuquerque. That work left what Mayor Jack Torres calls an ugly berm.

Designed by landscape architect firm Morrow, Reardon, Wilkinson, Miller, the makeover will take advantage of the natural contours of the remnants of arroyos, using traditional building materials and native plants, said Maria Rinaldi, director of community planning and development.

It will include planting dozens of native trees and shrubs, spreading gravel and mulch, and installing lighting and irrigation, monument signs and concrete and adobe retaining walls.

Adobe work will be done by a crew from Bernalillos Youth Conservation Corps, a program that provides vocational and life skills to young people between 14 and 25 years old by teaching them traditional building skills.

Bernalillo received $275,591 in Federal Highway Administration funding toward the makeover and provided $68,898 in matching funds from gasoline tax revenue.

Rinaldi expects landscape work to start within a few weeks and last about three months. It is not expected to disrupt traffic flow, she said.

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MINNEAPOLIS - When Alice Menge started gardening, it was all about islands. With a nudge from her husband, Dick Sherwood, she's gone continental.

"At first, I had cut out some islands," Menge said of their St. Paul yard, "but he hated cutting around those because it meant trimming by hand. So I just started filling in."

After three decades of filling in, their yard - front, back and boulevard - is all garden.

With an eye for design honed by taking classes, visiting other gardens and learning from her own mistakes, Menge has crafted a natural, lived-in showcase with a harmonious array of textures, shapes and colors.

Viewed from the screen house in a corner of the yard, the landscape seems to levitate its way up to the two-story house. The front, anchored by a ginormous, rough-hewn maple, enchants. And that's before you follow one of the tidy stone paths to a fairy garden on the east side of the green-trimmed stucco house.

So, after covering every square inch of the property with gardens, is she done?

"Hmmm, probably never," said Menge, 63.

Spoken like a true gardener. Even when the destination is reached, the journey doesn't end.

And this journey involved collecting rocks from far-flung locations, fits and starts with waterworks and plants and a storm that cost them a third of the 80-year-old maple, as well as some unusual evolutions.

For starters, Menge worked "backwards," not tackling the front until the back was finished. The back yard itself has mutated mightily, from flowers to perennials to the current shrub-and-tree-dominated landscape.

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